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Malik, 14, left, and his brother Donn Langley, 10, display cans of Arizona Iced Tea and Skittles during the Trayvon Martin rally in front of the District Courthouse on July 20. The Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network organized a 100-city rally with the help of church leaders from across the nation. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah

Martin Supporters March in 100 Cities

By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer

Denise Young started her Saturday volunteering at Kingman Island, near RFK Stadium, before joining her three children at Constitution Avenue and 5th Street, NW, for a justice rally for Trayvon Martin.

Young, 45, of Silver Spring, Md., was one of hundreds in the District, and tens of thousands nationwide, who attended rallies in 100 cities. Trayvon, an unarmed 17-year-old, was shot

by George Zimmerman who deemed him suspicious and followed him on the night of Feb. 26, 2012. Zimmerman confront-

ed the youth, and during an altercation told police that fearing for his life, he shot him.

A jury of five white women and one Hispanic woman found 29-year-old Zimmerman not guilty on July 13 of second-degree murder. That prompted not just anger and disbelief but a string of protests across the

country; a burgeoning economic boycott of Florida – which some now call the “Gunshine State”; and sometimes rancorous discussions about race, profiling, gun laws and vigilantism.

For African Americans, the verdict has left people afraid for their children and for young men who they fear will now be in the

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“It’s a guarantee that when we do not take action and address race head on, these things will continue to happen,” said Young, whose children carried signs. “Three of mine marched

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The DC Chapter of the Virginia Union University Alumni Association hosted its 21st annual “Old Fashioned Crab Feast.” The event took place at Martin’s Crossroads in Greenbelt, MD with proceeds from the feast going to Virginia Union University. The University’s president Dr. Claude G. Perkins attended along with his wife Cheryl and their granddaughters Jessica Fields, Jacque Fields and Jada Perkins. The Chapter’s president Earlisa Roberts presented Dr. Perkins with a check for $10,000 fulfilling the chapter’s commitment to the University for the year. For more information, visit www.Vuu.edu.

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law enforcement. She said they threat,” she said. had come together to bring a Among the programs Marlow sense of uniformity together to talk in the way wants to see implemented are domestic about theviolence future victims and stricter restraining order policies, survivors are more rights for victim's families of the city treated. in a “She's using her own personal to intervene on behalf of a vicmeaningful way,” story, her own personal pain to tim, a domestic violence assesssaid Bowser, 40. push forward,” Davis-Nickens ment unit coupled with further “They’re doing it said about Marlow. training for law enforcement organically.

This is said anyone Davis-Nickens agencies, a Child's Life Protecexactlyreads whatMarlow's our who book will tion Act and mandatory counselcity needs.” “get it.” She said she “puts the ing for batterers.

Theinday of anetcase such way, the average “If we are ever going to eradiworking culmiperson can get it.” She said at the cate domestic violence, we must natedofwith end theCapital day, the book will look at both sides of the coin.

Causepeople awarding help begin to have a dia- We need to address both the vicgrants about of $2,000 logue domestic violence. tim and the batterer,” Marlow each to the HomeAlso present at the event was said. less Children’s Mildred Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see Playtime Project wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise in wasNorthwest, who sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in the Institute utive life termsforwithout parole (right), public founder and private schools.

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The to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy. and their children.

Marlow has worked to break grants were raised Andrew Lee “I livedthe in fear through Giv-for six years. Six the cycle of abuse in her family, years in fear Project, is a longwhich time. It is and is confident the policies she throughout the United States. And ing Circles falls not an easy thing to come out is pushing for will start that under the umbrella of Williams’ they’re often just starting out in of,” she said. process. their careers. nonprofit.

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Rob Boyd, a research associate to collaborate and pool resources.

“I want to forge good relawith the CoStar Group in Northwest, counted among the 15 young tionships with good people,” said professionals who participated Tribble, 27. “[The MusicianShip] in the Giving Circles Project. He has tried to do good work [within] said he hoped that Capital Cause’s the D.C. metropolitan area so it’s fundraising milestone would dis- great seeing people of color paspel the notion that young people sionate about service and philanaren’t concerned about their com- thropy,” said Tribble, who lives in Hyattsville, Md. munities.

Curtis Midkiff, director of so“The crowd funding strategy has made people more confident cial engagement for the Society for [in] this movement,” said Boyd, Human Resource Management, 25. “Their money and talent is go- spent the morning talking to a ing to a great cause. [This] initia- group of millenials. It was his first tive has [made it easier and given] time attending the brunch and he people exposure to help the com- said he enjoyed learning about the munity in ways they thought they diverse business and philanthropic couldn’t,” the Northwest resident interests of young adults.

“It was a great opportunity said.

Since its inception in 2009, Cap- connecting with a group of motiital Cause’s network has grown to vated young people who not only but L.Y. Marlow approximately 5,000 young profes- [want] to grow professionally sionals and it has generated more philanthropically,” said Midkiff, than $20,000 for causes such as 39. “They are being responsible black male mentoring programs, citizens and making sure that this the elimination of food deserts, is something they can do along the and early childhood education. way rather than on the final fronThe young people come from tier,” said Midkiff, who lives in a variety of industries and cities Landover, Md. wi

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We have to stop being passive-aggressive with poor children about domestic violence. I plan to take these policies to Congress and implore them to change our laws. I will not stop until these policies are passed.

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Scott Vacates Ward 8 Democrats Seat The Rev. R. Joyce Scott recently announced her resignation as president of the Ward 8 Democrats and the organization’s first vice president, Markus Batchelor, said that he’ll assume the helm until the fall “Thanks to the Rev. R. Joyce Scott for her service as Ward 8 Democrats president,” Batchelor penned on Twitter on July 9. “Upon her resignation, effective [Monday], July 8, I am proud to serve as your interim president. I will serve until a new president is elected at September’s Biennial Convention.”

Batchelor is referring to the bi-annual meeting of the Ward 8 Democrats in which a new slate of officers is elected. In 2011, Scott successfully won the presidency of the organization with Batchelor and former D.C. Council member Sandy Allen, as second vice president.

However, Allen, 69, is undecided as to whether she will run for re-election.

“I have made no decision on that at this point,” she said.

Efforts to reach Scott for comment were unsuccessful.

On the Ward 8 Democrats’ website, it mentions that Scott stepped down for health reasons.

Batchelor previously indicated that he would not run for office with the Ward 8 Democrats in September. The 20 year old, is a junior political science major at George Washington University in Northwest and said that he wanted to focus on his studies.

The Ward 8 Democrats is considered to be one of the most active and powerful political clubs in the District. Some of its members, such as Wanda Lockridge of Southeast, have served as the chair of the D.C. Democrats State Committee and its roster includes wellknown political activists such as Phil Pannell, Pho Palmer, Natalie Williams, Charles Wilson and Mary Cuthbert.

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July 25 1916 – The Black inventor of America’s first gas mask, Garrett T. Morgan, made national headlines on this day when he and a team of volunteers used his invention to rescue 32 workers trapped in a gas filled tunnel 250 under Lake Erie. Morgan also invented the first traffic light.

1972 – Faced with possible exposure by the media, the federal government (specifically the U.S. Public Health Service) finally acknowledges its involvement in the horrific and immoral Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.

Some 399 Black men (mostly poor sharecroppers from Alabama) were injected with syphilis and led to believe they were being treated for “bad blood” while they receiving fake medicines in order to discover the long-term effects of syphilis.

July 26 1847 – President Joseph J. Roberts declares the West African nation of Liberia an independent republic. The nation was primarily founded by former U.S. slaves returning to Africa.

1926 – The NAACP awards its prestigious Spingarn Medal to Carter G. Woodson “Father of Black History,” for his work in Black History.

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1915 – United States Marines begin the first American occupation of Haiti.

1917 – The NAACP organizes an 8,000-person strong “silent march” down New York’s Fifth Avenue to protest lynching and other brutalities against African Americans.

2009 – Death of the flamboyant Rev. Ike is announced.

At his height in the mid-1970s, Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter reached an estimated 2.5 million African Americans.

July 29 1870 – Pioneering boxer George Dixon is born in Nova Scotia, Canada. Little known today but Dixon pioneered much of modern boxing including training techniques such as the suspended punching bag and shadow boxing. He was the first Black person to win a world boxing title.

July 30 1863 – President Abraham

Lincoln issues his famous “eyefor-an-eye” order. The order was basically a threat aimed at stopping the Confederate practice of killing captured Black soldiers instead of imprisoning them.

Lincoln threatened to kill one captured rebel soldier for every Black soldier killed by the Confederates.

July 31 1960 – Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad calls for an all-Black state in America during a speech in New York City. Muhammad was a fearless critic of American discrimination against and mistreatment of Blacks and he also advocated independent, Black owned businesses, institutions and religion.

1961 – Actor Laurence Fishburne, Jr. is born on this day in Augusta, Georgia. He began his acting career at the age of 10.

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July 27 1919 – The infamous Chicago Race Riot of 1919 begins. It would last for several days and require 6,000 National Guardsmen to put it down.

July 28 1868 – The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified formally making former Black slaves citizens of the United States. Many scholars consider this the most important amendment to the Constitution.

In addition to making Blacks citizens, it contains both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause.

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Viewp int Farrah Darbouze Washington, D.C. If Wal-Mart isn’t willing to pay its employees the living wage, those jobs don’t need to be here in D.C. I understand that there are certain people in Wards 7 and 8 who are having difficulty finding employment [however], I believe the best jobs for them are the ones that will pay the living wage. If the District is popular and attractive enough for big-box stores such as Wal-Mart, then its executives should understand that the community needs jobs that will pay [residents] a living wage.

Delores Magnani Great Mills, Md. I think it’s only fair that Wal-Mart employees in the District earn living wages. How are they ever going to expect to make enough money to stay about the poverty line? I think Wal-Mart can afford to pay District residents a living wage.

The store has no shortage of customers and should be able to give back to its employees.

WAL-MART HAS HALTED PROGRESS ON THREE OF ITS SIX PLANNED DISTRICT STORES AFTER THE D.C. COUNCIL PASSED A LIVING WAGE BILL WHICH REQUIRES BIG-BOX RETAILERS PAY EMPLOYEES WAGES 50 PERCENT HIGHER THAN THE LOCAL MINIMUM WAGE. DID THE COUNCIL ACT WITH WASHINGTON RESIDENTS’ BEST INTEREST IN MIND?

Floyd Smith Washington, D.C. Wal-Mart should pay its D.C. employees a living wage. By the company saying it doesn’t want to, is almost a form of enslavement. I don’t see how a person who lives in the District can survive just off of the [$8.25] minimum wage alone, especially a single parent – they just can’t. I make more than the minimum wage, yet I’m living paycheck-to-paycheck. I know for a fact that I couldn’t live off of the minimum wage.

Carol Winter Silver Spring, Md. The move is typical of Wal-Mart and its executives. It’s always about keeping people enslaved. [Company executives] want people to shop at their stores and do business, and quite a few people on the lower end of the socio-economic scale shop there. But the company refuses to pay its employees above [the $8.25] minimum wage. I refuse, and will continue to refuse to shop at Wal-Mart due to the treatment its employees receive from executives.

Ryan Grant Greenbelt, Md. I think it’s petty that Wal-Mart executives are arguing over what are essentially pennies to the company, especially considering that the Walton family [the owners of WalMart] is worth tens of billions of dollars. The Washington D.C. area is one of the most expensive to live, but the company doesn’t want to raise pay to help compensate its employees. It’s especially frustrating because the company demands so much of its employees – many can’t even take Black Friday off.

Wal-Mart demands a lot from its employees without wanting to compensate them fairly.

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continued from Page 1 10 miles from Addison Road to come here. Young people take this seriously and they understand the importance of the decision. They understand the value and importance of Trayvon’s life. Trayvon is our child. That’s what we have to understand when we talk about issues of protecting young people.”

In the District, most of the several hundred protestors assembled at the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse, while others were at Freedom Plaza and the Department of Justice, all in Northwest.

Among the speakers: The Rev. Ronald E. Braxton, senior pastor of Metropolitan AME Church; talk show host Joe Madison; E.

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Faye Williams, national chair of the National Congress of Black Women; and longtime activist and comedian Dick Gregory.

Braxton stirred the crowd with an inspiring and rousing message. “ … Watch God move. I want to say to America, be careful because God’s gonna move,” he said citing example of the Jews fleeing Pharoah. “They marched, they got to the river and they couldn’t go any further. And the people pressed Moses. ‘What shall we do?

We would be better off in Egypt, as slaves.’ I’ll never go back. I’ll never go back!”

“To hardcore racists, tell the people, stand your ground! And see the miracle evolve. We’ve come here today, to stand our ground.

Stand our ground for these black

boys. And black girls. We’ve got to stand our ground. Against the Congress that would turn back the tide. Against the Supreme Court that would turn us back … We’ve come to stand our ground. This is my country. We will never go back, we’ll never go back!”

