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Vol. 57, No. 13 • January 13 - 19, 2022

King Family: 'No Celebration Until Lawmakers Pass Voting Rights Legislation' Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer Prayer breakfasts, marches, parades and an uptick in volunteer efforts to support the annual Day of Service have remained staples of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. But the late civil rights icon’s family has asked that observers strike a different tune in 2022.

Dr. King’s family has requested refraining

from celebrations unless federal lawmakers pass voting rights legislation – a goal which appears out of reach as President Joe Biden and several Democrats have faced stiff Republican opposition.

Democrats have also been hampered by members of their own party, most notably West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, whose vote remains crucial in an evenly split chamber.

“President Biden and Congress used their political

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D.C. Statehood Activists Support MLK Peace Walk But Lament How Their Efforts Have Been Moved to Sidelines

James Wright WI Staff Writer Activists and leaders for D.C. statehood support and plan to participate in the 16th Annual Peace Walk that will take place in Ward 8 on Jan. 17, the day the country officially celebrates the birthday and life of Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr., despite their cause not being central to the event.

The focus of the Peace Walk will be to urge the U.S. Senate to consider the Freedom to Vote Act of 2021 and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021, organizers say.

The Freedom to Vote Act addresses voter

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President Biden Attempts to Get ‘Forceful’ on Voting Rights

Many Fear Time’s Running Out on Democrats’ VOTESlim DC PageMajority 9 Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer The coming weeks will tell if President Joe Biden’s “forceful” voting rights speech in Georgia on Tuesday, January 11, results

in any tangible movement to blunt suppressive laws in Republican-led states around the country.

The next several days will also reveal whether Democrats have the resolve, strength and ne-

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Maya Angelou First Black Woman on U.S. Coin Famous author and noted civil rights leader Maya Angelou became the first African-American woman featured on the 25-cent coin. The U.S. Mint began shipping the quarters on January 10.

Reportedly, the Angelou coin is the first in a series designed to celebrate the accomplishments of American women.

“Each time we redesign our currency, we have the chance to say something about our country — what we value, and how we’ve progressed as a society,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said in a statement.

“I’m very proud that these coins celebrate the contributions of some of America’s most remarkable women, including Maya Angelou.”

Angelou, whose works include such classics as “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” “And Still I Rise,” and “The Heart of a Woman,” died in 2014. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, from President Barack Obama. The commemorative new coin features Angelou with her arms uplifted a bird in flight and a rising sun behind her.

“They are images inspired by her poetry and symbolic of the way she lived,” officials at the U.S. Mint said in the statement.

To the right are the words “e pluribus Unum,” Latin for “out of many, one,” a phrase also on the national seal. The flip side features a portrait of George Washington.

“Excited to announce that Maya Angelou becomes the first Black woman to appear on a U.S. quarter,” California Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee wrote on Twitter.

“The phenomenal women who shaped American history have gone unrecognized for too long – especially women of color,” Rep. Lee wrote. WI

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Three-quarters of all Americans get an annual tax refund from the IRS, which often is a family's biggest check of the year. But this tax season could see a repeat of last year's snarls in processing, when about 30 million taxpayers had their returns and refunds held up by the IRS. Treasury Department officials warned on Monday that this year's tax season will be a challenge once the IRS starts processing returns on January 24. That's largely due to the IRS' sizable backlog of returns from 2021. As of December 23, the agency had 6 million unprocessed individual returns –a significant reduction from a backlog of 30 million in May, but far higher than the 1 million unprocessed returns that is more typical around the start of tax season.

"The first thing you know if you are going to cook a meal, you have to have the kitchen cleaned up from the last meal," said Mark W. Everson, vice chairman at Alliantgroup and former Commissioner of Internal Revenue at the IRS. "It just snowballs into a terrible situation."

Compounding the challenge, tax preparers remind Americans that it remains difficult to reach IRS personnel on the phone. Last year, the IRS answered less than 30% of the calls it received, according to Treasury officials.

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Ward 8 Residents React to Councilmember Trayon White’s Mayoral Bid James Wright WI Staff Writer For more than a month, the Washington Informer has attempted to secure an interview with Ward 8 D.C. Councilmember Trayon White to discuss his plan and platform as he seeks to become the next mayor of the District.

But to date, we have been met with postponements, cancellations and other challenges that have frustrated our best efforts. Still, we have not given up and remain cautiously optimistic.

White will challenge D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Councilmember Robert White (D-At Large), and several others, in the mayoral Democratic primary that will take place on June 21.

But with the clock continuing to tick, we have asked a few Ward

8 residents their views on White’s candidacy.

D.C. State Board of Education at-large member Jacque Patterson said he generally supports White’s aspirations and thinks his entry into the mayor’s race will raise issues that might not otherwise be discussed.

“However, I do have concerns about whether Trayon White has citywide appeal,” Patterson said. “I think he will do well in Ward 8 and in Ward 7, but in Wards 1, 2 and 3, he may have some problems. Wards 1, 2 and 3 have certain perceptions of executive expectations that are different from Wards 5, 6, 7 and 8.”

Patterson said that in order to be successful in the race, White must convince voters in Wards 1, 2 and 3 that he will maintain the level of city services they expect. He said White will do a good job articulating the concerns of residents east of the Anacostia River.

Patterson said White should try to mimic the mayor of a nearby city in terms of reaching out and getting the support of people outside of his Ward 8 base.

“Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is a good

example that White should follow,” Patterson said. “Scott has done well in balancing the concerns of the poor in that city and those who are well-to-do. Scott served on the Baltimore’s city council and as its president, so he has had the time to know the whole city and what the needs of its residents are.”

However, there are some residents who remain skeptical about White’s effectiveness as the next mayor.

“I think Trayon White is the worst thing that has happened to Ward 8,” said Stephen A. Slaughter, a former advisory neighborhood commissioner. “While he has been on the council, he hasn’t passed a decent piece of legislation benefitting the ward. He should not be a candidate to be the next mayor of our city. He cannot take the city to the next level.”

Former commissioner Joe Johnson said White shouldn’t run because he can’t win.

“I think White will have a hard time beating Muriel Bowser for re-election,” Johnson said. “I think he may end up taking votes away from Bowser, with Robert White in the race. He will take votes from somebody but he won’t win.”

Johnson said White should focus on the needs of Ward 8 residents.

“He can do better for Ward 8,” he said. “I don’t see a future Mayor Trayon White.”

Stuart Anderson, a longtime civic and political activist, has supported White’s past campaigns. But he said he agrees in principle with Johnson that White should foc us on his council duties.

“Councilmember White should focus on obtaining more tenure on the council,” Anderson said. “Let’s say he were to win

the mayor’s race this year. The ward would have to elect another councilmember and that person would be a rookie on the council, at the bottom. That would be a disservice to the ward. Tenure gives a councilmember more opportunities to obtain resources and programs for constituents.”

Anderson said White should be using his organization on getting the best results for redrawing advisory neighborhood commission lines and educating residents about the economic opportunities available with the likely development of Poplar Point.

Poplar Point, a 110-acre site on the eastern shores of the Anacostia River, will become property of the District from the federal government in the near future and Anderson stressed that Ward 8 residents should be involved in the economic development projects that could be there.

“Redistricting, focusing on how the ward can benefit from Poplar Point and gaining more seniority on the council should be his focus,” Anderson said. “That is more important than running for mayor.” WI @JamesWrightJr10

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1953 – Don Barksdale becomes the first Black to play in the NBA All-Star Game.

1989 – Poet and literary critic Sterling A. Brown, D.C. native and longtime Howard University professor, dies in Tacoma Park, Maryland, at 87.

1966 – Robert Weaver is sworn in as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development, becoming the first African American to be appointed to a U.S. Cabinet-level position.

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I hate that people talked about this man like he was nothing. You never know what this man was going through at the moment. All I can do is pray that this man gets the help he needs for his life. All people worry about is winning and losing a football game. I pray he wins in life. Football is a dangerous game, and the hit he took in Cincinnati was bad. Let’s lift him up in prayer, not talk about him.

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He was at an NBA game last night looking unconcerned. So if he is not concerned for himself, why should I be? He is a clown — wasted talent.

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Leading health officials from the CDC recently shared the prediction that “everyone will eventually get COVID-19. But that’s not news to me. I contracted the virus more than two years ago during a visit back home to the city in which I was born, Detroit.

Unfortunately, during December 2019 when I came down with COVID-19, then President Trump and his cronies had not informed us that we were facing a new virus that had the potential to kill the young, the old, the healthy and the less-than healthy. And so, believing I had simply come down with a powerful strain of the old-fashioned flu, I followed the same regiment that I had in the past when the flu had visited me.

With God’s grace, which is always essential and always sufficient, I recovered. But it was a rough couple of weeks. And I would not like to experience a repeat performance – not for all the tea in China.

Fast forward to 2022. This mysterious virus has been identified.

We have found medical weapons that can protect us better. And we continue to learn as the health community, led by the CDC and a host of others, take the helm in research, evaluation and the identification of best practices and protocols.

Millions have been hospitalized or have lost their lives across the globe. Somehow, we have survived the Delta variant only to be struck by another, new variant. And given the highly-contagious Omicron variant which today continues to sweep across the U.S. and Europe at record numbers, the CDC’s warning, that we will all eventually contract COVID-19, seems both logical and inevitable.

No matter how we slice it, it appears that COVID-19, like the flu, will probably be with us for a very long time – certainly for the foreseeable future.

However, this should not be a reason for us to react like the protagonist Henny Penny in the children’s folk tale in which Henny Penny, also known as Chicken Little, runs around in a frenzy of fear, trepidation and heightened anxiety, after being struck by an object from an overhanging tree which leads Henny Penny to proclaim, “the sky is falling.”

This story from my childhood came to mind recently after a friend who had visited me about a week ago, called me with the news that he had tested positive for COVID-19. But he also sent me his medical records and shared his testimony of certain doom and gloom.

I must confess, that I was nonplussed.

Perhaps I should have been more anxious after receiving his call but in my defense, I had already weathered that storm. Further, I am fully vaccinated and have also received

the booster shot. Finally, if the advisory from the CDC is correct, my friend’s call, which came seven days after our contact, was probably a little too late. The five-day isolation period had passed and I had been without any symptoms.

But at first, I rushed around my home like Henny Penny, looking for my home test kit and my thermometer. I called my personal physician and I began to worry.

But I was feeling just fine. I had not been around anyone else. I was eating voraciously and sleeping quite well. And I was wearing my mask whenever I ventured outside of my home.

What else could I do? What else should I do? Certainly, there was little cause for me to fear the worst much less to speak it into my existence.

For the record, I have since tested negative and I, and my two faithful companions, my beloved boxer, Baby Girl and her sidekick, my little mongrel and rescue dog, Duchess, are doing just fine.

But this experience has reminded me of how dangerous it is to jump to conclusions or to predict the worst about life. Neither today nor tomorrow are promised. Still, I believe that the sun will come out tomorrow and that I will be here to see the sunrise.

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Prepare for unexpected power outages with a Generac home standby generator 5 Protestors gather at the White House to bring attention to voting rights, voter suppression and DC Statehood.

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VOTE DC from Page 1 registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting and campaign finance laws with the thrust of the bill to ensure that eligible Americans can participate without hurdles in the political process.

The John Lewis bill would restore sections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 gutted by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013 in the case of Shelby County vs. Holder.

Members of the King Family, including Martin Luther King III, Arndrea King, his wife, and their daughter, Yolanda Renee King, will join other civil and human rights activists and congressional leaders, including U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), during the Peace Walk in the District.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the sponsor of The Washington, D.C. Admission Act of 2021 in the House and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, a staunch statehood supporter, have confirmed their participation as well.

Among other participants, there will be members of several pro-statehood organizations: Stand Up! for Democracy in DC Coalition; 51 for 51; and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the only Black Greek letter fraternal organization to officially embrace the city’s right to self-determination.

However, there have been murmurs from some statehood activists that the cause will take a secondary place in actions on fighting voter suppression even though the Peace Walk will be held in the city.

Bo Shuff, the executive director of DC Vote, said nothing could be further from the truth. He said he doesn’t feel offended that D.C. statehood will not count as a central focus of the Peace Walk.

“I have not talked to the organizers of the national portion of the MLK Peace Walk but I do understand their strategy,” he said.

“The reason they are focusing on the Freedom to Vote and John Lewis Advancement Act has to do with the order of bills in the Senate. Both of those bills have solid Democratic support with 50 senators. The Washington, D.C. Admission Act of 2021 has the strong support of 46 senators, all Democrats co-sponsoring the bill and we have the possibility of getting 48 Democrats, but we are not at 50.”

Shuff said eliminating the filibuster, a procedural tool in the Senate where legislation can only proceed to the floor if there are 60 votes to advance, has become the real purpose of the Peace Walk.

“This is really a push to eliminate the filibuster,” Shuff said.

“The strategy is to put the Freedom to Vote and John Lewis Act first as a way to eliminate the filibuster, at least for those bills. If that is done, then the D.C. state-

hood bill, operating under the rules of those other two bills, can be considered by the Senate later.”

Shuff said he has no doubt of the King family’s support of D.C. statehood.

“Members of the King family support statehood and I have seen them wear t-shirts indicating that,” he said.

Oye Owolewa, the District’s shadow representative, said the Peace Walk and its thrust serve a purpose and send a clear message.

“D.C. having two votes in the Senate can be the deciding votes on legislation stopping voter suppression,” Owolewa said. “We can also make a difference in the Senate on other progressive legislation and help to stop the filibuster. In the District, we care about voting rights and people having the right to vote and that is why we need to step up and become the next state.”

Owolewa said he didn’t see the Peace Walk’s lack of emphasis on statehood as a snub.

“I see it as an opportunity for the people around the country to know where we stand on progressive issues,” he said. “People in the progressive movement tend to operate in silos. If D.C. residents get involved in other issues such as cancelling student debt or climate change, I think that will help our D.C. statehood cause. It is important that we get our story told and our voices heard.”

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Earl Williams, the chair of the Skyland Town Center Task Force, echoed Thornhill’s enthusiasm.

“The coming of Lidl is an example of what happens when the community and developers work together,” Williams said. “Rappaport has been a wonderful partner. Both Bowser and Gray have worked diligently to get this done.”

Lidl and the Skyland Town Center, both located in advisory neighborhood commissioner Tiffany L. Brown’s 7B02 single-member district, represent a future with greater options for residents.

“As a matter of fact, I live a few hundred feet from here,” Brown said, pointing north to her house.

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said it wants “to offer customers the highest quality fresh produce, meat, baked goods and household products at unbelievably low prices.” Lidl officials say the Skyland store will open at the end of this year.

Gray’s legislation, The East End Grocery Store Incentive Act, has fueled the construction of full-service grocery stores like Lidl and offers co-anchor retail opportunities through the use of District government grants. The Bowser administration has undergirded the building of Lidl at Skyland with millions of dollars from specialized programs benefitting grocers and with tax incremental financing.

Lidl company officials say the Skyland store will have 445 employees with wages starting at $16.50 an hour and offer them the full range of employment benefits.

Carrie Thornhill, chairperson of the Washington East Foundation, praised the coming of Lidl.

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“This is absolutely fantastic,” D.C. Councilmember Vincent Gray (D-Ward 7) said at the groundbreaking ceremony on Jan. 8.

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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY Governor Hogan Appoints Karen Toles to Maryland House of Delegates William J. Ford WI Staff Writer It’s official.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan appointed Karen Toles on Tuesday, Jan. 11 to the House of Delegates, one day before the 90-day legislative session began in Annapolis.

“I am confident that Ms. Toles will represent the citizens of Prince George’s County well in her new role as delegate,” Hogan said in a statement. “I offer her my sincere

congratulations and look forward to working with her and the General Assembly this legislative session.”

In the meantime, the former Prince George’s County Council member continues to prepare herself for an education on statewide policy and politics.

As a council member from 2010 to 2018 who represented District 7 that includes Suitland and Hillcrest Heights, she will represent the 25th Legislative District which

not only incorporates those communities, but also Largo, Joint Base Andrews and parts of Upper Marlboro.

Compared to an all-Democratic council that had nine members when Toles served, she will draft policies with a statewide impact and fight for resources alongside 140 other delegates comprised of both Democrats and Republicans.

“This is so new. I have to go in there knowing that this is statewide [and a] much bigger role than I played on a local level,” she said. “My number one priority is to bring as many resources back to Prince George’s County as possible. You understand how critically important state dollars are to local government.”

The county’s Democratic Central Committee unanimously nominated Toles on Jan. 4. Once Hogan’s office received her name, he had 15 days to confirm the selection and appoint Toles.

Lawmakers returned from the 90-day legislative session in Annapolis which began Wednesday, Jan. 12.

Because Davis’s term expires this year, Toles will need to run for the seat in the June 28 primary.

“I’m really interested in having

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5 Karen Toles. (Photo courtesy of Karen Toles via Twitter)

a conversation with the entire District 25 constituency,” Toles said.

“What are your issues? What do you want me to focus on for you?

What is the most pressing problem you’re having so I can work with my partners?”

The current 25th District team includes Dels. Darryl Barnes, chair of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland, and Nick Charles, chair of the county’s House delegation.

The other member, Senate President Pro tem Melony Griffith, spoke on Toles’ behalf during last week’s central committee session.

Prior to Toles election to the council, Griffith helped mentor Toles when she worked as a policy advisor for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).

“When chairman Davis resigned to take the seat of treasurer, we knew that we needed somebody who had a heart for constitu-

ent services, experience serving the community and was a fiscal leader,” Griffith said. “We found all of that in one person.”

Prince George’s State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy also endorsed Toles, who worked as a community affairs director in the state’s attorney office.

Braveboy said Toles did “grunt work” in the office that included assisting attorneys as they prepared for court proceedings. Toles recently graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law. “Yes, Karen Toles was pushing papers,” Braveboy said. “It’s important to note because that shows you don’t think any job is beneath you. “You really care about criminal law, which I think is extremely important as we go through this period of reform. That’s what’s going to make you successful.”

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The county’s Democratic Central Committee unanimously nominated Toles on Jan. 4. Once Hogan’s office received her name, he had 15 days to confirm the selection and appoint Toles.

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Hogan Pushes for a $500M ‘Re-Fund the Police’ Initiative William J. Ford WI Staff Writer For the second time in nearly three months, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan emphasized his support for law enforcement and the money it needs to fight crime.

Within that message Monday, Jan. 10 standing alongside law enforcement officials, the Republican governor’s “re-fund the police” initiative calls for the legislature to fund $500 million over a threeyear period.

Some of the funding would include $200 million in salaries and bonuses, $137 million in state aid for local jurisdictions and $50 million in capital improvements for state police barracks and a new tactical services building.

“Legislators are returning to Annapolis for their 90-day session where they will be debating a few thousands of bills,” Hogan said Monday in recognition of Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. “But there is nothing more important than addressing the violent crime crisis in our state and to refund the police and to give them the support and resources they need to do their job more effectively. Our police are underfunded and under attack.”

Hogan’s proposal represents an expansion of a law enforcement proposal he announced in October for the legislature to approve $150 million. Neighborhood safety grants previously allocated for $10 million would increase to $30 million in lighting, cameras and security services for community organizations, businesses and local main streets.

