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By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor @dkevinmcneir Since his installation as the leader of the Archdiocese of Washington, May 21, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has provided needed leadership at a time when the Catholic Church has found itself inundated by troubling scandals and revelations. Throughout his many years of service, Archbishop Gregory has remained a man known for and respected because of his principles and dedication to seeking truth and doing the right thing. That said, his first few months have seen him visiting parishes throughout the Archdiocese – offering solace, guidance and laying out a plan of action. He spoke with The Washington Informer recently about his life, his new assignment and his plans to restore one of our most fragile human relationships: trust. Washington Informer: How do you speak to people in today’s current atmosphere of fear in the U.S. when many say their faith has been shaken? How do
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5 Raheem Devaughn keeps the Go-Go beat going strong during his set at the 5thannual Chuck Brown Day in Northeast on Saturday, Aug. 17. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
D.C. may no longer be “Chocolate City” following decades of changes in the city’s demographics attributed in part to the impact of gentrification not only in the District but in many of America’s urban settings. For one local business, Industrial Bank, it’s been 85 years since their founding by the family pa-
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Federally-Supervised Release Program Under Fire Local Coalition’s Campaign Aligns with ‘Black August’ Activities By Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins
5 Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory greets congregants after Mass at St. Jane Frances de Chantal Church in Bethesda, Maryland on July 28. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
With the passage of legislation more than 30 years ago, supervised release replaced probation aimed at keeping tabs on individuals upon their exit from the federal prison system. However, in contrast to the past, supervised release mandates that returning citizens regularly report to a probation officer well after having completed their original sentence and follow a set of strict guidelines or face the risk of being sent back
to prison. Recently, a motion filed by a returning citizen during what’s known as Black August – an annual remembrance of Black resistance movements and political prisoners – poses the latest challenge to the federally-supervised release program, questioning its constitutionality. One woman, whose name has been withheld at her request, believes the terms of her release have made life on the outside much harder to navigate. “It doesn’t make sense to have
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Up of Black Women. the founder of After the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chilMarlow has written a book, an organization that helps the dren about domestic violence,” “Color Me Butterfly,” which is a survivors of domestic violence Marlow said. story about four generations of and their children. Marlow has worked to break domestic violence. The book is “I lived in fear for six years. Six the cycle of abuse in her family, inspired by her own experiences, years in fear is a long time. It is and is confident the policies she and those of her grandmother, not an easy thing to come out is pushing for will start that her mother and her daughter. of,” she said. process. She said every time she reads Mildred Muhammad said “I plan to take these policies to excerpts from her book, she still people who want to help a Congress and implore them to can not believe the words came domestic violence victim must change our laws,” Marlow said. from her. “Color Me Butterfly” be careful of how they go into “I will not stop until these poliwon the 2007 National “Best the victim's life, and understand cies are passed.” Books” Award. that she may be in “survival Tia Carol Jones can be reached “I was just 16-years-old when mode”. at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net my eye first blackened and my “Before you get to 'I'm going lips bled,” Marlow said. to kill you,' it started as a verbal WI Elaine Davis-Nickens, president of the National Hook-Up of Black Women, said there is no consistency in the way domestic violence issues are dealt with by
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Developers Bemoan Family Housing Crisis Urge More Government Action By James Wright WI Staff Writer The housing market for families in the Washington region has gotten so dire that even developers are expressing angst over the crisis. The Washington Business Journal (WBJ) hosted an Aug. 15 forum, “Real Estate Dealmakers: The Missing Middle,” that included Jair Lynch, president and CEO of Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners, and A.J. Jackson, executive vice president of social impact investing at JBG Smith. Andy Medici, a reporter for WBJ who served as the forum’s moderator, told the audience of roughly 50 at the JBG Smith National Landing Marketing Center in Crystal City, Va., about the grave situation regarding housing in the future. “In 2030, the Washington region could be short of 75,000 housing units,” Medici said, noting that workforce housing could be acutely affected by this shortage as the region grows in population. In the District, the median price for a detached single-family home goes for $809,500 while a townhouse will sell for $752,300, according to data from the Greater Capital Area Association of Realtors. The average rent for a two-bedroom in the District comes out to $3,100 a month or $37,200 a year, according to SmartAsset, a financial planning web app. SmartAsset reports the median household income in D.C. is $82,000. District housing activists have long argued that more affordable housing can be built if developers focused on helping people instead of profit. However, Jackson said building housing for low-income families comes with a high cost and the developer rarely breaks even or profits with low-income families. “The median income east of the river is $32,000 while west of the river is $70,000,” he said. “The rent a family would have to pay for an affordable housing unit east of the river would be too much for them and the developer would not profit because not enough money is coming in and the costs for the project, too. For a developer to build in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, a District government subsidy would be needed.”
Lynch agrees. “Affordable housing for families doesn’t make the developer money so it doesn’t make business sense to do it,” he said. “There’s not a lot of capital in low income areas, therefore it isn’t profitable to build in those areas. Because it is not as profitable, few developers deal with affordable housing and there are a ton who develop market-rate housing.” Lynch said there has to be a desire for more affordable housing and the politicians have to know that. “The public will have to be there,” he said. “In the District, you have a $15.5 billion budget and only $100 million is dedicated to the Housing Production Trust that is supposed to help people get affordable housing. That is a drop in the bucket to what is needed to build more affordable housing.” Lynch noted Hillcrest in Ward 7, with a median income of $65,000, has desirable traits for developers but because there are only 5,000 residents in a half-mile radius compared to 17,000 in Petworth in Ward 4, building there becomes challenging. Lynch said residents east of the river need to understand the development and political processes better, starting with the proposed Comprehensive Plan that will guide development in the District for years. “In September, the D.C. Council will vote on the comprehensive plan for the city,” he said. “The plan could affect neighborhood growth for years and trying to make change after it goes into effect could be like pulling teeth.” WI
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1947 – Brooklyn Dodgers’ Dan Bankhead becomes the first Black pitcher in Major League Baseball history in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, also hitting a home run in his first at-bat. 1960 – Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis is born in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.
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1917 – Famed blues singer and guitarist John Lee Hooker, known as the “King of the Boogie,” is born in Mississippi. 1950 – Althea Gibson becomes the first African American on the U.S. tennis tour. 1978 – Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first prime minister, dies at 86. 1989 – Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, is shot and killed by a reputed drug dealer in Oakland, California.
1949 – A concert by famed singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson in Peekskill, New York, is called off when concertgoers are attacked by locals screaming racist and anti-Semitic slurs. Robeson is lynched in effigy and a cross is set ablaze during the riot, which resulted in more than a dozen people being seriously injured. 1963 – Famed author, scholar and NAACP co-founder W. E. B. Du Bois dies in Accra, Ghana, at 95. 1975 – Haile Selassie, former emperor of Ethiopia, dies in Addis Ababa at 83. 2008 – Barack Obama officially receives the Democratic presidential nomination at the DNC convention, becoming the party’s first African American nominee.
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1955 – Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy, is lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after he was accused of flirting with a white woman. 1963 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington. 1968 – Rev. Channing E. Philips of Washington, D.C., becomes the first African American to be nominated for president by a major national party. WI
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I continue to be amazed at how in a great while, scenes from among the more popular, Black-family-themed sitcoms from the 70s, which I once assumed had been developed solely as a healthy form of entertainment for otherwise bored Black families on Saturday evenings, surprisingly provided real food for thought. My favorite was the long-running show about the Evans family who, led by their father – an integral but often absent element in most Black families based on the assumptions of the larger society – lived in the projects of Chicago with hopes of making it out and realizing ‘the American Dream’– “Good Times.” With oldest son, JJ, known for his one-word exclamation of affirmative joy, “Dy-no-mite,” a propensity for tom-foolery and practical jokes and his over-thetop, teenaged hormones which tended to guide his steps toward innocently-imagined romantic interludes with girls nicknamed “Boom-Boom” or “Hot Lips, we witnessed the rarely-seen Black family in all of its dimensions. We sat in on “real life” in urban
Still, there’s no denial that, as Cornel West says in his seminal text, “Race Matters.” Yes, 400 years since the kidnapping of our ancestors from Africa to the American shores, race, absurdly, unbelievably, still matters. America and – exhaled. We took off our week-worn shields – safe from the insanity and enjoyed the antics of James, Florida, Thelma, Michael, neighbor Willona Woods, and of course J.J. (James, Jr.) who frequently made us laugh – first at them and then in the uncanny similarities we saw in ourselves. Yet once in a great while, there were episodes defined by the unfathomable pathways of possibilities they revealed to us despite
the overwhelming frequency of doors labeled “No Entrance (Blacks)” while shackled to ponderous chains, invisible except to a diminutive circle, earmarked poverty, racism and sexism in a country shaped by centuries of Black oppression and suppression – and with white privilege and white supremacy. In most cases, your zip code indicated your future. JJ’s dream becomes “reality” after he awakes from a sleepless night in white skin. Now, he assumes, the promotion for which he yearns at work will be his, especially with his greatest hurdle, race, being removed from the equation. The episode could have been lifted from the pages of the 1970 film “Watermelon Man” which starred Godfrey Cambridge in a dream come true story. Once white, everyone’s stunned by JJ’s sudden racial insensitivity. Yes, how soon they forget! But the kicker comes when the promotion goes to another “minority” – a woman. As for JJ, he discovers that race isn’t always the final arbiter in the realization of our hopes and dreams. Still, there’s no denial that, as Cornel West says in his seminal text, “Race Matters.” Yes, 400 years since the kidnapping of our ancestors from Africa to the American shores, race, absurdly, unbelievably, still matters. WI
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D.C. Councilman Trayon White convened a meeting on Aug. 14 that had over 100 people attending at the United Planning Organization’s Anacostia office to explain the Reunion Square development’s community benefits agreement. A community benefits agreement (CBA) establishes a contract between community groups and a real estate developer requiring the developer to provide specific amenities in the area. Reunion Square developers Curtis Investment Group and Four Points agreed recently to the CBA with White. Reunion Square will be a mixed-use project in the Anacostia neighborhood near Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE and include 143 housing units that are set to be affordable, 7,000 square feet of modestly cost retail and office space and economical space for arts organization Anacostia Playhouse. The D.C. Department of Health will also relocate to Reunion Square. The project will be paid for by Ward 8’s first Tax Increment Financing bill with $25 million in bonds. Claudia Barragan, an aide in White’s office, explained the CBA. “There will be employment opportunities for Ward 8 residents and affordable retail that will have economical rents to pay for operation,” Barragan said. “Ward 8 organizations will get funding from the Reunion Square project and there will be affordable housing units.” She said 134 of those affordable units will be reserved for senior citizens. Barragan said there will be opportunities for Ward 8 businesses that are certified business enterprises (CBEs) to work on the project and they will have precedence in the bidding process for contracts. She also said Ward 8 residents will have the chance to invest in the project via crowdfunding, particularly for Building 5 of the project. Barragan noted that Ward 8 residents will have guaranteed jobs in the pre-construction and construction phases of Reunion Square. She said there will be 30 summer building internships for high
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5 D.C. Council member Trayon White addresses a constituent’s concern at an Aug. 14 meeting in Anacostia. (Courtesy photo)
school students, with 15 slated for Anacostia High School. Job vacancies on the project will be available to advisory neighborhood commissioners two weeks before a general listing takes place, she said. Barragan said there will be grant money for incubators for office space and a restaurant. Historic preservation will be a priority, she said, and there will be monies for youth and senior citizen groups. While many in the audience seemed to approve of the CBA, some had concerns. “I would like to know, who gets what?” said Maisha Riddlesprigger, principal at Ketcham Elementary School. “I had no idea that organizations could get money. Is there a way our Friends of Ketcham Elementary School can get funding?” White acknowledged Rid-
dlesprigger’s concern and said he received 200 suggestions for organizational funding. He noted the Anacostia Coordinating Council and the Far Southeast Family Strengthening Collaborative will give out mini-grants to organizations on behalf of Reunion Square. Mary Cuthbert, a former advisory neighborhood commissioner who played a role in the Entertainment and Sports Arena’s CBA, said CBAs are “good if they are done correctly.” “The purpose of CBAs are to improve the community,” Cuthbert said. “The specifics in the agreement have to be right or the agreement won’t do any good. For example, it is not fair for one organization to get $10,000 for five years while others don’t get anything.” WI
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AROUND THE REGION RELEASE fromPage 1 supervised release when I’m doing more time outside than I’m doing inside,” said the Northwest resident who works part-time at a local supermarket. After a futile attempt to appeal her release conditions through a public defender, she submitted additional documentation to a Prince George’s County court. By then, she had entered the 20th month of a three-year term. Upon her release from a ninemonth stint in West Virginia’s Federal Prison Camp in late 2017, her journey took her to a halfway house, Jubilee Housing in Northwest and then to a friend’s home where she slept on a couch. The contract to which she agreed, requires drug testing and a payment of $100 in restitution fees, both monthly. Additionally, she must seek permission to travel outside of the D.C. metropolitan area. It’s a lot to handle for a woman who earned a master’s degree from a now-defunct university and aspires to launch a small business. In fact, she says the stipulations continue to hinder her professional advancement. “The hardest thing to tackle is finances,” she said. Since her release, she’s obtained a certificate in hospitality and tourism from the University of the District of Columbia and has currently enrolled in a workforce program and an entrepreneurship class for returning citizens. Still, hurdles remain, particularly as she seeks to earn another master’s degree – one which she believes will help her better manage her burgeoning nutrition business. “I wish I could go back to school,” she said. “I started last year but stopped because I didn’t have the funds. I also stopped because of compliance because they [require] certain things – I had to go to meetings. When you’re in certain environments, you’re confined.” The woman interviewed counts among members of the Coalition to End Supervised Release, formed in June to object to a federal program that, by 2015, had nearly 115,000 returning citizens under its jurisdiction – 99 percent having left the federal prison system under supervised release – the other one percent adhering to terms mandated by older parole guidelines. Since the turn of the century, the proportion of returning citizens under supervised release has significantly increased due to policy changes by Congress and the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Research conducted by the Pew Charitable Trusts in 2017 shows that two-out-
of-three individuals on supervised release faced recidivism – returning to prison due to violations in less than two years. District residents coming home from federal correctional facilities have experienced the brunt of these stringent guidelines says Emily Tatro, deputy director at the Council for Court Excellence as nearly half of the District’s prisoners find themselves incarcerated for violations of probation, parole, or supervised release. “If you’re arrested for anything, it triggers a violation regardless of how that arrest plays out,” Tatro said. “Your new case has to go through court and starts a revocation process. Even if your arrest doesn’t end in a new conviction, you could get revoked.” “Another category [involves] technical violations – breaking the [terms] of your supervision which could include refraining from substance abuse, staying away from different people and property or maintaining employment and housing,” she said.
