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By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent Fifth in a series detailing states’ efforts to keep citizens from voting.

As hundreds of Moral Monday protestors swarmed the North Carolina capitol building decrying the Legislature’s enactment of a wave of conservative laws May 19, civil rights lawyers were filing a motion in federal court to block the state’s omnibus voter suppression law from disenfranchising voters during the November general elections.

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“What a treasure” was just one of the many tributes that lit up social media when the news was announced May 28 that well known poet, author, activist and actor, Maya Angelou, 86, had died. A Facebook post under the name of her son, Guy B. Johnson, said, “Her family is extremely grateful that her ascension was not belabored by a loss of acuity or comprehension.

She was a warrior for equality, tolerance and peace.” See more on the AFRO Facebook fan page.

District Group Monitors Conditions for Exiled Offenders

By Valencia Mohammed Special to the AFRO Imagine you’ve been sentenced in the District for offenses that in other jurisdictions would land you in a county jail or state facility. In the District, because there are no such facilities, offenders are sent to federal institutions.

If you’re lucky, you might be sent to a prison several hours from D.C. But over

1,200 inmates are shipped thousands of miles away for crimes that in many cases were not heinous.

Knowing this, Mayor Vincent Gray gave impetus to the Correctional Information Council (CIC), an independent entity mandated to inspect and monitor Rivers Correction Institution in Winton, N.C., about 214 miles from the District, houses almost 1,500 D.C. inmates.

Former Paratroopers Solve Mystery in Time for Memorial Day

By Robert M. Matthews Sr. Special to the AFRO

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Photo by Robert Murphy Matthews Sr. The 69-year-old mystery of the final resting place for an Army paratrooper of the all MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!

Black 555th Parachute Infantry Fred Donner, National Smokejumpers Assoc.; Tony Battalion was solved, thanks Woods, Philadelphia Inquirer; and Trooper Robert to a former Army paratrooper, Murphy Matthews display the Baltimore chapter flag at a former smoke jumper and a the grave of Pvt. Malvin L. Brown, U.S. Army. reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

PFC Malvin L. Brown was a member of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (Triple Nickles) that had been deployed during World War II to northern California and Oregon in 1945, to reinforce the smoke jumper program, which trained paratroopers as airborne fire fighters. The U.S. Forest Service conducted the training. The purpose was to fight forest fires started by the Japanese balloon bombs launched from Japan.

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conditions of confinement at facilities operated by the Federal Bureau of Prison (FBOP), D.C. Department of Corrections (DOC) and their contract facilities where D.C. residents are incarcerated.

The group was established in 1997 but was almost in a dysfunctional state until recently.

“Reinstating the District of Columbia Corrections Information Council was a top priority of this administration.

Their role in monitoring the conditions of confinement for D.C. inmates is critical, especially since a large number of D.C. inmates are housed outside of the jurisdiction,” said Mayor Gray.

One of the District’s best kept secrets is that the CIC consists of one staff member and two interns housed in the bullpen of the Mayor’s communications center. One

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Street Wars Yield Younger Victims, Recurring Traumas lived in the penumbra of traumatizing violence.

In 2012, the last year for The last Monday of each which complete data are May has been available, set aside by Baltimore national decree City saw 216 as a day of murders, 317 remembrance rapes, 3,635 for those who robberies, have died and 4,657 aggravated while fighting assaults, in our nation’s Prince George’s County saw three-year-old Jayson according wars. But for to data many in places Holland die of a drug like the District overdose this past January. available on the of Columbia Governor’s or Baltimore Office of Crime Control and City, the beat of the war Prevention website. drum is not a phenomenon of In April of this year, foreign theaters or something 14 year-old Najee Thomas encountered in history books, but the exhaustingly persistent became the eighth person age tempo of a daily existence Continued on A3

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Business leaders have distanced themselves for years from the annual Atlantic Beach BikeFest, which is held about 15 miles away and draws thousands of bikers to the area, and a second motorcycle rally the weekend before, saying they bring too much noise, nudity and bad behavior. They would prefer the area emphasize military-friendly events around Memorial Day. Police have not linked the biking event to the violence.

Jeralean Talley of Detroit Turns 115

INKSTER, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit-area woman, a member of a select group of the living to have been born in the 19th century, celebrated a birthday on May 23.

Her 115th.

Jeralean Talley, who was born May 23, 1899, went fishing last year and still gets around on her own with the help of a walker.

The Inkster resident plans to celebrate with family and friends at a local church on Sunday.

On her actual birthday — Friday — Talley is going to the doctor for a checkup, although she says she doesn’t feel sick.

But Talley’s knees occasionally hurt, her right hand shakes,

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Jeralean Talley she has a hard time hearing and her memory comes and goes.

Her answer as to why she has lived so long hasn’t changed over the years.

“It’s all in the good Lord’s hands,” Talley told the Detroit Free Press. “There’s nothing I can do about it.”

Talley is the oldest-living American and the second-oldest person in the world, according to a list maintained by the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks the world’s longestliving people.

The Gerontology Research Group verified Talley’s age using census data. Japan resident Misao Okawa, 116, tops the list.

Talley, whose husband died in 1988, is cared for by a 76-year-old daughter who lives with her.

Five generations of the family are living in the area, including a great-great-grandson.

4 Shootings in Myrtle Beach Over Holiday Weekend

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Following an upswing in violence over Memorial Day weekend, Myrtle Beach business leaders want to assure tourists that the popular South Carolina resort city is safe.

In the latest violence, a man and a woman were shot late Sunday at the Wave Rider Resort, Myrtle Beach Police Capt.

David Knipes said. The hotel is just south of the Bermuda Sands Motel, where three people were killed and another was injured in a shooting Saturday night. No arrests have been made.

Two other shootings, both of which resulted in one injury, took place Saturday morning and Saturday night. Every available officer was already working this weekend because the holiday is one of the busiest times of the year at Myrtle Beach, Knipes said.

The Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce released a statement bemoaning the violence.

“The senseless acts of criminals and unruly visitors have once again marred what should have been a stellar weekend celebrating our Armed Forces and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of America,” chamber president Brad Dean said.

“We are working with our promotional partners to do what little we can to counter the negative publicity and assure those visitors planning a trip to the Myrtle Beach area that our community values their safety,” Dean said.

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Women in Nigeria sing as they attend a prayer meeting calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls Nigeria (AP)-Nigeria’s military has located nearly 300 school girls abducted by Islamic extremists but fears using force to try to free them could get them killed, the country’s chief of defense said Monday.

Air Marshal Alex Badeh told demonstrators supporting the much criticized military that Nigerian troops can save the girls.

But he added, “we can’t go and kill our girls in the name of trying to get them back.”

He spoke to thousands of demonstrators who marched to Defense Ministry headquarters in Abuja, the capital. Many were brought in on buses, indicating it was an organized event.

Asked by reporters where they had found the girls, Badeh refused to elaborate.

“We want our girls back. I can tell you we can do it. Our military can do it. But where they are held, can we go with force?” he asked the crowd.

People roared back, “No!” “If we go with force what will happen?” he asked.

“They will die,” the demonstrators responded.

That appeared to leave negotiation the sole option, but a human rights activist close to negotiators said a deal to swap the girls for detained Boko Haram members was agreed last week and then scuttled at the last minute by President Goodluck Jonathan.

The activist who is close to those mediating between Boko Haram extremists and government officials said the girls would have been freed last week Monday.

Jonathan had already told British officials that he would not consider an exchange. The source spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

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Blacks Must Have a ‘Seamless Path’ to a College Degree

By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent A college education continues to be a chief conduit to economic parity for African Americans, according to a new report by the National Urban League.

“Reports continue to demonstrate that the earnings of college grads over their lifetime are significantly higher than for those without,” said Chanelle P. Hardy, senior vice president for policy and executive director of the NUL’s Washington Bureau, during a call with reporters. “That’s why the economic policy priorities of the National Urban League are not only focused on job creation, entrepreneurship and closing the wealth gap, but also on ensuring that our students are able to access education and skills development throughout the course of their careers.”

For example, in 2014, young African Americans were unemployed at a rate of 20.7 percent, compared to 17.5 percent among young Whites, Hardy cited. But, those numbers “improved dramatically with a college degree,” she added, to jobless rates of 13.1 percent for African American college graduates and 8 percent for their White peers.

Given the advantageous impact of a college education on Black prosperity, the NUL’s report, “From Access to completion: A Seamless Path to College Graduation for African American Students” sought ways to optimize Black tertiary education outcomes, officials said. The paper’s solutions focused on the federal Pell Grant program, which provided

financial aid to over 9 million students in 2011-2012, including 62 percent of all AfricanAmerican college students.

“In this paper we explored to find the characteristics of the typical African-American student and make specific recommendations that will improve their college success rates, from access, retention to completion,” said Susie Saavedra, the NUL Washington Bureau’s senior legislative director for education and health policy.

The “typical” Black college attendee (65 percent) tends to be non-traditional or independent, meaning he or she is primarily an (older) employee who is balancing family and school. Independent African-American undergraduates are more likely than others to be single parents (48 percent compared to 23 percent of Whites and 34 percent of Latinos); most are enrolled in two-year institutions (42 percent compared to 23 percent who are enrolled in four-year institutions); another 27 percent are enrolled in private, forprofit institutions—a much larger percentage than for any other group.

Those qualities can create a barrier to accessing institutional, state and federal financial aid—which is often necessary for African-American students, who are more likely than other students to be low-income and to have fewer familyfinanced contributions toward their education.

“Despite having incomes that would qualify them for

greater financial aid, we conclude that African American students are likely receiving less financial aid because they are enrolled less-than-fulltime—a probable consequence of the delicate balance of college, work and family with which these students contend,” the report concluded.

Those conditions also adversely impact retention and graduation rates.

Among several solutions, the report recommended that the Pell Grant program be ramped up to fill the gap between rising tuition costs and decreasing state investment.

“While the federal investment in the Pell Grant has grown, it has not kept up with tuition costs,” the report concluded. “So while the Pell Grant once financed nearly 75 percent of the cost of a public four-year college education it now covers just 31 percent of a student’s cost of attendance.”

But financial aid is not enough. Institutions also need to create personalized wraparound services for students to boost achievement, as modelled by historically Black colleges and universities, the Urban League recommended.

“Institutions that create a culture of completion for all students and couple this culture with a suite of personalized services that address barriers such students face, realize dramatic increases in the retention and graduation rates of their African American students,” the NUL report stated. “We believe this personalized approach to the college learning experience will help support the access, retention and completion of all students.”

Former Paratroopers

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The National Smokejumper Association, the 555th and U.S. Forest Service became interested in recent years in finding his grave, missing since 1945, with the intention of placing a historical marker.

Brown was the only 555th member to die, and is considered the first smokejumper to die on duty in America, falling from a tree during a fire jump.

Tony Wood of the Philadelphia Inquirer, who had researched Brown, and Fred Donner of the National Smokejumpers Association; along with Robert Matthews of the 555th PIR Association

Baltimore chapter, tracked down the location of the Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Brooklyn Park, Md. where Brown was buried, after years of research.

Two days before Memorial Day, a flag was placed on his grave by the research team. The grave had a stone marker placed by the U.S. Army in 1946.

The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, which was born during the time of a segregated Army, was assisted by the all White Smokejumper Association, to find and honor their brother in arms.