For Jill Brooks, a registered nurse from Randallstown, Md., the outpouring of disaffection and demands by people across a wide social and ethnic spectrum is timely.

“This was long overdue. I’ve lived in New York when Amadou Diallo was shot many times reaching for his wallet,” said Brooks, 54. “They’re frisking our black men and nothing is coming of it.

They’re just stopping and provok-

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“The focus is on repealing ‘Stand Your Ground’ and really looking at the politicians who support the law so we can vote them out. The elections are coming up soon. It’s just about making people aware about what’s going on.”

The Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network organized the 100-city rally with the help of church leaders nationally.

Demonstrators gathered in large and small cities around the country, including New York, Dallas, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Wichita and Miami.

In New York, Trayvon’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, Jay- Z and Beyonce, were among the throng who braved the heat and humidity to show their support for Trayvon.

“Trayvon may not have been perfect but he was mine. He was mine,” Fulton told supporters.

“We loved him, we supported him; we cared for him, just like you do your kids. The verdict won’t stop here. This is another chapter of a different movement. We’ve moved on from the verdict. Of course we’re hurting; of course we’re shocked and disappointed but that just means we have to roll up our sleeves and continue the fight …”

Sharpton and civil rights organizations are pressing Attorney General Eric Holder to file federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman. The rallies are also a push-back against “Stand Your Ground” laws that has so far, seen courts rule 66 deaths as justifiable homicide in Florida this year.

The Justice Department is investigating whether Zimmerman violated Trayvon’s civil rights.

On the streets, in households, and between and among African Americans, discussions have centered on reaction to the verdict, what black parents should tell their children, what happens next and what that might look like.

President Barack Obama stunned some and delighted others when he used the White House’s weekly briefing on July 19 to deliver an intensely personal response to the case and verdict.

“You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son.

Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me, 35 years ago,” he said. “And when you think about why, in the African-American community at least, there’s a lot of pain around

what happened here, I think it’s important to recognize that the African-American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn’t go away.”

There are very few African-American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store.

Including him, Obama explained.

And there are probably very few African-American men who haven’t had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars.

“That happened to me – at least before I was a senator,” he said.

Hilary Shelton, father of three boys, said he’s seen the battle for civil and human rights through that particular prism but the Zimmerman verdict crystallized for him the potential threat to his sons and others like them.

“My heart sunk. First was the sorrow and remorse of the death of a 17-year-old unarmed kid really,” said Shelton, director of the NAACP’s Washington Bureau and senior vice president for policy and advocacy. “My oldest son is 17 and my other sons are 13 and 8. It just hit me so hard and I cried tears of fear. When you heard the details, it made you think of the judge [Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney] who said there were no laws affecting black people that a white man had to honor.”

“I felt outrage, fear and deep concern of them taking the word of [Zimmerman]. I was also hurt by the reckless way they handled the young man and the amount of time they took to arrest Zimmerman.”

Shelton said the murder elicited pain.

“But the final outrage was the decision,” he said. “Even after the facts were brought, they made that decision. The law does not protect us. He was followed, provoked and shot to death. It was one shot but the shot was carefully aimed to shoot him in the heart.”

But he’s heartened by the strong reaction and response by blacks, whites, Asians and people of other ethnicities who have stood up to denounce the July 13 verdict.

“That’s important,” Shelton said.wi WI Contributing Writer Sam P.K. Collins contributed to this story.

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Marco Rubio Slammed By CBC

Senator Accused of Obstruction in Florida Judicial Appointments

By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer The confirmations of two African-American judicial candidates in Florida are being held up by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and Congressional Black Caucus leaders are demanding action for what they call negligence and obstruction on the part of the senator.

Brian Davis, a nominee for the U.S. District Court for the

Middle District, and William Thomas, a candidate for the U.S District Court for the Southern District, both made it through Florida’s Federal Judicial Nominating Commission, which routinely makes recommendations to state senators who meet the candidates and send letters of initial approval to the White House.

Then, the president nominates the candidates for confirmation.

“The picture is large and dis-

concerting,” said Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), a ranking member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC).

“While the president has kept pace and often surpassed prior presidents in black judicial appointments, a disproportionate number of African-American nominees have been held up or slowed. The CBC will not quietly allow highly-qualified African-American judges to be

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sidelined without hearings or to be held up on the Senate floor,” she said.

Currently, 30 percent of judicial nominees pending confirmation in the Senate are black.

“CBC members will continue to highlight African-American judicial nominees in Florida whose confirmations have been stalled due to negligence and obstruction by Rubio,” CBC Chair Marcia Fudge said.

For his part, Rubio (R-Fla.) said he has concerns about Davis, 60, that were raised in 2012, after the judge alleged that former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders was forced to resign her position because she’s black.

Elders faced a backlash after making controversial comments at a United Nations Conference on AIDS in 1994.

Davis later said he made the comments while giving a speech about race relations in America, but admitted they were inappropriate for a judge.

“Those questions need to be resolved,” said Rubio, 42.

Rubio noted that his concern about Thomas, 46, is based on the judge’s involvement in a case in which he sentenced a man to 364 days in jail for the hit-andrun death of a cyclist, which Rubio considered to be far too lenient. Thomas is the first openly gay black judicial nominee for the federal courts.

CBC members said Rubio and others are simply playing politics

to prevent the installation of two black judges.

Fudge, 60, and Norton, 76, each pointed out that Davis’ nomination has been pending for more than 500 days and that Thomas has been waiting for more than 230 days. Fudge said both vacancies come at a time when the federal district court system is backlogged and struggling with a 10 percent judicial vacancy rate.

African-American judges also are underrepresented in the federal judiciary. Of the 787 judges currently serving on the federal bench, 95 – or 8 percent – are African American. Judicial nominations of African Americans are also routinely held up by the Senate, CBC officials said. Nearly one-third, or 10 out of 33, of the judicial nominees currently pending in the Senate are African Americans.

“In Florida, we all have heavy hearts concerning the Trayvon Martin case,” said Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.). “But part of the problem is that we don’t feel that the judicial system is fair. Clearly, it’s not fair. And you need people to feel confident that we will take care to make sure that we have representation throughout the system. We need our senators to step up to the plate,” said Brown, 66.wi

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PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY

Maryland Horses Benefitting at the Track

By Gale Horton Gay WI Staff Writer Preferential treatment may be the key to revitalizing horse racing in Maryland.

That’s the opinion of officials with Penn National Gaming (PNG), owners of Rosecroft Raceway in Fort Washington.

Rosecroft, which emerged from bankruptcy in 2011 and reopened after it was acquired

by PNG, has seen a steady increase in the number of Maryland horses and owners coming to Rosecroft to compete. The spike, they say, is due to a new system that benefits Maryland horsemen and Maryland-con-

nected horses.

“The preferences for Maryland horsemen put in place

by Penn National Gaming at Rosecroft shows their commitment to give Maryland horsemen and breeders every chance to benefit from increased purses and racing opportunities,” said Thomas Cooke, president of the Cloverleaf Standardbred Owners Association.

This is part of PNG’s efforts to strengthen horse racing in Maryland and to make horse racing financially more appealing to Marylanders who are in the horse racing industry.

Among the preference measures Rosecroft established:

Maryland owned, sired/bred, trained and foaled horses were given first priority to compete in all races beginning last spring.

Officials also established a policy of making any race exclusively for these Maryland horses if seven or more of them were entered in any race. “Maryland Preferred” races (those with eight or more Maryland horses) carried a purse premium of 10 percent.

Rosecroft reports that $1.2 million in prize money was distributed during the 25-night spring racing season, which ended June 1. That’s an increase of more than 30 percent from the 2012 season, they said. And more than 75 percent of the to-

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tal purses earned were captured by “Maryland Preferred” horses, they added.

It also translates into an economic boost for Prince George’s County, PNG officials said.

Horse racing in Maryland is supported by Maryland slot machine revenue and PNG officials say that support is critical to help the horse racing industry survive and thrive.

Christopher McErlean, vice president of racing at PNG, said the goal is to keep that money circulating among Marylanders who pour their financial resources, sweat and commitment into harness racing in the state.

“We understand the importance of rebuilding the Standardbred racing industry in Maryland and felt the establishment of these highly supportive preferences would benefit the entire racing industry in Maryland,” said McErlean.

During the spring season Rosecroft held 306 races and about 103 races were “exclusive” with only Maryland horses competing, McErlean said.

“Successful overnight racing is the key to establishing a revitalized breeding industry in Maryland,” said Dan Myer, president of the Maryland Standardbred Association. “Our horsemen need a place to race their horses and we appreciate Penn Na-

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THE ROAD TO BROWN – Part 2

Massive Resistance and the Brown II Decision

Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, Va., photographed during the period of “Massive Resistance” in which Virginia’s state and local officials closed public schools rather than comply with Supreme Court desegregation mandates. /Courtesy Photo

Some “Massive Resistance” ploys allowed Blacks to enroll in formerly whites-only schools only to segregate the students from the rest of the student body. In other instances, white students (and teachers) were provided with private school vouchers at the expense of taxpayers to attend whites-only private schools, effectively abandoning their previous schools and leaving the Black students in empty classrooms. /Courtesy Photos

By Shantella Y. Sherman

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s with the legal decisions to emancipate and offer full citizenship to formerly enslaved Blacks following the Civil War, proponents of the 1954 Brown v. the Board of Education decision found that the government could not legislate the hearts of men. After its decision in Brown declared racial discrimination in public education unconstitutional, the Supreme Court convened to issue directives that would help implement its new mandates. While Brown addressed the legality of segregation and was believed to ring the death knell of legal segregation in America, the often overlooked Brown II decision, would blueprint the remedy and implementation of integration. Brown II, however, saw the Supreme Court move to sidestep its own previous ruling of immediate integration in Brown by permitting segregated schools to desegregate with all deliberate speed – or in layman’s terms, at the pace set by local school boards.

Gradual desegregation and a flexible implementation meant that the same local governments that instituted segregation could determine how, in what manner, and what rate their schools would integrate.

Legal historian Michael J. Klarman called Brown II “a solid victory for white Southerners” and wrote in his landmark work “From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equal-

ity,” that white school boards across the nation enacted deliberate measures to resist, delay, and avoid significant integration for years – and in some cases for a decade or more. “[Brown II] permitted a wide range of outright evasions such as closing down school systems and using state money to finance segregated private schools, stalling tactics, and subterfuges such as token integration where a few Black children are admitted to “white” schools but the vast majority are forced to remain in underfunded, unequal Black schools,” he wrote.

Richard Kluger, author of “Simple Justice: the History of Brown v. Education and Black America’s Struggle for Equality,” said the Court faced a dilemma: “It was one thing to reach a judgment on principle …

If [they] do it in a way that’s too abrupt, too harsh, too confrontational, the South will rise up and really oppose [them] … It could work out so badly that (the Court) would be reduced in stature and the country could be thrown into chaos,” Kluger said.

Some lawmakers silently plotted against the Brown decision, while others, like Virginia Sen. Harry Flood Byrd, considered the federal government in violation of states’ rights and offered a public battle cry: “If we can organize the Southern States for massive resistance to this order I think that in time the rest of the country will realize that racial integration is not going to be accepted in the South.”

Operating under the moniker the “Byrd Machine,”

Byrd, a former governor (1926-1930), instituted “Massive Resistance” strategies to maintain school segregation that were adopted by school boards and state governments throughout the South, with more than 100 Southern officeholders having signed the manifesto.

Virginia’s Prince Edward County (site of the Student Strike at Moton High) became a model for Byrd’s “Massive Resistance.” A new and larger Moton High School was built in 1954 in an effort to demonstrate the school board’s compliance with Brown. In addition to building a new larger facility, the old Moton High buildings were converted to a Black elementary school. This ploy, according to published reports, allowed Prince Edward County to maintain segregation for more than a decade.

Other jurisdictions supported the Brown decision on paper, if only to identify and retaliate against Black families who would venture out of prescribed social spaces.

“Mississippi was among the worst offenders when it came to retaliating against Black families who sought to desegregate schools,” said Historian Beulah Bell.

“Between the White Citizens’ Councils, law enforcement, and the Klan, the Brown decision when coupled with the Brown II decision, made it almost impossible to take advantage of the letter of the Supreme Court’s decision.”

White Citizens’ Councils offered a real and present

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danger to desegregation, in an effort to defend white supremacy, resist integration, and suppress all efforts on the part of Blacks to improve their lives. Councils used economic retaliation including firings, evictions, and foreclosures, public condemnation, economic boycotts, and legislative lobbying, to preserve white supremacy.

“The Councils had a lot of money and influence and their members literally had control over the lives of Blacks through economics, health, and employment. Blacks were helpless in many cases against that type of sweeping power. Their efforts bring into focus how the slow desegregation of schools – placing ones children a few children at a time, in harm’s way – took an amazing level of courage and conviction,” Bell said.

