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Following Officer's Acquittal, Mosby Faces Uphill Climb

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Simmons Puts RushCard Glitch Behind Him

Prosecution Stumbles in Freddie Gray Cases

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer

Russell Simmons is just starting to sense a little normalcy.

He’s back at yoga and the hip-hop and business mogul is even able to run some errands without worrying about whether a disgruntled RushCard holder might attack him or worse.

Never one to complain or to shy away from a problem, Simmons never hung his head despite mounting – if unfair – criticism rocked the music impresario when his innovative credit card experienced a glitch last fall that prevented hundreds of thousands of card holders from accessing their money.

SIMMONS Page 11 5Russell Simmons / Photo courtesy of BET.com

Did Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby overcharge or rush to judgment in prosecuting the police officers who arrested Freddie Gray?

That’s the conclusion many pundits continue to reach in the aftermath of the acquittal of Officer Edward Nero. But, it’s the opinion of the judge that matters most and, on Monday, May 23, Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams said the state failed to meet its burden of proof in prosecuting one of the officers involved in the arrest that led to Gray’s

death.

“Since the defendant’s contact with Mr. Gray came after Mr. Gray was detained by Miller, this Court finds that the contact by the defendant was legally justified and not reckless. Therefore, as alleged by the State, there is no assault by the defendant,” Williams said in his ruling following a fiveday bench trial.

Nero’s acquittal follows the December mistrial of Officer William Porter on manslaughter charges. Four other officers have yet to have their cases heard.

However, as much as some claim Mosby rushed to try her

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For Pepco/Exelon Execs, Actions Speak Volumes

Maintain View that Merger Will Benefit Customers

By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor Executives from Pepco and Exelon met with the editorial board of the Washington Informer Thursday, May 23 to discuss their strategies and plans as they continue to roll out initiatives linked to the recent merger between the two companies that they say will result in more than $78 million in direct benefits for the District and Pepco customers.

Dave Velazquez, president/CEO, Pepco Holdings; William A. Von Hoene, Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Executive Vice President,

Exelon Corporation; Vince Morris, Sr., manager, Corporate Communications, Pepco Holdings; and Donna M. Cooper, president, Pepco Region, addressed issues that included: leading the area’s commitment to “going green;” rate increases; significant capital increases in infrastructure; residential customer rebates; and how the two companies will now work together and share services.

“The merger has created a $25 million pot to keep the bills of residential customers unchanged through 2019. After that we an-

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5Pepco and Exelon executives show Washington Informer Editor D. Kevin McNeir where a credit has been posted to a customer's bill during a meeting Thursday, May 19. / Photo by Shevry Lassiter

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D.C. Named Best Place for Summer Job Opps

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer The late Marion Barry regularly championed a solid summer youth job program, and the one in the District named for the beloved “mayor for life” has been key in providing young individuals with enriching and constructive employment experiences through subsidized placements in the private and government sector.

The program, which begins this year on June 27, also has proven key in Washington, D.C., being named the best place to get a summer job or internship in the United States.

In the survey, released by the District-based personal finance site WalletHub, revealed that the District beat out 149 other cities in America in the 2016 Best Cities for Summer Jobs report, which bases its ratings on 18 different metrics ranging from media income for part-time workers to summer job availability.

“No two summer positions are created equal – sometimes due to geography,” WalletHub study authors said in a news release. “Minimum wage laws and local cost of living, for instance, could determine your level of compensation or the affordability of housing while you’re living in the area. Other considerations include whether you need employer-sponsored health insurance, whether you want to be paid in dollars or experience, and whether you’re willing to commute long distances,” the authors said.

The 18 metrics used in the report fell under two categories, youth job-market outlook, weighted at 75 points, and social environment and affordability, weighted at 25 points. The District came in first in the former and 19th in the latter but overall ahead of Scottsdale, Arizona; San Francisco; Orlando; and Reno, Nevada.

This year, the Marion S. Barry Summer Youth Employment Program will provide the first 12,000 District youth ages 14 to 24 who have applied and been certified the opportunity to participate in a paid six-week summer work experience.

“All summer jobs and internships help build your resume.

These short term experiences allow students to try different careers out in a short period of time,” said Fred Burke, a WalletHub financial expert and director of the Graduate Career Management Center in the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College in New York.

“If the experience is directly connected to the area of interest, that is huge. Oftentimes, employers use internships and summer jobs to convert talent into a possible hire time,” Burke said.

“If you can’t break into the field of interest, work and talk with your career center so you can articulate skills on your resume using key words.”

Also, while there is no one single internship that will earn a student a golden ticket to a full-time position, quality internships do allow them a few essential things, said Andrea Skimbo, also a WalletHub financial expert and senior coordinator in the Arts & Sciences Career Services at Oklahoma State University.

“First is hands-on experience.

Internships need to offer students valuable ways to explore the field, learn insight into the job and complete training and real work projects. An intern needs to leave the internship at the end of the summer having learned new skills that are relevant to their job interests and substantial enough to add value to their resume,” Skimbo said.

“The second is exposure to professionals in the field. Building relationships with individuals currently working in the industry allows the student to ask questions, learn from a professional with experience and perhaps most importantly, start building a network,” she said.

“Lastly, the most beneficial internships come from companies that pipeline interns into fulltime positons. Interns should ask, at the completion of a successful internship, whether they would be considered for a fulltime position after they graduate.”

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1799 – The famous Black Russian writer Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is born in Moscow. Pushkin was of Russian and Ethiopian parentage. He was well-educated and went on to become a prolific writer. Indeed, he is generally credited with being the “father of Rus-

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1949 – Pamela Suzette Grier is born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Pam Grier becomes one of the premier Black actresses and one of the top sex symbols of the 1970s, playing in a host of socalled “Black exploitation movies.”

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1958 – Ernest Green graduates from Little Rock, Arkansas’ Central High School, becoming the first Black to do so. Green was a member of the “Little Rock Nine” – the group of Black students who rst integrated the high school with the aid of federal troops.

1854 – Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act that repealed the Missouri Compromise and opened the Northern territories to slavery. More specifically, it allowed Whites in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not slavery would be allowed in the 1903 – One of the most outstanding poets in the history of Black America, Countee Cullen, is born in Louisville, Kentucky, or Baltimore.

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2010 – The book “The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa” is released, revealing that Israel aided the racist regime of South Africa and supported providing chemical and nuclear weapons to them for possible use against the country’s majority Black population. The documents were discovered by American scholar Sasha Polakow-Suransky.

1921 – The infamous and bloody Tulsa (Oklahoma) Riots begin.

Whites go on a violent rampage lasting several days. When the rioting was over, an estimated 21 Whites and 60 Blacks were dead.

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1865 – President Andrew Johnson announces his program of Reconstruction. It required ratification of the 13th Amendment, but did not guarantee Black suffrage.

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WOULD UNIFORMED MPD OFFICERS RIDING METRO TRAINS AND BUSES BE A DETERRENT TO CRIME? CHARLES HUCKS / WASHINGTON, DC

Just the presence of police would stop people from doing things. Loitering is a huge problem on Metro. People ride the train for the specific purpose of targeting people. I ride Metro every day and when I get home I tell my wife about all of the wild things I saw.

TIMOTHY BROWN / WASHINGTON, DC

I think the presence of officers on Metro would reduce crime by half. It would cut down on a lot of lawlessness. Just seeing people of authority would deter some from committing crime.

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A business environment is the sum total of all external and internal factors that influence a business. Beginning with employees and contractors to the type of customers and clients you serve they make up your internal environment. We are all familiar with ‘dress codes’ and cover charges’ all designed to maintain the level of clientele and ultimately the company environment. Some owner will utilize excessive pricing in products and services believing it ‘will raise or maintain the level of ‘environment’.

And while this may help to keep the riff raff from gracing your doorstep, there are factors outside of your control that can heavily impact your business environment.

These are called external constraints such as politics and political conditions any party affiliations. Those drastic opinions will usually be aware of the limitations in specific demographic. But then there are the subtle views which can affect your businesses ability to capture a given group. A major constraint would be the economy and interest rates. Economic factors have a huge impact on spending practices, from who’s spending to how much. A reduced customer base will alter marketing practices which can drastically change your internal environment as well as external. Another external constraint would be social issues; we’ve seen how the assassination of MLK, Jr. affected the businesses along the Georgia Ave corridor, more recently, Freddie Gray in Baltimore. The demand for gay rights can have an adverse affect on a business that is not in support of the changing demographics. The same in a business in support may see a loss/gain in clientele due to customers of different value system. Then of course, there is the technology bubble. The inability to service your clientele due to outdated technology from customer information management, staying connected to customer service.

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CHANTAY LONG / WASHINGTON, DC

It would work for maybe a month but it wouldn’t be consistent. My daughter was attacked on the subway. Before they attacked her they attacked someone else. That was on February 5th. They put more officers on the train and nothing has changed.

GEORGIA THOMAS / WASHINGTON, DC

It might help but it would be a temporary solution because young people don’t have any respect for authority. That’s the real problem.

LAKIA SOMERVILLE / BROOKLYN, NY Police presence is a definite deterrent and makes (or would make) riders and Metro employees feel more at ease.

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FREDDIE GRAY from Page 1 cases against the officers, she appears undaunted in the face of harsh criticism.

A spokeswoman for Mosby declined to comment but noted that there aren’t any current plans to dismiss charges against the other officers involved.

Still, criticism of Mosby’s decision continues.

“She’s inexperienced. She overcharged, and as these cases go forward, it will be interesting to see if she’s successful at all with any of them,’’ New York City Police Commission William Bratton said in a radio interview on WNYC in the Big Apple.

“Those first two cases were clear examples that the district attorney down there was playing to the crowd,” Bratton said. “In her rush to judgment, I believe she had a totally inadequate investigation of the circumstances involving those officers, and so all she did was kick the can down the road in the sense of if she had taken more time to investigate, she might not have overcharged.”

Gray’s neck was broken after Baltimore police took him into custody and put him in the back of a police van unsecured last April. He died a week later and riots erupted throughout Baltimore streets in the days and weeks that followed.

National Fraternal Order of Police head James Pasco seemed surprised that Bratton was taking the union’s stance.

“The outrageousness of the charges against the officers in Baltimore couldn’t be made more clear than when Commissioner Bratton echoed the sentiments of the Fraternal Order of Police, which represent the officers,” Pasco told the New York Post. “Maybe he should get his own material.”

Prosecutors alleged Nero arrested Gray without probable cause, forming the basis for misconduct in office charge, defined as corrupt behavior by a public official in the exercise of his duties or while acting under color of law.

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5Baltimore police officer Edward Nero was acquitted in the death of

Freddie Gray by City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams on Monday, May 24. / Courtesy photo But because another officer, Garrett Miller, acted alone, Nero did not detain or arrest Gray without probable cause.

The state argued that Nero was criminally liable for Miller’s actions as an accomplice.

Judge Williams said the state failed to prove that Nero “knowingly aided, counseled or encouraged the commission of the crime” with the intent to make it happen.

“The state’s theory from the beginning has been one of negligence, recklessness and disregard for duty and orders by this defendant,” Williams said.

Williams added that no evidence presented at trial indicated that Nero intended for any crime to happen or that he was willing to support a crime.

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Nero was charged with reckless endangerment and another misconduct charge stemming from what happened next. Prosecutors called it the second stop after Gray was placed in the van and driven a block or so.

Reckless endangerment is defined as conduct that creates a substantial risk of death or serious injury – if the actions are found to be unreasonable based on the circumstances presented, and not the end result.

As for the misconduct in office charge, the state had to prove that Nero “corruptly” failed to do an act required of his job. The state presented various pieces of evidence related to officer training and policies for arresting and transporting prisoners but no evidence that Nero received specific guidance on how to secure prisoners or detainees, Williams said.

“The Court is not satisfied that the State has shown that the defendant had a duty to seat belt Mr. Gray and, if there was a duty, that the defendant was aware of the duty,” Williams wrote.

“This Court finds that the State has failed to meet its burden to show that the defendant corruptly failed to do an act required.”

Surprisingly, famed attorney Billy Murphy who represents the Gray family, took no issue with the judge’s acquittal of Nero.

“I think the judge did a fantastic job. He’s an African American who didn’t bow to the pressure of this case,” Murphy said. “He considered the law and made a judgment based on the law.” WI

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AROUND THE REGION EXELON from Page 1 ticipate a 7 percent increase which we consider to be a modest hike,” Velazquez said. “As for a rate increase, that has absolutely nothing to do with the merger.”

“Maryland customers have already seen a rate increase. Over the past few years, we invested $900 million in Maryland in efforts to reduce the number and frequency of power outages. Like any corporation, we have to secure a return on our investment. But it’s important to note that we don’t set our rates. We make an application and also include both the Office of People’s Counsel and the Public Service Commission who must approve the increase,” he added.

Velazquez said rate increases “look backward, not forward” and reflect efforts to recover their level of spending and capital investments. In other words, they address money that has been spent – not dollars that will be spent in the future.

“We have to demonstrate the value of what we invested,” he said.

“The Commission must believe that our investment was valuable to the public.”

But will District customers see a rate increase soon? More than likely.

“It’s been close to three years since we applied for a rate increase and there will be plenty of opportunities for the public to voice their concerns and views,” Velazquez said. “Consider what happens when a company doesn’t continue to monitor and maintain its infrastructure. That’s what we’re now seeing with Metro.

The cost of allowing your infrastructure to decline far outweighs the cost of continue maintenance. Eventually

things will break down. Customers want to make sure they have power and when outages occur, that service will be restored in short order.”

As the two companies work through the merger, Von Hoene said there will be plenty of opportunities for the sharing of services and in some cases, eliminating the duplication of offices and services.

“The real cost of the mission as we see it is to keep electricity on and reduce outages,” he said. “Pepco will continue to take the lead in the D.C. area. It is not our intent at Exelon to micro-manage things. We’re here for support and to exchange best practices. Baltimore Gas and Electric, a company that we acquired four years ago, serves as an example of the benefits that come from a corporate merger.”

“When we first acquired them, they were in the bottom quartile in frequency and length of outages. Now they’re in the top quartile.

And customer service, which was at a real low has significantly increased.

We were able to elevate service and increase reliability. That’s what can happen when the connection is made to a larger utility.”

He added that local customers should have already seen the promised $50 rebate in their April-May bill.

Meanwhile, the execs said that they are moving forward with the merger in place and that while Exelon serves as the parent company, Pepco isn’t going anywhere.

