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law enforcement. She said they threat,” she said. had come together to bring a Among the programs Marlow sense of uniformity in the way wants to see implemented are domestic violence victims and stricter restraining order policies, survivors are treated. more rights for victim's families “She's using her own personal to intervene on behalf of a vicstory, her own personal pain to tim, a domestic violence assesspush forward,” Davis-Nickens ment unit coupled with further said about Marlow. training for law enforcement Davis-Nickens said anyone agencies, a Child's Life Protecwho reads Marlow's book will tion Act and mandatory counsel“get it.” She said she “puts the ing for batterers. case in such a way, the average “If we are ever going to eradiperson can get it.” She said at the cate domestic violence, we must end of the day, the book will look at both sides of the coin. help people begin to have a dia- We need to address both the viclogue about domestic violence. tim and the batterer,” Marlow Also present at the event was said. Mildred Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise who was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She by a Maryland jury for his role in feels children need to be educatthe Beltway Sniper attacks in ed about domestic violence. 2002. Mildred Muhammad is “We have to stop being pasthe founder of After the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chilan organization that helps the dren about domestic violence,” survivors of domestic violence Marlow said. and their children. Marlow has worked to break “I lived in fear for six years. Six the cycle of abuse in her family, years in fear is a long time. It is and is confident the policies she not an easy thing to come out is pushing for will start that of,” she said. process. Mildred Muhammad said “I plan to take these policies to Schroeder Cherry,want a D.C.tonative, and performed at a puppetthem slam to people who helpco-hosted a Congress and implore sponsored the candy company Mars Inc.change and Washington Performing domesticbyviolence victim must our laws,” MarlowArts said. at K Street in Northwest on not Monday, /Photo beBusboys carefuland of Poets howonthey go into “I will stop Nov. until10. these policourtesy of Schroeder Cherry the victim's life, and understand cies are passed.” that she may be in “survival Tia Carol Jones can be reached mode”. at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net mascots. “Before you get to 'I'm going of our company’s owners, is very to “A killpuppet you,' itallows startedyou as to a verbal tell a supportive WI of the arts, particmore universal message – if the ularly in D.C.,” said Brad Figel, puppet is a child, it can represent vice president of public affairs all children, so it’s a more inclu- for North America at Mars Inc. sive character,” said Crepeau. “The puppet show was a great “The puppet slam was a blast. example of some of the cool and Our community is relatively innovative things that are hapsmall in D.C., but we’re very ac- pening in the District. There’s tive. However, in places like Asia, some great talent in this area, and Europe and particularly Russia, we wanted to provide a stage and there’s a long, rich tradition of platform for the music and arts puppetry for adults,” said Cre- that’s happening as well as give peau, 66. young artists an opportunity to The Mars Urban Arts Initia- be showcased. This is a robust, tive will continue to promote active program, and we’re very joint planning between Washing- excited,” said Figel, who works ton Performing Arts and grass- out of the Mars’ headquarters in roots neighborhood arts makers, McLean, Virginia. local businesses, arts institutions Puppeteers participating in and local residents. Through the the slam included Don Beckinitiative, WPA will utilize its re- er, Catherine Fahey, Blue Sky sources and connections with Puppets, Pointless Theatre, The national and international artists Puppet Company, DinoRock, Marlow to facilitate artist-to-artist dia- Schroeder Cherry,L.Y. Michael Lalogue – giving voice to perfor- mason at Black Cherry Puppet mance and visual artists who live Theater and special guests The in the Washington, D.C., com- Salzburg Marionettes – one of munity. the world’s oldest and most be“This is the start of a three- loved marionette theaters, which year program that we’ve funded, and Jacqueline Badger Mars, one See PUPPETS on Page 5
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stage events – typically classical music or world music artists. On Wednesday, Nov. 19, we linked up local artists with several politicians for an old-fashioned jam session,” said Stevens, 35. One puppeteer who performed and co-hosted the event recalled being drawn to puppets during his youth. “Puppets were my favorite childhood toy, and when I got to college I studied art, and one of my professors made kites – I decided to try my hand at making puppets,” said Cherry, a D.C. native now living in Baltimore. Cherry apprenticed with a veteran puppeteer in Chicago and explained that for many years he traveled to Africa, where he looked for puppets to add to his extensive collection. “I’m a visual artist, and for me
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Black Facts NOV. 20 1866 - Howard University is founded in Washington, D.C. The school goes on to become an incubator for generations of African-Americans who play major roles in education, business, social reform and cultural development. 1976 - Gold medal-winning Olympic gymnast Dominique Dawes is born in Silver Spring, Maryland.
NOV. 22 1884 - The Philadelphia Tribune is founded by Christopher J. Perry. 1986 - Mike Tyson becomes the youngest heavyweight boxing champion in history. 1989 - Col. Frederick D. Gregory becomes the first African-American to command a space mission. 2002 - Former NFL tight end Ozzie Newsome is tapped as the general manager of the Baltimore Ravens, the first time an African-American is named to the position in the NFL.
NOV. 24 1865 - Mississippi passes the socalled “Black Codes” that barred blacks from jury service, testifying against whites in trials, bearing arms and attending white schools. 1868 - Scott Joplin is born in Texarkana, Texas. Joplin becomes skilled as a pianist and composer. As a result of these skills and his energy, he becomes one of the founders of a music genre known as “ragtime” and is later known as the “King of Ragtime.” The most popular ragtime tune was Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag,” written in 1897. He dies in a New York City asylum at the age of 49. 1880 - More than 150 delegates from Baptist churches in 11 states organize the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention of the United States at a meeting in Montgomery, Alabama. The Rev. William H. McAlphine is elected president. The group opposes liquor and tobacco and supports African missions abroad. 1892 - The first black college football game is played between Biddle University, which later Tina Turner becomes Johnson C. Smith University, and Livingstone College on this date, Thanksgiving Day.
NOV. 23 1897 - Self-educated engineer Andrew J. Beard is awarded a patent, #594,059, for an automatic railroad car coupling device – the Jenny Coupler. Prior to this device, rail cars were joined manually, and hundreds of workers lost fingers, hands and arms. Beard eventually sells the rights to his invention for $50,000. 1980 - More than 1,000 blacks from 25 states gather in Philadelphia and form the National Black Independent Political Party. However, the lack of funding and black voter
NOV. 25 1841 - The 35 survivors of the mutiny on the slave ship Amistad leave New York on a sailing vessel headed back to Africa. On July 2, 1839, enslaved people, led by African Joseph Cinque, kill the captain of the Cuban slave ship before seizing control of the vessel.
NOV. 21 1865 - Shaw University is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina. While virtually all historically Black colleges and universities were established after the Civil War, Shaw can rightfully claim to be the first established in the South. 1949 - Baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball, is awarded the Freedom Foundation medal by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for his “outstanding achievement in bringing about a better understanding of the American way of life.”
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allegiance to the Democratic Party doom the effort after several years. 2012 - Civil rights icon Lawrence Guyot, Jr., 73, passes away at his home in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the Freedom Movement in Mississippi in the early 1960s, and in 1964, helped establish the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
The ship is seized by the U.S. military. The mutineers are tried for murder, but released and allowed to return to Africa after a judge rules that they had been kidnapped and had a right to use violence to regain their freedom. 1941 - Singer Tina Turner, who began her career as part of the Ike and Tina Turner Review but later went on to solo superstardom, is born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee. 1955 - The Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation in interstate transportation. 1998 - Clerow “Flip” Wilson Jr., 64, comedian and actor, dies of liver cancer in Malibu, California. NOV. 26 1845 - Macon B. Allen becomes the first African-American lawyer admitted to the bar. 1883 - Abolitionist, orator, black rights advocate and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth dies at her home in Battle Creek, Michigan. 1895 - The National Negro Medical Association is founded. 1970 - Charles Gordone, who also works as an actor and director, becomes the first Black playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He received the honor for his play “No Place to Be Somebody.”WI
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Clifton Davis Langston Shaw Rockville, Maryland Washington, D.C. The Wizards have been I think the Wizards’ hot start impressive. I think they’ll make is indicative of things to come this year. The team showed last year that the playoffs again. Adding Paul Pierce gave the team an enforcer they are a good team with a lot of who is not going to back down potential, and they are living up to from opponents. Every team needs the hype. They are only going to someone like that. The players seem get better once Bradley Beal comes to be communicating well also. John back from his injury. Acquiring Wall is the clear leader, and with Paul Pierce in the off season really Pierce playing the role of enforcer, helped because it gave the team the they just need to keep it up. And leadership that they have lacked they will continue to do well. The over the past few years. I think they city 11/3/14 has waited a long have reallyNov come together well. GSUSA Nov New Apt-Informer 9.5x6.5_GSUSA New Apt-Informer 9.5 x 6.5 4:36 PM time Pageto1have a good basketball team.
Cordiero Ware Washington, D.C. I have been impressed with their start this season, but it’s still a little too early for me to get really excited about what can happen long-term. Last year, the Eastern Conference was a little weak. This year, it’s a little better. But I think that the Wizards can make it back to the playoffs if they are able to stay healthy.
Dr. Leo Pickett Forestville, Maryland I think the team has gotten off to a great start, [and] I think they can sustain. They are playing well without Bradley Beal – who I think is their best player – and with the players they have added since last year and the addition of Paul Pierce it will make a big difference this season. I think the team has the wherewithal to have an outstanding regular season and go far in the playoffs.
Steve Landi Woodbridge, Virginia I think the Wizards are doing well despite having to battle injuries to begin the season and having to mesh new players into the lineup. I think that their schedule early on has been a bit challenging, so they are off to a good start. I think it will take a little while to get [Bradley] Beal reintegrated into the lineup once he returns, but he has been on the team for the past two years and will continue to be a good player.
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in this for the long term. “It is long overdue for us to work in a coordinated, comprehensive, focused manner. I commit to you that we’ll be here to help young men and women of color.” Assistant to the president and Cabinet Secretary Broderick Johnson, who also serves as co-chair of the MBK task force, built on Obama’s comments. He said young males of color represent a segment of society that often faces disproportionate challenges and obstacles to success. These obstacles are present in schools, disparate communities, the criminal justice system, in families, and even in the minds of our young people themselves. “I won’t go through the statistics because you know them and live them. But for the grace of God go I,” he told the audience
Broderick Johnson, White House Task Force Chair of My Brother’s Keeper Initiative, addressed a DC Community Action Summit in the auditorium of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Southeast on Tuesday, Nov. 18. /Photo by Nancy Shia
of about 200 people. “We developed a report and presented it to the president in May. It’s very comprehensive, and the report spans the issues and challenges
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facing young boys. “There are disparities in these phases of life. By implementing things in the report, you potentially can help them succeed.” Johnson talked about the school suspensions. “They are disproportionate by gender and race,” he said. “Boys are four times more likely to be suspended, and 80 percent of those suspended are children of color. The idea that the school system can’t manage children that young who are misbehaving (is questionable).” Johnson, a Baltimore native and D.C. resident for the past 32 years, said organizations represented had been on the frontlines doing the hard work and the White House and federal government were bringing additional resources and materials to enhance what these organizations are doing. He recalled when he and his friend Lafayette A. Barnes fundraised for DC Concerned Men. “I made crab cakes, but we needed more resources,” Johnson said. “A number of private companies have stepped up. It’s quite amazing. This is not a new, big government program. We’re already investing in several communities, and federal tax dollars are being used. “This didn’t just start. In every major city with young men of color, people have been doing the work. We have confabs and listening sessions, but then we have to have action. We have to make things happen. It’s an urgent response and necessary.” Johnson said about $200 million is available for local nonprofits and other organizations, but these entities have to make sure that they can demonstrate in real terms the work they’ve done.
