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AROUND THEBreak REGION the Cycle of Women Domestic Violence By Tia Carol Jones
law enforcement. She said they threat,” she said. had come together to bring a Among the programs Marlow sense of uniformity in the way wants to see implemented are When L.Y. Marlow's 23-year- domestic violence victims and stricter restraining order policies, old daughter told her the father survivors are treated. more rights for victim's families of her daughter threatened her “She's using her own personal to intervene on behalf of a viclife, and the life of their child, story, her own personal pain to tim, a domestic violence assessshe knew something had to be push forward,” Davis-Nickens ment unit coupled with further done. Out of her frustration said about Marlow. training for law enforcement with law enforcement's handling Davis-Nickens said anyone agencies, a Child's Life Protecof the situation, she decided to who reads Marlow's book will tion Act and mandatory counselstart the Saving Promise cam- “get it.” She said she “puts the ing for batterers. paign. case in such a way, the average “If we are ever going to eradi“It seems to be a vicious cycle person can get it.” She said at the cate domestic violence, we must that won't turn my family end of the day, the book will look at both sides of the coin. loose,” Marlow said. Marlow help people begin to have a dia- We need to address both the vicshared her story with the audi- logue about domestic violence. tim and the batterer,” Marlow Both the young at heart participated in the Hula contest encetheatyoung the and District Heights Also present at theHoop event was on Easter said. Monday at the National Zoo in Northwest. /Photo bySymposium Mark MahoneyMildred Muhammad, the exDomestic Violence Marlow would also like to see on May 7 at the District Heights wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise Municipal Center. The sympo- who was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in sium was sponsored by the utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She Family and Youth Services by a Maryland jury for his role in feels children need to be educatCenter of the city of District the Beltway Sniper attacks in ed about domestic violence. Heights and the National Hook- 2002. Mildred Muhammad is “We have to stop being pasUp of Black Women. the founder of After the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chilMarlow has written a book, alanZoo organization that helps the en dren about [with him].”domestic violence,” when the incident unfolded By SamMe P.K. Collinswhich is a “Color Butterfly,” survivors ofApril domestic violence Marlow said. Byron Ayers beamed as he on Monday, 21. WI Writer of and their children. storyContributing about four generations Marlow has friend’s worked son to break watched his dig “We were looking at the wild@sampkcollins domestic violence. The book is “I lived in fear for six years. Six the cycle of abuse in her family, through a bundle of hay during cats when we heard a couple of inspired by her own experiences, years in fear is a long time. It is and is confident the policies she Easter eggforhunt. said that 22. the Debra entered the shots,” and thoseSimpson of her grandmother, not ansaid easyMorgan thing Gregory*, to come out is pushing willHestart that he appreciated the combination She counted among the thousands her mother and her daughter. Smithsonian’s National Zoo in of,” she said. process. events exhibits the zoo visitors escorted out of the said zoo of “I She said every Muhammad planand to take thesethat policies to Northwest eager totime pass she on a reads fam- of Mildred excerpts from sheintrostill by on what he considered MPD late people whoMonday want afternoon. to help a offered Congress and implore themthe to ily tradition thather herbook, parents can not words came domestic day. Marlow said. must perfect “[All of violence a sudden]victim helicopters changespring our laws,” duced herbelieve to as a the youngster. from her. “Color be carefulin ofthehow go into will decided not stoptountil these come herepoliinsky they and we saw “I“We Simpson, along Me withButterfly” her hus- appeared won the 2007 National “Best police the victim's life, and understand cies are passed.” officers running toward the stead of the White House,” said band and two grandchildren, Books” Award. that she When may we be left in “survival Tia Carol Jonesget cantobe see reached 35. “You the entrance. the zoo, Ayers, caught a glimpse of the monkeys, “I was just 16-years-old when mode”. at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net animals and the Easter festivithey wouldn’t let us walk toward elephants, andblackened reptiles not my eye first andlong my “Before youPark get Metro to 'I'mStation going ties. It’s the perfect combination. Woodley after the zoo opened. They later the lips bled,” Marlow said. to kill you,' it started as a verbal WI enjoyed sticky, gooey cotton Elainesome Davis-Nickens, presi- so we had to [hike up the street] This is my first time here but it’s candy stroll to the next station,” said Gregory something that we will come back dent ofand thecontinued National their Hook-Up to next year. [The zoo provides] a along the curvy pathway. of Black Women, said there is no who lives in Hyattsville, Md. Monday’s incident followed a family-friendly atmosphere,” said consistency the way “I usually income earlydomestic because violence issues are the dealtteenagers] with by brawl in 2011 during which a teen- Ayers, a business owner who lives [altercations with happen in the evening and I [want ager suffered six stab wounds and in Silver Spring, Md. The African-American Family to avoid] the confusion,” said a flash mob looted nearby busiSimpson, 60. “The zoo is free so nesses along Connecticut Avenue. Celebration kicked off in 1891 as everyone gets an opportunity to A shooting at the zoo’s front gates an alternative for black families that could not participate in the come here on Easter Monday. My in 2000 left seven people injured. Easter Egg Hunt at the White Every year, families from across children are working adults so they House. It has since become a trathe D.C. metropolitan area and couldn’t come but I thought my grandchildren should experience country visit the zoo on Easter dition for many, attracting thouit,” said Simpson, a nurse who Monday and participate in a host sands of guests who enjoy the vaof activities that include face riety of exhibits and activities the lives in Temple Hills, Md. Hours after Simpson’s family painting, an Easter egg hunt, and zoo offers free of charge. “The National Zoo is a great releft the zoo grounds, gunshots rides on a miniature train throughsource,” said Claire Sheth, 43, who rang out across the street from out the day. “We celebrate [Easter Monday took part in Monday’s festivities the front gates of the zoo, causing authorities to evacuate the at the National Zoo] with activi- with her husband and four chilfacility shortly after activities for ties for all families to enjoy,” said dren during a weekend visit to the the African-American Family Day Annalisa Meyer, communications District. “We get to see animals L.Y. and Marlow hear Celebration ended. The Metropol- manager at the Smithsonian’s Na- from all over the world itan Police Department (MPD) tional Zoo. “[People] can learn the message of conservation. It’s confirmed that two men suffered more about our living collection critically important that it remains and the work we do day in and day free because then it’s open to evinjuries. Nearly 16,000 people from out to save [numerous] species. eryone,” said Sheth who lives in across the D.C. metropolitan area Families are [also] likely to see the Lexington, Mass. / www.washingtoninformer.com *Morgan Gregory is a pseudhad already filed through the black character ‘Easter Panda’ and have wrought-iron gates of the Nation- the chance to get their photos tak- onym. WI WI Staff Writer
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Howard’s alumni perplexed. They said his selection as the commencement speaker will only damage the school’s image. “We have been in the press for everything from homecoming going awry to funding with the hospital,” said Michael Fraser, who graduated from Howard with a business degree six years ago. “I would think they would get a figure that could lift the school’s image.” Third year student and marketing major, Jesse Salas, said too many are focusing on Combs’ rough image, particularly the 1991 City College incident. “It was one of those things that got out of control, but I don’t think you can blame Puffy,” said Salas, 20. “Look at what he’s become,” he said. In announcing Combs as the keynote speaker for the Saturday, May 10 ceremony in which 1,800 students will be awarded degrees, Howard’s interim president Wayne A.I. Frederick said the superstar has become a respected entrepreneur, philanthropist and entertainment mogul. Past Howard graduation speakers have included talk show host Oprah Winfrey, former first lady Hillary Clinton, retired Gen. Colin Powell and poet Maya Angelou. In exchange for his appearance, Combs will receive an honorary doctorate degree in humanities from the university. “In selecting the individuals who will be awarded honorary degrees, Howard University continues the tradition of identifying leaders whose work has clearly contributed to the advancement of their fields and the world,” said Frederick, 42. “We are honored to have Mr. Combs serve as our speaker. He sat in classrooms where our students sit … his entrepreneurial spirit was sparked at Howard. We know he will inspire our class to work hard and to always strive for excellence.” Born and raised in New York,
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Black Facts April 24 1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated. Over the years, the fundraising activities of the UNCF would result in thousands of college educations for African Americans. 1944 – Whites-only political primaries are declared unconstitutional. In a case known as Smith v. Allwright, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a “whites only” primary law which excluded Blacks from voting was a violation of the 15th Amendment and was thus unconstitutional. Such laws had been common throughout the South.
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April 25 1943 – Tuskegee Institute President Frederick Patterson writes his famous letter (published in the Pittsburgh Courier) urging the presidents of the nation’s predominantly Black colleges and universities to “pool their small resources and make an appeal to the national conscience” in order to produce more scholarship funds for the education of Black students. One year later on April 25, 1944, the United Negro College Fund is incorporated with 27 member colleges.
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April 26 1886 – The “mother of the Blues” Gertrude “Ma” Rainey is born Gertrude Pridgett in Columbus, Georgia. She began her career touring with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels. She was the first person to sing the Blues in minstrel shows. Rainey died December 22, 1939. 1958 – Film and stage actor Giancarlo Esposito is born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Of African-American and Italian heritage, Esposito’s work is most recognized in films by Spike Lee,
including “Do the Right Thing”, and “School Daze”, and his role on the NBC crime drama, Homicide: Life on the Street and AMC’s “Breaking Bad.” Esposito can currently be seen in the NBC drama “Revolution.” 1994 – The first all race elections take place in then white ruled South Africa. The elections would bring an end to 300 years of white minority rule, known as Apartheid. April 27 1903 – Maggie Lena Walker becomes the first Black woman to head a bank in America. In fact, she was the first woman of any color to head a bank when she was named president of the St. Luke Bank and Trust Company in Richmond, Virginia. Walker was an outstanding business woman who took over Richmond’s Order of St. Luke when it was nearly broke and rapidly losing membership. April 28 1967 – The World Boxing Association and the New York State Athletic Commission withdraw recognition of Muhammad Ali as world heavyweight boxing champion because of his oppo-
sition to the war in Vietnam and his resulting refusal to serve in the U.S. military. April 29 1992 – This was the first day of the Los Angeles riots which were sparked when a nearly all white jury acquitted four white cops in the brutal beating of Black motorist Rodney King even though the beating had been caught on tape. Two of the cops were later convicted on federal civil rights charges. The riots left at least 50 people dead, nearly 1,000 injuries and an estimated $1 billion in property damage. April 30 1863 - Sarah Thompson Garnet becomes the first African American female principal in the New York City public school system. 1992 - Bill Cosby’s successful show of upper middle class black family life The Cosby Show ran its final original episode after an eight season run.
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VIEWP INT Damaris Feleke Washington, D.C. Her resignation did not come as a surprise to me; it was expected. As head of an organization, it shows a lack of leadership for a person not to know the expected outcome of that organization’s actions. There must be some accountability. Unfortunately, it had to fall on Sebelius’s shoulders. I think she handled all of the controversy and criticism with grace, but I fully expected her to resign.
Sinclair Jay Washington, D.C. To be honest, I think the website rollout was handled pretty poorly in the beginning. Typically, with big software rollouts, you do it in pieces so you can see if it can handle the demand. But that wasn’t done with the Affordable Care Act website, and I was disappointed to see that. I think Sebelius handled the aftermath pretty well. I think she leaves the position on good terms politically and the general public will look favorably on her.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (HHS) SECRETARY KATHLEEN SEBELIUS RESIGNED FROM HER POST LAST WEEK AFTER PRESIDING OVER THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT’S CHAOTIC ROLLOUT. SHOULD SHE HAVE STEPPED DOWN?
Miguel Jones Silver Spring, Md. I don’t know what her full range of motivations were by resigning. I know that a lot of people who have worked for this administration are preparing to transition to new positions and career paths. We’ve had a number of high-profile resignations in the administration, and she’s just another one of them. I don’t know if her resignation was driven because of the health care rollout, but if it was, then I think it is a political mistake.
