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By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer Vivian Somerville journeyed from Hyattsville, Al-Hajji Timbo traveled from Silver Spring, Carl Ridley bused in from Pittsburgh, while Phil Pearson drove from Sandusky, Ohio, and sisters Verlie McBroom and Lorraine Brown

arrived in Washington. D.C., straight from the Lone Star State and the Land of Lincoln, respectively.

On the morning of Aug. 24th, although they all originated from different compass points, they ended up in the same place: The National Mall to immerse themselves in the power, purpose and

pageantry of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Fifty years ago, more than 250,000 marched to and gathered on the Mall in a show of force that at the time was the largest gathering of people in history in the Nation’s Capital.

Somerville, a retired teacher’s

assistant, was accompanied by her daughter and granddaughter.

“There are three generations of us here,” she said proudly, as the trio walked along 17th Street, NW. “I came out because I wanted to be a part of this memory. I won’t be around for the 100th anniversary. This is important because of what Dr. Martin Luther King did

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for us. He and God brought us to where we are. I think most people understand his impact and what he did for black people.”

From early Saturday morning, men, women and children streamed toward the Lincoln Memorial. By mid-afternoon, people

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A. Philip Randolph Institute Honored 1963 March on Washington Organizer with Wreath-Laying Ceremony at Amtrak As part of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington Week of Activities, A. Philip Randolph Institute held a Wreath-Laying Ceremony to honor the late A. Philip Randolph. The wreath-laying ceremony was to commemorate A. Phillip Randolph’s legacy of organizing the March on Washington in 1963 and his commitment to Civil Rights. As one of the nation’s foremost spokesmen for black workers, A. Philip Randolph, in 1925, organized and served as the first president of the all-black International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. In recognition of his hard work and dedication, the A. Philip Randolph Institute honored him at the very place where he dedicated his life’s work – Amtrak. Copy provided by Edrea Davis

Statue of A. Philip Randolph that is in the Washington DC Amtrak Station

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Portrait of A. Philip Randolph and wreath to honor his Civil Rights efforts

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law enforcement. She said they threat,” she said. had come together to bring a Among the programs Marlow sense of uniformity in the way wants to see implemented are domestic violence victims and stricter restraining order policies, survivors are treated. more rights for victim's families “She's using her own personal to intervene on behalf of a vicstory, her own personal pain to tim, a domestic violence assesspush forward,” Davis-Nickens ment unit coupled with further said about Marlow. training for law enforcement Davis-Nickens said anyone agencies, a Child's Life Protecwho reads Marlow's book will tion Act and mandatory counsel“get it.” She said she “puts the ing for batterers. case in such a way, the average “If we are ever going to eradiperson can get it.” She said at the cate domestic violence, we must end of the day, the book will look at both sides of the coin. help people begin to have a dia- We need to address both the viclogue about domestic violence. tim and the batterer,” Marlow Also present at the event was said.

Mildred Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise who was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She by a Maryland jury for his role in feels children need to be educatthe Beltway Sniper attacks in ed about domestic violence.

2002. Mildred Muhammad is “We have to stop being pasthe founder of After the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chilan organization that helps the dren about domestic violence,” Jacqui Collins, a friend and customer of Ben’s Chili Bowl for more than 50 survivors of domestic violence Marlow said. years with Bill Cosby, one of the restaurant’s most famous customers and and their children.

Marlow has worked to break emcee for the celebration of Ben’s 55th anniversary celebration in Northwest “I lived in fear for six years. Six the cycle of abuse in her family, on Thursday, Aug. 22. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter years in fear is a long time. It is and is confident the policies she not an easy thing to come out is pushing for will start that ard University, During the celebration, when of,” she said. and his wife Vir- process. ginia, purchased and renovated was to little no room to sit Mildred Muhammad said there “I plan taketothese policies to the Minnehaha Theater, a silenta Congress and implore them to people who want to help inside the restaurant, the crowd movie house located alongmust the change our laws,” Marlow said. domestic violence victim out onto the sidewalk historic corridor in spilled be carefulUofStreet how they go into “I will not stop until these polithe passed.” nearby alley, known as Northwest. the victim's life, and understand and cies are that may be inflourished “survival Ben Theshe business TiaAli Carol Jones can be reached Way, where some of mode”. at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net during an era of segregation in them danced to R&B hits that get to 'I'm going the“Before 1960s, you attracting legions of blared to kill you,' it started as a verbal WI from large speakers. Othnoted African-Americans who included jazz musicians Duke ers gazed at murals on the side Ellington, Nat King Cole and of the restaurant that boasted Miles Davis, who often stopped the likeness of Cosby, veterby after performances. an radio personality Donnie At the time of Ali’s death in 2009, Ben’s Chili Bowl had be- Simpson, go-go pioneer Chuck come the restaurant of choice Brown, and Obama. for local, national, and internaLocal radio personality Rhozitional figures. In addition, the er “Roach” Brown, a longtime restaurant’s walls are lined with friend of the Ali family and autographed photos of actors like Chris Tucker and Denzel local radio personality, said the Washington as well as hip-hop celebration conjured memories artist and producer Dr. Dre. of eating at Ben’s Chili Bowl Ben’s Next Door, an upscale as a youngster when he lived restaurant and bar operated by Ali’s sons, Nizam and Kamal, across the street. For him, the offers everything on Ben’s Chili landmark is reminiscent of a Bowl menu, plus some of its different era. own signature dishes. “[The Ali Family] always treat“My husband opened a place ed us well for as long as I have that promoted family and comL.Y. Marlow munity by serving good food,” been coming here,” said Brown, said Virginia Ali, 79, who sits 69. “When you had problems, at the helm nowadays. “The they would help you. They nevfamily atmosphere is carried er turned anybody away. That is throughout this restaurant. We love what we do. We are able a rare thing to find these days,” to come into work every day to said Brown, who lives in Camp serve our community.”

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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 implore them to change our laws. I will not stop until these policies are passed.

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Lewis Runs for Mayor Reta Jo Lewis, a District attorney who has worked for Bill and Hillary Clinton, has filed papers with the D.C. Board of Elections to be the city’s next leader.

Lewis, a resident of Northeast, will compete in the Tuesday, April 1, 2014 Democratic Party mayoral primary. She’s confident that she can make a difference as mayor.

“For the past 35 years, I have had the honor and privilege of calling Washington, D.C. my home,” she said. “I believe that we can move our great city forward.

As the next mayor, I’m ready to bring this spirit of excellence, trust and transparency to fight for every resident of Washington, D.C.” Lewis, 59, resigned a few months ago as the special representative for global intergovernmental affairs at the U.S. Department of State to enter District politics. In her previous position, she reported directly to U.S. Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry in her role as the senior State Department official responsible for building strategic relationships between the department, federal, state and local officials and their foreign counterparts.

Hillary Clinton tapped her for the position in 2010. In 1993 through 1995, Lewis served in the Bill Clinton administration as the special assistant to the president for political affairs, where she worked to coordinate activities between the White House and government officials at all levels, constituency groups and opinion leaders.

Lewis also served on the Obama-Biden transition team in 2008-2009, worked with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as a vice president and has practiced international law as a partner with a large law firm. In the District, she has served as the chief of staff for the Department of Public Works and chaired the District’s Commission on Women.

Lewis holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia in Athens., Ga., a master’s from American University in Northwest and a law degree from Emory University School of Law in Atlanta.

Lewis said that she’s running for mayor instead of another elected position in the District because of her background and skills.

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about their concerns. Lewis will officially announce her candidacy in the fall, a campaign spokesman said.

Kemry Hughes, a wellknown political activist in Southeast, said that he hasn’t decided who he will support in the 2014 mayor’s race, but he’s impressed

by Lewis.

“I have met her and I find that she is very intelligent and adept on the issues that are relevant to D.C.,” said Hughes, 51. “She has a vision on where she wants D.C. to be ranked in the world and deserves serious consideration.”

Bowser Wins Major Award A leading national Democratic women’s organization has given D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) its signature award for her work as a politician.

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August 29 1924 – Dinah Washington is born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Her powerful voice would enable her to become one of the most influential singers of the 20th Century. Sadly, she died of a drug overdose in 1963.

1958 – Michael Jackson is born on this day in Gary, Indiana. The “King of Pop” was the seventh of nine children. He died June 25, 2009 apparently after being given a powerful drug to enable him to sleep.

1962 – Mal Goode becomes America’s first Black network news commentator when he begins broadcasting for ABC Television on this day in 1962.

August 30 1800 – The Gabriel Prosser-led slave rebellion is stopped before it can start because of bad weather and betrayal by two slaves who told their white masters of the impending revolt. Gabriel had meticulously planned the rebellion and organized an estimated 1,000 slaves to participate in an attack on Richmond, Virginia.

1966 – Prominent civil rights attorney Constance Baker Motley is confirmed to the U.S. District Court in New York.

She thus became the first African American female to hold a seat on the federal bench. Baker-Motley had participated in the historic Brown v. Board of Education case which led to the desegregation of the nation’s schools.

August 31 1935 – Frank Robinson, the first African American to manage a major league baseball team, was born on this day in Beaumont, Texas. Robinson became player-manager of the Cleveland Indians in 1975. He kept the job for about a year. He became manager of the San Francisco Giants in 1980.

2002 – Jazz great Lionel Hampton died on this day at

the age of 94. Hampton gained international fame as a “big band” leader and for his amazing abilities playing the vibraphone.

September 1 1975 – General Daniel “Chappie” James becomes the nation’s first Black four-star general and takes command of the North American Air Defense Command. The position made him a key player in the nation’s nuclear defense system.

1977 – Legendary actress-singer Ethel Waters dies at the age of 80 in Chatsworth, California. Waters became the second African American in history to be nominated for an Academy Award.

September 2 1766 – Post-colonial era Black leader James Forten is born on this day in 1766. Little known today but during that period he was one of the most prominent Black men in America. Born free in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania he became a fierce anti-slavery activist, an inventor and successful businessman.

1945 – As World War II comes to an end, official records show 1,154,720 Blacks were inducted into the military services includ-

ing 3,902 women. The highest ranking African American women during WWII were Majors Harriet M. West and Charity E. Adams.

September3 1783 - Richard Allen, founder of the AME Church, purchases his freedom with his earnings as a self-employed teamster.

1891 - Cottonpickers organized union and staged strike for higher wages in Texas.

1990 - Jonathan A. Rodgers becomes president of CBS’s television stations division, the highest ranking African American in network television.

September 4 1865 - Bowie State College is established in Bowie, MD. 1908 - Richard Wright was born.

1923 - George Washington Carver of Tuskegee Institute received the Spingarn Medal, the NAACP’s highest award, for distinguished research in agricultural chemistry.

1957 - Black students are banned from a Little Rock high school, by Arkansas governor Oval Faubus who calls out the National Guard.

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Viewp int Yannick Skerritt Silver Spring, Md. President Obama will be remembered as someone who is an inspiration. He will be remembered as someone who rose from being a community leader, to a state and U.S. senator and finally to the presidency. People will look at the opposition he faced from the Congress, and the people who spoke badly about him because of his race. He will be remembered as a president who stayed level-headed and did not doubt himself or stoop down to the level of those who opposed him. His legacy will be one of a president who blazed a new path that many never thought was imaginable.

Ethlyn Dowdie Adelphi, Md. I think President Obama will be remembered for his efforts to bring health care to those in need in the AfricanAmerican community.

Blacks have been through a lot throughout history and many of us are proud to finally have a black president.

The president and first lady [Michelle Obama] will be remembered for their efforts to provide black children with a better education and their efforts in promoting the need for education. He will be remembered by people of all races for being a charismatic leader who truly cares about everyone.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA MADE HISTORY BY BEING THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT. HOW WILL HE BE REMEMBERED?

Jeff Taylor Laurel, Md. President Obama will leave a positive lasting legacy.

Many will remember the way he successfully handled the financial crises and his efforts to give everyone health care.

The Republicans have done their very best to stymy every move he tries to make. He hasn’t had much support from the Congress. His lasting legacy will be positive and one of inspiration.

Bernice Aberdeen Hyattsville, Md. I think President Obama will be remembered for being a unifier. When he was first elected, he tried to include Republicans and Democrats in his cabinet. But despite that fact, the Republicans have still tried to block most of his [legislation]. President Obama has still tried to unite the country. History will remember President Obama as someone who faced strong opposition, but continued to work to unify the country.

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He will be remembered for stabilizing the country after inheriting a huge burden that was left by the previous administration with the deficit and two wars, and he handled those challenges very well. History will remember him as the first president to really connect and interact with the country’s young people.

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Jean McRae (left) and Kathleen Johnson greet Martin Luther King, III. Johnson made headlines during the 1963 march when an image was captured of her stepping out of the Reflecting Pool after she had fallen into the pool.

McRae accompanied her to the march. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter

“I think the Trayvon Martin verdict, the Supreme Court decision and other factors created the perfect storm. It all came together and people felt that they needed to mobilize. People want to be heard.”

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march

continued from Page 1 clogged the paths leading to the monument in both directions.

Enormous crowds spread out toward the Washington Monument, flowing like tributaries across large expanses of the Mall.

Edward Moseley remembers standing with more than 250,000 people at the 1963 march. Moseley, a retired U.S. Postal Service employee hired in 1962 – said he was elated to be at the 50th anniversary commemoration.

“I had to be here,” he said as he waited patiently to move while surrounded by a throng of people.

“I grabbed my walking stick and I’ll be out here as long as I can.

Too many people died for me not to be here.”

Moseley, 73, chuckled as he recalled his journey to the original march.

“They threatened us with the loss of our jobs if we came,” he said. “I came anyway and it was one of the greatest things I’d ever seen. It was a glorious time, especially as I looked at people and the smiles on their faces.”

