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Aggressive Tactics Sour Public on D.C. Police

By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer@bsalmondc During three hours of testimony in a D.C. Council hearing on racial profiling, perhaps the most poignant comments of the evening came from three teenagers describing a recent encounter with two Metropolitan Police Department officers.

Morgan Butler, 18, Lauren May, 17, and 17-year-old Tajai Williams said a pair of officers on bikes accosted a group of friends, including the trio.

“We were hanging out in front of an abandoned house. They came up and ordered us to place our bags on the ground and emptied them,” said Butler, a recent graduate of Wilson High School in Northwest, who with Tajai and Lauren, is a member of the national poetry champion DC Youth Slam team. “We had our hands up and eyes forward.

They took our pictures and called our parents. We had our privacy tossed all over the ground.”

The officers targeted one young man in the group, Butler said. An officer slapped his hat off his head and grabbed him and pushed him roughly against the wall. The officers’ frustration ratcheted upward “when they couldn’t find the smoking gun,” Butler said.

She said officers found less than a quarter-ounce of marijuana on one person and some liquor, neither of which merited the type of behavior meted out to

Tajai Williams, along with other young people, testified before the D.C. Council’s Judiciary and Public Safety Committee on Oct. 8 at the Howard University School of Business in Northwest. /Photo by Nancy Shia

her and her friends.

“Vultures in uniform stole my security, and I haven’t felt safe since,” Butler said softly. “My friend was disrespected. I should not be disrespected.”

“My younger brothers are 11 and 12. They’ve lived very sheltered lives. They’ve not been ex-

posed,” said Butler, a Petworth resident. “They just started taking the train to school, and mom told them to protect their iPods and bags. And they asked about the police. I don’t want to come home and see any of my brothers as a hashtag. I just want you to change this.”

In all, 25 city residents testified at the Oct. 8 hearing of the Judiciary and Public Safety Committee at Howard University’s School of Business. A crowd of more than 100 people packed the auditorium as Council members Tommy Wells, Anita Bonds, David Grosso and Kenyan McDuf-

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Sponsors, celebrities and friends came out to support the Greater Washington Urban League’s (GWUL’s) 16th Annual Golf Tournament at the Country Club at Woodmore in Mitchellville, Md. More than 100 golfers signed up to participate in the tournament. GWUL President and CEO George H. Lambert, Jr. said, “The tournament raises supplemental funds for our programs in housing, health, education and workforce development. Support of the tournament helps to deliver the goods for those underserved in the community. The tournament chair was Emmanuel Bailey, President and CEO of DC09, LLC and Vice Chair was Todd Heavner, Director of Community Relations for Enterprise Rent-A Car. Celebrity Chair Roland S. Martin, Host of News One Now, also served as auctioneer for the tournament dinner. Major sponsors were Pepco, RLJ Lodging, DC09, LLC, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and General Dynamics.

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Lemuel Dowdy, George Lambert and Darnell Williams, President and CEO of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts.

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District Voters to Elect First Attorney General

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When L.Y. Marlow's 23-yearold daughter told her the father of her daughter threatened her life, and the life of their child, she knew something had to be done. Out of her frustration with law enforcement's handling Email comments to: of the situation, she decided to rburke@ start the Saving Promise campaign. washingtoninformer.com “It seems to be a vicious cycle that won't turn my family loose,” Marlow said. Marlow shared her story with the audience at the District Heights Domestic Violence Symposium on May 7 at the District Heights Municipal Center. The symposium was sponsored by the Family and Youth Services Center of the city of District By D. Kevin McNeir Heights and the National HookWI Contributing Writer Up of Black Women.

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4 / May 15 - 21, 2008 The Washington Informer / www.washingtoninformer.com Masters, a partner at Perkins Coie, has practiced in D.C. for

law enforcement. She said they had come together to bring a sense of uniformity in the way domestic violence victims and survivors are treated.

“She's using her own personal story, her own personal pain to push forward,” Davis-Nickens said about Marlow.

Davis-Nickens said anyone who reads Marlow's book will “get it.” She said she “puts the case in such a way, the average person can get it.” She said at the end of the day, the book will help people begin to have a dialogue about domestic violence.

LORIEatMASTERS Also present the event was Mildred Muhammad, the exwife of John Allen Muhammad, who was sentenced to six consecutive life terms without parole by a Maryland jury for his role in the Beltway Sniper attacksDisin more than 30 years, supports 2002. Mildred Muhammad is trict statehood and has worked for the founder of After the Trauma, years with DC Vote and the DC an organization that helps the Appleseed for Law violence and Jussurvivors Center of domestic tice, providing pro bono advice on and their children. legal issues including employment, “I lived in fear for six years. Six intellectual years in fearproperty is a longand govertime. It is nance.

Law Journal not anThe easyNational thing to come out of,” she said. recognized her as a “champion” Muhammad said forMildred her work on voting rights, D.C. people law whoandwant to and helpin-a election diversity domestic violence victim must clusion issues. beRacine, carefulaoflifelong how they go into resident of the victim's life, and understand the District, has worked for more that she may be in “survival than 25 years as a lawyer and pubmode”. lic “Before servant. you He served an going assoget to as 'I'm ciate White House counsel for to kill you,' it started as a verbal President Clinton for three years.

In 1992, Racine left Venable LLP to work at the Public Defender Service (PDS) for D.C., where he defended those who could not afford to pay for their own lawyer. He returned to Venable LLP, where he served as a managing partner – the first black of an Am Law 100 law firm.

Smith, who grew up in the Anacostia and Petworth, returned to the District after completing his education to work at the law firm of Hogan and Hartson (now Hogan Lovells). He then joined Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and after the victory, served as deputy general counsel for the 2009 Presidential Inaugural Committee. He later received presidential appointments to senior positions in agencies focused on consumer protection, economic development and technology.

Williams, a lifelong resident of the District, has spent the majority of her career as a legislative/public policy attorney and previously served as counsel to the Prince

threat,” she said.

Among the programs Marlow wants to see implemented are stricter restraining order policies, more rights for victim's families to intervene on behalf of a victim, a domestic violence assessment unit coupled with further training for law enforcement agencies, a Child's Life Protection Act and mandatory counseling for batterers.

“If we are ever going to eradicate domestic violence, we must look at both sides of the coin.

We need to address both the victim and the batterer,” Marlow KARL RACINE said.

Marlow would also like to see programs designed to raise awareness among children in public and private schools. She feels children need to be educated aboutCounty domestic violence.

George’s State Senate Del“We inhave to stop pasegation Maryland andbeing as a comsive-aggressive with poor chilmunity advocate in the District. dren about domestic violence,” She serves as a board member of Marlow said. theMarlow Wanda has Alston Foundation, worked to break which provides housing for homethe cycle of abuse in her family, less youth. the policies she andLGBT is confident a longtime District is Zukerberg, pushing for will start that resident with more than 28 years process. of “I experience as athese public interest plan to take policies to litigator, D.C. after comCongressmoved and to implore them to change his ourundergrad laws,” Marlow pleting studiessaid. at “I will not stop until these New poliHamilton College in Clinton, cies are passed.”

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ELECTION continued from Page 4 sibilities will include fighting for middle class and working families and using the Office of the Attorney General to do so. I am qualified to carry this out because I have the right kind of experience to be our attorney general. I’ve worked as an attorney with D.C.’s Public Defender Service, associate White House counsel for President Bill Clinton and managing partner of Venable, a national law firm with over 600 attorneys and a budget of over $350 million.

Smith: As attorney general, my primary responsibility is to the public interest and the people of the District of Columbia. I am responsible for providing legal representation for the District government and its officials, to the extent that it does not conflict with my primary responsibility to the people. My legal record is very strong and reflects the most important qualifications for an attorney general: sharp legal acumen and analytical skills; experience leading in government; and a clear commitment to public service.

Williams: As attorney general, my primary responsibilities will be to represent the legal interests of D.C. residents, as well as to uphold and enforce the laws of the District of Columbia … My career experience includes legislative counsel, public policy and litigation attorney positions. I have also been a D.C. grassroots civic activist for a decade and have served in leadership position in organizations across the city. My grassroots civic experience across many constituencies best equips me to represent the interests of D.C. residents.

