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The firing came the same day Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 3 (FOP), Baltimore’s police union, issued an After Action Review Report critical of the commissioner’s leadership during the weeks of unrest in April and May that followed the death of Freddie Gray.

The mayor denied the FOP’s report had anything to do with the firing, but called the ongoing focus on Batts’s leadership, as the city struggles to fend off a surge in gun violence and rank and file police officers effectively withdraw from Baltimore’s high crime neighborhoods, a “distraction”, according to the Associated Press.

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By Roberto Alejandro Special to the AFRO ralejandro@afro.com “ Changing the police department to the future Baltimore Police Department, that we have the opportunity to obtain, is going to take time. We’re on the road, we’re making those changes, we’re going in the right direction, and it doesn’t matter whether Tony Batts is here or not, change is happening in the Baltimore Police Department,” said Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts during a sit-down interview with the AFRO on July 2.

Change was indeed happening in the department, at least at the top. On July 8, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie RawlingsBlake fired Batts and replaced him with

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Two members of the Congressional Black Caucus recently sponsored a bill that would allow, for the first time in the nation’s history, qualified students to attend a community college for free.

U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), the ranking Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee, co-introduced the “America’s College Promise Act of 2015” with U.S. Sen. Cory Booker Continued on A3

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com One of the nation’s most active civil rights organizations recently held a two-day conference on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., where restoring the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a chief topic.

– Greg Moore The National Action Network (NAN), led by the Rev. Al Sharpton, convened a legislative and policy conference, “From Demonstration to Legislation,” on July 8-9. Sharpton said that 2015 has been a year of intense struggle for civil rights but those Continued on A4

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By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com Members of the National Bankers Association, including heads of several Black-owned banking institutions, recently alleged charges of racial discrimination against the Department of Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund). The banks were overlooked for up to $3.5 billion in allocations in New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) provided by the fund.

The NMTC program,

“By our estimates, less than two percent of the $450 billion NMTCs issued over the past 12 years has gone to minority banks.”

– B. Doyle Mitchell designed to spur economic development in distressed communities across the U.S., recently awarded 76 community development institutions, but did not do the same for any of the nation’s minority banks, despite their reputations of deploying capital in the most underserved communities in the U.S. “The absence of a single minority bank raises much concern,” said Michael Grant, president of the National Bankers Association stated in a press release on July 10. “In 2009, the General Accounting

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(AP) — The rapper and actor known as 50 Cent has filed for federal bankruptcy protection, days after a jury ordered him to pay $5 million in an invasion-ofprivacy lawsuit.

Curtis Jackson III, who owns a home in Farmington, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in U.S. District Court in Hartford on Monday.

Curtis Jackson III, the rapper The filing lists both and actor also known as 50 his assets and liabilities as between $10 million and $50 Cent. million.

It comes after a New York jury on Friday ordered Jackson to pay $5 million to a woman who said he acquired a video she made with her boyfriend, added himself as a crude commentator and posted it online without her permission.

Jackson’s attorneys and his publicist did not immediately respond to phone and email requests seeking comment on Monday.

New York City Reaches $5.9 Million Settlement in Eric Garner Chokehold Death Case (AP) — The family of a Black man who died after being placed in a White police officer’s chokehold reached a $5.9 million settlement with the city on Monday, days before the anniversary of his death.

Eric Garner’s family in October filed a notice of claim, the first step in filing a lawsuit against the city, asking for $75 million.

Garner, who was 43, was stopped last July 17 outside a Staten Island convenience store because police officers believed he was selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. A video shot by an onlooker shows Garner telling the officers to leave him alone and refusing to be handcuffed.

Officer Daniel Pantaleo placed his arm around Garner’s neck to take him down. Garner, who had asthma, is heard gasping “I can’t breathe!” 11 times before losing consciousness. He was pronounced dead later at a hospital.

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death. A federal probe is ongoing.

Chokeholds are banned by New York Police Department policy.

Pantaleo says he used a legal takedown maneuver known as a seatbelt, not a chokehold.

Garner’s death sparked demonstrations and became a flashpoint in a national debate about relations between police and minority communities.

While the city has a legal department that fields lawsuits, the comptroller’s office also can settle claims. Comptroller Scott Stringer has made a point of doing that in civil rights cases, saying that resolving them quickly saves the city money on legal fees.

“Following a judicious review of the claim and facts of this case, my office was able to reach a settlement with the estate of Eric Garner that is in the best interests of all parties,” Stringer said.

The city did not admit any liability.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said that hopefully Garner’s family “can find some peace and finality” from the settlement.

“By reaching a resolution, family and other loved ones can move forward even though we know they will never forget this tragic incident,” said de Blasio, who was scheduled to speak Tuesday at a church memorial service in Garner’s honor.

How much is a Black man’s life worth? facebook.com/afroamerican Longtime civil rights attorney Jonathan Moore, the family’s lawyer, said there also was a settlement with the Richmond University Medical Center, which responded to the scene. That settlement is confidential, and there was no one available at the hospital to comment. Moore said there would be a press conference Tuesday with the Rev. Al Sharpton and the family.

Sharpton said the settlement to the family was deserved but didn’t resolve the larger questions around policing and minorities. He said a rally planned for Saturday calling for an expedited federal investigation into Garner’s death would go on as planned.

“We did not march and build a movement just to get money,” he said.

The city has reached settlements in other high-profile cases involving deaths of black men at the hands police officers. In 2004, the city agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of Amadou Diallo, who was shot by four police officers in 1999.

In 2010, the city agreed to pay $3.25 million to the estate of Sean Bell, who was killed in 2006 outside a strip club while leaving his bachelor party. Police had targeted the club for an undercover operation.

In January, the city settled with the family of teenager Ramarley Graham, who was shot by a police officer in 2012, for $3.9 million.

Last month, the comptroller’s office agreed to pay $6.25 million to a man who spent nearly 25 years in prison before being exonerated in a killing that happened while he was more than 1,000 miles away vacationing at Disney World. A $6.4 million settlement was reached with a man exonerated in the 1990 killing of a rabbi.

Stringer also agreed to a $2.25 million payout to the family of a mentally ill inmate who died in a Rikers Island jail cell that sweltered to 101 degrees because of a malfunctioning heating system, and he helped put together a $17 million settlement in the case of three half-brothers who spent a combined 60 years in prison before their convictions were thrown out.

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Batts Continued from A1 with FOP president Gene Ryan that the department was suffering from low morale.

“Whether [the Baltimore Police Department] is having a morale issue or not, we have an ethical responsibility to keep this city safe. We have an ethical responsibility to make sure that the nine-year-olds, the seven-year-olds, the babies are not harmed in this city. We have a responsibility,” responded Batts.

It was a plea struggling for an audience. A work slowdown had been seemingly underway for weeks by then, with residents in a number of Baltimore’s high crime neighborhoods observing a diminished police presence amid a surge in gun violence. By June 4, the city suffered 221 non-fatal shootings (97 ahead of last year’s pace on the same date), and 121 homicides (36 ahead), according to an update from the Baltimore Police Department’s media section from that day.

Meanwhile, Batts seemed to be struggling to control his department. Just days before his June 3 plea at the press conference, someone leaked an audio recording to the Baltimore Sun of Batts apologizing to his officers at a union meeting for letting them down during the riots. “From my day when I walked in officer safety’s been job one for me, but I got my [officers] hurt and I have to own that . . . that won’t happen again in this organization,” said Batts, according to the recording posted on the Baltimore Sun’s website.

The mea culpa was enough to suggest that Batts was losing the confidence of the rank and file, and the leaking of the audio to the press did little to change that perception. The city continued to see high rates of violence throughout the remainder of June and into July.

When Batts sat down to speak with the AFRO on July 2, the city had seen its 144th homicide (45 ahead of the previous year’s count as of that date). Batts seemed to be straddling two

commitments seemingly at odds, attempting to embrace both his department and the broader Baltimore community at once.

“The only reason governments or police departments exist is to serve the community in a way that the community expects to be served. If it doesn’t, then it should not exist.

Which basically means, people say, ‘Our tax dollars pay you to serve the community,’ and it’s about service, and that is the entire focus.

Some people are not comfortable with the [phrase] that you’re here to serve, but that’s what we are, we’re public servants and we’re providing a service for the customer base,”

his officers, the FOP, at least, felt he was doing the opposite.

In the FOP’s after action review of police and city leadership during a large demonstration on April 25, and the rioting that took place on April 27, the union took issue with an op-ed by Batts published on June 19 in the Baltimore Sun, describing it in the following manner: “In an Op-Ed piece for The Baltimore Sun, Commissioner Batts states that more police officers will likely be arrested as a result of the reforms he is undertaking at the Baltimore Police Department. He seems to vilify his officers stating that, ‘The cycle of

“Unable to get his house in order, and with the city still struggling under the weight of increased gun violence, Batts received his walking papers from the mayor. “ said Batts about whether policing needs to take its cue from the community.

“At the roots of my being is being a progressive police commissioner. When you become the head of an organization, you don’t have the luxury of taking one side or the other.

Your job is to No. 1 defend and support the community but defend and support the police officers that do the job. So my role today is not that of a [community] advocate, my role is that of a chief executive officer of a police organization, and so the roles are different along those lines,” said Batts.

It was a difficult line to tow, especially since the police and the community have been so at odds in Baltimore City, as those weeks of demonstrations beginning April 20th made so apparent. And while Batts stressed that his job was first and foremost to defend and support

scandal, corruption, and malfeasance seemed to be continuing [in the Baltimore Police Department] without abatement.’”

In linking Batts’s reform effort to the vilifying of officers, the FOP report fails to note that Batts, in the passage cited, was describing the public’s perception of the department prior to his arrival, not his own view of the department. Regardless, the report then goes on to recommend that Batts (and the mayor) “should show public support for the men and women of the Baltimore Police Department.”

The report failed to note that Batts’ op-ed opened with the following paragraph: “Last week I recognized 60 officers and professional staff at the 2015 Medal Day Ceremony. The valor and courage of these men and women, and a few citizen heroes, stands as a testament

to the bravery and dedication of most members of the Baltimore Police Department. It reaffirmed my mission and the reason that I am here.”

The FOP’s interpretation of an op-ed that goes out of its way to praise good officers as a vilification speaks to the discord between the commissioner and the rank and file. Any suggestion by Batts that police misconduct ever occurred or that reform of the department might be necessary is being widely received as a lack of support for officers attempting to carry out their duties. It was a perception Batts failed to remedy, despite his attempts.

Unable to get his house in order, and with the city still struggling under the weight of increased gun violence, Batts received his walking papers from the mayor.

Just days before, Batts assured the AFRO that change was happening in the Baltimore Police Department, and that it would continue unabated regardless of his presence. But it was Batts’s attempt to change the department that seemingly cost him the respect of its officers.

That statement will now be put to the test, as will Batts’s final comment of the interview. “[Change] is here [in the Baltimore Police Department]. I think it’s exciting. I think there are opportunities. I think our cultural norm in our city [is] we tend to want to focus on pointing fingers a lot, instead of taking the opportunity to grow. Right now at this time . . . two months off of having a major riot within the city, we should be talking about where go [in the] future and how we pull this community – how we pull this city together as a whole becomes the bigger piece. And so if I had to say anything [it] is: Don’t waste the opportunity that we have. Corporations change when you have outside trauma . . . We just had outside trauma. It’s time to change, and it’s change as a city as a whole.”

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(D-N.J.) on July 8. The bill, with Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) as another co-introducer, would allow community college students to pay no tuition if they maintain a certain grade point average and are making progress toward an associate degree or certificate.

“Students and families are faced with the overwhelming burden of figuring out how to pay for college,” Scott, who has served in the House since 1993, said on the House floor.

“America’s College Promise is a step in the right direction to help families gain access to quality, affordable higher education opportunities.”

The bill puts into legislation President Obama’s America’s College Promise initiative, that he announced on Jan. 9 in Knoxville, Tenn., to offer tuition-free community college for students who are making progress toward a degree and maintaining a 2.5 grade point average.

Obama’s initiative can be accomplished through the action and cooperation of individual states and jurisdictions but only Congress can create a national federallyfunded free community college program.

Scott said the bill would help people of color and low-income Americans become competitive in the nation’s changing work environment because studies and statistics have shown that these two groups tend to struggle financially to pay for higher education. “At a time when families feel like they’re increasingly having to adapt to a changing economy and technology, America’s College Promise creates a way for them to gain the skills they need to compete in a 21st century economy,” he said.

Tennessee instituted a similar program last year and two weeks ago, the Oregon legislature passed a bill along the same lines. The Oregon bill awaits the signature of Gov. Kate Brown (D). In February, D.C. Council member Vincent Orange (D-At Large) introduced the “Community College for All Scholarship Act of 2015” to allow students at the Community College of the District of Columbia who maintain a 2.0 grade point average, make progress toward a degree, and participate in community service projects, to have their tuition waived.

Orange’s bill is presently under council review in the Committee of the Whole, according to the D.C. Council’s website.

The Scott-Booker-Baldwin bill would create a new partnership between the federal government and states/ Indian tribes to help them waive tuition for two years of community college and technical programs; provide a federal match of $3 for every $1 invested by the state to tuition and fees before other financial aid is applied; ensures that academic credits are transferrable to state-funded fouryear institutions or occupational training in industries that need manpower; maintains and encourages state funding for higher education, and establishes a new grant program for minority-serving institutions by helping them cover a significant portion of tuition and fees for the first two years of attendance for low-income students.

On the Senate floor Booker said, “our greatest national asset is the genius of our young people” but noted rising college costs as a deterrent for many to pursue higher education.

“Our bill provides the kind of support many young people need to reach their potential by creating strategic partnerships between the federal and state governments so that all students have a fair shot at achieving the American Dream.”

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told the AFRO that he supports the legislation, but would make some changes. “I’d like to see the bill expanded to include historically Black colleges and universities,” Jeffries said. “In that way, a greater number of people would be positively impacted by the bill.”

The bill has the support of Obama administration officials such as U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, 60 members of the House and nine senators including Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and organizations such as the American Association of Community Colleges, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and the United Negro College Fund.

– Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) However, the concept of free community college isn’t embraced by all.

“Low-income students already have access to federal Pell Grants, which can be used to finance their tuition obligations at a community college,” Lindsey Burke, a fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank, told the The Daily Signal in January.