Meanwhile, the governor also directed Robert L. Green, secretary of the Maryland Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services and the Division of Parole & Probation, to begin tracking open warrants. It would start in high crime areas in Baltimore City, he said.

The governor, whose term expires in January 2023, reiterated his plans to reintroduce the Vio-

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lent Firearms Offender and Judicial Transparency acts during this year’s sessions that began Wednesday, Jan. 12.

The firearms act seeks to toughen sentences for repeat violent offenders who use, possess and supply illegal guns. The judicial act would require the state Commission on Criminal and Sentencing Policy to track sentences handed down by judges in violent crimes.

Additional details will be presented next week when the governor submits a fiscal budget.

Del. Gabriel Acevero (D-Montgomery County) called the governor’s law enforcement funding initiative “disappointing and angering,” especially when the state has a more than $2 billion budget surplus.

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“We’re seeing a budget surplus and instead of Hogan refunding our communities, he is going on this crusade and lying to folks on this refund initiative only to score political points for whatever aspirations he has after [his term expires] while our communities lose out, ” Acevero said.

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rect the money to hire counselors, psychologists and implement restorative practices to reform school discipline.

Justin Nalley, a public policy analyst with ACLU of Maryland, summarized how 56% of Black students in the state represent school-based arrests but only account for one-third of the total student population. About 23% of students with individual education plans (IEPs) are arrested at school but account for 12% of the entire

student population.

Some of the arrests may include fist fights with no weapons, trespassing or “simple” drug possession, he said.

“These school arrests for these minor offenses are a byproduct of police presence in schools,” Nalley said during a virtual press briefing Monday. “We look forward to educating folks about police presence in schools.”

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BUSINESS Comedian Joe Clair Ventures into the Coffee Business James Wright WI Staff Writer Nationally known, Prince George’s-based comedian Joe Clair has set up a coffee business designed to both meet the taste buds of his customers and provide financial assistance to local charities.

“The idea of getting into the coffee business started a few years ago when I was working on my morning radio show at WPGC-AM,”

Clair said. “We offer coffee mugs as prizes and I drank one cup of coffee while on the air. My wife, Niema, suggested that I look deeper into the coffee because I like it so much and I like coffee cake.

We decided to start our own line of coffee and we wanted to be in a space where there weren’t many Blacks.”

A Sept. 30, 2021 article on CNBC’s website on African Americans and the coffee industry revealed

that Blacks remain significantly underrepresented as customers and entrepreneurs. CNBC reported in the U.S., Blacks count as the least likely ethnic group to drink coffee regularly, according to 2019 research from the National Coffee Association, a market research and lobbying organization.

Clair said he came up with the name of his company, The Percolator Coffee Co., in an innovative manner.

“I considered a number of names for my product,” he said.

“Some said it was obvious, ‘A Cup of Joe’ but I wanted something else. It was then I thought of the song that came out in the 1990s, ‘It’s Time for the Percolator.’ I thought about coffee percolating in the 1980s whether it was in school or church. I also wanted a name that would appeal to urban and rural America.”

Clair said people can get his coffee and other products on his Facebook and Instagram pages. In the future, he’d like to open a brickand-mortar store. To promote his

5 Comedian Joe Clair now owns a coffee firm, The Percolator Company. (Courtesy photo)

products and the brand, he plans to leverage social media and work trade shows. He said the public sector will become a target, seeking contracts with federal, state and local agencies as well as municipalities. Additionally, he will actively pursue putting his product in Walmart and Target. He noted that he will donate a portion of his proceeds to charities.

“I want to make capitalism work

for those who aren’t wealthy,” Clair said. “I am thinking along the lines of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream and Paul Newman’s products where all or most of their profits go to charities. I want to brand my philanthropy.”

Clair sits on the board of directors for Covenant House Greater Washington located in Ward 8.

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5 The King family: Martin Luther King, III, daughter Yolanda King and Arndrea Waters King. (WI File Photo/Robert R. Roberts)

KING from Page 1 muscle to deliver a vital infrastructure deal and now we are calling on them to do the same to restore the very voting rights protections my father and countless other civil rights leaders bled to secure,” Martin Luther King III said in a statement.

“We will not accept empty promises in pursuit of my father’s dream for a more equal and just America,” King III, the oldest son and oldest living child of King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King.

King III, his wife Arndrea Waters King, and their daughter Yolanda King, said they plan to mobilize activists on MLK weekend – January 14 – 16 – to demand a voting rights bill.

In numerous Republican-led states including Texas, Florida and Georgia, lawmakers have passed or maintain efforts to pass tight voter suppression laws that would disenfranchise many people of color and the elderly.

Earlier this month, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), promised that the U.S. Senate would vote by Martin Luther King Jr. Day (January 17) on whether the chamber would adopt new rules to circumvent the draconian filibuster to enable the passage of voting rights and social justice bills.

“We must ask ourselves: if the right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy, then how can we in good conscience allow for a situation in which the Republican Party can debate and pass voter suppression laws at the State level with only a simple majority vote but not allow the United States Senate to do the same? We must adapt,” Sen. Schumer demanded.

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“But if they do not, the Senate will debate and consider changes to Senate rules on or before January 17, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, to protect the foundation of our democracy: free and fair elections,” Schumer said.

Meanwhile, King III insisted that President Biden and members of Congress use the same energy and force they mustered in 2021 to pass the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.

“You delivered for bridges, now deliver for voting rights,” King III asserted.

Reportedly, the King family plans to join local groups in a rally in Phoenix on January 15, the date of King’s birthday. “[We wish] to restore and expand voting rights to honor Dr. King’s legacy,” the family wrote in a statement.

Further, the family and others plan to march across the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in the District.

They also plan to hold a rally and march across a bridge in Phoenix, reportedly to draw a comparison to the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma for voting rights for African Americans.

“The Senate must pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and ensure the Jim Crow filibuster doesn’t stand in the way,” the King family stated. WI

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ComicView, he said the entertainment circuit itself often doesn’t make an entertainer financially prosperous.

“Jay-Z, Russell Simmons and Puffy used their entertainment platforms to transition into other businesses,” Clair said. “That’s what I am doing. I cannot rely on the comedian circuit. I must have

other streams of revenue to make it.”

“I am also a realtor and have helped some people go from renting to owning their homes. And that is what it is about. I help people through my real estate business and I will do the same with The Percolator Company,” he said. WI @JamesWrightJr10

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NATIONAL HU Professor William Spriggs Says Americans Are Quitting ‘Bad Jobs’ Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer It’s official, America has entered the Great Resignation.

In August, 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs, and the quit rate, measured by the government against total employment, rose to 2.9 percent in August.

But that was August.

According to the Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, November’s “quit rate” has reached historic highs.

The number of workers jumped to 4.5 million above the prior record of 4.4 million reached in September. When broken down, 3 percent of workers voluntarily left their positions, a figure that

matched September’s record high.

Further, employers posted 10.6 million job openings, down from a near-record 11 million the previous month and just below July’s all-time high. Openings have now topped 10 million for six straight months.

Economists said the decline was fueled by a drop of 261,000 openings in restaurants and hotels, leaving a whopping 1.5 available jobs for each unemployed person, the most on record dating back two decades.

After years in the restaurant industry, Colette Graack told CBS News that she left her duties in the food prep line in June 2021 in exchange for a more profound role as a mother.

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According to the Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, November’s “quit rate” has reached historic highs.

“I just couldn’t handle keeping on that pressure when my son needed me more,” Graack said.

Her son has autism and needs constant care, a job she will soon take on as she trains to be his personal care assistant.

Graack told the network the leap proved difficult.

“Especially financially because I’m a single mom. Thankfully I had savings at the time that we could ride that out,” she said.

Reportedly, many Americans left the workforce recently and shared Graack’s concerns.

Despite millions quitting, millions more found new jobs. So

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where are they going? Often, it’s to a different industry altogether.

“This notion that if you leave one industry, going to a new one requires, you know, a degree or a bunch of training, might not be the case,” Steve Grove, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, told CBS. “The reality is today; whether it’s the state, whether it’s a college, whether it’s your future employer, there is a ton of support and free training available to make that shift, he said.

William Spriggs, a professor in Howard University’s Economics Department and an economist for the AFL-CIO, cautioned that the government’s job numbers shouldn’t frighten anyone.

He said it’s dubious calling this the “Great Resignation” or the “Great Quit.”

“The problem of job matching was going to be a problem once we, the United States, showed a policy of separation as opposed to retention to make it through the virus,” Spriggs remarked. “All other industrial countries held employees in place.”

He asserted that “what took place in Europe, Australia and Canada were schemes where the government paid employers to keep employees connected to their jobs through the pandemic.”

But he said the U.S. took a different route with the federal government placing workers on unemployment, separating them from their jobs with no reconnection plans.

“For instance, in a place like New Jersey where you have perhaps the best unemployment insurance system, you also have better job matches,” Spriggs said. “You didn’t see the quit rate rise when we had the supplement to unemployment because you could choose jobs. Now, we force people to take a job so you will get a mismatch as you’ve seen in the accommodations sector.”

“They’re not letting people go, but they’re still draining people on hours and still paying lower wages.

With the shift in demand taking place and a record number of online shopping and getting tested at much higher rates, the shift in demand to other sectors is happening because workers no longer have to put up with bad jobs. It’s really bad jobs where the quit rate is up,” Spriggs said. WI

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NATIONAL Black Faith Leaders Launch Hunger Strike for Equal Voting Rights Twenty-five Ministers from Around the U.S. are Participating Sarafina Wright WI Contributing Writer Ahead of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday on Jan. 17, dozens of faith leaders from across the nation have launched a hunger strike to urge Congress to “protect democracy” by passing voting rights legislation.

Faith of Black Lives, a coalition of 25, began the strike on the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.

The association said that the violent insurrection represented an attempt to overturn the democratic rule in the U.S. which continues as 19 states have passed 34 laws impacting the right to vote, specifically targeting communities of color.

States have enacted laws to reduce early voting, restrict absentee ballots and seize control of non-partisan election administration official funcQ4 AMTRAK PRINT 1_Washington tions.

General Minister, United Church of Christ, Washington, DC • Rev. Cornell William Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School, Director, William Trotter Collaborative, Former President/CEO, NAACP, Cambridge, MA • Rev. Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant, Pastor, New Birth Cathedral, Atlanta, GA • Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, IL • Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III, Pastor, Friendship-West Baptist Church, Dallas, TX • Rev. Dr Cassandra Gould, Executive Director, Faith Voices, St. Louis, MO • Rev. Dr. Lanel D. Guyton, PreLIST OF siding Elder, Brooklyn-Westchester PARTICIPANTS AME District, Brooklyn, NY • Rev. Stephen A. Green, Chair, • Pastor Timothy Findley, Jr., PasFaith for Black Lives, New York, NY tor, Kingdom Fellowship Church, • Rev.(outlines).pdf Traci Blackmon,1 Associate Informer 7/7/21 10:33 PM Louisville, KY In addition, extreme partisan gerrymandering threatens access to Black political representation in state and federal elections for the next decade, they said.

“As faith leaders, we are called to speak truth to power and to raise the conscience of this nation through moral resistance,” the Rev. Stephen A. Green, chair, Faith for Black Lives, said.

“This hunger strike reflects our deep commitment to radical love in action to redeem the soul of this nation. As we approach midnight for our democracy, the United States Congress must act urgently to pass voting rights legislation now,” he said.

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• Rev Renita Green, Pastor, Holy Trinity AME Church, Wilberforce, OH • Rev. Rodrecus M. Johnson, Jr., Pastor, Anderson Chapel, Killeen, TX • Rev. Dr. Lenny Marshall, Pastor, St. Philip AME Church, Tallahassee, Fl • Rev. Derrell Wade, Pastor,

Macedonia AME Church, Suffolk, VA • Rev. Dr. Caesar Roland Richburg, Pastor, Bethel AME Church, Columbia, SC • Rev. Dr. Jonathan L. Weaver, Pastor, Greater Mt. Nebo AME Church, Mitchellville, MD

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HEALTH Across the DMV COVID-19 Cases Continue to Rise

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer

The confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States continue to rise with another 1.4 million reported Tuesday, Jan. 11, according to data from the federal Health and Human Services.

The federal agency also reported another 1,673 deaths that increases the nationwide total to 838,000.

In the D.C. area, Maryland’s Health Department reported Tuesday that nearly 9,700 confirmed cases, 3,452 hospitalizations and 70 new deaths. Monday marked the first time in 12 days the state reported less than 10,000 new daily cases.

Across the bridge in Virginia, approximately 16,681 confirmed cases reported Tuesday by the state’s Health Department. The daily confirmed cases figure on Monday stood at 15,463.

Virginia now has 45,150 people hospitalized due to COVID-19, an increase of 3,678 reported Tuesday.

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The state Health Department notes 167 people are receiving inpatient care with results pending.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a limited public health emergency scheduled to last until Jan. 26.

According to the order, the District and its health care partners can respond “expeditiously and safely to COVID-19 and its ongoing and changing impacts.” The order notes how some hospitals face a 25% decrease in staff shortage relating to COVID-19.

The city’s seven-day transmission average stands at 187 new daily cases per 100,000 people increasing total confirmed cases to 116,278.

To help cure the spread of COVID-19, a vaccine requirement in D.C. goes into effect at 6 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 15 at certain indoor venues.

A person must have a mask, an ID and proof of vaccination, according to a coronavirus summary from the mayor’s office.

5 Laurel Medical Center staff assess medical supplies Jan. 6 in preparation for the hospital to become one of 10 COVID-19 testing sites at local hospitals slated to be in operation next week. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

In addition, free rapid tests will be available for D.C. residents 65 and older at six wellness centers.

The governors in Maryland and Virginia already implemented similar declarations.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan instituted a 30-day state of emergency Jan. 4 that grants the health secretary broad operating powers to assist with staff shortages at nursing homes and hospitals.

Some of those directives include nursing graduates to provide services at any health care facility, allow health care practitioners to practice and conduct tasks outside their scope of licens-

es and issue guidelines to control and monitor the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes and similar congregate facilities.

To ensure the order runs smoothly, the governor mobilized 1,000 members of the Maryland National Guard to assist at two new state-managed sites in Anne Arundel and Harford counties. About 250 members will support COVID-19 testing sites throughout the state that includes 20 new sites adjacent to hospitals.

Ten hospitals are scheduled to begin COVID-19 testing this week that include three in Prince George’s County – Laurel Medical Center, University

of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center in Largo and Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham.

“One of the primary goals of this effort is to ease the burden on hospitals and emergency rooms,” Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday, Jan. 6 outside Laurel Medical Center. “We’re already getting great, encouraging reports that emergency room traffic for testing has dropped dramatically as a result.”

Dr. Mohan Suntha, president and CEO of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), said affiliated hospitals with UMMS registered 200 COVID-19 patients last month.

On Thursday, the number stood at 800.

He said about 75% of those patients are unvaccinated and less than 5% are fully vaccinated and received a booster shot.

“It is an important message in helping support our health care workforce to be vaccinated and to be boosted,” Suntha said. “The data I just gave you are facts. These testing facilities will be an incredible resource right now in the fight against COVID-19.”

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam also issued a 30-day state of emergency Monday, Jan. 10 with similar prerequisites such as increasing bed capacity in hospitals, providers with out-of-state licenses in good standing to practice in Virginia and allow licenses nurses to administer COVID-19 vaccines without the supervising of a registered nurse or licensed medical professional.

How much of these provisions will stay intact remains unknown because Gov.-Elect Glenn Youngkin will take over after his inauguration Saturday in Richmond. WI @jabariwill

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Ramaphosa Warns Against Destabilisation As ANC Marks 110 Years South Africa’s ruling ANC marked its 110th anniversary on Saturday, January 8, 2022, in low-key fashion as the country reels from the devastating fire in parliament, last year’s deadly riots and emerging details of corruption.

In the stands of a stadium in Polokwane, in northern Limpopo province, a few hundred party members sporting the African National Congress signature yellow, green and black dotted the terraces.

It was a far cry from the noisy and large crowds of supporters traditionally bused in for the annual festivities, thanks to Covid-19 restrictions limiting outdoor gatherings to just 2,000 people.

And the speech from President Cyril Ramaphosa, in which he referred to acts that had “the effect of subverting our constitutional democracy”, further dampened the party atmosphere.

“These acts include blatant acts of state (corruption) and criminality… the concerted campaign of public violence and destruction that took place in July last year, as well as ongoing theft, destruction and obstruction of infrastructure,” Ramaphosa told party loyalists.”

He added, “This anniversary takes place just a few days after a devastating fire swept through our parliament in Cape Town.

“The entire country has been shocked, outraged and saddened by the destruction because the institution of parliament is a repository of our democracy — and symbol of democratic stability of our people.”

His government was, he said, “reforming our law enforcement agencies, our security sector, so that it’s better positioned to defend the gains of our democracy”.

The state suffered other setbacks over the past year.

The state security agency was roundly criticised after police stood by watching when the jailing of Ramaphosa’s predecessor Jacob Zuma sparked an orgy of rioting and looting in July that claimed more than 300 lives.

Zuma was sent to prison for refusing to cooperate with corruption investigators.

The party of Nelson Mandela, which led the liberation of South Africa from the shackles of white-minority apartheid rule, has been weakened by historically poor electoral showings, factionalism and corruption.

On Tuesday, January 4, Ramaphosa received a report of more than 800 pages containing nearly four years of testimonies collected by a judicial panel on corruption.

Its authors accuse the ANC of having turned a blind eye to graft in state-owned companies that play a significant role in the South African economy. WI

caribbean now Stewart Highlights Caribbean’s Ability For Excellence The ability of the Caribbean to create excellent products and compete at the highest level worldwide was highlighted by Sandals Resorts International (SRI) Executive Chairman Adam Stewart in the January 6, 2022 edition of TravelAge West, one of the most trusted travel industry publications in the western United States.

Stewart made the plug for the Caribbean in an interview focusing on Sandals' 40th anniversary with the publication's contributing writer Mark Chestnut.

Asked to explain what Sandals' success says about the Caribbean overall, Stewart said, “I think our success has demonstrated two things: First, we set the benchmark and are the standard-bearer for 'best in class' in the all-inclusive resorts category, the fastest-growing sector in the hospitality space. And second, we have proven that what is created in the Caribbean, by Caribbean people, can compete as successfully on the world stage as any brand anywhere. So, we lead by example, and more than that — when we take our style of luxury all-inclusive vacationing to new destinations in the Caribbean, we shine a light on that island. In that way, we are the rising tide that lifts all the boats in our diverse and expansive region in the world.”

The article, which focused on Stewart's insight about SRI's long-standing success and how the multiple-award-winning resort group will continue to work with travel advisors during the novel coronavirus pandemic, noted that travel advisors would easily list Sandals Resorts among the top Caribbean hotel companies with great brand loyalty. WI

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January 2022 Message from Department of Aging and Community Living DIRECTORS MESSAGE

Director Laura Newland Department of Aging and Community Living Happy New Year! While 2021 started inauspiciously with a terrorist attack on the Capitol building, we still managed to end the year with joy, celebration, and well wishes at the Mayor’s 23rd Annual Senior Holiday Celebration! We had such a great time welcoming you, catching up with you, and dancing with you. It was the perfect way to end the year.

