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WASHINGTON INFORMER/ NNPA EXCLUSIVE As the annual observance of Black Press Week continues in the District, one of the always-anticipated events, the Black Press Archives and Gallery of Distinguished Black Publishers Enshrinement Ceremony, will honor two individuals whose forefathers played critical roles in the

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5 Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (center) (D-DC) hosts a discussion in celebration of Women’s History Month with (L-R) Cora Masters Barry, Virginia Ali, Donna Brazile, and Jan Adams at the Rayburn House Office Building on Tuesday, March 19. (Robert Roberts/The Washington Informer)

D.C. Mayor Bowser: ‘State of the District is Strong’

By James Wright WI Contributing Writer With pep in her step and a wide grin on her face, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser approached the podium Monday to deliver her fifth State of the District address with a distinct purpose in mind.

D.C. mayors have traditionally used the address to outlining their goals and priorities for the city since the days of the first mayor, Walter E. Washington.

Bowser wanted to make it clear that the District has solid financial footing and things are going

well in the city, despite the occupant in the White House.

“There is no doubt, the state of the District is strong,” she said.

Throughout her speech, Bowser talked about several of the numerous Democratic presidential candidates — particularly Sens.

Kamala Harris (Calif.), Cory Booker (N.J.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg — and what they could possibly do for the District if elected to the White House in 2020.

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5 Mayor Muriel Bowser paints an upbeat picture during her State of the District address at the University of the District of Columbia on Monday, March 18 in Northwest.

(Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) recently hosted a forum that featured four of the leading Black women in the city.

Former Democratic National Committee interim chairman Donna Brazile, former D.C. first lady Cora Masters Barry, Ben’s Chili Bowl co-founder Virginia Ali and entrepreneur Jan Adams participated in Tuesday’s forum, “Washington’s Women: A Panel Discussion on the Dynamic Careers of Women in Power,” at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill.

Norton said she wanted the forum to be interactive and informative.

“We want to have a conversation today,” she said. “We have some remarkable women with us today. Whatever they got, they took it. No one gave them a head start.”

Norton, who hosted the panel in recognition of Women’s History Month, told the audience of girls and young women, “you don’t have to get on a plane to meet remarkable women — they are right here in the District.”

Barry talked about being married to the late Marion S. Barry, the four-term D.C. mayor who also served on the D.C. Board of Education and the D.C. Council.

Barry said being a political spouse “was tough because you tend to lose your identity” but she still paid attention to the causes close to her heart, helping

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AROUND THE REGION D.C. Courts Face Turf, Judicial Woes

By James Wright WI Contributing Writer

A recent move by the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and the alarming vacancies on the D.C. Superior Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals has residents and leaders in the District bewildered about the state of the city’s judicial system.

In the District, the U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecutes local and federal crimes, the only U.S. jurisdiction that has that type of arrangement. The judges in the D.C. Superior Court and the D.C. Court of Appeals, the “Supreme Court of the District” are appointed by the president and must have approval from the U.S. Senate, the only state-level entity with those requirements.

While District residents have long complained about the lack of autonomy regarding their judicial system, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, an appointee of President Trump, on Feb. 6 moved to have some District gun charges moved from the Superior Court to the federal court, with the blessing of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D).

“To build a safer, stronger D.C., there must be a swift and certain accountability when people are arrested for gun crimes,” Bowser said. “We are primarily focused on one specific charge: felon in possession. In addition to increasing accountability for repeat offenders, we also remain very focused on preventing crime before it happens, expanding opportunity for residents who are at risk of perpetuating or falling victim to violent crime, and ensuring that our returning citizens have access to meaningful resources and supports.”

The program, known as the “Felon in Possession” initiative, has the U.S. Attorney’s Office and federal law enforcement partners charge and prosecute cases in the U.S. District Court for previously convicted felons illegally possessing guns. The partnership leverages federal resources, such as the FBI, DEA, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Marshal Service to support the D.C. police department and the D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences with complex criminal investigations.

Attorney William Lightfoot, a former D.C. Council member and currently partner at the Koonz, McKenney, Johnson, DePaolis & Lightfoot law firm in the District,

said he supports Liu’s action.

“The U.S. court system has resources that the city does not in those particular cases,” Lightfoot said, adding that the resources of federal law enforcement agencies in prosecuting those cases could lighten the load of prosecutors and Superior Court judges.

However, not everyone liked the arrangement.

“I am very concerned about the [U.S. attorney’s] decision to shift local crimes under federal law in the U.S. District Court, rather than under the District law in the D.C. Superior Court,” said D.C. Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), who chairs the council’s Committee on the Judiciary & Public Safety.

Allen said the District has “the strongest and smartest gun laws in the nation” and that are drawbacks with District defendants being prosecuted in the federal system, such as not having access to local programs that benefit returning citizens and young offenders and youth not having the chance to have their records expunged under city law.

He said the recent move by Liu reminded him when “22 years ago, the District made a terrible bargain to cede all control of our justice system to the federal government and it has had lasting and destructive consequences that we must undo.”

D.C. Council member Robert White (D-At Large) also railed against Liu’s action.

“I am disappointed and disturbed by the mayor’s announced rollback of local control over our criminal justice system,” White said. “By prosecuting increasing numbers of District residents under federal law and in the federal court, not only do we move backward in our ongoing fight for statehood and local control, but we undercut due process as well.”

White pointed out that defendants in the U.S. District Court will have access to only 10 fulltime attorneys serving as public defenders, rather than the highly-respected, nationally-known Public Defender for the District of Columbia that has over 200 fulltime employees.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has said throughout her tenure that the city should have its own prosecutor and has introduced legislation to do that.

“A U.S. attorney has no business prosecuting the local crimes of a jurisdiction, an out-of-date status

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quo that harkens to pre-Home Rule D.C.,” Norton said. “D.C. should be solely responsible for prosecuting local crimes and my bill gives D.C. the same authority that the states and U.S. territories enjoy as an essential element of self-government.”

This matter has come up as the Superior Court and the Court of Appeals deals with lack of judges.

The Superior Court has 10 vacancies that need to be filled out of judge pool of 62 while the Court of Appeals has two openings.

“Those openings are very important,” Lightfoot said. “When you don’t have a full bench, it delays the scheduling of hearings, and court days. Justice delayed is justice denied.”

The District’s Judicial Nomination Commission recommends candidates to the president for appointment to the Superior Court and the Court of Appeals. Presently, President Trump has sent four nominations to the U.S. Senate for Superior Court vacancies.

Bowser and members of her executive team recently met with the

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Office of the White House Counsel about the backlog of appointments of judges.

“This backlog has become a key public safety matter for the District of Columbia as we work

to build a safer, strong D.C. and has prevented the District from making progress on key affordable housing projects,” the mayor’s office said in a statement.

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MARCH 21 1955 – Walter White, an African-American civil rights activist who led the NAACP for almost a quarter-century, dies at 61 of a heart attack in his New York City home.

1960 – Police officers kill 69 and wound 180 during an anti-apartheid demonstration in Sharpesville, South Africa, known as the Sharpesville Massacre.

1965 – In the name of African-American voting rights, 3,200 civil rights demonstrators, led by Martin Luther King Jr., begin the historic march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capitol at Montgomery.

MARCH 22 1943 – Chart-topping singer and jazz guitarist George Benson is born in Pittsburgh.

MARCH 23 1916 – Political leader and civil rights activist Marcus Garvey arrives in America from Jamaica.

1942 – Walter Rodney, a prominent Guyanese historian, political activist and scholar, is born in British Guiana.

1955 – Hall of Fame basketball player Moses Malone is born in Petersburg, Virginia.

1971 – The Rev. Walter Fauntroy was sworn in as the first delegate from the District of Columbia to the House of Representatives in nearly 100 years.

1985 – Patricia Roberts Harris, the first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet, dies in Washington, D.C., of breast cancer at age 60.

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1912 – Civil rights and women’s rights activist Dorothy Height is born in Richmond, Virginia.

2002 – Halle Berry becomes the first Black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in “Monster’s Ball.”

1931 – African-American journalist, suffragist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells dies of kidney failure in Chicago at age 68.

1931 – Nine Black teenagers are arrested in Scottsboro, Alabama, and accused of raping two white women on a train, a landmark case in the fight against racism and unfairness in the U.S. legal system.

1942 – Legendary singer Aretha Franklin, known as the “Queen of Soul,” is born in Memphis, Tennessee.

1965 – The Selma to Montgomery marches, held in protest of segregation and voter obstruction against Blacks in the South, end after 18 days.

2009 – Historian John Hope Franklin, author of “From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans,” dies in Durham, North Carolina, at age 94.

MARCH 26 1831 – Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), the first independent Black denomination in the United States, dies in Philadelphia at age 71.

1872 – Thomas Martin patents an improved fire extinguisher.

1937 – William Hastie is appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the U.S. District Court for the Virgin Islands, making him the first African-American federal judge.

1944 – Famed singer and actress Diana Ross is born in Detroit.

1962 – Augusta Savage, a famed Black sculptor from the Harlem Renaissance era, dies of cancer in New York City at age 70.

MARCH 27 1924 – Renowned jazz singer Sarah Vaughan is born in Newark, New Jersey.

1934 – Acclaimed dancer and choreographer Arthur Mitchell, founder of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, is born in New York City.

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Instead, the change – the paradigm shift that’s only discussed among the dominant race within closed quarters – is the pending browning of the planet.

The explosive population growth of people of color both globally and in the U.S. – along with the almost simultaneous plunge in the rate of white births – here in America and in other countries long dominated by whites like the United Kingdom, Russia and France, Western Europe in general, has whites in an utter panic. (Even countries in Asia, Japan specifically, and Niger on the African continent, have seen birth rates plummet).

Meanwhile, the rage that has long festered in the bellies of whites as their comfortable positions of power and preference (based primarily, if not exclusively, on skin color) continues to erupt like a volcano, most recently in New Zealand where a

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self-avowed white supremacist entered two mosques during a busy time of prayer and opened fire – injuring and killing dozens of innocent people. But why?

I am unwilling to allow that the litany of mass murders pulled off by angry white males are due to their being insane, although there’s clearly something amiss in their thought processes. Rather, I contend that they are seeing evidence of a demographic revolution occurring before their very eyes and they are holding fast – by any means necessary – to “the good old days.”

After generations of those who have benefited in countless ways because of their membership in the club of white privilege, and who have been relentless in exerting white domination, are now looking at a world in which they will soon be in the minority. They realize that in short order they will have no alternative but to accept a new world, a new way of life, a new reality. And they are unwilling to go down without a fight – no matter who’s hurt or killed.

Here in America, we can see the browning of the nation as non-whites now make up a majority of kindergartners. By the next presidential election, the Census Bureau predicts they will be a majority of all children and by 2044, no one racial group will be a majority of the country. Black and brown people in the U.S. have been treated like second-class citizens – like third world inhabitants begging for a crump, a handout, a morsel – for hundreds of years – while whites have partied and plundered, leaving little remaining for others.

So, when we hear the rhetoric espoused by Donald Trump, “make America great again,” what we’re actually hearing is a clarion call – a desperate plea to maintain what it has long meant to be American. Need I explain?

The crosscurrents of demographic and cultural change are causing a seismic shift in traditional voting patterns. And it is the vote that will inevitably change America

through new policies, new elected officials at every level and new perspectives.

Consider that in 1976, white males made up 89 percent of the electorate – a number which held steady until 1992. After that, as Latino and Asian immigration increased, and the Black population held steady, the white vote has been on a steady decline. By 2012, whites were 72 percent of the electorate, still a majority, but enough of a decline to open the door for Barack Obama to win the presidential election with only 39 percent of the white vote – the lowest winning percentage for any Democrat in a two-way race for the White House.

During a pointed conversation with the Honorable Louis Farrakhan on the Phil Donahue Show in 1985, the minister addressed the imminent changing of the guard – the new world order that would usher in the return of a black/brown-dominated planet.

He posed the possibility that this would serve as the catalyst for the world’s final conflagration – what the prophets referred to as Armageddon. It seems that he was right on target in his predictions.

Some whites say they fear the changes that are coming. Some whites seem to be angry due to the changes that are coming.

Some whites have thrown caution to the wind with lawless acts that they hope will stem the tide. But as Farrakhan says, perhaps what’s eating at their guts is guilt – the fact that white Americans turned a people inside out, upside down and sold them for 300 years, denying us the human right to read, to know, to understand – to be human beings.

So, the fear of a Black planet is easier to understand. After all we’ve been through, one could believe that if and when we get in power, we will do to whites and their fathers what they and their people have done to us. That’s unlikely, if you ask me.

We don’t have a history of killing white people. White people have a history of killing us. WI

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Should these efforts fail, generations of Liberian expatriates who have lived, worked, and paid taxes in the U.S. for more than a quarter century face imminent deportation at the end of March – a thought that has brought one elderly Liberian woman to tears.

“There is nothing in Liberia for me, even though there are people I know,” said the woman, speaking under terms that her name be withheld.

Since her arrival in the U.S. in 1992 under Temporary Protected Status (TPS), she has consistently reported to the immigration office in her city. During her most recent visit last week, she filled out paperwork confirming her eligibility as a recipient of DED and paid a hefty processing fee.

This routine, done months and years at a time, persisted at President Bill Clinton’s discretion via TPS, and after President George W. Bush gave her and other civil war refugees DED in 2007 as the protection afforded them under TPS was scheduled to expire.

The Liberian elder, now in her early 60s, recalls receiving letters from her job’s human resources department shortly after President Donald Trump ordered an end to DED protections for Liberians last year. She also remembers an immigration official’s rebuff when she inquired about a new form that she’d have to complete.

Given her description of the current climate, fused with Trump’s strong anti-immigrant rhetoric, she has found just cause in refuting his claim that Liberia has made “significant progress in restoring stability and democratic governance.”

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We pay our taxes but can’t even stay here to enjoy our retirement,” she continued. “We’re praying for the renewal of our papers and a pathway to citizenship so that we can live a normal life.”

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Ward 7 Residents Lose Court Battle over Fire Station

By James Wright WI Contributing Writer

Several activists who live in the Deanwood section of the Ward 7, led by well-known political figure Dorothy Douglas, fell short last week in D.C. Superior Court in a bid to stop a fire station from being built in their immediate neighborhood.

Douglas and Jane Zara, attorney for the Deanwood neighbors protesting the station at 4409 Minnesota Avenue NE, appeared Friday before D.C. Superior Court Judge Kelly A. Higashi, requesting that she impose an injunction on further plans to develop the property that the D.C. government and Valor Minnesota LLC supports.

At the hearing, Douglas and Zara stood together before Higashi while the defendants, Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), Valor and the D.C. Council, had attorneys representing their interests.

Over a decade ago, Valor expressed interest in building affordable housing units at 4409 Minnesota and through community

outreach and engagement, residential and advisory neighborhood commissioners supported their effort. However, because the District government had issues with the zoning of the property and unpaid taxes, Valor nixed the affordable housing units and decided without any public input to build a fire station.

The advisory neighborhood commission rejected Valor’s fire station proposal on Oct. 26, 2017.

However, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) introduced the Valor lease to his colleagues on June 14, 2018, without the consideration of an approval or disapproval resolution.

The plaintiffs argued on Feb. 19 in D.C. Superior Court that Mendelson’s introduction and the process that shortly followed it violated city law, as did the legislative body’s failure to take the advisory neighborhood commission’s “great weight” recommendation into consideration. “[Valor] has already posted a flyer about a job fair for this project,”

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Zara told the judge. “We have never had a public hearing about this fire station.”

Zara pointed out that the lack of a solid environmental study on 4409 Minnesota Avenue and a D.C. attorney general opinion on the process of the council having to approve a lease that has the value of $1 million emphasized that city officials didn’t follow the proper procedure.

The defendants’ attorneys argued that the injunction lacked merit since no permits have been issued by the District government, an argument that seemed to sway Higashi.

“The question before us is should the court impose an injunction right now?” the judge said. “Is there any evidence of imminent danger or irreparable harm? The plaintiffs are asking the court to grant an extraordinary measure.

This is not a hearing to decide the ultimate issue of whether the firehouse should be stopped.”

Higashi denied the motion for the injunction but subtly remind-

5 Northeast residents go to D.C. Superior Court to stop the building of a fire station in their residential neighborhood. (Courtesy of Michele Tingling-Clemmons)

ed the neighbors that plaintiffs can refile the motion later. The judge said no evidence of irreparable harm existed “at this stage.”

The judge said the next hearing on the matter will be May 24.

While the neighbors didn’t get

the injunction, they did not appear overly disappointed.

“There is ongoing irreparable harm going on,” Zara said. “We are going to try to get a jury trial and the defendants don’t want to do that. WI

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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY Alsobrooks Presents Budget Proposal for Prince George’s

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill

Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks presented her first proposed budget as county leader last week with the same optimism and fervor she had at her inauguration three months prior.

Similar to her predecessor, Rushern L. Baker III, the $4.2 billion fiscal 2020 spending plan recommends the highest amount of additional money for education and public safety.

According to a budget summary, nearly $2.1 billion, or 60 percent,

5 Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks reviews her fiscal year 2020 budget proposal March 14 at the Wayne K. Curry Administration Building in Largo. (William J. Ford/The Washington Informer)

would be allocated for education and $775 million, or 22 percent, for public safety.

“This is in line with our priorities and our values,” Alsobrooks said Thursday, March 14 to county officials at the Wayne K. Curry Administration Building in Largo. “The challenge is the pie needs to grow.

We have so many priorities in our county. There are still areas we need resources in.”

Education remains one of the major topics in the Maryland General Assembly as state lawmakers continue to work on the Kirwan Commission report, which proposes to restructure the public education

system that assesses schools are underfunded by $2.9 billion annually.

A November 2016 report from Denver-based consulting firm Augenblick, Palaich & Assoc., hired by the state Department of Education to assess inadequacies in education, showed Prince George’s County as the most underfunded at more than $600 million.

A transition team report released March 5 outlines some of the county’s goal for education, including nearly $1 billion in school construction over a seven-year period through public and private partnerships.

“We feel no shame … and unapologetic in our request for additional

construction funding and operation funding,” Alsobrooks said. “That is because … the first obligation of government is to educate children. It’s in the Maryland state constitution.”

In regard to public safety, about $208 million is earmarked to bring in 48 new recruits and 300 sets of gear and to bolster recruitment efforts of the fire department.

The police department budget, $362 million, includes money for 100 new recruits in five different classes.

With county officials praising the jurisdiction’s low crime rate, county police Chief Hank Stawinski also outlined the department’s efforts in other aspects such as driver safety.

who have workers who serve people with disabilities. Both chambers previously agreed to require different levels of funding in the state budget.