For Mattie Rodgers Ashley, Saturday’s march mirrored her partic-

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ipation in 1963.

“Fifty years ago, I was involved [in the march] and now I’m back here again,” said Ashley, a Houston, Texas, resident, pharmacist and lawyer. “They’re trying to turn the clock back 50 years. The Republican Party is trying to strip us of our voting rights and everything else they can do. The United States can go over to other countries and tell them that they need to be a democracy but [the GOP] is steadily stripping our democracy. I just couldn’t stand by and not participate because I’m seeing that 50 years turned back again.”

“I just felt compelled. I intend to continue to work anyway that I possibly can. Just because we have a black president doesn’t mean everything is better. We have a black U.S. Supreme Court Justice who is not in our corner. We cannot stand by. [The injustices] not only affect black people but American people.”

People carried posters, placards, banners and fliers supporting every conceivable cause, organization, and political, social and economic position. Union members proudly donned T-shirts emblazoned with their locals; some held long banners espousing fair wages, access to full-time jobs and an end

to the Republican assault against organized labor; also on hand were anti-death penalty supporters, Socialists, Libertarians, those seeking D.C. statehood, and advocates for women’s reproductive rights and people with disabilities.

The daylong commemoration – co-sponsored by the National Action Network and Martin Luther King, III – brought speakers from an umbrella of entities, including the federal and local government, unions, environmental and civil rights groups and civic and social organizations.

Speakers included Newark Mayor and Senatorial candidate Cory Booker; Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza; civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams; House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.); union leaders Lee Saunders and Randy Weingarten; The Rev. Al Sharpton; Trayvon Martin’s parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton; Jennifer Jones Austin of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies; Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League; and NAACP President Benjamin Jealous.

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march continued from Page 8 Most said current circumstances demand a reimagined civil rights movement, amid calls for racial equality, better-paying jobs and equity in gender and sexual orientation.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder credited King and the movement with focusing on “a sacred and unmet promise” from America.

“Their march is now our march,” he said. “Our focus has broadened to include the cause of women, of Latinos, of Asian-Americans, of lesbians, of gays, of people with disabilities and of countless others across this great country who still yearn for equality, opportunity and fair treatment as we recommit ourselves to the quest for justice.”

Not far from the dias, Terri Marshall stood with arms on her waist listening intently to Martin Luther King, III. “I’m very moved because I was two [in 1963] but I heard about this all my life,” said the 52-yearold Upper Marlboro resident.

“There’s electricity here. I’ve enjoyed meeting people from all over the country … this is history in the making.” www.washingtoninformer.com

“I think the Trayvon Martin verdict, the Supreme Court decision and other factors created the perfect storm. It all came together and people felt that they needed to mobilize. People want to be heard.

There’s strength in numbers and there’s a desire by people to be a part of something bigger. There’s no way you could let this historic moment pass by.”

Earlier, Robert Silverfarb and his close friend Bob Leventhal moved purposefully through the large crowd on a path leading to the Lincoln Memorial. Loaded down with folding chairs, Silverfarb leaned on Leventhal for a moment and joked about being winded by the trek to find a suitable spot.

“Oh, I couldn’t miss this,” said Silverfarb, 76, originally from the Bronx and a Rockville, Md., resident. “I’m alive to see this and the need is still there, probably more than it ever was.”

“It was big in 1963. Anyone who cared about civil rights was here – all races and ages. It was friendly, warm and festive.”

Leventhal said both volunteer for Common Cause, a local nonpartisan citizen’s lobbying organization, and they listed voting rights, fairness and government accountability as just a few salient and unsolved issues.

“… We’re really tuned in to the shortcomings and challenges facing the country,” he said. “But we’re just small voices in a sea of wilderness. If you’re tuned in to those issues, there’s no way you can ignore them.”

Sharpton, 58, promised that individuals and organizations would begin a grassroots effort to address voter suppression, low wages, voter registration, jobs, hunger, and the Stand Your Ground and Stopand-Frisk laws.

“The issues they marched for 50 years ago are why we will march this Saturday,” he told a packed Union Temple Baptist Church at a pre-event rally last week. “People keep asking why we keep marching. We haven’t marched enough.

We’re raising issues.”

“With our silence, it gives the idea of consent, that we like people treating us this way. We’re sitting up here in Washington, while they try to rationalize if we should vote, and lecture us about how to raise our children. Don’t insult us by changing the conversation. It’s time for us to stand up again and say enough [is] enough!”wi WI Staff Writer Margaret Summers contributed to this report.

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DCPS Rolls Out New Programs, Objectives

By Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer The first day back to school has traditionally been an exciting time for students and their parents. But the day can be doubly exciting when they along with their schools’ faculty and staff are surprised with a visit from the chancellor.

That’s exactly what happened on Monday, when District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) Chancellor Kaya Henderson made it a point to visit several schools, as students eagerly embarked on the beginning of a year marked with the promise of better learning en-

vironments and resources.

“It’s the first day of school and I have my hand on the pulse of what’s going on in the District, and so far, this is the fifth school I’ve visited this morning,” said an enthusiastic Henderson during a tour at Kramer Middle School in Southeast. “Being at the schools on the first day is important because everyone from the custodians all the way up to the chancellor wants to show that we’re mirroring the energy and excitement that parents and children bring,” Henderson, 43, said. “It’s kind of a ‘yes we can’ spirit. If they have to be here on the first day, it’s

DCPS Chancellor Kaya Henderson visited several schools on Monday, Aug 26 – including Kramer Middle and Kimball Elementary schools, both in Southeast – where she interacted in classrooms with students and their teachers. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah

important for me to be [in their schools] on the first day, too.”

Henderson said however,

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that she’s pleased that DCPS’s 45,000 students are back in classes at 111 buildings, ready to learn from more than 4,100 teachers – of which 500 are new–who are ready to teach, in brand new classrooms, with expanded programs and additional resources to buttress upgraded curricular and technological enhancements that cost approximately $5 million.

The new school year will hinge on a lot more than involving students in extracurricular programs and encouraging them to ace standardized tests.

“We want students to be in control of their learning, where they can progress as fast as they need to, and can get remediation if they need to,” said Mark King, Cluster 7 instructional superintendent. “I think that what’s really critical is their ability to think – it’s not so much as what they know, as what they can do with what they know.”

Other new projects and amenities poised to guide students and teachers toward a brighter academic year, include multi-million-dollar facelifts to Dunbar and Cardozo senior high schools in Northwest, and completed libraries at 45 elementary schools and education campuses.

In addition, on Aug. 26, eight high schools launched ninthgrade academies to support and provide resources for firsttime freshmen.

Parents like Shawn Alford, who lives in Southeast, voiced what they expected in terms of their children’s learning, particularly now that more than 2,000 students are getting used

to different buildings.

“Because they’ve closed the school my daughter attended, as well as others all over the city, they’re going to need more teachers and more security,” said Alford, 39. “So, I’m just expecting that [school officials] are going to be doing their best to provide for our kids,” she said. “The programs at my daughter’s previous school aren’t offered at too many other schools, including Kramer, where she is now,” Alford continued, adding that nevertheless, she finds Kramer to be one of the better schools in Ward 7.

“And for that reason – despite my earlier concerns over having to [uproot] her – I’m pretty much pleased that she’s going to be at Kramer.”

However, in allaying parents’ fears of uncertainty aligned with her ongoing stronghold toward school reform, Henderson said she feels they have come to terms with the mandate she finalized in January of this year.

“Some of the parents chose to [wait to] enroll their kids,” said Henderson. “The principal at Kramer told me that he got 98 percent of his enrollment, but two weeks ago that wasn’t the case,” Henderson said. “So we’ll check our numbers at the end of the week and see where we fall. While I’m sure that in some cases, we won’t get everybody, I think we [still] got a pretty solid retention.” wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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Randolph & Rustin: The Visionary and Maestro of the ’63 March on Washington

By Dwight Kirk Last weekend, Americans from across the nation and around the world participated in the 50th anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington. They also will bear witness to history again when President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his immortal “I Have a Dream” speech, which will forever be etched in the annals of American history.

President Obama’s remarks on Wednesday, Aug. 28 – the same date King delivered his powerful 19-minute speech 50 years ago –will be the highlight of a weeklong tribute to the 250,000 marchers who came to Washington, D.C. in 1963 and captured the consciousness of America.

But the powerful, emotional and symbolic link between King and Obama – the March on Washington – would not even exist had it not been for the vision and stature of A. Philip Randolph, the renowned black labor leader who originally con-

ceived the 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom. Most people mistakenly believe the march was called by civil rights groups.

But it had been a dream of Randolph’s since 1941 when he organized the March on Washington Movement, which pressured President Franklin D. Roosevelt into issuing an executive order banning the exclusion of black Americans from jobs in the booming defense industry.

To help Randolph turn his dream into reality during the turbulent summer of ’63, he chose Bayard Rustin, his close associate

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This master organizer mobilized more than 250,000 peaceful protesters to come to Washington – in just eight weeks!

It’s only fitting, that Rustin was recently named by the president as one of the 16 recipients this year of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Rustin, who died in 1987, will join his steadfast ally, A. Philip Randolph, who received the same honor from President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Obama said Rustin, “fought tirelessly for marginalized communities at home and abroad. As an openly gay African American, Mr. Rustin stood at the intersection of several of

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The buses, trains and car caravans have rolled into Washington and once again awakened the nation’s conscience and affirmed the pulse of a social media-driven 21st century movement for jobs, justice and freedom.

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Rally Calls for End to Youth Violence A small but vocal group of 13 people, many of whom mentor African-American youth and families, rallied earlier this month to protest the killing of Trayvon Martin, and the acquittal of his killer, George Zimmerman. The event, which was held at the Mt. Ararat Outreach Center, 4809 Suitland Road in Suitland, Md., also focused on what organizers called the “senseless violence” taking the lives of hundreds of young African-American males in Prince George’s County and nationally, and how to end it.

“It’s not about the numbers (of participants), but getting the word out,” said Willie Wimbush, 46, a rally organizer. “If we only preach to one person today, we’ll do that.” Wimbush is the president of the Suitland Recreation Council, and Suitlandfest CDC, an organization working to improve troubled communities through education, entertainment and recreation.

According to the annual report of the Maryland Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention for 2012, the number of juvenile homicide victims in the state decreased 58 percent since 2007. The report also said the 23 juvenile homicides in 2012 happened to be the lowest number ever reported since the Maryland State Police began compiling figures in 1990.

But rally participants like The Rev. Dr. Deborah Brooks, feels youth violence is still a major cause for concern. Brooks, a minister and counselor, provides assistance and support to African-American youth in Suitland.

“My heart bleeds for parents who have lost children through violence, especially violence from authorities (police),” said Brooks, 54. “But my heart really hurts for young people who are victims of family violence,” she said during the Aug. 10 rally.

Brooks said family violence is largely caused by frustration felt by young people who have babies, are unprepared for parenthood, and lack support and assistance. “We used to say ‘It takes a village to raise a child.’

But now that village is gone,” she said.

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know how to be mature, responsible role models for their children. “Boys wear their pants sagging below their waists because there’s no father around to tell them to pull their pants up,” said Brooks. “We’re seeing 30-year-old grandmothers who aren’t taking care of their children or grandchildren because they’re partying in the clubs.”

Brooks hears about more incidents of incest and child abuse within families, and of children breaking into their parents’ homes. “There’s anger, disappointment and fear among youth,” she said. “We parents need to step up and help them. Even if you’re not a parent, you can help.”

Kevin Hicks, president of Concerned Black Men of Prince George’s County, said he wants more elder African-American men to mentor and counsel young African-American males.

“I also want to get our boys involved with war veterans, who can tell them what war really is,” said Hicks.

Darrick Johnson, 50, is an actor who believes in using art to give people power over their lives. “It’s up to us men to be responsible for African-American youth,” Johnson told the group. “People say there are no leaders today as there were in the past when we had Malcolm X and others. But what about us? What about you?”

Reginald Harrod, 61, co-founder and CEO of Suitlandfest CDC, said today’s young people are confused.

“They’re in conflict. They don’t know who they are. They are

influenced by peer pressure.

We have to help our children through counseling and intervention.”

Sharon Parker, 50, a commissioner for the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, founded Remembering Our Ancestors Synergistic Association, which helps young people through mentoring, and teaching them about African-American historic figures and their ancestors. “It’s love with action,” she said.

“Love with action” motivated Wessita McKinley, 48, to found Sistas United, Inc. Inspired by The Million Women March 16 years ago in Philadelphia, the organization based in Cheltenham, Md., strengthens families through mentoring, counseling, career and education preparation, HIV/AIDS testing, and its community food bank. “I’m tired of marching and rallying,” McKinley told the small gathering. “Don’t just talk about it, be about it!”

Kito James, 38, mayor of the town of Capitol Heights, Md.,

urged organizations represented at the rally to work together more. “These problems with youth are not just Temple Hills, Capitol Heights or Suitland problems. They’re connected,” he said.

The rally is just the start of the community conversation, said Wimbush. “We will hold a forum on October 5 in the Suitland Community Center to develop strategies for ending violence,” he said. wi

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A gospel brunch to honor the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington at the historic Willard InterContinental Hotel in Northwest, attracted luminaries in the civil rights movement on Sunday, Aug. 25. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter

Gospel Brunch Celebrates King, March on Washington

By Margaret Summers Contributing Writer Washington, D.C.’s Willard InterContinental Hotel at 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest played a pivotal part in civil rights history. It was there that Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote his timeless “I Have a Dream” speech which galvanized more than 200,000 civil rights marchers at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.

“I was just five months old at that particular time,” joked The Reverend Bernice King, 50, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s youngest child. She recently addressed an audience of nearly 200 at a gospel brunch in the Willard InterContinental Hotel’s Grand Ballroom. The event honored her father and the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. “When he gave the speech that afternoon I was probably asleep.”

