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AU Protest Aimed at Racists on Campus ‘The Struggles of Being a Black Student at a Predominately-White Institution’

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer The words on Ben Carr’s T-shirt resonated in many ways for the hundreds of protestors outside of American University

in Northwest on Monday.

“So Damn Black,” read the letters on the front of the shirt that snuggly fit Carr’s broad shoulders. And, perhaps, it was the completion of that slogan that hammered home a single power-

ful message: “So Damn Proud.”

The protests were held after several alleged incidents of racism that led the AU Student Government Senate to unan-

As an often raucous, noholds-barred political season draws to a close and with less than 50 days remaining until the November 8th elections, no one knows for sure what will happen on Monday, Sept.

26 on primetime television.

That’s when former Secretary of State and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton squares off against Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman who surprised the country in his primary election victory earlier this year over a bevy of seasoned politicians and will represent the Republican Party in the first of a series of presidential debates.

What’s certain, however – candidates from both the

Green and Libertarian Party will not be on stage. Neither party met the qualification of polling at 15 percent or higher.

And while the Third Party teams could prove to be spoilers, making it more difficult for either Clinton or Trump to succeed President Barack Obama in the White House, the majority of Americans don’t seem to be phased. In fact, if predictions bear out, a record number of citizens will watch the debates, the first of three between Clinton and Trump, which may well emerge as one of the highest-rated shows in television history.

That, in itself, is a real achievement.

NBC Nightly News Anchor Lester Holt will serve as the

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Donna Edwards: Reflects on Her Past and Future Former Senate Candidate Prepares for Life Away from Congress

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Maryland) hosted two sessions last week – the first addressing the political power of Black millennials and the second examining the gap between Blacks and whites in organ donations during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.’s 46th Annual

Legislative Conference in Northwest.

Near the end of the first discussion, the Rev. Tony Lee described what happened when Edwards attended an election watch party several years ago, addressing his comments to her.

“At that point we didn’t have the thousands of members we have now.

We never forgot that,” said Lee, 48, senior pastor of Community Hope AME Church in Hillcrest Heights.

“It shows you weren’t too big to be

with working-class and no-class folks. You will always be a blessing.”

Edwards, serving in her fourth term on Capitol Hill, will complete some of her final duties in the 4th Congressional district that includes portions of Prince George’s and Anne Arundel counties before her term expires in January. She lost in a heated Democratic primary in April against Montgomery County

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Marlow help people begin to have a dia- We need to address both the vicshared her story with the audi- logue about domestic violence. tim and the batterer,” Marlow ence at the District Heights Also present at the event was said.

Domestic Violence Symposium Mildred Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see on May 7 at the District Heights Aswife of John Allenreturned Muhammad, programs designed the D.C. Council to work this week, their focus andto that raise of Mayor Municipal Center. The sympo-Muriel who was sentenced to six consecawareness among children Bowser Oprah Winfrey seem to be on different fronts. Bowser wantsinthem sium was sponsored by the utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She to address law enforcement concerns while the Council apparently wants to inFamily and Youth Services by a Maryland jury for his role in feels children need to be educatstitute labor-friendly legislation like guaranteed paid family and personal medical Center of the city of District the Beltway Sniper attacks in ed about domestic violence. to District workers.

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“Color Me Butterfly,” which is along a survivors of domestic violence Marlow said.

Council Chairman Phil Mendelson says he remains to be seen story about four generations of But and their children.

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Books” Award. that she may be in “survival Tia Carol Jones can be reached “I was just 16-years-old when mode”. at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net my eye first blackened and my “Before you get to 'I'm going In addressing an ongoing controversy that first began earlier this spring, lips bled,” Marlow said. to kill you,' it started as a verbal WI the U.S.Davis-Nickens, Department ofpresiJustice recently initiated an investigation into Elaine whether located in the central region of the Commondent of theCulpeper NationalCounty, Hook-Up of Virginia, ofwealth Black Women, saiddiscriminated there is no against a local Muslim congregation when county leaders denied a utility permit to serve a future mosque site, pursuant consistency in the way domestic to the Religious violence issues areLand dealt Use with&byInstitutionalized Persons Act of 2000.

The county board split 4-3 in their April decision, after delaying their decision in March, to reject the Islamic Center of Culpeper’s request for a pump and haul permit to serve bathrooms at a planned mosque site on Route 229, just outside of the city.

The aforementioned Act seeks to protect individuals, houses of worship and other religious institutions from discrimination in zoning laws. County officials say they believe their actions will be found in compliance with the law. But if the Justice Department finds otherwise, the mosque could seek and be awarded a significant settlement from the court.

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We have to stop being passive-aggressive with poor children about domestic violence. I plan to take these policies to Congress and Terrorist Fears in U.S. Rise after Weekend of Bombings, Knife Attacks implore them to change our Three incidents, explosions in New York and New Jersey and a stabbing attack in Minnesota, all taking place within a 12-hour period last Saturday, have rampedlaws. up fears of terrorism in the U.S. I will not stop until Twenty-nine people were injured in the Manhattan Chelsea neighborhood after a bomb exploded in a garbage can with a second bombing incident taking place along the route of a scheduled race in Seaside Park, New Jersey. The these are injured. passed. stabbings occurred at a St. Cloud, Minnesota shopping mall where policies nine people were reported

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Hip-Hop Artist, NAACP Combine Forces to Engage Young Voters

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Chance the Rapper will Register Voters at Fall Concerts

By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer A critically acclaimed rapper is pairing with a historic civil rights organization to mobilize young voters to get to the polls in November.

The NAACP's Youth and College Division and Chance the Rapper will register thousands of concertgoers to vote this fall as part of the organization's "Stay Woke and Vote" campaign.

"Chance the Rapper is an artist whose music praises and lifts up our common humanity, and whose call for action speaks to the yearning of this moment," said NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks. "This year, more than it has in a generation, we must use the power of our voices and our votes and exercise our sacred right to vote."

A native of Chicago, Chance's socially conscious art has him at the forefront of the new voices for black millennials.

"Voting and becoming knowledgeable about this year's upcoming presidential election is imperative," Chance said. "With a great deal of help from the NAACP, I have been able to provide this awesome opportunity for people to sign up and make the pledge to vote at a few of my upcoming shows.

"This is super important to me because I want my fans to know that their voices matter and that their vote counts now more than ever," he said.

The NAACP Youth and College Division said in a statement that music provides a unique opportunity to engage people to become active, informed and vocal citizens, particularly now with the Black Lives Matter movement, police brutality, criminal justice, and voting rights issues are all at the forefront of national conversations.

"This is super important to me because I want my fans to know that their voices matter and that their vote counts now more than ever."

They assert that they want to bring the intersection of arts and activism to inspire civic action for a new generation.

Registration drives are scheduled to begin at Chance's own Magnificent Coloring Day Festival in Chicago on Saturday, Sept. 24.

The drives will continue to accompany his concerts through Oct. 21 in Fairfax, Virginia; Raleigh, North Carolina; Atlanta; Miami; Tallahassee, Florida; New Orleans; Houston; Dallas and San Francisco.

"Chance the Rapper is a unique artist whose independence is a reflection of our millennial generation, who for the first time match the number of baby Boomers in the electorate" said Stephen Green, director of the NAACP offshoot. "We're pleased to join with Chance and the millions of young people who this year will become passionate activists and agents of change."

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1828 – Shaka Zula, monarch of Africa's Zulu Kingdom, is assassinated.

1862 – President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million black slaves in the United States.

1950 – Civil rights icon Ralph Bunche becomes the first African-American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1960 – African nation Mali gains its independence from France.

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1863 – NAACP charter member Mary Church Terrell, who was the first African-American woman appointed to a school board of a major U.S.city as a member of the D.C. board of education, is born in Memphis.

1884 – Judy W. Reed receives a patent for the bread kneading machine, becoming the first African-American woman known to receive a U.S. patent.

1926 – Pioneering jazz saxophonist John Coltrane is born in Hamlet, North Carolina.

1930 – Music legend Ray Charles is born in Albany, Georgia.

1998 – President Clinton presents Nelson Mandela with the Congressional Gold Medal for his anti-apartheid efforts.

1937 – Singer Bessie Smith, known as "Empress of the Blues," dies in an automobile accident in Clarksdale, Mississippi, at age 43.

1981 – Tennis great Serena Williams is born in Saginaw, Michigan.

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1827 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first African-American U.S. senator, is born in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

1912 – W.C. Handy publishes the sheet music to "Memphis Blues," one of the earliest known blues songs.

1950 – Gwendolyn Brooks is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry "Annie Allen," becoming the first African-American to win the honor.

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1957 – Nine Black students integrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas.

1964 – The Executive Order 11246, which enforces affirmative action, is signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

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1861 – The Union Navy allows blacks to enlist for service for the first time during the Civil War. 1886 – Peter "The Black Prince" Jackson wins the Australian heavyweight title, becoming the first Black man to win a national boxing crown.

1968 – Famed rapper/actor Will Smith is born in Philadelphia.

1974 – Barbara Hancock becomes first African-American woman to be named a White House fellow.

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1929 – Ida Stephens Owens, the nation's first African-American female biochemist, is born in Newark, New Jersey.

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What message should Black leaders share with the Black community as Election Day nears? STEPHEN WRIGHT /

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I believe they should focus on the independence of our people through economic solidarity and overall growth in all areas.

Money is power in this country and we need to redirect our resources to benefit us. As a people, we need to strengthen our communities by educating our youth, empowering them to secure our future and to live without fear.

REGINALD GILKESSON / BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

I would start with these points: race, gender and immigrant equality. There needs to be educational funding for underserved schools, teachers and students with the inclusion of HBCU institutions. In terms of police brutality, there needs to be prosecution for police officers who unjustly kill unarmed people. We need student loan forgiveness and, lastly, quality health care for all Americans.

WENDY SKINNER / WASHINGTON, D.C.

I think, moving forward, those in leadership roles should push for us to challenge ourselves to be a part of the process. First things first, vote! And not just in presidential elections. The black vote is powerful and the only way we will begin to tackle the concerns within our communities is to be part of the change our president spoke of when he was elected. If these past years have taught us nothing, it should be that we must do this ourselves. We're not going to get any help from others. We must demand accountability from our elected officials from assemblyman to the president, but we have to make our presence known.

ANDRE GRANT /

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I think the message they should want to get out is to focus on your local elections.

Obama won two terms and it's over. So these elections are more crucial than ever, especially here locally in South Carolina.

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WASHINGTON, D.C.

I think they should just do what they can.

Keep emphasizing how it is everyone's right and responsibility to make the best choice for their family today and tomorrow. I think if they make it plain with what we could lose and what is on the line, then people will respond, but saying vote just to vote isn't going to mobilize anyone.

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The World According to Dominic

“Memo to Black College Students: Racism Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” Recent protests led by Black students at American University here in D.C. remind me of my days at the University of Michigan, Emory University and Princeton Theological Seminary where I earned undergraduate and graduate degrees.

During my matriculation at all three of these predominantly-white institutions of higher learning, I experienced multiple forms of racism.

Sometimes it was subtle – other times more obvious, even blatant.

And it came from a variety of sources – from students and administrators to tenured professors who should have known better or at least been more aware. I recall one professor telling me on the first day of my doctoral studies at Princeton, that I might as well drop his course because there was no way I would pass – given my lack of previous studies related to his discipline. Needless to say, I proved him wrong.

So, with the student unrest now going on at American University, my message to today’s Black coeds remains simple: “Racism Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere.”

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Naturally, I wish I could say something else. Share words that confirm how far we’ve come as a nation. Pontificate on the “new reality” that we are now living in a colorless society and that we have truly and finally “overcome.” But that would be preaching false notions and ignoring the facts.

At every turn, we continue to see the vestiges of racism, prejudice and slavery manifesting themselves in the thoughts, words and deeds of our fellow Americans. That’s why those of us who have already walked the walk and felt the sting of racial hatred must share our stories with each generation.

I remember feeling like a “footnote on the pages of life” when I first arrived on the campus of U of M (that’s Michigan, not Maryland) over 30 years ago. I recall walking into my dorm room and seeing a young white student from Arizona who made it clear that he would not and could not share a room with someone Black. I also remember putting him out – replacing him with one of my high school friends

– a brother also from Detroit.

We were a very small group – less than 5 percent on a campus of over 120,000 – but we stuck together.

We studied, partied, commiserated, complained and celebrated among ourselves. And we remembered the lessons our parents had taught us – keeping our heads held high, doing our very best academically and making those who loved us proud of our accomplishments.

We realized that “the man” didn’t want us there. But we knew we had a right to be there and we claimed it at every opportunity.

James Brown expressed our sentiments when he shouted “Say it Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud.”

So, for the young folks at American University and those at other colleges and universities across this great nation, just remember that while the times may change, intractable attitudes do not – at least not without struggle and sacrifice and a huge spoonful of patience and prayer.

The battle is NOT over.

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CBCF Town Hall Confronts Systemic Racism in U.S.

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Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Obama, called for reform within the criminal justice system, noting how Obama has had to commute more than 673 inmates.

"Right now, both the House and the Senate are taking up legislation that will reduce mandatory sentences," she said. "It does not end mass incarceration, but it isA a step in the right direction."

Additional panelists at the town hall meeting included Rep. Bobby Scott, economist

and writer Julianne Malveaux, National Urban League President Marc Morial, Service Employees International Union President LaTanja Silvester and Jahmal Miller, deputy director of the Office of Health Equity in the California Department of Public Health.

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5Suzanne Malveaux (right) participates in the National Town Hall Meeting

panel with (from left) National Urban League President Marc Morial; Brittany N. Packnett, executive director of the St. Louis chapter of Teach for America; and Melina Abdullah, professor and chair of Pan-African studies at California State University during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in D.C. on Sept. 15. / Photo by Patricia Little

By Lauren Poteat WI Contributing Writer The causes and effects of the lack of accountability and trust between black citizens and white law enforcement officials loomed as the major topic Thursday at Congressional Black Caucus's National Town Hall Meeting.

The meeting at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in northwest D.C. shed light on the unaccountable police brutality, extended prison sentences for nonviolent crimes, the need for current voters to be politically aware and issues concerning what may come during the next presidential administration.

April Ryan, White House correspondent and bureau chief of the American Urban Radio Network, moderated the town hall meeting, sharing her perspective on what is at stake.

"Just last night we heard about another 13-year-old boy killed by a police officer in Ohio," she said. "We have children as young as preschool being suspended from school, we have issues of health care, we have judges that cannot get a confirmation hearing, we have high incarceration rates. And so, we have a lot at stake."

The "Black Lives Matters" movement was a hot-button topic during the panel.

Melina Abdullah, town hall panelist and professor and chair of the Pan-African studies department at California State

University, talked of the various ways that black people still experience oppression in the United States.

"When we talk about black lives matter, what we're doing is acknowledging the positioning of black people," she said.

"We black people find ourselves at the bottom of every social, economic and political measure, so we are absolutely the second wave of lynching that we are facing, where black people are killed more now than the first wave of the lynching era.

"And so, when we say black lives matter, we are talking about a condition that black people still face in an America, that is still extremely racist and oppressive," Abdullah said. "So we don't have to address it. We don't have to say every life matters. Of course, that is a given.

What the history of this country is, is that black lives have not mattered."

Brittany Packnett, vice president of the National Community Alliances, also shared her perspective on the Black Lives Matter movement and the dire need for police reform.

"What I think is critically important is that we do not let people off of the hook in talking simply about trust," she said.

"People want to just talk about relationships and community-police relations, as if you handing me an ice cream cone is going to save my life. Ice cream is nice, not killing us is better."

"I will trust you, when you

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AROUND THE REGION PROTEST from Page 1 imously pass a resolution condemning those acts.

“I went there, not as a student, but as a concerned African-American parent who knows what it’s like for our children to be discriminated against and who knows what it’s like when nothing is done about the matter,” Carr said during a telephone interview Monday evening.

He declined to say whether he had children or relatives who attend AU. His T-shirt, he said, was the message the media and others should deliver.

On Sept. 8, an African-American woman reported that someone threw a banana at her while she was in her dorm room and another Black woman said she found a rotten banana outside her door along with obscene drawings on the whiteboard attached to her door.

Further, officials at AU’s Black Student Alliance, which represents African-American groups on campus, said Black students at the college have experienced blatant racism that include the N-word written on doors.

They said messages like “go back to Africa” have also been scrawled on school property at the school which, according to Forbes Magazine, has a student population of just over 13,000.

Student body demographics: 62 percent female and 38 percent male. More than half – 55 percent – are white while 10.5 percent are considered Hispanic or Latino and 6.2 percent are listed as African-American.

“American University’s negligence is what has allowed this to happen. There’s a reason students feel comfortable [enough] to assault Black students on campus,” Black Student Alliance President Ma’at Sargeant said during Monday’s protest.

“Nothing is ever done; no AU alerts, no consequences. Just town halls where we speak to deaf ears,” Sargeant said.

AU’s Black Student Alliance, an umbrella organization for Black groups on campus, said racial hatred has sparked outrage on campus and prompted a call to suspend the students who were involved.

They said this isn’t the first time Black students at the university have experienced blatant racism. Protesters said the university has a history of ignoring racism.

“Nothing is ever done; no AU

5Anger and frustration over racial attacks have caused havoc on the campus of American University. / Photo courtesy WTOP alerts, no consequences. Just town halls where we speak to deaf ears,” Sargeant said.

AU officials have said the students responsible for the incidents have been disciplined.

“In recent days, two incidents of unacceptable student behavior were reported that left our African-American students and others shaken, upset, and even feeling unsafe,” University President Neil Kerwin said in a memo released on Monday.

“The second act of misconduct involved an explicit racist incident in a residence hall,” Kerwin said. “Such acts are reprehensible and are the antithesis of the values and standards we embrace as a university.”

Kerwin expressed “deep disappointment” and “frustration” that those events have disrupted American University, challenging efforts to build an inclusive campus culture.

“They simply have no place here. We will confront racist expressions with forceful condemnation and respond to discrimination with every tool at our disposal. It is incumbent on the university to respond clearly and to educate those who cause harm with their insensitivity and ignorance,” he said.

Meanwhile, AU Student Government President Dovontae Torriente said the community is hurting and Black students are feeling excluded, unsafe and threatened, all of which are unacceptable.

“The Residence Life and Dean of Students offices acted swiftly to investigate the matter and determine what exactly happened.

We can rest assured that they are doing all they can to resolve the matter on their end, but we

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have to continue to hold them responsible for the sake of our students,” Torriente said.

“I think the larger context of the situation has to be considered. The hurt and pain that our Black students endure do not stem from this one instance; they are part of the more systemic and institutional issue of racism that pervades the nation and the

world,” he said.

“It speaks to the struggles of being a Black student at a predominately white institution and the discrimination we face in the classroom and in the residence halls, at the hands of our professors and our peers. As a Black student, I know that we have every right to be fed up,” Torriente said.

“What we experience on a daily basis can be demoralizing and weigh heavily on us. As your president, I implore each and every member of our community to continue to work to devise solutions and hold each other accountable. Let us not only do better, but let us do better together,” he said.

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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY Prince George's Vies for Redskins' Affection

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill

Prince George's County Executive Rushern L. Baker III is a die-hard Washington Redskins fan — and he has at least 6 million reasons to keep his beloved burgundy and gold in the county.

The county is projected to receive $6 million in tax revenue generated by the eight Redskins home games this year at FedEx Field in Landover, money that Baker said is as important to the county as the team itself.

"It is not just having a team here [and] not just having a stadium here," he said. "It's really about having the ability of economic development that's spread around that team being here."

Baker led a "Redskins Rally" on Sept. 7 in front of the county administration building in Upper Marlboro, five days before Washington's first regular season game and home opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The Redskins cheerleaders and the team's play-by-play announcer Larry Michael participated in the rally. Former Redskin punt returner and county resident Ken Jenkins also showed up along with dozens of other faithful Redskin fans for the event, which was part of "Redskins Kickoff Week."

But Prince George's isn't the team's only suitors in the region.

A similar rally was held Sept. 10 in Ashburn, Virginia, just a short distance from Redskins Park, the team's headquarters.

Julie Miner Dillon, vice president of marketing for One Loudoun, a burgeoning 358-acre residential and business community, said that Redskins officials contacted the company to host the rally, but declined to comment on the possibility of the team coming to Virginia.

"We love having the rally here," she said minutes before it started. "As One Loudoun grows, we continue to just evolve."

Although the team has been in

5Prince George's County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (left) speaks during a Washington Redskins rally outside the administration building in Upper Marlboro on Sept. 7. / Mike Yourishin/Office of the County Executive

Prince George's since 1997 when late Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke relocated the team from the District, current owner Daniel Snyder said in an interview on Comcast SportsNet on Sept. 1 he wants a new stadium. It would resemble RFK Stadium in Southeast, the Redskins' former home, he said.

The lease in Landover expires in 2027.

A Redskins spokesman said in an email Sept. 9 the team's focus remained on the opening game against Pittsburgh.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAullife visited the team's training camp last month in Richmond and didn't hide his feelings about the Redskins coming to his state.

"I view this as a Virginia team," McAuliffe said on ESPN 980 AM.

"I know they're in Maryland right now. But a majority of the season ticket holders are Virginians, all the players live in Virginia, we have all of [the practice] facilities. … We're in very serious negotiations, as I assume other jurisdictions are. Listen, we would love to have them."

In Prince George's, the Redskins help fuel the county's economic engine. Besides the $6 million tax projection, an additional $750,000 to $1.5 million could be generated if the team makes the playoffs and host one or more home games, Carl Smith, marketing director of the county's Conference and Visitors Bureau, said in an email.

Smith said the Redskins also help bring in thousands of dollars from indirect revenue such as overnight stays at local hotels,

shopping and dining.

According to a document from the bureau, the county's projected to receive more than $17 million from the admissions and amusement tax this year, putting Redskins' estimated contribution at nearly 35 percent.

Baker said future projects such as a mixed-used development with 4,340 residential units, a 653-room hotel and businesses near Largo Town Center Metro station will entice the Redskins to remain in Prince George's.

"All of the things [Redskins officials] are going to look for in terms of fan experience … to come before and after a game, they are going to find right here," he said. "Downtown Largo will give them the urban type of atmosphere they want."

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While many of these are laudable-where are the proposals

that provide incentives for small businesses? Of course, businesses step up to the plate and pay taxes and, in the Prince George’s Chamber, 65% of our members supported an increase in wages.

However, in congruence with many of these proposals is a need for balance for businesses to thrive.

