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Happy New Year to the DMV – Make it the Best Ever Housing Boom Exacerbates Problem of Gentrification

Alec Ross Focused on Medical Marijuana

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer Washington, D.C., had the second-highest number of home sales over $1 million in the past three years, surpassed on the East Coast only by New York City. PropertyShark, a real estate website that provides in-depth data for approximately 90 million properties in the District, New York City, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay area, and other major U.S. markets, compared D.C. to other cities with a population exceeding 300,000. The site noted that the District closed 2,279 multimillion-dollar sales over the past three years, second to New York’s more than

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Seeks Governor’s Seat in Maryland By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill

MAYOR BOWSER KICKS OFF ‘YEAR OF THE ANACOSTIA’

Donning gloves, a heavy coat, hat and scarf, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser began the new year by hosting the 4th Annual Fit DC Fresh Start 5K Run/Walk at Anacostia Park. The annual 5K is part of the Mayor’s One Billion Steps Challenge – a citywide initiative which encourages residents of all eight wards to make more healthy lifestyle choices. In addition, the mayor designated Anacostia Park as the location to kick off the District’s celebration of the ‘Year of the Anacostia’ – a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Anacostia River corridor and its historic milestones. Those who braved the cold to join the mayor, received special gifts, courtesy of Mayor Bowser, 5K sponsor Aetna and event partners: Vida Fitness, Jersey Mike’s, Safeway and running groups from across the District. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter

Activist Erica Garner Remembered for Campaign for Justice By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer

5 Erika Garner, daughter of Eric Garner who was killed when police in New York used a chokehold to arrest him, emerged as a strong activist against police brutality following her father’s death. /Photo courtesy of cnn.com

Erica Garner, who became an activist for all who were wronged by the American justice system, died Saturday, Dec. 30 of complications from a heart attack. She was 27. A Twitter account associated with Erica Garner spoke of her compassion for humanity. CNN reported that her family is controlling the account. “When you report this you remember she was human: mother, daughter, sister, aunt,” Garner’s account tweeted. “Her heart was bigger than the world. It really, really was. She cared when most people

wouldn’t have. She was good. She only pursued right, no matter what. No one gave her justice.” Garner famously and fiercely sought justice for her father, Eric Garner, who died from a police chokehold in Staten Island, New York, on July 17, 2014. She led marches and demonstrations in New York City and other places, and even appeared on national television imploring the Justice Department to review the circumstances that led to her father’s death. “She was a fighter, she was a warrior and she lost the battle,” said Erica Garner’s mother, Esaw Snipes,

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Alec Ross helped work on Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign administration, served as a senior adviser to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and released last year a New York Times bestselling book, “The Industries of the Future.” Now the 46-year-old technology entrepreneur must try to convince Democratic voters in Maryland he’s the best choice among seven other gubernatorial challengers in the June 26 primary election. His website touts various proposals that include more investments into child care, require all Maryland schools to offer computer science courses by 2022 and automatic voter registration. A native of Charleston, West Virginia, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He touts as one of his proudest professional achievements his work as a sixth-grade teacher at Booker T. Washington Middle School, which is located in a Black neighborhood in West Baltimore. It’s also personal because that’s where he met his future wife, Felicity, who taught in a classroom across the hall and remains a teacher in the city’s public schools’ system. All

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sensecrime of uniformity in the way wants to respectively see implemented District. Since 2014, violent and property have decreased by 28 and 11 percent, with totalare crime When Marlow's 23-year-2017, domestic violence tovictims restraining order policies, down by L.Y. 14 percent. 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I am proud of what our public safety agencies have accomplished, andenforcement in 2018, we will with law enforcement's continue to build on thathandling progress.” Davis-Nickens said anyone agencies, a Child's Life Protecof the situation, she decided to who reads Marlow's book will tion Act and mandatory counselstart the Saving Promise cam- “get it.” She said she “puts the ing for batterers. paign. case in such a way, the average “If we are ever going to eradi“It seems to be a vicious cycle person can get it.” She said at the cate domestic violence, we must (D-AL) has helped to make history, appointthatSenator-elect won't turnDoug my Jones family end of the day, the book will look at both sides of the coin. ing Dana Gresham as his chief staff. Gresham will become the only Afriloose,” Marlow said. Marlow of help people begin to have a dia- We need to address both the viccan-American chief of staff in the Senate’s Democratic shared her story with the audi- logue about domesticcaucus. violence. tim and the batterer,” Marlow Although Blacks account for 23 percent of Democratic voters, ence at the District Heights Also present at the event was before said.this announcement theySymposium accounted forMildred just 1 percent of top Democratic Senate Domestic Violence Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see staff, both areHeights legislative wife directors (Clint Odom in Senator Harris’s on May 7 atofthewhom District of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise office and Roscoe in Senator who Feinstein’s office). to six consec- awareness among children in Municipal Center. Jones The sympowas sentenced The two other Black chiefs of staff in the U.S. Senate work public for Re-and private schools. She sium was sponsored by the utive life terms withoutboth parole publicans – Jennifer DeCasper in the office of Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) Family and Youth Services by a Maryland jury for his role in feelsand children need to be educatBrennanofBritton in the of Senator Jerry Moran Gresham /Courtesy photo Center the city of office District the Beltway Sniper(R-KS). attacks in ed about 5Dana domestic violence. Heights and the National Hook- 2002. Mildred Muhammad is “We have to stop being pasUp of Black Women. the founder of After the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chilMarlow has written a book, an organization that helps the dren about domestic violence,” “Color Me Butterfly,” which is a survivors of domestic violence Marlow said. story about four generations of and their children. Marlow has worked to break domestic violence. The book is “I lived in fear for six years. Six the cycle of abuse in her family, inspired by her own experiences, Dr. Harry L. Williams George’s years in fearoffiis a long Atime.Prince It is and is confident the policies she and those of her grandmother, an easy thing to come out cially begins hisnottenure as presCounty shelteris for do- for will start that pushing her mother and her ident daughter. of,”ofshethesaid. and CEO Thur- mestic violenceprocess. victims She said every time good she reads Muhammad said inspection “I plan to take these policies to Marshall Mildred College Fund will receive excerpts from her book, she stillon Tuesday, people who wantThursday, to help aJan.Congress [TMCF] Jan. 2, 4 – anand implore them to can not believe the words camean extensive domesticexecutive violence essential victim muststepchange our laws,” Marlow said. following toward from her. “Color Me search Butterfly” be careful of how they go into “I will not stop until these poliof more than 200 canditheir reopening. Resi5Dr. Harry L. Williams won the 2007 National victim's life, understand cies shelter are passed.” dates.“Best News ofthe his selection first anddents inside the /Courtesy photo Books” Award. that sheFounder may be managed in “survival Carol Jones can be reached came when TMCF by the Tia Family “IN. was justPayne 16-years-old mode”.during the Crisis Center ofat Prince tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net Dr. Joyce made thewhen announcement George’s County had to my eye30th firstAnniversary blackenedAwards and my “Beforeassumes you get to 'I'm going fund’s Gala. Williams relocate to local hotels as the building continlips bled,” Marlow to Taylor, kill you,' as clean-up a verbal andWI the position formerlysaid. held by Johnny C. Jr. it started ued reconstruction work. Former Elaine Davis-Nickens, presiThe former president of Delaware State University, Executive Director Sophie Ford resigned after dent of the National Hook-Up Williams recently garnered accolades including him the county began investigating the safe house of Black Women, said there is no being cited among the Top 10 Influential HBCU Pres- last month. Meanwhile, Interim Director Anconsistency in the way domestic idents in issues 2017 by Digest violence areHBCU dealt with byand receiving the Ed- drea Morris says she has no specific timetable ucation Leadership Award from TMCF at their annual on when the facility, fit for up to 55 people gala last year. and which provides temporary housing for sev“This is truly a game-changing career opportunity for eral months until permanent residences can be me but more importantly it is a unique moment for the found, will reopen. entire Black College Community,” said Williams, who “The holidays delayed our work; we would holds three degrees from Appalachian State and East have liked to be finished by now,” Morris said. Tennessee State universities. “I am ready to work with “Everyone has been patience. The community the entire TMCF team and I know our future as an or- and the county have been extremely helpful. It’s ganization has never been brighter.” just getting it done one day at a time.”

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‘Chocolate City’ Shines Light on Gentrification in Washington D.C. By Lauren Poteat WI Contributing Writer The Anacostia Community Museum will hold a special screening of the groundbreaking documentary “Chocolate City,” in correlation with the upcoming birthday of slain civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. Produced by Ellie Walton and Sam Wild, the 2007 film, which will be screened on Jan. 11, examines how people living in the Arthur Capper housing project in southeast D.C. were forced from their homes as part of a massive nationwide redevelopment program. Centered around the experiences of a particular group of women from the housing project who formed productive alliances outside the political process to cope with their circumstances, the film shows vivid portraits of true civic engagement and a celebration of community resistance. Through the film, viewers

ROSS from Page 1 three of their children are enrolled in public schools. Ross, the first person to declare his candidacy in April, works as a visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. His impressive resume, wide-ranging ideas for Maryland and media savvy, with catchphrases such as “The rise of the rest” and “Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not,” creates interest as an outsider to Maryland politics, said Mileah Kromer, director of the Sarah T. Hughes Field Politics Center at Goucher College in Towson. However, Kromer said it is too early in the race to determine who is and isn’t a viable candidate. Campaign finance reports are due next month, which she said will allow voters to see who’s supporting each candidate. “We are going to really see if these larger, broad visions translate into nuts-and-bolts policy,” she said. “That remains to be seen.” The other candidates that seek to challenge Republican Gov. Larry Hogan are Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III, former NAACP President Ben Jealous, Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz, state Sen. Richard Madaleno of Montgomery County, attorney James Shea and Krishanti Vi-

can witness the systemic marginalization of D.C’s majority Black citizens, as well as its Latino immigrant populations. “I don’t much watch many films, but I find this one to be ever so important,” said one D.C. resident. “There has been a long ongoing battle with gentrification here in D.C. and to me, it is important that those suffering have their stories told. This was not the idea of Dr. King and on the brink of his 50th anniversary, I think that there is no better time to really get to the heart of the issue. Growing up, I only saw other successful Black people and I miss that. People should come and support this film and the ACM and I actually plan on attending myself.” The screening, which begins 5 p.m. at the Anacostia Arts Center at 1231 Good Hope Road SE, will also feature a post-film Q&A session led by Debra Frazier, one of the film’s production members. WI

5 The Anacostia Community Museum will hold a screening of the 2007 documentary “Chocolate City” on Jan. 11. / Courtesy of Anacostia Community Museum

gnarajah, former policy director for former first lady Michelle Obama. Ross spoke on several topics during a Dec. 13 interview in Northwest. Here are some of this thoughts, in his own words:

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STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) is important, but where it’s more important is when STEM education is combined with other fields like art, like music, like physical education. We have to recommit to interdisciplinary learning. We should not just be programming robots for the future. Our children are not robots and we ought not train them that way. I know for a fact that the sixth graders I taught at Booker T. Washington Middle School in West Baltimore have the same God-given talent as the people who sat across the table from me in the White House situation room. I know it. The entire school had over 800 students and not a single non-African-American student. One hundred percent African-American and 100 percent free and reduced lunch. I would have classes of 37, 38 students come in, in a tiny little classroom. The kids only get the textbook for 45 minutes a day. You can’t ask them to do homework. They couldn’t do homework.

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1853 – Solomon Northrup, author of “12 Years a Slave,” regains his freedom after being kidnapped and sold into slavery. 1935 – Boxing great Floyd Patterson is born in Waco, North Carolina. 1937 – Famed opera singer Grace Bumbry is born in St. Louis.

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1911 – The fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi is founded at Indiana University’s Bloomington campus. 1931 – Famed choreographer Alvin Ailey is born in Rogers, Texas. 1943 – Iconic inventor George Washington Carver dies in Tuskegee, Alabama.

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1890 – African-American inventor William B. Purvis receives patent for the fountain pen. 1891 – Writer Zora Neale Hurston is born in Notasulga, Alabama. 1955 – Singer Marian Anderson becomes the first Black person to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. 2002 – Shirley Franklin is sworn in as mayor of Atlanta, the first Black woman to be elected mayor of a major Southern city.

on a reconnaissance mission in Nigeria. 1967 – R&B singer-songwriter R. Kelly is born in Chicago.

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1866 – Fisk University, a historically Black institution, opens in Nashville, Tennessee. 1914 – The fraternity Phi Beta Sigma is founded at Howard University. 1935 – Earl G. Graves, entrepreneur and publisher of Black Enterprise magazine, is born in New York City. 1946 – Harlem Renaissance-era poet Countee Cullen dies at 42 of high blood pressure and uremic poisoning.