Zukerberg: I have 30 years of trial and appellate experience in Superior Court, federal court and the trial and appeals courts of Maryland and Virginia. I [have] tried cases in every division of the courthouse, including criminal, civil, juvenile, family, traffic, special proceedings and probate, with notable successes. I am familiar with court practices and procedures, the judges and other court personnel, scheduling and rules of procedure.

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Masters: I’m running for attorney general because I love D.C. and I take injustice personally. I’ve practiced law in D.C. for more than 30 years. I’m committed to public service and fighting for the best interests of District residents.

This is an important position because for the first time the attorney general will be independent and directly accountable to its electorate, not the mayor or the council. I will be the people’s voice in our government and help serve as an additional check and balance.

Racine: I decided to run for attorney general because it’s important for our first-elected attorney general to be independent from the mayor and council. The attorney general needs to fight for the District, not be beholden to the mayor and council.

Smith: My love for the District and commitment to public service drives my decision to run for attorney general. For the first time, the attorney general will be elected by the people with a mandate to serve the public interest. This will empower the attorney general to take bold action to promote the

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Williams: I decided to run for attorney general to give a voice to the average resident. For me, working in the public interest has not been something to do on the side while I enrich large corporations. Rather, I made a conscious choice to dedicate my career to public service and I am best suited to represent all Washingtonians, particularly our most vulnerable residents.

Zukerberg: After the office was announced, I realized this was a great opportunity for the District to instill accountability and transparency in our government. After discussing it with my family, I determined my 30 years of litigation experience fighting in the public’s interest would make me the ideal candidate for this office. When the council attempted to cancel this election, someone had to act and prevent them from ignoring the voters. I successfully fought the council and the mayor-appointed attorney general to ensure our voting rights were respected which is what an attorney general does.

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Black Facts OCT. 16 1906 - Granville T. Woods and his brother Lyates Woods of New York City were granted patent number 833,193 for the Safety Apparatus for Railways. Their invention caused the brakes of a train to be immediately and automatically activated in the event that the engineer became disabled while the train was moving.

1917 - An unsung hero of the civil rights movement, Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi. Her famous and most often repeated quote was “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

1940 - Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr. was named the first black general in the U.S. Army. Davis died in 1970 at the age of 90.

1968 - Sprinters John Carlos and Tommie Smith gave the clenched-fist black power salute when accepting their medals at the Mexico City Olympics as a protest against racism in America.

1984 - Bishop Desmond Tutu awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end white minority rule in South Africa.

1995 - The Million Man March occurred in Washington, D.C. Led

by Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan, black men from across the country converged on Washington to “convey to the world a vastly different picture of the black male and to unite in self-help and self-defense against the economic and social ills plaguing the African-American community.”

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OCT. 17 1720 - Jupiter Hammon, the first black American poet, was born into slavery. He was a Calvinist and self-educated writer.

1787 - Led by black Mason Prince Hall, free Boston blacks petitioned the Massachusetts legislature for equal school facilities for African-American children. In addition to spreading freemasonry among blacks, Hall became the most prominent black leader of the period.

1888 - The nation’s first black bank

– Capital Savings – was chartered in Washington, D.C., by a group known as the Order of the True Reformers.

2008 - Levi Stubbs, lead vocalist of the hall-of-fame group The Four Tops, died.

OCT. 18 1917 - “Dizzy” Gillespie, band leader and pioneer of “B-bop Jazz,” was born John Birks Gillespie in Cheraw, South Carolina.

1945 - Actor, singer, activist, and socialist Paul Robeson received the NAACP’s prestigious Spingarn Medal for his artistic achievements.

1951 - Novelist Terry McMillan was born in Port Huron, Michigan.

OCT. 19 1870 - The first African-Americans elected to the U.S. House of Representatives came from South Carolina: Joseph H. Rainey, Robert C. De Large and Robert B. Elliott. Rainey was actually seated first and thus became the first African-American sworn in as a member of Congress. A portrait in his honor was finally placed in the U.S. Capitol Building in 2006.

1894 - Henry Ossawa Tanner paintings were exhibited in the 1894 Paris Salon, making him the first African-American artist in any Paris Salon. He was the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim for his works.

OCT. 20 1898 - The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Insurance Company was founded by a group led

by John Merrick. The company grew into the largest black-owned insurance firm in America.

1904 - Enolia P. McMillan was born. She becomes the first female president of the NAACP. 1951 - The Johnny Bright Incident occurred when African-American football player Johnny Bright was violently assaulted by white football player Wilbanks Smith during a college football game between Drake University and Oklahoma State University.

1996­- The Black Revolutionary War Patriots Commemorative Silver Dollar was authorized by Public Law 104-329 to honor the Black Revolutionary War patriots and the 275th anniversary of the birth of the first Black Revolutionary War patriot, Crispus Attucks.

OCT. 21 1865 - Jamaican national hero and independence advocate George William Gordon was unjustly arrested and sentenced to death for his struggle to free the Caribbean island nation from white minority rule. The son of a white man and a black slave, Gordon was considered one of Jamaica’s most significant national heroes.

1950 - Earl Lloyd became the first black person to play in an NBA game.

OCT. 22 1906 – Three-thousand blacks demonstrated and rioted in Philadelphia to protest a theatrical production of Thomas Dixon’s play “The Clansman.” The play essentially praised the Ku Klux Klan while demeaning blacks.

1936 - Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale was born in Dallas.

1953 - Clarence S. Green became the first African-American certified as a neurological surgeon.

1965 - Milton Lee Olive III, the first African-American Congressional Medal of Honor recipient of the Vietnam War, was killed in action.

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THE WASHINGTON WIZARDS ENTER THE 201415 SEASON AFTER MAKING THE PLAYOFFS LAST YEAR. WHAT ARE YOUR EXPECTATIONS FOR THE TEAM THIS YEAR?

Enoch Bey Washington, D.C. I believe that they are a well-rounded team. I think they can compete with any team this year, and they’ll exceed the heights they achieved last season. Paul Pierce, who the team brought in during the off-season, brings a lot of experience and an attitude that our team needs, which I think will translate to their play on the court. They’re a talented team that I think will go very far this year.

Lamar Boyd Fairfax, Virginia I think the Wizards will make it all the way to the second round of the playoffs. I think they have a good core group of players.

Starting point guard John Wall is progressing at a rate that is good for the team. I know Bradley Beal was injured, but the team should be able to withstand his absence until he returns. Paul Pierce will also give the team quality minutes in the playoffs – I think they’ll rest him a lot during the regular season. They should be in a good position to make the second round of the playoffs. They could possibly make it to the Eastern Conference Finals.

Dominic Green Washington, D.C. I think the Wizards will build off of the success they had last year. I think that they will be a playoff team. They have a good mix of hunger from the young guys who got them there last season and veteran leadership from Marcin Gortat, Nene and Paul Pierce. Pierce is hungry to make it to another championship. I’m picking them to at least be a fourth seed heading into the playoffs. Depending on who the Wizards match up against, I see them making it to the Eastern Conference Finals.

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AROUND THE REGION HEARING continued from Page 1 aggressive in their dealings, especially toward black people. Members of the Vice Unit’s Jump Out Squad came under particularly harsh criticism.

Police Chief Cathy Lanier and MPD brass will have the opportunity on Oct. 27 to rebut citizens’

complaints and present their perspective on whether or not the department engages in racial profiling, Wells, 57, said.

Speaker after speaker, including representatives from civil rights and social justice organizations, testified that MPD too often resembles an occupying force, opts for an aggressive approach when dealing with black people, and

seems more intent on incarcerating people rather than employing public safety best practices, including community policing.

“We have 100,000 violent home raids a year in D.C.,” said Alex Karakatsanis, co-founder of Equal Justice Under the Law and a civil rights lawyer. “Blacks are locked up at a rate six times that of South Africa during apartheid. There are

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intolerable transfers of so many human bodies thrown into D.C. cages. Policing the city’s poor characterizes life for many. These are highly deliberative decisions

by MPD leadership. This is a city with racially biased arrests and incarceration statistics that far exceed even the disgraceful national average.”

