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At 80, scholar of race and class, looks ahead WIRE REPORT

Seated in one of two offices he maintains on the Harvard University campus, William Julius Wilson points to the far wall and his framed citation for the 1998 National Medal of Science, only the second one given to a sociologist.

“When President Clinton introduced me, he proceeded to talk about my book ‘The Truly Disadvantaged,’ and all these national scientists saw that the president not only read my book but could talk about it and had been influenced by it,” he said. Clinton

called him an intellectual deity, a “gawd.” David Simon of “The Wire” has said Wilson helped inspire the second season of the HBO program set in Baltimore. Members of the Clinton and Obama administrations have cited his work and sought his advice.

Wilson, who turned 80 in December, spoke recently about his decades of thinking and writing about race, class, education and poverty and about how his ideas run through today’s news stories, whether on income inequality or the Black Lives Matter movement.

“We should be cognizant of the

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knew the book so well he even mentioned the page count, 187.

As soon as he got back home, Wilson said, “I pulled the book off the shelf, and yeah, the book was 187 pages of text.” Sociologists rarely achieve fame beyond their peers, but Wilson’s influence extends from the campus to the inner city to television to the White House. National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates has

choices available to inner-city families and residents in high jobless inner-city black neighborhoods,” he said, “because they live under constraints and face challenges that most people in the larger society do not experience, or can't even imagine.”

Some of Wilson’s books have become standards, notably “The Declining Significance of Race,” '”The

Truly Disadvantaged” and “When Work Disappears”. Combining field work, historical research and ideas rooted in experience and scholarship, Wilson has shaped a clear narrative: Over the past 60 years, black neighborhoods have been devastated by the departure of the middle class, the elimination of manufacturing jobs, declines in wages and cuts in government support.

Income inequality among blacks, once relatively small, now surpasses the gap among whites. The poorest areas — what Wilson has called “extreme poverty” — suffer from a self-reinforcing absence of role models, networking opportunities, transportation and social and training skills. Affirmative action

programs, he has written, are worthwhile, but only help those already in position to have a job.

“What’s most overwhelming about urban poverty is that it’s so difficult to escape,” then-Sen. Barack Obama said in a 2007 speech widely believed influenced by Wilson’s thinking.

“If poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community.”

As president, Obama chose as his education secretary Arne Duncan, who said of Wilson: “He has influenced me more than anyone I

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McAuliffe markets Va. in Cuba, forgoes dissidents LAURA VOZELLA Virginia’s governor embarked on a historic three-day trade mission to Cuba this week forgoing a Republican legislator’s demand that he meet with dissidents while on the island. Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) pushed back when Del.-elect Jason Miyares, the first Cuban American elected to Virginia’s General Assembly, called on McAuliffe to spend time with the Ladies in White and others at odds with Cuba’s communist regime. Miyares’s family fled the country in 1965.

“As governor McAuliffe decides to ring in the New Year in the only non-democratic nation in the entire Western Hemisphere, perhaps he should keep in mind the thousands of dissidents that are harassed,

Del.-elect Jason Miyares beaten and imprisoned each day in Cuba simply because they yearn for freedom,” said Miyares, who in November won a House seat, representing Virginia Beach.

‘Buy Black Expo’ planned The Black Wall Street Marketplace will empower small businesses by hosting the First Annual Buy Black Expo Jan. 12 at the Royal Manchester Event Center.

The event will feature diverse area black businesses ranging from retail merchants, financial advisors, art, and service industries as well as a “soul food buffet” complete with traditional and vegetarian choices. This will be the first of 12 Marketplace Events to offer an adult friendly atmosphere with empowering speakers, business opportunities, lively entertainment, shopping, business start-up grants, product sampling and more.

The expo is being billed as a great opportunity to for small business owners and youth entrepreneurs to network and gain information on how to grow their business and prepare for success in the new year. Hundreds of families, college students, corporate executives,

entrepreneurs and community leaders will participate in the one-day event that offers African American focused topics and themes. All businesses, chambers and surrounding counties are invited to this one day event from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tickets are $5 adults, $2 for students and children over the age of two.

“I believe this is a positive event and will give small black businesses the opportunity to market to a larger audience. As a young entrepreneur I look forward to a forum for presenting my ideas to community leaders and expanding my current business,” said Maria Warith, director of CHESS (Child Entrepreneurs Securing Success).

Packages for booths and tables are available for business to purchase, along with varying levels of sponsorship.

Questions? Contact Nasira Muhammad at 804-263-0860 or buyblackexpo@gmail.com.

“As governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe holds the same seat as Thomas Jefferson, and as such he has a special responsibility during his Cuba trip to speak out on behalf of the timeless universal truths of his predecessor; the self-evident truths that ‘all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights’ including the right of ‘Life, Liberty and the Pursuant of Happiness,’” Miyares said in a written statement issued late Friday night. “Mr. Jefferson was able to utter those words to the mighty British Empire 240 years ago, surely Governor McAuliffe can advocate these same timeless principles to the Castro regime today.”

McAuliffe headed for Cuba on Sunday for a three-day trip intended to promote exports of Virginia products at a time of warming relations between the two countries.

His public schedule for the trip, dominated by meetings with the various government officials who do the buying for Cuba’s centrally planned economy, gave no indication that the governor planned to meet with dissidents.

McAuliffe’s spokesman said the governor’s job in Cuba is to promote trade, but noted that an improved U.S.-Cuban relationship offers hope for progress on human rights.

“The purpose of the Governor’s trip is to open new markets for Virginia products,” McAuliffe’s spokesman, Brian Coy, said via email in response to Miyares’s statement. “He believes opening trade relations is a key strategy to create new economic activity and opportunities for families in Virginia and Cuba alike.

“For the first time 50 years, the U.S. and Cuba have a formal diplomatic relationship and a process — agreed to by both governments — for discussing human rights.

The governor is pleased with this significant achievement as

he believes it, along with greater commerce and trade activities, will pave the way for better relations between the U.S. and Cuba, something that citizens of both countries support.”

McAuliffe will be the fourth sitting U.S. governor to travel to Cuba since President Obama announced plans just over a year ago to begin normalizing relations with the communist country. He follows New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R).

None of the others met with dissidents during their trips, said John Kavulich, president of the U.S.Cuba Trade and Economic Council, which provided information to McAuliffe and other governors ahead of their trips.

“Generally we have suggested that when governors go down, that they steer away from anything that is truly going to be provocative for the Cubans, because they’re supposed to be there as chief marketing officers for their states,” Kavulich said.

“I think there’s a different role for a United States senator or a member of the House of Representatives,” he added, noting that unlike governors, members of Congress have an official role in making foreign policy.

But Kavulich said that McAuliffe is in an awkward spot because he has close personal ties to former president Bill Clinton and current Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.

“It’s tough because that delegate does have a point — you’re an elected official, you’re a very visible official, you’ve got that tie to the Clintons,” he said. “So maybe you should say, ‘I’m here trying to get business as a state official, but as a human being, as a father, as a husband, I think it’s important that anyone who comes to a country not gloss over issues just because they’re inconvenient.’ ” © WaPo

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Virginia death row inmates fear privileges may be revoked Virginia’s death row inmates, who recently received expanded advantages that include additional recreation time, are asking a judge to keep the privileges intact because they are just temporary and can be revoked at any time.