And since this is a cabinet-level initiative, 12 federal agencies are involved in the MBK initiative. Retired Navy Veteran Bill Walker asked Johnson a question that prompted spirited verbal agreement from participants. “From my experience, what are we going to do to deal with parents, the origin,” he asked. “We’re not holding parents responsible. We can come here, meet and talk about changing their thought processes, but it still comes back to the parents.” “You’ll get no counter-argument from me or from the president,” said Johnson, who used his experience of mentoring a young man he considered a son as an example of the need for all of us to embrace personal responsibility. “He went to Howard University, was in our wedding. His senior year, he got arrested at National Airport with 2 kilograms of cocaine. I wondered what had I missed,” Johnson mused. He had choices to make. He served time and is now raising a family. Personal responsibility is not something I’m going to apologize for.” Maurice Cook, executive director of Serve Your City, said he appreciated the opportunity to be among people, who, like him, are always looking for new and novel ways, as well as best practices, to help young people overcome difficult circumstances. “We have to be a team about this. We have to build coalitions,” said Cook, a 44-year-old Capitol Hill resident. “It seems that we come to the same spot all the time. How do we move? I like action. I want to find out
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(L-R) E. Bomani Johnson, senior director of Programs and Partnerships, DC Trust, Mayor Vincent Gray and Lafayette Barnes, DC Office of Partnerships and Grant Services together on stage at St. Elizabeths Hospital auditorium during the DC Community Action Summit on Tuesday, Nov. 18. /Photo by Nancy Shia
KEEPER continued from Page 8 what other people are doing, get help.” Cook said his organization offers a number of services such as alternative programs of rowing, aquatics and tennis. Serve Your City also connects student mentors from Georgetown University, Montgomery College and The University of the District of Columbia with young peers in Ward 6 middle and high schools. “At the UDC Community College, we deal with the end results,” he said. “Students participate elsewhere and end up back here at community college. A lot of students can’t even stay here. They’re taking remedial courses and struggle with developmental courses. Often, they go away to school and end up back home because they’re unprepared educationally. We don’t know what happens when they drop out.” Cook said his tutors offer mentoring and tutoring to students at Hine Middle School and Eastern High School and that it’s
not uncommon for one person to turn up for help. “They just don’t have the culture,” he explained. “One comes for tutoring, and the rest hang out on the street. You see them on 17th Street, Benning Road. At one time, said Cook, resources for people who wanted and needed them in the District weren’t available. Now, he said, people know how to get those resources. The caveat, he said, is that even with resources, too many young people lack the educational rigor needed to excel. “Schools may look better. That needs to happen, but there’s not much that’s changed in my opinion,” Cook said. “Some people will not send their child to DCPS, but students from charter schools are not prepared either.” Mayor Vincent C. Gray made remarks that resonated with Cook and others about the need to reach young people as early as humanly possible. “If we wait until 16 to 24, some we’ll save, many we’ll lose,” he said. “It’s important to have mentors (for young people), but
if we invest early, we won’t have to worry about kids in the juvenile justice system, Child and Family Services Agency or foster care. Maybe infancy is too late. If I could get a fetus into the early childhood program, I would.” WI
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Ward 8 Dems Ponder Ways to Strengthen Group By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer@bsalmondc Any hopes that the Democratic Party had for beating Republicans in the Nov. 4 general elections died when traditional supporters – African-Africans, Latinos, women and millennials – voted with their feet by staying home. Democrats across the country, immersed in post-mortems, are trying to divine why they received such a butt-kicking in the midterm elections. Locally, their counterparts, the Ward 8 Dems are also soul-searching, seeking answers they hope will translate into greater exposure, recognition and support from a frustrated and disengaged electorate. A paltry seven percent of Ward 8 residents voted either early or on Election Day. Ward 7 did marginally better with a 10 percent turnout. Tina L. Fletcher, a 28-year-old Ward 8 resident said turnout east of the Anacostia River left her shocked. “I was stunned when I looked at the numbers. I saw Ward 8 had the lowest numbers,” said Fletcher, a community activist and motivational speaker still waiting to find out if she won an advisory neighborhood commission (ANC) seat. “Democrats in D.C. and in general haven’t given the non-voting population something to vote for. Looking at the numbers, if we don’t increase turnout, we’ll be obsolete.” “(The low turnout) kills me as a Southerner. My great-grandmother in the 1920s, my grandmother in the 1940s, and my mother in the ’60s fought for the right to vote and realize its importance. A lot of the residents where I live who’ve been there for decades vote, a lot of new residents say, ‘Why should I vote?’ We have residents who hadn’t even changed their license tags since they moved to D.C.” During a Nov. 15 meeting, organization president Natalie Williams presided over a vocal and passionate discussion. The debate centered around developing an appealing message, gaining viability and traction and broadening their membership. “We don’t have a problem with voter registration, we have a problem with voter participaThe Washington Informer
Ward 8 Democrats, Inc. President Natalie Williams held a business meeting on Saturday, Nov. 15 at United Medical Center in Southeast. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter
tion,” said Williams, an advisory neighborhood commissioner for the 8A07 single member district. “Young people came out to vote for Initiative 71 (legalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana). They said they didn’t care for Ward 8 Democrats or the candidates who were running.” Longtime Ward 8 resident Jackie Ward agreed with Williams about voter participation. “The people who came out to vote had a vested interest in this community,” she said. “A lot of people don’t feel they have a vested interest. Many people say they don’t know if they’ll be here.” Fletcher said she agrees with pundits and political observers who note that Democrats nationally would have enjoyed more success if candidates had said what they planned to do about issues such as improving stagnant wages and salaries, the $1 trillion student loan debt, a moribund job marketplace and other realities that are battering the middle class. For Latinos, if President Barack Obama had acted on his promise to use executive action on immigration prior to the election, they would have flocked to support the party. In this mayoral race, some attendees said, the candidates didn’t excite voters. Unspoken but definitely the elephant in the living room is lingering anger about the treatment meted out to Mayor Vincent C. Gray by D.C.’s U.S. Attorney Ron Machen, Jr., around Gray’s purported involvement in a 2010 shadow
campaign and Gray’s subsequent loss in the April 1 primary. Members complained about the quality of the candidates, said candidates were, for the most part, invisible in some communities in Ward 8 during the campaign, and others of a more independent bent chafed at attempts to have them vote the party line. “We didn’t get a call from Muriel Bowser’s Ward 8 coordinator and I waited until Election Day,” said Hillside Terrace resident Ronald Wilson. “We got a call from (David) Catania, not from her ... we as an organization have the problem of not holding candidates accountable. These candidates aren’t deserving of our vote anymore but we freely give it.” An exasperated Nate Bennett-Fleming said the group, and Democrats, have to ask themselves some pointed questions, respond to voter needs and concerns and tailor their message in a way that draws voters to them. “We have to ask ourselves: What do we have to offer people? We have to stake positions such as on Barry Farm,” said Bennett-Fleming, a former DC Shadow Representative. “What does it mean to be political? If we’re not leaders, people won’t be attracted. What do we stand for collectively? We’re being oppressed together so we have to respond collectively.” With the election over, Williams said, the organization can begin to focus on voter education. “It’s time to stop talking and start working,” she said. WI
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Working to Improve the Lives of Those Living with Alzheimer’s Disease and Reducing the Burden on Caregivers By John M. Thompson, Ph.D., FAAMA Executive Director, D.C. Office on Aging The focus of my message in this month’s DCOA Executive Director’s Message is dementia and the services that the District of Columbia Office on Aging is providing to improve the quality of life of those with dementia. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability that significantly interferes with daily life. Alzheimer’s is the most common type of dementia that accounts for 60%-80% of cases. The second most common type of dementia is vascular dementia, which occurs after a stroke. Symptoms of dementia include, but are not limited to, impairment of memory, communication and language, reasoning and judgment, and visual perception. Dementia is caused by damage to brain cells. For those with Alzheimer’s disease, research indicates that they have high levels of certain proteins inside and outside of the brain cells that make it difficult for brain cells to stay healthy and to interact with each other. The hippocampus is the brain region responsible for learning and memory in the brain, and the brain cells in this region are often the first ones damaged in the earlier stages of Alzheimer’s. In order to determine if one has Alzheimer’s, it is essential for the patient to visit his/her primary care physician. The process includes the careful examination by physicians of the patient’s medical history, a physical examination, laboratory tests, and the changes associated with the way the individual carries out day-to-day, familiar functions. The physician can diagnose a patient with dementia with a high degree of certainty; however, it is difficult to determine the type of dementia because the changes in the brain that are attributable to different types of dementia can overlap across dementia types. For a specific diagnosis on the type of dementia, it would be necessary for the patient to visit a neurologist or gero-psychologist. There is no cure or treatment for most progressive dementias, such as Alzheimer’s disease, but there are prescription drugs that can temporarily slow the progression of symptoms and there are drug treatments that may temporarily improve symptoms. There are also non-drug therapies that can alleviate some symptoms of dementia. Such treatment options include the identification of environmental triggers that exacerbate stresses in people who suffer from dementia and modifying the environment to resolve obstacles to comfort and ease the individual’s mind. Another treatment option that I am very excited to introduce to you is Club Memory. Through a partnership with Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Sibley Memorial Hospital, the District of Columbia Office on Aging has opened Club Memory on the East end of the city. Club Memory is a stigma-free social club for people with early-stage Alzheimer’s, Mild Cognitive Impairment or other forms of dementia, and their spouses, partners, and caregivers. Meetings at Club Memory include light refreshments and coffee and engaging activities consisting of board games, puzzles, sing-alongs, trivia and challenges, and sharing of resources and fruitful conversations. Participants also go on trips to museums, restaurants, and other fun places ideal for the awesome fellowship. In addition to our exciting partnership with Sibley Memorial Hospital, I am also excited about our partnership with the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA), especially as they celebrated National Memory Screening Day on Tuesday, November 18, 2014. This day was special as AFA promoted early detection of memory problems and encouraged appropriate intervention for persons who may be experiencing memory issues. Free, confidential memory screenings facilitated by trained health professionals occurred at each of DCOA’s six senior wellness centers across the city. AFA also made educational materials available for seniors and their caregivers providing an opportunity for them to learn more about memory loss and brain health. Mayor Vincent C. Gray, D.C. Office on Aging and the A memory screening is ideal for anyone who is concerned about memory loss or experiencing warning signs of dementia, which DCOA Senior Service Network present... includes, but are not limited to, trouble finding words, trouble with completing familiar actions, misplacing familiar objects, making bad decisions, loss of interest in important responsibilities, and expressing false beliefs. You may also be an ideal candidate for a memory screening if your family members and friends have noticed changes in you or if you believe that you are at risk due to a family history Wednesday, December 10, 2014 of Alzheimer’s disease or related illness. Even if you don’t have any memory issues, you can take the screening as a way to collect 10 a.m. ‐ 2 p.m. baseline memory data that could be compared to your health of your brain in the future. Let me be clear that a memory screening is not a D.C. Armory tool to diagnose any specific type of disease and does not substitute for a physician’s consultation. 2001 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003 Before ending this message, I would also like to inform you that Live entertainment, dancing, health screenings, wellness and safety informa�on our office recently secured funding from the U.S. Administration for Community Living to establish the District’s Alzheimer’s Disease exhibits, immuniza�ons, food, and giveaways! Initiative. This is very exciting because through this funding opportunity, our office plans to accomplish three major objectives. First, we will increase access to home and community-based services and supports for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and Related Disorders (ADRD) living alone in the District of Columbia, especially those who have low to moderate income. 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Compiled by Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer Marker Unveiling P r i n c e G e o r g e ’s C o u n t y Executive Rushern L. Baker III joined other county elected officials, leaders and community activists on Friday, Nov. 14, to unveil a historic marker in recognition of Woodville School in Aquasco, Maryland. D u r i n g Wo o d v i l l e ’s construction in 1934 to serve the area’s African-American population, the builders used labor provided by the Federal Relief Administration during the Great Depression and materials purchased by the county board of education. Larger and better equipped than the typical rural schools of the period, Woodville replaced community schools built in 1867 and 1877. The school closed after the integration of Prince George’s County schools in 1954. Thanksgiving Break County schools will be closed from Wednesday, Nov. 26, through Friday, Nov. 28, in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Swearing-in Ceremony The Board of Education will hold a swearing-in ceremony for newly elected members from 7 to 9 p.m., Monday, Dec. 1. The event will take place at the Sasscer Administration Building, 14201 School Lane, in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Residents are also reminded that in order to speak at a Board of Education meeting, they will need to call 301-952-6115 to register at least 2.5 hours before the scheduled meeting time. Participants may speak for three minutes. Felegy Concert An invitation has been extended to the public to attend the
39th annual Edward M. Felegy Concert. The schools-sponsored event takes place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland College Park in College Park, Maryland. The schools’ Honors Orchestra and Honors Band will perform with the Honors Middle School and High School choruses. The free concert continues to celebrate the late Felegy, a patron of the arts and former county schools superintendent. Jacobs Elected District 5 Board of Education member Verjeana M. Jacobs has been elected president of the Board of Directors for the Maryland Association of Boards of Education. MABE serves as the voice for public education by supporting local school boards through its advocacy for school board governance. The private nonprofit organization also leads advocacy efforts for public education in the state of Maryland. “I am honored to be elected as president of MABE, and I am looking forward to an energizing, inspiring, and meaningful year in this leadership role,” said Jacobs. “MABE serves boards, and boards serve children. This position will enable me to share the stories of our school district, while creating collaborative relationships to expand opportunities for students and ensure equity in public education for the students of Prince George’s County Public Schools and throughout the state of Maryland.”WI
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A study conducted in 2012 by the District-based Food Research and Action Center, revealed that nearly one in six people in the state of Maryland reported not having enough money the previous year to purchase food for themselves or their families. /Courtesy Photo
Foundation, Harbor Invest in Fight against Hunger By Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer Families and individuals accustomed to battling hunger in Prince George’s County could have an easier time accessing food, following an announcement last week by Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker that involves the Peterson Family Foundation and National Harbor. As part of the county’s “Transforming Neighborhoods Initiative,” officials for both organizations have committed to partnering with Prince George’s County to donate the equivalent of one million meals annually, over the next three years, to fight hunger and boost nutrition among residents in six communities, including East Riverdale/Bladensburg, Glassmanor/Oxon Hill, Hillcrest Heights/Marlow Heights, Kentland/Palmer Park, Langley Park, and Suitland/Coral Hills. “If we are going to see substantive changes in our communities that have significant economic, health, public safety and educational challenges, I think it’s clear that we need to address all elements of residents’ lives,” Baker, 55, said during a Nov. 13 press conference at Fort Foote Baptist Church in Fort Washington, Maryland. “Hunger and nutrition are two critical elements, [and] once again, to have partners like the Peterson Companies and National Harbor step up in such a significant way is a great example for other
businesses and individuals in our community.” Milt and Lauren Peterson from the Peterson Family Foundation and schools CEO Dr. Kevin M. Maxwell also attended the event. According to statistics from the Capital Area Food Bank, which serves as the hub for food sourcing, distribution and nutrition education in the Washington region that includes Prince George’s County, there are nearly 700,000 individuals at risk of hunger, with nearly 150,000 children among them. In addition, a study conducted in 2012 by the District-based Food Research and Action Center, revealed that nearly one in six people in the state of Maryland reported not having enough money the previous year to purchase food for themselves or their families. The Peterson Family Foundation contribution will work with the Virginia-based nonprofit “Gleaning for the World” which assists communities in need both in the United States and around the world, to provide regular deliveries of food to county families and individuals in need. “Gleaning for the World” has also been ranked by Forbes magazines as the most efficient large charity in the country. “Under Baker’s leadership, Prince George’s County is making such a remarkable upward journey, and we are proud to make another investment in his vision,” said Lauren Peterson, director of the Peterson Fami-
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County to fight hunger and improve nutrition will help build on the county’s momentum.” Maxwell, 63, added that the food donations will ultimately impact classroom achievement. “The research is quite clear that hunger and poor nutrition have a real impact on children’s ability to learn,” Maxwell said. “We look forward to leveraging our partnerships with county agencies to best identify the families that need these resources the most. A concentrated effort like this to fight hunger and improve nutrition among our county’s students is sure to pay dividends every day in our classrooms.” To assist the project, trucks from “Gleaning for the World,” in conjunction with the Peterson Family Foundation and the Mid-Atlantic Gleaning Network, will criss-cross the county on a regular basis to deliver fresh