Traditional African-American gospel songs and spirituals were sung by demonstrators in Southern states to alleviate fear as they were beaten by police and dragged to jails for protesting segregation in voting, education, housing and public accommodations.

They were also sung during protest organizing meetings. Demonstrators changed the lyrics to reflect their situation.

During the gospel brunch, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young, 81, a “lieutenant” of King’s in his Southern Christian Leadership Conference organization, led the audience in a civil rights spiritual, “Woke up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom.”

“Fifty years ago, things were so bad in Birmingham, Alabama, that Rev-

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erend Fred Shuttlesworth asked Dr. King to come into Birmingham, and instead of just passively resisting with nonviolence to aggressively confront segregation,” Young said.

“I was very much surprised, because Dr. King used to say that you had to be certifiably insane to even think of doing something (that dangerous), and I knew Dr. King wasn’t insane,” Young said. “Fred’s church had been bombed for the third time

by December 1962.”

Young said that all too often, incidents like fire bombings of Southern African-American churches weren’t reported by the national news media.

“Dr. King knew the only way he could call attention to these incidents was to put his own life on the line.”

Dr. King always said that the way to become a man is to overcome the love of wealth and the fear of death, Young recalled. “Everyone’s always asking us (during this March on Washington commemoration week) about how far we’ve come, what’s wrong, and don’t we have this and that. But it doesn’t matter because –’’ and Young launched into another spiritual, “I’ve got a feeling, everything’s going to be all right.”

Prior to the brunch, Young told The Informer that the 1963 March on Washington stemmed from protests “fermenting” throughout the South.

“There was more of a crisis mode 50 years ago. The March on Washington commemoration is more of a celebration, celebrating that we survived this long, celebrating the Martin Luther King memorial sculpture. But there are still members of his family and people in the struggle who are trying to fulfill his dream.”

“We’re in a crisis now, but back

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then we always looked at a crisis as an opportunity for change. That’s what I think is going to happen with this commemoration. We will always be in a crisis and there will always be martyrs. I don’t think of death as an end or a tragedy, I think of death as a blessing. I think of the people murdered in the civil rights struggle as martyrs whose time had come, and who had given their lives to awaken the rest of us,” he said.

The gospel portion of the brunch focused on songs that were King’s favorites. The Washington, D.C.-based Voices of Worship Choir and Inspirational Jazz Ensemble, led by Felicia Kessel-Crawley, a former music theory instructor at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, performed several selections, including “Precious Lord, Take My Hand,” “Motherless Child,” “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” and “If I Can Help Somebody.”

Internationally renowned mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves of Washington, D.C. opened her three-song performance with “Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit.” “I thought I’d begin with a toe-tapper,” she said.

“I was fortunate to grow up in a household where there was music,” said Graves, 49. “I grew up to voices like (gospel artist) Mahalia Jackson’s.”

Graves also sang the spiritual “Deep River,” and the song “Let There Be Peace on Earth.”

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Largo Chosen as Site for New Medical Center

By Gale Horton Gay WI Staff Writer Largo Town Center has been selected as the site for Prince George’s County’s new regional medical center.

The Dimensions Healthcare System Board of Directors approved Largo as the site on Aug. 22, calling it the “best match” and noting that after a “careful review” it met all the criteria for the new facility.

“The new regional medical center in Prince George’s County addresses the need for improved facilities and will become the Southern hub for high quality, comprehensive health care serving the entire County and Southern Maryland,” said C. Philip Nichols Jr., chairman of the Dimensions Healthcare System Board of Directors. “This decision marks a major milestone as Dimensions Healthcare System moves forward with the state, county and the University of Maryland Medical System to prepare the filing of the Certificate Of Need (CON) application with the Maryland Health Care Commission.”

Still, it will be years before the new medical center becomes a reality.

The CON approval process takes approximately nine months. If approved, groundbreaking for the new hospital could take place in 2015 with the new regional medical center possibly being operational by 2017. The new hospital will have approximately 280 beds and is estimated to cost $645 million to construct.

The CON application is due Oct. 4.

Largo Towne Center beat out three other sites that had been evaluated for several months by a site selection committee. Landover Mall, a site on Morgan Boulevard and one at Woodmore Towne Center were the others under consideration. The committee also received input from the community.

Site selection criteria included: central location in Prince George’s County; accessible to transportation, reasonable site development costs; size of the www.washingtoninformer.com

site, timing to gain control of the site and future development potential.

“The selection of this location clearly positions us to embark upon the final steps that will ultimately bring a worldclass medical center and quality health services to Prince George’s County, the state and the region,” said Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker III. “I commend the board for making a choice that will serve the people of this county well.”

Prince George’s County Council Chair Andrea Harrison, who is also a member of the Dimensions Healthcare System Board of Directors, said “We can now move forward with building a new world-class facility, which will ensure that the people of Prince George’s County receive the quality, affordable healthcare they deserve.”

Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown said he was pleased to see progress being made on the new medical facility.

“Three years ago, we committed to work together to bring a world-class, regional medical center to Prince George’s County,” he said.

“Today, we take an important step forward toward making that goal a reality.”’

Brown added that $200 million in the state’s capital budget has been secured and “we stand ready and look forward to working alongside and supporting” all the partners involved.

The regional medical center is anticipated to be a 720,000-square-foot facility initially treating 16,000-17,000 patients annually and increasing to 21,000 by 2019, according to one official.

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Families of Slain Teens Participate in Panel Discussion

Till and Martin Families Discuss Similarities, Grief, Connections

By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer Fifty-seven years separate their deaths, but the murders of Emmett Louis Till in August 1955 and Trayvon Benjamin Martin in February 2012 crystallized in the minds of people, especially African Americans, the utter disdain with which some sections of society hold the lives of their children.

The murders ratcheted up resistance in the black community against the wanton killings, sparking the nascent civil rights movement in the South in 1955, and reinvigorating a new generation who took to the streets seeking justice for Trayvon in the days after his murder.

Each became a sacrificial lamb and their murders resonated deeply in communities across this country, so it was no accident that on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, their cases were the subject of a wide-ranging, high-energy discussion.

Several hundred people filled the sanctuary of Shiloh Baptist Church in Northwest on Friday, Aug. 23 to hear panelists – including members of the Till and Martin families – recall the slayings, share their continuing

grief, and explain how they’ve dealt with the untimely losses.

The event occurred five day before the 58th anniversary of Till’s murder – August 28th.

“The connection between Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin is so clear,” said MSNBC host and commentator Touré who moderated the dialogue titled, Ambassadors of Peace: Civil Rights, Human Wrongs and the Charge for Youth Leadership.

“These teenage black boys were destroyed by the status quo and the police did nothing. [The photo of Emmett Till’s] battered head doesn’t even seem human.”

“There were other Emmett Tills, but his mother was courageous enough to insist that the coffin stay open. Mamie Till-Mobley is such an important part of the story. How many people would have the courage to have an open casket?”

Jet Magazine and the Chicago Defender published the now iconic picture of Emmett’s bloated and mutilated body in the funeral home and at the funeral which drew about 10,000 mourners. Civil rights advocates said Till’s murder illustrated the savagery and barbaric nature of segregation and the act spotlighted the lengths whites in the

The family members of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin participated in a dialogue titled, “Ambassadors of Peace: Civil Rights, Human Wrongs and the Charge for Youth Leadership” at Shiloh Baptist Church in Northwest on Friday, Aug. 23. /Photo by Roy Lewis

South would go to defend their way of life.

The panel comprised Till’s cousin, Simeon Wright, an eyewitness to the incident that led to his death, as well as his kidnapping by J.T. Milam and his half-brother Roy Bryant; Trayvon’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin; his brother Jahvaris Fulton; political activist and writer Kevin Powell; and 14-year-old Victoria Pannell, an Emmett Till Youth Ambassador for Peace.

The Trayvon Martin case is fresh in people’s minds because it happened in 2012 and on July 13, an all-woman jury returned a verdict of not guilty for George Zimmerman.

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On the night of Feb. 26, 2012, Trayvon, 17, walked to a nearby grocery store to buy a can of iced tea and some Skittles. A strange man who had followed him, confronted him, seeking to find out who he was and why he was in the neighborhood. A scuffle ensued and the man – who never identified himself – shot the unarmed teen once in the heart. Zimmerman, a 28-year-old “protector” of the neighborhood tracked Trayvon assuming he was suspicious because he was young and black.

Initially, Sanford, Fla., police officers saw no need to investigate because they believed Zimmerman when he said he was attacked by Trayvon and fearing for his life, shot him in self-defense.

Although he was close to his father’s home, Trayvon’s body lay in a morgue for three days before it was identified, while his father frantically searched for him.

It was only after public outrage nationwide, protests, marches and petitions – including one with 2.2 million signatures – that Zimmerman was finally arrested 44 days after he’d shot and killed Trayvon. The case laid bare the issues of race, racial profiling, gun control and vigilantism.

“I thought the jury would see [Trayvon] as a regular young man but they couldn’t see him, didn’t connect with him,” said Sybrina Fulton.

And in Trayvon, Touré said,

Zimmerman saw a trifecta – “a black criminal thug with a gun.”

What transpired over the course of two and a half hours was a reflection of a national conversation that took place in 1955, and again in 2012, with black parents discussing with their children about how to be safe in what they considered a dangerous and racist society.

“Emmett Till was blindsided because he wasn’t familiar with the area and its mores and Trayvon, who came from the melting pot in Miami was blindsided as well. Regardless of the hoodie, no one has a right, no one …” said Fulton, whose comments were interrupted by rousing applause. “I think even though we restored dignity and feel good and positive about ourselves, what we need to be talking about is changing other people’s ideas. The ugly truth is it’s about the color of your skin.

That determines innocence or guilt. We need to deal with the criminal justice system.”

Powell agreed.

“There are incredible and historical connections but it’s also sad that we’re doing this again,” he said. “Sean Bell, Michael Storen, Oscar Grant – this is bigger than Trayvon Martin ...Till’s death sparked something but the forces in the country began to organize to take away every little victory civil rights got us.”

Martin listed some of the

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“We had the same feeling when the jury went into deliberations,” he said. “I knew deep down in my heart that they wouldn’t find this individual guilty. It’s tragic when [the lives of] little black and brown people have no [value] in people’s eyes. Until we understand that every life has value, this country will have multiple problems.”

Documentary Filmmaker Keith A. Beauchamp spent 10 years producing the film, The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, which was shown before the panel discussion.

Tallahatchie County Sheriff H.C. Strider made preparations for a hurried burial, but when Till-Mobley heard her son had been found, she convinced Chicago officials to press their Mississippi counterparts to release her son’s body.

“Sheriff Strider … didn’t want people to see what had happened,” she said in the film.

“I don’t know what authority he had to bury my son but he had my cousin dig a grave and bring the body there in a pine box.”

Before shipping the body North from Money, Miss., the authorities sealed the casket and forbade anyone to break the seal, but Emmett’s mother was determined to see her son.

“I asked him [the funeral director] for a hammer and said if he wouldn’t do it, I would,” said Till-Mobley, who died in 2003.

“I had to see what was in there.

[The funeral director] asked if I planned to have the casket open and I said let people see what I see. I wanted to give them the visual of what I’d seen.”

That act illustrated Till-Mobley’s steely resolve, said The Rev. Al Sharpton in the film.

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Women Want Civil Rights ‘HerStory’ Told

By Margaret Summers WI Contributing Writer More than 100 women representing organizations such as the National Council of Negro Women, the League of Women Voters and the Coalition of Labor Union Women gathered Thursday, Aug. 22 at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill Hotel in Northwest to discuss the “HerStory” of women in the 1963 March on Washington, the social and political challenges they faced, and those that current women leaders contend with today.

“We know our brothers did great work 50 years ago,” said Melanie L. Campbell, a moderator of one of the event’s panels and president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation. “But the sisters, in my opinion, did even greater work.”

The event was hosted by the Black Women’s Roundtable, the National Action Network, the Feminist Majority Foundation, the A. Philip Randolph Institute, and the National Organization for Women.

“I was 15 when I marched,” recalled Clayola Brown, president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute in Northwest. “I’m

from South Carolina. My mother placed me with my uncle in Philadelphia because she thought I would get a better education there.”

“He said I couldn’t go to the march. He was worried and scared. A lot of our folks were worried and scared back then.”

Brown told her uncle the day before the march that she was spending the night at a friend’s house, and the friend told her parents that she was spending the night with Brown. The two girls caught a Greyhound bus to Washington, D.C. At the National Mall, the girls couldn’t see over the crowds. “So my friend gave me a boost and I climbed a tree.

Someone else gave my friend a boost to climb a tree. When we climbed higher, we saw a lot of ‘tree birds’ like us.”

When Brown returned, her uncle gave her what she called “the worst whipping of my life.”

Her uncle later told her that although he punished her for disobeying him and lying, he was proud that she had gone to the march.

Thelma Daley, chair of Women in the NAACP, marched with a group comprised of her Delta Sigma Theta sorority sisters and members of the National Council of Negro Women, then led by

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Dorothy Height.

Daley said the group’s excitement over hearing Height speak before thousands during the March on Washington faded when it became clear that she would not speak, even though she sat with other civil rights leaders on the stage. “We looked at her great stature,” said Daley.

“Dr. Height just sitting there conveyed wisdom to us. She conveyed to us to be a diplomat no matter what the circumstances might be. She conveyed to us that this was the deciding moment for women.” Height eventually called a meeting of national women’s organizations’ leaders. “She told them that we must get our act together,” said Daley.

Elder Bernice King, CEO of The King Center in Atlanta, Ga., and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s daughter, praised the “HerStory” organizers for elevating the accounts of women in the civil rights movement and the March on Washington.