“So the proposal will serve as little more than a federal handout to the community college system.”

Nevertheless, Duncan said that the bill meets an important need. “Community colleges are not just a uniquely American institution, but as the largest most affordable segment of America’s higher education system, they are critical to reaching the president’s goal to have the highest share of college graduates in the world and to ensuring America’s economic prosperity in the future,” he said.

“Students and families are faced with the overwhelming burden of figuring out how to pay for college.”

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Obama Calls for Shorter Sentences for Nonviolent Convicts

By Josh Lederman Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Calling it an issue America can’t afford to ignore, President Barack Obama laid out an expansive vision July 14 for fixing the criminal justice system by focusing on communities, courtrooms and cellblocks. He announced a federal review of the use of solitary confinement and urged Congress to pass a sentencing reform bill by year’s end.

In a speech to the NAACP’s annual convention, Obama also called for voting rights to be restored to felons who have served their sentences, and said employers should “ban the box” asking job candidates about their past convictions. He said long mandatory minimum sentences now in place should be reduced — or discarded entirely.

“In far too many cases, the punishment simply doesn’t fit the crime,” Obama told a crowd of 3,300 in Philadelphia. Low-level drug dealers, for example, owe a debt to society, but not a life sentence or 20-year prison term, he said.

With his speech to the prominent African-American advocacy group, Obama sought to put a spotlight on the need for new legislation as he mounted a weeklong push on criminal justice reform. A day earlier, Obama commuted the sentences of 46 nonviolent drug offenders — the most commutations a president has issued on a single day in at least four decades.

Upon arriving in Philadelphia, Obama met with a number of former prisoners to discuss their experience re-entering society, the White House said. And on July 16, Obama planned to put a personal face on the nation’s mushrooming prison population with a visit El Reno Federal Correctional Institution outside of Oklahoma City — the first visit to a federal prison by a sitting U.S. president.

The assertive moves reflected a president eager to wield his executive power during his waning years in office to reduce harsh sentences, cut costs and correct disparities he said have disproportionally burdened minorities. Earlier in his presidency, as he spent his political capital carefully on major domestic priorities, Obama spoke cautiously

and only intermittently about the need for smarter sentencing and other justice changes.

But as of late, public attention has been piqued by a serious of upsetting incidents across the country. In places like Baltimore, New York and Ferguson, Missouri, tensions between law enforcement and their communities have spilled out into the open, underscoring longstanding concerns among minority communities that they’re treated differently in the criminal justice system.

Obama pointedly acknowledged that many people in the U.S. need to be in prison — “murderers, predators, rapists, gang leaders” — yet he said that in too many instances, law enforcement is treating young black and Latino men differently than their white peers.

“This is not just anecdotal. This is not just barbershop talk,” he said.

The White House said Obama wouldn’t hesitate to commute more sentences in the coming months if the circumstances were right.

Yet Obama’s ability to address the problem unilaterally is limited, as the White House readily concedes.

So Obama has set his sights on the

kind of comprehensive fix that only Congress can provide.

“The statistics cannot be ignored. We cannot close our eyes anymore,” Obama said.

Working in Obama’s favor: tentative but optimistic signs of common ground between Republicans and Democrats.

Republicans in particular have spoken with growing enthusiasm about the need for structural change. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley ( R-Iowa), has been working on legislation that could reduce some mandatory minimums.

Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas and Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island are backing a bill that would steer lower-risk inmates into programs where they could earn earlier release by participating in recidivism-reduction programs.

In another positive sign for the prospects of justice reform, a number of 2016 presidential candidates have taken an active interest in the issue. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), has mounted a vocal push to restore voting rights to nonviolent felons who have served their terms and to make it easier

for people with criminal records to get jobs. Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.), planned to give a speech Thursday in the troubled city of Camden focusing on nonviolent drug offenders.

But not all Republicans were receptive to Obama’s pitch. A group of 19 Republicans, led by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, wrote a letter July 14 to Attorney General Loretta Lynch accusing Obama of blatantly usurping congressional authority and using his pardon power for political purposes.

Since Congress enacted mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes, the federal prison population has multiplied, from just 24,000 in the 1980s to more than 214,000, according to Families Against Mandatory Minimums.

In 2010, Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act, cutting penalties for crack cocaine offenses. And last year, the independent Sentencing Commission reduced guideline ranges for drug crimes and applied those retroactively. ___ Associated Press writer Nancy Benac in Washington contributed to this report.

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banks are evaluated on criteria that reflects their Office issued a report detailing the disparity in position as regulated institutions operating in NMTC awards to minority entities. The numbers distressed areas,” he said. have actually gotten worse, not better.”

Minority banks have had even lower success A 2009 study by the Government rates than minority entities overall. Of particular Accountability Office indicated that only about concern, as the nation continues to grapple 9 percent of minority entities were successful with the after effects of the 2008 economic when applying for NMTCs, while non-minority downturn, is the ability of Black communities entities had three times the success rate, winning to recover without the critical support of Black 27 percent of the time. According to the GAO, banks. Black-owned financial institutions have although the program is highly competitive, historically undergirded those businesses denied minority entities have less than a one in three funding through traditional sources because chance of any other type of entity to receive an of the neighborhoods in which they provide award. services.

“By our estimates, less than two percent “The NMTC Program has great potential to of the $450 billion NMTCs issued over the be part of a comprehensive economic solution in past 12 years has gone to minority banks,” America’s inner-cities, most of which still have Doyle Mitchell, CEO of Industrial Bank of not recovered from the Great Recession,” said Washington, D.C. said.

Preston Pinkett, CEO of City National Bank According to the CDFI Fund records, only and chairman of the NBA. “But the groups best six awards (less than 8 percent) have gone equipped to make those investments, minority to minority controlled entities of any kind, banks, have largely been shut out of the NMTC Courtesy photo and those groups received only $165 million, program.”

The lack of financial awards to Black-owned banks is impacting Black bankers and under 5 percent of the total dollar amount of The National Bankers Association was communities. allocation. founded in 1927 and is a trade association for “Some of our banks have been deploying the nation’s 177 minority and women-owned capital in the poorest neighborhoods in America for over 100 years, and we think the CDFI banks (MWOBs). Its members include banks owned by African-Americans, Native-Americans, Fund should review the program to ensure that applications by minority and other small CDFI American-Indians, East-Indians, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans and women.

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efforts must bear fruit.

“We must move toward a more concrete substantive legislative policy,” Sharpton said on July 8. “During the civil rights era, we had leaders working for change; Martin Luther King in the South; Malcolm X in the North; Roy Wilkins on the national level and [U.S. Rep.] Adam Clayton Powell working in the Congress and everybody had a role.”

Speakers at the NAN conference included a number of federal officials such as U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus; House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.); House Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn (D-S.C.); Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Al Franken (D-Minn.) as well as Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn.

The conference addressed subjects such as the digital divide in the African-American community, 21st century education, criminal justice and community policing, jobs, housing and the economy, and fighting hunger.

One of the popular panels dealt with voting rights. As a result of years of work by civil rights advocates, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) was signed into law on Aug. 6 by President Lyndon Johnson. The law eliminated devices, such as literacy tests and poll taxes, that were designed to thwart Black political participation in the South and mandated that certain jurisdictions in some states would have to get federal approval for election law changes and practices and redistricting plans. As a result, Black voter participation and the election of

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The Rev. Al Sharpton is the founder and president of the National Action Network.

African Americans to public offices increased substantially, particularly in the South.

Black state legislators increased in Southern states from three to 176 between 1965 and 1985. Nationally, the number of Black elected officials increased from 1,469 in 1970 to 4,912 in 1980. Presently, the number of Black elected officials throughout the nation is 10,500, according to the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

The VRA was supported on a bipartisan basis and its extension was signed into law by several Republican presidents: Richard Nixon in 1970; Gerald Ford in 1975; Ronald Reagan in 1982; and George W. Bush in 2006.

However, the U.S. Supreme Court gutted essential provisions of the VRA in 2013.

Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) in the House and Sens. Patrick Leahy (DVt.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) have sponsored a bill, the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2015 (VRAA), that would restore the enforcement components and expand the preclearance mechanisms, such as requiring that state and local elections law changes have to be approved by the U.S. Department of Justice, which was high court nullified.

Sewell spoke about the need for Congress to pass the VRAA at the conference and the voting rights panelists agreed with her. A key Virginia House Republican was urged to take action on the legislation. “We need House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte to hold a hearing on this bill,” Greg Moore, the executive director of the NAACP National Voter Fund, said. “We need a hearing this year in the House and the Senate on this bill.”

Lisa Bornstein, legal director and senior legal advisor for the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said voting rights has historically had bipartisan support.

“This is a critical time to enact the VRAA because if we don’t this will be the first presidential election in 50 years where there will be no voter protection,” Bornstein said, in regard to some states with strong Black populations, such as North Carolina and Texas, that instituted tough voter identification requirements after the recent Supreme Court decision.

In North Carolina, a swing state in presidential elections since 2008, a resident must have government identification, such as a driver’s license or non-driver’s ID, a passport, military ID, veterans ID or tribal ID,

in order to cast a ballot. In Texas, all of the IDs accepted in North Carolina can be used or a permit to carry a concealed handgun.

The NAACP is protesting these ID laws because Blacks tend not to have these instruments as much as Whites. The organization argued that other impediments, such as shortening early voting days and ending same-day voting, would depress Black turnout in elections.

Even so, Melanie Campbell, the president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, said that Blacks will vote next year. “We will show up but we have to get organized early,” Campbell said. “In the primary process, Black people don’t start getting any attention until the South Carolina primary, which is the third primary that takes place. That’s too late; we need to get engaged in the Iowa Caucus, which is first.”

The presidential candidates in both the Democratic and Republican parties are focusing on the Iowa caucuses, which will take place on Feb. 1, 2016. Iowa only has a Black population of 2.9 percent. New Hampshire will hold the first presidential primary on Feb. 9, 2016. New Hampshire’s Black population is 1.1 percent.

On Feb. 20, 2016, South Carolina, with a Black population that is 27.9 percent, is the first primary jurisdiction with a significant Black population and that is traditionally when the presidential candidates talk about African-American issues.

Campbell said the Republican Party will put millions of dollars in the Black community for outreach and that it would be wise for the Democratic Party not to take the Black vote for granted.

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EDITORIAL

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Are Conservative Republicans = to Racist?

From re-districting (where in Florida the state Supreme Court recently struck down as unconstitutional a re-districted map drawn primarily by Republicans) to voter ID bills in places like North Carolina that seemed designed to suppress Black votes, it seems like every time a “Conservative” cause takes hold, Black folks are the target.

It is simply breathtaking that it took until 2015 following the massacre of 9 Black people attending a prayer meeting in a South Carolina church for government officials in places like Maryland, South Carolina and many other states to realize that flying the Confederate Battle Flag and naming public parks after Confederate Generals are deeply offensive to Blacks. Why did it take so long? Conservative Republican opponents in Congress continue to justify their fight for the Confederate Flag by stating that they are preserving “Southern Heritage,” whatever that might be.

But the list goes on, and on, and on: questioning Obama’s birth certificate, shouting down President Obama during his 2009 health care speech to Congress, inviting Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress over the objection of the White House, in addition to the never ending tactics (political, etc.) in opposition to Obamacare.

Yes, politics is a contact sport and reasonable people can disagree vehemently. And we

However, the constant Conservative Republican opposition to so many issues important to Black people, makes it clear to us that there is indeed something else going on here.

realize that change is hard. However, the constant Conservative Republican opposition to so many issues important to Black people, makes it clear to us that there is indeed something else going on here. Racism!

Fake Pot: Beware the Unknown Danger The District recently set its sights on addressing the distribution of synthetic marijuana that is apparently beginning to plague the streets. This fake pot mimics in various ways the effect of marijuana and due to its unpredictable effects on their users, is considered dangerous.

According to the White House, synthetic drugs, which are sold under names like K2, Spice, Bizaro or Scooby Snax, were first documented in this country in 2008, and since then, because of their relative ease of possession and inexpensive price tag, have become a problem for jurisdictions across the country. There is, however, no Federal statute that forbids these drugs from being distributed or used, so separate states have to make their own legislation to control the substance.

As of July 10, D.C. joined that fight with Mayor Muriel Bowser signing legislation that would enforce harsh penalties on businesses caught selling these synthetic drugs.

But is this overkill?

The long-term and short-term health effects of these synthetic substances are still undetermined because the various forms of these synthetic drugs are growing so rapidly.

However, reactions to the drugs can include violent behavior and convulsions, hallucinations, high blood pressure, kidney disease, etc.

According to news reports, the Metropolitan Police Department and Bowser associate the city’s spike in crime to synthetic drugs usage. They have been described as a potential contributing factor in the murder of an American University graduate on the District’s metro system earlier this month.

Synthetic drugs are also blamed for significant brain damage to a Houston teen in 2013.

But, what is really known about the effects of synthetic drug use?

In an effort to unlock part of the mystery, the AFRO questioned medical professionals on synthetic drugs (See article on D1). They said that the drug has intense brain altering side effects, but there is still much to learn on the ways synthetic drugs affect the human mind and body. However, it appears that in spite of the incomplete understanding surrounding the effects of these drugs, the early prognosis on these drugs is indeed not good. They appear to be dangerously

harmful.

What should the community do?

It appears that numbers of school-age D.C children, who could purchase the unregulated drug at neighborhood stores, made up a large segment of the users of these synthetic drugs when they first appeared available. However, news reports are now finding that since the use of these unregulated drugs is arguably not illegal, many incarcerated individuals upon their release are using the drugs in order to avoid violating their parole restrictions. It has also been reported that, since these drugs became illegal to sell in stores, its distribution has increased on the D.C. streets.

With the increase in illegal sales, the community needs to become more aware of these potentially harmful synthetic drugs. Stores caught selling the product will be in for a hefty fine and other business damaging repercussions.

The AFRO cautions residents from using the drugs, because the health effects seem to be worse (both physically and mentally) than using the real substance, which is now legal in small quantities in the District.

The Batts Removal – Will Baltimore Now be Safer?

Former Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts has been removed. The question is will this make Baltimore safer and eliminate the violent crime spree we are now enduring?