Government can help small businesses through its procurement programs and unbundling major bids. The latter will broaden opportunities for small businesses to bid as primes instead of sub-contractors. Extending the public space for small business procurement will improve their bottom line and help them survive in a climate of increased

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costs.

Small businesses are essential for job creation. Roughly 65% of the population work in a small business, so- their sustainability must be in the forefront of any policy. With the Washington Region and Prince George’s County being the epicenter of growth and economic development, a conversation is needed on forging an inclusive economy where entrepreneurship is supported and benefits are connected to a meaningful quality of life.

On an entirely different note, the Prince George’s Chamber of Commerce, on October 7th will host its Annual Excellence in Business Awards Gala at the Gaylord Hotel, National Har-

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bor. Confirmed guests include: Prince George’s County Executive, Rushern L. Baker III; Maryland Senate President, Mike Miller; County Council Chair, Derrick Leon Davis; Councilman Mel Franklin, District 9; Councilman Todd M. Turner, District 4; State’s Attorney, Angela D. Alsobrooks; and being honored as a County Trailblaz-

er, former Maryland Secretary of Aging & State Senator, the Honorable Gloria G. Lawlah.

Top business leaders, PGCOC Board of Directors members as well as Chamber members are also attending and this will be an amazing event to connect with them. Please visit our website: www.pgcoc.org to get tickets! See you there!

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County Council Presses Prince George's Schools on Abuse Scandals

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Prince George's County Council grilled school officials for more than two hours Monday, Sept. 19 on how the school system will improve amid allegations of child abuse in the Head Start program and on a school bus.

Although the council doesn't hire and fire school employees, it holds sway as the authority over the county's education budget.

"I don't want anyone to be mistaken that the County Council is attempting to usurp the responsibility and authority of the board of education," said Council Chairman Derrick Leon Davis (D-District 6) of Upper Marlboro. "It is our responsibility to make sure we are functioning at best."

Schools CEO Kevin Maxwell reiterated that employees received positive behavior reinforcement training and how to properly report child abuse, stressing that there is now a process in place for him and his management team to receive information sooner about child neglect allegations.

He said this stems from the creation of a Student Safety Task Force after a former teacher's aide and school volunteer was charged earlier this year with producing child pornography at a Glenardern elementary school and other locations.

The task force recommendations issued in May include a new Office of Monitoring, Accountability and Compliance to oversee the fidelity of training and other new procedures for staff to be mandated reporters, which means an employee must report any suspected abuse to Child Protective Services or the police.

The previous policy changed several months ago allowed an employee to report it to an immediate supervisor, which at times was reported late.

Council Vice Chairwoman Dannielle Glaros (D-District 3) of Riverdale Park agreed with the policy change that all school employees should report possible abuse, but top school officials must also be informed in a timely fashion.

"I am concerned about getting the process right," she said. "When people know about different things is important. We still have a long way to do that better."

Maxwell agreed.

"I'm still angry and frustrated by the length of time that has passed

between certain incidents and the reporting, but we will get that right," he said. "We must improve. We cannot wait. I am committed to doing my part and to making sure that our employees understand the consequences if they fail to do theirs."

Because of the ongoing allegations, several residents will rally Monday, Sept. 26 at the county administration building in Upper Marlboro to push state legislators to repeal House Bill 1170, which allows the county executive to appoint the chair and vice chair of the school board and also select the chief executive officer, or superintendent, provided by a search committee.

Tonya Wingfield of Bowie, one of the rally organizers, said County Executive Rushern L. Baker III is complicit by his inaction.

"I think a lot of people are just fed up with what's going on lately," she said. "[Baker] is ignoring everything.

He is ignoring that kids were abused.

He has refused to change leadership, but it is obvious there is corruption."

A father whose 4-year-old son was allegedly abused by a school bus aide said Child Protective Services contacted him last month to help determine whether his son is in any video footage with the aide dating back to November.

Police confirmed school officials contacted them in June to investigate the matter, but no criminal charges have yet been filed, though Maxwell said there could be a resolution this week.

That incident came in the wake of the county losing more than $6 million in federal funding for its Head Start program after an investigation turned up several instances of child abuse and humiliation, including one child being forced to mop up his own urine after accidentally wetting himself.

School officials said the Head Start employees in question were removed from the classrooms and no longer allowed to work in county schools.

"I am extremely frustrated and disgusted over the things that have happened in the past year," said Councilwoman Andrea Harrison (D-District 5) of Springdale. "While I appreciate everything here that has been said, but it is not much comfort to the parents and residents of this county. We pay a boatload of taxes and we expect to get better than what we have been seeing."

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BUSINESS Respectful Children Praised During Good Manners Month

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer "Yes, sir" or "Yes, ma'am."

"No, sir" or "No, ma'am."

Some years ago, those words out of the mouths of young ones were not only expected when addressing an adult, anything outside of that kind of good etiquette was considered surprising and even disrespectful.

September is National Children's Good Manners month, but parents today don't have to worry just about teaching their young ones to say "please" and "thank you" or to be polite.

One of the biggest challenges faced by parents today is tackling the issue of digital manners, said officials from Busy Kids, an organization that helps parents raise responsible children.

The organization's CEO, Gregg Murset, is the father of six children and founder of the

website MyJobChart.com,which teaches children about work and money.

Murset noted that those of all ages feel empowered by a level of anonymity and physical distance online, and as a result, emails, text messages and communications on social media are often harsher and more degrading than what would be expressed in person.

"Simply put, people feel free to be meaner online and parents must teach their children how to react if someone treats them poorly online in addition to making sure their child is not saying or posting inappropriate things online," he said.

Suzanne Wind, a parent and author of the award-winning "The SMART Playbook series," created several activity books with her children to tackle social skills and manners in this busy digital world.

Wind's series covers social skills, mealtime manners, the art of conversation and technology talk.

"To help our kids navigate life

5A new parenting tool app teaches kids digital manners. / Courtesy of parenting.com with confidence and success, it is so important that we give them the tools to succeed," she said.

"Learning how to use technology with grace and manners is an important part of this journey.

As a parent, I refer to my book all of the time with my kids. We all need a good reminder on how to show etiquette on a daily basis."

The more individuals interact with others through technology, the more attractive it becomes so

Google Gives $1M to African-American Museum

Search Engine Giant's Network Builds 3-D Exhibit

By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer Black engineers at Google are creating a first-of-its-kind 3-D interactive exhibit that will debut in the National Museum of African American History and Culture in early 2017.

The exhibit will accompany a $1 million grant as part of google.org's ongoing work to address racial and social justice issues.

"A few years ago, Dr. Lonnie Bunch, the NMAAHC's director, came to Google's headquarters and shared his vision to make the museum the most technologically advanced in the world," said Travis McPhail, a software engineer at Google. "I immediately knew I wanted to

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it's imperative that a concerted effort is made to interact without digital devices such as computers, cellphones, texting and tweeting, said Tim Lynch, president and CEO of Psychsoftpc, a company that develops computers for virtual reality gaming.

"Get the kids outside and have them interact with other kids, use a checkout [at the grocery store] with an actual human, use a human teller at the bank instead of the ATM, stop cutting ourselves off from people," Lynch said.

"We also need to stop and think and read what we have written before we hit send."

National Good Manners Month was launched in 2003 to help create an awareness of the necessity in passing on good virtues and values to the next generation.

Organizers built the tradition on principles provided by the International Project for Manners & Civility, such as "Kids don't learn manners by accident, nor do athletes learn sportsmanship by chance. Also, young people don't become engaged, responsible, citizens and employees of character and integrity by chance, either."

Robin Taylor, a mother of four children ages 9 to 15, has created the RAKKOON app, a parenting tool to help children learn to use social media responsibly.

"The main point of our app is to start a conversation between parents and kids about what's going on in the kids' online lives,"

Taylor said, adding the app also was created because many individuals feel free to be mean online and send text messages that are harsher than they would relate in face-to-face dialogue.

Those who use social media often lose their filter because they may not know someone in real life, empowering them to share unsolicited opinions, said Francoise Shirley of the image making firm Hollywood Connections PR. "Posting negative comments can be hurtful to the recipient of the message," Shirley said.

"Coach kids to carefully choose their words and train them to implement a five second rule to not impulsively post and to reread their message before hitting send to be sure their message wouldn't be misunderstood."

Young children and teens have a tendency to express frustration and disappointment on social media, and often do so impulsively, he said.

Parents should offer them other ways to vent and share their feelings, as well as explaining that while it may feel good in the moment, the consequences of a negative post far outweigh the immediate satisfaction, Shirley said.

"Help your kids put themselves in the other person's shoes when making social media posts," he said.

For more information, visit nationalmannersmonth.com.

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Kaepernick a Good Start, But Now What?

by William Reed Black athletes' protests have gone prime-time. Colin Kaepernick is making his fellow Americans think about what they're standing for, and why.

In a show of patriotism in a ballroom at the Congressional Black Caucus' Town Hall Meeting, attendees made it their business to sing the national anthem like they were in Yankee Stadium. These actions bring to the fore several questions (Why not "Lift Every Voice and Sing," the unofficial black anthem?), mainly whether these "politically correct" blacks were just trying to publicly compensate for Kaepernick, who has been widely ridiculed in mainstream media

GOOGLE from Page 14 be involved, and pulled together people from across the company — designers who focus on user interaction, members of the Cultural Institute, engineers who work on everything from Google Maps to YouTube, and members of the Black Googler Network. For the past year, we've been working to deliver on Dr. Bunch's vision."

McPhail said they quickly learned that museums are often only able to showcase a fraction of their content and archives to visitors.

"We asked ourselves: what technology do we have at Google that could help enrich the museum experience?" he said. "We worked closely with the museum to build an interactive exhibit to house artifacts from decades of African-American history and let visitors explore and learn about them."

Google's engineers used 3-D scanning, 360-degree video, multiple screens and other technologies to build the exhibit. Visitors will be able to see artifacts such as a powder horn or handmade dish from

as an ignorant, attention-seeking, washed-up millionaire quarterback.

Kaepernick's is a story for the ages. Before he refused to stand for the national anthem, Kaepernick's number 7 jersey was the 20th-best seller among 49ers. His jersey is now the top seller of all NFL players. In a recent press conference, Kaepernick, who has a six-year, $114 million contract with the San Francisco 49ers, pledged $1 million to community groups.

But as commendable — or deplorable, depending on your stance — as his actions are, he isn't an anomaly. Many black athletes, past and present, have been at the forefront of social and political dissent — from LeBron James, Dwayne Wade and other NBA players donned hoodies to protest the death of Trayvon Martin, to five black St. Louis Rams who showed their concern about the death of Michael Brown by jogging onto the field in the "hands up, don't shoot" gesture that defined the Ferguson movement. Their actions drew criticism from the St. Louis Police Officers Association, which demanded the NFL discipline the players (the league didn't).

And all the way back to 1968, when two American athletes at the Mexico City Olympic Games stepped onto the winner's podium, shoeless but decked out in black socks and gloves. Tommie Smith and John Carlos — gold and bronze medalists in the 200 meter dash — raised their fists above their heads, protesting the nation's discrimination against blacks.

The black pair's protest was encouraged at the time by sociologist Harry Edwards, then a professor at San Jose State University and creator of the Olympic Project for Human Rights. A Bay Area legend, Edwards gained fame at the University of California-Berkeley for his work regarding race relations, the sociology of sport and family.

Edwards, who himself was a student-athlete as a discus thrower at San Jose State, authored "The Revolt of the Black Athlete" and in the late 1960s called on black athletes to boycott ''blue-eyed devils' games.''

In present times, the former Black Panther and student of Malcolm X has served as a staff consultant to the San Francisco 49ers and the Golden State Warriors basketball team. In an affirmative action

all angles by rotating them with a mobile device.

In addition to the display, the company is launching two new Google Expeditions that take students on a digital journey through African-American history.

"Earlier this year, we formed the African American Expeditions Council — a group of top minds in Black culture, academia and curation — to help develop Expeditions that tell the story of Africans in America," McPhail said. "With participation from the National Park Service, the Expeditions and Cultural Institute teams captured images of the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, which commemorates the events, people and route of the 1965 Voting Rights March.

"A second expedition, from the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, takes you around Dr. King's childhood home and the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he preached," he said.

McPhail said the project took on a greater significance than his normal workload at Google Maps.

"Working on this exhibit has

given me a chance to help people discover something else — the ways African-American history is vitally intertwined with our history as a nation," he said. "I'm proud of the role Google has played a role in taking people on that journey."

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sports program that proved to be highly effective, Edwards identified and recruited blacks for front office positions in major league baseball for then-Commissioner Peter Ueberroth.

When figuring out the movement's next step, Edwards would be a good place to start. He's the

type of motivational speaker black churches and clubs should engage in lieu of black career politicians.

But though it's essentially a bunch of rich people leading the cause, the rebellion isn't about money, nor did it start with Kaepernick. It shouldn't end with him, either.

As Edwards told Time magazine, "We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open."

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NATIONAL NNPA Honors Champions of the Black Press Congresspersons Rangel, Norton, Butterfield and Sect. Johnson Saluted for Outstanding Leadership

By Sarafina Wright NNPA Contributing Writer Black publishers representing over 200 newspapers gathered to honor top leaders in Washington who champion the Black Press and who have helped to improve the quality of life for Black America.

Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Jr., president and CEO, and Denise Rolark-Barnes, chairwoman, both of the National Newspaper Publishers Association [NNPA], hosted the 2016 National Leadership Awards Reception on Thursday, Sept. 15 at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C. “We are honored to be back in the nation’s capital to address the business concerns of the NNPA’s 200-plus, Black-owned media companies around the country,” Barnes said.

“Our Annual Leadership Awards Reception, held in conjunction with the Congressional Black Cau-

cus Foundation, Inc.’s [CBCF] Annual Legislative Conference, is one of NNPA’s signature events that mirrors what so many of our publishers do in their own communities all year long.”

Mollie Belt of the Dallas Examiner, Karen Carter Richards of the Houston Forward Times, Shannon Williams of the Indianapolis Recorder, Dorothy Leavell of the Chicago Crusader, Cheryl Mainor of the Chicago Defender, Rod Doss of the New Pittsburgh Courier and a host of other publishers attended the annual event.

“We gather at a significant moment in America’s history,” Barnes said. “We join the CBCF and others who will pay tribute to the life and legacy of Congressman Charles Rangel, Democratic representative for the 13th Congressional District of New York, who will retire this year after 46 years of national political service.”

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5 Denise Rolark Barnes, NNPA chair and Washington Informer publisher, along with Benjamin Chavis, NNPA president and CEO, present a trailblazer award to Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), right. / Photo by Shevry Lassiter

Norton (Delegate-DC), Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Rep. G.K. Butterfield, Jr. (D-NC) received the 2016 Leadership Award where each reiterated the necessity of Black-owned and operated publications.

Rangel said that while he will retire at the end of the Congressional session in order to spend more time with his family, he will continue to provide service as needed for the Congressional Black Caucus, his home state of New York and the rest of the country.

Tony A. Gaskins, Jr., a motivational speaker and life coach received the Millennial Leadership Award for his work with the NBA and Ford Motor Company.

Event sponsor AARP, on behalf of Jim Taylor, vice president of African American Outreach Strategy, had this to say about the evening.

“We are very proud of our ongoing relationship with the NNPA because we share the same commitment and passion for serving the African-American community. They have been a consistent voice of the Black community throughout their great history. At AARP, we are a voice for African Americans age 50 and over and their families as we fight and advocate for issues of importance to this community, particularly in the areas of health security, financial resilience and personal fulfillment,” Taylor said in a prepared statement.

Chavis agreed with Taylor’s sentiments.

“We admire and salute these ‘transformational leaders,’” Chavis said. “At this moment in history the United States of America is yet at another political, economic and social crossroad.”

“The outcome of the Tuesday,

Nov. 8, national elections will have a profound impact on Black America and the whole of humanity,” he said.

Chavis reiterated that the Black Press has a sacred obligation and responsibility to raise up a new generation of leaders and freedom fighters. He also placed a priority goal of getting out the Black vote in the upcoming national elections in November 2016.

“This marks the 189th year of the Black Press in America,” he said. “Since the Freedom’s Journal in March of 1827, the Black print press has continued to be on the frontline of the freedom struggle and movement.” WI

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Panel: Voter Suppression Still Evident for Black Women

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5 A panel led by Rep. John Conyers (second from right) discusses voting rights at the 46th annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation conference in D.C. on Sept. 16. / Photo by William J. Ford

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Alabama is one of several states requiring photo identification to vote in the general election in November. The state also had several motor-vehicle departments shutter in largely black communities — and many say that's not a coincidence.

"Where are they closed? Where the majority of African-Americans live. That is a direct slap in the face," said Bernard Simelton, president of the NAACP's Alabama State Conference. "We are in a no-win situation unless we get out and vote."

Simelton and other voting rights advocates spoke on a panel about fighting for voter protection at the 46th annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation conference at the Washington Convention Center in northwest D.C. on Friday, Sept. 16.

Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan) broke down the portion eliminated from the Voting Rights Act, which established a preclearance obligation that would expire in a certain number

of years and allow states to pass their own election rules and procedures. The law was implemented in states with a history of discrimination, most of which were in the South.

"This Congress, and the next, must have the political courage to enact legislation to protect the rights for all Americans," Conyers said. "What we are going to do with all this information and powerful ideas. I am not tired. Let's go out here in 50 days and move ahead in the right direction."

The speakers admitted it won't be easy and it starts at the local level.

The Rev. William J. Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP, said 4,000 volunteers in the state are helping to distribute 40,000 voter information cards to encourage people to vote.

Barber emphasized how Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who hasn't spoken against voter discrimination, has "run a campaign we haven't seen since [late Alabama Gov.] George Wallace."

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yers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said poll workers in North Carolina helped a 93-year-old woman vote in the April primary after being told she couldn't vote with an expired driver's license.

Clarke said only 36 percent of Americans voted two years ago, the worst percentage in 70 years.

She said voter suppression caused some of that fallout, especially when some state officials try to implement changes to voting laws at the last minute.

She said people can call 866-OUR-VOTE whenever there's a problem at local polling places.

"All around the country we are seeing evidence of voter suppression [and] voter discrimination," she said. "When you hear election officials say, 'We're making some 11th-hour changes because we need to protect the integrity of the process. We should all sit up straight and sound alarms and bells. That means trouble's afoot.

This is when you see some of the worse efforts to turn the clock back and make voting more difficult."

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H E A LT H New Sickle Cell Drug Application Submitted

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer A cutting-edge biopharmaceutical company that targets rare and orphan diseases said it has submitted an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requesting approval for a

potentially revolutionary drug to treat sickle cell disease.

Officials for Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc., said the application for an orally administered pharmaceutical grade L-glutamine treatment represents the first potential treatment for pediatric patients with sickle cell disease,

5 A biopharmaceutical company has submitted a new drug application requesting approval for a new sickle cell drug. / Courtesy photo

and the first potential new treatment in nearly 20 years for adult patients.

Emmaus is requesting Priority Review of the application.

"We would like to thank the NIH, FDA and Ajinomoto Corporation for the funding of our early work," Dr. Yutaka Niihara,

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chairman and CEO of Emmaus, said in a statement. "We are also thankful to our clinicians, employees, and partners for their efforts and to our investors for funding the work."

The news was met with enthusiasm from the local medical community.

Dr. Lanetta Bronté, president of the Foundation for Sickle Cell Research in Baltimore, said she was thrilled with news of the application, which comes as the nation observes National Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month.

"We are hopeful that the FDA will give the application priority review so that patients can very soon take advantage of this new therapy," Bronté said. "Patients between the ages of 15 and 25 have a sevenfold risk in mortality and this risk needs to be gotten ahead of quickly."

Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder characterized by the production of an altered form of hemoglobin which polymerizes and becomes fıbrous, causing red blood cells to become rigid and change form so that they appear sickle shaped instead of soft and rounded.

Patients with sickle cell disease suffer from debilitating episodes of sickle cell crisis, which occur when the rigid, adhesive and inflexible red blood cells occlude blood vessels.

Sickle cell crisis causes excruciating pain as a result of insufficient oxygen being delivered to tissue, referred to as tissue ischemia, and inflammation.

These events may lead to organ damage, stroke, pulmonary complications, skin ulceration, infection and a variety of other adverse outcomes, medical experts said.

Sickle cell disease is an orphan disease in the U.S affecting approximately 100,000 patients in the U.S and millions worldwide with significant unmet medical needs.

"We are pleased to submit our NDA during National Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month, and following the formation of the Sickle Cell Disease Coalition spearheaded by the American Society of Hematology," Niihara said. "We hope our NDA submission will result in a change of the status quo of sickle cell disease treatment."

Data from the company's Phase 3 sickle cell disease trial demonstrated a reduction in the frequency of sickle cell crises and hospitalizations, as well as a reduction in cumulative days hospitalized, and a lower incidence of the life-threatening acute chest syndrome, Emmaus officials reported.

The clinical trial enrolled 230 adult and pediatric patients as young as 5 across 31 experienced sickle cell disease treatment centers in the United States. No major adverse events were attributable to the treatment.

Emmaus' sickle cell disease therapy has Orphan Drug designation in the U.S. and Europe and Fast Track designation from the FDA. Emmaus said they also plan to submit a marketing authorization application to the European Medicines Agency.

"The Foundation for Sickle Cell Disease Research urges all pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the sickle cell space to work with patient focused organizations to increase awareness of new therapies available to patients," Bronté said.

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Black Olympians Promote Urban Youth Swimming

By Lauren Poteat WI Contributing Writer Amid startling statistics showing that over 70 percent of black children in the U.S. cannot swim and are three times more likely to drown than white children, the USA Swimming Foundation is providing free and reduced swimming programs geared toward reducing the risk of childhood drownings.

As a part of the organization's national "Make a Splash" initiative, held regularly throughout the year, in partnership with Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, a recent water safety event devoted to teaching quality swimming to urban youth was held on Sep. 16 at the Turkey Thicket Recreational Center in northeast D.C. Maritza McClendon, the first Puerto Rican of African descent to be a member of the U.S. Olympic swimming team as well as the first black American swimmer to set a U.S. and world swimming record, acted as an instructor to the water safety event.

McClendon expressed her passion for getting more black and brown youth involved in swimming.

"At 7 years old I, was diagnosed with scoliosis," she said. "My father then decided to get me involved with swimming to rectify my body and it was there that I fell in love with swimming and started competing on national levels at the age of 12. Through organizations like USA Swimming, I was able to go on all of my various swimming trips and take part in recreational activities that ultimately shaped my career.

