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Editorial

Planned attacks on Planned Parenthood

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Ben Carson, other candidates for GOP nomination mislead public on Planned Parenthood.

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onservatives are attacking Planned Parenthood so viciously that you would be forgiven if you thought that the organization was running for president as a Democrat.

It is often said, “The first casualty when war comes is truth.” Actually, the first casualty of politics is truth.

That’s particularly true when it comes to the orchestrated attacks on Planned Parenthood.

The anti-choice Center for Medical Progress (CMP) has released seven videos that seek to discredit Planned Parenthood. Media Matters said, “The latest video again relies on footage already debunked as highly edited, features conversations with thirdparty providers who acted as the middlemen between researchers and clinics, and relies heavily on the account of a technician who did not work for Planned Parenthood …”

Retired neurosurgeon and presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson, has also launched a major attack against Planned Parenthood and he should know better.

In an interview with Fox News on Aug. 12, Carson said that Planned Parenthood erects most of its clinics in Black neighborhoods as a “way to control that population.”

However, ABC’s Martha Raddatz reported, “Planned Parenthood estimates that fewer than five percent of its health centers

are located in areas where more than one-third of the population is African American.”

In a detailed rebuttal, the Washington Post awarded Carson “Four Pinocchios,” indicating a “whopper” of a lie, the highest level of falsehoods.

“A 2011 report by Life Dynamics, which opposes abortion, used Census data to determine the African-American and Hispanic population of each zipcode where Planned Parenthood has an office,” the newspaper recalled. “The report was intended to show that the abortion clinics are placed mostly in areas where Black residents exceed the average Black population of the state.

“But when you look closely at the data, it turns out that there are only about 110 locations (out of about 800) where the Black population exceeds 25 percent of the overall population. That certainly does not support the claim that ‘most’ clinics are in ‘Black neighborhoods.’

“Separately, in 2011, the Guttmacher Institute surveyed all abortion providers (about 1,700), including Planned Parenthood, and found that 60 percent are in majority-White neighborhoods – and that fewer than one in 10 abortion providers are located in neighborhoods where more than half of the residents are Black. The statistics did not change when the numbers were adjusted for nearly 600 providers that conduct more than 400 abortions a year.”

Referring to the founder of Planned Parenthood, Carson said:

“I know who Margaret Sanger is and I know that she believed in eugenics and that she was not particularly enamored with Black people.”

He is correct in saying that Sanger believed in eugenics, the idea that the human race can be improved by encouraging or discouraging reproduction based on genetic traits. Even so, Carson tells only half of the story – the half favorable to his point of view. “ … I think people should go back and read about Margaret Sanger, who founded this place – a woman, who Hillary Clinton by the way, says she admires,” said Carson in the Fox interview.

“Look and see what many people in Nazi Germany thought about her.”

The Washington Post did just that. “Starting in 1916, Sanger’s clinics, at first, were aimed mainly at poor immigrant women. The first clinic was in a neighborhood ‘populated largely by Italians and Eastern European Jews,’ according to the 2010 book “Birth Control on Main Street,” by Cathy Moran Hajo. Sanger did not open a Harlem clinic until the 1930s, even though infant mortality rates there were similar.

It would be great if we could get these orchestrated lies about abortion out of circulation.

George E. Curry is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA) and BlackPressUSA.com. Follow him on Twitter at @currygeorge.

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(TriceEdneyWire.com) – This year alone, African Americans are projected to spend as much as $24 billion on new cars and other vehicles from America’s auto industry. Yet research shows that, commensurate with their spending, Black consumers have little to show for their support of car dealerships.

A new agreement between the U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. (USBC) and the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers (NAMAD) was established to start solving that problem.

The purpose of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), signed in late July, is to forge relationships with Black vendors and suppliers with hopes to “open millions of dollars of opportunity to Black businesses across the nation,” according to Ron Busby, president and CEO of the USBC. “The amount that African Americans spend on vehicles is inappropriately unequal as it relates back to the number of dealerships that we own as well as the amount of money that those particular brands market to the African-American consumer,” said Busby. “And so what we hope that this does – this new relationship that we’ve established – is we want to showcase the power of the African-American dollar and recirculate that dollar so that our Black dealers can now increase the number of employees that they have working on their staffs.”

NAMAD President Damon Lester says there’s been a drastic decrease in Black-owned dealerships. There were only 252 at the end of 2014. That’s down from a peak ownership of 795 in 2005, according to Lester, which is a 31 percent reduction in ownership in less than 10 years.