Now both chambers must approve the changes before the bill heads to Hogan’s desk.

“I’m very, very appreciative of [Finance Committee chairwoman Delores Kelley] and the leadership of the Senate for me to be a part of a very important negotiation,” Augustine said. “I didn’t take it lightly.”

Supporters have said the bill would allow more than 500,000 Marylanders a chance to not only earn a livable wage, but also contribute back into the economy.

“Just knowing the people back home and people across the state of Maryland are counting on good decisions similar to the one that was made today,” said Sen. Cory McCray (D-Baltimore City), who sponsored the legislation and elected to the Senate in November. “You’re left feeling like you make tough choices a lot of times in the General Assembly, but today I felt like the little guy won.”

Not everyone supported the

State lawmakers continue to review pending legislation to decrease crashes and improve infrastructure along Route 210, which stretches near the D.C. border in Oxon Hill into neighboring Charles County and is considered one of the most dangerous highways in the region.

Instead of placing cameras at various intersections along Route 210, as called for in the original legislation, an amendment would have the Maryland State Highway Administration and the county’s Public Works and Transportation Department examine the road and report any findings and recommendations to the governor and General Assembly by May 2021.

Since July, about a half-dozen fatal crashes occurred on the highway in Prince George’s. The department issued more than 10,000 citations and 70 arrests on the highway last year.

“The question becomes is it just the driving behavior or is it just the infrastructure? In my opinion, it is both,” Stawinski said. “We can continue to work on the behavior. We can continue to do enforcement, but at the end of the day, we need help with that infrastructure where I’m relying on the county executive. I’m relying on the governor. I’m relying on our partners with the State Highway Administration to help us come up with a solution to keep people safe.”

One change from Baker that Alsobrooks pledges to make is trash pickup, which would revert to two days a week versus the current once-a-week collection.

She outlined this plan in a transition report, saying food and yard waste would be collected on one day and trash on the second day.

About $200,000 would be set aside to purchase food waste containers and expansion of food waste collection. In addition, about 12 new positions would be created in the Department of Environment for

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By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Although the majority of Maryland lawmakers agreed to gradually increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, a conference committee needed to be appointed to work out differences on the measure passed by the House and Senate.

Del. Dereck E. Davis (D-District 25) of Mitchellville and delegates C.T. Wilson (D-Charles County) and Kathleen Dumais (D-Montgomery County) represented the House.

Newly-elected Sen. Malcolm Augustine (D-District 47) Cheverly joined Sens. Delores Kelley (D-Baltimore County), Brian Feldman (D-Montgomery County) to represent the Senate.

After deliberations Tuesday, they agreed to allow small businesses with 14 or fewer employees to increase the minimum wage by July 1, 2026. The House measure increased the wage for all workers by 2025, but the Senate version had those employees rise to $15 an hour by 2028.

Augustine said the other major change would grant a 4 percent increase in state funding for companies

5 The Maryland Senate holds session at the statehouse in Annapolis on March 14. (William J. Ford/The Washington Informer)

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By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill ANNAPOLIS — Akeem Browder adored his younger brother Kalief’s smile, his strong workout regiment and being able to obtain a 3.65 grade point average in college after receiving his GED. Unfortunately, Browder said, Kalief, 22, hanged himself in 2015, two years after languishing in New York City’s Rikers Island jail for three years while awaiting trial for a theft charge when he was a teen.

Two of those years were spent in solitary confinement.

Browder said their mother, who found Kalief dead, eventually suffered a heart attack and died about two years later.

“This impacts not only the person affected, but also the internal family,” Browder, 36, said minutes before he planned to testify Tuesday before Maryland’s House Judiciary Committee on a bill to limit the use of solitary confinement against juveniles. “We have to treat everyone with a basic sense of humanity. What happened to my brother was just not humane.”

Browder, who manages a nonprofit organization named after his brother, supports one of three pieces of legislation sponsored by Del. Jazz Lewis (D-District 24) of Landover.

“This impacts not only the person affected, but also the internal family,” Browder, 36, said minutes before he planned to testify Tuesday before Maryland’s House

WAGE BILL from Page 12 measure such as Sen. Justin Ready (R-Carroll County) and posted his thoughts on Twitter before he voted against it.

“I’m opposed to this bill which will exacerbate youth unemployment and hurt our small businesses and regional competitiveness. Artificially raising wages will not help the people it’s aimed at,” he said.

However, Hogan sent a “compromise” letter to the presiding officers for a minimum wage increase to $12.10 by 2022. The state’s current wage is $10.10 an hour.

During a press conference Monday, March 18 in Annapolis, Hogan outlined a few figures Monday on how small businesses would face 48 percent increase in costs; the state would lose an estimated 99,000 jobs; and a decrease in $61 billion in the

Judiciary Committee on a bill to limit the use of solitary confinement against juveniles. “We have to treat everyone with a basic sense of humanity. What happened to my brother was just not humane.”

The House almost unanimously approved Lewis’s bill 136-3 on Monday, March 18. A Senate version of the bill, sponsored by Sen. William Smith (D-Montgomery County), was unanimous approved 46-0.

Both versions will be reviewed in the respective chambers this week.

A minor difference in the bills shows the House version calls for the governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention to “compile and summarize” anytime a minor is placed in solitary confinement and to receive daily physical and mental assessments to determine when that person can be released.

According to a fiscal analysis, it would require the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections to report annually on items such as the number of juveniles replaced in solitary confinement, also called restrictive housing, which puts inmates alone in a 6-by-9-foot cell for 22 hours per day. A report would list the juvenile’s age, gender, classification of housing and “the basis for the inmate’s placement in restrictive housing.”

The department housed nearly 19,000 inmates in fiscal year 2018 and about 14,430 spent time in restrictive housing.

According to a 2012 report by the Vera Institute of Justice, 8 pernext decade.

When asked if Hogan would veto that any other legislation such as the House approved $46.7 billion budget, he said would look into it if the bill came across his desk.

The Maryland Fight for $15 coalition hopes Hogan reconsiders.

“The state’s current $10.10 minimum wage isn’t working for hundreds of thousands of Maryland households,” Ricarra Jones, chair of the Fight for $15 coalition, said in a statement. “Today’s Senate vote to pass this bill following a majority vote in the House is a solid step forward for hard-working Marylanders.

We are thankful to our bill sponsors and all the legislators who have fought to raise the wage floor to help working families by putting money back into their pockets to address the rising costs of housing, childcare and other expenses.” WI

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cent of Maryland prisoners had been placed in restrictive housing, double the national average.

The New York City-based group, which focuses on efforts to eliminate mass incarceration, noted its annual report in December it plans to work with seven jurisdictions to reduce solitary confinement by 25 percent by next year and another 50 percent by 2023.

Meanwhile, Lewis presented another bill focused on providing programs so returning citizens are immediately released from solitary confinement back to the community. The other piece of legislation pushes to ensure those with mental illness aren’t placed in restrictive housing for more than 15 days.

Del. Wanika Fisher (D-District 47B) of Hyattsville presented similar legislative which outlaws the practice toward pregnant women.

The bill would ensure such women would only be placed in solitary confinement if they agrees to remove themselves from general population or pose a serious and immediate risk of physical harm.

If a pregnant woman is isolated by herself, she must be medically assessed every eight hours, according to the bill.

“There’s no medical rationale for placing a pregnant woman in isolation,” said Kimberly Haven, legislative strategist for Reproductive Justice Inside and Interfaith Action for Human Rights. “It is rooted in old policies that were designed by prisons that were meant for men, not women.

This is an archaic practice.”

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On Thursday, she said trash and food waste collection would be phased in over a three-year period and start with 3,000 homes “to see how that goes.”

An exact start date hasn’t been determined, but a public launch would happen in the spring.

Now the county council will review the budget and hold several public hearings.

“Addressing the county’s budget priorities in fiscal year 2020 demands efficient and effective management of the county’s finances,” Council Chairman Todd Turner (D-District 4) of Bowie said in a statement. “We appreciate the great vision, focus and diligence of the executive branch in formulating this proposed spending plan.” WI

5 Maryland Del. Jazz Lewis (right) speaks with criminal justice advocates on March 12 before he and Del. Wanika Fisher present their sponsored legislation to limit and ban the use of solitary confinement in state jails and prisons. (William J. Ford/The Washington Informer)

The “N” District News coverage abounds on the use of the “N” word describing Prince George’s County by a Maryland General Assembly Delegate. While this delegate must resign and, so far, she refuses to do so; the General Assembly’s leadership has taken appropriate action to remove this delegate from all leadership posts.

However, the issue should not die here. Needed is a conversation on equity and ignorance. Prince George’s County has the highest concentration of Maryland Democrats and, within the Washington Metropolitan Region, has one of the most robust economic development postures. Soon, the County will open a regional medical center, a new railway and new offices housing a leading medical provider. Already in place are leading tech providers, national entertainment centers, and transportation modes that reach throughout the State. So it’s puzzling that a senior elected official without regard described one of the seven largest Counties’ as the “N” District.

Despite the County’s magnitude and notoriety, the comfort level of using this description was intentional. A conversation needed for the General Assembly: are race and indifference a factor in policy? Do state laws and policies reflect an equity lens? Is there a value for lifting up all communities, especially in education, job creation and health?

A side bar comment is one thing, and congratulations for leadership acting swiftly, however hopefully this incident will give rise to a deeper reflection on equity.

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Alyssa Burgos (right), an eighth grader at Holy Redeemer was the winner of the 2019 Prince George’s County Spelling Bee while Shree Ruttala, a seventh grader at Hyattsville Middle School came in second at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park on Friday, March 15. (Brigette White/ The Washington Informer)

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By James Wright WI Contributing Writer The phrase “third time’s a charm” recently became the identifying moniker for Alyssa Burgos, an eighth-grader at the Holy Redeemer School.

After entering the spelling bee for the past two years, Alyssa emerged the winner of the 2019 Prince George’s County Spelling Bee on Friday, March 15 at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on the University of Maryland’s College Park campus.

“I feel relieved,” she said. “I have been studying for three years for this moment.”

The Washington Informer and the Washington Informer Charities sponsored the event along with Washington Gas, the Educational Systems Federal Credit Union, Giant and Safeway supermarkets, Toyota, the Washington Nationals, Pepco and the Foundation for the Advancement of Music Education.

Dozens of parents, family and friends of the 26 contestants sat in the beautiful, stateof-the-art Delkelboum Concert Hall to watch the nearly three-hour competition.

While the D.C. version of the Informer Bee has taken place for 37 years, the Prince George’s County bee under the Informer started four years ago when the Prince George’s County Gazette Newspapers, who ran the contest for decades, ceased publication.

Denise Rolark Barnes, Washington Informer publisher and Washington Informer Charities president, sought the rights to the Prince George’s

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Bee and got them.

“If it wasn’t for The Washington Informer, we wouldn’t have a spelling bee,” Chauka Reid, the Prince George’s County Spelling Bee coordinator, told the audience.

“We thought it important to keep it going in Prince George’s County,” Barnes said. She noted that the spelling bee “is just as exciting as a football, soccer and basketball game.”

The contestants, dressed in white polo shirts and slacks or skirts of their choice, received words of encouragement from Dr. George Askew, the county’s deputy chief administrative officer for Health and Human Services.

Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks had to skip the event because of pressing business.

The contestants got to the spelling bee by winning school competitions.

Helen Knowles, the former

manager of administrative services at the Bowie Health Center; Jeffrey Lyles, managing editor of the Emergency Physicians Monthly, and Barnes served as the event’s judges. David Zahren, a television instruction specialist with the Prince George’s County Public Schools Department of Television Resources and Web Services, served as the moderator.

The contestants sat on the lighted stage in three rows of chairs.

Zahren sat at the front of the audience with the judges in an area known as “the pit” in most the-

aters because it sits lower than the stage.

The contestants used two microphones of different heights for the competition.

During the competition, a contestant would be asked to spell a word. The contestant could have the moderator to give the meaning and origin of the word as well as its use in a sentence.

If the contestant spells the word correctly, Zahren would say so but if not, a judge would ring the bell and the moderator would give the right spelling. The contestant

would walk off the stage to the sound of applause from the audience.

Audience members could not help the contestants in any way but could be encouraging.

Omar Pierre, a Beacon Heights Elementary School student, received encouragement from a supporter in the audience with a huge white sign with colored writing saying “Go Omar Pierre” and when Pierre spelled a word correctly, his fan would hoot and holler.

5 Ron Burke, representing Washington Informer Charities talks to students participating in the 2019 Prince George’s County Spelling Bee held at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park on Friday, March 15. (Brigette White/The Washington Informer)

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The contestants go to public, private or religious schools in Prince George’s County from grades 5-8.

Kayden Wilkins, last year’s winner, played a recording of his win and spoke positively of representing Prince George’s at the national competition at the National Harbor.

“By being here, you are winners,” Kayden said, telling the contestants to “take your time, get the definition of the word and how it is used in a sentence and enjoy the experience.”

The contest lasted 15 rounds.

The first two rounds had easier words and few dropped out of the competition. However, by the third round, only nine spellers remained. That number dwindled by two in the fourth round and in the fifth, five had lasted.

By the end of the sixth round, Alyssa and Shree Ruttala, a seventh-grader at Hyattsville Middle School, had emerged as the two finalists.

Alyssa and Shree competed amicably through seven rounds. For a while, when it seemed that Alyssa would win

by Shree misspelling a word, she would misspell her word also.

In the 15th round, Alyssa finally pulled through on the word “cilia,” defined as an organelle found on eukaryotic cells and are slender protuberances that project from the much larger cell body.

When Alyssa found out she won, she sat quietly for a minute, soaking the moment in.

The contestants re-emerged on the stage and received small, gold trophies and gift bags from the sponsors. Alyssa

3 Winners of the 2019 Prince George’s County Spelling Bee, Shree Ruttala (2nd place) and Alyssa Burgos (1st place) with three of the co-sponsors of the 2019 Prince George’s County Spelling Bee and Denise Rolark Barnes (right) publisher of the Washington Informer and president of the Washington Informer Charities sponsor of the Bee at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park on Friday, March 15. (Brigette White/ The Washington Informer)

received four Southwest Airlines tickets to go anywhere it flies, six tickets to the April 13 Washington Nationals-Pittsburgh Pirates game at Nationals Park in the District, and the largest trophy.

All the other contestants received two tickets to the Nationals game as well.

Alyssa also got a gift card from the Educational Credit Union for a $500 Visa gift card. Shree received a certificate of recognition, the second largest trophy and $150 Visa gift card from the credit union and six tickets to go to the Nationals game.

Both Alyssa and Shree also received gift bags from the sponsors.

A representative from Prince George’s County’s CTV told the audience that the event will be televised on its station in the near future and videos will be given to the families and schools of each contestant.

Alyssa’s father, Jorge Burgos,

beamed at his daughter.

“I am very proud of her,” he said. “She has been practicing very hard to come here and compete.

She practiced almost every night for this.”

Jyothirmai, Shree’s mother, said her son worked hard to get to the final round, too.

“He told us about this competition and we let him do it,” she said.

“Shree is very active in the Science Fair at his school and he won second in the Science Bowl. This is his first spelling bee and he really did a good job. It was a pleasure for me to watch him work hard.”

Shree deemed the spelling experience “exhilarating” and said he is glad he participated.

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5 Each participant in the 2019 Prince George’s County Spelling Bee receives a trophy, a gift bag from the sponsors and tickets to a Nationals game. (Brigette White/The Washington Informer)

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Adopt-A-School: Enhancing the Student Experience through Partnerships Partnerships between Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS), local businesses and community organizations are a priority for Interim Chief Executive Officer Dr. Monica Goldson.

Business partnerships already play an integral role in many schools, however, relationships are most often cultivated at the school level or support offered on a case-by-case basis. PGCPS recently launched an expanded Adopt-A-School program that seeks to improve student outcomes by tapping into the county’s thriving community of businesses, nonprofits and faith-based organizations.

Through the program, partnering organizations provide school support, such as mentoring and tutoring services, financial assistance and at least one service activity.

PGCPS hopes to have partners for all 207 schools and centers by the beginning of the 2019-20 school year. More than 90 schools currently lack partners.

“There are more than 130,000 students in our school system and every one of them can benefit from the expertise and generosity of our community,” said Dr. Goldson, who announced the initiative this month during her 2019 State of the Education System address. “This approach ultimately improves student outcomes and strengthens the bond between schools and the local business community.”

Adopt-A-School partners make an annual commitment to support their adopted schools through activities in all three component areas:

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Showcasing college or career pathways through field trips, career days or mentorship sessions.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT:

Contribute at least $5,000 through a direct contribution or in-kind services based on areas of expertise.

VOLUNTEER SERVICE:

Participate in at least one service activity at an adopted school.

“We encourage partners to adopt multiple schools to maximize the impact,” said Dr. Goldson. “My challenge to the business community is to make sure that every school — from elementary to high school — is adopted by the start of next school year.”

Adopt-A-School connects students with diverse groups and individuals who can enhance their experiences and expand their opportunities, said Barbara Holt Streeter, the school system’s Partnerships Officer.

“There are so many amazing organizations who are already doing the critical work of serving our students. We are connecting schools to those with expertise, resources and capacity from which students can benefit,” Holt Streeter said. “This is a coordinated community effort created to help students and their families succeed. ” For example, two PGCPS partners provide health and hope to students: First Generation College Bound hosts college and career awareness programs to middle and high school students in 11 schools twice a week. Brighter Bites distributes fresh fruits and vegetables for eight weeks to students and their families at five schools.

School needs vary. Students often need school supplies, uniforms, coats and shoes. Students in higher-level math courses need engineering calculators. Classroom technology, such as SmartBoard, Chromebooks and tablets, may be in short supply.

From a community service perspective, school buildings always have construction and renovation needs, including library, playground, garden and teacher’s lounge beautification projects.

As a long-term, sustained and systemwide effort, Adopt-ASchool seeks for every student to reap the rewards of partnership.

For more information about the Adopt-A-School program, contact adoptaschool@pgcps.org.

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5 PGCPS Interim CEO Dr. Monica Goldson gives keynote remarks at the recent State of the Education System Luncheon, hosted by the Greater Prince George’s Business Roundtable. President/CEO M.H. Jim Estepp leads the Business Roundtable.

5 PGCPS Interim CEO Dr. Monica Goldson announced the revamped Adopt-a-School program at the recent State of the Education System Luncheon, hosted by the Greater Prince George’s Business Roundtable.

The Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) Adopt-A-School Program was created to support public schools throughout the county through enhanced educational experiences, financial support and volunteerism focused on improving outcomes for students. Our goal is for all of our schools to be adopted by a business, community or interfaith partner for the start of the 2019-2020 school year.

