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The Washington Informer Wishes Everyone A Blessed Thanksgiving!

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Warm Hearts, Helping Hands Provide Joy for Others D.C. Remembers its Neighbors in Their Time of Need

By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor @dkevinmcneir

By D.R. Barnes WI Staff Writer

As residents of the Greater Washington Area braced for one of the coldest Thanksgiving Days in nearly two decades, examples of love and care for others made frigid temperatures seem almost bearable for countless numbers of less fortunate families.

And while most illustrations of kindness and concern for one’s brothers and sisters may never make headline news, one thing’s for certain: D.C.’s citizens did all they could to make this year’s “Turkey Day” a festive occasion for all. Here are just a few reminders.

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In 2017, their programs ended or prevented homelessness for 1,500 people, using innovative, person-focused initiatives that helped those in need to find homes, become employed and reconnect with family and friends. On the days leading up to Thanksgiving, case managers delivered hundreds of turkeys and thousands of other grocery items to some of the area’s formerly homeless families.

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Michelle Obama: An Evening Personal and Inspiring

5 US Postal Service employee Cecil Rich leaves donations at the NBC4 Food for Families drop-off area while on his mail delivery route in Northwest on Monday, Nov. 19. /Photo by Roy Lewis

Norton to Ramp Up Fight for District Voting Rights

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia At the start of the 115th Congress, D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton formally asked the speaker of the House for the ability to vote on amendments and procedural issues.

And, as has been routine during a Republican-majority Congress, Norton’s request met with denial.

With Democrats set to take over as the majority in the House for the 116th Congress, Norton

may get her wish.

“The Democrats are talking about restoring her vote on the House floor in what’s called the Committee of the Whole, which considers amendments even though she will not be able to vote on final passage,” Norton’s communications director Benjamin Fritsch confirmed to The Washington Informer.

It was a vote that Norton enjoyed from 1991 to 1994, when Democrats controlled the House, and again from 2006 to 2010.

However, seeking to maintain

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Long lines wrapped around the Capital One Arena on Saturday, Nov. 17, as throngs of anxious fans — mostly women — stood outside in the cold after spending as much as $3,000 for a highly-anticipated evening with former first lady Michelle Obama.

For the multitude of vendors, the captive audience provided the perfect opportunity for them to sell an array of Michelle Obama memorabilia including T-shirts announcing, “I Was Here.” They carried mobile displays of buttons, calendars, folding fans and

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5 Former first lady Michelle Obama talks about her new book, “Becoming” at the Capital One Arena on Saturday, Nov. 17. /Photo Shevry Lassiter

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Domestic Violence Symposium Mildred Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see on May 7 at the District Heights wife Nearly of John43Allen Muhammad, programs raise$18 million people visited Marylanddesigned and spenttoalmost Municipal Center. The sympo- who was sentenced to six consecawareness among children in acbillion last year, an increase of 2 percent from the previous year, sium was sponsored by the utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She cording to a study by Tourism Economics of Wayne, Pennsylvania.

Family and Youth Services by a Maryland jury for his role in feels children need to be educatThe company calculated the state generated $2.4 billion in state and Center of the city of District the Beltway Sniper attacks in ed about domestic violence. local taxes from tourism last year. Visitors trips went slightly down Heights and the National Hook- 2002. Mildred Muhammad is “We havetotothe stop being pasbecause of fewer business travelers, according study announced Up of Black Women. the founder of After the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chil14 at the state’s Maryland Tourism and Travel Summit. The Marlow has written a book, anNov. organization that helps the dren about domestic violence,” study spending increased in the state’s 10th largest industry “Color Me Butterfly,” which is a survivorshighlights of domestic violence Marlow said. by more than $5 since 2009. “Maryland has story about four generations of and their children. billion, or 45 percent, Marlow has worked to break so much to offer, it’s no surprise that tourism is one of our most important economic and job domestic violence. The book is “I lived in fear for six years. Six the cycle of abusegenerators in her family, creators,” Governor Larry Hogan.

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She said every time she reads Mildred Muhammad said “I plan to take these policies to excerpts from her book, she still people who want to help a Congress and implore them to can not believe the words came domestic violence victim must change our laws,” Marlow said. from her. “Color Me Butterfly” be careful of how they go into “I will not stop until these poliwonMayor Muriel Bowser the 2007 National has “Best announced a goallife, of $844M for FY19 tocies beare passed.” the victim's and understand Books” Award. spent on Small Business Enterprises in the FY19 budthat[SBEs] she may be District’s in “survival Tia Carol Jones can be reached “I was 16-years-old get withjust details outlined when in the “Green mode”. Book.” The document provides at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net my eye first blackened and my you get tocan 'I'mconnect going to opagency-related information on how “Before small businesses lips bled,” Marlow to and kill you,' started as a verbal WI portunities withinsaid.

D.C. government offersithelp on accessing resources Elaine presi- D.C. surpassed its $656M goal for SBEs, they needDavis-Nickens, to succeed. In FY18, dent of themore National Hook-Up spending than $814 million – more than any previous year. of Black Women, said there no way we approach procurement by setting “We are re-envisioning isthe consistency in theproviding way domestic ambitious goals, tools to help our small businesses succeed, conviolence are dealt with to by the middle class and creating an environtinuing issues to create pathways ment where District businesses can start, thrive and grow,” Bowser said.

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We have to stop being passive-aggressive with poor Crump Lawsuit Cites Gileadchildren Sciences about domestic ‘Profits over People’ Tactics violence. I plan to take these A new federal lawsuit against Gilead Sciences exposes how the pharmaceutical giant has put profits policies to Congress and over people, especially oppressed groups including Black and LGBT communities, says civil rights attorney Ben Crump. Crump, along with other co-counsels, announced the lawsuit which accuses the to ofchange our in company of intentionally withholding implore a safer HIV drugthem from hundreds thousands of patients order to extend the profitability of the patent it held on an older, riskier drug. The tactic, Crump said, unjustly affected patients in the Black, minority and LGBT communities. laws.

I will not Gilead’s stopfirst-generation until drug, TDF, can cause life-threatening side effects such as bone demineralization and kidney toxicity.

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Paul Trantham “This suit is a major step in the right direction toward racial equity in communities unevenly affected

by HIV and exploited by pharmaceutical Goliaths like Gilead,” Crump said, adding that because Gilead maintains a monopoly in the market, it’s been able to charge exorbitant prices, exceeding $3,700 a month, at the expense of populations who need it most.

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By Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins Within the confines of a nearly century-old building perched on a hill along Georgia Avenue in Northwest, the staff at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School have prepared legions of young people from the across the District for the academic rigor of some of the nation’s most prestigious universities.

Perhaps that’s why those who claim allegiance with “the Banneker family,” cannot fathom why, despite being acknowledged as one of D.C.’s best for 40 years, students must still contend with what they describe as an inadequate heating system and infrastructure more reflective of the configurations needed for a middle school.

“Any other school would’ve slowed down but Banneker hasn’t,” Banneker student Margareth Mbea said during her testimony at a recent D.C. Council Committee on Education roundtable.

Her comment counted among the first of many supporting Banneker’s move into shuttered Shaw Junior High School on 9th Street and Rhode Island Avenue in Northwest.

Last month’s announcement elicited strong opposition from families in the Shaw community who said D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and her predecessors had promised them a neighborhood middle school for which they’ve been waiting for over 10 years.

But many students including Margareth believe nearby Cardozo Education Campus and MacFarland Middle School already adequately accommodate youth living in the Shaw community. Even more, they insist that Banneker students, teachers and staff have waited patiently for long-needed upgrades, even as lower-performing high schools have undergone modernizations.

“For you to tell us you don’t need Banneker in your community is wrong,” Margareth added, proposing an outcome she feels would benefit all parties.

“If no one was attending middle school in that area, wouldn’t it make sense to give that space to a high school? Parents should be arguing for the reopening of Garnett-Patterson,” she said.

The November 15 roundtable brought together opposing voices regarding the potential move of Banneker less than two miles down the street. Following the three-year

transitional timeframe, enrollment would be increased by 300 seats.

Banneker, an alternative education institution since 1981 and an International Baccalaureate World School since 2001, provides over 400 students a rigorous, highly-structured academic experience geared toward college readiness. In 2017, it gained recognition as a National Blue-Ribbon School.

During the previous academic year, a trio of female Banneker students became finalists in NASA’s high school competition with their design of a filtration system which removes lead from water fountains.

The Bowser administration later awarded the team $4,000. “[Banneker] has been a tremendous blessing in my life and for those who have called Banneker home,” Reginald Williams, a Banneker history teacher and alumnus, told D.C. Councilmembers David Grosso (I-At large), Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), and Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 1) during public comments last week.

He reflected on his unique experience both as a student, and more recently as a teacher, telling councilmembers that the fight to stop Banneker’s proposed relocation highlights the changing demographics of the city and a disregard of the District’s culture and history voiced by more recent, wealthier residents.

“I’ve been impressed by our program and how dedicated our students are,” Williams added. “My students are working in the library and the cafeteria. They sometimes stay until 6 p.m. because they care that much. The students continue to rise to the occasion, representing themselves, their parents and their community.”

Shaw residents who oppose Banneker’s relocation said they don’t want to deny students their desired modernizations. They’ve repeatedly cited a 21st Century School Fund study that said renovations alone could expand Banneker’s capacity to 700 seats.

For Councilmembers Grosso and Allen, this ongoing conflict speaks more to an imperfect school feeder system and what they describe as a lack of community outreach prior to the decision being made to include the Banneker relocation in the FY 2019 budget.

Allen, acting on behalf of his constituents in the Shaw community, said he asked Grosso, chairman of the D.C. Council Committee on Education, to conduct the roundtable.

During the meeting, Grosso brief-

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ly explored the possibility of a new middle school opening in the building Banneker currently occupies, located on Euclid Street. Shortly after, he assured the public witnesses that he and his colleagues would mull over the issue in the coming weeks.

But for Bernadine Francis, an administrative officer of 15 years at Banneker and mother of four alumnae, moving what has become her beloved place of work into a larger facility serves as the only logical choice.

“Banneker has become a stellar institution of learning,” she said.

“The move to Shaw is vital because our school is housed in what used to be a junior high school. The gym and cafeteria cater to middle school students. With the increasing enrollment, Shaw provides space for expansion. We’re the last high school in DCPS to be renovated. Our students deserve better. WI

5 Citizen’s share views at recent D.C. Council Committee on Education roundtable. /Photo by Sam P.K. Collins

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NOV. 22 1942 – Pilot Guion Bluford, the first African American in space, is born in Philadelphia.

1986 – George Branham becomes the first African American to win a Professional Bowling Association (PBA) title.

1989 – Frederick D. Gregory becomes the first African American to lead a space mission.

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1897 – Inventor John Lee Love patents a portable pencil sharpener known as the “Love Sharpener.”

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1960 – North African nation Mauritania gains its independence from France.

1960 – Author Richard Wright, whose bestknown works include “Native Son” and “Black Boy,” dies of a heart attack in Paris at 52.

1961 – Ernie Davis, a halfback at Syracuse University, becomes the first Black Heisman Trophy winner. WI

1883 – Famed abolitionist, author and human rights activist Sojourner Truth dies in her Battle Creek, Michigan, home at age 86.

1895 – The National Negro Medical Association is founded.

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1939 – Music icon Tina Turner is born in Nutbush, Tennessee.

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Sure, I recognize that Blacks in America have not been dealt a fair hand. Of course I understand our nation’s history and its centuries-old efforts, and insistence and dependence on white privilege that have collectively allowed for the establishment and survival of barriers, roadblocks, dead ends, propaganda, That’s why we have yet, as a race, been able to enjoy the benefits promised within the socalled “American Dream.” We continue blaming everyone and anyone for our own failures. Too

The racism upon which this country was formed, and which still undergirds our hallowed institutions has not forced me to beat my wife and dog or pick up a bottle and a joint instead of a book in securing higher education. harsh for you? Then, you have the option of returning to hours upon hours of nonsensical encounters on Twitter.

I, on the other hand, have a plan. And if cannot allow those who lack vision to get me sidetracked. The racism upon which this country was formed, and which still undergirds our hallowed institutions has not forced me to beat my wife and dog or

pick up a bottle and a joint instead of a book in securing higher education.

As I grow closer to six decades of life, I realize that those who sit on the sidelines will be there for another 10, 20 – even 30 years from now. And they’ll be lamenting about what others have done to them, or not for them, instead of being honest about what they failed to do on their own behalf.

Are you dissatisfied with your life? Do you have a vision that the Spirit placed within you that you enjoy talking about but doing very little to achieve? Then, it’s not the white man who serves as your greatest enemy – it’s you.

You are to blame.

As for those who prefer, like James Brown once said, to engage in “talking loud and saying nothing,” please, please, please . . .lose my phone number and forget my name. You see, like the sage Isley Brothers exclaimed back in the day, “I got work to do.” WI

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By Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins When Montgomery County Executive-elect Marc Elrich takes office next month, resolving a longtime battle between county officials and a historically Black church over what has been identified as a sacred burial ground counts among his top priorities.

Elrich, an at-large member of the county council member and ardent supporter of efforts to memorialize the burial ground, made known his intentions a day after his electoral victory during a meeting at the Housing Opportunities Commission (HOC) in Kensington.

“We have to recognize that it’s a burial ground and see what’s under there once and for all,” Elrich said.

“If there are bodies there, we have to treat it with a higher level of concern.

I don’t understand how we have gone this far down the road and not determine that to have this lingering around is an issue.”

At the Nov. 7 meeting, Macedonia members decried HOC Executive Director Stacey Spann’s new proposal for an advisory board, comprised of members of what he called the wider community, that would examine the best means of memorializing Moses African Cemetery.

In his written reply to Spann, Macedonia Pastor Segun Adebayo challenged a narrative that the church had been uncooperative with HOC, saying that the commission rebuffed Macedonia members’ requests to collaborate in the creation of a museum and memorial park on the burial grounds.

Adebayo’s letter, dated Nov. 6, also claimed the commission never confirmed plans for an October joint meeting between HOC, Macedonia members and Regency Centers, the property owner in the neighborhood that includes Moses African Cemetery.

Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Adebayo’s wife and Macedonia social justice coordinator, said HOC’s actions reveal a hidden agenda to include individuals and organizations hostile to the idea of memorializing cemetery in the conversation.

As she recounted the events of Nov. 7, Coleman-Adebayo mentioned seeing other people, including HOC employees, speak out against the agency’s duplicity.

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HOC’s public information officer didn’t return The Informer’s requests for comment.

Despite county officials’ claims otherwise, members of Macedonia, a historically Black religious institution located on River Road in Bethesda, less than a mile from Moses African Cemetery, said an email obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request confirmed that hundreds of remains are buried there.

In 2016, Macedonia members lobbied HOC, the Montgomery County Council, and County Executive Ike Leggett to stop development firm Equity One’s construction of a parking garage on Moses African Cemetery. The landmark in question sits behind Westwood Towers on River Road, part of a once-thriving African-American community that existed between Reconstruction and the late 1950s.

At the end of 2017, HOC, the county’s affordable housing provider, purchased the burial site from Equity One. Macedonia members called the deal a veiled attempt to deter their movement. They have since pressured HOC officials to reveal their plans for the cemetery by attending, testifying and protesting at HOC meetings on the first Wednesday of every month.

Elrich questioned the commission’s delay in determining the future

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of the burial site, saying that the conflict must be resolved between the commission, Regency, Macedonia and no one else.

“I’m not interested in making sure [HOC] can bring more voting members to the table,” Elrich said.

“I don’t want it to be done that way.

I don’t see a basis for it. No one has said anything about it for the last two years, and to discover that we need to enlarge the table would be stunning.”

Elrich’s involvement in Moses African Cemetery follows an ongoing battle with the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission to recognize Farm Road, a historic African-American community in Sandy Spring that disappeared on county maps.

Farm Road residents, some of whom descend from the first freedmen of Montgomery County, don’t have official addresses and can’t obtain building permits to maintain their properties.

Coleman-Adebayo extolled Elrich’s recent move, saying his first act as executive-elect shows other politicians that they can support Black communities in the early days of their tenure.