With all of 2022 in front of us, we have a lot to look forward to.

One of the things I’m most excited about is our Future of Aging project. If you were at our Holiday Celebration last month, you may have participated in one of our activities where we asked you about how certain interactions with government and other organizations made you feel. The Future of Aging project is all about redesigning systems and programs around your

insights, feelings, and experiences.

Together, we are creating a customer experience that we can all be proud of. If you’re interested in participating in some of these activities, please contact us at dacl.communications@dc.gov.

Before you know it, Valentine’s Day will be here, which means Cupid’s Kids from District public and charter schools will be making cards for our homebound seniors. It’s a small gesture with a huge impact — especially these days when we could all use reminders that our community supports us.

As I mentioned last month, the holidays don’t mean the same thing for everyone. For a lot of folks, this season can be particularly lonely, so please take a minute and call a friend or neighbor or send a note.

Taking a few minutes of your time to say hi can make someone’s day — we all have the superpower of making someone feel great!

Finally, most of you reading this are probably vaccinated, but if you’re not, please get vaccinated as soon as possible!! And if you’re vaccinated but not boosted, get your booster!

DC has a lot of places you can go to get a vaccination or booster, and if you need some help getting to a vaccination site, give us a call, and we’ll connect you with transportation options.

If you already have your booster, thank you for doing your part to keep our community safe! And remember to practice good hygiene, wear your mask, and practice social distancing (but don’t be socially distant!).

Thanks for helping make 2021 a great year for DACL, and I can’t wait to see what’s in store for us in 2022. As always, if you have ideas or thoughts, feel free to reach out. We’d love to hear from you!

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EDUCATION Amid Teacher Shortages in the District, Substitute Teachers Demand Higher Pay Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer Even as they demanded a benefits package, legal protections and pay

comparable to full-time teachers, hundreds of substitute teachers continued to work and risk their health at several District public schools this academic year amid staffing shortag-

Celebration of Life and Homegoing for Remola Boykin Sunrise: July 2, 1927 • Sunset: January 2, 2022 Thursday, January 13, 2022 Viewing: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Celebration of Life: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Greater People’s Union Baptist Church New Location: 3601 Southern Avenue Suitland, MD 20746 Live Steam Service: https://www.facebook.com/GPUBaptistChurch OBITUARY On Sunday, January 2nd, 2022, Remola Boykin was called home at the age of 94. She was born in Rich Square North Carolina as the youngest of five children born to Junious and Lillie Jacobs. Her siblings John Jacobs, William Jacobs (Cornelia), Thelma Horne (Lucius), and Percel Jacobs preceded her in death. Remola migrated from North Carolina to Washington, DC with her family in 1936. She accompanied her mother when she joined the Mt. Joy Baptist Church and then the Greater People’s Union Baptist Church.

Remola married Jefferson Boykin of Clinton, NC (deceased) in 1951. She had three children Linda Jenkins, Hilda Boykin, and Jefferson Boykin Jr (deceased). Remola led a life of service. She joined the Nurses Unit of Greater People’s Union Baptist Church and the Ladies First Aid Union of Churches in 1969. She held various positions including Vice President and Sargent at Arms. Remola was a member of the International Masons and Order of the Eastern Star where she served in different positions over the years. She leaves to cherish her memory two daughters Linda Jenkins and Hilda Boykin, seven grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren, 16 great-great grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews and cousins.

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es and COVID-induced closures.

Now, as DC Public Schools [DCPS] prepares to pull veteran teachers out of retirement to serve as substitutes at a substantially higher rate, a group of substitute teachers has taken their fight to the steps of the John A. Wilson Building.

“Starting at $15 per hour is way too low and we don’t even get a gradual salary increase [as] government employees,” said a substitute teacher and participant in “A Day of Absence” who requested anonymity.

On Monday, Dec. 10, the substitute teacher counted among dozens who converged in front of the Wilson Building in Northwest for several hours, holding signs, belting chants and making known their cause. They expressed plans to conduct “A Day of Absence” every following Monday until DCPS and city officials meet their demands.

The substitute teacher, who has served at five public schools across the District, said they transitioned into that work nearly four years ago after their previous employer downsized. Though they find the flexibility appealing, the substitute teacher said it’s often difficult to pursue their

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interests while tending to financial obligations in an increasingly expensive city.

“There’s no sick leave, health insurance or any kind of legal protection,” the substitute teacher said.

“That’s what we’re asking for in addition to the substantial raise in pay.

We’ve been organizing since 2018 and we’ve been at the table with the chancellor’s office. They’ve been very nice but haven’t done enough.”

Deadline Extended for Task Force to Determine Compensation for Early Childhood Educators D.C. Council Approves Change of Date to April for Group’s Final Recommendations Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer A group of business owners, advocates and researchers now have until the spring to compile and present recommendations specifying how the District government disburses funds that make early childcare educators’ pay equal to that of District public school teachers.

Earlier this month, the D.C. Council agreed to give the Early Childhood Educator Equitable Compensation Task Force until April to hammer out the details of a compensation system that substantially raises the salaries of early childhood educators in accordance with their role, credentials and on-the-job experience.

The task force’s formation follows the funding of the Birth-to-Three For All DC Act which mandates wage parity for early childcare educators

but didn’t quite determine how it would come to fruition.

With more than $120 million budgeted toward this effort over the next two years, task force members have expressed a commitment to approaching the issue with as much nuance as possible.

“By the end of the task force, we would have produced recommendations that will start an early educator compensation program. There’s nothing like that in the country,” said Ruqiyyah Anbar-Shaheen, a task force member and director of the DC Under 3 coalition, which advocated for the Birth-to-Three for All DC Act’s funding last budget season.

Anbar-Shaheen counts among a cadre of program leaders, association directors, teachers, university researchers and economists who serve on the task force. Former Deputy

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Throughout the school year, a dearth of teachers has compelled administrators to, not only employ substitute teachers, but take over classrooms, split classrooms between teachers and ask teachers to lead instruction during their planning period. The overlap in responsibilities has been credited as a cause of inconsistent COVID-19 mitigation.

To the dismay of DCPS substitute teachers, DCPS announced plans last year to incentivize DCPS retirees to return to the classroom.

Those who agreed to serve 90 consecutive days as substitute teachers stand to receive a $4,500 signing bonus in addition to $300 a day in compensation after their first 30 days on the job.

Non-DCPS retiree substitutes currently earn $120 per day within the first 30 consecutive days of service. After 30 days, the daily rate jumps to $150.

In a statement, affiliates of Washington Substitute Teachers United [WSTU] said such a move on the part of DCPS shows that officials have enough resources to adequately pay substitute teachers.

“A Day of Absence” counts as the latest chapter in a movement that started nearly four years ago when WSTU started engaging DCPS, the D.C. Council and the Office of the Deputy Mayor of Education in conversations about higher pay for substitute teachers.

Since 2008, when they last received a pay bump, substitute teachers, many of whom hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, earned $15 per hour. Last year, District officials in-

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EDUCTORS from Page 22 Mayor for Education Abigail Smith serves as a third-party facilitator.

The task force has been scheduled to issue preliminary recommendations to the D.C. Council on Jan. 15 that will determine how the city allocates $53 million this fiscal year.

The submission of another set of recommendations in April concerns $73 million set aside for the next fiscal year.

By the fall, when the District enters a new fiscal year, early childhood educators should expect a bonus as an acknowledgement of their work during the pandemic. Shortly after, the pay increases would go into effect.

“It’s an exciting opportunity to start paying the teachers caring for little kids closer to their worth,” Anbar-Shaheen said. “In Chocolate City, where many of our Black and brown teachers are not able to afford to live here, I’m excited about this. The funds are sitting in a bank account and once the legislation is updated, they can use them.”

ESTABLISHING A TIMELINE TO SPEND FUNDS

Data shows that the average base salary of an early childhood education educator in D.C. stands at $36,700, or less than $19 per hour.

Throughout the pandemic, much of the advocacy for the Birth-to-Three for All DC Act highlighted the struggles of community childcare facilities to attract top-notch talent and maintain services.

For months, the Early Childhood Educator Equitable Compensation Task Force, in conjunction with the Office of the State Superintendent of Education [OSSE], debated how the salary scale created by the local agency would best create a pathway to compensate teachers for experience.

Another aspect that dominated con-

versations among task force members involved program oversight and how best to hold the District accountable to early childhood education workers.

During a Jan. 04 legislative meeting, council members unanimously approved the extension of the task force’s deadline. Moments earlier, council members expressed concerns about, with the extension, whether OSSE would be allowed to disperse the funds allocated for this fiscal year before D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser submits the budget for the next fiscal year.

In speaking about the task force’s importance, D.C. Council Chairperson Phil Mendelson (D) called it a piece of a puzzle to create an environment where young people receive a quality education at every point in their lives.

He said the task force, and Birthto-Three for All DC Act, builds upon D.C. Councilmember Vincent Gray’s work throughout the 2000s to expand preschool access.

“Most people think of early childcare as nothing more than daycare, but it’s actually education,” Mendelson said. “In order to attract and retain early childhood educators, we need to make the compensation system better. The issue of better pay is critical to ensuring that we have top-quality early childhood care.”

ALLOWING ROOM FOR ALL CHILDCARE CENTERS TO GROW

For Cynthia Davis, early childcare educator compensation has also become a matter of maintaining longevity in the industry.

Davis, owner of Kings and Queens Childcare in Northwest and an Early Childhood Educator Equitable Compensation Task Force appointee, said home-based family childcare centers

like the one she runs often receive significantly less in OSSE subsidies than their counterparts who operate child development programs in centers and schools. This affects her bottom line and her ability to grow the capacity of her business.

As the number of clients grows, OSSE regulations require her to hire more workers, which becomes an arduous battle in balancing a small budget that affects her bottom line and ability to expand the capacity of her business.

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That’s why Davis has spent much of her time highlighting this challenge and fighting to ensure equity for home-based child development centers – often referred to as “family childcare.”

“We shouldn’t have to use our retirement and other income to sustain our businesses. Government funding for childcare should be evenly distributed, regardless of the setting,” said Davis, who’s also executive director of the DC Family Child Care Association.

“If this pay increase actually happens, it will affect family childcare in a way that has never happened,” she said. “Home-based child development programs have never been equally supported in legislation like this before and now we’re being included.”

“It’s an exciting moment in time.

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Fighting Against COVID, Fighting for Voting Rights on Jan. 17 Dr. Reed Tuckson is relentless about the COVID-19 virus. He is unmistakably clear that everyone, especially Black Americans, needs to take the COVID-19 vaccine and the booster, too.

Tuckson is the vigilant leader of Blacks Against COVID-19, a national organization that provides trustworthy, reliable and relatable information to minority communities on all aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization states that it also arranges direct services in the Washington, D.C. region and nationally.

Dr. Tuckson did not mince his words this week, as well, when he warned members of the MLK Holiday DC Committee of the repercussions of holding a march into Ward 8. Residents of Ward 8, he reminded them, represent the area with the highest number of COVID-19 cases in D.C., the highest number of deaths resulting from COVID-19 and the area with the lowest number of residents vaccinated.

His words reverberated loudly throughout the planning of the MLK Holiday DC events.

Organizers pondered if their decision to host a march was irresponsible. How would they keep people safe from COVID-19 or the Omicron variant, and what message could they leave encouraging Ward 8 residents to fight the pandemic with all their might?

We agree with Dr. Tuckson that COVID-19 must be taken seriously and that it is a deadly disease. If masks, social distancing and taking the vaccine protect lives, then wear a mask, keep your distance and take the doggone vaccine. A strong message needs to remind residents that the deaths of COVID-19 in D.C. are mostly among Black people of all ages. And that they must take all precautions to help stop the spread of the virus.

We also agree with Martin Luther King, III, who has asked all Americans to join him in the fight on the holiday named after his beloved father to fight for voting rights. January 17 is the day that members of the Senate may vote on two voting rights bills and help to restore the Voting Rights Act. During a speech in Atlanta Tuesday, President Joe Biden said, “The United States Supreme Court has weakened the Voting Rights Act in recent years. And now the defeated former president and his supporters use the Big Lie about the 2020 election to fuel torrent and torment and anti-voting laws — new laws designed to suppress your vote, to subvert our elections.

“I believe that the threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills, debate them and vote. Let the majority prevail. And if that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster for this.”

We share the sentiment that all efforts must be made to stop the COVID-19 virus from killing our community. And we also understand that a strong message must be sent to protect every American’s right to vote. Both issues can be addressed together on one day, demanding that those who have the power and the ability must restore voting rights while protecting themselves from COVID-19.

It can be done. It must be done. On January 17, it will be done. WI

Voting Should Be a Guaranteed Right for All Americans As Americans look to the midterm elections this fall, one thing that remains abundantly clear is the degree to which some lawmakers and citizens alike will go to keep “some people” from freely and easily exercising their Constitutional right to vote.

But before we get too engrossed in debates and arguments lodged at the “doorkeepers of white privilege” or other “privileged groups,” it might be prudent to take a fresh look at American history.

When the Founding Fathers were establishing this country, while they were adamant that they wanted to secure a nation built on the premises of democracy, they also held fast to the notion that voting should not be a privilege for everyone. In fact, history reminds us that only white men who owned property were considered to have the intellectual prowess needed to objectively chose their elected leaders.

Women were not allowed to vote. Slaves and then, former slaves, were not allowed to vote.

Other distinctions would later be made between those who had the “right” to vote and those who should be and were denied the right to vote, like those convicted of a felony and sentenced to jail.

The list has grown over time.

And yet, America has continued to proclaim itself as a democratic society where “all men [and women?] are created equal.

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The Truth Behind Jan. 6

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I, for one, enjoyed the blanket of snow the D.C. area received last week. So much so that I went out in the snow with my grandkids and had a grand old time, and we took plenty of pictures. Afterward, we had hot chocolate and pizza! It was a simple but joyful day out in nature’s snow. Long story short: I love the snow!

It’s been a year since the January 6 insurrection, and now we must live that modern travesty over and over. All of the media and talking heads are talking around what went on and are scared to say that “racists” stormed the capital and quite forcibly said, “to hell with democracy.” They said this is “our” country, and we do what we want with minimum consequences, if any.

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It’s clearly a paradox. And the irony we face today is just how many of our elected officials believe, or at least profess to believe, that voting is more of a privilege than a right.

There are many things that are positive about our nation and how we treat one another. But there are also many things that illustrate our xenophobia, prejudice, bigotry and hatred for “the other.”

It’s time that Americans stop “talking the talk” and begin to “walk the walk.”

Voting is an essential element in American citizenship. It is the way we the people express our desires, our needs, our likes and our dislikes.

And no matter what one’s race, creed, religion,

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gender, education or financial status, we are all Americans.

And as American citizens, by definition, everyone should have the right to vote without facing any unnecessary, illogical hindrances.

Aren’t we “one nation” or was that just rhetoric delivered at the Constitutional Convention in 1776 by a group of privileged, wealthy landowners?

As Langston Hughes reminded us in his poem, “I, Too,” America must live up to its lofty promises.

The question, however, remains whether we ever will.

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Rev. Jesse L. Jackson

Congress Must Act to Protect the Right to Vote

Jan. 6, 2022, marked one year since the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, incited by a president voted out of office by the vast majority of the American people.

What is now clear is that Donald Trump and his zealous aides and complicit right-wing legislators were deadly serious about overturning the results of that vote and keeping Trump in office. They failed but have since launched a systematic campaign in states

across the country to make it possible to succeed the next time.

Trump's bumbling gang of the incompetent, the craven, the corrupt and the certifiable are often difficult to take seriously. That is a mistake. Over the past year, Republican officials have taken up the cause and moved steadily to rig the rules in their favor. The overwhelming majority of Republicans now believe Trump's Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen, despite it being rejected by the courts, by Trump's own attorney general, by professional Republican election officials and even by

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the partisan audits that Republicans have wasted millions on. Craven Republican legislators repeat the Big Lie, too fearful of Trump's wrath to tell the truth.

That Big Lie has been used to justify a systematic attempt to rig the rules against the majority.

Republican state legislators have introduced hundreds of bills to make it more difficult to vote, particularly for minorities and the young. In states like Wisconsin and North Carolina and Texas, partisan gerrymandering draws districts designed to enable the minority party to win a majority

of the seats in the state legislatures and congressional districts. The Big Lie has been used to terrorize election officials and to replace professionals with partisans committed to a certain outcome, not a fair election count.

Even worse, in states like Georgia, Republicans in state legislatures have given themselves the power to reject election results if they don't like the outcome. This legislative offensive is bolstered by the threat and presence of violence.

Election officials who tell the truth have their lives and families threatened. A staggering onethird of Re-

publicans say that violence may be necessary to achieve their political ends. This assault on democracy is fueled by a racial backlash against the growing electoral power of people of color.

This isn't the first time that democracy has been assaulted. After the Civil War freed the slaves, the 15th Amendment was passed to prohibit discrimination in the right to vote. When coalitions of Black and white people emerged to threaten the privilege and power of the plantation South, the reaction

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Marian Wright Edelman

Honoring Beloved Archbishop Desmond Tutu

On Dec. 26, the world lost beloved South African Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu.

An outspoken defender of human rights and campaigner for justice for the oppressed, Archbishop Tutu was a prophetic voice in our world today revered for his commitment to fighting poverty, racism, and all forms of discrimination against any human

beings, and his dedication to reshaping our conversations about peace, equality, and forgiveness.

He left his early career as a teacher to protest the 1953 Bantu Education Act that segregated South Africa's schools. He then followed the calling to the priesthood, and ultimately became a moral leader adored and respected around the world who fought first for the end of South African apartheid and then for the truth-telling and reconciliation his nation required in order to move for-

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ward.

As a joyful, holy man who spent his whole life in solidarity with marginalized people, Archbishop Tutu was always a champion for children. Several years ago he sent a special video address to attendees at the Children's Defense Fund's annual Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry, where his daughter, Rev. Nontombi Naomi Tutu, has been a valued workshop leader. In this message to faithful child advocates he shared a timeless exhortation for pursuing jus-

tice: "Justice needs champions. Good leaders with the ability to identify the challenges and the tenacity to address them. Good leaders driven not by personal ambition, but by an innate desire to improve the circumstances of the human family and the human condition."

He continued: "We inhabit a moral universe. Goodness, righteousness, and fairness matter. We are born to love — all of us, including black, Latino, and white [children] and everyone else. As members of the human

family — God's family — we were created with equal, infinite worth for interdependence. In conditions of harmony, equity, and common purpose, the whole family thrives. God does not use strong-armed tactics to ensure justice is done. God empowers us to do the right thing. It is up to us — you, and you, and you, and me."

Archbishop Tutu then shared what he believed is God's dream for all

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Marc H. Morial

One Year Later, the January 6 Insurrection Still Rages On

"Our democracy was inches from ruin. Our system of government was stretched to the breaking point.

Members and staff were terrorized.

Police officers fought hand to hand for hours. People lost their lives …

Either you're on the side of helping us figure out why, or you're trying to stop us from getting those answers.

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You can parade out whatever argument you want, but really, that's all there is to it. In real life, there aren't a lot of bright-line moments.

This is one of them." — U.S. Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, chair of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol A year ago on Jan. 6, Americans watched in horror and revulsion as a savage mob stormed the U.S.