"I believe that some of the barriers for children of color in swimming reside in the fact that they do not see people that look like them doing this sport, the same way they do in basketball with people like LeBron [James] and Kobe [Bryant]," McClendon said.

"My goal is to help change that.

Swimming is a life skill and the only learned sport that can save your life."

This year marks the first time the foundation has ever held an in-water instructional session and out-of-water presentation with beginner level swimmers since its creation in 1980, said Nailah Ellis Timberlake, communications manager at USA Swimming.

"The USA Swimming Foundation has partnered with Sigma Gamma Rho sorority and D.C. Parks and Recreation to provide free and reduced swimming lessons to residents," Timberlake said. "Since our inception we have already assisted more than 4 million children and donated more than 4 million in grant money, as it makes a difference when kids can have someone to look up to."

Natalie Hinds, who was part of the historic trio of black swimmers who took the top three finishes in a single event at the women's Division 1 NCAA Championship in 2015 with Olympians Simone Manuel and Lia Neal, also lent her support to the event.

The USA Swimming Foundation has a goal of providing swimming lessons to 1 million children every year, in an effort to affect change within the urban community, advocating for increased swim participation and decreased drowning rates. WI

HEALTH MASTER PLAN AMENDMENT #2 FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY HEADQUARTERS CONSOLIDATION AT ST. ELIZABETHS IN SOUTHEAST, WASHINGTON, DC Scoping and Public Involvement Notice for an Environmental Assessment under the National Environmental Policy Act and Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act for the Proposed Master Plan Amendment #2 for the Department of Homeland Security Headquarters at St. Elizabeths in Southeast, Washington, DC The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is proposing to amend the 2008/2012 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Headquarters Consolidation at St. Elizabeths Master Plan to more efficiently house DHS and its operating components at the St. Elizabeths Campus in Southeast Washington, D.C. In addition, GSA is reevaluating transportation and parking improvements for the consolidation of the DHS Headquarters at St. Elizabeths West Campus.

An Environmental Assessment (EA) will be prepared in accordance with Section 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and is being coordinated with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act in accordance with 36CFR, Part 800.8. NEPA requires a Federal agency to provide the public with an opportunity to participate in the process of analyzing the impact of Federal actions on the human environment.

PUBLIC SCOPING MEETING: An open-house style public meeting will be held on September 29, 2016 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the R.I.S.E Demonstration Center on the St. Elizabeths East Campus, 2730 Martin Luther King Jr Ave, SE, Washington, DC 20032.

Please stop by anytime between 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 pm to learn more about the proposed action and to provide comments to the project team.

WRITTEN COMMENTS: Agencies and members of the public are encouraged to provide written comments on the EA and Section 106 processes in addition to, or in lieu of, giving their comments at the public meeting. Comments received during the scoping period will be considered in the analyses to be conducted for the EA. Written comments regarding the EA must be postmarked no later than October 15, 2016, and sent to the following address: U.S. General Services Administration, National Capital Region Attention: Ms. Stephanie Hamlett, Regional Environmental Quality Advisor 301 7th Street, SW - Room 4004 Washington, DC 20407 Comments can also be sent by email to stephanie.hamlett@gsa.gov; email subject line: St. Elizabeths Scoping Comments. All emails must be received by 11:59 p.m., October 15, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephanie Hamlett, Regional Environmental Quality Advisor, at (202) 401-9764. Also, please contact Ms. Hamlett at this number if special assistance is needed to attend and participate in the scoping meeting.

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HEALTH DEBATE from Page 1 moderator when the highly-anticipated fireworks begin at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. Subsequent debates will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 4 at Longwood University in Farmville, VA between the vice presidential candidates with the presidential candidates returning for two more debates on Sunday, Oct. 9 at Washington University in St. Louis and on Wednesday, Oct. 19 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

After Holt moderates the first debate, the format swings to a town-hall style for the vice presidential candidates, Indiana Governor Mike Pence (Republican) and Virginia Senator Tim Kaine (Democrat) with CNN’s Anderson Cooper serving as the moderator.

ABC’s Martha Raddatz and Chris Wallace, Fox News, will moderate the final two presidential debates.

Most experts say Clinton should have the edge, given her training as an attorney and

her years of experience participating in political debates including those hot-tempered encounters against Obama during her first failed attempt for president.

As for Trump, a novice in the process who has never been involved in a head-to-head live debate, he’s already asserted that “the system is rigged,” adding that he feels the moderators have been advised to go after him and that’s there’s bias against him.

But after earlier stating that he might opt out of the debates, he has since changed his mind.

As for Third Party candidates, neither Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party nor Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party, and the former governor of New Mexico, will be allowed to present their platforms before the American viewing public after both failed to reach the minimum of 15 percent by polling – the requirement for all participating debate candidates.

That’s the decision of The Commission on Presidential Debates, announced last week.

Johnson has reached as high as 12 percent at some points

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Most experts say Clinton should have the edge, given her training as an attorney and her years of experience participating in political debates including those hot-tempered encounters against Obama during her first failed attempt for president.

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while Stein, averaging about 3 percent, has peaked at 6 percent in several national polls.

Poll numbers notwithstanding, a recent Morning Consult showed that more than half of registered voters feel Johnson should be allowed to participate – nearly half said they’d like to see Stein included.

And consider this caveat: polls continue to show that both Trump and Clinton stand as among the least popular major-party candidates to ever run for president.

Further, it will be interesting to see whether moderators will be able to keep the participants focused on questions addressing issues like the economy, national security, immigration, terrorism, foreign affairs and health care as opposed to less salient but certainly more frequently discussed topics including Obama and the “birther” issue, Clinton’s emails, Trump’s many businesses and those financiers with whom he has long been affiliated and the health of both candidates.

For those who may be history buffs, this year’s first match-

up will take place on the anniversary of the first televised presidential debates when Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy appeared in 1960.

Former Clinton advisor Paul Begala told a Washington Post reporter, “It will be the most watched event in human history – bigger than the moon landing, the World Cup, the Super Bowl, the Olympics and the latest royal wedding.”

Both Clinton and Trump will need to study the issues as they prepare to make their pitch to American voters as well as making sure their stamina is up to par as neither candidate is a “spring chicken” – Clinton’s 68 while Trump is 70 years old.

So, what version of each candidate will show up next Monday? Maybe it will be the Trump who tends to tweet at any moment before considering the impact of his comments. Perhaps we’ll see a Clinton who becomes flustered after her opponent tosses out insult after insult after he’s prone to do.

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EDWARDS from Page 1 resident and House colleague Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) in her efforts to replace the retiring Sen. Barbara Mikulski.

Some colleagues and other politicians including D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton said Edwards surrendered her seat at a time when she had a major influence in Congress and within her party.

“She’s one of the most valuable members of the House we are losing,” Norton said. “She was on her way up the ladder. I can understand why she ran for the Senate. She made a huge sacrifice.”

Edwards, 58, stands by her decision to run for Senate with a focus on the lack of people of color. She sought to become the first Black woman in that chamber to represent Maryland and the first in more than two decades.

“There are a lot of things we do that some people could describe as risks. I looked at it as an opportunity to carry some of the issues I have carried into the House of Representatives into the United States Senate,” she said during a phone interview Monday, Sept. 19.

“Our U.S. Senate is lacking in the kind of diversity that we need to bring forward with issues that are important to communities. I believe that my candidacy reflected an opportunity to bring those issues forward.”

In the meantime, she plans to continue working on projects and other community initiatives that include her eighth annual College and Career Fair on Oct. 15 at Oxon Hill High School, located in the congresswoman’s neighborhood.

So far, about 150 schools will participate with several thousand middle and high school students expected to attend. She hopes her successor will continue the fair. Many believe she will be succeeded by former Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown who took the Democratic primary for Ed-

wards’ open seat.

She also discussed the ongoing controversies at Prince George’s County Public Schools.

Edwards said an independent investigation should be conducted in light of former Head Start employees being accused of corporal punishment, neglect and abuse in separate incidents occurring last year. The school system now has a temporary provider who will manage the program this year.

The school system also continues to deal with allegations of a school bus aide who abused special needs children. The father of a 4-year-old boy spoke pointedly about the situation last week in front of the administration building in Upper Marlboro.

On Monday, Edwards criticized County Executive Rushern L. Baker III, who supported Van Hollen in the primary election. His office has the power to appoint school board members.

“I don’t think the county executive can duck on this. I do think the buck stops with him,” she said. “I find it unbelievable that our leadership seems to be standing on the side of those adults who are in the system . . . instead of standing on the side of students.”

She hasn’t determined what she’s do next but said she wants to continue in some form of public service – something she’s being doing for about 30 years since graduating from the University of New Hampshire School of Law. After her term expires Jan. 2, the single-mother of one son plans to rent an RV and travel to national parks across the country and trace behind some of those landmarks.

“I have really enjoyed my time in Congress,” she said. “It has been one of the greatest fulfillments that I’ve had. I wouldn’t change a thing about it. I’m going to figure out afterwards how I’m going to continue to move things that I’ve been committed to my entire life.”

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EDUCATION HBCU Presidents Give Answers to Challenges

Alumni Donors Vital for Institutions

By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer For those with a stake in historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), they are aware of troubling issues facing the institutions, and school presidents dedicated to the cause are speaking out on how to overcome those challenges.

Ronald Johnson, president of Clark Atlanta University, said the difference starts with correcting those that speak out of turn.

"We've got to tell our own stories. We know our value," Johnson said. "There are students from the Middle East who I've spoke to and they said they wish they had gone to an HBCU, because at the other schools they felt like they had to look over their shoulders, but at Clark Atlanta it feels like family."

Julianne Malveaux, former president of Bennett College, reiterated that familial environments isn't lacking on HBCU campuses, but education over entrepreneurship is.

"The structure of the labor market is changing," Malveaux said.

"In order to deal with the employment gap, we need more entrepreneurs. Ninety percent of our businesses are sole proprietorships, so that means it's the business owners' lifestyle, they don't employ a lot of people. … One of the key challenges we're facing is we have placed an emphasis on education and not entrepreneurship."

Malveaux contended that as ownership increases among graduates, so will alumni giving.

A few years ago, Wayne Frederick, then the interim president of Howard University, said that one of the reasons for the lack of alumni giving is the enormous debt students leave school with.

Plain and simple, they cannot afford to give, he said.

But actor and TV personality Terrence J, a North Carolina A&T State University alumnus and special guest on a related panel — "HBCUs: The Past, The Present, The Future" — during the Congressional Black Caucus's Annual Legislative Conference on Friday, Sept. 16, said that anyone can afford to give.

"As alumni it is very easy to give back," he said. "It doesn't matter how much it is. Give a dollar if you can't give $10."

One possible reason floated for lack of alumni giving was an absence of knowledge about where the funds are going.

"We must connect the dots and allow transparency between the schools and alumni," said Jimmy Jenkins, president of Livingstone College. "There is a lot of miscommunication that can be corrected, alumni should be in the loop as to where the mon-

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Congresswoman Alma Adams, representing the 12th district of North Carolina, brought the esteemed panel together to discuss improving HBCUs because of its special impact on her life.

"I wasn't prepared for college," Adams said. "I was from a poor neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, but a school named North Carolina A&T took me in. That enabled me to go to Ohio State University to get my Ph.D. I could not have gotten my Ph.D. if it weren't for A&T." WI

"In order to deal with the employment gap, we need more entrepreneurs.

Ninety percent of our businesses are sole proprietorships, so that means it's the business owners' lifestyle, they don't employ a lot of people. … One of the key challenges we're facing is we have placed an emphasis on education and not entrepreneurship."

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PARENT CURRICULUM GUIDES

The Office of Family and Public Engagement and the Office of Teaching and Learning collaborated to create grade specific Parent Guides.

The guides provide tools parents need to support their child's learning at home. For

high school students, the guides also provide tips for how to successfully navigate the path to and through college.

In addition, all of the guides provide specific strategies to implement at home for DCPS' new Cornerstone assignments, which are high-quality, indepth activities that students will participate in during units of study.

A mobile app for the guide is available in the Android Market under the name DCPS Parent Guide.

'BACK-TO-SCHOOL NIGHT' CONTINUES

Many DCPS facilities have been engaging in "Back-toSchool Night," activities which are continuing through September.

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"But Back-to-School Night isn't the only opportunity for family engagement. At DCPS, family and public engagement is built into everything we do, at every level of our work. It is a district-wide priority, and more importantly, it is an individual priority for every teacher, administrator, and staff member. Families are experts when it comes to their children. When parents are involved in their child's education, students achieve more academically."

DCPS SUPPORTS GLOBAL LEARNING

DCPS is dedicated to creating and supporting global learners from pre-K to 12th grade.

Students who participate in the global programs are being prepared to become global citizens who investigate the

world, recognize perspectives, communicate ideas and take action.

With 11 dual-language programs offered during the current school year, school officials are focused on the four main goals of bilingualism, bi-literaT:7.4667” cy, high academic achievement and cultural competency. WI

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DCPS, in collaboration with the Metropolitan Police Department and DC Police Foundation, launched its Public Safety Academy this year at Anacostia High School in Southeast.

The academy aims to help students pursue a career in public safety.

"The Public Safety Academy at Anacostia High School will be a game-changer for students and our city," said Mayor Muriel Bowser. "The academy will provide students with a unique opportunity to learn about the field of law enforcement and create a pipeline that will help strengthen the Metropolitan Police Department."

Upon graduation, students in the Academy will earn six college credits toward completion of the MPD Cadet Program, enrollment in the MPD Cadet Program at the University of the District of Columbia Community College, and civilian employment at the DC Metropolitan Police Department while completing the MPD Cadet program.

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History, ‘Herstory,’ Our Story – And Still We Rise

By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor

When I was a precocious little boy growing up Detroit, my parents, both educators, would take me to Motown’s only Black-owned book store, Vaughn’s Books, almost every Saturday morning.

It was a time well before the invention of notepads, lap top computers, cell phones, Kindle or the Internet which as we all know now dominate the scene. If you wanted to learn something, you had to read a book. Yes, your “fingers had to do the walking.”

And so, I meandered down the aisles like a veritable “Pied Piper” on a quest to understand more about who I was, from whence my ancestors had come and how Blacks had contributed in so many significant ways in the shaping of America – this so-called “land of the free and home of the brave.”

Of course, I would also soon come to the knowledge 5 Washington Informer Editor D. Kevin McNeir that such a promise only extended to those with blond with his mother, Edna McNeir Baker, in their backhair, blue eyes and white skin. Their story was diametri- yard in Detroit in 1963. / Photo courtesy of D. Kevin McNeir cally different from the story of my people.

As I grew older, I looked for more challenging tomes, eventually coming upon an historical piece now considered a classic in the telling of the story of Black Americans from their roots in Africa to their lives in contemporary America, “”Before the Mayflower,” written by Lerone Bennett, Jr., first published in 1962.

Bennett, a student at Morehouse College and a native of Clarksdale, Mississippi, worked as a reporter for several Black newspapers, The Mississippi Enterprise and the Atlanta Daily World, before becoming the first senior editor of Ebony magazine.

I recall sitting down with his book, pen and highlighter in hand, and taking a fascinating journey where I uncovered, through his amazing scholarship, the origins of the great empires of western Africa, the harrowing tale of the transatlantic journey across the ocean to slavery in the U.S., the Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era and the turbulent decades of the modern day Civil Rights Movement.

But there was much more. I would meet men and women, seminal figures in the Black struggle for freedom, like Richard Allen, Prince Hall, Phillis Wheatley, John B. Russwurm, Frederick Douglass, Daisy Bates, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Joseph E. Lowery, Patricia Harris and Martin Luther King, Jr., just to name a few.

Now, with the long-awaited opening of the multimillion dollar National Museum of African American History & Culture on the National Mall upon us, stirring profiles of my “heroes and sheroes,” along with artifacts, exhibits and other pieces of history will be presented utilizing today’s highly interactive technology.

I can’t wait to take my two grandsons, Jordon and Jackson, to the museum where I can share my perspectives as we travel through history – our history – and gain a new insight into the sacrifices, contributions and diligence of men, women and children whose forefathers once lived in freedom on the continent of Africa – our Mother Land.

But I will always have books to share so that my two “young warriors” will be able to go back and retrace that history whenever they get the urge.

There’s a saying which tells us that if we don’t learn from our history, we are doomed to repeat it. More than anything else, I guess that’s why this museum means so much to me. Maybe, just maybe, as all Americans come face to face with the truth – the truth about prejudice, human subjugation, man’s inhumanity to man – and how some their lives in order to destroy the shackles that bound them, we’ll find a way to overcome firmly entrenched attitudes, beliefs and falsely-written history that have long separated Blacks and whites in these United States of America.

Who could have known that we would realize such a moment as this – the opening of this amazing museum and the truths it will reveal for generations to come – from the sorrowful journey of a handful of unwitting Africans whisked away from their homes in 1619 and brought to a place where they would be ridiculed, demeaned and enslaved – a place that would ironically later welcome others who longed for freedom.

This is our history – this is our song. And still “we rise.”

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John Lewis: The Birth of a Museum

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer

For too long, the legacy of Black men and women who poured out their gifts in a world that denied their humanity had been left silent.

However, in 2009, when the Smithsonian Institution named the architectural firm that would design the new National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in the nation’s capital, Lewis was nothing shy of ecstatic.

It wasn’t long after he was elected to Congress in the 1980s that the Alabama native, who’s often called one of the most courageous persons the Civil Rights Movement ever produced, became aware of an effort first launched by African-American Civil War veterans who wanted to appropriately honor the service of Black soldiers in the war.

They had petitioned Congress decades earlier to build a museum to pay tribute to veterans whose service was all but forgotten, according to Lewis who decided to seek legislation to make a new museum happen.

For years, the legislative process of the idea had stopped and started until Lewis took the helm and made it a priority.

In every session of Congress for 15 years, he introduced a bill authorizing the building of a national museum which would recount the contributions of Blacks to the American story.

Finally, in 2003, the bill was passed by both sessions of Congress and later signed into law by President George W. Bush.

“At last, the work of these awesome and talented Americans [would] find a home. And I believe that when citizens of the world see what these peo-

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5 Rep. John Lewis (pictured with Museum Director Lonnie Bunch) was a driving force behind the birth of the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. / Courtesy Photo

ple have accomplished, they will be inspired and amazed,” Lewis, 76, said.

“I only wish those Civil War veterans could see what their dreams, their actions and their enduring tenacity has created,” he said.

Now, as the grand opening dawns with President Barack Obama presiding, and because of the tireless work done

by Lewis, the new museum counts as a successful project even though it once thirsted for money, land and political support.

Visitors to the $540 million building, designed to resemble a three-tiered crown, will encounter the sweeping history of Black America from the Middle Passage of slavery to the achievements and complexities of modern Black life.

But, as spelled out in a recent New York Times article, also compelling is the story of how the museum itself came to be through a combination of negotiation, diplomacy, persistence and cunning political instincts.

The strategy included an approach that framed the museum as an institution for all Americans, one that depicted the Black experience, as Museum Director Lonnie Bunch often puts it, as “the quintessential American story” of measured progress and remarkable achievement after an ugly period of painful oppression.

The tactics included the appointment of Republicans like Laura Bush and Colin L. Powell to the museum’s board to broaden bipartisan support beyond Democratic constituencies, and there were critical efforts to shape the thinking of essential political leaders, according to the New York Times.

Long before its building was complete, for example, the museum staged exhibitions off-site, some on the fraught topics it would confront, such as Thomas Jefferson’s deep involvement with slavery.

A Virginia delegation of congressional members was brought through for an early

tour of the Jefferson exhibition, which featured a statue of him in front of a semicircular wall marked with 612 names of people he had owned.

“I remember being very impacted,” Eric Cantor, then the House Republican leader, who was part of the delegation, told the Times.

Bunch said that he hoped the Jefferson exhibition pre-empted criticism by establishing the museum’s bold but balanced approach to difficult material.

“Some people were like, ‘How dare you equate Jefferson with slavery,’” Bunch recalled.

“But it means that people are going to say, ‘Of course, that is what they have to do.’”

And the museum began an exceptional effort to raise money from Black donors, not only celebrities, like Michael Jordan ($5 million) and Oprah Winfrey ($21 million), but also churches, sororities and fraternities, which, Bunch said, had never been asked for big donations before.

Nearly three-quarters of the gifts from individuals were

from African-Americans. An unusually high amount – $4 million – came from average people in gifts of less than $1,000.

The Alfred Street Baptist Church, in Alexandria, Va., donated $1 million to the museum, while three couples who belong to the church gave individual contributions totaling an additional $4 million.

“There is no doubt that we knew you couldn’t build this with African-American money alone,” Bunch said, “But we also know that there was much more money in this community than most cultural institutions had ever tapped.”

Although the idea of a national African-American museum had been hatched more than a century ago, there remained staunch opposition.

Some claimed that Hispanic Americans would be offended if Blacks received a museum and they didn’t. Politicians and some citizens alike railed against Lewis.

Indeed, Lewis’s dream faced many challenges, but as noted in a recently-published report, he kept the faith.

He didn’t give up when people said a separate museum for African Americans would lead other groups to seek their own.

Congress had passed legislation in 1989 authorizing the National Museum of the American Indian, and efforts continue for Latino, women’s history and immigrant museums.

Through it all, Lewis remained steadfast and, on Saturday, Sept. 24, his efforts and those of others will see the fruits of their labor.

“It’s very simple – if you believe in something and you want to see it through, you have to be persistent and consistent,” Lewis said.

“You never ever give up. You just keep believing,” he said.

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New African American Museum’s Artifact Listing is a Powerful Journey Through History

By Marc Morial National Urban League

5 Marc Morial,President, National Urban League. / Courtesy Photo

Published on iamempowered.com (http://iamempowered.com) As we await the opening of the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on September 24, much of the focus has been on the century-long journey to make the museum a reality.

But I found myself struck by a listing of the actual artifacts acquired by the museum, and how they alone are a powerful represent the African-American journey through history: • A linen and silk shawl given to Harriet Tubman by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

• The dress Rosa Parks was sewing when she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 • A trumpet owned by Louis Armstrong • Headgear worn by a boxer then known as Cassius Clay, later to be known as Muhammad Ali • A bible owned by Nat Turner, who led an unsuccessful slave revolt in Virginia in 1831 • The glass-topped casket originally used to display and bury the body of 14-year-old Emmett Till, tortured and murdered for speaking to a white woman in Mississippi in 1955 Along with the personal possessions of famous Black Americans, the museum will display iconic public representations of the nation’s history of oppression such as “white only” and “colored only”

signs from the Jim Crow-era South, and a guard tower and cell from “Angola”, the cruel, violence-prone, and squalid Louisiana prison where African-Americans were exploited and abused for much of the 20th Century.

