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Participants of MLK Peace Walk Honor Icon By James Wright WI Staff Writer Hundreds of marchers participated in the annual peace walk to honor the work and the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on his federal holiday recently. On Monday, Jan. 20, District residents from across the city
met at the headquarters of the United Black Fund in Southeast to walk to the Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ in Southwest to remember the work of King. Andy Shallal, a candidate for mayor of the District, said that he was happy to participate in the peace walk. King, America’s pre-eminent
civil rights activist and agitator against more than a century of Jim Crow and segregation in the southern United States would have been 85 this year. An assassin’s bullet cut his life short at age 39 while he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tenn. King’s presence in that city was to support sanitation
workers who sought higher wages and better working conditions. “This is a gorgeous day to celebrate Dr. King,” said Shallal, a 59-year-old social entrepreneur, businessman and founder of the Busboys and Poets and Eatonville restaurants. “This is the best place to be in the city.” Across the United States, in-
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AROUND THEBreak REGION the Cycle of Women Domestic Violence By Tia Carol Jones
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, old daughter told her the father survivors are treated. more rights for victim's families of her daughter threatened her “She's using her own personal to intervene on behalf of a viclife, and the life of their child, story, her own personal pain to tim, a domestic violence assessshe 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 Protecof the situation, she decided to who reads Marlow's book will tion Act and mandatory counselstart the Saving Promise cam- “get it.” She said she “puts the ing for batterers. paign. a way, the average “If we ever going toaeradiA biomedical neuroscience student listenscase closelyinassuch a panelist gives advice about securing an are internship during caseems to be by a vicious cycleHopeperson can getJan. it.”18 She at the Community cate domestic violence, we must reer“Itclinic sponsored Generation on Saturday, at said Metropolitan Church in Northwest. that won't my family end of the day, the book will look at both sides of the coin. /Photo by Shevryturn Lassiter loose,” Marlow said. Marlow help people begin to have a dia- We need to address both the vicshared her story with the audi- logue about domestic violence. tim and the batterer,” Marlow ence at the District Heights Also present at the event was said. Domestic Violence Symposium Mildred Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see on May 7 at the District Heights wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise Municipal Center. The sympo- who was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in sium was sponsored by the utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She are also to secure full-time emFamily and Collins Youth Services time By Sam P.K. by a came Maryland jury for his role in and feelsthere children needteens to be coming educatCenter of the city of District ployment. Scholars later received the Beltway Sniper attacks in ed about out of jail domestic who wantviolence. to get back WI Contributing Writer Heights and the National Hook- copies 2002. ofMildred Good Self,Muhammad Bad Self, famedis on “We stop being pas@sampkcollins track,”have saidtoHilliard, 24, a stuUp of Black Women. the founder of After expert the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chilcrisis management Judy dent at Montgomery College in Marlow has written a book, an organization thatpersevering helps the dren about domestic violence,” book about A group that included an attor- Smith’s “Color Me Butterfly,” which is a through survivors professional, of domestic personal, violence Takoma Marlow Park, said. Md. and a mother ney, representastorya public about relations four generations of and of a seven-year son. “Ito ambreak moandfinancial their children. Marlow hasold worked difficulties. tive, two nonprofit andis domestic violence.executives, The book “I lived in fear for six years. Six the cycle of abuse in her family, tivated to get a bachelor’s degree Maaden Eshete, co-founder ainspired businesswoman recently impartby her own experiences, years in fear is a long time. It is and is confident the policies she and and outreach in four years and go for a master’s ed pearls of wisdom about naviand those of her grandmother, not communications an easy thing to come out is pushing for will start that of Divas, MPH, a College degree after. [As a youth services gating their career to nearly lead her mother and fields her daughter. of,” she said. process. Park-based nonprofit organization 20 duringshe a career Sheyoung said mothers every time reads [assist] who Mildred Muhammad said provider], “I plan Itocan take theseteens policies to helpswho women maintain physi-a do clinic at Metropolitan Community excerpts from her book, she still that people want to help Congress and about implore them to not know [programs] spiritual,violence and mental wellness, can notofbelieve the words came cal, Church Washington in Northdomestic victim must that change our laws,”The Marlow said. are available. discussion thehow youngthey mothers to from her. “Color Me Butterfly” encouraged be careful of go into “I will not stop until these poliwest. mepassed.” realize that no matter won the 2007Hope, National “Best pursue the careers of their choice, made the victim's life, and understand cies are Generation a Norththe type of degree, Books” Award. that ifshe may be “survival Tia Carol Jones you cancan be pursue reached it doesn’t fall in in line with west-based nonprofit that helps even “I was just 16-years-old when mode”. at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net career you want,” said teen parents living in the D.C. what they study. Eshete recalled whatever my eye first area blackened andtheir my conducting “Before you get to in 'I'mlaboragoing Hilliard who lives in Northwest. research metropolitan complete lips bled,” Marlow said. to kill you,' it started as a verbal WI undergraduate studies, organized tories for a couple years before Event planner Yodit Gebreyes Elaine Davis-Nickens, presilosing interest. She enrolled in the the in conjunction said that she enjoys building her dentJan. of 18 theevent National Hook-Up with The Rising Professional, a Morgan State University School own business, even though it reof Black Women, said there is no Silver Spring,in Md.-based consistency the way organizadomestic of Community Health and Policy quires that she works more than tion committed to career enhanceviolence issues are dealt with by and gained tools that would help ment of young professionals. The her directly affect change at the 15 hours per day. She implored the young women to carry out career clinic provided the young community level. “[This kind of information] is their goals, which included social mothers, also known as Generation Hope Scholars, an opportuni- valuable because we don’t live in work, biomedical engineering, and ty to create concrete plans to reach a vacuum,” said Eshete, 30. “We law, no matter how difficult it may live in a community so we have to their professional goals. seem. “This career clinic is meant to share stories [that] motivate peo“I love coming to these ciropen these women’s eyes to var- ple to take the next step. If I can ious professional opportunities,” pay it forward, then that’s import- cles. It’s a great networking opsaid Jenna Boyer, a panelist and ant. I hope that these women stay portunity,” said Gebreyes, 27, founding director of The Rising the course. Despite their obstacles, owner of Favored by Yodit, an Professional. “For young mothers, they can achieve the success,” said event planning company based [it’s especially important to] gain Eshete who lives in Baltimore. in Annandale, Va. “My hope is Eshete’s advice resonated with income when you leave college that [the young women] have the and enter the professional world,” Tonika Hilliard, who joined Gensaid Boyer who lives in Silver eration Hope nearly six months courage to follow their dreams. ago. She said wants to help teen- I heard them mention a lot of Spring, Md. to see Much of the afternoon’s dis- age boys of color reintegrate into great paths. It’s wonderful L.Y. Marlow cussion focused on balancing society upon their return from the that it’s not entertainment and the demands of a personal life juvenile justice system. Hilliard media. These are great careers with that of a career. Some pan- said that listening to the panelists that will help the community,” elists shared what they described put to ease her concerns about said Gebreyes who lives in Rossas unique paths to realizing their pursuing the career of her choice. / www.washingtoninformer.com career goals. Others reflected on “There are [young men] in my lyn, Va. wi Like The Washington Informer on the impact of their internship neighborhood who don’t know experience, especially when the about services that are available Facebook. Follow us on Twitter WI Staff Writer
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A little-known part of the Alexandria, Va. City Code may be coming to an end. The Alexandria City Council is considering eliminating a section of the Code requiring all new northsouth roads to be named for “Confederate Military Leaders.” The legislation would also eliminate the naming of Alexandria’s streets which run in a general east-west direction after prominent persons or places in American history. It does not change the streets already named for Confederate military officers. “This is part of a larger effort we have underway to review and repeal old parts of the City Code,” said Justin M. Wilson, 34, the city council member who introduced the measure on January 14, to stop the practice. Wilson said the section of the Code regarding street names was discovered in the course of an overall City Code review. “This Code section is clearly anachronistic in our city in 2014,” Wilson said of the streets-naming section, which was enacted in 1963. “There is no effort to rename existing streets [in Alexandria] at this time, given the cost and disruption of doing so. But [ending this section of the Code] will ensure that any new streets are named after figures representing the full history of our city in the future.” Wilson said that there has been no opposition to his bill. “The ordinance was advanced on January 14 on First Reading by a 7-0 vote, including the Mayor [William D. Euille],” he said. Eugene R. Thompson, 68, an Alexandria resident with an African-American history museum background, agrees that there should be no City Code requirement that new streets be named for Confederate officers. “If a street needs a name, any citizen of Alexandria should have the right to suggest names, with the city council having approval of those names,” he said. “As an African-American growing up in this Southern city, I never thought that we would have streets named for African-Americans,” Thompson added. “Today we have streets
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named for Mayor Euille, Police Chief Earl Cook, and former school board president Ferdinand Day [among others]. I applaud Councilman Wilson’s suggestion to drop the [new streets named for Confederate officers] requirement.” Whether the measure remains unopposed as it heads to a final city council vote later this month is difficult to determine, said Toni-Michelle C. Travis, associate professor of Government and Politics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. “There’s certainly a contingent that will probably want that section of the Code retained,” she said. “History is revered in Virginia. It’s really important,” said Travis. “Remember the controversy generated when Virginia’s Lee-Jackson state holiday was Lee-Jackson-King Day, observing together the birthdates of Confederate military officers Robert E. Lee and Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson with that of Dr. King.” The practice ended in 2000, when Virginia’s General Assembly voted for the Commonwealth to observe Lee-Jackson Day as a separate holiday on the Friday before the Monday in January when the King federal
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1891 – Pioneering black surgeon, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, helps found Provident Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The hospital becomes one of the main teaching and training facilities for black doctors and nurses who had frequently been denied entrance to white-owned medical facilities. 1977 The highly acclaimed television mini-series “Roots” begins airing on ABC. The series was based on a novel by Alex Haley who also wrote the “Autobiography of Malcolm X.”
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1874 – Arthur Schomburg is born Arturo Alfonso Schomburg in Puerto Rico. After moving to New York City in April 1891, he became known as the “Sherlock Holmes” of Black history because of his relentless search for Black historical truths and accomplishments. His drive to discover Black history was sparked by a 5th-grade teacher who told him “Black people had no history, no heroes, no great moments.” He eventually collected over 10,000 volumes on black history in America, the Caribbean and Latin America. His collection became part of the New York Public Library system.
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1851 – The first Black Women’s Rights Convention is held in Akron, Ohio. The keynote speaker was anti-slavery activist Sojourner Truth. 1980 – Black Entertainment Television (BET), the first black owned company listed on the New
York Stock Exchange, begins broadcasting from its headquarters in Washington, D.C. While still black programmed, BET is now owned by media conglomerate Viacom.
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1893 – “Queen Bess,” Bessie Coleman, the nation’s first black female aviator, is born in the small town of Atlanta, Texas. Coleman was also the first African American (male or female) to earn an international pilot’s license. Because of the racism and sexism in America, she had to travel to France to earn the license. 1944 – Political activist Angela Davis is born in Birmingham, Alabama. She was a brilliant scholar and philosopher who made the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list because of her suspected involvement in the violent August 7, 1970 courthouse attempt to free jailed black revolutionary inmate George Jackson.
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1953 – One of black America’s most gifted novelists, Ralph Ellison, wins the prestigious National Book Award with his powerful novel “The Invisible Man.” The novel helped him achieve international fame. The main character constantly escapes one disaster after another. The disasters are brought on by a combination virulent racism and the character’s own naivete. Ellison was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1961 – Opera diva Leontyne Price makes her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
1972 - Mahalia Jackson, considered the greatest gospel singer that ever lived, dies of heart failure on this day near Chicago (Evergreen Park) Illinois. She was born in New Orleans. Among her greatest songs were “Did It Rain,” “Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho,” and “When the Saints Go Marching In.”
January 28 1938 – Crystal Byrd Fauset becomes the first black woman elected to a state legislature when she wins a seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. 1944 – Matthew Henson receives a medal from the U.S. Congress for being co-discoverer of the North Pole along with Robert Peary. The medal, however, came 35 years after the historic feat. 1989 – After 62 years and numerous protests, the Colgate-Palmolive Company ends the sale of “Darkie Toothpaste.” The toothpaste which was only sold in Asia was renamed “Darlie” and the Sambo-style character on the tube was dropped.
January 29 1837 – The great Russian literary genius Alexander Pushkin dies on this day as a result of a duel. He is generally considered Russia’s greatest poet. Unlike many famous Europeans of color, Pushkin was proud of his black heritage.
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Washington, D.C. I feel Dr. King’s main legacy in my life is one of aspiration. If you don’t aspire, you can’t achieve. I have tried to follow in his footsteps and aspire for greatness. Dr. King always persevered, and despite all of the obstacles he had to overcome, he never gave up. I really admire his perseverance and personal fortitude.