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18 or younger murdered in Baltimore City in 2014 after being felled by gunfire in Cherry Hill, according to homicide data collected by the Baltimore Sun which counts 75 total homicides in Baltimore this year so far. A week prior to Thomas’s murder, 17-year-old Michael Mayfield, a promising young man weeks away from his high school graduation, was murdered as he sat in a minivan parked outside his uncle’s house in West Baltimore. Tyquane Fetter, 18; Raysharde Sinclair, 18; Gregory Ware Jr., 18; Jowan Henry, 17; Lavar Crawford, 16; and Dejuan Willis, 17 were the others aged 18 and under who fell to violence this year.

In nearby Washington D.C., 17 year-old Jonathan Adams was stabbed to death in February, while two infant homicides that occurred in late 2013 were classified as murders and closed with arrests.

Prince George’s County saw three-year-old Jayson Holland die of a drug overdose this past January that police believe was too large to have been a case of accidental ingestion. His father, Thomas Holland, has been taken into custody and charged with first degree child abuse and manslaughter.

On May 10, Akinleye Warner, also of Prince George’s County, was stabbed to death while reportedly accompanying three acquaintances to a drug transaction.

The effects of traumatic events such as these ripple well beyond their immediate vicinities or victims and can place a particularly heavy burden on youth forced to constantly re-navigate a grief process for which even adults are rarely adequately prepared.

“Most of us who live or work in Baltimore have been traumatized by the violence,” said Dr. Philip Leaf, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence, in an interview with the AFRO. Dr. Leaf served as the director of the Baltimore Child Development-Community Policing Program (CDCPP), a program that ran 1996-2009, seeking to reduce the occurrence and effects of violence in Baltimore City by working with victims and communities in which violence occurred.

According to Leaf, the process of grieving usually lessens the impact of trauma over time. In places like Baltimore city, however, children—whose brains are not fully developed until their 20s—are often afflicted by new traumas before that grieving process has had a chance to run its course.

The post-traumatic stress caused by this persistent experience of trauma can lead to aggressive or hypervigilant behaviors that are too often mistaken for disciplinary problems rather than recognized as the coping mechanisms of persons not yet emotionally equipped to handle post-traumatic stress in a healthier way.

The Rev. Dr. Andre Humphrey worked with Dr. Leaf on the CDCPP and continues to serve as a community liaison for the Baltimore City Police Department, reaching out to the families of victims of violence.

Rev. Humphrey, himself of victim of trauma when his son was murdered in 1997, feels that in order for there to be an effective reduction in the amount of violence suffered in Baltimore City, the relationship between the police and the community has to improve. Such an effort, Humphrey believes, requires a better appreciation for the fact that many young people get

involved with drugs and crime not because they lack goodness, but because they feel a pressure to find some way to support their families financially.

“I’m not saying that if the police encounter a criminal, they’re supposed to have ice cream and cake with them,” said Rev. Humphrey in an interview with the AFRO, “but treat them like a human being.”

The Rev. Willie Ray, founder of Save Another Youth, a nonprofit working to reduce violence among young people in Baltimore City, made a similar point, noting that young gang members “greet each other with affection. . . . so they’re not far from being reached.”

Rev. Ray feels that more adults who have successfully navigated the difficult conditions of Baltimore City need to become engaged as mentors to young people struggling to do the same, rather than be lulled into complacency by the comfort they have achieved.

Ray is also campaigning for local churches to purchase vacant buildings in their surrounding areas to convert them into facilities where young people can spend their time rather than on the streets.

Both of the ministers noted that the city has shut down many recreation centers in a conversation with the AFRO, marking a decided lack of financial investment in youth that abandons them to the streets. Rev. Humphrey said more funding should be made available not only to serve youth, but to address the needs of victims of trauma, a lack of support that has limited his efforts to expand his work throughout Baltimore.

Dr. Leaf notes that, while

there are many great mental health clinicians and initiatives operating in Baltimore City, the immensity of the problem of violence continues to outpace the available resources.

LaTrina Antoine and Courtney Jacobs contributed to this report.

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Men Want ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ Expanded to Include Black Females

By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief

what we believe to be the unfortunate missteps in the My Brothers Keeper initiative (MBK). In short, in lifting up only the challenges that face males of color, MBK – in the absence of any comparable initiative for females – forces us to ask where the complex lives of Black women and Black girls fit into the White House’s vision of racial justice?”

WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – More than 200 African American men, ranging from a taxi driver to university professors, sent a letter to President Obama, May 27, urging him to expand his Black male initiative to include Black girls and women, saying they were “surprised and disappointed” that the president had sought to include only half the race to tackle community-wide issues.

A copy of the letter to Obama was obtained by the NNPA News Service.

After praising the president for saying that addressing the needs of those left behind is as important as anything else he is undertaking, authors of the letter wrote, “So we were surprised and disappointed that your commitments express empathy to only half of our community – men and boys of color. Simply put, as Black men we cannot afford to turn away from the very sense of a shared fate that has been vital to our quest for racial equality across the course of American history.”

The letter continued, “As African Americans, and as a nation, we have to be as concerned about the experiences of single Black women who raise their kids on subpoverty wages as we are about the disproportionate number of Black men who are incarcerated. We must President Obama announcing his “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative care as much about Black women who are the victims of gender violence as we do about Black boys caught up in the drug trade.”

On Feb. 27, President Obama announced his “My Brother’s The 893-word letter maintained a respectful, dignified tone Keeper Initiative, a program to assist young Black males. With throughout, but was consistently firm in asserting that President the parents of slain Florida teenagers Trayvon Martin and Jordan Obama had erred in limiting his initiative to Black males.

Davis looking on, Obama said: “After months of conversation “We write as African American men who have supported with a wide range of people, we’ve pulled together private your presidency, stood behind you when the inevitable philanthropies and businesses, mayors, state and local leaders, racist challenges to your authority have emerged, and have faith leaders, nonprofits, all who are committed to creating more understood that our hopes would be tempered by the political pathways to success. And we’re committed to building on what realities that you would encounter,” the letter stated. “While works. And we call it ‘My Brother’s Keeper.’” we continue to support your presidency, we write both out of a Among those signing the letter to Obama were Luke sense of mutual respect and personal responsibility to address C. Harris, associate professor of American politics and

constitutional law at Vassar College; Robin D.G. Kelly, professor of history at UCLA; Michael Hanchard, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University; James Turner, founder of the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University; Robert Hill, professor of history and editor-inchief of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project at UCLA; Houston Baker, professor of English at Vanderbilt University; Charles Steele, president and CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); poet Saeed Jones; David Melton, a taxicab driver; writer Robert Jones, Jr.; psychiatrist Adisa Ajamu; filmmaker Byron Hurt; and former NFL player Wade Davis Jr., executive director of the You Can Play Project, an organization dedicated to ending discrimination and homophobia in sports.

“Everyone is focused on getting nearly 300 girls safely returned home in Nigeria and rightly so,” said Steele, president of the Atlanta-based civil rights organization co-founded

by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “We should stay focused on the 300 girls in Nigeria, but at the same time not forget about the millions of Black girls and women suffering right here at home.”

Professor Harris said the men’s activities will not cease with sending the letter to Obama. He and several others will write a series of articles for the NNPA News Service and NNPA Photo by Freddie Allen BlackPressUSA.com, NNPA’s companion website, beginning next week. They will host a webinar in June and continue to educate the public about the issues raised in the letter.

Meanwhile, the group will continue to collect signatures [blackgirls2014@gmail.com] and provide updates on future activities at the African American Policy Forum’s website, www.aapf.org.

The letter to Obama stated, “We are not suggesting a national moratorium on Black male-oriented projects. But our sense of accountability does reflect the fact that our historic struggle for racial justice has always included men as well as women who have risked everything not just for themselves or for their own gender but for the prospects of the entire community.”

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of two monitoring groups in the country, the CIC detailed in its annual report, as of September 2013, about 74 percent of D.C. inmates was within 500 miles of the District. The other 26 percent, including females, was thousands of miles away, making it virtually impossible for visits by family and friends.

The latest data from the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency indicates that about 5,500 D.C. Code offenders are incarcerated in 111 Federal Bureau of Prison facilities in 32 states. In 2012, there were no inspections by CIC of the 111 facilities. However, in 2013, there were nine. “We have done the best we could with a limited staff,” said Cara Compani, CIC program analyst.

Additionally, the CIC assesses programs and services available to D.C. residents at these facilities. Through its mandate, the CIC will collect information through site visits and inmate interviews, and report its observations and recommendations to the mayor, council, pertinent city agencies, DOC and the FBOP. “Since we are the only jurisdiction in the country that sends incarcerated residents far away to others states, we need the CIC to assure some type of connection to our incarcerated citizens.

The statutory role of the CIC is so broad that I am concerned if they will have enough resources to actually accomplish their mission,” said Councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6).

CIC is not an advocacy group. “Our mandate is very clear. We can’t advocate or intervene on behalf of an inmate,” said Compani.

In fact, in years past when CIC was perceived as advocating the unjust treatment of inmates, suddenly its funding was frozen.

Prison reform advocates and parents said CIC’s mandate stunts its ability to have a measurable impact that is recognized and respected by the prison system and the DOJ. “Each prison seems to operate like a country within a country. The bureaucracy to obtain information is overwhelming for families. Many people in prison are poor to begin with and their families don’t have the means to travel or communicate by phone,” said Jenise Patterson,

executive director of Parent Watch. “Do you know what it feels like to get a call from a parent whose child has been repeatedly raped or mysteriously killed while incarcerated? Families are screaming out for help to a system that does not care to listen.”

A group directly involved with prison outreach agreed. “The CIC is crucial for our city. It has done an excellent job identifying real areas of concern on a shoestring budget and with just one staff member,” said Tara Libert, co-founder and executive director of Free Minds Book Club, an organization that provides books and writing workshops for inmates. “CIC needs to expand and their reports need to have teeth. We can have them identify problems and issue reports but if there is no ability to enforce them we won’t see timely progress that our DC residents so desperately need and deserve,” said Libert.

According to CIC, the two biggest complaints by inmates are sentence computation and designation and the distance from their home. Research has proven that close family ties are absolutely vital to a returning citizen’s successful homecoming.

“We serve hundreds of men and women in 46 different federal prisons thousands of miles away from home all over the country. They are cut off from their families and loved ones who can’t afford to travel to visit them,” Libert said.

“We need the CIC to be our lifeline to our loved ones. We need to show our DC inmates that we as a city have not forgotten them and are there alongside them supporting them by bringing about the best conditions for rehabilitation as possible in the federal prison system,” said Libert.

“The CIC has exceeded its mandate and shown how valuable its work has been and as a result, I have provided funding for an additional three full time employees beginning in fiscal year 2015,” said Gray.

But others want things to go further. “There should be a hotline for inmates to express complaints and someone to investigate and cause the system to act properly. Video conferencing should be made available without cost to inmates who have been sent thousands of miles away,” Patterson said.

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were bringing this important motion to the courthouse,” said Denise Lieberman, senior attorney with the Advancement Project and part of the legal team that filed the complaint. “This demonstrates the power and breadth of the movement and how the legal effort is just one aspect of the important broader movement building in North Carolina.”

The North Carolina NAACP—which leads the Moral Monday movement—and its legal team filed their motion and its 95-page brief jointly with the League of Women Voters plaintiffs and with interveners representing youth voters in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.

