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from across the country. Each entrepreneur pitched their company to the president who questioned them on their personal and academic backgrounds, As the tech industry continues to drive economic professional experience, the idea behind their products growth, there is a yearning for more people of color to or services, and financing opportunities. lead companies rooted in creativity and ingenuity.

While making his rounds, Obama spoke with At the first-ever White House Demo Day on Aug. several minority entrepreneurs. Among those chosen 4, President Obama noted that less than 1 percent of were Jewel Burks, co-founder and CEO of Partpic, an companies that are backed by venture capitalists have Atlanta-based company that uses image recognition a Black founder. software to identify industrial supply replacement “It’s always hard to get in front of people, parts; Pashon Murray, founder of Detroit Dirt, a especially for women and minorities,” Obama said.

Michigan-based company that collects food waste The event highlighted technology-based startups from companies and transforms it into rich soil; and Frederick Hutson, founder of Pigeonly, a Las Vegas-based company creating solutions for people who want to stay in touch with loved ones in prison.

“Yet we’ve seen again and again that companies with diverse leadership often outperform those that don’t,” the president said. “That’s the market that is out there – not just here in the United States, but globally. So, that lack of participation from everybody isn’t good for business.”

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Young African leaders gathered in the District to participate in a U.S. government-sponsored fellowship program summit. The presidential summit, supported by the Obama-founded Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), took place at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Northwest from Aug. 2-5.

Five hundred African leaders, known as the Mandela Washington Fellows, took courses and workshops for six weeks prior to the summit at leading colleges and universities throughout the country to hone their professional skills and gain knowledge of the latest developments in their career fields.

“I am proud to be here with so many brilliant individuals,” Evan Ryan, the assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs, said to an Aug. 3 assembly of the Mandela Fellows. “I am looking at the next generation of African leaders. President Obama launched this initiative to help empower you and you should use this program to network to unlock your enormous potential.”

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A Wal-Mart truck driver who hadn’t slept in 28 hours failed to slow down despite posted warning signs and was responsible for a highway crash last year that severely injured comedian Tracy Morgan and killed another comedian, the National Transportation Safety Board said Aug. 11.

But the board said the failure of Morgan and other passengers in a limousine-van to wear seat belts and adjust headrests contributed to the severity of injuries when the limo was struck from behind by the truck.

Most of their injuries were caused when the passengers were whipped around or thrown into the sides of the vehicle, the board said at a meeting to determine

the cause of the crash and make safety recommendations.

None of the passengers in the back of the 10-seat limo or the driver was wearing a seat belt.

The board said truck driver Kevin Roper of Jonesboro, Georgia, could have prevented the June 7, 2014, crash if he had slowed to 45 mph, the posted speed limit for the construction work zone on the New Jersey Turnpike near Cranbury, where the crash occurred.

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The final competition of the Miss Black USA pageant was held on Aug. 9. Winners included from left to right: fourth runner up, Ade Adeniji; second runner up, Lola Adeoye; winner of The Miss Black USA 2015 competition, Madison Gibbs; first runner up, Amaris Chew and third runner up Taylor Moore-Willis.

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An unarmed, black college football player tried to smash through the locked glass door of a North Texas car dealership showroom to escape an officer in training, then turned and headed toward the officer and was fatally shot, the police chief said.

Called to the scene of a suspected burglary last week, Officer Brad Miller pursued 19-year-old Christian Taylor into the showroom without telling his supervising officer, Arlington Police Chief Will 19-year-old Christian Johnson said Tuesday as he Taylor, a sophomore at described the encounter.

Angelo State University in Johnson said Miller, 49, has San Angelo, Tex. been fired for causing a deadly confrontation that put him and other officers in danger.

Inside the showroom, Miller ordered Taylor to get to the ground.

Instead, Taylor cursed at the officer and advanced toward him. When Taylor was about 10 feet away, the officer fired, Johnson said.

Taylor continued moving, so Miller’s training officer, Cpl. Dale Wiggins, shot Taylor with a Taser.

Miller then fired three more times. At least two bullets struck Taylor, killing him, according to the chief, who said the interaction early Friday morning lasted only seconds. Taylor and Miller never made physical contact, he said.

Taylor’s death came two days before the anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and is the latest in a series of incidents in which black men have been killed by police. Johnson said Tuesday he hoped Miller’s firing will “assist in the healing process.”

“Some communities and our nation have been torn apart by similar challenges,” he said.

About 60 protesters gathered outside Arlington police headquarters late Tuesday, demanding that Miller, who is white, face criminal charges.

The firing was “not enough justice,” said Matthew Higgins, 20, one of Taylor’s former high school classmates. “If it was a white person, it probably would have been different.”

The Arlington Municipal Patrolman’s Association issued a statement Tuesday night decrying Johnson’s decision. The group said it supports “Miller’s right to be judged fairly and completely on facts instead of a snapshot developed in only days,” and expressed sympathy for Taylor’s family.

“We again ask that citizens obey the commands of police officers in order to prevent these tragedies from occurring in the future,” the association said.

An attorney for Miller did not have an immediate comment on Johnson’s announcement. Taylor’s family did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Taylor was a graduate of an Arlington high school and a football player at Angelo State University in West Texas.

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“It is clear from the facts obtained that Mr. Taylor was noncompliant with police demands,” Johnson said.

But, the chief said, Miller’s mistakes required his firing. While he said he had “serious concerns” about Miller’s use of deadly force, Johnson said it would be up to a grand jury to decide whether Miller’s actions were criminal.

“This is an extraordinarily difficult case,” Johnson said.

“Decisions were made that created an environment of cascading consequences and an unrecoverable outcome.”

Farrakhan Urges Retaliation for Police Violence

By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent

In October 1995, hundreds of thousands of African Americans convened on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to sound a clarion call for civil rights and economic parity under the aegis of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan and other Black leaders.

This year, on the 20th anniversary of the historic Million Man March on Oct. 10, Farrakhan is calling hundreds of thousands of Blackmen, women and other people of color to march again, this time to demand justice for the killings Minister Louis Farrakhan with impunity of Black men, women and children at the hands of police and vigilantes under the theme “Justice or Else.”

“These are not the times for weak people, for cowardly people,” said Farrakhan, according to The Washington Post, during the June 24 announcement at an interfaith gathering at Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Northeast Washington. The service came on the heels of the slaying of nine African-American congregants by a self-proclaimed White supremacist at a Charleston, S.C. AME church.

But the response to such atrocities, including the taking of Black lives by police, should not just be marching but retaliation, Farrakhan said during a recent stop in Miami, Fla., to promote the #JusticeorElse gathering. “I need 10,000 fearless men, who say, ‘Death is sweeter than continued life under tyranny. Death is sweeter than to live and bury our children while White folks give the killer hamburgers,” the Muslim leader said, according to a video recording of the speech. Farrakhan referred to police taking Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof to a Burger King after his capture.

“Retaliation is a prescription from God to calm the breast of those whose children have been enslaved,” Farrakhan added in his remarks to the packed audience gathered July 30 at Mount Zion Baptist Church. “So, if the federal government will not intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us. Stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling!”

Farrakhan’s sentiments echo those of Malcolm X during the height of the Civil Rights Movement amid lynchings and other acts of terror against Blacks by the Ku Klux Klan.

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Allies of Pivotal Civil Rights Victim Reflect 50 Years Later

By The Associated Press Fifty years after Jonathan Daniels was shot dead by an ardent segregationist in Alabama, the people who stood with him then lament today’s killings of Blacks by police and the racially motivated slaying of nine Black worshippers as stark reminders of the country’s persistent racial divide.

Daniels, a 26-year-old White seminary student from Keene, New Hampshire, had traveled to Lowndes County, Alabama, to register Blacks to vote, a vital component of the civil rights movement. Tom Coleman, a White 54-year-old highway engineer infuriated by what he saw as liberal meddlers out to upset the racial order in his hometown, shot him in the chest.

Ruby Sales was a Black 17-year-old secretary with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who met Daniels when she went to Lowndes County. Sales, who founded and directs The SpiritHouse Project, an Atlanta-based nonprofit dealing with discrimination, wonders just how far the country has come since Daniels died, seeing stories of Blacks killed by police in Ferguson, Baltimore, New York and Cincinnati, along with the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.

“Race relations today in the United States are an extension of that time period,” she said. “Tom Coleman was able to kill Jonathan Daniels under the cover of the law. Despite the fact that it has been 50 years, we are still operating in a culture where police and vigilantes can murder African-Americans.”

In 1991, the Episcopal Church added Daniels to its roster of martyrs and celebrates his life on Aug. 14, the day of his arrest in Alabama. The Rt. Rev. Robert Hirschfeld, bishop of the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire, said Daniels’ work must be carried on today to combat the “unholy trinity” of racism, poverty and gun violence.

“Racial hatred is still very much alive, and the violence that results in it,” he said last month as he prepared to take a group of young people on a pilgrimage to historical civil rights locations in Alabama, including Hayneville, where Daniels was killed. Sales will join Hirschfield Aug. 23 at a worship service in Keene to commemorate Daniels’ life.

Robert Harris was born three months after Daniels died. Now the elected chairman of the Lowndes County Commission, Harris said there is still work to be done on race relations in a county that is three-quarters Black.

“Based on what I’ve seen in my years, there’s definitely some change for the better that has transpired,” said Harris, who is Black. “We still have a way to go because we still have one private school in the county

“Despite the fact that it has been 50 years, we are still operating in a culture where police and vigilantes can murder African-Americans.”

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Ruby Sales, founder and director of The SpiritHouse Project, an Atlanta-based nonprofit dealing with discrimination, says that fifty years after Jonathan Daniels was shot dead by an ardent segregationist in Alabama, the people who stood with him then lament today’s killings of Blacks by police. and we’re still separate on Sundays. There’s no place on Sundays where we fellowship together. There’s still some sort of separation, or what I would call segregation.”

On Aug. 20, 1965, Daniels, Sales, the Rev. Richard Morrisroe and Joyce Bailey left the Lowndes County jail after spending six days locked up with 16 others following a protest.

The four headed for Varner’s Cash Store a few blocks away for soft drinks while they waited for a ride.

“Bloody Lowndes,” a nickname earned because of the county’s often-violent suppression of Blacks, was an especially dangerous place for activists. Following the Selma-to-Montgomery march in March 1965, Viola Liuzzo, a Wwhite mother of five from Detroit, was murdered on a stretch of highway there as she ferried marchers back and forth.

Three Ku Klux Klan members were ultimately convicted of federal civil rights charges.

When Daniels’ group got to the store, they were met at the door by Coleman, a 12-gauge shotgun in his hands. Coleman told them the store was closed. When Daniels asked whether he was threatening the group, Coleman fired.

Daniels pushed Sales out of the way and was hit in the chest, dying instantly. Coleman

pulled the trigger again, hitting Morrisroe in the back and side as the priest tried to escape with Bailey.

After a three-day trial, a jury of 12 white men took one hour and 31 minutes to acquit Coleman. Reaction was blistering. Elected officials, including Alabama’s attorney general, decried the trial as a sham, the verdict a travesty. Editorial pages in newspapers northern and southern excoriated Lowndes County as a bastion of entrenched racism.

Coleman, who had said that the churchmen had weapons and that he had killed them in self-defense, told CBS News a year later he had no regrets. The civil rights workers denied that the men were armed, no weapons were found, and at trial, defense witnesses gave changing accounts.

“They were down here promoting, antagonizing things, promoting trouble,” Coleman said. “I wouldn’t change a bit. If the same thing happens in the morning that happened that day, I would shoot them both tomorrow.”

Coleman died in 1997. His son, Tom L. Coleman Jr. of Montgomery, declined to comment for this article.

Morrisroe was severely wounded; the pain

in his back is still a daily reminder of Daniels and Coleman. He was honorably discharged as a Roman Catholic priest in 1973, got a law degree and now works part time as a city planner in East Chicago, Indiana.

Morrisroe, who named a son Jonathan, said it’s crucial for people to interact with people from different backgrounds, just as Daniels did by immersing himself in Black Alabama.

“People have to break out of their ethnic shells,” Morrisroe said. “I think too much activity is across picket lines where there is no communication, but rather an attitude of fear and shouting, attitudes that often generate hate rather than any sort of breakthrough.”

The killing of Daniels and Liuzzo helped galvanize Blacks in the county. More Blacks registered to vote and within five years, the county elected its first Black sheriff. By the end of the 1970s, county government was effectively controlled by Blacks.

For Sales’ part, she believes Daniels’ actions that day have had a half-century long impact on Black lives in rural Alabama.

“To maintain freedom is a constant struggle,” Sales said. “You can kill the person, but a people’s impulse for freedom never dies.”

the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Texas at Austin, and Notre Dame participated in the Mandela Fellows program by offering classroom instruction and dormitory lodging.

