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More than 250,000 people converged upon the Nation’s Capital to participate in the historic March on Washington in 1963 to demand civil rights, jobs and justice. /Courtesy Photo

Organizers Push to Finalize March Plans March on Washington 50th Anniversary Takes Shape By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer With the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom fast approaching, organizers in the District are gearing up for the stretch run. Some speakers at the Aug.1

planning meeting said they hope to mobilize 50,000 to 100,000 people from the Washington metropolitan area to come out on Saturday, Aug. 24, and as many as 100,000 to 200,000 people from around the country to commemorate the march. The 1963 march was an event that immortalized the Rev. Dr.

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the civil rights movement, while crystallizing for the rest of this country just how serious African Americans and like-minded people were about securing a just society. The Rev. Lennox Abrigo, president and founder of the Washington, D.C. bureau of

the National Action Network (NAN), acknowledged the enormity of the project. But he said the coalition of clergy, unions, educational institutions, civic organizations and community groups that attended the twohour meeting were coalescing around the issue and committing to the march’s success.

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“Our primary challenge is to mobilize D.C. and the greater metropolitan area and get community leaders to get their people out for the march,” he said. “I think the march will be an expression of the individual effects that the various forms of

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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 When L.Y. Marlow's 23-year- domestic violence victims and stricter restraining order policies, Visit our updated Web site old daughter told her the father survivors are treated. more rights for victim's families and give us your comments of her daughter threatened her “She's using her own personal to intervene on behalf of a vicfor a chance to win a gift from life, and the life of their child, story, her own personal pain to tim, a domestic violence assessThe Washington Informer she knew something had to be push forward,” Davis-Nickens ment unit coupled with further done. Out of her frustration said about Marlow. training for law enforcement with law enforcement's handling Davis-Nickens said anyone agencies, a Child's Life ProtecEmail comments to: of the situation, she decided to who reads Marlow's book will tion Act and mandatory counselrburke@ start the Saving Promise cam- “get it.” She said she “puts the ing for batterers. paign. case in such a way, the average “If we are ever going to eradiwashingtoninformer.com “It seems to be a vicious cycle person can get it.” She said at the cate domestic violence, we must that won't turn my family end of the day, the book will look at both sides of the coin. loose,” Marlow said. Marlow begin to received have a diaWeimprovements need to address bothtothe Many areas in Wheaton, especially thosehelp alongpeople bus routes, have new safety designed keepvicshared her story with the audi- logue about domestic violence. tim and the batterer,” Marlow pedestrians clear of motor vehicle traffic. / Courtesy photo ence at the District Heights Also present at the event was said. Domestic Violence Symposium Mildred Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see on May 7 at the District Heights wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise Municipal Center. The sympo- who was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in We represent victims of major sium was sponsored by the utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She medical malpractice such as Family and Youth Services by a Maryland jury for his role in feels children need to be educatSandra Robinson Jack Olender cerebral palsy. Center of the city of District the Beltway Sniper attacks in ed about domestic violence. All 5 lawyers were again elected Heights and the National Hook- 2002. Mildred Muhammad is “We have to stop being pas“Best Lawyers in America” 2012 Up of Black Women. the founder of After the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chilKaren Evans is a nurse/attorney destrians, and include: enhanced resentsabout the Hispanic/Latino commuWI Staff Report Marlow has written a book, an organization thatAnhelps the dren domestic violence,” Attorney/Pediatrician Harlow Case Karen Evans Melissa Rhea crossing on of Reedie Drive atviolence Triangle Marlow nity as well as several neighborhood “Color Me Butterfly,” which is a survivors domestic said. Robert Chabon, M.D., J.D. is Lane their with achildren. high-visibility crosswalk, civic associations, including to Connectistory about fourCounty generations of and Montgomery Executive Marlow has worked break Of Counsel. and Six pe- the domestic violence. The bookthe is curb cut Avenue Manor “I ramps, lived incurb fearextensions, for six years. Isiah Leggett today celebrated cycle ofEstates, abuseMontclair in her family, inspired own experiences, destrianincrossing a new crossing and Rock Creek Palisades. Trainedshe by fear is signs; a long time. It is and is confident the policies completionbyofherpedestrian safety im- years and those on of Reedie her grandmother, on Reedie Drivething at Grandview Avenue an easy to come out is pushing will start that MCDOT, the for volunteers also work provements Drive between not her her daughter. with she a high-visibility crosswalk, curb process. said. Veirs mother Mill Roadand and Georgia Avenue of,” with County Police and the Maryland She said every time she by reads Mildred Muhammad said Highway curb extensions and pedestri“I planSafety to take these policies to in Wheaton that were installed the ramps, Office. In Memoriam excerpts fromCounty her book, she still people who help ona Congress and implore them to an crossing signs;want a newtomedian Montgomery Department The volunteers have reached thouDr. Calvin W. Rolark, Sr. can not believe the words came victim must our laws,” Marlow said. Reedie Driveviolence between Grandview Av- change of Transportation (MCDOT). This domestic Wilhelmina J. Rolark sands of residents by promoting pefrom her. “Color Me was Butterfly” of how into “I will not untilevents these–polienuecareful and Triangle Lanethey that go prevents 800-foot stretch of road targeted be destrian safetystop at formal such The Washington Informer Newspaper won 2007 National “Best victim'sfrom life, and understand are and passed.” THE WASHINGTON INFORMER pedestrians crossing unsafely cies PUBLISHER becausetheit was designated as one of the as fairs festivals – and informal Memoriam Books” Award. NEWSPAPER (ISSN#0741-9414) is InDenise maydesignated be in “survival Tia –Carol can up be tables reached Rolark Barnes exceptshe at the crossings. events the County’s “High Incidence Areas” that such Jones as setting at Dr. Calvin W. Rolark, Sr. published weekly on each Thursday. “I was just 16-years-old when mode”. at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net The mounded median includes brick (HIAs) -locations having the highest Wilhelmina J. Rolark local shopping centers. STAFF Periodicals postage paid at Washingmy eye first blackened and my pavers, “Before getand to bollards 'I'm going trees,you shrubs, with density of pedestrian collisions. BeSince 2008, pedestrian collisions in ton,THE D.C. and additional mailing of- NEWSPAPER WASHINGTON INFORMER (ISSN#0741-9414) is published lips bled,” Marlow said. Denise W. Barnes, Editor to kill you,' it started as along a verbal WI cables; improved sidewalks the HIAs tween January 1, 2004 and December fices. News and advertising deadline weekly on Thursday. Periodicals postage paid at Washington, D.C. and additional have declined more than 37 perElaine Davis-Nickens, presiShantella Assistant Editor mailing prior offices.to News and advertising deadlineY.isSherman, Monday prior to publication. 31, 2012, thereNational were 20 Hook-Up pedestrian north and south sides of Reedie Drive cent, although they are still over-repis Monday publication. Andent of the Announcements be received weeks prior to event. Copyright 2000 by The nouncements must must be received two twoRon using “Wheaton pavers” – a Wheaton resented in collisions. In 2012, HIA’s collisions including one Burke, Advertising/ Marketing Director of Black Women, saidfatality there in is the no Washington Informer. All rights weeks prior to event. Copyright 2013reserved. POST MASTER: Send change of addressReedie Drive HIA. consistency in the way domestic Streetscape Standard developed by comprised one percent of roadways to The Washington Informer,All 3117Lafayette Martin Luther King,IV, Jr. Ave., S.E. Photo Washington, Barnes, Assistant Editor by esThe Washington Informer. “In 2007, myarePedestrian Safety D.C. 20032.POSTMASTER: No part of this Send publication may be reproduced without written permisviolence issues dealt with by Montgomery County’s Department countywide but represented seven rights reserved. Khalid Naji-Allah, Photographer sion from the publisher. The Informer Newspaper cannotStaff guarantee the return of Initiative outlined a blueprint for re- of Housing and Community Affairs percent of total pedestrian collisions. change of addresses to The Washphotographs. Subscription rates are $30 per year, twoFreitas, years $45. Papers willEditor be received John E. De Sports Photo ducing pedestrian collisions in Mont- to coordinate visual design elements Improving pedestrian safety in HIAs ington Informer, 3117 Martin Luther not more than a week after publication. Make checks payable to: gomery County, and our approach is in Wheaton; and a raised planter along is an incremental process as engiKing, Jr. Ave., S.E. Washington, D.C. Dorothy Rowley, Online Editor 20032. No part of this publication may making the County safer for pedes- the south side of Reedie Drive at the neering projects cannot all be impleTHE WASHINGTON INFORMER Brian Young, Design & Layout be reproduced without written permis3117 Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave., S.E. • Washington, D.C. 20032 trians,” said Leggett. “Through engi- Metro breezeway. mented at once. The range, cost and 202 561-4100 • Fax: 202 Bookkeeper 574-3785 sion from the publisher.Phone: The Informer Mable Neville, In addition, Leggett thanked Vinneering, education and enforcement, news@washingtoninformer.com coordination required to implement Newspaper cannot guaranteeE-mail: the return as well as a broad partnership between cente Lopez, Carolyn Gupta, Betty Mickey Thompson, Social Sightings columnist www.washingtoninformer.com of photographs. Subscription rates are the HIA engineering improvements residents, County departments and Smith and Bettye Blakeney who were $45 per year, two years $60. Papers will Stacey Palmer, Social Media Specialist agencies, and the State Highway Ad- representing a group of 30 Span- means that they are being completbe received not more than a week after PUBLISHER Angie Johnson, Circulation ministration, the severity of collisions ish- and English-speaking pedestrian ed in stages over several years. This publication. Make checks payable to: Denise Rolark Barnes are trending downward, particularly in safety advocates who have been con- staged process also allows the CounSTAFF REPORTERS REPORTERS THE WASHINGTON INFORMER Brooke N. Garner Managing Editor Tia C. Jones, Ed Laiscell, the areas that need the most help. Tar- ducting education activities in Whea- ty to leverage State roadway projects, 3117 Martin Jr. Ave., S.E Carla PeayLuther King, Assistant Managing Editor Odell B. Ruffin, Larry Saxton, geted interventions really can make a ton/Aspen Hill for 15 months. Lopez such as resurfacing, to more cost efStacy Brown, P.K. Collins, Washington, Ron BurkeD.C. 20032 Advertising and Marketing MarySam Wells, Joseph YoungMichelle difference in reducing the number of was featured in a Spanish language fectively complete needed changes. Phipps-Evans, Eve Ferguson, Gale Horton Phone: 561-4100 Mable202 Whittaker Bookkeeper According to the National HighAdministration Gay, EltonPHOTOGRAPHERS J. Hayes, Njunga Kabugi, Stacey pedestrians who are injured or killed.” YouTube story about the volunteers. Fax:LaNita 202 Wrenn 574-3785 John E. De Freitas Sports Palmer, Editor Dorothy LafayetteRowley, Barnes, IV, way Traffic Safety Administration Barrington Salmon, news@washingtoninformer.com The Reedie Drive area is heavily Several of the volunteers were also Victor Holt Photo Margaret Editor John E. De Charles Freitas, Maurice Fitzgerald, Summers, E. Sutton, James www.washingtoninformer.com (NHTSA), 4,432 pedestrians were traveled by pedestrians traveling to instrumental in working with the State Zebra Designs, Inc. Layout & Graphic Design Wright Joanne Jackson, Roy Lewis, Robert Ken Harris /www.scsworks.com Webmaster Ridley, Victor Holt Wheaton Westfield Shopping Mall, of Maryland to have a new signal in- killed in traffic crashes in 2011 – an 2009. the Wheaton Metro Station, public stalled at the intersection of Veirs Mill eight percent increase L.Y.since Marlow CIRCULATION In a press release issued yesterday, parking, retail shops, restaurants and Road and Claridge Road to improve PHOTOGRAPHERS Paul Trantham nearby transit bus stops. Wheaton re- pedestrian safety in this heavily trav- NHTSA stated that the data showed John E. De Freitas, Roy Lewis, “that three out of four pedestrian Khalid Naji-Allah, Shevry Lassiter development is expected to increase eled area. pedestrian activity. The volunteer brigade was formed deaths occurred in urban areas and The engineering improvements following a community meeting held 70 percent of those killed were at 4 / May 15 - 21, 2008 The Washington Informer / www.washingtoninformer.com along Reedie Drive appear to be re- by MCDOT to engage residents in the non-intersections. In addition, 70 ducing traffic speeds and increasing Wheaton/Aspen Hill area in pedestri- percent of deaths occurred at night compliance of drivers yielding to pe- an safety education. The group rep- and many involved alcohol.”wi

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By James Wright WI Staff Writer City Leaders Remember James Bunn The District’s leading politicians praised the life and the work of James Bunn, a passionate Ward 8 political and civic activist and businessman, who died on Aug. 1. Bunn, 72, led a busy life as a leader in Ward 8 in Southeast as the chairman of the Congress Heights Main Streets organization and other non-profit groups. D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray said that Bunn made a difference in the ward. “I was stricken with grief to hear of the passing of one of the finest public servants in Ward 8 and the entire District of Columbia, my friend James Bunn,” said Gray, 70. “He was a pillar in the Ward 8 community and the city will miss his integrity, thoughtfulness and willingness to help others. My heart goes out to his family, especially his daughter, Sheila Bunn, who serves as my deputy chief of staff.” Bunn moved to the District from Baltimore in 1970 and immediately charted his own future as a budding businessman and entrepreneur. He purchased a building which later became known as the Bunn Building on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and opened several other businesses in the working-class neighborhood of Congress Heights. Bunn gained his citywide reputation as an advocate for businesses east of the Anacostia River as the executive director of the Ward 8 Business Council and as a board member of the Anacostia Economic Development Corporation. Bunn served as an advisory neighborhood commissioner representing the former single-member district 8D02 in the Bellevue section of Ward 8 from 19871991. Prior to his death, he had been appointed by Gray to serve on the District of Columbia Retirement Board and served as the vice chairman of the board’s strategic planning committee. D.C. Council member David Grosso (I-At Large) said that Bunn’s death is the city’s loss. “The District of Columbia and the Ward 8 community have lost a great man today,” said Grosso, 42. “His voice in the community and advocacy work has helped to spur economic development and lift the civic discourse.” Grosso’s colleague, D.C. Coun-

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August 8 1865 – Explorer Matthew Henson is born in Baltimore, Maryland. Henson would become the first person to reach the North Pole on April 6, 1909. However, it was his boss Robert E. Perry who would receive widespread public recognition and a presidential citation for the honor. August 9 1936 – Sprinting sensation Jesse Owens wins a total of four Gold Medals at the Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Born in Lawrence County, Alabama Owens gained international fame for his victories in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump and the 4x100 meter relay. 1987 – Lawyer and entrepreneur Reginald Lewis completes the largest business acquisition ever accomplished by an African American when he purchases Beatrice Foods in a leveraged buyout for $985 million. August 10 1981 – A nationwide African American boycott of the giant Coca Cola bottling company ends after the firm reaches an agreement with Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH. Coke agreed to pump at least $34 million into Black businesses and increase the number of African American owned distributorships.