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food to the distribution sites. With much of the fresh produce coming from local farms in the region, the “Mid-Atlantic Gleaning Network” has established a partnership with area farmers to distribute food to the needy in the Washington region with the assistance of volunteer workers. “Between the slow economic recovery and cutbacks in federal spending over the past few years, there remain many families in Prince George’s County who continue to struggle with basic needs like food and proper nutrition,” said the Rev. Joseph W. Lyles, pastor at Fort Foote Baptist Church. “This type of longterm commitment, and the fresh produce that will be a substantial part of each delivery, will make a real difference in the lives of many families and children.”WI
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Urban League Assesses Midterm Elections Washington Bureau Hosts Ideas Forum By D. Kevin McNeir WI Contributing Writer @mcneirdk The GOP dominated the recent midterm elections, taking control of the Senate while easily winning most gubernatorial races. Now with 2016 fast approaching, one civil rights group wants blacks to prepare for the inevitable battle for the White House and Congress. “Voting is the language of democracy – if you don’t vote, you don’t count,” said Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. “This was the first election in 50 years that took place without the Voting Rights Act in place. Over 18,000 complaints were filed by voters who had problems because of new ID requirements in various states. Forty-thousand votes were lost in the state of Georgia alone. Too many votes were left on the table. Our job in 2016 will be to deliver the votes,” said Henderson, 66, who heads a coalition of more than 200 national organizations that seeks to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all people in the U.S. On Wednesday, Nov. 5, Henderson joined leaders from the National Urban League Washington Bureau who hosted the event, along with veteran journalists, political activists, business leaders and strategists for the Third Annual Urban Ideas Forum at The Howard Theatre in Northwest. The NUL provided commentary and conversation during the daylong event, “A Temperature Check: What Do the Midterm Elections Mean for African-Americans and Other People of Color?” While the national economy has grown by 3.5 percent, the black unemployment rate of 11 percent still hovers nearly twice the national average (5.9 percent); home ownership remains below 50 percent for blacks and Latinos; and even with the Affordable Care Act, at the end of 2013, 19 percent of blacks and 30 percent of Latinos remained uninsured. “Health care should be something that every American can The Washington Informer
Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said blacks must prepare now for the 2016 elections during a recent forum hosted by the National Urban League Washington Bureau. /Courtesy Photo
afford – that’s why President Obama pushed for the ACA – but access alone isn’t enough,” said Deborah Wilson, president and CEO of the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League. “Blacks need to look at the quality of care, and we also need to demand more culturally competent providers. Many of us don’t understand the differences between a co-pay, premium or a deductible. That’s why we need to find a language that relates to everyday lives,” said Wilson, who assumed the presidency for the Wilmington League in 2007. During the forum, topics ranged from the future of the ACA to how blacks can secure 21st century skills for a 21st century workforce. Blacks continue to suffer disproportionately higher rates of serious illness and death when compared with non-Hispanic whites. Blacks are 40 percent more likely to die from breast cancer, 30 percent more likely to die from heart disease, nine times as likely to contract HIV and eight times as likely to die from the disease, based on estimates from a 2014 survey con-
ducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. Chanelle Hardy, senior vice president for policy and executive director of the NUL Washington Bureau, said that while the technology and telecom industry continues as the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. economy, blacks and urban communities must be fully prepared to participate in industry-related jobs. “We’ve placed a priority on several initiatives for 2015 that will include expanding targeted federal programs that link entrepreneurs and the workforce to IT skills and promote relevant resources for small businesses, establishing a federal tax credit program for small businesses that invest in technology to grow their business, and investing in the ability of nonprofit organizations and other institutions to provide low-cost business literacy programs and support,” Hardy said. For the black community, long-term unemployment has reached a critical level. In April
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MIDTERM continued from Page 14 2014, 42.9 percent of unemployed blacks had been out of work for at least six months. And, while the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that between 2012 and 2022, 1.3 million jobs in computer and mathematical occupations will need to be filled from new job growth and replacements, it’s unlikely that black workers will meet that demand. Based on data released from major U.S. tech companies, blacks and Latinos comprise only 2 and 3 percent of the total tech workforce. One former pollster for the Democratic Party said the midterm elections showed that race still matters. “We’re two very different countries racially, and unless we’re having conversations and understanding each side, we can’t move forward,” said Cornell Belcher, who served on President Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns and distinguished himself as the first black to serve as a pollster for either national political party. “Democrats got their behinds whooped in the recent elections, but that was fairly predictable. Historically, about 29 seats are lost in Congress during the second term of a president. But geography also played a role as
many of the Senate races took place in the heart of Republican territory. Midterm elections don’t favor Democratic candidates because those who vote tend to be older and less diverse,” said Belcher, 45. Belcher added that blacks cannot be blamed for what happened in the recent elections. “Blacks voted in this election. What Democrats faced was a lot of controlled narrative about the president’s approval rate. But I’d say that his rate of 44 percent compared to the approval rate of Congress, 13 percent, is still pretty good. Who didn’t vote? Seniors and youth. But what’s most disheartening is that Obama is still scary to white Southerners. We can’t continue to allow the U.S. to be divided by race and class. Not only will it eventually tear us apart, but we’ll fall even further behind countries like China and India,” Belcher added. Henderson said blacks must not allow themselves to be ignored. “Our goal remains the same – full participation in our democratic society,” Henderson said. “We don’t care who is in office. We have to let them know we’re still here and show them that we’re not going to go away.” WI
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When Will the President Help Us? From one House Republican calling him a “liar” to his face to a newspaper article that called the president of the United States of America the N-word, Barack Obama has had to endure tremendous disrespect for a sitting president. How will the legacy of America’s first Black president be rated after he leaves the White House? It will take a broader body of work to make Obama’s tenure a success. Days prior to the November midterms, the president appealed to Black voters to “help a brother out” when he said on the Steve Harvey Morning Show: “I am just hoping everybody comes through because I really want to get a lot of stuff done in these last two years. … I am just hoping everybody who is listening says, ‘We are going to give one last push so the president and the first lady have the opportunities to really use these last two years on our behalf.’” Call me crazy, but it’s time the Obama White House did something for his most loyal supporters. Obama and Co. have the “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative aimed at bolstering the lives of young men of color – a demographic often trapped in cycles of poverty, academic failure and incarceration. Obama’s people said: “We’re going to pull together private philanthropists, foundations [and] work with governors and mayors and churches and nonprofits. And we’re just going to focus on young men of color and find ways in which we can create more pathways to success for them.” In the midterms, Blacks who went to the polls supported Obama surrogates, but more than half the Black electorate evidently wasn’t even sure those elections were taking place. The reason Blacks remain stuck at the bottom in all categories of economics is because of our allegiance politics and core Democratic values. In this land of free market principles and prac-
By William Reed tices, economics is not championed among Blacks because its leadership is intent on keeping voters’ minds on voting. It’s time for Obama and the Black electorate to boss up. Both the president and Black voters need to move past the symbolism and get to the next level. In the two years Obama has left in office, he needs to make a substantive gesture toward helping brothers and sisters out. Instead of having germane talks regarding economics, Black voters negate their own interests when they give Obama’s presidency “favorable” ratings while the Black unemployment rate remains twice that of Whites. Many Whites give the economy under Obama a “thumbs down.” Black and minority businesses have always done better during Republican presidencies than under Democratic ones. The Obama administration has been a total failure when it comes to small and minority business. Under this current administration, the Black and Latino contracting rates with the federal government have decreased 8 and 7 percent, respectively. Small business is the economic engine of the country – creating more than 70 percent of all new jobs across America. Yet Obama rarely engages with the small-business community and has never met exclusively with Blacks in business since he has been in the White House. There are also no minority business people in his inner circle. Since he’s got nothing to lose and a chance for everyone to gain, Obama should address issues affecting Blacks who contract with the U.S. government. Obama won’t be doing anything illegal. The government increased contracting with Black and minority businesses during Richard Nixon’s presi-
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ership skills are instilled in students and where they can be mentored with the expectation of eventually starting their own businesses,” April said. “Blacks in Africa and in the U.S. can do so much more if they refuse to accept mediocrity and support one another.” Jackson said because of the lack of education and high-tech skills in Wards 7 and 8, every victory should be celebrated.
“I know that some of you think we should have enabled more businesses to open their doors, but we’ve committed ourselves not just to re-educate individuals but to make sure there’s a job for them after they’re done with their training. It’s not just one person who moves from unemployment to employment – it’s an entire family that often benefits. WI
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New business opportunities continue to attract investors from around the world to the political center of the U.S. So it should come as no surprise that leaders from one economic development corporation in Southeast have stepped up efforts to bring jobs and money to their community. “Our goal today was to cultivate relationships and to encourage participants from various countries to expand their reach into Southeast Washington, D.C.,” said Stan Jackson, president and CEO of Anacostia Economic Development Corporation. “Anacostia lags behind much of the District and is an economically depressed area. But that’s our past. We’re committed, along with a lot of other business leaders in this community, to bring change, to bring opportunities and to bring more jobs,” said Jackson, a former city government executive who agreed to come out of semi-retirement in 2012 following the death of AEDC’s former president, Butch Hopkins. Jackson and his staff welcomed 35 guests to AEDC’s headquarters on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Southeast on Friday, Nov. 14, to share information about the organization’s history, structure, projects and accomplishments. Twenty-three of the attendees were representatives from other countries chosen to participate in the U.S. Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program.
REED continued from Page 16 dency, but minority contracts have declined under Obama. More than $214 billion in federal funds goes into contracting annually. While he’s still president, Obama has the ability to stipulate that 10 percent of
Anacostia Economic Development Corporation President Stan Jackson addressed a roomful of foreign investors on Friday, Nov. 14, while AEDC Vice President for Business Development William C. Hague Jr. waited for his turn to speak. /Photo by Nancy Shia
Program participants came from countries that included Madagascar, Namibia, the Congo, China, Japan, Greece, Mexico, Uruguay and Saudi Arabia. Their three-week itinerary has enabled them to crisscross the U.S. and visit New York City before their arrival in D.C. late last week. Some have since moved on to the Midwest, while others traveled to California. They will eventually wrap things up in Pensacola and Miami before returning to their native countries. AEDC’s Business Development Center director presented several reasons for investing in Southeast. “Over the past five years, we’ve served 858 clients and helped 26 new businesses open their doors,” said Bill Hague. “And we’ve been able to retain 114 jobs for residents that would have either been eliminated or moved to another part of the District. Because of access to grants and funds from the Treasury Department, this area’s status as a Business Improvement District and with some solid strategic planning on the part of our staff and our partners, investing in this community can be very lucrative.” One leader from Namibia said he would take the knowledge he gained
back to Africa. “Anacostia in many ways reminds me of my own country, where the majority of the people lack the kinds of skills they need to secure jobs that will pay them well,” said Wilfred Isak April, who returned to his native land in 2010 after completing a doctorate in Entrepreneurship in Indigenous Cultures at a New Zealand university. “After visiting AEDC and listening to their leaders and staff members, I am encouraged. Seeing others who look like me, face similar challenges and then who find ways to overcome those obstacles gives me great inspiration. This was a rare opportunity to connect with blacks in America. Most of our exposure has not been that way. The only thing that I would have wanted was to have a chance to get out into the community and talk to other blacks one-on-one,” said April, 33. April started a program for college students in his homeland in 2011 that could serve as a good example for Southeast youth. “After the University of Namibia offered me a position as a lecturer, I co-founded a club that functions as an incubator where academic excellence and entrepreneurial and lead-
government contracts go to minorities. Black-owned businesses need better access to capital and increased contracting opportunities. Patterns established under Republican administrations were that the White House directed all agencies to spend with Black businesses and that aspiring entrepreneurs
were able to get technical help from the Small Business Administration and the Office of Minority Enterprise.WI
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Great American Smokeout Encourages Quitting American Cancer Society Promotes Cessation Day By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer The statistics are sobering, even locally. Approximately 3,700 District high school students smoke or use tobacco products, and last year in Washington, D.C., children under the age of 18 purchased or smoked 1.1 million cigarettes.
“Nine out of 10 smokers tried their first cigarette by age 18,” said Dr. Tim McAfee, the director of the Office on Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. “We must do more to prevent our youth from using tobacco products, or we will see millions of them suffer and die prematurely as adults. Fully imple-
menting proven tobacco control programs would help keep our youth from falling victim to tobacco,” McAfee said. Every year, on the third Thursday of November, smokers across the nation take part in the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout, which officials hope will encourage tobac-
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Approximately 3,700 District high school students smoke or use tobacco products and, last year in Washington, D.C., 1.1 million cigarettes were purchased or smoked by children under the age of 18. /Photo Courtesy of BET
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HEALTH SMOKEOUT continued from Page 18 co users to make a plan to quit or plan in advance and then quit smoking on that day. The Great American Smokeout event challenges individuals to stop using tobacco, and cancer society officials regularly roll out the many tools they said can be used to help smokers quit, such as phoning a friend to help encourage the smoker to stop, writing notes to oneself about how one’s demise as a smoker could affect loved ones, and having full knowledge that tobacco use often shortens one’s life expectancy. “One effective strategy for reducing tobacco use among youth is raising the price,” said Brian King, a senior scientific advisor with CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health. “The Food and Drug Administration’s new youth-focused media campaign, ‘The Real Cost,’ is also expected to lead to reductions in youth tobacco use,” he said. However, officials said more youth still are succumbing to the debilitating habit. A 2013 National Youth Tobacco Survey released on Nov. 13 by the CDC revealed that while youth cigarette smoking continues to decline, electronic cigarette use among high school students tripled from 2011 to 2013, and there has been no progress in reducing youth cigar smoking. Also in 2013, 4.5 percent of high school students reported using e-cigarettes in the past 30 days, triple the 1.5 percent who reported doing so in 2011 and up from 2.8 percent in 2012. The increase comes as e-cigarette makers have marketed their products with the same tactics long used to market regular cigarettes to children, including celebrity endorsements, slick TV and magazine ads, sponsorships of race cars and concerts, and sweet flavors such as gummy bear and cotton candy, a spokesman with the Northwest nonprofit Tobacco Free Kids said. There has been no progress in reducing youth cigar smoking in recent years. In 2013, 11.9 percent of high school students nationally said they smoked cigars as compared with 11.6 percent in 2011. In 2013, high school boys smoked cigars at higher rates than cigarettes – 15.4 percent vs. 14.1 percent – while African-American
high school students smoked cigars at much higher rates than cigarettes – 14.7 percent vs. 9 percent. Because cigars are unregulated, are often taxed at lower rates than cigarettes and can be sold individually, tobacco companies have been able to market an array of cheap, sweet cigars that appeal to youth, officials said.
“These findings underscore the urgent need for the Food and Drug Administration to finalize its proposed rule to regulate all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and cigars, in order to prevent youth use of these products,” said Peter Hamm of Tobacco Free Kids. “We again call on the FDA to issue a final rule by April 25,
2015, one year after the FDA issued a proposed rule, and to close gaps in the rule by cracking down on marketing and flavors that appeal to kids,” Hamm said. The FDA first announced in early 2011 that it planned to regulate e-cigarettes, cigars and other unregulated tobacco products, so these important public health protections are long overdue, he
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of disease and premature death in the United States. Still, about 42 million Americans smoke cigarettes, which amounts to just less than one in every five adults, several health officials said.
