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Street Artists Blast Noise Bill By Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins Percussionist Malik Dope Drummer made a name for himself on the streets of D.C. playing covers of popular songs on a uniquely designed snare drum as passersby at the city’s busiest Metro stations made their daily commutes. Last year, a viral video clip of Malik’s public shows propelled him to regional and national stardom, cementing his status as a prominent figure in D.C.’s music scene and reinforcing the benefits of public platforms. However, pending legislation penalizing high noise levels in public spaces could discourage street vocalists and instrumentalists from making what Malik asserts has been a lucrative career move.

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reporters that she learned about the number of unlicensed teachers after the report. She acknowledged knowing that some teachers were unlicensed but said she didn’t realize just how many. “I think that everybody should be certified who teaches in DCPS because that’s the rule,” Williams said. Approximately 1,000 D.C. Public Schools teachers don’t have a D.C. teaching license, according to a yearlong investigation by local television news station WRC-TV (Channel 4). An analysis of databases obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from D.C. Public Schools and the Office of the State Superintendent

Although Maryland Democrats want to present a unified front into this year’s general election, some Prince George’s County voters aren’t feeling the love. A petition started by Wala Blegay, a candidate who came in fourth place in the June 26 Democratic primary as a delegate to represent the 25th legislative district, said some county voters have been deceived b y sample ballots marked as “official.” For instance, some Democrats in the southern part of Prince George’s received paraphernalia headlined “Official District 27 Democratic Primary Sample Ballot.” It requested voters choose candidates such as Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III for governor; re-elect Susie Proctor as state delegate; and elect county council members Mel Franklin and Karen Toles for the council’s new two atlarge seats. Blegay said an interview some voters brought those mailers to the ballot box as a way to bubble in those choices. She said literature in the 2014 gubernatorial election didn’t use the word “official.” Blegay said the petition will be presented to the county’s Democratic Central Committee at its meeting Tuesday, July 17 to outlaw the word “official” on campaign literature and formally declare mail-

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5 Frederick Douglass portrayed by actor Phil Darius Wallace gets up close and personal with guests and delivers a speech in the front yard of the Frederick Douglass house in Southeast on the 4th of July as part of the National Park Service’s celebration of history and freedom. /Photo by Roy Lewis

D.C. Officials Irked by Report of Unlicensed Teachers

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5 Citizens say pending legislation unfairly targets Blacks. /Photo by Sam P.K Collins

D.C. Councilman David Grosso leads a chorus of city leaders to express outrage over a new report that revealed a large number of District public school teachers are unlicensed. “I am again frustrated with D.C. Public Schools over this most recent failure to properly follow established law and regulations,” said the at-large council member, who chairs the Committee on Education. “These licensing requirements were put in place to ensure that our students are safe and that we have quality educators in our schools.” The D.C. State Board of Education President Karen Williams told

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law enforcement. She said they threat,” she said. hadThursday, come together topromote bring a their Intelligent Among theOperations programs Marlow a national campaign July 5 to Center and sense in the The way technology wants toinstalled see implemented are to Watson Analytics. One of its clients: the of cityuniformity of Seat Pleasant. allows residents When L.Y. 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Wallace, who represents plans discussions once a shared her story with the audiabout domestic violence. and and the May. batterer,” Marlow monthlogue in September, November, January,tim March In a recent stateence at the District Heights Also present at the event was said. ment, he said the meetings come from previous townhalls in the district comDomestic Violence Symposium Mildred Muhammad, the exwould also to see prised of 20 schools and academies and 10Marlow municipalities and like communities on May 7 at the District Heights wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise including: Arrowhead Elementary in Upper Marlboro; Imagine Lincoln PubMunicipal Center. The sympo- who was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in lic Charter School in Temple Hills; and Suitland High in Forestville. sium was sponsored by the utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She who have attended these town halls have requested a more frequent Family and Youth Services“Many by a Maryland jury for his role in feels children need to be educatoccurrence so that timely messages and updates could be shared,” Wallace Center of the city of District the Beltway Sniper attacks in ed about domestic violence. said. “The education is to advise me on community, Heights and the National Hook- 2002. Mildredroundtable’s Muhammadcore is mission “We have to stop being passchool, budgetary and board policy matters.” Up of Black Women. the founder of After the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chilMarlow has written a book, an organization that helps the dren about domestic violence,” “Color Me Butterfly,” which is a survivors of domestic violence Marlow said. story about four generations of and their children. Marlow has worked to break domestic violence.ofThe book isMental“IHealth lived inAwareness fear for sixMonth years. 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It is and is confident the policies she on behalf of Fireflies Unite, a mental health and wellness community founded by Blackman, will partner and those of her grandmother, not an easy thing to come out is pushing for will start that with the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Prince George’s County Maryland Chapter (NAMIPGC) her mother and her daughter. of,” she said. for its first event, “Save Our Babies: A Heart to Heart About Suicide process. and Mental Health for Children of She said every time she reads Mildred said from “I to inColor” on Saturday, July 21, at the South BowieMuhammad Library in Bowie 11plan a.m.tototake 1:30these p.m.policies Panelists excerpts from her book, she still people who want to help a Congress and implore them to clude mental health professionals and advocates: Tristeza Duncan, NAMIPGC board member and mental can not believe the words came domestic violence victim must change our laws,” Marlow said. healthher. advocate; Bashea Williams, social worker and founder, Hearts In Mind Counseling; Yesenia from “Color Paul Me Butterfly” be careful of how they go into “I will not stop until these poliVillalta, social worker and“Best founder, Cultivate Love; Lisa Daughtrey, mental health advocate and speaker; won the 2007 National the victim's life, and understand cies are passed.” DennisAward. Gates, family psychiatric nurse practitioner, Dennis Gates Mental Health LLC; and Nyasha ChiBooks” that she may be in “survival Tia Carol Jones can be reached kowore, LCPC and doctoral of psychology “I was just 16-years-old when mode”. student. at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net the event and is to my create a safe spaceyou for get mental health professionals, advocates, parents and those my The eye goal firstofblackened “Before to 'I'm going who work with children to engage in an open dialogue, provide resources lips bled,” Marlow said. to kill you,' it started as a verbal WIand encouragement. A portion ofElaine the proceeds from this event will be donated to NAMIPGC. Tickets can be purchased via the following Davis-Nickens, presilinks https://saveourbabies.eventcreate.com/ and https://saveourbabiesffu.eventbrite.com. dent of the National Hook-Up A newWomen, study by JAMA discovered African-American children are taking their lives at roughly of Black said therePediatrics is no twice the rate of way theirdomestic white counterparts. Researchers at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio consistency in the confirmed theare ratedealt of suicide violence issues with byfor Black children ages 5 to 12 exceeds that of young whites. Latina teens currently have the highest rate of suicide attempts among all adolescent groups in the U.S., according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. And a study by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center revealed suicide is the third leading cause of death for Latino men in the U.S. WIIBM Staff Writer launched

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AROUND THE REGION DEMOCRATS from Page 1 ers from a certain group of candidates didn’t come from the county or state Democratic party. In addition, a plan will be to work with state lawmakers to introduce legislation when the Maryland General Assembly reconvenes in January to ensure the word “official” never gets used on campaign literature. The committee, which announced at a county executive forum in May it doesn’t endorse candidates, will organize a unity rally the next day at the county’s Education Association headquarters in Forestville to feature Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) and state Democratic Party Chairwoman Kathleen Matthews. “It was deceptive,” Blegay said in an interview regarding this year’s campaign fliers. “This is not about losing an election. This is about caring for the community and making sure elections are ran fairly.” Tamara Davis Brown, who ran in a close race for the County Council District 9 seat, supports the petition because it challenges the county’s political establishment. A picture of her opponent and top vote-getter Sydney Harrison is featured on the District 27 mailer. “These official sample ballots are almost taking as gospel … and dictates who you should vote for,” Davis Brown said. “You still have a portion of the electorate who have not been educated and do not do their homework…to who all the candidates are and follow the campaign machine.” A notice on the literature sent to voters in the 27th legislative district highlights several campaigns that paid and authorized them such as Hoyer, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Maryland) and “Prince George’s Committee to Elect the Sitting Judges Slate.” Annaliese Davis, spokeswoman for Hoyer for Congress, said in a statement Monday, July 9 the campaign knows about the petition. “Congressman Hoyer was included on a number of sample ballots throughout the 5th District and believes that the Democratic Party in our state must be fair to all,” Davis said. “Congressman Hoyer remains committed to helping elect strong Democrats in Maryland and across the nation.” In addition to the campaign literatured, the county mailed official sample ballots to voters for them to see which candidates are running for a particular federal, state and county office. Some residents fill out the ballots at home and use

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them as a guide when they come to the polls. Scott Goldberg, secretary for the Montgomery County Central Committee, distributed a letter dated June 18 to remind campaigns and voters that the committee doesn’t endorse any candidates or produce sample ballots during the primary election. Goldberg doesn’t believe literature which uses the phrase “official ballot” would be marked as illegal or trademarked, but said no group or organization “should purport to be putting out an official Democratic ballot.” “We are happy to let the voters sort out which candidates should be voted into the general election,” he said in an interview Friday, July 6. As of Monday, about 460 signatures are on the petition. Once it reaches 500, a letter along with the signatures will be sent to Matthews. Those who signed the petition are not only Prince George’s residents, but also those who reside in neighboring Montgomery and Charles counties. James Hugh Jones II of Baltimore City, one of nine people who ran in the Democratic primary for governor, signed the petition Friday. “Many voters were tricked into believing the certain candidates were no longer Democrats, no longer running, or running for different positions,” the petition said. “The party should not be involved in purposely confusing Democratic voters. It is time for this practice to end.” WI

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1920 – Emmy-winning actress Beah Richards is born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. 1936 – Rose McClendon, founder of the Negro People’s Theatre and a leading Black Broadway actress in the 1920s, dies in New York City at the age of 51. 1937 – Famed actor and comedian Bill Cosby is born in Philadelphia.

1862 – Congress passes the Militia Act of 1862, which allowed African-Americans to participate as war laborers and soldiers. 1935 – Famed actress Diahann Carroll is born in New York City. 1959 – Legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday dies in New York City at 44. 1967 – Jazz icon John Coltrane dies of liver cancer in Long Island, New York, at 40.

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A well-known, charismatic priest in Chicago, Father Michael PfIeger, who leads a congregation of thousands at St. Sabina Church on the city’s Southside, and Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, marching arm-in-arm, were joined by thousands of anti-violence protesters who literally “stopped traffic” Saturday, July 7 as they filled lanes usually reserved for automobiles on the Dan Ryan Expressway. They were marching because of the surge in violence, mostly due to the use, or misuse, of guns, resulting in the triple-digit deaths of babies, mothers, fathers and so many others, almost exclusively living in poor neighborhoods in the city’s Southside and Westside – dominated by Black families. Ironically, they marched just a day or two away from the two-year anniversary of the police-involved shooting death of Alton Sterling (July 5) who had been selling CDs outside of a store and the senseless multiple shooting, again by police,

of Philando Castile who had been trying to obey the officers’ directions when he reached into his pocket for his license and registration during a “routine traffic stop.” The protest along the Dan Ryan had great significance. Those familiar with Chicago history know that the expressway, in its construction, divided the city so that Blacks were on one side and whites on the other. It also devastated many of the city’s historic Black neighborhoods and businesses – something that’s been done in other urban hotspots including my hometown, Detroit. But in Chicago, the remnants of once powerful gangs which law enforcement destroyed during the 90s, have found themselves in smaller, splintered groups – grasping for a corner to call their own and willing to do almost anything for economic survival – selling drugs and weapons to the highest bidders. Meanwhile, those who could bring peace and stability to the city tend to ignore the cries of poor, Black folk – until last weekend. One thing you don’t want to do in Chi-town is to interrupt the traffic flow. During the seven years I lived there as a college instructor and newspaper editor, you could set your watch to the arrival of the train. In fact, I recall one day during a very cold winter when a train, heading to the city’s suburbs, was several minutes behind sched-

ule. Blacks waiting, like me, just tried to stay warm, But whites began grabbing their flip phones and complained to transit authorities. The train finally came. During last weekend’s protests, folks said they’ve grown weary for nothing changing in their neighborhoods for the last five years. They said they’d come to the realization that they would need to “make noise” so that their voices and longtime concerns could be heard. And that’s sho nuff the truth. Blacks have continued to put our trust, our hope and our faith in people with big mouths or with soothing, inspiring words but after the cameras stop rolling, little has changed. I really pray that those who led Chicago’s recent protest have a game plan and action steps that will keep the city’s officials butts in the fire. When all is said and done, if we are, as Fannie Lou Hamer once said, “sick and tired of being sick and tired,” we’ve got to become our own advocates, our own spokespersons, our own reimaged versions of Dr. King, Ralph Abernathy and Brother Malcolm. We the people can make real, lasting change. And we don’t need to wait or rely on the buffoons of Congress who have been making promises they know they won’t keep for as long as there’s been an America. WI

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WI Staff Report Earlier this week, Mayor Muriel Bowser joined D.C. United, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development and other District officials to cut the ribbon on Audi Field – the new D.C. United soccer stadium at Buzzard Point in Ward 6. The 20,000-seat stadium is expected to attract one million new visitors annually and spur more than $1.6 billion in total economic activity over the life of the stadium. “Today, we deliver the stadium our team, our fans and our city deserve,” Bowser said. “Audi Field represents DC jobs for DC residents; it represents our commitment to building pathways to the middle class in neighborhoods across all eight wards; and it represents our status as the sports capital and a championship city. Welcome home and vamos United!” The state-of-the-art facility is a

public-private partnership that will support more than 1,000 jobs, including 471 full-time jobs for DC residents. The project also supported more than $60 million in contracts committed to local CBEs. The new stadium also includes state-of-the-art energy and water efficiency measures funded through a $25 million private clean energy financing deal, part of the District’s Property Assessed Clean Energy (DC PACE) program. The innovative green financing solution is the nation’s largest single PACE note issued to date and the first issued for a stadium project. “Today is the culmination of a city-wide commitment to provide a world-class soccer stadium in Washington, DC,” said Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Brian Kenner. “And it could not have been possible without the coordination and hard work of many District agencies and D.C.

