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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has launched a federal offensive against states that he believes will use the invalidation of a section of the Voting Rights Act to block blacks and Latinos from voting. Texas is the first state under the federal microscope. He revealed the department’s intentions last week at the National Urban League’s annual conference in Philadelphia. /Courtesy Photo

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By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer Attorney General Eric Holder used the National Urban League’s annual conference to fire the first salvo in what will likely be a protracted battle over voting rights.

On July 25, Holder told more

than 6,000 conferees at the Philadelphia Convention Center in Center City, that the Obama administration will seek a Texas federal court’s approval to put the state back under preclearance. Texas then would have to receive federal approval for any changes officials make to voting laws.

Texas has been particularly egregious in its efforts to blunt the ability of blacks and Latinos to vote. The state has coupled these restrictions with oppressive redistricting laws the courts and the federal government had previously blocked.

Hours after the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of

the landmark Voting Rights Act in June, Texas’ attorney general said the state would immediately implement restrictive photo ID requirements. When Texans go to the polls, they’ll have to show a narrow list of photo IDs deemed acceptable by the state.

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can vote, but those with student IDs and social security cards cannot. The poor, non-whites and seniors will be adversely affected, with many forced to procure a birth certificate at their own expense.

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law enforcement. She said they threat,” she said. had come together to bring a Among the programs Marlow sense of uniformity in the way wants to see implemented are When L.Y. Marlow's 23-year- domestic violence victims and stricter restraining order policies, Visit our updated Web site old daughter told her the father survivors are treated. more rights for victim's families and give us your comments of her daughter threatened her “She's using her own personal to intervene on behalf of a vicfor a chance to win a gift from life, and the life of their child, story, her own personal pain to tim, a domestic violence assessThe Washington Informer she knew something had to be push forward,” Davis-Nickens ment unit coupled with further done. Out of her frustration said about Marlow. training for law enforcement with law enforcement's handling Davis-Nickens said anyone agencies, a Child's Life ProtecEmail comments to: of the situation, she decided to who reads Marlow's book will tion Act and mandatory counselrburke@ start the Saving Promise cam- “get it.” She said she “puts the ing for batterers. paign. case in such a way, the average “If we are ever going to eradiwashingtoninformer.com “It seems to be a vicious cycle person can get it.”

She said at the cate domestic violence, we must Thanks to artists, three-year-old Naomi Peoples shows off her modern day vampire look.

Her mother, Marlene gets won't my fictional family character end of the during day, the book&will look Festival at bothatsides of the coin. athat kick out of herturn daughter’s visage, the Arts Humanities St. Elizabeths East loose,” Marlow said.

Marlow people begin to have a dia- We need to address both the vicon Saturday, July 27. /Photo

by Khalid help Naji-Allah shared her story with the audi- logue about domestic violence. tim and the batterer,” Marlow ence at the District Heights Also present at the event was said.

Domestic Violence Symposium Mildred Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see on May 7 at the District Heights wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise Municipal Center. The sympo- who was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in We represent victims of major sium was sponsored by the utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She medical malpractice such as Family and Youth Services by a Maryland jury for his role in feels children need to be educatSandra Robinson Jack Olender cerebral palsy.

Center of the city of District the Beltway Sniper attacks in ed about domestic violence.

All 5 lawyers were again elected sure the success of the festival.

Guest have speakers at thebeing festivalpasinSam P.K. Heights andCollins the National Hook- 2002.

Mildred Muhammad is “We to stop “Best Lawyers in America” 2012 Guests cheered on local R&B artcluded D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray Up Black Women.

WIof Contributing Writer the founder of After the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chilKaren Evans is a nurse/attorney ist IhsAn Bilal as shethat beltedhelps out tunes and Denise Barnes,violence,” publisher Marlow has written a book, an organization the dren aboutRolark domestic Attorney/Pediatrician Harlow Case Karen Evans Melissa Rhea that resonated the crowd.

They Marlow “Color Me Butterfly,” which is a survivors of the Washington Informer. D.C. of with domestic violence said.

Byron Granderson couldn’t believe Robert Chabon, M.D., J.D. is also listened to the stories of painter Council story four generations their children. members Anita Bonds Marlow has worked to (D-Atbreak his eyesabout when he entered the gates of and Of Counsel. upyears. in Southdomestic violence. book is Jay“IColeman, lived inwho fear grew for six Six the cycle abuseWells in her family, St. Elizabeths HospitalThe in Southeast.

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D.C.’smother own Experience Unlimited, and of,” noon. In his remarks, Gray connected She saiddotted everythetime she –reads Muhammad plan to take these policies to expansive campus on a sunnysaid Sat- St.“IElizabeths’ canopies landscape each theMildred revitalization and his In Memoriam excerpts her activity book, of shewhich still people who want to help a Congress and implore them to urday afternoon. offering afrom different Dr. Calvin W. Rolark, Sr. vision of an economically vibrant can not believe the words came domestic violence victim must Sheline Scriber greeted guests at change our laws,” Marlow said.

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“Color Me Butterfly” be careful of how they go into will not stop until these poliGranderson’s three children soon the entrance of the east campus. She “I “We The Washington Informer Newspaper have a vision for the east end won the 2007 National “Best the life, and understand THE WASHINGTON INFORMER PUBLISHER that the festival was long overdue cies are passed.” found an activity that piqued their in- said victim's of the city andJones St. Elizabeths is at the Memoriam Books” Award.

NEWSPAPER (ISSN#0741-9414) is InDenise she people may who be live in east “survival Tia Carol can be reached Rolark Barnes for young of the terests. They decided to try their hand that Dr. Calvin W. Rolark, Sr. center of it,” said Gray, 70.

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Copyright 2013reserved. POST MASTER: Send change of addressmally productive life,” said Gray who this is my first time seeing an event The smiles on faces domestic after comconsistency in their the way to The Washington Informer,All 3117Lafayette Martin Luther King,IV, Jr. Ave., S.E. Photo Washington, Barnes, Assistant Editor by esThe Washington Informer. also lives in Southeast. like this.

I would like to see more pleting their art project made the trip D.C. 20032.POSTMASTER: No part of this Send publication may be reproduced without written permisviolence issues are dealt with by rights reserved.

Khalid Naji-Allah, Photographer The African Heritage Dancers young people out and about at future sion from the publisher. The Informer Newspaper cannotStaff guarantee the return of worthwhile, said Granderson, 51. change of addresses to The Washphotographs. Subscription rates are $30 per year, twoFreitas, years $45.

Papers willEditor be received & Drummers, a renowned African John E. De Sports Photo “This is not for me. This is for events,” she said. ington Informer, 3117 Martin Luther not more than a week after publication. Make checks payable to: dance troupe, performed traditional The festival, the first of four to take them,” the proud dad said. “EveryKing, Jr. Ave., S.E. Washington, D.C. Dorothy Rowley, Online Editor 20032. No part of this publication may place at St. Elizabeths East this sum- West African dance while beating on thing is always [in Northwest] so it’s THE WASHINGTON INFORMER Brian Young, Design & Layout be reproduced without written permis3117 Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave., S.E. • Washington, D.C. 20032 good to see fun [activities] like this mer, comes at a time when the cam- drums that hung from their necks.

202 561-4100 • Fax: 202 Bookkeeper 574-3785 sion from the publisher.Phone: The Informer Mable Neville, around here. [St. Elizabeths] is start- pus is undergoing a total makeover The audience nodded their heads to news@washingtoninformer.com Newspaper cannot guaranteeE-mail: the return Mickey Thompson, Social Sightings columnist ing something good that can turn into that promises to usher in an economic the hypnotic, rhythmic beats during www.washingtoninformer.com of photographs. Subscription rates are something greater,” said the Southeast boom. the performance. Some members of $45 per year, two years $60. Papers will Stacey Palmer, Social Media Specialist In September, local residents as well the audience jumped to their feet and resident. be received not more than a week after PUBLISHER Angie Johnson, Circulation publication. Make checks payable to: Denise Rolark Barnes Granderson counted among more as 3,700 U.S. Coast Guard employees ran to the front of the stage, dancing than 100 people who gathered on will walk through an entranceway into in a style similar to that of the troupe.

STAFF REPORTERS REPORTERS THE WASHINGTON INFORMER Brooke N. Garner Managing Editor Tia C. Jones, Ed Laiscell, the east campus of St. Elizabeths on St. Elizabeths East Innovation Hub, Melvin Deal, founding executive 3117 Martin Jr. Ave., S.E Carla PeayLuther King, Assistant Managing Editor Odell B. Ruffin, Larry Saxton, Saturday, July 27 for an afternoon of an integrated center of research, train- artistic director of the African HeriStacy Brown, P.K. Collins, Washington, Ron BurkeD.C. 20032 Advertising and Marketing MarySam Wells, Joseph YoungMichelle music, arts and crafts, and storytelling ing, education, and entrepreneurship.

Phipps-Evans, Eve Ferguson, Gale Horton Phone: 561-4100 Mable202 Whittaker Bookkeeper tage Dancers & Drummers, said that Administration Gay, EltonPHOTOGRAPHERS J. Hayes, Njunga Kabugi, Stacey Catherine Buell, executive director Fax:LaNita 202 Wrenn 574-3785 at the Arts & Humanities Festival at his organization has kept young boys John E. De Freitas Sports Palmer, Editor Dorothy LafayetteRowley, Barnes, IV, Barrington Salmon, news@washingtoninformer.com of St. Elizabeths East, said that the St. Elizabeths East.

Victor Holt Photo Margaret Editor John E. De Freitas, Maurice Fitzgerald, in touch with their African roots. He Summers, Charles E. Sutton, James www.washingtoninformer.com The festival, organized by St. Eliz- recent urban redevelopment would Zebra Designs, Inc. Layout & Graphic Design Joanne Jackson, Roy Lewis, Robert Wright Ken Harris /www.scsworks.com Webmaster Ridley, Victor Holt abeths East, THEARC, a South- be of the greatest benefit to Ward 8 said it’s an important part of their development as youngL.Y. men.Marlow “Drumeast-based nonprofit that provides residents.

CIRCULATION ming [reminds] people of how strong cultural, social, and recreational activ“It’s amazing to see it come toPHOTOGRAPHERS Paul Trantham we [as black people] are,” said Deal, ities, and the Humanities Council of gether,” said Buell, 33. “This takes a John E. De Freitas, Roy Lewis, Khalid Naji-Allah, Shevry Lassiter Washington, D.C., a Northwest-based lot of political, staff, and leadership 70. “People would rather forget where nonprofit that funds community art support. There is no other example they come from and it releases them projects, provided a fun day for fam- of a technology campus in the mid- from the [responsibility] of being 4 / May 15 - 21, 2008 The Washington Informer / www.washingtoninformer.com ilies. The Office of the Deputy Mayor dle of a place in need of economic good, black people. This art is importfor Planning and Economic Develop- development,” said Buell who lives in ant from the standpoint of [our] presment provided a $123,000 grant to en- Southeast. ence and history.”wi

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Budget Autonomy Moves Forward The decades-long struggle for the District to determine how it spends its own money made major strides recently with the legal ratification of a budget autonomy referendum by the U.S. Congress and the passage of two bills – one in the U.S. House of Representatives and the other in the U.S. Senate – that codifies the city’s financial independence from the federal government.

Neither chamber of Congress had introduced a disapproval resolution by July 25 that would have invalidated the April 23 referendum overwhelmingly approved

by District voters that calls for the city to have budget autonomy.

Legally, Congress has until Jan. 1, 2014 to overturn the referendum but Kimberly Perry, the executive director of DC Vote, an organization that is working for full political rights for District residents, said that she’s pleased but guarded by the recent development.

“We’re thrilled about this, but we’re cautiously optimistic,” said Perry, 42. “We know that at any time, even after the January 1 effective date, Congress could still take action to overturn the referendum. We’re celebrating, but cautiously.”

On July 25, in an historic move, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed “The Fiscal Year 2014 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations” bill that would grant the District budget autonomy. President Barack Obama, a supporter of District statehood, included a provision for budget autonomy in his most recent budget proposal to Congress.

Plus, U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, on July 24, passed a bill out of his committee, “The District of Columbia Financial Efficiency Act of 2013” that would allow the city to spend its own money in case of a federal government shutdown, move the District government’s fiscal deadline from October 1 to July 1 and allow the city to offer its new chief financial officer a salary of $230,700.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) said that both chambers of Congress are moving in the right direction when it comes to the District and she thanked U.S. Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) for

his support and Issa, 59, for his efforts.

“The District has now moved closer to budget autonomy than ever in its history,” said Norton, 76. “We must seize the moment, bolstered as well by the people’s budget autonomy referendum, to finally allow District officials and residents to spend their local funds they alone raise without congressional approval, just as every other U.S. jurisdiction does.”

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DC GOP Wants C O M M U N I C AT I O N S U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa is the chairman of the Gray to Veto Living House committee that deals with District affairs.

301.292.9141/FAX 301.292.9142/Mobile 703.819.0920 doris@mcmilloncommunications.com/www.mcmilloncommunications.com Wage Bill /Courtesy Photo The D.C. Republican Party has weighed in on the controversy surrounding WalMart’s decision not to build proposed stores at Skyline, Capitol Gateway and New York Avenue and its plan to reconsider stores currently under construction in the District, pending the mayor’s veto and a thorough review.

Leaders of the Denise Rolark Barnes party are urging D.C. Independent Beauty Consultant Mayor Vincent Gray www.marykay/drolark-barnes.com to veto the “Large 202-236-8831 Retailer Accountability Act” (LRAA) which would require big-box retailers, par- Robert Turner II is the executive director of the ticularly Wal-Mart, to District of Columbia Republican Party. pay its employees at /Courtesy Photo least $12.50 an hour, a so-called living wage, Vincent Orange (D-At Large), which is significantly more than who voted for the LRAA. the current District minimum “Anyone who suggests that wage of $8.25. the ‘District doesn’t need retailThe D.C. Council passed ers, retailers need the District’ the LRAA, 8-5 last month, and Robert Turner II, the executive clearly does not grasp the condirector of the city’s Republican cept of economics,” he said.

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D) Party, said that he didn’t support hasn’t indicated what action he the council’s action. will take regarding the bill.

“If the D.C. Council were sinRon Phillips, the chairman cere in its efforts to produce a of the D.C. Republican Party, living wage, then why is this bill agreed with Turner, saying that targeted only [at] one company?”

Turner, 42, asked. “It’s a straw the LRAA will hurt residents in man that will have negative con- eastern Washington.

“With the passage of this bill, sequences for the District. We 8 will ‡ Please set alllose copy access in upper and lowercase, flush left as indicated on artwork at these point sizes: Consultant name in 11-point Helvetica Neue Bo strongly suggest Mayor Gray do Wards 5, 7 and Beauty Consultant in 9-point Helvetica Neue Light; Web site or e-mail address in 9-point Helvetica Neue Light; phone number in 9-point Helvetica ofthepotential jobs,” what is in the best interest of the to hundreds To Independent Beauty Consultant: Only Company-approved Web sites obtained through the Mary Kay® Personal Web Site program may District as a whole, and not just said Phillips, who lives in Southeast. “A plan like that serves no labor unions.”

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BUYING RECORDS

August 1 1834 – Slavery is officially abolished in all British territories. It would take another 31 years and a Civil War before it was abolished in America.

1920 – The national convention of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) begins at Liberty Hall in Harlem, New York. Garvey built the largest Black mass movement in history advocating Black pride, independent Black businesses and institutions as well as a strong and united Africa. He also brought motivation and showmanship unlike that of any other Black organization before or since.