The “Massive Resistance” to school integration permitted by Brown II continued until 1964 when the Supreme Court overturned its Brown II decision and revoked all deliberate speed by ruling in Griffin v.

County School Board of Prince Edward County, that “... the time for mere ‘deliberate speed’ has run out.”wi Shantella Y. Sherman is a historian and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where her research focus is Medical and Race History, and Women & Gender Studies.

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How Not to Integrate

Massive Resistance Measures following the Brown Decision

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he details of “Massive Resistance” to school integration varied from state to state and county to county. In Virginia, for example, it included: Enacting state laws that eliminated funding or closed integrated public schools, and allowed the state to seize and close any school that dared to integrate.

The power to assign students to specific schools was removed from local school boards and placed in a state-wide board of appointees who, of course, refused to assign any Black child to a previously allwhite school.

When schools were closed to prevent integration, white students were issued grants (today they’re called “vouchers”) that could be used to pay tuition for segregated private schooling because private school segregation was not prohibited by the Brown decision.

Tax credits were also granted to parents who sent their children to segregated private schools.

Laws were enacted allowing local school

boards to use public funds to pay for transporting white students to segregated private schools.

Teachers who attended college on state scholarships that required them to teach in Virginia’s public schools were allowed to fulfill their obligation by teaching in segregated private schools, and to continue participating in the state teacher retirement system while doing so.

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In effect, this meant that counties were no longer required to provide public schools, and they could choose to close their schools if they so wished to do. Counties were permitted to pass local compulsory attendance laws if they so desired, but county-level compulsory attendance laws were required to allow parents to withdraw their children from integrated schools, even if no other schooling was available.

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Emboldened by a packed house inside the Federal Communications Commission’s Meeting Room, the head of the powerful authority who regulates interstate and international communications, noted movement in the long-fought battle to reduce telephone rates charged to inmates and their families throughout the country.

Mignon Clyburn, chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), served as keynote speaker during a recent daylong workshop in Southwest Washington, D.C., which included remarks by officials from the New York State Department of Corrections, the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C), Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), and others.

“I get extremely excited when talk leads to action, and the workshop marks yet another action phase for the issue of prison pay phone rates,” said Clyburn with a broad smile.

Clyburn said there have been instances where a single phone call from prison eclipsed the cost of an average monthly telephone bill and, in 42 states where there have been limited or no reforms, connection fees alone run an average of $4 per call on top of charges of 89 cents per minute.

“Some say this is not really an issue, because inmate phone calls should cost more than normal phone services due to needed security protocols,” said Clyburn, 50.

But she noted that eight states and several localities have adjusted their telephone rate structures to accommodate inmates and their families.

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Many argue that those commissions are at the root of why call rates are exorbitant.

“The department’s experience indicates that inmate calling rates can be reduced substantially if states eliminate their commissions on the calls, and structure competitive bidding processes that ensure that the cost of the call is among the primary attributes of their inmate calling contracts,” said Anthony Annucci, acting commissioner of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (NYDOCCS).

In 2007, NYDOCCS eliminated its commissions on inmate calls. Prior to that, the department received a 57.5 percent commission on every completed call, which cost inmates about $4.48 per 20-minute phone call.

Because of that reform, the cost for an inmate to make a 20-minute call from a NYDOCCS facility is now 96 cents.

“There are significant benefits that can be attributed to lower rates that seem to outweigh the operational challenges that also attach to the process,” Annucci said.

Officials from the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) said they do not receive commissions from prison calls.

“NDCS recognizes the positive impact regular contact with families and friends have on building supportive relationships that will foster inmates’ successful return to their communities,” said Robert Houston, director of Corrections at NDCS. “To that end, NDCS receives no profit from inmate telephone calls and operates its inmate calling system with the least amount of cost to inmates and their families and friends as possible,” Houston said.

The high cost of calls in most prisons amount to a tax on families and

loved ones of inmates, who cannot afford to accept the calls, said Rush.

“They sacrifice food on the table, other expenses, just to stay in touch with their loved ones who are locked away,” he said.

The FCC first tackled the issue in 2000 when Martha Wright, a resident of Northeast Washington, D.C., took the lead in a class action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Wright, 87, and 19 others sought a ruling that the phone service contracts entered into by prison officials were illegal.

In 2001, the case was sent to the FCC for its review.

In 2007, Wright and others petitioned the FCC to set benchmark rates of 20 cents per minute for calls placed using a calling card, and 25 cents a minute for collect calls.

Last year, the FCC stepped up its efforts by issuing a proposal to lawmakers and prison officials reflecting Wright’s benchmark rate recommendation.

“Multiple studies indicate that having meaningful contact beyond the prison walls can make a real difference in maintaining community ties, promoting rehabilitation and reducing recidivism,” Clyburn said during the July 10 workshop.

The chairwoman added that the FCC and the states need to work together despite what she called “elusive cooperation” in the past.

“This workshop [was] an opportunity to learn from our state partners, particularly from those that have already undergone reform,” she said.

“Reforming the inmate calling regime is a FCC priority. It is important that we expedite this, given the impact on families, especially low-income families, and I look forward to working with our partners today and through the remainder of this process.”wi www.washingtoninformer.com

business Business Exchange How to Make a Fashion Statement for Trayvon Do you feel George Zimmerman is “a racist?” Make a fashion statement to let the world know how you feel. The issue of “race in America” was clearly illustrated in the attention African Americans paid to the Zimmerman trial. Nowadays, Black Americans are no longer asking, rather, they’re demanding “Justice for Trayvon Martin.”

If Zimmerman thought he’d live out his days as a happy camper, he’s sadly mistaken. The “Justice for Trayvon Martin” campaign has morphed into an enterprise that’s not going anywhere, anytime soon, especially if Parks & Crump, Attorneys at Law, have any say in the matter. Parks & Crump, which specializes in personal injury cases, happens to be one of the nation’s top Black law firms. Expert in law and civil rights, the firm is the reason that “[Trayvon] was packing a bag of Skittles and a can of Arizona Iced Tea” sticks in your mind.

Partners Darryl Parks and Benjamin Crump have been the most visible of the firm’s six-member team. Thanks largely to Crump’s legal position and activist efforts, the Martin case has prompted a flurry of marches and rallies around the nation, merited comment from President Barack Obama and garnered the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Parks & Crump camp helped to create a “Justice for Trayvon” industry consisting of protest paraphernalia that includes hoodies, sweatshirts and bumper stickers. The law firm proved to be instrumental in establishing the Trayvon Martin Foundation, with donations totaling an estimated $5 million dollars.

Crump is a principal with the Tallahassee-based firm. He was initially contacted by Tracy Martin’s cousin. His cousin, a Miami attorney, happened to be familiar with Crump’s civil rights work in Florida. The firm is headquartered in the state capital, and Crump is well connected and has been recognized by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund for his “enduring pursuit of justice.” The firm’s receipts from both city www.washingtoninformer.com

By William Reed and state wrongful death lawsuits exceed $10 million.

Crump also colloborates with Orlando attorney Natalie Jackson. Crump and Jackson hired media communications expert Ryan Julison, to make sure that their strategy worked and the word got out. Then, they staged news conferences in which Trayvon’s parents talked about their loss. Florida media outlets began to notice. Shortly thereafter, they contacted Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) to help convince authorities to release 911 tapes – recordings that brought the case to the attention of the national media. The team applied pressure on authorities by organizing a series of rallies and worked with national civil rights figures such as Al Sharpton. Both Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were the first to arrive in Sanford to participate in various rallies and meetings.

As the case against Zimmer-

man moves from one court to another, Trayvon’s family members say they need financial assistance to ensure that justice is served. They’ve been directing donations toward a criminal justice advocacy foundation in the deceased teenager’s name.

The Trayvon Martin Foundation was established to keep this issue alive. It’s the vehicle through which Trayvon’s parents and their attorneys travel and work to create awareness of how violent crime impacts families of victims, and to provide support for the bereaved families. The foundation seeks to advocate that crime victims and their families not be ignored in the discussions about violent crimes, to increase public awareness of all forms of racial, ethnic and gender profiling and educate youth on conflict resolution techniques.

Zimmerman’s acquittal has sparked protests throughout the country. If you move from spectator to protestor, you too, can make a fashion or activist statement when you purchase a hoodie, sweatshirt or sticker to demand “Justice for Trayvon.” The cost of protesting isn’t cheap. The movement has enough “money to move the case forward” but sales of campaign materials and receipts are vital. Analysts say it will cost “at least $5 million” at each rung to move the case up the legal ladder. To make donations to move this case forward, contact: trayvonmartinfoundation.org. wi William Reed is publisher of “Who’s Who in Black Corporate America” and available for projects via the BaileyGroup.org

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Blacks Battle Mental Health Stigma African-American Community Becomes Proactive

By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Shhh! We shouldn’t be talking about it.

Even in the 21st century, there’s a stigma that’s still attached to mental illness.

“Growing up in the African-American community, the subject of mental illness was always taboo. Kept behind closed doors,” said Southeast resident Rudolph Pruden. “It’s viewed as family business, or it is swept under the rug altogether.”

Despite a flurry of television commercials that advertise countless medications, the general public’s misunderstanding persists, notably in the black community because of the stigma associated with mental illness.

One out of four adults living in the U.S., and one out of 10 children struggle with mental

health issues, according to officials at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), one of the nation’s largest non-profit mental health organizations, based in Southeast Washington, D.C. At least 10,000 District of Columbia residents suffer from mental health issues, NAMI Executive Director Sophie Clark said.

“Mental health issues are more [common] than most people realize,” she said. “The stigma surrounding mental health issues affect everyone, but it has a greater impact in communities of color.”

In an effort to raise awareness in minority communities, Congress in 2008 proclaimed July as National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month.

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STIGMA continued from Page 18 to be the single largest cause of disability in the world and, despite that fact, it routinely goes unrecognized, undiagnosed and untreated, mental health officials said.

Within any one-year period, nearly 10 percent of the U.S. adult population will suffer from major depression, but only half of those will be diagnosed and about 30 percent will receive treatment.

“Stigma affects everyone, but more so in communities of color,” said Clarence Jordan, a NAMI board member. “There is still a great lack of awareness of what mental illnesses are and what one can do to recover. National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month takes it to churches, hits the airwaves, and there are articles in the newspaper that people will read,” Jordan said.

Still, it remains a secret, a topic not discussed at dinner tables, in barbershops or in many black communities.

“From the recent White House Conference on Mental Health to the Lifetime original movie, ‘Call me Crazy,’ the nation is now taking a look at mental health like never before and what better time to break the stigma of mental illness within the African-American community than through the platform of National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month,” said Pruden, 70, who began seeking help for depression more than 30 years ago.

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“Mental health issues are more [common] than most people realize. The stigma surrounding mental health issues affect everyone, but it has a greater impact in communities of color.”

– Sophie Clark, executive director, National Alliance on Mental Illness

Chicago-based mental health support organization, where he now serves as president of the Board of Directors.

“Part of breaking the stigma in the black community is promoting open dialogue and peer-support,” he said.

African Americans must also become proactive in alerting others to their illnesses, health care officials said.

Statistics compiled by NAMI show that African Americans are less likely to receive accurate diagnoses than their Caucasian counterparts. Schizophrenia, for instance, has been over diagnosed in the African-American population.

Also, cultural biases about mental health and health care professionals in general prevent many African Americans from accessing care due to prior experiences with historical misdiagnoses, inadequate treatment and a lack of cultural understanding.

Only 2 percent of psychiatrists, 2 percent of psychologists and 4 percent of social workers in the United States are African American.

African Americans tend to rely on family, religious and social communities for emotional support rather than turning to

health care professionals, said Dr. Kisha Davis, director of community outreach for the Casey Health Institute, an integrative medicine center in Gaithersburg, Md. “The health care providers they seek may not be aware of this important aspect of the person’s life,” said Davis, a former White House Fellow at the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

African Americans also are more likely to seek help though their primary care physician as opposed to accessing specialty care. The community is often at a socio-economic disadvantage in terms of accessing both medical and mental health care, said Amanda Skowron, a clinical psychologist at the Casey Health Institute.

However, there are signs of hope, said Skowron, a former psychologist at the University of Maryland and a member of the American Psychological Association in Northeast Washington, D.C., and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies in New York.

“There definitely seems to be the feeling that mental health issues are talked about more and the entire issue is beginning to come out of the shadows,” she said.wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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When it comes to mentoring youth – particularly those of color – John Crump’s priorities have always centered on education and character-building.

So it came as no surprise to those who know him best, when Crump pitched the idea 13 years ago to create some kind of organization that would not only mentor minority youth, but also get them thinking about following in his footsteps as an attorney.

“Some of my colleagues and I were sitting around talking one day when I suggested that we start a mini-camp to get kids to think about a career as a lawyer,” said Crump, 70, executive director emeritus of the District of Columbia-based National Bar Association.