“We must always ensure that our story is told,” said King, 50. “I don’t believe in the statement ‘Behind every good man there’s a good woman,’ but beside every good man there’s a good woman. Not only do we motivate our children, but we encourage our

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–“We must always ensure that our story is told. I don’t believe in the statement ‘Behind every good man there’s a good woman,’ but beside every good man there’s a good woman. Not only do we motivate our children, but we encourage our men. We tell our men that they can rest but they can’t give up on the freedom struggle.”

– Elder Bernice King

men. We tell our men that they can rest but they can’t give up on the freedom struggle.”

Contemporary women leaders discussed the decline of civil rights and women’s rights gains.

Ellie Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation in Arlington, Va., said voting rights for women, people of color and students are under attack by conservative state legislators.

Karen Finney, host of the MSNBC program “Disrupt” and a panel moderator said she could not understand why several male leaders apparently can’t trust women to make appropriate reproductive choices, and enact laws to limit their choices. Terry

O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, said, “It’s hard to believe that 50 years after the March on Washington, we’re still fighting for the same things.”

Copies of proposed policy priorities were distributed to gathering participants, many of whom are scheduled to speak at Saturday’s 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington rally.

The women planned to discuss them and create a final priorities list to be shared at the rally.

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Simeon Booker, Bernice King Honored on Eve of March

By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer Simeon Booker may be 94, but as radio host Joe Madison noted Thursday night, the veteran journalist has lost none of his verve and feistiness.

Booker, on hand to discuss his new book, “Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter’s Account of the Civil Rights Movement,” at the Newseum in Northwest, insisted on walking to his chair on stage and when Madison recognized Ernest Green, Booker invited him to join them on stage.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do,” said Green as he walked on stage and took a seat.

Madison embarked on a wide-ranging conversation with Booker and his wife which was followed by a question-and-answer period in the space of an hour and a half on the evening of August 22. Both Madison and Booker called Green one of their heroes. He is a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African- American students who integrated the all-white Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957.

And Green said that Booker’s fearless coverage of the civil rights struggle and its effects on blacks all over the country, galvanized he and other young people, and gave them the strength to stand up for their convictions and against the forces of violence and evil.

Madison spoke of how he and Booker met.

“When you’re 24 years old, and come to Washington for the NAACP, they told me to go to the D.C. Bureau of Jet Magazine,” Madison said. “I introduced myself to him and he asked, ‘What the hell do you want?’”

But Madison, a talk show host on Sirius FM, and Booker’s wife Carol McCabe Booker each talked about Booker’s altruism and generosity.

“He’s a very courageous man, an honest man, forthright, a journalist and crusader, activist and reporter and someone who

always, always reached back,”said McCabe Booker of her husband of 40 years. “He’s always trying to help other people and that’s one of the most inspiring things about him.”

Booker, a Baltimore native and journalism pioneer, has inspired a whole generation of African-American reporters. He was Jet’s Washington, D.C. bureau chief for 51 years and has the distinction of being the first black hired by the Washington Post as a full-time journalist in 1952.

He came to prominence during the civil rights era while covering the movement and reporting for Jet and Ebony magazines, and also for his signature coverage of Emmett Till’s disappearance, murder and trial in Mississippi in 1955.

“You must remember, in those days, we were in a war,” said Booker in response to Madison’s question about his never letting anyone know where he lived while on assignment in the South. “Walking along the street, you never knew what might happen.”

Despite taking off his good suits and shoes and putting on “rags”, changing his dialect and his demeanor, Booker said he was often spotted as an outsider and threatened.

“I waded deep into the South but I didn’t think about it (the danger) because I didn’t want it to distract from my work … our role was to expose what was going on. It caused a stir.”

At one point, Booker said, an angry President Lyndon Johnson summoned Ebony Publisher John H. Johnson to Washington in an attempt to intimidate him into firing Booker.

“He went to the White House and had tea,” Booker said with a chuckle. “I didn’t change and Johnson stayed with me. I give him a lot of credit.”

Green wasn’t the only civil rights activist in the audience, among them was Joan Mulholland, a Freedom Rider and passionate activist.

“The chance to hear Simeon

Simeon Booker views the Civil Rights exhibit during an event presented by the Newseum in Northwest called, “Covering Civil Rights: On the Front Lines,” at which he discussed his book, “Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter’s Account of the Civil Rights Movement,” held Thursday, Aug. 22. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter

Booker is just amazing. Obviously, he’s not as agile but it was wonderful to see him. I don’t remember our paths crossing but Jet reporters were everywhere.”

Mulholland, 71, remembered her time as a young woman at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., where she was the roommate of another civil rights

icon Joyce Ladner. “Nineteen sixty-three was a horrible year.

They killed Medgar Evers, Gov. George Wallace stood (in front

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A staffer explains a Civil Rights interactive exhibit to Bernice King during an evening event at the Newseum called, “Covering Civil Rights: On the Front Lines.” King received the 2013 NCNW Dorothy Height Distinguished Leadership Award on Thursday, Aug. 22 in Northwest. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter

attributes.

“He was truly loyal to what he believed and that was trust, justice and what was right,” she said.

“When he encouraged people to give up their instinctual right to defend themselves that showed his power.”

Lois Scoon, and her husband

Malcolm waited in line to have books signed and expressed satisfaction.

“It was impressive to hear traditional thoughts on civil rights,” said Malcolm Scoon, a physician and Upper Marlboro resident.

“Hopefully, we can capture as much as possible before they go.”

His wife exulted at meeting Booker.

“I told him that for many years in law school, I read about him.

It was wonderful and an honor to meet him,” said Lois Scoon, who works as a civil rights lawyer with the federal government. “… strong black men inspire me.” wi

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of the Alabama State Capitol) where he declared segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. I worked in the office of the March on Washington and the march itself was a great, wonderful moment.

But things went downhill from there.”

King, the youngest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King, received the 2013 NCNW Dorothy I. Height Distinguished Leadership Award from Ingrid Saunders Jones, chair of the National Council of Negro Women.

King, 50, was also in town to take part in activities surrounding the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington on Wednesday, Aug. 28.

During her remarks after receiving the award, King said she could no more step away from her name and what it represents than a person could separate her-

self from her shadow.

“Perhaps the easiest thing for me is to be Bernice and the hardest thing for me is to be Bernice King,” said King, an ordained minister and CEO of The King Center in Atlanta, Ga., an organization founded by her mother in 1968 to protect and promote the King legacy. “Bernice would want to leave the stage and sit in the back of the room. I am socially shy but task oriented. Often in my life, people have misunderstood my demeanor. I’m getting better …”

King, who was five years old when her father was assassinated in 1968, discussed the subject of leadership, defining her idea of what it means.

“Leadership is not just position or influence,” she said. “I think it’s about character. We desperately need leaders [with] character more than ever before.

Her father, she said, embodied character and integrity, and when he spoke, he encapsulated the fiber and substance of these

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Over the months since the Democrats’ decisive electoral victories among Blacks, Hispanics and Asian Americans, officials at the RNC have talked a lot about engaging the country’s different and more diverse communities. At their Boston summer meeting session the Republicans declared that “engaging youth and building the party at the grassroots level is key” to the party’s successes toward 2016. The RNC’s latest effort to sell itself is a plan to showcase the diversity in the GOP ranks. The Rising Stars initiative highlights the next generation of Republicans: a group of activists, authors, elected officials and candidates who combat the GOP’s “old boy” image.

In its initiative, the RNC’s publicity professionals will be shining a spotlight on its younger, minority up-and-comers every three months. The first batch of Rising Stars includes T.W. Shannon, Oklahoma’s first African-American Speaker of the House and a protégé of former Rep. J.C. Watts. The RNC plans to thrust Black Republicans like Shannon into the limelight.

To grow and expand the party among Blacks, don’t forget that “it’s the economy.” Despite woeful, to no, economic gains under Democratic political leadership, African Americans have allowed themselves, and their issues, to

By William Reed be dumbed down to accept mediocre governance. The last 40 years, the Black vote has gone so overwhelmingly for Democrats that the GOP has never invested much effort in trying to capture it. In what Priebus says is “an unprecedented effort”, the RNC is putting money and muscle into getting more African Americans to vote Republican. The RNC just hired 150 field staffers “to help court new voters.”

Throughout the spring and summer of 2013, Priebus and a core group of Republicans, lurched from convention-to-convention in a kind of “rock star” procession seeking “grip-andgrin” photo-ops with notable Blacks. What he needs to do now is move out of the picture, replacing himself with strategic “outreach” professionals and techniques “to effectively spread the word” specifically, among African Americans.

Some say Preibus should spend his money elsewhere and think that the Republican Party faces an impossible task adding Blacks to their ranks. With targeted efforts, the RNC can easily capture 30 percent of the Black vote by 2016. Party leaders can’t second guess themselves and they must continue to provide the resources necessary for the outreach to be successful. The Republicans have to deliver messages among African Americans that explain to

them why the GOP’s world view is in their best interest.

The Republicans need to project images and an agenda that Blacks can relate to. In order to be effective, the party needs to provide the Black outreach team the budget and autonomy they to need to set up networks that allow them to consistently engage African Americans through their media, about their issues. In addition to the field representatives Priebus announced in Boston, the RNC headquarters outreach team includes Amani Council, director of the RNC’s African-American Communications, Kristal Quarker-Hartsfield, who heads up the political arm; and Raffi Williams, whose focus is the youth vote.

Priebus says the RNC expects the staffers they recently hired to live and work in minority communities and pitch Republican values.

Between the headquarters’ crew and field representatives, Republicans should be putting forth issues that Blacks truly care about, and through new technology and local news outlets to “meet them [Blacks] where they are.”

Republicans can take a page from companies that target and develop the African-American consumer market. It’s time Priebus & Company allow their “Black outreach” team the full reign they need to effectively sell the Republican message, convene conferences, and be a resource on Republican ideals, and assemble and conduct political education among African Americans that touts: strong families, faith in God, personal responsibility and equal economic opportunities. wi William Reed is publisher of “Who’s Who in Black Corporate America” and available for projects via the BaileyGroup.org

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Moment or Movement

One of the best things coming out of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington has been listening to the sages and ordinary people who were at the march, witnessed the historic event or relayed the tone, tenor and sentiment of the time.

Almost lost in the flurry of celebrations is the reality that when the march took place on August 28, 1963, neither The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., nor the march itself was universally embraced by the vast majority of people in this country. The Kennedy administration, fearing riots, deployed the National Guard, stores downtown were boarded up, and liquor stores, banks and Congressional offices were closed to avert the potential of violence.

As we now know, more than a quarter-million people came to voice their peaceful desire for jobs, economic justice and racial equality for a black community sorely in need of all three.

King had gained prominence nationally in the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, but as others must be reminded, the African-American community is, and has never been, a monolith.

There were schisms, divisions and deep philosophical differences among black churches and within the civil rights movement.

King was, by his very nature conservative, cautious to some degree, but able to use a finely honed political calculus and what some describe as a willingness “to practice a dangerous type of selflessness” to achieve his and the movement’s aims and goals.

As longtime civil and human rights activist Robert L. Woodson reminded guests at a recent GOP luncheon, there was great conflict and tension within the civil rights movement, with one side supporting integration, while the other side embraced racial segregation; pragmatists banging heads with the dreamers; leaders jockeying for position and often sniping at and undermining each other in the process; young people rejecting what they saw as King and the traditional civil rights organizations’ cautious approach and favoring direct action to push the slow pace of progress.

Today, in this regard, it isn’t much different as we survey the cacophony of voices, issues, organizations and individuals jostling for attention, a voice and a place at the table.

It is crystal clear that in the ’60s, without young people like Woodson, Diane Nash, Lawrence Guyot, Joan Mulholland, Bob Moses, Frank Smith, Marion Barry, Dorie and Joyce Ladner and countless others, we would not be here celebrating the victories and civil rights gains we all enjoy. It was them who put their bodies and lives on the line, fought, died and worked tirelessly as organizers, teachers, demonstrators, strategists and visionaries.

We owe them a great debt of gratitude.

And now, as commemorative activities come to a close, it’s time for us to look to the future and begin to fashion the type of country our forefathers and activists like King, Sojourner Truth, Ella Baker, Roy Wilkins, Bayard Rustin, Asa Philip Randolph, Fannie Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Septima Clark and Marcus Garvey sought to make real.

March organizers and others say the next step is organization and action on the ground in communities everywhere to fight assaults against voting and women’s reproductive rights, for jobs, quality education and decent wages for all who want to work.

Then, as now, young people must be at the forefront of the struggle. It is time for the old guard to hand over the reins to those they’ve groomed, time for them to mentor, time for young people to be given the freedom to bring energy, passion, new ideas and innovative strategies to fight a wily, resistant, dysfunctional system that no longer caters to the needs of ordinary people. www.washingtoninformer.com

A Moral Dilemma

The article in the August 15, 2013 edition of the Informer, “Millions Face Cuts in Food Assistance” is a prime example of why the overwhelming majority of blacks and poor people in America vote Democratic.

Whenever the Republicans get control of the House of Representatives their rallying cry is always “America needs a balanced budget.”

Well, believe me, there is nothing wrong with a balanced budget, but to do it on the backs of the poor and less fortunate of this country is morally wrong. Why not take some of that money that America sends overseas in aid to countries that take our money and at the same time call us ugly Americans.

Republicans in the House need to have easy targets so they can continue spreading lies about how the poor are getting over on the government. They refuse to even mention the billions of dollars corporations get from the government each and every year. They always target the people using food stamps, and that’s why they will never get my vote.

A Must Have for Parents!

Thank you for the “2013 Back to School Supplement” in the August 15, 2013 edition of the Informer. It’s just a fantastic piece of work, full of helpful information. There is nothing anywhere else in the media in this area that compares to the type of info you provide in your supplement.