Capitol, intent upon overturning a fair and free election through violence or even murder, if necessary.

The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol has interviewed more than 300 witnesses and reviewed tens of thousands of documents. The Department of Justice has charged more than 700 defendants with alleged crimes ranging from entering restricted Capitol grounds to conspiracy

against the United States.

Yet the attack on American democracy continues, unabated.

The ongoing assault relies less on brute violence — though the threat is ever-present — and more on subversion. But the motivation, the fuel, and the ultimate goal remain as stark and repugnant as they were revealed to be on that dark day one year ago.

The motivation is furious resentment of the historic Black and

brown voter turnout that contributed to the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The fuel is the "Big Lie" — the ugly myth that the election was "stolen." And the goal is not only to disenfranchise Black and brown Americans with repressive voting laws, not only to dilute their influence with manipulative racial gerrymandering, but to ignore the

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A. Peter Bailey

My Best Wishes for 2022

Most of these are the same wishes that I advocated for in a column for the year 1993. They are as relevant today as they were then: • That we realize that contrary to popular belief, we are not a weak people. In fact, we have many strengths that can be the foundation for a powerful and productive group. We need to concentrate on identifying and building on these strengths.

• That we reject those who attempt to convince us that supporting self-help and strong family values is somehow to become politically conservative as defined by those who don’t I have our best interests at heart. Such positions, along with self-respect, self-determination and self-defense have always had strong appeal to most Black folks because they make sense to any group of people trying to promote and protect their vital interests. These values seem to have been momentarily forgotten in the rush for integration.

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• That Black students on all levels will totally reject anyone, young or old, Black or white, who tells them that striving for academic excellence is the same as trying to be white. Such a person or persons are as much an enemy of our people as the most ardent member of the Ku Klux Klan.

• That we as a people will use our collective resources more effectively as an instrument for advancing our economic, cultural and political opportunities.

• That we as adult Black folks will use our talent and other re-

sources to build or open well-supervised community centers for our teenagers where they will have opportunities for learning and fun in a safe setting.

• That we will more effectively support those committed teachers and administrators that are working hard to educate our children. I also wish that more Brothers can be persuaded to become teachers.

• That we as a people will understand that our too often apathy and refusal to deal with a reality check contributes heavily to the problems that confront us in too many of our

neighborhoods.

• That Black folks who do destructive things in our communities understand that they are actively aiding those white supremacists that would like for all of us to disappear.

• That we as people will do much more to educate our children about our history and our culture in this country and throughout the world.

• That we understand that a Pan-Africanist movement is the most effective way for our people throughout the world to promote and protect our interests. WI

place to reject or "find" as many votes as he needs to declare victory. That's why Trump has endorsed the effort by Rep. Jody Hice to replace Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

Raffensperger refused to embrace the Big Lie, stood up to Trump's bullying, and respected the will of the voters. Hice has promoted the Big Lie. That's the kind of guy Trump wants deciding which votes to count — and not count — in 2024.

Trump has endorsed other sec-

retary of state candidates, and his political henchman Steve Bannon in encouraging Trumpists to try to replace election officials at the local level.

Meanwhile, state legislators are making it easier for partisan Republicans in state legislatures to mess with vote counting by taking control from local officials — and even to simply override the will of the voters.

That is why we urgently need

of the U.S. Constitutional system.

To put it simply: they want all future decisions and policies in this country to openly favor white people. Furthermore, to be certain, they want practically all white people in the positions making all future political decisions.

Clearly, this country did not learn the lessons concerning white supremacy taught by the Civil War. Then, they even labeled their quest as "The Lost Cause." It is a pseudo-historical negationist my-

thology that claims the cause of the Confederate States during the American Civil War was just, heroic, and not centered on slavery.

A fantasy, just like Trump's "Big Lie" claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

These jingoes, called Christians, misread all the Scriptures they profess, because if they believed their own Bible which warns: "You

Ben Jealous

The Big Truth: The Big Problem is the Big Lie

It's been a year since a mob of Trumpists violently attacked the U.S. Capitol. They wanted to stop Congress from affirming President Joe Biden's victory. Some of them were out for blood. All of them were motivated by the former president's Big Lie that he won the election but that his victory was stolen from him and his supporters.

That lie has been debunked by journalists and election officials — both Republicans and Democrats.

It has been rejected by courts. But it has never been abandoned by Trump or his right-wing allies.

And so one year after it fueled an attack on Congress and the Constitution, the Big Lie is still a big threat to our democracy.

The Big Lie causes big harms in lots of ways by fueling anger and mistrust about our elections among Trump's base.

Many if not most Republican

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officials know that Trump's Big Lie is not true. But they are cynical and corrupt enough to use it to justify new voter suppression laws and other schemes to overturn the will of the voters. Far-right activists have harassed and threatened election officials across the country.

And they are trying to get elected to state and local positions that will give them the power to oversee future elections.

Donald Trump would love to go into the 2024 elections knowing that he has loyal Trumpists in

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Askia Muhammad

Congressional Dems' Salt Has Lost Its Savor

There once was a time when the bad guys quaked at the knees at the dreaded thought of appearing before a congressional committee investigation. The fear was that The Truth of one's dirty deeds would be made known, and the crooked people would get the punishment that they deserved.

The mighty could be laid low

and the ne'er-do-wells would squirm in the glare of negative publicity when one of those committees got a hold of you. In those days, not even wrongdoers wanted the truth known of their despicable deeds.

But today, twice-impeached, one-term, former President Donald J. Trump has said the congressional investigation into his attempted overthrow of the constitutional government on Jan. 6, 2021, be damned!

He stands in open defiance of the committee and its subpoenas, and he has ordered his minions to do the same.

This will turn out very ugly in the end. These would-be fascists don't care anything about preserving democracy in this country, about the 230-plus-year tradition of peaceful transfers of power from administration to administration.

Forget that. Clearly the Trumpistas are more concerned with power, than they are with the integrity

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LIFESTYLE Artist Alma W. Thomas – Pioneer, Educator Taught Us How to See Beauty in the Everyday D. Kevin McNeir WI Senior Writer The ongoing pandemic, now into its second year, may have many peo-

ple fearful of the future and unable to find enjoyment in what some have described as the “new normal.”

But as one pioneering artist and educator, Alma W. Thomas, helped us

EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL

NOW THROUGH JANUARY 23, 2022 Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful is co-organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art, Virginia, and The Columbus Museum, Georgia.

Aflac is proud to sponsor Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful. The exhibition has also been made possible in part by major support from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts Generous funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Robert & Mercedes Eichholz Foundation,the Robert Lehman Foundation, and Dina and George Perry.

Additional support provided by John and Gina Despres, Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan, and the Ednah Root Foundation Alma Thomas, Pansies in Washington (detail), 1969, Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 48 in., National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Vincent Melzac)

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realize, there’s beauty all around us – particularly in the “every day.”

And now, through Jan. 23, you can experience her breathtaking paintings in the District as The Phillips Collection continues its commitment to showcasing the works of African-American artists whose creativity and talent lives on – well after their deaths. Under the direction of cultural and educational institutions across D.C., residents and visitors can celebrate Thomas’s life with a variety of programs, events, and a major exhibition at The Phillips Collection, honoring her contributions to our cultural heritage.

“Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful” delivers a new perspective on the artist’s long life (1891-1978) and her career – one defined by constant creativity.

The retrospective chronicles her journey from rural Georgia to the District where she became the first Black

woman featured in a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art at age 81.

Through artworks and archival materials, this exhibition demonstrates how Thomas’s wide-reaching artistic practices extended far beyond her studio, shaping every facet of her life – from community service, to teaching, to gardening.

The oldest of four girls, Thomas and her family migrated from Columbus, Georgia, to the District, hoping to escape the racial violence of the South.

Segregation notwithstanding, D.C., as the nation’s capital, still offered more opportunities for Blacks than most cities during that era.

As a child, she dreamed of being an architect and building bridges.

But few women architects existed a century ago – certainly not Black.

So, Thomas decided to matriculate at Howard University. By 1924, she had distinguished herself as the first

art department graduate at Howard University.

A constant learner, she studied the latest developments in art, visiting museums in New York, Europe, and D.C., including The Phillips Collection.

For 35 years and in a segregated city, she empowered art students at Shaw Junior High School to see beauty in the everyday and brought exhibition opportunities and cultural enrichment to Black youth.

Teaching allowed her to support herself while pursuing her own painting part-time.

Thomas’s early art was realistic, though her Howard professor James V. Herring and peer Loïs Mailou Jones challenged her to experiment with abstraction. When she retired from teaching and began to give her undivided attention to her art, Thom-

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For Thomas – who died in 1978 but lived long enough to go from what she called “horse and buggy times” to the 1969 moon landing – the rush of modernity demanded expression . . .

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Loïs Mailou Jones and Morris Louis who also helped shape the D.C. art scene. The exhibition offers an intimate look at this inspiring cultural icon who used her imagination and ingenuity to lead a rich and beautiful life.

Washington Post reporter Kelsey Ables described the work of Thomas in a Sept. 2021 report as follows: “For Thomas – who died in 1978 but lived long enough to go from what she called “horse and buggy times” to the 1969 moon landing – the rush of modernity demanded expression . . .

Look at any of Thomas’s works, and her awe at the universe – at any scale – united them. An energetic harmony seems to pulse from the light at her fingertips out to the light of the stars.

Her medium is motion.”

If you have never witnessed the brilliance of the artist Alma W. Thomas, you have denied yourself a mind-blowing, eye-opening experience.

The Phillips Collection has virtual tours available as well as limited opportunities for residents to visit the gallery. But time remains of the essence.

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as finally developed her signature style.

In 1966, she debuted her abstract work in an exhibition at Howard at the age of 75. She would become a role model for women, African Americans, and older artists. And age would not hinder her abilities or success. She serves as the first Black woman to have a solo exhibition at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art and exhibited her paintings at the White House on separate occasions.

Thomas’s home located at 1530 15th Street, NW, served as her artistic epicenter. There, she created small watercolors, aerial landscapes and brightly patterned large-scale abstractions that reflect her local surroundings, her fascination with space, and her dedication to the environment. Along with these themes, the exhibition explores her interests in performance, puppetry, costume design, and fashion.

“Everything is Beautiful” contextualizes Thomas’s art and life within her creative community, delving into her association with Howard University, American University and the Barnett Aden Gallery, which she helped cofound.

Some of her works can be seen placed alongside examples by her friends and contemporaries including 5 Alma Thomas (right) with Howard University students. (Courtesy photo)

Metro D.C. Restaurant Week Returns as Pandemic Continues

Small and Minority-Owned Restaurants Still Challenged by COVID-19 Brenda C. Siler WI Contributing Writer

“Winter Restaurant Week" returns January 17-23. The seven-day event, promoted by the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington [RAMW], seeks to motivate people to dine out in support of a favorite dining spot or try something new. Fixed prices have been established for lunch, dinner and brunch. On the Winter Restaurant Week dining filter, patrons can select cuisines and locations.

The rise in COVID-19 cases has forced dining establishments to reinstitute mandates many thought counted as a thing of the past.

RAMW's website has COVID-19 updates specific to the District, Maryland and Virginia.

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5 City Winery participates in 2022 Winter Restaurant Week, January 17-23. Risotto Balls are on the menu at this restaurant in the Ivy City neighborhood in the District.

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“Mandates are never ideal but we are at an inflection point with this virus. We expected additional

measures might be considered to maintain health and safety,” said RAMW President/CEO Kathy

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Hollinger.

“We have many local restaurants already requiring proof of vaccination, but most are not, nor have the capacity to do so. It will be important that we work collaboratively to achieve a seamless and measured process with minimal burden on small businesses who have a very thin infrastructure.”

Last September, RAMW's annual awards program, the RAMMYS, honored restaurants, bars and purveyors in new categories that recognized necessary dining options like takeout and pop-ups.

These alternatives to a traditional

restaurant experience will probably be in high demand for 2022 Winter Restaurant Week."

“FishScale” serves as a small family-owned restaurant at 637 Florida Avenue in Northwest, one block away from the historic Howard Theatre. The restaurant has been a RAMW member, participated in a RAMW Restaurant Week before and also Black Restaurant Week, which isn’t affiliated with RAMW. Patrons can expect to pay a fee to participate in the event as well

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5 City Winery participates in 2022 Winter Restaurant Week, January 17-23. Risotto Balls are on the menu at this restaurant in the Ivy City neighborhood in the District.

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Black Restaurant Week does not charge restaurants and bars to participate. FishScale will not join in RAMW's Winter Restaurant Week.

FishScale's co-owners are siblings. Chef Henry Brandon Williams and Crystal Williams have been fortunate not to shut down during the pandemic. Loyal customers have continued to patronize the eatery, but FishScale would like to hire more staff like most restaurants and bars.

“It's definitely been tricky. We slightly changed our hours,” Crystal said. “A lot of our customers are people who utilize services in the area.”

Crystal expressed her thanks for RAMW's support and advocacy on behalf of restaurants during the pandemic. According to Crystal, some of RAMW's fees were complimentary early in the pandemic.

RAMW now has a sliding scale membership fee, making it more affordable for smaller dining establishments to benefit. Still, budgets remain tight for most restaurants and bars.

“It took us a while to wrap our heads around RAMW because it appeared most of their members were fine dining restaurants with three-course meals,” said Crystal, who remains on sabbatical from

her career as a clinical pharmacist.

Crystal said she appreciates the surveys that RAMW conducts among restaurants. During the pandemic, she feels this has been an excellent method to understand what businesses need, what to say to local policymakers and target services.

“RAMW has also been creative in breaking down restaurants by neighborhoods so that people can go to places closer to home.

RAMW also has done a fantastic job with helping business owners stay up-to-date on legislation that impacts us,” she said while speaking specifically about the Restaurant Revitalization Act. The program provides emergency assistance for eligible restaurants, bars, and other qualifying businesses impacted by COVID-19.

Survival of the restaurant industry in the metro area is the top priority for RAMW. “At the beginning of the pandemic, two years ago, restaurants saw a 70% decrease in their sales compared to pre-pandemic numbers,” Hollinger said. “Now, two years later, restaurants are bringing in about 75% of their pre-pandemic sales. Restaurants are also operating with about 75% of their normal staff size.”

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Woodpecker’s Winter Food Budget Plan

An acorn fell out of the hole a woodpecker drilled. Can you put it back?

Whoa! Whoa! Not so fast there, little one! I was just about to explain to you that we need to make a food budget to make sure that this food lasts all winter. It looks like a lot of food now, but we need food for the next three months!

Wow, mom!

It looks like we’ve stored way more food than we need!

Let’s throw a big party for all our feathered friends!

AP! TAP! TAPPITY! TAP! Woodpeckers use their strong beaks to tap holes into tree trunks. Then they fill each hole with acorns, pine nuts, seeds and more to save for later.

A woodpecker’s storage tree is also called a granary tree. The same granary tree is used for generations. Some granary trees have over 10,000 holes!

And we have to store extra food because squirrels like to help themselves to the food in our granary tree!

How rude!

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Imagine you have $100 to spend on family meals for one week. Look through the ads in the newspaper and make a list of foods to buy.

Add up what the foods cost. Adjust your grocery list to make it cost $100 or less.

Standards Link: Math: Caluculate money sums to total $100 or less.

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wi book review "You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays"

by Zora Neale Hurston, edited and with an introduction by Genevieve West and Henry Louis Gates Jr. c.2022, Amistad $29.99 464 pages Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer That's just the way it was.

People did things differently in times past. They were a little more likely to judge others, a little less apt to open their minds. They had notions we might think are odd; they held beliefs that we know now are wrong. But as in the new book "You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays" by Zora Neale Hurston, times change. Sometimes.

Throughout her career of nearly 40 years, Zora Neale Hurston prodigiously wrote novels that resonate today. In this nonfiction book, readers get a taste of the other side of Hurston's career: her journalism, essay-writing, and a reflection of the times in which she lived.

In the essay "High John de Conquer," she offers "some help to our brothers and sisters who have always been white" by introducing them to a man who "romps … clowns, and looks ridiculous" and then disappears. John de Conquer is a scamp and a "mystery," but he also offers hope and "the secret of Negro song and laughter."

If you ever imagined what it was like to have been captured and sold into slavery, "The Last Slave Ship" is Hurston's interview with Cudgo Lewis, the last survivor of the Clotilda. Lewis told Hurston about a rivalry between villages, his capture, the cruelty of the Dahomey king and the eradication of an entire tribe of people.

Here, Hurston writes of novelist Fanny Hurst, encouraging readers to sample Hurst's work. She mourns that white publishers of her time were reluctant to offer more diverse works because they believed that "the average American just cannot conceive of it." She writes first with pride about attending Howard University, then about what led to her disillusionment and why she called Negro colleges "Begging Joints."

She writes about noses and charm, being "a little colored girl," and of having no race. With barely simmering anger, she reveals her "Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience." And she reports on the lengthy trial of Ruby McCollum, an experience that left Hurston in a dream "of fog and mist …"

For sure, "You Don't Know Us Negroes" isn't a book to take — or read — lightly.

From the beginning of the introduction to the very last words on McCollum, this book demands that readers stop and think about what's been said. It's natural that you would anyhow: much of what author Zora Neale Hurston observed in her day is still relevant now. Hurston died on the very cusp of the civil rights movement, and so racism and race issues feature highly in the works inside this book.

What's unexpected — and very delightful — is Hurston's voice. Some of these stories ring with a wonderful sense of sarcasm that tells you everything you need to know about Hurston's mindset. Some tales ache with frustration. Others spark like lightning in a jar.

This is a carry-it-everywhere-with-you kind of book, perfect for times when you need some introspection as diversion. "You Don't Know Us Negroes" is like that, and that's just the way it is.

"You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays" can be found on store shelves on Jan. 18. WI

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ARIES Getting to the bottom of a wellness concern might prove frustrating at the start of the week. That's because it could be particularly tough to pinpoint what's real and what's not. Patience and postponing any action for the time being serve you well. Later, the cosmos urges you to consider new ways to broaden your horizons, hone your skills, and pursue your professional dreams. Cast a wide net while researching your options and you could land on a particularly exciting opportunity. Lucky Numbers: 13, 18, 39 TAURUS A blast of creativity could inspire you to work with colleagues on brainstorming and artistic endeavors at the week's start. Consider whether or not you feel drawn intuitively to a project. If so, it's the one you should move on. Later, you might have an increased sense of clarity around your current partnership or what you want from your next intimate bond. Lucky Numbers: 9, 19, 56 GEMINI At the beginning of the week, you might find a way to weave more self-care into your day. You'll be especially in tune with your intuition around this time, so make sure to trust what it's telling you, and let that guide your next steps. Later, if you've wanted to enjoy more one-on-one time with your significant other, closest friend, or a potential mate, the cosmos brings a perfect time to enjoy one another's company, work together toward a shared goal, and even take your bond to the next level. Lucky Numbers: 5, 6, 25 CANCER Consider having that important conversation with your partner or close colleague early in the week.

