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Navy Yard Shooting Victims Had Long Careers There The Associated Press

A dozen people died in a shooting rampage Sept. 16 at the Washington Navy Yard. The shooter also was killed. It was the deadliest attack at a domestic military installation since November 2009, when an Army psychiatrist killed 13 people and wounded 30 others at Fort Hood, Tex. The stories of the 12 who were gunned down and a police officer who survived are told here. __ Michael Arnold, 59, of Lorton,

Va., was a Navy veteran and avid pilot who was building a light airplane at his home, said his uncle, Steve Hunter.

“It would have been the first plane he ever owned,” Hunter said in a telephone interview from Rochester, Mich., Arnold’s hometown. “It’s partially assembled in his basement.”

Hunter said his nephew retired from the Navy. He worked at the Navy Yard on a team that designed vessels such as the USS Makin Island.

Arnold and his wife, Jolanda,

Mayor Vincent Gray’s veto of a living wage bill aimed at big box retailers—and the D.C. Council’s failure to override that decision—could come at a great political cost, critics say.

On Sept. 12 Gray vetoed the Large Retailer Accountability

“The reason cities are taking these actions is that Wal-Mart is well-known for its low wages and benefits.”

Act (LRAA), which would have required retailers with stores larger than 75,000 square feet and whose gross revenues total $1 billion to pay their workers $12.50 an hour in wages and benefits.

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Charlotte Shooting Sparks Calls for Improved Citizens Review

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By Herbert L. White Special to the AFRO

‘It Starts with You’ CBC Annual Conference 2013

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Charlotte-area activists are lobbying for changes in police training and oversight after a Charlotte-Mecklenburg officer shot an unarmed African American.

Organizations ranging from Mothers of Murdered Offspring to the Nation of Islam and Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP urged greater authority for the Citizens Review Board and improved training for officers at a Sept. 16 press conference at the Government Center.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Randall Kerrick, who has been on the force two years, was charged with voluntary manslaughter and released on $50,000 bond on Sept. 14, hours after he shot and killed Jonathan Ferrell, 24, in East Charlotte.

Ferrell, who was unarmed, approached three officers after crashing his car early Sept. 14. Police responded around 2:30

a.m. to a call by a woman who reported someone banging on her door.

CMPD Chief Rodney Monroe reported police tried unsuccessfully to stop Ferrell with a Taser before he was shot multiple times. Ferrell died at the scene.

“We’re not asking, we’re demanding they initiate an independent citizens review board,” said John Barnett, founder and president of Gastonia-based Truth and Healing Under God. “Why? To oversee the CMPD.” Since its initiation in 1997 as a response to a spate of deadly confrontations between police and African Americans, the review panel has been roundly criticized for its findings in favor of police.

A poll of Charlotte-Mecklenburg residents cited by Matt Newton, an activist with crbreform.com, found that 30 percent of respondents have a negative view of police.

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had been married for more than 30 years, Hunter said. They had two grown sons, Eric and Christopher. ___ Martin Bodrog, 54, lived on a quiet, tree-shaded cul-de-sac in Annandale, Va., where family and friends gathered Sept. 17.

Jeff Prowse, a close friend, said Bodrog was a hardworking Navy veteran and graduate of the Naval Academy.

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people have jobs. We are going to have to do it.’”

The action comes at a time of declining fortunes for Black banks. Between 1888 and 1934, there were more than a 130 Black owned banks in the U.S. By the 1960s, said Grant, “We had 60 black banks. Now there are 30.”

Grant characterized the decline as an unintended consequence of the death of segregation in the U.S. As institutions that were once off-limits were open to Blacks, African American institutions suffered.

B. Doyle Mitchell, Jr., president and CEO of Industrial Bank, spoke of working as a teenager in the bank that was founded 79 years ago by his grandfather.

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The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation announced Sept. 17 that it will invest $5 million dollars in what it is calling a major investment in African American banking institutions.

The CBCF will purchase certificates of deposit at five Black banks in an effort at kickstarting lending to people of color, CBCF Chair and Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) said.

“The pillars of power have to be both political and economical,” Fattah said. “We are leaning forward to say we are going to make an investment and expect others to follow.”

The financial institutions selected for the investment are City National Bank of Newark, Seaway Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, Mechanics and Farmers of Durham, N.C., Liberty Bank and Trust Company of New Orleans and Industrial Bank of Washington, D.C. Fattah said the CBCF will monitor the CDs. The effort, announced on the eve of the annual CBCF Legislative Conference, is being applauded by the National Bankers Association (NBA), the umbrella advocacy group for Black financial institutions. And it comes not a moment too soon, said Michael Grant, president of the National Bankers Association, “sending a message around the country to other national organizations… to other wealthy African Americans and to everyday consumers.”

He continued, “Look, it is Photo by Byron Scott time for us to start investing in (l to r) B. Doyle Mitchell Jr., President and CEO, Industrial Bank; Russell D. Kashian, ourselves if we want to build Ph.D., University of Wisconsin; Michael A. Grant, J.D. President of the National Bankers our institutions, support our Association; Rep. Chaka Fattah Chair CBCF; A. Shuanise Washington, President and CEO, schools make sure our young CBCF; Ronald Busby, CEO, U.S. Black Chambers Inc.

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D.C. Council Censures Marion Barry Over Cash Gifts The Associated Press The District of Columbia Council has censured Councilmember Marion Barry for accepting $6,800 in cash from two city contractors.

The council also stripped Barry of his chairmanship of its Committee on Workforce and Community Affairs.

Barry objected to the punishment, arguing that the council lacked the authority to take away his committee chairmanship. But he also said he was ready to get past the controversy.

It was the second time in less than the four years that the council censured Barry and took away his committee.

The earlier punishment was for helping a former girlfriend get a $15,000 city contract.

Barry, a 77-year-old Democrat, served four terms as District of Columbia mayor. He was videotaped smoking crack cocaine in an FBI sting operation in 1990, during his third mayoral term.

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under which it dismissed a 7-year-old for wearing dreadlocks.

The independent governing board for the Deborah Brown Community School voted 4-0 Sept. 9 to rescind a policy that banning dreadlocks, afros and other “faddish styles” of hair.

The action came after Tiana Parker, 7, was told her hairstyle was not allowed at the mostly Black charter school Tiana Parker that is associated with Langston University. The dismissal drew national attention.

Last month, Tiana’s parents told Tulsa’s FOX 23 that they had been summoned into the administrator’s office at the charter school and told that their daughter’s locs violated the school’s dress code against “faddish” hairstyles.

According to the former school board policy, “hairstyles such as dreadlocks, afros, mohawks, and other faddish styles are unacceptable.”

The second grader’s family spoke out, stating Tiana has had locs for a few years and this was her second year attending the school.

Natural hair advocates across the nation also took a stand against the school’s policy and supported Tiana.

Nikki Walton, natural hair blogger and best-selling author, posted several stories about the situation on her blog. MSNBC anchor Melissa Harris-Perry dedicated a segment on her show to Tiana called “To A Girl Whose Hair Was Deemed ‘Unacceptable.’”

“We Love Tiana & Her Hair,” said a Facebook page started

by Lana Boone, 26, a Silver Spring, Md.- based natural hair advocate and founder of Kurly Klips. The page drew more than 1,500 fans in just a few days.

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A Jacksonville, Fla. father is waging a campaign to change the name of a school that was named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, a slave trader and the first “grand wizard” of the Klu Klux Klan.

Omotoya Richmond is the originator of the fast-growing petition on Change.org that has amassed more than 77,000 signatures at last count on Sept. 12.

The Long Island, N.Y. transplant told the AFRO he did not want his 7-yearold daughter—or any other child—who may eventually matriculate at a high school in Duval County, to have to attend a school named after someone whose legacy is that of hate.

“Now is the time to right a historical wrong. African American Jacksonville students shouldn’t have to attend a high school named for someone who slaughtered and terrorized their ancestors one more school year,” Richmond wrote in his petition. “In the end, I want my child to be able to go

anywhere in Jacksonville and be proud of where she is. That can’t happen with Nathan Bedford Forrest High School.”

Forrest High got its name in 1959, when it was founded with White-only students. In the decades since then, the school has been integrated, and its student body is majority AfricanAmerican.

Forrest, a Confederate general during the Civil War, was one of the most polarizing figures of that era. He is most remembered for slaughtering Black soldiers of the U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery at Fort Pillow, near Memphis, after they had already surrendered. After the gruesome execution, “Remember Fort Pillow” became a rallying-cry for African-American soldiers throughout the Union Army, according to a Civil War website.

Richmond has to amass at least 10,000 signatures from local residents for the school board to consider changing the name.

Five years ago, the School Advisory Council requested that the school be renamed, but the school board voted 5-2 against it.

The board’s membership has since changed.

Signatures on the petition are delivered via e-mail to Duval County School District Superintendent Nikolai Vitti, who said in a recent interview with NPR that he “would support a name change recommendation if brought organically to the [school] board by the community.”

‘Four Little Girls’ Awarded Congressional Gold Medals

On the heels of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, a darker moment of that year was recognized Sept. 10.

The four little girls who died in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. were posthumously awarded one of the nation’s highest civilian awards—the Congressional Gold Medal.

The medals go to the families of Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, four young girls aged 11 to 14, who were preparing for Sunday school Sept. 15, 1963 when a bomb planted by some members of the Ku Klux Klan Wikimedia Commons exploded, killing them The four girls killed in the bombing and injuring 22 other (Clockwise from top left, Addie people in the building. Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole “As a direct Robertson and Denise McNair) beneficiary of their sacrifice, I was honored that my first piece of legislation honored the four little girls with the highest civilian honor Congress can bestow upon any individual,” Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) said in a ceremony in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

“I not only question where I would be today without the influence of the four little girls but more importantly, I question where America would be. The premature and senseless deaths of these girls awakened the slumbering conscience of America and galvanized the Civil Rights Movement,” Sewell said at the ceremony.

Sewell, in whose district the church is located, is part of a congressional delegation to the medal presentation ceremony in Birmingham Sept. 13 at the church.

Sewell is also to conduct a discussion panel featuring members of the Congressional Black Caucus including Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), an icon of the civil rights era, Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), chairwoman of the Black Caucus, and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the longest serving Black member of Congress. In all, 14 members of the CBC were scheduled to appear at the event.

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Jennifer Hudson and other relatives positively identified

sport-utility vehicle sought in from a neighbor about a suspiconnection with the murder of cious vehicle. The man noticed Hudson’s mother and brother. the vehicle while walking his Shaunise Washington told the AFRO. The white, 1994 Chevrolet dog. According to the Chicago Solvingwith those problems beginsTribune, with each Suburban Illinois license theindividual, boy had been shot times theme. in the back seat Washington added, explaining themultiple conference’s of the vehicle.

The “Through this year’s conference, we endeavor to SUV, igniteregistered to Hudson’s murdered personal leadership, a passion for public service and the towedwill withhave the pursuit of justice for all,” she said.brother, “ALC was attendees boy’s body inside and is being opportunities to share their talents, thoughts and experiences processed by evidence technithrough intimate conversations, braintrusts, networking, cians and workers. The body and even social media. We are providing with forums was laterthem removed and taken to to exchange resources and information thatCounty will hopefully the Cook Medical motivate attendees to share the assets they gain from ALC with Examiner’s office. their networks and home communities.”

Hudson and other family She added, “We view ALC as an opportunity members arrivedtoatbuild the Medical office mid-aftermomentum, to challenge thinkingExaminer’s and offer innovative noon to identify the body.

Given the choice between looking directly at the body or viewing it on a wall-mounted

The 43rd Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation was scheduled to convene under the theme “It Starts With You” from Sept.18-21 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. About 10,000 persons were expected to attend the yearly gathering of Washington power players, industry leaders and ordinary men and women in the nation’s capital.

“ALC is recognized as one of the most important gatherings of African-Americans in the nation,” said CBCF Chairman Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) in a statement. “Every year, we see thousands of returning attendees and even more new faces ready to join the dialogue so they too can be agents of change Courtesy Photos in their communities. Our communities find support through Jennifer Hudson and her mom, Darnell Donerson who the Foundation’s work on policies, programs and initiatives. It was killed, as well as her brother, Jason. is our focused agenda that provides greater opportunities for all Americans.” video screen, the family chose With an eye to developing leaders, informing policy and plate X584859 was found on the latter. According to the the body of her 7-year-old educating the public, the conclavenephew was expected include Chicago’s West Side after Tribune, Hudson Monday,tojust hours Bill Clinton, Elijah Cummings and Elaine Jonessaid, will“Yes, be police received a 7 a.m. call that’s him.” afterled his by body was found in a more than 70 forums and braintrusts, members of the recognized for their contribution to African-American CBC, on the critical issues facing African-Americans and the political awareness and empowerment.