Lois Ogunnaike, a reporter with The New York Times moderated the “Congressional

and hunger and that is simply not true,” Gumbi said. “Many Africans are doing well. Plus, many people in this country think Africa is a single country and it is not.”

Obama spoke after the congressional forum and was received well by the fellows. He praised the program as “a long-investment in

that will offer $1 billion to support the entrepreneurial efforts of women and young people.”

Obama said that the fellows program will be expanded in 2016, with 1,000 young African leaders coming to the U.S. and having 80 young Americans visit African countries

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The fellows are 25-35 years-old and were selected by YALI leaders and staff under the guidance of the State Department from a competition of 20,000 applicants. All subSaharan African countries were represented in this year’s class, which is the second in YALI’s history.

YALI was founded as a long-term component of the historic African Summit (a U.S. hosted meeting of African leaders) that took place last year in the District. President Barack Obama re-named the fellowship program last year for the late Nelson Mandela, the first Black president of South Africa.

IREX, a non-profit organization that is committed to international education in academic research, professional training, and technical assistance, works with the fellows program, providing the resources and the legwork it needs in order to function.

The fellows are practitioners in fields such as politics, education, medicine and the arts in their countries.

Twenty colleges and universities including Howard University, Clark Atlanta University,

“With the knowledge that you are getting, you can make a big positive difference in your sphere of influence.”

– Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) Forum on Investing in Africa” panel that consisted of U.S. Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (DGa.), and Hlanganani Gumbi, a 25-year-old Democratic Alliance Party member of the KwaZulu-Natal provincial legislature in South Africa.

“We want you to see what has made America a great nation,” Johnson said. “Get all that America has to offer. With the knowledge that you are getting, you can make a big positive difference in your sphere of influence.”

Markey, who traveled with President Obama recently to Kenya and Ethiopia and is the top Democrat on the Africa subcommittee on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that America’s relationship with Africa is changing. “We want to help Africa by introducing and showing the American entrepreneurial spirit,” the senator said. “It is long past the time where the U.S. tells Africans what to do. We are partners.”

Gumbi, who took his courses at Howard University, said many Americans have the wrong impression of Africa.

“The media tends to portray Africa as a place of disease

all of you, and in Africa, and the future that we can build together.”

“There are 144,000 people who are a part of YALI,” the president said. “We are setting up regional centers in Nairobi (Kenya), Accra (Ghana), Pretoria (South Africa), and Dakar (Senegal). We have also set up a program

to learn about the continent. “We are building a generation of global leaders,” Obama said.

“Ten, 15, and 20 years from now, you will all be connecting with each other. This program is a priority of mine and my administration is working to institutionalize it in the State Department.”

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than 0.4 miles past the 45 mph speed limit sign without slowing from 65 mph. The truck was going that fast until it reached a closing distance of approximately 200 feet before the impact.

At 45 mph, the truck could have stopped before impact, the board concluded.

The collision with the limo started a chain reaction crash that affected 21 people in six vehicles.

“One tragic aspect of roadway deaths is that so often they could have been prevented,” said the safety board’s chairman, Chris Hart.

Heavy trucks are involved in nearly 1 in 8 fatal crashes, NTSB said. In work zones, 1 in 4 fatal crashes involves a heavy truck.

Roper had driven over 800 miles overnight from Georgia to a Wal-Mart distribution center in Delaware to pick up a load before starting the trip without stopping for sleep.

He had worked for Wal-Mart for 15 weeks and had had nine “critical event reports.” Critical event reports, which are generated by a truck’s computers and downloaded by WalMart, record things such as hard braking, activation of the

vehicle’s stability control system or other events that might indicate unsafe driving.

Roper also had been involved in a preventable accident, causing him to lose his safety bonus, investigators said.

David Glassman, a Philadelphia attorney representing Roper, said the NTSB did not have all the facts since the board didn’t speak to Roper. He also said it is incorrect that Roper had gone without sleep for over 28 hours. “Not only are we disputing it, it is factually wrong,” he said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

Hart said Roper declined to be interviewed by NTSB investigators.

Wal-Mart had provided guidance to its drivers on preventing fatigue, but didn’t have a comprehensive program to prevent drivers from being assigned over-tiring schedules or to make sure they were rested before reporting to work, the board said. Since then, WalMart has taken greater steps to educate drivers about fatigue and has said it will put in place a program to reduce fatigue, investigators said.

The board has long raised concerns about operator fatigue

“Roper had driven over 800 miles overnight from Georgia to a Wal-Mart distribution center in Delaware to pick up a load before starting the trip without stopping for sleep.”

leading to accidents across all modes of transportation, from airline pilots to train engineers.

Investigators said the limo wound up on its side with its rear doors jammed shut. A sheet of plywood that had been added to the limo to separate the cab from passengers blocked occupants from escaping the vehicle through the front doors after the crash.

It took emergency responders working with the assistance of other motorists 37 minutes to remove the first of the crash victims from the rear of the limo.

Investigators said emergency responders, mostly volunteers, didn’t have the training to address some of the logistical and coordination issues arising from the complicated accident. New Jersey doesn’t have requirements for the number of training hours that volunteer emergency responders must have, or a certification program, they said.

Comedian James “Jimmy Mack” McNair of Peekskill, New York, a mentor of Morgan’s, was killed. Morgan suffered head trauma, and was in a coma for two weeks. Three other passengers in the limo suffered serious injuries.

Morgan, a former Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock star, and the others were returning from a performance in Dover, Delaware.

Roper was charged with death by auto and four counts of assault by auto in state court in New Jersey. He has pleaded not guilty.

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event, hosted an off-site tech gathering at the same time. DC-based startup Mission: Launch convened with supporters at Impact Hub in Penn Quarter to view the event that

release. Hodge launched the company in 2012, after her mother Teresa Hodge was sentenced to an 87-month prison sentence.

Today, the company’s Rebuilding Re-entry campaign focuses on the needs and rights of white collar, first-time, nonviolent females returning as citizens after their incarceration.

Through initiatives like TechHire and Startup in a – President Obama Day, President Obama made a commitment to expand was livestreamed on whitehouse.gov. The resources for entrepreneurs on the federal group joined to hear President Obama speak level. “We have to unleash the full potential of about “the importance of inclusive tech and every American,” he said. “Because you never inclusive entrepreneurship,” said Laurin know who is going to have the next big idea Hodge, Mission: Launch co-founder, in a or what path will lead them there.”

“Yet we’ve seen again and again that companies with diverse leadership often outperform those that don’t…”

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President Barack Obama meets with Ann Marie Sastry, Ann Arbor, Mich., of Sakti3 as he hosted top innovators and startup founders from across the country for the first White House Demo Day, Aug. 4.

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Ferguson and Baltimore: Demonstrating Violence As protesters gathered in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson to mark the one year anniversary of Michael Brown Jr.’s death at the hands of a White police officer, two groups of young people allegedly began firing guns at each other a short distance away in a strip of stores that had just been looted.

The police responded quickly and at the end of the encounter, Tyrone Harris Jr. was on the ground after being shot several times. He remains in the hospital.

The police say Harris was shooting at them and they returned fire. Harris’s father told the Associated Press, “My son was running to the police to ask for help, and he was shot. It’s all a bunch of lies ... They’re making my son look like a criminal.” Harris’ father continues to assert this belief in spite of the recent disclosure of a video that allegedly shows Harris with a gun during the Monday night police confrontation, and the additional disclosure of Harris’ criminal record.

It has been a tumultuous year as more and more people are beginning to realize that Black men and women are being victimized and indeed killed by the police at a frightening rate. That spotlight nevertheless pales when compared to the numbers of Black on Black violent crimes that are perpetrated every day. In Baltimore, home to Freddie Gray, who died earlier this year in police custody, it appears that most of the record high homicides committed so far this year have involved Black perpetrators and Black victims.

In Ferguson, which declared a state of emergency following the shooting of Harris, a relatively peaceful protest has been marred by not only the shooting of Harris but the accompanying looting.

As in past uprisings, the damage done to the business institutions inside our communities often far exceeds the ostensible gains created by the boisterous demonstrations.

It is time to ask who is to blame. Protesters can’t claim everything is the fault of racist police while at the same time shoot outs and looting are taking place nearby.

The Ferguson protests have been extremely important in initiating positive improvements in how Black citizens are to be treated, however, such improvements will surely be viewed historically as ineffective unless there is also a greater effort to eliminate the violence that continues to caste a national negative image upon too many of the Black communities in this country.

Washington AFRO Editorial

Warning: The Rising D.C. Homicides Threat As the summer nears its end, the death toll in D.C. is not subsiding. The city’s homicide count, for 2015, currently stands at 91 victims, a 28.2 percent increase, from 71 victims, at the same time last year.

Causes for the spike in homicides can be attributed to several different factors, including synthetic drugs, gangs and inadequate police units patrolling neighborhoods. An additional cause could also be the illegal gun trade.

To resolve the issue, several government entities from the Mayor and Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners to the police department and the District’s Office of Police Complaints are working to strengthen relationships between the community and officers. These entities are also promoting

stricter polices against synthetic drugs along with other measures. Unfortunately, in spite of these efforts, there is no quick fix solution to solving D.C.’s rising homicide rate.

Even so, caution should be noted. The current multiple murders in per day trend presents the city with a troubling reality. There is a possibility that it could catch up to Baltimore’s horrendous homicide rate, which recently exceeded more than 200 homicides. Or, even worse, it could go back to the murderous environment of 1996 when the district homicide rate exceeded more than 300 victims. Whatever the outcome, it is almost assured that a continued increase in homicides can only be disastrous for the District, its residents and visitors.

COMMENTARY There Is Still Work To Be Done Last week, as our nation marked the 50th Anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, I recalled our struggles here in Baltimore during that earlier time when I was young.

I remembered how Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Esq., of the Baltimore NAACP taught the young people of my South Baltimore neighborhood that we had rights that others had to respect — and how that lesson made all of the Elijah Cummings difference in the way we viewed ourselves and our future in this country.

Then, in August of 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., raised his voice from the Lincoln Memorial, declaring that: “We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.”

His declaration was both insightful and prophetic.

While others were arguing for change “by any means necessary,” Dr. King rested his faith in the progress that we could achieve through the power of the polling place.

He did so with the clear understanding that equality in voting is not an abstract goal, but, rather, that our civic engagement must move this nation toward greater opportunity in all of the meaningful aspects of our lives.

As official Washington of that time pondered and debated Dr. King’s stirring words, our nation was inspired by the courage that a young John Lewis, Hosea Williams and the people of Selma, Alabama, demonstrated in the face of violent reaction on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge.

African Americans were crying out for tangible improvements in the quality of our lives. The marches continued — and for millions upon millions of our countrymen and women, my own family included, America began to change for the better.

Within two years after Dr. King’s stirring declaration of faith at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, his vision of constructive change had been translated into the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and “Great Society” initiatives that addressed our education, our medical care, and our most onerous economic hardships.

As President Obama observed last week during the August 6 conference celebrating the legacy of the Voting Rights Act, we rightly honor those who carried our democracy forward by their courage, their determination and their sacrifice. Yet, as now Congressman John Lewis of Georgia reminded America in Selma last March, “There’s still work to be done.”

Pervasive efforts to weaken the Voting Rights Act’s protections have invaded the Congress, the United States Supreme Court and far too many of our state legislatures.

When a slim, 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act’s protections, there is still work to be done.

When the Republican majority in the Congress refuses to give our efforts to correct the Supreme Court’s decision in {Shelby County v. Holder} even a floor debate and up-ordown vote, there is still work to be done.

When Republican-dominated state legislatures enact discriminatory voter identification requirements, roll back early voting and encourage improper and racially targeted purges of their voting rolls, there is still work to be done.

President Obama offered these observations for a reason.

It was just and proper that we celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act this month – but our more lasting response must be one of recommitment to Dr.

King’s vision of universal democratic participation in the decisions that affect our lives.

The gains of 50 years ago are under relentless attack, and only a nation-wide, sustained commitment by everyday Americans will protect that vision of a better, more equal and more humane nation that our civil rights heroes and heroines advanced five decades ago.

The struggle for greater justice in our society has not ended.

Indeed, it has just begun — on the byways of our nation, in our state capitols, in the Congress of the United States, in our courts and in the voter registration booths and polling places of our Democracy.

As I write these words, our NAACP is leading “Justice Summer” marches throughout the South, to conclude with a Washington, DC march on September 11-15 [ naacp.org ].

President Obama has once again called upon the Congress to move forward on our efforts to strengthen the Voting Rights Act — and we will continue that fight until, once again, democracy has prevailed.

