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Marlow help people begin to havetoa keep dia- theWe need to address both vic- Metro original station names. the However, shared her story with the audi- logue about domestic violence. tim and the batterer,” Marlow officials opted to make the changes. still made the 5 2021 NEADistrict Jazz Masters: Terri Lyne Carrington (photo by ence at the Heights Also present at the event was said. change. Delphine Diallo), Albert “Tootie” Heath (photo by Ghylian Bell Domestic Violence Symposium Mildred Muhammad, the “Staff ex- notes Marlow would also like that rail stations playtoanseeimportant Mychal Watts), Henry Threadgill by Nhumi Threadgon&May 7 at the District Heights(photo wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise role in the identity and economic development of ill), and PhilCenter. Schaap (photo courtesy of Jazz at Lincoln Center). Municipal The sympowho was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in the surrounding area,” according to the agency’s siumThree wasmusicians sponsored utive lifewillterms without parole public and private schools. She andby onethe jazz advocate be honand Operations Committee report. Family and Youth Services by a Maryland jury for hisSafety role in feels children need to be educatored with the 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Center of the city of District the Beltway Sniper attacks in ed about domestic violence. Jazz Masters Fellowship, the nation’s highest honor Heights and the National Hook- 2002. Mildred Muhammad is “We have to stop being pasin jazz. For contributions to the advancement of this Up of Black Women. the founder of After the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chilart form, has the written Nationala Endowment the Arts will Marlow book, an for organization that helps the dren about domestic violence,” recognize drummer, which composer, band leader Ter“Color Me Butterfly,” is a and survivors of domestic violence Marlow said. ri Lyne Carrington, drummer and Albert story about four generations of and educator their children. Marlow has worked to break “Tootie”violence. Heath and flautist, and domestic Thesaxophonist, book is “I lived in fearcomfor six years. Six the cycle of abuse in her family, poser Henry Phil Schaap, receive inspired by her Threadgill. own experiences, yearswill in fear is a the long time. It is and is confident the policies she 2021 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship and those of her grandmother, not an easy thingforto come out is pushing for will start that Jazzmother Advocacy. He an archivist,of,” educator, historian her and heris daughter. she said. process. andsaid hostevery of jazz programs on Columbia University’s She time she reads Mildred Muhammad said “I plan to take these policies to WKCRfrom station Newshe York 1970. who want to help a Congress and implore them to excerpts her in book, stillsincepeople 2021 NEA Jazz Masters receive aviolence $25,000victim must change our laws,” Marlow said. can Each not believe the words came will domestic award. to COVID-19, group jazzthey go into “I will not stop until these polifrom her.Due “Color Me Butterfly”this stellar be careful of of how luminaries will National be honored through a tribute concert, won the 2007 “Best the victim's life, and understand cies are passed.” available in an online-only broadcast on may April be 22,in “survival Books” Award. that she Tia Carol Jones can be reached 2021. SFJAZZ will hostwhen the virtual event with the “I was just 16-years-old mode”. at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net my eye firstEndowment blackened and myArts. “Before you get to 'I'm going National for the lips bled,” Marlow said. to kill you,' it started as a verbal WI Elaine Davis-Nickens, president of the National Hook-Up of Black Women, said there is no consistency in the way domestic violence issues are dealt with by WI Staff Writer
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We have to stop being passive-aggressive with poor children about domestic violence. I plan to take these policies to Congress and implore them to change our laws. I will not stop until these policies are passed.
For the first time in NFL history, a game was officiated by a crew of all African-American referees. The seven-member crew called the Nov.23 match-up between the Los Angeles Rams (6-3) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (7-3) on Monday night. “This historic Week 11 crew is a testament to the countless and immeasurable contributions of Black officials to the game, their exemplary performance and to the power of inclusion that is the hallmark of this great game,” said Troy Vincent, NFL executive vice president of football operations. The crew consisted of referee Jerome Boger, umpire Barry Anderson, down judge Julian Mapp, line judge Carl Johnson, side judge Dale Shaw, field judge Anthony Jeffries and back judge Greg Steed. “I am proud of my heritage and excited about my participation in this historic game,” Boger said before taking the field. “The opportunity to work with a great group of Black officials and exhibit our proficiency in executing our assignment is something I am really looking forward to.”
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Pandemic Forces Families’ Thanksgiving Traditions to Online Platforms Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia Honey-baked ham, collard greens, macaroni and cheese and candied yams. As Thanksgiving Day approaches, many Americans can almost smell the aroma of the love-infused meals. Some can imagine the taste that comes after biting into desserts – from red velvet cake to sweet potato pie or banana pudding. Then, there remain those who anticipate watching gridiron matchups, laughing at the latest incarnation of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade or snugging into their favorite chair to view a cavalcade of classic holiday films. But the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has forced us to alter the traditional methods by which we have long celebrated the holiday despite our eagerness to return to some sense of normalcy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] has recommended that no one travel for Thanksgiving. “CDC is recommending against travel during the Thanksgiving Day period,” said Dr. Henry Walke, COVID-19 incident manager for the CDC during a news conference call. “Right now, especially as we are seeing exponential growth in cases and the opportunity to translocate disease or infection from one part of the country to another, leads to our recommendation to avoid travel at this time,” he said. According to Johns Hopkins University, more than 250,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. More than 11.5 million people have been diagnosed with the virus and the U.S. has set several new daily records for hospitalizations. “The reason that we made the update is that the fact that over the week we’ve seen over a million new cases in the country,” said Dr. Erin Sauber-Schatz, the CDC's lead for Community Intervention and Critical Population Task Force. “It’s more important than ever to double down on personal safety and public health precautions. Wear a mask, wash your hands, maintain
physical distance and avoid crowds, particularly if you are in a highrisk group,” said Dr. Tom Kenyon, former director of the Center for Global Health at the CDC. Kenyon, who now serves as the chief health officer at Project Hope, a nonprofit global health organization, said it’s crucial to adhere to the CDC’s best practices as cooler weather and flu season kick into full swing. “As for Thanksgiving and gatherings, we have to keep asking ourselves whether this group dinner or holiday party are worth risking someone’s life?” Kenyon remarked. The U.S. has recorded nearly 11 million coronavirus cases including more than 100,000 new diagnoses each day since Nov. 4. And health experts have repeatedly warned of more fatalities as the nation and the world await a vaccine. But creative alternatives for safer ways to enjoy the holiday continue to be discovered. The University of Maryland Medical Center has developed guides to a risk-free virtual Thanksgiving dinner. Tips include setting up a laptop at the dinner table and digging in while enjoying conversations with the loved ones. Families can also host video calls before or after dinner to enjoy more intimate conversations – even playing charades or board games like Trivia Pursuit on Zoom or other web conferencing platforms. “We are having a virtual Thanksgiving as both of my parents advised that my family and I stay home for this holiday,” noted Tiffany Hill, an African-American woman who created a small business, Puzzle and Bloom. This creative toy company offers puzzles and stickers which feature children of diverse cultures and traditions. “I was sad at first but we’re going to cook, save on gas and just stay home,” Hill added. “We have planned a Zoom or Facetime call with my parents. So, it won’t be too bad. But, I cannot remember the last time I didn’t go home for the holidays.” Pamela Washington-Turner, a co-author of Daughters of Promise Devotional, also relayed her disappointment over not being able to
go home for the holiday. However, the Turner family has turned the gloomy prospect of missing in-person contact with loved ones into a special night that promises to become a highlight of 2020. “Initially, [my family] planned to travel to Detroit to spend time with my brother and his family for Thanksgiving,” she said. “His only child is turning one, so they are also going to celebrate her first birthday.” “Since the COVID numbers have begun to skyrocket out of control, we’ve halted our plans to drive to Detroit and have family Thanksgiving via Zoom. The call will include many descendants of my great grandparents. This will ensure that we are all safe and are not risking our health,” Washington-Turner concluded. WI
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1883 – Famed abolitionist, author and human rights activist Sojourner Truth dies in her Battle Creek, Michigan, home at age 86. 1895 – The National Negro Medical Association is founded. 1939 – Music icon Tina Turner is born in Nutbush, Tennessee.
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1929 – Berry Gordy, record producer and songwriter best known as the founder of the Motown record label and its subsidiaries, is born in Detroit. 1960 – Author Richard Wright, whose best-known works include "Native Son" and "Black Boy," dies of a heart attack in Paris at 52. 1961 – Ernie Davis, a halfback at Syracuse University, becomes the first Black Heisman Trophy winner.
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1933 – Grammy-winning singer Lou Rawls is born in Chicago. 1940 – Iconic comedian Richard Pryor (top) is born in Peoria, Illinois. 1955 – Rosa Parks (above right) refuses to yield her seat to a white man, initiating the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted for approximately a year. 1987 – Carrie Saxon Perry begins her term as the mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, becoming first Black woman elected mayor of a major northeastern U.S. city. 1987 – Novelist James Baldwin dies in France of stomach cancer at 63.
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1859 – White abolitionist John Brown is hanged in Charlestown, Virginia, for leading the raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. 1922 – Politician and civil rights leader Charles C. Diggs, the first African American elected to Congress from Michigan, is born in Detroit. 1969 – Marie Van Brittan Brown patents a home security system with television surveillance. 1975 – Ohio State running back Archie Griffin becomes the first person ever to win consecutive Heisman Trophies. WI
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the party was over, my mother would send me and Daddy outside where we would decorate the bushes with Christmas lights. Meanwhile, she and my older sister would handle things inside – assembling the artificial Xmas tree, putting candles in the windows and addressing more than 100 cards so they could be ready for the mailman on Saturday. Sadly, those days are long gone with many my loved one, including both of my parents and most of the adults who I would grow to love and admire so much, no longer alive. But the magic and the memories remain – and they bring me inordinate amounts of joy and solace – particularly when I am alone with my thoughts. Now, I have become the elder, taking over the reins of those warriors of yesteryear who wore their badges of honor with pride and made our house a home – a safe place filled with love. Now, I have donned the role of father and grandfather, remaining diligent and ever prayerful as my children and grandchildren continue to discover their own passions and achieve their dreams. But today, as the temperature falls in 2020, we are met with challenges – strange and frightening ones – which neither I nor the elders who once mentored me could have ever imagined. We now face a horrific health pandemic – coronavirus – that has pervaded our lives and changed the world, bringing sickness, death and fear on its heels. So, while many Americans fortunate enough to have their own families and cherished friends struggle with sadness and depression because they’re unable to safely gather in groups or travel to other cities and states for Thanksgiving Day celebrations, I find myself strangely at peace. Unlike my children or grandsons, I grew up in an era in which
we learned how to be patient. I was lucky – no, I was blessed – to have parents who rarely said no to my requests for things that really mattered to me. Yet, at the same time, they taught me how to wait for things worth waiting for. They taught me the importance and necessity of “delayed gratification.” They showed me how wonderful things could be when we dreamed and hoped and planned for outcomes that could easily come to pass – but only in God’s time. And so, while I want to go home for the holidays and play cards, and laugh until I can barely stand and eat to my heart’s content and sip on my favorite holiday beverages, I know that I must wait. We all must wait as we use our collective knowledge, creativity and experiences to battle and defeat this deadly virus. This year, there will be no traveling over the river and through the woods, as the song suggests, “to grandmother’s (or grandfather’s) house we go.” But there’s always tomorrow. And I plan to be in the house, at the table and with my arms open and ready to envelop those who I love gently against my chest. I’ll hold on to my memories of the past for now – grateful that I have so many beautiful, treasured experiences to recall and remember. There’s always tomorrow for dreams to come true. And if I have my way, when tomorrow comes, I’ll be there making brand new memories – better memories. Memories that my children and my grandchildren will one day cherish as I continue to celebrate those that live within my heart and soul and mind. It’s almost Thanksgiving Day. Isn’t it wonderful? WI
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D.C. Council Launches the Bridge Fund James Wright WI Staff Writer @JamesDCWrighter In an effort to assist industries reeling from the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the Bowser administration with the support of the D.C. Council launched the Bridge Fund, a $100 million taxpayer-funded investment in businesses and workers in the District, on Nov.18. The Bridge Fund’s mission will be available to assist businesses in four areas: restaurants, hotels, entertainment ventures and retail establishments. Specifics of the plan include up to 700 restaurants will be eligible for the $35 million pot, no more than 140 hotels can receive part of $30 million, 400 businesses are capped at getting the $20 million entertainment allocation and approximately 575 merchants qualify for the $15 million portion. Bowser said the Bridge Fund serves as a tool to help struggling businesses continue to operate during the public health emergency. “Since the beginning of the pandemic, D.C. businesses in the hospitality, entertainment and retail sectors have made tremendous sacrifices to help us protect residents by combating and containing the virus,” the mayor said. “We remain committed to providing the support and resources that will help them get through these challenging times and eventually cross the bridge to normalcy.”
John Falcicchio, the deputy mayor for planning and economic development, said $20 million of the Bridge Fund comes from the federal CARES Act and $80 million from the District’s treasury. D.C. Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5), who chairs the Committee on Economic Development, sponsored the “Business Supports Grants Emergency Amendment Act of 2020” earlier this year to un-
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Thanksgiving Spirit – and Free Food – are Abundant in Prince George’s William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Allison Canada of Capitol Heights drove to the nearby Peppermill Community Center last weekend to pick up free food for the Thanksgiving holiday, but supplies were exhausted in about an hour. Her disappointment was short-lived, though. Less than five minutes, she spotted a line of vehicles stretched about a block long to receive free meals outside Impact One Church in Capitol Heights, she decided to pull in line and patiently wait. “I got a turkey, apples, sweet potatoes, potatoes, onions, string beans, macaroni and cheese, canned corn, cornbread. Glad I turned around,” said Canada, a program assistant at The Pathways Schools based in Silver Spring. “With what’s going on, it’s appreciated. I have three kids at home. This helps a lot. It’s free food. I can save money and get more food. It shows the public people care.” Impact One Church served as one of the many locations in Prince George’s County that distributed free meals for Thanksgiving on Saturday, Nov. 21. This year, COVID-19 has presented additional mental, social and physical challenges to the majority Black jurisdiction that’s caused thousands of workers to become unemployed and face evictions from their homes. Even worse: the virus claimed nearly 900 Prince Georgians in about seven months. Del. Darryl Barnes (D-District 25) of Upper Marlboro helped the effort to distribute meals at Impact One and Mount Ephraim Baptist Church in Upper Marlboro. Several years before his election as a state delegate in 2014, he organized community events to offer turkeys and other food for families through his Men Aiming Higher nonprofit organization. “There’s really more of a need this year than other years and I think the pandemic has played a
lot into it,” Barnes said outside Impact One Church. “It just [breaks] my heart to see so many people in the year 2020 that are still in need of food [and] necessities. I’m just glad I’m in a position through a collective effort to be able to help out so many people so they can have an enjoyable Thanksgiving with their families.” Both Impact One and Mount Ephraim provided 500 free meals for two hours on a firstcome, first-serve basis. All volunteers wore masks and other face coverings. Motorists at Impact One Church also received grilled hot dogs and hamburgers while they waited. Laverne Webb, who resides down the street from Impact One Church, missed the chance to receive a turkey. “I still got the trimmings. We appreciate whatever we get,” she said while munching on a grilled hamburger. “It’s just a blessing from God.” In the southern part of the county, County Council member Monique Anderson-Walker (D-District 8) of Fort Washington helped distribute 2,500 meals that to churches, a women’s missionary and some homes. She praised volunteers and partners such as the Rev. Darin V. Poullard, pastor at Fort Washington Baptist Church. Poullard said one example of how the coronavirus pandemic continues to impact everyone comes from meal distributions. “Your perception who would want a [meal] basket has radically changed,” he said. “People I would have never thought who would come by the church to get food are coming by. Young people, older people. Males. Females. Singles. Couples. The pandemic has put everyone in a position of needing some assistance. “The blessing is having relationships with people like Monique Anderson-Walker to partner with the church and serve the community,” he said. “I’m just humbled we’re able to do it.” WI
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GIVING THANKS D.C. Nonprofits, Eateries Offer Hope for the Holidays Despite COVID-19 James Wright WI Staff Writer @JamesDCWrighter For the past 25 years, Ransom Miller III has had hundreds of volunteers from schools, professional and fraternal organizations come to his designated site to fill, process and deliver food bags for the needy during the Thanksgiving holiday season in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on behalf of his non-profit, Project GiveBack. Miller said this year his operation has changed because of the coronavirus pandemic in the Washington region. Despite the virus, the goal of Project GiveBack continues to be to aid those in need. “This year, we distributed 2,100 food bags to people in the D.C.
area,” he said. “We distributed about 2,000 bags to people in D.C. and Maryland and gave out about 200 gift cards to people in Virginia.” Miller said his food items are needed more than ever, noting the sagging economy due to the pandemic. His observations are backed by data from the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute which said in a Sept. 17 report--“Before the Pandemic, D.C.’s Economy was Booming, But COVID-19 is Increasing Hardship”—that many District residents are barely getting by as the pandemic continues. The Institute reported: • About 63,000—12 percent of all adults in the city reported living in a household where there was not enough food to eat in the last seven days. The rate more than doubled to 25 percent for adults
in D.C. households with children, well above the pre-pandemic figure; • An estimated 26,000 District adults who lived in rental housing—11 percent—were behind on rent; • Half of the District’s children who live in renter households were not getting enough to eat, living in households behind on rent or both, for the survey period between June 18 to July 21. In the past, Miller would have one central distribution point to do the work and it would be done in one day. However, because of District COVID-19 restrictions, he has made some changes. “We had eight sites for people to go to grab their food boxes and go,” he said. “We did this on Saturday, Nov. 21 and Sunday, Nov. 22 as opposed to just a Saturday.
5 Volunteers at Turkey Thicket Recreation Center in Northeast prepare food baskets for the 26th Annual Project GiveBack founded by Ransom Miller III. The goal is to feed 2,700 families in the District, Southern Maryland and Northern Virginia. (Facebook screengrab)
We wanted to stay within the rules of the jurisdictions so we limited the number of volunteers at a site and the number of people who can get food at a time.” Martha’s Table, located in Ward 8, had a one-day operation on Nov. 21 in conjunction with the ward’s Lady of Perpetual Help Ro-
A Black Friday Shopping Guide During the Pandemic Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia Amazon kicked off its holiday shopping deals earlier this year, ending on Nov. 19 – one week ahead of the
highly-anticipated, annual day of customers’ big spending – Black Friday, Nov. 27. Best Buy and Target have already followed suit with Walmart taking up the rear with their first day of holiday deals available to shoppers on Nov. 25.
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But Black Friday 2020 presents an unprecedented challenge because of the still raging coronavirus pandemic. Many merchants say they’re bracing for this year of the unfamiliar, uncertain as to what the results will be from this year’s annual retail crush.
“We’re taking a completely new approach to Black Friday, giving guests more flexibility and ensuring they can plan ahead for a safe, stress-free shopping experience,” Christina Hennington, Target’s executive vice president and chief merchandising officer, said in a news release. “By offering a preview of our Black Friday Now deals for the entire month of November and extending our Price Match Guarantee, we’re taking the guesswork out of holiday shopping and making Target the easiest place to get the best deals,” Hennington added. Maryland and Northern Virginia counties have joined the District in placing tighter coronavirus-related restrictions on businesses and residents including limiting capacity at most stores and requiring the wearing of masks in public spaces. These and other precautions cannot be more essential in efforts to better protect the health of both shoppers and sales associates. As of Nov. 20, the seven-day rolling average of cases in the District totaled
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man Catholic Church. In addition to the church’s Morris Road., S.E. site as a food distribution point, Stanton Elementary School, 16th and Good Hope Road., S.E. and the United Planning Organization’s Petey Green Community Service Center gave out food boxes as a part of the joint effort. Staffers and volunteers of Martha’s Table and the church distributed food boxes for people in their cars and those on foot. Martha’s Table Chief Program Officer, Tiffany Williams, said she, like Miller, has noticed a need for more food since the pandemic started. “There is a tremendous need in our community,” Williams said. “Before the pandemic, we would give food to 1,000 people per month and now we give 2,000 people food per day. The demand for food hasn’t gone down since March, when the pandemic started.” The Players’ Lounge, an eatery located in Ward 8 on Martin Luther King Jr., Avenue, S.E. will be open on Thanksgiving and serve anyone who comes to the establishment. “We are opening the restaurant on Thanksgiving to feed the homeless mainly,” Angela Thompson, a manager at Players said. “We will take in anyone because we know that times are tough with the virus going around and people losing their jobs or having their hours cut. We have done this for several years. We won’t turn anyone away.” WI
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Adoptions Proceed in D.C. Despite COVID-19 James Wright WI Staff Writer @JamesDCWrighter
D.C. Superior Court Magistrate Judge Tara J. Fentress says she loves the arrival of the holiday season. While serious business continuesHowever, this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the adoption ceremony became a virtual production. D.C. Superior Court staff decided to produce a ceremony for the new families on a video hosted by former WRCTV (Channel 4) journalist Barbara Harrison. Fentress said the court staff didn’t want anyone to become infected with the coronavirus. “We had a good time producing the Adoption Day video that is on the D.C. Superior Court’s YouTube Channel,” she said. “Just like adoptions in general here in D.C., despite the pandemic, people are adopting children. It is just a different process.”
