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Edwards is Ready to Fight for Senate Seat

Senate Delay of Lynch Vote Continues

By James Wright Special to the AFRO

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Loretta Lynch has waited five months to be confirmed as U.S. attorney general.

By James Wright Special to the AFRO Civil rights leaders are continuing their push to have the U.S. Senate confirm President Obama’s pick for U.S. attorney general.

Loretta Lynch, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, has

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qualifications, Lynch has been a champion in the fight against terrorism, hate crimes, public corruption and community violence.”

The Rev. Al Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network (NAN), agrees with Henderson. “Times are serious, things are too on-edge for us not to have a sitting, confirmed attorney general to decide where we are,” he said.

Sharpton and Henderson made their remarks along with other civil rights leaders on April 11 at the NAN’s national

“We only have one woman of color in the U.S. Senate…and I want to change that.”

– Donna Edwards

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Ambiguity Surrounds Metropolitan Police ‘Use of Force’ Policy

By Melanie R. Duncan Special to the AFRO In the wake of high profile killings such as Walter Scott, Eric Garner, and Michael Brown, use of force by police officers is now a national discussion that has a history in Washington, D.C. Councilman Andy King, left, holds a sign as he marches with In 1998 the Washington Post reported that the dozens of protestors just west of the Outerbridge Crossing in Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was the New Jersey on their way to Washington, April 13. The group, deadliest police force in America. which plans to reach the nations capital next week, is protesting Though MPD’s reputation improved, following AP Photo numerous police shootings across the nation. the establishment of a Memorandum of Agreement between the city, MPD and Department of Justice in use of force by MPD, which is a conversation MPD is reluctant 2001, the agreement was recommended for early termination, to have. “We’re not going to discuss our Use of Force policy,” ending in 2008, under the condition that the department Lt. Sean Conboy of the second district told the AFRO. continues to meet its reporting requirements.

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U.S. Rep. Donna Edwards has represented part of Prince George’s County since 2008.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (DMd.) is the only opponent she has at this time for the Democratic nomination for the seat.

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D.C. Council Narrowly Defeats Corizon Contract

By James Wright Special to the AFRO The D.C. Council voted, 6-5 on April 14, to deny Corizon Health, the country’s largest provider of health care services for incarcerated individuals, and its District affiliate, MBI Health Services, a $66 million, three-year contract. The contract was to provide medical services to inmates in the District’s

Public School Students Get Boost Toward College the eligibility criteria, can take courses at the university free of charge while receiving high school and college credit.

DCPS Chancellor Kaya Henderson said the school system High school students from two Washington schools will was grateful to Howard University for its support.“This be able to earn college and high school credit under a new collaboration provides our students with unprecedented access partnership between Howard University and the District of to a treasure trove of opportunities,” Henderson said. “The Columbia Public Schools (DCPS). Starting next fall, seniors at benefits of this program go far beyond exposure to rigorous Banneker and McKinley Technology high schools, who meet college courses. It will give students the focus, confidence, and foundation that they will need to succeed in college and 21st century careers.”

Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick said the program represents a deepening of the relationship between the university and the school system. “Through this program, we are aiming to inspire and develop the next generation of leaders and innovators from right here in the District,” Frederick said.

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waited a record number of days for a vote on her confirmation as the nation’s next chief law enforcement officer. The delay is unacceptable, Wade Henderson, the president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said.

“It’s been five months since President Obama nominated Loretta Lynch to be the next U.S. attorney general, and the Senate has yet to even schedule a vote on her confirmation,” Henderson said. “A widely respected public servant with exemplary

In 2008, Donna Edwards became the first Black woman elected to represent Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives. She wants use that same drive to make history again in 2016: the Free State’s first AfricanAmerican U.S. senator.

“If I am elected to the U.S. Senate, I will fight for working families and our communities,” Edwards said on April 2. “Whether you live in Baltimore, the Eastern Shore, or Western Maryland, I will work to impact the lives of people in our state.”

Edwards defeated incumbent Al Wynn in the Democratic primary for the Fourth Congressional District seat on Feb. 12, 2008, and, in an unusual set of events triggered by Wynn’s May 31 resignation from his position, Edwards won a June 17 special election to officially take the congressional seat.

She was sworn into office on June 19, 2008 and won the Nov. 4 general election easily for a full two-year term.

When Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) announced her retirement at the end of her current term on March 2 of this year, Edwards jumped in the race on March 10. U.S.

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correctional system. The contract was refused despite support of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and her predecessor, Vincent C. Gray.

This result did not please D.C. Council member Vincent Orange (D-At Large). “We have a process in place where Corizon won the contract,” Orange, who bought the contract before the council on behalf of Bowser, said. “It was determined by the Office of Contracting and Procurement [OCP] that this contract was better than Unity Health’s in a competitive bidding process.”

Corizon beat Unity Health by submitting a lower bid for meeting the needs of those incarcerated a few years ago.

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NATION & WORLD

Sharpton Leads Service to Remember Walter Scott, SC Cop Shooting Victim

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton thanked the mayor and police chief in North Charleston on Sunday for their response to the fatal shooting of Walter Scott.

Sharpton gave the sermon at Charity Missionary Baptist Church, where Mayor Keith Summey and Police Chief Eddie Driggers were among those in the congregation. Later, he led a vigil for a small crowd in the grassy, fenced-in area where Scott, 50, was fatally shot after fleeing a traffic stop April 4.

Then-officer Michael Slager initially said Scott was shot after a tussle over his Taser, but witness video later surfaced showing Scott being shot as he ran away. Slager was fired and has been charged with murder.

Scott’s death was criticized as another police shooting of an unarmed black man by a white officer under questionable circumstances. In Sharpton’s commendation of the city’s response, he said the mayor and police chief’s swift action could set

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The Rev. Al Sharpton, third from left, visits a makeshift memorial where Walter Scott was fatally shot by a white police officer after he fled a traffic stop.

the tone for handling future questions of police misconduct across the country.

Despite the city’s response and Sharpton’s praise, there’s still a lingering sense of skepticism about whether Scott’s death would have been thoroughly investigated without the witness video.

“The mayor and the chief, they did what they had to do because none of us are blind,” Keith White, 60, of North Charleston, said before the church service.

“Everyone saw the video and they did what they were forced to do once that video became public.”

The response by city officials and the local community hasn’t been similar to that of Ferguson, Missouri, where protests after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown and a grand jury’s decision not to indict the officer who shot him turned violent and exposed striking social rifts between Black and White residents in the area.

Some North Charleston residents have said they suspect abuse of power and public trust among law enforcement as issues that may have played a more pivotal role than race in Scott’s death.

“It’s not about the color of your skin, it’s about social justice. When we all practice social justice we’re all free,” said Mattese Lecque, a North Charleston resident who heard Sharpton preach Sunday. “Sometimes it takes disaster to bring about change, and that’s what’s happening now.”

Before concluding his sermon, Sharpton mentioned that South Carolina is an important state in the upcoming presidential race. He charged the congregation with pressing candidates about their stances on community policing.

“Don’t let anybody run for president and come through South Carolina without addressing what they would do as president of the United States about police accountability,” Sharpton said.

“Don’t let them come through here and eat some sweet potato pie and sing with the choir and then get your vote on the cheap. Make them stand up and discuss your issues.”

Oklahoma Deputy Charged in Black Suspect’s Shooting Death

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Prosecutors charged a reserve sheriff’s deputy with manslaughter Monday in the death of a man who was fatally shot as he lay on the ground at the officer’s feet.

Tulsa County prosecutors filed a second-degree manslaughter charge against 73-year-old Robert Bates.

A police investigator has said Bates, who is white, thought he drew a stun gun, not his handgun, when he fired at 44-year-old Eric Harris, who was black, in the April 2 incident.

Bates is charged with second-degree manslaughter “involving culpable negligence,” Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said in a statement.

Oklahoma law defines culpable negligence as “the omission to do something which a reasonably careful person would do, or the lack of the usual ordinary care and caution in the performance of an act usually and ordinarily exercised by a person under similar circumstances and conditions,” Kunzweiler said.

A video of the incident shot by deputies with sunglass cameras and released Friday at the request of the victim’s family, shows a deputy chase and tackle Harris, whom they said tried to sell an illegal gun to an undercover officer.

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Eric Harris (top) was fatally shot by Robert Bates on April 2.

As the deputy subdues Harris on the ground, a gunshot rings out and a man says: “Oh, I shot him.

I’m sorry.”

Harris was treated by medics at the scene and died in a Tulsa hospital.

A telephone message left Monday with Bates’ attorney, Scott Woods, was not immediately returned.

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HEALTH Physicians Insist Infant Immunization Safe, Necessary Despite MMR Concerns

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO

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s health organizations around the country gear up for the 2015 National Infant Immunization Week, (April 1825) a renewed effort is underway to invigorate the conversation about individual and societal benefits of vaccinations in the wake of growing safety concerns. Since 1994, National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) has highlighted the importance of protecting infants from vaccine-preventable diseases and celebrated the achievements of immunization programs in promoting healthy communities. However, with some data hinting at a causal relationship between the vaccine ingredient thimerosal in the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine to the development of autism, many parents had begun opting out of the immunization.

Overall immunization rates remain high, however, state immunization programs, clinicians, and parents continue to challenge getting all recommended booster doses in the second year of life for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTaP), Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib), and Pneumococcal disease (PCV).

African-American children and those living at or below the poverty line tend to have lower rates of vaccination coverage, with an overall rate less than other populations. In some instances, the rate of Black children meeting the recommended immunization schedule was as low as 69 percent.

The 2014 Whistleblower report – claiming a CDC-sponsored immunization study had fudged numbers that concretely linked MMR vaccinations to African-American male babies developing autism – was later refuted, but

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created significant challenges in convincing parents to keep to the immunization schedule.

More exemptions to immunizations occurred, according to the CDC, resulting in more incidents of preventable disease, such as whooping cough.

Four Important Reasons to Vaccinate Your Child

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO Through advancements in medical science, children can be protected against more diseases than ever before. Some diseases, like polio that once injured or killed millions of children, are no longer common in the U.S. The National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases note the following benefits to infant immunization.

Vaccinations are largely safe and effective Vaccines are only given to children after a long and careful review by scientists, doctors, and healthcare professionals. Vaccines will involve some discomfort, however, serious side effects following vaccination, such as severe allergic reaction, are very rare.

Immunization protects others Children in the U.S. still get vaccine-preventable diseases. There has been a resurgence of measles and whooping cough (pertussis) over the past few years, with nearly 50,000 cases reported since 2010, causing a renewed challenge to fight them.

Immunizations can save your family time and money A child with a vaccine-preventable disease can be denied attendance at schools or daycare facilities. Some vaccine-preventable diseases can result in prolonged disabilities and can take a financial toll because of lost time at work, medical bills, or long-term disability care.

Immunization protects future generations Vaccines have reduced and, in some cases, eliminated many diseases that killed or severely disabled people just a few generations ago. For example, the smallpox vaccination eradicated that disease worldwide, making vaccination against smallpox unnecessary.

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Health officials worry that the hesitance in keeping to vaccination schedules could create an outbreak scenario similar to one that occurred at Disneyland in 2014, where 59 visitors contracted measles. The infected ranged in age from 7 to 70 and the disease spread to four other states as the visitors returned home.

Fearful of giving infants potentially harmful inoculation cocktails, parents have avoided having them immunized. The childhood vaccine known as DTaP protects against diptheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus. It is given in a series to children at 2 months, 4 months, 6 months and 15-18 months of age; a booster is given before kindergarten. The DTaP vaccine, like other routine childhood immunizations, has been shown to be more than 98 percent effective.

Dr. Heidi Larson, lead author of a recent vaccine study, published in PLOS Current Outbreaks, found that the refusal to inoculate grew from an historical level of distrust between parents and the medical community.

“We asked people about their confidence in their health systems, in health programs, in family planning programs.

We saw pretty consistent correlation between high confidence in the health care system and high confidence in immunization programs. It’s not just about the product – the vaccine. It’s also about the interaction around it,” Larson said.

In the U.S. and United Kingdom, the initial report linking MMR to autism – now discredited – led to more than a decade of reduced vaccination rates and is blamed by some medical authorities as contributing to the Disneyland outbreak. At its core, the MMR-autism claims cited conspiracy-like theories of pharmaceutical negligence for the sake of profit and denying parents full disclosure of potential side effects.

“I think the relationship between the provider and the parent is still the most important dynamic. People need to feel they can trust the information they’re getting.

When a parent does not feel respected, it really can turn a hesitant parent into a

refusing parent,” Larson said. “Providers need to be open to dialogue, to having respect for questions. After all, for new parents, it’s a very complex vaccine environment. It’s reasonable that they ask questions.”

In the case of thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used to prevent contamination of multi-dose vials of vaccines, the ingredient was believed to be the source agent in children developing autism. Beginning in 1999, thimerosal was removed or reduced to trace amounts in all childhood vaccines except for some flu vaccines.

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D.C. Business Profile

Concerned Black Men

National CEO Steps Down

By AFRO Staff George L. Garrow Jr., chief executive officer of Concerned Black Men National, resigned from his position after 17 years.

According to a letter he wrote to staff, board, and selected friends, his last day in office was on April 10.

Concerned Black Men is a national organization that develops strategic interventions for African American children and parents, and in particular, Black men and boys. The organization’s vision is to ensure that every child has a responsible and caring adult in his or her life, filling the void of positive Black male role models in many communities. They provide mentors and programs that affirm the care and discipline that all youth need, while providing opportunities for academic and career enrichment.

“I am not retiring,” Garrow told the AFRO on April 13 in an email. “I will continue to provide ‘thought

leadership’ nationally on developing positive outcomes for Black men and boys. I will do that through speaking engagements, consulting, media appearances, writing, and other opportunities. I also will remain available to help CBM National and new Executive Director Leroy Hughes pursue this important work.”