August 2 1924 – A man who would grow up to become one of the most prolific and complex Black writers of the 20th Century is born on this day in New York City. James A. Baldwin was a novelist, short story writer and poet.

His works frequently had racial and sexual themes. He wrote, “If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, recreated from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us.

God gave Noah the Rainbow sigh, no more water, the fire next time.” Baldwin died in France on November 30, 1987.

1980 – Thomas “Hit Man” Hearns wins the WBA welterweight title. It was one of the titles he won in five different weight classes. Hearns was the first Black boxer to achieve that feat.

ended up in Chicago where his Jazz skills really began to develop.

1964 – The bodies of three civil rights workers are found on a farm near Philadelphia, Mississippi. The three (one Black and two whites) were participating in “Freedom Summer” – when thousands of people journeyed South to participate in the Civil Rights Movement and help Blacks register to vote. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were kidnapped on June 21st and killed the same night.

August 5 1865 – President Andrew Johnson reverses an order giving land abandoned or confiscated from slave-owning whites to former Black slaves. The order – Special Field Order #15 – had been issued in January by conquering Union Major General William T. Sherman as he and his troops marched through the South.

Over 40,000 ex-slaves had received over 400,000 acres of land in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

August 6 1870 – In one of the most brazenly racist incidents of the post-Civil War period, white conservatives and racists

employ assassinations and widespread violence to suppress the Black vote and take control of the Tennessee legislative from a coalition of Blacks and progressive whites. The violence and the election effectively ended Reconstruction in the state.

1965 – President Lyndon Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act which was designed to guarantee the right of African Americans to vote. The Act ended a wide range of discriminatory voting practices in the South including literacy tests.

August 7 1970 – Four people, including the presiding judge, are killed during a courthouse shootout in Marin County, California. A group of Blacks led by 17-year-old Jonathan Jackson stage an assault on the courthouse in a bid to free Jackson’s brother – famed Soledad Brother and militant activist George Jackson. Jonathan was among those who died. Professor and communist Angela Davis was charged with providing the guns for the bloody escape attempt but she would later be found not guilty.

August 3 1928 – The Atlanta Daily World begins publication as the first Black daily newspaper in modern times. It was founded by William A. Scott, III. Amazingly, the first Black daily newspaper in history – the New Orleans Tribune – was founded one year before the end of slavery in 1864.

August 4 1901 – Legendary Jazz trumpeter Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Abandoned by his desperately poor parents, he was for a while a ward of the state. But by 1922, he followed the migration of Blacks to the North and

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Viewp int Bennie Harris Washington, D.C. I think fans had lofty expectations heading into the season – people expected too much. If the team’s pitching improves, I think they’ll be all right. I don’t think it’s time to panic just yet, because a bunch of other teams are in the same position. No one team has emerged as the clear favorite.

The Nationals still have a shot at the postseason as long as the pitching improves.

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Ron Ashford Hyattsville, Md. At the beginning of the season, I thought the Nationals would be the top team in the league. They have good hitters and pitchers and an overall good team. But as of now, the Nationals have yet to hit their stride. I don’t know if it’s due to a lack of leadership, or players not playing up to their full potential. Something clearly is going on, and the team is not getting it done on the baseball field.

AFTER STRUGGLING TO STAY ABOVE .500 IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE SEASON, WILL THE WASHINGTON NATIONALS TURN THE CORNER AND CONTEND FOR A SPOT IN THE POSTSEASON, OR IS THIS SEASON UNSALVAGEABLE?

Mike Street Washington, D.C. The Nationals need to find some offense and right the ship quickly. Pitcher Stephen Strasburg has been a lightning rod for the team, and the rest of the players need to rally around him. The team has struggled since the all-star break, and I think all hopes of the World Series have been dashed. If the team is able to pull together in the next couple of weeks, the chance is still there, but I’ve kind of given up on the season.

Jerome Gaston Washington, D.C. I think the Nationals will be just fine in the long run.

The team’s not perfect and the players have struggled, but they’re a good team. As long as they stay focused and not worry about the record, they’ll be OK. Pitcher Jordan Zimmerman has been solid and he’s really impressed me. A lot of teams have been in the same position that the Nationals are currently in, and have turned it around and made the playoffs.

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M. Renee Baxter Washington, D.C. I think the Nationals will be able to pick up the pace.

The losing streak they went on a few weeks ago really hurt, especially because they had a healthy lineup, but they just couldn’t seem to get it together. It’s going to a tough task, because we’re past the all-star break in the season.

Based on last season’s results, expectations were higher than usual, but I don’t think they were unreasonable. I feel that it might be a little too late for the team to make the postseason.

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continued from Page 1 Justice Department will seek a preclearance regime similar to the one required by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. He said the department’s action is based on clear evidence of intentional racial discrimination, electoral manipulation, gerrymandering, voter suppression and other tools Republican legislators in Texas have used to deny Latinos and blacks the vote. In addition, he said, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that Texas has a history of pervasive voting-related discrimination against minorities.

“It is the duty of today’s Justice Department to continue monitoring jurisdictions around the country for changes that may hamper these voting rights. To keep taking appropriately aggressive action against any jurisdiction that attempts to hinder free and fair access to the franchise. And to keep refining and re-focusing current enforcement efforts – while we work with Congress to craft stronger tools for protecting voting rights,” said Holder.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry was quick to respond.

“Once again, the Obama administration is demonstrating utter contempt for our country’s system of checks and balances, not to mention the U.S.

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Constitution,” he said in a statement. “This end-run around the Supreme Court undermines the will of the people of Texas, and casts unfair aspersions on our state’s commonsense efforts to preserve the integrity of our elections process.”

Holder’s moves come as Congress revisits the Voting Rights Act, and begins reworking the invalidated section, as suggested

by Chief Justice John Roberts.

Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and John Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) are leading the charge in that body. One hearing has been held so far. It’s unclear however, how such a bill will fare in the House because of the undisguised hostility of many in the conservative and Tea Party blocs to legislation of this kind.

The Supreme Court’s ruling dismayed and angered Civil Rights activists, lawyers and other observers. This setback could reverberate for decades, they added.

“This is the coup de grace of a ruthless campaign the court has engaged in in the last 10 years,” said Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, executive director of the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) in Northwest, and professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia University Law School. “This ruling has liberated governments, businesses and school districts from federal scrutiny.

There’s a trick here and the trick is projecting on this legislation a static view of racism, while framing it as something new and active.”

“There’s a new version of racism every year. There is no way to list all the policies and procedures that would stop people from voting. Each moment provides opportunities to find another way to deny minorities their vote.”

Crenshaw was one of more than half a dozen law professors, scholars and activists, who, following the ruling, participated in an AAPF conference call to discuss the impact of some of the court’s 2013 decisions.

Sumi Cho, professor of Law at DePaul University in Chicago, said the ruling was the worst judicial decision since Plessy vs.

Ferguson in 1896, a landmark decision which established that separate facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were “equal.”

She said the justices have narrowed the reach and the tailoring requirements that a plaintiff would use to prove that he or she was discriminated against.

In addition, she said, the court acts as if a baseline of equality exists.

“The court is procedurally increasing the hurdles and increasing the proof required for

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continued from Page 8 remedies to be implemented,” said Cho. “These outcomes are set out and predetermined.

This makes the court appear to be judicious and tolerant when it’s really reactionary and it offers an illusion of equality while reaching equality is harder to achieve.”

Georgetown University Law Professor Paul Butler said while the Civil Rights movement isn’t over, its inability to protect those most exposed to racism and discrimination has been exposed.

“A black lesbian married couple living in Texas can now file a joint federal income tax return, but without the proper ID, they might not be able to vote,” he said.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told the Associated Press last week she’s not surprised how quickly some states moved to take advantage of the 5-4 ruling. Texas’ actions are powerful evidence of an ongoing need to keep states with a history of voting discrimination from making changes in the

way they hold elections without getting advance approval from Washington, she said.

“The notion that because the Voting Rights Act had been so tremendously effective we had to stop it didn’t make any sense to me. And one really could have predicted what was going to happen.”

When the decision was handed down, Ginsburg authored a scathing dissent and characterized gutting the law as akin to “… throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”

Holder, meanwhile, said the Justice Department would be relentless.

“This is the Department’s first action to protect voting rights following the Shelby County decision (which invalidated Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act), but it will not be our last. Even as Congress considers updates to the Voting Rights Act in light of the Court’s ruling, we plan, in the meantime, to fully utilize the law’s remaining sections to ensure that the voting rights of all American citizens are protected.” wi

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Returned Citizen Helps Others Register to Vote

By Margaret Summers WI Contributing Writer During the hot afternoon of Saturday, July 20, Courtney Stewart, founder and chairman of the volunteer organization Reentry Network for Returning Citizens, knocked on doors and walked the streets of Southwest’s Greenleaf and James Creek neighborhoods, in search of reentering citizens to register as voters. Additional volunteers registered people at the King Greenleaf Recreation Center at 201 N Street in Southwest.

“Reentering” and “returning” refers to formerly incarcerated individuals. Stewart, 51, of Clinton Md., prefers those terms, over what he believes are the stigmatizing “ex-offenders,” “ex-prisoners,” and “ex-inmates” monikers.

“I started the organization in 2010,” said Stewart, a returned citizen originally from Southeast. “In the last three years of our campaign, we’ve registered about 4,000 people. We used to only register voters every sum-

mer. Now it’s every week.”

The Reentry Network for Returning Citizens in Northeast connects returning individuals to employment, housing, mental health services, substance abuse treatment and recovery programs, and their families. It educates the public regarding issues affecting returning citizens.

Stewart said he and his organization, with assistance from District of Columbia Board of Elections volunteers, register voters in the D.C. Jail located in Southeast, addiction centers, homeless shelters, community centers, and at other locations throughout the District.

A sense of urgency motivated Stewart to initiate his campaign.

“We need to know about things that affect us,” and returning citizens are frequently unaware of laws passed that will influence their lives, he said.

Stewart was incarcerated in Lorton Reformatory in Lorton, Va., for three years. Paroled in 1985, he initially lived with his mother, sleeping on the floor.

Gradually, he found work. After a few years as a car salesman, he

Sherman Justice and Courtney Stewart engage in lively conversation on July 20. Stewart, the founder and chairman of the nonprofit organization, Reentry Network for Returning Citizens, pounded the pavement and knocked on doors in Southwest, in the hopes of registering returning citizens. /Photo by Nancy Shia

cashed out his retirement account to start his commercial and residential cleaning business. In 2006, Stewart founded Mentoring Works 2, a nonprofit organization that helps at-risk District youth.

Longtime returning citizens advocate Rhozier T. “Roach” Brown, 69, endorses Stewart’s voter registration campaign.

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ner Voices, a returning citizens’ support group. He noted that jurors in trials are selected from voter registration rolls. Brown said more returning citizens on juries could result in more equitable criminal trial verdicts.

Brown was involved in the effort which gave returned District residents their right to vote.

However, he said despite having voting rights, they still face discrimination.

“They can’t get auto insurance, Pell grants to help them pay for a college education, or employment,” he said. Brown launched a “Ban the Box” campaign to eliminate “Yes” and “No” checkboxes and the question “Do you have a criminal record?” from employment and other application forms. “I even know a blind person who went to a social services agency to get a Seeing Eye dog who was asked if he had a criminal record,” Brown said in utter disbelief.

Stewart wants to mobilize returning citizens to become active in the electoral process. “I want to reach those who say ‘I can’t vote,’ or ‘My vote doesn’t count,’” he said. “We want our conditions to get better, so we have to support (elected officials) who (are accountable) to us.” The District government doesn’t do enough to help returning citizens, he said.

Voting demonstrates that returning citizens want to improve their neighborhoods as well as their own lives, Stewart said.

“More than 60,000 District residents have a criminal record. We are reliable, dependable, non-vi-

olent human beings. But communities look at us as having torn them down doing things we weren’t supposed to be doing.

We have to adjust ourselves and build our communities.”

A 2011 Florida Parole Commission study found that returning citizens with restored civil rights are less likely to go back to prison. According to Nonprofit Vote, a nonpartisan voter advocacy group based in Boston, Mass., most states will allow returning citizens to vote after serving their sentences.

But 12 states, that include southern states where racial and language minorities’ voting rights were protected under the Voting Rights Act, bar them from voting if they committed certain crimes.

Stewart is concerned about the impact a Voting Rights Act made weaker by the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, could have on returning citizens. “As soon as you start educating people, and they start to have some power (through voting), you have people who don’t want them to have power, especially (if those people live in) the D.C. ‘colony,’” he said.

Returning citizens can contact Stewart at (202) 491-3657 for information on future registration events. His organization will conduct voter registration at the Verizon Center on Friday, August 2 outside the “America’s Most Wanted” concert. “It features three famous rappers who are all returning citizens,” said Stewart. “Lil’ Wayne, 2 Chainz and T.I.” wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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The Center for Minority Business Development (CMBD) at Prince George’s Community College will host its second annual procurement conference on September 19, 2013, from 8 a.m.–3:30 p.m. The location: Camelot by Martin’s, 13905 Central Avenue, Upper Marlboro, Maryland. There is no charge for this event, however, you must register in advance to be admitted.

Over 350 businesses attended our conference last year.

For more information and to register please visit our website: www.cmbd.biz.

The theme for this year’s conference is titled “CLIFF HANGERS: UNDERSTANDING WHEN YOU HAVE REACHED THE EDGE.” The conference seeks to educate small and minority-owned businesses on what to do to move forward to reach optimal success. Our goals for the conference are simple, but bold. This one-day event will provide each attendee with an opportunity to hear from industry experts on the challenges and the action steps needed to help small and minority-owned businesses take their business to the next level. The day will begin with four dynamic and engaging workshops all focused on emerging business needs and conclude with a targeted “Matchmaking” event for the first 150 pre-registered attendees.

Workshop Descriptions I. Teaming Up Identify and discuss various types of teaming arrangements and the benefits and challenges associated with them.

Cynthia Washington, Washington Concepts, Inc. Carl Evans, BEST, LLC Janice Davis, Davis & Steele II. Building Coalitions to Influence LMBE Policies This workshop will discuss the power behind building coalitions to influence policies affecting small and minority-owned businesses and the steps needed to make coalitions effective.

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Site for New Hospital Narrowed to Two

By Gale Horton Gay WI Staff Writer Officials with Dimensions Healthcare System are a little closer to making a decision on the location of a new hospital in Prince George’s County now that two of four possibilities have been eliminated.

It was announced July 25 that Landover Mall and Largo Town Center are the sites being considered and Dimensions has approved two letters of intent for these sites as it prepares to submit a Certificate of Need (CON) application to the state to build the facility. Approval of a CON is necessary before the project can move forward.

Both remaining sites meet the new regional medical center site selection criteria, which includes: centrally located in Prince George’s County; accessible to transportation, such as I-495 and the metro/bus routes; reasonable site development costs pertaining to acquisition and infrastructure; size of the site; timing to gain control of the site; and future development potential.

“We are very pleased with the remaining two sites” said C. Philip Nichols Jr., chairman of the Dimensions Healthcare System Board of Directors. “Both are attractive given that they are within four miles of Prince George’s Hospital Center. They both have unique attributes making a selection extremely complex.”

He added that the board will reconvene to make the final decision with recommendations from the state, Prince George’s County and University of Maryland Medical System.

In March, a forum was held for public input on four sites that were under consideration including a

site on Morgan Boulevard and one at Woodmore Towne Center.