As the Washington Informer continues to raise questions about the impact of the merger, our readers should look for future stories about utility training, job opportunities, strategies for joining local unions,

ways to increase STEM training for youth and to get them interested at younger ages and internships.

Here are a few of the benefits from the merger that will be passed on to customers. · An immediate credit of more than $50 on the electric bill of every household in the District, · Forgiveness of all residential customer accounts over two years old, · Fewer and shorter power outag-

es for Pepco customers, · Significant financial penalties to Exelon and Pepco if they do not meet higher reliability goals, · Seven megawatts of new solar energy in the District, · Practices that will make it easier for customers to install solar panels, · A commitment to purchase 100 megawatts of wind energy in PJM, · More than $5 million for workforce development programs in

the District, · A commitment to hire more than 100 union workers and other job commitments in the District, · A commitment to move the headquarters of several key Exelon functions to the District, · Enhancement of workforce and supplier-diversity programs, and · A guaranteed $19 million in contributions over 10 years to nonprofits that serve the District’s most vulnerable residents. WI

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SIMMONS from Page 1 “I took full responsibility. It’s my card and I made sure to reach out to card holders personally and I reached into my own pocket to help people with their rent, their medicine or whatever emergency that may have come up,” Simmons said. “All I knew how to do was to make good on it and try to make the people that were damaged whole again.”

Simmons has done even more and he continues his push to have the underbanked and the underserved benefit.

“My mission is to eventually see that when someone pays their rent on time, pays their light bill on time, that these things go on their credit reports,” Simmons said. “It should be and if I can’t get regulators and the credit bureaus to do it, then I will have to start my own credit bureau.”

If that sounds like a bit of a stretch, Simmons points to his starting the RushCard as proof that real change can happen. “I was first, no one else did this until I came out with my card,” he said, noting that he’s not only the face of RushCard, but along with his American Express and other items in his wallet is his own RushCard that he uses regularly.

“We were the ones who invented this and what I don’t like is when people refer to us as a celebrity company,” Simmons said.

“All of what American Express is doing, all of what Chase Manhattan did, we did first. We’re a virtual bank. The other thing is that we didn’t build this company to make money when we started and, really, I didn’t think it would become a business but it did and I go to work every day

to try and improve the service we provide.”

CREDIT BUILDING – AN UPHILL FIGHT BUT ATTAINABLE GOAL “You pay rent every month for eight years on a RushCard, why can’t you get a mortgage?

I think that’s a travesty. I think a lot of the big companies like MasterCard, the Visas, the others that do the processing and infrastructure work – a lot of us could come together and force them to accept this information on credit reports of the world,” Simmons said.

“If I can’t get a change in the next couple of months. I have to build a credit reporting agency that people who have consistent and strong ties to, whoever their partners are, build credit as a result of it. Whether it’s rent or paying a past due phone bill or just consistently being on-time and paying it, it should build credit,” he said.

In putting behind him the much-publicized computer glitch – which Simmons still refers to as a “tsunami” – the business leader provided free service to card holders for five months, sacrificing all of his company’s profits to do so. He also reached a more than $20 million settlement from a class action lawsuit filed against RushCard because of the glitch.

“I’m glad to do it. I had put aside $25 million,” Simmons said, noting that the card isn’t just for communities that have been forgotten and underserved by banks.

“There’s no reason why small businesses can’t use a Rush Business Card. We just added a fea-

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ture where if you lose your card, you can turn your card off instantly through an app. Then you can turn it back on,” he said.

However, make no mistake, while Millennials are huge RushCard holders, Simmons hasn’t forsaken those whom he has long sought to help.

“I don’t mind paying the $20 million. I don’t mind that that was our cost. I am going to spend a lot more money than that in the community, in my peacekeeping programs, in RUSH and art education. We are going to be in the community in a way that we’ve never been,” he said.

“This card should be for affluent people as well as underserved community members and it should be the wave of the future for millennials. This is the bank for millennials and the growth rate for our company is 70 percent millennials, when it used to be single mothers.”

“Our main target was single mothers because they were the ones that ran the family and managed the funds. Millennials who don’t like banks are coming in our direction and we haven’t even begun the branding exercise to speak to them,” he said.

Simmons said more will soon be announced and he’s confident that RushCard holders and others will be pleased. Putting the glitch behind him has allowed Simmons to survey the state of the music industry and reflect on the recent death of his friend Prince.

“What a loss,” he said. “My first call was to Mayte Garcia [Prince’s ex-wife]. I reached out to her because she’s my friend and I wanted to make sure she was ok.”

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The theme in Bethesda last week: service above self.

That message describes a $6,000 donation from the Victims’ Rights Foundation of Gaithersburg and six rotary clubs to the six victims involved in this month’s shootings in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. Each family will immediately receive $1,000.

“It’s really hard to see on TV and you hear about things like this … that affect your mental and spiritual sides,” said Tiffany Nesfield, 29, a member of the Metro Bethesda Rotary Club and a personal trainer from Chevy Chase in Montgomery County. “It’s important to 12/22/15 10:28 AM

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care about the community you are servicing. Sometimes you aren’t directly affected, so we rally to make change is what we wanted to do.”

None of the families attended the donation announcement made Thursday, May 19, at the Redwood Restaurant.

The wife of the late Mike Winffel, Norma, had to drive some of her family members to the airport Thursday, but she sent a text message to Greg Wims, founder of the foundation.

“I’m sorry I couldn’t be there, but I want to thank everyone for their prayers and thoughtful donations,” Wims said. “All the money will be given to her and the other families, but this is just the beginning to help these families.”

The victims’ children, Wims said, will receive free swimming lessons and attendance to the Bethesda YMCA’s overnight summer program along the Chesapeake Bay in Edgewater, Maryland, called Camp Letts.

A children’s book, “When Mommy is in Heaven,” will be given to the two families with teenage children who lost their parents – Mike Winffel, 45, and Gladys Tordil, 44.

When the court proceedings begin for Eulalio Tordil, 62, who is accused in the May 5 and 6 shooting spree that included his estranged wife, Gladys, the rotary clubs from Montgomery County will help provide lodging for the victims’ families, which include members from other countries.

Claudina Molilna, 65, whose funeral took place May 17 in Rockville, has relatives from Bolivia.

Family and friends are raising money to send Gladys Tordil’s body to the Philippines. Norma Winfell has relatives from Peru.

According to police and court documents, Tordil, a former employee of the Federal Protective Service who lived in Adelphi in Prince George’s, fatally shot his wife May 5 outside High Point High School in Beltsville while she came to pick up her two daughters. Tordil also shot Winffel’s friend and co-worker Carl Unger, who was recently released from a hospital.

The next day on May 6, Tordil drove to Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda and shot three people, including Mike Winffel and Unger.

About 40 minutes later, Tordil fatally shot Molina in a parking lot outside a Giant Food grocery store in Aspen Hill. After shooting her, Tordil exited a Boston Market in Silver Spring. When he sat in his car, police surrounded the vehicle and arrested him without incident.

Tordil remains in jail in Montgomery County. His next scheduled court appearance will be at 10 a.m.

June 3 in District Court in Rockville, the same day Mike Winffel would’ve celebrated his 46th birthday.

“The randomness of it is really mind blowing,” said Russell Lacey, president of the Metro Bethesda Rotary Club. “When Greg Wims from Victims’ Rights Foundation came to talk to us, everybody opened up their pocketbooks. It was an easy choice to make. The money really gets to the victims.”

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Metro Releases Final Safety Plan, Fires Managers

5An outline of Metro’s project schedule with the first one starting June 4. / Graphic courtesy of the Metro

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Metro officials made two huge announcements last week, releasing a final version of a nearly year-long list of projects that will shut down sections of the rail system and firing 20 supervisors.

Both actions are meant to restructure the 40-year-old agency with the ultimate goal that “Safety trumps service.”

“Please stay focused on safety first and foremost, particularly as we advance the new SafeTrack plan,” Metro CEO and General Manager Paul Wiedefeld said in an email Friday, May 20, to employees.

Officials have warned that the 15 SafeTrack projects will impact rush hour, with several sections of Metrorail shut down between a week and 23 days, and close the system at midnight on Friday and Saturday. The last day stations will close at 3 a.m. will be Saturday, May 28.

Several portions of the draft released May 6 coincide with some of the requirements from the Federal Transit Administration.

For instance, the FTA directive issued May 11 requested Metro immediately focus its maintenance repairs on the Blue and Orange lines between the Ballston to East Falls Church stations in Arlington County. The single-track project previously scheduled in the fall will now be the agency’s first one, starting June 4-16.

Two days later, on June 18, sections of the Blue, Orange and Silver lines from Eastern Market to Minnesota Avenue and Benning Road in the District will be shut down until July 3. Metro proposed to begin work on those sections Aug. 20.

After that work’s complete, sections of the Blue and Yellow lines at Reagan National Airport in Arlington will be shut down for two weeks. The first part from the airport

to Braddock Road will start July 5 through July 11 and then resume the following day from the airport to Pentagon City until July 18.

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Although certain stations will receive a face-lift at various times, thousands are expected to be affected on their daily commute to work and going out for personal time.

Some of the highlights in the plan show its impact on service and provide suggestions: • Silver Line trains will run every 18 minutes at all times; • Shuttle buses will serve commuters at closed stations, with about 40 buses providing service at most of the other stations; • Riders are encouraged to use other means of transportation during projects; and • Requesting jurisdictional assistance at stations such as traffic control and customer support.

The agency also known as the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will receive cooperation from officials and organizations.

“Reagan National Airport is exploring the best ways to accommodate passengers and airport workers when these Metro service disruptions occur,” Kimberly Gibbs, a spokeswoman for the Washington Metropolitan Airports Authority, said in an email Friday. “We plan to make sure our customers and the public are properly notified about any service impacts and the options available for accessing Reagan National while the repairs are underway.”

Trains running on the Blue and Yellow lines at both sections of the airport are expected to run every 12 minutes, according to the SafeTrack plan.

That’s the same amount of time trains will run on the Green Line to and from the Greenbelt Station in Prince George’s County during rush hour.

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Although single-track work will take place between Greenbelt at the College Park Station Nov. 12 to Dec. 6, the document states reduced service will affect Greenbelt only. In addition, there will be no rush hour service on the Yellow Line between Greenbelt and College Park.

Greenbelt Mayor Emmett Jordan also agrees safety should be the top priority, but doesn’t approve of the midnight closing time that will cause people to leave early from their jobs or while watching a show at the Kennedy Center in Northwest.

“For my constituents, closing at midnight is not a step in the right direction,” he said. “We need to find a way to keep it operating until at least 2 a.m.”

College Park City Manager Scott Somers said he uses Metrorail when traveling to downtown D.C., so he’s pleased with the agency’s decision.

“In the long run, compressing

three years of greatly needed maintenance into one year is a more efficient and costly effective way of improving safety and reliability of the Metro system,” he said. “The safety of our residents and the workers that come to College Park is paramount.”

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Nearly three weeks after Wiedefeld met with about 650 managers to discuss how safety trumps service, he fired 20 of them Friday.

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discretion of the general manager.

Wiedefeld said direct reports from managers have been reduced from 21 to nine to help improve effectiveness and accountability.

The agency’s restructuring process integrates as part of a Customer Accountability Report (CARe), a statement that highlights and provides an update on projects, safety initiatives and other programs.

A future accountability report calls for eliminating redundant positions, but the email didn’t specifically state the titles and ranks.

“I hope you will join me in respecting the privacy of these individuals and note that I will not be commenting about individual employees,” Wiedefeld said. “It’s also important that we all continue to progress actions planned under the CARe initiative to improve safety, service reliability and financial management.” WI

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with William Reed Blacks’ challenge is developing confidence in one another.

This kind of confidence will aid the race’s economic rise by bringing our pennies and dollars together and their investment in useful channels.

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Blacks’ economic development?

The historical data shows it is us.

“He ain’t heavy; he’s my brother,” is a theme for contemporary Blacks to take up. Let’s stop talking past each other and get serious about maximizing individual and collective wealth growth plans and programs that capitalize our race’s economics. By eschewing assimilation behaviors, Blacks can improve collective wealth and esteem simply by working together. At this moment in time, Blacks’ incomes and wealth are just 72 percent of that of Whites. Racism and discrimination are central to Blacks’ predicament in America, but can be checkmated by our mounting enhanced economic acts. It’s factual: The income and wealth inequality Blacks experience diminishes as their entrepreneurship increases. To be viable in America, Blacks must employ

As we move up the capitalist ladder, let’s all keep in mind that money is the lubricant of modern economies. The key to Blacks’ economic development lies with creating our own banks.

William Reed / strategies for producing meaningful and sustainable activities that enhance Blacks’ prosperity.

Blacks are plagued with problems of mass incarceration, which takes away millions of Black fathers; schools not educating our kids; few to no economic opportunities; and high levels of violence in our cities, for which we wait for outside intervention led

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by Whites. All the while, Black figureheads are more concerned with maintaining their status as Washington insiders than they are about finding real solutions for Black populations’ problems.

Blacks need to increase their racial identity and “bring their money home.” The term “collective” and Black leadership concept must be internalized so that all of us are carrying our weight, instead of waiting for other people to do for us. Instead of waiting for the White power structure to make our economic and educational policy each of us must see ourselves as leaders in our families, of our communities and of social circles.

As we move up the capitalist ladder, let’s all keep in mind that money is the lubricant of modern economies. The key to Blacks’ economic development lies with creating our own banks.

Such banks can leverage deposits that create loans for businesses.

As these businesses grow and create jobs, they produce new customers that grow banks. It needs to become as elementary among African-Americans as it is for other ethnic groups to create and own our own banks. A bank is created by forming a corporation and fulfilling requirements for chartering set by the Federal

Deposit Insurance Corporation.

The most difficult aspect of bank formation is meeting capitalization requirements. In most states, it takes about $20 million to start a bank. Just 20,000 Black households could form a bank if they saved $20 a week for one year and invested that $1,000.

Every city in America with a sizeable Black population should have at least one Black-owned bank. Currently there are just 30 Black-owned banks in the United States — one for every 1.3 million Blacks.

Too few Blacks espouse “family” and “tribal” traits. Too many Blacks have “mainstream” perspectives to their own detriment.

What is relevant and reverent in your life? More Blacks should be cognizant of the ills of assimilating – the process by which a person or a group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group. Blacks dead set on “integrating” with White/Mainstream society fail to see the importance of creating and maintaining our own banks.