The USBC has researched several national industries to find ways to recirculate dollars back into Black businesses and the community at large. Last year, the organization focused on travel and tourism. The year before that, it was Black-owned banks.

However, the automobile in-

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U. S. Black Chamber President/CEO Ron Busby (left) signs Memorandum of Understanding with NAMAD President Damon Lester. Marc Bland, IHS vice president of diversity and inclusion, looks on.

dustry is a special challenge given its comeback after nearly collapsing seven years ago. A multibillion dollar government bailout largely saved the industry, but Black-owned dealerships have continued to struggle, having lost thousands of employees.

Marc Bland, vice president for diversity and inclusion for IHS Automotive, which provides statistics and information on the automobile industry among others, said the USBC has the right strategy to deal with the issues, not only as they pertain to the automobile industry, but others as well.

“Collectively, what they did is say, ‘Hey, here’s some information that says the African-American consumer is helping to drive a lot of growth in the U.S. auto industry.’ Hyundai came and showed up, which is the initial action,” said Bland. “They invited me to come out as a leader from IHS to provide some fact-based data; and together the three of us, along with Ron, had a conversation which provided awareness and proper education to the attendees.

“And then NAMAD took the additional step of signing the MOU which says that NAMAD is going to work with Ron Busby to collectively say how can we work together to identify potential growth opportunity for Black auto dealers. And then you have

Hyundai, which says they’re going to support the efforts as well.”

Bland said African Americans represent about 8 percent of all new vehicles sold in the United States. By April of this year, Blacks had bought 373,901 vehicles, which, at a conservative $25,000 per vehicle could end up at $24 billion by the end of this year.

Another issue often discussed in USBC circles is the question of how to convince African-American consumers to support Blackowned businesses.

With an estimated spending power of $1.1 trillion, AfricanAmerican economic power continues to grow exponentially. Yet the average African-American dollar only stays six hours within the Black community, according to a release from the USBC. Busby, whose non-profit USBC has a membership of 240,000 Black-owned businesses and 115 chambers in 28 states, said he found it ironic that a recent Gallup poll revealed that Hispanic and Asian business-owners say they have not felt as much economic pressures as African Americans.

“They have not felt the discrimination or the challenge of being a minority as much as African Americans have,” said Busby. “But yet we still have a very positive outlook for our future as business owners.”

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(TriceEdneyWire.com) – The African American Studies Department (AASD) at the University of Maryland (UMD) named Dr. Oscar Barbarin, a pioneering developer of culturally sensitive assessments of psychological disorders in African-American and Latino children, as its new chair. Selected after an extensive national search, Barbarin is a full professor in AASD with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology.

The University System of Maryland also named Barbarin as the Wilson H. Elkins Professor, a distinguished professorship bestowed upon faculty who have demonstrated the ability to lead and inspire students at all levels, achieved excellence in their fields as well as in areas other than their traditional discipline, and passionately pursued scholarly endeavors beyond the University System of Maryland.

“As our African American Studies Department approaches 50, Dr. Barbarin will fortify its strong tradition of interdisciplinary research – one that he himself helped create,” said UMD President Wallace D. Loh. “He is a major addition to our faculty and academic leadership.”

Barbarin, a native of New Orleans, most recently served as the Lila L. and Douglas J. Hertz Endowed Chair in the Department of Psychology at Tulane University.

He previously held academic appointments at the Universities of Maryland, Michigan and North Carolina. His arrival at Maryland is therefore a homecoming; from 1974 to 1979, he served as an assistant professor in the Clinical Psychology Program and as director of the Community Field Station in the Department of Psychology.

In his new role, Barbarin will continue his pioneering work examining educational interventions for achievement and social well-being, as well as the role of community and family in health risks and health threats. He also will take on administrative duties for a dynamic and rapidly growing department.

Barbarin is a renowned scholar in African American, Latino psychological disorders.

“I want to engage the faculty in developing a vision for the department that builds on its current strengths, integrates undergraduate teaching and research, reaches out to collaborate with other units – particularly those in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences – and applies its intellectual energies to understanding and solving the critical issues facing communities of color in the state of Maryland,” said Barbarin.

Barbarin is a clinical psychologist with post-doctoral training in social psychology. His scholarly work has focused on the emotional and academic development of children of color, particularly children growing up in poverty.

He has served as principal investigator on a national evaluation of the quality of Pre-K programs and on a multi-state family-school intervention to strengthen social competence and academic skills in boys of color ranging from pre-K to 3rd grade.