Frederick Steiner
Washington, D.C. I think all of us have benefitted from a more open and free society. The more we increase the level of meritocracy [in our society], the more [opportunities] will exist. Dr. King was a wonderful example of someone who created social change through nonviolent means. His message is an example to all who wish to change society.
AS MONDAY MARKED DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., DAY, WHAT IMPACT DOES THE CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEER’S LEGACY HAVE ON YOUR LIFE? WHICH OF HIS TEACHINGS AND PHILOSOPHIES DO YOU STRIVE TO ACHIEVE ON A DAILY BASIS?
Sharvell Becton
Washington, D.C. My life has been about [promoting] social justice and fairness. The work I do now – with the AARP Experience Corps – matches people who are 50 and older in elementary school classrooms to help children become better readers. To me, it’s very in line with Dr. King’s teachings about education. In one way or another, [social justice and fairness] is an ideal that I’ve promoted throughout my life.
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Washington, D.C. I’ve really tried to continue Dr. King’s legacy of reducing academic injustice. I’m interested and involved in public policy, and using that as a vehicle to reduce inequality was an important part of Dr. King’s legacy. While Dr. King is most known for his fight for civil rights, he also spoke about economic justice in a civil rights context. I also admire and respect Dr. King’s message of persistence and the pursuit of working toward your goals.
Daisy Savoy
Washington, D.C. I’ve always tried to instill in my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren the importance of treating others fairly. I wish that people – whether on the job, or just in day-to-day life – would continue his legacy of treating others fairly. It’s something that society seems to struggle a lot with these days – especially our own people. Many people seem to have forgotten the things Dr. King taught us.
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his wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia, helped prepare and feed hundreds of needy D.C. residents at the DC Central Kitchen in Northwest. Meanwhile, Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D), who normally participates in the King procession, made a presentation at the MLK statue at the National Mall on Monday. Obama said he was on hand to help the organization mark its 25th anniversary. Senior Administration official and Obama friend Valeria Jarrett joined the Obamas. DC Central Kitchen prepares about 5,000 meals daily to at-risk and low-income residents. Vice President Joe Biden spent the morning at the National Action Network’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast, and later joined members of the Catholic Volunteer Network to serve a hot lunch at So Others Might Eat (SOME). Obama cabinet officials such as Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, also took part in other holiday-related activities. A White House statement captured the day’s purpose. “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dedicated his life to improving the world in which he lived – and challenged the rest of us to do the same. He not only championed equal rights but also equal access to economic opportunity for all Americans. This year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service will honor his legacy as hundreds of thousands of Americans pay tribute by serving their communities on Monday, January 20.” “MLK Day exemplifies this spirit as individuals and families around the country come together on this day every year to strengthen their communities through service and volunteering. Through their deeds, they demonstrate that service can accelerate progress on our most pressing priorities.” The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade began in 1979, the brainchild of Calvin and Wilhelmina Rolark, co-founders of the Washington Informer newspaper and local radio personality and activist Petey Greene. The Peace Walk started when a controversy arose in 2006 over an idea by D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) to hold the event in the spring because of the possibility of inclement weather. Barry did not participate in this year’s activities because of illness. Denise Rolark Barnes, publisher of the Washington Informer, Yango Sawyer, an activist for returning citizens, Ward 6 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Keith Silver, and others, came up with the idea of a peace walk a year later to symbolize the community’s stand against violence. “Violence is everywhere,” Sawyer said. “When there is violence in SouthThe Washington Informer
Barry LeNoir, president of the United Black Fund, gives remarks before the start of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Walk held in Southeast on Monday, Jan. 20. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah
east, there is violence in the [Democratic Republic of the] Congo.” Sawyer said this year’s march honors the late South Africa President Nelson Mandela, who died last month. Mandela, 95, carried on a similar struggle against white domination halfway across the globe in South Africa. From the time he was a young man, Mandela immersed himself in activities that confronted the white minority regime at every turn. After years of fighting the apartheid government using non-violent means, Mandela eventually turned to armed conflict by helping create Umkhonto we Sizwe or Spear of the Nation. Beginning in June 1961, the organization launched a series of retaliatory strikes against government installations and facilities. Umkhonto we Sizwe was eventually classified as a terrorist organization by the South African government and the United States. Mandela served 27 years in prison after being found guilty of treason but on his release on Feb. 11, 1990, he became South Africa’s first black president. Since Mandela’s death, admirers, pundits and other observers have been comparing and contrasting the lives and legacies of the Nobel Peace laureates. Barry LeNoir, the president and chief executive officer of the United Black Fund (UBF), said that the peace walk has other purposes as well. The UBF is a social service organization that the Rolarks founded in 1969 to provide economic, educational, vocational and professional uplift to people of color. “We’re walking for peace...and a piece of the pie,” LeNoir said, referring to economic development in Southeast. “We’re walking for Frederick Douglass, we’re walking for Thurgood Marshall and we’re walking for Mary McLeod Bethune, all of whom fought for us as a people.” D.C. Council members and mayoral candidates Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) and Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4), former State Department official Reta Jo Lewis joined Shallal by walk-
ing several blocks or the entire route shaking hands and greeting observers. D.C. Council At-large candidates Nate Bennett-Fleming (D), John Settles III (D), Robert White (I) and Eugene Puryear (D.C. Statehood Green) marched with their supporters and greeted parade observers. Many of the candidates had other engagements to attend or had to depart while the peace walk took place. Bowser, 41, stopped by Calvin Coolidge High School in Northwest to encourage residents to clean up the school. Later, she made a short speech at the Congress Heights Main Streets luncheon that took place at the Imagine Public Charter School in Southeast. Bowser encouraged the crowd at the luncheon to use the H Street model of development, but cautioned against displacement of longtime residents. Shallal attended an event at the Lincoln Theatre in Northwest before he and his contingent made the trek to Southeast for the peace walk. KAGRO, a Korean-American dance group and members of the Embassy of El Salvador, also had marchers in the walk. At Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ, March participants watched several performances from young people who spoke, sang and danced illustrating what King meant to them. Art Slater, who lives in Northwest, said that he enjoyed the walk. “You need an expression of peace and activism together,” he said. “You need them both.” However, not everyone agreed that the walk is a good thing. “I think it was much better when there was no holiday,” said Marion Moore, 74, who lives in Southeast. “White people weren’t interested then and there were horses, clowns and balloons. You don’t have that now.”wi WI Staff Writer Barrington M. Salmon contributed to this story.
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Henderson Criticizes McDuffie Kathy Henderson, the advisory neighborhood commissioner for single-member district 5D05 and the chairman for 5D, has decided to challenge D.C. Council Chairman Pro Tem Kenyan McDuffie in the Tuesday, April 1 Democratic Party primary. Henderson believes she can do a better job. “I have an exceptional record of service in the community and I will stand up and deliver for Ward 5,” said Henderson, 51. “McDuffie wants us to vote for him for another term because he is removed from scandal but that is not enough. I have a record of improving sidewalks, making sure that there is adequate lightning on our streets and working well with the Fifth District Police Station.” Henderson has been recognized for her work in fighting open-air drug markets in areas of Northeast such as Langston Terrace, Carver Terrace and Trinidad/Ivy City. She has appeared on “The Montel Williams Show” and has been profiled in Essence and People magazines. The Fifth District has awarded her its “Civilian of the Year” twice and its coveted “Commander’s Award” and she has been honored by such agencies and organizations as the District’s U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Ward 5 Democrats and CSOSA (Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency). She ran for the Ward 5 D.C. Council seat in 2006 and in the special election in May 2012 in which McDuffie prevailed. Henderson said that some Ward 5 residents have discouraged her from running in the primary because they see a bright political future for McDuffie. “I have heard some say that they want him to take Eleanor’s [D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton] place but he has not done the job he has now sufficiently to justify that type of talk,” she said. “He is weak on the issues and does not show up to community meetings. If I am elected to the council, the phone will always be answered in my office.” D.C. Statehood Has Strong National Support The leaders of Stand Up! for Democracy in DC Coalition re-
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cently released a poll showing growing support for the District as the next admitted state in the union. “The results of our random survey shows that the vast majority of people supporting D.C. statehood and that the more they know about our colonial status, the more likely they are to support it,” said Anise Jenkins, the president and executive director of Stand Up! “This survey provides valuable data that we plan to use in support of furthering efforts to make D.C. the 51st state.” The project received the support of the Executive Office of the Mayor and the Office of the Secretary of the District of Columbia. Volunteers working on the project compiled data by conducting face-to-face interviews and on the organization’s website. Seventy-three percent of those surveyed supported D.C. statehood. Fifty-nine percent of those who did not support D.C. statehood said that they did not know that the city did not have voting representation in the U.S. Congress and 79 percent did not know that District residents pay the highest federal taxes in the country. Thirty-one percent of those who rejected D.C. statehood initially in the survey changed their mind. Jenkins, 63, said that the poll results are useful. “We are greatly encouraged by the survey results and believe that it can be used as a basis for further efforts toward achieving D.C. statehood in the very near future,” Jenkins said. Evans Supports East End BIDs D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) and a candidate for District mayor, has sponsored a bill that would create BIDs (Business Improvement Districts) in Wards 7 and 8. The bill, entitled the “Business Improvement District Economic Development Act of 2014” would provide for the creation of BIDs with financial assistance of up to $500,000 for five years while a business tax base is further established within a given BID area. The bill will be funded by shifting funding for the Howard University Town Center in Northwest, which is having problems with its developer. BIDs are commercial areas of the city that collect a self-imposed tax from property owners
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to provide services and programs that deal with cleanliness, economic development, maintenance and public safety. BIDs are located in Ward 2 in downtown and Georgetown and Adams-Morgan in Ward 1, all located in Northwest, and in the Capitol Hill area of Ward 6 in the eastern quadrant. Evans said that the bill has the support of eastern business leaders such as Tom Brown and Stan Jackson. “I am excited about the potential to support the development of BIDs east of the river,” said Evans, 60. “Now that we have seen what a great idea BIDs are, I am hopeful we will be able to implement them in all areas of the city.” wi
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rners of American society and ds himself an exile in his own d. So we have come here day to dramatize an appalling ndition.
invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixtythree is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam
larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.
children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. By Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Darkness cannot and will now be content will
In a sense we have come to our tion’s capital to cash a check. hen the architects of our public wrote the magnificent rds of the Constitution and e declaration of Independence, ey were signing a promissory te to which every American s to fall heir. This note was a omise that all men would be aranteed the inalienable rights life, liberty, and the pursuit of ppiness. It is obvious today that merica has defaulted on this omissory note insofar as her izens of color are concerned. tead of honoring this sacred ligation, America has given e Negro people a bad check ich has come back marked nsufficient funds.” But we use to believe that the bank of tice is bankrupt. We refuse to ieve that there are insufficient nds in the great vaults of portunity of this nation. So have come to cash this check
have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul
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No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
drive out hate; only love can do that.
