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Obama Opts for Diplomacy Over War

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Speaking to a war-weary nation Tuesday night, President Barack Obama asked Congress to postpone a vote authorizing him to launch an air attack against Syria while he explores a Russian diplomatic proposal that could rid Syria of its arsenal of chemical weapons.

In a televised 16-minute address from the White House, Obama said: “…over the last few days, we’ve seen some encouraging signs. In

part because of the credible threat of U.S. military action, as well as constructive talks that I had with President Putin, the Russian government has indicated a

has these weapons, and even said they’d join the Chemical Weapons Convention, which prohibits their use.”

In a speech originally planned to drum up support

“…President Obama changed gears as he expressed willingness to exhaust all diplomatic initiatives before using force.” willingness to join with the international community in pushing Assad to give up his chemical weapons. Assad has since admitted that it

for military action against Syria, President Obama changed gears as he expressed willingness to exhaust all Continued on A4

Mayor, Bonds Move to Delay Property Tax Lien Sales

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Recalling the Tragic Sunday Morning Sept. 15, 1963

Remembering 9/11

President Obama places a wreath at the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial Sept. 11 during a ceremony to mark the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

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The Isolated Prison Existence of the KKK Killer of the Four Black Girls

Last Living Bomber of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church

Advocates Say Legislators Should Have Acted Sooner

By Zenitha Prince Special to the AFRO

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District of Columbia officials this week expressed indignation after a series of Washington Post stories, which claimed that the city’s property tax sales system has deprived some of its most vulnerable residents of their homes over miniscule debts.

But a local advocacy group said the outrage is more than a year too late.

In April 2012, AT HOME, the Alliance to Help Owners Maintain Equity, sent a letter addressed to Mayor Vincent C. Gray and Councilman Jack Evans, chairman of the D.C. Council’s Committee on Finance & Revenue, highlighting “several flaws” in the real property tax sale system.

“The current tax sale system’s problems cause economic hardship for homeowners, displace families (many of whom

Julian Bond Sees Tough Civil Rights Battle Ahead INSERT • Walmart

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16th Street Baptist Church after the Sept. 15, 1963 bombing

By Herb Boyd Special to the AmNews

By Jay Reeves Associated Press

As the world has discovered, Benjamin Todd Jealous is a man of his word, and his word is his bond. Five Ben Jealous years ago when he became the youngest President and CEO of the NAACP, he promised to take the Association to a new level of achievement.

He also promised his family that after that was accomplished he would return home and spend time with them.

On January 1, 2014, Jealous will have kept both promises as he steps down from his leadership role and heads home.

“I promised my family I would take five years at the NAACP to bring it to a new level and then spend time with them, and though there have been attempts to break that promise, it can’t be done,” Jealous told the Amsterdam News in an exclusive phone interview Sunday afternoon. “That promise to them is important to me, and I intend to honor it.”

So, in effect, Jealous has fulfilled both promises as he prepares to make his transition from the NAACP to possibly teaching, writing, and continuing the community activism that highlights his impressive resume. “The orderly transition is underway,” he said, “and for a few months I may continue in some capacity with the organization as a consultant but I have four books I want to write and to continue to train the next generation of leaders.”

One of those books should detail his successful tenure at the NAACP, a tenure that board members did their best to convince him to make a little longer. “They wanted to Continued on A4

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The last surviving Klansman convicted in a church bombing that killed four Black girls 50 years ago spends nearly all his time in a one-person prison cell, apparently too wary of other inmates to venture out.

Thomas E. Blanton Jr., one of three men convicted in the bombing, is allowed to have regular contact with other prisoners in a day room and go outside a few hours a week for exercise, but a prison spokesman said Blanton rarely does either.

Instead, as one of the most infamous prisoners currently in state custody, the 83 yearold man mostly keeps to himself.

“You might describe him as a loner,” Department of Corrections spokesman Brian Corbett said Monday.

A powerful dynamite bomb detonated outside

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A view from inside the bombed church Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church on Sept. 15, 1963, killing four girls and critically injuring a fifth as they prepared for worship on a Sunday morning.

Numerous events are being held this week in Birmingham to mark the anniversary of the bombing, and a fresh round of news coverage is once again focusing attention on the bombers.

Yet Corbett said Blanton isn’t receiving any special protection during anniversary commemorations since he’s already confined in the most secure way possible.

“That’s the way he lives

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all the time based on the high-profile nature of his case,” Corbett said.

While no one was arrested in the bombing for years, three Ku Klux Klansmen eventually were convicted in the blast: Robert Chambliss in 1977; Blanton in 2001; and Bobby Frank Cherry in 2002.

Chambliss and Cherry died in prison, but Blanton remains incarcerated at St. Clair Correctional Facility, located about 35 miles northeast of Birmingham, where he is serving a life term after being convicted of four counts of murder.

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The use of electronic cigarettes has spiked among middle- and highschool students over the last few years, undermining a decades-long effort to stem e-cigarette smoking among young Americans, officials said.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Youth Tobacco Survey, released Sept. 5, the number of U.S. middle and high school students who use electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, more than doubled from 2011 to 2012. The percentage of high school students who reported ever using an e-cigarette rose from 4.7 percent in 2011 to 10.0 percent in 2012. In all, 1.8 million middle- and highschoolers tried the cigarettes last year.

“The increased use of e-cigarettes by teens is deeply troubling,” CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said in a statement.

“Nicotine is a highly addictive drug. Many teens who start with e-cigarettes may be condemned to struggling with a lifelong addiction to nicotine and conventional cigarettes.”

E-cigarettes are battery-powered tubes that simulate the effects of smoking via a nicotine- and additive-laced vapor.

Though some e-cigarettes are marketed as a means to quit smoking, there has been little scientific research into their long-term impact. Given signs of their growing popularity, particularly among teenagers, the devices need to be properly regulated by government authorities, critics said.

“It is deeply disturbing that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken so long to regulate e-cigarettes,” Matthew L. Myers, president of Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said in a statement. “The FDA must act without delay to assert jurisdiction over e-cigarettes and take steps to prevent their marketing and sale to kids. FDA regulation is also necessary to prevent unproven or deceptive health claims about e-cigarettes; set standards for their contents, including levels of highly addictive nicotine; and better understand the health risks they may pose.”

Health officials have already voiced concerns that the use of e-cigarettes could lead to the smoking of conventional cigarettes, which are responsible for an estimated 443,000 deaths each year.

According to the CDC study, 76.3 percent of middle and high school students who used e-cigarettes within the past 30 days also smoked conventional cigarettes in the same period.

Black Pastor of N.C. Church Requests White Greeters Only

A Charlotte, N.C. church has come under fire after its executive pastor, herself an African-American, sent a letter to some Black greeters which suggested she would rather see White people at the door.

On Aug. 19, Pastor Makeda Pennycooke of Freedom House Church, who is Black, sent an e-mail to a number of volunteers stating that “first impressions matter,” according to The Christian Science Monitor. She added that “only White people” should be greeters, the Monitor reported, saying the policy would “bring our racial demographic pendulum back to mid-line.”

“I was floored,” Carmen Thomas, an African-American church member and volunteer, told Charlotte, N.C. CBS affiliate WBTV. “You can put a White face all over the front door. But when you come through those doors, you’re going to see African-Americans, you’re gonna see Asians. You’re going to see people of color.”

In a statement to the AFRO, Freedom House Church explained the controversial e-mail.

“One of our longtime pastors, in keeping with our church’s desire to be inclusive and intentionally reach out to all races, noticed our front door greeting Makeda Pennycooke team was no longer reflecting the racial diversity of our entire congregation, and she wanted potential visitors to see people like themselves upon entering our church,” the church said in the statement.

Thomas told WBTV that in her e-mail Pennycooke stated that she wanted “the best of the best on the front door.”

Thomas said Pennycooke’s assumption was that “with a certain congregation that eventually your finances are going to run out because maybe we aren’t the moneymakers.”

“She made an error in judgment in requesting all white greeters at the front door, going overboard in placing emphasis on any one race over another in trying to highlight diversity within the greeting team,” church officials told the AFRO. “She admits this was a grave lapse in judgment and is sincerely sorry for her actions. She immediately apologized and has asked our forgiveness.”

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Jennifer Hudson and Relatives Identify Body of Her Slain N Sobbing Mothers Recall Tragic Sunday Morning

By Alan King AFRO Staff Writer

sport-utility vehicle sought in connection with the murder of Hudson’s mother and brother.

The white, 1994 Chevrolet Suburban with Illinois license

from a neighbor about a suspiposted cious vehicle. The man noticed graph the vehicle while walking his Sunda dog. According to the Chicago for the Jennifer Hudson and other Tribune, the boy had been shot her ne relatives positively identified multiple times in the back seat blog, s children and he seemed to have run names. of out the of vehicle.

The SUV, regisporter Baltimore AFRO - September 28, 1963 Mrs. Collins was still at home tered whentoone of Hudson’s murdered offere her daughters called and said therebrother, had been wasantowed with the anyon explosion. A few seconds later University Hospital

By James D. Williams boy’s body inside and is being alive. called and asked her to come. processed by evidence techniSin Assistant Managing Editor Hudso She found her daughter Addie cians dead, and andworkers. another The body later removed and taken to after a daughter, Sarah, 23, with her eyeswas badly damaged.