Lori Gordon Silver Spring, Md. I don’t have too strong of an opinion about her resignation as it’s her personal decision to do so. But I do believe that health equity is an essential right that each person should have, especially in a resource-rich nation like the United States. With a transition in laws there are always going to be growing pains. I think she handled the outcome as best as she could, and I think HHS is losing a great individual.
Yofi Dzidzienyo Takoma Park, Md. The website rollout was thrown into her lap, and she was not responsible for the nuts and bolts with the software. I think she became the scapegoat for something that carried a lot of controversy. I think people still aren’t 100 percent comfortable with the Affordable Care Act, and the administration needed [the rollout] to go as smoothly as possible. When it did not, heads started to roll. Unfortunately, we really didn’t get to see Sebelius’s full vision for HHS fulfilled. We also do not know much about the person who will replace her.
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for us to [work toward maintaining] a balance in our lives. You like to eat at McDonald’s? That’s fine but please make sure that you’re running and exercising as well,” McEachern told the crowd. The second annual festival in the District counted among numerous events that occurred in more than 190 countries around the world in observance of Earth Day, a yearly celebration of the environment and world peace that fell on Tuesday, April 22. It preceded another gathering that the Broccoli City Lifestyle Group will host on May 3rd in Los Angeles. On the grounds of the east campus, local go-go group Future Band, two-time Grammy-nominated artist Reesa Renee, and hip-hop producer Just Blaze kept the crowd jumping throughout the afternoon. Harlem hip-hop artist Cam’ron closed the show, performing his hit songs “Oh Boy,” “Get ’Em Girls,” “Get It in Ohio,” and “Down and Out” long after the sun had set. Those who didn’t feel like standing near the stage area practiced yoga exercises, purchased custom jewelry, and learned about the importance of creating healthy food options in urban neighborhoods. “I really connected with this amazing crowd,” said Julie Pitts, 26, founder and designer of Woodville Unlimited, a Durham, N.C.-based custom wooden jewelry business. Pitts, who sold her The Washington Informer
merchandise at the Broccoli City Festival in 2013, spent much of the afternoon chatting with visitors and showcasing her creations that included an array of necklaces, bracelets and earrings. “Even though I’m from North Carolina, I really feel at home here,” said Pitts. “People really like my jewelry. I attended the festival last year and I really looked forward to the message that [the Broccoli City Lifestyle Group] had to give. It’s earth friendly and holistic. It’s always good to be in an environment where people can carry themselves in such a mature way,” said Pitts who also lives in Durham. Supe Wheatley, a student at Northern Virginia Community College in Woodbridge, Va., said he couldn’t wait for Cam’ron to perform. He’s been a fan of the rapper since he joined Roc-a-Fella Records and formed The Diplomats, a hip-hop group also known as Dipset. “I was a big fan of Dipset growing up,” said Wheatley, 20. “So far, I’ve listened to some of the acts and [visited] a few vendors. It’s my first time coming here. I would definitely come back,” said Wheatley, an Alexandria, Va. resident. Star Ofogh said she enjoyed listening to the tunes that the deejays played. Sporting fuchsia shades, she clapped her hands and danced with her friend on the grassy field throughout the afternoon. “The festival offered so much,” said Ofogh, 24, an educator. “[My friend and I] wanted to check out
the local vendors. I liked eating crab cakes from one of the food trucks. Events like this always bring people together. It’s good to check out the music that I wouldn’t normally listen to. People had a chance to show their talent so it’s always good seeing that,” Ofogh, a Springfield, Va. resident, said with a smile. Garland Gantt spent much of the afternoon sampling lobster rolls from food trucks and catching up with old friends. Although the native Washingtonian expressed his excitement that the Broccoli City Lifestyle Group hosted the festival east of the Anacostia River, he remained skeptical that D.C. residents would ever see a similar gathering of young, black people ever again. “I came here to have a good time,” said Gantt, 30, a practicing attorney since 2012. “The Broccoli City Festival’s a relatively new event in the city. There are not many organized events where you can get thousands of black people together peacefully. As D.C. becomes more gentrified, I have a feeling that we will not see festivals like this [anymore], so I’m holding on for as long as I can,” said Gantt, a Northeast resident. Some vendors like budding entrepreneur Sentel Allen purchased a booth at the festival hoping to attract a new customer base for his business “No Dream Deferred.” Since starting in March, the Chapel Hill, N.C.-based boutique has launched a collection of customized T-shirts with inspira-
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A host of performers entertained the crowd during the second annual Broccoli City Festival on Saturday, April 19 on the grounds of St. Elizabeths’ East Campus. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah
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Ward 4 Politicos Eye Possible Council Vacancy Mere moments after D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) received word that she’d won the Democratic nomination for District mayor on April 1, political activists and observers in her ward started to speculate as to who would occupy her council seat. Bowser, 41, is the heavy favorite to win the mayor’s race – no Democrat has ever lost the mayoral general election in the District – and there will probably be a special election to replace her in May 2015. Cherita Whiting, a wellknown Ward 4 activist who has served as an advisory neighborhood commissioner and an aide to D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson (D), said she’s heard a few names being bandied about. “I’ve heard Brandon Todd, Joshua Lopez and Joe Martin,” Whiting said at the Democratic Party’s Unity Breakfast on April 4 at Matthews Memorial Baptist Church in Southeast. “There may be some others and there is a great deal of talk about this on the list serves.” Brandon Todd is a longtime Bowser confidant and the president of the Ward 4 Democrats. Lopez is a close friend of former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, a noted critic of D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D) and a former advisory neighborhood commissioner. Joe Martin served as former advisory neighborhood commissioner in the Northwest ward. Todd, 30, who is working actively to elect his mentor as the city’s next mayor, wouldn’t comment on the possible council member race and neither would Lopez, who’s also working on behalf of Bowser. However, Douglass Sloan, the advisory neighborhood commissioner for 4B09, said that he’s considering running for the council seat. “I have talked to friends and supporters of mine and that is the direction that I am looking at,” said Sloan, 41. Sloan ran in the May 2007 special election to replace Fenty as the Ward 4 council memThe Washington Informer
Renee Bowser campaigned for the Ward 4 council member spot in 2012. /Courtesy photo provided by Renee Bowser
Darrell Gaston serves as the advisory neighborhood commissioner for 8B02. /Courtesy Photo
ber and in 2010 against D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton in the Democratic Party primary. Renee Bowser, the advisory neighborhood commissioner for 4D02, said that she may jump in the race. “I am definitely taking a hard look at it,” said Bowser, 65. “I came in second to Muriel in 2012 and I was well ahead of the other competitors. I am really concerned about the education of the ward’s children, people being forced to leave the ward because they cannot afford to live here and we need more jobs in the ward.” Renee Bowser is a labor attorney and has served on the D.C. Commission on Human Rights. She said that she will make her decision on whether to run for Muriel Bowser’s seat in the near future.
Gaston Running for Board of Education Darrell Gaston, the advisory neighborhood commissioner for 8B02, has thrown his hat into the race Ward 8 D.C. State Board of Education election that will be held on Tuesday, July 15. If elected, Gaston said that he will work to improve the learning experience for students. “We need a progressive education plan that fits everyone’s needs in public education,” Gaston, 27, said on April 4. “We need to have policy experts to assess our education system and determine what it best for students.” The board of education position opened up in March when Trayon White, the Ward 8 board member, resigned to accept a full-time position with the District government. Gaston graduated from the Friendship Collegiate Academy Charter Public High School in Northeast and he received his bachelor’s degree from Coppin State University in Baltimore, Md. He ran for the Ward 8 council member position in the Democratic primary in 2012. Gaston has emerged as a leader in his community with efforts to curb youth violence, increase educational opportunities and he has been complimented by seniors for his attention to their needs. Gaston faces, at this point because the ballot lottery will not take place until Friday, May 23, Nate Bennett-Fleming, Derrell Simpson, Nydria Brenda Humphries, Tierra Jolly and Philip Pannell. Gaston said that as a board of education member, he will push for comprehensive measures to educate ward residents. “I not only want to help educate young people but the entire family as well,” the threeterm commissioner said.WI
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More than 200 leaders from the community, business and government sectors participated in the schools’ annual “Principal for a Day” event, which was held earlier this month. /Photo courtesy PGCPS
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Five Teams Headed to Global Finals Five school teams have advanced to the Destination Imagination Global Finals after competing in the state competition on April 5 at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The finals bring together more than 8,000 elementary- to college-age students from around the world in a showcase of creativity and innovations that center on technology, fine arts and science, to name few. More than 25 squads competed in the state competition, and the five teams and their participants who will be representing Prince George’s County Public Schools at the Global Finals are: Bond Mill Bulldogs – Haley Bateman; Grace Beck; Kenny Graninger; Marcus Jones; Amy Lepore; Peyton Ridgely; and Michael Stroud. Cool Beans Crew (Bowie and El-
eanor Roosevelt high schools) – Allie Crump; Troy Hepler; Laura Hyre; Temi Ibitoye; Kristy Le; John Abendroth; and Anna Fitzmaurice. Kenmoor MS Gummy Bears – Iman Owens; Nailah Reaves; Mariamu Sackor; Janaya Taylor; Michelle Troxler; and Odi Uhegwu. Senior Citizens (Bowie and Eleanor Roosevelt high schools) – Dylan Knolls; Joshua McFarland; Victoria Simmons; Maddie Simmons; and Izzy Swafford. Whitehall 7ups – Tinuke Alarapon; Dorian Barnes; Kai Cooper; Alicia Fernando; Gabrielle Fredrick; Kamryn Jackson; and Madison Spencer. The Global Finals will be held at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville May 21-24. Principal for a Day, Considered Huge Success The county schools system in partnership with the Prince George’s Chamber of Commerce, recently hosted its annual “Principal for a Day” program, where participants who selected the school of their choice, shadowed the principal throughout the school day. In doing so, the business, government and community leaders assisted and observed a range of student activities and special events. “We achieved a milestone with a total of 217 business partners for Principal for a Day,” said Schools CEO Kevin M. Maxwell. “It just shows the level of commitment to create and sustain a strong and supportive partnership. We’re in this together.” The participants also got a feel of what a routine school day is like while experiencing some of the challenges faced by administrators in public education. “There are a lot of similarities with a principal’s job and public relations,” said Craig Muckle, public affairs manager for Safeway grocery stores. “All the different fires they put out, and constantly changing schedules, definitely had me feeling right at home.” WI
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Contentious Race in Prince George’s County By Joshua Garner WI Staff Writer @JoshuaGarnerDC Politicians in southern Prince George’s County are gearing up for one of the most competitive election cycles in recent years due to an influx of candidates challenging incumbents’ seats. District 26, the epicenter of contentious elections this cycle, includes communities in Oxon Hill, Fort Washington, Temple Hills, Camp Springs, and is home to the National Harbor and the future site of MGM National Harbor. “It’s an interesting district,” said Sen. C. Anthony Muse, 57, who is running for reelection. “It’s no longer the sleepy district it used to be.” A total of nine candidates are vying for three House of Delegate seats in legislative District 26 led by incumbents Del. Jay Walker, Del. Kris Valderrama, former Prince George’s Councilman Tony Knotts, David Sloan, Xavier Aragona, Tamara Davis Brown, Keith Gray, and Leonard C. Hopkins. Del. Veronica Turner will vacate her seat in the House of Delegates to make a run for the District 26 state Senate directly challenging incumbent Muse while three other candidates are vying for the seat including community activist Jerry Mathis and Brian Patrick Woolfolk. Kelley Howells is the only candidate running as a Republican. Prince George’s County is heavily democratic; winners in the Tuesday, June 24 primary are expected to win the general election, which is set for Nov. 4. During the 2010 election cycle, Muse formed a political slate, or ticket, joined by Turner, Walker, and Prince George’s Councilman Obie Patterson (D-Dist. 8) and became the de facto Democratic Ticket for the district. The slate subsequently won election but has since fallen apart due to what several leaders said was a breakdown in communication. “[The ticket] disintegrated,” said Mathis, 61, who also ran for county council in 2010. “Each of them will be on their own. This
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will determine how good they are on their own.” Turner said she thought long and hard before filing her candidacy for Senate and waited for Muse to communicate to her whether he was going to stay in office or possibly run for county executive. She said that she never received confirmation from him on the matter. “I felt there was a slot open. I felt [that this] was time for a change – I had new hope,” Turner, 64, said. “It’s hard work but hard work is what I do.” Turner said she still considers Muse a friend, but broke away from the political slate to form one with Valderrama and Sloan, a newcomer to the district election cycle. But Muse said he extended an offer to Turner, Walker, and Valderrama to work together in the election during a meeting in Annapolis in January of 2013 but has not heard from the delegation on the issue since the meeting. “Tickets have to jell together – you have to work as a team,” said Muse, 56. “There can’t be a sense of competitiveness.” Walker and Valderrama said while they recall the meeting, they don’t remember Muse making an offer to join a political slate for the