This is something Black Americans must do: to begin developing our own banks in our own communities, and then money will remain in our communities to create businesses and jobs and place more Blacks on sound fiscal footing. It is only under these conditions we can expect our unemployment rates to decline, our incomes to raise and our wealth to grow.

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Lawmakers Respond to Chibok Schoolgirl Return Rep. Wilson Celebrates Victory; Says More Work to be Done

By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer Last week one of the 219 Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls had been rescued from captivity after being kidnapped by terrorist group Boko Haram more than two years ago.

Lawmakers, advocates and support groups rejoiced for the victory during a news conference on Wednesday, May 18 on Capitol Hill Northwest.

Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), a front-runner on the issue since it happened, asserted that “time is of the essence” for the rest of the girls in bondage.

“This is an extremely critical development and the best possible confirmation of why it has been so important for us to fight for the safe return of these girls week after week while much of the world wondered why bother and had given up hope,” Rep. Wilson said.

Amina Ali Nkeki, 19, ironically was discovered by mem-

bers of the Civilian Joint Task Force on Wear Something Red Wednesday, the day on which lawmakers commemorate the missing girls each week that Congress is in session.

Reports say she was spotted while gathering firewood carrying a baby said to be just a few months old.

After a short reunion with family members, who confirmed her identity, Amina met with Nigerian government officials.

“We must assume that with the rescue of this one girl, Boko Haram will very likely try to move the girls even deeper into the forest,” Rep. Wilson said.

“They may also try to separate them into groups, which will make it more challenging to find them.”

“It is critically vital that we zero in on their location as quickly as humanly possible.”

The Florida lawmaker called for continued swift action by U.S. bodies, the international community and others that have

pledged support to help Nigeria rescue the girls and defeat Boko Haram.

Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations, commended Wilson’s dogged determination to keep lawmakers engaged in this issue.

“This is a day of mixed emotions. It’s a day to celebrate because of the return of one of the girls and the possibility of getting information and how the girls are being treated. Will this bring us closer to finding them?”

Bass said.

“But it’s also a day for us to remember that it was one girl that returned, and there are still over 200 girls being held captive. I want to make sure we continue this campaign until every single girl is returned.”

Other lawmakers, notably all from the Congressional Black Caucus, made statements supporting Wilson’s work in the return of all of the kidnapped girls.

“We must continue to fight for the freedoms of the least among us, whether those for whom we fight are out of sight, such as the kidnapped teenage

girls from the Chibok boarding school or educated medical doctors fleeing violent extremism in Syria,” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said.

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) said that he cannot imagine the grief the parents of the girls are experiencing but vows to do more.

“I am proud to have joined the efforts championed by Congresswoman Wilson, who has been working tirelessly to ensure the girls are not forgotten,” Rangel said. “She has proven the power of many, through simple acts of wearing red on Wednesdays and using hashtag #BringBackOurGirls. We must not stop until they all return home safely.”

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5Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) holds a news conference with other congressional members upon the news of one Chibok schoolgirl being rescued from captivity on Wednesday, May 18, on Capitol Hill in Northwest. / Courtesy photo

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Hepatitis C Now a Leading Cause of Death

5 Residents should seek regular check ups for Hepatitis C. / Courtesy photo

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer Medical experts say as many as 5 million people in the United States have hepatitis C, and as many as half of those who are infected aren’t even aware they have the disease.

“Hepatitis C doesn’t usually cause symptoms such as internal

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bleeding, fluid in the abdomen, confusion and yellow eyes, until advanced liver disease occurs,” said Dr. Robert E. Smith, director of hepatology and medical director of Liver Transplantation for Geisinger Health System.

“Cirrhosis can take 20 to 30 years to progress, and once symptoms develop, the majority of peo-

ple either need a liver transplant or they pass away within three years,” Smith said.

A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that was highlighted earlier this month by the U.S. National Library of Medicine in Bethesda revealed that the number of hepatitis C-linked deaths in the Unit-

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ed States reached a record high in 2014, and the virus now kills more Americans than any other infectious disease.

There were 19,659 hepatitis C-related deaths in 2014, according to preliminary data from the CDC. “Why are so many Americans dying of this preventable, curable disease? Once hepatitis C testing and treatment are as routine as they are for high cholesterol and colon cancer, we will see people living the long, healthy lives they deserve,” Dr. Jonathan Mermin said in an agency news release.

Mermin directs the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention.

If not diagnosed and treated, people with hepatitis C are at increased risk for liver cancer and other life-threatening diseases. They may also unknowingly infect others.

The new CDC study found that the number of hepatitis C-related deaths in 2013 exceeded the combined number of deaths from 60 other infectious diseases, including HIV and tuberculosis.

The numbers might even be higher because the new statistics are based on data from death certificates, which often underreport hepatitis C, CDC officials said.

Most cases of hepatitis C are among baby boomers – those born between 1945 and 1965, according to the National Library of Medicine.

Many were infected during medical procedures such as injections and blood transfusions when these procedures were not as safe as they are now, health officials said.

Many hepatitis C-infected “boomers” may even have lived with the disease for many years without knowing it, according to the report.

“The new report about hepatitis C deaths is not a surprise to those of us who have been fighting the epidemic for a long time,” said Ryan Clary, the executive director of the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable, a broad coalition in Northwest D.C. that works to fight and ultimately end the hepatitis B and C epidemics.

“The majority of people who have hepatitis C are not aware of their infection and are at great risk for advanced liver disease, liver cancer and unnecessary death. A primary barrier to identifying people who are infected with hepatitis C is lack of funding and leadership at

the federal, state, and local levels to expand education, prevention, awareness, and testing/linkage to care services,” Clary said.

“Another obstacle is the lack of integration of hepatitis C screening into heath care systems. Even though experts recommend testing everyone born from 1945 through 1965 and others at risk for hepatitis C, many health providers are not following these guidelines,” he said.

Additionally, there remains a “tremendous” amount of stigma related to hepatitis C because of its association with injection drug use, Clary said.

“This stigma keeps us from addressing hepatitis C as a medical issue and a public health crisis, and I believe stigma is the leading cause of the lack of funding, leadership, and lack of integration of screening into health care systems,” he said.

While the CDC report mentioned a new wave of acute hepatitis cases, that’s not the reason for the increased deaths being reported, said Dr. Jonathan Fenkel, director of the Jefferson Hepatitis C Center at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.

“It is possible that these numbers also vastly underestimate the effect of hepatitis C on deaths in the United States as hepatitis C has been associated with many non-liver-related conditions such as chronic kidney disease, lymphoma, and diabetes to name a few,” Fenkel said.

Just about everyone with hepatitis C should be able to be cured of the virus if treatment with new, all-oral, direct-acting antivirals can be accessed for them, Fenkel noted.

“Also, payers should recognize the importance of treating all patients with hepatitis C, not just those with advanced liver disease,” he said.

The continued increase in mortality attributable to hepatitis C highlights the need to diagnose the infection, link patients into hepatitis C care, and treat their infection with antiviral therapy to prevent complications like cirrhosis and liver cancer, said Dr. Vincent Lo Re, an assistant professor of Infectious Diseases at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

“Given the new highly effective and tolerable antiviral treatments for chronic hepatitis C that are available, which are typically eight to 12 weeks in duration, mortality from hepatitis C should be de-

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HEALTH

High-tech Mosquitoes could combat Zika Virus

By Josh Peterson Urban News Service

Genetically modified mosquitoes could mean curtains for the Zika virus.

New U.S. cases of Zika virus infections are continually being discovered as the Food and Drug Administration looks to these high-tech mosquitos as a possible solution.

Zika’s potential to spring from mosquito “nurseries” in the American South could hammer poor minority communities as summer heats up. Atlanta has the nation’s worst mosquito problem, according to Orkin, the pest control company. Mosquitoes only need standing water to spawn.

Scientists believe Zika spreads when a female mosquito feeds off of an infected person and later bites a new victim. Harmless male mosquitoes feed on flower nectar.

Zika also can be transmitted through sexual intercourse with an infected partner. Symptoms, while rare, can last for a week and range from a mild fever to muscle and joint pain.

Concerns rocketed after last year’s discovery that Brazilian babies with unusually small skulls and brains were born to mothers who contracted the virus while pregnant. Brazil’s Zika woes continue as athletes, fans, journalists and others from around the globe prepare to converge on Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, is battling potential local Zika infections.

The Aedes aegypti, which lives in the Deep South, is one of several mosquitoes that scientists believe spread the virus.

Specialists with Fulton County’s Department of Health and Wellness, according to the agency, are working with Georgia’s Department of Public Health and the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to monitor outbreaks and educate the community.

“The mosquitoes that spread Zika virus will bite four or five people before they are satisfied,” said Nancy Nydam, spokeswoman for Georgia’s health department.

She said people should use insect repellent, eliminate standing water around their homes and stay indoors during dawn and dusk, when mosquitos are most active.

An $85-million fund is available

to states, cities and territories at risk of Zika outbreaks, the CDC announced on May 13. The money would finance Zika-prevention efforts only temporarily, said Dr.

Stephen C. Redd, a director at the agency. More money from Congress is needed, he said.

The CDC reported that between January 1, 2015 and May

18, all of the 544 U.S. Zika cases are travel-associated, meaning the virus was originally contracted abroad. To date, 157 pregnant women in the U.S. have reported

symptoms.

New York logged 114 travel-related cases, the highest number in America. Florida was second with

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A few weeks ago, a House subcommittee approved $5 million toward a lupus medical research program just in time for Lupus Awareness Month.

The program got approved on Wednesday, May 11, by the House of Representatives Defense Appropriations Subcommittee as part of its 2017 Defense Appropriations spending bill.

"Lupus affects millions, including many active-duty military, dependents and retired veterans," Richard DeScherer, president of S.L.E. Lupus Foundation, said.

"We applaud the continued leadership of the Congressional Lupus Caucus in supporting the advancement of lupus research and increased awareness of the often misdiagnosed disease among the general public and health professionals.

“We are also very proud that the hard work and persistence of advocates across the country succeeded in winning congressional support,” he said.

The Congressional Lupus Caucus, Alliance for Lupus Research, SLE Lupus Foundation and Lupus Research Institute are credited with the creation of the program through aggressive outreach and advocacy campaigns.

ALR Chairman and NY Jets owner Woody Johnson expressed in a statement deep appreciation for the caucus consisting of Reps. Tom Rooney (R-Florida), William Keating (D-Massachusetts), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida) and Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) for their work.

"We thank Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-New Jersey) and ViceChair Kay Granger (R-Texas) for championing the establishment of this critically important Lupus Medical Research Program,” Johnson said.

The subcommittee bill was sent

to the full Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, May 17, and now it awaits approval by a vote on the House floor.

Experts are predicting the vote will likely happen before the end of June.

Later this year, the House and Senate versions of the bill will be merged into a final conference bill for final approval by Congress.

Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes inflammation and tissue damage to any organ system in the body. The health effects of lupus include heart attacks, strokes, seizures, organ failure and death.

Lupus research finds that nine out of 10 people with the disease are women, and the risk is significantly higher among African-Americans, Hispanics, Native-Americans and Asians.

The Lupus Research Institute said this disparity could greatly affect the armed forces.

They assert that the Defense Department’s data show that women now make up a much greater share of the military than they have at any time in U.S. history.

Women account for almost 15 percent of active-duty service members, almost 20 percent of Reserves and 15.5 percent of the National Guard.

A recent Pew Research Center report found that the active-duty female force is racially diverse –nearly one-third of active-duty women are Black, including Black Hispanics.

Twelve percent of women in the armed forces report their ethnicity as Hispanic, whether White or Black.

Lupus remains a threat for them and all women of color who may be diagnosed with the disease.

“We commend the entire Committee for recognizing the need for additional peer-reviewed lupus research that will help lead to better understanding of the mechanisms of this devastating chronic disease and new treatment options.” WI

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By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Thomas Drew, a 10th-grade student at Eastern Senior High School in Northeast, said fights and arguments occur on Metro’s rails and buses when his peers feel they’ve faced disrespect.

That’s why 11th-grader Kennedy Gullatte at Woodrow Wilson High School in Northwest believes the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority should hire more police to oversee its 91 stations in Maryland, the District and Northern Virginia.

“When this violence stuff happens, there is no one around like you see on the videos. What could have been done if (the police) would be there?” Gullatte, 16, said after the first part of a Youth Empowerment Summit on Saturday, May 21, at Metro’s headquarters in Northwest.

About two dozen youth and young adults addressed violence they’ve seen either in person or through social media on the second-busiest transit system in the nation. Youth watched several videos of commuters on Metrorail being assaulted that included six teens from Woodrow Wilson charged with attacking a man Jan. 28 on the Red Line at the Gallery Place-Chinatown Station.

Metro has received complaints from commuters that they don’t feel safe riding buses or trains.

Data presented during a recent committee meeting showed ridership decreased by 5 percent, there was a 74 percent customer satisfaction rate for customers riding the bus with the target at 85 percent, and there was a 68 percent customer satisfaction rate for customers using the rail lines with the target also at 85 percent.

Organizers and panelists at Saturday’s youth summit addressed topics such as how to change negative behaviors and use social media to start positive trends and listened to the youth talk about what they’ve experienced while using public transportation.

Ayinde Calhoun, 18, recalled when he rode three buses last year from his home in Northwest to attend Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland. Although he didn’t encounter violence on his trek to school, he chose alternate bus routes to avoid conflicts going back home.

“It was quite dramatic because I had to consider my options and ride multiple routes to figure out the safest way home,” said Calhoun, who recently completed his freshman year at Towson University in Towson, Maryland. “I really took into consideration on how I was going home. One way to solve this issue with conflicts on Metro buses is basically treat those as you would want to be treated.

It’s really that simple.”

The youth also heard stories from others previously involved in violent activities or who once acted inappropriately on public transportation.

Ché Bullock, who grew up in Southeast, said the police aren’t responsible to stop violence on Metrorail.

“You have to change from within. The police can’t do that for you,” said Bullock, 28, who runs a program called Bullets with No Name. “If you see somebody on Metro doing something negative, say something positive. You have to make a difference.”

James Coach, a nine-year veteran with the Metro Transit Police Department, gave a simple plea to the youth: “We need your help. We can’t do this by ourselves.”

The youth – majority ages 14 to 18 – received a free breakfast, lunch, a Metro bag, a T-shirt and a visit from radio personality Angie Ange from WKYS-FM. She gave a pep talk and insisted they ask questions to understand the jobs and responsibilities of each Metro employee.