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1750 – James Varick, the first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, is born near Newburgh, New York. 1888 – A.B. Blackburn patents the railway signal. 1924 – Legendary jazz drummer Max Roach is born in Newland, North Carolina. 1938 – Baseball Hall of Famer Willie McCovey is born in Mobile, Alabama. 1957 – The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is founded in Atlanta. WI

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1811 – Charles Deslandes leads the German Coast Uprising, a slave revolt in Louisiana. 1922 – Charles Young, the first Black man to achieve the rank of colonel in the U.S. Army, dies at 57 while

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On the very first day that I arrived on the campus of Emory University for my three-year pursuit of a master of divinity as a graduate student in the Candler School of Theology, I happened upon a fellow classmate whose family history positioned her among the upper echelons of Atlanta’s families. Her name was Bernice King – the youngest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. While we would exchange pleasantries, and I would even assist her in efforts to complete her graduation requirements, there was always a wall that seemed to keep me, and the majority of our classmates, at arm’s length. I would later engage with others in the King family including Coretta Scott King, who served as a guest lecturer for several of my classes, Christine King Farris, the sister of Dr. King and his oldest son, Martin Luther King III. Naturally, they were all willing to share their personal stories about

Dr. King but what really interested me was digging deeper into what influenced his profound prophetic beliefs and his creative proposals for action. Most people are familiar with the speeches and sermons of Dr. King but may not be aware of his book-length publications. During one class, The Theology and Ethics of Dr. King, I came across a real jewel that has maintained a prominent place on my bookshelves and within my heart – “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?” King wanted the U.S. and his organization to focus their actions and resources on the country’s many poor, exploited Black communities, especially their young men, whose broken lives were crying out for new opportunities in a country that, ironically, boasted about being among the world’s wealthiest. He would ask, “Who are we? Who are we meant to be? At the same time, he criticized whites who claimed to be allies while at the same time attempting to set their own timetable for the true freedom and unequivocal equality of Blacks. On Saturday, Jan. 6, the District will celebrate the 1st Annual MLK Holiday DC Essay Contest, sponsored by the Mayor’s Youth Leadership Institute, at Matthews Memorial Baptist Church in Southeast beginning at 8:30 a.m. The event will support the initiative of 62 students from the District’s elementary,

middle and high schools who have submitted essays addressing the title of King’s book while also kicking off several highly-anticipated events, most notably the 12th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Walk & Parade in Southeast scheduled for Monday, Jan. 15. King shared in his book, “To guard ourselves from bitterness we need the vision to see in this generation’s ordeals the opportunity to transfigure both ourselves and American society.” He would urge for the exploration of a “guaranteed annual income, particularly in light of the fact that at the time of his death, the U.S. had a gross national product of $750 billion a year, of a “guaranteed annual income” for those who needed it. Are we really a country that believes in a community in which all can dream big and succeed? Or are we moving closer and closer to chaos as our leaders seek to “make America great again?” You be the judge. I already have my answer – chaos is in the wind. Help the Washington Informer and our colleagues in support of our youth. Purchase a ticket and join us at the Prayer Breakfast with the Rev. Tony Lee, pastor, Community of Hope AME Church serving as the keynote speaker and Jacquie Gales Webb, leading the morning as the mistress of ceremonies. For info, visit www.mlkholidaydc. org. WI

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Third Suspect Arrested in Teen’s Fatal Shooting

By Tatyana Hopkins WI Staff Writer

A third man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Jamahri Sydnor. James Mayfield, 18, of Northeast is the third suspect charged in connection with the teen’s death. Jamahri, a Woodrow Wilson High School graduate and college-bound teen, was shot in August, just days before she planned to enroll at Florida A&M University. She was struck in the crossfire of a shootout while driving her car on Saratoga Avenue in Northeast. Mayfield appeared in D.C. Superior Court the day after his arrest last week. The judge called him an extreme danger to the community and refused his request to be released on his own recognizance. Mayfield is also been charged with fatally shooting Jermaine Bowens, 38, on Dec. 26 in the 2200 block of

Douglas Street NE and Elijah Henry, 21, in the 1800 block of Bryant Street NE on Dec. 27. Police said the same .40 caliber pistol was used in all three shootings. Mayfield, who is also a person of interest in three armed robberies in Northeast, had been on the run since October, police said. “When someone is trying not to be found, they can be very difficult to find,” said D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham. “It is my understanding that Mr. Mayfield has actually changed his appearance somewhat from the photographs that were released.” Police arrested Mayfield Wednesday, Dec. 27 after responding to an attempted armed robbery in the 3100 block of Berry Road in Northeast. “We have an 18-year-old in the last several months that we think is responsible for three homicides and we don’t know how many robber-

ies,” said Mayor Muriel Bowser. “So we have a person who has really in a lot of ways terrorized the community and we want to send a strong message to any victim of crime, any person who would commit robberies in our city — that our detectives and police officers and community members want to live in safe neighborhoods and they are going to work to make sure that we have safe neighborhoods.” Two other men have been arrested in connection to Jamahri’s murder. Police arrested Robert Moses, 18, of Northeast on Oct. 27 and charged him with first-degree murder. Phillip Carlos McDaniel, 21, of Northeast was charged in August with assault with intent to kill. Mayfield is charged with three counts of first-degree murder while armed, one count of attempted robbery and carrying a pistol without a license. He is next scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 11. WI

5 Jamahri Sydnor, 17, was just days from enrolling at Florida A&M University when she was fatally shot in Northeast in August. /Courtesy photo

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BOOM from Page 1 31,000 multimillion-dollar sales. Now, forecasters are suggesting that such high-priced sales will continue to boom in the District in 2018. ATTOM Data Solutions, a property data provider, which bases its assessment on loan activity and other indicators from the third quarter of 2017, recently released its “Pre-Mover Housing Index,” where an index number of 100 places a city above the nation average and indicates that an above-average ratio of homes will sell within 90 days. D.C., among the top five cities, had an index of 196 or higher. But despite the uptick, there remains underlying negativity over gentrification, said Kent Forrester, a real estate broker in the city. “It’s simply great to be a homeowner in Washington, D.C., and even greater if you have a multimillion-dollar property,” Forrester said. “I suppose that if you can afford a $1 million home, it works for you. If that’s not in your stratosphere, then you may have to look outside of the District. Dr. Omekongo Dibinga, who graduated from Georgetown University in 1999, said he could hardly recognize some neighborhoods when he returned to D.C. four years later. “I have seen the effects of gentrification firsthand,” Dibinga said. “Places like 14th Street were already in the process of

turning into expensive condos and Southeast was slowly starting to change. In the areas where my wife and I now own businesses, it’s nearly impossible for the average Southeast resident to move into.” Early last year, Bobbie Fisher, a District resident, told The Informer that she lived “under racism” in a luxury condominium community. Fisher didn’t name the community that she’s lived in for more than 11 years and noted that she’s an African American and unit owner in good standing. “I purchased my condo unit in 2005,” she said. “I am never late, delinquent in payment of my condo fees and I don’t own pets. I maintain a beautifully clean and decorated unit but the problem is that I am outspoken against racism at my building and the Association Board is comprised of seven white members.” Fisher said two white couples moved into her building and recently immersed themselves into the board, which has a $2 million budget. Immediately, she said, they increased condo fees from 2 percent to 10 percent. “During February, Black History Month, the white board fired two African American men — one who served 15 years, the other 35 years — and I am appalled by what’s happening here,” Fisher said, adding that she’s filed a formal complaint with the government. Gentrification fast became an ugly word in the District and in

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many places around the country. Lifelong residents — mostly African Americans and other minorities — have been priced out and sold out. And when the pillars of onceproud neighborhoods are forced to leave, the mom and pop shops that have catered to their needs for decades — if not centuries — also have found themselves no longer useful for a newer and very different neighborhood makeup. “In the areas where my wife and I own businesses, it’s nearly impossible for the average Southeast resident to move to,” said Dibinga, a professor of Cross Cultural Communication at American University who owns three District area yoga studios with his wife. “The Northeast area called Ivy City where we have one our businesses have vacant lots that are over $500,000.” Much culture and diversity is lost when people are forced out by gentrification, said Calvin Warren, an assistant professor of American Studies at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University in Northwest. “Black small-business owners might lose property or are forced to sell because of increased rents or competition from big chains moving into the area,” Warren said. “This is also a loss of black wealth. If this process continues, I think it will be harmful to most African Americans who are unable to buy property in these areas.” WI

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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY County Building Named After the late Wayne K. Curry By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill

“Wayne loved this county,” said Glenda Wilson, who served as chief of staff for both Curry and current county Executive Rushern L. Baker III. “He had high expectations for Prince George’s County and held high benchmarks for those who aspire to leadership roles in our county. It has been a wonderful blessing with tremendous challenges and responsibilities.” During Curry’s eight-year tenure as the face of the county, he’s credited for several initiatives:

5 Friends of Curry hope to see the Wayne K. Curry Administration Building open early this year. /Photo by William J. Ford

deficit into a $120 million surplus. The current County Administration Building in Upper Marlboro will continue to house 311 operations and relocate the sheriff’s department and state’s attorney’s office to that building. Although the county’s key offices headquarters will relocate to Largo, officials said Upper Marlboro will remain the county seat. Baker has labeled Largo as “downtown Largo” not only for county operations, but also central location in the county with Largo Town Center Metro station, the $543 million regional medical center project and future renovation of the Boulevard at the Capital Centre. “It will connect with develop-

ment and sandwich them between two Metro stops and…make this area right here one of the places that people are going to come and shop to,” he said. “It speaks to the vision that [Curry] had. It speaks to the vision he had … when he was a little child in Prince George’s County through Jim Crow and busing. It shaped who he became and shaped the vision for this county.” Curry died in 2014 at 63 of lung cancer. Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, who attended the ceremony, jokingly recalled when Curry first introduced him to Cosmopolitan magazine. “Wayne was my man,” said Steele, who chaired the Repub-

lican National Committee from 2009-11 and, as chairman of the Maryland Republican Party, was the first Black ever to hold a statewide position for that party. “I remember our battles when I was the county chairman for the Republican party when Wayne just assumed his responsibility as county executive. It was something to behold. He was a handful. There some things that we disagreed on, but there’s some things where you could be helpful to me and I could be helpful to you. It would get me in trouble sometimes. ‘Why are you talking to the Democrats?’ [people would ask] Because that’s the only way we’re going to get [things] done.” WI

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May noted an internal audit noted 72 violations occurred between July 1, 2013, and June 30, 2015, at various schools where student records couldn’t be located, files were disorganized and documents were on the floor. Some state and county officials, parents and residents say the dysfunction stems from a lack of accountability on the school board. The teacher’s union proposed the state approve for the school board to have all 13 members elected. The current structure, approved by the legislature in 2012, allows for the county executive to appoint three members and County Council one person. The 14th member represents a high school student and doesn’t vote on budgets, school closings and personnel items. In addition, there must be a two-thirds vote to adopt policies and other matters, or at least nine members instead of not a simple majority. For the full version of this story, go to washingtoninformer.com. WI

The legacy of late Wayne K. Curry continues to resonate in Prince George’s County, as his name will display next year on a county building in Largo that will house the county executive, the county council, the offices of finance, budget and law and Maryland-National Park and Planning Commission. Hundreds came to celebrate a dedication ceremony Thursday, Dec. 21 to honor Curry, whose name already adorns the Sports and Learning Complex in Landover. The county’s first Black county executive is credited with helping to bring the Washington Redskins to FedEx Field and financial discipline to county business.

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill When the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland held an all-day public hearing this fall in Annapolis, it discussed a myriad of proposed policies for the upcoming four-month General Assembly that reconvenes Wednesday, Jan. 10. A host of visitors that include officials, lobbyists and activists to visit the state’s capitol to ensure their agendas are heard on taxes, the environment and other topics. Although the state remains largely Democratic, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan remains popular among polls with thousands of voters who view him and his policies down the middle. “I think Gov. Hogan is doing a phenomenal job,” said former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, a Republican and and current

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• Ended more than 25 years of mandatory busing. • Key elected positions for Blacks increased from 30 percent to 38 percent. • Secured $25 million in federal grants to support police programs. • Transformed $100 million

MSNBC political contributor. “It’s not just what’s reflected in the polls, but also what people say about him when you talk to them on the street. I think that’s something that speaks well about the governor and his ability to recognize … this is a state 2-to-1 Democrat, but that’s not an obstacle and I think he’s made the most of it.” However, the majority-Democratic legislature may override Hogan’s veto made in May regarding paid sick leave. The vetoed version required employers with 15 or more workers paid sick leave and family crises such as domestic violence. Hogan’s office released a draft “compromise” in November that would allow businesses to offer paid sick leave in increments — businesses with 50 or more employees this year, 40 or more in 2019; and 25 or more in 2020. Delegate Diana Fennell (D-Dis-

trict 47A) of Colmar Manor said she expects lawmakers to shoot down Hogan’s proposed paid sick leave legislation. “I expect an override of the governor’s veto,” she said. “I am looking forward to the upcoming session.” One major piece of legislation Fennell and other Black lawmakers want to ensure Hogan signs into law deals with medical marijuana that guarantee Blacks, other minorities and women are included in the approval process to grow, dispense and process marijuana. In addition, only two African-Americans serve on the 15-member state’s Medical Cannabis Commission. State Department of Health spokeswoman Brittany Fowler said Friday that a specific date hasn’t been determined for completion of a long-anticipated disparity study. “We expect this legislation to be

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a top priority and to be taken up early in the session,” Delegate Erek Barron (D-District 25) of Mitchellville said in a Dec. 26 email. Barron and other lawmakers from Prince George’s County plan to not only fight the medical marijuana disparity, but review other proposed policies that could affect the second-largest jurisdiction in the state.

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The county’s school system has received major criticism since 2016 after a former teacher’s aide was convicted of child and sexual abuse and the school system got stripped of more than $6 million after allegations of child abuse and neglect from children in Head Start. Last month, officials responded to a state audit after it determined high school seniors received grade changes. In addition, a letter in

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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY Generation Hope Provides Positive Futures for Teen Parents By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer Fewer than 2 percent of teen mothers earn a degree by age 30. It’s a statistic that Maryland resident Nicole Lewis wants to help change. A former homeless teen parent, Lewis founded Generation Hope, a nonprofit located in northeast D.C. that selects teen mothers and fathers who have displayed academic achievement and a desire to go to college to become scholars in the organization’s scholar program. Each scholar in the program receives tuition assistance, one-on-one mentoring, intensive case management and wraparound services, including free tutoring, trainings and fun social events throughout the year. Generation Hope also provides free child care for scholars at all events. “We have 90 percent persistence rate from year to year — meaning 90 percent of our scholars stay in our program and in college each year — and 70 percent of our scholars earn

a 2.5 GPA or higher,” said Lewis, a graduate of the College of William & Mary. “When I told my parents I was pregnant, our house was thrown into turmoil. When you throw a crisis on top of an already fragile situation, it can cause everything to explode and that’s what happened.” As a teen mother who overcame homelessness and a drug-infested environment, Lewis honed her skills in communications and nonprofit management to start Generation Hope in 2010. Lewis, who in 2014 received honor as a CNN Hero, proved relentless in her drive to overcome many adversities. “I ended up leaving my parents home and living place to place with my boyfriend, sometimes in his car in the high school parking lot, sometimes on people’s couches” she said. “I was pregnant, and I was still trying to get to school every day. It was a really stressful and difficult time. Right before I had my daughter, we moved into a small, one-bedroom apartment.” While still a college freshman, Lewis split with her boyfriend and moved into a a family housing apartment on campus where she lived for three years until she graduated. She’d later start Generation Hope and, since its start, the organization has helped provide more than $400,000 in college tuition assistance and presented college-readiness workshops to more than 600 students. Many of these students are minorities who are

the first in their families to graduate college. Today, the organization supports 101 teens, or “scholars” — a number that continues to grow each year. “Teen mothers and fathers come to our program having already made the decision that they want to go to college,” Lewis said. “They have already earned their high school diploma or GED and most of them have already applied and been accepted to college. So they have made the commitment already. “The hard part is staying the course once they’re in college because challenges inevitably come as a young parent, whether it’s losing transportation to class or not being able to afford child care” she said. “We are helping

them navigate those challenges and encouraging them to stay on track to their degree no matter what.” In March 2015, Generation Hope’s board approved an ambitious strategic plan, which called for significant growth over three years. As a result, the organization will serve more than 100 teen parents in college across the region. “Growing Generation Hope over the past seven years has definitely exceeded my expectations,” Lewis said. “I didn’t have any seed money, office, or employees back then, but I had an incredible group of people who believed in my vision, and more importantly, believed in the potential of teen parents. “Now, we have grown to a

budget of more than $1 million, we have an office in D.C., eight full-time employees, and we have helped 30 teen parents earn college degrees through our program,” Lewis said. “It is incredible. It took a tremendous amount of hard work, and it has all been worth it.” Despite the success, Lewis continues to seek more ways to help. “We are looking to grow the program in some really exciting ways over the next three years, and in the long term, we hope to explore the possibility of expanding to other cities across the U.S.,” she said. For more information, go to www.supportgenerationhope.org. WI

