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WI Staff Report Lonnie G. Bunch III, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, has been elected as the 14th secretary of the Smithsonian, the institution’s board of regents announced Tuesday. Bunch, who will succeed David Skorton, will begin his new position on June 16. The founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in September 2016, Bunch oversees the nation’s largest and most comprehensive cultural destination devoted exclusively to exploring, documenting and showcasing the African-American story and its impact on American and world history. His election is unprecedented for the Smithsonian as he becomes the first African American to lead the Smithsonian, and the first historian elected secretary. The historic promotion also means that Bunch becomes the first museum director to ascend to secretary in 74 years. “Lonnie Bunch guided, from concept to completion, the complex effort to build the premier museum celebrating African-American achievements,” said Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who serves as Smithsonian chancel-
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5 Ahead of the D.C. Council vote on Tuesday, May 29, protesters hold a sign on the steps of the John A. Wilson Building. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)
UMC Increased, Banneker Set to Move on Final Council Budget Vote By James Wright WI Staff Writer
The District of Columbia’s only public hospital received a boost despite a proposed cut in its subsidy and the city’s leading
academic high school will move to a new location in the near future. Tensions flared as members debated over increasing the budget for the ailing United Medical Center (UMC), the
only hospital serving residents in Wards 7 and 8 in Southeast. Councilmember Trayon White (D-Ward 8) proposed an amendment to increase the subsidy to
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D.C. Council Approves Banneker Relocation to Shaw Site
By Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins
The battle surrounding Banneker Academic High School’s relocation and expansion at the shuttered Shaw Junior High School site recently wrapped up with the approval of the finalized Fiscal Year 2020 budget that funds the District’s top achieving
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5 Banneker Academic High School student advocates attend a Council Hearing May 14 in their support of a newly built state of the art education campus. (Courtesy photo/ Wendy Glenn Facebook grab)
Several residents such as Sherri James of Landover expressed displeasure with a proposed traffic plan to expand portions of Interstates 495 and 270 with toll lanes in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties. James, who’s resided in Prince George’s for about 30 years, said state officials needed to be more upfront and inform residents better. “We are never, never, never asked how do we feel?” she said during a town hall Thursday, May 23. “All of a sudden a plan is developed and here it is. Not a lot of people understand what this means. I hope this is not a done deal.” Dozens of other residents, governmental officials and activists heard about the toll lane plan at the Wayne K. Curry Sports and Learning Complex in Landover. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan supports to make a public-private partnership, or P3 where a private firm would help finance, design and build the toll lanes. The state Department of Transportation would handle the maintenance of the roads along the 70-mile trek. “You may add short term relief, but you add more vehicles to the road,” said Rep. Anthony Brown (D-Maryland), who called for the town hall and doesn’t support the state’s traffic
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AROUND THE REGION Montford Point Marines Seek to Make a Difference in D.C. By James Wright WI Staff Writer
On Memorial Day, many veterans proudly strutted their military branch’s uniforms before the thousands of people who gathered to observe the annual parade that takes place on Constitution Avenue in the Northwest. One particular group, the Montford Point Marine Association of Washington, D.C., didn’t walk down the noted thoroughfare en masse but instead rode vintage antique cars to symbolize, like the veterans, their age and value to the country. The District’s chapter resides in the national Montford Point Marine Association, a nonprofit military veterans organization, founded to memorialize the legacy of the first African Americans to serve in the United States Marine Corps. While Blacks served in the Marine Corps in 1776 and 1777 during the Revolutionary War, the U.S. instituted a policy of racial exclusion from 1798 to 1942. The Marines essentially operated as a White-male only branch of the military until President Franklin Delano Roosevelt prohibited racial discrimination in federal employment in 1942, pushed by A. Phillip Randolph and other African American leaders. African American Marines received their training at Camp Montford Point in Jacksonville, N.C. from 1942 to 1949, when all branches of the military officially and permanently desegregated. Howard P. Perry became the first Black Marine after the Roosevelt order. Maurice Sonny Ross serves as the president of Montford Point Marine Association’s District chapter and has become an unofficial historian of the Black Marines’ struggle for respect during the Camp Montford era. “There was a lot of racism and discrimination during those days,” Ross, who served in Vietnam, said. “Blacks were segregated from their White counterparts and that wasn’t just the Marines but all of the branches. Early on, the Montford Marines were supervised by White officers and drill instructors and they weren’t nice at all.” Ross said Black Marines received harsh punishment for
even the most minor infractions and were verbally and racially harassed and abused. He said Black Marines couldn’t go to Camp Lejeune, for White Marines, unless accompanied by a White Marine and had service papers stamped “Colored”. Needless to say, the facilities at Montford Point did not compare to the modern facility at Camp Lejeune. Black Marines, Ross said, didn’t receive encouragement to go into the local towns because of fear of violence and retaliation from the White residents. Nevertheless, the Black Marines fought heroically and received praise from Marine Corp General Alexander Vandergrift in June 1944 for their effort in the Battle of Saipan, saying “the Negro Marines are no longer on trial”. “They are Marines, period,” Vandergrift said. Montford Point closed in 1949 as a result of President Truman’s desegregation order and those enlisted went to Parris Island and Camp Pendleton. The Marines fully desegregated by the 1950s, during the Korean War. It has been estimated that more than 20,000 men received their training at Montford Point. The organization started in Philadelphia in 1965 and the District chapter seeks Montford Marines actively. “We have a chapter of 45 members,” he said. “Eighteen of those who went through Montford Point are still with us.” Any Marine or member of the military can join the MPMA. On June 27, 2012, the MPMA received the Congressional Gold Medal for its heroism and fighting for the U.S. even though they went through discrimination and abuse. Ross said he wants to find Montford Marines or the families to get the gold medal to them. Community service has been become a staple in the District’s chapter. “We want to reach out to the younger generation,” Ross said. “We want to talk to the children and for them to see some real heroes.” Ross said his chapter has a program to help the city’s homeless population and during the Christmas holidays, it gives food and gifts to struggling families. The chapter wants to build up
its scholarship program, Ross said, “to help children go to college.” They are planning an October gala to help pay for scholarships, he said. The District’s chapter has an active ladies auxiliary that has worked in the community, too, Ross said. Ross has also worked to try to get people to understand the experience of the Montford Marines. For example, he has been critical of the sparse representation of the Montford Marines in the National Museum of the Marine Corps, located in Quantico, Va., and has worked to get more funds and attention to the Montford Point Museum in Jacksonville, N.C. WI
5 The D.C. chapter of the Montford Marines rides in the National Memorial Day Parade on May 27 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)
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1854 – Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act that repealed the Missouri Compromise and opened the Northern territories to slavery. More specifically, it allowed Whites in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not slavery would be allowed in the territories. 1903 – Countee Cullen, one of the most outstanding poets in the history of Black America, is born.
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1921 – The Tulsa Riots begin in Oklahoma. Whites go on a violent rampage lasting several days. When the rioting was over, an estimated 21 whites and 60 Blacks were dead. In addition, as many as 15,000 Blacks were left homeless as hundreds of homes and businesses were burned to the ground. The area bearing the brunt of the destruction was known as the “Black Wall Street” because of its large number of African-American-owned businesses.
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1949 – Wesley A. Brown becomes the first African-American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. 1950 – Deniece Williams, Grammy-winning R&B and gospel music star, is born. Known for her four-octave range, Williams sang backup for Stevie Wonder and recorded a string of successful duets with Johnny Mathis before her breakout pop hit, “Let’s Hear It for the Boy.” 2008 – Barack Obama clinches the Democratic presidential nomination, becoming the first Black candidate to lead a major party into a campaign for the White House.
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1961 – Soul crooner El DeBarge, who became a star with his siblings in the early 1980s before enjoying a successful solo career, is born. 1972 – Angela Davis, famed civil rights activist and Black Panther Party affiliate, is acquitted by an all-white jury in San Jose, California, of conspiracy charges stemming from a 1970 courtroom shootout.
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1875 – James Augustine Healy is consecrated as Bishop of Portland, becoming the first African American consecrated a Catholic bishop. 1951 – Kenneth Chenault, CEO and chairman of American Express, is born in Mineola, New York. He is the third Black CEO of a Fortune 500 company. 1989 – Freddie Adu, soccer player and former member of D.C. United, is born in Tema, Ghana. In January 2004, he became the youngest American ever to sign a professional sports contract after be was selected by the United in the Major League Soccer draft.
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1906 – Josephine Baker, the world-renowned American-born French singer, dancer and actress, is born. In 1934, Baker became the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture (“Zotuou”). She also became an avowed civil rights activist, speaking out against the racism and segregation she faced as a performer in the United States. 1942 – Curtis Mayfield, famed singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer, is born. Rising to prominence as a member of the Impressions, Mayfield penned the R&B group’s politically charged “People Get Ready” at the height of the civil rights movement before going on to a successful solo career. He is perhaps best known for creating the soundtrack for the seminal blaxploitation film “Superfly.”
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War kills people and devastates human creation when opposing sides, unable to reach a compromise, take up arms and shoot with reckless abandon. In time, however, the enemy no longer becomes a threat and the war ends. Both sides put down their weapons and as is the way of the world, nature has its way as flowers once trampled and destroyed eventually rise again from the dust and ruins to bloom once more. That’s what thousands of Blacks in Charleston, most of them former slaves, believed as they participated in one of the first commemorations honoring those who had died during the Civil War on May 1, 1865 at the Washington Race Course and Jockey Club – a former horse track that Confederates had converted into an outdoor prison. Black Charlestonians in cooperation with white missionaries and teachers, staged an unforgettable parade of 10,000 people on the slaveholders’ race course. Afterwards, the crowd dispersed to do what we do today: enjoy picnics, listen to speeches and watch soldiers drill. For them, “Decoration Day,” founded by Blacks and what would become Memorial Day, soon included decorating
the graves of the dead and remembering those who had made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of their community and the nation. Perhaps if Blacks were more in tune with our history, we would not allow Memorial Day weekend today, also the unofficial beginning of summer, to serve as the start of an annual unleashing of senseless violence. Perhaps the majority of the more than 20 men, women and youth who were either shot or stabbed – some dying as a result of their injuries – had been involved in “shady dealings” that made this weekend’s subsequent acts of retaliation easier to fathom. But it doesn’t matter why. What matters is the fact that we have allowed our own race to devolve to such a state that we scandalize our history, besmirch the sacrifices made by our ancestors who were once property and participate in the unthinkable: shooting, maiming and murdering with little regard for human life – particularly the lives of the innocent who were, as they say, “in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Such is the case of Maurice Scott, 15, gunned down and killed in a shooting outside of a liquor store in Southeast on Sunday morning. Three others with him were wounded but are expected to recover from their injuries. Maurice had barely begun to live his life. A freshman at Somerset Prep, we’re told he had been a good student, a good friend and a young man with an infectious smile, anxious to fulfill
his dreams. But that was before a new-age Memorial Day “tradition” once again moved some of our own people to fire their weapons with no concern as to where the bullets would land. And while shootings took place in every quadrant in the District most of the violence occurred East of the River in communities where far too many live out their short lives as if time were standing still and they have been transported back to the days of the Wild, Wild West, welcoming their new identities as gun-slinging outlaws. Is this the kind of people we have become? Do young Blacks have no other means of making a name for themselves than by adding notches to their belts as a result of the number of bullets they’ve unleashed within their own community – regardless of whether their marks are either innocent or “guilty.” In these instances, we cannot blame “the white man” for our actions. We have no excuses. War kills people. But weapons, because they’re inanimate objects, need a human being to hold and aim them. And we seem to have become quite skilled at doing just that. The ancestors are in mourning once again as they were on that day centuries ago on May 1, 1865. Some are even in mourning in the four quadrants of the District. Now what? Will there be more acts of revenge, violence or senseless attacks? Have we learned nothing at all? Or is this just another day “in the hood?” WI
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Summer isn’t just a season of daily walks on the beach or picnics at the park, but for some people, especially young adults, the warmer months are a time to gain extra spending power or work experience. But whether you need or want a summer job, where you look for one will matter almost as much as what you do, according to the District-based personal finance website, WalletHub which took an in-depth look at 2018’s Best Places for Summer Jobs. Orlando, Fla, ranked as the top place to get a summer job, followed by Scottsdale, Arizona; Denver, Colo.; Dover, Delaware; and Wilmington, Delaware. Portland, Maine; Las Vegas, Nevada; Austin, Texas; Columbia, Maryland; and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, rounded out the top 10. The District placed 25th out of the 182 cities surveyed – up from 36th a year ago. When Marion Barry founded the summer youth employment program in his first term as the District’s mayor in 1979, he envisioned a program that would support youths transitioning from school to a career, Unique Morris-Hughes, interim director of the D.C. Department of Employment Services, wrote in an editorial last year. Exactly 40 years later, Barry’s vision has thrived, and the summer youth employment program has evolved into something more than just a way for young Washingtonians to earn summer pay, Morris-Hughes said. Officially named the Mayor Marion S. Barry Summer Youth Employment Program, the initiative serves as an entry point for participants into the private sector and federal and local government agencies. The program also incorporates training in financial literacy and professional development. Through a partnership with JabaTalks, a D.C.-based tech firm, program participants can use their mobile devices to prep for job interviews and connect with potential employers via an online platform. Along with expanding the program to include young adults
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is especially important for young residents in Wards 7 and 8, where the unemployment rates, although declining, are still the highest in the city. The bigger the investment, the greater D.C.’s economy grows as summer youth employment programs and postsecondary education prepare youths for competitive and in-demand jobs in industries such as information technology, health care and infrastructure, she said. “In 2016, nearly 50 percent of summer youth employment program participants secured employment by Dec. 31. Many of the participants we surveyed found the program to be a rewarding experience,” Morris-Hughes said. For the full WalletHub survey on the best places for summer jobs, go to https://wallethub. com/edu/best-places-for-summer-jobs/21137. WI
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MoCo Police-Shooting Investigation Transparency Bill Signed into Law By Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins Montgomery County’s Law Enforcement Trust and Transparency (LETT) Act, signed into law earlier this month, comes amid tense relationships between law enforcement and Black residents, as seen in recently released body-cam footage that shows a white officer using a racial epithet during an encounter. For Montgomery County Councilmember Will Jawando (D-At large), the law’s architect and key proponent, the LETT Act increases accountability in the aftermath of officer-involved shootings, and provides the opportunity for the county’s police department to build more of a trusting relationship with members of the community. “We still have some issues in Montgomery County,” Jawando said on May 7, moments after the Montgomery County Council unanimously approved the LETT Act, his first bill as an elected official. More than a week later, County Executive Marc Elrich signed it into law. Under the LETT Act, two independent investigators employed by a local, state, or federal agency would take the lead on cases where a civilian died during an encounter with a Montgomery County police officer. Reports finding officers blameless in those situations must fulfill the tenets of the Freedom of Information Act. In years past, cases of this magnitude would to go to the Howard County State Attorney’s office. “[T]his would go in the right direction of making sure that when our police officers are involved in the death of a resident, we have an independent investigation and that the report be made public so the community can look at and learn from it. We have a unique opportunity with a new police chief,” Jawando added. In a statement to The Washington Informer, Montgomery County Police Department Public Information Officer Captain Tom Jordan said that the de-
partment supports any effort, including the LETT Act, to increase transparency and trust within the community. Jawando introduced the LETT Act in January in response to concerns that the investigation of Silver Spring resident Robert Lawrence White’s death hadn’t been transparent. Last June, Montgomery County Police Officer Anand Badgujar shot and killed White during an investigation into suspicious activity. After three months, the Howard County State Attorney’s Office absolved Badgujar of any wrongdoing, to the chagrin of activists who said little evidence supported that outcome. Long before May 16, when Elrich signed it into law, the LETT Act had the support of Montgomery County Council President Nancy Navarro (D-District 4), Councilmembers Gabe Albornoz (D-At large), Craig Rice (D-District 2), and Hans Riemer (D-At large), the Montgomery County chapters of the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union, and Mothers of Black Boys United for Social Change. Also among the LETT Act’s most ardent advocates was Marvin Whitfield, the late White’s friend of more than three decades. For him, LETT’s passage earlier in the month brought mixed feelings. “The reason for us having to deal with this was my brother’s untimely murder. His death won’t be in vain, but we never needed to get here,” said Whitfield, now a Prince George’s County resident and human resources professional. “Things are still going on in the community where proper policing isn’t being done,” he continued. “I applaud Councilmember Jawando for this bill, but I wish we didn’t need the LETT Act, and that common civility was common. This was never intended to slam the police. They are people with families that care for them, however the main goal is that they’re here to serve and protect the community.” WI
5 County Executive Marc Elrich signs the Law Enforcement Trust and Transparency (LETT) Act on May 15, introduced by Councilmember Will Jawando (left). (Courtesy photo/Montgomery CountyMD.gov)
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY Process to Select Schools Leader Rushed, Parents Say By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill There’s growing concern in Prince George’s County that a decision may happen too quickly on finding a permanent public schools system leader. Tonya Sweat of Accokeek said if a list of candidates isn’t presented by June 15, then more time should be given to find a person beyond the June 30 deadline. “This thing was started extremely late,” said Sweat, who has two children in the school system. “I am not endorsing anybody.” Tamar McKinney of Lanham
suggested the county not just settle on interim CEO Monica Goldson. McKinney, who has two grandchildren in the public schools and another scheduled to graduate from DuVal High School in Lanham, said a May 13 public hearing didn’t fully address what taxpayers want in a new school leader. “I don’t doubt her qualifications, but it seemed as though individuals got invited to speak on behalf of Dr. Goldson,” she said. “Why isn’t this a conversation about what we want in a superintendent?” Some did express those views for County Executive Angela Alsobrooks to select a person who would incorporate more service for
special needs students; eliminate the school-to-prison; and revert back to the title of “superintendent” instead of CEO. About 80 people signed up to speak at Charles H. Flowers High School in Springdale and the majority supported Goldson becoming the permanent leader. County Executive spokesman John Erzen said if a person isn’t selected next month, the school board can vote to extend the contract for Goldson. “We don’t feel we are going to be rushed,” he said. “We will make sure everything is done the way it needs to be to make sure that whoever is selected, everything is fair and everybody has the same opportunity.” In the meantime, Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, will be in charge of finding six to seven candidates. Residents can also fill out a survey on the CEO search at https://bit.ly/2YLV1G0. Once the search concludes, a three-member committee appointed by Gov. Larry Hogan will review and narrow the list to three people. The committee members are: Warner Sumpter, a retired brigadier general in the Marine Corps. and current member of the state board of education; Oretha Bridgewater-Simms, a retired Prince George’s educator; and Hallie Russell Williams, president of the Accokeek
Hogan Vetoes ‘Ban the Box’ Legislation, Majority of Bills Go into Law Without Signature By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Republican Maryland Gov.