Perhaps in time, the ache in the hearts of Mrs. Alice Collins the Cook Idol,” There is still some doubt about Sarah beingCounty able to Medical and Mrs. Alvin Robertson will ease – but now the hurt is too Examiner’s office.

Acade recent for them to do anything but cry when they speak of their see again.

Hudson and other family the mo The grief of the mother is still so strong she daughters. members arrived at the Medical stayed finds it hard to tell how she feels about the men Addie Mae Collins, 14, and Carole Rosamond Robertson, Examiner’s office mid-afterThe who killed her child.

14, were two of the four girls killed in the bombing of the 16th Julian King, Jennnifer Hudson’s nephew. noon to identify the body. ed tha “I can’t tell, I can’t tell,” she says, butthe she says between lookStreet Baptist Church. On Friday, the mothers were still crying Given choice slowly A spokesman for the office the murders but is being held in Mond it without bitterness. and obviously near a state of complete collapse. ing directly at the body or told the newspaper that Hudson jail for parole violation after Not far from Addie Mae’s home is the home In the modest living room of her home at 233 6th Ct., W., viewing it on aof wall-mounted news v Carole Robertson – or rather her former home, at Mrs. Collins was slowly sorting through some of the mail and Courtesy Photos 1021 Fifth St., N. telegrams she has received. ThereJennifer hasn’t been time toand tabulate Hudson her mom, Darnell Donerson who Both of Carole’s parents are school teachers the number, or even acknowledgewas them, but they killed, as have well been as her brother, Jason. and she, like so many other teenagers, hasn’t quite read and appreciated. “remained strong for her famibeing convicted of attempted screen, the family chose violen made up her mind what professionvideo she would Recalling what it had been like on Sunday morning, Mrs. ly” and was clearly its leader. murder and vehicular hijackplate X584859 was found on the latter.

According to the In f the body of her 7-year-old choose, but her latest interest had been to become Collins spoke of the breakfast Addie Mae had eaten before “She held hands with her fami- ing. Cook County records show home, Chicago’s West Side after Tribune, Hudson said, “Yes, nephew Monday, just hours an airline stewardess. leaving for Sunday school; sausage, sweet potatoes and grits. ly,” the spokesman said. “It that he pleaded guilty to both police received a 7 a.m. call that’s him.” and ho after his body was found in a Sunday Addie was one of was obviously a very emotional charges in 1999. He was also kiss th moment.” convicted in 1998 for posseswas to be a eight children. She was ing the The boy – the son of Julia sion of a stolen motor vehicle. big day for a regular member at the Jason.

Hudson, Jennifer’s sister – had He was released from prison in Carole. She 16th Street church and “Ev beenbymissing since Friday, 2006 after serving seven years was to serve AFRO Cartoon Tom Stockett, Sept. 28, 1963 throug last Sunday started off as when a relative found Julian’s for the attempted murder and West, her first time any other Sunday. grandmother, Darnell car hijacking charges. area to as an usher at She left the house No wonder Obama’s campaign is Donerson, and Dallas Cowboys players

By Alan King “It’s something stilluncle, like a nightmare,” Mrs. Robertson said.

57, and his The boy remained missing have t the church. about 9:10 a.m. but she trying to distance him from the Tony Romo and Terrell Owens, AFRO Staff Writer Jasontried Hudson, 29,have shotany to death through longpeople weekend “I’ve not to bitterness abouta the whoinhave young For the occasion, she came back in and asked group, saying, “Barack Obama among the names submitted to in histhe grandmother’s home in done.” which police and volunteers done thing that they have for wh on a very her mother could she put Neverhad Organized withspecial ACORN.” theNo election officials.

Presidential candidate John 7000 block ofinSouth bitterness theirYale hearts – this is the way two mothers white dress. ties to ACORN run Hurd said those workers, who But Obama’s some powder on her face.

McCain’s attack on ACORN – Avenue. here in Birmingham have accepted the deaths of their long and“She deep.didn’t He taught were doing those things without Associated Community haveclasses a “I told her no at first An Amber Alert – a desigdaughters. endorsed ACORN’s knowledge or permis- for ACORN. Organization for Reform Now – nation for high-risk missing coat onThey so I even told her to and something told me him for sion, were fired. confirms the success of the children – was issued Friday getPresident. a little lightweight to let her come back. She But now ACORN in trouble.

“The evidence that has surorganization, the head of the after Julian was discovered jacket,” herismother said. asked me ‘Mommy, don’t Reporter: There are at least faced so far shows they faked group says. missing after the murders.

Carole’s father took I look like you?’ and I 11 investigations across the “This is testimony to the work forms to get paid for work they herinvolving to Sunday school of and Police arrested William told her to stop fooling country thousands didn’t do, not to stuff ballot we’ve done and success we’ve Balfour, the missing boy’s stepon thefraudulent way theyACORN stopped and go along to church.” boxes.” ACORN, she said, is the potentially had,” Maude Hurd, president of father and estranged husband The church is almost forms.by the home of her victim of fraud, not the perpetraACORN, said in an interview of Julia, at his girlfriend’s grandparents, Mr. voter and 20 blocks from her home, Announcer: Massive tor of it. with the AFRO. Southside apartment several H. Anderson fraud.Mrs. Hurd said the only things And John the Obama campaign hours after the murders. but Addie and two of her “When this attack started, we bogus are the charges thempaid more than $800,000 to an had just announced that we had Sr., where she received sisters, Jannie and Sarah Balfour’s mother, Michele, has selves. And factcheck. org ACORN for get out the vote told reporters that her son had registered 1.3 million new vother front weekly allowance walked. It was a pleasant agrees. efforts. ers,” she said. “That’s just to say nothing to do with the slayings. and a white necklace day.

It concluded, “Neither Pressuring banks to issue risky that someone’s running scared Balfour remains a suspect in Jason Hudson to compliment the very Also headed for ACORN nor its employees have loans. Nationwide voter fraud. because of ACORN’s success.” special outfit.

Sunday school were been found guilty of, or even Barack Obama. Bad judgment.

McCain, who is running for A few minutes three other sisters, Hattie Blind ambition.

Too risky later for president on the Republican tick- charged with, casting fraudulent she was dead.

B., Junie and Addie B. votes.”

America. et, lashed out at ACORN in the Mrs. Robertson also Collins. They took the The problem came about prifinal debate against Barack has McCain’s not had the time to bus.

Since comments, Obama, contending the group “is marily because of the way SQUARE HIGH read the card, letters ACORN operates. Rather than ACORN’s 87 offices have been Asked why two girls on the verge of maybe perpetratrely on volunteers, it pays peobombarded with threats ing one of the greatest frauds in and telegrams thatand have with the same name, Mrs. ple, many of them poor or unem- racistcome mail. in from all over voter history in this country, Collins smiled wanly AFRO File photos ployed, to sign up new voters.

The after the maybe destroying the fabric of As a chilling reminder, this clock in the Sunday School theday country andpresidential from and explained that her Christopher and Maxine McNair hold a photo of their daughter, The idea was to help both those debate, vandals broke into the democracy.” room stopped at the time of the explosion. overseas. husband had named the Denise. Factcheck.org, a non-partisan being registered and those doing organization’s Boston and Seattle the registration. offices and stole computers.

Web site, found those claims to NOT ON TH BREAD Maud explained, “We have a After a Cleveland representative be “exaggerated,” with “no evizero tolerance policy for deliber- appeared on TV, an e-mail was dence of any such democracyate falsification of registration.” sent to the local office saying she destroying fraud.”

Most news account neglect to “is going to have her life ended.”

Hurd believes the McCain Continued from A1 A worker in Providence, R.I., charges were politically motivat- point out that ACORN is required by law to turn in all regreceived a threatening call sayed. bunk beds, but Blanton is While Blanton typically silent now, but his own words LEFT RIGH istration forms. And they also fail ing, “We know you get off work She said, “Because it’s lowheld in a more-secure block uses his shower time, 10 helped convict him 11 years to note that it was the organizaat 9” and uttered racial epithets. and moderate-income people, with one-man cells. There’s a minutes every other day, ago. Jurors heard secretly A caller to one office left a and people of color, I believe the tion, in many instances, that first day roomcampaign that Blanton he neither in recorded tapes in which brought theparticipates phony registrations message on the answering McCain thinksrarely those visits, Corbett and he religious activities nor has Blanton told his then-wife to the attention of authorities. machine, saying: “Hi, I was just voters are goingsaid, to vote seldom goeswhich outside fornecesthe company for meals. that he had been at a meeting The McCain camp apparently calling to let you know that Democratic, is not eats alone.

He’s where “we planned the bomb.” five isn’t“He interested in those fine Barack Obama needs to get sarilyhours true.”of exercise he’s points, preferring to air misleadhung. He’s a (expletive deleted) ACORN no stranger to served meals in his cell,” said Several years before allotted eachisweek. ing ads that seek to link Obama nigger, and he’s a piece of controversy.

Blanton’s trial, Cherry told “He spends the vast Corbett. to ACORN, thereby undercutting (expletive deleted). You guys are For 38 years, the non-partisan investigators that Blanton was majority of his time alone by A fourth suspect in the his political support. fraudulent, and you need to go to organization has fought for social crazy, a “little thief” and a choice,” said Corbett. bombing, Herman Cash, died McCain: I’m John McCain hell. All the niggers on oak trees. and economic justice for low“lowlife” who wasn’t welcome Blanton is in generally in 1994 without ever being and I approve this message.