A lawsuit filed earlier in 2015 by

the inmates to overhaul Virginia’s death row policies, specifically asked that a judge prohibit the state from reinstating what they call “dehumanizing conditions.”

However, attorneys for the seven men awaiting execution claim that unless the court intervenes, there’s

nothing to prevent prison officials from reverting to the previous restrictions.

The officials, who rejected the inmates' claims of prior unconstitutional treatment, have asked the judge to rule in their favor, adding that because the previous policies are no longer in effect, a trial would be unnecessary.

In October Virginia officials quietly granted the state’s death row inmates new privileges amid legal challenges from the men awaiting execution.

Before that, condemned inmates left their tiny cells just three days a week for showers, and an hour a day

five days a week for recreation in a fenced outdoor cell. A sheet of glass separated them from family members during visits.

Now, the seven men get an extra half-hour of recreation each day, and officials are building a new recreation yard with a basketball court and exercise equipment. They can hug and hold hands with family members when they visit.

Virginia Attorney General Mark has said conditions for the inmates are now “significantly more progressive than the norm among other states with capital punishment.”

Newport News recovers thousands in unpaid taxes Deputies of the Newport News Sheriff’s Office have been credited with recovering nearly $92,000 in unpaid personal property taxes.

Civil Enforcement Division deputies began using license plate readers in April to help bring in some of the nearly $4 million in outstanding taxes. In eight months, their efforts netted more than $91,000.

City Treasurer Marty G. Eubank cites the Sheriff’s Office and public awareness of the Vehicle Seizure Program for bringing in more than $500,000 as of last month.

He calls the results outstanding.

“Partnering with the sheriff’s office has proved to be a very efficient means to enforce the collection of outstanding taxes. Utilizing this technology on sheriff’s office cruisers that are patrolling the streets of the city is a most effective use of resources to recover debt,” he said.

“Getting unpaid taxes into city coffers helps reduce the burden on citizens who pay on time,” said Sheriff Gabe Morgan. “The city can’t pay for services and the functioning of government without tax dollars.”

Six vehicles equipped with cameras automatically scan license plate numbers and are checked against a database of delinquent tax accounts.

If a match is found, an alarm alerts the deputy, who contacts the treasurer’s office. If it’s determined that taxes haven’t been paid, the deputy has two options. First, if the owner is with the vehicle, the taxes can be paid on the spot. If not, the

sworn and civilian, for outstanding accomplishment through the coordination of many individual efforts which have contributed substantially to the Newport News Sheriff’s Office mission.

Several vehicles seized for nonpayment were due to be auctioned in early 2016.

The scanners came to Newport News when the police department applied for and received a federal grant to use the technology to find stolen vehicles.

deputy places a sticker on the vehicle and takes the plates. The sticker advises the driver that vehicle will be towed within three days if payment isn’t made. Once the taxes are paid, the treasurer’s office will return the plates.

Because of the success, Morgan honored his civil team with the Group Achievement Award at the annual Promotion and Awards Ceremony last month. It’s given to a group of personnel, both

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“Wilson virtually invented contemporary urban sociology and reinvigorated the study of the ghetto poor,” said Michael Eric Dyson, the best-selling author and professor of sociology at Georgetown University.

“Anybody who studies any aspect of the broad impact of race and class, and the topography of black and urban culture, is in his debt.”

And Wilson’s research continues.

He is an energetic man with a remarkably unlined face and youthful, wiry build who credits genes (his mother lived into her 90s), diet and exercise — 10 hours a week. A recipient of dozens of honorary doctorates, he is busy with one of his most ambitious studies, “Multidimensional Inequality in the 21st Century,” a research project on poverty covering everything from the labor market to criminal justice.

Born in Derry Township, Pennsylvania, he was one of six children sharing a single room. His father was a coal miner and steel mill worker who died of lung cancer when Wilson was 12. His mother supported the family, as best she could, by working as a housekeeper.

He credits an aunt in New York with exposing him to books and culture and giving him the confidence to seek

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Wilson was among the first generation of black scholars to benefit from the civil rights legislation of the 1960s — “right place, right time,” he said — breaking into a field once almost exclusively white. He first joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and was recruited in the early 1970s by the University of Chicago, where he rose to national fame and remained until joining Harvard in 1996. He is now a university professor, Harvard’s highest ranking.

With Republicans holding majorities in Congress, Wilson said he has little hope that the lives of poor blacks will improve in the near future, but he does not want to “wallow in pessimism.” Asked what programs he would like to see implemented, regardless of their likelihood, Wilson said that he’d like to see a substantial expansion of Promise Neighborhoods funding and believes more solutions will arise from his Multidimensional Inequality project.

“One of the things that the Harvard researchers who are involved in this project have in common is that we all want our research to have some impact outside academia,” he said.

“We don’t want to simply engage other academics.”

White House: Obama will give ‘nontraditional’ State of the Union address White House officials are pledging that President Barack Obama will deliver a “nontraditional” State of the Union address on Jan. 12, the last time he will deliver the annual speech as president.

The address will still be given in the Capitol before a joint session of Congress. But instead of rattling off a laundry list of proposals for lawmakers to consider, a senior White House official said the president will take a “big-picture approach to some of the challenges and opportunities that we face” as a country.

The plan is recognition of the limits Obama faces during his final year in the White House. Unfinished legislative priorities, such as gun control and immigration reform, are all but dead in the Republicancontrolled Congress, and the president is unlikely to roll out major new initiatives with just 12 months left in office, most of which will be consumed by the 2016 presidential race.

But Obama does plan to urge lawmakers to move forward on proposals where there is agreement with Republicans, such as criminal

justice reform and the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.

Obama will deliver his State of the Union on Jan. 12, scheduled earlier than usual so it falls before people start going to the polls in earlyvoting primary states.

The president is expected to take time during his annual Christmas vacation in Hawaii, which begins tomorrow, to work on the speech.

White House officials briefed reporters to detail Obama’s goals for this year. They say he plans to focus on implementing new climate change regulations and the Iran nuclear deal, as well as pursuing closer ties with Cuba.

The president has expressed a desire to travel to the communist island nation during his final year in office, which would cap off his historic detente with Cuban President Raúl Castro. But officials did not say if or when the trip would happen.

Obama also plans to tighten the nation’s gun laws through executive action and submit a plan to Congress to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison.

New terms begin for Henrico supervisors The members elected to the Henrico County Board of Supervisors for fouryear terms beginning Jan. 1 recited their oaths of office during an investiture at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen.

The incoming board will consist of Richard W. Glover, Brookland District; Frank J. Thornton, Fairfield District; Thomas M. Branin, Three Chopt District; Patricia S. O’Bannon, Tuckahoe District; and Tyrone E. Nelson, Varina District.