Witnesses are demanding significant changes to police practices and patterns they said terrorize the very people officers are sworn to protect.

One person made it clear to council members what’s at stake.

“Some police officers in D.C. treat black people as if they’re animals,” said Patrice A. Sulton, a local attorney and an official with the D.C. chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. “They yank our clothes, slam our arms, violate us, and arrest us for the most minor infractions. There are 1,200 cases of resisting arrest. They fabricate drugs buys and destroy our houses. They call us bandits when we go to complain.

“We’re traumatized and blamed for our trauma. We support the good actors and want retraining for the bad seeds. … the statistics are absolutely indefensible. No elected official should keep a seat if this doesn’t change.”

The specter of the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, by a white police officer on Aug. 9, as well as the police-involved deaths of John Crawford, Eric Garner, Oscar Grant, Ezell Ford and Jonathan Ferrell, hung over the proceedings.

Kymone Freeman, 44, co-founder and program director of WE ACT Radio, WPWC 1480 AM, and community activist Jamal Muhammad said black men’s lives hang in the balance almost every time they encounter law enforcement.

“We as black men have different realities than other people. We know as black men that we have different rights. I can’t conduct myself as other people do,” Muhammad said. “There would be different consequences. For any black man, those could be his last words.”

“I’m not here to ask for sympathy. I want justice, true rights and equality. I’m dedicated to addressing this issue. We want change in this community. It’s difficult for black men to come to these hearings because they don’t think anything will change. Ferguson will be inevitable here if we don’t change

this – we need swift justice.”

Freeman agreed, calling for a citizen review board with the power to indict police for misconduct, for more officers to be required to live in the District and for any officer who fires upon or causes the death of an unarmed civilian to be fired, arrested and convicted.

“No more ‘My bad,’” Freeman said. “Fear is not an excuse to take someone’s life. If you’re afraid, find another job.”

Freeman recounted an incident where police stopped him because they thought he was driving a stolen car. His car in fact had been stolen before, but none of the officers surrounding the car bothered to ask for ID or ascertain if the car belonged to him. He said an officer choked him and that he was arrested and charged with resisting arrest. The cops, he said, threatened to leave him in jail over the weekend, and he opted to sign a paper saying he wouldn’t press charges.

Wells said ordinary citizens hunger for change in a police culture that Phil Fornaci of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee described as not being about public safety but controlling residents and supporting gentrification.

Activist and at-large council candidate Eugene Puryear agreed.

“I live on Irving Street and saw a guy accosted by 12 police,” the 28-year-old said. “They ripped his car to pieces but couldn’t find anything, and they sodomized him while looking for contraband. I’ve seen how capricious these jump outs can be. How can we do better and ameliorate these things? We have islands of deprivation in cities, and ordinary dealings in these places are criminalized, such as selling single cigarettes or DVDs. Lanier errs on the side of using more force than building relationships and working in the community.”

Wells and his colleagues promised change, saying no one can pretend not to see what’s occurring locally and nationally.

“Over the past year, with the technology we now have, we’re seeing for real what we’ve been hearing, and we’re shocked by it,” said Wells who represents Ward 6. “I think a lot of Americans are tired of that. How do (encounters) escalate? (The responsibility for de-escalation) cannot be on the young, unarmed person. It has to be on the police officer.”

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By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer@bsalmondc The raindrops and ominous clouds did little to diminish the excitement on the grounds of the St. Elizabeths East Gateway Pavilion in Southeast.

Hundreds of District employees spent the afternoon on Friday, Oct. 10 enjoying D.C. Employee Appreciation Day, an event previously hosted by former Mayor Marion S. Barry, Jr. Every time master of ceremonies Donnie Simpson called the names of individuals and groups – finalists of the 2014 One City Awards – and invited them to the front of the stage, loud cheers broke out. And the cheers became even more deafening as winners were announced, with group members high-fiving, celebrating and jumping around like excited schoolchildren.

The Child and Family Services Agency Labor Management Part-

nership Council team virtually sprinted to the stage, prompting a laugh from Simpson.

“I said, ‘Boy, I hope they win this thing because it would be a long walk back,”’ said Simpson, an iconic radio and television personality.

The team did win the 2014 Dwight Bowman Labor Management Partnership Award, as did four other individuals and groups who copped Customer Care, Team of the Year, Manager of the Year and Employee of the Year awards.

“You got it. Come on up,” said Simpson with a broad smile. “Get on up or come on down.”

The group stood on stage in a semicircle, accepted the plaque, and chatted with Simpson, and individual members hugged and high-fived a beaming Mayor Vincent C. Gray.

The Washington Regional Threat Analysis Center won Team of the Year, which sent the

throng of employees into paroxysms of joy.

“We have a great team,” said Executive Director Col. (Ret.) Lee Wight. “I’m very proud of the team. We started the Fusion Center from scratch. We never take anything for granted, but I’m so proud of the team.”

Simpson, 60 – who’s been off the air since leaving WPGC 95.5 FM in 2010 – said he enjoyed his role in the program.

“I don’t do this often. I’m here because the mayor asked me to do it, and he’s a good friend of mine,” Simpson said. “I’ve tried to be like Johnny Carson – when I’m gone, I’m gone. But D.C.’s been so good to me, I couldn’t refuse.”

Gray, 71, said before the event that there’s no group more deserving of recognition and appreciation.

“D.C. government employees help make the District of Columbia a world-class city – and one that is working better and better

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray hugs Katie Shephard, outreach coordinator for the Department of Human Services, after she wins the D.C. Government Customer Care Award during the One City Employee Recognition Awards ceremony on Friday, Oct. 10 in Southeast. /Photo by Nancy Shia

every day,” he said. “I understand how disheartening it can be sometimes to be a government employee, as you, too, are often derided in popular culture, but I know that every day, thousands of District government employees show up to do their jobs well, do them tirelessly, and do them without complaining. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for that. I’m honored to work with you.”

Employees enjoyed meals and beverages from food trucks stationed near the stage, others rocked to rhythm and blues and soul standards, and a number of people danced with one another. Friends greeted one another warmly, others’ eyes were firmly glued to activities on the stage, and many took pictures with their smartphones.

Comedian and actor Mike Epps made a special appearance, adding his particular brand of humor to the affair.

“This is a fine program,” said Epps, who performed later that evening. “We know how hard it is to get up early, six, seven days a week. People get up early and work hard.”

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sources, watched the events unfold while basking in a job well done and said the plan is to have an annual award ceremony with a full program of 17 categories instead of the five this year.

She credited the success of the event and the selection process to the close collaboration of city and labor-management council officials.

“This process was needed and necessary because we tried these programs before. We had to build trust and transparency,” she said Stokes said agencies submitted 570 nominations with three tiers of reviews by 50 people who made the final selections in each category. The top three nominations were then submitted to a nine-member award committee that chose the first-, second- and third-place winners.

“We’ve been planning this for about six months,” said Stokes, a Ward 5 resident who has headed the department for 3.5 years.

“We did a survey last year, and one of the things that came out was that people just wanted to be recognized and appreciated.

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Listening Sessions

In the coming weeks, a series of “Special Education Listening Sessions” will be held by the county’s Board of Education. The dates are as follows: Session 1: 6: 30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 16, Crossland High School, Temple Hills, Maryland Session 2: 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 6, Greenbelt Middle School, Greenbelt, Maryland Session 3: 6:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 10, Tall Oaks Vocational High School, Bowie, Maryland

Immersion School on Blue Ribbon List

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has recognized Robert Goddard French Immersion School, which serves elementary and middle school students in Lanham, Maryland, as a 2014 National Blue Ribbon School.

Schools receive the prestigious award based on their overall academic excellence or their progress in closing achievement gaps. Goddard serves as the only county public school to receive the honor.