“Marc Elrich demonstrated at Macedonia,” she said. “As a council member, he sat down with us at that table and said he was on board. Now as county executive-elect, his position is consistent. Elrich’s first act was to support the November 7 protest at the HOC and offer to mediate this crisis.

“We believe he will continue to support the just demands of our community,” Coleman-Adebayo said. “We believe that since we have such an important ally, more pressure has been applied to HOC.” WI

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Black Women Warn: Don’t Take Our Vote for Granted

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia Black women made history during the midterms, breaking down barriers to win elections across the country.

But one District-based group — In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Agenda — said the election should also be a cautionary tale for those who take Black women and their votes for granted.

“We saw a number of first for Black women candidates — Leticia James will be the first Black woman to serve as attorney general in New York, said Marcela Howell, the founder and executive director of In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, a national reproductive justice organization focused on lifting up the voices of Black women at the national and regional levels.

Newcomers Lauren Underwood and Juliana Stratton from Illinois and Jahana Haynes from Connecticut and Ayanna Pressley from Massachusetts, will be the first Black women to represent their states in Congress and Ilhan Omar counts as the first Muslim refugee elected to the House.

“Black women made history breaking down barriers to win elections across the country,” Howell said. “The strength of their wins is the direct result of high turnout by Black women — and men — at the polls.

Black women’s leadership and GOTV efforts led Black women candidates to victory. And the Black women we elected will lead the country on a new path toward equality and justice for all.”

The turnout was a result of efforts like the #IAMAVOTER campaign, dedicated to registering, educating and mobilizing our voters, Howell said.

“Through our #IAMAVOTER, the organization was able to engage voters,” she said.”With the celebrations that come from these victories, we must also acknowledge the increased efforts to prevent Black women and men from voting.

“We witnessed states across the country purging voters of color from the rolls — especially Black voters,” Howell said.

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Howell noted that everyone deserves to have their vote counted and all must reject any attempts by politicians to turn the clock backward.

“With this election behind us, we are determined to continue to fight,” she said. “We will not rest until our country lives up to the constitutional promise of liberty and justice for all. Black women are leading the way — and we invite you all to follow.”

Another D.C.-based group, Think Rubix, which created the “Woke Vote” organizing model, said after an election that saw gains for Democrats and progressives, political strategists are contemplating ways to build a stronger base in going forward.

“This election has allowed us to do something rare in a political climate defined by xenophobic rhetoric and consistent rollbacks of progressive policies,” Think Rubix founders said in a news release this week.

“With historic wins from Ayanna Pressley to Ilhan Omar, to a game-changing number of progressive women and women of color turning the House blue, to

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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY Black Students Optimistic After Midterm Elections

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill With the Democrats back in control of the House on Capitol Hill, Amani Manning of Stanford, North Carolina, expressed confidence more money would be allocated for underprivileged students toward higher education.

“When you generally have more Democrats elected, there’s generally have more funding for education, especially for HBCUs,” said Manning, 23,

a graduate student at Howard University in Northwest. “As we saw when [President Donald] Trump got elected, a lot of things like Pell grants got cut.

I don’t know if more that will be returned, but there will be more progress for education.”

Manning and a few other Black college students expressed optimism as they and millions of other voters nationwide chose not only Democrats on the federal level, but also in some state and local races where changes could be made on increased spending and policy

5 Howard University student Tobi Aderotoye (left) chats with Howard professor Keneshia Grant on Nov. 13 after a discussion on Black women and the 2018 midterms. The talk took place on the Northwest campus. /Photo by Brigette White

changes in education.

Aaliyah McLean, a 20-yearold junior who attends James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, said some Black students endured verbal abuse from white students who voted for Trump in 2016. One of her friend’s got chastised and told she’s only at James Madi-

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“On our campus, we have only 4.6 percent African Americans, and the football team makes up most of that statistic,” she said. “We need to stick together and become one. Issues that come up such as student loans and scholarships are

important to speak out on.”

However, some policy experts wondered if education made any headway in this year’s midterm elections, in which the U.S. Senate remained under Republican control.

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Black Trans Push for Equal Rights, Justice

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill According to the Human Rights Campaign, 22 transgender people have been murdered this year, at least 15 of whom were Black.

The commission posted their names on its website and noted eight made to age 35 and older.

“It’s a blessing that trans women can live beyond 35. It’s just a quarter of your life,” said Nala Simone Toussaint, 28, a health care advocacy coordinator and activist from New Jersey who identifies herself as “a woman of trans experience.”

There’s currently legislation on Capitol Hill to combat racial and sexual discrimination in the LGBTQ community. The Equality Act, or HR2282, in the House would also revise “public school desegregation standards to provide for the assignment of students without regard to sexual orientation or gender identity.”

“This is a call to stop epidemic violence,” said Londyn De Richelieu of Baltimore City, who identifies as a Black transgender woman. “We have an obligation to protect Black transgender peo-

ple, women and girls and non-binary people. This is an attack on all Black people.”

On Tuesday, Nov. 20, the “Transgender Day of Remembrance” paid homage to those killed by violence. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) said the annual commemoration began in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith to honor Rita Hester, a transgender woman killed in 1998.

Last week supporters recognized Transgender Awareness Week as a demand to end violence against transgenders, who identity themselves based on personal gender and not by their sex at birth. The term “non-binary” signifies someone who doesn’t consider their gender identity as strictly male or female.

Public school systems have incorporated policies in regards to gender identity among students.

In May, the Fairfax County School Board approved a measure to expand discrimination protection for transgender students and staff.

In D.C., the 730DC blog and newsletter noted last week that D.C. Public Schools’ student enrollment forms for next year

will have a “non-binary” option for gender. DCPS spokesman Shayne Wells said in an email Friday, Nov. 16 that parents can enroll children using the updated form starting April 1.

Last month, the Trump administration offered a proposal to change the legal definition of sexual orientation to simply male and female, several news outlets reported. If approved, it would eliminate Obama-era policies that protect LGBTQ students, specifically one allowing transgender students to use public school restrooms based on their gender identity.

“Already this year, 22 beautiful people have been taken from us because of who they were,” Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Illinois) said in a statement Friday. “It’s time to pass the Equality Act and prevent that list from growing any longer.”

The National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), a civil rights organization that seeks to empower those in the LGBTQ community, also wants to push awareness of the legislation through these means: • Recognize anti-transgender and gender-based violence.

• Support justice for crimes

5 Londyn De Richelieu of Baltimore /Courtesy photo

committed against Black transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

• Help stop the epidemic of gender-based violence against Black transgender women and gender non-binary Black people.

Although Democrats have regained control of the House and could boost more support of the legislation, it would also need approval from a Senate still under

Republican leadership.

“A fight worth fighting is a fight worth engaging in,” said David Johns, executive director of NBJC. “We are only as strong as we can be when we stand together. Anyone who calls themselves a leader, or race warrior … [and] do not care … to support Black LGBTQ people … then everything that your purporting to care about is a lie.” WI

Executives: Amazon Will Bring Major Dollars to the D.C. Region

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By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Five business leaders touted Amazon’s choice of Northern Virginia as one of two locations for its newest headquarters as a “potential game-changer.”

The online company’s plan to

invest $2.5 billion and more than 25,000 jobs to Arlington County will boost the entire Washington metropolitan area.

“It is a fantastic moment for our region,” said Monumental Sports and Entertainment CEO Ted Leonsis on Thursday, Nov. 15.

“When one wins, we all win.”

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utives to tout how Amazon’s influence will spur the region during a conference call organized by the Greater Washington Partnership, a group of chief executives in the region that includes Leonsis.

For instance, Virginia Tech University announced last week it will build a $1 billion campus in Alexandria as an expansion in technology education.

The location about two miles from the Amazon location in Crystal City would increase undergraduate enrollment up to 30,000 students, according to the Virginia Tech proposal. The 1 millionsquare-foot campus proposes space for student housing, retail and startup companies.

George Mason University also plans to expand its Arlington campus and pledged $250 million over the next five years to grow its computing programs. In addition, the state’s largest school with more 5,000 students enrolled in those programs could triple registration to 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students by 2024.

“Virginia Tech and George Ma-

son [are] two of the most important universities in the commonwealth producing these computer science and other degrees,” said Russ Ramsey, chair of the Greater Washington Partnership and CEO of an asset management company in Reston, Virginia. “It was obviously the place where the commonwealth wanted to invest and be able to provide more robust pipeline … for other companies that want to grow here.”

One major obstacle that must be addressed is transportation. The partnership plans to release a “Blueprint for Regional Mobility” this month on transportation as a way to expand the region such as connecting Baltimore to Richmond.

“It’s an absolutely critical set of investments that need to be made … to be a well-functioning region for all,” said partnership CEO Jason Miller. “It’s about continuing improvements in the public transportation system.”

Officials in neighboring jurisdictions seek to entice their students and residents to become a part of Amazon’s workforce, as well as en-

suring those in underserved communities receive chances either to receive training in digital certification, computer science and other related fields.

“We’re having the same conversation in Prince George’s County and we would be delighted to join you in creating this regional landscape and how we can exactly get more opportunities for our young people,” said David Harrington, president and CEO of the county’s Chamber of Commerce.

In terms of housing in one of the most expensive markets in the nation, Miller said his organization partnered with the Urban Institute to assess housing needs According to the partnership’s framework, the goal will be to present solutions based on preserving, producing and protecting current and future housing.

“This is absolutely an achievable challenge that existed prior to Amazon coming,” Miller said. “Frankly, I think Amazon’s expansion in the region is a catalyst to us taking this on.”

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BUSINESS Program for Small Businesses Under Council Scrutiny

By Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins As stated in legislation that passed more than a decade ago, Certified Business Enterprise (CBE) designation would place D.C. small business owners from historically disadvantaged groups in a better position for government contracting opportunities.

However, without the appropriate data from the Department of Small and Local Business Development, the degree to which that goal has been fulfilled remains clouded in mystery, to the chagrin of some entrepreneurs and advocates, and a local lawmaker.

“The challenge has been how likely certified business enterprises would get a contract,” said Evette Banfield, vice president of economic development policy and wealth-building

5 The Department of Small and Local Business Development (DSLBD) is streamlining the Certified Business Enterprise (CBE) Certification Program in an effort to help small businesses thrive. /Photo courtesy Twitter

strategies at the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development in Northwest.

At a D.C. Council roundtable session held last month by the council’s Committee on Business and Economic Development, Banfield spoke about the hurdles some of her clients in the small-business community struggled to overcome in the certification process, only to never land a city government contract.

Though she commended the department for easing the process and hosting tutorials for applicants in recent years, Banfield questioned whether the smaller, lesser-known entities among the CBEs received a significant portion of the $1 billion doled out by the D.C. government in the most recent fiscal year.

She has called for the launch of a disparity study every five

years, and critiqued the bundling process, through which several projects get consolidated into one, leaving the awardee — likely a larger contractor — with the task of selecting small-business subcontractors.

“Some business owners have grown frustrated and some may have opted to not renew or recertify because they don’t see the advantage,” Banfield said.

“People said they would like transparency around who’s getting these contracts. If it’s the same companies, that’s a problem.”

The council passed emergency legislation in 2005 mandating that the department give triennial reports documenting the results of independent assessments of the CBE program, including the proportion of government contracts awarded to CBEs and its overall economic and employment outcomes.

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At the Oct. 24 roundtable, Councilman Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5) noted that the department hasn’t produced a report in nearly four years, nor given a reason why. At an oversight hearing earlier in the year, department officials told lawmakers that data would be available at the end of 2018, but has since pushed the date back to next spring.

McDuffie, the committee chairman, recounted conversations with entrepreneurs who questioned the efficacy of D.C.’s contract procurement process as he stressed the importance of the triennial review.

“I believe in the potential of the District’s Certified Business Enterprise program to be a powerful tool for creating economic opportunities in D.C., but we need reliable data on the program to know it is working,” McDuffie wrote in a statement.

This month, council members discussed a bill McDuffie introduced in September establishing the Small Business Bonding Program, which aims to assist small businesses in obtaining insurance they need to qualify for participation in larger, more expensive development projects.

However, McDuffie said his focus has remained on the CBE program’s overall effectiveness.

“The roundtable was another opportunity to continue to put a spotlight on the District’s CBE program, so we can be sure it is truly working for the District’s small and historically disadvantaged businesses,” he said. “I am disappointed that the triennial review of the program has not been completed, but as the hearing demonstrates, I will continue to press

until the report is published, just as I will continue to support the goals of our important CBE program.”

The department didn’t answer The Informer’s inquiry about the delay of the triennial review but wrote in an email that more than a quarter of the amount given to CBEs in the past fiscal year went to small business enterprises (SBE).

The Department of Small and Local Business Development is also developing a program, in conjunction with the Department of General Services (DGS), that would require prime contractors on DGS projects to collaborate with and boost the capacity of three SBEs generating an annual revenue of between $250,000 and $2 million.

Even so, some business owners said colleagues remain cynical of the overall process and often question why smaller businesses don’t learn of procurement opportunities in a time frame that would allow for proper preparation.

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“The business is often predicated on relationships and when they are large-dollar amounts, the people involved aren’t willing to take risks on people they don’t know,” Harvey said in her testimony during last month’s roundtable, during which she called for tighter oversight of the CBE program.

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By Sarafina Wright WI Contributing Writer The U.S. Postal Service expects to deliver nearly 15 billion pieces of mail and 900 million packages for the holiday season between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. “The Postal Service is ready to deliver for the holiday season,” Postmaster General and CEO Megan J. Brennan said. “We have increased our operating capacity to include additional transportation and extended our delivery windows. Our dedicated employees are proud to deliver more packages to homes than any other shipper.”

The Postal Service will expand its Sunday delivery operations to locations with high package vol-

umes beginning Nov. 25. The Postal Service already delivers packages on Sundays in most major cities and anticipates delivering more than 8 million packages on Sundays this December.

Mail carriers will also deliver packages on Christmas Day in select locations.

With an increase in early and online shopping for gifts, USPS says there is no longer a “busiest day” for holiday shipping. Instead, the Postal Service’s busiest time is now two weeks before Christmas.

Starting the week of Dec. 10, customer traffic is expected to increase, and the Postal Service expects to deliver nearly 200 million packages per week during these two weeks.

The week of Dec. 17-23 is predicted to be the busiest mailing, shipping and delivery week, when nearly 3 billion pieces of first-class mail, including greeting cards, will be processed and delivered. WI

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By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia The gubernatorial bids by Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum in Georgia and Florida, respectively, have officially fallen short.

Abrams halted her run for Georgia governor, but the Democrat said she would not concede the contest to Republican Brian Kemp and planned to launch a voting rights group to file “major” litigation challenging election policies.

Earlier, it also became apparent that Andrew Gillum’s gubernatorial run in Florida had come to a halt, with a press time recount showing that the Democrat trailed Republican Ron DeSantis by 33,683 votes, a net gain of 1 vote for Gillum from the unofficial results that were origi-

nally reported.

The margin was 0.41 percent out of more than 8 million votes cast, outside the 0.25 percent threshold needed for a manual recount.

Although the lead appears insurmountable, Gillum still hadn’t conceded as of press time.

Meanwhile, The Associated Press reported that Abrams’ campaign began preparing an unprecedented legal challenge in the unresolved Georgia governor’s race that could leave the state’s Supreme Court deciding whether to force another round of voting.

The Democrat’s strategy relies on a statute that’s never been used in such a high-stakes contest.

Top Abrams advisers outlined her prospective case to AP, stressing that the Democratic candidate hasn’t finalized a decision about whether to

proceed once state officials certify Kemp as the victor.

“All of the votes in this race have not been counted,” Abrams campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo said at a press conference.

Under Georgia law, if no candidate achieves a majority, then a runoff election is held.

As of the weekend, Kemp led with 50.3 percent of the vote. As counting continued, Abrams found herself close to the threshold to trigger a recount in the race — which, following his resignation as Georgia secretary of state, Kemp would no longer oversee.

“Brian Kemp is 25,622 votes above the threshold for a runoff election,” Groh-Wargo said. “Twenty-five thousand votes of nearly four million cast are at issue in this race.

By [Kemp’s] own admission, there are at least 25,000 outstanding votes, and hundreds if not thousands of more that we are learning about and discovering every day.”