As a single parent of three schoolage children, I find the topics to be invaluable. The first article in the supplement, “What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in the Classroom” was very interesting to read, and I hope my children’s classrooms will use some of these initiatives.

But the second article, “Building a Relationship with Your Child’s Teacher Matters,” is the one that is most helpful to me. Building a better relationship with the teachers is my goal for the year. I must admit I haven’t had the greatest relationships with teachers, and it has been my fault. The article raises some great points and I am going to try and change for the better, mainly for my kids.

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By Charlene Crowell

Credit Card Debt Drops to $850 Billion In a recent report to Congress, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shared the progress accomplished in lowering the nation’s credit card debt. By the end of 2012, cardholder debt was lowered to $850 billion, a significant decrease from the 2008 peak period when consumers owed more than $1 trillion. Additionally, card delinquencies that peaked in 2009 at nearly 7 percent shrank to only

2.7 percent by the end of 2012, their lowest levels since 1994.

These findings are measurable signs of progress America’s consumers have accomplished. It’s also particularly welcome news for those who chose to cut back on spending in an attempt to survive the Great Recession.

But there were also other factors unrelated to consumer behaviors that contributed to the drop in delinquencies. For example, during the Great Recession, many credit card issuers tightened credit availability,

leaving many consumers with lowered lines of credit. In some cases, these reduced credit lines resulted in some consumers with debts larger than the new authorizations. In such scenarios, consumers were left with two choices: keep paying the issuer but lose use of the card or find an alternative way to pay off the debt in a lump sum.

If consumers had possessed the financial wherewithal not to incur thousands of dollars in debt, card overages and/or delinquencies would not have

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happened. So it is reasonable to infer that millions of customers took the only viable option: pay down the debt as best one could.

By the end of 2012, according to the Fed, consumers used only one-quarter of the total dollar amount available on their revolving lines of credit.

However, while most card usage declined, many issuers created another revenue stream by encouraging customers to use their authorized credit lines for cash advances instead of closedend installment loans. Unsolic-

ited offers usually sent by mail offered either a no-interest grace period or a rate lower than that of other transactions until the cash advance was fully repaid.

According to Mintel, a research firm, more than a billion of these offers were mailed in 2011 and in 2012. However, some of these cash advances may not afford the same consumer protections as card purchases. There are significant concerns that these offers could

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By George E. Curry

Jackie Jackson: A Mother’s Love On Wednesday, Aug. 14, Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. was scheduled to be sentenced to prison in connection with using campaign funds for personal use. Dozens of letters were sent to the judge on his behalf, but none more touching than the one written by his mother, dated May 28.

She began by noting, “I am Jacqueline Jackson, the mother of five children, one of whom I

am writing about, my son Jesse Jackson, Jr.” Her letter shed light not only on her son’s problems growing up in his famous father’s shadow, but provided a peek into the family’s early struggles. “…My husband was granted a Rockefeller Scholarship to attend Chicago Theological Seminary.

With a family of almost three in 1964, we arrived at McGifford House on Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago. By the time my son was born, my husband was attending

school and organizing the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (K.O.C.O) and was its first Executive Director (an unsalaried position),” Mrs. Jackson wrote.

“Because of the success of this organization, and based on the recommendation of Rev. James Bevel, my husband was hired to work for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for $75. If my memory serves me correctly, that was his weekly salary. To sustain our

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family, we were given food baskets by our Pastor, Rev. Clay Evans and the members of Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, where my son Jesse Jr. chose later to be baptized. I learned to provide the other necessities by frequenting resale shops, lawn sales, learning to preserve and can foods, and sewing and mending things that did not fit.

But most of all, I learned to express my appreciation and gratitude for the kindness of others.”

Just as her family struggled in

the early stages, so did Jesse, Jr., Mrs. Jackson wrote.

“Contrary to the belief of many who only see us as we are today from a televised perspective, Jesse Jr., was not born with a silver spoon nor was he born privileged. Jesse Jr., my second child and my eldest son, was born during the turbulent sixties, the period of terrible hatred for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and those who followed Dr. King

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By James Clingman

Detroit: Death Certificate or Rebirth?

Will the largest city in history to file bankruptcy receive a death certificate, or will this action result in a new birth certificate for the Motor City? Of course, a city as large and as well situated as Detroit is will not die. Already there are plans for a $400 million hockey stadium, despite all the tales of woe and danger put forth by various media. All things considered, will Detroit’s majority population remain

Black and will Black people play a significant role in its economic rebirth?

The answer lies in the hearts of Black Detroiters and in their will to do what is necessary to gain ownership and control of a portion of that city’s asset base.

Detroit’s recent history shows why it is important for Blacks in Motown to get on the case when it comes to economic empowerment and self-determination.

In 2004, I participated in an effort, under the leadership of Claud Anderson, to develop and

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build a Black economic enclave.

I remember how excited I was at the prospect of Detroit stepping up and leading way for other cities to build similar enclaves and finally move toward true economic freedom.

But after our conference, I also remember the Black mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, and a couple of Black city councilpersons, supported by some in the Detroit print media, coming out against the plan calling it “divisive,” “separatist,” and “scary.”

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one Black councilperson said it would be “a suicidal form of ‘reverse racism’ and a bad deal for Detroit.”

This same person was quoted as saying, “African Town will actually create a negative environment that will drive businesses from Detroit and create a climate of fear that will eliminate Detroit from serious consideration as a location to develop or grow a business.” She concluded, “I am not a hyphenated American.

I am an American. This council needs to understand that so we

can make decisions that don’t make Detroit an American embarrassment.”

Imagine that. Detroit would have been an “American embarrassment” if Africa Town had been developed. What a silly statement. I wonder what she and others think Detroit is now that they refused to develop the enclave. Another question: Why isn’t Detroit called an American embarrassment because it has a Greek Town, a China Town, a

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By Julianne Malveaux

Dropping the Leadership Baton many young people enter the labor market already behind the space their parents occupied.

As I spend time with young people, especially young African Americans, I understand their frustration. They want to know what the civil rights generation has done to pass the baton of activism and improvement to them. They want to know how they should move forward.

While they are willing to participate in marches and civic action, they want to know what’s next. And they want to know

Research shows that this generation of young people, no matter of their race, are likely to do less well than their parents did. Shackled by a trillion dollars’ worth of student loans and a flat labor market, the New York-based Demos organization says the student loan burden prevents young people from buying homes and amassing wealth.

While there are some racial gaps,

why their voices are not heard in Black leadership.

Those who are seasoned offer their history of activism as proof that they should lead.

They forged the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and didn’t ask their elders for permission. They pushed elders to move to a more active position and when elders would not meet them, they pushed themselves. There was no shame in their game. Whether militant or moderate, they embraced parts of the Black

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Panther Party political program, which begins with these words, “We want freedom, we want the power to determine our destiny.”

Too many of us, African Americans, young people, progressives, do not determine our destiny now. We flow with the wind.

Too many have dropped the baton, but continue to act as if they are clasping it. Too many mouth their interest in young leaders, but fail to bring them to the table. Too many who are 40 and 50 describe themselves as young, but if you tell the truth

and shame the devil, these folks are solidly middle aged. So where are their protégées, those who will take, not snatch, the torch from them.

As I move around the country to speak, organize, motivate, I am stunned by events that focus on youth, but have only a few (and often no) young people present.

Imagine if young people had the opportunity to have meaningful exchanges with their elders. Too often young people are segregat-

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By Norman and Velma Murphy Hill

March on Washington: Then and Now card. What’s too often forgotten is that the event created a climate that eventually led to passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Most people remember the 1963 march as the place where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, one of the greatest orations in American history. But no single moment can adequately convey the true meaning of the March, its goals, achievements and strategy.

A. Philip Randolph, the fa-

Fifty years ago, 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to call for justice and equality for all Americans. As the anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom approaches, we, participants in the march we helped to plan, are delighted that this remarkable moment will be commemorated.

But we are troubled that the overarching significance of the march largely has been obscured, reduced to a sort of mental post-

ther of the modern Civil Rights Movement, called for the March.

As president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first majority Black union, Randolph recognized the need to press Washington to commit to national job creation and an end to employment discrimination.

This view was shared by Bayard Rustin, a master strategist and chief organizer of the March. Together, they understood that while unemployment levels were especially high

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among Blacks, a march focused on job-related issues would appeal to all workers and their labor unions. Randolph and Rustin both believed that organized labor was the most able institution to lift the nation’s “have littles” and “have-nots.”

Leaders of the major civil rights organizations, including Dr. King, were invited to participate in the planning of the march, expanding the event’s mission to include the struggle for racial equality, and combining the issues of race and class

for the first time in a major civil rights demonstration. The very scope and size of the eventual march confirmed the soundness of the Randolph-Rustin strategy.

It produced a set of far-reaching demands, such as a massive federal program to train and place all unemployed workers in meaningful jobs; a national minimum wage that would provide a decent living for all workers, including domestic and agricultural workers; guarantees for

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By Askia Muhammad

President Obama and the March

Five years ago in Denver – Aug. 28, 2008 – then Illinois Sen. Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination to be president of the United States.

That date was the 45th anniversary of the March on Washington, but the young aspirant to the presidency did not mention the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., or the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. www.washingtoninformer.com

This year, as president an older, and a much more chastened Barack Obama was the keynote speaker on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of The March, speaking from the spot where Dr. King delivered his now immortal “I Have a Dream” soliloquy. What changed in five years?

Well, for one thing this president never has to run for public office again. He has only his “legacy” about which to be concerned. So it is in the interest of this public figure who may have been awarded the Nobel Peace

Prize before he earned it, it is in his interest to begin to burnish his reputation which has been tarnished by his blood-thirsty war mongering habits, habits which are contrary to Dr. King’s every moral fiber.

But granting the great symbolic victory – a true African American – rising on the merits of his character to become president and then speaking on the Golden Anniversary of Dr. King’s iconic speech, what’s not to be glad, even giddy about?

Well for one thing, like Dr.

King, President Obama thinks he knows them, but neither he, nor Dr. King truly understands/ understood White people.

Dr. King thought White people in this country could be won over by logic and moral suasion, that they would do “the right thing” because it is right. President Obama thinks his political adversaries can similarly be won over, and that at the end of the day they will do what’s in the best interest of the country, rather than scheming to cause the entire country to crumble just so

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this Black man who happens to be president will not get credit for turning the country around.

It’s better to “be dead than red,” this country’s Cold War xenophobes used to say 50 years ago about the Communist “threat” to overthrow the United States. Today, President Obama – in their view – is a Black (you can probably think of another, more caustic word to go here), socialist (the next thing to a Communist), Muslim (which

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Voyager, 1992. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Gift of the Women’s Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Great America, 1994. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Gift of the Collectors Committee.

Plunge, 1992. Gerri and Mason Haupt.

In the Tower:

By Eve M. Ferguson WI Staff Writer When I lived in Miami Beach a decade ago, I would often sit on the shores and ponder how many of my ancestors’ bones lay on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Artist Kerry James Marshall went beyond mere thought, and transformed his obsession with the Middle Passage into a body of artwork.

“In The Tower: Kerry James Marshall,” at the National Gallery of Art’s East Building, displays 10 of the artist’s large scale paintings and more than 20 works on paper – studies for the larger works – and fully illustrates the artist’s preoccupation with the Middle Passage, that portion of the Atlantic Slave Trade that brought captured Africans to the New World.

Inspired by the purchase of Marshall’s 1994 painting, Great America, the National Gallery of Art exhibit is the sixth in a series of installations in the airy Tower galleries, intended to showcase artistic developments since the midcentury. It also marks Marshall’s first solo exhibit in the Nation’s Capital.

Looking unassuming in a gray T-shirt and jeans, Marshall, who

Kerry James Marshall National Gallery Exhibition Marks the Artist’s First D.C. Solo Show was born in Birmingham, Ala., in 1955, explained the rich imagery that permeates his colorful, large canvases. To many viewers, his works may appear as brightly hued amalgams of images, figures and symbols.

But, as the Chicago resident explained, none are that simple.

“My work starts with the implications of the slave trade and how the things they came with became important,” Mar-

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shall said. He continued with a mini-history lesson as a primer to understanding his works, which usually include symbols both familiar and multifaceted.

The recurring theme of water – the vehicle which brought Africans to this country, is omnipresent in several pieces.

“There are manifestations of African religious practices even in the United States,” Marshall noted. “Santeria and The Washington Informer

Bang, 1994. Courtesy of The Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, Ohio

Candomblė are imbedded in Christianity. The pantheon of gods and deities mirror Greek mythology,” he said, as he alluded to the first painting in the exhibit Baptist (1992) depicting a black figure treading water in the ocean between Africa and North America. The painting introduces viewers to the lexicon of symbols Marshall inserts into his works, representing the complexities of the history of African Americans.

A white flag with a red cross,

repeated in several other paintings, can be seen on the surface as representing the Red Cross, a symbol of help globally. But, as Marshall points out, “The Red Cross is rescue and aid, but it is also a symbol of Eshu (a Yoruba deity) whose color is red and is represented by the crossroads.”

The red cross imagery appears again in Plunge (1992), where a woman appears to be

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marshall continued from Page 28 taking a dive into a swimming pool, which is identified as the Atlantic Ocean. In the idyllic poolside setting with striped umbrellas, a white picket fence is marked “Private,” leaving the viewer to wonder whether the black female swimmer is being locked out. A toy boat floats in the water, topped with Haitian “Vévé” symbols, which allude to certain rituals and deities of Vodun.

Vévés appear again in Voyager (1994), where a female figure rides in a boat named “Wanderer.” In this work, the allusion to slavery is more overt. The Wanderer was the last documented slave ship to sail from the Congo, landing on Georgia’s Jekyll Island in 1858.