“In 2001, Ford Motor Company provided a half-million-dollar grant to be extended over a period of two years to ensure that the camp was developed,” said the Houston, Texas, native who was honored three years ago by the National Bar Association with its Lifetime Achievement Award.

Today, in addition to Ford Motor Company, the program continues to flourish with the support of a long list of corporate sponsors that include the Wal-Mart Foundation, Microsoft and Blackwell Burke – a well-known law firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn.

“We initially endeavored to set up chapters across the country but ended up establishing the project, called the Crump Law Camp, on a smaller basis,” said Crump for whom the program is named. “We chose Washington, D.C., as its location because that’s where the U.S. Supreme Court as well as other powerful seats of government – that add to the whole quality of the camp – are located.”

This year’s students came from as far away as New York, Texas, Arizona and Hawaii. While most were African American, many were of Latino descent, and a couple had Asian backgrounds.

Travel, tuition, room and board, and learning materials for their participation in the two-week camp were based on their families’ ability to pay. Students whose families couldn’t afford full costs, were admitted on a sliding scale basis, and in other cases, the entire fee was picked up by the program.

The camp’s theme, “Growing The Washington Informer

Attorneys,” featured classes taught by professors from Howard’s law school, who also served as mentors.

During the camp which was held July 6-16 on the campus of the Howard University School of Law in Northwest, the 34 teenagers who will return to their respective schools this fall as freshmen, sophomores and juniors, participated in a series of mock trial competitions, in-depth studies on the American legal system and cultural and historical field trips.

Their rigorous curriculum included courses such as “An Introduction to Law” and “Criminal Law.” “Given the current statistics, we have very few minority students who are interested in becoming attorneys or judges,” said Camille Bryan, the National Bar Association’s director of programming.

“So the camp is more like a pipeline to get young people to consider law as a profession,” said Bryan, who also manages the camp. “[The students] participated in field trips to the Supreme Court and the D.C. Superior Court where they witnessed cases. [They also visited] attorneys’ offices where they [heard] about the different kinds of law, and what it takes to be an attorney,” she said.

While many of the students aspire to become attorneys, others have their sights set on careers related to law.

Rachel Clayton, from New Orleans, La., returned to the camp this year as both a mentor and program assistant.

“I first heard about the program two years ago, because both of my parents are members of the [National Bar Association],” said Clayton, a 19-year-old sophomore at Tulane University in New Orleans majoring in government relations.

“I’m not stuck on becoming a lawyer, but the camp gave me an opportunity to consider what I want to do as a career,” said Clayton. “It also gave participants a little experience, because like myself, they were put into scenarios similar to working on a law case, and I found that rewarding. I was able to learn more about the [National Bar Association] and what my parents do as attorneys.”

Clayton added that because she tends to be shy, the camp allowed her to break out of her comfort zone and learn to effectively present her arguments.

John Crump, executive director emeritus of the District of Columbia’s National Bar Association. /Photo courtesy of the National Bar Association

“I think more kids should participate in programs like the camp because they get the chance to really challenge themselves while learning how to work alongside their peers and adults.”

On July 16, the last day of the camp, four of the students were chosen for their work in the mock trials, as semi-finalists for the competition on July 31 in Miami. The competition will be held during the National Bar Association’s annual convention at the Fontainebleau Miami Hotel.

The semi-finalists are Michael Thomas, 16, from Brooklyn, N.Y.; Kayla McDonald, 15, from Upper Marlboro, Md.; Joelle Goldston, 16, from Lansdowne, Pa.; and Brandon Dixon, 15, from Philadelphia.

Crump said what he likes most about the camp is how it has enabled his program to keep up with students from the time they enter high school until they graduate from college.

“We’ve followed many of them via social media like Facebook and some have begun careers aligned with the study of law and are doing amazingly well,” said Crump.

“We have at least 38 former campers who are currently in law school. However, we are more interested in building character than counting how many become lawyers, and based on the feedback we’ve had, we’ve met our expectations.”wi Call 202-842-3900 for information on the Crump Law Camp, or visit www. nationalbar.org in the fall to learn about the 2014 camp. www.washingtoninformer.com

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Race Matters

Out of the Trayvon Martin tragedy has come what we hope is the beginning or the continuation of honest, unvarnished discussions about the issue of race in America in all its manifestations.

Since a jury found George Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter on July 13, discussions, debates and conversations on television news outlets from the View to Fox News to Melissa Harris Perry, radio programs and exchanges on the street have centered on race.

As has become apparent, there are some who would prefer that no one ever broach the subject, but as Trayvon’s murder and the subsequent uncomfortable attempts at discourse illustrate, America must come clean.

We live in a country struggling to come to terms with 400 years of slavery, segregation and discrimination. America was almost torn apart by the Civil War, a conflict rooted in the issue of slavery. But in the aftermath of the war, Reconstruction and on through the Civil Rights movement, there has yet to be a thoughtful, serious, comprehensive, in-depth airing of all this dirty laundry.

President Obama did the country a favor when he decided – after careful reflection and the prompting of friends, colleagues and allies, we’re told – to add his voice to the cascade of voices speaking on this topic. His intensely personal recollections of being a black man in America resonated with most black men and many women who have been stigmatized and profiled for no other reason than skin color. All of the men in black families have talked about driving while black, being stopped and harassed by police, seeing white women clutch their purses and white Americans click their car doors shut as a black person approached.

In 2013, African Americans and people of color are being buffeted from all sides, be it Supreme Court decisions, the Trayvon Martin verdict, voter suppression and efforts to deny us the right to vote and on and on. Many blacks want their country to give them the same respect and love that they have for it.

Talking straight, no chaser, is the first step. What comes after is the quest to seek out constructive ways to gain each other’s trust.

Without that, nothing real or sustainable can result and that will be America’s loss.

More Jobs for District Residents

As the nation remains mired in unacceptably high unemployment, any programs and initiatives that can improve the employment landscape is always welcome.

And that is doubly true in our city, which is experiencing unemployment at a rate of about 8.5 percent. Mayor Vincent Gray and his administration are to be commended for the work they’re doing to reverse the employment numbers.

The One City • One Hire program is one that is drawing on innovation and best practices not just to put District residents back to work but also to give the hardcore unemployed the tools they need to reenter the workforce.

Gray announced Monday that the city has just been awarded a $416,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor. The grant will finance the District’s efforts to provide re-employment services to people receiving extended unemployment insurance benefits. It provides the D.C. Department of Employment Services (DOES) the funds to make targeted adults and young people more job-ready, offer them more training referrals and allow staff to conduct labor-market assessments which evaluate and match residents’ skills with current market demands.

While the economic-research firm POLICOM named D.C. the strongest economy in the United States, Harvard University selected us to receive a Bright Idea Award for our One City • One Hire program and cranes and new construction dot the city, city residents, especially those living east of the Anacostia River have been hardest hit by the lingering recession. The need for jobs is real.

This latest development should go a long way toward linking qualified residents with much-needed jobs and so we look forward to the program bearing much fruit.

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A New Beginning for PGCPS

After reading Dorothy Rowley’s article, “Maxwell Promises to Meet Expectations,” July18, 2013, I’ve started to get really excited about the upcoming school year.

Dr. Kevin Maxwell sounds as if he’s going to get things together in our schools.

For so many years we have been struggling with the kinds of problems you might find in an urban school district, and it sounds like Dr. Maxwell may be able to put us on a more positive path of turning the situation around.

I like the fact that he has a military background and was himself educated in the Prince George’s County Public School system.

I know it’s unrealistic to think he will be able to change everything overnight, but it sounds as if he believes in our students and more importantly, he sounds like he believes in parents. We are the keys to his success and our students’ success.

Wendy L. Brookings Fort Washington, Md.

No Surprise!

I, for one was not surprised by the acquittal of George Zimmerman. First of all, the state of Florida didn’t want to bring Zimmerman to trial; it took all sorts of protests for them to re-open the case. Secondly, and this is the most revealing of all – the state allowed a jury of six middle-aged white women to judge Trayvon Martin and acquit Zimmerman.

Now, I know that I’m doing a little stereotyping and profiling, but that seems to be OK these days. Southern white women over the age of 50 are the most racist group in America. They have been brought up to be that way. Just look at Paula Deen and the excuses she was making for her racist views. That’s the way she was raised. Southern white women were raised to believe that if they get themselves into a situation that they couldn’t handle all they had to do was to blame a black man and all of the attention would be taken off of them.

I believe as teenagers they would talk among themselves and discuss how they would get

away with stuff. So when the juror went on national TV and said that she believed Trayvon Martin contributed to his own murder, it just re-enforced my belief that middle-aged southern white women have been brought up to believe black men are always guilty, no matter what!

Perry K. McNeal Washington, D.C.

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By James Clingman

Marching in Place As we draw nearer to one of the most relevant events in history, an event that has been revered and immortalized by the iconic phrase, “I have a dream!” hundreds of thousands of people are preparing to relive the famous March on Washington.

August 28, 1963 was the day that a quarter million people descended on the National Mall and heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his timeless speech

that began with an economic theme and ended with a rousing, thought-provoking, soulful call for freedom and equality.

Many people are excited about marching once again to commemorate that day in 1963, to restate MLK’s dream, and hear speeches from civil rights icons.

In the last 50 years, Black folks have organized more marches than I care to remember. And now we march again, not only to commemorate, but also to demonstrate the failure of our society to fulfill King’s dream.

When W.E.B. DuBois departed this country for Africa, according to Gerald Horne, author of Black and Red: W.E.B. DuBois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War,he lamented, “I just cannot take any more of this country’s treatment. We leave for Ghana October 5th and I set no date for my return…Chin up, and fight on, but realize that American Negroes can’t win.”

DuBois died on August 27, 1963, just one day prior to the famous March on Washington,

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thus, never getting the news about the 250,000 participants and never hearing King’s words of accountability, admonishment, and idealism. I wonder what he would have thought about that day and what he would have suggested we do from that point forward. Keep marching for 50 years? I kinda doubt it.

A half century later, we are steeped in the same emotional quandary we started with in 1963; we are bombarded by calls to come back to Washington to

repeat what took place in 1963; and we are teaching our children about that day and telling them to “keep the dream alive,” to “relive the dream,” to “redeem the dream,” and to go back and march with us 50 years later.

Have we been marching in place all this time? Should we still be doing the same thing we did back then to highlight the same issues and to convince the same entrenched government and society to accept us as

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By George E. Curry

Criminal Injustice System Failed Trayvon I sat in stunned silence as the jury returned its not guilty verdict for George Zimmerman in connection with the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. Then, I was jolted by a comment made

by Prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda: “… We live in a great country that has a great criminal justice system. It is not perfect but it is the best in the world and we respect the jury’s verdict.”

In what country does de la Rionda live?

Surely, he couldn’t be referring to the United States. Granted, making the prosecutor prove his or her case against a defendant is a great idea. So is the notion of being presumed innocent until proven guilty. But when it comes to African Americans, this is by no stretch of the imagination “a great criminal justice system.”

I don’t say this out of any bitterness over the failure of the jurors to convict Zimmerman

for murdering Trayvon Martin.

Yes, I thought Zimmerman was guilty of murder or, at the least, manslaughter. But as much as it pains me, I must also acknowledge that the state of Florida did a poor job prosecuting Zimmerman.

Trayvon’s death is a cold reminder that the Black homicide rate is more than six times that of Whites. According to 2010 FBI statistics analyzed by the Violence Policy Center, the homicide rate for Black victims was

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16.32 per 100,000, compared to a rate of 2.66 per 100,000 for Whites.

For Black women, the rate was 4.28 per 100,000, compared to 1.48 per 100,000 for White females. And African-American men were homicide victims at a rate of 29.50 per 100,000, compared to 7.08 per 100,000 for White males.

“America faces a continuing epidemic of homicide among young black males,” according to the introduction to a Vio-

lence Policy Center report titled, “Black Homicide in the United States: An Analysis of 2010 Homicide Data.” The report, published in January, continued, “The devastation homicide inflicts on black teens and adults is a national crisis, yet it is all too often ignored outside of affected communities.”

And what happens when criminal cases move through America’s “great criminal justice

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By Lee A. Daniels

Rand Paul’s Neo-Confederate Staffer No wonder Kentucky’s Republican Senator Rand Paul couldn’t get his American and African-American history right when he spoke to students at historically-Black Howard University in April. He’s been tutored by both his father, Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul, and his political operative pal, Jack Hunter, in a reeking mishmash of neo-Confederate and neoJim Crow propaganda.

Rand Paul’s hiring last August of the 39-year-old Hunter to be on his Washington staff became a mini-controversy when the conservative Washington (D.C.) Free Beacon newspaper published a lengthy article last week describing his past association as an officer of a White-supremacist group and his long record of denigrating, among other things, Blacks, Hispanics, and the Union victory in the Civil War, and celebrating Lincoln’s assassination.