We must march — and, even more important, we must assure that every person we know has registered to vote. Our active and sustained participation in the electoral process is central to our movement for equal treatment in employment, housing and all of the other essential elements of American life.

The President has proclaimed September 22 as National Voter Registration Day, offering his strong encouragement to the League of Women Voters and all of us as we work to assure that every American can exercise our most fundamental civil right.

This is our time, our watch, and our victory to be won.

This is our future to secure, and there is still work to be done.

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

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Baltimore Fashion Week Designers Share Their Design Secrets

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Malvin L. Brown, Long Lost Baltimore Smoke Jumper, Finally Honored

By Charise Wallace Special to the AFRO

By Kamau High Editor, the AFRO khigh@afro.com

As designers get closer and closer to presenting their Fall 2015 collection, they are becoming mad about fashion.

On Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. Baltimore Fashion Week Presents “Mad About Fashion & Africa Art Collective” will take place at the War Memorial in Baltimore.

Designers from Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Illinois will be showcasing their designs. A couple of designers like Omobonike Odegbami, 42, of UNICAS and Ashleigh Wingfield, 24, of Yvonne Fields Designs gave the AFRO an inside scoop on what to expect at the event and their interpretation of being mad about fashion.

“Nigerians are mad about fashion,” Odegbami said. “We may not have money to eat, but we look good.”

Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun via AP

Andre Powell, left, an organizer with Baltimore People’s Power Assembly and Rev. C.D. Witherspoon, president of the Baltimore SCLC, lead a march on North Avenue in Baltimore at one of the sites of unrest following the death of Freddie Gray, who died after being arrested by Baltimore police in April. The University of Maryland’s Francis King Carey School of Law announced it will offer a course called, “Freddie Gray’s Baltimore: Past, Present, and Moving Forward” this Fall.

Malvin L. Brown, a Black soldier who died during World War II, finally got the recognition he deserved.

That’s because Brown, a member of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, an all Black group, and his grave were long considered lost. The Triple Nickles, as the 555th was known, were well-known during their time and Brown’s death was reported on in the AFRO on Sept. 8, 1945.

The Triple Nickles, who were trained to not only jump out of planes but also to fight fires, were a part of the plan to thwart possible attempts by the Japanese to fly large balloons over the West Coast that could be detonated over forests. If the forests were set ablaze, the thinking went, then much needed resources for the War would have to be diverted to fight the fires.

While the Japanese plan never happened the Triple Nickles were flown to the West Coast to fight fires. Brown died

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Baltimore Fashion Week Kicks Off AFRO Publisher to Chair a fashion week how can you exude the arts,” Nixon said. “The arts don’t get enough recognition which is why I started this”.

Baltimore’s annual Fashion Week is under The theme of this year’s Baltimore Fashion way.

Week is “Mad about Fashion” and the event Taking place from August 11-16 at the will feature over 20 designers, and provide War Memorial in downtown Baltimore, this a runway setting for designers to showcase is the 8th annual production of Baltimore their creations to buyers. A variety of fashion Fashion Week. On August 10 Baltimore Mayor mediums will be displayed at the event Stephanie Rawlings-Blake kicked off the event. including bridal wear, specialty t-shirts, and “We have a city full of creative people, couture. “This year promises to be interesting,” and unique people and incredibly talented said Nixon in a statement. “Our theme is Alice people and I love this opportunity to showcase in Wonderland because we want to evoke a all that is in the sense of wonder city, whether it’s and magic with our hair or fashion showcase. We want Baltimoreans are to combine that trendsetters.” said sense of awe with Mayor Rawlingsthe majesty of the Blake. “Events War Memorial.” like this help us Stylists from to showcase what across the country is unique abut will be represented Baltimore, what along with is strong about designers from right Baltimore, and here in Maryland. certainly gives us “This year, we’re a chance to make going back to our Baltimore look roots in everything good. There should from location to be no shortage of our designers,” said those opportunities.

Nixon. “We want to The rest of the bring out our local media has done a talent more, and good job of trying pay homage to the to make us look bad spirit of Maryland. so we have to fight We always love Photo by Janneh Johnson back.” having designers Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake signals Sharan Nixon, from around the the beginning of Baltimore Fashion Week as founder and world showcase Sharan Nixon, founder of the event, looks on. executive director of their designs, but Baltimore Fashion we should also Week, feels that highlight and bring the event has a big influence on the city. out local artists who deserve a platform.”

“The impact that this has in the community is Tickets for the event are $30 and the doors very strong especially in the arts community. open at 6:00 p.m. with shows starting at 7:05 Fashion is the center catapult to art so without p.m. through Aug. 16.

By Janneh Johnson Special to The AFRO

Photo Credit Omobonike Odegbami

Yvonne Fields Designs Wingfield, of Yvonne Fields Designs, said, “It’s something that you eat, sleep, and breath,” adding a paraphrase of the famous line from The Devil Wears Prada, “Fashion is so great because you live your life in it.”

Baltimore Fashion Week, an annual event since 2008, focuses on the theme “Wonderland of Fashion” from August 11-16, as they let designers be in control on what inspiration to bring in their designs. Walt Disney Characters are plastered on the flyers as well as for the fashion show “Mad About Fashion & Africa Art Collective,” as they expect designers to bring their creative energy onto the runway.

“This will be our first launch in Maryland,” said Odegbami from Michigan.

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UNCF Baltimore Campaign John Jacob “Jake” Oliver, CEO of The Afro-American Newspaper, was named Chairman of the 2015-2016 United Negro College Fund Baltimore Campaign. He will provide advice and counsel to the UNCF staff on community outreach and developing new partnerships.

The AFRO and Morgan State Announce Research Partnership

Dr. David Wilson with the members of the Quarles Institute Committee and members of the College Of Liberal Arts

By AFRO Staff The AFRO-American and Morgan State University announced a partnership on Aug. 11. Morgan State received a grant of $500,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help establish the Benjamin A. Quarles Humanities and Social Sciences Institute with Morgan’s College of Liberal Arts.

The goal of the Institute is to raise awareness among undergraduate and graduate students of the peoples of the African Diaspora and how they intersect with the global community. Part of that will include scholars from the Institute using the archives of The AFRO-American to complete their research.

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fighting one such fire on Aug. 6, 1945. Soldiers who jumped out of planes to fight fires were known as smoke jumpers.

Over the years Brown’s family and the U.S. Forest Service lost track of his grave. After some sleuthing by members of the Triple Nickles Brown’s grave was located at the Mt. Calvary Cemetery near Baltimore.

Brown was honored on Aug. 6 by the Maryland National Guard, who presented the colors, while a soloist from the District of Columbia sang the national anthem. Brown’s family received full military honors. They were: Vernell Brown, eldest niece; Tracy Telfor, son of Vernell; Juanita Hayes, niece of Malvin Brown; Susan Hayes, daughter of Juanita; and Elizabeth Lindsey, niece of Malvin Brown.

Brown was born Oct. 11, 1920 and enlisted at the age of 22.

l to r: Timothy McCoy, 555th Parachute Infantry Association, Baltimore chapter; Liane Young, author and national representative of the 555th Parachute Infantry Association; Dennis Symes, National Smoke Jumpers Association; Art Hinaman, assistant, US Forest Service, Fire & Aviation, holding the plaque to be attached to Brown’s headstone; Mary Wagner, associate chief, US Forest Service and Deidra McGee National, liaison, Forest Service

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UNICAS, which is derived from the Portuguese language meaning unique. She also partners with her close friend Sade Adegboyo from Columbia, MD, as they both opened their online collection in Maryland and Michigan, called UNICAS. Odegbami hand makes all of her designs in a way that brings them to life. “We have 10 items that we have not shown anywhere else,” Odegbami said. “It’s going to be very colorful.” She uses a type of fabric called, soutache that allows the quality beading to fall directly along the center of the chest.

She mentions that all of her inspiration comes from life experiences, and what’s captivated her in modern day society.

“I’ve never had a traditional wedding,” said Odegbami. “I created this piece called ‘Dream’ because it has always been my dream to walk down the aisle in all-white.”

Odegbami will have her jewelry designs available for purchase at the event. UNICAS custom-made necklaces and sets start at $150.They are also on available on her website unicasfashion.com.

Ashleigh Wingfield of Yvonne Fields Designs specializes in making custom-made women’s clothing that are sold on yvonnefields.vpweb.com. “I kind of took my inspiration from

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a very colorful line with a lot of prints that I use as well as drapery.”

Wingfield is from Upper Marlboro, MD. She has a knack for making women feel young, no matter what age they may be. The colors she uses are vibrant, full of leather materials and lavish prints. “I don’t want to put myself in a box, because my mom is in her 50’s…it’s a lot of pieces that she likes, but at the same time my friends are like, “Omg! I love this outfit, I wanna buy that”.”

Yvonne Fields Designs will be available for purchase at the event and start at $45.

The Fashion Umbrella Foundation, an organization that connects the arts community with educational institutions, is putting on Baltimore Fashion Week. Tickets are available for purchase at baltimore-fashionweek.com. Prices range from $30-$60. The show will take place at the War Memorial, 101 N Gay Street, Baltimore, Md.

Reverend Wise is retiring after Pastoring for 35 years.

She will be singing and playing the Hammond Organ at this great service of GLORY!!!

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“How do I say goodbye to what we had? The good times that made us laugh, outweighed the bad. I thought we’d get to see forever, but forever has blown away. It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday. I don’t know where this road is gonna lead to. All I know is where we’ve been and what we’ve been through. If it gets me to tomorrow, I hope it’s worth all the pain.

It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.” –Boyz 2 Men “It has been a fun ride and I want to celebrate and show tribute to my friends and supporters.” –Carlos Carlos Hutchins, the stylish promoter and friend to musicians, club owners and patrons is retiring after twenty

BALTIMORE AREA

COMMUNITY CONNECTION 2nd Annual Outside the Walls Back to School Service

Come on August 16th at 10 a.m. to Christian Liberty Church’s Back to School Service. Free back packs and school supplies will be given to elementary and high school students.

The services will be held at Frederick Douglas High School, 2301 Gwynn’s Falls Parkway, Baltimore, MD 21217. To donate or for more information contact 410.523.LOVE (5683)

BlackRock Center for the Arts to Host Annual Open House

BlackRock Center for the Arts will host its annual Open House on August 22nd from 10 a.m.-1p.m. The event is free and open to everyone. At the Open House members of the public will get a taste of all BlackRock has to offer, including sample art classes, gallery exhibits, and a family-friendly live performance by local rock group The Grandsons. Parking is free and Ride On offers 15-minute express bus service from Shady Grove Metro (Red Line). BlackRock Center for the Arts is located in Germantown, next to the Germantown Branch Montgomery County Public Library, at 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown, MD 20874. For more information please visit blackrockcenter.org or call 301.528.2260.

years promoting Baltimore’s social scene as the place to be for entertainment. He is retiring the only way he knows with a huge extravaganza featuring Elliott Levine, Rollex Band, Slagz Band, Isaac Parham, DJ Diamond and special guest Art Sherrod Jr., August 30 at the Forum. Carlos is honoring those who have supported him through the years like Tony and Michael, Corinthian Restaurant, Michael Haynie, Holiday Inn Belmont; Mary and Myra Hendricks, Sista’s Place; Candes and Dante Daniels, Maceo’s Lounge and Colin’s Seafood and Grill; Donna and Chuck Montgomery, Johnson’s Lounge; Robert and Leroy Friend, Identity Ultra Lounge; Charles Faison and Darnell Faison DipNic; Tony Randall, Phaze 10 Restaurant; Fantastic Four; 3 Amigos; Carl Beasley, Poets Athletic Club and many more including your favorite columnists Rosa Pryor and Valerie Fraling. For tickets to this stellar event so call 443963-5711. “…but you can’t just ride along. You’re learning to steer the ship, navigation; you’re pulling lines, keeping a lookout.”

–Billy Campbell Our friend John Lee of Zenith Hospitality invited Marsha Jews and I to a sailing party hosted by John and Baltimore Social Club at the Downtown Sailing School. I had mixed emotions. I love being on the water but I’d never been on a sailboat. It was a picture perfect Sunday to be on the water; but I didn’t know we were going to actually sail and steer. Now I’m nervous I don’t even want to ride when Marsha is driving so now we are sailing together with two young ladies from the Four Seasons, my job was to jib ( pull and lock the rope for the sail) for you novices LOL. We cruised the gorgeous harbor laughing and squealing when the little teeny tiny sailboat would lean a little too far as our 23 year-old captain reassured us that the boat would not tilt. Arriving safely back to the dock, we headed to Little Havana for a two-hour party with food and drinks. Among the 40 sailors sailing were John and Stacy Lee, Janice Stewart, Kenny Patterson, Takiea Hinton (Afro Editorial Assistant) and Sharon Bunch.