Throughout his work with the organization, Garrow

“I am not retiring.”

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helped develop Young Males of Color initiatives, assisted with developing programs for parents to help them create stronger families and healthier children, and many other programs and initiatives.

He currently sits as vice chair of the Board of the District of Columbia Children’s Trust Fund,

D.C. Artists Bring Unconventional Performance to Familiar Setting

By Christina Sturdivant Special to the AFRO a nonprofit focused on preventing child abuse and neglect through education and advocacy. He is a member of the Coordinating and Steering committees for the 2025 Network for Black Men and Boys, a national movementbuilding strategy focused on developing positive life outcomes for Black males. He is also a member of the Black Male Achievement advisory board for the Council of Great City Schools, an association representing more than 1800 urban school districts in the country.

“Our communities need to bring long-term strategic interventions to bear in the lives of children, especially Black boys,” he said, referring to the need to support and build institutions from a national perspective. “It’s our best hope to transform the lives of African American men and boys.”

Police Shootings: Human Rights Issue

By Gloria Browne-Marshall Special to the AFRO Earlier in April, Officer Michael Slager fired eight bullets at the back of Walter Scott, 50, an African-American. Then, Officer Slager, 33, White, lied to cover his actions, as seen by a video, taken from the phone of Feidin Santana.

Not only did the South Carolina town of North Charlestown watch, but the world has now watched this execution of an unarmed fleeing man.

The video shows Scott running away from Slager after a routine traffic stop. Why Scott ran is unclear. In the video, Slager appears to be planting evidence, a taser, near Scott’s body.

Even though the shooting took place in daylight, in a public place, Santana said he was so fearful of local police retribution that he contemplated erasing the video and leaving town.

Prior to the video, North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey and Police Chief Eddie Driggers believed Slager’s version of events.

However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled over 30 years ago that police cannot use deadly force against an unarmed person, even if he is fleeing the scene, unless there is a significant chance of imminent danger. Slager was in no apparent danger, based on the video.

The world has been closely watching the actions of police in America, especially as they concern African-Americans. In August, 2014, a panel of 18 independent experts questioned a U.S. delegation about the persistent racial discrimination against African-Americans and other minorities, including within the criminal justice system. Their meeting coincided with dozens of protests over police shootings of unarmed Black men and boys.

“This is not an isolated event and illustrates a bigger problem in the United States, such as racial bias among law enforcement officials, the lack of proper implementation of rules and regulations governing the use of force, and the inadequacy of training of law enforcement officials,” said Noureddine Amir, vice chairman for the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).

“Racial and ethnic discrimination remains a serious and persistent problem in all areas of life from de facto school segregation, access to health care and housing,” said Amir, at a news briefing held on August 29, 2014, only weeks after the shooting of Michael Brown.

After examining the U.S. record on race and criminal justice, CERD found that African Americans are victims of racial disparities.

Sybrina Martin, the mother of Trayon Martin, killed by George Zimmer in Sanford, Fla. in 2012, traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, to testify about the racial undertones surrounding her son’s death and the Zimmerman trial. She was accompanied by Brown’s family members. Brown, 19, AfricanAmerican, was gunned down in the streets of Ferguson, Mo. by Officer Darren Wilson, White. Wilson claimed self-defense.

Civil unrest resulted.

Then, the Ferguson grand jury failed to return an indictment. Images of streets clouded with tear gas, military weaponry, and police in full riot gear responding to mostly peaceful protesters made international news. “Black Lives Matter” was chanted in cities across America and Europe.

A lack of grand jury indictments in policeinvolved shootings has led these international bodies to express concerns about racial undertones in America’s justice system. In December 2014, a United Nations Commission on Human Rights report expressed what it called “legitimate concerns” regarding an American criminal justice system in which police can kill unarmed Black men without it resulting in a trial.

In March 2015, in response to a lawsuit filed on his behalf, Cleveland attorneys and the police department stated the death of 12-yearold Tamir Rice was “directly and proximately caused by their [Tamir and his family’s] own acts. . .,” and added that Tamir caused his own death “by the failure. . . to exercise due care to avoid injury. On November 22, 2014, Tamir Rice was playing with a toy gun in a Cleveland, Ohio park near his home when he was gunned down by Officer Timothy Loehmann, White, who had been deemed emotionally unstable by his previous police department.

In August 2014, John Crawford was shot and killed by police in a Wal-Mart store in a Dayton, Ohio suburb while holding an air rifle he intended to purchase. Crawford was blamed for not responding quickly enough to police commands.

On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner, AfricanAmerican, died after being choked by police in Staten Island, N.Y. Garner was resisting arrest for allegedly selling loose cigarettes.

Police blamed Garner’s weight and asthma for his death. There was a video. However, no indictment was filed for Garner, Rice or Crawford.

“The [UN] Committee remains concerned at the practice of racial profiling of racial or ethnic minorities by law enforcement officials, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Transportation Security Administration, border enforcement officials and local police,” it said. The Committee report can push for investigations the U.S. to investigation police shootings for racial bias. But, it does not have the power to require them.

New York’s Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has asked for independent prosecutors in deadly force cases. Both North Charleston and Ferguson police departments have ordered body cameras for their police force. The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating several of these shooting. But, the DOJ has found fault with police training, not the officers.

The U.N. panel monitors compliance with the CERD treaty which was ratified by 177 countries, including the United States. However, the panel has no enforcement power. The United States ratified the CERD treaty in 1994.

Longtime friends, A’Leighsha Butler and Nia Barge met as teenagers at Oxon Hill High School in Prince George’s County, Md. Today, the co-founders of Nameless theater company are business savvy women blossoming with creativity.

Unlike traditional performance shows, Nameless offers an experience that brings unconventional audiences out of the theater and into familiar settings. “If you’re not brought up in the arts or given opportunities to understand theater while you’re younger, you don’t just all of a sudden start going to the theater,” Barge told the AFRO. “We know how much theater means to us, how entertaining it can be, how engaging it can be and how it can spark dialogue about important subjects. We knew the importance, power and weight that theater can hold in the community and we wanted to find a way to communicate that to people who look like us, who are our age, and didn’t go to the theater.”

One place millennials frequent often is happy hour. Nameless’ introduction of Happy Hour Theater premiered June 2014 in Adams Morgan with Last Call – the portrayal of tensions between new and old

Nia Barge and A’Leighsha Butler, founders of Nameless theater company master’s degrees in applied drama and performance making, respectively. While producing intimate theater shows in London, the two also produced a one-woman show, Happy Birthday Lola, starring Barge who became a fairly well-known poet.

As a young company, resources for Nameless are slim and ticket sales cover

“If you’re not brought up in the arts or given opportunities to understand theater while you’re younger, you don’t just all of a sudden start going to the theater.”

– Nia Barge

District residents who are forced to come together at the height of a crisis. The afterwork show took place in a local bar where patrons were able to get drink and food specials and a stellar performance – all at an affordable price. During its run, the show sold out shows and received 5-star reviews.

Much like the company’s target audience, there wasn’t much access to the arts for Butler growing up, “At Oxon Hill [High School] and my middle school, there were no drama classes offered, but it was something that I was interested in,” she says. “I’ve always written little stories, but there wasn’t a chance for me to enter into a drama class or test it out.”

As an undergrad at the University of Maryland, College Park, she was finally able to take drama classes, which fueled her interest further. Likewise, at Howard University, Barge was introduced to acting through mock trial lessons while on a law school track; she then garnered an interest in performing.

Barge received her bachelor’s degree in communication and culture with a minor in film. Butler received her bachelor’s degree incommunications/public relations. After college the two began working together professionally creating workshops for youth.

“That’s when we discovered that we really enjoyed working in the community and in the arts, and we started working together more in that sector,” says Butler.

In 2010, Butler and Barge attended the University of London, Goldsmith to pursue

only 40 percent of production costs; but payment for rehearsal spaces, lighting, chairs, performers customs and, of course, the venue must be accounted for. The ladies have relied on a lot of creativity and ingenuity to keep the company afloat, they say.

In the second installment of Happy Hour Theater – and the fourth show for the company—Nameless will present Death at the Prom, premiering April 16 at Uniontown Bar & Grill in D.C.’s historic Anacostia neighborhood. A murder mystery comedy show, the production will take place in the midst of a fictional high school prom where disaster strikes and audience members must gather clues, question suspects, and bring the murderer to justice.

“This show is a bit more light for our happy hour crowd and should be a lot of fun because there’s a lot more audience interaction,” Butler describes the show in comparison to Last Call.

Hoping to achieve as much notoriety as before, the show may also move to a larger venue to bring over 200 guests to the party. “A week before the show, we are pretty tired, but we remind ourselves that we are waking up everyday and we are doing what we love to do,” says Butler, “I’m just thankful to have the courage to go after it and want to do it because its not easy, but the end result is always rewarding because we pour something of ourselves into every single show.”

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take a maximum of two classes during the normal semester and one class over the summer.

The university will waive all tuition and fees, and the Office of the State Superintendent of Education will cover the cost of books and transportation. Students looking to enroll in the program must complete the Howard University Dual Enrollment Program application, provide PSAT, SAT or ACT scores, have a grade point average of 3.0 or higher and provide a personal statement essay, a letter of recommendation from their high school counselor or principal, and written permission from a parent or legal guardian.

According to the university, it was Frederick who suggested the program and partnership with DCPS. The city is looking to expand the program to all DCPS high schools over the next three years through new partnerships with other local universities, Mayor Muriel Bowser said during the press conference to announce the program. “Our young people deserve and desire more opportunities to expand their academic horizons,” Bowser said. “This new program is an excellent example of a public-private partnership that looks to the future of this city with optimism and hope.”

McKinley Tech Principal Louisa Jones said the program has an additional benefit in conjunction with all the others. “It also helps students get a break on tuition and provides the university with access to talented and motivated students that they may recruit,” Jones said.

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The Afro-American, April 18, 2015 - April 24, 2015

Local Law School Holds Forum Against Pending Pepco, Exelon Merger

By LaTrina Antoine Washington D.C. Editor D.C. residents gathered at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) Clarke School of Law on April 8 to discuss their complaints about the ongoing Pepco, Exelon merger. The forum was orchestrated on behalf of The School of Law Environmental Law Society.

The forum consisted of two panels, each missing an Exelon Corporation or Pepco Holdings, representative, to ponder the question of whether the purchase of Pepco by Exelon was in the public’s interest. “Its business model, when you put it in a technical way, ain’t so great,” D.C. Council member Mary Cheh (Ward 3) said. She was referencing merger problems for D.C. residents including its inherent conflict in the city’s progressive environmental agenda, higher prices, and lack of utility access with Exelon being headquartered in Chicago, Ill. “I have no confidence that we will be insulated from price increases by joining with Exelon either in five years or later.”

Mary Cheh, chair of the Committee on Transportation & the Environment, was on the first panel along with Tim Judson, executive director of the Nuclear Information & Resource Service; Tyson

Slocum, director of Energy at Public Citizen and UDC law student Jessica Christy, who spoke in the affirmative on the merger.

The panel’s discussion highlighted complaints that Exelon’s nuclear base would be a detriment to District residents, because it would not only shift all of the risk to ratepayers, but also draw back the District’s progress on renewable energy.

Cheh said she sent a letter to council members against the merger, but only Elissa Silverman (At-Large) and Charles Allen (Ward 6) signed it. “It’s not exactly an even playing field,” she said. “I think it’s probably indicative of the situation to note that the two council members that joined are new to the council.”

The second panel spoke about reliability standards in the District. The panel consisted of attorney and Georgetown Law Professor Scott Hempling, D.C. People’s Counsel Sandra Mattavous-Frye, Maryland People’s Counsel Paula Carmody, and American Institute President Diana

Moss.

“First of all, the Public Service Commission has stringent electric reliability standards and ironically or to my amazement . . . Exelon indicated that it could – Mary Cheh not meet the electrical reliability standards of the District of Columbia,” MattavousFrye said. “Now that was a nonstarter from the very beginning.”

She said that even though Exelon later said they could meet the standards without raising ratepayer costs, there was “really no commitment.”

In response to the forum missing a voice from either Pepco or Exelon, Myra Oppel, regional communications vice president for Pepco told the AFRO in an email on April 14. “For the past year, Pepco and Exelon have been speaking to groups throughout the District about the companies’ proposed merger, and we are happy to participate in any debate where equal consideration is given to both sides.”

Oppel said the organizers originally decided to not include Pepco or Exelon on the panels, but later asked Pepco if they would provide a representative.

“While we appreciated the law school’s reconsideration and offer to allow a singular Pepco representative, we did not believe the remaining conditions placed on pro-merger participation or the design of the forum would allow for a fair and balanced discussion of the merger.”

“I have no confidence that we will be insulated from price increases by joining with Exelon either in five years or later.”

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convention in New York City.

If confirmed, Lynch will be the country’s first Black female attorney general.

On Feb. 26, Lynch’s nomination was sent to the Senate floor by a 12-8 Senate Judiciary Committee vote. All the Democrats on the committee support her nomination and three Republicans, Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) voted for her also.

However, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is holding up the confirmation vote because Democrats are contesting an anti-human trafficking bill that includes abortion restrictions. A spokeswoman for McConnell told the AFRO on April 13 that her boss will

“Loretta Lynch now has 51 publicly committed votes, which means that she has all the votes to be confirmed.”

– Marc Morial continue to delay the Lynch vote until the Democrats agree to stop blocking the antihuman trafficking bill or there is a bipartisan agreement to move the legislation forward.

The Senate was on Easter recess from March 30 April 10, thereby extending the delay. The chamber reconvened on April 13.

