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We Salute the Service and Sacrifice of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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NAACP Town Hall Extols Power of the Black Woman

Remembering MLK With Service and Reflection

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia Martin Luther King Jr. Day counts as an opportunity each year for the nation to unite and celebrate the life and legacy of one of America’s most prolific humanitarian leaders.

For folks in the District and around the nation, it’s a day of service and a chance to reflect.

In Memphis, Tennessee, the city where King traveled in support of sanitation workers and was subsequently assassinated, officials and others will host a 90th birthday celebration at the National Civil Rights Museum that will help support Black-owned businesses in one of the country’s top cities for African-American entrepreneurs and volunteer organizations.

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WINTER WONDERLAND IN THE DMV

Heavy snow blanketed the DMV dumping as much as 10 inches in some portions of the region, forcing schools, businesses and the District to close or delay opening. Weather forecasters have predicted a colder winter and more snow this year. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

CBC: Shutdown Hits Blacks, People of Color Hardest

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia The partial government shutdown has now hit historic levels, and with hundreds of thousands of federal workers caught in the bureaucratic crossfire, it’s communities of color who are likely taking the hardest hit, the Congressional Black Caucus said.

The Partnership for Public Service Black estimates that Black people are 18 percent of the federal workforce despite making up just 12 percent of the country’s popu-

lation — a statistic not lost on the CBC. “We know that communities of color are disproportionately affected by this irresponsible Trump government shutdown,” said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who joined CBC Chair Karen Bass (D-Calif.) and fellow Democratic Reps. Bennie Thompson (Miss.) and Anthony Brown (Md.) for a Jan. 11 media conference call. “And today is especially painful for so many workers because it should be payday.”

Without these paychecks, many

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5 A federal worker protests the government shutdown in Washington, D.C on January 10. (Michael A. McCoy/The Washington Informer)

As the NAACP hosted its first tele-town hall of 2019 on Jan. 15, the theme and comments from the panelists remained focused one issue alone: the power of women – Black women, specifically.

“As we celebrate Founder’s Day and the 90th birthday of Dr. King, one of the things critically important with leadership is Black women are making it clear that all issues are Black women issues,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said. “When we lead and hold these offices, we’re not only addressing things like pay disparities, but the need to have a minimum wage so that [it] equals the minimum standard of living.”

Harris, along with recently-elected Congressional Black Caucus [CBC] Chair Karen Bass (D-Calif.), fellow Democratic Reps. Marcia Fudge (Ohio), Lucy McBath (Ga.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), the latter two both newcomers on the Hill, participated.

The “Women in Power Town Hall” series provided a platform for leading women, including policy makers and grassroots activists, to engage listeners in a critical discussion about the top priorities for the year.

Following the swearing-in of a membership illustrative of the most diverse congressional session in U.S. history and replete with more women of color than ever before, the town hall featured CBC members, elected officials, NAACP leaders and business and civic leaders in a candid

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Four Arrested at HOC Hearing – Efforts Continue to End Bethesda Cemetery Desecration We have to stop being

“Let our ancestors rest!” was the repeated refrain from demonstrators at the Housing Opportunities Commission [HOC] public hearing Wednesday, Jan. 9 as volunteers from the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition [BACC] again challenged the HOC to stop its desecration of Moses African Cemetery and begin memorialization of the land. Volunteers from the BACC have been peacefully demonstrating at the HOC hearings for the past two years.

HOC requested armed police officers to arrest demonstrators as four were detained and charged with disturbing the peace: Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Tim Willard, Mary Rooker and Lynn Pekkanen.

“HOC wants to hide behind their bureaucracy, they want to drag this out and hope that we’ll just get tired and go away. That’s why they called the armed police to arrest us,” said Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, adding, “in February we’ll either be celebrating the conveyance of the land to MBC or we’ll have a protest that makes Wednesday’s look like a picnic.”

Citing numerous incidents of fraud at HOC and pending legislation before the State Assembly to empower an inspector general to look into related allegations at HOC, the Rev. Segun Adebayo, MBC pastor, said, “our ancestors’ resting place remains in a state of desecration.”

L.Y. Marlow Roy Lewis,CIRCULATION Jr., Mark Mahonny On Jan. 10, the day after the arrests, County Executive Mark Elrich, who plans to meet with the head Paul Trantham of HOC, said, “the fact remains that there’s this injustice and you’ve got this cemetery right now underneath a driveway and I think HOC needs to come to some kind of understanding with the community about how they’re going to properly recognize the cemetery and honor the community. It’s important that the county come up with a resolution and HOC be a partner in this.”

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McDuffie, White Float Key Bills in New Council Session

By James Wright WI Contributing Writer Members of the D.C. Council began 2019 by introducing key bills that they hope will improve the lives of city residents.

On Jan. 8, the first legislative session of the Council Period 23, D.C. Council member Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5) introduced legislation that seeks to improve race relations in the District. The bill, “The Racial Equity Achieves Results Act of 2019” (REAR Act) would operationalize racial equity in the District by requiring the D.C. Office of Budget and Planning to design and implement a racial equity tool starting in the fiscal year 2020.

The tool, which consists of surveys and studies that are data-driven and based, would become a standard measure of an agency’s performance of its duties and become a regular means of evaluating programs and initiatives. For example, an economic development agency would report how people of color are being affected by new commercial projects in the city.

In addition, the legislation would require the development of racial equity training for all District government employees.

McDuffie sponsors this bill as the District’s Black population stands at 47.1 percent in a 2017 U.S. Census report from a high of 71 percent in 1975. McDuffie wants to make sure that African Americans are treated fairly by the District government.

“Decades of structural and institutional racism in the District, and to be sure, in America, has created widespread racial inequities, which are pervasive and exist across all indicators for success, including in education, criminal justice, employment, housing, transportation, health, and in business,” he said.

“Only by building systems that are intentional in their design to account for implicit bias and systemic inequities, will every District resident truly have the same opportunities to prosper in our society.”

Studies have consistently shown that literate individuals tend to prosper economically. However, a study by the Washington Literacy Center reports that about 90,000 District residents are functionally illiterate, meaning they struggle to complete a job application and to read a newspaper with full comprehension.

To address this problem, Council member Trayon White (D-Ward 8) introduced the “Commission on Literacy Establishment Act of 2019” that will establish a panel that will develop comprehensive strategy recommendations to address literacy disparities, provide support to advance literacy organizations and plan programming and events related to literacy.

The bill includes provisions relating to the membership, organization, duties and meetings of the commission.

White said he sees the effects of illiteracy every day.

“It is my impression that many unemployed residents in my ward have trouble reading,” he said.

“This bill will provide the resources to those residents, especially adults, and those organizations that are fighting illiteracy. To me, the way to fight illiteracy is education.”

White also introduced bills, the Youth Mentoring Initiative Establishment Act of 2019 and the Nonprofit Incubator Program Establishment Act of 2019, that would, respectively, establish the Youth Mentoring Initiative in the Office of Out of School Time Grants and Youth Outcomes to facilitate public/private partnerships supporting youth mentoring programs and make it easier for non-profits located in neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River to share working space, resources, services and seed funding.

Council member Vincent Gray (D) introduced bills that would give first responders tax incentives to live in the District, provide free tuition to the University of the District of Columbia for police officers, their spouses and children, and requires the police to have on hand opioid rescue kits to prevent overdoses. Gray said ideas for legislation came from residents who attended the Ward 7 Action Summit.

“We achieved great milestones in the last council period, but there is still much work to be done,” he said.

Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) referred all of the introduced bills to the appropriate committee for consideration.

Council members introduce legislation early in the council period with hopes that their pieces will move quicker through the process.

Plus, bills introduced early tend to show what the council member’s priorities are. WI

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JAN. 17 1759 – Quaker businessman and abolitionist Paul Cuffee is born in Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts.

1942 – Boxing legend and civil rights activist Muhammad Ali is born Cassius Clay in Louisville, Kentucky.

JAN. 18 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.

JAN. 19 1918 – American businessman and publisher John H. Johnson, founder of the Johnson Publishing Company and the first African American to appear on the Forbes 400, is born in Arkansas City, Arkansas.

1961 – The PGA of America removes its “Caucasian-only clause,” opening the door for all players to participate in professional golf tournaments.

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1870 – Hiram R. Revels is elected by the Mississippi legislature to fill the Senate seat once held by Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederacy. Revels is the first African American ever to sit in Congress.

1954 – Chicago advertiser W. Leonard Evans Jr. founds the National Negro Network, the first Black-owned radio network in the country.

1986 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is observed as a federal holiday for the first time.

2001 – Colin Powell is sworn in by President George W. Bush as U.S. secretary of state, becoming the first African American to hold the position.

2009 – Barack Obama is inaugurated as the first Black president of the United States.

JAN. 21 1913 – Fanny Jackson Coppin, a famed African-American educator and missionary who was one of the first Black women to graduate from college, dies in Philadelphia at 75.

2013 – A public inauguration ceremony is held for Barack Obama’s second presidential term coinciding with Martin Luther King Day.

JAN. 22 1906 – Aviator Willa Brown, the first African-American woman to earn her pilot’s license in the United States, is born in Glasgow, Kentucky.

1931 – Famed soul singer-songwriter Sam Cooke is born in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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1946 – Editor, writer and journalist Susan L. Taylor, who served as editor-in-chief of Essence magazine in the ‘80s and ‘90s, is born in New York City.

1976 – Renowned singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson dies in Philadelphia at 77 from complications of a stroke.

1977 – Patricia Roberts Harris begins serving as the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Jimmy Carter, becoming the first African-American woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet.

1977 – “Roots,” a TV miniseries based on Alex Haley’s 1976 novel “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” begins airing on ABC, the first of eight consecutive nights.

1993 – Gospel music legend Thomas Dorsey dies in Chicago at 93.

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Men in America, regardless of race, tend to exhibit dual personalities that we turn off and on at will whenever in mixed company. We master this ability to be like chameleons so that we, too, can follow in the footsteps of our forefathers and be granted the same privileges of any all-American man: to have our cake and eat it too; to be cowtowed, obeyed – even worshipped, so that we won’t fly into a temper tantrum like a spoiled little brat.

And when differences of opinion arise, like any “real man,” we’ve learned how to bring closure to the dispute, shutting down negotiations with the final word.

Such ways of thinking, albeit archaic and sexist, have long prevailed, perpetuating paths predestined for young boys as they’re indoctrinated into American patriarchy. The impact of this societal norm leaves most women in a position where equality, while a noble, logical notion, exists more in the philosophical realm than in the real world.

We want the sisters to walk with us, just not in front of us. We don’t mind if they express their views, feelings, needs and concerns, just not too often, not too loudly, not

too boldly. We want to have things our way because, well, that’s just the way it is – the way it’s always been.

Still, many men suffer from a kind of perversion, a malevolence, an imbalance of neurons and protons that allow us to respond like maniacs should any woman we love become the harassed, humiliated, battered or violated “target” of another man determined to get what and who he desires.

The irony is that when we treat our wives, soulmates, special lady – even that hot “temptress” who

We want the sisters to walk with us, just not in front of us. We don’t mind if they express their views, feelings, needs and concerns, just not too often, not too loudly, not too boldly. We want to have things our way because, well, that’s just the way it is – the way it’s always been.

finally invited us up to her place for a nightcap, in similar, inappropriate manners, we cry foul, indignant that anyone would dare question our privileges and powers guaranteed to every “man of the house.”

This is the world in which women must live, survive and somehow thrive. Women care for our children, they take of our homes, they work just as many hours as any male colleague but receive less in wages. From the time they take their first step, they must brush off physical advances, sometimes sexual in nature, everywhere they go: in grade school, as college coeds, while walking along any street or avenue, at their job, in restaurants, coffeeshops and nightclubs – even within the “safe confines” of their families.

That’s why women are still marching. That’s why women are still battling. That’s why women are still running – running to and running from. It’s not the stranger in their midst that they fear most and seek to avoid – it’s you, it’s me – it’s us. WI

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By Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins The current partial government shutdown, the longest in the nation’s history, has called into question the notion that employment at a federal agency provides longterm financial stability.

Meanwhile, furloughed workers, soon entering their fourth week without pay, continue to scramble to find alternate means to pay escalating overdue bills But even some of those options may prove fruitless, as one U.S. Department of Agriculture employee, identified here as Woolfolk, said she came to realize.

“The reality that this might be problematic for me and a lot of people really hit home last week when I filed for unemployment,” said Woolfolk who’s been in her current job for the past six year.

“I was informed that wages haven’t been paid so folks in the federal government had to prove they’ve been working. That shows the government hasn’t paid its employment taxes. It’s public knowledge that we don’t have income. A lot of creditors haven’t been great at making concessions. It doesn’t matter if you have good credit,” she said.

Woolfolk, a cancer survivor with limited mobility and depleted savings, has been unable to meet her financial obligations, submitting a partial January mortgage payment made possible with a contribution from her church.

Since the furlough started on December 22, she has written letters about her situation, attaching

a special form identifying her as a federal government employee, to utility companies, creditors and her mortgage lender. Some, like her utilities provider, have yet to reply – others, including owners of a storage warehouse, have rejected her pleas for leniency.

In anticipation of similar situations unfolding across the District, the Office of the People’s Counsel sent a letter to Pepco and other D.C. utility companies last week asking for a moratorium on disconnections and assistance for federal worker struggling to pay bills.

In a public statement, the People’s Counsel Sandra Mattavous-Frye described utilities as a matter of public well-being, recommending that the desired hold be placed on affected customers’ accounts until they receive their first post-furlough paycheck.

On their own initiative, Pepco has spent much of the month reminding customers of its Low-Income Energy Assistance Program that provides grants through the Department of Energy and the Environment and the Maryland Department of Human Services.

City government and local food providers have also stepped forward to fill in the gap. On Jan. 12, the Department of Parks & Recreation provided free lunch to children at eight locations throughout the District. Capital Area Food Bank and Bread for the City, along with other organizations, have passed out groceries and free meals to both government workers and employees of industries dependent on daily government activities and the revenue that’s generated.

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As of January 11, the shutdown has drained more than $3.6 billion from the U.S. economy, according to a report from S&P. The Internal Revenue Service warns of a delay in tax refunds this year.

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb has announced a suspension in food inspections while 36 million Americans stand a chance of losing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits by March.

On Tuesday, as furloughed government employee Dee Wyatt continued searching for steady work though a temp agency, rank-and-file Democrats rejected Trump’s invitation to a meeting at the White House about the 2019 fiscal year budget.

Wyatt, who started her stint as a contract worker at a local federal agency months before Trump won the election, said she has focused on making do with what little she has. Instead of Lyft and Uber, she rides Metro. With her January bills paid in full, she’s decided to cut back on gym memberships and other luxuries.

In less than a month, she’s taken a glimpse into how others, on whose path she currently walks, have navigated life with few resources.

“My cousin worked at Department of Human Services and talked me into coming up there for an EBT card,” Wyatt said. “After that first week, I didn’t realize I was then eligible for food stamps. The lady who took care of me could tell it was my first time and gave me the ins and outs. That helped a lot.” WI

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D.C. Youths Renew Efforts to Lower Voting Age

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To this day, the sting of defeat continues to burn for the young people who, on several occasions, spoke to the D.C. Council about their sense of powerlessness against the societal ills affecting their generation, only for the city’s legislative body to table a bill that would have given them more latitude in addressing those issues.

For Micah Carter, a student at Woodrow Wilson Senior High School in Northwest and member of the #Vote16DC coalition, the denial of teenage voting rights she experienced last fall meant she and her peers wouldn’t be able to use to the ballot to elect those they believe to be committed to closing gaps in mental health services and improving school equity in the District.

“I remember getting a call that the bill didn’t pass,” said Micah,

16, as she recounted the bevy of emotions that engulfed her peers in their failed attempt to secure voting rights for more than 11,000 District 16- and 17-year-olds in November.

“Some of us were definitely disappointed but we weren’t discouraged.”

Micah counted among a handful of young people who recently participated in a public gathering at THEARC on Mississippi Avenue in Southeast focused on teenage voting rights. More than 50 community members listened and weighed in at the Ward 8 #Vote16 town hall on Jan. 10.

The event, sponsored by the Black Swan Academy, Ward 8 State Board of Education Representative Markus Batchelor, and the #OurLivesMatter coalition of the FBR Branch of the Boys & Girls Club, counted as part of what Micah described as a strategy to boost awareness, and support, for 16- and 17-year-old residents seeking access

to the ballot box.

“We knew we had to kick back harder,” Micah said. “The strategy is to get the word out about the legislation and get council members back on board. Some of them said they felt young people of color wouldn’t vote. They felt we weren’t educated enough about civic engagement or mature enough for such a big responsibility. It was a bit of a shocker to hear them say that, especially those who have children.”

By November, support for the Youth Vote Amendment Act, introduced by Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) for the second time in three years, gave way to the skepticism some lawmakers had about its popularity. In the end, seven council members, including Anita Bonds (D-At Large) and Trayon White (D-Ward 8), voted to postpone deliberation on the Youth Vote Amendment Act for 2018.

In the months leading up the council’s decision, #Vote16DC

5 Members of the #Vote16DC coalition speak about their efforts to expand voting rights to 16- and 17-year-old District residents during a Jan. 10 town hall at THEARC on Mississippi Avenue SE. (Courtesy photo)

members spoke before the council’s judiciary committee and appealed to individual council members while taking the streets.

Bonds, who awarded the #Vote16DC youth for their service at the Community Cornerstone

Award late last year, commended the young activists for their efforts but said it takes more than a couple presentations to shift paradigms.