Hunter had met Ron Paul in 2008 during the latter’s presiden-

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tial nomination campaign. Rand Paul hired him in 2010 to help him write a book on his campaign for the Senate and the Tea Party and the two are said to be close friends.

It’s unclear whether Hunter, or, more importantly, Rand Paul, will suffer any damage. After all, when it comes to the Pauls, both father and son, the controversy conjures up more than a little déjà vu.

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and Rand Paul campaigned for the Kentucky senate seat, the opaque cloud of limited-government philosophy they had drawn over their racial views evaporated when interviewers got them to admit they were opposed to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Not that they themselves were prejudiced, they said with a straight face. Nor did they support discrimination against Blacks. It’s just that they believed the rights of owners of private property – a category in which

they included privately-owned businesses – are sacrosanct. So, the 1964 Act was wrong in making it illegal for privately-owned businesses – be they grocery stores, boutiques, hotels, restaurants, and so on – to bar Blacks as customers. In the Pauls’ theory of how the free-market should function, Blacks who did suffer discrimination at one business could surely find another that would accommodate them.

Critics quickly shredded the

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By Johnny C. Taylor, Jr.

A More Valuable Type of Protest best-known “leaders and pundits” hit the media outlets to express their outrage; and many of us Tweeted / Facebooked / Instagrammed ourselves to sleep – seething in disbelief. Even our dear president decided to proffer an official statement safely expressing his concern at the outcome. But why all the protests now?

Why weren’t these people standing in the front of the Governor’s Mansion raising hell when the state of Florida educated a young woman for 12

As I spent Sunday listening to everyone pontificate their theories about how White racism led to George Zimmerman’s acquittal, it struck me how yesterday’s and today’s protests are – a dollar short and a day late.

After the verdict was read, hundreds of Black people gathered in the front of the Florida Governor’s Mansion to protest the outcome. Several of our

years in its public school system who admitted she couldn’t read cursive? She was the prosecutor’s main witness. And we wonder what led to the verdict? It’d be tough for even an all-Black jury to give her testimony any credence.

Why wasn’t there a crowd on the steps of the Miami-Dade School Board building protesting the fact that Black and Latino boys are nearly four times more likely than their White counterparts to be suspended from school for the same infrac-

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tion? After all, if Trayvon hadn’t been suspended from school, he wouldn’t have been in Sanford, and therefore couldn’t have been killed there that night.

Why didn’t our anointed “leaders and pundits” use their media platforms to protest the disparity in funding to HBCU law schools — the very institutions that have historically ensured the country a robust supply of African American lawyers to fight the very injustices we complain about?

I heard countless commenta-

tors point out that a White judge presided over the case and the team of lawyers trying the case was all White. But they failed to call-out the historical and continued funding cuts to schools, such as the Florida A&M University School of Law, that are responsible for creating diversity in the justice system. No Black lawyers equal no Black judges, which means the continued disparate treatment our “leaders and pundits” all described in

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By Harry C. Alford

A Tale of Two Presidents recognizing the importance of doing business in Africa. After being in office for two months, he made a visit to Africa his first overseas trip as president. He visited Tanzania, South Africa and the Congo. He came back with 17 major business agreements. While in Tanzania, he publically stated his concerns about a big trade imbalance (in favor of China) and assured that his nation will be conscious of doing business on a level playing field with African nations. He concluded, “Africa belongs to

the attitudes of China’s President Xi Jinping and our President Barack Obama is absolutely shocking. President Xi is straight up about business. In fact, he is very aggressive. President Obama seems to be reticent about the issue. In fact, he can be arrogant and cavalier as if trade and investment don’t really matter that much. Let’s take a look at their Africa trips this year.

President Xi wasted no time in

the African people. In developing relations with Africa, all countries should respect Africa’s dignity and independence” he added.

From there he went to South Africa for a very important business conference. China has a seat on the BRICS Summit – which is composed of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Their mission is to form a multinational lender that will rival the World Bank and focus on developing nations. They plan on “slinging” money and develop a

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growing influence especially in second and third world nations.

The summit was in the beautiful city of Durban.

And from South Africa, President Xi went to the mineral rich Congo. Former Chinese President Zhou Enlai once stated, “Whoever has the Congo and its neighboring nations will rule the world.” China still believes in that claim. No other nation in the world is doing more business in this war-torn nation than China. It buys more than 200,000 barrels of oil every day from the

Congo. China’s strategy is to monopolize the precious minerals of the world. The two richest nations in precious minerals are China (itself) and the Congo. In fact, all of central Africa is loaded in precious minerals and the vast majority of the mining is owned and operated by Chinese companies. His maiden voyage to Africa has indeed been successful from a business perspective and that is the only perspective President Xi was concerned

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By Askia Muhammad

Same-sex, Conservative Agendas Now in Power concerned in the United States and throughout the Western world, there are two ascending ideologies which can almost not be effectively challenged in 2013.

One philosophy is as old as the Magna Carta, and is accustomed to dominating the councils of power. It is laissez-faire capitalism, the doctrine which opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond www.washingtoninformer.com

the minimum necessary for the maintenance of peace and property rights. It favors plutocracy or government by the wealthy.

Ironically, this philosophy is embraced by the so-called “populist” Tea Party groups and by the sod-busting, dirt farmers who ride with the Ku Klux Klan alike.

It is conservatism by any other name.

In 2013, practically every political leader in the U.S. is strained to prove his or her conservative bona fides.

In Congress, where the House

of Representatives has voted 37 (count them) times to repeal the Affordable Care Act – so-called “Obamacare” – and where a tiny belligerent minority of senators threatens everything that breathes with the threat of a filibuster, it has produced a dysfunctional legislature which can’t get anything done. It can’t confirm presidential appointees, it can’t agree on a budget, it can’t do anything except rhetorical posturing, and this conservatives do with a flourish.

In fact, according to the new

edition of Vital Statistics on Congress, the Republican-controlled 112th Congress passed only 561 bills. That’s the lowest number since they started keeping these statistics, back in 1947.

That’s probably fine with the right-wing jingoes and Tea Party fanatics who dominate the GOP because they don’t believe in the legitimacy of the government in the first place. They’d just as soon let the feudal lords and plantation owners write all the rules and dictate all the policies.

These guys (females includ-

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ed) would build an impenetrable fence all along the U.S. border with Mexico in order to stem what they consider to be “illegal immigration” into the U.S. Think about this for a minute.

For thousands of years before these “gringo” settler-immigrants moved into the Southwest and usurped the land from the Native people, buffalo and other animals roamed freely across the Western Frontier, and the people followed their game.

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Mayor Vincent Gray thanked Pepco’s Beverly Perry for being a true friend to the city during her career celebration in June at the Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard at the National Portrait Gallery in Northwest. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah

Perry

By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer Beverly L. Perry’s friends, colleagues and admirers spent a recent evening heaping accolades upon her and lauding her good works on the eve of her retirement, but no one believes for one minute that this woman of seemingly unrelenting energy will ever fully retire.

“This is not a retirement party but a career celebration for Beverly Perry,” said Debbi Jarvis, Pepco vice president of Corporate Citizenship and Social Responsibility. “I know that retirement isn’t part of her vocabulary.”

Lauded at Career Celebration

Joe Rigby, CEO of Pepco Holdings, agreed, saying the smartest thing he ever did was appoint Perry his special advisor.

“We’re spending this time here but it isn’t a retirement because she retired maybe seven, eight years ago,” he joked. “It’s difficult to put into words all she’s done. She guided our company through deregulation and regulatory hearings. She’s made a huge difference to our company.”

Rigby’s observation was one replicated all night at the Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard at the National Portrait Gallery in Northwest.

“We’ve known each other for a long time. She’s one of my

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closest friends,” said Real Estate Developer Michele Rollins of their 40-year friendship. “We were attorneys at the Department of Justice and she left me.

She has a huge heart, is smart as hell and understands the mechanics of politics and business.

She’s as good as it gets.”

“Isn’t this fabulous? She’s so deserving.”

With rhythm and blues and soul music wafting throughout the background, guests moved about chatting, catching up, munching on sandwiches, meats and hors d’oeuvres and sipping a variety of beverages.

The hubbub of conversation was occasionally interrupted by The Washington Informer

announcements and presentations of proclamations, plaques and other gifts to Perry from members of Congress, the philanthropic community, utility companies, elected officials and others.

Mayor Vincent Gray (D) declared June 26, 2012 “Beverly Perry Day”, while Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker, Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett, members of the D.C. Council and other political figures read proclamations honoring her.

Everyone had a Perry story, recollection or anecdote, revealing her attention to detail, honesty and other qualities they said

make her one-of-a-kind.

“I’m glad to share “Beverly Perry Day” with all of you,” said South Carolina Congressman and Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn. “I spoke to my brother John when I was coming up here in 1992 and he said one of the people I needed to meet was Beverly. She was a resource for me and kind of adopted me – she showed me the ropes.”

“I’m an avid golfer and a few times when I should have been meeting constituents, I was on the golf course with Beverly … she knows no barriers of generations, gender or party. She’s

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LIFESTYLE PERRY continued from Page 28 committed to doing what’s right for the community she serves.”

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton was effusive.

“Our leader of the House is here so you know this is an occasion,” she said. “I said, ‘Going where? She’s not going anywhere.’ My friends, I don’t know what Pepco is going to do because Bev managed to make a utility look good. She managed the science of the utility with the skill of dealing with residents. I don’t envy her successor.”

“You’ve branded the position, mastered the ins and outs of the community and made the utility run and go. You’re someone with that mix of magic. I came to salute you Bev and thank you for your service to the community.”

During her remarks, Perry hinted at the loneliness of being the only female and only black in all-male bastions of the utility industry and she spoke more during a recent interview.

“In my early days in D.C., I met Michele Rollins, my first mentor who became my friend,” said Perry. “She taught me to cope with that, encouraged me to go back to school. Here she was, a white woman, a tax attorney who had rich parents.

She took me to events with rich folks, places I wouldn’t have seen before. She helped me feel comfortable with people different from me in terms of our socio-economic backgrounds. As it turns out, by the time I came to Pepco, I was prepared to deal with that.”

Perry, a native of Franklin, N.C., said her early career also helped her deal with being the only woman where she worked.

Often, she was either the only one or one of a handful of blacks or women at the U.S. Department of Justice, the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency.

“All of that prepared me when I came to Edison Electric, to operate in that white, male enclave,” she said.

Her workload and schedule is legendary, and Perry said growing up on a farm helped shape how she views work.

“When you grow up on a farm, your livelihood, your lifestyle all depends on your work.

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food will be determined by the quality of work you put into it.

Instinctively, that’s what I do. I don’t think of it consciously.”

When she stepped down, Perry was serving as senior vice president and special advisor to Rigby, the chairman of Pepco Holdings, Inc. (PHI). Her job as a federal lobbyist took her to Capitol Hill and other corridors of power. A lawyer by profession, Perry joined Pepco in 1990 as manager of Government Relations, District of Columbia and Federal Affairs.

“When the region comes together to celebrate someone, that’s a powerful statement,” Gray said. “She’s been a great friend of D.C. and a great booster for the city.”

Every speaker touched on Perry’s humanity and decency.

“In this business, it’s hard to be loved but she’s loved and respected,” said former D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams. “Bev’s great. I’ve known her for about 20 years. I met her when I was the Chief Financial Officer.

She’d follow me all around and had me thinking she had a crush on me, but all along it’s because Pepco wanted to get paid.”

Attorney and former At-Large D.C. Council member Bill Lightfoot echoed Williams’ comments.

“She’s honest and you can trust her word,” he said. “It’s important that a lobbyist tells the truth. And when you meet her, she’s done her homework.”

Perry, mother of an adult son, and grandmother of two, said outside of having to pack up 20 years of items in her old Pepco office, then incorporate them into her home, and dealing with all of the administrative

paperwork that comes with retirement, she’s enjoying her new state of being.

“I haven’t set my alarm clock but once in three weeks. It’s fabulous,” she said with a laugh. “I schedule all my appointments at

noon. I’m going with the flow. I want to take piano lessons. I also travel a lot and want to travel more. I’m committed to Arena Stage, the Urban League and a few other things I’m involved in.

That will continue.”wi

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Film Addresses Crimes against Black Men

‘Fruitvale Station’ Follows Life of Young Man Killed by a Cop

By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Three years before 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch captain outside of his father’s home in Sanford, Fla., Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old unarmed black man was headed home in Oakland, Calif. on New Year’s Day 2009, and met a similar fate.

Grant was fatally shot by a transit officer at a commuter train stop after being detained with several other passengers on the platform at the city’s Fruitvale train station.

“Get back, I’m gonna tase him,” Officer Johannes Mehserle yelled out, according to eyewitnesses.