Lynch has picked up additional Republican support. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) have indicated that they will vote for her confirmation.

“I am confident from my conversation with Loretta Lynch that she will be a valuable partner in confronting the gang violence that is robbing families of their children every in Chicago,” Kirk said on April 2. “We need the help of the attorney general to fight gangs of national significance through federal law enforcement agencies and prosecutors, and to address organized crime like drug and child sex trafficking.”

The Senate’s two AfricanAmerican members are somewhat at odds on Lynch.

Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.), the only Black Democrat in his chamber, has long supported Lynch while Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.), the lone Black Republican, has not, according to his spokesman, announced what he thinks of her nomination.

Sharpton said that civil right leaders and members of their organizations will continue to engage McConnell by either contacting his Washington office by written communications or with daily visits to his get the Kentuckian to move the nomination. Marc Morial, the president and CEO of the National Urban League who joined Sharpton on April 11 and said that if a vote on Lynch were to occur presently, the result would be clear.

“Loretta Lynch now has 51 publicly committed votes, which means that she has all the votes to be confirmed,” Morial said according to the Associated Press. “So when we say call the vote, we know that the vote is going to be ‘yes’ in favor of Loretta Lynch.”

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COMMUNITY CONNECTION Washington D.C.

Fairfax, Va.

National Crime Victims Awareness Week

Our Daily Bread Festival

Each April, the Office for Victims of Crimes helps lead communities throughout the country in their annual observances of National Crime Victim’ Rights Week (NCVRW) which will be observed April 19–25. This year’s theme is “Engaging Communities.

Empowering Victims,” which emphasizes the role of the entire community, individually and collectively, as we support victims of crime and empower them to direct their own recovery. For more information on events held throughout the week, visit http://ovc. ncjrs.gov/ncvrw/.

AKA Pink Hat Tea to Raise Funds for Scholarships

Fun, fashion and fundraising are on the menu for the 6th Annual Pink Hat Tea, “Committed to Scholarship and Service: Our Legacy Continues,” on May 31, hosted by the Pearl and Ivy Educational Foundation in collaboration with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Xi Omega Chapter. Attendees will enjoy tea service, entertainment, hat/neckwear fashion show and a silent auction. The fundraiser will be held at the Marriott Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Rd N.W., starting at noon. A portion of proceeds will be donated to the Pearl and Ivy Educational Foundation, the chapter’s 501(c)(3) entity, to provide scholarships for local high school and college students. Tickets cost $85. Sponsorship opportunities are also available for businesses and groups. To purchase tickets and become a sponsor, visit 2015pinkhattea.eventbrite.com. For more information, contact Pink Hat Tea Chairman Dr. Daphne King at akaxopinkhattea@gmail.com or 240-543-6242.

Our Daily Bread (ODB), a nonprofit, invites the public to attend a special evening of art, wine and strengthening community in association with the 30th Annual Fairfax Spotlight on the Arts Festival to benefit the families it serves in the Fairfax County area who are working toward financial self-sufficiency. “Artful Living” will be held on May 1 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center, 3740 Old Lee Highway. Attendees will enjoy an art show and participate in a popular art contest, enjoy live music by local Latin-jazz band Batida Diferente, wine and appetizers from Dolce Vita Restaurant, and a craft beer tasting. Admission is $40 per person in advance and $50 at the door. Tickets may be purchased at www.ODBFairfax.org or at the event.

Proceeds will benefit Our Daily Bread’s programs to provide financial education and mentoring, as well as emergency food, financial aid and seasonal assistance to working families throughout the Fairfax County area who are struggling to make ends meet. For more information, visit www.ODBFairfax.org.

Alexandria, Va. Greek Game Night and Fish Fry

The National Pan-Hellenic Council of Northern Virginia will host a game night and fish fry on April 24 at the Kappa Multipurpose Facility, 6343 South Kings Highway in Alexandria, Va. from 7 p.m. to midnight. There will be card games, Bid Whist Tournaments and more. Tickets cost $20 per person, in advance ($25 at the Door). All tickets include a fish dinner. To purchase tickets, see a National Pan-Hellenic Council representative. For more information, visit www.novanphc.org.

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Ward 8 Race Heads into Final Days

By James Wright Special to the AFRO The race for the Ward 8 D.C. Council vacancy is coming to a close with the April 28 special election date looming. The 11 candidates vying for the council seat, available because Marion S. Barry’s death in November 2014, are scrambling across Ward 8 to get as much support as they can.

An example of courting voters was at the candidates’ forum sponsored by the Anacostia/Bellevue/Congress Heights AARP Chapter #4870 on April 8 at the Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ. During the forum, LaRuby May, Sheila Bunn, Sandra “S.S.” Seegars, Anthony Muhammad, Leonard Watson Sr., Greta Fuller, Trayon White and Keita Vanterpool articulated their views on issues affecting senior citizens.

“There are a number of issues facing our seniors,” White, a former Ward 8 D.C. State Board of Education member, said.

“We need to help them to be healthy and have good, affordable transportation options. If elected, I will form a committee on seniors’ issues.”

Trayon White, a front-runner in the race, received the support of two former opponents, Jauhar Abraham and Stuart Anderson, at the forum. Candidates Marion C. Barry, Eugene D. Kinlow and Natalie Williams, didn’t participate.

Seegars, a former advisory neighborhood commissioner, supports tax breaks for seniors as well as low-interest loans to help them in their daily lives. Bunn talked about her work in the mayoral administration of Vincent C. Gray to help the District become more age-friendly and helping seniors to stay in their homes.

May said that she supports using the city’s Housing

Production Trust Fund to keep seniors in their homes and wants funds to help those who are charged with raising their grandchildren. Muhammad said that the ward needs senior Courtesy Photos recreation centers to keep its LaRuby May, Anthony Muhammad, Greta Fuller and Trayon White are just a few of the elderly population engaged and candidates in the Ward 8 race. healthy.

Both Fuller and Watson said endorsements. May is being supported by such organizations as that if they are elected, they the D.C. Chamber of Commerce’s political action committee, will work to improve the delivery of city services to seniors.

Metropolitan Washington Council AFL-CIO, Gertrude Stein Vanterpool talked about the need for more senior political and Democratic Club, Service Employees International (SEIU) civic engagement in the ward.

Maryland/D.C. State Council, National Nurses United and In addition to the endorsements by Abraham and Anderson, DC NOW, the District’s arm for the National Organization for White has received the support of the Washington Teacher’s Women.

Union and Jews United for Justice.

“She [May] will bring the leadership skills and fiscal Kinlow has gotten the support of the D.C. Chapter of the responsibility that is needed for a successful council member,” David Julyan, chairman of Julyan & Julyan, and chair of the chamber’s political action committee, said.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) has campaigned for May –LaRuby May a number of times. May also has the support of former D.C. Council Chairman Arrington Dixon and former Ward 8 council members Sandy Allen and Eydie Whittington.

On April 1, May overwhelmingly won a straw poll at Ballou Sierra Club and he is elated about it. “For years, I have worked to protect our environmental and natural treasures,” Kinlow said. “I Senior High School that was sponsored by the civic groups in the ward. May said that she is pleased with the support she promise to continue to advocate on behalf of Ward 8 residents so has gotten. “On the council, I pledge to be that bridge from the that we have access to a clean and safe waterfront as well as one Wilson Building to the ward,” she said. “I want to get the ward that helps attract investment and jobs for Ward 8.” where it needs to be.”

However, it is May that has gotten the bulk of

“I want to get the ward where it needs to be.”

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be ratified in December 2014 but the Gray administration pulled it from council consideration when it was clear that the votes for the contract to go through were not there.

Corizon has been criticized for its 660 lawsuits from incarcerated people in various states for providing poor health care. Dr. Sylvia McQueen, the vice president of clinical services at Corizon, told the AFRO that many of those suits were frivolous and those that had merit were settled. “We have a better record in settling lawsuits than Unity does in proportion to the population that we serve as opposed to whom they serve,” McQueen said.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) was joined by D.C. Council members Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), Brianne Nadeau

(D-Ward 1), Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), Elissa Silverman (I-At Large) and David Grosso (I-At Large) in voting against the contract. Orange was joined by D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5), Anita Bonds (D-At Large) and Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7) to support Corizon.

If the Council had accepted the contract, Black-owned MBI Health Services would have made millions of dollars for treating incarcerated District residents.

Each of the council’s Black members supported the contract while the only White to vote for it was Evans.

Grosso said that while he is sympathetic to Black businesses getting more city contracts, Corizon’s services aren’t good for District

inmates. “Awarding this contract would be an absolute failure of government to protect the health and wellbeing of District of Columbia residents who are in jail,”

should not be ignored. The circumstances surrounding this contract are too egregious to overlook.”

The NAACP D.C. Branch opposed the Corizon contract

“It is disappointing that the council rejected a contract that went through a fair bidding process over an 18-month period.”

– D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser

Grosso said. “Corizon’s medical history of failing to provide necessary medical care, allowing extreme delays in medical services to persist and operating substandard facilities cannot and

and sent council members a letter voicing its concerns.

Akousa Ali, the branch president, said that inmate health is a public health issue.

“Providing quality health care and medical treatment

to inmates reduces the spread of infectious diseases, mental health problems, chronic diseases, and substance abuse,” Ali said. “The NAACP DC is committed to improving the quality of health care in jails, prisons and juvenile confinement facilities.”

Bowser wasn’t happy with the council’s action. “It is disappointing that the council rejected a contract that went through a fair bidding process over an 18-month period,” the mayor said.

“As a result of the council’s action, District residents will continue to overpay a vendor that is servicing a declining population at the D.C. Jail.

The council’s action will extend overpayment for care, which does not fully meet the health needs of a vulnerable population, until a new

contract can be awarded.”

The anti-Corizon council members stood their ground even as McDuffie, the chairman of the Committee of the Judiciary, and Alexander, the chairman of the Committee on Health and Human Services, promised their colleagues that they would hold Corizon accountable if they won the contract.

Dr. Woodrow Myers Jr., chief executive officer of Corizon, expressed his unhappiness with the council vote but said his company is moving forward. “The company wishes the D.C. Department of Corrections and its residents well,” he said. “Corizon will continue to work to provide the best quality of health care for our current and future clients across the nation.”

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regulation of MPD’s “Use of Force” policy which states, “Consistent with the Department’s philosophy of using only the minimum amount of force necessary to control or subdue potentially violent subjects, less-than-lethal projectiles may be used only by authorized members with appropriate specialized training.”

Conboy would not say who the “authorized members” are and whether or not all MPD members are trained to use nondeadly force.

Instead, he said that the policy is clear enough, offering a regurgitation of the policy: “We have non-lethal implements that we can deploy.”

Even with a “Use of Force” policy, a local ABC News station reported video footage from a cell phone that captured several MPD officers aggressively initiating arrests on a married couple, Forrest and Chadon Boggs, on the 1500 block of E Street NE on April 1.

The video shows Chadon being shoved to the ground by an officer after she watched another officer straddle her husband’s back while he was on the ground.

Forrest was accused of spitting on a police car and the couple was charged with assaulting an officer. Both were taken to a hospital and Chadon received four stitches.

The department’s Public Information Office did not return phone calls from the AFRO regarding use of force documentation, police training, and questions on language within the “Use of Force” policy.

National Association Against Police Brutality President Jonathan Newton offered an interpretation of MPD’s less-thanlethal projectile regulation based on his years as a police officer in Georgia, Ala. According to Newton, a University of the District of Columbia law student, each officer must be trained and certified to use non-lethal weapons on their belt – OC spray, ASP baton, and taser gun.

“Every so often, you’re supposed to get recertified on whatever you wear on your belt,” he said. “Depending on the police department, most guys choose what to wear on their

belt. If he falls out of certification for use of force on an ASP baton or OC spray, now he’s not really allowed to use that. That creates problems because you have less choices to use. Now all he has is lethal force and some hand cuffs.”

Stating that use of force policies are difficult to enforce without video recordings, Newton is a proponent of body cameras within the MPD and elsewhere.

In Slager’s case, who has since been terminated from the North Charleston Police Department and charged with murder, Newton said the ex-officer did what others have done but gotten away with. “The wheels of justice are moving not because another unarmed Black man was shot and killed by another White officer,” he said. “The wheels of justice are moving because an unarmed Black man was shot and killed by another White officer and it was caught on video.”

According to American Civil Liberties Union of the Nation’s Capital Policy and Advocacy Director Seema Sadanandan, the MPD may be defensive over its “Use of Force” policy. “I think that what is cause for concern is the aggressive enforcement of low level offenses in the Black community,” she said. “I think that there is certainly something broken in our local justice system. Use of force is certainly an issue.”

in the U.S. Senate,” she said, noting that she fought the 2010 redistricting plan supported by powerful Maryland Democratic Party leaders. “I will be a fighter for the people of Maryland and I have sent letters expressing my concerns on issues to our president and the leadership of my party in Congress.”

On April 8, Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker III surprised some political activists in his county when he endorsed Van Hollen for the Senate because he felt that the Montgomery County lawmaker would make a better senator.

However, the Baker endorsement didn’t impress some Prince Georgians. “My feeling is that I don’t care about Mr. Baker’s opinion,” Belinda Queen-Howard, a member of the Prince George’s County Democratic State Committee, said. “The people will vote for who they want, regardless of what he thinks.

Donna has been out in the community for years and she has won

big margins so many times because she lives in the community, walks in the community, goes to church in the community, and goes to community meetings on a regular basis.”

Tommie Broadwater Jr., the first Black to represent Prince George’s County in the Maryland Senate, said it is too early for him to assess the race. “People endorse who they want,” Broadwater said. “I think Donna has been a good congressperson and so has Chris. To me, it depends on how they campaign for the office.”