2014 election. “He held the meeting but it was very cold,” said Valderrama, 43. “It was kind of awkward. I thought it was jacked up.” Muse hinted that Walker would still be a part of his ticket for the current election but Walker said he has formed a slate with Patterson and Knotts. “I can’t force a senator to put me on his ticket,” Walker, 42, said. “I thought we would have some type of unity – we still have to strive toward that.” While Muse and Turner square off for a Senate seat, Turner is leaving her delegate seat vacant and inciting one of most competitive races in the county. “They smell blood in the water,” Mathis said of the seven non-incumbents who have entered the delegate race. “These folks are after that one seat.” Sloan, 31, a former aide to Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) said he’s also eyeing one of the District 26 delegate seats; the three candidates with the most votes are elected to the House of Delegates to represent the district. “My [top] priority is voter engagement,” Sloan said. “I believe we are the only campaign that’s knocked on 8,000 doors and made over 6,000 calls [to residents].”WI
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Black LGBT Seniors Struggle with Double Discrimination By Matthew S. Bajko Special to the Informer from New America Media In San Francisco African American seniors who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) often face double jeopardy in terms of discrimination. Within the black community, they struggle to overcome homophobia. In the LGBT community, they encounter race-based prejudices. “We’ve gotten burdened at both ends of the candle. By the African American community, which until recently tended to be more conservative relative to the LGBT community within its own ranks,” said Larry Saxxon, 61, a gay black man who served
on the city’s LGBT Aging Policy Task Force. Shunned by Two Communities “A lot of the African American community still works under the larger social, psychological and political tendencies of the church,” he said. Saxxon added, “On the other hand, we’ve gotten burned by the LGBT mainstream community at large because of racism.” Those experiences can hamper elder LGBT African Americans’ willingness to seek out support within either community, noted Saxxon. “You have a very narrow margin in which you can survive and glean support when you can’t fall back on racial bloodlines because
Larry Saxxon said homophobia in the African American community and racism in the LGBT community makes for a narrow margin with which to work for gay African Americans. /Photo by Rick Gerharter/Bay Area Reporter, Courtesy of New America Media of homophobia, and you cannot fall back unconditionally on the LGBT community because of racism,” he said. “You have a very small margin within which to work.” Those experiences were captured by the findings of the report, “Addressing the Needs of LGBT Older Adults in San Francisco: Recommendations for the Future.” Completed in March, the study is based on a survey that the city’s Task Force commissioned
last year. Of the 616 LGBT residents (ages 60 to 92), who took part in the survey, 5 percent identified as African American. (The city’s total black population, both LGBT and straight, was 6 percent in 2012 and has been in decline for years.) The survey found that the African American participants “are at greater risk” for being discriminated against due to their gender identity, sexual orientation, race and gender “relative to other racial
or ethnic groups.” Similar to the survey’s Latino respondents, African American LGBT seniors in San Francisco are also less likely to own a home compared to other LGBT seniors in the San Francisco and are more likely to be in the closet. Both racial groups also reported higher rates of needing mental health services and alcohol or substance abuse programs.
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DISCRIMINATION continued from Page 14 “I have often told people that being old, black, and gay in America is tantamount to being dipped in a vat of acid every single day when I walk outside my door,” said Saxxon. “I have to pray for grace and endurance so I can walk out with dignity and, with the help of a higher power, to walk back in. I can’t allow this society to rob me of my spiritual joy of living.” It is unknown how many LGBT African American seniors are living in San Francisco, as the city’s senior demographics are not broken down by race and sexual orientation. It is believed that as many as 20,000 LGBT seniors currently live in the city. Nationally, the 2010 U.S. Census data does not distinguish LGBT seniors by racial group among the country’s 42 million adults aged 65-plus. But overall, a 2013 report on LGBT older adults by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force estimates that “anywhere from 1.5 to 7 million older adults” are a part of the LGBT community. As American society continues to grow older, “LGBT elders of color are an important part of this demographic shift,” notes the national organization Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE), in its 2013 report, “Health Equity and LGBT Elders of Color: Recommendations for Policy and Practice.” Health Disparities Yet, says the SAGE report, “Available research shows that they often face heightened health disparities and are largely rendered invisible in public policy
discussions on aging.” The 30 African American respondents to the San Francisco survey reported a “significant need” for housing assistance and were “the least likely” to have a will, power of attorney for healthcare, revocable /irrevocable trust and a power of attorney for finance. “Among the racial and ethnic groups, African Americans have the lowest rates of future planning,” concluded the report. Perry Lang, executive director of the San Francisco-based Black Coalition on AIDS, who also served on the Task Force, sees housing as a key concern among his agency’s clients, whether they are old or young, LGBT or straight. “I think the housing connection is definitely there,” said Lang, 59, who is also a gay African American. Even though only a small percentage of survey participants had HIV/AIDS, he noted, “As a health organization we realize it is difficult sometimes to work on health issues if people do not have adequate housing.” The African American Community Health Equity Council, collaboration between Lang’s agency and the San Francisco Department of Public Health, plans to review the recommendations in the final Task Force report. “They make recommendations for the larger African American community and they include LGBTQ members on it,” said Lang, who serves as the council’s administrative director. [Some experts add “Q” for queer.] “I think the pivotal piece to me is an acknowledgment by the task
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Are Blacks Being ‘Schooled?’ Knowledge is power … Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. – Kofi Annan On their promises for “progress” for-profit higher education has become a booming business. As Black students seek to fulfill their career goals, for-profit schools are major players regarding their education. Blacks are going to college in higher numbers. And, the headlong rush of Black Americans to get an education has been ripe for the picking. Hundreds of thousands of Blacks have landed at for-profit schools, become overloaded with debt, and have little to show for it. A “for-profit” college, the University of Phoenix, graduates the most people of color in the nation. Once the sole domain of aspiring hairdressers and truck drivers and typists, people looking primarily for vocational training, the for-profit schools that dominate education today serve a great many more needs. Folks looking to pick up a college degree, a master’s, even a doctorate, can do so from for-profit colleges. Education Department reports show for-profit programs account for about 13 percent of all college students but 46 percent of all loan defaults. According to education surveys, almost every single graduate of a for-profit school – 96 percent – leaves with debt. During the 2009-2010 school year, the for-profit school industry used 25 percent of federal student aid. The loan default rate among for-profit college students is more than double that of their peers in both public and non-profit private schools. These days, the Obama administration is proposing a regulatory regimen that could close hundreds of degree programs that are enrolling a million students in fields ranging from accounting to air conditioning repair. The for-profit colleges are rejecting the proposed regulation as an unacceptable, and possibly illegal, federal intrusion into the private sector. For-profit education (also known as the education services industry or proprietary
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By William Reed education) refers to educational institutions operated by private, profit-seeking businesses. The major category of for-profit schools is post-secondary institutions which operate as businesses, receiving fees from each student they enroll. The numbers of for-profit colleges exploded after 1992 when the United States House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce created the “9010 rule” and defined “institution of higher education” for the purposes of federal-aid eligibility as including for-profit institutions. The University of Phoenix opened in 1976. Today, the University of Phoenix is the largest institution of higher education in the nation and top producer of African American and students of color baccalaureates. The second top producer of Black baccalaureates that year was Ashford University, a for-profit institution. Black students have been the core of the four-year for-profit industry’s growth. Between just 2004 and 2010, Black enrollment in four-year for-profit schools jumped 264 percent. Schools such as Everest, Westwood, Kaplan and ITT, have become regular advertisers on TV channels and media beamed to Blacks. Many for-profit institutions are subsidiaries of larger parent companies such as the Apollo Group, Career Education Corporation, Corinthian Colleges, Inc., and DeVry, Inc. DeVry is big among Blacks. The DeVry Education Group is global. The Obama administration should be recognized for its efforts to curb the excesses of for-profit schools. For-profit colleges would lose all federal student aid, a fatal blow, if their students fail tests of earnings and debt default under the proposed regulations. The for-profits’ association, the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities say that the Obama regulations will severely limit access and opportunity for students
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Shattering the NCAA Exploitive Business Model The recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision granting Northwestern University football players the right to unionize, if upheld, will shatter the NCAA’s business model. When you add to the mix the frontal attack launched a few days before by noted antitrust lawyer Jeffrey Kessler, accusing the NCAA of colluding to deprive athletes of the ability to earn more than the value of their scholarships and the pending lawsuit challenging the NCAA rule that bars players from earning money from the use of their images, it is safe to say that we are at the dawn of a new era in college sports. At some point, the athletes, who do the heavy lifting, will finally receive a slice of the $16 billion per year college basketball and football pie. The ruling that college athletes are employees and not merely “student-athletes” confirms what we have known all along: College sports is big business – for everyone except the athletes who make it possible. College basketball and football have long operated as quasi-farm systems for professional teams by discovering talent, training players, and highlighting performance. The NCAA and the college administrators who lead its member institutions would have us believe that they place the best interest of the student-athlete above all else. They have produced a TV commercial that reminds us: “We have 400,000 student-ath-
letes and most of them will go pro in something other than sports.” Whether they go pro in sports or “something other than sports,” college sports is given higher priority than academics on campuses across the nation, even at premiere academic institutions. To its credit, Northwestern ranks No. 1 among the six power conferences (ACC, Big East, Big-Ten, Big-12, Pac12 and SEC) with an 83 percent graduation rate. Even so, Kain Colter, their former quarterback and the leader of the movement to allow college football players to form a union, was steered away from pursuing a pre-med curriculum because a chemistry class conflicted with football practice. Consequently, he ended up majoring in psychology. In the Northwestern case, NLRB Regional Director Ohr ignored the myth of the ‘student-athlete” and decided that Northwestern football players are primarily employees whose principal job is to generate revenue. And that’s just the beginning of the NCAA’s woes. Next up is the Ed O’Bannon lawsuit. In that case, former college athletes are challenging the NCAA’s ability to profit off the name and likeness of players without compensating them. In the most direct challenge yet to the NCAA’s economic model, Jeffrey Kessler, the attorney who helped represent the NFLPA in the landmark antitrust case in which NFL players won free agen-
cy, has filed suit accusing the NCAA of colluding to deprive athletes of earning more than the value of their scholarships. The main objective of Kessler’s lawsuit is to strike down permanently the restrictions that prevent Division 1 basketball and football players from being fairly compensated for the billions of dollars in revenues they help generate. If judges in upcoming court cases challenging the NCAA apply the same objectivity as the NLRB exemplified, a union will be the least of the NCAA’s worries. As a preemptive strike against the inevitable change in college sports, don’t be surprised if you see both public and private universities begin to offer forms of compensation beyond the traditional college scholarship. In order for the NCAA to remain relevant, it cannot continue to defend a system that results in so many lost college opportunities, especially concentrated among Black males from low- and middle-income families. These changes should not be restricted to universities; they should also extend to the colleges themselves, coaches, advertisers, television networks, facility operators, athletic gear manufacturers and retailers. The wholesale exploitation of college athletes is the true definition of unsportsmanlike conduct.WI Everett L. Glenn, an attorney and former sports agent, was one of the first agents to represent multiple NFL and NBA first-round draft picks in the same year. His clients have included three NFL Hall of Fame inductees and 11 first-round draft picks. He is author of a NNPA three part series detailing how the sports industry exploits not only Black athletes, but other African Americans – accountants, financial advisers, banks, construction firms, etc. – who are capable of rendering services.