African Diaspora, such as unemployment, the implications of the Affordable Care Act for the Black community, and immigration issues, as it relates to immigrants from the discoveries that can change communities and a country.”

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An annual favorite is the Exhibit Showcase, which Most notably, this year’s national town hall meeting, is designed to provide educational, health and business No wonder Obama’s campaign is and Dallas Cowboys players

By Alan Violence, King “From Poverty to Prosperity: Confronting Restoring related opportunities for ALC attendees, including free trying to distance him Tony Romo and Terrell Owens, AFRO Staff Writer Opportunity, and Investing in our Youth” was expected to health screenings and an Authors Pavilion. Nearly 200from the group, saying, and “Barack Obama among the names submitted to address the impact of poverty, juvenile justice, and gun exhibitors including corporations, government nonprofit Never Organized with ACORN.” election officials.

Presidential candidate John violence. organizations, small businesses and a marketplace had spaces Hurd said those workers, who But Obama’s ties to ACORN run McCain’s attack on ACORN – “A couple of weeks ago, we as a nation commemorated the in the showcase. New this year is an Enterprise Pavilion, long and deep. He taught classes were doing those things without Associated Community 50th anniversary of the March on Organization Washington.for However, just – which enhances the staple featuresforofACORN. the priorThey years’ evenExhibit endorsed ACORN’s knowledge or permisReform Now a few weeks before that historic celebration, deplored Showcase. him for President. sion, were fired. confirms thewe success of thethe court rulings on the Voting Rightsorganization, Act and the the Trayvon “We know that small businesses economy.

With Butfuel nowour ACORN is in trouble.

“The evidence that has surhead ofMartin the case. As we enter the final monthsgroup of this year, we are looking this we added a new procurement portion theat least Reporter: Theretoare facedinsomind, far shows they faked says. investigations across Hall the forms to getPavilion paid for work they the11value for solutions to the issues plaguing Black to increase of the Exhibit “This communities is testimony toaround the work Enterprise country involving thousands didn’t do, not to stuff ballot we’ve done and success we’ve the world,” CBCF’s newly appointed President and CEO A. experience for entrepreneurs and small business owners,” of boxes.” ACORN, she said, is the potentially fraudulent ACORN had,” Maude Hurd, president of forms. victim of fraud, not the perpetraACORN, said in an interview Announcer: Massive voter tor of it. with the AFRO. fraud. And the Obama campaign Hurd said the only things “When this attack started, we Continued from A1 bogus are the charges thempaid more than $800,000 to an had just announced that we had selves. And factcheck. org ACORN front for get out the vote registered 1.3 million new vot“I realized how much the relevant in the“That’s just to say agrees. efforts. banks, majority ers,” she said. bank did everyday to help post-civil rights he It concluded, “Neither Pressuringowned banks tobanks,” issue risky that someone’s running scared people that looked like you society, heACORN’s said. said. voter fraud.

ACORN nor its employees have loans. Nationwide because of success.” been found guilty of, or even Barack Obama.

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McCain, whoare is running for and me,” Mitchell said. “…as “Black Banks With nearcharged with, casting fraudulent Blind ambition.

Too risky president on the Republican tickI got older, I saw how we did extremely relevant collapse of thefor votes.”

America. global economy et, lashed at ACORN in the that, through loans, through right now.out Just The problem came about prifinal debate against Barack waiting on people that were take the church in 2008, he said, When the Black churches Since McCain’s comments, Obama, contending thethe group “is marily because of the way opening accounts…just community.

Most of “some of these [White] grew large enough to build ACORN operates. Rather than ACORN’s 87 offices have been on the verge of maybe perpetrathelping and caring.” church loans from forever banks started pull back mega some of them rely onchurches volunteers, it pays peobombarded withtothreats and ing one of the greatest frauds in Black banks are still came from Black banks. because these churches were started going to the larger ple, many of them poor or unemracist mail. voter history in this country, struggling pay. where ployed, to sign up new voters.

The day to after theSo, presidential maybe destroying the fabric of are these The idea was to help both those debate, vandals broke into the democracy.” churches turning to?and TheSeattle being registered and those doing organization’s Boston Factcheck.org, a non-partisan the registration. offices and stole computers.

Web site, found those claims to Maud explained, “We have a After a Cleveland representative be “exaggerated,” with “no eviContinued from A1 zero tolerance policy for deliber- appeared on TV, an e-mail was dence of any such democracyate falsification registration.” sent to the local office saying she destroying fraud.”

“That bond of trust has Diallo, who was shot 41 times $50,000 bond, of charging that Most news account neglect to “is going to have her life ended.”

Hurd believes the McCain broken here and it continues reaching for his wallet. We the seriousness of the crime A worker in Providence, R.I., charges were politically motivat- point out that ACORN is to erode to the tune of a need to remember Derrick deserves a higher threshold. required by law to turn in all reg- received a threatening call sayed. quarter of a million people,” Bell, who trying it’s to low“(Kerrick) outthey on also fail ing, “We know you get off work istration forms.is And She said,was “Because he said. celebrate the end of his single $50,000 as itifwas Afro-American to note that the organizaat 9” and uttered racial epithets. and moderate-income people, Race has become an life wound up losing histhe lives doesn’t mean anything,” tion, in many instances, that first A caller to one office left a and and people of color, I believe brought said. the phony registrations message on the answering issue in the debate over life withcampaign a car riddled Barnett “A mother lost McCain thinkswith those to the attention of authorities. machine, saying: “Hi, I was just voters are to vote how and why deadly force bullets forgoing no reason.” her son.

(Ferrell) wasn’t a The McCain camp apparently calling to let you know that Democratic, which is not necesis used by police against Said Barnett: “We do have thug or hanging out on the isn’t interested in those fine Barack Obama needs to get sarily true.”

African Americans. Barnett problems. It’s not a Trayvon streets. He went to college. points, preferring to air misleadhung. He’s a (expletive deleted) ACORN is no stranger to and Charlotte-Mecklenburg (Martin) incident. This young Aspired to marry his (fiancée) ing ads that seek to link Obama nigger, and he’s a piece of controversy. next year.”

For 38 years, the non-partisan to ACORN, thereby undercutting (expletive deleted). You guys are politicalasking support.that the fraudulent, and you need to go to organization has fought for social his “We’re Citizens Review Board be McCain: I’m John McCain hell. All the niggers on oak trees. and economic justice for lowstrengthened given the and I approve and They’re gonna get all hung honthis message. and moderate-income it was put here eys, they’re going to get assassiAnnouncer: Who is to Barack Americans. With 400,000 mem- power Obama?

A man with “asaid. political nated, they’re gonna get killed.” in 1997,” Newton ber families organized into more do Another message said, “You baptism is performed at warp than 1,200 neighborhood chap“Today a day that should liberal idiots. Dumb (expletive speed.”

Vast ambition.

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Welfare bums. You he moved to Chicago.

ACORN has over the years seen alege, day that should not have guys just (expletive deleted) Became a community organizer. its share of criticism while advo- happened.

We are calling come to our country, consume There, Obama met Madeleine cating for affordable housing, upon City Council to do the every natural resource there is, Talbot, part of the Chicago living wages, healthcare for the thing.

It’s there front and make a lot of babies. That’s branch of ACORN. Hein was so underserved— and while organ- right of them.” that he was asked to – voter Rev. registration Kojo Nantambu all you guys do. And then suck impressive izing drives.

Dick Hester, president up the welfare and expect everytrain the ACORN staff.

But none has been as withering of the Charlotte chapter of one else to pay for your hospital What did ACORN in Chicago and baseless as this one. bills for your kids. I jus’ say let engage in? Bullying American Civil banks.

Liberties With the presidential election the your kids die. That’s the best Intimidation tactics.

Disruption less than two weeks away, Union, agreed.

“This story is move. Just let your children die. of business.

ACORN forced ACORN’s detractors allege the NAACP President Rev. Kojo man was trying to get married not just a Charlotte story, it’s Forget about paying for hospital banks to issue risky home loans. organization has engaged in masNantambu cited six CMPDin the upcoming year.” a national story,” he said “My bills for them. I’m not gonna do The same types of loans that sive voter registration fraud after involved shooting deaths over Barnett also urged question would be how could it. You guys are lowlifes. And I caused the financial crisis we’re the reported discovery of bogus the last 15 months as well revocation of Kerrick’s they ignore it?” hope you all die.” in today. names, such as Mickey Mouse as confrontations from New Hurd thinks the hate calls will York and San Francisco that cease soon. generated national media “In two weeks, I think these attention as confirmation attacks will be over. But I think it will be harder for us to get our that police accountability is name back on good graces warranted.

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The ALC had its lighter moments as well. Top gospel choirs will perform at the Gospel Extravaganza on Sept. 19, and the popular Jazz Concert will also take place on that night. Younger ALC attendees will want to show off their best at The Black Party, which takes place at the Howard Theatre from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Sept. 20.

The Phoenix Awards Dinner is scheduled for Sept. 21.

Coming on the heels of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, the Awards Dinner will celebrate the “Spirit of 1963” and the fruits of the March, from voting rights and school desegregation to President Obama’s historic election to Julian King, Jennnifer nephew. the presidency in 2008, andHudson’s the men and women who advanced those causes.

A spokesman for the office the murders but is being held in former Rep. Elijah E. toldAwardees, the newspaper thatPresident Hudson Bill jailClinton, for parole violation after Cummings (D-Md.) and Elaine Jones, former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, will be recognized for their contribution to AfricanAmerican political awareness and empowerment, as well as to “remained strong of forminorities her fami- in the being convicted of attempted the advancement electoral process. ly”President and was clearly its leader. murder and vehicular hijackObama will be the keynote speaker.

“She held hands with her famiing.

Cook County records show “It is an honor and privilege to have alumni CBC member ly,” the spokesman said.

“It that he pleaded guilty to both President Barack Obama address this year’s Phoenix Awards was obviously a very emotional charges in 1999. He was also Dinner. His remarks will be a fitting culmination of the 2013 moment.” convicted in 1998 for possesAnnual Legislative said in a motor statement.

The boy – the sonConference,” of Julia sion Fattah of a stolen vehicle.

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Navy Yard Shooting Victims Continued from A1

guys,” said Prowse. implement procedures to investigate security Kohler was working for Information Prowse worked with Bodrog at the violations or incidents,” according to the Concepts in Management, LLC, a Pentagon on amphibious vessel programs. He profile. subcontractor of TWD & Associates, Inc. said Bodrog was transferred from the Pentagon Her brother, James Frasier, declined Kohler lived on the water with his wife, to the Navy Yard in January. comment Monday night.

Michelle, an employee at the Naval Air Station Bodrog had been married for 25 years to ___ Patuxent River.

Melanie, whom he met while she was serving Kathleen Gaarde, 63, of Woodbridge, Va., ___ on active duty as a Navy nurse. They have was a financial analyst who supported the Information technology specialist Mary three daughters, ages 23, 17 and 16. organization responsible for the shipyards, her Knight, 51, of Reston, Va., had recently ___ husband, Douglass, wrote in an email to the received a big promotion and witnessed the Arthur Daniels, 51, of Washington, D.C., AP Tuesday. marriage of her older daughter, her mother was a handyman working for a furniture Douglass Gaarde declined to speak, but said. contractor who just happened to be moving wrote that he was unable to sleep.

“I don’t know how this happened,” and installing furniture at the Navy Yard on “Today my life partner of 42 years (38 of Liliana DeLorenzo, 76, said from her home in Sept. 16 when the shooting began. He was the them married) was taken from me, my grown Fayetteville, N.C. “She was a good daughter father of five children and the grandfather of son and daughter, and friends,” he wrote. and a good mother and a hard worker. It’s a nine.

“We were just starting to plan our retirement loss. It’s a great loss.”

Priscilla Daniels, 46, told the Washington activities and now none of that matters. It ___ Post she had kissed her husband that morning Marine engineer and naval architect Vishnu hasn’t fully sunk in yet but I know I already and teased that he should stay in bed because it dearly miss her.”

Pandit, 61, was known for his devotion to was raining. family, community and his 30-year civilian ___ “I don’t know why they shot him,” she said.

Navy career.

Logistics analyst John Roger Johnson, 73, “He was a good father and hard worker.”