“Robert Goddard French Immersion School’s recent achievement is just one example of the exemplary schools within Prince George’s County Public Schools,” said Board of Education Chair Segun Eubanks. “As a school system, we will continue to expect excellence from our students and provide them with the tools they need to become high achievers.”

Help Sought Retaining Science Program

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ens Science Center in Lanham, Maryland, is among finalists for the Farmers Insurance “Thank a Million Teachers $100,000 Dream Big Challenge.”

If she wins, Fulton will use the $100,000 prize to help save the summer robotics program she directs in the county, which serves as the only one of its kind in the Prince George’s area.

However, the school system needs the community’s vote of support to take Fulton from finalist to winner.

Fulton’s 3-year-old “Maryland Summer Center for Space Engineering: Robotics (MSCSER)” provides rising seventh- through ninth-grade students the opportunity to design, engineer, and program robots to complete various challenges and missions in the search for lunar ice.

But with current grant-funded opportunities dwindling, MSCSER faces the risk of closure.

Limits on Teacher Investigations

Legislators and education advocates in Maryland recently stated their belief that a limit should be set on the time it takes to clear or dismiss a teacher accused of misconduct.

While two legislators suggested action by the state’s General Assembly, an education advocate said some agreement could be reached between unions and school systems on how to expedite a process that’s expensive to taxpayers and detrimental to students whose classrooms are staffed by substitutes.

“I think [this] could be the opportunity for [teachers’] unions, school systems and others to come together and commit to a reasonable amount of time for investigations to be completed,” Jason Botel, executive director for the nonprofit education advocacy group MarylandCAN said in a recent interview. WI

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By Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer It’s been 10 years since Shani Watson lost her ability to walk after being involved in a car crash. In the aftermath, Watson who had been on duty that fateful October night as a police officer for the Prince George’s County Police Department, has faced numerous obstacles on her path to recovery.

Today, the effervescent graduate of Eastern Senior High School in the District – who’s paralyzed from the waist down – not only wears the crown as Ms. Wheelchair Maryland 2014, but works to encourage others with disabilities. In doing so, she reminds them that regardless of their circumstances, they can still make invaluable contributions to society.

“I love going out and speaking to people about their disabilities [and] inspiring and motivating them to do what they love,” said the native Washingtonian, who stresses the importance of self-love and embracing one’s imperfections. “Sometimes we just need to hear [words of encouragement] from someone else.”

Her schedule will be busier than ever – particularly in the coming weeks as she joins Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker, officials from the county’s Department of Family Services (DFS) and social services personnel across the country in recognition of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), which is recognized each fall.

During the annual awareness campaign that takes place in October, Baker and other local public officials are taking the time to participate in a variety of events which also celebrate the contributions American workers with disabilities make in

their respective communities.

“A strong workforce is an inclusive workforce,” said Baker, 55. “Every October, we renew our focus on improving opportunities and career pathways that lead to productive jobs and sustainable economic futures for individuals with disabilities.”

NDEAM, first established in 1945 by Congress, began as “National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week.” But in 1962, in an effort to acknowledge the employment needs and contributions of people with various disabilities, the titled removed the word “physically.” Years later in 1988, Congress expanded the week by changing the title to “National Disability Employment Awareness Month.”

“The Department of Family Services is proud to be a part of this year’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month,” said Theresa Grant, DFS acting director.

“Every year we look forward to saying thank you and recognizing those who have made special contributions to the disability community.”

Baker recently awarded a proclamation to Watson, who has worked for the county since 1996. Having earned a management degree in 2001 from the University of Phoenix, she’s currently employed as an information technology manager.

Watson, who won the 43rd consecutive Ms. Wheelchair Maryland pageant last November, has entered the competition for Ms. Wheelchair America, and remains committed to her work as an advocate for everyone with disabilities.

In addition to hosting fundraisers, Watson, 39, educates residents, business owners and organizations in the Prince George’s community about accessibility and inclusion for

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those with disabilities.

“My platform [has been] inclusion through accessibility,” Watson said this summer after receiving the county’s proclamation. “Accessibility is the elimination of barriers which could be high countertops, stairways and narrow passageways,” she said.

“And, inclusion is being able to be involved in whatever activities or services that [people with disabilities] desire.”

Meanwhile, in accordance with the proclamation President Barack Obama issued in late September, officials at the U.S. Labor Department whose efforts center of the theme, “Expect. Employ. Empower,” have been encouraging businesses to help people with disabilities in obtaining gainful employment.

“This year’s theme, “Expect. Employ. Empower,” reminds us that every American has a right to dignity, respect, and a fair shot at success in the workplace,” said Obama. “For too long, workers with disabilities were measured by what people thought they could not do, depriving our nation and economy of the full talents and contributions of millions of Americans,” he said.

“When employees with disabilities are passed over in the workplace or denied fair accommodations, it limits their potential and threatens our democracy; when disproportionate numbers of Americans with disabilities remain unemployed, more work must be done to achieve the spirit of what is one of the most comprehensive civil rights bills in the history of our country,” Obama said. WI To learn about resources in Prince George’s County for individuals with disabilities, visit the Commission for Individuals with Disabilities webpage or call the Department of Family Services, Aging and Disability Resource Center at 301-265-8450.

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On the heels of Thomas Eric Duncan’s death from Ebola in Dallas, Texas on Oct. 8, one of the nurses treating him has contracted the disease.

Identified as 26-year-old Nina Pham, she was one of almost 70 nurses who helped care for Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in late September until his death. Hospital officials describe Pham’s condition as stable.

It’s unclear how she was exposed to the hemorrhagic fever which has killed more than 4,000 people in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia since March of this year, but officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) cited a breach in safety protocols as the likely cause.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on a public affairs talk show over the weekend that “an inadvertent, innocent breach of protocol of taking care of a patient within the personal protective equipment as the cause of Pham’s contamination.”

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“We do know that when you do follow that protocol, it works,” he said on “This Week” on ABC. CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said in a media briefing that Pham cannot identify when the breach may have occurred, but he said the CDC recommended to hospital officials that they should have available an absolute minimum of staff who care for Ebola patients, adding that these personnel should just perform those procedures that are essential to a patient’s treatment.

“We know from many years of experience that it’s possible to care for patients with Ebola safely without risk to health care workers. But we also know it’s hard. Á single inadvertent slip can result in contamination,” Frieden cautioned.

This latest case illustrates that in a country with superior and modern facilities and access to the best medicines, mistakes can occur which endanger those taking care of Ebola patients. Pham is said to have had extensive contact with Duncan while treating him and despite wearing all the accepted protective gear, including a gown, gloves and a mask, she became exposed and infected.

If not done with great care, Frieden said, the act of removing protective gear can be “a major potential area for risk.”

He also said that CDC staff had begun providing additional education and training of health care workers at the hospital. Prior to Duncan’s death last Wednesday, hospital authorities sought to explain why he had been sent home with antibiotics when he first came to the hospital. Family members say the 42 year old told a nurse he’d been in Liberia but she failed to relay that information to the doctor who treated him.

Federal, state and local officials continue to assure the American public that Ebola is not airborne and can only be spread through direct contact with an infected person’s urine, saliva, blood, vomit, sweat, feces or semen.

While Fauci, Frieden, President Barack Obama and other officials have stated emphatically that nurses are trained and stand prepared to deal with Ebola patients, members of the largest nursing organization nationally painted a very different picture.

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NATIONAL EBOLA continued from Page 14 they said, is that nurses are woefully unprepared to cope with the Ebola outbreak. In a recent survey conducted by the National Nurses Association of 1,900 registered nurses across the U.S. and the District of Columbia, 76 percent of them said no one has talked to them about any policy regarding admission of patients who may be suffering from Ebola. In addition, according to Common Dreams, a politically progressive website, 85 percent said their hospitals have not provided education on Ebola that would allow the nurses to interact and ask questions; and 37 percent said their hospital has insufficient current supplies of eye protection (face shields or side shields with goggles) for daily use on their unit.

“Hospitals haven’t given us information and then when nurses become infected, they’re blamed for not following the protocols.