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I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to trans-
curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
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Program Director of City Year Corps, Janae Eason, 27, paints a quote on the wall from Nelson Mandela during a Day of Service in honor of MLK day at Coolidge Senior High School in Northwest, on Monday, Jan. 20. /Photo by Mark Mahoney
Volunteers Spruce Up Area Schools By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer @sampkcollins More than 1,000 millennials recently answered the call to serve, taking part in large-scale renovation projects at three District schools during the Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Corps members from City Year, an Americorps program that provides intervention services for at-risk adolescents, and local college students painted murals, moved furniture, and spruced up classrooms at Coolidge Senior High and Paul Public Charter Schools and Whittier Education Campus in Northwest on Monday. The day of service gave the young volunteers an opportunity to personify what Jeffrey Franco, executive director and vice president of City Year, called the late civil rights leader’s dedication to community. “We have done projects like this for years and it’s a part of giving the children positive educational experiences,” said Franco, 43. “This is an anchor that brings the community together. Many of the volunteers can’t tutor in the schools like our corps members but they can answer the call by painting, moving furniture, and making educational materials,” said Franco who lives in Northwest. The day of service kicked off with a ceremony at Coolidge
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where volunteers heard remarks from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray, and D.C. Council members Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) and David Catania (I-At-Large) before reporting to their assigned areas. Corps members provided instructions to volunteers throughout much of the day and distributed supplies where needed. City Year senior corps member Stephanie Lorenzo and 100 volunteers spent much of the morning priming the walls of Coolidge’s cafeteria, which bore a dull, mustard yellow color, with white paint. They later spelled out the individual letters of the school’s name on pillars located around the dining hall. Lorenzo said that the new look could raise student morale. “The physical space in which children learn and interact is part of the educational experience,” said Lorenzo, 23. “I wanted my team members to fulfill their service to the best of their abilities. We all hope that when the students come back and see the new environment, they will feel rejuvenated. That will make them more excited to carry on Dr. King’s legacy,” said Lorenzo who lives in Silver Spring, Md. Charisse Furlongue spent much of the afternoon in a hallway at Whittier applying strokes of green, red, blue, and yellow paint to a blank wall until it turned into a mural that depict-
ed math equations and symbols growing from the branches of a large tree. The City Year project manager said that the mural would be of great help to students as the school sets out to integrate Science Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) into its curriculum. “I really enjoy projects like this because we start with a blank canvas and over time we see how we transform a school,” said Furlongue, “I know we have a lot of staff members excited to see what we did at Whittier. I want to see the children’s faces when they see the murals. They may not entirely understand what STEM means but to see it in actuality is really great for them,” said Furlongue who lives in Northeast. More than 2,000 corps members engaged in King Holiday service projects in more than 20 cities across the country including Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, and Philadelphia. Activities also included restoration of public parks and landscaping. “Dr. King often spoke of a beloved community where everyone serves,” said UnoBlessed Coons, 24, recruitment manager at City Year. “The work that we do builds that community and brings people from all walks of life,” sad Coons who lives in Northwest. wi Like The Washington Informer on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
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School Districts Push for Construction, Modernization By Joshua Garner WI Staff Writer @JoshuaGarnerDC The county executives of Maryland’s largest counties are calling on state officials to allocate more funding to their school districts for construction and modernization. During a press conference in Annapolis on Jan. 14, the executives for Prince George’s, Montgomery, and Baltimore counties announced a joint effort to work on legislation aimed at modernizing state schools in their jurisdictions. “We believe that the state needs to take a serious look at ensuring that all students have the best facilities and classrooms as we prepare them for the 21st century,” said Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (D). “With our growing populations and aging buildings, it makes sense for the state to focus on such a significant percentage of Maryland’s student population, a population that also makes up a large percentage of our most needy children and families.” Backed by their state legislators, Baker, Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D), and Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz (D) stressed the essentials of funding to meet the growing need for more classrooms and better facilities in their counties. For the current school year, public schools in Maryland have a student enrollment of more than 836,000. And leaders from the state’s largest counties said that their populations make up 44 percent of the enrollment and 46 percent of the students that participate in the state’s Free and Reduced Price Meals program. Baker said that 81 percent of schools in Prince George’s County are at least 30 years old and most of them are in communities with the greatest need. County leaders said that the need for their jurisdictions to modernize and increase construction will only grow as the student population continues to rise. By 2021, the student population in the three counties is expected to grow by
Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (center), Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (left) and Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz (right) called on increased funding to their county school systems during a Jan. 14 press conference in Annapolis. /Photo by Michael Yourishin
more than 51,000. Still, Leggett said despite Montgomery County allocating more resources for schools, his county struggles to keep up adding that student enrollment in the county will grow by 25,000 over the next 12 years. “In Montgomery County, our school system has grown by about 2,000 students a year over the past several years,” he said. “We three county executives have a very simple message: Our kids and families can’t afford for any of us to play catch-up.” But it still remains unclear where the additional funding would come from for county schools. In Maryland, school districts receive the majority of their annual budgets from their local counties, with the remainder coming from the state, and a small percentage coming from the federal level. Maryland spends upwards of $13 billion annually on education, according to the Maryland Department of Education. According to the most recent data available, more than $900 million is spent toward school construction and of that figure Prince George’s, Montgomery, and Baltimore counties were allocated more than $430 million as of the 2010-2011 school year. Need and student enrollment often determines what is allocated to school districts from the state level, according to the Maryland Department of Education. Allocating more funding to the three largest counties could
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mean fewer resources for Maryland’s other school districts. But officials said details of the legislation the executives pledged to work on are still being formed. “The county executives are still working with their legislative partners to determine the best mechanism to address the pressing school construction needs of these three jurisdictions,” said Scott Peterson, a spokesman for Baker. “The three jurisdictions recognize that all school systems around the state have school construction and repair needs and responsibilities and it is not the intent to disrupt those efforts by diverting state dollars away from other jurisdictions. Rather we are looking for ways that the more abundant and pressing needs in our three jurisdictions can be addressed.” But the hope of more resources for modernizing county schools remains a priority for parents. “We do have large aging infrastructures and people don’t understand [it takes time to address those concerns],” said Earnest Moore, president of the Prince George’s County PTA Council. “If you don’t ask for [funding], you’re not going to get it.”wi Like The Washington Informer on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. The Washington Informer
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CBC Targets Poverty, Unemployment Historic Congressional Organization Sets Aggressive 2014 Agenda By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have declared 2014 a pivotal year in the fight against poverty in the African-American community and have vowed to press for new and improved job opportunities while also remaining vigilant in helping to push for the confirmation of black judicial candidates.
While President Barack Obama promised that the next 12 months will be a period of action where he’ll help create new jobs for the middle class, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has set a bulls-eye on the two-term president and appears prepared to call him out if his promises go unfulfilled. Members are particularly leery of some agreements Obama has made that have led to less desirable judicial candidates being
confirmed. “We see the president appearing to make deals allowing people with anti-civil rights records to be appointed judges under his watch and we have concerns, particularly in Georgia because there are those who will get on the bench and will vote against the president’s agenda,” said Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.). Obama granted Norton senatorial courtesy to recommend
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candidates for federal district court judges in the District of Columbia. The congresswoman’s recommendation of Christopher Casey Cooper from a number of candidates screened by her Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission, proved successful earlier this month when the Yale College and Stanford University graduate received unanimous approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee to become a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Northwest. An African American, Cooper moved his family several years ago from the District to London, where he joined the firm of Baker Botts, and in 2012, he returned to Washington, D.C., to become a partner at the law offices of Covington & Burling in Northwest. “Casey Cooper’s outstanding background and broad criminal and civil experience should make his confirmation a sure thing,” said Norton, 76. “I have every confidence that he will continue along the path of excellence that has characterized his entire career.” Fifty-five African Americans have been nominated for judicial appointments by Obama since he took office in 2009, but only 42 have received Senate confirmation, said Rep. G.K. Butter-
field (D-N.C.), who called the ratio a staggeringly disappointing percentage. Butterfield said there are also 36 vacancies at district court as well as several at the appellate level and the CBC continues to push for qualified African Americans to fill those posts. “The problem is that Republicans continue to block these appointments and we would hope that the president will be less conciliatory to the Republicans, especially in the 11th circuit and the 4th circuit,” said Butterfield, 66. “It’s critically important to have African-American judges both at the trial level and appellate level and we’ve been encouraging the White House along those lines, President Obama in particular,” he said. Butterfield, Norton, CBC Chair Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), hosted a media conference call on Wednesday, January 16, to discuss their concerns about judicial appointments and other pressing matters that are part of the caucus’ 2014 agenda. During the call, each expressed grave concerns about the poverty facing so many African Americans in the United States. wi To read this story in its entirety, go to www.washingtoninformer.com
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The Fritz Pollard Alliance Over 100 million are expected to tune into the National Football League’s (NFL) Super Bowl telecast. The NFL is a professional American football league that constitutes one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America. The NFL is a $9.3 billion business composed of 32 teams divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The NFL runs a 17-week regular season from the week after Labor Day to the week after Christmas with each team playing 16 games and having one bye week. The NFL runs a 256-game regular season. The league has approximately 1,600 employees. Of the league’s 32 teams, six (four division winners and two wild-card teams) from each conference compete in the NFL playoffs, a single-elimination tournament culminating in the Super Bowl, played between the champions of the NFC and AFC. The NFL considers itself a trade association made up of and financed by its 32 member teams. In the NFL 2014 Conference Championships, each NFC team’s starting quarterback was Black. Blacks comprise 70 percent of NFL rosters. Up to nine Blacks were starting quarterbacks during this last season. Seventy-five percent of the league’s office management is White. All owners are White. Discussions of race always are heated in this country, but there’s no denying football is a predominantly
By William Reed African-American sport that has taken a step back in hiring minorities as head coaches and in front offices. During the regular season there were seven African-American coaches in the NFL. Over the last six years, the plight of the Black NFL coach seemed to be taking some strides. In 2006, when the Indianapolis Colts defeated the Chicago Bears, we saw Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith make history as the first pair of Black coaches to face each other in the championship game. In the five years after that a Black coach appeared in four Super Bowls, with Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin appearing in two. At the end of this past regular season the Cleveland Browns, Minnesota Vikings, Detroit Lions, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Houston Texans and Washington Redskins fired their head coaches. Leslie Frazer, former head coach of the Vikings, was the only Black to lose his job. During the January 2014 hiring cycle, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced their hiring of Lovie Smith as their new coach. To confirm with the “Rooney Rule” every team with a job open, at least went through the motions by interviewing a Black for their opening. Smith and Jim Caldwell became head coaches again in Detroit and Tampa Bay. The Rooney Rule requires teams to interview at least one minority candidate for head coaching positions and has been a valuable tool in expanding diversity and inclusion in hiring
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come students. The list of commitments included increasing the pool of students preparing for college through early interventions, leveling the playing field in college advising and SAT/ACT test preparation, doubling federal investments in Pell Grants, and reforming student loans. “More than ever, a college degree is the surest path to a stable middle class life,” President Obama told the crowd that he summoned to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. “We want more young people to have the chance at education, and in the 21st century economy we all understand it’s never been more important.” Obama added that with good support systems in place, the aim is for thousands of disadvantaged youth to be as fortunate as he and his wife were in having attended schools like Harvard and Princeton universities. “Unemployment for Americans with a college degree is more than a third lower than the national average, with incomes higher than twice those with high school diplomas,” Obama said. “However, because college is not the only path to success, we’ve got to make sure that more Americans of all ages are getting the skills that they need to access the jobs that are out there right now.”wi
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ust months before Dr. King’s assassination, he had the opportunity to sit with young people and field their questions about race, fear, and the future. A conscientious and kind man, Dr. King eventually turned the tables on the group of middle school students and inquired of them: What is Your Life’s Blueprint? Asked less to evoke an answer than to encourage self-reflection, the question intimates that every life, while preordained a rational number of successes and setbacks, ought to have as its foundation, a blueprint. This text is of particular consequence as hard fought battles for social and racial equality sit stoically unattended and crumbling before our eyes. The slow and deliberate gentrification of neighborhoods through economic (tax) displacement has signaled a call to the starting gates for intolerance, segregation, and stereotypes of race and class superiority. Those who love justice will not allow the tyranny of the past an opportunity to traipse back en vogue into the lives of their children and grandchildren. If all your people gave you was a sense of entitlement, it’s time you taught yourself how to speak up, speak out, and fight back. Globally the stages are set to welcome home angry and bitter policies of discrimination, based on race, class, economic, and religious or tribal differences. So overwhelming does the horizon appear that many good and sound people have stopped speaking up and speaking out. They’d rather not be labeled troublemakers… As key components to the Voting Rights Act have been struck down, Black youth have been largely abandoned as unsalvageable, and Black homeowners struggle to recover from the devastation of an unjust lending system, the collective attentions of those who need to speak up and speak out have been averted to the latest fight or glop of tomfoolery trending on WorldStarHipHop. Utilizing the texts of Dr. King’s In a Single Garment of Destiny and A Time to Break Silence, the Washington Informer challenges its readers to re-examine their individual blueprints for life. What is it that you want out of life? For what are you prepared to battle? Are you prepared to speak up and speak out for justice no matter the consequence? Dr. King told those students that “If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill, be a scrub in the valley. But be the best little scrub on the side of the hill. Be a bush is you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be the sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or you fail. Be the best of whatever you are.” It’s late in the day… time to ‘be’ something other than quiet. Read & Think,
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Between 1957 and 1968, he traveled more than 6 million miles and spoke at more than 2,500 events.
Dr. King was arrested 30 times and was awarded at least 50 honorary degrees from colleges and universities.
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There are more than 900 streets named after him in the United States, including the office location of the Washington Informer newspaper.
His father, Michael King, Sr., changed their names to Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr. when Martin Jr. was about 5.
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Dr. King was 35 – when he won the Nobel Peace Prize; the youngest person, at the time, to win.
Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech is 17 minutes long.
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What can you do to bring about racial healing and what obstacles are in your way to doing what you can?
Daisy Hannah, 64, lived in Adams Morgan since 1968.
Pete Ross, 67, candidate for Shadow Senator and business owner
We should be able to communicate about our differences. We have more in common than we have differences. We need to listen more, speak less. Put ourselves in the other’s position. The obstacle for me is no job. African Americans in my age group -- a lot of us are not working and being forced out.
As a company owner I employ minorities and returning citizens. Twenty-five percent are returning citizens. Twenty-five percent are minorities, a few Hispanics and the rest are white. A business where you have people of different backgrounds working together breeds understanding and creates racial harmony. The obstacle is I wish I had a bigger business so that I could do this on a larger scale.