“It is important that everybody works together,” she said.

“We are all equals.”

The plan for Metro is to host future activities geared toward youth, said Jawauna Greene, the agency’s marketing director.

Most of the students will return, especially if they are fed and receive gifts.

“I was supposed to play in a flag football game, but because of the rain it got canceled. I had nothing to do, so I came here. I’m glad I did,” Drew, 16, who plays football at Eastern, said while holding a pair of wireless speakers he won in a drawing. “I can take what I did learn about solving conflicts in just being polite. I want to be a captain (on football team), so I have to be a positive influence on my teammates.” WI

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Metro held a Youth Empowerment Summit at its headquarters Saturday, May 21 / Photo by Roy Lewis

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5Comedian Kasaun Wilson, a Howard University graduate, will return to the place where it all began on Saturday,

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By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor Howard University graduate Kasaun Wilson, 28, will return to the place where he first discovered the determination and passion to become a comedian when he takes to the stage for a stand-up comedy routine about his life, his faith and his matriculation at the historic higher institution of learning.

The Saturday, May 28th show, produced by Wilson and the company he formed, DreamTakers, will be recorded for a DVD to be released later this fall and will allow his growing customer base an opportunity to see him live while viewing his most introspective comedy to date.

Wilson, who only offers clean comedy without the use of profanity, said he’s always been one that could make others laugh.

“I was always the class clown, the one ready to go up front and the one who would tell jokes in the back of the bus – as long as I could make someone laugh,” said Wilson, an acting major who graduated from Howard’s theatre program in 2012.

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Wilson says he took the plunge into comedy after being encouraged by one of his most influential professors.

“I was given a class assignment

by Professor Al Freeman, Jr. who starred in the Spike Lee film ‘Malcolm X,’ was a regular on ‘One Life to Live’ and asked us to prepare a monologue,” Wilson said.

“When I delivered mine he said it was a great stand-up comedy piece and that I was so quick on my feet that I should consider performing it in public and try my hand at being a comedian.

He was such an inspiration to me that I did just that. That was eight years ago,” said the Jersey City native who now lives in Hyattsville, Maryland.

The show, “Kasaun Wilson Live at Howard University,” will be the first of five produced by the celebrated entertainer and his company with other comedic and musical productions, as well as a Christmas benefit scheduled for later this year. Wilson said he and his partners believe in creating opportunities.

“We don’t make the dream we take it,” he said.

During his routine, he’ll talk about his own life, including his childhood, being a church kid and how he was pretty sheltered throughout his formative years.

His grandmother will introduce him before he takes to the stage during which time she’ll share a

personal story of her own about her grandson.

Wilson said he hopes to follow the example of two of his favorite comedians: Chris Rock and Dick Gregory.

“Chris takes subjects considered taboo and makes them relevant,” Wilson said. “He not only pokes fun at what exists in society but then offers an in-depth analysis on the why, making fun of both the ‘what’ and the ‘why.’ Gregory seamlessly integrates art and social change into mainstream entertainment. I absolutely love them both. Funny is funny but they’ve had an indelible impact on me even though I’ve never personally met them.”

“They don’t know who I am yet, but I plan to change that one day,” he added.

Are there any topics that he believes are off limits? Not according to Wilson.

“Anything and anyone in the news is fair game,” he said. “It’s the artist’s responsibility to package it appropriately. You can tackle a sensitive topic but you have to do so with integrity. If it’s offensive however, then it’s not funny.”

Female comedienne GL Douglas will open the show before Wilson shares his comedic talents.

The performance begins at 7 p.m. at the Ira Aldridge Theater on the campus of Howard University in Northwest. To learn more about Kasaun Wilson, go to www.MrKasaunWilson.com WI

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Justice Unfulfilled in Murder of Young Reporter Charnice Milton

Twenty-seven-year-old Charnice Milton had just completed an assignment, covering a neighborhood meeting for a Capitol Hill newspaper, the “Hill Rag,” waiting to transfer buses near her home in Anacostia when a bullet, aimed for someone else according to police, struck and killed her.

That was one year ago on the evening of May 27th. To date her murder remains unsolved.

No one deserves to have their life taken away so senselessly, so suddenly. But in the case of Charnice, her untimely death remains even more tragic because of the future that laid before her.

The Syracuse University journalism major had decided to dedicate her life to writing stories that mattered in the community in which she had grown up. She was one who had the instincts and talent of a bona fide local reporter and she wanted to make a difference in the area with which she was most familiar.

In her predominantly-Black Southeast community, childhood poverty, incarceration and unemployment rank among the District’s and the Nation’s highest. Despite her age, she was determined to contribute in a positive way for those who lived in her own backyard. Time and time again, she posted news stories that exposed deadbeat landlords, articulated the real damage caused by the prison industrial complex and its disproportionate effect on Blacks and challenged insufficient medical services as well as the broken promises made by a slew of major corporations who kept finding excuses for not opening stores in neighborhoods East of the River.

Charnice realized the power of the community newspaper, believing in its value importance. Meanwhile, she spoke to her peers accessing social media like a skilled, bilingual linguist to keep them informed. Then, like a candle in the wind, her life was snuffed out.

Her death, described by District police officials as a case of “wrong place, wrong time,” was added to the growing list of unresolved homicides in Washington, D.C. Given different circumstances it may have been Charnice reporting on the death of another Black youth.

Someone needs to come forward and tell officials what really happened. Someone knows who pulled the trigger. All lives matter in our colorful tapestry of humankind.

Charnice deserves justice. Can you help? WI

Ready Workers Need Employers

Next to high school graduation many young people share the high hopes of landing a summer job. In the District, nearly 12,000 summer youths between the ages of 14 and 24 have high expectations of walking out of the classroom in just a few weeks and onto a worksite for eight more weeks of a summer jobs experience. With the support of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who has strengthened the Marion S. Barry Summer Youth Employment Program, coupled with financial support from President Barack Obama, who dedicated $21 million for summer and year round programs for America’s youth, this should be a stellar year for young people around the country, but particularly here in Washington, D.C. Obama’s Summer Impact Hubs, of which the District is one, is supposed to increase federal agency participation in youth employment programs. The federal government will offer a chance “to upgrade and expand their summer jobs, learning, meals and violence reduction programs for young people this summer and year-round.”

A summer job should have a positive impact on a young person’s life. They can learn responsibility, how to meet deadlines, how to communicate to and speak with others, how to manage money – invest and save – and, most importantly, a job can serve as a real distraction from negative influences that often lure young people toward from violence and crime.

The concern this year, just as in past years, is making sure there is enough work for summer youths to do. The President’s approach and Bowser’s appearances at the launches is meant not only to attract more youths but to encourage employers to take ownership of this initiative, as well.

Some D.C. sites have reportedly taken on anywhere from one or two summer workers while others are attempting their hand at working with much larger groups at upwards of 15 to 20.

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It took me almost 15 years to finish paying for my student loans, and if it hadn’t been for some help and understanding of my wife, I know it would have taken me even longer, but I finished paying for them. When I read your story, “District Students’ Debt on the Rise,” by Stacy M. Brown in the May 19th issues, I felt a little sorry for them. I have to say my student loan totals were nowhere near the amounts that some of these students face and I know it must be frightening to think of how they will be able to repay them, but in all fairness they have to try. It will be good business for them to learn how to repay a loan that they made, it will be good for the country, and it will be good for future students who will need to take out a loan to complete their college education. I think it is completely irresponsible for politicians to be going around making all these promises of relieving all student college debt, and college for free; that’s just not going to happen. If the government wants to really do something, they should buy back all of the debt and make the students pay them. They would have all of the social security numbers and if the students don’t make arrangements to repay their loans, garnish part of their salary. I know my children will probably have to take out loans to complete their educational dreams, and I want them to be able to secure a loan at a reasonable rate and not be punished for others who decided not to pay back their student loans.

Thank you so much for not following the Washington Post in its continuous printing of derogatory stories about former Mayor Vincent Gray in your paper, The Washington Informer. It is so obvious that The Post is doing everything it can to drag out the ugly accusations against Mr. Gray, even after the District’s top attorney’s found insufficient evidence to charge him with a crime.

The agenda of the Washington Post seems to be to bring down Mr. Gray with all of these “he saidshe said” stories that sound like cheap reporting to me. The latest article quotes Mr. Gray’s ex-girlfriend as saying she told him about the shadow campaign. But when you turn to the continuation of the article deeper inside the paper, she says “I think I might have told him.” How shallow is that? And then, one should note that she’s now working on the reelection campaign of his opponent in the race for Ward 7’s seat on the City Council. So again I say thank you for not going there. There are other stories that are more interesting and informative and they are always on the pages of The Washington Informer.

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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS Guest Columnist

By James Clingman

A Solid Financial Foundation For decades several conscious and committed Black men and women have spoken, written books, taught, advised and, more importantly, initiated economic empowering projects and movements to help propel us to a higher level of mutual support and, thus, creating a solid foundation upon which our children can stand and build upon. We have demonstrated, in many ways and by several means, the solutions to the economic problems to which many of our “leading Blacks” just

give lip-service.

This article is dedicated to Black folks who are willing to pay their blessings forward by helping others among us. It also cites, by way of relevant example, the magnitude and power that has accrued to one relatively small group of people in this country who work collectively in support of one another.

Sheldon Adelson, the international casino magnate, with a net worth of $25.5 billion (Source: Forbes Real Time Ranking), is among the 10 wealthiest persons in the U.S. and ranks high among the wealthiest in the

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world. Of course, if you have not heard, he gives hundreds of millions to the Republican Party and its candidates. But he also started the Adelson Family Foundation in 2007, the primary purpose of which is to strengthen the State of Israel and the Jewish people; the Adelson Medical Research Foundation focuses on health care.

Aside from Adelson’s political ideology, something most of us would concentrate on and spend hours discussing, he is using his wealth to empower his people and to pay for medical research, special housing for the afflicted,

and education for children with special needs — laudable by any measure. His is just one example of a member of what could be called a “minority group” that should, among other things, cause us to reflect on our philanthropic actions toward one another, that is, the power to control our collective financial assets to empower ourselves.

Sometime in the very near future, the Blackonomics Foundation will be introduced; formally established a few months ago, it will not be unveiled for several more months. Timing is everything, you know. Until then and

even afterward, there are Black foundations that are doing great work and are worthy of our praise and our dollars.

In my first two books (1998 and 1999) I lauded basketball great, Dikembe Mutombo and his foundation, whose mission it was to build a hospital in the Congo. I also acknowledged Patrick Ewing and Alonzo Mourning for contributing to that worthy cause. By the way, only three or four NBA players helped Mutombo in his effort to raise $49 million for the hospital. (The lack

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By Jesse Jackson

America Must Renew Its Infrastructure or Face Decline America is literally falling apart.

In Flint, children were poisoned by the lead contamination of the water.

In Washington, the subway system is plagued by fires and delays. Arlington Memorial Bridge — which connects the North to the South, the Capitol to Arlington National Cemetery — may have to be closed soon. Kennedy’s eternal flame may burn forever, but the bridge is on its last legs.

The American Society of Civil

Engineers released a report last week once more warning the country of a massive investment deficit — an estimated $1.4 trillion shortfall over the next ten years — coming on top of years of underfunding and neglect.

This isn’t a matter of money. The Obama administration has announced it plans to spend over $1 trillion to build a new generation of nuclear weapons and the planes, missiles and submarines that deliver them. These are weapons that can never be used. We have spent over $2 trillion on the wars in Afghani-

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stan and Iraq to date, with the final costs estimated at $4 to $6 trillion.

The war in Afghanistan — an impoverished country where we have no strategic interest — is already the longest in our history and continuing.

We have the money. U.S. corporations stash trillions abroad to avoid paying taxes. If they paid what they owe — now estimated to be $700 billion — it would provide a down payment on rebuilding America.

The federal tax on gasoline — dedicated to paying for infrastructure — has not been raised since 1993, even

though gas prices have plummeted.

Interest rates on U.S. bonds are now so low that the Treasury could issue Rebuild America bonds, put people to work to rebuild the country — and the growth and increased productivity that results would generate revenues to repay the bonds.

Even establishment economists like Lawrence Summers argue that the program would literally pay for itself. And it would respond to the pleas of the bastion of economic conservatism — the International Monetary Fund — that is pleading with the U.S. and other advanced

countries to expand public investment to forestall a return to recession. The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that the U.S. will suffer a stunning $4 trillion in lost GDP by 2025 from the costs of decaying tunnels, railways, waterways and other basic infrastructure.

It will cost us more to decay than it would to rebuild.

But Washington is frozen. The Republican Congress rejects President Barack Obama’s modest plans for infrastructure investment,

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By Julianne Malveaux

Bernie and the Donald: Angry White Man For all their dueling ideologies, Sen. Bernie Sanders and “presumptive Republican nominee” Donald Trump are two sides of the same coin. Both of them are angry, so intensely so that they are inciting a destructive anger among their followers. When Republicans brawled and pushed and shoved at Trump rallies, I never anticipated the flip side – the fisticuffs and rhetoric at Nevada caucuses, the likes of which might have put Trump terrorists to

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shame. Both the Chump Trumps and the Berning Bernies are being led by whining, angry, entitled White men, separated by ideology, but joined by both outrage and naiveté.

I don’t think either Bernie or, duh, Donald planned to get as far along in the presidential process as they have so far. Sanders proudly carries the redistributionist flag with rousing rhetoric about social and economic justice. His agenda seems to have been to raise these issues aggressively, and he did. His presence in the campaign pushed

Hillary hard to the left and made her engage with constituencies she might otherwise have ignored. For all his success, I don’t think Sanders expected to have more than 1,500 delegates to his credit. And now that he has them he doesn’t know what to do with them. Both he and, duh, Donald are publicly floundering, signaling that they never had a winning or graceful losing plan.

Clinton and her followers shouldn’t be so hard on Bernie, though. While they should not demand that he get out of the race, he is well-advised to tone is rheto-

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ric down. I sat with women at the 2008 campaign who sobbed their way through then-Sen. Clinton’s concession speech and appeal for party unity. I debated a PUMA (Party Unity My @--) activist who swore she would not support nominee Obama. In 2008, Hillary devotees were as passionate as Bernie devotees are now. The kumbayaa moment comes in July in Philly, not just yet. It reflects poorly on the Hillary camp to dismiss or ignore those who are passionate about Sanders.