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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY Prince George’s Helps Workers Affected by Federal Shutdown

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill As the partial federal government shutdown stretched into its fourth week, about 70,000 federal employees in Prince George’s County who didn’t get paid last week can now receive assistance.

For instance, before and after child care and preschools fees will be waived for furloughed workers at community centers. In addition, those workers

NAACP from Page 1 conversation about the 2019 agenda, issues affecting communities of color and how women can continue as advocates.

“The only [congressional] class that rivals this one in size is the [class of] Watergate,” Pressley said, who stunned 10-term Rep. Michael Capuano in their state’s primary to become the first African-American woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts.

“And that’s no coincidence … during this vitriolic, polarizing time we find ourselves in. … it’s the same way it was during Watergate,” she said referring to President Donald Trump and his administration.

McBath noted that the CBC has been addressing a more inclusive policy agenda for a long time.

“We’re probably the only body that looks at human and civil rights from the eyes of the community,” she said, noting that the iconic former Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm set the bar for all.

Each lawmaker paid homage to Chisholm who 51 years ago became the first Black woman elected to Congress.

Chisholm, a founding member of the CBC and the first African American to make a serious bid for president, represented New York’s 12th Congressional District for seven terms until 1983.

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The county designated $70,000 toward the emergency fund to help residents for housing, utilities and other needs.

“As this wickedness goes on … we want to let [resident] know that we have their back,” County Executive Angela Alsobrooks said during a Jan. 10 press conference at Prince George’s Community College in Largo to announce the initiatives.

“We will work overtime day and night to make sure their needs are about the issue [of gun violence] that has devastated our community for years,” said McBath, whose son, Jordan Davis, died in 2012 after an argument at a gas station, reportedly over loud music, led to a white Florida man shooting into the car in which Jordan and his teenaged friends had been traveling.

“Now, gun violence has gone outside the confines of the urban community and extended its ugly head all over the nation,” she said. “As a Black woman, a woman of color, I believe I must stand up and take responsibility for others.”

Fudge, a former CBC chair, noted that Black women in Congress helped spearhead the recent passage of the Farm Bill which helps protect African Americans.

“When people ask if we’re [the CBC] relevant, I reply that we’re more than relevant,” Fudge said.

“Sometimes we work in the shadows and we do and we’re effective.”

The Democratic Party in particular realizes the importance of Black women, Fudge added.

“I think the party, and even now the Republican Party, is realizing that they can’t be successful without Black women,” she said. “The most educated voters are Black women who are the single-largest voting bloc per capita and everyone is taking notice of the power we have.”

That power could extend to the White House in 2020 with Harris expected to announce her candidacy for president this month.

5 Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks (at podium) leads a press conference Jan. 10 to announce several initiatives aimed at assisting 70,000 residents impacted by the partial federal government shutdown. (William J. Ford/The Washington Informer)

satisfied.”

Residents can receive help from the community college, agencies and local businesses.

Community college students can apply for one-time grants toward books, tuition and fees up to 50 percent of the total cost when the spring semester convenes Jan. 22.

For students with outstanding balances, they can qualify for grants or extended payment plans.

The United Way of the National Capital Area reactivated its emergency assistance fund with $50,000 and immediately matched with an

equal amount by Pepco to provide food and housing. Donations can be accepted at www.unitedwaynca.org/ support.

The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission will suspend water service shutoffs and waive late fees for residents in both Prince George’s and Montgomery counties.

Prince George’s public schools announced a partnership with the nonprofit, Excellence in Education Foundation for PGCPS, to supply 10,000 hot meals for students whose parents don’t have money to pay for them. So far, half of the goal has been achieved.

Those willing to help can go to www.pgcps.org and click on “Donate Now: 10,000 Meals Challenge.”

Phil Sardelis, owner of the College Park-based Sardi’s Catering, said his business will donate $2,500 toward the public schools’ meals fund. Additionally, Sardelis said federal workers can receive a 10 percent discount card to use any day of the week and purchase a buy-one-get-one-free meal every Tuesday until the shutdown ends.

The shutdown, which officially began Dec. 22, affects an estimated 800,000 federal workers nationwide, including 420,000 working without pay and 320,000 who have been fur-

loughed.

On Capitol Hill, the House already approved legislation to reopen the government. However, it didn’t include nearly $6 billion President Donald Trump requests to construct a wall along the Mexican border, which has been the sticking point in negotiations.

The Senate remains undecided and must also agree on legislation for Trump to sign.

Workers didn’t receive their first paychecks of the new year Friday, Jan. 11.

In Largo, Prince George’s Council Chairman Todd Turner read a few statistics from the Washington Council of Governments, which estimates 400,000 contractors from the D.C. region have been affected by the shutdown.

“We obviously urge our national leaders to stop this,” he said. “There are opportunities to be able to move forward and still have your policy and political discussion, but let’s not make our federal workers and our federal contractors those hostages to that occasion.”

For more information on where Prince George’s residents can find resources, go to www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/shutown.

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ville. Unlike their peers on those jurisdictions, 16- and 17-year-olds in D.C. would’ve been able to vote for federal offices.

During the first quarter of 2019, District youth will have ample opportunity write about voting rights for 16- and 17-year-old residents with essay contests coordinated by Black Swan Academy and the Marion Barry Youth Leadership Institute.

At the Wilson Building in Northwest, Allen, who chairs the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety and vocal supporter of youth voting rights, hasn’t given any indication about the future of bill. Attempts to reach his office for comment were unsuccessful.

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The California senator laughed when an admirer told her that she hopes she runs for president.

Instead of a direct response, Harris joined her colleagues in offering advice as to what Black women can do to exert their power.

“Stay active, use your powerful voice and get involved in campaigns,” she said. “It could be a campaign issue or a candidate campaign. But let them see you in the campaign office and organize community members.

When Black women show up and campaign, our voices are heard, and we’re taken more seriously.” WI

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were able to show resounding support from students in the public schools, not just those in the private and charter schools,” Bonds told The Informer. “I would like to see more neighborhood leaders, and the community at large, support this legislation. I don’t really know why there wasn’t any support. It takes a while for subject matter to drill down to the masses. It might sound like a great idea but folks in the majority have to indicate that.”

If approved, the Youth Vote Amendment Act would have allowed 16- and 17-year-old District residents to vote in local elections, similar to what had been done in the nearby Maryland cities of Takoma Park, Greenbelt, and Hyatts-

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PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY General Assembly Gets Underway

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill The first week of the Maryland General Assembly went through a few regular routines with freshmen lawmakers settling into new routines, crafting legislation, organizing various committees and 72 women legislators making it the largest group ever to serve.

But one of the most talked about moments so far stemmed from Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. announcing in the Senate chamber he’s been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Miller, 76, the nation’s longest-serving Senate president of more than three decades, missed Friday’s session to under chemotherapy treatment.

“Anybody that has been serving that long, it is a big deal. He is a brand,” said Sen. Obie Patterson (D-District 26) of Fort Washington. “He has indicated he sees no reason why he can’t carry out his duties and responsibilities over the years. I’m praying for him and wish him the best.”

Senate Pro Tem Kathy Klausmeier (D-Baltimore County) will handle the duties inside the chamber. Friday’s session to introduce bills lasted fewer than 10 minutes.

But Sen. Nancy King (D-Montgomery County) noticed a historical moment: “For the first time in history, a woman is presiding in both the House and the Senate.”

Everyone in the chamber applauded as Delegate Adrienne Jones (D-Baltimore County) led the House chamber as House Speaker Michael Busch attended a doctor appointment.

Delegate Cheryl Glenn (D-Baltimore City) introduced three bills regarding the medical cannabis on Jan. 9, the first day of the 90-day session.

The three pieces of legislation call for allowing dispensaries and processors to possess, transport and sell food containing medical cannabis; permitting nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, physical therapists, psychologists and physician assistants to serve on the 13-member Natalie M. LaPrade Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission; and encouraging the commission to help patients who suffer from an opioid disorder.

Gonzales Research & Media Services of Arnold, Maryland, released a poll on the same day the General Assembly reconvened, showing

that 58 percent of registered voters approve of making recreational marijuana legal in Maryland. Approximately 69 percent of those voters who are 55 and younger favor the move, compared to 48 of voters older than 55.

Glenn, whose late mother is the namesake of the cannabis commission, doesn’t support enacting recreational marijuana legislation.

For instance, the commission continues to revamp its application process to ensure more women and minority-owned businesses.

This measure was formulated after Gov. Larry Hogan ordered a disparity study released last year which showed mostly white-owned businesses represented the cannabis industry.

According to the commission on the first day of sales on Dec. 1, 2017, through July 30, dispensary sales reached $46 million.

The Baltimore Sun reported last month that the state’s medical marijuana industry received $96.3 million in its first year of operation from nearly 52,000 patients who purchased about 730,000 individual products.

In addition, Glenn said the law

needs to be restructured for those who have been previously charged with marijuana-related crimes to partake in the medical cannabis industry, particularly Blacks.

“We have to make sure that our medical marijuana program is what it needs to be,” she said. “We’re still working on that in terms of the diversity factor. Until we get that solidified … it wouldn’t be good to enact recreational marijuana legislation.”

Other legislation will focus on criminal justice reform.

Delegate Alonzo Washington (D-District 22), who represents Prince George’s County, said lawmakers will discuss how to eliminate the school-to-prison pipeline.

As a member of the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education, also known as the Kirwan Commission, Washington said the group approved a recommendation to implement restorative practices as a policy objective.

“We’re making sure our teachers are trained on restorative practices,” he said. “We are making sure we pass some good legislation this year on this.”

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New Youth Apprenticeship Program Prepares PGCPS Students for High-Wage Jobs The scene staged in the career and technical classroom at Crossland High School was a vivid reminder of the talent cultivated

by Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS).

Shiny construction hard hats donned hours earlier by masonry program students were on display at the rear of the room. Refreshments prepared by culinary arts students were available for guests.

“Welcome to our home,” Crossland Principal Michael Gilchrist said.

For PGCPS, National Apprenticeship Week was the perfect time to announce the launch of its own Youth Apprenticeship Program — the first state-approved model.

A combination of classroom instruction and real-world experience, the Youth Apprenticeship Program is designed to clear the pathway to higher education or immediate employment.

“You are a pioneer,” said James E. Rzepkowski, Acting Secretary

of the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, as the room erupted in applause at the launch event.

The program is offered through the Department of Career and Technical Education. Starting their junior year, students in plumbing, electrical, carpentry and masonry can earn industry-recognized credentials.

They will have work with the PGCPS maintenance department during the summer and senior year, earning the standard $15 per hour.

Upon graduation, students can

continue with advance coursework at Prince George’s Community College (PGCC) and earn a journeyman’s license. School system officials are working with county government agencies on preferential hiring opportunities for program participants.

“This wasn’t really offered back when I was growing up,” said Graylin McClary, who attended the launch with his two sons. “Something as simple as a summer job and then you follow through to a career — this is something big.”

In Maryland and across the nation,

middle-skill jobs comprise the largest part of the labor market.

“For most middle-skill jobs, students are going to need some education beyond a high school diploma,” said Yvette Snowden, Associate Vice President for Workforce Development and Continuing Education at Prince George’s Community College. “This program also gives them the opportunity to gain real-world experience under the guidance of a mentor in an apprenticeship program.”

The Youth Apprenticeship Program helps to fill the middle skills em-

5 Culinary students prepare to serve attendees at PGCPS Youth Apprenticeship Program launch event.

ployment gap and fuels the local economy.

“When you look at many of our programs, they are getting kids ready for college, but when you look at the career track they are not as expansive,” said Edward Burroughs, Board of Education Vice Chair. “A program like this actually puts our money where our mouth is.”

Crossland High School junior Tatianna Bigesby followed her gut in deciding to enroll in the program.

“I want to be an architect,” she said. “This program has boosted my math skills. You can’t be an architect if you are not good at math.”

The program will help Bigesby and other students gain the skills needed to land high-wage jobs.

Take it from master electrician Timothy Atchison.

“I actually have my own contracting company now,” Atchison said.

“I came out of high school making $16 or $17 per hour as a first-year apprentice and today I’m well over that.”

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By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor @dkevinmcneir Nigerian-born Emmanuel O. Irono has never allowed hard work, late hours or even overwhelming odds to deter him from remaining focused and diligent in the pursuit of his goals, dreams and heartfelt destiny.

Thus, it should come as no great surprise that, Irono, president and CEO of MOTIR, Services, Inc., joined a group of other equally-talented minority and women entrepreneurs all from the Greater Washington Area, chosen as 2018 Top 100 100 MBE honorees during an annual awards program last fall.

The award, sponsored by the Capital Region Minority Supplier Development Council [CRMSDC] since 2007, recognizes owners of minority business enterprises in Maryland, Virginia and D.C. who have exhibited exceptional business acumen, professionalism, served as role models and made contributions of note to their respective communities.

Irono, presented with the honor during the CRMSDC’s 37th Annual Leaders and Legends Awards Ceremony, Nov. 2, at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, reflected on the arduous road he’s traveled from his African homeland to the U.S. and the District where, after completing his studies and cutting his teeth as a federally-contracted budget analyst, made a $10,000 investment and transformed a once-struggling janitorial service company into a $30 million profit generator.

District-based MOTIR, established in 1991 and renamed to honor his parents (Memory of Theresa Irono Romanus), serves as a performance-based provider of a broad range of contract services to federal, state, municipal and commercial clients.

“The award highlights our accomplishments in business and our contributions to the economic

well-being of the local community,” he said adding that during its 24 year-history, MOTIR, like so many other small businesses in the U.S., has successfully overcome numerous, challenging economic periods.

“I believe our commitment to providing job opportunities to individuals in Ward 8 is what continues to drive MOTIR’s success and passion – it’s ultimately the reason we’re [still] in business,” said Irono who bears the responsibility of leading and directing the company’s administration, corporate governance, marketing, finance and contracts, readily relying, he emphasizes, on the skills of his wife who co-owns the business.

In fact, he says family has served as the crux of his company’s policies and formula of success.

“MOTIR is named and dedicated to my father, mother and family,” he said. “It is very important to me to keep their legacy alive through my social entrepreneurial efforts and it’s my hope that my three children, Chidera, Ekene and Obinna, will continue the vision,” he said.

“As an African who has benefitted from opportunities here in the U.S., I believe African Americans should explore opportunities in Africa and build relationships that benefit both cultures,” Irono added.

The company has undoubtedly found its niche, given its impressive growth.

“We have a combination of corporate, regular full-time/part-time and even temporary employees exceeding 250 employees in the D.C. metropolitan area,” he noted. “We gain new employees through community engagement, on-going job fairs, referrals and digital advertising.

And we support our staff from application in-take, onboarding, credentialing, proficiency testing to practical on-site coaching and training.”

Irono says he enjoys the challenges associated with being a small business owner but warns that it’s not for everyone.

“If being an entrepreneur is your passion than you should pursue that path. However, it comes at a high price for many of us in terms of time, energy and commitment. I’d encourage those hoping to become entrepreneurs to think clearly about their willingness to make similar sacrifices,” he said.

“Also, they should seek out a mentor who can help them navigate a path to success. We need more social entrepreneurs in the District to create jobs and pathways out of poverty.”

Proven commitment to the local community in a variety of ways has been integral to Irono’s personal philosophy and has long served as one of the pillars for his business – something that still weighs significantly in the final selection of those businesses and their leaders chosen as Top 100 MBEs by CRMSDC’s panel of judges each year.

“MOTIR is always excited to support Ward 8 youth, particularly since our company was founded in Ward 8 and most of our staff live in that community,” Irono said.

“Anything we can do to enhance their out-of-school time is worthwhile. The basketball program we support is an opportunity to do just that during which we encourage the youth to use the opportunity to strengthen their talents and skills,” he said.

While MOTIR utilizes cutting-edge technology as an integral element of its services, using innovative solutions that are unique to 21st

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5 MPD (District 7) Ward 8, DC 49th Annual Toy Drive – MOTIR was a sponsor for the TIS Foundation. Pictured are Emmanuel Irono (sixth from left) w/MPD team, children and staff. (Photo courtesy Emmanuel Irono)

century challenges while creating measuring and sustaining value for its clients for world-class value-added services, Irono says he’s never abandoned his decision to remain an active partner and leader within the community.

“My wife and I share a common vision for empowering people through job creation and workforce development at MOTIR,” he said.

“One of our key goals is to provide more comprehensive services to individuals seeking opportunity in Ward 8 and we’re pursuing strategic partnerships with organizations, community leaders and like-minded

businesses to establish programs to meet the economic development needs of this community while we offer training, mentoring and exercise second-chance opportunities for residents,” Irono said.

The Top 100 MBE awards were created to recognize enterprising minority entrepreneurs who fuel the region’s economy through their innovation, sacrifices and dedication.

These business owners, according to words shared on CRMSDC’s website, are living their dreams and making significant contributions to their clients, professions, industries and communities. WI

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NATIONAL Report: Kamala Harris to Announce Run for President

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia Kamala Harris is running for president.

The California Democrat, who previously said she’d ponder the decision over the holidays, is expected to make a formal announcement on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. CBS News Radio in California reported that Harris will likely hold a campaign rally in Oakland where she’ll officially throw her hat into the ring.

Harris, 54, has recently been making the rounds of television talk shows and appearing at several events as part of a brief tour to promote her new book, “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.”

At every stop, when asked about running for president, Harris has answered with some variation of “I’m not ready yet”

to announce her decision and cited family considerations, according to CBS News.