The request for a preliminary injunction against HB 589 was filed on the grounds that the new voter restrictions violate the 14th, 15th and 26th Amendments as well as Section II of the Voting Rights Act. “Without same-day registration, without the full schedule of early voting, without voter protection from vigilante poll watchers, without the ability to cast provisional ballots if you mistakenly go to the wrong precinct, people in North Carolina will be disenfranchised during November’s critical elections,” said the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina NAACP and architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement, in a statement. “Disproportionately, those disenfranchised will be people of color, seniors, women, youth, the disabled and other minorities.”

In the brief, the legal team, which comprises North Carolina

Central University law professor Irv Joyner, attorney Adam Stein and lawyers from Kirkland Ellis, LLP and Advancement Project, argue: “Defendants do not (because they cannot) dispute that HB 589 imposes disproportionate burdens on African Americans. Indeed, at the time it enacted HB 589, the General Assembly had before it (or previously had been told) that African Americans used early voting, SDR, and out-ofprecinct voting at far higher rates than whites. The evidence shows, moreover, that the elimination of these practices will

“Disproportionately, those disenfranchised will be people of color, seniors, women, youth, the disabled and other minorities.”

—Rev. Barber interact with existing socioeconomic conditions to impose material burdens on African Americans’ ability to vote. North Carolina has an unfortunate and judicially recognized history of racial discrimination, and the effects of that discrimination persist to this day.”

HB 589 began solely as a restrictive photo ID requirement for voters. After languishing for months, it gained new impetus

after the Supreme Court June 2013 ruling in Shelby v. Holder, which disarmed Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Relieved of the obligation to seek federal preclearance for new voting changes, the North Carolina Legislature quickly revived H.B. 589 and used it as a vehicle to push forward a dizzying array of new impediments to voting and to roll back voter protections, bloating the bill to nearly 50 pages, Lieberman said.

Despite the challenges of the post-Shelby legal landscape, Lieberman said she believes their request for a preliminary injunction and the underlying challenge to HB 589 will be successful.

“We believe that our brief compellingly demonstrates that voters will be irreparably harmed if the provisions of HB 589 are allowed to go into effect for the upcoming elections,” she told the AFRO, “and that we have established a high likelihood of success on the merits, warranting a grant of a preliminary injunction to block implementation of the law while the case makes its way through the courts.”

The NC NAACP legal team expects to argue its case for a preliminary injunction in federal court this summer. A date for the hearing has not yet been scheduled.

Added Barber: “We did not stand idly by last summer when extremists passed the worst voter suppression law seen in the South since Jim Crow, and we will continue to take our fight for the simple, unfettered right to vote into the courts and into the streets this summer.”

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COMMUNITY CONNECTION Singer James Ingram to Perform at Minority Corporate Counsel Association Diversity Gala

James Ingram

Music icon, multi-Grammy award-winner and Oscar nominee James Ingram will sing at the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) Diversity Gala on July 25, at the Kennedy Center in D.C. The Gala is MCCA’s premier awards program honoring leaders in the legal profession for diversity and inclusion.

From funk and soul to R&B, pop, adult contemporary and inspirational, Ingram’s multifaceted talents have dazzled the American music scene since the early ‘80s. The Akron, Ohio native went from playing local bars with Revelation Funk to Los Angeles, where he landed the types of gigs that most aspiring musicians only dream about: singing background vocals and playing piano for Ray Charles’ recording studio sessions; and recording studio sessions and playing keyboards behind the Coasters for Dick Clark.

To learn more about the MCCA Diversity Gala, visit www.mcca.com/gala

Lanham, Md. Prince George’s County Delta Alumnae Foundation to Salute HBCUs

The Prince George’s County Delta Sigma Theta Alumnae Foundation will honor the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) on May 31. The event will be held at the Delta Cultural Center in Lanham, Md. For more information, email: info@pgdeltafoundation.org.

Greenbelt, Md. Four Eleanor Roosevelt High School Seniors Awarded National Achievement Scholarships

Four students from Eleanor Roosevelt High School were recently announced as winners in the 2014 NationalAchievementScholarship Program. More than 160,000 African American high school seniors nationwide competed for NationalAchievementScholarships and 800 will share more than $2 million in scholarship funds for undergraduate study.

“Congratulations to these outstanding students from Eleanor Roosevelt High School who have earned this prestigious honor,” said Dr. Kevin M. Maxwell, Chief Executive Officer for Prince George’s County Public Schools. “I would also like to thank the National AchievementS cholarship Program for helping our students finance their college education.”

Oluwakonyinsola Opeyemi Adesoye, Miles A. Harriston, Ahmed M. Kamil and Chiamaka K. Ogwuegbu were among the 800 students who earned the $2,500 National Achievement Scholarship.

Fort Washington, Md. Regional Grill Masters Put to the Test at Eighth Annual Beltway BBQ Showdown

The eighth annual Beltway BBQ Showdown will commence on June 6 at the Tucker Road Athletic Complex in Fort Washington, Md. The two-day event, which draws numerous participants from the Mid-Atlantic area, also features a host of fun activities for the entire family including live music, a car show and children’s activities.

For more information: Pgparks.com.

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Study: Metropolitan Washington Witnessed 13% Rise in D.C. Homelessness in 2014

By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent The dimensions of homelessness in the Metropolitan Washington region are surging, driven mostly by an explosion in the number of homeless in the District of Columbia, according to a recently released annual report by the Council of Governments.

According to the report, “Homelessness in Metropolitan Washington,” which contains the results of the 14th annual count of the region’s homeless population, there are 11,946 homeless people living in the region, a 3.5 percent increase from 2013.

Seven of the nine jurisdictions that participate in the count – Arlington, Loudon, Fairfax and Prince William counties in Virginia; Alexandria, Va.; Montgomery, Frederick and Prince George’s counties in Maryland and the District – actually saw decreases in their homeless population. Arlington County saw the largest decrease, 39 percent; followed by Montgomery and Frederick at 11 percent; Fairfax at 9 percent and Prince George’s at 5 percent.

The District, however, experienced a 13 percent increase in its homeless population, from 6,865 persons in 2013 to 7,748 in 2014. That number was mostly driven by a spike in the number of homeless families (1,231), whose members comprised almost half (3,795) of D.C.’s homeless in 2014.

Loudoun County registered an increase in homeless persons, too, according to COG. But the 13-person rise was said by the report to be “too small to be significant.”

The count of homeless persons was conducted on a single night, Jan. 29, 2014.

Children accounted for 29 percent (3,515) of the region’s total homeless population and numbered 2,236 among the District’s homeless families.

Homelessness can be especially hard on the young, said Michael Ferrell, executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless. In addition to

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“It is a traumatic experience to go from living in a home to living in a shelter,” Ferrell told the AFRO. When the numbers were broken down by race and ethnicity, it showed that African Americans are disproportionately more likely to be homeless compared to general population categories.

Of the 6,057 homeless single adults reported in the count, 69 percent are Black; and among homeless families, 85 percent are African American.

Lack of affordable housing was the main impetus behind those homeless numbers, the report found.

And, local jurisdictions and service providers are concerned that many more of the region’s residents are “at risk” of becoming homeless.

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COMMENTARY

Dishonoring Our Vets The last Monday in May, Memorial Day, is for honoring those who died in service to our country.

It is tragically ironic that around the same time we are honoring and remembering the dead, we are learning about deficiencies in the Department of Veteran’s Affairs that negatively affects the quality of life for those who were injured during their term of service.

Julianne Allegations that many Malveaux veteran’s hospitals and medical centers do not assist those veterans needing medical care within the mandated 30 days are troubling. Some say that the lengthy waits may have been a factor in the deaths of as many as 40 veterans. The access problem is compounded by poor record keeping at some veteran’s hospitals, making it impossible to verify how many veterans waited for medical attention and the length of their wait.

The controversy has led to calls for Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki to resign, but it is unclear whether his resignation will serve any but a symbolic purpose if the medical treatment of veterans does not change substantially.

In this highly partisan environment, it makes no sense for the White House to offer Shinseki’s head on a platter to satisfy the hyper partisanship of growling Republicans. Veterans, and those who represent them in Congress, come from all parts of the political spectrum. It ought to be in everyone’s interest to improve access to health care for veterans.

There are other issues regarding fair and compassionate treatment for veterans that must be considered. The recent killings at Fort Hood, Texas suggest that there is insufficient focus on mental health issues for our military, with the rate of Army suicides doubling between 2004 and 2009. Many veterans say that one of their stressors is the inaccuracy involved in evaluating their disabilities that have come from their service. Missing limbs, impaired mobility, extreme stress,

and insomnia are all factors included when a monthly disability check is calculated.

Many take issue with the evaluation, and challenge an evaluation may take several months (or years). Even inaccurate claims are difficult to obtain for some veterans.

More than 611,000 claims were backlogged (which means veterans had waited for more than four months for their claims to be processed.)

The number dropped this year to 344,000 claims, which is still too many veterans waiting too long for help.

The recent exposure of long waits for medical treatment just scratches the surface of the way that veterans are welcomed back into our society. Military skills are not easily converted to civilian labor force skills, unemployment rates for recent veterans (those serving since 2001) are often high – 9 percent for veterans, compared to 6.3 for the entire population. President Obama has urged private sector employers to give priority to hiring veterans who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan, but unemployment rates, though falling, remain high. Minority and women veterans had even higher unemployment rates, and often greater challenges.

More than 58,000 veterans are homeless, representing about 12 percent of the homeless population. More than half have disabilities or mental health problems. As many as 70 percent of homeless have substance abuse problems. There would be fewer homeless vets if the mental and physical health needs of veterans were addressed when these soldiers leave the military.

When our soldiers return from fighting for our country, they face a new fight – a fight to be treated fairly. That means

Controlling the Money “Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.”

– Mayer Amschel Rothschild

I often wonder if most Black people in America really understand the across-the-board impact economics has on our daily lives. Or, have we just been beaten down so badly that we have fallen into a state James Clingman of apathy when it comes to our collective pursuit of economic empowerment?

The above quote by Rothschild always reminds me of the kind of nation and world in which we reside. It also makes me even more aware of Black folks’ economic position in this country, and our lack of emphasis on what’s really important vis-à-vis real power.

What are the messages being given to Black people by many of our leaders? Well, they run the gamut from “civil rights” to “voting rights” to “gay rights” to “immigration reform” to someone calling one of us or all of us a name we don’t like.

Many unsuspecting Blacks are riled about issues that do not and will not affect us one iota when it comes to being able to obtain power for ourselves; and we spend an inordinate amount of time caught up in nonsensical discussions that only keep us from devoting ourselves to self-empowerment.

Maybe we are simply unwilling to “pay the cost to be the boss,” as B.B. King likes to say. Or, maybe the “cost of

doing business” is just too high for us. Maybe we just want to continue to buy everything and anything other folks make and distribute rather than do those things for ourselves. Maybe we are just content to be the primary consumers in this nation.

The engine of the U.S. economy is fueled by consumption, which is 70 percent of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and that does not include purchases of new housing. Our current GDP is more than $15 trillion. Do the math and see how much is being spent on goods and services.

Doesn’t it make sense for Black people to be producing and selling much more than we do presently? With an aggregate annual income of more than $1 trillion, we could carve out a few niches in the business world and make a veritable killing.

When we look at per capita GDP by country, interestingly, we see that Liberia ranks among the lowest in the world.

Why? Well, I have writings from Booker T. Washington to the officials in Liberia and Haiti warning them to be independent and to take full advantage of their land and natural resources by maintaining ownership and control over them. He admonished them not to allow foreigners to buy their land and use it for their own economic advantage. Unfortunately, they did not follow Washington’s advice, and Liberia ended up signing 100 year leases on its rubber tree plantations to Goodyear, and Haiti, now the poorest nation in the western hemisphere, failed to control its beautiful island and turn it into a primary tourist attraction.