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August 11 1921 – Accomplished writer Alex Haley is born on this day in Ithaca, New York. Haley is best known for co-writing the “Autobiography of Malcolm X” and for “Roots” – a history of a Black family during slavery which became a major television series during the 1970s. Haley died in February 1992. 1965 – The largest, longest and possibly most destructive Black riot of the turbulent 1960s begins in Los Angeles, California. The Watts Rebellion lasted six days, caused between $35 million and $50 million in damage while

leaving 34 people dead, over 1,000 injured and nearly 4,000 arrested. It took place during a “long hot summer” when similar riots were taking place throughout the country. August 12 1890 – This is generally considered the day that the systematic and nominally legal exclusion of Blacks from the political life of the South began. It was the day that the Mississippi Constitutional Convention began. Barred by the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution from excluding Blacks by race, the convention instead adopted a host of strategies including literacy or so-called “Education Tests” specifically designed to prevent Blacks from voting. The tests required reading and interpreting the Constitution 1922 – Ophelia Devore Mitchell – the founding mother of African American modeling – is born on this day in Edgefield, South Carolina. Her family would move to New York during the 1930s where she entered the Vogue School of Modeling at 17. 1977 - Leader of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa Stephen Biko was arrested. 1990 - August Wilson’s play The Piano Lesson wins the Pulitzer Prize for drama. It is the second Pulitzer Prize for Wilson who

also won one for Fences in 1981 and was award the New York Drama Critics Award for Fences, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. August 13 1948 - Kathleen Battle, operatic soprano, winner of Grammy awards in 1987 and 1988 was born. 1961 - James B. Parsons, first African American appointed to a lifetime federal judgeship in the U.S. was born. August 14 1883 - Biologist and pioneer of cell division, Ernest E. Just was born. In 1916, Just received his Ph.D. magna cum laude from the University of Chicago in experimental embryology, with a thesis on the mechanics of fertilization. Contributions on the physiology of development were the legacy of Dr. Just s research. His work on the subjects of fertilization, hydration, cell division, dehydration in living cells, the effect of ultra violet rays in increasing chromosome number in animals and in altering the organization of the egg with special reference to polarity. 1876 - Prairie View State University founded. 1959 - Famous Basketball player, Ervin “Magic” Johnson was born.

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Viewp int Valerie Daye Washington, D.C. I don’t think the Department of Justice will be able to pick up the George Zimmerman case from a civil rights standpoint. However, I do think that the appellate courts throughout the country will have to examine and address “stand your ground” laws, and realistic parameters on how they can be implemented. There should be no reason why someone who follows and ultimately kills an innocent person should be able to say that they are defending themselves and get away with it.

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Robbie King Washington, D.C. I believe the Department of Justice should pursue the case from a civil rights standpoint. Whether or not the Department of Justice wins the case, pursing further action will make a lot of people feel better that the case was reopened. People everywhere are [saddened] because of the acquittal, and reopening the case will lift a lot of people’s spirits and restore their faith in the criminal justice system.

ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER AND THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAVE EXPRESSED INTEREST IN REOPENING THE GEORGE ZIMMERMAN ACQUITTAL AS A CIVIL RIGHTS CASE. DOES THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAVE A LEGITIMATE CASE?

Lisa Stanfield Takoma Park, Md. [Any appeals] that look at the case from a more objective point of view will be good. It will open conversation about the complete breakdown of the criminal justice system. When we look at raciallycharged crimes – which I do believe this was – it’s good to go into the affected areas and truly examine the witnesses. The fact that there were no African Americans on the jury was very disheartening. Hopefully, the Department of Justice can [delve] deeper into the case and produce a better outcome.

Carolyn Cobbs Washington, D.C. I think the case should be reopened, but I don’t know that it will. I am pleased that President Obama had the courage to speak out about the incident, and I like the fact that Attorney General Holder is doing the same. But I think that the piece that is missing is the energy of the people. In the ’60s and ’70s, we reacted in a major way – injustices weren’t just going to be swept under the rug.

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Frances Jones Washington, D.C. Nothing beats a failure but a try. I don’t believe that a person like Attorney General Holder would take an interest in such a case unless he believed there were credible facts and evidence. He wouldn’t base his interest on pure emotion. He’s reached the position he currently serves in by basing his decisions on facts. The “stand your ground” laws in Florida that allowed for the acquittal of George Zimmerman are a problem. The Department of Justice can get involved and be the voice of Trayvon Martin that was never heard.

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continued from Page 1 oppression are having on people in this country.” Abrigo, a pastor of the Seventh-Day New Covenant Church and a Germantown, Md., resident, compared the conditions that King and the civil rights movement faced and what African Americans and Latinos face today. King’s efforts, he said, were focused on a small group of people in certain cities, while the pushback that the establishment exerts against minorities today is more individualized. Gay and women’s rights, while affecting a smaller constituency of the whole country, have been afforded to people in every state and nationally. “We live in an era when civil rights is emerging out of individual concerns. People feel that their rights are being trampled and it’s not just one group or demographic,” Abrigo explained. “This march on the 24th is the fruition, the blossoming of resistance to all this oppression.” Janaye Ingram, NAN’s D.C. bureau chief, said that the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King, III are the public faces of the march which is titled, “National Action to Realize the Dream.” “We’re working to achieve the dream,” she said. “We have a lot to fight for, to focus on and to change. This is a fight against those who don’t want us to reach

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our dream.” Bob Ross, president of the Prince George’s County chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), touched on a theme that others repeated. “They didn’t have Instagrams or tweets but they got 250,000 people on the Mall,” said Ross, who was among the quarter-million people who marched and were on the Mall in 1963. Ernest G. Green agreed. “I drove all night from East Lansing, Mich., to be at the march,” said Green, who came to national prominence as a member of the Little Rock Nine, the black students who helped to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas in 1957. “Bayard Rustin had no social media blasts or anything like that. All he had to work with was 3x5 cards.” Rustin, a noted civil rights activist and organizer, was a part of the brain trust that conceptualized and implemented the march. The National Action Network was founded in 1991 in New York City by Sharpton and other activists who sought to use the principles of direct non-violent action and civil disobedience to effect civil rights and social change. There have been some rumblings about Sharpton’s involvement and some understated disquiet, but several speakers sought to allay these concerns and point to the larger picture.

“This is going to have to be a ‘we’ thing not a ‘they’ thing,” cautioned Bishop Michael V. Kelsey of New Samaritan Baptist Church in Northeast. “… We really have to shift to the mentality that this must be done. This event is so important for people not just for certain people.” “What we’re doing and experiencing is what will make this work, not status, position, ego, passion or availability. There must be clarity and conviction concerning this vision.” Ingram concurred. “We must be reading off the same book, on the same page and the same line,” she said. The march will encompass a week of events and activities from Aug. 21-28. On Saturday, Aug. 24, Ingram said, the march will begin at 8 a.m., at the Lincoln Memorial in the area by 17th Street, Independence and Constitution avenues. The main portion of the event will start at 10 a.m. At 12:30 p.m., marchers will line up and at 1 p.m., they’ll march to Independence Avenue to the MLK Memorial and then disperse, Ingram added. The planning meeting, held at Metropolitan AME Church in Northwest, saw several speakers tie recent events to the need for such a march. These include a Supreme Court ruling which invalidated an important section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act; the shoot-

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continued from Page 8 ing death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and the subsequent acquittal of the man who shot him, George Zimmerman; and the continued and aggressive moves by primarily southern states to suppress non-white votes. “Most of us are sensitive of the need to gather as a massive group of various cultural traditions to declare to certain politicians that this is a nation for all,” the Rev. Dr. Ronald E. Braxton declared. “Particularly for minorities, we have been victimized by what is apparent discrimination. We’re clear that that young boy had the right to walk in that community and that that young boy did not see the perpetrator, turn around and attack him.” Braxton, senior pastor of Metropolitan, described the Supreme Court decision as a slap in the face of justice, while voicing deep concern for the senseless violence that’s taking the lives of countless young black teens, adults and children every day. “We’re mindful of what happened three weeks ago and six weeks ago and we’re taking to the

streets for the cause of human rights and to put an end to suffering,” said Braxton. “We’re crying out for justice in this country. We’re marching for Martin and Martin – both of whom need justice in this country.” Almost two weeks ago, Mayor Vincent C. Gray named civil rights activist and former D.C. politician Frank Smith chairman of D.C.’s March on Washington host committee. “We’ll be developing posters, flyers, emails and social media,” said Smith, executive director of the African American Civil War Museum in Northwest and a former D.C. Council member. “We’re reaching out to [people from] churches and schools who marched in 1963. They have a legacy they have to fulfill. My daughters and grandchildren will be there. I already told them. I don’t care where they are before [the event], they need to be there.” “We have to personalize this, make people feel a little guilty. [A number of] issues are still alive that we need to deal with.” wi

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New WTU Leaders Poised to Fight for Students By Margaret Summers WI Contributing Writer Against the backdrop of District public and charter school students’ higher than ever scores on this year’s D.C. Comprehensive Assessment System (DC CAS) reading and math tests, and a challenge to the authenticity of recent District teachers union election results, newly-elected Washington Teachers’ Union (WTU) President Elizabeth “Liz” Davis and General Vice President Candi Peterson hosted a “Listening Post” to assist their transformation of the union. The event, held July 30 at Union Temple Baptist Church on W Street Southeast, was one of a series of four “Listening Posts” scheduled throughout the city in which teachers, parents, and others discussed Davis’ and Peterson’s platform issues on which they ran

for office. The discussions help Davis and Peterson determine the platform planks which will become their top union priorities. “We need allies throughout this city,” Davis, 62, told the church audience of approximately 25, most of whom were teachers. Community coalition building is one of the planks in the Davis-Peterson platform. “To bring together all of the organizations who care about education under one umbrella with the union is exciting to me.” Former WTU President Nathan Saunders, who lost to Davis 459 to 380 in a July 1 runoff election, appealed the results, saying that the union sent ballots to 350 retired teachers on or before June 30, making their votes ineligible. Saunders also claimed that ballots were wrongly sent to 54 teachers fired in June, and to 89 teachers laid off due to budget cuts. In the

Angela Thompson-Murphy attended the “Listening Post” on July 30 at Union Temple Baptist Church in Southeast and weighed in on the state of the District’s public school system. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah

appeal, Saunders said he should remain in office until December 2013 because under union rules, the president’s three-year term begins on July 1. Saunders’ term was delayed until December 2010 because the WTU’s then-president George Parker would not hold elections. Saunders withdrew his

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appeal, and Davis and Peterson were installed in their posts on August 1. Peterson was previously elected as the union’s general vice president under Saunders in 2010. He removed her without the required union recall procedure, she said. Peterson won a union arbitration in September 2011 but was not reinstated to serve out her original term. “Your votes were stolen,” Peterson told the church “Listening Post” participants. “I became very demoralized. The lesson of my story is, don’t give up, get back up. The race is not won by the swift but by those who persevere. I believe in the god of second chances.” Audience members expressed alarm over school closings, consolidations and “reconstitutions” resulting in hundreds of jobless teachers who are “excessed” or given 60 days to find work in other schools. They decried the proliferation of un-unionized charter schools, and the effect of the IMPACT teacher evaluation system, initiated by former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, in reducing numbers of seasoned educators. They also denounced, as one audience member put it, management’s “dangerous obsession with standardized testing” which, they said, discourages creative teaching. Some noted with irony the District students’ significantly improved DC CAS test scores, announced at a news event earlier that day by Mayor Vincent Gray. Historically, District teachers have been blamed for students’ substandard academic performance. “If test scores have risen, why are 400 excessed teachers looking for work?” asked Peterson. Angela Thompson-Murphy, a

self-described excessed teacher formerly with Ward 8’s Patterson Elementary School in Southeast, charged that public schools closed in Wards 7 and 8 “were closed for no rhyme or reason other than that they were in Wards 7 and 8. Then charter schools move into school buildings that closed.” “We’re fighting for quality veteran teachers,” Thompson-Murphy said. The mass layoffs of older teachers, female teachers, and teachers of color constitute “backdoor discrimination,” she said. Eugene Branch, Jr., 43, who grew up in Southeast and teaches at H.D. Cooke Elementary School in Ward 1, previously taught in Virginia. “The District’s teacher professional development program is the weakest I’ve ever seen,” he said. “People who only have two to three years of teaching experience try to instruct teachers who have taught for 20 to 30 years.” Branch, who has taught teacher recertification classes, suggested to Davis and Peterson that such courses include training on IMPACT, a program system for accessing the performance of teachers and other school-based staff. “I’ve noticed that many veteran teachers don’t understand how IMPACT works,” he said. He also suggested that veteran teachers be trained to use computers as part of classroom instruction. Davis said that under her leadership, the WTU will strive to mobilize the District around common education concerns. She said she has heard too many people say that the union exists to “protect bad teachers” or that it is only focused on higher teacher salaries. “We are poised to organize,” said Davis. “We have access to 40,000 parents and 100 schools. We have to do our homework.” wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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Seniors Surveyed on Making D.C. Age-Friendly By Margaret Summers WI Contributing Writer During the next several years, the United States and other countries will become more urban, and cities’ senior populations will increase significantly. The World Health Organization (WHO) created its Global Network of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities to help cities prepare for these changes. The WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations. It’s re-

sponsible for providing leadership on global health matters. The District, along with seven U.S. pilot cities and counties, is part of the global effort to make urban areas more age-friendly. “We sent a letter to Mayor Vincent Gray last year, inviting the District to participate in the Age-Friendly Cities initiative. He accepted our invitation on October 3, 2012,” said Louis Davis, Jr., 49, state director of the AARP District of Columbia office (AARP-D.C.). The D.C. Council passed a resolution this year endorsing the District’s participa-

Senior citizens are determined to stay fit and trim. Today, there are about 98,512 residents above the age of 60 living in Washington, D.C. /Photo courtesy of AARP-DC.

tion. In support of the initiative, AARP-D.C. is conducting an online survey of local seniors which asks them how to make the District age-friendly.

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According to the D.C. Office on Aging’s Age-Friendly City Initiative web page, three out of every five people in the world will live in cities by 2030. The number of seniors around the world ages 60 and over will double from 11percent to 22 percent of the world’s population by 2050. D.C. Office of Planning State Data Center figures show that 98,512 District residents are age 60 and older. Along with the AARP-D.C. age-friendly city survey, “community consultations” or town meetings with seniors and other city residents convene in each District ward to solicit opinions. Social network sites Facebook and Twitter are also used to poll seniors. A postage-paid postcard questionnaire mailed to AARPD.C.’s 87,512 members in 11 chapters, will ask how they feel about their neighborhoods, and whether they want to be more politically engaged in making the District age-friendly. Davis said information from these sources will be submitted to the Mayor’s Age-Friendly City Task Force, comprised of mayoral appointees. “This initiative is generally a five-year process,” said Davis. “The first two years are spent researching and planning for the changes which will make the city age-friendly. Survey results and other data will form the basis of the task force action plan. The action plan is reviewed by the WHO and AARP-D.C., and is made available to the public in print and online.” Ideally, the task force would issue a progress report at the conclusion of each year of the three-year action plan implementation period, said Davis. A D.C. Office on Aging statement said Gray, 70, will announce members of the Age-Friendly City Task Force at a September event. Members will be experts in the eight areas that the WHO believes

are essential for age-friendly cities: Outdoor Spaces and Buildings; Transportation; Housing; Social Participation; Civic Participation and Employment; Respect and Social Inclusion; Communication and Information; and Community Support and Health Services. The AARP-D.C. seniors’ survey, meanwhile, has been circulating for two months. “We have 195 survey responses so far, not enough to identify emerging trends,” said Davis. Initial responses indicate that District seniors want more affordable housing; better lighting on city streets and entrances to buildings; opportunities for meaningful full- and parttime employment; easier on-street parking; better communication about available services from the District government; and improved public safety and police presence in neighborhoods. The Age-Friendly City initiative gives overlooked and underserved populations an opportunity to be heard, Davis said. “We’re reaching out to LGBT seniors with help from ANC-6D Commissioner Andy Litsky, who is gay and a member of my volunteer advisory body. We met with LGBT seniors during this year’s Capital Pride Week. LGBT seniors are living in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, but their staffs may not have the cultural competency training needed to understand how to serve them.” Chinese seniors are also overlooked, said Davis. “There are about 1,000 Chinese seniors in Chinatown who feel isolated by age, language and culture. Their community has shrunk. We need a Mandarin and Cantonese interpreter who can ask them what services they need.” Davis is reaching out to Latinos, especially those older than 50 who do not obtain services from the D.C. Office on Aging, and younger Latino families with grandparents or other seniors in need of services who live with them. “I would like to see more survey responses from seniors in Wards 4, 7 and 8, where responses are low,” said Davis. “The District is undergoing a growth boom,” he noted. “Building cranes are everywhere, and there’s talk of a new soccer stadium.” But he said not all neighborhoods are benefitting equally from the boom. “The Age-Friendly D.C. initiative isn’t going away (after the official time limit). It will give seniors and all District residents a voice in making the District more livable.” wi www.washingtoninformer.com

