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Audience members listen as President Barack Obama delivers remarks and participates in a Young African Leaders Initiative town hall at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., July 28, 2014. /Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

Historic U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Convenes Gray, District Officials Welcome Dignitaries By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Karen Bass has looked closely at America’s relationship with Africa and finds the facts to be a bit disconcerting. Bass, a U.S. Congresswoman from California, noted that the U.S. has gone from a lead-

ing trade partner with Africa to sorely lagging behind the European Union (EU), China and other countries. “I’m hoping when the various leaders come to the United States, they are actually able to make connections that will lead to an increase in trade and business deals between our compa-

nies here and those there in Africa,” said Bass, 60, who has a long history of trying to help change how Americans think about and engage African nations. As officials set to convene a three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit on Capitol Hill beginning on Monday, August 4, Bass said she’s keenly aware that the

United States’ $60 billion in total trade with Africa falls shy of the $200 billion in trade between the EU and Africa last year. It’s also a far cry from the $170 billion Africa negotiated with China. “I’m hoping for a reset of U.S. and African relations because I do know that Africa has been

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front and center on the president’s agenda, but I don’t think it has been on the public’s agenda,” said Bass, who also noted the importance of focusing on the soon-to-expire African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), signed into law by President Bill

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In recognition of The Washington Informer’s 50th Anniversary in October 2014, we are looking back at some of the newsworthy moments we covered in D.C. history. On May 4, 1992, D.C. Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly joined nearly 200 protesters who took their frustrations to the District side of the 14th Street Bridge following the April 29 acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers charged with assault and use of excessive force in the brutal beating of Rodney King. The crowd blocked traffic for nearly two hours causing a several mile back-up in solidarity with other protests taking place at the Justice Department, the White House and around the country. While civil unrest ravaged parts of Los Angeles, Mayor Kelly, who wore a black arm band, declared the day as a day of orderly demonstration and offered District employees liberal leave to show their displeasure with the outcome of the case. Kelly served as mayor of the District from 1991-1995. /WI Archives

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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 in the way wants to see implemented are domestic violence victims and stricter restraining order policies, survivors are treated. more rights for victim's families “She's using her own personal to intervene on behalf of a vicstory, her own personal pain to tim, a domestic violence assesspush forward,” Davis-Nickens ment unit coupled with further said about Marlow. training for law enforcement Davis-Nickens said anyone agencies, a Child's Life Protecwho reads Marlow's book will tion Act and mandatory counsel“get it.” She said she “puts the ing for batterers. case in such a way, the average “If we are ever going to eradiperson can get it.” She said at the cate domestic violence, we must end of the day, the book will look at both sides of the coin. help people begin to have a dia- We need to address both the viclogue about domestic violence. tim and the batterer,” Marlow Also present at the event was said. Mildred Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise who was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She by a Maryland jury forleft, his role feels children need to educatRemi Duyile, third from with in teenage girls from Nigeria whobeare the Beltwayin the Sniper attacks in ed about domestic violence. participating Global Youth LeaderShape Summit. /Photo courtesy of 2002.Morris Mildred Muhammad is “We have to stop being pasPeggy the founder of After the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chilan organization that helps the dren about domestic violence,” mit. The theme, “Investing in Columbia in 1986 with a Bachsurvivors of domestic violence Marlow said. andNext their Generation,” children. has worked the will fea- elorMarlow of Science degree toin break eco“I forums lived in at fear for six locations years. Six nomics the cycleand of aabuse in her family, ture various minor in accountyears in fear istoa discuss long time. It is and is confident the policies she in Northwest investing. One year later at UDC, she not an easy thing topeace comemeaout is pushing for will start that ment opportunities, received a master’s degree in of,” she process. sures andsaid. health initiatives. Mildred Muhammad said “I plan to take these policies to The county’s Africa Trade business administration conpeople who want to help a centrating Congress and implore them to on international fiOffice highlighted in a summary domestic violence victim must change our laws,” Marlow said. nance and banking. four key factors thethey administrabe careful of how go into “I will not stop until these polition should focus on to improve “I are ampassed.” leaning on the shoulthe victim's life, and understand cies its relationship with Africa: people been that she may be in “survival ders TiaofCarol Joneswho canhave be reached “U.S. mode”.trade and investment in aat blessing tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net to me and to my Africa,” commitment to “Before“U.S. you get to 'I'm going children. I owe it to the young Africa’s peace and assecurity,” to kill you,' it started a verbal WI “Governance and democrat- leaders that have come and ic institutions in Africa,” and will come [to America] to help “Empowering the African peo- them,” said Duyile, who established the foundation seven ple.” The recommendations will be years ago. “We want [the Global sent to the White House prior youth leaders] to experience, exto next week’s U.S-Africa Lead- press and really enjoy the Amerers Summit. ican dream and culture …” “You are the next generation. Before the ceremony ended, You are the future African leaders to help your country and the the students received some adworld,” Dr. Frank Forka, direc- vice on being able to influence tor of the county’s Africa Trade the world through modern Office, told the students. technology. After the administration’s “Why is that important? We summit ends, the county’s Eco- have new communication sysnomic Development Corp. will tems in place where all you host its second annual “Gateway to Africa Gala” from 8-11 have to do is push a button and p.m. Aug. 8 at Martin’s Camelot things go over the Internet … in Bowie. Individual tickets are instantly,” said Dr. James Dula, $100 to attend the social event 65, a foundation supporter and L.Y. Marlow celebrating African-owned busi- president of his own consulting nesses in the county. firm. “You are part of a big new Remi Duyile, executive direcworld … to connect in trade, tor of the Legacy Foundation, said she left Nigeria at age 17 communication and from a perin 1982 to seek the American sonal and cultural standpoint. dream. She graduated from the We are all family living in differUniversity of the District of ent places …”WI

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For one glorious summer day last week, thousands of young people enjoyed the fruits of their creative labor. They turned the Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro into an inventor’s paradise where the YMCA displayed more than 400 of their projects, such as cool rides, hats, accessories, construction models of rooms, buildings and apartments, inventions that light up, make sounds and move and much more. Over the course of the prior month, the children, their parents and their counselors thought of and then fashioned all kinds of objects built around the concepts of STEAM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. One stipulation: all inventions had to be built from recyclable materials. “I helped prepare them for Thingamajig. We had ‘Rocking Robots’, a fashion show called ‘Trashion Fashions,’ and they made accessories, such as a hat from newspaper. They used double wrap, old sheets, T-shirts, soda caps and egg cartons,” said Davida Alston. “They weren’t allowed to use glass or metal.” Alston, who has spent the summer with 120 young people at the YMCA’s Power Academy as a counselor, said the children’s enthusiasm and inventiveness have thrilled her. “Seeing their faces there was special. They didn’t know what to expect. It was heart-warming for them to see what other people made,” said Alston, 22. “There were 15 total challenges for them to choose from. I broke it down. I chose five topics and from that they created things – newspaper skirts and other inventions. They loved it.” Alston said one child won a bicycle, another won for an inventive dress, and two of the robots created by the children she guides came in 2nd place. In the four weeks they had to prepare, the children benefited from working as a team, she said. Alston, who’s worked at the YMCA for the past six years, said she’s usually been at the camp in other roles but this year helped solely with Thingamajig. “I got a chance to be on the

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(L-R) Mason Denson, Mitsuru Ishitara, and Jacob Mudd from the YMCA in Alexandria participated in the Thingamajig Conference sponsored by the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington at Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro, Maryland on July 24. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter

other side, in the Makers’ Club,” the Clinton, Maryland resident said. “I encouraged them to think outside of the box, focused on seeing where their mind was. They would go through a sketch process, then go home and make things.” She said various activities, including a STEM workshop prepared the young people for Thingamajig. Jackie Dilworth, director of communications for YMCA of Metropolitan Washington, said Thingamajig has been a vital part of the YMCA calendar for the past 20 years. “We saw a need for it even then, in the early ’90s,” she said. YMCA guests included the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Navy, Giant Food, Washington Gas, the Defense Department, the Patriots Technical Training Center, and the Crime and Punishment Museum. Dilworth said the 15 categories on which the children were judged centered on creativity, eco-friendliness and functionality. They could work on the challenges by themselves or in teams. Students submitted 400 projects and 4,029 participants took part in the regional event on July 24, while 400 volunteers ensured that everything ran smoothly. Children enjoyed among other activities, a technology carnival, Lego robotics, workshops and discussion led by Y staff and community partners such as the FAA and Giant Food. Work-

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Black Facts July 31 1921 - Executive Director Emeritus of the National Urban League and political activist, Whitney Young was born. 1960 - Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam, called for the creation of a Black state in America at a New York meeting. 1961 - Actor Laurence Fishburne, Jr. was born in Augusta, Georgia. Fishburne, nicknamed “Fish” started his theatrical career at the young age of 10. August 1 1834 – Slavery is officially abolished in all British territories. It would take another 31 years and a Civil War before it was abolished in America. 1920 – The national convention of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) begins at Liberty Hall in Harlem, New York. The next night Garvey addresses more than 25,000 Blacks at Madison Square Garden. Garvey built the largest Black mass movement in history advocating Black pride, independent Black businesses and institutions as well as a strong and united Africa. August 2 1924 – A man who would grow up to become one of the most prolific and complex Black writers of the 20th century is born on this day in New York City. James A. Baldwin was a novelist, short story writer and poet. His works frequently had racial and sexual themes. Baldwin died in France on November 30, 1987.

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1980 – Thomas “Hit Man” Hearns wins the WBA welterweight title. It was one of the titles he won in five different weight classes. Hearns was the first Black boxer to achieve that feat. August 3 1928 – The Atlanta Daily World founded by William A. Scott III begins publication as the first Black daily newspaper in modern times. Amazingly, it was the first Black daily newspaper in history – the New Orleans Tribune – was founded one year before the end of slavery in 1864.

August 4 1901 – Legendary Jazz trumpeter Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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1931 - Pioneer in surgery, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams dies. 1936 – The Olympic gold medal in the 800-meter run went to “Long” John Woodruff. 1953 – The relocation of Black families to the Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago literally triggered a continuous riot which lasted more than three years and required the assignment of more than one thousand policemen to keep order. 1964 – The bodies of three civil rights workers are found on a farm near Philadelphia, Mississippi. The three (one Black and two whites) were participating in “Freedom Summer” – when thousands of people journeyed South to participate in the Civil Rights Movement and help Blacks register to vote. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were kidnapped on June 21st and killed the same night. August 5 1865 – President Andrew Johnson reverses an order giving land abandoned or confiscated from slave-owning whites to former Black slaves. The order – Special Field Order #15 – had been issued in January by conquering Union Major General William T. Sherman as he and his troops marched through the South. More than 40,000 ex-slaves received approximately 400,000 acres of land in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. 1892 – Abolitionist Harriet Tubman receives a pension from Congress for her work as a nurse, spy, and scout during the Civil War.

game’s greatest stars. 1968 - Senator Edward Brooke named temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention in Miami, Florida. 1984 - Evelyn Ashford wins a gold medal in the 100-meter race and Edwin Moses wins a gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles in the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. August 6 1861 - The Congressional Confiscation Bill freed slaves who were forced to fight against the United States government, or to work in support of the rebellion. 1870 – White conservatives and racists used assassinations and widespread violence to suppress the Black vote and take control of the Tennessee legislature from a coalition of Blacks and progressive whites. The violence and the election effectively ended Reconstruction in the state. 1962 - Jamaica proclaimed independent. 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, which was designed to guarantee the right of African Americans to vote. The Act ended a wide range of discriminatory voting practices in the South including literacy tests.

1900 – America’s first Black Roman Catholic Bishop James Augustine Healy dies.

1967 - Sir Alexander Bustamante, Jamaica’s first prime minister dies.

1962 – Retired Hall of Fame basketball player Patrick Ewing was born. Ewing’s four years at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. provided fans with one of the college

1989 - Congressman George Thomas “Mickey” Leland, members of his congressional staff and State Department officials die in a plane crash near Gambela, Ethiopia.

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VIEWP INT Omar Abdul-Malik Washington, D.C. I think it’s interesting. I don’t know if it’s politically correct for him to comment on it [because] he’s the president of the United States, so I had some misgivings about it. I really admire the work of [non-voting] delegate Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton who for years has been a very strong advocate for D.C. statehood. As someone who has basically lived in the District for my entire life, I don’t like being taxed without representation in Congress. The only caveat is that D.C. was never meant to be a state – it’s the nation’s capital. I think there are two sides to the argument. I don’t think President Obama’s statements will have any effect on Congress.

Rick Ehrenreich Silver Spring, Maryland I think President Obama’s comments about D.C. statehood will probably have no effect on Congress partly because most of President Obama’s other comments about issues have had no effect – except, in many cases, when Congress has opposed issues that it might had not otherwise. I don’t think Congress is any closer to voting for D.C. statehood than it was before the president’s comments last week.

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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA SPOKE IN FAVOR OF D.C. STATEHOOD LAST WEEK. WILL THE PRESIDENT’S COMMENTS IMPACT THE FIGHT FOR D.C. STATEHOOD IN CONGRESS?

Felicia Johnson Washington, D.C. I certainly hope the president’s remarks will change the mind of Congress and others, and will help to make the District a state. He’s our nation’s president and he has done a lot for the country. I believe the country will only be made stronger if D.C. is included as a state. The president’s comments will give legitimacy to the D.C. statehood movement.

Troy Pauls Burtonsville, Maryland As a native Washingtonian – I was born and raised in the District – I believe President Obama’s recent comments on D.C. statehood will move the conversation forward, but I don’t think they will have an effect on Congress. His comments will keep the conversation at the forefront as this discussion has been going on for quite some time. For residents of the nation’s capital to have to pay federal taxes while not having representation is unfair. Residents of the District should have representation so that they can have an equal vote, as does every state.