Henrico’s Circuit judges administered the oaths. Others installed during the ceremony were members-elect of the Henrico School Board: Beverly L. Cocke, Brookland; Roscoe D. Cooper III, Fairfield; Michelle F. Ogburn, Three Chopt; Lisa A. Marshall, Tuckahoe; and John W. Montgomery Jr., Varina; plus individuals elected to constitutional offices: Heidi S. Barshinger, clerk of the Circuit Court; Shannon L. Taylor, commonwealth’s attorney; and Michael L. Wade, sheriff.

The Board of Supervisors will meet Jan. 12 to choose its chairman and vice chairman for 2016 and to conduct other organizational business.

L-R: Members of the incoming Henrico County Board of Supervisors are Thomas M. Branin, Three Chopt District; Richard W. Glover, Brookland District; Tyrone E. Nelson, Varina District; Frank J. Thornton, Fairfield District; and Patricia S. O’Bannon, Tuckahoe District.

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Collective efforts needed LISA WILSON With each passing day, the American judicial system has been speaking to us. The message being conveyed has been the same for hundreds of years. It has even been spoken at the same volume throughout the course of American history, screaming at its highest decibel. To somehow appease our longing to be a part of the status quo, what we’ve done (to our apparent detriment) is that we’ve turned down the dial of this national radio station in hopes that justice will somehow and someday meet us at our doorsteps. The message is loud and clear and for posterity’s sake, it is time that we tune in, listen, and adjust accordingly.

If there were ever a people created to rise above adversity it is the people of African descent.

Tuning in requires us to acknowledge and care about our state of being. From the privileged to the proletariat, the ostensible truth of our loved ones dying daily should begin to abrade our conscience to the point of refocusing our attention on our restoration. Listening requires us to read between the lines and face the uncomely truth of internal and external dissonance that wages war against our efforts to flourish collectively. Adjusting requires us to move with expediency to huddle and determine the next play in this game

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of inequity.

I am reminded of the 1994 movie titled, “The Vernon Johns Story”, starring James Earl Jones. This movie depicts the life story of a radical preacher who breaks the silence on racism and injustice in the Jim Crow South. He preceded the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala. in 1948. In one particular scene, while giving his sermonic discourse, he promulgates: “Last week a white man was fined for shooting a rabbit out of season, but it’s safe to murder Negroes. A rabbit is better off than a Negro because in Alabama Niggers are always in season!”

He is addressing community issues dealing with black men and women being assaulted and killed for minor infractions or for no justifiable reason, yet the community is silent on these hate crimes. The shock value of this declaration was twofold. The fact that this preacher had the gumption to even speak on a matter pertaining to white terror was enough for gasps and pearl clutching but to also expose the favor and valuation of a rodent like mammal over that of a human being [who happens to be black] was utterly disheartening. This illustration was an attempt to raise the consciousness of a people who were lullabied by perceived progress but in actuality,

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the people’s silence on injustice was an act of retrogression. The plot of this movie is set in 1948. Fast forward almost seventy years and we find ourselves faced with the same crisis.

The daily message from the American judicial system to us is conveyed as follows: The symbolism of hue and affluence swings the pendulum of judicial outcomes. Do not expect to receive justice. Do not expect protection as a citizen of this country. Do not expect the level of concern needed to end your dehumanization.

This writing is on every wall in every black household.

I assert that we become our own “justice system”. To police and protect ourselves will reduce the ill-fated chance encounters with law enforcement that are like a bad record where the needle gets stuck and it plays the same horrible melody over and over again. In review of our African heritage, it was customary in villages and cities that each family unit was responsible for all actions of all family members.

Families took pride in setting examples of being of good moral character, working hard, and caring for the community. Our African heritage stressed that because the family was the strongest, basic social unit, it carried much weight

in the community. Family members were taught what the community considered to be correct behavior and what the community considered to be incorrect. If a tort was committed, the elders in the family administered the punishment, which was far worse than what the community would bestow.

This is an opportune time to protect and serve ourselves. This is not a prompt for vigilante justice, or above the lawism, but within law-abiding constraints, we should be engaged in ensuring our own safety. Examples of this would be community curfews or household roll-calls, or family members checking-in when on an outing.

One could possibly view these actions as elementary, taxing, or ineffective but in my view, they are necessary for the survival of our children’s children. How much needs to happen in order to spark a collective effort? How many more murders are needed? I challenge every person who is of African descent to begin today. We cannot depend on the judicial system. We cannot be afraid to care for our own communities. We cannot continue being movie goers, watching the featured film of our own demise. The balm of justice rests in our hands.

Wilson is based in Richmond.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Well played role

I would like to believe that Bradley Development, LLC has played a role in the direction of improving the procurement procedures enforcement of the VPPA & HUD regulations in Virginia and city of Richmond.

I have offended some in attempting to get the focus on the main problem of the disparity study that showed 98 percent white firm utilization and only 2 percent utilization of all minority groups combined. Maybe that is why Bradley Development is excluded from the table, but God will always get the glory.

The internal control structure failure to comply with all applicable procurement laws and regulations is an agency problem.

Bradley Development has been promoting (JCV ) Joint Venture Collaboration networking as one solution to resolve the problem of small businesses not able to compete with the larger companies. The Micro Businesses only targeted a smaller preference group but not the real small businesses. The new B2B is a good name because it is businesses collaborating as joint ventures to bid on contracts.

Now, the focus must go to the final piece of the puzzle for equality, oversight, transparency and compliance enforcement of all procurement policies.

This is where the points are set aside for minority businesses and Section 3 participants (residents or business concerns). The rating points have been determined by VPPA and Section 3.

VPPA (taxpayers dollars) - allows 30 points of 100 points based on being SWAM business Section 3 ( federal dollars CDBG) - will allow between 10-25 points

for Section 3 residents and business concerns Grant and taxpayers dollars combined is 40 - 55 rating points This allows the SWAM and Section 3 companies leverage in solicitation for B2B joint ventures. This is a vital stage and point, because otherwise, the program will allow certain larger businesses to team up together and still exclude others.

The criteria for rating also requires history of minority inclusiveness of the larger companies and a plan on how they will partner with minority business and their experience and capacity to complete the project.

This is the right direction and it must include oversight during the project planning and will require a disinterest business (Bradley Development) that is educated and experienced on how the procurement procedures work in conjunction together (federal, state and local) being a member of the public body designated for projects and awarding of contracts to regain public trust and thirst for transparency and fairness.

City Council ordinance 2015-144 requires an impact statement on projects over $5 million dollars and detail listing of all procurement policy requirements needed to complete project helps enforce the lack of internal control structure by the agencies.

I have submitted 12-27 -15 for my documents to be certified as a SWAM business and my primary NIGP Code is Community Development Consulting (91827) lease consider recommendations.

W. Earl Bradley

Seriously miffed

I am personally offended by the comments from the U.S Supreme

Court Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Scalia. First of all, it shows their narrow point of view of the accomplishments of AfricanAmericans throughout history.

I read both of their biographies, and there is nothing that indicates that they, nor their families participatedin or fought for any civil or voting rights battles (sit-ins, lynchings, etc.).

Chief Justice Roberts stated that, “... what do blacks know about physics ..”? Despite being a chief justice, he knows very little about ancient cultures, and ancient black cultures in particular. How could the pyramids have been built without the knowledge of physics?