Larry Hogan decided to not sign more than 200 bills that allows them to become law, but he chose to veto eight pieces of legislation the majority Democrat-
ic legislature may override when lawmakers reconvene in January. One of the bills Hogan vetoed Friday deals with “ban the box,” legislation lawmakers passed to
5 Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, center, at the last bill signing May 13 in Annapolis alongside House Speaker Adrienne Jones, right and sitting at table, and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (William J. Ford/Washington Informer)
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5 Some Prince George’s County residents said a public hearing held May 13 at Charles H. Flowers High School reflected a support showcase for interim CEO Monica Goldson instead of laying out specific qualifications for a permanent public schools leader. (William J. Ford/Washington Informer)
Academy Parent Teacher Student Association. The governor appointed the committee April 1. Alsobrooks will review the committee’s choices and select one person. The county school board would negotiate a contract and send a letter to State Superintendent Karen Salmon for final approval. Those interviewed all said the permanent school leader should revamp the central office at the allow returning citizens a better opportunity for employment. “However, when and how an employer asks about criminal history is a decision that should be left to employers, not dictated by the legislature and micro-managed in the annotated code,” Hogan wrote in a letter to Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. and House Speaker Adrienne Jones. Another bill vetoed by the governor dealt with undocumented immigrants to pay instate tuition at four-year public colleges and universities if they received a high school diploma, or an equivalent. The bill sponsored by Del. Eric Luedtke (D-Montgomery County) also eliminated the community college requirement to receive in-state tuition from legislation approved in 2012. Hogan said in a separate letter to Miller and Jones the law narrowly expanded existing law and excluded Marylanders with a Green Card or has U.S. citizenship. “This is unfair and unacceptable,” Hogan said.
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Sasscer Administration Building in Upper Marlboro, especially replace some personnel who worked under former CEO Kevin Maxwell. As for Goldson, she has worked in the school system for 27 years as a teacher, math instructional specialist, assistant principal and the founding principal at Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School in Upper Marlboro. Her previous job title was deputy superintendent of teaching and learning. Since being appointed in September to lead the state’s second biggest school system, an elementary school received Blue Ribbon award for educational excellence; school system reached a tentative deal with the teachers’ union to restore pay raises during the recession; and helped secure millions of dollars toward education approved by state lawmakers this year based on recommendations from the ongoing Kirwan Commission. However, state Department of Education data showed Prince George’s recorded the most students at 17,610 for in-school and out-of-school suspensions the last two school years. In addition, the school system ranks near the bottom in education rating. Sweat said she will allow her son to complete his senior year at Oxon Hill, but she and her husband may change scenery for their daughter currently in first grade. “We have given ourselves a year to make that decision,” she said. “My husband and I graduated from public schools. We believe in the public school system, but we are very concerned about our children who have to live in the 21st century world. We want to make sure they are going to be ready.” WI
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Dezirae Pena recalled her first experience swimming took place at her friend’s house inside a small pool. Elijah Myers said he also learned to swim during a pool party a friend’s house. However, Caleb Elijah James said his stepfather taught him during a trip to Massanutten resort in Virginia. “I like the water because I want to become a marine biologist,” Caleb said as he held a water safety activity book. “I like to swim. It’s fun.” Caleb and about 50 other second-graders at Capitol Heights Elementary learned about the importance of water safety thanks to Janique Muckelvene and Stephanie Schumacher, two employees with the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Muckelvene and Schumacher visited Capitol Heights and four other elementary schools in Prince George’s County for the first time this year to continue its May initiative to commemorate National Water Safety Month. The commission continues to hold its “Make A Splash” program to teach elementary school children about the importance of water safety in and out the pool. “But I noticed the children
are more focused in this type of setting,” Muckelvene said during the visit at Capitol Heights on Thursday, May 23. “They really listened and paid attention.” The month not only celebrates Memorial Day to commemorate men and women who died in military service, but also serves as an unofficial holiday to begin the celebration of summer. Public pools also opened this month throughout the D.C. region where children frolic, laugh and of course, get wet. But there’s some seriousness being around the water, especially for children. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 10 people die from unintentional drownings every day and the leading cause of death among children are those ages 1 to 4. Also on Thursday, Morgan Miller posted a video on Instagram with Nicole Hughes to conduct a PSA on promoting a water safety plan. Both mothers lost their children on the same day due to drowning last year. “Time is not on our side when it comes to water,” said a tearful Miller, who’s married to former Olympic skier Bodie Miller. “It takes seconds.” A 2017 study from USA Swimming conducted by the universities of Memphis and Nevada-Las Vegas show 64 percent of Black children have no or low swimming ability. They ranked last among all races groups.
BAN THE BOX from Page 12 The governor rejected a bill to abolish the Handgun Permit Review Board he called “just another in a long series of politically-motivated and ill-conceived power grabs” to not allow judges decide who receive a concealed permit. The other five bills vetoed include increasing the number of employees on freight trains; changes to recover the oyster population in the Chesapeake Bay; rejected a $3.8 million annual plan toward implementation of bike lanes; collective bargaining agreement procedures; and duties and reports of political appointees. For lawmakers to override Hogan’s vetoes, the House of Delegates would need 85 votes and 29 from the Senate. “I am disappointed that Gov. Hogan vetoed so many common sense pieces of legislation, many of which passed the Senate with bipartisan support,” Miller said in a statement. “After we have discussions with Senate leadership and Speaker Jones, I expect the Senate to override sev-
5 Prince George’s County residents at a public hearing held May 13 at Charles H. Flowers High School showed support for interim CEO Monica Goldson instead of laying out specific qualifications for a permanent public schools leader. (William J. Ford/Washington Informer)
That’s why the organization while in a pond or lake; cool, follow the rules.” • No running on the pool has an initiative to teach 1.5 milThe commission’s goal will be lion children how to swim by the deck; and to travel to more schools next • Go into the water feet end of 2020 year in the northern, central and Back in Capitol Heights, the first. southern parts of the county to The most important messagstudents watched a video called incorporate water safety. “Wild About Safety with Timon es the students repeated: “Be WI and Pumbaa.” All the children MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION recalled the STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION TAKOMA JUNCTION VISION STUDY safety measures such as: • Think beCome to one or both of the MDOT SHA Workshops in June! fore you get WHAT: The Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration wet; (MDOT SHA) will host two workshops to help shape the transportation vision for • Wear a life Takoma Junction. Attendees should arrive at 6:00 p.m. and plan to stay for the entire jacket in a boat workshop to participate in all the group activities. The workshops will not be the same, as different activities and objectives are planned for each. While you do not need to attend both, we encourage you to!
eral of these vetoes when we return.” Meanwhile, legislation which will go into law without Hogan’s signature include the ban on foam packaging, gender-neutral driver’s licenses and dozens of alcohol-related bills that affect local jurisdictions. One high-profile bill deals with the creation of a prescription drug affordability board, the first in the nation slated to go into effect July 1. Health care advocates have said the legislation would allow Maryland to become a nationwide model to help curb the high cost of prescription drugs. It will assess those prices for local and state government workers. “This legislation promises to bring down the costs that governments are paying for drugs, which will benefit taxpayers,” Vincent DeMarco, president of the Maryland Citizen’s Health Initiative, said in a statement. “This board will be a public watchdog and establish fair and affordable costs for state and local governments.” WI
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BUSINESS Nation’s Federal Home Loan Banks Refuses to Pay two District Men Discrimination Settlement By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia
The board members from the Federal Home Loan Banks – the nation’s 11 Federal Home Loan Banks which have been called the “best kept secret in the U.S. financial system – held a national meeting in the District that few knew about. It’s been a trademark of the board to fly well-below the radar of those outside of the housing and banking worlds with not many knowing that the system was created by an act of Congress in 1932 to help kickstart home lending in the midst of the
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Great Depression. Today, with over a trillion dollars in collective assets, these cooperatively-owned regional banks have expanded their activities beyond home loans to include funding for small businesses, community development and revitalization and even some elements of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s highly publicized “Green New Deal.” However, allegations persist that of a myriad of racial inequalities within the system, such as minority hiring; the lack of diversity within the ranks of upper management; the selection of decision-makers, CEOs, chairmen & vice chairmen of the boards who
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are not individuals of color; and the fact that only a minuscule amount of the of billions of dollars for investment is allocated to communities of color. In October, racism and discrimination at one of the institutions within the system, the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, was brought to light and a resultant complaint was filed. The bank reached a $3.6 million law suit with Lawrence Parks and Timothy Simons, two Washington, D.C. executives who claimed they were the victims of racial discrimination. However, seven months after the settlement, the Bank has refused to honor the settlement and the matter
might require re-litigation. “Parks and Simons were subject to practices that had a disparate impact on black employees,” the attorney for both men, Carla Brown, wrote in court papers. “The bank closed its DC office and fired them after they complained about racial discrimination,” the attorney states in the filings. Parks, who worked for the bank as senior vice president for external, legislative and regulatory affairs; and Simon, who held the position of vice president for legislative and regulatory outreach and compliance; did not respond to request for comment. Because the case hasn’t been resolved, Brown also declined to comment. Bank officials refused to comment. A spokesperson for Parks and Simons said the suit isn’t simply about the specifics found in their legal filings. The two executives are suing for breach of contract and breach of covenant of good faith and fair dealing related to the bank’s alleged failure to fulfill the terms in its mediation agreement. Brown argues on behalf of her clients in court documents that “The plaintiffs argue that the mediation — which they did not request — was in good faith and that both parties agreed in advance that any settlement they reached would resolve the dispute.” “More importantly, the mediator’s proposal stated that any such agreement ‘is enforceable in the same manner as any other written contract.’” Parks and Simons said they did not initially file a suit against the bank, or the employees named in this suit, because they agreed to wait until after mediation, according to Brown’s court filings. They said a settlement was reached on Oct. 8, 2018, providing a signed, handwritten copy of that document in the appendix to their filing. Mediators proposals are typically short, but the problem appears that the parties cannot reach a long-form version of that settlement. Parks and Simons claim the bank and its co-defendants have attempted to add terms that would “materially alter (and effectively nullify) the agree-
ment struck at mediation.” They claim the bank was trying to stretch the payout over 10 years and include claw-back provisions and non-compete clauses that would dramatically change the value of the settlement. The Bank is part of the Federal Home Loan Bank System which was chartered by Congress in 1932. Federal Home Loan Banks are 11 U.S. government-sponsored banks that provide reliable liquidity to member financial institutions to support housing finance and community investment. With their members, the FHL Banks represent the largest collective source of home mortgage and community credit in the United States. In the fourth quarter of 2018, the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco announced that its net income for the fourth quarter of 2018 was $73 million, compared with a net income of $67 million for the fourth quarter of 2017, a $6 million increase. The total net income for the 2018 operating year was $360 million. Total assets as of December 31, 2018 totaled $109.3 billion. The Bank paid an annualized dividend for 2018 of 8.51 percent. According to Brown, the Bank’s LRA division in Washington “Was established in 1997 to serve as a liaison with regulators and raise the awareness of the Bank’s mission with key influencers and lawmakers.” In recent years, the Washington office had been the source of innovation and brand building for the Bank and had numerous legislative and regulatory successes for the Bank and had established initiatives that were of “significant benefit to potential minority homeowners and to lower and moderate-income communities,” according to filings. “As a direct and proximate result of the breach by Defendants, Mr. Parks and Mr. Simons have suffered and continue to suffer damages including the specific amounts due as set forth (in the complaint), loss of use of income; loss of opportunities and benefits; and other past and future pecuniary losses,” Brown wrote. WI
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The launch of the Fresh Food Factory in the Anacostia Arts Center on Good Hope Road in Southeast brings with it the promise of healthier, more expansive grocery options for residents who’ve long suffered from chronic ailments and other effects of life without proximate access to essential fruits, vegetables, grains and spices. Upon walking into the Fresh Food Factory during its grand opening on Wednesday afternoon, visitors took part in the farmer’s market experience, perusing through the small storage container-like space and sampling a bevy of domestic and international food products from caterers, chefs and crafters as jazz music blasted from loudspeakers. “We want to promote and show people the differences we’re making in Anacostia through food. We’re impacting the health and wealth of the community with food access and education,” said Amanda Stephenson, owner of the Fresh Food
Factory. Stephenson, an entrepreneur, artist and community health advocate, said that, since setting up shop in the Anacostia Arts Center on May 1, the Fresh Food Factory, open six days a week, has attracted more than 30 customers on most days. Offerings, particularly the spices and grains, originate from India, Ethiopia. Haiti, Ghana and other places of significance to the District’s nonwhite immigrant population. Presently, patrons can use cash, debit and credit and Cash App. EBT cardholders too will be able to spend their dollars at Fresh Food Factory. “We want all people to taste the difference in food quality and variety,” Stephenson said. “The community didn’t have access to healthy, ethnic food that represented the various cultures in D.C. There are dialysis clinics and services in the community, but the ones that use food as medicine and convention are limited.” The Fresh Food Factory joins Bellevue’s Good Food Market, part of a mixed-used development com-
ing soon on South Capitol Street, as healthy food sources for people living east of the Anacostia River. Significant portions of Southeast, designated as food deserts, have few full-scale grocery stores within a mile of residents’ homes, many of which without a car and more than $40,000 in collective annual income. Experts link diabetes, hypertension and other chronic ailments to life in food deserts. Stephenson’s endeavor to increase consumer access to healthy food and boost the profile of other food vendors, started in 2016 when she used shipping containers, similar in size to the Fresh Food Factory, to set up a farming, commercial kitchen and market space in Poplar Point in Southwest. She later embarked on a journey to replicate that project by acquiring publicly-owned land in Wards 7 and 8. The Fresh Food Factory, for Stephenson, serves as an opportunity to actualize that vision in a reputable commercial space. In the spirit of taking her efforts further, Stephenson expressed future plans of weekly showcases where chefs, nutritionists and
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wellness experts show people how to use the products found in the Fresh Food Factory and increase their quality of life. These events, she said, would appeal to both longtime Anacostia residents and transplants from the western parts of city used to going to stores within walking distance of their home. “We’re right in the heart of Anacostia where people commute to commune,” Stephenson said. “It’s sort of a central location, but a jump-start to meeting the people
where they are. “Members of the community want healthy options,” she said. “They want to adapt to a healthy lifestyle and some have transitioned but they have to migrate across a bridge to other parts of the region for better food options. Now, we have a healthy food oasis. Our community will not have to go so far to get their Irish moss, enjera, jackfruit, Berbere seasoning, seeded grapes and other things.” WI
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On African Liberation Day, while Leteefah Carter and her comrades gathered at the African-American Civil War Memorial on U Street to protest the U.S. economic sanctions against Zimbabwe, she reflected on the struggle for housing and land
ownership affecting people of African descent across the world. That common issue, Carter said, would suffice in broadening concern about the Southeastern African nation’s current woes among Black people living in the District, her Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, and other majority-Black communities across the United States that have been ravaged by
5 Protesters march on Saturday, May 25 from the African American Civil War Memorial on U Street in Northwest to the White House, opposing U.S. economic sanctions against Zimbabwe. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
gentrification since the turn of the century. “We want to widen [knowledge] of the atrocities in Zimbabwe and the sanctions the U.S. has committed,” said Carter, a Bed-stuy resident of 20 years who
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counted among more than 50 protesters donning army fatigue pants, Black fitted caps with an X emblazoned across it, and yellow bandanas tied around their necks last Saturday. Along their two-mile march to the White House, Carter and other members of the December 12th Movement, joined by the D.C. chapter of the National Black United Front and other local organizations, waved the Pan-African and Zimbabwe flags and chanted mantras that evoked approving nods and inquiries from onlookers along U Street, and later 14th Street leading to Lafayette Square. “The people [in Zimbabwe] are suffering because they’ve taken back what’s theirs,” Carter continued. “I want Black people here to be aware of what’s happening and do something about it. We need to be more aware of the ethnic cleansing and genocide.” In March, President Donald Trump extended sanctions against Zimbabwe, in effect since the early 2000s, and a move supported by the Congressional Black Caucus. Opponents have long described the sanctions as punishment for the Zimbabwe’s 1980 land reforms during which white farmers lost several acres acquired through colonialism, and what Trump calls a threat to U.S. foreign policy. The December 12th Movement gathering on Saturday, and previous events are organized to pressure the White House and CBC to revisit its stance on Zimbabwe. Protesters particularly expressed a desire for Congresswoman Karen Bass (D-CA 37), head of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Orga-
nizations, to host a hearing about the matter that prioritized the voice of the Zimbabwean people. Though the U.S. government maintains that its sanctions exclusively target 141 people and entities, including Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa and former President Robert Mugabe, opponents said the foreign policy decision has created hardship for most Zimbabweans. Since 2001, Zimbabwe’s internal debt has expanded, and the country has experienced medical supply shortages. A recent UNICEF report showed that Cyclone Idai exacerbated the ongoing drought affecting more than 136,000 children in Zimbabwe, primarily because of the outbreak of cholera, malaria, and diarrhea. The concept of using government resources to harm Black people struck a chord with Pam Africa, who has long advocated for the release of journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal and imprisoned members of MOVE, who survived the 1985 bombing on their Philadelphia compound by the local police department. On Saturday, days after the release of Janine and Janet Africa and nearly a year after the release of Pam and Michael Africa, Sr., she continued to express her solidarity with the Zimbabwean people. “We have the same oppression as the people in Zimbabwe,” Pam Africa said. “We are pulling together against one monster and Washington, D.C. is the hub. We are here to rock the boat and wake up people. [Some people] don’t want to show support because of the fear. I only fear that [the monster] will continue to exist unless we fight.” WI