You're able to connect intellectually, stick to the facts, and get closer to hitting a shared goal through hard work. Later, you could be feeling especially optimistic about a new fitness or healthful eating plan you'd like to try. Lucky Numbers: 8, 27, 47 LEO When the week begins, you might be prepared to pitch a bold, imaginative idea to higher-ups. Your sense of fun and playfulness comes through, but you might run the risk of being a bit too optimistic and overestimate just how much you can take on. Trying to lead with a more measured approach can help you stay on track and follow through. Lucky Numbers: 19, 36, 59 VIRGO You might find it's easier than ever to work closely with a colleague or a friend on a project that's close to your heart early in the week. Bouncing ideas back and forth and then leaning into one another's strengths can turn a wild dream into reality. Later, you'll be feeling passionate, joyful, and intently focused on new ways to express yourself with those you love. Let yourself revel in the moment and fully embrace your instincts to write or have colorful, flirtatious conversations. Lucky Numbers: 12, 33, 51 LIBRA You'll be one seriously happy social butterfly when the week begins. Not only will you be feeling jovial, but you'll be having a blast with friends, loved ones, neighbors, and colleagues. You'll be feeling optimistic about your existing relationships and psyched to meet and greet people outside of your circle to foster new connections. Lucky Numbers: 27, 39, 58 SCORPIO You might be feeling especially whimsical and loving early in the week. Make a point of sharing how you feel with your partner or someone else special. Anything you've been fantasizing about now can easily be turned into reality if you're willing to let yourself get swept away in the moment. Lucky Numbers: 4, 12, 21 SAGITTARIUS Setting an ambitious personal goal might very well be at the top of your mind when the week begins. You feel like you can take on the world and easily level up your day-to-day game so that you're able to make long-term dreams a reality. The more you can connect with others on what you want to achieve, the more successful you'll be! Lucky Numbers: 3, 7, 15 CAPRICORN Progress on a long-term professional goal is within sight at the start of the week. You'll be ready to get to work applying for a new opportunity or signing up for training that will allow you to hone your skill set. If it's time for you to make an important decision that could have reverberating effects on your career, you'll feel ready to make your move. Lucky Numbers: 4, 40, 45 AQUARIUS At the beginning of the week, you might struggle to get on the same page as your partner or close loved one when it comes to a crucial financial matter. The issue is that you don't have all the information you need. Wait until the haze passes and you'll land on a solution. Lucky Numbers: 15, 33, 50 PISCES Early in the week, you could be fantasizing about planning an exciting, long-distance trip or taking a class that allows you to expand your artistic skills and broaden your perspective. Allow yourself to bask in these thoughts, then consider which ones your heart is calling you to turn into concrete goals. If it feels right intuitively, it's worth pursuing. Lucky Numbers: 2, 8, 16

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SPORTS Antonio Brown and the Dehumanizing of Black Athletes’ Bodies Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer The recent public meltdown of former Tampa Bucs wide receiver Antonio Brown during a game in New York has many questioning whether the NFL and other professional sports leagues show enough care and concern for athletes.

Meanwhile, others have expressed disappointment, if not anger, when pointing out that athletes of color, in particular, continue to be mistreated and deemed less than human.

During a January 2, 2022 game against the New York Jets, Brown removed his shirt, shoulder pads and gloves and tossed them into the stands at MetLife Stadium. He then ran

through the end zone, raised his arms toward the crowd and gave high-fives to stadium personnel as he exited.

Tampa Bay Coach Bruce Arians immediately declared that Brown was “no longer a Buc.” Brown said an ankle injury prevented him from performing.

The team formally released Brown later and the National Football League Players Association announced it would investigate findings that the Bucs injected Brown with a “powerful and sometimes dangerous painkiller that the players association has warned against using.”

“As a clinician, my initial reaction was one of curiosity,” stated Dr. Tammy Lewis Wilborn, a board-certified licensed professional counselor who’s

Bowie State's Damon Wilson Named Division II National Coach of the Year Ed Hill WI Contributing Writer The Bowie State football program had one of its best seasons ever and it has been rewarded as

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the American Football Coaches Association named head football coach Damon Wilson as the AFCA National Coach of the Year for the NCAA Division II. The

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known as America’s No. 1 mental health and wellness expert.

“Unfortunately, when we’re talking about Black pain, it’s often minimized, scrutinized, and when it’s on display, penalized,” Dr. Wilborn asserted.

“One of the things concerning is that if Brown’s refusal to continue to play was his awareness of his pain and his need to advocate for himself, and the team didn’t respect and honor his concerns. I think that reflects a larger issue of how Black folks and how Black pain tends to be minimized,” Dr. Wilborn said.

“If Antonio Brown refused to play because he was hurting and didn’t want to cause further hurt, then good for him for recognizing his own worth and not buying into the dollar signs that are often dangled to help keep Black people in pain and suffering,” she said.

The treatment of Black athletes has remained a heated debate.

A 1995 white paper from Stanford University asked, “Does the stereotype of Black athletes as superphysical beings encourage racial violence in America?”

The Rev. Floyd Thompkins, who served as associate dean of Stanford’s Memorial Church, and ran programs for African-American adolescent boys, said he worried that the “glorification” of professional Black athletes as “people who are stronger, faster and bigger than everybody else” gives everyone more permission to be fearful of, or more violent against, Black males in general.

“It seems innocuous but it’s profoundly dangerous not to challenge the stereotype of the superhuman Black athlete,” Rev. Thompkins said.

“It could give permission for police to be more violent or to again lynch

[Blacks] because there is a Michael Jordan and an L.T. (Lawrence Taylor).”

In a 1988 interview, the then-popular CBS Sports commentator Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder remarked that Black athletes are better than whites because “they have been bred to be that way.”

“Because of his high thighs and big thighs that go up into his back,” Snyder said. “And they can jump higher and run faster because of their bigger thighs.”

He then took it further.

“I’m telling you that the Black is the better athlete and he practices to be the better athlete and he’s bred to be the better athlete because this goes all the way to the Civil War when, during the slave trading, the owner, the slave owner, would breed his big woman so that he would have a big Black kid, see. That’s where it all started,” an unchecked Snyder concluded.

While the comments caused a firestorm of controversy and led to Snyder’s termination, many responded that the proverbial genie was out of the bottle – that Snyder said what others remains too afraid to utter.

In the case of Brown, the Bucs former star, his latest episode has many wondering how badly several teams may have used him.

In 2018, as a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team benched Brown because of a fierce disagreement he had with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.

A year later, Brown. found guilty of driving recklessly, would be traded by the Steelers to the Oakland Raiders.

Oakland released Brown after he objected to a team-issued helmet and demanded separate gear. After signing with the New England Patriots, the NFL suspended him for eight games for violating its personal conduct policy.

The All-Pro helped the Bucs with the 2020 Super Bowl but the league suspended him earlier this season for allegedly providing the team with a fake COVID-19 vaccination card.

“It’s speculative to say what happened to Antonio Brown but there are concerns over whether it’s mental or physical,” said Faye McCray, a Howard University graduate and editor in chief of Psych Central, Healthline Media’s site devoted to mental health and wellness.

“What comes with this is the judgment. We think pro athletes make a lot of money so they can handle all of this but it’s more to it than that,” McCray insisted.

“The idea of Black people owing people our bodies is not new and we know that it’s rooted in racism and misogyny. And when someone speaks out and is condemned, it shouldn’t be surprising. But, whether it’s prioritizing mental health or acknowledging that Black lives matter, the sports industry has been behind the ball in confronting the humanity of our athletes,” she said. WI

Howard Hosts Notre Dame in MLK, Jr. Classic History to Be Made on Multiple Fronts Ed Hill WI Contributing Writer Howard University will host Notre Dame on Monday, January 17, in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Classic, so named in honor of the late civil rights activist. The game, which will be broadcast nationally on Fox Sports, features a Power 5 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) team in the Fighting Irish pitted against the Bison of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), an HBCU conference.

Tip off will be 2:30 EST with a pre-game presentation beginning at 2 p.m.

Originally scheduled to be played last year, the game would be canceled due to the coronavirus.

“This game came about as a re-

sult of a conversation that I had with Mike Brey,” said Kenny Blakeney, Howard head coach. “I have always had great respect for him. He is a

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BIDEN from Page 1 gotiating skills to get one of their own on board with changing Senate filibuster rules.

Doing so would allow the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act to pass.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) continues to staunchly oppose any filibuster changes.

The conservative has displayed an unwillingness to help push through bills that would help level the playing field for many un-

derserved Americans – including his constituents in the Mountain State.

“The next few days, when these bills come to a vote, will mark a turning point in this nation. Will we choose democracy over autocracy, light over shadow, justice over injustice?” President Biden asserted in excerpts of a speech released before his Georgia visit.

“I know where I stand. I will not yield. I will not flinch,” the President continued.

“I will defend your right to vote and our democracy against all en-

emies, foreign and domestic. And so, the question is where will the institution of the United States Senate stand?”

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki called the President’s words “forceful.”

“He’s quite focused on ensuring the American people understand what’s at stake here,” Psaki insisted.

“He will forcefully advocate for protecting the most bedrock American rights: the right to vote and have your voice counted in a free, fair, and secure election that is not tainted … by partisan manipulation.”

Psaki continued: “He’ll make clear in the former district of the late Congressman John Lewis that the only way to do that is for the Senate to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.” Despite an expected “no” vote from Manchin, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) insisted he would bring to the chamber measures to alter or abolish the filibuster.

He said he would push for a vote on the John Lewis Voting

Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. To do so, all 50 Senate Democrats must vote in the affirmative.

All 50 GOP Senators likely will vote against each of those measures.

Vice President Kamala Harris would cast the tie-breaking vote, giving Democrats the majority.

Georgia stands among 19 states that have passed voter suppression laws since Republican Donald Trump lost the presidency to Joe Biden in 2020.

According to the Brennan Center for Justice, 34 voter restriction or suppression laws have passed across the country since the 2020 election, where Trump and some Republicans falsely claimed fraud.

Brennan Center officials noted that 13 more restrictive laws stand in the works, including one in Georgia that would ban the use of ballot boxes altogether.

Before President Biden visited Georgia, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s family said they didn’t want any celebrations of the slain civil rights hero’s national holiday unless meaningful voting rights legislation passed.

Meanwhile, the Asian Amer-

ican Advocacy Fund, Atlanta North Georgia Labor Council, Black Voters Matter Fund, GALEO Impact Fund and New Georgia Project Action Fund boycotted President Biden’s speech.

They demanded that the President remain in Washington where he might help usher through voting legislation to protect disenfranchised voters.

“We don’t need another speech.

What we need is action. What we need is a plan,” demanded Cliff Albright, executive director of the Black Voters Matter Fund.

While Sen. Schumer has called on his colleagues to vote on filibuster and voting rights legislation by January 17, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, White House officials said they’re working hard to help get legislation passed.

“We understand the frustration by many advocates that this is not passed into law yet,” Psaki stated. “[President Biden] would love to have signed this into law himself. But [the speech] is an opportunity to speak about what the path forward looks like to advocate for – for this moving forward in the Senate.”

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The clever acorn woodpecker knows that by storing acorns, the family will survive less bountiful times. The take away for everyone is that budgeting is the best way to use resources, be it food or money.

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BOWIE STATE from Page 34 award counts as both for Bowie State and for the CIAA conference as Wilson becomes the first CIAA coach to win the prestigious award.

“This is the ultimate team award,” Wilson said. “I appreciate the recognition but it's impossible to win this award without great coaches, players and alum's buying

in. I understand the impact of this award and its history.”

Wilson, in his 12th year as head coach of the Bulldogs football program, guided Bowie State to a 12-2 record. It was BSU's third-straight Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Northern Division title and a championship title while posting a 7-0 league record.

It also marked the program's fourth consecutive NCAA appearance and

first-ever NCAA quarterfinal appearance in program history.

Other awards Wilson has received this year include: CIAA Coach of the Year; and AFCA Super Region II Coach of the Year. He has posted an impressive 89-45 overall record that features four NCAA playoff appearances, a total of seven CIAA Northern Division titles and three CIAA championships. WI

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RELIGION the religion corner WITH LYNDIA GRANT

Consider the Lilies of the Fields: A Tribute to Sidney Poitier

The most famous Americans are still leaving us! Dec. 31 took out Betty White and only a few days from her 100th birthday. I thought things were getting back to normal in the new year, but there were others that followed.

The one that stopped me dead in my tracks, though, was Academy Award-winning actor Sidney Poitier! Wow! James 4:13 says, "Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." Another Scripture says it this way: "What do you know about tomorrow? How can you be so sure about your life? It is nothing more than mist that appears for only a little while before it disappears."

This is my tribute to Sidney Poitier, dead at age 94. He died back home in the Bahamas, where he was born on Cat Island. During the early 1970s, my family often watched together the movie in which Poitier starred, “Lilies of the Field,” where he played his role so eloquently that he won the Academy Award for best actor —the first Black man ever to do so.

"Lilies of the Field" is a blackand-white film released in 1963, during a time when America was going through so much unrest and racial hatred. The Student Non-

violet Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was marching, going to jail, working to help our African American citizens to get the right to vote, to stop useless murders of our Black people. In fact, on Aug. 28, 1963, there was a March on Washington, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders. This film was released only two months after that historic march.

Great movie — no kind of violence or romance. Just a great wholesome film that teaches us that you never know when the Lord will make us into angels to help someone else. Even after we have done that heavenly work, we still probably won't know what we have really done to help further the causes of Christ.

In the movie, Poitier helped the Sisters to build a chapel. It got done, then Mr. Poitier left the scene singing his "Amen" song that he taught to the Sisters! It is a joy to watch.

One of my favorite books, “This Life,” was also written by Poitier.

It deals with how life was for him growing up on Cat Island, in the Caribbean Islands. Born unexpectedly in Miami, Poitier grew up withhis family grew up in his

home on Cat Island. His mother decided to teach her children by talking with them.

Years later, as a newly divorced woman, I recalled how Poitier's mother raised her children by teaching and talking with them, encouraging them. It truly did make a difference in their lives, and my doing so made a difference in the lives of my children.

In conclusion, I wish to share with you all how Sidney Poitier became friends with my brother Dalton Grant, who lives in Los Angeles with his wife and family. He has a floor sanding and finishing business, one that has been extremely successful over the past 40 years.

His company was honored on the cover of a floor magazine for doing such outstanding work. Well, he did the floors in the home of many famous actors, singers, athletes and, yes, Sidney Poitier, too.

When he opened up his business in a new location, Poitier came to his grand opening.

You will truly be missed, Sidney Poitier, but we are all so grateful for the trail you left behind for us to follow. We thank you, and we know that you will rest in heavenly peace!

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RELIGION The Miracle Center of Faith Missionary Baptist Church

Pilgrim Baptist Church

Bishop Michael C. Turner, Sr. Senior Pastor

Rev. Louis B. Jones II 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 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

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

Website: www.themiraclecenterFMBC.com Email: Miraclecenterfmbs@gmail.com Motto: “We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight”

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Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ

Blessed Word of Life Church

Church of Living Waters

Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church

Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor Harold Andrew Assistant Pastor 4915 Wheeler Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-894-6464 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

Rev. Dr. Michael E. Bell, Sr., / Pastor 2498 Alabama Ave., SE - Washington D.C. 20020 Office: (202) 889-7296 / Fax: (202) 889-2198 - www.acamec.org 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”

Third Street Church of God

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

Reverend William Young IV Pastor

Bishop Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Senior Pastor

Rev. Cheryl J. Sanders, Th.D. Senior Pastor

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

3845 South Capitol Street Washington, DC 20032 (202) 562-5576 (Office) / (202) 562-4219 (Fax)

5757 Temple Hill Road, Temple Hills, MD 20748 Office 301-899-8885 – fax 301-899-2555 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

1204 Third Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 202-347-5889 office / 202-638-1803 fax

Service and Times Sunday School: 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service: 11:00 AM Communion Service: First Sunday Prayer Service/Bible Study: Tuesday, 6:30 PM

Services and Times Sundays: 10:00am Worship Services Bible Study: Wonderful Wednesdays in Worship and the Word Bible Study Wednesdays 12:00 Noon; 6:30 PM (dinner @ 5:30 PM) Sunday School: 9:00 AM – Hour of Power “An inclusive ministry where all are welcomed and affirmed.” www.covenantdc.org

www.blessedwordoflifechurch.org E-mail: church@blessedwordoflifechurch.org

Campbell AME 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 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

Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor (Disciples of Christ) 1812 12th Street, NW - Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202-265-4494 Fax: 202 265 4340 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 AM Communion every Sunday: 11:00 AM Sunday School: 10:00 AM Bible Study Tuesday: 12 Noon Pastor’s Bible Study Tuesday: 6:30 PM Motto: “Discover Something Wonderful” Website: 12thscc.org / Email: Twelfthstcc@aol.com

Turning Hearts Church Virgil K. Thomas, Sr. Senior Pastor/ Teacher 421 Alabama Ave. SE Washington, DC 20032 Phone: 202-746-0113 Fax: 301-843-2445 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

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Mount Carmel Baptist Church

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

www.thirdstreet.org Live Stream Sunday Worship Service begins @ 12:00 noon www.thirdstreet.org

800 I Street, NE - Washington, DC 20002 202-548-0707 - Fax No. 202-548-0703 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 E-mail: Crusadersbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.CrusadersBaptistChurch.org / “God is Love”

Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr.; Senior Bishop & Evangelist Susie C. Owens – Co-Pastor 610 Rhode Island Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (202) 529-4547 office • (202) 529-4495 fax

Sunday Worship Service: 8:00 AM and 10:45 AM Sunday Youth Worship Services: 1st & 4th 10:45 AM; 804 R.I. Ave., NE 5th 8 AM & 10:45 AM; Main Church Prayer Services Tuesday – Noon, Wednesday 6:00 AM & 6:30 PM Calvary Bible Institute: Year-Round Contact Church / Communion Every 3rd Sunday The Church in The Hood that will do you Good! www.gmchc.org / emailus@gmchc.org

Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews Senior Pastor 1200 Isle of Patmos Plaza, Northeast Washington, DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-6767 - Fax: (202) 526-1661 Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM Holy Communion: 2nd Sunday at 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM Sunday Church School: 9:20 AM Seniors Bible Study: Tuesdays at 10:30 AM Noon Day Prayer Service: Tuesdays at Noon Bible Study: Tuesdays at 7 PM Motto: “A Ministry of Reconciliation Where Everybody is Somebody!”

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

St Marks Baptist Come Worship with us...

Dr. Raymond T. Matthews Pastor and First Lady Marcia Matthews St. Mark's Baptist Church 624 Underwood Street, NW Washington, dc 20011 Services and Times Sunday School: 9:00 AM Worship Service: 10:00 AM Wed. Noon Day prayer service Thur. Prayer service: 6:45 PM Thur. Bible Study: 7:15 PM

Reverend 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” www.mtzbcdc.org

headline and photo for Mount Olivet LIF - MALCOLMXLutheran Church DAY John F. Johnson Reverend Dr.