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Vice President Joe Biden delivered the keynote address at the Nation Action Network‘s Annual King Day Breakfast January 20, in Washington, D.C., during which Biden decried the fact that Voting Rights was being attacked. “I have to admit, I never thought we’d be fighting the fight again on voting rights,” Biden said. But he said those honoring King’s legacy must push to restore the law against a “hailstorm” of efforts to curb voting rights. “Our opponents know… the single most dangerous thing to give us is the right to vote,” Biden said. / Photo by Mark Mahoney M-4 /January 2014 / MARTIN LUThER KING JR SUPPLEMENt
native city. Ellis is self-taught and boldly blends realism and impressionism into his work, often invoking feelings of nostalgia and inspiration. Ellis, who currently resides in Friendswood, Texas, has been recognized as one of the most celebrated artists of the 21st century. He has been commissioned by Walt Disney, Minute Maid, Coca-Cola and Avon and is collected by Angela Bassett, Blair Underwood and Bryant Gumbel, to name a few.
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From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s daughter, Dr. Bernice A. King: “My father’s dream continues to live on from generation to generation, and this beautiful and powerful illustrated edition of his world-changing “I Have a Dream” speech brings his inspiring message of freedom, equality, and peace to the youngest among us—those who will one day carry his dream forward for everyone.” On August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, Martin Luther King gave one of the most powerful and memorable speeches in our nation’s history. His words, paired with Caldecott Honor winner Kadir Nelson’s magnificent paintings, make for a picture book certain to be treasured by children
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and adults alike. The themes of equality and freedom for all are not only relevant today, 50 years later, but also provide young readers with an important introduction to our nation’s past. Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King Jean Marzollo This sensitively written picture book provides an introduction to the life of Dr. King, beginning with his birth and childhood through to his tragic death. In this simple biography, Marzollo explains the importance of Dr. King’s work and his beliefs. Martin Luther King Jr: Dreaming of Equality Ann S. Manheimer Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamed of ridding the world of racism, poverty,
inequality, and violence. His passion and commitment led him to become the leader of the Civil Rights Movement and his non-violent approach to protest won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Dr. King’s achievements and the movement he helped lead brought about the end of segregation and resulted in more changes in laws than during any other decade in America’s history. A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The first collection of King’s essential writings for high school students and young people A Time to Break Silence presents Martin Luther King, Jr.’s most important writings and speeches—carefully selected by teachers across a variety
of disciplines—in an accessible and user-friendly volume. Now, for the first time, teachers and students will be able to access Dr. King’s writings not only electronically but in stand-alone book form. Arranged thematically in five parts, the collection includes nineteen selections and is introduced by award-winning author Walter Dean Myers. Included are some of Dr. King’s most well-known and frequently taught classic works, including “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and “I Have a Dream,” as well as lesser-known pieces such as “The Sword that Heals” and “What Is Your Life’s Blueprint?” that speak to issues young people face today.wi
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One Goal Two Men, Two Countries,
By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer Although civil and human rights icons Nelson Mandela and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., never met, there are a number of parallels between these iconic men. Both men fought against apartheid in South Africa and the United States, and each led movements that led to the overthrow of the white minority government in Africa’s southern tip and the dissolution of Jim Crow in the South. King and Mandela were both larger-than-life, influencing significant segments of their respective countries and by their sheer will, formed South Africa and the United States along a very different path racially and socially. Mandela and King were each awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 30 years apart; they fought against state-sponsored terrorism launched against Black people; each man patterned their struggle against racist systems on the Gandhian model, although Mandela later changed tactics;
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Each paid a heavy price for their convictions and activism with King being assassinated in 1968 at age 39, and Mandela serving 27 years behind bars. Further, there are few people in the world unaware of either Mandela or King. In a speech in London, England in December 1964, King spoke of the similarities both movements shared. Black South Africans, King said, are up against “a massively armed and ruthless state which uses torture and sadistic forms of interrogation to crush human beings …” “Clearly, there is much in Mississippi and Alabama to remind South Africans of their own country, yet even in Mississippi, we can organize to register Negro voters, we can speak to the press, we can, in short, organize the people in non-violent action,” King said. “But in South Africa, even the mildest forms of non-violent resistance meet with years of imprisonment, and leaders over many years have been restricted and silenced and imprisoned.” Following his release from
Pollsmoor Prison on Feb 11, 1990, Mandela spoke often of the effect King had on him and on a visit to the United States, Mandela quoted King in an address to Congress, saying he and his fellow South Africans were “free at last.” Laura Ivers, 46, said that as a white woman, she thanks Mandela and King often, not just for freeing Blacks, but also for saving whites from themselves. “The structures of Apartheid and Jim Crow were extremely abusive. The devastation and destruction of an aggressive environment affects everyone,” said Ivers, a member coordinator at Sam’s Club who lives in Syracuse, New York. “The structure sets us up. White people were devastated, as was the family structure. It’s like water being tainted and the most vulnerable being hurt.” White people endure peer pressure, an unwillingness to acknowledge or relinquish the perks of skin privilege, and an inescapable system of denial. “I admire King and Mandela because they saw people on a
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human level,” said Ivers. “Racists and those in control win by divide and conquer tactics. Martin Luther King took a tremendous amount of heat for including whites in the movement, but a lot of people I know were touched by it, including me.” King rose to prominence when as a 26-year-old he led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. The 381-day boycott began when seamstress Rosa Parks defied a bus driver’s demand that she move to the back of the bus so that whites could sit in the forward section of the vehicle.
Blacks in Montgomery coalesced around the effort to fight back the best way they knew. According to Stanford University’s Encyclopedia, “Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Global Freedom Struggle,” the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) coordinated the boycott, and King, its new president, became a prominent civil rights leader as a result of the international attention focused on Montgomery. In time, said King associate Julian Bond, the Civil Rights movement evolved from a pro-
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test movement into a full-fledged social movement. And like all good movements, its leaders and members continued to agitate, sustain morale, foster fellowship and develop tactics. “Movements must also have catalytic leadership “who join the adventure without a foreseeable end,” and also must have a strategy, plan and tactics to confront its oppressors,” he told an audience at Gallaudet University last year. “You have to hope and expect the movement to succeed and for it to effect change and provide relief from the injustices
a group faces,” he said. Similarly, at the age of 25, Mandela joined the African National Congress Youth League and was intimately involved in leading his people to stand up to the National Party and its aggression against its opponents. He became the leader and public face of the anti-apartheid struggle against the brutal tactics of the racist government. He rose to prominence in 1952 during what became known as the Defiance Campaign. Mandela orchestrated a three-day national workers’ strike and was arrest-
ed and sentenced to five years in prison. Mandela and other anti-apartheid leaders led black South Africans into a series of popular protests and uprisings against the violence, oppression, bannings, and imprisonment of anyone opposed to the white minority government. In 1963, South African authorities sentenced Mandela and 10 other ANC leaders to life in prison for alleged political offenses, including treason. Mandela walked out of prison a free man when he was 72 years old. Elected president in 1994, Mandela served one term before stepping down. Although the Free South Africa Movement in the United States didn’t gain traction until the 1980s, King advocated sanctions against South Africa in 1964. “If the United Kingdom and the United States decided tomorrow morning not to buy South African goods, not to buy South African gold, to put an embargo on oil; if our investors and capitalists would withdraw their support for that racial tyranny, then apartheid would be brought to an end,” King said. “Then the majority of South Africans of all races could at last build the shared society they desire.” Unfortunately, one King and Mandela admirer said, King wasn’t allowed to participate in the America’s reconstruction and reconciliation. “Both experienced a type of death and they were symbols that people rallied around,” said St. Mary’s County resident James Fleming. “Mandela served and actually directed reconstruction. It speaks a little of how brutal our society is, one that settles things with a gun. Dr. King was not able to take part in the rebuilding of America. But I don’t know if he would have been able to direct that from a pulpit. He would likely have to have been a politician.” The powers-that-be in the America could not abide King crossing the boundary from human rights to begin focusing on economic and class issues, said Fleming, a 50-year-old federal government employee. “From the time King started to deal with issues that went beyond Civil Rights and core Civil Rights activities which ran across class, race and the Vietnam War, that spelled trouble,” he said. wi
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The War on Poverty – and MLK
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e are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty at roughly the same time we’re observing the 85th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. That’s fitting because despite the concentrated effort to neuter King by overemphasizing his 1964 “I Have a Dream Speech,” his last days on earth were spent trying to uplift garbage workers in Memphis, Tenn. and planning a Poor Peoples Campaign that would culminate in a march to the nation’s capital. Unlike today, when our politicians seek to get elected and re-elected by groveling and catering to the middle class, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared war on poverty in his Jan. 8, 1964 State of the Union message. “This administration here and
now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America,” he said. “We shall not rest until that war is won. The richest nation on Earth can afford to win it. We cannot afford to lose it.” Unfortunately, another war – Vietnam – caused Johnson to retreat before he could declare, in the words associated with President George W. Bush, “Mission Accomplished.” Instead of rallying the troops around this noble cause, some subsequent presidents retreated. President Reagan saw fit to joke about this serious national undertaking. Providing a throwaway line that conservatives still use today, the former actor said: “In 1964 the famous War on Poverty was declared and a funny thing happened…I guess you could say, poverty won the war.” Liberals were also misleading, saying instead of having a War on
Poverty, it was more like a skirmish on poverty. The truth lies somewhere between those polar opposites. Since we began collecting such statistics, the lowest U.S. poverty rate was 11.1 percent in 1973. It rose to 15.2 percent in 1983 before falling back to 11.3 percent. In 2012, 13 million people lived below half of the poverty line, most of them children. According to scholars at Columbia University, when recalculated to include expenses not counted in official statistics, the poverty rate fell from more than 25 percent in 1967 to about 16 percent today. Over that period, the child poverty rate declined form 30 percent to less than 20 percent and the elderly poverty rate decline dramatically, from 45 percent to 15 percent. “The truth is that the nation’s investment in the War on Poverty
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has yielded huge and lasting gains,” Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik wrote. “LBJ’s program was not just a plan for financial handouts. It also encompassed a broad approach encompassing ‘better schools, and better health, and better homes, and better training, and better job opportunities,’ as he put it in his address on Jan. 8, 1964. LBJ’s campaign brought us Head Start (in 1965) as well as Medicare and Medicaid. He understood that political and social empowerment were indispensable factors in economic betterment, so he pushed for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.” Still, many expected the poverty rate to be lower than it is today. According to the Center of Budget and Policy Priorities (CPP), “The poverty story over the last half-century in the United States is mixed for several reasons. A much stronger safety net along with factors such as rising education levels, higher employment among women, and smaller families helped push poverty down. At the same time, rising numbers of single-parent families, growing income inequality, and worsening labor market prospects for lessskilled workers have pushed in the other direction. “Today’s safety net – which includes important programs and improvements both from the Johnson era and thereafter – cuts poverty nearly in half. In 2012, it kept 41 million people, including 9 million children, out of poverty, according to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM). If government benefits are excluded, today’s poverty rate would be 29 percent under the SPM; with those benefits, the rate
is 16 percent.” Other factors also contribute to today’s poverty rate, including rising income inequality, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. It stated that between 1964 and 2012, the share of national income going to the top 1 percent of U.S. households nearly doubled, from 11 percent to 22 percent in 2012. Meanwhile, the share of national income going to the poorest fifth of households fell between 1979 (the earliest year available) and 2012. There is also the issue of shrinking jobs that pay decent wages, especially those at the low end of the pay scale. “Moreover, large racial disparities remain, with child poverty much higher and the share of African Americans with a college degree much lower than among whites. Meanwhile, poverty in America is high compared to other wealthy nations largely because our safety net does less to lift people out of poverty than those of other Western nations,” the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities noted. The War on Poverty if far from over. Although slow to join the battle, President Obama is now fully engaged, underscoring our country’s economic inequality. This is no time for the president or Congress to surrender. MLK 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.