They’re gonna get all hung honand moderate-income 1 BANANA in the Cherry household, good health, but he has only charged. eys, they’re going to get assassiAnnouncer: Who is Barack Americans. With 400,000 memaccording to FBI investigative one regular visitor, a daughter, Obama? A man with “a political nated, they’re gonna get killed.” ber families organized into more files obtained by The who comesneighborhood to see him chapAP writer Adam Another message said, “You baptism performed at Goldman warp than 1,200 Associated Press through the occasionally, Corbett said. contributed this report. liberal idiots. Dumb (expletive speed.” Vast to ambition.

After colters in 110 cities nationwide, Freedom of Information Act. deleted). Welfare bums. You lege, he moved to Chicago.

ACORN has over the years seen guys just (expletive deleted) its share of criticism while advo- Became a community organizer.

Many Alabama inmates come to our country, consume There, Obama met Madeleine cating for affordable housing, live in large dormitories with every natural resource there is, Talbot, part of the Chicago living wages, healthcare for the and make a lot of babies. That’s branch of ACORN. He was so underserved— and while organTOUR that 22 New all you guys do. And then suck impressive he was Homes asked to izing voter registration drives. up the welfare and expect everytrain the ACORN staff.

But none has been as withering From Corolla to What did ACORN in Chicago one else to pay for your hospital and baseless as this one.

Manteo, NC bills for your kids. I jus’ say let engage in? Bullying banks.

With the presidential election Before age five, every room is a cl October 10-13 your kids die. That’s the best Intimidation tactics. Disruption less than two weeks away, of business.

ACORN forced ACORN’s detractors allege the Tickets $10-Good all 4 days move. Just let your children die.

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Black Lawmakers Will Play Key Role in Decision on Syria

By Zenitha Prince Special to the AFRO The Congressional Black Caucus could play a vital role in determining Congress’ position on a proposed U.S. strike on Syria’ government forces should attempts at diplomacy fail.

“We are 43 out of 199 representatives in the House, that’s a very important bloc,” said Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif.

President has asked Congress to authorize the military action—despite his power as commander-in-chief to do so unilaterally— citing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons against his people, which, if true, would violate international law.

On Sept. 10, Obama pleaded his case before the entire nation during an emotional 16-minute prime-time speech. He did the same the day before, making a surprise visit to his former colleagues in the CBC during an hour-long White House briefing with National Security Advisor Susan Rice.

“I have a deeply held preference for peaceful solutions,” Obama said Tuesday night. “Over the last two years, my administration has tried diplomacy and sanctions, warning and negotiations -- but chemical weapons were still used by the Assad regime.”

The president “absolutely” did a good job of effectively laying out his case and answering their questions, said Rep. Bass, who is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and ranking member of the Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights Subcommittee.

“It was very, very powerful,” Bass said of his presentation. “What was made very clear to me was the pressure he feels and the fact that this decision weighs very heavily on his heart and his head.

“He faces a terrible position, but it is something he felt he had to something about.”

In making their case, White House officials urged Capitol Hill lawmakers and the American public to look at the gruesome and heart-rending images of Syrians foaming at the

mouth and twisting in agony and the resulting hundreds of dead bodies, including 400 children, after a poison gas attack in Damascus on Aug. 21.

American intelligence has verified that sarin, a deadly nerve agent, was used in the attack, officials said. They also have evidence that Assad’s chemical weapons personnel prepared for the attack, including distributing gasmasks to their troops, and that senior military officials reviewed the results of the attack, which was intended to clear the area of opposition forces.

“To my friends on the right (Republicans), I ask you to reconcile your commitment to America’s military might with a failure to act when a cause is so plainly just,” the president said in his speech, Tuesday night. “To my friends on the left (Democrats), I ask you to reconcile your belief in freedom and dignity for all people with those images of children writhing in pain, and going still on a cold hospital floor. For sometimes resolutions and statements of condemnation are simply not enough.”

Still, like many Americans, CBC members remain divided on whether America should have to “police” Syria.

“The CBC as a representation of the Congress and the nation is mixed,” and a goodly percentage fall into the “undecided” column, Bass said.

During a recent town hall, Bass said her constituents were 30 percent for the strike, 30 percent against, and 30 percent undecided.

“The major concern is whether a strike [and possible retaliation] would lead to another Iraq,” said the Los Angeles lawmaker. “This country is still traumatized by the lies that were told that led us into Iraq, they’re still traumatized by a three-day military action that turned into 10 years of war. It is very hard for the American people to disconnect Syria from Iraq.”

And it is even harder for an economically battered public to accept the need for military intervention given the staggering financial toll of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bass said the president convinced the CBC that Assad’s regime did not have the capacity to retaliate against America.

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diplomatic initiatives before using force.

“It’s too early to tell whether this offer will succeed, and any agreement must verify that the Assad regime keeps its commitments. But this initiative has the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons without the use of force, particularly because Russia is one of Assad’s strongest allies.

I have, therefore, asked the leaders of Congress to postpone a vote to authorize the use of force while we pursue this diplomatic path.”

Russia, a close ally of Syria, announced that it had gotten Syria’s agreement to turn over its chemical weapons to Russia, the United Nations and other countries. However, Russia is opposing a UN resolution that would authorize military action if Syria does not follow the outlined plan. President Obama announced that Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with his Russian counterpart in Switzerland on Thursday and that he would continue to hold talks with Putin in an effort to break the stalemate with Syria.

Opinion polls show that most Americans opposed taking military action against Syria although they are convinced Assad gassed his own people.

The latest intervention by Russia gives Obama time to seek more support in Congress. There was little doubt that the president’s plan, at least in its present form, was headed for defeat on Capitol Hill. Postponing the vote spares President Obama public humiliation.

In an uphill battle to shift public opinion, President Obama listed and answered many of the “hard questions” Americans have against being involved in yet another war: Won’t this put us on a slippery slope to another war? It is worth acting if we don’t take out Assad? What about the dangers of retaliation? Why should we get involved at all in this place that’s so complicated, and where

those who come after Assad may be to U.S. officials, Assad forces used enemies of human rights? Why not leave chemical weapons that killed more this to other countries, or seek solutions than 1,400 people outside Damascus, short of force? Why should we be the many of them children. Obama said world’s policeman? that put the death toll in Syria to at Obama offered a point-by-point least 100,000 at the hands of Assad’s rebuttal to each objection, all of which administration. led back to the president’s primary The president said he understands theme: the reluctance to engage in another war.

“If we fail to act, the Assad regime “Now, I know that after the terrible will see no reason to stop using toll of Iraq and Afghanistan, the idea chemical weapons. As the ban against of any military action, no matter how these weapons erodes, other tyrants will limited, is not going to be popular. have no reason to think twice about After all, I’ve spent four and a half acquiring poison gas, and using them. years working to end wars, not to Over time, our troops would again face start them,” he said. “Our troops are the prospect of chemical warfare on the out of Iraq. Our troops are coming battlefield. And it could be easier for home from Afghanistan. And I know AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool Americans want all of us in Washington terrorist organizations to obtain these President Obama addresses the nation weapons, and to use them to attack – especially me – to concentrate on the in a live televised speech from the East civilians. task of building our nation here at home: Room of the White House in Washington putting people back to work, educating “If fighting spills beyond Syria’s Sept. 10. borders, these weapons could threaten our kids, growing our middle class.” allies like Turkey, Jordan, and Israel.

Still, the president said, the U.S. has And a failure to stand against the use of chemical weapons a vested interest in what happens in Syria. would weaken prohibitions against other weapons of mass “After careful deliberation, I determined that it is in the destruction, and embolden Assad’s ally, Iran — which must national security interests of the United States to respond to the decide whether to ignore international law by building a nuclear Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons through a targeted weapon, or to take a more peaceful path. This is not a world we military strike. The purpose of this strike would be to deter should accept. This is what’s at stake.”

Assad from using chemical weapons, to degrade his regime’s Obama provided graphic descriptions of the toll the turmoil ability to use them, and to make clear to the world that we will in Syria has taken on its citizens. On Aug. 21, according not tolerate their use.”

Tax Liens

Continued from A1 have lived in their homes for multiple generations) and burden communities already struggling to make ends meet,” the letter read.

But that warning was largely ignored, a spokeswoman said, and while legislation was introduced, it went nowhere.

On Sept. 9, in response to the Post’s reports, Mayor Vincent C. Gray and Councilmember Anita Bonds (D-At Large) proposed a moratorium on all property tax liens in the District. Bonds also requested that Gray and the D.C. Council establish guidelines on the tax lien system that will subsequently become law.

Amy Mix, supervising attorney at the Legal Counsel for the Elderly, an AARP-affiliated free legal service and a member of the AT HOME coalition, commended the legislators for moving, even at this late date.

“I’m happy to see that they mayor and council are showing outrage over this issue, but we wish we could have had some of that outrage since last year,” Mix said.

Some of the common problems in the system involved homeowners receiving faulty bills, residents not getting a response or getting wrong information from the Office of Tax and Revenue and inadequate or delayed post-sale notices.