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Department. “Many will say that Erica died of a heart attack, but that’s only partially true because her heart was already broken when she couldn’t get justice for her father,” Sharpton said. “Her heart was attacked by a system that would choke her dad and not hold accountable those that did it.” On that summer day in July 2014, officers approached Eric Garner, whom they said was illegally selling loose cigarettes near a store in Staten Island. A video released showed Officer Daniel Pantaleo grabbing Garner from behind and applying a chokehold while other officers helped tackle Garner, whom family members said had asthma. On the video, in a plea that has resonated around the world, Garner

is heard saying repeatedly, “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe.” He died shortly after the incident. A grand jury chose not to indict Pantaleo. The city settled a civil claim by Garner’s family for nearly $6 million. Despite the settlement, Erica Garner pushed for justice, her voice becoming as big as any in the fight for freedom and equality. “I had the honor of getting to know Erica and I was inspired by the commitment she made working towards a more just world for her children and future generations,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted. “She was a fighter for justice and will not be forgotten.” Erica Garner supported Sanders’

according to CNN. “She never recovered from when her father died.” Snipes said that Garner suffered from the effects of an enlarged heart after giving birth to her son three months ago, CNN reported. “I warned her every day, you have to slow down, you have to relax and slow down,” Snipes said. According to Erica Garner’s Twitter account, the activist went into cardiac arrest and suffered major brain damage from a lack of oxygen. In a statement about Erica Garner’s work as an advocate for criminal justice reform, Rev. Al Sharpton called her a warrior. Sharpton famously joined the Garner family in their push for justice against the New York City Police

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Compiled by Lauren Poteat WI Contributing Writer

HOMEOWNERS IN THE COUNTY ALLOWED TO PREPAY TAXES The Montgomery County Council broke its winter recess last week to pass a bill allowing residents to prepay

2018 property taxes. After an outpouring of interest from wealthy and middle-income homeowners, the legislation proved to be a last-minute chance for homeowners in Maryland’s largest jurisdiction to mitigate the impact of a new federal cap on tax deductions. The proposal passed 7 to 1 and took effect Dec. 26 after it was

5 Montgomery County recently passed a new property-tax prepayment proposal. /Courtesy of marylandrealestateconnection.com

signed by County Executive Isiah Leggett (D). Council member Nancy Navarro (D-Mid-County), who voted for the legislation, called it “an 11th-hour tax bill.” Taking effect Jan. 1, the new

tax caps deductions for state, local and property taxes at $10,000. WI

MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH STILL AT ODDS OVER SLAVE BURIALS In early March legal action was taken by a Macedonia Baptist Church in Bethesda church to stop the construction of luxury apartments on top of slave burial grounds. Embarking on a yearlong battle with ultimatums and monthly protests, no official plans have yet been placed in writing regarding the future plans of the burial site, currently leased by the Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commission. The church, which is pushing to have the area deemed a historic designation, sent a letter on Dec. 8 to the Montgomery County Historic Preservation Commission detailing their request for the one-acre area of land. so that church members and descendants of those buried would be able to receive legal

5 Macedonia Baptist Church / Courtesy of cedarlane.org

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assurance that the cemetery site will not be disturbed or altered by development activities. As of yet, no evidence of bodies has been found, other than historical references. However, adding the property to the county’s locational atlas of historic sites would provide the property with permanent protection. WI

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MOCO ORGANIZATION HOLDS HEART HEALTH TRAINING The African American Health Program, an organization committed to eliminating health disparities and improving the quality of life for Black residents of Montgomery County, will hold diabetes and heart disease training for the month. AAHP’s diabetes/heart health classes provide information and resources on how to maintain good heart health, as well as proper nutrition, weight loss, and other critical health matters. Heart disease is the number one killer for all Americans and the statistics for these risks are even higher for African-Americans. WI

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BUSINESS Justin Fairfax Prepares to Take Office in Virginia By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer Former Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder is among the co-chairs for the inaugural gala for Lt. Gov.-elect Justin Fairfax on Friday, Jan. 12 in Richmond. Although most may focus on the swearing-in of Gov.-elect Ralph Northam, many from the District and beyond will cheer on Fairfax, the longtime D.C. resident who took the Democratic Party by storm

and stunned Republican Sen. Jill Vogel in November to win the race for lieutenant governor. At noon on Jan. 12, Fairfax will become the first African-American sworn in to statewide office in Virginia since 1989. The theme of the inauguration, “The Way Ahead,” articulates a vision for leading a Virginia with bipartisan, common-sense solutions that lift up all of its people, Fairfax and Northam said in a joint news release.

Whether it’s taking advantage of new economic opportunities, finding oneself in serving others, or educating Virginia’s children with boundless potential, Fairfax and Northam said they believe the best way forward is by working together in a unified commonwealth. Earlier, Fairfax said his and the many 2017 election victories for Virginia Democrats could “be the match that sparks the wildfire of progressive” change all across the country. “All across the world. This is a battle for the nation’s soul,” Fairfax said. “Since I announced my candidacy, this campaign has been about the future, about building a Virginia where all of us have the opportunity to rise.” Most saw victories by Democrats as a referendum on President Donald Trump, whose record low job approval rating had shrunk to 39 percent by election night, according to various reports. Republicans lost races for governor in Virginia, where Northam easily beat Trump-backed Ed Gillespie, and in New Jersey, where former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Phil Murphy won election as

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5 Justin Fairfax /Courtesy hrc.org

governor, defeating Republican Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno. Also, in Virginia, attorney general Mark Herring, a Democrat, won reelection over Republican John Adams while Democrats gained at least 10 seats in the House of Delegates.

“The results were a backlash to Trump and Trumpism, pure and simple,” said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus also engaged voters. “The vote is precious, almost sacred,” said Rep. John Lewis, (DGa.). “It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument in a democratic society, [so] use it.” Voters apparently used that tool and Fairfax said he’s delighted they picked him. Growing up, he said, he didn’t have much money but was surrounded by family love and spiritual wealth. After his parents’ divorce, he, his mother and his three older siblings moved into his grandparents’ house in the District, until his mom could save enough to buy her own house across the street. The neighborhood had transformed from a close-knit middle-class community to one ravaged by a growing drug epidemic, increasing violence and dwindling economic opportunities, so Fairfax said he learned early on how fragile the future can be, watching the lives

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Prince George’s Council Tree Pickup in Prince George’s Begins Monday Hosts Annual Retreat Prince George’s County Council will host its annual retreat this week at the Hotel at University of Maryland in College Park to discuss policies for the upcoming year. Council members, county staff and other representatives discussed a variety of topics that began Wednesday, Jan. 3 with half of the day focused on the more than 50-year-old zoning ordinance. Officials seek to reduce the 1,200 pages of decades-old regulations and amendments crunched inside a four-inch binder. A draft document at http:// zoningpgc.pgplanning.com/ decreases zoning districts from 73 to 44, zoning uses from 1,200 to 229 and rewrite the cumbersome rules into simpler terms. Officials continue to push for zoning near the 15 Metro stations known as transit-oriented development, or construction of residents and commercials properties. The county-hired Clarion Associates of Denver will oversee work on the zoning plan. Thursday, Jan. 4 will serve as the longest day to discuss

the county’s ongoing housing strategy, financial future and education. Council also plans to discuss potential legislation from the Maryland General Assembly and its effect on the county. State Sen. C. Anthony Muse (D-District 26) of Accokeek plans to introduce legislation that would allow the school board to choose its chair, vice chair and superintendent. The current board structure permits the county executive to choose the board leadership. According to the agenda, Thursday’s meeting isn’t scheduled to end until 6 p.m. The final day of the annual retreat, Friday, Jan. 5, will convene for a half-day, ending at 2 p.m., to discuss the $543 million University of Maryland Capital Regional Medical Center project in Largo. The council, which also convenes as the Board of Health, will provide updates to other health matters. The three-day session is open to the public with each day beginning at 10 a.m. WI

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Prince George’s County residents with live Christmas trees can set them curbside for pickup at 6 a.m. starting Monday, Jan. 8. The Department of Environment will manage the collection and recycle them. All decorations must be removed from each tree. Residents can also drop off the trees at two locations: Public Container Pad and Recycling Center, 3501 Brown Station Road, Upper Marlboro; and Solid Waste Acceptance and Recycling Center, 12701 Missouri Ave., Brandywine. For more information, call 3-1-1, or 301-883-4748, or go to www. countyclick311.com. WI

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NATIONAL Legend: Mamie ‘Peanut’ Johnson Laid to Rest By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Many words were used to describe the late Negro Leagues pitcher Mamie “Peanut” Johnson during a Dec. 30 memorial service, but one in particular resonated: unafraid. “You had to be a lot of things playing against men,” said Pedro Sierra, a former Negro Leagues player and Johnson’s teammate on the Indianapolis Clowns in the 1950s. “I thought a woman playing was a gimmick, but she could really play. She was like a sister to us. She is a part of history.” Sierra joined more than 100 people to celebrate Johnson’s life at Way of the Cross Church of Christ in Capitol Heights, Maryland. Johnson, who resided in northeast D.C., received numerous cards, letters and a proclamation from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to announce Saturday as “a day of remembrance.” Family and friends at the funeral service cried tears of sadness, but also laughed when they told stories about Johnson. According to her goddaughter, Charlette Stapleton of Northeast, the 82-year-old who played three seasons (1953-55) in the

Negro Leagues succumbed to diabetes. “When my mother couldn’t do nothing with me, I had to go across the street to [Johnson’s] house, who took care of my butt,” said Stapleton, who sported a light blue Clowns’ Negro Leagues T-shirt. “She was the chief of the neighborhood. It takes a village to raise a child and she helped in that aspect.” Johnson’s obituary lists plenty of personal and professional achievements before her Dec. 17 death: • Baseball field named in her honor at the Rosedale Recreation Center in Northeast; • A Little League named after her in the District; • Two exhibits in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York; and • A scene portrayed in the 1992 film, “A League of Their Own.” In November 2016, Johnson traveled to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, to unveil bronze busts of her and two other women who played on her team, Toni Stone and Connie Morgan, who both died before Johnson. “The old [saying], ‘Give me my roses when I can smell them,’ makes

that moment much more special because she was there to see it,” said Bob Kendrick, president of the museum. “It is profound that these women who may not have been able to pursue their dreams is significant. This is how important the Negro Leagues were to our society.” Johnson, born Sept. 27, 1935, in Ridgeway, South Carolina, received her love of baseball from her uncle. As a teenager and relocated to D.C., they used rocks wrapped in twine to make baseballs and pie plates as bases. She couldn’t play for an All-American Girls League with all white players, so she received a tryout while she played semi-pro baseball for all-male squads. She tried out and made the Indianapolis Clowns, which helped launched the career of Hall of Famer Hank Aaron. Johnson even received pointers from Hall of Famer Leroy “Satchel” Paige on how to pitch a screwball and curveball. Johnson received her nickname after an opposing player thought she resembled a peanut. She later struck him out. Johnson left baseball in 1955 to care for her son, Charles Edward Johnson Jr., and received a nursing degree at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. She worked in the health care profession for 30 years. After retirement, Johnson still receive accolades for baseball from former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Although most will remember Johnson’s baseball accomplishments, family and close friends know her as a mother, sister and “good cook.” “She was just such a people person,” said Sandy Bowlding, who smiled and wiped tears from her eyes. “I’m her cousin, but she was like an aunt to me. She’s an iconic figure for what she has done, but she’s family to us. She will be missed.” WI

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BUSINESS from Page 15 of many friends and neighbors unravel in the face of unexpected challenges because they didn’t have the same strong network of support. Defying long odds, Fairfax’s mother put all four of her children through college — and two through law school. He received scholarships to Duke University, where he graduated with a degree in Public Policy Studies, and to Columbia Law School, where he was selected for the Columbia Law Review.

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During his career, Fairfax has worked in the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government, developing a keen insight into solving the challenges that face Virginia families today. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia and the Deputy Coordinator of the Northern Virginia Human Trafficking Task Force, Fairfax said he witnessed the power that law enforcement and criminal justice reform can have to keep communities safe, while providing appropriate second chances, saving hardearned taxpayer dollars and changing communities and lives. As a small-business owner with his wife, Dr. Cerina Fairfax, Fairfax said he understands the importance of strengthening and diversifying Virginia’s economy. And as a father of a young son and daughter, he knows how important economic stability is for our children’s future, he said. “The challenges Virginia families face today are unprecedented — when one bad life event can turn into a cascade of failures [and] it doesn’t have to be that way,” Fairfax said. “As lieutenant governor, [I] will work every day to build the foundation of economic and educational opportunity that every Virginian deserves and that will make our commonwealth an even better place to live, work, raise a family, and grow a business.” WI

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Weah Elected as New Liberian President

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Former soccer great George Weah was elected last week as Liberia’s new president, succeeding Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is stepping down after two terms as Africa’s first female president. Weah easily beat out Vice President Joseph Boakai in a runoff election. With more than 98 percent of votes counted, Weah received 61.5 percent of the ballots while Boakai received 38.5 percent. The West African nation will now encounter its first democratic transfer of power in more than 70 years. In his first public comments after his rival conceded, Weah said he is “honored to join a new generation of heads of state.” The 51-year-old senator, who entered politics after retirement from soccer more than a decade ago, won Liberia’s first independently run election since the end of its civil wars.