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Michael Koppenheffer Washington, D.C. I hope President Obama’s remarks will help give the D.C. statehood movement momentum and make its outcome more likely, but I am pessimistic that it will happen. I wish that it would, but I feel that at this point, considering the state of President Obama’s relationship with Congress, I don’t think his endorsement will help. I had to explain to my nine-year-old daughter why our license plates say “Taxation Without Representation” here in D.C., and it’s really difficult to explain to a child why some residents in the United States don’t have voting representation in the legislative branch. As a D.C. resident, I would love one day for it to happen, but I don’t think the president’s remarks are going to help, and that’s sad.

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Union Commission, said everyone’s eagerly looking forward to discussing issues like investing in the continent’s future and in peace and security. “Africa and the United States share a lot in common, in heritage and cooperation in many areas. Many who are of African descent live in the United States, so this is a good occasion for Africa to chart a new paradigm in terms of cooperation,” Mwencha said. Faith Muthambi, the African Union’s communications minister, said the summit should be an “encouragement of regional integration on the continent.” Patrick H. Gaspard, the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, said all participants have expressed an eagerness for the summit to begin. “It will be my great [pleasure] to represent the United States in our efforts to partner with the South African government as it strives to improve the economic conditions of its citizens and as it helps to lead efforts throughout the continent to increase security and prosperity for all,” said Gaspard, 47. “The participants from South

U.S. Rep. Karen Bass has a long history of trying to help change how Americans think about and engage African nations. /Courtesy Photo

Africa are among the most inspiring and talented young people in the country and we are excited to provide them with this opportunity to network with other leaders on the continent and in the U.S.,” he said. For Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray, the summit will provide an opportunity to

showcase the District as a primary destination for business and tourism. “I am excited about this historic moment when President Barack Obama will welcome leaders to the White House to reaffirm his commitment to the continent and advance our country’s focus on trade and invest-

ment in Africa,” said Gray, 71. And, while the primary focus will be on foreign relations, Gray stands poised to capitalize on promoting his favorite city. “Through my Office on African Affairs and other District agencies, we will seize the mo-

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SUMMIT continued from Page 8 ment to explore and heighten our relations with African nations,” he said. “The District is a wonderful place to do business, and we are working every day to make it easier for new and exciting businesses to export their goods and services to international markets to enhance the economy of our world-class city, as well as support the development of African communities, so I encourage all District residents to convey a hearty welcome to the leaders that will travel here for the summit.” Still, concerns remain about the decline in U.S. trade with Africa and with immigration. New York Reps. Jose E. Serrano and Yvette Clarke sent Obama a letter urging him to add such topics to the summit’s agenda. Serrano, 70, said strengthening the partnership between the U.S. and Africa means a great deal as it pertains to prosperity and the security of all citizens. “The proactive steps the administration continues to take in the name of cooperation and mutual development deserves the full support of Americans and their elected officials in Congress,” Serrano said. Clarke, 49, said the summit presents an important opportunity to bring diverse constituencies together to discuss policy issues and to better develop ties between America and all of the African nations invited to the conference. “Unfortunately, we have been saddened to learn that the summit does not intend to spend significant time focusing on an issue that we believe is vital to our

policies in Africa, which is immigration reform,” Clarke said. “We believe that inclusion of this topic for discussion at the summit [would] strengthen the ties between all the parties involved, and [would] help bring to light the need for comprehensive immigration reform across a wide number of constituencies,” she said. The most recent census reported that foreign-born African immigrants represent more than 1.6 million individuals residing in the United States and, Clarke said, throughout history, immigrants from Africa have played an important role in revitalizing neighborhoods, starting small businesses, and improving local economies. “The African community is an indispensable element of American culture and society, and continues to contribute to the prosperity of our nation,” Clarke said. While some activists are expected to attend the event to push for more freedoms in places like Gambia, Bass said the summit will make history because never before have so many African heads of state descended upon the United States at one time for a single conference. She said that alone should open the eyes of those who are blind toward what Africa represents. “I believe we’re very behind in terms of our view of the continent. We view it as a place of tragedy,” Bass said. “The rest of the world, however, views Africa as having seven out of the 10 fastest growing countries on the planet. It’s a land of opportunity. We are generally uniformed. The only time you hear about Africa here is if it’s a war or its famine. You don’t hear about the countries succeed-

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D.C. Political Roundup By James Wright WI Staff Writer McDuffie Endorses White D.C. Council member Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5), one of the District’s most popular politicians, hopes residents elect Robert White as the non-Democratic at-large council member in the upcoming Nov. 4 general election. McDuffie, who faces minor opposition in his bid for re-election on Nov. 4, said that he sees White’s potential as a legislator and admires his ability to overcome challenges. “Like residents across the District of Columbia, Robert knows firsthand what it is like to battle adversity and defy the odds,” said McDuffie, 38. “He overcame the personal tragedy of losing a parent as a child, became the first person in his family to graduate from college and developed into a first-rate attorney.” White opponents include former journalist and budget analyst Elissa Silverman, D.C. Statehood Senator Michael Brown and the Rev. Graylan Hagler of the Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Northeast. There are two at-large council seats up for grabs in the Nov. 4 general election and D.C. Council member Anita Bonds (D-At Large) will be a heavy favorite to win one because of the city’s overwhelming Democratic base. The District’s Republican Party has selected Marc Morgan as their at-large candidate and the other parties have candidates, as well. McDuffie, who serves as the chairman pro tem of the council, considered White’s candidacy carefully before making his decision to endorse him. “It is critical that District residents elect the right person to serve on the council at this time in our city’s history – a candidate that understands our city’s unique issues and the promise of our future,” he said. “Robert’s commitment to his community and years of experience crafting legislation as a staffer to Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton separate him from the pack of candidates seeking the at-large council seat reserved for a non-Democrat.” White, who graduated from St. Mary’s College in St. Mary’s City, Maryland with a bachelor’s degree and a juris doctorate from the American University School of Law in Northwest, said he’s pleased to know that he has McDuffie’s support. “He [McDuffie] is a distinguished member of the council with broad reThe Washington Informer

Robert White, an independent at-large D.C. Council candidate, wins a major endorsement. /Courtesy photo provided by the Campaign for Robert White

D.C. Council member Kenyan McDuffie has thrown his support behind Robert White for the non-Democratic at-large council seat in the upcoming Nov. 4 election. /Courtesy Photo

spect across the city,” said White, 32. Thomas Runs for Ward 3 Education Spot W. Philip Thomas, the advisory neighborhood commissioner for single-member district 3D05 in Ward 3, wants to take his political activism to the next level and has filed papers with the D.C. Board of Elections to run for the ward’s D.C. State Board of Education position. Incumbent Laura Stover has not filed for re-election. “I am running because we need more educators on the board,” said Thomas, 29. “In addition, the schools in Ward 3 are overcrowded and while that is positive because it shows that the quality of the ward’s schools is high, it places a lot of stress on teachers and administrators to do their jobs effectively. I want to work to try to relieve the overcrowding.” Thomas, who works as a physical education teacher at the Community Public Charter School in Northwest, wants to strengthen the school system’s course curriculum in the areas of physical education and the arts. He also favors the Common Core State Standards Initiative, which details what K-12 students should know in the areas of language arts and mathematics at the end of each grade. While he teaches in a charter school, he makes it clear that the Dis-

trict’s public school system has his full support. “I have attended public schools all of my life,” said Thomas, who has lived in both the District and Kentucky. “I think D.C. students should have a quality education whether they attend a public, charter or private school.” Thomas received his bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky in 2009. After graduating, he moved to the District and got involved in politics. In 2010, he won the election to his first term representing 3D05 and has served as a coordinator of the Palisades Citizens Association Fourth of July Parade. Thomas volunteers with the Ward 3 Democrats and the D.C. Young Democrats. Thomas expressed interest in becoming more politically astute, but he wants to work on education issues and isn’t looking for a seat on the D.C. Council. “I am focusing on winning the election and serving on the board of education,” he said. “I am not thinking of anything else.”WI

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Judge’s Ruling Upends D.C. Gun Ban By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer@bsalmondc Alan Gura and Dave Kopel are exulting in a decision handed down by a federal judge on July 26 that struck down a D.C. law banning District residents from carrying their handguns in public. Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, declared the law unconstitutional. D.C. Attorney General Irv Nathan filed a motion Monday seeking an immediate stay pending an appeal or six month to give city officials time to study the ruling, rework and then enact new gun possession laws. And on Tuesday, Scullin issued a stay until Oct. 22. Gura, the attorney representing the four plaintiffs in the case, Palmer v. District of Columbia, said he’s extremely pleased with the outcome, which took five years to be rendered. “This is a great victory for the rule of law,” said Gura, whose practice Gura & Possessky has offices in the District and Alexandria, and focuses primarily on appellate litigation and constitutional law. “Whatever people think about guns, we have the rule of law and a Constitution which outlines what is applicable.” “People do enjoy the right to bear arms. A law to completely abolish guns couldn’t stand. The decision was a very long time in coming. We’re glad this finally came down. If the court enters a stay, for a period of time, it won’t be in effect. We’ll see.” Delroy Burton, chief executive officer of the Fraternal Order of Police, said the ruling has sent ripples through D.C. police circles. “It’s a sea change,” said Burton during an interview Monday afternoon. “Everything is up in the air. Up until Saturday, a person would be arrested. Now we have to change our thinking because a person may be licensed. It’s a question of what do officers have to do going forward. It’s a paradigm shift in dealing with this and handling it properly.” Meanwhile, on Monday, July 28, Police Chief Cathy Lanier issued bulletins to the rank-and-file and to residents outlining the new developments, indicating that officers would not arrest those carrying legally registered pistols when they’re

out in public. D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton said this is only a District Court decision, adding that she’s encouraged because in the past, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the constitutionality of three of the District’s four major gun laws. “Saturday’s decision goes beyond the Supreme Court’s Heller decision, which was limited to possessing a ready-to-use handgun in the home,” she said. “The Supreme Court has not ruled on any gun matter except the right to possess a handgun in the home. Saturday’s decision is not an invitation for intervention by members of Congress who have no responsibility for public safety in the District of Columbia. It’s a call for clarification by the federal courts.” Kopel, an associate policy analyst with the Cato Institute in Northwest, characterized the District’s complete prohibition, with no process for a legal gun owner to even apply for a carry permit, as patently unconstitutional. “Judges tend to be very careful about overturning any law, especially from a legislature,” said Kopel, an adjunct professor of advanced constitutional law at Denver University’s Sturm College of Law. “Judge Scullin’s opinion walks carefully through the Supreme Court’s precedents of District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago, and their lower federal court progeny. Based on these precedents, it is implausible to claim that the right to ‘bear’ arms means nothing more than the right to ‘keep’ arms inside the home.” During consideration of District of Columbia v. Heller, the U.S. Supreme Court heard Second Amendment challenges to the District’s 70-year ban on possession of a handgun and the requirement that any firearms in the home be stored unloaded and disassembled or held by a locking device. The court examined whether the Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess firearms, or only protects firearm possession connected to service in a state militia. In what some consider a radical departure from its previous interpretation of the Second Amendment, the court held that the amendment guarantees an individual the right to possess a firearm

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A federal judge’s toppling of the District’s handgun ban has left law enforcement scrambling to adjust to the prospect of licensed gun owners carrying handguns on the streets. Delroy Burton is one of those dealing with the fallout. /Photo courtesy of the Fraternal Order of Police

in the home for self-defense, and struck down the handgun possession ban as well as the safe storage law (which made no exception for self-defense). “The implication of the ruling is that if it’s upheld, D.C. would be like most of the U.S.” said Kopel. “The D.C. Council has sometimes

treated the Heller decision the way that some have treated Brown v. Board of Education – to do as little as possible. There are no unforeseen consequences. We have an enormous amount of data from states like Virginia and Pennsylvania. They have had licensed carriers for 25 years. People with permits

will not be engaged in crime.” “Anything with a gun is a serious responsibility. Having a gun on you means you can’t have a drink. Drugs, alcohol and guns just don’t mix.” Allison Anderman, a staff attorney with the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence in San Francisco, rued the judge’s decision and disagreed with Kopel’s assessment. “Everyone’s a law-abiding citizen until they break a law,” she said. “… In Texas, plenty of concealed gun holders commit crimes. What we do know is that this doesn’t make it safe. When it comes to gun violence, the U.S. is among the worst in the world.” “We would have preferred the case to have been upheld. It’s a troubling decision because it relied heavily on Peruta v. County of San Diego. In that case, a panel of the Ninth Circuit by a 2-1 vote, held that San Diego’s issue of conceal permits violated the Second Amendment. More guns in public places leads to more gun violence. Our statistics back that up.”WI

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PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY EDUCATION BRIEFS Compiled by Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer White, Appointed Schools CFO Colby R. White, who first served the Prince George’s County Public Schools system 18 years ago as an accounting clerk, has been named the schools’ chief financial officer. Prior to his recent appointment by Kevin Maxwell, schools CEO, White served the district as a budget technician, budget analyst and acting budget director. In his new capacity, White will oversee a staff of 175 employees as he helps craft the schools’ $1.8 billion budget.