But several sources with knowledge of her plans told the network that she has in fact decided to run with the enthusiastic blessing of her husband and two stepchildren.

The debate within her camp has been how and where to launch her campaign.

The tentative plan is for Harris to enter the race with a campaign rally in the city of her birth and where she began her legal career.

Harris has remained as outspoken as any about President Donald Trump and his policies.

As the president pushed his agenda to build a wall on America’s southern border this week, she lashed out and called it a “Vanity Project.”

She scoffed at Trump’s contention of a border crisis.

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During the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference in September, Harris told the Black Press that America faced a “critical time” under Trump’s presidency.

She said the “American Dream” for which Dr. King fought so hard remains deferred.

“It’s about where we came from and where we’ve got to go . . . this is a pivotal moment,” she said.

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Federal Workers March to White House, Plead for End to Shutdown

By Hamil R. Harris WI Contributing Writer

It was evident from their downcast eyes.

Outrage mixed with panic for several thousand federal workers who marched Thursday, Jan. 10 to the White House in an appeal to President Trump to end a federal shutdown nearing its fourth week.

The demonstrators converged on the AFL-CIO’s northwest D.C. headquarters at noon for the “Stop the Shutdown” rally, as labor union leaders and Democratic lawmakers called for the president to end the political impasse over border wall funding and return about 800,000 people to their jobs.

“I don’t know how I am going to pay my bills,” Mohasi Mohammed, a security guard at the Smithsonian Institution’s Air and Space Museum, said while holding a sign reading, “Trump, pay my bills or give us our jobs back.”

“Mr. Trump, you want to tell me to be homeless,” Mohammed said. “It makes no sense. I am not going to be homeless, I need my job.”

Busloads of participants from Detroit, Philadelphia and communities along the East Coast filled

the intersection of 16th and K streets, as demonstrators with protest signs rallied at the AFL-CIO headquarters before marching to the White House.

While D.C. is a frequent location for mass demonstrations, many of the federal workers on hand clearly were not used to engaging in protest or talking to the media. But their message was unmistakable.

“I want my check. I need my check. I need to get back to work,” said Alison Munger, who works for the U.S. Department of Housing and Community Development in Philadelphia. “If I don’t get my check, my mortgage [company] is going to be calling me, asking, ‘Where is our money?’ … My car people will be calling, … my insurance company will be calling and I have two kids in college.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) were among the numerous speakers at the rally, held hours after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-

nell (R-Ky.) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) debated a bill to end the shutdown that went nowhere.<span class=”Apple-converted-space”> </span> “I have never seen a president like this, who holds temper tantrums and holds 800,000 people hostage,” J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, told The Informer after addressing the crowd.

Cox said McConnell is simply doing Trump’s bidding.

“We need a simple up-anddown vote and then send the bill to the president,” he said.

Wala Blegay, the lawyer for two D.C.-area nurses’ unions, said she came to Lafayette Square to show solidarity, while Horacio Fenton, 59, a longtime IRS employee from Philadelphia, said he traveled to D.C. because he is fed up with the bureaucratic bickering at workers’ expense.

“I have been through seven shutdowns and I’m tired,” he said.

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5 Furloughed workers and supporters march to the White House on January 10 to protest the federal shutdown. (Michael A. McCoy/The Washington Informer)

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WAFF Offers Energy Assistance to Those in Need As the temperatures drop across our area every winter, the need for emergency heating assistance soars. Unfortunately, energy assistance can be difficult to obtain.

In fact, fewer than two in 10 people who are eligible for federal energy assistance actually receive it because there simply are not enough funds to go around.

Washington Gas recognized this critical need and partnered with The Salvation Army over 35 years ago to create the Washington Area Fuel Fund (WAFF). Washington Gas pays all costs of operating the program while The Salvation Army assists clients and manages the disbursement of the funds.

This partnership underscores the commitment of Washington Gas to help local neighbors in need with energy assistance so that they can stay warm during cold winter months. Families living in poverty spend more than 30 percent of their income on energy bills. Because Washington Gas pays all expenses to manage WAFF, 100 percent of every dollar

donated goes to help families such as Hazel and Fred who called upon WAFF when they needed help.

Traditionally, WAFF pays for energy assistance regardless of what type of heat you use in your home, whether it’s electricity, gas, oil, propane or another type of fuel. Eligibility is primarily determined based on income, among other factors. All of the details are available at WAFFHELP. ORG or by calling your local Salvation Army Office.

Through Washington Gas’ recent merger with AltaGas, even more low to moderate income families are now eligible for assistance, beginning this year. For example, through the WAFF Washington Gas Merger Funds Program, a family of four earning $75,050 could be eligible for assistance. WAFF applications are accepted January 1 through May 31 at the nearest county or city where The Salvation Army has offices.

In 2018, the WAFF provided energy assistance to 8,000 people like Fred and Hazel. Neighbors in need are encouraged to reach out for help. Help is only a telephone call or click away.

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The ANC on Saturday pledged to deliver on its promise to create more jobs in an economy that has been characterized by limited growth.

Factors such as job creation, health, education and securing investment in the economy for inclusive growth as well as advancing social transformation were some the key points of the ANC’s election manifesto delivered at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Saturday, the Johannesburg-based Sunday Independent reported.

The party’s 2019 election manifesto, titled “Let’s Grow South Africa Together,” spoke massively on the party’s intention to create more jobs.

According to the election manifesto, the party said it would create 275 000 jobs each year by boosting local demand for goods. It also said the party would invest more in the mining, manufacturing and agricultural sectors.

“We will ensure that we not only create new jobs but work hard to protect existing jobs. In line with the presidential jobs summit outcomes, we will take active steps to ensure that retrenchments are the last consideration taken by employers and that retrenchment procedures are reviewed,” read the document.

The party said it would set bold but achievable targets for youth internships, including prescribing a minimum percentage in the public sector while securing concrete commitments from the private sector.

It also said it would work to increase the levels of investments by R1.2 trillion ($72.7 billion) over the next four years as part of the plan to grow the economy and create jobs.

“We are within reach of our target,” the party said. “These investments will help diversify the economy in sectors like mining, forestry, manufacturing, telecommunications, transport, energy, water, agro-processing, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, infrastructure and financial services.”

The party further explained that it would push for workers to own stakes in companies that they work for and share the profits.

This would be done through the introduction of legislation for the extension of company ownership to a broad base of workers through an employee ownership scheme and similar arrangements to supplement workers’ incomes and build greater partnerships between workers and owners to build these businesses. WI

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“He doesn’t appreciate [and] he doesn’t understand what his role is as the prime minister of this country,” said Davis, leader of the Progressive Liberal Party, the Nassau Guardian reported.

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Chief Justice Stephen Isaacs died in August after serving in the position for two weeks. He had been chief justice for several months after former Chief Justice Sir Hartman Longley was appointed Court of Appeal president in December 2017.

Because the prime minister hasn’t yet chosen a new chief justice, Davis said he does not have an understanding or appreciation for the importance of each arm of government having a substantive head.

“This deadline and unwarranted and unexplained delay in appointing a chief justice does not augur well for the administration of justice,” Davis said.

Speaking at the opening of the Legal Year on Jan. 9, acting Chief Justice Vera Watkins said the uncertainty of her post made it difficult to set an agenda for the year. WI

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Expanding Access to Care, One Woman at a Time

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M. Rondon, Contributor Asafu Thomas has always had the future on his mind. For years, he’s been a forward-thinking entrepreneur with a keen interest in innovation and his big-picture ideas. Never one for short-sighted plans and temporary fixes, his focus is on creating ways to implement positive change in communities across the nation, from large urban areas to smaller rural communities. Asafu is more than just your average businessman. He believes in the power of companies to change the lives of the people they serve, building sustainable businesses that make positive, lasting change nationwide.

One of the reasons Asafu has seen so much success in his ventures is because of his intent focus on the people the company is meant to serve.

He’s experienced in market research and skilled at using precise, targeted data to discover what makes a community unique. All those data points paint a picture of the specific needs of the community, allowing Asafu to create a plan to serve those needs in a way that’s accessible and affordable for as many people possible.

Simply put, Asafu is focused on people, not just profits, investing in communities at the individual level to help people where they are. Especially dear to his cause are women of color, and for good reason.

Through Asafu’s research, he found a host of problems at every stage of care, indicating that black women are being underserved at all levels of the healthcare system. Black women are at a higher risk of developing serious conditions such as heart disease, stroke, type II diabetes, and breast and cervical cancers. Black women are more likely to be misdiagnosed or have their symptoms ignored by their physician, which can drastically affect their health outcomes for all sorts of conditions.

Black women are also at a higher risk of premature labor and delivery and are 3-4 times more likely to die during childbirth than white women. According to CDC estimates, over half of those deaths may be preventable. Underlying all of these conditions, Asafu found a systemic shortage of access to preventive care and a pervasive lack of information that perpetuated the cycle of poorer health outcomes for black women. To Asafu, this was unacceptable, and he decided to do something to address it.

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“Healthcare shouldn’t be limited by a patient’s economic status or the notion that healthcare is a privilege,” explained Asafu when asked about the idea behind the mission of HealthPlan USA. It was with these concerns in mind that Asafu created HealthPlan USA, an affordable healthcare solution for uninsured or underinsured individuals and families in a diverse America.

While HealthPlan USA is not meant to replace insurance, it provides its members with substantial discounts on healthcare services through a variety of means, from in-person doctor visits to telehealth to pharmaceutical discounts, including vision and dental benefits (services that are often overlooked in employee health plans). It can also serve to supplement a lacking insurance policy in instances where a person is receiving limited health benefits from an employer. A single membership extends to all members of your household, so there’s no need to pay more to provide coverage for the whole fami-

ly. There’s also access to preventive medicine and a health advocate who can offer personalized advice on how to access the best care for your specific needs.

Asafu’s goal with HealthPlan USA is to create a comprehensive plan that addresses every level of inequality in our healthcare system. By providing truly affordable access to high-quality care, making routine screenings affordable and accessible, and informing and advocating for patients, Asafu plans to address not just reduced access to preventive and emergency care, but the lack of information that leads people to get sicker before seeking treatment.

“The heart of HealthPlan USA is to give people back their agency and empower them to make their own healthcare decisions, improving and maintaining their health on their own terms.

Black women are the movers and shakers of their communities, and any benefit they receive will be amplified, enriching the lives of their loved ones and the community as a whole.”

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HEALTH FDA Approves Cervical Cancer Vaccine for Adults

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer

U.S. regulators have expanded the use of pharmaceutical company Merck’s cervical cancer vaccine to adults up to age 45, according to a new report from The Associated Press.

Approved in time for Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, the vaccine was previously only for preteens and young adults through 26.

The Food and Drug Administration approved Gardasil 9 for women and men through 45.

The vaccine protects against the human papilloma virus, or HPV, which can cause cervical cancer, certain other cancers and genital warts.

The virus is very common and is spread through sexual contact.

In most cases, HPV doesn’t cause any problems, but some infections persist and can eventually lead to cancer if untreated.

“If we want to eradicate this disease or the instances of cervical cancer, we need to eliminate HPV,” Dr. Jessica Shepherd, an expert in women’s health, told WTOP. “That’s why it’s so im-

5 Protection from cervical cancer is less certain for African Americans. (Photo courtesy of Corbis)

portant for women to get their pap starting at the age of 21 … but also pap and HPV testing between the ages of 30-65.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates about 14 million people, mostly teens and young adults, are newly infected with HPV each year.

There is a an even larger disparity for cervical cancer among African-American women than originally thought, according to an article by the American

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Dr. Anna L. Beavis, the study’s author, and others wanted to determine the age-standardized and age-specific annual cervical cancer mortality rates in the U.S. after correcting for the prevalence of hysterectomy.

Their goal was to evaluate age and race disparities, according to Nurse.com.

“For Black women, the corrected mortality rate was 10.1 per 100,000 (95 percent confidence interval [CI], 9.6-10.6), whereas the uncorrected rate was 5.7 per 100,000 (95% CI, 5.5-6.0),” the researchers wrote in the study.

“The corrected rate for White women was 4.7 per 100,000 (95% CI, 4.6-4.8), whereas the uncorrected rate was 3.2 per 100,000 (95% CI, 3.1-3.2).”

Researchers gathered county mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics.

“A correction for hysterectomy has revealed that cervical cancer mortality rates are underestimated, particularly in Black women,” the researchers wrote.

“The highest rates are seen in the oldest Black women, and public health efforts should focus on appropriate screening and adequate treatment in this population.”

Still, the approval of HPV vaccine Gardasil is a positive step, experts said.

Gardasil was originally approved for girls in 2006 and later for boys, partly to reduce the spread of HPV to girls, according to AP. While Gardasil was approved for ages 9 through 26, the shots are especially recommended for boys and girls at ages 11 or 12, before they first have sex and could get infected.

About half of U.S. teens now have had two or three doses, AP reported.

Company testing done in older adults showed the vaccine also worked for them. In women 24 through 45, the original Gardasil was about 90 percent effective three years after a third dose was administered.

The latest version of Gardasil protects against nine strains of HPV, four more than the original.

According to the CDC, about 33,700 women and men are diagnosed with a cancer caused by an HPV infection each year, including 12,000 women with cervical cancer, which kills about 4,000 annually.

Merck said the list price for Gardasil 9 is $205 per dose. Two doses are needed for those vaccinated before 15, while three are recommended for older people.

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By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia On Dec. 18, the D.C. Marriage Bureau announced it would close during the government shutdown, meaning those hoping to get married in the nation’s capital could not receive a license.

However, on Jan. 11, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed a bill that some have dubbed “The Love Act.” “We are stepping in where federal courts have discontinued issuing marriage licenses,” Bowser said.

The Let Our Vows Endure Emergency Act of 2019, or LOVE Act, grants Bowser the authority to issue the licenses and authorize officiants for 90 days.

“Today once again we call on the president to get the federal government open, we call on all Americans to join us in our fight for D.C. statehood, and last but not least, we congratulate all the couples who are here with us today, all of those who are out in the city,” Bowser said at Friday’s bill signing while flanked by several soon-to-be-wed couples.

Danielle Geanacopoulos stood beside a man she called her “semi-husband,” Dan Pollock.

“I say ‘semi’ because as some of you may know, we held our wedding ceremony Dec. 29 without our marriage license because of the president’s shutdown,” Geanacopoulos told ABC News. “With Mayor Bowser and the city council’s hard work, we’re delighted to finally be able to make our commitment to each other legal and binding.”

The D.C. Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the

measure, drafted by Bowser’s office soon after she was sworn into office for her second term.

“Just like the Grinch can’t steal Christmas, the shutdown can’t stop love,” John Falcicchio, Bowser’s chief of staff, said in a statement.

Though some functions of the

federally funded D.C. Superior Court remain operational, the Marriage Bureau, which is a part of the D.C. court system, was deemed nonessential and halted its operations when the federal government shut down.

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By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia Morgan State University will be one of the lead institutions in a groundbreaking pilot program in engineering education, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), school officials announced.

The program, “Engineering for US All - E4USA: A National Pilot High School Engineering Course and Database,” is part of a three-

year, $4 million initiative.

It marks an important milestone in the creation of a standardized, nationally recognized high school engineering course through which pre-college students can earn transferable course credits at the college level, said Jumoke Ladeji-Osias, the co-principal investigator for the program and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Morgan.

The program also includes professional development for teachers to support the course.

5 Morgan State University will participate as one of the lead institutions in a pilot program in engineering education. (Courtesy photo/Morgan State University)

The E4USA team leaders anticipate that five Baltimore-area high schools and 15 others in Maryland will participate in the program beginning in the 2019-20 academic year.

“Morgan’s School of Engineering has a long history of involvement in pre-college engineering, and I am grateful to Dean Pines and the NSF for this opportunity to extend that successful track record,” Ladeji-Osias said.

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“My work with E4USA is the culmination of the work I’ve done for Morgan at the pre-college level since 2015, partnering with Baltimore area teachers to enhance their skills in teaching engineering-related topics.”

Ladeji-Osias and Morgan’s School of Engineering will be involved in developing the E4USA syllabus and curriculum, developing standard rubrics for teachers to use in evaluating the students’ progress with the program’s handson engineering design products and distance-learning technologies, and working with the professional development team to customize the teacher training, according to school officials.

Through the pilot program, the E4USA investigators will seek to help “demystify” and “democratize” engineering and determine whether a broader diversity of students will become interested in careers in engineering education or practice.

Their research will also explore whether professional development can certify teachers who are highly qualified in engineering and help them train students to tackle and solve problems.

As a result of the grant, more than 1,000 students at approximately 40 high schools nationwide are expected to complete

the pilot program during its three-year span. An additional 30 schools will participate indirectly with other funding.

The University of Maryland, College Park will lead the pilot in partnership with Arizona State University, Virginia Tech and Morgan State.

Vanderbilt University will evaluate the curriculum, student learning and teacher training, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will collaborate on dissemination of program information.

Dean Darryll J. Pines of the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering will also be a principal investigator for the program.

“With STEM and related fields leading the pathway toward the jobs of the future, it has become extremely important to fully prepare the next generations of workers and to begin expanding the talent pool before they even step foot on a college campus, and with innovative programs like E4USA we are placed in a better position to meet this need,” said Morgan President David Wilson. “I applaud this collaboration made possible by the National Science Foundation and look forward to the knowledge we all will gain from the research it produces.”

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Prince George’s Welcomes New Science and Technology Company

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill A national research company that focuses on research and developments in outer space has relocated to Greenbelt.