“He was very dedicated to improving the was perhaps most notorious for his bear hugs, Every year, it was Arthur Daniels who performance of naval ships and systems,” his daughter said. cooked Thanksgiving dinner for the longtime friend M. Nuns Jain said family. On weekends, he spent time Sept. 17 outside the North Potomac, washing and polishing his white Md., home where Pandit’s family Crown Victoria. privately mourned. “The only saving Priscilla Daniels said she and grace in this horrible incident is that her husband loved going out on the he died doing what he loved the most town with their shoes shined and hair in the service of his nation.” done, holding hands. They were high He said Pandit sailed with the school sweethearts, and all four of U.S. Merchant Marine before joining the Naval Sea Systems Command, their sons were named after Arthur headquartered at the Washington Daniels.

Navy Yard.

His death comes four years after Married to his wife Anjali since the death of their 14-year-old son Three women embrace near Nationals Park where family 1978, Pandit had two sons and a Arthur A. Daniels, who was shot and members waited to greet loved ones that were at the granddaughter, Jain said. killed on a Washington street.

Washington Navy Yard.

AP Photo ___ “My husband was the man I loved Kenneth Proctor, 46, worked as through all the tragedy,” Priscilla a civilian utilities foreman at the Navy Yard, Daniels said. “I can’t believe this is happening “Rib-crunchers,” Megan Johnson said with his ex-wife, Evelyn Proctor, said. He spent again.” a laugh.

22 years working for the federal government, Arthur Daniels was the family’s The Derwood, Md., man — the oldest of Evelyn Proctor said. breadwinner. Washington Mayor Vincent Gray the victims in Monday’s shootings —was a The Waldorf, Md., woman spoke to Proctor called Priscilla Daniels on Sept. 17 to offer “die-hard” Washington Redskins football fan early Sept. 16 morning before he left for work condolences and asked if there was any life who would have celebrated his 74th birthday at the Navy Yard. It was his regular call. The insurance, but the answer was no. The mayor on Oct. 7. He also leaves his wife, Judy, and high school sweethearts talked every day, even said he would send a staff member to the house four stepchildren. after they divorced this year after 19 years of to discuss the family’s finances. ___ marriage, and they shared custody of their two ___ Frank Kohler, 50, was a past president teenage sons.

Sylvia Frasier, 53, of Waldorf, Md., had of the Rotary Club in Lexington Park, Md. She was in shock about her ex-husband’s worked at Naval Sea Systems Command as As such, he proudly held the title of “King death. an information assurance manager since 2000, Oyster” at the annual festival celebrating the “He just went in there in the morning according to a LinkedIn profile in her name. region’s signature bivalve the third weekend of for breakfast,” Proctor said Sept. 16 of the Frasier studied at Strayer University, each October. building where the shooting took place. earning a bachelor of science in computer “He walks around with a crown and robe information systems in 2000 and a master’s and gives out candy,” said Bob Allen, Kohler’s “He didn’t even work in the building. It was a routine thing for him to go there in the in information systems in 2002. Her duties former boss at Lockheed Martin in southern morning for breakfast, and unfortunately it at NAVSEA included providing policy and Maryland. “In fact, he was in charge of the happened.” guidance on network security, and assuring beer stand.”

Proctor said she tried to call her ex-husband that all computer systems operated by the The married father of two college-age throughout the day and drove to the Navy Yard headquarters met Department of Navy and daughters had driven up to the Washington on Monday afternoon, fearing the worst. After Department of Defense requirements.

Navy Yard for a meeting when the shootings waiting for about three hours alongside other She also led efforts “to establish and occurred, friends told Allen.

relatives concerned about their loved ones, she was informed around 8 p.m. that he was among the dead. Officials did not detail the circumstances of his shooting, she said.

The Proctors married in 1994 and divorced this year. Their older son, Kenneth Proctor Jr., 17, enlisted in the Army after graduating from high school this spring and is in basic training in Oklahoma. Their younger son, Kendull Proctor, is 15.

“We were still very close. It wasn’t a bitter divorce,” Evelyn Proctor said. “We still talked every day, and we lived 10 minutes away from each other.”

Kenneth Proctor was born and raised in Charles County, Md., where he lived until his death.

“He loved the Redskins. Loved his kids — a very loving, caring, gentle person. His kids meant a lot to him,” Evelyn Proctor said. ___ Gerald L. Read’s son-in-law, Michael Giffin, said his family was not ready to speak yet about the 58-year-old’s death.

“We’re still trying to gather our thoughts,” said Giffin, who is married to Read’s daughter, Jessica. Read was from Alexandria, Va. ___ Richard Michael Ridgell, 52, was a passionate protector, both in his security work and in the way he treated his daughters during game-day trips to M&T Field to root for his beloved Baltimore Ravens.

Ridgell, a former Maryland State Police trooper, was working for a private security contractor at the Washington Navy Yard.

His children and estranged wife, Tracey, said they want the father of three daughters to be remembered as a loving, funny and patriotic man. ___ Metropolitan Police Department Officer Scott Williams was shot multiple times in the legs but survived.

After visiting Williams, Police Chief Cathy Lanier said he has some “pretty serious injuries” and is “pretty uncomfortable” but “in good spirits.”

Williams is an officer in the K9 division.

He underwent surgery Sept. 16, and before he did, he wanted to call his mother, according to Janis Orlowski, the chief medical officer of MedStar Washington Hospital Center.

Orlowski initially said there was “concern” about whether he would be able to walk again.

He was in stable condition.

“I’m real confident that he not only will walk again but probably will outrun most of us once again,” Lanier said.

Associated Press writers Amanda Kell, Ben Nuckols, Allen G. Breed, Emery P. Dalesio, Stacy A. Anderson, David Dishneau, Randall Chase and Jessica Gresko contributed to this report.

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At a Council meeting on Sept. 17, an attempt to override that decision failed because only six lawmakers—three fewer than the number needed—voted their support. As the vote was announced around 4:25 p.m., dozens of supporters erupted with outrage, chanting, “Recall!” and “We won’t forget!” and bearing signs that read, “My next mayor supports the Large Retailer Accountability Act” as they filed out of the chamber.

“On purely political terms, one should support the bill. It is popular,” said D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, who sponsored the legislation. “A majority of citizens support this legislation.”

According to a poll released Sept. 15, 71 percent of D.C. voters support the LRAA, while 27 oppose, and only 1 in 3 thought the mayor’s veto should be withheld. An overwhelming majority of voters (63 percent) also said that in the 2014 D.C. mayoral election, a candidate’s support for the LRAA would make them more likely to vote for that person. The survey of 504 District voters conducted by Hart Research Associates has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

This is “the will of the people,” said the Rev. Graylan Hagler, of Faith Strategies and Plymouth United Congregational Church of Christ, and a member of the Respect DC coalition, which held a rally before the Council meeting on Sept. 17 to urge councilmembers to override the mayor’s veto.

The mayor has been under pressure from all sides since the D.C. Council approved the measure in July. Large retailers such as Home Depot, AutoZone, Macy’s and Target urged the city executive to veto the bill, saying it was “misguided” and would not improve job quality. Wal-Mart, which has three stores already under construction in the District and three others in the design phase, said it would halt plans for at least three of those stores if the measure went through.

Detractors say the mayor simply folded under the pressure.

“It is hypocritical on the mayor’s part to be talking about home rule and self-determination to Congress then just roll over when a corporation threatens [us],” Hagler said.

Councilmember Vincent Orange (D-At Large) similarly urged his fellow legislators to stand up and negotiate a better deal for D.C. resident, pointing to Colorado, where, he claimed, Wal-Mart pays its workers $12 an hour.

“We don’t have leadership that negotiates on behalf of the residents of D.C.,” he said in remarks before the roll call.

“We can get Wal-Mart and $12.50 an hour if people have the strength to vote for it.”

The mayor’s office and city lawmakers, however, refuted any suggestion that their decision was influenced by big business bullying.

The Greater Washington Urban League contends that the path to meeting the will of the Council lies in negotiation.

“While we understand the intent of the LRAA, we believe that it would limit opportunities for residents of underserved communities to enter the workforce,” GWUL President and CEO Maudine Cooper said Sept. 13.

“We look forward to working with the Mayor and Council on legislation to increase the minimum wage in the District that provides a wider path to upward mobility for our residents.”

“The mayor acted in the best interest of the people of the District of Columbia,” said Doxie McCoy, a Gray

“On purely political terms, one should support the bill. It is popular.

A majority of citizens support this legislation.”

— D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson spokeswoman.

In his letter to the Council, in which he explained his decision, Gray said the bill was not a true living wage bill since it would only raise the minimum wage for a fraction of the workforce. He also called the measure a “job-killer” that endangered at least 4,000 in the next few years since large retailers would avoid coming to the District, and an economic retardant that would stymie development in underserved communities “for a generation.”

“While the intentions of its supporters were good, this bill is simply a woefully inadequate and flawed vehicle for achieving the goal we all share,” the mayor wrote.

Mendelson argued, however, that sound economic development cannot happen when workers are being poorly paid.

“It is the wrong economic development strategy for the District,” he told the AFRO. “Our development strategy should be predicated on getting good jobs for people not minimum wage jobs.

“I am alarmed that we are acting like other jurisdictions in attracting low-paying jobs that people need food stamps and Medicaid to survive on.”

The situation in the District is not a new one—Chicago tried to pass a similar bill in 2006 and Wal-Mart has been met by other expressions of community opposition whenever it tries to expand into metropolitan areas, researchers said.

“The reasons cities are taking these actions is that WalMart is well-known for its low wages and benefits. Wal-Mart employees disproportionately live in poverty and depend on social assistance to get through the month,” said Ken Jacobs, chairman of the Labor Center at the University of California, Berkeley. “And research has shown that when Wal-Mart moves into a metropolitan area, it drives down wages, it drives down the number of jobs in that area and it negatively impacts the community.”

The implications of such labor conditions are much graver given the stark economic landscape in which former part-time positions have become major sources of income for some families, Jacobs added.

“Most people in minimum wage jobs are working-age people who provide a substantial slice of their families’ income,” he said. “So the idea that this is people working for ‘pin’ (spending) money simply isn’t true in this economy.”

Executives at Wal-Mart have argued that a raise in employees’ wages and benefits could reduce its ability to provide goods and services at its famously low prices, which the LRAA’s detractors said would negatively impact the District’s lower-income residents.

But several studies, including an April 2011 report coauthored by Jacobs, “Living Wage Policies and Big-Box Retail: How a Higher Wage Standard Would Impact Walmart Workers and Shoppers,” argue that providing a living wage would not be that detrimental.

“We’ve done research that shows that Wal-Mart could easily pay higher wages and even if they passed on the 100 percent of the costs to consumers, the impact would be small,” Jacobs said.

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COMMUNITY CONNECTION Sept. 19

D.C. CBC Connection All Black Affair Old Dominion Brew House, 1219 Ninth St., N.W. D.C. 9 p.m. The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s (CBCF) 43rd Annual Legislative Conference is the premier conference on legislative and policy issues impacting the African-American community. At this event, complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be served along with a full cash bar. $20. For more information: Dccbcconectionallblackaffair. eventbrite.com.

Sept. 20

Give a Child a Future Fundraising Gala Music Center at the Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, Rockville, Md. 7 p.m.

Award-winning actor Charles “Roc” Dutton will be the keynote speaker of the Give a Child a Future fundraising gala. $125. For more information: 202-400-1999.

No Access, No Use Bible Way Temple, 1100 New Jersey Ave., N.W. D.C. Come join Bible Way Temple for this Free three-day informational and inspirational conference on drug awareness.

For more information: Biblewaywashington.org.

Sept. 21

Washington D.C. Green Festival 2013 Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place, N.W. D.C. 10 a.m. The Green Festival is the nation’s largest and most trusted environmental consumer event. It will host leaders in the social justice and environmental community including authors, leaders and educators. For more information: Greenfestivals. org.

Sept. 27

Kiss the Summer Goodbye Concert featuring Marcus Johnson Newton White Mansion, 2708 Enterprise Road, Mitchellville, Md. 8 p.m. Join Newton White Mansion for a summer concert featuring Marcus Johnson. The night includes live music, an open bar and refreshments. $30$40. For more information: Pgparks.com.

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S.E. Theater Company Fills Knowledge Gaps in Play About Black Inventors taught Black youth the importance of Black inventors.

