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Marc Morial, CEO of the National Urban League, (at podium) pushed for higher minimum wages after meeting with members of Congress on Capitol Hill. Morial said the current wage structure was absent the respect for workers, families and children Franklin Roosevelt envisioned when establishing the minimum wage. /Photo by Freddie Allen, courtesy of NNPA.

Pressure Mounts for Higher Federal Minimum Wage

By Freddie Allen Special to the Informer from NNPA Civil rights groups, labor organizer and their allies are stepping up pressure on Congress to pass legislation raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour by 2016.

During a press conference on Capitol Hill last week, Marc H. Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, said that in the 1930s, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt envisioned the idea for a minimum wage, it was about respect for American families, workers and children.

By that measurement, respect for American workers peaked in 1968. According to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, the value of minimum wage is worth 23 percent less than it was nearly 50 years ago.

“If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation that

wage would now be over $10 an hour. If the minimum wage had kept pace with the very important principle of worker productivity, that wage would be over $20 an hour. If that wage had kept pace with the growth and the income of the top 1 percent that wage would be nearly $30 per hour,” said Morial.

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Morial announced that the National Urban League would accelerate its advocacy in support of an increase in a minimum wage, during the same week of the groups’ 11th annual Legislative Policy Conference.

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law enforcement. She said they had come together to bring a sense of uniformity in the way domestic violence victims and survivors are treated.

“She's using her own personal story, her own personal pain to push forward,” Davis-Nickens said about Marlow.

Davis-Nickens said anyone who reads Marlow's book will “get it.” She said she “puts the case in such a way, the average person can get it.” She said at the end of the day, the book will help people begin to have a dialogue about domestic violence.

Also present at the event was Mildred Muhammad, the exwife of John Allen Muhammad, who was sentenced to six consecutive life terms without parole by a Maryland jury for his role in the Beltway Sniper attacks in 2002. Mildred Muhammad is the founder of After the Trauma, an organization that helps the survivors of domestic violence and their children.

“I lived in fear for six years. Six years in fear is a long time. It is not an easy thing to come out of,” she said.

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by Roy Lewis peopleMarshall. who want help a domestic violence victim must be careful of how they go into Michael head the victim'sGueltig, life, andfaculty understand of the Deal Spelling Club, said that she may be in “survival that Greer often exhibited her mode”. natural spelling “Before you getability to 'I'mduring going to kill you,' it started as a verbal the practice sessions.

Now that the sixth grader has reached an important milestone, he wants to prepare her for the quickly approaching national competition after she returns from Spring Break.

“As a teacher, it’s exciting to work with a student with so much talent, “said Gueltig, 33,who has taught sixth-grade English at Deal Middle School for five years. “As we go into the national competition, we will hone in on certain skills and review spelling strategies. Greer’s competing with students between the 4th and 8th grades. I don’t like to put pressure on her. She knows that if she gets through the nerves of the first round, she will do very well,” said Gueltig, an Alexandria, Va. resident.

Greer’s parents often read to her as a toddler and took her along on trips to libraries and book stores, where she selected children’s novels to add to her own home library. Two years ago, she joined a book club with her mother where she read

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threat,” she said.

Among the programs Marlow wants to see implemented are stricter restraining order policies, more rights for victim's families to intervene on behalf of a victim, a domestic violence assessment unit coupled with further training for law enforcement agencies, a Child's Life Protection Act and mandatory counseling for batterers.

“If we are ever going to eradicate domestic violence, we must look at both sides of the coin.

We need to address both the victim and the batterer,” Marlow said.

Marlow would also like to see programs designed to raise awareness among children in public and private schools. She feels children need to be educated about domestic violence.

“We have to stop being passive-aggressive with poor children about domestic violence,” Marlow said.

Marlow has worked to break the cycle of abuse in her family, and is confident the policies she is pushing for will start that process.

“I plan to take these policies to Congress and implore them to change our laws,” Marlow said.

“I will not stop until these polibooks included “Wonder,” cies arethat passed.”

“The Power Tia Higher Carol Jones canofbeLucky,” reached at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net and “The Bridge to Terabithia.”

Now that Greer’s book collecWI tion numbers in the hundreds, she chooses to read from her Kindle tablet during family road trips.

“We were [taken by surprise] by this win because [she competed against] children that have been competing for years,” said Mary O’Lone, 49, Greer’s mother. “We always encourage her to read. She has already seen most of the words in the books she has read so she was not very intimidated by spelling,” said O’Lone, a federal government attorney.

The bespeckled youngster expressed her excitement about competing at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in NationalL.Y. Harbor, Md. Marlow next month.

“No matter the reason for joining spelling bees, they’re fun,” said Greer. “I will try my hand at the spelling bee next year, no matter how the national competition turns out.” WI

We have to stop being passive-aggressive with poor children about domestic violence. I plan to take these policies to Congress and implore them to change our laws. I will not stop until these policies are passed.

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Youth Rally against Tobacco Industry

By Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @sampkcollins Hundreds of smokers in the District succumb to tobacco-related illnesses every year and accumulate millions in health care costs. A greater awareness about the adverse effects of smoking among young people hasn’t stopped tobacco companies from aggressively marketing its products to urban youth in recent years.

That’s why a group of local teenagers and young adults rallied against tobacco companies during a gathering last month at the Latin American Youth Center (LAYC) in Northwest.

The hour-long rally, hosted by the Ward 1 & 2 D.C. Prevention Center counted among 1,400 events that took place across the country as part of Kick Butts Day, a national day of protest against the tobacco industry.

“Children all over the country always talk about how tired they are of the tobacco industry’s manipulation,” said Catherine Butsch, 26, communications manager at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a Northwest-based advocacy group that also organized the March 19 rally. “This is a chance for children to talk to other children about tobacco use. Youth smoking is a big problem in this country and tobacco companies still market to children in convenience stores and magazines.”

A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that more than 3,200 youth across the United States under the age of 18 experiment with tobacco products every day. Even though cigarette use has declined among

young people in recent years, other forms of tobacco like hookah and Black-and-Mild cigars, have steadily replaced traditional cigarettes as the products of choice. One out of three high school students also admitted using different forms of tobacco concurrently within the last month.

More than 5 million young people across the country, including 7,000 teenagers in the District, are expected to die prematurely from tobacco use, a reality that Dania Ramos, who started smoking as a youngster, said compelled her to kick the habit last year. She counted among 80 teenagers and young adults that displayed artwork, presented information about the adverse effects of smoking, and talked about what hobbies or interests help them maintain a tobacco-free lifestyle.

“I see a lot of tobacco and marijuana use in my community and it concerns me,” said Dania, 17. “My curiosity lured me into that lifestyle at the age of 13. My friends supported me in my decision to quit and understood that it was something that I needed to do. It was hard to ignore the cravings at first but over time I broke the habit. These days, I feel much better,” said Dania, a Northwest resident.

Bryonna Adams recalled instances when her mother, an occasional smoker, discouraged her from picking up the habit. She admits often feeling tempted to experiment, but said that reading has been an effective distraction from negative influences. Bryonna fostered a love of books at the age of 12. These days, she chooses to purchase her novels from Back Porch Thrift Store in Al-

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exandria, Va. and read for hours on end instead of smoking cigarettes.

“Reading helps me go to another world,” said Bryonna, 16, a junior at Bell Multicultural High School in Northwest. “There are always a lot of people smoking and that makes you want to try it. I almost fell into the trap but decided to say no.

Smoking is a filthy and boring habit.

Reading is much better,” said Bryonna, a two-year member of LAYC Denise Rolark Barnes who lives in Southeast.

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“When I’m making music, I’m in my zone,” said Yusef, 18. “I’m not thinking about smoking tobacco, getting high or drinking. I just want people to have an opportunity to listen to my work. I never tried tobacco because I always knew about the dangers of smoking it. I don’t want my daughter to see me smoking cigarettes. I want to be positive role model.”

While Yusef, a member of LAYC since 2013, thought the event went well, he said that more local youth need to hear messages against tobacco from their‡contemporaries.

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Black Facts April 9 1898 – Paul Bustill Robeson is born in Princeton, New Jersey. Robeson would go on to become the greatest combination of entertainer and social activist in American history. He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rutgers University as well as being one of the school’s greatest football stars. After graduation he turned to entertainment - acting and singing on stage and in early movies. However, he was also an outspoken critic of American racism and imperialism while being a strong proponent of socialism. This made him the target of a government disruption and destruction campaign.

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April 10 1943 – Tennis great Arthur Ashe is born in Richmond, Virginia.

Ashe’s spectacular abilities on the tennis court enabled him to become the first Black member of the American Davis Cup team; the first Black to win the U.S. Open and the first black to win the men’s single’s title at Wimbledon in England. Unfortunately Ashe would die of AIDS after receiving a contaminated blood transfusion.

April 11 1948 – On this day Jackie Robinson signs the contract which would officially make him the first African American to play in Major League Baseball. Robinson became a symbol of pride for Blacks as well as a star player.

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April 12 1787 – Famous Black clergymen Richard Allen and Absalom Jordan organize the Free Africa Society which is believed to be the first Black selfhelp organization or mutual aid society in America. The two, especially Allen, attempted to better life for Blacks through the organization of separate Black controlled institutions. Allen is also the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal church.

1940 – Contemporary Jazz composer and musician Herbie Hancock is born in Chicago. Illinois.

1975 – Josephine Baker dies. She was born Freda Josephine McDonald

in St. Louis, Missouri in 1906. Baker left the United States for France in 1925 seeking a career as a dancer.

April 13 1873 – The Colfax Massacre takes place in Grant Parish, Louisiana.

Still smarting from the loss of the Civil War and enraged by the political powers being given Blacks during Reconstruction, a white paramilitary, terrorist group known as the White League sets out to restore white rule in Louisiana. The spark was a disputed election and a confrontation near the Colfax courthouse between a 60-member sparsely armed Black militia and nearly 300 heavily armed members of the White League. The Blacks took refuge in the courthouse and a gun battle rages for hours leaving three whites dead.

1946 – R&B great Al Green is born in Forest City, Arkansas. Many considered Green the greatest male R&B singer of the 1970’s. Among his greatest hits were “Tired of Being Alone,” “I’m Still in Love with You,” and “Let’s Stay Together.”

April 14 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth and critically wounded at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Lincoln would linger for several hours but died at 7:22 am the following day April 15th.

April 15 1899 – Asa Phillip Randolph, the organizer of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, is born in Crescent City, Florida. Randolph brought the power of unionism to Black America like no one before or after him. He used his position as the nation’s number one Black union leader to become one of the major civil rights leaders of his era.

1922 – Harold Washington, the first Black and 42nd mayor of Chicago, is born in Chicago.

2010 – Dr. Benjamin Hooks dies.

The long-time civil rights activist led the NAACP for15 years. Hooks was 85 years old.

April 16 1869 - Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett becomes the first African American to serve in a diplomatic post for the U.S. (Consul-General to Haiti and the Dominican Republic) 1965 - Maj. Gen. B.O. Davis Jr., assistant deputy chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, named lieutenant general, the highest rank attained by a Black to date in the armed services.

1973 - Lelia Smith Foley becomes the first African American woman to be elected mayor of a U.S. city (Taft, OK).

Buying Vinyl Records from 1950 to 1986, Jazz, Rock-n-Roll, R&B, Disco, Soul, Reggae, Blues, Gospel, and record format 33 1/3, 45s, and some of the older 78s.

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VIEWP INT Terri Walsh Washington, D.C. I think it’s great for the District to have a different person win the primary. There’s been so much controversy surrounding [current mayor] Vincent Gray. Bowser has run a phenomenal campaign, and if she can continue to do so that would be a good thing. I don’t think she’s a lock to win the general election, because David Catania can still make a lot of noise and he’s very visible to the public. The fact that there was a very low primary turnout by voters shows that there’s still a lot of apathy about politics in D.C.

Joanne Hill Hyattsville, Md. I think there’s citywide dissatisfaction with Mayor Gray, and I think there was low voter turnout to the primary as a result.

Muriel Bowser’s win shows that her supporters did show up for the primary vote. The race is far from being over, and anything can happen between now and November.

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MURIEL BOWSER WON LAST WEEK’S DEMOCRATIC MAYORAL PRIMARY, ESTABLISHING HERSELF AS THE DISTRICT’S NOMINEE FOR THE NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION. IS THE RACE BOWSER’S TO LOSE?

Kevin Rouse Washington, D.C. As far as Bowser is considered, she seems to be very caring and empathetic, which makes her endearing to the public. She has seen the evolution and changes the city has undergone lately, and can help District residents deal with that issue. I think she’ll do a good job and put her best foot forward if she’s elected mayor. [Since] she’s someone with local ties, I hope she stands up for a strong education system in the District.

Eric North Washington, D.C. I think Bowser is going to have a tough time against David Catania. A lot of the city doesn’t know either challenger that well, so it’s going to be interesting. I voted for Bowser because I think it’s time for a change. I think the notion by some people that she doesn’t have the experience is wrong, and I think people should give her a chance.

I’m not sure who I’ll ultimately vote for; I still have some time left to decide.

The Rev. Graylan Hagler Washington, D.C. There wasn’t a whole lot of enthusiasm from voters in the primary; only 22 percent of the voters turned out. A lot of people were left in a quandary because there wasn’t much that ignited their passion. I don’t think the frontrunner candidates really spoke to the issues that were staring in the voters’ souls. It was still the same old politics that people are growing tired and sick of. The mayoral race is far from over. Although Muriel Bowser won the primary, I don’t think she’s saying things to ignite the imagination and passion of the voter.

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By James Wright WI Staff Writer Democrats Hold Unity Breakfast District of Columbia Democrats hosted a Unity Breakfast on April 4 to heal the party after a bruising April 1 primary that had the mayor and a veteran council member who represented Ward 1 for more than a decade lose their seats.

The event, held at Matthews Memorial Baptist Church in Southeast, had 200 people in attendance with supporters from the camps of mayoral primary victor Muriel Bowser and the defeated incumbent, Mayor Vincent Gray. Gray praised Bowser for her campaign and told the crowd that electing her opponent – D.C. Council member David Catania (I-At Large) – in the Nov. 4 general election wouldn’t be a good idea.