United to deliver the best for the team, the fans and District residents.” “On behalf of D.C. United’s General Partner Erick Thohir and myself, we are thrilled that this day has finally arrived,” said Jason Levien, D.C. United Managing General Partner and CEO. “The District of Columbia and Mayor Muriel Bowser have been invaluable to D.C. United in our pursuit to build a stadium in the heart of the city. Without their tireless efforts to support the construction of Audi Field, we wouldn’t be opening this amazing venue today. We can’t wait to welcome fans and the DC community to the new home for soccer in the District.” Audi Field is located at 2nd, T, and R Streets and Potomac Avenue, SW, just two blocks from Nationals Park. The first game at Audi Field will be on Saturday, July 14, when D.C. United hosts Vancouver Whitecaps FC. WI

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March on Washington Film Festival Returns By Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins Film, music and other artistic mediums compel deep examination of the human condition and reflection on how one can affect change. Since 2013, the March on Washington Film Festival has been an incubator for cinema old and new that inspires such discussion. As part of an ongoing commitment to shedding light on the unsung heroes of the civil rights era, this year’s festival features dozens of thought-provoking documentaries about various aspects of that period. “We want to illuminate the subject of civil rights so it’s not just a narrative about being passive and turning the other cheek,” said Isisara Bey, the festival’s artistic director since 2013. Festival events will take place at Studio Theatre in Northwest, National Museum of Women in the Arts in Northwest, and other locations relevant to the topics highlighted. “The civil rights movement was really progressive and strategic,” Bey said. “We want people to look at what was happening [during that time], the parallels between then and now, and how activism is important in life. They should be inspired by action to become more engaged citizens.” For more than a week, people from various walks of life will be immersed in film, music and art that document and interpret the activism of the 1950s and ‘60s. Festivities will kick off on July 12 with an art exhibit and tribute to Sonia Sanchez, a poet, playwright and seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement. The exhibit will feature “BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez,” a 2015 documentary about her activism, filled with performances and interviews. For the next nine days, festival organizers will queue up a bevy of films, including those about late comedian and activist Dick Gregory, author Lorraine Hansberry, the Chicano Movement and the increasing Black presence in corporate America. Discussions in between film screenings, live performanc-

es and art exhibits will explore connections between the civil rights era and present-day movements. For example, on June 13, Camille Friend, a stylist known for her work on the films “Black Panther” and “Django Unchained,” will reflect on her career path and pay tribute to Madame C.J. Walker. Bey, who has decades of experience in radio, television, arts and activism, touted the diversity of activities in an appeal to different interests and backgrounds. “People learn through a variety of mediums — films and panels aren’t enough,” Bey said, adding that she plans to pour libation at an event honoring Depression-era playwright Lorraine Hansberry of “A Raisin in the Sun” game. “Joi Gresham, who runs Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust will give a lecture about her play and movie,” Bey said. “She said that though she didn’t know her in her lifetime, she felt her spirit and felt it was something she was dedicated to keeping alive. At the end of the evening, there’ll be a rhythmic ceremony where we can raise the vibration.” The inaugural March on Washington Festival commemorated the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. More than 1,000 participants attended 10 events over the course of two weeks. Bey admitted that teenagers and young adults remain the most elusive of audiences. Part of tackling that blind spot, for her, has been finding common ground between their experiences and culture and that of those who preceded them. “We want it so that young people don’t feel that the things that are current are different from the Black Power and civil rights movements,” she said. “We’re standing on the shoulders of those who came before us. I don’t believe that things were better with the past. To move forward, we have to incorporate Generations Y and Z and their means of expression. We have some places where we’re trying to make that happen.” WI

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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY Primary Races in Prince George’s Finally Settled By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Several close races in Prince George’s County are finally settled, nearly two weeks after the June 26 Maryland primary election. The county’s Board of Elections on Monday, July 9 certified results from the races, including four that were deemed too close to call. According to the final results, Rodney Colvin Streeter received 2,818 votes, scoring a 31-vote vic-

tory over Krystal Oriadha for the County Council’s District 7 seat. In District 9, Sydney Harrison garnered 7,125 votes and won by 55 votes over telecommunications attorney Tamara Davis Brown. Alisha Alexander, administrator for the county’s Board of Elections, said candidates have three days after votes are certified to challenge the results. The elections board conducted canvasses last week at its Largo office to count provisional and a second count of absentee ballots in those close races.

“I’ve been here 19 years and I haven’t seen four races at one time,” Alexander said Thursday as the votes were counted. “This is very unique. What is going on … is democracy at work.” Before any votes are counted as official, all 23 counties in the state and Baltimore City must also conduct an audit of its elections, said Donna Duncan, assistant deputy administrator at the state Board of Elections. Because of the audit and other administrative tasks, local officials aren’t set on a specific deadline to certify election results, Duncan said Friday. For instance, she said the state may not receive certified results from Montgomery County until Monday, July 16 due to the tight Democratic county executive race between the top two vote-getters, Councilman Marc Elrich and businessman David Blair. As of Friday, Elrich had a nearly 150vote lead. “The local election boards have some leeway as to when they will actually certify,” said Duncan, who added the state plans to certify all results by July 19. In Prince George’s, approximately 139,428 ballots, or 36

5Rob McKinley (center), counsel for the Prince George’s County Board of Elections, explains the provisional ballot counting process to candidates, their supporters and observers at the board’s Largo office on July 5. /Photo by William J. Ford

percent, were cast in this year’s primary election. From those, the county received 4,700 provisional and 3,809 absentee ballots, though just 3,000 provisional and 3,700 absentee ballots were accepted by the Board of Elections. Streeter, of Hillcrest Heights, chief of staff for Councilwoman

Groups Clamor for Bail Reform in Prince George’s By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill

Two advocacy groups suggest more reforms are needed in Prince George’s County when it comes to bail, which they say harms Blacks. As part of a report produced by Progressive Maryland and Color of Change, it offers five recommendations for the county’s state’s attorney’s office that includes advanced calls and texts to defendants to remind them of pretrial services to ensure they attend court hearings, end cash bail and allow a defense attorney to have more time with a client prior to the hearing. “It’s important because a lot of folks thought reform was done in the courtroom,” said Seanniece Bamiro, lead organizer for Progressive Maryland in Prince George’s. “This report is showing there are ways to get around the rule. It is not helping Black folks in Prince George’s County.” The rule in question deals with a Court of Appeals decision made last year that instructs judges to reduce the use of bail for individuals who aren’t consider dangerous or a flight risk and will appear in court for future hearings. According to the groups’ report released last month, the Black

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population in the county jail hovers above 82 percent and increased from 727 to 757 from June 2, 2017, to June 6 of this year. Those arrested and housed on three types of charges also remained constant in that timeframe, based on the report. Felonies rose from 603 to 617 and misdemeanors from 447 to 470, while drug-related offenses decreased from 115 to 111. The report highlights a decrease in cash-bail authorized by judges, but a slight increase in no bail and for defendants to be released on their own recognizance. The data shows 11 months prior to last year’s Court of Appeals rules change (August 2016 to June 2017) and 11 months after (July 2017 to May). n No Bail: 1,390 to 1,597 (15 percent increase) n Released on own recognizance: 5,109 to 5,292 (4 percent increase) n Cash-bond: 6,463 to 4,642 (28 percent decrease) “Prince George’s County puts on the persona as being very progressive and having a good pretrial program and a good bail reform — that is not the case,” said Qiana Johnson, a mass liberation fellow with Progressive Maryland. To analyze court proceedings, the

groups conducted a “court watch” where volunteers sat and viewed more than 70 bail review cases in Upper Marlboro for about a month between the first week of May and second week of June. One aspect from the hearings, according to the report, showed many defendants remain at the jail through a closed-circuit television instead of before a judge in the courtroom. Also, hearings lasted no more than five minutes and the judge ac-

John Erzen, spokesman for the state’s attorney office, said Angela Alsobrooks was the only state’s attorney in Maryland to support bail reform.

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cepts recommendations from prosecutors on certain cases. John Erzen, spokesman for the state’s attorney office, said Angela Alsobrooks was the only state’s attorney in Maryland to support bail reform. However, “judges still have the ultimate decision as to what the bond will be and there isn’t much we can do about that,” Erzen said in an email. In the meantime, Alsobrooks won the Democratic nomination for county executive in the June 26 primary. Former state Delegate Aisha Braveboy won the Democratic nomination to replace Alsobrooks. During a brief interview earlier this month, Braveboy said she didn’t get to review the report. She couldn’t be reached for comment before press time. Johnson said she has some concerns if Braveboy gets into the office, especially with her support from the Fraternal Order of Police and knowledge to distribute cases. Progressive Maryland endorsed her opponent, state Sen. Victor Ramirez. “There’s definitely concern and call to action to hold her accountable,” said Johnson, a former returning citizen. “She will know we will not disappear.” WI

Andrea Harrison (D-District 5), would replace Toles, a term-limited councilwoman who ran unsuccessfully for one of the council’s two new at-large seats. Harrison, a clerk of the county’s Circuit Court, would replace Franklin, who was also term-limited but won the Democratic nomination as one of the two top vote-getters for the at-large seats. Harrison, who ran against seven challengers in the primary, declared victory late Friday on his Facebook page. “First and foremost, my campaign team and I thank each of the great candidates who participated I the very competitive race for Prince George’s County Council District 9,” he said Harrison. “We truly thank each and every person who prayed, volunteered, donated, supported, called, texted, posted and shared. Without each of you, this victory would not have been possible!” Franklin and Calvin Hawkins, former longtime adviser to Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III, will take on Republican Felicia Folarin in the November general election. Democrats overwhelmingly outnumber Republicans in the county, so Franklin and Hawkins are more than likely favored to win. No Republican candidates ran for the County Council district positions in the primary. In another close race in state legislative district 23A, Delegate Geraldine Valentino-Smith won by 42 votes over Shabnam Ahmed, who graduated from the University of Maryland in College Park last year and is the sister of Raaheela Ahmed, a county school board member. WI

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One of the best co-workers ever. Ate French fries with French onion dip. Loved basketball. These are just the few qualities and characteristics shared Tuesday, July 10 at a memorial service for John “Mac” McNamara, a Capital Gazette reporter killed last month in a shooting rampage inside the paper’s newsroom. A few high-profile mourners attended the service at the University of Maryland Memorial Chapel in College Park, including former Maryland men’s basketball head coach Gary Williams. “He knew how well the game was played,” Williams said after the service outside the chapel. “I was friends with a lot of writers, but I consider John a friend. You protect your program. You just don’t let too many people get inside. John was one of those people [that] it was just easy to be around him if you were a coach and you [were] a reporter.” McNamara, who worked at the Gazette for nearly 24 years, died in a mass shooting June 28 inside the Annapolis newsroom. Memorial and funeral services were already held for the other four staffers killed in the attack: editorial page editor Gerald Fischman, 61; assistant editor and columnist Rob Hiassen, 59; writer and editor Wendi Winters, 65; and sales assistant Rebecca Smith, 34. Police arrested and charged Jarrod Ramos, 38, of Laurel, with five counts of first-degree murder. He currently remains at the Anne Arundel County jail without bond. Ramos held a grudge with the Gazette after a legal dispute with

a woman who claimed Ramos harassed her. Back in College Park, family, friends and colleagues walked inside the chapel to see a picture of McNamara and his wife, Andrea Chamblee, married for more than 30 years. Besides the picture on a stand included an appointment as lieutenant in the cadet corps at St. John’s College High School in Northwest and tickets stubs to a variety of sports game he attended. McNamara, who graduated from the University of Maryland in 1983, wrote two books about Terrapin athletics, “The University of Maryland Football Vault: The History of the Terrapins;” and “Cole Classics! Maryland Basketball’s Leading Men and Moments.” The only family member to speak at the service was his brother, Charlie McNamara, who read a Bible verse from the Book of Wisdom: “The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God and no torment shall touch them. They seemed in the view of the foolish, to be dead; and their passing away was thought an affliction and their going forth from us, utter destruction. But they are in peace.” The most humorous stories came from Mike Ashley, a writer at the Terrapin Times magazine who spoke on behalf of Jeff Barker, a sportswriter with the Baltimore Sun, who paid a tribute to McNamara on June 29 while on CNN as “an old-school journalist” and “the only man who likes the Indigo Girls.” During coverage of a sports event, Ashely said him and McNamara made fun of a coach who called his offense “multiple.” “So of course being sportswriters, we would imitate… and adopt

their coach-isms into our everyday lexicon,” Ashley said. “So if you ask John how he was feeling, he might say, ‘You know, I’m feeling multiple today.’ We felt like we needed a special app to translate coachspeak into regular, human being language.” To showcase his diversity, McNamara also covered the city of Bowie for the Bowie-Blade News. He covered a Prince George’s County Council meeting in May when it approved a $4.1 billion budget. “Our hearts and thoughts are with his wife and all the family members and staff members at the Gazette to try to get through this,” said County Councilman Todd Turner (D-District 4) of Bowie. “Today was a memorial to remember the good things he brought and how we as legislators and the community can bring positive [energy] after a horrible tragedy.” WI

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BUSINESS Halfsmoke: A New Place Serving a D.C. Tradition By Denver Regine Lark WI Intern Like the famed mumbo sauce doused on chicken wings and fries across the nation’s capital, the half-smoked – a cross between a traditional hot dog and kielbasa sausage – remains a regional delicacy. And while the market on half-smoke had been claimed by the family-owned Ben’s Chili Bowl, it’s recently become the new kid on the block – six streets away. After visiting “HalfSmoke,” the

environment proved to be vibrant and youthful as plates of falafel on a bun, served alongside chicken and funnel cake entrees, added a new twist on an old favorite. Meanwhile, customers who packed the more eclectic eatery said the vibe and menu fit their millennial taste buds to a tee. Jurnee Williams, a Howard University graduate student, said that she loves the ambiance of HalfSmoke and the meatless options on the menu, adding “Ben’s cannot be beat.” “I know there may be a bit

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of soft competition between the two establishments but there is room enough for both. I have made room for both,” Williams said between bites of a halfsmoke topped with crunch onion straws. “The market is good in this area for both and my friends and I have found something in both places to keep us coming

for falafel. Visitors to the 100-seat dining room order from cartooned menus with slogans like, “Don’t grow up, it’s a trap” with meals served meals in a metal cartoon lunch box, rather than on a traditional plate. It quickly becomes apparent that as the District demographics shift to younger, more upwardly mobile residents, so too, have their tastes. Whether it’s the presentation of food or the atmosphere of the space, many restaurants like Ben’s Chili Bowl must now compete with newer, more trendy restaurants. But for traditionalists, the walls lined with D.C. notables and international celebrities, the kind approachability of the Ali