Earlier this month, the state chapter of the NAACP filed a pair of lawsuits claiming that students at Spelman College and Morehouse College were improperly forced to vote with a provisional ballot or dissuaded from voting at all because their names didn’t show up on voter registration lists.

The lawsuits also seek to preserve the right for voters in the Pittman Park Recreation Center area to cast ballots, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.

That was the precinct where mas-

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sive lines formed because of too few polling machines. Even after five additional voting devices were delivered, some people waited four hours at the Atlanta site.

Voters in the Peach State dealt with long lines, malfunctioning election equipment and registration discrepancies as they swamped precincts Tuesday with an unprecedented turnout for a midterm election.

Wait times of more than an hour were the most common hurdle facing voters across the state, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.

But technical problems, such as voting machines that weren’t plugged in on Election Day, worsened matters for some voters trying to get their ballots in.

Three precincts in Gwinnett County had some of the most severe difficulties, causing them to stay open past the normal 7 p.m. closing time, the newspaper reported.

The Annistown Elementary precinct remained open until 9:25 p.m. because of extensive issues with the electronic ExpressPoll system, which is used to check in voters before they’re issued voting access cards.

Anderson-Livsey Elementary and Harbins Elementary precincts also stayed open late.

Three more precincts in Fulton County also stayed open as late as 10 p.m. because of extreme lines, missing registration information and a shortage of provisional ballots.

Those precincts were located at Pittman Park Recreation Center, Booker T. Washington High and the Archer Auditorium at Morehouse College.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. got involved at the Pittman Park Recreation Center precinct in Fulton County, encouraging voters to remain in line after they had waited for hours. Only three voting machines were initially available before five more were sent out later.

“It’s a classic example of voter suppression, denying people easy access to exercise their right to vote,” Jackson said, AJC reported.

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Mississippi Campaign Heats Up After ‘Hanging’ Remark

Mike Espy Could Become First Black Senator from the Delta

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia No U.S. Senate race in the country could be more of a game-changer in 2018 than the one in Mississippi, where Democrat Mike Espy is running for the seat vacated by Thad Cochran.

That was the proclamation of Sen. Cory Booker.

“That is the star that I see rising in the South,” the New Jersey Democrat said of Espy. “That is the hope that this nation must have in Washington, D.C. And — God willing, the people of Mississippi willing — we will have Mike Espy as the next United States senator.”

As Espy and his GOP opponent, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, gear up for a Nov. 27 runoff election, the two agreed to a one-hour debate on Tuesday, Nov. 20.

Until now, Espy’s campaign against Hyde-Smith had flown al-

most completely under the radar despite implications of historic proportions and a chance for Democrats to change the dynamics in the United States Senate.

Down in the Delta — where the public lynching of African Americans were the rule and not the exception and the Ku Klux Klan was usually judge, jury and executioner — Espy, a black man, has forced a runoff against Hyde-Smith.

As stunning as Espy’s rise in one of the classic “good ol’ boy” regions, Hyde-Smith, perhaps in a fit of desperation or a time lapse, helped to shine the spotlight on the race that had taken a back seat to the historic runs for governor in the southern states of Florida and Georgia.

“If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row,” HydeSmith said of supporter and cattle rancher Colin Hutchinson during a small campaign event in Tupelo this month.

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back the inflammatory comment.

“In a comment on Nov. 2, I referred to accepting an invitation to a speaking engagement,” she said. “In referencing the one who invited me, I used an exaggerated expression of regard, and any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous.”

If the comment was an exaggerated expression of regard, folks in the onetime civil rights hotbed and those around the nation didn’t see it that way. It not only ignited interest in the under-the-radar Senate race, it galvanized Espy’s supporters.

“Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith’s shameful remarks prove once again how [President Donald] Trump has created a social and political climate that normalizes hateful and racist rhetoric,” NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said in a statement. “We’ve seen this in Florida from Ron DeSantis and others during this election season and denounce it.

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“Hyde-Smith’s decision to joke about ‘hanging,’ in a state known for its violent and terroristic history toward African Americans is sick,” Johnson said. “To envision this brutal and degenerate type of frame during a time when Black people, Jewish People and immigrants are still being targeted for violence by White nationalists and racists is hateful and hurtful.”

According to the NAACP, Mississippi had 581 lynchings between 1882 and 1968, more than any other state. The state’s population has the highest percentage of African-Americans of any state — 37 percent — according to the last census.

“Any politician seeking to serve as the national voice of the people of Mississippi should know better,” Johnson said. “Her choice of words serves as an indictment of not only her lack of judgment, but her lack of empathy, and most of all lack of character.”

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, who is Black, agreed.

“Senator Hyde-Smith’s remark that she would ‘be on the front row’ of a ‘public hanging’ is repulsive and her flippant disregard for our state’s deep history of inhumanity tied to lynching is incensing,” Lumumba said. “What is worse is her tone-deaf justification for the comment.”

Activist Shaun King expressed his disbelief in the comment.

“A sitting United States Senator.

In Mississippi just said ‘If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.’ Really? She just said this in the heart of lynching country.

She’s running against a black man.

Unthinkable,” King said.

The ACLU of Mississippi released a statement calling Hyde-Smith’s comments “despicable and abhorrent.”

“We expect and demand that Mississippi leaders represent and remain committed to inclusion and diversity. Sitting senators should not be referencing public hangings unless they are condemning them,” The

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Children Get New Homes for the Holiday 32nd Annual DC Adoption Day Marks New Start for Local Families

Mayor Muriel Bowser and her own “bundle of joy” joined DC Superior Court Chief judge and a host of others for an annual day of celebration and new beginnings. DC Superior Court and the DC Child and Family Services Agency hosted the 32nd Annual DC Adoption Day ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 18 – designed to celebrate the joys of adoption and encourage area residents to consider adopting or fostering a child in the District’s child welfare system. This year, joyful children were adopted and welcomed into their new families. As one court official said: Every year, we see that the parents are at least as excited, as joyful and as proud as the children about having their adoption finalized and officially becoming a family. As judges, it is very satisfying to see a child’s life – and [their] parents’ – changed so much for the better.”

Adoptive parents can be single, married, any race, religion or orientation, as long as they’re a loving adult with room in their home.

For more information about adoption opportunities, visit www.adoptionstogether.org.

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5 NBC4 anchor Barbara Harrison and “Princess” Nevaeha Wright celebrate during the 32nd Annual Adoption Day Ceremony at the DC Superior Court in Northwest on Saturday, Nov. 17. /Photo by Michael A. McCoy 3 Mayor Muriel Bowser and her daughter Miranda at the 32nd Annual Adoption Day Ceremony at the DC Superior Court in Northwest on Saturday, Nov. 17. /Photo

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Biofuel From Castor Oil: How Thabang Mabapa is Helping Farmers

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At Home In the Car On a Walk On Vacation At the Park Shopping

A chance discovery of castor seeds while walking home from church is behind what might be a groundbreaking idea of creating biofuel from castor seed.

Thabang Mabapa (left) is a self-confessed curious social entrepreneur who might just have a viable alternative to the country’s current fuel price crisis, the Johannesburg-based City Press reported.

He makes biofuel from castor oil extracted from castor trees and its growing demand is proving to be a disruptor in the commercial farming community.

“I was on my way to church and a friend of mine gave me tree spikes to throw away. I didn’t know what they were at the time. I put them in my bag but when I got home I got curious and started crushing them and I found the seeds inside,” Mabapa told City Press of the life-changing encounter in 2013.

Mabapa started researching the seeds and approached academics. The first to respond was Wits University.

“I found out they have castor oil content and I approached Dr. Nkazi — who is now my technical mentor — and he told me I should extract the oil myself so that he could see I was serious. He just said I must be innovative and find a way.”

Dr Diakanua Nkazi is a senior lecturer in the School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering at Wits.

Frustrated by lacking the scientific know-how of extraction, Mabapa headed to his mother’s kitchen, boiled the seeds and crushed them with a spoon.

After handing over the unrefined oil to Nkazi, he visited his relatives in Limpopo.

“I bumped into an old man who saw me holding the seeds. He asked me what I was doing with the seeds since they are not grown in the country any more and the company that used to grow them closed down in the 1970s.

“I explained to him that I was considering growing them. So we approached the chief who gave us two hectares of land on which to grow the seeds.

“Luckily Ntate Phiri, who used to work at the farms before they closed down, knows how to grow them well so he showed me,” he says.

Mabapa admits that, at the time, what he had in mind was mere castor oil which would still be a commercially viable product.

When he returned to Wits, Nkazi asked him what he wanted to do with the oil and encouraged him to look at alternative uses.

“So I did some research and found that we can also use the castor oil as feed stock,” he said.

During that period, though he was still enrolled as a PR and communications student at the University of Johannesburg, he spent a lot of time at the laboratory at Wits.

“I just focused on biofuel and that is my project, nothing else, and over time our product line expanded to biojet fuel and biogasoline and all this time we got more land for castor seed farming in North West, Mpumalanga and the Eastern Cape,” he says.

By the end of 2015, he had fully tested the oil and diesel and was open for business to the public.

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Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness said the government intends to deepen its collaboration and cooperation with other Caribbean stakeholders and counterparts in order to strengthen regional safety and security.

Speaking Nov. 14 at the commissioning of the Jamaica Defence Force’s (JDF) new Maritime Patrol Aircraft Hangar at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Holness said this is imperative against the background of prevailing security threats, particularly in the maritime domain, which he described as “transnational and global in nature.”

The threats include terrorism; trafficking of illegal weapons and arms, drugs, and people; illegal dumping and discharge of pollutants; and unregulated fishing.

“Therefore, the choices we make with regard to furthering the region’s security must be done in a manner that is collaborative, in order to promote economic and social prosperity for all in the region,” the prime minister said. “Jamaica has a key role to play in this regard.”

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District Scores Big at Ms. Senior America Pageant Excitement was high among the District contingency in the audience as the District of Columbia was called first during The Top 10 Announcement at the Ms. Senior America Pageant Finals in Atlantic City, NJ. Ms. Senior DC Phyllis Jordan had won the opportunity to compete among the top 10 of 39 contestants who were all age 60 and older. The finalists also included Illinois, South Carolina, Tennessee, Colorado, New York, Utah, Virginia, New Jersey and Arizona.

Ms. Senior DC shares during her philosophy of life and evening gown segment of competition that communication is key. Her rose gold metallic gown with flowing fishtail swished as she elegantly glided across the stage. The talent segment intro asks the question of the audience, have you ever wanted to be evil?

With her playful impersonation of the singer Eartha Kitt, Phyllis Jordan Ms. Senior DC sang “I Wanna Be Evil.”

And the winner, Colorado representative Gayle Novak was crowned Ms. Senior America.

Her talent during the pageant was a performance from Mama Mia, “Money, Money, Money.”

Runner-ups included New Jersey, Utah, Tennessee and Alicia Diamond Windsong from the state of Virginia respectively.

The District also was represented as the MC Steppers danced during the First Preliminary and Finals to a medley of Chaka Khan tunes and concluded their finals performance with “Uptown Funk” by Bruno Mars to a standing ovation and cheers from the audience. Toni Jackson, Ms. Senior DC 2014 and Wendy Bridges, Ms. Senior DC 2015 joined the dance group for their third stint on the Ms. Senior America Pageant stage.

A special congratulations goes to Sandra Bears, Ms. Senior DC 2005 who was awarded an Honorary Senior America Banner. A Top 10 Finalist in 2005, this year Bears served as emcee for the Senior America Show-

case on Tuesday night. Also in the showcase this year was Billie LaVerne Smith, Ms. Senior DC 2016 who played a Duke Ellington favorite on the piano, “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore.”

Smith and Toni Jackson also sang with the National Queen’s Choir which performed during the showcase, pageant preliminaries and the pageant final.

Great job District of Columbia, way to represent on a national level. Now America knows DC residents age 60 and older are “Aging with Style!”

5 Sandra Bears, Ms. Senior DC 2005 was honored with an honorary Senior America Banner this year at the Senior America Cameo Ball. She also was a Top 10 Finalist in the Ms. Senior America Pageant 2005. As part of this year’s activities she served as an emcee for the Cameo Showcase.

5 The MC Steppers, crowd favorite performs during the Ms. Senior America Pageant Finals to songs by Chaka Khan and Bruno Mars.

4 Ms. Senior DC Phyllis Jordan performing Eartha Kitt’s “I Wanna be Evil” during the Ms. Senior America Pageant in Atlantic City NJ, October 14-19.

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5 Ms. Senior DC Phyllis Jordan was selected to compete in the Top 10 of the Ms. Senior America Pageant. She is only the third queen from the District to compete in the finals. The first was Sandra Bears, Ms. Senior DC 2005 and the second was Mary McCoy, Ms. Senior DC 2012. Ellen Odellas Van Edwards, Ms. Senior DC 2003 was awarded a third Prize Konze Award at the pageant for her work with children as a member of Kapitol Klowns.

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HEALTH FDA Cracking Down on Menthol, Electronic Cigarettes

By Sarafina Wright WI Contributing Writer The Food and Drug Administration released a plan this month to ban menthol and flavored e-cigarettes in an effort to save a generation of kids from nicotine addiction.

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said as a physician and a cancer survivor, he’s seen first hand the devastation of smoking-related diseases.

“When I pledged last year to reduce addiction to nicotine, I was driven by the fact that, in the U.S., tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable

death and disease,” Gottlieb said Thursday, Nov. 15 while announcing the initiative.

“Combustible cigarettes cause the overwhelming majority of tobacco-related disease. When used as intended, they are responsible for the death of half of all long-term users.”

From 2017 to 2018, there was a 78 percent increase in current e-cigarette use among high school students and a 48 percent increase among middle school students, according to the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The total number of middle

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and high school students currently using e-cigarettes rose to 3.6 million — 1.5 million more than the previous year. More than two-thirds (67.8 percent) use flavored e-cigarettes.

“These increases must stop,” Gottlieb said. “And the bottom line is this: I will not allow a generation of children to become addicted to nicotine through e-cigarettes. We won’t let this pool of kids, a pool of future potential smokers, of future disease and death, to continue to build. We’ll take whatever action is necessary to stop these trends from continuing.”

Over the past few months, the FDA launched a multipronged Youth Tobacco Prevention Plan that escalated enforcement against retailers who illegally sell electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) products to minors, target e-liquid manufacturers whose products used misleading, youth-appealing imagery that mimicked juice boxes, lollipops and other foods.

They also worked with eBay

to remove listings for these products on their websites.

“The changes I seek would protect kids by having all flavored ENDS products (other than tobacco, mint and menthol flavors or non-flavored products) sold in age-restricted, in-person locations and, if sold online, under heightened practices for age verification,” Gottlieb said.

The commissioner continues that these changes will not include mint- and menthol-flavored ENDS, however, he is deeply concerned about the availability of menthol-flavored cigarettes.

“I believe these menthol-flavored products represent one of the most common and pernicious routes by which kids initiate on combustible cigarettes,” Gottlieb said. “Moreover, I believe that menthol products disproportionately and adversely affect underserved communities. And as a matter of public health, they exacerbate troubling disparities in health related to race and

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socioeconomic status that are a major concern of mine.”

Gottlieb expressed that although he’s not proposing revisions to the compliance policy for the mint and menthol flavors in e-cigarettes at this time, menthol in cigarettes has a major impact on public health, especially for African Americans.

Data shows that seven out of 10 African-American youth smokers select menthol cigarettes.

The FDA proposed a Rule-making that would seek to ban menthol in combustible tobacco products, including cigarettes and cigars. This comes in addition to banning flavored cigars.

“The bottom line is that these efforts to address flavors and protect youth would dramatically impact the ability of American kids to access tobacco products that we know are both appealing and addicting,” Gottlieb said.

The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauded the FDA “for their leadership in advancing these life-saving proposals.”