901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423

1306 Vermont Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20005

themcbc.org

“Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital”

Rev. Dr. Alton W. Jordan Pastor

Isle of Patmos Baptist Church

Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Reverend Dr. Paris L Smith, Sr. Senior Pastor

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

Services and Times Sunday School: 9:30 AM Sunday Worship: 11:00 AM Sunday Community Worship Service: 8:30 AM

Crusader Baptist Church

Service and Times Divine Worship, Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Communion 1st and 3rd Sunday “Friendliest Church in the City” Website: mountolivetdc.org Email: mtolivedc@gmail.com

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RELIGION Shabbath Commandment Church Bishop Adrian A. Taylor, Sr. Pastor 7801 Livingston Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-534-5471 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

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

Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor 2324 Ontario Road, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 232-1730 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 “Where Jesus is the King”

Dr. Earl D. Trent 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

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

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 Dr. Lucius M. Dalton Senior Pastor

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 Damion M. Briggs Pastor

Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior 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

Reverend Peter R. Blue Sr. 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 Experience: 10:15am Sunday School: 9:00am Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday Morning Noontime Bible Study: Tuesday @ 12:00pm Prayer Meeting/Bible Study: Tuesday @7:00pm Theme: "Building On A Firm Foundation"

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: revprbstmbc@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

“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

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

Matthews Memorial Baptist Church

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

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”

“Empowered to love and Challenged to Lead a Multitude of Souls to Christ”

Peace Baptist Church

www.Christembassydc.org Christ.embassy.dc@hotmail.com

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 “The Loving Church of the living lord “

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

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

Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert Senior Pastor

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. Dr. Jerryl V. Moody Pastor-Elect

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

St. Matthews Baptist Church

Emmanuel Baptist Church

King Emmanuel Baptist Church

WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM / THE WASHINGTON INFORMER

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 “

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

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LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

In God We Trust. Declaration of Nationality.

Notice of White Flag Surrender.

Notice of Special Appearance : I am that I am: " King Chrichlow© ", in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, Haqdar by natural issue, the beneficiary and heir of: “ KING CHRICHLOW ", corp.sole Dba.: " CHRICHLOW, KING© ", having reached the age of majority, being aboriginal to the northwestern and southwestern shores of Africa, the Atlantic Islands, the continental Americas, being duly certified, hereby affirms to declare my tribal intention to be as my pedigree subscribes, as a: Moorish American, but not a citizen of the United States. I declare permanent, and unalienable, allegiance to The Moorish Empire, Estados al-Marikanos, Societas Republicae Ea Al Maurikanuus Estados, The Constitution for the united States of America, Article III Section 2, The Lieber Code, Hague Conventions of 1899 & 1907, The Geneva Conventions, [ United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ], and all natural laws governing moors, and hereby declare and proclaim my nationality in good faith as a: Moorish American. I am that I am: " King Chrichlow© ", from this day forward, in harmony with my Nationality / Status / Jurisdiction, shall be known as: " king chrichlow© ". Notice of White Flag Surrender: as "hors de combat", pursuant to The Geneva Conventions, Article III, as a minister of The Moorish Empire, and Internationally Protected Person. Notice of: LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND ( HAGUE, IV), ARTICLE: 32, 45, 46, & 47. Notice of Claim pursuant to Public Law 87-846, TITLE II, SEC. 203. Notice of Bailment Merging of Legal Title with Equitable Title : This order is to preserve legal and equitable title , and to reserve all rights, title, and interest, in the property, Re: THE CITY OF NEW YORK : STATE FILE NUMBER: 156-88-132292: " KING CHRICHLOW© ", is as a special deposit order, conveyed to " Gordon Chrichlow Trust© ". All property of the same issue and amount, in like kind and specie, is to be returned fully intact , as a Special Deposit order of the Depositor / Beneficiary / Bailor / Donor / Principal / Creditor: " king chrichlow© ", nom deguerre: " King Chrichlow© ", as a special deposit order in lawful money. This special deposit is to be used exclusively for the benefit of : " Gordon Chrichlow Trust© ", an Inter Vivos Unincorporated Divine Grantor Trust. This deposit is not to be commingled with general assets of any bank, nor depositary / trustee / agent / bailee / donee /debtor.

This deposit is not limited to, but including: discharge and set off, of any and all outstanding liabilities as accord and satisfaction.

Inter alia enact fuit. All Rights Reserved. Deo volente.

In God We Trust Declaration of Nationality

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

In God We Trust. Declaration of Nationality.

Notice of White Flag Surrender.

Notice of Special Appearance : I am that I am: " Gordon Henry Chrichlow Jr© ", in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, Haqdar by natural issue, the beneficiary and heir of: “GORDON HENRY CHRICHLOW JR ", corp.sole Dba.: " GORDON H CHRICHLOW JR© ", having reached the age of majority, being aboriginal to the northwestern and southwestern shores of Africa, the Atlantic Islands, the continental Americas, being duly certified, hereby affirms to declare my tribal intention to be as my pedigree subscribes, as a: Moorish American, but not a citizen of the United States. I declare permanent, and unalienable, allegiance to The Moorish Empire, Estados al- Marikanos, Societas Republicae Ea Al Maurikanuus Estados, The Constitution for the united States of America, Article III Section 2, The Lieber Code, Hague Conventions of 1899 & 1907, The Geneva Conventions, [ United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ], and all natural laws governing moors, and hereby declare and proclaim my nationality in good faith as a: Moorish American. I am that I am: " Gordon Henry Chrichlow Jr© ", from this day forward, in harmony with my Nationality / Status / Jurisdiction, shall be known as: " gordon henry chrichlow jr© ". Notice of White Flag Surrender: as "hors de combat", pursuant to The Geneva Conventions, Article III, as a minister of The Moorish Empire, and Internationally Protected Person. Notice of: LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND ( HAGUE, IV), ARTICLE: 32, 45, 46, & 47. Notice of Claim pursuant to Public Law 87-846, TITLE II, SEC. 203. Notice of Bailment Merging of Legal Title with Equitable Title : This order is to preserve legal and equitable title , and to reserve all rights, title, and interest, in the property, Re: STATE OF NEW YORK : STATE FILE NUMBER: 15688-132292 " GORDON HENRY CHRICHLOW JR© ", is as a special deposit order conveyed to "Gordon Chrichlow Trust© ". All property of the same issue and amount, in like kind and specie, is to be returned fully intact , as a Special Deposit order of the Depositor / Beneficiary / Bailor / Donor / Principal / Creditor: " gordon henry chrichlow jr©, nom deguerre: " Gordon Henry Chrichlow Jr© ", as a special deposit order in lawful money. This special deposit is to be used exclusively for the benefit of : "Gordon Chrichlow Trust© ", an Inter Vivos Unincorporated Divine Grantor Trust. This deposit is not to be commingled with general assets of any bank, nor depositary / trustee / agent / bailee / donee / debtor. This deposit is not limited to, but including: discharge and set off, of any and all outstanding liabilities as accord and satisfaction. Inter alia enact fuit. All Rights

Notice of Special Appearance : I am that I am: ‘‘Pinene Veneta Knight

Bey© ’’, in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, Haqdar

by natural issue, the beneficiary and heir of: ‘‘BINNS, PINENE VENETA© ’’, corp.sole Dba.: ‘‘PINENE VENETA KNIGHT© ’’, having reached the age of majority, being aboriginal to the northwestern and southwestern

shores of Africa, the Atlantic Islands, the continental Americas, being

duly certified, hereby affirms to declare my tribal intention to be as my pedigree subscribes, as a: Moorish American, but not a citizen of the

United States. I declare permanent, and unalienable, allegiance to The Moorish Empire, Societas Republicae Ea AlMaurikanuus Estados, The Constitution for the united States of America, Article III Section 2, The

Lieber Code, Hague Conventions of 1899 & 1907, The Geneva Conventions, [ United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

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

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

2021 ADM 001578

2021 ADM 001502

John Robert Wilson Decedent

Olivia B. Glover aka Olivia Glover Decedent

Colline Silvera 7731 Belle Point Dr. Greenbelt, MD 20770 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

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

Leonora Wilson, whose address is 3926 Blackburn Lane, Apt. 41, Burtonsville, MD 20866, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of John Robert Wilson who died on June 5, 2021 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 6/30/2022. 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 6/30/2022, 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.

Marquette Glover, II, whose address is 1341 Barnaby Terrace, SE, Washington, DC 20020, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Olivia B. Glover aka Olivia Glover who died on November 26, 2020 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 6/30/2022. 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 6/30/2022, 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: 12/30/2021

Date of first publication: 12/30/2021

‘‘pinene veneta knight-bey© ’’, nom deguerre: ‘‘Pinene Veneta Binns©

Leonora Wilson Personal Representative

Marquette Glover, II Personal Representative

used exclusively for the benefit of : ‘‘Pinene Veneta Binns Trust© ’’, an

TRUE TEST COPY

TRUE TEST COPY

commingled with general assets of any bank , nor depositary / trustee

Nicole Stevens Register of Wills

Nicole Stevens Register of Wills

including: discharge and set off, of any and all outstanding liabilities as

Washington Informer

Washington Informer

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

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

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

2021 ADM 001479

2021 ADM 1045

2021 FEP 000143

2021 FEP 000144

Sandy K. Ferrell Decedent

Jimmy King Decedent

May 14, 2021 Date of Death

June 25, 2016 Date of Death

Gretchyn G. Meinken 616 N Washington Street Alexandria, VA 22314 Attorney

Joan M. Wilbon, Esq. 1120 Connecticut Ave, NW, Ste 1020 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney

Alice Ann McClurkin Name of Decedent

Jane Delores McCrowey Name of Decedent

Robinson Kirlew & Associates 7731 Belle Point Dr. Greenbelt, MD 20770 Attorney

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

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

Olivette Theresa McClurkin whose address is 800 James Ridge Road, Mitchellville, MD 20721 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Alice Ann McClurkin, deceased, by the Probate Court for York County, State of South Carolina, on August 10, 2021.

Service of process may be made upon Joyce Orr, 210 33rd Street, NE, Washington, DC 20019 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real estate.

Kevin L. McCrowey, whose address is 793 Laney Terrace, Rock Hill SC 29731 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Jane Delores McCrowey, deceased, by the Probate Court for York County, State of South Carolina, on January 28, 2021.

Service of process may be made upon Joyce Orr, 210 33rd Street, NE, Washington, DC 20019 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C.

200 33rd Street, NE, Washington, DC 20019. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

200 33rd Street, NE, Washington, DC 20019. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

Date of first publication: December 30, 2021

Date of first publication: 12/30/2021

Olivette Theresa McClurkin Personal Representative

Kevin L. McCrowey Personal Representative

Nicole Stevens Register of Wills

Nicole Stevens Register of Wills

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Angel Ferrell, whose address is 743 Fairmont St., NW #210, Washington, DC 20001, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Sandy K. Ferrell who died on December 3, 2020 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 6/30/2022. 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 6/30/2022, 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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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS JohnJuan White, whose address is 1200 Mississippi Ave., SE, #215, Washington, DC 20032, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Jimmy King who died on 8/29/20 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 6/30/2022. 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 6/30/2022, 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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], and all natural laws governing moors, and hereby declare and

proclaim my nationality in good faith as a: Moorish American. I am that I am: ‘‘pinene veneta knight bey© ’’, from this day forward, in harmony with my Nationality / Status / Jurisdiction, shall be known as: ‘‘pinene veneta knight bey© ’’. Notice of White Flag Surrender: as“hors de

combat”, pursuant to The Geneva Conventions, Article III, as a minister

of The Moorish Empire, and Internationally Protected Person. Notice of

LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND ( HAGUE, IV), ARTICLE: 45, 46, & 47. Notice of Claim pursuant to Public Law 87-846, TITLE II, SEC.

203. Notice of Bailment Merging of Legal Title with Equitable Title : This order is to preserve legal and equitable title , and to reserve all

rights, title, and interest, in the property, Re: REGISTRAR OF JAMAICA – REGISTRAR GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT - BUREAU OF STATISTICS,

STATE FILE NUMBER : MN 1400, ‘‘PINENE VENETA BINNS© ’’, to the depositor: ‘‘pinene veneta knight-bey© ’’, nom deguerre: ‘‘Pinene

Veneta Binns© ’’. All property , of the same issue and amount, in like

kind and specie, is to be returned fully intact , as a Special Deposit order of the Depositor / Beneficiary / Bailor / Donor / Principal / Creditor:

’’, as a special deposit order in lawful money. This special deposit is to be Inter Vivos Unincorporated Divine Grantor Trust. This deposit is not to be / agent / bailee / donee / debtor. This deposit is not limited to, but accord and satisfaction.Inter alia enact fuit. All Rights Reserved.

The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real estate.

2021 ADM 001516 Mae Katherine Meadows Decedent

Michelle Smith, whose address is 157 Wilmington Place, SE, Washington, DC 20032, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Mae Katherine Meadows who died on 8/6/2021 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 6/30/2022. 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 6/30/2022, 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: 12/30/2021 Michelle Smith Personal Representative

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Notice of White Flag Surrender.

Notice of Special Appearance : I am that I am: “ Shanta Shaniqua Chrichlow© ”, f.k.a., “ Shanta Shaniqua Erskine© ”, in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, Haqdar by natural issue, the beneficiary and heir of: “ SHANTA’ SHANIQUA ERSKINE© ”, corp.sole Dba.: “ SHANTA’ S ERSKINE© ”, and “ SHANTA’ SHANIQUA CHRICHLOW© ”, corp.sole Dba.: “ SHANTA’ S CHRICHLOW© ”, the natural clan mother of: “ King Chrichlow© ”, the beneficiary and heir of: “ KING CHRICHLOW© ”, having reached the age of majority, being aboriginal to the northwestern and southwestern shores of Africa, the Atlantic Islands, the continental Americas, being duly certified, hereby affirms to declare our tribal intention to be as our pedigree subscribes, as: Moorish Americans, but not a citizens of the United States. We declare permanent, and unalienable, allegiance to The Moorish Empire, Estados al-Marikanos, Societas Republicae Ea Al Maurikanuus Estados, The Constitution for the united States of America, Article III Section 2, The Lieber Code, Hague Conventions of 1899 & 1907, The Geneva Conventions, [ United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ], and all natural laws governing moors, and hereby declare and proclaim our nationality in good faith as: Moorish Americans. I am that I am: “ Shanta Shaniqua Chrichlow© ”, from this day forward, in harmony with my Nationality / Status / Jurisdiction, shall be known as: “ shantá chrichlow© ”, and “ King Chrichlow© ”, from this day forward, in harmony with our Nationality / Status / Jurisdiction, shall be known as: “ king chrichlow© ”. Notice of White Flag Surrender: as "hors de combat", pursuant to The Geneva Conventions, Article III, as a minister of The Moorish Empire, and Internationally Protected Person. Notice of: LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND ( HAGUE, IV), ARTICLE: 32, 45, 46, & 47. Notice of Claim pursuant to Public Law 87-846, TITLE II, SEC. 203. Notice of Bailment Merging of Legal Title with Equitable Title : This order is to preserve legal and equitable title, and to reserve all rights, title, and interest, in the property, Re: STATE OF NEW YORK : STATE FILE NUMBER: 156-21-001242, “ SHANTA’ SHANIQUA ERSKINE© ”, is as a special deposit order conveyed to “ Shanta Chrichlow Trust© ”. This is also a separate order to preserve legal and equitable title, and to reserve all rights, title, and interest, in the property, Re: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, City of New York: STATE FILE NUMBER: 156-93-015212, “ KING CHRICHLOW© ”, is as a special deposit order conveyed to: “ King Chrichlow Trust© ”, with a 50% interest retained by Trustee: “ gordon henry chrichlow jr© ”, &, a 50% interest retained by Trustee: “ shantá chrichlow© ”. All interest is to remain fully intact until the sole beneficiary, “ king chrichlow© ”, reaches the age of majority. All property of the same issue and amount, in like kind and specie, is to be returned fully intact , as a Special Deposit order of the Depositor / Beneficiary / Bailor / Donor / Principal / Creditor / Trustee: “ shantá chrichlow© ”, nom deguerre: “ Shanta Shaniqua Chrichlow© ”, and/or, “ gordon henry chrichlow jr© ”, as a special deposit order in lawful money. Re: “ SHANTA’ SHANIQUA ERSKINE© ”, “ SHANTA’ S ERSKINE© ”, “ SHANTA’ SHANIQUA CHRICHLOW© ”, and, “ SHANTA’ S CHRICHLOW© ”, this special deposit is to be used exclusively for the benefit of: “ Shanta Chrichlow Trust© ”, an Inter Vivos Unincorporated Divine Grantor Trust. Re: “ KING CHRICHLOW© ”, this special deposit is to be used exclusively for the benefit of: “ King Chrichlow Trust© ”, an Inter Vivos Unincorporated Divine Grantor Trust. All deposits are not to be commingled with general assets of any bank, nor depositary / trustee / agent / bailee / donee /debtor. All deposits are not limited to, but include: discharge and set off, of any and all outstanding liabilities as accord and satisfaction. Inter alia enact fuit. All Rights Reserved. Deo volente.

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

Estate of Cora W. Roy NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Gale R. Walker 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.

Order Joy Veney and Tia Brannum who is alleged to have custody of the will dated unknown to deliver it to the Court In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate appoint an unsupervised personal representative Date of first publication: 12/30/2021

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2021 ADM 1522

2021 ADM 001086

2021 ADM 001510

2021 ADM 001559

Lelia M. Greene Decedent

Melanie G. Himmelstohs Decedent

Rutha M. Hodges Decedent

Sonja Johnson Quinn Decedent

John A. Greene (Pro Se) 4402 Quarles Street, NE Apt. 24 Washington, DC 20019 Attorney

Edward G. Varrone, Esq. 1825 K Street, NW, Suite 1150 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney

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James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney

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John A. Greene, whose address is 4402 Quarles Street, NE, Apt. 24, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Lelia M. Greene who died on February 5, 2000 without a Will, and will serve with Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 6/30/2022. 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 6/30/2022, 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.

Elizabeth P. Lanigan, whose address is 313 Quaint Acres Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20904, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Melanie G. Himmelstohs who died on January 22, 2021 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before June 30, 2022. 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 June 30, 2022, 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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2021 ADM 001524

2021 ADM 001408

Kencaid (NMN) Davis Decedent

Daniel J. Elias aka Daniel Joseph Elias Decedent

Andre F. Johnson, whose address is 4400 Waqkefield Rd., Baltimore, MD 21216, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Kencaid (NMN) Davis who died on 10/24/2019 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/30/2022. 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 7/30/2022, 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: 12/30/2021 Andre F. Johnson Personal Representative

Gretchyn G. Meinken 616 N Washington Street Alexandria, VA 22314 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Elaine Esber, whose address is 3145 Ellicott Street NW, Washington, DC 20008, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Daniel J. Elias aka Daniel Joseph Elias who died on April 27, 2021 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before July 6, 2022. 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 July 6, 2022, 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: January 6, 2022 Elaine Esber Personal Representative

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Bruce Hodges, whose address is 1233 16th Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Rutha M. Hodges who died on April 19, 2015 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/30/2022. 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 7/30/2022, 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: 12/30/2021 Bruce Hodges Personal Representative

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Patrick Francis Quinn, Jr., whose address is 8401 W Sample Road, Apt. 12, Coral Springs, FL 33065, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Sonja Johnson Quinn who died on November 3, 2021 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 6/30/2022. 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 6/30/2022, 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: 12/30/2021 Patrick Francis Quinn, Jr. Personal Representative

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2021 ADM 001663

2021 ADM 001488

Estate of Peter J. Caws aka Peter James Caws NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Nancy Ann Breslin 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.