Murders, not to mention regular shootings, have skyrocketed since the uprisings following the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody in late April. Businesses damaged by the subsequent uprising are still struggling to recover.

Couple that with the widespread perception, true or not, that the police have been ordered to ratchet down enforcement in some of the neighborhoods most in need of it and you have a toxic brew of distrust and danger.

As the summer wears on, 24 people have already been killed this month, putting the city on pace to surpass the record number—42—killed in May. This is madness and cannot continue. But will the dismissal of Batts really make a difference?

No! We are not that quick to lay all the blame for Baltimore’s current state at the feet of the former commissioner.

The root causes of the continued violence in Baltimore are still hotly debated topics. There is no clear answer to what we are currently witnessing in Baltimore. In our opinion, the inner frustrations; not only with the police force, but also

with the other social inadequacies that Baltimore continues to suffer from, all have a role in the chaotic crime orgy we are witnessing this summer. More jobs for Baltimore’s citizens, and more community centers for the Baltimore youth population would be a few good beginnings.

Interim Police Commissioner Kevin Davis has been on the job only a few days so it is too soon to judge how he is doing. Steps like setting up a “War Room” to quickly deal with clusters of crime, is not a new strategy, but we hope it will produce some positive results instead of simply turning Baltimore, once again, into another east coast ‘Zero Tolerance’ police state.

Commentary

Welcome Back, Mr. President Charles L. Chavis

The radical Christian theology of Rev. Jeremiah Wright is the same theology that shaped President Obama’s identity as a social justice organizer and this is the same identity that we are witnessing resurface in the last days of his presidency. This reawakening became clearly evident in February of 2014 when President Obama launched My Brothers Keeper, pledging 200 million dollars to support young, Black men. However, since he delivered the eulogy for Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney in June he has been on a social justice crusade.

On June 13, shortly after announcing that he would become the first sitting president to visit a federal prison, the president set another record granting clemency to 46 federal prisoners who were convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. “These men and women were not violent criminals, but the overwhelming majority had been sentenced to at least 20 years; 14 of them had been sentenced to life for nonviolent drug offenses, so their punishments didn’t fit the crime,” President Obama said at a news conference.

Professor Michael Eric Dyson once said that in straddling the racial divide, President Obama had to, “wink at black America while speaking to white America.” However, the eulogy he delivered in Charleston a few weeks ago was

more than just a wink. In fact it was a full embrace of the prophetic black preaching tradition. But why did nine innocent worshipers have to be slaughtered in order for him to finally speak to black America.

His eulogy was reminiscent of the radical Christian messages of Jeremiah Wright, Jr., his former pastor, and the man who he distanced himself from in 2008 so that he could be electable. Rev. Wright, liberation theologian and social justice activist is known for his fiery sermons where he often wrestles with racism and systematic injustice in America.

These sermons often critique the United States government and the practices of its leaders. “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people,” Wright said in his infamous 2003 sermon. The direct action of president Obama on Monday is aligned with some of the issues pointed out in Rev. Wright’s 2003 sermon and are a remedy addressing what Michelle Alexander names as the New Jim Crow, the prison industrial complex.

Such critical rhetoric caused obvious problems for the then presidential candidate. Rev. Wright described the root of such a dilemma in 2008 stating “Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites,

based on polls...Preachers say what they say because they are Pastors. They have a different person to whom they are accountable.”

On Friday, June 26th 2015, after seven years of serving as United States President Obama finally acknowledged the role that our nation’s past injustices play in modern day acts of hatred and discrimination “It was an act that drew on a long history of bombs and arson and shots fired at churches, not random, but as a means of control, a way to terrorize and oppress,” President Obama told the congregation. He continued, “An act that he [the alleged killer] imagined would incite fear and recrimination, violence and suspicion. An act that he presumed would trace back to our nation’s original sin.”

The central theme of President Obama’s eulogy was grace, he even sang Amazing grace. However it is tragic that politics can get in the way of proclaiming truth. It took the massacre of nine black people in a Charleston church, and perhaps the freedom of his lame duck status, for Obama to grace black America with his true voice. Welcome back, Mr. President.

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

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Liquor Stores Struggle In Aftermath of Riots

Bank of America Foundation Provides Students with Jobs

By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent zprince@afro.com The long-faded sign proclaimed the store’s fares—liquor and lottery.

On April 27, however, the establishment on the corner of North and N. Fulton avenues resembled an ants’ nest— looters swarming in and out of the dark, yawning opening, toting pilfered goods away.

Hours later—after the burial of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old SandtownWinchester man who died from injuries sustained while in police custody—the nameless liquor store was ablaze, becoming one of the iconic images of the civil unrest in Baltimore.

Weeks later, Charm City is in rehab. But recovery for that unnamed liquor store and about 22 others—unlike the remainder of the nearly 400 businesses, including 17 other liquor stores, damaged in the uprising—will be much harder. Last month, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie RawlingsBlake announced those 23 liquor stores are ineligible for no-interest loans available to damaged businesses because they “nonconforming,” that is, they are not in line with a zoning ban on the sale of alcohol in residential areas.

“I have a great amount of sympathy for those stores that have been damaged, and we want them to rebuild; we want them to reopen,” Rawlings-Blake said in making the announcement.

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By Jannah Johnson Special to The AFRO The Bank of America Charitable Foundation recently announced that it would be selecting five high school students from the Greater Baltimore Area to participate in an eight-week paid summer internship at a local non-profit through its student leader program.

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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake poses with some of the participants of the “Minority Male Makers” program.

Verizon and Morgan State University Focus on Making More Black Engineers

By James Bentley AFRO Associate Editor Jbentley@afro.com Often young Black boys are underrepresented in the science and technology fields. According to the most recent data from the National Science Foundation, Blacks hold only 4.6 percent of the jobs in the science and engineering fields.

Seeking to fix that Verizon on July 14 announced a partnership with Morgan State University and several other colleges that aims to increase to increase the number of Black engineers.

The partnership involves Morgan State University, North Carolina A&T State University, Jackson State University and Kentucky State University--all HBCUs—and Verizon. Called “Minority Male Makers” the program focuses on cultivating and nurturing middle school aged Black boys through an introduction and immersion in STEM (Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics) studies to equip them with the knowledge and skills they will need to secure employment in a fast changing, technology focused world.

This is the first of a multiyear initiative between Verizon and the universities that will have these young boys in Baltimore,

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and other cities, working with mentors and faculty from their respective universities to gain an exposure to the sciences that they may not have had the opportunity to receive. Throughout the summer, students will participate in all-day technology workshops, 4-5 days per week, for approximately 4 weeks at the participating schools.

Verizon hopes to inspire a new generation of Black males to be not only interested in science and engineering but also to get a higher education.

The AFRO spoke with several students after their first week in the program and their spirits were high. The participants we spoke with, Ayo Oluwafemi 13, Loden Harris 13 and Donovan Cherry 11, all seemed enthusiastic about the program. They discussed several projects they worked on in their first week including 3D printing objects and creating apps for mobile devices. After only one week they are demonstrating ideas and plans for things such as new game apps and using QR codes to help with their programming.

Tony Lewis , Verizon Vice President of State Government Affairs, explained why Morgan State University was selected for this initiative. “It’s all about raising the lakes for all folks,” Lewis said. He went on to explain that because Baltimore is one of the Continued on B2

“These internships give teens in our community the chance to develop important workforce skills…”

– David Millman In Baltimore the unemployment rate for those ages 16-24 remains at a record high of 19.4 percent which affects not only earning potential educational potential as well.

Teens who are employed have lower drop-out rates and are more likely to continue on with their education and earn higher salaries in the future as opposed to their unemployed counterparts.

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Baltimoreans Tell Their Stories of Police Out of Control

By AFRO Staff When Tawanda Jones was contacted by a lawyer from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, she was anxious to tell her story about how officers from the Baltimore City Police Department and Morgan State University caused the death of her brother, Tyrone West, on July 18, 2013. But she wanted the federal officials to hear from more than her family members.

“This is bigger than Tyrone West,” she said at a town hall meeting at Sojourner-Douglass College, held at her insistence and hosted by Del. Jill P. Carter. After telling about 100 people packing the Nelson Mandela Room how her brother was “brutally murdered by the police” during a traffic stop near the corner of Kitmore and Kelway roads, Jones added: “The saddest part is it’s not just your family.

It’s families. It don’t just end with your family. “ She is now joining with others around the nation to petition the United Nations to look into police misconduct as a human rights violation.

A team of lawyers from the Civil Rights Division has been in Baltimore since Loretta Lynch, U.S. attorney general, announced in May that she was undertaking a comprehensive investigation of “patterns or

“This is bigger than Tyrone West” –Tawanda Jones

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Loretta Lynch, U.S. attorney general, announced in May that the Department of Justice was investigating the record of the Baltimore Police Department.

practices” that may indicate discriminatory policing.

“The relationship between police and the people they are sworn to protect and serve is one of the biggest issues in the country right now,” Michael Songer, a lawyer on the Baltimore team, said Saturday. “We’ve certainly seen in Baltimore what happens when that trust is severed and breaks down. “ What Songer heard from Baltimore residents, J. Wyndal Gordon, a lawyer, and Louis Hopson Jr., a veteran police officer, Saturday is what happens after the thousands of arrests in Baltimore, a significant number of which never lead to formal charges; and what happens after the most publicized incustody deaths, which often lead to vilification of the victims as well as callous disregard for Continued on B2

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their family and friends. A common theme was routine physical abuse, verbal abuse and abject disrespect. Dr. Lawrence Brown, a professor at Morgan State University, broke down how Baltimore’s history of “hyper-segregation” and its police department where 90 percent officers do not live in the city contribute to a police department that views blacks as a suspect class.

Several people, including Sgt. Hopson, talked about civilians as well as police whistleblowers being targeted for retaliation.

Songer, who previously was a lead attorney in a Justice Department case against a North Carolina sheriff for racial profiling, said the investigation in Baltimore will probably last longer than the six months it took to look into the Ferguson, Mo., police department. He hopes it will take less than the 18 months involved in examining practices in Cleveland, where the Justice Department forced that city to sign a consent decree last December that officials said should “not only serve as a road map for reform in Cleveland but also as a national model.”

In Baltimore, Songer said, Justice Department lawyers will not limit their review to the deaths of Freddie Gray in April, Officer William Torbit in 2011, Anthony Anderson in 2012 and West in 2013. Instead, he said, they will look into police stops, searches, arrests, use of force and allocation of resources to determine if there have been “broader systematic violations of the Constitution.”

Carter, a longtime champion of criminal-justice reform who Prof. Brown describes as “the best legislator we have bar none,” said she was pleased with “the quality of the discussion,” which is often missing at the many town hall meetings held here. “People were able to tell their stories and know that they are not alone,” she observed.

Anyone interested in telling their stories may call the Justice Department team’s toll free number, 1-844-401-3733 or Carter at 410-367-3939. She and Gordon are among members of the National Bar Association, which has set up a rapid response team to help people file complaints.

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larger Verizon bases of operation and that the company has been in the city for over 100 years. In addition, there are over one thousand active and retired employees in the metropolitan area.

He noted Morgan State University is one of the top HBCUs. Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor of Baltimore, attended the event. “We want them [kids in the program] to tap into their

possibilities, to see what they can do, what they can create and that’s why this is so important. We want our young people to know they can succeed and that they can succeed in STEM fields.”

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David Millman, Maryland and Baltimore market president for Bank Of America said in a statement, “Early employment is a critical stepping stone on the pathway to financial security, yet young people face a number of challenges in finding job opportunities today… These internships give teens in our community the chance to develop important workforce skills while earning what for many will be their first paycheck.”

Alexis Gaskin, who will be a senior at Southern

High School, Anna Xi, who will be a senior at Mariotts Ridge High School, Janice Onigbinde, who will be a senior at Century High School, Likhitha Butchireddygari, a graduate of Perry Hall High School, and Shreya Nalubola, a recent graduate of Centennial High School, were the five students selected by Bank of America for paid internships at Teach for America, a national teacher corps focused on helping tutor students in public schools around the country.

The students will serve as paid interns at Teach for America for eight weeks and then continue on to travel to Washington D.C for a National Student Leadership Summit taking place from July 12th-17th Where they will participate in service learning projects, workshops, and seminars about money habits as well as meetings with Congress members.

Kerry Sullivan, President of The Bank of America Charitable Foundation said in a statement, “They look at the connection between business,

non- profits and government and they also look at their own strengths.”

The program has been around since 2004 and has supplied about 60 Baltimore teens and around 2,200 young adults nationwide with paid summer internships.

Former Student Joanna Ogundipe said in a statement about the program, “This program has given me the courage to speak out and use my voice.”

Malcom Stewart, another former student leaders said that the program taught him

“wherever life takes me I know that my goal is to have a positive impact.” Stewart said the program has also helped him to form lifelong connections and that “it’s going to be really powerful to know that you have that support system of all the other students… I’ve connected with a lot of different people and we’ve really learned from each other.”

The organization has partnered with many different non-profits in the past and hopes to continue helping young adults around the nation find employment.

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we have available we have a unique opportunity for these nonconforming liquor stores to convert into uses that can uplift our community.”

At the basis of the mayor’s decision are ongoing efforts to retool Baltimore’s zoning laws.

According to Laurie Feinberg, of the Department of Planning, the city’s first zoning ordinance was approved in 1923 and zoning laws were last updated in 1971. Though the zoning changes banned alcohol sales in residential neighborhoods, preventing new takeaway liquor establishments from being built, existing liquor stores were “grandfathered” in, or allowed to continue their operations.

There are about 100 such nonconforming liquor stores peppered across Baltimore, officials said, though they tend to be concentrated in certain neighborhoods.

“We have an overpopulation of liquor stores in predominantly low-income communities in Baltimore,” said Kevin Harris, a spokesman for the Mayor’s Office. “Anybody that rides through portions of Baltimore can see: There’s a liquor store on every corner…. The community had complained about them for years.”

In 2008, efforts to shutter those nonconforming off-site liquor stores took flight when the Department of Planning began the process of rewriting the city’s zoning code.

“A group of public health advocates—a really quite adamant and outspoken group—brought to our attention the high concentration of liquor outlets in Baltimore and, specifically, the public health impact,” Feinberg said.