“All they may know is the guys hanging out Pin Points Theater, based in Southeast on the corner and we try to make sure they know Washington, presented 1001 Black Inventions at this play isn’t about some dead people. We show Greater Mt. Nebo AME Church in Bowie Sept. them how this [African-American] genius is a 15. The play, which has been touring for 30 part of everything they do,” he said. years, sheds light on the ingenuity of AfricanPin Points is a small organization and American inventors. The church’s Deaf, performance fees help fund the theater Christian Education and Youth & Young Adult productions but their primary goal is to engage ministries presented the production. youth from impoverished areas with educational More than 300 people of all ages packed and entertaining development programs. into the church, anxious to learn about black This summer Pin Points performed at inventors. Even one youngster attending wore Anacostia High School and introduced youth a T-shirt decorated with items invented by theater and performing arts to young people African-Americans. with severe reading deficiencies. Currently the Pin Points’ production of the play they organization works with at-risk youth at Cardozo call 1001 was sought “because they don’t High School in a year-round program titled “The teach African-American history in the schools Talented Tenth” which mentors students from anymore,” said Ann Powell, Co-Chair of the ninth to 12th grades.

Deaf Ministry at the church.

Youth work is a major part of their mission Linda Evans, Kacey Williams and Ersky Freeman performing in 1001 Black Inventions Rev. Dr. Jonathan Weaver, the church’s but Pin Points is most renowned for their plays.

Ersky Freeman then takes the stage and convincingly senior pastor, reinforced her sentiment on the In the last scene of the play a family tries pretends to have a heart attack. The audience started importance of learning African-American history. to move through life without critical black inventions like whispering in response “get him some water.”

“For a lot of our young people, it’s not even a matter of watches, fire extinguishers and traffic lights. The children Freeman recalls this moment and several others that he forgetting, they don’t even know,” Weaver said. “Our young enjoys performing at churches. “From the umms and ahhs of people need to be inspired. Even in the face of opposition the audience I love church crowds because they talk more than and all the negative portrayals of black folk they can know we do on stage,” he said. they come from a very rich history and can therefore make a The heart attack scene quickly segues to Williams and his difference in the present.” struggle to perform open-heart surgery at all black Provident The play covered well-known inventors such as famed Hospital in Chicago in 1893. scientist Dr. George Washington Carver who is known for Freeman has acted out this scene countless times as the cocreating over 300 uses for the peanut. Less well-known in the family start furiously asking about all these black inventors were included, too, such as Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, founder of Pin Points Theater and co-creator of “1001.” The inventions. “Daddy what’s an iron, Daddy what’s a gas mask, theater company was founded in 1980 and “1001” has been who was one of the first to successfully perform open-heart Daddy what’s a rocket support system and Daddy what’s a touring since 1983. surgery, and Jan Ernst Matzeliger, who created the shoe-last Justin Beiber?” The audience belted out laughing.

“1001” was originally conceived as a book idea but Freeman machine.

Freeman and Pin Points keep presenting 1001 because he then translated the idea to the stage. He was inspired to write In the opening scene, four actors come on stage performing believes young people are significantly improved with a better about black inventors because, he said, the “stories were so as a giant computer and rattle off a list of inventions by knowledge of black inventors and creators.

African-Americans such as the boomerang, coffee, tetracycline, unique and interesting.”

“People talk about making history but the truth is history Freeman also hopes that over three decades the play has karate and castor oil. makes us,” Freeman said.

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OPINION

1963 was the Pivotal Year for Civil Rights

In the modern civil rights era, no year stands out in my memory more than 1963. I was a sophomore at Druid High School in Tuscaloosa, Ala. and living in McKenzie Court, the all-Black housing project on the west side of town. After a life of second-class citizenship, I finally saw the walls of segregation crumbling.

Tuscaloosa provided me with a front-row seat.

My stepfather, William H. George E. Curry Polk, drove a dump truck at NNPA Columnist the University of Alabama.

Although our taxes went to support what was even then a football factory, African Americans were barred from attending the state-supported school.

On Feb. 3, 1956, Autherine Lucy gained admission to the University of Alabama under a U.S. Supreme Court order. But a mob gathered on campus three days later. Instead defending the Black graduate student, the university suspended Lucy, saying officials could not protect her. When she sued to gain readmission, Alabama officials used that suit to claim she had slandered the university and therefore could not continue as a student.

But things would be different on June 11, 1963, which is not to say there wouldn’t be resistance.

Vivian Malone and James Hood, armed with a federal court order that the university admit them and segregationist Gov. George C. Wallace not interfere, sought to enter Foster Auditorium on campus to register for classes. They were accompanied by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach.

Instead of complying with the federal order, Gov. Wallace, who had pledged “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” in his inaugural address, staged his “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door” to block the two students from entering.

Katzenbach left with the students and placed a call to

President John F. Kennedy. The president nationalized the Alabama National Guard. When Malone, Hood and Katzenbach returned to Foster Auditorium that afternoon, Gen. Henry Graham told Wallace, “Sir, it is my sad duty to ask you to step aside under orders of the president of the United States.”

After uttering a few words, Wallace stepped to the side and Malone and Hood walked inside and registered.

It was exciting to see the drama being played out on our black and white TV. At last, I thought, the walls of segregation would be forever shattered.

President Kennedy gave an eloquent televised speech to the nation that night. He said, “Today we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote and protect the rights of all who wish to be free. And when Americans are sent to Viet Nam or West Berlin, we do not ask for whites only. It ought to be possible, therefore, for American students of any color to attend any public institution they select without having to be backed up by troops.”

The euphoria of a victory in my hometown was short lived. Within hours of Kennedy’s speech, Medgar Evers, who headed NAACP field operations in Mississippi, was shot to death in Jackson, Miss. after parking his car in his driveway and exiting to enter his home. Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, was arrested for the crime. However, he was acquitted by an all-White, all male jury. It wasn’t until 30 years later, when new evidence surfaced, that Beckwith was finally convicted for murdering Evers.

Of course, 250,000 gathered Aug. 28, 1963 for the March on Washington. Much has been written about the march, so I won’t devote much space here except to note that the news media was fixated on the possibility of the March turning violent. But, as the Baltimore Sun noted, only three people were arrested that day and “not one was a Negro.”

Like the desegregation of the University of Alabama, White racists were eager to “send a message” that the March on Washington would not change their world.

In the wee hours of Sunday, Sept. 15, four Klansmen – Bobby Frank Cherry, Thomas Blanton, Herman Frank and Robert Chambliss, planted a box of dynamite with a time

delay under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., a rallying point in the city for civil rights activities. At 10:22 a.m., the bomb went off, killing four young girls – Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair – and injuring 22 others.

Although the violent message was supposed to remind Blacks that there were no safe places for them, not even church, Blacks sent a more lasting message by continuing to desegregate public facilities in Birmingham and across the South.

The enormous sacrifices of 1963 were not in vain. They provided the groundwork for passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. It was a year worth remembering.

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

New Fed Chair Needs to Back Main Street “The Federal Reserve Chairman is not only one of the most important economic policymakers in America, he or she is one of the most important policymakers in the world.” —President Barack Obama

Welcome to the season of big decisions in Washington. In the coming days, President Obama will have to decide whether Marc H. Morial to order a military strike NNPA Columnist against the Syrian regime for using chemical weapons against its own people. Time is also running out for Congress and the administration to agree on a budget to avoid an Oct. 1 government shutdown, and lawmakers are on the line to raise the debt ceiling to keep the nation from defaulting on its financial obligations. In the midst of all of this, the president must decide whom to pick for one of the most important jobs in the world – Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

“The Fed,” as it is commonly called, is the central bank of the United States, responsible for setting monetary policy and credit conditions in support of full employment and stable prices. The Fed also supervises and regulates banks to ensure the safety and soundness of the nation’s banking and financial system and to protect the credit rights of consumers.

Ben Bernanke has held this job since 2006, one year before the start of the Great Recession. While Bernanke is not without his critics, many believe his policies helped prevent another Great Depression and put the nation on the road to a steady, albeit much too sluggish, recovery. The August jobs report shows the economy created 169,000 jobs last month, with overall unemployment now down to 7.3 percent. This translates into 42 straight months of private sector job creation and a total of 7.5 million new jobs. The economy is moving in the right direction. But the 13 percent unemployment rate for African Americans and the 9.3 percent rate for Hispanics make it clear that even as the recovery inches forward, communities of color are still being left behind.

With Ben Bernanke’s term as Federal Reserve Chairman set to expire on Jan. 31, 2014, President Obama must choose a successor who is committed to ending these inequalities while being acceptable to Main Street, Wall Street, and Capitol Hill – an almost irreconcilable team of rivals.

Ted Cruz Loves Arch-Racist Jesse Helms In office just nine months, Ted Cruz, the NNPA Columnist junior Republican Senator from Texas, has already established himself as that body’s most divisive force since the witch-hunting, 1950s demagogue, Joe McCarthy.

A darling of the most extreme factions of the conservative movement, Cruz exemplifies what was obvious about the GOP’s fortunes since the Tea Party emerged on its right flank two months after President Obama took office in 2009: That it would have to destroy the GOP’s establishment – that is, those Republican officeholders who, though rock-ribbed conservatives, actually believed in the old American winsome-lose-some tradition of political accommodation and pragmatism.

And last week, speaking at an event meant to honor the late Jesse Helms, the longtime segregationist senator from North Carolina, Cruz, Texas’ first Hispanic senator, revealed again for all to see how unbreakable is the connection between conservatism and White racism.

Cruz, who was born in 1970, first briefly spun a tale of how he had idolized Helms, who served in the Senate from 1972 to 2001, since he was 10 – when he had sent Helms a $10 campaign contribution “’cause they were beating up on him, they were coming after him hard and I thought it wasn’t right …”

Then, after a moment, Cruz added, “The willingness [of Helms] to say all those crazy things is a rare, rare characteristic in this town, and you know what? It’s every bit as true now as it

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was then. We need a hundred more like Jesse Helms in the U.S. Senate.”

The bulk of Cruz’s remarks laid out his analysis of Helms’ positions on foreign affairs (an analysis that in fact was laughably wrong).

But Cruz’s gushing, thankfully, did remind us that for nearly two centuries, the United States Senate was comprised of a substantial number of senators like Jesse Helms. That bloc, along with their confederates in the House of Representatives, was responsible for establishing and maintaining Negro slavery and its successor, racial apartheid, in the South into the latter third of the 20th century.

By the time Helms reached the Senate, the legislative victories of the Civil Rights Movement – which Helms staunchly opposed and continued to denigrate throughout his political life – had pared those politicians’ numbers sharply.

But Jesse Helms, provincial and mean-spirited, continued to fight on. In 1983, he was the only Senator to vote against approving Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a federal holiday.

In 1990, he waged what many called the most racist political campaign since the civil rights years to fend off a challenge from Harvey Gantt, an African American Democrat and former mayor of Charlotte. In 1993, he tried to taunt Illinois’ Carol Moseley-Braun, newly-elected as the nation’s first Black female senator, by singing “Dixie” as they rode the Senate elevator one day in order, as he said, to try to make her cry.

Moseley-Braun did not cry. A few weeks earlier, she had led a successful charge against Helms’ trying to guide a renewal of a federal patent on the Confederate flag for the

The president’s choices had been former Treasury Secretary and Obama economic adviser, Larry Summers, who was favored over Fed Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen.

Opposition to Summers was so intense, broad, and diverse that he withdrew his name from consideration on Sept. 15.

Everyone, from Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz to the National Organization of Women to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and a growing list of members of Congress, had urged the President to pick Yellen over Summers. As a leading architect of Wall Street deregulation during the 1990’s, Summer’s policies have been viewed as helping to pave the way to the Great Recession. A recent New York Times editorial concludes that “Mr. Summers has also shown an indifference to the effects of economic decisions on ordinary people.”

We urge the president to consider appointing someone who is more of a friend to Main Street than to Wall Street. This includes, the highly-qualified Janet Yellen, who would be the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve. It should also include other women, African American and minority economists who could bring both excellence and diversity to the Fed. Marc H. Morial, former mayor of New Orleans, is president and CEO of the National Urban League.

United Daughters of the Confederacy. She won the substantive political battle; his response was a juvenile gesture.

In 2001, when Helms announced he would retire from the Senate, the columnist David S. Broder, a widely-respected political centrist, wrote a column in the Aug. 29 editions of the Washington Post that appeared under a headline that was simple and stunning: “Jesse Helms, White Racist.”

In the column, Broder declared “What really sets Jesse Helms apart is that he is the last prominent unabashed white racist politician in this country … [and] the squeamishness of much of the press in characterizing Helms for what he is suggests an unwillingness to confront the reality of race in our national life.”

Broder continued that “What is unique about Helms – and from my viewpoint, unforgivable – is his willingness to pick at the scab of the great wound of American history, the legacy of slavery and segregation, and to inflame racial resentment against African Americans.”