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BUSINESS Construction Work Harming D.C. Small Businesses

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia Endless construction is killing small businesses throughout the District, with some reports comparing sidewalks such as those in front of 1350 Connecticut Ave in Northwest to an open mine shaft.

Other places including near Dupont Circle, and along 19th Street in Northwest and Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. in Southeast, are also seeing increased construction ac-

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tivity that, in many cases, decrease traffic to small shop owners thus curtailing much-needed business.

“There’s no inclination to think, ‘Oh, well, what can you do? It’s D.C.,’” Anna Fuhrman, the owner of Proper Topper in Northwest, told a local news organization this week. “But I spend so much time promoting D.C. and talking about how great D.C. is, that it’s a gut punch.”

Oftentimes business owners and pedestrians aren’t informed why a street or sidewalk is being torn apart. Few are even told who’s be-

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hind the work or who to contact to make a complaint.

The D.C. Department of Transportation’s road-closure permit stipulates what signage and information are required, but even when it’s done properly — and Fuhrman reportedly thinks it wasn’t in her case — it’s often inadequate.

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This week, Councilman Kenyan R. McDuffie introduced a bill to support small businesses from suffering financial distress from District infrastructure projects. The bill would provide immediate relief for qualifying small businesses including those affected by the DC Water Northeast Boundary Tunnel construction at 4th Street NE and Rhode Island Avenue NE, as well as businesses affected by Monroe Street NE bridge reconstruction.

The legislation would provide emergency financial assistance to eligible small business within five hundred feet of construction on District-owned or financed infrastructure.

Small business owners would have to be able to demonstrate loss of revenue that leads to a difficulty in paying obligations, including utility costs, rent, and other overhead.

“Our small and local businesses are the drivers of our economy,” McDuffie said. “They tend to hire locally and spend locally, keeping their dollars circulating in our community. With this infrastructure project negatively impacting small businesses, I knew I had to act.”

The bill would provide relief for qualified small businesses and their employees by “mitigating the financial hardship experienced because foot traffic and the number of customers are significantly impacted by capital infrastructure projects,” McDuffie said.

Business website inc.com listed seven tips for small businesses affected by ongoing construction: 1. Be informed ahead of the curve. Governments should notify businesses about pending construction well in advance. The Chamber of Commerce and other business associations also are good sources, especially if you’re already a mem-

ber. But don’t count on them completely. Make it a habit to spend 15 minutes once a week checking city, county and/or state Department of Public Works and Department of Transportation web sites, where such projects are always posted.

2. Build a dedicated cash reserve.

The reality of construction is that your walk-in sales are likely to be cut.

3. Form alliances and pool resources.

4. Use a group web site to market and communicate your presence.

At the very least, a web site reminds people that you’re still there; used the right way, it can become a driver that helps offset lost walk-in business.

5. Ask the government in charge if it has a construction mitigation program. The University of Wisconsin researched exactly how they help businesses during construction. The study revealed that only eight provide direct cash or loans, but it turns out there are many other forms of assistance. For example, some cities relax zoning laws to permit business signs in places normally off-limits; others relax parking requirements.

6. Make friends with the construction contractors and crew. You may even be able to enlist these folks in your cause.

7. Utilize the media, carefully. Being the put-upon little guy doesn’t work in your favor if you don’t craft your message properly. If possible, choose one articulate spokesperson to represent your group. Don’t generally complain about the situation; be specific about a problem or violation (if one exists) and suggest solutions. And don’t call or email a news organization every week expecting coverage – choose your few story opportunities selectively.

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NATIONAL Protesters Rail Against Venezuela Intervention

By Barrington M. Salmon Special to The Informer Protesters from around the country converged on D.C. Saturday, March 16 to raise their voices against U.S. intervention in Venezuela.

A crowd of a few thousand people gathered at Lafayette Park just across from the White House and, in between full-throated chants, listened to speakers who called on everyone who’s against the Trump administration’s efforts at regime change in Venezuela to form a vanguard of resistance and solidarity.

Brian Becker, executive director of the ANSWER Coalition and one of the organizers of the march and rally, said that opponents of U.S. interventionism and hegemony must be the conscience of the nation.

“Let’s put some sanctions on the rich and powerful, let’s challenge racism, imperialism and the narrative spoon-fed to the people,” he said. “We’re bringing a different message — the message of solidarity.”

For months, progressive groups and individuals, and those opposed to the U.S. threat to Venezuela, have been meeting, dialoguing, organizing and strategizing. All the while, they’ve been watching developments in Venezuela, trying to gauge and if and when the Trump administration will go ahead with its promised military intervention.

Venezuela has been gripped by political and economic turmoil, caused by plummeting oil prices, mismanagement by government officials, intense partisan wrangling between the government and opposition and pressures caused by crippling U.S. sanctions that speakers characterized as economic terrorism.

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change” and imposed billions of dollars of new sanctions, revealing that their efforts center on controlling Venezuela’s oil and installing a government that will allow U.S. corporations to freely plunder the resources.

Activists against such intervention have been unrelenting in their opposition, especially since Feb. 23, when U.S.-backed politician Juan Guaidó Márquez declared himself acting president.

Guaidó’s justification for the soft coup is his belief that President Nicolás Maduro’s re-election in May was illegitimate.

Guaidó is using Article 233 of Venezuela’s constitution which places temporary presidential power on the head of the National Assembly when the presidency is otherwise vacant. He also cites Article 350, which proclaims that Venezuelans “shall disown any regime, legislation or authority that violates democratic values, principles and guarantees or encroaches upon human rights.”

Since then, Maduro and Guaidó have been locked in a tense standoff.

In D.C. on Saturday, protesters carried bright yellow placards declaring their position, such as “Not Your Land, Not Your Oil, Hands off Venezuelan soil.” Buses of demonstrators came from New York, Georgia, Chicago, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and all points in between. The crowd was an eclectic mix of young and old, hippies, millennials, Venezuelans — supporters and opponents of U.S. intervention — indigenous people, Haitians, Palestinians and others.

“It’s obviously critically important to be here,” said moderator Eugene Puryear of the Justice First organization. “They want to create dirty war, foment unrest and pit Venezuelans against each other. We’ve seen this story before in Iraq, Libya, and other countries which have been a complete humanitarian disaster.

5 Protestors opposed to US intervention into Venezuela marched to the Trump Hotel after a rally at Lafayette Square across from the White House on Saturday, March 16. Speakers called on the Trump administration to use peaceful means to resolve the political, social and economic crisis in Venezuela instead of military force. (Courtesy photo/Barrington Salmon)

In D.C. on Saturday, protesters carried bright yellow placards declaring their position, such as “Not Your Land, Not Your Oil, Hands off Venezuelan soil.” Buses of demonstrators came from New York, Georgia, Chicago, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and all points in between.

People are trying to eat, trying to survive because of the intervention.

“No to regime change agenda.

Not in our name!” Puryear said.

Shortly after the rally began, a small contingent of Maduro opponents gathered. Several shouted out anti-Maduro comments, while others stood toe to toe with those against intervention jawing at each other. All around Lafayette Park, pairs of people or others in tight circles of debated and discussed their truths, some gesturing to emphasize their points, their faces tightening as they spoke.

Maduro opponents edged closer to the larger crowd and soon those on each side of the issue stood inches from each other, trying to overpower the words from the other side, shouting and pointing as their agitation spiked.

Mounted police and SWAT team members stepped in quickly to restore order, encouraging the anti-Maduro crowd to move back.

Katherine Savatierre stood watching the rally in between engaging with those who held a differing view.

“I’m here because there’s no food, no medicine, no power,” she said while trying to hold

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back tears. “My mom, father and grandmother are in Venezuela. I’m here with my sister.

It is because of Maduro. He administers water and power. There has been no maintenance of the system. So many babies are dying in hospitals. I send money and packages when I can. My mom came recently and she bought everything, as much as she could. I don’t want a war or people to die but if invasion is the only option ...”

Gabriela Febres alternated between arguing with a young African-American man from Baltimore and talking into a mic held by a well-dressed journalist.

“I would love to tell my story,” she told a reporter from The Final Call. “When I go to Venezuela, I’m afraid. My grandmother suffers from pain in her knees but there’s no medicine. I have to travel to another country to get her medication. Is that fair?

I want to talk to people over there. My father is a college professor who studied at Cornell. His salary is $20 a month.

“All of us have families who are struggling,” Febres said.

“My family hasn’t had water for a month. It’s not about the government or Trump. It’s been 20 years. Chavez was the problem

and Maduro is now.”

Fellow Venezuelan Eleazar Basero stood holding up two Venezuelan flags alongside his friend Yhamir Chabur. Basero said he was last in his country in 2016 but still has family there and follows news from the country closely.

“You have a population, a group of people with purchasing power,” he said. “There’s a scarcity of goods but they have capital. Food is being hoarded by people like Luis Mendoza, who is the largest distributor of food and alcohol in the country.

The government tried to implement price controls on food but there have been 87 different sanctions since 1998.

“I think the U.S. will invade,” Basero said. “Absolutely. If you look at recent history, there are a lot of parallels. They are using false pretenses because Trump needs his wars. The U.S. is a death economy. It needs wars to keep the economy rolling.”

Basero said it needs to be made clear that the real beneficiaries of a U.S. invasion would be the billionaire Koch brothers, who have a substantial stake in Venezuela’s oil industry in Venezuela and seek more control. “[Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo, [Vice President Mike] Pence and others owe their careers to the Koch brothers,” he said. “They have to give something back. ... Being a part of this is very important because we’re standing on the right side of history. People here want peace and a new type of government.” WI

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NATIONAL Bill to Create Commission on Md. Lynching History Goes to Senate

By John Muller Special to The Informer

A bill to create a commission for examining Maryland’s lynching history is moving through the statehouse, as the push to acknowledge the state’s harrowing past gains momentum.

House Bill 307, introduced in January by Joseline Peña-Melnyk (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s) and more than 60 bipartisan co-sponsors, passed March 14 by a 136-0 vote in the House of Delegates and was assigned to the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee for deliberation.

The legislation calls to establish the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which would require research of local cases of racially motivated lynchings, regional public hearings to be held where a lynching of an African American by a white mob has been documented and a final report to the governor and the General Assembly about the commission’s findings.

“We are asking our supporters to contact their state senators now to urge them to support the bill in that chamber,” said Will Schwarz, executive director of the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project. “The Senate is a different body and a different challenge.”

If passed, the legislation would take effect June 1 and remain effective for three years.

“I am hopeful that the bill will pass,” Peña-Melnyk said. “We need to know our past to understand our future.”

Of the more than 4,000 Black Americans lynched in the United States between 1865 and 1950, 40 cases have been documented to have occurred in Maryland.

Historians and activists cite NAACP Legal Defense and Educa-

tional Fund Director Sherrilyn Ifill’s 2003 legal journal article, “Creating a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Lynching,” and her 2007 book, “On The Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century,” which detailed extrajudicial killings on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, as a turning point in public awareness locally and nationally.

With more than $20 million in private and charitable donations, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, dedicated to the memory of the victims of lynching, opened in Montgomery, Alabama, last year as part of the Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, which documents and displays the history of slavery and racism in America.

According to Schwarz, the proposed Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission is not directly connected to the museum in Alabama, though they share in the same public education mission and goals.

“The very visible and well-publicized efforts by [the initiative] have certainly helped pave the way for local and state coalitions to gain a more sympathetic reception for community initiatives,” Schwarz said. “People are generally becoming more aware of how the legacy of lynching continues to exert its influence in our daily lives and why it’s critical to confront it.”

Linda Duyer, community historian and author of “Mob Law on Delmarva,” which details violence from 1870 through the 1940s in the Eastern Shore region of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, expressed cautious support for the legislation.

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is important to get it right,” Duyer said. “If the effort fails to do the difficult work of telling a more complete truth, then a reiteration of the brutality on African Americans may only perpetuate division. The pain involved in examining the truth is worth it if reconciliation is earnest and achievable. That difficult work should include investigating specific responsibility for some or most of those criminal lynchings. I am hopeful this effort will be successful and result in important positive change.”

Meanwhile, the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project’s Prince George’s County committee will hold a public meeting at 1 p.m.

Sunday to explore ideas for community remembrance projects in the county, which has five documented lynchings of African Americans in its history.

The meeting at University Chris-

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tian Church in Hyattsville will include two short films, presentations and community discussion, as well as complementary literature from Equal Justice Initiative.

For more information on the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project and upcoming events, go to mdlynchingmemorial.org.

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The leadership of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) accused President Muhammadu Buhari of securing power in the just-concluded Presidential election in the country through dubious and corrupt means.

The group made this known in a press statement signed by its National Director of Information, Comrade Samuel Edeson, the Daily Post reported.

The MASSOB leadership also condemned the incessant killings of members of the Christian communities in some parts of the country: “It is very unfortunate that these ethnic cleansing commenced immediately after presidential election which INEC was subjected to announce Mohammed Buhari as winner. MASSOB remind the citizens that prior to the presidential election mostly within the campaign periods, the terrorist activities of Fulani herdsmen suddenly reduced because Mohammadu Buhari and his Fulani cabals controlling Nigeria Federal government does not want to refresh the damaging effects of the activities of Fulani herdsmen in the consciousness of the people because of their votes.

“It is very disheartening that overwhelming evidences abounds on the incessant, systematic and well coordinated attacks, killings and ethnic cleansing of Christian dominated villages of Kaduna, Taraba, Benue, Plateau and Ebonyi States recently after presidential election that was executed by Fulani herdsmen. The security agents in their bid to deceive the international communities will label the attackers as gunmen instead of the real culprits.

“Having clinched power through dubious and corruptible means, MASSOB reminds the people of Biafra to be more vigilant and conscious of their residential environment because President Mohammadu Buhari led federal government and his Fulani/APC cabals will unleash many dangerous and systematic mayhem that will subject the cowardly people of Nigeria to political and economical Islamisation of Nigeria. This is the religious command and ordinances of Othman Dan Fodio of the Islamic caliphate.

“MASSOB also congratulate the people of Biafra for harkening unto our directives in supporting and voting for the candidates we presented to pilots the political space of Biafra land.

“We congratulate Governors David Umahi, Okezie Ikpeazu, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Ifeanyi Okowa, Emmanuel Udom, Nyesom Nwike, Ben Ayade of Ebonyi, Abia, Enugu, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Cross River, Imo States and Senators Orji Uzor Kalu, Ifeanyi Uba, Enyinnaya Abaribe, Theodore Orji, Ike Ekweremadu and others.

“We also salute the igboistic spirit of no surrender no retreat of Ndigbo in Lagos in eloquently voting for the candidate of their choice in Lagos gubernatorial election.

“MASSOB charged the newly-elected Igbo political office holders to unite in projecting and promoting the general Igbo in interest in Nigeria political, economical, social, academical, religious and cultural space of Nigeria irrespective of their political platforms.” WI

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The digital transformation of the Bahamas Cabinet and all government services will soon become a reality through a $30 million Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loan that is expected to be executed within the next two to three weeks by the country’s government, according to a cabinet minister.

State Minister for Grand Bahama Senator Kwasi Thompson said Friday that government will be moving toward a paperless Cabinet system by implementing a program called e-Cabinet, The Tribune reported.

He also said they will be adopting the model being used in Estonia to transform the country’s e-government services.

Thompson was speaking at the closing of Consumer Week, hosted by the Consumer Affairs Unit of the Ministry of Labour at the Harold DeGregory Complex, in Freeport. This year’s theme was “Trusted Smart Products.”

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HEALTH Masonic Leaders Give Back at D.C. Hospital

By Hamil R. Harris WI Contributing Writer Like so many young parents at the Hospital for Sick Children, Shanna Brown counts every step that her daughter Zarnara makes as a blessing.

Zarnara, 4, has been at the Northeast hospital since suffering critical injuries in a car accident last month. But she and other children at the 135-yearold institution were all smiles recently when a big gold coach bus pulled up and the leaders of Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodges in five states and the District walked inside with plenty of toys and love.

“What you see before you are the Grand Masters, Grand Worthy Patrons and Grand Worthy Matrons from North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, the District of Columbia and Maryland,” said Quincy L. Gant, Grand Master of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia. “We chose to come together to have this charitable event.”

Jade Ricks, program assistant for the Hospital for Sick Children, took the Masonic leaders on a tour of the facility that included apartment units where parents learn how to care for their children.

5 Zyarna Brown, 4, walks with members of the Masons and Eastern Star during their visit to deliver gifts to the children at the Hospital for Sick Children in in Northeast on Sat., March 16. (Michael A. McCoy/The Washington Informer)

During the visit, the leaders learned that the hospital treats people up to the age of 21 who have sustained a variety of traumatic injuries.

“We get kids from D.C., Maryland and Virginia and some of these children are medically fragile and have been and out of the hospital for a very long time,” said Debbie Holson, the hospital’s chief operating

officer. “When we have special events for the kids it makes their lives because they need to know that they are loved as they transition to home.”

Eunice J. Dingle, the Grand Worthy Matron of the Georgina Thomas Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, presented a financial gift to the hospital from the leaders of the different states. Jeffrey M. Cal-

cote Sr., Grand Master for West Virginia, said he plans to visit a similar venue when the meeting takes in his state next year.

“This is where the rubber meets the road,” said John T. Doles, Past Grand Master for the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia. “If we are going to grow, we have to do these kinds of things.” WI

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BOWSER from Page 1 Bowser focused on Ward 8, mentioning the Entertainment and Sports Arena in Congress Heights and the Busboys and Poets in Anacostia.

“We believe that Ward 8 should have every opportunity to rise,” she said. “We aren’t stopping there.

“Last fall, I introduced the first [tax incremental financing] in Ward 8,” she said. “That means a $60 million investment for the new home of a 200-person government agency, a hotel and other amenities — right on Martin Luther King Avenue. With each investment: more jobs and new opportunities for residents of Ward 8 and beyond. And if we’re going to ensure residents in the East End have what residents enjoy in the West End, we need to realize every tool we can.”

The mayor said 18 out of the District’s 25 Opportunity Zones are in Wards 7 and 8. Opportunity Zones provide federal tax incentives to low-income areas and Booker co-authored the legislation to set it up with Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.).

She said the District has excellent financial health, but isn’t “financially tsunami-proof.”

“And as we continue through budget season, we must resist the temptation to write checks now that we cannot cash in recessionary times,” Bowser said.

For District residents, Bowser said that every third-, sixth- and ninth-grader will have a new laptop or tablet at the cost of $4.6 million. She said for UDC, her budget will fund the acquisition of 4250 Connecticut Ave. NW to expand the campus and plans to reopen Randle Highlands Ele-

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mentary School in Ward 7.