“He [Catania] wanted to move students from Spingarn to Phelps and I said ‘really’”, the mayor said, referring to a briefing on the District’s budget that he held for council members on April 3. “I don’t know why we have to continue to tolerate that type of attitude. Let’s unite as a party and move forward.”

Gray suggested that Democrats fight a Home Rule mandate that two of the at-large seats on the D.C. Council must go to non-Democrats. However, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) dismissed Catania and commended Bowser.

“It will be over for David Catania in November,” Norton, 76, said to cheers. “We should not turn down the chance to put a good woman in the mayor’s chair in a generation. As Democrats, we have no enemies and no opponents among each other now.”

Former D.C. mayoral candidates Vincent Orange, Tommy Wells, Reta Jo Lewis, Jack Evans and Andy Shallal praised Bowser and urged Democrats to support her in the general election.

D.C. Council winners Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 1) and Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) also addressed the crowd.

D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8), who endorsed Gray, said that it’s time for Democrats to come together to win in November.

We [Democrats] fight like cats and dogs,” Barry, a former four-term mayor said. “When it’s over, it’s over.”

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Mayoral primary victor Muriel Bowser. /Courtesy Photo D.C. Council member Anita Bonds. /Courtesy Photo

Pannell Proposes Mail-In Election Philip Pannell, a well-known political and civic activist in Ward 8, believes the best way to conduct the July 15 special election for the vacated D.C. State Board of Education seat in Ward 8 should be to mail-in ballots as opposed to residents voting at polling places.

“In light of the recent election [the April 1 primary] and the rock bottom, low turnout we cannot have a special election with just 17 precincts and the polls being open for 13 hours,” said Pannell, 63.

“We should vote by mail as a demonstration project to show that it can be done successfully in the District. A high voter turnout should not be expected for an election in the middle of July.”

Pannell is a candidate for the board of education position and has picked up his petitions to get on the ballot.

Pannell envisions ballots being mailed to each registered Ward 8 voter and the voter will have the responsibility of mailing the ballot to the District of Columbia Board of Elections office in Northwest.

He said that there should be a few open polling precincts available to

those who want to vote in the traditional manner.

The primary reason that mailing in ballots for the July election would work has to deal with costs, Pannell said.

“It is estimated that a special election could cost from $300,000 to $500, 000,” Pannell said. “That money for the election could be better spent on substance abuse treatment.”

Pannell pointed out that Oregon conducts its elections largely on mail-in ballots and that onethird of Californians vote that way.

However, Tamara Robinson, the spokeswoman for the elections board, said it’s likely that voting will take place primarily at polling places with the option of mailing in ballots.

There’s a proposal floating around that Pannell doesn’t like.

There is talk of introducing emergency legislation in the D.C. Council that would hold the election on Nov. 4, the date of the general election.

“That is not good because the residents of Ward 8 will not have representation on the board of education until the end of the year,” he said.WI

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Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.). /Courtesy Photo

WAGE continued from Page 1 (D-Minn.) joined the press conference he didn’t mince words.

“The people need a raise,” exclaimed Ellison. “The people got to get paid!”

According to a report by the University of California-Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Funding, nearly a quarter (23 percent) of front-line fast food workers are black.

“Even at 40 hours a week, however, more than half (52 percent) of front-line fast-food workers’ families participate in public programs,” the report stated.

Billion-dollar retailer WalMart continues to make profits for its shareholders while paying its workers low-wages, pushing some into public assistance programs such as Medicaid.

“We’re sick of subsidizing these big corporations; because they pay our people so little that Uncle Sam has to make it up in food stamps and health care,” said Ellison. “Let them pay their own freight.”

On a conference call on the minimum wage coordinated by the AFL-CIO, Elise Gould, director of health policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, said that increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour by 2016 would be quite modest compared to inflation and wage

growth and paltry compared to gains in productivity. Gould also sought to dispel the myth that most low-wage workers are young and uneducated.

“The United States low-wage workforce is far more educated than they were 40 years ago, yet

their wages do not reflect these changes,” said Gould.

The Center for Economic and Policy Research found that the average age of low-wage workers is 35 and less than 15 percent of low-wage workers are teenagers. Nearly one-third of lowwage workers have some college experience and about 10 percent have earned a four-year degree.

According to the AFL-CIO, “More than 2.2 million single moms would benefit from raising the minimum wage. One out of four of the workers who would benefit – and 31 percent of the women workers who would benefit – are parents with children.”

Women often find work in low-wage industries as child care workers, home health aides, housekeepers and hair stylists.

“Women and women of color who are often single parents and who are often stuck in lowwage jobs are being hurt and that means that their children are being hurt and that is bad for our economic future as well as our social fabric, said Thea Lee, deputy chief of staff for the AFLCIO. “We are short changing our own future when we allow

children to grow up in homes of poverty. It’s a disgrace and it’s something that the United States should not tolerate.”

Even though blacks account for 11 percent of the labor force, they are more than 14 percent of low-wage workers. Whites account for 56.9 percent of lowwage workers.

The number of black workers affected by an increase in the minimum wage is even higher in some states, including Georgia and Louisiana where black workers account for more than 40 percent of low-wage workers.

In Washington, D.C., blacks represent about 54 percent of lowwage workers.

The number of black lowwage workers is much greater than the national average in Mississippi (39.6 percent), South Carolina (37 percent) and Maryland (33 percent). A recent study by the AFL-CIO confirmed that 4,123,000 black workers would benefit if the federal minimum wage were increased to $10.10 per hour.

The growth in productivity coupled with relatively stagnant wages for most workers has contributed to economic inequality

in America.

According to a report published by the Economic Policy Institute, “From 1973 to 2011, productivity increased by more than 80 percent, but the compensation of a typical production/nonsupervisory worker increased by less than 11 percent.”

Black workers also live in poverty at much higher rates than their white counterparts. Black men accounted for 10.5 percent of workers living in poverty in 2011 compared to a 5.6 percent share of white men who lived in poverty. Black females accounted for nearly 16 percent of workers living in poverty in 2011, compared to white women who represent 6.7 percent of workers living in poverty.

Women, especially women of color, who are increasingly becoming the breadwinners for their families will benefit from an increase in the minimum wage.

“Our research shows that 55 percent of those helped by a minimum wage increase are women and 25 percent would be women of color,” said Gould.

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TOWN HALL MEETING Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie and DC Water General Manager George S. Hawkins are co-hosting a town hall meeting to talk about water projects and issues impacting your community.

• Water Rates • Drinking Water

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THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2014 | 6:30-8:30 P.M. McKinley Technology High School (Room 150) 151 T Street, NE

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VOTERS continued from Page 9 Lee said that the workers and employers will benefit from raising the minimum wage, because the increase is targeted at people living on the edge, it doesn’t cost taxpayers anything, and employers will save money by reducing turnover.

“You can tell a lot about a society by its policy and how it treats the least of these,” said Nolan Rollins, the president and CEO of the Los Angeles affiliate of the National Urban League. “So, for an organization like ours that serves over two million people every year it becomes important for our legislators, not just to see us in our districts, but also here on Capitol Hill, really advocating for things that are going to make America better for the urban areas, for African Americans and other underserved populations.”

Rollins said that the Urban League affiliates wanted to bring their voices to Capitol Hill to create a real opportunity to talk about a strategic way to strengthen families.

Representatives from more than 90 Urban League affiliates visited members of Congress last week during their annual policy legislative conference to discuss a number of challenges affecting blacks and other underserved populations including high unemployment and discrimination in the criminal justice system, housing and education.

Rollins said that opponents of

a minimum wage increase were using scare tactics when they quickly pointed to a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that said that up to 500,000 jobs may be lost, while ignoring that the CBO also reported that nearly 17 million workers would directly benefit from raising the minimum wage to $10.10. Many economists agree that the actual effect of raising the minimum wage would be minimal or insignificant.

As Republicans propose deeper cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, at a time when the aid is needed the most, a report by the Center for American Progress found that a higher minimum wage would help to reduce spending on public assistance programs. The Center for American Progress found that the current minimum wage bill working its way through Congress would reduce SNAP enrollment by 3.3 million to 3.8 million and cut spending on food stamps by $46 billion over 10 years.

“If you raise the minimum wage you’re going to raise the incomes for families that are struggling and for families that are trying to do better in their communities,” said Rollins. “But the question is do we have the political will in Washington, D.C. to do that.”WI

Councilmember Tommy Wells and DC Water General Manager George S. Hawkins are co-hosting a town hall meeting to talk about water projects and issues impacting your community.

• Water Rates • Drinking Water

• Infrastructure • Clean Rivers

• Billing Issues • Job Opportunities

TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2014 | 6:30-8:30 P.M. Eliot-Hine Middle School (Multipurpose room) 1830 Constitution Avenue, NE

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DCEMANCIPATION EMANCIPATION

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DC EMANCIPATION DAY PARADE ON PENNSYLVANIA

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Catch the impressive "Must-See" fireworks display, officially closing out the DC Emancipation Day concert and all celebrations. A one hour special highlighting all official celebrations will air on BET Networks this summer.

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Panelists and event organizers shared insights regarding First Time Homebuyer Programs Prince Georges County Council Member Derrick Leon Davis addresses the attendees to the event

photos are courtesy of LIFE and DST-PGCAC.

“Sustaining Homeownership & Empowering First Time Homebuyers Seminar a Hit” Submitted by Lanta Evans-Motte, Literacy Institute for Financial Enrichment (LIFE)

In celebration of National Fair Housing Month, about 70 people attended the “Sustaining Homeownership & Empowering First Time Homebuyers” Seminar held on Saturday, April 5, 2014 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Kingdom Square Mall in Capitol Heights, MD. Speakers, panelists and workshop presenters shared insights regarding First Time Homebuyer Programs (including housing assistance grants, programs, and support); Industry-wide Fair Housing Issues; New Rules for Mortgage Financing including “Qualified Mortgages”; Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Programs (HECM/Reverse Mortgages); Credit Scoring and Repair; and Foreclosure Prevention Resources.

Attendees were apprised of the vast resources available from county, state and federal agencies to assist them with securing, financing, and maintaining their homes. They were encouraged to contact a local HUD-approved counseling agency for pre and post-purchase home buying assistance and access to free or low-cost resources.

The event was presented by the Prince Georges County Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (DST-PGCAC), and the Literacy Institute for Financial Enrichment (LIFE); with major support from the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (MD-DHCD) and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Other partners included Housing Initiative Partnership (HIP) and the Central Gateway Community Development Corporation(CG-CDC); along with Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc. (BNI), Roots of Mankind (ROM), Prince Georges County Department of Housing (PG-DHCD), and the Coalition for Homeownership Preservation in Prince George’s County.

Keynote speakers included Prince Georges County Councilman Derrick Leon Davis (District 6) and Marvin Turner, Area Director from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Both highlighted the importance of housing, housing support, and financial literacy to the well-being of County residents. Event panelists and speakers included Belinda Fadlelmola (HUD), Catherine Kraemer-Dale (MD-DHCD), Robb Strupp (BNI), Mary Hunter (HIP), Ross Levin (ROM), and Minister Deborah Scarborough (CG-CDC).

Exhibitors and workshop presenters included Prince Georges County Department of Housing, Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; Prince Georges Redevelopment Authority, and Housing Initiative Partnership.

Home ownership and home retention are key focus areas for financial literacy programs of both organizing organizations, the Literacy Institute for Financial Enrichment (LIFE) and Delta Sigma Theta (DST-PGCAC). “This event was designed to educate, enlighten and empower the citizens of our community regarding home ownership, home maintenance, and home retention”, said event organizers.

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PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY BRIEFS New Immunization Requirements for 2014-15

Immunization requirements in the state of Maryland for academic year 2014-15 school year for students entering kindergarten and grade 7 have changed.

As a result, all Prince George’s County public school students enrolling in kindergarten must receive two doses of the Varicella (Chicken Pox) vaccine.

All students who will be enrolling in the 7th grade are required to receive a single dose of the TDaP (Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis) vaccine and a single dose of the Meningococcal (Meningitis) vaccine.

Parents have 20 days after the start of the 2014-15 school year to present medical verification that their children have received the required vaccinations. If documentation is not presented, they will not be allowed back in school until the required records have been provided.

Parents are asked to contact their

child’s physician to ensure that immunizations are current for the new school year. Families without health insurance may contact the Prince George’s County Health Department Immunization Clinic at 301-583-3386.

Questions about the immunization requirements can be obtained by contacting the school nurse or the schools’ Health Services at 301749-4722.

2014 Strategic Plan Survey Results

CEO Kevin Maxwell and other school officials extend gratitude to participants of the Strategic Plan Survey, and are using the results to guide them in the next developmental phase of the Strategic Plan.

Both internal and external studies were conducted from Jan. 28 to March 12, and among the list of quick facts surrounding the findings are that 78 percent of respondents were school-based employees, parents, and parents of non-county

students.

School personnel who responded included executives, board members, principals, teachers, students and central office staff, while partner respondents included local government staff, business and industry partners, university/college staff, both county and non-county parents, and civic/ community leaders.

In addition, more than 3,000 additional comments are being analyzed.

Findings of the response summary include that the most significant challenge over the next three years revolve around hiring and retention of quality staff. The responses also revealed that the most important keys to student success involves a mastery of reading and communication skills.

pete April 25-26 in the International C-STEM Challenge.

The C-STEM Challenge is a competition that engages students in multi-age groups to collaboratively solve six challenges that are designed by industry professionals and national standards.

Students will compete in the categories of robotics, geoscience, creative writing, photography, sculpture,

film, and mural.

William Wirt Middle has developed quite the winning streak in competing in the C-STEM Challenge, with students having previously placed high in the competition. While the school has had first and second place wins in all previous competing categories, its mural team has placed first for the past three years in a row.WI

Wirt Middle School goes for the Gold in Houston

Members of the William Wirt Middle School C-STEM Challenge Team in Riverdale, Md., will travel to Houston, Texas, where they’ll com-

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National Black Memorabilia

SUSTAINABILITY 2014

& Collectible Show April 26-27, 2014

Saturday: 10 AM – 7 PM ** Sunday: 10 AM – 5 PM

Montgomery County Fairgrounds

16 Chestnut Street ** Gaithersburg, MD 20877 “30th Year Celebrating African American History & Culture”

• Purchase Black Memorabilia and Collectibles from vendors including slavery artifacts, historical

documents, books, autographs, stamps, advertisements, kitchen collectibles, coins, magazines, Civil War, toys, art, dolls, political, jewelry, entertainment, paintings, civil rights, sports and more.