Zakiya, Black August could yield more present-day relevance with concerted efforts to dismantle a system he likens to enslavement. “Black August celebrants need to understand supervised release and inform people in prison to know their rights under supervised release before they come home,” Zakiya said. “They could also start an end prison campaign so that Black people understand and learn how to maneuver in getting rid of supervised release.” “The biggest thing they could do is inform people who are about to be sentenced so they can challenge supervised release at their sentencing hearing. Public defenders might not know there’s no mandated requirement for supervised released. That’s why defendants need to speak up for themselves and challenge the judge,” he said. WI
5 Black August originated in the California penal system to honor fallen Freedom Fighters Jonathan Jackson, George Jackson,(pictured) William Christmas, James McClain and Khatari Gaulden. (Courtesy photo/sfbayview.com)
POLICY CHANGES UNDER DEBATE ON THE LOCAL FRONT
Upon their return from summer recess, members of the D.C. Council will discuss bills that would make those serving long sentences for violent crimes committed as youth eligible for early release and expand voting rights to incarcerated D.C. residents. The former has elicited strong responses including a campaign to sway public opinion against early release initiated by Jessie K. Liu, Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Meanwhile, members of the Coalition to End Supervised Release continue to organize around their goal. Last month, they hosted a meeting at the Shaw (Watha T. Daniel) Library in Northwest. On Aug. 21, coalition members attended a town hall hosted by the District Task Force on Jails & Justice at the DC Bar, also in Northwest. On August 31, they will pass out information about their campaign at Cease Fire Don’t Smoke the Brothers and Sisters’ annual cookout at Upshur Park in Northwest. The Cease Fire cookout will culminate a bevy of activities during Black August. The occasion has also served as a call to remember and act in the spirit of Black political prisoners, particularly the late George Jackson, an activist, author and founder of the Black Guerilla Family. For Coalition to End Supervised Release founding member Jabari
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY County’s Black Museum Celebrates 10 Years By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Pedro Urquilla visited the Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center to view colorful artwork, photographs and some written history. The museum treated Urquilla, his wife and the couple’s 7-year-old son and other visitors to cake and ice cream Saturday, Aug. 17 to celebrate its 10-year anniversary. “We were looking for something to do art-based and community-based for our son,” said Urquilla of Hyattsville, whose family was visiting for the first time. “This is an incredible space and really powerful. The artwork is amazing.” Visitors, members and oth-
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er guests strolled inside the 4,000-square-foot building to view “Deeply Embedded,” a new exhibit by local artist Tawny Chatmon that opened Saturday and will be on display through Sept. 17. One of Chatman’s photos can be seen on Instagram behind a smiling Blue Ivy Carter, daughter of Beyoncé and Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, during a Wearable Art Gala in June. The event sought to raise money for a California nonprofit gallery and performance center co-owned by Tina Knowles Lawson, Beyoncé’s mother, and her husband, Richard Lawson. At the museum in North Brentwood, Chatman’s artwork and other pieces received accolades from Rep. Anthony Brown (D-Maryland). “Not enough residents are familiar with the Prince George’s Coun-
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PGCPS families and the community are invited to come out and join the fun at a back-to-school event from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Friday, Aug. 23 at the Launch Trampoline Park in Capitol Heights (1001 Hampton Park Blvd.). The event is being sponsored by District 6 school board representative Belinda Queen along with Krystal Oriadha and Del. Jazz Lewis. The trio is giving away backpacks filled with supplies to county students, who head back to school Sept. 3. The first 40 students to arrive at the event
5 “Deeply Embedded,” an exhibition of photographic work, opened Aug. 17, the same day Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center celebrated its 10-year anniversary. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)
ty African American Museum and Cultural Center,” Brown said. “It certainly displays the beautiful work of not only Prince George’s County residents, but depictions of the history, culture, life and legacy in Prince George’s County. It’s a wonderful treasure.” Some of the local images are hung on a wall about the museum’s location in North Brentwood, which became the county’s first municipality incorporated by African Americans in 1924. Thirteen mayors have served in the town, including the current mayor, Petrella Robinson, who was featured last
year in Essence magazine’s list of “Woke 100 Women.” The museum’s executive director and chief curator, Monica Montgomery, wants to embody a “family-reunion” atmosphere to showcase local artist and expand upon Black culture based on the theme “The Story Continues.” “While the National Museum of African American History and Culture has great exhibits and experience, we offer a small, friendly touch,” said Montgomery, who became the museum’s leader last year. “We center ourselves and bathe ourselves in Blackness. We’re happy to
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and remains ongoing throughout the school year. However, registration for a school site will close as soon as that site is completely enrolled but interested parties can be added to a wait list. Parents may go to http://parentportal.kidscarecenter.com/pgcps.asp and follow the prompts to complete the online registration. They will need their child’s PGCPS student ID number. If they do not have it at the time of registration, parents should still be able to complete the process. Child care begins at 7 a.m. and operates until the start of the school day. The afternoon session begins at the end of the school day and operates until 6 p.m. Each program is housed in an elementary school, which means parents don’t have to provide transportation between the school and child care. The program follows the regular school calendar. Make the initial payment of $125 ($25 non-refundable registration fee and $100 tuition deposit). If paying by a cashier’s check or money order, payment should be sent to the BASELP Central Office, PO Box 821, Temple Hills, Md. 20757. WI
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Now is the time to act and get students properly immunized for school. Current sixth grade students will need the Tdap and meningitis vaccines to enter the seventh grade on Sept. 3, and enrolling kindergarten students will need two doses of Varicella (chicken pox vaccine). Students who do not have the required immunizations will be excluded from school, without exception. Parents and guardians can go to their primary care provider to get children immunized for the 2019-20 school year. Other options include going to the local health department clinics, pharmacies, grocery stores and urgent care centers.
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have done that for the past decade and … we’re going to continue doing that for decades to come.” For instance, the museum annually celebrates holidays such as Juneteenth and Kwanzaa. The center also pays homage for Black August, which focuses on to embrace unity and self-sacrifice and institute prison reform and fight mass incarceration of Blacks through the history of George Jackson, killed by San Quentin prison guards during a rebellion in August 1971. In terms of education, middle and high school students can participate in an after-school Culture Keepers program to research and teach about Black history, art and culture. On Saturday, the museum officially welcomed two new artists who will showcase their talents for a full year. Vanessa Williams, a Howard University graduate and former D.C. public schools art teacher, will be an artist-in-residence. She’s also a gospel singer who has toured with Richard Smallwood and Yolanda Adams. The museum’s cultural ambassador, Vance “Head-Roc” Levy, will host a monthly event starting Sept. 20 with vendors, food and crafts entitled “Underground Railroad: Bazaar Under the Stars.” The name stems from the railroad behind the museum. He’s also part of a band called “GODISHEUS,” (pronounced gotta-see-us). “Monica is making waves in the museum world and reimagining what museums are to moving this country forward,” said Levy, a 1989 Crossland High School graduate. “We don’t have to always focus on the European development of the country. What are we, chopped liver?” For more information about the museum and future events, go to https://pgaamcc.org. WI
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PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY Md. Students Slated to Learn LGBTQ, Disability Rights History By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Maryland public school students may begin learning about the history of LGBTQ and disability rights by next year. Del. Eric Luedtke (D-Montgomery County), who pushed for the state Department of Education to incorporate the class, said the coursework would be designated for high school students. Luedtke, a former middle school history teacher, said the lessons would be part of the state’s 20th century history curriculum for high school students. “We do a good job in Maryland in teaching about major civil rights movement for Blacks and Latinos and women, but we have left out these two groups,” he said during an interview Friday, Aug. 16. “We want to tell the whole story in our history classes.” He said costs to include the classes would be minimal, possibly for teaching training, because the state conducts periodical updates to the curriculum. The lawmaker received support from 43 lawmakers for a letter Luedtke sent to the department last month. The topics include the Stonewall Inn riots in New York City, which took place in June 1969 when police raided a gay club and the patrons fought back. That event is credited with leading the modern gay rights movement. “It’s critically important for people to understand everyone’s struggles and education is a key to that,” said Del. Jazz Lewis (D-District 24) of Landover, one of six lawmakers from Prince George’s County to back the measure. “It should’ve been added a long time ago. You can’t just decide what parts of your community matter. You should learn about it all.” A state department spokesperson didn’t respond to emails for comment. If completed by the 2020-21 school year, Maryland would join a handful of states to include LGTBQ education in public schools. The state of California’s school board voted in May on a proposal to overhaul its education curriculum. For instance, teachers would be allowed to offer instruction on gender identity with kindergarteners and teenagers to practice safe sex. D.C. area school systems incorporated rules, regulations and pro-
visions for LGBTQ students and parents. Last year, the Fairfax County school board in Virginia voted to boost its sex education curriculum to include “transgender” among gender identity and add “bisexual and homosexual” under sexual orientation. D.C. Public Schools held a seventh annual pre-conference Leading With Pride summit in March for parents with trans-identified and queer children in kindergarten through fifth grade. The school system also joined nine other school districts nationwide to provide staff with “OUT for Safe” badges to support youth. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, in connection with the University of Connecticut, released a LGBTQ youth report last year which noted only 26 percent of students feel safe in school. Another 5 percent surveyed believe their teachers and school staff support LGBTQ people.
people, especially white women. Johns said adults should discuss how “gender is not natural [but] assigned at birth that would allow us to have more conversations about what it means for people to be trans.” In addition, they should discuss how Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera served as early activists in
the LGBTQ movement, he said. The term “transgender” didn’t exist during their time. Finally, he said, remember and say the names of youth such as Nigel Shelby, 15, and Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, 11, who both died by suicide within weeks of each other in 2009 after enduring anti-gay taunts from their peers.
“Learning begins at birth,” Johns said. “More too often adults think that young people are not ready, or ill-equipped to have complex conversations about life. Young people begin to make sense of themselves in the world around them well before they have the language to describe it.” WI
‘LEARNING BEGINS AT BIRTH’
Advocates have praised states for improving education curriculum and incorporate LGBTQ history. David Johns, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, which seeks to eradicate racism and homophobia, said the subject matter should be taught in elementary schools, but by competent instructors who not only can teach in theory, but through personal experience For example, Johns, who taught on the elementary level, mentioned how “same-gender-loving” people contributed to the liberation, advancement and equity for other
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BUSINESS National Black Business Month: Suncrest Financials CEO Helps Clients Save $25 Million By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia In the past year alone, Suncrest Financials CEO Folasade Ayegbusi has helped entrepreneurs and small business owners save more than $25 million in lost revenue, tax assessments and penalties and interest. Like so many black business owners, success hasn’t come easy for Ayegbusi. She said she grew up in an impoverished section of Washington, D.C., where she experienced an eviction, a car repossession, home foreclosure, and even hunger and homelessness. During those struggles, Ayegbusi said she realized that she had the power to be in control of her life. She built her business on the desire for financial freedom and the ability to help others. “My financially poor upbringing is what motivated me to become an accountant,” Ayegbusi said. “I was around 14 years of age when I realized that I never wanted to be
poor again. “At 16 years of age, I got obvious with my career and decided that I wanted to become an accountant to help black-owned businesses become financially free,” she said. “I wanted to work with businesses specifically because, as I was growing up, I felt that it was rare to see a successful black business. I didn’t like that, and now, I want to encourage Black-owned businesses and help them face any challenges that come their way.” At Suncrest Financials, which has offices in Washington and Baltimore, Ayegbusi offers small business financial services, payroll, insurance, bookkeeping, tax preparation and personal coaching for business leaders. She said her background in insurance, real estate and e-commerce industries had helped tremendously. That experience has allowed Ayegbusi to have a strong understanding of what entrepreneurs face and what lenders look for when working with small businesses. “With one client, I streamlined
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and verified their bookkeeping, including calculating their tier product cost, payroll and other general operating data,” Ayegbusi said. “Then, we used this data to review what they were doing and to make changes to their business. The results of this process were gratifying to the owner and made their business stronger. “Within a year their revenue rose from $6,000 to $29,000 because of changes they made,” she said. “By year two, they were bringing in $29,000. How? The process helped them both add to their revenue and save money in areas like tax overpayments.” As a Black business owner, one of Ayegbusi’s biggest obstacles remains to fund and identify the resources that she needs to expand. “I’ve had every bank that I’ve applied for a loan send me a declination letter,” she said. “I am not
5 Pepco Holdings President and CEO Dave Velazquez and Pepco Holdings Senior Vice President and COO Tyler Anthony are joined by leaders from Pepco contractors and the graduates of the Pepco Utility Training School program at the D.C. Infrastructure Academy. (Courtesy photo/Pepco Holdings)
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giving up. I am continuing to expand my businesses while I pursue the right funding opportunity that will help me expand.” Ayegbusi said she believes it is essential that everyone recognizes National Black Business Month. “As a community, we can pause to celebrate the fruits of our labor,” Ayegbusi said. “It’s easy for us to turn the TV on and see black celebrities, athletes, and public figures who are a success. But what about others? I want anything that brings
more visibility to the success of our black accountants, lawyers, and entrepreneurs. “Our youth need to see role models for success beyond people like LeBron James and Cardi B,” she said. “Highlighting black-owned businesses during this month gives a spotlight to these kinds of success stories. It also encourages the next black business to continue through obstacles they face on their tough path to achievement.” WI
5 Folasade Ayebusi (Courtesy photo)
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D.C. Resident Takes Advantage of Expanded Cyber Reskilling Program By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia The SANS Institute has announced the expanding of funding for its Cyber Workforce Academy – Maryland, a program designed to develop cybersecurity talent pipeline across the state. The Cyber Workforce Academy – Maryland was originally launched in 2018 through an Employment Advancement Right Now (EARN) Implementation Grant from the Maryland Department of Labor. This year’s EARN grant renewal enables SANS to extend the academy through May 2021. Whitney White, who graduated from the program in 2018, said she discovered the program through a friend. White said she was seeking a way to break into the field of internet technology (IT) and her friend informed her of the SANS program. “Thanks to the [program], I could change career fields very quickly without the need to go back to school and take out more student loans,” White said of the 100 percent scholarship-based SANS program. “The program is the reason I have my job
[in IT] today.” Since its inception, the program has trained over 75 qualified Maryland residents, with a focus on enrolling women, veterans and minorities. It has provided real-world, hands-on cybersecurity skills often valued by employers. Training is held at various locations throughout Maryland and online. With the grant renewal, the program will be able to serve another 95 participants, officials said. “The Maryland Department of Labor is pleased to continue our partnership with the SANS Cyber Workforce Academy through EARN Maryland,” acting Secretary James Rzepkowski said in a statement. “This program is successfully helping to meet the critical need for a highly skilled cyber security workforce while providing invaluable opportunities for women, veterans, and minorities.” Maryland graduates are working in a variety of technical cybersecurity positions for leading local employers like GEICO, IronNet Cybersecurity, and Booz Allen Hamilton. Program officials said graduates are tripling their income and are making a difference by helping defend their employers’ networks and critical in-
frastructure. They are working as cyber analysts, security analysts, SOC analysts, system administrators, and system engineers. “My background is in event sales and marketing,” said White, who earned several certifications that’s allowed her to work for one of the nation’s largest auto insurance companies. “I spent a lot of time studying the course materials and doing labs over and over,” she said. “I read up on basic computer science topics that helped me better understand the training and coursework. I also reached out to other people in my cohort and our mentor for help.” Establishing those relationships helped in many ways, she said. “They told us that this immersion program would be hard and intense, but it was still more challenging than I thought it would be,” White said. “Conversely, I was pleasantly surprised by the many resources that SANS provided both during and after the program. This academy is designed to really set participants up for success.” Established in 1989 as a cooperative research and education organization, The SANS Institute’s accelerated cybersecurity training program offers students advanced technical training,
industry-recognized certifications and the hands-on cyber defense and incident-handling skills sought by Maryland employers, program officials said. The academy builds on the success of the SANS VetSuccess, Women’s, and Diversity Cyber academies. “If you are in the program, take advantage of all the resources that are offered and attend other local cyber security networking events,” White said when asked what advice she’d give others in the program or those who might be considering signing up. “Make sure you are willing to commit to a lot of time studying and completing course work,” White said. “In the end, it will be worth it. I promise.” Program details and cohort schedules are available at https:// www.sans.org/cyberworkforce-md. WI
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NATIONAL Women’s Suffrage Heroine: Charlotte Vandine Forten By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia This is part of an ongoing Washington Informer series about the Women Suffrage Movement and an initiative that includes Informer Publisher Denise Rolark Barnes that will use the lens of history, the fabric of art and culture, and the venue of the public square to shine a light into dark places, equipping all with a compass to chart the way forward. The initiative lives in the institutional home of Washington Informer Charities. Mention the name Charlotte Vandine Forten and even scholars are sometimes stumped. Historian after historian and professor after professor were mystified at the mere mention of her name. However, a little research revealed that Forten was no ordinary woman. And, at the least, she isn’t someone who should eas-
ily be forgotten. Forten was born in 1886 in Philadelphia and lived for 100 years. “Charlotte Vandine Forten was the wife of James Forten, who built his fortune through manufacturing sails,” said Dr. April Logan, president of the Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society and associate professor and coordinator of Ethnic and Global Literatures at Salisbury University in Maryland. “In terms of African American history, the Fortens and their five children, as well as their granddaughter, Charlotte L. Forten Grimke, played a significant role in ending slavery as African-American abolitionist leaders,” Logan said. “They were conductors on the Underground Railroad, organizers of the first American biracial anti-slavery society of women, and educators of the formerly enslaved African-Americans after the Civil War.”