The mayor said she plans to make the Early Learning Tax Credit permanent and to eliminate the tax on diapers, being a mother to toddler Miranda Elizabeth Bowser. She received applause when she said the city’s Circulator bus system would be free “from now on.”

District residents have repeatedly said affordable housing remains the number issue of concern. She plans to add $2 million for the Safe at Home programs that primarily benefits seniors as well as slash property taxes for longtime residents in their golden years.

Low and middle-income renters will get a tax credit from Bowser, increase the number of units for the homeless and increase the Housing Production and Preservation funds combined to $200 million and that would be a first.

The Workforce Housing Fund, at the level of $20 million, will help create housing for “teachers, police officers, firefighters, janitors, social workers and everyone else who has a good job but also needs to be able to find an affordable home.”

Bowser said she will work with Norton to have the RFK Stadium site to become District property instead of remaining in the federal inventory. She didn’t say anything about her desire to have the Washington Redskins return to the District.

The mayor said she wants to fund the D.C. police force to the level of 4,000 officers and help reform the District’s record-sealing process “and give more Washingtonians the fair shot they need.”

Bowser said the District itself needs a fair shot and noted the

record number of co-sponsors for a bill supporting D.C. statehood.

The mayor closed by calling it an honor to be the leader of her hometown.

“Together, we will press on and because we will stick together, the state of the District will remain strong,” she said.

While most in the audience expressed approval of Bowser’s remarks, some had a wait-andsee attitude.

“I think the mayor’s speech was a good preview on the budget,” said D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D). “I liked it when she said we as a city need to be careful how we spend our money and how we need new revenue without raising taxes.”

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EDUCATION National Collegiate Fights Board Decision to Close

By Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins For nearly four years, Jaheim Byars found peace in National Collegiate Preparatory Public Charter High School that the streets and other schools couldn’t provide. By his senior year, he had encouraged his younger cousins to apply to the Southeast-based institution.

However, such plans came to a screeching halt a couple of months ago when the D.C. Public Charter School Board rescinded National Collegiate’s charter, ceased its enrollment and ordered its closure at the end of the 2019-2020 academic year.

Jaheim said the news deeply perturbed and confused him.

“No school has prepared me the right way and I never got the attention I was required until I got to National Collegiate,” said Jaheim, a 17-year-old track star and aspiring vocalist.

“National Collegiate provided me with father figures who taught me how to be a man. I’ve learned patience. I present myself differently and take things more seriously. Other young Black men experiencing the struggle deserve the same thing.”

On Friday, a crowd of 60 that included Jaheim’s peers and teachers, staff and supporters of National Collegiate, converged on the Northwest

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better than its traditional east-of-theriver counterparts.

Since 2008, National Collegiate has prepared students, many of whom live within close proximity of its Bellevue campus, for college and career. Its unique offerings include the rigorous International Baccalaureate program and the Sankofa Ball, an annual formal event that culminates a semester-long rites-of-passage experience.

“Parents are heartbroken and concerned,” said National Collegiate Founder and CEO Jennifer Ross.

“They’re scared of their children going to other schools. They feel disenfranchised and have lost faith in the charter school system because it’s not stable for their children. They don’t have enough educators on the charter board to understand that it takes at least 18 months for a change to happen.” wi

College Admissions Workshop Helps Level Playing Field

Researchers published their findings a couple of months after the Trump administration rolled back Obama-era guidelines for colleges and universities to diversify their campuses.

Even with the odds stacked against them, some Black parents have set out to use as many tools as possible to ensure their children attend the college of their choice.

With the help of Claster Educational Services, one parent developed an action plan for her two oldest children, one of whom will graduate high school this year with at least four college acceptances under his belt.

“We talked about the next steps and my children’s expectations about college,” the Southeast resident and mother of five, who requested anonymity, said during her second visit to Serve Your City DC’s college admissions event.

She first got involved with Serve Your City DC last year when her son attended a financial literacy workshop, later reconnecting with Cook to attend the first college admissions workshop last month. “[We’re focusing] on getting higher grades and balancing academics and extracurriculars,” she said. “My children are just focusing on what’s in front of them. This resource has been crucial — they’ve been extra helpful answering my questions.” WI

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headquarters of PCSB as part of its SOS (Save Our Students, Save Our Schools, Save OurSelves) campaign, the latest stage in National Collegiate’s efforts to keep its doors open and challenge the closure of charter schools east of the Anacostia River.

The gathering followed a press conference on the grounds of National Collegiate two days prior. The Rev. Graylan Hagler counted among several speakers who expressed support for the beleaguered charter school. Ward 8 Councilman Trayon White (D) also joined the conversation, telling The Informer on Monday that he scheduled a meeting with PCSB officials about the matter.

On Jan. 22, moments before issuing the 5-1-1 decision that revoked National Collegiate’s charter, board members said changes that National Collegiate leadership implemented to address concerns about graduation and enrollment rates, and quality of instruction didn’t come to fruition within the desired timeline.

Since last year, when discussion about revocation started, leaders at National Collegiate challenged PCSB’s narrative, repeatedly stating that they met eight out of nine agreed-upon goals, an assertion confirmed by documentation obtained

by The Informer. They also cite their standing as a school that performs

In the days leading up to the second installment of Serve Your City DC’s college admissions workshop, federal authorities announced the discovery of an extensive bribery network which provided youth from affluent families, including the daughter of one 1990s sitcom star, guaranteed admission into many of America’s most prestigious colleges and universities — even without the eligible academic background.

Maurice Cook, founder and director of the Serve Your City DC program, now in its eighth year, said such news further confirms the significance of Saturday’s “College Admissions: A Road Map” event for local families who seek to engage the college application process with integrity but lack the experience of preparing for such a milestone.

“We want to get as many students into college who can be able to afford it,” Cook said during the March 16 gathering at the Prince Hall Masonic Temple in Northwest. “We have to get our youth to

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their fullest potential.”

For two hours, the ballroom area on the second level of the Prince Hall Masonic Temple turned into a one-stop shop of resources for aspiring college students and their families.

Independent education consultant Rebecca Claster helped participants develop a personalized action plan for students along various stages of the K-12 experience.

Parents also had ample opportunity to learn about Serve Your City DC’s offerings, including college tours, mentorship, and a bevy of extracurricular activities and scholarships.

“It’s hard [for people] to acknowledge that as hard as we work to be eligible to get into college, there will be those who don’t have to work as hard and their success is predetermined on their parents,” Cook said as he touted Serve Your City DC’s mission. “That’s why we have to get as many people involved in the process.”

A 2018 Florida Gulf Coast University study found that college admissions responded less enthusiastically to Black candidates who engage in activism and demonstrated race consciousness.

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Youth Advocate Program Helps Teens with Education and Employment

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia

Cheers and loud applause greeted 10 young Maryland men who walked across the stage and accepted graduation certificates.

It was not a typical graduation, but the Feb. 28 ceremony at Coppin State University still was special.

The graduates were 10 youths who just one year ago faced the prospect of jail. Instead, they’re at home, in their communities going to school and work.

The graduation recognized their completion of YAWORX, a new tool in the resource kit developed by Youth Advocate Programs (YAP), Inc., a Maryland Department of Juvenile Services community-based alternative to youth incarceration.

Jasper, 18, the ceremony’s keynote speaker, said he had been in and out of correctional facilities prior to enrolling in YAP. “Going back to school,” Jasper said, explaining what he’s doing now. “I’m in college.”

Another graduate, Miguel, said the program changed his life.

“It was a good experience for me, it helped to keep me out of trouble, to keep my mind right and to learn to work on the outside,” he said, adding that he also learned how to wake up in a timely manner and maintain a daily routine.

The men worked with YAP’s advocate-mentors who are trained to help them identify and realize their strengths while connecting them and their families with accessible resources and tools that help firm their foundation.

The District counts among the 100 communities in 23 states that YAP serves.

YAP advocate Tim Rich helped Jasper apply for a learner’s permit and supported him as he prepared for his GED exam. Rich and his YAP colleagues also walked Jasper through his community college application process and job search.

Through YAPWORX, Jasper got a job as a DJS Green Cadet and later, in security, where he leans on his YAP experience to deescalate potentially confrontational situations with compassion and positive encouragement.

Miguel was selected for a Hispanic Advocates project to apply his bilingual translation skills to support non-English speaking

families during a recent School Choice Fair.

He teamed with interpreters of Arabic, Nepali, French and Spanish languages and continues to develop his interpreting skills with his eye on employment with the Hispanic Advocates staff.

“Many young people who’ve been involved in the justice system are facing substance abuse, mental health and trauma-related issues that if not addressed and treated properly make it extremely difficult for them to complete job readiness program,” said YAP Regional Director Craig Jernigan. “YAP’s uniqueness is how it builds relationships with employers, recognizing that some are hesitant to hire these young people.”

YAP has partnered for 44 years with youth justice and social services systems to give communities safe, effective, economical institutional placement alternatives.

YAPWORX youth work in hospitality and food service, on DJS Green Cadets maintenance crews, and in positions with Baltimore Tree Trust (arborists); Reasonable Tech Solutions (cybersecurity); Michael & Sons (HVAC); Healthy People Juice Bar; and The Food Project (manufacturing and produce).

The YAP Supported Work program enables businesses to provide jobs while YAP serves as employer.

It also makes it possible for neighborhood businesses like barbershops, startup entrepreneurs, print shops, and others to participate in YAPWORX. “Through these partnerships, YAP provides individualized, relevant career information and experiential learn-work activities and helps youth invest in their social capital to make real-worldwork connections,” said YAPWORX/Workforce Coordinator RaEmaa Hill. “Developing these connections is imperative, as it promotes knowledge exchange and spurs the discovery of mutual interests that support communities.”

Towson-based cybersecurity company Reasonable Tech owner James Mitchell, 39, worked for 15 years at Comcast and Verizon before being laid off in 2002.

Building his business was difficult as he struggled with limited income from small contracts while battling a heart condition and raising three children.

“Through those challenges, I

learned to persevere,” he said.

Today, he has three offices, providing basic IT services, security, routing and switching, and tech training.

Mitchell considers it his responsibility to provide opportunities to YAPWORX participants, saying it builds communities from the inside out.

“The first YAPWORX kid who worked for me told me when he met me at my office, he wasn’t expecting me, an African-American man, to be the owner,” Mitchell said. “He relaxed and wanted to know everything about the business. It almost made me tear up.

It makes me feel great.

“I showed him around, told him this place was completely empty when I rented it,” he said.

“I told him I wired this place up.

He couldn’t believe it. He said, ‘are you serious?’ I told him, never let anybody tell you that you can’t do something. When YAP Supported Work ends for these kids, if they decide technology is what they want, I’ll hire them and pay them as my own employees.” wi

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EDITORIAL The Black Press Turns 192 In 1827, the nation’s first African-American newspaper – Freedom’s Journal – was established in New York City.

Co-editors John B. Russwurm and Samuel E. Cornish, two free Black men – an abolitionist and a Presbyterian minister – stated in the paper’s first Page One editorial, “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us. Too long has the public been deceived by misrepresentations, in things which concern us dearly, though in the estimation of some mere trifles.”

They wrote about the abolition of slavery, education, economics, and civic engagement and all things “that concern us as a people.” Their editorials kept the flame of hope burning for a brighter future for the enslaved and the free.

One hundred and ninety-two years later, the National Newspaper Publishers Association – the trade association for the Black Press of America – is proudly keeping the torch burning and hosting publishers in the Nation’s Capital this week to commemorate Black Press Week.

With nearly 200 member newspapers in 36 states across the U.S., NNPA supports its members who reach an audience of more than 20 million readers whose voices it listens to and for whom they speak.

In this age of 21st-century media technology, NNPA media owners are the vanguards in media ownership. They are adding to their broadly-circulated weekly printed newspapers, a spectrum of vibrant websites, impactful digital newsletters, active social media messaging, television and radio broadcasts, podcasts and broadly-supported community events.

NNPA publishers no longer see themselves as just newspaper publishers, but as corporate

TO THE EDITOR A Real History Ward 8 Takes Step Lesson on Slavery in Right Direction I disagree with the story of the “first” Africans landing in Virginia in 1619. I mean, honestly, how do we know this for sure and why are we repeating it as fact? There are so many different accounts from scholars of all colors and cultures, but this is the narrative we’re riding with? Why? On top of everything, this so-called “commemoration” of African slaves, but no substantive move towards reparations? Sorry, I’m not buying it.

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I’m overjoyed by Busboys and Poets opening in Anacostia. A real sit-down restaurant with healthy, nutritious and even vegan options. This is the beginning of the renaissance of Anacostia, and not the gentrification. All it takes is one brave soul to make a step and the others will follow. Businesses and jobs the residents benefit from are needed. Ward 8 is indeed rising.

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media owners and leaders whose mission it is to employ committed and talented journalists to tell the untold stories impacting the lives of all Americans of African descent in our local markets, across the U.S. and around the globe.

It is not easy for Black publishers today to maintain their publications in this highly-competitive, fast-paced digital era while other media simultaneously face allegations of fake news. But then again, it has never been easy when the primary purpose of the Black Press was to oppose accepted systems and practices in the U.S. of bondage, subjugation, racism, sexism, discrimination, bigotry, intolerance, mass incarceration and more against Black people. Corporate advertisers were few and far between.

Yet, the Black Press has survived for 192 years due to Black people sacrificing their nickels and dimes to support their Black newspapers.

The Washington Informer is proud to be a part of this history and we are grateful to our readers, advertisers and supporters for allowing us to commemorate another year of the Black Press in America. WI

Greater Recognition Percolating for Two Women Crusaders

By Wayne Dawkins Special to the Washington Informer Evelyn Cunningham of the Pittsburgh Courier was a statuesque redhead who-stood 6-feet tall in high heels, according to a description in Mark Whitaker’s critically acclaimed 2017 book “Smoketown” that chronicled black Pittsburgh. Cunningham also turned heads in the working-class city because she dressed in the latest New York fashions, accented with her signature pearl necklace.

Cunningham [1916-2011] was a distinguished member of the 1940s-1950s era Black Press. She lobbied her editors to get out of covering ladies garden parties and cards games and instead become a civil rights correspondent. She covered lawyer Thurgood Marshall’s and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daring moves down South. For example, she rushed to the scene when King’s house in 1956 was demolished by firebombing domestic terrorists and watched the pastor calm the crowd.

Writer Herb Boyd in a November New York Amsterdam News appreciation of Cunningham, quoted her: “You have no idea the impact of watching this young man plead with these hundreds of people … standing in front of his house with Coke bottles and pipes, getting ready to go into town and beat up somebody, to watch him tell them to be calm … that was not the way. It was a no-win situation to take the bottles and the pipes and go start a fight. You could not do it that way.”

Cunningham’s three-part profile of Martin Luther King, wrote Mark Whitaker, scooped the major, so-called “white” daily newspapers, and her enterprise prompted the New York Times to hire her as a stringer while she continued working for the Courier [for a contemporary example, consider April Ryan, long-time White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Network, who recently picked up a second job as CNN political analyst].

Cunningham was chatted up Saturday, March 9 at a joint journalism history conference at New York University in Manhattan. A Duquesne University graduate student presented an academic paper, “More than a Voice for ‘The Women,’” the last two words a salute to the advice column Cunningham wrote in addition to reporting from historical markers of the civil rights movement. Emily Fitzgerald’s research – including study of 54 of Cunningham’s 1955 Courier columns – was work-inprogress for a future biography of the journalist.

That warmed my heart. In the last few years there has been a burst of substantive histories and biographies about the golden 20th century Black Press era. They include “Smoketown,” “The Defender,” a 2016 book about the Chicago newspaper, and a 2015 biography of Ethel Payne, “Eye on the Struggle, First Lady of the Black Press.” There’s room for more scholarship. Consider Cunningham’s platform. The Courier’s peak circulation back in the day was 250,000 weekly and when the passalong rate was factored in, said Fitzgerald, Cunningham reached 2 million readers.

Another woman Black Press icon – Ida B. Wells-Barnett – was recognized too at this daylong conference of about 50 professors, graduate student and doctoral candidates.

Lori Amber Roessner was among four academic authors at a session and she talked about her 2018 book, “Political Pioneer of the Press: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Transnational Crusade for Social Justice.” Roessner, an associate professor at the University of Tennessee, projected a Victorian-era portrait image of Wells-Barnett [1862-1931] and her two daughters, including 11-year-old Alfreda, standing upright and exuding middle-class respectability.

In 1971, grown-up Alfreda Wells Duster published Wells-Barnett’s autobiography, 40 years after her mother’s death. For many years the National Association of Black Journalists and Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism bestowed an Ida B. Wells award annually to a crusading journalist. Since 2001, a handful of Wells-Barnett biographies were published by authors including Paula Giddings and Walter Dean Myers, and handful more books were reissues of Wells-Barnett’s works, including “The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States,” and “Southern Horror: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.”

Yet, we need more books, said Roessner, because despite the icon’s fearless accomplishments, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, possibly America’s greatest investigative journalist, said the professor, lurks mostly in the footnotes of other historical figure’s books and deserves to be elevated.

With “Political Pioneer of the Press,” said Roessner, she wanted to erect a spiritual monument to

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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS Guest Columnist

By Julianne Malveaux

Let’s Call Out the White Terrorists

An Australian white nationalist man who says he hates immigrants acted out his hate by murdering at least 49 people and seriously injuring at dozens more. He directed his ire at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch, after posting a hate-filled manifesto that was

replete with anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim ranting.

It is important to know that it was a white man, not a person of color, who perpetrated the most deadly mass shooting in New Zealand. It is essential to call out the white terrorists that too many are too timid to call out by name.

They are called nationalists, but when they go on gun-toting rampages, especially in places of worship, it is not nationalism — it is terrorism, plain and simple.

Why are so many so willing to put adjectives around heinous acts, and to describe these terrorists as mentally ill? Why are so many willing to soft-pedal the abhorrence of these acts?

To his credit, the 45th president did acknowledge the “horrible massacre” in New Zealand, which is much better than he did when Heather Heyer was murdered in Charlottesville, and 45 said that there were “good people on both sides” of that insanity.

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The Charlottesville murder of Ms. Heyer is relevant because the man who slaughtered 49 people in New Zealand embraced our president as “a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose.”

Had 45 a speck of sense, he might have addressed his inclusion in the shooter’s manifesto and condemned it. But how could 45 actually condemn the actions of a white nationalist when, heretofore, he has em-

braced them, riled them up, supported them, and even used the word “nationalist” himself when it has suited him?