In 2012, a new zoning proposal called “TransForm Baltimore” was introduced into the City Council (Bill 120152). And a health impact assessment called “Zoning for a Healthy Baltimore,” which was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and largely conducted by investigators from Johns Hopkins University, was consulted during the development of that plan.

“It was a relatively exhaustive process,” said Dr. Rachel Thornton, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins’ School of Medicine and a co-author of the assessment. “We were particularly interested in the health equity issues in the city. [And] we sought to frame our work around the major health disparities in the neighborhoods.”

Thornton said, for example, they were sensitive to the fact that recommendations or solutions could have varying impacts on different neighborhoods.

An issue that stood out was the proliferation of alcohol outlets and the disparate impact on poorer communities.

“One of the things that popped out pretty consistently in the research literature, especially with regards to liquor establishments, is that both the proximity to outlets and the density of outlets are associated with increased risk of violent crimes,” Thornton said.

In a September 2013 follow-up study titled, “Neighborhood Alcohol Outlets and the Association with Violent Crime in

One Mid-Atlantic City: The Implications for Zoning Policy,” lead author Jacky Jennings and others conducted an analysis of census tracts in Baltimore City from 2011 to 2012. The data included violent crimes (51,942) from 2006 to 2010, licensed alcohol outlets establishments (1,327) from 2005 to 2006, and data on neighborhood disadvantage, percent minority, percent occupancy, and drug arrests from 2005 to 2009.

In addition to finding that the city had “more than twice the number of outlets per capita as mandated by Maryland – Kevin Harris state law” (1,330 licenses compared to 630 based on population), the study also found statistically significant correlations between alcohol establishments and violent crime, mirroring findings in other urban centers.

“Each one-unit increase in the number of alcohol outlets was associated with a 2.2 [percent] increase in the count of violent crimes adjusting for neighborhood disadvantage, percent minority, percent occupancy, drug arrests, and spatial dependence,” reported the study, which was published in the National Institutes of Health’s {Urban Health Journal}. It later added, “Evidence suggests that off-premise alcohol outlets double the risk of violent crime and are specifically associated with increased homicide rates.”

In the unadjusted model, each unit increase in alcohol outlets accounted for a 1.5 percent increase in violent crime.

Partly reflecting the findings and recommendations of the Health Impact Assessment, the proposal to rewrite Baltimore’s zoning ordinance includes provisions to address the potential adverse health impacts of liquor establishments decreasing the density of alcohol outlets over a period of time.

For liquor stores to become conforming, they have to either move out of residential zones or “they have to agree to provide or perform other services in the community,” Harris said. “We have a number of programs to provide them with incentives to help them conform, so they’re more reflective of the desires the community has.

“Imagine if each of these liquor stores reopened as stores that sold fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, things that the communities needs and other essential groceries,” RawlingsBlake said during the June 15 press conference. “The impact such a change would have, it would be dramatic on our ability to reduce and even eliminate food deserts in many of our communities across the city.”

In the meantime, the 23 nonconforming liquor stores damaged earlier this year will have to petition the state--which is also offering interest-free recovery loans of up to $35,000 without the city’s restrictions—or meet other criteria to access city-provided recovery funds.

“The mayor has said if you want to receive funds you have to get a letter of support from your City Council representative, who must agree to make [the establishment] a conforming liquor store,” Harris said, “and you have to get a letter of support from the community.”

“We have an overpopulation of liquor stores in predominantly low-income communities in Baltimore.”

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AFRO Sports Desk Faceoff

Did DeAndre Jordan Make the Right Decision?

By Perry Green & Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Writers Los Angeles Clippers center DeAndre Jordan has had an interesting week. Days after signing a four-year, $80 million contract which would have made him the new face of the Dallas Mavericks, Jordan backed out of the contract and re-signed with the Clippers.

Jordan reneged on his verbal agreement to sign with the Mavericks at the stroke of midnight on Thursday morning, the same day the NBA’s moratorium period ended. With one signature, Jordan dealt the Mavericks a crushing blow and revived the Clippers’ title hopes. Jordan will return as the third star behind Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, but with the Mavericks’ Dirk Nowitzki nearing the end of his career at age 37, Jordan would have walked in as the new focal point of Dallas’ offensive and defensive game plans. But his ties to Los Angeles and his Clippers teammates were too strong for Jordan to break. Did the Clippers big man make the right decision? Stephen D. Riley and Perry Green of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the question.

Green: Jordan’s last-second change of heart paints a black mark on the league’s free agency format. The NBA is one of the most respected organizations in professional sports, and it’s defaming that such a media-charged story can spin out of hand and into national news. It sends a bad message about the league to future free agents. Mavericks forward Chandler Parsons was quoted as saying Jordan was “scared” to become Dallas’ franchise star, and he might have had a point. Jordan will always be the third fiddle in Los Angeles. But in Dallas, he would have been hailed as the new Shaquille O’Neal and been reacquainted to stardom in his hometown. I can’t see how any young big man wouldn’t want that, unless he was scared to take the next step forward. Huge mistake by Jordan.

Riley: The Clippers were one quarter away from making the Western Conference Finals last season. There’s no reason to break up the trio of Jordan, Paul and Griffin, who have the potential to make deep playoff runs as both Jordan and Griffin develop. The Clippers have a good team, but they have had to mature over the years. Turning his back on all the hard work that the team put in was something Jordan couldn’t do. Dallas wasn’t going to go anywhere with a still-developing Jordan, an aging Notwitzki and the up-and-down Parsons. Jordan’s best chances for a title remained in Los Angeles and I see it as a win for the NBA. For once, there wasn’t a star who wanted to fly the coup to seek bigger fortune and fame elsewhere. Jordan should be applauded for his decision. He cherishes his role and the skills that he brings to the team, and he actually showed unselfishness by remaining in L.A. Green: Jordan showed his selfishness when he let Dallas make him a headline last weekend while secretly wishing the Clippers would show him some attention. Jordan’s whole free agency reminded me of a little boy running away from home just to try to teach his neglectful parents a lesson. Jordan’s image will forever be tarnished, and it’ll be interesting to see how both the media and commercial sponsors view him now. Dallas probably wouldn’t have been a AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File strong title contender with Jordan In this April 3, 2014, file photo, Los Angeles Clippers’ in the middle. But I don’t buy DeAndre Jordan dunks in front of Dallas Mavericks’ into the hype that the Clippers players during a game. The fallout from DeAndre will be any better this upcoming Jordan’s decision to spurn the Dallas Mavericks season than they’ve been in the and stay with the Los Angeles Clippers continued past. Los Angeles is a talented reverberating through the NBA on July 9, 2015, the but flawed team, and they’ll first day that teams and players could officially do continue to remain that way with business in the new league year. an undersized point guard and a center who can’t hit free throws consistently enough to stay on the court in clutch situations. Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has shown an intuitive ability to build teams through free agency and I’m sure he would have done wonders with Jordan on the roster.

Riley: The Clippers are in a good place with All-Star talent and coach Doc Rivers at the helm.

The Mavericks have the most recent championship between the two clubs, but L.A. is headed in the right direction. Jordan has the perfect setup in L.A., and enjoys the center’s dream of playing beside an all-pro point guard and a superstar big man. The allure of returning home to be the “man” in Dallas was charming, but if we’re talking pure basketball common sense, then it made all the sense in the world for Jordan to remain in California. Whether you agree or not, the Clippers are closer to a championship than the Mavericks, and becoming the “man” on any team requires winning a title or two in most cases. Jordan has the opportunity to shine on a winning team that should be in heavy contention next season. Returning to that kind of scenario makes all the sense in the world for any young center looking to build his brand and become a star.

Celebrating 80 Years of Life & Service Rovenia Madison reached yet another milestone as she celebrated her 80th birthday.

From the moment she was escorted into the venue, by her grandson Jordan Brown, the evening was magical. The applauses filled & the smiles brightened the room. As they subsided, renowned saxophonist Isaac Parham began to play happy birthday.

As the evening progressed, more surprises were in store.

Two of the most prestigious

surprises of them all were the citations of recognition honring Ms. Madison from Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake & Governor Larry Hogan for her lifetime achievements.

Surrounded by the love of her daughter Donna Brown, sister Annie Butler and other family and friends, Ms. Madison’s 80th birthday, was without a doubt a memorable occasion. Ms. Madison celebrated her 80th birthday on May 30 at the Arbutus Town Hall in Baltimore, Md. Photo by Michael Davenport

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COMMUNITY CONNECTION the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park located at 1417 Thames Street in This year Artscape Baltimore, MD. This marks will be held from the first time Baltimore is July 17th - July 19th. hosting the Maryland Chili Artscape is America’s Championship. Tickets largest free arts are $10 and proceeds will festival, attracting benefit the Living Classrooms 400,000+ attendees Foundation. 40 chili chefs over three days. including chili champions Artscape features Larry Walton, Christian 150+ fine artists, Parker & Ian fashion designers and McDaid will craftspeople; visual art compete for the exhibits on & off-site, chance to represent including exhibitions, the State of outdoor sculpture, Maryland at the 2015 art cars, photography World’s Championship George Clinton performs and the Janet & Chili Cookoff (WCCC) July 17 at Artscape.

Walter Sondheim in October. Guests will twitter Prize; incredible live enjoy Union Craft Brewing, in Rosedale, MD. All you concerts on outdoor the official beer of the can eat crabs & free beer. stages; a full schedule of Maryland Chili Championship, Donations are $50. For ticket performing arts including as well as competition chili information call Marcia Pryor from 3 categories: Traditional dance, opera, theater, film, at 410-233-4307. experimental music & Red Chili, Chili Verde & the Baltimore Symphony Salsa. There will be music, Orchestra; family events other food, beverages, beer such as hands-on projects, vendors, local businesses & demonstrations, competitions, sponsor booths. For more The BHL Ministries children’s entertainers & information visit https:// are hosting their 1st annual street theater; and a delicious, chilimd.wordpress.com.

Awards Scholarship international menu of food Ceremony & Scholarship & beverages that is available Benefit Crab Feast on July throughout the festival site.

18th. The event will be held at the Forum Caterers located Dr. Akeda Pearson is at 4210 Primrose Avenue. celebrating survivors & Tickets are $70 and to remembering victims of purchase call 800-930-3704. domestic abuse on July 19th

Summertime in the City

Excellence in Education

Tea, Tasting, and Testimonials

Deluxe Oldies but Goodies Crab Feast The Rosa Pryor Music Scholarship Fund is hosting the 19th annual Crab Feast, in memory of Yvonne McKinney, at 2 p.m. on July 18th at the VFW Post located at 6506 Philadelphia Road

It’s Chili Time

The Maryland Chili Championship will take place on July 18th from 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at the Living Classrooms’ headquarters at

from 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. at the Mount Zion United Methodist Church located at 3050 Liberty Road, Baltimore, MD. Tickets are available at www. akedapearson.com.

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Photos

by J.D. Howard

Davaughn Turpin, Kevin Perry, Stephen Wilkes and Elijah Lassiter

Deasia Brown

The OrchKids Green Festival (2015) hosted a community clean up and captivating concert on July 10 at Lockerman Bundy Elementary School and surrounding areas in West Baltimore City. This festival was for the community, by the community. The OrchKids Green Festival is a project designed to continue the conversation about change – environmental, musical, and cultural.

It served as a tangible opportunity to continue to enhance the surrounding neighborhoods and revitalize the area.

OrchKids is a year-round, during and after school, music program designed to create social change and nurture promising

Campers from Lockerman Bundy Elementary School

Music provided

by Orchkids Green Festival Lowrider James, Principal Kimberly Hill, Imani Pittman and Isaiah Dixon

BSO Orchkids assembled for Green Festival

Alexica Chandler and Jacky Ruiz

Orchkids helping to clean up

Charles Downs, vice president, Pi Omega, Sandra Downs, Rosemarie Thompson and Otho Thompson, president, Pi Omega Foundation

Christopher Ajayi, Camille DelaneyMcNeil, OrchKids Site Manager at Lockerman Bundy Elementary and Cristofer Gomez

Rosalind Y Johnson, Merle Stanley, Jackie Williams and Franes Gill, Que-ettes Pi Omega

futures for youth in Baltimore City neighborhoods.

The foundation of this project begins in addressing the pervasive problem of litter and trash in the West Baltimore community. By allowing our students to be advocates of community awareness and values, we can empower them to be the next generation of leaders and socially-concerned citizens.

For more information call 410947-0275.

D. Danard Smith, Ivy Gates-Smith, Stephanie Thompson and Ron Thompson Robin Weambe, Benita Turner, Nancy Jordan-Howard and Bernice J. Chase

Melvin E. Burley, Phyllis Burley, Lasava S. Tidwell and Sharon Webb

Margaret Smith, Sarah Smalley and Leah Goldsborough Hasty

Crystal Brown, Cylia Lowe, Marion Stokes and Ernestine Wilkins

Jackie Richardson, Dr. Marian Davis-Foster, Karaleigh Knight Henson, Shauna K. Henson and Candace Davis Hawkins. Seated: Laura Morris Knight and Karl Knight

Belinda Thomas-Wright, Donna Jones-Cephas, Chris Cephas and Karen Berkley, president, Quettes Charles Quamina Jr. Denita Quamina, Charles and Judy Quamina

Gladys and Robert Rice, Lorna Rice Byers and Helen and Adolph McDonald

Zanes Cypress Jr., executive director, Omega Baltimore Foundation, Ron Williams, Vice Basileus, Pi Omega and Dwayne White, social action chair, Pi Omega

Marcus The Pi Omega QueJohnson ettes, an auxiliary entertained group of the Pi the jazz lovers Omega Chapter held and wine tasters a fundraiser, “Wine Tasting and Jazz” luncheon on Saturday, May 9th at the Diamondz Event Center in Randallstown.

Seen among the crowd were Omega Psi Phi members and Pi Omega Foundation members Otho Thompson, Charlene C. McCargo, president, Charles Charles W. Cephas and E. Downs, vice Christine president, Zanes Cephas Cypress Jr, executive director, Ron Williams, vice basileus, Dwayne White, Social Action Chair, John Berkley, past basileus, Ron Edith and Thompson, Charles Cephas, Dr. Eugene Byrd and Harold Howard D. Danard Smith.

Proceeds from the event will support Pi Omega’s community and social action activities.

Karen Barkley is president of the Que-ettes.

Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine

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

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ARTS & CULTURE Netflix’s Nina Simone BioDoc, Haunting

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO First, there were whispers about a new biographical documentary of the iconic Nina Simone. Whispers, because, like the few treasures held tight by African Americans, Simone remains an unadulterated embodiment of blackness.

From the unhinged range of her vocals – chilling, spiritual, alive of their own volition, to her unwavering assault on White supremacy with song like Mississippi Goddamn, Simone said what others dared. Loudly, unapologetically, and defiantly.

Disparaging Simone, for many, was akin to spitting in the National Gallery… just not done. So the whispers continued until finally, Netflix released the biodoc with the blessings and participation of both Simone’s daughter Lisa Simone Kelly and ex-husband Andrew Stroud– despite long-held rumors of Simone suffering domestic abuse.

What Netflix presents in this troubling 91-minute examination of Simone’s life entitled “What Happened, Miss Simone” is the bout genius has with the ordinary, the routine, and the mundane. Particularly complex, the bio follows the icon’s life from 5-year-old piano virtuoso to Black revolutionary. It is a story wrapped around sadness, bitterness, and abuse, with the stage serving as Simone’s sanctuary.

Viewers are treated to rare glimpses of Simone in archival and personal video footage as she slowly unravels under the pressure of “being Nina Simone.”

It becomes evident in key scenes that even as she keeps company with famed writers James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry, penning and producing classic works like “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” “Young, Gifted, and Black,” and “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free,” Simone needed a rest. She wrote daily diary entries documenting her fears, anger, sleeplessness, and pain, yet she felt compelled to keep going.

Simone’s ability to codify Black pride with her own abuse eventually helped her walk away from her abuser – leaving her wedding ring on a bedside table and boarding a plane for Liberia.

“What Happened, Miss Simone,” offers an in-depth examination of the artist known as the “High Priestess of Soul.”

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Kam’s Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun

By Kam Williams

Matthey and Eleonore Hendricks.

BIG BUDGET FILMS Ant-Man (PG-13 for violence) 12th installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series stars Paul Rudd in the title role as an incredible, shrinking super-hero whose strength is inversely proportionate to his size. Plot revolves around his planning a heist with the help of his mentor (Michael Douglas) in order to save the world. Cast includes Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, T.I., Michael Pena, Bobby Cannavale and Wood Harris.

Caffeinated (Unrated) Java documentary highlighting the role coffee plays in cultures all around the world. (In English, Italian, Spanish and Korean)

Irrational Man (R for profanity and sexuality) Woody Allen directed this midlife crisis drama about a jaded, justdumped, philosophy professor (Joaquin Phoenix) looking for a fresh start at a small Rhode Island college where he proceeds to get involved with a student (Emma Stone) as well as the wife (Parker Posey) of a faculty member. With Betsy Aidem, Ethan Phillips, Joe Stapleton and Jamie Blackley.

Trainwreck (R for nudity, profanity, drug use and graphic sexuality) Romantic comedy about a reporter (Amy Schumer) who reconsiders her reluctance to commit to a relationship when she finds herself falling for the charming doctor (Bill Hader) she’s been assigned to write an article about. Ensemble cast includes Colin Quinn, Tilda Swinton, John Cena, LeBron James, Daniel Radcliffe, Marisa Tomei, Method Man, Amar’e Stoudemire, Matthew Broderick, Marv Albert and Vanessa Bayer.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Alleluia (Unrated) Suspense thriller revolving around a seductive womanizer (Laurent Lucas) who enters an unholy alliance with a lonely widow (Lola Duenas) after they share a very passionate, one-night stand. With Helena Noguerra, Edith Le Merdy and Anne-Marie Loop. (In French with subtitles) Bonobos: Back to the Wild (Unrated) Endangered species biopic about Claudine Andre (Rebecca Hall), the renowned primatologist who has dedicated her career to saving the Congo’s Bonobo apes. Co-starring Luke Evans and featuring an appearance by Andre herself.

Boulevard (R for profanity and sexuality) The late Robin Williams stars in the out-of-the-closet drama as a banker in a marriage of convenience tempted to leave his wife (Kathy Bates) of 26 years for a handsome male prostitute (Roberto Aguire) he picks up on the street. With Bob Odenkirk, Giles

A Hard Day (Unrated) Korean crime thriller about a police detective (Sun-kyun Lee) who is accused of corruption, served divorce papers, learns of his mother’s death, and is involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident, all within a 24-hour period. With Jin-woong Jo, Dong-Young Kim and Jeong-geun Sin. (In Korean with subtitles) Lila & Eve (R for violence and profanity) Revenge thriller about a grief-stricken mother (Viola Davis) who tracks down her son’s drive-by killers on the advice of another mourning mom (Jennifer Lopez) she meets at a support group.

Support cast includes Yolonda Ross, Shea Whigham and Aml Ameen.

The Look of Silence (PG-13 for mature themes) Justice delayed documentary follows the search by siblings who survived the Indonesian genocide for the men who killed their brother. (In Indonesian with subtitles) Mr. Holmes (PG for mature themes, disturbing images and smoking) Ian McKellen plays Sherlock Holmes in this murder mystery, set in 1957, which finds the aging sleuth attempting to solve an unsolved case with the help of his housekeeper’s (Laura Linney) precocious young son (Milo Parker). With Hiroyuki Sanada, Hattie Morahan and Colin Starkey as Dr. Watson. (In English and Japanese with subtitles) Safelight (R for profanity and sexual references) Romance drama, set in the Seventies, about a couple of teens (Juno Temple and Evan Peters) who embark on a road trip to photograph lighthouses located along the California coast.

Co starring Kevin Alejandro, Meaghan Martin and Christine Lahti.

The Stanford Prison Experiment (R for profanity, sexual references and abusive behavior) Psychological thriller inspired by the 1971 study conducted by Professor Philip Zimbardo (Billy Crudup) in which college students were enlisted to serve as guards and inmates in a mock penitentiary.

Featuring Ezra Miller, Olivia Thirlby and Tye Sheridan.

Powerful Jazz Vocalist Raises the Bar

Temika Moore

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO When acclaimed jazz vocalist Will Downing gushes over Temika Moore, the industry takes notice. Like Maysa and Gregory Porter before her, Moore is not exactly new to music. Her authenticity in a cookie-cutter industry, however, is rare.

“When I first heard Temika sing I said to myself, ‘Finally someone new has come to raise the musical bar. Temika possesses all the elements of a good singer – beautiful tone and phrasing, not to mention her ability to interpret a song,” Downing said.

The Philadelphia native has become the new “it” sound of sultry jazz, headlining summer jazz festivals from Richmond to New York with her latest release “Every Word.”

“I believe as artists we are all somehow amalgamations of everything we’ve heard. I grew up listening to everything from blues to classical. I have always been drawn toward my lower register sisters in song,” Moore said. “I love how artists like Oleta Adams, Lalah Hathaway, Rachelle Ferrell, and Lizz Wright push the limits of the contralto range. It amazes me how they approach interpreting a lyric and that is all fuel for the creation for me. I am forever a student.”

A scholar of music, Moore’s first project in 2002, “Moment of Truth,” showcased her ability to write as well as interpret in the process of developing songs. Saying she would love to work with chart topping artists like Pharrell Williams – who she calls enlightened – Moore’s overnight success is owed in large part to keeping her sound authentic, yet relatable.

“My songs are very much an intimate look into my thought process, my heart, and my spiritual journey. I work very hard to stay clear – mentally, emotionally and spiritually so that when I walk onto a stage or step into a studio to record a song, it is my aim that what is produced in the final product represents who I am 100 percent,” Moore said. “If my words can put an experience into perspective and or encourage someone to experience life on a higher level, then my purpose has been served.”

Her next performance will be at the Creedmoor Music Festival in Creedmoor, North Carolina on Sept. 19. Tickets can be purchased at: reverbnation.com For more information on Moore, visit temikamoore.com

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By Valerie Fraling “I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other that we still are. Call me by my old familiar name, Speak to me in the easy way, which you always used. Put no difference in your tone; wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me and if you want to, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was, let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was; there is unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near; just around the corner. All is well.”

-Henry Scott-Holland The death of the Iota Phi Theta Fraternity founder Albert “Bus” Hicks has left a void in the fellowship of Iota brothers. Albert Hicks, Lonnie Spruill, Jr., Charles Briscoe, Frank Coakley, John Slade, Baron Willis, Webster Lewis, Charles Brown, Louis Hudnell, Charles Gregory, Elias Dorsey, Jr. and Michael Williams founded the fraternity on the campus of Morgan State College in September 1963. Bus’ leadership qualities, sharp mind, quick wit and collegiate style of dress was an asset in the founding of Iota. Stroll on Bus. The Iota founders that have gone before are waiting to welcome you home.

Condolences to Angela Gibson and family on the death of her aunt Helen Russell Quarles; to Muriel Cole-Webber on the death of her father Alexander Webber; to Janet Merritt on the death of her husband Roland Merritt and to the Merritt family on the death of your brother Roland Merritt Jr. and John Stanley and family on the death of your sister Georgine Patterson.

“Any time women come together with a collective intention, it’s a powerful thing. Whether it’s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.”

-Phylicia Rashad The DuBois Circle celebrated their 109th year at their annual closing meeting at Martin’s West during a sit-down dinner of crab cakes and prime rib where vocalist Darius Jackson, a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts, entertained the guests. Baltimore author Sheri Booker was the guest speaker. Among the invitees were Beverly and John Carter, Nannette Mitchell, Judge Marcella Holland, Beverly Cooper, Donna Wilson, Charles Johnson, Edmonia Yates, Yvonne Lansey, Elise Mason, Maxine Wood, Margaret Shipley, Gladys Reed, Ann Koger, Candace Simms, Roslyn Wiley, Roslyn Wood, Sheryl and Wesley Wood and Marilyn Mosby.

“My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh-shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.”

-David Mixner

Summer is the perfect time to reacquaint yourself with family, friends, memories and nature and what better place to gather for a BBQ then Patapsco State Park. On Saturday, the neighbors of Montwood Road in Woodlawn invited family and friends for an old-fashioned cookout with neighbor Sylvia Jones frying fish as other fried chicken and attended the grill.

This event started forty years ago when the neighbors decided to combine their cooking and grilling skills at one big cookout. This year the children of the neighborhood continued the tradition their parents started. Guests and neighbors enjoying the evening were Sandi and Jai Matthews, Dennis and Jackie, Sylvia and John Jones, Shirley Richmond, Robert Chambliss, Caprice Griffin and Margaret Sullivan. Neighborhood kid Tim Jones provided the music.

“Here we go again” “come Sunday” back at Patapsco Park for 3 No Trumps Bridge Club’s annual cookout. Members Pat Roselle, Carolyn Wainwright, Aldonna Wylie, Charlene CooperBoston, Sara Smalley, Brenda Sykes, Rosemary Atkinson, Jean Powell, Shirley Richmond and Steve Wainwright invited guests to wine and dine in style at attractively decorated tables with fresh flowers, champagne, mixed concoctions and more in the midst of mother-nature. Guest enjoying the lovely afternoon was Jake Oliver (publisher of {The AFRO}), Gladys and Robert Rice, Napoleon Sykes, Helen and Adolph McDonald, Laura and Karl Knight, Eugene Smalley, Victor Green, Barbara Armstrong, Myra Queen, Marie Brown, Marian Davis-Foster, Deborah Hawkins, Deborah Courtney, Susan Ellison, Anita Hunter, Goldie and Judson Wood, and Myrna and Mike Cann.

“There’s no place like home.” -Frank Baum Liberty Live on Friday nights means summer jazz in Randallstown at Kings Point Square hosted by Liberty Road Business Association. Neighbors and jazz lovers enjoyed a magnificent evening relaxing in the “summer breeze”. Friday night jazz continues through August 7, 2015.

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People in the news are Wendell “Pete” France, acting deputy secretary of the Maryland Department of Correctional Services, and Eric Franklin, president and CEO of ERIMAX. They have been appointed to the board of directors of Leadership Maryland.

Thinking of you, Poet Reginald and Katherine Harris.

Happy birthday Bishop James Nelson, Dr. Marian Davis-Foster, Takiea Hinton, Thurman Pinder, Smittie Milan, Dorothy Boulware and a special happy 90th to Mary Alice Holland.

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Claims against the de- with a copy to the under- with a copy to the undercedent shall be pre- signed, on or before signed, on or before sented to the under- January 17, 2016, or be January 10, 2016, or be The project requires completion within 540 consecutive calendar days. signed with a copy to the forever barred. Persons forever barred. Persons This project is estimated to cost between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000.

Register of Wills or filed believed to be heirs or believed to be heirs or DC Water will receive Bids until 2:00 p.m., local standard time on August 12, with the Register of Wills legatees of the decedent legatees of the decedent 2015. with a copy to the under- who do not receive a who do not receive a This project may be funded in part by the U. S. Environmental Protection signed, on or before copy of this notice by mail copy of this notice by mail Agency (EPA). A Fair Share Objective for Minority and Women’s Business January 10, 2016, or be within 25 days of its first within 25 days of its first Enterprises participation in this work of 32% and 6%, respectively, has been forever barred. Persons publication shall so in- publication shall so inestablished. The program requirements are fully defined in USEPA’s believed to be heirs or form the Register of form the Register of legatees of the decedent Wills, including name, Wills, including name, ”Participation by Disadvantaged Enterprises in Procurement under EPA Financial Assistant Agreements - May 27, 2008”. who do not receive a address and relation- address and relation- DC WATER HAS DETERMINED THAT ALL BIDDERS MUST BE A CURcopy of this notice by mail ship. ship. within 25 days of its first RENT DC WATER PRE-QUALIFIED CONTRACTOR PRIOR TO Date of Publication: publication shall so in- Date of Publication: July 10, 2015 SUBMITTING PROPOSALS ON THIS PROJECT. July 17, 2015 form the Register of Name of newspaper: The Davis-Bacon wage determinations shall apply.