We are so hung-up on meaningless and powerless political discussions, and instead of mimicking even the smallest measure of what Rothschild said, we obviously keep thinking the politicians are going to take care of us. But they keep telling us things that will not move us forward economically.

When it comes to economic advocacy, where is our voice in Washington?

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shorter waits for medical attention, more focus on mental health issues, more assistance in reentering the job market, and more counseling to help families adjust to new household dynamics.

Veterans should not have to fight for this kind of assistance.

Haven’t they fought enough?

Regardless of whether we agree with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we often thank our military for their service.

Thanking a homeless veteran, or one who has waited more than 30 days for medical attention is lip service if the “thank you” is not accompanied by the assistance that so many veterans need.

Memorial Day ought to be a day to commemorate the dead, and improve the ways we treat the living.

Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer. She is president emerita of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.C.

Let’s be honest. Over the past 50 years, Black people have cast millions of votes. We have helped elect thousands of Black public officials – and White ones, too. In 2012, Black people voted at a higher rate than other minority groups and by most measures surpassed the White turnout for the first time.

What has that gotten us, as it pertains to what Rothschild said?

Suppose for the past 50 years we had cast our “little green ballots,” as Booker T. directed us, to build our own economic infrastructure and support system. Had we done that, we too could say it does not matter who “writes the laws.” We would be true political powerbrokers.

Take reparations, in whatever form you support. What politicians in D.C. are seriously advocating for what Louis Farrakhan called, “Reparatory Justice?” John Conyers’ bill has been languishing for decades now. The president says he does not support reparations for Black people, so where does that leave us? How about the political talking heads on TV? Are they devoting a serious amount of time talking about economic empowerment for Black people, or are they just trying to get us to vote a certain way?

Wake up, Black folks! The cost of doing business requires commitment and sacrifice. The Rothschild’s were ruthless and unethical, but they knew that economics runs politics. We can build an ethical and moral economic foundation, but we have to jettison our current way of thinking and take on an economic mindset.

Jim Clingman, founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce, is the nation’s most prolific writer on economic empowerment for Black people. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati and can be reached through his Web site, blackonomics.com.

Letter to the Editor Bowie Response I write to correct erroneous information published in your article of May 16, “Move of Bowie State Commencement to U of Md. Sparks Outrage, Protest.”

Bowie State University celebrated the graduation of nearly 650 students on May 19 in a ceremony that welcomed more than 9,000 family members and friends to witness the occasion of this momentous milestone in the lives of their loved ones. For the second consecutive year, the university hosted this event in a venue that provided a comfortable, climate-controlled environment with ample access to safe parking and at a cost that was within the amount annually budgeted for commencement ceremonies. There was no additional $200,000 cost associated with the location change as stated in your article.

While the Comcast Center is located at the University of Maryland, it is a publicly available facility and the only one in Prince George’s County that can accommodate more than 10,000 guests. It is regularly used by organizations across the

region for large gatherings and offers Bowie State University the opportunity to make our commencement ceremony more accessible to the multi-generations of family members that our students want to attend their graduation.

The decision to hold the Bowie State University spring commencement at the Comcast Center was well considered by the campus community and grew from student requests a few years ago for a more comfortable setting than our outdoor Bulldog Stadium. The majority of our students are not against the venue as stated in your article.

Frequent experiences with exceedingly hot weather or drenching rain prevented many grandparents from attending the ceremony and made for an uncomfortable day for those who did attend. Additionally, as the size of our graduating class increased, the number of cars descending on the campus exceeded the capacity for safe parking and pedestrian movement. Many persons resorted to parking far from the campus and walking long distances along a busy four-lane highway to attend the ceremony, a situation that was inviting disaster.

Surveys of students, faculty, and staff before the final decision was made last year revealed strong support for the indoor facility, particularly among the students who are the focus of the commencement ceremony. Surveys after the ceremony indicated a high degree of satisfaction from those who attended. The fact that First Lady Michelle Obama agreed to be our commencement speaker had no bearing on the matter as you reported. The decision to hold the ceremony at Comcast Center was made before Mrs. Obama accepted our invitation, but it proved to be particularly advantageous as everyone was able to comfortably enjoy her inspiring remarks to our graduates.

Regrettably, a few members of our university community continue to voice their objection to the decision supported by the majority. While they are entitled to their opinion, we cannot allow them to spread incorrect information.

Weldon Jackson, Ph.D. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Bowie State University

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Planning committee: Herbert Gilbert (TC); Gradalee Stewart (ASU); Sharon Davis (JSU); Andriae Holt (ASU); Gladys Hamilton (JSU); Patricia Cole (TC), Lillian Wilkinson Maynor (JSU) and Sherwin Maynor (JSU)

Scholarship recipients: Victoria Howard, Itzamar Duran, Donivan Lee, Atiba McGill, Tristona Fray, Theodore Stewart and Lakesha Myers, teacher, Surrattsville High School, Clinton, Md.

Richard Penick, seated, Ola Harvey-Penick, Flora Marsh, Vivian Johnson and Blanche Johnson; Sherwin Maynor, standing, Stephanie Scott, Lillian Wilkinson Maynor and Ed Kelley

The Greater Washington , D.C. Area Alumni Chapters of HBCUs from Mississippi: Tougaloo College, Jackson State University, Alcorn State University and Mississippi Valley State University(TJAM) hosted their 3rd Annual TJAM Scholarship Dinner Gala at Lisa Harper, Precious Harris, Mariette Thomas, Ebony Minor, Dr. Roxanne Smith- the Washington Navy Yard Catering and White, Kim Daniels and Miriam Edward Conference Center in Southeast, Washington, The West Band performs with some DC. Greetings were extended to the guests old school tunes

by Gredta Hubbard(MVSU) and Dr. Boyce Williams, speaking on behalf of the AARP, with the occasion being presented by Kathy Members of Vermont Ave. Baptist Church (VABC) Moseley. After a delectable buffet and Peoples Community Baptist Church (PCBC): dinner, each HBCU announced winners Charles Allen, standing, Cleo Simpson and M.H. Stapleton; Patricia Allen, seated, Katina Stapleton, Selena Anderson-VABC, Marie Quick-VABC, of their scholarships followed by door Donella Wingate and Maries Stapleton Bobbie Mason-VABC, Maureen Hawkins-PCBC, Arthene Pugh-VABC and Joann Barringer-VABC prizes given out lucky guests. Once all the formalities was over, guests moved to the dance floor and lined danced to the syncopating, smooth sounds of The West band.

Norma Bradford, standing, Ruth Henley, Gredta Hubbard and Tyesia Howard; Lynette Gailion, seated, Karen Martin, Erica Hall and William Siggers

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Luther Shelton, standing, Christine Shelton, Alfred Stewart, Gradalee Stewart, Gayle Coles and Darcell McCoy; Alfreda Alexander, seated and Janice Neal

Jackson State University alumni Ada L. Mason, died in the Pentagon during the Sept 11 attack; a scholarship was named in her memory.

Greetings by the emcee, Gradalee Stewart

Dr. Boyce Williams, president/CEO, National Alliance of Learning, speaking on behalf of AARP

Monica Nichols, standing and Stephen Nichols; Shirley Ann Cotton, seated, Janie Harris, Kenneth Harris, Molly Bush and Bennie Bush

Alumni chapter presidents: Sam Washington, Alcorn State University(ASU); Gredta Hubbard, Mississippi Valley State University(MVSU); Kathy Mosley, Tougaloo College(TC) and Sherwin Maynor, Jackson State University(JSU)

Felecia Carr, Shirley Roberts, Leslie Roberts, Ethan Carr and Al Hall, a JSU alumni, gave the invocation

A one piece fitted dress for stepping out to Happy Hour Full length Spring dress reflecting the colors of Spring.

Mr. DJ spinning some grooves

Off to school says our school teacher

Members of the chapel’s Gospel Service

We just love ‘old school’ slow dancing in each other’s arms

Exchange Manager Stacy Firemoon with special guest, Ebony Andrews, Miss Black DC USA and Edgar Brookins, Ministry Leader, Gospel Service

Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall(JMB-HH) Base Exchange(BX) introduced it s new spring fashions in a dazzling and colorful fashion show in the main entrance lobby to the BX where military personnel and patrons enjoyed the mix of casual and dressier apparel was being showcased. Members of Vendor Lighting Fast Modeling denim the modeling team consisted Book Publishing jeans with of active duty, retirees, casual blouse veterans and employees of the BX. Based on how they strut the runway, some may have a future in the world of high fashions.

Big thanks goes out to Ethel Edmonds, a BX supervisor who coordinated the fashion show.

Stacy Firemoon, the Exchange Manager served as emcee and commentator. Special guests included the JBM-HH Command Sgt. Major(CSM), Earlene Lavender and Ebony Andrews, Miss Black DC USA. We salute the Father BX team and and son pay tribute to after dad the military walked the personnel who runway continue to serve in the We did it...managers and models who made it happen defense of this Photos by Rob Roberts nation.

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The Author’s Corner The Corporate Kid: Rainbow After the Storm

5. For what audience is it written?

The mosaic nature of the work makes it enjoyable to all generations, nationalities, ethnicities, and genders.

Author: Nicole Lanier Montez Nicole Lanier Montez, born in Mt. Vernon, N.Y. of African-American and Mexican descent, is a poet, licensed funeral director, licensed cosmetologist, and holds a forensic psychology degree. Montez’s work is bold, fresh, fruitful and vibrant; questioning social, economic and religious implications that define us. Montez writes abroad and from her residence in Maryland.

7. What one thing do you most want the reader to learn?

No one really wants to be excluded or feel less human. When an environment is saturated with poverty, there’s little room for hope. Children develop defense mechanisms to shield their embarrassment, deficiency and pain. Childhoods are cut short and dreams aborted. For many, tomorrow is a burden and the future, incomprehensible. A substantial education, career and chance may alter circumstances.

8. What did you learn during the writing process?

Regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, religion or status, I challenge you to change your mind about a child and give him/her a rainbow after the storm.

9. Advice for aspiring writers?

Don’t be afraid to write outside the lines…discover yourself…discover your rhythm… write loud and from the heart.

What was the impetus for writing this book?

In 2012, I met Dr. Neil Shulman at the Decatur book festival. Following a rich and pulsating conversation, he entrusted me to write a poetry book, centered on social issues, values and virtues. The poems were inspired by Dr. Shulman’s book, The Corporate Kid, “a story about the unlikely intertwining of two worlds…that of a wealthy middle-aged Caucasian CEO and that of a low-income African-American adolescent from the hood.” It is my vision for The Corporate Kid: Rainbow After the Storm to be used in schools, churches, synagogues and mosques; this will invite and engage cultural and spiritual conversations and resolutions to ensure a level playing field.

10. What’s next on the horizon for you?

In 2012, I created Open Closet Productions, a literary arts company that creates and edits poetry, short stories, screenplays, does ghostwriting and judges poetry contests. I’ve also written a screenplay, and begun shopping the play to publishing houses.

I’m in the process of creating a body of work for my first spoken word CD. And exhibiting at book festivals throughout the U.S. to promote The Corporate Kid: Rainbow After the Storm.

What’s the overall theme?

It explores poverty of hunger, education, employment, our humanity and grace.