The Edwards campaign, in a statement issued on April 10, shrugged off the Baker-Van Hollen alliance. “The voters of Prince George’s County have elected Donna time and again because she gets results for working families,” the statement said. “She’s had their backs time and again and that why Prince George’s County will vote for her again in this election.”

“I think that there is certainly something broken in our local justice system.”

– Seema Sadanandan

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at the Senate, there are voices that are missing,” she said. “The voices that are missing are those of a Black woman. We only have one woman of color in the U.S. Senate, Mazie Hirono, and I want to change that.”

Edwards refuted an assertion by some political analysts that she won’t be viable in the largely rural and White areas like Western Maryland and the Eastern Shore. “Growing up in a military family, I have lived in every region of the country,” she said. “I have found that most people are alike.”

The representative said she will be able to relate to the everyday struggles of paying bills and trying to have a good quality of life. Edwards made it clear she is not afraid to take on her party’s leadership when it comes to what she feels is right. “People in the Fourth Congressional District didn’t elect me to hang out in the back rooms and I will not do that

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We Have Waited and Waited; It’s Time to Vote!

The debate on Loretta Lynch continues beyond human understanding. A simple review of politics in Washington since President Barack Obama has been that the President defies imagination. Cases in point are the 2014 nominations of Loretta Lynch for U.S. Attorney General and Ashton Carter for Secretary of Defense.

I, as I believe true for most Americans, consider Dr. E. Faye Williams chronological progression to be in line with the natural order of things. That is, 1 precedes 2; first come, first served. When Loretta Lynch, a Black woman, was nominated Nov. 8, 2014, I thought that she would complete the confirmation process far ahead of Ash Carter, a White male, who was nominated on Dec. 5, 2014– almost one month after Lynch. How wrong I was!

Only those most infected with political animus could deny the qualifications of either of these nominees. Both have had distinguished careers in their respective fields. Equal opportunity—well, that’s another matter.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale with a double major in physics and medieval history, a Rhodes Scholar, a former Harvard University professor of science and international affairs, and holds his doctorate in theoretical physics. During the Clinton Administration he served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy and, since 2009, has served the Obama Administration in executive Defense Department positions, most recently as Deputy Secretary of Defense. His was considered, and proved to be, a slam-dunk nomination.

Likewise, Loretta Lynch has had a distinguished academic career and sterling career in law and law enforcement. She received her B.A. in English and American Literature from Harvard and later a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. In 1990, she joined the Eastern District (NY) U.S. Attorney’s Office as a drug and violent-crime prosecutor. From 1994 to 1998, she served as Chief of the Long Island Office and from 1998 to 1999 was the Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of NY. In 1999, she was nominated by President Clinton to serve as U.S. Attorney for the District. In 2010, President Obama nominated her to again serve as the U.S. Attorney for the

Eastern District of N.Y. She was approved by the Senate both times. During her latest tenure, she has been noted for prosecuting the securities violations of several major banks and

“A simple review of politics in Washington since President Barack Obama has been that the President defies imagination.” for her aggressive prosecution of political corruption. She is far more qualified to be U.S. Attorney General than many of the critics are to do their jobs in the Senate. As for fitness, her character is impeccable!

The fact that escapes most is that President Obama can and should select cabinet officers who will assist him in the most efficient and effective execution of his job. These selections must be accomplished with the advice and consent of the

Senate, but Senate tradition suggests that unless a nominee is unfit, which Loretta Lynch certainly is not, the President gets his choice. Instead of advice and consent, this Senate seems determined to frustrate the choice of the President in everything he does.

Has Sen. Mitch McConnell forgotten that democracy and decency require a vote? Why won’t he do his job? Ms. Lynch deserves a full vote of the Senate. The Senate Judiciary Committee sent Ms. Lynch’s nomination to the full Senate.

Importantly, eight Republican senators, with nothing more than partisan interests, voted against her.

It’s time for people who believe in our democracy and the rules of the Senate to contact their two U.S. senators and Speaker McConnell to demand a confirmation vote on Loretta Lynch as soon as they return to Washington. All of them can be reached by calling 202-225-3121 and asking the operator for the senator being called.

Dr. E. Faye Williams is president of the National Congress of Black Women and can be contacted at www. nationalcongressbw.org. 202/678-6788.

ON TRACK with the Greater Washington Urban League

Feel. Talk. Act.

There’s no need to rehearse here the facts of what happened in North Charleston, S. C. on April 4, the latest fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man by a White police officer.

Not to mention another fatal shooting just a few days earlier in Tulsa County, Okla.

According to authorities, a White deputy meant to use his stun gun but instead fired a fatal shot. These may stand as particularly blatant George H. Lambert examples, but the real shame Jr. lies in how familiar these stories have become.

When I began this column last October, the idea was to address a different issue every month. One month I would celebrate an episode in Black history, and in another I would try to provide a personal view of a current event, be it affordable housing or domestic violence. As it happens, these last few months have been dominated by one story—with many heartbreaking variations. That confirms African Americans’ fears of walking down the street, or driving.

Like many of this newspaper’s readers, I have been pulled over by the police and experienced the intense unease that one wrong move could have disastrous consequences. I am intimately acquainted with the awkward routine of: Officer, I’m going to reach into my pocket now and pull out my wallet and Officer, should I open my glove compartment now or would you like to do it for me? Despite all the progress we’ve made, the fact that in 2015 I still have to have “the talk” with my

teenage grandson is nothing short of depressing.

A recent news item put it starkly: American police killed more people in March 2015 than the entire UK police have killed since 1900. We can debate the reasons, but I feel strongly that intellectual arguments alone fall short of addressing the underlying reality.

Like many of you, I’m “sick and tired of being sick and tired,” to quote Fannie Lou Hamer’s 1964 speech. At times like this I fall back on three simple ideas in the hopes of moving beyond this difficult moment in our history—feel, talk, and act.

• Feel. Just as we want White people, and especially White police officers, to understand how we feel about being treated as criminals, we can gain a tremendous amount of

officers were White, while most of the victims were Black.

In none of the cases did a Black officer fatally shoot a White person.

• Talk. Talking among ourselves is important, but dialogue with people who have different perspectives is vital for truly opening minds. In the short video New Beginnings: The Road to Redemption and Recovery, the second episode of the Shoptalk Storytelling series, D.C. Chief of Police Cathy Lanier visits the M&S barbershop in the Brookland neighborhood. She engages in a candid discussion about the dynamic between the White cop on the beat and the Black people he encounters. Will their eyes meet? Who says hello first?

• Act. In a previous column, I recall the empowering feeling of joining protest marches in Washington and New York City. Recent events have made it abundantly clear that our work is not yet done. We need to organize, to make our voices heard, and to come together as a community. The National Urban League’s 2015 State of Black America outlines the challenges we face and the opportunities we have to make a difference. Also, let’s take a conscientious step to demonstrate more respect for each other in the African-American community. One of the “elephants” in the room is Black-on-Black crime, which must also be addressed with action and zero tolerance.

Feel. Talk. Act. These three one-syllable words alone won’t stop the killing of the innocent and unarmed in our communities and streets, but perhaps they can provide a framework for moving forward. Together.

George H. Lambert Jr. is the president and CEO of the Greater Washington Urban League.

“…the real shame lies in how familiar these stories have become.” insight by putting ourselves in the shoes of law enforcement personnel. Imagine you’re an inexperienced White officer patrolling a Black neighborhood. What would it be like, not knowing who’s carrying a weapon or whose anger is fueled by drugs or alcohol? This is not to excuse racist behavior, let alone murderous actions, just to expand our consciousness and to understand the situation more fully. But even with this reasoning, here is why I still struggle with this plausible explanation. Based on a review by the Washington Post and Bowling Green State University researchers, since 2005, 54 officers nationwide have been criminally charged after they shot and killed someone in the line of duty. Most of the police

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Jeff Dewitt, D.C. Chief Financial Officer; Kenyon McDuffie, D.C. City Councilman Ward 5; Chinyere Hubbard, emcee; Potomac Chapter (Va.); Annie Whatley, president, Capital City Chapter (D.C.); Kimberly Jeffries Leonard, vice president, The Links; Phil Mendelson, Chairman, D.C. City Council; Sheila HarleyWashington, president, Metropolitan Chapter (D.C.); C. Denise Witcher Sessoms, president, Washington Chapter (D.C.); D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser; and City Councilwoman Local chapters of The Links hosted a “Legislative Day Reception,” Brianne Nadeau, Ward 1

The Links, Washington Chapter, (D.C.) front: President, C. Denise Witcher Sessoms. Second row: Paula Boone, S. Kathryn Allen, Paula Whetsel-Ribeau. Third row: Johanna Thomas, Patricia Bush, Donna Wilson. Fourth row: Brenda Baldwin-Marshall, Tami Brown, Gloria Quick-Alexander, Adrienne Wells, and Lisa McCurdy

Potomac Chapter of Links (Va.) members Tania Jackson, Lisa Kinnard, Chinyere Hubbard, Legislative Day emcee and Cheryl Randall Thomas

March 12, at the John A. Wilson District Building in Northwest D.C. The purpose was to learn about the 2015 legislative priorities of D.C. elected officials. Officials who shared their priorities included D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, City Council Chair Phil Mendelson; Councilwoman Brianne Nadeau, Ward 1; Councilman Kenyon McDuffie, Ward 5; At-Large Councilman Vincent Orange; At-Large Councilwoman Elisa Silverman; and Jeff Dewitt, D.C. chief financial officer. Participating chapters were Capital City Links President Annie Whatley, Metropolitan Links past President Sheila Harley-Washington, Potomac Links President Leslye M. Fraser and Washington Links President C. Denise Witcher Sessoms. The event committee was chaired by Aquila Powell, National The Links, Capital City Chapter (D.C.) members, back row: Claudia McKoin, Michelle Hagans, Aquila Powell; Mignon Clyburn. Second Trends and Services, Capital City Chapter and the Mistress row: Beverly Perry, Kimberly Jeffries Leonard, vice of Ceremonies was Chinyere Hubbard, Potomac Chapter of president, The Links, Annie Whatley, president, Links Inc. Capital City Chapter (D.C.); Staci Hartwell.

Front row: Stephanie Myers and Elissa Silverman, D.C. Councilwoman-at-large

Tami Brown, Donna Wilson, Brenda BaldwinMandrall and former Ambassador Suzan

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April Ussery Sisk, Arlington Chapter (Va.), Dr. Stephanie Myers, Capital City (D.C.) and Sheryl Webber Washington, Potomac Chapter (Va.)

Cynthia M.A. Butler-McIntyre, Carol Moses, president, PGCAC and Rosie Allen Herring

Aquila Powell, Annie Whatley, president, Capital City (D.C.) Chapter

Karen Williamson, Potomac Chapter (Va.) member, D.C. Commission for Women; Kimberly A. Bassett, D.C. Mayor’s Office on Women’s Policy and Initiatives

Regina Jones, Felecia Blowe, Marcia Milton and Charlene Grant

C. Denise Witcher Sessoms,president, Washington (D.C.) Chapter; Patrice Bush and S. Kathryn Allen

Kathi Driver, Morris King , Norma HatotKing and emcee Guy Lambert, WPGC Radio

2015 Scholarship recipients

The officers and members of the Prince George’s County Alumnae Chapter(PGCAC) of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and the Board of Directors of the Prince George’s County Alumnae Foundation(PGCDAF) welcomed 1400 guests to the 39th Annual Scholarship Benefit Fashion Show and Luncheon, March 15, at Martin’s Crosswinds, Greenbelt, Md. 25 outstanding students were awarded scholarships totaling $75,000 and thanks to the leadership of Sinthea Myrick Kelly, chairperson, and Greta Wiggins-Lewis, scholarship chair, for a super affair that continues the extraordinary legacy of education and service to others by the PDCAC and PDCDAF. Hats for the

Sinthea Kelly, standing, Kellery Jones, seated, Rep. Donna M. Edwards (D-Md.) and Camille Exum Ready for the marriage vows

A Springtime duo

Angela Alsobrooks, Prince George’s County State’s Attorney, her daughter, Laney, and mother, Alexandra Alsobrooks

ladies

Chair and co-chairs

Chelsey Green, violinist

Carol Moses and Greta Wiggins-Lewis, chair, scholarship committee

Ready for a formal evening out

2015 Scholarship Committee

On the runway in black and white Photos by Rob Roberts

2015 Fashion Show Committee

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EDUCATION

Education Advocates Call for Retooled No Child Left Behind on 50th Anniversary

By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondents Officials, lawmakers and civil rights groups commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 by calling for muchneeded updates to the law.

The measure, many said, was one of the major victories of the Civil Rights Movement and the impetus for opening up educational opportunities for children of color.

“Since 1965, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) has been an essential tool for promoting fair and equal access to quality public education and helping to reduce educational disparities between students of all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, and beliefs,” said Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, in a statement. “The ESEA was critical to upholding and defending the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education which asserted that equity in education is a fundamental right and not a privilege.”

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan marked the occasion at an event with civil rights leader Wade Henderson, D.C. public school Principal Rachel Skerritt and local students on April 9 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. “ESEA marked an extraordinary step for education, and for civil rights,” Duncan said. “ESEA has built a foundation under our nation’s schools, helping to raise the bar for every child, and to ensure that the resources are there for those most in need. It’s helped create an expectation that no matter where you live in this country, when students aren’t making progress, local leaders will come together to make change— especially if they are students with disabilities, students who are still learning English, students from a particular racial group, students who live in poverty, or students coming from particular school.”

The progress made in the past 50 years has been remarkable, he said, citing higher graduation rates and decreasing dropout rates among Black and Latino students among other achievements. But there is also much to be done, he said.