More egregiously, Mix said, many of their clients were elderly and disabled homeowners who were losing their homes over negligible liens, some lower than $100, that became distended by exorbitant attorneys’ fees.

“The tax sale system is very predatory and one-sided, benefitting those out-of-town purchasers that come in, take up properties and flip them. The District only gets its [owed] taxes paid,” Mix said.

“I’m happy to see that they mayor and council are showing outrage over this issue, but we wish we could have had some of that outrage since last year.”

–Amy Mix A spokesman for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer has disputed the characterization of its tax sale system, saying the examples cited by the Post occurred before 2008.

“Rules have been put in place to prevent these tragic events from happening and they have not happened again,” David Umansky told the AFRO. “The Post was not forthcoming in its stories because they did not say these problems happened then (before 2008) and they ignored the fact that these safeguards are in place now.”

Not only has the Office of Tax and Revenue increased the number of notices that are sent to those delinquent on their

property taxes, but it also placed a $1,000 floor on the liens that could be auctioned, officials said.

This year, for example, out of the 4,000 properties listed as being negligent on their taxes, only 1,000 made it to the tax sale since 75 percent of those contacted paid their debt after receiving the notices.

“The impact on homeowners is going down because of the rules in place,” he said.

Mix, the seniors advocate, said Umansky is giving his agency too much credit and mischaracterizing their motives. “[OTR’s] $1,000 threshold exists, now because they didn’t want to see liens below $1,000, that threshold was created and changes each year based on OTR’s administrative capacity,” Mix said. “If they were caught up on their work, there wouldn’t be a threshold at all.”

Mix attributed any progress in the system to the “unintentional” effects of the threshold; the fairness of Judge Joseph E. Beshouri, who often refers defenseless seniors and the disabled to the Legal Counsel for the Elderly; and to the D.C. Bar Association, which has a resource center at the court to offer homeowners sound advice and help.

For information on how to redeem your peroperty and save it from foreclosure, visit: http://www.aarp.org/states/dc/LCE/ tax-sale-foreclosure-info.html

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Continued from A1 for another year, but the organization is in a strong place and they have time now to select a new leader,” Jealous added.

“We thank President Jealous for his time leading the Association,” Board Chairman Roslyn Brock said in a press release. “Under his leadership, the NAACP has built a highly competent staff that will carry our mission forward and meet the civil rights challenges of the 21st century. He really energized the NAACP, particularly our base.” She said the board would begin immediately seeking his replacement.

New York’s NAACP President Hazel Dukes expressed similar praise for Jealous’s tenure at the Association and said “sometimes

“He took his job very seriously and it shows in so many productive ways.”

– Hazel Dukes family takes [precedence], but Ben has done a hell of a job rallying the troops and raising money. He took his job very seriously and it shows in so many productive ways.”

Whoever is chosen to fill his shoes will discover Jealous’s handiwork, narratives he honed in concert with chairwoman Brock, Julian Bond, and a formidable staff, that facilitated his traveling, speaking, organizing, and rallying those ground troops at an exhausting pace of more than 150 days a year.

“During the 2012 election we registered more voters than any other non-political party; online we have 1.3 million email activists; 423,000 mobile activists and 280,000 social media supporters.

“We have been successful in our campaigns to end the death penalty; obtaining early voting rights in every state; we’re winning in our push for sensible restrictions on gun ownership; and we’re winning on the reductions of the prison population and

outlawing racial profiling,” Jealous continued.

And from a fiscal standpoint, he noted, the Association “has increased its donor base tenfold.”

Primary revenue has increased from $23 million to $36 million, Jealous said. The Association’s accountability and transparency are also exceedingly high.

The Rev. Al Sharpton said he has known Jealous since he was a student leader at Columbia University. “His first arrest was in the [Amadou] Diallo civil disobedience movement…and we worked with him recently in the fight for justice for Trayvon Martin…he has operated with integrity and a real sense of hands-on activism.”

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Julian Bond Sees Uneven Gains, Tough Civil Rights Battles Ahead College Park.

Blacks are facing hurdles “equal to, if not greater than, the task already done,” Bond said in remarks delivered in observance of the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington.

Looking back on that period of often-bloody resistance, Bond said, “1963

By Teria Rogers AFRO Staff Writer Julian Bond, former NAACP board chairman, veteran state legislator and seasoned civil rights strategist, Sept. 5 chronicled the path of the modern-day Civil Rights Movement from defiance of die-hard segregationists a half-century ago to current battles to sustain political and economic gains.

To the 73-year-old founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, speaking from personal experience, said the victories won in the 1960s have resulted in uneven gains.

“The task ahead is enormous,” the man regarded as a Civil Rights Movement elder statesman told the crowd of 300 in a keynote speech for a University of Maryland Civil War to Civil Rights symposium at the Clarice Smith Center in

Planning for the 1963 march, tempered by concern about the threat of violence, also reflected the segregationist grip on the city of Washington, D.C., he said.

Because Washington, D.C. was under federal control, local residents had no control in the city’s preparation for the March of Washington.

“Blacks are facing hurdles ‘equal to, if not greater than, the task already done.”’

–Julian Bond was a year filled with white violence,” Bond said, “the assassination of NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers in Mississippi, the suppression of the children’s march in Birmingham, the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham and the assassination of President Kennedy.”

“In 1963 the people of Washington had even less control of their government than they do today,” Bond said. “The all-white Board of Commissioners (which governed Washington, D.C.) were terrified of the prospects of an unruly and probably boisterous and rowdy mob of angry Black people

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The government decided to prepare for an onslaught of arrests and physical violence by freeing up hundreds of hospital beds, scheduling thousands of officers to work overtime, scheduling local judges on standby, evacuating hundreds of inmates to clear jail space, shutting down government offices and closing liquor stores “for the first time since prohibition.”

Despite the fears, he noted, 250,000 gathered peacefully on the National Mall on August 28, 1963 and no violent incidents were reported.

For the then-23-year-old, the event was not without light moments. Bond recalled serving a soft drink to Black entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. and getting an unusual response. Davis “held out his hand like a pistol,” made the sound of a gun and told Bond, “thanks kid.”

As for the present, Bond challenged those who feel our nation has reached a “racial nirvana.” Obama’s victory could not end “structural inequities or racist attitudes,” said Bond, “but it has fomented them.”

“Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves,” said the civil rights icon, and the crowd

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With the increasing diversity of our country and tough economic climate, Bond said the United States needs to provide “the best schools, the best healthcare, the best jobs and the strongest protection against discrimination we possibly can.”

The audience was a mix of activists, artists, academicians and students of all races.

Many said they were moved

by Bond’s comments. “[He] inspired me to take a step back and realize what my ancestors did and encouraged me to go out and do what I can, “said Lenace Edwards, a junior at the University of Maryland. “It lit a fire in me to say the work’s not done.”

Others said they believe the current generation of young people takes past gains for granted.

“I went to the march [on Washington anniversary] on Saturday and it was lacking a common theme. I watched people who were texting and talking on their phones, it was lacking unity,” said HaitianAmerican Ketly Bateau, 59, who immigrated to the U.S. during the civil rights movement. “No fault to the young people but they don’t know struggle, they think struggling is not being able to text.”

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OPINION

Traps for the desperate and unwary

Richard Cordray, Director of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, tells the sad story of a man who, needing emergency car repairs, borrowed $500 from a so-called “payday lender.” After nine months of relentless payments, he had paid out $900, and he still owed another $312.

That is an outrageous rate of return on a simple loan. In most states it would constitute an illegal rate of interest.

To make the borrower’s Rep. Elijah situation even worse, Cummings the payday lender was “authorized” to take the payments directly out of the borrower’s checking account.

In these circumstances, banks may be slow or resistant to cancelling that “authorization,” even when the borrower demands that it do so.

Out of desperation, the man in Cordray’s example was trapped by the pitfalls of payday loans. His plight illustrates why Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation Mark Kaufman and other state regulators have been doing everything within their power to clamp down on payday lenders, the excessive interest and fees that they charge, and the banks that facilitate their snares for the unwary.

Financial regulators at the state level have been making some progress in protecting the public.

In Maryland, for example, Kaufman has brought legal actions against on-line payday lenders that are offering payday loans without a Maryland lender’s license and charging interest well in excess of our state’s usury cap.

He also is challenging the banks that, wittingly or unwittingly, are helping to make these predatory practices possible.

Kaufman acknowledges, however, that some online lenders are continuing their illegal operations in our state. Here in Maryland and nationally, some of the worst of these financial predators are attempting to avoid regulation by setting up shop on Indian Reservations and overseas while reaching the desperate and unwary through their television sets and even

their computers.

Kaufman would be among the first to acknowledge that to fully protect the public state regulators need expanded cooperation and assistance from our federal government.

That is why I have been working with Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.), Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and 30 other Senate and House colleagues ( including Maryland Reps. John Sarbanes and Donna Edwards) to cosponsor and advocate for the SAFE Lending Act of 2013 [H.R. 990, S. 172].

We are determined to assist state-level financial regulators in ensuring that payday lenders cannot use the Internet to violate state-level consumer lending laws. We believe that the SAFE Lending Act would be an important step in the right direction in our continuing effort to combat predatory lending practices.