• View Educational Exhibits including Slavery Artifacts, Buffalo Soldiers, Jim Crow, Black Panther Party, Marcus Garvey, Tuskegee Airmen, Malcolm X, George Washington Carver, Dorothy Dandridge and others.

• Meet and Obtain Autographs from Negro League Baseball Players, Tuskegee Airmen and other celebrities..

“Vendor Space Available” Admission: $7, Students admitted free All Indoors – Good Food – Free Parking

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Facing the Wind Protecting the Environment through Education and Action As the world prepares to commemorate Earth Day 2014 (April 22), the Informer begins a series of print and e-articles to raise awareness of the destruction everyday industrial and human activity has on the health of the Earth and our natural environment. In addition to presenting prudent information on greenhouse gases, climate changes, and tips to lessening (or halting) the damage, our examination will include the impact of poverty and race-based environmental injustice on the health of the nation.

– Shantella Y. Sherman, Editor, Special Section The Earth’s temperature depends on the balance between energy entering and leaving the planet’s system. When incoming energy from the sun is absorbed by the Earth system, Earth warms. When the sun’s energy is reflected back into space, Earth avoids warming. When energy is released back into space, Earth cools.

Many factors, both natural and human, can cause changes in Earth’s energy balance, including, changes in the greenhouse effect, which affects the amount of heat retained

by Earth’s atmosphere; Variations in the sun’s energy reaching Earth; and Changes in the reflectivity of Earth’s atmo-

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sphere and surface.

Scientists have pieced together a picture of Earth’s climate, dating back hundreds of thousands of years, by analyzing a number of indirect measures of climate such as ice cores, tree rings, glacier lengths, pollen remains, and ocean sediments, and by studying changes in Earth’s orbit around the sun.

The historical record shows that the climate system varies naturally over a wide range of time scales. In general, climate changes prior to the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s can be explained by natural causes, such as changes in solar energy, volcanic eruptions, and natural changes in greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations.

Recent climate changes, however, cannot be explained by natural causes alone. Research indicates that natural causes are very unlikely to explain most observed warming, especially warming since the mid-20th century. Rather, human activities can very likely explain most of that warming.

The power of a process to alter the climate is estimated by its “radiative forcing,” the change in the Earth’s energy balance due to that process.

Some climate forcings are positive, causing globally averaged warming, and some are negative, causing cooling. Some, such as from increased CO2

concentration, are well known; others, such as from aerosols, are more uncertain. The slide shows a relatively small net change in energy from the Sun, large positive changes in energy from greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, and negative changes in energy from aerosols in the atmosphere. The net effect of human activities is positive (an increase in net energy).

Radiative Forcing is a measure of the influence of a particular factor (e.g. greenhouse gases (GHGs), aerosols, or land use changes) on the net change in Earth’s energy balance. On average, a positive radiative forcing tends to warm the surface of the planet, while a negative forcing tends to cool the surface.

GHGs have a positive forcing because they absorb energy radiating from Earth’s surface, rather than allowing it to be directly transmitted into space. This warms the atmosphere like a blanket. Aerosols, or small particles, can have a positive or negative radiative forcing, depending on how they absorb and emit heat or reflect light. For example, black carbon aerosols have a positive forcing since they absorb sunlight. Sulfate aerosols have a negative forcing since they

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SUSTAINABILITY 2014 AROUND THE REGION EARTH DAY continued from Page 14 reflect sunlight back out into space.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Annual Greenhouse Gas Index, which tracks changes in radiative forcing from GHGs over time, shows that such forcing from human-added GHGs has increased 27.5% between 1990 and 2009. Increases in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere are responsible for 80% of the increase. The contribution to radiative forcing by methane (CH4) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) has been nearly constant or declining, respectively, in recent years.

The Greenhouse Effect causes the atmosphere to retain heat When sunlight reaches Earth’s surface, it can either be reflected back into space or absorbed by Earth. Once absorbed, the planet releases some of the energy back into the atmosphere as heat (also called infrared radiation).

Greenhouse gases (GHGs) like water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and methane (CH4) absorb energy, slowing or preventing the loss of heat to space. In this way, GHGs act like a blanket, making Earth warmer than it would otherwise be. This process is commonly known as the “greenhouse effect”.

Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere absorb much of the long-wave energy emitted from the Earth’s surface, preventing it from immediately escaping from the Earth’s system. The greenhouse gases then re-emit this energy in all directions, warming the Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere.

Since the Industrial Revolution began around 1750, human activities have contributed substantially to climate change by adding CO2 and other heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. These greenhouse gas emissions have increased the greenhouse effect and caused Earth’s surface temperature to rise. The primary human activity affecting the amount and rate of climate change is greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.WI

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COMMON GREEN HOUSE GASES Carbon dioxide: Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas that is contributing to recent climate change. CO2 is absorbed and emitted naturally as part of the carbon cycle, through animal and plant respiration, volcanic eruptions, and ocean-atmosphere exchange. Human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels and changes in land use, release large amounts of carbon to the atmosphere, causing CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere to rise.

Ocean-Atmosphere Carbon Cycle: As global warming and ocean acidification continue, the world’s oceans may start to absorb less from the atmosphere. If less is absorbed by the oceans, more would accumulate in the atmosphere, causing greater warming. This is another example of a positive feedback.

Human activities currently release over 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year. This build-up in the atmosphere is like a tub filling with water, where more water flows from the faucet than the drain can take away.

Methane is another GHG produced through both natural and human activities. It is more abundant in Earth’s atmosphere now than at any time in at least the past 650,000 years. Due to human activities, CH4 concentrations increased sharply during most of the 20th century and are now more than two-anda-half times pre-industrial levels. In recent decades, the rate of increase has slowed considerably.

Nitrous oxide is produced

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through natural and human activities, mainly through agricultural activities and natural biological processes. Fuel burning and some other processes also create N2O. Con-

centrations of N2O have risen approximately 18% since the start of the Industrial Revolution, with a relatively rapid increase towards the end of the 20th century. In

contrast, the atmospheric concentration of N2O varied only slightly for a period of 11,500 years before the onset of the industrial period, as shown by ice core samples.

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BUSINESS BUSINESS EXCHANGE

Am I My Brothers’ Keeper?

How many times a day do you put money in another Black person’s hand?

How frequently do you personally put currency into another Black person’s hand for purchase of goods or services? Is a reason that Blacks don’t advance economically because we refuse to work with, for or support each other? The nation’s 43 million African-American consumers have a $1.1 trillion a year collective buying power: despite our enormous buying power, little of our money stays in Black communities or is spent with other Blacks.

Do we not patronize each other on

By William Reed purpose? A dollar circulates in Asian communities for a full month, in Jewish communities three weeks. A dollar circulates less than eight hours among African Americans. Only 2 cents of each dollar African Americans spend goes to Black-owned businesses.

Most of the focus of conversations African Americans have among themselves is on politics; we do this to the detriment of discussions on entrepreneurship that would generate their common wealth. Every day, contem-

porary Blacks commit capitalistic malpractice through our ongoing collective negligence or incompetence. To change our position in America’s economic strata, Blacks need to educate children to become entrepreneurs, not just employees. Black peoples’ “empowerment” is in our own hands and control.

Nearly all of Blacks’ income is spent with people who live away from Blacks. When African Americans get paid, we often go to an Indian business to cash the check, an Asian hair salon, a corner store owned by Arabs and a White-owned department store.

Blacks have to learn how to employ the power of networking for developing sales opportunities and contacts.

In a network of Blacks supporting each other everyone can obtain and increase wealth as dollars circulate among us.

Too often Blacks are “all flash and no cash.” To become fully equal participants in American society, we have to “buy and bank Black.” We must grasp the fact that Blacks spend 93 percent of our income outside of where we

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live and be prepared to apply remedies. Fifty percent of African Americans are unbanked or under-banked.

Twenty-four percent of Black households in 2009 had no assets other than a vehicle. Blacks on the average are six times more likely than Whites to buy a Mercedes, and the average income of Blacks who buy Jaguars is about one-third less than that of White purchasers. Creating and successfully running businesses creates wealth.

Blacks need to create operations to serve and employ people in their own communities. The Black unemployment rate will drop drastically if more of us invested and supported Blacks operating and running their own small businesses. Businesses and communities excel when the dollar circulates and exchange hands multiple times with those in the community. Ghettos form and properties deteriorate when there is no dollar exchange building the community.

It’s time to admit it, Blacks avoid doing business with each other. Some subscribe to the theory that Black goods and services are “inferior.”

Others don’t patronize Black-owned businesses out of jealousy. Either way, if we are serious about improving our communities, improving our schools, providing jobs (Black businesses are the 2nd highest employer of African Americans after the government),

we must advance and support Blackowned businesses. Blacks’ pooling their economic resources is not unrealistic reverie. During the 1940s through the 1970s, to help build his membership base and save Black farms, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad proposed that Blacks form agricultural distribution chains and urban buying groups. The Nation of Islam set itself apart with urban retail centers. Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu, author of “Black Economics: Solutions for Economic and Community Empowerment,” suggests the three ways to develop wealth are entrepreneurial ventures, real estate or stocks.

We all need to commit to “buying Black.” Investments among ourselves are the best ways we can address our socioeconomic disparities. In instances where you do have options as to where to deposit money; or make a purchase – frequent bars and restaurants, patronize clothing and dry cleaning businesses, try to be a conscious Black consumer.WI William Reed is publisher of “Who’s Who in Black Corporate America” and available for projects via the BaileyGroup.org

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Of this money, at least $10 billion was used to reduce principal owed on homes with market values lower than their mortgages and others that were either delinquent or at-risk of default.

Another $3 billion benefited borrowers who were able to refinance their homes at lower interest rates than their original mortgages. The remaining $7 billion assisted a variety of programs from service members who were forced to sell their homes at a loss, to anti-blight efforts, short sales and transitional assistance.

Despite these positive steps, the housing crisis is still not over for far too many households.

New data released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) reveals that mortgages remain the number one complaint category for the second consecutive year. In 2013, mortgage complaints filed with CFPB grew to 60,000, up from 19,250 complaints the previous year.

CFPB Director Richard Cordray said, “At a market level, complaints give us insight into what is happening to consumers across the country, right now.

They are also our compass and make a difference by informing our work and helping us identify and prioritize problems for potential supervisory, enforcement

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By Charlene Crowell and regulatory action.”

When CFPB analyzed consumers’ mortgage concerns, loan modification, collections and foreclosures accounted for nearly 60 percent of those received.

Other mortgage complaints included loan servicing, payments, escrow accounts, mortgage brokers and origination.

The irony of the continuing mortgage saga is that the national settlement called for new servicing standards that would correct the kinds of conduct that harmed consumers in recent years. The settlement also included explicit servicing requirements to remedy key problem areas: Providing a single point of contact for borrows to call when seeking information about their loans and adequate staff to handle calls; Requiring servicers to evaluate all available option to homeowners before beginning foreclosures; Stopping past consumer abuses such as lost paperwork and improper documentation; servicers were to end the practice of robo-signing foreclosures and instead ensure a full review prior to those filings; and Restricting banks from foreclosing while the homeowner is being considered for loan modifications that would make mortgage payments more affordable.

CFPB’s complaints highlight a harsh reality of our country’s economy. Its findings can and should serve as a bellwether for

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continued policy reforms that address yet unmet needs.

However while CFPB can tally its complaints, the anguish that homeowners continue to suffer cannot be calculated. The American dream of homeownership became a nightmare during the housing crisis and continues to be so for large numbers of homeowners. It is also relevant to note that for many troubled borrowers, the decision to purchase a home remains the single largest investment of their lifetimes.

Since the financial crisis that began in September 2008, approximately 4.9 million homes were lost to foreclosures as of January this year. Another 1.9 million mortgages were in serious delinquency, 90 days or more past due. These data points were tallied by CoreLogic, a firm specializing in financial analysis.

The 600,000 homeowners helped by the national settlement began important remedies to the crisis. And it is still too soon to measure the effectiveness of CFPB’s new mortgage rules that took effect in January.

It is therefore clear that more important work remains before America’s housing market returns to full health. Communities of color that were targeted for predatory mortgage loans have endured the brunt of foreclosures and lost wealth. Even for neighbors who remain in their homes and are current on their mortgages, reduced property values affect their home investments as well.

No community – especially those that were financially preyed upon – should be left out of the nation’s recovery. WI Charlene Crowell is a communications manager with the Center for Responsible Lending. She can be reached at Charlene.crowell@responsiblelending.org.

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Budget Sparks Debate at Town Meeting

By Margaret Summers WI Contributor @margaretsumm10 Alexandria, Va. City Manager Rashad M. Young presented the city’s proposed fiscal year 2015 budget at a town meeting on April 3 at the Charles E. Beatley Central Library.

It was planned as a straightforward program, illustrated with color slides of graphs projected on a screen, and a question and answer period involving the audience. But many of the approximately 150 participants in the library’s community meeting room expressed alarm and anger over proposed budget cuts designed to balance the budget.

“This is our seventh straight year of budgetary challenges,” said Young, 37, who is Alexandria’s youngest city manager and the first African-American in the job. “We have had expenditures greater than our revenue. Our [city’s] commitments have exceeded our revenue growth.”

Young said he was directed to prepare a budget that would address Alexandria’s many “master plans” for providing affordable housing and improving the lives of young people, among other initiatives. The budget would also have to fund the same quality and quantity of city services to residents without raising taxes.

The proposed $634.8 million budget includes no new tax

rate increases, said Young, and provides $5 million to the city’s public schools for a total of $191 million.

But it also contains such trade-offs as ending the popular Senior Taxi program. Senior Taxi provides elders who are unable to use public transportation with door-to-door taxi service seven days a week. “I know Senior Taxi is a sensitive issue,” said Young “I don’t have the ability to focus on one program.

There are many programs that support seniors, and this is only one of them.”

The proposed budget would also reduce seniors’ tax relief for those who own homes worth more than $500,000. “I

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had hoped to age in my home,” said one unidentified woman in the audience. “I love my house.

I planted a garden. But I live on a fixed income and even when property taxes increase [based on assessed value of properties] my income stays the same. I want to live in Alexandria, but if we don’t get tax relief, I’m out.”