George Duke Dead at 67

Legendary Keyboardist, Grammy Winner Remembered By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer

George Duke, a master keyboardist and one of the world’s most prolific jazz legends, died Monday, Aug. 5 in Los Angeles. He was 67. Duke’s passing stunned his many fans and fellow musicians. It also occurred on the eve of an interview the Grammy Award winner had scheduled with the Washington Informer. The newspaper planned to preview Duke’s anticipated performance at Birchmere Music Hall in Alexandria, Va. “He was battling and being treated for leukemia,” his publicist, Mike Wilpizeski said in an email after cancelling the interview early Tuesday morning, prior to the announcement of his death. Duke’s schedule also included Sept. 15 and Sept. 16 performances at the Kennedy Center in Northwest. “When I think of George Duke, I think of a good dude, a beautiful spirit,” said Joe Gorham, disc jockey and music director at WHUR-FM 96.3, Washington, D.C.’s oldest urban adult contemporary radio station. Gorham said that he clutched two tickets in his hand reserved for himself and a friend for the upcoming Tuesday, Aug. 13 performance at Birchmere. However, he awakened Tuesday morning to text messages informing him of Duke’s death. “I called a friend who also knows George and I told him, ‘Tell me it ain’t so,’” Gorham said. “We had a moment because this news was deep and we needed that moment.” A Birchmere spokesman said Duke’s management had yet to provide the reason for next week’s cancellation so the music hall had no comment. The spokesman only said that refunds for ticket purchases could be

redeemed at the point of sales. The famed musician’s death occurred nearly one year after his wife of 40 years, Corine, died of cancer. Duke dedicated his latest CD, “DreamWeaver,” in her memory. Born in San Rafael, Calif., Duke was inspired by jazz great Miles Davis and others. He attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he studied trombone, composition and contrabass. Duke’s recording debut occurred in 1966 with the release of, “The George Duke Quartet Presented by the Jazz Workshop 1966 of San Francisco.” Throughout his illustrious career, Duke collaborated with Anita Baker, George Clinton, Al Jarreau, Quincy Jones, Frank Zappa, and others. He played keyboards for the late Michael Jackson on the hit 1979 album, “Off the Wall.” Duke won two Grammy Awards for producing Dianne Reeves’, “In the Moment – Live in Concert,” in 2000, and, “The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughn,” in 2001. “We are all devastated by the sad news of George’s passing,” said Mark Wexler, general manager of the Concord-Telarc Label Group in New York, Duke’s record company. “He was a great man, a legend, oneof-a-kind artist; and our hearts go out to his family.” Celebrities also took to twitter to express their condolences. “Duke combined Funk, Jazz and Fusion. Rest in peace,” tweeted Donna Brazile, a Washington, D.C. political powerbroker and television news analyst. “Just woke up to the news about the death of a great musician, George Duke. George was a bad brother,” TV One and CNN’s Roland Martin wrote on the social media website. Comedian Sinbad said the music world would never be the same without Duke. “I can’t believe we lost George Duke. The funk meter just took a big, deep hit,” Sinbad tweeted. Locally, some who planned to

attend Duke’s upcoming concert at Birchmere, said they would hold on to their tickets as a way of remembering the icon. “I can’t imagine giving back these tickets,” said David Cohen, 47, a disc jockey who lives in Southeast.

around the region “I’m going to post [a picture of] my tickets on my website and keep them,” Gorham said. Duke’s son, Rashid Duke, released a statement on Tuesday, Aug. 6 thanking his father’s many supporters.

“The outpouring of love and support that we have received from my father’s friends, fans and the entire music community has been overwhelming,” the younger Duke said. “Thank you all for your concern, prayers and support.” wi

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Forest Heights Embraces Healthy Lifestyle Prince George’s Town Aims to Become ‘Jewel of the Potomac’ By Joshua Garner WI Contributing Writer Cathy Clark remembers Forest Heights as a typical Washington, D.C. suburb when she first moved to the small town in 1974 with her husband and two children. As one of the first African-American families in the town, Clark, 69, remembers clean streets, neighbors knew each other, and a community willing to move beyond the color line. “When I moved here the town was practically lilywhite,” she said. “There were a few issues we had to work out.” On Saturday, Aug. 3 the town celebrated its 64th anniversary with its annual Forest Heights Day, which featured healthy living themed activities and vendors. For the town, it was a celebration of its history and its efforts to reinvent itself as an environmentally friendly municipality in Prince George’s County. The town, one of the few in southern Prince George’s County, largely ran smoothly until the 2000s when infighting became common between the town’s mayor and its council.

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In 2005, the town’s mayor was charged with two counts of assault and later tried to dissolve the town’s charter. The following year, a new mayor took office but was later removed over suspicion that he misused funds from the town. The pattern more or less repeated itself until Mayor Jacqueline Goodall took office in 2011, becoming the first mayor since 2000 to serve a full term. “We’ve had some struggles. We’ve had some growing pains,” Goodall said. “Our goal is to move Forest Heights forward.” The town has revamped itself in recent years moving away from infighting to becoming an eco-friendly and livable community. Under Goodall’s leadership, the town has installed a green roof on its municipal building, and renovated the building using recycled materials. The town has expanded its recycling program and is in the process of installing new roadways that incorporate bike lanes, sidewalks, and other transportation needs known as “complete streets.” Renovating a town doesn’t come cheap. Goodall said that Forest Heights has secured

nearly $2 million in grant funding for the various projects over the last few years. “The council began to work together,” she said. “Forest Heights has definitely been perceived in a different light.” Residents, too, said they’ve moved forward and began to become more engaged in the town. Karlee Maddox, 17, and her sister Carmin Maddox, 15, said they’ve lived in the town for about nine years and have increasingly become more active in community activities by volunteering. “If the youth [don’t] get involved then no one will,” said Karlee. Above all, town officials said they wanted to raise awareness about healthy living and obesity. Within Prince George’s County, which includes Forest Heights, 30 percent of adults are obese, according to the National Institute for Children’s Healthcare Quality, a nonprofit organization based in Boston, that advocates on behalf of children to ensure better health care. By comparison, only 19 percent of adults in Montgomery County, another Maryland

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker III and Stewart Russell, chief of police for the town of Forest Heights, chat briefly during the 64th annual Forest Heights Day on Saturday, Aug. 3. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah

suburb, are obese. “Our people are dying of obesity,” said Charmaine Turner, 60, head of the town’s Healthy Living Program. “People don’t know they have to do something about this.” Still, town officials said residents have been receptive to

the program and awareness is on the rise. Goodall said the town has definitely made progress but added that more work is needed. “My dream is to see Forest Heights as the jewel of the Potomac [River] on the Maryland side,” she said. wi

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The Color of Care in Aging America By Matt Perry Special to the Informer from New American Media During his first presidential campaign, Democratic hopeful Barack Obama famously claimed that Americans discussed racial conflicts honestly – behind closed doors. Some experts in aging say it’s now time to break open those same doors and look at America’s caregiving crisis — and its growing issues of race – just as honestly. The country’s heralded melting pot is quickly becoming a complex racial stew at both ends of the nation’s caregiving spectrum: for those needing care--and for the family members and hired workers providing it. Undocumented Caregivers in “Grey Market” As of 2011, 20 percent of the country’s 4 million hired caregivers were foreign-born, according to the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI), which represents direct caregivers – hired nurses, home health aides and personal attendants. Yet that number doesn’t include the “grey market” of workers employed directly by families that include immigrants – among them undocumented workers. Some even suggest the actual number of immigrant caregivers is closer to 50 percent. While race, culture and religion shouldn’t affect the care provided to older adults, the reality is simple: It does. John Booker has seen it throughout his 35 years as a caregiver. He recalls meeting an Orange County, Calif., woman whose son moved her from facility to facility hoping to find quality care. Finally, she was placed in the hands of Booker – who is African American. “She needed help getting to the toilet, and she didn’t want a damn n----r to do it,” laughed Booker. “After she attacked me, I knew my reaction was extremely critical at that point. I put my best professional face on.” Afterwards, the tearful woman thanked Booker for his help, as www.washingtoninformer.com

did a young man standing outside the room who watched the interaction – her son was also an owner of the long-term care facility. Overt racism, while rare, is indicative of the continued struggles Americans face when it comes to race – particularly in an intimate relationship like caregiving. During his own long career, Booker noted, who founded the National Association for Direct Care Workers of Color, “I would say 40 percent of the time there was some initial friction [over race].” Booker said his typically female colleagues – Latinos, Filipinos, Caribbean Islanders and recent African Immigrants – are acutely aware of race in the workplace. “They will get some of the same racial slurs and looks,” he said. “You hold back your emotions and continue to give quality care.” Cultural, Religious Impacts A Stanford University researcher says that race and ethnicity are often linked to cultural and religious views – which may affect care. In fact, her study of multicultural nurses in long-term care settings found something shocking: During end-of-life care, some foreign-born Catholic nurses felt the dying experience shouldn’t be altered by using painkilling analgesics. “They felt that experiencing pain and suffering at the [end of life] afforded the dying patient an important opportunity for spiritual redemption,” reads the small study of 45 Filipina nurses, led by V.J. Periyakoil, MD, director of palliative care education and training at Stanford’s School of Medicine. “None of the U.S.born nurses endorsed this concept.” Periyakoil – who admitted “we were pretty surprised” at the results – described the concept of “redemptive suffering” in this way: “Sometimes people feel that God is giving them these experiences, and part of their faith is to bear these experiences with as much patience as they can. How the religious beliefs of an individual nurse – or doctor – affects how they provide care is

Increasingly, caregivers of aging white Americans come from African-American, Caribbean, African, and Hispanic backgrounds. / Courtesy photo

a bit of an unknown.” She continued, “If I’m the nurse who believes in the concept of redemptive suffering. . . . I may not offer that [painkiller] to the patient, even if I see them in pain.” In fact, she said, some patients welcome this sense of redemptive pain, but nurses need to give a patient the choice.

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Helen Thomas Inspired Generation of Journalists By Natasha Dado Special to the Informer from New America Media Legendary White House correspondent Helen Thomas passed away peacefully on July 20 at her Washington D.C. apartment, while surrounded by family and friends. She was 92. Still, Thomas will always live in the work of others she inspired. “I will always carry a piece of her in how I approach things. She was an inspiration to who I am,” said Siham Awada Jaafar, a television host and producer for WDHT TV in Michigan. Speaking to The Arab American News, Thomas’ niece, Suzanne Geha, says that it was her iconic aunt who inspired her to go into broadcast journalism. A few of Thomas’ other nieces and nephews who she had influence over, and some of their children have also pursued careers in the profession as well. Thomas, a Lebanese American, emerged as one of the most prominent White House reporters, during a time when the profession was dominated by men.

Generations of women in the profession have been influenced by her work. “Helen Thomas began her career in the 1940s, as a young woman, working in a man’s business and overcoming many institutional barriers that kept women from gaining equal access. Through her tenacity, integrity and willingness to follow-up any lead and work any hour of the day or night, she reached the pinnacle of her profession and paved the way for generations of women to follow,” a statement released by Thomas’ family, following her passing, read. “Aunt Helen was our mentor,” Geha said. She said Thomas had spoken to her about how hard it was for her to break into the profession when she first started and prove that a woman could do the same job as a man. Thomas covered 11 presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to Barack Obama for the United Press International and Hearst Newspapers. She wrote five books and was the first female member of the National Press Club, White House Correspondents’ Association and the Grid-

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iron Club, which announced her death. Thomas’ ability to vigorously question U.S. presidents and other high-powered officials are what made her stand out. She never shied away from asking the tough questions, or expressing unpopular views. She made it clear at White House press conferences that she opposed the Iraq war, while other journalists across the country

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were being criticized for not asking enough hard questions about the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Thomas traditionally sat at the front of presidential news conferences, but during the Bush Administration she was moved to the back row. When she was once asked why she was seated in the back row, she responded, “They didn’t like me, I ask too mean questions.” As a senior correspondent at the White House, Thomas ended dozens of presidential news conferences with her famous phrase, “Thank you, Mr. President.” Thomas devoted her nearly 70-year career in journalism to the pursuit of the public’s “right to know.” She was a champion of the First Amendment, fervently advocating for freedom of speech and freedom of the press. For years, she proudly occupied her front row seat in the Press Briefing Room at the White House, considering it the people’s chair in the people’s house. Geha says that Thomas felt it was her responsibility to get answers for the public from people it didn’t have access to. The statement released by Thomas’ family went on to say that she always acknowledged the privilege of being the eyes and ears of the public, and she boldly and unabashedly asked the hard questions to hold our leaders accountable. Arab American Community Defends Thomas In 2010, Thomas retired from Hearst Newspapers after making controversial remarks about Isra-

el, Jews and Palestine. Although she apologized afterwards, efforts were made to get a statue of Thomas removed from the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, but were not successful. She later made additional remarks that caused more controversy, while speaking at a workshop on anti-Arab bias in Dearborn at Byblos Banquet Hall, when she said, “Congress, the White House, Hollywood and Wall Street are owned by Zionists. No question in my opinion...” The day after, her alma mater, Wayne State University (WSU), revoked the “Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity Award” and, later, the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) also removed the “Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement.” Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News, is the recipient of the “Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity Award” and a member of the Congress of Arab American Organizations (CAAO). After WSU removed the award, members of CAAO met with officials from WSU to discuss its decision. CAAO cautioned that if the decision was not properly addressed and corrected, it would negatively impact relations between the university and the Arab American community for many years. The decisions resulted in a major backlash from groups and individuals across the country, who called on SPJ and WSU to reinstate both awards, saying the decisions were an attack on free speech and undermined the principals of journalism. Several organizations, including youth groups, held protests to put pressure on the university and SPJ to reverse their decisions. Jaafar says she spoke to Thomas after the awards were revoked. “She always said, ‘No one can take anything away from you, as long as you stand on solid ground and maintain your integrity.”’ Still, even after she was forced to resign, and her awards were removed, the brave and outspoken Thomas would continue fighting for what she believed in. She remained true to herself until the end. During an event at the Palestine Cultural Office in May 2011, where Thomas was presented with the “Relentless Courage Award” for her audacity to speak truth to power, she delivered a speech in support of Palestinian rights, while wearing a bracelet that read “Palestine.”