“Why do we have so much work ahead of us?” Duncan

“Our work will not be done until we ensure that opportunity is not just a possibility, but a promise.”

– Duncan

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan marked the anniversary of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act at an event at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. on April 9.

asked rhetorically. “Because today, a quarter of high schools with the highest percentage of African-American and Latino students do not offer Algebra II, and a third do not offer chemistry. Because today, about 40 percent of school districts do not offer preschool programs…. Because today, we have far too many students of color, primarily boys, being suspended and expelled from school. And finally, because today, you can search five entire states and find only four girls in those states who took an AP computer science exam.

“Our work will not be done until we ensure that opportunity is not just a possibility, but a promise.”

Part of the solution lies with Congress fixing a broken ESEA, now known as No Child Left Behind, advocates say.

“As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ESEA, the Senate is preparing to mark up a bipartisan reauthorization of this historic law. This proposal rolls back federal oversight and accountability for student outcomes, fails to make progress on the equitable distribution of resources, and doesn’t collect important data about the communities we represent,” Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said. “Congress must reauthorize a strong ESEA that protects children and civil rights. We cannot turn back the clock on the progress we’ve made; any reauthorization that is weaker than current law should not move forward.”

The National Museum of African American History and Culture presents

SATURDAY, APRIL 25 9:45AM - 8:30PM A Symposium Examining the Use of Deadly Force by the Police and the Reaction to it.

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Rex Ellis Assoc. Director Curatorial Affairs, NMAAHC Jeff Johnson Journalist, motivational speaker Renee Harrison Prof., Howard University School of Divinity, former LAPD officer Lerone A. Martin Asst. Prof. of Religion and Politics, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou Pastor, author, organizer Stephanie Wolfe John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics

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ARTS & CULTURE

Paul Walker’s Sentimental Swan Song Proves Well Worth the Wait Film Review by Kam Williams The late Paul Walker (1973-2013) was best known for playing Brian O’Conner, a charismatic lead character of the Fast and Furious franchise. During a break in the filming of this seventh installment, he perished in a fiery crash away from the set while being driven in a Porsche by his friend and financial advisor, Roger Rodas.

Putting the production on hiatus, director James Wan (The Conjuring) consulted with Walker’s family before deciding to complete the project. After revising the script, he resumed shooting, using Paul’s younger brothers, Caleb and Cody, as body doubles.

Between the delays and complications flowing from the overhaul, the picture’s budget ballooned to over a quarterbillion dollars. Nevertheless, the rewrite was undeniably wellworth all the effort, since Furious 7 is easily the best offering from the series by far, for it’s the first to convincingly combine sincere sentiment with its trademark swagger and spectacular action sequences.

Yes, it’s remains mostly a muscle car demolition derby featuring an array of sensational stunts, destroying 230 automobiles along the way. But it’s also a touching tribute to the much-beloved Paul Walker, poignant homage carefully crafted to ensure there won’t be a dry eye in the house when the closing credits roll.

At the point of departure, we’re reintroduced to Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), a trained assassin hell-bent on avenging the death of his brother, the diabolical villain who met his demise during the climax of the previous episode. Deckard’s

already killed Han (Sung Kang), so gang leader Dom (Vin Diesel) encourages his wife (Michelle Rodriguez) and the rest of his ragtag crew of mercenaries to regroup in order to avoid the risk of getting picked off one-byone, since there’s strength in numbers.

However, coaxing brotherin-law Brian out of retirement isn’t easy, now that he’s settled down in suburbia and Courtesy Universal Studios has already started a family Paul Walker, center, with Tyrese, Michelle Rodriguez and Ludacris with Mia (Jordana Brewster).

By contrast, unencumbered A captivating combination of camaraderie and cartoon playboys Roman (Tyrese) and Tej (Ludacris) are game for physics tempered by just enough nostalgia to tug at your another round of bombastic vehicular warfare, especially given heartstrings. the addition to the team of a cute computer hacker (Nathalie Emmanuel) whose affections they can compete for.

Excellent MMMM After a bit of obligatory flirting and jive talk by the brothers, Rated PG-13 for pervasive violence and it’s not long before the plot plunges the mercenaries headlong mayhem, suggestive into a familiar concatenation of fisticuffs and gravity-defying content and brief profanity car chases punctuated by macho exclamations like “I’m Running time: 137 minutes back bitches!” and “Time to unleash the beast!” Yet, such Distributor: Universal Pictures simplistic non-sequiturs are effectively counterbalanced by tender exchanges with Brian (“You’ll always be my brother!”)

To see a trailer for Furious 7, visit: https://www.youtube. during a denoument where he makes it clear that this dangerous com/watch?v=yISKeT6sDOg adventure will definitely be his last.

Pinto Intro

Century to the present, all of which was beautiful and opened your mind to so much more. But I also studied Psychology which helped me immeasurably, and continues to help me in terms of the science of accessing emotions and how the human brain functions.

I find all of that very intriguing. I’m not saying that’s the answer for other actors, just that I’m a very cerebral and scientific kind of person.

More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.

Freida Pinto The “Desert Dancer” Interview with Kam Williams

Born in Mumbai on October 18, 1984, Freida Pinto exhibited an interest in acting from an early age. She had participated in community theater as well as school productions by the time she graduated with a degree in English Literature from St. Xavier’s College, rated the top college in India for the Arts.

Freida was signed as a model by the Elite Agency and was hired to anchor a TV travel show prior to making her highly-acclaimed screen debut co-starring opposite Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire, which swept the 2009 Academy Awards. She’s since appeared in Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, portrayed the title characters in Trishna and Miral, and played James Franco’s love interest in Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Here, she talks about her latest outing in Desert Dancer, a biopic about Afshin Ghaffarian, the Iranian dissident who founded an underground, modern dance company in a country where dancing is strictly forbidden.

Kam Williams: Hi Freida. Thanks for the interview. I’m honored to have this opportunity to speak with you.

Freida Pinto: Of course, Kam. Thank you so much for doing this for my little, tiny film.

KW: A small, but powerful art film. It had everybody at my screening crying.

FP: Oh my God! Thank you for telling me.

We love hearing that there wasn’t a single dry eye in the room. That’s what we aimed for.

KW: Yes, it was very moving, as well as uplifting. In this picture, you reminded me of Halle Berry in Jungle Fever, where she also played a drug addict. Have you seen it?

FP: No, I haven’t. But I love Halle Berry, so thanks for the compliment. I’m going to watch it.

KW: How did you prepare to play a heroin addict?

FP: I didn’t want to watch any film about heroin addicts, because I didn’t want to imitate or exactly copy someone else’s take on what the individual symptoms were, although I did watch Candy, with Abbie Cornish and Heath Ledger, which was amazing. Instead, what I did was spend a lot of time with my director [Richard Raymond] at A.A. meetings in London, and just listened to people speak.

KW: I told my readers I’d be interviewing

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you. So I’m mixing in some of their questions with mine. Sangeetha Subramanian says: Hi Freida, the movie looks great! What was the process like learning the dances for the film?

FP: It involved a physically-demanding regimen, because in a movie like this about dance, the actors are expected to look the part. So, first, we had choreographers and trainers come and break us down. If we arrived thinking movement was a certain thing, they were teaching us something brand new. We were being twisted and turned and bent backwards, and under the most challenging of circumstances, as well. We were working really, really long hours, so we had to push ourselves. It was amazing to test your endurance and find yourself motivated to go one step beyond what you thought were your limits. Another aspect was the mental and emotional training, especially with my character, Elaheh. It was very important that I let myself go, and experience things I was afraid of experiencing.

KW: Attorney Bernadette Beekman asks: Did your training in classical Indian dance help prepare you for the 8 hours of daily practice for this role?

FP: [Laughs] I wish I really had any training in classical Indian dance. That’s Wikipedia just lying. That is not true. I came with zero experience from the dance world.

The only dancing I’d ever done was in clubs.

[Laughs some more] KW: Bernadette also admires that you are so involved in causes respecting girls and education. She asks: Is there any particular subject or course of study you would recommend to young girls considering a career in film?

FP: In film? I have not been formally trained at an acting school or even a film school. But when I majored in English Literature in college, part of the syllabus covered film in literature, adaptations, and reading poetry and prose from the early 19th

KW: Editor Lisa Loving says: You are such a talented performer, and yet I have been thrilled at the work you have done to support underprivileged women and children around the world. This film, too, shows the power of art in a corrupt society. What do you think are the most pressing political and social issues we should be addressing today? And what do you think we, as citizens of the world, should be doing to make it a better place?

FP: I’m not going to comment on political issues. America and India both have their issues. One thing I can say is that awareness is very, very important because we’re living in a world which is literally shrinking by the day. We are global citizens. So, for us not to be aware of what’s happening to our neighbor is almost sad. Once you’re aware, then you can decide what cause you want to dedicate your time to. I feel that all of us can contribute something, and it doesn’t have to be money. It

can just be service or talent.

KW: Environmental activist Grace Sinden asks: Have you ever felt culture shock in moving between the Indian and American cultures? If so, what have you found to be the biggest differences between the two cultures?

FP: No, not at all. Perhaps growing up in Bombay made me immune to culture shock, in a way. So, culture shock is not part of my DNA. KW: Editor/Legist Patricia Turnier asks: Would you be interested in dubbing your dialogue into Hindi?

FP: I’d love to, if that means opening up the film to another audience. In fact, I did that for Slumdog Millionaire and in Trishna, which was part Hindi, part English. The subjectmatter of Desert Dancer is not just limited to Iran. Freedom of expression can be a topic of discussion in India as much as it is in America or Iran.

KW: Patricia also asks: Is there an Indian figure you would like to portray in a biopic, such as Indira Gandhi?

FP: Yes! Quite a few. Indira Gandhi and Jhansi Rani, to name a couple. Jhansi Rani was actually a soldier. You should Google her.

She’s phenomenal! There’s also a Pakistani character I’d love to play. But I’d never mention her name right now, because I’d get into so much trouble.

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HBCU NEWS Internet Entrepreneur to Select Lincoln University Student for All-Expenses Paid Internship in Tanzania Internet entrepreneur and Lincoln alumnus Mihayo Wilmore and his business partner, Yasmin Chali, are offering a deserving Lincoln student an all-expenses-paid three-month internship this summer with their company, UhuruOne, in Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania.

Wilmore, a 2000 Lincoln University graduate, made the announcement to students who remained at the university’s International Cultural Center auditorium for what was to be his keynote address at Thursday’s all-university convocation, but had been abbreviated due to travel delays.

“We are looking for someone who has passion and drive,” he said.

“We need someone to help us in marketing, possibly a communications major or someone that’s interested in I.T. to develop websites, or law to help with Human Resources manuals. It doesn’t matter.”

The internship, which covers travel and accommodations, also makes various stipulations, requiring the intern to travel to Tanzania via Dubai so that the student will gain greater perspective of that newer, foreign city’s advances and technology as compared to other older, major American cities. In addition, the intern will also visit

the Serengeti, one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa and one of the ten natural travel wonders of the world, Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain in the world, and Zanzibar, an island portion of Tanzania known as a breathtaking tourist destination.

“We want to give students who have never traveled outside of the U.S. to have an opportunity to come to Africa, to Tanzania, via Dubai,” Wilmore said. “For you to see a city (like Dubai) and compare it to a New York and see the changes that they have, the technology that they have, it is truly impressive. This will give you a different perspective as a student to see where you want to be in the world.

Many of my friends from Lincoln remained in the tri-state region so they limited their opportunities to a single continent, to a single geographic area.

Come to Africa and see what it’s all about.”

Wilmore explained that he and Chali’s success would not be the same had they remained in the United States.

Political Commentator and Strategist Donna Brazile to Deliver Spelman College Commencement Address May 17

Donna Brazile

Donna Brazile, an academic, author, syndicated columnist, television political commentator, and political strategist, has been named Commencement speaker for the Spelman College Class of 2015. Brazile, who will receive an honorary degree, will address more than 475 graduates on Sunday, May 17, 2015, at 3 p.m. at the Georgia International Convention Center.

“Donna Brazile has been a trailblazer in the political arena and a staunch advocate for human and civil rights,” said President Beverly Daniel Tatum. “We are pleased she will have an opportunity to impart words of wisdom to Spelman graduates as they begin the next phase of life’s journey, and join the ranks of Spelman alumnae who have made a choice to change the world.”

With a lifelong passion for political progress, Brazile had worked with a candidate every presidential campaign from 1976 through 2000, when she became the first African American to manage a presidential campaign. Today, Brazile is founder and managing director of Brazile & Associates LLC, a general consulting, grassroots advocacy, and training firm based in Washington, D.C. She is also the vice chair of voter registration

UMES presents Renewable Energy Seminar Series The University of Maryland Eastern Shore will serve as the host site for five early evening presentations on the basics of solar and wind energy sources.

The “Introduction to Renewable Energy” seminar series will be led by Bruce M. Williams, a renewable energy consultant who has conducted research at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and the University of Delaware. The first portion of the series kicked off April 14.

The series, which is free, is being underwritten by a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Maryland Energy Administration and Princeton Energy Resource International.

Williams and the sponsors bill the seminar as a primer on solar and wind energy designed to appeal to a broad audience, including beginners. The goal is provide seminar participants with an understanding of the engineering principles, economics and policies behind renewable energy designs.

Participants, who are asked to register for the event, can earn a “certificate of completion” by attending all five sessions.

The April 14 session kicked off the series with “Introduction to Renewables; Wind & Solar.” It will be followed by: • April 16: Data Collection, Analysis, Resource Assessment • April 21: Project Planning, Site Selection, Impact Assessment • April 23: Grid Connection/Integration, Micro-Grids, Off-Grids • April 28: Applications, Policies, Subsidies, Economics.