Balancing the budget also means a reduction in personnel across many city agencies.

“Why don’t you cut the employees who make the top salaries?” asked Maderia Turner from the audience. Turner, 53, said she has worked for Alexandria’s Parks and Recreation agency for 26 years, and is one of 27 employees who were laid off. “If you got rid of [the high salaried employees], we could keep our jobs!” Turner shouted.

Tonya Banks, 58, said she was also laid off from Parks and Recreation, and that the employees who lost their jobs are predominantly African-American and women over 50. “They’re replacing us with younger people who have college degrees,” said Banks. “We don’t have college degrees, but they don’t have the experience working with the children [who use the parks and recreation services] that we do.

There’s no better feeling for parents than to know their children are safe [with us].”

LaDonna Sanders, 36, president of the Alexandria NAACP, called the proposed budget an atrocity. “This budget under-

funds the city’s public schools,” said Sanders. “It does not address the achievement gap between African-American and Latino children and white children. That gap continues to grow.” Sanders said funding for public schools should be increased by $1.5 million.

Sanders also recommended that the city institute furlough days, hiring freezes or merit increases, and eliminate upper level management positions, rather than lay off personnel.

“In a city with approximately 300 homeless individuals, 4,800 families on food stamps, and 60 percent of students receiving free and reduced lunch, reductions in force will contribute to income inequality, and increase the number of families seeking supportive services,” Sanders said.

Young said agencies are working with laid off personnel to help them find jobs. “My [city manager] budget is going to be down 14 percent. We asked every department to make reductions [to achieve savings].”

The city council’s vote on Alexandria’s proposed fiscal year 2015 budget will take place during a special meeting on Thursday, May 1 WI. For information on leaving comments online and by email about the budget, go to www.alexandriava.gov/ Budget.

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HEALTH AROUND THE REGION

Geriatric Doctor Wants ERs to Face the Holistic Music, But It’s Not Everyone, Part I

By Jennifer Margulis Special to the Informer from New America Media A few days after Heath Belden roasted a chicken for the first time in his life, he fell violently ill. Throwing up every few minutes, he couldn’t even hold water. The then 37-yearold stage manager for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival ended up in the emergency room (ER) at Ashland Community Hospital where doctors put an IV in his arm to rehydrate him.

Although that was four years ago, Belden and his family have spent a lot of time at Ashland’s ER: His wife Melissa Malm, 45, was treated there for what she thinks was a kidney stone, his 85-year-old mother-in-law has been there three times in the last three years—for impact-

ed stool, a thorn in her foot, and cellulitis—and Belden’s daughter Naomi, age 7, had to have 16 stitches after a trapeze slammed into her forehead during Circus Camp.

Belden, a quiet man with brown hair and a closely trimmed beard, felt he was treated with respect and kindness at the hospital. Naomi, who walks shyly in the door from her tumbling class, had a good experience too. She got chocolate pudding and animal crackers.

But when Jessica VanDerslice, a 24-year-old single mom who runs two businesses out of her home, started hemorrhaging after a miscarriage recently she had a very different experience at the bigger Providence Medford Medical Center in Medford, Ore. Even though her doctor sent her immedi-

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ately to the ER for an urgent D&C procedure, VanDerslice sat in the waiting room for over an hour. The ER staff was unable to locate her paperwork or reach her doctor for instructions.

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an e-mail. “I sat in the room for seven hours while the nurses pulled blood and ran tests that had already been done that day by that hospital.”

The doctor who was supposed to perform surgery stalked angrily out of the room—he was furious because the nurses had given VanDerslice water, which was counter-indicated for surgery.

A nurse came back later to apologize for his behavior, but VanDerslice, already devastated by the miscarriage, felt belittled and ignored. “I couldn’t believe the miscommunications and unprofessional attitude I experienced this time.”

Many have had similar experiences: a high level of personalized care at a smaller community-oriented hospital, but a much lower level of care at bigger hospitals where staff can barely keep up with the arriving patients.

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Mark Rosenberg, is a well-spoken man with a confident demeanor who has a lot of titles after his name. His mission? To improve communication, integrate holistic health techniques into the emergency room, and provide personalized community-like care at even the country’s busiest emergency rooms.

At 61, Rosenberg, and Osteopathic physician, has been practicing medicine for over 30 years. An emergency room doctor, he is the chief of both palliative and geriatric emergency medicine for the St. Joseph’s Healthcare System in Paterson, N.J. He is also the

chair of the department of emergency medicine, which had 156,000 visits in 2013.

Rosenberg is the kind of doctor who believes it is important to sit down with patients, spend time getting to know them, make eye contact, and really dialogue. He believes outside-the-box techniques can help humanize Western emergency medicine.

“ER doctors are by the nature of their business taking care of people who have been in car accidents and fires, people in critical condition who need immediate attention right now,” Rosenberg says. “They are very good at it. But they don’t treat the patient as a person, but as an illness or an injury or a disease.”

Rosenberg thinks a more human touch—both literally and figuratively—can improve a patient’s immediate outcome, perception of care and overall health. “Modern medicine is designed to be curative or symptom management. When you add something holistic that treats the patient as a person, like therapeutic touch or bedside harp, it helps them relax, decreases their pain, and increases their comfort,” he insists.WI Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., is a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University and author of The Business of Baby. She wrote this article with support from the Gerontology Society of America and New American Media’s Metlife Foundation Journalists in Aging Program.

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Co-Chairs were (from left) Stephen and Mrs. Canton and Ernie and Mrs Jarvis

UNCF (the United Negro College Fund) celebrated its 70th anniversary and party with a purpose at the 2nd annual UNCF Masked Ball. Civic, business and education leaders from across the Washington Metro Area gathered Thursday, March 27, 2014 at the Andrew Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. The event raised funds in support of education and providing students with the support to get to and through college. UNCF is the nation’s oldest and most effective organization providing minority higher education scholarship assistance. Stephen G. Canton, Chairman & CEO of iCore Networks led the “Northern VA UNCF Strong” a campaign to increase the amount of support that UNCF receives from Northern Virginia companies for the MASKED Ball and is also serving as Co-chair of the Ball. “iCore is proud to be a continued partner and strong supporter of UNCF and I personally encouraged all business owners in the Northern Virginia region to consider supporting UNCF and helping to advance the cause for supporting minority higher education” said Canton. “UNCF’s work provides invaluable access to education for minority students and is a tremendous organization exerting significant positive influence on our local community and economy. Together we have made tremendous strides toward helping UNCF extend its reach and mission through higher productivi-

ty and efficiency brought about by tech-driven telecom.” Other Northern Virginia companies supporting the UNCF Masked Ball include Aerojet Rocketdyne in Arlington, VA and Neustar, Inc. in Sterling, VA. For the 2nd consecutive year, Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis, former chair of the DC City Council, was spectacular as the Live Auctioneer for the UNCF MASKED Ball and once again proved to be the most popular guest in the room. The item that won the highest bid of the evening of $4,010 turned out to be a Whiskey and Cigar Tasting for four at the Civil Cigar Lounge donated by Washington businessman Emmanuel Bailey of DC09.

The item proved to be so popular that Bailey donated a second tasting on the spot.

This year’s honorees included legendary radio and television legend Donnie Simpson and his wife Pam, who have been among UNCF’s top individual donors; Marriott International, a corporation that has been among the top UNCF corporate donors since 1973; and Zion Baptist Church of Washington, one of the top UNCF church donors. Also honored was Frank K. Ross, Managing Partner for KMPG, for his longstanding volunteer community involvement in the Washington area. Entertainment was provided by Washington’s own Grammy-Award winning artist Mya, as well as the always-popular Julia & Company.

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African Americans Say ‘Parent Involvement’ Key to School Success

By George White Special to the Informer from New America Media The “lack of parental involvement” is the biggest issue affecting black students’ quality of education.

That is one of major findings in a new national survey of African Americans on factors in their quality of life. The survey, sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) and Ebony magazine, polled 1,005 African Americans on their mood and on issues related to income, housing, health care, relationships, race and education.

Responses to education-related questions made up a large part of the summary of survey findings.

When asked to identify the biggest issues in education, about a fifth of respondents said lack of parental involvement, making it the most frequently cited concern. Other concerns included “overcrowded classrooms” (17 percent), “funding differences among school districts” (17 percent), “quality of teachers” (16 percent), and “students with behavioral issues or special needs” (10 percent).

Of those respondents with school-age children or grandchildren, only 37 percent said the nation was “making progress” in efforts to provide “a quality education.” About a third said the country is “losing ground” in education and 28 percent said that there has been no appreciable change in educational quality.

Conducted in February, the survey results were released after the launch of two new Obama Administration initiatives on behalf of young people of color. In January, Pres. Obama appointed leaders in education, philanthropy and law to serve on a commission for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Afri-

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can Americans. The president is also seeking support from foundations and businesses for “My Brother’s Keeper,” a campaign he announced on February 27 to improve the education and life prospects of young Latino and African-American males.

WKKF is one of 10 major foundations that have agreed to work with the White House to support the “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative. However, education has been a priority for WKKF throughout its 83-year history, said Carla Thompson, vice-president of program strategy at the foundation.

Referring to the survey results that cite “lack of parental involvement” as the biggest education issue, Thompson said “that doesn’t surprise me [because] everyone has a stake in education and a vested interest in education.”

Thompson said African-American focus groups told WKKF last year that education ranked second only to job security as the most important issue to blacks overall.

In response, the foundation in August made a request for grant proposals for “innovative” initiatives to engage families in education.

“We received more than 1,200 applications, which broke all Kellogg [application] records,” said Thompson. “Family involvement is a foundational element of quality education.”

WKKF had planned to provide $5 million for family engagement programs over a three-year period.

However, responding to the wave of applications, the foundation has decided to provide $5 million during the first year of funding.

Thompson said WKKF will announce the amount it will invest in the second and third years when it identifies the grant winners of first round of funding in mid-April.

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PARENT continued from Page 22 WKKF is already funding some parental engagement initiatives – among them, programs managed

by Parents for Public Schools of Jackson (Mississippi) and the Orleans Public Education Network in New Orleans (OPEN).

OPEN Executive Director

Deirdre Johnson Burel said more parental involvement is needed but cited “institutional school problems” as a more important factor in the education of black students.

She said there is a need for more professional development training for teachers and that black students are not getting the best instruction because teachers at schools in low-income communi-

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“We need to help parents understand this shift,” she said. “We need higher education standards, but we also need the resources to meet those standards.”WI

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Henderson Deserves the Chance to Carry On

The day after the April 1 Democratic primary, D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson quickly gathered her staff at the Central Office to assure them that despite the fact that Mayor Gray’s term will expire in November, nothing has changed. “We’re still building a world-class education system for children in D.C., and so we’re going to keep doing that,” Henderson 43, was quoted as saying.

The chancellor, who was a protégé of hard-nosed school reform czar Michelle Rhee, anticipates remaining in the lead role of the 45,000 student district for at least another three years – time enough to accomplish pivotal objectives outlined in her 5-year education plan that was unveiled to an extremely receptive audience in 2012.

When Gray took office in 2010, some predicted the transition would be disastrous for DCPS, but Henderson accepted Gray’s invitation to stay, and her achievements have resulted in overall gains for students. The two pressed for increased funding for programs and services benefiting children attending the city’s 111 schools. They also laid the foundation for children as young as 3 and 4 years old to begin school. Efforts have also been made to promotes both parental and community engagement and support.

Henderson has been a relentless advocate for improving teacher quality and she has been the force behind some of the largest testing gains in the country. She also has taken on the enormous task of filling the achievement gap among DCPS’s African American, Hispanic, Asian and white students; and she strives to get students excited about learning and to improve their satisfaction with the schools they attend.

Still, Henderson struggles with low graduation and high truancy rates. And, when she closed 15 schools in early 2013 in mostly disadvantaged neighborhoods, many called for her resignation, including the former president of the Capitol Hill Cluster School PTA. But Henderson has shown herself to be tough skinned – one of the great markings of a good leader.

Henderson has put forth an agenda that’s been working, and unless someone else can step to the plate with far better offerings, Henderson at the very least, deserves the opportunity to continue carrying out initiatives that are bringing our schools up to par – and putting them on course to compete among the best in the nation.

As she often states, there’s still so much work to be done.

Right Question; Wrong Answer We commend Congressman Cedric Richmond (D-La.) for questioning U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on the timing of the federal prosecutor’s decision to announce allegations that D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray knew about the shadow campaign funded

by Jeff Thompson. Holder testified this week at a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee where Richmond inquired, “To have your name tied into a federal investigation three weeks before your election and to say that it leads toward you I think affects the electoral process.” Right question Rep. Richmond and clearly the prosecutor’s unproven allegations specifically against the mayor did affect the outcome of April’s election. Richmond called it “a very slippery slope when we start leaking information right before election time because we are influencing the election process.”

Holder disputed the “leak” allegation and said, “We bring cases when they are ready to go, and sometimes it is awkward, but it is the best way to do these things irrespective of what the fallout is going to be.” If the case was “ready” Mr. Holder, than why hasn’t Mr. Gray been indicted, not by the voters but by the prosecutors?

Granted, the voters have spoken, but the fairness of decisions, as well as the conduct, by federal prosecutors must be tested “irrespective of what the fallout is going to be.”

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Voting is Essential!

There are so many things to enjoy and look forward to by being a resident of the District of Columbia. My wife and I have been here for about three years.

Now we look forward to raising our family here.

As African Americans, the District will offer our children endless educational opportunities and a rich diversity of professional models and career paths, to aspire to, if they choose. Being able to take advantage of all of the history that surrounds us is another great opportunity that not everyone can enjoy on a daily basis: the Smithsonian Institution, the National Archives, The National Gallery of Art, and the United State Capitol, to name a few. It’s that American history we must be mindful of.

As African Americans, we are the only people who have had to have our right to vote legislated just because of the color of our skin; no other race of people needed to have that done to be able to vote in America. That brings me to the point of my letter to you, it should have been a crime what some in the District did: Not Voting!

I don’t care if you didn’t like the candidate. Write in Santa Claus, but we have to exercise our right to vote. A turnout of less than 20 percent is shameful! How can we complain about anything if we don’t vote to try to change things? I don’t want to

go on about all those who died trying to secure the right to vote for African Americans in this country. I’m sure you’ve heard that.