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THOMAS continued from Page 16 At the event, when asked by The Arab American News whether she would take back her remarks about Israel, she said, “Never. I spoke the truth. I don’t

believe in human tyranny, which is what is happening in Palestine.” When TAAN asked Thomas whether she was bothered about not being at the annual WSU Spirit of Diversity Awards Ceremony, which was being held on the same day, she said, “I’m not

bothered. They should be bothered. They denied Americans freedom of speech, and that is shameful for any university.” In response to some of her awards being pulled, several new ones were created in her name from groups, such as the Leb-

Thomas made it known that she was proud of her Arab roots “She was somebody who made you feel proud to be Arab American. She was extremely confident in who she was,” Jaafar said. “Helen’s life is a remarkable American success story; a rich fulfillment of the American Dream,” says Devon Akmon, Arab American National Museum Director. “Her immigrant parents took the risk, sought the opportunities for themselves and their children, and raised Helen to be the independent, tireless achiever she was – a woman who did not allow her gender, ethnic heritage and later, her age, to limit her goals in any way.” Thomas was inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame in 1993. President Obama also commented on Thomas’ passing, saying, “What made Thomas the ‘Dean of the White House Press

Corps’ was not just the length of her tenure, but her fierce belief that our democracy works best when we ask tough questions and hold our leaders to account.” Thomas was married to Douglas Cornell, who was a White House reporter for the Associated Press and passed away in 1982. She graduated from WSU in 1942 and is among its most distinguished alumni. Thomas will be greatly missed by her three surviving sisters, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Thomas’ body will be brought back to Detroit, where she will be buried. Sources say that the service is expected to take place in August, and a memorial service will be held in Washington D.C. this October. When asked what Thomas’ advice to young and aspiring journalists would be, Geha responded, “Don’t be afraid. Have courage. You’re not out to win a popularity contest. You are there on the public’s behalf to keep them informed.” wi

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Trying to Get Paid “I’m on the grind, trying to make paper stack up And if I slip and fall, then I get back up.” – “Trying to Get Paid.” – Paul Wall Blacks need to develop a mindset that “it’s time to get paid!” If we decide to go after what is owed us, what better “payee” is there than the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)? When it comes to discrimination based on race; theft and appropriation of Blacks’ land; and outright illegalities toward a particular race of people, the USDA is the master culprit. If the George Zimmerman verdict makes you feel violated, take a look at the decades of proven racism and discriminatory practices at USDA toward Black farmers. While Blacks’ attention and concern have been placed elsewhere, an overall travesty has been occurring for Blacks across America. Years since President Obama signed a law compensating Black farmers for decades of discrimination by federal agriculture officials, the claims haven’t been paid. Racism and ethnic discrimination has been at the core of the American fabric from the beginning. Despite the political power Blacks have acquired, including that of POTUS, the case of the Black farmers questions Blacks’ measure of political power and clout. The latest voice in the matter, Mississippi Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, says payments from a $1.2 billion discrimination settlement should

By William Reed start going out to Black farmers soon. The settlement resolved a lawsuit the farmers filed against the federal Department of Agriculture claiming officials denied them loans and other assistance because of their race. Congress approved the settlement in 2010. Farmers originally were told payments would arrive by late 2012. Thompson estimates about 18,000 to 20,000 farmers, mostly in Mississippi and Alabama, will be eligible to receive payments in the case known as “Pigford II.’’ The settlement Obama signed marked the second round of payments for Black farmers. The first was a 1999 class-action settlement. The USDA denied Black farmers equal access to farm loans and assistance based solely on their race. The USDA settled the case brought by North Carolina farmer Timothy Pigford and 400 other black farmers in “Pigford I” in 1999. The $2.3 billion settlement became the largest in history. USDA is the federal executive department responsible for developing and executing policy on farming, agriculture, forestry, and food. The USDA represents centuries of racism toward Blacks and practices that have left them completely out of its loop of productive programs. Black America’s first entrepreneurs now need “some help from their friends.” Black farmers have felt the heel of USDA

officials for centuries. They tell stories of USDA officials – especially local loan authorities in all-White county committees in the South – spitting on them, throwing their loan applications in the trash and illegally denying them loans. But when the USDA’s local offices did approve loans to Black farmers, they were often supervised, farmers couldn’t spend the borrowed money without receiving itemby-item authorization from the USDA, or the agency paid them late. It’s time for America to “pay the Black farmers.” There is a long train of evidence that the USDA participated in “systemic and planned and orchestrated discrimination.” Although the U.S. government never followed through on its promise to freed slaves of “40 acres and a mule,” African Americans were able to establish a foothold in Southern agriculture. Black land ownership peaked in 1910 when 218,000 African-American farmers had ownership in 15 million acres of land. But, by 1992, those numbers had dwindled to 2.3 million acres held by 18,000 Blacks. Be it known by all, the USDA played a lead role pushing Blacks off their land. In 1920, one out of seven U.S. farms was Black operated; by 1992, African-Americans operated one out of every 100 farms. It’s time that we help the Black farmers get their due. Start with letters to the White House and your member of Congress demanding the USDA uphold the contractual terms of the Pigford I and II cases and pony up Black farmers’ money. 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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Bahamas Turns 40 By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer Ambassador Dr. Elliston Rahming and Consul-General Paulette Zonicle took to the dance floor early and often Friday night, leading their Bahamian friends, colleagues, counterparts and supporters of the island nation in celebration. The dance – at the Silver Spring Civic Building in the heart of downtown Silver Spring on Friday, Aug. 2 – commemorated the Commonwealth of Bahamas’ 40th independence. The island nation gained independence from Great Britain on July 10, 1973 led by the late Sir Lynden Pindling who became the country’s first prime minister. In the spacious hall, a disc jockey played catchy Bahamian tunes, which like the mythical Sirens, lured guests to the dance floor. At one point, a group of 12 guests walked in, had their IDs checked, received the required green wristbands and trooped into the hall to begin dancing. Some men wore distinctive black Polo shirts with the Bahamian coat of arms and the country’s name emblazoned across the back of the shirt. Nassau resident Bernadette Murray scarcely stood still for much of the night. When she wasn’t on the dance floor, she moved her feet, winding her waist or keeping the beat with her hands and arms. “I would never live anywhere else. I went to college in North Carolina for four years then went back home,” said Murray, who has worked as a correctional officer for 24 years. “This (independence celebration) is important. It elic-

its great pride. It’s something that produces jubilation within and immense pride at being a Bahamian.” “Nothing beats the sense of knowing who you are,” said Murray who traveled north to attend the dance and other festivities. Murray, who shimmied and danced for the entire interview, checked off a list of attributes that make Bahamians unique, including the music that won’t allow a person to stand still, as well as “our food, our people, our culture and our history.” Rahming, who was named ambassador three months ago, said Bahamians have much to celebrate. “This is important because it gives us a chance to reflect on where we’ve come from,” said Rahming, who also serves as the Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS). “This is the most important development in 40 years. We’ve taken our place in the world. We’re at the OAS, the United Nations and standing shoulder-to-shoulder with other countries around the world.” “In science, technology and education, we’re making our mark, doing well on the world scene.” Zonicle, who like Rahming took her post in April, agreed. “I think it’s such an honor to be alive,” she said. “I participated in the initial celebrations 40 years ago and now I’m serving my country. I’ve grown up with the growth of a new nation. We’ve changed tremendously.” Rahming laughed, saying that at 40 years old, the Bahamas could be considered middle-aged. “Our major challenges revolve around economic development.

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Banking and tourism are our two main industries but we need to further diversify the economy into manufacturing, oil exploration, and light industries,” he said. Bahamas, Zonicle noted, is a country with a significant heritage and a proud past. “In addition to agriculture, fisheries and banking, we’ve also seen our people grow and Bahamians are shoe designers, engineers, doctors, lawyers, designers all spreading around the world.” Zonicle said the Bahamas is unique. “We’ve elected three prime ministers consecutively with no violence. We change governments smoothly,” she said. “And 94 percent of Bahamians took part in elections.” Pierre Vital, a native of Haiti, said his interest in Caribbean culture brought him to the festivities. “I haven’t been around Bahamian people so this is a chance for me to interact with them,” said Vital, a Northern Virginia resident

who has lived in the U.S. for 20 years. “I’m interested in Caribbean culture and I go to a lot of cultural events centered [on] the Caribbean.” As he surveys the Caribbean, Vital said, the different islands have made significant progress socially, economically and in other ways. “I think we’re making a lot of progress,” said Vital, 41. “But one thing I think Caribbean people complain about is that people outside see us as party people and not for the other things we’ve accom-

plished.” “Our culture is the same wherever you go. We need to support each other and hopefully our leaders will understand that the people want them to improve conditions of the country and the people.” Anishca Lightbourne said she’s spent a total of 23 years in the United States but there’s no place like home. “At home, not a day goes by where you don’t see someone you know. It struck me as I walked through the airport in 2011 that here, you could go days and weeks without seeing someone you know,” said Lightbourne, a lab supervisor with Prince George’s County Hospital. “Anywhere Jamaicans are, you’ll see them and their colors, but Bahamians can adapt very easily. They are very proud of where they come from. It’s the upbringing, the Christian upbringing. In this country, people are tied to their Social Security number but we’re more than a Social Security number.” And rather than rest on their laurels, Bahamians still have work to do, she said. “We have a foundation but we still have to finish building this small but proud country,” Lightbourne said. Wi

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Slugger Gets 211-Game Ban; Nats Pitcher Avoids Suspension By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer A-Rod is a goner. New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, better known as A-Rod, received a 211-game suspension for multiple violations of the sport’s drug policy. The steroid-stained slugger said he’s going to fight the unprecedented suspension, handed down by baseball’s commissioner on Monday, Aug. 5. The suspension is scheduled to begin on Thursday, Aug. 8. “The only question now is when will Major League Baseball drop the hammer on the rest of the cheaters and how hard will [it] hit them,” asked Northeast resident and Nationals’ blogger Farid Rushdi. Major League Baseball (MLB) officials quickly pointed out that while 12 other players were suspended for 50 to 65 games, evidence against A-Rod showed behavior many deemed to be severely damaging to the sport. “The suspension is based on A-Rod’s use and possession of numerous forms of prohibited performance-enhancing substances, including testosterone and human growth hormone, over the course of multiple years and he engaged in a course of conduct intended to obstruct and frustrate an investigation by MLB,” said MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, 79. Since suspended players aren’t paid, A-Rod stands to lose between $34 million and $100 mil-

lion, making it by far the costliest suspension in MLB history. Previously, the longest penalty served had been the 100-game suspension of San Francisco Giants pitcher Guillermo Mota in 2012, costing him more than $2 million. Detroit’s Jhonny Peralta, Texas’ Nelson Cruz, and Seattle’s Jesus Montero, each count among the big names smacked with 50game bans. Washington Nationals star lefty Gio Gonzalez and Baltimore Orioles infielder Danny Valencia were cleared by MLB of any wrongdoing, Selig said. For the slumping Nats, the news resulted in a huge sigh of relief. “I’m happy for Gio because his situation is different than A-Rod’s. A-Rod doesn’t deserve any money. In fact, he should refund the Yankees and all of the teams who have ever paid him a dime,” said Northeast resident, Blake Artest, 44, a former vendor at RFK Stadium in Southeast. MLB’s investigators spent a year establishing a case that proved numerous players visited Biogenesis, a Florida anti-aging clinic owned by Anthony Bosch, for performance-enhancing drugs. Bosch, 49, cooperated with the league after baseball sued him. MLB gathered evidence which officials believe proved A-Rod violated the game’s drug policy in 2010, 2011 and 2012 – each instance counted as a 50-game ban. League officials also believe

A-Rod violated the “just cause” provision of the collective bargaining agreement between MLB and its union by obstructing Selig’s investigation. It’s alleged that A-Rod lied to officials about doping, adding another 50-plus games to the suspension. Further, MLB has shared evidence with the defiant slugger and the player’s union that include hundreds of emails, text messages and phone records detailing A-Rod’s dealings with Bosch, as well as a person who allegedly witnessed Bosch inject the beleaguered active home run leader with performance enhancing drugs. Also, A-Rod received treatment from Anthony Galea, a Toronto physician, who two years ago pled guilty in Federal District Court in Buffalo, N.Y., to charges of bringing illegal drugs, including human growth hormone, into the United States to treat star athletes. In his appeal, A-Rod must explain his association with Bosch; whether he impeded Selig’s investigation by attempting to intimidate a witness and destroy evidence; and possibly his dealings with Galea. Last month, the disgraced former All-Star violated baseball’s collective bargaining agreement when he solicited a second opinion about an injury without first receiving permission from the Yankees. The doctor who provided the second opinion weighed in on 660 WFAN-AM, a New York radio station, and said that A-Rod appeared to be in the best of health. However, the doctor, Michael Gross, an orthopedic surgeon from Hackensack, N.J., never met A-Rod and, worse yet, Gross had been reprimanded by

the State Medical Board for failing to adequately ensure proper patient treatment involving the prescribing of, wait for it …, steroids. Milwaukee Brewers superstar Ryan Braun felt the first sting of MLB’s wrath in the Biogenesis scandal. Braun recently received a 65-game suspension without pay after being confronted with what many in baseball call, “substantial evidence,” against him. Braun, 29, and the other suspended players are expected to return next season, with the exception of A-Rod, who will not be eligible for reinstatement until at least 2015, when he’s 40. A perpetual lighting rod for controversy, the once-celebrated power hitter has repeatedly been at the center of scandal throughout his 18-year big league career. A-Rod made his big league debut with the Seattle Mariners on July 8, 1994. At 32, he hit home run No. 500 to become the youngest player to reach that mark. Three years later, he slugged homer No. 609 which made him the all-time leader in home runs among Latino players. A 12-time All-Star, A-Rod won three Most Valuable Player Awards. For his career, he boasts

an even .300 batting average, 647 homers, and 1,950 RBI’s. In 2001, he signed an unprecedented 10 year, $252 million free agent deal with the Texas Rangers, but after being traded to the Yankees, he reached a new 10 year, $275 million agreement with New York, a contract that remains the largest in sports history. Locally, A-Rod hasn’t proved popular either. He’s listed as the owner of Newport Property Ventures, a company that operates the Bedford Station, Newbury Square and Victoria Station apartment complexes in Langley Park in Prince George’s County, Md. Tenants, who reside there, reportedly call him a slumlord. Hundreds of complaints have been filed with the county this summer over problems that include rodent infestations, mold, crumbling floors and ceilings. Baseball Writers Association’s senior member, Bill Madden, called A-Rod, “the Whitey Bulger of baseball, the most wanted criminal” in the game’s history. “Selig and his men … consider A-Rod to be baseball’s Public Enemy No.1,” Madden said. wi

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health care continued from Page 15 will gain their trust. Conversely, Periyakoil said, more individualized cultures like Germans thrive on care that fosters patient autonomy and more direct, factual communication. Compassionate Care Despite Language Limits To many, cultural differences can actually prove beneficial. Carla Troutner said her tiny 4-foot-11-inch mother had two homecare aides in the San Francisco Bay Area – one white, the other Haitian. While the white caregiver provided acceptable care, the Caribbean caregiver offered a uniquely calm disposition her mother adored. “She just followed her around the house,” Troutner said of her mother. Sadhna Diwan recalled a long-term care facility staffed almost entirely with Latino caregivers – some who spoke virtually no English. “This became a real bone of

contention between the families and the hired caregivers,” said Diwan, director of the Center for Healthy Aging in Multicultural Populations at San Jose University’s School of Social Work. Yet the Latino workers’ compassionate care happily countered the language barrier. “The love and affection and care they show for my parents – even I don’t do that,” stated Diwan. Some advocates in aging, though, claim ethnic differences in caregiving are being overstated – and education is leveling the playing field. MariaElena Del Valle cautioned that ethnic differences in healthcare are slowly being filtered out. Training for today’s hired caregivers increasingly focuses on removing these cultural differences, she said. The goal: Don’t impose your belief systems – personal, cultural or spiritual – on the patient; ask patients about their preferences. “When you’re meeting for the first time we ask you to be curious,” said Del Valle, an organi-

zational-change consultant with PHI. “Active listening means that you focus on the perspective of the speaker, and that requires the listener to let go of cultural biases that come up.” Del Valle has already seen the effect of culturally sensitive training for hired caregivers – both at home and at long-term care facilities. “They’re already seeing results, and the home health aides are asking for more training,” she added. PHI claims the United States will need another 1 million paid caregivers by 2020, and says personal care and home health aides are growing faster than any other profession. In fact, by the end of this decade the group predicts caregivers will be the largest occupational force in the country – topping both K-12 teachers and law enforcement personnel. Since caregiving often requires no formal education – especially in the underground economy – these jobs are expected to go increasingly to im-

migrants – from Latin America, the Philippines, the Caribbean and elsewhere. Cultural Competence Diwan said the programs at San Jose State University focus on “cultural competence” in diverse populations – respecting the unique culture and needs of patients. For families taking care of older adults themselves, cultural attitudes run deep. Diwan observed that many immigrants from traditional cultures see caring for their aging parents and grandparents as an important responsibility. Yet this admirable reverence can have also have negative consequences, she said. “Often times [family] caregivers will burn themselves out because they feel like they have to do everything.” In addition, ethnic adults are also aging, with Latinos on the fastest-rising curve. Stanford’s Periyakoil said America’s aging “silver tsunami” – over 8,000 citizens turn 65 each day – now has