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to follow this issue. Black students attending for-profit school courses cannot be allowed to continue amassing huge debt they can’t pay. It’s time this issue be brought to the fore to be discussed, and debated. It’s important that concerned African Americans take action to send
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seeking career skills and training. And, will cut off access for hundreds of thousands of students in thousands of programs. The public would do well
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Group Walks to Fight Eating Disorders Anorexia, Bulimia, Plague Young Women, including Blacks By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Fighting self-loathing and battling the stress of her father being hospitalized with a massive coronary, Lisa Beasley could only think of one way to ease the heavy emotional load that she carried. “I’d go to a restaurant, a sitdown place, fast food, it didn’t matter,” Beasley said. “Then, I’d order two of everything and I’d swallow the food as if I’d never eaten before and then of course I’d make myself vomit,” said Beasley who suffers from both anorexia and bulimia. The binge eating and purging wasn’t a one-time occurrence
for Beasley, who like so many others suffering from the mental illness known as eating disorders, continued to try and feel better by drowning her sorrows in food. Beasley, 22, an African American who lives in Northeast, said she hopes not only to one day recover from the illness that overtook her a decade ago, but she wants to eventually run an organization that helps individuals with emotional, psychological and other disorders. Latasha Venable, a Biology major at a local college, said she also suffers from anorexia and bulimia and has had difficulty coming to terms with her illness. “I think about food all of
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about 111 pounds, but for me, it’s not like I’m trying to attract attention from men right now.” Officials at the New Yorkbased National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) said they are waging a war against eating disorders and unrealistic ideals about physical appearance. To help raise funds, spread awareness and support the local community, the organization has scheduled its fourth annual D.C. NEDA Walk at the National Mall on Sunday, April 27. Statistics show that about 20 million women and 10 million men in the United States suffer from a clinically significant eating disorder, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, or some other kind of eating disorder. A recently published study by the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, revealed that while eating disorders have historically been categorized as a problem for young white females, black women are 50 percent more likely than whites to be bulimic. “I think it’s important to reach out to African-American women because it isn’t just a white girls illness, it’s like all other mental illnesses in that there’s a stigma and it’s difficult to get people to talk about it,” said Shelly Montgomery, a Northwest resident and American University student who will help lead the NEDA walk beginning at 10 a.m. Montgomery, 22, who’s Caucasian, said as the walk approaches, she’s preparing to reflect on her own battle with
anorexia and bulimia. At age 13, Montgomery, who coaches field hockey at the university, said she was assaulted by someone she knew and trusted. That traumatic experience and other problems led Montgomery to view her body differently, she said. “You just don’t see yourself the same way,” she said. “I found escape in pushing my body to the limits. I starved, purged and over-exercised to ensure my survival, but really, I was killing myself. I was depressed and I needed help.” After struggling for five years and finally becoming fed up with her illness, Montgomery sought help, she said. Health officials said support from loved ones is essential. Also, they said few should be surprised when African Americans struggle with the illness, regardless of their social or economic standing. “I just wanted to be so thin, that was my main thing and so I started not taking care of myself,” pop singer Brandy Norwood said in a recent interview. “Not eating properly, not eating at all. Diet, pills, regurgitating, and all of these things that girls do, I did. People don’t understand that being the hottest star or making the most money does not mean anything,” said Norwood, 35. “I was making so much money and I was the unhappiest teenager, probably in the world.” The fight against eating disorders was thrust into the public spotlight more than 30 years ago
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when superstar singer Karen Carpenter, who suffered from anorexia, died of heart failure caused by complications related to her illness. She was 32. NEDA officials said finding the right treatment for an eating disorder can also be a daunting process as patients must determine what kind of therapy would be most effective, how to find an experienced provider and how they will be able to afford treatment. For those who suffer from eating disorders, the NEDA walk should prove encouraging, if not beneficial, Montgomery said.
“I hope with every fiber of my being that I can relay a message of strength, forgiveness and hope that will make an impact for people suffering from eating disorders or abuse,” she said. “I refused to be defined by what happened to me or by the eating disorder that claimed my mind and body for so long. Instead, I hope to change the world, maybe even just one person’s world and let that define me, not my own scars.”WI For more information about the NEDA walk, or to register or donate, visit www.nedawalk.org/washingtondc, or call 212-575-6200.
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EDUCATION AROUND BRIEFS THE REGION Summer Bridge Program
Summer Bridge for rising 9thgrade students takes place each day from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., June 30 through Aug. 1. Students who participate in the innovative program which launched in 2012, will make connections with future classmates and teachers, strengthen academic skills and learn practical strategies for high school success. Most of the students who can voluntarily sign up for the non-traditional summer project, have struggled in reading and math at their current school and are looking for an interesting way to get a jump start on high school success while bolstering their math and literacy skills. According to a report published in 2011, just 53 percent of the District’s public schools students graduate high school within four years. However, program officials hope to improve upon that percentage in the near future. While students enrolled in the Summer Youth Employment Program can work while participating in Summer Bridge, other participants can earn a stipend or 0.5 credits toward graduation.
There is no enrollment fee for the program and both breakfast and lunch will be provided. For more information, please call 202-442-5673. High School Summer School Grades 9 and 12 are a priority for the credit recovery program, but all high school grade levels are eligible for classes which will be held each day from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., June 30 through Aug. 1. Summer school classes are longer than traditional school year classes to ensure that students are given the time needed to recover their credits, and the High School Summer School program provides summer credit recovery opportunities to students who are not currently on track to graduate. There is no enrollment or registration fee and breakfast and lunch will be provided. Students can register for High School Summer School with their respective counselors. Parents can contact their child’s counselor for answers to their questions, or more information can be obtained by calling 202- 442-5047.
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Project Search
The program for grades 9-12, will be offered each day from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., July 14-15. Project Search is a school-towork transition program for students with disabilities ages 1822, who are on track to receive a certificate. However, the goal of the pro-
gram is to prepare participants for various jobs in the office/ administrative services field. Participating students will receive special on-the-job training at two federal worksites and daily classroom instruction. The summer job orientation project, which operates for two weeks, is designed to prepare students for a year-long internship during the 2014-15 school year. There is no fee for enrollment or registration, and breakfast and lunch will be provided. For more information, please call 202-442-5543. WI
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Equal Work, Equal Pay It’s a shame and an embarrassment that in 2014, the issue of equal pay for women remains unresolved and that certain politicians and activists are using pay equity as a political football. Last week, President Barack Obama signed two executive orders seeking to balance the playing field. One executive order will direct the U.S. Department of Labor to create new regulations so that federal contractors begin reporting wage data to the government, requires employees to demonstrate that salary differences among male and female employees doing the same work are based on factors other than sex, and puts some teeth into penalties for violations of equal pay. The other bars federal contractors from retaliating against employees who share their salary information with each other. Both will affect a large section of the workforce – federal contractors – and should put a dent in the disparities that currently exist. Equal pay is not an empty mantra. It speaks to women’s ability to make a decent living, earn what they are worth and thrive during a time in this country when all but the wealthiest struggle to make ends meet. For every dollar a man makes, women currently earn, on average, 77 cents. And this inequality is spread across all occupations. Studies have shown that in the 20 largest jobs occupied by women, females make less than men. Sen. Elizabeth Warren noted that women are taking a hit in nearly every occupation. According to a Bloomberg analysis of Census data, median earnings for women were lower than those for men in 264 of 265 major occupation categories. And in 99.6 percent of occupations, men get paid more than women, while twice as many women work for poverty wages than men. That’s not an accident, Warren asserts, that’s discrimination. We couldn’t agree more. Fair pay opponents may try to dress up their arguments in flowery language and high-sounding ideals, but anyway they put it, it’s still discrimination. Ironically the first bill Obama signed when he assumed office in 2009 was the Lilly Ledbetter Bill, named for a woman who had worked for about 20 years at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and found out that men doing the same job as her, some with less experience, earned a great deal more money than she did. Not surprisingly, a number of Republican males in the House and Senate opposed Obama’s efforts and blocked a Senate vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act last week for the third time. And the GOP-led House isn’t likely to bring the issue to the floor. A wide cross-section of women in both parties, however, do support equal pay for women. Democrats have used the bully pulpit to raise the issue recently and they hope it and other issues germane to women will give them traction in the mid-term elections. Fair pay is an issue worth fighting for ideological and practical reasons. For a country which professes to uphold the values of equality and justice, this egregious situation is a blot against the United States. If there is a wage or salary disparity, it should be because of differences in skill, performance, seniority and expertise, not sex. Continuing to allow this inequality to linger saps the country of its strength and erodes the confidence of women who work as hard and harder than men but have less to show for it. Women have the right to expect this basic protection, have the right to know what their male colleagues are making. And they have the right to fight for parity. Hopefully, reintroducing pay equity into the national discourse jumpstarts serious discussion and prompts the will, political and otherwise, to correct a longstanding grievance against a group that represents more than half of America’s population. www.washingtoninformer.com
Bowser Will Need Our Support
I appreciate The Informer’s coverage on the District’s political scene – especially James Wright’s weekly political roundup. Because I like to call myself a close follower of D.C. politics, I find Mr. Wright’s column to be up-to-date, fair and accurate. He’s in tune with the pulse of the city, and that, coupled with his persistence and ability to remain neutral and unbiased places The Informer among the best for partisan reporting. Now that Ward 4 Council member Muriel Bowser will be competing for the mayor’s post in the November general election, my concern is not about how well that race will be covered, but how well the District’s non-white residents will support her. Of course, there will be those who won’t vote for Bowser (and it’s true she’ll have a struggle filling shoes the likes of Anthony Williams and Vincent Gray) and that’s their right. But at a time when it appears that the color of the District is gradually changing, we need to be rethinking its leadership in terms of how it’s going to best benefit black residents who are usually disproportionately affect-
ed in unemployment, affordable housing, school closings and a host of services and incentives afforded to new, incoming white residents under the guise of gentrification. Considering the slate of candidates who’ve already lined up for the election, in my opinion it would be wise to rally support around Bowser to keep some semblance of black leadership firmly based at the top of city government. Once she’s in office we can rest assured that while she’ll wear the title of mayor she’ll be surrounded by a strong network of movers and shakers who will help keep things on track.
Year after year, since 1912 when Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo presented the District with 3,000 cherry trees – the first of which were planted at the Tidal Basin – Washingtonians and people from around the world have enjoyed the timeless gift. Despite the wonderful lineup of performers at the April 12 celebration, at the end of the day – and as usual – the cherry blossoms reigned supreme. Those glorious cherry blossoms – what a classic Washington scene! Joanne Wilson Washington, D.C.