In the gallery’s acquisition, Great America (1994), the cross appears again in a seemingly innocent scenario where black figures are entering a tunnel on an amusement park boat ride. The theme park carries the same name as one that Marshall used to visit as a child growing up in Los Angeles. A deeper look into the painting raises the question as to whether the occupants of the boat are just riders, or represent slaves packed into a tiny slave ship. At the entrance to

the tunnel, sinister-looking fun house ghosts emerge.

Marshall’s imagery carries the viewer through the timeline of African Americans’ presence in the New World, from slavery to suburbia. But, as Marshall reiterates, “It is not meant to be chronological, but to establish a coherent and logical way to reach out to people.”

In other works, such as Bang (1994) and Our Town (1996) innocuous suburban scenes take gravity when one examines the fine details. In the former, three black children celebrate Independence Day – the girl holds the American flag, while two boys say the Pledge of Allegiance. But the smoke rising from the Weber grill is dark and sooty, while a garden hose coils around the girl like a snake, evoking memories of the fire hoses used on children in Birmingham in 1963. The houses positioned behind white picket fences emerge as gleaming white clapboard shacks without windows.

The exhibition is rounded out by a number of studies on paper. These studies are the individual elements which ultimately find their place in the larger works. Housed in the outer gallery, another painting, Nat Turner with the Head of His Master (2011), one of Marshall’s later

works, represents yet another of his obsessions, this time with rebel slave Nat Turner. Turner led an unsuccessful revolt in Southampton, Va., that yielded the highest number of casualties among whites of any slave uprising. Turner was eventually hanged to death.

Admittedly, Marshall has painted this scene numerous times. The work on view is executed in the style of Old Masters, who traditionally represented freedom fighters in a classic stance, such as Andrea del Castagno’s David with the Head of Goliath (1450/1455),

also owned by the National Gallery of Art. “I use a collage sensibility gleaned from art history, with modernist and abstract gestures as part of my lexicon,” Marshall said. “Throughout art school, they were a vocabulary that you could employ.”

Acknowledging influences as diverse as Charles White and Goya, Kerry James Marshall’s work is complex, compelling and a pictorial confirmation of the struggles still encountered

by African Americans in this nation. The multiple layers of meaningful and informed im-

agery reflect a knowledge and mastery of time-honored artistic techniques, imbedded with a message, and a reminder, that we have not yet achieved the freedoms promised. wi “In the Tower: Kerry James Marshall,” continues at the National Gallery of Art’s East Building through December 7th, 2013. The exhibit is intended to coincide with the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, and the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Visit www.nga.gov for more information and complementary museum programs.

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THIS INTERGENERATIONAL MUSIC EVENT FEATURES PERFORMANCES BY NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND YOUTH MUSICIANS. This year, FAME will feature all genres of music (classical, jazz, R&B, gospel and country) in the spectrum of hip hop. Trombonist and recording artist Leon Rawlings from the 76 Degrees West Band has created a special tribute to Chuck Brown, the world renowned, Grammy nominated, and legendary Godfather of Go-Go. Mr. Rawlings will be joined by friends and fellow musicians, including a special performance by Prince George’s County Maryland Council Members Derrick Leon Davis and Will Campos on saxophone.

This benefit concert will raise awareness of the importance of music education and the arts in a child’s development, increase the community’s exposure to a variety of music genres and provide quality, affordable programming for the entire family.

Proceeds from the concert will support FAME’s after school and scholarship programs.

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TICKETS: On the web: claricesmithcenter.umd.edu By phone: 301.405.ARTS (301.405.2787) In person: The Ticket Office, in lobby of Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Dekelboum Concert Hall 3800 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-2635

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Keynote: Why the March on Washington Still Resonates Today

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NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

Observing the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the 150th anniversary of the emancipation Proclamation, the symposium will be both commemorative and forward-looking. Hosted by the Clarice Smith Center, in partnership with the UMD School of Public Policy and the UMD School of Public Health, the symposium is the launch of e National Civil War Project at the Center. With the Civil War as the genesis of the Civil Rights Movement in this country, scholarly presentations and stimulating artistic experiences will examine issues of the Civil War through the lens of our nation’s civil rights struggles. It will place the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in its historic context, both as the culmination of the struggle since the emancipation Proclamation and as the stage-setting for a new generation of civil rights issues that reveal the important — but often hidden — inequalities of our time.

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12:30PM And the March Continues…

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Panelists: Rev. Dr. Joanne Braxton, College of William and Mary; Judith Browne Dianis, founder of the Advancement Project; Peter edelman, Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy at American University; Rev. Dr. Christine Wiley, Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ. Kojo Nnamdi, moderator. Introduced by UMD student Ben Simon

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e Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s changed America.

Since that time, the movement has inspired millions of people to work for human rights causes. In 1988, jazz bassist Christian McBride composed e Movement Revisited, a four-part suite dedicated to four major figures of the Civil Rights Movement: Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. McBride will kick off the Center’s 2013–2014 season with a new incarnation of e Movement Revisited performed by his Big Band and Washington DC’s Heritage Signature Chorale with spoken word selections by special guests, including civil rights activist and artist Harry Belafonte.

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To RSVP to the Symposium or buy tickets to Christian McBride’s Big Band performance visit umdmarcheson.org The National Civil War Project is a multi-city, multi-year collaboration between four universities and five performing arts organizations to create original works and innovative academic programming inspired by the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

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“The Speech”

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By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer Imagine all the things that could be.

Go back to school, you could be a doctor or lawyer. Save money, and you could be rich(er).

Learn a new skill, and you could be popular at parties. Teach a child, and she could be president someday.

Sometimes in life, a small decision that seems insignificant – or even wrong – turns out to be the best thing that can happen. And in the new book “The Speech” by Gary Younge, you’ll see how an off-the-cuff choice created a legacy.

The year 1963 seemed to be a “turning point” in the civil rights movement.

Before that, there were sit-ins, Freedom Riders, and boycotts; “[r]ace overwhelmed almost everything,” writes Younge. But in early summer that year, it got worse: Gov. George Wallace personally stood in a schoolhouse doorway to keep black students from attending college.

In early fall, four black girls died in a church bombing. And before winter arrived, John Kennedy was assassinated.

But in between these seminal events, Martin Luther King, Jr. made a speech.

For King, public speaking was routine. In all of 1963, he made “at least” 350 speeches, and many of them had a similar theme: aides noticed that he often used the words, “I have a dream,” and they were tired of it.

So on August 27, 1963, the night before the March on Washington, when King asked for advice on the speech he was to give the next morning, they told him to ditch the dream. He’d “used it too many times…”

The next day, when King

took the podium in front of the Lincoln Memorial, it appeared that he might have listened. His speech took people “to church,” but they’d already sat through other speeches. It was hot – 87 degrees. Some people left.

Then, witnesses claim, Mahalia Jackson shouted for King to “Tell them about the dream…”

So he did.

Some say that King’s speech that day was far from his best and “not nearly as powerful” as other speeches. Others criticized his words, saying they didn’t need a dreamer, they needed a “leader.” King himself was “well on the way to being a pariah” that August afternoon.

So why have those words left such a legacy?

In “The Speech,” author Gary Younge asks that question, too, and his skinny little, information-packed volume has the answer.

But in getting to the reason why that speech is one of the more memorable in American history, Younge sets the scene by mixing little-known facts with common knowledge about the civil rights movement. He then explains how the March on Washington came together, why the speech became such an iconic event, and the important impacts, politically and socially, that it still has, 50 years after it almost didn’t occur.

Reading a book about a speech might seem like a narrow focus, but this book has so much more. For students of history, I think, as well as for people who were there that August day, and especially for those who weren’t, “The Speech” could be what you need to read next.wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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VW Beetle TDI Packs Plenty of Punch for a Diesel

By Njuguna Kabugi WI Contributing Writer Brazilian author and sage Paulo Coelho muses in his best seller The Alchemist that coincidence is the language of the stars. “When you see signs or coincidences, the universe is talking to you,” he writes.

But in my fiercely rational journalistic universe, Coelho’s observations mean zilch. Luck is just a string of coincidences.

There’s nothing magical or beneficial in claiming wisdom from the random omens strewn along life’s path until you realize, as I did recently, that on occasion, coincidences do matter.

On an otherwise hot and muggy August 10th, I’d been driving the 2013 Tornado Red VW Beetle TDI non-stop for close to 200 miles; driving nowhere and everywhere because the car was so much fun. The day before, I’d driven from D.C. to Baltimore, telling my colleagues that I had to dash to the credit union.

Truth be told, I didn’t have to drive the 40 miles to Charm City because there is a very convenient branch in Alexandria, Va., just 10 minutes across the river.

I was passing time, all the while marveling that despite all those miles, the fuel gauge was still way north of three quarters and that the Beetle was a lot more fun to

drive than the Toyota Prius I’d just returned a few days earlier.

It then dawned on me that I was experiencing a coincidence that only a car-nerd would appreciate. How interesting was it that on that very day 120 years ago, Rudolf Diesel had succeeded in making his first engine that ran on the compression-ignition principle, one that is more commonly known by his surname – the diesel.

Diesel, who died 100 years ago this September – could not have possibly conceived how the engine bearing his name would revolutionize the world’s transportation systems. And, no doubt, he would have been surprised and delighted that Volkswagen, and a half dozen other automakers continue to design clean diesel engines that delight drivers with their excellent fuel mileage, smooth running, and mid-range torque that gives effortless passing power.

Among small cars sold in the U.S., the 2013 VW Beetle TDI stands head and shoulders as one of the best executions of diesel technology. Thanks to the TDI’s engine, a 2.0-liter turbocharged direct-injection clean diesel that produces 140 horsepower and 236 lb.-ft. of torque, the car does not need a whole lot of prodding to prove its talents.

Coming from a standstill, the

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The Beetle TDI is extremely frugal on gas, proving that hybrids aren’t the only game in town when it comes to good fuel economy. In and around Maryland, Virginia and the District, the six-speed manual delivered 33 mpg in the city, 41 on the open road – numbers better than the EPA-assessed mileage.

The interior is also aesthetically pleasing, utilizing handsome, black leatherette upholstery and trim panels that repeat the metallic paint on the body. On the down side, VW hopes you overlook the fact that because the Beetle has only two doors, the only way to get passengers to the rear seats involves flopping the front seats forward. Though the two doors are wide, sitting in the rear is semi-spacious, fit over longer distances only for children and smaller adults.

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ARIES A surge in your personal power enables you to slay any dragons that you happen to meet this week. If you keep your attention on your own personal dragons, you’ll be advancing your own best self by knocking out some less than healthy habits. Use the force for good! Soul Affirmation: Shining brightly is something that I can do even in shadows. Lucky Numbers: 20, 33, 51 TAURUS Here’s a chance to get to the bottom of an issue that’s been bothering you for quite some time. This week you’ll feel objective enough to focus on the situation, and not the person who may unwittingly have caused the situation. Go for it! Soul Affirmation: The enjoyment of good food is high on my agenda this week.

Lucky Numbers: 15, 43, 55 GEMINI Information flows smoothly to and from you this week. You are in your element as communications come and go. You’ll learn much as you listen and observe others.

Be easy on yourself this week. Soul Affirmation: I enjoy flirting with new ideas.

Lucky Numbers: 7, 14, 32 CANCER Someone may try to push your buttons this week.

Don’t let it get on your nerves. You have the power to focus your attention on positive thoughts and ideas. They will prove much more worthwhile in the long run than a short-term blow-out with an unequal adversary. Soul Affirmation: When I am clear about who I am, the world becomes clearer. Lucky Numbers: 2, 45, 50 LEO Conclusions can be reached; but don’t jump to them.

Things are working out in your best interests. Ignore any negative attitudes and stay focused on your goals and plans.

You are winning! Soul Affirmation: My hunches pay all week this week. Lucky Numbers: 6, 11, 13 VIRGO This is a perfect week for some fun. You know how to have fun and it’s calling you out to play. Say what you need and the rest will follow in perfect order! Have a good time! Soul Affirmation: The search for fun occupies my time. Enjoy! Lucky Numbers: 1, 19, 33 LIBRA You may receive some news that trouble you, but recognize what you can and can’t do about the situation. As powerful as you are, you are still not required to do everything for everyone. Do what feels most loving. Soul Affirmation: I smile and trust in the powers beyond myself. Lucky Numbers: 11, 29, 43 SCORPIO Your leadership skills are shining this week, so get out there and glimmer with good vibrations. Others are looking to you for guidance and as a path to follow. Let your journey through the week provide a good model. Soul Affirmation: I let worry fly away. Lucky Numbers: 15, 16, 39 SAGITTARIUS You are brilliant this week as you gather materials and resources together for an important project.

There’s a good probability for wonderful news late in the afternoon. Ride the vibes and be gentle with your own feelings. Soul Affirmation: There are plenty of fish in the sea waiting for me. Lucky Numbers: 1, 42, 50 CAPRICORN A date or meeting that is unexpectedly cancelled may make someone very unhappy. Recognize that all things work for good, and that a better solution is being provided in the space between what you think you want and what you are getting. Soul Affirmation: This week silence speaks loudest and truest. Lucky Numbers: 20, 40, 41 AQUARIUS Serenity is yours as you realize you can get what you need. It’s coming and you deserve it! Take a few quiet moments this week to listen to your inner voice. It will give you a powerful hint about what activities you should be pursuing right now. Soul Affirmation: I let positive emotions carry me through the week.

Lucky Numbers: 8, 17, 21 PISCES In all of the hustle and bustle of the week this week, take some time to observe the Now. There’s a great deal to be thankful for! A great idea could come to you when you are out with friends. Soul Affirmation: I celebrate with those around me.