That is not going to work,” said Katy Roemer, a registered nurse during a rally in Oakland, California this past weekend. “You cannot blame the health care providers who’re on the frontlines risking their lives to provide care for patients, and who are then faced with possible infection themselves and infecting their families and community members. It’s not OK.” Roemer, a member of the California Nurses Association and a registered nurse for 20 years, said caregivers are not being offered additional training, such as how to put on and take off suits and the effective disposal of contaminated gear.

“We want better education and training,” she said. “Caregivers are not being adequately trained, are being blamed and we’re hearing that we haven’t followed proper protocol when we’ve been asking our hospitals throughout the country to provide us with training that allows us to ask questions, training to put on the proper and optimal

level of personal protection equipment.”

Reports coming out of Liberia indicate that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was able to avert a strike of health care workers last week in front of Liberia’s largest Ebola treatment center in Monrovia by intervening personally and promising an angry crowd that she and the government would do all they could to provide the support and equipment to the beleaguered group.

World Health Organization statistics show that of the more than 400 health care workers infected by Ebola in West Africa, 233 have died, and in Liberia – the epicenter of the outbreak – Ebola has killed more than 100 health care providers.

Sirleaf reiterated at the recent annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund what she’s been saying since the outbreak began: the importance of mounting a relentless and coordinated international effort to blunt the spread of new Ebola cases. WI

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By Doug Dillon Big money center banks are coming after you trying to capture a greater share of your wallet---with great offers in the mail for teaser rates on credit cards, glitzy TV ads, and that sparkling new branch at the mall you like. True, those same banks may have turned away your grandparents’ business years ago, but times are very different now. Why should you give any special consideration to banking with an African American-owned bank?

Consider a few facts about the impact of this way of thinking, and how our mutual economy suffers as a result.

• As African Americans, our hard-earned money travels away from us. Discussing spending habits among various ethnic groups, Nicole Kenney, Economic Program Specialist, reported on the NAACP website two years ago that “a dollar circulates in Asian communities for a month, in Jewish communities approximately 20 days and white communities 17 days. How long does a dollar circulate in the black community? 6 hours!!!” This phenomenon, known as “leakage”, has a devastating effect on the African American community. If we hand our dollars over to people outside of our own communities as soon we earn them, we derive no real community benefits from them, only personal benefits.

Black banks tend to lend more to black businesses, which in turn hire larger percentages of black employees. The less we support our own banks and businesses, the fewer of our businesses those banks can lend to, and the fewer of our family members and neighbors those businesses can hire. Black businesses have been cited as the second highest employer of African Americans, after the government.

Here are some other ways leakage hurts us, as a whole: • A Brandeis University study released in February 2013 found that the wealth gap between blacks and whites has ballooned since the middle of the Reagan administration, nearly tripling between 1984 and 2009. The median white household held a net worth of $265,000 by 2009, eight times more than the median black household’s net worth of just $28,500. Note: the Census Bureau reported that the median white household held a net worth of $110,729 in 2010, while the median black household held a net worth of just $4,995, a disparity even greater than that reported by the Brandeis University study.

The Brandeis study, which followed 1,700 households between 1984 and 2009, attributed the growing racial wealth gap to various disparities: white households were 28 percent more likely to own their home than black households; the average white person’s annual income was $29,401 in 2011, vs. $18,357 for the average black person (per the Census Bureau); the black unemployment rate was 13.8% in January 2013, vs. only 7% for whites, according to the Labor Department; and whites were five times more likely to receive an inheritance than blacks between 1984 and 2009.

• According to a June 2014 article by Dr. Maya Rockeymoore, founder and President of the Center for Global Policy Solutions, many African-American and Latino households are “liquid asset poor” meaning if they are without income for three months, they do not have enough cash (or assets that can be quickly converted to cash) to cover basic living expenses. The same article indicates the average liquid wealth of whites is now over 100 times that of African Americans and more than 65 times that held by Latinos.

Now I have been very kind to my counterparts at those large, mainstream, banks pursuing your business, but I will say this: take the name of that bank, and Google it, alongside the word “discrimination”. You might be surprised at the results you find.

Doing business with African American banks is not a cure-all for all that ails our community. But it is a start. Nielsen Company projects that the cumulative buying power of African Americans will increase to $1.3 trillion by 2017, compared to approximately $1 trillion today. Even a marginal increase in the amount of time dollars circulate in our community would have a tremendous positive impact, helping to narrow the wealth and income gaps just described.

As an employee of an African American bank, I know the dollars deposited with us and the capital invested in us are deployed in ways that benefit our community. I would also be the first to say that it is our responsibility to provide you with products and services that are competitive, in terms of both quality and pricing.

As an African American consumer, I appeal to you that it is our job---our obligation, even---to give black banks and businesses a chance. The choices you make about where your money is spent will impact you and yours for generations to come.

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By William Reed Black Americans are into politics, but only at the retail level as “consumers.” After all of the trappings of the candidate are in place, Blacks get to go to the polls and pull levers. It’s “the kingmakers” who determine what names appear on the ballots. For example, instead of being “Hillary supporters,” some Blacks could be on the “ground floor” of the presidential campaign. People at the Ready for Hillary Super PAC say that a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign could cost $1.7 billion.

Conventional wisdom indicates that African-Americans contribute few dollars to federal candidates running for office. But Blacks’ overall political participation is on par with White Americans, relative to differences in education and income. You’d think that with the rise of Barack Obama, it would be logical that African-American donations would increase, but donations from Blacks did not increase in 2008; indeed, they actually declined when compared with 2006 and 2004. According to posts, actor Morgan Freeman gave a million dollars to the Obama super political action committee Priorities USA Action. African-American real estate developer Wayne Jordan gave $500,000 to two Obama PACs. Most Blacks want to refrain from letting their political ideologies intersect with their businesses. But some Blacks may want to take a look at the business of political fundraising. In United States politics, much importance is put on raising money. On the basic business end of politics, fundraising plays a large role in getting candidates elected to public office. Without substantial sums of money, candi-

dates have virtually no chance of achieving their goals. In the 2004 general elections, 95 percent of House races and 91 percent of Senate races were won by the candidates who spent the most on their campaigns. Also, it’s easier to stay in office than to get there. Incumbents are generally able to raise more money than their opponents.

Plane tickets, hotel rooms, campaign headquarters overhead, staff, event catering, event space and entertainment are the types of costs to be incurred on the campaign trail. In America, the legitimacy of a candidate is directly proportional to the size of the campaign coffers. As the 2016 presidential race starts to hit high tide, many Blacks may be eager to back a candidate by hosting fundraising events, volunteering or just placing a campaign sign on their car or inside a home window.

Fundraising is the process of soliciting and gathering voluntary contributions of money or other resources from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies.

Although fundraising typically refers to efforts to gather money for nonprofit organizations, it is sometimes used to refer to the identification and solicitation of investors or other sources of capital for for-profit enterprises. Fundraising is the type of business that you can start at home or in a small office.

A professional fundraiser works with charities, nonprofit organizations, schools, groups and political campaigns to help organizations raise the money. A fundraising business owner may work to plan special fundraising events, call on donors and help

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Blacks Still Getting Fewer Home Mortgages

By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist When it comes to assessing the nation’s housing industry, one key measure that all housing industry stakeholders take note of is the annual Home Mortgage Disclosure Act report, which is commonly referred to as HMDA. Nationwide, mortgage lenders are required to report a wealth of data on mortgage applications, originations and denials. These public data also include the racial composition of these key metrics.

For communities of color, it is particularly notable that the HMDA report quantifies by race and ethnicity mortgage lending and denials for both private loans, which are also referred to as “conventional” loans, and government-sponsored mortgages that are sometimes referred to as “nonconventional” loans.

For 2013, the most recent year for which figures are available, the data clearly reveal that while conventional mortgage originations rose slightly from 2012 to 2013, nationwide black consumers received only 2.3 percent, or 36,903 loans. In 2012, the same data point was even smaller, with only 26,500 such loans.

To add some context to this low number of private, conventional mortgages, consider that the Chicago suburb of Calumet City, with a population of 37,240, is larger than the number of loans made to the nation’s black homebuyers last year.