At the same time, it is important to note that extreme anger is

a unique privilege of White men.

Imagine then-nominee Obama raging at Hillary in the way that Bernie has. His temperament would have been sliced and diced and parsed and inspected, and he would have been so damaged by the conversation that it might have affected his electoral results. If Clinton ever managed to get her voice to Bernie’s decibel, if she every managed to project such rage, she’d be written off as a crazy lady and peripheralized. But when the angry White

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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS Guest Columnist

By Bill Fletcher Jr.

Failing to See Beauty in Diversity If you are like me, you sometimes find yourself surfing the Web when you are supposed to be doing something more important. You may notice “click bait” that poses questions like, “What has happened to these childhood stars?” or offers, “Secrets of the Mayans revealed.”

Well, the other day I noticed one that concerned a list with dozens of allegedly, gorgeous news anchors called “News

Anchors Who Will Make Your Jaw Drop.” Out of curiosity, I decided to take a look. Let me tell you what I found.

The list was all women. I mention that because my wife’s first comment was that there are many male news anchors and that some of them are good-looking. For some reason I did not assume that there would be any men, but that may be my own blindness.

The second thing was that they were reasonably attractive, they tended to be on the

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younger side, and there was not one identifiable Black woman among them. The story does not stop there. The list included Europeans, White Americans, Latinas and Asians. Yet the characteristics of all of the women were European. The Latinas were all light-skinned, not one looking Afro-Latina or, for that matter, indigenous.

The Asians were all quite light, with Western looks, and with not one of them looking like the browner Asians one might find in Guam, the Philippines,

Cambodia, Malaysia or Indonesia, not to mention, South Asia.

I kept assuming that I would come across at least one identifiable Black news anchor. There were a couple that looked like they might have a little African in them somewhere, but I felt that I was reaching.

Despite periodic initiatives toward Black pride and defeating efforts to erase Blackness from the mainstream, the White supremacist bias always finds a way to raise its ugly

head. Beauty remains a category defined largely in European terms with a dismissal of the very notion that beauty can take myriad forms.

This situation is not remedied by the selection of one identifiably Black person to fill a quota. It really goes to the very basic question of how one defines beauty and breaking with the assumption that the closer we are to the purer European — whatever that means — the more beautiful we become.

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By E. Faye Williams

Toward a Cleaner Environment I'm blessed to have the opportunity to lead a major national women's group, the National Congress of Black Women. My personal desire has always been to facilitate the enhancement of the lives and opportunities for African-American women, women of color, and their families' welfare. Since my personal goals coincide so perfectly with the goals of our organization, I consider my role to be a singular opportunity to bring positive change to our communities and to our nation.

My job is to drive awareness of the most pressing issues we face. The long list includes: domestic violence, immigration reform, childhood obesity, criminal justice reform and equal access to education. Atop that list are the challenges posed by carbon pollution and climate change.

We live under the threat of an environmental, economical, and public health crisis – and it’s only getting worse. The rest of our challenges mean little if we don't have a healthy environment in which we can thrive.

Costs to our communities aren't imaginary. Sixty-eight percent of African-Americans live within 30

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miles of a polluting coal-fired plant.

Without escape or refuge from the constant cloud of toxic-waste, African-Americans average 350 percent more emergency room visits than white Americans.

Harms to our children are especially alarming. Living so close to polluting power plants, African-American children experience asthma attacks at much higher rates than their white peers. They are two to three times more likely to be hospitalized and/or die from asthma. Adding to the impact of their illness, their mothers, sisters, aunts and grandmothers – many who are

the sole economic providers for their families – miss hours or even days of work. The visit to a pediatrician is costly enough. Affording inhalers or missing work only makes it worse.

Carbon pollution and climate change are real. We can’t ignore them, nor can we allow other issues to subordinate them on our list of essential priorities.

Among the timeliest of options is the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan. The Plan, finalized by President Barack Obama in August 2015, sets the first federal limits on carbon pollution from power plants and encourages

the development of safer, cleaner renewable energy. It’s the most significant action ever taken by the U.S. to cut carbon pollution and combat climate change.

The Plan's life-saving rules will yield great health and climate-related benefits – up to $54 billion annually by 2030. By reducing or cutting carbon pollution by nearly a third by 2030, will reduce asthma attacks by 90,000 and prevent 300,000 missed days of school and work. Most importantly, the Clean Power Plan will reduce premature deaths by up to

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By Askia Muhammad

Trump Will Make America Gross Again I have redrawn my analysis of the 2016 presidential election cycle to its final, apocalyptic conclusion. It’s not pretty.

Donald J. Trump is inciting angry, frustrated White males to join his unholy crusade masquerading as a political campaign to redecide the outcome of the Civil War. That’s his message, unvarnished.

Trump and his kind will Make America Gross Again. Their jingoistic views will not make America great.

The Republican so-called “estab-

lishment,” which is now rushing to put lipstick on Trump — the pig their voters have chosen to lead them — the establishment is hoping that by hook or by crook, the voters will kiss their pig in November … spray tan and bad comb-over included.

After all, those Republican leaders themselves are nothing but shameful, climate-change deniers, anti-worker, race-baiting demagogues who likely agreed with Trump’s hateful, violent, dog-whistle-now-bullhorn-messages from the very beginning.

Now, in my humble opinion, every other rational White person who does not repudiate Trump and his

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presidential ambition is hastening by his/her silence, the equivalent of a 21st century attack on Ft. Sumter.

(Reminder: That 19th century “Lost Cause” ended in “unconditional surrender” at Appomattox Courthouse four years later.)

As far as I’m concerned, what Trump has unleashed is gross, not great. It cannot succeed. It is nihilistic and will hasten this country’s downfall, not herald the “New American Greatness.”

Fraternity-sorority videos, photos, disgusting pranks; wanton police murders of unarmed Black people over and over and over again;

cartoons and other insults which are beneath contempt depicting the African-American president of the United States and the first lady.

These are now common occurrences.

That is gross, not great.

Just because a plurality of White Republicans — I think of them as civilian Ku-Kluxers — voted for Trump, permitting him to outlast the more mealy-mouthed presidential candidates this year, doesn’t alter the calamitous error of the Trump message. The lasting numbers and loud voices of the Trump Troops does not make them correct. They are in error, in gross error.

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“He’s an ignorant, amoral, dishonest and manipulative, misogynistic, philandering, hyper-litigious, isolationist, protectionist blowhard,” rich-guy-investor Michael K. Vlock, who has given more than $5 million to Republican candidates this campaign, said about Trump when he pledged not to contribute any money for his election in 2016.

Trump’s promise and the outcome from following his misguided policies is gross.

There can be no accommodation with Donald J. Trump and with

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By Eve M. Ferguson WI Contributing Writer It’s one of the bestkept secret gatherings in a city that thrives on high-caliber secret gatherings, Tbut h e this 33 one, according to Representative Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, remains her favorite concert and congressional event ever.

Once a year, the

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, better known as ASCAP, celebrates the people who write the songs later made into megahits by celebrities. And the rLibrary d A nofn uCongress, al custodian of ASCAP Archives and home to the U.S. Copyright Office, throws open the doors of the spectacular Jefferson Building on warm spring evenings

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ASCAP ‘We Write the Songs’ Celebrates Songwriters

By Eve M. Ferguson WI Contributing Writer

It’s one of the best-kept secret gatherings in a city that thrives on high-caliber secret gatherings, but this one, according to Representative Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, remains her favorite concert and congressional event ever.

Once a year, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, better known as ASCAP, celebrates the people who write the songs later made into megahits by celebrities. And the Library of Congress, custodian of ASCAP Archives and home to the U.S. Copyright Office, throws open the doors of the spectacular Jefferson Building on warm spring evenings to host congressional members, celebrities both local and international and a few lucky Library employees for “We Write the Songs,” a showcase of ASCAP members.

This year’s stellar lineup included R&B superstars Brian McKnight and Monica, up-and-coming YouTube sensation Priscilla Renea, MoZella, who co-wrote Miley Cyrus’ hit “Wrecking Ball,” country music legend Brett James, Randy Goodrum, author of Ann Murray’s hit ballad “You Needed Me,” veteran songwriter and industry mogul Desmond Child and classical composer Jennifer Higdon.

Monica, whom most people have seen blossom from a teen star to a mature young woman now married to basketball star Shannon Brown and a mother of three children, was one of the early members of the Atlanta music movement that also spawned rappers such as Ludacris, who happens to be her cousin.

She commented on her start as a songwriter, saying, “It all started in my bedroom as a little girl writing poetry, and that poetry became song lyrics. It’s about what you are going through and what you feel.” Then she treated the audience to songs from her latest album rather than pull from her bag of hits including “The Boy is Mine” and the personal anthem for so many, “Don’t Take It Personal (Just One of Them Days).”

Brian McKnight, on the other hand, treated the full house to two of his oldies-but-goodies, “Miss You,” and the obvious audience favorite, “Back at One,” on which he ceded the singing of the song to the audience while he accompanied on keyboards.

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5/ Photos courtesy ASCAP Foundation ‘We Write the Songs’ 2016 la Renea got her start on her own YouTube Channel, singing songs in her bedroom. The native of Vero Beach, Florida, is one of the rare African-American artists who perform and write country western music primarily. She and country music superstar and multiple award winner Brett James took to the stage to perform the song they co-wrote for Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood, “Somethin’ Bad.” Renea, who seems more mature than her actual 27 years, made sure to educate the audience, saying “We all know that the roots of country western music are in the blues and gospel. And while I love the Lord with all my heart, sometimes I have to get a little ratchet too,” before going into her hip-hop, gospel melody, “Oceans,” on which she implored the audience to “listen closely to the lyrics!”

Renea has written for singers like Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Demi Lovato and Madonna.

MoZella, neé Maureen Ann McDonald, hailing from a suburb of Detroit, proved that blue-eyedsoul is alive and well, performing her version of the song she co-wrote for Miley Cyrus, “Wrecking Ball,” saying that “This song came from a really bad breakup. It has to be something real to you.” And with the rawness and hurt of a freshly broken heart, MoZella gave the song an entirely different nuance because the lyrics belonged to her.

The jam-packed show was closed by the inimitable Desmond Child,

author of Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On a Prayer” and Ricky Martin’s “Livin’ La Vida Loca” and powerhouse behind the creation of the Latin Grammys. Child performed both songs, which brought back many a memory and set the house on fire.

ASCAP President Paul Williams, himself a multi-hit singer and songwriter, having penned Carpenters classics “Close to You” and “Rainy Days and Mondays,” as well as his own hit, “An Old Fashioned Love Song,” continues to steward the organization in which he is so deeply invested.

“We’re asking policymakers to stand with songwriters at a time when our future livelihoods and the future of American music are both in jeopardy. Streaming has vastly changed music listening habits, but licensing laws haven’t kept up with the way people consume music today,” Williams commented emotionally. “ASCAP is on the front lines fighting for meaningful music licensing reform to ensure songwriters can continue writing the next great song, but we can’t do it alone. We are asking legislators to recognize that songwriters deserve laws which enable them to be paid fairly for the use of their music.”

The ASCAP Foundation, founded in 1978, also supports opportunities, recognition and cash awards to emerging composers and makes sure that children of all ages have access to music and music education in schools across the nation.

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Romantic Comedy Features Five in Search of Love Mosaic Theatre Ends Inaugural Season with ‘When January Feels Like Summer’

A fast-paced, romantic comedy, “When January Feels Like Summer,” closes out the inaugural season of D.C.’s Mosaic Theatre Company which opened last weekend and continues through Sunday, June 12.

The play, premiering on the stage of the Atlas Performing Center in Northeast and written by Cori Thomas, features five everyday people who cross paths during a strangely warm winter – two immigrants, two teens and one sanitation worker – who hope for and discover love in the most surprising ways.

“This play is a much-needed anthem for the restoration of love . . . and a valentine to the wounded spirit; that it might exercise resilience,” said Founding Artistic Director Ari Roth. “As it has proven during its hit runs [in Pittsburgh and New York City], this play really heals the fractured heart.”

Two Black teens and best friends working at different Burger Kings, Devaun and Jeron, push themselves and the audience to look past first impressions as the two youth each search for true love. They also represent inner city stereotypes often associated with Black youth in ways that will cause the viewer to first laugh and then consider the impact of such labeling.

Actor Jeremy Keith Hunter, in the role of Devaun, steals the show with his misuse and mispronunciation of common words while bragging about his many intimate encounters.

But it’s his romantic, intercultural encounter with a transgender woman from India that brings a unique perspective and understanding to one of today’s most controversial issues.

And as he and his more naïve best buddy, Jeron, capably played by Vaughn Ryan Midder, both discover, it may be appropriate to sound the alarm about global warming and the impending climate crisis as temperatures and precipitation swing back and forth in short order like the unfettered pendulum of a

grandfather clock.

Behind the backdrop of New York City’s noisy subway cars and uncommon encounters on the streets, the two youth, and the rest of the cast, eventually find ways to overcome the obstacles of their lives.

Two other characters, sister and brother immigrants from India (Lynette Rathnam and Shravan Amin), bring a provocative examination of tough decisions: pulling the plug on a spouse left in a vegetative state following an assault and making the final move for a sex change from male to female.

Amin, who alternatively plays Ishan and Indira, has already begun taking hormones in the shedding of his male self and delivers one of the play’s most memorable lines, saying he/she fears the “pain I will feel and the look that will come when I tell him [her romantic interest, Devaun] the truth about who I am.”

The turmoil the actor so vividly displays may cause audiences to think twice about the way we look at transgender individuals as today’s lawmakers and citizens debate their rights as citizens versus the objections many have expressed as it relates to their way of life.

Finally, there’s the charming divorcee and garbage man, Joe (Jason B. McIntosh), who finally unearths the courage to go after real love and companionship after years of wondering whether he is nothing more than the trash he handles each day.

Director Serge Seiden says few plays so aptly portray the diversity of urban life.

“It’s about ordinary people making extraordinary decisions. It’s about coming out.

Coming of age and coming together,” Seiden said.

The award-winning, off-Broadway production, explores a host of issues that have dominated recent conversations. It’s one that should be seen by community and faith leaders, activists and others who care about their world, their neighbors and the future. Go to mosaictheater. org for more information.