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Celebrating the Cherry Blossoms
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The State of Black America Chaka Khan sang, “Tell me somethin’ good.” The 2014 National Urban League (NUL) report, State of Black America, “One Nation Underemployed: Jobs Rebuild America,” contains a lot of great information, but it will only prove to be “good” if we use it to build a solid and long lasting economic base. The 236page report is full of statistics and insights Black people need to know – and act upon. Knowl-
edge is only power if we use it. For the most part, Black people in this country are at the bottom of every good category and at the top of every bad one. Of course most of us don’t need the National Urban League or anyone else to tell us that; we see it every day all around us, but supporting statistics are a great way to drive the point home. Sad to say, our overall “state” is not good. (Sorry, Chaka) I would love to see a report on the “Fate” of Black America. Maybe that would wake us
up and get us involved in changing our “state.” Reports on our “state” are nice but they usually tell us what we already know. Acknowledging and discussing our fate might scare us into implementing long term, solution-based, and work related approaches to our challenges. I was intrigued by some of the responses to our “state” from Black folks. For instance, a chapter on “Minorities Losing Economic Ground,” by Jesse Holland, states, “Despite the ‘dismal’ numbers, an analysis
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by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found African-Americans significantly more ‘optimistic’ about their future standard of living than whites…” Holland continued, “The survey found high optimism even among Blacks who say racism is a cause for economic inequality.” Another irony in the Urban League report referred to the new “Chocolate City,” Memphis, Tenn., which is 63 percent Black, according the 2010 U.S Census (The NUL report says 46 per-
cent), yet ranks the “most equal for ‘Hispanics’ in unemployment equality” (3.8 percent), compared with a 6.5 percent unemployment rate for whites.” The unemployment rate for Blacks in Memphis is 16.6 percent What’s wrong with that picture? While optimism is commendable, it is irrational for us to be complacent and continue responding to old problems with the same failed measures of the
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By George E. Curry
Memories of LBJ, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton Covering the three-day celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act at the University of Texas last week brought back a string of memories – some fond, some bitter. As a son of the South –Tuscaloosa, Ala., to be specific – I saw firsthand how the region was transformed from America’s version of apartheid to one that is perhaps more genuinely accepting of African Americans than any
other geographical section of the country. Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton – all White Southerners who grew up in the Jim Crow South – played a significant role in the region’s transformation. But that didn’t happen in a vacuum. Each was pushed and challenged by the modern Civil Rights Movement, a multi-racial movement, with Blacks serving as chief architects that prodded the U.S. to have its deeds mirror its professed ide-
als. (George W. Bush, a wealthy Texan, is omitted from this discussion because he did nothing significant to advance civil rights. In fact, his appointment of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court represented a setback to the cause of civil rights.) While Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Whitney Young of the National Urban League; NAACP Executive Director Roy
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Wilkins; John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Roy Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) receive the lion’s share of publicity about the movement, the true heroes were the everyday men and women of the South who risked their jobs and lives to be treated as equals. As a senior at Druid High School, I participated in the last leg of the Selma-to-Montgomery March. A group of us
skipped school one day and went to Birmingham to protest the killing of the four little girls at 16th Street Baptist Church. And when we boycotted the segregated buses in my hometown, I borrowed Uncle Percy’s car and joined dozens of others who retraced the bus routes through our community, picking up people and giving them a free ride to their destination. A few Alabama-born Whites
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By Raynard Jackson
Whitewashing Republican Support of Civil Rights One of the best kept secrets over the past 50 years is that, proportionately, Republicans in Congress supported passage of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act by a much wider margin than Democrats. As CNN.com reported, “The Guardian’s Harry J. Enten broke down the vote, showing that more than 80% of Republicans in both houses voted in favor of the bill, compared with more
than 60% of Democrats. When an account is taken for geography, according to Enten’s article, 90% of lawmakers from states that were in the union during the Civil War supported the bill compared with less than 10% of lawmakers from states that were in the Confederacy.” This is from a report from CNN, not FOX, the network despised by liberals. There was another interesting tidbit in the CNN report: “Ohio’s Republican Rep. William McCulloch had a conserva-
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tive track record – he opposed foreign and federal education aid and supported gun rights and school prayer. His district (the same one now represented by House Speaker John Boehner) had a small African-American population. So he had little to gain politically by supporting the Civil Rights Act.” “Yet he became a critical leader in getting the bill passed. “His ancestors opposed slavery even before the Civil War, and he’d made a deal with President Kennedy to see the bill The Washington Informer
through to passage.” The article noted, “’The Constitution doesn’t say that whites alone shall have our most basic rights, but that we all shall have them,’ McCulloch would say to fellow legislators.” But you would not know any of this if you relied on the official ceremonies at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library last week marking the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights. The three-day summit at the University of Texas featured President Obama and former
presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. How can you have a discussion of Civil Rights and not have one Black Republican? How could you not have Robert J. Brown, top aide to President Nixon and one of Dr. King’s closest confidants? What about former Eighth District Court of Appeals Judge Sara J. Harper? Last year, she was inducted into the Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame. They even
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Ryan Budget Represents the Height of Irresponsibility “Affluent Americans would do quite well. But for tens of millions of others, the Ryan plan is a path to more adversity.” Robert Greenstein, President of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities In the same week that we marked the 46th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and learned that 7.1 million Americans had enrolled in the Affordable Care
Act, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan introduced a draconian 2015 budget plan that increases military spending through 2024 by $483 billion – to pre-sequester levels – yet cuts non-defense spending by $791 billion. This illogical plan proposes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, end Medicare as we know it, and slash critical safety-net programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (or SNAP – formerly food stamps), Head Start and Pell Grants. It is
ironic that a plan called the “Path to Prosperity” is nothing more than a path to political grandstanding and partisanship that has no place among constructive efforts focused on real prosperity for all Americans, not a select few. At a time when Americans are looking to Washington for solutions to the problems of income inequality and the ever-increasing Great Divide, the Ryan budget goes in the opposite direction. Rather than closing the gaps, it exacerbates the prob-
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lems by raising taxes an average of $2,000 for middle-class families with children, according to the Office of Management and Budget, while giving the wealthiest taxpayers a break by lowering their taxes from 39.6 percent to 25 percent. The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) estimates that the “prosperity proposal” would result in the loss of 3 million jobs over the next couple of years, thereby reversing the gradual upward trend in job creation. In short, the Ryan budget, while
not surprising in its familiar ideology or fanciful push towards austerity, represents the height of irresponsibility and is a blueprint for disaster for millions of hard-working Americans. It has immediately, and rightfully, drawn widespread condemnation. Ethan Pollack, Senior Policy Analyst with the non-partisan Economic Policy Institute concluded that much like the budget Ryan proposed last year,
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By Harry C. Alford
No, This is Not a Black Thing Racial discrimination does exist in this world but certainly not at the level it did prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It has been waning but sometimes it will lift its ugly head. Whenever that happens it should be snuffed out quickly and firmly. As one proud Jamaican member of the National Black Chamber of Commerce said to me, “Show me that I am late; my price is too high, my product is unsafe.
Don’t you ever say no because of the color of my skin, for I will fight you with every breath of my life.” That is wise advice and we must be certain not to shrug off pressure or rebuke by saying, “It’s because I am Black.” So when we hear people say that our president or attorney general is being criticized because they are Black, we should check them. Heck, the fact of the matter they are where they are because of the timing and the fact that they are Black – at least considered
Black. The fact is, as a whole, our nation is in a very critical state of uneasiness. It is pure chaos right now. We don’t look assuring to our allies and our enemies are smiling at our apparent weakness. Yes, right now we are in a giant cesspool of deceit, timidity, corruption and cowardice. Great nations don’t act like this and it has nothing to do with “Black.” My people it is time to get a grip on the realities at hand. “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” Let me
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note some examples. We have had a non-accountable State Department. I hope Secretary John Kerry can turn it around. Can you believe that this major agency had been operating without an Inspector General for five years? What does that mean? The IG is responsible for oversight and accountability. During the absence of an IG, the State Department cannot account for more than $6 billion in procurement. Who got paid for what? Did they actually do the work? Was strict
procurement laws followed? They don’t know. Many of the files are lost and some have been pilfered. Where is the investigation and who is going to jail? The five Mafia families of New York could not have been more corrupt. Oh yes, the State department is still playing dumb about the Benghazi attack that is now a scandal. Oh, how they lied on all of the Sunday news shows about it like we weren’t going to
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By Askia Muhammad
The Late Great African Continent A generation ago when we were just learning about the great accomplishments of African scholars and civilizations, during a period when Europeans were literally living in caves, Black people were proud of our African heritage. For the most part, we still are proud of that heritage. But something ugly has happened to Africa, throughout Africa. We proudly wore our dashikis
and chose African names to be rid of the symbols of ownership our calling ourselves by our “slave names” depicted. I am still proud that America’s first Black president was never called by the name of a White slave master who literally owned his African ancestors. Our mantra was for the liberation and unification of the African Continent “from Cape to Cairo,” meaning from the southernmost Cape of Good Hope on the near-Antarctic tip of South Africa, all the way to
the northeastern-most port of Cairo, Egypt. But today, those very icons are in need of liberation and unification themselves. South Africa is beset with corruption and sloth under this, only the third Black president elected by true majority rule in less than 25 years. All the oncestate-owned assets including gold and diamond mines which were expropriated from the White-minority robbers who ruled the land for centuries have been sold back to the robbers, enriching the African Nation-
al Congress, party leaders, but leaving no wealth available to lift the vast Black majority out of its poverty and suffering. Egypt, where the engineering genius used to construct the Great Pyramids still eludes the greatest minds of modern science, where medicine and was born and where the secrets of the dead still baffle men and women of letters and learning; Egypt is a political basket case where a duly elected government and constitution were overthrown at the behest of Western
provocateurs who resented the democratically determined, electoral outcome – a government led by sympathizers with, and members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The grand and mysterious Sphinx literally weeps for her homeland. Throughout the rest of the continent, from the Atlantic Ocean on the West, to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean on the East Muslims are often behaving badly, as though their capitals
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Sterling (Ricardo Frederick Evans) and Wolf (KenYatta Rogers) in Round House Theatre’s current production of Two Trains Running. /Photo by Danisha Crosby
‘Two Trains Running’ at Round House Theatre: A Flashback to Unsettled Times By Eve M. Ferguson WI Staff Writer The year was 1969, and throughout the United States, African-American communities were in a state of upheaval as the civil rights movement hit a low with the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. That pivotal year is the scenario that renowned playwright, the late August Wilson, set his work “Two Trains Running” against, and the revival of the play at the Round House Theatre through May 4th is both a reminder of the issues for African Americans then, and a warning about today’s urban shifts. Set in a dying diner in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Wilson’s narrative of black life plays out through the dialogue of six ordinary men and one female character, employing humor and often, intense drama. Memphis, the owner of the diner (Jefferson Russell) is looking to sell the space in the dwindling neighborhood, where the same patrons come in day after day for camaraderie despite the lack of food on the menu. He is angry at his failure to thrive, and nostalgic for the life he left in Mississippi. A predatory businessman is trying to get him to sell for cheap, and Memphis isn’t having it, insisting
Jefferson A. Russell as Memphis in Round House Theatre’s current production of Two Trains Running. /Photo by Danisha Crosby.
that he get his asking price. “The fact that there is not much else in the neighborhood makes it seem like a pipe dream initially,” Russell said. “But he is steadfast in his determination, and once he gets it, he holds fast to his determination. He feels like he has gotten his piece of economic justice that is tied to social justice for him.” Memphis is joined regularly by Wolf, the neighborhood numbers runner (KenYatta Rogers) who uses the diner as his business hub in the absence of any other gathering place in the almost aban-
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Michael Anthony Williams as Holloway in Round House Theatre’s current production of Two Trains Running. /Photo by Danisha Crosby
doned neighborhood. “Wolf is a creature of territory but not domicile. He is most comfortable moving between zones – establishment to establishment, but never truly settling down,” Rogers said of his character. “He is one of a long line of displaced black men that you find through August Wilson’s work – displaced from the home, bound to the road, yet seeking a place of rest and security simultaneously.” During the opening dialogue, Sterling (Ricardo Frederick Evans) a recently released prisThe Washington Informer
oner, comes to the diner looking for work and becomes the representation of the growing “Black Power” movement which stemmed partially from the lack of opportunities for young men like him in the late 1960s. The sole female character, Risa (Shannon Dorsey), the waitress at Memphis’ diner has her own saga of dysfunction. In order to stop unwanted advances, she has repeatedly cut her legs to make herself unattractive and can’t seem to get herself together enough to deliver on her job.