Similarly, in refinance mortgage lending, black borrowers received only 191,004 – only 4.4 percent of more than 4.3 million last year. This comparatively low level of lending continues a trend that began following the nation’s housing crisis.

Instead of gaining access to private sector mortgage lending, black consumers received the vast majority of loans through government-backed programs such as VA and FHA. These programs comprised a smaller share of the overall market in 2013 as compared with 2012. In 2013, black homebuyers utilized these loans at a rate of 70.6 percent, followed

by Latino purchases at 62.8 percent, and White borrowers partic-

ipated at a rate of 35.3 percent.

“This enduring trend of underserving key segments of the population is deeply disturbing,” said Nikitra Bailey, executive vice president of the Center for Responsible Lending. “As the slow housing recovery demonstrates, there is a market imperative to ensure that African-Americans, Latinos, and middle-class families have access to mortgages in both the public and private sectors of the market. The market cannot fully recover without them.”

Other consumer advocates expressed similar concerns.

“Certainly, people of color right now don’t feel like the mortgage market is a place they’re wanted,” Julia Gordon, director of housing finance and policy at the Center for American Progress, told Bloomberg News.

“They’ve heard the coded speech about certain groups not being ready for homeownership.”

Today, some housing industry stakeholders argue that low levels of lending to Black consumers and other low-wealth consumers is because of increased consumer protections now required in mortgage lending.

However, the new protections represent a much-needed, common sense approach. They are designed to protect borrowers from facing a repeat of the abuses that caused the recent foreclosure crisis. These new standards, enacted earlier this year, also require

lenders to determine borrowers’ ability to repay their mortgages, eliminate loan steering and crack down on broker kickbacks in mortgage lending.

Actual lending experiences have proven that when lenders used responsible underwriting standards, many low- to moderate-income borrowers, regardless of race, have become successful homeowners with affordable home loan payments at fixed rates.

These borrowers also gain the financial benefit of building wealth through homeownership.

For example, the Community Advantage home loan program offered by Self-Help, CRL’s parent organization, provides home loans with fair terms and reasonable rates. As a nonprofit, community financial development organization, Self-Help served these borrowers who were then unable to succeed in their loans and build wealth – even during the Great Recession.

America’s families of modest means may be short on financial assets, but there is nothing short about their hopes for their American Dreams. Our nation is big enough and broad enough to preserve these dreams for this and future generations. WI Charlene Crowell is a communications manager with the Center for Responsible Lending. She can be reached at charlene.crowell@responsiblelending. org.

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It’s been seven years since Lezli Williams died at the hands of the man she loved.

Unlike many victims of domestic violence, Williams displayed no obvious signs of abuse. There were no bruises or scars and no easily discernable cries for help.

“We didn’t know anything until after she was killed,” said Ginger Williams, Lezli’s grandmother, herself a victim of domestic violence.

“I guess there was this misguided dedication where she swore a friend of hers to secrecy and made the friend promise never to tell.”

With Domestic Violence Awareness Month observed during October, officials at the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence in Northwest said nearly 20 individuals per minute in the United States are victims of physical violence by an intimate partner, which equates to more than 10 million women and

men over the course of one year.

One in three women and one in four men have experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner within their lifetimes, while one in five women and one in seven men have been victimized by severe physical violence by an intimate partner, said Ruth Glenn, executive director of NCADV. Glenn also said that one in seven women and one in 18 men have experienced stalking to a point where they felt fearful or believed that they or someone close to them would be harmed or killed.

“On a typical day, there are more than 20,000 phone calls placed to domestic violence hot lines nationwide. In domestic violence homicides, women are six times more likely to be killed when there is a gun in the house,” Glenn said.

In the District alone, in 2013, approximately 32,794

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ABUSE continued from Page 18 domestic violence-related calls were made to the Metropolitan Police Department, which equates to a staggering one call every 16 minutes, according to figures provided by the office of the attorney general in the District of Columbia.

Also, 5,005 petitions for civil protection orders were filed in 2013, a 7 percent increase in filings from 2012, a figure that’s been consistently trending upward in recent years with the number of total filings in 2012 also registering a 7 percent increase over 2011, according to information from the D.C. Superior Court in Northwest.

Domestic violence counts as a scourge that affects individuals in every community, regardless of race, economic status, sexual orientation,

gender, or nationality, Glenn said, while also noting that intimate partner violence often accompanies emotionally abusive and controlling behavior, which stands as just a fraction of a systematic pattern of dominance and control.

Williams, 75, who lives in Baltimore said she knows all about abuse.

“I was in an abusive marriage, but the difference is that when I got out, I had my dad and my two brothers who came and got me. And I never looked back,” she said.

“What happened in my case was that my husband decided to buy a dog instead of paying the rent, and I couldn’t figure out how a person could do that. So, because I complained, I got hit, and that was all it took for me.”

Although the abuse occurred while she was in her 20s, Williams said she never remarried.

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She said her ex-husband attempted to reconcile by offering the customary “I’m sorry; it won’t happen again.”

“For me, I can do bad all by myself. I don’t need someone else to do it for me, and I certainly don’t need anyone beating on me,” said Williams, who retired as an editor and writer for The Baltimore Times after more than 20 years in 2004.

Williams remains active, teaching a language arts course to third-graders twice a week.

The death of her granddaughter, who was 22, has left even more emotional scars, Williams said. “My daughter is raising her child, who was just 1 when Lezli was killed, and he’ll never know his mom or share any special moments with her because of domestic violence. She was my oldest grandchild, and the extent of the abuse is something my family will never know because Lezli never told us,” she said.

As she gazed at a photo of her late granddaughter, Williams, with tears welling in her eyes, recalled burying Lezli on Christmas Eve. She said no one should have to suffer an abusive relationship, and she hopes that the attention given to former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, captured on video pummeling his then-fiancée, has further opened eyes about domestic violence.

“It’s unfortunate that it takes a celebrity to do something before people recognize

the severity of domestic violence,” Williams said.

“When I was a victim, there really weren’t any laws in place to protect women, but now there are. And with Ray Rice there’s more of a spotlight, which is good.”

Williams said that, as a victim herself, she understands how difficult it may be to leave an abusive relationship.

She said that for those trying or planning to leave, it’s best to alert family and friends and to be careful when making preparations to flee.

“It’s OK to be brave, but don’t be foolish,” she said. “I was fortunate because I had my dad and brothers. If you choose to stay, try to get help for yourself because no one deserves to be hit or abused.”

According to Nomore.org, some signs of an abusive relationship include the following: exerting strict control (financial, social and/or appearance); needing constant contact including excessive texts and calls; insulting a partner in front of others; extreme jealousy; showing fear around a partner; isolation from family and friends; frequent canceling of plans at the last minute; and unexplained injuries or explanations that don’t quite add up. WI If you are a victim of domestic violence, call 911. For resources and information visit www.dccadv. org, nomore.org, mysistersplacedc. org, dcsafe.org or other outreach and support organizations.

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Maj. Gen. Mark A. Brilakis (center) congratulated Isaiah Payne and Christopher Lintz (left to right) during halftime at the Nation’s Football Classic on Sept. 13 for receiving four-year scholarships to Morehouse College and Howard University, respectively, which was made possible by the Marine Corps’ NROTC scholarship program. /Photo courtesy U.S. Marine Corps/Sgt. Bryan Nygaard

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The cost of higher education continues to escalate, making it impossible for many youths to realize their dreams of attending college.

But some options still remain, including joining the armed forces – even becoming a commissioned officer.

“We are actively seeking talented youth who live in D.C., Maryland or Delaware who meet the requirements for the Frederick C. Branch Scholarship (an NROTC scholarship) and plan to attend an historically black college or university, but these opportunities are available nationwide,” said Capt. Travis Perkins, executive officer, of the recruiting station in Baltimore, who has been in the U.S. Marine Corps for 21 years and grew up in Sanford, Florida.