New Administrators Several administrative appointments have been made for the 2014-15 term and include: Megan Ashworth, Principal, Barack Obama Elementary School; Kathy McCormick, Assistant Principal, Oxon Hill High School; Ronald Cropper, Assistant Principal, Langley Park McCormick Elementary School; Brenda Reid-Sanders, Assistant Principal, Robert Gray Elementary School; Brian Crumb, Assistant Principal, Ernest E. Just Middle School; Charoscar Coleman, Principal, Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School; Laura Carr, Resident Principal, William Beanes Elementary School; Aja Ramsay, Resident Principal, Thomas Stone Elementary School; Pauline Belton, Assistant

Principal, Charles Carroll Middle School; Beth Grote-Morphew, Assistant Principal, Accokeek Academy; Kia Barnes Ladan, Assistant Principal, Charles H. Flowers High School; Vernetta Christian, Resident Principal, Charles H. Flowers High School; and Angela Sator, Assistant Principal, DuVal High School Back-to-School Fair The first day of school is Tuesday, Aug. 26 and to help boost the enthusiasm of both students and parents, the Board of Education will sponsor the annual “Back-to-School Fair.” The community-wide event that provides participants resources for the new school year, will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 9 at Show

Colby White began his career with the school district 18 years ago as an accounting clerk. /Courtesy Photo

Place Arena in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. The fair will include on-site student registration, an opportunity to purchase school supplies and uniforms. There will also be student performances, and the popular backpack giveaway. Representatives from various schools, offices and county agencies will be available throughout the day to get acquainted with students and parents and respond to their concerns. Maxwell Shares Priorities Schools CEO Kevin Maxwell said in a recent interview that he will focus on resolving issues that center around teacher evaluations and establishing a more collaborative partnership with the teachers’ association in the upcoming school year. “I think all of that’s going to be really helpful to us,” said Maxwell, 62, who’s been at the helm since June 2013. “[That includes] building programs we’ve gotten the approval for, getting them up and running and getting some results.”

School Supply Drive The Bowie Gymnasium at 4100 Northview Drive in Bowie, Maryland, asks for school supply donations for its upcoming 11th annual “Back-to-School Bash” on Saturday, August 16. The first 300 children attending will receive a backpack filled with school supplies. Donations can be taken to the collection bin in the gym’s front desk area or given to a staff member. New Wrestling Coach Kevin Bellamy has been hired to coach the wrestling team at Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville, Maryland. Bellamy, 42, of Temple Hills, Maryland, founder of the Maryland Buffalo Soldiers Youth Wrestling Club, served as a past commissioner for the District Heights Boys and Girls Club and the Forestville Boys and Girls Club.WI

The annual “Back-to-School Fair” in Prince George’s County attracts thousands of students and their parents. /Courtesy Photo

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Vernon Knight wasn’t pleased it took more than two months to repair a portion of Walker Mill Road in his District Heights neighborhood. Knight, 67, blamed the Prince George’s County Council for the slow response. He became more incensed when told about the council’s proposal to increase elected officials time in office from two four-year terms to three. “In Montgomery County, that street would have been fixed within a week. The lack of work from [the Prince George’s council] is terrible. My vote for extending terms another four years is ‘Hell no’,” Knight said July 25. “Those guys don’t need to be on the board for two days. With the exception of [the late County Executive Wayne] Curry, I haven’t seen council members do a doggone thing.” Council voted July 23 to ask residents to extend the terms from two to three for council members and the county executive. The question will be placed on the ballot in the November election. Term limits have been in effect since November 1992. The council’s vote last week came after a recommendation from the Charter Review Commission that’s appointed every four years to review the county charter. Shirley Williams said term limits ensure that council members don’t get complacent. “Fresh faces and fresh thoughts keep things moving,” said Williams, 56, who moved to Bowie from Philadelphia last year. “Twelve years is too long and that’s how things get corrupt.” Councilwoman Andrea C. Harrison (D-District 5) of Springdale said in an email July 26 to manage, finance and develop communities takes longer than eight years to complete. “Oftentimes, one is only between design and finance in that eight-year time frame. What often happens is when a new administration comes in … the focus and priorities change,” she said. “It becomes difficult to continue to move forward with constant starts and stops.” Councilman Derrick Davis, 47, (D-District 6) said he’s been opposed to term limits when it first appeared on the 1992 November ballot. He served on the Charter Review Commission in 2000 and recommended the removal of term limits, he said.

Councilmember Andrea C. Harrison doesn’t favor term limits. /Courtesy Photo

“It puts us at a competitive disadvantage in our region,” said Davis, who’s in the process of moving from Mitchellville to Upper Marlboro. “The greatest responsibility of council is land-use. Second [it’s] the budget. Look at the lifespan of most land-use decisions. It takes a long time just to build out a project.” The council goes into recess in August and tentatively resumes its meeting schedule Tuesday, September 2. The two four-year terms end in December for three council members: Vice Chairman Will Campos (D-District 2) of Hyattsville; Eric Olson (D-District 3) of College Park; and Ingrid M. Turner (D-District 4) of Bowie. Some of the council’s main duties are to create, amend and pass laws, approve budgets, confirm administrative appointments made by the county executive and borrow money through a referendum. Council also sits as the District Council when convening on zoning and land-use matters and as the Board of Health for health policy topics. The salaried position pays each council member $103,716. The vice chairman receives an additional $2,500 to increase the salary at $106,216 and presides over the meetings when the chairman is absent. The chairman salary increases by $5,000 for a total salary of nearly $109,000. The chairman runs the meetings and can appoint council members to var-

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ious committees. Both the chairman and vice chairman help prepare the meeting agendas. All council members have an office at the county administration building in Upper Marlboro. Angela Holmes, president of the Prince George’s County Civic Federation, said council members aren’t doing enough to assist residents while serving their current terms. “Here’s my problem. You have people running for positions in the community and [they’re] not really in the community where people can reach out and touch [them],” said Holmes, 50, of Camp Springs. “We

hear about all these promises in the campaigns, but nothing has been done. To allow a council

member to have 12 years on a board is just too long.” Some county residents such as Brittney Johnson of District Heights aren’t interested in county politics and didn’t know about the council’s term limit proposal. However, when explained to Johnson she said eight years is long enough for council members to serve. “Unless it was for the president, I would vote yes. The presidential office is more influential for the entire nation,” Johnson, 26, said. “To me, council’s vote is just pointless.”WI The Washington Informer

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Library of Congress Receives Historic Recordings ‘HistoryMakers’ Archives Relocate By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Amy Billingsley enjoys a fresh slice of bread every once in a while. She also doesn’t mind donning a red outfit and heading to her favorite vacation destination in Jamaica. That she loves bread, the color red and she enjoys the popular West Indian island are but a few anecdotes highlighted in the “HistoryMakers,” collection which features, among many others, the Chicago-born Billingsley who serves as the assistant secretary of labor at the U.S. Department of Labor and who’s lived in Southwest Washington, D.C. since 1970. “I’ve lived a lot of places, but the District is absolutely the best,”

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she said. “I’m most proud that I’m able to connect with so many people and the District is a perfect place for connecting.” Since 1999, “HistoryMakers” founder Julieanna L. Richardson has herself connected with many individuals. Richardson recorded African-American history, which she said counts as an effort to create a more inclusive bibliography and to educate individuals around the globe about African-American life and culture and the struggles and achievements of the black experience. A political consultant, Billingsley, 77, comes from a household headed by leaders in education, Herman Tate and Inez Duke Tate. Billingsley, whom Richardson profiled in 2003 for the “Histor-

Award-winning news producer and author A’Lelia Bundles, who lives in Friendship Heights in Northwest, counts among the “HistoryMakers.” /Courtesy Photo

yMakers” recording, spoke glowingly of her great-grandfather, Jesse Chisholm Duke, who served as a prominent newspaper editor and activist in Montgomery, Alabama and in Pine Bluffs, Arkansas during the 1880s and 1890s. “At that time the conservatives didn’t want black people coming around who were educated

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because they said they were corrupting their good black folk,” Billingsley said. “Apparently, the controversy was that Booker T. Washington had just set up Tuskegee and they were afraid that if there were educated black men, the white women would be interested in them.” Award-winning news producer and author A’Lelia Bundles, who lives in Friendship Heights, also counts among the “HistoryMakers,” which include President Barack Obama, Ward 8 Council member Marion Barry, actor and activist Harry Belafonte, music producer Quincy Jones, arts patron Peggy Cooper Cafritz, activist Angela Davis, Rep. John Lewis and so many other African Americans who have been recognized as trailblazers. Bundles, a Harvard graduate and a pioneering producer with NBC News, received her name from A’Lelia Walker, her great-grandmother and a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance who’s the daughter of the famed Madam C.J. Walker. “I was pleased to not only be able to have the story of my life told, but the stories of these amazing African Americans who are pioneers who helped pave the way for the rest of us,” said Bundles, 62, who has written books about her life and Walker. “Part of what Julieanna Richardson does is not just look at the headline names but hundreds of thousands of those who came before. As for me and my family history, growing up, you didn’t make a big deal out of it and my parents let me discover it on my own,” she said.

In June, the U.S. Library of Congress in Southeast acquired a video archive of thousands of hours of interviews from Richardson. The collection includes 9,000 hours of content with 14,000 analog tapes, 3,000 DVDs, 6,000 born-digital files, 70,000 paper documents and digital files and more than 30,000 digital photographs. “The ‘HistoryMakers’ are the single largest archival project of its kind since the Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) initiative to document the experiences of former slaves in the 1930s,” Richardson said. While the headquarters for much of the “HistoryMakers” work will remain in Chicago, Richardson said the deal with the Library of Congress, arguably the most prestigious repository in the world, will allow the archives to join the WPA’s Slave Narratives at the library’s Culpeper, Virginia, Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in a state-of-the-art facility that’s already home to more than 7 million collectible items. The collection will also share a home where the Library of Congress acquires, preserves, and provides access to the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of television programs, film dating back to the 1890s and radio broadcasts and sound recordings from as far back as the 1880s. “This relationship with the Library of Congress represents a momentous occasion for our organization” Richardson said. “With the Library of Con-

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gress serving as our permanent repository, we are assured of its preservation and safekeeping for generations to come.” The oldest federal cultural institution which serves as the research arm of Congress, the library has millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts. In its 2013 fiscal year, officials at the Library of Congress responded to more than 636,000 congressional reference requests and delivered approximately 23,000 volumes from the library’s collections to members of Congress. More than 23.5 million books have been catalogued during 2013 in the library’s classification system while more than 12.3 million books, monographs and serials, bound newspapers, pamphlets, technical reports and other printed material have also been logged there. Last year, officials said the library welcomed nearly 1.6 million visitors to its buildings and they re-

The Reading Room at the Library of Congress in Southeast Washington, D.C. /Courtesy Photo

corded more than 84 million visits and 519 million page views on its website. The “HistoryMakers” archive provides first-person accounts of both well-known and unsung African Americans, detailing their hopes, dreams and accomplishments often in the face of adversity, said James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress. Billington said the culturally important collection counts as a rich and diverse resource for scholars, teachers, students and documentarians seeking a more complete record of America’s history and its people. The various videos included in the collection are grouped in 15 different subject areas ranging from science, politics and the military to sports, music and entertainment. For example, the “ScienceMakers,” category features 211 top black scientists with about 6 percent of the interviews in the fields of chemistry, engineering, physics, biology, electronics, anthropology, aerospace, mathematics and genetics.

Other categories include, “ArtMakers,” “BusinessMakers,” “CivicMakers,” “EntertainmentMakers,” “MediaMakers,” and, “PoliticalMakers.” “It was an incredible honor to be selected as a ‘HistoryMaker,’” said Dr. E. Faye Williams, an at-

torney and civil rights activist. “When I think of all the great things so many before me did to make my life better, I was humbled to have someone find that I have done something worthy of recognition in our community,” Williams said. “It made me want

to work harder to be a mentor to as many young people as possible. I never turn down a request from interns to gain experience in our office. I never turn down a request to help anyone who needs help if what they are asking is within my control.”WI

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A Rising Tide Lifts all Boats A version of the iconic slogan, “A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste,” is playing out in the court of public opinion and it’s a huge debacle, as a major union severs its ties with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). Lee Saunders, the president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME, should receive the 2014 “Foot in Mouth” award for a letter he sent informing Michael Lomax, the chairman of the United Negro College Fund, that the union would be ending its partnership with the educational organization in September. The union is angry about a $25 million donation that UNCF accepted from Charles Koch. The billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch have become targets of Democrats and unions, alike. Saunders’ letter smacks of politics and lacks Black leadership values for our youth to emulate: “Like many supporters of the UNCF, I was deeply troubled by your decision to accept $25 million from David and Charles Koch,” Saunders wrote. Saunders contends that the UNCF chairman “has taken actions deeply hostile to public employees”… and there’s “a profound betrayal of the ideals of the civil rights movement.” The union intends to end its relationship with UNCF in September. Saunders also described the Koch brothers as the “single most prominent funders of efforts to prevent African Americans from voting.” If ever there was a case of ideological extremism, this is it. Instead of saying, there’s not much we agree on, but helping Black youth graduate from college is one of them. Let’s unite and do some good. However, in his huff, Saunders sacrificed AFSCME grants that have helped nearly a hundred Black students throughout the course of the AFSCME/UNCF program. Heads turned when UNCF announced Charles Koch’s no strings attached $25 million donation to historically Black colleges and universities and loan assistance programs. In his nonsensical justification of his

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By William Reed taking money away from Black students, Saunders claimed that the Kochs are openly hostile to Black people. “We are doing this as a result of actions taken by the [chairman] of the UNCF that are not only deeply hostile to the rights and dignity of public employees …” Saunders’ letter told Lomax. “I was truly stunned to learn that you attended and spoke at a Koch summit.” Saunders shot hundreds of Black students in the foot because he’s fixated on the premise that “The Koch brothers and the organizations they fund have devoted themselves for more than a decade to attacking the voting rights of African Americans.” UNCF chairman Michael Lomax, perhaps too pleased with the Kochs’ donation to worry about losing $60,000 from AFSCME, said in a statement: “UNCF has over 100,000 donors with a wide range of views, but all believe in helping young students of color realize their dreams of a college education. For over 70 years we have never had a litmus test and we have asked all Americans to support our cause.” What Black Americans need is good leadership. AFSCME’s relationship with the UNCF revolved around the AFSCME/ UNCF/Harvard LWP Union Scholars Program, in which sophomore- and junior- college students work with AFSCME during the summer and receive scholarship support. That program ends September 1. It’s time to brand what Saunders has displayed as “feckless leadership.” Amid the plight of Blacks in America, it’s sad when a man in a position to lift up race-specific programs suspends them instead. Similar random accusations represent the history of Blacks and unions. Throughout the past century, unions have been on