Also, as of two years ago, the United States had an estimated 13.4 million cigar smokers and 2.3 million who smoke tobacco using pipes and other tobacco ingestion tools. CDC officials said smoking
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Southeast. EdFEST connects parents and families with more than 180 of the District’s traditional public and public charter schools. The result is a free, one-stop shop for parents looking for the school they believe will offer the best education for their children. “EdFEST is a unique opportunity for families to meet staff from schools across the city,” Bhat said. “The My School DC team will be on hand to answer questions about the lottery. While the focus is on public school options, there will also be a range of other activities
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EDFEST continued from Page 20 and services available, including free flu shots for adults and sports and story time for children.” Last year, the event attracted close to 3,000 parents; this year, Bhat expects to draw as many as 5,000 families. One parent said she benefited greatly by attending last year’s citywide education fair. “My husband was in D.C. for a job while I was still in California and with two children to enroll in school, and without a common lottery at the time, we wound up filling out 24 applications – it was a big headache,” said Erika Harrell, whose family now lives in Northeast. “We decided to attend the EdFEST, and not only was it great fun for our children, but we were able to survey different schools, pick up helpful material and ask the hard questions that are necessary. We wanted a public charter school for our boys, and with the lottery, we only had to complete one application for each of our sons. We were able to make an informed decision,” said Harrell, 32. Harrell said she has since become a member of the Parent Advisory Council – a volunteer group of parents from around the District who provide input to My School DC on the application and lottery process. “We discuss the new website,
the lottery and offer suggestions on how to make the entire process more parent-friendly,” she said. “When parents are fully engaged, they can make better choices in terms of schools for their children,” said Harrell, whose boys attend school in Ward 5. The My School DC common lottery serves as a single, random lottery that determines placement for new students at all participating schools. Student-school matches are based on the number of spaces at each school, siblings, proximity and other lottery preferences. Because only one application must be completed, the process for families has become much simpler. Parents can begin to apply for up to 12 schools per child online on Monday, Dec. 15, through Feb. 2 for grades nine12 and through March 2 for grades PK3-8. Go to www.apply.myschooldc.dc.gov for the application. The event will include exhibitors from close to 200 public schools, as well as District government agencies, education nonprofits and corporate partners. “My children had so much fun last year – there were grab bags with stickers, balloons, school supplies and candy,” Harrell said. “And when my husband and I needed to focus our attention on meeting with representatives from different schools, there was a room with
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“Over the years, poll after poll has shown that African-American and Latino citizens support all forms of educational choice. Indeed, with the school dropout rates in those communities hovering around 50 percent and with the achievement gap between kids of color and their white counterparts remaining virtually unchanged, parents are clamoring for as many quality options as they can get – including publicly funded scholarships to allow their children to go to good private schools.” – Kevin Chavous
School Choice Emerging as a Go-To Issue for African-American Voters With each election, political experts can look at various voting patterns by certain groups to determine which issues are important to those groups. For instance, among African-American voters, it is clear that issues such as jobs, quality housing, affordable health care and education consistently are the most significant. As it relates to education, more and more African-American voters are embracing educational choice and are voting for candidates who identify themselves as school choice supporters. Nowhere is that more evident than in the recent governor’s race in Florida. Republican Gov. Rick Scott was elected in 2010 with just 6 percent of the Afri-
can-American vote. During his first term, he did not do much to improve his standing among Florida’s African-American electorate – other than steadfastly support the highly popular Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program. Under this program, which serves mostly low-income African-American and Latino students, 70,000 children are able to attend a quality private school, which is often far better than the traditional public school in their neighborhoods. While Scott was in the midst of campaigning for re-election against former Gov. Charlie Crist, labor unions filed a lawsuit to dismantle the program. Democrat Crist, who once supported the program, supported
the unions’ attempt to shut it down. In October, the Rev. H. K. Matthews, who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, publicly pleaded with Crist to denounce the effort. And he made his arguments in terms that harkened the civil rights struggles of the 60s, when
blacks first moved from the Republican Party to the Democrats. “The truth is that wealthy children have always had choices, whether to neighborhoods with favored public schools or private schools that only money can buy,” Matthews wrote in an oped. “The union cries foul when that privilege is extended to those of meager financial means.” He was joined in his opposition by a coalition of black ministers in the state. The scholarship program became a huge issue in the Florida governor’s race. When the votes were counted, not only did Gov. Scott get re-elected, but he also doubled his level of African-American support from 6 percent in 2010 to 12 percent in 2014. That increase gave him the margin he needed to beat former Gov. Crist. Over the years, poll after poll has shown that African-American and Latino citizens support all forms of educational choice. Indeed, with the school dropout rates in those communities hovering around 50 percent and with the achievement gap between
kids of color and their white counterparts remaining virtually unchanged, parents are clamoring for as many quality options as they can get – including publicly funded scholarships to allow their children to go to good private schools. In the past, we have seen those parents support Democrats like New Jersey’s Cory Booker, California’s Diane Feinstein and a host of state and local Democrats around the nation who have bucked the teachers unions by supporting educational choice. Florida’s recent governor’s race shows us, however, that those same parents are willing to vote for candidates who embrace those quality choice options, be they Democrat or Republican. As we move closer to the 2016 presidential race, Democrats would be wise to learn from Florida – and join the parents that they serve.WI Kevin Chavous is senior advisor and executive counsel for the American Federation for Children and co-founder of Democrats for Education Reform.
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In Search of Equality
One of the iconic images coming out of the civil rights movement was one of a column of solemn black men holding large black and white signs which read: I AM A MAN. These men and millions of other unknown African-Americans served as foot soldiers in a decades-long effort to confront, fight and slay Jim Crow and a pervasive Apartheid-style system that consigned black people to the bottom of society in most areas that mattered. In 2014, residents of Ferguson, Missouri, have come to symbolize an important aspect of the modern-day civil rights struggle in “post-racial” America. Following the police killing of 18-year-old unarmed Michael Brown in August and decades of police harassment and a particularly exploitive political and court system, activist residents have said, “Enough is enough.” Demonstrations and marches demanding justice and decrying state-sanctioned murders and abuse have continued since Brown’s killing, and now the city is poised on a knife edge of tension as everyone waits for a grand jury verdict in the case. The fear now is that a not-guilty verdict will lead to blood in the streets. From the time that Officer Darren Wilson gunned down Brown, the response of Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson, State Attorney Bob McCulloch and Gov. Jay Nixon has been to add salt to the wound and inflame the anger and frustration of residents. Since the time Brown’s body hit the pavement, police sources have been leaking information favorable to Wilson and damaging to Brown’s reputation. Last Tuesday, Nixon scolded residents, warning them he will tolerate no hint of violence when the grand jury verdict is handed down. He’s mobilized more than 1,000 police officers with more than 5,000 hours of specialized training to head off the expected looting and unrest. Wilson will likely be absolved of killing Brown, which will prompt a predicable public response, but the verdict won’t be the end but just the continuation of the long walk to freedom.
We Salute You
During slavery, learning to read was punishable by death, and slave owners and protectors of slavery ensured that enslaved Africans were denied education. For successive generations of African-Americans, education became the Holy Grail because of its ability to level the playing field and open doors to opportunities often denied. On Nov. 11, News Corp. named DC-CAP’s President and CEO Argelia Rodriguez a Murdoch Community Hero in recognition of her leadership and the DC College Access Program (DC-CAP)’s creative and innovative curriculum. For 15 years, DC-CAP has served as a conduit for young people wanting to go to college but who lacked the means to do so. DCCAP is a private, nonprofit organization, which since 1999 has focused on helping all D.C. students prepare for, enroll in, and graduate from college. To date, DC-CAP has helped more than 21,000 students enroll in college, currently supports more than 6,500 in college through its retention division, has awarded more than $31 million in scholarships, and continues to celebrate the success of more than 6,000 college graduates who otherwise never would have had the opportunity for higher education. Rodriguez isn’t the only beneficiary of News Corp. and media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s largesse. Eight DC-CAP high school seniors were recently named 2014 Murdoch Scholars. They’ll each receive $60,000 four-year college scholarships from a $500,000 News Corp grant. The young men are members of DC-CAP’s Alpha Leadership Program, which helps African-American and Latino young men improve academic achievement and increase the possibility that they’ll graduate from high school and be socially and academically prepared to enroll in and graduate from college. We salute Rodriguez and the wonderful job DC-CAP has done under her leadership for the students and our community.We also say “Great Job” to the students. Keep up the good work.
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We Salute Our Veterans!
Thank you for the front-page photograph and article about the Black Veterans’ “America Celebrates Its Heroes” by Avis Thomas-Lester [November 13, 2014 edition]. As a Vietnam Veteran who was drafted into the U.S. Army after high school, I know firsthand of the hardships a lot of us as African-Americans faced while serving. I remember seeing the Confederate flag flown in the base camp when I arrived in Vietnam, a warm reminder that we may not be in America, but the same old racist stuff was still with us. But we served anyway and a lot of us died fighting for a democratic system of government in Vietnam, and then we had to return home to fight for our civil rights in America. The sad thing about it is that it hasn’t changed. Young black men are still proudly serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, but they are still being shot down, for little or nothing at all, right here in America. I am proud to be a veteran, and yes, proud to be an American, but when we see veterans being honored it’s always white veterans. Maybe the mainstream media outlets think it sells to see white picket fences and American Flags flying from porches, The Washington Informer
but that’s not where all veterans come from. America needs to realize that there were many who served and continue to serve this country in its military, from all races and backgrounds. Rodney Haywood Washington, D.C.
A Superb Accomplishment!
The Washington Informer: 50 years old; Industrial Bank: 80 years old, and both black owned. This is really something special. A newspaper that has brought and continues to bring positive news to the community for 50 years, and a bank, yes, a real bank that lends money, where you can get mortgages, buy a car, and save money, right here in our community for our community for 80 years. I really enjoyed reading D. Kevin McNeir’s article, “Industrial Bank Thanks Supporters,” [November 13, 2014]; it sounded like there was a good time had by all at the party. But after reading the article my mind went to the fact that two black-owned businesses have survived for more than 50 years should be a teaching moment for our young people. I’m a loyal reader of William Reed’s column in The Informer, and he is always writing about
the lack of Black economic power. Well, The Informer and Industrial Bank are prime examples of economic power right here in our own back yard. We should be parading these two institutions in front of our young people to show them that owning and operating a business is not something foreign, but it can be something real if they have a dream and are willing to work hard to accomplish it. So, congratulations Industrial Bank for 80 years and I hope there are 80 times 80 more in your future. Judy Lawson Washington, D.C.
A Little Magic Might Help
Washington, D.C. is a city bustling with national and world politics, a great social scene and an abundance of places to worship on Sunday mornings. But when it comes to affordable housing, convenient street parking – and witnesses – the ball is continuously dropped. Maybe the new mayor can come in and perform some magic that will prove to benefit visitors and residents alike. Let’s hope for the best! Oscar Cunningham Chevy Chase, Maryland Nov 20 - Nov 26, 2014
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By Marc H. Morial
Loretta Lynch is the Right Choice for Attorney General “Mr. President…I pledge to show to you and the American people that if I have the honor of being confirmed by the Senate, I will wake up every morning with the protection of the American people my first thought. And I will work every day to safeguard our citizens, our liberties, our rights, and this great nation which has given so much to me and my family.” Loretta Lynch on Nov. 8 upon
nomination by President Obama to be America’s next attorney general I had the honor of visiting the White House for President Obama’s announcement of his choice to succeed Eric Holder, who recently declared his decision to retire, as attorney general of the United States. It had been rumored for days that Loretta Lynch, who currently heads the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, had risen to the top of the president’s list. While the timing
of the announcement, just four days after the power-shifting midterm elections, may have surprised many, it also confirmed the president’s commitment to seamlessly uphold the civil rights protections and criminal justice reforms that have been so fiercely advocated by Holder. Lynch, who would be the nation’s first African-American woman attorney general, has served more than15 years as a prosecutor in the office that covers 8 million people in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long
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Island, N.Y. The Senate unanimously confirmed her to lead the U.S. Attorney’s office on two separate occasions – once under President Clinton and more recently under Obama. She has an outstanding record of successful prosecutions, including the terrorists who plotted to bomb the Federal Reserve Bank and the New York subway system, some of New York’s most violent and notorious mobsters and gang members, and corrupt public officials from both parties. She has also
won a number of Wall Street financial fraud cases. In 1999, she famously prosecuted one of the most egregious cases of police brutality in New York City history, the beating and sexual assault of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. In nominating Lynch, Obama said, “It is pretty hard to be more qualified for this job than Loretta. Throughout her 30-year career, she has distinguished herself as tough, as fair, an indepen-
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By Lee A. Daniels
Midterm Election Lies and Consequences One source of the widespread losses the Democratic Party suffered this month in the midterm elections can be traced to the Ebola crisis that began claiming numerous victims across the U.S. last month—a crisis many attributed to the managerial incompetence of President Obama for not preventing the disease’s appearance in the country. You ask: What victims? What
Ebola crisis? Exactly. On Nov. 11, seven days after Election Day, the last Ebola patient in the U.S., Dr. Craig Spencer, who had caught the disease while treating victims in West Africa, left the special Ebola treatment facility at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital – completely Ebola-free – to be greeted with hugs and praise for his altruism by Mayor Bill De Blasio and a host of city officials. Eight of the nine people who came down
with the Ebola virus on American soil have recovered. The only fatality was Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian national, struck down by the disease only after he entered the country. The latest proof that the lethal Ebola virus is not a threat to the American public was greeted with deafening silence from Republican officialdom, the conservative echo chamber and their mainstream media allies, who had ginned up the Ebola “crisis” with the-sky-is-falling
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exaggerations, half-truths and outright lies. Nonetheless, it had well served its purpose as a scare tactic to bash the president and the Democrats. Of course, there were several other reasons the Democrats were so deserted by white voters in the congressional midterms, most especially the wage stagnation that has hammered the financial well-being of middle- and lower-wage workers alike. Then, too, numerous Democratic candidates’
decision to run away from the president and fudge exactly what they stood for didn’t help them, either. But the Ebola-crisis-that-wasn’t provides a dramatic example of what has been the GOP’s central response these last six years to the Obama presidency: lying. Remember the “death panels” that conservatives back in 2009 said were a central feature of the
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By George E. Curry
Sweet Home Alabama It’s been almost 50 years since I lived in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. I go back from time to time, but not much since Mama moved to Cleveland about 35 years ago and later to Augusta, Georgia. Except for a couple of cousins, all of my relatives have either died or moved away. My youngest sister, Susan Gandy, lives in Tuskegee, Alabama. My other sisters, Charlotte Purvis and Chris Polk, live in Durham,
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North Carolina, and the Oakland, California, area. Many close family friends such as Mrs. Dorothy Smith and Mrs. Emma Henderson, two longtime neighbors from my McKenzie Court housing project days, are deceased. A growing number of my Druid High classmates – James Calvin Brown, Reginald Henderson, Peter Boyd and most recently, Ronald Thompson and Estella Robertson Carter – are no longer with us. I returned home to give three speeches last Friday – at Central
High School, the University of Alabama and Christian Community Church. Though exhausting, my whirlwind tour of my hometown provided me with fresh insight on how much Tuscaloosa has – and hasn’t – changed since I graduated from Druid High School in 1965. The first notable sign of change was that the Tuscaloosa News published a story on my upcoming speech at the church. Growing up, the only way to get coverage in the Tuscaloosa News was to play sports, be an The Washington Informer
entertainer or, heaven forbid, commit a crime. When I began my career as a journalist, I could get a job as a reporter for Sports Illustrated but not with my hometown paper because it did not hire African-Americans. But that has changed for the better. Another change for the better was supposedly the desegregation of Tuscaloosa public schools. But it was not always for the better. My education at allblack Druid High school was on par with, if not better, than that provided by Tuscaloosa High,
our all-white crosstown counterpart. That notwithstanding, both high schools were demolished in the name of desegregation. Druid was replaced with a new building that became a middle school, and Tuscaloosa High was replaced by Central High, another new structure. The plan was that whites and blacks would attend middle school and high school together. The reality is that didn’t last for long. That became clear when I
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Loretta Lynch Deserves a Swift Confirmation African-American women were excited about President Obama’s nomination of Loretta Lynch to replace Eric Holder as attorney general of the United States. Since she has sailed through two Senate confirmations, her current confirmation ought to move quickly and without controversy. But Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Tenn.) and his crowd seem to want to drag the process along, insisting on
their “right” to question Loretta Lynch and to make a spectacle of this confirmation. There are dozens of vacancies in the ambassadorial ranks, among others, because Republicans have blocked Senate consideration of these appointments. Many Republican senators keep saying they want to work with the administration. One way to show it is to move some of the appointments out of gridlock. Lynch would be the first African-American woman to hold the position. This history-mak-
ing nomination should not be tarnished by partisan nonsense. If Republicans are really trying to reach out to the African-American community, conducting a non-hostile hearing this year would signal their willingness to “do the right thing” by African-Americans. Obama is entitled to his choice for attorney general. She has been fully vetted by the White House and has an exemplary record trying cases that range from police brutality to corporate fraud. This is a piece of cake for the wom-
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an nominated attorney general. Why would the Senate not choose to confirm this woman? Simply to flex its partisan muscles and flaunt power? I might remind the Senate of the mobilization of black women when Alexis Herman had a rocky road in her confirmation for secretary of labor in President Bill Clinton’s second term. Prominent African-American women, including Dorothy Height and C. Delores Tucker, rallied their supporters. The message: Don’t mess with Alexis.