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HALFSMOKE from Page 14 family, who stop to chat with diners, and the original lunch counter-style décor, are as much a part of the Ben’s dining experience as their famed half-smoke. “Coming to Ben’s is like stepping onto the pages of a history book. You want to provide that experience in a city that is quickly losing its identity,” retired musician Percy Malcom said. “There is civil rights and D.C. history right here and loads of people who serve you the good, old fashioned way – with a smile.” “My grandkids hang out down the street – and that’s okay be-

BUSINESS cause they need their space to do their thing. I’ve had HalfSmoke and the food is dynamite but they know to meet ‘Pop-Pop’ at Ben’s in the back on Thursday afternoons.” Since the first Ben’s Chili Bowl’s opening in 1958, the franchise has expanded to four locations throughout the DMV, as well as Ben’s Next Door restaurant and bar next to the original Ben’s Chili Bowl on U Street and Ben’s Upstairs on H Street which features Southern cuisine with a tropical accent. This year, Ben’s celebrates its 60th anniversary of the place that was “first to take the half-smoke and put it on a

bun,” said restaurant spokesperson Vida Ali, daughter-in-law of the founders, Ben and Virginia. Still, one question remains: Is there room in the city for both restaurants? Both Ben’s Ali, and Sade Sydney, HalfSmoke’s service manager, concur that each restaurant’s function is to “serve the community, so it’s never about competition.” “As long as both are around, I’ll gladly eat from both. There’s no need for competition when both hit the mark,” Williams concluded. WI

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5New restaurant HalfSmoke offers an eclectic dining experience with an old D.C. tradition – the half-smoke. / Courtesy photo

This week in the news was the report of a 92-year-old woman in Arizona- killed her 72-year-old son because he wanted to move her into an assisted living facility. She said that he wanted to take her life, so she took his. This is a tragedy on so many levels. This is an extreme that we don’t typically see or hear about, thankfully! In the best-case scenario, we will grow old. “Old” looks different on each person and “old” happens for people at different times. I often hear people say that they don’t want to be a burden on anyone in their older years. The greatest way to make sure that we have the life that we want is to prepare for it and create the supports to make it happen. The Bible says, “Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it.” (NKJV) With intent if we let our wishes known AND create capacity for it to be carried out, then there will be no opportunity for someone to deviate from the plan. We are assured only of this one life on earth. There may be others who disagree, but the assurance is in the here and now. We want to have the life that makes us most comfortable and provides the greatest opportunity for our unique pursuit of happiness. If we are dependent upon others to provide the lifestyle that we want or to make decisions on our behalf we will be subjected to their choices not our own. The extreme example of the mom killing her son is dramatic but unfortunately a real case. The truth is many people as older adults become depressed as their wishes are overlooked in their lifetime. It may be because they hadn’t thought about what they wanted to prepare for making it happen. It may be that there are not the resources to allow for the lifestyle that they want, in the place that they want or with the supports that they want. One of my favorite examples of support was when a mom in her 90’s came in to talk about ways in which the family could protect their assets while applying for Medicaid. She came in with her seven children and their spouses to discuss strategies. They wanted to make sure that they were all in accord with their mom’s wishes and that they were committed to preserving the assets for their children’s children. It was an amazing strategy session where we were able to first and foremost hear mom’s priorities, create an action plan that actualized her best interest and preserved her assets. It was indeed an empowering conversation for all. The family was stronger because they were on one accord. I often say strong families make strong communities. There are strong opinions to be understood in many of the aspects of estate planning. When planning we consider not distribution of assets when you pass away but life decisions as well. If you write the vision and make it plan the one who reads it can indeed run with it. Aimee D. Griffin, Esq., The Griffin Firm, PLLC 5335 Wisconsin Ave NW Suite 440 Washington DC 20015 www.thegriffinfirm-PLLC.com 202-379-4738

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NATIONAL Trump Picks Controversial DC Judge for Supreme Court High-Ranking Dems to Oppose the Nomination By Sarafina Wright WI Contributing Writer If President Donald Trump’s earlier Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch serves as any indication, his latest pick in Brett Kavanaugh will do the civil rights community no favors, said National Urban League President Marc Morial following the announcement of the president’s high court nominee. Morial wasn’t alone, as many others joined in to call on the Senate to reject Kavanaugh, 53, who currently serves as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Some of Kavanaugh’s more controversial opinions remain at the core of arguments from those who oppose his appointment. While he hasn’t expressed outright opposition to Roe v. Wade, critics note that Kavanaugh may likely side with Trump if or when

he must vote on the issue of abortion. In an earlier opinion, Kavanaugh determined that the government has “permissible interests in favoring fetal life, protecting the best interests of a minor and refraining from facilitating abortion.” In other issues that appear more important to minority groups and communities of color, Kavanaugh has issued controversial rulings on religious liberty and the second amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court remains as the final stop for justice in America as it issues the final word on rulings that potentially affect every American citizen. That’s why Morial says he’s concerned. “Judge Kavanaugh has a record of ruling against affordable healthcare and women’s reproductive rights. Particularly troubling is his record on cases involving

Kennedy Exit Leaves Uncertainty About Fairness in Supreme Court By Lauryn Hill and Shantella Y. Sherman WI Staff Writers This the first of a two-part series on the impact of Justice Kennedy’s retirement and a new Trump appointee to the Supreme Court on African Americans and those within politically vulnerable communities. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s announcement that he will soon retire has left the nation reeling and the Black community unsure about the redress of previous decisions and the level of fairness related to race, gender and sexual orientation that comes with a new Trump appointee. Having served 30 years on the highest court in the nation, the 81-year-

old justice plans to step down by the end of July, leaving President Donald Trump to find a suitable replacement. Kennedy’s tenure included having both liberal and conservative stances on a number of monumental cases in recent history, such as Obergefell v. Hodges, which gives gay couples the right to marry, and Fisher v. University of Texas, in which he upheld affirmative action. Kennedy also voted to strengthen abortion rights in Whole Woman’s Health v Hellerstedt in 2016; however, he favored the conservative ruling in Citizens United v. the Federal Election Committee which gave corporations limitless power to spend money on political advertisements.

racial and workforce discrimination,” Morial said. “Seating a Supreme Court nominee with an obvious disdain for fundamental liberties will change American life as we know it.” Tom Steyer, who runs the California-based group “Need to Impeach,” has urged all of his constituents to contact their senators to vote against Trump’s nomination. “Brett Kavanaugh is here for a reason. He believes presidents should be exempt from criminal prosecution and investigation while in office,” Steyer said, noting Kavanaugh’s previous opinions about the presidency and his opposition to prosecuting a sitting president. Kavanaugh has suggested that Congress pass a law barring sitting presidents from criminal prosecution and investigation, personal civil suit, and questioning from criminal attorneys. He has claimed that presidents can disregard laws they consider

unconstitutional, despite what courts say. “The Senate is the only check on the Supreme Court. It does not have to rubber-stamp the president’s pick,” Steyer said. Kavanaugh’s track record shows he’s comfortable using his position to further the agenda of fringe-right groups that back him, according to Steyer. The Georgetown-educated jurist who also teaches at Harvard Law School, declared the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unconstitutional further writing in a landmark decision that the District’s ban on semi-automatic rifles was unconstitutional. Kavanaugh has also attempted to roll back President Obama’s greenhouse gas regulations. “He’s anti-choice. Just last year he argued in favor of prohibiting an undocumented pregnant immigrant in federal custody from getting an abortion. He considers the Affordable Care Act unconsti-

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Justice Adrian Saunders was sworn in as the third president of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) during a ceremony last week at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St James, which coincided with the 39th Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government meeting held in Montego Bay. Saunders, a native of St Vincent and the Grenadines, is the first Caribbean-trained CCJ president. In his address, he said his vision is for the CCJ to become an established symbol of regional integration, similar to the University of the West Indies and the Caribbean Development Bank, which will safeguard the delivery of justice. Sir Dennis Byron, the immediate past president of the CCJ, asserted that he has handed over an institution that has been serving the needs of people in the region. He described Saunders as thoroughly prepared and fit to assume the role. Dean Barrow, prime minister of Belize and Head of Government for Justice and Governance in CARICOM, said that the CCJ will make great strides under the leadership of Saunders. WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM

July Greetings From DC Office on Aging Laura Newland DC Office on Aging Executive Director June was an eventful month here at the Office on Aging! We’ve loved spending time with you as we’ve kicked off the summer celebrating our city’s diversity in the Capital Pride Parade and our first ever senior Pride party, experimenting with virtual reality and robotics at our Senior Symposium, crowning a new Ms. Senior DC, and hanging out with you and our friends at the Department of Parks and Recreation at SeniorFest! After all, we’re not just gov-

ernment employees, we’re your neighbors, your friends, and part of your community. That’s what makes DC a city I’m proud to call home. One of the many gifts of my role at DCOA is how much I’ve been challenged to think bigger about how we can live and love together as a community. I don’t talk about this much, but I’ve struggled with depression. I’m not embarrassed to say that because I think many of you have, too, or know someone who does. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just announced that the suicide rate is increasing in the United States. You may have heard me say during a town hall that recent research shows that loneliness (which is close cousins with depression) has negative health impacts similar to heavy smoking. Mental health is very closely linked to physical health. At DCOA, we talk a lot about physical health, but we don’t talk as much about mental health. Let’s change that. I know stigma sometimes gets in the way of talking openly about

mental health, but the more that we can be open about what we’re feeling, the more we can admit that we might need more support than we let on. Depression is something that many of us experience. For me, admitting that I need help remains my toughest lesson (and one that I’ve repeated over and over). I bet many of you can relate. But here’s the thing—we’re meant to live together in community. We need each other. We have nothing to be ashamed of, and the more we talk about it, the stronger we get as a community. I hope you’ll reach out to your friends, to your neighbors, to us, and be open to having these honest conversations about mental health. As I often say, DC is the biggest small town I know. I thought I moved to DC to escape small towns, but now I know that I was just looking for the one that fit me. And I’m in an amazingly privileged position to say that we at DCOA want to strengthen and support the best community there is. Know that we’re here for you. You belong here. DCOA— with you.

New Ms. Senior D.C. Crowned Eight District women met weekly for nearly two months to learn their steps, practice their talents, and perfect their philosophies on the road to becoming the next Ms. Senior D.C. Phyllis M. Jordan, who sang “Four Women” by Nina Simone and wore a turquoise blue off the-shoulder gown with mermaid bottom during her evening gown and philosophy of lifepresentations, was crowned Ms. Senior D.C. 2018. Her a cappella presentation showed off her voice as well as the four women — Aunt Sarah, Saffronia, Sweet Thing and Peaches — depicted in the song, released in 1966. Margaret Carter was awarded First Runnerup, Best Talent and Best Interview, and she heated up the crowd in a red gown adorned with beads and a knee-length split, and with her interpretive dance to “Fever” by Peggy Lee. Second Runner-up was Paulette Cunningham,

who presented her poem titled “Life.” Joycelyn Thompson was Third-Runner-up, Best Salesperson and Best Evening Gown. She entertained the crowd with her Caribbean Whine dance in a colorful costume that included green sequins, green ostrich feathers, a green lame, pleated cape and native flag headwear. The contestants voted Phyllis Jordan Ms. Congeniality. Ms. Senior D.C. 2017 Frances Curtis-Johnson performed her talent from last year, where she portrayed a Radio DJ on WFRJ 67.5 local radio, a call-in show for seniors. She began the show with “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder, and ended with the beat of Chuck Brown’s “Chuck Baby.” She presented her farewell address and her final walk as Ms. Senior D.C., thanking all who supported her doing her reign. Special guest for the event, Ms. Senior America Carolyn Slade Harden, greeted attendees and sang “I Love Being Here with You” by Peggy Lee. She changed some of the words of the song, and acknowledged a few D.C. mem-

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Ms. Senior DC Pageant 2018. Ms. Senior DC Phyllis Jordan center, Left to right Joycelyn Thompson, Third Runner-up, Best Evening Gown and Best Salesperson; Paulette Cunningham, Second Runner-up; Hadiyah Muhammad, Juanita Patterson; Margaret Carter, First Runner-up, Best Talent and Best Interview; Patricia Sanker and Ruby Bourne are also pictured with their escorts. Congratulations to all of the Ms. Senior D.C. Pageant 2018 contestants.

bers by name. During her visit here, many of the ladies took her to the National Museum of African American History and Culture for a tour. The D.C. Seniors Cameo Club also hosted a meet and greet at Tesora Restaurant directly after the pageant. Representatives from the Ms. Senior America Pag-

eant who attended the event included Robin Rosenthal Milne, executive director, Senior America, Inc.; Kat Fanelli, national pageant director; Sam Fanelli, sound engineer; Annmarie Pittman, national pageant choreographer and Ms. Virginia Senior America past administrator; and Fran Owens, secretary, National

Senior America Alumni Club. The MC Steppers opened and closed the program with dances to the music of Chaka Kahn, including the pageant theme song, “Every Woman.” Congratulations to all of our contestants! Job well done!