Italians have, for the most part, always been able to pass for white.

Therefore, there was no struggle there.

Was it not a black man who invented the cell phone? I could go on and on about inventions.

There was nothing for either one of them to do but to stay white and study. No wonder they are justices.

How easy is that?

Tracye James

Letter to America

The recent Islamic terrorist attack in California brought out the usual reaction from American politicians and others. Some immediately blamed guns and suggested more gun laws, ignoring the fact that it is ungodly humans who pull the trigger.

When the perpetrators turned out to be Islamic, the question they wanted answered was, how did they get radicalized? Like if they didn’t know!

Historians tell us that Prophet Mohammed respected both the Jewish and the Christians and that

he told his followers to leave them alone (don’t try to convert them), because they already knew God. So obviously, He believed in the living God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel).

However, later things changed, so that now, the Koran (Qur’an), contains such things as, “Kill them [the infidels, namely Christians and Jews] wherever you may come upon them, and seize them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every conceivable place.”-Sura 9:5 So the prophet’s love of the living God has now been turned into hatred against God’s Chosen People, the Jews and Christians, and the rest of the world. Now the Muslim Brotherhood says, “Our mission: world domination.” Some Muslim slogans are, “Death to America,” “Kill the Jews,” “Kill the Unbelievers.”

Yes America. Islam is serious when they say, “death to America.”

To them it is death to everyone who doesn’t follow their God. That is not exactly what the Living God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob commanded. His commandments were, “Thou shall not kill,” and “Love thy neighbor.”

Sadly, God’s plan for salvation, through the forgiveness of man’s sin, by the shedding of His precious son’s blood, has been rejected by Islam.

Instead, they tell their followers the path to heaven is by killing those who do not believe in Allah, and that by doing so, 70 family members will win entrance to heaven too. And some ask for a motive!

Lest we forget, America too has rejected God and His Word.

Manuel Ybarra, Jr.

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Colonial Williamsburg, black church to ring in new era Colonial Williamsburg is reintroducing itself to African-American visitors.

The Virginia heritage site In this photo, historical has struggled interpreters Robert to attract Watson Jr., talks with black tourists, a fellow interpreter, despite a Janice Canaday, left, continuing at the Randolph house emphasis in the restored area of on AfricanColonial Williamsburg in American Williamsburg. history. Now,

the foundation that operates the village where interpreters stroll around in tricorn hats is launching an initiative to change that.

A church founded by slaves is at the center of the effort. Colonial Williamsburg has loaned a team of its vaunted historic conservation experts to the First Baptist Church to repair its long-silenced bell.

In February, Black History Month, the bell will ring for the first time in decades.

More than half of the 2,000 people who lived in Williamsburg in the late 18th century were black; most were slaves.

Scalia: Government can, should, support religion Government support for religion is not only justified by the Constitution, it was the norm for hundreds of years and it helped the United States become a free and prosperous nation, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Saturday in Metairie.

Speaking before a small crowd at Archbishop Rummel High School, Scalia delivered a short but provocative speech on religious freedom that saw the conservative Catholic take aim at those who confuse freedom of religion for freedom from it.

The Constitution’s First Amendment protects the free practice of religion and forbids the government from playing favorites among the various sects, Scalia said, but that doesn’t mean the government can't favor religion over nonreligion.

That was never the case historically, he said. It didn’t become the law of the land until the 60s, Scalia said, when he said activist judges attempted to resolve the question of government support of religion by imposing their own abstract rule rather than simply observing common practice.

If people want strict prohibition

against government endorsement of religion, let them vote on it, he said.

“Don’t cram it down the throats of an American people that has always honored God on the pretext that the Constitution requires it.”

Citing a quotation attributed to former French President Charles de Gaulle, Scalia said “‘God takes care of little children, drunkards and the United States of America.’” Scalia then added, “I think that’s true. God has been very good to us. One of the reasons God has been good to us is that we have done him honor.”

Scalia has long been a vocal advocate for a conservative reading of the First Amendment’s clause on religion. In Scalia’s view, the courts should interpret it based on the text itself, which doesn’t expressly prohibit government support for religion, and common practice.

At the time the Constitution was written, religion was ubiquitous.

Scalia noted that Thomas Jefferson, who first invoked the idea of a “wall of separation between church and state,” also penned Virginia’s religious freedom law, founded a university with dedicated religious space and, in writing the Declaration of Independence, regularly invoked

Justice Antonin Scalia God. Such deference for a higher power has been consistent ever since, Scalia said.

The American people have clearly demonstrated a tolerance for government support of religion by enacting laws that exempt church property from taxation, he said.

Congress even has clergymen on the payroll.

Given the history and subsequent common practice, Scalia called it “absurd” to interpret the First Amendment in such a way that banishes any government expression of support for religion.

The court’s habit of formulating

abstract rules, such as the one that established the so-called religious neutrality doctrine, reminded Scalia of the late Robert Kennedy’s famous line about the power of imagination to change the world: “Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not.”

It is a lofty sentiment on its surface, Scalia said, but the implications are dark, particularly in the context of the original quote, which comes from a play by George Bernard Shaw.

In the play, Scalia said, the line was spoken by a serpent and addressed to a woman named Eve. © Times Picayune

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Weight Watchers stock soars as Oprah ad airs Weight Watchers is getting another boost from Winfrey. The weight loss company’s shares soared recently as a TV commercial starring Winfrey began to air.

The commercial shows past videos of Winfrey working out and referencing her struggle with weight, a frequent topic of her former talk show. The ad ends with Winfrey asking viewers if they’re ready to join

her. “Let’s do this together,” she says.

She tweeted the ad to her more than 30 million followers. In the ad — Winfrey’s first since announcing her involvement with the company back in October — the 61-year-old media mogul talks candidly about her struggle with weight loss.

“Inside every overweight woman is a woman she knows she can be.

Many times you look in the mirror

Ask Alma I interviewed for a nursing position at a large hospital in my hometown. The job involves working long hours and I have more than ten years of experience.

After I was chosen I received a phone call to come in and sign the offer letter. The Director of Human Relations explained that the vacation time was negotiable. The offer gave me two weeks’ vacation after 90 days, but I asked for three weeks because of my experience.

I recently started and when introduced to others, one of the nurses said, oh you’re the one who wants extra vacation. Everyone sorta laughed it off, so I guess she was making a joke. Initially I didn’t understand, but later realized, the director must have been talking about me. I find that to be totally unprofessional. Do you think I should leave the subject alone or bring it to her attention?

— Pissed in ER Dear P in ER, You have good reason to be pissed. Yes, it appears the director discussed certain tidbits about your recent hire out of place. And yes, that is totally unprofessional.

Can you prove it? I think not.

Will the outspoken nurse speak on your behalf to the appropriate supervisor? I think not again. So, no, you shouldn’t bring it to her attention, at this point just leave it alone. You have however read Miss HRD’s hold card, so place that in your back pocket.

You have ten years’ experience and whoo-hooo that’s a wonderful

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thing. It still doesn’t erase the fact you’re the new kid on the block. You haven’t had time to see who’s large and in charge, who’s lame and insane and who’s just offering a hot cup of common sense.