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Area Youth Follow King’s ‘Blueprint’ By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Six months before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr., spoke to a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia. On an early fall night, the civil rights champion made it a point to remind young people of the importance of carefully planning for their future, noting that it would prove vital in helping them to realize their dreams. “I want to ask you a question,” King told the riveted audience. “What is your life’s blueprint?” King told his predominately young audience that they must have as a basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in their fields of endeavor. “You’re going to be deciding as the days, as the years, unfold what you will do in life. What your life’s work will be. Set out to do it well.” Many in the audience reportedly appeared to seriously ponder what the Nobel Peace Prize winner had asked. King illustrated his main point by noting that whenever a building is constructed, there’s usually an architect who draws a blueprint, which serves as the pattern for the eventual construction. “A building is not well erected without a good, solid blueprint,” he said. Kia Anderson, a 20-year-old mar-
Several Say MLK’s Speech a Catalyst for Their Success
“In your life’s blueprint should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your own worth, and your own somebodiness. Don’t allow anybody to make you feel that you are nobody.… However young you are, you have a responsibility to seek to make your nation a better nation in
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which to live.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “What is Your Life’s Blueprint?” ried mother who also works full-time, enrolled in Prince George’s County Community College earlier this month because she and her husband, youth pastor Reggie Anderson, have mapped out a plan that they hope will ultimately provide some of life’s comforts for their infant son. The couple, who live in Temple Hills, Md., also hopes that their plan, will also lead to a more fulfilling lifestyle for them, as well. “I totally agree with Martin Luther King’s philosophy of having a blueprint, a plan and a dream for life,” said Reggie Anderson, 25. “It was by his speech that I myself decided to walk in the calling of preaching and teaching and it has led me to become a minister. We
should all at some point embrace that thought in life,” he said. “The ‘Blueprint’ speech by Dr. King is still important. Everybody needs a plan because a plan helps you to stay on track and it helps you to remember what your purpose is,” said Kia Anderson, a fast-food employee. Anderson said she’s fortunate that her college tuition has proven affordable and that her new school schedule doesn’t conflict with her work or take valuable time away from her closeknit family. King’s 1967 speech proved a wakeup call for the parents and grandparents of Jacob Landestoy, a sanitation worker from Landover, Md. Landestoy, 22, said his father, a postal worker, and his mother, a
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seamstress, regularly spoke of King’s dissertation and because of it they invested the family’s limited funds wisely and taught him how to plan for the future. “My parents and my grandparents each took that speech and said, ‘if you fail to plan than you are planning to fail,’” Landestoy said. “They also told me that whatever it is that I choose to do, even if it was waiting tables or washing cars, to do it to the best of my ability.” Like Landestoy, Olivia White, a Howard University student, said she believes that King’s blueprint may not have meant everyone would be as successful as they’d hoped to, but if the late hero’s speech were followed, there’s little doubt that some level of
happiness would result. “Whatever you do, do it well and do it to where you’re proud,” said White, 20, reflecting King’s words from the speech in which the fallen leader implored others to understand that, “If it’s your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures. Sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera…and sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.’”wi Like The Washington Informer on Facebook. Follow us onTwitter.
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As We Commemorate Dr. King, Remember, It’s Up To Us! By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III
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s we commemorate the birth of Dr. King and honor the passing of Mr. Nelson Mandela in the shadow of mass incarceration, Stop and Frisk, driving while Black, or in the context of Trayvon Martin, walking while Black, disproportionately high rates of high school drop outs, record home foreclosures, and so many other maladies in our community we have to come to the realization that it’s up to us. When you walk outside of your house, or drive your kids to school, or yourself to work, and you see the human decay and suffering around you, the question has got to be what are we going to do? It’s up to us. Are you ready to move down into the inner resources of your own soul and sign with a pen and ink of self-asserted personhood your own emancipation proclamation and proclaim, not on my watch, not in my house, not in my child’s school, not in my neighborhood? It’s up to you! Please don’t think that I’m some ultra-conservative, some libertarian saying that there’s no place in this process for the government. We need the government both state and national to pass the legislation and provide the resources to assist our communities in solving these problems. The reality is that their not coming. The cavalry is not coming; we are going to have to circle the wagons and save ourselves. Look at what’s happening in Congress right now, 8% unemployment and 16% in the African American community – worst national depression since the Great Depression and Congress has allowed the unemployment benefits of the long-term unemployed to lapse. They have gone into recess failing to reinstate expired jobless benefits for more than 1.3 unemployed Americans. Too many Conservatives just don’t care.
As they debate the Farm Bill the Republican led Congress is looking to cut Food Stamps or what is now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP by $40B over the next decade. According to Mother Jones, these efforts by Conservatives would “...boot 2.8 million people off the program next year. That includes 170,000 veterans, who would be removed through a provision in the bill that would eliminate food stamps eligibility for non-elderly jobless adults who can’t find work or an opening in a job training program.” Doctors warn that cuts in food stamps could have tremendous longer term heath implications. Over time poorer Americans will experience spikes in the rates of diabetes and developmental problems in poorer children. Conservatives rather transfer public dollars into private hands; save banks and corporations with poor taxpayer’s dollars. The African American community has been in this struggle, this war for equality for a long time. I think too many of us have forgotten what for us has been at the crux of the issue. Many believe it’s economic, others believe it’s civil rights or legal. Both of these are important and play a role in improving our circumstance but what we’ve been struggling for all of this time is our humanity! Since those first 20 and some odd “African indentured servants” disembarked from that Dutch Man O’ War off the shores of Jamestown, VA in 1619 (395 years ago) we’ve been struggling to be considered human. Examine the founding documents of this country and trace the development of our laws. From the act addressing the causal killing of slaves from 1669 that stated “if any slave resists his master and by the extremity of the correction should chance to die… the master should be acquitted from the molestation,
since it cannot be presumed that prepense malice should induce any man to destroy his own estate.” – We were property, not human – part of the estate. Look at the Three-Fifths Compromise, Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution or the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857). Chief Justice Taney wrote, Negros were considered at the time the Constitution was drafted as a “subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the government might choose to grant them.” With the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 African Americans put their trust in the franchise and the political process. Then the very entity charged with protecting our rights diluted them with the 5-4 ruling in Shelby County v. Holder, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito. They determined that “things have changed dramatically” in the South in the nearly 50 years since the Voting Rights Act was signed in 1965. Have they really? Maybe they have for Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas but not for most of us. I wonder if Justice Thomas’ people in Pin Point Georgia would agree with his assessment that things have changed dramatically? We have been and continue to be struggling for our humanity. We need the government to assist us in solving these problems. The problem is their not coming. The cavalry is not coming; we are going to have to circle the wagons and save ourselves. Our politics are going to have to mature. We have to move away from the politics of pigment and personality to the politics of policy. As we commemorate the birth of Dr. King we are going to have to awaken from what mainstream American
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“…and I come here tonight and plead with you…nobody else can do this for us; no document can do this for us; no Lincolnian emancipation proclamation can do this for us; no Kennedonian or Johnsonian civil rights bill can do this for us; if the negro is to be free, he must move down into the inner resources of his own soul and sign with a pen and ink of self-asserted manhood his own emancipation proclamation.”
– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
media has convinced us was Dr. King’s “Dream” and stay focused on solving the realities of our nightmare. We are going to have to circle the wagons and save ourselves. In his last book “Where Do We go From Here; Chaos or Community?” Dr. King the realist wrote, “The practical cost of change for the nation up to this point has been cheap. The limited reforms have been obtained at bargain rates. There are no expenses, and no taxes are required for Negroes to share lunch counters, libraries, parks, hotels and other facilities with whites… The real cost lies ahead. The stiffening of white resistance is a recognition of that fact
(the Tea Party)…Jobs are harder and costlier to create than voting rolls. The eradication of slums housing millions is complex far beyond integrating buses and lunch counters.” That’s the Dr. King that mainstream America won’t celebrate on Monday! It’s up to us! mlk Dr. Wilmer Leon is the Producer/ Host of the Sirius/XM Satellite radio channel 110 callin talk radio program “Inside the Issues with Leon” Go to www. wilmerleon.com or email:wjl3us@ yahoo.com. www.twitter.com/ drwleon and Dr. Leon’s Prescription at Facebook.com © 2014 InfoWave Communications, LLC
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The Real MLK At least once every year, this nation pauses to rightfully honor the memory and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His dedication to human rights and his desire to unshackle African Americans from the bondage of Jim Crow, racism, discrimination and other vagaries of white racial dominance marked him as one of the most forceful and persuasive activists to stride across the world stage in the 20th century. In his short 39 years, King changed a country and inspired people around the world using Gandhian principles of non-violence in the face of intense racial aggression from people seeking to prop up a dying system. What we see in almost all the remembrances and observances is an image and portrayal of King as the apostle of peace and not much more. When South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela died on Dec. 5 last year, a number of people, including TransAfrica President Nicole Lee called on admirers not to allow anyone to water down his legacy and only focus on the icon as a conciliator. As she and other organizers planned the D.C. memorial service for Mandela, Lee said, she was struck by one reality: “We were trying to package what could never fit in a box. No one title could completely encapsulate Mandela. He was a freedom fighter, a visionary, a change agent ... a dissident, a contrary-spirit, a misfit … It is too tempting, especially as we are grieving his passing, to make Mandela look like how we desire to see him. It is time to look at him for all he was.” The same could be said for King. He was bigger than any label, more expansive than a name or descriptor. He was much more than a peacemaker. He was a man, who toward the end of his life was evolving, questioning the Vietnam War, speaking out against the classism and deep disparities between whites and other groups, and talking about the distribution of wealth in this country. That scared people and powerful forces decided he needed to be removed. If we choose to hold onto an image of King as safe, cuddly, and non-threatening, we dishonor his memory and the extreme sacrifice he made on our behalf. Prior to his death, King through the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was preparing a Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, D.C. to call for economic justice and demand that the U.S. government begin to more forcefully address these and other concerns. King still challenges us to fight against all the “isms,” including racism, sexism, and gender discrimination. Our work is cut out for us in a society where a disturbing and widening economic gap between rich and poor continues to broaden. Almost half of the United States is mired in poverty. American workers are engaged in an epic struggle to extract a decent wage from corporations. Cynical and callous politicians stay awake at night devising ways to subvert the democratic process and the constitutional right to vote. And too many of our children have been tossed into the assembly line that is the school-to-prison pipeline. Our fight is on-going. The problems we face aren’t going away. As Lee so eloquently stated, we are called to continue (Mandela and King’s) fight against injustice and we are challenged to use our respective platforms to repudiate discrimination. We are summoned, she added, to partner with friends and unlikely allies to alter the trajectory of greed and gluttony that abandons the working poor. Just suppose for one year, everyone who claims to be an admirer of Dr. King really decided to take his teachings to heart and act upon them? What would this city, our respective communities and this country look like?
Legislating Behavior
I have concerns about the city’s crackdown on so called “loosies.” It is in reference to your front-page article published in the January 16th edition by Barrington Salmon. First, let me say I do not believe we can legislate addictive behavior, meaning force someone to stop doing something they feel they need to do. We have tried it with drugs, alcohol and now cigarettes. The only way is for someone to stop is for them to want to stop and make a conscious effort to stop. Cigarette companies are still producing cigarettes, even though they know they cause cancer, and people are still smoking them. The high cost of cigarettes is only hurting poor people, which is causing them to buy “loosies.” I think the education effort to stop underage smoking is great, but if someone chooses to start smoking, it is his or her choice. I just don’t want to see another underground criminal network selling cigarettes taking
the place of marijuana now that marijuana will soon be legal. Kenneth Baker Washington, D.C.
A Lack of Talent
Thank you, thank you, and thank you! Stacy Brown’s article, “Suggestive Appearances make up for Lack of Talent” [January 16, 2014] finally takes on a subject that really needs to be discussed in the Black press. We have given a free pass to these so-called “divas” for far too long. They really don’t sing, and if they do, they can’t. They don’t even have real musicians backing them up; it’s all digital sounds. There really needs to be a different category for what’s happening in today’s so-called hip-hop music industry. I love beautiful women, I love to look at them, and I even like watching them dance, but let’s not call it a concert; let’s call it what it is. If this is what our young people want to hear and see, more power to them, and given the amount of mon-
ey these so-called performers demand, it must be what young people want to hear. But please don’t put them in the same category as those who have worked hard developing their writing skills, voices and instrumental musical talents. Lester H. Cambridge Alexandria, Va.