With Grant lying face down, Me-

hserle shot and killed the young man who worked as a butcher in Oakland’s Dimond District.

While a jury found George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, not guilty in Trayvon’s shooting, many argued that despite the guilty verdict in the Grant shooting, justice still escaped the black community.

Mehserle, a native of Germany, received an 11 month prison sentence after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the Grant case.

“I remember the first time [that I saw] the video of what happened to Oscar. I remember having an empty feeling in my stomach,” said director and screenwriter Ryan Coogler, whose new film, “Fruit-

Michael B. Jordan portrays Oscar Grant in the movie, “Fruitvale Station.” Jordan is best known for his performances in HBO’s critically-acclaimed drama, “The Wire” and NBC’s “Friday Night Lights.” /Courtesy Photo

vale Station,” details the Grant shooting.

“Oscar Grant made some mistakes in his life,” said Coogler, 27.

“But, he also had great love in his life … great positives in his life as well. To be honest, he was a person, just like you, just like me.”

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The movie opens nationwide on Friday, July 26 and showings are scheduled at Landmark’s E-Street Cinema in Northwest and select theaters in Alexandria and Fairfax, Va., and Bethesda, Md. The film debuted in California just one day before the jury in the Zimmerman case rendered its controversial verdict. Critics say the film easily qualifies for Academy Award consideration.

Coogler said what’s addressed in the film extends well beyond the Zimmerman case.

“My prayer’s go out to Trayvon’s family and the families of all the young black males [who] are being killed on the streets, whether it’s from black-on-black crime or whether it’s a situation like Trayvon’s or an officer-involved shooting like with Oscar,” he said. “A lost life is a lost life.”

The movie, “Fruitvale Station” opens with actual footage from a camera phone, taken by a passenger on a Bay Area Rapid Transit train that had pulled into Fruitvale, a stop in downtown Oakland.

As the clock ticked past 2 a.m., the train is jammed with revelers who celebrated New Year’s in San Francisco.

The footage shows Grant on the platform leaning against a wall.

Forcibly removed from the train, Grant could be seen talking on his cell phone and arguing with transit police who pinned him to the ground. One shot is fired, and a few hours later at a local hospital, Grant is pronounced dead.

Grant, portrayed by Michael B. Jordan, a rising young actor best known for his standout performances in HBO’s “The Wire” as the young and naïve Wallace and NBC’s “Friday Night Lights,” where he shined as the beleaguered quarterback, is convincing in his role as the ill-fated victim. Octavia Spencer, an Oscar winner for her role as Minny Jackson in the crit-

ically-acclaimed 2011 movie, “The Help,” portrays Grant’s stern but loving mother in the film. Spencer also signed on as one of the film’s producers.

The movie depicts many sides of Grant: the adoring father of a 4-year-old daughter, the former prisoner, the friendly guy who calls his grandmother to get fish-frying tips for a stranger, the employee who can’t hide his anger over losing his job, the unfaithful boyfriend who has cheated on his girlfriend, the son who dotes on his mom.

“Coogler immerses us in his life, so that when it’s cut short, you won’t just weep, you’ll cry out in protest,” writes film critic Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly. “‘Fruitvale Station’ is great political filmmaking because it’s great filmmaking, period.”

Twenty-two-years-old when he first heard about the death of Grant, and a film major at the University of Southern California, Coogler also hails from Oakland.

Coogler said he saw himself in Grant and knew immediately that he wanted to make a movie about what happened. “… It really triggered all kinds of emotions, from sadness, to anger, to a sense of helplessness,” Coogler said.

The young filmmaker received financial backing from actor Forest Whitaker’s “Significant Productions” production company headquartered in Los Angeles. Coogler also received the thumbs-up from Grant’s family to make the film.

Coogler sets out to draw viewers into an emotional bond with Grant – and he succeeds.

“I wanted to have the audience kind of feel like a fly on the wall as they moved around and visited with this character, to bring them close to [his] character,” he said.

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Revamped Taurus Tops Segment in Gas Mileage

By Njuguna Kabugi WI Contributing Writer When Ford Motor Company retired the Crown Victoria in 2011, many wondered whether the car buying public would warm up to the Taurus – which by default had become the largest sedan in Ford’s lineup.

Though less luxurious than the also defunct Lincoln Town Car, the Crown Vic or CV had over the years become the de facto workhorse for a variety of uses – cop car, grand taxi and corporate executive hauler.

This was also the car for comfort-seeking retirees who could not quite afford (or didn’t want to pay for) a full-fledged luxury platform, but needed V-8-power, comfort, lots of interior space, and reliable transportation.

After spending close to a month in two different trim lev-

els of the Taurus, we are pleased to report that the Taurus is light years ahead of the Crown Vic. Whereas the CV is admired for its cavernous rear seating for three large adults without the slightest complaint (unless they’re wearing handcuffs), the Taurus counters that with either front wheel or All-wheel-drive, and a comfortable and quiet cabin with relaxed dynamics and respectable power.

While the Crown Vic’s girth – actual car length 17.6 feet – and imprecise steering made it wallow like a land barge, the Taurus handles with much more precision and confidence, often out accelerating the CV’s V8 which swallows gasoline like fuel was still under a buck a gallon. Never mind that the Taurus sports only V6 and 4 cylinder engines. Your grandfather’s Ford CV also lacks everyday amenities such as dual

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Ford Taurus bests the competition with a balanced ride, huge trunk and low base price. /Photo Courtesy of Ford Motor Company

zone climate control, Bluetooth and MP3 players – stuff quite common even in $17,000 Kias.

As a class, sales of large sedans are falling, with the midsize sedan segment picking up

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shares. The Taurus, however, is going strong, with sales up 30.5 percent so far this year. Compared to mid-size sedans such as the Toyota Camry and Nissan Altima, the Taurus feels more substantial – with its big-car presence, more hip room, and trunk space.

Freshened for 2013, the new Ford Taurus delivers a lot for large sedan customers – better fuel economy, more technology, design refinement, improved craftsmanship and enhanced driving dynamics. Built in Chicago, the Taurus line gets a welcome face-lift this year which includes a new grille, front fascia, wheels, front and rear lighting, rear fenders and deck lid.

A choice of new engines offers customers increased fuel efficiency. One of our test cars came with EcoBoost 2.0-liter, a 4 cylinder engine which combines the direct injection of gasoline and a turbocharger to provide an estimated 240 horsepower while delivering highway fuel economy of at least 31 mpg.

That performance bests Toyota Avalon by 3 mpg and is compa-

rable to naturally aspirated V6 engines offered by competitors.

We also drove a car equipped with the Ti-VCT 3.5-liter V6 engine. The V6 is offered as standard equipment in Taurus SE, SEL and Limited series models.

In the new Taurus, this engine delivers an increase of 2 mpg highway, with 10 percent more horsepower than the previous model.

Priced at $27,395, the base V-6 Taurus offers a lot for the money, and its 29-mpg highway rating is among the best in the class. Our test model, equipped with the EcoBoost 2.0-liter, listed for a few bucks under $35,000. It was furnished with comfortable leather and a lavish list of options that includes the wholly revamped MyFord Touch system, an available Sony Audio System and HD Radio, adaptive cruise control with forward collision alert, and Active Park Assist (borrowed from Lincoln’s sistership MKS). wi

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ARIES Possibilities of hearing good news about home are greatly expanded. Savor the news rather than thinking about other annoyances. Travel is on the horizon. Plan the trip this week. Soul Affirmation: Jewelry reflects the beauty of my feelings about myself. Lucky Numbers: 26, 44, 52 TAURUS Feather the nest. Stock up on stuff for the long haul. Cement relationships. A friend needs your support.

Enjoy giving it. You will receive good news about a pal. Soul Affirmation: Cheerfully handling what comes at me is the test of who I am. Lucky Numbers: 13, 22, 31 GEMINI Your mate has a sweet surprise. Open up to receive it. Choose your words carefully around a sensitive pal.

Listen for good news about a loan or financial matter. Soul Affirmation: I let others toot my horn this week. Lucky Numbers: 27, 28, 41 CANCER Enjoy the great insights you have in the area of career objectives. Take a look at what’s out there! An unanticipated financial matter may arise, find the good in it. Soul Affirmation: A cheerful soul should be wrapped in a cheerful package.

Lucky Numbers: 15, 23, 35 LEO Be cautious and conservative with money. You are extremely witty this week. Allow others to enjoy your good humor. Your leadership skills are very high, and others will follow. Soul Affirmation: Luck is my best friend this week. Lucky Numbers: 14, 20, 44 VIRGO This is a good time for you to seek agreement on a plan that involves a relative. Take the time to remind your lover how much you care. Get a little sentimental if you have to. Don’t be too critical of that softer side of your personality.

Soul Affirmation: Self-confidence is the key to my success this week.

Lucky Numbers: 2, 9, 19

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LIBRA Push. Now is a good time to push. Your energy is higher than ever. Someone might get offended, but you can’t please everyone. Hire a pro for something that you planned to do yourself, especially if a expertise is involved. Soul Affirmation: Success is mine because I feel successful. Lucky Numbers: 5, 7, 12 SCORPIO Review your “to do” list again. You may need to slow down to discover something that you didn’t realize while you were in the flow of events. Your lover is going to be a little difficult to understand. Back off if an argument arises.

You’re probably the one who is too busy. Forgiving yourself is often harder than getting someone else to forgive you. Soul Affirmation: Two hats fit well on my big head. Lucky Numbers: 3, 20, 32 SAGITTARIUS Make a special effort to spend all week with your lover, husband or wife. Your sense of the importance of relationships is keen and this is a good time to strengthen your passionate partnership. Take your lover to a party.

Devote attention. Soul Affirmation: Change is my middle name. Lucky Numbers: 12, 51, 52 CAPRICORN The flock will come to you for direction. Give it gracefully. Know that your insights will help a lot if you deliver them in the right way. If you are a mother, guidance will be the best gift you can give others this week. Soul Affirmation: Knowing I can do it is the biggest preparation for getting it done. Lucky Numbers: 7, 11, 22 AQUARIUS Most people don’t know how often dreams and reality blend into that practical consciousness of yours.

Knowledge comes from a dream you’ve had lately. This week is a good week to get started making that dream a reality. Soul Affirmation: My spirit gives me limitless possibilities. Lucky Numbers: 9, 17, 52 PISCES Cooperation is key this week in your relationship with your partner. Even if you know you’re right, let your partner have his or her way in the early going. Your staying power will give you influence or control in the late rounds. Soul Affirmation: I let go and let the spirit run my life this week. Lucky Numbers: 11, 39, 41

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Turn left.

That’s what your GPS said, so you turned – though that didn’t seem correct and you knew that blind obedience to electronics isn’t always a good idea. Would you be late? End up lost? Or would you end up in exactly the right place?

Like a GPS, life also has a way of taking you down unknown roads. In the new book “Sister: An African American Life in Search of Justice” by Sylvia Bell White & Jody LePage, for example, you’ll read about one woman’s journey from Louisiana to Wisconsin and into history.

Like most eight-year-old children, Sylvia Bell loved to play.

She remembered swinging from ropes with her brothers, batting baseballs, and getting “all dusty and dirty.” As the seventh child of 13, and the only girl, Sylvia had simple fun while growing up in Louisiana in those pre-Depression years.

But when she was eight years old, her mother disappeared (something she did often), so Sylvia became a mother to “them boys.” She took over the cooking and housework but left disciplinary matters to her father, who was both “a mother and a father, to tell you the truth.”

Eventually, Sylvia’s mother returned (staying away, Jody LePage hints, might have been a method of birth control) and the family thrived. Sylvia’s father, a respected man in the community, kept two jobs and was able to buy a small farm in order to feed his brood.

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Metropolitan AME Celebrates 175 Years

By James Wright WI Staff Writer One of the District’s most prominent churches celebrated its 175th anniversary recently with noted Washington area politicians in attendance and a guest speaker who strongly urged the church to continue its work despite adversity.

The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Northwest, pastored by the Rev. Ronald Braxton and assisted by his wife, the Rev. Marie Braxton, celebrated a significant anniversary – its 175th – with hundreds of its members and visitors on Sunday, July 21. The theme for the jubilant occasion: “On the Solid Rock: We Stand.” D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D) congratulated the church for its longevity and its commitment to fighting for equal rights and justice for all.

“This is a historic congre-

gation,” said Gray, 70. “This church is intrinsically tied to every facet of the city.”

Metropolitan AME Church was founded in 1838 as a result of a merger of two AME churches, Israel Bethel AME and Union Bethel AME. The congregants of the churches had no desire to worship in the racially-segregated Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Church in the District.

In pre-Civil War Washington, the church served as a haven for runaway slaves and was known for its activism on behalf of the abolition of slavery and aiding free blacks in the District.