The Corporate Kid: Rainbow After the Storm is a thought-provoking, interactive poetry book. The poems are mingled with artwork and open space, with encouragement for the reader to share poems and interact with the book’s content.

11. Other books by Nicole Lanier Montez, authorsden. com/nicolelmontez Sleepwalkers and Just Passing By.

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Inside the Hotel Rwanda

The Surprising True Story ... and Why It Matters Today

Review by Kam Williams

“Hotel Rwanda was promoted as a story about ‘the quiet heroism of one man, Paul Rusesabagina, during the Rwandan Genocide.’ I knew Paul Rusesabagina. All the people who survived inside the hotel ... knew Paul Rusesabagina.

No one among us has ever thought of him as altruistic, let alone heroic. On the contrary, of all the people who were within the hotel during the genocide, he would quite possibly be considered the furthest from a hero…

Rusesabagina had been a war profiteer, a friend to the architects of the genocide, a man willing to starve those without money while hoarding piles of food, drink, and riches for himself.”

Excerpted from the Introduction (page xxx)

Rusesabagina was subsequently celebrated by Amnesty International and other organizations as he embarked on a world tour during which he collected countless prizes

“Truth be told, he was never a hero but rather a Hutu sympathizer and war profiteer who had extorted money from the frightened folks seeking refuge on the grounds of his hotel.”

In 2004, the film Hotel Rwanda received widespread acclaim for its heartrending account of how one man had singlehandedly shielded over a thousand Tutsi refugees from certain death during the Rwandan Genocide by hiding them in the hotel he managed.

Don Cheadle earned an Academy Award nomination for his powerful portrayal of Paul Rusesabagina, an apparent modernday saint suddenly mentioned in the same breath as Oskar Schindler, the German factory owner who had saved so many Jews from the Holocaust during World War II.

and honorary degrees, including the Wallenberg Medal, the National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to name a few. And, to this day, he’s remained in demand as a revered icon and inspirational speaker

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Wolverine Travels Back in Time in Latest for the Sake of the Future Review by Kam Williams X-Men: Days of Future Past represents the seventh episode in the storied mutant series, and is the third directed by Bryan Singer who also helmed X-Men 1 and 2.

This installment is loosely based on the 1981 Marvel Comics (issues #141-142) of the same name, a convoluted tale in which one of the superheroes is sent back in time to prevent an impending disaster threatening the present.

The story unfolds in a dystopian future where we find a race of robots called Sentinels slaying mutants and subjugating humanity.

X-Men founder/leader/brain of the operation Dr. Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) summons his surviving protégés to a meeting in a

slayer. Revisionist history? Or little known fact? You be the judge. What’s next, Dwight Eisenhower as an alien?

But I digress. Fortunately, X-Men 7 audience members will be very richly rewarded for taking flights of fancy, provided they succeed in suspending their disbelief.

Don’t try to make sense, for instance, about how you go back in time, reverse a long-deceased person’s demise, and not simultaneously unravel myriad aspects of reality which have already subsequently transpired.

Instead, simply sit back and enjoy a sophisticated period piece unfolding against a nostalgic backdrop littered with staples of the ‘70s ranging from lava lamps to waterbeds.

This adventure even brings out of mothballs a number of favorite characters we haven’t seen in a while, such as Storm (Halle Berry), Rogue (Anna Paquin), Cyclops (James Marsden), Iceman (Shawn Ashmore), and Colossus (Daniel Cudmore).

Don’t forget to sit through all of the credits for a decent-length teaser about X-Men 8: Apocalypse, coming to theaters in May of 2016. X-Men, a fabled franchise that like a fine wine, just keeps improving with age.

sought to recount his uplifting tale of unparalleled bravery in the face of ethnic cleansing.

What a difference a decade makes! Over the intervening years, telltale cracks gradually appeared in the image Rusesabagina had so carefully cultivated with the help of Hollywood

and the human rights community. Those swirling rumors came out into the open when Rwandan President Kagame referred to the supposed paragon of virtue as a total fraud.

Now, Hotel Rwanda survivor Edouard Kayihura has collaborated with journalist Kerry Zukus to set the record straight once and for all. Their book, “Inside the Hotel Rwanda: The Surprising True Story ... and Why It Matters Today” painstakingly deconstructs Rusesabagina’s self-serving myth about what transpired.

Truth be told, he was never a hero but rather a Hutu sympathizer and war profiteer who had extorted money from the frightened folks seeking refuge on the grounds of his hotel. According to Kayihura, “He treated ... us as his personal cash register ...

Refugees were refused entrance unless they could pay him.”

Furthermore, “The hotel was protected by UN peacekeepers and any attempt to kill was aborted by them ... Paul Rusesabagina had absolutely nothing to do with any of this.” Kayihura’s damning assertions are supported by the recollections of many of his fellow countrymen who had sought refuge at the hotel for the duration of the bloody conflict.

Assuming this eye-opening opus is accurate, a debt of gratitude is owed Kayihura and Zukus for belatedly exposing a very slippery character as a shameless charlatan.

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Excellent HHHH Rated PG-13 for nudity, profanity, suggestive material and intense violence In English, French and Vietnamese with subtitles Running time: 131 minutes Distributor: 20th Century Fox Magneto (Ian McKellen) takes flight. monastery in China to hatch a plan to preserve the planet.

With the help of “phasing” Shadowcat’s (Ellen Page) quantum tunneling ability, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) slips through a portal to a parallel universe in 1973.

His mission there is to stop fellow mutant Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) from murdering Trask (Peter Dinklage), the diabolical genius who invented the Sentinels.

Why would you want a vanquished villain to be reincarnated? Don’t ask. After all, that’s one of the easier leaps of faith this flick’s farfetched plot expects you to make. If you need a plausible plot, then you might be too close-minded for this imaginative sci-fi.

Try on for size the novel notion that President Kennedy was killed “because he was one of us.” OK, let’s see, so JFK was assassinated for being a mutant? Why not? Just a couple of years ago we learned from another movie that Abraham Lincoln was a vampire

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Should Magic Johnson Buy the Clippers?

By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Desk Soon sports conglomerates, business titans and ordinary billionaires will be lining up to purchase the Los Angeles Clippers from now disgraced owner Donald Sterling.

But who’s the favorite? Several names have been floated but one single person continues to draw the most support: Magic Johnson.

The now-retired Los Angeles Laker star continues to find himself in a war of words with Sterling through the press, but Johnson’s name continues to gain steam from supporters who are favoring him to take over the reins as the team’s newest owner. Johnson, a hugely successful businessman, has denied the possibilities but as the National Basketball Association (NBA) gets set for a fire sale of the team, should the former Laker become the newest Clipper? Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the question.

Riley: Absolutely. Johnson’s business acumen and visibility would do wonders for the Clippers as they continue to pick up the pieces from the Sterling fallout. To have a chance to share a building with the Lakers while still competing with them would be a refreshing sight as the Lakers-Clippers rivalry intensifies.

It would almost be a “stick-it” to Sterling maneuver should the resulting new owner of the team happen to be a minority. Johnson normally has the Midas touch when it comes to investments and having his hands over the Clipper organization at a time when the roster is filled with big names and prestigious coaches would be an alluring opportunity for the Laker Hall of Famer.

Green: For all the vicious words that Sterling has said about Johnson in recorded conversations that have been released to the media, it would be difficult for Johnson to loan him even a few pennies, let alone cut a check for millions of dollars. I can see Johnson taking the diplomatic approach and reserving his investment money for other opportunities that he can wholeheartedly embrace. Sterling continues to bury himself in the media with each recorded sentence and Johnson forking over a large sum of money to a bigoted business man would sour what would normally be a great idea. You can’t insult people and then expect them to do business with them.

Riley: For all of Johnson’s business decisions that he’s had to orchestrate over the past few years, I’m sure that he has come across some very rude, and perhaps bigoted, participants of business deals. But this would be more

fiasco and emerge from it with Johnson as an owner couldn’t be a better possible scenario.

Johnson would represent clear racial change and even provide an upbeat image for those who are HIV-positive. It would be a positive for all parties involved and another impressive accolade Johnson could add to an already stellar resume.

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than just business; it would be the start of a culture change. To take the entire Sterling

Green: Johnson doesn’t need to become the owner of the Clippers to set examples and be a role model because he’s been doing it for decades already. Refusing to do business with Sterling and his wife, Shelly, who the NBA is designating as the liaison for the sale, would definitely be more admirable as opposed to him simply taking over the reins. I have to believe that pride is more important than profit to Magic and one of the most respected all-time great sporting figures doesn’t have to purchase a basketball team from an undeniable racist to prove anything to us. Johnson as the Clippers owner would be a new twist in an already convoluted tale and probably cause a few sleepless nights in the Sterling household but it isn’t something that those hurt by Sterling’s comments absolutely need.

And besides, Johnson’s basketball legacy will forever be tied to the Lakers. Seeing him as the newest Clippers owner probably wouldn’t sit right for those associated with Laker nation.

Wizards Enter Pivotal Summer

By Stephen D. Riley Special to the AFRO The roller-coaster story of the 20132014 Washington Wizards will be largely remembered for the development of the team’s precious backcourt of John Wall, 23, and Bradley Beal,20. After several

botched rebuild attempts over the last few seasons, Wall and Beal stand as the brightest moments among blown draft picks and free agency failures by team general manager Ernie Grunfeld. The twenty-something guards fueled the attack this season for the Wizards and both the team and fans believe this backcourt is something the franchise can build around as they transition into a National Basketball

Association (NBA) title contender.

A second-round loss to the Indiana Pacers highlighted Wall’s need for a more reliable jump shot, despite high levels of improvement that the fourth-year point guard from Kentucky made in 2013-14. Wall’s improved accuracy from the field catapulted him into a regular season all star selection but some bad shooting mechanics and old habits rendered him virtually useless aside from one game in the series against Indiana. As a max player, Wall will need to be able to take over games as a scorer and this season was proof that he could do it. But more work is obviously needed in this stage of Wall’s career to complete his growth.

Beal, at 20, is in prime position to become one of the best shooting guards in the league. His ball handling still needs tightening up but he actually surpassed Wall this season as the Wizards go-to scorer down the stretch. With the backcourt in place, solidifying the frontcourt this summer becomes a huge challenge for Grunfeld and Co. Swingman Trevor Ariza and center/hustle big Marcin Gortat approach free agency after each completed the best campaigns in their careers. Ariza saw career-highs in shooting percentages this season while Gortat flashed stabilizing play at one of the most important positions in the league.

Washington also drafted lanky forward Otto Porter last summer with the third overall pick, and while he wasn’t able to wow crowds this past season, the hope is that Porter will be able to replace whatever production the team will likely lose should Ariza receive a more lucrative offer than what the team is prepared to give him. Washington has already prepared itself for Ariza’s defection but a smart decision will definitely have to be made on Gortat. The 30-year-old was an asset to the team in both play and leadership and good centers are hard to come by in the NBA. Still, the team is rumored to be ready to make a run at Pistons restricted free agent center Greg Monroe. Stories broke in February that the Wizards were widely expected to make a pitch to the former Georgetown Hoya and Monroe, 23, would certainly give the club a sizable presence in the middle and somebody who could grow along with the other young core players.

A quartet of Wall, Beal, Porter and Monroe would be something the team could build around for years to come, anchoring the roster with four solid, multi-faceted players.

There’s also a growing belief that the Wizards should go after a marquee name in this summer’s free agency class that will be expected to include LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Carmelo Anthony. Washington could have close to $16 million in cap room to play with this summer and coming off the team’s best finish since the late ‘70s, this offseason could be the perfect time to stage a spending spree.