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and to ensure that the Smithsonian will be even more relevant and more meaningful and reach more people in the future,” Bunch said. Board Chair David Rubenstein, who along with Vice Chair Steve Case led the Regents’ 11-member search committee, called Bunch a deeply respected scholar, educator and leader. “In looking for someone who would shepherd the institution into the future, we wanted to find a special person with equal parts talent and passion,” Rubenstein said. “Fortunately, the ideal choice for our next Secretary was already an integral part of the Smithsonian family.” After working at the Smithsonian in various capacities over three decades, and then birthing a wildly successful startup within the Smithsonian, Bunch has the benefit of knowing the institution intimately, Case said. “Now Lonnie will bring his insights and passion to reimagining the Smithsonian of the future, and creating a culture of agility and innovation to expand
the Institution’s impact,” Case said. Under Bunch’s leadership, the National Museum of African American History and Culture came to life. When he started as director in 2005, he had one staff member, no collections, no funding and no site for a museum. Driven by optimism, determination and a commitment to build “a place that would make America better,” Bunch transformed a vision into a bold reality. The museum, which has welcomed about 4 million visitors and compiled a collection of 40,000 objects, is the first “green building” on the National Mall and Bunch rallied donors of every level and worked with Congress to fund the museum through a public-private collaboration. “The regents stand ready to support Lonnie’s vision for driving cross-institutional collaboration to create a virtual Smithsonian that can reach everybody, everywhere,” Case said. WI
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SOUTH AFRICA -- Fifteen years since his onetime financial adviser Schabir Shaik first faced prosecution on charges, former president Jacob Zuma himself launched his last ditch attempt to avoid what he has always asked for – his day in court – the Johannesburg-based City Press reported May 26. In a week filled with drama, legal theatrics and choice quotes, Zuma’s defense team did battle with the National Prosecuting Authority’s advocates in front of a full bench of the KwaZulu-Natal high court in Pietermaritzburg. Zuma, together with French arms company Thales, are seeking a permanent stay of prosecution. They are facing charges of fraud, money laundering, corruption and racketeering. The crowds of Zuma supporters that gathered outside the court every day had considerably dwindled from the intimidating throngs that used to come out in support during previous appearances. Even the high-profile support had shrunk to ultra-loyalists like former ministers Mosebenzi Zwane and David van Rooyen, the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association’s camouflaged Carl Niehaus and some KwaZulu-Natal ANC leaders. Zuma’s son, Duduzane Zuma, was also on hand to lend support. The reduced distraction meant much more of the focus could be inside the courtroom where some of South Africa’s best known legal gladiators were throwing lethal punches at each other. An unmissable sight were the mountain of files stacked behind the full bench of judges presiding over the matter. The large files towered from the ground almost touching the court’s ceiling. Inside the mountain of files is evidence, arguments and counter-arguments relating to the case that has meandered through the courts for a decade and a half. In Zuma’s case raised multiple charges of fraud, money laundering, corruption and racketeering linked to his relationships with individuals and entities, among them Shaik and Thales. These include an allegation that Thales tried to secure his support in crushing an investigation into their involvement in corruption in the late 1999s arms deal. Thales’ charges relate directly to their alleged bribery agreement with Zuma. Both Zuma and Thales contend that the “undue delays” in the prosecution of the case will render it impossible to conduct a fair trial and therefore the case should be permanently struck from the roll. Zuma’s senior counsel, Muzi Sikhakhane, set about trying to cast Zuma as a victim of “mob justice” and political motivated unlawful persecution by a state organ in the form of the National Prosecuting Authority. “To any objective and truly unbiased mind, the prejudice and injustice visited on Zuma is self-evident. The facts and history of the Zuma prosecution … reveal a pattern of unlawful conduct that should attract the severest reprimand by our courts,” argued Sikhakhane. His being tried in the court of public opinion over all these years led to the general public vying for Traditional Help Buttons
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Elise Smith enjoys life as much as anyone. Not only does the 29-year-old own Winnie’s Bakery in Baltimore; she’s a state chef ambassador for the No Kid Hungry campaign; and she’s been busy
finishing the manuscript for her first cookbook. But, as much as she enjoys life, Smith knows first-hand the many hardships that often come out of nowhere. After battling and beating thyroid cancer a decade ago, Smith has been diagnosed with Myelodysplastic Syndrome – or MDS – and she’s in critical need of a
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blood stem cell donor. “It [MDS] was actually from the radiation treatment that I received – radioactive iodine,” Smith said. “And, basically what that was for was my thyroid cancer that I was diagnosed with right before I turned 20,” she said. According to the nonprofit MDS Foundation, the disease counts as a group of diverse bone marrow disorders in which the bone marrow doesn’t produce enough health blood cells. MDS, which is similar to leukemia, is often referred to as a “bone marrow failure disorder,” and primarily affects the elderly with most patients older than 65. “They’re finding that … as late as 15 years after adolescents and young adults are being treated with radiation that we’re developing all of these cancers,” Smith said. For a transplant to happen, the entrepreneur, author and philanthropist needs a 100 percent match with her genetic market. Since a patient is more likely to match with a donor who shares
their similar ethnic background, Smith needs to find an African American donor in order to get the best transplant outcome. However, only about 4 percent of the National Marrow Program, “Be The Match,” registry is comprised of African American donors – further underscoring the need to diversity the registry in order to help patients like Smith find a life-saving donor. “Every three minutes someone is diagnosed with a blood cancer, and for patients with diseases like leukemia – and other blood disorders, a cure exists through a blood stem cell transplant,” Lauren Miller, a PR Specialist with “Be The Match” said in a release. Smith said she’s hopeful that a match can be found. “I have a dark sense of humor and I know my bone marrow is failing,” she said. The cancer battle hasn’t broken Smith’s spirit. She plans to finish the cookbook and get back to running her store. Smith also enjoys giving back
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Expert Tips on Tick Season and Lyme Disease Prevention By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia In its most recent report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that in 2017 there were 720 confirmed cases of Lyme Disease in the District. However, the surrounding areas fared far worst. In Virginia, there were more than 16,000 tick-born disease cases while Maryland had 1,997 confirmed cases, with an additional 697 probable cases. Left untreated, the disease can cause joint swelling and cardiac or neurologic complications. With Lyme Disease Awareness Month in full swing, Ehrlich Pest Control officials said it’s important to note that, with the mild spring the Washington/Baltimore area has experienced, there’s a good chance of an extended tick season. “When you have an early start to spring and warm weather, tick eggs will hatch sooner. The nymphs and adults will become active earlier, so you could have a prolonged tick season as a result,” said Chad Gore, who holds a Ph.D. in entomology and serves as the Market Technical Director with Ehrlich Pest Control. “The longer the season, the more opportunities people have to be exposed to a tick that could be carrying bacteria that causes Lyme disease,” said Gore, who also volunteers as a technical advi-
sor to the Pennsylvania Pest Management Association. “If you find a tick on you, remove it as soon as possible … it takes quite a long time for the Lyme bacteria to make it into the tick’s saliva and into your bloodstream, so the sooner you can get the tick off of you, the better,” he said. Gore added that the most effective protective actions one can take against ticks are to wear an insect repellent containing DEET when spending time outdoors – even in your own yard. He said it’s important to wear long-sleeved shirts, long pants, and socks when working in a yard, hiking, or in wooded areas. “After being outside, do a headto-toe check for ticks. Adults should also do this check on children,” Gore said. “Check your pets for ticks regularly, especially if they spend a lot of time outdoors and speak to your veterinarian about proactive tick protection for your pet,” he said. Experts at Ehrlich recommend barrier treatments of yards, especially those in areas susceptible to tick activity. Barrier treatments include the application of a low-impact product to vegetation around the perimeter of a yard to kill ticks. Gore said those treatments need to be repeated multiple times throughout the tick season to remain effective. If someone encounters a tick,
it’s also helpful to know how to remove them, he said. For that, Gore suggested the following: • Use tweezers and grab the tick as close as possible to where it is attached to the skin. • Steadily pull upward and avoid twisting the tick. Twisting may cause the tick to break. • Rather than flushing the tick right away, it is best to submerge the tick in rubbing alcohol and save it for a week or two in case you need to see a doctor or veterinarian. • Save the tick in a plastic Ziploc bag or vial. “If the thought of having the tick around really freaks you out, take a clear photo of the tick, being sure to capture a photo of both the back and underside of the tick,” Gore said. “This will help a doctor identify what type of tick bit you. Then, flush it to dispose of it safely,” he said. WI
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IN FOCUS Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall, 89, HU Medical Pioneer, Dies By Hamil R. Harris WI Contributing Writer Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall, an oncologist, medical educator and surgical pioneer at Howard University who became the first African American to serve as national president of the American Cancer Society, died Sunday, May 26. He was 89. “It is with a heavy heart that I write to share that an icon of Howard University and a giant in the field of medicine, Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall Jr., has passed away,” Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick, a fellow surgeon and longtime colleague of Leffall, said
in a statement. “He was a surgeon par excellence, oncologist, medical educator, civic leader and mentor, to me and so many others.” Born on May 22, 1930, in Tallahassee, Florida, Leffall graduated from high school at just 15 years old, and summa cum laude from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Florida A&M University) in 1948, according to Frederick’s statement. He was trained at the Howard University College of Medicine and ultimately graduated first in his class. He completed his surgical training at Freedmen’s Hospital — now Howard University Hospital — in 1957, and then completed a surgi-
5 Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall Jr., a nationally respected surgeon, oncologist and medical school professor with Howard University President Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick (Courtesy photo/Howard University Newsroom)
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Rev. Willie Wilson Is Passing the Torch By Hamil R. Harris WI Staff Writer After 46 years of being an unrepentant voice for the voiceless across the nations capitol, Rev. Willie F. Wilson is retiring as the pastor of the Union Temple Baptist Church in Southeast DC and will be succeed by his daughter later this year. Rev. Wilson, who became pastor of Union Temple on February 25, 1973, has grown his church from a gathering of 25 people to a membership of 8000 and along the way he has been at the apex of the most significant movements in the city’s history from the political comeback of Mayor Marion Barry to organization of the Million Man March. “I am unapologetically in love with my people. There is no people who have gone through so much,” Wilson said in an interview. “We like to say that at Union Temple it’s a family affair in the African tradition: everybody was family and brothers and sisters.” Under Rev. Wilson’s leadership, Union Temple has been a “Mecca,” for black pride in terms of civil rights and social justice movements and over the years it has hosted many speakers and worked on many events that pushed for the liberation for people of color with names like Rosa Parks, Dr. Dorothy Height, Rev Jessie Jackson and Minister Louis Farrakhan. In many respects Union Temple was down town of the Pan African village with men and women proudly wearing African attire to receive the head of African nations that included Presidents Jerry Rawlings and John Kaffour of Ghana, the president of Benin as well as ambassadors of Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa and Namibia. Rev. Wilson visited with President Nelson Mandela in South Africa and Winnie Mandela and both spoke at Union Temple on several occasions. In 1992 in the nave of the church sanitary, Rev. Wilson commissioned the 19” x20” mural depicting a black Christ and his disciples depicted as historic and significant African American. The mural is the only one of its kind in America and perhaps the world. During that same year, Rev. Wilson was ordained as a Wolof priest in The Gambia, West Africa and an Ashanti sub chief in Ghana. Rev. Wilson was the executive producer of many national movements including the historic MILLION MAN MARCH (MMM) under the leadership of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
For more than 17 years Wilson and his members hosted Unifest, which brought thousands to Anacostia community over a two day period with vendors and entertainment stages featuring gospel, go-go, jazz, R&B, hip hop, GO-GO and other popular music. The event featured. musical stars that included Beyoncé, Yolanda Adams, and the legendary Clark Sisters. Wilson has authored three books. SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS: THE GENIUS OF JESUS REVEALED, which was an expansion of his highly regarded mentor Dr. Howard Thurman’s classic volume JESUS AND THE DISINHERITED. Rev. Wilson’s most current book, “THE BIRTH OF THE BIBLE,” uncovers the stolen African traditions that ultimately shaped the formation of the bible, and point to Africans as the authors of the original texts. As a political activist who has helped to shape the political landscape of the District, Rev. Wilson was very instrumental in leading former DC Mayor Marion Barry in arguably the greatest comeback in the history of American politics. In 1992, President William Clinton presented Wilson with the PRESIDENTIAL SERVICE AWARD, the highest civilian award given by the White House for community service. In terms of social justice, Wilson said he is concerned about too many ministers today focus “making money and prosperity theology and as result this has really hurt the black church.” Rev. Wilson said he plans spend more time teaching, writing, lecturing and as he shared, “...most of all continuing to fight in the city, nation and world for the least among us.” Following in his footsteps at Union Temple will be Rev. Anika Wilson Brown, Wilson’s eldest daughter, who completes her doctoral studies in June from Loyola University of Maryland. “Sometimes we don’t train young people to follow up. My daughter has finished her PhD and I have groomed her to take over and she is ready,” said Wilson, 75. “Some people stay in a position so long because they have too, I don’t want to be like that.” Wilson said in addition to being a “ dynamic leader, teacher, preacher and counselor,” his daughters is a visionary. “She plans to hold mediations to help people connect with the creator and we talked to the owner of the new Bus Boys and Poets in Southeast about having services once a week. A lot of young people go to
brunch on Sunday’s at 11 am the church is not relevant so she wants to take the church to them.” “As I step into the path of legacy leadership, I’m honored to carry this torch to fulfill the destiny ahead of me and the church,” Rev. Anika Wilson Brown said in a statement. . “We are blessed there have been many trailblazers before us - our ancestors and living legends - that have served as a roadmap for the creation of a better future. I’m most grateful that my father is one of those trailblazers who has given his life to reshaping the course of history for African Americans. His leadership in Washington DC and beyond has inspired and empowered so many of us to fight for social justice and speak for the voiceless in our communities.” Members of Union Temple BC and the DC community will honor Rev. Wilson’s commitment and service during a series of events and activities planned for his retirement celebration. The events will culminate in a star-studded Gala on Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 4 pm at the CAMELOT. WI
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EDUCATION Washington Informer Sponsors Students in Scripps National Spelling Bee WI Staff Report At Monday’s opening ceremony of the 92nd annual Scripps National Spelling Bee, 565 top competitors from across the US and several other countries anxiously gathered to meet the Bee’s pronouncers and judges and to learn more about what it might take to walk away Thursday night with the winner’s crown and accompanying $50,000 cash prize. Listed among that diversified cadre of studious competitors were 2019 Washington Informer Newspaper -sponsored spelling champions Alyssa Burgos and Teddy Palmore (spellers # 96 and 33, respectively), who – along with contestants which included 45 of their peers from the
D.C. region – took their places on a huge stage at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center (at National Harbor, Md.) for the first of three days of intense spelling. “It is really an honor to be representing D.C. as the only contestant from the [city] and it’s not too far from far home,” said Paloma. He explained that through self-motivation and preparation with the help of his little brother, Charlie Paloma, he was able to make it this far along. Paloma has advanced to round four of the competition after correctly spelling “reification” and “romaine”. “[Scripps] gave us a word list to prepare, with some really hard
words, and there’s a lot more pressure here,” Paloma added. Classmates from Teddy’s St. Alban’s School in northwest DC crowded around a TV where they eagerly watched him spell the First Word, “reification.” Teddy’s correct spelling -- defined as a complex idea for treating something immaterial like happiness, fear or evil as a material thing -- garnered him a loud and supportive round of applause. Teddy took first place on March 9 in the D.C. Citywide Spelling Bee. Alyssa, an 8th-grader at Holy Redeemer in College Park, Md., was the winner on March 20 of the Prince George’s County Spelling Bee. She is the threetime winning champ of her school, and she entered the national spelling bee after earning first place at the Prince George’s County Spelling Bee in March of 2019, following a second-place win in 2018. While Burgos moved passed the second round, she misspelled “parvanimity” as “parvonimity” in the third. Like their fellow Scripps competitors, both Alyssa and Teddy received an all-expenses-paid stay sponsored by Washington Informer Charities at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, while representing their schools and hometowns in the national contest.
DC Housing Authority Public Hearing and Public Comment Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO DISCUSS THE PROPOSED 2020 MOVING TO WORK (MTW) PLAN The District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) is providing notice of a Public Hearing and comment period to solicit comments on the agency’s proposed 2020 Moving to Work (MTW) Plan. MTW is a HUD program that allows select public housing authorities to design and implement innovative programs and policies with the intent to: 1) reduce costs and improve efficiencies; 2) encourage residents to obtain employment and become economically self-sufficient; and 3) increase housing choices for low-income families. The Public Hearing will take place on Monday, June 24, 2019 at 6:00 PM at 1133 North Capitol Street, NE in the 2nd floor Board Room. Written comments will be accepted thru Tuesday, June 25, 2019 via email at MTW@dchousing.org or by mail sent to Kimberley Cole, Director of Policy and Strategic Planning, DCHA, 1133 North Capitol Street, NE, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20002. To request a copy of the plan, please call (202) 435-3389; send an email to MTW@dchousing.org; or download the plan from the DCHA website at www.dchousing.org/mtw2. Requesting a Reasonable Accommodation DCHA is committed to providing equal access to this event for all participants & residents with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation or sign language interpreter service, please contact ADA/504/Language Department at 202-535-2737 or ADA504@dchousing.org with your complete request. Please allow at least 3 business days to make the necessary arrangements. If you need a foreign language translator, please contact ADA/504/Language Department at 202-535-2737 or ADA504@dchousing.org. Please allow at least 5 business days to make the necessary arrangements. Aviso Importante Este documento contiene información importante. Si necesita ayuda en Español o si tiene alguna pregunta sobre este aviso, por favor llame DCHA al (202) 535–1000. Infórmele al representante de atención al cliente el idioma que habla para que le proporcione un intérprete sin costo para usted. Gracias.