“The proposals by the FDA today to prohibit menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars have enormous potential to drive down tobacco use and the death and disease it causes in the United States,” the campaign said in a statement. “If adopted, these two proposals will have a greater impact in reducing tobacco use by youth and the African-American community than any regulatory measure ever undertaken by the federal government.” WI

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STUDENTS from Page 12 Gov. Larry Hogan won re-election over Democrat Ben Jealous, who was endorsed by the state teacher’s union. Although 16 former and current educators won in state races in Oklahoma, businessman and Republican Kevin Stitt won the governor’s race. His opponent, Democrat and former Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson, received an endorsement from the state’s teacher’s union.

The Brookings Institution, a D.C.-based public policy nonprofit, wrote in a blog entry this month that education didn’t appear as a major topic for voters nationwide. However, the organization said Democrats in the House could force more federal oversight that includes Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. “Using oversight authority to investigate decisions made by DeVos could stall her agenda, and it could increase pressure on DeVos to revise department policies,” three Brookings experts wrote. “Will an increase in oversight cause a real change in her policy decisions? That remains to be seen.”

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DeVos faces a lawsuit filed Nov. 13 from Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA) of Oakland, California, that alleges the Department of Education continues to accept loans from tens of thousands of students who attended for-profit colleges that closed.

Federal and state investigations determined schools that

BLACK WOMEN from Page 11 a possible runoff in Georgia governor’s race for Stacey Abrams to the restoration of voting rights to the formerly-incarcerated in Florida — we have reached a tipping point. When we look back on historic and critical wins, we must remember what it took and we must acknowledge who it took to make them.

“Think Rubix and other Black-led organizations paved the road for Black-focused campaigning efforts, but as we’ve seen, campaigns cannot simply rely on the charity of Black-led organizations,” the group said.

“They must invest in Black vot-

closed between November 2013-2015 forced students to obtain federal loans but not providing a quality education.

The department’s “Borrower Defense Rule” that became finalized two years ago requires an automatic relief of student debt.

The suit from HERA, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, alleges the department delayed to implement the order three times and refused to adhere a judge’s order in September. The suit claims students most affected include Blacks, non-English speakers, single-mothers and returning citizens.

“Following the change in administration after the 2016 election … the department has unabashedly and intentionally refused to implement the au-

tomatic provision,” according to the suit filed by the National Student Legal Defense Fund on behalf of HERA. “Upon information and belief, the department continues to collect on federal student loans that it is required by law to discharge.”

Trump signed an executive order last year to support more funding at black colleges and universities with some of those schools’ presidents standing next to him at the White House.

But lawsuits and education organizations have outlined how HBCUs continue to receive less money.

As the National Education Association noted in a report last year, Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, is a designated land-grant university, which requires the state to match federal funds for schools in a certain area. Lincoln was scheduled to receive $103 million between 2000 to 2017 in federal dollars, but the state only appropriated nearly $11 million, or 11 percent of the amount required, according to the NEA report.

A court ruled last year the higher education policies in Maryland didn’t provide equal high-quality programs for the state’s four HBCUs compared to predominately-White institutions.

“Significant strides must be made to change existing policies or create legislation that will both provide equitable resources for HBCUs in the future, and remedy the longterm effects of the current discriminatory funding system,” the NEA report stated. “As the example of Lincoln University shows, some HBCUs cannot

ers and other voters of color, long-term and from the roots up.”

This election, Black-led organizations such as Think Rubix pushed efforts to overcome voter suppression and build Black political power. Think Rubix officials said the organization knocked on 200,000 doors, made one million calls and talked to tens of thousands of voters across the deep South.

It is a primary reason why the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition passed Amendment 4, the group said.

“That’s how we got Jahana Hayes and Lauren Underwood elected,” the organization’s state-

ment read. “That’s how we got record-high voter turnout in states like Georgia. Investing in the new American majority and improving parity in dollars spent to engage Obama-Trump voters versus nonvoters and multicultural voters centering African Americans is the true way forward for the party.

“Any money the party spends in the future should be unencumbered, controlled by multicultural leadership in independent structures to avoid a pervasive colonizing mindset that continues to thwart the potential for big gains as it did in Florida and Georgia,” the group said.

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survive without immediate action.”

That’s why voting remains such a high priority for Tobi Aderotoye, 21, of Bowie, Maryland, a Howard senior with a double major in chemistry and political science.

During this month’s midterm election in Prince George’s County, Aderotoye supported two particular education ref-

erendums on the ballot, using casino revenue to supplement public education statewide and earmarking $16.7 million in bonds for libraries in the county.

“I hope the schools and libraries can get more technology,” she said. “One way to make your voice is heard to ensure certain things happen is by voting.” WI

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EDUCATION Coeds Cite Reversal of Civil Rights

Rep. Waters: DeVos Deserves the Blame

By Ra-Jah S Kelly WI Contributing Writer @Ra_jahDC A group of student leaders recently gathered to address their civil rights concerns to congressional and civil rights leaders in a roundtable led by Rep. Maxine Waters.

The event gave the students an opportunity to address issues that Waters (D-Calif.) claims have been undermined during the tenure of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. The roundtable was timed to coincide with The Department of Education’s announcement of a proposal to that would affect the way sexual assault cases are handled by federally funded schools through Title IX, the 1972 law that prevents discrimination on the basis of gender.

Waters says the new policy will adversely affect victims of sexual assault

by reducing liability for universities, tightening the definition of sexual harassment, and elevating the standard used in evaluating claims of sexual harassment and assault.

“Over the past two years, we have watched in horror as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has launched a fullon attack on civil rights protections for students — particularly students of color, students with disabilities, transgender students, and survivors of sexual assault,” Waters said.

The roundtable featured experts from several leading civil rights organization including Nicole Dooley of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Neena Chaudhry of the National Women’s Law Center, David Stacy of the Human Rights Campaign, and Liz King, of the Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights.

Dooley was similarly critical of the Department of Education.

5 Congresswoman Maxine Waters speaks to participants in the Students Civil Rights Round Table about the US Department of Education’s new policies concerning students’ rights (L-R) Neena Chaudhry and Liz King. The roundtable was held in the Cannon Office Building on Thursday Nov. 15 2018. /Photo by Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer

“There are actions that [The Department of Education leaders] have taken since they’ve come into the administration in the last year in order to really pull back on diversity and signal that they don’t think diversity is a positive for K-12, and college campuses,” Dooley said.

The event was also attended by congresspersons Mark Takano of California and Yvette D. Clarke of New York both of whom were extremely laudatory of Waters’ work in civil rights over the course of her storied career.

Much of the event’s discussion centered on the rights of sexual assault victims, challenges that affect LGBTQ youth in education, and discrimination against students of color — particularly black males.

Prior to Devos’ announcement

Up Close and Progressive at Eaton Hotel

By Claudia Watts WI Contributing Writer @CallMeClaud You may have noticed a mysterious black building lined with lush potted plants sitting at the corner of 12th and K. It’s hard to miss and surely out of place among the more conservative, gray and brick buildings.

Through the doors, an air of swank greets you. Dark, rich colors, golden accents — art deco kissed with contemporary flair. It’s D.C.’s newest hotel and hot spot.

Eaton Hotel and House is the project of Katherine Lo and a brand extension of Hong Kong-based Langham, Hospitality Group.

Charged with creating a luxury concept that spoke to a more youthful audience, Lo envisioned a brand that challenged its guests to question social norms and connect beyond their realm of comfort.

“We are trying to transcend the

commercialism, and bring it towards a soulful complex, deep dialogue, beauty and aesthetics about what matters. I think that’s exciting to the artists, the process pushed their limits, the works really ask questions about the human condition and oppression, but they live in a space where people are living, hanging out and working.”

Luxurious, simplistic and balanced, the hotel boasts: 209 rooms, a holistic wellness center, rooftop lounge/live music venue (Wild Days), meeting rooms, radio station, coffee shop (Kintsugi), speakeasy (Allegory), restaurant (American Son), movie theater, newsstand and co-working space (Eaton House). Sustainability and intentionality can be felt throughout the compound; the newsstand sells local periodicals from around the country while the Kintsugi cafe proudly brews Red Rooster Coffee, known for its hardcore culture of sustainability. Eaton has also part-

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nered with Oyin Handmade, a Baltimore based brand, to source hair care products for African American guests, a first within the industry.

When it comes to art and the creative experience, the same level of thought was applied. Throughout the hotel, visitors will see art that requires more than surface level contemplation. Rotating exhibitions dance between loss and reclamation of identity while the commissioned works celebrate images of strong female forms like the 14x40 mosaic by Zoë Charlton that covers the back wall of Wild Days or the mural that re-imagines Alice in Wonderland through the lens of Ruby Bridges by Erik Thor-Sandberg.

Much of Lo’s vision has been achieved through the creation of a specialized team. Beyond the typical staff found at a hotel, Eaton also has a Director of Culture, Impact and Activism, Wellness, House

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Rep. Waters introduced a bill, the Education Department Civil Rights Transparency Act which proposes to amend the Department of Education Organization Act to require the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education to include in an annual report to the President and Congress specified information regarding federal civil rights violations by educational institutions.

“I think [the bill] will provide a great opportunity for Congress and for the public to see exactly how [the Department of Education] is investigating cases,” Dooley said.

Stacy concurred.

“I’ve reached out to the department and we can’t understand what their policy is around investigating [civil rights] cases especially around transgendered kids,” he said. “We

know there are complaints going in but we have no sense in how they’re processing them.”

Students attending the roundtable also felt that continued vigilance was critical. Janelle Gray, 19, of American University works with the campus NAACP chapter and felt that many current civil rights issues echo those of the past.

“I think that on the surface level a lot of action has been taken but it hasn’t produced long-lasting impact and affects for us and we’re still dealing with a lot of the same issues of racism and prejudice against students of color in the education system,” Gray said.

The Washington Informer will provide updates about this situation as it evolves.

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(co-working space) and Media.

There’s a reason Eaton feels top notch, Lo attracted stars across the industries of radio, film, journalism and art, uniting them around her cause. One of which is artist Sheldon Scott, the Director of Culture.

In this role, Scott is responsible for the visual arts, programming, musical performances and partnerships. He describes Eaton as a “new type of platform that will add another element to the city’s artistic landscape.”

Working as an artist in D.C. for over 9 years, Scott brings a unique perspective to the position through his dynamic practice that spans visual, performance and literary arts.

“In terms of having a creative population, D.C. has always had that,” he said. “A lot has gone unrecognized, largely because we didn’t have the infrastructure to support the variety of artists in the city. And with these new organizations, we have the opportunity to see these artists grow and access their potential within the city.”

The building itself is one of the greatest resources Eaton has to offer, creating a platform through rotating exhibitions, radio station programming, spaces for collaboration and a live rooftop venue.

Artist can also take advantage of the residency program that grants a stay up to thirty days, includes a $500 stipend and access to the wellness center for spiritual rejuvenation.

Eaton Hotel is poised to become a force on D.C.’s arts and culture scene. Yet, a question of accessibility lingers. Progressive or not, Eaton Hotel is a luxury brand. While its price points are on par with surrounding hotels and boutique businesses, these price points, coupled with perception as it relates to spaces and belonging, may be barriers for some of the very people the hotel seeks to serve and elevate. It will be interesting to see how this is reconciled via programming or other outreach initiatives as Eaton further cements itself on the scene. WI

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EDUCATION content knowledge, but need to develop more experience working in diverse communities.

• Pressure of IMPACT system: Some teachers are fearful and with the frequency of standardized exams, there is not enough time to evaluate data.

MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD Compiled by Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer

TEACHERS GIVE BOARD AN EARFUL

The DC State Board of Education heard directly from teachers in both DCPS and public charter schools on the effects felt by students when teachers leave their school.

Public witnesses also shared thoughts and comments as well as some reasons they believe teachers tend to leave District schools.

They suggested: • Hiring more qualified, experienced teachers could lead to less frequent meetings and professional development.

• Leaders should aim to look at achievement holistically versus just test scores, which would take pressure off administrators and teachers.

• Employing supportive superintendents who know the schools, teachers, and students will help teacher development and retention.

• Many teachers may have

More than 30 Friendship Public Charter School students from Tech Prep High in Ward 8, and Collegiate Academy in Ward 7, recently attended the D.C. Council’s Charter School Day. Friendship students greeted council members with confidence, listened and learned from other students, and raised spoke on issues that affect their school communities. They also asked council members how to secure funding for more college visits and study abroad programs, advocated for yoga and meditation resources that support students’ mental health, and called on council members to support construction of a Friendship football field.

lic charter school students — or 20,985 — are attending high-performing, Tier 1 schools, up from 45 percent — or 19,498 — in the 2017-18 school year.

Ten schools made the jump from Tier 2 to Tier 1 this year, with Shining Stars Montessori Academy PCS improving by 31 points. In addition, nearly nine out of the 10 public charter high schools either earned Tier 1 ranking or improved overall from the previous year.

“This is a comprehensive look at schools and public charter education in the District,” said Rick Cruz, board chair. “Our ratings look beyond test scores and include academic growth, graduation rates, family satisfaction, and much more. For families attending or considering a public charter school, this is a valuable and easy-to-use tool.”

FLAG FOOTBALL SEASON

An exciting flag football season at Thurgood Marshall Academy in Southeast recently ended with the team finishing as runners-up

5 TMA’s flag football team played on Oct. 10 against Maya Angelou, where they came in second place. /Courtesy of TMA

in the PCSAA Championships against Maya Angelou on Oct. 10.

TMA senior CeJun Peaks reflected on his time as team captain, their PCSAA championship and what’s next: “The team will continue to build and grow. I will be moving on to play basketball and run track but will always be available to support them.”

VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT

Ky’Eisha Penn volunteers at Thurgood Marshall Academy as part of the school’s Mentor Program and Howard Law Academy program.

Currently a third-year law student at Howard University, Penn attended Florida State University for her undergraduate studies and Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University for graduate school.

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ENROLLMENT INCREASE, TIER JUMP

The number of students attending top-ranked public charter schools increased for the fourth year, according to the DC Public Charter School Board’s recently released School Quality Report.

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EDITORIAL Survival of Historic Black Groups Rests in Change of Focus Over the past century, America’s leading Black organizations, including the NAACP, SNCC, CORE, NSBE, National Urban League, Rainbow PUSH Coalition and the National Action Network, have been instrumental in efforts to improve the quality of life for African Americans, secure equal rights and open previously-bolted doorways and windows long-denied from people of color.

And while some may think we’ve finally achieved equal status as U.S. citizens, the evidence suggests otherwise. Simply look at the midterms elections and voter suppression initiatives, the continuing injustice of the murders of innocent Black at the hands of poorly-trained law enforcement officials and vigilante white men and the ongoing decline of Black homeownership and it’s clear, African Americans still have not “overcome.”

That’s why we’re encouraged upon the recent decision of the National Council of Negro Women [NCNW] who appointed Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole as their new chair and president during their 58th Biennial National Convention. The organization, like many others, appeared to have floundered, losing its focus, if not its relevance, after the death of the incomparable Dr. Dorothy Height who led them for more than 50 years. Dr. Height followed in the footsteps of NCNW’s legendary founder, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune – a feat well worthy of praise.

But if the nation’s long-established Black organizations hope to remain alive and thrive in the new millennium, they must abandon their personality-driven strategies where one person alone determines their success, failure or continuity. Rather, it’s imperative that historic Black groups remain solely focused on building their institutions – not celebrating charismatic individuals.

Do they have young men and women standing in the wings who are being trained, mentored and allowed to exercise their talents and voices? If not, those organizations are planning their own inevitable demise. We must ensure that we’re prepared for tomorrow. But that only can happen if we’re cognizant of the importance of preparing today’s youth for the challenges that await in the future.

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Remembering Others at Thanksgiving It’s Thanksgiving – the season for being thankful. And despite the headlines, there’s much for which we can be grateful. At the same, this is also the season to treasure traditions. If there’s one thing that makes America great, it is its diversity of people and the traditions they practice freely throughout the year.

However, many indigenous people, specifically Native Americans, don’t view this day like other Americans do. Instead, it’s a day and time for mourning – a whitewashing so to speak of their history and heritage -- violently destroyed when white Europeans, “Pilgrims” as we learn from our history books, settled here and proceeded to dispossess them of their land. Fortunately, they held fast to their culture.

Just as the history of the Native American has remained uncelebrated and ignored, so has the history of other black and brown people. It’s been substantially erased from our history books, our school curricula, and our national celebrations, save for Black History and Hispanic Heritage Month.