Metropolitan has long boasted distinguished members and visitors in its pulpit and its pews. Noted Americans such as Frederick Douglass, poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, educator and presidential adviser Mary McLeod Bethune, former first lady Eleanor Roos-

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evelt, South African Bishop Desmond Tutu and former presidential candidate and civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson have either joined the church, visited at some point or addressed its congregation.

The 1993 and 1997 Inauguration prayer services for President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore took place at Metropolitan. President Barack Obama and his family have worshipped at the church twice since he took office in 2009.

Douglass, labor leader A. Philip Randolph and civil rights heroine Rosa Parks were eulogized in Metropolitan’s sanctuary and in recent years, the church has received national attention for its “Stop the Pipeline to Prison” and “Ending Gun Violence” programs.

William D. Euille, the mayor of Alexandria, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D), D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) and diplomats from Africa and the Caribbean also attended the service.

D.C. Council member Vincent Orange (D-At Large)

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happens to be a member of Metropolitan and it’s the church home for other Washington area leaders such as former Maryland State Senator Nathaniel Exum and former Small Business Administration Deputy Administrator Marie Johns.

Marie Braxton said despite the church’s distinction, it’s open to all.

“There are thousands upon thousands of names who will never be called [for recognition],” she said, “but they were here and they felt the presence of the Lord.”

AME Bishop Samuel Green, who delivered the sermon, noted the church’s history. He said that he was pleased to have the opportunity to address Metropolitan’s congregation as a guest ministers. Green, in his hourlong message which strongly resembled the rhythmic style of Southern black ministers, said that America is a country of contradictions.

“We are rich in automation and technology and yet we are lacking in practicing the gospel,” said Green, 52. “We spend time on space stations

and get rocks from outer space from other worlds but we cannot gather the meaning of the ‘Sermon on the Mount.’ Evil is now perceived as good and good is perceived as evil.”

Green, who presides over Oklahoma and Arkansas AME churches, said that America is on a political, social and economic merry-go-round.

He stressed that America needs to regain its moral fiber and that can be done with the help of Metropolitan. However, he said it won’t be an easy task.

“When you are doing the will of God, you will be under attack from the enemy,” he said. “The enemy is on hand.

The enemy is busy every day.

We don’t believe that there is an enemy but there is and his name is Satan.”

Nonetheless, he said that Metropolitan can continue along the high road and accomplish its mission of promoting social justice.

“After 175 years, God still specializes in meeting the impossible and the Lord will make a way,” he said.wi

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Domestic Violence – Part 2 “The Big Secret� show remorse and kindness. The attention, love and affection, the making up, after the damage was done, was the main reason that she stayed.

Lynn believed this violent man loved her. She didn’t quite get the fact that this was only the “honeymoon stage� of the horrific cycle of violence, and that things would become increasingly worse. With no factual information about domestic violence, she lacked knowledge about the dynamics associated with the domestic violence cycle. Therefore, she was persuaded to accept her abuser’s apologies which led her back to an even more severe, ongoing abusive relationship.

Lynn bought into this relationship because she thought it was a form of love. She had come to believe her abusive relationship was a normal lifestyle, as she rationalized, “things would get better.�

Always living in fear that her 280-pound, six-foot-husband would kill her someday, suddenly the tide turned; and instead, her abusive spouse was murdered. It happened just two days after his last act of violence toward her.

Today, Lynn is a catalyst for change, awareness, and advocacy regarding domestic violence. She visits churches and discusses the issue, and she’s on the airwaves providing insight and information on the topic of domestic violence; she serves as a member of the board of directors of the Kennedy Foundation. The Kennedy Foundation is a 501(c) (3) non-profit charitable organiza-

Are You in an Abusive Relationship?

Well you need to keep reading this column over the next few weeks. This is a series on “The Big Secret� – domestic violence, which so many millions experience daily. According to statistics from the National Organization of Women (NOW), in 2005, 1,181 women were murdered by an intimate partner. That’s an average of three women every day. Of all the women murdered in the U.S., about one-third were killed by an intimate partner.

You might feel hopeless, desperate, confused, and alone.

You may not want to tell people about your situation because you’re ashamed or embarrassed.

Take a look at this true story of a friend: Lynn Strange, a “survivor� of the vicious cycle of domestic violence. Lynn grew up in a home where she endured emotional and mental abuse at the hands of her own mother.

The strong bond between Lynn and father, a police officer became her mother’s Achilles’ heel.

Her desire to be loved and accepted by her mother led Lynn to seek affection and love through dating. She met her future husband at the age of 18. Despite, being slapped and punched on her first date with him, she remained in the abusive relationship, and she eventually married him.

Pushed, slapped, kicked, punched, raped, and sodomized with objects on various occasions by her husband, following each episode her husband would

with Lyndia Grant tion determined to address domestic violence and offer help and resources to victims of this devastating yet silent epidemic.

Read these scriptural references as your proof that domestic violence is not what the Bible wants for us. It says: God calls husbands to love their wives (Col. 3:19; Eph. 5:25, 33), to enjoy them (Eccl. 9:9), to understand them (1 Pet. 3:7), to honor them (1 Pet. 3:7), to nourish them (Eph. 5:29), to cherish them (Eph. 5:29), to provide for them (1 Tim. 5:8), to praise them (Prov. 31:28), and, well, you get the point.

If you’re in an abusive relationship, remember you can get through this victoriously, I did! Keep praying but be sure to do something about it. Don’t continue to live in bondage, tell someone, and get help; call 911.

And, always remember, you’re not alone. It’s not what the Lord intends for any of us.wi Lyndia Grant is an author, inspirational and motivational speaker, radio talk show host and columnist; if you would like Lyndia to serve as facilitator for your retreat or special event, call 202-518-3192. Tune in Fridays at 6 p.m., to the radio talk show, 1340 AM, WYCB, a Radio One Station.

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Pilgrim Baptist Church

Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church Rev. James Manion Supply Priest Foggy Bottom • Founded in 1867 728 23rd Street, NW • Washington, DC 20037 Church office: 202-333-3985 • Fax : 202-338-4958 Worship Services 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.

Blessed Word of Life Church Dr. Dekontee L. & Dr. Ayele A. Johnson Pastors 4001 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 (202) 265-6147 Office 1-800 576-1047 Voicemail/Fax Schedule of Services: Sunday School – 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service – 11:00 AM Communion Service – First Sunday Prayer Service/Bible Study – Tuesday, 6:30 PM www.blessedwordoflifechurch.org e-mail: church@blessedwordoflifechurch.org

Campbell AME Church Reverend Daryl K. Kearney, Pastor 2562 MLK Jr. Ave., S E Washington, DC 20020 Adm. Office 202-678-2263 Email:Campbell@mycame.org Sunday Worship Service 10: 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

Mt. Zion Baptist Church Rev. John W. Davis, Pastor 5101 14th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20011 202-726-2220/ 202-726-9089 Sunday Worship Service 8:00am and 11:00am Sunday School 9:15am Holy Communion 4th Sunday 10:00am Prayer and Bible Study Wednesday 7;00pm TV Ministry –Channel 6 Wednesday 10:00pm gsccm.administration@verizon.net

700 I. Street, NE Washington, D.C. 20002 Pastor Louis B. Jones, II and Pilgrim invite you to join us during our July and August Summer schedule! Attire is Christian casual.

Worship: Sundays@ 7:30 A.M. & 10:00 A.M. 3rd Sunday Holy Communion/Baptism/Consecration Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @12:00 Noon @ 6:30 P.M. – One Hour of Power!

(202) 547-8849 www.pilgrimbaptistdc.org

Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ Drs. Dennis W. and Christine Y. Wiley, Pastors 3845 South Capitol Street Washington, DC 20032 (202) 562-5576 (Office) (202) 562-4219 (Fax) SERVICES AND TIMES: SUNDAYS: 10:00 am AM Worship Services BIBLE STUDY: Wonderful Wednesdays in Worship and the Word Bible Study Wednesdays 12:00 Noon; 6:30 PM (dinner @ 5:30 PM) SUNDAY SCHOOL: 9:00 AM – Hour of Power “An inclusive ministry where all are welcomed and affirmed.” www.covenantbaptistdc.org

Twelfth Street Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) 1812 12th Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202-265-4494 Fax: 202 265 4340

Church of Living Waters

Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor Harold Andrew, Assistant Pastor 4915 Wheeler Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-894-6464 Schedule of Service Sunday Service: 8:30 AM & 11:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM Communion Service: First Sunday www.livingwatersmd.org

St. Stephen Baptist Church Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. State Overseer 5757 Temple Hill Road, Temple Hills, MD 20748 Office 301-899-8885 – fax 301-899-2555 Sunday Early Morning Worship - 7:45 a.m.

Church School - 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship – 10:45 a.m.

Tuesday – Thursday - Kingdom Building Bible Institute – 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday – Prayer/Praise/Bible Study – 7:30 p.m.

Baptism & Communion Service- 4th Sunday – 10:30am Radio Broadcast WYCB -1340 AM-Sunday -6:00pm T.V. Broadcast - Channel 190 – Sunday -4:00pm/Tuesday 7:00am

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

Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church Rev. Dr. Michael E. Bell, Sr., • Pastor 2498 Alabama Ave., SE • Washington D.C. 20020 Office: (202) 889-7296 Fax: (202) 889-2198 • www.acamec.org 2008: The Year of New Beginnings “Expect the Extraordinary”

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Isle of Patmos Baptist Church Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews • Senior Pastor 1200 Isle of Patmos Plaza, Northeast Washington, DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-6767 Fax: (202) 526-1661

Rev. Dr. Alton W. Jordan, Pastor 800 I Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 202-548-0707 Fax No. 202-548-0703

Sunday Worship Services: 8:00a.m. and 11:00a.m.

Sunday Church School - 9:15a.m. & Sunday Adult Forum Bible Study - 10:30a.m.

2nd & 4th Monday Women’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Tuesday Jr./Sr. Bible Study - 10:00a.m.

Tuesday Topical Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Tuesday New Beginnings Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Wednesday Pastoral Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Wednesday Children’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Thursday Men’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Friday before 1st Sunday Praise & Worship Service - 6:30p.m.

Saturday Adult Bible Study - 10:00a.m.

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 E-mail: Crusadersbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.CrusadersBaptistChurch.org

“The Amazing, Awesome, Audacious Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church”

“God is Love”

Third Street Church of God Rev. Cheryl J. Sanders, Th.D. Senior Pastor 1204 Third Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 202.347.5889 office 202.638.1803 fax Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Prayer Meeting and Bible Study: Wed. 7:30 p.m.

“Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital” www.thirdstreet.org

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

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

ST Marks Baptist Come Worship with us...

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

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Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor Service and Times Sunday Worship Service 11:00 a.m.

Communion every Sunday 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School 10:00 a.m.

Bible Study Tuesday 12Noon Pastor’s Bible Study Tuesday 6:30 p.m.

Motto; “Discover Something Wonderful.”

Website: 12thscc.org Email: Twelfthstcc@aol.com

Mount Carmel Baptist Church

52 Years of Expert Engraving Services

Joseph N. Evans, Ph.D Senior Pastor 901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423 Sunday Church School : 9: 30am Sunday Morning Worship: 10: 45am Bible Study Tuesday: 6: 00pm Prayer Service Tuesday: 7:00pm Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday 10: 45am themcbc.org

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All Nations Baptist Church

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

Website: www.allnationsbaptistchurch.com All Nations Baptist Church – A Church of Standards

“Where Jesus is the King”

Israel Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor

4850 Blagdon Ave, NW • Washington D.C 20011 Phone (202) 722-4940 • Fax (202) 291-3773

1251 Saratoga Ave., NE Washington, DC 20018 (202) 269-0288 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.

Mount Moriah Baptist Church

St. Luke Baptist Church

1415 Gallatin Street, NW Washington, DC 20011-3851 P: (202) 726-5940 Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.

Holy Communion: 11:00 a.m., 3rd Sun. Bible Study: Monday - 7:00 p.m.

Prayer Meeting: Thursday - 7:00 p.m.

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

Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor

Rev. Aubrey C. Lewis Pastor

Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor

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

Zion Baptist Church

Sunday Worship Service 10:15AM- Praise and Worship Services 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

King Emmanuel Baptist Church

Dr. Lucius M. Dalton, Senior Pastor 1636 East Capitol Street, NE Washington, DC 20003 Telephone: 202-544-5588 Fax: 202-544-2964 Sunday Worship Services: 7:45 am and 10:45 am Holy Communion: 1st Sundays at 7:45 am and 10:45 am Sunday School: 9:30 am Prayer & Praise Service: Tuesdays at 12 noon and 6:30 pm Bible Study: Tuesdays at 1 pm and 7 pm Youth Bible Study: Fridays at 7 pm

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

Rehoboth Baptist Church

St. Matthews Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor 1105 New Jersey Ave, S.E • Washington, DC 20003 202 488-7298 Order of Services Sunday Worship Services: 9:05 A.M. Sunday School: 8:00 A.M. Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting: 7:00 P.M. (Tuesday) Bible Study: 7:30 P.M. (Tuesday) Theme: “Striving to be more like Jesus “Stewardship”.