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5 Jeremy Keith Hunter (Devaun) and Vaughn Ryan Midder (Jeron) star in the romantic comedy ‘When January Feels Like Summer,’ now playing at the close out of Mosaic Theater’s 2015-16 inaugural season at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Northeast. / Photo by Stan Barouh

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Filmmaker Kicking Down Doors in Hollywood

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer First Detroit, then Hollywood, Washington D.C and the world.

Before long, if the president of 25th Frame Films has anything to do with it, his company will be charting its own path towards the type of success no others have yet achieved.

Queens, New York native and accomplished producer, director and actor Shiek Mahmud-Bey, like the prizefighter he used to be, has been working diligently behind the scenes to give aspiring actors, producers and directors the tools they need to storm the ramparts of the film industry.

His efforts are seen as important for all actors, regardless of race or gender, but it could mean even more for African Americans or people of color as Hollywood faces increasing pressure not only to produce great films and bring back the days of appointment television, but as business writer Drew Harwell noted in December 2015, Hollywood has been ignoring a gold mine.

Although non-whites make up

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only 37 percent of the U.S. population, they bought 46 percent of the $1.2 billion in tickets sold in 2015.

Further, movies with predominantly-Black casts like “Straight Outta Compton” which was produced with a $28 million budget grossed more than $200 million in box office to become the highest grossing biopic in history.

So, as Hollywood figures out what to do about this intractable problem, Mahmud-Bey isn’t sitting around waiting with his hands in his lap.

After crafting and hosting a years-long series of innovative workshops held locally and in cities like the Motor City and the Big Apple, he and officials at his production company say they’re stepping up their game by marshalling the skills and talents of the best, accomplished and undiscovered talent around to shoot a series of short movies that they assert will be sure to capture Hollywood’s imagination.

“We will find a way, or make one,” he said.

“I’ve decided to step it up a little more. My company is collaborat-

ing with directors and writers like Kamal Smith, Janaya Black and Dana Elam – those I’ve worked with in ‘Collaborations Detroit’ and a few actors who attend my Shiek Studio monthly classes – and doing this,” said Mahmud-Bey, president of 25th Frame Films.

From the different productions, he plans to bring to the screen stories about a woman struggling with mental health; the heart-wrenching story of a woman’s pain in “Rape;” and the story of a man forced to deal with the realities of his newfound sexual orientation – he never expected he could fall in love with another man; an individual struggling to balance ego and marriage; and two women confronting their eating disorders.

“The short series is themed under the topic ‘Life,’” he said.

Led by 25th Frame Films, the short series will be shot and entered into the film festival circuit.

Prior to that, they’ll be screened by the Collaborations Group, which Mahmud-Bey calls a dream come true.

Director of Photography Zackary Cornell Cunningham, who Mahmud-Bey met in Detroit

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during a “Collaborations” event has joined the team with his CC Digital Innovations production company.

“This brother is about movie making. His standards match mine, meaning we both want to tell great stories with no compromise to production value,” Mahmud-Bey said. “He’s also shooting a documentary about his father, Michael G. Cunningham, and his dialysis journey which is tilted, ‘30 to Go.’” Mahmud-Bey could barely contain his enthusiasm for Smith and the involvement of Smith’s Lynn’s Boys Media LLC production company.

“Kamal Smith is another brother I’ve teamed up with. He wrote scenes for ‘Collaborations Detroit” about a man intimidated by his wife making more money than him and I loved it,” Mahmud-Bey said.

Mahmud-Bey said he’d heard great things about Smith and had always wanted to meet and possibly work with the man many called a young Tyler Perry-like innovative talent.

“I guess it was Divine Intervention,” he said.

Mahmud-Bey has an unenviable body of work. His performances in “The Way Out,” and “Acts of Contrition” received critical acclaim and earned him a “Best Performance” Award in the International Fringe Festivals. He’s also appeared in such theatrical performances as “The Big Trees,” “Over the Edge,” and “Black, No Sugar.”

But the thespian really marked his territory on the Silver Screen by starring opposite Robert DeNiro, Nicolas Cage, Andy Garcia, Phil-

5Actor, producer Shiek Mahmud-Bey is helping others to break down barriers in Hollywood. / Courtesy 25th Frame Films ip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix in such films as “Buffalo Soldier,” “Flawless,” “Night Falls on Manhattan,” “Kiss of Death,” “See No Evil, Hear No Evil,” “Small Vices,” “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” “Mercy Streets,” and “Joe’s Apartment.”

His television credits include a regular role in NBC’s “The Profiler,” “Third Watch,” “Ghost Whisperer,” “Spencer: Small Vices,” and “Saving Grace.”

It’s that immeasurable experience and prodigious talent that should boost Mahmud-Bey’s latest foray as he pushes to provide a mélange of opportunities for those seeking to be seen and more deeply involved in the industry they love.

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Under the leadership of Daniel Bradley, 35, coordinator of BYV!, Devin Anderson, 30, senior advisor of BYV!, Thomas Dortch, Jr., NCBCP chairman of the board and the Rev. Tony Lee, BYV! BMI national convener, close to 300 Black men and boys returned to Capitol Hill on Monday and Tuesday, May 23 – 24, meeting with and educating members of Congress on issues of tantamount importance to Black men, their families and communities. The two-day experience brought attendees from as far as California and Florida with the majority being from the DMV. Bradley described it this way: “It’s not just an event; it’s the beginning of an event.”

Troy Johnson, 16, a student at Cesar Chavez Public Charter School, said “I learned at the Hill that patience is the key and no matter where you start in life, you can always make something big from something small.”

“I want people to stop classifying Black men as fathers who don’t take care of their children. I’ve been taking care of my daughter since day one. I want Congress to find a way to help Blacks keep their homes in D.C. I want us to start doing more positive things and more people to see it,” said Anthony Gray, 42, a native Washingtonian who attributed his successful attempt to secure health benefits to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes who advocated on his behalf.

“I’m here to extend my education and to let my voice be heard for Black men today. We have to stop the cruelty that has been going on in our community so we can live better lives and get better education,” said Devon Cooper, 13, a student at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida.

The photo above includes Lee (left holding portrait) and hundreds of Black men and boys from across the nation chanting “We are the Change” on Tuesday, May 24 during the Black Youth Vote! Black Men and Boys Day on Capitol Hill. / Photo by Patricia Little

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By D.R. Barnes WI Staff Writer A memorial service for R. Calvin Lockridge, the former school board member and education activist, drew one conclusion before it ended – those who knew him well saw him through a completely dif-

ferent lens than many in Washington’s power establishment.

One after another, Lockridge’s friends and political allies shared emotional memories of the man they say fit the description of a political gadfly, who appeared angry and intolerant of others. But these attributes, they concurred, were

needed from a leader who dared the establishment to treat poor and Black children fairly and to deliver to them equally a quality education.

“A public nuisance,” as he was described in a recent Washington Post obituary, may be accurate, but a nuisance to some is a warrior to others. “It was what was in his

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heart” that counted, the Rev. Lewis Anthony said throughout his eulogy. “Thank God for a disturber of the peace.”

Rufus Calvin Lockridge, 81, died April 22 of congestive heart failure.

More than 100 mourners attended a memorial service for him on Saturday, May 21 at Allen Chapel AME Church in Southeast.

Lockridge was born in Columbus, Tenn., on October 13, 1934, the second of seven children. His parents, Reverend Calvin Martin Lockridge and Eura Mai Lockridge were among the founding families of Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Spring Hill, Tenn. “He [Lockridge] was not raised on a small farm,” as previously reported, said his niece Rev. Joy Lockridge Majied. To the contrary, the Lockridges were a well-established family that lived in a nice-sized home with “indoor toilets.”

The Lockridge family has deep roots in the civil rights movement and they had a strong belief in education. Following high school, Lockridge attended Morehouse College in Atlanta where he received a bachelor’s degree in political science and history with minors in education and psychology. He also served in the U.S. Army where he sharpened his culinary skills while stationed in Western Europe.

Lockridge was proud to note that he was the first African-American sales representative for Pfizer and the first Black manager for Standard Oil. When he later moved to Chicago, his community activism was launched and he served as an alderman. He arrived in the District in 1973 to accept a position with the DC Public Schools to run a schoolbased reading and math program for the Anacostia Community Schools Division. Lockridge was elected to the DC Board of Education in 1978, and continued to serve for more than 10 years. He served as the Board’s president from 1981-1982. His well-documented service was both praised and criticized because of the tactics he used to garner attention to the educational needs of DC school children.

“There is no secret that Calvin and I were on the opposite sides of the political spectrum,” said Absalom Jordan, a community activist in Ward 8. But it was Lockridge’s devotion to his wife, Mildred “Minnie” Lockridge, that crumbled the wall between them. “It was the

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love he showed his wife that really showed me the true nature of Calvin. I have rarely seen a man who loved his wife as much as Calvin loved Minnie.”

Mildred “Minnie” Lockridge, a former school principal and education advocate in her own right, said she gave her husband, of 31 years, permission to give up a well-paying job to run for the $18,000 a year school board position. “I told him I would pay the bills so he could work on behalf of the children.”

Former school board member Carol Schwartz, who later served an at-large position on the D.C. City Council, reflected on her time on the school board from 19741980 with Lockridge. “I supported him when he ran for president and he supported me when I ran for president,” Schwartz said. “I will continue to appreciate Calvin for his straight-forwardness, his commitment to education, his fun personality, even his temper; but most importantly, his kind heart.

“I give so much credit to Calvin for encouraging me to work for young people tirelessly,” said Emily Washington, an educator for 43 years and close friend of Lockridge.

“He taught me to never to give up on [young people] and to never say to them that there was no university they could not attend if they could read, speak Standard English and work hard.”

In honor of Lockridge’s devotion to education and to books, his grand nephew Stefan Lockridge announced on behalf of the William O. Lockridge Foundation a $1,000 book scholarship for college students. The foundation is named in honor of Lockridge’s nephew who also served on the D.C. State Board of Education prior to his death in 2011. His widow, Wanda Lockridge, a life-long resident of Ward 8, runs the William O. Lockridge Foundation. WI

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ARIES A loved one may feel a bit neglected as you pursue your material dreams

with vigor this week. Time set aside for this person after you’ve made some gains will prove to be extra sweet. Try not to push a mate’s understanding nature too far, though. Soul Affirmation: My needs will be met if I just ask. Lucky Numbers: 7, 13, 17

“The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation”

TAURUS Stay open-minded this week and you’ll actually feel the good vibrations! Co-workers will wonder at the smile on your face, but let it be your secret for now. Your smile itself will make others smile about their own lives! Soul Afirmation: I smile as I think about far away places. Lucky Numbers: 31, 36, 47

by Natalie Y. Moore c.2016, St. Martin’s Press $27.99 / $32.50 Canada 250 pagesYoung Readers $17.95 / $21.95 Canada 40 pages

GEMINI Big appetites this week! Indulge at least one of your passions and then get back to work. You are making incredible strides toward your dream by just reminding yourself of it. Drive carefully and pay attention to brake lights. Soul Afirmation: Smooth communications is the key to my success this week. Lucky Numbers: 27, 29, 44 CANCER Relax a bit and review your “things to do” list”. Move method- ically,

and check off each item as you complete them. You’ll be surprised by the progress you are making. Spend the afternoon with family, and friends. Soul Afirmation: This week family is the source of my joy. Lucky Numbers: 13, 50, 52

By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.

Shut the door, and what’s inside is familiar and comfortable. It’s yours, and it’s where you want to be at the end of the day. Or maybe not: in “The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation” by Natalie Y. Moore, you’ll see how one city’s housing affects black lives.

5Author Natalie Y. Moore / In 1779, Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, a black man, Photo David Pierini founded what would eventually become Chicago. African Americans, therefore, lived in Chicago from the beginning but the “Great Migration” (early-twentieth-century flight from Southern racism) and a “secondary wave” (post-World War II) brought “more than 1 million” new black faces to the Windy City by the 1970s.

Almost from the start, those black Chicagoans were barred, via covenants and rules, from living in neighborhoods that were mostly white or perceived as desirable. Redlined maps denoted areas where blacks could live, mostly on Chicago’s south side.

Moore says that new residents didn’t see overt “whites only” signs in their new hometown, but “the city designed a way for blacks not to fully participate in the freedoms of the North.”

Moore’s own grandparents were part of the Great Migration, and settled in areas they grew to love. After Moore’s parents were married, they bought a small house in a neighborhood full of middle-class black families, put their children in integrated schools, and shopped at local, black-owned businesses.

Still, then as now, “the black middle-class is not the same as white middle class.” In this book, Moore cites examples: 70 percent of Chicago’s “food desert” population is black; retailers seem reluctant to open stores in mostly-black neighborhoods; there’s an often-unfair perception of high crime on the South Side, Chicago schools aren’t at all well-integrated, and Moore herself was victim to discriminatory lending.

And yet, she says, “Change is possible” but it won’t be easy or quick. It’s entrenched -some residents of segregated housing don’t want to leave - and it’s “a regional and a hyper-local issue,” but it can be fixed…

It took me awhile to see “The South Side” as more than a biography with incidental facts: author Natalie Y. Moore makes the first many pages of her book so very personal that it’s somewhat hard to determine where it’s going, other than with tales – albeit, interesting ones, particularly to Chicagoans – of Moore’s family and upbringing.

Slowly, though, the reason for this book comes into focus, as does the reason why you should read it: Moore weaves her own experiences into that of black history and segregation in general. She shows how the government is involved, how segregation is mythologized, and what, more importantly, can be done to lessen it. On that note, the advice Moore offers is rather Chicago-centric, but useable nation-wide.

Exploring this book, though it’s good reading, is going to take patience; yes, it contains info you can use, but only if you endure the wandering. Only then, those with tolerance (of all kinds) may find that “The South Side” has a place on their bookshelf.

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LEO Your best self is on parade this week, and wow! You look good! Co-workers

will beat a path to your cubicle, so be prepared to turn chatterboxes away gently.

Give your honey a phone call or send a loving email. Soul Afirmation: I open myself up to the vibrations of love. Lucky Numbers: 18, 25, 36

VIRGO This week’s a good week to approach that person you’ve been wondering about. While you’ve been working very hard, you need to play, too. Good playmates make work seem more rewarding to you. Soul Affirmation: I master life by mastering myself. Lucky Numbers: 23, 37, 51 LIBRA Can you take a week off from work? It’s a perfect week to relax with a loved one in one of your favorite ways. Even if you can only spend a few hours decompressing you’ll be surprised at how little it takes to feel bliss this week. Soul Afirmation: I let the outer world and inner world change places this week. Lucky Numbers: 34, 45, 50 SCORPIO Vibrations this week make everyone feel as if the universe has given them another chance. Your fresh start may come in a romantic area. Buy a bouquet of flowers for your partner on your way home from work. See what happens.