Did you know that November is also Native American Indian Heritage month, declared as such by President George H.W. Bush on August 3, 1990? And every president since has proclaimed November in honor of Native Americans, including Donald Trump who declared, “As part of our American family, Native Americans will never be left behind under this Administration. Together, we WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM

TO THE EDITOR Don’t Forget Our Vets I really enjoyed the story about D.C. veterans and the photo on the cover. We must do all that we can to honor our veterans and tell their stories, especially the Black ones. Issues like housing, health care and jobs must be brought to the forefront not with just lip action, but physical action, so those that served will get their just do.

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will strengthen the relationship between the United States Government and Native Americans.”

Yet, last September, Native Americans in Montana and South Dakota sued the Trump Administration for approving an oil pipeline from Canada despite potential dangers. In an article published in Montana’s Star-Advertiser: “The tribes argue President Donald Trump

Remembering Mama Africa I can’t believe its been 10 years since Miriam Makeba has passed. As a young woman and even now, she inspired me to be proud of my roots and heritage and to love the songs of my people.

She is an icon to African women and we all acknowledge her. Sleep well, “Mama Africa.”

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brushed aside their rights and put their members at risk when he reversed President Barack Obama’s rejection of the $8 billion TransCanada Corp. project.”

From Trump’s disparaging reference to Representative Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” to his zero tolerance on illegal immigration and the forced separation of families, Native Americans see history repeating itself

leaving them little reason, still, to adopt Thanksgiving as a celebration and cultural tradition.

All said, not only as Americans but as human beings, taking time to say thank you and to give thanks is a good thing.

Even Native Americans agree with that. But in so doing, give thought, honor and homage to those who suffered so that others could thrive on this land called America. WI

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By Julianne Malveaux

Democrats Must Address Voting Irregularities

In the days after the Nov. 6 election day, you could not turn on a television or even have a conversation without hearing about aspects of voter suppression, voting irregularities, or merely extreme voting inconvenience. The lines were long, according to most reports, with too few voting booths at too many

places. I waited 45 minutes in the rain and watched several people walk away in frustration, or because they had to get to work.

My wait was short compared to those who said they waited hours in line because their polling place had too few voting booths or nonworking voting booths. At Morehouse College in Atlanta, polls stayed open until 10 p.m. because the polling station ran out of paper ballots. The voting space near Clark Atlanta University had mostly non-

working voting booths until 5 p.m. when new ones were delivered. At a Michigan polling place, the poll workers and voters were on time, but voting booths were locked in a closet no one had access to!

As I write this, several Congressional districts remain undecided.

Georgia’s gubernatorial race was nothing but shenanigans, with “Secretary of State” Brian Kemp manipulating voter registration and more as soon as he realized that the amazing Stacey Abrams was a

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formidable candidate. He seems to have targeted African American voters with the voter registrations he did not accept because of trivial “exact match” law. Of 53,000 registrations denied, it was estimated that 80 percent were African American.

Florida has been a hot monkey mess since 2000, and while Gov. Rick Scott (R) is complaining now, he could have done lots of things to ensure a clean vote, including providing more resources for vot-

ing operations in the state’s most populous counties, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.

All of these had challenges getting recounts submitted on time, and because Broward County submitted their results a scant two minutes late, their recount (which includes absentee, military and other ballots) will not be added to vote totals. Instead, their original voter count will stand. We don’t know

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By E. Faye Williams

America Has Come to This

Recently we learned of boys in Wisconsin throwing Nazi salutes and flashing “White power” signs. This is disturbing. Who taught them to do this? Did they learn it at home or school? Did they pick it up from the chaos in our nation? I wonder if students even know what the salute means.

I wonder how their parents and teachers reacted. Obviously, the salute was planned. It defies imagination to believe so many

boys just happened to throw the salute at the same time. Apparently, what they did was OK with the photographer, school administration (until recently) and the parents from whom I’ve heard no public comment.

The school district issued the following statement following a public outcry, but surely they had seen the photograph previously.

“The photo of students posted to #BarabooProud is not reflective of the educational values and beliefs of the School District of Baraboo. We are investigating and will pursue any and all available and appropriate actions, in-

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cluding legal, to address.”

I wouldn’t call that statement sufficient to address such a serious case, so I’m left to believe America really has come to this.

As much as many of us tried to believe America is better than this, we’ve been greatly disappointed to learn that all of our efforts, things really aren’t getting better. It’s like what my ancestors often said: “We take a step forward, and two steps back.”

This isn’t the only disgusting incident that’s been made public from the same school. There was an incident in 2012 where students from Baraboo found it OK to fly Confederate flags, claim-

ing it was to honor the death of a friend! We’ve certainly seen our share of pickup trucks running around with Confederate flags and guns in the windows of trucks representing an in-yourface act of racism. This isn’t just by high school boys. These are adults to whom these boys must look for appropriate behavior.

So, whatever is wrong with these boys, they learned it from adults who never taught their children the sacrifices some of their ancestors made to perfect our union for all of its citizens.

They had to fight within and outside our country to protect us and to save our nation from de-

struction. My ancestors, as well as the ancestors of these boys, died in various wars. Either they don’t care or they don’t know what they were doing.

I’m told as many as 20,000 people from Wisconsin died fighting Confederate powers and Confederate powers during the Civil War and World War II. Many of them are buried in Wisconsin and other places in the U.S. and the World. Instead of honoring their sacrifice, these high school students have totally disrespected them. They must be taught the history of this country

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By A. Peter Bailey

A Revealing Look at the Immigration Controversy

Anyone who is shocked or surprised by the current immigration battles in Europe and the United States must not have read a 2006 column in the New York Post newspaper written by Ralph Peters. They also must be unaware of the 1916 book, “The Passing of the Great Race,” by Madison Grant.

Peters, who was a military analyst for Fox News, noted in his column, “The ‘Eurabia’ Myth,”: “The notion that continental Europeans, who are world-cham-

pion haters, will let the impoverished Muslim immigrants they confine to ghettos take over their societies and extend the caliphate from the Amalfi Coast to Amsterdam has it exactly wrong.

The endangered species isn’t the ‘peace-loving Europeans tolling in his or her welfare state, but the continent’s Muslim immigrant and their multi-generational descendants — who were foolish enough to imagine that Europeans would share their toys…

Don’t let Europe’s current round of playing pacifist dress-up fool you. This is the continent that perfected genocide and ethnic cleansing… The historical pat-

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terns are clear: When Europeans feel sufficiently threatened. …

They don’t just react, they overreact with stunning ferocity. One of their more humane (and frequently employed techniques) has been ethnic cleansing.”

By changing Europeans to Americans and Muslims to Latinos, one will see what President Trump and his Trumpettes are all about when it comes to immigration.

The irony is that many of the Trumpettes would have been rejected by Grant, who was a first-class White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) supremacist.

In his book, he divided Europe-

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ans into three “races” — Nordics, Alpines and Mediterranean. To say that he was disgusted by the quality of the Europeans pouring into the United States in the late 1890s and early 1900s is an understatement. The following is a small sampling of his repulsion over the incoming immigrants: “These new immigrants were no longer exclusively members of the Nordic race as were the earlier ones. … The transportation lines advertised America as a land flowing with milk and honey, and the European governments took the opportunity to unload upon careless, wealthy and hospitable America the sweepings

from their jails and asylums. The result was that the new immigrants…contained a large and increasing number of the weak, the broken and the mentally crippled of all races drawn from the lowest stratum of the Mediterranean basin and the Balkans, together with hordes of the wretched, submerged populations of the Polish ghettos. … The American taxed himself to sanitize and educate these poor helots, and as soon as they could speak English, encouraged them to enter into the political life, first of the municipalities and then of the nation.

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By Marc H. Morial

Dem Takeover of House Doesn’t Ensure Obamacare’s Safety

“I’m signing it for 11-year-old Marcelas Owens, who’s also here.

Marcelas lost his mom to an illness. And she didn’t have insurance and couldn’t afford the care that she needed. So in her memory he has told her story across America so that no other children have to go through what his family has experienced. … We are a nation that faces its challenges and accepts its responsibilities.

We are a nation that does what

is hard. What is necessary. What is right. Here, in this country, we shape our own destiny. That is what we do. That is who we are.

That is what makes us the United States of America.” — President Barack Obama, March 23, 2010, on signing the Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act of 2010, also known as “Obamacare,” is one of the most consequential acts of Congress in the 21st Century, especially for African Americans. The ACA slashed the Black uninsured rate by 40%. According to the National Urban League’s annual re-

port on the social and economic status of African Americans, State of Black America, racial health disparities began to narrow as a result of the law.

The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to repeal the ACA more than 50 times since 2011, only to have the repeal blocked by the Senate. While the administration may have succeeded in chipping away at the law through executive action, the Democratic takeover of the House at least will put an end to attempts at full repeal.

The 2018 midterm campaign season saw candidates across the

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political spectrum campaigning on promises to retain the ACA’s provisions barring insurers from denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions or charging sick people more. Even candidates who previously voted to repeal the ACA adopted the rhetoric.

Voters in Idaho, Nebraska and Utah even passed ballot initiatives that will expand Medicaid to more than 330,000 low-income adults, an option made possible by the Affordable Care Act. Recent polling and the results of the election make it clear: the vast majority of Americans sup-

port the ACA and rely on its protections. And the incoming Congress has vowed to strengthen it.

To be sure, there is work to be done. The very first executive order issued by the current administration was a vague directive to “to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation of any provision or requirement of the Affordable Care Act” that imposes a cost, fee or “regulatory burden.”

Since then, the administration and the Congress have taken dozens of steps to sabotage the law,

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By Bill Fletcher Jr.

Trump, the Republicans and the Neo-Confederate Objective

It became very clear to anyone who was watching that in the lead-up to the Nov. 6 elections, Trump and his allies focused on two things: putting their hands on your wallets and, in order to do that, reinforce the idea that the USA is a White republic (and keep White people thinking about that and only that). To put it another way, they want to re-

store the Confederacy.

Trump had many tactical options in the weeks prior to the election as a way of inspiring his base. He could have played to the economy which has continued to grow, largely as a result of decisions made during the Obama era but claimed by Trump. The problem is that the results of the economic improvements have been very uneven and working-class people have largely stagnated. Despite that, he could have made the argument. Trump regularly fudges the truth.

Trump and his Republican acolytes chose a different route, one with a long history in U.S. politics. They first used the Justice Kavanaugh hearings to reaffirm male supremacy, making it appear that men are under attack in the USA and that women’s concerns about sexual assault are misplaced. This “rally the White men” challenge was followed by an equally nefarious tactic: a call for an all-out mobilization against a mythical, so-called immigrant invasion coming from Central America. Facts to the

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contrary, Trump — and repeated by some of his key allies — argued that the several thousand refugees in Central America were threatening the U.S. way of life.

The response was truly remarkable and clarified that Trump’s messages are not for the U.S. electorate but for the White American electorate. When he and his followers suggest that their way of life is being threatened, they mean that the privileged status of Whites and men — compared with people of color and women, respectively—has been

called into question by those of us who believe in democracy and justice. Thus, Trump plays not to an abstract fear but a specific fear among large numbers of Whites: a fear of the future.

What do Trump and his supporters want? The critical image that is now materializing is that of the Confederate States of America. Right-wing populists have for decades seen in the Confederacy the iconic moment when White supremacy and male supremacy

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By Askia Muhammad

My, Oh My, Oh My Mississippi

As a child, I was always kind of ashamed about being from Mississippi. The place has a terrible reputation. I grew up in Los Angeles, and even though I shuddered at the rumors, I still loved to go “home” for summer vacations.

My grandmother, Ollie Lee Canteberry, and my uncle Forrest Canteberry were very good at shielding me from most of the “madness” that went on there. For example, it wasn’t until weeks after

I was back in L.A. that the world learned that 14-year-old Emmett Till — visiting from Chicago — had been kidnapped and murdered outside of Greenwood (Money), Miss., just 30 miles from my hometown, Indianola. The soil in that state is stained with the blood of thousands of martyrs.

I was 10 years old at the time, but even I knew that the open-casket funeral pictures meant a warning to all Black boys: “This could just as easily be you.” Mississippi is the state where the most lynchings took place in U.S. history.

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Trump is on his way there to campaign just before a Nov. 27 U.S. Senate special election. The Donald hopes to rally the extremist, White supremacist elements in the Magnolia State against Mike Espy — a Black former member of Congress whose opponent is a White woman named Cindy Hyde-Smith.

She’s not just any woman, she said recently, she would proudly attend a “public hanging” if invited by one of her supporters, and she praised the idea of making it “just a little more difficult” for “liberal folks in those other schools” to vote.

Hers are not veiled, dog-dwhistle appeals that are obvious only to those already attuned to her hate. No. Her comments are like a foghorn, blatant and ugly, and without apology. Despite it all, or maybe because of it all, Espy has new hope in the runoff election Nov. 27.

“I actually think [his chances] are pretty good. He’s made a lot of historic firsts in his career,” said Dr. Sade Turnipseed an associate professor of history at Mississippi Valley State University. “I just know that the momentum is real, and it’s felt throughout the com-

munity, and I truly do believe that enough people are outraged by that woman’s behavior that they will be shaming themselves to actually pull that lever in her favor … but again, we are dealing with Mississippi, and so Mississippi just breaks the mold of everything racist, that we think is progress from racism.”

Hyde-Smith was appointed by Mississippi’s Republican governor last spring to replace Sen. Thad Cochran, who retired because of poor health. That prompted a special election Nov. 6 and there’s a runoff

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LIFESTYLE THANKS from Page 1 sudden illness brought her to the brink of losing her home.

“I’m thankful to be alive and will never forget how they helped me – and how God opened doors for me and my son,” said Jennifer R. Hayes, 45, a Woodbridge resident who remembers almost dying earlier this year in April.

“Veterans going through transition need help and I learned that while there’s money to help you after losing your home to regain it, options are few for those who desperately want to sustain their housing and stability. That’s what Friendship Place, especially my counselor, Shannon Young, did for me. I just needed some help. They made a way for me to get my VA disability claim moved quickly through the red tape, they paid my rent and they supported me, along with the Women’s Veterans Interactive until I could get back on my feet. It was awesome – they’re awesome,” said Hayes, who suffered four heart attacks and organ failure as a result of service-connected injuries.

“Veterans have shown their love for our country; it’s a shame that we’re so often forgotten,” she added.

Like Hayes, Mostafa El-Erain, an

Egyptian-American and divorced father of two, 17 and 24, said words will never express his gratitude for the assistance he received from the staff of Friendship Place.

“It was incredible – they were like angels from the sky – and they don’t use a cookie cutter approach,” said El-Erain, 53, who lives in Tysons Corner and served in Iraq for eight years as a civilian advisor to the military.

“When I returned to the U.S., PTSD and other issues – trying to get over what I had experienced there – caused my life to fall apart,” he said.

“I went through an ugly divorce, I fought to reconnect with my family and after once being a very successful lawyer, I didn’t have a job. I needed to become a productive member of society again. I needed to feel good about myself. And at all levels, the folks at Friendship Place understood me and what I was going through.”

“Sometimes we don’t want to ask for help. But I did. And they helped me move forward without feeling a sense of shame or humiliation. They’re a credible organization. More than anything else, they kept their promises – all of them,” he said.

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In Ward 5, the Family Life Center and Project Feed 5000 provided over 2,000 families with complete Thanksgiving meal boxes that included turkeys, fresh produce, traditional sides and fixings and other breakfast items. In addition, they partnered with Carolina Kitchen to feed 1,500 people who needed hot meals on Thanksgiving Day. Why? Because as their leaders said, “the DC Metro Area has the second highest food hardship and accessibility in the nation. We just followed the directive of Christ.”

Dr. Susie Owens, co-pastor, Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church in Northeast and Carrie Hood-Clark, director for the Family Outreach Center, both say the work they and their members do for the community only serves to illustrate their obedience to Christ and their concern for their neighbors.

“Our goal is to eliminate as much hunger in the area as possible; we’re concerned about people and their

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5 Washington Wizards point guard John Wall hands out turkeys in Southeast on Thursday, Nov. 15 through the John Wall Family Foundation partnering with Giant Food to provide turkeys to families at Bright Beginnings, Inc., an early childhood and family learning center for children and families experiencing homelessness. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter

needs and want others to know that we’re not just a house of worship.