Remind yourself, you’re there to do a miraculous job, not to become best friends with the HR director.

I doubt if you’ll run into her often.

When you think about it, really, she’s a very small lily pad in a very large pond.

Take in your first 90 days learning all that you can about this new facility and being thankful for your amazing opportunity. The nursing profession is filled with unsung heroes. We couldn’t thank you enough for the contributions that nurses and nursing have made to our community. So hats off to you my sistah, and thanks from all of the readers and supporters of “Ask Alma” from the bottom of our hearts. ***** Want advice? E-mail questions to alwaysaskalma@yahoo.com.Follow her on Facebook at “Ask Alma” and twitter @almaaskalma *****

and you don’t even recognize your own self because you got lost, buried in the weight that you carry,” she says. “Nothing you’ve ever been through is wasted. So every time I tried and failed, every time I tried again, and every time I tried again, has brought me to this most powerful moment to say, ‘If not now, when?’”

After the commercial debuted, many people took to Twitter to express their feelings about it.

Weight Watchers stock has more than tripled since October, when Winfrey bought a 10 percent stake in the New York company. Besides the new ads, Weight Watchers has also made changes to its plans to better fit in with Winfrey’s message of living a healthy and happier life, and not just focusing on weight loss.

Shares of Weight Watchers International Inc. jumped $3.68, or 19 percent, to close just before the new year at $23.05.

Weight Watchers brought in Winfrey at a precarious time for the company. It has been hurt by the popularity of fitness trackers and free food-tracking apps. Despite recent gains in the stock, it is still down about 8 percent from a year ago.

Winfrey is on the new plan and she said in an October appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” that she lost 15 pounds in a few months.

While she slims down, her wallet is getting fatter. Back in October, Winfrey paid about $43.2 million for her 10 percent stake in Weight Watchers. That stake is now worth more than $148 million.

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Cosby’s sexual assault charge leaves some blacks feeling betrayed

Cosby is one of only a few popular figures who can be credited with promoting HBCUs nationally, said Jarrett Carter Sr., publisher of HBCU Digest. “(The show) came about at a time where we were slowly transitioning into having more access to predominantly white (colleges),” Carter said. “Then you had this show, which just ushered in the next level of explosion of HBCUs. It just came at a critical time.

“I don’t think it's a coincidence that since the show's gone off, you don’t have the same level of enrollment for HBCUs.” Following the parade of allegations against him in the past year, the all-women Spelman College — one of the crowned jewels of the HBCU community — ended its Cosbyendowed professorship. Cosby and his wife, Camille, donated $20 million to the school in the 1980s.

At the time, the gift was the largest personal gift to an HBCU. Cosby has long enjoyed the loyalty given to breakthrough cultural

Actor and comedian Bill Cosby is helped as he leaves a court appearance where he faced a felony charge of aggravated indecent assault Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, in Elkins Park, Pa. Cosby was arrested and charged Wednesday with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home in January 2004.

Bill Cosby, a cultural icon who once stood among America's most beloved figures, suffered the latest and most serious blow to his forever mixed legacy, as he walked slowly into a Pennsylvania courthouse holding a cane and answered to charges that he drugged and sexually assaulted a woman.

It was a moment in stark contrast to a reputation built over half a century, merging the personal and professional into one potent, visceral brand. The allegations have left many — especially in the black community — feeling betrayed.

“This is an entire edifice of iconic and symbolic blackness shattered by this charge,” said author and Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson, noting that “millions of people looked up to him.”

At times, Cosby has lashed out against the African-American community that long embraced him.

Late in his career, Cosby famously and publicly excoriated poor blacks in a 2004 speech — comments that angered many. Dyson, who wrote a book on Cosby a decade ago in response to the incident, said his admonitions sting more now in light of the comedian’s own moral failings.

“He lashed out, ultimately, only at himself, even as he indicted millions along the way,” Dyson said.

Though Cosby had been previously accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women and several civil claims against him are still pending, he has never been criminally charged until now. His public persona began to rapidly unravel last year, when black comedian Hannibal Buress

called Cosby out as a rapist and a hypocrite. Burress’ comments unleashed the allegations anew — and forced a reckoning among many African-Americans.

Cosby had been, in many ways, a pioneer. The 78-year-old became the first black actor in a television drama when “I Spy” debuted in 1965. Two decades later, he starred as Cliff Huxtable in “The Cosby Show” — based on his own marriage and family — endearing him to the country as “America’s Dad.” The NBC show aired from 1984 to 1992 and was the highest-rated sitcom for five consecutive years. The 90s spinoff “A Different World,” set at Huxtable's fictitious alma mater, Hillman College, inspired thousands of African-American youth to attend historically black colleges, or HBCUs.

figures by the black community that can sometimes supersede their transgressions, said James Peterson, director of Africana Studies at Lehigh University.

“This contradicts our sense of who Bill Cosby was,” Peterson said of the criminal charge. “People really felt that Mr. Cosby would never be arraigned. He wasn’t Cliff Huxtable.”

Though his groundbreaking work cannot be erased, it has been tarnished by the allegations of the past year, and likely will be further soiled by his ongoing legal battles.

“There is a fatal difference now between Cliff Huxtable and Bill Cosby that can never be overcome, because Cosby depended as a figure and an icon on the goodwill he established through his characters,” Dyson said. “It does add a creepy subtext and a shadow of tremendous moral weight that will inevitably be brought up each time his name is evoked.”

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Old Dominion welcomes new provost in Agho Old Dominion University has named Augustine “Austin” O. Agho, dean of the Indiana University School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, to the position of provost and vice president for academic affairs, effective June 1, 2016. The provost and vice president for academic affairs is the university’s top academic officer and reports directly to the president.

An accomplished and celebrated teacher, researcher and leader in health services administration, Agho was selected through a nationwide search conducted by a 16-member committee chaired by Ellen Neufeldt, vice president for student engagement and enrollment services.

“I am thrilled to welcome a scholar and research leader of Dr. Agho’s caliber to Old Dominion,” President John R. Broderick said.

“His background as an educator and a developer of academic programs is truly exceptional, as is his commitment as an administrator to student success and campus diversity and inclusion.

“Dr. Agho has excelled as a dean at two urban universities, demonstrating creative vision to conceive and successfully execute strategic plans. I am excited that we will now move forward under Dr. Agho’s inspiring academic leadership.”

Neufeldt said the committee was immediately impressed by Agho’s “proven record for guiding undergraduate and graduate academic and online programs from conception to robust health”.

Agho, who earned his doctorate in hospital and health administration in 1989 from the University of Iowa, was appointed a dean at University of Michigan-Flint in 2001.

He took the same office in 2008 at IUPUI, a 30,000-student research university ranked in the top 20 by U.S. News and World Report for its undergraduate teaching and graduate nursing programs.

“Dr. Agho has shined in academic leadership positions for more than 20 years,” Neufeldt said. “He is an

Augustine “Austin” O. Agho educator of vision and achievement who will serve Old Dominion well as an inspiring academic leader and advocate.”