This last election turnout leaves a real bad taste in my mouth about the District of Columbia and I hope I never have to taste it again.

James Simpson Washington, D.C.

White Leaves School Board

several meetings where he had a strong vocal presence. He could also often be seen engaged in community activities in support of students, and with his new job, I can only hope that he will continue to be involved in an extended capacity. Hopefully, his successor will be someone who can hit the ground running.

While Mr. White’s departure comes as somewhat of a letdown for me, I understand that as a young man with a growing family, he had to move on to a career that allows him to be a better provider.

With that said, I can only wish him nothing but the best.

I was sad to learn Trayon White has stepped down from his post as the Ward 8 D.C. State Board of Education member.

I remember how hard he and Laura Green his supporters campaigned three Washington, D.C. years ago to get him elected following the death of his predecessor William Lockridge.

In doing so, they strongly stated their confidence that as the CORRECTION youngest person (he was 26 at The article “Reforming Manthe time) to assume the position, datory Minimum Sentences” he would have a long and bright by Stacy M. Brown published future representing the city’s in the March 19 edition, incormost disadvantaged students, rectly quoted U.S. Sentencing and in effect, helping parents, Commission chair, Chief Judge teachers and his general constit- Patti B. Saris, and mischaracteruency to reclaim the promise of ized the Commission’s proposed public education. amendment on drug traffickI’m not sure to what extent ing guidelines as belonging to Mr. White proved to be an ac- Attorney General Holder. The complished school board mem- Washington Informer regrets ber, but I do recall seeing him at the errors.

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By Lee A. Daniels

The GOP’s Desperate Double-Down Game Last week the U.S. Supreme Court added another layer of bricks to the wall conservatives are trying to build to transform the American political system from a one-person-one-vote democracy into one that is ruled— via legislative enactments and judicial decision-making—by the wealthiest individuals and corporate entities.

The court’s five-member conservative faction in the case

of McCutcheon v FEC (the Federal Election Commission) struck down limits on the total amount of money individuals can give to the political parties and candidates for the House and Senate during any two-year election cycle. That means that while individuals are still limited to giving no more than $2,600 to each candidate during an election campaign, now, unlike in the past, there’s no limit to how many congressional candidates they can lavish money on.

Writing the majority opin-

ion, Chief Justice John Roberts declared that that provision of the federal campaign finance laws was a violation of the “free speech” rights of individuals to participate as fully in the political process as they saw fit.

Now, all those who were surprised by the court’s conservatives’ stance, raise your hands.

Okay, you’ve just admitted you haven’t been paying attention to national affairs for at least the last six years. You’re not aware that the Republican Party response to its massive failure of

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electoral politics has been to double-down on its desperate bet that it can regain power by wrecking the country’s democratic political traditions. For one thing, you’ve forgotten the lesson of Bush vs. Gore, the 5-to-4 vote by the court’s conservative faction that gave the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush: The conservative movement is committed to controlling the political system, not to democracy.

And the court’s conservative faction did what it could to help

them.

But conservatives didn’t count on the train wreck the Bush presidency would become. Nor did they count on Barack Obama – a relative political newcomer they derided as a mere “community organizer: — out-organizing and out-spending the supposed crackerjack GOP political machine on his way to the White House.

The Republican Party response was three-fold. First,

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By Julianne Malveaux

The Audacity of Voting I love voting. Every time I go into the booth, I see little girl me, pigtails and all, plaid skirt, white blouse and green sweater, part of my Catholic school uniform.

Most of my relatives were Democrats, though my grandmother voted Republican a time or two because “Lincoln freed the slaves.” In 1960, I had the privilege of pulling the lever to elect John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the candidate that the nuns at Im-

maculate Conception Elementary School rhapsodized over.

On the way back from the polls, my mom told me that Negroes (as we were called then) didn’t always get to vote, and she shared facts about grandfather clauses and poll taxes. I’ll never forget that moment, which may have sown the seeds of my activism. Indeed, when I went to school the next day, and the nun asked if everyone’s parent had voted, I took the opportunity to share that Negroes did not

always get to vote. I was sent home with a note at the end of the day, and got an admonition from my mom about keeping my big mouth shut. I guess I didn’t learn my lesson.

I guess everyone doesn’t like voting as much as I do. Only a quarter of those eligible to vote in the District of Columbia did so. Some blamed the earliness of the primary (only Illinois had an earlier date, on March 26, and some states have primary elections as late as September);

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others spoke of the inclement weather the weekend before the election as affecting voter turnout. But when I am reminded that Fannie Lou Hamer was almost beat to death because she registered voters, and Medgar Evers was killed because he worked to secure voting rights for Black people, I am infuriated by those who take a pass on voting. How does a little snow on Sunday keep you from going to the polls on Tuesday? The fact is that too many African Amer-

icans play into enemy hands whenever they fail to vote.

Now the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law (www…lawyerscommitt.org) has produced a “Map of Shame” that highlights more than a dozen states that engage in voter suppression, either by requiring picture ID, consolidating polling places so that people have to travel further to vote, or passing other restrictions on voting.

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By Raynard Jackson

African Diplomats Shun Black Business Owners Last week I attended a very nice reception hosted by two of my friends, Rosa Whitaker and Bernadette Paolo. Rosa is CEO and President of the Whitaker Group, a Washington, D.C.based consultancy specializing in trade and investment in Africa.

She previously served as the first Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Africa in the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. In

2010, Whitaker was named one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers.

Paolo succeeded the former president and Founder of The Africa Society, Leonard H. Robinson, Jr., in 2006, after his untimely death. Prior to assuming her new position, Paolo served as Vice President of The Africa Society and Vice President of The National Summit on Africa.

At the event promoted as “Reception, Tribute and Discussion for East Africa’s Four New Female Ambassadors to the

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U.S.” The ambassadors honored were Mathilde Mukantabana of Rwanda, Liberata Mulamula of Tanzania, Oliver Wonekha of Uganda, and Jean Kamau of Kenya.

Each of these women has a fascinating background and sterling accomplishments.

For those who are not followers of Africa, it’s important to remember that the continent of Africa is extremely patriarchal.

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business, and politics, etc. In many African countries, women’s roles in society are clearly defined, with most of their roles being relegated to motherhood and the raising of the children.

In foreign affairs, to be posted as ambassador to the U.S. is like winning the Super Bowl; it is a crowning achievement for any diplomat. So, to have these four women from East Africa posted in the U.S. is a historic development in diplomatic circles.

Therefore, I want to use this column, to speak directly to

these four distinguished ambassadors: I have spoken to many of your male predecessors about the role of an ambassador in a foreign country. The main objective of an ambassador is to be the voice and the face of their home country’s foreign policy towards the U.S. They should be the head cheerleader for their country and engage with as many Americans as possible.

I am very optimistic about the

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By Marian Wright Edelman

“Mama, Get Me Away From Around Here!”

Today, almost one year after I first wrote about Ka’nard Allen, his story—and the stories of several other children whose lives are connected to his—remains a searing example of how pervasive gun violence in our nation’s cities is killing, injuring, and traumatizing our children.

On May 29, 2012, Ka’nard celebrated his 10th birthday at his grandmother’s house in the Central City neighborhood of

New Orleans. He and his friends and family members were playing games in the front yard and on the porch. “We was having a party and then it’s a shooting,” Ka’nard said. Four young men carrying guns and an AK-47 ran up and unleashed a volley of bullets. Police said they were attempting to kill members of a rival group at or near the party.

Ka’nard felt the sting as he was struck in the calf and on the side of his neck.

His mother, Tynia Allen, saw blood running down his neck.

To get help she had to step over Ka’nard’s 5-year-old cousin Brianna Allen’s lifeless body on the porch. The reach and power of the assault rifle was so great that a bullet fired near the party also struck and killed Shawanna Pierce, 33, in her car at a stop sign three blocks away, leaving three young boys without a mother.

That year, along with many before it, New Orleans had one of the highest per capita murder rates of any city in America—close to 95 percent of them

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committed with guns. The carnage at Ka’nard’s party, as well as at other shootings before and since, sent out waves of fear, grief and anger that linger on in the lives of the children affected.

Shawanna Pierce’s youngest son, now 3, doesn’t remember his mother. But her two older boys, Kelby, now 12, and Kolby, 8, began to cry when asked about their mother. Their maternal grandmother, still deeply grieving herself, asked them to recall things they did with their mother, who worked in the cod-

ing department of a local hospital. Disney World, she prompted, the zoo, the Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival. “I can’t,” Kelby said. “I’m too sad.” Both boys have photos of their mother on their cell phone cases. Their grades suffered, although now, almost two years later, the boys’ school work is beginning to improve.

Less than a year after he was shot at his birthday party, he was shot again—in the cheek—

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By George E. Curry

Acceptance by 8 Ivies Doesn’t Remove Race Stigma You would think that news of a high school student from a family of African immigrants getting accepted into all eight Ivy League universities would be met with universal celebration.

If you thought that, think again.

First the news: In the next month, Kwasi Enin must make a tough decision: Which of the eight Ivy League universities should he attend this fall? A first-generation American from

Shirley, N.Y., the 17-year-old violist and aspiring physician applied to all eight, from Brown to Yale. The responses began rolling in over the past few months, and by late last week when he opened an e-mail from Harvard, he found he’d been accepted to everyone. School district officials provided scanned copies of acceptance letters from all eight Monday. Yale confirmed that it was holding a spot for Enin. The feat is extremely rare, say college counselors — few students even apply to all eight, because each

seeks different qualities in their freshman class. Almost none are invited to attend them all. The Ivy League colleges are among the nation’s most elite. (USA Today) Comments posted on the news website reddit leave little doubt that even with all of Enin’s accomplishments, many people will never see beyond his race.

The comments show appalling ignorance not only about race in the United States, but about the college admission process itself.

Universities, including Har-

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vard and Yale, admit a certain number of students in each class based on whether a parent attended the Ivy League institution. They call them “Legacy Admissions” and that’s how George W. Bush got admitted into Yale, following in the footsteps of his father and his father’s father.

Other students are admitted because a parent made a major donation to the university.

“I am surprised that no one has mentioned that for the seven other schools he chooses not to attend, 7 students will be chosen

from the schools respective wait list, and let’s be realistic, odds are they are white.”

Overlooked in some of the posts is the fact that college admissions deans try to construct a balanced class, not robotically picking applicants based on grades and SAT scores.

“Ivy Leagues don’t want well rounded applicants, they want a well-rounded class,” wrote house_music_420. “It’s much easier to get in if you do some-

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By Askia Muhammad

Time to Give Pres. Obama His ‘Obamacare’ Respect Back in September 2013 – what seems like an eternity ago in political time – I joined members of the Trotter Group of African American Columnists and Commentators at an Off-the-Record dinner meeting with White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett. The one take-away from that meeting of which I am certain – because it was reiterated publicly time and time again in the run up to the

launch of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on Oct. 1 – was that the administration’s goal was to register 7 million people into the various health care exchanges.

Then came October and the computer meltdown which accompanied the first days of the registration period opened President Barack Obama up to more criticism than President George W. (for Worst in History) Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney received for water boarding and other torture of terror suspects.

Never mind the noble pro-

claimed goal of Obamacare – the label that stuck for better or for worse – the president and his allies appeared to be up the proverbial creek without a paddle.

His Republican opponents in Congress made bank out of the failure of the computer system, a system which had nothing to do with the relative merits of the law itself. In the House of Representatives – bullied by the minority Tea Party Caucus of his majority conference – Speaker John Boehner scheduled 43 (count them) futile votes to re-

peal Obamacare. In the Senate Florida Republican Ted Cruz staged an all-night filibuster-like spectacle which had absolutely no affect on anyone or anything.

They did not lift a finger to help make the law better. Their goal was and remains: repeal it.

And then came the computer “glitch” and “Good Lord: What is we going to do now Boss?”

Well the team that couldn’t shoot straight hung in there. January rolled around. Then came February, and it didn’t appear that the administration would

even come close to reaching its stated goal for the number of new registrants.

Let me pause here to say that the ACA is not health care delivery legislation in the strict sense. It is health insurance delivery legislation. Will it change the reliance of the uninsured to use hospital emergency rooms as their primary health treatment system? That remains to be seen? Will Obamacare increase the availability of needed family

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An iconic hip-hop artist did not mince words when he discussed the current state of the genre during an event at a local university the latter part of March.

Nas challenged his colleagues in the hip-hop industry to create more socially conscious material during a gathering he headlined at Georgetown University (GU) in Northwest with social academic, author, and GU professor Michael Eric Dyson.

“I don’t see enough emcees that are brave enough to be honest,” said Nas, 40. “[Rappers] still have some artistic responsibility.

Imagine me trying to get into the rap game at 19. I had to do something that mattered. Right now it’s much easier. There are more poor kids making money but I do want people to remember that it’s an art form.”

The March 27 event at GU’s Gaston Hall attracted more than 700 people and took place one day before Nas celebrated the 20th anniversary of his debut al-

Nas, Dyson Talk about the State of Hip-Hop

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bum Illmatic and performed before a sold-out audience at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Northwest.

James Peterson, director of Africana Studies and associate professor of English at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. moderated the two-hour discussion. Hip-hop artist and producer 9th Wonder kept guests’ heads bobbing as he spun Nas’ classic records on turntables throughout the night.

“Nas uses his platform to ar-

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ticulate visions and understandings of the world with such poetic passion,” said Dyson, 55, author of Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic. “[Nowadays], a guy with a Ph.D. from Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania are discussing his music. Teaching hip-hop is about excavating in the common earth of our social existence while engaging with literacy. These artists have something original to say.”

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1994, Nas, born Nasir Jones, went on to release 12 more solo and compilation albums, including Distant Relatives, a 2010 collaboration with Jamaican reggae artist Damien Marley. All of Nas’ releases have been certified double-platinum, platinum, and gold. He has sold more than 20 million records worldwide to date. His most popular songs include “N.Y. State of Mind,” “One Mic,” “I Know I Can,” and “If I Ruled the World.”

In an industry that often favors newer, younger acts, Nas has managed to remain popular.

While hip-hop mogul Jay Z, a contemporary of the Queens, N.Y. artist, went on to amass hundreds of millions of dollars in record sales with a host of catchy, crossover hits and business ventures, Nas stayed the course, consistently delivering witty, thought-provoking material that advised listeners to challenge the status quo. His 2012 album Life is Good received a Grammy nomination and featured “Daughters”, a song about his daughter Destiny Jones.