We’re also a place where human and physical needs will be met,” Owens said. “The gospels make it clear to us: just as Jesus took what we had available and made it last, made it even more so that thousands could be fed – and with more left over – we, too, have joined with others from the area to offer our help.”

Owens, whose vision served as the impetus for Project Feed 5000, found additional, willing partners in businesses and agencies including Aldi, Giant Foods, U-Haul, Bea Lamp and Capital Area Food Bank.

“People don’t often wear their needs on their sleeves, so unless they reach out to us, we may not know that they are in need,” Hood-Clark said. “That’s why we have to remain intentional about reaching out to

those in our community.”

“We have to be about developing relationships, we must stay in touch.

Maybe we’ve lost that touch these days. But the need has not disappeared. The need is there – even if we don’t see it. And we have to be there with services available 365 days of the year. No one should be forgotten even within the midst of the hustle and bustle of the holiday season,” she said.

Spreading cheer and providing turkeys, fixing and even tickets to a Washington Wizards basketball game, showed the concern that Councilmember Trayon White and Wizards star John Wall continue

to have for those living East of the River.

Both partnered with local food businesses including Giant, to bring smiles on the faces and fill the stomachs of Ward 8 residents.

For Wall, he continued his nineyear commitment as a supporter of Bright Beginnings under the umbrella of The John Wall Family Foundation.

Meanwhile, White reached out to his Ward 8 family – a community for which he says he cares very deeply.

“Partnerships and events like [these] are instrumental in effectively impacting the community we serve . . . so that no family goes without food this holiday season,” said Dr. Marla Dean, executive director, Bright Beginnings.

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Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson and the Mississippi contest.

Espy once served as agriculture secretary under Democratic President Bill Clinton and in 1986 became the first African-American from Mississippi elected to Congress since the Reconstruction period.

Born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, Espy received a bachelor’s degree from Howard University in 1975 and then attended the University of Santa Clara where he received his law degree in 1978. Espy returned to Mississippi after law school and worked as an attorney for Central Mississippi Legal Services from 1978 to 1980, according to blackpast.org.

Between 1980 and 1984, Espy served as assistant secretary of the Public Lands Division for the State of Mississippi and then took the post of assistant state attorney general for consumer protection, a position he

held until 1985.

The following year Espy won the 2nd Congressional District seat, which included much of the Mississippi Delta, becoming the only black Congressman to represent a predominately rural district.

Now, in Mississippi, Washington and as far away as New Jersey, Espy’s race has gained prominence.

“Mike Espy has a deep-rooted dedication to the people of Mississippi — and the nation,” Booker said. “Mike worked to expand and extend economic opportunity for those who needed it most — including young people, businesses and farmers.Now Mississippi voters have the chance to put him back to work in the Senate, fighting for the things we desperately need today — like better jobs, improved educational opportunities and affordable health care.” WI

ACLU’s statement said.

Espy himself weighed in.

“Cindy Hyde-Smith’s comments are reprehensible,” Espy said. “They have no place in our political discourse, in Mississippi, or our country. We need leaders, not dividers, and her words show that she lacks the understanding and judgment to represent the people of our state.”

The race for the Senate out of Mississippi has grown in its importance since election day. With the Democrats taking control of the House, the party has continued to narrow the majority in the Senate.

After a stunning victory in Arizona by Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, Republicans hold a narrow majority of 51 to 47, with two other Senate races still unresolved — in Florida between GOP Gov. Rick Scott and

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Seniors Displaced by Fire Enjoy Thanksgiving Love Raheem DeVaughn Helps

By Hamil R. Harris Inn’s DC/Capitol location. toiletries and other essentials,” And in the months since the said AKA chapter President April WI Contributing Writer Feed the District’s Homeless fire, District merchants and civBy Brigette Squire WI Contributing Writer

A young lady who goes by the name Versace was serenaded

by R&B artist and D.C. native Raheem DeVaughn on Nov. 14, which just happened to be her birthday and the day of a great feast for the homeless. She danced in circles as the crowd sang the traditional version of the birthday song and Stevie Wonder’s version.

“Just because people are displaced or having a hard time doesn’t mean they are not entitled to the finest of meals and entertainment,” DeVaughn said.

Versace, along with about 100 other homeless citizens, enjoyed a grand Thanksgiving feast consisting of baked turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, macaroni and cheese, green beans, vegetable medley, butternut squash soup, sweet Hawaiian rolls, banana pudding and cupcakes.

Everyone filled their stomachs with food from Campus Kitchen, prepared by Chef Anthony Mickens and donated by volun-

teers in the community.

“This year, 21 turkeys were donated,” said Mickens, who has cooked for this event for the past four years. “I have a team of five volunteers and it took us two days to cook all the food.”

Cheerfully serving the homeless were volunteers from Love Life Foundation, Friendship Place, The Black law students association, Akoma, and Distant relatives organizations.

“We usually network with Love Life when they have events,” said Alma Hammah, founder of Akoma. “We bring toiletry bags with socks, mouthwash, toothpaste, toothbrush, and a snack so they will have something to take with them after they eat dinner.”

Following the meal was a mini concert from DeVaughn, founder of Love Life.

“Activities like this are very important to make sure we restore their dignity,” DeVaughn said. “Letting them know that they still matter. They are still a part of this country, this neighborhood, and this corridor.”

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Three months after a fire destroyed parts of a senior housing complex in Southeast, an army of compassionate “soldiers” made sure that the affected residents would still enjoy a holiday meal and receive extra love this Thanksgiving Day. In September, 160 senior citizens were displaced when a fire blazed through the four-story Arthur Capper affordable housing building located in the Navy Yard neighborhood. Two months after the fire, 40 of those residents remain housed at the Residence

ic groups have stepped up to help the displaced seniors. Just days before Thanksgiving, the Xi Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. teamed up with Residence Inn to host “Blessings in a Banquet” for the seniors.

“As part of our season of giving, and in keeping with the sorority’s commitment of service to all mankind, Xi Omega is serving these 40 seniors with a warm Thanksgiving dinner provided by Residence Inn and gifting them with bags of non-perishable food,

Gaines. “Because these displaced residents have been through so much this fall, we’re grateful to partner with Residence Inn to make the season a little better for them.”

District officials fed thousands at the Walter Washington Convention Center on Thanksgiving Day while members of the Washington Redskins distributed tons of turkeys and food bags at FedEx Field – examples of outreach efforts in the area that remain part of yearly giveaways for those in need.

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LIFESTYLE Thelonious Monk Institute Jazz Competition Returns to D.C. Annual Event Has Launched Many Award-Winning Careers

By Brenda C. Siler WI Contributing Writer Building on the music tradition of iconic jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, 14 young jazz musicians will come to D.C. to compete in the 30th annual Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Competition.

The last time the event was in the District was in 2013. The two-day competition scheduled for Dec. 2-3, will spotlight jazz pianists 30 and younger from around the world.

The 14 young piano semifinalists will compete before an all-star panel of judges, including jazz pianists Monty Alexander, Joanne Brackeen, Cyrus Chestnut, Jason Moran, Danilo Pérez, Renee Rosnes and

Herbie Hancock, who is chairman of the Institute.

The semifinalist round is free and open to the public on Dec. 2 from noon to 5 p.m. at Baird Auditorium in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Three finalists will be selected from this group and will compete in a final round on Monday, Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

“Finalists are vying for more than $100,000 in scholarships and prizes,” the competition organizers said.

“Winnings include a $25,000 firstplace scholarship and guaranteed recording contract with Concord Music Group. The second-place finalist will receive a $15,000 scholarship and the third-place finalist will

5 The late music icon Aretha Franklin receives the Institute’s Maria Fisher Founder’s Award in 2011 at the Kennedy Center with (from left) Institute Chairman Herbie Hancock, Jennifer Hudson, Colin Powell, Dianne Reeves and Madeleine Albright. /Photo by Steve Mundinger and the Institute

receive a $10,000 scholarship.”

On Monday, following the performances by the competition finalists, there is an all-star concert with a special tribute to the late Aretha Franklin, who was an Institute supporter for more than two decades through her many performances

and contributions to the organization’s jazz education programs. Also on Monday, Dee Dee Bridgewater, National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, multiple Grammy Award-winning vocalist and Tony Award-winning actress, will receive the Institute’s Maria Fisher Founder’s Award.

Proceeds from the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition and All-Star Gala Concert will help fund the Institute’s public school education programs in D.C., Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, Newark, San Francisco and the Mississippi Delta.

This year’s Institute competition marks the last year the event will be under the name of Thelonious Monk. Effective Jan. 1, 2019, the Institute become the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz. Hancock has been Institute Chairman for the past 15 years.

“Having the Institute named in my honor is tremendously humbling and represents a profound moment for my family and me,”

Hancock said. “I’m looking forward to continuing in my role as Institute Chairman and carrying on and expanding the organization’s important worldwide jazz education and humanitarian initiatives.”

Under the new name, the Institute will continue to offer college-level training by internationally acclaimed jazz masters and global programs that profile up-and-coming jazz talent.

The Institute’s annual jazz competition has launched the careers of several major jazz artists including saxophonist Joshua Redman; vocalists Cécile McLorin Salvant, Jane Monheit and Gretchen Parlato; pianist Marcus Roberts; bassist Ben Williams; and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire.

For ticket information for the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition Finals and All-Star Gala Concert on Monday, Dec. 3rd at 7:30 p.m., contact the Kennedy Center box office by calling 800-4441324, or online at www.kennedy-center.org.

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Alonzo Bodden Delivers Laughs on Many Platforms Comic Performing in DC Area on Thanksgiving Weekend

By Brenda C. Siler WI Contributing Writer You know Alonzo Bodden.

In 2005, he was Season 3 winner on “Last Comic Standing.”

He’s been on Animal Planet’s “Animal Nation” with Anthony Anderson. He has been motorcycling on Jay Leno’s Garage. His comedy special was on Showtime. He was on a roundtable discussion about White privilege on Dr. Phil. He’s heard regularly on the news quiz show “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” airing on National Public Radio (NPR).

In other words, you’ve seen or heard Bodden just about everywhere.

Showing up in a lot of places is the secret to Bodden’s wide appeal.

Audiences will see Bodden sticking to his stand-up roots when he performs at the Arlington Cinema ‘N’ Drafthouse on Nov. 23-24.

I caught up with Bodden as he juggled several projects before coming to the D.C. area for the Thanksgiving weekend.

“Anywhere I can get a job, I take it,” Bodden said about his approach to success. “Stand-up is my principle thing. It’s my biggest passion.”

Bodden has been able to weave his comedic skills with his abili-

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ty to give quick social commentary. His podcast “Who’s Paying Attention,” is a platform for his stream-of-consciousness style of opinion delivery on current issues.

His recent appearance on “Dr. Phil,” where there was an intense discussion about White privilege, allowed Bodden to provide levity to the discussion while “keeping it real.”

“People will know they need someone funny to help out with a heavy topic,” he said. “That’s why that worked out well and I commend Dr. Phil with what he did with the topic.”

“Wait, Wait …” the live NPR news and entertainment quiz show has expanded Bodden’s fan base, keeps him and fellow panelists on their toes. They do not know the topics in advance on which they comment, and there’s the added dynamic of call-in contestants.

Bodden said he comes to the “Wait, Wait…” panel well-prepared because he’s exposed to issues and different news feeds from his travels.

“I’ve always been a bit of a news junkie,” Bodden said about his success on the NPR show. “I know it is a gift and I don’t know how it’s a gift. I hear something, and I spit something back that’s funny. Otherwise, I’d have to get a day job.”

With D.C. being a heavily political news environment, Bodden should have lots of issues to cover.

He knows it can’t be avoided and he’s not trying to avoid it, but feels that D.C. audiences are smart and will “get” the points he touches on.

When not on the road, Bodden sharpens this comedy routine for an upcoming broadcast special and he is promoting his fifth comedy CD titled “Man Overboard.” He’s having a great run of success and his respected by other comics.

“The Daily Show’s” Trevor Noah has described Bodden as “one of the funniest people you’ll ever see on stage.” D.C. audiences will find out for themselves when Bodden performs at the Arlington Draft House.

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in Upper Marlboro, started his 30-minute set with “I Got That,” a song that triggered the audience to Gospel music — with its lows stand the entire night.

Brown’s testimony of being diagand highs of joy and sorrow, faith and hope, along with its rhythmic, nosed as dyslexic and a special-ed punching hip-hop beats and vocal student as a child stirred the audiarrangements — places a contem- ence as he asked, “whose report will porary gospel concert at an un- you believe?” before launching into “I Am (Miracle).” matched intensity.

Brown’s set culminated with an Tasha Cobbs Leonard’s “Revival” tour at the Warner Theater in intense performance of “Worth.”

Leonard, a resident of Atlanta, if Northwest on Thursday, Nov. 15 featuring nonstop, heart-stirring, imaginable after listening to Brown, pulse-pounding music from one raised the intensity.

Terrance Crowley, a videograof the faith nation’s most powerful worship leaders of this generation pher working on the Leonard tour, said that at every one of her conwas nothing short of amazing.

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sang “You Know My Name,” she knows people are in the room, but she wants them to experience the love God has shown her.

What makes Leonard’s style unique is the power of being authentic. The lyrics in every song prove breakthrough, perseverance, and destiny leaving an imprint on the heart.

“The River of the Lord,” a song with a foot-stomping, hand-clapping, down-home country music feeling, showed Leonard’s ability to sing any music genre.

Concertgoers Pastor John J. Jenkins Sr. attending with his wife Lady Trina, said of the concert, “She is amazing! She is an anointed praise and worship leader, an incredible and gifted psalmist.”

Notably, a great number of attendees appeared to be millennials.

TV journalist and influencer Jawn Murray said, “Tasha is the most important female gospel artist of this time. There is a belief that young people do not go to church anymore, but 75 percent of the people who bought tickets for this concert tonight were under the age of 30 and I think that’s remarkable.”

Leaving some concerts, patrons can be overheard saying what they wish had been played or sang. After Leonard’s performance, total satisfaction could be seen in the delightful smiles, and tears of joy from a large number of attendees.

The concert left an indelible mark on the audience who Leonard encouraged to live their best life with God. “This concert was phenomenal, she did not disappoint,” said longtime fan and D.C. resident Richard Love Jr. “It was such an elegant, awesome performance.” WI

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LIFESTYLE

‘Anything Goes’ a Fresh Take on an Old Classic

By Eve M. Ferguson WI Contributing Writer

When Molly Smith decided to stage a revival of the 1934 musical “Anything Goes,” she practically had to say “everything goes.” Except, of course, for the iconic Cole Porter tunes that include “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “It’s De-Lovely” and the title tune.

But as the longtime artistic director of Arena Stage, Smith acknowledged that the original script was full racist and misogynistic references. So she had those issues rewritten and re-

vised to be less offensive. Then, she made her cast look “more like America,” with a cast of all colors and races.

But, she added, the leading lady role, Reno Sweeney, “had to be an African-American woman.”

And so, the incredible Soara-Joye Ross stepped into the role and blew the roof off of the theater as the sophisticated lead.

Ross’ combination of suaveness and badness made her compelling, even when she wasn’t singing to the hilt, tapping or dancing her way across the Fichlander’s theater-in-the-round stage.

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In her Arena Stage debut, Ross is just coming off of a run as Frankie in John Doyle’s New York revival of “Carmen Jones” and was nominated for the AUDELCO award.

Her co-lead, Corbin Bleu of “High School Musical” fame, showed his muster in tap, waltzing and singing big, bold Broadway numbers to the delight of the audience.

Set on a ship making a trans-Atlantic voyage from New York to London, the thinly masked plot serves primarily as a vehicle for the songs, dances and some slapstick jokes, but is basically a boy-meets-girl, boyloses-girl, boy-and-girl-live-happily-ever-after tale.

Beyond adhering to the original score by Porter, the orchestra captured the light-hearted romanticism of the tunes, which are considered part of the Great American Songbook.