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CFPB Returns $4.6 Billion to Consumers in 4 years

In recent days, many policymakers and analysts have noted the July 21 anniversary of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). It marked the anniversary of President Obama signing the historic Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act into law. The cornerstone of the law’s reform was the creation of a new bureau dedicated solely to ensuring that when it came to financial services, consumers would have a cop-on-the-beat, fighting for and ensuring transparency and fairness. CFPB has vigorously pursued its mission. In celebrating the anniversary, the Bureau announced that $4.6 billion has been returned to 15 million consumers. And here are four more consumer victories, thanks to CFPB actions: - First-time federal protections and oversight for 30 million consumers involved in abusive debt collection and another 12 million consumers who use payday loans; - 2.8 million unique visitors to its website, where information and complaint forms are available; - $150 million in civil penalties ordered as a result of enforcement actions against businesses that violated consumer laws; and - 775,000 consumers who

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By Charlene Crowell have been helped to by CFPB’s supervisory actions. The irony is that despite these positive results, the 113th Congress has continued to propose a series of bills designed to dilute the power and effectiveness of the CFPB, from changing CFPB’s governance to a multi-member commission, or revoking its independence. The anti-regulation players are still at work and according to Open Secrets, have donated nearly $248 million to anti-regulatory candidates. In many ways, these are the same failed arguments that were made at the height of the nation’s housing crisis and the advisability of reform. The Bureau’s anniversary comes at a time of increasing partisan divides. Two separate reports offered diverging views on Dodd-Frank and CFPB. While one stressed that the legislation failed to end “too big to fail,” the other extolled the resulting efforts to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive practices and products that led to the 2008 crisis. 1.6 million-member AFSCME. Saunders holds a Master of Arts degree from Ohio State University. We wish him wisdom to think and act in a leadership capacity that advances Black causes. Saunders shouldn’t stop AFSCME’s support of UNCF. If

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In a CNBC interview, the two former public servants whose names were added to the historic legislation, Barney Frank, former House Financial Services Committee chair, and Chris Dodd, former Senate Banking Committee chair, reminded viewers of why major reform was needed. Noting the loss of $12 trillion in national wealth, 5 million homes foreclosed, taxpayer bailouts and more, Dodd remarked, “The carnage of the collapse of six years ago – we’re still paying a price for it – dearly. The point of the legislation was to bring stability to it [the system], modernize regulation so that we could have a 21st Century system and get us out of the shadow banking system.” Speaking directly to the purpose of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Dodd stressed the need to “have a consumer protection bureau that would give consumers with financial grievances some redress.” Concurring, Frank explained, “The abusive mortgage loans that hurt consumers, hurt financial services and hurt the economy – we outlawed them and they haven’t been made since then. That’s a real accomplishment. CFPB has recovered a lot of money for consumers.” From a consumer perspective, CFPB is clearly working. Further and as an old homily advises, “If it ain’t broke, why fix it?”WI Charlene Crowell is a communications manager with the Center for Responsible Lending. She can be reached at Charlene.crowell@responsiblelending.org. he needs a few bucks, he should poll his union partners for some of the $153 million they spend in political contributions. 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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Parents Rail against School Closure Ruling By Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer Despite a federal judge’s ruling that the mandated closings of 15 neighborhood schools in January 2013 had nothing to do with race, a group of African-American parents whose children have been affected, vow to keep the matter front and center. Sequnely Gray, who’s had two children displaced in Chancellor Kaya Henderson’s aggressive education reform efforts, said she and several other parents who filed a lawsuit challenging the discriminatory impact of the closures, take issue with Judge James Boasberg’s July 18 ruling

and plan to appeal. “In just about every neighborhood where a school has closed, it has been in a predominantly black community,” Gray, 33, said, stressing that most of the closings took place east of the river in wards 5, 7 and 8. “That’s blatant racism,” she said. “It’s interesting that when you look at the demographics for how they closed the schools, they’re mostly in neighborhoods where charter schools have popped up. I mean this stuff is self-explanatory.” Meanwhile, Boasberg who ruled in favor of Henderson and Mayor Vincent Gray in the original case, said recently that issues

A former Davis Elementary School parent participates in Empower DC’s “Outreach Campaign against School Closures.” /Photo courtesy of Empower DC

of school privatization are best decided by the voters in the city’s upcoming mayoral election, rather than by the courts.

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However, officials for the grassroots organization Empower DC, said in a statement immediately following Boasberg’s ruling that while the judge acknowledged that the closures impacted black students disproportionately, he denied any evidence of racism. Empower DC, which promotes self-advocacy among the District’s low- and moderate-income residents, retained local civil rights attorney Johnny Barnes to file the original lawsuit in March 2013 to block additional school closings that had already displaced more than 2,000 students. “We were not surprised by this ruling, as the judge signaled his posture from the outset. We however are not deterred and will appeal,” said Barnes, 66. “The rise of school closures in black communities, the undue influence of private funders who profit from school privatization – this is Brown v. Board 2.0. There are disputed facts in this case and the judge should have allowed them to be considered by a jury.” More than a year later, amid unwavering parental and community push back, school officials have started to rethink a handful of the closings. To that end, a proposal surrounding the ongoing school boundaries issue suggests reopening Ferebee-Hope Elementary in Southeast along with MacFarland Middle in Northwest and three other buildings. Camolee Williams, whose two children attend schools outside of their community, said she’s all for reopening schools in her neighborhood if classes will be smaller.

“If they did that, a lot less students would be struggling,” said Williams 45, who lives in Southeast but sends her children to schools in Northwest. “That’s because there were so many schools in our community that had been dealing with low test scores,” she explained. “As for reopening certain schools, it’s not the fact of officials admitting that they moved too fast closing some of the schools, but now that they see the whole situation more clearly, it’s time to rectify it.” Daniel del Pielago, Empower DC education coordinator, added that the plaintiffs in the school closings case would be satisfied if their schools reopened. “Although it would be too late for their children whose education was already interrupted,” he said. “Parents want the schools to be restored for other children and for discrimination in the schools to stop.” Parisa Norouzi, Empower DC executive director agreed. “There is nothing more [ridiculous] than telling black people, who are being disproportionately harmed and impacted by government policies, that there is no evidence of racial intent simply because no one in power was found to have made explicitly racially discriminatory statements,” she said. “But that is the reality that our constituents face daily in D.C., as the city targets black communities for [displacement], to make way for the new, wealthier and whiter residents moving into the city.” Del Pielago said that the closings not only caused students to lose some of their closest

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has done this without investing time or resources to ensure the well-being of students after school closures and without making promised investments in the receiving schools,” del Pielago said. “We must also continue

to organize against the planned closures of the Sharpe Health [in Northwest] and Mamie D. Lee [in Northeast] schools, which are attended by our most vulnerable special-needs students to save them from the same fate.”WI

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Restoring the Anacostia River

In the life of every country, community and city, people have depended on rivers and waterways for growth, development and sustainability. The Anacostia River, which runs from Bladensburg, Maryland to the District, is no different. Once a thriving body of water supporting a variety of fish and other wildlife, the Anacostia has been severely neglected by Congress, local elected officials and residents. More than a century of mistreatment has transformed a once clean and vibrant river into one laden with sediment, trash, sewage, pathogens, toxic chemicals, stormwater runoff and other pollutants which are slowly killing it. A raft of proposals and programs such as the Anacostia Waterway Initiative (AWI) all promised to revitalize the nine miles of river but a number of studies indicate higher than acceptable amounts of pollutants like chlordane and PCP in carp, eel and catfish. It’s unsafe to swim in the Anacostia, or to eat its fish and the Anacostia Watershed Society has given the river an ‘F’ for water quality. The Natural Resources Defense Council calls the Anacostia River the poster child for America’s tragically neglected, abused urban waterways. But help may be on the way. Both former Mayor Anthony Williams, CEO of the Federal City Council and Mayor Vincent C. Gray have announced plans to implement a range of initiatives designed to reduce pollution and sewage discharges and foster renewal for the beleaguered waterway. On July 29, Mayor Vincent C. Gray planned to sign the Sustainable DC Omnibus Amendment Act of 2014 at the Anacostia Community Boathouse. The Anacostia Watershed Society in conjunction with the District Department of the Environment and Tetra Tech, planned a boat tour along the Anacostia River after the signing to demonstrate how a sediment sample is taken, logged, and placed in a container for lab analysis for the project. The Federal City Council, has as a major project, jump-starting the lost momentum for comprehensive revitalization of the river area. The AWI has 19 regional and federal agency partners and its goal is to work with all stakeholders, especially the city, the federal government and the State of Maryland, to transform the river. Going forward, the hope is that all stakeholders will ramp up their participation and that residents will embrace changes in their daily routines to help reduce the amount of pesticides and toxic substances that flow into the Anacostia.

United Nation Blues Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea and last week, Russian troops or Ukrainian rebels shot down an airliner killing 298 people. In Iraq, insurgents of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) have overrun large portions of the country, killing those regarded as infidels as they sweep toward Baghdad. Meanwhile, rebels from Boko Haram kidnapped 300 young women and girls 100 days ago, and after weeks of bombing Palestinians in Gaza, an Israeli ground incursion has left more than a 1,000 Palestinians dead, most of them civilians and children, and large swathes of the territory in ruins. In the midst of all this carnage and madness, where is the United Nations? The UN has no military forces of its own, and member states voluntarily provide the police and military personnel needed for individual peacekeeping operations.The approved budget for UN peacekeeping operations for the current fiscal year is almost $8 billion. But it seems like a waste of money because the UN has no teeth, as evidenced by how completely Israel and Hamas have ignored UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and Secretary of State John Kerry. Maybe it’s time to revisit the UN’s usefulness because it’s had little success although peacekeeping is one of its primary mandates.

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Frederick, a Superb Selection!

I can’t begin to express the excitement I felt when I read that Wayne A.I. Frederick was picked to be Howard University’s 17th President [article by Dorothy Rowley, July 24, 2014]. This was truly a great day for all who love the university. Dr. Frederick is young, smart, dynamic, and I believe bleeds blue and white. I applaud the Board of Trustees and all involved in the selection process for making what I think will be one of the most important decisions for the university this century. Dr. Frederick’s research background can only enhance his vision on how the university can better compete in a highly-competitive environment for the best young minds and corporate dollars. I just want to extend my heartfelt congratulations to the entire Howard University family. Clifford McMann Washington, D.C.

Teaching, an Honorable Profession

The article, “Minority Teachers Abandon Classrooms” by Stacy M. Brown, July 24, 2014, brought up some good points on why there aren’t very many teachers of color in classrooms today. As a retired teacher of 38 years, I would like to add a few pointers about teaching and why one becomes a teacher. For one, you don’t become a teacher The Washington Informer

to get rich, teachers have always been underpaid and overworked, and if you are choosing teaching as a profession, accept this as a fact. Most individuals choose teaching because they had a teacher who was able to inspire them to heights they never thought they could achieve, and in turn they want to do the same for others. Secondly, teaching is a profession and there should be an exam just like any other profession – for example – to become an attorney or a doctor – examinations are mandatory. Likewise, individuals who are interested in teaching must pass certain examinations to prove they’re qualified to enter the classroom and start shaping young minds. Certainly, we should have more minorities enter the classrooms as teachers, but they must be ready to meet the challenges that await them in a realistic manner. No longer can we accept individuals who want to be teachers because they can’t do anything else. To be a teacher one has to be dedicated to wanting to see young people excel. In short, teachers must love and have a passion for what they do. Leonard Watkins Suitland, Maryland

Cheers for the New Ballou High School!

I loved the front-page photo by Shevry Lassiter that appeared in the July 17-23 edition. The photograph captures the depth of construction going on at the new Ballou Senior

High School. It’s amazing how quickly the construction workers are getting the building ready, as I often travel the area and each time it looks that much closer to completion. The students in Southeast more than deserve state-of-the-art learning environments, and I believe that had school officials rehabbed Ballou a decade ago, there’s no telling how many students would have stayed there and graduated. As trite as it might sound, I’ve heard talk regarding students who dropped out of schools like Ballou and Anacostia because the buildings had become so outdated – the structures reminded them of prisons and old, dark monasteries. So I’m sure it will be both an exciting and a refreshing change for the Ballou students when their new school opens next year. Then they can boast school pride just like the students at Wilson, Cardozo and Dunbar in Northwest who, as usual always seem to be first in line for new programs and services. Yes, they may have put Ballou on the back burner, but I believe that the time apparently came when someone raised a little hell and the powers that be finally got around to meeting the needs of students in Southeast. Dorothy Robinson Washington, D.C.

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By George E. Curry

The Politics of Federal Judges The two conflicting appeals court rulings last week on the legality of a key provision of the Affordable Care Act – one supporting it and the other rejecting the health law – underscore the nexus between politics and the judiciary. All of the judges voting to uphold the ACA were appointed by Democrats. All of the judges voting to strike down the law were appointed by Republicans.