Longtime Nas fan Auset Sherrill attended the event with her teenage son. She said she respected the hip-hop artist’s commitment to creating pos-

itive, uplifting music at a time when music labels give higher priority to album sales than quality of lyrics.

“I looked forward to hearing what Nas had to say,” said Sherrill, 40. “I feel like he has been a brother to me. It’s been awesome to see him evolve as an artist. [The fact that] he stays true to his message is phenomenal. He represents the African Diaspora well. Life is busy but I always find time to listen to some of his tracks,” said Sherrill who lives in Mt. Rainier, Md. Later during the evening, Nas delved into the crippling effects of the prison industrial complex. The hip-hop icon said that children need to be made aware of what opportunities exist. He often recounted attempts to take what he learned in the music industry to create jobs for his friends that lived in the Queensbridge Houses, a public housing development in Queens, N.Y. he once called home.

“One thing that should have been on our mind was business,” said Nas. “We don’t have any more time to waste. We have to go back [to our neighborhoods] with a plan to show peo-

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More than 700 people showed up at Georgetown University’s Gaston Hall to hear Nas discuss the current state of hip-hop. /Photo by Mark Mahoney

Nas signed Dyson’s book, Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic after the discussion at Georgetown ended. Fans surrounded the hip-hop artist on stage to talk and be photographed with him. /Photo by Mark Mahoney

NAS continued from Page 28 ple how they can get into computer programming, real estate, and other [ventures]. We can do it but it needs to be [looked at as] cool. We need to let [people] know that we should put pause on the bad lifestyle. We have to figure something out because it’s ridiculous how we’re thrown into prison.”

Documentary filmmaker Lacy King said he liked the manner in which Nas discussed the lack of economic opportunities for

black males and the targeting of that group by law enforcement.

While he applauded the hip-hop icon’s efforts to bring to light the harsh reality of inner-city life, he expressed his worry that today’s artists provide overt guidelines for criminal behavior in their songs.

“Hip hop is used to promote a criminal lifestyle,” said King, 41. “It used to be a way for children to learn what not to do but now it’s a tool to feed the prison industrial complex. Hip-hop as it stands right now has turned on itself. Hopefully with the new birth of [quality] rap that is

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emerging, we might be able to get some substance and make hip-hop real again,” said King who lives in Northwest.

Nas later touched on up-andcoming hip-hop artists, applauding the work of Fayetteville, N.C. rapper J. Cole and telling the audience to watch out for him in the next few years.

“J.Cole is an incredible dude,” said Nas. “He takes the art form seriously. I love hearing him tell stories. He cares about [improving his craft]. He will be at the top in less than 10 years.” WI The Washington Informer

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Interfaith Golf Tournament Officials Battle Hunger

Fifth Annual Event to Raise Funds for Food Bank

By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Several area ministers, many who enjoy the game of golf, are hoping to score a hole-in-one for hunger.

The fifth annual Interfaith Golf Tournament, which officials said counts as a campaign to bring together area churches and organizations to support the work of the Capital Area Food Bank, will be held on Monday, April 21, at Westfield’s Golf Club in Clifton, Va. “This began when my wife and I were watching a news program about food banks and how people in the middle class were

now leaning upon food banks for help and how food banks were no longer able to handle the demand,” said Lou Phillips, the tournament’s founder, who lives in Falls Church, Va. Phillips said the news program followed the plight of an African-American woman who stood in a line at a food bank in Connecticut. “It showed how difficult a time she was having,” Phillips said.

“She had no other choice. All of her money went to her mortgage … there was just a carton of milk in the refrigerator and two or three cans of food in her pantry.”

The broadcast provided Phillips the impetus needed to jump

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Earl Riggs, Lou Phillips and Ron Jewell enjoy a day on the golf course. /Photo courtesy of Lou Phillips

start efforts to help those in need locally.

Led by a cadre of former executives whom Phillips said are dedicated to strengthening

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relationships within the faithbased community and corporate America, the golf tournament’s goal is to raise resources for those who are suffering from food insecurity.

Phillips, the president of D.C.based Ethnomediagroup, Inc., joined Earl Riggs, president of ESR Enterprises and Calvin Brown of CBrown & Associates, in taking the lead in planning the annual event.

While Riggs, a professional golf tournament planner who coordinates similar events around the country to benefit major charities, retired from RJR Nabisco Company in New York, Brown once served as a director for the Internal Revenue Service in Northwest.

“These individuals, along with a host of professional and community volunteers, constitute a committed base of individuals who will support the current and future mission of this event,” Phillips said.

Each year, a minimum of 40 golfers are brought together in competition for a regional championship cup.

Teams are matched in such a way as to foster inter-denominational fellowship while engaging the churches in supporting the work of the Capital Area Food Bank in Northeast, organizers said.

Additionally, Greg Ten Eyck the director of public affairs for the Eastern Division of Safeway and a member of the Board of the Capital Area Food Bank who served as an honorary chair in 2012, will again participate in the event, Phillips said.

Ten Eyck’s position has provided numerous opportunities for service in organizations that

are primarily focused on improving the conditions of individual lives as well as the community atlarge, tournament officials said.

Ten Eyck has also secured corporate representation for the event from Safeway in the form of gift coupons which will provide much needed food to a select number of local families, and, Safeway has sponsored clients who will compete to win the competition’s regional cup, officials said.

“Personally, the Interfaith Golf Tournament has been the source of Christian fellowship that has allowed me to meet some interesting people while enjoying a great outing,” said Eric High, a certified public accountant and a deacon at Antioch Baptist Church in Northeast. “Participation in the tournament is important because the proceeds support a worthy cause to fight hunger in America,” said High, 49.

Each participating church has agreed to contribute the $150 entry fee as well as food collections for distribution through the Capital Area Food Bank.

Phillips said there would be an emphasis on programs that are designed to support the elderly and children.

At the heart of the tournament is the desire to eradicate hunger in the Greater Washington, D.C. area, while enjoying a round of golf at Westfield, one of the most popular courses in the region, Phillips said.

“We expect that our activities will generate much needed visibility on the work being done by the Capital Area Food Bank and a greater appreciation for the challenges that are being

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GOLF continued from Page 30 faced by many of our neighbors,” he said.

The tournament isn’t exclusive to the District, as organizers plan to also help those in need in other cities.

“We are going to other cities, other places for this cause,” Phillips said. “You start off where you eat and sleep and then you go home, which for me, I’m from Dallas and that’s one of the places where we’ll be taking this.”

The churches expect all of their activities to generate publicity for the Capital Area Food Bank and the challenges faced by many who rely upon the food bank’s services.

It’s estimated that 15.7 percent, or 97,120 residents in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area suffer from food insecurity, which means that individuals do not have regular access to sufficient and nutritious food to meet their dietary requirements for an active and healthy life.

In Maryland, 13.4 percent, or 781,200, of residents are food insecure with 19 percent of those being children. Also, 12.7 percent, or just over 1 million, Virginia residents are considered food insecure, including 302,000 children, Capital Area Food Bank officials said.

Last year, the Capital Area Food Bank distributed 45 million pounds of food, equivalent

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to 37.5 million meals, to 478,100 people through direct service and a network of more than 500 partner agencies.

That equates to 111,000 pounds of food daily resulting in over 500,000 pounds a week which is managed by applying 92 cents of every $1 donated toward food distribution, transportation and programs.

“It is this kind of community commitment from the Capital Area Food Bank, that has captured the support of the Interfaith Golf Cup Challenge,” Phillips said.WI For more information about the Interfaith Golf Cup Challenge, visit www.ifaithgolf.com or call 703-7468135.

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Mayo Clinic Guide to StressFree Living”

by Amit Sood, M.D., M.Sc. c.2014, DaCapo Lifelong Books $19.99 / $23.00 Canada 320 pages

By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer Lately, it seems as though everything sets your teeth on edge.

The neighbors are way too noisy. Customer service … isn’t.

Your in-laws are a bunch of ingrates. And your co-workers?

Let’s not go there.

You’re over just about everything: overworked, overloaded, and overwhelmed. But when you read “The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living”

by Amit Sood, M.D., M.Sc., you might start to feel better overall.

In today’s world, it’s nearly impossible not to feel strain. At

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least that’s how it seems, and it only gets worse as we “get hijacked by impulses, infatuation and fear,” the brain wants to “escape the present moment,” and the mind thinks everything’s a danger. We “struggle with what is,” which is the very definition of stress, says Sood.

Part of the reason for the struggle is that, when you’re awake, your brain operates in one of two ways: default or focused. You’ve undoubtedly experienced both.

In focused mode, you’re so immersed in the task at hand that you forget about almost everything surrounding you. In default mode, your brain wanders like an idle shopper, moseying from problem to worry to idea, spinning and projecting future scenarios. The key is to teach yourself to stay on “focused” mode and out of the “black hole” of meandering default.

Part of that can be done with “attention training,” which has many facets and which “speaks to the child” in you; and by “refining interpretations,” which appeals to the adult within.

Learn to pay “joyful attention,” which helps with calming and keeps your mind occupied so it doesn’t wander.

Learn CRAVE, patience, and

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CALF when relating to others.

Free your prejudices in order to “open to the world.” Accept that nothing is perfect and that there are times when forgiveness isn’t required. Begin each day with thankfulness. Learn pride in work. And remember that compassion for others should extend to compassion for yourself.

When an institution like the Mayo Clinic attaches its name to a book, you kind of expect it’d be totally serious stuff, right?

Nope. Author Amit Sood has quite a bit of fun in this book, which certainly supports its title and its joyful cover.

But first, “The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living” opens in a classroom then turns to the science of the brain, which serves as a nice reminder but – since bookstore shelves are packed with brain books – might be unnecessary for some readers.

That’s OK, though, because what comes next is worth it: Sood teaches us to “train” our minds to stress when appropriate, live with acceptance, and appreciate others. This, too, might be repetitious for readers who’ve filled up on motivational-type books like this one, though I took great delight in this particular handling of the subject.

I also liked that Sood didn’t pretend this is easy, but reducing stress and lessening worry sure sounds appealing and that’s enough for me. If it is for you, too, then “The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living” is a book you can really sink your teeth into.WI

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Local Group, Prodigy March in Parade Reverb, Kelvin Dukes to Perform at Cherry Blossom Festival’s Big Event Reverb. /Photo courtesy of WTOP

By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer For Steve Langley, Chris Hunter and Troy Edler, there’s little pressure in performing before a television audience and the thousands who are expected to attend the National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade.

The three men who comprise part of the District-based a Capella group, Reverb, said while the parade will be the singers’ largest audience to date, they’re excited to have been chosen to participate in spring’s most anticipated celebration.

“Locally, this is the biggest event we’ve ever done in terms of crowd capacity and name recognition,” said Langley, who lives on Capitol Hill.

“But, we’re not nervous, we’re just excited.”

Reverb, which includes five other members, were among two groups and three solo vocalists chosen to sing at the Saturday, April 12 parade after they blew away the competition with a stirring rendition of Bill Withers’ 1972 hit, “Lean on Me,” during auditions held in January.

“We do everything as a group,” said Edler in explaining Reverb’s success.

Kelvin Dukes. /Photo courtesy of WTOP

The group formed in 1991 and initially allowed just about everyone who wanted to sing to participate. But Langley said that soon changed and a new requirement stipulated that singers must be able to perform well enough to lead the group.

Eventually, the new rule capped Reverb’s number to eight singers.

“We do a lot together. We play for seniors, we play for children and we even perform for our families at some events.

We take our music seriously,” said Edler, who lives in Montgomery County, Md. The live audition, which concluded the annual “Sing

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into Spring” competition, took place at the Hard Rock Café in Northwest and, besides Reverb, the battle to perform at the parade led to the discovery of 8-year-old Kelvin Dukes.

The young crooner received a rousing ovation and an invitation to perform during the annual parade after an age-defying rendition of Anna Kendrick’s, “Cup Song.”

After various contestants presented judges with their best, Kelvin confidently stood before a packed café and delivered lines such as, “I’ve got my ticket for the long way round…,” “When I’m gone…you’re gonna miss me, when I’m gone…”

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Cherry Blossom officials said Kelvin simply stole the show.

“It was very hard because you had to stay focused and not mess up on the words,” the youth who lives in Burtonsville, Md., said in a radio interview with WTOP-FM about his performance.

Kelvin said he began singing at the age of three and he’s learning to play guitar. “I do write my own songs, too,” he said.

While Kelvin will be the featured performer for the Youth Choir that’s comprised of hundreds of children from around the country, Reverb will march behind the Washington Informer’s banner at the parade and represent the paper.

The newspaper counts as one of the festival’s media partners.

Presented by Events DC, the 10 a.m. parade will take place regardless of inclement weather, officials said. National Weather Service officials are currently predicting a sunny and 68 degree day for Saturday with a 10 percent chance of rain.

The parade will run along Constitution Avenue in Northwest from 7th to 17th streets.

The parade is free and open to the public, but prime grandstand seats located along Con-

stitution Avenue will be available for purchase, starting at $20.

“There’ll be exciting celebrities participating in the nation’s premiere springtime parade,” Cherry Blossom Festival spokeswoman Danielle Davis said in an email.

American Idol Season 12 winner Candice Glover, Grammy award-winning singer Sheena Easton, celebrated R&B and Gospel singer Regina Belle, pop singer Aaron Carter and other celebrities are also scheduled to perform.

Former Washington Redskins great Darrell Green has been selected as the Grand Marshall of this year’s parade, which will feature vibrant costumes and blossom-inspired floats.

Recognized locally as the official face of District conventions, sports, entertainment and cultural activities, Events DC plans to showcase a float with the theme, “Events in Motion,” which officials said will highlight some of the most unforgettable activities ever staged in Washington.

“Excited. That’s the word for us,” said Hunter, of Reverb who also lives on Capitol Hill.

“We’re looking forward to the parade.”WI

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On April 3, Leadership Greater Washington lgwdc.org celebrated innovation, leadership and community partnerships during the annual Spring Event at the Fairmont Hotel. The organization boasts some of the top community leaders from the business, government, non-profit, technological and creative fields within the Greater Washington region. During the event, 450 of DC’s biggest business and philanthropic leaders gathered to recognize cutting edge ideas throughout the Washington DC region.