The New Zealand terrorist also referenced Dylann Roof in his manifesto. Roof, of course, was the man who has been convicted for his attack at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The way that law en-

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By Marc H. Morial

College Admissions Scandal Highlights Rampant Inequality

I have probable cause to believe that the defendants conspired with others known and unknown: (1) to bribe college entrance exam administrators to facilitate cheating on college entrance exams; (2) to bribe varsity coaches and administrators at elite universities to designate certain applicants as recruited athletes or as other favored candidates, thereby facilitating the applicants’ admission to those universities; and (3) to use the

facade of a charitable organization to conceal the nature and source of the bribe payments. — FBI College Admissions Bribery Scheme Affidavit In a few weeks, the National Urban League will release report cards on states’ plans to address inequity in their education system — plans they are required to submit to the federal government under the Every Child Succeeds Act. The task is daunting, as inequities are stark, everywhere in the United States.

That’s why the nation was outraged by the news that wealthy parents — whose children al-

ready have inconceivable advantages over low-income families — allegedly resorted to outright bribery and fraud to get their children into elite colleges.

More than 50 people, including two Hollywood actresses, were charged on allegations that ranged from included cheating on entrance exams and bribing college officials to claim falsely that certain students were athletic recruits.

That money plays a big role in elite college admissions has been no secret. A donation of $500,000 or more can equal 500 points on the SAT, according to

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journalist Daniel Golden, author of “The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges — and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates.”

Given the outrageous advantage wealthy families already legally have, the cheating scandal throws new light on the disparity of opportunity for low-income students and children of color. Disadvantaged students and their families who are striving with all their might and resources to overcome systemic challenges viewed the scandal with particular despair.

“Just knowing that due to cir-

cumstances outside of school, you do give your best in all that you can, but you also have to kind of balance being an adult,” high school senior Khiana Jackson of Kansas City told The New York Times. “To know that these parents are throwing money at all of these people and being like, ‘Can you do this for my child,’ it’s kind of discouraging. Some of us will probably have to work our whole lifetime to see money like this.”

African-American students have far less access to college preparatory courses. According to

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By Derrick Hollie

STEM — Another Way Out for African Americans

If you are a student or have a student at a public school in the DMV area, chances are someone asked you what you or your child is considering doing in the future living in our area. If so, this letter is for you.

Did you know the average income for African Americans in the U.S. is $36,651? That’s only about $10,000 higher than the national poverty line for a family of four.

If you believe everything you

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see on television or in the movies, you’d think African Americans have only four ways to escape poverty: sports, hustling, prison or in a body bag.

Does it pain me to see our communities portrayed this way? Absolutely. Is it a shame we make less than others simply because of the color of our skin?

In fact, it’s ridiculously unfair.

But stereotypes come from somewhere, and we must ask ourselves what we are doing to get out of this rut and break this destructive cycle.

The good news is there is a fifth way out of poverty: education. Specifically, education as it

pertains to the energy industry.

There’s a four-letter term sweeping across America and we are being left out in the cold, and it might be our own fault if we don’t step up and start doing something about it.

STEM, which stands for science, technology, engineering and math are subjects being touted by the educational sector to help propel kids into careers that will soon, if not already, dominate industries across the country. Real jobs, with real salaries, and a real path to develop a sustainable future. Contrary to what some people say – it’s not nerds who hold these positions

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– it’s smart people, making a good living.

Maybe you, or your child, is the top student in class and has a variety of options and opportunities to go to a four-year college or university, but not everyone is cut out for that, and that is okay. There is still hope and opportunities for high-paying jobs.

Whether it’s in oil and gas, wind or solar, nuclear or storage, there are countless jobs that need to be filled. They include everything from welders, tradesmen, laborers, manufacturing technicians, solar panel installers, electricians and truck driv-

ers, to name a few. The best part is that there are hundreds of different types of jobs in the energy industry just like these, with many organizations offering paid training to ensure workers are doing their jobs correctly and safely. That means the leap from whatever you, or them, are considering, these careers are possible through either a twoyear degree or more.

With the national average salary hovering just slightly above $56,000 a year, careers in energy-related or STEM-oriented careers can help make that

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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS Guest Columnist

By E. Faye Williams

Blacks on White Privilege

For many years, many Black people have been denied opportunities for no reason other than the color of their skin. Like many others, I’ve been guilty of saying, “It must be nice to have white privilege!”

Now, I’m not so sure. I’d rather not have anybody knocking on my door with evidence that I’ve violated the law by cheating somebody to get something I didn’t deserve. In other words, I

wouldn’t feel good about stealing something from someone who was more deserving via honest means than I was.

Most of us thought white privilege was a good thing for those with the privilege and never having to worry about their next meal, being able to pay utility bills, being able to pay for medicine they needed, and not worrying about where to find funds to pay for their child’s college education. That must have been nice.

I guess white privilege was good while it lasted.

In the past few days, white privilege has come to be a bit un-

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comfortable. As some of us struggle for everything we’ve ever had in life, we probably slept better not having been the recipient of white privilege. Though some of us have worked to achieve justice and equality all of our lives, we’d rather be in our shoes than in the position of the privileged ones who’re flashed across TV screens for cheating to get their children in so-called “good schools.”

We probably feel better that the Russians didn’t help us win an election we didn’t deserve. Those of us without the benefit of white privilege are probably happy that we’re not Michael Flynn, Rog-

er Stone, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates — or the occupants in the White House.

Just being the daughter of #45, Ivanka and her husband received at least a cool $82 million last year! Now that’s super white privilege, but I still think my clothing is just fine so I don’t need to have white privilege to attract others to buy my brand of clothing while I sweat it out wondering whether white privilege will keep me out of jail for breaking laws.

I feel more comfortable trying to live up to the 10 Commandments, trying to use my resources helping family honestly, serving

my community, treating all with respect, honesty and fairness.

When I make a mistake, I do all I can to not make any privilege I may have to excuse myself.

I asked several Black friends, and none wanted unfair privilege.

One of those with whom I spoke said, “The most phenomenal aspect of white privilege is that its benefactors are oblivious to it.

They get exceptional privileges without the psychological drain of being aware of it. They get a huge dopamine drip as if they accomplished things on their own merit,

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By Marian Wright Edelman

Cruel Threats to Hungry Families and Children

Once again, children and families are under attack. After failing in past efforts to slash funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, also known as food stamps), the Trump administration is taking a new approach to crippling the program millions of families in the United States depend on to

survive and alleviate their hunger pangs. Recently the administration proposed regulations to tighten restrictions on access to SNAP benefits for unemployed and underemployed people who can’t document sufficient weekly work hours. This rule would take food assistance away from an estimated 755,000 people who cannot find work. It is also a callous response to the bipartisan Farm Bill which passed in the fall and rejected harmful cuts to SNAP. If this rule goes forward,

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it’s not just unemployed and underemployed adults who will go hungry — poor children suffer when adults in their household lose access to food assistance. But it’s not too late to protect these children if you make your voice heard immediately and tell the Department of Agriculture not to take food away from needy families.

Children need reliable access to healthy food to thrive. Hunger and malnutrition jeopardize children’s health, development,

school readiness and job readiness. SNAP helps feed more than 40 million low-income people in America including nearly 20 million children—more than one in four—and lifted more than 1.5 million children out of poverty in 2016, more than any other government program.

Given the critical role SNAP plays for children and families in communities across the country, the proposed changes that would kick hundreds of thousands of people off SNAP are mean-spir-

ited, shortsighted, harmful, will increase food insecurity and must be stopped.

While current law doesn’t permit SNAP work requirements for children or adults with children, the ripple effects of these expanded restrictions extend beyond the people they target.

Imposing work requirements on able-bodied adults without dependents harms children too because children living in poverty

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By Askia Muhammad

Justice for Jamil

Jamil Al-Amin, a Muslim Imam and veteran of the all-absorbing civil rights movement of the 1960s and ‘70s when he was known as H. Rap Brown, is, I believe, an unjustly imprisoned man.

An effective, uncompromising religious community leader on Atlanta’s West End, he was convicted of murdering a sheriff’s deputy in a shootout in March 2000, when two officers attempted to enforce a warrant.

He and his supporters maintain

his innocence. The surviving deputy testified that he shot the assailant — who had gray eyes — in the exchange of gunfire.

Al-Amin’s eyes are brown, and he had no gunshot injury when he was captured just four days later.

Jamil-el Amin is no stranger to federal prosecution and persecution. The FBI’s infamous, secret COINTELPRO document called for “neutralizing” him. He went into hiding for 18 months when he was listed among the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives. After a robbery conviction, he served five years at the infamous Attica

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Penitentiary where he converted to Islam.

A fugitive, a fighter, now a Muslim; it’s easy to see from the White nationalist perspective, why law enforcement authorities might want to “neutralize” him. Despite the Constitutional promise of a presumption of innocence, everywhere Jamil Al-Amin went, he wore a conspicuous target on his back.

After this unjust conviction — another man, a prisoner, has even confessed, twice now, to being the gunman who shot and killed Deputy Ricky Kinchen that day — since this unjust conviction, Al-Amin has

been held in some of the most punishing federal prisons in the land. And he is not permitted to speak to outsiders or the media. In fact, Al-Amin’s friend Imam Abdul Ali told supporters at a recent rally in D.C., the letters he receives are re-typed by prison authorities before he reads them, lest he see the originals where his friends might have encoded secret messages in handwritten letters and numbers.

Well, weeping may endure through the night, but joy cometh in the morning. The Imam Jamil Action Network has formed, and they kicked

off a campaign: inside the U.S. and state courts; in the United Nations international system of courts; and in the court of public opinion.

The network reports that despite medical challenges — symptoms of Sjogren’s syndrome and smoldering myeloma (a form of blood cancer) — they have beaten back attempts to “execute him by medical neglect.” Al-Amin’s health has improved, the network says, and his spirit remains strong, and they have pressured prison authorities to “monitor” his sit-

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LIFESTYLE ing-class Black people of African descent around the world who lack direct control over their land and political, economic, and social affairs.

While I had Pan-African leanings, my life fully transformed in 2015 when I read “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey” during daily morning commutes to a left-leaning media organization where I worked as a health reporter. In October of that year, I quit that job to focus on my budding grassroots news organization The AllEyesOnDC Show, having accepted that Black journalists cannot tell the whole truth about the Black African experience under the auspices of white editors.

Fifteen months prior, I left The Informer, where I learned the basics of grassroots journalism from the late, great Denise W. Barnes, to pursue this new opportunity.

In my naiveté, I sought a full-time journalism job, my first out of graduate school, that would take me outside of Black news industry circles. However, just as had been the case in graduate school and at

internships at major media organizations, navigating non-Black media spaces became an exercise in repressing my passion for Black people and culture.

As hard as I tried to coexist with white liberal coworkers and colleagues of color with similar sentiments, I just couldn’t ignore the lack of intimacy with which editors tackled my news pitches. Despite those hurdles, the final products, oftentimes about police-involved shootings, food deserts, the trauma of neighborhood violence, lead exposure, apprehensions about vaccines, and other racially relevant topics I tackled as a health reporter, had a Pan-African flair and included the voices of everyday people.

But as Garvey wisely articulated in “Philosophy and Opinions,” the good fight couldn’t continue on the enemy’s court, even if those white colleagues had come to respect my unique perspective.

Since leaving that job, I’ve carried on the legacy of Garvey and the Negro World newspaper with live news events at We Act Radio in Southeast, and Sankofa Video Books & Cafe in Northwest. Last year, I returned to The Informer as a politics and education reporter. As we quickly approach the four-year anniversary of The AllEyesOnDC Show in April, I can’t think of a situation that would make me any happier.

While other influences pushed me in this direction, Mr. Garvey’s timeless words definitely inspired a sudden, but well-thought-out, career move that allowed me to truly embody my spirit as an African living in the Babylon system. For that, I am eternally grateful. Race first! WI

5 Sam P.K. Collins, founder and host of All Eyes on DC. (Facebook grab)

ed Negro Improvement Association and has long been heralded as the father of the Pan-African Movement.

Dr. Garvey graduated from Wolmer’s Trust High School for Boys in Kingston in 1950; earned his B.S. degree from McGill University in Montréal, Canada in 1957; and his M.D., C.M. degree from McGill University Faculty of Medicine in 1961. He then embarked on a long, successful medical career in cities that include Montréal, New York City, Baltimore, serving both as an instructor in surgery and an attending-in-charge of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery.

And while he and his wife, Constance Lynch Garvey, now enjoy and celebrate their senior years, as well as their children, Nzinga, Makeda and Paul and grandchildren, he also continues to advance the philosophies first espoused by his father.

Washington Informer: What is the status of your mission to have your father’s name cleared through a presidential pardon?

Dr. Garvey: As you know, we first submitted our request to President Barack Obama who failed to act for reasons he never explained publicly or to me. As for President Trump, we have not made any official application to him. Usually pardons are issued at the end of a president’s term but Trump has already broken with that tradition with the pardon of Jack Johnson.

Roger Stone (Trump’s longtime confidant and former campaign advisor), for reasons still unclear to me, has suggested that Trump pardon my father. We’ve had no direct communication with Stone and I cannot say how he came to his conclusion – but I agree with his reasons. That said, we continue to

press on.

WI: In earlier interviews, you talked about how difficult it was in your childhood with your father being labeled as a criminal.

How did you make the transition that changed your perspective?

Dr. Garvey: Like all others, maturity comes with attending school and college, reading and throughout one’s professional life. In my case, especially as I moved from one country to another, I became exposed to many different cultures and eventually developed a more expansive understanding of how the world works. As a child, with my dad being imprisoned both in Jamaica and in the U.S., his imprisonment came with certain connotations. But my mother raised me, as well as my brother (Marcus Jr.), and taught me how my father was victimized on two fronts: in Jamaica, under a co-

Walking in the Footsteps of Marcus Garvey

By Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins In the 1920s, the United States, Britain, and France pressured the Liberian government to renege on a deal that would’ve allocated several acres of land to the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey and Black repatriates returning to the Motherland. Not long after, Garvey would be convicted of mail fraud and deported to his native Jamaica.

Nearly a century later, Garvey’s legacy has even more relevance to those who call themselves Garveyites, including this American-born Liberian who reconciled the complexity of his Black African identity not too long ago.

That journey continued last summer when I learned that Garvey had his eye on Cape Palmas, my father’s birthplace, as the ideal base for his Back-to-Africa movement. That discovery, made during a conference, further confirmed my calling as a grassroots journalist to represent the Black African nation — the millions of work-

GARVEY from Page 1 advancement of the Black Press and the crusade for racial equality and economic advancement for African Americans: the Rev. Frances Murphy Draper, the great-granddaughter of John Henry Murphy, Sr., a former slave and the founder of The Afro-American (1892); and Dr. Julius W. Garvey, the second-born son of Marcus Garvey who founded the Negro World in New York City in 1918.

Dr. Garvey, a surgeon and medical professor, born Sept. 17, 1933 in Kingston, Jamaica (to Garvey and activist Amy Jacques Garvey), spoke to The Washington Informer in an exclusive interview about his life, since his retirement, and the continued relevance of the teachings of his father who, among his many accomplishments, founded the Unit-

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The Legacy of Marcus Garvey

lonial system of oppression and in the U.S., by a racist system that disadvantaged African Americans and remained intent on keeping them down in terms of their rightful expression as human beings. This was imparted on me at a very early age.

As I have read, traveled and studied, I have come to understand the impact of globalization, economic materialism and the ramifications of white supremacy as I moved from one plantation to another. In time, my thoughts have crystalized and coincided with my father’s evaluation. Looking back 100 years since he came to us, I realize that not a lot has changed. Even though people of color have achieved more political and social autonomy, we’re still deprived equal economic opportunities in terms in terms of being able to de-

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LIFESTYLE The Legacy of Marcus Garvey GARVEY from Page 32 velop our own communities. Blacks are still at the bottom of the ladder so to speak in the U.S. hierarchy, and the social and economic order.

The economic order should actually be placed first as it determines one’s social order in the U.S. – a country that professes to be an economic democracy.

WI: Where do we go from here?

Dr. Garvey: My father’s teachings and solutions are still relevant.

Self-sufficiency and unity of all African people globally, not just on continent but in the Diaspora should be our first goal. The system that oppresses us is a worldwide system of globalism and a material conception of society. As African people, we have a diff conception of society, primarily spiritual, and only secondarily material. That’s allowed us to stay alive. But we need to develop an economic base so we can grow in terms of our own sociological, cultural and educational status based on our own understanding of the universe.

We are the original people and the original civilization. Our cosmology is one in which we are one with nature. Nature is not our enemy and is not to be exploited. Nature is our home. African praxis directs us to the truth that we are at home in the universe and should treat it as our home and nurture it. We need to validate these principles not just in our philosophy but in our we educate our children and build their characters – who and what they become. We’ve been unable to define those characteristics for ourselves because we lack the economic basis to build our own educational system.

So, we still have a long way to go in terms of realizing the means for Black self-sufficiency.

It’s not separation of the races that’s needed – we can live in the same geographical locations. Neither is it practical or even warranted.

We are one race of people. But our identity as African people needs to be validated.

WI: Did you feel any additional pressure being the child of Marcus Garvey?

Dr. Garvey: Maybe a little but minimally. My brother is three years older than me and he had more pressure placed on him – plus be became more involved in politics to some degree, especially growing up

in Jamaica. He became president of the organization our father founded for over 10 years. I was a physician and that was where my focus went.

I had my own internal pressures – to never disgrace the family name. But I never felt any pressure to walk in my father’s footsteps.

WI: What’s on your bucket list?

Dr. Garvey: To clear my father’s name, to continue to help Africans wherever we are in the U.S. Caribbean and on the continent. And I can do more now that I’m retired.

African people all need to carry forward the legacies of our leaders like Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X. Our forefathers were unable to accomplish all they wanted. It’s up to us to assume some responsibility to move us further along the arc of redemption, renaissance and the redevelopment of our people as a civilization.

WI: How do you feel about your father being recognized by the NNPA in this year’s enshrinement ceremony and do you see the Black Press as being still relevant today?

Dr. Garvey: We have to tell our

own story. My dad did that successfully over time, beginning with his teenage years, learned the printing press and how to print the word. He became a journalist so that he could always be involved in telling our own story. Also, he developed his oratorical skills, in large part through his work in newspapers, other publications and public speeches. At one point his words reached between 6 and 11 million people worldwide.

Some of his readers may not have been members of the UNIA but they were supporters. Now we have other means including the internet and African Americans must take advantage of these means of communication to unite. That was his purpose: to tell our own story so we can educate our people and connect to one another.

The Black Press is just as, if not more important, as it was in the past. Those who think differently are confused. It’s a silly notion to say the Black Press doesn’t matter.

Without them, no one will hear our story. History is a record of the people who won the battles. If the lion had killed the hunter, it would be a much different account. If we don’t tell our story, others will tell it for us.