According to the D.C. Department of Child and Family Services, report about 800 children and teenagers in the District are living outside of their birth homes under the care of the public child welfare system. The department reports in 2019, 100 adoptions took place and the latest statistics this year indicates that as of November, 99 adoptions have occurred. Telethia Sparger, a social worker with the department, explained the adoption process. “We look at the child’s family history and determine the best course of action whether it could be reunification with the biological family or to go the foster parent route,” Sparger said. “This usually takes 18 months and then the interested parents go to the court with an Intent to Adopt. They would need an attorney at this point to help them file a petition to adopt. It is at that time feedback from social workers like me, the
court and the families takes place. Everyone has to consent in order for an adoption to take place. There are a lot of moving parts to this, but really, the process is easy.” Sparger said barriers to adoption may be a history of child or sexual abuse on the part of the adopting parent. Prospective adopting parents also could be blocked by the absence of needed finances and a life structure judged to be inadequate to take on child-rearing responsibilities. “Throughout the adoption process, the needs of the child are always paramount,” she said. Sparger said the pandemic has affected the way she does her job but hasn’t prevented her from completing tasks. “Normally, we would meet with the parents and the children in person and get to know them so we can figure out the best way we can help them through the process,” Sparger said. “But because of
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5 Judge Tara Fentress has been participating in adoption days for 32 years. This year’s 34th annual Adoption Day was held virtually on Nov. 16. (Screengrab)
COVID-19 and the city shutting down in March, we have virtual visits with our clients. We talked to them twice a month to get a
Trump, GOP Still Failing America on Coronavirus Relief Aid Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia The cases of the novel coronavirus continue to rise, setting new records for daily diagnoses. The numbers reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Johns Hopkins remain startling: • 11.5 million overall cases • 250,000-plus deaths • 200,000 new cases daily • 80,000 new hospitalizations daily Yet, while the Republican-led Senate force-fed America a new Supreme Court Justice in record time last month, the chamber and lame duck President Donald Trump have refused to provide a much-needed coronavirus relief package for struggling cities, states, businesses and Americans. Democratic House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have pushed for a robust $2 trillion stimulus package that the president and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) have steadfastly declined. McConnell has offered a $500 billion package that included very little
aid for states and a vastly reduced unemployment benefit for out-of-work Americans. “As a person who has taught personal finance to the minority community for the past 13 years, this entire situation frightens me,” said Jaquetta Tragland, owner of YoungandFinance.com. “With unemployment on the rise and no coronavirus relief package, I believe this will set some individuals – especially minorities – back by seven to 10 years because that’s how long it will take negative entries to be removed from their credit,” Tragland said. Christine Michel Carter, a Black activist and founder of Mompreneur and Me, called a potential coronavirus relief package vital for the African-American community.
“Black moms are caregivers for not only their children, but more than likely elderly family members,” Carter said. “Black women spend nearly three times more hours per week caring for elderly or sick relatives during the pandemic compared to the 12 hours white women spend. Also, Black women spend half a day, 12 hours more on childcare per week than white women.” The pandemic and economic crisis that its caused have disproportionately hit communities of color, to devastating effects, offered Bruce Mirken, a spokesman for The Greenlining Institute. “Back in March, [we] called for an aggressive package of ongoing direct payments, small business aid, help for renters, a pause in mortgage pay-
Christine Michel Carter, a Black activist and founder of Mompreneur and Me, called a potential coronavirus relief package vital for the African-American community.
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ments, forgiveness of student debt and help for community nonprofits,” Mirken said. “Only a tiny fraction of that was done and it’s still needed. Sadly, we still fear that whatever Congress does now will be too little, too late, particularly with cases spiking again and businesses again being forced to curtail operations,” he added. Even Hollywood has expressed its outrage. “We’re getting 180,000 COVID-19 cases per day and 2,000 deaths,” wrote actor Kirk Acevedo on Twitter. “Where’s the stimulus package? Just asking for a few million hungry, out of work and dying Americans.” Famed author Don Winslow added: “Listen up! This is why Georgia is so important. The U.S. Senate has adjourned for the holidays without passing a coronavirus stimulus package to provide the necessary support for American families. That’s because Mitch McConnell controls the Senate.” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s lead stimulus negotiator, said he would soon meet with McConnell and others to discuss a targeted stimu-
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sense of how they are handling the process and these meetings take place primarily through Zoom. When we do go out to visit children, we make it a point to have PPE such as masks available for staffers and clients. Even though we are dealing with COVID-19, the work never stops.” Fentress said the Superior Court has adjusted well since the onset of the pandemic. “As judges, we hear cases virtually and we do our paperwork over the Internet and Zoom,” she said. “It is amazing how we have adjusted to the changes in procedures due to the pandemic. The pandemic came upon us overnight literally and we had to respond just as quickly.” Fentress said there must be even more caution exercised when dealing with children and adults in the adoption process because of COVID-19. She said sometimes children may have the virus and not know it and may pass it on unsuspecting parents during live visits. Nevertheless, Fentress agreed with Sparger that the adoption process continues to occur despite the pandemic. “COVID-19 hasn’t stopped the adoption process,” she said. “It hasn’t stopped the Family Court from operating. We continue to have hearings but it has been a challenge. We had to learn how to do things virtually quickly.” WI
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GIVING THANKS Native American Vets New Memorial a Long Time Coming Contributions of America's 'First' Citizens Come to the Forefront Sarafina Wright WI Contributing Writer A new monument on the national mall was recently opened to recognize the military contributions of Native American veterans. The National Native American Veterans Memorial opened in a virtual dedication ceremony Nov. 11, Veterans Day — and during Native American Heritage Month. The memorial, which sits on the grounds of The National Museum of the American Indian [NAMI] was commissioned by Congress in 2013 to give “all Americans the opportunity to learn of the proud and courageous tradition of service of Native Americans in the Armed Forces of the United States.” This will be the first national landmark in Washington, D.C., to focus on the contributions of American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians who have served in the military. Kevin Gover, director of NAMI, says Native Americans have served
in every major military conflict in the U.S. since the Revolutionary War. “The National Native American Veterans Memorial will serve as a reminder to the nation and the world of the service and sacrifice of Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian veterans. Native Americans have always answered the call to serve, and this memorial is a fitting tribute to their patriotism and deep commitment to this country.” To coincide with the completion of the memorial, the museum published “Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces,” a 240-page book that details the history of Native American military service. Serving in the military at one of the highest rates of any ethnic group, the book explores the many reasons why—from love of home to the expression of warrior traditions says the Smithsonian. One of those service people is Army vet Allen Hoe, a native Ha-
waiian who helped conceive the memorial, says this landmark on the national mall represents multiple generations. “I have always been proud of my service in Vietnam. However, a greater pride is found in our children’s service, their gift of freedom to the world. They are brave, these young men and women who sacrifice daily for the cause of freedom.” Both of Hoe’s sons followed in his footsteps to the military. His oldest, First Lt. Nainoa K. Hoe, was killed in 2005 at the age of 27 while serving in Mosul, Iraq. His youngest, Nakoa, is a staff sergeant in the Army. The elder Hoe told NPR he thinks the memorial can have a great effect on younger Native Americans. “Maybe some young Native who experiences that memorial for the first time, in 50 years from now, he'll be the president of the United States. Who knows? Or he'll be the next great general?” he said.
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Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of American Indians believes that the memorial marks a starting point for understanding the dimensions of Native peoples’ contribution to the nation’s military history. Native groups have served in the armed forces at extraordinary
high rates, even at times when the federal government was denying them rights, adds Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska). “I call this a special kind of patriotism — one that’s highly deserving of this memorial. As a marine and a U.S. senator I know this memorial is a longtime coming.” WI
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a plan to sit down with Pelosi and Schumer and try to get a targeted bill done for the people that really need it. Hopefully, the Democrats will work with us.” Neither Pelosi nor Schumer responded to comment requests. WI
lus package. In May, Pelosi and Democrats in the House passed the HEROES Act. They said, and still say, that the $2.4 trillion federal aid package would jumpstart the economy and provide needed cash and benefits to all ailing states, businesses and families. “I would pass the HEROES Act,” President-Elect Joe Biden said. “It has all the money and capacity to take care of each of [vital] things now.” The Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act [HEROES] which the Democrat-controlled House approved in May failed in the Republican-majority Senate. Legislators revived the legislation in August but negotiations between Democrats and the White House have failed. “I can tell you Mark Meadows and I will be speaking with Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy this morning,” Mnuchin told reporters on Friday, Nov. 20. “And we are going to come up with
In May, Pelosi and Democrats in the House passed the HEROES Act. They said, and still say, that the $2.4 trillion federal aid package would jumpstart the economy and provide needed cash and benefits to all ailing states, businesses and families.
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There’s Always Something for Which We Should be Grateful
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Thanksgiving Day Provides the Perfect Opportunity to Remember Angela Chester-Johnson Special to the Washington Informer Not even 20/20 vision could have helped veteran prognosticators accurately predict how a bizarre political season and an unprecedented pandemic would bring havoc to and impact our lives, livelihoods and lifestyles this year. But as humanity has often done in times of peril, Americans have devised creative alternatives to replace many of the nation’s former norms and traditions which once characterized the status quo. Now as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, we have yet another good reason to utilize our ingenuity as we adapt longtime family favorites. So, while many Americans may follow the admonitions of health officials and celebrate the holiday virtually this year, it doesn’t mean you cannot have an enjoyable time. Following COVID-19 guidelines which include using personal protective equipment and maintain distance between others may seem a bit overwhelming. Nonetheless, if we’re honest, it shouldn’t take us long to compile a list citing the many things and people for which we should be grateful.
The purpose of Thanksgiving is to dedicate a time for mindfully appreciating all the good that God and the universe have provided. For most, the bounty of blessings pales the delays, inconveniences or disappointments that we may be experiencing now. At Plum Good LLC (tasteplumgood.com), we believe the following: “When it is delicious, nutritious, and well prepared, sharing food is love.”
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meal, you can eat your cakes and pies together via Zoom or Facetime. 5. If you’re going to serve turkey, brine it for at least three hours to make it juicy and tasty. (See tasteplumgood.com for recipes for holiday brines). 6. Cook the dressing outside the turkey and/or remove stuffing cooked inside as soon as you clean up. 7. Do not overcook – neither the turkey or the amount of food. The crowd won’t be there this year, so there will be fewer orders for plates to go. 8. November is Diabetes Awareness Month, so consider serving diabetes-friendly recipes including sugar-free delicacies. Bake some yams in their jackets. 9. Be grateful! For more information, contact Angela Chester-Johnson, chief flavor maker, Plum Good LLC. She can be reached at www.tasteplumgood.com. WI
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justice reform and ensuring that the people of Louisiana’s 2nd District were prepared for emergencies and natural disasters through his oversight of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on the House Committee on Homeland Security. Born and raised in New Orleans, Richmond is a graduate of Morehouse College and Tulane University School of Law, where he earned induction into the Hall of Fame. Biden also announced Julie Rodriguez as his director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. She served as a deputy campaign manager on the Biden-Harris Campaign. Before that, she was the national tors. The most recent demographics show that the outgoing president political director and traveling chief has four women and 19 men in cab- of staff for Senator Kamala Harris’ inet or cabinet-level positions and his presidential campaign. Rodriguez judiciary picks have overwhelming also served as a special assistant to the president under Barack Obama. been white men. In a news release, Biden’s campaign Biden has promised to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court. officials noted that “these diverse, Among the appointments by experienced and talented individuals Biden is a former Congressional demonstrate President-elect Biden’s Black Caucus chairperson and cur- commitment to building an adminisrent Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) tration that looks like America.” The campaign noted further that recently named senior advisor to the president and director of the White each has deep government expertise House Office of Public Engagement. and will be ready to help the presiRichmond deftly led the Biden dent-elect deliver results for working campaign to victory, signing on with families on day one. “I am proud to announce addithe former vice president when the Democratic field of contenders re- tional members of my senior team who will help us build back better mained wide open. Richmond counts as a leader in than before,” Biden stated. “America helping to enact landmark criminal faces great challenges and they bring
Biden Announces Key Staff Appointments Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia Through his early appointments of key White House officials, President-elect Joe Biden has continued to demonstrate a stark difference between he and lame duck President Donald Trump. Prior to his plan over Thanksgiving to announce cabinet-level positions, Biden named a diverse group of individuals to staff posts that include five women and four individuals of color. The appointments help to fulfill a campaign promise in which Biden said he’d have a senior staff that “looks like America.” By contrast, Trump employed mostly white and male administra-
Biden Makes Cabinet Appointments
President-elect Joe Biden has continued to fill out his staff and cabinet, naming several more officials to various posts ahead of his Jan. 20 inauguration. Biden tapped Anthony Blinken, a former deputy secretary of state, to serve as secretary of state in the incoming administration. Alejandro Mayorkas, a former deputy secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, will become the first Latino and immigrant nominated to serve as the Department of Homeland Security secretary. The Biden team named Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield as the incoming administration’s nomination to serve as United Nations ambassador. Biden intends to elevate that role to a cabinet position. Former Secretary of State John Kerry will serve as special presidential envoy for climate, marking the first time the National Security Council will include an official dedicated to climate change. Avril Haines, a former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency and deputy national security advisor, will serve as director of National Intelligence. If confirmed, Haines would become the first woman to lead U.S. Intelligence. Biden also selected Jake Sullivan as national security advisor. At 43, Sullivan will become among the youngest to serve in that position. Compiled by WI Senior Writer Stacy M. Brown WI
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diverse perspectives and a shared commitment to tackling these challenges and emerging on the other side, a stronger, more united nation.” Incoming White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain pointed to the ambitious goals of the incoming administration. “President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris have an ambitious and urgent agenda for action. The team we have already started to assemble will enable us to meet the challenges facing our country on day
one,” Klain said. Among other appointees announced on Tuesday, Nov. 17 include: Anthony Bernal, Senior Advisor to Dr. Jill Biden; Mike Donilon, Senior Advisor to the President; Jen O’Malley Dillon, Deputy Chief of Staff; Dana Remus, Counsel to the President; Julissa Reynoso Pantaleon, Chief of Staff to Dr. Jill Biden; Steve Ricchetti, Counselor to the President; and Annie Tomasini, Director of Oval Office Operations. WI
D.C. Statehood Backers Reject Non-States Voting Representation Bill James Wright WI Staff Writer @JamesDCWrighter
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On a regular basis, Joyce Robinson-Paul convenes a meeting of the D.C. Statehood Ambassadors at the Denny’s on Benning Road in Northeast. Over coffee and a light breakfast, the members talk about the strategies needed to educate District residents about why the city should be the 51st state and the benefits of such a move. However, on Nov. 20, an unusual topic came up at the meeting. A bill by U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the “We the People Commission on Full Representation Act of 2019” would establish a federal panel to study giving
voting representation in the U.S. Congress “for citizens of the United States who reside in a territory, commonwealth or federal district of the United States.” Merkley’s bill, introduced on March 28, 2019, calls for the commission comprised of 10 members with two each from the president of the United States, the Senate’s majority and minority leaders and in the House, the speaker and the minority leader. The District and the territories would have at least one member on the commission, the bill said, with the president selecting the chairman. The bill stipulates the commission shall submit a final report to
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Lame Duck Trump Finally Approves Transition of Power Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia According to a new report, President-elect Joe Biden has turned to individuals who once served in the outgoing President Trump administration to guide national security threats. The Biden/Kamala Harris team faces unprecedented obstacles in obtaining necessary transition information from a lame-duck President who continues to bellyache, moan and refuse to accept his Electoral College blowout defeat. Biden received a record 80 million-plus votes, outdistancing Trump by more than six million. Additionally, Biden’s 306-232 Electoral College advantage will not be subverted despite the baseless and allegedly racist attacks criticizing the legitimacy of the vote. “The incoming national security team deserves to have the full support of a transition to ensure the seamless transfer of power without incurring any unnecessary risk to our nation’s security,” Mick Mulroy, a former senior Pentagon official who briefed the transition team, told ABC News. “I am supporting the incoming transition team because it is the right thing to do.” Mulroy described his participation in the transition process as a patriotic duty – not a political calculation, ABC News reported. As the only obstacle between President-elect Joe Biden and the formal start of the presidential transition, CNN reported that General Services Administrator Emily Murphy is struggling with the weight of the presidential election being dropped on her shoulders, feeling like she’s been put in a no-win situation, according to people who have spoken to her recently. As one of the government officials charged with signing off on the election result, Murphy’s job has been thrown into the middle of a political firestorm because of Trump’s refusal to concede. Daniel I. Weiner, the deputy director of Election Reform Program at Brennan Center for Justice in Northwest, explained on the center’s website that “a peaceful transfer of power
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Passport Application in Ghana Enhanced by Use of Technology Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has leveraged the boundless limits of technology to enhance the efficiency of passport operations in general for improved service delivery. This was revealed by Foreign Affairs Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey on the occasion of the commissioning of the central regional passport application center on Friday, Nov. 20. She said the ministry adopted government’s digitization agenda by automating the process of acquiring passports through the online application system, an appointment-based system, in which an applicant has the liberty to select a center of choice and a time convenient to the applicant. It is a departure from the old manual application system, which was beset with challenges ranging from overcrowding at PACs and improper completion of forms to interference of middlemen. The new system process ensures orderliness at the PACs, since they will only attend to applicants whose appointments are due for processing. Flexibility and transparency in service delivery are additional benefits of the online application system. “With the official opening of this Center, residents of this Region can now apply for passport here in Cape Coast without travelling to Takoradi or Accra for such service,” Ayorkor Botchwey said. “Therefore, citizens of Cape Coast and its environs from today will enjoy the fruits of passport operations at their doorstep and its associated benefits, which were hitherto absent from this beautiful and vibrant region." She added: “It is also envisaged that the establishment of a Passport Application Center in Cape Coast would unleash more opportunities in the supply chain where the youth and school leavers can take advantage and set up their own small businesses. “I urge the residents to make good use of the center, cooperate with the officers and also provide useful feedback to the office to enable the Passport office to improve its service delivery. I have every confidence that the officer-in-charge and staff stationed in this PAC will deliver efficient and quality service to applicants. While you assert your authority in the discharge of your duties, I urge you to be respectful of all who come your way to seek the services of this office. “At this juncture, I would like to express profound appreciation to all stakeholders and partners of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration who worked diligently up to this point. Special mention must be made of the Regional Minister Kwamena Duncan through whose instrumentality and the positive collaboration of the RCC this office has become a reality today." WI
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Sarafina Wright WI Contributing Writer Millions of children have missed routine vaccinations this year, due to COVID-19 restrictions. The severe drop in immunizations threatens to leave communities throughout the U.S. at risk of losing protection against highly contagious diseases, according to new data from the Blue Cross Blue
Shield Association [BCBSA]. As the pandemic prompted Americans to postpone or avoid receiving routine medical care, children are on track to miss an estimated nine million vaccination doses in 2020 that prevent diseases like the measles, whooping cough and polio, says the association. That’s a decrease of about 26 percent in childhood vaccination doses compared to 2019.
Global public health officials are also warning of a sharp increase in the number of new measles infections and deaths, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], the World Health Organization and UNICEF saying that urgent action is needed to avert major measles and polio epidemics. BCBSA says based on new vaccine data and medical claims there is clear evidence that the country is at risk of widespread outbreaks of preventable disease. Adding that if current trends continue, the U.S. would fall dangerously below the vaccination levels for measles and whooping cough that the CDC says are needed to protect community health. “The U.S. is on the precipice of a severe immunization crisis among children,” Dr. Vincent Nelson, chief medical officer at BCBSA said. “The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly interrupted adherence to vaccination schedules, and the possibility that preventable diseases, like polio, could become a threat to public health once again is particularly concerning.” According to the new BCBSA data, 40 percent of parents and legal guardians say their children missed vaccina-
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tions due to the pandemic. Most vaccination postponements occurred during two key time periods. The first was in March through May, when the pandemic was first taking hold. Then, in August, the typical spike in back-to-school vaccinations largely failed to occur because of the pandemic's impact and the shift to virtual schooling options in districts across the country, according to the BCBSA. “These trends must be reversed,”
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Can Biden Administration Dismantle America’s History of Hate? Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia Many of our nation’s cruelties illustrate America’s history of hate. Today, some wonder if animosity toward or fear of “the other” explains the more than 74 million Americans who recently cast their vote for President Donald Trump. Often criticized for his divisive policies, Trump arguably embodies what demonstrators disliked most about the nation when they stood in support of Black Lives Matter protests. Still, Trump – even in a defeat which he appears unable to swallow – secured the second-most votes of any presidential candidate in U.S. history. Meanwhile, Trump and his allies continue to lobby state officials to toss out votes cast in cities heavily-populated by Blacks including cities like Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia and Milwaukee.
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It’s a tactic employed since the days of Reconstruction: disenfranchise people of color and the poor. And Blacks have not been alone as those on the receiving end of America’s hatred. Lest we forget, Native Americans lived in relative peace until America sought to dehumanize their people as the nation secured its expansion from east to west. Italians and the Irish boarded ships bound for the U.S. seeking prosperity, only to fall victim to America’s evil. Similarly, those of Jewish heritage also faced – and, in many cases, still endure – the European-American’s wrath. “The history of the United States over the past 200 years has been largely a struggle to define who might enjoy the rights and privileges of full citizenship,” said Sarah Silkey, a professor of history at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Penn. “Each successive gain made in broadening the definition of American citizenship was quickly followed by a backlash. Jim Crow segregation, the convict lease system, redlining, the war on drugs, and other systems
created to maintain white supremacy denied access to full citizenship for generations of Americans,” Silkey wrote in an email. “The crises of 2020 exposed vast inequities of health, wealth, safety and political access to a broader cross-section of the American public. That growing public awareness of systemic inequalities has created an opportunity for the next administration to enact meaningful change,” she concluded. So, with that day deemed as America’s annual celebration of giving thanks, many are left to ponder just what they should celebrate. “The U.S. was built on powerful myths of equal opportunity in the
ony of rebels to some degree,” Powell noted. “The administrations can only do so much to counter the inherent unacceptance of races by a white, male American. It will be up to the next generations that will determine the acceptance of differences.” “The best administrations will be those that do not stoke division. Look at McCarthyism as an example of the people demanding we rid America of ‘communists.’ It was not McCarthy himself but the people demanding it. Without a market, a leader of a campaign – like Trump’s immorality – the leader has no followers,” Powell said. Powell emphasized that the 14th Amendment was meant to give slaves
Meanwhile, Trump and his allies continue to lobby state officials to toss out votes cast in cities heavily-populated by Blacks including cities like Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia and Milwaukee. pursuit of happiness and the city on a shining hill but the reality was less uplifting,” observed Nora V. Demleitner, a Roy L. Steinheimer, Jr. Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University in Lexington City, Va. “Racism, racial exclusion of immigrants and the vilification of ethnic and religious groups have long been an integral part of U.S. history,” Demleitner posited. “There has been substantial progress in the creation and enforcement of civil rights for all especially during the civil rights era, yet it has been uneven, and rising economic inequality and the impact of climate change threaten to undermine some of that progress.”