Retaining a center, improving Wall and Beal’s offensive games and preparing Porter for a starring role will all be on the agenda for the Wizards this summer. A lot of unknown scenarios await a team that could have an all-new look by the time the 2014-15 season looms in late October. The front office is under pressure to avoid stagnation. A few major pieces could push the team’s contender momentum into overdrive next year. Washington could always simply opt to bring back both Ariza and Gortat but that lineup wasn’t good enough to help the Wizards get past the Pacers and it definitely wouldn’t be enough to take out the Miami Heat as they’re currently constructed Last season was just a glimpse for long-suffering Wizards fans. The best is yet to come for a team that could look completely different in just a few months.

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2014ADM502 Date of Publication: CDL-A Drivers: LookMary E. Battle May 30, 2014 ing for Higher Pay? Decedent Name of newspaper: Christopher M. Guest New Century is Hiring Afro-American 888 16th SSt. NW Exp. Company Drivers Washington Suite 800 and Owner Operators.

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Hayes, 1532 Gallatin Place, NE Washington, DC 20017 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of 14:23:53 EDT 2014 TYPESET: Tue May 13 14:21:59 EDT 2014 Colombia real property: Tue May 20 14:25:06 2014 LEGAL NOTICES TYPESET: LEGAL NOTICES LEGALEDT NOTICES 101 56th Street SE, Washington DC 20019 Superior Court of SUPERIOR COURT OF Claims against the decedent may be prethe District of THE DISTRICT OF sented to the underDistrict of Columbia COLUMBIA signed and filed with the PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . Register of Wills for the Washington, D.C. District of Columbia, 500 20001-2131 20001-2131 Indiana Avenue, N.W., Foreign No. Administration No. Washington, D.C. 20001 2014FEP58 2014ADM460 within 6 months from the Date of Death Frank T. Lambeth date of first publication of October 21, 2008 Decedent this notice.

Fred W. Cade Aimee D. Griffin, Esq 1353 Sheridan Street Decedent Kim Edwards NOTICE OF NW Personal APPOINTMENT Washington, DC 20011 Representative(s) OF FOREIGN Attorney TRUE TEST COPY PERSONAL NOTICE OF REGISTER OF WILLS R E P R E S E N TAT I V E APPOINTMENT, Date of first publication: AND NOTICE TO May 23, 2014 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Name of newspapers CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO and/or periodical: Wayne Cade whose adUNKNOWN HEIRS The Daily Washington dress is 18616 Phoebe Duane P. Lambeth and Law Reporter Frank Thomas Lambeth Way Gaithersburg, MD The Afro-American Jr., whose address(es) 20879 was appointed are 13530 Sherwood personal representative 05/23, 05/30, 06/06/14 of the estate of Fred W. Forest Drive, Silver TYPESET: Tue May 20 Spring, MD 20904 was Cade, deceased, on April appointed personal re- 15 2009, by the Orphan’s Court for Prince Georges presentatives of the C o u n t y, S t a t e o f Superior Court of estate of Frank T. Lam- Maryland. the District of beth Sr. AKA Frank Service of process may District of Columbia Thomas Lambeth, who be made upon Ramona PROBATE DIVISION died on April 19, 2014 L. Cade 7036 Easter ave.

Washington, D.C. witha Will and will serve NW #7 Washington DC 20001-2131 without Court supervi- 20012 whose designaAdministration No. sion. All unknown heirs tion as District of Colum2014ADM461 a n d h e i r s w h o s e bia agent has been filed Cashmere L. Hardy whereabouts are un- with the Register of Wills, Decedent known shall enter their D.C. NOTICE OF appearance in this The decedent owned the APPOINTMENT, proceeding. Objections f o l l o w i n g D i s t r i c t o f NOTICE TO to such appointment (or Colombia real property: CREDITORS to the probate of de- 5 3 2 9 D . S t r e e t S E AND NOTICE TO cedent´s will) shall be Washington DC UNKNOWN HEIRS filed with the Register of Claims against the de- Faithe Hardy, whose adWills, D.C., 515 5th cedent may be pre- dress is 633 Hamilton Street, N.W., 3rd Floor sented to the under- Street, NW Washington Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . signed and filed with the DC 20011 was appointed 20001, on or before Register of Wills for the personal representative November 16, 2014. District of Columbia, 500 of the estate of CashClaims against the de- Indiana Avenue, N.W., mere L. Hardy, who died cedent shall be pre- Washington, D.C. 20001 on January 2, 2014 withsented to the under- within 6 months from the out a Will and will serve signed with a copy to the date of first publication of without Court superviRegister of Wills or filed this notice. sion. All unknown heirs with the Register of Wills and heirs whose Wayne Cade whereabouts are unwith a copy to the underPersonal Representasigned, on or before known shall enter their tive(s) a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s November 16, 2014, or TRUE TEST COPY proceeding. Objections be forever barred. PerREGISTER OF WILLS to such appointment sons believed to be heirs shall be filed with the or legatees of the de- Date of first publication: Register of Wills, D.C., cedent who do not re- May 23, 2014 Name of newspapers 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd ceive a copy of this notice and/or periodical: Floor Washington, D.C. by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall The Daily Washington 20001, on or before November 23, 2014. so inform the Register of Law Reporter Claims against the deWills, including name, The Afro-American cedent shall be preaddress and relation- TYPESET: Tue May 20 14:24:46 EDT 05/23, 05/30/2014 sented to the2014 undership. signed with a copy to the Date of Publication: Register of Wills or filed May 16, 2014 SUPERIOR COURT OF with the Register of Wills Name of newspaper: THE DISTRICT OF with a copy to the underAfro-American COLUMBIA signed, on or before Washington PROBATE DIVISION November 23, 2014, or Law Reporter W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . be forever barred. Per20001-2131 sons believed to be heirs Foreign No. 14:21:02 EDT 2014 or legatees of the deDuane P. Lambeth 2014FEP69 cedent who do not reFrank T. Lambeth Jr Date of Death ceive a copy of this notice Personal January 7, 2014 by mail within 25 days of Representatives Philip W. Hemily its first publication shall Decedent so inform the Register of TRUE TEST COPY NOTICE OF Wills, including name, REGISTER OF WILLS APPOINTMENT address and relationOF FOREIGN ship.

05/16, 05/23,Tue 05/30/14 PERSONAL TYPESET: May 20 14:22:49 EDT 2014 Date of Publication: REPRESENTATIVE May 23, 2014 AND Name of newspaper: NOTICE TO Superior Court of Afro-American CREDITORS the District of Washington Laurenne Hemily-Figus Law Reporter District of Columbia whose address is PROBATE DIVISION 1111 SE Westchester Washington, D.C. Cashmere L. Hardy Drive Port Lucie, FL 20001-2131 Personal 34952 was appointed Administration No. Representative personal representative 2014ADM494 of the estate of Philip W. TRUE TEST COPY Melvina E. Thompson Hemily, deceased, on REGISTER OF WILLS Decedent February 11, 2014 by the NOTICE OF TYPESET: Tue May 20 Court for Sarasota APPOINTMENT, 05/23, 05/30, 06/06/14 County, State of Florida.

NOTICE TO Service of process may CREDITORS Superior Court of be made upon David AND NOTICE TO the District of Booth Beers, Goodwin UNKNOWN HEIRS District of Columbia Antoinette W. Alexander Procter LLP, 901 NY AvePROBATE DIVISION nue NW Ste 9E Washingwhose address is 12 Hawthorne Court NE ton DC 20001 whose W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001-2131 Washington DC 20017 designation as District of Administration No. was appointed personal Columbia agent has 2014ADM499 representative of the been filed with the RegisElizabeth Johnson ter of Wills, D.C. estate of Melvina E. Thompson, who died on The decedent owned the Decedent NOTICE OF February 25, 2014 with a f o l l o w i n g D i s t r i c t o f APPOINTMENT, Will and will serve with- Colombia real property: NOTICE TO out Court supervision. All 3122 Dumbarton Avenue CREDITORS unknown heirs and heirs NW Washington DC AND NOTICE TO 20007 whose where-abouts are UNKNOWN HEIRS unknown shall enter their Claims against the decedent may be pre- Stephen King whose adappearance in this proceeding. Objections sented to the under- dress is 11654 Plaza to such appointment (or signed and filed with the America Drive #337 Resto the probate of de- Register of Wills for the ton VA 20190 was apcedent´s will) shall be District of Columbia, 500 pointed personal reprefiled with the Register of Indiana Avenue, N.W., sentative of the estate of Washington, D.C. 20001 Elizabeth Johnson who Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor within 6 months from the died on February 13, date of first publication of 2014 without a Will and Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . will serve without Court 20001, on or before this notice.

Laurenne Hemily-Figus supervision. All unknown November 23, 2014.

Personal heirs and heirs whose Claims against the deRepresentative(s) whereabouts are uncedent shall be preTRUE TEST COPY known shall enter their sented to the underREGISTER OF WILLS a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s signed with a copy to the proceeding. Objections Register of Wills or filed Date of first publication: to such appointment with the Register of Wills May 23, 2014 with a copy to the under- Name of newspapers shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., signed, on or before and/or periodical: November 23, 2014, or The Daily Washington 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. be forever barred. Per- Law Reporter 20001, on or before The Afro-American sons believed to be heirs TYPESET: Tue May 20 17:31:05 EDT23,2014 November 2014. or legatees of the de- 05/23, 05/30/14 Claims against the decedent who do not recedent shall be preceive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of SUPERIOR COURT OF sented to the underTHE DISTRICT OF signed with a copy to the its first publication shall COLUMBIA Register of Wills or filed so inform the Register of PROBATE DIVISION with the Register of Wills Wills, including name, address and relation- W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . with a copy to the under20001-2131 signed, on or before ship.

Foreign No. November 23, 2014, or Date of Publication: 2014FEP67 be forever barred. PerMay 23, 2014 Date of Death sons believed to be heirs Name of newspaper: June 8, 2013 or legatees of the deAfro-American Benjamin W. Edwards cedent who do not reWashington Decedent ceive a copy of this notice Law Reporter NOTICE OF by mail within 25 days of APPOINTMENT its first publication shall Antionette W. Alexander OF FOREIGN so inform the Register of Personal PERSONAL Wills, including name, Representative REPRESENTATIVE address and relationAND ship.

TRUE TEST COPY NOTICE TO Date of Publication: REGISTER OF WILLS CREDITORS May 23, 2014 Kim Edwards whose ad- Name of newspaper: 05/23, 05/30, 06/06/14 dress is 11005 Birch Way Afro-American Clinton Maryland 20735 Washington was appointed personal Law Reporter representative of the estate of Benjamin W. Stephen King Edwards, deceased, on Personal February 27, 2014, by Representative the Orphans’ Court for Prince George’s County, TRUE TEST COPY State of Maryland.