Order any interested person to show cause why the provisions of the lost or destroyed will dated December 30, 2014 should not be admitted to probate as expressed in the petition

Date of first publication: 1/6/2022 Lauren A. Jenkins 7501 Wisconsin Avenue Suite 1000W Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Petitioner/Attorney:

Baseemah Najmah Beyah Decedent

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Jacob LeVern Dwight, whose address is 3701 Robertson Court, Mobile AL 36693, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Baseemah Najmah Beyah who died on August 7, 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 (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/6/2022. 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 7/6/2022, 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: 1/6/2022 Jacob LeVern Dwight Personal Representative

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2021 ADM 001635

Gale R. Walker 976 Chestnut Court Chula Vista, CA 20018 Petitioner/Attorney:

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2021 ADM 001506

2021 ADM 001040

Harold Agnew Decedent

Estate of Albert James Shorter

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Mavis Davis, whose address is 6510 Walters Place, Forestville, MD 20747, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Harold Agnew who died on 7/2/2021 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/6/2022. 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 7/6/2022, 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: 1/6/2022 Mavis Davis Personal Representative

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In God We Trust. Declaration of Nationality.

Notice of White Flag Surrender.

Notice of Special Appearance : I am that I am: " Jessica Maria Lewis© ", in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, Haqdar by natural issue, the beneficiary and heir of: " LEWIS, JESSICA MARIA© ", corp.sole Dba.: " JESSICA MARIA LEWIS© ", having reached the age of majority, being aboriginal to the northwestern and southwestern shores of Africa, the Atlantic Islands, the continental Americas, being duly certified, hereby affirms to declare my tribal intention to be as my pedigree subscribes, as a: Moorish American, but not a citizen of the United States. I declare permanent, and unalienable, allegiance to The Moorish Empire, Societas Republicae Ea Al Maurikanuus Estados, The Constitution for the united States of America, Article III Section 2, The Lieber Code, Hague Conventions of 1899 & 1907, The Geneva Conventions, [ United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ], and all natural laws governing moors, and hereby declare and proclaim my nationality in good faith as a: Moorish American.

I am that I am: " Jessica Maria Lewis© ", from this day forward, in harmony with my Nationality / Status / Jurisdiction, shall be known as: " ablaa fawziya bayyacht© ". Notice of White Flag Surrender: as "hors de combat", pursuant to The Geneva Conventions, Article III, as a minister of The Moorish Empire, and Internationally Protected Person. Notice of: LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND ( HAGUE, IV), ARTICLE: 45, 46, & 47. Notice of Claim pursuant to Public Law 87-846, TITLE II, SEC. 203. Notice of Bailment Merging of Legal Title with Equitable Title : This order is to preserve legal and equitable title , and to reserve all rights, title, and interest, in the property, Re: State File Number 0109260-1982, " JESSICA MARIA LEWIS© ", is as a special deposit order conveyed to " Freedom Lineage Trust© ". All property of the same issue and amount, in like kind and specie, is to be returned fully intact , as a Special Deposit order of the Depositor / Beneficiary / Bailor / Donor / Principal / Creditor: " ablaa fawziya bayyacht© ", nom deguerre: " Jessica Maria Lewis© ", as a special deposit order in lawful money. This special deposit is to be used exclusively for the benefit of : " Ancestral Freedom Lineage Trust© ", an Inter Vivos Unincorporated Divine Grantor Trust. This deposit is not to be commingled with general assets of any bank, nor depositary / trustee / agent / bailee / donee / debtor. This deposit is not limited to, but including: discharge and set off, of any and all outstanding liabilities as accord and satisfaction. Inter alia enact fuit. All Rights Reserved. Deo volente.

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Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in the Court by Christine J. Spruill, personal representative of the Estate of Rhoda J. Shorter, for Letters of Administration.

Any heir at law or beneficiary of the estate objecting to this petition must file an objection showing cause why the petition should not be granted on or before 2/6/2022.

If no objection to the petition is filed, the Court may enter an order finding that the decedent, Albert James Shorter, died intestate and grant Letters of Administration to Christine J. Spruill.

Date of first publication: 1/6/2022 Edward G. Varrone, Esq. Unified Bar No. 257147 1825 K Street, NW, Suite 1150 Washington, DC 20006 Petitioner/Attorney

LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2021 ADM 001608 Robert E. Schofield, Jr. Decedent Priya Prakash Royal, Esq. Royal Law Firm PLLC 67 West Street, Suite 401 Brooklyn, NY 11222 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Doug M. Schofield aka Douglas Schofield, whose address is 3100 North Toronto St., Arlington, VA 22213, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Robert E. Schofield, Jr. who died on 2/10/2021 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/6/2022. 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 7/6/2022, 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: 1/6/2022

LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2021 ADM 001620 Estate of Thelma Samuels NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Imogene Newsome 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 107 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.

Upon proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution by affidavit of the witnesses to the will, the Court will enter an order admitting the will to probate and appointing one or more personal representatives. In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, the Court will enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate and appointing one or more personal representatives.

Date of first publication: 1/6/2022

Doug M. Schofield aka Douglas Schofield Personal Representative

Aimee D. Griffin, Esq. 5335 Wisconsin Ave., NW Suite 440 Washington, DC 20015 Petitioner/Attorney:

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Maggie Miller Decedent

Clarence Johnson aka Clarence Henry Johnson Decedent

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Colline Silvera Robinson Kirlew & Associate PC 7731 Belle Point Dr. Greenbelt MD 20770 Attorney

Emmille Woodfork, whose address is 1346 4th Street, SE, #328, Washington, DC 20003, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Maggie Miller who died on 2/15/2021 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before July 13, 2022. 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 July 13, 2022, 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: January 13, 2022 Emmille Woodfork Personal Representative

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Clarence Henry Butler Jr., whose address is 1424 T Street SE, Washington DC 20020, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Clarence Johnson aka Clarence Henry Johnson who died on January 5, 2021 with a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/13/2022. 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 7/13/2022, 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: 1/13/2022 Clarence Henry Butler Jr. Personal Representative

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2019 ADM 001011 Estate of Parker Jones Sr. aka Parker D. Jones Sr. aka Parker Dunford Jones, Sr. NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Barbara Jones-Jenkins 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.

In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate appoint an unsupervised personal representative Date of first publication: January 13, 2022 Barbara Jones Jenkins/Julius P. Terrell 1455 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Suite 400 Washington, DC 20004 Petitioner/Attorney: TRUE TEST COPY Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Washington Informer

LEGAL NOTICES In God We Trust. Declaration of Nationality.

Notice of White Flag Surrender.

Notice of Special Appearance : I am that I am: " Eddie J Green Jr© ", I am that I am: " Eddie J Collier- Green Jr© ", in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, Haqdar by natural issue, the beneficiary and heir of: “EDDIE J GREEN JR ", corp.sole Dba.: “EDDIE J COLLIER-GREEN JR ", corp.sole Dba.: " EDDIE J GREEN JR© ", " EDDIE J COLLIER-GREEN JR© ", having reached the age of majority, being aboriginal to the northwestern and southwestern shores of Africa, the Atlantic Islands, the continental Americas, being duly certified, hereby affirms to declare my tribal intention to be as my pedigree subscribes, as a: Moorish American, but not a citizen of the United States. I declare permanent, and unalienable, allegiance to The Moorish Empire, Estados al-Marikanos, Societas Republicae Ea Al Maurikanuus Estados, The Constitution for the united States of America, Article III Section 2, The Lieber Code, Hague Conventions of 1899 & 1907, The Geneva Conventions, [ United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ], and all natural laws governing moors, and hereby declare and proclaim my nationality in good faith as a: Moorish American.

I am that I am: " Eddie J Green Jr© ", " Eddie J Collier-Green Jr© ", from this day forward, in harmony with my Nationality / Status / Jurisdiction, shall be known as: " bosco da indigo© ".

Notice of White Flag Surrender: as "hors de combat", pursuant to The Geneva Conventions, Article III, as a minister of The Moorish Empire, and Internationally Protected Person. Notice of: LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND ( HAGUE, IV), ARTICLE: 32, 45, 46, & 47. Notice of Claim pursuant to Public Law 87-846, TITLE II, SEC. 203. Notice of Bailment Merging of Legal Title with Equitable Title : This order is to preserve legal and equitable title , and to reserve all rights, title, and interest, in the property, Re: STATE OF OHIO : STATE FILE NUMBER: 1989133604, " EDDIE J GREEN JR© ", " EDDIE J COLLIER-GREEN JR© ", is as a special deposit order conveyed to "Eddie J Green Jr Trust© ","Eddie J Collier-Green Jr Trust© ". All property of the same issue and amount, in like kind and specie, is to be returned fully intact , as a Special Deposit order of the Depositor / Beneficiary / Bailor / Donor / Principal / Creditor: " bosco da indigo©, nom deguerre: " Eddie J Green Jr© "," Eddie J Collier-Green Jr© ", as a special deposit order in lawful money. This special deposit is to be used exclusively for the benefit of : "Eddie J Green Jr Trust© ","Eddie J Collier-Green Jr Trust© ", an Inter Vivos Unincorporated Divine Grantor Trust.

This deposit is not to be commingled with general assets of any bank, nor depositary / trustee / agent / bailee / donee / debtor.

This deposit is not limited to, but including: discharge and set off, of any and all outstanding liabilities as accord and satisfaction. Inter alia enact fuit. All Rights Reserved. Deo volente.!

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2021 ADM 001645 Marjorie B. Neal aka Marjorie Bailey Neal Decedent Law Office of Robert P. Newman Robert P. Newman, Esq. 801 Wayne Avenue, Suite 400 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Jeffrey Neal, whose address is 8333 Grubb Rd., Apt. 103, Silver Spring, MD 20910, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Marjorie B. Neal aka Marjorie Bailey Neal who died on 10/26/21 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/13/2022. 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 7/13/2022, 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: 1/13/2022 Jeffrey Neal Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Washington Informer

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2021 ADM 001648

2021 ADM 001662

Sybil Hebert Decedent

Deborah Ciardo aka Deborah Longhi Ciardo Decedent

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

Lauren A. Jenkins, Esq. Offit Kurman, PA 7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1000W Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Attorney

Aris Hebert, whose address is 3456 21st Street SE, Washington, DC 20020, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Sybil Hebert who died on 7/26/2020 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/13/2022. 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 7/13/2022, 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: 1/13/2022 Aris Hebert Personal Representative

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Alessia Blythe Ciardo, whose address is Via Pulica 5, 50031 Barberino di Mugello FL, Italy, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Deborah Ciardo aka Deborah Longhi Ciardo who died on 9/19/2021 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/13/2022. 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 7/13/2022, 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.

IN RE: DEBORAH WARD : AND DAVID WARD, : Plaintiffs. : Case No. 2021 CA 003690 R(RP) : : : : Judge Heidi M. Pasichow AMENDED1 ORDER OF PUBLICATION In accordance with D.C. Code §§ 19-301, 19-306, 16-3301, and 13-341, the object of this proceeding is to convey by deed the following real property situated in the District of Columbia: Square 3736, Lot 0109, also known as the property located at street address 685 Oglethorpe Street, Northeast, Washington, D.C. 20011; and assessed for taxation to Plaintiff Deborah Ward.

The Complaint states, among other things, that Plaintiffs Deborah Ward and David Ward are the only surviving children and heirs of David W. Ward, and the subject property descended to Plaintiffs in fee simple pursuant to D.C. Code §§ 19-301 and 19-306.

Pursuant to D.C. Code § 13-341, it is this 30th day of December 2021,

Date of first publication: 1/13/2022 Alessia Blythe Ciardo Personal Representative

Heidi M. Pasichow Associate Judge

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In God We Trust. Declaration ov Nationality.

Notice ov White Flag Surrender. Notice ov Special Appearance: i am that i am: " Crystal Felita Laws, Krystal Felita Laws, Kristal F. Laws & Crystal-Felita © ", in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, Haqdar by natural issue, the living beneficiary and heir ov: “CRYSTAL FELITA LAWS, KRYSTAL FELITA LAWS, KRISTAL F. LAWS & CRYSTAL-FELITA, et al," corporate sole D.b.a.: " CRYSTAL F LAWS, KRISTAL F. LAWS, CRYSTAL LAWS, KRYSTAL LAWS, KRYSTAL F LAWS & CRYSTAL-FELITA© ", having reached the age ov majority, be aboriginal to the northwestern and southwestern shores ov Africa, the Atlantic Islands, the continental Americas, be duly certified, hereby affirms to declare my tribal intention to be as my pedigree [sub]scribes, a moorish American; not a Citizen of The U.S. nor The United States; i declare & proclaim permanent and unalienable, allegiance to the Moorish Empire, Estados al-Marikanos, Societas Republicae Ea Al Maurikanuus Estados, the Constitution for the united States ov North America, 1789 / 1791, Article III Section 2, The Lieber Code, Hague Conventions ov 1899 & 1907, The Geneva Conventions, [United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples], and all natural laws governing moors, i do hereby declare and proclaim my nationality in good faith, a moorish American. i am that i am: "Crystal Felita Laws, Krystal Felita Laws, Kristal F. Laws & Crystal-Felita© ", from this day forward, in harmony with my Nationality / Status / Jurisdiction, shall know to be: " crystal-felita bey © " in red ink, in capitis diminutio nolo.

Know; fidelity to my lawful consort, virgil-morgan butts bey, whom i wed in holy matrimony on Gregorian calendar day 31, accounting month May, year 2019, under authority ov the almighty divine creator Allah, upon this land, know to be al morocco, by way ov delaware republic. Notice ov White Flag Surrender: as "hors de combat", pursuant to The Geneva Conventions, Article III, as a minister ov The Moorish Empire, and Internationally Protected Person. Notice ov: LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND (HAGUE, IV), ARTICLE: 32, 45, 46, & 47. Notice ov Claim pursuant to Public Law 87-846, TITLE II, SEC. 203. Notice ov Bailment Merging ov Legal Title with Equitable Title: This order is to preserve legal and equitable title, and to reserve all rights, title and interest in the property, Re: COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA: STATE FILE NUMBER: 18906-R, & 104201-1964 " CRYSTAL FELITA LAWS, &, KRYSTAL FELITA LAWS© ", is as a special deposit order conveyed to "el wesley laws divine Trust © ". All property ov the same issue and amount, in like kind and specie, is to be returned fully intact, as a Special Deposit order ov the Depositor / Beneficiary / Bailor / Donor / Principal / Creditor: " crystal-felita bey©, in red ink, in capitis diminutio nolo Nom De guerre: " Crystal Felita Laws, Krystal Felita Laws, Kristal F. Laws & Crystal-Felita© ", as a special deposit order in lawful money. This special deposit is to be used exclusively for the benefit ov: "el wesley laws divine Trust © ", an Inter Vivos Unincorporated divine Grantor Trust. This deposit is not to be commingled with general assets ov any bank, nor depositary / trustee / agent / bailee / donee / debtor. This deposit is including but not limited to: discharge and set off ov any and all outstanding liabilities as accord and satisfaction. Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, & judicial proceedings ov every other State. Inter alia enact fuit. All Rights Reserved. Deo volente.

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIVIL DIVISION

ORDERED that notice be given by the insertion of a copy of this Order in the Daily Washington Law Reporter and The Washington Informer, both having a general circulation in the District of Columbia, once a week for three (3) successive weeks, notifying all persons interested in the real property described above to virtually appear in this Court on February 18, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. To log in to the virtual courtroom, please follow this link https://dccourts.webex.com/meet/ctb516 or dial the toll-free number 1(844) 992-4726 or (202) 860-2110 2, enter Meeting ID 129 776 4396#, press # again to enter the Courtroom.

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In God We Trust. Declaration of Nationality.

Notice of White Flag Surrender. Notice of Special Appearance : I am that I am: " Tony Shawn Lewis© ", in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in

solo proprio, Haqdar by natural issue, the beneficiary and heir of: " LEWIS, TONY SHAWN© ", corp.sole Dba.: " TONY SHAWN LEWIS© ", having reached the age of majority, being aboriginal to the northwestern and

southwestern shores of Africa, the Atlantic Islands, the continental Americas, being duly certified, hereby affirms to declare my tribal intention to be as my pedigree subscribes, as a: Moorish American, but not a citizen of the United States. I declare permanent, and unalienable, allegiance

to The Moorish Empire, Societas Republicae Ea Al Maurikanuus Estados, The Constitution for the united States of America, Article III Section 2, The Lieber Code, Hague Conventions of 1899 & 1907, The Geneva

Conventions, [ United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ], and all natural laws governing moors, and hereby declare

and proclaim my nationality in good faith as a: Moorish American. I am that I am: " Tony Shawn Lewis© ", from this day forward, in harmony with my Nationality / Status / Jurisdiction, shall be known as: " aadil

aahga muhammad© ". Notice of White Flag Surrender: as "hors de

combat", pursuant to The Geneva Conventions, Article III, as a minister of The Moorish Empire, and Internationally Protected Person. Notice

of: LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND ( HAGUE, IV), ARTICLE: 45, 46, & 47. Notice of Claim pursuant to Public Law 87-846, TITLE II, SEC.

203. Notice of Bailment Merging of Legal Title with Equitable Title : This order is to preserve legal and equitable title , and to reserve all rights,

title, and interest, in the property, Re: Health, Pennsylvania Department Of; COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH; State File Number: 048157-1979, " TONY SHAWN LEWIS© ", is as a

special deposit order conveyed to " Nml Family Trust© ". All property of the same issue and amount, in like kind and specie, is to be returned fully intact , as a Special Deposit order of the Depositor / Beneficiary /

Bailor / Donor / Principal / Creditor: " aadil aahga muhammad© ", nom deguerre: " Tony Shawn Lewis© ", as a special deposit order in lawful

money. This special deposit is to be used exclusively for the benefit of : "

Nml Family Trust© ", an Inter Vivos Unincorporated Divine Grantor Trust.

This deposit is not to be commingled with general assets of any bank, nor depositary / trustee / agent / bailee / donee / debtor. This deposit is not limited to, but including: discharge and set off, of any and all

outstanding liabilities as accord and satisfaction. Inter alia enact fuit. All Rights Reserved. Deo volente.

1 This Order was originally issued on December 27, 2021 and stated that the Initial Scheduling Conference was set for January 28, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. Based upon the Court’s grant of Plaintiff’s Motion for a Continuance, the Initial Scheduling Conference has been postponed until February 18, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. in virtual courtroom 516.

In God We Trust. Declaration of Nationality.

Notice of White Flag Surrender.

Notice of Special Appearance : I am that I am:" Deanne Sophia Lorne © ", in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, Haqdar by natural issue, the beneficiary and heir of: " LORNE, DEANNE SOPHIA © ", and “JERNIGAN, DEANNE SOPHIA “, corp. sole Dba.: " DEANNE SOPHIA LORNE © ", DEANNE SOPHIA JERNIGAN © ”, having reached the age of majority, being duly certified, hereby affirms to declare my tribal intention to be as my pedigree subscribes, as an: American National, but not a citizen of the United States. I declare permanent, and unalienable, allegiance to the united States of America, The Lieber Code, Hague Conventions of 1899 & 1907, The Geneva Conventions, and all natural laws governing We the People, and hereby declare and proclaim my nationality in good faith as a: " Israelite ". I am that I am: " Deanne Sophia Lorne © ", from this day forward, in harmony with my Nationality / Status / Jurisdiction, shall be known as: " dana bit ashayah © ". Notice of White Flag Surrender: as " hors de combat ", pursuant to The Geneva Conventions, Article III, as a minister of Ahayah’s covenant: Law of the People, and Internationally Protected Person. Notice of: LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND ( HAGUE, IV), ARTICLE: 45, 46, & 47.