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Tim Powell, a University of Chicago journalism master’s student, discards the myth of an America that holds fast to its identity as a “melting pot.” “Consider that the colonists left England to rebel against religion, and when they arrived here, we had a col-
– only slaves – equal protection of the law. Ironically, in nearly all relevant court cases since 1860 – Plessy v. Ferguson, San Mateo v. Southern Pacific, Citizens United and Hobby Lobby – it has rarely given Amendment protections to Blacks but instead to corporations and other entities deemed as ‘persons.’” Photographer Michael Freeby expressed, “it’s not just the kids in cages, as if that weren’t bad enough.” “Let us not forget ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) abducts perfectly law-abiding citizens in the middle of the night, performs cruel, unethical, [unrequested] surgeries on them and that a disproportionate number of coronavirus deaths have been taking place [among those] in ICE captivity,” Freeby said. “As a Mexican who lives close to ICE’s headquarters at the USA/Mexico border, it especially sends chills down my spine. Once people are placed in ICE captivity, they lose all rights. We are the United States of America – a country whose entire premise was based on people fleeing from elsewhere to start fresh and pur-
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sue their dreams. Picking and choosing based on skin color is not right. We are not animals – we are people,” he said. Terrell L. Strayhorn, provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs at Virginia Union University, where he also serves as professor of education and director of the Center for the Study of HBCUs, noted that African Americans remain the only group legally denied access to education by law. “Teaching Blacks to read and write was prohibited by law,” he said. [Today], there are over 4,300 colleges and universities in the U.S., collectively enrolling over 20 million college students. Virtually two million are African Americans with the vast majority (two-thirds) being Black women.” “And when African Americans enroll in college, approximately half do not graduate, accrue high amounts of educational debt, or report experiencing hostile, unwelcoming environments at predominantly white institutions.” “A new administration, comprised of individuals who reflect the diversity of their constituents, can champion culturally-relevant initiatives, create equity and foster racial healing,” Strayhorn proposed. As a Black and Indian American, a plan of Kamala Harris should include equality for Black women in the workplace, opined Dr. Carey Yazeed, the editor of the anthology, “Shut ’em Down: Black Women, Racism and Corporate America.” “Malcolm X stated it best, ‘The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman – the most unprotected person in America is the
Black woman,’” Yazeed stated. “This country has done little to help uplift Black women, yet we are the ones who continuously come to its rescue.” “Although Black women are often the lowest paid in corporate America, we often outwork and outperform our peers in the workplace. When corporations talk about diversity and inclusion, Black women are usually excluded from those conversations, which is reflected in our salaries and how we are treated. Black women often walk away from corporate America traumatized by the racial injustices that they endure and are left to carry that pain around for years,” she said. Actress and mental health advocate Samantina Zenon concluded that many whites remain disconnected, still seeing African Americans as maids or even slaves. “History continues to rewrite itself. In every avenue, Black people consistently get mistreated,” Zenon said. “For real change to happen, the new administration needs to give more Black people a platform to be seen and heard – not just Black celebrities or politicians but [ordinary] people who face daily challenges for being Black in America.” “Part of the narrative for [Democratic] campaigns were [while] Donald Trump divided the country and has given white supremacists a platform to be racist, they [Democrats] want to bring us back together. While that is true, the new administration needs to be held accountable for making those changes because Black people showed up for them at the polls. The new administration needs to make racism wrong again,” she said. WI
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Letter from the Editor I decided a year ago that our November issues would celebrate D.C.’s “art-o-sphere.” Why? Simple, it’s my birthday month, I love the arts, and this isn’t a democracy. 2019’s Art’s Issue was a decent first attempt, but it still felt raw. 2020, despite the Covid effect, is much more refined, thoughtful, unapologetically black, and wrapped in a “Drip” found only in the “D dot C.” The front cover, designed by artist Absurdly Well, features a commissioned portrait of the late Micahel B. Platt (1948 - 2019), a local legend whose work and teachings were influential both near and far. On the back, Absurdly Well blesses us with a reimagined painting by French Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin. Attacking Gauguin’s misrepresentations and sexual abuse of the native Tahitians he became famous for depicting, Absurdly wipes away everything except the young woman’s brown face. Seeking to restore her dignity and reclaim her identity. Between the pages, we focus on the arts and cultural workers that make the city go around. Yes, it is about the artists and the work, but it’s also about the infrastructure; the collectors, curators, and space creators. You’ll learn about collecting from the ever-connected Charles Moore and discover a new platform for buying art started by Tatiana Rice, our resident art rebel with a cause. We pop into an experimental space with Amir Browder, explore the curatorial mind of Jarvis DuBois, and celebrate the force that is performance artist Holly Bass. There’ll also be a web special about the DMV chapter of the Wide Awakes, a national activist group of creatives that resists by spreading joy. Let this issue be a muse.
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THE BLACK MARKET: COLLECTING ART AND OWNING THE CULTURAL NARRATIVE “Understanding, preserving, and owning are all very important things. Historically, we’ve been the culture but we haven’t owned it.” These sentiments have been spoken to me many times before. Each and every time, after momentary despair, they are followed by musings of how to dismantle the status quo. My conversation with Charles Moore was no exception. We agree that the path to reclaiming our culture is about so much more than the artists. It’s about bringing your child to the museum. It’s about the curators, the writers, and the collectors. In his book, “The Black Market,” Moore gives aspiring Black collectors a guiding light for navigating the choppy, and at times unwelcoming, waters of the art buying experience. “The first piece of art I bought was 50 dollars.” Moore explained. “When you hear things like Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs bought a Kerry James Marshall for 21 million dollars, on one hand, it’s like ‘Wow he bought a 21 million dollar painting.’ On the other [hand], even as a professional who is doing well for themselves, 21 million isn’t accessible, but they can still be a collector.” A point driven further home as Moore features a spectrum of collectors, dispelling the myth that one has to fit into a certain box or be “worthy” of space on the scene to have access to art. “I wanted to highlight diversity in terms of socio-economic status. Collectors who went to school with Barack Obama and collectors who were college dropouts, a mother-daughter duo to show the legacy and generational wealth-building aspect,” Moore said. Profile to profile, the reader is given a glimpse into the philosophies that drive each person’s collecting habits. Be it technique, overall message, or aesthetics, any hopeful collector can find a piece of themselves between the pages.
The Black Market: A Guide to Art Collecting by Charles Moore.
Moo Moore takes great care to empower the reader from the ground up by starting with a list of suggested readings and moving on to a crash course in notable artists throughout history. He shares insider tips, like visiting art schools and residency programs to collect from emerging artists before their prices become out of range. He also hips you to art-world insiders like advisor Anwarii Musa, who’s especially passionate about cultivating Black collectors. Moore’s core theme of accessibility is evident not only in content but in the way he chose to Moo write the book. Opting for plainer language and including a glossary of terms, he arms the reader with the vocabulary needed to be assertive in arts-based spaces. “I find that people are intimidated by the language.” Moore noted, “I didn’t dumb down anything in the book, I just stayed away from academic writing. I wanted them to have those terms when they went into a gallery and listened to someone talk about the works of art so they could know exactly what was being said.” He also went on to say that he didn’t want people to be bored while reading. I can certainly appreciate it given the self-serving snoozefest some art writings can be. I could go on about our conversation, the insight, and the excellence but more than anything, I’ll stress the importance of collecting. Owning and preserving our cultural narrative, from idea to object is the difference between knowing who we are versus what the world would have us think.
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BLKART HOUSE. GET INTO IT. Tatiana Rice is a lawyer by trade, artist advocate by heart. Fresh on the scene, she moved to D.C. a year ago to start a new job and found a far greater purpose. BlkArthouse is the result of Rice’s inability to find an online platform that aggregated the works of Black artists. “I wanted to start collecting art from Black artists. [A]s a Black woman, I wanted work that I identified with,” she explained. As someone who did not grow up around art, Rice wasn’t sure where to start, and took to Instagram as a first attempt for research. “I didn’t find a central platform dedicated to Black art. So I started using hashtags. Instagram is just this black hole, it’s completely overwhelming,” she told The Bridge. It wasn’t until the death of George Floyd and resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement that Rice said she decided to “put pencil to paper” and build out her platform. She spent months speaking with collectors, artists, owners, and anyone else who would share their experiences. What she found was something that those working in the space have known for years: the art world is incredibly exclusive. “You see it a lot in D.C. where museums and galleries say they are behind the Black Lives Matter movement and they will do an exhibition, but there aren’t any institutional changes to support the artists,” said Rice. “It seemed like what was missing was a dedicated space for Black artists to thrive and elevate their careers.” The BlkArthouse has two components, the first being a community of support. Rice currently works with six artists across the country who have opted into her “program” for lack of better term. She meets with them bi-weekly [via Zoom] and hosts seminars like social media marketing and contract fundamentals. She’s also brought on a team of data-science volunteers who’ve been combing the web for grant opportunities local to the artists she’s supporting. The second component is the online platform that connects collectors to artists and serves as a marketplace. One of the most unique things about BlkArthouse is that it’s a passion project sustained by Rice’s time and money. She doesn’t collect a cent from the artists. Despite being a newcomer herself, Rice has garnered the trust of those with whom she works. She also continues to forge relationships with artists and organizations daily. A new favorite is the Dupont Underground, as she is excited about their goal of fostering an even more connected arts community in the city. Art by Mr. Andres in the home of Tatiana Rice.
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To learn more about BlkArthouse, follow them on IG (@BlkArthouse). You can also check out their upcoming fundraiser at blkarthouse.com/blkarthouse-exhibition, an online exhibition featuring limited edition works.
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TO CURATION AND BEYOND: GET TO KNOW JARVIS DUBOIS Catching up with my good friend Jarvis DuBois over Zoom, I can’t help but gush about how much I miss him. Happily recalling the openings, talks and galas we’ve been to, cutting up with Sheldon Scott and crew, “feeling nice,” and all the times we’ve worked and traveled together. Then suddenly I question when is the next time we’ll be in that element again. “I miss dancing,” he says. In true Jarvis positivity, he has still found benefits to being home more, mostly the time to finally install his art collection. Born in Orange County, California, Jarvis started his career after studying at UCLA and interning at The Hammer Museum on campus. In 2002, while working as an assistant registrar at the formative California African American Museum, he travelled to D.C. with a touring exhibition for The Black AIDS Conference. While in town, he had a spontaneous interview with the Smithsonian American History Museum, an entity that was rightfully imp impressed and quickly offered him a job. He made the move to Chocolate City, residing here ever since. As a D.C.-based curator, it can be tough to navigate our local arts system and the Smithsonian museums. Jarvis’ position is unique. He's a full-time museum professional, but at a history museum dealing mostly with cultural objects. There is a natural separation, as he puts it, between his disciplines, allowing him to create an outside practice where he works with fine art as an independent curator, arts consultant and collector. After settling into D.C., Jarvis' first exhibition came in 2011 when artist Amber Robles Gordon introduced him to Black Artists of DC (BADC), a group of some of the area's premier artists from Howard University’s Black Art Movement and beyond. Through experience and study he’s developed a strong practice with exhibitions embracing themes of home, nationality, place, and cultural hybridity. His curating pace is impressive with consistent shows since his first. Few standouts are: Of a Place and Time: Photographic Memories and Imaginings at Hillyer Art Space, Hear/Here at Honfleur Gallery, and (in)invisible and (dis)embodied: Repositioning the Marginalized at District of Columbia Arts Center (DCAC).
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Photography Lafayette Barnes IV | @lafayette4dc
Jarvis’ style is complex. He notes that he loves art of all mediums, and the mixing across mediums, from painting to performance in exhibitions. Counting many of his collaborators -- like Sheldon Scott, Jamea Richmond Edwards, and Charles Jean Pierre -- as friends, he credits the supportive, close scene for keeping him in D.C. for these past 18 years. As others make the tempting move to New York City and Chicago in search of more, Jarvis finds comfort and stability here. “It’s a smaller circle, we all know each other, it’s a real community.” As a curator, Jarvis is also committed to championing emerging artists like Yaccine Fall from the Corcoran School at The George Washington University, giving them confidence not just exposure through thoughtful exhibitions. Encouraging artists, as they do him, is the greatest benefit of curating for Jarvis. Building institutional relationships helps too, as he expresses gratitude to places like Galerie Myrtis in Baltimore, Morton Fine Arts, DCAC, Charles Sumner Museum and Archives, and Arlington Arts Center. Unfortunately Un some of those spaces have been lost or stalled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Every industry was hit hard with many just resuming their practices of late. With his ever-present chill and chuckle, Jarvis tells me he’s grateful to have kept his “bread & butter,” seamlessly maintaining his consulting clients. Mo Most importantly he’s kept curating. He recently opened Pleasure's Promise, an installation at Culture House’s (formerly Blind Whino) new outdoor space The Avant Garden. Featuring new work from D.C.-based artist Mark Kelner, artist and filmmaker, Pleasure’s Promise examines and extracts the bitter irony in Newport cigarette ads which promote cheer to African Americans whilst poisoning the community with cool. Strong (sensitive) curators like Jarvis know the power of art and the impact of exhibitions. He’s happy to see the art world adjust, embracing online or outdoor features and dealing with the reckoning brought on by the most recent Black Lives Matter protests. Most importantly he wants these changes to empower artists to be themselves.
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STATE OF BASS: HOLLY BASS “It’s a challenge being an artist and creating when you don’t have the right quality of life to do so. But durational performance artists are kind of weird people,” Holly Bass, a D.C. resident, globally-traveled and well-acclaimed teacher, dancer, poet, and performance artist told WI Bridge. Showcasing the empathy and soulful humanity that defines what has allowed her work to Sh excel, she continues, “We invent difficult things for our bodies to do. Then we ask ourselves, are you happy with yourself? It’s ridiculous. But, this reflects the work, and the process of the work right now during COVID.” Bass Ba is a dynamic creative force, who, in 2020, has been an artist in residence in New York and Cleveland (New York Live Arts and Cleveland Art Gallery, respectively) while working on other projects in the nation’s capital. In all realms, her work has been timely and significant. The self-determination involved in and success of her process speaks to a more considerable comment that can be made regarding surviving the mood and moment worldwide. Related to this notion regarding her many projects, Bass replies with trademark confidence. “It’s easy to feel stuck and succumb to COVID-related stress and depression. However, my career has helped me develop a comfort with the unknown.” In Cleveland, her National Endowment for the Arts-sponsored Liberation Labs piece continued her long-time work with at-risk youth and their rehabilitation. “We discussed fantastical devices that could shield you from a racist police officer or transport you out of a problematic situation,” she notes. “I then blended this with thinking about going to San Francisco’s Exploratorium science museum as a child, where using your imagination, and mixing that with science, was encouraged. I then physically created interactive, experiential pieces that could be experienced in a socially distant manner.” New York Live Arts has also invested the resources to allow Bass to deeply and successfully explore both online and real-time performance art during the pandemic. Most recently, Fall 2020 found her doing a real-time and streaming showcase of her durational dance piece Moneymaker. This piece debuted at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 2012. The exhibition is a dance performance where Bass performs while wearing a pompadour hairdo, a bedazzled cummerbund spelling out $€X, and platform heels. Moreover, she has a golden derriere sculpture strapped to her posterior -- all while being viewed in a 5’ x 5’ plexiglass- encased box, facing an outdoor audience. The piece pays homage to Saartjie “Hottentot Venus” Baartman, James Brown, and Bass’ father, who all worked sunrise to sunset as performers and sharecroppers. “In the grand scheme of 2020, [Moneymaker] is super-important,” says Bass. “So many of this year’s issues are tied into Black labor, women’s labor, the struggle for Black liberation, social justice, voting, and the election. When I performed it in 2012, I did it for seven hours, but I always felt it was best as a 12-hour performance piece, which it was this year.” “[ “[The 2020 performance of Moneymaker] was super-challenging,” Bass continues. However, she notes that she feels that her creative constraints are a source of her liberation. “They make the audience think, ‘if she’s doing this physically daunting feat, then what more can I accomplish? I can do so much more than I think I can.’” Bass’ Ba early roots in poetry have also proven restorative amid the madness. “Poetry has re-emerged as a personal ritual for me to ground myself by diving into understanding the magic within myself and my thinking. My earliest artistic output was as a poet, so it’s been nice to dive into my poetry self, by working on some shorter and longer pieces that I’ve submitted for publication.” Holly Bass’ Ba 2020 has been nothing short of astounding. In reflecting on others’ best advice to take from her process, she offers a fascinating perspective. “The pandemic, itself, is an endurance performance, in which nobody asked to participate. Breaking out of its constraints -- especially with art -- is key. We have no idea when COVID is going to end. However, art helps us feel alive, connected to the joy of ourselves and others.”
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Photography Lafayette Barnes | @lafayette4dc
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EDITORIAL Youth Need Leaders Who Can Win or Lose Gracefully The ongoing refusal by Republican Donald Trump to yield to Democrat Joe Biden in the recent presidential election has transformed from a temporary lapse in judgment to a real-life version of a popular soap opera or reality TV show. In the latest episode, Trump’s lawyers, led by the recently dismissed Sidney Powell, claimed that several within the GOP had arranged a clandestine, multinational, communist plot to deny the president a second term. The Republicans are fuming – at least a few with the backbone required to stand up to a bully. But most have allowed the foolishness and false claims to go on, hiding their heads in the sand like ostriches. Then, there’s the rift between Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (R) and Trump which has moved in venue from a Sunday morning news show on Nov. 22 to Twitter. Hogan says the president should stop his numerous lawsuits in which he hopes to “find” votes that were either lost or stolen, pick up his toys and go back home to Florida. “Stop golfing and concede” Hogan advised Trump, adding that the president is making the U.S. look like a “banana republic.” Even longtime Trump supporter, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has been critical of the legal team the president has hired to somehow wrestle back the White House, calling it a “national embarrassment.” Biden, with 306 electoral votes and 79,843,209 popular votes has earned the right to become America’s 46th president. As for #45, with 232 electoral votes and 73,794,976 popular votes, he has lost. Ironically, if the numbers in the electoral college remain the same, they will be the exact totals garnered by Trump and Hillary Clinton when the former New York businessman shocked the world. What we are now witnessing make be unprecedented. It may be ridiculous and embarrassing. It may even be unbelievable. But more than that, America’s commander-in-chief appears to be doing his best to teach our youth – those who will eventually be the adults leading our nation – that winning is the only thing that matters – by any means necessary. President-elect Biden will assume the presidency on Jan. 20 and Trump’s ability, or inability to lose with grace cannot overturn the results of the election. Trump’s refusal to either allow for a smooth transition of power or to concede will not bode well for America’s immediate future. However, America will go on. Democracy, tainted and tattered, will not be destroyed. But how this will impact our children and their understanding of how to best co-exist in our multicultural and diverse American society, we can only guess. It does make us shudder. WI
November’s Traditions Are Meaningful
Two of the most treasured traditions in the U.S. occur during the month of November: Election Day and Thanksgiving. On November 3, millions of Americans heeded the call to vote in what was said to be the most important presidential election in recent history. They were told their votes would count and despite challenges by the incumbent, Donald Trump, votes were counted and recounted. The result was the hard-fought election victory of president-elect Joe Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris. Every vote mattered. The Democratic notion of one person – one vote emanated from the founding fathers of this nation who earlier settled and renamed this land the United States of America. We understand the controversial history of this country’s founding but we also know that the celebration of Thanksgiving, which dates back to the early 1600s, is a time when families gather to give thanks for the things that matter most in their lives. Now that the election is over and the holiday is past, the other tradition that will weigh heavily on the future of all Americans is the result of the 2020 Census. The count is over but just as the 2019 Census showed the decrease in the number and size of families in the U.S., empty seats around the Thanksgiving table proved it. And, with food lines growing all across the country, its shows that of all 79.6 million families in 2019, 8.6 percent lived below poverty level – and the number is growing. The coronavirus pandemic is having a significant impact on the poverty rate, adding substantially to the previously reported 11.9 million American households that had no employed workers in a year. The stain of 2020 will remain with us for years to come and November may be marked as its most memorable month. We’ll ask ourselves, how we made it, and next November, we’ll recount and give thanks for whatever those things were that got us through. WI
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We Need Lockdowns Again
Keep the Heat on Trump
I'm happy to read that COVID-19 lockdowns are returning in many states throughout the country. This is necessary so that more people will not die. Some who haven't been affected (yet) truly do not get that people have lost loved ones to this deadly disease. Stay home when you can and wear a mask.
What are we going to do about Trump and these possible "faithless" electors that Stacy Brown wrote about in the story "Trump's Last Gasp for Presidency May Hinge on 'Faithless' Electors"? These people, led by Trump, are trying to steal this election from the American people. They will get away with it if the press doesn't call them out. Please call it out!