The Aerospace Corp. joins other science and technology companies housed in the city in northern Prince George’s County that include NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Global Science & Technology Inc. Aerospace, county and local officials attended a grand opening Thursday, Jan. 10 at the company’s office, which is slated to house 100 employees.

“It’s a number that is growing and that is a reason why we have come into this facility,” said Aerospace President and CEO Steve Isakowitz. “We’re seeing the demand for the kinds of the roles that we have.”

The nonprofit organization, which moved from Columbia in Howard County, labels itself as the only federally funded research and development center focused exclusively on space enterprise.

Isakowitz said the partial government shutdown hasn’t yet affected his company because it still has resources such as computer-operated facilities to continue research. However, he said, the quicker federal officials can pass appropriation bills and the president signs them, the less Aerospace has to worry about future funding.

“It’s measured in weeks, not in months,” he said of the ongoing shutdown. “Fortunately, we have a place like this. Even though federal facilities are closed down, they can come here. We have the computer facilities here … to continue to do some work as best we can.”

According the company’s website, it was established in 1960 and helps assists military and intelligence space programs.

It also provides research and analysis on how certain technology can

affect daily lives.

For instance, engineers completed tests that used 3D cameras “to determine the position, speed and direction of the drone” also called “unmanned autonomous systems.”

Last month, several unauthorized drones caused London’s Gatwick Airport to shut down for two days.

Aerospace also helps track and collect space debris, or “space junk,” such as meteors, asteroids and artificial particles that surface in the atmosphere space that can damage satellites and inhabited spacecraft.

The company’s Greenbelt location also looks to form partnerships with nearby Eleanor Roosevelt High School to boost its science and technology program.

“It just makes perfect sense that a technology company like this focused on optics and satellites and space would want to be right here in Greenbelt,” said Mayor Emmett Jordan. “This is another great asset having scientists right here near Roosevelt. I think [Aerospace] will fit right in.” WI

5 Edward Swallows, senior vice president of civil systems group with Aerospace Corp., hands Floyd E. Holt, deputy chief administrator of the Prince George’s County executive’s office, glass-enclosed “space junk” at Aerospace’s grand opening in Greenbelt on Jan. 10. (Photo by William J. Ford/Washington Informer)

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The Women’s March 2019 returns to the District, Saturday, Jan. 19, for a day of protest, solidarity and soul-searching during the still-emerging and now annual event which will also include the contributions of those in over 200 other “sister marches” held concurrently in cities large and small throughout the U.S. and dozens more around the world.

And if the past serves as an indication, we’ll undoubtedly witness a cavalcade of mostly women, hundreds of thousands in fact, supported by an estimated 175 organizational partners, according to national organizers, as they illustrate the diversity and vibrancy of an ongoing Women’s March Movement whose participants refuse to allow the past and its related indignities thrust upon them to define their present or future.

Even more, we hear that this time around these “hands that rock the cradle,” armed with a carefully-developed agenda, are determined to rock the world of Donald Trump, among others, in a country where women routinely find themselves relegated to second-class citizenry, both viewed and treated as “objects” for the pleasures of men in a still male-dominated society.

Yes, the #WomensWave is coming as they mark two years of resistance to Trump’s presidency and policies, two years of gearing up activists and two years of building power. Rachel O’Leary Carmona, COO of the Women’s March, said that despite the government shutdown, “while the president stokes fear and hatred, women will rise – high enough and strong enough to break down any wall. “ “Hundreds of thousands of women across America and the world [will] flood the streets to demand justice and equality for All of us,” she wrote, with optics that will include 15-feet-high waves, signs and banners.

And for the record, this will not be a cute little sing-along during which sisters will serenade one another with lines from “Kum-Ba-Yah.” This time around, America can expect to see the unveiling of a new federal policy platform, the brainchild of experts committed to the women’s movement entitled, “The Women’s Agenda.”

Change only comes with persistence, planning, hard work, sacrifice – even blood, sweat and tears. But that’s nothing new for the majority of women, no matter where they live, what color they may be, or their economic or educational status.

Still, we wonder if Elizabeth Cady Stanton would have invited Sojourner Truth to march with her. WI

Tuesday, January 15 marked what would have been the 90th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., born 1929 in Atlanta. His early emergence as a preacher and swift ascension to the pinnacle of America’s historical and non-violent civil rights movement serves as a fantastic story of persistence, commitment, fearlessness, faith and, most importantly, love. What he stood for and spoke passionately about convinced a nation of Blacks and Whites to engage with him in acts of civil disobedience to gain justice, freedom, and equality. Even more, he led us to believe that the “aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community.”

Sadly, Dr. King’s life ended tragically and far too soon due to an assassin’s bullet – King just 39 years of age. But the movement continued as the doors of opportunity he helped to open allowed an influx of Blacks to enter with new, fresh opportunities. That was King’s vision and hope for America: that Black men, women, and children would have access to new roads and dreams, judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.

Fifty-one years later, King’s hope for America and its place in the world has slipped backward and the great leaders who emerged both before and immediately after his death, have faded away. Still, the struggle continues and if he were still alive, sadly, he could easily pick right up where he left off in 1968 – planning a march for the nation’s poor in Washington, D.C., supporting striking sanitation workers in Memphis, disgruntled teachers on pickets lines in L.A., or farmers in Virginia, along with so many others, all demanding higher wages and better treatment.

Dr. King would take on Donald Trump and castigate him for his divisive, isolationist, sexist and racist policies. Then, he’d attempt to lead him to a moral high road, as he did in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” to the city’s police commissioner, Bull Conner, quoting the poet T.S. Eliot: “There is no greater treason than to do the right deed for the wrong reason.”

But would Trump understand? Probably not. Nonetheless, Dr. King would most assuredly have persisted.

Dr. King may no longer be with us, but his words remain instructive. He reminds us that the struggle for freedom, equality and justice never end. As he told a collective of coeds, no matter their career choices, becoming a “dedicated fighter for civil rights” must be similarly pursued.

“Make it a central part of your life,” King said. “Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.”

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Truckers Against Trafficking’s mission is to educate, equip, empower and mobilize members of the trucking and busing industries to fight human trafficking as part of their everyday jobs.

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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS Guest Columnist

By Julianne Malveaux

Shame and Shade in Birmingham

If anyone deserves a civil rights award, Angela Davis certainly does.

The activist and scholar has been on the front lines of the civil rights movement all of her life. She has been especially active in prison reform matters, but she has also been involved in other civil and human rights issues.

When I learned in October that she would get the Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, I was absolutely delighted. I imagined the wide smile the daughter of Birmingham must have flashed when she learned that she would be honored.

disturbed that she had been a member of both the Black Panther Party and the Communist Party. Others were concerned about her support of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement) against the Israeli occupation. She has said that she stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and advocates for their fair treatment in Israel.

Everyone in Birmingham wasn’t thrilled, though. Some people in the conservative Southern town seemed

Some ill-informed people consider the BDS movement to be anti-Semitic. They suggest that any

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questions that one raises about Israel shows a bias against Jewish people.

But Davis, a lifelong human rights activist, is concerned about the humanity of Palestinian people, as well as other people.

And she is rightfully concerned, as many of us are, about the spate of laws recently passed that downright outlaw the BDS movement.

According to the Middle East Monitor, a teacher in Texas, Bahia Amawl, refused to sign an oath

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By Jack Brown

Helping Former Inmates Transition to Life Outside Prison is Key To chief executive officer of CORE, family and regain their self-respect.

Criminal Justice Reform The recent unease in northeast Washington, D.C., around a proposed transitional reentry center for formerly incarcerated individuals has raised understandable questions about the societal role of such transitional centers. While the project is now stalled, concerns voiced by some Ward 5 residents deserve to be addressed — especially because D.C. is well-positioned to lead the nation’s efforts to grapple with an array of criminal justice challenges.

To be sure, a single program cannot on its own solve problems that have been generations in the

that required her to pledge that she “does not currently boycott Israel,” that she will not boycott Israel and that she will “refrain from any action that is intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with Israel.”

Texas is among some 25 states that have passed laws forbidding the state from doing business with companies that boycott Israel! It will also not invest pension funds in

making, including high recidivism rates, the spiraling costs of corrections programs, overcrowded prisons, mass incarcerations and criminal-justice policies that disproportionately punish Black and Hispanic men andseparate them from their families and communities. But ignoring the problem — or looking for others to solve it — will most certainly not improve things.

I have a responsibility, both personal and professional, to clearly explain what reentry centers — like the one at the center of this debate — are all about. I am the

the organization that proposed the center in northeast Washington.

Mission-driven, our organization helps former inmates, homeless families, runaway youth and others transform their lives for the better by providing structured, transitional housing and access to critical social and supportive services.

For more than 20 years, CORE’s senior leadership has been empowering its clients, many of them men, face the daunting task of returning to their communities.

These men — who are fathers, brothers and sons — require assistance to reenter the workforce, establish independence, reunite with

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With the help of case managers and social services coordinators, our residents participate in a comprehensive assessment and develop a reentry plan. Residents are also paired with full-time job placement specialists who help them secure livable wages and meaningful employment.

Our life and transitional skills coaches work with residents to adjust to many of the significant changes their communities — and society as a whole — have undergone during their incarceration.

The challenges these men confront include having to adapt to new societal and cultural norms, as well as

needing to learn new technologies and getting around communities that may no longer seem familiar.

Guided by our belief that employment and permanent housing are the twin keys to long-term success and preventing recidivism, we offer workshops ranging from resume-writing and interviewing skills to how to knot a tie and use the Internet.

This round-the-clock support helps clients make significant strides. Through it, clients pick up tools for managing everything from personal relationships to their finances.

Our commitment to values-centered support is backed by our lengthy experience. And it can

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By Marc H. Morial

A Change for the Better

Diversity matters. In a world that is both diverse and deeply interconnected, companies and institutions with greater levels of diversity are achieving better performance. Most organisations, including McKinsey, have more work to do to take full advantage of the opportunity presented by a more diverse leadership team. Organisations also have more work to do on their talent pipeline to attract, develop, mentor, sponsor, and retain the next generations of diverse leaders at all levels. But

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with the rewards of diversity set to increase, investing now is the best plan. Winners will pull further ahead and laggards will fall further behind. — Management Consulting Report “Diversity Matters,” McKinsey & Co. The National Urban League congratulates the U.S. House of Representatives, which approved a rules package creating a new Office of Diversity and Inclusion and requiring the appointment of a Chief Diversity Officer and the development of a diversity plan.

Congressional staff diversity has long been a top priority of the National Urban League. Just last month, we joined with more than

60 other national civil and human rights organizations and stakeholders in sending a letter calling on Members of Congress to prioritize diversity in hiring top staff.

In the letter we encouraged the Members to take the following steps: 1. Set Clear Goals: Promptly develop hiring goals to ensure diversity among those hired in new top and key mid-level staff position openings in your office.

2. Adopt a Diversity Plan: Develop a written office diversity and inclusion plan that includes recruitment and hiring goals, retention and development strategies for staff, data collection and analysis proce-

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dures, a clear allocation of responsibility among staff and performance evaluation for implementation of the plan, and unconscious bias training for all managerial staff involved in recruitment, hiring, evaluation, and retention.

3. Adopt the Rooney Rule: Formally adopt and implement the Rooney Rule, which would require your office to interview at least one person of color for every top and key midlevel staff position opening.

Senate Democrats adopted this rule in 2017. Data should be kept to measure the compliance and effectiveness of the rule.

4. Support Chamber-Wide or Conference-Wide Efforts to Im-

prove Staff Diversity, such as the creation of an independent and bipartisan Diversity Office, the disclosure of demographic data of staff, and adoption of the Rooney Rule.

These are the same recommendations we made when we hosted a panel on diversity at the U.S. Senate nearly two years ago.

Soon afterward, we delivered senior-level resumes of qualified, African-American candidates to senators who represent states with a high percentage of minority residents. Our intention was to encourage senators to consider a diverse

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By E. Faye Williams

It’s Your Money

I know it’s your business where you spend your money, but I can’t help but wonder where many of us would be today if our ancestors like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, Amelia Boynton Robinson, Medgar Evers, John Lewis, Rosa Parks and a whole lot of our warriors for justice would have taken the position that they were not going to risk their lives for the good of our community so long as they

were personally benefiting.

What if they had taken money from guilty parties and kept quiet about racist and disrespectful acts against the rest of us?

What if somebody gave them a few dollars to back off and not participate with any groups or make any objections to what was hurting our community? What if somebody told you they would continue spending their money with corporations they know are spending the company’s proceeds (your money) to knowingly do damage to your community? I’m speaking of companies knowingly using their advertising dollars

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to make it possible for hateful rhetoric that encourages violence, kidnapping, gang rape and random shootings in our community. Much of this hateful language is especially against Black women and it denigrates our entire community. This must stop. We need your help to stop it.

I think any sensible and caring person would say, “I won’t allow my dollars to destroy my community.” I trust that that’s where most of us are. The National Congress of Black Women, under the leadership of my predecessor, Dr. C. Delores Tucker, has been working to rid our community

of this filth called gangsta rap for many years. We’ve continued to make the lives of our young people better. Recently, we’ve been blessed to be joined by Bob Law, chairman of the National Black Leadership Alliance, and Kwabena Rasuli and Bernard Creamer of Clear the Airwaves. Some will tell you these performers are just talking about their reality. To that, I say, “Your breath smells bad when you wake up, but you brush your teeth to change that reality. Those who want to change/better their reality don’t do gangsta rap.”

In our continuing effort to put an end to the filth and the damage it creates, we recently invited some of the biggest offenders to meet with us in New York so that we could help them understand what the ads they pay for are doing to destroy our community. While we had representatives from many groups attend, not one of the biggest offending advertisers invited (McDonald’s, Subway, J.C. Penney, Kohl’s or Adidas) attended. After at least five contacts with each company, not one had enough respect

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By Marian Wright Edelman

Remembering Lucy Durr Hackney

When Lucy Durr married Sheldon Hackney in 1957, the custom alterations to her beautiful gown were done for her by a family friend — Mrs. Rosa Parks.

This wonderful detail opens a small window into my dear friend and former Children’s Defense Fund board and volunteer staff member Lucy Durr Hackney’s extraordinary life. Lucy, who

died in October at age 81, was the daughter of civil rights activists Virginia and Clifford Durr and niece of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. She followed her family’s staunch commitment to social justice and led a selfless life of loving service and support to family, friends, just causes, community and nation.

By the time Lucy got married her parents were well known for their work with progressive causes and local support of civil rights activists and leaders in Montgomery, Alabama. Clifford

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Durr was an attorney who had worked in President Franklin Roosevelt’s administration and defended citizens accused of communism during the McCarthy era. Virginia Durr was friends with Eleanor Roosevelt and one of the founding members of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW), an interracial group working to reduce segregation and improve living conditions in the South. Virginia Durr and Mrs. Parks were part of an interracial women’s group in Montgomery and Mrs. Durr

had helped arrange a scholarship for Mrs. Parks to attend Highlander Folk School for training in nonviolent action in the summer of 1955. When Mrs. Parks was arrested four months later, Clifford Durr helped bail her out of jail and Virginia Durr drove her home. During the tumultuous months that followed, Clifford Durr was one of Mrs. Parks’s attorneys and Virginia Durr strongly supported the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the network of White women who helped drive Black women to work who stayed

away from riding the buses.

Lucy left the segregated South for Radcliffe College in Massachusetts but returned to Alabama to marry Sheldon, another Alabama native who shared the same commitment to civil rights and social justice. Their marvelous partnership lasted the rest of their lives. As Sheldon, a Southern historian, went on to become a university leader, Lucy continued her education while raising their

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By Askia Muhammad

Only Way to Beat Trump? Threaten to ‘Kick His A--’

Bad news for Elizabeth Warren’s presidential ambitions: the Massachusetts senator can’t beat Trump.

Democrats like Warren reason that because Trump’s performance and behavior in office have been so deplorable, he is bound to lose to any Democrat on the ballot. Wrong.

With every succeeding deplorable, despicable action or policy, Trump burrows deeper and deep-

er into the gut of his base — the White Tribe who want to keep it that way — and they constitute one-third of the electorate.

They will march behind Trump to re-decide the outcome at Little Big Horn if he asked them.

No, the ideal candidate to defeat The Dotard in 2020 would be Mike Tyson, the politician.

A Mike Tyson political persona would exude massive physical potential, which Trump would quickly understand. Now a Mike Tyson character would be superior to all the high-brass generals Trump has dealt with, because

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the Tyson candidate might just be unhinged enough — following some Trumpian insult or another — to walk up to his polite debate opponent and warn him: “I’m not going to be insulted by you like that. I don’t care what office you hold. We can take this outside and settle it … no, we can handle this right now. I’m gonna kick your ass, Mr. President.” Then step toward him like he really meant it. Then pause and return to his position onstage. First, get his attention.

That intimidation would be just enough to take some of the

tinsel off of Trump’s vulgar reputation among his deplorable base supporters. They see him as their blond bully and believe that nothing but Trump’s pure nativist instincts can maintain the White dominance to which they are accustomed. White power.

President Lyndon B. Johnson explained how it works in the 1960s to Bill Moyers: “If you can convince the lowest White man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

Trump 101.

Sen. Warren, and I suspect most of the potential Democratic presidential field, feels that conventional coffee-klatch-visitIowa-style campaigning is sufficient. Wrong.