While I look forward to the museum’s exhibits putting such objects into context and amplifying their meaning, sometimes it is sheer simplicity that can put history into stark perspective.

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Greater Washington Urban League Congratulates the National Museum of African American History & Culture on its Grand Opening

For the past 78 years, the Greater Washington Urban League has stood on society’s front-lines, as well as in the trenches serving as a safety net and facilitator for District of Columbia Metro residents, whether in advocacy, housing, employment, emergency assistance, entrepreneurship or education.

We continue to carve a distinctive path towards justice and fair play putting families first, catering to the needs of children and the elderly, 8 to 80.

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Music Accents Opening of African-American Museum Historic Shiloh Baptist Tells Story of Survival through Song

By Hamil R. Harris WI Contributing Writer

Special events accenting the opening of the National Museum of African American History have already begun including a concert that told the story of generations who have overcome “toils and snares” in their quest for freedom and equality.

Thomas Dixon Tyler, Minister of Worship at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Northwest shared his goals for the concert, held last Sunday, Sept. 17.

“This is a celebratory odyssey of artistic expressions that emboldens what the museum represents,” said Tyler, who directed the eclectic musical experience entitled “A Historic Odyssey: From the Cradle to Liberation.”

Chuck Hicks, a member of the DC Host Committee, the group of volunteers responsible for planning events to coincide with the

museum opening on Saturday, Sept. 24, described the opening as the biggest event for African Americans since the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.

“It is something we, our ancestors, our elders, all of us, young and old, have wanted all of our lives: to be able to tell our story in America,” said Hicks, who served as co-chair of the event along with former DC Councilmember Frank Smith, founder and executive director of the African American Civil War Museum.

The concert, sponsored by the Host Committee, was divided into three parts, featuring music from African-American composers, griots and traditional African stilt walkers with songs sung in centuries-old African languages and a sample of selections that have become standards in the gospel music songbook.

The concert finale showcased the choir leading the audience in

5 The D.C. community enjoyed a musical excursion through the pages of Black history during a concert at Shiloh Baptist Church in Northwest on Sunday, Sept. 18 that kicked off events highlighting the opening of the new National Museum of African American History & Culture. / Photo by Roy Lewis

the celebrated arrangement by Dr. Roland M. Carter of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” which Carter also directed.

In 1900, 500 school children first performed “Lift Every Voice

and Sing,” written by James Weldon Johnson, as a poem honoring the birthday of President Abraham Lincoln. Johnson’s brother, John, would compose the music five years later.

In 1919, the NAACP dubbed the song “the Negro National Anthem” because of its “power in voicing the cry for liberation and affirmation for African-American people.” BS

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Remembering: A Legacy of Looking Back And Paying It Forward

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer

From the powerful exhibition of slave cabins, Nat Turner’s Bible and an airplane used to train Tuskegee airmen, the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture forces one to take a look back at America’s darkest past; it’s most ugly moments.

Eleven inaugural exhibitions feature some 34,000 artifacts, including a railroad passenger car that dates to the Jim Crow era, a shawl worn by Harriet Tubman and a traveling trunk that belonged to the family of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.

Looking back, of course, cannot be done without paying homage to Civil Rights champion Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. One exhibit traces the trajectory of King’s career, from his rise to prominence as the leader of the national Civil Rights Movement to his work as an anti-war activist and advocate for those living in poverty through historic photographs, prints, paintings and memorabilia.

The $540 million building that will house the new museum and

the many exhibits and artifacts contained inside will, as Smithsonian officials said, be a place where all Americans can learn about the richness and diversity of the African-American experience, what it means to their lives and how it helped in the shaping of this nation.

It’ll be a place that transcends the boundaries of race and culture that divide us, and becomes a lens into a story that unites us all.

And, to pay it forward and to make sure that all of this has become a reality are historically-Black organizations like the fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc. a founding donor who immediately poured $1 million into the efforts.

“Many who have donated to the museum have done so with ultimate trust,” Museum Director Lonnie Bunch said in an earlier interview.

But the Alphas’ contributions to the museum didn’t end with a monetary donation. An oil painting of Julian Herman Lewis, a charter member of the Xi Lambda Graduate chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha which was installed on May 15, 1924, will also be among the artifacts on display.

“What we will have in the museum is a place for dialogue and the exploration of historical movements. We can facilitate a discussion of what reparations really mean, providing a key to the debate.”

Lonnie Bunch, Museum Director

Lewis, whose parents were born into slavery but later became educators, came to be known as the “Father of Anthropathology.”

He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1911 from the University of Illinois.

A year later, he earned a master’s degree and entered the University of Chicago where he earned a Ph.D. in physiology and pathology, graduating magna cum laude.

Reportedly, Lewis was the first African American to earn both a medical degree and a doctorate and, in 1913, he became the first Black to be inducted into Sigma Xi, the scientific honorary, and the first African American to be a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, a medical fraternity.

“What we will have in the museum is a place for dialogue and the exploration of historical movements. We can facilitate a discussion of what reparations really mean, providing a key to the debate,” Bunch has said.

The museum’s exhibitions will show how segregation – a direct outgrowth of enslavement – and its shadows, shaped the country for so long and how African Americans were treated, both legally and informally.

For example, one of the museum’s key artifacts, the guard tower from Louisiana’s Angola prison, will show how the prison systems were repurposed plantations and populated by Black men exploited as free labor through convict leases.

“That is why the moral debt is what most concerns me. Blacks helped force America to live up to its stated ideals,” Bunch wrote in a column for The Smithsonian.

“This nation’s sense of citizenship, its notion of liberty, its understanding of justice for all owes a debt to the African American; these are the people who believed in the promise of America, and who, by their struggles, helped make that promise more accessi-

5 Julian H. Lewis, pictured here in 1917 in his graduation gown, was the first African American to teach at the University of Chicago. He joined the University of Chicago faculty after finishing his MD at Rush Medical College. / Courtesy Photo

ble to all,” he said.

How does a nation repay its moral debt? The greatest repayment would be to ensure that African Americans now and generations from now, have access to quality education, affordable health care and neighborhoods that are safe.

That would make all those who once suffered smile, because they didn’t suffer in vain, Bunch said.

Today, it’s all about paying it forward, particularly after taking the long look back.

“So, we open with people from the beginning that this is a story of humanity and we see how this history flows and I tell everyone the harsh story of slavery but the very important understanding of resistance and resilience and survival,” said museum specialist and curator Mary Elliott.

“There is a wall dedicated to the domestic slave trade, the middle passage, but when you see the extent of the information and the way it will be presented, it will blow people away,” she said.

The museum also doesn’t ignore the struggle faced by many African Americans today, particularly the recent rash of police shootings and violence with individuals of color.

“We don’t hold back on violence during the period of slavery and people will see how this ebbs and flows and that this violence [today] is nothing new and to understand it in a historical concept to wrestle with how to end it and to also understand that African Americans are human and African Americans are Americans who have contributed to the development of this nation,” Elliott said. BS

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DC Host Events In The DC, MD VA Area Events by Date September 17

Book signing: “The Threads of Time, The Fabrics of History: Profiles of African American Dressmakers and Designers from 1850 to the Present” (2007), Author, Rosemary E. Miller. Saturday, September 17 from 2-6pm at Zawadi Arts-Contemporary and Traditional African Arts Shop, 1524 U Street, NW. Contacts: 202-232-2214; www.zawadiarts.com

September 18

Concert: “A Historical Odyssey from the Cradle to Liberation”, features a 200 voice community choir singing chants, slave songs and spirituals. Sunday, September 18, 5pm at Shiloh Baptist Church, 1500 Ninth Street, NW. Contacts: 202-232-4288; http://www. shilohbaptist.org; tylerthomasd@aol.com Reception: New Door Creative presents “Occupational Hazards” with Artist Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter. Sunday, September 18, 3-6pm at 1601 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, MD. Contacts: 410-244-8244; newdoorcreative@gmail.com The Black Love Unity and Vision (L.U.V) Festival: A Tribute to Black Lives Matters, showcasing independent and nationally recognized musicians, poets, community/activist speakers and a live mural painting by a local community arts organization. September 18, 11am-7pm at St. Elizabeth’s East Gateway DC Pavilion, 2700 Martin Luther King Junior Avenue, SE. Contacts: George Kerr III; 202-387-7339; http://www.blackluvfest. com; George@giiiassociates.com

September 20

Concert & Conversation: Jazz Alive- Allyn Johnson & Meet the Artist on the Bandstand.

Favorite pianist and UDC Jazz Studies Director Allyn Johnson presents an up close and personal session of conversation and performance featuring trumpeter, composer/ arranger and band leader Thad Wilson. Tuesday, September 20 12:30pm at UDC Recital Hall- Van Ness Campus (Performing Arts Building 46-West) 4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW JazzAliveudc.org

Watch Party/Exhibit including Champagne Breakfast, hot catered meal and mimosas.

Serengeti Gallery, Park Central 7919 Central Avenue, Capital Heights, MD. Saturday, September 24, 9am -12noon. Cost: $25. Contact: 301-808-6987; serengetigallery@ gmail.com Watch Party/ Reception and Exhibits, includes complimentary mimosas and tour of restored Rosenwald School. Saturday, September 24 from 10am-1pm at the Prince George’s African American Museum & Culture Center, 4519 Rhode Island Avenue, North Brentwood, MD 301-809-0440, ext:102; www.pgaamcc.org Watch Party/Movie Screening: “Proud” The story of the USS Mason, the historic World War II battleship with an entirely segregated black crew. September 24, Watch Party10am; Movie Screening- 12:30pm, 2:30pm and 4:30pm at United States Navy Memorial Park, Pennsylvania Avenue between 7and 9th Streets NW Contact: 202-380-0723. http://www.navymemorial.org.

15th Annual DC Jazz Preservation Festival saluting America’s jazz heritage. Saturday, September 24, 12noon-dusk at Westminster Church, 400 I Street, SW. Contact: 202-484-7700; www.westminsterdc.org Jazz “The Steve Washington Quartet Performance”. Sunday, September 24 6-9pm at Alice’s Jazz and Cultural Society, 2813 12th Street, NE $10 Contact: http://jazzandculturalsociety.com Concert: Art All Night- Made in DC: Van Ness Main Street, featuring saxophonist Jordan Dixon. Saturday, Sept 24, 7pm at ACACIA Bistro, 4340 Connecticut Avenue at Yuma St., NW. Contacts: 202-537-1040

September 25

Festival of the Arts at African American Civil War Museum (AACW) Welcoming Reception, Thursday, September 22, 6-8pm 1925 Vermont Avenue, NW. Contact: 202-6672667; www.afroamcivilwar.org.

Sunday Service Jazz with Bobby Felder and the Capitol All-Stars Big Band Jazz Ensemble Sunday, September 25, 11am, Westminster Presbyterian Church, 400 I Street SW • Contact: 202-484-7700; www.westminsterdc.org Concert: “Singing Our Song”, a concert of hymns and traditional gospel music written by great gospel and hymn composers such as Charles Tindley, Thomas Dorsey, Lucy Campbell and many others. Sunday, September 25, 3pm at Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, 1630 Vermont Avenue, NW. Contact: 202-667-1078 http://www.vabc.org.

Drum Circle: Drumming for the Spirit: Remembering and Celebrating our Ancestors, Elders and Youth. Sunday, September 25, 4:30pm at Malcolm X (Meridian) Park, 16th Street between Euclid and W Streets. Contact: Damian Bascom 301-343-7915.

Gallery: A Musical Odyssey: From Africa to the Americas, featuring live music from diverse genres: blues, gospel, ragtime, R&B, hip-hop and rap. Sunday September 25, 3:30-5pm; 5:30-7pm at Serengeti Gallery, Park Central 7919 Central Avenue, Capital Heights, MD. Cost $5 Contact: Concert: “Shirletta Settles Sings”. Sunday, September 25 6-9pm at Alice’s Jazz and Cultural Society, 2813 12th Street NE, $5 Contact: http://jazzandculturalsociety.com

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September 21

Reception: “Stand Up! for DC Democracy in DC Coalition”, Statehood Party Reception.

Wednesday, September 21, 6-8pm at the John Wilson Building, 1350Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Contact: stand_freedc@yahoo.com.

Reception: LGBTQ Community Reception for the LGBTQ/SGL community and Allies. September 21, 7pm at the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Building, 1640 Rhode Island Avenue, NW Contact: 202 628-4160; http://www.hrc.org

September 22

Concert: “A Tribute to Black Classical Composers”, highlighting organ and vocal compositions. Friday, September 23, 7pm at National City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle NW. Contact: 202-232-0323; http://www.nationalcitycc.org “Jazz Night” presents The Wilson Big Band: A Tribute to John Coltrane at Westminster Church, Friday, September 23, 6-9pm General Admission $5 Contact: 202-484-7700; www.westminsterdc.org

September 24

Festival of the Arts at African American Civil War Museums (AACW), 1925 Vermont Avenue, NW. Contact: 202-667-2667; http://www.afroamcivilwar.org.

Watch Party 10-12noon (Museum) • Descendants Presentation, 1-2pm (Museum) *“Battle Hymn of a Freedman”, a play by Clarence Anthony Bush, descendent of a member of the 2nd Regiment US Colored Troop that tells the story of the 1864 Fort Pillow Massacre in Tennessee, 2-3:30pm; 4:30-6pm • Live music 3:30-4:30pm; 6-8pm (Memorial) • Malcolm X Drummers & Dancers 12:30-1:30 (Memorial) • Free shuttle service from AACW to Mall, 12noon-8pm.

The Ideal Watchfest, Watch Party and Marketplace, at Academy for Ideal Education, 4501 Dix Street, NE, Saturday, September 24. Contact: 202-361-0501; www.idealacademy.org *Poetry, African Drum and Dance, African Market Place w/exhibitors -Above activities from 10am-2pm • Intergenerational Dance Party: Music and dancing from Boogie Woogie to Beyonce Era 5pm-9pm Watch Party/Exhibit: 1960 Mississippi Photo Exhibit and Students for Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Exhibit at Church of Scientology, 1424 16th Street, NW Saturday, September 24, at 9am-2pm. Contact: 202-797-9826 http://www.scientology-washingtondc.org

Concert: “Blue Monday Blues” presents Nadine Ray and the All Stars. Monday, September 26, 9pm at Westminster Church, General Admission $5 Contact: 202-484-7700; www.westminsterdc.org

September 27

Panel Discussion: “Band Books”- Join Deb Heard, Executive Director of the Hurston/ Wright Foundation and a former Editor of the Washington Post Style page, and Dana Williams, Professor of African American Literature and Chair of the English Department at Howard University for a discussion about diversity, censorship, and how to support the authors who need it the most. Busboys and Poets, 14th & V NW, 6:30 pm.

September 28

Jazz Forum: Bill Doggett II presents “Celebrating 100 years of Bill Doggett: Jazz Organ Pioneer “1916-2016”. Wednesday, September 28, 7pm at UDC Recital Hall- Van Ness Campus (Performing Arts Building 46-West) 4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW JazzAliveudc.org

September 29

Book-signing: “The Underground Railroad” (2016). Colson Whitehead’s recent novel is the latest Oprah’s Book Club pick, Author Colson Whitehead. Thursday, September 29 at 8pm at Politics and Prose Book Store, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW. Contacts: 202364-1919 http://www.politics-prose.com.

October 2

Gallery Talk: New Door Creative presents “Occupational Hazards” with Artist Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter. Sunday, October 2, 3-6pm at 1601 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, MD. Contacts: 410-244-8244; newdoorcreative@gmail.com

On-going Exhibit: The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) presents “OUR FRONT PAGE”, an exhibit of front pages taken from more than 211 African American-owned newspapers that are members of the NNPA. These front pages, published in newspapers across 33 states, memorialize “2016” headline news from a Black perspective. #Black Press Matters – Visit the Thurgood Marshall Center, 1812 Twelfth Street, September 21, 2016 – March 30, 2017. For specific viewing dates, times and special programs visit www.

NNPA.org or BlackPressUSA.com Exhibit: Works by Robert Freeman and Hubert Jackson - Zenith Gallery est.

1978Celebrating 38 Years in the Nation’s Capital,1429 Iris Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20012, zenithgallery.com art@zenithgallery.com Exhibit: “The Journey to be Free: Self –emancipation and Alexandria’s Contraband Heritage”. Running from August 30-September 30 at Alexandria’s Black History Museum, 902 Wythe Street, Alexandria, VA , 10am-4pm.

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Places of Interest:

Charles Sumner School, 17 M Streets, constructed in 1872 was one of the first public schools erected for the District’s black community. It now houses a museum and archive for DC public school records and artifacts. Contact: Open to the public Monday-Friday 10am-5pm Contact: 202- 730-0478 orhttps://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc58.htm National Council of Negro Women, Inc. Headquarters is located at 633 Pennsylvania Avenue. NW. The building was purchased during the 40 year presidency (1957-1997) of Dorothy Heights in 1995. Contact: 202-7370120 or email- membership@ncnw. org http://ncnw.org The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House a unit of the National Park Service, 1318Vermont Ave, NW- open seven day a week from 9 am to 5 pm.

The home serves as the second national headquarters for the National Headquarters for Negro Women. Today it is home to the Bethune Museum and Archives, the only archives devoted to Black Women’s history in the United States. Contact: (202) 673-2402; https://www.nps.gov/mamc/index.htm The Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, 1901 Fort Place SE, open daily 10am- 5pm. Current exhibitTwelve Years, that Shook and Shaped Washington: 1963-1975 (focus on events, people and challenges that transformed the city between 1963 and 1975) Contact: 202.633-4820; www.anacostia.si.edu.

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BOOK REVIEW “Dream a World Anew” By the National Museum of African American History & Culture c.2016, Smithsonian Books $40.00 / $47.00 Canada 288 pages

When a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer There’s so much you wish you’d kept.

Of course, you never thought of that when things were thrown out: your grandmother’s favorite skirt, a poster your uncle hung on his wall, an autographed picture of a minor star from the 1920s. You’d cherish them today, but they’re gone forever –

or are they? In “Dream a World Anew” by the National Museum of African American History & Culture, you’ll find those kinds of things – and more.

The new Smithsonian NMAAHC exhibits begin with a view of slavery in the U.S. The enslavement of humans has a long history and it was even practiced in Africa. This time, however – beginning with Portuguese slave ships in about 1440 – it would lead to the largest forced migration of humans, ever: more than 12 million “Africans of enormous cultural diversity” were shackled, marched across the African continent and transported across the Atlantic Ocean. The numbers were so high that, just three-and-a-half centuries after it began, “Black people formed 20 percent of the population of the new United States.”

Those new citizens fought on behalf of America in the Revolutionary War and, because of the “chaos of war,” were often freed after service. Slaves, in fact, often found it easier to demand release then, as the “First Emancipation” but it didn’t last long; by the early 1800s, the plantation system ensured that slavery continued.

Freed at the end of the Civil War, black citizens formed schools, started businesses, created products, and founded small towns, despite the onus of Southern sharecropping. Many migrated north, where discrimination still existed but Jim Crow laws weren’t quite as burdensome as they were in the South and lynchings weren’t nearly as common. They fought the same battles alongside whites (or in racially-divided military companies) in other wars, then they came home to more discrimination – which ultimately, in part, led to a national fight for civil rights. And through the centuries, African Americans left a trail of culture: songs from Africa; unique dance “styles and techniques;” minstrelsy and vaudeville acts; music, literature, art, and poetry.

I must admit, at first, I was a little disappointed in “Dream a World Anew.” What’s inside – the narrative – seemed like everything I’d heard before. So I flipped the book over and started paging through it again.

While it’s true that familiar names are everywhere in this book –Wheatley, Turner, Douglass, Truth, Tubman – readers will also be absolutely treated to stories and mini-biographies from regular people throughout history. The familiar names are rightfully here, but it’s those everyday tales that I couldn’t get enough of.

And then there are the items you’ll see here and in the Smithsonian NMAAHC: a skirt worn by a donor’s enslaved grandmother. Handbills, photographs, pottery, and medals, ship logs and shoes, quilts and posters and bric-a-brac that all tell a story.

No more disappointment. I loved this book, and I think you will, too. If you enjoy history or if you’re planning a visit to our Nation’s capital, “Dream a World Anew” is a souvenir you’ll want kept. BS

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Rising to the Challenge

How the King Memorial Found a Home on the National Mall

By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor When our nation’s first Black president, Barack Obama, officially opens the doors to the National Museum of African American History and Culture [NMAAHC] – the latest addition to the National Mall – on Saturday, Sept. 24, it will serve as the culmination of “10 years in the making and 100 years in the making,” says the museum’s director, Lonnie G. Bunch III. Its narrative, from moments of sweeping uplift and achievement, horrifically framed and punctuated by the wickedness of institutional terrorism, the “peculiar institution” of chattel slavery, will highlight the story of African Americans while seeking to address the question “what is real freedom?”

But before this bronze-colored edifice came into being, the National Mall welcomed the first institution honoring a Black man and by extension Black history, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the form of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial.

Both the King Memorial and the NMAAHC share several commonalities – challenges of epic proportion that were unknown, never encountered and presumably unheard of by the developers of previously constructed historic landmarks on the Mall. Those visionaries and subsequent leaders of the two Black-themed institutions had to secure millions and millions of dollars, public and private funds, donated by corporations and individuals, before matching dollars would be granted on the approval of members of Congress.

These and other monumental hurdles were recently shared by the Houston-based attorney who years ago assumed the arduous task as the primary fundraiser for the King Memorial and who has since served as the president and CEO of The Memorial Foundation, Inc., the nonprofit financial engine that continues to support the King Memorial.

“The King Memorial was a project started by members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. – I was one of the fraternity’s national presidents at the time. We had the land and the design but we had to go find the money. It was certainly not a one-man job.

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Actually, the concept had been in place well over 25 years. We had a monumental task before us.

And many people, some who the public may never know, emptied their pockets and stepped up to lend a hand in a myriad of ways,” said Harry E. Johnson, Sr., 61, who, by all accounts and according to numerous public testimonies, has remained the driving force behind and chief cheerleader for the King Memorial.

He said navigating the various levels of approval for the National Mall institution came as both a challenge and an eye-opening experience.