The foundation of another mobilization is present, and opposition to the highly qualified Lynch sends a signal to African-American women and to others that this is a hostile Senate. This is not new information, but is the kind of information that repels many from the Republican Party. Maybe Republicans don’t care. Maybe, after their November rout, they feel no need to play nice with the president or with
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By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
The Legacy of Marcus Garvey This year marks the 100 anniversary of the founding of the United Negro Improvement Association by the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey. I believe it is important for all people, especially for 45 million black Americans, to remember the leadership and legacy of Marcus Garvey. At this time across America, in the Caribbean, and in Africa, black people are facing both the prolonged realities of multiple
inequalities and new opportunities to strive forward on a global scale. Our long struggle for freedom, justice and equality has had many different twists and turns. Historically, we have always found ways not to permit the forces of oppression to break our spirit or determination to achieve liberation. During the last century, black Americans witnessed and supported the establishment of numerous local, national and international organizations. The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People was founded in 1909. The National Urban League was established a year later. Garvey started the UNIA in 1914 to instill racial pride and economic self-sufficiency for black people in America and throughout the Pan African world. Garvey supported complete independence of Africa and the unity of African people internationally. Though he seldom receives credit for it, Garvey organized the largest mass movement of black people in the world.
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One-hundred years later, no one else has been able to match that feat. This is the perfect time to remind everyone Marcus Garvey’s accomplishments, primarily because there is a significant opportunity once again for black people in America, the Caribbean and in Africa to unite around issues concerning economic development and self-sufficiency as a result of Pan African consciousness. The strategic international emergence of the African Union in Africa that recognizes the inclusion of black American
leaders is an important advance. In addition, Congressman Charles H. Rangel (D-N.Y.) plans to reintroduce a bill to officially restore the good name of Garvey in the United States. We should support Rangel’s legislative initiative to clear Garvey of the framed-up charges that led President Calvin Coolidge in 1927 to order Garvey to be deported and permanently banned from the U.S. In fact, all of us should con-
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By Askia Muhammad
The NAACP Owes an Apology to Black Republicans It’s not a secret that there’s no love lost between the Republican Party and myself. I can count the Republicans I really liked all on one hand. There’s Abraham Lincoln, there’s Jack Kemp, there’s Arthur Fletcher and there’s Sam Cornelius. That just about fills out the list for me. President Lincoln is kind of a “no brainer” for a list of favorite Republicans from a Black guy like me. Former Congress-
man and former HUD Secretary Kemp was a moderate fellow who served in the administration of President George H.W. Bush, Bush 41. He was also an NFL quarterback for a dozen years, so he learned, before he got into politics, how to get along with and on equal terms with Black folks. Now Arthur Fletcher was a Black Republican who invented the federal government’s first “affirmative action” program as a top official in Richard Nixon’s Labor Department. His nick-
name was “Mr. Republican.” His philosophy about his party and his nation is certainly valid today, although few modern Republicans give it a second thought. There would come a time, Fletcher would often declare, when the country and his party would need “all hands on deck,” that is, the full-throated, enthusiastic participation of every American in order to overcome this country’s enormous challenges. Sadly, with the “Citizens United” decision weighing the political balance heavily in favor
of money over people, too many Americans – especially Republicans – believe that money even trumps patriotism. Wrong! And Sam Cornelius, who left us just this year, was a Reagan HUD appointee who was a dear, dear friend of grassroots Black folks in Washington. For years he served as Chairman of the Board of the United Black Fund, which was founded by Washington Informer founder Dr. Calvin Rolark and gives generously to needy organizations that make a difference in the lives of count-
less Washingtonians. Those Republicans are sort of consensus picks as “Black-friendly” GOP members. But there is a new brand of Republican these days – even New Breed Black Republicans – that seems to despise everything I hold dear. There’s Justice Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court, who seems to want to punish all Black folks who could benefit from an extra “helping hand” from the rest of society
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Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series Panel no. 1 “During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans,” 1940-41. Casein tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18 in. Acquired 1942. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Funds Sought to Showcase Jacob Lawrence Work, Acclaimed Artist Interviews to be Featured
The late Jacob Lawrence, was one of the most acclaimed artists of the 20th century. His work and final interviews will be featured at the Phillips Collection in Northwest. /Photo courtesy of biography.com Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series Panel no. 11 “Food had doubled in price because of the war,” 1940-41. Casein tempera on hardboard, 18 x 12 in. Acquired 1942. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
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Officials at the Phillips Collection in Northwest have detailed its plans to develop a robust micro site featuring the works and previously unpublished interviews between pre-eminent American artist Jacob Lawrence and museum curators, including one conducted just prior to the acclaimed artist’s death 14 years ago. The micro site promises to provide audiences with unprecedented insight by chronicling the powerful history and contemporary context of migration through the lens of Lawrence’s epic masterwork, said curator Elsa Smithgall. It will be launched to coincide with the co-organized exhibition, “Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series,” that will be presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2015 and at the Phillips Collection in Northwest in 2016. “To this day, ‘The Migration Series’ resonates with the American experience with themes of struggle, freedom, and the search for a better life,” Smithgall said. “This micro site is an invaluable resource, featuring archival photographs and literary, theatrical, and contemporary migration narratives that situate ‘The Migration Series’ within the dynamic cultural context of its time.” Through a number of in-depth initiatives conducted over several decades, officials at the Phillips Collection have gained deeper insight into the career and life of Lawrence. “There’s always a resurgence of interest in Jacob Lawrence, and that’s the test for any artist when people are willing to come back and revisit their work,” said Marta Reid Stewart, founding chair of the museum studies department at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Northwest. “Not only did he have a serial format, but he included a written narrative that explained what the viewer was seeing in the paintings, and to take something like ‘The Great Migration’ and have that today as a reference point when you’re teaching is just a phenomenal tool,” said Stewart, a graduate of Howard and George Washington universities, who has worked as a curator and educator for the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the National Museum of African Art and the Phillips Collection, where she served as an intern with a focus on Lawrence’s work. Stewart said Lawrence had the ability to paint anything as it existed in reality. Yet she said he chose the use of color, shape and movement to provide a dynamic message about American history. She said the micro site project should thrill the art world. Micro site users will be able to enjoy works that include segments of the museum’s never-before-published video interviews with the artist along with high-resolution images with See
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Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series Panel no. 3 “From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north.” 1940-41. Casein tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18 in. Acquired 1942. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
text explaining each work and an examination of the life and times of Lawrence through archival photographs, sound clips, and videos of musical or theatrical performances and historical events, Smithgall said. The project will cost $125,000 in production, licensing fees, and site maintenance, and officials said thanks to a few generous donors, 60 percent of those costs have already been obtained. To raise the remaining money, curators have launched an Indiegogo, a crowd funding campaign, in hopes of achieving the $125,000 goal. By logging onto www.indiegogo.com and selecting “Jacob Lawrence micro site,” anyone can make a contribution. “He’s one of those whose vision was clearly identified with just one brush stroke,” said Patricia Armstrong, an independent art instructor who lives in Northeast. “I think to highlight his work and to be able to hear his interviews with curators is an amazing, eye-opening event that anyone who’s familiar with the world of art will not want such an opportunity to slip by,” said Armstrong, 61. Born in New Jersey but raised in Harlem, Lawrence earned the distinction of being the most widely acclaimed African-American artist of the 20th century. Known for producing narrative collections like “The Migration Series” and the “War Series,” Lawrence brought the African-American experience to life using blacks and minorities juxtaposed with vivid colors. He also taught and worked for 15 years as a professor at the University of Washington, according to his biography. Introduced to art as a teen, Lawrence attended classes at the Harlem Art Workshop with artist Charles Aston, and he frequently visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1937, Lawrence won a scholarship to the American Artists School in New York. When he graduated in 1939, he received funding from the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, and by then he had already developed his own style of modernism. He also he began creating narrative series, many with 30 or more paintings of
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one subject. He completed his best-known series, “Migration of the Negro,” or simply “The Migration Series,” in 1941. Edith Halpert’s Downtown Gallery in New York exhibited “The Migration Series” in 1942, making Lawrence the first African-American to join the gallery. At the outbreak of World War II, Lawrence received notice that he’d been drafted into the United States Coast Guard. After being briefly stationed in Florida and then in Massachusetts, he received an assignment to be the Coast Guard artist aboard a troopship, documenting the experience of war around the world. He produced 48 paintings during that time, all of which have been lost. However, when his tour of duty ended, Lawrence received a Guggenheim Fellowship and painted his “War Series.” In addition to teaching, he spent much of his life painting commissions, producing limited-edition prints to help fund nonprofits like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Legal Defense Fund, the Children’s Defense Fund and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Lawrence also painted murals for the Harold Washington Center in Chicago, the University of Washington and Howard University, as well as a 72-foot mural for New York City’s Times Square subway station. Lawrence painted until just a few weeks before he died, on June 9, 2000, at the age of 82. “His work is groundbreaking. The narrative artist who decided to tell the story of American history through his art using the series format, and he often addressed the trials and tribulations that came out of the American experience,” Stewart said. “On a personal note – and I’ve met him and he’s worked with my students – he was the quintessential human being. Even temperament, extremely talented and someone so nice to share his experiences with young ones,” she said.WI The crowd funding campaign for the project ends on Wednesday, Dec. 10. For more information about Jacob Lawrence or the Phillips Collection, visit www.phillipscollection.org. The Washington Informer
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D.C. Residents Defend Cosby Comedian Under Fire for Past Allegations By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Sandra Meyers said she still feeds her 6-, 8- and 11-year-old children Jell-O pudding. Ameena Patrick has watched “The Cosby Show” probably 200 times, and she still enjoys Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable and his family as much today as she did 30 years ago. “What Bill Cosby brought to television cannot be taken away
from him, and it can’t be taken away from black America,” said Patrick, 51, who lives in Northeast. Meyers, 43, who lives in Southeast, agreed. “The media builds you up only to tear you down, especially if you’re a black man who has made the kind of impact that Bill Cosby has,” Meyers said. “I still eat Jell-O pudding pops with my
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Comedian and actor Bill Cosby has come under fire for allegedly sexually abusing several women over the course of four decades. The star of the iconic TV series, “The Cosby Show,” has refused to acknowledge the allegations but he did settle at least one law suit stemming from the claims. /Photo courtesy of TVweek.com
Christmas Celebration 2014 Evangel Multi-Media & Arts Center in Upper Marlboro, MD returns with the most spectacular and popular full-scale holiday musical ever, “Christmas Celebration 2014.” This year’s extravaganza features gospel music’s biggest and brightest stars including, Yolanda Adams, Donnie McClurkin, Marvin Sapp, Tamela Mann, Erica Campbell, James Fortune and Zacardi Cortez. With only twelve performances, December 6th through the 21th, this is a “must see” Christmas favorite that you don’t want to leave off your to-do-list list this year. In its 24th season, “Christmas Celebration 2014” for two and a half hours, you will be enthralled by 10 scenes of Christmas taking you back in time to the Victorian era, modern-day, and biblical times. CC2014 will be transformed as the birth, crucifixion and resurrection of Christ comes to life on stage. You will be swept away as beautiful camels, sheep, llama, horses, dogs and goats parade the isles and set the tone for a surreal nativity scene. This production is filled with non-stop excitement including a fascinating light show, innovative DL2 technology and other special effects that illuminate a cast of over 200 men, women and children. The lively and spirited dance scenes, dramatic imagery and phenomenal singing will have you clapping, laughing and talking back to the performers. This holiday classic has been entertaining audiences of all ages and is slated to attract over 25,000 ticketgoers. Evangel’s 140,000 square foot facility and world-class theater comfort make every moment enjoyable, every view memorable and the high-tech audio system brings the stage to you. This is truly an event for the entire family. An event of this magnitude may never happen again. You don’t want to miss this!!!”
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Legendary comedian Bill Cosby has been booted from the Queen Latifah and David Letterman shows because of the controversy surrounding rape allegations against him. /Photo Courtesy of Huffingtonpost.com
COSBY continued from Page 30 kids,” she said of one of Cosby’s favorite snacks. The legendary comedian who came to be known as “America’s favorite TV dad” has come under fire for past allegations of rape. Two women appeared on CNN earlier this month to rehash stories of Cosby’s alleged transgressions. Another woman appeared on Monday, Nov. 17, to say Cosby raped her in 1969. Queen Latifah, David Letterman and others reportedly canceled appearances by Cosby on their talk shows because of the allegations, and a recent interview featuring the comedian on National Public Radio also gained notoriety because Cosby refused to answer a question about the allegations. Reps for Cosby have declined to comment. However, while the scandal has made international news and continues to be fodder for comedians and the tabloids, local fans of the actor remain by his side. “None of the [allegations] have been proven in court,” said Rashawn Hooks of Southeast. “I don’t think Cosby should dignify these things with a response, and shame on Queen Latifah because if there were no Bill Cosby, there wouldn’t be a Queen Latifah,” said Hooks, 37. One of Cosby’s accusers, Barbara Bowman published an opinion-editorial in The Washington Post on Thursday, Nov.