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Street, N.W., 3rd Floor a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s to such appointment (or 20001, on or before W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . proceeding. Objections to the probate of de- J a n u a r y 1 7 , 2 0 1 6 . 20001, on or before to such appointment (or cedent´s will) shall be Claims against the de- J a n u a r y 1 0 , 2 0 1 6 . to the probate of de- filed with the Register of cedent shall be pre- Claims against the decedent´s will) shall be Wills, D.C., 515 5th sented to the under- cedent shall be prefiled with the Register of Street, N.W., 3rd Floor signed with a copy to the sented to the underW a s h i n g t o n , D .

C . signed with a copy to the Wills, D.C., 515 5th 20001, on or before Register of Wills or filed Street, N.W., 3rd Floor J a n u a r y 1 0 , 2 0 1 6 . with the Register of Wills Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Claims against the de- with a copy to the under20001, on or before cedent shall be pre- signed, on or before with a copy to the underJ a n u a r y 1 0 , 2 0 1 6 . sented to the under- January 17, 2016, or be signed, on or before 10, 2016, or be Claims against the de- signed with a copy to the forever barred. Persons January forever barred. Persons cedent shall be pre- Register of Wills or filed believed to be heirs or believed to be heirs or sented to the under- with the Register of Wills legatees of the decedent legatees of the decedent signed with a copy to the with a copy to the under- who do not receive a who do not receive a Register of Wills or filed signed, on or before copy of this notice by mail copy of this notice by mail with the Register of Wills January 10, 2016, or be within 25 days of its first within 25 days of its first with a copy to the under- forever barred. Persons publication shall so in- publication shall so inform the Register of signed, on or before believed to be heirs or form the Register of legatees of the decedent January 10, 2016, or be who do not receive a Wills, including name, Wills, including name, forever barred. Persons copy of this notice by mail address and relation- address and relationship. believed to be heirs or within 25 days of its first ship.

Date of Publication: legatees of the decedent publication shall so in- Date of Publication: July 17, 2015 July 10, 2015 who do not receive a form the Register of Name of newspaper: Name of newspaper: copy of this notice by mail Wills, including name, Afro-American Afro-American within 25 days of its first address and relation- Washington Washington publication shall so in- ship.

Law Reporter Law Reporter form the Register of Date of Publication: Damien T. Frierson Lana Garvin Wills, including name, July 10, 2015 Personal Personal address and relation- Name of newspaper: Representative Representative Afro-American ship.

Washington TRUE TEST COPY Date of Publication: TRUE TEST COPY Law Reporter REGISTER OF WILLS July 10, 2015 Dorothy L. Googe REGISTER OF WILLS Name of newspaper: TRUE TEST COPY Personal 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/15 Afro-American REGISTER OF WILLS TRUE TEST COPY TRUE TEST COPY TRUE TEST COPY Representative 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/15 Washington REGISTER OF WILLS REGISTER OF WILLS REGISTER OF WILLS TYPESET: Jul 07 11:07:24 EDT 2015 Law Reporter 07/10, 07/17,Tue 07/24/15 TRUE TEST COPY Ashok K. Batra REGISTER OF WILLS 07/10, 07/17,Tue 07/24/15 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/15 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/15 TYPESET: Jul 14 14:42:19 EDTTue 2015 TYPESET: Jul 14 13:38:17 EDT 2015 TYPESET: Jul 14 13:37:40 EDTTue 2015 Personal Representative 07/10, 07/17,Tue 07/24/15 Superior Court of TYPESET: Jul 07 11:08:48 EDT 2015 the District of TRUE TEST COPY Superior Court of SUPERIOR COURT OF Superior Court of District of Columbia REGISTER OF WILLS the District of THE DISTRICT OF the District of PROBATE DIVISION District of Columbia District of Columbia COLUMBIA Superior TYPESET: Tue Jul 14 13:39:02 EDTCourt 2015 of Washington, D.C. PROBATE DIVISION 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/15 PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION the District of 20001-2131 Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. District of Columbia Administration No. 20001-2131 20001-2131 20001-2131 PROBATE DIVISION Superior Court of 2015ADM729 Administration No. Administration No. Foreign No. the District of Washington, D.C. ADVERTISING Luvenia E Winston 2015ADM777 2014ADM1363 District of Columbia 2015FEP70 20001-2131 Ronald Price Decedent James McRae PROBATE DIVISION Date of Death Administration No. Decedent Sylvia L. Adams at Law ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Decedent Washington, D.C. November 14, 2014 2015ADM739 David W. Buckley, 2407 Kegwood Lane 20001-2131 NOTICE OF George J. Katinas Marion Taylor Bass Esq Bowie, MD 20715 Administration No. APPOINTMENT, Decedent Decedent 1828 L Street, NW Suite Attorney 2015ADM764 Advertising Sales Rep needed for NOTICE TO NOTICE OF NOTICE OF 270 Leroy Barley NOTICE OF CREDITORS APPOINTMENT APPOINTMENT, the AFRO-American Newspapers, Washington, DC 20036 Decedent APPOINTMENT, AND NOTICE TO OF FOREIGN NOTICE TO Attorney James E Mccollum Jr NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Washington D.C. Office PERSONAL CREDITORS NOTICE OF 7309 Baltimore Ave CREDITORS Donte Mcrae, Dion REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO APPOINTMENT, Suite 117 AND NOTICE TO Mcrae, Arza Gardner, AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS UNKNOWN HEIRS whose addresses are College Park, MD 20740 Reuben G. Bass and Position provides: CREDITORS NOTICE TO Raymond L. Winston, 2224 16th Street, NE AND NOTICE TO NOTICE OF CREDITORS Herbert S Bass, whose • Competitive compensation package whose address is 831 Washington DC, 20018 UNKNOWN HEIRS APPOINTMENT, Paul G. Katinas, John G. addresses are 641 Nichand 7204 Quantum Leap 3rd Street, NE, Washing• Salary and commission plan NOTICE TO Katinas and Diane K. 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Objections Service of process may unknown shall enter their proceeding. Objections known heirs and heirs a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s communication skills proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to such appointment be made upon Philip N. a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s whose whereabouts are to such appointment • Automobile transportation proceeding.

Objections Margolius 4201 Connecto the probate of deshall be filed with the unknown shall enter their shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., ticut Avenue, NW, Suite to such appointment (or cedent´s will) shall be a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s to the probate of de515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd 600, Washington, DC cedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of proceeding. Objections Register of Wills, D.C., Please email your resume to: 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20008 whose designa- filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th to such appointment Street, N.W., 3rd Floor shall be filed with the Floor Washington, D.C. lhowze@afro.com or mail to 20001, on or before tion as District of Colum- Wills, D.C., 515 5th Register of Wills, D.C., 20001, on or before J a n u a r y 1 0 , 2 0 1 6 . bia agent has been filed Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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20001, on or before with the Register of Wills, 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Claims against the deWa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Hocker, Director of Human Resources, Claims against the deJanuary 17, 2016. cedent shall be pre- D.C. 20001, on or before Claims against the de- Floor Washington, D.C. cedent shall be pre2519 N. Charles Street, The decedent owned the 20001, on or before sented to the underJ a n u a r y 1 7 , 2 0 1 6 . cedent shall be preJ a n u a r y 1 0 , 2 0 1 6 . sented to the undersigned with a copy to the following District of Claims against the deBaltimore, MD 21218 Register of Wills or filed Colombia real property: cedent shall be pre- sented to the under- Claims against the de- signed with a copy to the signed with a copy to the cedent shall be pre- Register of Wills or filed 50% interest in 1632-34 with the Register of Wills sented to the underRegister of Wills or filed sented to the under- with the Register of Wills signed with a copy to the with a copy to the under- 1 7 t h S t r e e t , N W, signed with a copy to the Washington, DC Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills Register of Wills or filed with a copy to the undersigned, on or before with a copy to the underJanuary 10, 2016, or be Claims against the de- with the Register of Wills signed, on or before with the Register of Wills signed, on or before forever barred. Persons cedent may be pre- with a copy to the under- January 17, 2016, or be with a copy to the under- January 10, 2016, or be believed to be heirs or sented to the under- signed, on or before forever barred. Persons signed, on or before forever barred. Persons legatees of the decedent signed and filed with the January 17, 2016, or be believed to be heirs or January 10, 2016, or be believed to be heirs or who do not receive a Register of Wills for the forever barred. Persons legatees of the decedent forever barred. Persons legatees of the decedent copy of this notice by mail District of Columbia, 500 believed to be heirs or who do not receive a believed to be heirs or who do not receive a within 25 days of its first Indiana Avenue, N.W., legatees of the decedent copy of this notice by mail legatees of the decedent copy of this notice by mail publication shall so in- Washington, D.C. 20001 who do not receive a within 25 days of its first who do not receive a within 25 days of its first copy of this notice by mail form the Register of within 6 months from the within 25 days of its first publication shall so in- copy of this notice by mail publication shall so inwithin 25 days of its first form the Register of Wills, including name, date of first publication of publication shall so in- form the Register of publication shall so in- Wills, including name, address and relation- this notice.

Wills, including name, form the Register of form the Register of address and relationship.

Wills, including name, address and relation- Wills, including name, ship.

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Date of Publication: address and relation- Date of Publication: John G. Katinas ship.

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July 10, 2015 Diane K. Burnes Date of Publication: Name of newspaper: July 17, 2015 Date of Publication: Name of newspaper: Personal July 17, 2015 Afro-American July 10, 2015 Name of newspaper: FROM BLACK MAGIC, EVIL SPIRTS, OBIYA, Afro-American Representative(s) Name of newspaper: Washington Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington TRUE TEST COPY Afro-American FROM BLACK MAGIC, EVIL OBIYA, Afro-American Law Reporter Washington VOODO, WITCHCRAFT, LOVE,SPIRTS, KIDS, MONEY, Law Reporter REGISTER OF WILLS Washington Washington Raymond L. Winston Law Reporter FROM BLACK MAGIC, EVIL SPIRTS, OBIYA, Reuben G. Bass VOODO, WITCHCRAFT, LOVE, KIDS, MONEY, Law Reporter JOB, HEALTH, PEACE OF MIND, & ETC. Personal Date of first publication: Arza Gardner Law Reporter Herbert S. Bass LeRoy N. Barley Rhea Marx Representative July 17, 2015 Dion Mcrae VOODO, WITCHCRAFT, LOVE, KIDS, &MONEY, JOB, HEALTH, PEACE OF MIND, ETC. Personal Personal Personal Name of newspapers Donte Mcrae Representatives Representative Representative and/or periodical: JOB, HEALTH, PEACE OF MIND, & ETC. TRUE TEST COPY Personal The Daily Washington REGISTER OF WILLS Representative TRUE TEST COPY TRUE TEST COPY TRUE TEST COPY Law Reporter REGISTER OF WILLS REGISTER OF WILLS REGISTER OF WILLS The Afro-American TRUE TEST COPY 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/15 REGISTER OF WILLS 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/15 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/15 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/15 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/15 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/15 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM743 Florine J. Kellogg Decedent Paul D. Hunt 717 D Street NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20004 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Ti o m b e M J e f f r i e s , whose address is 5449 16th Ave., #104, Hyattsville, MD 20782, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Florine J. Kellogg, who died on May 10, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before January 10, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before January 10, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: July 10, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Florine J. Kellogg Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM629 Valerie Defillipo Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Ioannis Pasparakis and Christina Pasparakis, whose address is 250 Sunrise Dr. Apt D, Key Biscayne FL 33149, 3206 Oliver St. NW, Washington, DC 20015 were appointed personal representative of the estate of Valerie Defillipo, who died on April 16, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before January 17, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before January 17, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: July 17, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Ioannis Pasparakis Christina Pasparakis Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM761 J.H. Glaspie AKA James Hampton Glaspie Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Wanda L. Waddy, whose address is 5807 5th St. NE, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed personal representative of the estate of J.H. Glaspie AKA James Hampton Glaspie, who died on January 31, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before January 10, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before January 10, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: July 10, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Wanda L. Waddy Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM769 Beryl Spellman Decedent Peter Biberstein 409 7th Street NW Suite 200 Washington, DC 20004 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Ricardo Bryan, whose address is 530 Somerset Place, NW, Washington, DC 20011 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Beryl Spellman, who died on December 11, 2014 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before January 10, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before January 10, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Public Notice CHARM CITY CIRCULATOR The original intent of the Charm City Circulator (CCC) was to reduce traffic congestion, spread the use of the existing parking supply, tie growing communities together for residents and visitors, and connect transportation modalities by providing a safe, alternative mode of public transportation while reducing automobile congestion and air pollution in the City’s Central Business District.

Funding for the CCC program was achieved by restructuring the City’s parking tax. While the CCC’s operating expenses have increased over the years, the revenue derived from the parking tax adjustment has remained stagnant. In addition, issues with the supplier of the initial CCC fleet have necessitated significant unforeseen and unfunded expenditures. Subsequently, the CCC is operating at a deficit and will be for the near future.

In an effort address this deficit and maintain our goal of traffic mitigation, it is proposed that the CCC system be restructured. Through this process, CCC operations will be adjusted to make the program sustainable while continuing to meet ridership needs. Adjustments to the program include: *Elimination of the Banner Route * Federal grant funding for the Banner Route has ended. Commuters can utilize MTA Local Bus Route #1 to access Fort Avenue and Fort McHenry. *Implementation of uniform operating hours for all routes: *Monday through Thursday 7:00 am - 8:00 pm *Friday 7:00 am - 12:00 am *Saturday 9:00 am - 12:00 am *Sunday 9:00 am - 8:00 pm *The Orange Route will be modified and the following stops will be eliminated: 207, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 226, 227 *The following Orange Route stops will be added: Fayette Street at Poppleton Street, Fayette Street at Fremont Avenue, Fleet Street at Exeter Street, and Central Avenue at Bank Street *The Green Route will be modified and the following stops will be eliminated: 101,104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 125, 126 *The following Green Route stops will be added: Fayette Street at Colvin Street, Fayette Street at Holliday Street, Fayette Street at St. Paul Street, Baltimore Street at Calvert Street, Fleet Street at Exeter Street, Fleet Street at Caroline Street, Fayette Street at Wolfe Street (eastbound), Washington Street at Jefferson Street, and Madison Street at Wolfe Street *Purple Route Northern Extension will be implemented The majority of the proposed changes are scheduled to take effect on July 20, 2015, except for the Purple Route Northern Extension which is expected to occur in the Fall of 2015. The restructured Charm City Circulator map is available at www.charmcitycirculator.com and www. baltimorecity.gov/Government/AgenciesDepartments/Transportation.aspx for public engagement and comment.