“Summertime and the living is easy” –Ella Fitzgerald After sailing we joined Karen Brice & Dina Jolley at the palatial estate of Johnny and Janice Brice for a summer get together. Everyone brought a dish and a drink to share, which resulted in lots of food, fun and swimming. The music by Michael Johns had guests Sharon Brice-Parks, Rod Manning, Yvonne Williams, Michael Bruce, Patsy Cannon, Theron Williams, Renada & Justin Hamer, Dana and Jeffrey Meyers, David Brice, Tory Melvin, Jonathan Brice, Curtis Moore, Sean Williams, Tom Porter, Donna Williams, Troy and Sophie

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Ballinger, Guy and Sharon Richardson, James Gray, Wesley King, Berma Haynes, Paul Ball, Vernon Ross, Renee Owens and Brenda Stewart dancing non-stop as the music filled the “summer breeze.”

It was great seeing National Silhouettes President Jacquelene Sharp Massey dining at Colin’s Restaurant with Quinhon N. Goodlowe, the newly appointed principal of Deer Park Middle Magnet School. Ms. Goodlowe has 15 years of leadership experience that she is excited to share with parents, staff, and students. Let’s welcome her to Randallstown by offering our support as she leads our youth forward.

“I had no introduction to the arts in any way definitely not the fine arts.” –Misty Copeland Among the thousand people greeting prima ballerina Misty Copeland with a standing ovation were Jean Guye, Dr. Thelma Daly, Jacqueline Richardson, Ralph and Dana Moore, former Senator Verna Jones –Rodwell, Marcine Britton, Cori Ramos, Marcia Tucker, Vernon Ross, Carolyn Wainwright, Pat Roselle, Marian Johnson, Nicole Nicholson and daughter Devin and Jeanette Bynum. Twins Nia and Nyle Hill were the pleasant volunteers assisting patrons at the Reginald Lewis Museum.

“I figured, this being my community, I need to document this, this is our history, I wanted people to see the beauty of the protest.” –Devin Allen What a surprise to meet Devin Allen, the unlikely hero who captured the heart of Americans with his picture of the Baltimore riots that landed on the cover of Time Magazine.

His photo exhibit highlighting Baltimore during the April riots are on display at the Reginald Lewis Museum. After photographing Misty Copeland, he greeted visitors as they viewed his exhibit. This engaging young man will surprise you as he reveals what motivated him in capturing certain scenes on camera. Most impressive is that our “Native Son” captured Baltimore better than the professional photographers from around world did. The exhibit runs through December 7, 2015; Visit www.gofundme to support his desire to purchase cameras to teach our youth photography.

At 90 years of age Vivian Burnett is still the gracious host greeting family and friends, Sharon Thomas, Sydney Lee, Stephanie Gantt, Bruce Thomas and Dr. Charlene CooperBoston and others who came to the Weinberg Center to wish her happy birthday.

“I’ll be seeing you” Rest in Paradise Beatrice Payne and Curtis Anderson. The world is better because you lived.

–Valerie and the Friday Night Bunch

Youth Day

Applications Open for 2016 Disney Dreamers Academy at Walt Disney World Resort

High school students nationwide can now apply at DisneyDreamersAcademy.com to be among 100 selected to participate in the 2016 Disney Dreamers Academy with Steve Harvey and ESSENCE, the outside-the-classroom, educational mentoring program at Walt Disney World Resort. Entering the search for its ninth class of Dreamers, Disney Dreamers Academy continues to hold true to its mission to inspire and fuel the dreams of teens, help them discover a world of possibilities and help them prepare for the future. Each year, students participate in hands-on, full-immersion workshops related to a variety of career paths, ranging from animation to zoology. Each participant learns important skills such as communication techniques, leadership values and networking strategies.

Applications are open to U.S. high school students, ages 13 to 19, until Oct. 30, 2015.

For more information visit Disney DreamersAcademy. com.

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Rhonda Aiden, Female Vocalist of the Year Award winner

Crowning of Teen Newsome Awards and Miss Newsome Awards contestants

Russ Shanks, two time Newsome Awards winner

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Paula Scroggins, Fred Newsome and Sherrie Webb

Drummerboy

Photos by JD Howard

The 20th annual Newsome Gospel Awards were held on August 1st at the Diamondz Center in Randallstown, Md. The Newsome Awards honor Baltimore’s top gospel musical artists. AJ “Davoice” Taylor, Drummerboy, Tornado and the Dancing Daughters of Deliverance were a few of the performers. Kitra Williams, from Bishop T.D. Jakes’ play Woman Thou Art Derrick Barnes, Loosed, was the evening’s guest national artist.

Newsome Fred Newsome is the founder of the Newsome Awards winner Gospel Awards.

J. Nicholas Jones, Newsome Awards winner

Dancing Daughters of Deliverance Kitra Williams from the play Woman Thou Art Loosed

AJ “Davoice” Taylor

Yosaris Rodriquez, Dr. Jay Jalisi, John Carrington, Fred Newsome, Gordon Jones, Latisha Jones and Minnie Carter

Peyton Bailey and Vontiva Acree

Brett Walker Ensemble Barbara Allen, Donald Allen and Linda Hatten Rev. Dr. Calvin E. Keene, Pastor Memorial Baptist Church and Lady Vanessa A. Keene

The Centennial Committee: Vanessa Hatten, Barbara Gatling, Linda Hatten and William Hatten

Photos by JD Howard

‘Honoring the past, celebrating the present, envisioning the future’ was this year’s theme for Memorial Baptist Church’s 100th Rhonda Graham, Linda Anniversary. The Luellen and Minister Barbara Darkins centennial celebration took place on May 22 in Baltimore. Friends, family and members of Memorial Baptist Church joined Pastor Calvin E. Keene and his wife Vanessa A. Keene to enjoy a night of praise.

Speaker, Bishop Douglas I. Miles, Pastor -Koinonia Baptist Church

Reflections by Sister Yvonne Harvey

Reflections by Delia Hatten

Jordan Thompson Shelia Thomas and Sharon Queen

Yvonne D. Harvey, Shirley Means, Kele Gatling and Tresa Loker

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ARTS & CULTURE

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Ving Rhames Opens Up About Hollywood

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Ving Rhames was born and raised in Harlem, New York. His career as a thespian began at the New York High School of Performing Arts, followed by training at the prestigious Julliard School of Drama.

Soon thereafter, the talented actor landed his first role on Broadway in The Winter Boys. In 1985, he made his first TV appearance in Go Tell It On the Mountain.

Ving subsequently segued to feature films, and was eventually cast as a merciless drug dealer opposite Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. That performance helped him land the role of Luther Stickell in Mission: Impossible opposite Tom Cruise.

Ving has since starred in many other blockbusters, such as Rosewood and Con Air. In 1998, he won a Golden Globe for his powerful portrayal of Don King in Don King: Only in America.

He ventured behind the camera in 2005 as a producer for the USA series Kojak. His producer credits also include: Back In The Day, Animal and Shooting Gallery.

Here, Ving talks about reprising his role as Luther in Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation which is in theaters now.

Ving Rhames is one of the stars of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.

KW: I will be mixing in my own questions with some sent in by fans. Kevin Williams says: Since you play weapons expert Luther Stickell on the IMF team, do you try to keep up with what is going on with military hardware in the real world?

VR: Quite honestly, I play a computer expert, not a weapons expert. Luther’s a computer geek, so I don’t know where Kevin got that misperception from. But I don’t really keep up with developments in quote “hand-to-hand” combat type weapons or other military technology, except drones. However, I do gang intervention in California, and there are a lot of those military weapons in the ‘hood with the Crips and the Bloods. I hate to say it, but you can find almost anything there in terms of military weaponry, even grenade launchers.

Book Review

Harper Lee, Southern Heritage and The GOP

By Charles L. Chavis, Jr. Published in 1960 but based in the 1930s, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird provided America with a liberal southern perspective on race as told through the eyes of a 6 year old white girl in fictional Maycomb, Alabama. The novel and the 1962 Oscar winning film starring Gregory Peck, made a hero out of Atticus Finch, the LawyerProtagonist, who placed his life and career on the line to defend a Black man, falsely accused of raping a white women. Now comes, Go Set A Watchmen, written in 1957 but publish in 2015, showing a disturbing and much older Atticus, a segregationist and enemy of the NAACP. Since the novel’s July release, literary critics and some of Lee’s most devoted fans have criticized the text as being a fraud, a scam, and the product of greedy publishers. Lee, who is in her late 80’s, once promised that she would never publish another book. Critics have asked whether Lee had been taken advantage of now that she was in her later years of life.

Harper Lee’s second southern gothic has rattled the consciousness of America, offering a multilayered representation of southern identity. Getting off to a slow start, the book begins with Jean Louis returning to her Southern home of Maycomb, Alabama. Things have changed since the 1930s. Atticus has aged; he is in his seventies and Jean Louis spends the first couple of chapters wrestling with coming to terms with the true Maycomb, which she soon realizes is much different from what she remembered.

The racial dynamic fully enters the novel when Jean Louise discovers a copy of a pamphlet titled, The Black Plague, a white supremacist based text full of racist propaganda that she finds in her father’s possession. From this point forward, Lee’s audience gains a view of Atticus Finch which is the polar opposite of the Atticus portrayed in To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus Finch has evolved.

He is now the leader of Maycomb’s Citizens Council, a white supremacist group, whose rhetoric continues to inspire acts of racial violence today.

At one point Finch says, “What’s to prevent any Negro from going where he

pleases in the country and finding what he wants?,” before adding “…Do you want Negroes by the carload in our schools and churches and theaters? Do you want them in our world?”

Jean Louise spends the remainder of the book attempting to make sense of how racism and inferiority consumed her southern Christian family and community she had grown to love.

Here, Lee taps into what Maryland’s own Frederick Douglass names as “the climax of all misnomers,” the contradictions of professing Christianity with one hand and dehumanizing their fellow man or women with the other. The overlap between race and class is clearly evident within To Kill a Mockingbird, and indeed is a consistent theme within Go Set A Watchmen.

Unlike To Kill a Mockingbird, Watchmen provides convincing commentary surrounding the dueling historical perspectives often championed as the cause of the Civil War, the two being states rights and slavery, both of which are represented within the current debate surrounding the Confederate flag.

The debate surrounding the nature of the publication has overshadowed the benefit that Go Set A Watchmen brings to the dialoguesurrounding race in this country. One only needs to look to at the recent Republican debates to witness politicians negating the suffering and oppression of others for their own agendas. On a stage where nine white male republicans (and Dr. Ben Carson, who is Black) were asked about the social concerns of race based police brutality and the #blacklivesmatter campaign, the one candidate who did respond failed to mention the scores of black bodies gunned down at the hands of law enforcement. Instead, they spoke about getting law enforcement officers more training. The dialogue lasted less than a minute.

Charles L. Chavis, Jr., has written for Religious Education, Blackpast.org, and the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. He is a Doctoral Student in History at Morgan State University.

KW:How did you enjoy reuniting with Tom Cruise to make Rogue Nation?

VR: Kam, we did the first one eighteen years ago, so I feel very blessed and very privileged.

And outside of Tom Cruise, I’m the only person who’s been in all five films. And I think that I might have made history for an African-American. I don’t know whether any black actor has been in an original and four sequels. You know what I’m saying? So, I really have to thank Tom, and I’m glad to be a part of this process.

KW: Hisani Dubose says: An African-American actor once told me that it is extremely difficult for black males with deep voices and a strong presence to get work. So, how did you manage to succeed in spite of that?

VR: First of all, I don’t agree with that assumption. But here’s how I feel about it. I attended the High School of Performing Arts, and I graduated from the Juilliard School. So, I believe in being trained, just like you have to do with any profession. As a professor, she had to get a master’s degree. I find that a lot of aspiring actors never really train, and yet think they can just act. Being a black man with a deep voice is actually more of a plus. I do voiceovers for Arbys, ADT, and other companies. So, I make a lot of money by basically using not only my voice, but also my size, as far as the camera is concerned. But train, go to school and train. Become a craftsman.

KW: Harriet asks: With so many classic films being redone, is there a remake you’d like to star in?

VR: Yes, Brother John, a very old film Sidney Poitier I caught one night It didn’t do well. It was barely seen. He plays a Christ-like character who returns to the small town where he was raised. You have to check it out.

KW: Will do. Steve Kramer asks: How would you describe your work ethic today?

VR: I’m learning to work now, and I’ll use the analogy of working out in the gym. When I was 25 or 30, I worked out one way. Now, at 56, I work out another way. What I think I’ve learned to do is use my energy more wisely. I’m a better actor now in terms of conveying the dramatic arc of a character and my overall intention. Because I’m more seasoned, I know my instrument better. And often, less is more. That’s the major lesson I’ve learned. A lot of young actors expend energy unnecessarily on things that don’t need that much energy.