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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS Guest Columnist
By Julianne Malveaux
Distortions, Distractions and Delusions
The right Rev. Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s church, is running for the United States Senate in Georgia. Warnock is a man of God, a humble man, with one of these both booming and melodious voices that pull us up from our feet and inspire choruses of "amen," "Tell it, brother," and "No, you didn't." Some of them will stand
up and wave their handkerchiefs. Others may sit quietly to take in his words. Warnock, who weaves his biblical reflections with a message of social justice, preaches in the spirit of Dr. King. Warnock also reminds me of Rev. William Barber, Rev. Freddy Haynes, and my own pastor, Rev. William Lamar of Metropolitan AME Church in D.C. These men don't think the Bible is a book we should put on a shelf and cherry-pick. Instead, they claim the Bible as a guide to Christian living and
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Christian obligation. Warnock and Jon Osoff are Democrats running in Georgia's runoff election, and both are in tight races. The rhetoric that has bandied about is laden with untruths. These two races are so important that the candidates are expected spend $150 million on them. Why? Because the current Senate composition is 50 Republicans and 48 Democrats. If both Warnock and Osoff win their races, Democrats will control the Senate, with VP-elect Harris as the tie-breaker. Kelly Loffler, a multimillionaire
Barbie look-alike who uses her hair as punctuation, seems to have had her Republican operatives comb through several of Warnock's sermons. Without evidence, she describes him as anti-police, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic (it is possible to be critical of Israel without being anti-Semitic), anti-jobs (what Black pastor do you know who is anti-jobs?), pro-socialized medicine; pro-communist. These words come directly from one of Loffler's ads, most of which are out of context and amount to only incendiary lies. Indeed, her condemnations il-
lustrate how out of step she is with many of the African Americans she hopes to represent and her insular reality and cultural disconnect. She partly owns Atlanta's WNBA team but has been openly critical when the players on that team wear Black Lives Matter T-shirts. She has said she thinks the Black Lives Matter movement has Marxist roots. I don't believe Loeffler knows a Marxist from a telephone pole. Republicans bandy about terms
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By Marc H. Morial
NUL, Black Medical Professionals Push for Vaccine Safety, Equity
"Because of the racial inequities we have built into our essential systems, they have become combustion engines of misery. The virus flows freely in high-risk areas like holding cells, police encounters, low-wage workplaces and public transit. The pistons of residential segregation, generational poverty and targeted disinvestment along
racial lines apply pressure. … We can only defeat this pandemic by accepting those essential truths and making the choices to shut down the engines of misery for good." — Phillip Atiba Goff, Amelia M. Haviland, Tracey Lloyd, Mikaela Meyer and Rachel Warren; authors of the Center for Policing Equity's COVID-19 Modeling Project. This week, just as the nation reached the tragic milestone of more than a quarter-million deaths from COVID-19, the Cen-
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ters for Disease Control revealed that Black, Latino and Native American people are being hospitalized at nearly four times the rate of whites. Just a day after the CDC's findings were reported, Stanford University researchers published a study that found more than half of hospital deaths from COVID-19 were Black or Hispanic patients. Bringing the pandemic under control in the United States starts with controlling it in the worst-
hit communities. And that starts with the guidance and expertise of Black health professionals. For the past several months, a task force formed by the nation's oldest Black physicians group has been monitoring the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. The National Medical Association's task force of infectious disease and immunization experts has been reviewing data to confirm the strength of scientific evidence and that diversity is represented in
clinical trials. "We're really doing this to be a source of trusted information for our physicians and our community … in order for us to speak to the safety and allocation within the African American community," NMA President Dr. Leon McDougle told CBS News. This week, the National Urban League joined forces in that effort, initiating a first-of-its-kind con-
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By Ben Jealous
Thanksgiving 2020: Grateful for New Hope and New Direction in Our Nation
This hasn't been a normal year, and it isn't going to be a normal Thanksgiving. Instead of looking forward to family and feasting, many of us are listening to health officials begging us to avoid large gatherings, and we're weighing the risks against our deeply felt desire to be with our loved ones. Let's be honest. 2020 has been a
brutal year. Many are grieving the loss of loved ones. Many have lost jobs and businesses and the security they bring our families. Students and educators have had to learn and teach in new ways. Some struggle with isolation and others with forced confinement in uncomfortable or unsafe situations. On top of that, we have all been let down by our national leaders, especially a president who played politics with public health — and is now trying to undermine whatever faith Americans still share in
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our democracy. And still, Thanksgiving is here. My faith encourages us to try to be thankful in all things. I think that may be most important during the hardest times in our lives. During a year like this one, I appreciate the wisdom of our having a national tradition of pausing to count our blessings no matter what else is happening. Thanksgiving means family to me. I'm thinking about my 104-year-old grandmother, who has given thanks through periods
of war, civil strife and economic devastation. I'm grateful for the lessons her life teaches me about commitment, calm, courage and perseverance. I am also thinking about my children and my gratitude that this election gives me hope for their future. It renews my faith that together we can create a country that will give them every opportunity to follow their dreams. Thanksgiving and nationalism can be mixed in unhealthy ways. Yet this year, I feel a special patri-
otic gratitude to live in a country where we are free to choose our leaders. And I'm proud that Black people showed once again that we can shape our future by pushing back against the corruption and unprincipled power plays and institutionalized racism that are used to try to keep us from participating fully in our democracy. I am grateful for the multiracial, multigenerational social justice
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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS Guest Columnist
By Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
Runoffs in Georgia Offer a Clear Choice
On Jan. 5, Georgia will hold a runoff election for both of its Senate seats. The races capture national attention because control of the Senate is at stake. If the two Democratic challengers, Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock. both win, the Senate will be effectively split 50-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie.
If one or both lose, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell will retain his ability to obstruct the incoming president. The races will be determined by whether Georgia's voters choose to embrace and build a New South coalition or revert to the Old South. Georgia has been changing ever since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. The civil rights movement was anchored in Georgia, led by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, the pas-
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tor at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Julian Bond and John Lewis, historic leaders of that movement, also came from Atlanta. After the civil rights movement transformed our laws, Georgia began to change. Major businesses like CNN located in Atlanta, the city "too busy to hate." Professional football and baseball teams could thrive, once their teams were integrated. Blacks and whites played together in college
sports like football, with fans divided by the color of the jerseys, not the color of the players' skin. In recent years, Georgia has grown in population, in diversity and in sophistication. Blacks, Latinos and Asians grew in number. The college educated flocked to the Atlanta suburbs. This year, for the first time since 1992, a Democrat, Joe Biden, won the state in the presidential campaign, by a margin of less than 15,000 votes. Biden's victory was
a fusion victory. African American registration soared, in significant part due to the work of Stacey Abrams, who most thought lost the 2018 governor's race only because of brazen voter suppression. The young, single women, the college-educated, Latinos — all joined in Biden's winning coalition. They had to brave long lines and overcome Georgia's notori-
es. Economic uncertainties created by the disease generally reduce demand for all goods and services and the personnel required to support production, sales and delivery. Excluding the wealthy or those with specialized technologically essential skills, COVID-19 has had an unquestionably negative economic impact on millions of citizens. I'm struck by the insufficient emphasis placed on COVID-19's impact on education. While school infection rates and clinical safety protocols are debated, funds to refit schools and protect teachers are on-pause. As a result, many
school districts are faced with the question of whether to start, close or restart in-person teaching. For most, these stop-again, start-again options construct a learning foundation which can only be described as uncertain. Overreaching all these facts is the outcome of a national election, contested only in the mind of "THE LOSER" and the actions of those who give him their nominal support. And this brings me to my starting point for the week. I hold certain that at noon on Jan. 20,
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By E. Faye Williams
What More Can We Expect?
As I write today, our nation has reached significant milestones, which in their differences are connected. We've experienced the loss of a QUARTER-MILLION Americans to COVID-19. We've moved past an infection total of 12 million. This upswing in the disease has overburdened and threatens to break our health care system. Under the weight of COVID-19, many hospitals are unable to pro-
vide for "routine" care, including accidents and emergencies. These facts often leave the level of stress upon our nation's health care providers ignored and underreported. Consolation for those facts rests in the report that Pfizer and Moderna pharmaceuticals are ready to request emergency use for vaccines with 95% claimed effectiveness in laboratory tests. That good news poses the challenge of developing a viable plan for production, distribution and administration of the vaccine to over 330 million people. Forthcoming vaccines cannot ease the pain of loss, but there is some
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emotional relief for potential protection against this deadly menace. Concurrent with the clinical impact of COVID-19, the nation teeters on the edge of disease-related economic devastation. The disease has created major impacts on workers and essential businesses in almost every sector of our economy. Reduced demand for travel services (air, rail, hotel, etc.) have sidelined equipment and personnel in a limbo of undetermined duration and depth. Our restaurant industry has been among the hardest-hit by closures ordered for the cause of reasonable health practic-
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By Askia Muhammad
Black Voters Decisive Again, and Again, and Again
Although this election season, this November, this year is like no other, I can truly say, I feel like I’ve been here before. First, it was 1976, after the nightmare that had been the presidency of Richard Nixon and his second Vice President turned President Gerald Ford. Then, thanks to a decisive role by Black voters, Georgia Gov.
Jimmy Carter was elected, ending what seemed like a nightmare—a law-and-order mantra which fueled the “Southern Strategy” that lured segregation-minded White voters and elected officials into the Republican Party. I was working at the Chicago Daily Defender at the time, and my brilliant boss, Louis Martin—the architect of John F. Kennedy’s “Kitchen Cabinet” of Black advisors who could not be brought formally into the Oval Office—Martin told me: “Why don’t
you go down to Washington. Black voters just put Carter in the White House, and it’s going to be a new day for us in Washington.” Carter managed to endure one turbulent term. In 1992, also thanks to unprecedented Black voter support, Bill Clinton, another Southern former governor ended another, even more conservative White House season of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush policies which had given us the “welfare queen” rhetoric and Justice Clarence Thomas on the Supreme
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Court. After the next 16 years, Black voters again closed another dismal chapter, this time that of George W. (for worst in history) Bush, who had given us endless wars and even more disastrous tax cuts for the rich, when they pushed Barack Obama over the top, and the nation sighed, “Yes we can.” Now, 12 years later still, after four years of reversals and presidential humiliations which literally exhausted the book of ugly adjectives and descriptors for him, Black voters have
decisively closed the door on the Donald Trump regime. And while each time their role in electing Democratic chief executives has been verbally acknowledged, Black folks have watched each successive Republican president turn the clock back further than before, and it seems like the Black agenda is even further from being fulfilled. Former Vice President Joe Biden is now poised to take over—if The
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LIFESTYLE African-American Muslims Flex Political Muscle in the Age of Trump Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins No electorate understood the sting of the Trump presidency perhaps more than African-American Muslims whose ethnic and religious identities had been the target of discrim-
inatory federal policy and unfettered acts of domestic terrorism. So much so, some political pundits eyed deemed members of this group as pivotal in the recent presidential race. As history has shown, this would be far from the first contribution that African-American Muslims made to
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American society. With a highly anticipated change in the Oval Office, some people like Imam Talib Shareef said they foresee a deeper embrace of that tradition that will encourage more African-American Muslims to help actualize the U.S.’ founding ideals. “We were a people denied the most, but here we are in 2020. With the stakes the highest, we were able to contribute the most,” said Shareef, leader of The Nation’s Mosque, a place of worship for thousands of Muslims in the D.C. metropolitan area, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s partner in combatting American Muslim extremism, via what’s called the American Muslims Against Violence and Terrorism Initiative.
BRIDGING THE GAP
Though they represent less than two percent of the U.S. population, American Muslims -- a group that includes African-American Muslims -- have diverse experiences and backgrounds that have drawn many to
5 Aziyrah the Poet points to the America's Islamic Heritage Museum in Southeast that has been closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)
the Democratic Party. During the Democratic primary, nearly four out of 10 American Muslim Democratic voters expressed a desire for an anti-war candidate, a situation that explained their strong support for Sen. Bernie Sanders (IVt.) , even as Biden solidified his lead. An increasing contingent of young Muslim Americans, deviating from the conservative nature of their foreign-born parents, have also aligned with the Democratic Party’s support of LGBTQ rights. Among African American millennials, Islam has been a beacon of light for those struggling in impoverished, crime-ridden environments to overcome the generational effects of crack-cocaine, deindustrialization, and mass incarceration. For District-based activist Azyirah the Poet, Islam has brought a sense of peace at a time when she struggled with the pitfalls of living as a Black woman in the U.S. Three years ago, Azyirah converted to Sunni Islam after studying the history of Malcolm X and the NOI. She later expanded her knowledge about the pillars of the Islam faith with the guidance of her husband, a Muslim who she had known since their days as Catholic schoolchildren. At the culmination of her evolution, Aziyrah would be the second of three people in her immediate family to turn to Islam. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Aziyrah spent much of her time attending prayer services known as Jummah and volunteering at the American Islamic Heritage Museum and Center on Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue where she said she learned much about African-American
Musilms’ historical contributions. It was at the Southeast D.C. museum that Azyirah also recounted learning about the value of serving others, including those not sharing her religious identity. She said that experience has kept her grounded amid the scrutiny she often faces for wearing a hijab. “People are obsessed with our culture, our religion, and us as a whole, but they never want to deal with the negativity that society gives us,” Aziyrah, a Northeast D.C. resident and mother of two girls, told The Informer. “I use my message through poetry to say it’s okay to be Black, to be Muslim and to be woman,” she continued. “What’s not okay is me being judged for wearing my hijab. For peace, I rely on my Deen, my faith, and the knowledge and wisdom to know that my ancestors set forth a path where I can’t falter.” For the last 25 years, Collections and Stories of American Muslims (CSAM), and later the American Islamic Heritage Museum and Center, have serve as an epicenter of African-American Islamic thought, organization, and mobilization in the District, all with the support of the Bowser administration and those of previous mayors. At the prodding of museum president and curator Amir Muhammad and others, then-D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) declared October as Islamic Heritage Month. With the temporary closing of The Clara, the building in which the museum exists, comes the
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IT Recruiters Building Pathways to Industry for African Americans Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins If nothing else, the coronavirus pandemic and the mass movement to the virtual realm that followed, have challenged information technology [IT] specialists at school districts, universities, small businesses and corporations in a myriad of ways. Among these new hurdles: developing websites, servers and programs which help those entities efficiently meet both their needs and those of an economically and socially diverse consumer base. On the cusp of what’s predicted to be another shutdown across the region, one IT specialist has continued with efforts to increase Black participation in an industry which experts describe as one of safest and economically viable during the pandemic. “Those who are in this career field didn’t see a [drastic change] to our jobs; we’ve kind of been going on as normal from home,” said Melvin Thompson, an IT specialist of more than 30 years of experience in health and systems administration. Starting early next year, those who receive Thompson’s “Opportunity Scholarship” will take virtual classes to become Linux administrators – people routinely trusted to set up and maintain organizations’ computer servers. During weekly virtual classes, Thompson, owner of Mobile IT and Training Solutions LLC, in Lorton, Va., will connect them to computer systems and help them practice skills explored in videos and homework assignments. Thompson’s classes culminate in the acquisition of a certification and enrollees have the option of joining another class at no additional cost. The “Opportunity Scholarship” is geared toward those who experienced a COVID-19-related job loss. Since the start of the pandem-
ic, Thompson has received phone calls from employers in search of web developers and those well versed in database management. He said that showed him that time remains of the essence for Blacks to leverage opportunities in the IT field. “Because the field is so wide and things are going to the virtual environment, you can do things from home,” Thompson said. “It’s not as hard as many of us think it is. It’s just that you have to apply yourself.” Blacks account for less than two percent of the workforce at several prominent U.S.-based tech companies. Since March, more than 26 million Americans – one-sixth of the workforce – have applied for unemployment compensation. A report released by the Alera Group, Inc. designated higher education, agriculture, hospitality and nonprofit organizations as some of the hardest hit industries during the pandemic. In the IT field, job loss among lower-skilled workers has increased the need for securing additional certifications, many of which take only a few months at a time to acquire with the promise of greater job security and a salary increase. Over the last decade, as college
MUSLIMS from Page 26 question of where many of the African-American Muslims who frequent that space will gather to pray, and dole out food and clothes. Over the last few weeks, worshippers have remained posted in front of museum curator Amir Muhammad’s residence for prayer and meditation. Despite the uncertainty surrounding the American Islamic Heritage Museum and Center, Muhammad said he has maintained a commitment to raising awareness about the African-American Muslim’s contribution to the United States. In recent years, he has focused on reconciling philosophical differences
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Why Working Women in DC Succeed on the Job and What Other Cities Can Learn
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easing the guilt of moms who might need to work extra hours,” Thomas noted. Other major attractions of the When the third annual 2020 Best region are opportunities to be part Places for Working Women survey of history, declared the adjunct proplaced the District at the top of all fessor. “I have taken our little one to incities’ list, it came as little surprise. The survey produced by Magnify- credible national events by jumping Money ranked cities based on sever- on the metro - the Women’s March, al factors, including job opportuni- Black Lives Matter, and other ties, the chance for upward mobility events,” Thomas continued. “When I do have a day off, we’ve and entrepreneurship, wages, and taken advantage of the museums protections for mothers. “For example, [D.C.] has a sol- and other cultural attractions with id percentage of businesses that little impact on our wallets. If are owned by women at almost 32 sought, the DMV area can provide percent; it has a high percentage of a unique educational setting for our women who have employer-based little ones, not to mention the beau- 5 Working women in DC set the stanhealth insurance, and it also has a tiful diversity in the area. The diver- dard for others around the nation. (Photo/ high percentage of women manag- sity across the DMV region exposes iStock/shapecharge) (Courtesy photo/Mobile IT and Training Solutions LLC) ers,” Lauren Perez at MagnifyMoney our child to many cultures and ways livingrelated without needing tothe get era told WTOP earlier this year. I’ve lived in,” Ngozi stated. tuition has skyrocketed, IT certi- of issues toever COVID-19, in which consumers have on a plane.” “D.C. just really protects working “The emphasis on fications have been heralded as a economy and climate change. grown more dependentnetworking on their As a working woman in the Diswomen ofandnavigating gives themanroom for creates a climate of continuous immeans increasMeanwhile, IT veterans say services. trict who also has lived in seven citupward mobility,” she told the news and ofD.C. womenmarare ingly tech-based global economy. they’re anxiously waiting to see provement, “Irrespective the stock ies across three countries, Jen Ngozi, station. constantly looking for ways to level Careers in the IT field include: how the Biden administration ket and the economic indicators, of NetWerk, said it’s Almost 44 percent of managers in the up by connecting women this that software programmers, computplansfounder to regulate various facets of people think thewith direction easy to understand why the nation’s country D.C. are women, the highest in the are also leveling declared. er scientists, computer support their industry. is in up,” is ashe positive one is tops.technology entrepre- and nation. “Studies have shown and networking specialists, cloud capital As cloud I'm excited about the howdirect the “D.C. culture not only normalizAnd while child care expenses in link between our network net systems engineers and database neur Aaron Levie recently told Biden administration cananddrive es networking but celebrates it with D.C. are among the highest in the worth, proving that networking is administrators. 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In D.C. it’s reportedly were also high, making ship as women and why D.C. womannual income in the six figures. about what’s to come over the Levie, CEO of Box, Inc. be asked ‘what do child expenses less of a burden. rank the highest amongst women IT care professionals could be even common next fourtoyears, especially in you an enWI do?’ compared to other cities that in leadership roles nationally.” WI MagnifyMoney reported that more in demand as President-elect D.C.Biden has strong policies intoplace Joe (D) attempts adto protect working women,focused scoring vance a transition agenda Chris Publishing Company Presents highexpanding for both parental leaveaccess and on broadband pregnancy workplace throughout the U.S.protection. and tackling The median earnings gender pay gap in D.C. is 17.1 percent, placbetween affiliatesofand ing it in NOI the middle theobservers 50 cities of old-world Islam, American and ranked in the survey. foreign. “A major factor was the possibilChristine Sheats between ity“The of freecommon and earlytheme childhood edu600 Timothy Road, Athens, GA 30606 the different Black Muslim is cation. If a family is lucky groups to secure the belief in Allah, and the belief in Zoom: Peachice7 a spot in the lottery for PreK3/4 freedom, and equality all,” http://us04web.zoom.us/j/5846863986?pwd=bkFS https://us04web.zoom.us/j/5846863986?pwd= education,justice the District offersfor amazMuhammad told The Informer. RUxSMU9mZUdkYk4xaTIjSGtGQT09 bkFSRUxSMU9mZUdkYk4xaTljSGtGQT09#success ing choices from language immer“The call of Islam is a call Chines, for husion programs in Spanish, manity,” he continued. French, Hebrew to name a few, to “We get our cultural diverother typeslost of in amazing programs,” Christine Sheats sity and our likes and dislikes, but Seema Thomas, an adjunct professor humanity is our common denomPhone 404-914-4410 of Urban Sustainability at the Uniinator, nothe matter what. The AfriEmail Christine Sheats versity of District of Columbia, can-American MuslimInformer community 1954@gmail.com told the Washington this makes Website Christine Sheats week. up one of the largest populations of schools the Muslim community in 1954 Dgmailcom “The are cognizant of busy the United States.and Wehave havephenomethis quiet Christine Sheats 195 working moms power and influence.” http://Christinesheats195.wixsite.com/welcome nal before/after school programs, WI By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia
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Superstar Sylver Logan Sharp Releases Project to Promote Racial Harmony ‘No More Color Lines’ Provides Timely Message for Post-Election America
D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor @dkevinmcne While you may be unfamiliar with the name Sylver Logan Sharp, if you’re an aficionado of either disco or R&B music, you’ve heard her resonant voice. Now a resident of Mount Rainier, Md., Sylver counted among several lead vocalists for the immensely popular and commercially successful band CHIC with whom she toured for 20 years.