It would further empower consumers’ control of their own bank accounts, respect the states’ role in regulating lending, help prevent shadow lending, and give both state and federal authorities the tools necessary to combat rogue, Internet-based lenders.

Specifically, the bill would give borrowers greater control of their personal bank accounts by protecting them from payday lenders that now are raiding their accounts through remotely created checks or debit withdrawals.

It would require those lenders to comply with the states’ rules and regulations governing payday loans, assuring that members of the public are not charged interest and fees that exceed usury limits.

In addition, our reform legislation would ban “shadow brokers” from offering these payday transactions, bringing greater transparency to this multi-billion dollar industry.

Finally, we would assure that states can gain the assistance of federal authorities in combating offshore and other illegal online lending activity.

Our goal in proposing this legislation is to better protect the desperate and unwary by bringing the cost of payday loans down to reasonable levels. It is important to note, however, that our legislation would not prohibit these loans altogether.

Maryland, for example, permits annual interest rates up to 33 percent on these short-term loans. Surely, that limit is sufficient for bona fide lenders to receive a fair return.

There is no question that many Americans are struggling

Mentors Matter These are the words of an 18-year-old who recently graduated from high school in a high-poverty neighborhood in the nation’s capital: “Where I live, which is Ward 7, everyone is the same . . . If you follow the crowd, you’re going to end up dead or in jail because that’s where most of them are. But if you’re a leader and you make your own decisions, then you can set your path for life.”

Marian Wright Mike Ruff had to make Edelman up his mind a while back that he was going to step up and become one of the leaders. That’s what he told participants at the recent symposium, “Black Male Teens: Moving to Success in the High School Years,” sponsored by the Educational Testing Service and the Children’s Defense Fund. Mike explained how he came to embrace standing out from the crowd by defying low expectations—and how he reached a key turning point when a mentor told him he couldn’t succeed.

College and career planning wasn’t a reality for the people

he knew: “Ninety-five percent of the students are poor. We come from basically nothing, because our parents were in the same situations that we are.” His father had dropped out of school in 10th grade, and when Mike started high school, he seemed to be heading down a similar track: “Ninety percent of the school did the same thing I did—skipped class, left school, and no one seemed to try to find out what the problem was.” His grade point average freshman year was a 2.5, and at the time his main ambition was to keep up a D-average so he could graduate.

But then he met with Mr. Mungin, one of the adults he’d met through an enrichment program he’d enrolled in during middle school. He asked Mike how his plans for life after high school were coming. Mike told Mr. Mungin he’d started thinking about a career in hospitality management, and Mr. Mungin asked to see his grades: “So he looked at my transcript, just for that ninth grade year . . . saw my grades, D, D, B, D, D, A, and looked back up at me with the straightest face and said, ‘You can’t do it.’ So that kind of hurt me, for a grown man telling me that I can’t do something. So then I just got up, walked out, and [caught] the bus home.”

With some uncaring and uninterested adults, that’s exactly where the story would end. Mike would have left discouraged from having a dream at all. But that wasn’t Mike’s story: “By the time I arrived home, there is Mr. Mungin already there. I

and at times need immediate access to credit to meet emergencies or to pay day-to-day expenses. However, if such loans cause them to fall into a deepening cycle of debt from which they cannot escape, the loans are not providing real assistance to those in need.

This is why we have concluded that the “access to credit” argument advanced by lobbyists for payday loans is a red herring. As elected representatives, we have a duty to do all that we can to protect the public from this financial peril.

Whether the Republican-lead House of Representatives will agree that our proposed assistance to state regulators is needed remains to be seen. They should understand, however, that these payday lending practices are placing all financial institutions, both the legitimate and those that are illegal, in an unsavory public light.

As a nation, we must do much better in assuring that every American can obtain the short-term financial assistance that they need – without being enticed into traps for the desperate and unwary.

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

was wondering, why is this man at my house after he told me that I can’t do something?” Mike had been lucky enough to find a true mentor on a mission. After Mr. and other mentors stepped in along the way to support him, by 11th grade Mike had brought his GPA up to a 3.0, and by the 12th grade, a 3.75.

Now Mike is attending Tuskegee University, a historically Black university founded by Booker T. Washington. Mike plans to double major in hospitality management and psychology. Mike knows that in his high school graduating class, he is one of the lucky ones: “We started off in this 12th grade with at least 300 students . . . but only 130 12th graders graduated.”

Mr. Mungin helped Mike realize he needed to change. But what happens to the students who never know a Mr. Mungin?

What will happen to the other students in Mike’s high school class who didn’t graduate at all or were content to get out with mostly Ds? Far too many young Black boys are only hearing the first part of the message—“You can’t do it.” We need supports in place to show them that they can choose a different path—and even if no one else they know has done it, they can decide to be the ones to step up and lead the way.

Marian Wright Edelman is president of the Children’s Defense Fund.

Never Say We Haven’t Made Progress Selma, Ala., the county seat of Dallas County, was a bastion of White supremacy in 1965. At the time, of the 15,000 potential Black voters, only 300 were registered. In response to chants of “We Shall Overcome,” by civil rights protesters, Sheriff Jim Clark wore a button on his uniform declaring, “Never.”

That did not stop Rev. C.T. Vivian, a close aide of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., George E. Curry and workers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from leading daily marches to the courthouse in an effort to register Blacks. On Feb. 5, 1965, Clark blocked the entrance to the courthouse with his deputies.

“If we’re wrong, why don’t you arrest us?” Vivian said.

Instead of arresting Vivian, Clark hit him so hard in the face that he fractured a finger. After being knocked down the steps, a bloodied C.T. Vivian rose to his feet and said, “We’re willing to be beaten for democracy, and you misuse democracy in this street. You beat people bloody in order that they will not have the privilege to vote.”

Vivian and other activists persisted. Though John Lewis and others were pummeled by Clark’s deputies and Alabama State troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on what became known as “Bloody Sunday,” Blacks did overcome after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

When Sheriff Clark sought re-election in predominantly Black Dallas County in 1966, newly-empowered Black voters said “Never” and kicked him out of office.

Surely, President Obama had Vivian and others like him in mind when he said at the Aug. 28 commemoration of the

1963 March on Washington: “To dismiss the magnitude of this progress – to suggest, as some sometimes do, that little has changed – that dishonors the courage and the sacrifice of those who paid the price to march in those years….”

Obama recently announced that he is awarding Vivian, one of the most courageous figures of the Civil Rights Movement, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Vivian joins other movement veterans, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (posthumously), James L. Farmer, Dorothy Height, John Lewis, Benjamin L. Hooks, Jesse L. Jackson Sr., Joseph Lowery, Clarence Mitchell, Rosa Parks, Bayard Rustin (posthumously), Roy Wilkins, Andrew Young and Marian Wright Edelman in receiving the distinguished honor.

Because so much work still needs to be done, sometimes we neglect to stand back and appreciate just how much America has changed in the past 50 years.

The Census Bureau provided the following comparisons: INCOME 1963: $22,266 (in 2011 dollars) The median family income for blacks was 55 percent of the median income for all American families. $25,826 and $14,651 (in 2011 dollars) Median income of black men and black women who worked full time, year-round 2011: $40,495 The median family income for the Black-alone population was 66 percent of the median income for all American families $40,273 and $35,146 Median income of single-race black men and black women who worked full time, year-round.

POVERTY 1966

41.8percent Poverty rate for Blacks (1966 is the closest year these statistics are available to the historic speech). Nationally, the poverty rate for all races was 14.7 percent.

2011 27.6 percent Poverty rate for single-race Blacks. Nationally, the poverty rate for all races was 15 percent.

HOUSING 1970 41.6 percent Homeownership rate for Blacks (the earliest this information is available for race).

2011 43.4 percent Homeownership rate for Blacks.

HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION 1964 25.7 percent Percentage of Blacks age 25 and over who completed at least four years of high school.

2.4 million Number of Blacks 25 and over with at least four years of high school.

Yes, we have made progress as a direct result of the modern Civil Rights Movement. And instead of denying that fact – preferring to see the glass as half empty instead of half full – we should celebrate that progress let it be proof that with our efforts, we can continue to make progress over another 50 years. (See more at Afro.com)

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

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he Black Public Relations Society (BPRS), D.C. chapter hosted a Summer Social Media Happy Hour at the LOOK Restaurant and Lounge in Northwest, Washington, D.C. Chapter President Alana Hill and Faye

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Hyslop, vice president for programming, treated members and guests to an evening of cool, refreshing drinks, light fare, great music and an opportunity to network with other public relations professionals. BPRS is an advocacy organization to ensure persons of color are provided with access to corporate agencies to engage in their profession of Public Relations.

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These members and guests enjoy the networking opportunities

The 2013/2014 BPRS’ Leadership Team

Victoria Holmes, center, listens intently to the discussion

Alana Hill and Marcus Williams

Lisa Bass Cooper, Digital Media Consultant and Briana Washington

Enjoying the social networking happy hour

Alana Hill, chapter president welcomes members and guests to the summer reception

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Refreshments for all…

Harrine Freeman and Maria Fenton

Dwayne Renal Sims, founder NLLHOF, umpire Wayne K . Travers, East Team Vintage catcher Lawrence, James “Jake” Sanders, umpire Edward Black, umpire Jarvis Massenberg

Presentation of the Prince George’s County proclamation and a Maryland Legislative Black Caucus offical citation

by County Executive Rushern Baker III to Dwayne Renal Sims, Founder, NLLHOF

Aisha Braveboy, (D-25), chair of the Maryland Legislative Black Caucus presents official citation commemorating NLLHOF 10th Anniversary to founder Dwayne Renal Sims

Negro League Legends Hall of Fame (NLLHOF), founded by Dwayne Renal Sims in 2003, celebrated its 10th anniversary with two events: the unveiling of the new NLLHOF exhibit at the African American Civil War Museum and Memorial on Aug 23.