Holloway (Michael Anthony Williams), another diner fixture, rounds out the characters that Wilson employs to tell the simple, but serious truths of life as it was then. It is Holloway who tells the story of Aunt Esther, a 396-year-old conjure woman who is never seen, but is referenced as the presence of the African ancestral spirit. She is also the change agent consulted by both Holloway and Memphis to create action in the play. But the most compelling character, Hambone (Frank Britton), a mentally-challenged man whose mantra “I want my ham,” serves as a reminder of the deprivation of rewards promised by the movement. In reality, Hambone’s often violent outbursts stemmed from a job he did painting the fence of a white business owner, Lutz, who promised him a ham for the work. Having never delivered on the promise, Lutz instead offered him a chicken. As a result, Hambone has been reciting the same line for years and can’t get any satisfaction or compensation. In one of the most powerful scenes of the play, Sterling gets Hambone to temporarily substitute the phrase “Black is beautiful,” instead of his usual request. “(Memphis) sees a bit of himSee TRAINS on Page 25
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Remembering ‘The Hurricane’ Famed Boxing Champion Rubin Carter Dies at 76
knockout victories in his next 14 used in the murder. fights, to earn the nickname, “The However, it was later revealed Hurricane.” that the officers had no way of con“At 5-feet-8, he didn’t seem tall ducting such tests. Boxing fans may remember Rubin Carter as a fearless and ferocious enough to be a middleweight, but he Ten years later, Carter won a new puncher with a left hook that few fought most of his professional ca- trial and his temporary release from opponents had the chin to with- reer at 155-160 pounds,” said ESPN prison. After a second trial that also boxing writer Ron Flatter. stand. resulted in a conviction, the boxer “His shaven head, prominent Carter won 27 fights, 20 by knockand Artis were sent back to prison out, but a controversial decision in mustached, unwavering stare and for nearly a decade. New York robbed him of winning solid frame made him an intimidatFinally, a judge noted that police ing presence in the ring decades bethe middleweight title in 1964. and prosecutors had violated CarFor those who may not follow fore such a look became commonter’s right to a fair trial and the man boxing, Carter was immortalized in place,” Flatter said. known as the Hurricane won his In a statement, movie star Washthe 1975 Bob Dylan song, “Hurricane.” And, if Dylan’s music isn’t in ington urged everyone to celebrate freedom in 1985. After his release, the native New the iPods or CD collections of many Carter’s crusade for justice, not just individuals today, most will likely re- his own, but others. “God bless Ru- Jersey boxer moved to Toronto and call superstar actor Denzel Wash- bin Carter and his tireless fight to took up the cause of helping to free ington’s Academy Award nominated ensure justice for all,” said Washing- wrongly convicted prisoners. portrayal of Carter in the 1999 mov- ton, 59. Carter founded the Association in This week, fans in the District ie, “The Hurricane.” Defence of the Wrongly Convicted “We at Events DC were saddened who never saw him fight in person (AIDWYC), an organization that to hear about the passing of Rubin recalled the raw power and the inhas secured the exoneration of 18 ‘Hurricane’ Carter,” said Gregory domitable ring presence of Carter. “He was an amazing man,” An- wrongly convicted individuals. A. O’Dell, president and CEO of At the time he founded the AIDEvents DC, which has held four ma- gel Joel Mojica, a fight fan who lives jor championship fight cards in the in Northwest posted on Twitter. WYC, he told reporters that he deSpeaking of Carter’s wrongful con- cided to become an activist because nation’s capital since 2011. “Rubin is celebrated for his box- viction in which he served nearly 20 he was moved by all of those who ing prowess, but his greatest tri- years in prison, Capitol Hill resident helped him. umph comes in the contributions he Mary Shaffer said the justice system Two years ago, when Artis, 67, made to society with his passionate robbed the sport and its fans of the found out that Carter had been diwork on behalf of the wrongly ac- best years of Carter’s career. agnosed with cancer, he moved in “What an injustice,” Shaffer said, with the former boxer to help care cused. His tireless fight for justice in the face of insurmountable odds is of the conviction. “What a travesty.” for him. an inspiration to all.” Carter’s career was derailed by his In March, Artis told reporters that Carter died from complications conviction along with another man, he’d do anything for his old friend. due to prostate cancer on Sunday, John Artis, of three murders that “He didn’t ask me, but when April 20, in Toronto. He was 76. took place in a bar in Paterson, N.J., I heard that he was dying, it was a Although he never fought in the in 1966. no-brainer,” Artis said. “I didn’t give District, Carter began his profesPolice officers stopped Carter’s it a second thought. All he knew was sional career with a decision over car and escorted the boxer and ArPike Reed at the Navy-Marine Corps tis to the crime scene where cops I knocked on the door and said, ‘All Memorial Stadium in Annapolis. claimed they found ammunition in right. I’m here.’ That pleased him. It He followed that up with 11 his vehicle that matched weapons brought a chuckle from him.” WI The Washington Informer April 24, - April 30, 2014 25 By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer
Sterling (Ricardo Frederick Evans), Risa (Shannon Dorsey), and Memphis (Jefferson A. Russell) in Round House Theatre’s current production of Two Trains Running. /Photo by Danisha Crosby
TRAINS continued from Page 24 self in Sterling and also in Hambone,” Russell added. “Hambone wants his ham, and Memphis wants his justice. At first, Memphis thinks that’s a foolish pursuit, never realizing that his pursuit mirrors that of Hambone. By the end of the play, he has fully realized the connection that he has with Hambone.” The entire play takes place against the backdrop of the funeral of Prophet Samuel, a local soothsayer whose burial is never seen, but referenced as the only thing happening in the area. West, the undertaker (Doug Brown) makes a brief appearance, representing the only successful businessman of the group. Through the interplay of these characters, each one tells his story, most of them tragically linked. August Wilson employed his “Century Cycle” of 10 plays, which includes “Gem of the Ocean,” “Fences,” “The Piano Lesson,” and “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” to examine the lives of African Americans throughout the 20th century. Both Russell and Rogers have had roles in several of those plays, and Russell noted the significance and interconnectedness behind the works. “I’ve played Citizen Barlow in
‘Gem of the Ocean,’ but this is the largest role I’ve had in the August Wilson canon,” he said. “All of the characters that August Wilson writes are transformative – they transform from the top of the show to the end. There’s always that sense of community in all of August Wilson’s pieces, but ‘Two Trains Running’ is the first time I’ve been able to play someone who is a well-established piece of that community.” Rogers stated similar views regarding Wilson’s characters. “With all of Wilson’s work I start with people I’ve met in the community. It is important to say, ‘I’ve met that guy’ or even better ‘I know that guy,’” Rogers said. “Two Trains Running,” directed for the Round House by Timothy Douglas, is an engaging glimpse into an era, enhanced by an authentic soundtrack of Sixties music. Although it runs on the long side, “Two Trains Running” makes for an entertaining evening of humor, remembrances, and a subtle reminder of the reality of urban gentrification in today’s Northern cities.WI The Round House Theatre is at 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda, Md. Call (240) 644-1100 for tickets, or visit www.roundhousetheatre.org.
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ARIES Monday morning may find you raring to go, but beware: Your enthusiasm may cross a certain line at the beginning of the week. Yes, you want what you want, but don’t forget the golden rule when you’re going about getting it. Around Thursday and Friday, your vision is clear, whether it’s work-related or personal -- putting together a plan for the future is a terrific idea. However, when the weekend comes, you may want to get a little rest and do some relaxing. Lying low now helps keep you from getting yourself into a problematic situation. TAURUS To start your week off on the right foot, be extra sensitive in your interactions with others on Monday. By the afternoon (and through the beginning of the week), your keen awareness offers you insights about the world around you that others miss. Around Thursday and Friday, someone may be trying to rattle your cage or otherwise shake you up. It’s unsettling, but instead of a knee-jerk reaction, ask why. When the weekend comes, you’ll have more fun (and get more done) with a friend, a partner or a group. Hook up with those who share your aims and values. GEMINI Be ready for some extremes right off the bat on Monday morning. Think fast, and think in a different way -- by the afternoon and through the first few days this week, you’ll have to push hard and try unique ways to gain understanding. Shedding light isn’t necessarily easy now, but it’s worth it; by Thursday and Friday, a whole new vista can open up to you, giving you all sorts of ideas about your life path. (Of course, you’ll be changing your mind frequently, too.) This weekend, resist the urge to tell all, at least for the moment. Remember: Timing is truly everything. CANCER Monday morning calls for a special treat -- something just for you to get you in a happy, motivated place. By the afternoon and through the beginning of the week, you want a can-do, optimistic attitude to help overcome some minor obstacles. Money’s in the stars around Thursday and Friday, so make sure you’ve got a good understanding of any financials (and a good understanding with anyone else who’s involved, too). You’re very philosophical this weekend, and you’ll love exploring new territory, both in the world around you and in your head. LEO Monday morning might serve up some fun, if you’re awake enough to take advantage of it. Later in the afternoon (and through the beginning of the week), take care to present the best possible version of yourself. What’s most impressive now: Knowing when to hush up and listen. Around Thursday and Friday, relationships of various kinds may present a challenge, and trying to control the situation is likely futile. Letting go a bit may cast it in a different light. If you don’t know where others’ reactions are coming from this weekend, why not ask? Your instincts are also an excellent barometer. VIRGO You’re likely in ‘hurry up and wait’ mode on Monday morning, and setting your alarm early won’t necessarily help. But by the afternoon and through the beginning of the week, some can-do energy comes your way -- work’s likely fun now, and romance may even rev up. For best results, flex your creative muscle. Around Thursday and Friday, your willingness to try new things and test new ideas and attitudes shows the universe you’re ready for what it has to offer. Resist the urge to judge now and through the weekend -- there’s far more to what you see than initially meets the eye.
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LIBRA You’re an ace with communication as Monday begins, so get through that brimming inbox. By later in the afternoon and for the next day or two, you may be grappling with some old business, whether at work or personally. Get some help putting it to rest from a friend, mentor or whoever’s appropriate. Around Thursday and Friday, you’ve got a knack for understanding others -- and generating heat, if you like! Big plans may hit snags this weekend, so tackle some smaller projects and enjoy the little things -- a talk with a friend, a walk, a nap.