13. Bowman, whom the New York Daily News reported as being in her mid-40s, alleged that Cosby assaulted her at age 17. “(He) brainwashed me into viewing him as a father figure and then assaulted me multiple times,” she wrote, noting at the time of the alleged assault, she held hopes of being an actress. One of the incidents allegedly took place at Cosby’s home in New York, in which Bowman said she “blacked out after having dinner and one glass of wine. “When I came to, I was in my [underwear] and a man’s T-shirt, and Cosby was looming over me,” Bowman said. “I’m certain now that he drugged and raped me.” She noted that Cosby’s popular public persona, especially his starring role as all-American father Cliff Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” made it very difficult to speak out against him, although she didn’t keep completely silent in the intervening years. Bowman said that when another of Cosby’s alleged victims named Andrea Constandt filed a suit against Cosby in 2004, she became determined to take the stand to testify against him, but the case was settled out of court. She also shared her story with various publications, most recently in a Newsweek interview last year. “Still, my complaint didn’t seem to take hold,” Bowman said. “Only after a man, Hannibal Buress, called Bill Cosby a
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LIFESTYLE COSBY continued from Page 31 rapist in a comedy act last month did the public outcry begin in earnest.” Bowman said while she’s grateful for the renewed interest, she also has a lot of questions. “Why wasn’t I believed?” she said. “Why didn’t I get the same reaction of shock and revulsion when I originally reported it? Why was I, a victim of sexual assault, further wronged by victim blaming when I came forward? “The women victimized by Bill Cosby have been talking about his crimes for more than a decade. Why didn’t our stories go viral?” Bowman, an artist and mother who now resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, said that she’s speaking out again, calling for revisions in the statute of limitations for
crimes related to sexual assault. “Famous and wealthy perpetrators use their power to shame and silence their victims,” Bowman said. “It often takes years for young women to overcome those feelings and gain the confidence to come forward, by which point physical evidence is long gone. Our legal system shouldn’t silence them a second time.” Still, Hooks, Patrick and Meyers are among the many District residents who said they aren’t jumping to any conclusions on Cosby. “He’s never been arrested. He’s never been charged,” Hooks said. “Just because someone says he did something, doesn’t mean that he did, and the only thing we do have to go on is all of the good [Cosby’s] done, which is enough for me.” WI
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TAURUS What you say and what you do are in harmony this week. The importance of your idea(s) comes through very clearly to others. They can see that you walk what you talk. Communicate your ideas through your values. Soul Affirmation: I give thanks for the goodness in people. Lucky Numbers: 6, 11, 18 GEMINI If you feel as if the vibes this week are mixed at best, make up your mind to only receive the positive ones. Tune the transmitter in your soul to life, and give your spiritual persona a workout. You are in charge of who you are. Soul Affirmation: I see myself as a finisher rather than a starter this week. Lucky Numbers: 7, 34, 40
by Chris Farrell, c. 2014, Bloomsbury $26.00 / $30.00 Canada 256 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer For much of your employed life, you dreamed about not having to work. Retirement would be great. It would stretch out for years, a horizon with no alarm clock and no deadlines. What will you do with it? Chances are, says author Chris Farrell, believe it or not, you’ll go to work. And in his new book “Unretirement,” he says you’ll do it because you want to, not because you have to. It’s a statistic that has some politicians very worried: Within the next 15 years, say demographers, the 65-plus population of America will be nearly equivalent to the current populations of New York, California, and Texas combined. That’s a lot of retirees and a fortune paid out in benefits. For quite some time, though, economists and pessimists have expressed doubts that Social Security will even be around then. Others bemoan the amount of retirement savings that many baby boomers (the age group retired or soon retiring) don’t have. According to Farrell, however, these fears ignore the fact that most boomers are re-thinking the way retirement will work for them. He says that boomers’ “last third of life is being re-imagined and reinvented into ‘unretirement.’” They are, for instance, looking at Social Security as a supplement rather than a sole income, and even then, they’re putting off collecting it. That’s the way it should be, says Farrell. Social Security is sound – it only needs “some tweaks
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to shore up its finances for the long haul” – but because of longer lifespans and better health, retirees should be encouraged to file later unless they absolutely can’t wait. And those late filers? They’re seeing work in a whole different way: The rate of senior entrepreneurship is up, and so is gradual retirement. They’re staying on the job longer, are finding second (or even third) careers, or are volunteering. And, although age discrimination can be a real issue, many workplaces have finally recognized the experience and reliability of older workers who are, in many instances, perfectly happy with part-time jobs. In short, boomers have been “behind many changes in the workplace over the past four decades,” and they’re definitely not done. Your IRA is fat, and you like it that way. But how, when the time comes, will you use it? Read “Unretirement,” and you might have a different answer to that question. With intriguing statistics and a thoughtful tone, author Chris Farrell pooh-poohs pundits who decry the viability of Social Security and avow the belief that retirement-resistant seniors take jobs from younger workers by showing that doom-and-gloom prophesies and myths aren’t warranted or true. Along the way, he examines health care and the Affordable Care Act, aging, home ownership, mentorship with (and from) younger workers, the history of retirement itself, and how other countries perceive their “gray revolution.” While I’d say that this book is absolutely for boomers, it’s also surprisingly something that Gen X’ers should check out, too. If you’ve already retired, are about to, or have worked all your life so that you don’t have to work someday, “Unretirement” is unmissable.WI
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Michele Roberts Takes Over NBA Union Former District Lawyer Prepares for Battle with Owners By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Michele A. Roberts has started her new job as the executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, and the former District public defender immediately set the tone for what’s sure to be contentious collective bargaining with National Basketball Association owners. “There would be no money if not for the players. Let’s call it what it is. There would be no money,” said Roberts, once referred to as “the finest pure trial lawyer in Washington.” “Thirty more owners can come in, and nothing will change. These guys, the players go? The game will change, so let’s stop pretending,” she said. Roberts told ESPN the Magazine that she’s adamantly opposed to a salary cap, which has been in place in the NBA since 1984. She said she’s preparing the league’s players for what could either be a lockout imposed by the owners or a strike by LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony and the rest of the players when the current collective bargaining agreement expires in 2017. Roberts 58, who becomes the first woman to ever lead a North American sports union, grew up in the Bronx, New York. She earned a bachelor of arts degree from Wesleyan University in Connecticut and a juris doctorate from the University of California Berkeley in 1980 before landing a job as a public defender in the District. Over the past three years, she’s worked for the prestigious firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, which is located in Northwest. Known throughout the legal world as an outstanding trial attorney, Roberts has been named by Washingtonian magazine as the finest pure trial lawyer in the District. The publication also praised her for her ability to connect with jurors. “It’s not hard if you start with respecting the jury,” she told Washingtonian in 2011. “You become a juror. They’re reasonable, and they’re smart. And they’re honest. Don’t B.S.
them. Don’t think you can avoid answering. You can’t ignore bad evidence. You can’t talk down to them. You can’t impress them with fancy language. You have to speak to them honestly and simply,” Roberts said. Her mentor, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree Jr., told USA Today that Roberts, a Wizards season ticket holder, likes to express her opinion. “Her background is in negotiation, it’s in changing minds and it’s in listening ability, and all of those skills will be very important to the union,” said Ogletree, 61. “People will have a chance to see a woman who is well-prepared, willing to push for what’s right and has the ability to understand what it means for the long haul.” In gearing up for her battle with Commissioner Adam Silver and the league’s 30 owners, Roberts has made it clear that the NBA-imposed salary cap, which precludes team owners from spending above a certain amount on player salaries, must be done away with. The current cap limits each team to about $58.6 million in salaries, and that’s expected to increase to $87 million after the 2016 season. Also, the league and its players evenly split basketball-related income, and the NBA, already coming off of a $930 million television deal, recently inked a new deal that will fill its coffers to the tune of $24 billion over the next nine years. It’s those numbers that have fueled Roberts’ desire to rid the league of a salary cap. “I don’t know of any space other than the world of sports where there’s this notion that we will artificially deflate what someone’s able to make, just because,” she said. “It’s incredibly un-American. My DNA is offended by it.” Silver countered that the salary cap does not violate U.S. law because, rather than teams competing with each other, the league finds itself competing with other forms of entertainment. “We couldn’t disagree more with [Roberts’] statements,” Silver said. “The NBA’s success is based on the collective efforts and
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investments of all of the team owners, the thousands of employees at our teams and arenas, and our extraordinarily talented players,” he said. “No single group could accomplish this on its own. Nor is there anything unusual or un-American in a unionized industry to have a collective system for paying employees. In fact, that’s the norm.” Still, those from New York City to the District have been put on notice that, in Roberts, there’s a new sheriff in town, and she’s arrived with guns a blazing. “No one wants to say it out loud, but it’s a monopoly,” Roberts said. “And were there alternatives, they wouldn’t get away with it. I’ll give the league credit; they have done a great job controlling the narrative.”WI
“Her background is in negotiation, it’s in changing minds and it’s in listening ability and all of those skills will be very important to the union. People will have a chance to see a woman who is well-prepared, willing to push for what’s right and has the ability to understand what it means for the long haul.” – Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree Jr. Michele A. Roberts has assumed the helm as executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, and she’s come out swinging against the league’s salary cap. /Photo courtesy of USA Today
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The lyrics from an Otis Redding song titled “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” resonated within my spirit this week. When that happens, I can assure you it’s the Lord leading, guiding and inspiring me for my upcoming column. Let’s talk about how so many of us are complacent, just watching the tide roll in and out, wasting time. We have no plans, nothing ever changes, we’re just watching the tide roll in and out, and we’re wasting valuable time. Let’s look at what the lyrics say: “Sittin’ in the mornin’ sun; I’ll be sittin’ when the evenin’ come. Watchin’ the ships roll in, and I’ll watch ‘em roll away again. Yeah, I’m sittin’ on the dock of the bay. Watchin’ the tide roll away. Ooh, I’m just sittin’ on the dock of the bay, wastin’ time. I left my home in Georgia; headed for the Frisco Bay. I have nothing to live for. Look like nothing’s gonna come my way. So I’m just gonna sit on the dock of the bay, watchin’ the tide roll away. I’m sittin’ on the dock of the bay, wastin’ time.” And he continues to talk negatively. “Looks like nothin’s gonna change. Everythin’ still remains the same. I can’t do what 10 people tell me to do, so I guess I’ll remain the same. Yes, sittin’ here restin’ my bones. And this loneliness won’t leave me alone. Yes, 2,000 miles I roam, just to make this dock my home.” “Now I’m just sittin’ on the dock of the bay. Watchin’ the tide roll away. Ooh, sittin’ on the dock of the bay. Wastin’ time.” This song was recorded by
Redding days before his death on December 10, 1967. In August 1967, four months before he died, Redding started writing the lyrics to the song while on a rented houseboat in Sausalito, California. He completed the song with the help of Stax recording company producer Steve Cropper, who was also the guitarist in the funk group Booker T. & The MGs. The song incorporates soundtracks of seagull whistles and waves crashing on a shore. Tragically, just three days after Redding and his band made the final refinements to the song, Redding, five of his band members and the pilot died in a plane crash in Lake Monona, Wisconsin. The sole survivor turned out to be the trumpet player in his band. “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” was released after his death, becoming the first single in the U.S. released posthumously to top the Billboard music charts. What’s my point? Redding talks about 10 people telling him what to do, and since he can’t do what they are all suggesting, he chooses to do nothing, except sit on the dock of the San Francisco Bay and waste time, watching the tides roll out and come back in again. Remember time is valuable and you cannot get it back – once it’s gone. It’s as if he was sending a message to anybody listening who was not utilizing time wisely. He certainly made the most of his time. In 2008, Rolling Stone
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magazine listed Redding among the top 10 greatest singers of all time. Was he speaking to you? We should do the Lord’s work, not what all of the people in our lives are telling us to do. I’m suggesting that you be about your Father’s business, like Jesus Christ. Luke 2:49 says: “And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” Let nothing separate you from the love of Jesus and the things He is doing in your life. Stop wasting time, and make the most of your time.WI Lyndia Grant is an author, inspirational and motivational speaker, radio talk show host and columnist. Visit her new website at www.lyndiagrant.com or call 202-518-3192. Tune in Fridays at 6 p.m. for her show, “Think on These Things,” on WYCB 1340 AM, a Radio One station.
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Campbell AME Church Reverend Daryl K. Kearney, Pastor 2562 MLK Jr. Ave., S E Washington, DC 20020 Adm. Office 202-678-2263 Email:Campbell@mycame.org Sunday Worship Service 10: am Sunday Church School 8: 45 am Bible Study Wednesday 12:00 Noon Wednesday 7:00 pm Thursday 7: pm “Reaching Up To Reach Out” Mailing Address Campbell AME Church 2502 Stanton Road SE Washington, DC 20020
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Isle of Patmos Baptist Church Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews • Senior Pastor 1200 Isle of Patmos Plaza, Northeast Washington, DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-6767 Fax: (202) 526-1661
Rev. Dr. Alton W. Jordan, Pastor 800 I Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 202-548-0707 Fax No. 202-548-0703
Rev. Dr. Michael E. Bell, Sr., • Pastor 2498 Alabama Ave., SE • Washington D.C. 20020 Office: (202) 889-7296 Fax: (202) 889-2198 • www.acamec.org 2008: The Year of New Beginnings “Expect the Extraordinary” Sunday Worship Services: 8:00a.m. and 11:00a.m. Sunday Church School - 9:15a.m. & Sunday Adult Forum Bible Study - 10:30a.m. 2nd & 4th Monday Women’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m. Tuesday Jr./Sr. Bible Study - 10:00a.m. Tuesday Topical Bible Study - 6:30p.m. Tuesday New Beginnings Bible Study - 6:30p.m. Wednesday Pastoral Bible Study - 6:30p.m. Wednesday Children’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m. Thursday Men’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m. Friday before 1st Sunday Praise & Worship Service - 6:30p.m. Saturday Adult Bible Study - 10:00a.m.