Interested members of the public are encouraged to provide feedback and comments on the proposed changes. The comment period is currently open through July 8, 2015. Citizens may mail or email testimonies/ comments through midnight, July 8, 2015 to the Department of Transportation, 417 E. Fayette Street, Room 559, Baltimore, MD 21202 or to info@charmcitycirculator.com (using ”CCC Proposed Changes July 2015” as the subject). All public comments received will considered by the responsible administrator prior to taking final action on the proposed service adjustments.

Several public informational sessions will also be held during the month of July. Please visit www.charmcitycirculator.com and www.baltimorecity.gov/ Government/AgenciesDepartments/Transportation.aspx for additional information and updates on meeting dates and times.

Persons unable to attend the hearings may mail or email testimonies/ comments through midnight, July 8, 2015 to Department of Transportation, 417 E. Fayette Street, Room 559, Baltimore, MD 21202 or info@ charmcitycirculator.com (with CCC Proposed Changes July 2015 as the subject).

In accordance with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, all Baltimore City, Department of Transportation meetings are conducted in locations accessible to persons with disabilities and materials can be provided in accessible formats or translated into languages, other than English, upon request. All requests for reasonable and/or special accommodations must be made at least five (5) business days prior to the scheduled meeting date If you would like to request accessibility or language accommodations (foreign or sign), please telephone 410-396-6818 between 8am and 4pm, Monday through Friday.

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City of Baltimore Department of Finance Bureau of Purchases Sealed proposals addressed to the Board of Estimates of Baltimore will be received until, but not later than 11:00a.m. local time on the following date(s) for the stated requirements: July 29, 2015 *PROVIDE FOOD AND BEVERAGE VENDING SERVICES B50003989 *BROKERAGE OF A BICYCLE SHARING SYSTEM ADVERTISING AND SPONSORSHIP B50004096 *CITY HALL DOME LED LIGHTING B50004184 August 12, 2015 *STRUCTURAL MAINTENANCE AND DREDGING OF INNER HARBOR B50004126 THE ENTIRE SOLICITATION DOCUMENT CAN BE VIEWED AND DOWN LOADED BY VISITING THE CITY’S WEB SITE: www.baltimorecitibuy.org

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IN THE CIRCUIT IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR COURT FOR BALTIMORE CITY BALTIMORE CITY Case No.: Case No.: 24D15001245 24D14001918 IN THE MATTER OF Circuit Court for Akilah Jamila Coates Baltimore City FOR CHANGE OF Maleka T. Elion NAME TO 546 Wyanoke Ave Akilah Jamila Lievers Baltimore, MD 21218 Plaintiff ORDER FOR vs NOTICE BY Ahmed Elahamer PUBLICATION 954 E 34th The object of this suit is Brooklyn, NY 11210 to officially change the Defendant name of the petitioner NOTICE from (DOM REL 72) Akilah Jamila Coates The above Plaintiff has to filed a petition/complaint/ Akilah Jamilah Lievers motion, entitled: It is this 1st day of July, 2015 by the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, ORDERED, that publication be given one time in a newspaper of general circulation in Baltimore City on or before the 30th day of July, 2015, which shall warn all interested persons to file an affidavit in opposition to the relief requested on or before the 17th day of August, 2015 Frank M. Conaway Clerk 07/17/15

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C6 The Afro-American, July 18, 2015 - July 24, 2015 TYPESET: Wed Jul 15 14:28:20 EDT 2015 LEGAL NOTICES CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OFFICE OF ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for Sanitary Contract No. 937-Improvements to Sanitary Sewers in HR07A and Along Chesterfield Avenue in Herring Run Sewershed will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204, City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, August 19, 2015. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon.

The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, at the Department of Public Works in Room 6 located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of Friday, July 17, 2015 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $100.00.

Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package.

All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call 410-396-6883 or contact the Committee at 3000 Druid Park Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21215. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is B02552Sewer Construction or G90099-Cured-in-Place Pipe Lining, and G90001-Jacking, Tunneling, Boring Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $5,000,000.01 to $10,000,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 300 Abel Wolman Municipal Building, Large Conference Room on July 23, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. The CCTV videos of the sewers included in this project will be made available for viewing/copying to interested parties at the Office of Whitman, Requardt & Associates, LLP, 801 S. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21231, (410) 235-3450. Refer to IB-8 for additional detailsPrincipal Items of work for this project are: *Sewer cleaning and closed circuit television (CCTV) inspection *Cured-in-Place pipe (CIPP) lining of sanitary sewers *Excavate and replace segments of sanitary sewer via point repairs *Manhole repair and rehabilitation work *Sewer house connection (SHC) repair and rehabilitation work *Construction of new 16-inch Ductile Iron sewer This project is a recipient of the State Revolving Loan The MBE goal is 17% The WBE goal is 16% SANITARY CONTRACT NO. 937 APPROVED:Bernice H. Taylor Clerk, Board of Estimates APPROVED: Rudolph S. Chow, P.E. Director of Public Works TYPESET: Wed Jul 15 14:28:41 EDT 2015 CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OFFICE OF ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for Sanitary Contract No. 919-Improvements to Sanitary Sewers in the Outfall Sewershed will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204, City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, August 26, 2015. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon. The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, at the Department of Public Works in Room 6 located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of Friday, July 17, 2015 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $100.00.

Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package.

All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call 410-396-6883 or contact the Committee at 3000 Druid Park Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21215. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is B02552Sewer Construction or G90099-Cured-in-Place Pipe Lining Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $20,000,000.01 to $30,000,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 300 Abel Wolman Municipal Building, Large Conference Room on July 23, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. The CCTV videos of the sewers included in this project will be made available for viewing/copying to interested parties at the Office of Gannett Fleming, Inc., 7133 Rutherford Road, Suite 300, Baltimore, MD 21244.

Refer to IB-8 for additional details Principal Items of work for this project are: *Sewer cleaning and closed circuit television (CCTV) inspection *Cured-in-Place pipe (CIPP) lining of sanitary sewers *Excavate and replace segments of sanitary sewer via point repairs *Manhole repair and rehabilitation work *Sewer house connection (SHC) repair and rehabilitation work *New manhole and cleanout installation work This project is a recipient of the State Revolving Loan The MBE goal is 17% The WBE goal is 16% SANITARY CONTRACT NO. 919 APPROVED: Bernice H. TaylorClerk, Board of Estimates APPROVED: Rudolph S. Chow, P.E. Director of Public Works TYPESET: Wed Jul 15 14:28:59 EDT 2015

CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OFFICE OF ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for Water Contract No. 1173R-Guilford Finished Water Reservoir Improvements will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204, City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, September 9, 2015. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon.

The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, at the Department of Public Works Room 6 located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of Friday, July 17, 2015 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $150.00.

Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package.

All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call 410-396-6883 or contact the Committee at 3000 Druid Park Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21215. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is G90124Environmental Engineering Concrete Structures Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $50,000,000.01 to $60,000,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 3rd Floor Conference Room of the Abel Wolman Building on August 7, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. Principal Item of work for this project are: Construction of two buried, pre-stressed concrete finished water storage tanks within the footprint of the existing reservoir, including gravity inlet and outlet mains, effluent mains to supply the Guilford Pumping Station, tank overflow and drain pipes, tank bypass mains, site enhancements and grading, and stormwater management facilities The MBE goal is 17% African American 13% The WBE goal is 5% Hispanic American 3% Asian American 1% WATER CONTRACT 1173R APPROVED: Bernice H. Taylor Clerk, Board of Estimates APPROVED: Rudolph S. Chow, P.E. Director of Public Works

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NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates Education of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for Sanitary Education Contract No. 887R-Upgrade of the SCADA System for the Pumping

and Metering Stations will be received at the Office of the Comptroller,

Room 204, City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, August 19, 2015. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon.

Department of Education (MSDE) seeks: The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, at the Depart- Maryland The #1State Ranked Education Program in the USA ment of Public Works in Room 6 located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman (For 5 STRAIGHT YEARS) Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of PROGRAM SUPERVISOR Friday, July 17, 2015 and copies may be purchased for a Maryland non-refundable State Department of Education (MSDE) seeks education staff for current & other po & cost of $50.00. opportunities in its Juvenile Services Education Program at various state-wide locations. Be a Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the building bid package.

REGIONAL COORDINATOR & leading this progressive program by bringing your innovative & creative instructional s All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prequalified by the City MSDE’s alternative education team! of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties Supervisor will provide leadership, coordishould call 410-396-6883 or contact the Committee at 3000 Druid Park Education Program ADMINISTRATIVE OPPORTUNITIES Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21215. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture nation, & technical assistance to local school systems & MSDE Principal (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall staff for the Career & Technology Education (CTE) Accountability be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The SECONDARY TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES Technology Student Organizations, CTE equity Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is G90078- System, Career Process Instrumentation and Control Systems & special populations services, & CTE technical assessment and Special Education Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $400,000.01 to $600,000.00 Math A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 9th Floor of Abel credentialing.

English- $94,335 & full State Benefits Wolman Municipal Building, Large Conference Room on July 28, 2015 Position #025654 $64,608 History at 10:00 A.M. All questions by bidders must be submitted by August 7, Science 2015.

Education Program Specialist /Regional Coordinator will be Principal Items of work for this project are: TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION Provision and installation of upgrades to existing SCADA System PLC- responsibleCAREER for providing leadership, coordination &(CTE) technical asbased Remote Terminal Units located at wastewater pumping stations and sistance to Local School Systems (LSS) and Community Colleges Business flow metering stations. Implementation of cellular communications beof the State and for planning, developing, Information Technology tween central SCADA location at Eastern Avenue Pump Station and remote within an assigned region Construction SCADA locations (pump stations and flow metering stations). evaluating and improving Career & Technology Education (CTE) The MBE goal is 5% The WBE goal is 0% SANITARY CONTRACT NO. 887R APPROVED: Bernice H. Taylor Clerk, Board of Estimates APPROVED: Rudolph S. Chow, P.E. Director of Public Works TYPESET: Wed Jul 15 14:29:37 EDT 2015

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Applications/Resumes should be SOUTHWEST, SECTOR III will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, AA/EOE received by July 31, 2015.

Room 204 City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. August 12, 2015.

Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly TYPESET: Wed Jul 15 11:44:01 AA/EOE EDT 2015 opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon. The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, at the Department of Public Works Service Center located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of EDUCATION July 17, 2015 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of COORDINATOR OF INFORMATION $75.00. Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid TECHNOLOGY AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT package. All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prerequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. CARROLL COMMUNITY COLLEGE has a full-time, Interested parties should call (410) 396-6883 or contact the Committee at 12-month position available as a Coordinator of Information 3000 Druid Park Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21215. If a bid is submitted by Technology and Workforce Development. Additional informaa joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that estab- tion may be obtained at www.carrollcc.edu. lished the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes.

EOE/M/F The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is A02620 TYPESET: Wed Jul 15 11:44:21 EDT 2015 Curbs, Gutters & Sidewalks. Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $2,000,000.00 to $3,200,000.00. A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 10:00 A.M. on July 24, 2015 at 417 E. Fayette Street, EDUCATION Charles L. Benton Building, seventh floor Richard Chen Conference Room.

Senior Research Analyst Principal Items of work for this project are Superpave Asphalt 12.5mm PG64S-22 for Surface, Level 2 - 8,160 Ton, Pavement Removal of Bitu- CARROLL COMMUNITY COLLEGE seeks as a full-time 12 minous Material 0 to 3” Depth - 60,650 SY, and 9” Reinforced Cement month position as Senior Research Analyst. Additional inConcrete Pavement Using Mix No. 9 for Bus Pad - 2,130 SY. The DBE goal formation may be obtained at www.carrollcc.edu. is 30% TYPESET: Wed Jul 15 11:44:43EOE/M/F EDT 2015 APPROVED: Bernice H. Taylor, Clerk Board of Estimates

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ADJUNCT FACULTY Carroll Community College is seeking Adjunct Faculty for the Fall 2015 Semester. Additional information, including class information may be obtained at www.carrollcc.edu.

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Residents Want Safer Metro System

Dangers of Synthetic Pot Often Underestimated

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

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com More than a year ago, reports began to surface nationally that synthetic – marijuana known on the streets as Spice, Scooby Snax, Bizzaro, or K2 – had caused an upswing in violent reactions, emergency room visits, and deaths.

Toxicologists noted then that the synthetic cannabinoids could contain as many as a dozen chemical compounds, many manufactured in makeshift foreign laboratories.

Recently, two newer forms of spice, XLR-11 and UR144, were found to have a potency far greater than the others – which are believed to be responsible for the volatile difference in reactions.

Reactions to K2 have run from violent convulsions that lasted for up to three months after smoking, to psychotic episodes of paranoia, increased anxiety and hallucinations, and uncontrollable body movements. K2, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, can also cause kidney damage.

In the Washington metropolitan area, psychotic reactions and deaths attributed to K2 reached critical proportions recently, causing Mayor Muriel Bowser to sign the “Sale of Synthetic Drugs Emergency Amendment Act of 2015” into law. The law allows the Metropolitan Police Department to shut down a first-offender for up to 96 hours, and levies a $10,000 fine the first violation. The department is also authorized to shut down repeat offenders for up to 30 days, with a $20,000 fine, while the

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On July 4, Kevin Sutherland, an intern in for U.S. Rep. Jim Hines (D-Conn.), was stabbed to death after resisting a robbery attempt on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Agency’s (Metro) Red Line train. The incident was preceded by a June 7 incident, captured on video that went viral, where an older man savagely

“I hear that some bus lines are safe and some bus lines aren’t safe.” – Brenda Jones assaulted a younger man on a Metro Green Line train.

These incidents, plus the death of Carol Glover of Alexandria, Va., on a Jan. 12 train leaving the L’Enfant Plaza Station bound for Virginia on the Yellow Line, has some Metro riders nervous about the system.

D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), who represents the District on Metro’s board of directors, insisted that the system is fine. “Yes, Metro is safe,” Evans told the AFRO on July 14. “We have had a few high-profile events recently but those are few and far between.”

As of June 2015, Metro reported 724 crimes, including Photo by Rob Roberts

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and Mayor Bowser along with other diplomats attended the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Ben’s Chili Bowl on H Street in Northeast D.C. on July 8.