“For White evangelical Christians who see the sun setting on White Christian dominance in this country, [Trump] is a very powerful symbol,” said writer Greg Sargent. “Trump’s grip on these voters is really rooted in his willingness to speak to their

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LIFESTYLE Students to Present Famed Opera ‘Carmen’ at MLK Day Event

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia A special Martin Luther King Jr. Day presentation of the George Bizet opera “Carmen” will include a discussion about escalating conflicts and

violence among young people.

“Voices of Carmen,” an urban musical adaption of the iconic opera set in a high school to contemporary rhythm and beats, is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21 at Motor House in Baltimore.

Admission is free.

CJay Philip, the writer, director and choreographer, called it a creative vehicle for important conversations.

“Basically, one of the things about doing a new musical production is that it’s designed to be a vehicle for community conversations,” said Philip, who first produced an adaption of “Carmen” in 2007 in Zurich, Switzerland, with her brother and co-choreographer Kelvin Hardy.

Philip said the feedback she received during earlier auditions from her students made her realize the benefits of establishing a production to recognize the slain civil rights leader’s holiday.

“I was shocked how fantastic and quick [the students] were with the material,” she said.

“The young people wanted to do this for Martin Luther King Jr. Day specifically because of what we are talking about ... escalating conflicts with teens and how do we

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5 Members of the Carmen Youth Council advise the creative team. (Courtesy photo)

de-escalate them and what are the tools to deal with fear and frustration. Specifically, we talked about this under the umbrella of nonviolence, so that’s why we’re doing the Martin Luther King Jr. Day event.”

A French Opéra-Comique, “Carmen” is based on the novella of the same name by Prosper Mérimée that was first published in 1845. According to historians, the opera premiered in Paris in 1875, but its opening run was denounced by the majority of critics.

It is set in southern Spain and tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier who is seduced by Carmen. José abandons his childhood sweetheart and deserts from his military duties, yet loses Carmen’s love to Escamillo, a matador.

Jose ultimately kills Carmen in a fit of jealousy.

Historians said Bizet died of a heart attack at 36 in 1875, never knowing how popular Carmen would become.

The more recent escalation in school violence and relational aggression among teens led Philip to believe the time was right to bring “Carmen” to the stage and into communities as a vehicle for dialogue about sensitive topics, she said.

“I was tired of town hall meetings and community conversations after an incident,” Philip said. “Teenagers are being beat up, bullied and even killed over a breakup.

We have to find a way to get out in front of this problem.

‘Voices of Carmen’ is my at-

tempt to create an avenue for youth voices to be heard and for communities to listen.

“Young people face a lot of pressures, stress, fear and are shamed every day,” she said.

“How can we help them deal with it and know they are not alone?”

Philip updated the work and rewrote much of the script, employing her “Carmen Youth Council” of students who advise her on school climate, music styles, themes and relevance of the work.

Contemporary arrangements of the music by Bizet, along with eight originals songs written and arranged by Philip in collaboration with her husband and music producer Winston Philip, range from R&B to pop and hip-hop.

Citywide auditions are scheduled from March 2-4 for youths ages 14-21. The show premieres July 31 at the Baltimore School for the Arts, and a performance will also be given at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage on Aug. 3.

“Voices of Carmen” music is available for free on SoundCloud for students to learn and prepare for the citywide auditions in March.

Once the roles have been cast, participating students will record an original album before the start of “Camp Carmen” at the Baltimore School for the Arts on June 8.

For tickets for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day performance, go to https://www. eventbrite.com/e/voices-of-carmen-mlk-day-performancetickets-53158461389.

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Nook’s Barbershop on the Cusp of Change

By Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins On the day before a fundraiser and community meeting, Sabrina Palmer, owner of Nook’s Beauty & Barbershop, had little, if anything, to say about her ongoing court battle with her new landlord or last summer’s controversial police jump-out that took place in front of her business.

She did, however, speak about her desire, now more than ever, for licensed barbers, braiders and hairstylists.

Until October, when Nook’s closed for a few days, a group of barbers and hairstylists kept a steady flow of people entering and exiting the barbershop and salon.

Since many of them left Nook’s, Palmer and her son, a barber in his 20s following in the footsteps of his late father Wayne Palmer, for whom Nook’s is named, have tried to hold down the fort with their clientele.

“The customer base has dramatically decreased, but I love our family, doing hair, and the business so we have been trying to work together and just hang in there,” Palmer said Friday afternoon. “The community has been here to support when we were closed for many days. Old and new customers are always welcomed here at Nook’s.

We can accommodate them at any time since we’re still here. We appreciate strong support from friends, family, and community.”

Last fall, 1100 Eastern LLC, recipients of a city contract to build affordable housing for seniors on the property that includes Nook’s, sent a letter to tenants ordering them to immediately evacuate the premises. Soon after, Palmer and her neighbors found padlocks on their doors. After a series of negotiations, Nook’s opened many days later.

Some of the staff, however, had found jobs elsewhere. Some customers also left.

In response, Palmer and her neighbors, Sunny Chicken & Fish and Uncle Lee’s Liquor Store, filed a lawsuit against 1100 Eastern LLC on Oct. 15, alleging that the company, part of the Neighborhood Development Corporation (NDC), attempted to force their eviction with false claims of an environmental hazard.

In a press release that month, Johnny Barnes, a well-known civil rights attorney representing the businesses involved in the lawsuit,

said a document NDC showed him during a meeting didn’t completely support its environmental hazard assertions. On Saturday afternoon, spoke about the ongoing court case against his clients’ landlord, repeatedly iterating what he described as NDC’s obvious guilt in this situation.

“You cannot evict anyone without going to court. That’s called a self-help eviction which is illegal,” said Barnes, who’s scheduled to appear before a judge on behalf of Nook’s on Friday. He revealed plans to file a motion for summary judgment, a process through which his clients win the case without enduring a lengthy trial.

“The plaintiffs aren’t being obstructionists,” Barnes said. “They just don’t want to be victims. You can’t put padlocks on a person’s business without notice or warning. We tried to solve this case in an amicable way and [NDC] was just being hard-nosed about it.

They changed the income stream of those businesses overnight and did it wrongfully.”

Black Lives Matter DC and the Stop Police Terror Project, filed a lawsuit against D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), Metropolitan Police Chief Peter Newsham and Kevin Donahue, deputy mayor for public safety and justice, for what had been described as a dearth of specific data about police stops in the District.

As recently as last month, D.C. Superior Court Judge John M. Campbell had been expected to rule in favor of ACLU-DC, a move that would force officers to fill a detailed form to document each police stop.

Earlier this month, members of Black Lives Matter DC increased their focus on a provision of the NEAR Act that establishes the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement and places violence interruptersinformer_ad.pdf throughout 1District 1/14/19 communities. As of right now, such

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On the afternoon of Jan. 5, a week before the fundraiser, organizers gathered around a table in Nook’s before walking through the Deanwood community to speak 5:43 PM about the NEAR Act and their up-

coming event.

April Goggans of Black Lives Matter DC said she considered dispelling misinformation about the NEAR Act of the utmost importance.

“The community has a role to change the norms of violence and

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Nook’s Beauty & Barbershop sits near the intersection of Sherriff Road, and Eastern and Division avenues in Deanwood, a Northeast neighborhood that has been designated as a Liberation Zone by Black Lives Matter DC. Last summer, a viral online video showing members of the Metropolitan Police Department’s gun seizure unit surrounding a group of men standing in front of Nook’s intensified discussion about the correlation between neighborhood violence, overzealous policing, and displacement of Black businesses and residents.

A community forum at Deanwood Recreation Center in Northeast, and other gatherings immediately following the July incident, provided activists ample opportunity to speak about the Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results (NEAR) Act, legislation passed by the D.C. Council in 2016 that would promote community-led violence prevention efforts and facilitate the collection and aggregation of police stop-and-frisk data.

To the chagrin of lawmakers and anti-police brutality advocates, the Bowser administration has yet to implement the NEAR Act. In May, the D.C. chapter of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU-DC), in conjunction with

5 Anthony Lorenzo Green, ANC Commissioner 7C04 and April Goggans, Black Lives Matter, share pointers with community activists on how to canvass neighborhoods and discuss issues with residents near Nook`s Barber Shop’s in Northeast on Jan. 5. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

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Step Afrika! Transforms ‘Stepping’ into Art Form Founder C. Brian Williams Reflects Over 25 Years

By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor @dkevinmcneir The art of “stepping,” an exuberant form of communication and an integral component of African-American fraternities and so-

rorities since the early 20th century, strongly resembles African foot dances like Gumboot which South African miners developed after authorities outlawed drumming.

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Step Afrika!, launched in December 1994 by Founder and Executive Director C. Brian Williams who “wanted to use the art form of stepping as a platform for artistic and cultural exchange.”

Twenty-five years later, Step Afrika! remains committed to that goal, evolving into a global phenomenon, one of America’s most celebrated dance companies, designated as D.C.’s official “cultural ambassador.”

They’ll kickoff their 25th anniversary season at the Strathmore on Sunday, Jan. 20 performing what Williams describes as “some of our most exciting works ever created.”

“I’m especially looking forward to our performance of Indlamu, the legendary dance of Zulu warriors and a dance style we’ve been studying for more than 20 years.

And since 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the election of President Nelson Mandela in South Africa, we [also] plan to honor his legacy,” said Williams, a Howard University graduate who first learned to step as a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Beta Chapter in 1989 before moving to Africa where he began to research stepping.

“Whether performing in Haiti before 10,000 people or a small theater in Latvia for 250, it has been incredible to watch the people of the world connect with the artists of Step Afrika! almost as soon as we hit the stage,” he said. “In April, we’ll tour Ukraine for the first time in the Company’s history – already there’s tremendous excitement building there for our arrival.”

But how does one become a member of the country’s first professional company dedicated to the tradition of stepping and currently ranked as one of the Top 10 African-American dance companies in the world?

“We hold annual auditions each May in the District during which we invite artists for a two-day pro-

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cess,” he said. “We look for traditional ‘steppers’ who can dance and dancers who can step. We also look for artists who love to teach and share the stepping tradition. Each year we perform and work with over 25,000 young people so we require not only excellence performers but dedicated teaching artists.”

Step Afrika! opens auditions to artists from anywhere. However, as one might expect, their troupe includes skilled individuals hailing from the Greater Washington Area.

“We’ve found incredible dancers in the DMV and currently have two Howard graduates in the Company, Deatrice Clark and Jordan Spry, along with Ronnique Murray, a native Washingtonian and Kiera Harley, born and raised in Maryland,” he noted.

Clearly, the future holds tremendous opportunities for Step Afrika!

However, Williams, while looking back at the early years, remembers that it hasn’t been an easy journey.

“When we began, few considered the tradition of stepping as an ‘art form’ worthy of promotion and preservation,” he said. “That was our greatest challenge. But after 25 years of performing in over 50 countries and the White House under President Barack Obama, and by creating a prominent exhibit in the National Museum of African American History and Culture, we’ve achieved many of our original

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“I anticipate the next 25 years will be even better. We’re working on our next big production, ‘Drumfolk,’ which will make its D.C. premiere in June 2020 before touring across the U.S. We’re also looking forward to our 25th Anniversary Gala (June 6, 2019) which promises to be an incredible celebration and will serve as [the Company’s] most important fundraiser that will support the work we do with students all across the DMV.” “We’ve had excellent opportunities to perform, experiment and dream and for that I’m eternally grateful,” he shared. “And while we travel the world, representing Washington, D.C. as a Cultural Ambassador, it’s always good to come home and perform for our family,” Williams added, pointing to the Company’s recent production, “Step Afrika!’s Magical, Musical Holiday Step Show,” which appeared on the stage of the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Northeast for 15, sold out performances.

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By the end of the 2018 calendar year, the District had 160 homicides, including that of Gerald Watson, a 15-year-old Ballou Senior High School student chased and gunned down by assailants just as young as him a couple weeks before the Christmas holiday.

Gerald’s death, and greater concerns about how to organize the Ward 8 community in preventing youth violence, compelled more than 50 people of various ages, perspectives, and professional backgrounds to attend a Safe Passage and student safety roundtable at a youth center earlier this week.

In devising an action plan to strengthen existing programs that help ensure student safety before, during and after the school day, participants couldn’t help but weigh in on what they believed to be the root causes of violent crime in Ward 8.

“There’s apathy around the quality of life in neighborhoods where parents feel excluded,” said Juanita White, director of family and community engagement at AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School in Southwest.

On Tuesday evening, White joined the community discussion at the FBR Branch of the Boys & Girls Club, headquartered at THEARC on Mississippi Avenue in Southeast, reflecting on her dealings with struggling families and describing the conditions that cause parents to fall short in helping their child succeed academically.

For other participants, areas of concern included rules preventing returning citizens from collaborating with local educational institutions in curbing youth violence, high unemployment, lack of mental health supports, a school lottery system that wore down neighborhood cohesion, and a lack of coordination between various parties involved in the Safe Passage program.

“This goes back to something in-

5 Tatiana Robinson (right), a senior at Ballou Senior High School and State Board of Education student representative, presents her group’s findings at a Safe Passage and student safety roundtable at the FBR Boys & Girls Club at THEARC in Southeast on Jan. 8. (Photo by Sam P.K. Collins/The Washington Informer)

ternal about how we feel in dealing with being Black in America and the inequities that plague our communities,” White said. “Our safety doesn’t seem to matter to anyone.

Those type of things make me feel that this work should be grassroots where we identify our powers.”

In 2017, after working group meetings about the matter, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education designated Anacostia and Congress Heights Metro stations, and the Good Hope Road corridor in Southeast as areas of priority for safe-passage programs.

These efforts strategically place adults along student commute routes where incidents of violence have broken out in the past. While safe-passage programs look different across the city, they often involve volunteers who maintain a physical presence on the streets before and after school hours.

The January 8 roundtable, facilitated by the Office of the Student Advocate, would set the stage for future meetings and ultimately a plan of action to ensure Ward 8’s Safe Passage program works in perpetuity, not just in the aftermath of tragedy.

“You thought it was important to talk about what more we can do,” Ward 8 State Board of Education representative Markus Batchelor said in his brief remarks to visitors,

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including Ward 8 Councilman Trayon White (D), the Metropolitan Police Department, administrators from Hendley Elementary School and students from Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School.

Last year, when juvenile homicides across the city reached numbers double that of previous years, Batchelor counted among the voices calling for a greater focus on existing programs geared toward student safety.

“Sometimes it seems like we can’t get a handle of the violence,” Batchelor said. “By the evidence of the gathering of this broad coalition, this problem seems more manageable for us to tackle as a community.

This is the very beginning of a larger conversation.”

White said that such dialogue must focus on what the District government prioritizes in its spending. As city officials start to develop a new budget, White encouraged residents to place pressure that will change the tide of shuttered recreation centers, defunded comprehensive outreach efforts, and youth violence prevention programs that haven’t been implemented.

Jarrod Joshua, a 14-year-old participant in Tuesday’s roundtable discussion and Friendship Collegiate Public Charter School student who frequents the FBR Branch of the Boys & Girls Club, said he can attest to the benefits of recreation programs.

“What we’re doing is for the next generation to make sure that children and adults can travel safely,” Jarrod said. “I have a mother and three older siblings who make me feel safe. Those who don’t have that support system can go to the Boys & Girls Club and other places to help get their mind off the negativity. When people come to our club, they see what we do and feel connected.” WI

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Babatunde Oloyede Assumes Helm for Marshall Heights Non-Profit Goal: “Renew spirit of activity” for once-heralded Ward 7 community development organization

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another part of the District – something that has been an obstacle for some and one which he aims to eliminate soon by moving into the ward.

The MHCDO headquarters on Benning Road would be enlarged with four or five additional levels so as to include spaces for incubators and mixed-use housing and retail, if Oloyede has his way. He also wants to informally assemble leaders from other community development organizations or corporations in the District to collaborate on common concerns and to remain engaged in Ward 7’s civic associations and advisory neighborhood commissions.

Oloyede realizes he has ambitions plans but he’s already been given the full support of the board’s chairman, David Retland.

“The appointment of ‘Baba’ as our CEO is a clear reflection of MHCDO’s critical mission,” Retland said. “He possesses the business acumen, prowess and commitment that are contagious and motivates people to action. A native of the District, he also has a passion for community activism, ‘Barack’ like.”

“Under his leadership, the corporation increased the quality of life 100 percent of the 60-fulltime residents in our single resident occupancy facility, tripled our cash position/credit facilities, created a small business incubator and championed the Business Improvement District feasibility study for Ward 7,” Retland noted.

Retland adds that Oloyede has 8/20/15 11:24 AM Page 1 connected well with District leaders including Mayor Muriel Bowser

One of the District’s once-heralded community development organizations ardently in need of an infusion of energy and direction, has called on a native Washingtonian to reinvigorate their efforts to improve the lives of residents of Ward 7 to a level of innovation and success absent for many years.

Last year, the Marshall Heights Community Development Organization [MHCDO] board of directors hired Babatunde Oloyede, a native Washingtonian and graduate of Northwestern and the University of Rochester (MBA), to take over as president and CEO. Oloyede shared his optimism 5 Babatunde Oloyede (Courtesy photo) about the future for the communicounseling. Since his hiring, he’s ty-based group.

“I want Marshall Heights to utilized the organization’s “First become the Google for Ward 7 Fridays” program to bring together – whenever residents or business business owners, residents and comowners need information, I want munity leaders each month in order them to come to us,” he said. “We to hear experts from city governwant to be involved in every aspect ment or the private sector discuss of the lives of the people of Ward 7, topics like maneuvering the governwhether it is a desire to start or ex- ment process, setting up a business pand a business, set up a marketing or achieving easier access to capital.