As a research principal investigator or project director, Agho has received five funded grants worth $1 million or more for health careers opportunity programs. Included is a $1.9 million grant for the Indiana University Health Careers Opportunity Program from the Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources Services Administration.

In Michigan, he secured $1.2 million from the C.S. Mott Foundation to establish the Urban Health and Wellness Center to provide primary care and physical therapy services to underinsured local residents. And he secured an additional $2.4 million to design and implement programs aimed at increasing the enrollment of minority students in nursing and health science programs.

As a professor, Agho received numerous honors for teaching excellence at Sangamon State University - now the University of Illinois at Springfield - including the Meritorious Teaching Award in 1992. At Florida A&M University, Agho was named Teacher of the Year in 1999, recognized for Outstanding Research Achievement by the National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Research Network in 2000, and named Advanced Teacher of the Year in 2001.

At IUPUI, Agho led the development and implementation of two strategic plans through which the school established new undergraduate and graduate professional programs. Agho established faculty, staff and distinguished alumni awards, and adopted policies that supported efforts of faculty to conduct research and secure external grants. He increased alumni donations to fund student scholarship and strengthened the school’s commitment to diversity and the cultural competency of faculty, staff and students.

Agho also established bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in health sciences (online and oncampus), and a master's of physician assistant studies. Additionally, he created an undergraduate certificate program in gerontology, as well as undergraduate and graduate certificate programs in global health and rehabilitation studies, and rehabilitation and disability.

Annual average research funding at IUPUI increased during his tenure from $500,000 to $1.6 million, and

the minority student population at IUPUI increased from 6.5 percent to 18 percent.

“It is a profound honor to be appointed as the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Old Dominion University,” Agho said. “What made this position most attractive to me is ODU’s longstanding commitment to academic excellence, cutting-edge global research, online education, student success, diversity, and community engagement. I look forward to serving ODU and joining President Broderick and campus leadership to elevate the scholarly work of our faculty, advance the success of our students, and enhance the economic vitality of the Hampton Roads region.”

Agho graduated cum laude in management science from Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage.

He earned a master’s in health administration from Governors State University in University Park, Ill., before he earned his Ph.D. in hospital and health administration from the University of Iowa.

Outstanding faculty awardees The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) and Dominion Resources recently announced 13 Virginia professors as recipients of the 2016 Outstanding Faculty Award (OFA).

This statewide honor has been bestowed annually since 1987 to selected faculty members for their excellence in teaching, research, knowledge integration and public service. The OFA program, open to nominees from all public and private Virginia institutions of higher education, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.

“With Dominion’s support, this annual recognition of Virginia’s most outstanding faculty members is truly one of the agency’s most rewarding activities,” said SCHEV director Peter Blake.

This is Dominion’s 12th consecutive year sponsoring the the awards.

“When you read the nominations, you are struck by the passion these teachers exhibit for their subject matter and their devotion to sharing it with their students,” said Hunter A. Applewhite, president of the Dominion Foundation.

This year’s 13 recipients were selected from a pool of 92 nominees based on accomplishments that reflect the missions of their colleges and universities. They include Dr. Jacqueline E. Bixler, VT; Dr. John A. David, VMI; Dr. April L. Hill, UR; Dr. Michael F. Hochella, Jr., VT; Dr. William C. Hughes, JMU; Dr. Charles E. Hyde, ODU; Dr. Jennifer G. Kahn, W&M; Dr. James R. Kirkwood, Sweet Briar College; Dr. Sabita Manian, Lynchburg College; Jonathan A. Noyalas; Dr. Lawrence B. Schwartz, VCU; Dr. John P. Swaddle, W&M; and Dr. Everett L. Worthington, Jr., VCU.

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Final defendant sentenced in heroin trafficking group Jerald Outten, 26, of Portsmouth, was sentenced recently to 264 months in prison for his involvement in a heroin trafficking operation that was responsible for the distribution of between 30 and 90 kilograms of heroin with an estimated street value between $1.5 and $4.5 million dollars.

“The excellent coordination between federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies was critical in dismantling this group and so many others like them in 2015,” said Dana J. Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. “This case, and the resources and collaborative efforts used to investigate and prosecute it, is a prime example of the level of commitment and determination we have to combat the heroin crisis in the commonwealth of Virginia.”

“This case demonstrates the severity and degree to which sophisticated drug operations try to profit off of the addiction, despair, and pain of others and threaten the safety of the communities where they operate,” said Mark R. Herring, Attorney General of Virginia. “This outcome demonstrates the power of collaboration and our combined resolve to fight the heroin epidemic that has affected so many people in our Commonwealth and throughout the country.”

Outten, along with six coconspirators, were collectively sentenced to over 136 years in prison for their crimes. According to court documents, in the early morning hours of July 14, 2015, search warrants were executed simultaneously on 14 properties in Portsmouth, Chesapeake, and Suffolk, by more than 250 law enforcement officials from three states and the District of Columbia.

When Jerald Outten was arrested, police recovered a loaded handgun with a bullet in the chamber, $1,700 in cash, 135 grams of raw heroin, marijuana, and a cutting agent used to increase the volume and profitability of heroin.

According to court documents, Jerald Outten, brother of ring-leader Alonzo Outten, personally managed

Jerald Outten the wholesale distribution of over 24 kilograms of heroin during the course of the conspiracy. He was

often observed with a firearm during drug transactions. Jerald and Alonzo were responsible for supplying drugs to two violent Bloods gangs, Gorilla Mafira Piru and Imperial Gangsta Bloods (IGB), both of which have been dismantled, prosecuted, and sentenced. The IGB in particular was responsible for a number of violent acts in Portsmouth in 2014, including at least two shooting incidents with a rival drug trafficking organization that left homes of innocent citizens riddled with bullets.

The IGB’s leader, Chris Smith, aka Killa, was sentenced to life in prison plus five years on Oct. 30, 2015.

Gorilla Mafia Piru’s leader, Theodore Vann, aka Flatline, was sentenced to

16 years in prison Nov. 16, 2015.

Dana J. Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Mark R. Herring, Attorney General of Virginia; and John S. Adams, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Norfolk Field Office, made the announcement after sentencing by U.S. District Judge Mark S. Davis.

This case was investigated by the FBI’s Norfolk Field Office and the Chesapeake Police Department with the assistance of the Portsmouth Police Department, the Virginia State Police, and NCIS. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney John F. Butler, and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joseph E. DePadilla and Andrew C. Bosse prosecuted the case.

Route 134 Bridge Replacement Project York County Design Public Hearing Thursday, January 21, 2016, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Tabb Library (Across from the YMCA) 100 Long Green Boulevard, Yorktown, VA 23693 Find out about the proposed bridge replacement project for Route 134 over Brick Kiln Creek in York County.

Come and see the proposed project plans to rehabilitate the southbound bridge and replace the existing aging northbound bridge with a new bridge that meets current design standards on Route 134 over Brick Kiln Creek. The proposed bridges will have two 12-foot travel lanes with a 10-foot right shoulder and a 6-foot left shoulder in each direction.