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By Marian Wright Edelman
Funneling Children into the Adult Criminal Justice System Children are not little adults. Adolescents are not the same as adults. We’ve known this for years. The research showing that their brains are still developing is clear. Although young people act on impulse, they have the ability to positively change and have a productive future. That’s why it’s outrageous that in the 21st century we still ignore the consequences of automatically funneling children into
the adult criminal justice system against so much research on youth development and juvenile justice best practices. It’s bad for public safety and it’s bad for the youths and their families. One of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF)’s earliest research projects was its 1976 report titled, Children in Adult Jails, documenting the inhumane, ineffective practice of treating children like adult criminals and housing them side by side in the same prisons. Some states had already begun abolishing this
harmful practice decades earlier but others were resisting change or dragging their feet. Nearly 40 years later, the good news is that there are only two states left that automatically treat all 16- and 17-year-olds like adult criminals. The bad news is that Judge Polier’s home state, New York, is one of them. North Carolina is the other. It’s time for change. Our society takes adolescent brain development into account in many ways and takes steps to protect children and youths. We
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don’t allow youths to do certain things because we say they are not mature enough to fully appreciate the consequences of their actions. Young people can’t see certain movies without an adult until their 17th birthdays and can’t see others at all until they turn 18. They can’t buy alcohol until their 21st birthdays. In New York, young people can’t get a tattoo under age 18. The New York City Council recently voted to raise the legal age of buying tobacco products and electronic ciga-
rettes from 18 to 21. Yet, there is a double standard; the day a young person turns 16 in New York, they are automatically treated as adults in the criminal justice system when charged with a crime. This means a 16-year-old can be arrested and spend a night or more in jail locked up with older adults without his or her parent or guardian ever knowing. A young person can spend five years incarcerated alongside adults before they are
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By James Clingman
Authentic Black Leaders Brother A. Peter Bailey wrote a very enlightening article, titled, “Black Leaders, Past and Present, Speak on the Need for Focusing on Economics.” I called him after reading it, and we discussed something I continue to lament about Black people: Our failure to learn and follow through on the economic lessons of the past, especially those left by our elders. Additionally, I was a guest on
Brother Elliott Booker’s Internet radio show, “Time for an Awakening,” out of Philadelphia, during which he opened his show with a quote from the Bible. It was Hosea 4:6, the one many of us like to use when we are describing why we are languishing. The passage goes on to say that we are destroyed not only because of lack of knowledge but also because we have rejected knowledge. Bailey and Booker pointed out important issues related to
knowledge, and they both discussed our dilemma of having access to knowledge but rejecting it, having experiences and admonishments from those past and present but ignoring them, and essentially always “crying hungry with a loaf of bread under our arm.” They also illuminated the fact that Black folks are so ensconced in politics and political rhetoric that in many cases we are totally oblivious to the real deal in this country —econom-
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ics. All we do is discuss political officeholders or listen to the usual suspects on radio and television, ad nauseam, with no real power to change anything that we rail against, because we are not operating from a position of economic strength. Frantz Fanon wrote, “A deserving people, a people conscious of its dignity, is a people that understands and insists that the government and the political parties are to serve the interest of the people. He went on to
say, “…ultimately a government or a party gets the people it deserves, and sooner or later, people get the government / leadership they deserve.” In my first book, Economic Empowerment or Economic Enslavement, We have a choice, a section is titled, “We deserve what we accept.” It pointed out the futility in expecting politicians to solve our problems while we have absolutely no
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By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
King’s True Legacy This month will mark the 85th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Across the nation and throughout the world community, millions of people will pay tribute and celebrate the birth of one our greatest freedom fighters and most effective leaders. The legacy of Dr. King is more than a federal holiday although we should never forget the protracted but successful struggle that was required to get that hol-
iday recognition signed into law. The legacy of Dr. King is more than a tall magnificent statue that now stands on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. King’s legacy is also more than a faint remembrance of the past sacrifices and victories of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The living legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. should be a legacy of present-day continuing the good fight for freedom, justice, equality and economic empowerment in America, Africa and everywhere in the world.
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Yes, today that is a big order and a tremendous challenge. As a young, statewide youth organizer from 1963 to 1968 for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in my home state of North Carolina, I witnessed firsthand the incredible genius and courage of Dr. King. I also remember his militant band of preachers, community organizers and student leaders who had become impatient with the status quo of systematic racial injustice in the United States. Golden Frinks, the N.C. The Washington Informer
state field secretary of SCLC recruited and introduced me to Dr. King and SCLC. Working with Dr. King changed my life for the better. Today, my purpose is simply to apply what I believe is the living legacy of Dr. King to some of the most pressing issues that oppressed people face nationally and internationally. Remember when Dr. King spoke out against the atrocities of the Vietnam War in 1967, there were many in the African American community who could not readily make
the connection that saw between the issues of racial and economic oppression in the United States and the issues of war and peace in southeast Asia. One of Dr. King’s famous quotes was, “An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” It was only after Dr. King’s tragic assassination in 1968 that many shared his opposition to the Vietnam War. Martin Luther King Jr. would not have supported the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact,
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By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
Change Comes when Change is Demanded The 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s declaration of a war on poverty brought long overdue attention to his commitment. Today, with one in five children in America still raised in poverty, an accounting is vital as part of a renewed commitment. But largely absent from the debate around the war on poverty is any sense of its context. Johnson’s program was bold and courageous. Medicare and ex-
panded Social Security dramatically reduced poverty among the elderly and the disabled. Food stamps and infant nutrition virtually erased malnutrition among children. Medicaid and hikes in the minimum wage helped lift the floor under the working poor. Head start, aid to schools in impoverished neighborhoods, and later Pell grants contributed directly to rising high school and college graduation rates. The Jobs Corps provided training and jobs for the unemployed, with a particular emphasis on
Appalachia and rural poverty. The National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities and National Public Radio nourished minds as well. Most creative was the Office of Economic Opportunity, situated in the White House itself, and focused on engaging “maximum feasible participation” in poor neighborhoods, so that recipients of aid could express their needs and create their own strategies. Johnson’s program was an institutional response, enlisting the
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resources and the capacities of the federal government to address poverty and racial division. But we should remember, as we head to the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday, what Johnson was responding to. He wasn’t simply reacting to entrenched poverty and racial segregation; those were not new. Johnson’s program was the government’s response to the call issued by Dr. Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement. At the March on Washington for Jobs and Justice, Dr.
King issued his dream. From his cell in Birmingham, he issued his moral challenge. In his 1964 State of the Union and his later address at the University of Michigan, President Johnson issued his response. This is important in today’s debate. Many comment on how timid our politics are now, how tied into knots, even as poverty is getting worse and the middle class is struggling. The economy is rigged to benefit only the few,
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By Lee A. Daniels
MLK: Militant of the 21st Century Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hasn’t been this alive since 1968. He’s no longer that visually distant, two-dimensional figure, limited to speaking a single sentence taken out of context and shorn of its true meaning. Instead, the honest scholarship and media commentary considering what King faced and what he did have broken through the obscuring fog of conservative, and yes, centrist, propaganda.
In part, that’s because, today the confrontation between the forces of progress and the racist reaction to that progress is sharper than any time since the 1960s. Today, as in the 1960s, American society is grappling with elevating new groups of Americans to full citizenship. Today, as in the 1960s, it’s being forced to confront the meaning of its widespread poverty and joblessness, and its diminished educational opportunity. Today, as in the 1960s, Black Americans’
right to vote is under siege from conservatives, as are women’s reproductive rights. And today, as in the 1960s, the country is debating the extent of government’s responsibility to protect individuals’ access to opportunity. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words and actions seem relevant again because they’ve always presented a challenge to the status quo and always urged individuals to live up to humanity’s best possibilities. That command has become
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particularly compelling again because of the remarkable juxtaposition of present-day developments and anniversaries of past landmark events. The latter include: the 50-year anniversaries of the climactic years of the Civil Rights Movement, especially the year 1963, when King delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech at the March on Washington; and of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, whose support of the civil rights struggle, tentative though it was, made him Blacks’ most
important presidential ally since Abraham Lincoln. And it also includes the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation. The completion of the King Memorial in Washington – and the welcome controversy about its design helped immeasurably as well. The controversy itself was a metaphorical breath of fresh air, blowing away at least some of the clouds of stultifying hero-worship that had for too
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By Askia Muhammad
Moroccans Just Don’t Get It On a recent trip to Morocco, I saw and learned much which helped me connect emotionally, fraternally, culturally, religiously, and patriotically with that beautiful, ancient land. I recalled “As Time Goes By” with fondness outside Rick’s Café American, the scene of much of the action in the classic, Humphrey Bogart movie, “Casablanca.” Everywhere I felt the bonds
of brotherhood. Moroccans relate well to Blacks from America. “I am African. I am Moroccan,” the citizens would say to me, even those with fair complexions. That is a rare declaration among North Africans – Arabs – many of whom I’ve met in other countries there, who seem to view themselves as superior to the rest of the inhabitants of their continent. Moroccans are also proud of their Jazz heritage – they have annual Jazz festivals in Fez and in Marrakech – and they embrace
the beloved American pianist and Smithsonian Jazz Master, Randy Weston who lived there for a time and recorded several important albums featuring Moroccan musicians playing their indigenous instruments. Moroccans in the main, are Muslims, and like my religious teacher and guide – the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad – they insist on the importance of teaching women and girls. The mother is the child’s first teacher. The value of intelligent women, mothers cannot be exaggerated,
and unlike some ultra-zealous Muslim societies which would keep women “barefoot and pregnant,” I met Moroccan female members of Parliament, government ministers, some with terminal degrees. And of course, all Muslims who are indigenous to the Western Hemisphere, owe a debt to Noble Drew Ali, a Black man in this country who declared in the 1920s that he and his followers were Muslims – Moors, Moorish Americans. So I am one with Moroccans. Blacks in America even share
a patriotic bond with Morocco. Moroccans proudly declare that they were the first country to diplomatically recognize the United States of America when this country broke from the British Crown. And while they still have a monarchy, whose sovereign traces his lineage directly to Islam’s Holy Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah of Mecca, Arabia 1,400 years ago, they are proud to point out that they are “America’s Oldest Ally.” Stop!
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Two emerging hip-hop artists from Southeast have returned to the District after traveling to North Korea to film a music video. Peso, whose real name is Dontray Ennis, and Pacman, whose real name is Anthony Bobb, said they enjoyed quite the experience during a Thanksgiving holiday journey in which they filmed, “Escape to North Korea,” a song that contains music by another Southeast resident, D.B. Bantino, the son of Washington Informer Publisher Denise Rolark Barnes. The five-day trip to the Far East nation received proper clearance from the U.S. State Department. “No [rapper] has ever been there,” said Peso, 20. “No one’s tried to do the things we’re trying to do out there and no one ever has shot a video in North Korea. We’re the first.” American hip-hop fans and others around the globe will really enjoy the video because The Washington Informer
Pacman and Peso film a music video at one of North Korea’s monuments. /Courtesy Photo
it’s original and viewers should easily be able to notice the excitement shared by the duo,” said Pacman, 19. “It’s a great video. We had a smooth time and it wasn’t as difficult as some people were saying it would be before we went over there,” he said. The two began planning their journey last summer. They and their producer, Ramsey Aburdene, an investment banker who also lives in the District, posted a request on the fundraising website, Kickstarter.