We’ve seen this scenario played out at the U.S. Supreme Court, with most controversial rulings decided on a 5-4 vote, with conservatives clinging to a one-vote margin. But the most important appointments might be those of federal appeals court judges, the last stop before a case reaches the Supreme Court. Approximately 10,000 cases are appealed to the Supreme Court each year. Of those, only 75-80 are accepted. Therefore, many important decisions are made in cases that never reach

the Supreme Court. Separate appeals court rulings on a key provision of the Affordable Care Act on July 22 vividly illustrate why looking at lower court judges is extremely important. At issue was whether the federal government could provide subsidies to low- and middle-income citizens in the form of tax credits to purchase insurance coverage on the insurance marketplace operated by federal authorities. A divided three-judge panel

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of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said no, with two Republican judges voting against the subsidies and the lone Democrat voting to uphold the provision. In the majority were Thomas Griffith, appointed by George W. Bush, and Raymond Randolph, an appointee of H.W. Bush. Dissenting was Harry T. Edwards, a Jimmy Carter nominee. Hours later, a three-judge panel of 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, all appointed by Democrats, ruled

that the Internal Revenue Service correctly interpreted the law when it issued regulations allowing health insurance tax credits for consumers in all 50 states. Judges Andre Davis and Stephanie Thacker were appointed by Obama and Roger Gregory was originally appointed Bill Clinton. Over the years, the 4th Circuit was considered a bastion of conservatism. With six appointments since he has been in office – and a seventh pending – Presi-

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By Julianne Malveaux

The High Cost of Injustice What if we didn’t incarcerate people who commit non-violent crimes? Or, if we sentenced them, what if their sentences were reasonable, instead of intolerable? What if a man who steals a $159 jacket while high, gets drug treatment and a sentence of, say, two years, instead of a sentence of life imprisonment without parole? How much would we save if legally mandated minimum sentences

were modified and nonviolent drug offenses were more reasonably imposed? Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project says that eliminating more than 79,000 bed years, or the amount of time a prisoner uses a bed in prison, could save at least $2.4 billion. That’s enough to send nearly a million students to college if the $25,000 covers the cost of attendance (which it does for most state schools and Historically Black Colleges and Universities). It could put nearly

half a million teachers in underserved K-12 schools. It could restore availability to libraries and parks. Instead, we spend it incarcerating people, particularly those who are locked up for relatively minor crimes. The $2.4 billion that the Sentencing Project has calculated may be a low estimate. According to the Justice Department more than $80 billion is spent on incarceration annually. How much of this spending is unnecessary and could be easily

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converted to drug treatment and recovery? Why do we find it so easy to incarcerate people but so difficult to rehabilitate them, knowing that the recidivism rates are high? Within five years of incarceration, more than three-quarters are rearrested. Most were arrested for property crimes, not for drug offenses, or violent offenses. Much of the property crime could be alleviated if it was easier for ex-offenders to find employment, but after incarcera-

tion, many find the doors of employment slammed in their faces. Incarceration combined with education and societal embrace might reduce recidivism and the level of property crime. President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are moving in the right direction. First, the president moved to reform drug sentencing laws, reducing the discrepancy between crack and powdered cocaine.

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By Walter Fields

The Lynching of Eric Garner It was one of the most difficult scenes in Spike Lee’s classic movie “Do the Right Thing,” the brutal strangulation of peace-loving Radio Raheem by New York City police in a Brooklyn pizza shop. That scene touched a raw nerve as it recalled the 1983 death of 25-year-old graffiti artist Michael Stewart, another choke-hold victim of the New York City Police Department. Now, we find our-

selves enraged over the police killing of Eric Garner in Staten Island, which was captured on a cell phone video as a police officer puts him in a choke hold, with the man pleading that he can’t breathe. Garner was taken away unconscious and later pronounced dead. Another day in America. Let me be clear – Eric Garner was lynched. He was brutally assaulted and choked to death by a police officer who, supposedly trained, abused his authority with deadly precision. It is not

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enough to state that the officer used deadly force because when it comes to Black males and police, there is a violent regularity that has persisted for decades. The manner in which Black men and boys are set upon by law enforcement is consistent with their marginalization in society and the degree to which they are a criminalized class. There is no benefit of the doubt, no reasonableness, no dialogue – just force and upon the slightest protest on our part, violence and probable injury or death. The Washington Informer

We need to be clear and unambiguous about Eric Garner’s death in the larger context of the suppression of Black males. What is experienced by Black males on a daily basis is seldom the experience of White males, and cannot be fathomed by Whites in general. White mothers do not have to counsel their sons on their behavior should they encounter police or worry when their sons step out their door whether they will be a victim of police violence. Even in the most extreme situations

when White males are the perpetrators of violent crime, police are in apprehend mode and not in pursuit with deadly intent. Eric Garner was lynched. He is the most recent case in a gigabyte file of such cases. I have yet to see the movie “Fruitvale Station” because I know how difficult it will be to see the reenactment of the killing of Oscar Grant. It cuts too close to home because I remember the killing of 15-year-old Phillip

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By Benjamin F. Chavis , Jr.

Black Press: The Voice of Black America — Part IV To publish a document is to establish a permanent record for the future. To publish a newspaper is to preserve an official record of the news and perspectives of a particular period, which is useful today and in the future. The Black Press has been around since the publication of the first Black newspaper, Freedom’s Journal, in 1827, which had as its motto: “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long

have others spoken for us.” But Black protest has also been in the form of pamphlets. The most famous was published by David Walker, issued two years after the nation’s first Black newspaper. What was it about David Walker’s publishing his Appeal to the Coloured People of the World that made slave masters in 1829 so fearful and uncomfortable? It was Walker’s inspiring use of the printed word that stirred the very soul and spirits of the enslaved masses of African people

to rise up at all cost against the “evils” of slavery. David Walker’s publication, often referred to as David Walker’s Appeal, gave the antislavery movement a resolute, charismatic voice for grassroots resistance by those held in the “clutches of slavery.” Walker, a native of Wilmington, N.C., had relocated to Boston, in his quest to escape the overt brutality of chattel slavery in southeastern North Carolina. According to the David Walker Memorial Project, “Many historians now regard the Appeal as

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one of the most important social and political documents of the 19th century. Nothing like it had been published before. It remained a rallying point for African Americans for many years after Walker’s death. And it informed the thinking of generations of Black leaders, including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X.” In the preamble to the Appeal, Walker emphasized, “I am fully aware, in making this appeal to my much afflicted and suffering

brethren, that I shall not only be assailed by those whose greatest earthly desires are, to keep us in abject ignorance and wretchedness, and who are of the firm conviction that Heaven has designed us and our children to be slaves and beasts of burden to them and their children. I say, I do not only expect to be held up to the public as an ignorant, impudent and restless disturber of the public peace, by such avaricious creatures, as well as

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By William Spriggs

Trying to Understand What Makes Sense Last month, a United Nations panel held that cutting off water to Detroit residents suffering from high unemployment rates and low incomes, leaving them unable to afford their water bills, was a violation of basic human rights. In response, actor Mark Ruffalo and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) joined close to a thousand protesters in a march organized by National Nurses United from Detroit’s Cobo Center to

Hart Plaza. The chants of the crowd included “We got sold out, banks got bailed out.” And, there were renewed calls for a financial transaction tax, commonly referred to as a “Robin Hood tax.” It was announced last week that the water shutoffs would be temporarily suspended for 15 days. During the Great Depression there was a stock market bubble that burst on Black Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1929. But there also was massive land speculation that

collapsed the local economies of Texas, Florida and California, leading to more than 2,000 municipalities and municipal corporations being in default. The uncertainty of resolving the issue led Congress in 1934 to create a special chapter of the federal bankruptcy law to handle municipal bankruptcies. Chapter 9 bankruptcies have spiked in each of the last three recessions. They have not reached the heights of the Great Depression. This has allowed room to treat each bankruptcy

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as a unique case-but the trend clearly suggests these are not independent events. In the case of water and sewage bonds and the city of Detroit, the hike in water rates involves the perverse logic Chapter 9 was intended to avoid. A rash of foreclosures from the housing crisis helped escalate a depopulation of Detroit, while the largest drop in automobile demand in U.S. history that was part of the Great Recession meant a loss of employment in Detroit. The result of depopu-

lation and less economic activity of course meant less revenue for the water authority-but the bonds still needed to be paid. So that means a hike in water bills for an unemployed and poor population. The full costs of the Great Recession still are being tallied. Regrettably, distant from the free fall of 2008, the stories have been pointing blame at Detroit, Flint, Puerto Rico, Sacramento and the hundreds of other local

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By Askia Muhammad

Islamic ‘Sun’ Rising in the West: Among Us a ‘Son’ is Risen AThere is much conjecture, particularly in Islamic circles – based on Hadith (purported sayings of Islam’s Holy Prophet Muhammad [Peace Be upon Him]) – that humans will know that the Judgment Day is approaching when “The Sun will rise in the West.” There is mockery of Muslims concerning this belief that the day will come when the earth will spin in the opposite direction

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causing the sun to literally rise in the West, rather than in the East. Muslims are accused of believing fake science, including, fake confirmations of this prophecy by NASA – the National Aeronautics and Space Agency. Well, since the sun is always rising – and conversely setting – somewhere on earth at every single instant, it would be quite an event for the planet to stop spinning at the rate of 1,037 and 1/3 miles per hour, tilted as it is at an angle of 23.5 degrees away from the plane of the ecliptic,

and then start spinning in the opposite direction. What kind of catastrophe would that cause for gravity on earth? It’s probably not going to happen like that. The sun rising in the West is not an astronomical phenomenon, but rather a spiritual one. I believe it means that the life-giving, spiritual Light of Islam, like the life-giving light of the physical sun, will rise in the Western Hemisphere, not in the East, where Islam’s Prophet and Holy Shrines resided and still reside. That Light of the Sun of IsThe Washington Informer

lamic wisdom, I believe is none other than the teaching of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad to The Lost Found Nation of Islam in the West. It’s abundantly clear to me, looking at the amazing transformations in the lives of once-downtrodden Black folks and the bourgeois alike that members of the Nation of Islam (NOI) would be acceptable to live in any society. The descendants of enslaved Africans who were brought to these shores, then stripped of everything –

name, culture, language, religion, all sense of dignity – have gone from being the “rejected stone,” to becoming the “headstone of the corner.” With Mr. Muhammad’s teaching they have, en masse, regained their foremost dignity. So I think, instead of wondering what finest of the Islamic civilized societies into which the descendants of former enslaved persons might fit, the more fitting question to ponder is, which

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Melvin Foote may have fit right in with the 1980s conglomerate of rock stars that came to be known as U.S.A. for Africa. Only, Foote’s push for a better understanding of the world’s second largest and second most populous continent has never been fleeting. And, he’s never belted out the song, “We are the World.” “I think Africa matters and people are shifting their focus to The Washington Informer

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of the administration, and other key business owners – executives from the U.S. and Africa, members of Congress, and every day folks. “Given the history of the United States with slavery and Jim Crow, Africa didn’t matter. The only thing that mattered was that it was a source of getting slaves,” Foote said. “Now, we find ourselves in a global economy and we need oil and minerals and we need to protect national security which is all the reason See FOOTE on Page 24

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why the preeminent world power has to be a part of this summit.” Foote said 20 percent of imported oil now comes from Africa and that will increase to about 30 percent over the next decade. “If something should happen to Saudi Arabia or Bahrain, it will leave the U.S. in a real pickle,” he said. “We will find ourselves scrambling for Africa’s oil, but China, India and Russia want that oil too.” Recognized as a leading expert on issues related to African policies and programs, Foote founded the CFA in order to establish a network of organizations, groups and individuals committed to the progress and the strengthening of Africa and Africans around the globe, he said. While Africa enjoys strategic partnerships with many regions of the world, including Europe, Asia, and Latin America, Foote said that kind of relationship doesn’t exist with America. He said he’s hoping this will be an opportunity for Africa to establish a better rapport with the U.S. Foote said the CFA will host its own summit in September and officials will review potential gains from the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. “I proposed this [current] summit. When Obama got into office I was the one who offered the suggestion because the economy had collapsed and we were hemorrhaging 30,000 jobs a month, Osama bin Laden was promoting terror, we’d just really come off of the September 11 terror attacks and the banks had collapsed,” Foote said. “Say what you will about George W. Bush. But, in the case The Washington Informer

of Africa, Bush was the best president that we’ve ever had,” he said. “Remember, Bush got Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice and he had black people in positions of ambassadors to Africa and assistant deputy for African Affairs. That’s why things were good under Bush.” Born in Rockford, Illinois, Foote has lived in Southwest Washington, D.C. for 30 years. Prior to establishing the CFA, Foote served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer and teacher in Ethiopia from 1973 to 1976. He later served as Africare’s representative in Somalia from 1981 to 1984 when he was appointed to the organization’s D.C. headquarters as their director of constituency development which ultimately prompted him to start the CFA. Foote became the first member of his family to attend college when he received a scholarship to Western State University in Colorado. He said he began writing a newspaper column called, “Back of the Bus,” which focused on black issues. A turning point arrived when a white student sought his opinion on interracial marriage. “So, we met and I gave him my thoughts. He said his family was going to disown him because he was going to marry a black girl and he really needed some advice,” Foote said. “My curiosity was what made me look deeper into things and then I went to Ethiopia, the heart of Africa, and it was quite an experience.” Foote also launched a program called the “African American Unity Caucus,” a broad-based coalition of black and African leaders of Africa-focused organizations and groups, to promote pan-Africanism and to link Diaspora leaders in the Western Hemisphere

with the African Union, the coordinating forum of the nations of Africa. Foote currently serves as an advisor to the African Union’s Ambassador to Washington and as a consultant to the World Bank on African Diaspora issues. He’s participated in numerous high-level missions to Africa, including as a guest on a White House delegation to assess the genocide in Rwanda in 1994; as part of a high- profile team that sought to end the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 1998; as a member of a presidential mission to five African countries in 1998 to promote U.S. trade with Africa and the African Growth and Opportunity Act; as the leader of a mission to reach a comprehensive peace agreement in Sudan in 2001; and as the leader of a delegation to South Africa in 2003 to assess the “New Partnership for African Development,” a continent-wide initiative to promote economic integration and development. Honored extensively for his work, Foote received the “Order of the Lion,” award in 1998, the highest public service medal bestowed by the government of Senegal, and the Congressional Black Caucus 2001 Annual Legislative Conference’s “Diggs Award for Foreign Affairs” in recognition of his outstanding commitment and achievement on issues and concerns pertaining to Africa. “I have found that, by and large, America is uneducated, undereducated and miseducated about Africa,” he said. “That includes our congressmen and senators. This has got to change.” WI