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SCORPIO Monday morning’s not the time for experiments or risks. If someone’s urging a different course of action now or during the next couple of days, be shrewd and ask yourself (and them), ‘why now?’ People are likely to open up to you now, and you might just hear the most interesting thing. Around Thursday and Friday, are you controlling your emotions, or are they controlling you? An outburst in the wrong context could be a problem -- take it easy. Save some of your passion for this weekend, because love is in the air! If you use your imagination, you can really take things to another level. SAGITARIUS Hop out on the right side of the bed on Monday morning, and let the cosmic energy kick-start your week. From now until Wednesday, your frankness (and not to mention your sense of humor) earns you respect and appreciation. Look at things objectively for the best results. You love fresh ideas, learning new skills and connecting with different people around Thursday and Friday, which is an excellent headspace for both your work and personal life. When the weekend comes, warn those around you that you may be a bit absentminded -- and try not to lose your keys. CAPRICORN Monday morning may bring a mishap (or two), but keep your chin up and keep going -- by later in the day (and through the next couple of days), the energy shifts in your favor. What would you like to accomplish now -- at work, at home and in romance? Choose an objective and take it by storm. Around Thursday and Friday, give your mind some space to explore, and you might just develop a fresh, innovative vision. Seek out something that inspires you, which might include some music or art this weekend. Show somebody your creative side, and they’ll be even more impressed. AQUARIUS Your mind’s in a fruitful place on Monday morning; you might have several great ideas before you even brush your teeth. Take some notes, because by the afternoon and over the next day or so, you’re occupied with keeping up with your busy life. Just wait until Thursday and Friday, though -- you’re a force to be reckoned with if the stars have their say. Smart, sexy and (of course) putting your own spin on every situation -- that’s you. When the weekend comes, don’t overlook a financial matter. It may be dull by comparison to what else is going on, but it’s necessary. PISCES Monday morning may find you prone to saying things you haven’t quite thought through, making for an interesting start to the week. But over the next couple of days, you’ll find help when you need it -- and likewise, those around you can count on your care, compassion and excellent timing. If you’ve been wishing for something (or is it someone?) different, Thursday and Friday present a good time to focus those desires and use your amped-up brainpower to make a plan. The weekend should provide plenty of great energy for you, so get ready to use it!
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Among the usual fliers, bills, and donation requests in the mail last week, there was something you haven’t seen in ages: someone sent you a greeting card. It wasn’t marking any special occasion. No, it was sent as a pick-me-up from a friend, a nice surprise at a time when mail usu-
ally has an “e” in front of it. But, as you’ll see in the new memoir “Postcards from Cookie” by Caroline Clarke, some snail mail can make your heart zoom. She was only looking for medical records. As an adoptee, Caroline Clarke knew she had the right to learn at least that about her birth mother, but health data was only part of the unhidden information in the sealed records. There were lots of clues in what Clarke was told on that chilly afternoon; enough to help her figure out who her biological mother might be. The shocker was that Clarke had known her birth mother’s family for years. From the time she was almost eight years old and learned that she was adopted, Clarke told everyone that she wasn’t interested in finding her birth mother. Secretly, though, she dreamed of making the woman proud,
and fantasized about accidental, happily-ever-after meetings. She loved the parents who raised her – adored them, in fact – but “all adoptees are curious about their beginnings,” and Clarke was no exception. Her Daddy was shaken by the news. Her Mommy said to contact the woman. Clarke’s husband was excited for her, but she sat on the information until she couldn’t stand it any longer. So she mustered up the courage and called Carole “Cookie” Lane. Cookie was the eldest (adopted) daughter of Nat “King” Cole and, while away at college, had become pregnant. It was 1964 and that sort of thing was scandalous – especially since the father was a white Jewish boy. Maria, Cookie’s adoptive mother, sent her away to a home for pregnant girls. Cookie was 20 years old. As Cookie and Clarke excitedly began to erase the years they’d missed, and as they shared “synchronicities” through phone calls and huge boxes of mail, they also got “on each other’s nerves.”
Clarke craved Cookie, but they obviously irritated one another – enough to make Clarke wonder whether their experience was “going to have that fairy-tale ending after all.” Though adoption-reunion stories are becoming commonplace due to social media, author Caroline Clarke’s is unusual in that there were some amazing coincidences that led her to Cookie, before and after. Obviously, Clarke is awe-stricken about those and yes, I was pretty impressed, too. And yet, “Postcards from Cookie” has a bit of a Peeping-Tom element: this is a very personal story of adoption and love. While I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, it’s easy to feel uncomfortable watching two vastly different personalities dance around one another, trying to get along. So, ultimately, do they? I’m not telling. You’re going to want to read this book. No, seriously – you’re going to want to read this book because “Postcards from Cookie” will send you away satisfied.WI
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Hopkins Continues to Defy Age Boxing Icon Dazzles at D.C. Armory By Elton Hayes WI Contributing Writer As Beibut Shumenov struggled to gather his wits enough to hoist himself up from the mat, Bernard Hopkins gave him a quick glance and then turned to soak up the applause and acclaim of the more than 6,800 boxing fans who packed the D.C. Armory. As the mostly pro-Hopkins crowd chanted “B-Hop” to show their approval Saturday night, the living legend took it all in. His left jab had just lured the Kazakhstan-born Shumenov in enough to bite. A big mistake. Hopkins then countered with a powerful overhand right that crashed into the side of Shumenov’s head and sent him wobbling to the ground. Not too shabby for a 49-yearold boxer who scored an 11thround knockdown of his 30-yearold opponent. “I’m not done yet,” Hopkins said following his weekend victory. “The pound-for-pound best fighter in the world right now is Floyd “Money” Mayweather. But behind Andre Ward, who I believe is second and should be, I’m not too far from the top three ... I’m not done yet.” Hopkins won a controversial split decision over Shumenov on April 19 at the D.C. Armory in Southeast. Judge Gustavo Padilla scored the fight 114-113 in Shumenov’s favor while the other two judges – Dave Moretti and Jerry Roth – scored it 116-111 in favor of Hopkins. Padilla’s scorecard elicited boos from those in attendance whose allegiance to Hopkins was made The Washington Informer
even more apparent when the boxer strolled to the ring in burgundy-and-gold trunks, to pay homage to the host city. While not known to possess the hitting power of fighters like Wladimir Klitschko and Adonis Stevenson, Hopkins relied on the use of elusive defense and strategic, well-placed punches to set the pace early in the fight – a formula that has afforded him longevity and success over the past four decades. “I think [Shumenov] was surprised at the way I stood there and could make him miss,” Hopkins said. “I didn’t use my legs, I didn’t run and I didn’t jump in-and-out of danger. I stayed in the pocket. I had my better moments on the ropes.” After shaking off a sluggish start in the first few rounds Hopkins settled down and went to work. With his right hand as his preferred weapon he unloaded a barrage of jabs and power punches that riddled Shumenov’s torso. Ever the showman, Hopkins offered a few jokes about his inability to score a technical knockout during his post-fight press conference. “I can’t get a damn knockout. I tell you, I’ll retire if I get a knockout,” he said with a laugh. “You know I’m going to be around until I’m 80. I’ll retire when I get a knockout.” Hopkins chose efficiency over volume as he threw 225 fewer punches than Shumenov, 19 years his junior. And while Hopkins connected on 46 percent of his jabs, his body punches proved to be most effective. “As soon as he threw a punch,
he committed himself,” Hopkins said of his strategy to punish Shumenov’s body. “I would see his ribs and I would punch them. That takes something out of you. And after a while, you start to feel that. Once he backed up, I knew that I got him. That set up that right hand [that caused the knockdown].” With the victory, Hopkins added yet another achievement to an already-growing list as he became the oldest fighter to unify titles. In addition to retaining his International Boxing Federation light-heavyweight belt, he also claimed Shumenov’s International Boxing Association and World Boxing Association titles. The Philadelphia native has changed nicknames a few times throughout his career, but his current choice of “Alien” seems about right. The fact that he continues to defy age without showing signs of slowing is an anomaly in a sport that frequently chews up fighters half his age. But Hopkins isn’t thinking about slowing down. In fact, he welcomes any challenger who stands between him and adding to his legacy in the sport. “I must be the light-heavyweight undisputed champion before I leave, because no one has ever been able to do that in boxing. I want the hardest puncher and the [biggest] threat,” Hopkins said. “Because without a threat, and I’m not saying that I’m not motivated, it won’t be as spicy to all of you and it won’t be spicy to the history of boxing.”WI
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12 Things That Make Men Rich Part 5: The Hope of Future Achievements As it is written…Call those things which be not as though they were. Romans 4:17. This 5th step on the list of 12 Things That Make Men Rich by Napoleon Hill is Hope of Future Achievements. While watching my favorite movie “The Coal Miner’s Daughter” I heard Doo Little Lynn ask Loretta Webb at the time “You got any plans for the future.” And Loretta at only age 13 said, “Not that I know of!” That was their first meeting! She got married to Doo at age 13, and they stayed together until his death about 10 years ago. Loretta Lynn came from the hills of Kentucky, from a madeup town called Butcher Holler; and became the first lady of Country music. She owns a 6,500-acre ranch in Hurricane Hills, Tenn. She purchased that land many years ago. Though she didn’t have any hope for the future, her husband had a lot of hope for her. He enjoyed listening to her sing, and he was like an anointed man. As positive thoughts came into his head he listened. Then he put those positive thoughts into action. Loretta didn’t realize what was happening! But her husband took one step, one right after the other, she trusted him and her life changed forever. Be ready and willing to learn something new; treat others with care and compassion. The first thing we need to do to get the hope we need for future achievements is to become curious. Be ready and willing to do and try
things you’ve never done or tried before. You never know when you will meet someone that the Lord has sent into your life for the good. Life is like being born into a mansion that has a thousand rooms, and without our knowledge, we have full access to every room in this mansion. Yet most of us live our entire life in one room. There must be a reason most people never get into those other rooms. Either we don’t know they’re there, or we can’t find the door. Here is where books like the Holy Bible and Think and Grow Rich come in as your guide. Though you may have read your scriptures daily, Hill’s principles teach men faith steps to take. Therefore, we don’t have to live our lives on a day-to-day basis, just waiting to see what comes next with no hope for future achievements. Let go of things we’ve experienced that hinder our growth and try your hand at something new. Let’s use swimming as an example. No one can read instructions to learn to swim. You must get into the water and practice; you fail and keep trying until you learn. Practice being kind rather than being right. Say to yourself, “How can I suspend this angry, negative part of me and allow this part of me that wants to be at peace that wants to be happy to come forth.” Choose peace for the rest of your life, which is what God wants for us. He mentions “My peace I give
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you” 105 times in the scriptures. When you place your hope in the Lord and look to your future, you will find peace. Sometimes, the way we speak to each other doesn’t sound like love. Whether you have a right to say something negative or not, to have hope for a good future, you must choose kindness first. When you have a choice to be right or to be kind choose kind behavior. It’s that positive attitude about life that will help propel you toward the goal that you see in your future. When you don’t, you are off course.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
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Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ Drs. Dennis W. and Christine Y. Wiley, Pastors 3845 South Capitol Street Washington, DC 20032 (202) 562-5576 (Office) (202) 562-4219 (Fax) SERVICES AND TIMES: SUNDAYS: 10:00 am AM Worship Services BIBLE STUDY: Wonderful Wednesdays in Worship and the Word Bible Study Wednesdays 12:00 Noon; 6:30 PM (dinner @ 5:30 PM) SUNDAY SCHOOL: 9:00 AM – Hour of Power “An inclusive ministry where all are welcomed and affirmed.” www.covenantbaptistdc.org
Twelfth Street Christian Church
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
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Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor Service and Times Sunday Worship Service 11:00 a.m. Communion every Sunday 11:00 a.m. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Bible Study Tuesday 12Noon Pastor’s Bible Study Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Motto; “Discover Something Wonderful.” Website: 12thscc.org Email: Twelfthstcc@aol.com
Mount Carmel Baptist Church
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
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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
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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
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131
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Administration No. 2014 ADM 220
Administration No. 2014 ADM 345
William E. Davis, Jr. aka William Davis aka William E. Davis Decedent
Mattie W. Dudley aka Mattie Dudley Decedent
Administration No. 2014 ADM 334 John Pinkney, Jr. Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Tisa D. Huff, whose address is 15314 Bennetts Run Court, Brandywine, MD 20613, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of John Pinkney, Jr., who died on February 20, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2014
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. In the absence of a Will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, enter an order excluding from probate the Affidavit to Will Property dated may 20, 2008. Date of first publication: April 10, 2014
Personal Representative:
Ronald Dixon Bynum & Jenkins 1010 Cameron Street Alexandria, VA 22314 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Ronald Dixon, whose address is Bynum & Jenkins, 1010 Cameron Street, Alexandria, VA 22314, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of William E. Davis, Jr. aka William Davis aka William E. Davis, who died on April 3, 2013 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before October 24, 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 24, 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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Administration No. 2014 ADM 200
George L. Watkins, Jr. Decedent
Joseph Virgil Gonzales Decedent
Alicia Thomas Name of Decedent
James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenues, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney
Deborah D. Boddie, Esq. 1308 Ninth Street, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20001 Attorney
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS
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Patricia A. Ellis whose address is 7127 Talisman Lane, Columbia, MD 21045 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Alicia Thomas, deceased, by the Office of the Register of Wills Court for Howard County, State of Maryland, on March 26, 2014. Service of process may be made upon Loretta D. McKethan, 4408 6th Place, NE, Washington, DC 20017 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real property; 1/3 ownership of 1220 Jackson Street, NE, Washington, DC 20017. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.