5 Charlotte Vandine Forten (courtesy photo)
According to PBS, the Fortens were one of the most prominent Black families in Philadelphia. James Forten and his wife, Charlotte Vandine, were a wealthy couple with three daughters. They helped to found and finance at least six abolitionist organizations. The Forten family also used their home to house visiting abolitionists. Charlotte Vandine Forten and her daughters started the Female Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia, the first biracial organization of women abolition-
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“In terms of African American history, the Fortens and their five children, as well as their granddaughter, Charlotte L. Forten Grimke, played a significant role in ending slavery as African-American abolitionist leaders.” – Dr. April Logan ists in the nation, according to PBS. During national conventions of abolitionists, the Forten family represented the Female Anti-Slavery Society as delegates. One of the Forten’s daughters, Margaretta was a teacher who eventually opened her own school. Another daughter, Sarah, began composing poems at the age of 17. She also wrote articles for “the Liberator” newspaper, using pseudonyms. Sarah, like her sister Harriet, married into another family of abolitionists, PBS reported. “The household of Harriet, and her husband Robert Purvis, became a major haven for abolitionists and fugitive slaves alike,” according to PBS. “In addition to raising her own five children, Harriet also raised her niece, Charlotte Forten (Grimké) following the death of Charlotte’s mother. She also pursued her career as an abolitionist, with her husband’s support. In her later years, Harriet lectured against segregation and for Black suffrage.” Women demanded suffrage as early as 1848, according to re-
searchers at Wesleyan Univesity. The Seneca Falls convention in July of 1848 brought together 200 women and 40 men. The gathering included feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, to make a claim for full citizenship, Wesleyan researchers said. “The delegates believed women to be citizens not limited in any way to their roles as wives or mothers,” the researchers said. “In the language of the founding fathers, they wrote, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal.’” The women rejected Victorian domesticity and its separation of women and men into private and public spheres, respectively. It was at Seneca Falls that the suffrage movement first began, according to PBS. “I hope this gives you a sense of the important contributions of Black women to women’s suffrage, and the issue of voting rights in general, and the challenges they faced as a double minority – as Americans who were women and African American,” Logan said. WI
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Defiant Activist Jailed for Speaking Out Against Ugandan President A prominent Ugandan feminist academic and queer rights activist has been convicted of speaking out against President Yoweri Museveni and seeking freedom of expression. Dr. Stella Nyanzi, a medical anthropologist, feminist, queer rights activist and scholar of sexuality, family planning and public health, has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for cyber harassment and offensive communication under the country’s Computer Misuse Act, the Johannesburg-based City Press reported Aug. 18. “Radical rudeness” has been a tactic deployed by her throughout her fight for freedom of expression against the governing dictatorship. The charges stem from a poem she posted on Facebook in 2018. It uses the “radical rudeness” philosophy that set the grounds for what is now known as the “Vagina case.” “The Ugandan court described Nyanzi’s words as lewd, obscene, vile, vulgar and disgusting terms and references that suggest it would have been better if President Yoweri Museveni (75) had died before birth,” City Press reported. “Uganda has had one president for 33 years. The concept of freedom and equality is not tangible for many Ugandans, and speaking out against Museveni and the first family comes with grave repercussions.” Nyanzi, described as one of the most prolific scholars on the subject of African sexuality, said she refuses
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Barbados Steps Up Investment in Youth The government of Barbados is continuing to invest heavily in the country’s youth. The government is set to pump a little over $5 million immediately into the formation of a Barbados Youth Advance Corps (BYAC) and that number will jump to about $20 million by the end of the 2022 fiscal year, Prime Minister Mia Mottley revealed during a post-Cabinet press conference on Aug. 15. The Advance Corps will replace the Barbados Youth Service, and take in between 800 and 1,000 post-secondary school leavers each of the next three years. “It is intended to take in young people who have left school in the last two years,” Mottley said. She stated that the Barbados Youth Service would be collapsed into the BYAC and young people between the ages of 16 and 20 who left school within the last two years would be exposed to the essential training over a two-year period. She explained that they would be exposed to digital transformation, whether graphics, coding or even robotics, for those who were mechanically oriented. “The two-year period will be a combination of learning, discipline, citizenship reinforcement and there will be the opportunity to participate in some form of work attachment — first job initiative, apprenticeship or mentorship, depending on the individual,” Mottley said. She added that the participants would also learn about construction, design, conflict resolution and personal financial management and budgeting.
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ANNAPOLIS — If Maryland lawmakers decide to legalize marijuana for recreational use, then they should outline agencies responsible to oversee program, put together an advisory council and outline advertising restrictions. These are just three of the several recommendations an 18-member work group of state senators and delegates received Monday, Aug. 19 to assess the legalization of marijuana in the state. “To manage this, it will be a
shared responsibility,” said Matthew Swinburne, associate director of Network for Public Health Law-Eastern Region of Baltimore. “To effectively oversee an adult-use market, you will need a variety of agencies.” Swinburne presented the pros and cons of 11 states and the District of Columbia which manage recreational cannabis for adults 21 and older. Although Maryland and 32 other states and D.C. approved medical marijuana usage, Swinburne outlined rules and regulations for personal consumption are slightly different depending on the state.
5 A group of Maryland lawmakers hold a meeting in Annapolis on Aug. 19 to assess whether to legalize marijuana in the state. (William J. Ford/The Washington Informer)
For instance, residents in the states of Illinois and Washington are prohibited to cultivate cannabis for personal use, but can for medical purposes. In Nevada, residents can own six plants but must be at least 25 miles from a retail location. State Sen. Melanie Griffith (D-District 25) of Upper Marlboro asked whether there are any economic benefits for counties and municipalities to allow for recreational marijuana use.
Swinburne said local jurisdictions can decide to prohibit, but isn’t sure about whether states allow local jurisdictions to impose additional taxes to sell marijuana for personal use. John Hudak, a senior fellow with The Brookings Institution, said there are pros and cons to legalizing cannabis, pointing out that the economic revenue in Colorado increased every year from $683.5 million in 2014 to $1.54 billion in 2018. In Washington state, revenue increased from nearly $260 million in 2015 to $1.3 billion in 2017, he said. Hudak said cannabis-related crimes in legalization states and the District decreased by at least 80 percent. However, Hudak said racial disparities in arrest rates remained in those states, worsening in some cases. “This also is a depression part of this conversation around cannabis legalization,” he said. “There are ways to deal with that in terms of police training, in terms of cultural training [for] law enforcement agencies. … The reality is that institutionalized racism exists in our society.” The work group will divide itself into several committees slated to look at criminal justice, public
health, taxing and licensing and minority participation. State Sen. Jill Carter (D-Baltimore City), who emphasized marijuana convictions should be automatically expunged from a person’s record if marijuana is legalized, asked about the price to purchase it legally as opposed to on the black market. Hudak said legal cannabis will more than likely cost more, but purchasing a flower cannabis “that you are going to smoke [with] the quality, the consistency and safety of it is going to be better in a legal market than it will be in a black market.” When asked by Sen. Brian Feldman (D-Montgomery County) about some marijuana studies that show a decrease in opioid addition in legalized states, Hudak summarized them as a “seesaw” of critiques. “Too many people are drawing definitive conclusions based on findings they want to be right and not the broader populations that study this,” he said. “Everything that I’ve read, I am not convinced that there is a cause or link between marijuana use and a reduction in opioid use for a treatment of opioid use disorder.” WI
5 A map from the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission shows dispensary sales and locations in various parts of the state. (William J. Ford/The Washington Informer) 318178_6_x_6.5.indd 1
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Help Your Child ‘See’ Better, Read Better, Learn Better
August is Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor @dkevinmcneir It’s been a long time but I can clearly remember the difficulty I once face seeing and reading the blackboard which, almost magically, became a thing of the past after having my eyes examined and getting my first pair of glasses. For me, it would be as if a whole new world had suddenly appeared right before my very eyes. And while the times may have changed, untold thousands of school-age children face the similar challenge of needing corrective lenses or medical enhancements to improve their eyesight. With many states beginning the school year earlier, August has since become the new September. And with school supply shopping and purchasing those highly-requested back-to-school clothing items, now’s the perfect time to make comprehensive eye exam appointments for your children. Fittingly, August has recently been designated as Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month. A good rule of thumb is to have your children’s eyes examined during well-child visits, beginning around age three. Obviously, children who see better can read better and thus do better in their daily classwork. Yearly eye examinations are tantamount to success in school and your child’s eye doctor can help detect refractive errors such
as nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. But other diseases can also be detected with a comprehensive eye examination including: amblyopia (lazy eye); strabismus (crossed eyes); ptosis (drooping of the eyelid); and color deficiency (color blindness). If parents or physicians suspect a child may have a vision problem, it’s recommended that you make an appointment with a local ophthalmologist for further testing. In my elementary school days, I recall my mother taking me to the eye doctor after I began to continually squint and rub my eyes – the only way I knew to improve my poor eyesight. However, there are some specific warning signs that may indicate that your child has a vision problem which include: wandering or crossed eyes; a family history of childhood vision problems; disinterest in reading or viewing distant objects; squinting or turning the head in an unusual manner while watching television.
It’s important to keep children’s eyes safe – another means of maintaining healthy vision. Recent statistics indicate that eye injuries serve as the leading cause of vision loss in children with about 42,000 sports-related eye injuries every year in the U.S. and children suffering most of these injuries. You can prevent your child from being one of over 12 million children in the U.S. who suffer from vision impairment by remembering a few basic rules of safety: 1) All children should wear protective eyewear while participating in sports or recreational. 2) Purchase age-appropriate toys for your children and avoid toys with sharp or protruding parts. School bells are ringing – be proactive in helping your children enjoy a successful school year by scheduling a comprehensive eye exam and taking safety measures to ensure their eyes are free from injury. WI
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EDUCATION D.C. Spends More Per Child on Preschool than Any American City By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia The District has the highest share of 3- and 4-year-olds enrolled in pre-kindergarten, pre-kindergarten special education and Head Start of any city in the country.
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Further, no other city in the nation spends more per child enrolled in preschool than the District of Columbia, according to a new study released by District-based financial website WalletHub. While good elementary schools, high schools and col-
5 Students from Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School who were characters in books produced by the Living Storybook project (Courtesy of Do the Write Thing)
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the availability of quality pre-K education is just as crucial, WalletHub officials said. They pointed to a study by the National Institute for Early Education Research which revealed that students enrolled in full-day pre-K programs do better on math and literacy tests than their peers who attend only partial day preschool. Also, those who attend pre-K programs have been shown to have less risk of future crime than those who do not. Pre-K programs also may generate billions of dollars for the economy over a few decades, due to lessening the need for social services and creating more productive citizens, according to WalletHub, which compared the 50 states and the District across 12 key metrics, including share of school districts that offer a state pre-K program, number of pre-K quality benchmarks met and total reported spending per child enrolled in pre-K. Nebraska finished just ahead of D.C. for having the best early education systems. Maryland, Vermont and Arkansas rounded out the top five. Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota and Massachusetts made up the bottom five. Virginia ranked 22nd overall, but was recognized with a high-quality ranking. “I believe that parents being involved in their child’s education is essential – academically, socially and culturally,” Ann Hilliard, a WalletHub expert and associate professor at Bowie State University, said
when asked about the most important factors that influence a child’s educational development. “Parents need to always stress the importance of listening, learning, observing, being respectful toward others and being engaged in one’s own learning.” “Today, parents need to infuse the use of digital tools as an educational resource in expanding their child’s education, but always monitoring how the digital tools are being used as frequently as possible in a positive manner,” she said. When asked whether education spending is a direct measure of education quality, Hilliard said, based on data from various sources, too many situations in education spending do not frequently measure education quality. “Education quality is the mastery of skills at the secondary and college completion level,” Hilliard said. “Students are productive citizens and moving into adulthood should be able to demonstrate skill and knowledge mastery for available jobs in the marketplace. “Education quality should show too, that these young adults are capable of solving simple and complex problems numerically and in a narrative and collaborative manner,” she said. “Today, the young adult is able to be a part of an effective learning generation by showing an interest in continuous learning, being flexible and adaptable to new experiences in the marketplace.” To view the full report, go to wallethub.com. WI
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Previously planned summer distribution events for 2019-20 Kids Ride Free (KRF) SmarTrip cards have been canceled. The new cards will be sent directly to all D.C. public and charter schools for distribution starting Aug. 26. Cards from the previous school year are valid until Sept. 30. The new (2019-20) cards will be provided to students by their school’s DC One Card administrator. Students who have lost or misplaced last year’s card can receive a replacement card at the Deanwood or Judiciary Square DC One Card Centers through Aug. 23.
DIALOGUES WITH THE CHANCELLOR
Since his appointment, Chancellor Lewis Ferebee has been engaged on topics that matter to DCPS families, students, staff, and community members. This summer, Ferebee hosted a series of small “DCPS Dialogue” gatherings at schools, libraries and community centers across the District, gathering feedback on the outset of the new school year and listening to DCPS stakeholders to better understand their experiences. The format of these events involved small group discussions with attendance capped at 20 to keep the conversations intimate.
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Over the past year, Jaydn Nickie, a 2019 graduate of Phelps Architecture, Construction, and Engineering High School, worked on “The Axis Smart Glove,” an invention he developed and patented as part of his engineering senior capstone project. The device allows individuals to use hand gestures to control their electronic devices without physically touching the device. Through the Axis Smart Glove, individuals can control their phone or computer
EDUCATION with a simple wave of the hand or snap of the finger. Jaydn will continue to explore his interest in robotics engineering when he enrolls this fall in the University of Toronto. “I got into my dream school and I was just ecstatic,” Jaydn said while recalling when he found out he was accepted. Jaydn said he is most excited about the school’s labs and the technology that he will have access to that will help him to further his education as an engineer. At Phelps, Jaydn said that Ms. Teyibo, director of the NAF Academy of Engineering, supported him and provided him with opportunities he didn’t previously have access to. “She helped me realize you don’t have to be some big, special guy with some crazy origin story to be whatever you want,” he said. “The way I see it, if you want to do something great, do it.”