“There are several jurisdiction commissions with which you must contend in D.C. and for me and for Lonnie [Bunch], whether it was raising $127 million or $1/2 billion, respectively, the hurdles we had to overcome were mind-boggling,” Johnson said.

“Every time we thought we had moved forward in our fundraising efforts, we were confronted with another dynamic. For those involved with the King Memorial, it would be 9/11, then the tsunami, then Hurricane Katrina. In other words, we had to compete against disasters time and time again while at-

“With the new museum, we now have two Black ‘faces’ on the National Mall. That’s certainly reason to celebrate but as I remind people, convincing folks that Dr. King should be on the Mall took a lot of time and patience – a lot of sweat and even tears.”

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tempting to convince people that donating to our cause was something worthwhile,” said Johnson whose work on the project goes back well over a decade.

“With the new museum, we now have two Black ‘faces’ on the National Mall. That’s certainly reason to celebrate but as I remind people, convincing folks that Dr. King should be on the Mall took a lot of time and patience – a lot of sweat and even tears,” he added.

And on a beautiful late summer afternoon, Johnson welcomed some of the Memorial’s key financial sponsors including several members of Congress, Black and white, to the 9th Annual Leaders of Democracy Awards Luncheon on Wednesday, Sept.

14 on the grounds of the King Memorial in Northwest.

During the luncheon, which took place on the eve of the opening of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.’s 46th Annual Legislative Conference, Johnson once again shared his gratitude to his board members, fraternity brothers, primary financial contributors, friends and family – all of whom he said have been essential to making the King Memorial a reality and helping it remain, as the mission statement of The Memorial Foundation indicates, “to keep the spirit and work of Dr. King’s living memorial relevant by leveraging [its] role as a beacon of

inspiration . . . creating events that enlighten [and] educational programs that train people to work toward democracy, justice, hope and love.”

Awards were presented to three members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Congresspersons Charles Rangel, Robin Kelly and Bobby Scott, along with Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski.

In different yet significant ways, each elected official used their influence and well-earned respect by others to ensure that the King Memorial would be built and maintain its stated mission. Other guests at the luncheon included the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. who emphasized the importance of recognizing the millions of Black spirits whose collective efforts have been essential to there now being two institutions on the National Mall that honor the African-American tradition and community.

“As we honor the contributions of those too many to mention, we must also remember that our country will soon have an opportunity to cast our vote for the next president of the United States. We must make sure we vote and that we take others to the polls with us. We’re celebrating today but we can ill-afford to rest on our laurels,” Jackson said.

As for his personal feelings, Johnson said he believes that his friend and colleague Lonnie Bunch has to be enjoying the same kind of euphoria that he first experienced when the King Memorial was completed as the NMAAHC welcomes the first of millions of visitors into its doors.

“Both the King Memorial and the National Museum of African American History and Culture will serve as great additions to fulfilling a legacy and history of our people,” Johnson said. “People can finally see the role that Blacks have played in the U.S. and the significance of Blacks’ participation in making this country what it is today.”

“Both stand as symbols of our service and sacrifices. Both have been dedicated by the same president – the first Black president of the United States. No one will ever be able to deny that when we consider these two major projects and additions to the National Mall,” Johnson said with humility and pride.

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DC Host Committee Prepares for Museum Opening

By Pat Wheeler WI Contributing Writer Thousands of visitors from across the country are expected to descend upon Washington, D.C. for the opening of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Cul-

ture. The opening of this museum has long been anticipated ever since Georgian Congressman John Lewis in 1986 proposed the idea for a museum on the mall dedicated to the contributions and achievements of African Americans.

The museum’s dedication will take place on Saturday, Sept. 24

starting at 9 a.m., but District celebrations began a week earlier than the grand opening. The DC Host Committee in Celebration of the NMAAHC Dedication and Opening will host dozens of events for D.C. residents and visitors, many who will be unable to see the interior of the museum for at least several

weeks due to the high demand for the free but ticketed passes.

The host committee is comprised of dozens of individuals representing community organizations, church groups and representatives from the District, Maryland and Virginia governments.

“We want persons visiting Washington, D.C. to not only see the NMAAHC but to see a city that is rich with history and culture.

We want them to see some of our wonderful landmarks – places like the African American Civil War Memorial, the Howard Theater, the historic Metropolitan A.M.E. Church and the statues of Mary McCleod Bethune and Carter G. Woodson,” said Charles “Chuck” Hicks, co-chair, DC Host Committee.

Hicks shares co-chair duties with Frank Smith, director, African American Civil War Museum, a former DC Councilmember and civil rights activist. Both have spent long hours pulling together a schedule of events and activities that include concerts, movie screenings, receptions, exhibits, festivals, and even a drumming circle. Most of the events are free or have a minimal admission charge.

Hicks is also encouraging people who cannot attend the Museum’s opening and dedication ceremony on September 24 to hold Watch Parties with their friends and family.

The Museum is also encouraging Watch Parties since the number of people who can attend the opening is limited and security will be especially tight due to the appearance of President Barack Obama who is scheduled to speak.

For those wishing to celebrate with a larger crowd, a number of churches are holding Watch Parties.

(A list of churches holding these parties is listed below.)

According to Kinshasha Holman Conwill, deputy director, NMAAHC, who spoke to the Host Committee earlier this month, more than 7,000 people are expected to attend the dedication which will also feature speakers Chief Justice John Roberts, who serves as the Chancellor of the Smithsonian and is an ex-officio member of the Board of Regents; Congressman John Lewis; former President George and First Lady Laura Bush; and a host of other dignitaries. The program will also include a wide variety of musical entertainment.

Conwill says that they are working to have church bells ring out in every ward of the city. For persons who do not have one of the reserved

seats, jumbotrons will be set up on 15th Street near the Museum. Also on 15th Street will be a three-day festival (Sept. 23-25) featuring music performances, storytelling, interactive workshops and food vendors featuring African-American cuisine from various U.S. regions. She encouraged people to keep checking the NMAAHC website for additional information about the events. (www.nmaahc.si.edu).

Conwill, who came to the NMAAHC from New York City where she worked as an arts and culture consultant and prior to that, Studio Museum director, told the Host Committee, “This Museum tells the story of African Americans in a comprehensive but not in an encyclopedic way.”

She credited NMAAHC Founding Director Lonnie G. Bunch, III for having the vision to make this dream a reality.

The DC Host Committee’s celebrations kicks off on Sunday, Sept. 18, at 5 p.m. at Shiloh Baptist Church with a special music performance, “A Historical Odyssey: From the Cradle to Liberation.”

The concert will feature a 200-voice community choir with the Shiloh choir as the nucleus.

Shiloh’s Artistic Director Dr. Thomas Dixon Tyler said, “We will look at the contributions of the African-American people through our music. We will take the audience through a musical journey, starting with African chants, work songs and spirituals.”

Other churches hosting concerts are National Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle, Northwest on Friday, Sept. 23 (A Tribute to Black Classical Composers) and Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, (Singing Our Song) 1630 Vermont Ave., Northwest on Sunday, Sept. 25.

One of the events that Hicks is especially proud of is the “Drumming for the Spirit: Remembering and Celebrating our Ancestors, Elders and Youth.” More than 100 drummers will converge on Malcolm X Park on Sunday, Sept. 25, 4:30 p.m. to form a drumming circle that will undoubtedly be heard across the city.

Courtney Williams, director of outreach for the DC Host Committee, said more volunteers are needed to distribute brochures about the week of activities and events, to answer questions about places to go in the District and to direct people to appropriate venues.

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Groundbreaking for the National Museum of African American History and Culture From the newsroom of The Smithsonian- http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/smithsonian-breaks-ground-national-museum-african-american-history-and-culture The Smithsonian broke ground for its 19th museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Wednesday, Feb. 22, at 10 a.m. in an invitation-only ceremony on the National Mall. President Barack Obama spoke at the ceremony. Other honored guests included First Lady Michelle Obama, former First Lady Laura Bush, Rep. John Lewis (DGa.) and Gov. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.). The ceremony took place on the museum’s five-acre site adjacent to the Washington Monument at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue N.W. “I think about my daughters and I think about your children, the millions of visitors who will stand where we stand long after we’re gone,” said President Obama. “And I want them to appreciate this museum not just as a record of tragedy, but as a celebration of life. When future generations hear these songs of pain and progress and struggle and sacrifice, I hope they will not think of them as somehow separate from the larger American story. I want them to see it as central—an important part of our shared story.”

“With this groundbreaking we move closer toward creating a museum to make manifest the dreams of many generations,” said Lonnie G. Bunch III, founding director of the museum. “The structure about to rise on the National Mall will be a signature building, and the museum it houses will give us a way to ensure that America understands the African American experience as a history that has shaped us all.”

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5 Smithsonian senior staff and members of the National Museum of African American History and Culture Council break ground for the new museum in a ceremony held Feb. 22, 2012.

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Chronology of Events

National Museum of African American History and Culture Dec. 16, 2003

President George W. Bush signs the legislation creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)

October 2004

Founding 19-member NMAAHC Council appointed by the Smithsonian Board of Regents

March 14, 2005

Lonnie G. Bunch named founding director of NMAAHC

Jan. 30, 2006

Selection of the five-acre museum site on the National Mall near the Washington Monument

Oct. 1, 2007

Selection of Freelon Bond, pre-design and architectural programming consultants

Jan. 19, 2008

NMAAHC launches first “Save our African American Treasures” program in Chicago

Oct. 27, 2008

Pre-design: Master facilities programming

November 2008

Completion of the master exhibition planning, facilities planning and programming report

January 2009

Opening of NMAAHC Gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History

February 2009

Architectural design competition begins

April, 2009

Freelon Adjaye Bond/ SmithGroup selected as the architectural team for the museum

July 12, 2011

Construction firm, Clark/ Smoot/Russell begins planning for the construction of the building

Feb. 22, 2012

Groundbreaking November 2012—First concrete pour

November 2013

Cranes install the first iconic artifacts, a Jim Crow-era railroad car and Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) prison guard tower, into the museum

October 2014

Steel topping out; last steel member lifted for structural framing

January 2015

Above-grade steel-and-concrete superstructure is complete to the roof level; glass installation begins on fifth floor

September 2015

Corona and building enclosure is complete, except doors

November 2015

Projection Mapping Event: Celebrated countdown to museum’s grand opening and commemorated anniversaries of 13th amendment, Voting Rights Act and Civil War’s end

Sept. 24, 2016 Grand opening

April 2015

Glass enclosure complete; the first of 3,600 bronze-colored “Corona” panels installed

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By Sarafina Wright, WI Staff Writer

MARIE JONES

Johns Island, South Carolina I am looking forward to seeing what African Americans have contributed. I want the young people to see their history. My father, Esau Jenkins did voter registration here in South Carolina and the van he used will be in the National Museum of African American History and Culture. We are leaving Friday because they are doing a pre-show for all the donors and contributors.

As his daughter it makes me really proud – my only regret is that he is not alive to see it. When he was alive we had a hard time; they called him a Communist and all of my siblings had to go away and I couldn’t get a job in Charleston County for 10 years. Still, I am proud that now others will see what he did on behalf of our people.

What are you most excited to see/explore at the National Museum of African American History and Culture when it opens to the public?

MARY HOWARD

Terre Haute, Indiana I am so excited. First of all because my brother is an architect. So, the first thing I want to do is bask in the beauty of the outside of the building. It’s shaped like an African crown, so I’ve been told. So, you get empowered before you even walk in there. I am looking forward to seeing slave memorabilia as well as the international anti-slave memorabilia. I want to see that. The contemporary things I am excited about but I want to step back in time. I want to put myself in the shoes of my ancestors as best as I can. I want to feel their pain, resiliency and their strength.

IBN MUTAKABBIR

Washington, D.C. Since it is being called the African American museum, I don’t expect it to go much into any other history besides post slavery. The notion that the African was nothing until the west snatched them away and civilized them cannot be hidden in any undertone anywhere in the presentations. I don’t expect the museum to be more than a secular showing of surface accomplishments of Black Americans over the years. First Black this, and then Black that. That said, this museum should be visited by all Americans. I would be interested most in African-American inventions and inventors. The message of the museum, I hope, will be that these people have made major, positive contributions to America and the world. So even though my expectations of the museum are not all that high, I’m glad it is being done..

CELESTE SUNDO

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Admittedly, I don’t have a great deal of knowledge about early African-American history. Even as a teacher we boiled things down to “symbols” of African-American history. Like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Garret Morgan, Madam C.J. Walker and others, so I am interested in seeing the early exhibits. I think I will be able to broaden my understanding of the early history of African-Americans in this country.

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Charlotte, North Carolina What would make me ecstatic and excited to see is not just slavery, or Jim Crow but the bridge from Africa to America. It should showcase where the Black race originated and then connect the dots. This is such a major opportunity that’s in our face to tell our story. I am one who believes African Americans did not originate through slavery. This would begin the healing process of getting to truly understand who we are and the extent of our true strength.

Congratulations to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on their opening on the National Mall.

Connect to more experiences locally in Alexandria, Virginia. Nearby at Mount Vernon, you can explore the groundbreaking exhibit Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.

Plus, in Old Town Alexandria, from colonial times, to the Civil War, to Civil Rights, you can see the places where history happened.

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4 Food culture and cuisine exhibit. / Photo by Shevry Lassiter

INSIDE THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE 3 Entrance to exhibit “Journey Towards Freedom” at the new museum. / Photo by Shevry Lassiter

6 Richard Hunt talks about his sculpture “Swing

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Inaugural Exhibitions A Century in the Making: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture (Concourse level)

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will open on the National Mall Sept. 24, but the effort to build the museum began more than 100 years ago. This exhibit, “A Century in the Making,” explores the journey toward fulfillment of this long-held dream, providing an overview of the century-long struggle that began in 1915 and its culminating achievements. Opening the museum has involved the efforts of presidents and members of Congress, curators and architects, art collectors and army veterans, celebrities and ordinary citizens. Visitors will learn the inspiration behind the museum’s architectural building design and the significance of the museum’s unique location on the National Mall, at the center of Washington’s historic core. Curators: Joanne Hyppolite and Michelle Wilkinson

History Galleries (concourses 1, 2 and 3) Slavery and Freedom

As the centerpiece of the museum, this exhibition explores the complex story of slavery and freedom, a story standing at the core of our national experience. Beginning in the 15th century with the transatlantic slave trade, through the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, the exhibition uses personal stories to explore the economic and political legacies of slavery for all Americans. Priceless objects featured include Harriett Tubman’s shawl and hymn book (c. 1876); Nat Turner’s bible (1830s); shackles used for an enslaved child; a slave cabin from Edisto Island, S.C.; a pocket copy of the Emancipation Proclamation read from by soldiers bringing news of freedom to the U.S. Colored Troops; and freedom papers (c. 1852) carried by a former slave, Joseph Trammell. Curator: Nancy Bercaw

Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: Era of Segregation 1876–1968

This exhibition takes visitors from the end of Reconstruction through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. It is rich with history and artifacts that capture the major aspects of the ongoing struggle by the nation in general and African Americans in particular to define and make real the meaning of freedom. The exhibition will illustrate how African Americans not only survived the challenges set before them but crafted an important role for themselves in the nation, and how the nation was changed as a consequence of these struggles. Some of the most powerful artifacts in the museum are located here: Emmett Till’s casket; a dress made by Rosa Parks; a prison tower from the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola; a segregated Southern Railway rail car from the Jim Crow era; the Greensboro, N.C., Woolworth’s lunch-counter stools; and a house (c. 1874) built, owned and lived in by freed slaves in Maryland. Curator: Spencer Crew

A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond

This section illustrates the impact of African Americans on life in the United States—social, economic, political and cultural—from the death of Martin Luther King Jr. to the second election of President Barack Obama. Subjects include the Black Arts Movement, hip-hop, the Black Panthers, the rise of the black middle class and, more recently, the #BlackLivesMatter movement. This exhibition encompasses several sections focusing on Black Power era of the 1960s and ’70s, Black Studies at

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universities, racial dynamics in cities and suburbs and the changing role of the black middle class. The year 1968 is seen as a turning point in the modern struggle for freedom and equality with artifacts such as painted plywood panels from Resurrection City, a “Huey Newton, Minister of Defense” poster and handmade banners from the 2008 presidential election.Curators: William Pretzer and Michelle Wilkinson

Community Galleries (third floor) Power of Place

This exhibition explores the idea of place and region as a crucial component of the African American experience through an interactive multimedia area called the Hometown Hub, where visitors will engage with stories about migration and other themes.

Surrounding the hub will be 10 case studies of places in the U.S. illustrating the distinct flavor and experience of each. These place studies will contain a mix of diverse stories—well known and unknown; mainstream and edgy; celebratory and challenging. These include: Chicago (black urban life and home of the Chicago Defender newspaper; Oak Bluffs (leisure in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.); Tulsa, Okla. (Black Wall Street, the story of the riot and rebirth); South Carolina’s low country (a story of life in the rice fields); Greenville, Miss. (images of segregated Mississippi through the lens of a photo studio); and Bronx, N.Y. (a story about the birth of hip-hop). Curator: Paul Gardullo

Making a Way Out of No Way

The stories in this gallery show the ways in which African Americans created possibilities in a world that denied them opportunities. These stories reflect the perseverance, resourcefulness and resilience required by African Americans to survive and thrive in America. Each story presents concrete actions and choices that people made to contest the racial status quo in America, challenging visitors to reconsider the notion of freedom as granted to African Americans and to see freedom, along with its privileges and responsibilities, as earned by African Americans. The three main sections are: an introductory space with five iconic artifacts complemented by multimedia components; the institutional pillars of African American life—education, religion, business, organizations and the press; and a tradition of activism. Among the featured stories will be a Rosenwald School in South Carolina, the First A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles and Mary McLeod Bethune and the National Council of Negro Women in Washington, D.C. Curators: Michèle Gates Moresi and Kathleen Kendrick

Sports Gallery

This exhibition will look at the contributions of athletes on and off the field. Because sports were among the first and most high-profile organizations to accept African Americans on relative terms of equality, sports have a unique role in American culture.

Types of artifacts on display will include sports equipment; awards, trophies and photos; training logs and playbooks; and posters and flyers. A grip bag and uneven-bar grips used by African American gymnast Gabby Douglas in the 2012 Olympics, a white terrycloth robe worn by Muhammad Ali and the track shoes and gold medals of Carl Lewis are among the artifacts in the museum’s sports collection. Curator: Damion Thomas

Military History Gallery

The military gallery exhibition will convey a sense of appreciation and respect for the military service of African Americans from the American Revolution to the current war on terrorism. It establishes an understanding that the African American military experience shapes opportunities for the greater community and has profoundly shaped the nation. This exhibition will help visitors understand the African American military experience in three areas: “Struggle for Freedom” focusing on the American Revolution, the War of 1812 and the Civil War; “Segregated Military,” about the In-

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dian Wars, Spanish-American War and World Wars I and II; and “Stirrings of Change to a Colorblind Military,” examining the Korean and Vietnam wars and today’s war on terrorism. Artifacts include Civil War badges, weapons and photographs, Flag of the 9th Regiment U.S. Colored Volunteers, a WWI Croix de Guerre medal awarded to U.S. soldier Lawrence McVey and various Tuskegee Airmen materials.Guest Curator: Krewasky Salter

Culture Galleries (fourth floor) Musical Crossroads

This exhibition tells the story of African American music from the arrival of the first Africans to today’s hip-hop.

Through its content, the exhibition will be the space where history and culture intermingle and where music serves as the crossroads between musical traditions and stories of cultural and social development. The gallery is organized through stories of musical genres and themes rather than chronologically, covering classical, sacred, rock ’n’ roll, hip-hop and more.

Among the artifacts in this sound-filled area will be Marian Anderson’s outfit from her 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial and a neon sign from Minton’s Playhouse (1938) in Harlem, known as the birthplace of bebop where Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie performed at Monday-night jam sessions. Thomas Dorsey (known as the father of gospel) will be represented by the piano and bench he used at the Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago, where he served as music director for 40 years.

Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin and The Staples Singers are among those who sang at the church. From the modern era, the exhibition will feature Chuck Berry’s red Cadillac and Public Enemy, the group that voiced the tenets of black pride and racial awareness. Curator: Dwandalyn Reece

Cultural Expressions

This exhibition is an introduction to the concept of African American and African diaspora culture. It examines style (identity, political expression and attitudes expressed in clothing, dress, hair and jewelry), food and foodways, artistry and creativity through craftsmanship, social dance and gesture, and language. Curator: Joanne Hyppolite Visual Arts Gallery This art exhibition will illustrate the critical role that African American artists played in shaping the history of American art. It will feature seven thematic sections and one changing exhibition gallery. Works will include paintings, sculpture, works on paper, art installations, mixed media, photography and digital media. The history and relevance of each work will be available to visitors through a multimedia platform. Curators: Tuliza Fleming and Jacquelyn Serwer

Taking the Stage

This exhibition will explore the history of African Americans in theater, film and television in order to celebrate their creative achievements, demonstrate their cultural impact and illuminate their struggles for equal representation on the stage of American entertainment. Visitors will see how African Americans transformed the ways they are represented onstage by challenging racial discrimination and stereotypes and striving to produce more positive, authentic and diverse images of African American identity and experience. Together these stories will suggest how African American performing artists also paved the way for broader social change. Stories include Paul Robeson’s role in Othello, Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf and the Black Stuntmen’s Association in Hollywood. Curator: Kathleen Kendrick.

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Other Venues

Asbury United Methodist Church 926 11th Street N W (corner of 11th & K Streets) 202-628-0009 Carol Travis carol6303@aol.com www.asburyumcdc.org (Includes historical exhibit)

African American Civil War Museum 1925 Vermont Avenue NW 202.667.2667 afroamcivilwar.org (Festival of the Arts & National Mall shuttle)

Allen Chapel AME Church 2498 Alabama Ave SE 202-581-1500 http://www.acamec.org; gail8625@gmail.com Church of Scientology 1424 16th Street NW 202.797.9826 Peggy Dolet or Tania McAuliffe Florida Avenue Baptist Church 623 Florida Avenue NW 202-667-3409 Regina Ensley pastorassist@aol.com www.flavbc.org (Includes historical exhibit) Galbraith AME Zion Church 1114 6th Street NW 202-289-1580 Israel Baptist Church 1251 Saratoga Avenue NE 202-269-0288 Dorothy McKelvin www.israelbaptistchurch.org info@IsraelbaptistChurcj.org Metropolitan AME Church 1569 M Street NW 202-331-1426 Anthony Hawkins hawant@metropolitanamec.org www.metropolitanamec.org

Ben’s Chili Bowl 1213 U Street NW 202-667-8880 Kamal Ali or Nizam Ali kamal@benschihibowl.com nizam@benschilibowl.com Culture Coffee House 709 Kennedy Street NW vvcooper@culturecoffee.com 301-727-0357 The Hayes Senior Wellness Center 500 K Street NW 202-727-0357 Ideal Watch & Festival Fest 4501 Dix Street NE (10am -2pm) 202-269-3186 www.idealacademy.org admin@idealacademy.org sadikisafari@gmail.com Serengeti Gallery Park Central 7919 Central Avenue Capital Heights, MD, Champagne Breakfast 9am-12pm.