More than 350 people attended, voicing their support of some sites and opposition to others.

“We are doing letters of intent for both sites because there is still work to do around the financial terms for each location,” said Bradford Seamon, chief administrative officer of Prince George’s County and a member of the Dimension’s Board of Directors.

“The terms will be a critical component in our decision-making process and the letters of intent will better position us for negotiations going forward.”

Seamon added that each site was “thoroughly assessed” and that factoring in development costs was a key component.

Also pleased with the announcement is Landover Hills Mayor Lee Walker, who said Landover Mall is the most appropriate site because it is mostly open space with only a Sears store on it. He noted the location’s easy access to I-495/95.

He said most patients are likely to travel via the highway or local roads and that access to a Metro Station was of secondary importance.

Walker said another advantage of Landover Hills is that no one will be displaced if this site is chosen.

“It’s almost a no brainer,” said Walker. “Should be no question about it.”

The regional medical center is anticipated to be a 259-bed, 720,000-square-foot facility initially treating 16,000-17,000 patients annually and increasing to 21,000 by 2019, according to one official.

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Baker IV Expresses World View through Art

By Gale Horton Gay WI Staff Writer Rushern Baker IV usually let’s his artwork speak for itself.

However last week Baker explained his thought process, motivation and techniques before an audience of friends, fans, artists and others.

The art talk took place on July 27 at the 39th Street Gallery at the Gateway Arts Center in Brentwood.

In the hour-long talk, Baker, who is the Gateway Community Development Corporation’s (CDC) current artist-in-residence and a painter, shared his evolution as an artist and how politics and foreign affairs factor into his work.

Baker, the son of Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker III, briefly touched on the influence growing up around politics has had on him. In fact, earlier in his life Baker thought he would follow in his father’s footsteps. He notes he’s always had a fascination with government.

“My inherent affinity for po-

litical theater keeps me in tune to the issues facing American society and leads me to explore the connection between art and politics,” he penned in his artist’s statement.

“I want my paintings to generate a discourse around policy, especially foreign policy,” said Baker, who attended Suitland High School before going to The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City to pursue a bachelor of fine arts degree and then to Yale University in New Haven, Conn., for his master of fine arts degree.

He talked about the support he’s received from family, mentioning that his father allowed him to turn the family garage into a studio. He also showed an abstract painting of his mother Christa Beverly who is struggling with dementia.

Baker, 25, is also an educator who lectures at the University of Maryland, College Park and coordinates a publicly funded mobile arts program for youth.

In the past year, he exhibited his work at the Reginald Ingra-

ham Gallery in Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn N.Y., Motus Fort and Koki Arts in Tokyo and Yale University. He also recently co-curated “On the Verge,” an exhibition recognizing Prince George’s County artists in Annapolis.

During his talk, Baker projected images of his early and more recent works on a wall. He discussed artists who’ve inspired him and his use of hard-edge geometric shapes in some of his pieces.

One of his themes was subur-

ban architecture and he showed a piece titled “Gerrymander” with a bright yellow line cutting down the center. Another painting has President Barack Obama outfitted as an astronaut with a predator drone in the background. Baker, who volunteered for the Obama campaign in New Hampshire, said he wanted to capture the angst and elation of an African American in the White House but also with a foreshadowing of things to come. A piece with dominant colors of blue, orange, green and gray was related to the war

in Afghanistan and Iraq and several others showed explosions, missiles, tanks, predator drones and other war-themes.

Following his remarks, the approximately two dozen art enthusiasts toured his studio and asked the artist questions about the colors and materials he uses and his development as an artist.

John Paradiso, facility and program manager for Gateway CDC, said the artist talks are a way for the artists and the community to connect. Three artists-in-residence rotate through the gallery annually.wi

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Priebus Building Bridges to Black Community

By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus is making good on his promise to cement relations with the black community.

Two weeks ago, he made his first visit to the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Orlando, Fla. Priebus said he gladly accepted Hilary Shelton’s invitation, saying he enjoyed the meeting and one-on-ones.

“It was my first time and I enjoyed it,” said Priebus during a recent interview. “Actually, the reception was remarkable. I was welcomed with open

arms. Hilary was my host for the night and I met hundreds of people. I felt they were very glad to see me there.”

Last week, he traveled to Philadelphia for the National Urban League annual convention, and planned to be at an upcoming National Black Chamber of Commerce gathering and other events.

Shelton, director of the NAACP’s Washington Bureau and senior vice president for policy and advocacy, said he visited Priebus to solicit his support in reworking the section of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) invalidated by the Supreme Court in June.

“What I do know is that I can’t get anything through Congress without both sides and Section 4 is way too important to lose to party bantering,”

said Shelton, who has handled the organization’s federal government affairs for 17 years. “We’re non-partisan.

African Americans have been both.

They were Republican before and overwhelmingly Democratic now.”

Chief Justice John Roberts stated in the majority opinion that the VRA had outlived its usefulness because America’s racial landscape no longer resembles that of the past. In light of current conditions, Roberts explained, Section 4’s formula is unconstitutional and he called on Congress to provide the fix.

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Julian Bond, civil rights activist and former chairman of the NAACP, and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, confer at the annual convention of the NAACP in Orlando, Fla. /Photo courtesy of the Republican National Committee

of voting discrimination from making any electoral changes without permission [preclearance] from the Department of Justice or a federal court.

Shelton said Priebus indicated a desire to attend the conference and he served as host.

Priebus, 40, had promised earlier this year that he would work tirelessly to reach out to African Americans, while admitting his party’s neglect of what he called an important constituency.

“Ours is a party that needs to get better and work year-round. We have to fight for the African- American vote in this country and we’re going to do it,” the Wisconsin native said.

“I’m not delusional. I don’t think we’ll carpet the world in three months. We have to keep doing this. We have to get out into the community block-byblock.”

Shelton said he’s pleased Priebus made the time.

“I think they were happy to have him there. They were very enthusiastic,” said Shelton of the chairman, board members and state conference presidents who met Priebus. “I actually said to him that the proof is in the policy. And I reminded him that when we exited slavery, we overwhelmingly voted Republican. Different demographics vote their interests.We were not able to fully enter the mainstream of society and we looked for who could help us do that.”

In that regard, Shelton said, the NAACP and African Americans are still engaged in that quest, and he used the Voting Rights Act as an example.

“In 2006, the entire Senate and all but 33 GOP members of the House voted to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act,” he said.

“Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz (D-Fla.) spoke [prior to Priebus’ arrival] that morning. We had strong support from Democrats and we were looking for the same from the GOP.

Our hope is that with leadership and the party chair we can fix this problem.”

Any policies Republicans support and push must reflect the needs and concerns of African Americans, Shelton asserted.

“We talked about a number of issues,” he said. “A number of Republicans support certain things that are of concern to us and aren’t a part of our agenda. Now they have to step up. We had that discussion. I go to both party conventions and those who are at the table shape the agenda.”

“The GOP voted for an agenda that is detrimental to African Americans. I wish I could say that they support our agenda. We’re aggressively moving to get Republican support for our agenda.”

Priebus acknowledges the poor image Republicans have among African Americans and he vows to be remembered as the Republican chairman who changed the way his party is viewed and the manner in which it does business. He said he remains committed to building long-term, lasting and authentic relationships in places where the Republican Party “just hasn’t been.”

And tangible and measurable action must replace words and platitudes.

“I had expectations of meeting a lot of people who might have been slightly surprised that I was there,” he said. “The folks I met were very kind, hospitable and wonderful to me. It was a great night. There’s not a night we shouldn’t be there.We need to grow our party. I know we’ve got a lot of ground to make up with the black community.”

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Tracy Martin: ‘Turning a Negative into a Positive’

By Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer The father of Trayvon Martin recently joined a distinguished panel of African-American leaders in Washington, D.C., where he implored members of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys (CCBMB) to convey to Congress, that he and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus will continue to be the voice of the slain youth.

Martin, who received a standing ovation during the CCBMB-sponsored forum titled, “The Status of Black Males: Ensuring Our Boys Mature into Strong Men,” held July 24 at the Rayburn Office Building on Capitol Hill, added that his son’s death calls for profound conversations to prevent other innocent black males from meeting Trayvon’s fate.

“Just to think that [Trayvon’s] life would be taken is heartbreaking,” said Martin, who was accompanied by his attorney Benjamin Crump. “It’s something you never get over. [But]

this calls for dinner-time conversations to [determine] how the same thing can be stopped from happening to someone else’s child,” said Martin, 46. “[With the creation of the Trayvon Martin Foundation] we’re taking a negative and turning it into a positive. It’s all about what we can do as a nation, and as a people, to stop someone else’s son from being killed.”

Trayvon, 17, was shot and killed by then-Neighborhood Watch guard George Zimmerman on Feb. 26, 2012, while walking in the gated Sanford, Fla., community where his father lived. On July 13, Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering the unarmed teen.

The forum which lasted nearly two hours and attracted more than 200, also focused on teaching young black males – who are often stereotyped from the time they first enter school – to develop their own identities.

“We don’t want a society that defines [our African-American boys], but a society that allows them to define themselves as

(L-R) Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), David Johns, Tracy Martin, father of slain teenager, Trayvon Martin, Martin’s attorney, Benjamin Crump and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), address the press before convening the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys Hearing on July 24 at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter

individuals,” said Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), who joined Democratic Rep. Danny Davis of Illinois, in convening the gathering.

In addition to Martin and Crump, the panel included Kweisi Mfume, former NAACP chief executive officer and a former Maryland congressman, David Johns, executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, and Michael Eric Dyson , sociology professor at Georgetown University in

Northwest Washington, D.C. Martin and his son’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, 47, established the nonprofit Trayvon Martin Foundation which promotes non-violence in March 2012. It’s headquartered in Miami.

Martin said his family has been hurt by the “demonization” of his son’s name. He said that while he and Fulton established the foundation to carry on their son’s legacy, “Stand Your Ground” laws across the country need to be amended.

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ation of a Trayvon Martin Act would be a good start for ensuring that other “Zimmermans” won’t be able to arbitrarily get out of their cars and confront young boys of color.

“I will never give up fighting for Trayvon and other black and brown boys,” a visibly-moved Martin said.

Johns described young black males among the nation’s most vulnerable and neglected, adding that neither their zip codes

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“We must make concerted efforts to provide support for them outside the classroom as well,” Johns said, stressing that more high-quality educational programs are essential for steering at-risk youth from the pathway to the jail house, to one that instead, leads to the White House.

“We must understand the importance of developing and educating young black boys before problems arise,” Johns said. “In

addition to increasing the number of black [male] educators, we need to change the way we talk about black boys in private and in public, so that they feel valued, supported and protected at home and in their communities – and dispel the myth that there are more black men in prison than in college.”

Dyson, who along with the other panelists agreed, however, he said that a cultural backdrop exists where all African Americans live under suspicion.

“Our humanity and intelligence have been questioned,” Dyson said. “And, as a result, African-American males question their place in life . . . If Rachel Jeantel’s testimony [during the Zimmerman proceedings] had been believed, perhaps there

would have been a better trial outcome. But she was attacked because of her culture.”

Congressional Black Caucus Chair Marcia Fudge said following the forum that the thought-provoking “conversations helped elevate the voices and daily experiences of millions of African-American males” all over the country. “[The forum] also provided a call to action for our nation to examine the way we allow damaging stereotypes to affect the way we view and treat African-American men of all ages,” said Fudge, 60. “This topic cannot be taken lightly, as a significant portion of our population is being negatively impacted by the social and structural biases that do not favor their success.” wi

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The Economics of Race in America If we talk about what ails us that will make it better. When will Black Americans stop getting short shrift?

Here lately the Supreme Court’s invalidation of valuable parts of the Voting Rights Act, to which Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) called “a central pillar of the civil rights laws that helped bring America’s ideals closer to reality for all” ... and “feared the ruling would jeopardize the rights of racial minorities.”

“Black life is valued less than White life” and has become a familiar activist chant. From the very beginning, there was no more powerful theme in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin than the issue of race. Now, the national conversation is about “race in America.” What we really need across America is “a conversation on race” that helps Blacks to rearrange some priorities.

As President Barack Obama said after the Zimmerman verdict “we should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to widen the circle of compassion and understanding in our communities. What Americans need are a series of race dialogues toward garnering ongoing commitments to combat prejudice and strengthening understanding among all.”

Republican Sen. John McCain should be recognized as an ally saying America has “a long way to go” before racial disparities end. The senior senator from Arizona said that Obama’s impromptu speech about being a Black in America, “…proved there needs to be more conversation about the issue of race. We cannot become complacent when we still have a dramatic disparity in Black youth unemployment,” said McCain.

It wouldn’t be as ironic as some Blacks think that Republicans follow McCain’s lead to bring about a conversation on race in America. Race and racism are the most challenging issues confronting America. Yet, polite society refuses to discuss it. Racial inequality in the United State underlies a wide range of societal issues that affect different groups disproportionately. The total wealth gap between White and African-American families increased from $85,000 in 1984 to $236,500 in 2009. The biggest drivers of the racial wealth gap are: years of homeownership; household income; employment; inheritance; financial support from families or friends; and pre-existing family wealth. Whites have 22 times more wealth than Blacks.

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By William Reed progress toward a more equal and fair society is measured. It’s apparent both from the varied reactions to Obama’s presidency and events beyond it, that race still serves as a critical stumbling block in American society.

Times of challenge provide the opportunity to create change. There has never been a better time to re-examine and correct racial inequalities in American society. Instead of allowing the taboo on the subject to continue, the nation needs to start an honest discussion about race. We all need to pay more attention to the growing wealth inequality and expanding racial wealth. There needs to be some systematic, organizational commitment to making policy that helps Blacks to gain grants, and investment in our communities and businesses. Let no one tell you “all is equal” with demonstrated disparities in health care, education, housing and criminal justice continuing.

Don’t let the “talking heads” that regularly represent the country’s wealth interest to have you believe “all things are equal.” White Americans have continued to enjoy material advantages based on past racially exclusionary practices and current institutionalized discrimination. However, this long history of racism has created social costs in terms of social instability and loss of economic productivity. African Americans bear costs of low self-esteem, high unemployment, low socioeconomic status, and limited opportunities.

As we march from one unemployment line to another, don’t let American politicians and media weasel out on this one. A dialogue on the role race currently plays in the economy from the workplace to the criminal justice system is needed. Politicians should be encouraged to expedite a series of conversations on race across the country.wi William Reed is publisher of “Who’s Who in Black Corporate America” and available for projects via the BaileyGroup.or

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America’s Crisis: 38 Million Have No Retirement Assets As more Baby Boomers continue to retire, a new research report has found that the nation is facing a trillion dollar retirement savings crisis. According to the National Institute on Retirement Security (NIRS), 38 million Americans – 45 percent of working-age households – have no retirement account assets.

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ranges from $6.8 to $14 trillion, depending upon the financial measure used. NIRS analyzed the readiness of all working-age households using data from the U.S. Federal Reserve.

“The heart of the issue consists of two problems: lack of access to retirement plans in and out of the workplace –particularly among low-income workers and families –and low retirement savings,” the report found.

“These twin challenges amount to a severe retirement crisis that, if unaddressed, will result in grave consequences.”

Financial experts recommend that retirement assets be the equivalent of 8-11 times annual income to preserve a standard of living. Many experts also recommend retirement fund contribution rates ranging from 10-15 percent to eventually reach adequate retirement funds.

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In 2011, according to the report, 44.5 million people worked for an employer that did not sponsor a retirement plan. Even among full-time employees, 35.2 million had no access to a retirement plan. Low-wage industries, regardless of size, were found to be the least likely to offer a retirement plan.