Lucky Numbers: 39, 51, 52

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Washington Redskins Defeat Buffalo Bills 30-7 Washington Redskins quarterback Pat White receives blocks from teammates Darrel Young and Donte Stallworth that provide space for White to run for a touchdown on Saturday, Aug. 24 at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. The Redskins defeated Buffalo 30-7. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Redskins defender Jordan Pugh tackles Buffalo Bills wide receiver Stevie Johnson during National Football League (NFL) preseason football action on Saturday, Aug. 24 at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. The Redskins defeated Buffalo 30-7. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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D.C. United goalkeeper Bill Hamid, who rejoined the team after representing the USA in the Gold Cup competition, goes up to save a corner kick from Toronto forward Andrew Wiedeman during Major League Soccer (MLS) action on Saturday, Aug. 24 at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Southeast. The United and Toronto played to a 1-1 tie. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Joan Oladipo’s chair rested just inches from the baseline of the DeMatha Catholic High School gymnasium’s shiny hardwood floor. Flanked by her daughter and a handful of relatives, the family’s excitement increased as the game progressed.

Eventually, Oladipo ditched the chair, jumped to her feet and joined the hundreds of boisterous fans who watched the scoring battle that played out between Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant and her son Victor, who plays for the Orlando Magic.

At the end of the first half, the young basketball player didn’t join his teammates in the locker room. Instead, the Upper Marlboro, Md., native, jogged over to his mother, gave her a big hug and only then made his way to the locker room.

“He said ‘Hi Mommy,’” Joan Oladipo said. “It’s just a good, warm feeling. I’m so happy and blessed and I thank God every day for all of [Victor’s] accomplishments.”

Victor Oladipo’s trip back to the area he calls home was brief – he boarded a flight to Orlando, Fla., shortly after the game ended – but he made the most of it.

The former DeMatha standout scored 28 points and helped power his team to a 116-116 tie in the Goodman League Roundball Classic held at DeMatha in Hyattsville, Md., on Sunday, Aug. 25.

Victor Oladipo, who watched local stars tear through the Goodman League as a youngster, didn’t hesitate to accept the invitation to play in the nationally-renowned classic once it was offered.

“I grew up watching games like this and dreaming about playing in them,” said the 21-year-old who was the No. 2 pick in the 2013 NBA Draft. “To be able to come out here and play and share the same court with [Durant], Mike Beasley, Josh Selby and so many other great players is truly a blessing.”

The Goodman League formed in 1975 and its games are currently played at the Barry Farm Dwellings basketball courts in Southeast. The league attracts both professional and amateur players and its games draw hundreds of fans each year.

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Victor Oladipo (right) and Kevin Durant face off at the Goodman League Roundball Classic on Sunday, Aug. 25 at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Md. /Photo provided by Wallace Barron

and college stars, and former high school standouts dazzled the crowd throughout the evening.

The Oladipo family reunion was just one of many.

Former Suitland High School guard Bobby Maze enjoyed stops at colleges in Oklahoma and Kansas before finally settling into the point guard position at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Maze’s collegiate journey put some distance between him and his mother. However, the classic reunited the two, as well as others they haven’t seen in years.

“This is exciting. I’ve been able to see a lot of people who I haven’t seen since [Bobby] played for Suitland High School,” said Maze’s mother CoCo Wazir, who lives in Waldorf, Md. “It’s like a homecoming. I’ve seen so many people who went to high school with [Bobby], I’ve seen former coaches, parents – people I haven’t seen in six or seven years.”

Maze used the classic as an opportunity to showcase his hometown to one of his former college teammates.

“Bobby always talks about coming up here to play and how it’s a great experience, especially with the [Goodman League] and the level of competition,” said Wayne Chism, 26, Maze’s teammate of three years at Tennessee. “[Wherever] the ball’s bouncing, I’m there.”

After hearing Maze and Beasley talk about the high level of competition found on the area’s basketball courts, Chism decided it was time to get in on the action. Maze, Chism and Beasley – another local basketball star who was selected No. 2 overall in the 2008 NBA Draft – piled into Maze’s car and headed north from Tennessee.

“It feels great to be able to come up here and play, especially against all of the top players in D.C.,” Chism said. “Not only does it help me, it helps the other players as well.”

As the game ended, the crowd made its way down onto the court. Some players posed for pictures with excited children while others signed autographs for wide-eyed admirers.

As the gymnasium thinned out, Victor Oladipo joined his mother and made his way outside in search of a place to share a few quiet moments before heading back to Florida.

Mother and son slipped behind the handful of relatives and exchanged a few words as they exited the building.

“My mom’s the reason I play today, and I love her,” he said.

“Without her, I wouldn’t be here.

She means the world to me.”wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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Fix it by Faith! but at that time, I had no idea how much work would be involved. An enjoyable project!

My skills were challenged, even with my top-notch experience having worked for U.S. Presidential Inaugurations, serving the Washington D.C. community for more than 25 years; quick, tedious projects are the norm for me. This project, however, had new twists; three consecutive weekly press conferences, challenging, yet the work got done, and successfully.

This may not have been the “big� call that I was expecting, but it certainly did allow me to meet more people, and reconnect with the political arena of the District of Columbia.

Whether my life will change afterward, only God knows, but what a wonderful experience.

This project reflects my faith. It brought to life my expectation that my phone would ring someday, with something exciting for me to do. And there’s still much more to come. We don’t get dreams and visions of our future haphazardly. They come directly from the Holy Spirit.

Scripture tells us “faith is the substance of things hoped for and it is the evidence of things not seen,� and “In all your ways you shall acknowledge Him, and He will direct your path.� The Heavenly Father will be there for you like that burning bush, and will never burn out; He will be there showing you the trail; the pathway will open up for you, just

The 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington is over, and we had a record-breaking crowd; none of us could have imagined that so many people would travel from around the world to join in the 50th anniversary celebration. We can now get back to living our lives again.

This week, I’m writing about “faith� as a reminder that nothing happens without absolute faith. It’s as if a tiny flame burns within you, and the angels, and Holy Spirit can see and feel the light, together they increase your flame; similar to the burning bush story in the Bible.

Let me share my own personal story. Over the past year or two, I’ve been expecting a telephone call to come from somewhere; my inner knowing showed me that my life would be changed.

I thought about the possibility weekly, and knew the call would come, without a shadow of doubt. That’s how faith works.

One call did finally come this summer, totally unexpected, it was from former D.C. Council member Frank Smith, telling me that Mayor Vincent Gray had appointed him to serve as the chairman of the DC Host Committee for the 50th Anniversary March on Washington, and because we had worked together for so many years on his African American Civil War Memorial project, he knew my capabilities, and my work ethic. He called to ask if I would come onboard to help him. I said yes, of course,

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like the Red Sea opened up for Moses when he was ordered to save his people from Pharaoh.

The Israelites crossed the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. Go for your dreams, you will be protected along the way and do things you’ve never done; miraculous things will begin to occur in your life. You wouldn’t have had that vision if it wasn’t meant for you to achieve.

Here is where my column comes in handy. The Lord has chosen me to remind you all that scriptures tell us “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.� And also remind you that “No weapon formed against you shall prosper.�

Remember, that tiny little light, the flame must stay lit. Don’t let it go out. Once your little flame dies, the angels will pass you by.

You won’t have that magic that attracts angelic spirits, known as “faith.� Fix it by faith!wi Lyndia Grant is a columnist, and she hosts a radio talk show on WYCB AM 1340, a Radio One station; call Lyndia at 202-518-3192; or send emails to lyndiagrant@gmail.com.

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Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church Rev. James Manion Supply Priest Foggy Bottom • Founded in 1867 728 23rd Street, NW • Washington, DC 20037 Church office: 202-333-3985 • Fax : 202-338-4958 Worship Services 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.

Blessed Word of Life Church Dr. Dekontee L. & Dr. Ayele A. Johnson Pastors 4001 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 (202) 265-6147 Office 1-800 576-1047 Voicemail/Fax Schedule of Services: Sunday School – 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service – 11:00 AM Communion Service – First Sunday Prayer Service/Bible Study – Tuesday, 6:30 PM www.blessedwordoflifechurch.org e-mail: church@blessedwordoflifechurch.org

Campbell AME Church Reverend Daryl K. Kearney, Pastor 2562 MLK Jr. Ave., S E Washington, DC 20020 Adm. Office 202-678-2263 Email:Campbell@mycame.org Sunday Worship Service 10: 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

Mt. Zion Baptist Church Rev. John W. Davis, Pastor 5101 14th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20011 202-726-2220/ 202-726-9089 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 gsccm.administration@verizon.net

Pilgrim Baptist Church

700 I. Street, NE Washington, D.C. 20002 Pastor Louis B. Jones, II and Pilgrim invite you to join us during our July and August Summer schedule! Attire is Christian casual.

Worship: Sundays@ 7:30 A.M. & 10:00 A.M. 3rd Sunday Holy Communion/Baptism/Consecration Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @12:00 Noon @ 6:30 P.M. – One Hour of Power!

(202) 547-8849 www.pilgrimbaptistdc.org

Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ Drs. Dennis W. and Christine Y. Wiley, Pastors 3845 South Capitol Street Washington, DC 20032 (202) 562-5576 (Office) (202) 562-4219 (Fax) SERVICES AND TIMES: SUNDAYS: 10:00 am AM Worship Services BIBLE STUDY: Wonderful Wednesdays in Worship and the Word Bible Study Wednesdays 12:00 Noon; 6:30 PM (dinner @ 5:30 PM) SUNDAY SCHOOL: 9:00 AM – Hour of Power “An inclusive ministry where all are welcomed and affirmed.” www.covenantbaptistdc.org

Twelfth Street Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) 1812 12th Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202-265-4494 Fax: 202 265 4340

Church of Living Waters

Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor Harold Andrew, Assistant Pastor 4915 Wheeler Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-894-6464 Schedule of Service Sunday Service: 8:30 AM & 11:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM Communion Service: First Sunday www.livingwatersmd.org

St. Stephen Baptist Church Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. State Overseer 5757 Temple Hill Road, Temple Hills, MD 20748 Office 301-899-8885 – fax 301-899-2555 Sunday Early Morning Worship - 7:45 a.m.

Church School - 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship – 10:45 a.m.

Tuesday – Thursday - Kingdom Building Bible Institute – 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday – Prayer/Praise/Bible Study – 7:30 p.m.

Baptism & Communion Service- 4th Sunday – 10:30am Radio Broadcast WYCB -1340 AM-Sunday -6:00pm T.V. Broadcast - Channel 190 – Sunday -4:00pm/Tuesday 7:00am

“We are one in the Spirit” www.ssbc5757.org e-mail: ssbc5757@verizon.net

Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church Rev. Dr. Michael E. Bell, Sr., • Pastor 2498 Alabama Ave., SE • Washington D.C. 20020 Office: (202) 889-7296 Fax: (202) 889-2198 • www.acamec.org 2008: The Year of New Beginnings “Expect the Extraordinary”

Crusader Baptist Church

Isle of Patmos Baptist Church Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews • Senior Pastor 1200 Isle of Patmos Plaza, Northeast Washington, DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-6767 Fax: (202) 526-1661

Rev. Dr. Alton W. Jordan, Pastor 800 I Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 202-548-0707 Fax No. 202-548-0703

Sunday Worship Services: 8:00a.m. and 11:00a.m.

Sunday Church School - 9:15a.m. & Sunday Adult Forum Bible Study - 10:30a.m.

2nd & 4th Monday Women’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Tuesday Jr./Sr. Bible Study - 10:00a.m.

Tuesday Topical Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Tuesday New Beginnings Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Wednesday Pastoral Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Wednesday Children’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Thursday Men’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Friday before 1st Sunday Praise & Worship Service - 6:30p.m.

Saturday Adult Bible Study - 10:00a.m.

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 E-mail: Crusadersbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.CrusadersBaptistChurch.org

“The Amazing, Awesome, Audacious Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church”

“God is Love”

Third Street Church of God Rev. Cheryl J. Sanders, Th.D. Senior Pastor 1204 Third Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 202.347.5889 office 202.638.1803 fax Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Prayer Meeting and Bible Study: Wed. 7:30 p.m.

“Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital” www.thirdstreet.org

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

Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr.; Senior Bishop & Evangelist Susie C. Owens – Co-Pastor 610 Rhode Island Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (202) 529-4547 office • (202) 529-4495 fax Sunday Worship Service: 8 AM and 10:45 AM Sunday Youth Worship Services: 1st & 4th 10:45 AM; 804 R.I. Ave., NE 5th 8 AM & 10:45 AM; Main Church Prayer Services Tuesday – Noon, Wednesday 6 AM & 6:30 PM Calvary Bible Institute: Year-Round Contact Church Communion Every 3rd Sunday The Church in The Hood that will do you Good! www.gmchc.org emailus@gmchc.org

ST Marks Baptist Come Worship with us...

St. Mark's Baptist Church 624 Underwood Street, NW Washington, dc 20011 Dr. Raymond T. Matthews, Pastor and First Lady Marcia Matthews Sunday School 9:am Worship Service 10:am Wed. Noon Day prayer service Thur. Prayer service 6:45 pm Thur. Bible Study 7:15 pm

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Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor Service and Times Sunday Worship Service 11:00 a.m.

Communion every Sunday 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School 10:00 a.m.

Bible Study Tuesday 12Noon Pastor’s Bible Study Tuesday 6:30 p.m.

Motto; “Discover Something Wonderful.”

Website: 12thscc.org Email: Twelfthstcc@aol.com

Mount Carmel Baptist Church

52 Years of Expert Engraving Services

Joseph N. Evans, Ph.D Senior Pastor 901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423 Sunday Church School : 9: 30am Sunday Morning Worship: 10: 45am Bible Study Tuesday: 6: 00pm Prayer Service Tuesday: 7:00pm Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday 10: 45am themcbc.org

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All Nations Baptist Church

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Rev. Dr. James Coleman Pastor 2001 North Capitol St, N.E. • Washington, DC 20002 Phone (202) 832-9591

Website: www.allnationsbaptistchurch.com All Nations Baptist Church – A Church of Standards

“Where Jesus is the King”

Israel Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor

4850 Blagdon Ave, NW • Washington D.C 20011 Phone (202) 722-4940 • Fax (202) 291-3773

1251 Saratoga Ave., NE Washington, DC 20018 (202) 269-0288 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.

Mount Moriah Baptist Church

St. Luke Baptist Church

1415 Gallatin Street, NW Washington, DC 20011-3851 P: (202) 726-5940 Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.