KW: Ling-Ju Yen asks: What is your earliest childhood memory?

VR: Braiding my mother’s hair. I was the baby in the family, and she taught me how to braid her hair. What she would do was give me a brush when she wanted to take a nap. That way, she could get some rest, and know I wasn’t getting into any trouble. That’s one of my fondest and most powerful memories.

HBO Review

Simon’s ‘Show Me a Hero,’ Paints a Complicated Tale of Fear, Power and Race

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‘Show Me a Hero’ is a mini-series from David Simon.

By Lisa Snowden-McCray Special to The AFRO Show Me a Hero, the HBO miniseries co-written and executive produced by The Wire creator David Simon tells a complicated and complex tale of fear, race, poverty and politics.

At its heart is a lawsuit brought by the NAACP and the Department of Justice. The groups allege that the city of Yonkers, NY has been using federal funds to redline its poor and minority residents – forcing them into substandard housing in a separate part of the city, away from middle-class whites. To remedy the situation, the town is forced to add 200 units of lowincome housing on the city’s white side, followed by another 800 units of affordable housing.

The story is based on real-life, from a book of the same name, written by former New York Times reporter Lisa Belkin.

Part one begins with the town’s up-until-now well-regarded, long-reigning mayor being shouted down by a crowd of angry white homeowners. Furious that the town is being forced to abide by the ruling and hungry to fight back, the town votes the old mayor out and 28-year-old Nick Wasicsko (Oscar Isaac) in.

But, this isn’t just his story. Viewers also follow the lives of an older black women forced into public housing when her vision begins to deteriorate, two young black single mothers, a white woman who is very much part of the frothing crowd against the new housing and a young women from the Dominican Republic looking to build a better life in the United States.

Overall, Show me a Hero is a riveting tale. It shows how cancerous racism can be – the fight over housing stretches over 20 years, evokes the ugliest nature of many Yonkers residents and brings the town near bankruptcy. It paints the picture of the cyclical nature of poverty - how youthful mistakes can drag one down and then make life more difficult for the next generation. It also shows how politicians can become slaves to social pressure and power.

Visually, this tale that is set in the 80’s looks like the 80’s – all muted peaches, beiges and men and women in full conservative office-wear.

The story is not without its flaws. The problem with weaving so many various lives together is that it takes a while for all the characters to be introduced and for the story to really get moving. Also, for a story so centered in race, it takes a while before we even get to hear a Continued on C2

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Will the 2015-2016 Season Be Kobe Bryant’s Last as a Laker?

By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley Special to the AFRO Los Angeles Lakers megastar Kobe Bryant has made headlines for nearly two decades with his play on the court. But it’s unclear whether he will remain on the court after the 2015-2016 season.

During an interview with Yahoo! Sports this week, Bryant was asked whether the upcoming season would be his last—and the star guard reportedly answered “absolutely.” Rumors and reports have swirled for several seasons that Bryant’s last year was closing in fast.

But with his contract set to expire after this season and the Lakers focusing on a growing youth movement in the franchise, the writing is definitely on the wall for Bryant.

After a long and illustrious career, will next season be Bryant’s last in the NBA? Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the question.

Riley: The 2015-2016season should be and will be Bryant’s last season in the NBA. Bryant has too much pride to don another uniform for another franchise.

While the Lakers could and would use Bryant’s services for another season to help their roster get up to speed, Los Angeles has a nice youth renovation project going on right now, and bringing Bryant back beyond next year would only slow up that process.

Injuries have sabotaged Bryant’s last few seasons and he’ll be coming off a major Achilles injury by the time the season starts. With five titles and a collection of allstar trophies and MVP awards in his stash, Bryant will bow out gracefully when the curtains close on the 20152016 season.

Green: Bryant is still one of the best players in the

NBA and his game is suited for playing at a high level for another two to three seasons. The Lakers may choose to ride their youth wave of D’Angelo Russell, Jordan Clarkson and Julius Randle without Bryant taking up valuable shot opportunities but it’d be silly a move on the team’s part.

Bryant’s done too much for the franchise to be ushered out as he enters the twilight of his career. Even if L.A. doesn’t want to bring him back, I can’t see Bryant hesitating to join another club if necessary.

Basketball comes first in Bryant’s pecking order and he won’t blink at the notion of heading somewhere else.

After all, LeBron did.

Riley: Strong-willed and hard-headed, Kobe probably won’t consider wearing anything other than purple and gold. The notion of potentially taking less money to play in another city would be enough to ride off in the sunset with his head held high.

He’s seen other superstars dominate for years, only to retire and later come back as shells of their former selves. I know he doesn’t want that image of him on ESPN. With an expiring contract, a slew of previous injuries and a franchise ready to inject youth into its roster, it’s time for Byrant to hang up his shoes.

Green: Injuries have been the only real setback.

Bryant’s too skilled to just be cast to the side. His skills and leadership will always command a roster spot. If he’s healthy, he’ll play major minutes and be a big-time contributor next season.

I would love to see Kobe go out on top, but after missing significant time in two of the last three seasons, I know Bryant is itching to get back to work and play basketball. His body has taken a beating, but he’s also

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There are pluses and minuses to Kobe Bryant coming back this season.

been well-rested considering he hasn’t played a healthy season since the 2012-2013 campaign. Kobe thinks the Lakers can make the playoffs. If he’s banking on that idea then I can’t see how he walks away when the year is up.

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Simon’s “Show Me a Hero”

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person of color’s opinion on the matter.

“How come the only people talking about this damn housing thing are white? How come the only faces you see on television about this are white?” one black character asks another, well into episode four of the six-part series. “They don’t want us over there, but they don’t know us. And whose fault is that?”

“The story appeals to me not merely as political history, but because the question in Yonkers in 1987 was the same one that we face today,” Simon said in a statement about the series. “Are all of us – those with and those without, white, black or brown – are we all sharing some portion of the same national experience? Or is the American Dream something other than that?”

The story tells viewers that the answers to those questions aren’t simple or comfortable.

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262, Public Notices $50.00 & up sentative of the estate PROBATE DIVISION APPOINTMENT, Alonzo D Green, who on size, Washington, D.C. depending Baltimore Legal Notices are $24.84 per inch.

NOTICE TO died on March 9, 2005 20001-2131 CREDITORS 1-800 (AFRO) 892 with a will, and will serve Administration No. AND NOTICE TO withCourt supervision.

HEIRS For Proof of UNKNOWN Publication, please call2011ADM451 1-800-237-6892, ext. 244 All unknown heirs and Tondelayo V. Williams , Janice Marie Autry h e i r s w h o s e whose address is 10038 Decedent whereabouts are un- Allentown Road, Fort Robert M. LaBelle known shall enter their Washngton, MD, 7 2 1 3 B u r t o n w o o d TYPESET: Tue Aug 11 13:01:21 20744 , NOTICES LEGAL appearance in this was appointed personal Drive proceeding. Objections representative of the Alexandria, VA 22307 to such appointment (or estate of Martha R. Attorney Superior Court of to the probate of de- Bishop AKA Martha Ruth the District of NOTICE OF cedent´s will) shall be West Bishop , who died District of Columbia APPOINTMENT, filed with the Register of on April 24, 2015 with a PROBATE DIVISION NOTICE TO Wills, D.C., 515 5th Washington, D.C. will, and will serve withCREDITORS Street, N.W., 3rd Floor out Court supervision. All 20001-2131 AND NOTICE TO Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Administration No. unknown heirs and heirs UNKNOWN HEIRS 20001, on or before Feb- whose where-abouts are 2015ADM847 R o b e r t M .

L a b e l l e , ruary 7, 2016. Claims unknown shall enter their Wilbert J. Gray whose address is 7213 AKA against the decedent a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Burtonwood Drive, Alshall be presented to the proceeding. Objections Wilbert Jesse Gray, Jr. undersigned with a copy to such appointment (or exandria VA 22307 was Decedent to the Register of Wills or to the probate of de- appointed personal re- Shanta Ramson, Esq filed with the Register of cedent´s will) shall be presentative(s) of the 4705 Sandy Spring Rd. Wills with a copy to the filed with the Register of estate of Janice Marie Burtonsville, MD 20886 A u t r y, w h o d i e d o n Attorney undersigned, on or be- Wills, D.C., 515 5th fore February 7, 2016, or Street, N.W., 3rd Floor January 23, 2011 without NOTICE OF a will, and will serve with be forever barred. Per- W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

APPOINTMENT, sons believed to be heirs 20001, on or before Feb- Court supervision. All unNOTICE TO or legatees of the de- ruary 7, 2016. Claims known heirs and heirs CREDITORS cedent who do not re- against the decedent whose where-abouts are AND NOTICE TO ceive a copy of this notice shall be presented to the unknown shall enter their UNKNOWN HEIRS by mail within 25 days of undersigned with a copy a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s LaChelle Robinson, its first publication shall to the Register of Wills or proceeding. Objections whose address is 1710 so inform the Register of filed with the Register of to such appointment (or Linden Park Pl., Bowie, Wills, including name, Wills with a copy to the to the probate of de- MD 20721, was apaddress and relation- undersigned, on or be- cedent´s will) shall be pointed personal repreship. fore February 7, 2016, or filed with the Register of sentative( of the estate of Date of Publication: Wilbert J.Gray Jr.AKA be forever barred. Per- Wills, D.C., 515 5th August 7, 2015 sons believed to be heirs Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wilbert Jesse Gray Jr., 14:40:32 EDT 2015 Name of newspaper: who died on February 22, or legatees of the de- Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Afro-American cedent who do not re- 20001, on or before Feb- 2015 witha will, and will Washington ceive a copy of this notice ruary 7, 2016. Claims servewithout Court suLaw Reporter by mail within 25 days of against the decedent pervision. All unknown Robert M. LaBelle its first publication shall shall be presented to the heirs and heirs whose Personal so inform the Register of undersigned with a copy whereabouts are unRepresentative Wills, including name, to the Register of Wills or known shall enter their address and relation- filed with the Register of a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s TRUE TEST COPY proceeding. Objections ship.

Wills with a copy to the to such appointment (or REGISTER OF WILLS Date of Publication: undersigned, on or be- to the probate of deTYPESET: Tue Aug 04 14:40:10 August 7,EDT 2015 2015 fore February 7, 2016, or cedent´s will) shall be 08/04, 08/07, 08/21/15 Name of newspaper: be forever barred. Per- filed with the Register of Afro-American sons believed to be heirs Wills, D.C., 515 5th Washington Superior Court of or legatees of the de- Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Law Reporter the District of cedent who do not re- W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Tondelayo V. Williams District of Columbia Personal ceive a copy of this notice 20001, on or before FebPROBATE DIVISION Representative by mail within 25 days of ruary 7, 2016. Claims Washington, D.C. its first publication shall against the decedent 20001-2131 so inform the Register of shall be presented to the TRUE TEST COPY Administration No. Wills, including name, undersigned with a copy REGISTER OF WILLS 2015ADM879 address and relation- to the Register of Wills or Martha R. Bishop TYPESET: Tue Aug 04 14:39:47 EDT 2015 ship. filed with the Register of 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/15 AKA Date of Publication: Wills with a copy to the Martha Ruth West August 7, 2015 undersigned, on or beBishop Superior Court of fore February 7, 2016, or Name of newspaper: Decedent the District of be forever barred. PerAfro-American NOTICE OF District of Columbia sons believed to be heirs Washington APPOINTMENT, PROBATE DIVISION or legatees of the deLaw Reporter NOTICE TO Washington, D.C. Robert M. Labelle cedent who do not reCREDITORS 20001-2131 Personal ceive a copy of this notice AND NOTICE TO Administration No. Representative by mail within 25 days of UNKNOWN HEIRS 2011ADM451 its first publication shall Tondelayo V. Williams , Janice Marie Autry so inform the Register of TRUE TEST COPY whose address is 10038 Decedent Wills, including name, REGISTER OF WILLS Allentown Road, Fort Robert M. LaBelle address and relationWashngton, MD, 20744 , 7 2 1 3 B u r t o n w o o d ship. was appointed personal Drive 08/7, 08/14, 08/21/15 Date of Publication: representative of the Alexandria, VA 22307 August 7, 2015 estate of Martha R. Attorney Name of newspaper: Bishop AKA Martha Ruth NOTICE OF Afro-American West Bishop , who died APPOINTMENT, Washington on April 24, 2015 with a NOTICE TO Law Reporter will, and will serve withCREDITORS