Today, the average working household has virtually no retirement savings. The median retirement balance for all working-age households is $3,000 and only $12,000 for those nearing retirement.

The shortage of available funds for retirement adds yet another complex dimension to the hope for a full financial recovery. In the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the 1930s’ Great Depression, communities of color face financial challenges worsened by disproportionate unemployment, foreclosure-blighted neighborhoods and in many instances, lower incomes and markedly less wealth than the general population.

While some might assume that America’s workers make poor financial decisions, earlier research by the Center for Responsible Lending determined that the typical household has just $100 left each month after paying for basic expenses and debt payments. After controlling for inflation, the typical household had less annual income at the end of 2010 than it did in 2000. Households headed by persons aged 55-65 saw the largest losses in wealth. People at or nearing retirement lost an average of $90,000 from 20072010.

Additionally, CRL found that income declines in communities of color are higher in part

because of declines in over-representation in two types of employment that historically provided stable and secure jobs: manufacturing and construction.

These two industries suffered job losses of 10 and 20 percent, respectively. African-Americans who formerly worked manufacturing and construction jobs lost more than twice the number of jobs between 2007 and 2011 than they previously gained in the pre-recession decade.

The new NIRS report offered three specific actions to remedy the retirement crisis: Strengthen Social Security, the primary source of retirement income for low and middle-income Americans; Expand low- and middle-wage workers’ access to high-quality, low-cost retirement plans with professional investment management and risk pooling; and Expand eligible income limits and credit rates for the federal Saver’s Credit that reduces income tax liability by 10-15 percent on the first $2,000 in contributions to a qualified retirement account.

Without long-term solutions to the retirement crisis, NIRS concludes, “An increasingly dependent elder population will likely place increased strain on families and social service organizations. . . .American workers, employers, and policymakers need to look closely at what we need to do individually and collectively, so that everyone can build sufficient assets to have adequate and secure income after a lifetime of work.”wi Charlene Crowell is a communications manager with the Center for Responsible Lending. She can be reached at: Charlene.crowell@responsiblelending.org.

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Senate Approves Deal Reducing Student Loans Rates Had Doubled When Congress Failed to Act

By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer College students really can double their pleasure now.

After Congress failed earlier this month to reach a deal on a spending plan, the Senate on July 24 finally approved a bipartisan deal that would tie interest rates for college student loans to the financial markets, a move that the Capitol Hill consensus believes will resolve once and for all the dispute that caused the rates to double on July 1.

“This compromise is a major victory for our nation’s students,” said President Barack Obama. “It meets the key principles I laid out from the start: it locks in low rates next year, and it doesn’t overcharge students to pay down the deficit,” Obama said.

The president said the deal is a better bargain for the middle class.

Obama said the deal rolls back the July 1 rate hike, which doubled the loan rate from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. The new deal saves undergraduates an average of more than $1,500 on loans they take out this year.

The latest measure, which still has to pass the House, would replace the fixed-rate subsidized federal student, or Stafford Loan, program.

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Some Democrats said the agreement betrays the party’s promises made to working-class families because interest rates on student loans would be tied to the volatile financial markets.

“What I don’t understand is when you have a Democratic president, and a Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate, why are we producing a bill which is basically a Republican bill,” said Sen. Bernard Sanders (D-Vt.).

The government stands to reap nearly $200 billion over the next 10 years because of the higher rates, said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) “This is obscene. Students should not be used to generate profits for the government,” Warren said.

Although members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) had voiced concerns about the potential of loan rates doubling, a spokesperson for the CBC said its members currently had no additional comment.

After Congress failed to reach a deal on July 1, CBC Chair Marcia Fudge, 60, said the House had a responsibility to ensure that federal assistance for education is both accessible and affordable. She said the proposal to double the rates would force students and their parents to pay exorbitant interest rates on the loans.

“The bill is being used as a tool to pay down the deficit while there are other viable sources of revenue and cuts that need to be considered,” said Fudge,

(D-Ohio).

Obama had pressed lawmakers for a fix regarding rates on student loans.

Administration officials estimated that the new plan would help 11 million borrowers who will take out loans in 2013 to attend college. The rates would apply retroactively to those who borrowed since July 1.

Under the new rate structure, loans to undergraduates, graduate students, and their parents would be subject to a fixed rate tied to the 10-year Treasury note.

Rates for loans taken out after July 1 of this year would be 3.9 percent for undergraduates, 5.4 percent for graduate students and 6.4 percent for those receiving PLUS loans – federal loans that graduate or professional degree students and parents of dependent undergraduate students can use to help pay education costs.

The rates would be fixed over the life of the loan.

A cap has been set on all loans, 8.25 percent for undergraduates, 9.5 percent for graduate students and 10.5 percent for PLUS recipients.

“At least now they’re ready to put their partisan political fix aside and join President Obama and congressional Republicans in enacting real, permanent reform for all students,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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Students who attend J.C. Nalle Community School in Southeast and other D.C. public school students held an anti-bullying rally on the grounds of J.C. Nalle on July 25. Kenneth Davis, 11, (depicted with a red bandana around his neck) is one of a number of students who performed a step routine during the rally. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah

Rally, Training, Helps Children Combat Bullying

By Margaret Summers WI Contributing Writer Waving homemade signs and shouting “Bully Alert!” more than 100 children, ages five to 13, parents, and other adults, marched on July 25 from the Benning Road Metro station to J.C. Nalle Community School at 219 50th Street in Southeast. On the Ward 7 school’s playground, they rallied against bullying.

“During the school year, there were children bullied at Nalle,” said Tonya Sherman, director of the school’s five-week summer enrichment camp, Summer in the City. “Our children had also been hearing about young people in other cities who committed suicide or dropped out of school because of bullying.”

The camp organized the “Turn Up and Step Up Against Bullying” event, with assistance from the Youth Leadership Academy, which is part of the nonprofit National Center for Children and Families’ (NCCF) CARA House, a Ward 7-based parent education program.

“Our children need 21st century anti-bullying skills. We can’t just tell them to ‘walk away from bullies’ or ‘turn the other cheek,’” said Sherman, 50. “It’s more complicated than that.”

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and families include counseling, parent education, after school academic enrichment programs, and the summer camp, whose participants are from all over the District.

“In our particular community, kids are used to seeing the worst of the worst,” said Sherman.

“They have experienced a lot of yellow ‘Do Not Cross’ police tape. They’ve seen people shot, which is a form of bullying.”

Sherman said many summer camp participants feel Trayvon Martin’s murder in Florida was another form of bullying, as Martin was stalked, then shot to death by George Zimmerman.

“We had social workers counseling our kids (after the Zimmerman verdict).”

The anti-bullying skills taught in the summer camp and at Nalle, said Sherman, include reporting bullying to an adult, and “talking down” the bully by having the bully explain his or her actions and stopping them. “Bullies are in (emotional) pain. They bully people because they’ve been bullied.”

“We taught campers to not be afraid of bullies, and to not fight them out of fear that they will appear weak if they don’t fight,” said Sherman.

Sherman said campers were taught to yell “Bully Alert!” whenever bullying behavior presents itself. All camp activities stopped until the bullying stopped. Bullies could not participate in camp activities like

field trips. “They learned that there are consequences for their behavior,” she said.

Rapper Chi Chi Monet, 10, of Capitol Heights, Md., and her sister Zoe, nine, performed at the rally, including Monet’s rap, “No Bully,” which, as is the case with all of her raps, she wrote herself. “Bullying is bad, so we have to promote anti-bullying,” Chi Chi said.

Britney Napper, 13, a student at Paul Public Charter School in Northwest, told the crowd of approximately 150 or more, “We want peace. We don’t want violence. We want to be bully-free.”

Christian Mitchell, nine, a Nalle student entering fourth grade when school reopens, said he was bullied by some eighthgrade boys the day before the rally. One boy picked him up and threw him on the ground. “I was scared. I told the boy to get his hand off me, and I tried to move his hand off,” said Christian.

He said he participated in the rally because “Bullying can hurt you, and it’s not fair to people (who are bullied). It’s not right.”

The campers have produced a public service video on bullying which will be posted on YouTube, said Sherman. And they will apply their new anti-bullying skills in their schools. “I think it’s never too early to teach these skills. Even kindergartners can be taught to say ‘Bully Alert!’” wi The Washington Informer

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In the weeks prior to the event, Wells, 56, said the District endured temperatures in the 90s and high humidity. The fear was that the seniors would bake outside.

Naomi Mitchell, Wells’ community liaison, pulled the event together, as she has done for the past several years.

“This is to give seniors in the ward as a group somewhere to go for the day,” said Mitchell, who has worked for the 2014 mayoral candidate for the past seven years.

“Some of them have never been in the stadium even though they live close by.”

In the past, Mitchell said, the number of participants has exceeded 200 but fears by some seniors that the day may prove too hot led some to forego the picnic.

Kenneth Pye, Napoleon Jones, Lawrence Brown and Linda Clawson sat together discussing the upcoming Nationals game and their own team. All play for the Ward 6 Bombers, a senior

softball team.

Clawson, a retired police officer with the U.S. Postal Service and who plays short field, smiled warmly.

“Do I enjoy this? Yeah,” she said. “I enjoy the camaraderie.”

Just about every one of the chairs set around circular tables set out for the picnic was occupied. The men and women chatted as they ate, watched activity around them, joshed friends, hailed acquaintances and embraced old friends. A whisper of a breeze kissed people’s faces, shook leaves of nearby trees and pulled bits of paper and other detritus for a brief dance before fading.

Wells said every council member is given about 200 Nationals tickets every year and he couldn’t think of a better way to use them.

“A couple of years ago, I figured I’d take seniors to the game,” he said. “I tell Naomi I don’t think I could pull this off.

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D.C. Council member Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6), chats with Patricia Corbin who dons a Nationals red cap, Tanya Jones who sports a Nationals Jordan Zimmermann jersey, and Laura Robinson during his annual Senior Picnic in Southwest on July 25. /Photo by Nancy Shia

WELLS continued from Page 22 I’ve been very impressed by [the seniors] knowledge of the game.”

Mitchell laughed when told what Wells said.

“I was confident that the weather would break,” she said with a chuckle. “We had a great turnout but the numbers are lower than last year. We have between 125 and 150 from all over, Ashbury, Potomac Gardens, Arthur Capper Senior Apartments and Greenleaf Gardens. Seniors really love the attention and this event.”

Brown, Clawson and company talked about their team’s six-game winning streak and the reason they think they’re doing so well.

“We’re in the playoffs and we’re undefeated,” Pye crowed.

Brown and his colleagues ribbed Pye, telling him they hoped he doesn’t jinx them.

“We’re playing the game for a deceased member, Zev Feder,” said Brown. “The whole season is in honor of him.”

Feder, a local businessman, died of cancer on May 23.

Brown, who worked with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) for 26 years, said Feder played third base and made a deep and lasting impression on and off the field.

“He was a good man, very active in the community,” Brown said. “He was on so many committees in the ward fighting for housing and transportation for seniors. And he was an avid and www.washingtoninformer.com

LIFELINE Ward 6 Capitol Hill Village residents Mike and Ann Grace wait for D.C. Council member Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) to arrive at the 7th Street Southwest Landing. About 150 seniors who live in Ward 6 attended Wells’ Senior Picnic on July 25. /Photo by Nancy Shia

longtime baseball fan.We’re doing this for Zev and his family. It’s just touching us because we lost one of our own.”

Brown said Feder played third base, which he called “the hot corner.”

“We’d call him our break-dancing third baseman. We’re really saddened by this,” said Brown.

Anthony “Pretty Boy” Floyd echoed similar sentiments.

“This is dedicated to Feder, it’s for him,” said Floyd, who described himself as an outfielder, clutch hitter and base runner.

“We’ve done everything right, correctly. We want to bring home the championship. We’re going to give it our best shot…”

Floyd’s friends shouted him down.

“Take that mic from that brother, take the mic from the brother!” they chanted and broke

into laughter.

Seventy-five-year-old Jones said the team proudly represents the ward but spoke of other benefits.

“It’s just the competition and the camaraderie, now it’s the more physical aspect of it – keeping fit,” said Jones, who began playing baseball 50 years ago.

Brown agreed.

“I play left field just like (Pittsburgh Pirates Hall of Famer) Roberto Clemente – I just wish he’d willed me his arm,” he said with a laugh. “It’s a blessing to be a senior. I enjoy being out with other seniors. It’s wonderful to be out here. [Because] you look around and see that so many other people are not around. I’ve been very fortunate, been blessed in ways that shock me.”wi The Washington Informer

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By OSWALD T. BROWN

THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE

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BAHAMAS:

s a former colony of Great Britain, The Bahamas’ attainment of independence on July 10, 1973, was relatively late when compared to some of its sister islands in the Caribbean that were also British colonies.

Jamaica, for example, after a failed attempt to establish a European Unionstyle West Indian Federation with Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados, became an independent country on August 6, 1962; Trinidad and Tobago followed on August 31, 1962; and Barbados severed its colonial “navel string” from Great Britain on November 30, 1966.

In the case of The Bahamas, with a population that’s 75 percent black, there was no real desire to pursue independence because the group of islands stretching like a string of pearls from 90 miles off the coast of Florida to about 50 miles off the coast of Cuba was controlled by a white minority with close historical and cultural ties to Great Britain.

The push to become independent really began in earnest in The Bahamas after the historic political victory of Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) in the January 10, 1967 general election, which resulted in a black government being elected for the first time to govern the affairs of the country.

But the trek towards black majority rule actually began in 1953 when the PLP became the first organized political party in The Bahamas and immediately began to challenge the unjust, openly racist policies of the group of white merchants and businessmen who controlled the affairs of The Bahamas as if it were their personal fiefdom.

Recognized at the time internationally as “a playground for the rich and famous,” The Bahamas’ importance to Great Britain became well established in the early 1940s during World War II when former King Edward VIII, who abdicated from the throne in 1936 to marry American socialite Wallace Simpson, was sent to The Bahamas as its governor.

The white minority in the country, of course, welcomed the “high society” cultural traditions that became entrenched during the former king’s governance of The Bahamas, resulting in the black majority for the most part being treated as second-class citizens in their own country.

Racism was also openly practiced, with the white minority adopting some of the harsh segregation policies that were enforced by law at the time in the southern United States. Indeed, blacks were not allowed in the major hotels in New Providence, where the capital of Nassau is located, and were refused admission to a whites-only movie theatre, The Savoy, on Bay Street, the

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PLP Council: Shortly after he completed his law studies in England, Lynden Oscar Pindling joined the fledgling Progressive Liberal Party (PLP). He is pictured with other members of the PLP Council in 1954. From left are Paul Farrington, L.O. Pindling, Urban Knowles, Clement Pinder, H.M. Taylor, Cyril Stevenson, William “Bill” Cartwright, and Samuel Carey. / Courtesy photos

main street in downtown Nassau.

These were the vexing conditions that existed in The Bahamas when a young black lawyer, Lynden Oscar Pindling, returned to the country in 1953 after completing his law studies in England.

The fledgling PLP was in its infancy when Pindling became a member later that year and he quickly established himself as a future leader of the political party by championing the various causes of the black majority and routinely offering his legal services to poor blacks who could not afford a lawyer.

Known locally as “The Bay Street Boys,” members of the governing white minority, who at that point were not officially members of a political party, took notice of the threat the PLP posed to their political dominance and established the United Bahamian Party (UBP) to contest the general election held in1956. The PLP won 33 percent of the vote in that election, and Pindling was one of six PLPs elected to the House of Assembly.