5 Jadyn Nickie will attend the University of Toronto this fall. (Courtesy of DCPS)
SCHOOL MODERNIZATION
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Aug. 21 in celebration of the modernization of Hyde Addison Elementary School in the Georgetown community. The celebration, attended by Mayor Muriel Bowser, included food and games for all ages. WI
Curry Backs Launch of Howard Golf Program An encounter between Howard University [HU] senior Otis Ferguson IV and NBA star Stephen Curry during Curry’s visit last January inspired the leader of the Golden State Warriors to support the dreams of Otis and fill a long-felt void in the university’s sports program. And on Monday, Aug. 19, Curry (pictured at the microphone), a threetime NBA champion, founder of SC30, Inc. and co-founder of Eat. Learn. Play, joined by Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick, HU president and Kery Davis, HU athletics director, announced that he will financially support Howard’s golf program for the next six years. The news took place at Langston Golf Course. Otis, an accomplished golfer and among a group of student who helped start a golf club at HU, has been credited at lighting the spark that has now resulted in both boys’ and girls’ golf teams returning to the Bison family after a long hiatus. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer). WI WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM / THE WASHINGTON INFORMER
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Lest We Never Forget Our Past The work of the Commission on the 400 Years of African American History culminates this weekend in Hampton, Virginia at Fort Monroe. Hundreds of observers of this moment in history will participate in a host of programs aimed to fulfill Congress’s mandate to “recognize and highlight the resilience and contributions of African-American’s since 1619,” the year of the arrival of the first Africans brought to America as slaves. For many, this is a painful history, filled with the realities of the evil deeds of white people who looked upon African men, women, and children, not as humans, but merely as property brought to America to build a country solely for their benefit. The legacy of the institution of 400 years of slavery in the U.S. still runs deep in our society’s DNA, particularly among whites who are literally fighting to hold onto their misperceptions of superiority and among Blacks who keep on fighting to unclamp the institution’s bars on their human and civil rights. The painful and discomforting experiences brought on by this weekend’s reenactment of the slave ships bringing the first group of Africans to shore which multiplied to millions, or the early sunrise African Naming Ceremony at Buckroe Beach reminding us of our ancestral past, are just two events exemplifying just how far we, as Americans and African Americans, have come. Keeping our head in the sand and refusing to revisit the past, no matter how awful it was, is not the way to move forward. This commemoration is a demonstration of the strength, faith and resilience of the African that still flows through the blood of generations today. This rich and relevant history is not being taught in our classrooms and, increasingly, students are asking “why not?” How is it, they ask, that the stories about our contributions toward the making of America are only relegated to one month, a side-bar, or a special edition? No one could have said it better than James Weldon Johnson when he and his brother wrote the Negro National Anthem, which prophetically describes the meaning and purpose for this 400-year commemoration. He wrote: “Stony the road we trod, bitter the chast‘ning rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet, come to the place on which our fathers sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past, here now we stand at last, where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.” WI
Clark Atlanta University Latest Scene of Our Deadly Addiction to Guns
Looks like you can’t even go to a neighborhood block party these days without wondering if you’re be a witness to, innocent bystander or unfortunate victim in the next and almost daily saga of what’s become our nation’s new normal: “Blazing Guns – American Style.” This time, gunfire erupted on Tuesday, Aug. 20 during an evening celebration – just one day before the scheduled opening of classes for the fall semester. Several students were injured in a shooting near the campus in the City’s Southwest section. Four female students, 17 through 19, sustained injuries, were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital and remain listed in stable condition. But some students find themselves unable to get into their rooms as their dorms are inside the crime scene. Police reports indicate that the gunfire ...with President Donald occurred following a confrontation between two separate groups and that, as is often the Trump once again changing case, students were struck by bullets while in the crossfire. lanes and abandoning his It’s an all-too familiar scene that we can only days-earlier promise to ramp pray will one day become an abnormality on the American horizon. But with President up background checks for Donald Trump once again changing lanes and those seeking gun purchases, abandoning his days-earlier promise to ramp up background checks for those seeking gun purwe cannot express confidence chases, we cannot express confidence that the change most Americans demand, will be forththat the change most coming in the near future. No matter how you spin it, the truth of the Americans demand, will matter is, guns do kill people and placing the be forthcoming in the blame on mental illness will not reduce the frequency of these tragic occurrences. WI
TO THE EDITOR Ask the Editor? Dear editor, I enjoy your weekly commentary a lot. I feel like you’re a friend in my head. Would you consider starting an advice column? I think it would be a hit. You are blunt, honest and to the point, but also compassionate. You don’t have to pay me for this million-dollar idea — “thanks” will do! Felicia Brown Alexandria, Va.
Divine Intervention for Tuition I really related and sympathized with the story about Black college students dealing with financial struggle. I, too, went through the same thing semester after semester and it was nothing but God that stood in the gap when there was no way that I could make tuition. For all of you young people in this position, keep the faith and call on God. He will provide a way. That’s my two cents. Shemelle Franklin Washington, D.C.
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Hungry for Sanity
Have you ever been hungry? Not the missed-a-meal, wanna-overeat hungry, but the stomach-churning, ‘bout-to-steal-aloaf-of-bread hungry. Not the luxury of choice, but the sheer desperation of not having eaten for so many hours that food is nothing more than a memory. The dictionary describes hunger as “an uneasy or painful sensation from lack of food.” Synonyms include starved and starving. It happens at our bor-
der when children are separated from their parents and not given enough to eat in a day. It happens in our inner cities, where poor folks often choose between paying rent and buying food. Millions of people in the United States, as many as 40 million in 2017, experienced hunger. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 15 million households are “food insecure,” scrambling, often at the end of the month, to put food on the table. The statistics are daunting. One in six children do not know where their next meal is coming from. Twenty-two million children need free or reduced-price
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lunch to get enough nutrition. The Department of Agriculture has just promulgated rules that will cut another 3 million people off food assistance. You won’t be surprised to know that Black and brown folks are more likely to experience food insecurity than others. Denny’s and the National Council of Negro Women have partnered to visit seven HBCUs this fall. They have titled their tour “Hungry for Education,” and as president of PUSH Excel, the education arm of Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition, I was excited to join with friends and colleagues to
promote the tour. The theme was amplified when Denny’s President John Miller shared a poem that highlighted the ways hunger affects academic performance. While the poem seemed to focus on the K-12 youngsters whose presence, ability and behavior is affected by hunger, it is also clear that young adults who are attending colleges across the country make painful choices. Food or tuition? Dinner or a required book? These young people are experiencing an “uneasy and painful sensation from lack of ” be it nutritional or intellectual sustenance. I feel their pain. I am hungry,
too, but I’m hungry for sanity. I get a feeling in the pit of my stomach whenever our 45th president opens his mouth and hits the airwaves. And I am all the more nauseated because I talk to friends in the world and around the globe who never hesitate to make fun of our nation. We elected the world’s biggest clown. Who the heck articulates his desire to be an extreme colonialist by saying he might like to buy Greenland, a territory of Denmark that is uninterested in being sold? I know that 45 was once a failed real estate mogul, but the
official response to the threat, right-wing extremists have been responsible for the vast majority of extremist-related murders in the United States. Right-wing extremists were responsible for every single extremist killing in the U.S. in 2018, “from Pittsburgh to Parkland,” according to the Anti-Defamation League. The white supremacist massacre of 22 people in El Paso two weeks ago was the most deadly right-wing terrorist attack since 1995, when Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people in the Federal Building bombing in Oklahoma
City. The suspect published a white nationalist manifesto on an internet message board just before the shooting. He told police he was targeting Mexicans and drove 11 hours from his largely-white hometown near Dallas to majority-Latino El Paso. He has not been charged with a hate crime. And while federal authorities are investigating the shooting as a domestic terrorism case, domestic terrorism is not codified as a law that can be prosecuted.
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By Marc H. Morial
Fight Right-Wing Terrorism the Right Way
“The big thing is we need to change the way we in the United States are viewing these incidents with right-wing extremist terrorism. Stop dismissing this as crazy gunmen, or hate crimes, or that some person ‘just snapped.’ There is an ideology behind the attack. The attack needs to be called out as terrorism.” — Daryl Johnson, former Department of Homeland Security analyst
Just over a decade ago, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI produced a report entitled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.” The report warned of the rise of radicalized right-wing groups and individuals and the threat of political violence. But instead of heeding its warnings, Congress erupted in a frenzy of denial and defensiveness. The conclusions of the report were distorted and
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misreported. Instead of taking the threat seriously, the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee called for hearings to investigate DHS and the report. Members took particular offense to the suggestion that divisive issues like abortion were being used as recruiting tools. Weeks after Congress shut down any response to the report, an anti-abortion extremist murdered physician George Tiller at his church. In the years since outraged Congress members blocked any
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By A. Peter Bailey
Connecting African Communities at the Ethiopian Embassy
As a Malcomite and a strong believer in Pan-Africanism, I immediately accepted an invitation from two friends, historical interpreter Marquett Milton and anthropologist Johnny Coleman II, to join them in attending an event at the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Its title, “Connecting Communities To-
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gether: African Heritage, Pan African Leaders and H.I.M Haile Selassie Birthday Celebration,” definitely grabbed my attention. Tefera Alemayehu, a dynamic, young Ethiopian with commanding skills in communications and community service, played a key role in bringing it about. His organization, the Network of Family Service Professionals (NFSP), joined CALDAN Communications in launching an annual event three years ago that “connects African
communities, including people of African descent from around the world.” Their celebration on July 23, 2019, the 127th anniversary of the birth of Emperor Selassie, did just that by allowing over 200 attendees, including several of the Emperor’s direct descendants, to share cultural values through music, dance, fashion, food and verbal presentations. The latter included a warm welcome from H.E. Fitsum Arega, Ethiopia’s Ambassador to the
United States and brief remarks by Dr. Frank Smith, founder of the African American Civil War Museum (The Importance of Museums in Preserving History and Culture), Dr. Silvester Okere (Anthropology of Africa), Hawi Awash (African Future and the Rule of Youth), Tiffany Lancaster (African Origins and Their Socio-Economic and Political Participation of Diaspora Women) and Dr. Yohannes Zeleke (Africa and Tourism). Other highlights included an
African Cultural and Fashion Show by ET Entertainment, a presentation on Caribbean History and Culture by Ras Wayne Rose, Ph.D. and a slideshow featuring legendary Pan-African leaders such as Kwame Nkrumah, Winnie Mandela, Steven Biko, Brother Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey and Emperor Selassie. My special highlight was the passionate, powerful, inspiring, knowledge-expanding keynote
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By Charlene Crowell
Time for CFPB to Enact Payday Loan Rules
For most people, life feels better when there is something to look forward to. Whether looking forward to graduation, the arrival of a new baby, or retirement that affords a few years to just enjoy life – these kinds of things make going through challenging times somehow more manageable. For payday loan borrowers and
consumer and civil rights activists, this Aug. 19 was supposed to be the end of payday lending’s nearly inevitable debt trap. No longer would consumers incur seemingly endless strings of loans that lenders knew they could not afford. Nor would lenders have unlimited and automatic direct access to borrower checking accounts; only two debits could be drawn on an account with insufficient funds. The days of unrestrained businesses recklessly selling payday and car-title loans
as short-term financial fixes that grew to become long-term debt was set for a shutdown. Let’s say these borrowers were looking forward to financial freedom from the endless cycle of loan renewals and costly fees generated by triple-digit interest rates. In practical terms, the typical, two-week $350 payday loan winds up costing $458 in fees. But just as seasons and circumstances can and do change, under a different administration, the Consumer Financial Protection
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Bureau (CFPB) has functioned more recently to help predatory lenders than to fulfill its statutory mission of consumer protection. Last summer, then-CFPB head Mick Mulvaney, joined the payday loan industry to challenge and win a delay in the implementation of the long-awaited payday rule. Mulvaney also withdrew a lawsuit filed by the CFPB against a payday lender ahead of his arrival. Months later in in a West Texas federal court, U.S. District Judge
Lee Yeakel granted a “stay,” the legal term for a court-ordered delay, to allow the current CFPB director the chance to rewrite the rule adopted under the bureau’s first director. Even earlier and under acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney, a lawsuit filed by CFPB against a payday lender was withdrawn. In response to these and other anti-consumer developments, consumer advocates chose to ob-
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By E. Faye Williams
Celebrating Shirley Chisholm
It’s been 50 years since Shirley Chisholm was elected to the U.S. Congress and took Washington, D.C., by storm. A lot of men didn’t know quite what to do with her. She was the first Black congresswoman and she made such a splash that many women were listening and were inspired to run not only for Congress, but for all kinds of offices to serve the people. When I ran for Congress in Louisiana, she was one of the first persons to send a check. Shirley didn’t do or say things
because they were politically wise. She said and did things that were morally right, and never worried about what others would think. When she ran for president of the United States, she didn’t ask anybody’s permission. She was proud of being “unbought and unbossed,” and that’s why so many of us loved her and wanted to come as close to being like Shirley as we could. I’m honored to serve as national president of the organization she founded, along with Dr. C. Delores Tucker. Shirley served as the first leader of our organization, now known as the National Congress of Black Women
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(NCBW). On Sunday, Sept. 15 in Washington, D.C., at the Marriott Wardman Hotel, we will be remembering Shirley Chisholm at our 35th annual brunch for the 50th anniversary of her election to the U.S. Congress. We’ve named an annual award in her honor and the first two recipients will be the two Black women who are part of the “Squad.” We’ve chosen them because of the courage they’ve exhibited in an effort to make changes so needed in our nation. The two receiving the Shirley Chisholm Courage Award are Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar. It’s so important for us to
honor and protect the names of those who take courageous steps on our behalf. If we don’t tell their stories, they either won’t be told or will often be distorted. NCBW will also honor the other three newly elected Black congresswomen with our Sojourner Truth Award. NCBW was responsible for placing the Sojourner Truth statue in the U.S. Capitol, making her the first Black woman to be honored with a memorial there. The three other Congresswomen who were elected in 2018 are Jahana Hayes, Lauren Underwood and Lucy McBath. The three of them played such an
important role in helping Nancy Pelosi to become speaker of the House again and assisting the Democrats in regaining a majority in the House. Others, like Shirley, have proven to be unbought and unbossed and will also be honored for breaking new ground in major corporations. Two of the honorees in this category are Shelley Sylva and Kelly Cornish. Two Black women are responsible for developing new methods for healing the wounds of circumstance will be honored. They are Dr. Linda James Myers and Dr.