CHIC, formed by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards in 1972, regarded themselves as a rock band for the disco movement that “made good on hippie peace, love and freedom,” according to their Wikipedia biography. As for Sylver, an alum of D.C.’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Northwest, she’s made the most of her years at the top of the music charts and traveling the globe. Her achievements include a Grammy, a successful recording career and the
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establishment of a huge fan base in Stockholm, Sweden and a bevy of musical collaborations with icons who include: Yolanda Adams, Carlos Santana, Michael Bolton, Rare Essence, Kid Rock, Jonathan Peters and Magnus Carlsson, considered music royalty in Sweden. Recently, she followed up on an idea which she said first began to take shape in September 2018 while celebrating the birthday of her producer/musical director and husband, Daryl L.A. Hunt. After revisiting a song which she composed 13 years earlier, Sylver said given the new restrictions placed on the world due to COVID-19, she began to look for ways to address how both the pandemic and the political season of 2020 have impacted our lives. The result, written by Sylver and Daryl, would be a musical project entitled, “No More Color Lines.” The song, launched by DCTV on Nov. 6, also the initial date of its release, serves as more than just an interlude for Sylver. “I wanted this to be more than a song but instead a campaign that would spark a movement aimed at promoting racial harmony,” she said. “Given all of the racial turmoil that our nation has endured like the senseless murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and hundreds of other innocent Black men and women, I wanted to use my gift for good.” “Of course, with the civil unrest that has taken place throughout the current political season, I also wanted to speak to that problem, too. In
5 Sylver Logan Sharp (Courtesy photo)
many ways, I was searching for a way to do what I do as an artist since COVID-19 has eliminated opportunities for folks like me to tour and engage with audiences on stage.” “Music always has a meaning and a message. ‘No More Color Lines’ is one example. Best of all, because we have a studio in our home, my husband and I were able to use the new technologies to reach out to some of my ‘rock star friends.’ And I was so delighted and surprised that everyone I called on said they wanted to share their voice for the project including Will Downing, Howard Hewett, Cheryl Pepsii Ri-
ley and CeCe Peniston.” “I’m trying to stay in my lane but this virus has given me a new purpose and so I’m determined to both expand and increase my range as well as my reach.” “This was a labor of love – one which I believe has endless potential,” Sylver said. Sylver and Daryl currently host a live show from their loft in Mount Rainier called #FeelBetterFriday during which they feature “feel better” music, fun and highlight guest artists, as well as their own music. For more information about Sylver, visit www.sylverlogansharp.com. WI
TWO RIVERS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT Onsite Learning Facilitator Two Rivers Public Charter School intends to enter into a sole source contract with AlphaBEST Education, Inc., to provide onsite facilitation of learning. The cost of this contract will be approximately $145,800. The decision to sole source was made because AlphaBEST is uniquely qualified to provide onsite facilitation of learning because it is the only vendor currently licensed by OSSE to provide care at Two Rivers' campuses and this service is needed ASAP due to the pandemic. Please contact Aurora Steinle with any questions at procurement@tworiverspcs.org. THE WASHINGTON INFORMER / WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM
Ford’s Theatre Remains Focused on Diversity with New Artistic Leadership The Classic “A Christmas Carol” Comes This Holiday Season
Brenda C. Siler WI Contributing Writer
Taking on a key role in the theater world during a pandemic is no easy task. So why at this time, would Sheldon Epps jump into a new role as senior artistic advisor at the historic Ford’s Theatre? To start, Epps and Ford’s Theatre Director Paul R. Tetreault have known each other for 20 years. Epps directed Ford’s 2019 production of “Twelve Angry Men,” so he knows this stage. He also knows the vision of Ford’s when it comes to diverse casting and creatively addressing challenges for the stage. With the pandemic, the lights are dark for the theater world. Ford’s is meeting the challenge by producing a radio version of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” “I have known Sheldon for more than 20 years and been an admirer of his work as a director and producer,” said Tetreault. “Over the last several years, I have relied on his counsel not only for the works he has (and will) direct but also on his programming ideas and direction of the company.” Coming into this new role with Ford’s Theatre, Epps gives the company a lot of credit for what has it has achieved to ensure diversity in front of and behind the flood lights. “Paul has been in the fight for diversity for a long time. Ford’s Theatre is underrated because they’ve been doing that for years, and years, and years,” said Epps about Ford’s vision for a diverse theater environment. “I didn’t come here to get something started, I’m really just trying to continue and contribute to the good work that they had already been doing.” Epps is no stranger to the Washington, D.C. theater world. He has directed productions at Arena Stage. But he is widely regarded for his role at the renowned Pasadena Playhouse where he is now is artistic director emeritus. He was artistic director from 1997-2017 at the Pasadena Playhouse. He has conceived, produced, directed productions on both coasts. The Duke Ellington musical, "Play On!", which he created and directed received three Tony Award
nominations. He also conceived and directed the highly acclaimed musical revue, "Blues in the Night. " This Broadway production was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Musical of the Year, and the London production, which he also directed, was nominated for two Laurence Olivier Awards. In addition to Tetreault, Epps is working with a masterful artistic programming team to navigate Ford’s Theatre through the continuing challenging pandemic terrain. Along for the journey are Ford’s Theatre Deputy Director and Director of Programming Kristin Fox-Siegmund, Director of Artistic Programming José Carrasquillo, Program Operations and Music Manager Sarah R. Hewitt and Artistic Programming Manager Erika Scott. With this team, Epps clearly understands his role. “The artistic staff plans the artistic personality and vision of the theater,” said Epps. “What are you choosing to put on the stage, who are you serving, and who do you hope to invite into your theater with what you put on. It’s then the quality control of those productions and that comes from who do you hire to be involved.” Not only does Epps bring a stellar theater portfolio to the District, his television work also is well-known. Some of his credits include directing episodes of “Frasier, ” “Friends, ” “Everybody Loves Raymond, ” “My Wife and Kids, ” “In-Laws, ” “Veronica's Closet, ” “What I Like About You, ” “Evening Shade ” and “Sister, Sister”. For five seasons, he was also producer/director for the hit series, “Girlfriends. ” Up next is the classic holiday production, “A Christmas Carol. ” Ford’s Theatre has figured out a way to mount this holiday production. In the words of the theater world, “the show must go on!” Joining with WAMU 88.5 FM, Washington, D.C.’s NPR news station, Ford’s will present a one-hour radio play adaptation of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”, featuring acclaimed Washington actor Craig Wallace as Ebenezer Scrooge. WAMU 88.5 FM will broadcast the play on Dec. 25, 2020, at noon ET. The radio play will
also be made available to Ford’s Theatre members on Dec. 7 and to the public on Dec. 14, via the Ford’s Theatre website, www.fords.org/carol-radio. In addition, WAMU will make the broadcast available to other public media stations nationwide during December 2020. “I would suggest that families get together to listen to it in that old school way. It would be great if people would do that again,” said Epps about “A Christmas Carol”. The schedule for the Ford’s Theatre 2020-21 season is being reworked. A full menu of activities at Ford’s Theatre is at https://www.fords.org. Due to rising regional and national cases related to the coronavirus pandemic, Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site will temporarily close to the public starting Monday, Nov. 23. Virtual programming such as the scheduled monthly Cabinet Conversations (Dec. 17), Virtual Play Readings (Dec. 10) and distance-learning events will continue. WI
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5 Sheldon Epps, senior artistic advisor at Ford’s Theatre in Northwest. (Photo Jim Cox)
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The Rev. Raphael Warnock is no stranger to pressure, high expectations and a big stage. But even the climb to the pulpit as a successor to the nation’s best-known Baptist preacher can’t match the latest stage the 51-year-old is trying to mount. Warnock, pastor of the Rev. Martin Luther King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, is one of four Georgians competing for the state’s two seats in the U.S. Senate in a Jan. 5 runoff to settle inconclusive Nov. 3 results. The outcome will not only decide the balance of power in the Senate, but also raises the prospect that a Black man would represent the state in the Senate for the first time since post-Civil War Reconstruction. Is that too much pressure for a rookie politician? “But I guarantee that it’s not. I am committed to a life of service and my candidacy for the United States Senate is a continuation of that life-long commitment,” Warnock told the Washington Informer in an exclusive interview last week. “I do see myself as a vessel in this moment and I am I humbled to be part of this process,” Warnock said. “It is my aspiration to build a just and inclusive society …and it means that young people regardless of their zip code can embrace the American dream.” Warnock’s interview was witnessed by journalism students at the University of Maryland College Park. One of them asked about the possible conflict of church and state posed by a senator who is a minister handling public policy issues. “There is no contradiction between those two things. I believe firmly in the separation between church and state. We have to unpack what that means. It certainly doesn’t mean that a pastor can’t serve “People of faith serve in elective office and what they bring, I would hope is not their sectarian doctrine as a religious community, but their values that are the same values that is affirmed in all of the great religious traditions: Justice, mercy, compassion and love of our neighbor.”
5 The Rev. Raphael Warnock (Facebook grab)
On Nov. 3 no Senate candidate in Georgia drew more votes than Warnock, who garnered 1,617,035 --33 percent of the vote-- against incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a conservative Republican and supporter of President Donald Trump, who attracted 1,273,214 votes—26 percent. In the other race, Democrat Jon Ossoff, who is best known as documentary filmmaker, faces Republican incumbent Sen. David Purdue, another Trump supporter. Ossoff won 2,374,519 votes—47.9 percent— versus 2,462,617 –49.7 percent. Under Georgia law, statewide candidates must receive more than 50 percent of the vote. “In the general election, I finished first,” Warnock told the Informer. “Only in America is my story possible and what my career has been about is bending that ark what Dr. King used to talk about. Dr. King always said the mark of the moral universe is bending toward justice and my work has always been about bending the ark toward justice.” Warnock said Georgia is showing how the face of once segregated state is changing. “It is such a promising moment in the state of Georgia You have a young Jewish man. The son of an
immigrant who came to this country when he was just 23 and an African American man the pastor of the church where Dr. King served, running for the two United States Senators from the state of Georgia in the heart of the old South.” Since 1992, the color of Georgia politics has gone from Republican red to Democratic blue because of a migration of people from northern states to the South. Many of these voters were mobilized by candidate Stacy Abrams who mobilized thousands of voters when she ran for governor two years ago. “A couple of months ago I had the sad duty of eulogizing my church member Congressman John Lewis,” Warnock said. “John Lewis, Dr. King, Dorothy Cotton, Fannie Lou Hammer, Ella Baker, Andrew young, they didn’t have any reason to think that they would win. The understood that God was always right and to stand up for what was right in these defining moments of America.” “As one from public housing who knows what it’s like to be profiled in a grocery store,” Warnock said. “I think I bring a particular perspective in legislating in the most consequential deliberative body in the country The United States Senate.” WI
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Yearwood Leads Crusade to Keep Supreme Court Justice Marshall’s Lineage Alive Historic Thurgood Marshall Center Once a Refuge for Acclaimed Poet Langston Hughes D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor @dkevinmcneir The District of Columbia contains countless treasures – from a sturdy house in Southeast where the fiery Frederick Douglass once lived to The Howard Theatre in Northwest where rising stars like Ella and Ellington formerly shared their musical gifts. Then there’s a nondescript, five-story building nestled along the mostly residential 12th Street corridor in Northwest – formerly the home of the nation’s first Black YMCA – now known as the Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage. In years past, the building provided a safe haven for Marshall, then a rising attorney, and his colleagues as they successfully engineered a strategy to end the segregation of America’s public schools (Brown v. Board of Education). It also offered residential quarters for many Blacks as they traveled to the District, most notably the intellectual giant and poet of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes. Ironically, while D.C. has been the seat of American politics since its founding in 1790, it also remained unabashedly segregated well into the late 1950s and early 1960s. This fact alone provides insight as to why homes like Douglass’s, entertainment hubs akin to The Howard Theatre and multi-purposed buildings including the nation’s first Black YMCA, loom large within D.C.’s annals of Black history. However, as the first part of this series noted (Oct. 23 – Nov. 4, 2020), the Thurgood Marshall Center, while a national historic landmark and currently home of the community-focused Thurgood Marshall Center Trust, Inc. [TMCT], now bears the weight of a hefty mortgage. That renovation mortgage totaling $2.3 million has TMCT’s president and CEO, Thomasina W. Yearwood, and the board of directors, concerned and anxious as monthly revenues have plummeted due to restrictions imposed throughout the city due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But Yearwood remains undaunted in her efforts to manage limited resources and to secure funds from a diverse pool of potential sources, including both the city’s coffers and
private benefactors, to keep the historic building Black-owned and fully functioning. “The Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage has returned to what it once was – a center in service to the D.C. community,” she said. “This is a neighborhood rich with the history of African-American solidarity and pride. But it’s also one fast losing its identity to urban renewal and gentrification. If we are not careful, this history – the history of slave descendants – our history – will be lost forever.”
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Yearwood says if the walls of the Center could talk, they would reveal stories that illustrate the determination of African Americans relentless in their efforts to gain equal rights in a nation which touted but often failed to live up to its creed of “justice for all.” “Young tourists come to the Center for tales of the first Black Supreme Court justice in the U.S.,” Yearwood shared. “They learn that Langston Hughes, for a short time, called this building ‘home.’ They learn that Anthony Bowen, a freed slave, respected preacher and educator, organized the first YMCA for Colored Men and Boys in the nation here in 1853.” “In redefining the 12th Street Y into a multicultural, multi-tenant collective, the TMCT was established as both an organization and the building’s sole owner for the purpose of providing direct service and protecting African-American heritage. It was then and remains now a worthy goal,” she concluded. For native Washingtonian and real estate broker Norris Dodson, the Center has been a mainstay in his life since his youth. “I spent a lot of Saturdays in the building, playing basketball when I was a teen,” said Dodson, 72. “Elgin Baylor, Dave Bing and John Thompson once played on the building’s basketball court. Many amazing Blacks came through these doors after the building opened in 1912. Some of the initial leaders integrated other YMCAs in the District like Belford Lawson, Jr., one of the District’s most talented Black attorneys who served as president of the YMCA and national
president of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.” “There were others intimately connected to the building including Dr. Charles Drew and Charles Hamilton Houston, former dean of Howard School of Law and Thurgood Marshall’s mentor. Scientists, physicians, athletes and Olympians trace their roots to this building. It’s a place that provided inspiration. We hope by saving this place, we can inspire youth, especially Blacks, to achieve success too,” Dodson said. Alfreda V. Davis, Esq., now in her third year as TMCT’s board chair and a lifelong resident of the District, said COVID-19 has led to unprecedented challenges. But she, like Yearwood, believes the mission of the organization must not be abandoned. “Like most nonprofits, we’ve taken a major hit in our monthly revenue,” she said. “We pride ourselves on being accessible to the community – from providing a space for weddings and nonpolitical meetings to activities for local organizations and sports tournaments. So it’s a real downer that, for now, we cannot operate at full capacity. Even our biggest remaining tenants who lease space – the NNPA and the National Bar Association – have only limited accessibility.” “Still, other grassroots organizations, like the National Council of Negro Women, once faced a huge mortgage but were able to retire it with just one event because of the immense
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5 The room in the Thurgood Marshall Center where the poet Langston Hughes once lived. (Photo Credit Travis Riddick) 3 The front entrance of the Thurgood Marshall Center in Northwest. (Photo courtesy TMCT) 6 Thomasina W. Yearwood, president/ CEO, Thurgood Marshall Center Trust [TMCT] (Photos courtesy TMCT).
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Store officials said they’d have socalled health ambassadors at entrances about 140, the highest since late May, to greet customers and remind them with Maryland reporting more than to put on a mask. “Customers trust Walmart to deliv1,700 new cases over same period. Virginia officials have reported slight er an amazing Black Friday year after upticks and downturns during the year,” Scott McCall, Walmart’s executive vice president and the chief merpast week. Currently, the U.S. has more than chandising officer noted in a release. “Although this year’s event looks 12 million confirmed COVID-19 cases while over 254,000 people have died. different, our commitment to what our customers depend on us for the absolute best prices of the season LONG LINES FOR on hot gifts from top brands hasn’t SHOPPERS? changed,” McCall exclaimed. UNLIKELY “I’m really excited that this year, The usual overnight and long lines when it matters most to our customof people who wait for the mad dash ers, we’re offering them more convefor televisions, computers, video nient and safer ways to shop Black Frigames and other big ticket items have day at Walmart, whether that’s from little chance of materializing. the shelf in one of our stores, ordering Walmart announced it would allow online and picking it up curbside or stores to have only as much as 20 per- having it delivered right to their front cent capacity. door,” he said. Customers will form a single, straight Best Buy announced it would open line to enter the store, while workers at 5 a.m. on Black Friday. will provide sanitized shopping carts to In a posting on the company’s webhelp with social distancing. site, officials listed steps they’re taking
to promote safety including requiring all customers and employees to wear face coverings. “We will supply a face covering if you don’t have one,” store officials wrote. Additionally, each store will have a dedicated customer experience host at the front of the store to help direct customers, answer questions and manage any lines. “We will continue to limit the number of customers allowed in stores at a time throughout the holiday season. Each store will follow all local guidelines and we will allow a limited maximum capacity to allow for the CDC-recommended social distancing guidelines,” Best Buy officials said. Further, stickers will be placed on the floor of stores and outside to indicate social distancing guidelines and customers who need help from employees will remain in a digital queue while they wait. “As we’ve said, Black Friday isn’t just one day this year – it’s monthslong,” Best Buy said in a statement. WI
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new president and vice president have been elected, which is the key to unlocking resources and access to federal agencies, including the all-important national security briefings. “Since the administrator was appointed by and serves at the pleasure
of the incumbent president, there is an obvious conflict of interest,” he said. “Again, though, until now, no GSA administrator has ever tried to delay a transition in the wake of an election whose result was clear.” WI
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“I don’t like that bill,” Robinson said. “First of all, I am a citizen of this country and I have a right to be represented in the Congress. This bill is, in my opinion, a stall tactic. While it appears to have good intentions, it really doesn’t address the fact that people who live in D.C. don’t have full representation in Congress even though we are expected to pay federal taxes.” However, Beverly L. Perry, a senior advisor to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, said there could be some value to Merkley’s bill. She said the Merkley bill could serve as a bargaining chip for D.C. statehood legislation in a Senate during the next session in which the Republicans could hold a one-person majority, with a Vice President Kamala Harris as the constitutionally-mandated president of that body, possessing a vote on close issues. “If we, as Democrats, don’t win both Senate seats in Georgia on January 5th, then the Merkley bill
could be used as a tool to advance D.C. statehood as a civil rights issue,” Perry said. “Thinking about it now, the president setting up a commission to study the issue of 706,000 taxpaying citizens who live in the District and have every obligation of citizenship but no representation in the U.S. Congress may have some benefit. The commission could be a tool to quantify the lack of full citizenship of District residents.” Despite its potential as a legislative tool in a divided Senate, Perry said District residents, as American citizens, should have a voice and vote in the national government. Robinson-Paul agreed with Perry. She said District residents voted overwhelmingly for a pro-statehood referendum in 2016, which has become the will of the people of the city. “We don’t want anything else but statehood and we want it now,” Robinson-Paul said. WI
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The General Services Administration manages the overall process, Weiner further added. The most important provision is the one that appears to leave it to the GSA administrator to “ascertain” whether a
the House and Senate on its conclusions two years after starting its work. In a statement, Merkley said the “four million taxpaying Americans living in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the territories who do not have representation.” “They should have the opportunity to have their voices heard in the Congress,” the senator said. Merkley’s bill sits in the Senate Judiciary Committee presently. D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) had no comment on Merkley’s legislation. In June, the House passed D.C. statehood legislation, a first. Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.) has companion D.C. statehood legislation in which, ironically, Merkley has signed on as a co-sponsor. When the Rev. Mary Hooker Robinson heard about the bill’s purpose, she expressed outrage.