Pindling continued to distinguish himself as a powerful force within the PLPs hierarchy and eventually became leader of the PLP at the party’s 1961 convention, with strong support from a group of young activists in the party who were members of the National Committee for Positive Action (NCPA).

With women voting for the first time in the country in 1962, the PLP was highly optimistic that it would win that election, but although it received the majority of the votes, the UBP won the majority of the House of Assembly seats mainly as a result of skillful gerrymandering of the electoral boundaries and questionable election laws that denied some blacks the right to vote.

However, in May 1963 a conference was convened in London to consider a new constitution for The Bahamas, resulting in the islands being granted full internal self-governance, with Great Britain retaining control of foreign affairs, defense, and internal security. The new constitution came into effect on January 7, 1964, setting the stage for the remarkable victory at the polls by the PLP on January 10, 1967.

Pindling, quite naturally, was hailed as “Moses” who lead black Bahamians to the

“Promised Land” and the drumbeat for independence became louder and louder, with Great Britain eventually acceding to the wishes of the majority of Bahamians on July 10, 1973.

Pindling had been leader of the country since the January 10, 1967, general election, using the title of Premier, but after independence he became the country’s first Prime Minister and was subsequently Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. Sir Lynden was Prime Minister of The Bahamas for 25 years and was succeeded

by Hubert Ingraham, who left the PLP to become leader of the opposition Free National Movement (FNM), and led the FNM to victory in the 1992 general election.

Ingraham served two five-year terms as Prime Minister before he was ousted after the FNM lost the 2002 general election to the PLP and Perry Gladstone Christie, leader of the PLP, became Prime Minister.

Ingraham returned as Prime Minister after the FNM defeated the PLP in the 2007 general election, Christie bounced back and led the PLP to a landslide election victory on May 7, 2012.

He is the current Prime Minister of Bahamas, which celebrated its 40th anniversary of independence in grand style two weeks ago throughout the Commonwealth and in countries where it has diplomatic missions.

In Washington, D.C, a gala reception, attended by more than 300 guests, was held at the OAS Building and the monthlong celebration will continue on Saturday, August 3, when the Bahamas Embassy in D.C. will sponsor a two-day Music and Food Festival at One Veterans Place in Silver Spring, Maryland, featuring a Junkanoo group from The Bahamas as well as the world-renowned Royal Bahamas Police Force Marching Band, live entertainment from The Bahamas and a smorgasbord of indigenous Bahamian foods.

Oswald T. Brown is the press, cultural affairs and information manager at the Bahamas Embassy in Washington, D.C.wi

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Detroit’s Fate Affects Us All

Residents in cities across this country should be watching developments in Detroit as the city grapples with its almost $20 billion debt. Detroit, the birthplace of America’s once-powerful auto industry, faces a grim future after officials filed for bankruptcy protection on July 18.

After decades of mismanagement, graft, theft profligacy, corruption, white flight, the decline of the auto industry and the death of manufacturing, the Motor City exists as a shell of its former self.

Over the years, Detroit – once America’s fourth largest city – grappled with a plethora of social, political and economic issues which all led to a troubling drop in the city’s revenue. Spending remained high, but officials, facing bloated budgets and the resulting budget deficits, depended on borrowed money to stay above water.

On the heels of the city’s bankruptcy woes come details indicating that Detroit has in excess of $18 billion in debt and unfunded liabilities. That includes billions in liabilities for retirees benefits, health care and pensions.

It’s an ugly picture, but one Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr wants to correct by restructuring the city’s debt to produce savings of $1 billion over 10 years.

Orr has also recommended among other things, “significant cuts in accrued, vested pension amounts for both active and currently retired persons.”

Orr’s crusade is perhaps more troubling because Michigan has in place constitutional protections in which “pension plans are a contractual obligation that may not be diminished or impaired.”

Despite the dire circumstances, it is patently unfair for those city employees who’ve earned their pensions to risk losing them for reasons beyond their control. It is encouraging that Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has stepped in to defend the interests of retirees who risk losing public pensions as a result of the bankruptcy.

In the end, however, a bankruptcy judge will determine the retirees’ fates.

If there’s a silver lining, its that the city is at such a low ebb that innovative and creative ideas about racial reconciliation and finding common ground may be the key that allows the city to emerge from the ashes of ruin.

Uniontown 2.0

Local businessman Gabriel Tripodo has brought a sense of excitement and expectation to residents in Historic Anacostia and surrounding neighborhoods. Tripodo is the new proprietor of Uniontown Bar & Grill and once more, those seeking to enjoy a traditional sit-down restaurant can do so.

Anacostia, Congress Heights and communities east of the Anacostia River have hungered for many of the services, amenities and conveniences residents in the rest of the city enjoy. Uniontown represents just one piece of a larger tapestry of businesses and related concerns that we on this side of the river must attract and develop if we’re to grow and thrive.

Anacostia residents like Charles Wilson, Nikki Peele and those determined to improve on the prospects of the community are the vanguard of change in a community that has seen more than its share of challenges.

Uniontown, past and present, is to Anacostia what the fictional Cheers bar was to Boston, Mass. It is a place where residents can meet, socialize and enjoy good company, conversation, food and libation without having to travel far afield. It is an anchor, an essential building block as revitalization in Anacostia takes hold.

Patrons talk about how much they enjoy having a place to call their own, where they can come, sit, chat and forget about the cares of the day. Wilson, co-founder of the Historic Anacostia Block Association said he never doubted that a new owner would take over Uniontown or that the neighborhood would again have a traditional sit-down restaurant.

And like Watson, we believe that it’s only a matter of time before Historic Anacostia and its environs will be dotted with more traditional sit-downs, grocery stores that offer good food, fresh fruits and vegetables and a vibrant array of other businesses.

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A Good Read!

I read the Informer every week and I would like to say to you and your staff that this week’s paper is truly exceptional.

The front-page photograph was captivating, and the paper was full of wonderful and informative articles.

I especially liked the articles by Gale Horton Gay on Maryland’s horse racing industry, and Stacy Brown’s article on why we should be addressing mental health issues in the African-American community. Finally, your article in the Life Style section on a film that addresses crimes against Black men, “Fruitvale Station,” again by Stacy M. Brown is more than timely.

The July 25, 2013 issue of the Informer has provided me and hopefully many others with a lot of positive, insightful news articles, and some really fantastic photographs.

Lawrence Michaels Washington, D.C.

Historical Insight Shed on ‘The Road to Brown’

Thank you Shantella Sherman for your informative series, “The Road to Brown – Part 2, Massive Resistance and the Brown II Decision,” July 25, 2013. This historical recap gives us a look back at how certain states used their local or state laws to undermine a federal ruling to try and maintain segregation in their public schools.

Today, in many places, schools are just as segregated as they were back then, and our students are still getting the shaft when it comes to a quality education.

Some in America would like for us to forget the past and think we live in a post-racial era. They want us to think since we elected an African-American president everything is just fine.

After reading Ms. Sherman’s article and then looking at what Congress is trying to do, or not doing, and what the Supreme Court just did with the Voting Rights Act, some things look and sound very familiar.

I hope that the Informer continues to publish articles like these so that people – especially young people – will receive the education and information they do not generally get.

Betty K. Wilson Washington, D.C.

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By James Clingman

On What Ground are we Standing?

What has become our mantra in this post-George Zimmerman are U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder’s words to the NAACP last week; “We must stand our ground” against injustice. Holder drew cheers, “Amens,” and a standing ovation when he spoke those words. The next day, however, Martin Luther King III spoke to the NAACP, and while he did suggest we stand our ground, he went a bit further

and reminded me of his father’s speech in Memphis the night before he was killed. King III, after reflecting on our trillion dollar “spending power,” slipped in a little suggestion that maybe we should no longer buy Florida Orange Juice. Hmmm.

In light of the Zimmerman not guilty verdict, pressure is on the state of Florida to reverse its “Stand Your Ground” law.

I suppose that also means we should do the same in the other 20 or so states that have similar laws on their books. The battle

lines have been drawn between liberals and conservatives, and the political talking heads have been wound up to fire the first volleys at one another.

More than a million folks have signed the NAACP’s online petition, and many have taken to the streets to protest the verdict and the stand your ground law. But is there anything we can do to make a real change in the way we are treated in the court system?

Of course, as an optimist, I say the answer is a definite “yes,” but do we know what that is, and are

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we willing to do it?

In his famous “Mountaintop” speech, MLK said, “Always anchor our external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal… Never stop and forget that collectively, that means all of us together, collectively we are richer than all the nations in the world, with the exception of nine. That’s power right there, if we know how to pool it.

“We don’t have to argue with anybody. We don’t have to curse and go around acting bad with

our words. We don’t need any bricks and bottles, we don’t need any Molotov cocktails, we just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, ‘God sent us by here, to say to you that you’re not treating his children right. And we’ve come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda fair treatment…Now, if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow.

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By George E. Curry

Finally, the Barack Obama I Voted For an assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, in Obama’s first two years in office, the nation’s first Black president made fewer speeches and offered fewer executive policies on race than any Democratic president since 1961.

Frederick C. Harris, director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, noted that Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address was the first by

For more than four years, I have said that I liked candidate Barack Obama better than I like President Obama. Candidate Obama addressed the question of race head-on when pressured to distance himself from Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor who led him to Christianity. But President Obama has been a different story.

According to research conducted by Daniel Q. Gillion,

any president since 1948 to not mention poverty or the poor.

In the words of scholar Michael Eric Dyson, “This president runs from race like a Black man runs from a cop.”

Obama’s first comment on Trayvon Martin was that if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon. But he didn’t say what he would do to make sure Black male teenagers are not treated the way Trayvon was treated by George Zimmerman.

Obama’s first words in the

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aftermath of Zimmerman’s acquittal were predictably insipid.

In his written statement, Obama said: “The death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy.

Not just for his family, or for any one community, but for America. I know this case has elicited strong passions. And in the wake of the verdict, I know those passions may be running even higher. But we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken.

I now ask every American to respect the call for calm reflection

from two parents who lost their young son.”

To quote another president, I thought, “Well, there he goes again.”

But recently, candidate Barack Obama and President Barack Obama finally became one. He spoke with passion, without the aid of a TelePrompTer or notes, about what it’s really like to be a Black man in America.

“There are very few African

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By Marc Morial

Justice for Trayvon – It’s Not Over Yet “Even though I am broken hearted my faith is un-shattered.” Tracy Martin, father of Trayvon Martin We were stunned by the outrageous not guilty verdict reached by a jury of six women in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. We have been following this case since February 26, 2012 – the day unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon, who was Black, was gunned down by George Zimwww.washingtoninformer.com

merman, a White-Hispanic Sanford, Fla. neighborhood watch captain. With no reasonable grounds, Zimmerman assumed Trayvon was a suspicious person, disobeyed police instructions, followed him, fought with him and fatally shot him.

From the beginning, the Florida criminal justice system seemed to treat the perpetrator, George Zimmerman, with more deference and concern than the victim, Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman was not immediately arrested and for weeks, he hid be-

hind Florida’s shameful “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law, which allows a person to use lethal force against an assumed attacker.

Zimmerman was eventually charged with second-degree murder, but soon thereafter was released on bond. Repeated attempts to impugn Trayvon’s character and to actually put a dead boy on trial were rebuffed by the judge. But it was clear from the start that Zimmerman’s lawyers and others were basing their defense on the stereotyping

of Trayvon as a dangerous, violent young Black boy who would have killed Zimmerman if Zimmerman had not killed him first.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Trayvon was a typical high-school junior who loved sports, music, and aeronautics and was making plans to go to college. On the day of his killing, he was an invited guest in the community and was armed only with a bag of Skittles and a bottle of iced tea. It was he who was being relentlessly followed by a stranger. He was scared, and

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as the outcome proved, he had every reason to be.

We are outraged by the Zimmerman verdict, and while we accept the jury’s decision under the due process of law, we want to assure Trayvon’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, as well as millions of their supporters, that this is not over. The National Urban League stands in solidarity with the NAACP, the National Action Network, the Black Women’s Roundtable and

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By Julianne Malveaux

What Blacks Can Learn from South Africa

Nelson Mandela turned 95 years old on Thursday, July 18.

He has been hospitalized for more than a month, and the world holds its breath as we witness the decline of the lion that roared for freedom in South Africa.

Mandela’s insistence and persistence for freedom for Black South Africans, which included a 27-year jail sentence, reminds us of the persistence it

takes to make structural and institutional change.

We African Americans have been far more episodic in our quest for freedom. We galvanized around Brown v. Board of Education, again around the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Fifty years ago, we were on the Mall in Washington, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, the most well-known of the several speeches delivered that day. We continued to fight for college

admission, fair housing, and diverse police forces. And as these gains were attained, some of us stopped fighting.

Many in the Black middle class didn’t know what they should fight for. They had good jobs, nice homes, and good cars.

They had gone to college and their children were, as well. Unless they were dyed in the wool civil rights activists, they were content to coast along. To be sure, there were micro aggressions they needed to manage, much as Ellis Cose’s Rage of a

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Privileged Class: Why Are Middle-Class Blacks Angry? Why Should America Care? (Harper Books, 1993) detailed. While there is a connection between many kinds of profiling, there is a big difference between being hassled at a department store and being unarmed and killed on the street.

The South African fight was clear, just as the fight for African American rights was in the sixties. The difference? African Americans made gains that were tenuous without continued

protest. In South Africa, the pressure for protest has been continuous despite the gains that have been made. Even as Black Africans have been elected to leadership in South Africa, many see past the titular gains to ask about the living conditions of those who are not middle class, not moneyed, still living without electricity in townships. In contrast, few African American politicians speak for the least and the left out, the poor, the unem-

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By Harry C. Alford

Juice on Only One Side of the Aisle In the past, there were so many hangings, beatings, shootings and bombings. They went without justice being applied.

During the past few decades we have shown national outrage from Emmett Till, Mississippi civil rights workers shootings, Rodney King, etc. and now we have the heartbreaking death of little Trayvon Martin. Oh, there will an enormous amount of talking, marching, debating and accusations. But in the

end, nothing is going to change.

Nothing is going to make a difference. When will the next outrage come? Conversations on the television and press conferences will have little impact.

Voting power does not answer the predicament. We have elected officials like never before. At the city council level, mayoral level, state legislative representation and the congressional level, there are more of us than ever before. Too bad we weight our political ideology all to one side – the Democratic side. My Lord,

we have the president and the attorney general and what could they do – nothing. The problem is we don’t have “juice” on both sides of the aisle. Our sphere of influence is limited. We for the most part take our marching orders from the Democratic National Committee. They have us wrapped around their finger and there is nothing we can do, even with a Black president and a Black attorney general. They have us where they want us: Slaves without chains from a socio-economic perspective.

ASKIA-AT-LARGE

The great Frederick Douglass admonished us about this.

“Power concedes nothing without a demand.” As Harriet Tubman said at her retirement party, “I guess I have saved over 1,000 slaves in my career. I could have saved a 1,000 more if they had only known they were slaves.”

Then, Booker T. Washington came along and preached that education is a must. After education come entrepreneurship and the recycling of our own economy. He admonished us, “If white slaves from Eastern

Europe arrived here without literacy or English and became self-sufficient and independent, surely we can too.” His vehicle was the National Negro Business League, which he founded in 1902 (10 years before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) and this became the prototype for the National Black Chamber of Commerce. These Republican giants laid the foundation for our empowerment.