“Our entire community is excited to welcome a distinguished scholar such as Dr. Barbarin, who will provide outstanding leadership for our African American Studies Department,” said Dean

Gregory F. Ball of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

“My scholarly pursuits and ambitions have largely been driven by intellectual curiosity about the resilience of children growing up in adverse conditions such as economic disadvantage and social stigma. Having grown up in poverty in a highly segregated New Orleans, these concern were personal and familial,” said Barbarin.

“Over time, I have studied the academic and psychological well-being of children facing a variety of adversities including chronic and life-threatening illness, poverty, violence, racism, stigmatization and an academic achievement gap. A common goal in in the study each of these diverse phenomena must understand the impact of stressors on families and to elucidate how family functioning moderates the effects of adversity and stress in the lives of children.”

Barbarin earned a B.A. in philosophy from St. Joseph’s Seminary College, and an M.S. in psychology and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Rutgers University. He was a post-doctoral fellow in Social Psychology at Stanford University.

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Farrakhan: ‘Justice or Else’ March just the beginning

By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent

make sure that all of our people fall in love with their Blackness and say, ‘Black lives matter’ and Black love will make sure that Black lives matter.”

The truth matters, too.

The United States Park Police (USPP) estimate of 400,000 attendants at the original march wildly contradicted the estimated count provided by march organizers, which was roughly 1.5 million.

Working with Boston University, the Park Service later revised its estimate to 837,214 – more than twice the original estimate. With a 20 percent margin of error, the size of the crowd could have been 655,000 to 1.1 million men, according to Farouk El-Baz, director of Boston University’s Center for Remote Sensing. Even the lowest revised estimate was more than twice the size of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Following the controversy over the number of people attending the Million Man March, Congress prohibited the Park Service from making official estimates.

Unlike the Million Man March that primarily focused on the empowerment of men of color, the call for “Justice or Else” is meant to address the struggle for justice for Blacks, Native Americans, Latinos, women, military veterans and poor Whites, everyone who feels

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WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In a wide-ranging conference call with the Black Press, the Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said the upcoming “Justice or Else” rally set for October 10 celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March is just the beginning of the movement.

Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., president and CEO of the NNPA and the national director of the 1995 Million Man March, moderated the call, fielding pooled questions from dozens of publishers and editors from Black newspapers across the country.

Farrakhan said that walking down the steps of the United States Capitol building and seeing Black men standing together, shoulderto-shoulder all the way down to the Washington Monument and over to the Lincoln Memorial was his most memorable experience from the Million Man March on October 16, 1995. The minister boasted that the men went home and recommitted themselves to their families and wives, others registered to vote, and gang members left their weapons at home.

Critics, however, charged that little long-lasting follow-up was

done on the local level.

Farrakhan said that those who benefit from White supremacy fear the power of unified Blacks, Latinos and all minority people and have continued to work against that unity, since the 1995 march.

Farrakhan said that since the Million Man March, the Black community is not as strong as it should be, so the struggle for “Justice or Else” must take place on two fronts.

“We cannot go to Washington appeal to our government to intercede to see that Black men and women tried in their courts get justice in accordance with the law and leave our communities in shambles with us killing one another,” said Farrakhan. “We as men and women must take responsibility for our community and rid our community of fratricidal conflict and that strengthens us as we go to our government to demand justice.”

Farrakhan said that he thanked God for the women who ignited the Black Lives Matter movement.

“We honor the young ladies that fashioned that cry and all who have joined on but no one can rob the young sisters of the honor that God used [them] to say something that caught on and today Black lives do matter,” he said. “Let’s go to work in our communities to

Louis Farrakhan calls for an encore on 20th anniversary of Million Man March.

deprived in America.

“We have to have land, brothers and sisters, as a basis for economic development,” said Minister Farrakhan, proposing a legislative agenda that would promote land ownership in the Black community.

Farrakhan encouraged Black business owners to advertise in the Black Press and buy subscriptions to community newspapers, and that part of the estimated $1.1 trillion in annual buying power

wielded by the Black community be used to build hospitals, factories and to support Black colleges.

“We don’t have a lot of time, but we can turn the anger of our community into production … the Black vote is a powerful vote,” said Minister Farrakhan. “But unless any of these candidates that are running for president of the United States speak to the need for justice for those that are deprived, why should we give them our vote?”