South Africa Gets Special New Year’s Message from Zuma The year 2018 marks the centenary of late South African President Nelson Mandela, and in early celebration and honor of the activist, current President Jacob Zuma delivered a special New Year’s speech to the nation’s residents. Highlighting varied social woes plaguing the country, including economics, drugs, and racial disparity, Zuma outlined strategic government plans to help boost the economy and equal the playing field for all residents. “The year 2018 marks the centenary of the late President Nelson Mandela,” Zuma said. “We should use the year to celebrate his contribution and promote unity and togetherness in our country. Let us work together to build a truly united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous South Africa.” Zuma also said the country has shown improvement in the areas of electricity, housing, roads, water and sanitation, health care, social grants and accessible education.

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HEALTH LGBTQ Group Condemns Trump’s Removal of White House HIV/AIDS Council

Plans to Mobilize Voters for 2018 Elections By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer A local LGBTQ organization plans to fight back against President Donald Trump after his abrupt decision to remove all of the members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). Impulse DC and members of the board learned of Trump’s decision in late December after receiving letters in the mail from the administration outlining their

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dismissal. This move came on the heels of news that Trump would be proposing over $200 million in cuts to federal HIV programs in the budget he sent to Congress, which among other things, would eliminate the Minority AIDS Initiative. “Donald Trump’s presidency is a public health crisis and this recent action confirm this,” said Devin Barrington-Ward, president of Impulse DC. “In the face of CDC projections that one in two Black gay men and one in 13

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tive efforts to end HIV within our lifetimes.” Impulse DC said that sources close to the decision suspect that the charter for PACHA will be rewritten, membership reduced, and for there to renewed focus on abstinence and religious, non-evidence based public health approaches. Impulse DC plans to call on national and local HIV advocacy groups, AIDS service organizations and clinics serving people living with HIV to mobilize and register their networks of clients and volunteers to vote ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. “Now is not the time for complacency,” Barrington-Ward said. “Every organization serving peo-

ple living with HIV and fighting to end this epidemic must galvanize their networks of clients, staff, and volunteers to resist and fight back against these dangerous HIV policy decisions. “And the best way to fight back and resist is to ensure that the 1.2 million people living with HIV and the communities most impacted by the epidemic are registered to vote and informed and engaged about the importance of participating in the 2018 midterm elections,” he said. “It’s very simple — if you do not want to go back to the early and deadliest days of the epidemic, then you must vote. If you want to end HIV within our lifetimes, then you must vote in 2018 and 2020.” WI

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D.C. residents will become HIV positive within their lifetimes, it is unconscionable that we would have a president that would not only propose massive cuts to HIV programs but would also remove the entire PACHA membership. “Many of the council members for PACHA, like Bishop O.C. Allen and Gabriel Maldonado, both Black gay men, came directly from communities who are disproportionately impacted by the HIV epidemic and they helped write and revise the first-ever National HIV/AIDS Strategy under the Obama administration,” he said. “To lose this body’s expertise and counsel at the White House on HIV issues threatens to unravel years of progress and our collec-

By Tatyana Hopkins WI Staff Writer In Maryland, it just got easier to get birth control under a sweeping law aimed at expanding and protecting access to contraception. The new law, which was passed in 2016 but went into effect Jan. 1, requires insurers to provide most forms of birth control to patients with no out-of-pocket costs, including vasectomies or sterilization for men and overthe-counter birth control such as Plan B and other emergen-

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Becoming Your #BestMe in 2018 Submitted by AmeriHealth Caritas District of Columbia (DC) For people around the world, the new year is a time for self-improvement. Some set new year’s resolutions with a focus on being healthy. After starting the year motivated to exercise, eat better, or get more sleep, some may find that their resolutions become a distant memory by the end of the year. But 2018 can be different. AmeriHealth Caritas DC is helping District residents achieve their personal goals through the #BestMe initiative. We define #BestMe as being the most desirable version of oneself, and that includes making good decisions about your health. Join AmeriHealth Caritas DC in our commitment to improving lives across the District by making #BestMe your new year’s resolution. Here are some quick tips to help you begin your #BestMe journey in 2018: • Stay active. Many people make exercising one of their new year’s resolutions. You can stay active by adding exercise

into your daily routine. Do it at the same time every day and keep at it. It may also help to exercise with a friend. Join a Zumba® class or look up beginners’ yoga videos online. AmeriHealth Caritas DC members can also sign up for free exercise classes at our Member Wellness Center. For more information and a class schedule, call the Member Wellness Center at 202-408-3989. • Eat more healthy foods. When you eat a balanced diet of wholesome foods, you fuel your body with the vitamins and nutrients you need to be well. Eating healthy can even help your body fight certain diseases. Be sure half of your daily plate is full of a colorful mix of fruits and vegetables. The other half should be mostly whole grains, followed by a protein, and then a small portion of dairy. Visit www.choosemyplate. gov to learn more about each category and for other healthy eating tips. You can also find healthy recipes by logging in to the AmeriHealth Caritas DC Member Portal at www.amerihealthcaritasdc.com. • Drink more water. Your body needs water to survive. Drinking enough water every day can also help you stay healthy. Water helps you keep a normal tem-

perature, helps with your joints, and protects sensitive tissue in your body. It also helps you get rid of waste by helping to keep you regular. Be sure to choose water over sugary drinks like soda to help keep you hydrated and healthy. • Schedule appointments with your doctors. An important part of being healthy is getting your annual checkups, screenings, and immunizations (vaccines). For example, you should see your primary care provider (PCP) at least one time per year. Ask if you need any immunizations, like the flu shot, or need to schedule any screenings, like a mammogram for women. You should also make appointments with your dentist two times a year and see an eye doctor once every year. • Get plenty of sleep. Your life is busy, but it is important to get plenty of rest. Adults should get 7 hours of sleep or more per night. Teens should get 8 – 10 hours of sleep. School-aged children should get 9 – 12 hours of sleep per night. Talk to your PCP if you have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep. • Be happy. Living your best life means taking care of both your physical and mental health. If your emotions are controlling your life, help is available. It takes courage to admit when you are feeling de-

pressed or angry. It takes even more courage to ask for help. Remember, you can’t be your #BestMe if you aren’t feeling like yourself. Get the support you need by seeing a therapist or talking with loved ones. It is also important to talk to your PCP about how you feel. He or she may prescribe you medicines to feel better or refer you to a specialist. Finding someone you trust can make all the difference. If you are an AmeriHealth Caritas DC member and need help reaching your health goals, we can help. Just call Member Services at 1-800-408-7511.

We also want to know how you’re doing. Tell us about your #BestMe journey. Visit www. amerihealthcaritasdc.com/ member/eng/tell-story.aspx to learn how you can share your story with us. From all of us at AmeriHealth Caritas DC, have a happy and healthy new year! Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and United States Department of Agriculture All images are used under license for illustrative purposes only. Any individual depicted is a model.

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EDUCATION Absenteeism Symptom of Larger Issue, Institute Says

D.C. Public Schools Under the Microscope By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer In the wake of the Ballou Senior High School attendance scandal, one organization said that chronic absenteeism is a symptom of a larger issue. DC Fiscal Policy Institute said Ballou is not an isolated incident and reflects the effects of the city’s underinvestment in the support of its students. “It would be shortsighted to look at the problems at Ballou High School as an isolated scandal: one school alone cannot remedy decades of economic inequality and racial injustice,” the institute said in a statement following a D.C. Council hearing on graduation

rate accountability in December. “Chronic absenteeism is widespread across public schools, and reflects the enormous challenges faced by too many D.C. students and their families—unhealthy environments, housing instability, food insecurity, and the stress of living paycheck to paycheck, as a Ballou student so poignantly expressed.” The institute also contends that the attendance problem stems from the District’s failure to follow through on equitable distribution of resources among schools. “D.C. schools are supposed to get additional resources, through “at-risk” funds, to target resources for low-income students and students who are struggling aca-

of school,” Wilson said. “It’s not news to anyone here that truancy is an ongoing and deep concern across the District of Columbia. I was struck by it on arriving in D.C. I have worked in many urban school districts — from Denver to Oakland — and none had such high truancy rates. “The attendance problems have been well documented by both OSSE and DCPS reports in the past, and we have had several council hearings on the issue, most recently this fall,” he said. “Our students miss school for many reasons, including, but not limited to, employment so they can provide for their families, the responsibilities of parenthood, and lack of transportation.” 5 District of Columbia Public Schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson /Courtesy photo The chancellor said along with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and demically,” the institute said in a ant questions: statement. “Yet DCPS schools have - Were students given diplomas Deputy Mayor for Education Jennibeen underfunded, forcing schools or grades they hadn’t earned, par- fer Niles on the Every Day Counts! to misuse nearly half of ‘at-risk’ dol- ticularly in cases where students initiative to encourage attendance lars for basic staff positions, rather were out of school a great deal of among students and parents. “Attendance is both a symptom than supports for the students who time? need them most, like meaningful - Did anyone, at any level of the and a cause of many of our stucredit recovery programs.” school system, pressure or encour- dents’ educational challenges, and At the accountability hearing, age staff to pass students, to raise I’m glad to have the mayor as an D.C. Public Schools Chancellor grades, or otherwise to credit aca- ally in taking this issue seriously,” Antwan Wilson testified to coun- demic progress that wasn’t genuine? Wilson said. Marlana Wallace, education cilman David Grosso, chairman of - Are we doing enough to rethe council Committee on Educa- spond to the needs of students on policy analyst at the institute, said tion, that “a number of issues have the threshold of dropout and fail- chronic absenteeism can be thwartbeen raised that touch on matters ure – particularly those who are ed with some important steps. “As a start, the District should central to our work – what prog- chronically absent or carrying mulmake sure that every dollar intendress our students are really making tiple failing grades? ed to provide additional resources and the integrity with which we, as “One of the central questions is adults, act.” how it was possible for so many for low-income and academically Wilson said the situation at Bal- students to graduate despite appar- struggling students actually goes to lou has raised a number of import- ently missing enormous amounts help those students,” she said. WI

What Washingtonians Read in 2017 D.C. Public Library Shares List of Year’s Most Popular By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer From Ta-Nehisi Coates to Ke$ha, Washingtonians had diverse reading and music interests this year. Of the more than 4 million items borrowed or downloaded from the D.C. Public Library, these are the most popular titles by type and format.

TOP 10 FICTION BOOKS

1. “The Girls” by Emma Cline 2. “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt 3. “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood 4 “Commonwealth” by Ann Patchett 5. “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead 6. “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins 7. “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 8. “1984” by George Orwell

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9. “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel 10. “A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara

TOP 10 NON-FICTION BOOKS

1. “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” by J.D. Vance 2. “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates 3. “Modern Romance” by Aziz Ansari 4. “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing” by Marie Kondo 5. “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead” by Brene Brown 6. “Yes Please” by Amy Poehler 7. “Why Not Me?” by Mindy Kaling

8. “The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo” by Amy Schumer 9. “Hamilton: The Revolution” by Lin-Manuel Miranda 10. “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania” by Erik Larson

TOP 5 CRITERION FILMS STREAMED THROUGH CRITERION COLLECTION 1. “8 1/2” 2. “Black Orpheus” 3. “400 Blows” 4. “Rashomon” 5. “Seven Samurai”

TOP 5 FILMS STREAMED THROUGH INSTANTFLIX 1. “Chef de Meute” 2. “The Red Balloon” 3. “The Messenger” 4. “If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front”

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5. “Sid and Nancy”

TOP 10 FICTION EBOOKS

1. “The Girls” by Emma Cline 2. “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt 3. “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood 4. “Commonwealth” by Ann Patchett 5. “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead 6. “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins 7. “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 8. “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel 9. “A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara 10. “Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi

TOP 10 NON-FICTION EBOOK

1. “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” by J.D. Vance 2. “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates 3. “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art

of Decluttering and Organizing” by Marie Kondo 4. “Why Not Me?” by Mindy Kahling 5. “The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo” by Amy Schumer 6. “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania” by Erik Larson 7. “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood” by Trevor Noah 8. “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race” by Margot Lee Shetterly 9. “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi 10. “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” by Matthew Desmond

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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS

EDITORIAL Make 2018 The Best You’ve Seen! Ask anyone today and beyond to share their New Year’s resolution and for certain, most will gladly share a litany of promises of self-improvement and commitments to help others. They include spending less, learning more, shaping up to get the pounds down, giving more of themselves to raise up better young people, better schools, or a better community. It’s the humanity of most people that makes the New Year a time to dedicate ourselves to making the world a better place, and when we acknowledge our own responsibility to make it happen. From Christmas to New Year’s, and Kwanzaa in between, even the most addicted news junkies will shut down and turn off those gadgets that keep them up to date on the tragedies in the world, and there were an extraordinary number of tragic events that occurred in 2017. The hope for 2018 is that the nightmare will end and the dream of a more loving, caring, doing something to make things better society will take over. However, those of us in the media have not given up what makes us relevant to our readers and viewers. “If it bleeds, it leads!” and those fuzzy resolutions never make it to the newsroom, except the coverage of the aftermath when humanity, once again, reigns. Once criticized by someone working at another news organization for practicing “cupcake journalism,” The Washington Informer, indeed, seeks to promote the “good news.” And we’ll continue in that vein in 2018, covering news of a more positive ilk. The good news stories on which we report are still news – not fake or irrelevant news. The Informer seeks stories about the extraordinary work of those who are striving to make life better for others . . . and for themselves. Our resolution is to share even more of those stories in 2018. So, we encourage our readers to continue to make those positive resolutions but most important, to act on them. Unfortunately, the bad news is 2019 will be here before we know it. But in the meantime, “stay woke,” stay engaged and stay informed. Happy New Year! WI

Celebrating Financial Boom is False without Homeless Included The bone-chilling winter blast that has recently overtaken most of the U.S., even extending to the normally warm Sunshine State, reminds us of how lucky – no, how blessed – we are to have adequate food and shelter. But there are so many others, of all colors and ages, who have nowhere to go, no roof over their heads, no warm meal on the stove – nothing but fear, anxiety and hopelessness. In the District, Prince George’s County and beyond, makeshift shelters have been set up to provide a semblance of normalcy and comfort for the homeless. However, with the Christmas season over and with the nation bracing itself for the gray days of January and February, what tends to occur is the homeless being forgotten – quickly erased from our memories and our efforts to assist them abandoned as we turn our focus to tax preparation, making plans for summer vacations and other sundry items. But if you need a reminder of how much more we still need to do for those who are less fortunate, just take a drive along Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue in Southeast, or downtown just a few steps away from Union Station under the arches of the highway where the homeless gather for warmth until they are allowed to enter shelters every evening after braving the cold of the day. D.C. officials often boast about how full the city’s coffers have become and certainly that’s reason to celebrate after years of struggling to get out of the red. They like to highlight the surge of new businesses and development projects that continue to make their way into the District. But until we truly address the life-threatening problems associated with and faced by the homeless, D.C. cannot honestly claim to be that “City on the Hill” which the rhetoric routinely asserts. WI WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM

TO THE EDITOR Keep Up the Good Work in ‘18 I want to wish everyone at The Informer a very merry Christmas and a happy new year. May God continue to bless all of you and your families. The job you do is not an easy one, but we in the D.C. area want you to know that we appreciate all that you do. Here’s hoping that 2018 brings you nothing but success in providing us not with “fake news” but the “real deal” when it comes to news in our community. Candice Simmons Washington, D.C.