“Our goal is to make sure young adults and their families know about these scholarships – to make them aware of the opportunity”, which is valued at $150,000 each. “It’s more than just a way to pay for college. When students graduate and successfully complete Marine Officer Candidates School [in Quantico, Virginia] and the NROTC program, they also earn a commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. The Marines allowed me to attend Florida A&M University to become a commissioned officer, to travel the world and to continue my education in graduate studies,” said Perkins, 39, who lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

The scholarship program bears the name of Frederick C. Branch, the first black U.S.

Marine Corps officer, who earned his second lieutenant bars in 1945 and later attained the rank of captain before leaving the corps in 1955. In his honor, the Marine Corps offers four-, three- and twoyear NROTC scholarships for students attending or planning to attend 17 HBCUs, including Howard University, Hampton University, Morehouse College, Spelman College, FAMU and Norfolk State University.

Scholarships will be given to 70 deserving American students this year, including one freshman currently attending Morehouse University in Atlanta, Georgia.

“I grew up in poverty in a single-parent home with my grandmother and three siblings – life wasn’t easy for us,” said Christopher Lintz, who now lives with his father in Bowie, Maryland. “During the recession, my mother became ill and had to go on disability. I later had to move around, first with a family friend, then in a shelter, and for a while we were homeless. So this scholarship means everything.”

Lintz said he wants to learn how to become a leader.

“The Marines allow me the chance to be part of something bigger than myself. I consider it a real honor to be part of the Marine Corps, and to eventually become an officer has long been a dream of mine. Because of the scholarship, which includes a monthly and book stipend and pays my room and board, I can focus on my studies and don’t have to be concerned about how I will pay my bills,” said Lintz, 18.

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School Choice Equals Parental Choice While all parents want to provide the best education for their children, not every parent has access to a quality school. In a perfect world, every family would live in a neighborhood with an excellent public school or be able to afford to send children to the private school of its choice.

Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world, and many parents, based on their zip code alone, must send their children to failing and underperforming schools.

In 2004, while I served as a member of the Louisiana State Senate in New Orleans, my constituents were calling and visiting my Senate office, begging me to do something to help their children. The public school sys-

DCPS EDUCATION BRIEFS of students achieve their dreams,” said District Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson.

“Whether you knew Father Payne for years, or for only a few minutes, you instantly felt his passion and commitment as a champion of the arts and education,” Henderson, 44, said. “Father Payne insisted upon excellence for his students and was a stalwart believer in possibility and tradition. He had an abundance of faith in his students, showed them love every single day, and set an example that created a welcoming and thriving school Father John Payne, principal at Duke community. While we grieve this Ellington School of the Arts in Northwest, tragic loss, we send our prayers, our always encouraged his students to do their thoughts and our condolences to best./Courtesy Photo his family.”

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Duke Ellington Principal Mourned

The Duke Ellington School of the Arts family in Northwest mourns the passing of its principal, Father John Payne.

Payne, 53, died overnight on Oct. 9 of an apparent heart attack.

Payne, a native Washingtonian and Augustinian friar, had been at Duke Ellington since 1995, when he began work as the school’s director of the “He Rose Project.”

Beginning in 2000, Payne served as dean of students, assuming the principal’s post in August.

“Our hearts are heavy as we mourn the loss of our friend and colleague Father John Payne. During his decades of service at Duke Ellington, Father Payne helped thousands

Special Ed Bills Approved

The D.C. Council has unanimously approved three bills aimed at overhauling special education services in the District.

The bills, which were approved on Oct. 7, will speed delivery of services to students with special needs.

They will also provide parents with better information and resources related to local educational advocacy.

Overall, the new legislation will put District school officials in closer reach of services that higher-performing school districts and private schools are providing their students.

Council member David Catania (I-At Large), 46, who sponsored the long-awaited legislation, has referred to its passage as an “his-

tem was in turmoil. Many of the schools were failing academically, and parents considered them unsafe.

During this time, I would go home and see my beautiful daughters, who attended private schools and didn’t have the same worries. At that moment I realized how blessed we were.

If I wanted to continue to have the blessings that God gave me, I needed to bless other folks and use my position and influence to help these families.

As a community, we must acknowledge that not every school can meet the needs of each and every student. A school that is a perfect fit for one student could be a very poor match for another.

Each student learns differently, has different needs, and thrives best in different environments.

And each family has different values for its children’s education.

In our communities, we have many excellent schools of all types. We also have many programs and options in place that parents of all backgrounds can access. I am proud to have authored and supported school choice legislation, including the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence program in New Orleans in 2008, the precursor of the Louisiana Scholarship Program.

While charter schools and traditional, direct-run schools are the ones most often discussed,

toric” response to long-standing concerns.

have been designated as leaders in making more effective use of technology in classrooms.

Blended-Learning Sessions

School officials continue to experiment with blended-learning projects that combine individualized computer learning with regular classroom instruction.

Milton Bryant, a fourth-grade teacher at Ketcham Elementary School in Southeast, who works with students in small groups during blended-learning sessions, is among education innovation fellows in the District who are currently engaged in a partnership with Microsoft for the delivery of more personalized student instruction.

In doing so, Bryant, like his blended-learning colleagues, videotapes his lessons, which allow students to log in at their discretion to watch sessions they want to review.

“It’s like the [You Tube tutorial-oriented] Khan Academy starring Mr. Bryant,” Ketcham principal Maisha Riddlesprigger said in remarks to a group of educators and technology experts, who along with the chancellor, recently toured the school.

The tour represented one of several arranged by Digital Promise, a nonprofit network that includes 57 public schools in 27 states that

Council Mulls Ban on School Nicknames

D.C. Council member Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5) introduced a bill in late September that would force seven schools to change nicknames that refer to Native Americans.

McDuffie, who said the D.C. Council should continue to insist that the NFL’s Washington Redskins change their name, added that there would be an “air of hypocrisy” surrounding the city’s efforts to progress as long as racially based nicknames, logos and mascots are permitted in schools.

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the Louisiana Scholarship Program provides parents an even greater landscape of options.

Such a program provides an educational choice for parents that they might not otherwise be able to make, affording the opportunity for a brighter future for their children. The Louisiana Scholarship Program, which makes vouchers available for students to attend a private school of their families’ choice, coupled with the other school choice options, puts families in the driver’s seat of their children’s education.

While there are many reasons and factors that go into a parent’s educational decision – safety, academics, religious or moral teachings – the important thing is that parents must not be limited in the choices they are able to make so as not to limit the level of success their children can meet. WI Ann Duplessis is president of the Louisiana Federation for Children. She is a former state legislator, having served on the Senate Education Committee, and has fought successfully to expand educational options for Louisiana’s children by authoring and supporting numerous pieces of school choice legislation.

She currently serves as chairman of the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors. Duplessis resides in New Orleans and remains active in numerous civic activities.

The Louisiana Federation for Children, a project of the American Federation for Children and the Alliance for School Choice, is dedicated to promoting educational choice by protecting, growing and expanding scholarship programs for low- and middle-income children.

Milton Bryant, who teaches the fourth grade at Ketcham Elementary School in Southeast, takes his turn on a rotating basis to work with students in small groups during blended-learning sessions. /Courtesy Photo

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MARINES continued from Page 22 Another future officer said having male mentors changed his life for the better.

“We moved around a lot after my parents divorced when I was 2, and I still don’t have a relationship with my father, although I wish I did,” said Isaiah Payne, whose family lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and who managed to maintain stellar grades despite attending three different high schools in four years.

“I went into a Marine Corps recruiting office one day when I was in high school, and I was fascinated by what the recruiter said – the kinds of opportunities that were available. I want to be the best I can be, and the Marines have the highest standards of any branch of the military,” he said.

“But the best part is that I now have so many father figures, role models and mentors – and they’re all officers in the U.S. Marine Corps. They’ve made a real difference in my life,” said Payne, 18, who currently attends Howard University and will be the first in his

family to attend and graduate from college.

One retired Marine officer who now works with high school students in Parkville, Maryland, said addressing the needs of today’s young adults has become, for him, a 24hour job.

“They call me at home, and I take them to a variety of events that expose many of them to a world they never knew existed,” said Master Sgt. James Ruffin, who retired from active duty nine years ago and has mentored hundreds of local students, including Payne.