But oh, the “wolves are of an-

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By Askia Muhammad

Conservative ‘Voter-haters’ I have a high level of distaste for the shameless politicians (and others) whose despicable behavior is such an insult to human decency that I wonder how civilized people can stand to be in the same room with them.

No I am not talking about New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, or San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, although their conduct in office is so loathsome until I wish

I could be in their presence one time so that I could conspicuously turn my back and walk away from them rather than shake their hands (The Lord only knows where those men’s hands have been and what they’ve been doing).

Those two are a couple of stinking carcasses, but they are not the ones who’ve got me steamed up this time. No, it’s these sanctimonious legislators like those in North and South Carolina (and a bunch of other states) who are up in arms, enacting legislation to prevent “voter fraud” by requiring

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photo IDs for everyone wishing to cast a ballot in elections in their states.

“We found out that there were over 900 people who died and then subsequently voted.

That number could be even higher than that,” South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson proclaimed on Faux (Fox) News in January 2012. Well, the truth is that this charge was compiled over the space of seven separate elections, and in fact only five of them were unresolved, according to The Washington Informer

Washington Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler. Except for elections for elementary school student body presidents, I’d imagine fewer than a dozen elections among the gazillion elections which have been held in this country in the last seven years, have been decided by five or fewer votes!

South Carolina’s law enforcement agency conducted a monthlong investigation and issued a 476-page report in which they discovered that 495 of the allegedly deceased

individuals who voted were not dead at all. Most were cases of sons with the same names as their fathers, or other errors in Social Security numbers.

Needless to say, the South Carolina attorney general never went back on television to tell folks that his initial complaint was grossly exaggerated. No. Instead, neighboring North Carolina has passed a voter ID law, where there is evidence of just 40 improper votes be-

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Mother

Remembers Son by Helping Others Ryan Odelle Mance Foundation Provides Scholarships to Students

By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer There are no words to describe the pain that a parent experiences when they lose a child – especially to a senseless crime.

A mother’s agony is the most unbearable of all. As she watches the coffin close – there’s a sense of finality – and grief that’s unimaginable.

Patricia Daniels, a Prince George’s County resident, experienced those feelings and more when she returned home one frigid November night in 1999, only to find her 21-year-old son’s lifeless body lying just inside the threshold of her front door.

“Every time I walked through that door, I re-lived finding my son. I went through my grief and I went through my pain,” she said.

After police arrived at Daniels’ home in Laurel, Md., they obtained DNA samples and later discovered a photo of a man who attempted to use her son, Ryan Mance’s bank card at a local ATM machine.

“No one was ever convicted for Ryan’s death. Police have told me what they think happened, that he brought someone home with him from a nightclub because he was such a social butterfly,” Daniels said.

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ransacked and the only thing of value the person took was Ryan’s beloved saxophone.”

That saxophone represents the official insignia of Daniels’ charitable organization, the Ryan Odelle Mance Memorial Scholarship Foundation, Inc., which began in 2008, intent on awarding scholarships to area African-American male students.

“I guess, I was like most parents in that I wanted my sons to have an appreciation of the arts, especially music,” Daniels said.

“I think he wanted to please me.

He chose the saxophone as his musical instrument and he came to love it.”

Her son performed in the Eisenhower Middle School and Laurel High School bands, both located in Laurel, Md. He earned first chair in Laurel High School’s band. Mance received numerous accolades, including several medals from the Maryland Band Director’s Association Ensemble. He particularly enjoyed the 1990 Spike Lee film, “Mo’ Better Blues,” which featured the music of jazz musicians Terence Blanchard and Branford Marsalis, who plays soprano, alto and tenor saxophone. “Ryan really loved the music in that movie,” Daniels said.

Sadly, it wasn’t until after the aspiring saxophonist’s death that

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The late Ryan Mance, an aspiring musician, gazes upon the water from the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., during the annual Cherry Blossom Festival in 1999. /Courtesy Photo

Patricia Daniels, the mother of slain musician, Ryan Mance, wants to help other young black men achieve their dreams. The Ryan Odelle Mance Memorial Scholarship Foundation, Inc., awards scholarships to deserving African-American males. Mrs. Daniels beams during the 5th Annual Evening of Jazz and Awards Dinner Benefit at Camelot by Martin’s in Upper Marlboro, Md., on July 20. /Photo

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Roderick Mance, Ryan’s older brother, designed the insignia for the Ryan Odelle Mance Memorial Scholarship Foundation, Inc., to honor his younger brother as both a scholar and a musician. /Photo courtesy of Roderick Mance

MANCE continued from Page 29 Daniels learned her son received a full four-year music scholarship to Bowie State University in Bowie, Md. “Ryan loved people, he loved life, music and he loved blowing his saxophone,” Daniels recounted. “He had no idea that his brother, Roderick, would eventually design the logo and tag line of the saxophone player in a silhouette to help brand an organization that would be created in his memory,” she said.

During the search for Mance’s killer, Daniels, established a reward fund, offering $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator.

An anonymous donor contributed another $5,000 and, after nearly a decade, she closed the reward fund and began looking for other ways to honor her son’s memory.

That’s when she decided to start a scholarship fund.

Today, more than a dozen scholarships have been awarded since 2008 to qualified students in Mance’s memory and Daniels said many more will result from the efforts of the foundation, which raises money by hosting various events throughout Prince George’s County.

“I give Pat Daniels a lot of credit because she has a vision for young males, and she’s doing

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something about it,” said Barbara Jolly, a close friend of Daniels.

“She’s not one for lip service,” Jolly said.

On July 20, Daniels hosted the 5th annual Evening of Jazz and Awards Dinner Benefit for the foundation in Upper Marlboro, Md. Stephen Trimnell, a St. Mary’s College of Maryland student in St. Mary’s City, Md., and foundation award recipient, said the scholarship proved to be a wonderful gift.

“The Mance Scholarship has been nothing less than a blessing. The open support I have received from the foundation board, distinguishes this scholarship from any other,” said Trimnell, 19, who has yet to declare a major.

Mance’s older brother, Roderick, said he’s helping to carry on his late brother’s legacy by assisting with the foundation.

Education is the key to success, said Mance, 40. “My education has meant the world to me, and it has opened a lot of doors. I really want to share that with others,” he said. A training and employee development specialist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Virtual University in Southwest, Mance’s thirst for education and knowledge resulted from his younger brother’s untimely death.

He earned a Master of Education degree from George Washington University and a bachelor’s of science degree in

management studies from the University of Maryland at College Park.

Daniels said, while she misses her son’s smile and youthful exuberance, there’s joy in being able to help other students.

She wants the foundation to become a leading nonprofit organization in providing adequate financial assistance to help young African Americans succeed in reaching their academic goals.

Ryan Mance was born on Aug. 22, 1978.

As a toddler, Daniels said, he rarely cried or demanded attention.

“Even when his asthma bothered him, he would say he felt fine,” she said.

While attending Laurel High School, Mance was a straight “A” student and a stand-out saxophonist in the school’s marching band. Upon graduation, he entered the University of Maryland at Baltimore, where he studied system analysis.

Mance’s high school teachers remembered a brilliant and selfless person.

“Having spent a delightful school year with Rod, I was thrilled years later when Ryan came into the same classroom.

When Ryan came down the hall, visiting with everyone, smiled his wondrous smile at me, then entered our room, life began,” said Linda Kinsley, one of Mance’s former English teachers.

“What a joy. He was so open to everyone and empathetic to his classmates, whether their needs were personal or academic. He made the positive difference everyday for everyone he encountered. Ryan was a delightful, multi-talented, scholarly gentleman,” she said.

The Ryan Odelle Mance Foundation depends upon the support of individuals to carry out its mission of assisting and increasing access to higher education for deserving, talented and qualified black male students, Daniels said.

“You have the power to help change a life,” she said. “Ryan’s murder is teaching me as much about life as it did about indescribable pain. So, more than anything, I want Ryan’s spirit to make a difference in someone else’s life.”wi For further information regarding the Ryan Odelle Mance Memorial Scholarship Foundation, Inc., visit www.ryanomancefoundation.org. www.washingtoninformer.com

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It’s impossible to think that a 2013 Lexus LS owner could ever be dissatisfied with the refresh – it’s a fantastic update for the luxury flagship. /Photo courtesy of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.

By Njuguna Kabugi WI Contributing Writer I have spent the last six days driving the 2013 Lexus LS 460.

And after roughly 650 miles of errand-running, commuting and highway cruising, I can safely say this: It’s a blast to live somebody else’s privilege. While driving around the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area in the favorite chariot of powerful lobbyists, diplomats, industry titans and celebrities, I know my joy ride will end in a few days.

But I have been praying that my dream will stretch just a little longer because I will need extra grace to face D.C.’s 90 plus degree summer weather on my usual commute via trusty Metro Bus Route 28. I will need even more grace to reacquaint myself with my ancient Honda whose most prominent features include faded paint, mileage north of 200,000 and a sputtering air conditioning system to match.

For 2013 model year Lexus has reportedly replaced more than 3,000 items – about 50 percent of the vehicle’s components.The new LS is comfortable, soaking up bumps like an extra-duty Brawny paper towel sops up spilt milk on the kitchen table. It has every amenity you’d ever want in a luxury vehicle, and with its freshened appearance www.washingtoninformer.com

integrating the company’s new spindle grille, it looks elegant, modern and reassuring. It is the ideal big car: a calm and reassuring presence offering deliberate and proficient motion. As the benchmark for luxury among Japanese sedans, the LS presents a license for the greater mortals to seal themselves off from the outside world.

Inside, the materials are top notch, and the LS surprised me with its quiet and seamless power delivery. The touch controls, knobs and a mouse-like shuttle controller take some getting used to – it’s easy to overshoot a mark and hit the wrong button on the view screen. Overall, however, the system works without too much confusion and the layout is simple and smart. Compared to the Lexus ES we previously reviewed, the updated LS cabin is light years ahead in comfort and aesthetics. The 16-way power-adjustable front seats are some of the best, and there was plenty of room for my 6-footplus sons and their friends in all directions. Every component that a body part may contact is soft to the touch and richly textured, all very well done.

For the eager buyer, there are several different LS trims to choose from: the standard LS 460, the LS 460 F-Sport, and the LS 600h, a hybrid. Among those

trims, each can be optioned with all-wheel drive instead of the standard rear-wheel drive, and the standard LS 460 can be had in long wheelbase; the LS 600h only comes in long wheelbase.

Prices range from just under $90,000 for the standard LS 460 models to a whopping $135,000 for the LS 600h L hybrid model.

And while the Lexus LS has been a very good luxury car for many years, the 2013 model will have to prove itself to recession-scarred buyers. Before the economic crash of 20072008, cheap credit and rising lifestyle expectations fueled a boom in luxury cars. But as many consumers faced lowered possibilities and prepared for a leaner future, the idea of paying $50,000 for a car – much less the $80,000 (and up) that the Lexus LS commands – started seeming a bit foolish. To compound the problem, Lexus no longer has to compete with just BMW and Mercedes-Benz, the brands it once shamed. Today, the LS competes with the resurgent Cadillac, Porsche, Audi and Jaguar brands, and the upstart Equus from Hyundai, among others, to capture an ever-decreasing slice of the luxury pie.wi The Washington Informer

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“A Family Affair”

by ReShonda Tate Billingsley c.2013, Gallery Books $16.00 / $18.99 Canada 321 pages

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The first time he laid eyes on her, your father thought your mother was the most beautiful girl in the world.

She thought he was a pain in the neck, all gangly with legs going this way and that, asking her out until she couldn’t say anything but “yes.” It didn’t take long for her to realize, though, that she couldn’t lay her hands on a better man.

You know the story of how your parents fell in love, but there are a lot of things you don’t know about them. And in the new book, “A Family Affair” by ReShonda Tate Billingsley, finding out could be a painful thing.

Olivia Dawson never wanted much.

Since she was a child, she dreamed of going to Juilliard but she knew that was out of reach now. Her mother, Lorraine, was already working multiple jobs to keep a roof over their heads.

Olivia hadn’t had a new pair of shoes in ages. Even with a scholarship, Julliard just wasn’t in the budget.

But Lorraine knew where to get the money. Without telling Olivia where she was going, Lorraine rushed out the door of their apartment…

And never came home. Lorraine had a fatal heart attack – but

her last words to Olivia gave the young woman quite a start. Despite everything Olivia thought she knew, and despite that her Aunt Betty was reluctant to confirm it, Olivia’s father was alive and living in California!

Bernard Wells was stuck.

Years ago, he’d given up love for money and he’d regretted it for more than 20 years. His wife, Adele, was a shrew with no compassion but lots of cash; she was nothing like the woman he lost, the woman he thought about every day. His lovely mistress, Alyssa, couldn’t give him comfort. He couldn’t very well get a divorce.

Bernard was stuck in a life he wished he’d never had.

Everyone assumed that Kendall Wells would take over the family business someday. It was his birthright, really, but there was one problem: Kendall didn’t want it.

No, he had other dreams of producing music and singing.

He also had memories of a

nanny who loved him like a son.

Memories of a sweet little girl he called Pinky. Memories of hugs, kisses, and bedtime stories, but no idea why they disappeared…

Though it’s a little predictable, “A Family Affair” isn’t too bad.

Author ReShonda Tate Billingsley offers readers a bit of scandalous drama mixed in a story of forgiveness that spans over time.

That goodness is wrapped in a cast of mostly-likeable characters and scenarios that aren’t too far-fetched for comfort. There’s a chaste bedroom scene or two here, but I think you’ll be happy to know that this novel is mostly on the tamer side, so you can Book Club it without worry.

If you’re looking for something a little gentler, maybe something more genteel but not too mild, then I think this is your book.

“A Family Affair” may be the perfect novel to lay your eyes on this weekend. wi

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ARIES At home, projects flourish as family cooperates.

They do love you and they are tired of being difficult. However, time spent by yourself leads to important insights. It’s a favorable time for research and study. Soul Affirmation: I let my luck work for me. Lucky Numbers: 4, 24, 45 TAURUS Lover, friends, relatives are in your corner. They just have a hard time verbalizing it. Their support gives you the boost you need if you’d swallow your pride and reach out for it. Their help may not come in the form you want it, but it is in the form you need. Soul Affirmation: I find joy in facing responsibility this week. Lucky Numbers: 10, 34, 37 GEMINI It wouldn’t hurt to be a little less independent.

Depend on someone. Declare a truce. Decide that you are not right. Elevate a friend’s opinion to your guiding principle for this week. Compromise. Be a team player and watch the reward unfold. Soul Affirmation: I calm my emotions by forgetting about the past.

Lucky Numbers: 24, 26, 54 CANCER A positively alerted attitude will draw opportunities to you this week. You’ll see more of the big picture if you take a mental step backward. You’ll hear exactly what you need to hear if you take the time to listen. Soul Affirmation: Jewelry reflects the beauty of my feelings about myself. Lucky Numbers: 13, 21, 39 LEO Don’t waste time thinking about the past. Sure they were wrong, but what does it matter now. Enjoy the present.

Find something good to do for the rest of the week. Avoid conflict. Nothing is so important that it needs to be resolved this week. Soul Affirmation: I find comfort in the familiar. Lucky Numbers: 3, 16, 37 VIRGO You face a big challenge that allows you to take big steps toward your career goals. It’ll be on your mind for the next few weeks. Spend some time planning. Life is not always for fun and games. Games are not your biggest satisfaction anyway. Soul Affirmation: The key to my happiness lies in my sympathy for others. Lucky Numbers: 42, 46, 54 LIBRA Reconsider a business offer, it might be a good one.