Sunday Morning Worship 11:00am Holy Communion – 1st Sunday Sunday School-9:45am Men’s Monday Bible Study – 7:00pm Wednesday Night Bible Study – 7:00pm Women’s Ministry Bible Study 3rd Friday -7:00pm Computer Classes- Announced Family and Marital Counseling by appointment E-mail: Crusadersbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.CrusadersBaptistChurch.org
“The Amazing, Awesome, Audacious Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church”
“God is Love”
Third Street Church of God
Sunday Worship Services: 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Holy Communion: 2nd Sunday at 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday Church School: 9:20 a.m. Seniors Bible Study: Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. Noon Day Prayer Service: Tuesdays at Noon Bible Study: Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Motto: “A Ministry of Reconciliation Where Everybody is Somebody!” Website: http://isleofpatmosbc.org Church Email: ipbcsecretary@verizon.net
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
Rev. Cheryl J. Sanders, Th.D. Senior Pastor 1204 Third Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 202.347.5889 office 202.638.1803 fax
Sunday Worship Service: 8 AM and 10:45 AM Sunday Youth Worship Services: 1st & 4th 10:45 AM; 804 R.I. Ave., NE 5th 8 AM & 10:45 AM; Main Church Prayer Services Tuesday – Noon, Wednesday 6 AM & 6:30 PM Calvary Bible Institute: Year-Round Contact Church Communion Every 3rd Sunday The Church in The Hood that will do you Good! www.gmchc.org emailus@gmchc.org
Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. Prayer Meeting and Bible Study: Wed. 7:30 p.m. “Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital” www.thirdstreet.org
ST Marks Baptist Come Worship with us... St. Mark's Baptist Church 624 Underwood Street, NW Washington, dc 20011 Dr. Raymond T. Matthews, Pastor and First Lady Marcia Matthews Sunday School 9:am Worship Service 10:am Wed. Noon Day prayer service Thur. Prayer service 6:45 pm Thur. Bible Study 7:15 pm
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Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor Service and Times Sunday Worship Service 11:00 a.m. Communion every Sunday 11:00 a.m. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Bible Study Tuesday 12Noon Pastor’s Bible Study Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Motto; “Discover Something Wonderful.” Website: 12thscc.org Email: Twelfthstcc@aol.com
Mount Carmel Baptist Church
52 Years of Expert Engraving Services
Joseph N. Evans, Ph.D Senior Pastor 901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423 Sunday Church School : 9: 30am Sunday Morning Worship: 10: 45am Bible Study Tuesday: 6: 00pm Prayer Service Tuesday: 7:00pm Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday 10: 45am themcbc.org
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All Nations Baptist Church
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Rev. Dr. James Coleman Pastor 2001 North Capitol St, N.E. • Washington, DC 20002 Phone (202) 832-9591
Website: www.allnationsbaptistchurch.com All Nations Baptist Church – A Church of Standards
“Where Jesus is the King”
Israel Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor
4850 Blagdon Ave, NW • Washington D.C 20011 Phone (202) 722-4940 • Fax (202) 291-3773
1251 Saratoga Ave., NE Washington, DC 20018 (202) 269-0288
Sunday Worship Service 10:15AM- Praise and Worship Services Sunday School 9:00am Monday: Noon Bible School Wednesday: Noon & 7PM: Pastor’s Bible Study Ordinance of Baptism 2nd Holy Communion 4th Sunday Mission Zion Baptist Church Shall; Enlist Sinners, Educate Students, Empower the Suffering, Encourage the Saints, and Exalt Our Savior. (Acts 2:41-47) www.zionbaptistchurchdc.org
Dr. Lucius M. Dalton, Senior Pastor 1636 East Capitol Street, NE Washington, DC 20003 Telephone: 202-544-5588 Fax: 202-544-2964 Sunday Worship Services: 7:45 am and 10:45 am Holy Communion: 1st Sundays at 7:45 am and 10:45 am Sunday School: 9:30 am Prayer & Praise Service: Tuesdays at 12 noon and 6:30 pm Bible Study: Tuesdays at 1 pm and 7 pm Youth Bible Study: Fridays at 7 pm
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Rehoboth Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor Worshiping Location Knights of Columbus - 1633 Tucker Road Fort Washington, MD 20744 (240) 838-7074 Order of Services Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 am Sunday School: 9:00 am Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer / Bible Study: 6:15 pm - 7:20 pm (Tuesday)
Salem Baptist Church
Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor
Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert SR. Pastor
623 Florida Ave.. NW • WDC. 20001 Church (202) 667-3409 • Study (202) 265-0836 Home Study (301) 464-8211 • Fax (202) 483-4009
4504 Gault Place, N.E. Washington, D.C 20019 202-397-7775 – 7184
Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 a.m. Sunday Church School: 8:45 – 9:45 a.m. Holy Communion: Every First Sunday Intercessory Prayer: Monday – 7:00-8:00 p.m. Pastor’s Bible Study: Wednesday –7:45 p.m. Midweek Prayer: Wednesday – 7:00 p.m. Noonday Prayer Every Thursday
9:30AM. Sunday Church School 11:00 Am. Sunday Worship Service The Lord’s Supper 1st Sunday Wednesday 7:00pm Prayer & Praise Services 7:30pm. Bible Study Saturday before 4th Sunday Men, Women, Youth Discipleship Ministries 10:30am A Christ Centered Church htubc@comcast.net
Matthews Memorial Baptist Church
2616 MLK Ave., SE • Washington, DC 20020 Office 202-889-3709 • Fax 202-678-3304
Kelechi Ajieren Coordinator
Early Worship Service 7:30a.m Worship Service 10:45a.m. New Members Class 9:30a.m. Holy Communion : 1st Sunday -10:45a.m Church School 9:30a.m. Prayer, Praise and Bible Study: Wednesday 7p.m Bible Study : Saturday: 11a.m. Baptism: 4th Sunday – 10:45a.m “Empowered to love and Challenged to Lead a Multitude of Souls to Christ”
Sunday Worship Service 10:00 A.M.
New Commandment Baptist Church Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor 13701 Old Jericho Park Road Bowie, MD. 20720 (301) 262-0560 Services: Sunday Worship 11 AM Sunday School 10 AM Wednesday Mid-Week Worship, Prayer & Bible Study - Wed. 7 PM “A Church Where Love Is Essential and Praise is Intentional”
Shiloh Baptist Church
Peace Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Michael T. Bell 712 18th Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Phone 202-399-3450/ Fax 202-398-8836 Sunday Morning Worship Service 7:15 am & 10:50 am Sunday School 9:30am Sunday Morning Worship Service 10:50am Wednesday Prayer & Testimonies Service 7:30pm Wednesday School of the Bible 8:00pm Wednesday - Midweek Prayer Service 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm “The Loving Church of the living lord “ Email Address pbcexec@verizon.net
First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Rev. Alonzo Hart Pastor
Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor
Rev. Reginald M. Green, Sr., Interim Pastor
621 Alabama Avenue, S.E. • Washington, D.C. 20032 P: (202) 561-1111 F: (202) 561-1112
917 N St. NW • Washington, DC 20001 (202) 232-4294
9th & P Street, N.W. • W. D.C. 20001 (202) 232-4200
602 N Street NW • Washington, D.C. 20001 Office:(202) 289-4480 Fax: (202) 289-4595
The Church Where GOD Is Working.... And We Are Working With GOD
Sunrise Prayer Services - Sunday 7:00 a.m.
Sunday Morning Prayer Service: 8:00 a.m. Sunday Church School: 9:15 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship: 10:40 a.m. Third Sunday Baptismal & Holy Communion:10:30 a.m. Tuesday Church At Study Prayer & Praise: 6:30 p.m.
Morning Worship: 8:00 a.m Church School : 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship: 10:55 a.m. Bible Study, Thursday: 6:30 p.m. Prayer Meeting,Thursday : 7:30 p.m.
Theme: “The Kingdom Focused Church” Matthew 6:33 and Mathew 28:18-20, KJV
Sunday Service: 10 am Sunday School for all ages: 8:30 am 1st Sunday Baptism: 10: am 2nd Sunday Holy Communion: 10 am Tuesday: Bible Study: 6:30 pm Prayer Meeting: 7:45 pm
Email: stmatthewsbaptist@msn.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.org
Motto: : “Where God is First and Where Friendly People Worship”
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Apostolic in Doctrine, Pentecostal in Experience, Holiness in Living, Uncompromised and Unchanged. The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42
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Holy Trinity United Baptist Church
5606 Marlboro Pike District Heights, MD 20747 301-735-6005
Prayer/Seeking Wednesday at 8:00 P.M.
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Florida Avenue Baptist Church
6839 Eastern Avenue, R1 Takoma Park, MD 20912 (202) 556-7065
Communion and Feet Wash 4th Sunday at 5:00 P.M
Web: www.mountmoriahchurch.org Email: mtmoriah@mountmoriahchurch.org
St. Matthews Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Clinton W. Austin Pastor 2409 Ainger Pl.,SE – WDC 20020 (202) 678-0884 – Office (202) 678-0885 – Fax “Come Grow With Us and Establish a Blessed Family” Sunday Worship 7:30am & 10:45am Baptism/Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Family Bible Study Tuesdays – 6:30pm Prayer Service Tuesdays – 8:00pm www.emmanuelbaptistchurchdc.org
Sunday Apostolic Worship Services 11:00 A.M and 5:00 P.M
Prayer Service: Wednesday at 6:30 P.M. Bible Study: Wednesday at 7:00 P.M.
Mount Moriah Baptist Church
Emmanuel Baptist Church
Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith
Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 A.M. Sunday School: 8:30 A.M. Holy Communion1st Sunday: 10:00 A.M.
St. Luke Baptist Church
Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. Sunday School: 9:15 a.m. Holy Communion: 11:00 a.m., 3rd Sun. Bible Institute Wednesday - 1:30 pm Prayer Meeting Wednesday - 12:00 Noon
2324 Ontario Road, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 232-1730 Sunday School – 9:30 am Sunday Worship Service – 11:00 am Baptismal Service – 1st Sunday – 9:30 am Holy Communion – 1st Sunday – 11:00 am Prayer Meeting & Bible Study – Wednesday -7:30 pm
Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor
1415 Gallatin Street, NW Washington, DC 20011-3851 P: (202) 726-5940
Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor
Sunday Church School – 9:30 AM Sunday Worship Service – 11:00 AM Holy Communion – 1st Sunday at 11:00 AM Prayer – Wednesdays, 6:00 PM Bible Study – Wednesdays, 7:00 PM Christian Education School of Biblical Knowledge Saturdays, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM, Call for Registration
Zion Baptist Church
Rev. Aubrey C. Lewis Pastor
King Emmanuel Baptist Church
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Sunday Worship Services: 7:45am & 11:00am Sunday school For All Ages 9:30am Prayer Services Wednesday 11:30am & 6:45pm Bible Institute Wednesday at Noon & 7:45pm “Changing Lives On Purpose “ Email: Froffice@firstrising.org Website: www.firstrising.org
Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 P.M. Friday Evening Service 7:00 P.M. ; Last Friday “…Giving Your Life a Meaning” www.Christembassydc.org Christ.embassy.dc@hotmail.com
Pennsylvania Ave. Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Kendrick E. Curry Pastor 3000 Pennsylvania Ave.. S.E Washington, DC 20020 202 581-1500 Sunday Church School: 9:30 A.M. Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 A.M. Monday Adult Bible Study: 7:00 P.M. Wednesday Youth & Adult Activities: 6:30 P.M. Prayer Service Bible Study
Mt. Horeb Baptist Church Rev. Dr. H. B. Sampson, III Pastor 2914 Bladensburg Road, NE Wash., DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-3180 Fax: (202) 529-7738 Order of Services Worship Service: 7:30 a.m. Sunday School: 9:00 a.m. Worship Service: 10:30 a.m. Holy Communion: 4th Sunday 7:30 a.m. & 10:30a.m. Prayer Services: Tuesday 7:30 p.m. Wednesday 12 Noon Email:mthoreb@mthoreb.org Website:www.mthoreb.org For further information, please contact me at (202) 529-3180.
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Clifton Jerome Jackson
Katie M. Taylor
Viola Johnson
Decedent
Decedent
Decedent
Foreign No. 2014 FEP 140
Administration No. 2014 ADM 1166 Ella H. Davis
May 11, 2007
Decedent
Date of Death Stephanie Rones, Esq. Evonne P. Lyles
1850 I Street, NW, Suite 500
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Name of Decedent
Washington, DC 20006
AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Clifton Jerome Bailey, whose address is 8500 Weimar
Nyya Taylor, whose address is 1358 Constitution Avenue,
Steven Johnson, whose address is 730 50th Street,
Ct., Clinton, MD 20735, was appointed Personal
NE, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed Personal
NE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal
Representative of the estate of Clifton Jerome Jackson,
Representative of the estate of Katie M. Taylor, who died
Representative of the estate of Viola Johnson, who died on
Phyllis Davis, whose address is 2024 Monroe Street,
who died on March 24, 2014 without a Will, and will
on August 29, 2014 without a Will, and will serve without
October 14, 2013 without a Will, and will serve without
Morrison Dr., Greenbelt, MD 20770 was appointed
NE, Washington, DC 20018, was appointed Personal
serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and
Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose
Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose
personal representative of the estate of Evonne P. Lyles,
Representative of the estate of Ella H. Davis, who died
heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their
whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance
whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance
deceased, by the Orphans Court for Charles County, State
on August 1, 2014 without a Will, and will serve without
appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such
in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall
in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall
appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills,
be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street,
be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street,
D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor
N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001,
N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001,
Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before May 6, 2015.
on or before May 6, 2015. Claims against the decedent
on or before May 6, 2015. Claims against the decedent
Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the
shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the
shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the
Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Joyce Gibson whose address is 7228
of Maryland, on December 27, 2007.
Service of process may be made upon
Osborne Lake, 2907 M Street, SE, Washington, DC 20019 whose designation as District of Columbia agent
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001,
has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C.
on or before May 13, 2015. Claims against the decedent
undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed
Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with
Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with
shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the
with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned,
a copy to the undersigned, on or before May 6, 2015,
a copy to the undersigned, on or before May 6, 2015,
of Columbia real property: 1/5 owner: 330 36th Street,
Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a
on or before May 6, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons
or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or
or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or
NE, Washington, DC 20019.
copy to the undersigned, on or before May 13, 2015,
believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do
legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this
legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this
or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or
not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days
notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall
notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall
of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills,
so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address
so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address
including name, address and relationship.
and relationship.
and relationship.
Date of first publication:
Date of first publication:
Date of first publication:
November 6, 2014
November 6, 2014
November 6, 2014
Clifton Jerome Bailey
Nyya Taylor
Steven Johnson
Personal Representative
Personal Representative
Personal Representative
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The decedent owned the following District
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
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.
from the date of first publication of this notice. Date of first publication: Date of first publication:
November 13, 2014
November 6, 2014 Phyllis Davis Personal Representative
Joyce Gibson Personal Representative
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Trust No. 2014 NRT 33
Washington, D.C. 20001-2131
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Fannie Johnson Name of Deceased Settlor
Foreign No. 2014 FEP 141
Administration No. 2014 ADM 1037
Administration No. 2014 ADM 1158
Administration No. 2014 ADM 1159
NOTICE OF EXISTENCE OF REVOCABLE TRUST
Joyce J. Jenkins
Betty J. Snowden aka Betty Jean Snowden
Decedent
Decedent
Peter D. Anotonoplos, Esq. 1725 DeSales Street, NW, Suite 600
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Washington, DC 20036
AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Vanessa Renee Jenkins, whose address is 2413 Valley
Donna Gambrell, whose address is 532 F Street Terrace, SE, Washington, DC 20003, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Betty J. Snowden aka Betty Jean Snowden, who died on July 10, 2014 with a Will,
Way, Cheverly, MD 20785, was appointed Personal
and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown
Representative of the estate of Joyce J. Jenkins, who
heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall
died on September 19, 2014 with a Will, and will
enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to
serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and
such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will)
heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their
shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th
appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001,
Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before May 13, 2015. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a
on or before May 13, 2015. Claims against the decedent
copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of
shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the
Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before May
Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a
13, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be
copy to the undersigned, on or before May 13, 2015,
heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive
or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or
a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first
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.
publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.