Philippians 3:12-14; Malachi 3:8-10 and 2 Corinthians 9:7 Email: stmatthewbaptist@msn.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.com

Salem Baptist Church

Emmanuel Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Clinton W. Austin Pastor 2409 Ainger Pl.,SE – WDC 20020 (202) 678-0884 – Office (202) 678-0885 – Fax “Come Grow With Us and Establish a Blessed Family” Sunday Worship 7:30am & 10:45am Baptism/Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Family Bible Study Tuesdays – 6:30pm Prayer Service Tuesdays – 8:00pm www.emmanuelbaptistchurchdc.org

Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith

Florida Avenue Baptist Church Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor

Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert SR. Pastor

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

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

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

Matthews Memorial Baptist Church

5606 Marlboro Pike District Heights, MD 20747 301-735-6005

Dr. C. Matthew Hudson, Jr, Pastor

Elder Herman L. Simms, Pastor

2616 MLK Ave., SE • Washington, DC 20020 Office 202-889-3709 • Fax 202-678-3304

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 Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Pastor and Overseer 13701 Old Jericho Park Road Bowie, MD 20720 P: 202 291-5711 • F: 202 291-5666

Early Worship Service 7:30a.m Worship Service 10:45a.m.

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Prayer, Praise and Bible Study: Wednesday 7p.m Bible Study : Saturday: 11a.m.

Baptism: 4th Sunday – 10:45a.m “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

Sunday Worship Service - 11 am Sunday School - 9:45 am Bible Study & Prayer Wed. - 7 pm Substance Abuse Counseling 7 pm (Mon & Fri) Jobs Partnership - 7 pm (Mon & Wed) Sat. Enrichment Experience - 9:30 am

Sunday Morning Worship Service 7:15 am & 10:50 am Sunday School 9:30am Sunday Morning Worship Service 10:50am Wednesday Prayer & Testimonies Service 7:30pm Wednesday School of the Bible 8:00pm Wednesday - Midweek Prayer Service 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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

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Shiloh Baptist Church

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Rev. R. Vincent Palmer Pastor

Rev. Alonzo Hart Pastor

Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor

Rev. Reginald M. Green, Sr., Interim Pastor

621 Alabama Avenue, S.E. • Washington, D.C. 20032 P: (202) 561-1111 F: (202) 561-1112

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

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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

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Holy Trinity United Baptist Church

Sunday Worship Services: 7:45am & 11:00am Sunday school For All Ages 9:30am Prayer Services Wednesday 11:30am & 6:45pm Bible Institute Wednesday at Noon & 7:45pm “Changing Lives On Purpose “ Email: Froffice@firstrising.org Website: www.firstrising.org

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Pennsylvania Ave. Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Kendrick E. Curry Pastor 3000 Pennsylvania Ave.. S.E Washington, DC 20020 202 581-1500 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

Mt. Horeb Baptist Church Rev. Dr. H. B. Sampson, III Pastor 2914 Bladensburg Road, NE Wash., DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-3180 Fax: (202) 529-7738 Order of Services Worship Service: 7:30 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.

Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.

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Wednesday 12 Noon Email:mthoreb@mthoreb.org Website:www.mthoreb.org For further information, please contact me at (202) 529-3180.

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positing our funds, marching to our schools to educate our youth, marching through our “hoods” and turning them back into neighborhoods and then into real communities. Let’s march to our churches and form Collective Empowerment Group chapters across this country.

Stop being “treadmill activists.”

And, in light of MLK dying while fighting for an economic cause, if you are going to march in Washington this year, at least fill up at a Black-owned gas station, stay at a Black-owned hotel, eat at a Black-owned restaurant, and charter a bus from a Black-owned company. I can hear the moaning, groaning, and excuses now. Sorry for my cynicism, but I wrote the same thing in 1995 prior to the Million Man March.

While we are counting our people at the marches, others will be counting their profits from the marches.wi

to prison.

Although African-Americans comprise 14 percent of regular drug users, they are 37 percent of those arrested for drug offenses.

Although Black juveniles are approximately 16 percent of the youth population, 37 percent of their cases are moved to criminal court and 58 percent of African-American youth are sent to adult prisons.

Blacks are twice as likely to be arrested during a traffic stop than Whites and four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with police.

News coverage and commentary on the Zimmerman trail demonstrated the toxic state of race relations in the U.S., despite having a Black president in the White House.

Geraldo Rivera said, “I see those six ladies in the jury putting themselves on that rainy night, in that housing complex that has just been burglarized by three or four different groups of black youngsters from the adjacent community. So it’s a

dark night, a 6-foot-2-inch hoodie-wearing stranger is in the immediate housing complex. How would the ladies of that jury have reacted? I submit that if they were armed, they would have shot Trayvon Martin a lot sooner than George Zimmerman did.

This is self-defense.”

This is the same Geraldo Rivera who said last March, “I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman.”

Fox News even invited Mark Furman, the former detective for the Los Angeles Police Department, to discuss the role of race in jury selection for Zimmerman’s trial. Lawyers for O.J. Simpson presented evidence that Furman had used the n-word more than 40 times over a 10-year period. Yet, Furman, who pled no contest to perjury charges and sentenced to three years of probation, appeared on Fox News’ “America Live” to talk about race.

When Zimmerman earlier selected Fox News as the only network he would grant an interview to, he was right at home. wi

and appear a thoughtful, tolerant and moderate Republican with wide-ranging domestic and international interests. His visit to Howard University and a separate speaking engagement before a largely Hispanic audience were part of this re-invention campaign.

The purpose? Can anyone say Republican presidential nomination in 2016?

After the Free Beacon story broke, Rand Paul’s office issued a bloodless statement: “Sen. Paul holds his staff to a standard that

includes treating every individual with equal protection and respect, without exception.”

But Jack Hunter’s entire career shows no evidence of appreciating those standards. An April 1 column he wrote in the American Conservative that, effectively, categorizes many of his past assertions as the product of an overabundance of youthful energy seems entirely too convenient for a former Confederate-mask-wearing “Southern Avenger” who for years railed that in today’s America, Whites “are always denied fair

“equal”? Marching in place has taken us nowhere, which is hardly a revelation. By definition, as we learned in the military, it is not supposed to move people forward; rather it is supposed to keep them active, keep their metabolism rate up, and keep their attention right where they happen to be while marching in place. It’s how a “commander” controls his troops while making them expend energy, maybe to tire them out before they are allowed to sleep. Sound familiar?

We have been ordered to march in place for years, only to make us weary and tired, which has caused us to go back to sleep after every march. We slept after we marched in Selma, in Birmingham, in Mississippi, in Chicago, in Harlem, in Washington with a million plus Black men, and after we marched to Jena, La.; Jasper, Texas;

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Richard Pryor used to joke that criminal justice in the U.S. means “just us.” Although the comedian usually evoked a laugh – unlike Zimmerman lawyer’s knock-knock joke – this is no laughing matter.

American Progress, the Washington, D.C.-based think tank, collected some interesting statistics and published an article titled, “The Top 10 Most Startling Facts About People of Color and Criminal Justice in the United States.”

Among the facts: People of color make up about 30 percent of the U.S. population, but 60 percent of those imprisoned.

Once convicted, Black offenders receive sentences that 10 percent longer than White offenders for the same crimes. In addition, Blacks are 21 percent more likely to receive mandatory-minimum sentences than White defendants and 20 percent more likely to be sentenced

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And that’s the point. For some, as it’s become more and more apparent that overt racist expression can exact a severe cost, their words become inoffensive.

But have the sentiments behind the mask really changed? Or is it that, for just a moment, the mask slipped.wi Lee A. Daniels is a longtime journalist based in New York City. His latest book is Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America.

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and Sanford, Fla. We marched to the polls and voted for Barack Obama, and went back to sleep. Now we have awakened once again “fired up and ready to go” do what the president suggested a couple of years ago, “Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes…”

If our history of marching is any indicator, after we march this time we will go back to sleep a short while afterwards. So what’s the point? Here’s how Claud Anderson recently put it: “Blacks have been marching for centuries and have barely moved an inch.

Marching does not injure the majority society. In fact, it does just the opposite. Black marches reward those who are kicking our butts. Blacks spend millions of dollars on hotels, airlines, restaurants, clothing stores, rental cars, and cabs while attending a march.”

I say we have been marching in place. Instead, we should be marching to our businesses and supporting them, marching to our banks and de-

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have higher levels of poverty, commit more crime, and receive more hefty sentences. For the record, the Republicans in Congress aren’t responsible for the above-mentioned funding and credit check changes.

Why is it that there were hundreds of people marching on the Governor’s Mansion in Tallahassee, Fla. for Trayvon, but no one marched to protest the fact that FAMU, the only public HBCU in the state and the largest HBCU in the country, is currently threatened with loss of its accreditation?

So, while all of the media voices do a brilliant job describing the injustices meted out to our people through a racist and biased criminal justice system,

I would encourage this chorus to spend a little more – no, a lot more – time protesting the everyday injustices that inevitably lead to verdicts like the one issued Saturday night. If we are not going to protest everyday injustices such as educational disparities, I don’t see the point of jumping on the bandwagon to protest the natural result of those disparities.

My grandmother used to always tell me to be on the lookout for the people who cry the loudest at the funeral; they are usually the ones who did the least for the deceased while he or she was alive . . . .wi Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. is President and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund

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China trade with sub-Saharan Africa is worth more than $200 billion per year. China is now investing in African projects at the rate of $20 billion annually.

That is about to increase as it just closed on a $3 billion deal with Nigeria at the rate of just 3 percent for increased infrastructure projects. When China lends to African nations, it does it without rigid conditions such as no corruption, democratic restrictions and poverty reductions like western sources do. It is just straight business and the African nations find it so friendly.

Now let us look at President Obama. He made his first trip to Africa in 2009. It was a 24 hour whirlwind visit to Ghana.

He checked out a slave castle, shook a lot of hands and had

some meetings. Business was not discussed. This year he visited Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. The cost of the trip is estimated at $100 million. The Huffington Post claims that a family of five would pay about $50,000 for the trip, including safaris and hotel/air fare. What did Obama do for business? He claimed he is working on a $6 billion utility plan (not definitive or absolute). That’s nice but is that all we have to propose? We are the richest nation on earth and all we have to announce is one project. China is running circles around us in Africa. So is India, Turkey, Italy, Malaysia, Japan and many other nations.

You would think that with a Black president we would be picking up the pace exponentially. His press aides made an announcement that he met with General Electric, IBM and Coca Cola during his trip. Heck,

those three corporations have been in Africa for decades. Mr. President, where is your plan for Africa if you have one?

Soon, as it builds out its infrastructure and develops its markets, Africa will have 80 percent of all farmland in the world.

When it learns how to process its own minerals and to recycle its new dollars with other African nations, it will become a continent to envy. Those nations that see this coming are building up their business relationships with all African nations. It will be a pity if we don’t understand that doing viable business with Africa is a matter of our national security and economic well-being.wi Harry C. Alford is the co-founder, President/CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. Website: www.nationalbcc.org. Email: halford@nationalbcc.org

that they were not able to enjoy the same White privileges that other White males enjoyed.

The same sex movement marched into prominence as a liberal movement, identifying itself with the Black Civil Rights Movement, equating anti-sodomy laws prohibiting certain sex acts, with anti-miscegenation laws which prohibited interracial marriage. But now that samesex couples have virtually all the rights attendant to heterosexuals, they have shed the liberal nomenclature and are comfortable in any and every ideological en-

vironment.

The same-sex culture is so powerful that, not only can this behavior not be even mildly criticized; it must be defended by politicians, just because. Why else would the Montgomery County Maryland county executive call on a private concert promoter which leases space on a county-owned college campus to cancel a concert by a Mexican-rock band which has recorded a song with a homophobic slur in the title of one of its many songs?

This executive has not spoken out about racist Country West-

ern and rock bands which have performed there. This executive – who is Black – did not defend the African-American president of the United States when a whole sack full of Country singers defamed the president calling him everything but a Child of God. So it is, the Gay Pride movement, which no longer needs to fashion itself as a civil rights movement is large and in charge.

And the laissez-faire conservatives have forced everyone to check their philosophies at the door, lest they be branded or simply marginalized.wI

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Why has Mr. President not issued a statement directing his Education Secretary to (a) reverse the funding decline to HBCUs, and (b) immediately restore pre-2011 student loan credit guidelines, which has made it really difficult for Black families all over the country to provide a college education for their children?

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The other extant philosophy on the march today is not a philosophy at all. It is the same-sex identity movement, and it has no ideological underpinning. It is strictly about ensuring that people who prefer to have sex with members of their same gender are able to enjoy all the benefits that heterosexual individuals enjoy. This movement originated among gay White males, who woke up one day and realized

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