Finally, after setting Helms in the context of the modernday segregationist politicians who fought the Civil Rights Movement, Broder concluded: “That is not a history to be sanitized.”

Ted Cruz tells us Jesse Helms is his political idol. What does that say about Ted Cruz?

Lee A. Daniels is a longtime journalist based in New York City. His latest book is ‘Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America.’

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The Women in Military Service Memorial was the site of the official promotion ceremony of Col. Patrick Sargent to rank of brigadier general. Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, Surgeon

General of the U.S. Army, officiated. Following the reading of the promotion order and the administering of the oath of office, Sargent was presented his general’s belt, pistol and plate with star appended. The ceremony concluded with the singing of the Army Song followed by a reception.

Brig. Gen. Barrye Price administers the oath of office to Brig. Gen. Patrick Sargent

Lt. Gen. Horoho and Mrs. Sherry Sargent place the one-star shoulder boards on Brig. Gen. Sargent

Photos by Rob Roberts Retired Brig. Gen. Sheila Baxter presents the general officer belt to Brig. Gen. Sargent

In the receiving line

Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho, Surgeon General of the U.S. Army and commanding general of the Army Medical Command and Col. Patrick D. Sargent

Mother, Lillie, and daughter, Samantha, place new shoulder boards on Brig. Gen. Sargent’s shirt

Brig. Gen. Barrye Price with wife Tracey and son William

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Grandmother, Mrs. Willie Faison, pins a star on Sargent’s military headgear

Retired Maj Lloyd Hill presents Brig. Gen. Sargent with the general’s pistol

Brig. Gen. Sargent receives the brigadier general plate with star from Col. Antonio Coleman

Retired Brig. Gen. Sheila Baxter, Col. Antonio Coleman, retired Staff Sgt. Robert Griffin Jr. and Bishop Nelson Williams

Retired Maj. Gen. George Anderson and retired Col. Dorene Hunt congratulating Brig. Gen. Sargent

The family: Mrs. Willie Faison; Mrs. Sherry Sargent; Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho; Brig. Gen. Patrick Sargent; Mrs. Lillie Sargent and Samantha Sargent

Retired Col. Donald West congratulates Brig. Gen. Sargent

Cast members: Tamyra Lewis, Ersky Freeman, Kacey Williams, Linda Evans, T.L. Fitz and Justin Mohay

Guests who attended the ceremony

The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum exhibit Continuation of the scene about Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

The play 1001 Black Inventions was presented in the sanctuary of Greater Mt. Nebo AME Church on Sept. 15. The drama, presented by the Bowie, Md. church’s Deaf Ministry, Christian Education Ministry and Youth Ministry, shows a typical American family attempting to survive in a world without inventions created by Africans and African Americans. Church members and other guests filled the sanctuary and enjoyed a five-scene production that depicted various Black historical characters. It was organized by Dr. Ann Powell, Loretta Lacy and Paul Martin and hosted by the Rev. Carlos Perkins Rev. Jonathan Weaver of gives the welcome Greater Mt. Nebo and the church’s first lady.

Performers during Scene Two, which centered on Jan Ernst Matzeliger who invented the shoe-lasting machine

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Rev. Jonathan Weaver with Del. Jolene Ivey (D-Prince George’s County) of the Maryland House of Delegates

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Performers during Scene One, which focused on the life of Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

Oretha Bridgewaters-Simms, Angela Holmes, Joyce Hall Shambley, Carolyn Johnson and Margaret Rose

Members enjoying the presentation

Dr. Ann Powell (left) spotlights Loretta Seward and Paul D. Martin for organizing the production

Attendees give a round of applause

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BUSINESS Local Entrepreneurs Celebrate Kinky, Curly Hair in Baltimore

By Krishana Davis AFRO Staff Writer A stream of women, along with a sprinkling of men, all adorned with afros of all shapes, sizes, textures and colors shuffled into Oyin Handmade, a natural hair product shop, on Sept. 16 for a celebration of natural hair.

The crowd creating an audible buzz outside the Charles Village storefront was for a book signing celebrating the publishing Photos by Krishana Davis of The Coiffure Project,” Baltimore-based photographer Glenford Nunez signs a portfolio of photos of copies of his book The Coiffure Project, which showcases natural hair by 26-year-old the beauty of natural hair. local photographer Glenford Nunez.

Jamyla Bennu, owner of Oyin Handmade, said Nunez was the perfect person to partner with because he was local and working to highlight the beauty of natural hair.

“In his work he showcases the beauty and versatility of natural hair… We also wanted to celebrate his localness,” Bennu told the AFRO in a recent interview. “We love Glenford.”

Nunez’s coffee table book of almost 100 pages, which retails for $25 on Amazon, contains photos of women from New York, Baltimore and Atlanta and as far away as Australia, sporting long and short coily natural hair.

Using old school hardware and new wave technology, Nunez said he shot the photos using a Nikon D700 camera and his EVO LTE 4G cell phone.

“He brings a fashion

Morgan Glaze, 22, who has been a fan of Glenford Nunez’s work for years, receives a signed copy of a natural hair portrait from his collection.

photography aesthetic to celebration of natural hair,” said Bennu. “Typically we see ‘selfies’ and people documenting themselves on Instagram and YouTube, but it’s nice to see an editorial eye on the subject.”

Nunez said his natural hair portfolio is not just a celebration of natural hair, but a celebration of self and selfworth.

“It’s not about the hair for me,” said Nunez. “It’s about embracing yourself for your own sanity. You can make yourself crazy worrying about other people. You have to learn

to be comfortable with yourself.”

During the event, Nunez sold and autographed copies of his book and a collector’s edition photograph from the book.

Oyin Handmade also showcased one of their newest styling and moisturizing products, Boing, retailing for $14.99 for a 4-ounce jar. The first 20 attendees who RSVP’d for the event received free samples of the product.

“We’re really excited about this product because it’s customizable and it smells like pears,” said Bennu. “It’s a little bit of a stronger hold than our Shine and Define and can be used by people of all hair types.”

Morgan Glaze, 22, a Baltimore-based graphic designer who attended the event, said she has been a fan of Nunez’s work for a few years.

“I had been following him for years,” said Glaze. “I saw one of his natural hair pics and I had to find him.”

Glaze, who has been natural since her junior year of high school, said she really liked the photos in The Coiffure Project because of the diversity of Nunez’s subjects.

“He captures so many different, interesting people,” said Glaze.

Tamanika Tinsley, 28, who lives in Rosedale, said she attended the event to support Nunez, with whom she has skated for about three years.

“It’s nice to see natural hair reaffirmed and healthy and beautiful,” said Tinsley, who works as a chemist. “Natural hair is finally moving to the forefront and things like this are helping to make it popular.”

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ARTS & CULTURE

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An Overachiever Making a Difference

By Kam Williams Special to the AFRO

Bridget O. Davis

Bridget O. Davis grew up in Harlem, in the Drew Hamilton Projects, with her four sisters. Some of her close friends took to the streets -- selling and using drugs, and becoming stick-up kids.

Her mother, a counselor at a drug rehabilitation center, would often bring home recovering heroin addicts to show her daughters, first hand, the severely detrimental effects of narcotics abuse.

So, Bridget found refuge in writing and praying in her secret place of the “Most High,” her bedroom closet.

She also enjoyed playing hopscotch and jumping Double-Dutch.

At the age of 13, Bridget tried her hand at writing, and won an essay contest which afforded her the opportunity to attend a writing camp in

Russia. This trip would change Bridget’s life forever.

Upon returning home, her love for writing grew exponentially. Now exposed to a life outside of Harlem, Bridget had something else to aspire to besides what she witnessed on the streets from her bedroom window After losing her mother to cancer at the age of twenty, Davis vowed to pave the way to the pinnacle of success. Feeling helpless about being unable to save her mother’s life, Bridget went to college and became a Registered Nurse, specializing in Emergency Room, I.C.U. and Operating Room care. She made this choice specifically in order to help save the lives of many.

Bridget also took it upon herself to found the Pocono Mountains Film Festival (PMFF).

Currently in its 11th year, the PMFF has been graced with the presence of such Hollywood legends as Billy Dee Williams, Jack Palance, Joyce Anne Dewitt, Edie Adams, Robert Townsend, Joe Jackson, Cliff Robertson, Robert Vaughn and Fred Williamson.

Bridget says, “My calling is to prepare a place for the creative to use their gifts of writing, acting, speaking and directing, and to engage in the higher process of healing at all levels of life’s deficiencies. And to bring hope to those in despair.”

Kam Williams: Hi Bridget, thanks for the interview and congrats on your hosting the

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Oscar Foreign Film-Nominee from the Congo Arrives on DVD

Pocono Film Festival for its 11th year. How did a sister from Harlem end up in the Pocono mountains?

Bridget Davis: After witnessing all of the lives lost while growing up in Harlem to drugs and street violence, I was determined to make a positive difference in my community. After having two children with two men who did not share my same family values, I went to college and studied science with the goal of becoming a Registered Nurse. As an R.N., I would become financially independent. I would not have to depend on any man to decide the outcome of our lives.

KW: How were you able to make it out of Harlem when so many of your friends weren’t?

BD: In life, either you get it or you don’t. You cannot allow anyone else to tell you what direction you should go. My take on life is that your life should be determined by your own choices. If you fail, it will reflect your lack of hard work.

KW: Where did you, as a Registered Nurse, get the idea of starting your own film festival?

BD: I wanted to see my second novel, “Henry’s Heart,” turned into a screenplay and independent film here in the Poconos. There was no place in the Pocono’s that had a venue to screen indie films. The Poconos being a beautiful place, a film festival was missing.

KW: What were the biggest obstacles in getting it launched?

BD: Being an African-American female in a predominantly-white community, I received no financial support from the Arts Society or State representatives. As I brought AcademyAward winners to the Poconos the challenge became greater. I had to work double shifts in the Emergency Room to pay for the event. The shift of negativity in this environment came when the folks here saw that I was fair to all independent filmmakers.

KW: What was the initial reception of the Pocono community to the festival?

BD: Negative, due to the fact that other people had tried to develop a film festival and they were not successful. Also, I made it clear that everyone would have an opportunity to showcase their work and win honestly regardless of color, political agenda or socio-economic status.

Blacks, Christians, Muslims and Jews had the same opportunity to compete in the Indie Film category and win.

KW: I noticed that this year you are looking for submissions of Christian and Reality films.

Why so?

BD: Through my experience in watching Christian films, I have been able to broaden the demand to meet a greater need in our population to fulfill the creativity in that particular genre.

KW: What advice do you have for anyone who wants to follow in your footsteps?

BD: Remain humble at all cost and focus on your agenda. Take responsibility for your projects, work hard for what you believe in, and never take anything for granted.

KW: Thanks again for the time, Bridget, and best of luck with the festival.

BD: Thank you, Kam.

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OF THE BEST MOVIES OF THIS, OR ANY, YEAR.” Pete Hammond, MOVIELINE

By Kam Williams Special to the AFRO

Komona’s (Rachel Mwanza) life was irreversibly altered at the tender age of 12 when rebel forces led by the Great Tiger (Mizinga Mwinga) rampaged through her tiny African village.

The unfortunate girl was forced at gunpoint to kill her own parents (Starlette Mathata and Alex Herabo) before being abducted and brainwashed into joining the cause.

Deep in the jungle, she was befriended by other kids orphaned by the conflict before being trained to use a weapon against government soldiers. However, more valuable than marksmanship, Komona developed an uncanny knack for sensing enemy positions, a skill which proved handy during encounters with deadly snipers and machine gun nests.

This supernatural ability came to the attention of her superiors and, by the time she turned 13, the so-called “War Witch” was appointed a personal advisor of General Tiger. In that capacity, Komona also had to work closely with Magician (Serge Kanyinda), an albino boy with extra sensory perception.

It’s been said that there are no atheists in foxholes. Apparently there aren’t any celibates in foxholes either. For, it’s not long before the two seers fall madly in love. Magician proposes, they go AWOL, and Komona ends up pregnant by her 14th birthday.

Thus unfolds War Witch, a haunting drama chronicling an adolescent’s coming-of-age under the most trying of circumstances. Written and directed by Canadian Kim Nguyen who shot on location in the Congo, the moving character study was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category.

The picture is cleverly constructed as a series of vivid flashbacks narrated by Komona directly addressing the unborn baby growing in her belly. While the plucky protagonist easily earns our admiration for maintaining her sanity in the midst of the madness, there is still something slightly unsettling about a production so matter-of-fact about the endless atrocities providing the backdrop for such a touching front story.