Moving On I have had the pleasure and the honor of working with the staff of The Washington In-

former for the past 10 years. When I started, I never could have imagined how working with such a wonderful group of people would have such a profound impact on me as a person. I have had the opportunity to witness firsthand how much work and dedication it takes to produce a high-quality, top-notch newspaper each and every week, and I am sure many in the Washington, D.C., area would agree with me. But, of all the things I have had the opportunity to witness while working for The Informer, the most impressive was the very unique, immensely creative, fiercely competitive and passionately devoted to the community in which she lives: the publisher, Denise Rolark Barnes. She is truly the hardest-working person I have had the pleasure of working with; she is really a remarkable woman. So, as I leave my position, I would like to say, “Thank you, Washington Informer, for 10 glorious years!” Larry Saxton Washington, D.C.

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By Julianne Malveaux

The Infrastructure Hoax

Our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling. Nearly ten percent of our bridges are deficient or decrepit, a quarter of our schools are in fair or poor condition. More than half of all schools need major repairs before they can be classified as good, but 31 states spend less on school construction now than they did in 2008. Forty percent of our urban highways are congested, and traffic fatalities are up. Fewer than half of

us could get to a grocery store using public transportation. The American Society of Civil Engineers produces a report card on our nation’s infrastructure, grading sixteen categories, including roads, bridges, public transportation, levees, aviation, hazardous waste, dams, ports, energy and more. The 2017 report gives our infrastructure a D+, noting that our infrastructure has earned a “persistent D” since 1998. Our railways earn the highest grade — B — despite aging infrastructure and insufficient investment in passenger railways. Ports, which receive most of our

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overseas trade, bridges (despite major failures, and funding challenges), and solid waste all rise from the D swamp with C+ grades. But the other twelve categories; schools, parks, drinking water, aviation, wastewater, dams, energy, inland waterways, hazardous waste, roads, transit and levees, earn a D or a D+. The ACES report card (1www.infrastructurereportcard.org) is likely to make you holler and throw up your hands. You can buy a family of four a hearty five-star dinner if you got a dollar for every time the words “aging,” “hazard,” “shortfall,” “underfunded,” “investment gap,”

“backlog” or “deferred” are mentioned. Infrastructure is important in our nation’s economic development. For example, says ACES, every dollar spent on highway improvement returns $5.20 in decreased delays, vehicle maintenance and fuel construction, and increased safety. Poor maintenance of our ports costs us international trade, and the condition of our dams, levees and waterways probably compounded the damage from hurricanes in Texas and Florida. When he campaigned, 45 promised to tackle infrastructure, and he

had bipartisan support for the sentiment, although many wanted to know how he might approach infrastructure repair. Upon election, though, 45 abandoned infrastructures to pick a fight with enemies, real and imagine, fire the man investigating his Russian involvement and make several futile attempts to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act. He finally hit fool’s gold with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, and inappropriately named a piece of legislation that would more accurately be named the Corporate

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By Bill Fletcher Jr.

Relocating U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem a Bad Move

I wasn’t really surprised by Trump’s willingness to threaten the world for daring to stand up to his aggressive move of the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem; hearing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley suggest that the U.S. was taking names, made this entire scenario some-

thing close to comical. If Palestinian lives were not at stake it would, indeed, be the making of a comedy. What is noteworthy is that the Trump Administration is not even going through the pretense of attempting to lead the world. Instead, their approach has been one of crass bullying. Do what the U.S. wants, or else. While most of the world has been used to one or another version of this, e.g., gunboat diplomacy in the

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global South, what is different here is that this foreign policy-by-intimidation is targeted at the traditionally close allies of the US. Most of the world immediately recognized that Trump’s commitment to shift the embassy to Jerusalem was a cynical move to appease his base. What seemed to have astounded international observers is that Trump and his advisors seemed to have little to no sense of the global ramifications of this

move. Interestingly, Trump and his team sincerely seemed to be believe that their theoretical peace proposal for the Israelis and Palestinians could still go forward. Fat chance. Instead of attempting to build global coalitions among partners, Trump is following the tried and true antics of the schoolyard bully: Make life difficult for those around them and intimidate those who you wish to be on your side. This does not amount to the mak-

ings of a stable and healthy alliance. At best, it is a situation of the sheep and the shepherd. Many in the foreign policy realm of the U.S. establishment are feeling the emergence of a leadership void among the so-called developed countries. Trump may believe that he is leading, but bullying others and attempting to reverse every Obama initiative does not make for leadership. Instead it

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By Lauren Burke

Is Trump the Worst President in the Past 50 Years?

Donald Trump, a man best known as a “birther” with a reality TV show and a real estate empire, who claimed that Mexico was sending drugs and rapists to the United States, was sworn in as president on Jan. 20, 2017. What happened next was predictable and we should expect more of the same in 2018. Here are seven decisions from the past year confirming that Trump has been the worst president for African Americans, Hispanics and other minorities over the past 50 years.

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1. Trump picks Jeff Sessions to succeed Loretta Lynch as attorney general of the U.S. Trump went out of his way to make sure that his administration’s justice policy reflected 1940s America, when he selected Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III as his attorney general. According to a Huffington Post article published in January 2017, Sessions not only supported gutting the Voting Rights Act in 2013, he also has “a record of blocking Black judicial nominees.” Sessions “unsuccessfully prosecuted Black civil rights activists for voter fraud in 1985 — including a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr.” Since, Sessions has taken over at the Justice Department, he has

recused himself from an investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election and ordered a review of Obama-era police reforms. This is one time where the selection of Rudy Giuliani for attorney general may have actually looked like a more moderate choice. 2. Trump says “there were very fine people on both sides” at the Charlottesville White nationalists rally, during a Trump Tower press conference. Never mind that one of the largest gatherings of racists in America since the end of the civil rights movement occurred only eight months into Trump’s presidency. Put that aside. Trump’s “both sides” comments on who

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was to blame for the public street fight in the college town was all anyone needed to understand regarding the thinking of America’s 45th president on the issue of race. “I am not putting anybody on a moral plane, what I’m saying is this: you had a group on one side and a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch, but there is another side,” said Trump. “But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.” Trump also said, “I’ve condemned many different groups, but not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white suprema-

cists by any stretch. Those people were also there, because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue of Robert E. Lee.” 3. Trump calls for NFL owners to fire players over silent protests. Trump said NFL owners should respond to the players by saying, “Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, he’s fired. He’s fired!” Just in case you missed it with his comments on Charlottesville, Trump was back again to spoil the start of the NFL season by commenting on players who dared to silently protest racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem. Trump called kneeling during the

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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS Guest Columnist

By Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.

Remember, Rekindle the Spirit of Emancipation Proclamation

One-hundred forty-five years ago on Jan. 1, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, helping to transform this country from a union of states into a nation, from a country stained by slavery into one moving at great cost closer to “liberty and justice for all.” On Jan. 1, 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, the Republican president,

issued the proclamation on his own authority as commander in chief “in time of actual armed rebellion” against the United States. The emancipation was grounded on his wartime powers, as a “fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion.” The emancipation did not end slavery in the United States. It applied only to the states still in rebellion, exempting the slave owning border states such as Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky that still had slaves. Lincoln was desperate to keep the border states from joining the South.

Some abolitionists ridiculed him for this. “Where he has no power, Mr. Lincoln will set the Negroes free, where he retains power we will consider them as slaves,” declared the London Times. But the doubters did not understand the significance of the proclamation and its words. The president announced, “all persons held as slaves” in the states “in rebellion against the United States” are “forever free.” He called on the newly freed people to abstain from all violence and declared that they were eligible to be “received into the armed ser-

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vice of the United States.” The great abolitionist Frederick Douglass hailed it immediately as “an act of immense historic consequence.” The proclamation, as James McPherson put it in “Battle Cry of Freedom,” “marked the transformation of a war to preserve the Union into a revolution to overthrow the old order.” This was extremely controversial, even in the North. There were violent protests in both the North and the South against the use of black troops. Black regiments were segregated, paid less than whites and commanded by white officers.

Yet after years of battle, most Northerners would embrace anything that would help weaken the rebellion and hasten a victorious end to the war. Despite resistance, 179,000 black soldiers and nearly 10,000 black sailors bolstered Union forces through the end of the war. Victory, all now understood, would mean the abolition of slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation was hailed in England, ending all talk of recognizing (and aiding) the South. The proclamation, a wartime

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By Marian Wright Edelman

Hope for the New Year er, ever give up fighting for what you believe in.

This is a time to stand and fight for the futures of our children and the soul of our nation with all our might! I am strengthened every morning by reading these words over my kitchen sink — based on a poem first published in 1905 and anonymously adapted over the years. Its bottom line: Nev-

If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think that you dare not, you don’t; If you’d like to win, but you think you can’t, It’s almost a cinch that you won’t. If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost; For out in the world you’ll find Success begins with a fellow’s will,

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It’s all in the state of mind. Full many a race is lost Ere even a step is run, And many a coward falls Ere even his work’s begun. Think high and your deeds will grow, Think low and you’ll fall behind. Think that you can and you will, It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you’re outclassed, you are; You have to think high to rise, You have to be sure of yourself Before you can win a prize. Life’s battles don’t always go To the stronger or faster man, But sooner or later the man who wins, is The fellow who thinks he can. I also share a prayer of surrender:

O God, Thou knowest that I cannot read, understand, or retain all I think I need to know. Remember for me and understand for me what I do need to know. O God, Thou knowest I am bone weary and worn down after many years of labor. Be Thou my strength, energy, and perseverance.

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By Askia Muhammad

Farrakhan’s Racist Label a Bum Rap

Funny thing about the chasm between the perceptions of reality as seen by Black people and by White people: the chasm itself has entirely different meanings in the two separate views. Whites take it for granted that Black folks identify with their every ambition and can’t imagine that Blacks could entertain a single ambition Whites had not previously cosigned. Black people pay the price for this myopia, in the form of diluted dreams as they continually bend over backwards to “fit in” to the

Caucasian-defined norm. At each stage of the identity challenges of the 20th century for example, Whites were shocked to learn that their millions and millions of non-White neighbors no longer wanted to be “colored,” then “negro,” then “Negro” with an upper-case N, then Afro-American, then Black and African-American. Surprise, surprise. The election of the potty-mouthed Donald J. Trump as president has unleashed a torrent of apparently repressed White hate-mongering, and a rise in racism, neo-Nazism, and the “altright” phenomenon. In Fairfax, Virginia, a White family was murdered recently by their teenage

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daughter’s boyfriend. Neighbors apparently thought it was nothing alarming when they noticed the 17-year-old suspect cut swastikas into the grass with a lawn mower. These new outbreaks of hatred and violence by White race-haters are unapologetically on the rise, while at the same time Black folks are nervously trying to appear more “diverse,” even at the expense of well-meaning Black ambition — all of this so as to not appear “hostile” or “militant” in the view of Whites. A classic example of White overreaching is approaching. Whites like it that their former slaves are still woefully behind the rest of the population in every catego-

ry — wealth, health, education, employment, life expectancy, infant mortality, you name it. They would just as soon see Black folks wallowing in the pit, rather than rising and prospering. For example, successful black communities in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Rosewood, Florida, were torched and destroyed in the early 1900s, because their White neighbors could not countenance Black success in their midst. In their downward spiral, Blacks meet no resistance. But you let a Black group start an upward course, and they will encounter resentment and resistance at every step of their progress. Abolitionist Frederick Doug-

lass told us of this phenomenon in a speech on Sept. 25, 1883: “If he comes in ignorance, rags and wretchedness he conforms to the popular belief of his character, and in that character he is welcome; but if he shall come as a gentleman, a scholar and a statesman, he is hailed as a contradiction to the national faith concerning his race, and his coming is resented as impudence.” Such a scholar, statesman, role model and leader is Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan. Recently, the Minister’s granddaughter graduated with a degree in education from Grambling State

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Family: The ‘Glue’ that Holds the Washington Informer Together The Washington Informer celebrated the holiday season just days before Christmas with the newspaper’s publisher, Denise Rolark Barnes, hosting a fun-filled party at the National Press Club in Northwest. The food, libations and love all reached new heights for the DMV’s only Black-owned weekly publication which has continued to publish positive, informative news and garner a host of awards for 53 years. Staff, board members of Washington Informer Charities and friends joined in the celebration. It was truly an evening to remember. /Photos by Shevry Lassiter