You’ve got time so sit down and weigh the pros and cons.

Doing it alone is not best. Make a phone call. Talk to someone who knows you well. Get an objective opinion. Soul Affirmation: I graciously anticipate joy and this gives me the ability to give. Lucky Numbers: 13, 31, 40 SCORPIO Your intuition is very high this week. You see where things are going even before they start. This will keep you from making false moves. Be careful not to let your suspicions keep you from making the moves that are definitely called for. Soul Affirmation: My mood is created by the company I keep. Lucky Numbers: 18, 44, 51 SAGITTARIUS Beware of financial pitfalls. Your thinking on money matters is not as clear as it could be this week.

Someone will try to catch you off guard. This week your luck turns for the better, so spend it with the one you love or want to love! Soul Affirmation: A slowing of pace is just what I need this week. Lucky Numbers: 3, 41, 49 CAPRICORN Your mate has a sweet surprise. He or she might be a little timid about revealing it unless you present a very receptive mood. Choose your words carefully. You will receive good news about a loan or financial investment. Soul Affirmation: I look to distant horizons to find truth this week. Lucky Numbers: 1, 2, 16 AQUARIUS You and your mate should start saving for a joint project. It will make you feel closer to each other. It’ll give you something with which to bind the relationship.

Otherwise you might feel that you are drifting apart. Soul Affirmation: Self-confidence is the key to my success this week. Lucky Numbers: 17, 37, 45 PISCES Challenges will be ever present for you this week.

Work at it calmly knowing that you are getting some things out of the way. Tackle tasks using your famous self-control rather than your passion. Use your passion on the weekends. Let loose! Be free! Soul Affirmation: The sunlight of my spirit shines in the land beyond the horizon. Lucky Numbers: 23, 34, 51

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(L-R) Michael Bailey and Tendani Mpulubusi-El enjoy an evening at Uniontown Bar & Grill in Historic Anacostia on July 24. The restaurant and bar in Southeast, currently under new management, provides a space for District residents and tourists alike, to cast the cares of the day aside and enjoy a good meal and great conversation in an intimate and friendly atmosphere. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah

By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer One week after its soft opening, Ward 8 resident Anthony Tate savored the ambience and camaraderie of Uniontown Bar & Grill.

The mid-July debut returned the only traditional sit-down restaurant in the Historic Anacostia neighborhood to area residents.

“It’s very important, especially for this neighborhood, for the fellowship,” said Tate, a 50-yearold case manager for the D.C. Department of Youth Services.

“Fellowship is one of the most important things. This place provides common ground after work. It doesn’t matter who owns it, people will come.”

Tate and others patrons say Uniontown is an important part of Anacostia’s revitalization.

Many hope its presence marks another step in the rebirth of an area that is overdue for uplift.

Patrons were upbeat.

“It being here is very important. It’s the first of its kind and gives a lot of us who’re looking to go out and be social a place to go,” said Nicole Garner, an accountant who lives nearby. “It means we’re well on our way to having more establishments like this in this neighborhood.”

“I’ve seen change and I think it’s good for the community.

Crime is down and we’re showing that people want something different from what we’ve had in the past. This is a change in the right direction.”

Patrons lined the bar, while others sat at tables in twos and threes; some were eating meals, and oth-

((L-R) Gabriel Tripodo and Melake Gebre, recently assumed ownership of Uniontown Bar & Grill in Historic Anacostia. Both owners have big plans for the restaurant and bar in Southeast. In the near future, they plan to have live music which will include jazz, rhythm and blues along with comedy on the second floor of the popular venue which opened on July 17. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah

Uniontown Bar & Grill Signals Changing Anacostia Community ers sipped on beer, spirits and wine. Rhythm and blues music played softly in the background while a muted television set aired the evening news. The tempo of the chatter ebbed and flowed, intermingled with laughter.

Uniontown co-owner Gabriel Tripodo moved from table-to-table greeting each guest, a broad smile and a firm handshake accompanying each personalized welcome.

Tripodo, who has had his hand in a range of business ventures in the District of Columbia and Seattle, Wash., for the past 18 years, said he opened the restaurant because he firmly believes in the promise the area holds.

“The area is changing fast.

I’ve been here since 2008 and it’s changing fast,” said Tripodo, an Eritrean-Italian who has lived in the U.S. since 1990. “There are new people, a new crowd and a lot of professional people. The area is looking nice and clean now.”

The menu, he said, is Bistro American and includes steaks and

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salmon, but no fried foods.

“We actually opened on July 17 and we’ve done very well,” said Tripodo, of the 1,600-square-foot space located at the corner of Martin Luther King, Jr., Avenue and W Street, S.E. “I didn’t want to advertise yet because I didn’t want to be overcrowded. I’m really excited. The community is happy to see us here.”

Tripodo anticipates more business and attracting greater numbers of patrons when he converts the upstairs space.

“Upstairs is under construction but when it’s done, it will have live music such as jazz and rhythm and blues and comedy. It will be a nice lounge,” he said. “It should be ready in a couple of months.”

Tendani Mpulubusi-El, 31, said he’s excited about the possibilities.

“If they open upstairs, it will become a cultural anchor, increase the cultural fabric and give local artists the opportunity for exposure,” he said.

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York City.

“I just came back to D.C. yesterday,” the 35-year-old said. “I worked here before and helped businesses get grants and renovate properties. I like the ethnic feel in the last foothold of Chocolate City. It’s always felt like home.

This was never here before. I couldn’t get a drink here. I had to go to Eastern Market.”

Tripodo said that originally the establishment was going to have a different name, but he was able to work out some sticking points and he decided to keep the original name. He was able to gain ownership of the property because the previous owner, Natasha Dasher, was implicated in and charged with trafficking 65 kilos of cocaine in the fall of 2011. Dasher, a multi-generational Washingtonian, opened the restaurant earlier that year to much fanfare and the expectation was that the sit-down would unlock Anacostia’s tremendous but unrealized potential.

The area in and around Anacostia is among the city’s poorest, with residents buffeted by poverty, crime and other social ills. But in recent years, the community has experienced a nascent economic revival that all who love the neighborhood hope will be manifested in a flurry of growth and development.

Tripodo’s enthusiasm is reflected in the optimism that resonates in different corners of Anacostia and other parts of Ward 8. The Anacostia Economic Development Corporation is just one of a number of entities in the community that are focused on attracting more retail and commercial business. The arts is beginning to take root with three art galleries now

open and well-heeled professionals buying houses and settling into the neighborhood.

There remains a pent-up demand from old and new residents for easy access to the range of services that are commonplace in other wards.

History recounts that in the 1800s, Anacostia was known as Uniontown, home to famed author, abolitionist and diplomat Frederick Douglass. Uniontown served as the core of the historic district and was incorporated in 1854, becoming one of the first suburbs in the District of Columbia.

Charles Wilson, co-founder of the Historic Anacostia Block Association and chief of staff for At-Large D.C. Council member Anita Bonds, said he loves what Uniontown has to offer.

“Uniontown is a sense of newness and quality that’s needed in our community,” he said.

“It brings a sense of excitement, progress and renewed enthusiasm now that the neighborhood has a quality sit-down establishment residents can walk to.”

“There was never any doubt in my mind that a new owner would come. It’s only a matter of time before we have other sit-downs that we can enjoy all over the ward.”

Wilson, 37, a self-described “Army brat,” who’s lived in the District for seven years, likes what he sees.

“I always tell my friends that if they’re looking to buy, Anacostia is a neighborhood to consider and that they should do it while they can,” said Wilson. “The future is bright. There’s a lot of excitement.”wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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Noah Collins, 9, left, and Rhys Grevillie, 10, appear stumped as to why two remote controlled cars crashed into one another during the YMCA’s Thingamajig Invention Convention at the Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro, Md., on July 25.

Five-year-old Braden Lanier holds a model airplane that he designed for the YMCA’s Thingamajig Invention Convention. More than 4,000 young people participated in the event at the Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro, Md., on July 25.

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magination and creativity fueled the YMCA’s Thingamajic Invention Convention in Upper Marlboro, Md., on July 25. The event inspired a new generation of more than 4,000 Washington Metropolitan area youth to push the proverbial envelope and go for the Gold! /Photos by Khalid Naji-Allah

Each year, the YMCA’s Thingamajig Invention Convention draws thousands to the popular event.

Jeremy Gonzales, 9, configures a computer at the YMCA’s annual Thingamajig Invention Convention at the Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro, Md., on July 25.

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Donovan Johnson, 4, center, watches as his brother Connor, 7, designs his model airplane during the YMCA’s Thingamajig Invention Convention at the Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro, Md., on July 25.

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All eyes were on Robert Griffin III as he made his first public appearance at the Redskins’ new training camp facility in Richmond, Va. on July 25 during early-morning walkthrough exercises. During the afternoon’s seven-on-seven drills, Griffin III completed 7 of 8 passes before an estimated crowd of 6,200. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Robert Griffin III makes his first handoff to a teammate during morning walkthrough exercises on July 25 at the Redskins’ new training camp facilities in Richmond, Va. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Redskins fans showed up to see Robert Griffin III and the team, but some also brought their own show of support on July 25 at the Redskins’ new training camp facility in Richmond, Va. In this photo, three dogs in sunglasses and Cowboys, referee and Griffin III attire, attracted their own crowd. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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sports New England defender and captain Jose Goncalves outruns D.C. United midfielder Kyle Porter in the penalty area as goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth makes a save in the second half of Major League Soccer (MLS) action on Saturday, July 27 at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Southeast. New England defeated the United 2-1. /Photo by John E. De Friteas

D.C. United forward Luis Silva, and New England Revolution midfielder Diego Fagubdez, fight for ball possession in the first half of MLS action on Saturday, July 27 at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Southeast. Silva had a standout performance. In the game’s eighth minute, teammate John Thorrington found Silva who turned and hit a beautiful shot, beating New England goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth low to the left. Silva’s shot put the United ahead 1-0. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

New England defender Stephen McCarthy raises his hands above his head to indicate he did not trip midfielder and captain John Thorrington in the penalty area in the first half of MLS action on Saturday, July 27 at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Southeast. New England defeated the United 2-1. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Nationals Season a Swing and Miss

Team, Fans, Lament Unfulfilled Promises in 2013

By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer The Washington Nationals were bludgeoned 11-0 by the New York Mets on Friday, July 26 in the opener of a doubleheader.

That loss dropped the team to five games under .500, 8 ½ games out of first place and further into the discourse regarding the biggest underachievers of 2013.

“This year has been a major disappointment. I had planned on going to 45 or 50 games but haven’t gone since May,” said Frank Cuevas, 20, who attends Northern Virginia Community

College in Springfield, Va. “I gave up early because it was obvious that the handwriting was on the wall, and we were not going anywhere,” the Alexandria resident said.

Despite last week’s humiliating loss to the Mets, the team recovered nicely, taking the final three games of that four-game series. However, the Nats still find themselves eight games behind the division leading Atlanta Braves. While this season opened with a memorable three- game sweep of the Miami Marlins at Nationals Park in Southeast, the team thus far has put together a year many would rather forget.

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this will turn around, they really do. They want to believe they’ve been the victim of bad luck, so much bad luck that the cosmos are bound to repay them one of these days,” said Mark Zuckerman, who covers the team for Comcast Sports Network.

However, dreams of a World Series title repeatedly are interrupted mostly by poor play, mediocre run production, and an inconsistent bullpen.

Hitting coach Rick Eckstein received a pink slip on July 23, a decision skipper Davey Johnson opposed so much that he asked the team’s general manager Mike Rizzo to fire him instead, said Joel Sherman, a New York Post sports writer.

On the same day, the Nats sent struggling closer Drew Storen back to the minors, and pitcher Tyler Clippard blasted the organization because he didn’t like how the team treated the disappointing hurler.

The Nats hopes could further be thwarted if their ace lefthander, Gio Gonzalez, is suspended by Major League Baseball (MLB). Gonzalez, who is 7-3 with a 2.89 ERA and 125 strikeouts, is one of 20 players targeted by MLB for their alleged involvement in the shuttered, anti-aging clinic, Biogenesis, located in Miami. Like the others, Gonzalez is alleged to have purchased performance-enhancing drugs from the clinic.

The Nats are a story of disappointment, discord and despair, Sherman said.

“But, here is something also to remember. They are a story of talent,” he said. “That talent was on better display as Washington won the next three games against the Mets.”

One baseball scout said the Nats are the most obvious team currently with a losing record capable of, “pulling a Dodgers,” which is to say, putting together a sustained run of excellence to get from below .500 to the top of the division.

Since baseball’s three-division format began in 1994, only 11 teams have made the playoffs despite being under .500 at the The Washington Informer

Nats Pitcher Jordan Zimmermann is 12-6 with three complete games this year and, the All-Star hurler remains one of the few bright spots in what has been a disappointing season so far in Washington. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

100-game mark of the season.

The Nats played their 100th game on July 24.

“We are certainly not giving up on this season,” Rizzo said.

Still, the team knows it will take a streak of near epic proportion along with a complete meltdown by the Braves for Washington to win the division championship.

Backed by phenoms Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper, the Nats won a franchise best 98 games in 2012 and appeared to have shored up any remaining roster holes during the off season, which led experts, scouts, executives and many others in and around baseball to declare 2013 as Washington’s year.

“There is that second wild card spot this year, so we still have a chance. Not a great chance, but a chance,” said Xavier Rhodes, an avid fan and partial Nats season ticket holder.

“It’s been disappointing so far because we were supposed to run away with the division and we were supposed to be getting our (pitching) staff in order for a run to the World Series,” said

Rhodes, 31, who lives in Southwest.

The Nats are in their 9th season in Washington after moving from Montreal in 2005.

Many of the team’s players are quick to point out that, while winning titles are never easy, there remains a lot of baseball to be played this year.

“I think at some point, the tide’s got to turn,” the team’s star outfielder Jayson Werth said.

“The luck’s got to swing in our favor. And hopefully when it does, we can grab hold of it and run with it.”

Despite the optimism, Zuckerman said, what possible reason would these guys have for staying positive as this season, now (more than) 100 games old, spirals out of control before their eyes?

“But one of these days, they’re going to have to actually start winning ballgames again, something they haven’t done since the All-Star break,” he said.wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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her Achilles heel. Lynn admitted that she was too ashamed to confide in her father.

Many victims of domestic violence suffer from shame. They endure the abuse – they take the hits – whether they’re physical or emotional – while they’re engaged in these demeaning and often fatal relationships.

Fortunately, Lynn lived to share her story.

She refused to tell her father, a police officer who worked for the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in the District about the abuse.

She told family and friends that the bruises on her body resulted from random falls or other accidental injuries. Lynn thought, “Being the daughter of a police officer, how could I allow a man to beat me so viciously.� She knew her father loved her and would have protected her, yet she felt that she might jeopardize his standing within MPD, if he knew about the abuse and confronted her husband.

Domestic violence is often misunderstood. For many victims of domestic violence – packing a bag and walking out of the front door – isn’t that simple. The paralyzing fear and threats of harm impedes the victim’s ability to seek relief. Lynn’s father died before she sought help.

Lynn said she will never forget on her father’s death bed how he whispered to her, “Please do not let him kill you.� Those chilling words motivated her to seek safety through the judicial system.

At that time, the laws and

For the past several weeks, I’ve written about domestic violence in all of its ghastly forms: physical, emotional and financial abuse. Many spouses and intimate partners intimidate women and think it’s all right. But, God isn’t pleased with that type of behavior. In the heat of their rage, men, and some women seem to forget, that it’s not their right to batter a person or take their life because of their personal insecurity or low self-esteem.