Those who write history dominate the system. That’s why my father fought so hard to change the system. Who else will speak the truth and promote the thoughts, accomplishments and needs of the African Diaspora if not the Black Press? WI

5 Dr. Julius Garvey standing at the exhibit of his father, Marcus Garvey, at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2016. (Courtesy photo/Justice4Garvey.com)

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Retracing the history of Marcus Garvey

By Raymond Dugué Special to The Washington Informer Marcus Mosiah Garvey built a mass organization that went beyond mere civil-rights agitation and protest and based itself upon a definitive, wellthought-out program that would lead to the total emancipation of the race from foreign dominion. As per Garvey, “The world has made being Black a crime, and instead of making it a crime, I hope to make it a virtue.”

It was over 100 years ago that when traveling from England back to his land of birth — Jamaica — that Marcus Garvey asked himself a most profound set of question: where is the Black man’s government, where are his king and kingdom, where are his president, his country, and his ambassador, his army, his navy and his men of big affairs? In other words, where on the planet could any African be considered free and independent? At that time in June 1914, only three African states could be considered independent: Ethiopia, Haiti and Liberia. In July 1915, Haiti would be subjected to a 19-year-long brutal and violent occupation under the hands of the U.S., Liberia would always be under the guise of the colonial masters in West Africa, and while Ethiopia in East Africa was a free and sovereign state, it had to expend many resources to continue to remain free from the colonial masters. As Garvey stated, “I could not find them, and then I declared, I will help to make them.”

This would become the starting point in Marcus Garvey’s quest to uplift and free the entire African race, those at home and those abroad. Consequently, he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and African Communities League (ACL) on July 20, 1914, in Jamaica.

Ultimately, Marcus Garvey was able to organize more than 12

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million Africans worldwide in 38 states of the US and 41 countries on the planet. He came along and pronounced that “The Black skin was not a badge of shame, but a glorious symbol of national greatness.”

No Black leader had ever espoused those words and had ever captivated Black people such as him. As he was a student of history, Garvey used history to inspire and educate, and not to dwell in it. In the end, Garvey sold the Black Man to himself so that he believed that a better day is coming.

Garvey would go on to purchase and own three ships: SS Yarmouth, SS Shadyside and SS Kanawa. He would go on to own 11 buildings just in Harlem: Grocery Store #1, #2, and #3 at 47 West 135, 646 Lenox Avenue, and 552 Lenox Avenue, respectively; Universal Restaurant #1 and #2 at 114 West 138 Street and 75 West 135 Street, respectively; Black Dolls Factory at 36-38 West 135 Street; Universal Printing House at 2305 Seventh Avenue,; Universal Mart Industry at 62 West 142 Street; UNIA HQ at 56 West 135 Street; Black Star Line Steamship Corp HQ at 54 West 135 Street; and the Phyllis Wheatley Hotel at 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 West 136 Street. All of this

as a result of Black people believing in his vision of a free and united race.

Possibly the greatest propaganda at his disposal was the Negro World newspaper. It was the world’s most successful international weekly publication with a subscription of over 500,000. It was so successful that the British empire banned the newspaper in most of its colonies. It was single-handedly responsible for the education of African people worldwide as it had Black history, arts, culture and women’s pages starting in 1918.

Motivated to upend the song, “Every Race Has a Flag But the Coon,” Garvey built an economic empire and established a Declaration of Rights (August 1920) resulting in the creation of a government (in exile) so as to secure the rights for all Africans worldwide.

Subsequently, he instituted that the colors of the Black race are to be Red, Black, and Green.

Garvey’s idea of racial pride was not a matter of envy towards other races. Rather, he advocated self-discipline as the basis of pride and was severely critical of complainers. As Garvey said, “Up you mighty race; you can accomplish what you will.”

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In this painting by Baltimore native and artist Larry “Poncho” Brown, as depicted in his 2019 calendar, “Color My Soul” by Poncho, he continues to promote the following message: “My work attempts to capture ‘SOUL’ while depicting positive representations of African-American life. My creations are a reflection of my personal values and pay homage to ongoing themes of unity, family and spirituality.”

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By Hamil R. Harris WI Contributing Writer Empowered by a record 55 members on Capitol Hill, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus has teamed up with a coalition of civil rights groups to mobilize African Americans across the country behind a progressive legislative agenda to write a new chapter of American history being led by women and people of color.

When she was sworn in as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) said the occasion marked the beginning of “correcting the trauma that we have all experienced on a daily basis for the last two years,” and on March 14, Bass met with her female colleagues and a group of civil rights activists to talk about that effort.

“Women are confronting the discrimination that represents the intersectionality of being black and being a woman,” said Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), one several CBC members who spoke at the event about their legislative priorities. “We stand up for Voting Rights and the re-enfranchisement of individuals who have paid their debt

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to society. We stand up for social justice and compressive criminal justice reform.”

Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.), a member of the House Appropriation’s Committee, said “we are in a fight to close the wage gap,” while Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) said with the record number of African Americans and women in Congress, she is constantly reminded that “it is African-American women who will help us to regain the soul of America.”

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said that after years of trying in vain to get any type of gun control legislation through Congress, it might finally happen this year.

“It’s our time for change and we are mobilizing through your efforts, Sister Melanie — Black American women across the country,” Jackson-Lee said to Melanie L. Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and National Convener of the Black Women’s Roundtable.

Campbell, whose organization is dedicated to organizing voters and fighting against voter suppression, said, “We are deter-

mined to make sure that we save our Democracy from peril.”

Echoing those sentiments were a number of speakers from across the country.

Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said the time is now to “hold corrupt officials accountable who take actions to harm voters,” and Cassandra Welchlin, co-convener and lead organizer of the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable, said poor women are dying because of federal cutbacks.

Welchlin spoke of Shateria Sade Shoemaker, a young mother in Houston, Mississippi, who Welchlin said died after an asthma attack because the emergency room at the nearest hospital to her home had been closed because of Medicaid cutbacks.

“She called 911 and the [emergency room] at the hospital that was eight minutes away had closed and the closest hospital was 30 minutes away,” Welchlin said. “It’s criminal. Shateria Sade Shoemaker died. She had an asthma attack. Why did the hospital close? We need Congress to pass and fund the budget for safety net programs.”

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Women’s History Month: Juanita Jackson Mitchell

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia

When Juanita Jackson Mitchell died in 1992 at the age of 79, she was praised as one Maryland’s heroines and the matriarch of a family whose name became synonymous with civil rights causes.

“It was fitting that she received recognition because she was always one of those unsung champions of the cause and one who needs to be celebrated during both Black History and Women’s History months,” said Shane Carter, a self-described Black-history buff.

Mitchell, the daughter of legendary NAACP leader Lillie Carroll Jackson, spent most of her life fighting against racism and segregation.

“I am an old freedom fighter. I came up in that tradition,” Mitchell once said in describing her upbringing.

Mitchell’s parents, who were living in Baltimore at the time, was traveling in Hot Springs, Arkansas when Mitchell was born. She’d later become one of the first Black women to graduate from the University of Maryland Law School and the first Black woman to practice law in the state of Maryland.

Her late husband, Clarence M. Mitchell Jr., was a nationally recognized Capitol Hill lobbyist for the NAACP and her children, Michael B. Mitchell and Clarence M. Mitchell III, went on to become state senators.

Mitchell and her family frequently moved across the South as her father showed feature films in church basements, often the only facilities available to Black people while she was growing up. While her father changed movie reels, Mitchell would recite poetry to the moviegoers, according to BlackThen.com.

In 1937, Mitchell became the NAACP’s first national youth director and visited the Scottsboro Boys in prison. Under her leadership, the NAACP youth groups launched a letter-writing campaign to protest the conviction of the Scottsboro Boys, as well as set up a fundraising drive to help support the young men.

She also led the key NAACP Baltimore branch during the same crucial period.

5 University of Maryland School of Law graduate Juanita Jackson Mitchell in cap and gown with her sons Clarence M. Mitchell III, Keiffer Mitchell and Michael Bowen Mitchell at the university’s College Park campus (Paul Henderson/Maryland Historical Society)

Mitchell founded the Baltimore City-Wide Young People’s Forum in 1931 and the NAACP Youth Movement in 1935.

In 1942, she directed a march on Maryland’s Capitol with 2,000 citizens, as well as the first city-wide “Register and Vote” campaign. The campaign resulted in 11,000 new voter registrations on the books.

In 1958, Mitchell directed the NAACP’s “Register to Vote” campaign, which resulted in over 20,000 new registrations.

She was appointed to Presidential Commissions by Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Mitchell also was a member of various organizations that supported the well-being of African Americans, such as Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the National Association of Negro Business, and the Black American Professional Women’s Club.

In 1986, she was inducted into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame.

“Folks like Juanita Mitchell Jackson are the folks we often miss during Black History Month and during Women’s History Month because everyone wants to concentrate on celebrities and superstars,” Carter said. “But people should take a minute to look at the history of our real heroes.” WI

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Inaugural Black Girls Rock Festival Culminates with Marathon Concert

By Eve M. Ferguson WI Contributing Writer Following on the heels of the earlier “Rock Like a Girl” concert, the inaugural Black Girls Rock festival kicked off a three-day celebration of Black women in music of all genres.

The brainchild of Beverly Bond, a renowned DJ, cultural curator, television producer and author, the festival opened with a free dance party featuring Bond and MC Lyte for the weekend event and ended with a marathon “Rock Like a Girl” concert bookending the event with a book talk for Bond’s book “Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic.

Rocking Our Truth,” and panel discussion in between.

BGR! is the brand that Bond began originally as an awards show, which continues to air on Centric TV. Hundreds of Black girls and women streamed into the Kennedy Center’s Atrium for the kickoff party on International Women’s Day readying themselves for the grand finale, a more than three-hour con-

cert featuring local girl band Be’la Dona, which backed the first artists making cameo appearances on the stage.

Led off by Nonchalant of “5 O’Clock” fame, the crowd was pumped and sang along to familiar songs, followed by special guests Elle Varner, Leela James and Rapsody. While several of the performers were chanteuses and rappers, the final guest, James, truly rocked it out, allowing Be’la Dona to flex its rock muscles for a headbanging end to the first segment.

The show was headlined by Mumu Fresh, a local artist also known by her given name of Maimouna Yousef, and Jazmine Sullivan. But before they came on, the concert allowed ample — maybe too much — time to rapper LeiKeli47, whose masked persona and bold rap lyrics attracted the attention of the producers of Issa Rae’s HBO series “Insecure,” which features her music regularly.

Mumu Fresh, who didn’t really fit the label of a “rocker,” nevertheless brought her sophisticated and

substantial social justice rap lyrics, along with some incredible widerange vocals with a touch of jazz.

Dressed resplendently in a bright blue caped pantsuit, she stole the show from a late and lackluster Sullivan, who seemed almost sedated after Yousef’s fiery and diverse set.

Closing out the night heading into the midnight hour, Sullivan raced through her hit songs, including “Need You Bad” and “Bust Your Windows” and “#HoodLove.”

“I am thrilled to be launching the BGR!FEST with the prestigious Kennedy Center, a true pillar of artistic excellence, and to expand the Black Girls Rock brand to the nation’s capital, home to one of the most vibrant communities of color in the country,” Bond said of the festival, which will make a return next year. “This relationship furthers our mission to build platforms that advance black women’s contributions to the world, and highlight how women of color use art as a tool to drive feminist thought, personal empowerment, and civic engagement.” WI

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‘JQA’ Sheds New Light on Life of John Quincy Adams DC Native Gets Unexpected Lesson in History on and off Stage

By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor @dkevinmcneir The world premiere of “JQA,” a fictitious tale written and directed by Aaron Posner about the life of the eighth secretary of state and the sixth president of the U.S., John Quincy Adams, presents a challenging perspective on American history that continues to impact the nation some 150 years after his death.

The play continues at the Arena Stage through April 14 and while Posner succeeds in his goal to help us “look at today through the lens of yesterday,” one has to wonder why he felt compelled to tackle the life of a privileged son of a former president whose intellectual prowess failed him in his role as a father, husband and as a leader who could have done so much more to promote and secure the abolition of slavery.

History may have little positive to say about Adams (1767-1848) but Posner’s energetic dialogue, presented with great aplomb by a talented, four-member cast, maintains the action from start to finish, the result being a production well worth the price of admission.

In addition, Posner, following a casting decision recently-employed within today’s theatrical world, allows each of the four actors, Jacqueline Correa, Eric Hissom, Phyllis Kay and Joshua David Robinson, to portray Adams, race and gender notwithstanding – later changing their roles in the portrayal of historical figures of great significance each of whom lived during his lifetime including his wife, Louisa, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson and Frederick Douglass.

Native Washingtonian Joshua David Robinson, stellar in his roles as Jackson and the heralded abolitionist Douglass, said his desire to become an actor developed during his youth due to tremendous experiences, opportunities and resources provided by the District and his encouraging family.

“DC is a rich environment and a fertile ground for creativity and debate that has long allowed its youth to take advantage of its resources – from summer camp at

the Smithsonian to seeing actors on stage presenting the classics of Shakespeare to musicals like ‘Phantom of the Opera’ which blew my mind when I first saw it as a child at the Kennedy Center,” he said. “Those experiences opened my eyes and my mind in ways that I’m still discovering today.”

“The theater is a place for community – a gathering point where people go to voluntarily have a shared and often emotional experience with strangers. I’ve found this fact to be truly awesome. If actors do their job effectively, the community leaves the theater differently from the way they entered. In ‘JQA,’ the cast is given the opportunity to step into the soul of a white man who profoundly affected this country which each of us call home.”

“I learned a great deal about Adams while preparing for the show. JQA was a fascinating guy and a member of a political dynasty in an era where votes for office were more often argued for than bought. What struck me most about him though was his spirit. He was a man of unimpeachable, unyielding and unforgiving integrity – a quality that allowed him to achieve great heights but also doomed him to a life of little happiness.”

“By changing roles as a cast member, I discovered once again that representation is powerful – in this play it helps claim our shared history. I believe audiences will leave the theatre with a sense that everyone can make a difference in this country and the world and that significance isn’t

History may have little positive to say about Adams (1767-1848) but Posner’s energetic dialogue, presented with great aplomb by a talented, four-member cast, maintains the action from start to finish.

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5 Eric Hissom (JQA/John Adams/Henry Clay) and Joshua David Robinson (JQA/Frederick Douglas/Andrew Jackson) in ‘JQA’ at Arena Stage (Photo by C. Stanley Photography).

reserved for only a select few. It’s for all of us.”

Robinson, now living in Brooklyn, said he could have never anticipated being cast as Andrew Jackson, but loved the chance.

“It may not be my dream role, that is, if such a role has even been written – one that I may have to write myself one day – but it was a real pleasure and joy,” he said. “Who would have thought that I’d have the opportunity to explore someone who’s vastly different from me? It was really exciting.”

As for youth who hope to cut their teeth one day as professional thespians, Robinson, who completed studies at NYU in the MFA graduate program, says one has to “love being an actor.”

“There’s no formula for success,” he said. “The truth is you have to understand that being an actor has no guarantees. I have found it to be exhilarating and challenging. But I really can’t express in words how much being an actor means to me, particularly as it has given me the chance to serve as a vehicle for social change.

But it’s a sacrifice, not only for the actor but for those who love and care about you. That’s why I am deliberate in the projects I choose. I want to always honor the sacrifices my loved ones and I have made that allowed me to perfect my craft and to pursue my dreams.”

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“I’ve noticed over the past 10 years, a lot of young actors who also grew up in this area and are graduates of the many performing arts schools in the DMV,” said Williams who credits his high school alma mater, Eleanor Roosevelt in Prince George’s County, as a “great place for aspiring actors, singers, dancers and musicians.”

“I started in the band playing for the school musicals and felt comfortable because it was safe and I was part of a group. I wanted to be an actor but being alone on stage frightened me. It wasn’t until I got to college and began performing at Six Flags in Largo in the main stage shows that I grew more confidant singing and dancing in front of people and eventually overcame my stage fright.”

In “A Bronx Tale,” Williams tackles the role of Jesse, as well as being a member of the ensemble.

And with an impressive repertoire including the national/international tour of “Dreamgirls” (South Korea) – an eye-opening experience because of the challenge of translating the nuances of race relations so Korean audiences would understand – and being cast in the regional production of “Smokey Joe’s Café,” he feels prepared, confident and is anxious to take the stage as his friends and family root him on.

“This show is a coming of age story – a cross between ‘Jersey Boys’ and ‘West Side Story’ and we have to do it all: deliver our

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5 The Cast of “A Bronx Tale” (foreground, l to r) Haley Hannah, Joseph Sammour, Joshua Michael Burrage, Giovanni DiGabriele, Sean Bell, Kyli Rae. (background, l to r) Robert Pieranunzi, Michael Barra, Paul Salvatoriello and Mike Backes. (Courtesy photo/Joan Marcus)

lines, hit those tight doo-wop harmonies and dance for all it’s worth,” he said. “With casts today much smaller as compared to back in the day, if you want to make it in this business, you have to be able to not only fit and look the part, but also have all of the skills. Directors are looking for and expecting triple threats.”

“In many ways, your success rests on whether you are ‘the piece’ that’s needed for a larger puzzle. I suppose it’s always been that way, but now it’s almost a requirement. That’s why you have to constantly work to improve all of your skills – taking dance classes or working with a vocal coach. Everybody is talented.

That said, you must be able to handle rejection. It may sound morbid, but young people need to be prepared for that part of the profession – something you don’t learn in school. That’s the real world and the competition is fierce. Some find rejection jarring – others are galvanized by it. Either way, you just have to jump in because there’s no way to prepare.”

As for this production, he says he particularly enjoys being part of a cast whose task is to make the audience feel like they’ve been transported back to 1968.

“I’m part of one crew and with my best friend Tyrone, we hang out and claim authority over our neighborhood,” he said. It’s the Italians versus the African Americans and we want to exude the look, the feel and the sound of that era. I was raised on the

music popular back then – the Motown Sound – singers whose songs told stories like the Jackson 5, Diana Ross and Smokey Robinson.”

One day, he hopes to realize his dream of being in the musical “Hairspray” – his all-time favorite film since first seeing it as a youth – a show he says will forever “hold a special place in my life.”

Since moving to New York 12 years ago, and given his hectic touring schedule, down time is a true luxury, he notes. During those moments, he likes to watch horror films, discover the cities where the production is on stage with headphones in tow or take a few yoga classes and exercise at the gym.

“The days are pretty much our own since the majority of our performances are at night,” he said. “But you have to give your body time to recover. It sounds great, doing eight or 10 shows, but it’s more difficult than you might imagine.”