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wi book review "We Gather Together: A Nation Divided, A President in Turmoil, and a Historic Campaign to Embrace Gratitude and Grace" By Denise Kiernan c.2020, Dutton $25.00 / $34.00 Canada 294 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer Uncle Ed was always "full" first. That didn't stop him from having seconds on the pumpkin pie, though; he sure loved Aunt Emma's desserts. Alas, she won't be at your Thanksgiving table this year, and neither will Ed. No, your table will be lighter and your turkey smaller, through politics and pandemics, and in "We Gather Together" by Denise Kiernan, you'll see what else is missing. Sarah Josepha Hale had known her share of hardship. Born in 1788, at a time when it was frowned-upon for women to get a higher education, she nonetheless received her lessons second-hand from a beloved older brother matriculating at Dartmouth. Writing became her favorite thing, and it was a comfort after Sarah lost her sister, mother, brothers, father and husband while she was still just a young woman. Left with five small children, the widow Hale went to work as a milliner, then an author, then as a magazine writer/editor for a women's magazine. Hale's words and her ideas were closely followed by thousands of women, and she was well aware that she was persuasive. That in mind, she set out to rectify something she saw lacking. Gratitude rituals were ancient things; the young United States had held them before but Hale wanted an annual day set aside. And so, she asked President Zachary Taylor, and nearly every other president going forward, to institute a national day of gratitude. Abraham Lincoln finally did as she hoped. And in 1939, some sixty years after her death, the last piece of Hale's puzzle fell into place. So how does this affect you? Your table may be missing a few people or dishes this year, but that shouldn't stop you from honoring the reason for the meal: Thanksgiving, first-syllable emphasis. So, this year, take time to reflect, and write someone a note of gratitude. Honor Native American Heritage Day. Have a "Zoomsgiving." Do it because gratitude changes your brain. Do it because, even in the worst of times, you have much. At some point, probably back when you were drawing turkeys by tracing your hand, you might've learned part of the story behind Thanksgiving. Here, author Denise Kiernan fills in the blanks – the biggest of which is something you might miss, that Sarah Hale spent nearly four decades hoping to make us grateful. You might feel a little guilty, then, for thinking that "We Gather Together" drags sometimes, but don't, because it does. Kiernan's calm storytelling works well to snatch a reader's attention back, however, through soothing thoughts, side dishes of Thanksgiving origins, and stories populated with Hale's contemporaries, many of whom contributed to American culture in delightful ways that we've since forgotten. Indeed, reading about it is like sampling a bounty: a spoonful here, a nibble there, a giant helping of riches. This is the book you've been wanting since summer: one that calms your soul, invigorates your mind, and helps to heal this years' bruises. Get "We Gather Together" and see if your hands and heart aren't full. WI
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NOV 26 - DEC 2, 2020
ARIES There will be no hiding your seductive allure between now and Dec. 15. If you're single and in an exploratory mood, make sure you know in advance where your boundaries lie since you might push the envelope with some of your escapades. If you're attached or are holding out for a soulmate, this is a special cycle for deepening bonds and getting to know sides of your mate or date you weren't familiar with. Lucky Numbers: 2, 17, 33 TAURUS Whether you need to revise terms in a professional alliance, or you and bae aren't seeing eyeto-eye, take the lead in righting things. Just remember: The love planet insists on peace, love and understanding. Any union that isn't operating smoothly will be up for review. Lucky Numbers: 16, 21, 40 GEMINI Hit pause on your go-go lifestyle long enough to take care of an urgent matter you keep letting slip to the bottom of your priority list: You! Clear the decks for some massage or other bodywork, catch up on procrastinated medical appointments and tackle that ever-growing list of "little things" like submitting paperwork, replying to emails and updating the apps on your phone. Lucky Numbers: 3, 43, 51 CANCER Your job could get crazy busy, which might lead you to mistakenly back-burner self-care when you need to prioritize it. No skipping meals or workouts, OK? The timing might feel a wee bit inconvenient given the holiday treats. Settle for a mantra of "responsible indulgence." Lucky Numbers: 4, 8, 13 LEO Whether you're literally livestreaming from your living room or posting new photos on a dating app, you'll be undeniably spellbinding. With the spotlight following you, get clear about what you'd like to manifest. Is it recognition for a creative venture? A new boo? Next step with the current one (baby, maybe)? Or perhaps just a radical style makeover (or -under). This is your moment to fearlessly experiment with your deepest desires and start to see yourself the way others already do. Lucky Numbers: 15, 18, 48 VIRGO With the Sun in this globetrotting fire sign, warm up a cold corner of your space with pieces you collected while traveling or imported textiles you can order online. Painting colorful accent walls brings the “sunshine” into windowless areas. If you're in the market for a move, a lucky listing could pop up between now and Dec. 21. Lucky Numbers: 2, 23, 50 LIBRA You don't usually need much prodding to mingle with new groups, but this annual month-long cycle grants you official #lifeoftheparty status. (Yes, even if the party is happening on Zoom.) That should come as a huge relief after all the number-crunching and belt-tightening of the previous four weeks. Lucky Numbers: 10, 13, 30 SCORPIO With el Sol beaming into Sagittarius and your second house of financial stability and practical magic until Dec. 21, you'll have laser-like focus for your end-of-year monetary milestones. Move forward slowly and steadily — with a carefully thought-out plan. Lucky Numbers: 12, 27, 44 SAGITTARIUS You're ready to be a public figure once again and grant face time to your patient fanbase. (Yes, livestreaming counts for this in 2020.) The only thing that your autonomous sign isn't interested in is being responsible for other people's unprocessed emotions. In fact, ANY kind of dependency can feel like a trap. As you emerge from your cocoon, you may realize you need to infuse some breathing room into certain bonds. Lucky Numbers: 5, 25, 29 CAPRICORN When you're not busy with Zoom happy hours and multiplayer games, look at where you might expand your soul squad. Who will motivate and challenge you to be your best self? Since this is your tech zone, single Sea Goats might have better-than-usual luck with your right swipes. Lucky Numbers: 20, 21, 56 AQUARIUS Your collaborative sign knows how important partnerships are to your success — and the overall fun quotient. Between now and Dec. 21, be selective about who you team up with: The right associates will make easy work of your current project, but the wrong ones will be worse than having to do it all yourself. Bring your innovativeness and your practicality to all joint efforts. Lucky Numbers: 5, 8, 14 PISCES While Scorpio energy can intensify your emotions, Venus has plenty of room to play — and stretch her wingspan — in your ninth house. Single Fish will happily swim laps for hours in the endless dating pool! Ease up on the goal-orientation and just enjoy whoever you reel in. There'll be ample time to make any binding decisions later, after you've broken the ice and figured out if the attraction was more than just a tidal wave of "new relationship energy." Lucky Numbers: 2, 9, 15
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MARSHALL from Page 31 financial support they received from philanthropists like Oprah Winfrey and Don King.” “What we need to do is establish the kind of profile that will attract similar donors. That’s what we’re going to. Retooling our board and bringing greater diversity is one of our first goals and we’re working to that end now. After all, we’re the best kept secret in the U.S.,” Davis said. Four-year board member Saundra L. Lamb, Esq., says following the example set by Marshall ranks high among her goals for the board and the Center. “We know he became the first Black Supreme Court justice but what made him such a towering figure was his commitment to securing civil rights for all Americans,” Lamb said. “If America would only do the right thing for Blacks, that change in stance would benefit every American.” “Marshall was guided by a sense of urgency. We need to keep that sentiment alive in our community. Those born decades after his death take things for granted – things like children having books for school, lights in schools that worked, buildings that were safe and had working bathrooms. Things weren’t ‘separate but equal’ by a longshot. Thurgood Marshall refused to allow that to continue. And he faced unimaginable forms of danger because of his commitment to securing equal justice for Blacks,” she said.
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Former TMCT advisory board member Curtis Symonds said that as a colleague of Yearwood’s for more than 30 years, he has gained great respect for her work and abilities. He stands behind the Center’s mission and Yearwood. “The Center has never had the kind of resources needed to really grow but somehow she’s found different ways to bring in funds that have kept the place alive,” he said. “Sure, I’m concerned about the building because of its historical relevance to Black culture. But it’s the programs that the Center provides to our community that are the real reason that we cannot allow it to fail.” “There’s an ancestral vibration that lives in this space,” said CeLillianne Green, a poet and lawyer who lives in Northeast who has shared her works on several occasions at the Center.
“I had my first book launch in the Center in 2010 so it’s always been a special place for me,” she said. I’ve attended gala dinners in the gym. I’ve engaged with seniors and youth there too. Today we function in a space created for us by our ancestors. It’s so much more than just a building – it has a life and energy of its own that we can ill-afford to let die.” Thelma D. Jones, now living in Southwest, remembers moving from North Carolina, the daughter of sharecroppers, to the District in the summer of 1972. She served as the curator for a photo exhibit that was featured during the Center’s grand opening in February 2000. The exhibit was developed with the blessing of Thurgood Marshall’s wife. “If we really want to preserve, promote and perpetuate the legacies of those on whose shoulders we stand, like Thurgood Marshall, we need places like the Center,” she said. “When we allow these kinds of places to be claimed by others, they often fail to accurately portray our history. Other times, when we don’t own our institutions, our history becomes twisted and portions of the story are removed. We can’t allow that to happen.” Local cultural historian Anthony Browder has established a career during which he has focused on telling an accurate, fact-based history of African people in the world. Once COVID-19 has been brought under control, he’ll resume leading a project to be housed on the Center’s second floor which he says will fill in essential pieces to the puzzle of “our story.” “If the story of African-American people were 1,000 pages, our enslavement begins on page 996 and it’s only two pages long,” said Browder, 71, who noted that since moving from Chicago to D.C. in 1971, he hasn’t wanted to live anywhere else. “We hope to serve as an essential extension of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. There are tons of lesser known stories of successful African Americans who once lived in D.C. We want the Center to supplement the history shared at the Smithsonian that allows those untold stories to be put on display and finally be shared with the nation and the world.” “It’s important to set the record straight: African people achieved success thousands of years before we became slaves. And we have achieved success beyond slavery as well,” he said. WI
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RELIGION the religion corner WITH LYNDIA GRANT
My People Perish for the Lack of Knowledge, Pt. 4 In furthering the causes of the Diabetes Educational Prevention Campaign, for me personally, the first order of business has been to make my very own lifestyle change. My mother died 20 years ago, early on Christmas morning, from complications of Type 2 diabetes. She was buried on Dec. 30. Upon my return home to Maryland, it took a few months before I could go on, the grief period was extremely hard for me. Eventually, without thinking, I began to eat anything I wanted. Pounds returned, along with additional ones, and 12 years later, I learned that I, too, had Type 2 diabetes. Depressed and saddened because of what had happened to Mom — amputations of both legs, kidney failure, strokes and high blood pressure — I took the bull by the horns. I went home, threw out all of the carbohydrates in my kitchen, and began to take 10-minute walks for starters. It hurt to walk at first — the back pain was tremendous — but, long story short, I can now walk an hour without pain, with some jogging included. It is now a lifestyle change for me. I've been scared straight, and will never, as long as I live, eat improperly the way that I once did. I'm sharing my story to help readers around the country to understand that Type 2 diabetes can be turned around. According to
Dr. Sherita Hill-Golden diabetes doctor at Johns Hopkins University Hospital who was my guest on The Lyndia Grant Show, a re-run, she said “It's never too late to make that change to a better diet and to add exercise.” We cannot allow problems to overwhelm us to a point that we are killing ourselves by eating in an out-of-control manner. I'm feeling so much better now. Happy to be back on track, and this time, it is for the rest of my life. You wonder how I made the switch from eating the way that I had done most of my life to now having my health diet. Previously, shucks, it was nothing for me to eat from Burger King, McDonald's, buy 4 candy bars because I couldn't decide on my favorite, bought large bags of Fritos, and I especially enjoyed those "pink" Hostess Sno-Balls. My first order of business, was to cut out all of the fast food, start eating more green leafy vegetables, such as well-planned garden salads, lentils, and began a regular exercise routine which still continues 20 years later. Walking became my exercise of choice -- two to four miles three to four days each week. Some weeks I walked five days. There is an extreme difference in the way that I look and feel. The pounds and inches have been steadily coming off. Drinking green smoothies each morning is another good choice. I'm no longer eating white bread. In fact,
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
I don't eat very much bread at all, but when I do, it is whole grain or wheat bread. Please look in the frozen food section for your grocery store. Ezekiel Bread is made from Ezekiel 4:9 products, and are crafted in the likeness of the Holy Scripture verse of Ezekiel 4:9 to ensure unrivaled honest nutrition and pure, delicious flavors. The scripture reads, "Take also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils and millet, and spelt and put them in one vessel…" It's this special, unique combination of six grains and legumes that harvests benefits beyond what we normally expect from our breads, pastas, cereals and other foods. Ezekiel Bread has been a blessing in my diet. Finally, it is 84.3% protein, no eggs included. Brown rice is best for diabetics. As a result of these lifestyle changes, my health results from my physical examination were tremendously better. My cholesterol level was much improved and my glucose levels (HbA1c) was now at my pre-diabetes levels. My blood pressure was now good again, 120/80, and I feel so much better, too. There is one area that I'm still working on, and that is my ideal body mass (IBM). I'm still overweight, but I've lost 50 pounds and still counting. Consider making a major lifestyle change to improve your diabetes. It's very simple: One, change your diet by eliminating most of the carbohydrates. Two, exercise regularly for the rest of your life. WI
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Mount Olivet Lutheran Church
Reverend John W. Davis Pastor
Service and Times Sunday Worship Service - 8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. Children’s Church - 11:00 a.m. (1st & 3rd Sundays) Communion - 10 a.m. 4th Sunday Sunday School - 9:15 a.m. (4th Sunday 8:15 a.m.) Prayer Meeting & Bible Study - Wednesday 7:00 p.m.
(301) 864-6070
Service and Times Divine Worship, Sunday 10:00 a.m. Communion 1st and 3rd Sunday “Friendliest Church in the City” Website: mountolivetdc.org Email: mtolivedc@gmail.com
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Pilgrim Baptist Church
Bishop Michael C. Turner, Sr. Senior Pastor
Rev. Louis B. Jones II Pastor
9161 Hampton Overlook Capitol Heights, MD 20743 Phone: 301-350-2200 / Fax: 301-499-8724
700 I Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 547-8849
Service and Times Sunday Worship Times : 7:30 AM 7 10:00 AM Communion: 1st Sunday Sunday School: 9:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday, 12 Noon Bible Study in homes: Tuesday 7:00 PM Website: www.themiraclecenterFMBC.com Email: Miraclecenterfmbs@gmail.com Motto: “We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight”
Blessed Word of Life Church
Service and Times Worship Sundays: 7:30 & 11:00 AM 5th Sundays: 9:30 AM 3rd Sundays: Baptism & Holy Communion Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @ Noon & 6:30 PM www.pilgrimbaptistdc.org
Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ
Church of Living Waters
Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church
Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor Harold Andrew Assistant Pastor 4915 Wheeler Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-894-6464 Service and Times Sunday Service: 8:30am& 11:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM Communion Service: First Sunday www.livingwatersmd.org
St. Stephen Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Michael E. Bell, Sr., / Pastor 2498 Alabama Ave., SE - Washington D.C. 20020 Office: (202) 889-7296 / Fax: (202) 889-2198 - www.acamec.org Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 8:00am and 11:00 AM Sunday Church School - 9:15am & Sunday Adult Forum Bible Study - 10:30 AM 2nd & 4th Monday Women’s Bible Study: 6:30 PM Tuesday Jr./Sr. Bible Study: 10:00 AM Tuesday Topical Bible Study: 6:30 PM Tuesday New Beginnings Bible Study: 6:30 PM Wednesday Pastoral Bible Study: 6:30 PM Wednesday Children’s Bible Study: 6:30 PM Thursday Men’s Bible Study: 6:30 PM Friday before 1st Sunday Praise & Worship Service: 6:30 PM Saturday Adult Bible Study: 10:00 AM “The Amazing, Awesome, Audacious Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church”
Third Street Church of God
Dr. Dekontee L. & Dr. Ayele A. Johnson Pastors
Reverend William Young IV Pastor
Bishop Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Senior Pastor
Rev. Cheryl J. Sanders, Th.D. Senior Pastor
4001 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 (202) 265-6147 Office 1-800 576-1047 Voicemail/Fax
3845 South Capitol Street Washington, DC 20032 (202) 562-5576 (Office) / (202) 562-4219 (Fax)
5757 Temple Hill Road, Temple Hills, MD 20748 Office 301-899-8885 – fax 301-899-2555 Services and Times Sunday Early Morning Worship: 7:45 AM Church School: 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship: 10:45 AM Tuesday: 7:00pm/Kingdom Building Bible Institute Wednesday , 12:30 PM Mid-Day Bible Study Wednesday: Prayer/Praise/Bible Study-7:30 PM Baptism & Communion Service: 4th Sunday – 10:30 AM
1204 Third Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 202-347-5889 office / 202-638-1803 fax
Service and Times Sunday School: 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service: 11:00 AM Communion Service: First Sunday Prayer Service/Bible Study: Tuesday, 6:30 PM www.blessedwordoflifechurch.org E-mail: church@blessedwordoflifechurch.org
Campbell AME Church Rev. Dr. Henry Y. White 2562 MLK Jr. Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Adm. Office 202-678-2263 Email: Campbell@mycame.org Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 AM Sunday Church School: 8:45 AM Bible Study Wednesday: 12:00 Noon Wednesday: 7:00 PM Thursday: 7:00 PM “Reaching Up To Reach Out” Mailing Address : Campbell AME Church 2502 Stanton Road SE - Washington, DC 20020
Turning Hearts Church Virgil K. Thomas, Sr. Senior Pastor/ Teacher 421 Alabama Ave. SE Washington, DC 20032 Phone: 202-746-0113 Fax: 301-843-2445 Service and Times Sunday School: 10:15 AM Sunday Worship Service: 11;15 AM Children’s Church: 11:15 AM Tuesday Bible Study: 6:30 PM Motto : “A Great Commitment to the Great Commandment” Website: www.turningheartschurchdc.org Email: gr8luv4u2@gmail.com
Services and Times Sundays: 10:00am Worship Services Bible Study: Wonderful Wednesdays in Worship and the Word Bible Study Wednesdays 12:00 Noon; 6:30 PM (dinner @ 5:30 PM) Sunday School: 9:00 AM – Hour of Power “An inclusive ministry where all are welcomed and affirmed.” www.covenantdc.org
“We are one in the Spirit” www.ssbc5757.org / E-mail: ssbc5757@verizon.net
Services and Times Sunday School: 9:30 AM Sunday Worship: 11:00 AM Sunday Community Worship Service: 8:30 AM “Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital” www.thirdstreet.org Live Stream Sunday Worship Service begins @ 12:00 noon www.thirdstreet.org
Crusader Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Alton W. Jordan Pastor 800 I Street, NE - Washington, DC 20002 202-548-0707 - Fax No. 202-548-0703 Service and Times Sunday Morning Worship: 11:00 AM Holy Communion: 1st Sunday Sunday School: 9:45 AM Men’s Monday Bible Study: 7:00 PM Wednesday Night Bible Study: 7:00 PM Women’s Ministry Bible Study: 3rd Friday -7:00 PM Computer Classes: Announced Family and Marital Counseling by appointment E-mail: Crusadersbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.CrusadersBaptistChurch.org / “God is Love”
Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr.; Senior Bishop & Evangelist Susie C. Owens – Co-Pastor 610 Rhode Island Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (202) 529-4547 office • (202) 529-4495 fax
Sunday Worship Service: 8:00 AM and 10:45 AM Sunday Youth Worship Services: 1st & 4th 10:45 AM; 804 R.I. Ave., NE 5th 8 AM & 10:45 AM; Main Church Prayer Services Tuesday – Noon, Wednesday 6:00 AM & 6:30 PM Calvary Bible Institute: Year-Round Contact Church / Communion Every 3rd Sunday The Church in The Hood that will do you Good! www.gmchc.org / emailus@gmchc.org
Isle of Patmos Baptist Church Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews Senior Pastor 1200 Isle of Patmos Plaza, Northeast Washington, DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-6767 - Fax: (202) 526-1661 Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM Holy Communion: 2nd Sunday at 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM Sunday Church School: 9:20 AM Seniors Bible Study: Tuesdays at 10:30 AM Noon Day Prayer Service: Tuesdays at Noon Bible Study: Tuesdays at 7 PM Motto: “A Ministry of Reconciliation Where Everybody is Somebody!” Website: http://isleofpatmosbc.org Church Email: ipbcsecretary@verizon.net
St Marks Baptist Come Worship with us... Dr. Raymond T. Matthews Pastor and First Lady Marcia Matthews St. Mark's Baptist Church 624 Underwood Street, NW Washington, dc 20011 Services and Times Sunday School: 9:00 AM Worship Service: 10:00 AM Wed. Noon Day prayer service Thur. Prayer service: 6:45 PM Thur. Bible Study: 7:15 PM
Twelfth Street Christian Church Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor (Disciples of Christ) 1812 12th Street, NW - Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202-265-4494 Fax: 202 265 4340 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 AM Communion every Sunday: 11:00 AM Sunday School: 10:00 AM Bible Study Tuesday: 12 Noon Pastor’s Bible Study Tuesday: 6:30 PM Motto: “Discover Something Wonderful” Website: 12thscc.org / Email: Twelfthstcc@aol.com
Mount Carmel Baptist Church Reverend Dr. Paris L Smith, Sr. Senior Pastor 901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423 Service and Times Sunday Church School : 9:00 AM Sunday Morning Worship: 10:10 AM Bible Study Tuesday: 6: 00 PM Prayer Service Tuesday: 7:00 PM Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday 10:10 AM themcbc.org
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RELIGION Shabbath Commandment Church Bishop Adrian A. Taylor, Sr. Pastor 7801 Livingston Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-534-5471 Service and Times Sabbath School 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 AM Service 11:00 AM Praise & Worship Preaching 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Motto: “A Church Keeping It Real for Real.” Website: Shabbathcommandmentchruch.org Email: Praisebetoyhwh@gmail.com
Zion Baptist Church Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor 4850 Blagdon Ave, NW - Washington D.C 20011 Phone (202) 722-4940 - Fax (202) 291-3773 Service and Times 9:00 a.m. – Sunday School 10:15 a.m. – Worship Service Wed. Noon: Dea. Robert Owens Bible Study 7 PM Pastor’s Bible Study Ordinance of Baptism 2nd Sunday, Holy Communion 4th Sunday Mission: Zion shall: Enlist Sinners, Educate Students, Empower the Suffering, Encourage the Saints, And Exalt our Savior. (Acts 2: 41-47) www.zionbaptistchurchdc.org
St. Luke Baptist Church Rev. Aubrey C. Lewis Pastor 1415 Gallatin Street, NW Washington, DC 20011-3851 P: (202) 726-5940 Service and Times Sunday Worship: 11:00 AM Sunday School: 9:15 AM Holy Communion: 11:00 a.m., 3rd Sun. Bible Institute: Wednesday - 1:30 PM Prayer Meeting: Wednesday - 12:00 Noon
All Nations Baptist Church Rev. Dr. James Coleman Pastor 2001 North Capitol St, N.E. - Washington, DC 20002 Phone (202) 832-9591 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
Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor 2324 Ontario Road, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 232-1730 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 “Where Jesus is the King”
Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor
2409 Ainger Pl.,SE – WDC 20020 (202) 678-0884 – Office / (202) 678-0885 – Fax “Moving Faith Forward” 0% Perfect . . . 100% Forgiven!