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Last month, the voters of the District passed Initiative 77, which would gradually raise the tipped minimum wage in D.C. from $3.33 to $15. The initiative passed by a 55 to 44 percent margin, much to the chagrin of the restaurant industry, 10 council members and Mayor Bowser. NO2DC77, the opposition to Initiative 77, said “the ballot measure would outlaw the tipwage system and force nightlife and hospitality establishments to convert tipped staff to hourly-wage employees.” “Initiative 77 threatens to up-end the economic foundation of D.C.’s signature hometown hospitality and nationally recognized local social amenities – and endangers the professional livelihoods and good incomes of tipped employees.” They claim the passing of Initiative 77 would result in actual incomes of tipped employees declining, for many by large amounts, a decline in customer service and harm to a major employer leading the economic engine of the city hurting the overall local economy. NO2DC77 believes the national political group financing Initiative 77 has a not-sohidden agenda – they want to end tipping. Groups for Initiative 77 like

Patriotic Millionaires likewise believes that those against the initiative are also backed by big money people placing profit over worker’s interest. “There’s another NRA wreaking havoc in America, and part of its success comes from being not nearly as recognizable as the National Rifle Association,” Morris Pearl, chair, Patriotic Millionaires said in his op-ed ‘Ignore the Lobbyist, The People Have Spoken.’ “I’m referring to the National Restaurant Association, the enormous lobbying organization that defends the interests of restaurant owners and (mostly) fast food corporations.” “This lobbying power, as well as other entities like it, has been working double-time to block Initiative 77 in D.C., and will continue to use its influence to force the District’s Council to ignore the will of the majority of voters.” With the majority of D.C. Council lawmakers opposed to the initiative, active protest and criticism — it came as no surprise when the council introduced a bill on Tuesday, July 10 for a full repeal of Initiative 77. Official votes on the bill by the council aren’t expected until September after the summer recess. WI

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Howard U. Medical Caravan Visits Haiti

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For aspiring physicians, the third year of medical school represents a transition from theory to practice. Once immersed in their studies, students have opportunities to apply what they’re learning under the watchful eye of seasoned professionals. Since the 2010 earthquake, the Howard University School of Medicine globalized the rites of passage by sending a group of students and faculty to the small Caribbean nation to assist doctors in rural communities and exchange ideas about best practices. The recent iteration of the Diasporic study tour included students born in Haiti or of Haitian descent, a number of whom ended the week more inspired to help their country people. “I saw one infant mortality because there weren’t proper tools [in the hospital],” said Sophie Jean-Felix, 26, a third-year Howard University medical student of Haitian descent who aspires to study obstetrics and gynecology. “When babies come out and don’t breathe, you intubate them, but those tools weren’t available. The child won’t be able to survive. There’s a lack of proper medical devices and other resources. It was unfortunate to see that child pass away.” Jean-Felix was among 18 Howard University School of Medicine students and faculty members who embarked on the annual Haiti International Medical Service Learning Project, a study tour that took place between June 24-30 in partnership with Howard University Hospital and the National Organization for the Advancement of

Haitians in New York. In conjunction with Haiti’s Ministry of Health and two health professional students from other universities, participants provided medical treatment at Fort-Liberté in northeastern Haiti and its surrounding communities and conducted workshops and clinical training. They also assisted with medical care and health screenings. Eligible students received academic credit. Before the Howard students arrived, Haitian medical professionals and students questioned government officials about the state of the country’s medical infrastructure. “They wanted to know what changes would be made in the infrastructure to help them continue their education,” said Shelly McDonald-Pinkett, associate professor at the Howard University College of Medicine and faculty lead for the Haiti International Medical Service Learning Project. McDonald-Pinkett, who is the first woman to serve as chief medical officer at Howard University Hospital, recounted seeing a man almost lose his leg because a minor cut became severely infected, a situation she said is indicative of significant resource gaps affecting Haitians. “Medical schools are under-resourced,” McDonald-Pinkett said. “The [Haitian] students want updated information about preventative care, HIV management and treatment, the latest recommendations for the management of diabetes and hypertension. They also inquired about research opportunities.” Since the start of the collaboration, Howard University Hospital donated an ambulance to the hospital in Fort-Liberté.

Global health organizations say Haiti’s shortage of trained physicians, medical support and affordable health care has inhibited its development, especially since the 2010 earthquake, when Haiti lost 50 medical centers, a teaching hospital and the Ministry of Health. Since a subsequent cholera outbreak, the Caribbean nation has struggled to restore its health care network and maintain access to sanitized water. Meeting the Haitian doctors and patients’ needs required bridging cultural gaps. Howard students spent much of the week before the trip learning medical terms in Creole, the language spoken in Haiti, elements of Haitian culture, and sensitivity to their counterparts’ experiences. Students such as Bertrand Vulcain, who speaks Creole fluently, helped their peers grasp the language and often served as a translator. Though he visits Haiti often, Vulcain said he saw his ancestral home in a different light while assisting doctors in Fort-Liberté. As he recounted his experience, Vulcain, raised in the U.S. for most of his life, described the patience of the Haitian people, many of whom waited untold hours before meeting a physician. “There were so many people waiting for a long time,” said Vulcain, 26. “That speaks to the resilience of the Haitian people. In the states, when we have to sit somewhere for an hour, or we don’t get the best service at a doctor or restaurant, we fuss about it. These people wait hours to see a physician. That’s something really humbling to a person living in a privileged society. WI

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EDUCATION DCPS Leaders Reinvigorate Efforts to Combat Absenteeism By Tyvan Burns WI Intern D.C’s interim deputy mayor for education faces an uphill battle in combating chronic absenteeism — a dilemma playing out across the nation and one that puts nearly half of all high school students in line for dropping out instead of graduating. Stressing the importance of attendance and the continued efforts

of the Every Day Counts initiative, the deputy, Ahnna Smith, and city officials are gearing up for a new school year with the importance of attendance as a core theme. “We need everyone in our community to know that going to school every day is critical to our students realizing their hopes and dreams — and that all of us have a role to play,” Smith told The Informer. “It takes all of us — fami-

lies, schools and communities — to ensure students get to school every day, on time. That’s why we are asking everyone to consider how they can help, whether as a government partner, a business owner, or a neighbor.” According to the Every Day Counts Taskforce, missing just 10 percent of the school year in early grades can leave many students struggling throughout elementary school. By sixth grade, missing 18 days a year is strongly linked to dropping out of high school. In the District, one of every four students — equating to roughly 18,000 — are chronically absent, and in high school, the rate jumps to one of every two students. And while there is a fine line of distinction between absenteeism and truancy, Aurora Steinle, program coordinator for Every Day Counts, said the city’s focus on absenteeism helps reset the gauge to focus on helping students rather than punishment. “Focusing on chronic absentee-

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5 The District is moving to counter excessive absenteeism through community efforts and awareness initiatives. /Courtesy photo

ism, as opposed to truancy, better conceptualizes the issue of missed learning time, which is what really matters,” Steinle said. “When focusing on truancy, you are only seeing half of the picture.” Attendance Works, a national initiative that works to improve school attendance, found that policymakers often recommend punitive consequences for truancy such as suspensions, jail time and fines for children and parents. The initiative distinguishes truancy from absenteeism, which incorporates all excused and unexcused absences, including suspensions. The initiative recognizes that students miss school due to many understandable issues such as asthma or homelessness or unreliable transportation, for which a punitive response is not appropriate. It focuses instead on the academic consequences of this lost instructional time and on preventing absences before students miss so much school that they fall behind. Daily attendance data reported to Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) for the 20162017 school year revealed that 27.3 percent of students were chronically absent, and 25.5 percent of students were truant. Both numbers are up from the previous school year, when 26.3 percent and 21.4 percent of students were chronically absent or truant, respectively. Pamela Harrington, 17, an Every Day Counts student representative from Eastern High School, said more support and better teachers can decrease the rates of absenteeism, adding that the shifting demographic of teachers has affected absenteeism. “I feel as though teachers impact a student just as much as their parents,” Pamela said. “The students look to them for guidance and some teachers are not willing to give

it to them.” Steinle said that a lack of transportation, homelessness, and death within families are some of the causes of absenteeism within the District. Every Day Counts partners with health care officials to address physical and mental health challenges students face. The organization also collaborates with District Department of Transportation on transportation programs such as Kids Ride Free (KRF), which allows students to ride for free on Metrobus, the DC Circulator, and Metrorail within the District to get to school and school-related activities. For the upcoming school year, students must obtain new KRF SmarTrip cards to access public transportation. Card distribution events will be held this summer in every ward. Current active KRF DC One Cards can be used for public transportation through Sept. 30. Students from various schools such as Democracy Prep Congress Heights Charter School and Sousa Middle School have been recognized and rewarded for improved attendance, Steinle said. “This is positive and more impactful,” she said. “Four middle school students with improved attendance were able to design a pair of their own sneakers from Nike, Adidas, or Converse. Also, 10 graduating high school seniors who improved their attendance received free laptops for college. Through the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreations, Luke C. Moore Academy students were rewarded with a pool party, and students in elementary, middle, and high school with improved attendances also won bicycles and helmets.” For more information, go to attendance.dc.gov. WI

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Diverse Film Series Makes Stop in DMV AFI Hosts Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival Preview By Brenda C. Siler WI Contributing Writer A collection of first-run features and documentaries filled a four-day film series at the AFI Silver Theatre and Culture Center (AFI Silver) in downtown Silver Spring. The event was a collaboration between Run&Shoot Filmworks the annual Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival (MVAAFF), the Color of Conversation and AFI Silver. The festival was designed to bring attention to independent and established filmmakers of color. Screenings were followed by panel discussions with filmmakers and those featured in some of the films. “We’ve always done the Color of Conversation as a sidebar to our other film events,” said Stephanie Tavares Lance, co-founder of MVAAFF and Run&Shoot Filmworks. “Since so many people come to Martha’s Vineyard for the Film Festival from the D.C. area, it made sense to create a film event for this area.” Four films were screened for the Run&Shoot/Color of Conversation Film Series at the AFI. Some of these films and many others will be screened at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival scheduled for Aug. 6-11.

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Looking at the rise of African Americans in contemporary politics, it is often said that before Barack Obama, there was Maynard Holbrook Jackson. That could be be-

cause he was a cool, commanding, confident presence who steered Atlanta through a lot of economic and political progress. The documentary “Maynard,” which premiered last fall in Atlanta, focuses on Jackson, the first African-American mayor of Atlanta. He was born into a family that valued education and political activism. His maternal grandfather was civil rights leader John Wesley Dobbs, who worked to successfully overturn the White primary in Georgia which were comparable to today’s voter suppression and gerrymandering methods. Delta Airlines is now showing the documentary on in-flight domestic and international flights until Nov. 1. The documentary is also available for rent or purchase on Amazon, YouTube, Vimeo, iTunes and Google Play.

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How do you reconcile the adverse predicaments you always find yourself in with your childhood friend? It’s difficult when you perceive that friend to be “your boy” who you feel has always been there for you — or has he? That is the dilemma for Colin, who is in his final three days of parole in the dramedy “Blindspotting.” Set in Oakland, “Blindspotting” is co-written, co-produced by real-life childhood friends Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, who also star in

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EDITORIAL New Stadium, Empty Fields Mayor Muriel Bowser cut the ribbon for the new D.C. United Audi Stadium at Buzzard Point in Southwest, marking the beginning of a new era for the local soccer team. The stadium includes 20,000 seats, will attract one million new visitors to the area and is expected to generate $1.6 billion “in total economic activity over the life of the stadium,” according to a press release. It is difficult not to celebrate the achievements of our city that have resulted in D.C. being both labeled and lauded as the best of the best in so many ways. However, new stadiums and other developments emerging East of the Anacostia River also serve as monuments to the racial and economic divide growing in the nation’s capital. Soccer, or football as it is commonly called outside of the U.S., has more than 240 million people who play the sport – a competitive game that has evolved from participants kicking an animal skin-covered ball in an open field to today’s high stakes World Cup, televised in every country around the world. Sponsors spend huge sums to brand stadiums and team gear for this global sport that includes a diverse roster of talented players who hail from every continent on the planet. Still, in the nation’s capital, D.C. United leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to substantive outreach efforts to neighboring communities where they could introduce the sport to children who live just a stone’s throw away from the $400 million stadium as it prepares to open its doors in Southwest this week. Less than two miles away, at Ballou Senior High School, stands a two-year-old beautifully-designed soccer field that has never had a game played on it. The school lacks both a soccer team or a coach – a real tragedy when one considers that youth make up more than 50 percent of the population in Ward 8 – the ward in which Ballou is located. This is an abomination and D.C. United officials should be embarrassed to tout their new stadium when young people across this city are routinely overlooked despite a Major League Soccer mandated diversity initiative. Even this newspaper was allegedly rebuffed because the market which the Washington Informer serves was said not to lineup with the those targeted by D.C. United. Does that mean African Americans aren’t interested in soccer? Definitely not true. We wish the same success to D.C. United that we extend to the Capitals, the Nationals, the Wizards, the Mystics, the Washington football team and any others representing the District. But we predict that management will have to change their attitude if they expect the team to achieve its future revenue goals. WI

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No Escape for Blacks from Cameras

Black Men: Keep Eye on Health

I am absolutely not surprised at the story “Traffic Cameras More Prevalent in District’s Black Neighborhoods” by Tatyana Hopkins. We always seem to get the short end of the stick and done wrong. The sad thing is that these are policies sent down by the government, so I don’t know what we are supposed to do to fight this. I think the Black and White council members in the District who represent us should do something about this. These are the issues that affect us on an everyday basis. We have to challenge our lawmakers on this issue.

I really enjoyed the Men’s Health Tips in your paper this week. I thought it was excellent advice and I passed it along to my husband. It’s important for me as a wife to know about my husband’s health as he gets up in age and vice versa. As a woman there are tons of things geared to us about beauty, health, relationships, but for men there is hardly anything for them to pick up in their idle time about the same subjects, especially Black men. Keep informing us and doing right by our community!

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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS Guest Columnist

By Julianne Malveaux

Roland Martin Pleading Our Case Kudos to Roland Martin, the pioneering journalist who has taken his departure from TV One and turned it into a digital platform. He’ll be back with a daily program, but he’ll be online instead of traditional media. He has financing from AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and he is also hoping for funding from us, the folks who say they miss the program

and say they want unfiltered news. From his website, www.rolandmartin.com, you can join his #BringtheFunk support group and help Roland bring the funk! Roland has had it with the traditional media, and he is right to point out the lack of commentators and hosts on conventional media — the networks and the “key” cable outlets. Many of those folks have to toe the line and can’t be but so “controversial.” But sometimes one person’s controversy is another person’s truth. The corporate media squirms with journalists call our

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45th president on his many lies because some of them are still currying favor with him. And unless light shines on the filth that is occurring in Washington, it will continue. Forty-five said he would “drain the swamp,” but he has become one of the world’s great alligators, profiting from his presidency both through ties to China (even as he imposes tariffs), through his many name-branded hotels, and through all kinds of other shady deals. Chicago Crusader Publisher Dorothy Leavell chairs the board of the National Newspaper Pub-

lishers Association (NNPA). At the organization’s June conference, she convened a panel that focused on fake news and the Black press. I was privileged to participate with National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) President Sarah Glover, pugnacious attorney A. Scott Bolden and marketing expert Deborah Gray-Young. I think that fake news is not only about the Trump shenanigans and lies, but also about that which is unreported or distorted. For example, how come every time a white person shoots up a classroom, movie

theatre, or public space, the focus is on their “mental illness,” while whenever a Black person commits a crime of any sort, the focus is on criminality. Why has Rev. Barber’s Poor People’s campaign been so underreported, and why was the June 12 shackling of faith leaders outside Supreme Court wholly ignored by the mainstream (and even the sidestream) media? Why has there been so little focus on the economic status of African-American people, except when 45 crows about all the

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By Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.