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Most African Americans Not Tested, Despite High Rate of Disease By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Smitty Jackson thought that the shame of a positive hepatitis C test would be too much to overcome in the proud African-American community of Northeast Washington, D.C., where the retired wastewater treatment worker grew up. “It’s something anyone would be embarrassed by,” said Jackson, 68. “Hepatitis C, that’s always been a taboo subject, just like HIV, and our people just don’t talk about it.” Because Jackson took the initiative to get tested in 1981, and he’s continued to receive proper care, the lifelong District resident said he’s doing well today. However, many from Jackson’s generation still refuse to be tested and unknowingly live with the disease. A new survey released this month that asked baby boomers in Washington, D.C., about their knowledge and perceptions of hepatitis C (HCV), revealed that the disease is one of the leading causes of death among African Americans of that era. Individuals born between 1945 and 1965 are considered baby boomers. The study conducted by Dr. Vinod Rustgi of the Metropolitan Liver and Gastro Center in Fairfax, Va., found that 62 percent of Washington, D.C. baby boomers have never been tested for HCV. Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

(CDC) in Atlanta, urged all adults to seek testing from their primary care physicians. Rustgi’s survey also noted that only 22 percent of baby boomers recognized that their generation counted as the most vulnerable to the disease. “They are five times more likely than any other age group to be infected,” said Rustgi, 59. “We already have the ability to cure the majority of untreated patients affected by hepatitis C. There is rapid and tremendous progress to developing combinations of oral medications that will cure almost all of our patients,” he said. Rustgi said HCV produces no symptoms until it is in its late stages and serious damage has already occurred. All baby boomers should seek blood and saliva tests when screening for HCV, he said. “Knowing the lifestyles of many of us baby boomers, it only stands to reason that we are at a higher risk than others,” said Luann Briggs, a retired hairstylist who lives in Southwest. “We did the wild things in life. The drugs, many were promiscuous, and we were carefree in areas that we probably should not have been,” Briggs, 64, said. Additionally, the nation’s blood supply during the era of the baby boomers wasn’t sufficiently tested, which raised the possibility of patients contracting the disease during transfusions and other blood-related medical procedures,

around the region health according to CDC and local health officials. “The risk factors for HCV, including sharing needles, cocaine use, tattoos and some sexual transmissions, are things people want to forget about,” Rustgi said. “Baby boomers may have done these things 30 years ago and therefore they don’t want it to be brought up.” Nearly 1.5 million people in the United States are unaware that they have HCV. Untold thousands in Washington, D.C., also are infected and don’t realize it, Rustgi said. Officials said baby boomers are five times more likely to have HCV than any other group, but nearly 40 percent of them would

rather admit to a charge of driving under the influence than being infected. Overall, the CDC estimates that more than 3.2 million American adults are infected with HCV and 75 percent are baby boomers. For African Americans, the rates of HCV infection and HCV-related mortality are twice as high as they are for non-Hispanic whites. The virus, which is transmitted by blood-to-blood contact, is a leading cause of potentially fatal liver diseases such as cirrhosis and liver cancer. Early detection and intervention are essential for doctors to provide life-saving treatment and to reduce the spread of the virus, officials said.

“With increasingly effective treatments now available, we can prevent tens of thousands of deaths from hepatitis C,” said CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. Identifying hidden infections early will allow more baby boomers to receive care and treatment, before they develop life-threatening liver disease, said Kevin Fenton, M.D., director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and Tuberculosis Prevention. “Let us all spread the message so all of those affected can be recognized and treated,” said Rustgi. wi

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DCPS, Charter Schools Celebrate Test Gains By Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer For the first time since 2008, more students than ever at the city’s public and charter schools have made significant gains on the yearly District of Columbia Comprehensive Assessment System (DC CAS) tests. While students in the public school system were praised for their improved proficiency in reading and math, test scores in the same areas and science were even higher for their peers at charter facilities. “Yes,” said Mayor Vincent C. Gray, 70, as he announced the progress during a celebration July 30 at Kelly Miller Middle School in Northeast – where major strides were made. Notable increases were also documented at Jefferson Academy and Middle School in South-

west, and Harriet Tubman Elementary School and Columbia Heights Education Campus, both in Northwest. Each year since 2007, proficiency evaluations in math, reading, science and writing have been administered to students in grades third through eighth as well as 10th-graders in each of the city’s eight wards. The latest improvements were highlighted in data released on July 29 by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE). This year’s gains were made in comparison to 2012 scores, when the District showed only modest strides in elementary math and reading. During the same time, proficiency in reading and math declined slightly in middle and high schools. Overall in 2013, proficiency in both math and reading were

From left to right: Abigail Smith, District deputy mayor for education; Kaya Henderson, DCPS chancellor; John “Skip” McCoy, chair, DC Public Charter School Board; and Scott Pearson, executive director, Public Charter School Board. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah

up by nearly four percent, and science proficiency was up nearly two percent. And, proficiency in writing increased by nearly five percent.

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The DC CAS tests were initially administered six years ago when Adrian Fenty was mayor and Michelle Rhee served as chancellor for the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) system. Although improvements were noted in 2008, they pale in comparison to current scores, according to the OSSE report. “Our investments in human capital are paying off,” said Chancellor Kaya Henderson, 43, who received a standing ovation from about 400 people seated in the auditorium at Kelly Miller. “The latest test score results are proof that the city’s approach to school reform is working.” Scott Pearson, executive director of the D.C. Public Charter School Board, said he’s most proud that the charters “have improved from year-to-year.” He said that while his schools are effectively closing the achievement gap and that students play an integral role, much of the credit goes to parents, “who are the backbone” of the system. “We don’t want mediocrity – we want excellence – and that’s what the schools are stepping up to,” said Pearson, adding for example, that students at Inspired Teaching Public Charter School in Northwest had a 26.2 percent gain in test scores. To that end, Rushern Baker III, Prince George’s County executive – who was invited to

the celebration by Gray – said he planned on sharing a lot of what he heard with his school board. “One of the things we wanted to see, is how District school officials are making improvements, because we are also undergoing the government [restructure] that D.C. went through a couple years ago [with the Fenty/Rhee takeover],” said Baker. “[The District has] taken a bold step in the right direction. . . I like the fact that they’ve integrated the entire government into making schools better.” Henderson added that District officials merely invested in strategies that are clearly paying off. “We have a ton of schools that have made amazing gains,” she said. “This is a solid foundation that we’re going to continue to build on, and we’re going to continue to make sure that we have the very best educators and a rigorous curriculum,” said Henderson. “We’re also going to continue looking differently at how we engage parents and motivate our students.” Meanwhile, in a brief response to a reporter’s inquiry regarding suspicions about widespread cheating in 2008 by teachers on student standardized tests, Gray said “sufficient measures have been established” to ensure that won’t occur.wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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During their job fair in late July at Woodrow Wilson Senior High School in Northwest, District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) officials reported having received responses from 400 teachers, saying they would be attending. Many of the teachers were among faculty members who were displaced as a result of the decision Chancellor Kaya Henderson, 43, made in January, in which 15 schools were targeted for shuttering or to merge with high-performing charters schools. When the 2012-13 academic year ended in June, teachers impacted by the mandate had 60 days to find another position, or if eligible, they could choose early retirement or a $25,000 buyout. Candi Peterson is the newly-elected general vice president of the Washington Teachers’ Union. She and Elizabeth Davis, president of the 4,000-member organization based in Northwest, officially assumed their posts on Aug. 1. According to a statement from

Peterson, while the lines for onsite interviews with school principals from 33 schools were long, teachers held out hope with stacks of resumes in hand. Peterson also stated in her blog, “The Washington Teacher,” that “despite DCPS’s requirement that instructional applicants be provided a minimum of five interviews, many of the teachers complained of not being able to find a principal interested in hiring them.” Meanwhile, new DCPS teachers are slated for orientation Aug. 14-15 at the Columbia Heights Education Campus in Northwest. Among some of the workshops they will be attending are an overview of the IMPACT Evaluation System, summary of professional development opportunities and discussion panels led by veteran teachers. Otherwise, all DCPS teachers return to the classroom on Aug. 19 – a week before students resume their studies.

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(PGCPS) system begin classes on Monday, Aug. 19, and County Executive Rushern Baker III, 54, strongly encourages parents and guardians to ensure their children are properly vaccinated. In recently taking to his Facebook page to stress the importance of the vaccinations, Baker posted a statement from the 124,000-student school system, which notes that all PGCPS students enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12 must have received two Mumps and Rubella vaccines prior to the first day of school. Students without appropriate documentation on Aug. 19 will have 20 calendar days to comply. “Mumps and Rubella are serious diseases,” the statement reads. “Mumps can cause deafness and meningitis (an infection of the brain and spinal cord). Rubella (also known as German Measles), if contracted while pregnant, can lead to a miscarriage or serious birth defects. In addition, both Mumps and Rubella are airborne diseases that can easily be contracted by simply being near someone who already is infected.”

Baker went on to note that proof of immunization can be done by submitting an updated immunization form or in a note to the school from the child’s doctor on their letterhead. Also, some health insurance plans offer an electronic copy of the immunization form that can be submitted to school staff. Families without health insurance can contact the Division of Maternal and Child Health Immunization Program at the Prince George’s County Health Department at (301)583-3300.

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More than 80 community partners and organization will join parents, students and educators from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 24 for a free Back-to-School Fair on the grounds of Carver Educational Services Center in Rockville, Md. New teacher orientation will be held Aug. 12-16, and more than 700 new recruits will be assigned to classrooms for the upcoming term. However, during the fair,

parents will be able ask questions and obtain information and resources from the new teachers as well as other school, community and government representatives. Free health screenings will also be available. Backpacks will not be provided at this year’s fair, but they will be distributed at the start of classes on Monday, Aug. 26 at selected schools for students who need a backpack.

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The March on Washington, 50 Years Later

In a little more than two weeks, Washington will be ground zero as the nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It is an opportunity for all of us who are beneficiaries of what the civil rights movement accomplished to give the appropriate honors to those who made the sacrifice. We hope that on Saturday, Aug. 24, the Mall will be overflowing with men, women and children of every color, stripe, ethnicity and creed. And if the March’s organizers have anything to say about who’s there, District residents will be coming out in force. Their presence will rectify what happened in 1963 when D.C. residents were warned by the federal commissioners who ran the city not to be a part of the march. Why? Because the commissioners regarded the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Bayard Rustin and other organizers as rabble rousers and troublemakers who were up to no good. That caution meant that significant numbers of Washingtonians stayed home but history has proven the commissioners wrong and so 50 years later, D.C. residents’ presence on the Mall will reaffirm their desire to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with others who envision a better, more just and equitable world. As we celebrate, this day presents yet another opportunity for African Americans to check where we are and how far we’ve come. These are challenging days because there are forces out there bent on turning back the clock. While they may not want to see black and colored only signs, separate water fountains and facilities and the more overt indications of segregation and discrimination, there are some who stay up nights devising ways to block, bind, curtail and obstruct any progress that we’ve made. So while this 50th anniversary should be one filled with elation and celebration, it is, instead, leavened by some of the harsh realities that we face. For those of us who were sleeping, the Trayvon Martin verdict, the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, electoral manipulation, and all the other recent developments are a sobering reminder that we have to stay vigilant to protect our hard-earned gains. One of the most promising developments coming out of the Zimmerman verdict and other challenges thrust on black people is that the sleeping giant that is the African-American community has been awakened. All over this country, people are meeting, talking, sharing, devising, strategizing on how best to confront and eventually defeat racism and discrimination. Now, it seems, is the perfect time to begin reimagining a new civil rights movement.

The Washington Lawyers’ Committee Report

The Washington Lawyers’ Committee recent report on racial disparities in arrests in the District raises serious questions about why so many African Americans in the District become entangled in the criminal justice system. The figures are troubling. Even though as many adult blacks, 18 or older, live here as adult whites, eight of 10 adults arrested for a crime in Washington are African American. Also, more blacks were arrested in wards where the majority of black residents live, and even in wards where fewer African Americans reside, they made up a disproportionately high percentage of arrestees. Further, nine out of 10 individuals arrested for drug offenses were black. Contrary to conventional wisdom, black people are no more prone to criminality than any other ethnic group. There are reasons the Committee pointed to, including conscious bias and institutional practices, that determine who is arrested and why. That’s why the committee provided the report so that residents and local policymakers can make informed policy choices, so they can “choose policies most likely to reduce the harm of drug use, adopt practices that help the city operate a justice system free of unconscious or conscious bias, and change systemic practices which may be having an unintended effect in generating these outcomes.” To her credit, Police Chief Kathy Lanier acknowledges the complex relationship between arrest rates and variables such as race, poverty, education, and employment. And like her, we hope that this is just the beginning of a substantive conversation that leads to concrete change.

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My job relocated me to the Washington D.C., area about a year ago from the west coast. After reading an article about your publisher, Denise Rolark-Barnes, in a Sunday magazine I decided to pick up a copy of the Washington Informer at a Metro station that I frequent. The article highlighting Ms. Rolark-Barnes talked about her father, who founded the paper, and how he wanted The Informer to focus on the positive news in the African-American community in the District. After reading the paper for several weeks now, not only does the Informer cover positive news, but it also has an insightful, fresh, and bold approach in reporting some of the important issues facing the African-American community. With so much going on in this city, as it pertains to the news, one can see how some good news can get overlooked, and that’s where, thankfully, The Informer steps in. Samuel Jones Alexandria, Va.

Hope Springs Eternal!

Stacy M. Brown’s article in the August 1, 2013 Sports Section, “Nationals Season a Swing and Miss” touches on several reasons why the Nationals are not having the kind of success many in the area thought they would have enjoyed this season. The Nationals’ 2012 season was nothing short of magical, but just because we had one of those years doesn’t automatically mean we will go further the next year. Baseball is a fickle sport and it’s not very predictable, but that’s why it’s so loved, anything can happen. The Nationals are a good team, but they are not a great team yet. Once our young players learn to win the games they have to win and they become the clubhouse leaders, then I think the Nationals will begin to have a steady march to becoming a consistent power player in the postseason. And then with a little magic we will for sure raise that World Series flag over Nationals Park.