All of the sessions will run from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Room 2146 of the Student Services Center on the UMES campus. Participants also can participate via webinar by selecting that option when registering online.

UMES invested in a 17acre solar-energy collection system on campus in 2011 to reduce its electricity bills, while the City of Crisfield is pursuing plans to build wind turbines to help the municipality achieve electric savings as well.

To register online, please visit: https://attendee. gotowebinar.com/rt/7299509628324882434

and participation at the Democratic National Committee and former interim national chair of the political organization.

Author of the best-selling memoir “Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics,” Brazile is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, a syndicated newspaper columnist for Universal Uclick, a columnist for Ms. Magazine, and O, The Oprah Magazine, and an on-air contributor to CNN and ABC, where she regularly appears on “This Week.”

Brazile remains active in her hometown of New Orleans, where she was recently appointed to serve on the executive committee of the Tricentennial Commission, responsible for the celebration of the city’s founding in 2018. Last fall, President Barack Obama appointed her to the Fulbright Board – where she helps select candidates in the Caribbean and Latin America that will participate in the Fulbright Program.

Brazile has received honorary doctorate degrees from Louisiana State University, North Carolina A&T State University, Grambling State University, Morehouse School of Medicine, Northeastern Illinois University, Thomas Jefferson School of Nursing and Xavier University of Louisiana.

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SPORTS

AFRO Sports Desk Faceoff

Should the Washington NFL Team Think QB With the No. 5 Pick?

By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Writers The 2015 NFL Draft kicks off later this month as the NFL offseason rages on. The annual hoopla surrounding the draft is always appropriate considering the draft remains the foundation upon which teams improve themselves from year to year. Ask the Washington NFL Team how the NFL draft has improved the franchise over the last few seasons and the answer may fall incomplete. The Washington NFL Team has had picks over the last two seasons but none has fallen in the top 30 after the team surrendered consecutive first-rounders in the 2012 blockbuster trade to move up and draft Robert Griffin III. Ironically, with Washington having this year’s fifth pick in the draft, rumors are building that the club could be looking at drafting another quarterback after the failures of Griffin over the past couple of seasons have thrown the team completely out of whack. The draft’s two top signal callers this year, Florida State’s Jameis Winston and Oregon’s Marcus Mariota, are expected to go within the top five selections but nothing is set in stone. If one happens to be available when Washington’s selection comes up could the Washington NFL team draft their next signal caller?

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

Riley: The holes in Washington are plentiful. And, while the quarterback play has been uneven, drafting another one without patching up some of the other potholes on the team just doesn’t make any sense. There’s actually a number of directions Washington could go with their pick. From wide receiver to pass rusher to even adding another offensive lineman, I just can’t see the Washington NFL team burning a pick on another young signal caller. Mariota’s playing style is already similar to Griffin’s, and Winston’s moxie and showmanship are already RGIII traits. Fixing the Washington defense should be priority No. 1 for the front office this offseason. Obviously, Griffin hasn’t progressed as expected but strengthening the team around RGIII would go a long way in getting Washington back to respectability.

Green: Yes, Griffin has a lot of similar attributes to the

two top quarterbacks coming out this season. However, the difference with Mariota and Winston is their ability to be available, something the injury-prone Griffin has struggled with since his days at Baylor. You’re never going to win in the NFL with an accuracy-challenged quarterback who can’t stay on the field. Two years of Griffin should be enough for the Washington NFL team to decide that the show must end at some point over the next few seasons. Winston is tailor-made to be an NFL leader, and Mariota might be one of the most athletic quarterbacks to come out in a while, probably since Griffin

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The failures of Robert Griffin III over the past couple of seasons have thrown the Washington NFL Team completely out of whack.

and Andrew Luck in 2012. I firmly believe Griffin’s days are numbered in Washington and drafting his replacement to groom makes sense, especially with the Washington NFL team’s position in the draft. If Griffin was the answer then the team wouldn’t be looking at a 7-25 record over the last two seasons.

Riley: Blaming Washington’s problems sorely on RGIII for the last two seasons minimizes how poor a job everyone associated with this franchise has done. The quarterbacks, players, coaches and front office have all shared an important role in dragging this team to the bottom of the scrap heap.

Building the foundation around Griffin has to be the mindset going into the draft. The last two seasons have been highlighted

by Griffin’s inability to stay healthy, putting the onus on players like Colt McCoy and Kirk Cousins to pilot the team. The last two campaigns have also highlighted the lack of talent that the Washington NFL team has trotted out on the field, oftentimes being embarrassed on defense and held in check while on offense. There are several standout quarterbacks in the NFL playing on outstanding teams, and several of those teams could easily hold their own if their signal caller was shelved with an injury. Even with Griffin on the field, it’s been easy to see how outmanned the team was when playing against some of the stronger teams across the league. Even in Griffin’s breakout season in 2012, Washington’s defense finished 28th in the NFL and they haven’t ranked higher than 18th over the last two seasons. Washington could draft a quarterback and make media madness but they would still be in dire need of reconstructing the other parts on their team.

Green: I hate to use your own point against you, Riley, but you make a good one. Considering the Washington NFL team’s defense back in Griffin’s inaugural year was one of the worst in the league and the team still made the playoffs and won their division speaks to how unimportant the rest of their team may have been. Sometimes, good quarterback play can mask a team’s deficiencies, and RGIII covered up a lot back in 2012.

As your statistics show, the defense has been even better the last two campaigns but the team’s record has fallen off a cliff and Griffin’s absence and poor play has been at the forefront of the reasoning. Adding more talent through the draft would do any team some good, but Washington has to use their top selection wisely and reinvest into a position that has failed them for two straight seasons. I’m more inclined toward Winston than Mariota, who has had his own injury-prone tendencies in college. Winston is the real deal and would turn Washington into an instant winner. If he’s available, they better take him.

Wizards Rest Wall as Postseason Nears Wizards Weekly – 24

By Stephen D. Riley Special to the AFRO With their playoff seeding virtually decided, the Washington Wizards used their second-to-last week of the regular season to get their star some much-needed rest.

With only two games on the week’s slate, Washington took full advantage to give allstar point guard John Wall a pair of games off after a grueling season. The Wizards appear to have rebounded from a late-season slump and are now back on track as a solid but unspectacular team. Working veterans back into the rotation from injuries appears to be the next task on head coach Randy Wittman’s job board, and he’s been doing his best to get players like Bradley Beal, Nêne, Paul Pierce and Kris Humphries back into action. The

the ability that the Wizards’ brass envisioned in trading for him in February. Sessions tallied 19 points and seven assists, while Beal (21 points, three assists) and Marcin Gortat (18 points, seven rebounds) filled in to help Washington put seven players into double-figures. Washington shot a franchise-record 65.3 percent from the field as Wall and Nêne, who also rested, watched on from the sidelines.

April 10: Brooklyn Nets Whip Wizards in 117-80 Win Sitting Wall against the 76ers worked like a charm but against the playoff-hungry Brooklyn Nets on Friday night, the idea didn’t work quite as well. Brooklyn center Brook Lopez put on an offensive clinic in the opening quarter, scoring 14 points to match Washington’s team output as the Nets raced to a 31-14 lead. It got worst for Washington as the game went on as the Nets kept their tight playoff hopes alive with a 117-80 win. Gortat added 21 points and 16 rebounds but the Wizards were simply no match for the home-favored Nets. Lopez finished with 26 points and nine rebounds, and reserve forward Bojan Bogdanovic shot 6-of-6 from long range and scored a career-high 22 points. Brooklyn’s win allowed them to continue their hold on the eighth and AP Photo final spot in the Eastern Wizards guard Bradley Beal (3) drives to the basket against Conference playoffs with Nets center Brook Lopez during the first half of their game a week left. The loss April 10. seemingly eliminated the idea of Washington moving into a higher seeding for Wizards survived a week without their star home court advantage, but with Wittman’s and the AFRO recaps the week that was for the decision to continue to rest Wall, perhaps Washington Wizards.

Wittman and the team are simply comfortable to take their act on the road in the opening April 8: Wizards Rout 76ers 119-90 round of the playoffs.

Resting Wall on the road against the lowly Next - Washington will host the Atlanta Philadelphia 76ers on a Wednesday night seemed Hawks on April 12, travel to Indiana to take on like a good idea before tipoff even started but the Pacers on April 14, then play against the once the game began, the move turned out to be Cavs in Cleveland on April 15. genius. Washington barely broke a sweat against Philadelphia, totaling 70 first-half points on their Playoffs Look Ahead: The NBA playoffs way to a 119-90 win. In Wall’s absence, reserve begin April 18, but while it’s a lock for point guard Ramon Sessions flashed some of Washington to take the fifth seed, what

‘A Very Good Day’ This past week, I spent the day at the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, the location for an event that is very dear to my heart. This was the venue for an awards luncheon named for Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith.

For those of you who don’t know who Shirley Povich was, I can familiarize you with his son Maury. Maury has a show on TV that identifies dead beat dads. Shirley was my dad’s contemporary at the Washington Post. They were friendly competitors and friends off the field.

Sam Lacy was my dad and an African-American and Native-American sportswriter who was a columnist, reporter, editor and TV/radio host.

Wendell Smith was an African-American sportswriter who covered the Negro Leagues for many African-American newspapers, and boxing for the Chicago Tribune.

The collective efforts of Wendell and Sam are

largely responsible for Jackie Robinson being chosen to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball.

And then there’s James Brown, a three-time Emmy award winner, host of “The NFL Today” on CBS and “Thursday Night Football,” and special correspondent for CBS News. He was the guest of honor at the luncheon and winner of the Sam LacyWendell Smith Award.

Many of you have seen JB on your tube bringing you updates and airing his position on domestic violence. However, few know that JB is a product of D.C.’s DeMatha Catholic High School and Harvard University. He was a stand-out basketball star and was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA, and the Denver Nuggets of the ABA. In addition to the Sam Lacy-Wendell Smith Award, there were a few additional awards presented to a select group of well deserving recipients at the luncheon.

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isn’t quite clear is who the Wizards will be playing. Both Toronto and Chicago share the same record with 47 wins and 32 losses. The Wizards have gone 0-3 against Toronto this season while many around the District are still celebrating Washington’s playoff success last April against the Chicago Bulls. Chicago, however, is a stronger team this season with the return of Derrick Rose and the additions

Illustrated’s “Monday Morning Quarterback” was the 2015 “Rising Star” awardee.

Aaron Kasinitz was one of two All-Star Student Award Winners. He served a stint at the Diamondback, the University of Maryland’s independent student newspaper, where he was sports editor and men’s basketball beat writer.

The second of the All-Star Student Award Winners was (my wife’s favorite), Rhiannon Walker.

Rhiannon spent her time at UMD’s Phillip Merrill College gaining a diverse amount of experience in sports journalism with stints at WUSA, the Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle, USA Today Sports, the Oklahoman and the Baltimore Sun. She is an active member in Maryland Association of Black Journalists and Maryland’s student chapter of the Association for Sports Media.

They served us a dynamite lunch. I would list the menu, but Jake (my boss) would call me and remind me that we ain’t running a restaurant.

All things considered, it was a very good day.

of Pau Gasol and Nikola Mirotic and the improvement of shooting guard Jimmy Butler.

Either matchup would be a difficult one for the Wizards, but Washington’s final two of three regular season games are against the East’s top two seeds in Atlanta and Cleveland.

The Wizards should use those contests as preparation for the level of basketball they’ll be seeing once April 18 arrives.

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Rethinking the Recognition of Doris Miller

By MarshaRose Joyner Special to the AFRO Part IV in a four-part series After all of the publicity about Dorie Miller’s heroic efforts by March of 1942, there was pressure on President Franklin D. Roosevelt from all over the United States to give Doris Miller the Medal of Honor. The Medal of Honor is given for service “above and beyond the call of duty.”

For his heroism, Miller, the first African American to be recognized as a hero in W.W.II, received the Navy Cross. It was the first time in the history of the Navy that an African-American sailor had been given such an honor. It was a consolation for having been denied the Medal of Honor; which was the American policy at the time.

Even the Navy Cross was a hard won prize. Secretary of The Navy Frank Knox had issued a denial of the Medal of Honor even though Senator James H. Mead, Senate Reso S.2392 Congressman John D. Dingell (D. Mi.) H.R.6800 and superior Officers had recommended that he be given the Medal of Honor in response to the public outcry.

Due to the American racist traditions and military attitudes, it was not just Doris Miller who did not get the Medal of Honor. From the Spanish American War in 1898 thru World War I up to and including World War II until the Korean War in 1950 no Black military men were awarded the Medal of Honor.

In spite of the opposition of the Top Naval Officers, the Secretary of the Navy and Southern Congressmen, the final decision was and is the President of the United States. As the Pittsburgh Courier, May 9, 1942 wrote in 1942, “President Roosevelt has the power and authority to make such an award without conferring either with the Congress or the Navy Officials.”

It seems to me President Roosevelt ordered the Navy to give Miller the Navy Cross to appease the Black community and not get the white community in an uproar. It did not work then. It has been 70+ years and the Black community is still not satisfied.

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But it wasn’t until March 14, 1942, that Doris Miller’s identity was discovered and revealed by the Black newspaper Pittsburgh Courier. The discovery set in motion a chain of events that is still playing itself out today.

Within a matter of days Miller became one of the country’s best-known blacks. He was referred to as “Dorie Miller, Texas-born and Texas-raised.” Bills were introduced in the U.S. House and Senate - against the objections of the secretary of the Navy - to present the Medal of Honor to him. On April 1, 1942, the Navy awarded him a letter of commendation for his bravery.