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‘Les Misérables’ comes to the National Theatre By Eve M. Ferguson WI Contributing Writer It has romance, intrigue, fighting (from brawling to revolutionizing), costumes and grand sets. But what makes “Les Misérables” the box-office-record-breaking musical for all times are the soaring, huge songs that have worked their way into the American songbook. Cameron Mackintosh’s critically acclaimed production of the iconic play by Alain Boubill and Claude-Michel Schonberg has come to the National Theatre in all of its Broadway grandeur. “Les Miz,” as it is commonly known, based on French writer Victor Hugo’s tale of poverty, hardship and resistance in Paris of the early 1800s, and its protagonist Jean Valjean, is considered one of the great novels of the 19th century. With reworked staging and set design, this current production of the historic play draws on the paintings of its originator, Victor Hugo, creating a dark and menacing backdrop for the story of Valjean, who was arrested and jailed for stealing a loaf of bread and did 19 years of hard time, only to one day break free and live a life of French nobili-

ty. But he is vengefully pursued by the police in the personage of Inspector Javert. The intermittent and critical crossing of Valjean and Javert’s paths create the plot, into which rich characters are inserted representing the lowlife and the elite of 19th century Paris. Valjean rescues the beleaguered young woman Fantine, who only seeks to feed her young daughter Cosette. Valjean rescues her from a life of inequity, only to see Fantine die tragically. Valjean promises Fantine he will care for her daughter in the best way, making amends for the blessings he received from a bishop who vouched for him when he was once again accused of theft. As the bishop leaves Valjean with the directive to do God’s work for others, he keeps his promise to raise Cosette into a beautiful young woman. The music, provided by a live orchestra, is what makes “Les Miz” the giant of musicals that it has been since it debuted in London in 1985. Songs like “I Dreamed a Dream,” “Who Am I,” and “Do You Hear the People Sing,” have become standard fare in their own right. But hearing the songs in the course of the story and illustrative

5 The cast of Les Misérables. /Photo courtesy Mathew Murphy

staging, makes for a riveting, if not lengthy, theatrical experience. While all of the cast are outstanding in this production, which is the same cast as the Broadway revival in 2014 at the Imperial Theater, where it played for more than 1,000 performances, Phoenix Best as Eponine nearly steals the entire show with her solo “On My Own.” “Les Miz” was reimagined as an Oscar-winning film, starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway in 2012 and has been performed in 44 countries in 22 languages, making it one of the most enduring musicals of all time. “I’m delighted that after a fouryear absence this glorious production is once again going to be touring major cities across North

America, and promises to be more spectacular than ever,” Macintosh said. And, in its 32nd year of bringing this epic and historic tale of the triumph of the human spirit over the darkness of an unjust society, “Les Misérables” is as universal and

timely as ever. “Les Miserables” plays through Jan. 7 at the National Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Go to www. TheNationalDC.com for show times and ticket prices. WI

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Def Jam Signs Maryland Trio Riplay By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer They are young sisters from Maryland and D.C. with a very mature and universal message. Marshaye “Shay” Hebron, younger sister A’laiza “Lay” Hebron and Kiya “Ki” Hawthorne, who are all between the ages of 15 and 17, have joined together to form the music group Riplay. The trio are on a tour of schools in the District, Baltimore and Virginia to help encourage other young individuals about the dangers of bullying and the importance of building self-esteem. Shay, Lay and Ki also are Def Jam Records’ newest artists, having signed with the legendary label this year after extensive training and preparation under the tutelage of executives from Phantom Boyz Records in New York. Their new single, “Status,” has been among the most downloaded songs this year, underscoring the unique talent that’s allowed them to quickly rise in the ultra-competitive music business. “Things are going really great and we’re enjoying every bit of this,” said Lay, who counts Erykah Badu and Beyoncé among her inspirations. “I think it’s great for other young girls to see how far we’ve come especially now that we’ve signed with Def Jam because they can see that, if we can make it from Baltimore, they can too.”

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Ki, who said she’s inspired by the late Whitney Houston and singer Kehlani, noted that there music contains messages of inspiration for others. “We want to help people,” she said. “There’s a lot of bullying going on and it’s a lot that people still need to know. There’s still a lot of people who don’t want to be alive because of bullying and because of being picked on and a lot of our songs are about what we’ve been through and we want people to know that we also have gone through things and still go through stuff so they can relate to us.” Reviewers have already chimed in. Some said Shay brings a style of hip-hop to the group that reflects one of her idols the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopez, while Lay brings a soft, soothing sound that sets the tone for the group and with her funky image she makes a bold statement. Ki is known by the group to bring the soul in the power behind the sound. As a group, Riplay aims to recreate the blueprint of some of the girl groups before them that they mirror such as and TLC and SWV, said another reviewer. “Their charming rapport is hard to miss, and the result is a nostalgic, radio-friendly sound that’s a winning balance of sweet and street,” a music critic for the Baltimore Sun wrote. “They’ve

had no problem finding an audience, either, with their videos racking up millions of views online.” Riplay was discovered by Ivory of Low Key Music Group and he brought the group to Melvin “Official” Watson, CEO and founder of Phantom Boyz Music. Since signing with Phantom Boyz, Riplay’s video “Strange,” has gone viral netting more than 3.2 million views on Facebook. Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has even lauded the group’s Anti-Bullying and Self-Esteem campaign, awarding them a special certificate for their work. The group has also been featured in various urban magazines and on television in Washington. “We started off practicing and just writing songs and we kept writing and kept practicing and Phantom Boyz worked with us to help develop us and brought us to Def Jam and now we’re just excited to be doing this together,” Lay said. The group also promised to “keep it real” and not stray from their anti-bullying and self-esteem message. “It’s so important because we can relate,” Ki said. “It’s also important that our message to women who might look for the attention of men as a way of validation is that we just want them to know that it’s important that they love themselves first.” WI

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wi A book review

Horoscopes

ARIES The full moon at the start of the week could see you enjoying time with family and friends, as well as looking ahead to your plans for the future. Try to give yourself a reduced schedule on Jan. 1Make the most of this opportunity for fun and relaxation. However, other aspects this week could alert you to new possibilities. With fiery Mars aligning with expansive Jupiter in your sector of shared resources, a business idea could be potentially lucrative and worth investigating. Lucky Numbers: 13, 17, 24

“Aging Thoughtfully: Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles & Regret”

TAURUS As 2018 gets underway, the full Cancer moon on Jan. 1 in your sector of communication suggests that you’ll be busy interacting with others and having a fabulous day. You might also find yourself dreaming of travel and other adventures, especially those that are a little bit out of your reach. But as chatty Mercury aligns with innovative Uranus, insights into your mindset could encourage you to move out of your comfort zone and perhaps venture along new paths to see what is possible. Lucky Numbers: 6, 9, 17 GEMINI Although the January sales may beckon, 2018 could get off to an expensive start if you decide to splurge. Therefore, go easy if you’re shopping, and keep track of all receipts. Visions of what might be possible can reveal themselves, and this could influence you to try harder and perhaps set yourself a few goals that are outside your comfort zone. However, you also need to be practical. Having said that, the influence of fiery Mars on January 6 might inspire you to take a leap of faith. Lucky Numbers: 8, 45, 57

by Martha C. Nussbaum and Saul Levmore c.2017, Oxford University Press $24.95 (Higher in Canada) 264 pages

CANCER With a full moon in your sign on Jan. 1, the year could get off to an emotional yet very nurturing and satisfactory start. You’ll enjoy being with family and close friends as 2018 gets underway. Your thoughts could also linger on opportunities to get away from your everyday routine and perhaps enjoy a short break or longer vacation. If you have the chance, go for it. At the same time, a connection between fiery Mars and lucky Jupiter could coincide with a fortunate encounter. Lucky Numbers: 5, 12, 22

Aging Thoughtfully By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer Kicking and screaming. That’s how you’ll go into your twilight years: the calendar might say one thing but you’re not going to pay it any mind. There’s still a lot of pep in your step so shouldn’t, as in the new book “Aging Thoughtfully” by Martha C. Nussbaum and Saul Levmore, how you spend your golden years be your decision? Once upon a time in the not-too-distant past, the average life expectancy was about 50 years, while the median retirement age was 74. Back then, retirement didn’t involve Social Security or other government programs; instead, people worked until they couldn’t. Today, there are “more choices, and this book is about these choices.” First of all, why retire at all? Says Levmore, there are laws in the U.S. that say you don’t have to but he’s in favor of changing them — especially if businesses institute “defined benefit plans,” which are often seen in government jobs but rarely in the private sector. These changes would benefit employers, who could better maintain productivity; younger workers needing jobs; and older workers, if Social Security was tweaked a bit. It would also help with “the people normally labeled as the elderly poor,” since defined benefit plans would give them more month-to-month income. But retirement: one can only golf so much — what next? Says Nussbaum, retirement allows for a “second career,” either one that pays or one of volunteerism. For those kinds of choices, she looks at Finland, where retirement is mandatory at a relatively young age. It works because the Finns have excellent health care, they have ample time for better retirement preparation, and because they are treated equally. Statistically speaking, as we age, we rely less on plastic surgery and more on the idea that wrinkles are “glamorous” — a notion that can absolutely be pushed “too far.” We tend to live our lives “backwards,” which is OK; doing so offers time to deal with negative emotions and unfulfilled regrets. Here, we learn the reasons for those pearl-clutching May-December romances we see in the tabloids. And we get advice on giving while we can still say where our assets should go. I struggled a lot with this book, and I’m ultimately disinclined to recommend it. Here’s why: though “Aging Thoughtfully” is a series of “conversations” about getting older, its basis is really old — like, ancient-philosophy-and-Shakespeare old. While that doesn’t make it a bad book by any means, it does mean that its usefulness is limited. Readers looking for advice will have to look harder because that’s buried in Cicero and “King Lear”; those in search of solid research will find it scattered between philosopher John Rawls and Cato the Elder. Yes, there are conversations within these pages and they’re thought-provoking, maybe even comforting, but they’re not really very accessible for the average reader. WI WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM

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LEO The full Cancer moon in a more secluded sector of your chart encourages you to forget about work or duty for the day and take time out to celebrate the new year. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to get back into the swing of things during the rest of the week. In fact, this could be a particularly busy time of year for you, so making chances for relaxation is very important. There is also dynamic activity on the home front, which could lead to positive change. Lucky Numbers: 1, 5, 51 VIRGO The year 2018 gets off to a very lively start encouraging you to enjoy any New Year’s celebrations. At the same time, you could be busy with creative projects or enjoying a budding romance. You may find someone’s company very inspiring over the coming days, particularly as luscious Venus ties with ethereal Neptune. Remember, however, that they are only human and will likely have flaws. Feisty Mars could encourage you to ask others for assistance with a bold idea. Lucky Numbers: 2, 6, 39 LIBRA You might have bold ambitions as 2018 gets underway, and it could be a very positive experience to contemplate all you hope to achieve. However, there is also a very strong focus on home and family affairs that could last for some time. As luscious Venus aligns with nebulous Neptune, you might find yourself offering to help out and get more involved in general. At the same time, feisty Mars and expansive Jupiter hint that you might be eager to revamp your home by making some exciting purchases. Lucky Numbers: 1, 33, 49 SCORPIO A part of you may wish you were traveling as the new year gets underway. However, a very potent focus on communication and your local environment suggests that you could be kept very busy in your own area. There might be some creative opportunities you can turn your hand to. As the glowing sun aligns with ethereal Neptune, one encounter could prove fated and might even enhance your reputation. You could be feeling bold as the red planet in your sign encourages you onward and upward. Lucky Numbers: 3, 4, 38 SAGITTARIUS Although you might have expenses from the holidays to handle, Jan. 1 and beyond could still see you eager to splurge, especially if you’re tempted by items in the post-holiday sales. Say yes to such purchases as investments, and try to make them as wise and useful as you can. Be sure to keep the receipts just in case. At the same time, with feisty Mars aligning with expansive Jupiter in a spiritual sector of your chart, helping others can bring rewards even though you expect nothing. Lucky Numbers: 25, 28, 56 CAPRICORN With a full moon in your sector of relating, Jan. 1 could be a very heartfelt and soulful occasion. You may feel a connection with family and loved ones very acutely, and this could leave you quite emotional. At the same time, you’ll be eager to get key projects underway and be very excited at the possibilities open to you. Your social life positively sparkles. When dynamic Mars aligns with jovial Jupiter on January 6, an encounter could prove very beneficial to you. Lucky Numbers: 11, 34, 37 AQUARIUS If you can lighten your schedule on Jan. 1, consider doing it. With a major focus on your spiritual sector, you might need time to reflect on issues and perhaps resolve them. If you can talk about them with a close friend, it might help you let them go. Relieving yourself of any emotional baggage can help get 2018 off to a positive start. Lucky Numbers: 7, 16, 26 PISCES Your social life seems to be extremely lively, and the full Cancer moon on Jan. 1 adds to this. The year 2018 gets off to a boisterous start, and this could fuel your intention to make it the best year ever. At the same time, you could be eager to explore new paths and ready to move out of your comfort zone. There’s no need to do this alone, though, as there are friends who may be willing to join you. Whether you are traveling or studying, sharing the experience can make it more enjoyable. Lucky Numbers: 4, 17, 35

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SPORTS Wizards Breeze by Rockets

5 Washington Wizards guard Tomas Satoransky drives against Houston Rockets guard Eric Gordon during the Wizards’ 121-103 win at Capital One Arena in Northwest on Friday, Dec. 29. /Photo by John E. De Freitas 3 Washington Wizards guard John Wall shoots over Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul during the Wizards’ 121-103 win at Capital One Arena in Northwest on Friday, Dec. 29. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Butler Edges Georgetown in a Thriller

5 Georgetown guard Jonathan Mulmore is guarded by Butler guard Kamar Baldwin during Butler’s 91-89 double overtime win at Capital One Arena in Northwest on Wednesday, Dec. 27. /Photo by John E. De Freitas 3 Butler forward Kelan Martin scores as Georgetown guard Jonathan Mulmore unsuccessfully attempts to draw a charge during Butler’s 91-89 double overtime win at Capital One Arena in Northwest on Wednesday, Dec. 27. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

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SPORTS team to beat moving forward. Theodore Roosevelt recently took down Midfield High School (Midfield, AL) during the Normandy Holiday Invitational on Dec. 29. Sophomore 6-foot-3 guard Darius Miles led the way against Milfield with 13 points, but sophomore point guard Marcus Dockery has been the driving force behind his team’s success as of late. Despite being held to only four points in his last contest, Dockery is currently leading his team in scoring (11.9 points per game) and has gotten his teammates involved with 24 assists as well up to this point.