5 Prince George’s County spelling bee winner Alyssa Burgos (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
5 District of Columbia spelling bee winner Teddy Palmore (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
Also, on Monday, Leilani Juliana Campos (speller #91) delivered the introduction to the Bee, with contestants afterward watching a video depicting her journey studying words to her arrival at National Harbor. Among speakers on Monday’s opening stage were several former champions, including 2015 co-champion Vanya Shivashankar, who told her attentive audience of spellers they should be proud of their accomplishments. Deeya Patel (speller #566) shared her excitement about participating in the Bee for the second time. She commented that
the opening ceremony made it feel like it was really happening. While the onstage preliminary rounds aired on Tuesday and Wednesday on the ESPN app at 8 a.m. ET, the spelling lasted until 6:30 p.m. And on Wednesday the rounds will go until 4:30 p.m., when finalists will be announced shortly thereafter. On Thursday, viewers can watch the final round live on ESPN 2 starting at 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. then it concludes live on ESPN from 8:30 to 10 p.m. Penelope Blackwell contributed to this story. WI
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BANNEKER from Page 1 high school’s move to 9th Street and Rhode Island Avenue, as intended by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D). Moments before the vote during Tuesday’s D.C. Council Committee of the Whole meeting, lawmakers approved, in a 7-6 vote, an amendment by D.C. Councilmember David Grosso (I-At large) that would speed up modernization of Banneker Academic High School, located on Euclid Street between Sherman and Georgia Avenues in Northwest, and fund a study about Banneker and Shaw co-existing in separate buildings on 9th Street and Rhode Island Avenue. “Part of the reason we’re at this point is because Banneker had been skipped over because of the lack of swing space. By not accepting this amendment, we would be adding to this problem,” Councilmember Grosso, also chair of the Council Committee on Education, told his colleagues on Tuesday. The vote around Grosso’s amendment split along racial lines, with Councilmembers Trayon White (D-Ward 8), Robert White (D-At large), Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4), Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5), Vincent C. Gray (D-Ward 7), and Anita Bonds (D-At large) joining their colleague. “We have an opportunity fix this. By voting for my amendment and modernizing Banneker in two years,” Grosso said in a conciliatory tone. “Moving Banneker doesn’t have to preclude or prevent a middle school in the area or on the site. A majority of the council is in favor of co-location without connection. Everyone said they would like a winin. This is a win-win.” The Banneker conundrum, along with that concerning United Medical Center, Project Empowerment, and the Housing Production Trust Fund, counted one of the more prominent debates during the budget season, due in part to the larger conversation about gentrification among Banneker students and alumni. Since D.C. Mayor Bowser’s announcement last fall that Banneker had been slated to relocate, and expand enrollment by 300 students on the campus of the former Shaw Junior High School within the next three years, families living in the Shaw area and the Banneker community had been at odds about the future
5 Banneker Academic High School student advocates meet with Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White on May 14 to garner his support for a newly built state of the art education campus. (Courtesy photo/Wendy Glenn Facebook grab)
plans of that location. Both sides led protests, hosted community meetings, and visited the Wilson Building on numerous occasions. Some Shaw-area parents said they consider Mayor Bowser’s move a slap in the face, especially since they’ve been promised a neighborhood school since Mayor Adrian Fenty’s tenure. As mentioned By D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) during Tuesday’s Committee of the Whole meeting, there has also been speculation that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser would give 800 Euclid Street NW to private developers once Banneker relocates. To the chagrin of members of the Banneker community, Cheh and five other D.C. councilmembers sent a letter to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) in early May in support of a plan that would modernize Banneker in place. Proponents of the Banneker move pushed back against that option, stressing that the students, like their peers in other D.C. public high schools, citing the practicality of that option. A couple of weeks ago, in response to the May 1 letter, more than 40 Banneker students, dressed in business attire and accompanied by two teachers, lobbied D.C. councilmembers over the course of three work days. They spoke with a staff member in D.C. Councilmember Bonds’ office, as well as Councilmembers Gray, White and McDuffie. Since then, students have also met with D.C. Councilmember Elissa Silverman (I-At large), who recently visited the Banneker and Shaw sites. Banneker, an alternative education institution since 1981 and an International Baccalaureate World School since 2001,
currently provides more than 400 students with a rigorous, highly-structured academic experience geared toward college readiness. In 2017, it gained recognition as a National Blue-Ribbon School. For several years, 100 percent of its senior class gained acceptance to at least one college or university, collectively amassing millions of dollars in academic scholarships. In the days leading up to the final council vote that would determine the future of Banneker Academic High School, Deputy Mayor for Education Paul Kihn said he remained confident that the executive office’s plans would come to fruition. “We know for certain that we need to relocate and expand Banneker High School. We have been engaging deeply with the community on the Shaw Middle School question,” Kihn told The Informer, as he described the D.C. Council’s 7-6 vote earlier in the month to reduce funding for the revitalization project as a situation that doesn’t benefit opposing parties. Furthermore, Kihn questioned the relevance of the Shaw Middle School discussion, especially given what he described as uncertainty about the need for such amenities. “If it turns out the projected population growth and attendance would warrant a building of a middle school, there are lots of options on the table, including co-location to that Shaw site,” Kihn said. “There are other options, including the Garnett-Patterson building. There’s this important question as stewards of the education system of whether we need a new middle school, [but] it’s a separate question.” WI
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Conversation About Race, Equity Needed in DC Members of the D.C. City Council hashed out amendments to the District’s FY2020 budget this week in a nearly six-hour session, described as “heated,” “rancorous,” “deceptive,” “fierce,” and “divisive,” just to name a few of the monikers given by local media. No doubt, the debates between the 13-member council became heated, and rightfully so with the kinds of quality of life issues in front of them. The future of the District’s only public hospital on the brink of closing, the re-location or revitalization in place of the District’s top academic high school, and the much-needed improvement of some of the nation’s worst public housing units, were among the decisions needed to be addressed and that impact the healthcare, education and housing of the District’s most vulnerable citizens who mostly happen to be Black. It was apparent that sensitivities ran high when inferences of gentrification and race were subtly inserted into the debates, but it was refreshing to observe those members that refused to tip-toe around the two subjects District residents discuss and feel impacted by nearly every day, all across the city. Others have said it, and we concur, that there needs to be a real discussion about race and equity in this city. Councilmember Kenyon McDuffie (D-Ward 5) already started the process earlier this year by introducing legislation that would require government officials to evaluate programs and policies through an equity lens. He is engaging a cadre of diverse leaders to serve as a working group tasked with forging processes. He also hosted a Race and Policy Symposium last fall with more than 400 attendees at a venue in Ward 8. McDuffie asserts that, “Decades of structural and institutional racism in the District, and to be sure, in America, has created widespread racial inequities, which are pervasive and exist across all indicators for success….” And, it is his belief that, “Only by building systems that are intentional in their design to account for implicit bias and systemic inequities will every District resident truly have the same opportunities to prosper.” Members of the working group have struggled with defining “safe places” where honest discussions about race and equity can occur. The Council Chambers is a likely place. Now that the budget was passed unanimously, it would appear that the issues of race and equity have been put to rest. No so. The proof will be defined by impact of their legislative decisions over the 12 months. WI
Farewell to Ron Clarke Who Saved Lives in D.C. When Ron Clark moved to the Nation’s Capital from Los Angeles in the early 1970s, he arrived just in the nick of time. D.C. was in the throes of a major drug epidemic and substances including heroin, powder and crack cocaine, along with PCP and other hallucinogens were strangling the life out of adults and youths, men and women alike, all across the city. For those who wanted out of the dark places drug addiction had taken them, and were seeking treatment, voluntarily or by court order, Clark got here right on time, and he offered a rare wholistic, African-centered, drug-free approach to treatment that proved to be safe, effective and long-lasting. Clark did not believe in prescribing a drug to treat drug addiction. Those who were prescribed methadone, a substance that further addicts its users who are trying to wean themselves from other substances, eventually found themselves at Ron’s doorstep where he offered them a bed, a meal, daily duties, counseling and a community of caring licensed professionals and volunteers that assisted them on their road to recovery. For nearly half a century, thousands of former addicts have enrolled in the Regional Addiction Prevention Program started by Clark and later just called, RAP, Inc., and left providing documented success and testimonials about how the nationally recognized program saved their life. Sadly, Ron Clark died on May 14 after a prolonged illness that took him away from operating RAP on a day-to day basis several years ago. He was 83. He leaves behind a loving and supportive wife, Angela Owens Clark, a former television news executive at NBC4, a son, several grandchildren and other relatives. He also leaves The Calvin Rolark Center, residential treatment facility located at 1949 Fourth Street, N.E., named after the founder of the United Black Fund, a grant-making organization that supported Clark’s cause for decades. RAP’s services have expanded to include HIV services, nutritional counseling, primary medical care and emergency housing. In the coming days, District residents will hear more and be reminded about Ron Clark, the visionary whose mission saved the lives of many. A memorial service will be here held in July, following funeral services that will be held June 4 in Los Angeles. Clark’s legacy will live on in D.C. through those who are living productive lives, their families, and the communities that benefited. They will continue to tell the story about the program — RAP — and the man that started it — Ron Clark — and how their lives were saved because of both. WI
TO THE EDITOR Commission Just Lip Service to Black Men What the heck is a “Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys”? My Lord, I have seen it all. As a Black man, I have license to speak. We don’t need no crap commission on our social status. What does that even mean? Another way for the Black bourgeois to look like they care and want to help. What we need is to be born to people that care and are fit to parent, quality education, knowledge of self and more. But it starts with the dismantling of white supremacy. From there,
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Morehouse Gift Should be Impetus I am delighted that you guys covered the Morehouse grads from this area that received such an awesome gift! I hope and pray those young men do well and pay it forward. Hopefully this will start a great precedent. Lamona Mason Hyattsville, Md.
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Distortions of Black History
According to some historians, Afrodescendents first entered these united states in 1619 off the coast of Virginia. If we believe that narrative, Afrodescendents have been in this country for 400 years. If the people who were kidnapped and brought here had to tell the story, would they tell the same one? Would they say that we came before Columbus? That some of us might have been here even
longer? There were captured Africans that came from the mother continent in 1619, but also, thanks to the transatlantic slave trade, Africans here who had come from Bermuda, Jamaica, and other places. Why is this relevant? Because there is this misguided group of Afrodescendants, who are throwing shade at those who are not “American descendants of slaves” ADOS. Their shade is an odd version of the “am I Black enough for you” game that some folks ran against President Barack Obama, and are now running against Presidential candidates Kama-
la Harris and Corey Booker. What is Black enough, when we, Afrodescendant people, all have enslavement in our background? Let’s make it plain. Europeans went to the African continents, kidnapped people (sometimes with African acquiescence), brought them to the Western Hemisphere and sold us. Goods and people flowed between England (or New England, the Americas, and Africa), including sugar, tobacco, manufactured products, guns and humans. Understand that everyone in the triangle was affected and that enslaved people were freely traded between the
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United States and other parts of the Americas! I am not sure what kinds of warped brains dreamed up the realities of enslavement and the ways that a minority in the South was able to control a majority. The laws that managed enslavement included laws that prevented literacy, ownership, and much else. The laws often detailed the terms of punishment if restrictive conditions were breached. A North Carolina law said, “teaching slaves to read and write, tends to excite dissatisfaction in their minds, and to produce insurrection and re-
bellion.” Disobeying this law was punishable by thirty-nine lashes or imprisonment for a free Black person, or a fine of two hundred dollars then, or about $5000 now. People violated the laws, of course, but the warped sensibility that prohibited the dissemination of knowledge is the basis for many sick stereotypes, such as “if you want to hide something from a Black person, put it in a book.” Fast-forward four-hundred years, or even to two years ago. Why are teachers
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By Marc H. Morial
School Vouchers Are a Failed Experiment
“How bad are school vouchers for students? Far worse than most people imagine. Indeed, the use of school vouchers — which provide families with public dollars to spend on private schools — is equivalent to missing out on more than onethird of a year of classroom learning.” — Center for American Progress study, “The Highly Negative Impacts of Vouchers” School privatization has been
a dismal failure, leaving students stranded in low-performing schools while transferring millions of taxpayer dollars into private, for-profit institutions. The latest proof that private school vouchers don’t work for students emerged from an investigation in Louisiana conducted by several news outlets. “The Cost of Choice” revealed that the state’s $40 million-a-year voucher program has pulled thousands of students out of public schools into failing private schools that receive almost no oversight. A full two-thirds of all students
in the voucher system attended schools rated “D” or “F” under the state’s assessment system. There are 86 private schools that have accepted voucher students but most don’t have enough students enrolled to be assigned a grade. But of the 37 that do, not a single school scored A or B and only three received a C. The investigation found that students have left C-rated public schools to attend D- and F-rated private schools. The Louisiana investigation is hardly the first to demonstrate the failure of voucher programs. When the Trump administration unveiled
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a budget that sought to divert public funds from bipartisan education programs into privatization efforts, Sen. Patty Murray, ranking member of the Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee, compiled a devastating memo detailing the damaging impact of school privatization programs across the country. Private schools that siphon taxpayer dollars from public schools are able to skirt the accountability and reporting requirements to which public schools are subject. In many cases, there’s simply no way for parents to compare student per-
formance in private schools with public school, or to make sure that the private school meets even the most basic standards required of public schools. Furthermore, the cost of attending private schools, including those that accept vouchers, usually exceeds the amount of the voucher, putting the voucher program out of reach for low-income families. In many cases, voucher programs merely publicly subsidize tuition for students who already were attending the private schools — of-
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By Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.
We Can Free a Generation from Burden of College Loan Debt
The reaction — shock, joy, disbelief, euphoria — revealed the importance of Robert F. Smith’s stunning gift, when he announced, unexpectedly, that he would pay off all the college debts of Morehouse College students graduating this year. His gift literally changed the prospects and the lives of the vast
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majority of those 396 graduates. Morehouse is a proud, historically Black college, the alma mater of extraordinary leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Julian Bond, Howard Thurman, Maynard Jackson, former head of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, former head of the black caucus Cedric Richmond, Hollywood legends Samuel L. Jackson and Spike Lee, Olympic champion Edwin Moses and many more. Full-time tuition costs $25,368, with room and board and other
expenses, a year at Morehouse can cost nearly $50,000. Ninety percent of Morehouse students get some kind of financial aid, cobbling together Pell grants, federal and private loans, family loans and more. Morehouse seniors who borrow to pay for college carry an average of $26,000 in federal student loans. Private loans, federal Parent Plus loans, credit card and other debts are on top of that. The federal student loans alone would result in a monthly payment of $276.
Robert F Smith’s generosity has literally transformed the lives of those students. Now instead of putting off graduate school or being forced to live at home, and later postponing marriage and children, they are free to benefit from the hard work they have done to graduate from college. They can seek jobs that they want, without being forced to take one or more that can help them pay down their loans. They are free to dream. Many of those benefiting from Smith’s remarkable generosity ex-
pressed what one student, Myles Washington, called a “level of survivor’s guilt.” All had friends who could not afford to go to college, or who were forced to withdraw early in the face of growing debts. Robert F. Smith is a billionaire, the brilliant founder of Vista Equity Partners, who has made a fortune largely in purchasing and selling software firms. Raised in Denver, the child of two parents with Ph.D.s, he graduated from
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More Bold Actions Like Morehouse Gift are Needed
The annual season of college commencements has a unique way of bringing together multiple generations of families in celebration. For the 135th graduating class of Atlanta’s Morehouse College, commencement marked another event that was as unexpected as it was generous. Robert F. Smith, the event’s speaker and chairman and CEO of
Vista Equity Partners, announced he would pay the entire class’s student loan debts. This unprecedented gift, expected to run as high as $40 million, now enables the newest Morehouse men to begin careers free from the burdens of debt that accompany the start of many careers. Smith’s generosity also directly affects the lives of multiple family generations who contributed to the sharing costs of these college educations. In a related interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Yas-
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min Farahi, policy counsel for the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) reacted to the impact of Smith’s gift “on the lives of these graduates and their families will be incredible,” she said. “But it’s also worth recognizing the impact it has on the lives of their family members who have co-signed on these loans or would otherwise be supporting these graduates as they worked to get out from under their student debt. Student loan debt is an intergenerational problem.” New research from the AARP
Public Policy Institute provides insights on how increasingly older borrowers are taking on debt to help younger family members. And when it comes to Black families, grandparents, aunts, and uncles are all helping their kin at higher rates than other ethnicities or races. This help can include not only direct borrowing, but also cosigning their student family member’s loans. Should student borrowers default on cosigned loan(s) with family members, the cosigner’s financial stability is jeopardized.
“People ages 50 and older owe 20 percent, or $289.5 billion, of that total, up from $47.3 billion in 2004,” the report states. “The overall increase reflects a sharp rise in both the number of families borrowing and the amounts they borrow. … For many families, the amount they owe increases over time because they are not paying enough to cover interest and pay down principal.” Defaults result in lost tax refunds, garnished wages,
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By E. Faye Williams
Paying it Forward
Among the worst behavior of the man in the White House that one could ever imagine, there is still so much good in the world. Leading up to another Memorial Day, when we thank military men and women, remember to thank Dr. Robert F. Smith, who set an awesome example of how those who’re so blessed can help others who’ve not been. Sunday, May 19 was already a special day because it was the birthday of Malcolm X. Then came the Morehouse graduation
and the wonderful announcement of the graduation speaker who talked about his blessings and announced that he’d be donating enough funds to wipe out the student loan debt of Morehouse’s nearly 400 members of the 2019 graduating class! Once he made the statement, there were a lot of questions such as, “Did I understand correctly what he just said?” Suddenly the students stood in unity realizing they really weren’t going to be saddled with the heavy debt they’d incurred while getting an education. It’s possible many of them didn’t know that graduates of historically Black colleges and
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universities have higher debt after graduating than students at other schools. With a price tag of $50,000 per year at Morehouse, these students were about to be included in that number. With Dr. Smith’s announcement, lives were suddenly changed. It was such a blessing to see young men making commitments to pay it forward. Especially gratifying was the announcement of a couple of young graduates who’d already made a commitment to give back at least $100,000 to Morehouse by the time they are 32 years old. Now they were looking at doing it sooner because they would no
longer be saddled with massive student debt. Imagine how many thoughts went through the minds of these young men about how they could pay it forward! May they never forget how blessed they are, but also may they never forget there’s still a student debt crisis. Those who’ve been blessed as they have should add to their lists ways they can rise to the challenge of helping others. I pray that others who’ve been blessed as Dr. Smith has will join him in making similar pledges to young women and men throughout the nation who struggle daily to get an education.
I remember the day I gave my first donation to my alma mater, Grambling University. It didn’t even come close to what Dr. Smith did, but I did my best with what I had. His doing so much at one time should not discourage each HBCU graduate to do a little bit on a regular basis. Predominantly and historically Black colleges and universities have never been given their fair share when compared with other colleges and universities, but we should be that bridge over troubled waters until HBCUs are treated with fairness.