623 Florida Ave.. NW - WDC. 20001 Church (202) 667-3409 / Study (202) 265-0836 Home Study (301) 464-8211 / Fax (202) 483-4009
Service and Times Sunday Worship: 8:00 AM & 10:45 AM Baptism/Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday Family Bible Study Tuesdays – 6:30 PM Prayer Service: Tuesdays – 8:00 PM www.emmanuelbaptistchurchdc.org
Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith
Lincoln Park United Methodist Church Rev. Richard B. Black Pastor
Elder Herman L. Simms Pastor
1251 Saratoga Ave., NE Washington, DC 20018 (202) 269-0288
1301 North Carolina Ave. N E Washington, D C 20002 202 543 1318 - lincolnpark@lpumcdc.org www.lpumcdc.org
5606 Marlboro Pike District Heights, MD 20747 301-735-6005
Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:45 AM Sunday School: 9:15 AM Holy Communion1st Sunday: 10:45 AM Prayer Service: Wednesday at 6:30 PM Bible Study: Wednesday at 7:00 PM Bible Study: Tuesday at 10:30 AM
Mount Moriah Baptist Church Dr. Lucius M. Dalton Senior Pastor
Service and Times Sunday Worship: 10:00 AM Holy Communion: First Sunday 10:00 AM Sunday School: 9:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday @ 12 noon and 6:30 PM Motto: "Faith On The Hill"
Service and Times Sunday Apostolic Worship Services 11:00 A.M and 5:00 PM Communion and Feet Wash 4th Sunday at 5:00 PM Prayer/Seeking: Wednesday at 8:00 PM Apostolic in Doctrine, Pentecostal in Experience, Holiness in Living, Uncompromised and Unchanged. The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42
New Commandment Baptist Church
Eastern Community Baptist Church 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
Reverend Peter R. Blue Sr. Pastor
Rev. Curtis l. Staley Pastor
2001 Brooks Drive District Heights MD. 20744 240.838.7074
621 Alabama Ave., S.E.- Washington, D.C. 20032 P: (202) 561-1111 - F: (202) 561-1112
Service and Times Sunday Worship Experience: 10:15am Sunday School: 9:00am Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday Morning Noontime Bible Study: Tuesday @ 12:00pm Prayer Meeting/Bible Study: Tuesday @7:00pm Theme: "Building On A Firm Foundation"
Service and Times Sunday Service: 10:00 AM Sunday School for all ages: 8:30 AM 1st Sunday Baptism: 10:00 AM 2nd Sunday Holy Communion:10:00 AM Tuesday: Bible Study: 6:30 PM Prayer Meeting: 7:45 PM
Email: revprbstmbc@gmail.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.org
Motto: “Where God is First and Where Friendly People Worship”
“Real Worship for Real People” Website: www.easterncommunity.org Email: ecc@easterncommunity.org
“A Church Where Love Is Essential and Praise is Intentional”
Foggy Bottom - Founded in 1867 728 23rd Street, NW - Washington, DC 20037 Church office: 202-333-3985 - Fax : 202-338-4958
Shiloh Baptist Church
Matthews Memorial Baptist Church Dr. Joseph D. Turner / Senior Pastor 2616 MLK Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Office 202-889-3709 - Fax 202-678-3304 Service and Times Early Worship Service: 8:00 AM Worship Service: 11:00 AM New Member’s Class: 9:45 AM Holy Communion: 1st Sunday, 11:00 AM Church School: 9:45 AM Wednesday 12:00pm Bible Study Prayer, Praise and Bible Study: 7:00 PM Saturday Bible Study: 11:00 AM Baptism 4th Sunday: 11:00 AM “Empowered to love and Challenged to Lead a Multitude of Souls to Christ”
Peace Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Michael T. Bell 712 18th Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Phone 202-399-3450/ Fax 202-398-8836 Service and Times Sunday Early Morning Prayer & Bible Study Class: 8:00 AM Sunday School: 9:00 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service: 10:00 AM Wednesday Service: 12:00 PM “The Loving Church of the living lord “
4504 Gault Place, N.E. / Washington, D.C 20019 202-397-7775 – 7184 Service and Times Sunday Church School: 9:30 AM Sunday Worship Service : 11:00 AM The Lord’s Supper 1st Sunday Prayer & Praise Services: Wednesday 7:00 PM Bible Study: 7:30 PM Saturday before 4th Sunday Men, Women, Youth Discipleship Ministries: 10:30 AM A Christ Centered Church htubc@comcast.net
Christ Embassy DC
Kelechi Ajieren Coordinator 6839 Eastern Avenue, R1 Takoma Park, MD 20912 (202) 556-7065 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 AM Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 PM Friday Evening Service: 7:00 PM ; Last Friday “…Giving Your Life a Meaning” www.Christembassydc.org Christ.embassy.dc@hotmail.com
Pennsylvania Ave. Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Kendrick E. Curry Pastor 3000 Pennsylvania Ave.. S.E Washington, DC 20020 202 581-1500 Service and Times Sunday Church School: 9:30 AM Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 AM Monday Adult Bible Study: 7:00 PM Wednesday Youth & Adult Activities: 6:30 PM Prayer Service Bible Study
First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Mt. Horeb Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor
Rev. Oran W. Young Pastor
Rev. Dr. H. B. Sampson, III Pastor
9th & P Street, N.W. - W. D.C. 20001 (202) 232-4288
602 N Street NW - Washington, D.C. 20001 Office:(202) 289-4480 Fax: (202) 289-4595
2914 Bladensburg Road, NE Wash., DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-3180 - Fax: (202) 529-7738 Service and Times Worship Service: 7:30 AM Sunday School: 9:00 AM Worship Service: 10:30 AM Holy Communion: 4th Sunday 7:30AM & 10:30 AM Prayer Services:Tuesday 7:30 PM. Wednesday 12 Noon
www.stmarysfoggybottom.org Email: stmarysoffice@stmarysfoggybottom.org
Service and Times First Sunday Worship Service (one service): 10:00 AM Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Sunday Worship service: 7:45 AM and 10:55 AM Sunday Church School/Bible Study: 9:30 AM Thursday Prayer Service: 6:30 PM
All are welcome to St. Mary’s to Learn, Worship, and Grow.
Email: sbc@shilohbaptist.org Website: shilohbaptist.org
Service and Times Sundays: 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Music and Hymns Wednesdays: 12:10 p.m. - Holy Eucharist
Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 AM Sunday Church School: 8:45 – 9:45 AM Holy Communion: Every First Sunday Intercessory Prayer: Monday – 7:00-8:00 PM Pastor’s Bible Study: Wednesday –7:45 PM Midweek Prayer: Wednesday – 7:00 PM Noonday Prayer Every Thursday
Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert Senior Pastor
Email Address: admin@pbc712.org
Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church The Rev. E. Bernard Anderson Priest
Holy Trinity United Baptist Church
Florida Avenue Baptist Church
Reverend Christopher L. Nichols Pastor
Rev. Dr. Jerryl V. Moody Pastor-Elect
Web: www.mountmoriahchurch.org Email: mtmoriah@mountmoriahchurch.org
St. Matthews Baptist Church
Emmanuel Baptist Church
King Emmanuel Baptist Church
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Service and Times Sunday School for All Ages: 8:00 AM Sunday Worship Services: 9:30 AM Midday Prayer & Bible Study: Wednesday 11:30AM Evening Prayer & Bible Study: Wednesday 7:00 PM Laymen's League: Thursday 7:00 PM Email: Froffice@firstrising.org Website: www.firstrising.org “Changing Lives On Purpose “
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LEGAL NOTICES IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Nakia Kittrell, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jonathan Lee Ross 122 Stoney Ridge Avenue Suffolk, VA 23425 Plaintiff v. Case No. 2019 LIT 000036 The Unknown Personal Representative(s), Heirs, Legatees, Devisees, Successors and Assigns of the Judge Maurice Ross Estate of Alice Virginia Ross (No Estate Opened) The Unknown Personal Representative(s), Heirs, ) Legatees, Devisees, Successors and Assigns of the Estate of Jerdenia Ross Maxwell Marie C. Hart, as Administrator of the Estate of Jerry Lee Ross ) 3007 Kelrae Drive Richmond, VA 23224 Carlton Maxwell 2401 Washington Place, NE, Unit 310 Washington, DC 20018 Michael Ross 8305 Gibbons Drive Fort Washington, MD 20744 Marcus Ross 8305 Gibbons Drive Fort Washington, MD 20744 Cather M. Cooper 9605 Beverly Avenue Clinton, MD 20735 and All unknown property owners of the property described below, their heirs, devisees, personal ) representatives, and executors, administrators, ) grantees, assigns or successors in right, title, interest, and any and all persons having or ) claiming to have any interest in the leasehold or fee simple in the property and premises situate, ) lying and being in the District of Columbia ) described as: Square: 5214, Lot: 72 Also known as: 709 56th Place, NE Washington, DC 20019 Defendants. AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION There is now pending before the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Probate Division, an action, case number 2019 LIT 000036, seeking to quiet title and partition a parcel of residential real property located at 709 56th Place, NE, Washington, DC 20019, which is known for taxation and assessment purposes as Square 5214, Lot 0072. A copy of this action is available in the Clerk’s Office of the Court, located at Room 314, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Washington, DC. On Motion of the Plaintiff, it is this 1st day of October 2020, ORDERED, that notice be given by publication to Defendants (i) the Unknown Personal Representative(s), Heirs, Legatees, Devisees, Successors and Assigns of the Estate of Alice Virginia Ross; (ii) the Unknown Personal Representative(s), Heirs, Legatees, Devisees, Successors and Assigns of the Estate of Jerdenia Ross Maxwell; and (iii) all unknown owners of the above- described property, their heirs, devisees, personal representatives, and executors, administrators, grantees, assigns or successors in right, title and interest, and any and all persons having or claiming to have any interest in the leasehold or fee simple in the property and premises situate, lying and being in the District of Columbia as above-described, by the insertion of a copy of this Order in the Washington Informer and the Daily Washington Law Reporter twice per month for a period of three successive months; and it is further ORDERED, that the persons herein named are hereby summoned and required to file an Answer to the Amended Complaint in Room 314, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Washington, DC between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm, and serve the same the Plaintiff and any other parties named in the Amended Complaint, on or before the date and time of the Initial Scheduling Conference in this action; and it is further ORDERED, that the Initial Scheduling Conference shall be held before Judge Ross in Courtroom A-51 on January 5, 2021, at 10:45 a.m.; and it is further ORDERED, that the Initial Scheduling Conference may be held remotely due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, and the above-named defendants shall be required to contact the chambers of Judge Ross to obtain remote hearing instructions prior to the date of the Initial Scheduling Conference; and it is further ORDERED, that if you fail to serve and file an Answer within the time stated above, or if, after you answer, you fail to appear at any time the Court notifies you to do so, including at the Initial Scheduling Conference, a judgment by default may be entered against you for monetary damages or any other relief demanded in the Complaint. If this occurs, your wages may be attached or withheld or personal property or real estate you own may be taken and sold to pay the judgment. If you intend to oppose this action, do not fail to answer within the required time. IT IS SO ORDERED.
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LEGAL NOTICES 2020 NRT 000024
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131
Louis A. Ford Name of Deceased Settlor
2020 ADM 000562
2020 ADM 000677
Warren Easley Decedent
Joi H. Swiggum Decedent
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION
2020 ADM 000539
Cheryl Chapman Henderson, Esq. 4920 Niagara Road, Suite 200 College Park, MD 20740 Attorney
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Anthea Hazell and LaShawn L. Lewis, whose address is 12107 Castlewall Ct., Bowie, MD 20720 and 1804 Jewelshine Ct., Accokeek, MD 20607, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Anthony W. Hazell, Sr. aka Anthony W. Hazell Bey who died on May 2, 2020 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/12/2021. 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 5/12/2021, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131
Anthony W. Hazell, Sr. aka Anthony W. Hazell Bey Decedent
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NOTICE OF EXISTENCE OF REVOCABLE TRUST Louis A. Ford (name of deceased settlor) whose address was 1738 Allison Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011 created a revocable trust on July 8, 2011 which remained in existence on the date of his death on June 6, 2020, and Bruce D. Bradford whose address is 2800 17th Street, NE, Washington, DC 20018 is the currently acting trustee, hereinafter the Trustee. Communications to the Trust should be mailed or directed to Bruce D. Bradford at 2800 17th Street, NE, Washington, DC 20018. The Trust is subject to claims of the deceased settlor’s creditors, costs of administration of the settlor’s estate, the expenses of the deceased settlor’s funeral and disposal of remains, and statutory allowances to a surviving spouse and children to the extent the deceased settlor’s residuary probate estate is inadequate to satisfy those claims, costs, expenses, and allowances. Claims of the deceased settlor’s creditors are barred as against the Trustee and the trust property unless presented to the Trustee at the address provided herein on or before 5/12/2021 (6 months after the date of the first publication of this notice.) An action to contest the validity of this trust must be commenced by the earliest of (1) June 6, 2021 (One year from date of death of deceased settler) (2) 5/12/2021, (6 months from the date of first publication of this notice) or (3) Ninety days after the Trustee sends the person a copy of the trust instrument and a notice informing the person of the trust’s existence, of the Trustee’s name and address, and of the time allowed for commencing a proceeding. The Trustee may proceed to distribute the trust property in accordance with the terms of the turst before the expiration of the time within which an action must be commenced unless the Trustee knows of a pending judicial proceeding contesting the validity of the trust or the Trustee has received notice from a potential contestant who thereafter commences a judicial proceeding within sixty days after notification.. This Notice must be mailed postmarked with 15 days of its first publication to each heir and qualified beneficiary of the trust and any other person who would be an interested person within the meaning of D.C. Code 20-101 (d).
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Claudette Perry, whose address is 3229 Vista Street, NE, Washington, DC 20018, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Warren Easley who died on May 4, 2020 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/12/2021. 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 5/12/2021, 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: 11/12/2020
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Jessica Kleinmann, Jason Kleinmann & James Kleinmann, whose address is 3460 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20010, 6076 69th Ave., Ridgewood, NJ, 11385 and 928 Beacon Sq. Ct., #440, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Joi H. Swiggum who died on August 18, 2019 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/12/2021. 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 5/12/2021, 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: 11/12/2020
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Jessica Kleinmann Jason Kleinmann James Kleinmann Personal Representative
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Declaration of Nationality
2020 ADM 553
2020 ADM 604
2020 ADM 000728
Eartha L. Stephens Jones aka Eartha L. Jones Decedent
James McPhail aka James E. McPhail III Decedent
Estate of Julia Williams
being aboriginal to the northwestern and southwestern shores of
Howard Haley 7600 Georgia Ave., NW, #405 Washington, DC 20012 Attorney
Maria K. Day-Marshall 6329 Joslyn Place, Cheverly, MD 20785 Attorney
NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE
pedigree subscribes,
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Latonia Chantail Williamson, whose address is 15618 Everglade Lane #206, Bowie, MD 20716, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Eartha L. Stephens Jones aka Eartha L. Jones who died on April 21, 1994 without a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before May 12, 2021. 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 May 12, 2021, 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.
Warren R. Sheppard, Jr., whose address is 2212 Boas Street, Harrisburg, PA 17103, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of James McPhail aka James E. McPhail III who died on November 8, 2019 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/12/2021. 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 5/12/2021, 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: 11/12/2020 Anthea Hazell LaShawn L. Lewis Personal Representative
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Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Elmore Manuel Williams and Deborah Cason Daniel for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representatives. Unless a responsive pleading in the form of a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth. Admit to Probate the Will dated 10/31/1986 exhibited with the petition upon proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution by affidavit of the witnesses or otherwise In the absence of a Will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate appoint an unsupervised personal representative
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LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2020 ADM 000715 Estate of Floyd White NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Robbin C. Johnson for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representatives. Unless a responsive pleading in the form of a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth. Admit to Probate the Will dated April 29, 2013 exhibited with the petition upon proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution by affidavit of the witnesses or otherwise
Date of first publication: 11/12/2020 James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Petitioner/Attorney:
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2020 ADM 000688
2020 ADM 000733
2020 ADM 000533
Gail West Decedent
Robert W. King, Jr. aka Robert Wilton King, Jr. Decedent
Giles H. Jackson Decedent
Aimee D. Griffin, Esq. 5335 Wisconsin Ave., NW Suite 440 Washington, DC 20015 Attorney
Tabitha R. Brown, Esq. Law Offices of Tabitha R. Brown 1200 G. Street SE, Ste. A Washington, DC 20003 Attorney
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Lisa N. Patterson, whose address is 1129 46th Place, SE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Gail West who died on February 4, 2020 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/19/2021. 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 5/19/2021, 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: 11/19/2020
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Mischa E. Carter, whose address is 4500 Connecticut Ave., NW, #201, Washington, DC 20008, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Robert W. King, Jr. aka Robert Wilton King, Jr. who died on June 30, 2020 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/19/2021. 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 5/19/2021, 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.
Nakia Gray, Esq. 800 Maine Ave., SW Suite 200 Washington, DC 20024 Attorney
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Rebecca C. Jackson, whose address is 2443 Skyland Place, SE, Washington, DC 20020, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Giles H. Jackson who died on December 10, 2019 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/19/2021. 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 5/19/2021, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131
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2020 ADM 000648
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2020 FEP 000068
Thelma A. Moore Decedent
April 3, 2020 Date of Death Franklin Roosevelt Ampy Name of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Kenneth Ampy whose address is 14307 Clemons Drive, Midlothian, Virginia 23114, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Franklin Roosevelt Ampy, deceased, by the Orphans Court for Prince Georges County, State of Maryland, on June 8, 2020. Service of process may be made upon Shirley D. Holmes, 5711 5th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real estate. 1250 4th Street, SW, Unit W808, Washington, DC 20024. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. Date of first publication: 11/19/2020 Kenneth Ampy Personal Representative Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Washington Informer
Aimee D. Griffin, Esq. The Griffin Firm PLLC 5335 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20015 Attorney
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Eric D. Moore, whose address is 4000 Middleton Loop, Apt. 401, Dumfries VA, 22025, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Thelma A. Moore who died on April 25, 2020 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/19/2021. 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 5/19/2021, 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.
Vincent Villa aka Vincent Joseph Villa Decedent Ethel Michell 8403 Colesville Road Suite 1100 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Attorney
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David P. Gessert, whose address is 5601 32nd Street, NW, Washington, DC 20015, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Vincent Villa aka Vincent Joseph Villa who died on February 17, 2020 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/19/2021. 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 5/19/2021, 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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2020 ADM 000684 Gertie M. Holmes Decedent
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Arthur I. Linder, Sr.,whose address is 4701 13th Place NE, Washington, DC 20017, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Gertie M. Holmes who died on May 1, 2020 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/19/2021. 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 5/19/2021, 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: 11/19/2020 Arthur I. Linder, Sr. Personal Representative
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LEGAL NOTICES In God We Trust Declaration of Nationality Notice of White Flag Surrender Notice of Special Appearance: I am that I am: '' Hazine Chermon Chery '', in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, Haqdar by natural issue, the beneficiary and heir of: "CHERY, HAZINE CHERMON", corp.sole Dba.: " HAZINE CHERMON CHERY", having reached the age of majority, being aboriginal to the northwestern and southwestern shores of Africa, the Atlantic Islands, the continental Americas, being duly certified, hereby affirms to declare my tribal intention to be as my pedigree subscribes, as a: Taino Moorish American, but not a citizen of the United States. I declare permanent, and unalienable, allegiance to The Moorish Empire, Societas Republicae Ea AI Maurikanuus Estados, The Constitution for the united States of America, Article III Section 2, The Lieber Code, Hague Conventions of 1899 & 1907, The Geneva Conventions, [United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples], and all natural laws governing moors, and hereby declare and proclaim my nationality in good faith as a: Taino Moorish American. I am that I am: '' Hazine Chermon Chery '', from this day forward, in harmony with my Nationality/ Status/ Jurisdiction, shall be known as: " zin rae' el ". Notice of White Flag Surrender: as "hors de combat", pursuant to The Geneva Conventions, Article III, as a minister of The Moorish Empire, and Internationally Protected Person. Notice of: LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND (HAGUE, IV), ARTICLE: 45, 46, & 47. Notice of Claim pursuant to Public Law 87-846, TITLE II, SEC. 203. Notice of Bailment Merging of Legal Title with Equitable Title: This order is to preserve legal and equitable title, and to reserve all rights, title, and interest, in the property, Re: EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA, Dba: Health, Florida Department of, Dba: Vital Statistics, Dba: STATE OF FLORIDA,: Birth No.: 109-82-071805, '' Hazine Chermon Chery'', is as a special deposit order conveyed to " Hazine Chermon Chery Trust". All property of the same issue and amount, in like kind and specie, is to be returned fully intact (including HAZINE C CHERY C.U.S.I.P. # 316145812, HAZINE C CHERY C.U.S.I.P.# 316203850, any notes, bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness or obligations, and/ or any security/ derivative in connection thereof) , as a Special Deposit order of the Depositor/ Beneficiary/ Bailor/ Donor/ Principal/ Creditor: " zin rae' el© ",nom deguerre: "Hazine Chermon Chery©", as a special deposit order in lawful money. This special deposit is to be used exclusively for the benefit of: "Hazine Chermon Chery Trust", an Inter Vivos Unincorporated Divine Grantor Trust. This deposit is not to be commingled with general assets of any bank, nor depositary/ trustee/ agent/ bailee/ donee/ debtor. This deposit is not limited to, but including: discharge and set off, of any and all outstanding liabilities as accord and satisfaction. All open accounts (future accounts included) shall be recorded during a regular course of business as Closed Accounts and/ or Offset Accounts to which no further additions can be made on either side, but which remains still open for adjustment and set-off (One of two accounts that balance against each other and cancel each other out when the books are closed). Inter alia enact fuit. All Rights Reserved.