Review the project information and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documentation at the public hearing, at the VDOT Hampton Roads District Office located at 1700 North Main Street, Suffolk, VA 23434, 757-925-2500, 1-800-367-7623, TTY/TDD 711, or at the VDOT Williamsburg Residency Office, 4451 Ironbound Road, Williamsburg, VA 23188, 757-253-5138.

Please call ahead to ensure the availability of appropriate personnel to answer your questions. Property impact information, relocation assistance policies and tentative construction schedules are available for your review at the above addresses and will be available at the public hearing.

Give your written or oral comments at the hearing or submit them by February 1, 2016, to Mr. Samba Secka, P.E., Project Manager, Virginia Department of Transportation, 1700 North Main Street, Suffolk, VA 23434. You may also email your comments to Samba.Secka@VDOT.Virginia.gov. Please reference “Route 134 Bridge Replacement Comment” in the subject line.

In compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act, Section 106 and 36 CFR Part 800, information concerning the potential effects of the proposed project on properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places is provided in the environmental documentation.

VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For more information or special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact VDOT’s Civil Rights Division at 757-925-2500 or TTY/TDD 711.

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Protestors, others, demand accountability after Rice verdict Protestors in Clevand recently demanded accountability after a grand jury cleared two Cleveland police officers in the November 2014 fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. A prosecutor said last week that there was not enough evidence to charge them.

“While the grand jury and the prosecutor have spoken, there remains a multitude of fundamental, unanswered questions,” according to a statement from the national NAACP. “The first of those questions is why the dispatcher failed to pass along to the responding officer essential details that the suspect was likely a juvenile, possibly waving a toy gun.

“The fatal shooting of Tamir Rice at the hands of a rookie officer might have been prevented if those crucial details had been provided.

“And has the value of the lives of our children been reduced to a decision made in less than two seconds? That is the amount of time it took for one officer to decide whether Tamir Rice should die….less than two seconds.

Life and death decisions are made every day by police officers across the

People protest a grand jury's decision not to indict two white Cleveland police officers in the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, a black 12-year-old boy who was playing with a pellet gun in Cleveland. PHOTO: Tony Dejak/WIRE country, but the benefit of the doubt is often given in the preservation of

white lives while the presumption of guilt, dangerousness and suspicion, time

after time, is reserved for black lives.

The grand jury heard testimony for weeks on the shooting of Rice, which took place within seconds after police arrived at a park next to a Cleveland recreation center in response to reports of a suspect with a gun. Rice died the next day.

Rice’s shooting is one of several cases that have raised questions about police use of deadly force in the United States, particularly against minorities. The officers are white and Rice was black.

Rice was playing with a replica handgun outside a recreation center when Officer Timothy Loehmann shot him twice within seconds of reaching the park in a squad car driven by his partner, Frank Garmback.

In a statement read to the grand jury and released by prosecutors, Loehmann said he yelled for Rice to show his hands and saw him pull a gun from his waistband before firing. Loehmann and Garmback also said in their statements they were concerned the armed suspect might enter the recreation center.

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Senators respond to Joint Center diversity report STACY M. BROWN NNPA-- Long before last month’s damning report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies that revealed a stunning lack of diversity among top staff in the U.S. Senate, Nevada Democratic Sen. Harry Reid had formed a means to assist offices with identifying and hiring a more diverse workforce.

Reid started the Democratic Diversity Initiative that, in addition to assisting with a more diverse workforce, would help those who want to work on Capitol Hill with understanding and navigating the job search process.

“A Senate workforce that reflects the diversity of our nation and is demographically representational of the constituents we serve,” Reid said of the initiative. “Our concept of diversity and inclusion embraces differences in race, ethnicity, religion, disability and sexual orientation as well as recognizes the military service of our veterans.”

The D.C.-based Joint Center – an African-American think tank – revealed that just 7 percent of the top staffers in the U.S. Senate are people of color, far below minorities’ representation in the population of the United States.

The report found only 24 staffers of color out of the 336 top Senate staffers working in Washington.

Further, minorities make up over 36 percent of the U.S. population, and over 28 percent of the citizen votingage population, according to the study.

Minorities are also underrepresented among U.S. senators.

There are two African-American senators, three Hispanics, and one Asian-American.

“I salute the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies for their long standing commitment to ensure the voices of all Americans especially the voices that are too often not represented in the legislative debate,” Reid said. “The recent study by the Joint Center illustrating the lack of staff diversity at the most senior levels of Senate offices serves as an important reminder of how much work we still need to do, but, I remain as committed as ever to the concept of staff diversity and stand behind the work of the Senate Democratic Diversity Initiative and its efforts to help ensure that our offices are more reflective of the constituents we serve.”

Luke Bolar, a spokesman for Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter, said the senator’s staff includes three minorities among its senior members.

Vitter’s Deputy Chief of Staff and Staff Director for the Senate Small Business Committee is Native

American; his Communication’s Director on the Senate Small Business Committee and his Capitol Region Director are Asian-American.

Vitter also employs five AfricanAmericans which represent 12 percent of his entire staff, Bolar said.

Bryan Watt, a press secretary for Washington State Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell noted that the Joint Center’s report applauded Cantwell for having at least one individual of color in a top staff position.

“Since the report came out, our senior staff now includes two people of color,” Watt said.

Also, a spokesman for California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer said their office works with Reid’s Democratic Diversity Initiative, maintaining and sharing a database of candidates for open senate staff positions at all levels while holding professional development meetings, informational interviews, public forums and resume and cover letter tutorials.

Boxer’s office also helps with recruitment and placement of interns and job candidates while also promoting mentoring, networking, partnerships with outside organizations and other initiatives for individuals of color.

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They were only able to find 12 Asian-American, seven Latino, three African-American and two NativeAmerican staffers.

The top Senate staffers wield important influence with their bosses, and help shape legislation and policies that affect everyone, Jones said.

“You need to have people from all walks of life in the room making decisions,” said Jones, a Ph.D. candidate in the sociology department at Columbia University.

Working for the Senate also opens doors to other jobs in government, and by not getting those first congressional jobs, minorities find it more difficult to move up a government ladder that looks favorably upon Capitol Hill experience, he said.

Minorities make up larger numbers in the Democratic Party than they do in the GOP, but the study noted that the number of minority staffers was not that different between the two

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The U.S. Treasury Department will host a ceremony to mark the 150th anniversary of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company (Freedman’s Bank) and name the Treasury Annex building the Freedman’s Bank Building at 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in D.C. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew, Assistant Secretary for Management Brodi Fontenot, Howard University Department of Economics Chair Dr. William Spriggs, and Liberty Bank and Trust President and CEO Alden McDonald will deliver remarks and reflect on the legacy of the Freedman’s Bank.

The Freedman’s Bank was established in 1865 to create an opportunity for wealth-building among the nation’s four million newly emancipated AfricanAmericans. During its nearly 10-year existence, approximately 100,000 African-American individuals and institutions amassed $57 million in the bank’s Washington, D.C. headquarters and its branches in 37 cities across 17 states. Despite the closing of the Freedman’s Bank in 1874, it remains a significant part of American history and this event will highlight the historical significance of the bank and its original mission – to promote economic integration and financial inclusion.