The event was hosted by the founder, Frank Smith and the Negro League Baseball All-Star East/West Vintage Game that celebrated the 80th anniversary of the Negro League Baseball All-Star Game at the Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium, College Park, Md. on Aug 24.

The ceremonial “First Pitch” was thrown out by James “Jake” Sanders of the old Negro League Kansas City Monarchs and County Executive Rushern L. Baker, Prince Photos by WRJ Photographics

Patricia Green, left, speaks with two fellow public relations practitioners

George’s County. A luxury motor coach co-sponsored

by Pro-Tran Professional Transportation was on display during the celebration that featured images by renowned artist Kadir Nelson. Proclamations and official citations were presented by the Maryland Legislative Black Caucus; the Maryland General Assembly; the State of Alabama House of Representatives and the Prince George’s County Executive.

NLLHOF was created to highlight the untold stories from the players who played for the “Love of the Game.”

D.C. Department of Correction Honor Guard presents the colors before the unveiling of the new NLLHOF 10th Anniversary luxury motor coach

Kevin Keene, Negro League Legends Hall of Fame Youth Ambassador (NLLHOF), Terrell Smith-Cole, James “Jake” Sanders Negro League player Kansas City Monarchs, Sean Mungin, Negro League Legends Hall of Fame Youth Ambassador (NLLHOF) and Jacob Stewart

Back row: Dwayne Renal Sims, founder NLLHOF, John Mungin, Wisdom Martin (FOX5 News Morning Anchor), 2 -Time World Champion Sharmba Mitchell, Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker, III; front row: Terrell Smith-Cole -NLLHOF Ambassador; Sean Mungin - NLLHOF Ambassador; Gabrielle Cuevas-NLLHOF Ambassador and Autumn Proctor-NLLHOF Ambassador

Sean Mungin, Negro League Legends Hall of Fame Youth Ambassador (NLLHOF); Frank Smith, founder African American Civil War Museum (AACWM and Dwayne Renal Sims, founder NLLHOF

Frank Smith, (AACWM) addresses the audience about how during the Civil War the soldiers would play baseball

Dr. Rosalynn Whitaker-Heck and Patricia Green

Negro League player James “Jake” Sanders played for the Kansas City Monarchs 1958 - 59 with founder Dwayne Sims

Michael Sims and Stephanie Courtney dance to the song “Did You See Jackie Hit that Ball” written and composed by Buddy Johnson in 1947, who descendants attended the ceremony

Unveiling of left side of the motor coach featuring piece by renowned artist Kadir Nelson

Unveiling of right side of the motor coach featuring piece by renowned artist Kadir Nelson

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SPORTS

AFRO Sports Desk Faceoff

Is Fantasy Football Hurting the NFL?

By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Desk

success of their team is gone. If you’re a fantasy football fanatic, you don’t have just one favorite team, you have at least nine on any given Sunday.

The game of fantasy football has exploded in popularity over the last few years, growing into a full industry with specialized magazines, TV segments and ESPN specials.

The concept is simple: create a fictional team of real-life NFL players who score points for your team based on what they do on the field. As the game has changed from small hobby into a national beast, most media outlets can’t talk about NFL matchups without highlighting the week’s top fantasy scorers. Whether it’s a high-profile quarterback, a dominant running back or a big-play wide receiver, football fans follow the NFL scoreboard for its impact on their fantasy team. But with once-diehard fans now rooting for players on an opposing team, or even their hometown’s biggest rival, is fantasy football really a good thing for the NFL? Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the question.

Green: If anything, fantasy football has helped the popularity and recognition of the sport. East Coast residents who used to only follow their team now tune into West Coast games they might never have watched otherwise. I’m a Baltimore Ravens fan to the core, and it can be awkward when there are fantasy players on a team the Ravens are facing.

But the bottom line is still what matters most to me: a Ravens win. Still, fantasy football has gotten so big that finding success means scouting and studying other teams around the NFL. That hasn’t hurt the league, only increased its following.

Riley: Anytime fans cheer for their favorite team but still hope their opponent’s top player has a good game to help their fantasy team, then you know something is wrong.

A diehard Washington Redskins fan might want Dallas quarterback Tony Romo to throw three touchdowns and the Cowboys to score 40 or more points. Granted, football is just a game, and no one should be crucified for having a favorite team while cheering for certain milestones from another team’s player. But the days of fans who only care about the

Riley: From a scouting standpoint, yes, fantasy football has helped us learn about players on other teams, especially those in small markets. But there’s something to be said when you’re in a crowded bar watching Baltimore play Pittsburgh, and you see a Steelers fan clapping quietly to himself because Ravens running back Ray Rice just scored a touchdown and he’s on that diehard Steelers fan’s fantasy roster. That kills me on the inside, and I see it way too much during football season. One of the aspects that attracted me to football so much when I was growing up was that it was “us against them” for almost every fan. Now some are turning on their own team just to celebrate a few extra points on their fantasy roster.

Washington Redskins Football

RGIII Struggles, Vick Impresses in Chip Kelly Debut

By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor Michael Vick scored three touchdowns as the Philadelphia Eagles claimed an impressive road victory over the Washington Redskins on Sept. 9 in FedEx Field in Landover Md. It was the first action for Redskins quarterbacks Robert Griffin III, who sat out all preseason while recovering from knee surgery. Unfortunately for Griffin, the extended time away from the field led to a dismal performance during the first half against the Eagles as he tossed two interceptions and just more than 60 yards in the first 2 quarters of the game.

The Redskins offense didn’t score any points in the first half. Philly led 25-7 at halftime with Washington’s only first half score coming from a fumble recovery and return for a defensive touchdown by cornerback DeAngelo Hall.

Redskins running back Alfred Morris, who set a new Redskins single season record last year

with 1,613 rushing yards, also struggled with two fumbles in the first half. Both of his fumbles led to scores for the Eagles, including a fumble in the Skins’ own end zone that resulted in a safety.

Vick was outstanding in the debut of Eagles rookie head coach Chip Kelly; the former University of Oregon coach showed off his up-tempo offense as Philly easily and quickly moved the ball against the Redskins’ defense.

Vick finished the game 15-for-25 for 203 yards, two passing touchdowns and also ran for 54 yards and a touchdown.

Eagles running back LeSean McCoy also had a big night, running for 184 yards and a touchdown.

Griffin took advantage of the Eagles’ prevent defense in the second half and found a rhythm late in the game; he finished 30-for-49 for 329 yards, two touchdowns and two picks.

Washington will next face the Green Bay Packers on Sept. 15 in Green Bay, Wis.

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ARTS & CULTURE

Winner of Station’s “Next Big Voice” Contest

WHUR Welcomes New Deejay Frank Ski

By Andrea “Aunni” Young Special to the AFRO

WHUR 96.3 FM—Howard University debuted a new afternoon drive-time program on Sept. 9 featuring air personality Frank Ski. The “Frank Ski Show” will be heard from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays on the Washington, D.C.-based station. Frank Ski, whose real name is Frank Rodgriguez, joined WHUR after listeners chose him in “WHUR’s Next Big Voice” contest, where several deejays vied for the position. Frank Ski worked in radio in the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1990s before moving on to Baltimore and later to Atlanta, where he hosted a top-rated radio show for more than a decade.

AFRO: Welcome back to D.C. Are you excited?

FRANK SKI: This, for me, is kind of a dream come true.

I started in radio in Washington while in college, at the age of 18. I remember listening to WHUR and saying, ‘One day, I’m gonna have a voice and a show good enough to be on WHUR.’ And I’m here.

AFRO: You still have fans in D.C. and Baltimore.

FRANK SKI: It’s interesting, we do. That is part of why I’m here. I believe if I can interpret what I do well enough on this radio station, this company has the ability to expand it…

I’d like to be the first American jock to be syndicated around the world.

AFRO: Why were you interested in this particular show?

Frank Ski: One, it presents a great opportunity because I left [a] morning show. The mornings are filled right now.

You’ve got Tom Joyner, Steve Harvey, Rickey Smiley, Yolanda Adams. This gives me an opportunity, being an afternoon drive [radio show], to build my show and to build my audience.

And, if we’re back in the mornings one day, we’re back. If we’re not, we’re in the afternoons. And the interesting thing

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about it is, [radio research company] Arbitron has now said that the largest listening audience is now in the afternoons, not in the mornings anymore. That’s why we are in the afternoons.

AFRO: Who’s your competition?

FRANK SKI: I have one goal and that is to win Washington… I never look at other people in radio or radio stations as competition. I think we all have a lane. And, I think everybody goes in their lane. What we have to offer is going to make our lane the most listened to.

AFRO: What is that unique piece?

FRANK SKI: I think that one of things that major syndicated shows bring is celebrities. But, through my relationships all these years, I have the same celebrity friends.