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By Askia Muhammad
Jay-Z a Role Model for Sellouts
There can be absolutely no question about the tremendous talent, unrivaled body of work, and the financial success of Shawn Carter, better known as the rapper Jay-Z. But now that he’s taken his leadership into the area of re-branding the National Football League as a beacon of social justice, he has gotten in over his head, in my opinion. Professional football is an immensely popular form of entrainment. Jay-Z knows popular
entrainment. He is recognized as one of the most significant cultural icons in global pop culture for the past two decades. And with his super-superstar wife Beyoncé by his side, he is a powerful force to be reckoned with. The power entertainment couple met with the British Royals, he is pals with former President Barack Obama, and he used to be pals with the former 2013 Super Bowl quarterback Kaepernick, who ruined his own athletic career by kneeling during the national anthem, to stand up against police brutality against Black folks in the USA. Understand, big league profes-
sional sports are just about the only chances to see any kind of unscripted, live action on national television. That’s big. Those contests are decided (except for a few with bad officiating) by the athletes on identical fields, playing by the same rules, for defined periods of time. We can watch the meritocracy of sports played out right before our eyes, with no filters or censors. That’s a good thing. But this athletic business is physically dangerous, with about 6 percent of high school athletes who play NCAA college football ever making it to the NFL (sportswriters sometimes say NFL really
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stands for Not For Long). There’s all that brain damage that occurs along the way, especially for those who make it to the big league. That’s not such a good thing. Then, that 94 percent of the student athletes who never make it to the NFL also mostly don’t get the benefit of attending college, because mostly all they’ve done since childhood is play sports, not concentrate on getting an education. So here comes Colin Kaepernick. He starts kneeling during the national anthem (as Black and white athletes have done on occasion for decades before), and the stuff hits the fan. The president
curses Kaepernick and other athletes concerned about police brutality. Kaepernick is cruelly fired, not because he is a poor player, but because he must be made an example of so other Black athletes don’t get uppity, and try to protest, forgetting that they are highly paid employees whose bosses make the rules. This pastime is made up of 80 percent of Black players. It is a pastime that has been losing popularity over the last several years because Kaepernick exposed the racist core of team ownership and
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LIFESTYLE Conference Challenges Ethos of Great Powers Competition By Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins
As Pan-Africanists in D.C. and across the world celebrated Marcus Mosiah Garvey’s 132nd birth anniversary last weekend, a small group gathered at a conference in Northwest to discuss the implications of a proxy war between the U.S., China and Russia currently unfolding on the African continent. In recent months, Trump administration officials, in remarks before Congress and reports to government agencies, have framed
their concerns about China and Russia’s foothold in Africa as an issue of national security. However, a slew of speakers at the Festival Center on Columbia Road spent much of Saturday deriding that narrative as propaganda designed to maintain U.S.-European Union-NATO dominance over the continent. “We’re in an interesting time where U.S. imperialism could seize on well-placed concerns about Africa to convince us to take a hands-off approach because all parties are equally bad and have ill intent for Africa,” Sean Blackmon of the ANSWER Act
5 Pan-Africanists in D.C. and across the world celebrated Marcus Mosia Garvey’s 132nd birthday anniversa-
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Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition told an audience of nearly 30 people. Blackmon, along with Netfa Freeman of Pan-African Community Action, Maurice Carney of Friends of the Congo and Heather Benno of Party for Socialism and Liberation, gave presentations on aspects of what’s been touted as
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the Great Powers competition between the U.S., China and Russia. In their rhetorical assault on U.S. imperialism, the speakers said they didn’t want to promote China and Russia as entities with wholly pure intentions. Rather, they intended to show how the U.S. often threatens the independence of African nations under the guise of protecting human rights and individual freedoms. “To think that [former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon] really care about Africa and its plight is laughable,” Blackmon said. “This concern for Africa must be understood in the context of D.C’s ongoing trade war. The anti-Chinese sentiment and fearmongering about Russia are all tied to what the U.S. is calling the Great Powers conflict, which is a euphemism for a new Cold War reality.” The Great Powers competition reflects the Trump administration’s shift in U.S. foreign policy from Islamic groups to its Chinese and Russian competitors. Then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis presented this strategy early last year, saying that the U.S. would also maintain cordial relationships with both countries as a means of containing North Korea’s nuclear prowess. More than a year later, China and Russia has continued to expand its influence on the African continent. Thirty-nine out of 54 African countries have signed on with Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiatives, an effort to merge trade and infrastructure via a vast network of roads and railways throughout Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Russia’s
trade with Africa has also increased by more than $9 billion in the past decade, primarily through investments in oil, nuclear infrastructure and technology. With the launch of the Confucius Institutes of Africa and Russkiy Mir Foundation, China and Russia have infused aspects of its language and culture in the fabric of African societies, all while increasing its military presence. Russia opened private military companies in 15 African countries. China also conferred with African government and military officials during its first China-Africa Peace and Security Forum last month. For the past decade, U.S. Africa Command, also known as AFRICOM, has advanced U.S. policy goals in Africa with a military presence in 53 out of 54 countries. This year, nearly $264 million has been expected to fund operations. In October, the Black Alliance for Peace launched a campaign to dismantle AFRICOM, likening its presence to that of militarized police forces in majority-Black neighborhoods in the United States. Freeman, a BAP affiliate, reiterated those sentiments Saturday. “We want to make clear that standing against AFRICOM is part of the struggle against war oppression,” he told the audience at the Festival Center. “People are silent and voting for the increase in military spending. Politicians and people who migrate here are put in a position to pledge and demonstrate allegiance. The biggest threat to peace is the U.S., the European Union and NATO. They pose this threat and we have to be clear about that.” WI
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5 Potter’s House Program Manager Clara Debnam performs during open mic night at the venue in Adams Morgan on Friday, August 16. (Anthony Tilghman/ The Washington Informer)
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LIFESTYLE LOC Exhibit Puts Spotlight on Suffrage on 100th Anniversary
By Eve M. Ferguson WI Contributing Writer
On Aug. 18, 2020, the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution will be celebrated throughout the nation. The amendment, which gave women the right to vote across the United States, is being recognized in a variety of ways, from educational campaigns to political campaigns that happen to coincide with the momentous milestone. But how many can say they know the history of the struggle to gain the right for women to vote? And how many know exactly who benefited and for whom the struggle continued? “Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote,” now on view at the Library of Congress’ Jefferson Building in the Southwest Gallery, attempts to bring a fuller understanding of the seven active decade struggle for women to gain equal footing to shape the political future of the nation. The document-dense, multipart exhibit is a walking history lesson, starting from what most consider to be the beginning of the quest for women’s voting rights coinciding with the American Revolution in 1776. The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 underscored the desire to address inequality and bring the plight of women in the country to a public gathering of 300 women and men who gathered for a two-day convention
to debate Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Declaration of Sentiments. Modeled after the Declaration of Independence, the early women’s rights activist outlined the inferior status of women and included an immediate demand for suffrage, or the right to vote in political elections. The Women Suffrage Movement questioned the nation’s democratic foundations and commitment to democracy, exposing its longstanding class, regional and racial divides and challenging existing gender stereotypes. Throughout the time span, which saw the country engaged in wars that threatened to derail and succeeded in delaying the push for women’s voting rights, arguments and strategies for and against women’s suffrage flared over time and place. Using handwritten letters from the library’s vast Manuscript Division, historical photographs, books, posters, recorded sound and government documents, “Shall Not Be Denied” allows the viewer to see the actual tools used to forge a place for women in American politics. To the credit of the curators of the richly narrated displays, women of color, particularly African American women are referenced in every section of the timeline. From early suffragists of color such as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, considered to be the most prominent African-African female social reformer and writer in 19th-century America, credit is given
where credit is due. But Harper was also an active abolitionist struggling to end slavery in addition to her work to advance the political stance of all women. For the African-American suffragists, their work had further ramifications as they struggled for racial equality and the right for Blacks to vote, which would come much later down the historical timeline. Yet and still, women like Hallie Quinn Brown born on March 10, 1850 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the daughter of former slaves who in 1864 migrated North to Canada, played vital roles in the history of the struggle for equality on the racial and gender forefronts. Brown’s involvement in the women’s suffrage campaign led her to found and organize the Colored Women’s League in Washington, D.C., one of the organizations allied in 1896 to become the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). Black women like Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman also participated in women’s rights movements throughout the nineteenth century, although both are better known for their valiant dedication to the abolition of slavery and the Underground Railroad. Despite their efforts, passion and activism, Black women were often generally excluded from mainstream white suffragist organizations and activities. It is refreshing in this age of historical exclusions and rewrites to come across the name Nan-
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5 Hallie Quinn Brown, educator and activist, cape draped on shoulder and wearing gloves in Xenia Ohio, between 1875 and 1888. (Fred S. Biddle/Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress)
nie Helen Burroughs, whom so many of us know has a street named after her, but not exactly why this woman was so renowned. In “Shall Not Be Denied,” we are told of her merits as an educator, orator, civil rights activist and feminist. Her speech at the 1900 National Baptist Convention, “How Sisters are Hindered from Helping,” cemented her place in history. Nearly a decade later, she founded the National Training Institute for Women and Girls, where the intersection of racial and gender discrimination was addressed through education and training for economic empowerment. At the end of the multiple rooms that zig-zag through the high neoclassical interior of the circa 1897 Jefferson Building mezzanine, a film that recognizes the political achievements of women such as Barbara Jordan, the first African American wom-
an from the South elected to Congress; Shirley Chisolm, the first African American woman elected to Congress; Rep. Patsy Mink of Hawai’i, the first Asian American woman elected to Congress; vice presidential candidates Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin; presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But the exhibit also is adamant in leaving the viewer with the knowledge that while the right to vote is about to enjoy a centenary celebration, equal rights — including equal pay for women — have yet to be achieved. “Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight For the Vote,” is on view through September 2020 in the Southwest Gallery of the Library of Congress’ Jefferson Building (10 First Street SE). The exhibit is open Monday through Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. WI
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August 29: Official Kick-Off Event of “Mayor Muriel Bowser Presents 202Creates Month” 2019 from 6PM10PM Eaton Hotel DC, 1201 K Street NW, Washington, DC
August 31 – September 1 Labor Day Weekend Music Festival at the Lincoln Theatre, 7PM – 10PM each night, 1215 U Street NW, Washington, DC September 7-September 22 Kennedy Center Reach Opening Festival, various events Beginning in the morning of each day, Kennedy Center, 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
5 202Creates launched in September 2016 by Mayor Muriel Bowser to amplify and commend DC’s creative culture will kick-off its 2019 celebration on August 29 at the Eaton Hotel in Northwest. Entertainment includes Black Alley, DJ Pedro Night, DJ Biggs, Art Installations, and Dance Activation. (Courtesy photo/202Creates)
September 7 LA Cosecha Latin Market at Union Market, Grand Opening, 1PM – 8PM, 1309 5th Street NE, Washington, DC
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BANK from Page 1 triarch during which they’ve established a reputation and legacy for providing a chance for Black businesses and families to achieve their personal and professional financial goals. Today, with seven branches and the pending opening of another in Largo, the bank’s 85th anniversary can be objectively considered as a milestone of the highest order. Thus, as the saying goes, “let the festivities begin!” Since first opening on August 20, 1934, Industrial Bank has remained one of the nation’s Blackowned financial institutions that gives back to any community that it calls home. Founded in 1934 by Jesse H. Mitchell with the help of nine initial investors, it has grown from its humble start of one location and six employees. Not even the Great Depression, the riots of the 60s or a constant swing within the country’s cultural and political climates have been enough to force Industrial Bank to shutter its doors – a decision that scores of other Black-owned banks, once integral to Black communities across the nation, have been forced to make. As we continue to explore the
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past, present and future of this historical company, there will undoubtedly be testimonies that we’ll share from among hundreds, if not thousands of individuals, aspiring entrepreneurs and major businesses and corporations whose first loan for a home or business happened because Industrial Bank made it possible. Currently, the only African-American family owned bank in the Washington D.C. area, Industrial Bank is among the top five largest Black-owned banks in the U.S. Historically, Black-owned banks in the U.S. were once a financial haven for African-Americans at a time when discrimination in the industry remained commonplace. Since then, these banks have functioned as engines for economic revitalization in often-distressed communities. And while the decline of many Blackowned banks has been lamented, efforts including the #BankBlack movement have kick-started a drive toward individuals opening savings accounts in the push to support these Black institutions. According to a 2018 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Congressional Tri-Caucus Slams Trump’s Racist Rhetoric By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia As Donald Trump continues to ramp up his race-fueled attacks on congresswomen and other individuals of color, members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and others maintain their pledge to put a halt to the president’s ongoing anti-hate rhetoric. The Chairs of the Congressional Tri-Caucus – CBC Chair Karen Bass (D-California), Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Chair Judy Chu (D-California) say they’re concerned about the the rise in hate crimes and domestic terrorism under Trump’s tenure in the White House. Jointly, they said Americans should observe the second anniversary of the death of Heather Heyer, a civil rights activist who was killed during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. “In the days, months, and years following the tragedies that took place in El Paso, Charlottesville, and a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, our communities continue to cope with these devastating acts of terrorism,” the trio wrote in a statement. The statement was released after
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(FDIC) study, 67 percent of Black-owned banks’ mortgage loans went to Black borrowers, compared with fewer than 1 percent of community banks’ mortgage loans. In addition to loan awards and financial services,
Trump backed Israel’s decision to bar two Black congresswomen of color from entering the country. Israel’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu said Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar – both Democrats – were prohibited from visiting the country. Netanyahu announced his decision to bar the congresswomen after Trump tweeted that it would “show great weakness” for Israel to allow them to visit the West Bank. Earlier this summer, Trump tweeted that Tlaib, Omar, Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley and New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to “go back to their countries.” The president has regularly attacked the group, known as “The Squad.” The internet news website VOX reported that the four women of color are “all very left-wing, represent very safe seats, are on the younger side for Congress, and have gotten enmeshed in a multifaceted dispute with House Leadership.” However, it’s believed that the underlying reason for Trump’s attacks against The Squad is their high media visibility which makes them a real threat to the reelection efforts of “the much larger crop of first-term lawmakers who won previously GOP-
held seats,” according to VOX. Members of the Congressional Tri-Caucus said they’re also concerned about the recent shootings and acts of domestic terrorism. They said they cannot ignore the role Trump’s rhetoric has played in fanning the flames of division and racism. Since taking office, the President has emboldened white supremacy through his hateful rhetoric and constant attacks on minority communities, caucus members said in the statement.