Ultimately, they raised $10,000, with half of it coming from James Passin, a hedge fund manager whom Business Week previously dubbed as, “the American who bought Mongolia.” “We all thought this would be a great idea,” said Aburdene, 24, who originally planned to visit a friend in Beijing, but added to the itinerary after speaking with a friend whom he said has been deeply in-
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ARIES Dive into it! Don’t be intimated by the unknown. Your adventurous spirit can take you to a new place of celebration this week. If you can, bring someone along who can celebrate in the same manner with you. Harmony and peace is the motto that you should chant when you accomplish what you want to do! Soul Affirmation: Communication is a skeleton key that fits many doors. Lucky Numbers: 30, 31, 32 TAURUS You may find that discussions at home have taken a sudden, spiritual orientation. Give everyone room to express their personal beliefs without trying to preach your point of view. Your open-mindedness helps you with deep learning this week. Soul Affirmation: I open up to the universe. The universe opens up to me. Lucky Numbers: 39, 49, 52 GEMINI Feeling bold, are we? Well, go with the flow of your feelings! No other sign can call on inner courage as easily as you. Whether at home, at work, or out on the town, let your personal statements be stylish and bold! Soul Affirmation: I give love and love gives to me. Lucky Numbers: 5, 50, 54 Pacman and Peso are photographed in a North Korean subway station. /Courtesy Photo
CANCER Strong vibrations make for a series of dramatic interactions with others this week. Practice your art with your heart, and let your energy carry you upwards to your best, highest self. Keep emotions calm. Soul Affirmation: I know where I’m going because I know where I’ve been. Lucky Numbers: 32, 38, 43 LEO Restless feelings may arise over health matters, or perhaps education or the lack of it. Do what you need to do to feel comfortable with yourself. If it involves seeing a dentist or taking a class, what’s stopping you? Self-improvement can be a very enjoyable game! Soul Affirmation: My imagination is the source of my happiness. Lucky Numbers: 9, 23, 29 VIRGO Surprises are in order this week, and you can roll with everything that comes at you unexpectedly. Healing can happen in a relationship if you just show up. That’s power! Use it for the good of others. Soul Affirmation: This week is the week the Lord has made. I rejoice in it. Lucky Numbers: 18, 23, 36 LIBRA This week you may find yourself pulled in many directions; it’s a good time to say No to certain forceful or manipulative people who know where your buttons are. You may want to focus your bountiful attention on what exactly composes your very likeable nature. What do you love about it? Soul Affirmation: This week is the week the Lord has made. I rejoice in it. Lucky Numbers: 23, 38, 52
Pacman and Peso film a music video in North Korea. /Courtesy Photo
RAPPERS continued from Page 20 volved in North Korean affairs. “My friend Mike Basset is a war veteran and a wounded warrior who spent four years stationed at the [demilitarized zone in North Korea],” Aburdene said. “He’s visited the country several times and that’s one reason why we decided to go.” Aburdene said Pacman and Peso were very enthusiastic about going to North Korea and their travels took them first to Beijing, than to Hong Kong, and Mongolia before ultimately landing in dictator’s Kim JongUn’s country. Once there, the rappers, Aburdene, and their crew began filming. Their video shows the pair at a number of landmarks in the country’s capital, Pyongyang, including its Grand Monument. It features footage of the
rappers riding public trains, traveling on a bus and standing in front of banners that include photos of both Kim Jong-Un and his late father and former dictator, Kim Jong Il. The trip proved to be the first time either had traveled outside of the United States. “It felt good. We didn’t know it would be this big of a deal but the response has been crazy,” Peso said. “There were a lot of naysayers and people who said we couldn’t do it. We will soon drop our Mongolia video and then our Beijing video after that.” Peso, who lists his biggest influences as Lil Boosie, a Louisiana rapper who’s known for such records as “Ghetto Stories,” and “Camp Life & Youngest of tha Camp,” said the pair soon will release a “Great Wall,” video and a mix tape. “Just more music and more
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videos, more concerts and, more trips,” he said. Pacman, whose influences include rappers Wiz Khalifa, Nas and Lupe Fiasco, said he began rapping in middle school. “I was doing different things with different people on the local music scene but none of it ever came together like it was supposed to until now,” said Pacman, who initially met Peso through an acquaintance. Since announcing the trip to North Korea, the duo have received national and international media attention and have gained more fans, they said. “There have been a lot of interviews and a lot of people have been reaching out to us,” Peso said. “Overall, they want to see what we’ve got coming next so it’s just more motivation to keep doing what we do.”wi Like The Washington Informer on Facebook. Follow us onTwitter. The Washington Informer
SCORPIO You want a comrade who doesn’t place inordinate expectations or demands on you, and who is creative, intelligent, a good conversationalist, and highly spiritual. Perhaps you should be out looking this week with eyes wide open! Soul Affirmation: Cooperation with others is the key to success for me this week. Lucky Numbers: 4, 25, 41 SAGITTARIUS Set a limit on what you can do for others this week. You’ll enjoy your feelings more if you are straightforward about refusing a less than appetizing assignment. Trust your feelings and say “No, I won’t.” Clear bound555 help you define yourself. Soul Affirmation: I master life by mastering myself. Lucky Numbers: 23, 45, 48 CAPRICORN Business looks good this week as you discover a new way of increasing exposure to your product. Let hope and optimism lead you into new beginnings and fresh starts. All vibes are good. Go! Soul Affirmation: I enjoy flirting with new ideas. Lucky Numbers: 1, 17, 27 AQUARIUS You seem preoccupied this week and it’s because your mind is filled with a vision of love for the entire planet. Use your gifts to assist others in seeing the world as you do, in glorious color. Check the details on paperwork that you have to do, dreamer. Soul Affirmation: I release internal pressure by enjoying the beauties of the world around me. Lucky Numbers: 22, 34, 54 PISCES Do you realize that you are the only one who can tell you what to think and how to feel? Let go of any behaviors that are keeping you from achieving the things you want to achieve. Be creative and positive this week. Soul Affirmation: In order for money to come I must think about money as my friend. Lucky Numbers: 45, 49, 51
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Trailing by 21 points early in the second half, the Howard women’s basketball team rallied to walk away with a 77-75 overtime victory over the Maryland Eastern Shore Lady Hawks on Saturday, Jan.18 at Howard’s Burr Gymnasium in Northwest. In this photo, Howard guard Te’Shya Heslip takes a shot at the basket. /Photo by John E. De Freitas Howard University forward Shavonne Duckett is defended by Maryland Eastern Shore guard Shawnee Sweeney in the second half of women’s college basketball action on Saturday, Jan. 18 at Howard’s Burr Gymnasium in Northwest. Howard defeated Maryland Eastern Shore 77-75 in overtime. /Photo by John E. De Freitas
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Maryland Eastern Shore guard Jessica Long is defended by Howard forward Cabria Johnson in the first half of women’s college basketball action on Saturday, Jan. 18 at Howard’s Burr Gymnasium in Northwest. Howard defeated Maryland Eastern Shore 77-75 in overtime. /Photo by John E. De Freitas
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When God is Silent As we approach the Lenten season, March 5, 2014; I’m reminded that Resurrection Sunday is right around the corner, April 20, 2014 this year. When God is Silent comes to mind for this column. As we make plans for a new and better year; we cleanse our minds and our spirits for renewal. Then in the end, we’re going through traumatic events in our lives, and often feel that God has forsaken us. Remember the words spoken by Jesus when He was on the cross! He said “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?� In the gospel of Mark this statement in Aramaic is spoken by Jesus just before he dies on the cross (Mark 15:34), and in the gospel of Matthew Jesus utters these last words in Hebrew (Matthews 27:46): “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?� Generally translated as, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?� As familiar as these words may be for Christians, they are shocking. If God can become silent on His own Son during the time He hung on the cross; when He is silent in our lives, just think of this as a time when God is doing His perfect work. An excellent example is an oak tree – where does it come from? It doesn’t just appear! First the acorn is planted; then it takes time, maybe about a month or more before any sprouts begin to shoot out, deep inside the earth. Then after some quiet time, like a baby in the mother’s womb, some new shoots from the oak tree finally shoot out
above the ground; a tiny, new, fragile, fresh little plant; so easily broken. Over the years, look at the strength of the oak tree. Only by allowing what feels like hell on earth, prayer after prayer unanswered; interruption-after-interruption; is when we are prime candidates for His work. We’ve lost all hope of making something happen with our own strength. In the midst of our time of silence, we gain clarity and a willing spirit to be led to this unknown place He has guided us to. As we learn not to my own understanding, but embrace what we can’t know, we allow God to be enough. He gives us gifts, dreams, visions, and pursuits, and He takes away the bigger perspective we might have once had in order to teach us to be a consistent and faithful person in the daily mundane. He asks us to entrust ourselves to Him. When we do so, we realize it’s not answers we needed all along, but to know and rest in His character alone. Embrace the “I don’t knows� and the whims of everyday, the silences, because we are not capable of knowing His doings, especially the times when He seems silent. Our human minds are finite and our perspective is narrow compared to the eternal. We are experts in asking the when, the how, and the whys. But just as the acorn does not pester its Maker, we too are asked to wait, to trust, to be OK with the wandering, the unknown, and the humility that produces each of us into what we were are des-
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african methodist episcopal
Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church The Reverend Lyndon Shakespeare Interim 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
Pilgrim Baptist Church Rev. Louis B. Jones II Pastor
Church of Living Waters
Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor Harold Andrew, Assistant Pastor 4915 Wheeler Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745
700 I Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 547-8849
301-894-6464
Worship Sundays @ 7:30 & 11:00 A.M. 5th Sundays @ 9:30 A.M. 3rd Sundays: Baptism & Holy Communion Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @ Noon & 6:30 P.M.
Schedule of Service Sunday Service: 8:30 AM & 11:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM Communion Service: First Sunday www.livingwatersmd.org
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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
St. Stephen Baptist Church Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Bishop 5757 Temple Hill Road, Temple Hills, MD 20748 Office 301-899-8885 – fax 301-899-2555 Sunday Early Morning Worship - 7:45 a.m. Church School - 9:30 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship – 10:45 a.m. Tuesday – Thursday - Kingdom Building Bible Institute – 7:30 p.m. Wednesday – Prayer/Praise/Bible Study – 7:30 p.m. Baptism & Communion Service- 4th Sunday – 10:30am Radio Broadcast WYCB -1340 AM-Sunday -6:00pm T.V. Broadcast - Channel 190 – Sunday -4:00pm/Tuesday 7:00am
“We are one in the Spirit” www.ssbc5757.org e-mail: ssbc5757@verizon.net
Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church Rev. Dr. Michael E. Bell, Sr., • Pastor 2498 Alabama Ave., SE • Washington D.C. 20020 Office: (202) 889-7296 Fax: (202) 889-2198 • www.acamec.org 2008: The Year of New Beginnings “Expect the Extraordinary”
Crusader Baptist Church
Sunday Morning Worship 11:00am Holy Communion – 1st Sunday Sunday School-9:45am Men’s Monday Bible Study – 7:00pm Wednesday Night Bible Study – 7:00pm Women’s Ministry Bible Study 3rd Friday -7:00pm Computer Classes- Announced Family and Marital Counseling by appointment E-mail: Crusadersbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.CrusadersBaptistChurch.org
“The Amazing, Awesome, Audacious Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church”
“God is Love”
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
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.
Third Street Church of God
Isle of Patmos Baptist Church
Sunday Worship Services: 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Holy Communion: 2nd Sunday at 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday Church School: 9:20 a.m. Seniors Bible Study: Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. Noon Day Prayer Service: Tuesdays at Noon Bible Study: Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Motto: “A Ministry of Reconciliation Where Everybody is Somebody!” Website: http://isleofpatmosbc.org Church Email: ipbcsecretary@verizon.net
Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr.; Senior Bishop & Evangelist Susie C. Owens – Co-Pastor 610 Rhode Island Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (202) 529-4547 office • (202) 529-4495 fax Sunday Worship Service: 8 AM and 10:45 AM Sunday Youth Worship Services: 1st & 4th 10:45 AM; 804 R.I. Ave., NE 5th 8 AM & 10:45 AM; Main Church Prayer Services Tuesday – Noon, Wednesday 6 AM & 6:30 PM Calvary Bible Institute: Year-Round Contact Church Communion Every 3rd Sunday The Church in The Hood that will do you Good! www.gmchc.org emailus@gmchc.org
ST Marks Baptist Come Worship with us... St. Mark's Baptist Church 624 Underwood Street, NW Washington, dc 20011 Dr. Raymond T. Matthews, Pastor and First Lady Marcia Matthews Sunday School 9:am Worship Service 10:am Wed. Noon Day prayer service Thur. Prayer service 6:45 pm Thur. Bible Study 7:15 pm
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Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor Service and Times Sunday Worship Service 11:00 a.m. Communion every Sunday 11:00 a.m. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Bible Study Tuesday 12Noon Pastor’s Bible Study Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Motto; “Discover Something Wonderful.” Website: 12thscc.org Email: Twelfthstcc@aol.com
Mount Carmel Baptist Church
52 Years of Expert Engraving Services
Joseph N. Evans, Ph.D Senior Pastor 901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423 Sunday Church School : 9: 30am Sunday Morning Worship: 10: 45am Bible Study Tuesday: 6: 00pm Prayer Service Tuesday: 7:00pm Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday 10: 45am themcbc.org
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All Nations Baptist Church Rev. Dr. James Coleman Pastor 2001 North Capitol St, N.E. • Washington, DC 20002 Phone (202) 832-9591
Website: www.allnationsbaptistchurch.com All Nations Baptist Church – A Church of Standards
“Where Jesus is the King”
Israel Baptist Church
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
Rev. Aubrey C. Lewis Pastor 1415 Gallatin Street, NW Washington, DC 20011-3851 P: (202) 726-5940 Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. Sunday School: 9:15 a.m. Holy Communion: 11:00 a.m., 3rd Sun. Bible Study: Monday - 7:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting: Thursday - 7:00 p.m.
2324 Ontario Road, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 232-1730 Sunday School – 9:30 am Sunday Worship Service – 11:00 am Baptismal Service – 1st Sunday – 9:30 am Holy Communion – 1st Sunday – 11:00 am Prayer Meeting & Bible Study – Wednesday -7:30 pm
Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor
St. Luke Baptist Church
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
Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor
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
Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 A.M. Sunday School: 8:30 A.M. Holy Communion1st Sunday: 10:00 A.M. Prayer Service: Wednesday at 6:30 P.M. Bible Study: Wednesday at 7:00 P.M.
Mount Moriah Baptist Church 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
Rehoboth Baptist Church
Salem Baptist Church
Emmanuel Baptist Church
Florida Avenue 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
Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor
Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert SR. Pastor
623 Florida Ave.. NW • WDC. 20001 Church (202) 667-3409 • Study (202) 265-0836 Home Study (301) 464-8211 • Fax (202) 483-4009
4504 Gault Place, N.E. Washington, D.C 20019 202-397-7775 – 7184
Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 a.m. Sunday Church School: 8:45 – 9:45 a.m. Holy Communion: Every First Sunday Intercessory Prayer: Monday – 7:00-8:00 p.m. Pastor’s Bible Study: Wednesday –7:45 p.m. Midweek Prayer: Wednesday – 7:00 p.m. Noonday Prayer Every Thursday
9:30AM. Sunday Church School 11:00 Am. Sunday Worship Service The Lord’s Supper 1st Sunday Wednesday 7:00pm Prayer & Praise Services 7:30pm. Bible Study Saturday before 4th Sunday Men, Women, Youth Discipleship Ministries 10:30am A Christ Centered Church htubc@comcast.net
Matthews Memorial Baptist Church
Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith 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
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”
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
Peace Baptist Church
Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131
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Administration No. 2013 ADM 1278 Virginia W. Love Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Maxine Love Lowey, whose address is 6411 Country Club Court, Landover, MD 20785, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Virginia W. Love, who died on September 15, 2013 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before July 16, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before July 16, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication: January 16, 2014 Maxine Love Lowey Personal Representative
Administration No. 2013 ADM 1273 Constance Mair Decedent James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney
Foreign No. 2013 FEP 147 March 18, 2007 Date of Death Garland Hudson Name of Decedent
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Steven D. Mair, whose address is 8630 Gilroy Road, Nanjemoy, MD 20662, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Constance Mair, who died on November 1, 2013 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before July 16, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before July 16, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.