301-808-6987 Serengetigallery.com Tickets: $25 per person United States Navy Memorial Park Pennsylvania Avenue between 7and 9th Streets NW. 202.380.0723 navymemrial.org

Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church 3000 Pennsylvania Avenue SE 202-581-6521 http://www.pabc-dc.org/homr/html Plymouth Congregational UCC 5301 North Capitol Street NE 202.723.5330 PlymouthCongregational@yahoo.com Shiloh Baptist Church 1500 9th Street NW 202.232.4288 shilohbaptist.org Westminster Presbyterian Church 400 I Street SW 202 484-7700 westminsterdc.org

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Collection Highlights Harriet Tubman’s Hymn Book c. 1876 Gospel Hymns No. 2, by P.P. Bliss and Ira D. Sankey, Harriet Tubman’s personal book of hymns. Gift of Charles Blockson Slave Cabin c. early 1800s A weatherboard-clad cabin used during slavery at Point of Pines Plantation on Edisto Island, S.C. Gift of The Edisto Island Historic Preservation Society Rosa Parks’ Dress c. 1955 Dress that Rosa Parks was making shortly before she was arrested for not giving up her seat on a segregated bus. Black Fashion Museum Collection. Gift of Joyce A. Bailey Tuskegee Airplane, Boeing-Stearman PT-13D Kaydet c. 1944 A vintage, open-cockpit biplane that was used at Alabama’s renowned Tuskegee Institute to train African American pilots for Army Air Corps service during World War II. Marian Anderson Ensemble c. 1939 The orange silk jacket and black-velvet skirt worn during Marian Anderson’s Easter Sunday performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939. Gift of Ginette DePreist in memory of James DePreist Muhammad Ali Headgear, Fifth Street Gym c. 1960s It was in this gym and the surrounding neighborhood with its vibrant mix of racial, political and cultural identities, some have argued, that Cassius Clay took his first crucial steps to becoming Muhammad Ali.

Construction and Layout The museum broke ground in February 2012. The 400,000-square-foot building is situated on a five-acre tract adjacent to the Washington Monument. Total cost for construction and installation of exhibitions was $540 million, one-half funded by federal funds and the remainder by the Smithsonian.

The construction manager is Clark/Smoot/Russell, a joint venture of Clark Construction, Smoot Construction and HJ Russell and Co. The museum is one of the largest and most complex building projects underway in the country, in large part because of the challenges of constructing 60 percent of the structure below ground.

Above Ground Fifth floor: Staff offices, board room Fourth floor: Culture galleries: “Musical Crossroads,” “Cultural Expressions,” “Visual Arts Gallery,” “Taking the Stage” Third floor: Community galleries: “Power of Place,” “Making a Way Out of No Way,” “Sports Gallery,” “Military History Gallery” Second floor: Education space, resource center, Center for African American Media Arts First floor: Central hall, welcome center, orientation theater, store Below Ground Concourse 0: Atrium, contemplative court, Oprah Winfrey Theater, Special Exhibitions Gallery, café Concourse 1: History Gallery—“1968 and Beyond” Concourse 2: History Gallery—“Era of Segregation” Concourse 3: History Gallery—“Slavery and Freedom” Located at the corner of 15th Street N.W. and Constitution Avenue, the museum includes exhibition galleries, an education center, theater, auditorium, café, store and offices. Visitors will enter the museum through the grand Porch at south (National Mall) side of the building, while a secondary entrance is provided on the north (Constitution Avenue) side.

The Central Hall is the primary public space within the building and the point of orientation to the museum’s offerings. As visitors move through this generous space, they can stop at the Orientation Theater, Welcome Desk or the museum store.

As visitors move through the exhibitions, a series of openings frame views of the Washington Monument, the White House and other Smithsonian museums along the Mall. These openings or “lenses” offer respite and pause at selected moments along the exhibition experience.

The framed perspectives serve as a reminder that the museum presents a view of America through the lens of African American history and culture.

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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS

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Black-on-Black Crime: Why Do We Pretend it doesn’t Exist?

Last Saturday evening in Southeast, children played in bounce houses and chefs did their thing on barbecue grills while others boogied to hiphop and go-go music. The weather cooperated with a warm breeze and cloudless skies. Everything seemed perfect for the 150 or so men, women and children marking the annual tradition of Dorsey Day in their Barry Farm neighborhood.

Then, in a sudden flurry of bullets, panic erupted as people fled for cover.

One witness described the chaotic scene, remembering how grown men pushed children aside and how several youth were trampled by adults seeking cover. In the end, two men, 31 and 18, both from Southeast, were killed – seven were wounded.

So far police say they have no motive but have stated they’re fairly confident the gunfire came from at least two people – two brothers – two Blacks.

It’s difficult to comprehend why our Black brothers and sisters continue to kill other brothers and sisters. More often the victims are innocent bystanders, just trying to carve out their small space on the planet and enjoy the gift of life.

Where are Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the NAACP, Urban League, the Congressional Black Caucus and Black Lives Matter when we need them?

We’re adamant about leading protests when it comes to the shooting of Blacks by police. In fact, we’ll shut down cities and major thoroughfares when innocent Blacks are wounded or killed by law enforcement officials.

But we tend to say nothing – looking the other way while burying our heads in the sand like the proverbial ostrich when Black-on-Black crime occurs. And it’s occurring with frighteningly and deadly regularity.

Do we really hate ourselves and have so little regard for our own people that we aim at the innocent, firing with reckless abandon and then move back into the shadows?

The time has come when we must confront our own demons, dysfunctional actions and refusal, or maybe inability to “do unto others” as the Golden Rule suggests.

We’ve grown weary of discussions about terrorism whether abroad or here in America. Within the Black community, from rural towns to urban cities, we are terrorizing our own.

When will it end? WI

Obama Makes Personal Plea to Black Voters – Let’s Comply The clock continues to countdown: around 50 days remain until voters return to the polls and choose the next president of the United States – along with members of Congress, judges, school board members and even “dog catchers.”

And in heartfelt words from President Barack Obama as reported by The New York Times earlier this week, our first Black president, and probably the last Black we’ll see in the White House in our lifetime, urged young Black voters, in particular, to vote for his party’s presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton.

He said in what he described as his personal campaign message, “it’s about me,” adding that he’d take it as a “personal insult” if Black voters did not consider and then give the nod to his former Secretary of State.

“My name may not be on the ballot, but our progress is on the ballot,” Obama said during his remarks at last Saturday evening’s Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.’s gala dinner.

Let’s consider our options. We can vote for Clinton, we can vote for Trump or we can stay home – watching reality TV, catching the latest episode of “Greenleaf” and “Empire” and sipping on our favorite beverage.

But let the record show, that to choose not to vote is tantamount to giving Donald Trump our endorsement. And while our publication is not in the practice of endorsing candidates, it has to be obvious who we support.

Some political experts are saying that the millennial vote will make the difference in the 2016 elections. And we believe those predictions have merit. What’s more, we assert that failing to exercise our right to vote is like saying to Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, Jr., four little Black girls in a Birmingham church and so many others who died in the fight for equal WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM

TO THE EDITOR Metro Is Permanently Off-Track

Metro is broken and cannot be fixed, period!

After reading William J. Ford's article, "Metro Quarterly Report Card Better, But Still Needs More Improvement," I had to laugh. The Metro system is so badly broken there is no way to fix it. Directors who were more interested in money-grabbing than running a reliable, safe system ran the entire Metro system into the ground. Years of jackleg maintenance that led to shoddy work that led to overpaid overtime that led to unreliable service that led to unsafe conditions that eventually led us to this point, "a system too broken to be fixed." Now that thousands of us depend on Metro to and from work each day, what do we do?

Charles Hawkins Bowie, Md.

'Satchmo's' True Story Deserves Telling Your article by Lauren Poteat, "One-Man 'Satchmo' Show Captivates," in the Sept. 15, 2016 edition is simply great. I have not seen the play yet, but I plan to. Louis Armstrong, to me, is the greatest but most misunderstood jazz musician in American history. I was one of those, like in the article, that would call Mr. Armstrong an "Uncle Tom." I later came to understand that I was doing it because I was the one who was ignorant. The true story of Louis Armstrong needs to be told again and again, so that people like me who were ignorant of the real facts can see for themselves the real creative genius of this African-American hero. Washington Informer, you deserve a standing ovation for covering this production.

Paul Dudley Washington, D.C.

rights, that their sacrifices meant nothing.

And we all know that is far from the truth. Perhaps the problem is for many young people, the shedding of blood, numerous examples of physical and mental abuse and the loss of lives that occurred during the Civil Rights Movement, and in times before and after, are little more than episodes in American history. However, for those of us old enough to remember, either because we lived through them or because of the tales our parents and grandparents shared, we know how dark and dangerous those days were. So, let’s heed President Obama’s words.

Have you registered to vote? Have you studied the candidates up and down the ballot? Are you prepared to exercise your civic duty?

Come on brothers and sisters, be the example for today’s children who will one day become our future leaders – VOTE! WI

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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS Guest Columnist

By Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.

Obama's Urgent Call for Black Voter Turnout We were pleased to witness firsthand the final keynote address by President Barack H. Obama to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation 2016 Phoenix Awards Dinner. Thousands of guests in their black-tie attire gave the president of the United States of America a rousing standing ovation in response to his speech that focused on the overall progress that has been accomplished during Obama's eight years in the White House.

But the most poignant and dramatic utterance by President Obama during his remarks happened when he energetically stated, "There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter. It all matters. And after we have achieved historic turnout in 2008 and 2012, especially in the African-American community, I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election."

President Obama emphasized, "You want to give me a good sendoff? Go vote. And I'm going to be

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working as hard as I can these next seven weeks to make sure folks do."

The countdown to the most important election in our lifetime has begun.

We concur with President Obama. The elections across the nation on Nov. 8, 2016, are tremendously important and crucial to black America and to all Americans who want freedom, justice and equality.

Beware of the false prophets that are predicting and even hoping for a low African-American voter turnout. We defied the odds in 2008

and in 2012 with large black voter turnouts. Now we must do it again.

The best way to celebrate black history is to make more history.

The turnout of voters to the polls in black America will once again be the single most determinative factor in the outcome of the national elections and for the future of America.

It is important to note here that President Obama's speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's gala occurred exactly one week before the official opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture

scheduled for Sept. 24, 2016, in Washington, D.C. We had an opportunity to have a media preview of the new museum. It was a breathtakingly revealing display of the struggles, sufferings, and triumphs of black America. Yet one could also see vividly that black Americans paid a very heavy price and bloody sacrifice to get the right to vote in the United States.

This sacred history calls us again to action today. That is why the president also said, "So if I hear

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By James Clingman

Our Destiny Is in Our Hands Adam Clayton Powell's famous "What's in your hand?" speech in 1967 pointed out a very important and relevant truth that still applies today. He said, "You've got in your hand the power to use your vote and to use even those 'few cents' you get from welfare, to spend them only where you want to spend them."

The question and its answer ring clear when it comes to the critical economic and political issues of our time. A major component related

to Powell's question is the reality of another idiom: "A little goes a long way." That's the philosophy of The One Million Conscious and Conscientious Black Contributors and Voters. We know that relatively small amounts of money from individuals can create a collective tsunami of cash flow for our businesses and organizations.

Powell's question must be reinvestigated today, at least among those of us who are both conscious and conscientious about black economic empowerment. Why? The answer is quite simple. Too often many of us find

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excuses for not doing the things that are necessary to achieve our economic independence, instead of looking for reasons why we should. Many of us look at what we don't have and get stuck there, instead of looking at and using what we do have to move forward. And, many of us say things like, "We all need to come together" and "until all black people get on the same page," instead of realizing that a relative small portion of blacks can make significant change in our economic and political status in this country.

"All" black people will never do anything together, and to wait for that

to happen is futile and a monumental waste of valuable time. Our forebears did not wait for all blacks to join them in their efforts. They sought and found those of like mind and went ahead with their work. They understood that with a critical mass of critical thinkers their movement would take on a life of its own and move forward under its own steam. Even though they had very little in their hands they knew they could achieve a collective goal by pooling what they had and using it to build their own economy.

So, what's in our hands today,

brothers and sisters? We like to brag about how much income or "spending power" we have, but we should be bragging about how we are using it to empower ourselves. We proudly stand before our people and brag about how important our votes are, instead of being able to brag about what our votes, over these many decades, have provided us in return. We brag about being here since this nation began and even before, but we can only brag about what we collectively built prior to integration, i.e., black towns, but not

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By Bill Fletcher Jr.

Understanding How Myths Were Manufactured Reading Ron Nixon's "Selling Apartheid: South Africa's Global Propaganda War" (London, UK: Pluto Press, 2016), was like reading a good mystery. It was describing a world and a process about which few of us were aware. It was a world in the shadows with the active manipulation of money, people and the media all carried out by a nefarious force.

"Selling Apartheid" focuses upon a multi-decade effort by the apartheid regime that dominated South Africa

(1948-1994) to shift world opinion in favor of apartheid and its progeny.

With the assistance of, quite ironically, certain African Americans, as well as a list of public relations firms and domestic (USA) right-wing organizations, the apartheid regime went about producing material, offering trips and engaging in various forms of lobbying (legitimate and illegitimate) in order to neutralize the efforts by liberal and progressive forces in the USA who sought the isolation and downfall of the apartheid regime.

Fairly soon after gaining power (in 1948) the apartheid regime recog-

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nized that its pariah status was growing internationally. It undertook various initiatives in order to deflect criticism including paying off various black South Africans to speak in favor of the regime (or at least to speak against the liberation forces, such as the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress of Azania). It was assisted in this work by certain African-Americans, one of the most notorious being Max Yergan, a former Communist who repudiated his earlier views and became a rabid right-winger. Yergan served the interests of the apartheid regime by, among other things, sug-

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gesting that the main danger to South Africa was from the Soviet Union and Communism rather than from the racist apartheid regime.

Over time the apartheid regime cultivated contacts in the USA and Western Europe. As the book points out, none of these propaganda efforts stopped the death of apartheid, but in reading this story it was difficult to believe that such efforts did not contribute, in various fashions, to lengthening the duration of the regime and its progeny.

I have, for the second time, mentioned the "progeny" of apartheid.

Let me clarify. Toward the end of the apartheid era the regime attempted a fast one. They proclaimed the independence of certain so-called black homelands, e.g., Ciskei. These were simply black majority puppet states that went unrecognized by the rest of the world. There were black faces in high places, but the regimes were clients of the apartheid government.

The apartheid regime did what it could to convince the world that these were legitimate states, including the sending of delegations to visit. None

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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS Guest Columnist

By Kenneth J. Brewer Sr.

Black Philanthropy Can Lead to Major Life Changes As we wait for the public grand opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) on Saturday, Sept. 24, I am reminded of how significant and life-changing Black philanthropy can be.

It has been widely reported that private donations contributed more than $300 million to the NMAAHC's capital campaign, helping to surpass its $540 million goal. Impressive.

It is this group of private donors, representing the "diversity of support," that helped to build organizations such as the NMAAHC and similar organizations like it — that give voice, history and foundation to the black community.

Likewise, it is the generosity of private donors that has helped our organization, H Street Community Development Corporation (HSCDC), to offer once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to young people in the District through the Global Scholars Foundation (GSF), our

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educational nonprofit.

We are proud that the GSF marks its milestone 10th anniversary this September, and we believe that investing in the lives of District youth for the next decade ensures GSF's sustainability and equips these future leaders from within the black community. GSF continues to underscore evidence that black philanthropy can lead to greatness.

Through GSF, we have changed the future stories of some of our District youth — many of whom can become future African-Ameri-

can leaders. Just in the summer of 2015, GSF traveled on an 11-day cultural immersion trip to Spain and Morocco with 30 students — all from the District's public and public charter school systems — at no cost to the students.

During this two-country, eightcity experience, the young people practiced their Spanish, enjoyed Moroccan culture and reflected on their blessings and the importance of the occasion. The students acknowledged their roles as part of the global community beyond

their eight wards in the District.

We realize every day we could be supporting the dreams or the educational pathways of another President Barack Obama, another Mae Jemison (first African-American woman to travel in space) or another Shirley Chisholm (first African-American female elected to Congress).

We are humbled that we can be guiding future generations to be featured within the walls of the

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By Julianne Malveaux

Get Ready Now to Vote on Election Day Are you ready to vote? Are you registered? These may seem like simplistic questions, especially for those who are aware, but every year some folks are denied access to the polls because they didn't register on time, or they moved and their address does not match the address the registrar of voters has, or something.

The presidential election is likely to be a nail-biter, and there are local races that are also close.

Your best bet is to make sure you

know what the requirements for voting are in your state. Check out www.vote.com; the site lists the requirements for all 50 states.

A few states allow voter registration on the day of an election, but most states require you to register between 11 and 30 days before the vote. Some states allow online registration, most allow registration by mail (with requirements about the date a registration is postmarked), and almost all allow in-person registration.

The terms and conditions of

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voting are still being negotiated in some states so it makes sense to stay on top of voting rules. A federal appeals court recently kicked discriminatory North Carolina voting terms to the curb, saying that that state discriminated against African-Americans with "surgical precision." Efforts to reduce the number of days available for early voting, or to eliminate Sunday voting, disproportionately affect African-American voters.

North Carolina Republicans are deliberate and mindful in their attempt to sideline Afri-

can-American voters, since most African-Americans are Democrats. They want to deliver their state to Donald Trump and they want to ensure that Sen. Richard Burr and Gov. Pat McCrory, both Republicans, are also re-elected.

North Carolina isn't the only state with electoral shenanigans.

Texas, Kansas, Georgia and Alabama have also implemented restrictive measures that are being appealed by civil rights groups, the League of Women Voters, the NAACP and others. Disputes revolve around things like

absentee ballots, purges of inactive voters, and issues of whether ballots will count if they are cast in the wrong precincts. In our "democracy," it seems that we do more to discourage voters than encourage them, and while the voting process could be seamless, plans to prevent as many as 50,000 Kansas voters from going to the polls, for example, make no sense in a "participatory democracy."

Some folks don't want it to be participatory, though. Re-

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By Askia Muhammad

African-American Museum Gets Rock Star Treatment There is one building in Washington which deserved and received rock-star treatment even before the day it officially opened: The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, or NMAAHC. Located on the National Mall, near the Washington Monument, to me, it looked like some kind of scientific installation when its construction began. Now complete, it looks like an outer space

mothership, landed on top of a mothership, on top of a mothership. But NMAAHC has more than just a pretty face.

The museum says the building's three-tiered shape evokes a traditional Yoruba crown.

The exterior corona is made of 3,600 bronze-colored cast-aluminum panels. Teams of architects collaborated on the exterior design, and it seems on various aspects of the museum.

The exterior, it is said, symbolizes hands lifted in prayer, in what the museum says is an expression of faith, hope and the

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will to survive and to succeed.

I first went to the museum with a chip on my shoulder, expecting that my favorite story in the saga of Black life in America — the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam rising up out of Detroit during the Great Depression and establishing a foothold among the descendants of the slaves — would continue to go underreported. And I was correct. There is no "Nation of Islam Room" nor a "Black Panther Room," or a room just about Supreme

Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

I went back to the museum when I realized that this ancient repository — where the Bible once owned by Nat Turner is a part of the collection — is the place where 34,000-plus items have been collected into a mosaic which depicts more than 400 years of American life and culture through the eyes of black folks, not just one period.

So, metaphorically, the museum is like a parlor, or a living room, where guests are con-

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All over Washington, there has been concerts and celebrations to welcome the new neighbor. There is an official local host committee, which has been promoting events from the National Cathedral, to Shiloh Baptist Church, to the Church of Scientology, to Union Temple Baptist Church

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LIFESTYLE Carla Hayden Sworn in as First Black Woman Librarian of Congress

By Lauren Poteat WI Contributing Writer

A pivotal moment in history occurred Wednesday, Sept.

14 as Carla Hayden was sworn in as the head of the Library of Congress — the first African-American and woman to ever assume the role.

Hundreds of people gathered to witness the ceremony at the library's Thomas Jefferson Building in southeast Washington, as Hayden became just the 14th person to hold the posi-

tion since the Library of Congress's inception in 1880.

Shortly after the ceremony, Hayden, who was appointed

by President Obama, took to social media, declaring her sincerest admiration and gratefulness.

"I can't wait to work with all of you to seize this moment.

Let's #makehistory at the Library of Congress together," she tweeted from the Library of Congress account.

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5Carla Hayden (right), the new Librarian of Congress, takes the oath from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. (left) during the swearing-in ceremony at the library's Thomas Jefferson Building in Southeast on Sept. 14, as her mother Colleen Hayden holds the Bible and House Speaker Paul Ryan looks on. / Photo by Roy Lewis

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"Hayden was celebrated for her outreach to help people from all walks of life get access to library materials and technology," the library said in a statement. "That included homework help and college counseling for teens, healthy-eating information for residents of areas lacking access to high-quality food, Spanish-language programming and more."

Hayden was also lauded for keeping a library branch open

amid the unrest in Baltimore following the Freddie Gray funeral — directly across the street from a CVS store that was looted and burned.

Her tenure is expected to run over the next decade, in concordance with Obama's recent law limiting the once-lifetime appointment to a 10-year term.

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Emotions Run High at New African-American Museum

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer Tears streamed down the face of several black journalists while their white counterparts appeared almost numb by the emotion that would be nearly impossible not to experience.

On Wednesday, Sept. 14, curators and other personnel provided a daylong media tour of the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture which sits on the National Mall in the nation's capital.

The media's tour was followed by an unannounced private tour

by President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and the first couple's two daughters.

It wasn't immediately known what the Obamas took from their 80-minute tour, but it's likely a safe bet to suggest that they were – to say the least – touched.

The tour began in the Oprah Winfrey Auditorium. The television magnate reportedly has donated more than $25 million to the museum.

Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton and the museum's director, Lonnie Bunch, told a slew of reporters who crammed into the auditorium that it would be an eye-opening experience for all.

"The museum is open for every American and the world to better understand the African-American journey and how it shaped America," Bunch said.

"If we've done our job right, I trust the museum will be a place for all Americans to ponder, reflect, learn, rejoice, collaborate and, ultimately, draw sustenance and inspiration from the lessons of history to make America better."

The museum honors black heroes such as Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Rep. John Lewis (D-Georgia), a civil rights leader who worked for decades in Congress trying to gather support for the museum.

President George W. Bush signed the legislation in 2003, and Bunch and a staff of just three began shaping the vision of what's now a 400,000-squarefoot, $540 million building with exhibits, sculptures, paintings, artifacts and other historic treasures.

Media members were encouraged to start their tour from the

bottom level because the museum is ordered chronologically.

It begins with a statue of President Thomas Jefferson in front of 609 bricks, which represents the number of slaves he owned.

Indeed, the galleries below the Winfrey Auditorium are dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in American history and the worst injustice ever faced by African-Americans.

Ramps connect small galleries that reveal the evils of the Atlantic slave trade and the Colonial era up through the Civil War. Materials and photographs show lynchings and items include a shawl worn by Harriet Tubman, the escaped slave and abolitionist who created the Underground Railroad.

There's also the coffin of Emmett Till, the black Chicago teenager who was killed in 1955 in Mississippi, for looking at a white woman. Till's death sparked the civil rights movement.

"It blows my mind," said Vincent Penn, a supervising engineer with Kensington Glass, the company contracted by the museum to perform glass work.

"Down here is the worst period the world has ever known and I have tears every time."

Penn, a white man, said the reactions of everyone strike him.

"Whether you're black or white or whatever, you cannot come through here and not cry," he said. "I was here when Oprah Winfrey came and visited and she stood up there [on a walkway above her auditorium] and her expression said it all.

She could hardly contain herself, [either]."

But the museum isn't all about the dark history and the evils of slavery. African-American businesses are celebrated and so are black media. Ebony magazine and the Freedom Journal, the first African-American newspaper, are featured in exhibits.

Entertainers and sports figures such as Redd Foxx, Michael Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Jordan, Jackie Robinson and many others are also highlighted with exhibits, artifacts and donated items.

Jackson's famous fedora that he wore during his 1984 "Victory" concert tour is on display, as is Chuck Berry's cherry red El Dorado. A special section is dedicated to Muhammad Ali.

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"Our country will gain a further understanding of what it means to be an American," Skorton said. "It's a beacon that reminds us of what we were, what challenges we still face and what we can become."

The museum opens Saturday, Sept. 24 with Obama, Bush, Winfrey, Lewis, Colin Powell, Michael Jordan and many other celebrities, politicians and dignitaries scheduled to attend.

Because demand to visit the museum is so great, a timed pass system is being used for all those wishing to secure a pass.

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5Over 75 newspaper publishers from across the United States — all members of

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By Lauren Poteat WI Contributing Writer President Barack Obama poured his heart out Saturday to fellow constituents and black Americans at the annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner, issuing a fervent call to action to hit the polls on Election Day in November.

Obama, speaking at the Phoenix Awards, the foundation's annual event honoring impactful black leaders, urged conscious citizens to vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump as his successor, a role he said the GOP nominee is woefully inadequate to handle.

"If I hear anybody saying their vote does not matter, that it doesn't matter who we elect, read up on your history — it matters," Obama said. "We've got to get people to vote. I will consider it a personal insult — an insult to my legacy — if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election. You want to give me a good sendoff? Go vote."

Though Obama's term is almost finished, he stressed that black American growth does not end with his presidency.

"If you care about our legacy, realize everything we stand for is at stake," he said. "All

5President Barack Obama delivers the keynote speech at the Phoenix Awards

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the progress we've made is at stake in this election. My name may not be on the ballot, but our progress is on the ballot."

Despite some of Trump's less desirable, oft-perceived racist past statements, a recent voter poll has him with a 47.2 percent lead over Clinton's 41.2 percent, according to The New York Times.

With nearly 20 percent of black voters currently siding with Trump — a 16.5 percentage-point increase within the past two weeks — and millennials (ages 18-34) unsure of Clinton, Obama gave a call to public attention regarding

Trump.

"He's somebody who has fought against civil rights and fought against equality and who has shown no regard for working people most of his life," Obama said.

With a major theme of mass incarceration and excessive police violence, Obama implored citizens to consider what is at stake.

"Tolerance is on the ballot," he said. "Democracy is on the ballot. Justice is on the ballot.

Good schools are on the ballot. Ending mass incarceration, that's on the ballot right now."

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ARIES You might need to make a decision concerning your work, goal, or career

plan. If you're offered an opportunity, the present picture encourages you to look into the details. It's possible that someone could withdraw an offer. It might be helpful to wait until early next week to assess the situation. A little bit of charm can work wonders. Lucky Numbers: 20, 25, 57

TAURUS Avoid growing too blinkered, especially if one issue engages your attention

more than anything else. There's a chance that you're considering a proposition or planning a trip and are caught up in the details. Wait until week's end, you may find the process much easier. Until then, take any offers or options with a grain of salt. One relationship may become more passionate. Lucky Numbers: 36, 43, 56

GEMINI You may be wondering whether you should borrow money for a mortgage or remodeling project. Avoid discussing the matter this week. You would be better off researching your options first. If you're really eager, this is the ideal time to get all the facts. Lucky Numbers: 7, 24, 55 CANCER Conversations could be intense this week, but plans should not be rushed.

As much as you want to get ahead with an idea or collaboration, forcing the pace might not work. In fact, the more flexible you can be the better. With the Sun joining Jupiter in your home and family sector this weekend, it's an opportunity to bring everyone together — and it should be a grand occasion for all. Creative opportunities could show up. Lucky Numbers: 8, 20, 49

LEO Positive interaction with a friend or perhaps a budding romance. You could find

yourself drawn to someone simply because the person is interesting to talk to. If you're thinking about asking for a raise or dealing with issues linked to payment for a job, wait until next week. Lucky Numbers: 3, 12, 58

VIRGO You may be seeking to stabilize a certain situation and get it under control to the best of your ability. Be prepared to look at various alternatives. The least appealing may even turn out to be the best deal. A small windfall could come your way this weekend. Lucky Numbers: 13, 17, 42 LIBRA A lovely lineup at the start of the week hints at a positive conversation or relationship that seems to be moving in an upbeat direction. Embrace any plans and projects that have been on the back burner. Your money zone on Friday might encourage you to purchase a few small luxuries. Lucky Numbers: 2, 27, 45

SCORPIO Conversations could be very deep this week. If you're making plans, though, you'll need to be flexible, as a U-turn is possible. Misunderstandings you've had to deal with should begin to sort themselves out. You might appreciate more time to yourself. You could come up with some creative ideas. Lucky Numbers: 12, 15, 56 SAGITTARIUS A lovely Venus/Mars link in your sign early on can be perfect for a special date or social event with a bit of a kick. A question concerning a creative goal or business matter could dominate your awareness, and it may mean that you miss out on opportunities elsewhere. Give it your attention. Finally, a weekend event should be delightful. Lucky Numbers: 3, 27, 37

CAPRICORN Perhaps you're mulling over the benefits of following a certain course of action. With Mercury slowing prior to pushing forward, you might find that any plans you do make are subject to changes or delays. If so, it could work in your favor. Forge ahead with the goals and plans you've been researching. Look out for an opportunity over the weekend. Lucky Numbers: 12, 30, 40 AQUARIUS Whatever your plans, collaborating could take you out of your comfort zone in an enjoyable way. In addition, the Sun's move into Libra on Thursday could encourage you to get moving on plans and opportunities that are challenging but fun. The weekend could see you mulling over one such offer that may be too good to pass up. Lucky Numbers: 2, 16, 46 PISCES Watch out for projects that are time consuming and perhaps a waste of effort. Mercury's link with Pluto suggests that you and another may be engaged in an idea that requires a lot of thought and planning. With Mercury set to push forward midweek, an event could encourage you to change your mind completely. Flexibility will be required. Later, with the developing focus on your finance sector, the weekend could bring a small prize your way. Lucky Numbers: 3, 17, 37 34 SEPTEMBER 22 - 28, 2016

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wi book reviewA "Crossing the Thinnest Line"

by Lauren Leader-Chivée c.2016, Center Street $27 ($35 Canada) 336 pages

Your Business is Doing Well.

It Could do Better

By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer Just like every other business in America, you have good weeks and bad. Sales go up and they flatten. You have financial feast-or-famine and you'd like more of the former than the latter. Author Lauren Leader-Chivée says she knows how you can achieve that and in "Crossing the Thinnest Line," she explains.

Open the door to your office and look around. What does your staff look like?

Many managers, as Leader-Chivée learned at a conference, tend to surround themselves with people who look like them. That might feel most comfortable, she indicates, but to do so is to miss out.

While some may find it awkward to actively, purposefully seek diversity, Leader-Chivée says it's important to remember that most of us have ancestors who were outsiders once. It's also rare in today's world for anyone to live in a bubble: you probably already know, are related to, or come in regular contact with someone who is different from you, and you think nothing of it — which is to say that while humans generally resist change, you may already have "acquired diversity."

Many folks find acquired diversity through family relationships and personal discoveries. Others simply jump in and get to know people who don't look like them.

Insisting on diversity in the workplace not only "sparks creativity," but it's also forward-thinking: within the next 25 to 30 years, the U.S. will "become a majority-minority." Diversity makes it easier to tap into new markets with impressive buying power, it allows your company to gain a foothold on other continents, and it will help to avoid the embarrassment of miscommunication. By utilizing new experiences from divergent people, you and your employees will benefit from a fresh point-of-view, taking "full advantage of … talents, insights, and creative energies" and a much larger scope of knowledge.

Without diversity, says Leader-Chivée, "we'll suffer as a nation…"

"It's a mistake we can't afford to make."

I cannot deny that what's inside "Crossing the Thinnest Line" could be helpful. It's filled with statistics, surprising solutions and illustrative stories that show what world leaders and Big Business are doing. But that richness of info can also be a downfall: there's just too much to take in here.

I really found myself wishing that Leader-Chivée had made this into two books, or even three; that might have eased the overwhelmed feeling. As it is, the needs for large corporations are covered well, but not so much those of small-business owners or mom-and-pops who are miles from the Fortune 500. Leaders looking to hire more women will need to trek through information on diversity in race, sexuality and religion. Non-business-minded readers get a little of everything, and may lose interest long before finding what they really need.

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SPORTS Hampton Spanks Howard in 'HU' Showdown, 34-7 4 Howard Bison running back Anthony Philyaw is tackled by Hampton Pirates

offensive lineman Keldrick Wilson during Hampton's 34-7 win in the Nation's Football Classic at RFK Stadium in Southeast on Saturday, Sept. 17. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

5 Howard Bison quarterback Jason Collins is tackled by Hampton Pirates defensive back Brendan Cole during Hampton's 34-7 win in the Nation's Football Classic at RFK Stadium in Southeast on Saturday, Sept. 17. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

5 Howard Bison quarterback Kalen Johnson holds

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SPORTS Redskins Toppled by Arch-Enemy Cowboys 6 Washington Redskins tight end Vernon Davis stiff-arms

Dallas Cowboys cornerback Morris Claiborne after making a reception during the Cowboys' 27-23 win at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, on Sunday, Sept. 18. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

5 Washington Redskins wide receiver Jamison

Crowder beats Dallas Cowboys cornerback Orlando Scandrick to make a third-quarter touchdown reception during the Cowboys' 27-23 win at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, on Sunday, Sept. 18. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

4 Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott

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Legacy, Tradition Dominate Football at Annual Game Hampton Wins, But Result Secondary

By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer The "real HU"? For another year, at least, it's Hampton University.

Legacy, scholarship and tradition collided once again during the AT&T Nation's Football Classic at RFK Stadium in southeast D.C. on Saturday, Sept. 17, as two esteemed historically black universities — Hampton and Howard — took to the gridiron for bragging rights as the true "HU," with Hampton coming out on top for the second year in a row, 34-7.

But as many in attendance would attest, the event was less about the game itself than the atmosphere.

Howard freshman Julian Cook, a political science major from Chicago, said he wasn't expecting

much from the football team, but the experience overshadows the loss.

"It was really cool, it was cool seeing the fake HU, too," Cook said. "I'm glad I came to this, because you're going to regret not going if you don't. It's like a rite of passage and a tradition that everyone should experience, and it's the whole Howard vs. Hampton rivalry, so you have to go to at least one game."

The Nation's Classic, organized

by Events DC, began in 2011 to celebrate the passion and tradition of the college football experience, particularly the heritage and culture of black institutions.

Before the game Saturday, students from each school participated in debates, forums, tailgating and a Pepsi-sponsored block party featuring dozens of vendors, games and food trucks. Rap leg-

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end Doug E. Fresh also hosted a DJ competition, where an aspiring mixer from each institution competed and received advice from the beat-boxing icon.

Other notable appearances included Washington Wizards guard John Wall, Cecil Newton, father of Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, and comedian Rickey Smiley.

Both bands during halftime paid homage to old-school musicians such as Earth, Wind and Fire and the Gap Band.

Traci Bronner, a supporter of Hampton University who lives in Atlanta, thought the song selections for the halftime performance couldn't have been better.

"It was an excellent presentation," Bronner said. "I enjoyed both bands at halftime. It was good to see the bands honor

5 The Eastern High School marching band participates in a drum line competition

at RFK Stadium in Northeast on Sept. 17 before the Nation's Football Classic between Howard and Hampton. / Photo by Roy Lewis

musicians from the past. Even if a younger child doesn't know that particular music, they'll know that there is a reason for the music being played."

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"He was unbelievable in all aspects," Floyd said. "He had a great smile, never passed anybody without shaking their hand. He was very rare, very rare."

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Trials and Tribulations – When You Are Being Tested At some point in your life, have you found yourself in a situation when you have to wonder, "What in the world is THIS all about?" I sure have! We all have those times when this has happened, some times when you would least expect it. Some of us even seem to have more than our fair share of these times.

The Apostle James tells us to count them all joy, it says in James 1:2-3, "My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience."

As we know, to have the ability to count it all joy, is easier said than done. We must ask what many might think is a silly question: What exactly are trials and tests, anyway?

Why must we face these trials and tribulations and why should we be told to count them a joy?

Is there a right way and a wrong way to approach trials?

1 Peter 1:7 says where the testing of our faith is compared, is like comparing it to the quality and purity of gold. The book of James tells us 1:2) have a purpose. When you have a purpose, no matter what seems to come up against us, we will dodge bullets and come out of the trials without missing one step. You are on a mission, and nothing will stop you. The Holy Spirit is with you, when you walk in your anointed purpose!

Have you found yourself, stunned, sitting in the middle of Turning Hearts Church

a dark place, wondering "How did this happen to me?" Did you feel so shocked by what just happened to you that you could not pray? Yet the Lord knew just how you felt. Could it all have been a test?

When it happened to me, all I could do was have a quick talk with Jesus. I remember saying, God, Jesus, Mama and Daddy, all of you up there in heaven, I’m in trouble right now, and I need you to order my steps! And my steps surely were ordered. The actions that came next were none of my fleshly doing, my behavior was a shocker, even to me. It was as if nothing at all had happened to me. Life went on, just as usual; in fact, as if it had been already planned that way. My steps were indeed, ordered by the Lord. You will know for sure your test did not break you!

Did you pass your test? We are not only told that we must undergo many tests throughout this life, as indeed all humans must, but we are also given a pattern to follow in handling them. Face it. It is hard enough to maintain a decent attitude when you are going through troubles that you know you brought on yourself, but what about those things that happen to us unfairly? You say, "Lord, I didn't deserve that!"

When we find ourselves in the midst of big problems, keep in mind that there may have been a similar "behind-the-scenes" conversation about us. God has established the limits of our trial,

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Count it ALL joy, is truly an excellent scripture to embrace during these times. And it also is expressed in another of my favorite scriptures, Romans 8:28, which says, "And we know that all things work together for good, to them who love God and are the called according to His purpose!"

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Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church

Virgil K. Thomas, Sr. Senior Pastor/ Teacher

Service and Times Sunday School 8 – 9 AM Worship Service 9 – 11 AM Tuesday Night Bible Study 6:30 – 8:00 PM Wednesday Daytime Bible Study 11 AM – 12:30 PM

Committed to providing services and supports to increase the capacity of individuals, businesses, and communities.

Service and Times Sundays: 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Music and Hymns Wednesdays: 12:10 p.m. - Holy Eucharist www.stmarysfoggybottom.org Email: stmarysoffice@stmarysfoggybottom.org All are welcome to St. Mary’s to Learn, Worship, and Grow.

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RELIGION The Miracle Center of Faith Missionary Baptist Church Bishop Michael C. Turner, Sr. Senior Pastor 9161 Hampton Overlook Capitol Heights, MD 20743 Phone: 301-350-2200 Fax: 301-499-8724

Service and Times Sunday Worship Times : 7:30 a.m. 7 10:00 a.m.

Communion: 1st Sunday Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.

Bible Study: Wednesday, 12 Noon Bible Study in homes: Tuesday 7:00 p.m.

Website: www.themiraclecenterFMBC.com Email: Miraclecenterfmbs@gmail.com Motto: “We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight”

Pilgrim Baptist Church

Church of Living Waters

Rev. Louis B. Jones II Pastor 700 I Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 547-8849 Service and Times Worship Sundays: 7:30 & 11:00am 5th Sundays: 9:30am 3rd Sundays: Baptism & Holy Communion Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @ Noon & 6:30pm

Crusader Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. Michael E. Bell, Sr., Pastor

Rev. Dr. Alton W. Jordan Pastor

Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews Senior Pastor

Harold Andrew Assistant Pastor

2498 Alabama Ave., SE - Washington D.C. 20020 Office: (202) 889-7296 Fax: (202) 889-2198 - www.acamec.org

800 I Street, NE - Washington, DC 20002 202-548-0707 - Fax No. 202-548-0703

4915 Wheeler Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-894-6464

Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 8:00am and 11:00am Sunday Church School - 9:15am & Sunday Adult Forum Bible Study - 10:30am 2nd & 4th Monday Women’s Bible Study: 6:30pm Tuesday Jr./Sr. Bible Study: 10:00am Tuesday Topical Bible Study: 6:30pm Tuesday New Beginnings Bible Study: 6:30pm Wednesday Pastoral Bible Study: 6:30pm Wednesday Children’s Bible Study: 6:30pm Thursday Men’s Bible Study: 6:30pm Friday before 1st Sunday Praise & Worship Service: 6:30pm Saturday Adult Bible Study: 10:00am “The Amazing, Awesome, Audacious Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church”

Service and Times Sunday Morning Worship: 11:00am Holy Communion: 1st Sunday Sunday School: 9:45am Men’s Monday Bible Study: 7:00pm Wednesday Night Bible Study: 7:00pm Women’s Ministry Bible Study: 3rd Friday -7:00pm Computer Classes: Announced Family and Marital Counseling by appointment

1200 Isle of Patmos Plaza, Northeast Washington, DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-6767 - Fax: (202) 526-1661

www.livingwatersmd.org

E-mail: Crusadersbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.CrusadersBaptistChurch.org “God is Love”

Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ

St. Stephen Baptist Church

Third Street Church of God

Dr. Dekontee L. & Dr. Ayele A. Johnson Pastors

Drs. Dennis W. & Christine Y. Wiley Pastors

Bishop Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Senior Pastor

Rev. Cheryl J. Sanders, Th.D. Senior Pastor

Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr.; Senior Bishop & Evangelist Susie C. Owens – Co-Pastor

4001 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 (202) 265-6147 Office 1-800 576-1047 Voicemail/Fax

3845 South Capitol Street Washington, DC 20032 (202) 562-5576 (Office) (202) 562-4219 (Fax)

5757 Temple Hill Road, Temple Hills, MD 20748 Office 301-899-8885 – fax 301-899-2555

1204 Third Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 202-347-5889 office 202-638-1803 fax

610 Rhode Island Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (202) 529-4547 office • (202) 529-4495 fax

Service and Times Sunday School: 9:30am Sunday Morning Worship Service: 11:00am Communion Service: First Sunday Prayer Service/Bible Study: Tuesday, 6:30pm

Services and Times Sundays: 10:00am Worship Services Bible Study: Wonderful Wednesdays in Worship and the Word Bible Study Wednesdays 12:00 Noon; 6:30pm (dinner @ 5:30pm) Sunday School: 9:00am – Hour of Power

Blessed Word of Life Church

www.blessedwordoflifechurch.org E-mail: church@blessedwordoflifechurch.org

“An inclusive ministry where all are welcomed and affirmed.” www.covenantbaptistdc.org

Campbell AME Church Rev. Dr. Henry Y. White 2562 MLK Jr. Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Adm. Office 202-678-2263 Email: Campbell@mycame.org Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 am Sunday Church School: 8:45 am Bible Study Wednesday: 12:00 Noon Wednesday: 7:00 pm Thursday: 7: pm “Reaching Up To Reach Out” Mailing Address Campbell AME Church 2502 Stanton Road SE - Washington, DC 20020

Services and Times Sunday Early Morning Worship: 7:45am Church School: 9:30am Sunday Morning Worship: 10:45am Tuesday: 7:00pm/Kingdom Building Bible Institute Wednesday: Prayer/Praise/Bible Study-7:30 pm Baptism & Communion Service: 4th Sunday – 10:30am

Services and Times Sunday School: 9:30am Sunday Worship: 11:00am Prayer Meeting and Bible Study: Wed. 7:30pm

“We are one in the Spirit” www.ssbc5757.org E-mail: ssbc5757@verizon.net

www.thirdstreet.org

“Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital”

Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church

Sunday Worship Service: 8 AM and 10:45am Sunday Youth Worship Services: 1st & 4th 10:45am; 804 R.I. Ave., NE 5th 8 AM & 10:45am; Main Church Prayer Services Tuesday – Noon, Wednesday 6am & 6:30pm Calvary Bible Institute: Year-Round Contact Church Communion Every 3rd Sunday The Church in The Hood that will do you Good! www.gmchc.org

Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Holy Communion: 2nd Sunday at 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Sunday Church School: 9:20 a.m.

Seniors Bible Study: Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.

Noon Day Prayer Service: Tuesdays at Noon Bible Study: Tuesdays at 7 p.m.

Motto: “A Ministry of Reconciliation Where Everybody is Somebody!”