“Sadly, President Trump has shown he is incapable of accepting responsibility for the rise in hate crimes over the past four years,” they said. However, that will not stop the Tri-Caucus from demanding the President lead and protect every American – no matter their race, religion, or the color of their skin, the group said. “The President must commit to no longer using dog whistles, racist remarks, and language of ‘invasion’ to describe our communities or any
refugees to our nation,” the statement said. “The White House must also commit to combating domestic terror threats presented by white supremacists – seeing that it accounts for nearly 100 arrests in the 2019 fiscal year. “We know our great country has the ability to bring an end to all hate crimes. President Trump must work with Congress to ensure robust federal resources are dedicated to relevant agencies to combat this state of emergency.” WI
Industrial Bank reinvests over 60 percent of its assets back into the community annually while supporting community-based programs like their D.C. Jail Financial Literacy Program. Bank President B. Doyle Mitchell, Jr., says that like his father and grandfather before him, he still believes in the importance and power of financial education, entrepreneurship and homeownership. As noted earlier, recent movements, characterized by hashtags #BankBlack, as well as those like #MoveYourMoney and the District’s #DivestToInvest, have helped to increase a belief in and advocacy of Black ownership. But the story continues to be written – and Industrial Bank’s leadership vow to remain within that tale of success and promise for the communities in which its branches are located. Doyle, in an upcoming report, will speak to the struggles faced by his and other Black-owned financial institutions and share how
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LIFESTYLE Chuck Brown Day Celebration
5 The ladies of Bela Dona pose for a photo at the Chuck Brown Day celebration where they were one of the featured performers on Saturday, Aug. 17 in Northeast. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
5 Ward 7 Council member Vincent Gray gives remarks during the Chuck Brown Day celebration on Saturday, Aug. 17 with Mayor Muriel Bowser and Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
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wi book review “The Tubman Command” by Elizabeth Cobbs c.2019, Brilliance Audio $34.99 ($51.99 Canada) 10 discs, 12+ hours c.2019, Arcade $25.99 ($34.99 Canada) 327 pages
By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer You are the Big Kahuna. The Boss, the One in Charge, maker of decisions and teller of things to do. You’re the Big Cheese with all the responsibility and you ain’t bad at it. So how would you do if, as in the novel, “The Tubman Command” by Elizabeth Cobbs, the very lives of soldiers, women and children were in your hands? On so many mornings, Harriet Tubman woke with the lingering feeling of her husband, John, lying next to her. That hadn’t happened in 15 years, though, not since she left him and joined the Underground Railroad. She wasn’t entirely sure where he was but she knew he’d barely recognize her. So much had changed since then. All that was just useless thought for another day; there were more important things in front of Harriet. She was thinking of her meeting with General David Hunter of the Union and how he was going to help her free a thousand slaves. Just gaining the respect of the soldiers was going to be a challenge. Most folk thought that the person they called Moses was a man. Nobody ever thought a small woman could be so brave as to snatch slaves from beneath their owner’s noses, but there she was. And she was working on a plan that would boost the morale of the men and show the Confederacy that the imposing position of Fort Sumter was no obstacle for the Union. It was a mission that needed care. Every slave on the plantations around the Combahee River knew there were Confederate explosives buried in the Combahee’s silt. At least one slave knew where they were; Harriet had to find him and learn what he knew, but he was on the notorious Lownes plantation. She’d need to go there and get out without the overseer, Pipkin, spotting her. She’d have to help General Hunter find enough men to keep Charleston under control, too, so she’d need to convince more Black men to join the cause. Folks didn’t think Black soldiers could fight. They didn’t think a “puny” woman could lead people to freedom, either, but they had seriously miscalculated … It’s easy to place our heroes on a pedestal. We do it all the time, but “The Tubman Command” tips perch a bit. No, you won’t think lesser of Harriet Tubman after you’ve heard this audiobook. Instead, you’ll see that “fierce” is too small a word for Tubman’s personality and her heroism — she repeatedly walked back into a plantation, after all — although author Elizabeth Cobbs reminds readers in so many ways that Tubman was still a woman, probably a mother, absolutely able to fall in love. This is subtly done with slight liberties taken in her plot aspects, as Cobbs explains in her author’s note. That’s not a distraction. It, and the performance by Heidi Franklin, enhances a tale that will thrill you and make you scream “Nooooo!” “The Tubman Command” is perfect for Civil War buffs, novel-lovers and anyone who wants a big story. WI
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ARIES Enjoy being playful a little while longer, because from this week your focus swings more toward work and productivity. Even so, the sun and lovely Venus are in close contact early in the week, so there’s still time to take advantage of this romantic blend of energies to kick-start a new relationship. Do you enjoy being creative? Get out the art or craft materials and have fun. Lucky Numbers: 20, 24, 39 TAURUS The coming weeks are an opportunity to explore activities that you enjoy very much. If you’ve always wanted to learn a particular skill, this is a good time to start. Plus, you might enjoy cultural activities, such as art exhibitions or concerts, and these could inspire you to be more creative yourself. Lucky Numbers: 3, 9, 34 GEMINI Your words can be very persuasive. You may be enjoying this time when you can make great strides on key projects because of the connections you’re able to make. If you work in sales, media, or any other creative field, this can continue to be a busy and productive time. Lucky Numbers: 5, 31, 45 CANCER You may experience a bit of a tussle with finances as you decide whether to spend or save. However, from this week, the emphasis shifts to your communication zone, and the temptation to splurge may gradually melt away. Lucky Numbers: 11, 16, 53 LEO The emphasis shifts this week to a more grounded focus as sultry Venus moves into Virgo and your money zone on Wednesday, followed by the sun on Friday. If you’ve been involved with brainstorming creative ideas and projects, the coming weeks could encourage you to be more realistic. Look into costs and other practicalities and decide which hold the most value for you. Lucky Numbers: 24, 35, 50 VIRGO If aspects of your life have felt out of control, then this week you’ll begin to feel as though you’re back in the driver’s seat. Sweet Venus moves into your sign on Wednesday, giving you the attractor factor and perhaps encouraging you to consider a makeover if you feel this might boost your confidence. Lucky Numbers: 4, 12, 13 LIBRA Your social life has been buzzing with energy recently, and you may have enjoyed taking center stage and being the star of the show. However, the focus shifts to a more secluded sector over the coming days. Lucky Numbers: 6, 8, 27 SCORPIO You may enjoy being a beacon of light for a little while longer. Gradually, though, the emphasis changes as key planets slowly move out of your sector of goals and ambitions and into your social zone. However, as dealmaker Mercury aligns with positive Jupiter on Wednesday, it’s time to grab an opportunity that could turn out to be quite lucrative. Lucky Numbers: 17, 28, 34 SAGITTARIUS Have you been enjoying a bohemian lifestyle? If you’ve enjoyed a few weeks of travel, exploration, and discovery traversing new terrain, you’ll likely feel quite satisfied. However, don’t put your passport away just yet, because there may be an offer of a trip coming up that you won’t want to miss. Lucky Numbers: 23, 41, 42 CAPRICORN If the past few weeks have seemed fairly intense, things should become easier from this week on. You may still be busy unraveling financial or business issues, but you’ll also benefit from looking out for new opportunities. As sociable Venus moves into Virgo on Wednesday, followed by the sun on Friday, you may feel like a burden has been lifted. Issues that seemed very involved and oppressive may appear less so, and solutions could show up as you look at the bigger picture. Lucky Numbers: 10, 11, 17 AQUARIUS Relationships may have been delightful over past weeks, with plenty of activity, social events, and a chance to clear the air. With talkative Mercury aligning with outgoing Jupiter on Wednesday, there could be one event that you thoroughly enjoy. It could be a self-improvement workshop or a chance to interact with someone who has enjoyed a lot of success in their life. Or an encounter could boost your spirits and give you the courage to forge ahead. Lucky Numbers: 3, 25, 40 PISCES If you’ve been busy juggling various tasks and making sure deadlines are met and customers are happy, give yourself a pat on the back. It might be time to treat yourself to a soothing massage or other treat that can help you feel relaxed and refreshed. Lucky Numbers: 12, 14, 20
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SPORTS Free Smoke Takes Crown at Turkey Thicket
5 A Free Smoke player drives against a Trey 7’s defender during Free Smoke’s 89-63 win in the DPR Adult Summer Basketball League title game at Turkey Thicket Recreation Gymnasium in D.C. on Saturday, Aug. 17. (John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer)
5 A Free Smoke player is fouled on a drive by a Trey 7’s defender during Free Smoke’s 89-63 win in the DPR Adult Summer Basketball League title game at Turkey Thicket Recreation Gymnasium in D.C. on Saturday, Aug. 17. (John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer)
3 Free Smoke holds up the championship trophy after its 89-63 win over Trey 7’s in the DPR Adult Summer Basketball League title game at Turkey Thicket Recreation Gymnasium in D.C. on Saturday, Aug. 17. (John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer)
5 Players for the Free Smoke and Trey 7’s teams grapple for a loose ball during Free Smoke’s 89-63 win in the DPR Adult Summer Basketball League title game at Turkey Thicket Recreation Gymnasium in D.C. on Saturday, Aug. 17. (John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer) 4 A Free Smoke player attempts to fend off two Trey 7’s defenders during Free Smoke’s 89-63 win in the DPR Adult Summer Basketball League title game at Turkey Thicket Recreation Gymnasium in D.C. on Saturday, Aug. 17. (John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer)
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Mystics Playoff-Bound For Third Straight Season By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill The Washington Mystics played three games in five days, but the team with the best record in WNBA didn’t let fatigue faze them as they recorded another blowout victory Sunday, 107-68, against the Indiana Fever. The boisterous crowd in southeast D.C. saw Washington reach 20 wins on the season while recording season-highs in points and 36 in the third quarter. With the regular season scheduled to end Sept. 8, Washington clinched a playoff berth last week for a third consecutive season and could break a franchise record in wins (22). Mystics guard Natasha Cloud, who broke the franchise assist record with 571 on Friday in Minnesota, could record a franchise record for most assists in a season. She currently has 152 but needs 32 more to surpass Nikki Teasley’s mark of 183, set in 2006. But Cloud said the team’s focus remains on a WNBA championship after being swept in last season’s finals by the Seattle Storm. “Our mindset at the beginning of the season from the offseason was, ‘We’re going to run it back.’ We need to put ourselves into a position to run it back,” said Cloud, who scored nine points and dished out eight assists Sunday. “We don’t take anyone lightly. We take our game plan seriously. I think that’s the biggest difference in our team this year is the professionalism and how we approach the game.” Indiana (9-17) experienced Washington’s offensive and defensive tenacity. The Mystics broke a WNBA record with 18 made 3-pointers, shooting 46 percent from beyond the arc. Although every player scored Sunday, only LaToya Sanders and Kim Mestdagh didn’t register a 3-pointer. “We shoot a ton of 3’s every day. The world looks really good when you’re making shots,” said Mystics head coach Mike Thibault. Mystics forward Elena Delle Donne, a likely league MVP candidate, scored a game-high
25 points and grabbed nine rebounds. Once again, Thibault and the players credit defense as the main reason for its six-game winning streak. Indiana shot 40 percent from the floor and only 3-of-15 from the 3-point line. The Fever also committed 13 turnovers and recorded 15 assists, compared to Washington’s six turnovers and 30 assists. Washington also recorded seven steals and four blocked shots. “I think defense wins championships. It’s a really cliché basketball term, but you got to find a way to get stops,” said Ariel Atkins, who scored 14 points and shot 4-for-9 from 3-point range. “Our offense is flowing because our defense has been flowing. It gets us in transition and allows us to play at our pace. If we’re playing our game, I’ll take us any day.” Washington doesn’t play again until Friday, Aug. 23, a road game against the Chicago Sky. WI
5 Washington Mystics guard Natasha Cloud shoots over Indiana Fever center Natalie Achonwa during the Mystics’ 107-68 win at the Entertainment and Sports Arena in southeast D.C. on Aug. 18. (John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer) 6 Washington Mystics guard Aerial Powers attempts to drive past Indiana Fever forward Candice Dupree in the first half of Washington’s 107-68 victory at the Entertainment and Sports Arena in southeast D.C. on Aug. 18. (John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer)
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Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Ron Clark
Special to The Washington Informer Some say it felt like a family reunion as so many who attended a celebration honoring the life and legacy of Ron Clark had not seen one another for years. As he’d done throughout his life, even in death, Ron managed to revive friendships of old at his funeral service, Saturday, Aug. 10 at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Southwest. An overflow crowd stood in the rear of the sanctuary, spilling onto the patio outside – anxious to pay their respects and share in the tribute to a friend who made a difference for thousands. The celebration, replete with laughter and tears, included a group of jazz musicians dubbed the Ron Clark Memorial Quintet along with 23 speakers – each recounting a unique “Ron Story” for the audience. Unable to attend, both Congresswomen Barbara Lee and Eleanor Holmes Norton entered statements into the Congressional Record honoring Ron’s life and work. Lee, representing the 13th Congressional District, California, wrote the following. “I am so privileged to have called Ron my friend who I first met in the mid-1970s through a mutual friend, Mrs. Leola “Roscoe” Dellums – a board member for RAP, Inc. She wanted me to see Ron’s life-affirming work and knew I’d support and embrace his groundbreaking, visionary approach to drug addiction. For that, I am deeply grateful and join Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton in celebrating Ron’s impactful life and legacy. May he rest in power and in peace.” Full statements from Lee and Norton may be obtained in the permanent record of the proceedings in Congress on Aug. 2 and 10, respectively. Long-time friend Tom Porter hosted the celebration which began with the Malcom X Drummers, fol-
lowed by blessings with prayers and libations offered by Nana Kwabena Brown – collectively reflecting the Afrocentric approach to substance abuse treatment which Ron developed and which brought national recognition to RAP, Inc. The Ron Clark Memorial Quintet featured musicians: Nasar Abadey, drums; Herman Burney, bass; Janelle Gil, piano; James King, bass; and Ben Sands, saxophone. The Malcom X drummers featured: Bill Caudle, Sidiki Lancaster, Eric Lewis, Joseph Ngwa, Kokayi Patterson and Doc Powell. Dr. Reed Tuckson, D.C.’s commissioner of Public Health from 19851989, provided an historical context of Ron’s work. “During the height of the District’s crack cocaine epidemic, an estimated 900 people were arrested every weekend on drug-related charges – ¼ being Black men, 18 -29, imprisoned on drug-related charges,” he said. “Meanwhile, HIV/AIDS was rapidly increasing among the population of injection drug users and those who lacked adequate information about the importance of practicing unsafe sex. Within the intensity of those surging challenges, Tuckson said the contributions of Clark proved invaluable. “Ron Clark, with his enormous sense of humanity, grew roses out of the soil of despair,” he said, adding that Ron’s life serves as a legacy of challenge. “Each of us must ask ourselves, what will we do to meet that challenge to help and serve others.” Following the celebration, Charles Stephenson, a member of the Board of RAP, Inc. and Ron’s friend of many years shared his perspective. “Words cannot express the feelings I had during Ron’s celebration,” he said. “It was warm, sensitive and most important, it was Ron. Story after story, we heard about and felt the good that Ron did for so many people.” Maurice Jackson, professor at Georgetown University, another friend unable to attend, sent a mes-
sage: “In a city where self-promotion is the rule of law and of survival, Ron Clark stood different,” he said. “In a nation run by a bully, in a city where grown men shoot little boys eating ice cream cones and where meanness is the norm – he was a kind and honorable man – that made him special.” “Ron was a quiet giant. He preferred to let actions speak louder than words. Such are those with supreme confidence in themselves and in their mission. His mission was to aid others. His mission was RAP, Inc. People brag a lot in this city about what they are going to do. Ron did not brag. He got things done.” “He did not live in the past – he lived in the present and for the future. Ron took the stain out of a man or a woman or a child wanting to rid themselves of drugs. He made it a badge of honor to overcome the scourge. He took his message to the city leaders and the city leaders heard him. He made RAP an institution.” Denise Rolark Barnes, publisher of The Washington Informer, spoke about the friendship between her father, Dr. Calvin Rolark, and Ron. The charity Dr. Rolark co-founded, The United Black Fund, served as the first charitable organization to donate to RAP – the friendship between RAP and the newspaper continues today. WPFW-FM radio brought speakers to pay tribute to Ron’s work with the station including: Lorne Cress Love, one of the co-founders of the station; Askia Muhammad, a steadfast jazz programmer; Joni Eisenberg, host of the health show “To Heal DC;” and Katea Stitt, acting program director. They shared one memory when WPFW, then in its infancy, lost its broadcasting location during which Ron gave the station rent free space from which to broadcast for two years while the station looked for another home – indicative of the kind of spirit that guided Ron throughout his life. WI
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Goodness and Mercy Shall Follow Me!
“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” — Psalm 23:6 After coming home from worship services on the Sunday after the shootings in Ohio and El Paso, while I relaxed and watched my Hallmark movies, I got a quick phone call from my 75- year-old brother, telling me to call all of my children and tell them to stay away from malls and shopping centers now because there is too much violence in the world. He said, “I know we cannot make them listen, but as parents, it is up to us to warn them about these unsettling times we are living in today!” Panicked, I jumped on my cellphone, and sent all three of my children and my grandchildren a text, suggesting they stay away from malls and shopping centers. However, it didn’t feel right to me. You see, at church that morning, I went up to the alter as I do most Sundays and I prayed for every one of my children, grandchildren and others, asking God to surround them
Mt. Zion Baptist Church Reverend John W. Davis Pastor 5101 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 Phone: 202-726-2220 Fax: 202-726-9089 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service - 8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. Children’s Church - 11:00 a.m. (1st & 3rd Sundays) Communion - 10 a.m. 4th Sunday Sunday School - 9:15 a.m. (4th Sunday 8:15 a.m.) Prayer Meeting & Bible Study - Wednesday 7:00 p.m. “A Church with a past to remember – and a future to mold”
with His goodness and mercy angels. This column is a reminder to each of us, even to myself, to pray without ceasing. We must remain vigilant, and lean and depend on our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He said in Psalm 91:4: “He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.” As Galatians 6:9 says, “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” Isiah 40:31 says, “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” We must cover ourselves, cover our families, our congregations and all of our co-workers. If you are someone who has not been going to worship services, go back to church again. This is a time when we all need to pray. Here is my personal invitation, extended to you, to come to my church, All Nations Baptist Church, 2001 North Capitol Street NE, Washington, D.C., 20002. Our pastor is the Rev. Dr. James Coleman. He preaches and teaches the Holy Bible in a way that the Lord is pleased! We all need a earthly father to lead and guide us.