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By James Clingman

The Profit of Protest – Definitely in the Black I am now doing what I said I would not. I am writing a column in which I mention the items Skittles and iced tea. I cringed every time I heard those words during the pursuit of justice for Trayvon Martin and his family, and throughout the trial of George Zimmerman. They became synonymous with Trayvon himself, and were mentioned just as much as his name. As far back as March 2012, demonstrations and pro-

tests were held, one of which took place in Liberty City, Fla. that featured protesters holding up bags of Skittles and cans of Arizona tea. In case you have not yet figured out the connection by reading the title of this article, as Booker T. Washington said many years ago, “Beneath politics, beneath education, even beneath religion, lies economics.” And I would add, even beneath protest lies profit. Understanding that nothing happens in this capitalistic society until something is sold, when I read

about the windfall profits of Wrigley and Mars, makers of Skittles, that truism hit home even more. It is safe to say that the vast majority of the protest items were purchased from stores that are not owned by Black people, which points once again to the fact they we prefer symbolism over substance. And in Liberty City, of all places, which was once a bastion of Black-owned businesses and economic empowerment for Black folks, according to a 1986 INC. magazine article by Joel Kotkin, titled, “The Reluctant Entre-

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preneurs,” the irony of profitable protests looms even larger. The article says, “Back in 1957, when Sonny Wright arrived in Miami, business was lively and vibrant in such black inner-city neighborhoods as Overtown and Liberty City. Independent laundries, restaurants, nightclubs, hotels–many of them black-owned –flourished along the main streets of the steamy resort city. ‘We had a thriving little business community,’ Wright remembers, ‘the black entertainers like Sammy Davis Jr. and Nat King Cole stayed in

our hotels. Blacks bought from blacks.’” “Wright continued, ‘now all that has changed. Ever since integration, everything is gone, the smart guys went to work for the government or moved to the suburbs. Nobody stayed around. Nobody created jobs in the community. Integration set everything downhill for black business in this town.’” Sad to say that now protesters of a senseless killing of a young Black man cannot even buy their

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By George E. Curry

Focus on Poverty, not the Middle Class March on Washington. The idea of organizing a Poor People’s Campaign was discussed during a Nov. 27-31, 1967 Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) planning session in Frogmore, S.C. With the nation’s attention focused on the Vietnam War, Dr. King wanted to redirect the conversation to what the Bible calls the least among us by focusing on jobs and income. Dr. King’s idea was to bring poor people from all over the

Several of us were sharing our views on radio Sunday night with Gary Byrd when my friend and colleague Cash Michaels urged us to remember that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated while organizing poor people. This is a good time to remember that as President Obama seeks ways to strengthen the middle class and civil rights leaders focus on celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Aug. 28, 1963

country to Washington, D.C. in order to put a face on the suffering of people. While still firmly committed to nonviolence, his plan was for a dramatic presence that would disrupt traffic and shut down the nation’s capital. “We ought to come in mule carts, in old trucks, any kind of transportation people can get their hands on. People ought to come to Washington, sit down if necessary in the middle of the streets and say, ‘We are here; we are poor; we don’t have any

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money; you have made us this way,’” King said. “And we’ve come to stay until you do something about it.” Just as his close advisers had urged him not to give his “I Have a Dream Speech” in 1963, variations of which they had heard earlier, most of Dr. King’s inner circle disagreed with his decision to embark on a Poor People’s Campaign. Children activists and former civil rights attorney Marian Wright Edelman recalled in

her book, Unfinished Business, “William Rutherford, who had organized the Friends of SCLC in Europe in 1966 and was appointed executive director of SCLC during the summer of 1967, declared that, ‘basically almost no one on the staff thought that the next priority, the next major movement, should be focused on poor people or the question of poverty in America.’ At the time James Bevel wanted

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By Ron Daniels

Boycott Florida: An Idea Whose Time Has Come In a recent article I called for economic sanctions against Florida to compel business and political leaders in that state to change the “Stand Your Ground Law” that provided the basis for the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. There are times when there is a convergence of ideas, a meeting of minds, such that a particular strategy has the potential to www.washingtoninformer.com

galvanize a movement. This appears to be one of those times. The idea of boycotting Florida is not a Ron Daniels idea or Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) call. Rather, it is one that is on the minds of many Black people all across the country. Dr. Patricia Newton, president emeritus, National Association of Black Psychiatrists, was so outraged by the Zimmerman verdict that she walked away from a $1 million dollar contract she was about to sign for a con-

ference in Florida. I met an elderly Black professional couple I met at Penn Station in Baltimore,[who were returning from a conference in Jacksonville, Fla.. When I asked if they would be going back to Florida next year, I had hardly gotten the words out of my mouth when the wife said that they discussed the murder of Trayvon Martin at the conference and had already resolved that they would not hold another convention in that state until there is significant change.

Of course, music legend Stevie Wonder said at a concert in Canada, “Until the Stand Your Ground Law is abolished I will never perform there again.” Since his pronouncement Eddie LeVert, Stephanie Mills, Dionne Warwick and Mary, Mary are among the artists who have publicly stated they will follow Wonder’s lead. While celebrities add credibility for the boycott, it will be the actions of the multitude of conscious, committed convention-goers, vacationers and

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consumers who will make the campaign effective. Economic sanctions against Florida are an idea whose time has come. Just as Katrina ripped the scab off and exposed the raw naked structural/institutional racism in distressed Black neighborhoods in America murder of Martin has ripped the scab off the persistent phenomenon of the criminalization of young Black men, racial profiling, stop-andfrisk and the structural/institu-

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By Julianne Malveaux

Student Loan ‘Solution’ is not Good Enough The United States Senate finally stepped up to ensure that student loan rates would not double. There have been weeks of back and forth, but now Senators says they will tie student loan rates to the federal funds rate, which means that in the short-run the lowest student loan rates will be 3.86 percent, up slightly from 3.4 percent. The bad news is that these loan rates may rise up to a

rate of 8.25 percent, depending on prevailing interest rates. All other loan rates, including those for graduate student, for Parent PLUS loans, and others, will rise as well. It may seem a victory that student loan rates don’t rise much higher than they were in June. The connection of rates to the federal funds rate, however, connects the notion of supporting student to the oscillations of the economy. We need talented students to enter the labor force, as encumbered as they might be,

whether the economy is rising or tanking. The notion that student loan rates will be tied to the federal funds rate offers students no security. One might argue that many have no economic security. The mortgage holder with a variable mortgage is subject to interest rate fluctuations as they manage a balloon payment. Those with underground mortgages are victims of interest rate variables as they try to dig themselves above ground. Surely, though, students who are financing their edu-

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cation in order to invest in the health of our nation should have different rules. When I graduated from college in 1974, interest rates hovered between 9 and 10 percent. The student loan interest rate was 2 percent. Why? My cohort was no more or less brilliant than any other. We were part of our nation’s plan for its future, which should be the case for today’s young people. Many hoped that the deal on student loan interest rates would take into account the federal funds rate (the rate to which the

Federal Reserve Bank offers to banks) is well below 1 percent. From that perspective, even the existing rate of 3.4 percent suggests that the government is taking in more than it gives out. It’s complicated – there are other costs that must be considered in the lending process. It’s complicated, but shouldn’t our students get as close to the same deal that banks and others get? Allowing student loan interest rates to fluctuate, to the detri-

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By Marian Wright Edelman

We Must Do Better: Look at the Facts Nearly 2,000 people attended Molly Conley’s funeral last month to mourn the young humanitarian who was the victim of a random drive-by shooting the day after her 15th birthday. She was shot in the neck while walking with friends to a sleepover in a residential neighborhood in Lake Stevens, Washington. Molly was a 4.0 student best known for her kindness which she used to encourage her parents to care for infants

waiting for foster families and to start a group called “Mother’s Helper” that raised money to aid victims of domestic abuse. Caldwell County, Mo. sheriff ’s deputies went to the home of the Curtis family after receiving an emergency call on January 11, 2012. Their 12-year-old son, Steven, had mishandled a gun and accidentally shot himself in the head. Steven loved playing football and being outside. He also spent a great deal of time hunting and grew up learning about gun safety and had a hunt-

er’s safety certification from the Conservation Department. In Breckenridge, Mo. —a town of just 450 people—hunting safety is an important part of the middle school’s agricultural curriculum. Steven’s father didn’t know how his son got the gun from a locked cabinet that was in their living room. Eleven-year-old Tayloni Mazyck was walking near her apartment building in Brooklyn, N.Y. on May 31, 2013 with her mother and niece when she was caught in gang-related crossfire.

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A bullet crashed into innocent Tayloni’s chin and lodged in her spine. These are three of the child and youth stories shared in the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF)’s new report Protect Children, Not Guns 2013—three of the 18,270 children and teens killed or injured by guns in America each year. Like Molly, Steven, and Tayloni, every one of these children deserved to live their whole lives. We can and must do better. CDF’s new report documents

the truth about guns and the facts about the preventable gun violence epidemic in our nation including the economic cost of gun violence; a state-by-state breakdown on gun deaths among children and teens; comparisons on gun violence rates between the United States and other high income countries; positive and negative state actions on gun violence prevention, and more. It also documents the progress made since the Newtown mas-

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By Askia Muhammad

Huge Progressive Victory in Mississippi Against the tsunami of all-things-conservative (including the governance by President Barack Obama) which has been dominating the political spectrum lately, a most refreshing political victory has occurred in the most unlikely of places. I’m going to make a bold declaration here. As I analyze the electoral history in this country over the last 100 years, the

election in June of Jackson City Councilmember Chokwe Lumumba as mayor of the capital of the Magnolia State is one of the most important progressive political victories in U.S. history! From Henry Wallace (33rd vice president, from 1941-1945 and Progressive Party candidate for president in 1948); to Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio); to Gary, Indiana Mayor Richard Hatcher; to anti-war activist turned California State Sen. Tom Hayden; to Chicago Mayor Harold Washington; to Rep. Keith

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Ellison (D-Minn.), to D.C. Mayor Marion Barry; to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.); the election of Lumumba with 87 percent of the votes cast, ranks among the most important progressive victories ever. It’s not hard to see that I hold Lumumba in very high esteem. Just saying his name and title out loud gives me a rush: “The Honorable Chokwe Lumumba, Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.” This was not a fluke victory, by the way. Lumumba won with a commanding 87 percent of the The Washington Informer

votes cast! The reason I’m all choked up over Chokwe is because during his career as an attorney and as a participant, he has been steadfast, representing some of the most radical clients in the civil rights era, from members of the Black Liberation Army, including fugitive Assata Shakur, godmother of musician Tupac Shakur (who was also one of his clients); to Jamaican musician Buju Banton; among others. Lumumba served as a vice president of the Republic of

New Africa, which claimed the five contiguous southern states – Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina – where a majority of the Black population resided in 1968 (and still resides today) as the home of the “Black nation” in North America. Lumumba is a cum laude graduate of the Wayne State Law School in Detroit, and is a founder of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. Now,

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Student civil rights activists join hands and sing as they prepare to leave Ohio to register black voters in Mississippi. The 1964 voter registration campaign was known as Freedom Summer. /Photo credit: Tom Polumbaum/Newseum Collection

By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer It would not be far-fetched to say that without the youth, vigor, energy and fearlessness of the young people who stood on the frontlines of the civil rights movement, it may have failed or achieved far less than it did. But beginning in the mid-1950s, the student foot soldiers of the modern civil rights movement put their bodies and lives on the line to topple the hated institution of segregation and pulled the United States back from the racial abyss. The year 1963 proved to be a seminal year for America and African Americans. On the civil rights calendar, it proved to be a crucial year in which those in the movement experienced heady victories, bruising setbacks and an assortment of challenges. To commemorate this monumental year of struggle and change, the Newseum opened an exhibit on Aug. 2, 2013, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Entitled “Make Some Noise: Students and the Civil Rights Movement,” the exhibit explores the new generation of student leaders in the early 1960s who battled segregation by exercising their First Amendment rights and who definitely made their voices heard. “A lot of things happened in 1963,” said Jonathan Thompson, www.washingtoninformer.com

the Newseum’s manager of media relations. The exhibit spotlights key figures in the student civil rights movement, including former D.C. Mayor and current Ward 8 Council member Marion S. Barry; Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.); Bob Moses, who served as a field secretary with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and director of SNCC’s Mississippi Project; Jim Bevel; Julian Bond, who served as chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; and Stokely Carmichael. It was through SNCC that young activists used direct action to defy and bring segregation to an end and break down the varied racial barriers erected in voting rights, education and the workplace. Frank Smith, Jr., executive director of the African American Civil War Museum in Northwest and a former local elected official, counted as one of those foot soldiers. While attending Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., in 1959, he dropped out of school, joined SNCC and worked in Mississippi for five years. One of his colleagues, the late Lawrence Guyot characterized the violent, anti-black nature of his home state this way: “There’s the United States, there’s the South and then there’s Mississippi.”

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“I got involved with a group at Morehouse. We protested segregation and other things going on with blacks, I left school, put college on hold and went to Mississippi,” said Smith, who served on the D.C. Council for 16 years. “I sacrificed my young years for a cause I believed in.” Smith said he and the other activists focused on voting rights and education. “We worked with people in church basements and lonely places,” he recalled. “They were mistreated when they went in to register and many of them failed the [literacy] tests. They were intimidated at home and on the job and their names were given to the Klan who came to their homes. It was a double-edged sword and it weighed on you. It was a danger for us but you knew that you were putting them in danger. It was a tough time but it ultimately changed America.” Smith, 70, said one aspect of those experiences still resonates all these years later. “[It is] the absolute courage, desire and determination of the people in Mississippi to register to vote,” he said. The exhibit’s title, “Make Some Noise,” is taken from a quote by Lewis, a pivotal figure in the civil rights movement as a young man. At one point, Lewis, 73, told his colleagues: “You’ve got to get out there and push and organize and agitate and stand up and make some noise…” When he was a boy, Lewis said he was inspired by the MontgomThe Washington Informer

ery Bus Boycott and the activism it engendered. He was also deeply affected by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose words he heard on radio broadcasts. As a result, he decided to become a part of the civil rights movement. As a Fisk University student, Lewis helped organize sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in Nashville, Tenn. In 1961, he volunteered to go on the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation at interstate bus terminals across the South. Lewis’ life was constantly at risk and white mobs beat him severely a number of times, while the police arrested him often for challenging Jim Crow. Lewis served as SNCC chairman from 1963 to 1966 for the organization largely responsible for coordinating student activism in the movement, including sit-ins, demonstrations, civil disobedience and other acts of defiance. Among other notable events in 1963: More than 250,000 people from around the country converged upon Washington, D.C. to take part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; the civil rights movement was in full swing with students actively engaged in boycotts, demonstrations, marches and sit-ins at lunch counters in cities large and small throughout the South; black and white Freedom Riders braved virulent racists in an effort to topple segregation in interstate travel; an assassin gunned down Civil Rights martyr Medgar Evers in his driveway; and four little girls were killed after a bomb tore through the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. In addition, President John F.

Kennedy made an unprecedented speech on civil rights where he promised to seek a new Civil Rights bill. The exhibit includes a section of the original F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where in 1960 four African-American college students launched the sit-in movement, as well as a bronze cast of the Birmingham, Ala., jail cell door from where King penned his famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail” in 1963. One of the statements emblazoned on a large exhibit wall poster comes from Lewis, often referred to as the “Conscience of Congress,” who said, “Without the media, the Civil Rights Movement would have been a bird without wings.” To that end, Thompson said, the Newseum will host a series of panel discussions and special events relating to civil rights and the roles the First Amendment and the news media played in that movement. These will be held throughout the year. In addition, the Newseum, located in Northwest, plans to make civil rights educational resources available for teachers around the world through its digital classroom. On Thursday, Aug. 22, the Newseum, in partnership with the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), will host a free evening program, “Covering Civil Rights: On the Front Lines.” The 7 p.m., program will include a special appearance by the Rev. Bernice King, chief executive officer of The King Center and daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. Rev. King will receive the NCNW’s 2013 Leadership Award. Moderated by Sirius XM Radio Host Joe Madison, the event will also feature a discussion with Simeon Booker, 94, a renowned journalist and author of “Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter’s Account of the Civil Rights Movement.” During his many years as a journalist, Booker chronicled the civil rights story while on the frontlines of the struggle. The program is free and open to the public. Thompson said the Newseum is also launching a three-year changing exhibit, “Civil Rights at 50,” which will be updated each year to chronicle milestones in the civil rights movement from 19631965 using historic front pages, magazines and news images. wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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“If you need me, call me. No matter where you are, no matter how far. Just call my name. I’ll be there in a hurry. On that you can depend and never worry.” -Diana Ross, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” 1970. By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer No mountain, or rain, nor summer heat, will keep Diana Ross from recreating her glitzy and glamour shows of bygone years, when she steps onto the stage to entertain thousands in the Greater Washington Metropolitan area. Affectionately known as, “The Boss,” the singer, actress and first lady of Motown has scheduled a Wednesday, Aug. 14, performance at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Va. “I’ve never seen her in person www.washingtoninformer.com

before, I’m ecstatic,” said Kenyetta Swertlow, a Southeast resident and lifelong fan of the superstar singer. “My friends and I bought our tickets months ago,” said Swertlow, 49. The performance will mark the 15th time that Marion Rollins would have seen Ross, 69, in concert. The Northeast resident plans to attend with her daughter, Nicole Matthews, 25. “I’m always [excited] when I see Diana Ross. I just can’t see her enough. It doesn’t matter if it’s the front row or the last seat in the house, I’m always happy because she is so amazing,” said Rollins, 54. Camille Cintron, a Wolf Trap spokesperson, said the more than 7,000-seat venue is expected to be filled to capacity for the concert. Earth, Wind & Fire, The Four Tops, The Temptations, and Comedian Bill Cosby are among the showbiz elite to have performed at Wolf Trap this season.