Soul Afirmation: I celebrate freedom of mind this week. Lucky Numbers: 15, 24, 26 SAGITTARIUS A short trip for business reasons gives you a little person- al

space to make some notes to yourself. Remember your best self, and keep a positive outlook. Buy a lottery ticket this week at your destination, or watch for some other type of “found” money. Soul Afirmation: I judge no one, especially myself this week. Lucky Numbers: 11, 17, 32

CAPRICORN Your home may need some of your attention. This is a ne week to check the re alarm battery, put away gardening equipment, or redecorate your dining area. The results of a shopping trip for new bed linens will please you very much. Soul Afirmation: I keep my smile shining, especially at home. Lucky Numbers: 16, 17, 31 AQUARIUS Spend some time in the company of friends early in the week, then spend your afternoon relaxing. Your ability to tune out and mediate on the goodness that surrounds is comes easy. Let the good vibrations massage you with bliss. Soul Af rmation: I let positive emotions carry me through the week. Lucky Numbers: 5, 23, 34 PISCES An unexpected clash may arise this week from an unlikely area. Try to maintain a position as mediator, rather than joining the fray. Loyal- ties may be stretched, but they won’t break. What you need is within you. Go there and get it. Soul Affirmation: My spirit will fill me with gladness. Lucky Numbers: 14, 37, 44

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LIFESTYLE "50 percent of patients with chronic hepatitis C are unaware of their infection, and many who know about their diagnosis are not in care."

Dr. Vincent Lo Re / Perelman School of Medicine

HEPATITIS C from Page 18 creasing. However, approximately 50 percent of patients with chronic hepatitis C are unaware of their infection, and many who know about their diagnosis are not in care,” Lo Re said.

“This has prevented a large portion of patients from receiving lifesaving antiviral treatment. Even those who wish to receive hepatitis C treatment may not get it because some insurers require patients to have advanced liver fibrosis before the medication will be approved,” he said.

Curative drugs have advanced the treatment of hepatitis C infection over recent years, according to the CDC report. For those diag-

nosed with the virus, the new treatments can cure the vast majority of infections in two to three months, CDC officials said.

“Geisinger primary care physicians have a best practice reminder to offer the screening to patients who were born between 1945 and 1965,” Smith said.

“Even if you feel fine and don’t think you have any risk factors, ask your primary care physician about the screening test, especially if you’ve had a blood transfusion before 1991, have been a health care worker, have non-professional tattoos, or have injected drugs. Still, many people have no identifiable risk factor, and the screening is now heading toward the whole population.” WI

ZIKA from Page 19 109 and California’s 44 cases put it in third. Texas was fourth, with 35 reported infections. These states all have high Black and Hispanic populations, foreshadowing what this disease could do to these communities.

Among 836 Zika cases in U.S. territories, 832 were contracted locally. These include 803 infected people in Puerto Rico, 15 in the Virgin Islands and 14 in American Samoa.

Oxitec, a British biotechnology company, is testing its genetically modified male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Key Haven, Florida. Oxitec’s male mosquitoes mate with wild female Aedes aegypti, producing offspring that “have a very high probability of dying before they reach adulthood,” according to its website.

Mosquitoes generally live about two weeks.

The company’s experiments “have resulted in reduction of the wild population by more than 90 percent,” said Oxitec spokesman Matthew Warren. “Existing methods to control the Aedes aegypti mosquito, such as insecticides, are only 30 to 50 percent

effective, at best.”

More than 150 million Oxitec mosquitos have been released, Warren said, with no reported adverse effects.

Oxitec’s mosquitos were one possible approach within a larger program, said FDA spokeswoman Theresa Eisenman. “However, it is too early to say with any certainty whether such an approach would be successful.”

The agency approves and regulates biotechnology treatments, including vaccines.

“The FDA is acting responsibly with its mosquito pilot approach, and we’re glad to see that the CDC has activated the resources to respond,” said Adolph Falcon, executive vice president for the National Alliance for Hispanic Health.

Oxitec’s solution, however, only targets one mosquito species.

Also, pesticides no longer could be used against the insects, since they would kill both the dangerous female mosquitoes and the modified males.

Mosquito breeding habits show Zika disproportionately could affect poor countries and communities with inadequate sanitation.

A still-undiscovered Zika vaccine and improved sanitation would be more effective solutions, said Jaydee Hanson, senior policy analyst for the Center for Food Safety.

“People like magic,” Hanson said. “We want easy answers and we like technology. I’m a big fan of technology, but it needs to be assessed for it what it can do.”

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LA Sparks Manhandle Mystics, 97–67 4 Sparks forward Jelena

Dublievic drives past Mystics center Kin Vaughn in the third quarter of WNBA action on Friday, May 20, at the Verizon Center in Northwest. Sparks defeated the Mystics, 97-67. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

6 Sparks guard Chelsea Gray drive past Mystics

forward Ally Malott in the third quarter of WNBA action on Friday, May 20, at the Verizon Center in Northwest. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

6 Mystics center Stefanie Dolson and Los Angeles Sparks forward Nneka Ogwumike fight for

the basketball during Women's National Basketball Association action on Friday, May 20, at the Verizon Center in Northwest. The Sparks defeated the Mystics, 97-67. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

5 Mystics forward Kahleah Cooper gets the basketball pass Spark center Jantel Lavender in the first quarter of WNBA action on Friday, May 20, at the Verizon Center in Northwest. The Sparks defeated the Mystics, 97-67. / Photo by John E. De Freitas 36 MAY 26 - JUNE 1, 2016

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5 Divas left-back Safi Mojidi tries to get the football from Philadelphia’s Jade Bundy in

the first quarter of WFA action on Saturday, May 21, at the Prince George's Sports Complex in Landover. Divas defeated Philadelphia, 68-24. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

4 Philadelphia’s Jade Bundy and the Divas’ Genaya Davis try to control the football in the second quarter of WFA action on Saturday, May 21, at the Prince George's Sports Complex in Landover. Divas defeated Philadelphia, 68-24. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

5 Washington Divas Ashley Whisonant and teammate C'Vette Henson celebrate Whisonant's

touchdown in the first quarter of WFA action on Saturday, May 21, at the Prince George's Sports Complex in Landover. Divas defeated Philadelphia, 68-24. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

4 Washington Divas running back Kenyetta Grigsby runs for a touchdown in the first quarter of Women's Football Alliance (WFA) action on Saturday, May 21, at the Prince George's Sports Complex in Landover. The Divas defeated Philadelphia, 68-24. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

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There are others, but here is a great example: For nearly two decades now, NBA Hall of Famer, Alonzo Mourning, and his wife, Tracy, have headed many charitable efforts as part of their commitment to “give back” to their community, especially to the young people of Miami. The Mourning Family Foundation has raised tens of millions of dollars toward that end and helped thousands of people; they are truly exemplary of what more Black folks should be doing.

JACKSON from Page 26 though they are supported by a massive coalition that includes the conservative Chamber of Commerce as well as the AFL-CIO. All three presidential candidates call for expanding investment in infrastructure (although only Bernie Sanders comes close to meeting the shortfall that the civil engineers warn about).

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men yell and scream and whine and lie, they are celebrated, not condemned. Double standard.

Both Bernie and, duh, Donald are whining about rules they say are rigged against them, but the rules may have favored them.

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In 2013, Mourning hired the former president of the Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce, Bill Diggs, who invited me to speak at a chamber function in Miami a few years ago. With Diggs at the helm as president and the Mournings having paved the way and set the tone, their foundation will continue to maintain its high standards of excellence for years to come.

You folks in Miami should direct some of your money to the Mourning Family Foundation and show that you are willing to support this worthwhile charitable organization. Go online, check it out, and make it a monthly recipient of your overall tax-deductible donations. We must do a better job of supporting those who sup-

port us and our children.

Relatively speaking, each of us can do better, not only rich athletes but also the rest of us.

If we would simply reflect on the greatness of our ancestors, their will to live and to provide for us, their progeny, we would do better. If we would consider the benefit of collective economic activity, the potential treasures we could amass for our progeny with our resources, Black people would surely live up to the greatness that is within us all.

Mutombo cited a proverb to drive home his message, “Judge not the poor for their poverty, but judge the community for its indifference.” Well stated; but well-done beats well said every time. So I also say, “Well Done,” Alonzo and Tracy Mourning. WI

— a sweeping rebuke to the obstructionist Republican Congress — for anything to happen.

This is how great nations decline.

Investments that are essential to any modern civilized nation — from schools and bridges to electric grids and clean water systems — are neglected. Money is squandered on foreign adventures or lost to the tax evasions of corporations and the rich. Private speculators profit from

privatizing public services. We build the most modern and powerful military in the world but are ever more crippled by decaying services that we depend on every day.

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rules as some of his competitors did.

Sanders says he should have more delegates, but if he had to play under Republican rules, he’d have fewer. Democrats are more likely to award delegates on a proportional basis, which means that a close race might give each candidate nearly the same number of delegates. Sanders has no standing to call the system rigged. He has kept his distance from the Democratic Party for most of his career, 8/20/15 AM Page 1 in the rules never 11:24 participating

process. If he wanted to write his own rules, he should have run for president as an independent.

Sanders and Trump have positioned themselves as outsiders, but they want insiders to roll out the red carpet for them because they jumped into a game they haven’t mastered. They haven’t worked at establishing a foundation, but they are demanding the keys to the house. They aren’t wiling to put the work in to reforming our flawed two-party system. Instead, they are finding unfairness when none is there, whining when work might make a difference, and leveraging their angry White maleness into voter approval. WI

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A Battle to Halt the Diabetes Epidemic

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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. – Hosea 4:6

For the past five weeks, I have shared with you, the readers, the story of my family’s struggle with Type 2 diabetes. We all suffered the great loss of our mother, Fannie Estelle Hill Grant, in such a horrific manner. Mother only lived 12 years after her diagnosis. Here is the continuation of her story.

She lost both of her legs; she was extremely sad and depressed. Who wouldn’t be? You live your entire life walking around and healthy for the most part, only to end your life without legs. Mother had kidney dialysis, high blood pressure and seven strokes in 12 years. She was only 61 when she had her first major stroke, which resulted in paralysis.

Let me conclude this series with words I heard during an interview back in 2014. Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, answered a caller during his Sept. 14, 2014 CSPAN interview with the following question and answer. The caller said: My mother had triggered diabetes. I don’t recall what type it was. I have a brother and sister that are 10 years older than I am. They both take insulin shots and have had difficulties with this disease.

Here I am so far in my life, I’ve been disease-free of sugar diabetes. This genetic makeup – if they have the gene and I don’t, I would like to know why I sucTurning Hearts Church

ceeded in life without becoming a victim of that.

Rodgers answered by saying, “Our genetic makeup says a lot about what we are likely to become. You may or may not have the same risk because we have two parents and you inherit half of your genes from one parent and half from the other. It could be that that susceptibility gene you may have been lucky to not inherit. A lot has to do with our environment, how much we are exposed to, what we eat.

As it turns out, in Type 2 diabetes, our environment begins even earlier. For studies we have funded, both in our NIH Phoenix Branch and other sites nationally, determines that our environment begins in utero.

A mother who develops Type 2 diabetes or who has diabetes during pregnancy, the infant born to that mother when they have diabetes is more likely to develop diabetes later on in life than an infant born to that same mother who was not affected with just a small diabetes – known as gestational diabetes.

There is something in our environment we are trying to understand. That’s another factor to be considered. Of course, if it runs in your family, that does put you at higher risk. It sounds like you’re doing the right thing and you are being checked periodically to determine whether you have any signs of it. A good prescription, however, is

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with Lyndia Grant exercise and maintaining your weight at a level that your doctor approves?”

I wanted to share this with you, just to conclude. It may not be our fault, when it is in our genes, which shows even more why early detection is important. Type 2 diabetes did run in my mother’s family, but it wasn’t discussed very much; they really didn’t understand what they needed to know and share, which is why I’ve taken the bull by the horns. I have promised to tell this story for the rest of my life. I want everybody to know: Griffin said a good prescription is: 1 – Get checked early and regularly; 2 – learn how to eat properly when you discover you are a candidate; and 3 – exercise and lose weight!

When you follow this simple1-2-3 plan, you will save yourself and your loved ones from experiencing a life filled with pain, unnecessary suffering and regrets. WI

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Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church

Virgil K. Thomas, Sr. Senior Pastor/ Teacher

Service and Times Sunday School 8 – 9 AM Worship Service 9 – 11 AM Tuesday Night Bible Study 6:30 – 8:00 PM Wednesday Daytime Bible Study 11 AM – 12:30 PM

Estate planning and probate Medicaid planning Elder law Business and succession planning/ coaching Workshops and seminars on legacy creation for economic strength

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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RELIGION The Miracle Center of Faith Missionary Baptist Church

Pilgrim Baptist Church Rev. Louis B. Jones II Pastor

Bishop Michael C. Turner, Sr. Senior Pastor 9161 Hampton Overlook Capitol Heights, MD 20743 Phone: 301-350-2200 Fax: 301-499-8724

Church of Living Waters

700 I Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 547-8849 Service and Times Worship Sundays: 7:30 & 11:00am 5th Sundays: 9:30am 3rd Sundays: Baptism & Holy Communion Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @ Noon & 6:30pm

Service and Times Sunday Worship Times : 7:30 a.m. 7 10:00 a.m.

Communion: 1st Sunday Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.

Bible Study: Wednesday, 12 Noon Bible Study in homes: Tuesday 7:00 p.m.

Website: www.themiraclecenterFMBC.com Email: Miraclecenterfmbs@gmail.com Motto: “We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight”

Crusader Baptist Church

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

Rev. Dr. Alton W. Jordan Pastor

Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews Senior Pastor

Harold Andrew Assistant Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

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

www.livingwatersmd.org

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

Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ

St. Stephen Baptist Church

Third Street Church of God

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

Drs. Dennis W. & Christine Y. Wiley Pastors

Bishop Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Senior Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blessed Word of Life Church

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

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

Campbell AME Church

Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 am Sunday Church School: 8:45 am Bible Study Wednesday: 12:00 Noon Wednesday: 7:00 pm Thursday: 7: pm “Reaching Up To Reach Out” Mailing Address Campbell AME Church 2502 Stanton Road SE - Washington, DC 20020

Services and Times Sunday School: 9:30am Sunday Worship: 11:00am Prayer Meeting and Bible Study: Wed. 7:30pm

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

www.thirdstreet.org

“Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital”

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

St Marks Baptist Come Worship with us...