Never forget that abusers come from all walks of life and according to statistics, they are equally divided among Christians, and other religious denominations – even the most beloved ministers fall into this category.

Should you continue to read this column over the next few weeks, and if you’re a victim of domestic violence, think strategically, and plan your getaway. According to statistics from the National Organization of Women, in 2005, 1,181 women have been murdered by an intimate partner.

That’s an average of three women per day. Of all the women murdered in the United States about one-third died at the hand of an intimate partner.

Don’t feel hopeless, desperate, confused, or alone. You may not want to tell others about your situation because you’re afraid, ashamed, or embarrassed, but you must! It’s imperative!

Last week, I shared the story of a friend, Lynn Strange, a domestic violence survivor. The strong bond between Lynn and her dad, a local police officer, proved to be

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support systems for victims of domestic violence were limited.

Lynn had to navigate the judicial process alone and without the benefit of a court advocate.

Today, she’s a catalyst for change. Lynn speaks at churches throughout the region about domestic violence – and she never hesitates to share her story. She also talks candidly about this topic on the airwaves, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Kennedy Foundation.

Read this scriptural reference as your proof that domestic violence isn’t what God wants anyone to endure. It says: Colossians 3:18 – “Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.�

Refuse to live in bondage, tell someone; get help; call 911. It’s not what the Lord intends for any of us. wi Lyndia Grant is an author, inspirational and motivational speaker, radio talk show host and columnist; if you would like Lyndia to serve as a facilitator for your retreat or special event, call 202-518-3192. Tune in Fridays at 6 p.m., to Lyndia’s radio talk show, 1340 AM, WYCB, a Radio One Station.

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Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church Rev. James Manion Supply Priest Foggy Bottom • Founded in 1867 728 23rd Street, NW • Washington, DC 20037 Church office: 202-333-3985 • Fax : 202-338-4958 Worship Services Sundays: 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Music and Hymns Wednesdays: 12:10 p.m. - Holy Eucharist www.stmarysfoggybottom.org Email: stmarysoffice@stmarysfoggybottom.org All are welcome to St. Mary’s to Learn, Worship, and Grow.

Blessed Word of Life Church Dr. Dekontee L. & Dr. Ayele A. Johnson Pastors 4001 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 (202) 265-6147 Office 1-800 576-1047 Voicemail/Fax Schedule of Services: Sunday School – 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service – 11:00 AM Communion Service – First Sunday Prayer Service/Bible Study – Tuesday, 6:30 PM www.blessedwordoflifechurch.org e-mail: church@blessedwordoflifechurch.org

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

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

Pilgrim Baptist Church

700 I. Street, NE Washington, D.C. 20002 Pastor Louis B. Jones, II and Pilgrim invite you to join us during our July and August Summer schedule! Attire is Christian casual.

Worship: Sundays@ 7:30 A.M. & 10:00 A.M. 3rd Sunday Holy Communion/Baptism/Consecration Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @12:00 Noon @ 6:30 P.M. – One Hour of Power!

(202) 547-8849 www.pilgrimbaptistdc.org

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

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

Church of Living Waters

Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor Harold Andrew, Assistant Pastor 4915 Wheeler Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-894-6464 Schedule of Service Sunday Service: 8:30 AM & 11:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM Communion Service: First Sunday www.livingwatersmd.org

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

Church School - 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship – 10:45 a.m.

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday Men’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

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

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

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

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

“God is Love”

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

Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

Sunday Church School: 9:20 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

ST Marks Baptist Come Worship with us...

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

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

Communion every Sunday 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School 10:00 a.m.

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

Motto; “Discover Something Wonderful.”

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

Mount Carmel Baptist Church

52 Years of Expert Engraving Services

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

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All Nations Baptist Church

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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 Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor

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

1251 Saratoga Ave., NE Washington, DC 20018 (202) 269-0288 Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 A.M. Sunday School: 8:30 A.M. Holy Communion1st Sunday: 10:00 A.M. Prayer Service: Wednesday at 6:30 P.M. Bible Study: Wednesday at 7:00 P.M.

Mount Moriah Baptist Church

St. Luke Baptist Church

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

Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.

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

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

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

Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor

Rev. Aubrey C. Lewis Pastor

Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor

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

Zion Baptist Church

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

King Emmanuel Baptist Church

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

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

Rehoboth Baptist Church

St. Matthews Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor 1105 New Jersey Ave, S.E • Washington, DC 20003 202 488-7298 Order of Services Sunday Worship Services: 9:05 A.M. Sunday School: 8:00 A.M. Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting: 7:00 P.M. (Tuesday) Bible Study: 7:30 P.M. (Tuesday) Theme: “Striving to be more like Jesus “Stewardship”.

Philippians 3:12-14; Malachi 3:8-10 and 2 Corinthians 9:7 Email: stmatthewbaptist@msn.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.com

Salem Baptist Church

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

Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith

Florida Avenue Baptist Church 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

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

Dr. C. Matthew Hudson, Jr, Pastor

Elder Herman L. Simms, Pastor

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

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

The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42

New Commandment Baptist Church Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor 13701 Old Jericho Park Road Bowie, MD. 20720 (301) 262-0560 Services: Sunday Worship 11 AM Sunday School 10 AM Wednesday Mid-Week Worship, Prayer & Bible Study - Wed. 7 PM “A Church Where Love Is Essential and Praise is Intentional”

Shiloh Baptist Church

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

New Members Class 9:30a.m.

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

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

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

Peace Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. Michael T. Bell 712 18th Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Phone 202-399-3450/ Fax 202-398-8836 Sunday Morning Worship Service 7:15 am & 10:50 am Sunday School 9:30am Sunday Morning Worship Service 10:50am Wednesday Prayer & Testimonies Service 7:30pm Wednesday School of the Bible 8:00pm Wednesday - Midweek Prayer Service 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm “The Loving Church of the living lord “ Email Address pbcexec@verizon.net

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Rev. R. Vincent Palmer Pastor

Rev. Alonzo Hart Pastor

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

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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.

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

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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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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.

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Juan M. Johnson, whose address is 2027 E. 17th St NE, Winston-Salem, NC 27105, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Athalia Johnson Frazier, who died on December 24, 2011 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 February 1, 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 February 1, 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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Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013 ADM 283 Frances R. Greene Decedent Dalton Howard, Esq. 6701 – 16th St., NW Washington, DC 20012 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Lillian Gant, whose address is 2515 Alabama Ave., SE, Apt. 301, Washington, DC 20020, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Frances R. Greene, who died on December 23, 2002 without a Will, and will serve with Court supervision.

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Just use our collective economic power with the same resolve as Trayvon’s parents.

What can we do? Let’s work to get Marissa Alexander out of that Florida prison. March on that in Washington.

Sign petitions, write letters, and send emails to Florida Gov. Rick Scott demanding he grant her clemency or whatever he has to do to set her free.

This young sister got 20 years for standing her ground against an abusive Black man; she had no place to retreat and fired a warning shot into the ceiling that saved her life. Yes, another travesty of justice in Florida, but one we can act upon to give Marissa Alexander the justice she deserves. If we stand on the right ground in this case, as both MLK’s suggested, at least we can save a life rather than just mourn another one.wi

a history of racial disparities in the application of our criminal laws – everything from the death penalty to enforcement of our drug laws. And that ends up having an impact in terms of how people interpret the case.”

While being candid about how Whites generally treat Blacks, President Obama was equally frank when he said a Black person faces a greater likelihood of being killed by another African-African than by a White person.

“I think the African American community is also not naïve in understanding that, statistically, somebody like Trayvon Martin was statistically more likely to be shot by a peer than he was by somebody else. So folks understand the challenges that exist for African American boys. But they get frustrated, I think, if they feel that there’s no context for it and that context is being denied. And that all contributes I think to a sense that if a White male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario, that, from top to bottom, both the outcome and the aftermath

might have been different.”

The president demonstrated real courage by addressing race in America without being forced to as was the case with Rev. Wright.

Moreover, he challenged us not to let the last chapter of Tayvon’s life be marked a misguided not guilty verdict.

“And for us to be able to gather together business leaders and local elected officials and clergy and celebrities and athletes, and figure out how are we doing a better job helping young African American men feel that they’re a full part of this society and that they’ve got pathways and avenues to succeed – I think that would be a pretty good outcome from what was obviously a tragic situation.”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.

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And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you.’

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“But not only that, we’ve got to strengthen Black institutions. I call upon you to take your money out of the banks downtown and deposit your money in Tri-State Bank—we want a ‘bank-in’ movement in Memphis… I’m not asking you something we don’t do ourselves…we have an account here in the savings and loan association from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. We’re just telling you to follow what we’re doing.

Put your money there. You have six or seven Black insurance companies

curry continued from Page 27 American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me,” he told reporters in the White House briefing room. “There are very few African American men who haven’t had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me — at least before I was a senator. There are very few African Americans who haven’t had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often.”

He explained, “And I don’t want to exaggerate this, but those sets of experiences inform how the African American community interprets what happened one night in Florida. And it’s inescapable for people to bring those experiences to bear. The African American community is also knowledgeable that there is

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“Now these are some practical things we can do. We begin the process of building a greater economic base. And at the same time, we are putting pressure where it really hurts. I ask you to follow through here.”

So, upon what ground are we standing as we look forward to our next March on Washington in August 2013? Are we standing only on emotional ground, or are we standing on the firm ground of the economic base to which MLK referred in his speech?

Trayvon is gone, and his parents are dealing with their pain and agony by demonstrating the same kind of dignity and discipline Coretta Scott King showed after MLK’s assassination. Our charge must be to use our collective clout to bring about peaceful change – as MLK said, “We don’t have to argue and curse at anyone.”

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it of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Along with our thoughts and prayers, we pledge a renewed fight in the courts, in Congress, in the media and through public engagement to end racial profiling and secure justice for Trayvon Martin – and help ensure that others like him don’t meet the same fate.

The Zimmerman acquittal, along with the recent evisceration of the Voting Rights Act and the continued dehumanization of young Black men in Ameri-

ca, make it clear that civil rights activists and people of goodwill throughout this country still have a big job to do. In this year marking 50 years of civil rights progress, we must renew our commitment to building “a more perfect Union.” There is no celebration without continuation. The 21st century civil rights struggle has never before confronted us so boldly and clearly.wi Marc H. Morial, former mayor of New Orleans, is president and CEO of the National Urban League.

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for his work in the Civil Rights Movement. In accepting the Peace Prize, he said “I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, peace and freedom for their spirits.” King laid out a game plan that many have only reluctantly embraced. We still have hunger, illiteracy and dissent in the U.S. Few have stepped up to deal with these matters with the persistence that Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress had. When President Obama establishes a middle class task force, what does this mean for the poor?

Perhaps the comparison between US black people and those in South Africa is unfair. WE have had leaders like Nelson Mandela – Dorothy Irene Height comes immediately to mind – who have given their lives to the free-

dom struggle and have not wavered or cowered in the face of challenge.

South Africa, like the United States, has class divides between the middle class and the poor, with a sometimes indifferent middle class more interested in profits than people. But when I think of Nelson Mandela’s persistence, I think of the many ways that we, African Americans, have dropped the ball.

Trayvon Martin is not the first young man to have been massacred in the streets, nor is he the first to garner national attention. Little has changed because we have not been persistent in our protest. The details in providing equal opportunity in South Africa may be flawed, but they represent movement. The episodic engagement of African Americans around justice issues pales in the face of South African persistence.wi

other mind.” The White liberals in upstate New York had a strategy to counter this economic empowerment idea of Mr. Washington. They formed the NAACP to counter the Business League activities down South. They urged Blacks to look towards good government to provide their needs and wants. Sounds familiar? A few years later the National Urban League was founded. Like the NAACP, the principals of this group where White northern liberals. They urged Blacks living in the South to come up North and blend into the cities and find work rather than build their own businesses.

One hundred years later, Black America, are still beholden and dependent on a one-sided political doctrine that will never empower us. It might as well be the 19th century. We must fully understand that there will be no change in this great capitalistic

society until we understand that collective economic power is the great equalizer. Justice, respect, alternatives to violence and prosperity can only come from political balance and an understanding of the beauty of the true American system. It is all right to be liberal and it is certainly all right to be conservative. If our votes are taken for granted and we can be manipulated by others who choose to use us as pawns and like the pawns on a chess board we will be the first to fall and have no choice at all in the management of this nation.

Wake up Black folks! This isn’t about profiling or demonizing White Republicans. You will get beat up in a school yard if you are considered easy going with no self-respect or dignity.

Even if you can’t fight too well, you will be respected and left unharmed if the bully knows you will fight back regardless.

Stop crying, stop whining about “help me.” It is holy to provide

charity but it is sinful to sit down and receive it (food stamps, public housing, Medicaid, etc.) on a lifetime basis. Stop clinging to the liberals like a happy slave. We can have our own just by following Booker T. Washington instead of the northern Niagara Movement liberals.

We don’t have to take the abuse we get. With economic empowerment, we will have the respect of judges, police, lawmakers, etc. because they know there will be recourse if they trample on our civil liberties. Don’t be naïve to think if we just elect a Black official, things will get better. Have they yet? Ha! Keep it balanced with the R/D ratio. Remember, “Pharaoh” does not have you. So let Pharaoh go. Be your own boss.wi Harry C. Alford is the co-founder, President/CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. Website: www.nationalbcc.org. Email: halford@nationalbcc.org.

tinually vote against their own best interests, in favor of these lying, cheating politicians.

Last year, an analysis of the stringent voter ID laws proposed in 37 states discovered in a nationwide analysis of more than 2,000 cases of alleged election fraud over the previous dozen years showed that in person voter impersonation on Election Day … is virtually non-existent. Non-existent!

The fact of the matter is that the study exposed 10 cases of voter impersonation going back to the 2000 election. That amounted to one case of voter fraud for ev-

ery 10 million eligible voters. Talk about “overkill.”

In Pennsylvania the leader of the Pennsylvania House majority confirmed a purely political motive behind the voter ID law in that state. “Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done,” said House Republican Leader Mike Turzai in a speech to GOP State committee members in July 2012.

This year, rather than concede the immorality of his purpose, and then beg for forgiveness, he proudly proclaimed, that the state’s voter ID tactics had at least reduced the

margin of victory by which the president carried the state.

The sole purpose of these nefarious voter ID schemes is not to maximize voter participation – which in my opinion should be the goal – but rather to maintain political power in the hands of the White guys.

They don’t embrace the idea of participatory democracy, these guys in fact hate the idea that common folks, especially those who are not Caucasian, might vote at all. Voter haters.

That’s all they are.wi

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They are nothing more than lying buckets of expectorant (I wish I could really say out loud what I think of them).

No. What these scoundrels

want is to guarantee the outcome of the elections, in favor of the White conservative candidates who will protect the rights of the rich and the privileged, and nothing more.

For the life of me however, I can’t understand why the dirt poor White voters – four out of five of whom a brand new study just revealed, struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives – why they con-

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ployed, the marginal. That there is an African American president of the United States has been more a muzzle than a motivator. Reluctant to criticize President Barack Obama, too many activists have swallowed their ire even as our president has ignored them.

As Nelson Mandela struggles to maintain life, one is reflective about the ways he was denied his freedom for so long. Mandela made a life for himself on Robben Island, as he navigated captivity and restriction, broken promises and crippled dreams.

Because of Mandela’s persistent and gentle spirit, however, he prevailed enough to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (along with Frederik Willem de Klerk) in 1993.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. also earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 1964

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