“You’re the Top,” “Friendship” and “Blow Gabriel, Blow,” are just a few of the other big numbers that bring forth both a sense of familiarity, and a burst of fantasy rooted in a sentimental past.

The period costumes, designed

by Alejo Vietti were elegant and flawless. It was a time when spectator pumps, sailor outfits and chic sashes and toppers were all the vogue.

Choreographed by longtime associate Parker Esse, Smith’s role as director brought this idyllic musical back to a fresh place that is both spectacular and fun simultaneously.

Actress Kristyn Pope plays one of Reno Sweeney’s entourage of dancing angels, Chastity, and is no newcomer to Arena Stage.

5 (L to R) Soara-Joye Ross (Reno Sweeney) and Corbin Bleu (Billy Crocker) in Anything Goes running November 2 through December 23, 2018 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. /Photo courtesy of Maria Baranova

“Anything Goes” marks my third Arena Stage production,” Pope said. “I was a swing in ‘Sophisticated Ladies,’ which was presented at the historic Lincoln Theatre. Following that, I was a replacement in the reboot of ‘Oklahoma!’

“Arena Stage is truly a magical place, one that encourages, supports, cultivates and empowers artists,” she said. “It’s truly a theater home with an incredible extended family. I try to enter opportunities without expectation, but I’m hoping to grow, learn and spread joy while I’m here.”

The expectations that this

newly configured, more inclusive version of “Anything Goes” will spread joyfulness and good humor during the upcoming holiday season are high and come with newly minted accolades.

One seasoned theater aficionado commented, “Anything Goes” is refreshing and full of light and merriment in an uncertain time.”

“Anything Goes” plays at the Arena Stage’s Fichlander Stage through Dec. 23. Visit www.arenastage.org for tickets and show times. Several of the shows will feature post-performance discussions. WI

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“Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster”

by Stephen L. Carter c.2018, Henry Holt $30 ($39 Canada) / 365 pages

ARIES The upbeat focus continues this week, although you might find yourself questioning your beliefs and thinking about what is true for you and what isn’t. You could be in seeker mode, looking for the next big thing that will change your life. However, the present astrological picture suggests that opportunities will come to you if you can be in the right place at the right time. Lucky Numbers: 3, 35, 44 TAURUS Your social life continues to look upbeat as dynamic Mars powers through this sector of your chart. You might be in a very trusting mood and inclined to share a secret at the start of the week. If so, think very carefully because someone may think nothing of passing it on. Lucky Numbers: 2, 9, 30 GEMINI It would be wise not to promise more than you can deliver, especially earlier in the week, and particularly if you’re hoping to impress someone. With a very lively blend of energies showing up, you could genuinely offer your services only to find that a task is beyond your abilities.

If you’re honest about what you can do, your reputation can remain intact. Lucky Numbers: 15, 21, 37

Invisible

By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer Here I am!

You raise your hand higher so you don’t go unnoticed. You speak up, so you aren’t overlooked. It’s a natural human need: pay attention, here I am, look this way, see me. For some, it’s easy to get recognition; for others — as in the new book “Invisible” by Stephen L. Carter — years later, it still doesn’t arrive.

Eunice Hunton was eight years old when she told a little playmate that she wanted to be a lawyer someday. That wasn’t too far-fetched — both her parents were successful, educated activists for “the darker nation” — but it was unlikely, since just a handful of “Negroes” were lawyers in 1907, and even fewer were women.

Her mother believed that raising a family was a woman’s highest achievement but as an adult, Eunice would have none of that. She did her duty, marrying a Harlem dentist and bearing a son, but when faced with the possibility of a lifetime as a socialite, she couldn’t bear the thought. Mindful of her childhood dream, she enrolled at Fordham Law School in the fall of 1927.

“Eunice,” says Carter, “found the law fascinating.”

From tailor-made suits to lawsuits was an amazing “reinvention,” but not one without sacrifice, including an eventual estrangement with her son and a strained marriage. Still, for her, the hardship must’ve been worth it, especially when, soon after graduation from law school and becoming politically active, she was asked to be one of 20 lawyers (and the only woman) appointed to work with attorney Thomas Dewey to end the hold that the mob had on New York City.

For quite some time, New Yorkers had been complaining about prostitution in their neighborhoods, and as the only woman on staff, it fell to Eunice to deal with those everyday citizens. Says Carter, the menial job was probably meant to discourage her but instead, she “mined the stacks of citizen’s complaints … and she found gold” in the form of a crooked line of corruption, payoffs, and a mobster who quietly controlled it all. In the end, Eunice “knew she had the makings of a case. The question was whether anyone would believe her.”

That, of course, is not the end of this story; Eunice Hunton Carter was a relatively young woman when she helped take down mobster Lucky Luciano and she later went on to enjoy brief fame for what amounted to a second career in politics. Here, though, author Stephen L. Carter — who was Eunice’s grandson — also recounts heartaches she endured, her frustrations as an ambitious Black woman in Jim Crow America, and personal stories that show what made Eunice who she was. What she accomplished was astounding, but it’s that latter that makes this book lively and touchable, as though we’ve been invited to sit at someone’s grand family table.

History is filled with legions of people who affected lives but never got properly lauded for it. For one woman, “Invisible” changes that and more, and if you’re looking for a sink-your-teeth-in book, here it is. WI WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM

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CANCER The desire for something different could see you pursuing new adventures, and this might encourage you to leave your comfort zone. It could even lead you to be a little reckless at times. Think before you take a gamble or do something that you might come to regret later. You could be very optimistic and it might seem as though anything you turn your hand to is bound to succeed. This buoyant mood is likely to continue all week. Lucky Numbers: 1, 12, 18 LEO You’ll be ready for adventures galore this week, but Monday could see you making a decision that turns out to be expensive unless you investigate the details first. It’s all very well and good to have a great idea, but think it through before you dive in with abandon. Lucky Numbers: 3, 4, 13 VIRGO There’s a major focus on your domestic sector this week and over the coming weeks that could inspire change on the home front. However, don’t bite off more than you can chew at the start of the week because it could prove expensive. You and a partner might be eager to make some changes to your abode, but it could backfire if it’s too ambitious. Perhaps getting some advice from an interior decorator or someone with a good eye would be a helpful start. Lucky Numbers: 28, 35, 55 LIBRA The week ahead could be one of big stories, big ideas, and even bigger plans. Monday might see you diving in to help with a project that turns out to be too much. Make sure you’re not the only one chipping in and that others are there to support you in your efforts. If not, you can always say no. Lucky Numbers: 38, 43, 58 SCORPIO Go easy with the money on Monday, especially if you’re buying gifts for the family or taking them on a holiday outing. You have a naturally generous streak, which is a good thing, but reining in the spending just a little could save you a lot. Set yourself a limit and you could find that gift buying is much easier. Lucky Numbers: 12, 13, 21 SAGITTARIUS If you’re decorating your place for Thanksgiving or giving it a makeover in general, it would be best not to be too ambitious. Keep things simple and you can still make a great impression as you keep the workload down to a minimum. Don’t bite off more than you can chew. Lucky Numbers: 11, 17, 40 CAPRICORN Having sobering Saturn and powerful Pluto in your sign can encourage you to be even more practical and down to earth. However, with a major focus on a more spiritual sector of your chart, you could also find yourself drawn to make changes on the inside. Doing so can be even more powerful than trying to alter your immediate circumstances. By working with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings and releasing them, an issue that has bothered you for some time could be resolved completely. Lucky Numbers: 25, 35, 47 AQUARIUS With assertive Mars presently moving through your money zone and angling toward lucky Jupiter on Monday, you might be tempted to pick up the bill for all your friends, which could be a lot. Before you do, check to make sure that you really can afford it. If you can, great.

Your generosity will be rewarded. If you can’t, don’t. Lucky Numbers: 4, 18, 31 PISCES You might feel as though you can rule the world, but it’s better to aim a little lower because you could attempt too much at the start of the week. It might backfire if you take on responsibilities only because doing so will get you noticed and enhance your reputation. Only do what you can reasonably manage. Lucky Numbers: 17, 28, 57

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SPORTS Texans Edge Redskins, QB Smith Exits with Gruesome Injury

By Gary Williams Special to The Informer The 23-21 loss the Washington Redskins suffered at home Sunday to the Houston Texans was only the beginning of their problems.

The Redskins lost starting quarterback Alex Smith for the season with a broken fibula and tibia of his left leg. The injury took place on the first drive of the second half when Smith was sacked by two Texans players.

Ironically, the injury took place 33 years to the day that former Washington quarterback Joe Theismann suffered a career-end-

ing broken leg during a Monday night home game against the New York Giants.

Smith did not have the best of games prior to the injury, having been sacked three times and thrown two interceptions, one that Justin Reed returned 101 yards for a touchdown.

Backup Colt McCoy replaced Smith and threw a nine-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Reed on his second play to bring Washington close to victory. McCoy will start for Washington when they hit the road to face the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day. Redskins head coach Jay Grud-

5 Houston Texans tight end Jordan Akins breaks away from Washington Redskins safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix during Houston’s 23-21 win at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. on Sunday, Nov. 18. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

en lamented the loss of his starter.

“This was definitely painful for Alex and heartbreaking for a lot of people,” Gruden said.

However, Smith’s teammates think he will be able to return next season.

“Alex is the most resilient player I have seen,” said tight end Vernon Davis, who played with Smith in San Francisco and

Washington. “He’s still with us in spirit and in our hearts. We’ll just go on from here.”

Likewise, the Redskins said they have complete confidence in McCoy’s leadership.

“Colt is a great competitor,” said Washington offensive lineman Chase Roullier. “I have great confidence in him.”

Gruden concurred.

“I’m a big firm believer in Colt McCoy’s ability to play in the National Football League,” Gruden said. “The offense will not change with Colt. They have a similar skill set.”

Washington is 6-4 and still in first place in the NFC East, one game ahead of arch nemesis Dallas (5-5).

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5 Howard running back Dedrick Parson attempts to break a tackle by Bryant linebacker Thomas Costigan during Bryant’s’ 56-55 win at Greene Stadium in D.C. on Saturday, Nov. 17. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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a voting advantage over Democrats in the House, Republicans regularly took away that vote.

Fritsch said Norton has always been able to vote in standing committees, such as Oversight and Government Reform and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee — just not floor votes.

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich — who once called D.C. a “laboratory” for Republican policies — had been among the more vociferous in his party to argue against voting rights for the longtime District delegate, even claiming that a constitutional amendment was needed to approve such a move.

Norton disputes that such a move is required.

“We have argued that giving her voting rights on final passage of bills would not require a constitutional amendment but a piece of legislation,” Fritsch said.

“The DC Voting Rights Act passed the House in 2007 and the Senate in 2009, but an amendment was added that would have eliminated every local gun law in the District and prevented D.C. from passing gun safety laws in the future, so it never became law,” he said.

Norton has called the push for a vote in the Committee of the Whole as a down payment on full voting rights for District residents whom she noted pays the highest federal income taxes per capita in the United States.

She said D.C. residents also have fought and died in every American war but still have no vote on the floor of the House.

Norton is again certain to have the support of District Mayor Muriel Bowser who joined the congresswoman a year ago for a press conference at the Capitol where they pressed for voting rights.

At that news conference, Bowser said a vote for Norton would represent a first step toward equal rights for District residents who pay more than $26 billion in federal income taxes.

“We’re not begging and we’re not asking for special treatment,” the mayor said. “We’re asking for equal treatment, and this is one way to do it.”

That D.C. has no vote is offensive, said D.C. Office of Veterans Affairs Director Ely S. Ross.

“It should offend every American that in our nation’s capital 30,000 veterans, who risked their lives and fought for our country, are denied the right to vote and they lack voting representation in Congress,” Ross said.

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D.C. residents this week also attempts to address the city’s lack of voting rights.

The lawsuit — filed by Northwest residents Angelica Castanon, Gabriela Mossi, Alan Alper, Deborah Shore, Laurie Davis, Silvia Martinez and Vanessa Francis, Southeast resident Abby Loeffler, and Northeast residents Susannah Weaver and Manda Kelley — alleges three constitutional violations.

Those violations are the denial of Equal Protection guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, the denial of due process guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, and infringement of the Right to Association guaranteed by the First Amendment.

The suit names the United States, House Speaker Paul Ryan and others as defendants.

“Plaintiffs are united in their desire to secure and exercise their fundamental right as citizens of this country: the right to fully participate in the electoral franchise and secure voting representation in Congress,” the residents wrote in the court filing.

Congress has vacillated between allowing D.C.’s non-voting delegate to vote in exactly one congressional committee — the one which schedules all the House votes that the delegate is never allowed to actually vote on, according to the lawsuit.

The residents contend that allowing D.C. just one nonvoting delegate violates the constitutional principle that voting is a “fun-

damental” right encapsulated by another constitutional principle — “one person, one vote.”

The lawsuit notes that “Members of Congress have correctly concluded that Congress has the constitutional authority to provide voting representation in Congress to District residents under the ‘District Clause’ … of the U.S. Constitution.”

“Notwithstanding that recognition, Congress continues to deny the hundreds of thousands of Americans of voting age in the District their fundamental voting rights,” the filing notes.

“It continues to do so despite the fact that other American citizens who live on federal enclaves exercise their right to vote because Congress has taken action that requires States to permit them to vote even though they live on federal land.”

The lawsuit also notes that D.C. residents previously had the right to vote with representation in Congress but that these rights were curtailed by Congress and never restored.

“It was congressional action … not action by the Framers … that effectively deprived District residents of their right to vote for full voting representation in Congress,” the filing alleges. “Although Congress has acknowledged its power under the District Clause to grant back to the District residents the right to full voting representation, Congress has failed to act, and that power has lain dormant since 1800.” WI

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12 Things That Make Men Rich (Conclusion)

with Lyndia Grant In this last installment of a four-part series, you will see the remaining three of the 12 things that make men rich, according to Napoleon Hill, the author of “Think and Grow Rich.”

In n case you missed the previous columns, here’s a quick recap of the other nine: 1 - positive mental attitude 2 - sound physical health 3 - harmony in human relations 4 - freedom from fear 5 - hope of future achievement 6 - capacity for applied faith 7 - willingness to share your blessings with others 8 - engaged in a labor of love 9 - You have an open mind on all subjects toward all people.

And this week, we will close the series by sharing the final three: having complete self-discipline, wisdom with which to understand people, and financial Mt. Zion Baptist Church Reverend John W. Davis Pastor 5101 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 Phone: 202-726-2220 Fax: 202-726-9089 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service - 8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.

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Let’s start with number 10, complete self-discipline. What is discipline? It is defined as controlled behavior resulting from disciplinary training; self-control. More simply, this tells each of that we have control over our behavior that results in the good or bad things that happen in our lives. Either we come home every day from work, eat dinner, sit on the couch and watch television, or we get off work, we go to help someone else in need, maybe you are a tutor for a student; you go to the gym or you take your daily walk; you come home, have your dinner then you take some time to read. You read your bible, you read a book, you get on your computer and work in the goals you’ve set in life. You stick to a routine, rather than coming home and shutting down. That is discipline.

As for number 11 — wisdom with which to understand people — scripture reminds us how sweet wisdom is, and it let us know that we can have hope: “Wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.” (Proverbs 24:14) Number 12, attaining financial security, means whatever amount of finances you believe that will work for you. You can feel rich when you have organized your finances in such as way that your bills are paid, your credit rating is strong and you have a robust savings account.

Don’t expect to get wealth and

keep it if you have a negative mental attitude about yourself and others. How can you achieve very much when your health is not good or you’re not working in harmony with others? Forget about it! You cannot work against others, you must work with them.

Take some time, review the list of 12 things that make men rich, and exercise discipline in your life. It is thought-provoking, and it could be a workshop. There is so much more to say!

Lyndia Grant is a speaker/ writer living in the D.C. area.