2015ADM629 Valerie Defillipo Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS 14:39:00 EDT 2015 TYPESET: Wed Aug 12 13:58:03 2015 and Ioannis EDT Pasparakis LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES Christina Pasparakis, whose address is 250 Sunrise Dr. Apt D, Key Superior Court of Biscayne FL 33149, the District of 3206 Oliver St. NW, District of Columbia Washington, DC 20015 PROBATE DIVISION were appointed personal Washington, D.C. representative of the 20001-2131 estate of Valerie DefilAdministration No. lipo, who died on April 16, 2015ADM866 2015 with a will, and will James L. Goldring serve without Court suAKA pervision. All unknown James Linwood heirs and heirs whose Goldring whereabouts are unDecedent known shall enter their Nathan A. Neal, Esq, appearance in this Law Offices of Nathan proceeding. Objections ANeal, PLLC to such appointment (or 209 Kennedy Street, to the probate of deNW, Washington, DC cedent´s will) shall be 20011-5214Attorney filed with the Register of NOTICE OF Wills, D.C., 515 5th APPOINTMENT, Street, N.W., 3rd Floor NOTICE TO Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

CREDITORS 20001, on or before FebAND NOTICE TO ruary 14, 2016. Claims UNKNOWN HEIRS against the decedent Joseph Spencer shall be presented to the Goldring, whose adundersigned with a copy dress(es) is 2024 Forest to the Register of Wills or Dale Drive, Adelphi, MD, filed with the Register of 20783, was appointed Wills with a copy to the personal representaundersigned, on or betive(s) of the estate of fore February 14, 2016, James L. Goldring AKA or be forever barred. PerJames Linwood sons believed to be heirs Goldring, who died on or legatees of the deMarch 12, 2015 witha cedent who do not rewill, and will serve withceive a copy of this notice out Court supervision. All by mail within 25 days of unknown heirs and heirs its first publication shall whose whereabouts are so inform the Register of unknown shall enter their Wills, including name, appearance in this address and relationproceeding. Objections ship. to such appointment (or Date of Publication: to the probate of deAugust 14, 2015 cedent´s will) shall be Name of newspaper: filed with the Register of Afro-American Wills, D.C., 515 5th Washington Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Law Reporter Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Ioannis Pasparakis 20001, on or before FebChristina Pasparakis ruary 14, 2016. Claims Personal against the decedent Representative shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy TRUE TEST COPY to the Register of Wills or REGISTER OF WILLS filed with the Register of TYPESET: Tue Aug 11 Wills with a copy to the 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/15 undersigned, on or before February 14, 2016, or be forever barred. PerSuperior Court of sons believed to be heirs the District of or legatees of the deDistrict of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION cedent who do not reWashington, D.C. ceive a copy of this notice 20001-2131 by mail within 25 days of Administration No. its first publication shall 2015ADM936 so inform the Register of Denise Wall Barnes Wills, including name, Decedent address and relationNOTICE OF ship.

APPOINTMENT, Date of Publication: NOTICE TO August 14, 2015 CREDITORS Name of newspaper: AND NOTICE TO Afro-American UNKNOWN HEIRS Washington Veronica L. Wall, whose Law Reporter address is 315 W Grand Joseph Spencer Street, #3N, Elizabeth, Goldring NJ 07202, was apPersonal pointed personal repRepresentative rentative of the estate of Denise Wall Barnes, who TRUE TEST COPY died on June 18, 2015 REGISTER OF WILLS 14:47:51 EDT 2015 without a will, and will serve without TYPESET: Aug 11 13:17:23 EDT Court 2015 su08/14, 08/21, Tue 8/28/2015 pervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unSuperior Court of known shall enter their the District of appearance in this District of Columbia proceeding. Objections PROBATE DIVISION to such appointment (or Washington, D.C. to the probate of de20001-2131 cedent´s will) shall be Administration No. filed with the Register of 2015ADM898 Wills, D.C., 515 5th Kendrick L. Richard- Street, N.W., 3rd Floor son Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Decedent 20001, on or before FebJacqueline P. Byrdruary 14, 2016. Claims Tillman, Esq against the decedent 9698 Marlboro Pike shall be presented to the Upper Marboro, MD undersigned with a copy 20772 to the Register of Wills or Attorney filed with the Register of NOTICE OF Wills with a copy to the APPOINTMENT, undersigned, on or beNOTICE TO fore February 14, 2016, CREDITORS or be forever barred. PerAND NOTICE TO sons believed to be heirs UNKNOWN HEIRS or legatees of the deDouglas D. Richardson, cedent who do not rewhose address is 7716 ceive a copy of this notice C h e s t e r f i e l d C o u r t , by mail within 25 days of White Plains, MD 20695, its first publication shall was appointed personal so inform the Register of representative of the Wills, including name, estate of Kendrick L. address and relationRichardson, who died on ship.

August 12, 2012 without Date of Publication: a will, and will serve with- August 14, 2015 out Court supervision. All Name of newspaper: unknown heirs and heirs Afro-American whose whereabouts are Washington unknown shall enter their Law Reporter appearance in this Veronica L. Wall proceeding. Objections Personal to such appointment Representative shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., TRUE TEST COPY 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd REGISTER OF WILLS Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before Feb- 08/14, 08/21, 8/28/2015 TYPESET: Tue Aug 04 ruary 14, 2015. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the Superior Court of undersigned with a copy the District of to the Register of Wills or District of Columbia filed with the Register of PROBATE DIVISION Wills with a copy to the Washington, D.C. undersigned, on or be20001-2131 fore February 14, 2016, Administration No. or be forever barred. Per2014ADM117 sons believed to be heirs or legatees of the de- Ethel Y. Ross cedent who do not re- Decedent ceive a copy of this notice Wesley L. Clarke by mail within 25 days of 1629 K Street, NW, Ste its first publication shall 300, Washington, DC so inform the Register of 20006 Wills, including name, Attorney NOTICE OF address and relationAPPOINTMENT, ship.

NOTICE TO Date of Publication: CREDITORS August 14, 2015 AND NOTICE TO Name of newspaper: UNKNOWN HEIRS Afro-American Wesley L. Clarke, whose Washington address is 1629 K Street, Law Reporter Douglas D. Richardson NW, Ste. 300, WashingPersonal ton DC 20006, was apRepresentative pointed personal representative of the estate of Ethel Y. Ross, who died TRUE TEST COPY on May 12, 2003 without REGISTER OF WILLS a will, and will serve without Court EDT supervision.

TYPESET: Aug 11 12:58:23 2015 All 08/07, 08/14,Tue 08/21/15 unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their Superior Court of appearance in this the District of proceeding. Objections District of Columbia to such appointment PROBATE DIVISION shall be filed with the Washington, D.C. Register of Wills, D.C., 20001-2131 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Administration No. Floor Washington, D.C. 2015ADM629 20001, on or before FebValerie Defillipo ruary 7, 2016. Claims Decedent against the decedent NOTICE OF shall be presented to the APPOINTMENT, undersigned with a copy NOTICE TO to the Register of Wills or CREDITORS filed with the Register of AND NOTICE TO Wills with a copy to the UNKNOWN HEIRS undersigned, on or beIoannis Pasparakis and fore February 7, 2016, or Christina Pasparakis, be forever barred. Perwhose address is 250 sons believed to be heirs Sunrise Dr. Apt D, Key or legatees of the deBiscayne FL 33149, cedent who do not re3206 Oliver St. NW, ceive a copy of this notice Washington, DC 20015 by mail within 25 days of were appointed personal its first publication shall

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2015FEP75 Date of Death TRUE TEST COPY May 18, 2013 REGISTER OF WILLS Wyseola Fannell TYPESET: Tue Aug 04 14:46:59 Jordan EDT 2015 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/15 Decedent NOTICE OF Superior Court of APPOINTMENT the District of OF FOREIGN District of Columbia PERSONAL PROBATE DIVISION REPRESENTATIVE Washington, D.C. AND 20001-2131 NOTICE TO Administration No. CREDITORS 2015ADM86 Randall Fitzgerald JorIvan Minas-Bekov dan whose address is Decedent 2505 Ann Arbor Lane, NOTICE OF Bowie, MD 20716 was APPOINTMENT, appointed personal reNOTICE TO presentative of the estate CREDITORS of Wyseola Fannell JorAND NOTICE TO dan, deceased, on UNKNOWN HEIRS September 19, 2013, by Patrick C. Horrell, Esq, the Orphans Court for whose address is 1304 Prince Georges County, Rhode Island Ave, NW, State of Maryland.

Washington, DC 20005, Service of process may was appointed personal be made upon Wanda representative of the Jackson, 3346 Pennestate of Ivan Minas- sylvania Ave, WashingBekov, who died on ton, DC 20020, whose November 24, 2014 with designation as District of a will, and will serve with Columbia agent has Court supervision. All un- been filed with the Regisknown heirs and heirs ter of Wills, D.C. whose where-abouts are The decedent owned the unknown shall enter their f o l l o w i n g D i s t r i c t o f appearance in this Columbia real property: proceeding. Objections 4618 Sargent Road, NE, to such appointment (or Washington, DC 20017. to the probate of de- Claims against the decedent´s will) shall be cedent may be prefiled with the Register of sented to the underWills, D.C., 515 5th signed and filed with the Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Register of Wills for the Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

District of Columbia, 500 20001, on or before Indiana Avenue, N.W., J a n u a r y 3 1 , 2 0 1 6 . Washington, D.C. 20001 Claims against the de- within 6 months from the cedent shall be pre- date of first publication of sented to the under- this notice. (Strike signed with a copy to the preceding sentence if no Register of Wills or filed real estate.) with the Register of Wills Randall Fitzgerald with a copy to the underJordan signed, on or before Personal January 31, 2016, or be Representative(s) forever barred. Persons TRUE TEST COPY believed to be heirs or REGISTER OF WILLS legatees of the decedent Date of first publication: who do not receive a 07/31/15 copy of this notice by mail Name of newspapers within 25 days of its first and/or periodical: publication shall so in- The Daily Washington form the Register of Law Reporter Wills, including name, The Afro-American address and relationship.

07/31, 08/07, 08/14/15 Date of Publication: July 31, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Patrick C. Horrell, Esq Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM665 Clifton E. Jackson AKA Clifton Edward Jackson Decedent William A. Bland Esq 1140 Connecticut Ave NW #1100 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Jon W. Jackson and Clifton E. Jackson Jr, whose addresses are 3410 Curtis Dr #301, Temple Hills, MD 20746 and 5706 30th Ave, Hyattsville, MD 20782were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Clifton E. Jackson, AKA Clifton Edward Jackson, who died on April 4, 2015 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before February 7, 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 February 7, 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: August 7, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Jon W Jackson Clifton E Jackson, Jr. Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM842 Doris Lee Beynum Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Willetta Young , whose address is 3521 Minnesota Ave SE, 202 Washington, DC 20019, was appointed personal representative(of the estate of Doris Lee Beynum, who died on May 20th 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 January 31, 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 January 31, 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: July 31, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Willetta Young Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 07/31, 08/07, 08/14/15

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07/31, 08/07, Tue 08/14/2015 TYPESET: Aug 04 14:45:09 EDT 2015 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM874 Annette Wooten Decedent Whitney Cleaver Smith Esq 11414 Livingston Rd Fort Washington, MD 20744 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Joanne Wooten, whose address is 1231 Delafield Place, NE, Washington, DC 20017, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Annette Wooten, who died on May 31, 2015 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (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 January 31, 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 January 31, 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: July 31, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Joanne Wooten Personal Representative

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20001, on or before February 7, 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 February 7, 2016, or LEGAL NOTICES 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: August 7, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Wesley L. Clarke Personal Representative

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TYPESET: Wed Aug 12 13:32:52 2015 LEGALEDT NOTICES CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for GS 15813RMECU Building Envelope Improvements will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204, City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, September 9, 2015. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon.The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, in Room 6 located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of Friday, July 31, 2015 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $100.00.

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All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call 410-396-6883 or contact the Committee at 3000 Druid Park Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21215. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is E13002Over Three Story Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $2,000,000.01 to $3,000,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at The Site: 401 E. Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. Principal Items of work for this project are: 1. Demolition 2. Concrete 3. Fencing 4. Window/Curtain Wall 5. Conveying 6. Fire Suppression 7. Plumbing/HVAC 8. Drywall/Painting 9. Electrical 10. Site/Scaffolding The MBE goal is 10% The WBE goal is 3% CONTRACT NO. GS 15813R

CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for BALTIMORE CITY NO. TR15021; STREET CLEANING PARKING RESTRICTION SIGNING PRORAM, REGION I will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204 City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. September 9, 2015. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon. The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, at the Department of Public Works Service Center located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of August 14, 2015 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $75.00. Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package. All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prerequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call (410) 396-6883 or contact the Committee at 3000 Druid Park Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21215. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project G909927 Traffic Sign Installation. Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $1,000,000.00 to $1,300,000.00. A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 10:00 A.M. on August 21, 2015 at 417 E. Fayette Street, Charles L. Benton Building, Room 700. Principal Items of work for this project are ”Furnish and Install Signs” - 32,950 SF. The MBE goal is 5% and WBE goal is 2% APPROVED: Bernice H. Taylor, Clerk TYPESET: Wed Aug 12 13:31:27 EDT 2015 Board of Estimates CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for TR15018R, CONDUIT SYSTEM NEW CONSTRUCTION AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS CITYWIDE (JOC), will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204 City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. September 9, 2015.

Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon. The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, at the Department of Public Works Service Center located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of August 14, 2015 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $75.00. Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package. All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call (410) 396-6883 or contact the Committee at 3000 Druid Park Drive, 1st Floor, Baltimore, Maryland 21215. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is B02553 Duct Line Construction. Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $1,000,000.00 to $2,000,000.00. A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 10:00 A.M. on August 28, 2015 at 417 E. Fayette Street, Charles L. Benton Building. Principal Items of work for this project are Concrete Encased Ducts 2,250 LF +/-, Cast in Place Electrical Manholes 40 CY, and Precast Line and Junction Manholes 4EA. The MBE goal is 9% and WBE goal is 2% APPROVED: Bernice H. Taylor, Clerk TYPESET: Wed Aug 12 13:32:23 EDT 2015 Board of Estimates City of Baltimore Department of Finance Bureau of Purchases

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If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project are A02602 Bituminous Paving and D02620 Curbs, Gutters, & Sidewalk. Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $1,000,000.00 to $1,500,000.00. A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 10:00 A.M. on August 28, 2015 at 417 E. Fayette Street, Charles L. Benton Building, 7th Floor. Principal Items of work for this project are Asphalt Superpave for Surface (various types) - 3,425 Ton and Removal of Hotmix Asphalt - 18,500 SY. The MBE goal is 19% and WBE goal is 6% APPROVED: Bernice Clerk TYPESET: Wed Aug H. 12Taylor, 13:30:53 EDT 2015 Board of Estimates CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS

NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for RP 15819Leakin Park Challenge Course will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204, City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, September 23, 2015. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon.The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, at the Department of Public Works in Room 6 located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of August 14, 2015 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $100.00.

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The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is G90138-Challenge Course Construction Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $100,000.01 to $500,000.00.

A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 2600 Madison Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21217 on Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. Principal Items of work for this project are: Challenge Course Installation The MBE goal is 0% The WBE goal is 0% RP 15819

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The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is G90138-Challenge Course Construction Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $100,000.01 to $500,000.00.

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The MBE goal is 0% The WBE goal is 0% RP 15819 APPROVED: Bernice H. Taylor Clerk, Board of Estimates APPROVED: Rudolph S. Chow, P.E. TYPESET: 12 13:28:55 EDT 2015 Director of Wed PublicAug Works CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for GS 14826RWaxter Center Interior Renovations will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204, City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, September 16, 2015. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon.The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, in Room 6 located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of Friday, August 14, 2015 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $100.00.

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All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call 410-396-6883 or contact the Committee at 3000 Druid Park Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21215. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is E13004Rehabilitation of Structures Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $500,000.01 to $1,000,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at The Site: 861 Park Avenue (1000 Cathedral Street) Baltimore, MD 21201 on Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. Principal Items of work for this project are: 1. Interior Demolition 2. Interior Finishes 3. HVAC 4. Plumbing The MBE goal is 27% The WBE goal is 10% CONTRACT NO. GS 14826R APPROVED: Bernice H. Taylor Board of Estimates APPROVED: Steve SharkeyClerk, Director, Department of Wed2015 Aug 12 13:32:00 EDT 2015 TYPESET: Wed Aug 12 TYPESET: 14:08:32 EDT General Services

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BOARD OF LIQUORLICENSE COMMISSIONERS FOR BALTIMORE CITY NOTICE Petitions have been filed by the following applicants for licenses to sell alcoholic beverages at the premises set opposite their respective names. The real property for these applications will be posted on Monday, August 10, 2015. Written protests concerning any application will be accepted until and including the time of the hearing. Public hearings will be held on or after August 26, 2015. Interested parties should contact the office of the Board, 231 E. Baltimore Street, 6th Floor, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 or by calling (410) 396-4380 to determine the exact time and date that a particular application will be considered by the Board.

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B.K. Han, Inc. Ben Kwan Han & Jongtae Kim

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LLPD, LLC Pete Koroneos

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GABE, LLC Amanuel Lakemariam

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2. CLASS “B” BEER, WINE & LIQUOR LICENSE Doobyhan Group, Inc. Philip Han & Josep Piazza

Request to add live 800 N. Charles Street entertainment, outdoor table service and off-premise catering

D&U, LLC New license Nancy Wertheimer & Daniela Usecl

822-24 W. 36th Street

Joe Squared, LLC Joe Edwardsen & Kathy Palokaff

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3. CLASS “BD7” BEER, WINE & LIQUOR LICENSE Arik, Inc. Transfer of ownership Ashley Kim & Kyung Ja Lee

1807-09 Baker Street

Chen’s Liquors, Inc. Transfer of ownership Bing Chai Chen & Yun Ming Chen

1301-03 W. Pratt Street

Saruni, Inc. Transfer of ownership Ruchirabehen Parikh & Naima Plive

2201 W. North Avenue

25th Roland Billiards, Inc. Cyril Ezeakor

Transfer of location from 2445 N. Charles Street 428 E. 25th Street to 2445 N. Charles Street

Nitro, LLC Hector Camilo

Transfer of ownership, 3537 E. Fairmount Ave. live entertainment and outdoor table service

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2015FEP79 Date of Death May 12, 2012 Bernice Luella Green Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Margo Ericka Jackson whose address is 1605 Aragona Blvd. Fort Washington, MD 20744 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Bernice Luella Green, deceased by the Register of Wills Court for Prince Georges C o u n t y, S t a t e o f Maryland., on February 21, 2014.

Service of process may be made upon Jay Haigler , 3445 Massachusetts Ave,SE., Washington, DC, 20019-2947 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: 5040 Hanna Place, 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, 500 Indiana Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM869 Brian Raynor Sickles Jr. Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS J a m a l B r i a n B a i l e y, whose address is 2310 Rosecroft Court, Oxon Hill , MD 20745, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Brian Raynor Sickles Jr., who died on June 18, 2015 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 7, 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 February 7, 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. 2015ADM866 James L. Goldring AKA James Linwood Goldring Decedent Nathan A. Neal, Esq, Law Offices of Nathan ANeal, PLLC 209 Kennedy Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011-5214Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Joseph Spencer Goldring, whose address(es) is 2024 Forest Dale Drive, Adelphi, MD, 20783, was appointed personal representative(s) of the estate of James L. Goldring AKA James Linwood Goldring, who died on March 12, 2015 witha 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 February 14, 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 February 14, 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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D.C. Charter School Scam Charges Dismissed Against Former News Anchor J.C. Hayward

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

By AFRO Staff The Washington area’s longest-serving female news anchor has been cleared of allegations of misusing funds from Options Public Charter School in Northeast D.C. J.C. Hayward, former WUSA9 news personality, was dismissed by the D.C. Office of the Attorney General on Aug. 11.

According to WUSA9, Hayward and the charter school agreed to dismiss all claims, but required Hayward to pay back $8,500 to the school, which is allegedly the total amount of funds she received.

“Ms. Hayward has always disputed these claims from the beginning and

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has professed her profound commitment to helping atrisk young people in the Metropolitan Washington D.C. area,” according to a statement released from her lawyer, Jeffrey S. Jacobovitz.

Hayward has dealt with the legal battle since 2013, when she was accused of aiding three managers and a board chairman in a scam which involved the creation of two for-profit companies that provided services to the school at inflated prices, as reported by the Washington Post.

According to WUSA9, even though Hayward has been dismissed from the civil lawsuit, the settlement between both parties does not admit guilt nor offer exoneration.

WUSA9 reports that the Attorney General’s office said it will continue to pursue the case against the other defendants, including Options’ managers — Dr. Donna D. Montgomery, Dr. David Cranford, and Paul S. Dalton – and Jeremy L. Williams, former chief financial officer of the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board, who are accused of mishandling $2.8 million of taxpayer funds.

“She is now in the process of setting up a scholarship endowment in perpetuity for the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington,” the statement said. “Ms. Hayward is delighted that she will be able to leave a lasting legacy. This lawsuit closes a small chapter in her life.”

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D.C.’s quadruple murder in May is only one occurrence in the city’s rising homicide count.

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D.C. Homicide Rate Rises, City Leaders Search for Solutions

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

The rise in homicides in the District has generated a robust discussion among city leaders and residents on what should be done to prevent more unnecessary killings. Statistics compiled by the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, as of Aug. 11, report that there were 91 homicides in the city, compared with 71 at this point last year, an increase of 28.2 percent. D.C. Council member Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5), who is the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, said that the rising homicide rate must be addressed by city leaders.

“Reducing instances of gun violence is not just the job of the Metropolitan Police Department, but the responsibility of every government agency,” McDuffie said.

The homicide rate was on a downward trajectory for about 15 years until 2013. MPD statistics report that the lowest rate in 20 years took place in 2012, with only 88 homicides, compared with 397 in 1996.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier have stated publicly that the rampant use of synthetic drugs is one of the reasons for the homicide uptick.

“I think that is part of what we’re dealing with right now, is this influx of synthetic drugs and the impact that it is having,” Lanier said on June 27 after a community meeting. “You will get lots of batches of it where it is much, much more potent, and when it happens you see these spikes in overdoses and violence.”

District community and law enforcement leaders agree with Lanier that synthetic drug use isn’t the only reason homicides have risen recently. “The reasons for the rise are complex,” Delroy Burton, the chairman of the D.C. Police Union, said.

“One of the problems is that during the administration of Mayor Vincent Gray, the mayor and Cathy Lanier bragged about the low rate of homicides but didn’t talk about the rise in other crimes such as robberies and assaults. One crime was going way down but that was balanced by the rise in other crimes and nothing was really done about those crimes.”

Burton said the MPD is operating without adequate staffing and that has an effect on fighting homicides. “Lanier said that in order to be fully manned, there should 4,000 officers on the force,” Burton said. “We have 3,869 officers and even though we have 150 officers in the police academy now, when the new officers come on duty, the force will still be short of 4,000 because of officers who are retiring, on administrative leave, on military leave and those who are being disciplined.”

Burton said that the homicide rise could be that people haven’t learned to resolve conflicts amicably. “When I was younger, when a conflict arose, we fought it out with our fists and moved on,” the union chairman said. “These days, people will go get a gun and shoot someone if they feel disrespected.”

Douglass Sloan, an advisory neighborhood commissioner for single-member district 4B09, said police officers need to be more visible in the city. “We need more cops on foot patrols,” Sloan said. “Officers need to get out of their cars and engage people in the community.”

Sloan agreed with McDuffie that District agencies like the District’s Department of Parks and Recreation could do more, such as opening their centers on Sundays so that young people can have a safe place to go and engage in productive activities.

D.C. Council members have attempted to get the community involved in stemming the homicide tide. D.C. Council member Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4) held a community meeting with residents and police officials in his ward on July 23. McDuffie Continued on D2

The Ward 8 Democrats, the most influential of the District’s political machines, will hold its biannual convention to select its officers on Sept. 19. Natalie Williams, current president of the Ward 8 Democrats, told the AFRO on Aug. 10 that she will not seek re-election, citing her work as the chairman of the 8A advisory neighborhood commission

“It used to be fun to belong to the Ward 8 Democrats but now it is frustrating.”

– Charles Wilson

chairman and as the deputy chief of staff for D.C. Council member Vincent Orange.

“Great leaders know when to access the needs, set a tone, and pass the torch for others to lead,” Williams said.

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D.C. Council Members Struggle Meet The Pastor in Fight for Statehood at Maryland Clergyman Leads Congregation Legislators Conference through Community Service

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

By Mt. Ennon Baptist Church

Two members of the D.C. Council almost persuaded an influential political association to back District statehood but fell short because of last minute maneuvering by opponents.

D.C. Council members Vincent Orange (D-At Large), Anita Bonds (D-At Large), and Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) represented the District at the National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL) Legislative Summit that took place in Seattle from Aug. 3-6. The NCLS is the bipartisan trade association for legislators in the 50 states, the District, and territories, and

“Taxation without representation meant a lot in 1776 and it means the same today.”