“I owe a lot of my success to my fantastic acting coach, Matthew Corozine, who since 2011 has helped me find my point of view as a person and actor. I’ve become a better dancer with my teacher Heather Rigg who gave me my dance voice. No matter what, when you enter a room for auditions, you have to be ready, self-assured and confident.

I know I’ve been blessed. I like where I am in my career these days – I wouldn’t want to do anything else.” WI

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ARIES ARIES After a four-week period in which the sun has been in a private sector and the energy focused inward, this week could be like a rebirth. As the sun enters your sign midweek for a four-week stay, it can seem as though you’re at the beginning of a whole new phase. Hopefully, in recent weeks you’ve found closure on certain issues. This can give you a clean slate on which to make your mark. Lucky Numbers: 5, 28, 35

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GEMINI If you’ve hesitated to resolve an issue, an intense focus could see you taking steps to do so now. Part of this might involve pushing past any resistance to getting results. Powerful energies midweek could inspire you to do what you have to do so you can move forward. The relief you feel will make it all worth it. Lucky Numbers: 6, 7, 55

TAURUS As fiery Mars aligns with powerful Pluto, this potent energy could inspire you to take a bold step forward and feel confident about doing so. There is another shift in focus, too, as the sun moves into a subtle sector of your chart for a month. Its presence here can inspire you to tie up loose ends and find closure regarding situations that have been hanging over you for too long.

And you might find that any forward progress is delayed until you do. Lucky Numbers: 2, 12, 43

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CANCER An event that involves others on your wavelength could give you the confidence that you’re on the right track. If you’ve wondered about following a certain path, the coming days could reassure you that you’re doing the right thing. You could feel this at a very deep and instinctual level, suggesting that destiny may be at work. Lucky Numbers: 10, 12, 22

By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer You are a really great kid.

You can run fast and jump high. You can smile and sing and catch a ball. You might even know how to make a sandwich or help out around the house. You’re pretty awesome all-around, but in “Power Up” by Seth Fishman, illustrated by Isabel Greenberg, your insides are especially incredible.

Here’s something you might not know: You’re a fireball from the skies.

No, really. If you could look inside your body, you’d find the same ingredients that make stars. And get this: if you could harness it properly, the littlest finger on your right hand has energy enough to run millions of refrigerators and TVs, light up hundreds of schools and run an entire city’s worth of traffic lights. All on the same day!

It takes energy to do everything; even just sitting and listening to music or reading a piece of paper takes energy. The bones and muscles inside you take energy to keep you singing and jumping and smiling, from the smallest bone inside your head to the largest bone in your thigh, from the smallest muscle in your ear to your largest muscle, the one you’re sitting on!

Human beings have the energy to run longer than the fastest animal on earth. They can create musical instruments and make songs.

Humans learned to cook food, invent cars and trains, build cities and sidewalks, and look for stars in the skies. Maybe we’re even looking for another fireball …

The thing to remember about the energy inside your body is that sometimes it needs to replenish. That can be done by eating food that’s good for you, getting a full night’s sleep, and being active every day. If you get all these things and you take care of the energy machine that is your body, then your brain is cared for, too.

And that brain? It lets you imagine and invent, do math, work on a computer and understand science, remember important things and unimportant things. It keeps you interesting, funny, and smart. It makes you powered up.

Time and again, in a dozen ways, you’ve told your child that he or she is important and special. He knows it’s true. Let “Power Up” show her in even more ways.

Through quickly-read pages brimming with facts, and artwork that’s as action-packed as the words it accompanies, author Seth Fishman and illustrator Isabel Greenberg teach their audience with a “gee whiz” tone that takes information to kid-level but without dumbing it down.

Young readers may be skeptical at what they’ll learn (you might, too!) but Fishman takes care of that by including two pages in the back of his book to further explain the science and biology involved. That underscores what’s mentioned in earlier pages and it will encourage a deeper curiosity and interest in further exploration.

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LEO As the sun, your personal planet, moves into Aries and your sector of travel and adventure, you might feel as though you’ve come out into the sunlight after walking in a dark forest. After an intense time, the coming few weeks can be a balm to your soul. If you can get away for a break, consider doing so because this can help recharge and refresh you. Lucky Numbers: 31, 39, 56 VIRGO Don’t be afraid to follow your heart and pour your energy into something that seems to promise exciting new developments. As fiery Mars aligns with powerful Pluto, you have an opportunity to summon your energy and channel it into new possibilities. At the same time, the movement of the sun into Aries and a more intense sector of your chart suggests opportunities to let go of situations and even relationships that no longer serve you. Lucky Numbers: 21, 23, 36 LIBRA The focus shifts again this week as the radiant sun enters your sector of relationships for approximately four weeks. It brings the opportunity to shine a light on key areas of an ongoing bond and, if necessary, do something about it. However, although this can be a chance to clear the air, it’s also an opportunity to negotiate and perhaps compromise where necessary. Lucky Numbers: 24, 47, 48 SCORPIO Your lifestyle and wellness routines come into focus as the radiant sun moves into Aries midweek. It will remain here for approximately four weeks, during which time you may be busy with all kinds of plans and projects. But the cosmos is also encouraging you to be discriminating.

Think about what works for you and what doesn’t. It might be time to let go of certain habits and activities that aren’t really doing you any favors. Lucky Numbers: 4, 6, 33 SAGITTARIUS You might be ready for some enjoyment this week as the sun’s move into your leisure sector puts the focus on fun and games. Do you have energy to spare? Competitive sports can help channel it while enhancing your social life, too. Go easy around midweek, though, because there’s a full supermoon just as the sun powers into Aries. A romantic situation could begin and leave you with a decision about whether to take things further or not. Lucky Numbers: 23, 32, 34 CAPRICORN A determined aspect at the start of the week could see you making major strides with an intense romantic bond or creative project. Plus, with electric Uranus recently vacating your home zone, life on the domestic front can begin to feel easier and less subject to unexpected events. Lucky Numbers: 27, 47, 49 AQUARIUS With chatty Mercury still retrograde in your money zone and moving to merge with hazy Neptune later in the week, it might be wise not to sign any important deals or other offers involving a lot of cash. Things may not be quite as they seem, so do more research before getting more involved. Lucky Numbers: 2, 5, 8 PISCES Resources and money matters could be at the top of your priority list midweek as the sun moves into your sector of values and finances. It will remain here for around four weeks, so you’ll have a chance to consider the things you own and how many of them you really need. This can be a great opportunity to remove some clutter and sell those things that could earn you some money. Lucky Numbers: 19, 23, 48

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5 Capital City Go-Go shooting guard Chris Chiozza shoots over Fort Wayne Mad Ants guard Edmond Sumner (5) and forward Alize Johnson during the Go-Go’s 121-103 win at the Entertainment and Sports Arena in D.C. on Saturday, March 16. (John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer) 3 Capital City Go-Go guard Chris Chiozza drives past Fort Wayne Mad Ants guard Edmond Summer during the Go-Go’s 121103 win at the Entertainment and Sports Arena in D. C. on Saturday, March 16. (John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer)

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5 Real Salt Lake defender Aaron Herrera makes a slide tackle against D.C. United defender Leonardo Jara during the United’s 5-0 win at Audi Field in D.C. on Saturday, March 16. (John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer) 3 Real Salt Lake defender Aaron Herrera attempts to evade D.C. United forward Paul Arriola during the United’s 5-0 win at Audi Field in D.C. on Saturday, March 16. (John E. De Freitas/The Washington Informer)

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5 George H. Lambert Jr. (left), president & CEO of the Greater Washington Urban League and Jesse J. Price, chair, present the Corporate Philanthropy Award to Donna Washington for Comcast at the Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Gala held Friday, March 15 in Northwest. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

5 Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks with District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser at the Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Gala held Friday, March 15 in Northwest. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer) 6 The Greater Washington Urban League 2019 Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Gala starts off with a silent auction featuring donated articles from hotels and spa retreats to art during the Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Gala held Friday, March 15 in Northwest. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

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the event along with Dr. Dorothy Height, the late civil and women’s rights icon and a force in the National Council of Negro Women. The center has been renovated and expanded and has gained strong corporate and philanthropic support in the D.C. area.

Adams founded JMA Solutions in 2005 and she remains as one of the few African-American women in the federal aviation business space. Adams, a retired chief master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, said she decided to take on this field “because I am a risk-taker.”

“I went into the armed service at 27 years old and with two kids,” she said. “I faced a lot of hurdles, but I was determined to get to the top of my field. I learned that as a woman in business, you have to work harder, work smarter and do a lot more than the men.”

A Federal Aviation Administration contractor, Adams got her first contract in 2008 for $6.5 million to hire air traffic controllers. By 2016, JMA Solutions had grown its revenue to $35 million and 170 employees and remains a rarity as far as Black women business owners contracting with the FAA. Ali has been recognized for decades as one of the leading businesswomen in the District. She talked about starting Ben’s Chili Bowl in 1958 when segregation by law and custom ruled in the city.

“Black people didn’t go downtown to eat or to go to the theater, we went to U Street,” Ali said. “While Blacks didn’t own some of those businesses, they were managed by Blacks during the day.”

Ali said she and her husband, Ben, didn’t take a vacation for 10 years, constantly tending to the business. When the 1968 riots broke out after Martin Lu-

ther King’s assassination, Ben’s remained open and was the only business in the U Street area that did so during the unrest.

Ben’s now has additional locations in D.C. at H Street NE, Nationals Park and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and in Arlington, Va. Ali credits a supportive community and city and a strong family for the restaurant’s success.

Brazile teaches at Georgetown and Howard universities and served as the first chief of staff to Norton. She is also the first Black woman to manage a presidential campaign (2000 for Al Gore) and lead the Democratic Party.

Brazile, a political commentator and pundit, said she got involved in politics at the age of 9 when her neighborhood needed a playground in Louisiana. She attended Louisiana State University and came to the District at the age of 21 to help lead the effort to make Dr. King’s birthday at national holiday.

Brazile said she has been a part of seven presidential campaigns, 56 U.S. House and Senate races and 49 statewide campaigns. She said she has succeeded out of persistence and encouraged the audience to be persistent too.

“Follow your dreams and know your passion,” she said. “Develop confidence, be a team player and be a leader. In addition, read everything you can get your hands on because it is important to know your history.”

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RELIGION the religion corner WITH LYNDIA GRANT

A Personal Take on D.C. Gentrification, Pt. 5 In conclusion of my personal account of gentrification in the District of Columbia, we will take a look at how our African-American churches have been affected by gentrification. I am a member of a Black church here in the city, therefore, I have witnessed much of how gentrification has affected the Black Church.

The Lincoln Temple United Church of Christ, a historically Black church in Northwest with a proud and impactful legacy, closed in September after 149 years. The church once served as a venue for luminaries such as Julian Bond, Marian Anderson and Jessye Norman, but on Aug. 5, the congregation voted to dissolve after its once-robust membership had dwindled to fewer than 20, my colleague Hamil R. Harris reported.

“The legacy of Lincoln Temple will continue,” said Rev. Barbara Breland, who summed up her sentiments a few weeks ago by citing Ecclesiastes 3:1-2: “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot.”

In a letter to the congregation, Jeanne D. Cooper, moderator of Lincoln Temple, wrote: “The following circumstances led to the realization that we no longer are a viable congregation: dwindling finances, low membership, limited resourcMt. Zion Baptist Church Reverend John W. Davis Pastor 5101 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 Phone: 202-726-2220 Fax: 202-726-9089 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service - 8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.

Children’s Church - 11:00 a.m. (1st & 3rd Sundays) Communion - 10 a.m. 4th Sunday Sunday School - 9:15 a.m. (4th Sunday 8:15 a.m.)

Prayer Meeting & Bible Study - Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

“A Church with a past to remember – and a future to mold”

es and engagement, demographic changes within the surrounding community and a undetermined mission and ministry. In light thereof and after considerable discussion, prayer, and a request for guidance from the Potomac Association and Central Atlantic Conference, the church is closing.”

Members voted to work with the Central Atlantic Conference for a period of at least one year to explore the possibility of redeveloping or selling the church building.

African-American residents in the historically Black Shaw-Logan Circle area plummeted from 65 percent to 29 percent from 1990 to 2010, (according to census data), due to the influx of young white millennials. It has changed D.C.’s racial makeup. Gentrification brought more changes: business closures, housing vacancies left by residents who moved away and the packing up of several Black houses of worship. Lincoln tried to cater to residents with establishing itself as an “open and affirming” church for the LGBT community, hosting farmers markets and other events. Though it had to close its doors after dwindling membership and other gentrification-related changes, members couldn’t help but cherish the church.

“Somehow, this church will never die in the hearts of the people,” said Rubin Tendai, who served as the church’s interim minister from 2013 to 2016.

WAMU’s Bill Herndon wrote

that Washington’s African-American population dipped below 50 percent in 2011. This downward population trend, coupled with rapidly rising home prices, has created challenges for the District’s predominantly Black churches. With gentrification driving many longtime congregants out of the city, churches are contending with low membership turnout and tensions with their rapidly changing communities that no longer reflect their congregations. While some churches have embarked on an exodus to the suburbs, others say they are determined to stay in the city.

Pastors have been meeting, seeking solutions and lobbying with city leadership for support. Let us all pray for solutions to the loss of our cherished Black churches here in this city. WI Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church The Rev. E. Bernard Anderson Priest Foggy Bottom - Founded in 1867 728 23rd Street, NW - Washington, DC 20037 Church office: 202-333-3985 - Fax : 202-338-4958 Service and Times Sundays: 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Music and Hymns Wednesdays: 12:10 p.m. - Holy Eucharist www.stmarysfoggybottom.org Email: stmarysoffice@stmarysfoggybottom.org All are welcome to St. Mary’s to Learn, Worship, and Grow.

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Mount Olivet Lutheran Church

John F. Johnson Reverend Dr. 1306 Vermont Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20005 Service and Times Divine Worship, Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Communion 1st and 3rd Sunday “Friendliest Church in the City” Website: mountolivetdc.org Email: mtolivedc@gmail.com

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

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

Blessed Word of Life Church

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

Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ

Church of Living Waters

Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church

Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor

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

Rev. Dr. Alton W. Jordan Pastor

Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews Senior Pastor

Harold Andrew Assistant Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

St. Stephen Baptist Church

Third Street Church of God

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

Rev. Dr. Alice Greene Interim Pastor

Bishop Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Senior Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

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

Services and Times Sundays: 10:00am 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

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

Campbell AME Church Rev. Dr. Henry Y. White 2562 MLK Jr. Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Adm. Office 202-678-2263 Email: Campbell@mycame.org Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 AM Sunday Church School: 8:45 AM Bible Study Wednesday: 12:00 Noon Wednesday: 7:00 PM Thursday: 7:00 PM “Reaching Up To Reach Out” Mailing Address Campbell AME Church 2502 Stanton Road SE - Washington, DC 20020

Turning Hearts Church Virgil K. Thomas, Sr. Senior Pastor/ Teacher 421 Alabama Ave. SE Washington, DC 20032 Phone: 202-746-0113 Fax: 301-843-2445 Service and Times Sunday School: 10:15 AM Sunday Worship Service: 11;15 AM Children’s Church: 11:15 AM Tuesday Bible Study: 6:30 PM Motto : “A Great Commitment to the Great Commandment” Website: www.turningheartschurchdc.org Email: gr8luv4u2@gmail.com

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

Services and Times Sunday Early Morning Worship: 7:45 AM Church School: 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship: 10:45 AM Tuesday: 7:00pm/Kingdom Building Bible Institute Wednesday: Prayer/Praise/Bible Study-7:30 PM Baptism & Communion Service: 4th Sunday – 10:30 AM “We are one in the Spirit” www.ssbc5757.org E-mail: ssbc5757@verizon.net

Services and Times Sunday School: 9:30 AM Sunday Worship: 11:00 AM Sunday Community Worship Service: 8:30 AM “Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital” www.thirdstreet.org Live Stream Sunday Worship Service begins @ 12:00 noon www.thirdstreet.org

Crusader Baptist Church

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

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

Sunday Worship Service: 8:00 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 6:00 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

Isle of Patmos Baptist Church

Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM Holy Communion: 2nd Sunday at 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM Sunday Church School: 9:20 AM Seniors Bible Study: Tuesdays at 10:30 AM Noon Day Prayer Service: Tuesdays at Noon Bible Study: Tuesdays at 7 PM Motto: “A Ministry of Reconciliation Where Everybody is Somebody!”

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

St Marks Baptist Come Worship with us...

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

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

Mount Carmel Baptist Church Reverend Gerald H. Hesson Interim Pastor 901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423 Service and Times Sunday Church School : 9:00 AM Sunday Morning Worship: 10:10 AM Bible Study Tuesday: 6: 00 PM Prayer Service Tuesday: 7:00 PM Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday 10:10 AM themcbc.org

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RELIGION Shabbath Commandment Church

All Nations Baptist Church

King Emmanuel Baptist Church

Bishop Adrian A. Taylor, Sr. Pastor

Rev. Dr. James Coleman Pastor

Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor

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

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

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

Service and Times Sabbath School 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 AM Service 11:00 AM Praise & Worship Preaching 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Motto: “A Church Keeping It Real for Real.”