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2. Gonzaga (9-0) (WCAC)

By Daniel Kucin, Jr. WI Contributing Writer @danielkucin88 Beginning with this week’s edition and throughout the remainder of the season, The Washington Informer will feature our choices for the top five high school basketball programs in the greater Washington area, specifically the DCIAA [District of Columbia Interscholastic Athletic Association] and the WCAC

(Washington Catholic Athletic Conference), for their efforts based upon win/loss record, strength of schedule and winning streak:

1. Theodore Roosevelt (14-2) (DCIAA)

The Roughriders have strung together seven consecutive wins and look to be the

The Eagles are flying high with an undefeated record. Gonzaga accounted for a 50 point victory (90-40) over St. Mary’s Ryken on Dec. 12 displaying its firepower in conference play. Gonzaga senior forward Myles Dread led the way in that contest with 17 points, and he pulled down six rebounds as well. Dread and sophomore forward Terrance Williams have been nearly unstoppable offensively. Williams currently leads his team in scoring (19.9 points per game),

and Dread is right behind him with 16 points per game as the second scoring option. Williams dropped 25 points and pulled down nine rebounds against Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School located in Brooklyn, NY on Dec. 29 during the Slam Dunk to the Beach tournament.

Stags success this season averaging nearly 18 points per game this season. Moore has kept his team in many games, and he has been the focal point of what DeMatha want’s to do both offensively and defensively moving forward.

5. Dunbar (7-5) (DCIAA)

Dunbar was a force to be reckoned with after putting together 3. Wilson (10-8) (DCIAA) four consecutive wins including a 24 The Tigers couldn’t manage to slip by Lincoln Academy (Suwanee, GA) point victory over Banneker on Dec. 72-71 which went into two overtime 13 to start off the season. Dunbar reperiods on Dec. 29 during the Gov- cently defeated Eastern High School ernor’s Classic basketball tournament. 56-55 during Mount Vernon HoliHowever, Wilson came out of day Tournament the on Dec. 29. They are firing on all cylinders, the gates strong this year after three and it has been a team effort in the consecutive victories before falling to Riverdale Baptist (Upper Marlboro, scoring department for the Crimson MD) by the score of 82-70 on Dec. 9. Tide with four players averaging Senior guard Ayinde Hikim and double-figures now. Senior shooting point guard Rajunior guard Jay Heath Jr. are averagsheed Gatling leads that group avering 14 points per game respectively aging over 15 points per game, and and don’t look to be showing any he scored 25 points, dished out five signs of slowing down. assists and had five rebounds in the 4. DeMatha (10-1) (WCAC) victory against Eastern. The Stags most recently fell to The Washington Informer Top 5 is Montverde Academy (Montverde, strictly based upon the opinions of The FL) 76-66 during the Beach Ball Washington Informer sports division and Classic, but they are playing together as one unit with impressive results this will run throughout the duration of the season. DeMatha junior guard Justin DCIAA and WCAC basketball seasons. WI Moore has been the catalyst for the

Local Talent Among Terrapins’ Top 25 Recruits By Daniel Kucin, Jr. WI Contributing Writer University of Maryland Head Coach D.J. Durkin recently announced that 22 high school student-athletes have signed national letters of intent to play football for the Terps during the early signing period. This year marks the first time in school history that Maryland has signed back-to-back Top 25 recruiting classes. The class includes five consensus four-star signees and two members of the ESPN300 – a group ranked No. 18 by Rivals, No. 19 by Scout/247 Sports and No. 21 by ESPN. Fifteen players attended high school in the DMV; nine players earned All-MET honors. Also, two of the Top 10 players hail from the District. The remainder of Maryland’s 2018 signing class will be announced on February 7. Here’s some information on several local recruits predicted to make an instant impact on the Terrapins’ future success. Vincent Flythe, Defensive Back, 6-0, 172, Howard D. Woodson HS, District

Flythe is a consensus three-star recruit across all major recruiting outlets and is rated third overall in D.C. by Rivals. He was a Second Team All-Metro selection as a senior, garnering scholarship offers from the University of Wisconsin, University of Virginia, University of Pittsburgh and Rutgers University. Maryland Defensive Backs Coach Aazaar Abdul-Rahim on Flythe: “Vincent is a student of the game and extremely confident in his ability. He’s a quiet assassin that will fit into our secondary, he’s mentally strong and can pick up everything in a fast manner. He’s long, athletic and can play press and off.” Dontay Demus, Jr., Wide Receiver, 6-4, 205, Friendship Collegiate Academy, District Demus was rated the ninth overall player in D.C. by 247sports.com and ESPN and was a Second Team All-Metro selection as a senior who racked up 66 catches for 1,167 yards and 12 touchdowns. His efforts helped lead his team to an 8-4 record and a trip to the DCSAA Class AA championship game in 2017. The highly-touted recruit

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chose Maryland over Michigan State University and Wisconsin. Maryland Associate Head Coach/Wide Receivers Coach Chris Beatty on Demus: “Dontay has huge upside, has great size and length and plays above the rim. I think he’s going to be a monster.” Comments from other analysts about this class: “D.J. Durkin is on track to bring Maryland back-to-back top-25 recruiting classes for the first time since ESPN started its class rankings in 2006 which is a pretty remarkable feat,” said ESPN College Football and Recruiting Reporter Tom VanHaaren about Maryland’s recruiting class. “The staff has reenergized the DMV area, landing 15 of its 22 commitments from the surrounding area,” he said. “Overall, this is a class that should help Maryland fill holes on the roster while adding some future playmakers on both offense and defense.” “It’s certainly important to build off of last year’s success with this second (full) recruiting class for Coach Durkin and his

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staff,” Rivals.com Mid-Atlantic Recruiting Analyst Adam Friedman said. “When you look at this class, there’s a lot of local players which has been a major focus for this coaching staff,” he said. “There are a lot of players with a great deal of potential and that certain-

ly bodes well for a program like Maryland with a good history of player development. When you look at the specific positions that make up this recruiting class, they’re filling a lot of holes and positions of need, while bringing in good size on the offensive and defensive lines.” WI

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The Rev. Jerry A. Moore Jr., former D.C. Council member and pastor emeritus of the historic Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, died peacefully on Dec. 19, church officials said. He was 99. Moore, renowned for his forthright voice and descriptive prose while preaching, served as the pastor of Nineteenth Street for 52 years and led the church from its previous location on 19th and I streets to its current location on 16th Street. He was also an influential figure for generations of pastors, lay leaders and parishioners in the region and beyond. “My father once told me that he has lived a blessed life because

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They couldn’t study. They couldn’t do anything because they only had a single set of textbooks. Now, who is going to be better prepared for tomorrow’s economy? A sixth-grader in that classroom, or a sixth-grader in a wealthier school district that has about 28 students, not 38 students? Not only are they able to take the textbooks home, but, oh, by the way, they’ve got a laptop they can do research on. The science lab actually has lab equipment. The science teacher actually understands science. There is not going to be opportunity for Black students in urban communities as long as the schools underperform. I don’t think any one thing is entirely deterministic of future success and well-being. But the thing that comes closes is education. If you have an incredible education, it doesn’t guarantee you’re going to be successful, but, boy, it sure does help. If you have a lousy education, it makes it really, really, really, really hard to make it. The path up begins with education.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA

I think the way medical marijuana was done [in Maryland] was insane. Think about the disproportionate impact of the criminalization marijuana has had on communities of color. Then look at who the license holders are for medical marijuana. People are going to make hundreds of millions of dollars and you want to know who they are going to be? Rich white guys. That’s wrong. Rich white guys are going to become richer white guys by virtue of how the licensing was done for medical marijuana. We need to go beyond

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he has accomplished all he set out to do,” said Rev. Juran Moore, the pastor’s youngest son. Moore was an at-large member of the D.C. Council for 10 years, chairing the council’s transportation committee during that time. He also served as a Metro board member, chaplain of the D.C. Detention Facility, executive secretary for the National Baptist Convention Home Mission Board, co-founder of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials and nominee for the United States Ambassador to Lesotho. Memorial services were held Wednesday, Jan. 3, at Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that direct monetary contributions be made to the Benevolence Fund at Nineteenth Street the legalizing of medical marijuana and we need to legalize recreational marijuana. This was not my view a few years ago. It’s a product of my having followed the lead of people who have educated me about this. Take the $800 million a year in the marijuana market in Maryland. You take that from the gangs and you can bring it into the mainstream. You tax it [and] you regulate it. That would be an estimated $300 million a year in taxes that we could put in. Tide is turning and part of that is because of culture. The idea that marijuana would be legal 10 years ago was like, ‘What? That’s impossible.’ Now, look what’s happening. Anybody who meets the regulatory hurdle, can get a franchise. If you are African-American, if you’re Latino and you can meet the requirements, you get a franchise. The same way in which you do your liquor sales, a part of why I’m not in favor of government being in charge of having beer and liquor sales where you can have only government-controlled stores. As long as everybody follows the rules, then you are allowed to sell Budweiser. So, go ahead and sell marijuana. As long as you meet the regulations put in place for it. We can’t arrest our way out of this. We’ve got to give up on the [idea] we build jails up with young, African-Americans who have used or sold marijuana. It doesn’t work.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM

One of the first things we have to do is treat the problems that we have with drugs in the state of Maryland more as a medical crisis than as a public safety or law enforcement crisis. We’ve filled up our jails with

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Baptist Church. Moore was the husband of the late Dr. Ettyce H. Moore; father of Jerry A. Moore III (Cynthia) and Rev. Juran D. Moore Sr. (Hazel); grandfather of Juran D. Moore Jr., Colonel Percy Moore (USMC) (Janice) and Sydni M. Williams; great-grandfather of Sade, Jordan, Skylar, Jaden and Jason Moore. WI people who have substance abuse problems. We need to look at the composition of our police force. Who is on the force? The high school that my son goes to is [at least 83] percent African-American. The police don’t recruit from it. It seems to me like there is more recruitment coming from southern Pennsylvania and some of the rural counties further north [of Baltimore]. People will drive into Baltimore and do policing in Baltimore [versus] recruiting from the community. When you’ve grown up in the community, you know how to walk around the community. You know how to communicate with people. It might seem like a small thing, but I think it would make a big difference. We need to do a better job of recruiting people from the communities that they police. If you want to make war, you recruit soldiers. If you want to achieve peace, you hire peacemakers. We are hiring too many soldiers and not enough peacemakers. I’m all in favor of law enforcement officers being able to do their job. There are people who need to be arrested and go to jail. Ultimately, poverty and economic stagnation are those things which principally drive crime. Not every criminal grew up poor. Not everybody who is engaged in illicit activity lives in an environment of economic stagnation. But the very simple fact of the matter is that most do. People who are being involved in law enforcement issues tend to come from environments of hopelessness and desperation. You deal with the hopelessness and the desperation, you know what is going to follow? A decrease in crime. A job is the best social program. WI

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RELIGION THE RELIGION CORNER

New Year Brings Big Changes

with Lyndia Grant Though you’ve heard this saying many times before, this time it’s coming from me: Get ready for big changes in the new year! What plans do you have for 2018? Get ready to set some goals that will lead to major changes. Begin by taking a close look at your closest friends. If most or all of your friends are more broke than you are, you need some new friends. Upgrade your relationships. This is not placing a price tag on friendship, but birds of a feather flock together! When you surround yourself with people who are setting and reaching goals, it will have a major impact on you. Friends who are going places and doing things will cause you to take a good look at yourself. You will watch what they’re doing, which will influence you to look carefully at yourself. When you run around with nine broke people, you will become number 10! It is biblical, my friend — Judas betrayed Jesus. Look for friends who are reading inspirational messages, not obituaries. Get rid of the leaches in your life, those folks who are clinging to your dress tail or pant leg. Find those persons who have worked hard to find their way, then begin to create your own path; our Heavenly Father will send His angels to help you out, every step of the way, even when you are going through those tough time. Trust

me, those times are for our own good. You are an eagle, you fly higher than the other birds. Chickens are not even in the same category. They cannot touch you, so keep soaring. When someone is trying to hold you back, they may only be a chicken. Eagles are not jealous of you, they only want to help you. Eagles can fly higher — they never have the fear of failure. How many of you out there are afraid to try? Have you given yourself permission to succeed? Are you afraid you will reach your goal, but you don’t want all of the problems that go with it? You would rather stay on the ground level, hoping and wishing, gambling at casinos, but never venturing out like eagles who fly high. Don’t be afraid of change, it is inevitable. An example of change is when a woman wants to be pregnant, but doesn’t want to gain weight; that’s nonsense. As we watch the daily news these days, it is obvious that our world is spinning in a new direction. Legislations are being passed, much of which we never hear about but will hit us later. There is a definite guarantee in life that things are sure to change. It is something we tend to fear because it gives us a feeling that we are out of control. Change will surely upset the lives of control freaks! Good news! God has a plan for our lives — it is hope. If we trust in God and watch as the change grows us to a point in our lives,

where we become more like Jesus Christ in how we respond and act, then we are promised in Scripture (Romans 8:28) that all things will work together for good for those who love Him and keep His commandments! Scripture says, “Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.” (1st Corinthians 15:51) So even after death, you will be changed! I’ll end on the words of a well-known preacher, Charles Stanley: “Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.” 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.