However, Ross’ appearance might be the most anticipated of all. “This show has proven to be very popular,” Cintron said. Born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross in Detroit, Mich., on March 26, 1944, Ross grew up in a housing project. As a child, Ross began singing in the choirs of Baptist churches throughout the Motor City. At 15, Ross, Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard and Barbara Martin formed the vocal group, The Primettes. Martin left the group shortly before the remaining members signed a recording contract with Motown Records. The trio emerged as the Supremes, the most celebrated female group in music history. Ross ultimately took over as lead singer and Motown changed

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ross continued from Page 33 the group’s name to, “Diana Ross and the Supremes.” From 1965 to 1969, the Supremes released a string of No. 1 records, including “Stop! In the Name of Love,” “Nothing But Heartaches,” and “Reflections.” Ballard was replaced in 1967 by Cindy Birdsong and, in 1970, Ross left to begin a solo career. The then-budding superstar worked with the songwriting team of Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, and her first two songs, “Reach Out and Touch Somebody’s Hand,” and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” topped the Billboard music charts and earned Ross her first Grammy nominations. “I think when we produced the first Diana Ross solo album, it was a big step for us. That is when I felt we had arrived,” said Simpson, 66, who with the late Nick Ashford, wrote a plethora of hit songs for artists at Motown and other labels. In 1972, Ross portrayed Billie Holiday in the biopic, “Lady Sings

the Blues,” which led to her first Academy Award nomination with co-stars Billy Dee Williams and the late Richard Pryor, who portrayed “Piano Man.” The film failed to capture an Oscar in large part due to Francis Ford Coppola’s classic, “The Godfather,” which predictably swept the awards that year. In 1975, she starred in, “Mahogany,” a movie about a poor African-American woman who achieved unrivaled success as a fashion designer in Rome. In 1976, Ross dazzled as the lead in, “The Wiz,” an urbanized retelling of L. Frank Baum’s, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Although, “Mahogany,” and “The Wiz,” failed to receive the rave reviews that accompanied, “Lady Sings the Blues,” Ross released the single, “The Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To,)” which reached No. 1 on the Billboard music charts in 1975. She followed that with, “Love Hangover,” another chart-topper. “Diana certainly knows more about music and putting on a

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great show than most others in the business,” fellow Motown legend Lionel Richie, 64, said in a recent interview. Richie helped Ross achieve her biggest selling single ever, the 1981 classic, “Endless Love.” Penned by Richie for the Franco Zeffirelli film of the same name, “Endless Love,” held the top spot on Billboard’s music charts for nine weeks. It also landed the former Commodores lead singer an Oscar nomination for the music score. Earlier this year, Billboard named, “Endless Love,” the No. 1 love song of all time. Last month, various media outlets, including a two-page New York Daily News feature, paid tribute to the 30th anniversary of Ross’ historic Central Park concert. With a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award under her belt, Ross proved there was, “No mountain high enough,” to keep her from the 450,000 fans who packed CenThe Washington Informer

tral Park’s Great Lawn during the memorable July 21, 1983 concert. “All of the big concerts had been [performed] by white [artists],” said former New York City Parks Commissioner Gordon Davis, who organized the show. “I was uncomfortable with that, so I began talking to (rock promoter) Ron Delsener about who might be a good fit. It wasn’t long before we decided on Diana.” At the time, the city was in the midst of a massive heat wave as temperatures hovered above 95 degrees, and thunderstorms loomed. However, Ross emerged on stage at about 6 p.m., wearing a multicolored coat. After she finished a dance number with Harlem’s Bernice Johnson dancers, Ross threw off the coat, to reveal a sequined orange bodysuit, grabbed a microphone and yelled, “Hello, New York!” before singing, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.” The roaring crowd stood shoulder-to-shoulder amid the darkening skies and high winds. As the first raindrops began to fall, Ross told the audience, “It took me a

lifetime to get here, and I’m not going anywhere.” However, the ever-glamorous Ross halted the show, but returned the next night to perform before a crowd of 350,000 star-struck fans. For the Wolf Trap show, Ross is expected to cover the various periods of her career in chronological order: Supreme, Diva, Disco Queen and Jazz Chanteuse. Her set list include hits like, “I’m Coming Out,” Why Do Fools Fall in Love,” “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Upside Down,” “Do You Know Where You’re Going To,” “Endless Love,” and the Michael Jackson-penned, “Muscles.” The singer is also expected to pay tribute to her idol, Holiday, by covering the late Jazz legend’s, “Fine and Mellow,” and “Don’t Explain.” “I’ve had the privilege of seeing Ross in concert,” said veteran music writer Jim Harrington. “I can attest that she knows how to put on a thoroughly entertaining show.”wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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ARIES Harmonious communications are part of your charm, and you’ll get far this week by speaking your word in an easy-going way. You’ll find that your domestic arrange‑ ments are very comfortable to you. Soul Affirmation: I let my words reveal the not-so-hidden truth about my being. Lucky Numbers: 3, 4, 12 TAURUS This week is a good week to get in touch with your emotional self. You will respond well to what people close to you will ask from you. Your loved ones will appreciate your kindness when they find out how highly sensitive you are to their needs. Soul Affirmation: My life itself is my greatest creation. Lucky Numbers: 8, 19, 54 GEMINI You know what you want and you have the ability to make it happen. Step into action at work this week and you will get a lot done. You can get what you want without being too demanding. Enjoy the time you have with your family. True rewards come from those who are related to you by blood. Soul Affirmation: Truth is revealed in the smallest grain of sand. Lucky Numbers: 2, 4, 6

The Kia Optima’s styling is not only sleek and sophisticated for a family sedan, but also impressive for any car in its price range. /Photo courtesy of Kia Motors America

Kia Optima’s Evocative Styling Draws in New Buyers By Njuguna Kabugi WI Contributing Writer With all of the new cars rolling out of American showrooms this summer, the midsize sedan stands out as the overall value leader. Whether a buyer’s primary concern is safety, fuel economy, style, comfort, or lots of features, any of the mainstream sales leaders – Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, Nissan Altima, Ford Fusion, Chevrolet Malibu or Volkswagen Passat – will have something to offer even the most discriminating buyer. However, if you are the underdog manufacturer, such as Korean carmaker Kia, you are only guaranteed survival if you play smart offense by offering sleeker designs, luxury-car features and better gas mileage before the establishment gets the inkling that you may harbor any ambitions. You also aim your appeal to a broader audience, from young families to downsizing baby boomers to people who want the look and feel of luxury but don’t want the cost. After driving this week’s test car, the Kia Optima, I can attest to why Kia is not only surviving but prospering in the recession-scarred, hypercompetitive U.S. market. The Optima’s combination of style and value,

which includes an outstanding powertrain and otherwise general competence, have put the established segment players on notice and propelled the midsize car to new heights as Kia’s sales leader. The Optima is gorgeously styled. With its subtle wedge shape, its clean and discreet application of the corporate “tiger-nose” grille, and excellently executed interior, this Kia stands out in a parking lot dominated by vanilla Camrys and Accords. Many Optima owners will tell you that onlookers are often puzzled the first time they see one. The car’s design draws onlookers in and one is likely to draw double-takes and looks of confusion when they realize they have been staring at a Kia. The Optima is also one of the best deals in its class, starting from $21,350, for a decently-equipped version. It has been rated second-cheapest among comparably-equipped models, trailing only the badly aged Avenger from Chrysler-Dodge. For a model equipped with power-operated leather seats, a heated steering wheel, heated and cooled front seats, heated rear seats, and a panoramic sunroof, a buyer can take home an Optima for under $28,000. We drove the SX Limited equipped

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with a very responsive 2-liter, direct-injection turbo 4-cylinder rated at 274 horsepower. Matched with a 6-speed Sportmatic transmission, the SX Limited is one of the quickest mid-sized cars yet it returns 2234 mpg on regular-grade fuel. I averaged 25 mpg in mostly city and suburban driving in Virginia and the District. My best – 28 mpg – was a roundtrip hop to BWI-Marshall airport from the District. While the top-of-the-line SX Limited presents the most luxurious Optima, I suspect many buyers will shy away from the “un-Kia like” pricing, the Achilles heel for the model. The real bargains are at the lower trims. Our test car came with a rather hefty price tag – $35,370 to be precise. While Kia piles the options galore – upgraded Nappa leather seat trim, soft black cloth on the roofliner and door pillars, false wood trim on the dash and steering wheel, an electronic parking brake, LED running lights, and unique chrome-finished alloy wheels with red-painted brake calipers – my take is these additions do not exponentially improve the car to what buyers expect at that entry level luxury price. wi The Washington Informer

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2Guns Blazes into D.C. Denzel Washington’s Latest Flick Hits Area Theaters By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Looking to do something he said was fun and comedic, Academy Award winner Denzel Washington has teamed with his friend, Mark Wahlberg in the latest summer blockbuster, “2Guns.” Directed by Baltasar KormÃkur, the action thriller, features two undercover agents with separate agendas, ulterior motives and conflicted loyalties. “I was looking to do something to have more fun, so when I read the script and heard that Mark was involved I was like, ‘Oh, I could be safe because Mark is not just funny, he has a warmth and heart about him,’” Washington, 58, told reporters prior to the film’s Friday, Aug. 2 release. “We’re buddies. It’s a buddy movie, so it was a chance to do that and to have fun.” The film debuted locally this week at the Regal Gallery Place Stadium 14 on Seventh Street and the AMC Mazza Gallerie on Wisconsin Avenue, both located in Northwest. The movie is also scheduled to run in several theaters throughout Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland. An international release has been scheduled in the United Kingdom on Friday, Aug. 16.

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Washington, who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2001 for his role as rogue cop, Alonzo Harris in the movie, “Training Day,” was born on Dec. 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. The aspiring news reporter, enrolled at Fordham University in New York but changed course when he caught the acting bug. After graduating, Washington moved to California and enrolled in the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. His big screen debut occurred 1981 with the film, “Carbon Copy” starring George Segal. Washington went onto star in NBC’s television drama, “St. Elsewhere,” before earning an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of, “Tripp,” the runaway slave in Edward Zwick’s 1988 film, “Glory.” His work in films such as “The Pelican Brief,” and “Philadelphia,” in 1993, firmly established Washington as one of Hollywood’s top box office draws. He has starred in many other critically-acclaimed films, including 1992’s “Malcolm X,” 1999’s, “The Hurricane,” 2004’s, “Man on Fire,” and “The Safe House,” a 2012 blockbuster. Until now, Washington had shunned comedy. The highly anticipated “2Guns” marks the first time Washington

and Wahlberg share the big screen together. “They emit an easy rapport, like Paul Newman and Robert Redford in ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,’ and Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in the ‘Lethal Weapon’ films,” said Patricia Reaney, a movie critic for Reuters news service in Northwest. Entertainment Weekly’s critic, Chris Nashawaty, said the film is a summer-time gem that he seemed surprised by and one that he enjoyed. “All I will say is that after months of big-screen bloat and bombast, ‘2Guns’ is a much-needed reminder that the best summer surprises can come when you least expect them,” Nashawaty said. The film tracks the lives of two operatives from competing law enforcement bureaus. They’re forced to depend upon one another, but, there’s a big problem with their unexpected partnership. Neither knows that the other is an undercover federal agent. Each distrusts his partner as much as the criminals they’ve been tasked to take down. When their attempt to infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel and recover millions of dollars goes haywire, they’re suddenly disavowed by their respective superiors and everyone wants them dead or in jail. “It’s about two guys. Usually, they’ll take the comedy guy, the really out there comedy guy, and the straight guy and put them together,” said Wahlberg, 42. “We didn’t want to do that. I felt like you had to have two really formidable opponents and to earn that camaraderie and to earn that trust in one another. That was really the movie.”wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi joins Dick Gregory on stage following the performance. /Photo courtesy of Chris Banks

Ayanna Gregory in Daughter of the Struggle, a one-woman play. /Photo by DR Barnes

Mom, Dad Witness ‘Daughter of the Struggle.’ Ayanna Gregory, daughter of civil rights activist Dick Gregory, performed her one-woman show, Daughter of the Struggle, before a sold-out audience at MetroStage on Thursday Aug. 1 in Alexandria, Va. Her father, Dick Gregory, her mother, Lillian Gregory and six of her 10 siblings attended the performance. Gregory sings, dances, and tells the story of growing up on the Gregory’s 200-acre farm in Plymouth, Mass., and pays tribute to her parents who risked their lives for the causes of civil and human rights.

Carolyn Griffin, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Gregory, Ayanna Gregory and Lillian Gregory. /Photo by Chris Banks

The Gregory Family: (L-R) Yohanse, parents Dick and Lillian Gregory, with sisters Satori, Ayanna, Michelle and Paula. /Photo by DR Barnes Ayanna Gregory in Daughter of the Struggle, a one-woman play. /Photo by DR Barnes

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D.C. United Defeat Montreal Impact 3-1 Montreal Impact midfielder Patrice Bernier goes one-on-one with D.C. United defender Dejan Jakovic in the first half of Major League Soccer action on Saturday, Aug. 3 at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Southeast. The United defeated Montreal 3-1. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Montreal Impact defender Matteo Ferrari uses his height and skill to his advantage and controls the soccer ball during the second half of Major League Soccer action on Saturday, Aug. 3 at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Southeast. The United defeated Montreal 3-1. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Montreal Impact goalkeeper Troy Perkins goes up high to make a save as Impact defender Dennis Iapichino and D.C. United forward and captain Dwayne de Rosario watch during the second half of Major League Soccer action on Saturday, Aug. 3 at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Southeast. The United defeated Montreal 3-1. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Former Mystics players Alana Beard and Lindsey Harding, who now play for the Los Angeles Sparks, double team Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kia Vaughn during the second quarter of WNBA action on Sunday, Aug. 4 at the Verizon Center in Northwest. The Sparks defeated the Mystics 75-57. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Washington Mystics forward Crystal Langhorne defend Los Angelesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ebony Hoffman as she scores two of her 23 points on Sunday, Aug. 4 at the Verizon Center in Northwest. The Sparks defeated the Mystics 75-57. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Los Angeles Sparks center Jantel Lavender is double teamed by Mystics forwards Crystal Langhorne and Emma Meesseman during the first quarter of WNBA action on Sunday, Aug. 4 at the Verizon Center in Northwest. The Sparks defeated the Mystics 7557. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Wizards Star Signs $80 Million Contract, at 22 By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer

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John Wall gritted his teeth and choked back tears as Washington Wizards executives announced details of the star guard’s new five year, $80 million deal during a news conference on Friday, Aug. 2 at Verizon Center in Northwest. However, it wasn’t long before emotions got the better of Wall as the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) latest millionaire recounted the journey that brought him from the roughand-tumble streets of Raleigh, N.C., to center court in Washington, D.C. “Losing my dad at 9, it made my mom do what I don’t think many women could,” Wall, 22, said as tears streamed down his cheeks. “She worked three-tofour jobs and, having six sisters and two brothers, I just had to work extra hard and I had to become a man [faster] than I wanted to.” Wall’s family, including his mother Frances, beamed with pride, as Wizards president Ernie Grunfeld put his hand on the young scoring machine’s shoulder, and the team’s owner, Ted Leonsis, declared the contract to be official. “I have genuine affection for John Wall,” said Leonsis, 56. “Since drafting him with the first overall pick in the 2010 NBA draft, we have been impressed with his maturation, hard work and commitment to our franchise. He is the cornerstone of our team, and we have clearly expressed our desire to build around him.” Wall holds career averages of 16.9 points, 8.0 assists, 4.4 rebounds and 1.5 steals in 184 career games. Those numbers place Wall in the same elite category as Milwaukee Bucks Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson, the great Los Angeles Lakers legend Magic Johnson and Los Angeles Clippers All-Star Chris Paul as the only players in NBA history to have averaged or are currently averaging at least 16 points, 8 assists and 4 rebounds over the course of their respective careers. Wall counts among the four players in NBA history to average at least 16.5 points, 7.5 assists, 4.0 rebounds and 1.5 steals over the first three years of a professional basketball career. “I am both proud and humThe Washington Informer

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bled by the belief that the Wizards organization, the fans and my teammates have shown in me since I arrived here three years ago,” Wall said. “I can promise all of them that I will repay that belief by representing the city of Washington and doing everything I can to get this team back where it belongs.” Wall, who recently returned from his second consecutive summer as part of the USA Basketball Men’s National Team mini-camp, is also the fastest player in NBA history to reach 2,200 points, 1,000 assists, 600 rebounds, 200 steals and 90 blocks. Also, no other active player has reached 900 career assists in as short a period as Wall, who achieved that milestone after only 111 games in the NBA. “John’s talent, ability and athleticism are unquestioned, but he is also a special player in terms of his will to win, unselfishness and ability to make his teammates better,” said Grunfeld, 58. “The impact he has in all of those areas was evident last season and we look forward to both him and the team reaching new levels of success together.” Last season, Wall averaged a career-high 18.5 points, a team-leading 7.6 assists, 4 rebounds and 1.3 steals in 49 games after having missed the

first 33 contests of the season due to injury. He joins LeBron James and Kobe Bryant as the only three players in the NBA last season to have averaged at least 22.0 points, 7.0 assists, 4.8 rebounds and 1.6 steals from March 1 through the end of the season. Wall earned the Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played March 11-17 after averaging 24.0 points, 11.0 assists, 5.0 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game while shooting .617 from the field, .800 from threepoint range and .857 from the free throw line while leading the Wizards to a 3-1 record. He scored a career-high 47 points vs. Memphis on March 25 and became the first player in NBA history to average at least 24 points, 11 assists, 5 rebounds, 2 steals, shoot at least .600 from the field, .800 from three-point range and .850 from the line in a four-game span. “My whole thing is, I was put on this earth to be something, and I was blessed to be able to play basketball, but my main thing was to keep striving to be a better person,” Wall said. “That’s one thing my mom always instilled in me and it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks of you as a basketball player, they’re always going to look at you as a person first.”wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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Domestic Violence â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Part 4

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Big Secretâ&#x20AC;? This week, a colleague suggested the story of Mildred Muhammad, the former wife of the D.C. sniper. She reveals the years of terror after her ex-husband John Muhammad threatened to kill her ... and how their children never had an opportunity to say goodbye to their father before his execution. Mildred D. Muhammad is a domestic violence survivor with a story to tell the world.Â Many know her first and foremost because of her former husband, John Allen Muhammad â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the convicted sniper who terrorized the Washington Metropolitan region in late 2002. AfterÂ several years of silence, Mildred Muhammad speaks openly about her dayto-day experiences as a survivor of domestic violence and how it affected her three children. Â She has been interviewed by the following correspondents and has appeared on a host of talk shows that include: Anderson Cooper, Kyra Philips â&#x20AC;&#x153;Headline News ~ Raising Americaâ&#x20AC;?,Â Ricki Lake, Katie Couric, Jane Velez Mitchell â&#x20AC;&#x153;Headline News ~ Issuesâ&#x20AC;?, The Huckabee Show, TruTVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ~ In Session, Larry King Live,Â The Tyra Banks Show, Good Morning America with Charlie Gibson, BET and others. Married for 10 years, her husband returned from the Gulf War a changed man, Mildred Muhammad said. When she filed for divorce, he threatened to kill her and subsequently kidnapped their children. She lived in fear that he would inevitably shoot and kill her. John Muhammad went on a rampage in 2002, fatally wound-

ing 10 persons â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mildred Muhammad said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was the person he was after.â&#x20AC;? She told Linda Warren, a columnist for Mail Online, how she spent years living in utter fear after he threatened to take her life. She revealed how he threatened to hunt her down after their 2000 divorce, snatched her three children and took them to Antigua for two years before they were finally tracked down by the police. Speaking with People magazine, Mildred Muhammad recounted how her husband left to serve in the Gulf War in 1990 and returned a changed man the following year. Her caring husband had morphed into an emotionally abusive man and began â&#x20AC;&#x153;treating me like his enemy,â&#x20AC;? she said. It prompted her to take out a restraining order against him and file for divorce. He kidnapped their children, then six, eight and 10, in 2001 however, police located them when John Muhammad tried to obtain food stamps â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allay her fears. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What most people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know is that I was the person he was after,â&#x20AC;? Mildred Muhammad told People. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two years prior, he [had] threatened to kill me when I asked for a divorce.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where John was or what he was doing, but I looked for him on the rooftops and nearby levees. He told me he was going to kill me, and I knew he would.â&#x20AC;? Mildred Muhammad has written a book about domestic abuse and tours the country talking

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about her experiences â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which she said are firmly in the past and no long haunt her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m so sorry that so many people were killed,â&#x20AC;? she added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not my fault. I was afraid of him like everyone else. I stopped being afraid, I guess, when they executed him on November 10, 2009.â&#x20AC;? Readers, this was a highly unusual case, but none of us will ever know when thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another person like John Muhammad on the loose. Just look at what an abusive temperament can do! Quit living in bondage and tell someone. Get help; call 911, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for your safety and could possibly save the lives of others. It is not what the Lord intends for any of us. My scripture for this column â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thou shall not kill.â&#x20AC;? And ladies, please get out of those violent situations, the Lord loves you, now you need to love yourselves!wi Lyndia Grant is an author, inspirational and motivational speaker, radio talk show host and columnist; if you would like Lyndia to serve as facilitator for your retreat or special event, call 202-518-3192. Tune in Fridays at 6 p.m., to the radio talk show, 1340 AM, WYCB, a Radio One Station.

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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

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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”

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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

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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

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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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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.

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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

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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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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

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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

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Rev. Alonzo Hart Pastor

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

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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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ing to do with George Zimmerman killing Trayvon Martin, and yet they have become “symbols” in the aftermath of his death. If young Martin had nothing in his hands that night, would it have made any difference? Absolutely not. Would it have made any difference at Emmett Till’s funeral if they announced what brand of bubble gum he bought in that store? Of course, not. But folks back then had a little more sense than we do now. They did not rush out and buy the bubble gum and wave it during their protests and mail it to the police chief of “Money,” (another irony) Miss. Now some may say this is a trivial thing and maybe even question why I chose to write about it. Well, my intention is to get us to see, once and for all, the role

clingman continued from Page 29 Skittles and tea from a Blackowned store in Liberty City and most other cities across this country. We protest while others profit. And as I said in my previous article, we count people “at” our protests while others count profits “from” our protests. Symbolism over substance. Arizona Beverage and Wrigley/Mars, although innocent and unattached to the tragedy, received windfalls from it. Mark my words, someone will soon, if they have not already, go to these two companies for money, thus, exploiting even further the death of Trayvon Martin. I wonder who will be first at that feeding trough. Quite honestly, Skittles and Arizona Iced tea had absolutely noth-

curry continued from Page 29 to remain focused on combating slums in northern cities, Hosea Williams promoted voter registration campaigns in the South, Jesse Jackson wanted to continue to develop Operation Breadbasket, and Andrew Young worried that SCLC’s budget of under a million dollars necessitated smaller campaigns in the South.” But Dr. King forged ahead, calling for $30 billion to be spent on anti-poverty measures, employment and housing construction. King was helping organize garbage workers in Memphis when he was assassinated. Ralph D. Abernathy, his successor and close friend, continued with plans for the Poor People’s Campaign. Instead of the militant protest Dr. King had envisioned, however, the highlight of the Poor People’s March to Washington was not shutting down the capital, but the erection of Resurrection City, a collection

Blacks play in the economics of this country – yes, even in the face of tragedy. I want us to understand how to keep the main thing the main thing in all that we do, especially when it comes to economic empowerment. If this article does not at least cause you to think about our collective actions and the futility thereof in many cases, if it does not make you know that many times our dollars just don’t make good sense, then I have failed to do my job. I will keep trying though; you can count on it.wi Jim Clingman, founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce, is the nation’s most prolific writer on economic empowerment for Black people. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati and can be reached through his Web site, blackonomics.com.

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among working-class Whites has grown faster than among working-class non-Whites, rising 3 percentage points to 11 percent. Still, poverty among working-class non-Whites remains about double that of Whites. This is no time to keep Dr. King frozen in the memory of the 1963 March on Washington or his “I Have a Dream” speech while neglecting his true calling to eradicate poverty five years later. As he said, “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”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. Curry can be reached through his Web site, www.georgecurry.com. You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge and George E. Curry Fan Page on Facebook.

law is about justice for Martin, but it is also about all of the Trayvons in the state of Florida and across the nation who are victims of criminalization and racial profiling. It is about Black people consciously and collectively standing our ground against the attacks on the gains of the civil rights/ human rights/Black power movements, the abandonment and disinvestment in distressed Black communities and the daily indignities we have quietly suffered for far too long. The major component of the campaign should be to shut off

tourism to Florida. This meansDovellWilliamsMDDC3.79x2.indd spend as little money/cash in the 1 Black organizations should not state as possible. This campaign schedule conferences/conven- requires that kind of discipline. tions in that state until the law is Do not schedule a vacation in changed. Groups that have al- Florida until victory is won. Do ready scheduled conferences six not travel to an amusement park months to a year out should seek in the “tragic kingdom” or golf to cancel the agreements and noti- tournament until victory is won. fy the venues that Black people no And don’t purchase or drink any longer feel safe to travel to Flor- Florida orange juice. IBW has posted a petition on ida, particularly with their sons. An option is to hold conferences/ its website www.ibw21.org where conventions at a Black College/ organizations, leaders and individUniversity or Black owned retreat uals can sign a pledge to boycott centers. In the event that your Florida. Finally, while this camconference is already scheduled paign is spearheaded by Black in the next few months, resolve to people, we obviously appeal to

tional racism in America’s criminal justice system. At the end of the day, not only must we seek a conviction of Zimmerman, we must also indict and fight to change the law that is so flawed that it would permit an armed adult to pursue an unarmed teenager deemed “suspicious” and permit a grown man to kill a kid who fearfully sought to stand his ground against a menacing stranger. Fighting to change this flawed www.washingtoninformer.com

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of tents pitched in D.C. Various executive agencies were lobbied on behalf of the poor and leaders called for an Economic Bill of Rights. The shantytown was disbanded after six weeks. In the view of many observers, Dr. King posed a greater threat to the power structure when he began organizing poor Blacks and Whites. But there is an even better opportunity to unite poor people today because so many Whites have become impoverished as a result of a recession and high unemployment. Poverty is officially defined as a family of four living off of $23,021 or less a year. Today, a record 46.2 million people –15 percent of the U.S. population – are considered poor. The Associated Press reported: For the first time since 1975, the number of White single-mother households living in poverty with children has surpassed or equaled Black ones in the past decade. Since 2000, the poverty rate

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that the average debt for those who borrow is closer to $40,000. Many students with a talent for organizing, human resource allocation, or classroom teaching are diverted from their goals because their first priority is to pay student loan debt. We are starving our civil society institution, and those who would serve them, by placing money over affinity and creativity. This has been happening for decades, but the current student loan dustup reminds us that we have not provided the safe space for our young people that we should. The Senate bill passed 80-18 with some Democrats rejecting it because of its flaws. Others, like the progressive Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), elected as a financial whiz and people’s

advocate, chose to go with the one-year “okey-doke” rather than dig her heels in for the long run fight. In some ways, Warren is right. The finger in the dike approach saves students this year, and so it is better than nothing. When, though, is better than nothing simply not good enough. Stay tuned. The vote on reauthorization of the Higher Education Act will happen next year. Are students waiting and watching? What about parents? Is there a political lobby to turn this mess around?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.

sacre and lists steps for continuing action with urgency and persistence. What can you do? Urge your members of Congress to protect children from gun violence by supporting this year common sense gun violence prevention measures including universal background checks and limits on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines. We also need policies that support consumer product safety standards for all guns, public funding for gun violence prevention research, and resources and authority for law enforcement agencies to properly enforce gun safety laws. Parents, consider removing guns from your home and be vigilant about where your

children play. Boycott products and places that glamorize and normalize dangerous weapons and violence. Have we been fighting the wrong wars to keep our children safe? Nearly five times more children and teens were killed by guns in 2010 than U.S. soldiers killed in action that year in Iraq and Afghanistan. America’s military and law enforcement agencies have 4 million guns. Our citizens have 310 million. And we have no idea how many of those guns were purchased without a background check. The gun lobby has been enriching gun manufacturers at the expense of our children’s safety for far too long. For years the National Rifle Association has blocked the truth and actively fought against the passage and enforcement of gun safety

laws. Please use the resources in Protect Children, Not Guns 2013 to find the latest research and actions you can take to protect children, not guns, in your home, in your community, and as a citizen to help create a better, safer America for all children. Together we can—and must—do better right now. So many child lives depend on it.wi Marian Wright Edelman is president of the Children’s Defense Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information go to www.childrensdefense.org.

ic status: “from worst to first.” The state’s Black population is “officially” 40 percent of the total (which means more like 50-50 considering all the Black folks who are intentionally not counted in the official census), and in practically every economic, social, and educational category measured, Mississippi is in 50th place among the United States. That means Black folks (who are automatically at the bottom of the state’s local demographics) therefore are worse off in Mississippi than in some Third World countries like Cuba, The Bahamas, the Philippines, and even Libya.

His inauguration was on July 1, at which time he told this writer, he would “get started toward our course of building Jackson and doing the things that we need to do to assure that the population of Jackson is entitled to economic and political prosperity and self determination; and that we do things to ignite changes in Mississippi period.” His White conservative adversaries, who had no hope of fielding a candidate of their own because of Jackson’s 80 percent Black population, nonetheless outspent the Lumumba campaign by a margin of at least 2-1, pouring more than $500,000

(and possibly as much as $1 million) into the campaign of their surrogate candidate, compared to $250,000 spent by the victor. But in the end, this progressive lion – Jackson, Mississippi Mayor Chokwe Lumumba – was able to prevail, and in so doing move the city and Black people in the state of Mississippi and everywhere else closer to a progressive ideal, adopting as their motto, an adaptation of a coda popularized 100 years ago by the Right Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Jackson’s new theme: “One City. One Aim. One Destiny.”wi

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Muhammad continued from Page 30 he is mayor of the capital of the state which gave the world Jefferson Finis Davis, a “stiffnecked, unbending, doctrinaire, and overbearing” former U.S. Senator and Secretary of War, who became president of the treasonous Confederate States of America. That is what you call a real turnaround, and it just goes to validate the wisdom of Dr. Mar-

tin Luther King Jr., who constantly advised us: “The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Lumumba’s election in June is a sign that what was once a smoldering ember is now a flickering flame, soon to be a torchlight of justice in Mississippi, the most recalcitrant slave-holding state in this country. Now, this Brother in the Struggle is intent on helping to change Mississippi’s demograph-

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