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

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

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

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

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

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

St. Stephen Baptist Church

Third Street Church of God

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

Rev. Dr. Alice Greene Interim Pastor

Bishop Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Senior Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Turning Hearts Church Virgil K. Thomas, Sr. Senior Pastor/ Teacher 4275 4th Street, S.E. Washington, DC 20034 Phone: 202-746-0113 Fax: 301-843-2445 Service and Times Sunday School 8 – 9 AM Worship Service 9 – 11 AM Tuesday Night Bible Study 6:30 – 8:00 PM Wednesday Daytime Bible Study 11 AM – 12:30 PM Motto : “A Great Commitment to the Great Commandment” Website: www.turningheartschurchdc.org Email: faithdefender@verizon.net

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

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

Crusader Baptist Church

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

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

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

Isle of Patmos Baptist Church

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

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

Sunday Church School: 9:20 a.m.

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

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

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

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

St Marks Baptist Come Worship with us...

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

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

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

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RELIGION Shabbath Commandment Church

All Nations Baptist Church

King Emmanuel Baptist Church

Bishop Adrian A. Taylor, Sr. Pastor

Rev. Dr. James Coleman Pastor

Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.

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

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

Israel Baptist Church

Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor

Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert Senior Pastor

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

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

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

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

“Where Jesus is the King”

Lincoln Park United Methodist Church

Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith

Rev. Richard B. Black Pastor

Elder Herman L. Simms Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

Mount Moriah Baptist Church

Eastern Community Baptist Church

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

The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42

New Commandment Baptist Church

Dr. Lucius M. Dalton Senior Pastor

Damion M. Briggs Pastor

Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rehoboth Baptist Church

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

Salem Baptist Church

Holy Trinity United Baptist Church

Florida Avenue Baptist Church

Reverend Christopher L. Nichols Pastor

Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor

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

St. Matthews Baptist Church

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

Emmanuel Baptist Church

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

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

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

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

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

Midweek Prayer: Wednesday – 7:00 p.m.

Noonday Prayer Every Thursday

Matthews Memorial Baptist Church Rev. Joan E. Buchanan Executive Pastor 2616 MLK Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Office 202-889-3709 - Fax 202-678-3304 Service and Times Early Worship Service: 7:30am Worship Service: 11:00am New Member’s Class: 9:45am Holy Communion: 1st Sunday, 11:00am Church School: 9:45am Wednesday 12:00pm Bible Study Prayer, Praise and Bible Study: 7:00pm Saturday Bible Study: 11:00am Baptism 4th Sunday: 11:00am

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

Christ Embassy DC

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

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

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

Wednesday Service 12:00 pm

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

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

Shiloh Baptist Church

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Mt. Horeb Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor

Rev. Curtis l. Staley Pastor

Rev. David McIntosh-Peters Pastor

Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor

Rev. Oran W. Young Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday Church School: 9:15 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship: 10:40 a.m.

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

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

Service and Times First Sunday Worship Service (one service): 10:00 a.m.

Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Sunday Worship service: 7:45 a.m. and 10:55 a.m.

Sunday Church School/Bible Study: 9:30 a.m.

Thursday Prayer Service: 6:30 p.m.

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

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

Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.

Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.

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

Prayer Services:Tuesday 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday 12 Noon

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

The Church Where GOD Is Working....

And We Are Working With GOD

Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:15 am Sunday School: 9:00 am Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting / Bible Study: Tuesday at 7 pm Theme: “The Kingdom Focused Church with an Emphasis on “Evangelism and Discipleship” Email: pastorstmbc@gmail.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.org

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

Service and Times Sunday School for All Ages: 8:00 a.m.

Sunday Worship Services: 9:30 a.m.

Midday Prayer & Bible Study: Wednesday 11:30 a.m.

Evening Prayer & Bible Study: Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

Laymen's League: Thursday 7:00 p.m.

Email: Froffice@firstrising.org Website: www.firstrising.org “Changing Lives On Purpose “

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

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

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Administration No. 2018 ADM 001246

Administration No. 2018 ADM 001194

Administration No. 2018 ADM 1264

Administration No. 2018 ADM 1215 Willie Lee Murphy Decedent

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Harriet Murphy, whose address is 7402 9th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20012, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Willie Lee Murphy who died on September 23, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/8/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/8/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Date of first publication: 11/8/2018 Harriet Murphy Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

Ruby L. Downs Decedent

Pat Lee Wiley Decedent

Darrell S. Parker Attorney at Law 1822 11th Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 Attorney

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

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Mark C. Downs & Jennifer D. Creque, whose addresses are 3921 Ingomar Street, NW Washington, DC 20015 & 4949 Collingtons Bnty Dr. Bowie, MD 20720, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Ruby L. Downs who died on October 2, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/8/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/8/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Date of first publication: 11/8/2018

James E. Burk and Mike Cullers, whose addresses are 1740 N Street, NW #1, Washington, DC 20036 & 128 Huntcrest Cir., Winchester, VA 22602, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Pat Lee Wiley who died on September 6, 2018 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/15/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/15/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Date of first publication: 11/15/2018 James E. Burk Mike Cullers Personal Representative

Mark C. Downs Jennifer D. Creque Personal Representative

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Milton Andre Brooks Decedent Deborah D. Boddie, Esq. Probate Law DC 1308 Ninth Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20001 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Yvette Bertyce Brooks and Bonita Brooks, whose address is 1362 Levis Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002, respectively, was appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Milton Andre Brooks who died on April 20, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/15/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/15/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Date of first publication: 11/15/2018 Yvette Bertyce Brooks Bonita Brooks Personal Representative

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Administration No. 2018 ADM 001220

Administration No. 2018 ADM 1209

Administration No. 2018 ADM 001239

Administration No. 2018 ADM 001251

Margaret H. Coffey Decedent

Norman Edward McLean Decedent

Minnie L. Henderson aka Minnie Lee Henderson Decedent

Dorothy Lee Coley Decedent

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

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

Mafalda Guzman, whose address is 1304 Van Buren St., NW, Washington, DC 20012, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Margaret H. Coffey who died on September 8, 2018 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/15/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/15/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Dorothy M. Smith, whose address is 1361 Coral Place, Hampton, VA 23666, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Norman Edward McLean, who died on August 3, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/8/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/8/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Curtis L. Henderson, whose address is 8708 Ethans Glen Terr., Jacksonville, FL. 32256, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Minnie L. Henderson aka Minnie Lee Henderson who died on September 27, 2013 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/8/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/8/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

April Coley, whose address is 12004 Berrybrook Terrace, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Dorothy Lee Coley who died on August 13, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 8/8/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 8/8/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

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Administration No. 2018 ADM 000730 Martha Teasley Wilson Decedent

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Kisha L. Woolen, Esq., whose address is 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, #700, Washington, DC 20015, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Martha Teasley Wilson who died on May 22, 2017 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/15/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/15/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Date of first publication: 11/15/2018 Kisha L. Woolen, Esq. Personal Representative

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

Date of first publication: 11/8/2018

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration Number 2018 ADM 1276 Estate of Nizam A. Karriem NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE

Date of first publication: 11/8/2018 Curtis L. Henderson Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

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Date of first publication: 11/8/2018 April Coley Personal Representative

Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Fatima Karriem and Mikal Huda Ba’th for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representatives. Unless a responsive pleading in the form of a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth.

In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate appoint an unsupervised personal representative Date of first publication: 11/8/2018 Talib Karim 1629 K Street, NW, 3rd Floor Washington, DC 20006 Petitioner/Attorney: TRUE TEST COPY

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Administration No. 2018 ADM 001274

Kory Rose Dews Decedent

Katie Lee Wilson Decedent

James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Keira Janay Moore, whose address is 1812 Benning Road, NE, Apt. C, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Kory Rose Dews who died on June 9, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/15/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/15/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Rejineta Carroll, whose address is 10907 Melwood Park Place, Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Katie Lee Wilson who died on March 1, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/15/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/15/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

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Foreign No. 2018 FEP 000147

Administration No. 2018 ADM 1248

December 2, 2017 Date of Death

Anna Roberta Richardson Decedent

Patricia Randolph Schwartz aka Patricia Hill Randolph Schwartz Name of Decedent

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

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Michael Alan Schwartz whose address is 931 Nashua Street, Houston, TX 77008 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Patricia Randolph Schwartz aka Patricia Hill Randolph Schwartz, deceased, by the Circuit Court for Palm Beach County, State of Florida, on February 8, 2018.

Service of process may be made upon Jenna Weatherson, 4545 Connecticut Ave., NW, #502, Washington, DC 20008 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real estate.

0318 Independence Ave., SE (Sq. 0788, Lots 0028 & 0817); 111 Duddington Pl., SE (Sq. 0736, Lot 0736, Lot 0038); and 113 Duddington Pl, SE (Sq. 0736, Lot 0039) 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 from the date of first publication of this notice.

Date of first publication: November 15, 2018 Michael Alan Schwartz Personal Representative Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

Leon Richardson, whose address is 811 52nd Street, NE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Anna Roberta Richardson who died on February 9, 1994 without a Will. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/15/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/15/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

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The nearly 45-minute delay only proved to increase the anticipation of the crowd who burst into applause when Jarrett came on stage. She shared the history of her relationship with Michelle Obama, who she recruited from a prestigious law firm to work for her for the City of Chicago. The crowd jumped to their feet when Obama came on stage fashion-

5 Former first lady Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett (long-time friend and advisor to the Obamas) chat in front of a sold out crowd at the Capital One Arena in Northwest on Saturday, Nov. 17. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter

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We send poll watchers all over the world to ensure that elections are fair. Why don’t we have a national poll-watchers corps to review ballots here at home? The reports of irregularities are staggering. Voter manipulation is an issue that must be addressed.

Former DNC Chairman Donna Brazile has called for restoring Section Five of the Voting Rights Act, but that’s not enough! The entire voting enterprise needs to be comprehensively examined, and the possibility of voter suppression needs to be drastically reduced.

And, to be sure, Republicans will start talking about nearly non-existent voter fraud. We can investigate so-called fraud, as well. But if Democrats want free and fair elections, they need to make them a legislative priority. If they fail to address this issue, they don’t deserve to win the presidency in 2020! WI

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how many additional votes have been disregarded, but we must understand that with additional resources, Broward might have submitted on time.

We have to be better this! While our “democracy” is weighed against people who live on the margins, who don’t have driver’s licenses, who don’t vote regularly, who move frequently, we ought to be focused on ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to vote. Other countries do it almost effortlessly. In South Africa, the polls are open for three days, and these days are national holidays with most businesses and schools closed. An indelible hand stamp allows everyone to vote and prevents fraud. Why can’t we do the same things in these United States?

As we move toward the 2020 election, many Democrats are focused on who ought to be their choice of a presidential candidate.

They might be better served if they focused on the laws that make it difficult for people to vote, ranging from laws that allow secretaries of state to purge the voting rolls, laws that make registering difficult, and more. Who determines what hours polls are open? Why not 24 hours

instead of the scant 12 or 13 (usually 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.) presently available? Why not allow people to vote over two or three days?

The 2013 Supreme Court decision in the Shelby case allowed some targeted jurisdictions (mostly, but not exclusively in the South) to make changes in voting rules without clearing them with the Justice Department. Sections 4(b) and 5 of the Voting Rights Act prohibited changes that adjusting voting districts or taking other acts to disadvantage part of the voting population. In response to the changes in the Voting Rights Act, dozens of states passed voter suppression laws, requiring more voter ID, restricting the student right to vote where they matriculate, and more. The 116th Congress that will be seated in January 2019 ought to deal with voting rights and voter access as their first order of business.

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BAILEY from Page 26 The result is showing plainly in the rapid decline in the birth rate of native Americans because the poorer classes of Colonial stock will not bring children into the world to compete in the labor market with the Slovak, the Italian, the Syrian and the Jew…” Grant was especially outraged and disgusted with what was happening in New York City, his hometown, as shown in the following: “The man of old stock is being crowded out of many country districts by these foreigners, just as he is today being literally driven off the streets of New York City by the swarms of Polish Jews. These immigrants adopt the language of the native American; they wear his clothes; they steal his name; and they are beginning to take his women…”

Basically, Grant’s words are very similar to what President Trump

we witnessed the young people’s “March for Our Lives,” and their show of respect for all without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin or gender.

These boys in Wisconsin, the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, sending bombs to leaders, bombing the synagogue in Pittsburgh, recent shootings in a California

Bar, shooting of the Black man and woman in Kentucky, hate filled tweets and language of #45 — all of these minimize our progress in America. It’s time for us to realize that America is in danger of having to admit that we’re not who our country’s documents say we are.

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is saying today about Latinos and other immigrant who aren’t coming from Norway. And the irony is that many of the decedents of those immigrants so bitterly denounced by Grant are now vigorous, ranting Trumpettes.

Finally, two personal observations on the so-called immigration crisis. The first is that it is impossible to smuggle 12 million people into the United States. If

that many people come in, someone is allowing them to cross the border, most likely to provide a passive, captive labor force for the agricultural and construction industries. Secondly, I will always believe until concretely proven otherwise that the so-called caravan launched in Honduras about two weeks before the midterm elections was set up by Trump supporters. WI

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MORIAL from Page 27 the most significant being the repeal of the individual mandate requiring most Americans to carry health insurance. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the repeal is estimated to leave 13 million more Americans uninsured by 2027, and to cause premiums to spike 10 percent.

A pending lawsuit by 20 states, with support from the administration, challenges provisions of the Affordable Care Act, including the protections for people with pre-existing conditions.

Reversing this sabotage must be a top priority for the incom-

“A pending lawsuit by 20 states, with support from the administration, challenges provisions of the Affordable Care Act, including the protections for people with pre-existing conditions.”

FLETCHER from Page 27 held sway and when forces of dissent—forces for justice—were literally and figuratively chained.

The right-wing fear of the future is a fear of not only the demographic changes in the USA, which will render White majority rule moot by the middle of the 21st century, but there is a broader fear that successes on the road toward a consistent democracy will mean a change in the relations between men and women,

ASKIA from Page 27 because no candidate won more than 50 percent of that vote.

“She has that very staunch, racist community that will back her,” Turnipseed said. “They’re still fighting that ‘Lost Cause,’ and fighting is necessary and they want to continue with that movement.

I’m still leaning towards fairness and goodness and hope and all that sort of stuff, and that enough people have awakened to the fact that this is a very dangerous game

“Trump and his allies have played to fears that have existed in the White electorate since the 19th century. ” that these White supremacists play here, and [that] time’s up on that kind of thing.

“I think it really does need to end here, Mississippi being the last holdout on the war, the battle flag, the Confederate symbols of our state,” she said. “Being that it is the last holdout, we need to truly make that mark, to say, ‘Time’s up.

It’s over.’ It’s not White candidates, it’s White supremacist candidates.

Those candidates who are still fighting that confederate cause.

They’re very clear. They’re very

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ing Congress. The individual mandate, which is a key factor in keeping premiums affordable, must be restored. Prescription drug prices remain too high.

One of the Urban League Movement’s core goals is that every American has access to quality and affordable health care solutions. It’s why we fought so hard for the passage of the Affordable Care Act, and why we continue to fight so hard to protect it. A majority of the members of the 116th Congress, which convenes in January, have vowed to protect it, too, and we will hold them to that promise.

WI but also changes in the economy as wealth polarization along with the environmental catastrophe will necessitate a different set of economic priorities.

Trump and his allies have played to fears that have existed in the White electorate since the 19th century. He achieved considerable success via this demagoguery. But the results of the election showed that millions more see no future in the past but believe that another way forward is not only possible, but essential. WI

honest about who they are, and what their cause is and what they’re fighting for.

“Yes, I wholeheartedly agree they’re on a mission to take us back to the days of slavery,” Turnipseed said. “I think Mississippi showed the rest of the world how to do that, how to keep people of color in their place.”

Though the “Mississippi Math” dictates that with 30 percent of the White vote, Espy will win. In the General Election on Nov. 6, HydeSmith narrowly led a crowded field with 41.5 percent, while Espy came in second with 40.6 percent, and another staunchly conservative White candidate won nearly 17 percent of the vote. Blacks comprise 38 percent of the eligible voters.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), campaigned to make Espy the first Black senator from Mississippi since Blanche Bruce was elected during Reconstruction.

“Yes, there are race issues in Mississippi, can’t sweep those under the rug,” Mr. Espy reportedly said during a recent campaign appearance. “But I don’t want to dwell on that. I want to be the senator of everyone, irrespective of race, irrespective of gender, irrespective of party, irrespective of religion. I want to be the vehicle of progress in Mississippi.” WI

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