21st Century Africa presented as a godforsaken wasteland conjuring up primitive images reminiscent of the ghoulish dystopia chronicled by Conrad in Heart of Darkness.

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Fighting Floyd: What Next for Mayweather thoughts right now. A rematch with Alvarez should be next on the menu and, as we saw on Saturday night, Mayweather still has a lot left in the tank. He’s still the premiere ticket in town and, even at age 36, another two to three years of high level boxing is not too far out of the realm of possibilities for this prize fighter.

By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Desk Floyd Mayweather’s decision over Canelo Alvarez on Saturday night was just another impressive notch on the big championship belt that rests in the possession of Mayweather.

His combination of defense, quickness and counterpunches were typical of Mayweather’s stellar career and improved his record to 450, setting him up for the next challenge in his boxing career. But what will it be? Will it be a final dream showdown with Manny Pacquiao, a dream that’s slowly losing its luster? Or could it be retirement or possibly another fight? Stephen D. Riley and Perry Green of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the question.

Riley: Mayweather doesn’t really have anything left to do. He’s beaten all of his challengers and done so in a fashion and bravado not seen since Muhammad Ali. A fight with Pacquiao doesn’t seem as appetizing as it was a few years ago so there isn’t as much demand for that fight as it was when the idea first came up with both fighters in their prime.

Honestly, I think Mayweather has earned the right to retire in peace. He’s not going to be given any lip about not fighting Pacquiao and can anybody remember the last time he was seriously challenged?

Riley: I’m always leery of aging boxers because the chance for a loss is greatly increased. We’re going to remember Mayweather for a lot of things but his undefeated record is one that stands out. To jeopardize that against some young contender looking to make a name for himself is too great a risk for Mayweather. He’s cocky, arrogant, and he’s also a smart businessman who knows that his stature revolves around his undefeated track. A loss wouldn’t crack everything that Mayweather has built but it undoubtedly would blemish what he’s done to this point.

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Mayweather and his opponent Canelo Alvarez shortly before the Sept. 14 fight.

Green: I agree with you Riley that a fight with Pacquiao isn’t as demanding as it used

to be, especially with Pacquiao avoiding drug tests, but retirement should be the least of his

Wrestling Restored to the Olympics After Enthusiasts Protest Dismissal

By Courtney Jacobs Special to the AFRO

Despite being one of the oldest events in the Olympics Games, wrestling had to wage an uphill battle to regain a spot in the quadrennial summer games.

Nasir Wilkinson, 11, is passionate about the sport and told the AFRO he hopes to compete nationally one day.

He may get the opportunity. The sport was originally dropped from the games in February, but following a chorus of opposition to the decision, the International Olympics Committee (IOC) on Sept. 8 restored the sport for the 2020 and 2024 games.

The move to drop wrestling, which has been in every modern Olympics since the inaugural 1896 Athens

Games except 1900, reflected the IOC’s efforts to attract younger fans. But the move encountered stiff opposition, some of it from young athletes.

“They can’t hold us down,” Nasir said recently.

Even though the IOC Executive Board had dropped the sport Feb. 12, he remained enthusiastic about the sport.

He even participated in a rally in Georgia in August during which the call for a restoration of wrestling drew full-throated support.

Such rallies were common throughout the athletic world in the wake of the Feb. 12 IOC decision to drop wrestling, along with .several other competitions from its list of core sports for the 2016 Olympics Games.

The IOC decided it would limit the Games to 28 sports,

Green: Floyd isn’t going to run from a challenge just to preserve his undefeated record so retirement at age 36 is completely out the question. He’s 36, Riley, not 46. We can and should expect to see him compete at a high level for the next few seasons. Bottom line: this fighter isn’t going anywhere any time soon. And as much as you want to see him fail he simply

Nationals Rake in Wins to Charge Back into Wildcard Chase

By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor The Washington Nationals have won seven of their last eight games, roaring back into the National League wildcard race. Just a week ago, the Nationals were behind nearly nine games in the race for a wildcard seed. But after their recent winning surge, they’re now a legitimate contender for a possible playoff seed with just 14 games left on their regular season schedule.

(Sept. 9-12) “Red-Hot” Washington Sweeps Mets in Four-Game Series

Four of the Nationals’ last seven wins came in a fourgame sweep of the New York Mets. Washington beat the Mets, 9-0 in the First Game of the series, 6-3 in the Second Game, 3-0 in the Third Game and 7-2 in the Fourth Game. The Nationals totaled 38 hits on offense throughout the series against the Mets, and their pitching was just as stellar. Starting pitcher Gio Gonzalez was flawless in the series opener, giving up just one hit and zero runs with eight strikeouts through nine full innings pitched.

(Sept. 13-14) Nats’ Win Streak Ends in Series against Phillies

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(Left to right) Oklahoma State’s wrestler Jordan Oliver and Nasir Wilkinson and roughly 10,500 athletes and about 300 events.

But after wrestling enthusiasts waged a campaign to restore the sport, an effort orchestrated by USA Wrestling and other international wrestling sanctioning bodies.

The advocacy resulted in wrestling, along with squash, baseball and softball, gaining an opportunity to make a case for inclusion. The opportunity was granted by the IOC board in May. After wrestling made its case before the board, the IOC decided Sept. 8 it

would limit the Games to 28 sports, and roughly 10,500 athletes and about 300 events, restoring wrestling for the 2020 and 2024 Olympic games.

On the first vote, wrestling received 49 votes out of the 95 voters, receiving the majority of votes and winning on the first ballot.

“This is a great day for wrestling,” USA Wrestling President James Ravannack said. “As a family, we showed our pride in wrestling, and have helped tell the story of our sport to the IOC and to the world.”

Washington added another win, 6-1, in the First Game of a three game current series against the Philadelphia Phillies. The Nationals had 11 hits in the win, including a homerun from Wilson Ramos and Ryan Zimmerman. But their win streak finally came to an end with a 5-4 loss in the Second Game of the series against Philly. Unlike his amazing performance against the Mets, Gio Gonzalez was shaky on the mound for Washington, giving up nine hits and four earned runs through just six innings pitched.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013 adm875 Frances B. Owens Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Melvin Owens, whose address is 631 Ingraham St., NW Washington, DC 20011, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Frances B. Owens, who died on December 15th, 2012 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 March 6, 2014. 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 March 6, 2014, 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: September 6, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Melvin Owens Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF TYPESET: Fri WILLS Aug 30 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington,D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM861 Milton S. Baddy AKA Milton Sylvester Baddy Decedent Lynn H. Johnson, Esq. Johnson & Pavuk 1413 K ST. NW, Suite 1500 Washington, DC 20005 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Robert Baddy, whose address is 3650 Emerald St., Unit D-1 Torrance, CA 90503, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Milton S. Baddy AKA Milton Sylvester Baddy, who died on November 17th, 2004 with a will, and will serve with, Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before March 6, 2014. 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 March 6, 2014, 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: September 6, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Robert Baddy Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13

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Absolute Divorce $ 150.00 APPOINTMENT, APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO NOTICE TO c. Custody Divorce $150.00 CREDITORS CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO AND NOTICE TO 14:38:21 EDT 2013 UNKNOWN HEIRS UNKNOWN HEIRS To place your ad, call 1-800-237-6692, ext. 262, Public Notices $50.00 & up David M. Mason, whose Mary Virginia Swisshelm address is 4538 Kin- Albrecht, whose address depending on size, Baltimore Legal Notices are $24.84 per inch. mount Road; Lanham, is 675 E St. NW Apt. 700; 1-800 (AFRO) 892 Washington, DC 20004, Maryland 20706, was appointed personal re- was appointed personal For Proof of Publication, please call 1-800-237-8892, ext. 244 presentative of the estate representative of the of Tyrone James Mason, estate of Robert P. AlEDTTue 2013 TYPESET: Sep 17 18:18:26 EDTTue 2013 TYPESET: Sep 17 13:44:00 TYPESET: Sep 17 13:44:48 EDTTue 2013 who died on August 17. brecht, who died on TYPESET: Fri Aug 30 14:45:05 LEGAL NOTICES 2013 without a will and March 10, 2013 with a will serve without Court will and will serve without Superior Court of Superior Court of Superior Court of Superior Court of supervision. All unknown Court supervision. All unthe District of the District of the District of the District of heirs and heirs whose known heirs and heirs District of Columbia District of Columbia Columbia Columbia whereabouts are un- whose whereabouts are PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION Civil Division Civil Division known shall enter their unknown shall enter their W a s h i n g t o n , D .

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Washington,D.C. appearance in this Case No. 13-0005984 Case No. 13-0006201 appearance in this 20001-2131 20001-2131 IN RE: IN RE: proceeding. Objections proceeding. Objections Administration No. Administration No. to such appointment (or Bernard Charmayne to such appointment 2013ADM867 2013ADM898 Dontaue Hickson Sandra-Marie Stewart shall be filed with the to the probate of deGerald L. Moye, Sr. Applicant Applicant Register of Wills, D.C., cedent´s will) shall be Mary A. Gibbs Decedent ORDER OF ORDER OF 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd filed with the Register of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, PUBLICATION PUBLICATION Floor Washington, D.C. Wills, D.C., 515 5th APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CHANGE OF NAME CHANGE OF NAME 20001, on or before Street, N.W., 3rd Floor NOTICE TO Bernard Dontaue Hickson Charmayne Sandra-Marie CREDITORS March 20, 2014. Claims W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . having filed a applicant for Stewart having filed a apCREDITORS AND NOTICE TO against the decedent 20001, on or before judgment changing the name plicantion for judgment AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS shall be presented to the March 20, 2014. Claims from Bernard Dontaue the name from UNKNOWN HEIRS Terry L. Moye whose ad- changing undersigned with a copy against the decedent Hickson name to Allaysia Charmayne Sandra-Marie to the Register of Wills or shall be presented to the Wylicia Gibbs, whose ad- dress is 800 Kenilworth Stewart to Marcus Ryan London Pierce and having dress is 27 Bryant Street, Avenue, N.E. Washingundersigned with a copy filed with the Register of applied to the court for an OrStewart and having applied Wills with a copy to the to the Register of Wills or N.E. Washington, D.C. ton, DC 20019, was ap- to the court for an Order of der of Publication of the noundersigned, on or be- filed with the Register of 20002, was appointed pointed personal repre- Publication of the notice re- tice required by law in such it is by the Court this fore March 20, 2014, or Wills with a copy to the personal representative sentative of the estate of quired by law in such cases; it cases; 3rd day of September 2013, is by the Court this 11th day of be forever barred. Per- undersigned, on or be- of the estate of Mary A. Gerald L. Moye,Sr., who September 2013, hereby hereby sons believed to be heirs fore March 20, 2014, or Gibbs, who died on April died on September 24, ORDERED, that a copy of ORDERED, that a copy of or legatees of the de- be forever barred. Per- 18th, 2011 without a will, 2008 without a will and this Order be published once this Order be published once cedent who do not re- sons believed to be heirs and will serve without will serve without Court a week for three (3) consecu- a week for three (3) consecuceive a copy of this notice or legatees of the de- Court supervision. All un- supervision. All unknown tive weeks, in The Afro- tive weeks, in The Afroby mail within 25 days of cedent who do not re- known heirs and heirs heirs and heirs whose American , a newspaper of American Newspaper, a newspaper of general circirculation of the Disits first publication shall ceive a copy of this notice whose whereabouts are whereabouts are un- general culation of the District of trict of Columbia; and it is furso inform the Register of by mail within 25 days of unknown shall enter their known shall enter their ther Columbia; and it is further appearance in this Wills, including name, its first publication shall a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s ORDERED, that the publicaORDERED, that the publicaaddress and relation- so inform the Register of proceeding. Objections proceeding. Objections tion must began no later than tion must began no later than Wills, including name, to such appointment to such appointment 12 days after the filing of the 12 days after the filing of the ship. application; and is further address and relation- shall be filed with the shall be filed with the application; and is further Date of Publication: Register of Wills, D.C., Register of Wills, D.C., ORDERED, that the FINAL ORDERED, that the FINAL ship.