Arrogant Supreme Court Tramples the Law to Service the Rich

We are witnessing an astounding attack on democracy by the five male right-wing majority of the Supreme Court — “black-robed rulers,” Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan called them, “overruling citizens’ choices” in a series of 5-4 decisions. These are right-wing lawless judges ignoring the laws and will of our elected representatives and

trampling the dictates of legal precedent. Their arrogance seems to have no bounds. The damage that they have already done to our democracy is profound. The most recent 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court was the case of Janus v. AFSCME. The majority, throwing out the laws of state legislatures and legal precedent, ruled that state legislatures cannot authorize public employee unions to collect a fee for the cost of bargaining and representing workers who benefit from the negotiations but don’t

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want to join the union. Protecting freeloaders seems bizarre, but the court’s ideologues are interested less in upholding the law and far more in weakening the workers’ voice as represented by unions. Now in states across the nation, right-wing corporate funded groups will launch campaigns to get workers to quit their unions in the hope of dramatically weakening the voice of teachers, sanitation workers, police officers and firefighters. The decision is but one of many undermining our democracy. A

right-wing majority gutted the Voting Rights Act in Shelby v. Holder. This term, the five upheld Texas redistricting that lower courts found discriminated against minority voters. In Citizens United, five conservative judges — again ignoring law and precedent — held that corporations could not be prohibited from spending money in elections. Somehow corporations, they suggested, had the same political rights as citizens. The gang of five has also systematically favored corporate rights over

women’s rights, gay rights, consumer and environmental protection. That the Congress — elected by the people — passes laws expressing different values doesn’t deter them. They have elevated themselves as “black-robed rulers,” legislating their own choices from the bench. Now Justice Anthony Kennedy has chosen to resign, apparently timing his announcement so President Trump can use the fight over his successor to rouse his base in the

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By Marc H. Morial

SCOTUS Pick Can’t Be Made Under Cloud of Distrust

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” — James Madison, Federalist 47, 1788 Article Two, Section 2, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution directs the president, “by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate,” to appoint judges of the Supreme Court.” It doesn’t outline when, or un-

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der what conditions the Senate may consent. It doesn’t say how many days from an Election Day or during months ending in Y or only when Venus is in retrograde. The Framers of the Constitution expected the duly-elected and sworn members of the United States Senate to exercise their best judgment regarding lifetime appointments to the nation’s highest court — not to play partisan games or use it to score political points. That the Senate failed those expectations miserably when it came to the nomination of Merrick Garland in 2016 is hardly in dispute. The nomination will stand and as one of the worst ex-

amples of dereliction of duty in the Senate’s history. Until, possibly, the one about to come before it. The president of the United States is under investigation by a special counsel. His advisers have openly floated the possibility of his pardoning himself. The question of whether a sitting president can be indicted is vigorously debated in public. The legality and validity of summonses and subpoenas issued to the president are being challenged. The Supreme Court will decide these issues, and the president must not be permitted to choose the justice who may cast the deciding votes in his own case.

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There’s no rule about that, because the Senate is expected to exercise judgment in its duties. Supreme Court nominations long have been seen and treated across the political spectrum as an opportunity for the president to advance his — or one day, her — ideological agenda. Until Garland’s nomination, this was accepted as a president’s prerogative. Liberals are bound to oppose a conservative appointee’s positions on the issues and vice versa. This nomination is far different. Whether the president to appoint a justice who will almost certainly rule on issues affecting the president’s own case is hard-

ly a partisan issue. But there are other solid reasons why the Senate should withhold consent to a Supreme Court appointment at this moment in history. The president has expressed a shocking and unprecedented demand that his appointees and those who serve in his administration pledge their loyalty to him, and not to the nation. Leaders of his party in the Senate have adopted that fealty, partly out of political cowardice. There is almost no chance that a Supreme Court justice appointee by this president, confirmed by this Senate, can be expected

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By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.

Trump Attacks Black Press with Tariffs on Canadian Newsprint

Amid the rush to comprehend the ramifications of a full-scale international trade war initiated by the errant and backward tariff policies of the Trump administration, there are results of the tariffs that need to be challenged by Black America. The financial sustainability of the Black Press of America is now facing a catastrophic and possible deadly im-

pact because of these new tariffs. The current dispute over the rising costs of the paper product termed “newsprint,” because of tariffs on Canadian newsprint threatens the future of member publishers of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) and could further isolate and disenfranchise African-American businesses and communities in cities and towns across the United States. Import duties the U.S. Commerce Department is now ap-

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plying to Canadian-made newsprint is already increasing costs enough to prompt layoffs and scaled-back news coverage by some of the nation’s major dailies and weekly publications. If these tariffs remain in place, scores of newspapers with smaller circulations, notably those that serve African-American communities, could be forced to cease publishing a print edition or close altogether. During the past 191 years, the Black Press has survived, endured

and overcome past firebombing and improvised explosive attacks, as well as other deadly manifestations of racial violence. The newsprint tariffs appear to have been put in place by the Trump administration after being encouraged by the interests of a single paper mill in Washington state called NORPAC. NORPAC argues that Canadian government policies give Canadian paper producers an unfair advantage in the U.S. market. NORPAC says the added duties,

or tariffs, at the border are protecting it. NORPAC can fight for its self-interest but the U.S. government has an obligation to consider the impact the tariffs are having on the nation as a whole, and in particular the impact on African-American-owned newspapers and businesses. We forthrightly oppose the Trump tariffs on newsprint and demand an end to the disastrous trade policies that are hurting our

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By William Reed

Jesse Jackson: The Most Important Figure in Black Economic History

Who has had economic impact across black communities like Jesse Jackson? Jesse Jackson is one of the most influential African-Americans of the late 20th century. Over the past half-century, he has played a pivotal role in Black Americans’ equality, empowerment, equality and economic and social justice. Jackson, a Presidential Medal

of Freedom recipient who has a net worth estimated at $10 million, means something to everyone, and that something varies greatly from person to person. Black publishers see Jesse as one of the most important figures in American Blacks’ economic history. Rising to prominence working within Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), he founded People United to Save Humanity (PUSH) in 1971, pressing for broader employment oppor-

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tunities for African Americans. Beyond his forays into national politics, Jackson has made the most Black millionaires. He has gained worldwide acclaim as a civil rights activist, Baptist minister and politician who was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988. He served on the national level as shadow U.S. senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997 in one of two special unpaid “statehood senator” posts to lobby the U.S.

Congress. Black Press publishers recently honored Jackson at the annual NNPA convention for motivating Blacks to engage in all aspects of business and sustaining in those operations. Jackson helped Blacks’ economic advancement on Wall Street, with covenants, franchises and distributorships honed his activist skills while attending Black college North Carolina A&T, where he became active in local civil rights protests against segregated libraries,

theaters and restaurants. In 1966, King headed the Chicago SCLC’s economic arm, Operation Breadbasket Operation. Influenced by the example of Philadelphia’s Rev. Leon Sullivan, Jackson utilized the bargaining power of African American church leaders and their congregations to foster “selective buying” (boycotts) to pressure White businesses to open up private sector jobs to Blacks. The boycott movement

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By Askia Muhammad

Little Chance for Great American Future Now

The United States of America is a dangerously divided land, headed for doom. A recent national opinion poll reported that a shocking 49 percent of the total U.S. population believes that President Donald J. Trump is a “racist.” On the other hand, 47 percent don’t think he’s such a bad guy at all. That figure practically reflects the exact outcome of the 2016 presidential election. Hillary Rodham Clinton received 3 million more votes than did The

Trumpster, about 49 percent to 47 percent of the votes cast, but Trump won, fair and square. And now, the population remains riven along those same lines 18 months later. What’s not talked about in this equation, however, is the reality that the 49 percent plurality includes practically all the Black folks and all the Latinos on one side with a small minority of liberal Whites. Among Trump’s 47 percent, however, is a vast majority of “ordinary” White folks. Whites are on one side. Black people are on the other. For example, in 2016, while “only” 40-some-percent of col-

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lege-educated White women voted for The Donald, more than 60 percent of White women without college supported him. That’s 53 percent overall White FEMALE support for Trump! That is important because those women didn’t care that Dude is a philandering, misogynistic, narcissistic, egomaniac with nearly as many divorces as he’s had bankruptcies. Even White evangelicals, the so-called “values voters,” chose this guy despite his abundant and clearly visible low values and corrupt morals. The same with White workers, now being whipped by the effects of his tax policy—helping the

bosses and owners at the expense of everyone else. Most of them still insist that his approach will turn their downtrodden condition into a land of milk and honey. White workers love Trump because, deep down in the heart of White America, they don’t just resent us, they literally hate Black folks. As for the titans of capitalism and the farmers: they took the billions in tax cuts from Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress to give bonuses to the management and to buy back stock from their shareholders. Those guys are now reeling from the trade war and tariffs this guy has imposed. They are hopeful

that hard times will pass soon and their gravy train will return. Today, White folks are showing Blacks “the back of their hand” the way they did in antebellum times. Their hateful conduct — which is otherwise comical in today’s headlines — has been magnified by social media: #StarbucksWhileBlack, #WaffleHouseWhileBlack, #BBQWhileBlack, #SwimmingWhileBlack. Sorority women, fraternity men — every possible ordinary behavior by Black folks has seen some White person call the police because they feel threatened or uncomfortable. These are the

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LIFESTYLE Visitors Flock to New Walters Art Museum

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer

At 1 West Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore, visitors now have a unique opportunity to explore the Walters Art Museum’s stunning 19th-century mansion, which opened with a free community celebration.

Attendees gain knowledge of the untold stories of enslaved and paid laborers through an enormous collection of exhibits, vases, dishes, books, and other artifacts that adorn the mansion. The talent of artist Roberto Lugo is displayed as are those of the Walters staff which are clearly seen in the Greek Revival man-

sion that was constructed as the home of John Hanson Thomas, the great-grandson of the Continental Congress. “There was probably a half-dozen enslaved people who lived in the house at first,” said Eleanor Hughes, the museum’s deputy director and project curator, as she pointed to a door that once led to the basement kitchen and quarters of the house’s cook, Sybby Grant. “The focus is to tell the stories of the people who lived and worked here,” Hughes said. The museum’s collection spans more than seven millennia, from 5,000 BCE to the 21st century, and encompasses 36,000 objects from around the world, museum officials said. Visitors will encounter a stunning panorama of thousands of years of art, from romantic 19th-century images of French gardens to mesmerizing Ethiopian icons, richly illuminated

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Qur’ans and Gospel books, ancient Roman sarcophagi, and serene images of the Buddha. The history of the house also counts as intriguing. “The Thomas family built 1 West; the family of Francis Mankin Jencks lived here the longest; and in the 1960s and 1970s, Harry Gladding brought the house back to life,” Hughes said, noting that the information is also available through a new app that museum has created to give visitors an interactive experience. The app reveals that the Jencks family had five children, two of whom were born at home in the northeast bedroom on the second floor. Several paid servants also lived in the house on the third floor and in an apartment above the Carriage House. During the Civil War, Maryland played a key role as a border state between North and South and slavery was legal in the state, dividing the population between those who supported the Union and those who were on the side of the Confederacy. Dr. John Hanson Thomas was a representative in the Maryland Legislature and voted for secession of the Confederate states from the United States, while his wife wrote letters that revealed her political activities. She collected donations and clothing for both imprisoned Confederate soldiers and civilians and helped raise money to build a tomb for Gen. Robert E. Lee. Perhaps the most inspiring exhibits are those that depict the life of Sybby Grant, who cooked for the Thomas family. On display is a letter to Dr.

Thomas while he was imprisoned. The letter is displayed in the dining area of the house where Lugo’s “Seat at the Table” exhibit pays homage to Grant. “It was students at the Baltimore School for the Arts who first mentioned Grant’s name to us,” Hughes said. “The students learned of this letter from Baltimore Heritage, which is a historical preservation group who included Grant’s story in a tour they conducted.” Hughes said museum officials quickly moved to obtain the letter, which they tracked to a book dealer in Philadelphia. The museum then began documenting Grant’s life. On Dec. 6, 1861, Grant wrote to Dr. Thomas. “My Friend,” is how she addressed her slave master. In part, the letter read, “I miss you very much indeed. I hope the time will soon come when you will be restored to your family again for I will ever hold you as a friend of mine.” Historians noted that Grant was proud of her superior cooking abilities and noted it in the letter. “Whenever I cook a good dinner I wish you was here to enjoy it,” she wrote. “Those terrapins I cooked, I done them in style, for you know that no one can do them like I can.” Lugo said he was moved by Grant’s story and decided to create a set of glazed fine china emblazoned with a black crest designed in her honor. “This is Sybby Grant’s seat at the table,” Lugo said. Admission and its special exhibits are free. WI

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Roberto Lugo – Not Your Ordinary Artist By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer Roberto Lugo isn’t your ordinary artist. He’s a young professor of Puerto Rican descent who proudly wears a baseball cap -- frontward, backward and to the side -- while donning a slick dress jacket and a pair of baggy jeans. The Philadelphia-based ceramicist whom the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore commissioned to create works of art and participate in programming for the reopening of the historic Mount Vernon building, waxed poetically in his artist’s statement about his attire. “I got my hat turned backwards because the sun don’t shine here, loose jeans to fit all this baggage that I carry … I am a potter, activist, culture-maker, rapper, poet and educator,” he said. His works are eye-catching and when the museum opens on Saturday, June 16, the pieces will undoubtedly foster considerable conversation. Lugo’s works combine the forms and traditions he previously observed in the Walters’ collection with contemporary color and imagery. The elegant shapes of Sèvres porcelain are echoed in vases that also feature the “Fred Collection,” with figures like Frederick Douglass and Freddie Gray, the Baltimore man who died in police custody in 2015. “I think like most artists you kind of have a fear of being exploited or someone offering you an opportunity just because you’re a person of color,” Lugo said. “I wanted to be myself and say what was on my mind in an unfiltered way. What was great is that the Walters Museum had a scholar that worked with 19th century decorative art and we were sitting there one night looking at porcelain and it was like an underground hip-hop battle,” he said.