In God We Trust Notice of White Flag Surrender Notice of Special Appearance : I am that I am: “ mack el© ”, nom deguerre: “ pimentel, sully© ”, in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, Haqdar by natural issue, the beneficiary and heir of: ‘‘ PIMENTEL PEREYRA, SULLY FEDERICO© ’’, corp.sole Dba.: ‘‘ SULLY FEDERICO PIMENTEL PEREYRA© ’’. Having reached the age of majority, being aboriginal to the northwestern and southwestern shores of Africa, the Atlantic Islands, the continental Americas, being duly certified, hereby affirms the following: Notice of White Flag Surrender: as “hors de combat”, pursuant to The Geneva Conventions, Article III, and Lieber Code, as Taino moorish Americans, and ministers of The Moorish Empire, and Internationally Protected Persons. Notice of LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND (HAGUE, IV), ARTICLE: 45, 46, & 47. Notice of Claim pursuant to Public Law 87-846, TITLE II, SEC. 203. Notice of Bailment Merging of Legal Title with Equitable Title : This order is to preserve legal and equitable title , and to reserve all rights, title, and interest, in the property, Re: [1] THE CITY OF NEW YORK, VITAL RECORDS CERTIFICATE BIRTH NO. 156-83-100920, ‘‘ SULLY FEDERICO PIMENTEL© ’’, is as a special deposit order conveyed to “ Mack El Trust ”. Trust being an Unincorporated Divine Grantor Inter Vivos Trust. Inter alia. All rights reserved. In God We Trust Notice of White Flag Surrender Notice of Special Appearance : I am that I am: “ rapha-el, amal kendall© , nom deguerre: williams, terrance kendell© ”, in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, as: Moorish American, Haqdar by natural issue, the beneficiary and heir of: ‘‘ WILLIAMS, TERRANCE KENDELL© ’’, corp.sole Dba.: ‘‘ TERRANCE KENDELL WILLIAMS© ’’, having reached the age of majority, being aboriginal to the northwestern and southwestern shores of Africa, the Atlantic Islands, the continental Americas, being duly certified, hereby affirms the following: Notice of White Flag Surrender: as “hors de combat”, pursuant to The Geneva Conventions, Article III, as a minister of The Moorish Empire, and Internationally Protected Person. Notice of LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND ( HAGUE, IV), ARTICLE: 45, 46, & 47. Notice of Claim pursuant to Public Law 87-846, TITLE II, SEC. 203. Notice of Bailment Merging of Legal Title with Equitable Title : This order is to preserve legal and equitable title , and to reserve all rights, title, and interest, in the property, Re: Public Health, Connecticut Department of, DBA: Connecticut, State of, STATE FILE NUMBER : 12101: ‘‘ TERRANCE KENDELL WILLIAMS© ’’, be used exclusively for the benefit of : ‘‘ On The Yaheardme Trust© ’’, an Inter Vivos Unincorporated Divine Grantor Trust. Inter alia enact fuit. All Rights Reserved.
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In God We Trust Declaration of Nationality Notice of Special Appearance: I am that I am: “Shedaricka Tonja Jefferson©’, in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, Haqdar by natural issue, the beneficiary and heir of: ”JEFFERSON,SHEDARICKA TONJA©’, corp.sole Dba.: “SHEDARICKA TONJA JEFFERSON©”, having reached the age of majority, being aboriginal to the northwestern and southwestern shores of Africa, the Atlantic Islands, the continental Americas, being duly certified, hereby affirms to declare my tribal intention to be as my pedigree subscribes, as a: Moorish American, but not a citizen of the United States. I declare permanent, and unalienable, allegiance to the The Moorish Empire, Societas Republicae Ea Al Maurikanuus Estados, The Constistution for the united States of America, Article III Section 2, The Lieber Code, Hague Conventions of 1899 & 1907, The Geneva Conventions, [ United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ], and all natural laws governing moors, and hereby declare and proclaim my nationality in good faith as a: Moorish Amercian. I am that I am: “Shedaricka Tonja Jefferson©”, from this day forward, in harmony with my Nationality /Status /Jurisdiction, shall be known as: “shedaricka tonja jefferson el©”. Notice of White Flag Surrender: as “hors de combat”, pursuant to The Geneva Conventions, Article III, as a minister of The Moorish Empire, and Internationally Protected Persons. Notice of LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND ( HAGUE, IV ), ARTICLE: 45, 46, & 47. Notice of Claim pursuant to Public Law 87-846, TITLE II, SEC. 203. Notice of Bailment Merging of Legal Title with Equitable Title : This order is to preserve legal and equitable title, and to reserve all rights, title, and interest, in the property, Re: TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, STATE OF TEXAS, BIRTH NUMBER : #142-69-222363, “SHEDARICKA TONJA JEFFERSON©”, to the depositor: “shedaricka tonja jefferson el©”, nom deguerre: “Shedaricka Tonja Jefferson©”. All property, of the same issue and amount, in like kind and specie, is to be returned fully intact, as a Special Deposit order of the Depositor / Beneficiary / Bailor / Donor / Principal / Creditor: “shedaricka tonja jefferson el© “, nom deguerre: “Shedaricka Tonja Jefferson©”, as a special deposit order in lawful money. This special deposit is to be used exclusively for the benefit of : “Shedaricka Tonja Jefferson El Trust©”, an Inter Vivos Unincorporated Divine Grantor Trust. This deposit is not to be commingled with general assets of any bank, nor depositary / trustee / agent / bailee / done / debtor. This deposit is not limited to, but including: discharge and set off, of any and all outstanding liabilities as accord and satisfaction. Inter alia enact fuit. All Rights Reserved.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE FAMILY COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF DORCHESTER DOCKET NO.: 2019-DR-18-1000 Notice of Adoption ProceedingS TO THE DEFENDANT: John Doe, Birth Father YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN THE FOLLOWING NOTICE: 1. That an adoption proceeding was filed in the Family Court of Dorchester County on September 18, 2020, and in this Complaint you are alleged to be the father of an African-American, female child born in Alexandria, Virginia, on August 13, 2020. 2. That the Plaintiffs in the above captioned Notice are not named for the purpose of confidentiality; however, the Court knows the true identity of the Plaintiffs and in responding to this notice, you are required to use the caption and the number 2019-DR-18-1000. 3. That if Notice to Contest, Intervene or otherwise Respond is filed by you with the Court within thirty (30) days of the receipt of this Notice of Adoption Proceedings, you will be given an opportunity to appear and be heard on the merits of the adoption. To file notice to Contest, Intervene or otherwise Respond in this action, you must notify the above named Court at Dorchester County Courthouse, Clerk of Court Dorchester Family Court, P.O. Box 1885, Summerville, South Carolina 29484 in writing of your intention to Contest, Intervene or otherwise Respond. The above named Court must be informed of your current address and any changes of your address during the adoption proceedings. 4. That your failure to respond within thirty (30) days of receipt of this Notice of Adoption Proceedings constitutes your consent to the adoption and forfeiture of all of your rights and obligations to the above identified child. It is further alleged that your consent to this adoption is not required under S.C. Code Ann. Section 63-9-310 and that your parental rights should be terminated pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. Section 63-7-2570 (7). This notice is given pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. Section 63-9-730 (E). Raymond W. Godwin, Esq. (SC Bar #2162) PO Box 354 Greenville, SC 29602 PH (864) 241-2883 FAX: (864) 255-4342 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFFS Date: November 5,2020
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PUBLIC LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF CLAIM TO PROPERTY Public Notice No. Date Closing Date 199500939 11/16/20 12/25/2020 THIS IS NOTICE AND A CONTRACT IN ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION (1) LEGAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, according to law that a Superior Claim of rights under Section 8-105 NOTICE OF ADVERSE CLAIM. Section 3-306 CLAIMS TO AN INSTRUMENT. Section 1-308 reservation of rights of the Uniformed Commercial Code. Pursuant to Section 20-343 of the Code of the District of Columbia. We the family hereby giving notice to all parties claiming interest in the ESTATE OF BETTY ROY OSBORNE property known as: 2608 17th street N.E. Washington, D.C. 20018 (LOT 826 SQUARE 4127) NOTICE TO AGENT IS NOTICE TO PRINCIPAL, NOTICE TO PRINCIPAL IS NOTICE TO AGENT. Take a moment to read this before you proceed any further. I do not wish to communicate under any circumstances excluding federal judicial review THIS LEGAL NOTICE IS TO ADDRESS ALL PARTIES IN THE NATURE OF A MIRANDA WARNING TAKE DUE HEED OF ITS CONTENTS. IF, FOR ANY REASON, YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND ANY OF THESE REGULATIONS, STIPULATIONS AND WARNINGS. This notice is to inform all parties that a superior claim to said property as exists and if any person, party, officers of the court, law enforcement officers including representatives, agents, contractors as defined in black’s law dictionary has a superior claim that you wish to communicate in writing, signed under the penalty of perjury as required by your law, and as shown in this instrument. all parties claiming an interest superior to affiant as required by law to respond within (30) days to 2608 17th street N.E. Washington, D.C. 20018, Your failure to timely do so leaves said persons in position of accepting full responsibility for any and all liabilities for monetary damages incurred by affiant, as indicated herein, by any adversely affected injuries cause by your overt or covert actions/ omissions, and/ or the actions/omissions of your fellow public officers and agents in this and/or any relevant matters as described herein. (2)YOUR FAILURE TO TIMELY RESPOND WITHIN ALLOTED TIMEFRAME you have (30) days from the date of this document is posted by the clerk of the public record to respond and rebut the presumptions of this contract/notice point by point, by submitting to me signed, certified, authenticated documents of the laws that rebut these presumptions point by point ,on and for the public record under the penalties of the law including perjury. this notice is to all responsible parties, i.e. officers of the court, Real Estate Agents, Brokers, Investors and or law enforcement officers including local, state , region, area, country, corporation, representatives, contractors, agencies and any such entity or person that may bring any type of action, whether civil, criminal, contract to purchase, contract to represent by agent or other, against affiant or in effort to buy, transfer or convey said property known as: 2608 17th street N.E. Washington, D.C. 20018 (LOT 826 SQUARE 4127) NOTICE TO AGENT IS NOTICE TO PRINCIPAL, NOTICE TO PRINCIPAL IS NOTICE TO AGENT. Whether in this country, state, region, area, county, corporation, federal zone, or any venue and or/ jurisdiction. Your failure to timely rebut the statements and warnings herein constitute your complete tacit agreement with all regulations and stipulations contained herein. your presumptions that I, the undersigned am a “corporate fiction” or “legal entity” and under your corporate “united states” jurisdiction and The District of Columbia are now and forever rebutted. Furthermore, affiant reserves all rights reserved UCC 1-308, UCC 1-103 all rights reserved to sue such persons in a court of law for all monetary damages, liabilities and/or adversely affected injuries. Said NOTICE declares right to discovery to know if there is in fact any claim, rights or objection by way of sale, exchange, mortgage, charge, gift, maintenance, inheritance, possession, lease, tenancy, sub-tenancy, lien, license, hypothecation, transfer of title or beneficial interest under any trust right of prescription or pre-emption or under an agreement or other disposition or under any decree etc. Falling which the negotiations shall be completed, without any reference to such claims and the claims if any, shall be deemed to have been given up or waived. Affiant: c/o Mr. Osborne, Saladin (Secured Party) Location: 2608 17th street N.E. Washington, D.C. 20018 Lot 826 Square 4127 Purpose: All parties NOTICE This 16th Day of our Lord in the year 2020. _________________________________________ ______________________________ Saladin Osborne (Secured Party) Notary Public
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LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2020 FEP 000068 April 3, 2020 Date of Death Franklin Roosevelt Ampy Name of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Kenneth Ampy whose address is 14307 Clemons Drive, Midlothian, Virginia 23114, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Franklin Roosevelt Ampy, deceased, by the Orphans Court for Prince Georges County, State of Maryland, on June 8, 2020. Service of process may be made upon Shirley D. Holmes, 5711 5th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real estate. 1250 4th Street, SW, Unit W808, Washington, DC 20024. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. Date of first publication: 11/19/2020 Kenneth Ampy Personal Representative Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Washington Informer In God We Trust Notice of White Flag Surrender Notice of Special Appearance : I am that I am: “ neo hatshepsut ma’at-el©, nom deguerre: Neosha Latrica Gardner© ”, in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, Haqdar by natural issue, the beneficiary and heir of: ‘‘ GARDNER, NEOSHA LATRICA© ’’, corp.sole Dba.: ‘‘ NEOSHA LATRICA GARDNER© ’’, and Trustee of ‘‘ WOODS, CHANNING KEANU© ’’, corp.sole Dba.: ‘‘ CHANNING KEANU WOODS© ’’, and ‘‘ ANDERSON, NALA DELANI© ’’, corp.sole Dba.: ‘‘ NALA DELANI ANDERSON© ’’, having reached the age of majority, being aboriginal to the northwestern and southwestern shores of Africa, the Atlantic Islands, the continental Americas, being duly certified, hereby affirms the following: Notice of White Flag Surrender: as “hors de combat”, pursuant to The Geneva Conventions, Article III, as yamasee aniyunwiya moorish Americans, and ministers of The Moorish Empire, and Internationally Protected Persons. Notice of LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND ( HAGUE, IV), ARTICLE: 45, 46, & 47. Notice of Claim pursuant to Public Law 87-846, TITLE II, SEC. 203. Notice of Bailment Merging of Legal Title with Equitable Title : This order is to preserve legal and equitable title , and to reserve all rights, title, and interest, in the property, Re: GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH - The State Office of Vital Records - STATE FILE NUMBER(S) : [1] 110-026507 [“ NEOSHA LATRICA GARDNER© ”], [2] 2014GA000224272 [“ CHANNING KEANU WOODS© ”], [3] 2017GA000090527 [“ NALA DELANI ANDERSON© ”].
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MALVEAUX from Page 24 they believe will alienate voters. To let them tell it, President-elect Joe Biden is a "socialist" (not), Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris is a "far-left liberal," and Rev. Warnock is "pro-communist." Joe Biden is about as moderate as they come. He has not yet said that he supports "Medicare for All," but he supports protections for those with pre-existing conditions, just like 70 percent of all Americans do. VP-elect Harris has been so frequently mischaracterized that refuting baseless claims is futile. Here is what we know — she is a savvy attorney who has increasing responsibility in the Democratic Party. She brings enthusiasm and energy (not to mention diversity) to the ticket. The attempts to disparage her are at best mean-spirited and anti-black (attack
MORIAL from Page 24 versation between Black journalists and a coalition of Black health professionals including NMA, the Black Coalition Against COVID-19 have partnered with Meharry Medical College, Howard University College of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, the National Black Nurses Association and BlackDoctor.org. On December 10, we will present a town hall on the development and potential distribution of a vaccine. The National Urban League has repeatedly demanded that any vaccine distribution plan avoid the mistakes that were made with test distribution in the spring. Rather than rely largely on private physicians and chain pharmacies – largely absent from poor Black neighborhoods — distribution must incorporate community-based providers like churches
JEALOUS from Page 24 movement that has been brought into being to challenge unjust policing. I'm grateful for all the young people who made their first run for public office. And I am especially grateful for leaders and organizers who use their God-given talents and their hard-won skills and experience to organize, motivate and mobilize our people — leaders like Stacey Abrams and so
her on the issues, don't call her a "monster"). Warnock has described Loeffler's attacks on him as "division and distraction." I might add "delusional" to the alliteration. Extracting a passage from a sermon in which Warnock reminded us that God comes first, Loeffler attempted to spin his sermon into an attack on the military. The Bible verse Warnock was quoting, Matthew 6:24, remind us that God comes first and should gain our allegiance above money or the military. This is basic Christian doctrine. Many of us believe in the omnipotence of God. Warnock did not attack the military, he asserted that our primary obligation is to God. But words like "socialist" and "left-wing radical" are inflammatory terms, even if those who use them don't know quite what they mean. If feeding the hungry is socialist, then
so was Jesus. If clothing the naked is socialist, so is our Lord. If healing the ill is a socialist initiative, then, of course, Raphael Warnock seems like a socialist to the woman who is worth at least $520 million and has all the health care she can afford. Warnock advocates for expanding the Affordable Care Act, a move anathema to conservatives who want to maximize the profit they can extract from sick people. Rev. Raphael Warnock, like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is a Morehouse man. There is an adage — you can always tell a Morehouse man, but you can't tell him much. Warnock would like us to tell him that we have his back in a pivotal race that may determine how effective President-elect Biden can be. Ignore the racist rhetoric and check out this powerful preacher and civic leader. WI
and other faith-based organizations, community centers and Urban League affiliates. The equitable framework for vaccine allocation developed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine recommends that "special efforts are made to deliver vaccine to residents of high-vulnerability areas." The first of the framework's four phases include people with underlying conditions such as cancer, serious heart conditions, or sickle cell disease, that put them at significantly higher risk of severe COVID-19 disease or death. African Americans are disproportionately represented among this group. As the National Academies noted: Black, Hispanic or Latinx, American Indian and Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 with higher rates of transmission, morbidity and mortality. This reflects the impact of
systemic racism leading to higher rates of comorbidities that increase the severity of COVID-19 infection and the socioeconomic factors that increase likelihood of acquiring the infection, such as having front-line jobs, crowded living conditions, lack of access to personal protective equipment and inability to work from home. While we are making every effort to plan for an equitable vaccine distribution plan, it's important to remember that there is no vaccine right now. FDA approval may be imminent, but it hasn't happened yet. Until a vaccine is available, our best chance of survival is to mask up and avoid large gatherings. Avoiding large gatherings is a bitter pill to swallow during this holiday time, when we're missing our friends and family, especially after more than eight weeks of social restrictions. But there is a light at the end of this tunnel, and we're working to make sure it shines equally on Black America. WI
many others who worked to bring change to their cities and states — and our country. Of course, there's more to do. We have important Senate elections coming up in Georgia. And next year, we'll make many demands on local, state and national officials to address the issues that affect our lives and our future. For now, let us be grateful for new hope and new direction in our nation and for everyone who
has given of themselves to help our neighbors and strengthen our communities. And after we pause to give thanks for our freedom and our accomplishments, let's resolve to be, in the words of the great gospel song, "in no ways tired" of seeking justice and creating positive change. Then we'll have even more to be grateful for next Thanksgiving. WI
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2021, we will celebrate a new president and administration. I'm also certain that a significant portion of the 74 million voters for "THE LOSER" will deliver nonstop resistance to President Biden. Observations of the Obama administration inform me that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, orchestrator of opposition, will remain as an obstructionist against President Biden. With political philosophies complementary to the dictator he serves, McConnell has:
ASKIA from Page 25 Donald and his not-ready-for-primetime cast of characters will ever exit the stage, that is. Again, the Democratic leadership offered fealty to the Black vote, and maybe will respond with appointments of Black folks to key roles, in addition to his V.P. choice Sen. Kamala Harris, and maybe will even push for policies which make a difference in Black lives. But, don’t hold your breath waiting for it. Biden seems to want to win over those 73 million White voters who voted for Trump—never mind his own 80 million vote base. Trump is literally a laughingstock in this country and on the world stage, but he’s a White guy.
Republican opponent in the primaries. Loeffler is challenged by Reverend Raphael Warnock, the distinguished pastor at Dr. King's famed Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. He favors common sense in dealing with the pandemic, and bold action to put people back to work. He calls for defending the Affordable Care Act and its protections of pre-existing conditions and seeks to add a public option that will help lower prices and provide real choices. He'd vote to raise the minimum wage, to pass the rescue plan vital to workers in the pandemic, and to invest in rebuilding America. Millions will be poured into these two runoffs. Neither Perdue nor Loeffler is popular, so both will feature negative ads designed to drive up doubts about their opponents. Loeffler has already sunk a million dollars into two attack ads labeling Warnock as "anti-American" and part of the "radical left." Perdue has charged his opponent,
Jon Ossoff, with everything from being a socialist to being a pawn of the Chinese communists. They are following the playbook of Donald Trump: sow fear, feed racial divisions, and distract workers from the reality that they and the Republicans in the Senate stand in the way of making this economy work for working people. Or as Rev. Warnock summarized, "If you don't really have an agenda for working families, I guess you have to distract working families." Despite all the mud, Georgians will have a clear choice. Will they respond to those sowing fear or those raising hopes? Will they side with those seeking to divide us or those seeking to bring us together? Will they support those who would revert back to the Old South or those who would continue its progress into the New South? The vote on Jan. 5 will tell us much about Georgia, about the New South, and about America's ability to deal with the crises we face. WI
- Loaded federal courts with (many unqualified) conservative appointees. - Stolen two SCOTUS nominations. - Withheld Senate action for 6-plus months on a stimulus (economic relief ) package submitted by the House of Representatives. - Emphasized policies beneficial to the wealthy and demonstrated little or no concern for the welfare of the ordinary citizen. Removal of McConnell as Senate majority leader is the only viable change required for the accomplishment of progressive aims of
the new administration. We can: - Support Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in the Georgia Senate runoff elections. - Donate to their campaigns. - Encourage every eligible Georgian to register and vote. - If a Georgia resident, VOTE!!! Remember, voter registration deadline for the January runoff is December 7th. Voting in this runoff is more important than you think. It transcends where we live. Our opponents know this, and we must show that we know this, too! WI
Biden is reportedly flirting with putting Republicans in his cabinet, hoping such concessions will cause his “pal” Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) from his Senate days, to play fair and go along with some of his own liberal policies and appointees. Right! Like he did with Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland who didn’t even get a hearing nine months before the election, as compared to Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who McConnell rushed through confirmation, just weeks before the ballots were cast. He’s even suggesting he might be merciful about prosecuting The Donald’s many crimes while he was in office, so the nation can heal. To that absurd proposition, I sug-
gest there’s still time to impeach the Recalcitrant One again, as he appears to be prepared to use every dirty trick in the book to remain in office after his ugly term expires, even though he lost the election and lost it Big Time, both in the popular vote and in the Electoral College. Sadly, White Democrats who have relied on Black votes to put them in the White House in every election going back to John F. Kennedy, just don’t seem to get it. The GOP is clear. Republicans, now led by Trump, are waging war on Black people and their Democratic Party surrogates like they are a foreign enemy, while the Dems, now led by Joe Biden, seem to be approaching this like it’s a crochet class. WI
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