Date of first publication:
Date of first publication:
November 13, 2014
November 13, 2014 Donna Gambrell Vanessa Renee Jenkins Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY
Fannie Johnson whose address was 3814 4th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011 created a revocable trust on June 27, 2008, which remained in existence on the date of her death on September 3, 2014, and Michele R. Henderson, whose address is 11683 Fountainhead Court, Waldorf, MD 20602, is the currently acting trustee, hereinafter the Trustee. Communications to the Trust should be mailed or directed to David C. Harty, Esq. at 9900 E. Greenbelt Road, Unit 125, Lanham, MD 20706. The Trust is subject to claims of the deceased settlor’s creditors, costs of administration of the settlor’s estate, the expense of the deceased settlor’s funeral and disposal of remains, and stautory 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 May 6, 2015 (6 month 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) September 3, 2015, (One year from date of death of deceased settler) (2), May 6, 2015 (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 trust 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 within 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).
September 13, 2013 Date of Death Wilhelmena Ware aka Wilhelmena Boyd Ware Name of Decedent
REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS
whose address is 2800 Second Street, SE, Washington, DC 20032 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Wilhelmena Ware aka Wilhelmena Boyd Ware, deceased, by the Circuit Court for Flagler County, State of Florida, Probate Division, on May 9, 2014.
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Jacqueline Jones Moore, whose address is 7605 14th St., NW, Washington, DC 20012, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Willie Jane Washington, who died on November 23, 2003 with a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall
DC 20032 whose designation as District of Columbia
be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street,
agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C.
N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001,
on or before May 6 2015. Claims against the decedent
The decedent owned the following District
of Columbia real property: 3029 Clinton Street, NE,
shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the
Washington, DC 20018.
Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with
The decedent owned District of Columbia
personal property. 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
a copy to the undersigned, on or before May 6, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.
from the date of first publication of this notice. Date of first publication: Date of first publication:
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Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer
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Maxine B. Grant, 2800 Second Street, SE, Washington,
Maxine B. Grant
Register of Wills
Washington, DC 20012
Maxine B. Grant aka Maxine Grant
Signature of Trustee: Michele R. Henderson
Register of Wills
7605 14th St, NW
AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Personal Representative
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Jacqueline Jones Moore
Attorney
November 6, 2014
Anne Meister
Decedent
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL
Date of First Publication: November 6, 2014
Anne Meister
Willie Jane Washington
November 6 2014 Jacqueline Jones Moore Personal Representative
Personal Representative Anne Meister
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Administration No. 2014 ADM 902 Larry Charles Burks Decedent
Fred Ronald Carpenter Decedent Peter D. Antonoplos, Esq.
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1725 DeSales Street, NW, Suite 600
AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Washington, DC 20036 Attorney
Toni Sherrial Burks, whose address is 4438 B St., SE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Larry Charles Burks, who died on April 11, 2014 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS
August 5, 2013 Date of Death
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Michelle Douglas and Denise A. Douglas-
Romy McClure, whose address is 1011 Eton Way,
Lassiter whose addresses are 9109 Cooper Drive, Fort
Neptune, NJ 07753, was appointed Personal
Washington, MD 20744 and 9118 Friar Road, Fort
Representative of the estate of Fred Ronald Carpenter,
Washington, MD 20744 were appointed personal
appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such
who died on August 22, 2008 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs
representatives of the estate of Lona Ann Douglas,
appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor
and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter
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 20, 2015, or be forever barred.
appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before May 20, 2015. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed
deceased, by the Orphans Court for Prince Georges County, State of Maryland, on September 30, 2014.
Service of process may be made upon
Lisa Harris, 201 Q Street, NE #3437, Washington, DC 20002 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C.
The decedent owned the following District
with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned,
who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25
on or before May 20, 2015, or be forever barred.
Washington, DC 20010.
days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of
Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent
Wills, including name, address and relationship.
who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25
personal property. Claims against the decedent may be
days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of
presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register
Wills, including name, address and relationship.
of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW,
November 20, 2014 Toni Sherrial Burks Personal Representative
Romy McClure
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Register of Wills
from the date of first publication of this notice.
November 20, 2014
Personal Representative
Anne Meister
The decedent owned District of Columbia
Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months Date of first publication:
Anne Meister Register of Wills
Date of first publication: November 20, 2014 Michelle Douglas Denise A. Douglas-Lassiter Personal Representative Anne Meister Register of Wills
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Probate Division
Probate Division
Washington, D.C. 20001-2131
Washington, D.C. 20001-2131
Administration No. 2014 ADM 1041
Administration No. 2014 ADM 147
Esther Robinson aka Esther Yvonne Robinson aka Esther
James E. Washington aka James Edward Washington
Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014 ADM 1135 LaRue C. Hill aka LaRue Clay Hill Decedent Johnny M. Howard, Houston & Howard 1001 Connecticut Ave., NW, Ste. 402 Washington, DC 20036
Y. Robinson Decedent J. Lynwood Younger, 417805 2419 First Street South, Suite 100 Arlington, VA 22204 Attorney
Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Michelle H. Wynne, whose address is 2 Hutchinson
AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Shearine M. Sawyer and Alvonne Robinson, whose addresses are 901 Elder Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011 & 415 Nicholson Street, NW, Washington, DC
Ct., Silver Spring, MD 20906, was appointed Personal
20011, were appointed Personal Representatives of the
Representative of the estate of LaRue C. Hill aka LaRue
estate of Easther Robinson aka Esther Yvonne Robinson
Clay Hill, who died on August 10, 2014 without a Will,
aka Esther Y. Robinson, who died on August 17, 2014
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
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,
Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor
D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor
Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before May 6, 2015.
Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before May 20, 2015.
Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the
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 6, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do
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 20, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25
not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days
days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of
of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills,
Wills, including name, address and relationship.
including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication: November 6, 2014
Date of first publication:
Decedent James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Jacqueline Cheryl Washington, whose address is 2780 Unicorn Lane, NW, Washington, DC 20015, was E. Washington aka James Edward Washington, who died on March 29, 2013 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before May 20, 2015. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before May 20, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication: November 20, 2014 Jacqueline Cheryl Washington Personal Representative
Alvonne Robinson Michelle H. Wynne
Personal Representative
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Anne Meister
Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills
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MORIAL continued from Page 26 dent lawyer who has twice headed the most prominent offices in the country. She has spent years in the trenches as a prosecutor, aggressively fighting terrorism, financial fraud, cyber-crime, all while vigorously defending civil rights.” A native of Greensboro, North Carolina, the daughter of a Baptist minister and the granddaughter of a pastor/sharecropper, Lynch has dedication to protecting civil rights and ensur-
DANIELS continued from Page 26 proposed Affordable Care Act? Remember the widespread conservative claims in August and September 2009 that the speech President Obama was going to make to the nation’s school children via a national in-school broadcast was actually a nefarious plan to “indoctrinate” them in “socialist” precepts? Remember that more than a third of Republicans still believe President Obama was born outside the U.S. and that another 20 percent believe he’s the agent of a global socialist-Muslim conspiracy to destroy the U.S.? Black Americans – who throughout most of American history have struggled against the lies the white majority told against them and accepted about them – should be well aware that the panoply of lies the GOP has been depending on has had and will continue to have enormous consequences for America’s present and future. There’s another phrase one can use as a synonym for the GOP’s anti-Obama stratagem: “maximum ideological polarization.” Those words come from a former Republican representative who used them to describe
CURRY continued from Page 26 entered Central High on Friday, the first time I had set foot in the building. If you had placed a blindfold on me and lifted it once I was inside, I would have thought I was back at Druid. The “integrated” school was virtually all black. Whites have done what most whites who can afford it do: They pulled their students out of desegregated public schools and enrolled them in majority-white private or parochial schools. But Tuscaloosa is no different from the rest of the South. As
ing equal justice as part of her DNA. Her background and experiences also inform her commitment to common sense criminal justice reforms designed to make our system smarter and fairer. She remembers as a child riding on her father’s shoulders to student anti-segregation boycott meetings at his church. She also recalls her sharecropper grandfather lamenting, “In rural North Carolina in the 1930s, if you were poor and Black and got in trouble with the law, you had very little recourse.” As a law-
yer and U.S. attorney, Lynch has been guided by an unshakeable belief that, as she states, “Justice is only served when people feel protected by their government rather than targeted.” Those are the values we look for most in the People’s Lawyer. We urge the Senate to confirm Loretta Lynch as the next United States attorney general without delay.WI
the obstructionist stance of the GOP during the Clinton presidency. Its elements then were a rigid refusal to compromise, extreme partisanship in the Congress, and the use of brazen lies and conservative money and interest groups to keep the GOP base in a state of rage. Sound familiar? Consider the lies the U.S. Supreme Court used to further narrow affirmative action for people of color, to destroy the crucial provision of the Voting Rights Acts of 1965 in order to help the GOP diminish the strength of Democratic-leaning voting blocs, and in the “Hobby Lobby” case to give GOP-supporting Christian conservatives a means of discriminating against gays and lesbians, “uppity” women and any others they deem unworthy. As those decisions indicate, the court’s conservative majority has increasingly functioned as the GOP’s allies – providing increasingly ratty legal “fictions” as they rubber-stamp GOP wishes. Thus, it’s no surprise that three days after the elections, the court suddenly declared it would review the latest legal challenge to Obamacare that had been rejected by a lower federal court. That brazen act drew an extraor-
dinary opinion column from Linda Greenhouse, the leading Supreme Court journalist of our era. Writing on the Nov. 12 New York Times op-ed page, Greenhouse characterized the court’s taking up King v Burwell as a “decision to enlist in the latest effort to destroy the Affordable Care Act.” She went to say, “This is a naked power grab by conservative justices who two years ago just missed killing [Obamacare] in its cradle, before it took effect.” She closed with chilling – but properly justified – words: “In decades of court-watching, I have struggled … to maintain the belief that the Supreme Court really is a court and not just a collection of politicians in robes. [Now], I’ve found myself struggling against the impulse to say two words: I surrender.”WI
the Civil Rights Project at UCLA reported, “The reality is that segregation has been increasing since l990, for almost a quarter century, and that today black students are substantially more segregated than they were in l970. The direction of change, however, suggests that things will continue to worsen.” Like Ole Miss and the University of Georgia, the University of Alabama was desegregated under pressure from the federal government. I had just completed the 10th grade at Druid when Gov. George C. Wallace made his famous “Stand in the School-
house Door” on June 11, 1963, to prevent the enrollment of two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood. That day will be forever etched in my memory. After objecting to what he called “the unwelcomed, unwanted, unwarranted and force-induced intrusion upon the campus of the University of Alabama,” Wallace was forced to step aside and allow the students to enroll. When I spoke to a class on race and gender at the university, black and white students interacted openly and comfortably. One white student spoke fondly
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of her close friendship with her black roommate, and others described how the university had made it easier for them to meet new friends who did not look like them. I smiled contently as they relayed their stories, happy that real progress had been made in my hometown. Over lunch, however, I was brought back to reality. A university professor relayed that black students told him of being called the N-word every day on campus. Every day. On one hand, ‘Bama represented what seemed like unimaginable racial progress. On closer inspection, nothing has fundamentally changed – except the cosmetics – from the bad old days. At my evening speech at the Community Christian Church, except for two whites, the audience
was all black. That was two whites more than I expected. Tuscaloosa, like the rest of America, remains mostly segregated. Whether it was interacting with high school pupils, talking with students at the University of Alabama or the community, not that much has really changed in Sweet Home Alabama once you look beyond the surface.WI George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service. He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. Curry can be reached through his website, www. georgecurry.com. You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge and George E. Curry Fan Page on Facebook. Nov 20 - Nov 26, 2014
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MALVEAUX continued from Page 27 the people who didn’t support them. Memo to Republicans – two years from now you will have to defend your record. What will your vote on the Lynch confirmation say about you and your party? Republicans were the winners in the 2014 elections, but in some cases they didn’t win by much (neither did Democrats). The electorate is divided and angry enough to simply stay home. Both par-
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CHAVIS continued from Page 27 tact members of Congress, especially member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and let them know of our support of the Rangel ill. Beyond that, our young people should be encouraged to study the organizational methods of Garveyism. There are so many young leaders in our communities who could be inspired by tenacious views of
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ties need to activate their bases so that more people are excited about participating in elections. Low voter turnout signals “none of the above.” There is no African-American woman in the Senate, and there are precious few in the House of Representatives. Undoubtedly, these women will speak up for Lynch, perhaps walking from the House offices to the Senate as they did in support of Anita Hill. The confirmation of Lynch is likely to be a watershed moment for the Senate. Will it act
simply because he – Clarence Thomas – was himself a beneficiary of extraordinary assistance like affirmative action admission to college and law school and his appointment to the Supreme Court. But this year is remarkable, because for the first time there are three – count them, three – Black Republican members who will serve in the 114th Congress at the same time. Those are Reconstruction-era numbers. There’s Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, an affable, intelligent favorite of the tea party who was first appointed by his state’s governor and who won his own full term this year. The first Black senator elected from the South since Reconstruction. There’s also former Saratoga Springs, Utah, Mayor Mia The Washington Informer
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Garvey. I was fortunate recently to spend some time with the son of Marcus Garvey, Dr. Julius Garvey, recently at the ninth annual Caribbean Business Conference in Nassau, Bahamas. The younger Garvey is an accomplished surgeon and leading medical scientist who now resides in New York. We discussed the public and legislative campaign to render justice to the name and legacy of his
father. We do not have to repeat the past. But we should certainly learn from our past so that we can change the future to help transform our world into a better place for all.WI
Love, who won an open seat she sought but lost in 2012. And there is Will Hurd, a youthful, former CIA operative who defeated a Democratic incumbent this year in Texas. Pretty impressive, huh? But the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was not at all impressed. That led to an appearance by the Republican National Committee’s Raffi Williams on Fox TV (where else?), where he attacked the oldest civil rights organizations in the country because it didn’t release a statement praising the GOP victors. Now I realize it might be a tough pill to swallow in applauding three tea party-supported Black Republicans, but I would think that to be true to the legacy of the NAACP, the least it could do would be to say they are proud of the accomplishments of these congressional leaders and then just wait for
them to do the kinds of things in office you might expect from right-wing extremists but then condemn them for that. After all, the organization is not the National Association for the Advancement of “Certain” People. The name says (euphemistically) “Colored” people, and by my definition, all three Black Republicans in Congress qualify. Black folks in leadership often demand that there be “one set of rules” or a “level playing field” for everyone in “the game.” The NAACP should be an exemplar of that principle and extend its “right hand of fellowship” to the members of what might become (if they are not afraid of congregating with each other) a Black Republican “Caucus” in Congress. At least I’ll say it: Congratulations, Sen. Scott and Reps. Love and Hurd.WI
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association and can be reached at dr.bchavis@nnpa.org and http://drbenjaminfchavisjr.wix. com/drbfc.
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