“Too many times, I hear people plan or try to locate or purchase a say they didn’t know about a prohome.” gram and ask why someone didn’t Lloyd Smith, a respected D.C. tell them,” he said. “Too many of government planner now deceased, the businesses in Ward 7 work in sihelped found MHCDO in 1979, los instead of working together. We enhancing their effectiveness in real need to work together so we can estate and economic development build a sense of community and by facilitating, building and manbe part of the economic cycle and aging housing in Ward 7. Their fuel the economic engine of the city. reputation, under Smith’s direction, That’s what ‘First Fridays’ does.” 1 AssoAD_SAU_2015_Layout became solidified in 1985 when the SU_Press And while he’s an unabashed East River Park Shopping Center champion for Ward 7, he lives in opened at the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Benning Road, N.E., anchored by one of the District’s newest Safeway supermarkets.

Oloyede wants to renew that spirit of activity.

“I want to take Marshall Heights back to the level achieved by Lloyd Smith when he was in charge,” he said.

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(D), D.C. Councilmember Vincent Gray (D-Ward 7), noted members of the business community and the advisory neighborhood commissioners in Ward 7, saying, “As the chairman of the board, I am excited to have him lead the 40-year-old corporation.”

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Oloyede coming aboard.

“He’s has been very active and has done a lot since becoming president and CEO,” Gray said. “He is working to re-engage Marshall Heights with the community and I have noticed that he works well with people. I am very impressed with his commitment.” WI

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LIFESTYLE KING from Page 1 Locally, Mayor Muriel Bowser plans to participate in a King Holiday Peace Walk and Parade beginning at 11 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 21

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The projects also include teaching a financial literacy workshop, collecting books and school supplies for schools in need, creating community displays that highlight what makes a particular area special, packaging meals and toiletry packs for victims of human trafficking, and the creation of an “I Have a Dream,” wall to empower students to dream.

“We are also doing a ‘Let’s R.O.C.K.’ program encouraging everyone in the community to ‘Radiate Outrageous Compassion & Kindness through Random Acts of Kindness’ over the three-day weekend,” David said. “We want them to post what they are doing to social media with #LetsROCK.” For author, speaker and media personality Lucinda Cross, the best way to commemorate the holiday this year is by throwing a large “Dream Board” party where young

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“MLK Day is a day to recommit to the fight for equality and inclusion and to remember who we want to be as individuals and as a country,” said Lena Hackett, executive director and managing partner of the Kennedy King Memorial Initiative, a nonprofit that works to commemorate the historic speech delivered by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in Indianapolis on the night King was assassinated.

“We will be partnering with IndyParks at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park to honor the life of Dr. King and call others to join in the movement for peace and justice,” Hackett said, adding one of King’s famous quotations: “In the end we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

The best way to commemorate King is for America to re-read his sermons and gain a renewed appreciation for their timeless wisdom on racial reconciliation, justice, family and faith, said GIS Specialist Frederick Weaver.

“Then we must individually and collectively act on that wisdom to solve today’s challenges,” Weaver said.

MLK Day is one of service and reflection, particularly for the Black community, he added.

“It is a time to acknowledge remaining injustices and problems to be fought while celebrating areas where society has improved,” Weaver said. “I will celebrate by volunteer at the Capitol Pregnancy Center whwich offers aid to single mothers and fathers.”

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“MLK day means a day to reflect on one man’s dream for the nation and how important it is for us to dream big enough for others,” Cross said. “Thinking of selfless dreams that can change the communities in which we live, work and serve. MLK day is a day of permission to believe that all it takes is a dream and the belief to verbalize it and act on it in spite of.” WI

Youths Shine at King Prayer Breakfast

By James Wright WI Contributing Writer

While one of D.C.’s most outstanding preachers, the Rev. Graylan S. Hagler, served as the keynote speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Parade Committee’s Prayer Breakfast over the weekend, the young people who participated in the program stole the show.

The Jan. 12 breakfast, themed “From Many to One Beloved Community,” drew roughly 150 people to the Matthews Memorial Baptist Church in Southeast who came to honor the slain civil rights icon.

“We are here to reflect on the life’s work of Martin Luther King Jr.,” said the Rev. Joe Turner, pastor of Matthews Memorial.

The Rev. Sue Harris Green, associate minister of New Bethel Baptist Church, served as the mistress of ceremonies and stressed the importance of young people’s participation in the King holiday celebration.

Early in the program, a mime, Blake Myles Hopkins, put on a performance that had many in the audience spellbound by the

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Celebrating the Life of a King

Broadway Luminaries to Perform in ‘Let Freedom Ring’ Concert

By Eve M. Ferguson WI Contributing Writer 2019 has dawned as a different sort of year for many reasons, and not all good ones. But this year, the annual “Let Freedom Ring” concert, presented annually by Georgetown University in partnership with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, is taking a new approach to the talent slated to perform with the Let Freedom Ring Choir, celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the annual holiday program.

This year, two performers usually associated with theater, Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell, will share the marquee to present a new incarnation of the musical tribute to King. The two African-American luminaries are considered among the finest in musical theater currently performing.

McDonald is a multiple award winner for her roles in theatrical performances from “Carousel” to “Master Class.” As the youngest recipient of three Tony Awards before the age of 30, she also has a dedication to African-American theater and music. Her legacy has been compared to that of Judy Garland and Barbara Streisand.

In 2004, she won a Tony for her role in “A Raisin in the Sun” and went on to reprise the performance

in the made-for-television version with Sean “Diddy” Combs. She also received critical acclaim for her solo performance in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” adapted from the Broadway play for HBO. She has also played major African-American characters in “Porgy and Bess” and was instrumental in reviving the Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake 1921 musical revue, “Shuffle Along,” which she had to withdraw from performing to take an unexpected maternity leave.

“Maybe it is because my uncle and my parents were always very involved with the Civil Rights Movement., so I just grew up and I was raised that you have to speak out and look out for your fellow man, woman and child,” McDonald said.

It is no coincidence that she will perform with Brian Stokes Mitchell, her frequent co-star who has played alongside her in “Shuffle Along” and also the Broadway version of “Ragtime,” where Mitchell took on the role of protagonist Coalhouse Walker.

Dubbed the “Last Leading Man” by the New York Times, Mitchell’s resume on Broadway and beyond is nearly unmatched by any performer, regardless of race.

Mitchell recently took the stage at Carnegie Hall for his solo debut, despite his long history in theater.

The sold-out event where he per-

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D.C. Council member Trayon White (D-Ward 8), the youngest member of the District’s legislative body, talked about the importance of the King holiday.

“I have derived many benefits from the life that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., lived and I credit my career to a man who was inspired by Dr. King, Marion Barry,” White said of the late former D.C. mayor and councilman.

White also took a moment to denounce President Trump’s “foolishness” amid the shutdown showdown over the president’s fight for border wall funding, saying that Trump needs to end the

5 Blake Myles Hopkins performs a mime routine at a King holiday prayer breakfast held at Matthews Memorial Baptist Church in Southeast on Saturday, Jan. 12. (Courtesy photo/Maurice G. Fitzgerald)

impasse and let federal employees get back to work.

The Ward 8 councilman said that the District is doing well economically but fails in other areas.

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formed with a 42 piece orchestra conducted by Paul Gemignani, saw him joined by some of his past leading ladies including Reba McEntire, Heather Headley and Phylicia Rashad.

Mitchell is best known for his work on the Broadway stage, where he has received impressive accolades, including Broadway’s highest honor, the Tony Award. Mitchell appeared most recently on Broadway in the revival of “Man of La Mancha,” portraying the dual roles of Cervantes and Don Quixote and earning a Tony nomination and a Helen Hayes Award for his work.

The pair will perform part of the concert with the Let Freedom Ring Choir, created in 2006 for the King Day celebration. The choir, made up of local church choir singers and students from Georgetown University, is directed by Rev. Nolan Williams Jr., a local musician and scholar whose resume includes minister of music for Metropolitan Baptist Church and chief music editor of the critically acclaimed “The African American Heritage Hymnal.”

The concert also includes the annual bestowal of a humanitarian award to a community activist who has played a significant role in the betterment of life through the lens of King’s legendary work.

The yearly concert, held on the King holiday, is free and open to the public, with tickets to the concert being distributed onsite at the Kennedy Center’s Hall of Nations beginning at 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 21. WI “I am always hearing about how we are doing so well,” he said. “I hear that the city will have another year of a surplus in our city budget. And yet it seems that homelessness is on the rise and there is an educational disparity that exists in our city, as well as a sense of hopelessness among some people.”

White said that the District government has an obligation to heed the “calls for help while D.C. is flourishing.”

Markus Batchelor, the Ward 8 representative on the D.C. State Board of Education, called the D.C. parade “the first and finest Martin Luther King parade celebration” in the country.

“I commend the planning committee for what it is doing,”

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Anti-Violence Program Creator to Receive G’Town Legacy Award

By Brenda C. Siler WI Contributing Writer Hawah Kasat, co-founder and executive director of One Common Unity (OCU), is the recipient of the Georgetown University 17th annual John Thompson Legacy of a Dream Award.

The award, which goes to an inspirational, emerging international or local leader who exemplifies the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., will be given during The Let Freedom Ring! celebration Monday, Jan. 21, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Kasat’s OCU program, founded in 2000 following a string of school shootings in D.C., consists of yoga, spoken word, peace education, art and specially-designed workshops. The program focuses on social justice by incorporating peace education, arts and music.

“There are clear barriers in achieving our true potential, so violence prevention became an important calling in my life,” Kasat said. “It was something that I also saw as a solution to some of the other problems in society.”

The evening will feature award-winning artists Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell.

Georgetown said it chose Kasat for the award because of his “commitment to service and transformational change.” Under Kasat’s leadership, OCU has provided 15 D.C. middle and high schools with peace education and its Fly By Light program, which aims to guide youths away from violence and poverty.

“I believe empathy, compassion, cooperation and kindness can be taught,” said Kasat, who has taken his approach to non-violence to more than 42 countries. “We start with modeling nonviolent behavior and then create safe spaces for dialogue and healing through restorative justice circles.”

Free tickets for the Let Freedom Ring fete, which began in 2003 as a joint program presented by the Kennedy Center and Georgetown University, will be distributed on a firstcome, first-served basis at the entrance to the center’s Hall of Nations, beginning at 4:30 p.m. on the day of the event. Tickets are limited to two per person.

5 Hawah Kasat, co-founder and executive director of One Common Unity, is the recipient of the 17th annual John Thompson Legacy of a Dream Award. (Photo copurtesy Paul. B. Jones/Georgetown University)

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ARIES If the workload never seems to end, the days ahead could bring some relief. Early in the week you might need to assess progress on a plan or project. Make any adjustments now and you can then proceed full steam ahead. Whatever you’re up to, be mindful of the details because doing so could save you time later. Lucky Numbers: 18, 22, 51

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By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer Your hand is deep in a bucket of crunchy goodness.

Without popcorn, a movie is just a bunch of flickering lights, a series of stills in a row, a story that begs for butter and extra salt. Without popcorn, a film is deadly dull — or, as in the new book “The New Iberia Blues” by James Lee Burke — it’s just deadly.

Desmond Cormeir had a rough upbringing. Born in a truck stop parking lot and quickly abandoned, he was bullied as a child by peers and adults and he always seemed to be abashed about his Cajun background. Detective Dave Robicheaux knew Cormeir then, and he watched as the boy made something of himself. Robicheaux was just as proud as anyone when Cormeir became a successful filmmaker and returned to Louisiana, to his roots.

When Lucinda Arceneaux was pulled from the waters surrounding Cormeir’s house, Robicheaux figured his pride was misplaced. Lucinda had died gently, but her corpse was defiled and left in a disturbing manner. Cormeir lied about seeing the body but, oddly, he wasn’t the person Robicheaux had his eye on; instead, Cormeir’s roommate, Antoine Butterworth, seemed to be the man to watch.

Robicheaux’s new partner, a young woman by the name of Bailey Ribbons didn’t trust Butterworth. Neither did Clete Purcel, Robicheaux’s former beat partner and best friend. Butterworth was a truly strange man … but was he a murderer?

When a local fisherman was discovered rotting in a fishing net with a spear through his middle, it was obvious that someone was, possibly Hugo Tillinger, an escaped Texas convict who was spotted diving into a nearby bayou to hide. Or maybe it was Smiley Wimple, once mistaken as dead and as dangerously addled as ever. And yes, the killer could have been Butterworth.

But there was something unusual about the bodies being found: each had some tie to a tarot deck. Each corpse corresponded to a card. Each subsequent death was becoming more and more violently gruesome.

And each was getting closer to Dave Robicheaux.

Reading “The New Iberia Blues” is like sitting on a folding chair during a tornado: you’re sucked in, tipped around, lose your grip, and get a whole lot queasy before things smooth out for a minute. As it is with tornadoes and Dave Robicheaux novels, though, things ain’t over ‘til they’re over.

The only thing to do is to hang on tight, then, and keep this word handy because you’re going to need it: “ARGH!” You’ll need it for the twists that discombobulate even the most determined armchair sleuth; try as you might, forget pre-solving this novel.

Know that (argh!) bad things happen to good characters you’ve come to like in this series. And know that this book ends, and you’ll eventually have to leave the world that author James Lee Burke has placed you in.

Argh!

Indeed, filled with spookiness, spirituality, and slayings a-plenty, this may be the best, most hard-to-figure-out Robicheaux novel yet. Get your hands on it today, because “The New Iberia Blues” positively pops.

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CANCER Getting along with others can be a test of your strength and your ability to set firm boundaries. But someone who may have been a little hard on you could soften their stance this week, enabling you to get along much better. When it comes to work and making a grand impression, the planets are aligned in your favor. Lucky Numbers: 33, 44, 50 LEO Hard work and responsibility seem to be your remit right now, and the week ahead could see you digging into a hefty to-do list. You might be asking yourself when it will end. Perhaps when you decide to delegate and take on less. In fact, with sweet Venus and jovial Jupiter in your leisure sector encouraging you to kick back and enjoy yourself, this is something to seriously consider. And remember, where there’s a will, there’s a way. Lucky Numbers: 9, 10, 55 VIRGO You may be working hard on developing a new business, finishing a creative project, or seducing that special person who’s one in a million. Whatever you’re involved with, you will want to give it your all. Your efforts are building momentum and soon you’ll reap the rewards for your hard work. Even so, someone could have an imaginative suggestion on Monday that makes a positive difference in your plans. Lucky Numbers: 2, 23, 45 LIBRA Your personal life and family matters can seem to take up a lot of your time. And it’s possible that this could detract from career goals and ambitions that you’re eager to initiate.

However, with sobering Saturn and intensive Pluto in this zone for some while, it’s worth delegating tasks and getting as much help as you can. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, then this is a must. Lucky Numbers: 2, 13, 18 SCORPIO You seem to have a lot of planning, admin, research, and study going on, and this could be keeping you very busy. This work you’re doing now could also catapult you to new levels of success. But you might be ready for a respite at the end of the week as the sun eases into your home zone for a four-week stay. Lucky Numbers: 8, 11, 15 SAGITTARIUS Decisions concerning your earnings and resources could be in the cards this week.

If you’ve had enough of financial issues, the days ahead could see you putting plans in place to make sure you stay in control. Take care around Monday, though, because one household expense could be far larger than anticipated. Lucky Numbers: 22, 39, 52 CAPRICORN Your to-do list seems to get longer and longer, and this week is no exception. It might help to keep tabs on your most important tasks because there is a chance something could slip your mind. Being involved in so many projects could leave you tired, too. A positive aspect between sweet Venus and feisty Mars can be a call to enjoy some pampering. Perhaps a spa treatment, massage, sauna, or anything that eases tension can help you feel better. Don’t feel guilty. You deserve it. Lucky Numbers: 5, 52, 58 AQUARIUS You may be showing a positive face on the outside, but inside you might be pondering the deeper meaning of life. Key aspects in your social sector could be encouraging you to go out and take part in all kinds of community and group projects, and so you might benefit from a respite. Even so, with a major focus on your spiritual sector, this is a time to deal with ongoing issues. Rest assured that you don’t have to do this alone. Lucky Numbers: 7, 23, 24 PISCES You are certainly keeping yourself busy. And if you’re enjoying an active social life and a chance to play a vital part in community projects and key events, this is all to the good. If you’re feeling a tad burned out, don’t feel bad about asking others to step in and take over. Lucky Numbers: 21, 27, 41

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SPORTS Georgetown Knocks off Providence in 2OT

5 Georgetown guard Jamorko Pickett drives to the basket against Providence forward Kris Monroe during Georgetown’s 96-90 win in double overtime at Capital One Arena in D.C. on Saturday, Jan. 12. (Photo by John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer) 3 Georgetown center Jessie Govan is guarded by Providence guard Makai Ashton-Langford during Georgetown’s 96-90 win in double overtime at Capital One Arena in D.C. on Saturday, Jan. 12. (Photo by John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer)

(Below Left) Washington Wizards forward Jeff Green shoots over Milwaukee Bucks forward D.J. Wilson during the Wizards’ 113-106 win at Capital One Arena in D.C. on Friday, Jan. 11. (Photo by John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer) 6 Milwaukee Bucks forward Khris Middleton takes on Washington Wizards guard Tomas Satoransky during the Wizards’ 113-106 win at Capital One Arena in D.C. on Friday, Jan. 11. (Photo by John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer)

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federal workers are hanging by a thread, she said.