September 20, 2013 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd HEARING on this application HEARING on this application Date of Publication: Name of newspaper: to change name will be held change name will be held Floor Washington, D.C. Floor Washington, D.C. to September 20, 2013 Afro-American in Judge-in-Chambers, in Judge-in-Chambers, 20001, on or before 20001, on or before Name of newspaper: Washington Room 4220 in the District of Room 4220 in the District of March 6, 2014. Claims M a r c h y 2 0 t h , 2 0 1 4 . Columbia at 500 Indiana Columbia at 500 Indiana Afro-American Law Reporter Avenue NW Washington DC against the decedent Avenue NW Washington DC Claims against the deDavid M. Mason Washington shall be presented to the cedent shall be pre- 20001, on the 30th day of 20001, on the 22nd day of Personal Law Reporter October, 2013 at 3:15 pm.If 2013 at 2:30 pm.If Mary Virginia undersigned with a copy sented to the under- October, Representative any person desires to opany person desires to opSwisshelm Albrecht to the Register of Wills or signed with a copy to the pose this application, that pose this application, that Personal filed with the Register of Register of Wills or filed person or his or her attorney person or his or her attorney TRUE TEST COPY Representative Wills with a copy to the with the Register of Wills must be present at the hear- must be present at the hearREGISTER OF WILLS undersigned, on or be- with a copy to the under- ing or file written detailed ing or file written detailed 9/20, 9/27, 10/3/13 fore March 6, 2014 or be signed, on or before objections five (5) days in ad- objections five (5) days in adTRUE TEST COPY forever barred. Persons March 20th, 2014, or be vance of the hearing with vance of the hearing with REGISTER OF WILLS Judge-in-Chambers and mail Judge-in-Chambers and mail 9/20, 9/27, 10/3/13 believed to be heirs or forever barred. Persons a copy of the applicant or ap- a copy of the applicant or aplegatees of the decedent believed to be heirs or plicant’s counsel; and it is fur- plicant’s counsel; and it is furwho do not receive a legatees of the decedent ther ther copy of this notice by mail who do not receive a ORDERED, that ORDERED, that within 25 days of its first copy of this notice by mail the applicant must send the the applicant must send the publication shall so in- within 25 days of its first application for change of application for change of name of an adult and notice name of an adult and notice form the Register of publication shall so in- of final hearing to the ap- of final hearing to the apWills, including name, form the Register of plicant’s creditors personally plicant’s creditors personally address and relation- Wills, including name, or by registered or certified or by registered or certified ship. address and relation- mail and show proof of ser- mail and show proof of service by filing the affidavit/ vice by filing the affidavit/ Date of Publication: ship. declaratiion declaration of service September 6, 2013 Date of Publication: of service.

SO ORDERED Name of newspaper: September20th,2013 SO ORDERED JUDGE Afro-American Name of newspaper: JUDGE 9/20, 9/27, 10/4/2013 Washington Afro-American 9/20, 9/27, 10/4/13 Law Reporter Washington Wylicia Gibbs Law Reporter Personal Terry L. Moye Representative Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS REGISTER OF WILLS 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13 9/20, 9/27, 10/3/13

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Timi Rotimi Omokehinde having filed a complaint for judgment changing YumnBaiyyinah Ayomitunlesi Omokehinde name to Yumn Baiyyinah Akins and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 21st day of December 2013, hereby ORDERED, that all persons concerned show cause, if any there be, on or before the 25th day of September 2013, why the prayers of said complaint should not be granted; provided that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks before said day in the Afro-American Newspaper.

SO ORDERED JUDGE TYPESET: Tue Sep 10 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/13

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 13bp609 IN RE: Timi Rotimi Omokehinde Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Timi Rotimi Omokehinde having filed a complaint for judgment changing HaatimSajjaad Ayomitomiwa Omokehinde name to Haatim Sajjaad Akins and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 21st day of August 2013, hereby ORDERED, that all person concered show cause, if any there be,on or before the 25th day of September 2013, why the prayers of said complaint should not be granted: provided that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks before said day in the Afro-American Newspaper.

SO ORDERED JUDGE TYPESET: Tue Sep 10 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/13

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 13FSP610 IN RE: Timi Rotimi Omokehinde Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Timi Rotimi Omokehinde having filed a complaint for judgment changing UzmaTasneem Ayomitelera Omokehinde name to Uzma Tasneem Akins and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 21st day of August 2013, hereby ORDERED, thatall persons show cause, if any there be, on or before the 25th day of September 2013, why the prayers of said complaint should not be granted; provided that a copy of this order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks before said day in the AfroAmerican Newspaper.

SO ORDERED JUDGE TYPESET: Tue Sep 10 9/13/, 9/20, 9/27/13

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Family Court Case No. 13FSP611 IN RE: Timi Rotimi Omokehinde Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Timi Rotimi Omokehinde having filed a complaint for judgment changing ThanaaSalsabil Ayomikunsi Omokehinde name to Thanaa Salsabil Akins and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 21st day of August 2013, hereby ORDERED, that all persons concerned show cause, if any there be, on or before the 25th day of September 2013, why the prayers of said complaint should not be granted; provided that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks before said day in the Afro-American Newspaper.

SO ORDERED JUDGE 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/13

Dominic Antonio Dooley having filed a application for judgment changing the name from Dominic Antonio Dooley to Dominique Daenerys Bryant and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 19th day of August 2013, hereby ORDERED, that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in Afro-American , a newspaper of general circulation of the District of Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that the publication must began no later than 12 days after the filing of the application; and is further ORDERED, that the FINAL HEARING on this application to change name of an adult will be held in Judge-inChambers, Room 4220 in the District of Columbia at 500 Ind i a n a AvEDT e n u e 2013 N . W. , 16:25:15 Washington DC 20001, on the 7th day of October, 2013 at 3:15 pm.If any person desires to oppose this application, that person or his or her attorney must be present at the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) days in advance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail a copy of the applicant or applicant’s counsel; and it is further ORDERED, that the applicant must send the application for change of name of an adult and notice of final hearing to the applicant’s creditors personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof of service by filing the affidavit/ declaration of service and to credit card companies involved in fruad cases. the applicant must Send the application for change of name of an adult and notice of final hearing to the D.C. Chief of Police, 300 Indiana Avenue, N.W., ROOM 5080, Washington, D.C. 20001, the Department of Corrections and the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof of service by filing the affidavit/declaration of service. the applicant must send te application for change of 16:26:11 EDT name of an adult2013 and notice of finl hearing to Fairfax County Circuit Court and the Chief of Police for Fairfax County.

SO ORDERED JUDGE TYPESET: 10 9/13,Tue 9/20,Sep 9/27/13

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 2013CA5709 IN RE: Rahamatalai Titilola ArogundadeOmokehinde Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

R a h a m a t a l a i Ti t i l o l a Arogundade-Omokehinde having filed a complaint for judgment changing the name from Rahamatalai Titilola Arogundade-Omokehinde to Rahamatalai Lola Akins and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 21st day of August 2013, hereby ORDERED, that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in Afro-American Newspaper, a newspaper of general circulation of the District of Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that the publica16:26:58 EDTno2013 tion must began later than 12 days after the filing of the application; and is further ORDERED, that the FINAL HEARING on this application to change name will be held in Judge-in-Chambers, Room 4220 in the District of Columbia at 500 Indiana Avenue NW Washington DC 20001, on the 9th day of October, 2013 at 2:30 pm.If any person desires to oppose this application, that person or his or her attorney must be present at the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) days in advance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail a copy of the applicant or applicant’s counsel; and it is further SO ORDERED the applicant must send thw application for change of name of an adult and notice of final hearing to the applicant’s creditors personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof of service by filing the affidavit/ declaration of service. the application must send the application for change of name of an adult and notice of final hearing to the US Department of Homeland Security - Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, Washington Field Office, 2675 Prosperity Avenue, Fairfax Virginia 22031 personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof of service be made by filing the affidavit/declaration of service.

SO ORDERED JUDGE 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/13

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013adm895 Iris T. Johnson Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Kym W. Smallwood, whose address is 800 Kenilworth Ave N.E. #316 Washington, D.C. 20019, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Iris T. Johnson, who died on July 18th, 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 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 March 13th, 2014.

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 March 13th, 2014, 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: September 13th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Kym W. Smallwood Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 13-0005733 IN RE: Antwaun Ball Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Antwaun Ball having filed a application for judgment changing the name from Antwaun Ball to Abdus Salaam Rashaad and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 21st day of August 2013, hereby ORDERED, that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, to be completed within 30 days of filing of the application in Afro, a newspaper of general circulation of the District of Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that the publication must began no later than two weeks after the filing of the application; and is further ORDERED, that the FINAL HEARING on this application to change name will be held in Judge-in-Chambers, Room 4220 in the District of Columbia at 500 Indiana Avenue NW Washington DC 20001, on the 9th day of October, 2013 at 3:30 pm.If any person desires to oppose this application, that person or his or her attorney must be present at the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) days in advance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail a copy of the applicant or applicant’s counsel; and it is further SO ORDERED that the notice be sent to the applicant’s creditos personally or by registered or certified mail and that proof of service be made by filing the affidavit/declaration of service in name change cases. that notice be sent personally or by registered or by or certified mail and that proof of service be made by filing the affidavit/declaration of service in name change cases. is incarcerated in a jurisdiction other that the District of Columbia, that notice shall be sent to the Federal Bureau of Prisons personally or by registered or certified mail and that proof of service of mailing be made by filing the affidavit/declaration of service in name change cases.

SO ORDERED JUDGE

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2013 REGISTER 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/13 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF Superior Court of COLUMBIA the District of PROBATE DIVISION District of Columbia Washington, D.C. PROBATE 16:19:25 EDTDIVISION 2013 20001-2131 Washington, D.C. Administration No. 20001-2131 2013ADM924 Administration No. Estate of 2013ADM653 Ometa D. Fields Ernest Lewis AKA Decedent Ometa D. NOTICE OF Fields-Brown APPOINTMENT, Deceased NOTICE TO NOTICE OF CREDITORS STANDARD AND NOTICE TO PROBATE UNKNOWN HEIRS Ronald L.Taylor, whose Notice is hereby given address is 2518 Fairhill that a petition has been filed in this Court by MarDrive, Suitland MD 20746, was appointed ion E. Winston for stanpersonal representative dard probate, including of the estate of Ernest the appointment of one Lewis, who died on or more personal repreMarch 11th, 2013 without sentative. Unless a coma will and will serve with- plaint or an objection in out Court supervision. All accordance with Superunknown heirs and heirs ior Court Probate Diwhose whereabouts are vision Rule 407 is filed in unknown shall enter their this Court within 30 days from the date of first pubappearance in this proceeding. Objections lication of this notice, the to such appointment Court may take the acshall be filed with the tion hereinafter set forth.

Register of Wills, D.C., Ordered any interested 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd person to show cause Floor Washington, D.C. why the provisions of the 20001, on or before lost or destroyed will M a r c h 1 3 t h , 2 0 1 4 . dated October 2, 1979 Claims against the de- should not be admitted to cedent shall be pre- probate as expressed in sented to the under- the petition nd codicilsigned with a copy to the dated April 19th, 1995.

Register of Wills or filed Appoint an unsupervised with the Register of Wills personal representative with a copy to the under- Register of Wills signed, on or before Clerk of the March 13th, 2014, or be Probate Division forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or Date of First Publication legatees of the decedent September 13th, 2013 who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail Names of Newspapers: within 25 days of its first Washington publication shall so in- Law Reporter Afro-American form the Register of Wills, including name, Signature of address and relation- Petitioners/Attorney Marion E. Winston ship.

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Civil Division Case No. 2013FSP564 IN RE: Bennie VIctoria Martu Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME Daniel D Martu and Doris B. Martu

having filed a complaint for judgment changing Bennie victoria Martu name to Aaliyah Bennie Martu and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 10th day of September 2013, hereby ORDERED, that all persons concerned show cause, if any there be, on or before the 16th day of October 2013, why the prayers of said complaint should not be granted:provided that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks before said day in the AfroAmerican Newspaper.