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ARIES The world around you is rich, and your interactions with others are charged. You may find yourself pursuing a hot new lead. You may use someone else to your advantage; be sure they’re getting something out of the deal, too. After a successful mission, your sights will be set on still greater heights. TAURUS As much as you love your friends and associates, other people are a liability. Be charming and diplomatic, but be firm. If you have control of the cockpit, don’t get up to take a coffee break. Travel (perhaps by plane) may figure into your days. A confusing interaction with someone else leaves you flummoxed. Chalk it up to weird weather. It means nothing.

by Eriq La Salle c.2014, 4 Clay Productions Inc., distributed by Ingram $14.95 / higher in Canada 287 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer One for me, and one for you. Divvying up candy when you were a kid was an almost-exact science. Everybody had to have an equal amount, and they watched closely to ensure that happened. One for you, one for me. Even Steven, it’s all the same. But, in the new book “Laws of Wrath” by Eriq La Salle, what’s good for the goose might kill the gander. Phee Freeman could never forget why his brother left the family. A.J. was gay, which was something that neither Phee, nor their father, Clay, could accept back then. When Phee and Clay learned the truth, it was if A.J. had never been born. Phee couldn’t forget that, nor could he forgive himself for shunning his only brother – especially when A.J. was found mutilated and dead. Naturally, Clay Freeman mourned for his eldest son but as an older man, Clay had seen death before. He’d lost his beloved wife years ago – but prior to that, he’d been on the wrong edge of trouble and the right end of a gun. It wasn’t something he was proud of, but that was all in the past. Although it wasn’t protocol, when Detective Quincy Cavanaugh was assigned to investigate the murder of A.J. Freeman, he needed his partner by his side. Having been a team for years, he and Phee were known around the NYPD for being the

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best at solving unusual cases – so when a second mutilated body was found, Cavanaugh knew that this would be one of the strangest cases of all. Years ago, there were other corpses with similar mutilations, but Dr. Daria Zibik, the person behind those murders, was sitting in prison. She couldn’t have committed these crimes, but Cavanaugh knew that Zibik led a satanic cult and had groomed someone to take over until her release. It made sense for him to offer Zibik a deal in order to figure out why innocent people were being tortured and killed. But time was of the essence. A killer was on the loose, and he apparently had the Freeman family in his sights… There are two things you need to know about “Laws of Wrath.” First of all, this book screams for an editor and a disabled comma key. Yes, it’s rough, littered with extraneous (and incorrect) punctuation and choppy sentences – both of which are increasingly irritating as the pages fly by. Which brings me to the second thing: the pages will fly by because, though his story can be quite gruesome at times, author Eriq La Salle gives thriller fans that edge-of-the-seat feeling they crave. There are good guys here that are filled out nicely and criminals who couldn’t be more evil. I was also pleased to note that while I saw some of the ending coming, I didn’t see it all. And when you ignore its punctuation flaws, “all” is what you’ll get with this otherwise fine thriller. If you want to pick a nail-biter, in fact, “Laws of Wrath” may be one for you.WI

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GEMINI If what you are saying just isn’t getting through to you-know-who, consider the way you’re saying it and where this person is coming from. And then consider starting with a knock-knock joke. If you can get someone to laugh, you’ve got their attention. You’ve got some business to attend to – and you might find yourself frustrated that the week ends on such a confusing note. But you will be restored. A light bulb (imaginary) blinks on and everything that’s been confounding you starts to make sense. CANCER Your wattage might be running low so do something to chill: take lunch on your own, stop by the video store on your way home from work, get supplies for a bubble bath. The whole week you’ll be in this mood – content, quiet, self-aware – and it may lead to a meaningful revelation or two. Indulge in your most eccentric side. If you’re interested in 17th-century gardening, find some books on 17th-century gardening. Or maybe you’re interested in comets. Or music. Whatever it is, enjoy. LEO You have a passion for travel at the start of the week. It helps that your romantic life is going well. Don’t regale anyone with the details of your health regimen; it might come across as showing off. You have the answers; when someone hands you a problem, you have fun seeing how quickly you can solve it. VIRGO Overcoming tension will be key to enjoying the romance that kicks into high gear and lasts through the week. This weekend, you learn a bunch of new things all at once, or else you learn the one thing that makes everything else fall into place. Be open-minded and you’ll be thrilled with what you discover. LIBRA Social experimentation totally pays off. You put the oddest ideas on the table and people take to them instantly. Nevertheless, you have little time to be dazzling the masses with your thinking, as the home realm requires your attention. You’re still feeling a bit out of it – sentimental, though not sentimental in a fun way – but this weekend is nearly nonstop romance and good times. SCORPIO You are your own person, certainly, but you find yourself feeling more identified with a group than you have in a while. It’s nice to belong and it’s nice to wind up involved in adventures you would never stumble into on your own, but don’t forget to assert your own personality. Your self-control and shrewdness will be called upon, and you may need to finesse something over the phone. Those same skills will be needed around the house. Demonstrate your diplomatic prowess. SAGITTARIUS Good feelings and goodwill abound. Everyone you know has found a way to love one another, and it’s putting you in a heck of a good mood. You feel more moved by art and music than you have in a while. Watching what you spend is a brilliant plan. You’ll meet someone in a random way and end up talking to them for a lot longer than you expected. CAPRICORN Anything is possible if you put your mind to it, but it’s not just your mind that’s needed – you also have to apply energy. You’re at about normal energy levels but you go on hyper drive. You just have to think about being across the street and you’re already there. Your radiance is turning heads and your demonstrated stamina will be downright jaw dropping. As for those impossible things made possible? Well, nothing happens overnight, but don’t be discouraged. An airtight new plan will occur to you this weekend. AQUARIUS Your social group could use a few new members, so be open to unfamiliar faces. Restriction is the order of the day, and discipline is important. That’s a better tactic than flailing all around. Friday has you exhausted – it’s been a long, busy week – but Saturday is a bend in the river: Suddenly you’re among a singing, dancing crowd. You’re not always in the mood for musical numbers, but you’ll be charmed. PISCES Notice how the small things seem to be going your way? This is partly unrelated to you and it’s partly a reflection of all the positive energy you’ve been putting out there lately. If someone needs your help, you’re happy to give back. Drop whatever you’re doing. Even the toughest tasks are a snap. You’d like to work magic for as many people as possible, but you can only fit so many tricks up your sleeve.

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By D. Kevin McNeir WI Contributing Writer Given the number of blacks that live in the District, it would be reasonable to conclude that minority-owned businesses continue to savor the sweet smell of success. However, when it comes to fine art galleries, soaring rental costs and a decline in the numbers of those who can afford to purchase art have resulted in yet another black artist shutting his doors. “I’ve been a practicing artist and educator for over 25 years and I opened International Visions Gallery in 1997 because I saw a void in D.C. for showing the works created by artists of color, especially blacks and those from outside of the U.S.,” said Tim Davis, the gallery’s founder and owner. “Mine was the last black-owned gallery in the District – others like Norm Parrish, who died last year, also worked as art dealers and maintained their own places but it has become increasingly difficult to make a profit and remain open,” said Davis, 58. Fellow artists, friends and patrons of the arts joined Davis on Saturday, June 28 in his gallery in Northwest for a closing reception, party and viewing of new works by the Chicago-born painter and illustrator. Davis said despite being forced to close his business, he will continue to pursue his goal of representing artists of color in D.C. and from under-represented parts of the world. “I’ll continue to work as a private dealer, put more emphasis on my own work and help other artists sell their works, including taking our art to fairs in Miami, New York City, Atlanta and Puerto Rico,” Davis said. “It’s gotten so expensive to rent space in the District and we’ve even had difficulty getting the media to come out and support our shows. There’s so much potential but far too little support so we have to find alternative ways to showcase our work – like at pop up shows.” One longtime D.C. resident and artist whose work appears in collections at places including the Smithsonian American Art Museum said more financial support and encouragement need to be provided for artists from the District. “We see great incentives being The Washington Informer

Artist Tim Davis reflected on his many years as a gallery owner during a closing reception on June 28. International Visions Gallery in Northwest closed the latter part of June. /Photo courtesy of International Visions Gallery

given to developers and those who are building condominiums but not to artists,” said Renee Stout, an artist whose paintings, photographs and mixed media sculptures have been showcased throughout the U.S., England, Russia and the Netherlands. “In a city with such a high black population, I fault our elected officials and leaders for not promoting the visual arts more.” Stout said that while Davis had an excellent gallery, closing his place could not be avoided. “Artists like Tim Davis and so many others need affordable places for their galleries in locations that are more conducive to mass transit,” Stout said. “Why do developers and the city have to be so greedy? It seems to me that if people could enjoy a nice dinner and then go see a variety of art, they would be willing to spend their money and would have a better time too,” said the internationally-recognized artist. One artist and painter from Annapolis, Maryland, said Davis provided an important venue for blacks eager to show their works. “I’ve known Tim since the 80s, have worked with him as an art consultant and was once his gallery partner,” said Betty Murchison. “I think with the closing of International Visions Gallery along with last year’s closing of Parish Gallery in Georgetown, it will be harder to find exhibition space. Artists will have to be more creative in showing their work and need to take greater advantage of the new technology to generate interest and buy-

ers,” said Murchison who Davis described as one of his closest colleagues. One visual artist who lives in Northwest said being in Davis’s gallery reminded him of visiting the home of a good friend. “Tim dealt with everyone and without his gallery, we have lost a wonderful spot for seeing outstanding art, engaging in good conversation and being part of a vibe that made people want to stay for as long as they could,” said Michael Platt, 66. “For artists of color, especially blacks, challenges related to exposure, prospects for serious critical review of their works and the opportunity for sales have always been prevalent. That’s why venues that are professional and welcoming are always appreciated.” Davis said he will now promote sales of his works and others through his website, www. inter-visions.com. But for one poet and college instructor, the absence of black-owned galleries in the District poses a more fundamental problem. “Tim made it possible for artists and collectors alike, those from the African diaspora in particular, to meet face-to-face and to interact,” said Carol A. Beene, associate professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Howard University. “The many varied artists whose work he showed was a chance to experience many different kinds of art and artists,” said Beene, 69.WI

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NCAA Officials Insist They Encourage Hiring Black Coaches By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer The hierarchy of the NCAA isn’t pleased with the lack of African-American head coaches in Division I Men’s Basketball. While member colleges and universities ultimately make their own personnel decisions, the association advocates for an inclusive hiring process to include underrepresented applicants, said two NCAA officials who noted they’re very much aware of The Washington Informer’s recent special reports about the dearth of black head coaches in the sport. “The NCAA promotes a system that allows the best candidates to be considered, regardless of race, ethnicity or gender,” said league spokeswoman Meghan Durham. “As it has for many years, the

NCAA implements and supports professional development programs for individuals who aspire to be head coaches, such as our NCAA coaching academies,” Durham said. Stacey Osburn, head of media relations at the NCAA in Indianapolis, said the association can’t legally mandate or be involved in the hiring process at the campus level, but members of it’s Office of Inclusion has been meeting recently with a roundtable of search firms to address the recruitment process for coaches and administrators of color to discuss the best ways to add greater diversity to the candidate pools. In other words, she said, they are being proactive in finding a solution that will result in more hires of qualified black candidates. “The NCAA and its member schools provide a number of best practice guidance regarding the

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importance of an inclusive hiring process,” Osburn said. While the NCAA investigates, blacks continue to be shut out with many unable to land an interview. Horace Owens, one of college basketball’s most respected figures who has served a decade as assistant coach at La Salle University in Philadelphia, said he couldn’t answer as to why more blacks haven’t received head coaching positions. Owens, 53, whose La Salle Explorers have won 165 games during his tenure under head coach John Giannini, has been credited with being instrumental in the team’s 2013 Sweet 16 run in which they also won 24 games, including three in the NCAA Tournament. Like Owens, many qualified African Americans have patiently waited for a chance to lead a program, some of whom have The Washington Informer

already experienced success as a head coach, like Karl Hobbs of UConn and Anthony Solomon of Notre Dame. Others have toiled along the sidelines as top-level assistants and have contributed heavily to their programs, including Owens, Charles Payne at Stanford, Roland Houston at George Mason, Jason Williford at Virginia and Kurt Townsend at Kansas. “There is absolutely nothing preventing these guys from being heavily considered,” said Brian Ellerbe, the Seat Pleasant, Maryland born former coach who once served as head men’s coach at Loyola-Maryland and the University of Michigan. “Karl Hobbs has a great record as head coach with three conference titles and two rings,” said Ellerbe, 50. In 10 years as a head coach, Hobbs captured two Atlantic 10 championships, one regular season title and he led his

team to five postseason tournaments. As an assistant at UConn, Hobbs went to the national championship round twice. “Who wouldn’t want that guy with that kind of pedigree? It’s mind boggling,” Ellerbe said. Ellerbe said Solomon, who has served as an assistant under Mike Brey at Notre Dame for eight seasons, certainly warrants a shot. During his two coaching stints there, the Irish have enjoyed unparalleled success and have been ranked among the best programs in the Big East. During Solomon’s tenure, Notre Dame has compiled 184 victories and the team has won 20 or more games in a season seven times. Williford, 41, has served as an assistant with the Virginia Cavaliers for six of the 14 years that he’s coached at the collegiate level. The Cavaliers are 106-60 since