Mt. Zion Baptist Church Reverend John W. Davis Pastor

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5101 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 Phone: 202-726-2220 Fax: 202-726-9089

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Service and Times Sunday Worship Service - 8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. Children’s Church - 11:00 a.m. (1st & 3rd Sundays) Communion - 10 a.m. 4th Sunday Sunday School - 9:15 a.m. (4th Sunday 8:15 a.m.) Prayer Meeting & Bible Study - Wednesday 7:00 p.m. “A Church with a past to remember – and a future to mold”

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

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

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”

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Church of Living Waters

Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church

Crusader Baptist 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

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

Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ

St. Stephen Baptist Church

Third Street Church of God

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

Drs. Dennis W. & Christine Y. Wiley Pastors

Bishop Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Senior Pastor

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

Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr.; Senior Bishop & Evangelist Susie C. Owens – Co-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

610 Rhode Island Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (202) 529-4547 office • (202) 529-4495 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

Blessed Word of Life Church

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

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

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 “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 “Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital” www.thirdstreet.org Live Stream Sunday Worship Service begins @ 12:00 noon www.thirdstreet.org

Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church

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

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

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

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

Isle of Patmos Baptist Church

Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor (Disciples of Christ) 1812 12th Street, NW - Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202-265-4494 Fax: 202 265 4340

Mailing Address Campbell AME Church 2502 Stanton Road SE - Washington, DC 20020

Turning Hearts Church Virgil K. Thomas, Sr. Senior Pastor/ Teacher 4275 4th Street, S.E. Washington, DC 20034 Phone: 202-746-0113 Fax: 301-843-2445 Service and Times Sunday School 8 – 9 AM Worship Service 9 – 11 AM Tuesday Night Bible Study 6:30 – 8:00 PM Wednesday Daytime Bible Study 11 AM – 12:30 PM Motto : “A Great Commitment to the Great Commandment” Website: www.turningheartschurchdc.org Email: faithdefender@verizon.net

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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 Joseph N. Evans, Ph.D Senior Pastor 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 themcbc.org

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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 Interim 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. Alonzo Hart Pastor

Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor

Rev. Oran W. Young Pastor

Rev. Dr. H. B. Sampson, III Pastor

Worshiping Location Knights of Columbus - 1633 Tucker Road Fort Washington, 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 Services: 10:00 am Sunday School: 9:00 am Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer / Bible Study: 6:15 pm - 7:20 pm (Tuesday) Theme: “The Kingdom Focused Church” Matthew 6:33 and Mathew 28:18-20, KJV Email: stmatthewsbaptist@msn.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.org

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Email: sbc@shilohbaptist.org Website: shilohbaptist.org

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 “

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

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Administration No. 2017 ADM 1004

Administration No. 2017 ADM 535

Administration No. 2017 ADM 001065

Administration Number 2017 ADM 001436

Administration No. 2017 ADM 936

Joyce R. Williams Decedent

Lucille I. Green Decedent

Barbara Ann Pennington Decedent

Pauline R. White Decedent

Martin H. Schreiber II, Esq. 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 201 Baltimore, MD 21211 Attorney

Edward J. Elder 2000 P Street, NW, Suite 415 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney

Carmen Jones Mitchell, Esq. 1717 K Street, NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney

Estate of Clementine E. Williams Deceased

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

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

Martin H. Schreiber II, Esq., whose address is 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 201, Baltimore, MD 21211, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Joyce R. Williams who died on November 29, 2014 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before June 21, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before June 21, 2018, 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.

Edward J. Elder, Esq., whose address is 2000 P Street, NW, suite 415, Washington, DC 20036, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Lucille I. Green who died on July 15, 2010 with a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before June 21, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before June 21, 2018, 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.

Andre Jackson and Dolphin Bernard Jackson, whose addresses are 7405 Mary Scot Dr., Landover, MD and 7631 S. Arbory Ct. #434, Laurel, MD 20707, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Barbara Ann Pennington who died on May 1, 2017 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before June 21, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before June 21, 2018, 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: December 21, 2017 Martin H. Schreiber II, Esq. Personal Representative

Date of first publication: December 21, 2017

NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Dianne C. Beasley for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representative. Unless a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth. In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate appoint a supervised personal representative. Date of first publication: December 21, 2017 Kathy Brissette-Minus 9701 Apollo Drive, Suite 230 Largo, MD 20774 Attorney TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

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Edward J. Elder, Esq. Personal Representative

Brian L. Kass 1050 17th Street, NW, Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Brian L. Kass, whose address is 1050 17th Street, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20036, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Pauline R. White who died on November 21, 1992 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 (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before June 21, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before June 21, 2018, 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: December 21, 2017 Brian L. Kass Personal Representative

Andre Jackson Dolphin Bernard Jackson Personal Representatives

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Administration No. 2017 ADM 001397 Rhonda Rae Murray Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Yasmin K. McCloud and Theta D. Goodall, whose addresses are 622 5th St., NE, Washington, DC 20002 and 3546 S. 18th St., Arlington, VA 22204, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Rhonda Mae Murray who died on September 20, 2017 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before June 21, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before June 21, 2018, 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: December 21, 2017 Yasmin K. McCloud Theta D. Goodall Personal Representatives

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Administration No. 2017 ADM 001427

Administration No. 2017 ADM 001026

Administration No. 2017 ADM 001412

Terry Randall Goodman Decedent

Martha Q. Lomax Decedent

Elizabeth Smith Mincey Decedent

Valerie Edwards, Esq. Antonoplos & Associates 1725 DeSales Street NW, #600 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney

Larry C. Williams 7600 Georgia Ave., NW Washington, DC 20012 Attorney

Reginald Harris 1775 Eye St., NW, Suite 1150 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney

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

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Kermit R. Goodman, whose address is 4624 Magnolia Drive, Suffolk, VA 23435, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Terry Randall Goodman who died on May 16, 2017 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before June 28, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before June 28, 2018, 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.

Reginald Harris, whose address is 1775 Eye St., NW, Suite 1150, Washington, DC 20006, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Martha Q. Lomax who died on June 17, 2016 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before June 28, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before June 28, 2018, 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: December 28, 2017

Date of first publication: December 28, 2017

Jacqueline F. Banks and Smith T. Banks, II, whose addresses are 4238 Southern Ave., SE, Washington, DC 20019 and 1516 Mississippi Ave., SE, Washington, DC 20032, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Elizabeth Smith Mincey who died on September 1, 2017 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before June 28, 2108. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before June 28, 2018, 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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Reginald Harris Personal Representative

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Karen D. Dawson and Sherry L. Dawson, whose addresses are 7959 Riggs Rd., #10, Adelphi, MD & 10810 Blackstone Ave., Cheltenham, MD, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Joseph Dawson, Jr. who died on May 6, 2017 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before June 28, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before June 28, 2018, 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: December 28, 2017 Karen D. Dawson Sherry L. Dawson Personal Representatives TRUE TEST COPY

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Date of first publication: December 28, 2017 Jacqueline F. Banks Smith T. Banks, II Personal Representatives TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

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Administration No. 2017 ADM 001431

Administration No. 2017 ADM 1424

Administration No. 2017 ADM 1214

James L. Srodes aka James Lewis Srodes Decedent

Thomas R. Cary, Jr. aka Thomas Richard Cary, Jr. Decedent

Geraldine Johnson Cary Decedent

Administration No. 2017 ADM 001134 Rosa North-Ford Decedent Joyce Ann Williams 7981 Eastern Ave. #C-5 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Attorney

Foreign No. 2017 FEP 000138 July 6, 2016 Date of Death Anita L. Robinson Name of Decedent

Christopher M. Guest, Esq. 1101 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 450 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney

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Joseph C. Lomax, Jr., whose address is 404 Lourdes Dr., Ft. Washington, MD, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Rosa North-Ford who died on June 17, 1998 without a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before June 28, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before June 28, 2018, 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.

Michele R. Proctor whose address is 4610 Blaine Street, NE, Washington, DC 20019 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Anita L. Robinson, deceased, by the Orphan’s Court for Prince George’s County, State of Maryland, on July 6, 2016. Service of process may be made upon Michele R. Proctor, 4610 Blaine Street, NE, Washington, DC 20019 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real property: 4610 Blaine Street, NE, Washington, DC 20019. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

Mary Cecile Zaugg Srodes, whose address is 1754 Park Road, NW, Washington, DC 20010, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of James L. Srodes aka James Lewis Srodes who died on September 27, 2017 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before June 28, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before June 28, 2018, 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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James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Alfonso W. Cary, Sr., whose address is 1308 Port Echo Lane, Bowie, MD 20718, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Thomas R. Cary, Jr. aka Thomas Richard Cary, Jr. who died on November 3, 2005 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 (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before June 28, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before June 28, 2018, 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: December 28, 2017 Alfonso W. Cary, Sr. Personal Representative

James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Alfonso W. Cary, Sr., whose address is 1308 Port Echo Lane, Bowie, MD 20716, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Geraldine Johnson Cary who died on July 18, 2017 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before July 4, 2018. 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 4, 2018, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship. Date of first publication: January 4, 2018 Alfonso W. Cary, Sr. Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY

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Administration No. 2017 ADM 001114

Administration Number 2017 ADM 001480

Administration No. 2017 ADM 001415

Administration No. 2017 ADM 001406

Administration No. 2017 ADM 637

Doris Pugh Decedent

Estate of Rosemary E. Reed Miller Deceased

Deater Brown Decedent

Simon Lawrence Cain Decedent

Armetro S. Cole Decedent

Hughie D. Hunt, Esq. 5000 Sunnyside Avenue, Suite 101 Beltsville, MD 20705 Attorney

Robert L. Bell, esquire 245 Farragut Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 Attorney

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Patrick Brown, whose address is 1909 Tremont Street, SE, Washington, DC 20020, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Deater Brown who died on February 28, 2017 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before June 28, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before June 28, 2018, 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.

Ellen B. Pierce, whose address is 6770 Spring Park Ave., Apt.#212, Los Angeles, CA 90056, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Simon Lawrence Cain who died on October 19, 2017 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before June 28, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before June 28, 2018, 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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Edward J. Elder 2000 P Street, NW, Suite 415 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Edward J. Elder, Esq., whose address is 2000 P Street, NW, Ste. 415, Washington, DC 20036, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Doris Pugh who died on November 1, 2008 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 (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before June 28, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before June 28, 2018, 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: December 28, 2017 Edward J. Elder, Esq. Personal Representative

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NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Sabrina E. MillerFord for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representative. Unless a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth. Order any interested person to show cause why the provisions of the lost or destroyed will dated July 24, 2000 should not be admitted to probate as expressed in the petition. In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate appoint an unsupervised personal representative. Date of first publication: January 4, 2018

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Deborah F. Cole, whose address is 528 23rd Place NE, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Armetro S. Cole who died on April 20, 2015 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before July 4, 2018. 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 4, 2018, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship. Date of first publication: January 4, 2018

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LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017 ADM 001441 Weldon B. Smith Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Margaret Smith, whose address is 156 Park Terrace Ave., West Haven, CT 06516, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Weldon B. Smith who died on January 24, 2002 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 4, 2018. 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 4, 2018, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship. Date of first publication: January 4, 2018 Margaret Smith Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017 ADM 000625 Annie Hayes Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Jennifer Concino, Esq., whose address is 5335 Wisconsin Ave., NW, #700, Washington, DC 20015, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Annie Hayes who died on November 17, 2016 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 (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 July 4, 2018. 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 4, 2018, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship. Date of first publication: January 4, 2018 Jennifer Concino, Esq. Personal Representative

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O God, Thou knowest my dreams and hopes for the children of America and of the world and the many child dreams and hopes that violence, homelessness, hunger, poverty, and drugs turn to dust. Be Thou my and their dreamkeeper and grant them hope and help in our times.

You do not need to know precisely what is happening or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the challenges and opportunities offered by the present moment and embrace them with courage, faith, and hope. Let’s keep building the nation and world all our children need and deserve. WI

ASKIA from Page 23 University. The proud grandpop (he even has nearly a dozen great-grandchildren) attended the graduation. While he was there, Monroe, Louisiana, Mayor Jamie Mayo welcomed the distinguished guest by presenting him a key to the city. Now everyone knows there are no locks which a key to a city will operate. Such a presentation is just a gesture of welcome to an honored visitor. But no. Because the city showed Farrakhan the respect he deserves as he works to rebuild the work of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam — the most successful movement to

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act of necessity, turned the tide on slavery. It led directly to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution that outlawed slavery, the 14th Amendment that guarantees equal protection under the law, the 15th Amendment that prohibits states from denying the right to vote on the basis of race or color. The war — America’s bloodiest conflict — continued to take its deadly toll for over two more years after the Emancipation Proclamation. In his second

inaugural address, Lincoln described the “terrible war” as “the woe due to those” in both North and South for the “offence” of American slavery. He called for “malice toward none” and “charity for all,” that we “bind up the nation’s wounds” to create a just and lasting peace. Forty-one days later he was assassinated. Reconstruction soon was reversed into segregation, enforced by Klan terrorism. It would take another century and a civil rights movement to fulfill the promise implicit in Lincoln’s proclamation. Few Americans take the time

O God, Thou knowest how scattered are my thoughts and activities that tire me out and drain my energy. Be Thou my focus and order my words and steps to meet our chil-

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2016 campaign for president, even appearing in an ad for his campaign. “Though Erica didn’t ask to be an activist, she responded to the personal tragedy of seeing her father die while being arrested in New York City by becoming a leading proponent for criminal justice reform and for an end to police brutality,” Sanders said. The police “killed her unarmed, nonviolent father with an illegal chokehold and got off with nary a word,” activist Brittany Packnett wrote in a Twitter post. “Erica had to fight for justice,” Packnett tweeted. “Then for her

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Thank You, God, for hearing my cries as You heard Hagar’s long reform and rehabilitate downtrodden Black men and women in the history of this country — the haters of the rise of Black people stormed to the front. The Southern Poverty Law Center wrongly labeled the Minister a racist and the Nation of Islam a hate group. Unfair! Yes, Farrakhan is known for unbending demands for a separate Black state, and for reparations to the descendants of slaves. I agree with him. Now, this militant advocate, who for 62 years has dedicated his life to teaching the Black victims of this country’s 450-year shame how to escape the grasp of their tormentors, has been accused by the wrongdoers of com-

mitting the crime. Shameful. Too often, we fear that militant Black demands for true equality, for “some of this earth to call our own,” will rock the boat of creeping “diversity,” “inclusion” and “multiculturalism,” that promises only snail’s-pace, token Black progress, and then at the price of sublimating Black ambition on the altar of “coalition building.” I’ve known Louis Farrakhan, from afar and up close, for 45 years. I know for certain, he is not a race hater. He is not a hate teacher. Those who would condemn him would do better to go somewhere and haunt a house instead. Hands off Farrakhan! WI

own life...she didn’t deserve this, her father didn’t deserve this. Her family doesn’t deserve this. All this for being Black in America. I can’t.” In a March 2015 interview on NBC News, Erica Garner spoke passionately about the Black Lives Matter movement and other protests that sought justice, including demonstrations related to the fatal August 2014 police shooting of Black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. She recalled how it wasn’t until months after the video of her father’s death was released that his incident received national attention. Garner described seeing her father die via a cellphone video “a

thousand-million times,” and when a grand jury failed to indict the police officers involved, she said it was time to take her fight for justice to the streets. “To me, it was just saying, ‘you know what? I’m just going to march,’” she told NBC News. Even when there weren’t television cameras present, Garner said she was determined to keep marching and fighting. “That’s the most annoying question I get. People ask, ‘when will you stop marching? What do you want from marching?’ He was my father,” she said during the interview. “I will always march.” WI

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