“Scripture teaches us the Lord is stay close to the brokenhearted and save those who are crushed in spirit,” he said, referencing Psalm 34:18. “We seek comfort in those words, for we know that God lives in the hearts of those who grieve.” The psalm he quoted is among those that Bible readers have turned to after mass shootings like we continue to have: John 16:33: “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” Psalm 34:18: “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” Romans 12:19: “Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’ says the Lord.” Psalm 11:5: “The Lord examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, he hates with a passion.” These scriptures are ones we must all cling to these days with so many outbreaks of gun violence in the world, especially in the United States of America. Join me in praying that God will surround you and your family and friends with his “goodness and mercy” for all the days of your life. WI
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RELIGION The Miracle Center of Faith Missionary Baptist Church
Pilgrim Baptist Church Rev. Louis B. Jones II Pastor
Bishop Michael C. Turner, Sr. Senior Pastor 9161 Hampton Overlook Capitol Heights, MD 20743 Phone: 301-350-2200 Fax: 301-499-8724
700 I Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 547-8849 Service and Times Worship Sundays: 7:30 & 11:00 AM 5th Sundays: 9:30 AM 3rd Sundays: Baptism & Holy Communion Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @ Noon & 6:30 PM
Service and Times Sunday Worship Times : 7:30 AM 7 10:00 AM Communion: 1st Sunday Sunday School: 9:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday, 12 Noon Bible Study in homes: Tuesday 7:00 PM Website: www.themiraclecenterFMBC.com Email: Miraclecenterfmbs@gmail.com Motto: “We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight”
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Blessed Word of Life Church
Church of Living Waters
Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church
Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor
Rev. Dr. Michael E. Bell, Sr., Pastor
Rev. Dr. Alton W. Jordan Pastor
Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews Senior Pastor
Harold Andrew Assistant Pastor
2498 Alabama Ave., SE - Washington D.C. 20020 Office: (202) 889-7296 Fax: (202) 889-2198 - www.acamec.org
800 I Street, NE - Washington, DC 20002 202-548-0707 - Fax No. 202-548-0703
4915 Wheeler Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-894-6464
Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 8:00am and 11:00 AM Sunday Church School - 9:15am & Sunday Adult Forum Bible Study 10:30 AM 2nd & 4th Monday Women’s Bible Study: 6:30 PM Tuesday Jr./Sr. Bible Study: 10:00 AM Tuesday Topical Bible Study: 6:30 PM Tuesday New Beginnings Bible Study: 6:30 PM Wednesday Pastoral Bible Study: 6:30 PM Wednesday Children’s Bible Study: 6:30 PM Thursday Men’s Bible Study: 6:30 PM Friday before 1st Sunday Praise & Worship Service: 6:30 PM Saturday Adult Bible Study: 10:00 AM “The Amazing, Awesome, Audacious Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church”
Service and Times Sunday Morning Worship: 11:00 AM Holy Communion: 1st Sunday Sunday School: 9:45 AM Men’s Monday Bible Study: 7:00 PM Wednesday Night Bible Study: 7:00 PM Women’s Ministry Bible Study: 3rd Friday -7:00 PM Computer Classes: Announced Family and Marital Counseling by appointment
1200 Isle of Patmos Plaza, Northeast Washington, DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-6767 - Fax: (202) 526-1661
Service and Times Sunday Service: 8:30am& 11:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM Communion Service: First Sunday www.livingwatersmd.org
St. Stephen Baptist Church
Third Street Church of God
Dr. Dekontee L. & Dr. Ayele A. Johnson Pastors
Rev. Dr. Alice Greene Interim Pastor
Bishop Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Senior Pastor
Rev. Cheryl J. Sanders, Th.D. Senior Pastor
4001 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 (202) 265-6147 Office 1-800 576-1047 Voicemail/Fax
3845 South Capitol Street Washington, DC 20032 (202) 562-5576 (Office) (202) 562-4219 (Fax)
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Service and Times Sunday School: 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service: 11:00 AM Communion Service: First Sunday Prayer Service/Bible Study: Tuesday, 6:30 PM
Services and Times Sundays: 10:00am Worship Services Bible Study: Wonderful Wednesdays in Worship and the Word Bible Study Wednesdays 12:00 Noon; 6:30 PM (dinner @ 5:30 PM) Sunday School: 9:00 AM – Hour of Power
5757 Temple Hill Road, Temple Hills, MD 20748 Office 301-899-8885 – fax 301-899-2555 Services and Times Sunday Early Morning Worship: 7:45 AM Church School: 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship: 10:45 AM Tuesday: 7:00pm/Kingdom Building Bible Institute Wednesday , 12:30 PM Mid-Day Bible Study Wednesday: Prayer/Praise/Bible Study-7:30 PM Baptism & Communion Service: 4th Sunday – 10:30 AM
www.blessedwordoflifechurch.org E-mail: church@blessedwordoflifechurch.org
“An inclusive ministry where all are welcomed and affirmed.” www.covenantdc.org
Campbell AME Church
Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 AM Sunday Church School: 8:45 AM Bible Study Wednesday: 12:00 Noon Wednesday: 7:00 PM Thursday: 7:00 PM “Reaching Up To Reach Out” Mailing Address Campbell AME Church 2502 Stanton Road SE - Washington, DC 20020
Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr.; Senior Bishop & Evangelist Susie C. Owens – Co-Pastor 610 Rhode Island Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (202) 529-4547 office • (202) 529-4495 fax
Sunday Worship Service: 8:00 AM and 10:45 AM Sunday Youth Worship Services: 1st & 4th 10:45 AM; 804 R.I. Ave., NE 5th 8 AM & 10:45 AM; Main Church Prayer Services Tuesday – Noon, Wednesday 6:00 AM & 6:30 PM Calvary Bible Institute: Year-Round Contact Church Communion Every 3rd Sunday The Church in The Hood that will do you Good! www.gmchc.org emailus@gmchc.org
St Marks Baptist Come Worship with us... Dr. Raymond T. Matthews Pastor and First Lady Marcia Matthews St. Mark's Baptist Church 624 Underwood Street, NW Washington, dc 20011 Services and Times Sunday School: 9:00 AM Worship Service: 10:00 AM Wed. Noon Day prayer service Thur. Prayer service: 6:45 PM Thur. Bible Study: 7:15 PM
(Disciples of Christ) 1812 12th Street, NW - Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202-265-4494 Fax: 202 265 4340 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 AM Communion every Sunday: 11:00 AM Sunday School: 10:00 AM Bible Study Tuesday: 12 Noon Pastor’s Bible Study Tuesday: 6:30 PM Motto: “Discover Something Wonderful” Website: 12thscc.org Email: Twelfthstcc@aol.com
Mount Carmel Baptist Church
Virgil K. Thomas, Sr. Senior Pastor/ Teacher
Service and Times Sunday School: 10:15 AM Sunday Worship Service: 11;15 AM Children’s Church: 11:15 AM Tuesday Bible Study: 6:30 PM Motto : “A Great Commitment to the Great Commandment” Website: www.turningheartschurchdc.org Email: gr8luv4u2@gmail.com
www.thirdstreet.org Live Stream Sunday Worship Service begins @ 12:00 noon www.thirdstreet.org
Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church
Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM Holy Communion: 2nd Sunday at 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM Sunday Church School: 9:20 AM Seniors Bible Study: Tuesdays at 10:30 AM Noon Day Prayer Service: Tuesdays at Noon Bible Study: Tuesdays at 7 PM Motto: “A Ministry of Reconciliation Where Everybody is Somebody!” Website: http://isleofpatmosbc.org Church Email: ipbcsecretary@verizon.net
Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor
Turning Hearts Church
421 Alabama Ave. SE Washington, DC 20032 Phone: 202-746-0113 Fax: 301-843-2445
“Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital”
E-mail: Crusadersbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.CrusadersBaptistChurch.org “God is Love”
Isle of Patmos Baptist Church
Twelfth Street Christian Church
Rev. Dr. Henry Y. White 2562 MLK Jr. Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Adm. Office 202-678-2263 Email: Campbell@mycame.org
“We are one in the Spirit” www.ssbc5757.org E-mail: ssbc5757@verizon.net
Services and Times Sunday School: 9:30 AM Sunday Worship: 11:00 AM Sunday Community Worship Service: 8:30 AM
Crusader Baptist Church
901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423 Service and Times Sunday Church School : 9:00 AM Sunday Morning Worship: 10:10 AM Bible Study Tuesday: 6: 00 PM Prayer Service Tuesday: 7:00 PM Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday 10:10 AM
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RELIGION Shabbath Commandment Church
All Nations Baptist Church
King Emmanuel Baptist Church
Bishop Adrian A. Taylor, Sr. Pastor
Rev. Dr. James Coleman Pastor
Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor
7801 Livingston Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-534-5471
2001 North Capitol St, N.E. - Washington, DC 20002 Phone (202) 832-9591
2324 Ontario Road, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 232-1730
Service and Times Sabbath School 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 AM Service 11:00 AM Praise & Worship Preaching 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Motto: “A Church Keeping It Real for Real.” Website: Shabbathcommandmentchruch.org Email: Praisebetoyhwh@gmail.com
Zion Baptist Church Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor 4850 Blagdon Ave, NW - Washington D.C 20011 Phone (202) 722-4940 - Fax (202) 291-3773 Service and Times 9:00 a.m. – Sunday School 10:15 a.m. – Worship Service Wed. Noon: Dea. Robert Owens Bible Study 7 PM Pastor’s Bible Study Ordinance of Baptism 2nd Sunday, Holy Communion 4th Sunday Mission: Zion shall: Enlist Sinners, Educate Students, Empower the Suffering, Encourage the Saints, And Exalt our Savior. (Acts 2: 41-47) www.zionbaptistchurchdc.org
St. Luke Baptist Church Rev. Aubrey C. Lewis Pastor 1415 Gallatin Street, NW Washington, DC 20011-3851 P: (202) 726-5940 Service and Times Sunday Worship: 11:00 AM Sunday School: 9:15 AM Holy Communion: 11:00 a.m., 3rd Sun. Bible Institute: Wednesday - 1:30 PM Prayer Meeting: Wednesday - 12:00 Noon
Service and Times Sunday Church School – 9:30 AM Sunday Worship Service – 11:00 AM Holy Communion – 1st Sunday at 11:00 AM Prayer – Wednesdays, 6:00 PM Bible Study – Wednesdays, 7:00 PM Christian Education School of Biblical Knowledge Saturdays, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM, Call for Registration Website: www.allnationsbaptistchurch.com All Nations Baptist Church – A Church of Standards
Israel Baptist Church
Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor
Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert Senior Pastor
2409 Ainger Pl.,SE – WDC 20020 (202) 678-0884 – Office • (202) 678-0885 – Fax “Moving Faith Forward” 0% Perfect . . . 100% Forgiven!
623 Florida Ave.. NW - WDC. 20001 Church (202) 667-3409 Study (202) 265-0836 Home Study (301) 464-8211 Fax (202) 483-4009
4504 Gault Place, N.E. Washington, D.C 20019 202-397-7775 – 7184
Service and Times Sunday Worship: 8:00 AM & 10:45 AM Baptism/Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday Family Bible Study Tuesdays – 6:30 PM Prayer Service: Tuesdays – 8:00 PM www.emmanuelbaptistchurchdc.org
“Where Jesus is the King”
Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith
Lincoln Park United Methodist Church Rev. Richard B. Black Pastor
Elder Herman L. Simms Pastor
1251 Saratoga Ave., NE Washington, DC 20018 (202) 269-0288
1301 North Carolina Ave. N E Washington, D C 20002 202 543 1318 - lincolnpark@lpumcdc.org www.lpumcdc.org
5606 Marlboro Pike District Heights, MD 20747 301-735-6005
Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:45 AM Sunday School: 9:15 AM Holy Communion1st Sunday: 10:45 AM Prayer Service: Wednesday at 6:30 PM Bible Study: Wednesday at 7:00 PM Bible Study: Tuesday at 10:30 AM
Mount Moriah Baptist Church
Service and Times Sunday Worship: 10:00 AM Holy Communion: First Sunday 10:00 AM Sunday School: 9:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday @ 12 noon and 6:30 PM Motto: "Faith On The Hill"
Service and Times Sunday Apostolic Worship Services 11:00 A.M and 5:00 PM Communion and Feet Wash 4th Sunday at 5:00 PM Prayer/Seeking: Wednesday at 8:00 PM Apostolic in Doctrine, Pentecostal in Experience, Holiness in Living, Uncompromised and Unchanged. The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42
New Commandment Baptist Church
Eastern Community Baptist Church
Dr. Lucius M. Dalton Senior Pastor
Damion M. Briggs Pastor
1636 East Capitol Street, NE Washington, DC 20003 Telephone: 202-544-5588 - Fax: 202-544-2964
8213 Manson Street Landover, MD 20785 Tel: (301) 322-9787 Fax: (301) 322-9240
13701 Old Jericho Park Road Bowie, MD. 20720 (301) 262-0560
Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 7:45 AM and 10:45 AM Holy Communion: 1st Sundays at 7:45 AM & 10:45 AM Sunday School: 9:30 AM Prayer & Praise Service: Tuesdays at 12 noon & 6:30 PM Bible Study: Tuesdays at 1 pm and 7 PM Youth Bible Study: Fridays at 7 PM
Service and Times Early Morning Message: 7:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service: 10:00 AM Sunday Church School: 9:00 AM Holy Communion: 1st Sunday 7:30 AM & 10:00 AM Prayer, Praise and Testimony: Wednesday 7:00 PM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM
Service and Times Sunday Worship: 11 AM Sunday School: 10 AM Wednesday Mid-Week Worship, Prayer & Bible Study: Wed. 7 PM
Rehoboth Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor
Rev. Curtis l. Staley Pastor
2001 Brooks Drive District Heights, MD 20744 (240) 838-7074
621 Alabama Ave., S.E.- Washington, D.C. 20032 P: (202) 561-1111 - F: (202) 561-1112
Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:15 AM Sunday School: 9:00 AM Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting / Bible Study: Tuesday at 7 PM Theme: “The Kingdom Focused Church with an Emphasis on “Evangelism and Discipleship”
Service and Times Sunday Service: 10:00 AM Sunday School for all ages: 8:30 AM 1st Sunday Baptism: 10:00 AM 2nd Sunday Holy Communion:10:00 AM Tuesday: Bible Study: 6:30 PM Prayer Meeting: 7:45 PM
Email: pastorstmbc@gmail.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.org
Motto: “Where God is First and Where Friendly People Worship”
“Real Worship for Real People” Website: www.easterncommunity.org Email: ecc@easterncommunity.org
Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor
“A Church Where Love Is Essential and Praise is Intentional”
Foggy Bottom - Founded in 1867 728 23rd Street, NW - Washington, DC 20037 Church office: 202-333-3985 - Fax : 202-338-4958
Shiloh Baptist Church
Matthews Memorial Baptist Church
Christ Embassy DC
Dr. Joseph D. Turner Senior Pastor 2616 MLK Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Office 202-889-3709 - Fax 202-678-3304 Service and Times Early Worship Service: 8:00 AM Worship Service: 11:00 AM New Member’s Class: 9:45 AM Holy Communion: 1st Sunday, 11:00 AM Church School: 9:45 AM Wednesday 12:00pm Bible Study Prayer, Praise and Bible Study: 7:00 PM Saturday Bible Study: 11:00 AM Baptism 4th Sunday: 11:00 AM
Kelechi Ajieren Coordinator 6839 Eastern Avenue, R1 Takoma Park, MD 20912 (202) 556-7065 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 AM Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 PM Friday Evening Service: 7:00 PM ; Last Friday “…Giving Your Life a Meaning” www.Christembassydc.org Christ.embassy.dc@hotmail.com
“Empowered to love and Challenged to Lead a Multitude of Souls to Christ”
Peace Baptist Church
Pennsylvania Ave. Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Michael T. Bell 712 18th Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Phone 202-399-3450/ Fax 202-398-8836 Service and Times Sunday Early Morning Prayer & Bible Study Class: 8:00 AM Sunday School: 9:00 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service: 10:00 AM Wednesday Service: 12:00 PM
Rev. Dr. Kendrick E. Curry Pastor 3000 Pennsylvania Ave.. S.E Washington, DC 20020 202 581-1500 Service and Times Sunday Church School: 9:30 AM Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 AM Monday Adult Bible Study: 7:00 PM Wednesday Youth & Adult Activities: 6:30 PM Prayer Service Bible Study
“The Loving Church of the living lord “
First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Mt. Horeb Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor
Rev. Oran W. Young Pastor
Rev. Dr. H. B. Sampson, III Pastor
9th & P Street, N.W. - W. D.C. 20001 (202) 232-4288
602 N Street NW - Washington, D.C. 20001 Office:(202) 289-4480 Fax: (202) 289-4595
2914 Bladensburg Road, NE Wash., DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-3180 - Fax: (202) 529-7738 Service and Times Worship Service: 7:30 AM Sunday School: 9:00 AM Worship Service: 10:30 AM Holy Communion: 4th Sunday 7:30AM & 10:30 AM Prayer Services:Tuesday 7:30 PM. Wednesday 12 Noon
www.stmarysfoggybottom.org Email: stmarysoffice@stmarysfoggybottom.org
Service and Times First Sunday Worship Service (one service): 10:00 AM Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Sunday Worship service: 7:45 AM and 10:55 AM Sunday Church School/Bible Study: 9:30 AM Thursday Prayer Service: 6:30 PM
All are welcome to St. Mary’s to Learn, Worship, and Grow.