Website: Shabbathcommandmentchruch.org Email: Praisebetoyhwh@gmail.com

Zion Baptist Church Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor 4850 Blagdon Ave, NW - Washington D.C 20011 Phone (202) 722-4940 - Fax (202) 291-3773 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:15 AM Sunday School: 9:00 AM Monday: Noon Bible School Wednesday: Noon & 7 PM Pastor’s Bible Study Ordinance of Baptism 2nd Holy Communion 4th Sunday Mission Zion Baptist Church Shall; Enlist Sinners, Educate Students, Empower the Suffering, Encourage the Saints, and Exalt Our Savior. (Acts 2:41-47) www.zionbaptistchurchdc.org

St. Luke Baptist Church Rev. Aubrey C. Lewis Pastor 1415 Gallatin Street, NW Washington, DC 20011-3851 P: (202) 726-5940 Service and Times Sunday Worship: 11:00 AM Sunday School: 9:15 AM Holy Communion: 11:00 a.m., 3rd Sun. Bible Institute: Wednesday - 1:30 PM Prayer Meeting: Wednesday - 12:00 Noon

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

Israel Baptist Church

Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor

Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert Senior Pastor

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

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

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

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

“Where Jesus is the King”

Lincoln Park United Methodist Church

Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith

Rev. Richard B. Black Pastor

Elder Herman L. Simms Pastor

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

1301 North Carolina Ave. N E Washington, D C 20002 202 543 1318 - lincolnpark@lpumcdc.org www.lpumcdc.org

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

Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:45 AM Sunday School: 9:15 AM Holy Communion1st Sunday: 10:45 AM Prayer Service: Wednesday at 6:30 PM Bible Study: Wednesday at 7:00 PM Bible Study: Tuesday at 10:30 AM

Mount Moriah Baptist Church

Service and Times Sunday Worship: 10:00 AM Holy Communion: First Sunday 10:00 AM Sunday School: 9:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday @ 12 noon and 6:30 PM Motto: "Faith On The Hill"

Eastern Community Baptist Church

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

The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42

New Commandment Baptist Church

Dr. Lucius M. Dalton Senior Pastor

Damion M. Briggs Pastor

1636 East Capitol Street, NE Washington, DC 20003 Telephone: 202-544-5588 - Fax: 202-544-2964

8213 Manson Street Landover, MD 20785 Tel: (301) 322-9787 Fax: (301) 322-9240

13701 Old Jericho Park Road Bowie, MD. 20720 (301) 262-0560

Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 7:45 AM and 10:45 AM Holy Communion: 1st Sundays at 7:45 AM & 10:45 AM Sunday School: 9:30 AM Prayer & Praise Service: Tuesdays at 12 noon & 6:30 PM Bible Study: Tuesdays at 1 pm and 7 PM Youth Bible Study: Fridays at 7 PM

Service and Times Early Morning Message: 7:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service: 10:00 AM Sunday Church School: 9:00 AM Holy Communion: 1st Sunday 7:30 AM & 10:00 AM Prayer, Praise and Testimony: Wednesday 7:00 PM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM

Service and Times Sunday Worship: 11 AM Sunday School: 10 AM Wednesday Mid-Week Worship, Prayer & Bible Study: Wed. 7 PM

Rehoboth Baptist Church

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

Salem Baptist Church

Holy Trinity United Baptist Church

Florida Avenue Baptist Church

Reverend Christopher L. Nichols Pastor

Rev. Reginald M. Green Interim Pastor

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

St. Matthews Baptist Church

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

Emmanuel Baptist Church

Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor

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

Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 AM Sunday Church School: 8:45 – 9:45 AM Holy Communion: Every First Sunday Intercessory Prayer: Monday – 7:00-8:00 PM Pastor’s Bible Study: Wednesday –7:45 PM Midweek Prayer: Wednesday – 7:00 PM Noonday Prayer Every Thursday

Matthews Memorial Baptist Church Dr. Joseph D. Turner Senior Pastor 2616 MLK Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Office 202-889-3709 - Fax 202-678-3304 Service and Times Early Worship Service: 8:00 AM Worship Service: 11:00 AM New Member’s Class: 9:45 AM Holy Communion: 1st Sunday, 11:00 AM Church School: 9:45 AM Wednesday 12:00pm Bible Study Prayer, Praise and Bible Study: 7:00 PM Saturday Bible Study: 11:00 AM Baptism 4th Sunday: 11:00 AM

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

Christ Embassy DC

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

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

Peace Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Michael T. Bell 712 18th Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Phone 202-399-3450/ Fax 202-398-8836 Service and Times Sunday Early Morning Prayer & Bible Study Class: 8:00 AM Sunday School: 9:00 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service: 10:00 AM

Wednesday Service: 12:00 PM

Pennsylvania Ave. Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Kendrick E. Curry Pastor 3000 Pennsylvania Ave.. S.E Washington, DC 20020 202 581-1500 Service and Times Sunday Church School: 9:30 AM Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 AM Monday Adult Bible Study: 7:00 PM Wednesday Youth & Adult Activities: 6:30 PM Prayer Service Bible Study

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

Shiloh Baptist Church

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Mt. Horeb Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor

Rev. Curtis l. Staley Pastor

Rev. David McIntosh-Peters Pastor

Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor

Rev. Oran W. Young Pastor

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

2001 Brooks Drive District Heights, MD 20744 (240) 838-7074

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

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

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

Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:15 AM Sunday School: 9:00 AM Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting / Bible Study: Tuesday at 7 PM Theme: “The Kingdom Focused Church with an Emphasis on “Evangelism and Discipleship”

Service and Times Sunday Service: 10:00 AM Sunday School for all ages: 8:30 AM 1st Sunday Baptism: 10:00 AM 2nd Sunday Holy Communion:10:00 AM Tuesday: Bible Study: 6:30 PM Prayer Meeting: 7:45 PM

Service and Times Sunday Morning Prayer Service: 8:00 AM Sunday Church School: 9:15 AM Sunday Morning Worship: 10:40 AM Third Sunday Baptismal & Holy Communion:10:30 AM Tuesday Church At Study Prayer & Praise: 6:30 PM

Service and Times First Sunday Worship Service (one service): 10:00 AM Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Sunday Worship service: 7:45 AM and 10:55 AM Sunday Church School/Bible Study: 9:30 AM Thursday Prayer Service: 6:30 PM

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

2914 Bladensburg Road, NE Wash., DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-3180 - Fax: (202) 529-7738 Service and Times Worship Service: 7:30 AM Sunday School: 9:00 AM Worship Service: 10:30 AM Holy Communion: 4th Sunday 7:30AM & 10:30 AM Prayer Services:Tuesday 7:30 PM. Wednesday 12 Noon

Email: pastorstmbc@gmail.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.org

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

The Church Where GOD Is Working....

And We Are Working With GOD

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

Service and Times Sunday School for All Ages: 8:00 AM Sunday Worship Services: 9:30 AM Midday Prayer & Bible Study: Wednesday 11:30AM Evening Prayer & Bible Study: Wednesday 7:00 PM Laymen's League: Thursday 7:00 PM Email: Froffice@firstrising.org Website: www.firstrising.org “Changing Lives On Purpose “

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

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LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON, COUNTY of PIERCE No. 18-3-04316-5 In re: Antwanne Fludd Petitioner Monique Medina Respondent Summons Served by Publication To Monique Medina, The other party has asked the court to: End your marriage or domestic partnership.

You must respond in writing if you want the court to consider your side.

Deadline! Your Response must be filed and served within 60 days of the date this summons is published.

If you do not file and serve your Response or a Notice of Appearance by the deadline: • No one has to notify you about other hearings in this case, and • The court may approve the requests in the Petition without hearing your side (called a default judgement).

Follow these steps: 1. Read the Petition and any other documents that were filed at court with this Summons. Those documents explain what the other party is asking for.

2. File a Response form FL Divorce 211, Response to Petition about a Marriage You can get the Response form and other forms you need at: • The Washington State Courts’ website: www. court.wa.gov/forms • The Administrative Office of the Courts – call: (360) 705 – 5328 • Washington LawHelp: www.washingtonlawhelp. org, or • The Superior Court Clerk’s office or county law library (for a fee) 3. Serve (give) a copy of your Response to the person who filed this Summons at the address below, and to any other parties. You may use certified mail with return receipt requested. For more information on how to serve, read Superior Court Civil Rule 5.

4. File your original Response with the court clerk at this address: Superior Court Clerk, Pierce County 930 Tacoma Ave. S #841 Tacoma, WA 98402 5. Lawyer not required: It is a good idea to talk to a lawyer, but you may file and serve your Response without one.

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Administration No. 2019 ADM 153

Administration No. 2019 ADM 000166

Norma Hamilton Morris aka Norma H. Morris Decedent

Joshalyn Lawrence Decedent

James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney

Gilda Sherrod-Ali 1775 I Street, NW, Suite 1150 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney

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

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

Wayne A. Morris, whose address is 1601 Hugo Circle, Silver Spring, MD 20906, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Norma Hamilton Morris aka Norma H. Morris who died on April 11, 2018 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 7, 2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 7, 2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Willie Lawrence, Jr., whose address is 15880 Bald Eagle School Rd., Brandywine, MD 20613, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Joshalyn Lawrence who died on July 21, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/7/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/7/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Date of first publication: March 7, 2019

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Administration No. 2019 ADM 000170

Administration No. 2019 ADM 000168

Administration No. 2019 ADM 000191

Carol K. Oliver Decedent

Hazel Spicer Decedent

Olar Virginia Campbell Decedent

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

Rachelle H. Raphael, Esq. 4800 Hampden Lane, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20814 Attorney

Deborah D. Boddie, Esq. Probate Law DC 1308 Ninth Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20001 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Alyce O. Luck, whose address is 8172 Claiborne Drive, Frederick, MD 21702, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Carol K. Oliver who died on October 10, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/7/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/7/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Matilda Bernice Jones Brown, whose address is 11908 Dalewood Dr., Wheaton, MD 20902, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Hazel Spicer who died on October 24, 2018 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/7/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/7/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Date of first publication: 3/7/2019

Date of first publication: 3/7/2019

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Alyce O. Luck Personal Representative

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Georgetta M. Law and Shelby Yvette Ross, whose addresses are 2116 2nd Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 & 5814 35th Place, Hyattsville, MD 20782, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Olar Virginia Campbell who died on December 4, 2000 without a Will, and will serve with Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/14/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/14/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2018 ADM 000236 Salema E. Jones Decedent

December 8, 2013 Date of Death Carolann Williams Silva Name of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Aaron J. Farmer, whose address is 60 Hartman Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Carolann Williams Silva, deceased, by the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County, State of New Hampshire, on February 14, 2014.

Service of process may be made upon Kisha L. Woolen, Esquire, Tobin O’Connor & Ewing 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20015 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real estate.

1402 12th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005.

Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

Date of first publication: 3/7/2019 Aaron J. Farmer Personal Representative Anne Meister Register of Wills

Nakia V. Gray, Esq. 9701 Apollo Drive, Suite 100 Largo, MD 20774 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Marian Lynch, whose address is 8500 Mike Shapiro Dr., #129, Clinton, MD 20735, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Salema E. Jones who died on June 18, 2017 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/14/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/14/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

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Administration No. 2019 ADM 000194 Helen P. Dishman aka Helen Parker Dishman Decedent Aimee D. Griffin, Esq. The Griffin Firm, PLLC 5335 Wisconsin Ave., NW Suite 440 Washington, DC 20015 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Deanna Dishman, whose address is 1018 Crittenden Street, NE, Washington, DC 20017, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Helen P. Dishman aka Helen Parker Dishman who died on December 19, 2018 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/14/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/14/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Date of first publication: 3/14/2019

Administration No. 2019 ADM 000219 Gerald F. Corley aka Gerald Corley Decedent

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Chuki C. Corley, whose address is 2025 Ray Leonard Rd., Hyattsville, MD, 20785, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Gerald F. Corley aka Gerald Corley who died on October 11, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/14/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/14/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

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Date of first publication: 3/14/2019

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Administration No. 2019 ADM 000207

Administration No. 2019 ADM 000181

Administration No. 2019 ADM 235

Foreign No. 2019 FEP 000019

John Edward Thompson Decedent

James R. Brown Decedent

Alma Gray Sharpe Decedent

Larry C. Williams, Esq. 7600 Georgia Ave., NW Suite 405 Washington, DC 20012 Attorney

Tina Smith Nelson Legal Counsel for the Elderly 601 E Street, NW Washington, DC 20049 Attorney

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

Marie Boykin Ware Name of Decedent

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

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

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

DeGeta A. Cole, whose address is 5201 Devonport Court, Glenn Dale, MD 20769, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of John Edward Thompson who died on January 15, 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., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/14/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/14/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Lorrine Brown, whose address is 30 18th Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of James R. Brown who died on July 24, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/14/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/14/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Patricia Ann Robinson, whose address is 13423 Yellow Poplar Lane, Brandywine MD, 20613, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Alma Gray Sharpe who died on January 18, 2019 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/14/2019.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/14/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Date of first publication: 3/14/2019

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Administration No. 2019 ADM 000196

Administration No. 2019 ADM 000193

Administration No. 2019 ADM 000180

Administration No. 2019 ADM 000169

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2019 ADM 000203 Judith Lorraine Robinson Decedent

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Judith Anne Dean, whose address is 1384 Morris Road, SE, Washington, DC 20020, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Judith Lorraine Robinson who died on January 20, 2019 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/14/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/14/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

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James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney

Audrenetta A, Walker and Jessica Walker Udechuku, whose address is 305 Taurus Drive, Fort Washington, MD 20744, was appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Esdella T. Coleman who died on January 4, 2019 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/14/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/14/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Alexander Ausberry-Brooks, whose address is 10045 Megster Avenue, White Plains, MD 20695, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Elizabeth Ausberry who died on December 24, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/14/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/14/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Catherine Hackett Botts, whose address is 515 Roxboro Place, NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Constance Clarke Hackett who died on March 9, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/14/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/14/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

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Marion Brown aka Marion D. Brown Decedent Aimee D. Griffin 5335 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Suite 440 Washington, DC 20015 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Robert Brown, whose address is 1526 Shellford Lane, Accokeek, MD 20607, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Marion Brown aka Marion D. Brown who died on December 17, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/14/2019.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/14/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

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Anne B. Butler, whose address is 10 G Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Marie Boykin Ware, deceased, by the Circuit Court for Norfolk City County, State of Virginia, on April 19, 2018.

Service of process may be made upon Anne B. Butler, 10 G Street NE, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20002 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real estate.

208 34th Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002.

Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

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2019 ADM 000015 Estate of Lillian M. Thomas aka Lillian Thomas NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Bradley A. Thomas for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representatives. Unless a responsive pleading in the form of a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth.

Admit to probate the Will dated August 5, 2007 and codicil dated July 20, 2012 exhibited with the petition upon proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution by affidavit of the witnesses or otherwise

Date of first publication: 3/14/2019 Robert L. Bell 245 Farragut Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 Petitioner/Attorney:

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LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2019 ADM 24 William M. Weaver II Decedent Edward G. Varrone, Esq. 910 17th Street, NW Suite 800 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Sarah Elizabeth Boothe, whose address is 10678 Bishop Ridge, West Blocton, AL 35184, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of William M. Weaver II who died on October 22, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/21/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/21/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2019 ADM 000185 Marie Estelle Terova Decedent Sara B, Entis 10640 Main Street, Suite 200 Fairfax, VA 22030 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Heidi Derakhshanrokni, whose address is 4801 Connecticut Ave., NW, #703, Washington, DC 20008, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Marie Estelle Terova who died on September 9, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/21/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/21/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

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Dennis Boland, whose address is 11 9th Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Svato Schutzner who died on January 18, 2019 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 9/21/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 9/21/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

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A white man kills 49 at two mosques. A white man kills 11 at a synagogue. But the people who are being accused of hate are Black and brown. What if Black, brown (Muslim, Palestinian, Latino) and Jewish people decided to fight the white supremacy that permeates our nation? Then, do you think, we could all get along?

We may not all agree, but we must call out the white terrorism that leaves too many dead or maimed. We must say “enough” to a president who fans the flames of white nationalism, thus white terrorism, for sport and to inflame his base.

When will he stop? When will it end? And, equally importantly, when will some folks call white nationalism for the terrorism that it is? WI

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forcement chose to coddle Roof, and the way the media sought to “explain him,” is a textbook case in how white privilege works, even for terrorists.

Upon his arrest, Roof was taken to get a fast-food meal. Perhaps his blood sugar was low, and someone hoped to attribute his terrorism to the fact that he may have forgotten to eat!

In any case, when have you know an African-American perpetrator of ANYTHING to be fed before he gets to jail? There is, of course, a professional courtesy that “law enforcement” officials afford white terrorists, while the FBI stirs up anti-Black sentiment with their bulletins about “Black Identity Extremists.”

The word “terrorist” has rarely been applied to Dylann Roof (instead, he is described as a murder-

er and White supremacist), but his massacre of nine Black people in church was nothing less than terrorism. But if we call Roof a terrorist, we must also look at the police who coddled him as terrorist-enablers. We have to look at the media who rushed to explain his background as terrorist-explainers. We have to ask white people why such terrorism is acceptable.

Let’s consider the massacre at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh last year. The assailant, Robert D. Bowers, killed 11 people and wounded several others, including four police officers.

For all the talk of the anti-Semitism that supposedly comes from Muslims, African Americans and others, it was a white terrorist who killed all those people at the Tree of Life Congregation.

But for all the talk we hear about terrorists, we rarely experience

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WILLIAMS from Page 31 but did not. Lately, white privilege has been laid bare. Most cannot fathom how ugly this is going to get. Shame is a much greater burden than pain. Mommy and daddy’s money can’t fix this. The entire system is complicit. This is the tip of the white-privilege iceberg.

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often depend on pooled resources including SNAP benefits from extended family members, such as older siblings, who don’t claim them as dependents. This means time limits will hurt not only the adults cut off from the food they need to survive but also children and others they may be helping support. Studies also show low-income parents without primary custody of children often rely on the availability of SNAP and other forms of assistance including the Earned Income Tax Credit to help them stretch available dollars from work and afford child support payments.

In both scenarios, additional burdensome restrictions on SNAP eligibility for these adults means fewer available resources to support the health and well-being of

It permeates every sector. White privilege needs its own truth and reconciliation committee, but I won’t hold my breath.”

I studied at two of the “best schools” in the news. I did it the way it should be done. Submit credentials, pay fees, study hard.

Do your work once there. Expect nothing you didn’t earn honest-

ly. Pray that you’re judged fairly.

Graduate and let your work speak well for you.

I didn’t learn those things at the schools in the news now. I learned them at Grambling University, Howard University School of Law, my church and from my mother.

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Young people aging out of foster care without permanent families also will be at increased risk.

They may continue to suffer the trauma that led them into care or resulted from their time in care, leading to high rates of unemployment, poverty and increased need for food assistance. This vulnerable population already faces enough formidable barriers to accessing SNAP due to existing work requirements. Any efforts to further restrict access or eliminate state exemptions from these requirements would be particularly harmful.

The newly released 2020 Trump budget makes clear this administration is willing to slash programs needy families depend on to make ends meet while increasing military spending and diverting billions to the bor-

der wall. The president’s harsh budget calls for $220 billion in spending cuts to SNAP over the next decade. Let’s fight back at a White House that takes aim at basic supports millions of children depend on.

The Children’s Defense Fund will be joining many other organizations and individuals submitting comments opposing this SNAP rule before the April 2 deadline and you can too. Learn more about this harmful policy and submit your comments with this easy-to-use tool from our friends at the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC). Join us right now in speaking out against harmful changes to SNAP! As the Food Research and Action Center puts it, echoing the gospels, prophets and teachings of every major religion: Food for the hungry shouldn’t have a time limit. WI

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“We’re talking about horrible people,” Abdul Ali said, “people that got a camera in the [prison] cell watching you the whole time you are in the cell. We have to talk about is the type of life that he was living in that prison.

“This system is the most unforgiving system on planet Earth,” Ali continued. “But they want us to forgive them for everything they’ve done to us.

And what we’re saying: ‘Man, we call him to the table. We’re going to take the blindfold off of the Statue of justice, cause that’s the statue of ‘il-liberty.’

You know what I mean? We can pull that blindfold off of her and she’s going to look at this case.

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