We can get anybody from Stevie Wonder to Jay-Z to Denzel to pick up the phone…And that’s what we bring to this game. So it’s not just the syndicated shows that you are going to hear the major celebrities on, you are going to hear them daily on my show whenever it’s relevant.

AFRO: What will you bring?

FRANK SKI: News and information, which is the most important thing to African Americans, we have that covered better than any of the other shows that are on. We have personal relationships with so many people. I don’t even want to give all the secrets. But anything that happens, especially here in Washington, we are very well connected. We have great relationships with all the TV stations, as well.

AFRO: What motivates you?

FRANK SKI: I’m a very inspirational person. I think that one of things that will help solve the woes of the Black community is to get back into our spiritual side. I think a lot of people have left.

AFRO: Thanks, Frank Ski! FRANK SKI: Thank You!

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Jennifer Hudson Portrays Infamous Political Icon Winnie Mandela

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Film Review by Kam Williams

Vince Mendoza, conductor

Winnie Mandela (Jennifer Hudson) is a controversial figure in the annals of South African history. For not only was she the first wife of freedom fighter-turned-President Nelson Mandela (Terrence Howard), but she was also convicted of ordering numerous human rights violations.

At the height of the anti-apartheid movement, she headed a goon squad which doled out street justice to blacks suspected of collaborating with the white establishment. With Winnie’s blessing, snitches would be sentenced to death by necklace, meaning by having a gasoline-soaked tire placed on their shoulders and set on fire.

And after the fall of Apartheid, she confessed before the country Truth and Reconciliation commission to “the murder, torture, abduction and assault of numerous men, women and children.” So, it’s understandably hard to put a sympathetic spin on such an infamous political figure.

That is the challenge tackled by director Darrell Roodt in Winnie Mandela, a warts-and-all biopic which focuses on its subject’s childhood, college days and marriage while making short shrift of her transition into a war criminal. Along the way, we learn that she was a headstrong tomboy who blossomed into the irresistible beauty that Nelson fell in love with at first sight.

Sadly, the two were separated for 27 years while he was imprisoned on Robben Island for treason because of his call for an end to Apartheid. And perhaps that was what led Winnie to rationalize resorting to fighting the government and stool pigeons by any means necessary.

As for the acting, Jennifer Hudson and Terrence Howard do their best to adopt appropriate accents, but they both sound fake since they’re surrounded by a cast comprised of actual South Africans. The production’s most glaring flaw, nevertheless, is that the poorly-scripted screenplay simply fails to give the audience much of a reason to invest in unlikable Winnie’s life story.

Winnie Mandela, less an honorable “Mother of the Nation,” than a disgraceful, “bad mother-[shut your mouth]!”

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PEOPLE

Carlton G. Epps Sr. Named Director, Anne Arundel Central Services

facilities management, telecommunications and relations with Howard County government.

Before joining HCEDA, he held senior-level positions with Civic Works, Associated Black Charities, Baltimore City Schools, Matrics and the Maryland State Retirement Carlton G. Epps Sr. Agency. He also served in the U.S. Army, where he was a Field Artillery Officer during Vietnam in the Army National Guard/ and a Special Forces Officer. He also served Reserves. Epps earned both his bachelor’s and master’s in business administration from Loyola College of Baltimore.

“I am very pleased to bring Carlton on board,” said County Executive Neuman.

“I know, firsthand, the value he brings to an organization.

September 15, 1913 – March 25, 2000 I am pleased that Anne In each passing moment, you cross our hearts and minds Arundel County will have the but this year we want to celebrate what would have been your benefit of his organizational centennial birthday. Born 50 years after the Emancipation experience, and his calm and Proclamation and 50 years before the March on Washington, steady leadership.” you instilled in us the importance of education and possessing As director of Central pride in yourself and your community. As an educator and later Services, Epps will oversee a highly decorated federal and county government employee, five divisions which include you exuded an unmatched fortitude and determination to Facilities Maintenance, excel in all that you do. We were blessed to have been in your Purchasing, Real Estate, Fleet presence for the time we were given and we celebrate the Administration and Risk centennial of your birth on this day. We want to wish you a Management; he will also Happy Birthday from your beloved daughter, Jo-Ann and your oversee the Minority Business loving grandchildren, Ja-Zette and Antonio.

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Carlton G. Epps, Sr., a decorated veteran, whose commendations include two Air Medals, the Purple Heart, a Bronze Star and a Bronze Star for Valor, has been named director of Central Services for Anne Arundel County.

Announcement of his appointment was made

by County Executive Laura Neuman.

Epps currently serves as CEO for the Howard County Economic Development Authority (HCEDA), a position he has held since 2011. In this capacity, he oversees the day-to-day operations of HCEDA, which includes human resources, budgeting and accounting, procurement, contracting,

In Memoriam

Celebrating the Centennial Birthday of Gertrude C. Marshburn

Air Force Airman 1st Class Brittany N. Eley graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.

The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.

Eley earned distinction as an honor graduate.

She is the daughter of Brian Eley of Alexis Lane, King George, Va., and Charlene Queen, Pocopson Creek Way, Brandywine, Md. The airman is a 2007 graduate of Westlake High School, Waldorf, Md. She received a bachelor’s degree in 2011 from George Mason University, Fairfax, Va. Air Force Airman John M. Prichett graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.

The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.

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20001, on or before March 6, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 6, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: September 6, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Robert Baddy Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM835 Brenda C. Bost AKA Brenda Bost AKA Brenda Cecillia Bost Decedent Jamison B. Taylor 1218 11th St. NW Washington, DC 20001 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Bruce Booth, whose address is 832 Eastern Ave. NE,Washington DC 20019 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Brenda C. Bost, AKA Brenda Bost, AKA Brenda Cecillia Bost, who died on December 7, 2009 with and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before February 28th, 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 February 28th, 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.

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TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER TYPESET: OF TueWILLS Aug 27 13:27:16 EDT 2013 8/30, 9/6m 9/13/13 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM818 Margaret A. Haywood Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Robyn Haywood AKA Robyn Cunningham, whose address is 5356 Gay St. NE, Washington, DC 20019,was appointed personal representative of the estate of Margaret A. Haywood, who died on July 3rd, 2013 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM834 Kulah L. Hayes Decedent Jamison B. Taylor 1218 11th St. NW Washington, DC 20001 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Leroy L. Hayes, whose address is 2201 Monroe St. NE, Washington, DC, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Kulah Hayes, who died on April 25th, 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 February 28, 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 February 28, 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: August 30th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Leroy L. Hayes Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 8/30, 9/6, 9/13/13

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington,D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM868 Dorothy Lou Suggs Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Christopher Thomas Suggs, Jr., whose address is 5666 Rock Quarry Terrace, District Heights, MD 20747 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Dorothy Lou Suggs, who died on November 11th, 2012 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 6, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 6, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: September 6, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Christopher Thomas Suggs, Sr. Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 51362013 IN RE: Salihah Y. Rowser Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME Salihah Y. Roswer having filed an application for judgment changing the name from Salihah Y. Rowser to Salihah Y. Muhammad and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 21st day of August 2013, hereby ORDERED, that a copy of this order be published once a week for (3) consecutive weeks, to be completed within 30 days of filing of the application in Afro American Newspaper. a newspaper of general circulation of the District of Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that publication must begin no later that 2 weeks after the filing of the application; and it is futher ORDERED, that the final hearing on this application to change name will be held in Judge-InChambers, Room 4220 in the District of Columbia at 500 Indiana Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20001, on the 9th day of October, 2013 at 3:15 p.m. If any person desires to oppose this application, that person or his or her attorney must be present at the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) business days in advance of the hearing with JudgeIn-Chambers and mail a copy to the applicant or applicants’s counsel.

SO ORDERED JUDGE 8/30, 9/6, 9/13/13

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM867 Mary A. Gibbs Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Wylicia Gibbs, whose address is 27 Bryant Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Mary A. Gibbs, who died on April 18th, 2011 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 6, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 6, 2014 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: September 6, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Wylicia Gibbs Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13

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Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 13FSP608 IN RE: Timi Rotimi Omokehinde Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

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

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

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

R a h a m a t a l a i Ti t i l o l a Arogundade-Omokehinde having filed a complaint for judgment changing the name from Rahamatalai Titilola Arogundade-Omokehinde to Rahamatalai Lola Akins and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 21st day of August 2013, hereby ORDERED, that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in Afro-American Newspaper, a newspaper of general circulation of the District of Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that the publication must began no later than 12 days after the filing of the application; and is further ORDERED, that the FINAL HEARING on this application to change name will be held in Judge-in-Chambers, Room 4220 in the District of Columbia at 500 Indiana Avenue NW Washington DC 20001, on the 9th day of October, 2013 at 2:30 pm.If any person desires to oppose this application, that person or his or her attorney must be present at the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) days in advance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail a copy of the applicant or applicant’s counsel; and it is further SO ORDERED the applicant must send thw application for change of name of an adult and notice of final hearing to the applicant’s creditors personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof of service by filing the affidavit/ declaration of service. the application must send the application for change of name of an adult and notice of final hearing to the US Department of Homeland Security - Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, Washington Field Office, 2675 Prosperity Avenue, Fairfax Virginia 22031 personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof of service be made by filing the affidavit/declaration of service.