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By Askia Muhammad
A Republican Speaks Truth to Trump’s Power
If the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes the Cynic was around today, sleeping as he did in a bathtub, prowling the streets during the daylight hours carrying a lamp, and searching for a single honest man, he wouldn’t appear to be such an outlier — what with thousands of military veterans sleeping under bridges, and dozens committing suicide each and every day. For months I’ve wondered why not even one Republican elected
official in this country seemed concerned about ethics and the integrity of this country’s governance enough to condemn the rotten, corrupt, criminal behavior in the White House. Are they so sotted with the kid-gloves treatment of the rich and undeserving, and with the abuse and disrespect heaped on the needy, that they can’t see that the direction this country is headed in leads to utter destruction? From Sen. Mitch McConnell, the wealthiest member of the World’s Most Deliberative Body, who represents the poorest state in
the Union, to all the GOP’s current officeholders, they appear to have forgotten the caution in the Bible’s book of Matthew: “What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?” They seem to be so tickled to be able to pack the courts with those with right ideologues (instead of the best legal minds with sterling upright character) that they don’t seem to notice the stench rising from many of these dirty appointees. And the Republicans appear to be amused at the constant lies and contradictions and phony bluffs
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and braggadocio from the Prez that it’s like a game to them. Some of their evangelical supporters even believe that this whoremongering, philandering liar —who’s cheated in all his business dealings and stuffed his own pockets with money from the federal Treasury, while his policies lead his very constituents to ruin — is a man sent from On High. Diogenes would be amused. But then, up jumped Michigan GOP Rep. Justin Amash who broke ranks and proclaimed that the emperor, whom the rest of the world could see, is wearing no
clothes. “Contrary to [Attorney General William] Barr’s portrayal, [special counsel Robert] Mueller’s report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment,” Amash tweeted earlier this month. “Impeachment, which is a special form of indictment, does not even require probable cause that a crime (e.g., obstruction of justice) has been committed,” he contin-
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LIFESTYLE Lee Wants to Bring Classical Music to East End By James Wright’ WI Staff Writer
Music from the East End of the District of Columbia generally involves go-go, hip-hop, rhythm and blues and for the older crowd, disco and jazz. However, while Andrew Lee, the artistic director and founder of DC Strings Workshop has no problems with the genres mentioned above, he wants residents east of the Anacostia River and other under-served areas in the District and the metropolitan area to consider classical musical as a part of their preferences. “We want to bring classical music to all parts of the city,” Lee said. “Everyone should have the chance to enjoy classical music and what it has to offer.” Classical music consists of piec-
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es performed by groups of people playing musical instruments such as violins, violas, basses and harps with musicians playing clarinets, flutes, trumpets, drums, trombones and tubas in orchestras. The music tends to be softer and slower than modern genres and the musicians of various instruments play a piece of music together but often not the same notes. Classical music can trace its roots to Europe in the late 18th century as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the defining composer of the art form, popularized it with concerts for mainly the elite. People of African descent such as Britain’s George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (who interacted with composer great Beethoven), Frenchman Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint Georges, another Brit Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and
5 A performance by DC Strings May 4 at St. Philip the Evangelist Episcopal Church in Southeast. (Anthony Tilghman/ The Washington Informer)
Americans Florence B. Price, William Grant Still and George Walker made contributions and gained distinction as the finest in their fields whether as musicians and composers. The two main symphony orchestras operating in the District are the National Symphony Orchestra based in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Capital City Symphony which focuses more on the local level. Lee recognizes that many resi-
dents in the East End cannot pay to see symphonies so DC Strings Workshop fills the gap. “At DC Strings, we have a dedicated group of musicians who participate in community concerts and performances and we do paid performances for churches, schools, corporate events and local government agencies,” Lee said. “Some of our musicians have degrees in music and teach music in local area school systems.” Lee stresses that his organization has amateur musicians as well as professionals. He emphasized that the type of music they play in East End venues are at a high level. An example of a DC Strings Workshop production took place on May 4 at the St. Phillip the Evangelist Episcopal Church in Southeast, Ward 8. The performance consisted of the Messiah Chamber Orchestra and the National United Methodist Church Festival Choir (co-producer) and it featured “Requiem”, a series of songs by German composer Johannes Brahms, who lived during the 19th century. Thirty people came to the performance that started with two pieces by Los Angeles-based arranger Shawn Kirchner, “Bright Morning Stars” and “Unclouded Day” and one, “Book of Stars” by Norwegian composer and pianist Ola Gjeilo. The “Requiem” portion of the program consisted of seven individual pieces in which baritone Austin Vitaliano and soprano Sarah Heisler performed in at one point. Lee has an extensive background in the classical music arena. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music
and political science from Furman University and has performed at the White House, George Washington’s Masonic Temple and Carnegie Hall. Lee has been extensively involved with the “Colour of Music” Festival in Charleston, S.C. and Ray Chew’s “Night of Inspiration” at Carnegie Hall where he worked with such noted vocalists as Yolanda Adams, Dionne Warwick and Shirley Caesar. Lee said he wants people, particularly youngsters and young adults, who live in the East End to appreciate classical music just as much as other genres. “Classical music can open doors,” he said. “So many kids don’t get the chance to hear this music. Playing classical music, kids can get music scholarships to college and travel around the world.” Lee noted that young people who live in Montgomery County, Md., and Alexandria, Va., “get the opportunities for scholarships and travel and kids in D.C. should too.” He noted that DC Strings Workshops holds a concert during the Christmas season that draws up to 500 people and has other performances throughout the year in the city. Recently, the DC Strings Workshop requested an appropriation of $300,000 from the D.C. Council to purchase instruments. Lee said his organization didn’t get in the 2020 budget cycle and will try again next year. “It’s unfortunate that the city will fund a dog park for $1.4 million and cannot give us $300,000 out of a $15.6 billion budget for instruments,” he said. WI
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“Say Amen, Somebody” Explains Gospel Music
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Gospel Icons Thomas A. Dorsey and Willie Mae Ford Smith Lead the Journey
than 400 songs. His songs have been recorded by Elvis Presley, Mahalia Jackson and Albertina Walker. Church choirs have adapted his approach to gospel music for decades. He was founder of the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses (NCGCC). “Mother” Smith as she was affectionally called, became a role model for women in the gospel world. She was responsible for evaluating and training solo gospel singers for NCGCC. She forged a path in the genre that eventually became her ministry as an evangelist. Her husband resisted her climb in the world of gospel because the path included lots of travel. That meant time away from the family. Lack of support from husbands was one of the themes in “Say Amen, Somebody.” It was seen with Delois Barnett, lead singer with the Barnett Sisters and with singer Zella Jackson Price. Nierenberg lived for a year among the key gospel artists featured in the film. He got to know their families. He filmed a scene in the car with Mother Smith and her grandson Keith
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who said he did not believe women should be in the pulpit. “She was shocked. I don’t know why he decided to say it at that time,” said Nierenberg about the emotional scene. “You could see the hurt she felt, that her grandson would diminish everything she stood for. Yet, you saw her grandson proudly performing with her and helping her off the stage.” The final scenes of the doc-
umentary were filmed at the 1982 annual NCGCC where Dorsey made an appearance. He led the entire assemblage in singing “Take My Hand, Precious Lord.” Geneva Gentry was one of the preparers of a consecration ceremony at the convention. Her daughter Marabeth Gentry, Ph.D., was in the audience at the Oprah Winfrey
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5 From the documentary “Say Amen, Somebody” are two of the Barrett Sisters (from left): Billie Barrett Greenbey and Delois Barrett Campbell (with microphone). (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.)
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Church was held in the Oprah Winfrey Theater with the screening of the restored “Say Amen, Somebody.” The 1982 documentary, a gospel history lesson, was shown at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). The new rendition was an improvement over the original film first released in 1982. George Nierenberg, director of the original film, oversaw the restoration. The film features performances and off-stage conversations from the “father of gospel,” Thomas A. Dorsey, Willie Mae Ford Smith, the O’Neal Twins, Zella Jackson Price, and Delois Barrett Campbell and the Barrett Sisters. Nierenberg and Price participated in a discussion following the screening. “After 37 years, we are thrilled to have this U.S. premiere of the restored film,” said Rhea Combs, Ph.D., curator of photography and film at the NMAAHC. The original film was made with support from the National
Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Support for the restoration came from museum’s Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences-Academy Film Archives, Milestone Films, and the Robert F. Smith Fund. Robert F. Smith, businessman and philanthropist, is the second largest NMAAHC donor. His donation has allowed NMAAHC to digitize and preserve African American stories. Dorsey is well-known because he composed “Take My Hand, Precious Lord,” considered to be one of the most beloved gospel songs ever written. He wrote the song during a period of deep grief after the death of his wife and baby within two days of each other. In the film, Dorsey reflected on the lack of acceptance of gospel music. Dorsey started out as a blues singer but was compelled to go in a different direction with his talent. “They didn’t want that singing,” said Dorsey in the film. “I took spirituals and hymns, put rhythm to it to call it gospel.” Dorsey has composed more
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Music Treasures from Black Culture Opens National Orchestral Institute and Festival The Clarice Spotlights Works from Black Composers By Brenda C. Siler WI Contributing Writer
5 Alyson Cambridge, soprano, will perform “Porgy and Bess” during the opening of the 2019 National Orchestral Institute and Festival at The Clarice on the University of Maryland-College Park campus on June 1, 2019. (The Clarice at the University of Maryland)
5 Joshua Conyers, baritone, will perform “Porgy and Bess” during the opening of the 2019 National Orchestral Institute and Festival at The Clarice on the University of Maryland-College Park campus on June 1, 2019. (The Clarice at the University of Maryland)
One of America’s best-known folk operas opens a month-long music festival on the campus of the University of Maryland at College Park. “Porgy and Bess,” by composer George Gershwin, will be performed at The Clarice on Saturday, June 1, 2019 at 8:00 p.m. Maestro John Morris Russell, conductor with the Cincinnati Pops, will lead the orchestra for the opening concert for the 2019 National Orchestral Institute and Festival (NOI+F). Featured vocalists for “Porgy and Bess” are soprano Alyson Cambridge and baritone Joshua Conyers. For the month of June, NOI+F will host a variety of mu-
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sic events that include masterclasses, pre-concert conversations and open rehearsals. The festival is also considered as an intense training institute. Conservatory students, college students, and graduate students at the very beginning of their careers are put through the pace of a professional performance schedule. Preparation for the concert is done in a quick turnaround that includes three rehearsals over two days. The result are performances on a grand scale for audiences. “We start every year of the orchestral institute with a concert of American classics,” Russell said. “Students may not get to perform these in the university setting, but in the professional world, you are playing them all of the time.” There will be selections from “Porgy and Bess,” but not the full opera. For the second part of the concert, Russell will lead the orchestra in music by Black composers from the U.S., Canada and Europe. Spotlighted will be American composers Scott Joplin, James Reese Europe and Jessie Montgomery. American Canadian composers include Nathaniel Dett and Shelton Brooks. Englishman Samuel Coleridge-Taylor rounds out the group of featured composers.
Russell is excited about the entire group as he is happy to tell the backstory for each featured composer. “These are all extraordinary composers and their stories have not been told,” said Russell. “We want to take the time to open the door to their music so that after the concert, people can find out more.” From the group of composers, Jessie Montgomery is the only living artist. She is a native New York composer and violinist who is currently enjoying success by performing globally with orchestras and chamber groups. She is affiliated with The Sphinx Organization, which supports the accomplishments of young African American and Latino string players. The opening of NOI+I on June 1, is a musical experience that can be enjoyed by the entire family. “Yes, we want to entertain your ears,” said Russell, “We also want to stimulate what is between your ears.” For ticket information for the 2019 National Orchestral Institute and Festival at The Clarice on the campus of the University of Maryland-College Park, go to: http://bit.ly/2019OrchestralFestival. WI
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Winner’s Circle – A Place for Children in Foster Care By Jasmine Sanders Special to the WI
I am a woman. I am a radio show host. I am a college graduate. I am a mother. I am a television show co-host. I am a motivator. I am successful. I am a winner. I am also a product of the foster care system. Statistics say that I beat the odds, but deep down inside, there is always a voice saying, “You weren’t good enough. You weren’t wholly loved. The person who was supposed to love you more than anything or anyone in the entire world, gave you up.” At the age of 12, my life changed. I discovered I was adopted. I had three foster families before my family decided to adopt me at the age of 4. I always felt like an outsider or like a puzzle piece that didn’t fit. I still grapple with that feeling in spite of my success. Once I discovered I was adopted, there were many questions that I needed answered. Why didn’t my biological parents want me? Why did they give me up? I started searching, and when my adoptive mother found out, she was very upset. We had a lot of arguments about it. So, I stopped searching for my biological family until my adoptive mother passed away. I waited about six to seven months before I restarted my search and found my biological parents about a year later. In total, it took me 15 years. Discovering I was adopted, searching for my biological family, experiencing heaps of shame regarding being adopted, and feeling out of touch with who I was led me to a life of serving, uplifting and advocating for the foster and adoptive community. May is National Foster Care Awareness Month – a time to celebrate the voices of foster youth and to bring awareness to the challenges that they face. During this month, organizations such as Youth Villages, a national nonprofit based in Memphis, Tennessee, work to support and recognize youth in foster care, as well as put forward solutions to improve the child welfare system as a whole. There are more than 430,000 children in foster care in the
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Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival Pays Tribute to the late Geri Allen By Eve M. Ferguson WI Contributing Writer When pianist, composer, educator, and Guggenheim Fellow Geri
Allen passed away in June 2017, she left an abruptly interrupted stellar career with colleagues and collaborators reeling in the wake of her untimely death. Students also
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ty, where she was a member of the faculty. One of her closest collaborators and friend, jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington was so moved and awed by Allen, that she curated an entire concert dedicated to the 60-year-old with whom she worked in two ensembles, ACS, namely Allen, Carrington, and bassist Esperanza Spalding, and MAC Power Trio with Carrington and saxophonist David Murray. “Feed the Fire: A Tribute to Geri Allen” served as the opening for the two-day Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival held recently at the Kennedy Center and featured an impressive ensemble of musicians hosted by vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater. The group included Carrington on drums, bassist Dave Holland, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane (the progeny of John and Alice Coltrane), Jason Moran on piano, Deejay percussionist Val Jeanty and tap dancer Maurice Chestnut. All who appeared for the moving tribute had worked with Allen and were deeply influenced by her dedication to music, unrelenting work ethic and experimental nature which urged musicians to push the envelope of jazz virtuosity. “Geri provided a great example of how to make people in this sometimes wretched business treat you with respect—as a woman and as an artist,” Carrington lovingly wrote in her tribute essay. “She knew who she was, even if others took a while to catch up. Her resistance to accepting what she felt was unfair to our co-lead bands, helped me to better see my own value. She combated the representative mindset of people that de-value (knowingly or unknowingly) the work that we as artist do.” “I learned many things from Geri,” she continued. “But the
most evident were how to graciously be a fighter, how to be artistically edgy and fearless, how to demand respect and how to be a musician-mom.” Allen’s storied career and its resonance often fly under the radar of well-known names in jazz. But she was foundational, as the musical director for the Mary Lou Williams Collective, she recorded and performed the music of the late, great jazz pianist whose work would support and enhance the compositions of Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, as well as being a mentor to Thelonious Monk. Allen also had a significant relationship with Howard University, serving in the School of Fine Arts Music Department on the faculty. But she had a deeper tie to the Mecca, having graduated in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in jazz studies. Allen received the Howard University Pinnacle Award presented by Professor Connaitre Miller and Afro Blue, the jazz vocal ensemble that named themselves for Allen’s first album of the same name. For Allen Howard University remained a home of sorts, as evidenced by the frequent times she visited the school for seminars and workshops in addition to serving as a visiting faculty member. “I’m eternally grateful to Howard and its impact on me,” Allen said in the alumni magazine story. “I’m never going to stay away from Howard. Not at all. I owe it too much.” During the 90-minute tribute, each artist said words about their relationship with Allen before soloing on one of her many wellknown songs, including “Soul Eyes,” “Open on All Sides,” and “Feed the Fire.”
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Mosaic Theater’s “Sooner/ Later” Offers Universal Themes of Love and Loss By Eve M. Ferguson WI Contributing Writer Allyson Currin’s “Sooner/Later,” could also be called the little play that could. The one-act, three castmember play draws its beauty and universality from the simplicity of the exploration of human emotions. The romantic comedy is part of the Mosaic Theater Company’s Locally Grown Mosaic, an initiative that nurtures local, D.C. artists through commissions, new play development and full productions. This is the D.C. premiere of this not-sonew production. Originally produced in Cincinnati in 2018, the play received the first-ever Trish Vradenburg Play “completion commission” from the Mosaic to help with its further development. The commission allows playwrights to refine their work under a program that focuses on ensuring women’s voices are heard. Vradenburg was a playwright and screenwriter, in addition to being a pioneering philanthropist, novelist and journalist. She was among one of the most vocal in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease that claimed her mother. Her husband, George Vradenburg, endowed the commission in memory of his wife. Ironically, Allyson Currin
played in one of Vradenburg’s plays, “Surviving Grace” 15 years ago. Now, she presents the first commission in the late playwright’s name. “Allyson Currin is one of our city’s wittiest, most prolific writers,” Mosaic’s Artistic Director Ari Roth said. “But she summoned something utterly unique here; a deep, personal story about what it means to be middle-aged and dating, parenting a surly 17-year-old, while navigating a separation of most elusive of natures. Because it has this amazing plot revelation we can’t give away, we can only say that it’s as much about the birth of love as it is about the acceptance of loss.” The play tells the story of Nora (Erica Chamblee), a middle-aged woman trying to re-enter the dating scene at the urging of her teenaged daughter, Lexie (Cristina M. Ibarra), who stays on her mother about finding a suitable mate. Along comes Griff (Tony K. Nam), the guy in the coffee shop who becomes an inadvertent witness to Nora’s multiple failed dates. And as one could predict, something starts developing between Nora and Griff. What one can’t predict is the metaphysical twist of time, simultaneously in the future, the
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Community Bookstore Named in Slain Journalist’s Honor Makes Debut scribed as a senseless act of violence. In celebrating the bookstore’s launch and Milton’s short but impactful life, her parents said that they wanted patrons to follow her example by reading, not only for themselves, but for the young people in their midst. They credited their daughter’s favorite pastime as the foundation in her successful academic and journalistic career. “Charnice spent every summer going to Francis Gregory Library
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The Charnice A. Milton Community Bookstore, two years in the making, opened to the public earlier this week during an event at the Busboys & Poets on Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue that reintroduced the Anacostia community to the well-regarded journalist who succumbed to what had been de-
5 This sculpture created by Stephanie Mercedes uses over 100 bullet casings. It, will be on display at Busboys and Poets in Southeast. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)
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and reading 97 books when she was little,” said Francine Milton in her recollection of her daughter’s childhood on Monday evening, telling The Informer that the late Milton used reading and journalism to overcome shyness and a medical condition. Upon entering Busboys & Poets, she and Kenneth McClenton, the late Milton’s stepfather, spoke with visitors, including fellow anti-violence advocates Anthony and Tyreese McAllister, parents of Ayana McAllister, a college student who died in a hail of gunfire two years after Milton. Later, they accepted a small sculpture of a book and pen made from entirely from more than 50 molten shell casings, and listened as Argentinian-American artist Stephanie Mercedes walked audience members sitting in Busboys & Poets’ Marion Barry Room through the creative process. On the small sculpture read a quote by the late Milton that spoke to her love for reporting: “I want to write stories that matter in the community where I grew up.” Francine Milton said her daughter’s appreciation for a wide variety
5 Family and friends gather at Bus Boys and Poets on Monday, May 29 in Southeast to honor the life of journalist Charnice Milton who was slain in 2015. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)
of genres allowed her to do just that. “Charnice read Shakespeare, the Bible, and The Art of War,” Ms. Milton said. “She loved writing. She always took a reporter’s notebook [on her assignments]. It was her key to make sure she was the best.” On the night of May 27, 2015, exactly four years before the launch of the Charnice A. Milton Community Bookstore, the 27-year-old journalist had been returning home from a reporting assignment when a bullet aimed at another person took her life on Naylor Road and Alabama Avenue in Southeast. To this day, the case remains unsolved. In the years leading up to her death, Milton built a reputation
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among colleagues and residents as a community reporter dedicated to holistically and accurately telling the stories of everyday people. Upon completing her graduate studies at Syracuse University, Milton covered ANC meetings, groundbreakings, and other gatherings on behalf of Capital Community News and East of the River Magazine, often cranking out nearly a dozen stories per month. The Charnice A.Milton Community Bookstore, where people pay little to nothing for the books for their choice, manifested in a discussion about the lack of bookstores in Wards 7 and 8. Milton’s colleague John Muller suggested that the project by We Act Radio’s Kymone Freeman, already in the works, be named in her honor. In 2017, during Memorial Day weekend, Sugar Bear and Experience Unlimited performed at a cookout marking the start of the bookstore project. They and Northwest-based bookstore Politics & Prose counted among the sponsors of this two-year endeavor. Since its inception, Freeman, Virginia Spatz, and others accepted more than 10,000 books from community members, a fifth of which made it on the bookshelves near the front of the Anacostia Busboys & Poets that houses the Charnice A. Milton Community Bookstore. This week, the community bookstore joined Mahogany Books, located around the corner in the Anacostia Arts Center, as the only standalone bookstores located east of the Anacostia River. Freeman described it as part of a grand plan to prioritize Black people’s well-being. “We are here to offer people a culture of literacy,” he told The Informer. “Dr. Frances Cress Welsing said that reading is more than important than the television. People who visit the bookstore can get books no matter how much they have. This is a step in the right direction.” WI
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A film of her playing was created for the concert, entitled “Talking Hands,” it showed Allen’s stroke of the keys to elicit her unique sound. A loop of photos of Allen also ran in the background while her colleagues spoke of her and played her work emotionally. “Without question, Geri Allen was a master. Her standards were high and she created value with everything that she did in life, all the way down to her exquisitely beautiful album covers,” Carrington concluded. “She leaves us with a supreme legacy, and for me her death has been a serious wake-up call on many fronts. I tell more people I love them. I am making time to go visit friends more often. I listen to others’ thoughts and feelings more attentively. And I also recognize the importance of reaching out to others when I am in need because our business is not easy on us in regard to physical, mental and spiritual health, especially for women.” “She honored the masters and sang the praises of her peers,” Carrington added. “She built bridges between genres and mediums and pushed her artistic self fiercely and fearlessly. She mentored many young musicians and paved an avenue for young women to play jazz, all while being a caring and responsible parent. I often wonder why she was so tired. Now I get it.” Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science will appear again at DC Jazz Fest on Sunday, June 16 at 4:15 pm on the DC Wharf. Visit www.dcjazzfest. org for more information. WI
past and the present. That’s what sparks this simple story of love, parenting, loss, grief and longing, into an engaging and emotional tale of three people navigating a common landscape. Without giving too much away, one of the multiple streams of emotionally charged themes will tug at any heartstring, as everyone has been in the position of one of the three characters at some point. “I am profoundly grateful to my friend (and neighbor) Ari Roth and the Mosaic Theater for giving ‘Sooner/Later’ that most elusive of opportunities; a second production after a world premiere,” Currin said. “It has been a pure joy to revisit this play, which is profoundly near and dear to my heart, and to reimagine it for my artistic hometown with the gentle, insightful guidance of director Gregg Henry and dramaturg Caleen Jennings,” she added. “I am so lucky to be a playwright, so lucky to get to go to work every day in this craft that I love, with the full support and complete enthusiasm of the marvelous Mosaic team. It’s all so dreamy.” And so is “Sooner/Later.” The ethereal quality of this simple, but subtly touching play, is fully felt when the culmination reveals so many things that every human living life has felt. That is what makes “Sooner/Later” something to smile about, and a
balm to the soul. Following select performances of “Sooner/Later,” at the Atlas Performing Arts Center’s Sprenger Theater, 1313 H Street, NE, through June 16, 2019, Mosaic will host a series of post-show discussions exploring resonant themes present in the work. The post-show discussions are free, beginning immediately after the performance. Visit www.mosaictheater.org/ discussion for a full list and dates. Tickets can be purchased through the website, www.mosaictheater.org. WI
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Theater with several NCGCC members. She is the current president of NCGCC, only the third president in the history of the organization and first female president. After the screening it was announced that the restored “Say Amen, Somebody” will be shown at the NCGCC’s annual convention in Detroit this August. “This year I said we are going to watch ‘Say Amen, Somebody’ because that’s our roots,” said Gentry with excitement about the upcoming annual NCGCC.