Holy Communion: 11:00 a.m., 3rd Sun. Bible Study: Monday - 7:00 p.m.

Prayer Meeting: Thursday - 7:00 p.m.

2324 Ontario Road, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 232-1730 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

Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor

Rev. Aubrey C. Lewis Pastor

Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor

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

Zion Baptist Church

Sunday Worship Service 10:15AM- Praise and Worship Services 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

King Emmanuel Baptist Church

Dr. Lucius M. Dalton, Senior Pastor 1636 East Capitol Street, NE Washington, DC 20003 Telephone: 202-544-5588 Fax: 202-544-2964 Sunday Worship Services: 7:45 am and 10:45 am Holy Communion: 1st Sundays at 7:45 am and 10:45 am Sunday School: 9:30 am Prayer & Praise Service: Tuesdays at 12 noon and 6:30 pm Bible Study: Tuesdays at 1 pm and 7 pm Youth Bible Study: Fridays at 7 pm

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Web: www.mountmoriahchurch.org Email: mtmoriah@mountmoriahchurch.org

Rehoboth Baptist Church

St. Matthews Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor 1105 New Jersey Ave, S.E • Washington, DC 20003 202 488-7298 Order of Services Sunday Worship Services: 9:05 A.M. Sunday School: 8:00 A.M. Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting: 7:00 P.M. (Tuesday) Bible Study: 7:30 P.M. (Tuesday) Theme: “Striving to be more like Jesus “Stewardship”.

Philippians 3:12-14; Malachi 3:8-10 and 2 Corinthians 9:7 Email: stmatthewbaptist@msn.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.com

Salem Baptist Church

Emmanuel Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Clinton W. Austin Pastor 2409 Ainger Pl.,SE – WDC 20020 (202) 678-0884 – Office (202) 678-0885 – Fax “Come Grow With Us and Establish a Blessed Family” 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

Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith

Florida Avenue Baptist Church Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor

Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert SR. Pastor

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

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

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

Matthews Memorial Baptist Church

5606 Marlboro Pike District Heights, MD 20747 301-735-6005

Dr. C. Matthew Hudson, Jr, Pastor

Elder Herman L. Simms, Pastor

2616 MLK Ave., SE • Washington, DC 20020 Office 202-889-3709 • Fax 202-678-3304

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 Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor 13701 Old Jericho Park Road Bowie, MD. 20720 (301) 262-0560 Services: Sunday Worship 11 AM Sunday School 10 AM Wednesday Mid-Week Worship, Prayer & Bible Study - Wed. 7 PM “A Church Where Love Is Essential and Praise is Intentional”

Shiloh Baptist Church

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 Sunday Morning Worship Service 7:15 am & 10:50 am Sunday School 9:30am Sunday Morning Worship Service 10:50am Wednesday Prayer & Testimonies Service 7:30pm Wednesday School of the Bible 8:00pm Wednesday - Midweek Prayer Service 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm “The Loving Church of the living lord “ Email Address pbcexec@verizon.net

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Rev. R. Vincent Palmer Pastor

Rev. Alonzo Hart Pastor

Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor

Rev. Reginald M. Green, Sr., Interim Pastor

621 Alabama Avenue, S.E. • Washington, D.C. 20032 P: (202) 561-1111 F: (202) 561-1112

917 N St. NW • Washington, DC 20001 (202) 232-4294

9th & P Street, N.W. • W. D.C. 20001 (202) 232-4200

602 N Street NW • Washington, D.C. 20001 Office:(202) 289-4480 Fax: (202) 289-4595

The Church Where GOD Is Working....

And We Are Working With GOD

Sunrise Prayer Services - Sunday 7:00 a.m.

Sunday Morning Prayer Service: 8:00 a.m.

Sunday Church School: 9:15 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship: 10:40 a.m.

Third Sunday Baptismal & Holy Communion:10:30 a.m.

Tuesday Church At Study Prayer & Praise: 6:30 p.m.

Morning Worship: 8:00 a.m Church School : 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship: 10:55 a.m.

Bible Study, Thursday: 6:30 p.m.

Prayer Meeting,Thursday : 7:30 p.m.

Sunday Service: 10 am Sunday School for all ages: 8:30 am 1st Sunday Baptism: 10: am 2nd Sunday Holy Communion: 10 am Tuesday: Bible Study: 6:30 pm Prayer Meeting: 7:45 pm

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Sunday Worship Services: 7:45am & 11:00am Sunday school For All Ages 9:30am Prayer Services Wednesday 11:30am & 6:45pm Bible Institute Wednesday at Noon & 7:45pm “Changing Lives On Purpose “ Email: Froffice@firstrising.org Website: www.firstrising.org

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Pennsylvania Ave. Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Kendrick E. Curry Pastor 3000 Pennsylvania Ave.. S.E Washington, DC 20020 202 581-1500 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

Mt. Horeb Baptist Church Rev. Dr. H. B. Sampson, III Pastor 2914 Bladensburg Road, NE Wash., DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-3180 Fax: (202) 529-7738 Order of Services Worship Service: 7:30 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.

Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.

Holy Communion: 4th Sunday 7:30 a.m. & 10:30a.m.

Prayer Services: Tuesday 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday 12 Noon Email:mthoreb@mthoreb.org Website:www.mthoreb.org For further information, please contact me at (202) 529-3180.

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Administration No. 2013 ADM 822

Administration No. 2013 ADM 830

Foreign No. 2013 FEP 88

Neamer P. Connelly Decedent

August 23, 1998 Date of Death

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Delores A. Jones Name of Decedent

Valita Jean Shepperd Decedent James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Andris Dandridge, whose address is 209 {elham Road, Philadelphia, PA 19119, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Valita Jean Shepperd, who died on July 14, 2013 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 22, 2014.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 22, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: August 22, 2013 Andris Dandridge Personal Representative

Marcia C. Hooks, whose address is 517 Quincy Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011-5931, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Neamer P. Connelly, who died on July 17, 2013 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 28, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 28, 2104, 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: August 29, 2013 Marcia C. Hooks Personal Representative

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Monica V. Jones whose address is 7814 Berry Place District Heights, MD 20747 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Delores A. Jones, deceased, by the Orphans Court for Prince Georges County, State of Maryland, on January 15, 1999.

Service of process may be made upon Michael A. Douglas, 1596 – 42nd St., SE, Washington, DC 20020 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 estate property: 1837 Swann Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009.

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, Building A, 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: August 29, 2013

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For these families, the average credit card debt will likely linger a while. Further, according to CRL, many low- and moderate- income households still turn to credit cards to pay for basic expenses at the rate of 40 percent. Credit card debt has also stemmed from out-of-pocket medical costs for 47 percent of low and middle income families.

And among families struggling with the challenges of unemployment, 86 percent racked up credit card debt.

So how are these debts doing across the country?

TransUnion’s analysis also compared credit card data by state. Only three states accom-

crowell continued from Page 26 signal a return of some of the unfair and deceptive practices that inspired the CARD Act. Similarly, TransUnion, another financial services, firm analyzed credit card debt and found that as of the end of 2013’s second quarter, that average cardholder debt was $4,965.

For some families, $5,000 of debt would appear manageable.

But as earlier research by the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) has found, the typical household has just $100 left each month after paying for basic expenses and debt payments.

curry continued from Page 26 and the principles of non-violence he espoused. Our son, Rev. Jackson’s namesake, inherited his friends and enemies. As a child, Jesse Jr. held jobs waiting tables, cleaning floors and other odd jobs. Growing up in the shadow of his father, Jesse Jr. has always tried desperately to live up to the expectations we have had for him. I think perhaps too hard, he has tried.”

And she recalled that Jesse, Jr. was not always successful.

She wrote, “I recall how disappointed Jesse Jr. was when he discovered he could not enter high school without repeating the 9th grade. My husband finally convinced him to accept this as his challenge. Rev. Jack-

plished year-to-year debt declines from 2012-2013: Oregon, Nevada and Colorado. Despite Colorado’s steady decline in credit card debt, it remains one of the highest credit card debt states, along with Alaska, Connecticut and North Carolina.

Only two states, Indiana and New Hampshire, had credit card customers that increased usage during these years.wi Charlene Crowell is a communications manager with the Center for Responsible Lending. She can be reached at charlene.crowell@responsiblelending.org.

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She closed her letter with this paragraph: “My mother says, ‘there is always some good in all things.’ There was a transforming moment during the horrific trial experience. As my son Jesse Jr. faced the judge, he turned

around to look for his father’s support just as he did when he had to repeat the 9th grade. His lips shaped the words, ‘I love you and I am so sorry.’ I shall never forget that moment because my heart leapt. I then realized the joy and love that sustains all mothers.

I love my son. May God guide your decision.” wi George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA.) He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach.

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Street Journal article. I know there are some Detroiters who don’t like the governor’s decision to appoint Orr, and they may have a good argument against it.

But that’s not my fight; again, this is about Black economic empowerment in Detroit, emergency manager or not. If Orr is right, will Black people rise along with the city of Detroit?

Two intelligent and savvy guys, James Craig and Odis Jones, both Detroiters who held the positions of police chief and economic development director, respectively, in Cincinnati, returned to Detroit recently. Craig took over the police department and Jones is the CEO of the Detroit Public Lighting Authority. I have to believe they know something positive

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For a Black person, in a nearly all Black city, to label Black economic empowerment suicidal and embarrassing is absolutely ridiculous.

Let’s move on to the current status of the Motor City. It has filed bankruptcy, it still has the poverty and crime, it still has the dilapidated and abandoned houses, and maybe even some political corruption is still going on. But the Emergency Manager, Kevyn Orr, a Black man, says, “Detroit can rise again,” in his recent Wall www.washingtoninformer.com

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other words, there has to be an embrace, and a responsibility to embrace the next generation not only politically but also personally.

Who are the people who will come behind you? Who will incorporate your work into their own? Who will understand that you put your hand on them because somebody put their hand on you, and who will feel obligated to put their hand on others?

The civil rights generation made massive progress, but in many ways they dropped the ball. While they made it clear that there was work to be done, too many of them did not choose those who would do it.

Too much energy and focus has been placed on one or two people, and we need cohorts of the next generation to work together.

My Baby Boom generation has dropped the ball as well. We have been beneficiaries of the Civil Rights Movement, but we have not passed our largess or our lessons on. The Baby Boom generation has been, in many ways, one of the most economically privileged generations of African American progress. So why do so many of us, who enjoy the legacy of this progress, fail to recognize the people and organizations that have brought us to this place.

Rev. Willie Barrow says that we are not as much divided as disconnected. When the baton has been dropped, what can we expect but a generational disconnection? wi Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer.

She is President Emerita of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.C.

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high-quality, integrated public education; and unimpeded access to the ballot box – all of which still are desperately needed today.

Many of the marchers – Black and White – were part of union delegations. And later, under the pressure of civil rights organizations and the AFL-CIO, the Civil Rights Act was strengthened to include Title VII, which barred employment discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion or national origin.

Subsequent legislative acts achieved many of the goals of the march. Yet, half a century later, much remains to be done.

For example, President Obama’s $800 billion economic stimulus package in 2009 helped to arrest a severe recession, but we still need a much larger public and private investment to ensure jobs are available for all who want them. Shamefully, the real value

of the national minimum wage has fallen substantially since the 1970s. And this June, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority declared Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, meaning that minority voters—mostly in the Deep South—no longer can look to Justice Department oversight of any state and local authorities proposing changes that could suppress the voting rights of minorities. And, although some progress has been made, most Black students still attend segregated public schools.

Nonetheless, the Randolph-Rustin strategy offers a guide to reviving major civil rights and employment initiatives. The march succeeded because it achieved the broadest possible, independent political coalition centered on Blacks and organized labor. Labor still wields enormous political and financial muscle, especially

when coupled with empowered racial minorities, including the fast-growing Latino population, along with women, intellectuals of good conscience, middle-class liberals, gays and lesbians, and progressive members of the faith-based community.

If we can build a comprehensive alliance along these lines, we can push back the rigid right wing and regain the initiative that showed so much promise in the 1960s. We must continue the civil rights fight for reforming immigration, protecting voting rights, ending racial profiling and lifting the nation out of its economic doldrums. To accomplish this, and more, we must draw on the best of the 1963 March on Washington—looking back to step forward. wi Norman and Velma Hill were organizers for the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE). Norman, a former AFL-CIO official, is former president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute.

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Now, the Republicans have adopted that philosophy, and that way of thinking explains why dirt poor White voters, keep voting against their own interests in order to return these scoundrels to office, again and again.

They’re keeping Black folks in their “place.”

So today, the arch-conservative mantra which has caused this country to lurch even farther to the right is also simple:

1.The federal government’s the enemy; 2. Taxes are bad; 3. The federal courts don’t understand the Constitution; 4. Unions are bad; 5. You may have no health insurance; 6. But at least you’re an American. And oh, did I mention that you’re White? That Black people must be stopped from “taking over?”

So, good luck President Obama with that “we’re-all-inthe-same-boat” reasoning. Even though now is the time when White Americans need everyone on the boat to either grab a buck-

et and bail out some of the water which threatens to sink the boat, or to grab an oar and help row to safety, White folks in the form of the right-wing Republicans who are ruling the roost with their obstructionist ways have made it plain they don’t want Black folks or Latinos to have equal status with them, even if it means the boat sinks.

I wish this Dream stuff was a nightmare and that I would wake up soon. wi

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