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Among the end results were the Enjoy interesting driving and walking tours using “Fred Collection” and the “Seat at the Washington, DC Driving/Walking Tours App. the Table” to honor Sybby Grant, the enslaved but proud cook who The GPS tour guide app automatically plays the tour site audio as you drive or walk served at the very building, 1 West, during the 19th century. past the tour site using your smart phone. The 4 tours include over 60 tour site The “Fred” also features a “Fred” audio and videos that can be played during the tour or at home. from television sitcom history: Fred Sanford. “Fred Sanford of course being Redd DOWNLOAD IN THE APP STORE OR GOOGLE PLAY Foxx because I knew Foxx as Fred Sanford all of my life. I was trying to connect where we are today and when this house was built,” Lugo said. “I didn’t want to participate if I couldn’t talk about Freddie Gray and the part of Baltimore that wouldn’t normally be included. I started to think about people named Fred and the folks who have made a significant impact in our culture – those who carry one name and the amount of people who went throughOVG2 slaveryCapitol Entertainment Services - Half Page.indd 1 and those who never had a chance to make an impact.” In his homage to Grant, Lugo created a set of plates with a monogram of her initials and visual references to the dishes in which she took so much pride. At one time, porcelain was considered more expensive than gold and only the wealthy and those with prestige could own such items, Lugo said. “But people like Sybby Grant and the way she existed with grace, allowed me to go to college and to be able to make this work,” he said. “We are owners of this museum. This is our museum and not just the folks who literally do own it. Because of the work of Sybby Grant and Frederick Douglass and others, I’m now able to make a set of china with the little that I know about Sybby Grant who was proud of her craft in terms of her cooking and I was careful not to contrive anything or to speak in her behalf.” “The china represents her seat at the table and when I say her seat, I mean all of ours because this is a museum for all of us,” Lugo said. WI

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Author Links Present with Civil Rights Movement By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer

5Book cover /Photo courtesy Amazon 3Kevin Shird /Photo courtesy of Kevin Shird

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Like most Maryland-born residents, Kevin Shird has a story to tell. Raised in West Baltimore and in poverty, Shird dealt drugs at the age of 16 and later spent nearly a dozen years in prison — ironically, the place where he said he first developed his writing skills. “There, I started helping other inmates who either didn’t know how to read or didn’t know how to write, and later I became an instructor in a prison GED program helping guys get their GED before they were released,” he said. Today, Shird is a three-time published author, writer, and social activist and he has many talking about his latest book, “The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movements; Conversations Between an MLK Jr. Confidant and a Modern-Day Activist.” As the editors at Apollo Publishers note, the 240-page book features extraordinary conversations between a confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. and Shird, who’s known as a modern-day activist. It leads to the game-changing realizations that a second-wave civil rights movement is unfolding and the lessons of the past to effect lasting change must be now be embraced. “It’s a book that talks about civil rights then and social justice now, how we connect the dots between yesterday and today,” Shird said. “Back then, there was the KKK. Today, there is the white nationalists. Back then, it was the murder of Emmett Till, Medgar Evers and Jimmy Lee Jackson. Today, we have the unjust killing of Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin and Freddie Gray. “Back then there was the bombing of the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and today there is the Charleston church massacre in South Carolina,” he said. “The similarities are eerie.” The book also tells the story of Nelson Malden, who once served as King’s personal barber. “I was inspired to write the book after meeting [Malden] when he was visiting Baltimore in 2016,” Shird said. “He gave me his telephone number and I called him a few days later and we began talking

about the time he spent with Dr. King in Montgomery. He also began to talk about the Jim Crow laws and how they negatively affected African Americans during those years.” A short time later, Shird visited Montgomery where he and Malden toured historical sites like King’s former home, the corner where Rosa Parks was arrested on the bus and other significant places. “While I was there I became even more inspired to travel down the long road to write this book, which took about 10 months,” Shird said. “I realized at that time that this would be a very important book at a very important time in America.” Malden counted as the first Black man to ever run for political office in the city of Montgomery, Alabama. Before 1966 no Black man had ever run for political office. Shird said that was a very important time in Montgomery, the epicenter of the American civil rights movement. “Nelson put his life on the line during a very important time in American history,” Shird said. Born in Pensacola, Florida, and an Alabama State College graduate, Malden cut King’s hair for more than a decade and he opened the Malden Brothers barbershop with family members in 1954. “Because of segregation, the Black barber was a very important place where Blacks congregated,” Shird said, adding that Malden also worked distributing the Southern Carrier newspaper, one of just a handful of newspapers in the South during the Jim Crow era that was geared towards the concerns of Black people. Shird, who’s currently finalizing a deal to become lead screenwriter on an as-yet-titled Hollywood film, said he believes his latest book can help young ones connect the dots between today and history. “I’m hoping that this book will help motivate African Americans to activate and stay engaged by either voting, protesting and organizing,” he said. “I really feel like this is a great time to be Black in America and an opportunity to make a historical difference. It’s a great time to rise up and become a leader in the community. A great time to embrace the young people around us and help them acquire their dreams. It’s a great time for the Black culture. We just have to believe in ourselves and our ability.” WI

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It would be an understatement to say that “Sorry to Bother You” has been a much-anticipated movie. It’s the first film for director/screenwriter Boots Riley, who channeled his ‘90s activist roots as a Bay Area rapper. The comedy features lead character Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield), who struggles in his new telemarketing job until co-worker Langston (Danny Glover) coaches him to use his “White voice.” Cassius’ sales increase, but he struggles internally, as well as with his revolutionary-minded girlfriend, who, along with co-workers, give him grief about selling out. “Sorry to Bother You,” nominated

for the 2018 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, is currently in theaters.

SOULFUL STEPS: A SOUL LINE DANCE JOURNEY WITH J&J

“Soulful Steps: A Soul Line Dance Journey with J&J” follows James and Jackie Rice (J&J), a West Coast couple and creators of “CaliJam,” the first and biggest soul line dance convention, as they energetically develop a following that influences line dance groups nationwide. Based in Los Angeles, the couple

guides a diverse group in mastering the steps at that week’s line dance session at First AME (FAME) Church. A line dance session at a church fits James and Jackie, as these retirees are evangelists for the dance style. This documentary will continue to make the film festival rounds, while Burton-Oare determines other viewing and distribution options. For now, soul line dance lovers can go to the Facebook page for “Soulful Steps: A Soul Line Dance Journey with J&J.” For the full version of this story, go to washingtoninformer.com. WI

5James and Jackie Rice lead a dance session in “Soulful Steps: A Soul Line Dance Journey with J&J.” /Courtesy photo

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ARIES There could be plenty going on around you, yet you may be conscious of a need for change. This might be focused on your home situation, as well as your personal goals or career plans. With a solar eclipse in your domestic sector this week, you could sense certain tensions building. And with potent Pluto involved in the mix, powerful emotions could come to the fore as well. You might feel it’s time for a change of direction, and this decision could affect aspects of your home life and plans. Lucky Numbers: 21, 31, 37

“Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams”

TAURUS Luscious Venus, your guide planet, moves into Virgo and your leisure sector on Monday, encouraging you to kick back and take time out to enjoy yourself. The coming weeks can be your chance to indulge in creative activities and enjoy some romantic outings. When it comes to the exchange of ideas, this week’s solar eclipse in your communication sector could inspire you to take a stand. If someone seems to be pressuring you to take up on offer or follow certain ideas, it’s time to be firm. Lucky Numbers: 17, 40, 55

by Lesa Cline-Ransome illustrated by James E. Ransome c.2018, Simon & Schuster $17.99 ($23.99 Canada) 48 pages

GEMINI While you might be making new connections and enjoying the conversations you’re having along the way, this week could have a more changeable side. This could be due to the solar eclipse in your money zone and its connection to powerful Pluto. If you have plans but can’t get financial backing, or you feel pressured in any way by banks or other institutions, this could encourage you to do something positive. Lucky Numbers: 18, 20, 23

Game Changers By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer Those are the rules. Every game has them, and rules are mostly helpful. They make it clear how to play and who can win — although sometimes, they don’t make any sense. Sometimes, they’re downright dumb and in “Game Changers” by Lesa Cline-Ransome, illustrated by James E. Ransome, those rules are made to be grand-slammed. Serena and Venus Williams were about a year and a half apart in age but were “as close as two sisters could be.” Wherever you’d find Serena, you’d find Venus. Where Venus was, there was Serena — especially on the tennis court. Before the sun was up most days, the Williams girls were awake and standing on the court in their Compton neighborhood, getting rid of trash and broken glass so they could practice their serves and backhands. People laughed at their father, Richard, because he believed that his youngest daughters could get themselves out of Compton, but he held fast to the dream. When most kids were outside playing, Venus and Serena would practice. When they weren’t practicing with “secondhand” equipment, they ran laps and took ballet lessons. They also had to learn to drop to the ground quickly because of gangs and gun violence in their neighborhood. But that all paid off by age 10 for Venus, who had won “every single one of her sixty-three junior tournaments” up to that point, and Serena was “not far behind.” At 14, Venus played professionally. A year later, Serena did the same thing. Fans were astounded at the girls’ talents but some people were upset when they saw two Black girls in what had been “a nearly all-White sport.” Venus and Serena’s father had anticipated that, though: years before, he hired kids from the neighborhood to yell every nasty thing they could think of and his daughters learned to ignore them. In 1998, the Williams sisters faced one another for the first time, but it wouldn’t be the last. It didn’t matter then that Venus won — Serena’s time would come and when it was her turn to beat her sister, Venus cheered as loud as everyone else, just as she still does today. For a child — especially one who’s laser-focused on a sport or a dream — there are few books out there that are as inspirational as “Game Changers.” Just be aware of the age of said child before you give this book. Truly, there’s no mistaking the message inside here. Author Lesa Cline-Ransome makes it clear that the Williams sisters’ determination was how they got where they are, and the afterword fills in a lot of blanks. That’s great, if you’re an adult or older child so beware: don’t let the illustrations — colorful, wonderful artwork by James E. Ransome — fool you. See them, and you might think this is a book for smaller children but, really, it’s more for bigger kids. Even so, with the right approach, the message will sink in, so let this book grow with your preschooler while your grade-schooler absorbs it now. For kids who love tennis or need a stick-to-it-iveness reminder, “Game Changers” is a great match. WI WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM

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CANCER Delightful Venus moves into your sector of talk and thought on Monday, so the coming days can help to smooth over any difficulties you may be having with others. It can also be a great asset for networking and marketing your goods and services with a smile. Even so, you could have a sense of anticipation. There is a solar eclipse in your sign on Thursday that will be building all week. This can indicate the potential for change and perhaps a chance to free yourself from a dominating influence. Lucky Numbers: 24, 33, 41 LEO You could be ready to indulge in a spending spree as sultry Venus moves into Virgo and your money zone on Monday. If it’s associated with getting healthier, you are certainly on the right track. In addition, positive Jupiter in your home zone turns direct on Tuesday, which means if you have any plans involving real estate, the coming weeks can be a chance to put them into action. The same goes for any major remodeling jobs, too. Lucky Numbers: 12, 19, 29 VIRGO With delectable Venus moving into your sign on Monday, your impulse may be to reach out to others, especially those you haven’t seen in a time. This might also be an opportunity to reinvent your image so that it better expresses your identity and personality and any related changes. In addition, jovial Jupiter in your communication sector turns direct on Tuesday, which can give great impetus to any deals or plans you have in the works.. Lucky Numbers: 30, 43, 47 LIBRA Delectable Venus, your ruling planet, moves into Virgo and your spiritual sector on Monday, which could inspire you to volunteer your time. You might feel moved to assist at charity events or help someone in need. You might also be eager to connect with people on your spiritual wavelength. On the financial front, positive Jupiter pushes forward on Tuesday, and this could be helpful regarding your cash flow. If you have been building a business, you may now see the fruits of your labor. Lucky Numbers: 3, 15, 22 SCORPIO With lively Mercury in your career zone, this week and coming weeks can be an opportunity to showcase your expertise and let others know what you can do. At the same time, with desirable Venus moving into your social sector on Monday, this area of your life could have extra sparkle, with romantic opportunities in the offing, too. Lucky Numbers: 9, 13, 44 SAGITTARIUS Your sector of goals and career comes into focus on Monday as convivial Venus moves in. Her presence here could inspire you to take stock of available resources as you push forward with your plans. This can also be a very good influence for business in general, helping to smooth the way during negotiations. In addition, upbeat Jupiter, your guide planet, turns direct on Tuesday, which could encourage you to pay more attention to your dreams and any intuitive nudges. Lucky Numbers: 8, 26, 57 CAPRICORN This month could be quite intense in more ways than one, particularly with chatty Mercury in a deeply emotional sector of your chart for some time to come. Its presence here could encourage you to be curious about the deeper workings of your subconscious and what this might mean for you. At the same time, beautiful Venus moves into Virgo and your sector of travel and exploration on Monday, which could bring a love adventure your way or add sizzle to a current partnership. Lucky Numbers: 16, 49, 57 AQUARIUS You and your partner or significant other could have a lot to talk about, but this can be a good thing and may help clear the air if necessary. Lovely Venus moves into your sector of shares assets, business, and intimacy, so getting closer to your partner could rekindle the flame of passion. Where business is concerned, the presence of diplomatic Venus here can ease the way in negotiations.. Lucky Numbers: 7, 13, 31 PISCES Your love life looks positively glowing this month as sultry Venus moves into Virgo and your relationship zone on Monday. Her presence here can add sweetness to your partnership and bring romance to new bonds. In addition, expansive Jupiter turns direct in your travel and exploration zone, making this a perfect time to book a vacation or plan a travel adventure. Lucky Numbers: 9, 11, 17

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3Washington Nationals shortstop Trea Turner slides back to first base ahead of a pickoff attempt as Boston Red Sox first baseman Steve Pearce awaits the throw during Boston’s 3-0 win at Nationals Park in Southeast on Wednesday, July 4. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Red Sox Blank Nats in July 4 Matinee

5Boston Red Sox right fielder Mookie Betts is forced out at second base as Washington Nationals shortstop Trea Turner attempts to complete a double play during Boston’s 3-0 win at Nationals Park in Southeast on Wednesday, July 4. /Photo by John E. De Freitas 3Boston Red Sox right fielder Mookie Betts grounds out to third as Washington Nationals first baseman Mark Reynolds collects the throw during the third inning of Boston’s 3-0 win at Nationals Park in Southeast on Wednesday, July 4. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