Back to school means back to two square meals, for some

By Mary Catherine Hinds Religion News Service

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Facebook feeds are now full of first day of school pictures and updates about how happy everyone is to be finally sending the kids back.

My fellow working parents and I are breathing a collective sigh of relief that we managed to cover child care all summer long. On the flip side, stay-at-home parents are looking forward to getting their homes back during the day. We are all excited to be back on a schedule with routine.

This morning as I flipped pancakes to fill my children’s bellies before we headed out the door, I thought how excited I am to be sending them back to school and out of my hair. Then I thought of some other mothers and fathers who were undoubtedly rejoicing for other reasons.

Some moms and dads are overjoyed because after a long summer break, their children are now going to get a free breakfast and lunch every weekday at school. As I juggled camps and vacation days this summer, other mothers were juggling paychecks, trying to feed their children without the free-lunch subsidies that exist during the school year.

I work for Church World Service, a global humanitarian agency.

As I think about my neighbors celebrating nutrition as part of back-to-school, I also see the faces of parents in Cambodia, Bolivia, Serbia – parents who are celebrating back-to-school because for them, education is hope. Education is opportunity. Education is a permanent solution to hunger and severe malnutrition. These parents celebrate school every day.

After the dust settles on the

Some students will get free balanced breakfast and lunch meals under the National School Lunch Program.

frantic first weeks of school, my family and I will start to do something to help the other mothers and fathers out there for whom school means life. We will set up a CROP Hunger Walk team for our church and start recruiting walkers and raising funds for our annual CROP Hunger Walk.

The CROP Hunger Walk is our

community’s response to end hunger and poverty in our city and around the world. The funds we raise will send backpacks of food home on Fridays with classmates of my own children while also providing safe schools for children in some of the poorest countries in the world.

There are about 1,200 CROP

Hunger Walks each year across the U.S. While individuals participate and are welcome, faith communities are the key to organizing them.

With each step we take, we will give thanks for our own blessings and, as people of faith, answer a call to share these blessings with others so that all will be nourished.

Politics

Judges assigned to rule on makeup of Brown’s district

By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief

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WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After the Florida Republican-dominated state legislature failed to redraw Rep. Corrine Brown’s congressional district and seven others that had been gerrymandered to favor Republicans, a threejudge federal panel was named last week to do the job for them.

Brown, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, was elated by the decision.

“This is where we need to be,” she said last week in a telephone interview with the NNPA News Service. “The new district goes through 18 prisons. It will not only not elect a Black, it won’t elect a White Democrat.”

Brown represents Florida’s 5th Congressional District that takes in most of Jacksonville and parts of Duval, Clay, Putnam, Alachua, Volusia, Marion, Lake, Seminole and Orange counties.

Florida has 27 congressional districts. In addition to Brown’s seat, the other districts impacted most by the remapping are held by three Democrats – Kathy Caster, Ted Deutch and Lois Frankel – and four Republicans – Mario Diaz-Balart, Carlos Curbelo, lleanna Ros-Lehtinen and David Jolly.

Last month, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the state’s congressional maps violated a voter-approved 2010 constitutional amendment that prohibits political jurisdictions from being drawn to favor incumbents or a particular party In a stinging rebuke, the court said, “The Legislature itself proclaimed that it would conduct the most open and transparent redistricting process in the history of the state and then made important decisions, affecting numerous districts in the enacted map, outside the purview of public scrutiny.”

The court found that Republican strategists had been instrumental in constructing the new maps for the GOP. Although Democrats hold a slight edge among Florida voters – 4.6 million to 4.2 million – the

Florida legislature caught gerrymandering Rep. Brown’s district in favor for the GOP.

state is represented in Congress by 17 Republicans and 10 Democrats, including Brown.

A special legislative session called to redraw congressional districts ended Aug. 21. Legislators went home without making a deal after two weeks of political jousting. The House rejected a request by the Senate to extend the proceedings another week. Consequently, the issue was sent to federal court for resolution.

In a two-page order issued Tuesday, Ed Carnes, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, based in Atlanta, appointed a three-judge panel consisting of district judges Mark E. Walker, Robert L. Hinkle, and Robin S. Rosenbaum.

Corrine Brown, a Jacksonville native who graduated from Florida A&M University, has been in Congress since 1993.

“There is an overall attack on the Voting Rights Act,” said Brown. It’s not just in Florida – it’s all over.”

In another blow to the Voting Rights Act, the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013 voted to gut Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which required jurisdictions with a proven history of racial discrimination to pre-clear any election law change with the U.S. Attorney General or the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. In Florida, Brown said, the gerrymandered districts would have removed some key areas

she represents.