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NCAA continued from Page 27 his arrival at Virginia and the team has won a conference title and a regular season championship and they have appeared in two NCAA tournaments, including a trip to the Sweet 16 earlier this year. Now in his 22nd year as an assistant, Townsend, 56, has played an integral role in helping Kansas head coach Bill Self lead the team to 10 consecutive Big 12 championships, five Elite 8 appearances, two Final Four appearances in the last five years, and a national title. Ellerbe added that school officials are shortchanging their programs by not hiring qualified blacks. He said, for instance, Payne at Stanford once held a Series 7 license, which allowed him to sell securities. He also holds a health and life insurance certification and Payne once worked as a scout under Michael Jordan and the Charlotte Bobcats of the NBA. “He has a super business background, he has contacts and knowledge and, in every place he’s work, the program has flourished on and off the court because the students have a great graduation record,” Ellerbe said. At Stanford, Payne helped head coach Johnny Dawkins lead his team to a 2012 NIT championship and an improbable run to this year’s NCAA Sweet 16. Also, Ellerbe said Houston of George Mason counts as one of the rare finds. Widely respected for his national and international recruiting skills, Houston has helped to develop a number of elite and all-conference players while working at George Mason, George Washington and La Salle. “Coach Houston is a student of five different languages and is fluent in Spanish and French and The Washington Informer

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he dabbles in Hebrew,” Ellerbe said. “I worked with him for a year at George Washington and I used to be jealous of him when we walked around campus because he was so fluent in the languages. He lived in Europe, Israel and learned the languages and he’s so good at recruiting foreign kids. He’d be awesome as a head coach.” Townsend said he has received interview requests and head coaching offers, but they have come from much smaller programs that would pay a lot less than what he’s currently earning. A recent study revealed that only 18 percent of NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball coaches are black, and many said that speaks volumes about an industry where African Americans comprise nearly 60 percent of the athletes in the sport. For those who either serve as an assistant or once held the position of head coach at a Division I program, there’s also a palpable fear of speaking out. Many said there’s also more of a youth movement in the college head coaching ranks today, effective-

ly freezing out such experienced black coaches as Townsend and others. Owens, however, cautioned that everyone should exercise patience. “Kevin Ollie opened up some doors, he’s done a great job and he’s a great basketball mind,” Owens said. “I’ll get a [head coaching job] when I should get it. I believe that whatever is going to happen will happen at the right time and you have to be prepared for it. A lot of guys rush into a spot and they’re not ready for it, so you have to be careful of what you wish for and what you rush because you may not be mature enough to handle certain things right now.” Hope remains among the black coaching fraternity that Ollie’s success and that of Kansas protégé Danny Manning, who won a championship both as a player and a coach, will help open the door for other African Americans. “It should,” Ellerbe said. “So many of these guys are experienced and have done special things but, for some reason, they are not getting a shot.”WI

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Nine Principles for Dynamic Living Principle No. 5: Building and Maintaining Relationships

Gwendolyn L. Perkins passed away peacefully on July 25, 2014. Survived by her children Sandra Locke, Judy Lewis (Timithy), Cecelia Dillard (Frederick) and Ronessa Graham (Steven). Ten grandchildren and two greatgrands. Two brothers Homer Kirby and Trolis Kirby. Services will be held on August 2nd. The viewing will take place between 9-10:45 a.m. The service begins at 11 a.m. at Union Bethel A.M.E. Church, 6810 Floral Park Road in Brandywine, Maryland.

Les Brown, author and internationally-known motivational speaker, contends there are 9 principles that he defines as necessary for true greatness, Principle No. 5 – Building and maintaining relationships are critical to social development, both in the family and the community. An alliance of two or more minds working together in perfect harmony for the attainment of a common objective is significant. Success doesn’t come about without the cooperation of others. Psalm 133:1 says it this way “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity!” Sometimes we see a task before us and it appears overwhelming, and without seeking others who can help us make our vision a reality, we quit. Ants are the ultimate metaphor for the working class. Ants are necessary for life! They take care of business! They pull other insects 10 times its size, and won’t give up, finally finding a way. Once it discovers a winning strategy it’s all over! Like the ant, you can achieve much more than you ever expected if you keep trying. Nothing could grow in the soil without the constant action of billions of ants; farmer’s fields would lie barren – nothing could be produced – yet thanks to these seemingly insignificant creatures that are mostly invisible as they work their magic, we replenish our food supplies. Another metaphor to help us understand the importance of maintaining relationships and how critical it is to our social develop-

ment is a lesson from geese. It’s teamwork at its best. It demonstrates how working together in harmony can have a profound and powerful effect on any endeavor. When we use these principles in our relationships with others, it will help us grow when we continually nurture and encourage it. The point of the metaphor is this: as each goose flaps its wings, it creates uplift for the birds that follow. By flying in a ‘V’ formation the whole flock adds 71 percent extra to the flying range. This is the main point of the lesson from geese; it’s about the importance of achieving goals. This lesson also reminds us that the goal is more important than any one individual; it’s the effort of the team that causes each goose to save 71 percent of their energy by flying in the V formation. When we have a sense of community and focus, we create trust and can help each other to achieve our goals. When a goose falls out of formation it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of flying alone, so it quickly falls back in formation to lighten its flying load. If we had as much sense as geese we would stay in formation with those headed where we want to go, and would be willing to accept their help and help others along the way. When a goose tires of flying up front it drops back into formation and another goose flies to the point position; yet we want to stay out front forever as if that’s the only position for us.

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We should respect and protect each other’s unique set of skills, capabilities, talents and resources. When a goose gets sick, two geese drop out of formation and follow it down to the ground to help and protect it. If we did the same, we would stand by one another in difficult times, as well as when we’re strong and doing well. Geese flying in formation ‘honk’ to encourage those up front to keep up their speed; do we encourage others? Every goal that I’ve been privileged to achieve, came as a result of trusting in the Lord, and working in harmony with others! Think about it, and make that change!WI

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RELIGION BAPTIST

AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL

Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church The Reverend Lyndon Shakespeare Interim 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

Pilgrim Baptist Church

Pilgrim Baptist Church Rev. Louis B. Jones II Pastor

Church of Living Waters

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

700 I Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 547-8849

301-894-6464

Worship Sundays @ 7:30 & 11:00 A.M. 5th Sundays @ 9:30 A.M. 3rd Sundays: Baptism & Holy Communion Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @ Noon & 6:30 P.M.

Schedule of Service Sunday Service: 8:30 AM & 11:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM Communion Service: First Sunday www.livingwatersmd.org

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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

St. Stephen Baptist Church Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Bishop 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

Crusader Baptist Church

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

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” 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

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

ST Marks Baptist

Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church

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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

Rev. Cheryl J. Sanders, Th.D. Senior Pastor 1204 Third Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 202.347.5889 office 202.638.1803 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

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

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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RELIGION BAPTIST

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”

Zion Baptist Church

Israel Baptist Church

Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor

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 10:15AM- 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

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

or email

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

202-561-4100 rburke@washingtoninformer.com

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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Advertise Your Church services here: call Ron Burke at

202-561-4100 or email rburke@washingtoninformer.com

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

Rehoboth Baptist Church

St. Matthews Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor Worshiping Location Knights of Columbus - 1633 Tucker Road Fort Washington, MD 20744 (240) 838-7074

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 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

Kelechi Ajieren Coordinator

Early Worship Service 7:30a.m Worship Service 10:45a.m. New Members Class 9:30a.m. Holy Communion : 1st Sunday -10:45a.m Church School 9:30a.m. 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”

Sunday Worship Service 10:00 A.M.

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 Senior Pastor 13701 Old Jericho Park Road Bowie, MD. 20720 (301) 262-0560 Services: Sunday Worship 11 AM Sunday School 10 AM Wednesday Mid-Week Worship, Prayer & Bible Study - Wed. 7 PM “A Church Where Love Is Essential and Praise is Intentional”

Shiloh Baptist Church

Peace Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. Michael T. Bell 712 18th Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Phone 202-399-3450/ Fax 202-398-8836 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 “The Loving Church of the living lord “ Email Address pbcexec@verizon.net

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church

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

9th & P Street, N.W. • W. D.C. 20001 (202) 232-4200

602 N Street NW • Washington, D.C. 20001 Office:(202) 289-4480 Fax: (202) 289-4595

The Church Where GOD Is Working.... And We Are Working With GOD

Sunrise Prayer Services - Sunday 7:00 a.m.

Sunday Morning Prayer Service: 8:00 a.m. Sunday Church School: 9:15 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship: 10:40 a.m. Third Sunday Baptismal & Holy Communion:10:30 a.m. Tuesday Church At Study Prayer & Praise: 6:30 p.m.

Morning Worship: 8:00 a.m Church School : 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship: 10:55 a.m. Bible Study, Thursday: 6:30 p.m. Prayer Meeting,Thursday : 7:30 p.m.

Theme: “The Kingdom Focused Church” Matthew 6:33 and Mathew 28:18-20, KJV

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

Email: stmatthewsbaptist@msn.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.org

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

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

Rev. Alonzo Hart Pastor

Order of Services Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 am Sunday School: 9:00 am Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer / Bible Study: 6:15 pm - 7:20 pm (Tuesday)

Christ Embassy DC

6839 Eastern Avenue, R1 Takoma Park, MD 20912 (202) 556-7065

1864-2014

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Holy Trinity United Baptist Church

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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

Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 P.M. Friday Evening Service 7:00 P.M. ; Last Friday “…Giving Your Life a Meaning” www.Christembassydc.org Christ.embassy.dc@hotmail.com

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. Holy Communion: 4th Sunday 7:30 a.m. & 10:30a.m. Prayer Services: Tuesday 7:30 p.m. 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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LEGAL NOTICES

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Probate Division

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Administration No. 2014 ADM 700

Administration No. 2014 ADM 679

Administration No. 2014 ADM 693

Tritobia Hayes Benjamin

Katherine Handy Duffey

John B. Sparrow, Sr.

Decedent

James Larry Frazier, Esq.

Peter D. Antonoplos, Esq.

Deborah D. Boddie, Esq.

918 Maryland Avenue, NE

1725 DeSales Street, NW, Suite 600

Washington, DC 20002

1308 Ninth Street, NW, Suite 300

Washington, DC 20036

Washington, DC 20001

Attorney

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Earl Thomas Jackson, whose address is 1331 Varnum

Victor D. Sparrow, whose address is 611 Stillwater

Street, NE, Washington, DC 20017, was appointed

Place, Mitchellville, MD 20721, was appointed Personal

Personal Representative of the estate of Katherine Handy

Representative of the estate of John B. Sparrow, Sr.,

Duffey, who died on May 29, 2014 with a Will, and

who died on May 1, 2014 without a Will, and will

will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs

serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and

and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter

heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their

their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such

appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such

appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall

appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills,

be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street,

D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor

N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001,

Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before January 17,

on or before January 17, 2015. Claims against the

2015. Claims against the decedent shall be presented

decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a

to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills

copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register

or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the

of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before

undersigned, on or before January 17, 2015, or be

January 17, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed

forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees

to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive

of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice

a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first

by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so

publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including

inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and

name, address and relationship.

relationship.

Date of first publication:

July 17, 2014

Zalika A. Benjamin

Earl Thomas Jackson

Victor D. Sparrow

Personal Representative

TRUE TEST COPY

Anne Meister

Washington Informer

Probate Division

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Probate Division

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Administration No. 2014 ADM 685

Administration No. 2014 ADM 676

Administration No. 2014 ADM 687

Earnest R. Campbell

Helena C. Lambeth

Vernamae K. Thomas aka Vernamae Katherine Thomas

Decedent

1353 Sheridan Street, NW

Jennifer E. Loud, Esquire

Aimee D. Griffin, Esq.

Attorney Ethel Mitchell, Wills and Trusts LLC

Washington, DC 20011

The Loud Law firm

Attorney

7826 Eastern Ave., NW, Suite 410

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014 ADM 694 Willie Mae Wood

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Attorney

William Wood, whose address is 24455 Eleys Ford

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Road, Lignum, VA 22726, was appointed Personal

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Representative of the estate of Willie Mae Wood, who died on February 6, 2007 without a Will, and will serve

Zalika A. Benjamin, whose address is 3525 16th Street,

with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose

NW,

whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the

Washington, DC 20010, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, who died on June 21, 2014 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and

heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their

A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before

appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such

January 24, 2015. Claims against the decedent shall be

appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall

presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register

be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street,

of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before January 24, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice

N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before January 17, 2015. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before

by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so

January 17, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed

inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and

to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive

relationship.

a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including

Date of first publication: July 24, 2014

TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014 ADM 735 Mary F. Cooke

Aimee D. Griffin, Esq. 1353 Sheridan Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Claudia H. Payne, whose address is 3607 Burleigh Drive, Mitchelville, MD 20721, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Mary F. Cooke, who died on October 28, 2011 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before January 24, 2015. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before January 24, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication: July 24, 2014

William Wood Personal Representative

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Decedent

Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

LEGAL NOTICES

Claudia H. Payne Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Administration No. 2014 ADM 736 Josiah A. Brockington Decedent Aimee D. Griffin, Esq.