“I know there are hundreds of thousands of families out there who are grappling with the anxiety, and really fear, of not being able to pay the bills as this shutdown drags on,” said Lee, who co-chairs the Steering and Policy Committee and serves on the House Committee on Appropriations. “Let’s be very clear: what’s happening here is President Trump is holding this government hostage and holding people hostage in order to get his useless, wasteful wall.”

Brown said his state is one of those most affected by the shutdown. The 4th Congressional District in Maryland, which he represents, has the nation’s fifth-largest number of federal employees at more than 50,000.

“So I’m hearing about this, like my colleagues, each and every day from my constituents while this shutdown is set to become the longest in the nation’s history,” Brown said.

The CBC members said they were calling for an end to the shutdown — now in its fourth week — so that workers can again begin to collect their paychecks and critical government services can resume.

They also denounced President Donald Trump’s threat to declare a state of emergency if Congress refuses to fund a border wall — one in which the president claimed during his campaign that Mexico would pay for.

“This shutdown and the whole issue of the wall is a fake crisis,” Bass said. “At the end of the day, even if he had all the money, it would still

he said.

Batchelor also weighed in on Trump and the border wall battle.

“I don’t know what some people have about walls keeping people out,” he said. “We should read and teach about keeping people in.”

Batchelor, who is also the youngest elected member of his body, quoted King by saying “intelligence plus character — that is the true goal of education.”

The Woodland Tigers Dancers received a standing ovation for their performance, while J’TA Freeman, a youth mayor of D.C. and a product of the Marion Barry Youth Leadership Institute, excited the crowd with her message of youth empowerment and heeding King’s dream of activism and education.

Hagler, however, also made an indelible impression while touching on a number of topics, including the droves of people of color

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5 Furloughed government worker Kevin Carson, participates in a protest with other Federal employees and supporters in Northwest on January 10, 2019.

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take eminent domain to build his wall. That process will take years.

This is further evidence that this is a fake crisis and, in my opinion, just an attempt to change our attention away from the numerous impending investigations.”

An estimated 800,000 federal employees are furloughed or working without pay because Trump and Congress cannot reach a deal to reopen the government. The two sides are at an impasse over $5.7 billion for construction of a wall along the country’s southern border.

The number of furloughed employees does not include federal contractors, according to a report by NBC News. It’s unclear how many contract or grant employees are affected by the shutdown — or even how many there are in total — but a Volcker Alliance report estimated that nearly 5.3 million worked as contractors in 2015.

Unlike furloughed federal em-

ployees, who have received assurances that they will be paid once the shutdown ends, contractors are not owed back pay and that has left them in an even murkier economic position.

Thompson, the chair of the Homeland Security Committee, said the shutdown is taking a debilitating toll on workers and government operations.

“It is a challenge for us in Homeland Security,” he said. “We have 80 percent of the workforce not being paid. That goes from TSA employees in airports, to the Coast Guard, to the Secret Service, to Custom Border Protection individuals, and all of those individuals who have sworn to keep us safe, are not being paid.

“That’s not fair and we are compromising our national security strategy by reducing the morale of the employees,” Thompson said.

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leaving the District and the apathy from public officials. He said frustration exists in the District’s communities of color because of children dying of homicides.

“Many parents have lost children to gun violence,” he said.

“There needs to be a better moral attitude and moral aptitude about this.”

He lamented a D.C. Council member’s “giddiness” about legalizing sports gambling in the city and called the middle class in the District “a mirage.”

Noting the presence of D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D), Hagler said the D.C. Council needs to be held accountable for voting to overturn Initiative 77 that would have ultimately given wages to tipped workers.

In his closing, Hagler encouraged the gathering to continue its activism.

“Speak out,” he said. “If they tell you to shut up, tell them, ‘I don’t know what that means.’”

Denise Rolark Barnes, publisher of The Washington Informer and chair of the parade committee, announced that popular retired assistant police Chief Diana Groomes, activist Moses Williams, professional boxer Jarrett Hurd and, posthumously, journalist Charnice Milton are the among the grand marshals of the Jan. 21 parade.

Tatiana Robinson, a student at Ballou Senior High School and member of the D.C. State Board of Education, said she enjoyed the prayer breakfast.

“I came here to honor Dr. Martin Luther King and I thank him for his work,” she said. “He did things that paved the way for me.”

David C. Jones, a Ward 8 community activist, concurred.

“I though the program was outstanding, particularly what Rev. Hagler said,” Jones said. “I think it was great for everyone to come out and honor Dr. King.”

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RELIGION the religion corner WITH LYNDIA GRANT

Want To Be What You See? Last week, I wrote of a new documentary on life of Quincy Jones and his tough upbringing on the South Side of Chicago.

In it, he talked of his plans to become a lifelong gang member, which he justified by saying “You want to be what you see.”

But the trajectory of his life’s path changed the day that he broke into a building and was captivated by a piano inside.

God knew what he sent Quincy Jones down here to do, but it was at that moment that Jones accepted that call on his life.

As you move along life’s path, you too must realize your calling. Don’t allow your circumstances to cause you to make an incorrect choice. You wonder, how will I know when that moment happens for me? Well, like with Quincy Jones, the feeling will be so overwhelming, there is nothing you could do about it, except go with the flow! He began to invest time in learning musical instruments, starting with the trumpet. He learned to play piano, keyboard, trombone, and he learned to write music by taking classes to learn how to write musical scales.

Those overwhelming feelings will happen for you too Jones was only 14 years old, yet he was drawn to learn to play the trumpet. Like Quincy, allow your purpose to take you there by way of various routes.

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Eventually, every step you have taken along the way will come together to make you whole.

No one will be able to take away from you, the lessons in life you will have learned to make you that unique and special person that God called to this earth to take care of the mission He gave to you!

This could be a bit deep for some of you out there! Just know that every time you hear a voice speaking into your spirit, it is the higher power, leading and guiding you, that is, unless the voice you hear is guiding you in a negative manner.

In that case, you know exactly who that is too, my friends, it is the voice of the devil! Scripture says, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”

Scripture also reminds us to tear down strongholds. As I was reading an article by Pastor Rick Warren, titled “The Battle of Your Mind,” he reminds us that a stronghold can also be a personal attitude. He said, “Worry can be a stronghold.

Seeking the approval of other people can be a stronghold.

Anything that you make an idol in your life can be a stronghold — fear, guilt, resentment, insecurity. All of these things can be strongholds in your mind. And the Bible says that we are to tear

them down.”

During your search for your purpose in life, notice that you’ve got a potential battle for your mind. Those things that are good represents those thoughts that we must listen to. This process is truly a simple matter — follow the lead of the Heavenly Father when He guides our minds with those things that are good. Then rebuke those devilish and negative thoughts that come our way, for those thoughts are of the devil!

Hopefully, this column can assist you in listening out for your purpose, as you look around to see what it is you are meant to be!

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

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Mount Olivet Lutheran Church

John F. Johnson Reverend Dr. 1306 Vermont Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20005 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 The Miracle Center of Faith Missionary Baptist Church

Pilgrim Baptist Church Rev. Louis B. Jones II Pastor

Bishop Michael C. Turner, Sr. Senior Pastor 9161 Hampton Overlook Capitol Heights, MD 20743 Phone: 301-350-2200 Fax: 301-499-8724

Service and Times Sunday Worship Times : 7:30 a.m. 7 10:00 a.m.

Communion: 1st Sunday Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.

Bible Study: Wednesday, 12 Noon Bible Study in homes: Tuesday 7:00 p.m.

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

700 I Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 547-8849 Service and Times Worship Sundays: 7:30 & 11:00am 5th Sundays: 9:30am 3rd Sundays: Baptism & Holy Communion Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @ Noon & 6:30pm www.pilgrimbaptistdc.org

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

Rev. Dr. Michael E. Bell, Sr., Pastor

Rev. Dr. Alton W. Jordan Pastor

Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews Senior Pastor

Harold Andrew Assistant Pastor

2498 Alabama Ave., SE - Washington D.C. 20020 Office: (202) 889-7296 Fax: (202) 889-2198 - www.acamec.org

800 I Street, NE - Washington, DC 20002 202-548-0707 - Fax No. 202-548-0703

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

Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 8:00am and 11:00am Sunday Church School - 9:15am & Sunday Adult Forum Bible Study - 10:30am 2nd & 4th Monday Women’s Bible Study: 6:30pm Tuesday Jr./Sr. Bible Study: 10:00am Tuesday Topical Bible Study: 6:30pm Tuesday New Beginnings Bible Study: 6:30pm Wednesday Pastoral Bible Study: 6:30pm Wednesday Children’s Bible Study: 6:30pm Thursday Men’s Bible Study: 6:30pm Friday before 1st Sunday Praise & Worship Service: 6:30pm Saturday Adult Bible Study: 10:00am “The Amazing, Awesome, Audacious Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church”

Service and Times Sunday Morning Worship: 11:00am Holy Communion: 1st Sunday Sunday School: 9:45am Men’s Monday Bible Study: 7:00pm Wednesday Night Bible Study: 7:00pm Women’s Ministry Bible Study: 3rd Friday -7:00pm Computer Classes: Announced Family and Marital Counseling by appointment

1200 Isle of Patmos Plaza, Northeast Washington, DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-6767 - Fax: (202) 526-1661

Service and Times Sunday Service: 8:30am& 11:00am Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30pm Communion Service: First Sunday www.livingwatersmd.org

St. Stephen Baptist Church

Third Street Church of God

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

Rev. Dr. Alice Greene Interim Pastor

Bishop Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Senior Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

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

Services and Times Sundays: 10:00am Worship Services Bible Study: Wonderful Wednesdays in Worship and the Word Bible Study Wednesdays 12:00 Noon; 6:30pm (dinner @ 5:30pm) Sunday School: 9:00am – Hour of Power

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

“An inclusive ministry where all are welcomed and affirmed.” www.covenantdc.org

Campbell AME Church

Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 am Sunday Church School: 8:45 am Bible Study Wednesday: 12:00 Noon Wednesday: 7:00 pm Thursday: 7: pm “Reaching Up To Reach Out” Mailing Address Campbell AME Church 2502 Stanton Road SE - Washington, DC 20020

Motto : “A Great Commitment to the Great Commandment” Website: www.turningheartschurchdc.org Email: gr8luv4u2@gmail.com

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

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

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

St Marks Baptist Come Worship with us...

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

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

Mount Carmel Baptist Church Reverend Gerald H. Hesson Interim Pastor

Virgil K. Thomas, Sr. Senior Pastor/ Teacher

Service and Times Sunday School - 10:15 am Sunday Worship Service - 11;15 am Children’s Church - 11:15 am Tuesday Bible Study - 6:30 pm

“Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital”

Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church

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

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

Sunday Church School: 9:20 a.m.

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

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

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

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

Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor

Turning Hearts Church

421 Alabama Ave. SE Washington, DC 20032 Phone: 202-746-0113 Fax: 301-843-2445

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

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

E-mail: Crusadersbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.CrusadersBaptistChurch.org “God is Love”

Isle of Patmos Baptist Church

Twelfth Street Christian Church

Rev. Dr. Henry Y. White 2562 MLK Jr. Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Adm. Office 202-678-2263 Email: Campbell@mycame.org

Services and Times Sunday Early Morning Worship: 7:45am Church School: 9:30am Sunday Morning Worship: 10:45am Tuesday: 7:00pm/Kingdom Building Bible Institute Wednesday: Prayer/Praise/Bible Study-7:30 pm Baptism & Communion Service: 4th Sunday – 10:30am

Crusader Baptist Church

901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423 Service and Times Sunday Church School : 9:00am Sunday Morning Worship: 10:10am Bible Study Tuesday: 6: 00pm Prayer Service Tuesday: 7:00pm Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday 10:10am

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RELIGION Shabbath Commandment Church

All Nations Baptist Church

King Emmanuel Baptist Church

Bishop Adrian A. Taylor, Sr. Pastor

Rev. Dr. James Coleman Pastor

Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor

7801 Livingston Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-534-5471

2001 North Capitol St, N.E. - Washington, DC 20002 Phone (202) 832-9591

2324 Ontario Road, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 232-1730

Service and Times Sabbath School 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Service 11:00 a.m. Praise & Worship Preaching 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

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

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 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.

Holy Communion: 11:00 a.m., 3rd Sun. Bible Institute: Wednesday - 1:30 pm Prayer Meeting: Wednesday - 12:00 Noon

Service and Times Sunday Church School – 9:30 AM Sunday Worship Service – 11:00 AM Holy Communion – 1st Sunday at 11:00 AM Prayer – Wednesdays, 6:00 PM Bible Study – Wednesdays, 7:00 PM Christian Education School of Biblical Knowledge Saturdays, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM, Call for Registration Website: www.allnationsbaptistchurch.com All Nations Baptist Church – A Church of Standards

Israel Baptist Church

Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor

Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert Senior Pastor

2409 Ainger Pl.,SE – WDC 20020 (202) 678-0884 – Office • (202) 678-0885 – Fax “Moving Faith Forward” 0% Perfect . . . 100% Forgiven!

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

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

Service and Times Sunday Worship: 8:00am & 10:45am Baptism/Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday Family Bible Study Tuesdays – 6:30pm Prayer Service: Tuesdays – 8:00pm www.emmanuelbaptistchurchdc.org

“Where Jesus is the King”

Lincoln Park United Methodist Church

Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith

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

Service and Times Sunday Worship: 10: am Holy Communion: First Sunday 10: am Sunday School: 9: am Bible Study: Wednesday @ 12 noon and 6:30pm Motto: "Faith On The Hill"

Mount Moriah Baptist Church

Eastern Community Baptist Church

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

The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42

New Commandment Baptist Church

Dr. Lucius M. Dalton Senior Pastor

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

“Real Worship for Real People” Website: www.easterncommunity.org Email: ecc@easterncommunity.org

Salem Baptist Church

Holy Trinity United Baptist Church

Florida Avenue Baptist Church

Reverend Christopher L. Nichols Pastor

Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor

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

St. Matthews Baptist Church

Service and Times Sunday School: 9:30 am Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 am Baptismal Service: 1st Sunday – 9:30 am Holy Communion: 1st Sunday – 11:00 am Prayer Meeting & Bible Study: Wednesday -7:30 pm

Emmanuel Baptist Church

“A Church Where Love Is Essential and Praise is Intentional”

Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 a.m.

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

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

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

Midweek Prayer: Wednesday – 7:00 p.m.

Noonday Prayer Every Thursday

Matthews Memorial Baptist Church Rev. Joan E. Buchanan Executive Pastor 2616 MLK Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Office 202-889-3709 - Fax 202-678-3304 Service and Times Early Worship Service: 7:30am Worship Service: 11:00am New Member’s Class: 9:45am Holy Communion: 1st Sunday, 11:00am Church School: 9:45am Wednesday 12:00pm Bible Study Prayer, Praise and Bible Study: 7:00pm Saturday Bible Study: 11:00am Baptism 4th Sunday: 11:00am

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

Christ Embassy DC

Kelechi Ajieren Coordinator 6839 Eastern Avenue, R1 Takoma Park, MD 20912 (202) 556-7065 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 A.M. Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 P.M. Friday Evening Service: 7:00 P.M. ; Last Friday “…Giving Your Life a Meaning” www.Christembassydc.org Christ.embassy.dc@hotmail.com

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

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

Pennsylvania Ave. Baptist Church 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 A.M. Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 A.M. Monday Adult Bible Study: 7:00 P.M. Wednesday Youth & Adult Activities: 6:30 P.M. Prayer Service Bible Study

“The Loving Church of the living lord “ Email Address: admin@pbc712.org

Shiloh Baptist Church

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Mt. Horeb Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor

Rev. Curtis l. Staley Pastor

Rev. David McIntosh-Peters Pastor

Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor

Rev. Oran W. Young Pastor

Rev. Dr. H. B. Sampson, III 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

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

9th & P Street, N.W. - W. D.C. 20001 (202) 232-4288

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

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

Sunday Church School: 9:15 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship: 10:40 a.m.

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

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

Service and Times First Sunday Worship Service (one service): 10:00 a.m.

Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Sunday Worship service: 7:45 a.m. and 10:55 a.m.

Sunday Church School/Bible Study: 9:30 a.m.

Thursday Prayer Service: 6:30 p.m.

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 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.

Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.

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

Prayer Services:Tuesday 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday 12 Noon

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

The Church Where GOD Is Working....

And We Are Working With GOD

Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:15 am Sunday School: 9:00 am Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting / Bible Study: Tuesday at 7 pm Theme: “The Kingdom Focused Church with an Emphasis on “Evangelism and Discipleship” Email: pastorstmbc@gmail.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.org

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Service and Times Sunday School for All Ages: 8:00 a.m.

Sunday Worship Services: 9:30 a.m.

Midday Prayer & Bible Study: Wednesday 11:30 a.m.

Evening Prayer & Bible Study: Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

Laymen's League: Thursday 7:00 p.m.

Email: Froffice@firstrising.org Website: www.firstrising.org “Changing Lives On Purpose “

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LEGAL NOTICES

PROBATE DIVISION

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

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

Foreign No. 2018 FEP 000167

Foreign No. 2018 FEP 000166

May 27, 2011

April 23, 2008 Date of Death

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Date of Death

LEGAL NOTICES

Brian L. Portwine

Jonathon M. Cote aka Jonathon Michael Cote Name of Decedent

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Name of Decedent

REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Peggy J. McNamara, whose address is 1360

Primrose Drive, Roswell, GA 30076 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Brian L. Portwine,

deceased, by the Circuit Court for Volusia County, State of Florida, on November 21, 2017.