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

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

SO ORDERED JUDGE

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

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

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

6915 Hasting Drive Date of Publication: Capitol Heights, MD September 13th, 2013 20743 Name of newspaper: TYPESET: Tue Sep 10 913/, 9/20/13 Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Superior Court of Ronald L. Taylor the District of Persona Columbia l Representative Civil Division Case No. 13bp609 TRUE TEST COPY IN RE: REGISTER OF WILLS Timi Rotimi 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/13 Omokehinde Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

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

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

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

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

Afro-American Law Reporter Date of Publication: Washington Edward W. Wilson September 6, 2013 Law Reporter James M. Wilson Name of newspaper: Lloyd J. DeVore Personal Afro-American Dennis D. DeVore Representative(s) 16:23:25 EDT 2013 Daily Washington Tanya M. DeVore Law Reporter Personal TRUE TEST COPY TYPESET: OF Fri WILLS Aug 30 James L. Brent,Jr. Representatives REGISTER 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13 Personal TRUE TEST COPY Representative REGISTER OF WILLS TRUE TEST COPY 9/6/, 9/13, 9/20/13 Superior Court of REGISTER OF TYPESET: Fri WILLS Aug 30 14:39:23 EDTFri2013 TYPESET: Aug 30 14:40:25 2013 theEDT District of 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM881 Robert W. Moesker Decedent Philip N. Margolius c/o The Margolius Law Firm, LLP 4201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20008 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Arthur D. Purswell, Jr., whose address is 7 Postwood Road, Austin, Texas 78738-1503, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Robert W. Moesker, who died on July 10th, 2014 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before March 6, 2014 Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, or be16:25:15 EDT on 2013 fore March 6, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: September 6, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Arthur D. Purswell, Jr. Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 9/6, 9/13. 9/20/13

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM879 Omar Segundo Matos Decedent Kerri M. Castellini, Esq. Feeney & Kuwamura, P.A. Suite 350 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS James P. Caine, whose address is 17819 Benchmark Drive Dallas, Texas 75252 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Omar Segundo Matos, who died on June 27, 2013 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before March 6, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 6, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: September 6, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter James P. Caine Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13

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

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

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

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

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

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

Timi Rotimi Omokehinde having filed a complaint for judgment changing ThanaaSalsabil Ayomikunsi Omokehinde name to Thanaa Salsabil Akins and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 21st day of August 2013, hereby ORDERED, that all persons concerned show cause, if any there be, on or before the 25th day of September 2013, why the prayers of said complaint should not be granted; provided that a copy of this 14:58:40 2013once a Order be EDT published week for three (3) consecutive weeks before said day in the Afro-American Newspaper.

SO ORDERED

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

having filed a complaint for judgment changing Bennie victoria Martu name to Aaliyah Bennie Martu and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 10th day of September 2013, hereby ORDERED, that all persons concerned show cause, if any there be, on or before the 16th day of October 2013, 14:47:01 EDT of2013 why the prayers said complaint should not be granted:provided that a copy of this Order be published Superior Court of once a week for three (3) the District of consecutive weeks before District of Columbia said day in the AfroPROBATE DIVISION W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . American Newspaper.

20001-2131 SO ORDERED Administration No. JUDGE 2013ADM433 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/13 Hilda Woodford Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Emmette Brown, whose address is 1110 Fidler Lane, Suite 900, Silver Spring, MD 20901 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Hilda Woodford, who died on April 18th, 2010 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 6, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 6, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: September 6, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Daily Washington Law Reporter Emmette Brown Personal Representative

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the affidavit/declaration of service. the applicant must send te application for change of name of an adult and notice of finl hearing to Fairfax County Circuit Court and the Chief of Police for Fairfax County.

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

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

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM864 Vera M. MItchell Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Deborah M. Blakey whose address is 2069 Weschester Dr. Silver Spring , MD 20902 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Vera M. Mitchell, who died on July 9th, 2013 with a will and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before March 6, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 6, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: September 6, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Deborah M. Blakey Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER TYPESET: OF TueWILLS Sep 10 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013adm895 Iris T. Johnson Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Kym W. Smallwood, whose address is 800 Kenilworth Ave N.E. #316 Washington, D.C. 20019, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Iris T. Johnson, who died on July 18th, 2013 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before March 13th, 2014.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 13th, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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

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Superior Court of Superior Court of the District of the District of Columbia District of Columbia Civil Division PROBATE DIVISION Case No. 13-0005646 Washington, D.C. IN RE: 20001-2131 Dominic Antonio Administration No. Dooley 2013ADM836 Applicant Deborah P. Turner ORDER OF Decedent PUBLICATION NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME APPOINTMENT, Dominic Antonio Dooley havNOTICE TO ing filed a application for CREDITORS judgment changing the name AND NOTICE TO from Dominic Antonio Dooley UNKNOWN HEIRS to Dominique Daenerys BryLawrence A. Turner, ant and having applied to the court for an Order of Publicawhose address is 4218 tion of the notice required by 18th St. N.W. Washinglaw in such cases; it is by the ton, DC 20011, was apCourt this 19th day of August pointed personal repre2013, hereby sentative of the estate of ORDERED, that a copy of Deborah P. Turner, who this Order be published once died on May 29th, 2013 a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in Afro-American without a will, and will , a newspaper of general cirserve without Court suculation of the District of pervision. All unknown Columbia; and it is further heirs and heirs whose ORDERED, that the publicawhereabouts are untion must began no later than known shall enter their 12 days after the filing of the application; and is further appearance in this ORDERED, that the FINAL proceeding. Objections HEARING on this application to such appointment to change name of an adult shall be filed with the will be held in Judge-inRegister of Wills, D.C., Chambers, Room 4220 in the 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd District of Columbia at 500 Ind i a n a Av e n u e N . W. , Floor Washington, D.C. Washington DC 20001, on 20001, on or before Febthe 7th day of October, 2013 ruary 28th, 2014. Claims at 3:15 pm.If any person deagainst the decedent sires to oppose this applicashall be presented to the tion, that person or his or her undersigned with a copy attorney must be present at to the Register of Wills or the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) days filed with the Register of in advance of the hearing Wills with a copy to the with Judge-in-Chambers and undersigned, on or bemail a copy of the applicant or fore February 28th, 2014 applicant’s counsel; and it is or be forever barred. Perfurther sons believed to be heirs ORDERED, that the applicant must send the or legatees of the deapplication for change of cedent who do not rename of an adult and notice ceive a copy of this notice of final hearing to the apby mail within 25 days of plicant’s creditors personally its first publication shall or by registered or certified so inform the Register of mail and show proof of service by filing the affidavit/ Wills, including name, declaration of service and to address and relationcredit card companies inship. volved in fruad cases.

Date of Publication: the applicant must Send the August 30th, 2013 application for change of Name of newspaper: name of an adult and notice of final hearing to the D.C. Afro-American Chief of Police, 300 Indiana Washington Avenue, N.W., ROOM 5080, Law Reporter Washington, D.C. 20001, the Lawrence A. Turner Department of Corrections Personal and the Court Services and Representative Offender Supervision TRUE TEST COPY Agency personally or by registered orEDT certified mail and REGISTER OF TYPESET: TueWILLS Sep 10 16:17:50 2013 show proof of service by filing 08/30, 9/6, 9/13/13

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Riddick

Film Review by Kam Williams

When we first met Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel) in Pitch Black, the notorious criminal had been arrested by a bounty hunter and was being transported to prison when the spaceship encountered a comet and had to make a crash-landing on an uncharted planet.

He escaped, and proceeded to elude his captors in a gruesome struggle for survival which would consume most of their lives.

The higher attrition-rate sequel served up more of the same while, at the point of departure of this episode, we find the feral title character still at large but marooned on yet another desolate planet. Now, he’s being hunted by two teams of badass mercenaries, one led by the father (Matt Nable) of the bounty hunter he’d wasted in the original.

Although Riddick is wanted dead or alive, the reward is double if he’s brought back in a body bag. Of course, that’s easier said than done, since this seemingly-indomitable alien from planet Furya was blessed with superhuman strength, intuition, willpower and night vision, traits which combine to make him a formidable enemy, even when outnumbered badly by pursuers armed to the teeth.

So, this installment boils down to an intergalactic posse’s attempt to apprehend Riddick as he tries to figure out a way to hijack one of the rockets in order to return to his faraway homeland teeming with water, grass and other signs of life. Too bad the scriptwriters of this boring installment ran out of new ideas for their flagging franchise.

Consequently, Riddick does little more than generate a vague sense of déjà vu between the barren backdrop (except for a swarm of voracious critters) and the familiar ways in which the elusive antihero’s adversaries are dispatched. After all, how many different ways can you lop off a head or gut a guy so his entrails spill out?

This edition even includes another round of titillation coming courtesy of a token blonde, in this case Katee Sackhoff as a lipstick lesbian whose sexual preference tends to frustrate the testosterone-blinded members of the all-male crew sharing the space station’s cramped quarters. Nevertheless, job one remains tracking Riddick with the assistance of dubious “futuristic” technology explained by what might best be best described as pseudo-scientific nuttery.

A derivative disappointment that’s more of an uninspired remake than a groundbreaking sequel.

Fair (1 star) Rated for profanity, nudity, sexuality and graphic violence Running Time: 119 minutes Distributor: Universal Pictures

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