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

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

Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Mount Carmel Baptist Church

Rev. John W. Davis Pastor

Joseph N. Evans, Ph.D Senior Pastor

5101 14th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20011 202-726-2220/ 202-726-9089

901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423

Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 8:00am and 11:00am Sunday School: 9:15am Holy Communion 4th Sunday 10:00am Prayer and Bible Study Wednesday 7:00pm TV Ministry –Channel 6 Wednesday 10:00pm

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

Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church

Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Holy Communion: 2nd Sunday at 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Sunday Church School: 9:20 a.m.

Seniors Bible Study: Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.

Noon Day Prayer Service: Tuesdays at Noon Bible Study: Tuesdays at 7 p.m.

Motto: “A Ministry of Reconciliation Where Everybody is Somebody!”

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

Twelfth Street Christian Church

Rev. Dr. Henry Y. White 2562 MLK Jr. Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Adm. Office 202-678-2263 Email: Campbell@mycame.org

Isle of Patmos Baptist Church

Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor

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

www.pilgrimbaptistdc.org

Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church

Service and Times Sunday Church School : 9:00am Sunday Morning Worship: 10:10am Bible Study Tuesday: 6: 00pm Prayer Service Tuesday: 7:00pm Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday 10:10am themcbc.org

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RELIGION Shabbath Commandment Church

All Nations Baptist Church

King Emmanuel Baptist Church

Bishop Adrian A. Taylor, Sr. Pastor

Rev. Dr. James Coleman Pastor

Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor

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

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

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

Service and Times Sabbath School 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Service 11:00 a.m. Praise & Worship Preaching 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Motto: “A Church Keeping It Real for Real.”

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

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

St. Luke Baptist Church Rev. Aubrey C. Lewis Pastor 1415 Gallatin Street, NW Washington, DC 20011-3851 P: (202) 726-5940 Service and Times Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.

Holy Communion: 11:00 a.m., 3rd Sun. Bible Institute: Wednesday - 1:30 pm Prayer Meeting: Wednesday - 12:00 Noon

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

Israel Baptist Church

Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor

Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert Senior Pastor

2409 Ainger Pl.,SE – WDC 20020 (202) 678-0884 – Office - (202) 678-0885 – Fax “Come Grow With Us and Establish a Blessed Family”

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: 7:30am & 10:45am Baptism/Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday Family Bible Study Tuesdays – 6:30pm Prayer Service: Tuesdays – 8:00pm www.emmanuelbaptistchurchdc.org

“Where Jesus is the King”

Lincoln Park United Methodist Church

Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith

Rev. Dr. Diane Dixon Proctor 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 - lpumconthegrow@gmail.com www.lpumcdc.org

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

Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 A.M. Sunday School: 8:30 A.M. Holy Communion1st Sunday: 10:00 A.M. Prayer Service: Wednesday at 6:30 P.M. Bible Study: Wednesday at 7:00 P.M.

Service and Times Sunday Worship: 10: am Holy Communion: First Sunday 10: am Sunday School: 9: am Bible Study: Wednesday @ 12 noon and 6:30pm Motto: “A CHURCH ON THE GROW”.

Mount Moriah Baptist Church

Eastern Community Baptist Church

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

The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42

New Commandment Baptist Church

Dr. Lucius M. Dalton Senior Pastor

Damion M. Briggs Pastor

Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rehoboth Baptist Church

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

Salem Baptist Church

Holy Trinity United Baptist Church

Florida Avenue Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. Clinton W. Austin Pastor

Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor

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

St. Matthews Baptist Church

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

Emmanuel Baptist Church

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

Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 a.m.

Sunday Church School: 8:45 – 9:45 a.m.

Holy Communion: Every First Sunday Intercessory Prayer: Monday – 7:00-8:00 p.m.

Pastor’s Bible Study: Wednesday –7:45 p.m.

Midweek Prayer: Wednesday – 7:00 p.m.

Noonday Prayer Every Thursday

Matthews Memorial Baptist Church

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

Christ Embassy DC

Dr. C. Matthew Hudson, Jr, Pastor 2616 MLK Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Office 202-889-3709 - Fax 202-678-3304 Service and Times Early Worship Service: 7:30a.m Worship Service: 10:45a.m.

New Members Class: 9:30a.m.

Holy Communion : 1st Sunday -10:45a.m Church School: 9:30a.m.

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

Baptism: 4th Sunday – 10:45a.m “Empowered to love and Challenged to Lead a Multitude of Souls to Christ”

Peace Baptist Church

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

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

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

“The Loving Church of the living lord “ Email Address pbcexec@verizon.net

Shiloh Baptist Church

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Mt. Horeb Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor

Rev. Curtis l. Staley Pastor

Rev. Alonzo Hart Pastor

Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor

Rev. Reginald M. Green, Sr. Interim Pastor

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

Worshiping Location Knights of Columbus - 1633 Tucker Road Fort Washington, MD 20744 (240) 838-7074

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

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

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

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

Service and Times Sunday Morning Prayer Service: 8:00 a.m.

Sunday Church School: 9:15 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship: 10:40 a.m.

Third Sunday Baptismal & Holy Communion:10:30 a.m.

Tuesday Church At Study Prayer & Praise: 6:30 p.m.

Service and Times Sunrise Prayer Services - Sunday 7:00 a.m.

Morning Worship: 8:00 a.m Church School : 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship: 10:55 a.m.

Bible Study, Thursday: 6:30 p.m.

Prayer Meeting,Thursday : 7:30 p.m.

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

2914 Bladensburg Road, NE Wash., DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-3180 - Fax: (202) 529-7738 Service and Times Worship Service: 7:30 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.

Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.

Holy Communion: 4th Sunday 7:30 a.m. & 10:30a.m.

Prayer Services:Tuesday 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday 12 Noon

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

The Church Where GOD Is Working....

And We Are Working With GOD

Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 am Sunday School: 9:00 am Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer / Bible Study: 6:15 pm - 7:20 pm (Tuesday) Theme: “The Kingdom Focused Church” Matthew 6:33 and Mathew 28:18-20, KJV Email: stmatthewsbaptist@msn.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.org

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

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LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016 ADM 484 Vivian Frances Williams 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 Sydney Williams and Irn Williams, whose addresses are 1025 Carbondale Way, Gambrells, MD 21054 & 6414 Gifford Ln., Temple Hills, MD 20744, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Vivian Frances Williams who died on January 23, 2016 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 12, 2106.

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 November 12, 2016, 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: May 12, 2016 Sydney Williams Irn Williams Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills

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

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

Administration No. 2016 ADM 467

Administration No. 2016 ADM 527

Administration No. 2016 ADM 459

Administration No. 2016 ADM 505

Earline Inez Brooks Decedent

Joe Louis Branch aka Joe Branch Decedent

Kevin A. Brooks 2014 3rd Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney

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

Evelyn I. Young Decedent

Denise Darcel Reid Decedent

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

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

Patricia Hagans, whose address is 724 Neptune Avenue, Oxon Hill, MD 20745, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Evelyn I. Young who died on October 24, 1989 without a Will. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 12, 2016.

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 November 12, 2016, 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.

James Lewis Bundy, II, whose address is 5519 B Street, SE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Denise Darcel Reid who died on March 13, 2016 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 19, 2016.

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 November 19, 2016, 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: May 12, 2016

Date of first publication: May 19, 2016

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James Lewis Bundy, II Personal Representative

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Administration No. 2016 ADM 524

Darnell Nathaniel Mitchell Decedent

Lillian Cobb aka Lillian L. Cobb Decedent

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Roberta Mitchell, whose address is 3844 Halley Terrace, SE, Washington, DC 20032, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Darnell Nathaniel Mitchell who died on December 19, 2001 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 19, 2016. 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 November 19, 2016, 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.

Evony Cobb whose address is 1149 Oates St., NE, #3, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Lillian Cobb aka Lillian L. Cobb who died on July 25, 2015 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 19, 2016. 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 November 19, 2016, 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: May 19, 2016 Evony Cobb Personal Representative

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Kevin A. Brooks, whose address is 2014 3rd Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Earline Inez Brooks who died on March 8, 2016 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 19, 2016.

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 November 19, 2016, 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: May 19, 2016 Kevin A. Brooks Personal Representative

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Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015 ADM 000574 Ecolia Ingram Avent Decedent

Lawrence B. Manley

700 12th Street, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20005 Attorney

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Ruth A. Dockery, whose address is 3127

Park Drive, SE, Washington, DC 20020, was appointed Personal Representative of the

estate of Ecolia Ingram Avent, who died on

February 4, 2015 with a Will. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills,

D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 12, 2016.

Date of first publication: May 12, 2016

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Patricia Ann Branch and Cheryl Lynn Queen, whose address is 4703 Omaha Street, Capitol Heights, MD 20743, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Joe Louis Branch aka Joe Branch who died on April 10, 2016 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 19, 2016.

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 November 19, 2016, 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: May 19, 2016 Patricia Ann Branch Cheryl Lynn Queen Personal Representative

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Administration No. 2016 ADM 458

James T. McNair aka James McNair Decedent

James A. Mayo Decedent

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

Paule G. Levadas, Esq. 1629 K Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney

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Anthony Dewayne McNair, whose address is 12400 Cedar Lakes Drive, Fairfax, VA 22033, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of James T. McNair aka James McNair who died on March 1, 2016 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 12, 2016.

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 November 12, 2016, 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.

Pearl M. McGriff, whose address is 6504 Rolling Ridge Drive, Capital heights, MD 20743, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of James A. Mayo who died on October 27, 1987 without a Will. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 12, 2016.

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 November 12, 2016, 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: May 12, 2016

Date of first publication: May 12, 2016

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LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016 ADM 464 Virgil J. White, Jr. Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Peggy A. Miller, whose address is 5130 7th St., NE, Washington, DC 20011-2625, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Virgil J. White, Jr. who died on April 8, 2016 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 12, 2016. 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 November 12, 2016, 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: May 12, 2016 Peggy A. Miller Personal Representative

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LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016 ADM 448 Della F. Simmons Decedent Matthew F. Shannon, Esquire 1420 N Street, NW #102 Washington, DC 20005 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Paul E. Simmons, Jr. and Tonia P. Lee whose addresses are 1301 Spring Rd., NW, Washington, DC 20010 and 5440 Taylor St., Bladensburg, MD 20710 were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Della F. Simmons who died on July 11, 2015 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 12, 2016. 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 November 12, 2016, 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: May 12, 2016 Paul E. Simmons, Jr. Tonia P. Lee Personal Representative

LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016 ADM 445 Carrie Belle Sharpe Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Larry L. Sharpe, Jr., whose address is 1271 Oates St., NE, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Carrie Belle Sharpe who died on May 13, 2010 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 12, 2016.

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 November 12, 2016, 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: May 12, 2016

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Administration No. 2016 ADM 487

Administration No. 2011 ADM 817

Larry L. Heath Decedent

Mildred McCall Decedent

Gerald R. Belton 1101 L Street, NW #806 Washington, DC 20005 Attorney

Paule Levadas, Esq. 1629 K Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney

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Ava Heath and Robin Chase-El, whose addresses are 810 Tuckerman St., NW, Apt. B, Washington, DC 20011 and 6017 4th St., NW, Washington, DC 20011, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Larry L. Heath who died on October 11, 2015 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 12, 2016. 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 November 12, 2016, 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.

Paule Levadas, whose address is 1629 K Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006, was appointed Second Successor Personal Representative of the estate of Mildred McCall who died on February 11, 2011 without a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 26, 2016. 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 November 26, 2016, 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: May 12, 2016

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Ava Heath Robin Chase-El Personal Representative

Date of first publication: May 26, 2016 Paule Levadas Personal Representative

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Administration No. 2016 ADM 456

Foreign No. 2016 FEP 44

Administration No. 2016 ADM 509

Administration No. 2016 ADM 538

Vera Chapman Decedent

Kenneth Ellsworth Mitchell, Sr. Decedent

Administration No. 2016 ADM 470 James Willis Lewis, Jr. Decedent Peter D. Antonoplos, Esq. 1725 DeSales Street, NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Janeese Lewis, whose address is 631 Allison Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of James Willis Lewis, Jr. who died on April 3, 2016 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 12, 2016.

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 November 12, 2016, 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.

Lily R. Jones Decedent

December 4, 2014 Date of Death

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Susan C. Mitchell Name of Decedent

Shanelle C. Patterson 1455 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20004 Attorney

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Darren R. Jones, whose address is 767 Columbia Road, NW, Washington, DC 20001, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Lily R. Jones who died on January 1, 2016 without a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 12, 2016. 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 November 12, 2016, 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: May 12, 2016

Date of first publication: May 12, 2016

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Savienne Michelle Mitchell, whose address is 500 Largo Center Drive, Apt. 102, Largo, MD 20774, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Kenneth Ellsworth Mitchell, Sr. who died on December 15, 2012 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 26, 2016. 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 November 26, 2016, 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.

DSP Fiduciary Services whose address is P.O. Box 7045, Cave Creek, AZ 85327 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Susan C. Mitchell, deceased, by the Superior Court of Maricopa County, State of Arizona, on January 29, 2016.

Service of process may be made upon Deborah D. Boddie, 1308 Ninth Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20001 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C.

The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real property: An interest in real property known as The Klingle located at 2755 Macomb Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008.

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.

Sandra Dee Chapman, whose address is 4328 Gault Pl., NE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Vera Chapman who died on October 31, 2014 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 26, 2016.

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 November 26, 2016, 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: May 12, 2016

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Date of first publication: May 26, 2016

Date of first publication: May 26, 2016

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Avis G. Nix Decedent

Marie G. Ward Decedent

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Lisa Avis Nix, whose address is 3510 Dunlap St., Temple Hills, MD 20748, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Avis G. Nix who died on August 23, 2015 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 26, 2016. 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 November 26, 2016, 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.

Tyrone F. General, whose address is 6408 Kaslo Court, New Carrollton, MD 20784, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Marie G. Ward who died on March 27, 2016 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 26, 2016. 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 November 26, 2016, 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: May 26, 2016

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016 ADM 556 Edward L. Coates Decedent The Griffin Firm, PLLC 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440 Washington, DC 20015 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Deneen Miller, whose address is 308 Madison Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Edward L. Coates who died on January 30, 2013 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.

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