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Superior Court of Superior Court of Superior Court of the District of the District of the District of District of Columbia District of Columbia District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 20001-2131 20001-2131 Administration No. Administration No. Administration No. 2013ADM176 2013ADM858 2013ADM843 Grace Brent Emma Montgomery Patricia N. Hederman Decedent AKA DeVore NOTICE OF Grace N. Brent Decedent APPOINTMENT, Decedent NOTICE OF NOTICE TO Horace L. Bradshaw APPOINTMENT, CREDITORS 1644-6th St. NW NOTICE TO AND NOTICE TO Washington, DC 20001 CREDITORS UNKNOWN HEIRS Attorney AND NOTICE TO Edward W. Wilson and NOTICE OF UNKNOWN HEIRS APPOINTMENT, Lloyd J. DeVore, Dennis James M. Wilson, Jr., NOTICE TO D. DeVore., Tanya M. whose address is 111 CREDITORS D e Vo r e , w h o s e a d - Overdale Rd. Pittsburgh, AND NOTICE TO dresses are 5411 Sec- PA 15221 was appointed UNKNOWN HEIRS ond Street NW, washing- personal representaJames L. Brent,Jr. whose ton, DC 20011, 5117 tive(s) of the estate of Paaddress is 718 Jefferson, Armetus Road; Sims, NC tricia N. Hederman York St., NE, Washington, 27880 were appointed NY 10280, who died on D.C. 20011 was appersonal representatives February 16, 2013 withpointed personal repre- of the estate of Emma out a will, and will serve sentative of the estate of Montgomery DeVore, without Court superviGrace Brent AKA Grace who died on April 15th, sion. All unknown heirs N. Brent, who died on 1999 without a will, and a n d h e i r s w h o s e January 31st, 2012 with- will serve with Court su- whereabouts are unout a will, and will serve pervision. All unknown known shall enter their without Court supervi- heirs and heirs whose a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s sion. All unknown heirs whereabouts are un- proceeding. Objections a n d h e i r s w h o s e known shall enter their to such appointment (or to the probate of dewhereabouts are un- a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s known shall enter their proceeding. Objections cedent´s will) shall be appearance in this to such appointment filed with the Register of proceeding. Objections shall be filed with the Wills, D.C., 515 5th to such appointment (or Register of Wills, D.C., Street, N.W., 3rd Floor to the probate of de- 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . cedent´s will) shall be Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before filed with the Register of 20001, on or before March 6, 2014. Claims Wills, D.C., 515 5th March 6, 2014. Claims against the decedent Street, N.W., 3rd Floor against the decedent shall be presented to the Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy 20001, on or before undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or March 6, 2014. Claims to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of against the decedent filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the shall be presented to the Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or beundersigned with a copy undersigned, on or be- fore March 6, 2014, or be to the Register of Wills or fore March 6, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons filed with the Register of forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or Wills with a copy to the believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent undersigned, on or be- legatees of the decedent who do not receive a fore March 6, 2014 or be who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail forever barred. Persons copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first believed to be heirs or within 25 days of its first publication shall so inlegatees of the decedent publication shall so in- form the Register of Wills, including name, who do not receive a form the Register of copy of this notice by mail Wills, including name, address and relationwithin 25 days of its first address and relation- ship.

Date of Publication: publication shall so in- ship.

September 6, 2013 form the Register of Date of Publication: Name of newspaper: Wills, including name, September 6, 2013 Afro-American address and relation- Name of newspaper: Washington ship.

Afro-American Law Reporter Date of Publication: Washington Edward W. Wilson September 6, 2013 Law Reporter James M. Wilson Name of newspaper: Lloyd J. DeVore Personal Afro-American Dennis D. DeVore Representative(s) 16:23:25 EDT 2013 Daily Washington Tanya M. DeVore Law Reporter Personal TRUE TEST COPY TYPESET: OF Fri WILLS Aug 30 James L. Brent,Jr. Representatives REGISTER 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13 Personal TRUE TEST COPY Representative REGISTER OF WILLS TRUE TEST COPY 9/6/, 9/13, 9/20/13 Superior Court of REGISTER OF TYPESET: Fri WILLS Aug 30 14:39:23 EDTFri2013 TYPESET: Aug 30 14:40:25 2013 theEDT District of 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM881 Robert W. Moesker Decedent Philip N. Margolius c/o The Margolius Law Firm, LLP 4201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20008 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Arthur D. Purswell, Jr., whose address is 7 Postwood Road, Austin, Texas 78738-1503, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Robert W. Moesker, who died on July 10th, 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 March 6, 2014 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 withEDT a copy to the 16:27:46 2013 undersigned, on or before March 6, 2014, 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: September 6, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Arthur D. Purswell, Jr. Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 9/6, 9/13. 9/20/13

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM879 Omar Segundo Matos Decedent Kerri M. Castellini, Esq. Feeney & Kuwamura, P.A. Suite 350 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS James P. Caine, whose address is 17819 Benchmark Drive Dallas, Texas 75252 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Omar Segundo Matos, who died on June 27, 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 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 March 6, 2014. 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 March 6, 2014, 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: September 6, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter James P. Caine Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13

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Columbia Washington, DC 20001 Family Court Case No. 13FSP602 IN RE: Jazz White Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME Jazz White having filed a

complaint for judgment changing JaCobi Lamont Vuitton Dandridge name to JaCobi Lamont Vuitton White and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 20th day of August 2013, hereby ORDERED, that all persons concerned show cause, if any there be, on or before the 20th day of August, 2013, why the prayers of said complaint should not be granted; provided that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in The AfroAmerican Newspaper.. a newspaper of general SO ORDERED JUDGE 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13 TYPESET: Fri Aug 30

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM433 Hilda Woodford Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Emmette Brown, whose address is 1110 Fidler Lane, Suite 900, Silver Spring, MD 20901 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Hilda Woodford, who died on April 18th, 2010 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 March 6, 2014. 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 March 6, 2014, 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: September 6, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Daily Washington Law Reporter Emmette Brown Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Family Court Case No. 2013FSP335 IN RE: Karen Elizabeth Schindler Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Karen Schindler having filed a complaint for judgment changing Alexander Cruz Schindler name to Alexander Cruz Cosme Schindler and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 10th day of September 2013, hereby ORDERED, that all persons concerned show cause,if any there be on or before the 4th day of October 2013, why prayers of said complaint should not be granted; provided that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks before said day in the in The Afro-American Newspaper.

SO ORDERED JUDGE 9/20, Tue 9/27/,Sep 10/4/13 TYPESET: 17

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM909 Josephine Adele Conwell Reid AKA Adele Reid Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Andrea Adele Reid, whose address is 4707 Halloran Court, Upper Marlboro MD 20772 was, appointed personal representative of the estate of Josephine Adele Conwell Reid AKA Adele Reid, who died on December 9th, 2012 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.

14:58:40 EDT Objections 2013 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 March 20th, 2014.

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 March 20th, 2014, 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: September 20th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Andrea Adele Reid Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM926 Katie B. Gibbs Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Kathy Gibbs-Wood, whose address is 10204 Spring Water Lane, Upper Marlboro, MD 2277 was, appointed personal representative of the estate of Katie B. Gibbs, who died on June 22, 2014 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor 13:41:21 W a s h i nEDT g t o n 2013 , D.C. 20001, on or before March 20th, 2014.

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 March 3rd, 203, 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: September 20th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Kathy Gibbs-Wood Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY

REGISTER OF TYPESET: TueWILLS Sep 17 13:46:19 9/20, 9/27, 10/41/3

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM663 Estate of Claire Williams Deceased NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Wells Fargo Bank.N.A. 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.

In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the court of due execution, enter an order determing that the decedejt died intestste appoint an unsupervised personal representative.

Date of First Publication; Ssptember 19th, 2013 Names of Newspapers: TRUE TEST COPY Washington L 14:47:01 EDT 2013 REGISTER aw Reporter TYPESET: OF TueWILLS Sep 17 14:27:53 EDT 2013 9/20, 9/27, 10/4/13 Washington Jewish Week Superior Court of Renee Dyson the District of Atlantic Law Group District of Columbia 1602 Village Market PROBATE DIVISION W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . Blvd. Suite 310 Leesburg, VA 20175 20001-2131 Signature of Administration No. Petitioners/Attorney 2012ADM5 TYPESET: 9/20, 9/27/13Tue Sep 17 13:45:27 Mary Simmons Decedent NOTICE OF Superior Court of APPOINTMENT, the District of NOTICE TO Columbia CREDITORS Civil Division AND NOTICE TO Case No. 13-0006209 UNKNOWN HEIRS IN RE: Lisa Simmons, whose Paul a d d r e s s i s 2 5 2 4 Joseph Rogers Southern Avenue, SE, Applicant Apt 2, Washington, D.C. ORDER OF 20020 was, appointed PUBLICATION personal representative CHANGE OF NAME of the estate of Mary Paul Joseph Rogers havSimmons, who died on ing filed an application for September 4, 2011 with- judgment changing the name Paul Joseph Rogers to out a will, and will serve from Kay Rogers and having apwithout Court supervi- plied to the court for an Order sion. All unknown heirs of Publication of the notice a n d h e i r s w h o s e required by law in such whereabouts are un- cases; it is by the Court this day of December 2013, known shall enter their 11th hereby a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s ORDERED, that a copy of proceeding. Objections this Order be published once to such appointment a week for three (3) consecushall be filed with the tive weeks, in The Afro, a newspaper of Register of Wills, D.C., American general circulation of the Dis515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd trict of Columbia; and it is furFloor Washington, D.C. ther 20001, on or before ORDERED, that the publicaMarch 20, 2014. Claims tion must began no later than days after the filing of the against the decedent 12 application; and is further shall be presented to the ORDERED, that the FINAL undersigned with a copy HEARING on this application to the Register of Wills or to change name will be held filed with the Register of i n J u d g e - i n - C h a m b e r s , 4220 in the District of Wills with a copy to the Room Columbia at 500 Indiana undersigned, on or be- Avenue NW Washington DC fore March 20, 2014, or 20001, on the 30th day of be forever barred. Per- October, 2013 at 2:45 pm.If sons believed to be heirs any person desires to opthis application, that or legatees of the de- pose person or his or her attorney cedent who do not re- must be present at the hearceive a copy of this notice ing or file written detailed by mail within 25 days of objections five (5) days in adits first publication shall vance of the hearing with and mail so inform the Register of Judge-in-Chambers a copy of the applicant or apWills, including name, plicant’s counsel; and it is furaddress and relation- ther ORDERED that ship. the applicant must send the Date of Publication: application for change of September 20th, 2013 name of an adult and notice Name of newspaper: of final hearing to the apAfro-American plicant’s creditors personally or by registered or certified Washington mail and show proof of serLaw Reporter by filing the affidavit/ Lisa Simmons vice declaration of service.

Personal SO ORDERED Representative JUDGE TRUE TEST COPY 9/20, 9/27. 10/4/13 REGISTER OF WILLS 9/20, 9/27. 10/4/13

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM299 Rease S.Pugh Decedent Brett E. Cohen 7910 Woodmont Avenue, #1430 Bethesda, Maryland 20814-7047 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Brett E. Cohen, whose address is 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 1430, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-7047 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Rease S. Pugh, who died on April 30, 1012 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 March 20th, 2014. 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 March 20th, 2014, 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: September 20th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Brett E. Cohen Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 9/20, 9/27, 10/4/13

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Parents and Police Search for Kidnapped Kids in Mesmerizing, Multi-Layered Film Review by Kam Williams Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) is a rugged outdoorsman and family man with deep roots in rural Pennsylvania.

He and his wife, Grace (Maria Bello), are raising their kids, 6 year-old Anna (Erin Gerasimovich) and teenage Ralph (Dylan Minnette) in the tiny town of Dover, an idyllic oasis seemingly far removed from big city afflictions.

It is Thanksgiving morning, and the doting dad has decided his son is ready to shoot his first deer, a rite-of-passage he’d shared with his own father upon coming-of-age a generation earlier.

And after a telling tableau dripping with Christian symbolism reflected in a recitation of the Lord’s Prayer and a cross dangling from their pickup truck’s rearview mirror, we find the two deep in the woods where the boy does, indeed, bag his first buck.

“Be ready,” Keller ominously advises Viola Davis and Terrance Howard in Prisoners Ralph on the return trip, not because he has a premonition about any impending disaster, but due to the vague sense of paranoia he has cultivated over the years as an amateur survivalist. Still, a basement stocked with years’ worth of provisions would prove to be of no use in the calamity about to unfold later that day.

First, the Dovers travel to the home of Nancy (Viola Davis) and Franklin Birch (Terrence Howard), neighbors with a couple of kids around the same age as theirs. However, after sharing a satisfying Thanksgiving dinner, youngsters Anna and Joy (Kyla Drew Simmons) vanish without a trace while playing outside unsupervised.

The only lead is a suspicious RV parked down the street which the police trace to Alex Jones (Paul Dano), the mentally-challenged village idiot ostensibly incapable of pulling off such an abduction. With no other clues to follow, the investigating officer (Jake Gyllenhaal) puts the case on a back burner, much to the chagrin of the missing girls’ anguished parents.

Given that time is of the essence, it is no surprise when a very desperate Keller takes the law into his own hands, with his manic behavior cutting a sharp contrast to the relatively-measured approach of deliberately-paced Detective Loki. Will the frustrated father or the laid-back cop crack the case first? Or will they join forces and pool their resources? Will Anna and Joy be rescued alive, or found too late to save them? Or will the whodunit simply go unsolved.

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