REGISTER OF WILLS Service of process may be made upon Serena 05/23, 05/30, 06/06/14 Hayes, 1532 Gallatin Place, NE Washington, DC 20017 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Colombia real property: 101 56th Street SE, Washington DC 20019 Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the

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TYPESET: Tue May 13 14:24:30 TYPESET: Tue2014 May 13 LEGAL NOTICES LEGALEDT NOTICES Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM454 Thelma L. Matthews Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Francine N. Muhammad (Johnson), whose address is 4334 Gorman Ter, SE Washington, DC 20019 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Thelma L. Matthews, who died on April 9, 2014 witha Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 16, 2014.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 16, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 16, 2014 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Francine N. Muhammad (Johnson) Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM427 Jerry W. Stovall Decedent Felecia Vida Stovall 1029 Vermont Ave. NW Washington DC 20005 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Felecia Vida Stovall, whose address is 5114 9th Street NW,Washington DC 20011 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Jerry W. Stovall, who died on January 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 November 16, 2014.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 16, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 16, 2014 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Felecia Vida Stovall Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY

TYPESET: May 13 14:24:11 EDT 05/16, 05/23,Tue 05/30/14 REGISTER OF2014 WILLS Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM449 Mary Emma Turner Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Donald Raymond Parker Jr., whose address is 12802 Odens Bequest Drive, Bowie MD 20720 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Mary Emma Turner, who died on April 7, 2014 without a Will and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before November 16, 2014.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 16, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 16, 2014 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Donald Raymond Parker Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

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TYPESET: Tue May 20 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM336 Burneatta E. Floyd Decedent Matthew P. Maloney Esq 10400 Connecticut Ave Ste. 602 Kensington, MD 20895 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Reginald W. Galloway Jr. whose address is 4217 Wheeler Rd. SE Washington DC 20032 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Burneatta E. Floyd, who died on January 17, 2013 without a Will and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 23, 2014.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 23, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 23, 2014 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Burneatta E. Floyd Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 05/23, 05/30, 06/06/14

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UNKNOWN HEIRS Patricia Ryan Stahl, whose address is 201 East Dewart Street, Shamokin, PA 17872 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Helen Veronica Ryan, who died on FebTYPESET: Tue May 13 14:23:31 EDT 2014 TYPESET: Tue May 20 14:21:58 2014 a ruary 26, EDT 2000 without LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES Will and will serve with Court supervision. All unSuperior Court of known heirs and heirs Superior Court of the District of whose whereabouts are the District of District of Columbia unknown shall enter their District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION appearance in this PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. proceeding. Objections Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 to such appointment (or 20001-2131 Administration No. to the probate of deAdministration No. 2014ADM277 cedent´s will) shall be 2014ADM489 Margo L. Weaver filed with the Register of Queen E. Brown AKA Wills, D.C., 515 5th Decedent Margo Laling Weaver Street, N.W., 3rd Floor NOTICE OF Decedent Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

APPOINTMENT, NOTICE OF 20001, on or before NOTICE TO APPOINTMENT, November 23, 2014.

CREDITORS NOTICE TO Claims against the deAND NOTICE TO CREDITORS cedent shall be preUNKNOWN HEIRS AND NOTICE TO Christine E. Brown and sented to the underUNKNOWN HEIRS June E. B. Simms whose signed with a copy to the Sabrina C. Thomas a d d r e s s e s a r e 6 7 3 8 Register of Wills or filed whose address is 1228 Mountain Lake Place MD with the Register of Wills 42nd Place NE Washing20743 and 9302 Eldon with a copy to the underton DC 20019 was apDrive, MD 20735 were signed, on or before pointed personal repreappointed personal re- November 23, 2014, or sentative of the estate of presentatives of the be forever barred. PerMargo L. Weaver AKA e s t a t e o f Q u e e n E . sons believed to be heirs Margo Laling Weaver, or legatees of the deBrown, who died on who died EDT on December 14:23:58 2014 September 19, 2013 cedent who do not re31, 2013 with a will and without a Will and will ceive a copy of this notice will serve without Court serve without Court su- by mail within 25 days of supervision. All unknown pervision. All unknown its first publication shall heirs and heirs whose heirs and heirs whose so inform the Register of whereabouts are unwhereabouts are un- Wills, including name, known shall enter their known shall enter their address and relationappearance in this ship. appearance in this proceeding. Objections proceeding. Objections Date of Publication: to such appointment (or to such appointment May 23, 2014 to the probate of deshall be filed with the Name of newspaper: cedent´s will) shall be Register of Wills, D.C., Afro-American filed with the Register of 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Washington Wills, D.C., 515 5th Floor Washington, D.C. Law Reporter Street, N.W., 3rd Floor 20001, on or before Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Patricia Ryan Stahl November 23, 2014.

20001, on or before Personal Claims against the deNovember 16, 2014.

Representative cedent shall be preClaims against the desented to the undercedent shall be presigned with a copy to the TRUE TEST COPY sented to the underRegister of Wills or filed REGISTER OF WILLS signed with a copy to the with the Register of Wills TYPESET: Tue May 20 Register of Wills or filed with a copy to the under- 05/23, 05/30, 06/06/14 with the Register of Wills signed, on or before with a copy to the underNovember 23, 2014, or Superior Court of signed, on or before be forever barred. Perthe District of November 16, 2014, or sons believed to be heirs District of Columbia be forever barred. Peror legatees of the dePROBATE DIVISION sons believed to be heirs cedent who do not reWashington, D.C. or legatees of the deceive a copy of this notice 20001-2131 cedent who do not reby mail within 25 days of Administration No. ceive a copy of this notice its first publication shall 2014ADM475 by mail within 25 days of so inform the Register of its first publication shall Wills, including name, Milton Leroy Jones so inform the Register of address and relation- Decedent Jamison Taylor Wills, including name, ship.

1218 11th Street NW address and relationDate of Publication: Washington, DC 20001 ship.

May 23, 2014 Attorney Date of Publication: Name of newspaper: NOTICE OF May 16, 2014 Afro-American APPOINTMENT, Name of newspaper: Washington NOTICE TO Afro-American Law Reporter CREDITORS Washington AND NOTICE TO Law Reporter Christine E. Brown UNKNOWN HEIRS June E. B. Simms Violet Jones Robertson, Sabrina C. Thomas Personal Personal Representatives whose address is 5148 North Lake Drive NW Representative Roanoke Virginia 24019 TRUE TEST COPY was appointed personal TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS representative of the REGISTER OF WILLS TYPESET: Tue2014 May 20 14:23:21 2014 estate ofEDT Milton Leroy TYPESET: Tue May 13 14:23:09 EDT 05/23, 05/30, 06/06/14 Jones, who died on 05/16, 05/23, 05/30/14 December 2, 2013 withSuperior Court of out a Will and will serve Superior Court of the District of with Court supervision. the District of District of Columbia All unknown heirs and District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION heirs whose wherePROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. abouts are unknown Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 shall enter their appear20001-2131 Administration No. ance in this proceeding.

Administration No. 2014ADM457 Objections to such 2014ADM421 Adam C. Turner III appointment shall be Charles Everett Ross Decedent filed with the Register of Decedent NOTICE OF Wills, D.C., 515 5th Darryl F. White APPOINTMENT, Street, N.W., 3rd Floor 302 Mississippi Ave. NOTICE TO Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Silver Spring MD 20910 CREDITORS 20001, on or before Attorney AND NOTICE TO November 23, 2014.

NOTICE OF UNKNOWN HEIRS Claims against the deAPPOINTMENT, Brenda L. Turner whose cedent shall be preNOTICE TO address is 2723 Knox sented to the underCREDITORS Terrace SE Washington signed with a copy to the AND NOTICE TO DC 20020, was apRegister of Wills or filed UNKNOWN HEIRS pointed personal repreI r i s R o s s W i l l i a m s , sentative of the estate of with the Register of Wills whose address is 4040 Adam C. Turner III who with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 14:23:39 EDTStreet, 2014 NE East Capital died on August 25, Washington DC 20019 2012without a Will and November 23, 2014, or was, appointed personal will serve without Court be forever barred. Perrepresentative of the supervision. All unknown sons believed to be heirs estate of Charles Everett heirs and heirs whose or legatees of the deRoss, who died on Au- where-abouts are un- cedent who do not regust 17, 2013 without a known shall enter their ceive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of Will and will serve with- a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s out Court supervision. All proceeding. Objections its first publication shall unknown heirs and heirs to such appointment (or so inform the Register of whose whereabouts are to the probate of de- Wills, including name, unknown shall enter their cedent´s will) shall be address and relationship. appearance in this filed with the Register of Date of Publication: proceeding. Objections Wills, D.C., 515 5th to such appointment Street, N.W., 3rd Floor May 23, 2014 Name of newspaper: shall be filed with the W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Register of Wills, D.C., 20001, on or before Afro-American 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd N o v e m b e r 2 3 , 2 0 1 4 Washington Floor Washington, D.C. Claims against the de- Law Reporter 20001, on or before cedent shall be preViolet Jones Robertson November 16, 2014. sented to the underPersonal Claims against the de- signed with a copy to the Representative cedent shall be pre- Register 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- TRUE TEST COPY Register of Wills or filed signed, on or before REGISTER OF WILLS with the Register of Wills November 23, 2014 or be TYPESET: Tue May 13 with a copy to the under- forever barred. Persons 05/23, 05/30, 06/06/14 signed, on or before believed to be heirs or November 16, 2014, or legatees of the decedent Superior Court of be forever barred. Per- who do not receive a the District of sons believed to be heirs copy of this notice by mail District of Columbia or legatees of the de- within 25 days of its first PROBATE DIVISION cedent who do not re- publication shall so inWashington, D.C. ceive a copy of this notice form the Register of 20001-2131 by mail within 25 days of Wills, including name, Administration No. its first publication shall address and relation2014ADM452 so inform the Register of ship.

Dellamar Floyd Wills, including name, Date of Publication: Decedent address and relation- May 23, 2014 Matthew P. Maloney ship.

Esq Name of newspaper: Date of Publication: 10400 Connecticut Afro-American Ave. Ste 602, Washington May 16, 2014 Kensington MD 20895 Law Reporter Name of newspaper: Attorney Afro-American NOTICE OF Adam C. Turner III Washington APPOINTMENT, Personal Law Reporter NOTICE TO Representative CREDITORS Charles Everett Ross TRUE TEST COPY AND NOTICE TO Personal REGISTER OF WILLS UNKNOWN HEIRS Representative Reginald W. Galloway Jr., whose TYPESET: Tue May 20 14:21:22 EDTaddress 2014 is TRUE TEST COPY 4217 Wheeler Rd. SE 05/23, 05/30, 06/06/14 REGISTER OF WILLS Washington DC 20032 was appointed personal Superior Court of representative of the the District of 05/16, 05/23, 05/30/14 estate of Dellamar Floyd, District of Columbia who died on October 1, PROBATE DIVISION 2001 with a will and will Washington, D.C. serve with Court supervi20001-2131 sion. All unknown heirs Administration No. and heirs whose 2013ADM001050 whereabouts are unHelen Veronica Ryan known shall enter their Decedent appearance in this Alan B. Frankie Esq proceeding. Objections 751 Rockville Pike to such appointment (or Suite 7 to the probate of deRockville, MD 20852 • Your cedent´s will) shall be Attorney filed with the Register of NOTICE OF Wills, D.C., 515 5th History APPOINTMENT, Street, N.W., 3rd Floor NOTICE TO Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

CREDITORS • Your 20001, on or before AND NOTICE TO November 16, 2014.