A month later, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the Navy to award Doris Miller its highest honor - the Navy Cross. The first black to receive the medal, it was pinned on him by fellow Texan Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the Pacific Fleet. The Navy, in late May 1942, issued its version of the events of Dec. 7 aboard the USS West Virginia to the national press: “An officer ordered (Doris Miller) to the bridge to aid the mortally wounded captain of the ship.

Here, Miller, after helping that dying officer, manned a machine gun. It was his first experience with such a weapon. He said: `It wasn’t hard. I just pulled the trigger and she worked fine. I had watched the others with these guns. I guess I fired her for about fifteen minutes. I think I got one of those Jap planes. They were diving pretty close to us.’”

The rest of 1942 was busy for Doris Miller. He was promoted to mess attendant first class, he traveled the country promoting war bonds and his face appeared on a Navy recruiting poster.

Schools, parks and buildings around the country were named for him. He became known as “the first American hero of World War II.” By mid-1943, he had been promoted to ship’s cook third class and reassigned to the escort carrier Liscome Bay. On Nov. 24, 1943, the ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine near the Gilbert Islands. The Liscome Bay sank in 20 minutes; 646 men, including Doris Miller, died.

Over the next four decades little attention was paid to him. But in 1984 Dr. Leroy Ramsey, a retired Hofstra University history professor, became angered because so few Blacks were included in televised celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of D-Day in Europe. Black and a World War II veteran himself, Ramsey decided to write a book on the Black military experience during the war. When he discovered that no Black had received the Medal of Honor in World Wars I and II, he abandoned the book and began a quest to redress what he believes is a gross oversight - getting the Medal of Honor awarded to one or more Black veterans of the two world wars.

After reading each of the 3,417 Medal of Honor citations, Ramsey checked the records of Black servicemen who had been awarded other high military honors. And that’s how he discovered Doris Miller.

“I just don’t think that this can be a situation where no Blacks performed with valor to the point that they didn’t get the Medal of Honor,” says Ramsey. “I saw a hell of a lot of Congressional Medals of Honor (awarded) for a whole lot less than ... Dorie Miller did.”

Since then, Ramsey has become the seaman’s unofficial biographer. It was he who revived interest in a Medal of Honor for Doris Miller by hounding members of Congress in person and through the mail from his Albany, N.Y., home. In October 1987, the late Rep. Mickey Leland, Texas 18th District and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, co-sponsored a bill to waive the medal’s statute of limitations for Doris Miller. The bill stalled in committee, but in 1988 the Department of Defense began researching the sailor’s actions at Pearl Harbor. ‘’Because Miller was Black, this is what makes his heroism so outstanding,’’ Ramsey says. ‘’The first thing that the Congressional Medal of Honor asks is (that) you have to go beyond the call of duty. That phrase cannot be lost when it comes to Dorie Miller. ‘’Here was a man who did what he was not allowed to do. Just manning that machine gun was going beyond the call of duty right there.’’

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But Medals of Honor don’t come easy. Bills introduced in Congress in 1942 to award the medal to Miller were referred as a matter of course to the House and Senate naval affairs committees. They never surfaced again.

Following Doris Miller’s death in 1943, interest in his case waned.

Thirty years later the Navy dedicated the destroyer escort USS Doris Miller. ‘’Here is a guy who has received the Navy’s second-highest award, and he’s also had a ship named in his honor,’’ he says. ‘’The opposition I’ve been running into with Miller is that if we want to give him a Congressional Medal of Honor too, we might as well give him the whole Navy. People have said to me, ‘Hasn’t he received enough?’ ‘’ The other obstacle remains race. ‘’I know that a Black guy has to be ‘Super Black,’ ‘’ Ramsey says. ‘’Unfortunately, a Black guy has to do twice as much to get half as much.’’

There were 433 Medals of Honor awarded during World War 2, 219 of them were given after the recipient’s death. None for Black men in the Navy!

Maybe we do not know how many, if any planes he shot down the day that would live in infamy. Maybe we do not know if he was the first American hero of World War II. Or the answers to any other questions.

What we do know for certain is that Doris Miller was important to a wide range of the American society, not just African Americans. Miller’s trips around America selling war bonds gave African Americans a reason to support the War effort. His presence as a hero called attention to the mistreatment and degradation of Blacks in the military. The Navy’s policies toward men of color were cruel and unfair. Soon after his historic rise in the public’s eye, changes began to happen in the Navy.

Slowly but surely and long overdue, Blacks could have rates other than Messmen; the Golden Thirteen were commissioned as Officers in the Navy; Black men were admitted the US Naval Academy.

I believe Miller had an indirect influence on these changes. Doris Miller made America aware of it shortcomings and exposed its hypocrisy; that the words of equality as written in the American Constitution are hollow. Can we fight a war abroad for democracy and not practice it at home?

Doris Miller will always be gratefully remembered by Americans. To his heroism and the heroes of others like him, white and black, we owe our lives and our nation. While the official Navy records still do not credit Miller as having shot down any enemy aircraft, Miller’s heroism and his legacy helped to call worldwide attention to the evil practice of segregation in the military.

With the Medal of Honor comes recognition and everyone including the President must salute the recipient. Also their offspring gets a free education at the military academies. By denying African Americans who make these sacrifices the Medal of Honor the Navy denies a race of people recognition as first class citizens and generations of people a first class education. It’s now time for this recognition! After 400 years, we have earned it. By recognizing Doris Miller with the Medal of Honor and the thousands like him the Country honors us all.

Are there military awards for a lifetime achievement, for a life well lived, for a legacy that will live forever? It is an obligation America owes for generations past and generations to come. Miller leaves a legacy that remains timeless. A debt that can never be repaid!

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015NRT9 Robert Jackson AKA Robert Eugene Jackson Decedent NOTICE OF EXISTENCE OF REVOCABLE TRUST Robert Jackson (Robert Eugene Jackson) whose address was 2700 Jasper St., SE, Washington, DC 20020 created a revocable trust on June 2, 2009, which remained in existence on the date of his death on February 15, 2015, and Michelle (Jackson) Coleman, whose address is 802 Avis Dr., Upper Marlboro, MD 20774 is the currently acting trustee, hereinafter the Trustee. Communications to the trust should be mailed or directed to Michelle (Jackson) Coleman at 802 Avis Dr. Upper Marlboro , MD 20774 The Trust is subject to claims of the deceased settlor’s creditors, costs of administration of the settlor’s estate, the expenses of the deceased settlor’s funeral and disposal of remains, and statutory allowances to a surviving spouse and children to the extent the deceased settlor’s residuary probate estate is inadequate to satisfy those claims, costs, expenses, and allowances.

Claims of the deceased settlor ’s creditors are barred as against the Trustee and the trust property unless presented to the Trustee at the address provided herein on or before October 10, 2015 6 months after the date of the first publication of this notice). An action to contest the validity of this trust must be commenced by the earliest of (1) February 15, 2016 (one year from date of death of the deceased settler) or (2) October 10, 2015(6 months from the date of first publication of this notice) or (3) ninety days after the Trustee sends the person a copy of the trust instrument and a notice informing the person of the trust’s existence, the Trustee’s name and address, and the time allowed for commencing a proceeding.

The Trustee may proceed to distribute the trust property in accordance with the terms of the trust before the expiration of the time within which an action must be commenced unless the Trustee knows of a pending judicial proceeding contesting the validity of the trust or the Trustee has received notice from a potential 16:28:00 EDT contestant who2015 thereafter commences a judicial proceeding within sixty days after notification.

This Notice must be mailed postmarked within 15 days of its first publication to each heir and qualified beneficiary of the trust and any other person who would be an interested person within the meaningof D.C. Code, sec. 20-101(d) Date of Publication: April 10, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Michelle Jackson Coleman Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 04/10, 04/17, 04/24/15

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Suite 208 Cabin John, MD 20818 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Walter L. Brown, Jr., whose address is 5100 Lee St. NE, Washington, DC 20019 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Walter L. Brown, who died on March 9, 1997 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register EDT of Wills, 16:28:00 2015D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, proceeding within D.C. sixty 20001, onnotification. or before days after October 3, 2015.must Claims This Notice be against the decedent mailed postmarked within 15 days of its first publicashall be presented to the tion to each heir qualundersigned withand a copy ified beneficiary of or the to the Register of Wills trust and any other person filed with the Register of w h owith w oa ucopy l d btoe the an Wills interested person undersigned, on or within bethe meaningof D.C. Code, fore 3, 2015, or sec.October 20-101(d) be forever barred. PerDate of Publication: sons Aprilbelieved 10, 2015to be heirs orName legatees of the deof newspaper: cedent who do not reAfro-American ceive a copy ofLaw this notice Washington byReporter mail within 25 days of its first publication shall Michelle Jackson so inform the Register of Coleman Wills, including Personal name, address and relationRepresentative ship.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM290 George A. Edler 12:06:38 EDT 2015 Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Linda R. Edler and Shirley D. Harris, whose addresses are 642 Gallatin Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Geroge A. Edler, who died on January 27, 2015 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before October 3, 2015. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before October 3, 2015, 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 COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2014FEP106 Date of Death December 5, 2013 Sandra K. Shank Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Michael A. Ogline whose address is 1844 W. State Street, Suite A, Alliance, OH 44601 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Sandra K. Shank, deceased, on January 8, 2014, by the Probate Court for Stark County, State of Ohio.

Service of process may be made upon District Registered Agent Services, Inc., 1025 Connecticut Avenue, N . W. , S u i t e 6 1 5 , Washington, DC 20036, whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real property: 2316 40th Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007 (represented by Share Certifactate #10, dated June 2, 1983.)

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

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM313 Peggy Anne Raikes Decedent Deborah K. Hines,Esq 1050 Connecticut Ave Suite 1000 Washington,DC 20036 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, 13:52:38 EDT 2015 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Wayne Watkins, whose address is 4104 Bridle Ridge Road, Upper Marlboro MD 20772, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Peggy Anne Raikes, who died on January 11, 2015 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before October 3, 2015. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before October 3, 2015, 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. 2015ADM298 Gladys Matthews AKA Gladys Mae Matthews Decedent Elizabeth Hughes Esq 1100 Connecticut Ave NW Suite 340 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Wanda Goodwin, whose address is 421-6th Street, Washington, DC 20003 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Gladys Matthews AKA Gladys Mae Matthews, who died on January 10, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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Advertising Rates DistrictLegal of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Effective October 1, 2008 Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. PROBATE DIVISION 2014ADM215 Cloastellie Tilghman (Estates) AKA Cloastellie M. 202-332-0080 Tilghman PROBATE NOTICES AKA Cloastellie S. Tilghman a. Order Nisi $ 60 per insertion $180.00 per 3 weeks Decedent M. Graysonb. Small Estates (singleSharon publication $ 60 per insertion Kelsey c. Notice to Creditors 3034 Mitchellville RD. Bowie, MD 20716 $ 60 per insertion 1. Domestic $180.00 per 3 weeks Attorney 2. Foreign $180.00 per 3 weeks NOTICE OF$ 60 per insertion APPOINTMENT, d. Escheated Estates $ 60 per insertion $360.00 per 6 weeks TYPESET: Tue Apr 07 14:06:49 EDT 2015 NOTICE TO e. Standard Probates $125.00 CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO Superior Court of UNKNOWN HEIRS CIVIL NOTICES the District of Joeseph Francis TilgDistrict of Columbia $ 80.00 hman, whose address is a. Name Changes 202-879-1133 PROBATE DIVISION 1002 Donnington Court, b. Real Property Washington, D.C. $ 200.00 Bowie, MD 20721 was 20001-2131 appointed personal reAdministration No. presentative of the estate 12:05:28 EDT 2015 2014ADM1131 of CloastellieFAMILY Tilghman, COURT AKA Cloastellie M. Tilg- Sandra Gaddy 202-879-1212 hman AKA Cloastellie S. AKA Sandra L. Gaddy Tilghman who died on RELATIONS DOMESTIC September 7, 2013 with AKA 202-879-0157 a will, and will serve with- Sandra Lavern Gaddy out Court supervision. All Decedent NOTICE OF unknown heirs and heirs TYPESET: Tue Apr 07 14:07:31 APPOINTMENT, whose whereabouts are a. Absent Defendant $ 150.00 NOTICE TO unknown shall enter their b. Absolute Divorce $ 150.00 CREDITORS appearance in this Superior Court of AND NOTICE TO proceeding. Objections c. Custody Divorce the District of UNKNOWN HEIRS $150.00 to such appointment (or District of Columbia to the probate of de- Karen Wilis, whose adPROBATE DIVISION cedent´s will) shall be dress is 3721 18th St. To place your ad, call 1-800-237-6892, Public Notices $50.00 & up Washington, D.C. NE, 262, Washington DC filed with the Register of ext.

20001-2131 20018, was are appointed 515 5th depending onWills, size,D.C., Baltimore Legal Notices $24.84 per inch.

Administration No. personal representative Street, N.W., 3rd Floor 2015ADM299 of the estate of Sandra 892 W a s h i n g t o1-800 n , D . C(AFRO) . on or before Gaddy AKA Sandra L. Ernest G. McClain For Proof of20001, Publication, please call 244 Decedent G a d d1-800-237-6892, y A K A S a n d r a ext.