“Dr. Dorsey was the beginning. He invented the genre.” For Price, witnessing the film’s restoration was a moving experience. “I am so thankful, and I thank George Nierenberg,” said Price. “It’s overwhelming. How can you repeat perfection!” Nierenberg and Milestone Films are seeking other opportunities to show the film. There are currently no plans for wide distribution. View a trailer of “Say Amen, Somebody at: http://bit.ly/SayAmenSomebody. WI
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GRANDFATHER MAKES PREAKNESS STAKES A FAMILY AFFAIR 5 Tee Trotman (center), a resident of Manassas, Va., decided to make attending the popular Baltimore event, the Preakness Stakes, a family affair after enjoying the festivities for nearly 30 years. So, he took his grandchildren for their first time so they too could witness the 144th annual running of the horse races – the second leg of the Triple Crown spring tourney on May 19. Pictured with him (l-r): Jaediy, 4; Makailya, 8; Jaesahn, 2, Jaearron, 10 and Jaedyn, 5. (Timothy Cox/Washington Informer)
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blood without first establishing whether he is innocent or guilty. Sikhakhane boldly argued that Zuma should have been charged in 2005 along with Shaik and that failure to do so proved that the NPA wanted to use the former financial adviser’s case as a test run before they went for “the big fish.” Thales Advocate Anton Katz also moved to paint his client as a victim, arguing that the company was being treated like Zuma’s conjoined twin. Representing the state, Advocate Wim Trengove reminded Zuma’s legal team that their client had been afforded “luxurious litigation” at the expense of the taxpayer, and if it wasn’t for his Stalingrad delaying strategy there would not have been additional delays. Zuma was not a victim of the delays, Trengove argued, pointing out that his political career actually flourished while he was
still living under the cloud of this pending prosecution. Making closing arguments, Zuma’s legal team brought day three to a dramatic ending as they waited until the eleventh hour to play their trump card before the full bench of judges. In a cliffhanger ending a dramatic week, Sikhakhane sought to introduce new evidence in the form of a letter that supposedly proves political motive. The letter apparently contains information that former President Thabo Mbeki and his justice minister Penuell Maduna tried to give Zuma a R20 million financial incentive to quit politics. The state challenged the introduction of new evidence. After heated arguments, the judges did not rule on the admissibility of the letter. They are expected to come back with a verdict on the stay on prosecution application within the next three months. WI
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ARIES The conversations you hold and the people you meet can keep things moving along over the week ahead. However, with links to dreamy Neptune, what you see isn’t necessarily what you get. You might completely misunderstand a conversation or someone’s intentions. You could also have an overly idealized view of a situation when in reality it’s nothing like you think. Lucky Numbers: 22, 25, 29
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TAURUS Go easy around money matters this week. With dealmaker Mercury in your money zone angling toward dreamy Neptune, you might think something looks promising when it isn’t. This could be something simple like a gym membership or more complex like an offer that involves your hard-earned cash. Take the time to read the terms and conditions and look at the details to see what’s in it for you before you make a move. Lucky Numbers: 1, 15, 31
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GEMINI This isn’t one of the best times to make promises, no matter how sure you are that you can follow through. With talkative Mercury, your guide planet, linking to nebulous Neptune in your sector of goals and career, going back on your word would be noticed by those in authority. To avoid this, it’s best to underestimate what you can accomplish and overdeliver on results because this will make a more positive impact. Lucky Numbers: 13, 19, 22 By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer Sometimes, you feel like you could just dye. Or curl, or cut, or braid. Some days, you want a change in style, a different ‘do, maybe something like you’ve seen in a magazine. Or you want to be the person who makes that happen, so read “Becoming a Hair Stylist” by Kate Bolick and see if you have what it takes. You have to think that people have fussed with their hair for as long as people have had hair. Egyptian lovelies, for instance, used juniper berries to hide their grays. Roman women used leeches fermented in vinegar as a dye. Wealthy women a century ago had servants do their ‘do’s; just 60 years ago, few people washed their hair more than once a week and most women did their hair at home. Says Bolick, America’s first hair salon belonged to Martha Harper, who’d inherited a secret formula for hair growth in the late 1880s. During Harper’s time, women grew their hair as long as possible; short hair was “a sign of poverty.” For Black women, Madame C.J. Walker’s potions and pomades revolutionized how their hair was styled, and she became a millionaire for it. In the 1950s and 1960s, though, Vidal Sassoon and Vogue magazine made going to the salon a thing every woman wanted to do: getting your hair styled at a salon was suddenly affordable, and stylists were believe to be specialists with skills — even though, at the same time, people often callously thought that styling hair was a career for those lacking intelligence. Today becoming a hair stylist takes a lot of hard work, training, and keen people skills. You’ll have to get a certain amount of schooling, depending on the state in which you want to practice, and you’ll learn the basics first, followed by human anatomy, sanitation, and chemistry. You’ll get tons of hands-on experience, and if you want to style African American hair, you may take extra classes before tackling a two-part licensing test. Once you’ve done that, says Bolick, “the sky is the limit.” While there is an abundance of information inside “Becoming a Hair Stylist,” and while it’ll help prospective beauticians to decide if the career is right for them, this book is also a little disappointing. Author Kate Bolick relies quite heavily on the story and experiences of one salon owner and her employees in New York City, adding snippets of tale from other large cities, but she misses writing about neighborhood and rural salon owners whose stories could have added so much more to the overall. That lack does a disservice to the multi-thousands of people hoping to become small-town independent stylists; this, and a dearth of pitfalls a salon owner might find, further lessens the information within. And yet, for a high-schooler thinking about cosmetology school, or for an adult heading back to school, this book offers at least a basic start. If that’s for you and you’re eager to get going, “Becoming a Hair Stylist” is a book to curl up with. WI
CANCER An awkward tie between thoughtful Mercury and hazy Neptune hints that you might want something but be unclear about how to get it. There could be a clash of beliefs involved that stems from experiences that occurred in your younger years. If you want to understand why you’ve been sabotaging your best interests, talking to someone who knows you well or who has a canny understanding of human nature might bring some powerful insights. Lucky Numbers: 7, 8, 16 LEO It might be wise to avoid any schemes that involve a lot of money because they might not be as good as you think. Before you sign or commit, it’s wise to do the math. If you take the time to look into the financial side of things, you might find the potential return is a lot less than you imagined and possibly nothing much at all. Bearing this in mind, it might best to sidestep this and wait until something much more solid comes along. Lucky Numbers: 8, 20, 37 VIRGO Someone might promise you the world, but can they deliver? Take extra care over the coming days because this person could find it difficult to stick to their word. They likely mean well, but they might not be able to follow through due to unexpected circumstances. If this is something you need urgently, it might be better to attend to it yourself because it will then get done. Lucky Numbers: 10, 11, 24 LIBRA Is it better to help others or help yourself? This could be an issue this week because you could feel guilty for saying no to someone who counted on you to help them out. This could be a victory for you, though, especially if you’ve given in to them one too many times in the past. Standing your ground and setting firm boundaries can let this person know that you don’t intend to be used in the future. Lucky Numbers: 4, 12, 39 SCORPIO It might seem like love at first sight, but is it really? The coming days could see you falling head over heels with someone and perhaps feeling that you have finally met “the one.” If so, it might help to get the opinion of a friend. If the friend knows you very well, they’ll be unafraid to tell you the truth as they see it. There’s a possibility that you won’t want to hear what they have to say until it’s too late. If someone gives you a warning, it might be wise to listen. Lucky Numbers: 26, 33, 40 SAGITTARIUS The coming days could see you eager to beautify your surroundings at home or at work. As sweet Venus forges a lovely angle with imaginative Neptune, you might find that adding beautiful pictures, inspiring sayings, and sentimental gifts from those you love lifts your spirits when you need it most. Lucky Numbers: 23, 42, 44 CAPRICORN Make sure that people understand you, because there’s a possibility of mistakes over the days ahead. With chatty Mercury forging an awkward angle to nebulous Neptune in your sector of communication, things may not go as planned. One way to sidestep this is to write out your instructions in bullet points so they can be seen in black and white. Lucky Numbers: 10, 22, 30 AQUARIUS Is it worthwhile to spend money on a new hobby, pastime, or even romance? If you’re uncertain, don’t commit just yet. Instead, just dip your toe in the water. By the end of the week, you could have valuable insights into whether it’s worth investing your time and money into something new or better to avoid doing so for now. Lucky Numbers: 4, 16, 20 PISCES It would help to make your intentions clear this week, because if you don’t, your family might have expectations that you don’t intend to fulfill. This might be a case of mixed messages and general misunderstanding. However, it could create a negative atmosphere unless you set the record straight. Lucky Numbers: 7, 15, 33
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3 Columbus Comets wide receiver Keeahna Fontes attempts to break a tackle by D.C. Divas defensive back Genaya Davis during the Divas’ 58-28 win at the St. James Sports Complex in Springfield, Virginia, on Saturday, May 25. (John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer)
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6 Columbus Comets running back Pasha Johnson-Rivers evades a D.C. Divas defender to score a touchdown during the Divas’ 58-28 win at the St. James Sports Complex in Springfield, Virginia, on Saturday, May 25. (John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer)
4 D.C. Divas wide receiver Kentrina Wilson outruns Columbus Comets defensive back DiaSha Pearson to score a touchdown during the Divas’ 5828 win at the St. James Sports Complex in Springfield, Virginia, on Saturday, May 25. (John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer)
(BOTTOM LEFT) D.C. Divas running back D’Ajah Scott outpaces Columbus Comets defensive back Dionna Jackson en route to a touchdown during the Divas’ 58-28 win at the St. James Sports Complex in Springfield, Virginia, on Saturday, May 25. (John E. De Freitas/The
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5 Miami Marlins catcher Jorge Alfaro is tagged out by Washington Nationals shortstop Trea Turner while attempting to advance to second base on a fly out in the fourth inning of Miami’s 3-2 win at Nationals Park in D.C. on Monday, May 27. (John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer) 4 Miami Marlins catcher Jorge Alfaro slides back to first base ahead of a pickoff attempt as Washington Nationals first baseman Matt Adams awaits the throw during Miami’s 3-2 win at Nationals Park in D.C.on Monday, May 27. (John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer)
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The auditorium of the Malcolm X Recreation Center in Southeast was filled to capacity by family members, coaches, and supporters of the Woodland Tigers who came to celebrate the achievements of members of the Woodland Tigers Youth Sports and Education Program. Renowned boxing announcer Henry “Discombobulating” Jones served as the Master of Ceremonies for the annual program held Saturday, May 25 where youth athletes ranging in ages from 6 and under to teenagers were honored for participating in football, boxing and dance. The program that began in the Woodland Terrace public housing community is now more than 30 years old. The program was founded by the late Calvin Woodland, Sr., a community activist in Ward 8, who died April 4, 2000, after suffering a stroke. He was 60 years old. Steve Zanders, and his wife, Franceris Williams-Zanders, have been overseeing the program ever since, but more importantly, they serve as surrogate parents and mentors to more than 100 children engaged in the sports program year-round. Washington Informer Publisher Denise Rolark Barnes, guest speaker, told the audience, “You represent the village we talk about when we say, ‘It takes a village to raise a child.’” She commended Zanders for keeping the boys and girls of Woodland Terrace and neighboring communities active, both physically and mentally, and she commended the coaches that “work for little or no pay to develop strength and character in every young athlete in their care.” Zanders presented a trophy to all of the young athletes including the championship winning 12-and-under football team. Coaches were presented with plaques, as well. “I just go into some of these neighborhoods and ask these guys to help out, and they do. I just appreciate all of them for their support,” Zanders said. The evening ended with dinner, music and encouragement to each athlete to stay involved in the program. WI
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5 Scores of people wait to get into the D.C. Council Chambers at the John A. Wilson Building to advocate for increased support of the United Medical Center, and plans for Banneker Academic HS, along with Shaw MS during the Council’s final vote on the 2020 budget. (Photo by Anthony Tilghman/ The Washington Informer)
DC BUDGET from Page 1 UMC from $15 million proposed by Councilmember Vincent Gray (D-Ward 7) following an impassioned appeal related to an extraordinary increase in gun violence over the Memorial Day weekend. “We’re in a situation where it’s a matter of life and death for residents east of the Anacostia River,” White said, “so the hospital conversation is a priority for us.” The $22 million came from the $15 million that Gray wanted, $4 million that D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) found in the budget and $3 million that D.C. Councilmember Trayon White (D-Ward 8) cobbled together from various programs and presented to the council in the form of an amendment. Despite Gray’s opposition to White’s amendment and his reservations about Mendelson’s $4 million, the council supported the Ward 8 lawmaker with 10 votes, two opposed (Gray and Mendelson) and D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) voted present due to an employment conflict of interest. Shaw area residents filled the council chambers to hear the final decision on a proposal to relocate Banneker Academic High School to a site off Rhode Island Avenue, N.W. where a Shaw middle school was promised years ago. A vote of 7-6 sealed the move. Shaw will move to Banneker’s Euclid Street., N.W. location, also. The council’s unanimous approval of the 2020 budget totaling $15.5 billion budget now moves on to the U.S. Congress for review. If the Congress has no objections, the budget, it will take effect Oct. 1.