Service of process may be made upon Joshua

Branson, 1615 M Street, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20036 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C.

The decedent owned District of Columbia personal

property. 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: 1/3/2019

Christopher Cote, whose address is 15 Primrose Lane, East Amherst, NY 14051 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Jonathon M. Cote aka Jonathon Michael Cote, deceased, by the Surrogate’s Court for Erie County, State of New York, on October 26, 2018.

Service of process may be made upon Joshua Branson, 1615 M. Street, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20036 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned District of Columbia personal property. 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: 1/3/2019

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

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

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

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION

Administration No. 2018 ADM 001437

Administration No. 2018 ADM 001484

Linda D. Irika aka Linda Darlene Irika aka Linda Irika Name of Deceased Settlor

Rosa Lee Kittrell Decedent

Lola S. Moy aka Lola C. Moy, Lola Clara Moy Decedent

NOTICE OF EXISTENCE OF REVOCABLE TRUST

Gerald R. Belton 1101 L. Street, NW #806 Washington, DC 20005 Attorney

Constance G. Starks, Esq. 7053 Western Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20015 Attorney

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

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

Marion K. Rodgers, whose address is 5205 Whitfield Chapel Road, Lanham, MD 20706, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Rosa Lee Kittrell who died on June 13, 2002 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., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/3/2019. 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 7/3/2019, 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.

Ronnie W. Messersmith, whose address is 1611 Butler Street, SE, Washington, DC 20020, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Lola S. Moy aka Lola C. Moy, Lola Clara Moy who died on September 12, 2018 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/3/2019.

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 7/3/2019, 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: 1/3/2019

Date of first publication: 1/3/2019

Marion K. Rodgers Personal Representative

Ronnie W. Messersmith Personal Representative

TRUE TEST COPY

TRUE TEST COPY

Trust No. 2018 NRT 000049

Linda D. Irika aka Linda Darlene Irika aka Linda Irika whose address was 412 20th Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002 created a revocable trust on August 7, 2018, which remained in existence on the date of her death on October 17, 2018, and Patricia J. Huggs, Trustee, whose address is 2311 Rosecroft Boulevard, Fort Washington, MD 20744, is the currently acting trustee, hereinafter the Trustee. Communications to the Trust should be mailed or directed to Patricia J. Huggs at 2311 Rosecroft Boulevard, Fort Washington, MD 20744 The Trust is subject to claims of the deceased settlor’s creditors, costs of administration of the settlor’s estate, the expense of the deceased settlor’s funeral and disposal of remains, and statutory allowances to a surviving spouse and children to the extent the deceased settlor’s residuary probate estate is inadequate to satisfy those claims, costs, expenses, and allowances.

Claims of the deceased settlor’s creditors are barred as against the Trustee and the trust property unless presented to the Trustee at the address provided herein on or before 6/27/2019 (6 month after the date of the first publication of this notice.) An action to contest the validity of this trust must be commenced by the earliest of (1), October 17, 2019 (One year from date of death of deceased settlor) (2), 6/27/2019 (6 months from the date of first publication of this notice) or (3) Ninety days after the Trustee sends the person a copy of the trust instrument and a notice informing the person of the trust’s existence, of the Trustee’s name and address, and of the time allowed for commencing a proceeding.

The Trustee may proceed to distribute the trust property in accordance with the terms of the trust before the expiration of the time within which an action must be commenced unless the Trustee knows of a pending judicial proceeding contesting the validity of the trust or the Trustee has received notice from a potential contestant who thereafter commences a judicial proceeding within sixty days after notification.

This Notice must be mailed postmarked within 15 days of its first publication to each heir and qualified beneficiary of the trust and any other person who would be an interested person within the meaning of D.C. Code 20-101(d).

Date of First Publication: 12/27/2018 Patricia J. Huggs Signature of Trustee

Peggy J. McNamara

Christopher Cote Personal Representative

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Administration No. 2018 ADM 1460

Administration No. 2018 ADM 866

Administration No. 2018 ADM 001492

Administration No. 2018 ADM 001451

Administration No. 2018 ADM 1441

Debra T. Middleton Decedent

Juan Zamorano Decedent

Gerald A. Fauntroy Decedent

Ruth W. Turner Decedent

Mary L. Reaves aka Mary Lee Reaves Decedent

Deborah D. Boddie, Esquire Probate Law DC 1308 Ninth Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20001 Attorney

Kisha L. Woolen, Esq. Tobin O’Connor & Ewing 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, #700 Washington, DC 20015 Attorney

Deborah D. Boddie, Esq. Probate Law DC 1308 Ninth Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20001 Attorney

Samuel C. Hamilton, Esq. 8601 Georgia Ave., Suite 503 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Attorney

Cheryl Chapman Henderson, Esq. 4920 Niagara Road, Suite 200 College Park, MD 20740 Attorney

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Wanda Means-Harris, whose address is 1320 Montague Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Debra T. Middleton who died on October 26, 2018 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/3/2019. 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 7/3/2019, 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.

Jennifer C. Concino, Esq., whose address is 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, #700, Washington, DC 20015, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Juan Zamorano who died on January 17, 2018 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., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/10/2019. 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 7/10/2019, 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.

Louvel J. Fauntroy, whose address is 1513 Beaver Dam Court, Hanover, MD 20176, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Gerald A. Fauntroy who died on October 20, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/10/2019. 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 7/10/2019, 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.

Gertrude Turner Wills, whose address is 10827 Bucknell Dr., Silver Spring, MD 20902, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Ruth W. Turner who died on September 1, 2018 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/3/2019. 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 7/3/2019, 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: 1/3/2019

Date of first publication: 1/10/2019

Date of first publication: 1/10/2019

Date of first publication: 1/3/2019

Inez Thomas and Joycie Faison, whose addresses are 3819 Walters Lane, Forestville, MD 20747 & 7141 8th St., NW, Washington, DC 20012, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Mary L. Reaves aka Mary Lee Reaves who died on April 10, 2018 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/3/2019. 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 7/3/2019, 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.

Wanda Means-Harris Personal Representative

Jennifer C. Concino Personal Representative

Louvel J. Fauntroy Personal Representative

Gertrude Turner Wills Personal Representative

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

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Administration No. 2018 ADM 001499

Administration No. 2018 ADM 001459

Administration No. 2018 ADM 001534

Juanita Mae Montague Decedent

Jordan William Scott Decedent

Doreatha J. Mims Decedent

Valerie J. Edwards 1725 DeSales Street, NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney

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

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Winnell Montague, whose address is 4543 Eads Place, NE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Juanita Mae Montague who died on June 7, 2012 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/10/2019. 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 7/10/2019, 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.

Stacey Scott, whose address is 2217 E. Cumberland St., #2, Philadelphia, PA 19125, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Jordan William Scott who died on June 11, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/10/2019. 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 7/10/2019, 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.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Terrence Harrison, whose address is 13139 Dairymaid Drive, #202, Germantown, MD 20874, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Doreatha J. Mims who died on November 30, 2018 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 7/17/2019. 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 7/17/2019, 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: 1/17/2019

Date of first publication: 1/10/2019

Date of first publication: 1/10/2019

Winnell Montague Personal Representative

Stacey Scott Personal Representative

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

Administration No. 2018 ADM 001517

Foreign No. 2018 FEP 000061

Pearlie B. Burts Decedent

January 25, 2018 Date of Death

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Gregory Burts, whose address is 441 Q Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Pearlie B. Burts who died on October 26, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before July 17, 2019. 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 17, 2019, 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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Terrence Harrison Personal Representative

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Richard L. Reese whose address is 585 Big Indian Loops, Mooresville, NC 28117 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Mary Briggs Shuford, deceased, by the General Court of Justice, Superior Court Division for Watuaga County, State of North Carolina, on 2/28/2018.

Service of process may be made upon Robert P. Newman, Esq. 6829 13th Pl. NW, Washington, DC 20012 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.

3701 Connecticut Avenue, Unit 911, NW, Washington, DC 20008. 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.

Richard L. Reese Personal Representative Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

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knew, were killed at the 16 Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.

And they are showing her who they are once again. Shame and shade!

Unfortunately, I’m not surprised.

One of the founders of the Women’s March has demanded the resignations of Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour because they attended one of Minister Louis Farrakhan’s Savior’s Days. Marc Lamont Hill lost his CNN commentary gig because he spoke up for Palestinian rights. Alice Walker has been criticized because she supports BDS. Now Angela Davis is being denied an award. When is enough going to be enough?

For the record, I support Palestinian rights. And I support Israel’s right to exist. Are the two incompatible? I think not. The one-state solution, with a right to return, and full citizenship rights for Palestinians makes sense. But Israel is not about to budge, and BDS as an attempt to influence it. States passing laws to outlaw free speech erodes the first principle of our Constitution and undercut the actions at the very foundation of our nation.

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companies that support BDS. Thirteen more states as well as Washington, D.C., have similar laws to the Texas law pending, pitting people’s First Amendment rights of free speech against support for Israel.

And Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, in the middle of a government shutdown, had the nerve to introduce national legislation that mirrors the Texas law (actually, Illinois was the first state to pass this discriminatory law).

Lots of people in Birmingham aren’t having it. Though the Civil Rights Institute has rescinded its award to Davis, there has been significant protest about the decision. Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, who is a nonvoting member of the institute’s board and did not participate in the decision to rescind the award (the city provides the institute with about $1 million year in operating funds) has expressed his dismay about the decision. Three board members have resigned from the board. And Alabama columnist Roy S. Johnson has written a fiery column accusing the Civil Rights Institute of insulting Rev. Shuttlesworth and staining its own legacy. Johnson says the Bir-

mingham Jewish community may have been the loudest folks pushing for Davis’ award to be rescinded, but not the only ones.

Who rescinds an award after it has been granted for statements that were not recently made, but are a matter of record? Angela Davis has long been an outspoken activist, just like Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was.

Nothing had been changed from the time Davis was notified of the award and Jan. 4, when it was rescinded. The BCRI did not have to honor Davis, but their canceling the award is a special kind of insult. Fortunately, Davis has a thick skin, and she knows exactly who she is. She didn’t cringe when then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan had her fired from UCLA for her membership in the Communist Party. She didn’t flinch when she was incarcerated for a crime she did not commit. And she will not tremble because the BCRI rescinded the award.

Indeed, demonstrating the indomitable spirit that she is known for, Angela Davis will travel to Birmingham in February for an alternative event. And the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum has egg on its face. That city showed a young Angela Davis who they were when the Four Little Girls, some of whom she

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Despite CORE’s track record of achieving such outcomes for former inmates, we know that some Ward 5 residents have asked what a reentry center would mean for them and their neighborhood.

Unfortunately, misinformation and falsehoods have circulated and stood in the way of a fruitful dialogue with members of the community who had questions about public safety.

While I cannot speak to the security conditions at transitional reentry centers operated by other providers, I can proudly assure you that CORE works tirelessly to

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Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama in January 2018 appointed the first Black chief of staff in the Democratic caucus, joining Republican Sens. Tim Scott of South Carolina and Jerry Moran of Kansas.

In a letter accompanying the resumes we sent to the Senate, I wrote: “At the core of economic civil rights is the idea that all people

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achieve the absolute highest standards of security. In fact, our New York City facility has been lauded in regular reviews by Federal Bureau of Prisons for the high quality of our community relations and CORE’s success in “maintaining accountability of the residents.”

CORE also appreciates the need to provide transportation assistance to our clients. This is a vital component of our services.

In Washington, CORE vans will ferry residents back and forth from Metro stops.

Simply put, we take our commitment to be a good neighbor very seriously. CORE identified northeast Washington as an appropriate location for one of our programs for several reasons, including that many of the individuals who

would be housed there are from the D.C. region. They deserve the opportunity to return home with support and dignity.

We believe that Ward 5 has the opportunity to set a powerful example of community corrections done right, curbing recidivism by combining CORE’s rigorous yet compassionate transitional support initiatives.

Finally, transitional reentry centers bring a socioeconomic benefit to the communities they serve, by facilitating the transition from inmate to stable, wage-earning members of their families and communities.

CORE welcomes the opportunity to continue this critically important conversation with the people of Ward 5. WI

should have access to jobs for which they are qualified. Despite the progress this country has made related to corporate diversity and inclusion, our Congress, specifically the U.S. Senate, has failed to move the needle when it comes to diversity and inclusion. This is deeply concerning and an embarrassment to our country. While policy decisions affecting all Americans are debated in the halls of Congress, persons of color are largely absent in top-level staff positions. Thus, on issues like education, the economy, health care, and decisions of war and peace, Members of Congress are legislating

without the perspective of black and brown staff.”

According to the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, more than 31 percent of top staffers hired so far by newly-elected House Members are people of color. As of September, fewer than 14 percent of top staff in the House were people of color.

The rule change is a significant step toward a Congress that truly represents the rich diversity of the nation and an expansion of economic opportunity for all Americans.

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three children — completing her undergraduate degree at Princeton University where Sheldon served as provost and earning her law degree at Tulane University while Sheldon served as president. She rose early and went to bed late to get her multiple responsibilities done.

When Sheldon became President of the University of Pennsylvania, Lucy began working as a staff attorney at the Juvenile Law Center where her family notes she was “tenacious” in her work on behalf of children’s health, welfare, and justice programs, and founded Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children, a nonprofit advocacy group dedicated to improving the health, well-being and education of Pennsylvania children that helped 100,000 previously uninsured young people in Pennsylvania receive health coverage.

ASKIA from Page 27 anxiety about their declining hegemony.”

One way to politically defeat Trumpism is to shame Trump.

Just once. It’s like the children’s story: which mouse will “bell the cat,” that is put a bell around the cat’s neck so that all the mice will hear the cat coming.

Warren, who confessed that she can’t stop Trump from tweeting, or speaking insults, did not help her own cause when she responded to his “Pocahontas” taunts by testing her DNA, and

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this is where it starts,” she said.

“When there is violence, they need to come together, change the norm, and decide the values to build up the community. We have to get them to believe and realize they have some sort of power.”

As a show of that power, Black Lives Matter DC helped raise money last summer to install a new cooling system in Nook’s. Since early October, when Nook’s future had been in question, the collective, along with other groups, or-

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and we would urge offenders to spend their advertising dollars to promote that kind of music.

Since the named corporations have chosen to disregard our willingness to hold a reasonable discussion about the matter at hand, we have been forced to ask every conscious member of our community to refrain from spending your dollars at the offending companies named in this article until they respect our community

enough to withdraw their advertising dollars making the offensive gangsta rap possible. Our starting targeted areas are New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. Others may be added as necessary.

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Lucy and Sheldon’s oldest daughter Virginia suffered a brain injury at birth which fed Lucy’s passion for helping children, especially those with disabilities and other special needs, and making sure all children got the education and support they needed to transition to successful adult lives. She called Virginia her “muse,” and Virginia, son Fain, daughter Elizabeth, and eventually Lucy’s beloved grandchildren were her inspiration in all she did as a fierce child advocate.

Lucy was a board member at the Children’s Defense Fund alongside Hillary Rodham Clinton as well as serving as a volunteer CDF staff member when she spent several years in Washington, D.C. when Sheldon served as chairman for the National Endowment for the Humanities in the Clinton administration.

What a joy and privilege it was to know and work with her over the decades. She was beautiful inside

and out and brought light wherever she went.

Her family writes: “Lucy was the rock of her immediate and extended family. She was vibrant and full of energy. She was unrelentingly optimistic. ‘There will be no woe is me!’ was a favorite saying. She offered a smile and a greeting to all those she encountered. She was an amazing mother and grandmother.

She could be counted on 100% by her family whenever she was needed. She would defend any family member even when they were wrong. Unconditional love is hard to find — and she gave it to her family in full measure.”

Lucy Durr Hackney continued her parents’ legacy to its fullest throughout her committed life of service and child advocacy. We are all beneficiaries — especially children — and I feel so lucky she was my friend.

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then releasing the inconclusive results. Step toward Trump not away from him.

Not since Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis shamed himself by riding in a tank (just exuding his manliness) during his campaign against President George H.W. Bush has such a political stunt backfired. His stunt looked silly, and was overrun, when Bush issued the infamous Willie Horton ad, shaming the governor for releasing a Black convict who later murdered an innocent White woman. Hers was also silly and so-o-o contrived.

In some home-video campaign announcement, Warren excused herself on camera and said she was going for “a beer.” She returned with a brown bottle in her hand. So macho. I didn’t know that Chablis Beer came in brown bottles. That’s not a very Mike Tyson kind of a move.

Dealing with Trump on equal footing in a campaign is like the old story of using a 2x4 when dealing with a stubborn mule. The farmer would use that piece of timber to strike the ol’ mule in the head.

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ganized protests in front of Nook’s and the home of NDC’s co-owner and CEO Adrian Washington.

Money from the most recent fundraiser, also organized by Black Lives Matter DC, would go toward Nook’s daily operations.

In 1994, Palmer, a hairstylist for nearly her entire life, and her husband, Wayne, a well-known barber and pastor, opened Nook’s Beauty & Barbershop. The couple ran the shop together until Wayne’s death in 2013. Palmer has since sat at the helm, with hopes of eventually passing along the business to her

children.

“I know eventually it will get better,” she said. “My goal is to continue to be able to work, making improvements to the shop, and making the business better. We hope and pray that we get more licensed barbers, stylists, and braiders. One day, the business will turn over to my boys. One of them is a barber. The other one goes to school for business administration and accounting. They have been contributing to the shop as much as they can.”

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