UNKNOWN HEIRS Claims against the deCommunity Patricia Ryan Stahl, cedent shall be prewhose address is 201 sented to the underEast Dewart Street, • Your signed with a copy to the Shamokin, PA 17872 Register of Wills or filed was appointed personal with the Register of Wills News representative of the with a copy to the underestate of Helen Veronica signed, on or before Ryan, who died on FebNovember 16, 2014, or ruary 26, 2000 without a be forever barred. PerWill and will serve with sons believed to be heirs Court supervision. All unor legatees of the deknown heirs and heirs cedent who do not rewhose whereabouts are ceive a copy of this notice unknown shall enter their by mail within 25 days of appearance in this proceeding. Objections its first publication shall so inform the Register of

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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 November 16, 2014, or be forever barred. PerLEGAL NOTICES sons 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: May 16, 2014 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Reginald W. Galloway Jr. Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM478 Earnestine Ervin AKA Earnestine M. Ervin Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Linda E. Graves and Callestine E. Adams whose addresses are 2503 Wash Overlook Dr. Ft Washington MD2014 20744 14:21:40 EDT and 5610 Prescott Ct., Capitol Heights MD 20743, were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Earnestine Ervin AKA Earnestine M. Ervin, who died on January 29, 2013 with a Will and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 11, 2014.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 23, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 23, 2014 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Linda E. Graves Callestine E. Adams Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM259 B Three Feathers Kazemi Decedent Michelle Lanchester 601 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 900 South Building Washington DC 20004 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO 14:22:49 EDT 2014 CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Angelique P. Woodson, whose address is 3701 Melrose Ave, Forestville, MD 20747 was appointed personal representative of the estate of B Three Feathers Kazemi, who died on December 17, 2013 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 November 23, 2014.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 23, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 23, 2014 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Angelique P. Woodson Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 05/23, 05/30/ 06/06/14

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY INVITATION TO BID INVITATION NO. 130250 TIC RENOVATIONS & BUILDING ”F” RENOVATIONS The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DCWater) is soliciting bids for Invitation No. 130250: TIC Renovations and Building ’F’ Renovations.

The following listing enumerates the major items of work included in the contract: *Interior renovations including MEP, case work, finishes. *Demolition of two small buildings and radio tower.

The project requires completion within 270 consecutive calendar days.

This project is estimated to cost between $900,000 and $1,200,000 DCWater will receive Bids until 2:00 p.m., local standard time on June 25, 2014.

Two Pre-Bid Conferences will be conducted, one at each site. The conference for the TIC Renovations portion of the project will be held at the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant site on May 28, 2014, at 10:00 am. The conference for the Building ”F” Renovations portion of the project will be held at the Main & O Street site on May 28, 2014, at 1:00 pm.

Bid for this project will be procured in the open market with preference given for the utilization of local and local small business enterprises.The Davis-Bacon wage determinations shall apply.DCWater Owner Controlled Insurance Program will provide insurance.Bid documents are available at the Department of Procurement, 5000 Overlook Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20032. Sets of Bidding Documents can be procured for a non-refundable $200.00 purchase price each, payable to DCWater. Payment must be in the form of a money order, certified check or a company check. Documents can be shipped to Bidders providing a Federal Express account number.

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

For procurement information contact Mrs. DeNerika Johnson; email DeNerika.Johnson@dcwater.com (voice 202 787 2113).

For technical information contact: DETS-Construction.Bid.Inquiry@dcwater. comView DCWater website at www.dcwater.com for current and upcoming solicita-

TYPESET: Tue May 27 14:00:37 EDT 2014 tions.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY INVITATION TO BID INVITATION NO. 130150 REHABILITATION OF FORT STANTON NO. 1 RESERVOIR CONTRACT 3a The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) is soliciting bids for Invitation No. 130150: Rehabilitation of Fort Stanton No. 1 Reservoir Contract 3a.

The following listing enumerates the major items of work included in the contract: *Reservoir impervious membrane improvements and new perimeter drain. *Internal reservoir concrete repairs including crack repair, spall repair, and construction joint repair. *New piping, valves, flap gates, sump pumps, screens, ladders, access hatches, and mechanical mixers. *Electrical and communication improvements.

The project requires completion within 210 consecutive calendar days.

This project is estimated to cost between $1,500,000 and $2,500,000.

DC Water will receive Bids until 2:00 p.m., local standard time on July 2, 2014.

A site visit will be conducted on June 9, 2014 at 12:00 pm noon.

This project may be funded in part by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A Fair Share Objective for Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises participation in this work of 32% and 6%, respectively, has been established.

The Davis-Bacon wage determinations shall apply.

DC Water Owner Controlled Insurance Program will provide insurance.

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

Documents can be shipped to Bidders providing a Federal Express account number.

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

For procurement information contact Mrs. DeNerika Johnson; email DeNerika.

Johnson@dcwater.com (voice 202 787 2113).

For technical information contact: DETS-Construction.Bid.Inquiry@dcwater.com View DC Water’s website at www.dcwater.com for current and upcoming solicitaTYPESET: Tue May 27 14:00:12 EDT 2014 tions DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY INVITATION TO BID INVITATION NO. 130190 G800: MALL LOCAL SEWER REHABILITATION 2 The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) is soliciting bids for Invitation No. 130190: G800: Small Local Sewer Rehabilitation 2.

Work on this Contract comprises rehabilitation of sewer pipes and manholes. Work shall include the following: 1.Install about 3,300 LF of CIPP in various sizes in Downtown/Foggy Bottom in Washington, DC. 2.Rehabilitate lateral connections.

All parts of the Work and all fixtures, equipment, apparatus and other items indicated on the Drawings and not mentioned in the Specifications, or vice versa, and all work and material usual and necessary to make the Work complete and satisfactory and ready for use and operation, whether or not they are indicated on the drawings or mentioned in the Specifications, shall be furnished and executed as if both indicated on the Drawings and mentioned in the Specifications.

The project requires completion within 390 consecutive calendar days.

This project is estimated to cost between $800,000 and $2,000,000.

DC Water will receive Bids until 2:00 p.m., local standard time on June 25, 2014.

Bid for this project will be procured in the open market with preference given for the utilization of local and local small business enterprises. See Instructions to Bidders for additional information.

The Davis-Bacon wage determinations shall apply.

DC Water Owner Controlled Insurance Program will provide insurance.

Bid documents are available at the Department of Procurement, 5000 Overlook Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20032. Sets of Bidding Documents can be procured for a non-refundable $50 purchase price each, payable to DC Water. Payment must be in the form of a money order, certified check or a company check. Documents can be shipped to Bidders providing a Federal Express account number.

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

For procurement information contact Mrs. DeNerika Johnson; email Denerika.

Johnson@dcwater.com, (voice 202-787-2113).

For technical information contact: DETS-Construction.Bid.Inquiry@dcwater.com View DC Water website at www.dcwater.com for current and up coming solicitations.

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Wayne Family, Grambling State Achieve Guinness World Record 40 Family Member Grads of Grambling Over Six Generations

By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent The Wayne family of Marion, La., recently turned the world’s spotlight on Grambling State University when they earned recognition from the Guinness World Book of Records for most family graduates of a single university.

The historically Black university, best known for the legacy of Eddie Robinson, who coached a storied football team at the school for 56 years, is located in Grambling, La., about 40 miles away from Marion, where the Wayne Family has its roots.

Hattie Wayne, who runs a public relations firm in Dallas, Texas, undertook the task of pursuing the world record after she attended an alumni event in Dallas last August and realized just how many of her relatives had passed through the institution, the Dallas News reported.

The Grambling graduate immediately fired off the application to Guinness World Records then spent months rifling through boxes of paperwork, making dozens of phone calls and shooting off a chain of e-mails as she sought to establish her family’s claim to fame.

Last month, she told the Dallas News, her months of hard work paid off. “We are delighted to confirm that you have successfully achieved a new Guinness World Records title. … You are officially amazing,” the e-mail from Guinness officials read, as quoted by the newspaper.

Wayne, who graduated from Grambling in 1971, said 86 relatives attended Grambling since the 1940s, but only 52 graduated with degrees in everything from education, criminal justice, computer science, electrical engineering, business, music education and English literature.

Due to missing and/or lost documentation—such as birth certificates and diplomas—Guinness only certified 40 of the family’s graduates.

Still, the Wayne family easily surpassed an Alabama family who held the record for most college graduates in a single family— the closest existing category. The now deceased Dan and Helen Fagan of Bessemer, Ala., saw 15 of their 16 children graduate with a tertiary level degree.

“We’re all just ecstatic,” said Hattie Wayne, of the recognition. “I’m personally excited not just for our family but for our little town of Marion, for the state of Louisiana, for Grambling and for all HBCUs.” Will Sutton, a Grambling State spokesman said it was a “well-deserved” honor for the Waynes. The university’s President Frank G. Pogue offered a special recognition of the Waynes at the school’s commencement ceremony on May 9, declaring it “Wayne Family Day,” and he plans to do more.

“We’re ecstatic,” Sutton told the AFRO. “It’s an incredible example of what commitment and dedication to a cause can do.

“We worked with Hattie and the others over the past few months to provide them with everything and anything they need, but they did the work,” he added. “There is nothing that Grambling State University did to achieve this recognition, but provide the Waynes with a wonderful education.”

The Guinness certificate underscores the quest for education and achievement that has been the bedrock of the Wayne family, relatives said.

As part of the Guinness submission, Hattie Wayne listed a number of Wayne “history-makers,” including: actress Bre’ly Evans, who appeared in Sparkle and on “Being Mary Jane;” Indianapolis Colts All-Pro wide receiver Reggie Wayne; retired Air Force Lt. Col Donald Tatum, who graduated from Louisiana Tech but whose five children are all Grambling graduates; Dr. Micean Johnikin, a pediatric cardiologist; and Dr. Brian Freelon, a research physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

One of those “history-makers,” Renee Tatum Walters of Montgomery, Ala., a National Merit Scholar and former university professor, said she could not stop crying after learning about the honor.

“I’m the emotional Wayne,” she said the News. “To have this kind of legacy is incredible.”

The Wayne family plans to establish an endowment or scholarship at Grambling, where one relative is currently enrolled.

“For the Wayne family, Grambling State University has been our ‘village,’” Hattie Wayne said, as quoted by BlackMediaScoop.com. “Education has always been of importance. We believe our efforts of giving back will leave a legacy and will inspire others.”

Sutton, the university spokesman, said an endowment or scholarship would be a thoughtful and welcome act. “I think it would be a wonderful thing for the Waynes to do such a thing to recognize the scores of Wayne family members who got their educational foundation at Grambling State University,” he said.

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For 40 years, the Cove Point LNG Terminal has worked to protect the health and natural beauty of the Chesapeake Bay—and we won’t stop now.

As Dominion moves forward with its Cove Point LNG export project—which

work closely with government agencies, as well as local landowners, to ensure

will provide a significant economic boost to Calvert County—our top priority

that, as we build, the impacts on our community and your day-to-day routines

continues to be making sure that a 40-year commitment to the Chesapeake Bay

are minimal.

ecosystem remains intact.

We’re proud that Calvert County has come to expect this spirit of stewardship

Dominion has an extensive environmental conservation plan in place at Cove

from us. After all, we’ve provided $2.3 million in charitable grants and donations

Point. Even after adding export capabilities to our 1,000-acre site, nearly 80

in Maryland over the past decade, been commended for our efforts to restore

percent of the land will remain a pristine nature preserve.

the Chesapeake Bay’s oyster population, and led an initiative to save the largest

The nearby freshwater marshlands will still provide homes for several species

freshwater marsh on the bay’s western shore.

of insects, amphibians and plants. We’ll keep using indigenous plants in

In short, Dominion understands the importance of respecting the environment

our landscaping. We’ll collaborate further with environmentalists to protect

and preserving Southern Maryland’s quality of life. At Cove Point, we’re about to

endangered vegetation and animals in and around our property. And we’ll

prove it to you once again.

To learn more visit dom.com/covepoint.

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