ABC7/Washington Business Report anchor Rebecca Cooper served as the event’s emcee and awarded the recipients (listed below). Cooper, off script, called both Mayor Gray and Muriel Bowser to the stage to the audience’s surprise, and the candidates too. Slightly awkwardly, Gray and Bowser posed for pictures with Tim Kime, LGW CEO and President, as the audience rushed to the stage to snap images of their first meeting since the election two days prior.

During the LGW high-energy, standing room-only Spring Event, two Washington icons were honored and a winning community organization was announced.

Julie Rogers, former President of the Meyer Foundation, was praised for her service and commitment to the region’s nonprofit sector and forging relationships among business and community groups. She was awarded the 2014 Innovative Leadership Award, presented by PEPCO. Debbi Jarvis of PEPCO helped to present the honor recognizing Julie’s 28 year tenure as Meyer’s leader.

Barbara Lang, who recently left the DC Chamber after a decade as president, was honored for her service by receiving the 2014 Innovative Leadership Award, presented by Verizon. Lang, who transformed a struggling assembly, into the largest chamber in the region and a voice for business, was presented with the award by Karen Campbell, representing Verizon’s leadership.

Also, the Community of Hope and CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield were announced as the night’s winners of the 2014 Innovative Community Partnership Award, presented by the Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.

In a new twist, LGW members voted online to select the honoree among three initiatives.

The Community of Hope-CareFirst partnership has expanded the quality and quantity of healthcare provided to low-income DC residents. Their most recent accomplishment together will result in providing medical, dental, and behavioral health services by opening the Conway Health and Resource Center in Ward 8. Accepting the award were Community of Hope’s Executive Director Kelly Sweeney McShane and CareFirst’s Tonya Kinlow.

Rose Ann Cleveland of the Cafritz Foundation presented the award.

Among the honored guests were Harry Wingo and Barbara Lang (Incoming and outgoing DC Chamber CEO) Muriel Bowser, Democratic Nominee for Mayor, Membership & Chief Operating Officer Tim Kime and Mayor Vincent Gray, Patrick Bateman, John T. Butler, Dawn Kum, Lee Brian Rebar, Debbi Jarvis, Pepco Holdings, VP Corporate Citizenship and Social Responsibility and Mioshi Moses, VP, CEO LGW and Mary Abbajay LGW Chair/ president and co-founder of Careerstone Group, LLC with award winners, City of Hope & Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.WI

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Ollie Makes History as 4th African American Coach to Win NCAA Tournament Kevin Ollie head coach of The University of Connecticut men’s basketball team has pulled off a remarkable feat becoming just the fourth African American coach to win the NCAA Tournament. On April 5th, 2014, the Huskies defeated top-ranked Florida in the First Final Four national semifinal of the NCAA Tournament 63-53. The Huskies defeated the Kentucky Wildcats 60-54 in the NCAA National Championship on April 7th. He joins Tubby Smith who won the NCAA Tournament in 1998 with Kentucky, Nolan Richardson who won in 1994 with Arkansas, and John Thompson who won in 1984 with Georgetown.

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full-time job and made the team his own, far removed from his former mentor Jim Calhoun.

In the process, he led the seventh-seeded Huskies on an improbable title run.

“I’m just trying to keep proving everyone wrong. Everyone said our program was going to go down after the sanctions and people left, but we’re still here.

Somebody the other day called us a Cinderella. We’re UConn.

UConn is always going to stay here,” Ollie told reporters following the tournament.

Those close to Ollie credit his wife, Stephanie, with reinforcing the quiet and confidence he needed to push both himself and the team to win the championship. CBS News reported that while in debates about taking the

job, the Ollies spent a few days trying to determine if his nearly 15 years in the NBA, in 11 cities, while his family was mostly nestled in Glastonbury, should come to an official end.

“Being on the road, kids at home, we had some discussions,” she said. “Will it be worth it?” she said.

As the Huskies celebrate their victory, the answer is a resounding ‘yes.’

“Those players that were up here, they should get all the attention because if it wasn’t for them, this program wouldn’t be here. They believed in a vision before anyone had seen it. They stuck with it through the down times when we were losing,” Ollie said.WI

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12 Things That Make Men Rich

Harmony in Human Relations (#3) Most of us are incapable of “going it alone.” Whether it’s in our careers, in our personal relationships, or in life, we all need others if we are to achieve the level of success we desire.

Besides, what’s the point of having it all if we have no one we care about to share it? You may choose to work with others, you may ignore them, or you may choose to work against them, but the greatest successes in life come to those who work harmoniously with others.

When your personal goals coincide with those of another, not only does the power of your combined labor benefit you, but such cooperation also creates a synergistic effect that allows you to achieve far more than the simple sum of your individual efforts.

Know that friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life’s greatest gifts.

This third principle on the list of 12 Things That Make Men Rich, discovered by Napoleon Hill is the subject of this week’s column.

Hill studied men all across America for 20 years, close up and in person. Over and over again, he discovered the same formula used by each and every person interviewed.

This column is a reminder that we cannot achieve very much without the help of others. Yet so often, we set out to achieve our goals, and we ask others to join us; but we forget one important ingredient that those joining you need – What’s in this for me?

Usually, it’s “All about you!” But

for others to help you in a manner that will really help you to get to your goal more quickly and successfully depends on who you ask.

Their success of the job they will do for you depend on what each person needs when you ask them to join you. In other words, they’re thinking “What’s in it for me!”

Here is what scripture says about working in harmony: Ecclesiastes 4:912 – Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

Proverbs 27:17 – Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Come up with creative ways to make helpers feel good about working with you, offer awards, visibility, or appreciation, something to recognize them, especially if you don’t have money to pay.

As they help you, they also help themselves!

Once you realize that special thing this person would want and need; do whatever it takes to help him or her succeed in this new endeavor of yours. Offer this opportunity to them as an incentive. When they succeed, you succeed. That’s how it’s done!

Let’s take an example of when my company decided to come up with an outstanding Black History Month Luncheon; because of reading Napoleon Hill’s book, I came up with a dynamic committee to help me pull off my special event, which was the unveiling of a bronze bust of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson.

My committee consisted of about 10-12 people, with several co-chairs, each of whom was responsible for a special area. They

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Was my strategy a success, yes!

My knowledge of Hill’s research guided my footsteps, all of my committee was 100 percent committed and I had built in recognition for each of them. It wasn’t all about me! Together, we created a bond between us for life!

Select people to work for and with you, look only for those you’re certain will work in perfect harmony. Any discord will cause problems. No matter how much you think of someone, consider the lifelong experiences you’ve had with them, and if you come up with a problem area, do not invite them to help you. It won’t work!WI

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AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL

Pilgrim Baptist Church

Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church

Pilgrim Baptist Church

The Reverend Lyndon Shakespeare Interim Priest Foggy Bottom • Founded in 1867 728 23rd Street, NW • Washington, DC 20037 Church office: 202-333-3985 • Fax : 202-338-4958 Worship Services Sundays: 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Music and Hymns Wednesdays: 12:10 p.m. - Holy Eucharist www.stmarysfoggybottom.org Email: stmarysoffice@stmarysfoggybottom.org

Rev. Louis B. Jones II Pastor

Schedule of Services: Sunday School – 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service – 11:00 AM Communion Service – First Sunday Prayer Service/Bible Study – Tuesday, 6:30 PM www.blessedwordoflifechurch.org e-mail: church@blessedwordoflifechurch.org

Worship Sundays @ 7:30 & 11:00 A.M. 5th Sundays @ 9:30 A.M. 3rd Sundays: Baptism & Holy Communion Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @ Noon & 6:30 P.M.

Schedule of Service Sunday Service: 8:30 AM & 11:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM Communion Service: First Sunday www.livingwatersmd.org

www.pilgrimbaptistdc.org

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

Twelfth Street Christian Church

Campbell AME Church Reverend Daryl K. Kearney, Pastor 2562 MLK Jr. Ave., S E Washington, DC 20020 Adm. Office 202-678-2263 Email:Campbell@mycame.org Sunday Worship Service 10: am Sunday Church School 8: 45 am Bible Study Wednesday 12:00 Noon Wednesday 7:00 pm Thursday 7: pm “Reaching Up To Reach Out” Mailing Address Campbell AME Church 2502 Stanton Road SE Washington, DC 20020

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

5101 14th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20011 202-726-2220/ 202-726-9089 Sunday Worship Service 8:00am and 11:00am Sunday School 9:15am Holy Communion 4th Sunday 10:00am Prayer and Bible Study Wednesday 7;00pm TV Ministry –Channel 6 Wednesday 10:00pm gsccm.administration@verizon.net

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

Church School - 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship – 10:45 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

Crusader Baptist Church

Sunday Morning Worship 11:00am Holy Communion – 1st Sunday Sunday School-9:45am Men’s Monday Bible Study – 7:00pm Wednesday Night Bible Study – 7:00pm Women’s Ministry Bible Study 3rd Friday -7:00pm Computer Classes- Announced Family and Marital Counseling by appointment E-mail: Crusadersbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.CrusadersBaptistChurch.org

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

“God is Love”

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

Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday Men’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

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

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

Third Street Church of God

Isle of Patmos Baptist Church

Sunday Worship Services: 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Holy Communion: 2nd Sunday at 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Sunday Church School: 9:20 a.m.

Seniors Bible Study: Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.

Noon Day Prayer Service: Tuesdays at Noon Bible Study: Tuesdays at 7 p.m.

Motto: “A Ministry of Reconciliation Where Everybody is Somebody!”

Website: http://isleofpatmosbc.org Church Email: ipbcsecretary@verizon.net

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

ST Marks Baptist Come Worship with us...

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

We are proud to provide the trophies for the Washington Informer Spelling Bee

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

Communion every Sunday 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School 10:00 a.m.

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

Motto; “Discover Something Wonderful.”

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

Mount Carmel Baptist Church

Mt. Zion Baptist Church Rev. John W. Davis, Pastor

4915 Wheeler Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-894-6464

Blessed Word of Life Church

4001 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 (202) 265-6147 Office 1-800 576-1047 Voicemail/Fax

Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor Harold Andrew, Assistant Pastor

700 I Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 547-8849

All are welcome to St. Mary’s to Learn, Worship, and Grow.

Dr. Dekontee L. & Dr. Ayele A. Johnson Pastors

Church of Living Waters

52 Years of Expert Engraving Services

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

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Advertise Your Church services here: call Ron Burke at

202-561-4100 or email rburke@washingtoninformer.com Zion Baptist Church

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

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

“Where Jesus is the King”

Israel Baptist Church

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

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

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

Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.

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

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

2324 Ontario Road, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 232-1730 Sunday School – 9:30 am Sunday Worship Service – 11:00 am Baptismal Service – 1st Sunday – 9:30 am Holy Communion – 1st Sunday – 11:00 am Prayer Meeting & Bible Study – Wednesday -7:30 pm

Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor

St. Luke Baptist Church

Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor

Sunday Church School – 9:30 AM Sunday Worship Service – 11:00 AM Holy Communion – 1st Sunday at 11:00 AM Prayer – Wednesdays, 6:00 PM Bible Study – Wednesdays, 7:00 PM Christian Education School of Biblical Knowledge Saturdays, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM, Call for Registration

Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor

Sunday Worship Service 10:15AM- Praise and Worship Services Sunday School 9:00am Monday: Noon Bible School Wednesday: Noon & 7PM: Pastor’s Bible Study Ordinance of Baptism 2nd Holy Communion 4th Sunday Mission Zion Baptist Church Shall; Enlist Sinners, Educate Students, Empower the Suffering, Encourage the Saints, and Exalt Our Savior. (Acts 2:41-47) www.zionbaptistchurchdc.org

King Emmanuel Baptist Church

Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 A.M. Sunday School: 8:30 A.M. Holy Communion1st Sunday: 10:00 A.M. Prayer Service: Wednesday at 6:30 P.M. Bible Study: Wednesday at 7:00 P.M.

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

Advertise Your Church services here: call Ron Burke at

202-561-4100 or email rburke@washingtoninformer.com

Advertise Your Church services here: call Ron Burke at

202-561-4100 or email rburke@washingtoninformer.com

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

Rehoboth Baptist Church

St. Matthews Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor Worshiping Location Knights of Columbus - 1633 Tucker Road Fort Washington, MD 20744 (240) 838-7074 Order of Services Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 am Sunday School: 9:00 am Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer / Bible Study: 6:15 pm - 7:20 pm (Tuesday)

Salem Baptist Church

Emmanuel Baptist Church

Florida Avenue Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. Clinton W. Austin Pastor 2409 Ainger Pl.,SE – WDC 20020 (202) 678-0884 – Office (202) 678-0885 – Fax “Come Grow With Us and Establish a Blessed Family” Sunday Worship 7:30am & 10:45am Baptism/Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Family Bible Study Tuesdays – 6:30pm Prayer Service Tuesdays – 8:00pm www.emmanuelbaptistchurchdc.org

Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor

Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert SR. Pastor

623 Florida Ave.. NW • WDC. 20001 Church (202) 667-3409 • Study (202) 265-0836 Home Study (301) 464-8211 • Fax (202) 483-4009

4504 Gault Place, N.E. Washington, D.C 20019 202-397-7775 – 7184

Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 a.m.

Sunday Church School: 8:45 – 9:45 a.m.

Holy Communion: Every First Sunday Intercessory Prayer: Monday – 7:00-8:00 p.m.

Pastor’s Bible Study: Wednesday –7:45 p.m.

Midweek Prayer: Wednesday – 7:00 p.m.

Noonday Prayer Every Thursday

9:30AM. Sunday Church School 11:00 Am. Sunday Worship Service The Lord’s Supper 1st Sunday Wednesday 7:00pm Prayer & Praise Services 7:30pm. Bible Study Saturday before 4th Sunday Men, Women, Youth Discipleship Ministries 10:30am A Christ Centered Church htubc@comcast.net

Matthews Memorial Baptist Church

Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith

Dr. C. Matthew Hudson, Jr, Pastor

Elder Herman L. Simms, Pastor

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

Kelechi Ajieren Coordinator

Early Worship Service 7:30a.m Worship Service 10:45a.m.

New Members Class 9:30a.m.

Holy Communion : 1st Sunday -10:45a.m Church School 9:30a.m.

Prayer, Praise and Bible Study: Wednesday 7p.m Bible Study : Saturday: 11a.m.