Washington, DC 20012 NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Donella Brockington, whose address is 4405 13th Place, NE, Washington, DC 20017, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Josiah A. Brockington, who died on May 9, 2014 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before January 24, 2015. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before January 24, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Andrew Campbell, whose address is 323 Rountable Drive, Fort Washington, MD 20744, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Earnest R. Campbell, who died on September 3, 2008 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before January 17, 2015. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before January 17, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and

Date of first publication: July 24, 2014

relationship. Date of first publication: July 17, 2014

Donella Brockington Personal Representative

1353 Sheridan Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Duane P. Lambeth and Frank T. Lambeth, Jr., whose addresses are 13530 Sherwood For. Dr., Silver Spring, MD 20904 and 1654 Primrose Rd., WDC 20012, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Helena C. Lambeth, who died on July 17, 2008 with a Will,

Suite 1045, 1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Jesse Gale Thomas, whose address is 5504 Clothier

such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will)

in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or

shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th

to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the

Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C.

20001, on or before January 17, 2015. Claims against

A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before

the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with

January 24, 2015. Claims against the decedent shall be

a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register

presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register

of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before

of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to

July 17, 2014 Duane P. Lambeth

Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth.

Appoint an unsupervised personal representative.

Date of first publication: July 24, 2014

inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication: July 24, 2014

TRUE TEST COPY

Anne Meister

Washington Informer

Anne Meister

Washington Informer

Personal Representative: Madelyn Daniels

Jesse Gale Thomas Personal Representative

TRUE TEST COPY

TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills

Washington Informer

The Washington Informer

Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this

by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so

Personal Representative

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Unless a complaint or an objection in accordance with

of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice

Frank T. Lambeth, Jr.

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Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this

forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees

Personal Representative

Anne Meister

NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE

the undersigned, on or before January 24, 2015, or be

Andrew Campbell

TRUE TEST COPY

Deceased

the appointment of one or more personal representative.

Thomas aka Vernamae Katherine Thomas, who died

whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance

Date of first publication:

Sylvia B. Thomas

Court by Madelyn Daniels for standard probate, including

enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to

name, address and relationship.

Estate of

Personal Representative of the estate of Vernamae K.

Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose

publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including

Administration Number 2014 ADM 751

Street, Temple Hills, MD 20748, was appointed

on April 22, 2014 with a Will, and will serve without

a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall

to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive

Probate Division

Attorney

and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown

January 17, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Washington Informer

July 31 - Aug 6, 2014

LEGAL NOTICES

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Probate Division

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Administration No. 2014 ADM 731 Robert Drake

Administration No. 2014 ADM 622 Wanda Thomas aka Wanda D. Thomas Decedent

Decedent Evelyn C. Parchment, Esq. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

7826 Eastern Ave., NW Suite 410

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Washington, DC 20012 Attorney

Belinda Drake, whose address is 8005 Alcoa Dr., Fort Washington, MD 20744, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Robert Drake, who died on

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

December 21, 2005 without a Will, and will serve with

Darryl W. Thomas and Jabari O. Thomas, whose address

Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose

is 1711 Highwood Place, SE, Washington, DC 20020,

whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance

were appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the estate

in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or

of Wanda Thomas aka Wanda D. Thomas, who died

to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the

on July 28, 2012 without a Will, and will serve with

Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before January 24, 2015. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to

Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before January 31, 2015. Claims against the

the undersigned, on or before January 24, 2015, or be

decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a

forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees

copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register

of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice

of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before

by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so

January 31, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed

inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication: July 24, 2014

to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

July 31, 2014 Darryl W. Thomas Jabari O. Thomas TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister

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LEGAL NOTICES

William N. Worsley, Jr. Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Kenya A. Worsley and Mary A. Thomas, whose

services here:

addresses are 7505 Buchanan St., #111, Hyattsville, MD 20784 & 3460 Summit Ct., NE, Washington, DC 20018, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of William N. Worsley, Jr., who died on June 25, 2014 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or

call Ron Burke at

to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before January 24, 2015. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before January 24, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice

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by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication: July 24, 2014

or email

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CURRY continued from Page 21 dent Obama has been able to flip the court’s majority from Republican to Democratic appointees. This discussion of appeals court is not intended to minimize the importance of Supreme Court justices. In all likelihood, the next president will make one or two appointments that will determine whether the High Court continues to drift to the right or return to the center. That’s why it’s so important that African Americans again turn out in record numbers for the presidential election in 2016. This November should be a trial run for mobilizing the Black vote without Barack Obama’s name appearing on the ballot Federal judges have lifetime appointments. And anyone who asserts that a judge’s politics

MALVEAUX continued from Page 21 This resulted in the Smarter Sentencing Act, which has yet to be scheduled for a vote in Congress and the Senate, despite bipartisan support for this legislation. Advocates of the bill, including the ACLU, the Sentencing Project, the NAACP and many others support the legislation and have encouraged people to reach out to their Congressional representatives to push for a vote on this legislation. The Smarter Sentencing Act, when approved, will make modifications in sentencing requirements. Now, the US Sentencing Commission has ruled that those with drug sentences can be applied, retroactively. This will affect as many as 46,000 prisoners. It’s not enough, but it’s a reasonable first step. If release were combined with education and access to employment, recidivism rates would certainly decrease.

FIELDS continued from Page 21 Pannell by a White Teaneck N.J. police office in 1990. The boy was shot in the back with his arms raised in surrender mode. The White police officer, Gary Spath, was acquitted by an all-White Bergen County jury. The acquittal came amidst a massive police march through the community in support of the officer. That’s the other piece of this ongoing horror show; the closing of the ranks of the blue fraternity and the perpetual denial on the part of law enforcement that these episodes are not the end result of racist intent. Eric Garner was a victim of racism. The New York City Police Department is not alone in perpetuating crimes against Black males or operating in a way to violate the civil liber-

doesn’t impact his or her rulings is living in a make-believe world. In a study titled “Ideological Voting on Federal Courts of Appeals: A Preliminary Investigation,” published in the Virginia Law Review, the authors (Cass R. Sunstein, David Schkade, and Lisa Michelle Ellman) studied 4,400 legal opinions involving politically sensitive issues and discovered that appeals judges – as they did recently in the case of the Affordable Care Act – usually decide cases in keeping with the political philosophy of the president who appointed them to the bench. “From 1980 through 2002, Republican appointees cast 267 total votes, with 127, or 48 percent, in favor of upholding an affirmative-action policy. By contrast, Democratic appointees cast 198 votes, with 147, or

74 percent, in favor of upholding an affirmative-action policy. Here we find striking evidence of ideological voting,” the study found. The Virginia Law Review article concluded: “No reasonable person seriously doubts that ideology, understood as normative commitments of various sorts, helps to explain judicial votes. Presidents are entirely aware of this point, and their appointment decisions are undertaken with full appreciation of it.” So when someone tells you that the political affiliation of the president appointing judges doesn’t matter or when a president claims to be appointing judges who interpret the law and not legislate from the bench, don’t believe them.WI

The United States represents just 5 percent of the world population, but incarcerates more than a quarter of the world’s incarcerated. Nearly half of those incarcerated in federal prisons are African American. Is there a bias here? African Americans are as likely as Whites to commit nonviolent drug related crimes, but African Americans are far more likely to be incarcerated. The difference: the money that provides access to great legal services; maybe the attraction of a plea bargain, guilty or not, because of the prospect of an unfair sentence; maybe bias on the part of arresting officers. Whatever the cause, it seems unfathomable that African Americans and Whites commit the same crimes, but African Americans are arrested six times as frequently as Whites. If you read the November 2013 ACLU Report titled A Living Death: Life without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses, you won’t know whether to

scream or cry. More than 3,200 people have life sentences without parole for such minor offences as shoplifting, trying to cash a stolen check, and threatening a police officer while handcuffed. Some judges have no choice in the determining the severity of their sentences due to sentencing guidelines. What makes sense about giving a shoplifter more time than a murderer? African Americans constitute 65 percent of those sentenced to life without parole. According to the ACLU, “many were struggling with mental illness, drug dependency, or financial desperation.” Only in an injustice system can this be considered “just.” There has been some progress in making sentencing fairer. Yet much more must be done until we can claim the “justice” that our Constitution promises.WI

ties of Black people. The NYPD just happens to be the largest police force in the country and has perfected the art of police abuse. Last week, the federal government announced the monitoring of the Newark, N.J. police force which, for years, residents lodged complaints against. Now, it has come to light that officers in New Jersey’s largest city are even suspected of stealing personal property from residents they detain. In Chicago, the former city police commander, Jon Burge, presided over a department that regularly brutalized citizens and he himself was alleged to have engaged in violence. He was convicted in 2010 for lying about the torture of police suspects. NYPD Chief Bill Bratton’s order that all officers undergo training on the proper techniques to apprehend suspects is too little in light of the brutality of Garner’s death. For start-

ers, every officer on the scene should be dismissed. If officers sworn to uphold the law can witness a citizen being choked to death and not intervene, they are not capable of fulfilling their legal duty to protect and serve. The video clip clearly shows a man who was not confrontational, who was attempting to defuse the situation and was trying to communicate with the officers. He is taken down by the officers and then thrown to the ground as an officer puts him in a deadly choke hold. Garner can be heard on the video pleading “I can’t breathe,” but his physical condition was of little concern to the officers who were intent on demonstrating that they were the dominant force. Eric Garner was lynched.WI Walter Fields is executive editor of NorthStarNews.com

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a mover of insubordination – and perhaps put in prison or to death, for giving a superficial exposition of our miseries, and exposing tyrants.” When the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) boldly asserts that we are “The Voice of Black America,” it is both to reclaim the courageous intellectual substance of a David Walker, and at the same time, continue the path charted by Freedom’s Journal. Interestingly David Walker also served at one time in Boston as subscription sales agent and as

SPRIGGS continued from Page 22 government authorities that still need to meet basic government functions-like the provision of clean water-but with big drops in revenue. In fact, while the number of payroll positions have reached their 2008 peak, public employment still is down, and state and local governments continue to shrink their budgets. But we still have children to educate, roads that must be repaired and in cities like Chicago, public order and safety to maintain. So, how does it make sense that President George W. Bush and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulsen could bum rush Congress into a huge, multibillion-dollar deal to create the Troubled Asset Relief Program, but there is no national outcry when a city the size of Detroit can’t provide af-

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Islamic society – or any other society for that matter – would measure up to the NOI model. In Nigeria, the Boko Haram, so called Islamic sect, are kidnapping girls, murdering innocent Christian women and girls. What kind of “peaceful” teaching is that? In Afghanistan, the Taliban murder girls to prevent them from being educated! In fact there’s nowhere in Africa, nowhere in the Islamic world which measures up to the high culture of the NOI. And there is one irrefutable standard with which the NOI trumps them all, and that is the treatment of women! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught his followers to respect and protect their women, that no society rises above the sta-

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a dedicated writer for New Yorkbased Freedom’s Journal. Walker died mysteriously in 1830, one year after publishing his Appeal. For 74 years, the NNPA has been publishing and distributing the printed words of liberation and news that have helped to sustain the steady advancement of the interests of Black America. As the Black Press of America prepares to cover the upcoming U.S. – African Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C, August 4-6, 2014, we are reminded of how far we have come since that September in 1829 when David Walker published his Appeal. I believe that Walker was able through his faith in the God of

freedom and liberation to envision a future time when a son of an African would become the president of United States. Of course our struggle for liberation and equality has not ended. We still need a strong articulate “Voice of Black America” as the steadfast printed press complemented by the digital press to ensure that our struggle continues with effectiveness and efficiencies.WI

fordable water to its citizens? If banks are too big to fail, don’t we have cities too big to fail? Where Hurricane Katrina caused too much water that drowned New Orleans, isn’t it also a catastrophe when thousands of households surrounded by potable water can’t afford a drink? Doesn’t the plight of Detroit at least warrant a White House convening? The current level of cynicism created by our political leadership feigning impotence to deliver solutions to simple problems like affordable water is dangerous. In the case of Detroit, it is the same indifference to the poor we saw in New Orleans after Katrina. It is a mixture of two odd beliefs: That the poor created this problem-too lazy to pay rising water bills or too lazy to flee the rising waters from a broken levee-and, if it will cost money, then it isn’t something that government should fix.

The government can solve the problems of rich Wall Street banking firms that can’t pay their bills-even if it means creating a whole new government apparatus like the TARP. But the government cannot refinance the water system of Detroit, repair our roads or come up with the funds to keep our schools from closing in Chicago or Philadelphia? This set of inconsistencies fuels the right-wing fanaticism of the Tea Party and the nihilism of the violence we see in cities like Chicago. Both are too dangerous to ignore. We need a financial transactions tax to ensure we never have to ask how we can afford the government we deserve.WI

tus of its women, and he taught the women to protect and defend themselves, if necessary, and to conduct themselves according to the highest standard of decency at all times! I have traveled for extended periods to dozens upon dozens of Islamic lands, from Saudi Arabia, to Iran and Iraq, to Jordan, Palestine, to Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, to the Caucasus Mountains in Russia, to Egypt, Mali, Libya, Morocco, Chad, Sudan, and to Islamic communities in countries without Islamic majorities, like Senegal, Nigeria, South Africa, the United States, and I don’t see anywhere people who are by any measure – except wealth and knowledge of the Arabic language – superior to the Black converts to Islam in America. Members of the NOI are the sign of the sun rising in the West. From a people who were literally deaf, dumb and blind to the knowledge

of themselves and others, members

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of the Nation, and its message are exemplars of the best in civilization for the entire world. Period. And from among the ranks of the NOI, a Son is Risen. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, who now sits in Mr. Muhammad’s seat of authority, is the Spiritual Son of that great man, and is guiding the NOI to accomplishments which amaze the world. In 1995 for just one example, Minister Farrakhan called for 1 million men to come to Washington to repent, atone for their past behavior and to take responsibility for their lives and their people, and 2 million Black men came! It’s so true. The sun is already rising in the West. And right here, a Son is Risen.WI

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