Brown explained, “Let me tell you one area that they’ve taken out of my district – Sanford, Florida, Jackie Robinson [the first African American to play major league baseball] couldn’t stay in Sanford, Florida. Every night, he would go to Daytona because they said that if he stayed in Sanford, they would kill him.

“Forty years later, Trayvon Martin was killed in Sanford, Florida. “60 Minutes” did a special on Sanford, Florida, – on how children were living out of their car, washing up in Walmart and going to school. It took me 20 years to get public housing straight, to get new housing. And now you want to take Sanford, Florida, away from me while the Republican there wants to sell public housing?”

Brown said, “So, they are not interested in representative government. All they are talking about is what [shape] the district looks like. We want to make sure we have districts that represents people who have not been represented.”

Rep. Brown said if her opponents are successful, it would have a devastating impact on Black electoral politics.

She said, “After you take out the Congressional, then you take out the Senate, the City Council and we could go back to not having any representation. It’s very serious.”

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WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Today, close to one in four Black children – as young as 2 years old – is obese. And the $161 million spent on advertising unhealthy foods to Black and Latino youth at most recent count is not helping.

“We see more of this [marketing] in our community in general … in the placement of billboards in our community, [and] the fact that there’s less of the healthier products in our community,” said Vikki Lassiter, executive director of the African American Collaborative Obesity Network at the University of Pennsylvania.

“By consequence, there are a lot of cheap things that are easily accessible. So you have a mix of products that are available, and are seen more often in your community – it’s a continuous stream of seeing the unhealthy more than the healthy.”

A new report from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut details how this aggressive advertising is magnifying the obesity epidemic. And although companies are pursuing Latino children and teens most aggressively (in terms of dollar amount), Black children and teens have the highest levels of exposure to ads for processed foods. Candy and gum brands in particular increased their Black-targeted advertising spending by 39 percent, amounting to approximately $140 million.

The report examines all restaurant, food, and beverage companies with $100 million or more in advertising spending in 2013 – a total of 26 companies, representing a few hundred brands. It also includes all of the companies participating in the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI), which pledges to only advertise their healthier choices in child-targeted media.

These companies represented 75 percent of all food-related advertising on Black networks – and less than 1 percent of it was for healthy products. In addition, Black children are getting a “dou-

Marketers purposely target Black youth with unhealthy food to see if it will trend.

ble-dose” of these ads.

“The double-dose relates to the fact that mainstream media is something that Black and Latino children are definitely watching, but then there’s targeted advertising/marketing to Black TV networks,” said Lassiter. “So you have … candy and fast food and soda companies investing to promote in Black targeted TV. But while they’re watching BET, they’re also watching things on NBC and getting all this marketing.”

Even without the double-dose, Black children have the highest levels of exposure to ads for processed and junk food, viewing 70 percent more food-related TV ads than their White peers.

The nation’s demographic changes are a primary reason for the level of this targeted marketing. There’s also the general marketing technique of exposing people to the product when they are young to create life-long preference and loyalty spending. But Black kids have their own particular appeal.

“Then you have the other piece of it, in terms of, urban communities and Black youth being trendsetters,” Lassiter explained.

“Marketers … want to test things out first with Black youth to see how that might trend out.”

The researchers point out that completely stopping brands from marketing is neither reasonable nor preferable. Many of these companies use a part of ad revenue to support Black commu-

nities in meaningful ways. Still, among the 267 most-advertised brands of these 26 companies, only one healthy brand– Yoplait Light – was advertised to Black people.

“There’s this disconnect … when you look at how some of these companies will support athletic events, or concerts to bring community togetherness, yet in the same regard they have more of their products that are unhealthy throughout that same community,” Lassiter pointed out.

“So there’s definitely this huge disconnect with what do these companies really stand for and value, especially because there’s research to show that it is possible to be profitable and largely healthy.”

Brands will always need to market and advertise their products, but Lassiter said that helping children understand what they are seeing is a good way to combat the effects.

“One thing that’s important is for children to have an understanding of what marketing is – the fact that this message is purposely meant to influence you, that not everything is meant to be taken at face value. That if you drink soda, you’re not going to be living the life,” she explained.

She also recommends that parents talk about nutrition and their purchase choices while grocery shopping, to help young people understand what they are putting in their bodies.