Cheh works as a professor at the George Washington University School of Law and George Washington’s Hospital seeks to manage the proposed St. Elizabeth’s East community hospital. Gray’s proposed cut of UMC’s subsidy of $25 million two weeks ago ignited protests from unions and some East End residents. The result, some say, would have meant UMC would close in roughly four years while a firm deal to build the St. Elizabeths East community hospital hasn’t been finalized as of yet. Gray disputed that assertion before White’s amendment vote. Members of the District of Columbia Nurses Association (DNCA) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 1199, came to the John A. Wilson Building earlier before the budget vote to make it clear that cutting UMC will harm Ward 7 and 8 residents and employees of the embattled UMC. “We must stand together,” Rev. Graylan Hagler, senior pastor of the Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, told a crowd of 50 people that rallied outside of the Wilson Building. “We need to make sure that D.C. doesn’t have an apartheid medical system where the poor don’t have access to quality care and the rich do. We cannot wait until 2023 to know if the residents of Wards 7 and 8 have a hospital; we need to know now.” Members of the DCNA and the SEIU sat in Room 500 as the council considered the budget. DCNA members wore black t-shirts with white writing of their organization’s name while the SEIU wore their signature purple t-shirts. Washington Teachers Union
president Elizabeth Davis showed her support for the UMC union workers by wearing a DCNA t-shirt. When the council passed White’s amendment, the DCNA and union members expressed wary satisfaction. “It is not enough,” Alma Ames, who works at UMC and a member of SEIU, said. “Thirty-two million would have been better.” Ames said councilmembers don’t understand the impact of financially undermining UMC and how it will affect residents and employees. “Many of our patients get their insurance from the government, Medicaid and Medicare,” she said. She also said the operator of UMC, Mazars USA, doesn’t seem sensitive to the needs of patients and employees. “We [the employees] work hard to give the best care we can,” Ames said. White said East End residents have a deficit in health care services and the $22 million “is a drop in the bucket” in what is really needed to meet patients’ needs. The Ward 8 councilmember noted that schools in his ward received cuts of about $10 million from the Bowser budget “and we restored that partially”. “Our students are falling further behind and that hurts our community,” White, a former D.C. Board of Education member representing his ward, said. Overall, White voted for the budget though he had reservations. “With a $15.6 billion budget, we can do more to help those who need it the most,” he said. “It seems like we laid out the red carpet for new residents.” WI
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RELIGION the religion corner WITH LYNDIA GRANT
Dousing the Flames of the Diabetes Epidemic
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. — Hosea 4:6 This is a five-part article taken from an online publication written by me back in 2003, about the life and suffering of my mother in order to help somebody, so her living would not be in vain. Since its publication, this article has made its way around the world. It is posted in Africa, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, Europe and Asia; it is translated into different languages and it appears all across America. Last time this series was published, many people anxiously awaited the next issue. This week, the Lord told me to share this article with my readers again. Those of you who have read this column faithfully will remember the devastation faced by me and my family, as my mother suffered for 12 years with diabetes and its effects on the human body. I noticed a fire burning in the diabetes health arena, in the African-American community in particular, and it is still burning out of control. Hopefully, this campaign will stop fanning the flames and put out the fire. Here Mt. Zion Baptist Church Reverend John W. Davis Pastor 5101 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 Phone: 202-726-2220 Fax: 202-726-9089 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service - 8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. Children’s Church - 11:00 a.m. (1st & 3rd Sundays) Communion - 10 a.m. 4th Sunday Sunday School - 9:15 a.m. (4th Sunday 8:15 a.m.) Prayer Meeting & Bible Study - Wednesday 7:00 p.m. “A Church with a past to remember – and a future to mold”
is my story: My own education and public relations campaign for diabetes prevention, established under the name Fannie Estelle Hill Grant, started after the loss of my mother, who succumbed to Type 2 diabetes on Christmas Day in 2000. Mother was 73 years old, a wife, mother of nine and homemaker who loved her family very much, and she believed in preparing wonderful home-cooked meals for the family — with desserts — on any day of the week. Mama enjoyed cooking, cleaning and washing clothes, and although she had nine children of her own, she always made room for other needy children. During our early years in the 1960s, Mother was the wife of our sharecropper father in North Carolina, but they moved the family in 1965 to Washington, D.C., which was our home for more than 30 years. The family learned of Mother’s Type 2 diabetes after a major stroke she had in 1989. She lived only 12 years after the diagnosis. I and and my sisters pledged to begin the educational prevention campaign while we visited with and cared for their mother during her last year of life. Mother and Father moved back to North Carolina, where she enjoyed her later years in a
very peaceful way. We purchased her a new home, took over the entire mortgage payments, and she was happy. Mother Grant enjoyed living on the 226-acre farm near Kinston, of which she was one of the heirs. She enjoyed walking around the farm, following my father as he worked. Mother suffered many additional strokes; during one of them, she lost the use of her tongue and couldn’t speak. Her kidneys failed, and she needed dialysis for the last two years of her life. She had high blood pressure for many years, and both of her legs were amputated above her knees. We wanted to know more about the disease that took our mother in such a brutal fashion and caused so much pain and suffering prior to her death. Mother Grant was a Christian, an evangelist who preached the gospel in churches throughout the D.C. area, and everyone loved her and called her Ma. As her oldest daughter, I promised to educate millions of people regarding the causes and preventions of Type 2 diabetes. In sharing with the general public, I feel a lot better now, because my mother’s living shall not be in vain. Read part two, “The Problem,” next week. WI
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Mount Olivet Lutheran Church
John F. Johnson Reverend Dr. 1306 Vermont Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20005 Service and Times Divine Worship, Sunday 10:00 a.m. Communion 1st and 3rd Sunday “Friendliest Church in the City” Website: mountolivetdc.org Email: mtolivedc@gmail.com
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RELIGION The Miracle Center of Faith Missionary Baptist Church
Pilgrim Baptist Church Rev. Louis B. Jones II Pastor
Bishop Michael C. Turner, Sr. Senior Pastor 9161 Hampton Overlook Capitol Heights, MD 20743 Phone: 301-350-2200 Fax: 301-499-8724
Service and Times Sunday Worship Times : 7:30 AM 7 10:00 AM Communion: 1st Sunday Sunday School: 9:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday, 12 Noon Bible Study in homes: Tuesday 7:00 PM Website: www.themiraclecenterFMBC.com Email: Miraclecenterfmbs@gmail.com Motto: “We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight”
700 I Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 547-8849 Service and Times Worship Sundays: 7:30 & 11:00 AM 5th Sundays: 9:30 AM 3rd Sundays: Baptism & Holy Communion Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @ Noon & 6:30 PM www.pilgrimbaptistdc.org
Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ
Blessed Word of Life Church
Church of Living Waters
Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church
Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor
Rev. Dr. Michael E. Bell, Sr., Pastor
Rev. Dr. Alton W. Jordan Pastor
Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews Senior Pastor
Harold Andrew Assistant Pastor
2498 Alabama Ave., SE - Washington D.C. 20020 Office: (202) 889-7296 Fax: (202) 889-2198 - www.acamec.org
800 I Street, NE - Washington, DC 20002 202-548-0707 - Fax No. 202-548-0703
4915 Wheeler Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-894-6464
Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 8:00am and 11:00 AM Sunday Church School - 9:15am & Sunday Adult Forum Bible Study 10:30 AM 2nd & 4th Monday Women’s Bible Study: 6:30 PM Tuesday Jr./Sr. Bible Study: 10:00 AM Tuesday Topical Bible Study: 6:30 PM Tuesday New Beginnings Bible Study: 6:30 PM Wednesday Pastoral Bible Study: 6:30 PM Wednesday Children’s Bible Study: 6:30 PM Thursday Men’s Bible Study: 6:30 PM Friday before 1st Sunday Praise & Worship Service: 6:30 PM Saturday Adult Bible Study: 10:00 AM “The Amazing, Awesome, Audacious Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church”
Service and Times Sunday Morning Worship: 11:00 AM Holy Communion: 1st Sunday Sunday School: 9:45 AM Men’s Monday Bible Study: 7:00 PM Wednesday Night Bible Study: 7:00 PM Women’s Ministry Bible Study: 3rd Friday -7:00 PM Computer Classes: Announced Family and Marital Counseling by appointment
1200 Isle of Patmos Plaza, Northeast Washington, DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-6767 - Fax: (202) 526-1661
Service and Times Sunday Service: 8:30am& 11:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM Communion Service: First Sunday www.livingwatersmd.org
St. Stephen Baptist Church
Third Street Church of God
Dr. Dekontee L. & Dr. Ayele A. Johnson Pastors
Rev. Dr. Alice Greene Interim Pastor
Bishop Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Senior Pastor
Rev. Cheryl J. Sanders, Th.D. Senior Pastor
4001 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 (202) 265-6147 Office 1-800 576-1047 Voicemail/Fax
3845 South Capitol Street Washington, DC 20032 (202) 562-5576 (Office) (202) 562-4219 (Fax)
5757 Temple Hill Road, Temple Hills, MD 20748 Office 301-899-8885 – fax 301-899-2555
1204 Third Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 202-347-5889 office 202-638-1803 fax
Service and Times Sunday School: 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service: 11:00 AM Communion Service: First Sunday Prayer Service/Bible Study: Tuesday, 6:30 PM
Services and Times Sundays: 10:00am 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
www.blessedwordoflifechurch.org E-mail: church@blessedwordoflifechurch.org
“An inclusive ministry where all are welcomed and affirmed.” www.covenantdc.org
Campbell AME Church Rev. Dr. Henry Y. White 2562 MLK Jr. Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Adm. Office 202-678-2263 Email: Campbell@mycame.org Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 AM Sunday Church School: 8:45 AM Bible Study Wednesday: 12:00 Noon Wednesday: 7:00 PM Thursday: 7:00 PM “Reaching Up To Reach Out” Mailing Address Campbell AME Church 2502 Stanton Road SE - Washington, DC 20020
“Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital” www.thirdstreet.org Live Stream Sunday Worship Service begins @ 12:00 noon www.thirdstreet.org
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: 8:00 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 6:00 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
Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM Holy Communion: 2nd Sunday at 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM Sunday Church School: 9:20 AM Seniors Bible Study: Tuesdays at 10:30 AM Noon Day Prayer Service: Tuesdays at Noon Bible Study: Tuesdays at 7 PM Motto: “A Ministry of Reconciliation Where Everybody is Somebody!” Website: http://isleofpatmosbc.org Church Email: ipbcsecretary@verizon.net
St Marks Baptist Come Worship with us... Dr. Raymond T. Matthews Pastor and First Lady Marcia Matthews St. Mark's Baptist Church 624 Underwood Street, NW Washington, dc 20011 Services and Times Sunday School: 9:00 AM Worship Service: 10:00 AM Wed. Noon Day prayer service Thur. Prayer service: 6:45 PM Thur. Bible Study: 7:15 PM
Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor (Disciples of Christ) 1812 12th Street, NW - Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202-265-4494 Fax: 202 265 4340 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 AM Communion every Sunday: 11:00 AM Sunday School: 10:00 AM Bible Study Tuesday: 12 Noon Pastor’s Bible Study Tuesday: 6:30 PM Motto: “Discover Something Wonderful” Website: 12thscc.org Email: Twelfthstcc@aol.com
Mount Carmel Baptist Church
Virgil K. Thomas, Sr. Senior Pastor/ Teacher
Service and Times Sunday School: 10:15 AM Sunday Worship Service: 11;15 AM Children’s Church: 11:15 AM Tuesday Bible Study: 6:30 PM Motto : “A Great Commitment to the Great Commandment” Website: www.turningheartschurchdc.org Email: gr8luv4u2@gmail.com
“We are one in the Spirit” www.ssbc5757.org E-mail: ssbc5757@verizon.net
Services and Times Sunday School: 9:30 AM Sunday Worship: 11:00 AM Sunday Community Worship Service: 8:30 AM
E-mail: Crusadersbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.CrusadersBaptistChurch.org “God is Love”
Isle of Patmos Baptist Church
Twelfth Street Christian Church
Turning Hearts Church
421 Alabama Ave. SE Washington, DC 20032 Phone: 202-746-0113 Fax: 301-843-2445
Services and Times Sunday Early Morning Worship: 7:45 AM Church School: 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship: 10:45 AM Tuesday: 7:00pm/Kingdom Building Bible Institute Wednesday: Prayer/Praise/Bible Study-7:30 PM Baptism & Communion Service: 4th Sunday – 10:30 AM
Crusader Baptist Church
901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423 Service and Times Sunday Church School : 9:00 AM Sunday Morning Worship: 10:10 AM Bible Study Tuesday: 6: 00 PM Prayer Service Tuesday: 7:00 PM Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday 10:10 AM
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RELIGION Shabbath Commandment Church
All Nations Baptist Church
King Emmanuel Baptist Church
Bishop Adrian A. Taylor, Sr. Pastor
Rev. Dr. James Coleman Pastor
Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor
7801 Livingston Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-534-5471
2001 North Capitol St, N.E. - Washington, DC 20002 Phone (202) 832-9591
2324 Ontario Road, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 232-1730
Service and Times Sabbath School 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 AM Service 11:00 AM Praise & Worship Preaching 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Motto: “A Church Keeping It Real for Real.” Website: Shabbathcommandmentchruch.org Email: Praisebetoyhwh@gmail.com
Zion Baptist Church Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor 4850 Blagdon Ave, NW - Washington D.C 20011 Phone (202) 722-4940 - Fax (202) 291-3773 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:15 AM Sunday School: 9:00 AM Monday: Noon Bible School Wednesday: Noon & 7 PM Pastor’s Bible Study Ordinance of Baptism 2nd Holy Communion 4th Sunday Mission Zion Baptist Church Shall; Enlist Sinners, Educate Students, Empower the Suffering, Encourage the Saints, and Exalt Our Savior. (Acts 2:41-47) www.zionbaptistchurchdc.org
St. Luke Baptist Church Rev. Aubrey C. Lewis Pastor 1415 Gallatin Street, NW Washington, DC 20011-3851 P: (202) 726-5940 Service and Times Sunday Worship: 11:00 AM Sunday School: 9:15 AM Holy Communion: 11:00 a.m., 3rd Sun. Bible Institute: Wednesday - 1:30 PM Prayer Meeting: Wednesday - 12:00 Noon
Service and Times Sunday Church School – 9:30 AM Sunday Worship Service – 11:00 AM Holy Communion – 1st Sunday at 11:00 AM Prayer – Wednesdays, 6:00 PM Bible Study – Wednesdays, 7:00 PM Christian Education School of Biblical Knowledge Saturdays, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM, Call for Registration Website: www.allnationsbaptistchurch.com All Nations Baptist Church – A Church of Standards
Israel Baptist Church
Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor
Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert Senior Pastor
2409 Ainger Pl.,SE – WDC 20020 (202) 678-0884 – Office • (202) 678-0885 – Fax “Moving Faith Forward” 0% Perfect . . . 100% Forgiven!
623 Florida Ave.. NW - WDC. 20001 Church (202) 667-3409 Study (202) 265-0836 Home Study (301) 464-8211 Fax (202) 483-4009
4504 Gault Place, N.E. Washington, D.C 20019 202-397-7775 – 7184
Service and Times Sunday Worship: 8:00 AM & 10:45 AM Baptism/Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday Family Bible Study Tuesdays – 6:30 PM Prayer Service: Tuesdays – 8:00 PM www.emmanuelbaptistchurchdc.org
“Where Jesus is the King”
Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith
Lincoln Park United Methodist Church Rev. Richard B. Black Pastor
Elder Herman L. Simms Pastor
1251 Saratoga Ave., NE Washington, DC 20018 (202) 269-0288
1301 North Carolina Ave. N E Washington, D C 20002 202 543 1318 - lincolnpark@lpumcdc.org www.lpumcdc.org
5606 Marlboro Pike District Heights, MD 20747 301-735-6005
Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:45 AM Sunday School: 9:15 AM Holy Communion1st Sunday: 10:45 AM Prayer Service: Wednesday at 6:30 PM Bible Study: Wednesday at 7:00 PM Bible Study: Tuesday at 10:30 AM
Mount Moriah Baptist Church
Service and Times Sunday Worship: 10:00 AM Holy Communion: First Sunday 10:00 AM Sunday School: 9:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday @ 12 noon and 6:30 PM Motto: "Faith On The Hill"
Service and Times Sunday Apostolic Worship Services 11:00 A.M and 5:00 PM Communion and Feet Wash 4th Sunday at 5:00 PM Prayer/Seeking: Wednesday at 8:00 PM 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
Eastern Community Baptist Church
Dr. Lucius M. Dalton Senior Pastor
Damion M. Briggs Pastor
1636 East Capitol Street, NE Washington, DC 20003 Telephone: 202-544-5588 - Fax: 202-544-2964
8213 Manson Street Landover, MD 20785 Tel: (301) 322-9787 Fax: (301) 322-9240
13701 Old Jericho Park Road Bowie, MD. 20720 (301) 262-0560
Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 7:45 AM and 10:45 AM Holy Communion: 1st Sundays at 7:45 AM & 10:45 AM Sunday School: 9:30 AM Prayer & Praise Service: Tuesdays at 12 noon & 6:30 PM Bible Study: Tuesdays at 1 pm and 7 PM Youth Bible Study: Fridays at 7 PM
Service and Times Early Morning Message: 7:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service: 10:00 AM Sunday Church School: 9:00 AM Holy Communion: 1st Sunday 7:30 AM & 10:00 AM Prayer, Praise and Testimony: Wednesday 7:00 PM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM
Service and Times Sunday Worship: 11 AM Sunday School: 10 AM Wednesday Mid-Week Worship, Prayer & Bible Study: Wed. 7 PM
Rehoboth Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor
Rev. Curtis l. Staley Pastor
2001 Brooks Drive District Heights, MD 20744 (240) 838-7074
621 Alabama Ave., S.E.- Washington, D.C. 20032 P: (202) 561-1111 - F: (202) 561-1112
Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:15 AM Sunday School: 9:00 AM Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting / Bible Study: Tuesday at 7 PM Theme: “The Kingdom Focused Church with an Emphasis on “Evangelism and Discipleship”
Service and Times Sunday Service: 10:00 AM Sunday School for all ages: 8:30 AM 1st Sunday Baptism: 10:00 AM 2nd Sunday Holy Communion:10:00 AM Tuesday: Bible Study: 6:30 PM Prayer Meeting: 7:45 PM
Email: pastorstmbc@gmail.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.org
Motto: “Where God is First and Where Friendly People Worship”
“Real Worship for Real People” Website: www.easterncommunity.org Email: ecc@easterncommunity.org
Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor
“A Church Where Love Is Essential and Praise is Intentional”
Foggy Bottom - Founded in 1867 728 23rd Street, NW - Washington, DC 20037 Church office: 202-333-3985 - Fax : 202-338-4958
Shiloh Baptist Church
Matthews Memorial Baptist Church Dr. Joseph D. Turner Senior Pastor 2616 MLK Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Office 202-889-3709 - Fax 202-678-3304 Service and Times Early Worship Service: 8:00 AM Worship Service: 11:00 AM New Member’s Class: 9:45 AM Holy Communion: 1st Sunday, 11:00 AM Church School: 9:45 AM Wednesday 12:00pm Bible Study Prayer, Praise and Bible Study: 7:00 PM Saturday Bible Study: 11:00 AM Baptism 4th Sunday: 11:00 AM
Christ Embassy DC
Kelechi Ajieren Coordinator 6839 Eastern Avenue, R1 Takoma Park, MD 20912 (202) 556-7065 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 AM Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 PM Friday Evening Service: 7:00 PM ; Last Friday “…Giving Your Life a Meaning” www.Christembassydc.org Christ.embassy.dc@hotmail.com
“Empowered to love and Challenged to Lead a Multitude of Souls to Christ”
Peace Baptist Church
Pennsylvania Ave. Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Michael T. Bell 712 18th Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Phone 202-399-3450/ Fax 202-398-8836 Service and Times Sunday Early Morning Prayer & Bible Study Class: 8:00 AM Sunday School: 9:00 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service: 10:00 AM Wednesday Service: 12:00 PM
Rev. Dr. Kendrick E. Curry Pastor 3000 Pennsylvania Ave.. S.E Washington, DC 20020 202 581-1500 Service and Times Sunday Church School: 9:30 AM Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 AM Monday Adult Bible Study: 7:00 PM Wednesday Youth & Adult Activities: 6:30 PM Prayer Service Bible Study
“The Loving Church of the living lord “
First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Mt. Horeb Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor
Rev. Oran W. Young Pastor
Rev. Dr. H. B. Sampson, III Pastor
9th & P Street, N.W. - W. D.C. 20001 (202) 232-4288
602 N Street NW - Washington, D.C. 20001 Office:(202) 289-4480 Fax: (202) 289-4595
2914 Bladensburg Road, NE Wash., DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-3180 - Fax: (202) 529-7738 Service and Times Worship Service: 7:30 AM Sunday School: 9:00 AM Worship Service: 10:30 AM Holy Communion: 4th Sunday 7:30AM & 10:30 AM Prayer Services:Tuesday 7:30 PM. Wednesday 12 Noon
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Service and Times First Sunday Worship Service (one service): 10:00 AM Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Sunday Worship service: 7:45 AM and 10:55 AM Sunday Church School/Bible Study: 9:30 AM Thursday Prayer Service: 6:30 PM
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Service and Times Sunday Church School: 9:30 AM Sunday Worship Service : 11:00 AM The Lord’s Supper 1st Sunday Prayer & Praise Services: Wednesday 7:00 PM Bible Study: 7:30 PM Saturday before 4th Sunday Men, Women, Youth Discipleship Ministries: 10:30 AM A Christ Centered Church htubc@comcast.net
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Administration No. 2018 ADM 001282
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Administration No. 2019 ADM 461 Dinesh K. Gupta Decedent James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Ave., NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney
Neil Gilbride Decedent
Frederick Drew, Jr. Decedent
Janice Burke Decedent
Andrew M. Thomas, Sr. Decedent
Ronald Dixon Bynum & Jenkins 1010 Cameron Street Alexandria, VA 22314 Attorney
Joan M. Wilbon 1120 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 1020 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney
Kisha L. Woolen, Esq. Tobin, O’Connor & Ewing 5335 Wisconsin Ave., NW, #700 Washington, DC 20015 Attorney
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Kisha L. Woolen, Esq. Tobin, O’Connor & Ewing 5335 Wisconsin Ave., NW #700 Washington, DC 20015 Attorney
Ronald Dixon, whose address is Bynum & Jenkins, 1010 Cameron Street, Alexandria, VA 22314, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Neil Gilbride who died on October 4, 2017 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., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 11/16/2019. 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 11/16/2019, 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.