Irene M. Watkins, whose address is 6419 Landover Road, Apt. 202, Cheverly, MD 20785, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of George L. Watkins, Jr., who died on September 25, 2007 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 17, 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 17, 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.
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.
Tisa D. Huff Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2014 FEP 50 July 9, 2013 Date of Death
Date of first publication: April 17, 2014 Patricia A. Ellis Personal Representative Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer
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James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Alton R. Dudley, whose address is 12929 Vicar Woods Lane, Bowie, MD 20720, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Mattie W. Dudley aka Mattie Dudley, who died on July 26, 2009 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 24, 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 24, 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 24, 2014
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CLINGMAN continued from Page 22 past. We should know by now what relying on hope and optimism brings. MLK’s words, “Why we can’t wait,” and the “Fierce urgency of now” ring true. Do we just recite his words, or do we act upon them? As I wrote in a previous article, “Just how long is ‘now’?” It’s been 46 years since King died in Memphis, fighting for economic rights; according to an article on nashvillescene. com, Memphis is “Among worst the U.S. cities to be Black, male, and unemployed.” The city just spent $28 million to revamp the civil rights museum; I wonder how many jobs were created for
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took a principled stand for civil rights. Bill Shamblin and Bill Plott, editors of the Crimson White, the University of Alabama newspaper, were among the most memorable. They supported desegregation in the face of death threats. That took a lot of courage, especially in a city that was also home of Robert Shelton, the head of the Ku Klux Klan. Neither LBJ, Carter nor Bill Clinton demonstrated that level of courage and commitment to civil rights in their youth. Yet, they, too, are sons of the South and though they grew up on the other side of the tracks, they carried a special sensitivity to race – some say guilt – with them to the White House. Of the three, Lyndon Johnson was by far the best. His signature legislation – the Civil Rights Act of 1965, the Voting Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 – forever changed America, particularly the South. But Johnson didn’t start out as a progressive. As President Obama said of Johnson in his
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had my good friend, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour as one of their speakers (a White southern male). So, they had White Republicans, but no Black Republicans. WOW! As George Orwell wrote his book, 1984, “He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.” If the summit were your sole source of information, you would think no Black Republicans were involved in the Civil Rights Movement. Arthur Fletcher is known as “the father of affirmative action.” Though
Black men on that project, and how much of the $28 million went to Black contractors. Did Blacks in Memphis settle for symbolism over substance, or did they get both? It’s frustrating to see Black people settling for a nebulous request for “jobs” and an increase in the minimum wage to $10.10. We do need more jobs, but we must create some of those jobs ourselves, and be able to hire a significant percentage of our own workforce. We must raise our level of entrepreneurship by including it in our schools’ curricula, and by growing our businesses via mutual support and strategic alliances. The NUL report states, “We must recognize…entrepreneur-
ship as the most important vehicle of economic development in the Black community.” Amen! Our “high optimism” alone will not take us to the promise land of “economic equality.” Complacent optimism makes us feel good in our misery; pragmatism makes us work to “do good” and do well at the same time.WI Jim Clingman, founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce, is the nation’s most prolific writer on economic empowerment for Black people. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati and can be reached through his Web site, blackonomics.com.
speech in Austin, Texas, “During his first 20 years in Congress, he opposed every civil rights bill that came up for a vote, once calling the push for federal legislation ‘a farce and a sham.’” But stepping into the Oval Office upon the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Johnson was able to rise above his past. Unlike Johnson or Clinton, Jimmy Carter had a close relationship with African Americans growing up in Georgia. “I grew up in a little village, unincorporated named Archery, Ga., just a few miles west of Plains,” Carter recounted. “… We were surrounded by 55 other families who were African American. All of my playmates, all of my companions in the field – the ones I hunted with, fished with, wrestled with, fought with – were Black people,” Carter said in his speech. He explained, “I learned to appreciate, you might say, Black culture. When I wrote a book called Hours Before Daylight, at the end of the book, I tried to think of five people other than my parents who had shaped my life and only two of those five were White.”
Bill Clinton was a good president but was probably the most overrated of the three Southerners. When looking at permanent cabinet positions, he appointed more Black cabinet members than Barack Obama, he was a firm supporter of affirmative action and appointed two liberals to the Supreme Court – Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. But he also was part of the successful movement to shift the Democratic Party to the right and signed into law a regressive welfare reform measure. Last week’s summit at the University of Texas celebrated the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It could have also been a celebration of three Southern-born presidents who managed to overcome the rampant discrimination of their youth.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.
he is deceased, his work lives on – and should have been recognized. Former Secretary of Transportation Bill Coleman was a proud Black Republican but just as proud of his support for civil rights. And so was former Senator Ed Brooke of Massachusetts. The list goes on and on – except at the LBJ ceremonies in Austin. Am I the only one that noticed this intentional rewriting of history? As usual, the media has been woefully and willfully negligent in not covering this angle. These supposedly bastions of journalistic integrity such as The Root and The Grio have caught a bad case of laryngitis. Melissa
Perry and Joy Reid on MSNBC have suddenly forgotten how to speak English. The LBJ library and Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for prostituting the real bi-partisan history of the Civil Rights Movement. This should have been one event that was truly reflective of the real history of America – the good and the bad. Slavery and racism are still the biggest blemishes on American history; but because we are Americans and showed resolve, we also have one helluva story of redemption to tell. We
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JACKSON continued from Page 37 have come a long way from the days of slavery and Jim Crow. We have Blacks making millions of dollars in sports, music, business, science, and education. Blacks have been to the moon and back. We even have a Black president. In the very moment when we should have been celebrating the journey America has taken, we have been
forced to reflect upon the willful deceit propagated upon the true history of our nation.WI Raynard Jackson is president & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC., a Washington, D.C.-based public relations/ government affairs firm. He is also the author of: “Writing Wrongs: My Political Journey in Black and Write. He can be reached through his Web site, www.raynardjackson. com. You can also follow him on Twitter at raynard1223.
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ALFORD continued from Page 23 find out. Four of our people were murdered by Al Qaida linked persons and we won’t even arrest them for trial. They fear what will come out in court. So they stall and stall and stall. Justice is not served. The same goes with Homeland Security. The “Fast and Furious” disaster put hundreds of illegal weapons onto the streets. We lost a border patrol officer and hundreds of Mexican citizens and they stall and stall and stall. Justice is not served. The National Security Agency (NSA) in its sweeping/wiring of telephone and email communications is an ongoing disaster. Recently, we find that the USAID agency ran a covert operation in Cuba. The mission of
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were never the seat of civilization, education. Bombings, beheadings, raping, mutilating the genitals of their girls, denying them education – as if intelligent mothers are not needed as a child’s first teacher, to produce intelligent children who grow up to become rulers. Then Christians and Animists, who overthrow their savage Muslim overlords, then resort to revenge murders, looting; literally the “law of the jungle” is all that prevails. I have traveled to maybe two dozen of Africa’s 50-some-odd countries – to South Africa and to Egypt a half dozen times each; a dozen or more trips to Nigeria; to Niger, Mali, Malawi, Morocco, Libya, Liberia, Senegal, Ghana, Gambia, Chad, Congo, Comoros Islands, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Tunisia, and more. I am sorry to say, there’s hardly one of them where I would even consider residing, and only a few where I The Washington Informer
policies that have failed the nation’s middle and working-class families, seniors, and the economy,” while the New York Times called it “Destructive to the country’s future.” Thankfully, spending for the next two years was set by the budget agreement passed in the Senate and the House and signed by President Obama in December 2013. So it is unlikely that the Ryan budget will become law in the short-term or is for anything more than show. Nonetheless, it is a dangerous “vision” for our nation. The National Urban League strongly rejects this budget because of its likely destructive impact on employment, the economy and poverty. We urge Paul Ryan and his colleagues to drop this plan and get serious about developing a responsible budget that does not depend on hurting millions of working and
middle-class Americans to benefit the richest few. The night before Dr. King’s April 4, 1968 assassination, he said: “The question is not, if I stop to help this man in need, what will happen to me? The question is, if I do not stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to them?…Let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.” We can start now by stopping the Ryan budget – and even more importantly, stopping its budget-cutting fever that threatens the economic health and recovery of our nation. WI Marc H. Morial, former mayor of New Orleans, is president and CEO of the National Urban League.
the USAID is: “Our Mission: We partner to end extreme poverty and to promote resilient, democratic societies while advancing our security and prosperity.” Not anymore. They took 500,000 cell phone numbers of Cuban citizens (from NSA) and began spamming them on a cooked up Twitter account covertly placed in Spain. Money was funneled through the Cayman Islands. The intent was to provoke discontent among Cuban citizens against their government. Sounds a little bit like the Arab Spring affair that backfired tremendously on us. Syria, Egypt, Libya are probably lost to democracy because of our botched “intelligence” activity. The world is seeing us as an evil entity. Then there is the mother of all scandals – the IRS corruption. Every day the plot seems to thicken. There
is more than a “smidgen of corruption.” It appears to be a few truckloads of it. In the end, when the truth will eventually come out, there will be IRS employees and people from the White House, Justice Department and recently it looks like Congress, too, will be indicted and carried off to jail. A federal agency hated by most Americans has become a politicized organization working towards the detriment of our democracy. The above are just a few examples. Items like socializing our insurance industry along with mortgages, education; ignoring our debt; cutting our military; evading Congress and the Supreme Court are other items we can discuss later. It isn’t a Black thing. It is government overreach and a lack of respect for our Constitution.WI
would consider visiting. I once monitored parliamentary elections in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, maybe 15 years ago. I went to the city of Maiduguri in the far Northeastern Yobe State a heavily Islamic area. We flew in on a Friday afternoon on a Nigerian Airlines plane whose flight attendant call button never stopped ping-ing throughout the entire flight – clearly a budget repair line item which went into the pockets of some aircraft inspectors and not into the simple maintenance of that minor in-flight annoyance. Our plane circled the airport and I noticed cars lined up, seemingly for miles on the ground. I thought that they were all attending Friday prayers at the city’s mosques. It was only after we landed that I learned the cars were parked in queues outside gas stations, awaiting fuel shipments to arrive in a country, whose major export product is petroleum. It seems that instead of delivering gasoline to the gas-starved citizens of their country where it be-
longed, tanker truck drivers learned they could drive a few extra miles into neighboring Chad and sell the gas for cash, lining their own pockets but creating fuel shortages in their homeland. While some of us are studying and trying to practice ancient African cultural practices, modern Africans are craving skin bleaching creams, hair straighteners and tight jeans, and all the while practicing fratricide among themselves. Where is the modern Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah now when we need him most, when we need an African leader in the tradition of Queen Nzinga, Mansa Musa, Askia The Great of Songhai, who might lead the world by the example of civility, and dignity, and generosity, and strength with kindness to the Oneness of God and the Brotherhood and Sisterhood of all human beings; and to equal love for his/her fellow man and woman as for him/herself.WI
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