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l Chez and the Brothers of Funk Big Band will headline the Silver Spring Jazz Festival Saturday, September 12, from 3 to 10 p.m. at Veterans Plaza at the Silver Spring Civic Building, One Veterans Pl. Each year, the festival has presented a mix of many jazz genres, including straight ahead, smooth, Latin and other popular jazz forms.

This year the festival will offer original eclectic jazz from Al Chez and the Brothers of Funk, smooth jazz from popular local favorite Marcus Johnson, Latin Jazz from Dani Cortaza Latin Jazz Band, swing from the Halley Schoenberg Jazz Sextet and an eclectic mix from Silver Spring’s Jazz Academy of Music.

Chez is well known for playing more than 25 years on “Late Night” and “The Late Show with David Letterman.” He is the second longest-playing network TV trumpeter, second only to Doc Severinsin.

Chez started his extensive musical career at the age of nine when he joined his father’s local drum corps, The Saints. In 1979, he joined forces with Jon Bon Jovi to create the Atlantic City Expressway, a band that played New Jersey shore clubs for years. Chez went on to play with Tower of Power, Robert Cray Band, Spyro Gyra, Sting, Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Bon Jovi, CeeLo Green, Snoop Dog, and James Brown.

He has performed at multiple presidential inaugurations, more than 25 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions, John Lennon’s 50th birthday celebration in Tokyo, the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games Closing Ceremonies and multiple concerts at the White House.

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hip-hop rhythms. He describes his music as “instrumental R&B with a D.C. bounce.” A founding member of the Silver Spring Jazz Festival, Johnson has done the amazing by launching both a record label and a popular wine label.

Halley Shoenberg is an accomplished saxophone and clarinet player from Silver Spring whose style is collected from several sources of jazz, theatre and popular music. From swinging originals to noted modern-era favorites, her intelligently-inspired brand of music shines with clarity. A multiinstrumentalist who plays clarinet, saxophone and flute, Shoenberg has produced three CD releases, Love Goes ‘Round, Someday, and Private Concert, which includes several of her original compositions.

Argentinian guitar virtuoso, Dani Cortaza specializes in Brazilian and Latin jazz in both acoustic and electric jazz guitar. In addition, he performs, composes and arranges Latin American folk music. After two decades of highly acclaimed worldwide performances with a variety of musicians and bands, a special Kennedy Center concert brought this Argentinean

The schedule for this year’s festival is: 3 p.m. – Welcome 3:15 p.m. – Jazz Academy of Music 4:30 p.m. – Dani Cortaza Latin Jazz Band 5:45 p.m. – Halley Schoenberg Jazz Sextet 7 p.m. – Marcus Johnson presents The Urban Jam Band 8:30 p.m. – Al Chez and the Brothers of Funk Big Band native to Washington, D.C. in 2002, where he now resides. Dani is the founder and director of two dynamic musical groups specializing in Latin jazz and Brazilian music.

Attendees are encouraged to use public transportation – the Silver Spring Metro (Red Line) is two blocks away – and to bring folding chairs. Limited parking is available in the Wayne Avenue garage, the Town Square garage, and the garages on Bonifant Street, Cameron at Ramsey Avenue, and Cameron at Fenton.

For more information, call 311 or 240.777.0311 from outside the county, or visit www.silverspringdowntown.com.

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Silver Spring Teen Writers’ Club starts / Sept, 10.

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eens in the Silver Spring area who like to write fiction, nonfiction or poetry will have a chance to develop their writing voices and skills through a new Teen Writers’ Club at the Silver Spring Library, 900 Wayne Avenue.

The club will feature workshops for teen writers, ages 13-18, and will meet twice a month on al-

ternate Thursdays, beginning September 10 at 6:30 p.m., in the large meeting room 2 on the 3rd floor.

The club will offer writing exercises and group discussions that will help teens improve their writing and try new approaches. There will be constructive feedback on writing samples and advice on how to overcome obstacles. Members will also be able to: Discuss how to get started on a project, including how to turn an idea into a story or poem, how to make a plan, and how to stick to it; Learn how to develop characters, set the scene, and keep a story going with a plot that keeps readers

engaged; Learn how to revise work; Share skill and participate in critiques; Learn how to read as a writer to understand the techniques of favorite authors; Hear and meet guest writers The Teen Writers’ Club is cosponsored by the Montgomery County Library System and the Maryland Writers’ Association For more information or to reserve a spot in the Teen Writers’ Club, email Shelley Johnson Carey at carey@aacu.org, call 202.607.0119 or check the library website at www.montgomerycountymd.gov.

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