Constance Drew, whose address is 1600 Portal Drive, NW, Washington, DC 20012, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Frederick Drew, Jr. who died on September 22, 2018 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 11/16/2019. 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 11/16/2019, 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.
Jennifer C. Concino, Esq., whose address is 5335 Wisconsin Ave., NW #700, Washington, DC 20015, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Janice Burke who died on December 29, 2017 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., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 11/16/2019. 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 11/16/2019, 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.
Jennifer C. Concino, Esq., whose address is 5335 Wisconsin Ave., NW, #700, Washington, DC 20015, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Andrew M. Thomas Sr. who died on December 6, 2000 without a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 11/23/2019. 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 11/23/2019, 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.
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Administration No. 2019 ADM 000446
2019 ADM 480
Administration No. 2019 ADM 451
Administration No. 2019 ADM 256
Administration No. 2019 ADM 476
Lovetta S. Johnson Decedent
Estate of Herman C. Oglesby aka Herman Cecil Oglesby
Annie C. Putman aka Annie Carrie Putman Decedent
James C. Perry Decedent
Edward B. Harrison, Jr. Decedent
Deborah D. Boddie, Esq. Probate Law DC 1308 Ninth Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20001 Attorney
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Janet W. Blassingame, Esq. 1413 K Street, NW Suite 1500 Washington, DC 20005 Attorney
Kisha L. Woolen, Esq. Tobin O’Connor & Ewing 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW #700 Washington, DC 20015 Attorney
Jeffrey K. Gordon, Esq. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Suite 700 Washington, DC 20015 Attorney
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Michael Putman, whose address is 6100 4th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Annie C Putman aka Annie Carrie Putman who died on January 11, 2019 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 11/16/2019. 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 11/16/2019, 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.
Cynthia B. Tucker, whose address is 12113 Elmwood Drive, Brandywine, MD 20613, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of James C. Perry who died on August 11, 2004 without a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 11/23/2019. 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 11/23/2019, 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.
Anthony Q. Harrison, whose address is 9403 Miller Court, Clinton, Maryland 20735, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Edward B. Harrison, Jr. who died on January 28, 2018 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., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 11/23/2019. 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 11/23/2019, 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: 5/16/2019 Ronald Dixon Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Jawara Johnson, whose address is 820 Xenia Street, SE, Washington, DC 20032, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Lovetta S. Johnson who died on January 28, 2019 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., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 11/16/2019. 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 11/16/2019, 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: 5/16/2019 Jawara Johnson Personal Representative
Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Nina Smallwood-Johnson for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representatives. 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. Admit to probate the Will dated January 28, 1999 exhibited with the petition upon proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution by affidavit of the witnesses or otherwise Date of first publication: 5/16/2019 Caren M. Webb, Esq. 1308 Ninth Street, NW Suite 250 Washington, DC 20001 Petitioner/Attorney: TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Robbie E. Gupta, whose address is 3133 Connecticut Avenue, NW, #1020, Washington, DC 20008, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Dinesh K. Gupta who died on December 1, 2018 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 11/23/2019. 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 11/23/2019, 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.
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Administration No. 2019 ADM 000509
Administration No. 2019 ADM 475
Administration No. 2019 ADM 474
Foreign No. 2019 FEP 000041
Reginald B. Elliott aka Reginald Brandon Elliott Decedent
Helen T. Owens Decedent
Catherine H. Barnes Decedent
December 19, 2004 Date of Death
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Cornelius Owens, whose address is 5500 Holmes Run Pkwy, #418, Alexandria, VA 22304, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Helen T. Owens who died on February 25, 2019 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., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 11/30/2019. 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 11/30/2019, 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.
Christopher Barnes, whose address is 105 56th Street, SE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Catherine H. Barnes who died on October 13, 2018 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., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 11/30/2019. 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 11/30/2019, 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.
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Matthew F. Shannon, Esquire 1420 N Street, NW #102 Washington, DC 20005 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Matthew F. Shannon, whose address is 1420 N Street, NW #102, Washington, DC 20005, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Reginald B. Elliott aka Reginald Brandon Elliott who died on April 12, 2019 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 11/30/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigne`d with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 11/30/2019, 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: 5/30/2019 Matthew F. Shannon Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills
Gerald C. Thomas Name of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Ivy Thomas whose address is 4801 Iroquois Street, College Park, MD 20740 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Gerald C. Thomas, deceased, by the Orphans Court for Anne Arundel County, State of Maryland, on March 21, 2019. Service of process may be made upon Deborah D. Glover, 1341 Barnaby Terr. SE, Washington, DC 20032, whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real estate. 5830 Eastern Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20011 Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. Date of first publication: 5/30/2019 Ivy Thomas Personal Representative Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer
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Foreign No. 2019 FEP 000046
Phyllis W. McCormick Decedent
Christine Childs Morgan Decedent
3/1/2016 Date of Death
Clark J. Hymes, Esq. 1032 15th Street, NW #1050 Washington, DC 20005 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Joseph P. McCormick, II and Roberta Reed, whose addresses are 6011 Third Street, NE, Washington, DC 20011 and 3336 Baker St., NE, Washington, DC 20019, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Phyllis W. McCormick who died on December 31, 2016 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 11/30/2019. 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 11/30/2019, 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: 5/30/2019 Joseph P. McCormick, II Roberta Reed Personal Representative
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Dennis William Morgan, whose address is 8811 Lottsford Road, Apt 237, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Christine Childs Morgan who died on February 8, 2019 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., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 11/30/2019. 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 11/30/2019, 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: 5/30/2019 Dennis William Morgan Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills
Albert Nelson Jenkins Name of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Taunya L. Jenkins, whose address is 13219 Hampton Farm Lane, Brandywine, Md 20613, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Albert Nelson Jenkins, deceased, by the Orphans (Register of Wills) Court for Prince Georges County, State of Maryland, on 4/26/2019. Service of process may be made upon Matthew J. Marshall, 4430 20th Street, NE, Washington, DC 20018 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real estate. 3713 Massachusetts Ave., SE, Washington, DC 20019 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: 5/30/2019 Taunya L. Jenkins Personal Representative Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer
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ROADS from Page 1 plan. “We really should not be tolling our highways and roads.” The state Department of Transportation’s six alternatives to a traffic plan, with estimates up to $10 billion, that would decrease congestion in the D.C. region ranked among the highest in the nation. The Board of Public Works, which includes Hogan, Treasurer Nancy Kopp and Comptroller Peter Franchot, may decide Wednesday, June 5 on the next steps to approve the P3. The proposed work would happen between I-495 west of the Branch Avenue in Temple Hills in Prince George’s County; continue north on I-270 just north of I-370 in Montgomery County; and west on I-495 in Cabin John south of the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Montgomery County. Crystal Hancock, acting supervisor on special projects with the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, received a few gasps when she mentioned the project proposes 26 access points form the managed toll lanes. About 10 would be in Prince George’s, she said. The department concludes a “no build” option estimates the average commuter in the D.C. region would lose more than 87 hours annually due to congestion. However, the state’s “managed lane study” concludes a commuter’s travel time would decrease between 45 to 73 hours per year to widen the Capital Beltway and I-270. Stacey Neloms of Mitchellville said telecommuting provides traffic relief on the roads. Neloms works from home as a manager for an information technology company.
“How about tax incentives for a certain company who allows a certain number of employees to telecommute?” she said after the discussion. “It’s an alterative no one is talking about.” Another option some residents asked about dealt with transit. According to a flier from the Maryland Transit Opportunities Coalition based in Columbia, Howard County, for lightrail network to connect in nine counties and Baltimore City. For instance, the $8 billion proposal would create light-rail to connect at Metro’s Green Line at the Branch Avenue station in Prince George’s County and head south into Charles County. The plan would also revise the previous light-rail Baltimore Red Line, a project Hogan withdrew. The state’s current traffic plan also doesn’t focus on transit, just highway relief. One of the options would add two express toll lanes in each direction on Interstates 495 and 270. State officials said I-270 would widen to retain a high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane in each direction. Rep. Anthony Brown (D-Maryland) joined county and planning officials with a threepronged plan for the traffic plan to receive support before the Board of Public Works votes to begin the P3 process: • Conduct a draft environmental impact study; • Research and present an independent fiscal analysis; and • Documentation from county governments who will sign-off on the plan. “Toll lanes on any of the highways is not on our transportation priority list,” said Prince George’s County Council chairman Turner said. “Just slow down. This is a major undertaking.” WI
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not resources. The number of corporations that pay nothing in taxes has doubled under Donald Trump’s tax cut. The cost of that tax cut, most of which went to the already wealthy, is estimated at $1.7 trillion over 10 years. That alone would have been able to pay off all current student debts. Robert Smith’s generous promise should goad all of us into action. It is a personal tragedy and a national folly to burden an entire generation with often unpayable loans simply to get an education. We all benefit from a well-educated, active population. We all suffer when an entire generation is locked into debt from the day they get out of college. Smith has freed nearly 400 Morehouse graduates from that burden. We should demand that Congress act to offer every student that relief. WI
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mortgages, it is the largest source of debt, exceeding car loans and credit card debts. Almost two-thirds of all students are forced to borrow to pay for college; they end with an average debt of nearly $29,000. The debt of African-American students is, on average, $7,400 more than that of white students, reflecting the wealth gap that has built up over years of slavery, segregation and housing and employment discrimination. Democratic presidential candidates like Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders of Vermont are calling for making public colleges tuition-free. Warren has put forth a detailed plan to pay off a substantial portion of existing student loans. Some like Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) say we can’t afford to do that. But we are a wealthier country than Germany, yet college there is free. This is a question of priorities
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ening and improving our public schools. As the National Urban League made clear in its recent analysis of state plans to comply with the Every Student Succeeds Act, we believe students, parents and community stakeholders should adopt a vision of education reform and innovation that expands and deepens opportunity, upends inequity, accelerates progress and delivers more fully on the promise of education. Learn more about how the National Urban League’s Equity and Excellence Project is supporting local, state and national advocacy, engagement and education reform efforts, and join the conversation by following @NatUrbanLeague on social media. WI
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free to choose the students they want, the rules they follow, and the practices they believe in, ignoring accountability and transparency for public dollars,” Murray and her staff wrote in the 2017 memo. “In addition, voucher programs across the country have shown evidence of fraud, such as embezzlement of funds and submitting applications and receiving funding for nonexistent students. This occurs while simultaneously depleting needed resources for public schools and shortchanging students.” It’s clear that we, as a nation — and as communities invested in providing all children with a quality education that prepares them for college, work and life — must turn away from the failed voucher experiment and toward strength-
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would be no banking system if enslaved people were not used as collateral for European devilment. There would be no insurance industry were it not for the enslaved. But our collective ignorance allows us, all of us, African Americans, European Americans and others, to live in denial, pretending that there is fairness in a racist, patriarchal, predatory, capitalist society. We have been here at least 400 years, but we still aren’t clear about the nonsense and exploitation that affects and infuses our very foundation. Our entire nation needs to go back to school to learn some history. But there is a special place in hell for teachers in Louden County, Virginia who think that enslavement is some kind of game! WI
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in Louden County, Virginia, forcing fifth- and sixth-grade students to simulate enslavement with an obstacle course they called “The Underground Railroad”? Why were many of these students Afrodescendents? Why are the leaders of the school silent about the discipline that was ordered on the rogue teachers who took it upon their ignorant selves to construct such an exercise? Why has David Stewart, the principal of the Madison Trust School in Louden County, sent out a vapid apology for a “culturally insensitive” exercise, and not a more strongly worded condemnation of the racism implicit in this nonsense. We have been here at least 400 years, and still, some folks
aren’t clear about the ways enslavement has shaped our nation. In Virginia, where both the governor and the Attorney General (two of the top three elected officials in the state) have admitted to masquerading in Blackface, albeit 30-odd years ago, teachers don’t see anything wrong with subjecting Black students to a reenactment of enslavement. Oh, they said they were teaching “teamwork.” Really. We have been here at least 400 years, and our nation is not yet clear about its flawed foundations. There would be no house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which should not be called the White House, but the House that Enslaved People Built, were it not for the labor of kidnapped people and their descendants. There
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CROWELL from Page 29 and decreased benefits from both Social Security retirement and disability benefits — very real risks for the estimated 8.4 million student loan borrowers ages 50 and over. The ways in which family members’ share the cost of college enrollment is also changing. Although the AARP report found that 30% of older Black consumers cosigned private student loans for family members, far more — 45% borrowed on their credit cards. This level of credit card debt exceeds that incurred by Whites (31%), or Latinx (39%). Further, a disproportionate jump in borrowing from retirement savings accounts are also negatively impacting older Black consumers. While only 6% of comparable Whites used these funds, Black utilization was triple that of Whites at 18%. Older Latinx tapping into retirement savings were more than double that of Whites at 13%. When the financial impacts of the nation’s racial wealth gap are added to these disparities, it’s little wonder that Black America suffers from acute financial stress. As this column recently reported, Black wealth averages only a dime for every dollar of wealth held by Whites. Clearly, public policy reforms can and should address this national financial crisis. AARP’s proposed remedies include: - Increased public investment in higher education. - Encouraging the use of uniform financial aid award letters so they are more easily compared. - Ending offsets of Social Security benefits and other federal pay-
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Dr. Smith, who received an honorary doctorate from Morehouse, has made a big leap for humankind. We may never be able to match the gift of Dr. Smith that is more than about the money he gave. It’s about
ASKIA from Page 29 ued. “[I]t simply requires a finding that an official has engaged in careless, abusive, corrupt or otherwise dishonorable conduct.” Well, duh — Trump has done that in spades. Trump certainly will not be removed from office because he was impeached in the House of Representatives and convicted by the Senate. I don’t think he will permanently leave the White House until the evil accident of time overtakes him, as it will all of us one day. This Dude has said his supporters won’t accept his
ments affecting older consumers. - Allowing federal Parent PLUS borrowers to enroll directly in income-driven repayment plans. While these reforms should be heartily supported by the federal government that sets budget priorities, the likelihood of interminable lawmaker debates or neglect still looms large. In February, a CRL letter to several U.S. Senators alerted them to the disproportionate impacts of the student loan crisis on consumers of color, as well as a list of remedies to abate the crisis. “Students of color still face barriers in accessing higher education, still hold disproportionate financial burdens, and still struggle to overcome bad information from servicers,” CRL wrote. “Student loan debt is a real crisis for many people of color, and it exacerbates the racial wealth gap…The time has come for large, systemic change and not tinkering around the edges of the Higher Education Act. “Unless bold, new actions are taken, a generation will be trapped in debt undertaken to advance their lives,” CRL warned in its letter. Among CRL’s recommendations were to: - Increase Pell grants and move that funding into the Education Department’s mandatory budget. - Increase and expand aid for Minority Serving Institutions via Title III and Title V. - Encourage borrowers to make student debt payments based on 8% of discretionary income, and then discharge any remaining balance after 10-15 years. - Guarantee that all loan forgiveness be tax-free.
- Protect borrowers from aggressive collections and benefit garnishment. While these and other federal aid reforms are debated on Capitol Hill, there remains yet another sphere of influence that could extend the kind of goodwill borne from Mr. Smith’s adoption of Morehouse’s Class of 2019: increased Black philanthropy. If other highly successful Black businessmen and women, professional athletes, recording artists and others followed Smith’s example, HBCUs like North Carolina’s Bennett College might not have needed a national emergency financial rescue. With a new infusion of financial resources, more students on college campuses could breathe a financial sigh of relief, knowing that people who look like them provided help beyond their own family’s resources. Without a doubt, the nation needs more need-based scholarships and grants — especially at HBCUs. If that were to happen, a stronger sense of community could emerge with a renewed sense of pride. As Smith said in his May 19 commencement address, “We have nourished the soil with our blood. We’ve sown the land with our sweat. We’ve protected this country with our bodies, contributed to the physical, cultural and intellectual fabric of this country with our minds and our talents.” Here’s hoping that more who have been financially blessed will choose to pass a portion of assistance to those wanting to earn their way into the nation’s middle class. WI
that spirit of lifting as we climb that many of us learned in grade school. Let us get back to that and our communities will be better for our effort. Keep in mind that he just founded his business in 2000 and look what he’s done! He’s donated to other worthy causes. Twenty years
from now, try to be proud when you look back and count the difference you’ve made in the lives of others. We don’t have to match Dr. Smith. Let’s just give all we can give and serve all the great causes we can serve. That’s still paying it forward. WI
electoral defeat as legitimate, and could rise up in arms to undo any unsatisfactory voter outcome. And before it even gets that far, he will declare a national emergency — just as he is doing more and more often to get away with stuff not legally authorized — suspend the election and declare himself to be President for Life. It’s probably already too late to prevent the imperial presidency from plunging the nation into a war with Iran, a confrontation with Korea, economic fisticuffs with China and a full-scale second Civil War at home — all at the same time!
Despite Amash swimming against the Republican tide, Diogenes — who lived in the 4th century B.C. — would point to modern Babylon (i.e., the United States of America) and claim vindication. Sadly, there is no turning back. Persian writer Omar Khayyam explained it like this in his Rubaiyat in 1859: “The Moving Finger writes; and having writ Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a word of it.” WI
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