Website: http://isleofpatmosbc.org Church Email: ipbcsecretary@verizon.net

St Marks Baptist Come Worship with us...

Dr. Raymond T. Matthews Pastor and First Lady Marcia Matthews St. Mark's Baptist Church 624 Underwood Street, NW Washington, dc 20011 Services and Times Sunday School: 9:00am Worship Service: 10:00am Wed. Noon Day prayer service Thur. Prayer service: 6:45pm Thur. Bible Study: 7:15pm

Twelfth Street Christian Church Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor (Disciples of Christ) 1812 12th Street, NW - Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202-265-4494 Fax: 202 265 4340 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 am Communion every Sunday: 11:00 am Sunday School: 10:00 am Bible Study Tuesday: 12 Noon Pastor’s Bible Study Tuesday: 6:30 pm Motto: “Discover Something Wonderful” Website: 12thscc.org Email: Twelfthstcc@aol.com

Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Mount Carmel Baptist Church

Rev. John W. Davis Pastor

Joseph N. Evans, Ph.D Senior Pastor

5101 14th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20011 202-726-2220/ 202-726-9089

901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423

Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 8:00am and 11:00am Sunday School: 9:15am Holy Communion 4th Sunday 10:00am Prayer and Bible Study Wednesday 7:00pm TV Ministry –Channel 6 Wednesday 10:00pm

Isle of Patmos Baptist Church

Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor

Service and Times Sunday Service: 8:30am& 11:00am Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30pm Communion Service: First Sunday

www.pilgrimbaptistdc.org

Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church

Service and Times Sunday Church School : 9:00am Sunday Morning Worship: 10:10am Bible Study Tuesday: 6: 00pm Prayer Service Tuesday: 7:00pm Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday 10:10am themcbc.org

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RELIGION Shabbath Commandment Church

All Nations Baptist Church

King Emmanuel Baptist Church

Bishop Adrian A. Taylor, Sr. Pastor

Rev. Dr. James Coleman Pastor

Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor

7801 Livingston Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-534-5471

2001 North Capitol St, N.E. - Washington, DC 20002 Phone (202) 832-9591

2324 Ontario Road, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 232-1730

Service and Times Sabbath School 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Service 11:00 a.m. Praise & Worship Preaching 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Motto: “A Church Keeping It Real for Real.”

Website: Shabbathcommandmentchruch.org Email: Praisebetoyhwh@gmail.com

Zion Baptist Church Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor 4850 Blagdon Ave, NW - Washington D.C 20011 Phone (202) 722-4940 - Fax (202) 291-3773 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:15AM Sunday School: 9:00am Monday: Noon Bible School Wednesday: Noon & 7PM: Pastor’s Bible Study Ordinance of Baptism 2nd Holy Communion 4th Sunday Mission Zion Baptist Church Shall; Enlist Sinners, Educate Students, Empower the Suffering, Encourage the Saints, and Exalt Our Savior. (Acts 2:41-47) www.zionbaptistchurchdc.org

St. Luke Baptist Church Rev. Aubrey C. Lewis Pastor 1415 Gallatin Street, NW Washington, DC 20011-3851 P: (202) 726-5940 Service and Times Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.

Holy Communion: 11:00 a.m., 3rd Sun. Bible Institute: Wednesday - 1:30 pm Prayer Meeting: Wednesday - 12:00 Noon

Service and Times Sunday Church School – 9:30 AM Sunday Worship Service – 11:00 AM Holy Communion – 1st Sunday at 11:00 AM Prayer – Wednesdays, 6:00 PM Bible Study – Wednesdays, 7:00 PM Christian Education School of Biblical Knowledge Saturdays, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM, Call for Registration Website: www.allnationsbaptistchurch.com All Nations Baptist Church – A Church of Standards

Israel Baptist Church

Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor

Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert Senior Pastor

2409 Ainger Pl.,SE – WDC 20020 (202) 678-0884 – Office - (202) 678-0885 – Fax “Come Grow With Us and Establish a Blessed Family”

623 Florida Ave.. NW - WDC. 20001 Church (202) 667-3409 Study (202) 265-0836 Home Study (301) 464-8211 Fax (202) 483-4009

4504 Gault Place, N.E. Washington, D.C 20019 202-397-7775 – 7184

Service and Times Sunday Worship: 7:30am & 10:45am Baptism/Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday Family Bible Study Tuesdays – 6:30pm Prayer Service: Tuesdays – 8:00pm www.emmanuelbaptistchurchdc.org

“Where Jesus is the King”

Lincoln Park United Methodist Church

Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith

Rev. Dr. Diane Dixon Proctor Pastor

Elder Herman L. Simms Pastor

1251 Saratoga Ave., NE Washington, DC 20018 (202) 269-0288

1301 North Carolina Ave. N E Washington, D C 20002 202 543 1318 - lpumconthegrow@gmail.com www.lpumcdc.org

5606 Marlboro Pike District Heights, MD 20747 301-735-6005

Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 A.M. Sunday School: 8:30 A.M. Holy Communion1st Sunday: 10:00 A.M. Prayer Service: Wednesday at 6:30 P.M. Bible Study: Wednesday at 7:00 P.M.

Service and Times Sunday Worship: 10: am Holy Communion: First Sunday 10: am Sunday School: 9: am Bible Study: Wednesday @ 12 noon and 6:30pm Motto: “A CHURCH ON THE GROW”.

Mount Moriah Baptist Church

Eastern Community Baptist Church

Service and Times Sunday Apostolic Worship Services 11:00 A.M and 5:00 P.M Communion and Feet Wash 4th Sunday at 5:00 P.M Prayer/Seeking: Wednesday at 8:00 P.M. Apostolic in Doctrine, Pentecostal in Experience, Holiness in Living, Uncompromised and Unchanged.

The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42

New Commandment Baptist Church

Dr. Lucius M. Dalton Senior Pastor

Damion M. Briggs Pastor

Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor

1636 East Capitol Street, NE Washington, DC 20003 Telephone: 202-544-5588 - Fax: 202-544-2964

8213 Manson Street Landover, MD 20785 Tel: (301) 322-9787 Fax: (301) 322-9240

13701 Old Jericho Park Road Bowie, MD. 20720 (301) 262-0560

Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 7:45 am and 10:45 am Holy Communion: 1st Sundays at 7:45 am & 10:45 am Sunday School: 9:30 am Prayer & Praise Service: Tuesdays at 12 noon & 6:30 pm Bible Study: Tuesdays at 1 pm and 7 pm Youth Bible Study: Fridays at 7 pm

Service and Times Early Morning Message: 7:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service: 10:00 AM Sunday Church School: 9:00 AM Holy Communion: 1st Sunday 7:30 AM & 10:00 AM Prayer, Praise and Testimony: Wednesday 7:00 PM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM

Service and Times Sunday Worship: 11 AM Sunday School: 10 AM Wednesday Mid-Week Worship, Prayer & Bible Study: Wed. 7 PM

Rehoboth Baptist Church

“Real Worship for Real People” Website: www.easterncommunity.org Email: ecc@easterncommunity.org

Salem Baptist Church

Holy Trinity United Baptist Church

Florida Avenue Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. Clinton W. Austin Pastor

Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor

Web: www.mountmoriahchurch.org Email: mtmoriah@mountmoriahchurch.org

St. Matthews Baptist Church

Service and Times Sunday School: 9:30 am Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 am Baptismal Service: 1st Sunday – 9:30 am Holy Communion: 1st Sunday – 11:00 am Prayer Meeting & Bible Study: Wednesday -7:30 pm

Emmanuel Baptist Church

“A Church Where Love Is Essential and Praise is Intentional”

Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 a.m.

Sunday Church School: 8:45 – 9:45 a.m.

Holy Communion: Every First Sunday Intercessory Prayer: Monday – 7:00-8:00 p.m.

Pastor’s Bible Study: Wednesday –7:45 p.m.

Midweek Prayer: Wednesday – 7:00 p.m.

Noonday Prayer Every Thursday

Matthews Memorial Baptist Church Dr. C. Matthew Hudson, Jr, Pastor 2616 MLK Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Office 202-889-3709 - Fax 202-678-3304 Service and Times Early Worship Service: 7:30a.m Worship Service: 10:45a.m.

New Members Class: 9:30a.m.

Holy Communion : 1st Sunday -10:45a.m Church School: 9:30a.m.

Prayer, Praise and Bible Study: Wednesday 7p.m Bible Study : Saturday: 11a.m.

Baptism: 4th Sunday – 10:45a.m “Empowered to love and Challenged to Lead a Multitude of Souls to Christ”

Peace Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Michael T. Bell 712 18th Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Phone 202-399-3450/ Fax 202-398-8836 Service and Times Sunday Morning Worship Service: 7:15 am & 10:50 am Sunday School: 9:30am Wednesday Prayer & Testimonies Service: 7:30pm Wednesday School of the Bible: 8:00pm Wednesday - Midweek Prayer Service: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Service and Times 9:30AM. Sunday Church School 11:00 Am. Sunday Worship Service The Lord’s Supper 1st Sunday Wednesday 7:00pm Prayer & Praise Services 7:30pm. Bible Study Saturday before 4th Sunday Men, Women, Youth Discipleship Ministries 10:30am A Christ Centered Church htubc@comcast.net

Christ Embassy DC

Kelechi Ajieren Coordinator 6839 Eastern Avenue, R1 Takoma Park, MD 20912 (202) 556-7065 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 A.M. Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 P.M. Friday Evening Service: 7:00 P.M. ; Last Friday “…Giving Your Life a Meaning” www.Christembassydc.org Christ.embassy.dc@hotmail.com

Pennsylvania Ave. Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Kendrick E. Curry Pastor 3000 Pennsylvania Ave.. S.E Washington, DC 20020 202 581-1500 Service and Times Sunday Church School: 9:30 A.M. Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 A.M. Monday Adult Bible Study: 7:00 P.M. Wednesday Youth & Adult Activities: 6:30 P.M. Prayer Service Bible Study

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Shiloh Baptist Church

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Mt. Horeb Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor

Rev. Curtis l. Staley Pastor

Rev. Alonzo Hart Pastor

Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor

Rev. Reginald M. Green, Sr. Interim Pastor

Rev. Dr. H. B. Sampson, III Pastor

Worshiping Location Knights of Columbus - 1633 Tucker Road Fort Washington, MD 20744 (240) 838-7074

621 Alabama Ave., S.E.- Washington, D.C. 20032 P: (202) 561-1111 - F: (202) 561-1112

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Administration No. 2016 ADM 1022

Administration No. 2016 ADM 1002

Administration No. 2016 ADM 1010

Linda Euberta Ridley Decedent

Kathleen B. Simms Decedent

Roy Harris Decedent

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Maya Ridley, whose address is 5406 Dole Street, Capitol Heights, MD 20743, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Linda Euberta Ridley who died on June 25, 2016 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 15, 2017. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 15, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Gretina Simms, whose address is 1811 Metzerott Road, #704, Adelphi, MD 20783, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Kathleen B. Simms who died on December 8, 2015 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 8, 2017. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 8, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Tiffany Harris, whose address is 1232 Hamlin Street, NE, Washington, DC 20017, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Roy Harris who died on May 3, 2016 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 8, 2017. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 8, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: September 15, 2016

Date of first publication: September 8, 2016

Maya Ridley Personal Representative

Gretina Simms Personal Representative

Date of first publication: September 8, 2016 Tiffany Harris Personal Representative

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Katherine Turner Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Stephanie Watson, whose address is 5121 Cranmer Way, Capitol Heights, MD 20743, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Katherine Turner who died on April 26, 2003with a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 15, 2017. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 15, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: September 15, 2016 Stephanie Watson Personal Representative

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Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration Number 2015 ADM 1332 Estate of

COLUMBIA

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration Number 2016 ADM 707 Estate of

Patsy N. Coates

Willie Mae Simmons

Deceased

Deceased

NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has

been filed in this Court by Mary A. Lewis for

standard probate, including the appointment of

NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Allen E. Simmons, Sr. for

one or more personal representative. Unless

standard probate, including the appointment of

Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is

a complaint or an objection in accordance with

of first publication of this notice, the Court may

filed in this Court within 30 days from the date

a complaint or an objection in accordance with

one or more personal representative. Unless

filed in this Court within 30 days from the date

Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is

take the action hereinafter set forth.

of first publication of this notice, the Court may

Admit to probate the will date October 22,

2015 exhibited with the petition upon proof

satisfactory to the Court of due execution by affidavit of witnesses

take the action hereinafter set forth.

Admit to probate the will date March 11,

2005 exhibited with the petition upon proof

satisfactory to the Court of due execution by affidavit of witnesses

Date of first publication: September 8, 2016

Date of first publication: September 8, 2016

1100 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 340 Washington, DC 20036 Petitioner/Attorney

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Administration No. 2016 ADM 1025 David B. Davis aka David Berkeley Davis Decedent Alan H. Grant 15204 Omega Drive, Suite 210 Rockville, MD 20850 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Judith Reed, whose address is 4423 Albermarle Street, NW, Washington, DC 20016, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of David B. Davis aka David Berkeley Davis who died on February 27, 2016 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 15, 2017. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 15, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: September 15, 2016 Judith Reed Personal Representative

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016 ADM 561 Eleanor Mildred Norried Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Barbara Eleanor Norried, whose address is 116 S Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Eleanor Mildred Norried who died on October 4, 2015 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 8, 2017. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 8, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: September 8, 2016 Barbara Eleanor Norried Personal Representative

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LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2016 FEP 98 May 3, 2016 Date of Death Betty Jo Gaines Name of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Alice Blackmon whose address is 6614 6th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20012 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Betty Jo Gaines, deceased, by the Orphans Court for Montgomery County, State of Maryland, on June 6, 2016.

Service of process may be made upon Deborah D. Boddie, Esq., 1308 Ninth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C.

The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real property: 1404 Tuckerman Street, NW, #304, Washington, DC 20011.

Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

Date of first publication: September 22, 2016 Alice Blackmon Personal Representative Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016 ADM 254 Cleveland Martin, Sr. Decedent Cheryl Chapman Henderson, Esq. 4920 Niagara Road, Suite 200 College Park, MD 20740 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Kenan Martin, whose address is 4436 Blaine Street, NE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Cleveland Martin, Sr. who died on August 21, 2002 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 8, 2017. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 8, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: September 8, 2016 Kenan Martin Personal Representative

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Helen O. Pickett aka Helen O. Williams Decedent

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Julius P. Terrell 1455 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20004 Attorney

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Jan C. Jenkins, whose address is 234 34th Street, NE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Thelma O. Jenkins who died on June 5, 2016 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 22, 2017. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 22, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Juan Hersel Gaddis, whose address is 1773 Verbena Street, NW, Washington, DC 20012, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Dolores Day Hagans who died on August 7, 2016 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 22, 2017. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 22, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Paule G. Levadas, Esq., whose address is 1629 K Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Juanita Florence Wells who died on May 5, 2014 without a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 22, 2017. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 22, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: September 22, 2016

Date of first publication: September 22, 2016

Juan Hersel Gaddis Personal Representative

Paule G. Levadas, Esq. Personal Representative

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Julius P. Terrell, whose address is 1455 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20004, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Helen O. Pickett aka Helen O. Williams who died on August 7, 2011without a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 22, 2017. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 22, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: September 22, 2016 Julius P. Terrell Personal Representative

Date of first publication: September 22, 2016 Jan C. Jenkins Personal Representative

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016 ADM 1078 Josephine I. McRavin Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Hensley A. McRavin and Brenda C. McRavin, whose addresses are 1602 Pebble Bch Ct., Mitchellville, MD/ 1100 Kingsdale Ct., Mitchellville, MD 20721, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Josephine I. McRavin who died on May 25, 2016 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 22, 2017. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 22, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: September 22, 2016 Hensley A. McRavin Brenda C. McRavin Personal Representatives

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2016 FEP 99 April 4, 2014 Date of Death Fountain W. Clarke Name of Decedent

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016 ADM 1052 Annie Louise Davis Decedent Mack C. Allen 3300 Wheeler Road, SE Washington, DC 20032 Attorney

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Darlene Davis, whose address is 6511 Pin Oak Court, Clinton, MD 20735, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Annie Louise Davis who died on November 23, 2015 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 22, 2017. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 22, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Tina T. Butler, whose address is 11341 Joycton Drive, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Brenda Marie Butler who died on August 5, 2016 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 22, 2017. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 22, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: September 22, 2016

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Patricia G. Shannon whose address is 13600 Wild Quail Place, Bryantown, MD 20617 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Fountain W. Clarke, deceased, by the Orphans Court for Montgomery County, State of Maryland, on August 24, 2016.

Service of process may be made upon Kelley N. Shannon, 1302 Madison St., NW, Washington, DC 20011 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C.

The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real property: 4109 3rd St., NW, Washington, DC 20011.

The decedent owned District of Columbia personal property. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

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The other "progeny" was the Angolan organization known as UNITA (the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola). UNITA emerged in the struggle against Portuguese colonialism—that dominated Angola till 1975 — but was at odds with the main other liberation movement, MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola). Led by the late Jonas Savimbi, UNITA was all things to all people. When their foreign affairs officer toured the USA in the middle 1970s, he claimed that UNITA was a Maoist-led movement. Yet, quickly after Angola received independence from Portugal, UNITA aligned with another liberation movement, the FNLA (National Front for the Liberation of Angola) and, with the assistance of the notorious Mobutu Sese Seko regime then in power in Zaire (currently the Democratic Republic of the Congo), they made war against MPLA. South Africa joined this war in order to block the possibility of Angola becoming a base for liberation forces aimed at South Africa. Quickly there was a clear alliance between UNITA and the apartheid South Africans (in fact, it was later reported that the files of

the Portuguese secret police indicated that there had been a de facto alliance between UNITA and the Portuguese against MPLA).

Though the South Africans were driven out of Angola, primarily through the assistance of Cuban forces, the civil war in Angola continued until the death of Savimbi in 2002. Among other things, Angola became—along with Afghanistan—the country with the most landmines in the world.

The apartheid regime worked to build up Savimbi's stature, particularly targeting black America. This included playing to both anti-communism and black nationalism, ironically, with Savimbi presented as legitimately African compared with the MPLA which was attacked for so-called mixed-race people in leadership!

In the context of the Cold War, US support for Savimbi's UNITA was essential, and the apartheid South African regime went out of its way to ensure that this would continue.

While US assistance to UNITA ultimately ended, it appears that the South African apartheid work on behalf of UNITA prolonged a miserable and disastrous war.

Ron Nixon's book is well worth the read. It is well researched and very well written. It reminded me of how

easily the public can be fooled through the effective use of propaganda even in cases where the public believes that it is otherwise well informed. In fact, in reading "Selling Apartheid," I was reminded of a visit to the U.S. by Jonas Savimbi in the 1980s. Much to my shock, if not chagrin, there were right-wing black American religious leaders who mobilized to show support for Savimbi. For the life of me I could not figure out from where they emerged. But they were there and they were supporting someone who was an absolute villain. In that regard, the work of the South African apartheid regime and their domestic allies played a role in the materialization of a political force within black America that, while small, nevertheless possesses a voice that receives mainstream media attention.

This is a book that needs to be read and studied with consideration going to its implications for other arenas in the international realm. Whether in the case of Israeli apartheid domination of Palestinians, or Morocco's illegal occupation of most of the Western Sahara, the manipulation of the facts in the interest of self-promotion remains very important and is a bubble that progressives must burst as an act of international solidarity. WI

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President Obama concluded, "If you care about our legacy, realize everything we stand for is at stake. All the progress we've made is at stake in this election. My name may not be on the ballot, but our progress is on the ballot. … Democracy is on the ballot. Justice is on the ballot. Good schools are on the ballot. Ending mass incarceration — that's on the ballot right now!"

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MACYS.COM PROMO CODE: STYLE EXCLUSIONS MAY DIFFER ON MACYS.COM Excludes ALL: cosmetics/fragrances, fine & fashion jewelry, Deals of the Day, Doorbusters/web busters, men’s store electronics, Everyday Values (EDV), Last Act, Macy’s Backstage, specials, Super Buys, Breville, Coach, Dyson, Fitbit, Frye, Hanky Panky, Jack Spade, Kate Spade, KitchenAid Pro Line, Le Creuset, Levi’s, Locker Room by Lids, Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors Studio, Michele watches, Natori, Sam Edelman, Samsung watches, Shun, Stuart Weitzman, The North Face, Theory, Tumi, Vitamix, Wacoal, Wolford, Wüsthof, athletic clothing, shoes & accessories, designer jewelry/watches, designer sportswear, gift cards, jewelry trunk shows, previous purchases, select licensed depts., services, special orders, special purchases, tech watches/jewelry; PLUS, ONLINE ONLY: baby gear, kids’ shoes, Allen Edmonds, Brahmin, Birkenstock, Hurley, Johnston & Murphy, Merrell, RVCA, Tommy Bahama, toys. Cannot be combined with any savings pass/coupon, extra discount or credit offer except opening a new Macy’s account. Extra savings % applied to reduced prices.

FREE SHIPPING WITH $99 PURCHASE. EXCLUSIONS APPLY; SEE MACYS.COM/FREERETURNS VALID 9/21-9/26/2016

SALE PRICES IN EFFECT 9/21-9/26/2016, EXCEPT AS NOTED. HOW IT WORKS: For any single transaction of $50 or more you make from in store 9/21-9/27 or online 9/21-9/26/2016, we’ll give you a $10 (spend $50-99.99), $20 (spend $100-149.99), $30 (spend $150-199.99) or $40 (spend $200-249.99) Macy’s Money Reward Card at the register. EXCLUDES THE FOLLOWING PURCHASES: gift cards, Buy Online Pick Up In-Store, services & fees, sales tax, macybed, furniture phone sales, lease depts, Espot, restaurants. USE YOUR MACY’S MONEY REWARD CARD from 9/28-10/2/16. May not be: redeemed for cash, used to purchase Macy’s gift cards or applied as payment or credit to your credit card account. If a purchase used to accumulate Macy’s Money is returned, Macy’s reserves the right to void the Macy’s Money Reward card or reduce the corresponding value. For more information, go to macys.com/macysmoney OPEN A MACY’S ACCOUNT FOR EXTRA 20% SAVINGS THE FIRST 2 DAYS, UP TO $100, WITH MORE REWARDS TO COME. Macy’s credit card is available subject to credit approval; new account savings valid the day your account is opened and the next day; excludes services, selected licensed departments, gift cards, restaurants, gourmet food & wine. The new account savings are limited to a total of $100; application must qualify for immediate approval to receive extra savings; employees not eligible.

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