October 3, 2015. Claims NOTICE OF against the decedent Lavern Gaddy who died APPOINTMENT, shall be presented to the on December 7, 2011 NOTICE TO undersigned with a copy with a will, and will serve CREDITORS to the Register of Wills or without Court superviAND NOTICE TO filed with the Register of sion. All unknown heirs UNKNOWN HEIRS Wills with a copy to the a n d h e i r s w h o s e undersigned, or be- whereabouts are un- Rollin McClain, whose TYPESET: Tue Mar 31 12:05:08 EDT on 2015 known shall enter their address is 14 Jefferson fore October 3,LEGAL 2015, orNOTICES be forever barred. Per- a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s A v e n u e , Ta k o m a sons believed to be heirs proceeding. Objections Park,MD 20912 was apSuperior Court of or legatees of the de- to such appointment (or pointed personal reprethe District of cedent who do not re- to the probate of de- sentative of the estate of District of Columbia ceive a copy of this notice cedent´s will) shall be Ernest G. McClain, who PROBATE DIVISION by mail within 25 days of filed with the Register of died on April 25, 2014 Washington, D.C. with a will, and will serve its first publication shall Wills, D.C., 515 5th 20001-2131 so inform the Register of Street, N.W., 3rd Floor without Court superviAdministration No. sion. All unknown heirs W a s h i n g t o n , D .

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Wills, including name, 2014ADM215 address and relation- 20001, on or before a n d h e i r s w h o s e Cloastellie Tilghman O c t o b e r 1 0 , 2 0 1 5 . whereabouts are unship.

AKA Claims against the de- known shall enter their Date of Publication: Cloastellie M. cedent shall be pre- a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s April 3, 2015 Tilghman sented to the under- proceeding. Objections Name of newspaper: AKA signed with a copy to the to such appointment (or Afro-American Cloastellie S. Register of Wills or filed to the probate of deWashington Tilghman with the Register of Wills cedent´s will) shall be Law Reporter Decedent Joseph Francis with a copy to the under- filed with the Register of Sharon M. GraysonTilghman signed, on or before Wills, D.C., 515 5th Kelsey Personal October 10, 2015, or be Street, N.W., 3rd Floor 3034 Mitchellville RD. Representative forever barred. Persons W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Bowie, MD 20716 believed to be heirs or 20001, on or before Attorney legatees of the decedent O c t o b e r 1 0 , 2 0 1 5 .

TRUE TEST COPY NOTICE OF who do not receive a Claims against the deREGISTER OF WILLS APPOINTMENT, copy of this notice by mail cedent shall be preTYPESET: Tue Apr 07 14:06:49 EDT 2015 NOTICE TO within 25 days of its first sented to the under04/03, 04/10, 04/17/15 CREDITORS publication shall so in- signed with a copy to the AND NOTICE TO form the Register of Register of Wills or filed Superior Court of UNKNOWN HEIRS Wills, including name, with the Register of Wills the District of Joeseph Francis Tilgaddress and relation- with a copy to the underDistrict of Columbia hman, whose address is ship. signed, on or before PROBATE DIVISION 1002 Donnington Court, Date of Publication: October 10, 2015 or be Washington, D.C. Bowie, MD 20721 was April 10, 2015 forever barred. Persons 20001-2131 appointed personal reName of newspaper: believed to be heirs or Administration No. presentative of the estate Afro-American legatees of the decedent 2014ADM1131 of Cloastellie Tilghman, Washington who do not receive a AKA Cloastellie M. Tilg- Sandra Gaddy Law Reporter copy of this notice by mail hman AKA Cloastellie S. AKA Karen Wilis within 25 days of its first Tilghman who died on Sandra L. Gaddy Personal publication shall so inSeptember 7, 2013 with AKA Representative form the Register of a will, and will serve with- Sandra Lavern Gaddy Wills, including name, out Court supervision. All Decedent TRUE TEST COPY address and relationNOTICE OF unknown heirs and heirs TYPESET: TueWILLS Apr 07 14:07:31 EDT 2015 REGISTER OF ship.

APPOINTMENT, whose whereabouts are 04/10, 04/17, 04/24/15 Date of Publication: NOTICE TO unknown shall enter their April 10, 2015 CREDITORS appearance in this Superior Court of Name of newspaper: AND NOTICE TO proceeding. Objections the District of Afro-American UNKNOWN HEIRS to such appointment (or District of Columbia Washington to the probate of de- Karen Wilis, whose adPROBATE DIVISION Law Reporter cedent´s will) shall be dress is 3721 18th St. Washington, D.C. Rollin McCLain NE, Washington DC filed with the Register of 20001-2131 Personal 20018, was appointed Wills, D.C., 515 5th Administration No. Representative Street, N.W., 3rd Floor personal representative 2015ADM299 of the estate of Sandra Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Ernest G. McClain TRUE TEST COPY 20001, on or before Gaddy AKA Sandra L. Decedent October 3, 2015. Claims G a d d y A K A S a n d r a REGISTER OF WILLS NOTICE OF against the decedent Lavern Gaddy who died APPOINTMENT, shall be presented to the on December 7, 2011 04/10, 04/17, 4/24/15 NOTICE TO undersigned with a copy with a will, and will serve CREDITORS to the Register of Wills or without Court superviAND NOTICE TO filed with the Register of sion. All unknown heirs UNKNOWN HEIRS Wills with a copy to the a n d h e i r s w h o s e Rollin McClain, whose undersigned, on or be- whereabouts are unaddress is 14 Jefferson fore October 3, 2015, or known shall enter their A v e n u e , Ta k o m a be forever barred. Per- a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Park,MD 20912 was apsons believed to be heirs proceeding. Objections pointed personal repreor legatees of the de- to such appointment (or sentative of the estate of cedent who do not re- to the probate of deErnest G. McClain, who ceive a copy of this notice cedent´s will) shall be died on April 25, 2014 by mail within 25 days of filed with the Register of with a will, and will serve its first publication shall Wills, D.C., 515 5th

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM307 Delores B. Clipper Decedent Izu I. Ahaghotu 3724 12th Street NE Washington, DC 20017 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Jacquelyn B . Shaw, whose address is 112 Castleton Dr. Upper Marlboro, MD 20774, was, appointed personal representative of the estate of Delores B. Clipper, who died on November 17, 2014 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before October 10, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before October 10, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: April 10, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Jacquelyn B. Shaw Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM255 Maude Rose Young Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Loretta L. Kelly, whose address is 3904 Ames St NE Washington, DC 20019 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Maude Rose Young who died on May 25, 2014 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 October 10, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before October 10, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: April 10, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Loretta L. Kelly Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM427 Estate of WILLIAM M. MUNN Deceased NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Wesley L. Clarke for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representative. Unless a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth.

0 in the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate appoint an unsupervised personal representative Register of Wills Clerk of the Probate Division Date of First Publication 04/17/15 Names of Newspapers: Washington Law Reporter Washington AFRO-AMERICAN Wesley Clarke Signature of Petitioners/Attorney TYPESET: Tue Apr 14 04/17 & 04/24/15 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM382 Sharon J. Turner Decedent Steven LarsonJackson 1629 K Street NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, 14:07:52 EDT TO 2015 NOTICE CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Gerald Turner, whose address is 4404 7th Street NE, Washington, DC, 20017 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Sharon J. Turner, who died on July 23, 2014 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before October 17, 2015.

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 Octobr 17, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: April 17, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Gerald Turner Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM822 DOROTHY L. WHITE Decedent JOYCE ANN WILLIAMS J. WILLIAMS LAW 7981 EASTERN AVE., #C-5 SILVER SPRING, MD 20910 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Vernessa C. WhiteJackson, whose address is 7115 Pony Tail Lane, Hyattsville, MD 20782, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Dorothy L. White, who died on 12/ 11/1991without a will, and will serve (with, without) Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and h e i r s w h o s e whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before October 17, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed

TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM385 Robert Lee Davis Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Ronald E Davis, Sr., whose address is 1700 Prairie Ct, Severn, MD 21144 was 17:14:18 EDT appointed 2015 personal representative of the estate of Robert Lee Davis, who died on March 6, 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 October 17, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before October 17, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: April 17, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Ronald E. Davis, Sr Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

TYPESET: Apr 14 04/17, 04/24,Tue 05/1/15 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM400 GLORIA E. SMITH DICKERSON Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Dawn D. Dickerson, whose address is 206 Q Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001, wasappointed personal representative of the estate of Gloria E. Smith-Dickerson, who died on March 08, 2015 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision.EDT All 2015 unknown 17:20:54 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 10/17/15. 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 10/17/15, 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: 04/17/15 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Dawn D. Dickerson Personal Representative

TYPESET: Tue Apr 14 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION W a s h i n gNOTICES ton, D.C. LEGAL 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2015FEP36 Date of Death 09/10/13 Tyrone Martinz Maxwell AKA Tyrone Martinez Maxwell Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Eduardo Travonte Moten whose address is 2930 Arrowwood Circle, Hephzibah, GA 30815 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Tyrone Martinz Maxwell AKA Tyrone Martinez Maxwell, deceased, on February 25, 2014, by the Circuit Court for Stafford County, State of Virginia.

Service of process may be made upon Johnnie D. Bond,EDT Jr, Esq., 17:25:47 2015Bond Law, PLLC, 1100 H Street, NW, Suite 315, Washington, DC 20005 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: 63 Danbury Street, SW, Washington, DC 20032 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.

Eduardo Travonte Moten Personal Representative(s) TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS Date of first publication: 04/17/15 Name of newspapers and/or periodical: The Daily Washington Law Reporter The Afro-American

TYPESET: Tue Apr 14 04/17, 04/24 & 05/01/15

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM357 Oscar Ford Jr. Decedent Michelle Lanchester, Esq 601 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 900South Building Washington, DC 20004 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Kenneth O. Ford, whose address is 2818 Pumpkin Street, Clinton, MD 20735 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Oscar Ford Jr., who died on March 1.EDT 20152015 without a 17:32:52 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 October 17, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before October 17, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: April 17, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Kenneth O. Ford Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

TYPESET: Tue Apr 14 04/17, 04/24, 05/01/15

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM390 Edna Gordon AKA Edna M. Gordon Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Velma A. McDowell, whose address is 8104 Mike Shapiro Drive, Clinton, MD 20735, was apTRUE TEST COPY pointed personal repreREGISTER OF WILLS sentative of the estate of TYPESET: Apr 14 17:42:21 EDT AKA 2015Edna Edna Gordon 04/17, 04/24Tue & 05/01/15 M. Gordon, who died on January 28, 2015 with a SUPERIOR COURT OF will, and will serve withTHE DISTRICT OF out Court supervision. All COLUMBIA unknown heirs and heirs PROBATE DIVISION whose whereabouts are W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . unknown shall enter their 20001-2131 appearance in this Foreign No. proceeding. Objections 2015FEP36 to such appointment (or Date of Death to the probate of de09/10/13 cedent´s will) shall be Tyrone Martinz filed with the Register of Maxwell Wills, D.C., 515 5th

pointed personal representative of the estate of 17:42:21 EDT AKA 2015Edna Edna Gordon M. Gordon, who died on January 28, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown enter their LEGALshall NOTICES 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 10/17/15. 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 10/17/15, 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: 04/17/15 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Velma A. McDowell Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

TYPESET: Tue Apr 14 04/17, 04/24 & 05/01/15

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM65 Agnes B. Green Decedent Jeremy D. Rachlin 3 Bethesda Metro Center, Suite 800 Bethesda, MD 20814 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Fredora Green-McRae, whose address is 7015 Shagbark Ct, Fort Washington, MD 20744, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Agnes B. Green, who died on October 17, with a 17:46:57 EDT2011 2015 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 10/17/15. 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 10/17/15, 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: 04/17/15 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Fredora Green-McRae Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

TYPESET: Tue Apr 14 04/17, 04/24 & 05/01/15

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM386 Joyce H. Johnson Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Jacqueline Simms, whose address is 4017 Blue Slate Drive, Alexandria, VA 22306, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Joyce H. Johnson, who died on September witha will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´sEDT will) 2015 shall be 17:48:20 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 10/17/15. 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 10/17/15, 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: 04/17/15 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Jacqueline Simms Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 04/17, 04/24 & 05/01/15

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM398 Annie Inez Dupee Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Cheryl Alexander, Dana Gee, Thomas Dupee, whose addresses are 5707 Eads Street, NE, Washington, DC 20019, 12105 Ballina Court, Fort Washington, MD 20744, 4008 Crathie Lane, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772, were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Annie inez Dupee, who died on January 21, 2005 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 EDT of Wills, 17:55:17 2015D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 10/17/15. 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 10/17/15, 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: 04/17/15 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Cheryl Alexander Dana Green Thomas Dupee Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM414 John H. Reed Decedent Wesley L. Clarke 1629 K Street Ste 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Letha Reed, whose addressis 251 11th St., NE, Washington, DC 20006 was appointed personal representative of the estate of John H. Reed, who died on November 8, 2014 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 October 17, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before October 17, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: April 17, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Letha Reed Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY

TYPESET: Tue Apr 14 18:35:31 EDT REGISTER OF2015 WILLS Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM343 James H. Tillery AKA James Harrell Tillery Decedent June Hatton Barr Esquire 9672 Pennsylvania Ave Upper Marlboro MD 20772 Attorney NOTICE OF* APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Arthur L. Tillery, whose address is 838 Booker Drive Seat Pleasant , MD 20743, was appointed personal representative of the estate of James H. Tillery AKA James Harrell Tillery, who died on October 26, 2013 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this 18:00:52 EDTObjections 2015 proceeding. to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before October 17, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before October 17, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: April 17, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Arthur L. Tillery Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 04/17, 04/24 , 05/1/15

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM353 Eva M. Hunter Decedent Julius P Terrell 1455 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Suite 400 Washington, DC 20004 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Evelyn Hunter Armstrong, whose address is 5222 Central Ave, SE, Washington, DC 20019 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Evan M. Hunter, who died on January 25, 2015 without a will, and will serve with 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 October 17, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before October 17, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: April 17, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Evelyn Hunter Armstrong Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 04/17, 04/24, 05/01/15

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known 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 17:08:04 W a s h i nEDT g tNOTICES o n 2015 , D.C. LEGAL 20001, on or before October 17, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before October 17, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: April 17, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Vernessa C. White-Jackson Personal Representative

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