Brenda V. Harvey whose address is 3844 Halloway Circle, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Garland Hudson, deceased, by the Orphan’s Court for Prince Georges County, State of Maryland, on September 5, 2013. Service of process may be made upon Harold W. Neal, 1622 Rosedale St. NE, Washington, DC whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real property: 1428 C St., SE Washington, DC. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.
Date of first publication: January 16, 2014 Steven D. Mair Personal Representative
Date of first publication: January 9, 2014 Brenda V. Harvey Personal Representative
legal notices SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013 ADM 1312 Gabriel Benjamin, Jr. Decedent Jennifer E. Loud, Esquire The Loud Law Firm 7826 Eastern Avenue, NW. Suite 410 Washington, DC 20012 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Regina D. Benjamin, whose address is 5228 4th Street, NW, #302, Washington, DC 200116369, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Gabriel Benjamin, Jr., who died on June 1, 2013 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before July 16, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before July 16, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication: January 16, 2014 Regina D. Benjamin Personal Representative
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131
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Foreign No. 2013 FEP 76
Foreign No. 2013 FEP 146
Administration Number 2014 ADM 9
Administration Number 2013 ADM 1288
September 28, 2012 Date of Death
June 16, 2013 Date of Death
Estate of
Estate of
Karen Matryce Minor Name of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Jean Hudson Name of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Ronald Copeland
Brenda V. Harvey whose address is 3844 Halloway Circle, Upper Marlboro, MD 20773 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Garland Hudson, deceased, by the Orphan’s Court for Prince Georges County, State of Maryland, on August 28, 2013. Service of process may be made upon Harold W. Neal, 1622 Rosedale St. NE, Washington, DC, 20002 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real property: 1428 C St., SE Washington, DC. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.
Date of first publication: January 16, 2014
Date of first publication: January 9, 2014
Frank D. Dixon IV Personal Representative
Brenda V. Harvey Personal Representative
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Sadie Williams Deceased
NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE
NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE
Notice is hereby given that a petition has
Notice is hereby given that a petition has been
and Larnette D. Culver for standard probate,
Frank D. Dixon IV whose address is 2045 Rosewood Drive, Waldorf, MD 20601 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Karen Matryce Minor, deceased, by the Register of Wills Court for Prince Georges County, State of Maryland, on November 26, 2012. Service of process may be made upon Registered Agents Inc., 1150 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Ste., 900, Washington, DC 20036, whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real property: 1646 40th Street, SE, Washington, DC 20020. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.
including the appointment of one or more personal representative. Unless a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth. In the absence of a Will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate appoint an unsupervised personal representative.
filed in this Court by Debra A. Garner for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representative. Unless a responsive pleading in the form of a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth (i) order witnesses to the alleged will dated April 25, 1987, Jacquelyn Tillman and Rita Miller, to appear and give testimony regarding its execution, (ii) in the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate and appoint an unsupervised personal representative.
Date of first publication: January 23, 2014
Date of first publication: January 23, 2014
Personal Representative: Brian L. Copeland Larnette D. Culver
Colline Silvera Personal Representative:
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edelman continued from Page 18 old enough to buy a beer. And even younger children – some as young as 13 years old – can be treated as adults in New York State’s criminal justice system when charged with murder or other serious or violent offenses and assumed to be criminally responsible, and automatically prosecuted as an adult before they’ve entered high school, although they are not detained in adult facilities until 16 or in some cases 21. Charging children and youths as adults and incarcerating them with adults is the opposite of an effective intervention that helps young people turn their lives around and decreases crime. It makes our communities less safe.
clingman continued from Page 18 economic hammer with which to make them do so. We put very little money into their campaigns, we refuse to leverage our votes as an independent bloc to gain reciprocity, and we continue to be content merely to have a Black person in a particular office. That’s straight-up stupidity. We need more authentic leaders among our people, and I will use the balance of this article to point out a few. In every corner of this country, there are Black folks who demonstrate through their actions—not words, that they are authentic leaders, in-
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Youths processed in adult criminal justice systems are rearrested and re-incarcerated at higher rates than youths processed in the juvenile justice system. Eighty percent of youths released from adult prison reoffend for more serious crimes. The repercussions of treating youths as adults in the criminal justice system affect communities when young people returning home are denied jobs, educational opportunities, and housing as a result of having a criminal record. Families are torn apart by the immigration consequences of criminal records including deportation. The legacy of an adult criminal record on a child, his or her family, and his or her community is long lasting. Advocates for youths in the system have helped reduce the
number of children in adult jails and prisons 54 percent since 2000 and 22 percent since 2010 with commitment, hard work, and persistence. But an estimated 250,000 youths are still tried, sentenced, or incarcerated as adults each year. We must never give up on any child until we have tried every means to put them on the path to successful adulthood.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.
terested in and dedicated to our economic uplift, like those mentioned in Brother Bailey’s article. Obviously that is not an exhaustive list; there are many more, including some politicians as well. But this makes my point about authentic leadership, that is, if you know any of these brothers and sisters. And the good thing is that they are still alive. They stand ready, willing, and able to lead us in the right direction, without exploiting us, without selling us out, and without compromising the core principle of collective economic empowerment. Let’s not wait until they are gone to start reflecting
on their legacies. Reach out to these and other authentic leaders; invite them to speak at your meetings instead of the same three or four Black folks who come with a drive-by speech and leave town with a fat check. Stop rejecting knowledge; start embracing it and acting upon 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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chavis continued from Page 18 there should be much louder voices now concerning the post-colonial devastating wars and violence in the Sudan, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Somalia, and in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo where millions have died. There is just too much public silence about these and other global violent conflicts. Dr. King’s commitment to nonviolence was non-negotiable. Africans and African Americans as well as all people must strive to settle differences and disputes without engaging in self-destructive violence. This in part is what I mean when I use the phrase “living legacy” of Martin Luther King. Gun violence is down
somewhat now in Chicago, but it is still too high. Gun violence is rising in Detroit, Washington, D.C. and in Philadelphia. SCLC, NAACP, National Urban League, National Rainbow Coalition, and the National Action Network should take on the National Rifle Association (NRA) and its policies to proliferate gun sales in America. Support of universal health care and the Affordable Care Act should be viewed as a fundamental aspect of the living legacy of King. We are most affected by the absence of health care delivery to our families and communities. Yet, in too many of our communities there still appears to a slow response to the Affordable Care Act. Dr. King new the importance
of education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s). King’s legacy demands more financial support for all HBCUs. We must also meet the challenge of curbing drop-out rates and the failures of the secondary school systems of education with respect to our communities. Lastly, Martin Luther King’s concept of “the Beloved Community” involved economic equality and development as a means of eliminating poverty. We should be encouraging the rise and training of a new young generation of entrepreneurs. If we want more jobs, then we have to have more businesses and employers who emerge from the communities that live in and serve. Yes, the National Holiday for
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Dr. King is about remembrance and celebration. But it should also be about living the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. everywhere people are crying out for a better life through freedom, justice and equality and economic empowerment.wi Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is president of Education Online Services Corporation and the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network.
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jackson continued from Page 19 while most Americans struggle to stay afloat. Yet there is little response from Washington. Affordable health care is essential, but reform has been met with unrelenting hostility. The Republican majority in the House has forced cuts in food stamps, dropped children from
Head Start, cut aid to poor schools and even rejected continuing emergency jobless benefits. Rather than a war on poverty, they seem intent on waging a war on the poor. But focus on the inadequacy of the response ignores the other missing factor: the inadequacy of the call. The poor are only beginning to find their voice, as witnessed in the protests of fast
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food workers. The movement for justice has only begun to stir, with voters forcing increases in the minimum wage in states and localities. Those who benefit from the current arrangements will not lead the change. Political reformers face implacable, and well-funded, opposition. What is needed is for citizens of conscience to join with the op-
pressed to issue a moral call for change. Build that call to a tide that cannot be turned and then, and only then, will there be a response. Dr. King led a movement that issued a stirring call for justice. Lyndon Johnson used his remarkable skills to drive an unprecedented response to that call. The prophet and the president were both remark-
able leaders. We may not look on their like again. But even so, one thing is still clear: When we build the demand for change, leaders will arise to offer the response.wi Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. is founder and president of the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition. You can keep up with his work at www.rainbowpush.org.
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the entire tapestry of the centuries-long Black freedom struggle. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 13-year life on the national stage brilliantly represented the courage it took in those decades to challenge the seemingly overwhelming power of the South’s racist power structure. Far less acknowledged is the courage it took for King – after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and his being awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize – to resist the temptations of partial success and his own fame. Instead, King kept moving leftward, to confront the racial and economic injustice that had created and maintained the Black ghettos of the North, and the national hubris that had led America into the quagmire of war in Southeast Asia. For this he was pilloried by President Lyndon B. Johnson and much of the White liberal establishment, and a good portion of the civil rights and Black political establishment, too. His insistence that nonviolence was still a viable means of social
change was ridiculed, as were his plans to stage a multiracial Poor Peoples March on Washington and involve himself in the bitter sanitation worker’s strike in Memphis, Tenn. But those difficult years were actually King’s finest hours. At the moment of his assassination, he was standing where he had begun his public life: with ordinary Black people who were being unjustly denied their human rights. King’s refusal to submit offers a lesson to take to heart at this moment when conservative politicians and theorists are trying to restore inequality of opportunity as the law of the land. It tells us we should adopt King as The Militant of the 21st Century, too.wi Lee A. Daniels, Lee A. Daniels is a longtime journalist based in New York City. His essay, “Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Great Provocateur,” appears in Africa’s Peacemakers: Nobel Peace Laureates of African Descent,” to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in March.
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instigators of all the problems in the disputed Western Sahara region. The Moroccans claim the territory is and has always been a province of their country and that it was severed off when colonists from Spain occupied the land. After they shed their colonial shackles in 1959, the Moroccans wanted their Saharan region too, they say. But some in the region say they are an independent people and want to be free. The Polisarios, as they are known, claim independence and their claim is supported by Algeria. In the meantime, the Moroccans have invested billions of dollars in infrastructure, and indeed in subsistence payments to Saharan leaders and people in an effort to woo them into choosing “sovereignty” as a province of Morocco. Without attempting to judge the merits of the claim of either side, the Moroccans have a huge problem, and they don’t even perceive it. You see, in the 1960s, the symbol of world uprising against western imperialism was the film, “The Battle of Algiers,”
arguably one of the greatest films of all time, which romanticized the Algerian struggle from 1954-1962 against the French. The Moroccans also don’t recognize that Frantz Fanon, an Algerian psychiatrist is a folk hero among the downtrodden – especially Blacks in the U.S. – whose analysis of the degree to which colonial mentality immobilizes subject people is also a part of the vocabulary of people yearning to be free. So, for the Moroccans to preach – rightly or wrongly – that the Algerians are the cause of everything that’s wrong in the Sahara, is a very, very hard case for them to win among emerging nations, and they don’t even realize the difficulty they have convincing that world which has seen Morocco’s chief ally – the USA – as the main culprit which has hampered their development over the last 75 years.
long distorted the fact that the real Martin Luther King, Jr. was, above all, a great provocateur. Speaking in the early 1990s, when the conservative political ascendancy was at its height, Rev. Hosea Williams, one of King’s lieutenants during the civil rights struggles, explained that “There is a definite effort on the part of America to change Martin Luther King, Jr. from what he was really about – to make him the Uncle Tom of the century. “ Williams insisted, “In my mind, he was the militant of the century.” Williams was right, and King’s importance – his militancy – is still not completely understood today. He didn’t “make” the Civil Rights Movement. He wasn’t its operational leader or its major tactician. But he was its national and international spokesman – the man who, speaking in that rich baritone, could turn words into emotions that were otherwise inexpressible and into word-pictures that represented
On that point, however, I beg to differ. America’s truly oldest ally is the Black nation-within-this-nation, the Black descendants of slaves stolen from Africa and brought here in chains, who nevertheless have fought and died in every conflict to protect American independence. Indeed, the very first person to die for the independence of America from England was a runaway slave named Crispus Attucks, in the Boston Massacre in 1770. In fact, Lemuel Haynes, Peter Salem, “Brazilian Lew,” and Prince Estabrook – are four Black patriots who were among the Minutemen, who answered Paul Revere’s alarm to face the British Grenadiers at Lexington and Concord in April, 1775. But what the Moroccans don’t “get” as far as Blacks in America and many others around the world is the characterization of the people of Algeria as The Devil incarnate, and the The Washington Informer
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