Notice of Claim pursuant to Public Law 87-846, TITLE II, SEC. 203.

Notice of Bailment Merging of Legal Title with Equitable Title : This order is to preserve legal and equitable title , and to reserve all rights, title, and interest, in the property, Re: N/A : N/a , " DEANNE SOPHIA LORNE © ", “DEANNE SOPHIA JERNIGAN © “, is as a special deposit order conveyed to "Deanne Lorne Trust © ". All property of the same issue and amount, in like kind and specie, is to be returned fully intact , as a Special Deposit order of the Depositor / Beneficiary / Bailor / Donor / Principal / Creditor: " dana bit ashayah © ", nom deguerre: "DEANNE SOPHIA LORNE ©” and “DEANNE SOPHIA JERNIGAN © ", as a special deposit order in lawful money.

This special deposit is to be used exclusively for the benefit of : " Deanne Lorne Trust © ", an Inter Vivos Unincorporated Divine Grantor Trust. This deposit is not to be commingled with general assets of any bank , nor depositary / trustee / agent / bailee / donee / debtor. This deposit is not limited to, but including: discharge and set off, of any and all outstanding liabilities as accord and satisfaction. Inter alia enact fuit. All Rights Reserved. Deo volente.

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LEGAL NOTICES In God We Trust. Declaration ov Nationality.

Notice ov White Flag Surrender. Notice ov Special Appearance: i am that i am: " Virgil Morgan Butts, Virgil-Morgan Butts © ", in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, Haqdar by natural issue, the living beneficiary and heir ov: “VIRGIL MORGAN BUTTS, VIRGIL-MORGAN BUTTS, & BUTTS, VIRGIL MORGAN, et al," corporate sole D.b.a.: " VIRGIL M BUTTS, VIRGIL BUTTS, V MORGAN BUTTS, & V M BUTTS © ", having reached the age ov majority, be aboriginal to the northwestern and southwestern shores ov Africa, the Atlantic Islands, the continental Americas, be duly certified, hereby affirms to declare my tribal intention to be as my pedigree [sub]scribes, a moorish American; not a Citizen of The U.S. nor The United States; i declare & proclaim permanent and unalienable, allegiance to the Moorish Empire, Estados al-Marikanos, Societas Republicae Ea Al Maurikanuus Estados, the Constitution for the united States ov North America, 1789 / 1791, Article III Section 2, The Lieber Code, Hague Conventions ov 1899 & 1907, The Geneva Conventions, [United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples], and all natural laws governing moors, i do hereby declare and proclaim my nationality in good faith, a moorish American. i am that i am: "Virgil Morgan Butts, Virgil-Morgan Butts, & Virgil M Butts © ", from this day forward, in harmony with my Nationality / Status / Jurisdiction, shall know to be: " virgil-morgan butts bey © " in red ink, in capitis diminutio nolo. Know; fidelity to my lawful consort, crystal-felita bey, whom i wed in holy matrimony on Gregorian calendar day 31, accounting month May, year 2019, under authority ov the almighty divine creator Allah, upon this land, know to be al morocco, by way ov delaware republic. Notice ov White Flag Surrender: as "hors de combat", pursuant to The Geneva Conventions, Article III, as a minister ov The Moorish Empire, and Internationally Protected Person. Notice ov: LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND (HAGUE, IV), ARTICLE: 32, 45, 46, & 47. Notice ov Claim pursuant to Public Law 87-846, TITLE II, SEC. 203. Notice ov Bailment Merging ov Legal Title with Equitable Title: This order is to preserve legal and equitable title, and to reserve all rights, title and interest in the property, Re: COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA: STATE FILE NUMBER: 101705-1969 " VIRGIL MORGAN BUTTS© ", is as a special deposit order conveyed to "el hammett butts divine Trust©". All property ov the same issue and amount, in like kind and specie, is to be returned fully intact, as a Special Deposit order ov the Depositor / Beneficiary / Bailor / Donor / Principal / Creditor: " virgil-morgan butts bey©, in red ink, in capitis diminutio nolo Nom De guerre: " Virgil Morgan Butts, Virgil-Morgan Butts, & Virgil M Butts © ", as a special deposit order in lawful money. This special deposit is to be used exclusively for the benefit ov: "el hammett butts divine Trust © ", an Inter Vivos Unincorporated divine Grantor Trust. This deposit is not to be commingled with general assets ov any bank, nor depositary / trustee / agent / bailee / donee / debtor.

This deposit is including but not limited to: discharge and set off ov any and all outstanding liabilities as accord and satisfaction.

Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, & judicial proceedings ov every other State. Inter alia enact fuit. All Rights Reserved. Deo volente.

In God We Trust. Declaration of Nationality.

Notice of White Flag Surrender.

Notice of Special Appearance : I am that I am:" Christopher Ladonta Foster© ", in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, Haqdar by natural issue, the beneficiary and heir of: " FOSTER, CHRISTOPHER LADONTA© ", corp.sole Dba.: " CHRISTOPHER LADONTA FOSTER© ", having reached the age of majority, being duly certified, hereby affirms to declare my tribal intention to be as my pedigree subscribes, as an: American National, but not a citizen of the United States. I declare permanent, and unalienable, allegiance to the united States of America, The Lieber Code, Hague Conventions of 1899 & 1907, The Geneva Conventions, and all natural laws governing We the People, and hereby declare and proclaim my nationality in good faith as a: " Ohioan ". I am that I am: " Christopher Ladonta Foster© ", from this day forward, in harmony with my Nationality / Status / Jurisdiction, shall be known as: " christopher foster© ". Notice of White Flag Surrender: as " hors de combat ", pursuant to The Geneva Conventions, Article III, as a minister of yhwh's covenant: Law of the People, and Internationally Protected Person. Notice of: LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND ( HAGUE, IV), ARTICLE: 45, 46, & 47. Notice of Claim pursuant to Public Law 87-846, TITLE II, SEC. 203. Notice of Bailment Merging of Legal Title with Equitable Title : This order is to preserve legal and equitable title , and to reserve all rights, title, and interest, in the property, Re: " Cleveland Metropolitan: ", " CHRISTOPHER LADONTA FOSTER© ", is as a special deposit order conveyed to " Bender Family Trust© ".

All property of the same issue and amount, in like kind and specie, is to be returned fully intact , as a Special Deposit order of the Depositor / Beneficiary / Bailor / Donor / Principal / Creditor: " christopher foster© ", nom deguerre: " Christopher Ladonta Foster© ", as a special deposit order in lawful money.

This special deposit is to be used exclusively for the benefit of : " Bender Family Trust© ", an Inter Vivos Unincorporated Divine Grantor Trust. This deposit is not to be commingled with general assets of any bank , nor depositary / trustee / agent / bailee / donee / debtor. This deposit is not limited to, but including: discharge and set off, of any and all outstanding liabilities as accord and satisfaction. Inter alia enact fuit. All Rights Reserved. Deo volente.

SUBSITUTE from Page 22 creased substitute teachers’ hourly rate to $18.75. However, that increase only applied to full-time substitute teachers, a group that encompasses less than 20 percent of DCPS’ substitute teacher population.

Myrtle Washington, president of WSTU, said such circumstances have further hemorrhaged the District’s educator workforce.

“Some substitutes have gotten other jobs [because] they are tired of the $15 per hour,” Washington said. “We’re highly educated so we bring all of these experiences with us to the classroom. There’s no fight between retired teachers and non-retired substitutes. Our discontent is with DCPS and how they’re trying to hurt us.”

COVID-19 CONTINUES TO BE A CRUCIAL ISSUE

Another qualm substitute teachers have expressed involves communication about COVID-19 cases in District schools.

While she commended administrators at Ketcham Elementary in Southeast and Capitol Hill Montessori in Northeast, full-time substitute teacher Ellen Gaskill said lack of communication from the DCPS central office has placed her at greater risk of contracting coronavirus.

At the start of the pandemic, as other substitute teachers lost their jobs, Gaskill relied on her technological know-how to keep her spot during the systemwide transition to virtual learning. She has since been a constant presence at Capitol Hill Montessori. With the threat of Omicron however comes some concern about whether it’s safe to reenter the classroom.

Gaskill, who moved in with her elderly parents four years ago after retiring from the public school system in North Carolina, recently lost her mother to COVID-19. Instead of returning to school, she continues to care for her father who continues to be impacted by the virus as well.

“As a substitute teacher moving around from place to place, it would be nice to know what you’re walking into,” Gaskill said. “I don’t want to be the person bringing COVID-19 home to my family. I have already communicated to my schools that my concerns would keep me at home.”

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HOWARD from Page 34 progressive thinker and he saw this as an opportunity to educate his young student athletes on the value of history of African Americans. Bringing a Notre Dame to the campus of Howard University is a rare and unique experience for these young people.”

The game will be played at Burr Gymnasium, marking the first time that the Bison have hosted a team from the ACC. Notre Dame, riding a five-game winning streak, has two ACC showdowns on the week-

HUNGER from Page 17 • Rev. Rickey C. Dennis, Jr., Pastor, Mt. Nebo AME, Awendaw, SC • Rev. Redeem Robinson, Community Pastor, All Souls Movement, Los Angeles, CA • Rev. James Wesley Dennis III, Pastor, Pine Grove AME Church, Columbia, SC • Rev. Rashad Moore, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY • Rev. Dr. Roy Jones, Jr., Executive Pastor, Saint Philip AME Church, Atlanta, GA • Rev. Devon Crawford, Director, William Trotter Collaborative, Harvard Kennedy School • Rev. Eugene Minson III, Executive Minister, St. Luke AME Church, Harlem, NY • Rev. Darien Jones, Pastor, Moncks Corner AME Church, Moncks Corner, SC • Rev. Mary Newton, Pastor, Lee Memorial AME Church, Fort Washington, MD • Prophet Bryce Graham, Anointed House of Prayer Ministries, West Palm Beach, FL

HISTORICAL HUNGER STRIKES OF THE PAST

Hunger strikes have been used for centuries as a form of nonviolent protest and to provoke policy changes.

From prisoners to civil rights leaders, hunger strikes often count as a last line of defense to bring attention to those protesting.

Notable hunger strikes include: Irish Hunger Strikes (the 1920s-1970s); Mahatma Gandhi (1932); and Pedro Luis Boitel, a Cuban dissident (1972).

Prolonged use of a hunger strike as a form of protest can be life-threatening and result in death due to lack of nutrition and the body’s organs shutting down. Though hunger strikes don’t allow for solid food, liquids remain acceptable. WI

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end prior to coming to the District.

Meanwhile, Howard (6-6) which has not played since December 21, will take on Norfolk State in a crucial MEAC game at Burr on Saturday, January 15.

Blakeney and Mike Brey, head coach at Notre Dame, both played at local powerhouse DeMatha Catholic High School. Blakeney then played at Duke University and later he and Brey both coached there where they would be part of two national championship teams. Blakeney served as an assistant under Brey when he was head coach at the University of Delaware.

Howard assistant coach Tyler Dragon, a Duke alum, played his prep ball at local Gonzaga High School and senior guard Prentiss Hubbs, one of the key players for the Irish, also played at Gonzaga. Howard associate head coach Rod Balanis coached at Notre Dame for 21 years with Brey before coming to the Hilltop this year.

The Howard team, off to a good start, features a number of local players who have added to their success: sophomore forward/guard Steve Settle, III and freshman guard Elijah Hawkins, a strong candidate for MEAC Rookie of the Year, both prepped at DeMatha while graduate senior forward Sam Green (Bowie, MD), senior guard Deven Richmond (also of Bowie) and sophomore guard Thomas Weaver (Riverdale Baptist) all hail from this talent-rich area.

“I think this provides an opportunity to showcase the talent of basketball in the DMV area,” Blakeney said. “Historically, a number of local players have starred at Notre Dame over the years.”

And if that is not enough fanfare to pique your interest, consider this: Gus Johnson, a future Hall of Fame broadcaster and an HU alum, will be calling the play-by-play action for Fox Sports.

"To come home to Howard on a special day like MLK Day and to be able to do the game is special," Johnson said. “This is truly a great opportunity. It will be like coming home for me."

“Brey, the winningest coach in Notre Dame history with almost 450 wins, expressed excitement about his institution and his team participating in the event.

“It's an absolute honor to be on the Hoard University campus on MLK Day,” Brey said. “My players and their parents have asked about this game all season. It’s a powerful educational experience for our players and for all of the Notre Dame family.” WI

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When Union troops were removed from the South, a form of apartheid called segregation became the law of the land. It took another 100 years before the civil rights movement succeeded with Lyndon Johnson's leadership to end segregation and pass the Voting Rights Act to limit the suppression of the vote. Now, as Congress reconvenes this January, it must act to protect the right to vote — to protect the democracy

EDELMAN from Page 26 human children: "And God says, I have a dream. I have a dream that all of my children will discover that they belong in one family — my family, the human family; a family in which there are no outsiders; all are held in the embrace of the one whose love will never let us go; the one who says that each one of us is of incredible worth, that each one of us is precious to God because each of us has their name written on the palms of God's hands. And God says, there are no outsiders — black, white, red, yellow, short, tall, young, old, rich, poor, gay, lesbian, straight — everyone. All belong. And God says, I have only you to help me realize my dream. Help me."

I hope we can realize this dream for all humankind. I believe we can realize God's and Archbishop Tutu's dream if each of us holds ourselves

MORIAL from Page 26 results of elections entirely.

In the aftermath of the 2020 election, enemies of pressured election officials to "find" more votes for the losing candidate, to throw out votes for the winning candidate, and to publicize baseless claims of voter fraud. They filed lawsuit after lawsuit seeking to invalidate votes in counties with large Black and brown populations.

And when those election officials resisted their pressure and judges dismissed their false claims, they launched a campaign to replace those officials and judges.

"For more than a year now, with tacit and explicit support from

— against the seditious reaction that now threatens it.

Bipartisan support is desirable but unlikely, with few Republican legislators willing to stand up against the Big Lie or to protect our democracy. Democrats must act — and act immediately against this threat. That will require ruling that protection of the right to vote is too important to allow it to be sabotaged by a minority wielding the filibuster. Democrats should unite to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which revives the Voting Rights Act. It should pass the Freedom to Vote Act — endorsed by the conservative Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin — that would end partisan

gerrymandering, create automatic voter registration, guarantee 15 days of early voting, make Election Day a holiday so working people will find it easier to get to the polls, limit dark money in politics and facilitate voting by mail. At least in federal elections, the two bills would go a long way to making certain that elections are free and fair. No one should be deluded.

A minority party — grounded in the white South — is intent on taking and keeping power, despite the will of the majority — even if democracy itself is destroyed in the process. This is no time for petty politics. It is time for Congress to act to defend free elections and the right to vote before it is too late.

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Here at home we can move America closer to being that family and nation where everyone belongs and everyone has worth. But to do so, we must wake up, open our eyes and ears, avoid convenient ignorance, seek the truth, speak up, stand up, and never

give up fighting for justice for all. We can do this, even in this very difficult moment, if a critical remnant among us is determined to commit ourselves to being the good leaders and champions for justice that poor children, children of color, and all children need. We can honor Archbishop Tutu now by following his holy example and using our own hands to help. WI

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new federal voting rights legislation — and why we need senators and President Biden to work together to overcome "states' rights" Republicans and their use of filibuster rules to block the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Both pieces of legislation take on both voter suppression and election subversion. The John Lewis Act would make it illegal for a public official to "willfully fail or refuse to certify" an election victory by the candidate who gets the most votes.

The Freedom to Vote Act only allows local election administrators to be removed by the state if they have a legitimate cause to do so.

As Sen. Raphael Warnock said on Jan. 4, "Our democracy is in

ASKIA from Page 27 reap what you sow," they would amend their wicked behavior and try to correct the evil conduct of this country in the past.

However long it is before we see the reality of that warning manifest, America has been found guilty, I believe, in the Court of Justice, and there shall be no clemency, because instead of reforming, Repugnikkkans, their "Patriot Caucus," "3 Percenters," "Proud Boys," or whatever they call themselves, are dead set on this North American territory being exclusively for the benefit and enjoyment of the white race.

Poor Democrats. Poor Congress. Those folks are left clinging

peril and time is running out."

"This is a moral moment," Sen. Warnock said. Indeed it is.

There's also another moral duty facing our elected leaders. And that's finding out the truth about the Capitol insurrection and those who incited it, planned it, facilitated it, and have since tried to downplay or cover-up that assault on our democracy. Criminals need to be held accountable for their crimes — and not just those who smashed windows and attacked Capitol police.

Republicans love to talk tough about the rule of law, but now many of them are resisting the rule of law by trying to undermine and obstruct the House committee investigating the insurrection. And they're trying to rewrite history, downplaying the violence and por-

traying its perpetrators as patriots.

The problem for them is that the violent reality of that day has been well-documented. The same is true for other casualties of the Big Lie, including harassment and threats against election officials.

The Big Lie and all those who have spread it have created a dangerous reality in which millions of Americans falsely believe that President Joe Biden's election was illegitimate and that Donald Trump should still be our president. And that makes them more willing to determine the outcome of elections through violence or the raw exercise of power.

In the year ahead, we need to defend democracy by answering the Big Lie with the truth, and by acting to defend our democracy at the ballot box. WI

to the belief that the changing demographics in this country which will render a white minority population in a couple of decades, will make a difference. Trust me. These folks are rigging this system so when they get in the next time in 2024 — by hook or by crook — they will permanently change the system itself, so the white perspective will always be the American "Prime Directive."

Forget about the future of the so-called "Constitutional democracy" in this country Congress. In the Bible (Matthew 5:13), Jesus prophesies of the "world's most deliberative bodies:" "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted?" In other words, like tasteless

salt, the Congress, even Truth itself in this country are now worthless.

The only thing that matters is what white nationalist Repugnikkkans like Steve Bannon and Michael Flynn, and Donald J. Trump, say matters.

After stacking the courts with a handful of deceitful tricks and betrayals of their own pronouncements during Trump's four years in office, and with the House and possibly even the Senate flipping in 2022 to their control, the GOP cares nothing about the truth of their claims or the popularity of the policies.

Going forward, despite what I would describe as "sane" GOP opposition from the Lincoln Project, and even from former Trump staffers, and a circular firing squad in which the Trumpistas attack other Republicans with deadly force as though they will never need their votes, they are still favored to defeat the feckless Democrats in Congress, who simply need to learn one thing: Stand up. Condemn their wicked rhetoric and behavior. Do not forgive their evil deeds — like the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

And finally: stop being "skeery."

Stop being concerned that if they do something Republicans might respond by doing something terrible, something which they're absolutely 100 percent going to do anyway!

Prosecute the guilty to the maximum extent of the law. Show them no mercy. Or else.

You've been warned.

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