Shelters Struggle with Decaying Facilities, Changing Clientele

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com “It’s one thing to not be in your own home; it’s quite another to be in a place that’s uninhabitable,” Shondra Patrick told the AFRO. Patrick and her family are among flickr.com the 11,623 families in the District without permanent housing. Faced with the realities of Federal City Shelter in D.C. shelter living, Patrick counts herself blessed to have found accommodations at a friend’s home.

“My family is split up – the kids with me and my husband with his brother – but at least we are not in a shelter. I saw the inside of D.C. General a year ago, and it scared me,” Patrick said of the now-shuttered 280-family facility on the campus of the former hospital site.

The D.C. General facility was viewed by many as a dehumanizing last resort to sleeping on the streets, with reports of rodent and raccoon infestations, skin diseases caused by unsanitary conditions, and incidents of employees sexually assaulting clients or taking photos of them while they showered – a common occurrence.

But were conditions at D.C. General on par with what is available or an outlier of homeless facilities?

A walk-through of the 1,350-bed Federal City Shelter (also known as the Community for Creative Non-Violence – CCNV Shelter) in Northwest, suggests both. According to its website, CCNV is the largest shelter in the nation, which highlights the conundrum city officials face in improving facilities whose existing infrastructure require constant, high-cost maintenance. Bracketed by tourist attractions, popular hotel chains, and the D.C. Courts, the massive building (taking up an entire city block) houses adult men and women in an open-floor, barracks-style setting.

Visibly clean, the odor of disinfectant lingers in the corridors of each floor and its common areas are reminiscent of a traditional college dormitory. When

the AFRO visited the building, repairs were underway in the stairwells and landings of each floor, as well as the front entrance foyer.

As Donald Page, director of Administrative Offices at the CCNV, explained, while the facility has not had any issues as severe as those reported at D.C. General, the 70-plus-year-old building’s core systems are a source of aggravation. “The heating and air condition systems can be a problem, and because of the age of the building we can, on occasion, experience problems with the electrical system,” Page said. “We have the occasional mouse problem as well, and because we have a large, constantly changing population, bedbugs can be an issue. But we spray for those ‘little darlings’ constantly.”

Between ongoing construction one block away, D.C. Central Kitchen on the basement level, and two overnight women’s shelters unaffiliated with CCNV in the same building, Page said rats have been known to surface around the parameters of the building. He said the city works constantly to abate any rat issues inside the facility.

The District’s Interagency on Housing’s Strategic Plan 2015-2020, notes, as does Page, that current shelter facilities have aging plumbing, heating and cooling systems, and crumbling infrastructure, and they come with significant annual price tags for maintenance, paid for by the Department of General Services (DGS) and the Department of Human Services (DHS).

Calling the conditions in the vast majority of the District’s shelters “simply unacceptable,” the report noted that many of the low-barrier shelters for single adults required clients to leave at 7 a.m. and not return until 7 p.m., offering little help in reducing the “trauma of whatever life events have led individuals and families to shelters.”

For shelter dwellers, like LaKeith Davis, it is the time spent idling outside facilities like CCNV that create trauma.

Forced to contemplate his life from the sidewalk or a – LaKeith Davis park bench, Davis said, is like enduring the insecurity of homelessness or eviction each morning. “The shelter clean and the folks do their jobs, but having to hit the streets at 7 feels like a bucket of cold water is being thrown on me,” Davis said. “There is nothing normal about temporary living spaces and even though I am grateful for it, I cannot turn it off in my head, that I’ve hit rock bottom.”

“There is nothing normal about temporary living spaces and even though I am grateful for it, I cannot turn it off in my head, that I’ve hit rock bottom.”

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Kevin Sutherland was killed on Metro on July 4. aggravated assault, arson, robbery and vehicle theft. The year prior, 717 crimes were reported.

Metro operates six lines that are labeled by color: the aforementioned Red, Green, and Yellow along with Blue, Orange, and Silver. These lines are manned by trains that go, in some instances, through the District to Prince George’s and Montgomery County in Maryland and in Northern Virginia as far as Springfield, Vienna, and the Tyson Corner area near the Dulles Toll Road. Metro also operates a bus service that runs along fixed routes and a service for the elderly and handicapped customers known as MetroAccess.

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Metro rarely has incidents that cause death and when it does it becomes national news.

That was the case on June 22, 2009 when eight passengers were killed and 80 injured on the Red Line crash that was caused, according to an investigation by Metro officials and the National Transportation Safety Board, by a faulty track circuit.

When the AFRO contacted Metro for comment, its communications staff sent a link

to its website providing information about what passengers should do to be safe in the system.

Brenda Jones, is a community activist in Ward 8, said she doesn’t use Metro, but has heard plenty about the problems customers have with the system. “I hear that some bus lines are safe and some bus lines aren’t safe,” Jones said. “People in Ward 8 like the fact that buses run frequently.”

Jones has heard that some bus lines in other parts of the city aren’t safe. Even though she said she thinks the death of Sutherland on the Metrorail is tragic, violent crime in the city occurs in other places than just the Metro.

“I think that was terrible but so many other people have been stabbed and they weren’t on the Metro,” she said.

Jones said the key to Metro’s safety is to have a stronger police presence. “I think that there should be more plainclothes officers on the subway (Metrorail) and on the buses,” she said. “I do know that fights sometimes take place not just in eastern Washington stations but all over the place and the officers need to be there to protect people.”

Juan Thompson, who works for D.C. Council member David Grosso (I-At Large), rides the Metrorail frequently. He boards the

Potomac Avenue Station on the Blue, Orange, and Silver Lines and goes west to the Federal Triangle Station on a regular basis.

Thompson said he isn’t afraid of Metro but he knows where to go and what not to do to be safe. “Inside the Metro system, on the subway, I feel safe,” Thompson said. “Outside the subway, I don’t feel as safe.”

Thompson said the stations need to improve their lighting and, agrees with Jones, that more police officers are needed. “There are not enough public safety officers and the system needs more video cameras so that station managers can see what is going on,” he said.

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Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) will move to permanently revoke its business license.

“I thank the Council for their swift action and residents from all eight wards for strongly supporting this legislation to crack down on the sale of these drugs,” Bowser said. Mayor Bowser and city officials said they are hoping to see a drop in synthetic drug overdoses now that the legislation has been signed into law.

Previously touted as a natural or safe alternative to marijuana that was legal and easily accessible at corner, liquor, and fuel stores, synthetic marijuana has proven to be dangerous – impacting thousands of teens and young (mostly) males.

“Synthetic cannabinoids are tailor-made to hit cannabinoid receptors – and hit it hard. This is not marijuana,” said Jeff Lapoint, a New York-based emergency room doctor and

“I thank the Council for their swift action and residents from all eight wards for strongly supporting this legislation to crack down on the sale of these drugs.”

–Mayor Bowser spiceaddictionsupport.org

The synthetic drug – K2 medical toxicologist. “Its action in the brain may be similar but the physical effect is so different.”

While its prevalence among young Black males has previously been attributed to easy access and a culture of cheap fun, health professionals continue to research if and how these drugs interact differently based on demographics.

“We are working with District of Columbia hospitals to better understand the demographics of synthetic drug usage so that we can target resources to reduce the negative impact of these drugs on our community,” said Department of Health Director Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt.

The D.C. Department of Behavioral Health’s Addiction Prevention & Recovery Administration also launched a comprehensive social

marketing campaign, K2 Zombie DC, more than two years ago, to combat the popularity of the drugs and what they term the “Zombie Effect” of exposure to it. Designed to inform young people of its dangers, K2 Zombie DC also supports those ending addictions to the substances by providing counseling resources.

Testimonials on the effects of K2 provided by K2 Zombie DC include two teen sisters, one of whom had a particularly bad reaction to the drug. “We were smoking it in her room and she leaned over and fell. Then, she got up and went on a straight rampage, destroying everything, knocking down anything in her path. Trying to calm her down was a task . . .

It was the scariest, craziest night ever,” the sister wrote. “We didn’t know who she was.”

Designed to inform young people of its dangers, K2 Zombie DC also supports those ending addictions to the substances by providing counseling resources. For additional information, visit the website at k2zombiedc.com.

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COMMUNITY CONNECTION Washington, D.C.

Burning Desire To Be Touched The debut of Burning Desire To Be Touched, a work commissioned by the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue Southwest will occur on July 18 at 2 p.m. The performance art piece by Mwangi Hutter examines the desire for harmonious relationships. As part of the performance, two partners will reach out, touch and seek a force strong enough to overcome the challenges of life. For more information, contact the museum at 202-633-4600.

Woodbridge, Va.

Investment Club Open House The Washington Metro Investment Club is having an open house meeting on July 18 at the McCourt Bldg., 1 County Complex Court, The meeting will start at 4:00 p.m. The club meets once a month to discuss investments in the Stock Market. The Club was started in March 1992 and has made over 10 percent since inception. The club is comprised of a small group of novice investors interested in learning about current trends in investing. Through a monthly plan of investing directly with companies and participating in their respective Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIPs), club members hope to reap a steady and respectable return while learning more about financial planning for the future. For more information, contact Ken Wright, 703-801-1465.

Rockville, Md.

Annual Holy Convocation The Church of the Living God /P.G.T. (Pillar and Ground of the Truth) will host its 2015 National Holy Convocation from July 19 – 24 at the Hilton Hotel, 1750 Rockville Pike. Bishop Jerry L. Maiden, senior national president, will deliver the message on July 23at 7pm. Local DMV church choirs and ministers will participate in evening services.

The convocation will include Candlelight Communion Service - July 19 at 7 p.m.; National Musical - July 21 at 8p.m.; National

Convocation Banquet – July 22 at 7:30 p.m. and National Presidents Worship Service July 23 at 7:30 p.m. The Church of the Living God /P.G.T. (Pillar and Ground of the Truth) was founded in Arkansas in 1912. It’s a nondenominational and non-sectarian body that emphasizes baptism by immersion, the use of unleavened bread in communion and the washing of saints’ feet upon uniting with the church. For more information visit http://www. cotlgshreveport.com/, or contact Kadrieka Maiden, kmaiden@gmail.com or 240-4468148 or Jackie Maiden, j2maide@gmail.com or 318-208-4582.

Mitchellville, Md.

FAME Anniversary, Benefit Concert

The Foundation of Advancement of Music and Education will hold its 11th Anniversary and Awards Celebration on July 23 at the Newton White Mansion, 2708 Enterprise Road. A reception is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. and the program is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. The host will be Tony Richards, with performances by Pieces of a dream and Chelsey Green & Friends. For tickets and scholarship opportunities, visit fameorg.org, or contact Barbara Blair at bblair@fameorg.org or 301-805-5358.

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The Black Public Relations Society (BPRS) collaborated with the D.C. Chapter, Black MBA Association and the National Sales Network (NSN) to host their second annual Pre-Summer Professional Soiree and all White Party at the Aqua Club and Lounge in Northeast D.C. on June 13th. Members and guests came together for an afternoon of fun, door prizes, networking and dancing.

Organizers for the event included the chapter presidents: Faye Hyslops, BPRS; Candice Charles, MBA Association and Keith McMillian, NSN.

Kenisha Salvary, Kia Quick and Ebony Andrews

Kenisha Salavry, Miss Trinidad & Tobago, United Nations 2015 and Bertha Cross

JaNeil Pryor, Jeanna Pryor and Allie Thrower Felicia Harrison, LaTrina Antoine, Ebony Andrews, Enid Doggett and Barbara Streeter

Kappa man and an Omega man Oscar Mandis, Candice Charles and John James II

Enid Doggett, Faye Hyslop and Barbara Streeter

Alethea Franklin, Muriel Evans and Rita DeShields Lauetta Townsens, Smalina Warren, Julie Moultrie and Jewel Morgan

Rodney Dickerson, Enid Doggett, Doxie McCoy and Robert Gladney

BPRS’ Leadership Team: Michael Dutton, Faye Hyslop, Edgar Brookins and Chris Epps

Faye Hyslop, president, BPRS, Keith McMillian, NSN, Baltimore Chapter and Candice Charles, president, National Black MBA, DC Chapter

James Boudford, Julia Singleton, Keith McMillan, Carmen HintonPeterson and Ryan Olden Photos by Rob Roberts

NewsBash 2015 was held June 16 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Warner Building in Northwest, Washington, DC. Each year, more than 230,000 breast cancers are diagnosed

in the United States and this event is held to raise funds to help with prevention and education programs in D.C. Newsbash 2015 will benefits Celebremos La Vida! — a breast and cervical cancer education and early

detection program for medically underserved women in the Hispanic community. The event is hosted by a group Washington area women in the news industry, including Ch-4(NBC), Fox 5 News, Ch-7(ABC) and Ch-9(CBS).

Sponsors of the event include: Glassman Wealth Services (premiere) and The Austin-Weston Center for Cosmetic Surgery, Vornado Realty Trust and BrandLinkDC.

Local news anchors and reporters who attended the BASH Shawn Yancy, Fox5 News and Rep. Linda T. Sanchez (D-CA), special guest speaker

Howard Bernstein, meteorologist, WUSA 9 News, Steve Chenevey, Fox5 News, Holly Morris, Fox 5 News and Laura Evans, Fox 5 News

Hillery Howard Thomas Mathewson, Lesli Foster, weeknight anchor, WUSA9 News and LaShaunnè David Karen Battle, Breast Imaging technician and Lydia Leftwich, 12 year breast cancer survivor

Andrea Roane, anchor, WUSA9 News, Carolyn Aldigè, founder/president, “Prevent Cancer” Foundation, Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA), Rachel Bleh and Barry Glassman

Guests enjoying the reception

Renita Anderson, Brooks Kenny and Kellee Perkins

LaShaunnè David , Andrea Roane, Edgar Brookins, Erika Laws and Doxie McCoy Andrea Roane, anchor, WUSA9 News and Russ Ptacek, investigative reporter, WUSA9 News

Derek McGinty, anchor, WUSA9 News and Cheryl Cooper, SVP, AARP

Lorraine Shamberger, Stacey Irvin, Brian Silver, Jacqueline Woody and Amber Singletary

LaShaunnè David, Edgar Brookins and Gwen Tolbert, meteorologist, Fox5 News

These ladies bring the news to us every day

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