Email: sbc@shilohbaptist.org Website: shilohbaptist.org
Service and Times Sundays: 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Music and Hymns Wednesdays: 12:10 p.m. - Holy Eucharist
Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 AM Sunday Church School: 8:45 – 9:45 AM Holy Communion: Every First Sunday Intercessory Prayer: Monday – 7:00-8:00 PM Pastor’s Bible Study: Wednesday –7:45 PM Midweek Prayer: Wednesday – 7:00 PM Noonday Prayer Every Thursday
Service and Times Sunday Church School: 9:30 AM Sunday Worship Service : 11:00 AM The Lord’s Supper 1st Sunday Prayer & Praise Services: Wednesday 7:00 PM Bible Study: 7:30 PM Saturday before 4th Sunday Men, Women, Youth Discipleship Ministries: 10:30 AM A Christ Centered Church htubc@comcast.net
Email Address: admin@pbc712.org
Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church The Rev. E. Bernard Anderson Priest
Holy Trinity United Baptist Church
Florida Avenue Baptist Church
Reverend Christopher L. Nichols Pastor
Rev. Reginald M. Green Interim Pastor
Web: www.mountmoriahchurch.org Email: mtmoriah@mountmoriahchurch.org
St. Matthews Baptist Church
Service and Times 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
Emmanuel Baptist Church
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Service and Times Sunday School for All Ages: 8:00 AM Sunday Worship Services: 9:30 AM Midday Prayer & Bible Study: Wednesday 11:30AM Evening Prayer & Bible Study: Wednesday 7:00 PM Laymen's League: Thursday 7:00 PM Email: Froffice@firstrising.org Website: www.firstrising.org “Changing Lives On Purpose “
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LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2019 ADM 604 Tiffany Holmes Decedent Joan M. Wilbon Esq. 1120 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 1020 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Elizabeth Jackson, whose address is 9725 Ransom Hills Terrace, North Chesterfield, VA 23237, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Tiffany Holmes who died on January 10, 2019 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 2/8/2020. 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 2/8/2020, 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.
LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2019 ADM 730 Robert W. Jackson Decedent Nakia V. Gray, Esq. Gray Legal, PC 9701 Apollo Drive, Suite 100 Largo, MD 20774 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Pearlina Jackson, whose address is 5124 3rd Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Robert W. Jackson who died on April 15, 2019 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 2/8/2020. 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 2/8/2020, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.
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Administration No. 2019 ADM 508
Administration No. 2019 ADM 000718
Administration No. 2019 ADM 000659
Elizabeth Terry Decedent
Dorothy S. West Decedent
Tanya A. Harvey, Esq. Loeb & Loeb 901 New York Ave., NW #300E Washington, DC 20001 Attorney
Nakia V. Gray, Esq. 9701 Apollo Drive, Suite 100 Largo, MD 20774 Attorney
Ethel C. Anderson Decedent
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Maria Inez Anderson, whose address is 1364 Levis Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Ethel C. Anderson who died on April 24, 2019 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 2/8/2020. 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 2/8/2020, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship. Date of first publication: 8/8/2019 Maria Inez Anderson Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS John D. Schaperkotter, whose address is c/o Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, 211 N. Broadway #3600, St. Louis, MO 63102, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Elizabeth Terry who died on April 9, 2019 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 2/8/2020. 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 2/8/2020, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship. Date of first publication: 8/8/2019 John D. Schaperkotter Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Donald A. West, whose address is 1235 Faraday Place, NE, Washington, DC 20017, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Dorothy S. West who died on June 20, 2015 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 2/8/2020. 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 2/8/2020, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship. Date of first publication: 8/8/2019 Donald A. West Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer
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Estate of: Bernice Mills aka Bernice C. Mills Deceased
Darwyn Christopher Jenkins Decedent
Elmer Douglass Ellis Decedent
Eric Willie Smith Decedent
NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE
James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney
Nathaniel M. Adams, Jr. aka Nathaniel Matthews Adams, Jr. Decedent
James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney
Aimee D. Griffin, Esq. The Griffin Firm PLLC 5335 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20015 Attorney
Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Marion B. Mills for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representatives. Unless a responsive pleading in the form of a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth. Admit to probate the Will dated May 20, 1998 exhibited with the petition upon proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution by affidavit of the witnesses or otherwise Date of first publication: 8/8/2019 Steve Larson-Jackson, Esq. 1629 K. Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Petitioner/Attorney: TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Angela Jenkins Wright, whose address is 5326 Woodberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL 35405, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Darwyn Christopher Jenkins who died on March 24, 2019 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 2/8/2020. 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 2/8/2020, 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.
James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Elmer Douglass Ellis, Jr., whose address is 4901 16th Street, NE, Washington, DC 20017, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Elmer Douglass Ellis who died on April 1, 2017 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 2/22/2020. 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 2/22/2020, 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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Iris Adams Carter, whose address is 806 Sero Estates Drive, Fort Washington, MD 20744, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Nathaniel M. Adams, Jr. aka Nathaniel Matthews Adams, Jr. who died on June 8, 2019 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 2/15/2020. 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 2/15/2020, 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.
Angela Jenkins Wright Personal Representative
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Eric L. Smith, whose address is 4607 Bridle Ridge Road, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Eric Willie Smith who died on May 24, 2019 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 2/22/2020. 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 2/22/2020, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship. Date of first publication: 8/22/2019 Eric L. Smith Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer
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LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2019 ADM 000588 Linda R. Cunningham Decedent Deborah D. Boddie, Esq. 1308 Ninth Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20001 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Linda R. Wright, whose address is 1835 Otis Street, NE, Washington, DC 20018, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Linda R. Cunningham who died on March 1, 2017 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 2/22/2020. 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 2/22/2020, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship. Date of first publication: 8/22/2019 Linda R. Wright Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY
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ARCHBISHOP from Page 1 you inspire people and what do you say particularly to Black Catholics? Archbishop Gregory: I say the same thing to everyone, Catholic or not. I speak to their dignity as people recognizing the struggles they’ve endured and remind them of the importance of civil discourse. Yes, people are afraid in so many settings. Part of that fear is generated by a loss of the awareness of the dignity we each have as a child of God – no matter what religion or those who do not claim any religious affiliation, they still should be treated with dignity. Second, you encounter people as Pope Francis says, by speaking and listening. Right now, not a lot of listening has been going on in the human dialogue. A lot of protestations, hostile language – but very little listening, sincere listening. I really try to listen and in that listening come to understand others and their opinions. Hopefully, in that kind of dialogue I can engender a mutual respect. WI: There have recent challenges in the Catholic church in terms of leadership. Still, we hold
those at the top to greater accountability. How do you restore that trust? Gregory: Trust is a fragile virtue and while it takes time to establish it can be ruptured quickly. I hope to offer to the Archdiocese a strengthening, a reestablishing of trust. But I’m aware that it will not happen overnight, especially because the breakdown occurred within the leadership. Still, as the Bible tells us, to whom much is given, much is required. It will take time to reestablish those trusting relationships – that’s clear to me. There’s no way I can be naïve about the uphill battle I face. WI: You have been visiting your parishes almost every day it seems. What’s your message as you make your rounds? Gregory: As a Catholic priest/ bishop, I follow the liturgical year with the proposed scriptures that are to be read and listened to so they’re the foundation of my sermons. But our church is also one of doctrine and social teaching so I have to weave that into my preaching. I taught in the seminary after completing my doctoral studies, teaching liturgy, the rituals. I told my students and I believe that a good homily isn’t
one that everyone agrees with – it’s one that you cannot forget. When you preach and speak to people, you have to build them up, give them hope, invite the best out of them. But sometimes you have to challenge them and help them to honestly say, ‘I can do more – be more. As a nation and within the Catholic community, we are now grappling with the dignity of human life. Catholics believe every human life has an innate value, not because we give it to them but because we’ve all been created by God. The dignity of life is something that belongs to us all: those waiting to be born, those who are prisoners, immigrants – documented or undocumented, the poor, those who live on the margins of society. Often the prophetic voice is most effective not in the words used but the actions in which it engages. I do agree, given social media and the capacity of modern communication, a lot of attention goes to those who bang the drum the loudest. But I have met people out here in the D.C. community who are doing the work of the gospel, generously, effectively. They’re the ones who establish the food banks, homes
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included the memorable observation that “colonialism is alive and well in Africa,” demonstrated a strong belief that Africa’s need for unity is not an option. It’s the
only way that the continent can establish its rightful place in the international arena. When she finished someone should have said “Let us all say Amen.” WI
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Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona has proposed such a law, saying, “For too long we have allowed those who commit heinous acts of domestic terrorism to be charged with related crimes that don’t portray the full scope of their hateful actions.” The Patriot Act, passed in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, gives the federal government multiple resources to combat international terrorism but little authority to investigate domestic terrorism. Mary McCord, former acting assistant attorney general for national security, pointed out in a recent essay that the most common international terrorism charge is providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. “Charges of ‘material support’ to a terrorist organization are not available to prevent domestic attacks because the United States does not designate American
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groups as terrorist organizations,” she wrote. “None of the 68 entries on the State Department’s list is a white-supremacist group.” But the United States could designate foreign white supremacist groups as terrorist organizations. “If the State Department put any of these groups on the list, the FBI could deploy undercover agents to chat with their members online, and would-be domestic terrorists in the United States would have to think twice about engaging with them,” she wrote. In addition to a federal domestic terrorism statute and the designation of foreign white supremacist groups as terrorist organizations, former Department of Homeland Security analyst Daryl Johnson, who authored the 2009 report, offered several recommendations in a recent interview: - Collect statistics on domestic terrorism, and allow those statistics to drive resources for pro-
imperialist notion of purchasing other countries is, at best, laughable and even deplorable. I am hungry for sanity when I read disgusting tweets that encourage Israel to block duly elected United States representatives (those who vote on an Israel subsidy from this country) from visiting and speaking to oppressed Palestinians. Whether Trump or Israel agrees with Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the fact is that they are elected representatives of their districts and the Trump exhortation against them, not to mention Netanyahu’s foolishness, are anti-democratic. I am hungry, so hungry that there is a pit in my
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CROWELL from Page 27 serve the Aug. 19 date in a different way: reminding CFPB what it was supposed to do on behalf of consumers. “[S]ince its 2017 leadership change, the CFPB has repeatedly failed to support the August 19, 2019, compliance date the agency established for these important provisions,” wrote Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, National Consumer Law Center, Public Citizen, and the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL). The Aug. 12 joint letter to Kraninger called for “timely implementation” of the rule’s payment protections. While the CFPB continues to push for a stay of the rule’s ability-to-repay requirements, it has failed to offer any basis for its anti-consumer effort. It took years of multiple public hearings, research, public comments, and a careful rulemaking process before Cordray, delivered a rule that would provide financial relief from one of the nation’s most heinous predatory loans. Similar sentiments were expressed to the CFPB by 25 state
WILLIAMS from Page 27 Monica L. Clement. You will be hearing more about them in the immediate future. So many Black women are doing incredible things to perfect our union, and many credit
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management. It is a pastime which has now got a highly popular Black dude with a super popular wife/ performer to once again attract Black viewers back to the game, and popular performers back to the Super Bowl halftime show. That is where Jay-Z sold out. He’s now promised to get a chance
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attorneys general whose jurisdictions included California, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia and the District of Columbia. In written comments on CFPB’s plan to rewrite the payday rule, these state officials also expressed serious issues with the Bureau’s anti-consumer shift. “[T]he Bureau’s proposed repeal of the 2017 rule would eliminate an important federal floor that would protect consumers across the country, including from interstate lending activity that is challenging for any individual State to police,” wrote the attorneys general. “Extending credit without reasonably assessing borrowers’ ability to repay their loans resembles the poor underwriting practices that fueled the subprime mortgage crisis, which eventually led to an economic tailspin and enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act.” A 2019 CRL research report found that every year, payday and car-title loans drain nearly $8 billion in fees from consumer pockets. Although 16 states and the District of Columbia have enacted rate caps that limit interest to no more than 36%, 34 states
still allow triple-digit interest rate payday loans that together generate more than $4 billion in costly fees. Similarly, car-title loans drain more than $3.8 billion in fees annually from consumers in the 22 states where this type of loan is legal. Texas leads the nation in costly payday loan fees at $1.2 billion per year. Overall, consumers stuck in more than 10 payday loans a year represent 75% of all fees charged. Car-title loan fees take $356 million out of the pockets of Alabama residents, and $297 million from Mississippi consumers. And among all borrowers of these loans, one out of every five loses their vehicle to repossession. This spring before a Capitol Hill hearing, Diane Standaert, a CRL executive vice president and director of state policy, summarized the choices now before the nation: “Policymakers have a choice: siding with the vast majority of voters who oppose the payday loan debt trap or siding with predatory lenders charging 300% interest rates.” As Spike Lee advised years ago, “Do the right thing.” WI
Shirley for being that catalyst for change that we so badly need in the midst of craziness and evil doing from the top. The 2020 elections are coming up soon and, again, there is no doubt Black women will make the difference in many close races.
Lest you think NCBW only honors women, included among the honorees who will receive the NCBW Dick Gregory Good Brother Award are Drs. Percy Thomas, Hemant Patel, Jay Patel and James Dail and attorneys Aaron Watson and Jack Olender. WI
to buy an NFL team, like having a Black owner will curb the enthusiasm of a bunch of his soonto-be-owner-brothers to host $100,000-a-plate fundraisers in the Hamptons for Donald J. Trump. Like having a Black owner will stop owners from bad mouthing players who protest, and threatening those who might protest with termination. And what did the Black community get in Jay-Z’s deal? An excuse to once again spend guiltfree time watching the sporting contests, that’s what. And what did the architect of this scheme get? He gets a chance to give those robber barons a huge pile of his money, so he can sit up in an owner’s box and pass out cigars, and feel important and attend meetings of The Owners Club. He also gets a chance/contract to invite his pals in the entertainment industry to once again, perform for these crooked owners, without any guilt. That’s a win-win for the owners and a fat paycheck for Jay-Z, but nothing for the Bruthas in da
Hood. All this without so much as a phone call or even a text from the busy rapper to Kaepernick, the guy he used to call a “friend,” and who could have been offered a chance to be a trainer, or a scout, or to do something with his enormous talent in the area he’s dedicated his life to, if Jay-Z had asked for it. But not a phone call, according to a Twitter comment from Kaepernick’s girlfriend Nessa Diab, a New York-based host and media personality for Radio One. That is the textbook definition of a betrayal by a so-called friend. That is the textbook definition of a sellout! What’s painful to me is that so many people who love the artist are willing to permit him to sell them out. And they get really upset with anyone like me who calls Jay-Z’s spade a spade. A sellout. It all reminds me of what my friend Al Johnson, the PR executive in Chicago used to say in the 1970s, and it’s clear to me today: “All the successful Negroes have been bought. All the rest are still for sale.” WI
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