– Anita Bonds possessions such as Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Bonds presented a pro-D.C. statehood resolution with the support of Orange to the conference’s Law, Criminal Justice and Public Safety committee on Aug. 3. Bonds’ resolution calls on the legislators to “support the residents of the District of Columbia with the same rights enjoyed by all other residents of America.”

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According to his congregation, the Rev. Dr. Delman L. Coates is no ordinary clergyman. Instead, he is anointed by God to be a teacher, preacher, and community advocate. Coates is committed to connecting the ministry and work of the church to social justice and community revitalization.

He serves the Lord by giving back to his community and encouraging his parishioners to work on the behalf of the less fortunate.

One example of that commitment is Coates’ recent appeal to his more than 8,500 member congregation to raise money for college scholarships and grants to area public schools leading up to the church’s Easter celebration. Exceeding their goal, members contributed $170,000, which will be divided between college scholarships and public school grants, providing assistance to

students and Prince George’s County. Not only has Coates organized opportunities to provide financial contributions

The Rev. Dr. Delman L. Coates is the pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton, Md.

to his community, but he also has donated his time and encourages church members to do the same.

Concerned with helping people and the welfare of his constituents, Coates held a Day of Service to celebrate his 11th anniversary. Coates and more than 400 members and staff volunteered to beautify internal and external areas of Surratsville High School, as well as provide groceries and toiletries to nursing homes (Bradford Oaks and Villa Rosa), a rehabilitation center (Larken Chase), senior living homes (Clinton Manor, Branchwood Towers, Trinity Terrace, and Gateway Village), and a veteran home (Charlotte Hall) in Southern Maryland.

Currently, as a convener for the Maryland Coalition for Justice & Equality, Coates is actively fighting to pass legislation to address the state’s foreclosure crisis and community concerns about police accountability.

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He said he believes that homeowners should have the right to due process in foreclosure proceedings and thinks that there should be greater protection for citizens in their interactions with police officers.

Coates is a graduate of Morehouse College (B.A. in Religion, 1995), Harvard Divinity School (Master of Divinity, 1998), Columbia University (Master of Philosophy in Religion, 2002), and Columbia University (Ph.D. in New Testament & Early Christianity, 2006).

He is founder and president of the Black Church Center for Justice & Equality (BCC). Coates is also a board member on the Parents Television Council and the National Action Network. He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Morehouse College Board of Preachers, and the NAACP. Coates is married to Yolanda Walsh Coates, a graduate of Spelman College and Northeastern University School of Law, and the father of two sons, Nathaniel and Joshua, and two twin daughters Ava Marie and Leah Blair.

District residents pay federal of the District in the U.S. Senate. taxes and can be drafted to serve Bonds also said the District in the U.S. military but don’t have retroceding into Maryland, as another a voting representative in the U.S. legislator suggested, is not a viable Congress. Congress also has final option because District residents don’t approval over its budget and laws. want it and neither do Marylanders.

Bonds said that the time for District Orange tweeted that the committee statehood is now. initially voted to support Bonds’ “As a long-term statehood pro-D.C. statehood resolution but activist who served on the D.C. procedural problems came up and a State Constitutional Convention revote took place. “Re-vote on D.C. in 1974, I remain committed to Statehood vote fails by one vote,” highlighting the inequities that Orange tweeted. “Need 3/4 to prevail.

D.C. Council member Americans in the nation’s capital DC received 17 yes-votes and six no Vincent Orange endure, and will continue to educate votes but WV (West Virginia) came in and build support for D.C. statehood and vote[d] no.” across the nation,” she said. “Taxation without The D.C. statehood effort died but Meadows said representation meant a lot in 1776 and it means the some good came out of the process. “You have to same today.” remember that the majority of state legislators are David Meadows, a long-time Democratic Republican because most state legislative bodies in the activist and statehood supporter kept close tabs on United States are run by Republicans,” Meadows said. the committee meeting. He said Bonds explained “To get as far as we did with the resolution was great.” that D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is not a Republicans control 31 state legislatures while the representative but a delegate. She said Norton has Democrats control only 11 and eight have different all of the privileges of being a member of the U.S. parties controlling both chambers.

House of Representatives but cannot vote on the James Jones, the communications director for House floor and added that there is no representation DC Vote, an organization that advocates for a voting member of the House and two senators for District residents, said that Bonds’ effort was worth it. “We hope the District delegation to the NCSL will try the resolution again at the winter meeting,” Jones said.

The winter meeting will take place in the District from Dec. 8-11.

convened a public safety and crime summit on July 30 with a panel discussion including Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Vincent Cohen and District Attorney General Karl Racine.

One of the possible tools in fighting gun violence and homicides is the use of body cameras by police officers. The District is in the process of requiring all its officers that are patrolling neighborhoods to have cameras and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) wants the federal government to help pay for it.

“I am sponsoring a bill, “The Safer Officers and Safer Citizens Act of 2015,” Scott told the AFRO on Aug. 5. “My bill will provide $500 million over five years to help law enforcement officers afford police body cameras at an affordable price.

The bill requests that the participating municipality put [contribute a] 25 percent match for the funds.”

Scott said that body cameras benefit law enforcement and the community. “Cameras change behavior because statistics show that there is a 90 percent drop against police officer complaints and a 60 percent drop in the use of force against officers,” the senator said.

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Continued from D1 The Ward 8 Democrats will elect its new officers at its biannual convention 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Thurgood Marshall Academy, 2427 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE. Sandy Allen, who was the organization’s president in the early 1990s, told the AFRO she wants to assume its leadership mantle again.

“If I am re-elected president I will work to see that the organization reaches out to the community,” Allen said. “We have elders and newcomers in Ward 8 that aren’t connecting, and as president I will work to see that takes place.”

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The level of political activism in the organization has also spurred Charles Wilson, an advisory neighborhood commissioner and a leader in the Anacostia neighborhood, to run for the presidency. “I have put together a slate of people who I think will take the Ward 8 Democrats to the next level,” Wilson said.

Wilson said the organization’s leadership has been excellent, until recently.

“Since I have been with the organization, we have had some good presidents such as Philip Pannell, Sandy Allen, the Rev. Joyce Scott and Jacque Patterson,” he said. “We don’t have that now and we need a president that will bring the ward together

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Natalie Williams is the outgoing president of the Ward 8 Democrats. and bridge the gaps that are in the community. It used to be fun to belong to the Ward 8 Democrats but now it is frustrating.”

Wilson, an attorney, said that “we need to bring energy back to the organization.”

“We need to be sure that the organization is respected in the ward and throughout the city,” he said.

Ronald Williams, who lives in the Fairlawn neighborhood and is a Ward 8 political activist, said he can bring respect back to the organization. “There are so many problems with the Ward 8 Democrats,” Ronald Williams said. “I can fix those problems including the decline in membership. Many times we shouldn’t transact business because there isn’t a quorum, but we do anyway.”

Serving as president of a ward Democratic club can reap political dividends. D.C. Council member Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4) just finished a stint as president of the Ward 4 Democrats and his colleague, Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), was president of the Ward 6 Democrats before being elected to the council in November 2014. D.C. Council member Anita Bonds (D-At Large), chairman of the D.C. Democratic State Committee also, is a former chairman of the Ward 5 Democrats.

Ronald Williams said he will not use the presidency to run for the ward’s D.C. Council position. “This isn’t a stepping stone to me,” he said, referring to Natalie Williams’ candidacy for the council in the April special election.

“Ward 8 Democrats need to get back walking these streets and getting people involved in the political process.”

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Theta Summer Line Crossing The Kappa Epsilon Psi Military Sorority Northern Virginia Delta Chapter will host its summer line crossing with a ritual and Probate Banquet on Aug. 29. The ritual will occur at the Women’s Memorial, 1 Memorial Drive from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. The banquet will occur from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Spates Community Center, 228 McNair Road Building 406. The banquet is being held to assist the chapter with its mission of honoring its past veterans and fallen heroes and their surviving families. The banquet is also used to unite with current service members and veterans and mentor future leaders, including Junior ROTC cadets.

The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) for the District of Columbia invites you to the first Attorney General’s Right Direction Awards ceremony, which will honor District of Columbia youth who are showing significant self-improvement, serving as role models to other youth, or otherwise effecting change in their communities. Please join the Attorney General in honoring these youth on Aug. 19, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the OAG Moot Court Room located at 441 4th Street, NW, Level 1C South, Room 1C010.

Across the street from Hope’s Corridor, the 100th block of Wayne Place SE is transitional housing for homeless vets, transitional housing for youth transitioning out of foster care, anchored (and supported!) by a neighborhood of middle class homeowners, which enable Washingtonians, of all ages, to enjoy a new lease on life.

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Laughter is Good For The Soul Comedy Show The Antioch Baptist Church PIC Ministry, 1105 50th Street NE, will host the “Laughter Is Good For The Soul” Comedy Show on Sept. 4 at 7:30 p.m. The Show will feature local comedians Veleda Jones, Curtis Gaskins and E- Boogie. Refreshments will be served and vender space is available. Tickets cost $15 in advance and $20 at the door. For more information, contact Jermal at 301-537-1857.

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Demarko Jones, a 23-yearold resident of Ward 5, is working at the American Job Center at the Department of Employment Services (DOES). Jones describes his Mayor Marion S. Barry Summer Youth Employment Program (MBSYEP) experience as one that has exposed him to a range of career options, challenged him to improve his office skills, and exposed him to working in a professional setting. Jones attended Potomac State College in West Virginia and plans to continue his studies at a culinary arts school. He hopes to someday work with DC Central Kitchen.

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Café Mocha, WHUR radio show, honored eight African American and Latino Women innovators on July 25 during a Salute Her: Superwomen Making a Difference Awards brunch for being trailblazers in media, community activism, religion and fashion design. The brunch took place at the Howard Theater in Northwest D.C. and was presented by Hyundai Motor America. The event was hosted by Café Mocha producer and co-host Angelique Perrin along with actor TC Stallings (star of upcoming motion picture ‘War Room’) and also included a special guest performance by Kindred the Family Soul. The Washington Salute Her: Superwomen Making a Difference Awards recognized a diverse group of African-American and Latino women who all share a common commitment to make a positive contribution to strengthen their respective communities. Salute Her also serves as a fundraiser to support the Howard Theatre Restoration, Inc. STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) initiative to improve education for Youth K-12 in the Washington community.

The Honorees: Rev. Dr. Jo Ann Browning, Esther Aguilera, Triscina Grey, Co-Emcee Angelique Perrin, Sheila Eldridge, executive producer, Omarosa Manigault, Sybrina Fulton and Michel Wright

Honoree Triscina Grey, Debbie Morris and Honoree Sybrina Fulton Emcee TC Stallings with his wife, Levette

The emcees: TC Stallings and Angelique Perrin

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Honoree, Michel Wright, DJ, Majic 102.3, Jackie Gales webb and Angela Stribling

Rev. Vernon Ware, Pat Stevens, Kim Cassell, Trisch Smith and Darlene Barnes Rev. Dr. Grainger Browning, Rev. Dr. Jo Ann Browning, Courtney Browning, Grainger Browning IV,(grandson), Kaylah Browning (granddaughter) and Grainger Browning III (son)

Eestelene Oxley, James Polite, Ida Lewis-Polite and Bob Polite

Triscina Grey (center) with family and friends Chicos Managers: Sandy Gayle, Zaida Terrell, Karen Harris and Rachelle Straus Photos by Rob Roberts

Juanita “Busy” Britton, Gwendolyn Quinn, Jawn Murray, Omarosa Manigault and Paul Wharton

Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) on stage with women who have held elective office

Ari Brooks, Lizabeth Wagger, Kelly Leonard, Mozella P. Ademiluy and Debra Liverpool

The Women’s Club of Chevy Chase held an “Afternoon Tea” on Aug. 2 that included remarks from Congresswoman Donna Edwards (D-Md.). The event was hosted by Jeffrey Z. Slavin.

The tea is dedicated to inspiring women in politics.

Christina Betancourt-Johnson, Gale Starkey and Linda Plummer

Former Rep. Connie Morella (R-Md.) who served from 1987-2003 in the US Congress

Jeffrey Slavin, mayor, Town of Somerset (center) with women in or running for elective office

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Vivian Thurman, Ruby Rubens and Penelope Garner

Catherine Leggett, first lady of Montgomery County, Md. with a friend

Judge (Ret.) Mary Terrell, D.C. Councilwoman Mary Cheh and Fannie Allen

Crystal Ruiz and Michele Jawanda

Valerie Fraling (center), Yvette Lewis, Mollie Byron, Helena Clingman, Latarsha Burnett, Gail Clingman and Denise Dodson-McDonald

Margaret Singleton, Del. Aruna Miller, Linda Plummer, Yolanda Johnson Pruitt, Jeffrey Slavin, Khadija Barkley, Dr. Frieda Lacy, and Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.)

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