The Treasury Annex building in Washington, D.C. stands on the site of the original bank.

1.8, 6 p.m.

Virginia Legislative Black Caucus 2016 Capitol Reception takes place Jan. 11, 6 p.m. at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 200 N. Boulevard, Richmond.

The event will include a special showing of The Hollywood Costumes Exhibit. Contributions and sponsorships can be submitted to: Virginia Legislative Black Caucus P.O. Box 7428, Hampton Va 23666 RSVP by Jan. 8. For more information, call 757-287-0277.

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Community input sought as search for new superintendent begins The Chesterfield County School Board has hired BWP & Associates to conduct a national search for the next superintendent of Chesterfield County Public Schools. BWP & Associates representatives Dr. Kevin Castner and Dr. Wayne Harris attended a recent School Board meeting to discuss the search and selection process.

BWP & Associates has conducted a number of superintendent searches in Virginia during the past few years, recently leading a superintendent search for Hanover County Public Schools. The national search firm will seek a successor to Dr. Marcus Newsome, who announced in the fall that he would retire at the end of the 2015-16 school year.

The search will include a lengthy period for public input, including a survey available to all residents and a number of community forums.

“Community engagement is a critical first step in identifying our next leader,” said School Board Chair Carrie Coyner. “There is no more important decision we will make than selecting the right superintendent for our school division. We need the community to share with us what characteristics and qualities are important to them in a leader. From there, we will work with BWP & Associates to identify the right match.”

An online survey will be available at mychesterfieldschools.com from midDecember through January. Details will be announced soon.

A series of community forums and meetings with individual stakeholder groups will be held as well. The tentative schedule for community meetings is · 7 p.m. Jan. 19: Matoaca District at Cosby High School · 7 p.m. Jan. 19: Clover Hill and Midlothian districts at Clover Hill High School · 7 p.m. Jan. 20: Bermuda District at Carver Middle School · 7 p.m. Jan. 20: Dale District at Meadowbrook High School Information gathered from the online survey and stakeholder meetings will help create a leadership profile. This profile will help the search firm · learn strengths and needs of Chesterfield County Public Schools to recruit the best candidates · be able to describe the opportunities provided by the school division to potential candidates · engage the community to build support for the search

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The 2016 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade will be held in Newport News at New Beech Grove Baptist Church, 326 Tabbs Ln. Parade applications are available now for this event and will be posted online at www.southeastdayparade.com.

The public is invited to attend with assembly at 1:30 p.m. at New Beech Grove Baptist Church. The Parade will kick-off at 1:45 p.m. from New Beech Grove Baptist Church and proceed to Warwick Boulevard at the Tabbs Lane Intersection and turn right on Warwick Boulevard.

The Parade will proceed on Warwick Boulevard to the Sherwood Plaza Intersection and continue to 13177 Warwick Boulevard (Sherwood Plaza Shopping Center) in Newport News where the parade will disassemble. The Dr. MLK, Jr. Parade Program site will commence at New Beech Grove Baptist Church and conclude in the Sherwood Plaza Shopping Center.

The Drumline Champions Calvary Cardinals Pathfinder Club Drum Corps from Calvary Seventh Day Adventist Church in Newport News and New Generation Marching Band from Portsmouth, Virginia will highlight the parade with energetic routines, to name a few.

Ongoing

GRASP (GReat Aspirations Scholarship Program, Inc.) will provide free, financial aid assistance to include the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) on Mondays from 6-8 p.m. from January through March at the Belmont Library (3100 Ellwood Ave., Richmond.)

Call 804-527-7743 for more information or to schedule your hourlong appointment. More information is available at the GRASP website, www.grasp4va.org or www. richmondpubliclibrary.org.

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Famed psychiatrist, “Isis Papers” author, dies STACY M. BROWN NNPA -- Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, the famed 80-year-old afrocentrist, has died.

Welsing’s death was announced Jan. 2 by close friends on social media and later confirmed by family members.

“RIP to the elder, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, the inspiration behind ‘Fear of a Black Planet,’” said Chuck D, the leader of the groundbreaking rap group, Public Enemy, whose 1990 “Fear of a Black Planet” album sold more than one million copies in less than two weeks and is viewed as one of the greatest and most important recordings ever.

Popular Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said Welsing died of complications from a stroke she suffered earlier in the week.

“Our great teacher and leader has transitioned into the realms of the ancestors,” said designer Inl Vibez.

“I give thanks for all the powerful word sound and knowledge she has shared. Let us learn from the teachings of this divine queen and move accordingly.”

Welsing was admitted Thursday to

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It found that 8.1 percent of the Democrats’ top Senate staffers were minorities and 6.7 percent of the top Republican staffers were minorities.

The report noted that people of color make up about 37 percent of those who identify as Democrats, and 9 percent of those who identify as Republicans.

“Increasing the presence of people of color in senior staff positions in the Senate will amplify the voices and perspectives of communities of color and in the process enhance the quality of legislative deliberations,” said Spencer Overton, president of the Joint Center.

The think tank is calling on senators to increase diversity by interviewing more minorities for top positions, hiring more minority interns and starting fellowships for minority staffers.

It also called on the Senate to be more transparent in its staffing because — unlike many government agencies — Congress is not required

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing MedStar Washington Medical Center in Northwest and was eventually placed on a ventilator. It is believed that the decision to remove Welsing from life support machines occurred after the arrival from Chicago of her sister, Loren Cress Love.

Born in Chicago on March 18, 1935, Welsing, a psychiatrist, is noted for her “Cress Theory of Color Confrontation,” which explores the practice of white supremacy.

In 1991, she authored the book, “The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors,” where she stated that a system is practiced by the global white minority, on both conscious to monitor the race and ethnicity of its workforce.

Researchers said they combed online profiles, consulted with Senate organizations and called Senate offices to come up with their numbers. However, not all U.S. senators were eager to put stock into the Joint Center’s finding.

“Instead of this narrow measurement, a real picture of diversity would include a senator’s staff in the state and their committee staff,” said John LaBombard, a spokesman for Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill.

“When the broader picture is taken, it demonstrates Sen. McCaskill’s strong commitment to diversity with almost one-quarter of her staff being people of color including several members of her leadership team, like her committee staff director who is the only African-American committee staff director in the Senate,” LaBombard said, adding that a “strong majority” of McCaskill’s senior staff is made up of women, and several LGBT staff members, including leadership staff.

and unconscious levels, to ensure their genetic survival by any means necessary.

Welsing said this system attacks people of color, particularly people of African descent, in the nine major areas of people’s activity: economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war.

She said she believes that it is imperative that people of color, especially people of African descent, understand how the system of white supremacy works in order to dismantle it and bring true justice to planet Earth.

Welsing appeared in the 2005

documentary, “500 Years Later,” and the 2011 film, “Hidden Colors: The Untold History of People of Aboriginal, Moor, and African Descent.”

Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), praised Welsing and her legacy.

“May God bless the living legacy and memory of freedom fighter Dr. Frances Cress Welsing. On behalf of the National Newspapers Publishers Association, we mourn the passing of our beloved sister and freedom fighter,” Chavis said in a statement.

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