Baptism: 4th Sunday – 10:45a.m “Empowered to love and Challenged to Lead a Multitude of Souls to Christ”

Sunday Worship Service 10:00 A.M.

Sunday Apostolic Worship Services 11:00 A.M and 5:00 P.M Communion and Feet Wash 4th Sunday at 5:00 P.M Prayer/Seeking Wednesday at 8:00 P.M. Apostolic in Doctrine, Pentecostal in Experience, Holiness in Living, Uncompromised and Unchanged.

The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42

New Commandment Baptist Church

Peace Baptist Church

Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor

Rev. Dr. Michael T. Bell 712 18th Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Phone 202-399-3450/ Fax 202-398-8836

13701 Old Jericho Park Road Bowie, MD. 20720 (301) 262-0560

Sunday Morning Worship Service 7:15 am & 10:50 am Sunday School 9:30am Sunday Morning Worship Service 10:50am Wednesday Prayer & Testimonies Service 7:30pm Wednesday School of the Bible 8:00pm Wednesday - Midweek Prayer Service 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Services: Sunday Worship 11 AM Sunday School 10 AM Wednesday Mid-Week Worship, Prayer & Bible Study - Wed. 7 PM “A Church Where Love Is Essential and Praise is Intentional”

“The Loving Church of the living lord “ Email Address pbcexec@verizon.net

Shiloh Baptist Church

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

The Church Where GOD Is Working....

And We Are Working With GOD

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

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

Sunday Church School: 9:15 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship: 10:40 a.m.

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

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

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

Morning Worship: 10:55 a.m.

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

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

Theme: “The Kingdom Focused Church” Matthew 6:33 and Mathew 28:18-20, KJV Email: stmatthewsbaptist@msn.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.org

Motto: : “Where God is First and Where Friendly People Worship”

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

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

Rev. Alonzo Hart Pastor

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

Christ Embassy DC

6839 Eastern Avenue, R1 Takoma Park, MD 20912 (202) 556-7065

1864-2014

150 Years of Service

Holy Trinity United Baptist Church

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Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 P.M. Friday Evening Service 7:00 P.M. ; Last Friday “…Giving Your Life a Meaning” www.Christembassydc.org Christ.embassy.dc@hotmail.com

Pennsylvania Ave. Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Kendrick E. Curry Pastor 3000 Pennsylvania Ave.. S.E Washington, DC 20020 202 581-1500 Sunday Church School: 9:30 A.M. Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 A.M. Monday Adult Bible Study: 7:00 P.M. Wednesday Youth & Adult Activities: 6:30 P.M. Prayer Service Bible Study

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

Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.

Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.

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

Prayer Services: Tuesday 7:30 p.m.

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

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LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

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

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

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

Administration No. 2014 ADM 268

Administration No. 2013 SEB 508

Claretha F. Smith Decedent

Daniel Walter Battle aka Daniel W. Battle Decedent

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

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

Herbert L. Smith III, whose address is, 107 Wheeler Lane, Frederick, MD 21702was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Claretha F. Smith, who died on October 24, 2013 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before October 3, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before October 3, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Shameeka Joy Burnette, whose address is PO Box 1183 Lanham, MD 20703, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Daniel Walter Battle aka Daniel W. Battle, who died on March 23, 2003 with a Will. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 27, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 27, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Administration No. 2014 ADM 266 Marie K. Little Young Johnson Decedent James Larry Frazier, Esquire 918 Maryland Ave., NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Barbara Opuni-Bediako, whose address is 9200 Edwards Way, #812, Hyattsville, MD 20783, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Marie K. Little Young Johnson, who died on September 4, 2013 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before October 3, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before October 3, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: April 3, 2014 Barbara Opuni-Bediako Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

Date of first publication: April 3, 2014 Herbert L. Smith III Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

Date of first publication: March 27, 2014 Shameeka Joy Burnette Personal Representative

COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration Number 2013 ADM 1293 Estate of Benjamin Attaway Deceased NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Sharon Berry Gilbert and Ameice Berry for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representative. Unless a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth.

Admit to probate the Will dated December 16, 2004.

excluding from probate the Affidavit to Will Property dated may 20, 2008.

Date of first publication: April 10, 2014

Personal Representative: Deborah Boddie, Esq.

Anne Meister

Administration No. 2014 ADM 232

Administration No. 2014 ADM 239

Administration No. 2014 ADM 285

Buffington E. Falls Decedent

Frances C. Howard Decedent

David Selkirk Wilson Decedent

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

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Tinley Joan Falls, whose address is 7123 Halleck Street, District heights, MD 20745, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Buffington E. Falls, who died on February 20, 2014 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 27, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 27, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Edwina Howard-Agu, whose address is 9015 Miles Street, Silver Spring, MD 20901, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Frances C. Howard, who died on December 13, 2013 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 27, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 27, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Sara Procacci Wilson, whose address is 329 F Street, NE Washington, DC 20002, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of David Selkirk Wilson, who died on February 5, 2014 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before October 3, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before October 3, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014 ADM 200 Joseph Virgil Gonzales Decedent Deborah D. Boddie, Esq. 1308 Ninth Street, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20001 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Christina Maria Tolbero, whose address is 12000 Scaggsville Rd., Fulton, MD 20759, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Joseph Virgil Gonzales, who died on August 21, 2013 with a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before October 10, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before October 10, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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That produced from GOP-dominated state legislatures in advance of the 2012 election a flurry of so-called voter identification laws whose real intent was to prevent significant numbers of Black, Hispanic and young voters in college from voting. And finally, in 2010, there was the Supreme Court’s Citizen United ruling, in which the conservative 5-member majority, likening corporations to individuals, declared that the ban against corporate contributions to political campaigns was a violation of corporations’ free-speech rights. Many conservatives jubilantly predicted

MALVEAUX continued from Page 26 Unsurprisingly, most of these states are in the South, but Northern states such as Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania have also made it more difficult for voters. North Carolina is so bad that Rev. William Barber, head of the state NAACP, has been leading hundreds outside the state capitol weekly for “Moral Mondays” design to draw attention to the immorality of voter suppression.

In a recent decision, the Supreme Court has now made it easier to purchase votes on First Amendment grounds, with the amount that the wealthy can give increasing exponentially. In

JACKSON continued from Page 26 long term future of Africa. I have travelled and done work in many countries on the continent. But, I am and have been very critical of Africa and many of their ambassadors for their lack of engagement with Blacks in the U.S. Since women claim to be better listeners than men, let’s put this theory to the test.

Madam Ambassadors, each of you stated that you wanted Americans, especially Blacks, to invest in your respective countries. Why should we? What is the business case for such an investment? Most African ambassadors have little engagement with the Black community, especially the businessman.

People all over the world tend to do business with people they know.

There are Black businessmen who have created and run multi-billion dollar companies and have never had an African ambassador come to meet with them. Business-

the decision would make Obama a one-term president come 2012.

But, again, the “community organizer,” playing the game conservatives thought they had rigged, out-organized and out-spent the GOP ticket on his way to a decisive re-election victory. That victory was grounded in an extraordinary turnout by Black voters, the “lead” voting bloc in the Democratic Party coalition.

The conservative response to that growing determination of Blacks to make their voices heard in the political process – has been to double-down on efforts to limit Black voters’ access to the ballot box. The Supreme Court conservative faction last year struck down the key section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 – in effect, giving those jurisdictions with a long-demonstrated history of trying to suppress the Black vote

permission to keep on trying. And, according to the just-published, Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century, since the 2012 election at least 82 bills restricting voting access have been introduced in the 31 states where more than 20 million Black Americans live.

That conservative dynamic of doubling-down on efforts to limit, if not reverse the expansion of democracy in America, which can be seen across the political landscape, offers the best perspective for considering the Supreme Court’s McCutcheon decision. The blather in the majority opinion about the free-speech rights of the wealthy is just a fig-leaf throwaway line meant to obscure a naked power grab.WI Lee A. Daniels is a longtime journalist based in New York City. His latest book is Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America.

McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, the court ruled that the limit on contributions is unconstitutional. McCutcheon is not shy about explaining why he wants to spend more money.

He wants to ensure that the law embraces conservative principles.

It is interesting that the McCutcheon decision comes in time to influence this election cycle. With this decision, the Supreme Court has made it easier to purchase an election. With limits on PAC money lifted, the court has created a well-funded monster. There is more than one way to suppress the vote, and this court is determined to silence citizens any way they can. They have nullified a key

section of the Voting Rights Act. They’ve made it possible to pour money into campaigns. In many ways they have attempted to shut people up, or at least skew the playing field in favor of the wealthy.

Rev. Jesse Jackson says that the hands that picked peaches can also pick presidents. We can’t pick anything if we don’t get to the polls. Voter suppression and well-funded opponents are obstacles to voting. Still, we impose some of the obstacles on ourselves.WI Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer.

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

men are not just going to magically show up in your country and want to invest millions of dollars in your country and you have never found the need to establish a relationship with these successful businessmen.

When your president’s come to the U.S., they always meet with the same group of White organizations: the Corporate Council on Africa, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, or the U.S. Institute for Peace, etc.

Madame Ambassadors, why is it that your presidents refuse to meet with these successful Black entrepreneurs when they are in the U.S.?

These same presidents would miss their own mother’s funeral to meet with Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, or Mark Zuckerberg, but when it comes to meeting the Black owner of a $ 6 billion IT firm, they can’t find time.

Madame Ambassadors, how many of you know that there are more than 200 Black newspapers in the U.S.? When you are allocating money to promote tourism to your

country, why do you never consider partnering with these Black media outlets? Do you think Blacks can’t afford to travel or have no discretionary income?

Madame Ambassadors, how many of you have made yourself available to be interviewed by those who own Black newspapers, magazines, or websites? Do you not believe that Blacks read or care about the motherland?

Before there can be an investment of money; there first has to be an investment of time.

Madam Ambassadors, remember, when all is said and done; there is more said than done.WI Raynard Jackson is president & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC., a Washington, D.C.-based public relations/ government affairs firm. He can be reached through his Web site, www.raynardjackson. com. You can also follow him on Twitter at raynard1223.

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EDELMAN continued from Page 27 when he and his mother went to a Mother’s Day parade last May. Two gunmen fired into the crowd, wounding 19 people, including Ka’nard and a 10-yearold girl.

“He panicked,” his mother said. “He said, ‘Mama, get me away from around here!’”

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Even children who are not directly hit by gun violence suffer the collateral damage of living in an unsafe environment saturated with guns that are routinely used to settle conflicts or to exact retaliation. A striking number of low income children in New Orleans have witnessed gun violence and murders, according to a 2011-2012 screening of children between the ages of 11 and 15 who participated in a teen

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Ka’nard still sees a psychologist because “I get mad real fast,” he said. His mother said he doesn’t like to go places by himself. But he attends a school he likes, has a mentor, has taken trips thanks to a local foundation, and plays drums in his school’s band. This year he was looking forward to marching in some of the city’s Mardi Gras parades—an event that should be a simple childhood pleasure,

but one Ka’nard, like so many of our nation’s children, can no longer take for granted.WI Marian Wright Edelman is president of the Children’s Defense Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information go to www.childrensdefense.org.

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So everyone saying ‘OMG IT’S ONLY BECAUSE HE’S BLACK’ calm down, being a minority is not some free pass to get into college. It is still incredibly challenging and rare to get into the top Ivies. This kid sounds brilliant and I wish him all the success.”

Wrote retop56: “This comment section is nothing short of hilarious. Yes, schools look for diversity in admissions, but it seems like a lot of people really think he did nothing except check a box that he’s black and waltz into 8 Ivies.”

One person wrote, “There are 1000s of spots for white students to get in but when they fail to do so, they blame it on the 50 black students that they let in every year.”

A White writer, JadeChaosTheory, noted: “Just by being white we have a ton of advan-

tages in general – minorities need the boosts where they can get it.”

He explained, “He [Enin] could graduate college with flying colors and still struggle to find a job/move up in the workplace because casual racism is a real and prevalent thing and there is an innate fear of people of color in positions of power.”WI George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA.) He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. Curry can be reached through his Web site, www.georgecurry.com.

You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge and George E. Curry Fan Page on Facebook.

dlemen and guarantees affordable health care for all. But that sounds too much like “socialized medicine” and to a sizeable portion of the population which already believes that President Obama is an “un-American, Moslem, communist,” a single payer system is not going to fly any time soon. We’ll just leave it where the insurance companies get rich, handling all the details in the manner to which we’ve all grown accustomed.

Meanwhile, March 2014 rolled around and with it, the March 31 deadline for enrollment into Obamacare. The president’s opponents were smug, confident that the public was voting against the ACA by staying home. But voila! March Madness, and there was a surge of enrollees, including the necessary under-40-year-old invincibles whose premiums without much need for treatment, would balance out the older enrollees whose treatments are just by definition more expensive.

There were so many folks lined up at the end to enroll, that the computers were once again overwhelmed and the administration gave waivers to all those who were trying to register but had not completed the process when the deadline arrived.

The final count? There were 7.1 million Americans who signed up for Obamacare, absolutely no thanks whatsoever to the Republican haters, who still think their opposition to the legislation will win them congressional and senate seats in November. Instead, it seems people may find themselves happy to have medical insurance so that one illness or one accident does not automatically spell bankruptcy.

Congratulations President Obama and your team! You delivered on that Obamacare goal, though your haters may be averse!

Now let’s see if it makes a difference in people’s lives and their health care outcomes.WI

thing out of the ordinary and are really good at it instead of being pretty good at many things. I’ve talked to college admissions people and they all say that they are trying to build a well-rounded class.

“For example 10 people from my high school applied to Stanford and the only one who got in had a 3.5 GPA (lowest of the 10) and a 2030 SAT (lowest of the 10) and he was in my class struggling mightily.”

Comeonreally8 wrote, “I am an admissions interviewer for one of the top Ivies and I see a HUGE number of minority applicants with top grades, great SATs, and great leadership in their extra-curriculars and they are rejected just as often as the non-minority applicants.

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What this country needs – and may still be able to eventually have – is a system like the Canadian system. Some call it “Medicare for all.”

That is, on the day a child is born, that child is enrolled in the medical delivery system about which there are not a whole lot of complaints – Medicare. The U.S. old-age-medical delivery system seems to work fairly well, with not a lot of complaints from senior citizens.

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