5Washington Nationals first baseman Mark Reynolds awaits a pickoff throw as Boston Red Sox third baseman Rafeal Devers gets back to base first during Boston’s 3-0 win at Nationals Park in Southeast on Wednesday, July 4. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Mystics Drop Liberty at Home

5Washington Mystics guard Tayler Hill shoots over New York Liberty guard Sugar Rodgers during the Mystics’ 86-67 win at Capital One Arena in Northwest on Thursday, July 5. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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5Washington Mystics guard Ariel Atkins drives past New York Liberty guard Shavonte Zellous during the Mystics’ 86-67 win at Capital One Arena in Northwest on Thursday, July 5. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Frederick Douglass portrayed by actor Phil Darius Wallace greets visitors to the Frederick Douglass house during 4th of July events celebrating Independence Day. Music performances directed by Stanley Thurston were just some of the entertainment. /Photos by Roy Lewis

The African American Civil War Memorial President & CEO Frank Smith, National Park Servvie Rangers and volunteers from New Day USA clean up trash around the Memorial in Northwest on Saturday, July 7. /Photos by John Simms

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That’s why his attention has turned to rallying support among his fellow performers to protect a resource he said afforded him numerous opportunities as a performer and entrepreneur. “This bill would make people who use their talent of instrumentation less motivated. It would make them not want to be out there so much anymore,” the artist, whose real name is Malik Stewart, told The Informer days after attending and livestreaming a July 3 D.C. Council hearing about the Amplified Noise Amendment Act of 2018. If passed, the bill would expand noise protections to residences in the District’s commercial areas. It would also impose a $300 fine and 10-day jail sentence on street performers repeatedly cited for playing amplified sound that travels beyond 100 feet in a public space. Those penalties, Stewart said, further marginalize the wide pool of local talent eager to showcase their craft. Because he learned about the hearing at the last minute, Stewart missed the deadline to sign up for public testimony. However, as he sat among those against street performances, he placed two drumsticks on his lap throughout most of the proceedings. “There were only a few of us compared to 50 of them,” said Stewart, a 25-year-old resident of LeDroit Park in Northwest. “I had to let all who disagreed know they were talking about me. The street is the most consistent platform we have to express our culture. There are no daily spaces and gateways to express the arts. It’s all people got.” As it currently stands, the D.C. Noise Control Act allows for “noncommercial noise” near residences that doesn’t exceed 80 decibels during daytime hours. Metropolitan police officers may provide verbal warnings and citations to alleged offenders. There are no noise level caps for unamplified voices. Residents near Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station in Northwest aren’t protected under D.C. Noise Control Act. In recent years, that areas and other parts of Downtown D.C. have experienced significant population growth amid construction of condos, setting the stage for a clash between old and new. During a D.C. Council roundtable last year, a significant number of complaints came from those living in above the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station who spoke of how the blasting of speakers affected their quality of life. Some recounted measuring noise levels with phone apps, lobbying the D.C. Department of Consumer & Regulatory Affairs and calling the Metropolitan Police Department with little change. “Apparently street musicians have

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increased the volume and extent of their music playing to the point that offices, residences and so on have serious difficulty dealing with what they consider a barrage of jarring music,” D.C Council member Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), told The Washington Informer. Cheh, along with fellow council members Anita Bonds (D-At-Large) and Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), introduced the amended bill last month, adding the fine and jail time at the request of Metropolitan Police Department officials. Cheh said her decision was informed by anecdotes from constituents, including one who struggled to get adequate rest as performers outside of George Washington Hospital in Northwest played music from speakers. “This bill was introduced to find some reasonable accommodation between the people living and working in the area being subjected to loud music for long periods of time and the people who want to play in the public space,” Cheh said, downplaying concerns that the needs of White, well-to-do residents get priority over the city’s Blacks. For hours, residents and business owners from the western parts of the city expressed their support for the bill, telling D.C. council members that the sounds from the street impeded their daily activities. In his testimony, local playwright and activist Kymone Freeman countered the dominant perspective, drawing parallels between fines and jail time for street noise to what he described as broader efforts to paint D.C. youth as criminals. “I’ve heard words like ‘assault,’ ‘terrorism,’ ‘under siege,’ ‘prohibition’ and ‘afraid’ — all buzzwords for criminalization,” Freeman, program director and co-founder of We Act Radio in Southeast, told council members before explaining how im-

plementation of punitive laws often affect the city’s most vulnerable residents. “They have accommodations for [hockey] fans leaving the games but not for the natives trying to make a living in an expensive city,” Freeman said. “I’m offended by the speed of this emergency legislation that’s not for the retention of longtime residents getting displaced but for the powerful, the wealthy and their comfort. This seeks to provide suburban amenities in urban settings by criminalizing youth.” After the hearing, the D.C. Council issued a call for written comment about the bill. Freeman, Stewart, and others have taken to social media to urge their peers to make their voices heard. Regardless of the shape the pending legislation takes, some street performers like D.C. rapper and go-go artist Mikey Dee refuse to let the threat of prosecution stop them from spreading their message in public spaces. Mikey Dee, 31, who hails from Northwest, is gearing up for the second installment of his Metro Tour that includes shows outside of Gallery Place-Chinatown, Eastern Market and other Metro stations with heavy foot traffic. Last year, Mikey Dee performed original songs from his album “Math & Literature” as onlookers enjoyed the vibes. This year, he looks forward to continuing his movement and connecting with new people. “I play my position as ambassador for my community,” Mikey Dee, whose given name is Michael Dorsey, told The Informer. “It connects me to people of different backgrounds. You’re out there with your brothers and sisters. The noise amendment is [made] to silence what we got going on in D.C. There has always been people trying to shut us down.” WI

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RELIGION Metropolitan AME Church to Host Forum on 180th Anniversary By Jacqueline Fuller WI Religion Writer @JacquelineF1017 The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Northwest will celebrate its 180th anniversary this weekend, beginning with a forum to discuss the Black church’s role and relevancy in ongoing racial, socioeconomic and social justice issues and its future challenges and opportunities. The Friday, July 13 forum, titled “Awake the Giant: A Trumpet Call to the Black Church,” is sponsored by the revived Bethel Literary Society, which originated at Metropolitan in 1881 as a

forum for discussion and debate of issues that directly affected the Black community. The event will address issues including congregants that no longer live near their churches, lack of addressing social issues, the gentrification of neighborhoods around churches, not attracting young people and dealing with intergenerational needs of its members. The event will begin at 6 p.m. for fellowship and refreshments, followed by a memorial tribute to James Cone, father of Black Liberation Theology, given by one of his former students, Josiah Young of Wesley Theological Seminary.

After the tribute, there will be two panel sessions at the forum. The first panel discussion, “The Black Church: Relevant or Replaceable,” will be moderated the Rev. Tony Lee, pastor of the Community of Hope AME Church. The panelists will be Rev. William H. Lamar IV, pastor of Metropolitan AME, and Rev. Christine Wiley, pastor emeritus at Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ. The second panel session, “The Black Church: Liberated or Liability,” will be moderated by WAMU Radio producer Jonquilyn Hill and feature a panel of emerging ministerial leaders, including the Rev. Jazmine Brooks, an intern at Metropolitan AME; the Rev. Alphonso Campbell III, pastor of New Baptist Covenant; and Wasaba Sidibay, a student at Wesley Theological Seminary. The panel will discuss how Black millennials view their relationship with the church. The free event is open to the public, and vent organizers encourage attendees to share their thoughts and ideas for the future of the Black church. The church will also host a fish fry on Saturday, July 14, with an anniversary service the following day featuring Bishop Vashti

The event will address issues including congregants that no longer live near their churches, lack of addressing social issues, the gentrification of neighborhoods around churches, not attracting young people and dealing with intergenerational needs of its members. McKenzie, the 117th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, as the guest preacher. Prominent speakers at the church throughout its history include Paul Laurence Dunbar, Mary McLeod Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jesse Jackson, Bishop

Desmond Tutu and Frederick Douglass, the latter of whom often attended service at the church, where his funeral was also held in 1895. Former U.S. presidents who attended service at the church include Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. WI

Joe Jackson Laid to Rest By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer Joseph Jackson, the patriarch of the Jackson family of superstars, was laid to rest at a small ceremony in Los Angeles. Jackson died last month at a hospice in Las Vegas. He was 89. His widow, Katherine Jackson, and two children Janet and Jackie were among those in attendance during the private service at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale — also the burial site of Jackson’s megastar son Michael, who died in 2009. Motown legend Stevie Wonder and singer Johnny Gill were also in attendance. After his own failed musical aspirations, Joseph Jackson help launch his children to international stardom in the 1960s and 1970s. He managed the Jackson 5 before the group left Motown and was rebranded as the Jacksons. Ultimately, the patriarch is responsible for the emergence of Michael Jackson, arguably the biggest star in music history. Born in 1928 in the one-horse town of Fountain Hill, Arkansas, Joe’s grandfather was a slave and he later described his upbringing as “lonely” and with “few

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friends,” according to his biography. His parents separated when he was 12 and after a period living with his father in California, he moved to be with his mother and four siblings in a Chicago suburb and pursued his dream of becoming a professional boxer. Jackson would later form the Jackson 5 with his sons, and the group’s first single, “I Want You Back,” which shot straight to No. 1. The Jackson 5 set a world record as the first musical act ever to sell 10 million records in 10 months. With Jackson managing his children, they became world-renowned stars. WI

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RELIGION THE RELIGION CORNER

Gamma Phi Delta Sorority Celebrates 75 Years

with Lyndia Grant And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. — Genesis 2:23 Sorors of Gamma Phi Delta Sorority, Inc. will gather in Detroit from July 23-28 to celebrate our 75th anniversary. Members will paint the town pink and blue! Having given hundreds of thousands of dollars in college scholarships over these 75 years, this sorority continues to give even more hours of community service helping others in categories such as domestic violence, breast cancer support, serving as mentors for students, honoring our senior citizens, and teaching our youth through our national youth auxiliaries called Rose Buds, PhiTeens, Junior Cavaliers and Cavaliers. The National Youth Meeting will convene at the same time the Sorority is holding its National Meeting. Let us take a look at how this exciting, business and professional sorority began. Elizabeth A. Garner and Violet T. Lewis, founders of Gamma Phi Delta Sorority, Inc., were women of faith. These two African-American women took a leap of faith and established Lewis Business College. That act alone had faith that the college would succeed and help members of the community improve their employment prospects through education while learning Mt. Zion Baptist Church Reverend John W. Davis Pastor 5101 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 Phone: 202-726-2220 Fax: 202-726-9089 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service - 8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. Children’s Church - 11:00 a.m. (1st & 3rd Sundays) Communion - 10 a.m. 4th Sunday Sunday School - 9:15 a.m. (4th Sunday 8:15 a.m.) Prayer Meeting & Bible Study - Wednesday 7:00 p.m. “A Church with a past to remember – and a future to mold”

social skills needed to navigate the business world as “refined, cultured” women. In February 1943, these two visionary women once again stepped out on faith to establish a sorority for women who were continuing their education but not at a fouryear institution. Our national theme is “The Power of Vision: Empowering Women and Inspiring Leaders.” Ms. Garner and Dr. Lewis firmly believed that these young women deserved the opportunity to experience the same sisterhood that those attending four-year institutions experienced. Thus, Gamma Phi Delta Sorority, Inc. was founded in February 1943 at Detroit’s Lewis Business College. The women of Gamma Phi Delta are women who step out on faith daily making positive contributions in their respective communities, doing what some say cannot be done, and standing up and supporting those who need help throughout the country. May Gamma Phi Delta Sorority continue to “keep the faith” that we can do all things that are laid on hearts and hands to accomplish. It gives me pleasure to serve as the national president of the Gamma Phi Delta Foundation, Inc. My national board of directors has planned a cruise on the Detroit Princess Riverboat to raise funds to support Mason Academy in Detroit. The Foundation will purchase uniforms for needy students deserving of a new uniform. Recently, the Gamma Phi Delta Foundation installed in the sorority headquarters, located at 2657 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, across from Motown’s Hitsville, USA, the “Willie B. Kennedy Tree of Life” in memory of the late Gordon Gilles-

pie, who died after suffering a long illness. He was the son of the late Dr. Marjorie L. Harris, daughter of our Founder, Dr. Violet T. Lewis. Anyone interested in buying a leaf, engraved with your name, prominently displayed in the Gamma Phi Delta Sorority’s national headquarters can make the purchase for the small cost of $265. One-hundred percent of proceeds from the sale of leaves will go toward helping underprivileged youth. The national president of Gamma Phi Delta Sorority, Inc. is Lenor R. Reese from Mu Omicron chapter of Northern Virginia. We are so pleased to have the first national president from the East Coast since the business and professional sorority began. Congratulations to our national president! Members are excited about the upcoming training workshops, luncheons as we honor leaders from the city of Detroit. It has been my pleasure to serve as a member since 1981. 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.

(301) 864-6070

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(301) 864-6070

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Mount Olivet Lutheran Church

John F. Johnson Reverend Dr. 1306 Vermont Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20005 Service and Times Divine Worship, Sunday 10:00 a.m. Communion 1st and 3rd Sunday “Friendliest Church in the City” Website: mountolivetdc.org Email: mtolivedc@gmail.com

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RELIGION The Miracle Center of Faith Missionary Baptist Church Bishop Michael C. Turner, Sr. Senior Pastor 9161 Hampton Overlook Capitol Heights, MD 20743 Phone: 301-350-2200 Fax: 301-499-8724

Service and Times Sunday Worship Times : 7:30 a.m. 7 10:00 a.m. Communion: 1st Sunday Sunday School: 9:00 a.m. Bible Study: Wednesday, 12 Noon Bible Study in homes: Tuesday 7:00 p.m. Website: www.themiraclecenterFMBC.com Email: Miraclecenterfmbs@gmail.com Motto: “We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight”

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

Church of Living Waters

Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church

Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor

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

Rev. Dr. Alton W. Jordan Pastor

Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews Senior Pastor

Harold Andrew Assistant Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blessed Word of Life Church

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

Campbell AME Church Rev. Dr. Henry Y. White 2562 MLK Jr. Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Adm. Office 202-678-2263 Email: Campbell@mycame.org Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 am Sunday Church School: 8:45 am Bible Study Wednesday: 12:00 Noon Wednesday: 7:00 pm Thursday: 7: pm “Reaching Up To Reach Out” 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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“An inclusive ministry where all are welcomed and affirmed.” www.covenantbaptistdc.org

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

Crusader Baptist Church

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

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

Sunday Worship Service: 8 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

Isle of Patmos Baptist Church

Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Holy Communion: 2nd Sunday at 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday Church School: 9:20 a.m. Seniors Bible Study: Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. Noon Day Prayer Service: Tuesdays at Noon Bible Study: Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Motto: “A Ministry of Reconciliation Where Everybody is Somebody!” Website: http://isleofpatmosbc.org Church Email: ipbcsecretary@verizon.net

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

Mount Carmel Baptist Church Reverend Gerald H. Hesson Interim 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 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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LEGAL NOTICES

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

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

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

Administration No. 2018 ADM 000644

Administration No. 2018 ADM 000657

Administration No. 2018 ADM 000577

William E. Sims Decedent

Helen E. Thomas Decedent

Vanessa Renee Hawkins Decedent

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

Julius P. Terrell 1455 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Suite 400 Washington, DC 20004 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

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

John C. Thomas, whose address is 2300 Good Hope Rd, SE, #513, Washington, DC 20020, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Helen E. Thomas who died on April 10, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 12/28/2018. 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 12/28/2018, 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.

Tashia Renee Senn-Jones, whose address is 475 K Street, NW #624, Washington, DC 20001, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Vanessa Renee Hawkins who died on April 5, 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 12/28/2018. 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 12/28/2018, 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: 6/28/2018

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Deborah A. Sims, whose address is 4949 Manitoba Drive #424, Alexandria, VA 22312 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of William E. Sims who died on March 21, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 12/28/2018. 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 12/28/2018, 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: 6/28/2018 Deborah A. Sims Personal Representative

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2018 ADM 000730 Estate of Martha Teasley Wilson Deceased

NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Bradley Wilson and Kisha L. Woolen, Esquire for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representatives. Unless a responsive pleading in the form of a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth. In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate appoint an unsupervised personal representative

Date of first publication: July 5, 2018 Bradley Wilson and Kisha L. Woolen, Esq. 5335 Wisconsin Ave. NW #700 Washington, DC 20015 Personal Representative:

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Miscellaneous No. 2102626 UNDER THE REGISTRATION OF TITLES LAW OFFICE OF TITLES P.O. BOX 494 KINGSTON

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June 28, 2018

Steve Larson-Jackson 1629 K. Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Gregory K. Easton, whose address is 11 46th Street, SE Unit 102, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of John L. Easton, Sr. who died on January 19, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 1/5/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 1/5/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

WHEREAS I have been satisfied by Statutory Declaration that the duplicate Certificate of Title for ALL THAT parcel of land part of CUMBERLAND PEN in the Parish of SAINT CATHERINE being the Lot numbered TEN on the Plan of part of Cumberland Pen now called Block D CAYMANAS GARDENS deposited in the Office of Titles on the 4th day of January, 1983 of the shape and dimensions and butting as appears by the said Plan and being the land registered at Volume 1176 Folio 441 of the Register Book of Titles in the name of PHILIP ANTHONY EDWARDS otherwise known as PHILLIP ANTHONY EDWARDS-HAS BEEN LOST:I HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that I intend at or after the expiration of fourteen days after the last appearance of this advertisement to cancel the said Certificate of Title and to register a new Certificate in duplicate in place thereof.

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June 12, 2013 Date of Death Hunter Neil LeVine Name of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Beau J. LeVine and Jessica T. LeVine whose addresses are 28806 Cherrywood Lane, Shenandoah, TX 77381 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Hunter Neil LeVine, deceased, by the Probate Court for Harris County, State of Texas, on July 16, 2013. Service of process may be made upon Joshua Branson, 1615 M Street, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20036 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. Decedent has a cause of action in DC. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. Date of first publication: 7/5/2018

Administration No. 2018 ADM 000175 Alexandra Blackhurst Decedent Valerie J. Edwards 1725 DeSales Street, NW Suite 600 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Lynn B. Wait, whose address is 8576 Camp Road, Chestertown MD 21620, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Alexandra Blackhurst who died on October 5, 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 1/5/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 1/5/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship. Date of first publication: 7/5/2018

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017 ADM 800 Cora L. Easton Decedent Steve Larson-Jackson, Esq. 1629 K Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Gregory K. Easton, whose address is 11 46th Street, SE Unit 102, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Cora L. Easton who died on June 7, 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., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 1/12/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 1/12/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2018 ADM 000726 Delia F. Shorter Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Eugene M. Shorter, Jr., whose address is 11504 Homestead Dr., Upper Marlboro, MD 20774, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Delia F. Shorter who died on April 25, 1981 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 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 1/12/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 1/12/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship. Date of first publication: 7/12/2018 Eugene M. Shorter, Jr. Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

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Foreign No. 2018 FEP 000088 12/26/2017 Date of Death

Pearl R. Wood Decedent

Kenneth R. Clayton Name of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Kisha L. Woolen, whose address is 5335 Wisconsin Avenue #700, Washington, DC 20015, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Pearl R. Wood who died on April 21, 2007 without a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 1/12/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 1/12/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Miriam Clayton and Diane Koontz whose addresses are 7320 Talisman Lane, Columbia, MD 21045 & 15715 Tibberton Terrace, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Kenneth R. Clayton, deceased, by the Orphans Court (Register of Wills) for Howard County, State of Maryland, on May 11, 2018. Service of process may be made upon Darlene Elaine Clayton, 4821 Blagden Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real estate: 5908 17th Street, NW, Washington DC 20001. 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.

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Carol J. Fillmore, whose address is 224 Bates Street NW, Washington, DC 20001, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Wilbur Dean Fillmore who died on March 19th, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 1/12/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 1/12/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship. Date of first publication: 7/12/2018 Carol J. Fillmore Personal Representative

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ground checks on all applicants for positions. Neighboring school districts, including Prince George’s County Public Schools and Anne Arundel County Public Schools, said 100 percent of its teachers are licensed through the state. Any teacher without a license is considered and classified as a “substitute teacher.” “Licensure is just one of many components we look at to determine whether a teacher is meeting our high

standards,” a DCPS spokesman said. “Even before they receive an offer letter, teachers must complete a rigorous selection process that identifies the teachers with the greatest potential to thrive in DCPS classrooms.” Teaching licensure also helps prevent teachers with histories of misconduct from crossing state lines to find work in other school districts. The national NASDTEC database red-flags teachers who have had licenses revoked, disqualifying

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the official story set over and against the people’s story,” Sayles said in a recent “Inside the Issues” radio interview with Leon. “What we know about Kennedy is that he is a rightwing culture warrior who sometimes voted in a direction that sometimes felt like it had something to do with our lives, but for the most part he held the center of white supremacist gravity.” So what could be in store America with a newly appointed Trump justice? George Washington University student Tyler Staton, 21, said African Americans should be worried about Kennedy’s retirement as she believes the next pick will be highly conservative. Staton said despite her concern, she holds out hope that with the upcoming midterm elections in November, the Democrats retake control of the Senate — which is granted the power of reviewing and approving Supreme Court appointees — and ensures the right candidate takes the seat. “I think it’s down to how much the Democrats want to advocate for the things they are trying to change,” Staton said. “Within the first one to two years, people have realized the effects of what Trump said he was going to do. I think people are more cognizant that if things don’t change, more bad things will happen. With Kennedy retiring, I believe Trump is going to choose someone who leans more towards the right and that may negatively affect Black people in the long run.” Others, like Vladimir Racine. 40, pointed to an April 4, 2018, article in The Washington Post that announced the lack of financial progress Blacks had made in the past 50 years

Many people fear the appointment of a more conservative justice will allow the Court to redress civil rights legislation which serves to protect the rights of African Americans and politically vulnerable populations. Political scientist Wilmer Leon, host of Radio Sputnik’s “The Critical Hour” and Sirius XM’s “Inside the Issues,” said Trump’s replacement will definitely be conservative and young. “Trump has made it very clear that he wants to select a young jurist because he wants the selection to be on the bench — in his words —for the next 40 to 50 years,” Leon said. “Trump wants to nominate people that don’t have a long judicial record to review, so they can pretty much go in front of the committee and say anything they want because they don’t have a track record that people can go back and review. I think age and temperament are the issues. Conservatives want to be sure their nominations have as long an opportunity to control the direction of this country as possible.” Leon said that a perfect design of the Supreme Court would include nine justices — three left-leaning, three to the right, and three in the middle — which would provide what he termed a “theoretically balanced debate” on a particular issue. However, civil rights icon and theologian Ruby Sales argues that lionizing Kennedy at the close of his tenure as a swing vote and a champion of human rights is revisionist history, pointing out that his record has always had White supremacist leanings. “There is a context for the way he’s being described, and that context is

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them from obtaining licenses and teaching positions in other states. The database includes approximately 80,000 names. But teachers who work without licenses can avoid being detected by the NASDTEC system since they do not have licenses to revoke. “The safety risk is not just for kids in D.C., but in other jurisdictions,” Weedon said. Grosso said he applauds OSSE for continuing to hold DCPS to account and working with the central office to certify that educators have the proper and up-to-date licensure for the 2018-19 school year. “However, there remains a greater question about whether we have the appropriate requirements in place for all school staff in both our traditional public and public charter schools,” he said. “The Committee on Education will be focused on that question over the summer as part of its work to improve school safety and will hold hearings on this matter once the council returns from its recess in September.” WI

5Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement on June 27, clearing the way for a new Trump-appointed justice. /Courtesy photo

as indicative of poor leadership — whether conservative, liberal, Black or White. “African Americans face stark social challenges, so I do not see a difference in there being a conservative or liberal justice to replace Kennedy,” Racine told the Informer. “We keep doing the same things — electing the same people, not holding those in power accountable, or not voting at all, and believing somehow they will do the right thing. I don’t know what that means for Black Americans. Does it really matter?” Racine’s frustration resounded often among Black Washingtonians who spoke with The Informer. In addition to feelings of helplessness in fighting a system they believe is stacked against them, many also spoke to a growing distrust of their elected officials and the appointments those leaders make into policy-making positions. WI

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majority of five stands in that door against the laws of the Congress and states, eroding the democracy they are sworn to protect. Just as it took a movement to challenge George Wallace and segregation, it will take a movement to reclaim our democracy from these “black-robed rulers.” Progressive activists should demand that every Democratic candidate for elected office at the local, state or national level make empowering workers a central part of his or her platform. They should demand support for measures that will make it easier for workers to organize and crack down on labor law violations. Companies that violate basic worker rights should be penalized in public procurement decisions. At the same time, progressives need to expose the reality that the right wing gang of five in the Supreme Court is trampling the will of the people and overturning established precedents to serve the interests of the plutocrats and the right. These “black-robed rulers” are legislating from the bench, scorning even an effort to find common ground with their own colleagues. In a time of deep polarization, the lawless majority of court has chosen to stand with the powerful few against the vast majority. That too will not stand. WI

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upcoming elections. (That suggestion gains credibility with the revelation that Kennedy’s son, working at Deutsche Bank, lent Donald Trump and his operations nearly a billion — with a b — billion dollars at a time when U.S. banks wouldn’t go near him because of his record of bankruptcies and scams.) Kennedy gained a reputation as a “moderate” because of his votes on abortion and on gay marriage, but he has been a leader in the assault on democracy and the elevation of corporate rights over worker rights. Now, his resignation is timed so that Trump can name, and the Republican majority in the Senate confirm, a younger right-wing zealot to carry on the assault on democracy. In the Civil Rights movement, we looked to the Supreme Court to enforce the Constitution against the Jim Crow laws of the apartheid South. Now we must take back the Congress and the statehouses and rally the democratic bodies against the usurpations of the ideological majority of the court. Only if the pressure is constant will one or more of the Justices realize the dangers and errors of their course. The pushback can start with our election laws and come from the bottom up. Localities and states

should be passing laws to make voter registration automatic, to extend the days for voting, to expand the franchise, and rollback restrictions on voting. Districts and states can pass laws matching small donations three or four to one, to encourage independence from the corruptions of big money. Localities might pass legislation demanding that candidates get their “oats and their votes” from the district itself — limiting funds to those provided by those who live in the district. Nonpartisan citizen panels can put an end to partisan gerrymandering, ensuring the voters pick their representatives rather than politicians designing districts to pick their voters. It is long past time that we recognize what the right-wing Supreme Court gang of five is doing. They claim to be simply enforcing the laws, but they overturn legislation and ignore legal precedent. They are lawless in the service of the rich and the corporations. They are expanding the corrupting rule of big money even as they limit the rights of workers, consumers, women and people of color. George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door defying the dictates of the Constitution and the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court. Now a shameless

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blood for our communities. The tariffs threaten more than local newspapers. Newsprint is used for promotional materials by retailers and civic groups. It is used by book publishers and printers. Often these are small businesses serving local communities. If newsprint goes up in price, printers will get fewer contracts and have fewer customers. Ironically, the tariffs NORPAC wants in place will actually threaten paper producers and a range of related business. A coalition of these businesses, the STOPP Alliance, estimates some 650,000 jobs could be at risk — all to help one company that has no allies or supporters within the U.S. paper industry. WI

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they damn well please. They think Black folks must take from them whatever they choose to dispense. But Black folks have a viable option: separation! Me, personally, I don’t want to live under White American authority anymore. They shun us. They scream: “Go back to Africa.” But we’re not leaving this place where our labor has produced the country’s enormous wealth; where our blood has fertilized every battlefield where Americans have ever fought, so I say: “You want war with Iran? You want to destroy North Korea?”

White folks want world domination, but White folks don’t want to treat their own Black “citizens” with decency, let alone like folks they appreciate for 400-plus years of servitude and loyalty that made them rich! White America even promised Latinos a path to citizenship if they joined their military and fight in your dirty, immoral and illegal wars, then you kick them out just so you don’t have to keep your promises to them. That’s despicable. Naw, White folks. I’ll sit right here while your sons and daughters, who show college-Blackface-contempt; who hang nooses in school trees and workplace locker-rooms; I’ll sit right here while they go off and die and bleed to defend your government’s wicked policies. Americans think they can go it alone: no Blacks, no Latinos, no European allies, no Canadian or Mexican neighbors on their side. They will never win another war. Black people cannot convince White people to behave better or to treat us decently, with respect. Not ever. Decency is not in their DNA. All they know is punish, sanctions, weapons, war, intimidation. Sorry, White folks: that playbook has played out. There will be no more winning by you guys, just watch and see. Follow Trump. He’s firing up the rocket to take this country straight to hell. WI

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