“This year at Parkville High School we have 163 cadets who are part of the four-year JROTC program, so we have our hands full. But it’s very rewarding, and they’re all exceptional young men and women.

They just need some positive guidance and encouragement,” said Ruffin, 51. WI For more information about the scholarship program, including the requirements for eligibility, contact your local Marine recruiter by calling 410-850-0822, or go to marines.com.

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Maj. Gen. Mark A. Brilakis, (center) joined fellow U.S. Marines Col. Jerry Carter (far left) and Lt. Col. Dan Sparks (far right) and presented $150,000 scholarship checks to both Christopher Lintz (second left) and Isaiah Payne (second right) on Sept. 13 at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Southeast. The two young men will attend Morehouse College and Howard University, respectively, which was made possible by the Marine Corps’ NROTC scholarship program. /Photo courtesy U.S. Marine Corps/Sgt. Bryan Nygaard

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Editorial A Nobel Tribute

Much of the world is applauding the newest and youngest Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

Interestingly enough, Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai told reporters at a Birmingham news conference that she found out about her award while in chemistry class at her school.

Malala came to public attention when as a 15 year old in 2012, Taliban gunmen shot her and other young girls leaving school because of the group’s opposition to girls being educated. The Nobel Prize winner’s activism since recovering from her extensive brain injuries has prompted support for herself and her foundation and electrified a gaggle of admirers.

She continues to advocate for freedom and equality for young girls and women as evidenced by her recent comments: “So here I stand, one girl among many. I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace.

Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity.

Their right to be educated.”

Malala shares this year’s prize and its $1.4 million with long-time Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi. Following the announcement of the award, Malala urged young people to stand up for their rights. Receiving the award, Malala said, has made her feel more powerful and courageous.

Malala is currently exiled in the United Kingdom although she hopes to return home to the Swat Valley despite the death threats and risks associated with such a move.

The award has turned attention to the challenges and difficulties confronting Pakistani women.

According to Pakistani national statistics, illiteracy tops 70 percent in rural areas, the literacy rate is 47 percent nationally but stands at a staggering rate of only 23 percent for women in some parts of the country. So while the Nobel will serve as an inspiration for young women and girls in her country and elsewhere, there’s a great deal of work women, children and men must do to create safe spaces, as well as an environment of job and salary parity and overall equity for women.

The stories are legion all over the world, in industrialized and developing countries alike, of the very real challenges that face women and girls. It will take vision, political will and a concerted effort to effect meaningful change in the lives of our mothers, grandmothers, sisters and daughters. WI

Celebration!

This week, 50 years ago, a visionary from Texas, who made the District of Columbia home and became in many ways this city’s heartbeat, launched the first edition of the Washington Informer.

As we celebrate the Informer’s Golden Anniversary, Dr. Calvin Rolark’s legacy looms large. He understood perfectly the ancient African proverb that “Until the story of the hunt is told by the lion, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”

Anyone who spent any time with this larger-than-life personality knew pretty quickly where he stood. His watchwords were self-reliance and self-sufficiency and he operated on the premise that African- Americans would be perpetually weak without economic independence. That belief led to the creation of the United Black Fund.

Through the Washington Informer, Dr. Rolark worked tirelessly to share with the wider community the positive events, stories and activities that took place every day in the black community but which were virtually ignored in mainstream circles. He inspired the community’s respect and admiration because of his unabashed and unapologetic elevation of the best our community had to offer.

The staff is humbled by the rich heritage handed down to us and we work diligently every day to build on the gift Calvin and Wilhelmina Rolark left us. That legacy demands that we continue to grow and thrive.

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In Search of Support Reparations!

Capitol Hill StaffAffordable Housing er,Asanda former an advocate for African As a Ward 5 resident I am very glad to see all of the new development in and around the Brookland neighborhood. What I worry about is somewhat the same as the last two people quoted in D. Kevin McNeir’s article, “Brookland Welcomes $200 Million Mixed-Use Development,” published in the Oct. 9 edition. They have, as I have, concerns that working-class citizens will be and are being priced out of most, if not all of these places to live.

You would think with all of the development around the Metro stations that somewhere there would be some affordable housing for low- and moderate-income residents. The mayor continues to talk about all of the development he and his administration have brought to the District, but where’s the affordable housing? It seems that the District is using the same blueprint all over the city: wherever there is a Metro station, build highpriced apartments and town homes for high-income earners.

Landlords who want to take advantage of an inflated housing market are forcing long-time renters out of the city. Low-to-moderate income earners have no recourse but to leave the city to find affordable housing.

Hard-working people deserve to be able to rent or buy a house in the District of Columbia. Believe me, if the District doesn’t do something quickly, we will be like a New York City, or a San Francisco where only the wealthy can afford to live in the city.

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descendants in the Americas for many decades, I would like to publically commend and endorse William Reed for his recent reparations commentaries in the Washington Informer.

As we all know, the brutal middle passage, culminating in the Atlantic slave trade and the resulting Jim Crow and institutional racism that continues, requires that we all must do more to engage in the marketplace of information. The pleas in Mr. Reed’s column are necessary to get at what is required to repair the damage.

It’s as if Black Americans can’t see that the answer to their myriad of societal problems is as simple as demanding that Congress address the issue. Again, I congratulate Mr. Reed for bringing this issue to the fore and insist that more Blacks should write or call Congress as well as increase their level and frequency of discussion regarding reparations and the overdue repair of the debt America owes.

Lawrence Smith Attorney at Law

50 Years of Fair, Balanced Reporting

Congratulations to the Washington Informer in celebration of its 50th anniversary.

As a longtime resident of the District, I have been a very loyal reader of your esteemed newspaper.

As far as I’m concerned, the Informer has always been a

voice of reason; the voice for the downtrodden and voiceless among D.C.’s minority community. And, because of its history of fair, unbiased and balanced coverage of issues that impact all of D.C., the newspaper has rightly become the staple in this city that its founder, the late Dr. Calvin Rolark envisioned.

It seems like everyone, for at least the past of couple months, has been talking about the Informer: I go to the grocery store and I hear people in line talking about its longevity versus the other black publication that, in comparison, appears to be fading in communities east of the river.

My granddaughter rushes in from school the other day, saying she has to read an article in the Informer as part her civics report, two of my neighbors asked me to pick up a copy of this week’s edition if I was going to the Safeway near Queens Chapel Road and while I was at Eastern Market a few days ago, I happened to notice an older Asian man who was trying to explain something in one of your papers to his female companion who was also Asian.

I am so proud of all the work Ms. Denise Rolark Barnes has accomplished in carrying on her father’s legacy. Most of all, I’m proud to say that if people in this city really want to know what’s going on in the District of Columbia, all they have to do is to read the Informer.

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By Julianne Malveaux

Ebola Knows No Borders because hourly wages are lower in those countries than at home.

To be sure, this economic globalization does not go well with some. Why can’t these jobs stay in the U.S.? If some in Congress have their way, companies that send jobs abroad may face higher taxes or fewer incentives than those that keep their jobs at home. A downside of globalization is that the fluid nature of borders allows for copyright and trademark infringement.

Some companies have taken their complaints to world judicial bodies with mixed results.

When it comes to matters of trade and economics, experts are eager to speak of “globalization.”

People are keen to talk about the dissolution of borders and the many ways that countries work together across the globe. At least part of every Apple computer purchased in the U.S. was manufactured or assembled in Ireland. Many call centers are located in the Caribbean and India. U.S. companies subcontract these jobs to other countries

Now, Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian national who travelled to Dallas to see his fiancée and his son, has died. His death raises lots of questions about the world response to Ebola, especially on the African continent. More than 7,400 people have been diagnosed with the Ebola virus, and nearly half have died from it.

When Duncan went to the hospital on Sept. 25, he told staff he had recently been living in Liberia and complained of the flulike symptoms that can also signal the virus. Ebola sufferers experience

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fever, headaches, muscle pain, weakness, diarrhea, vomiting and unexplained bleeding. It can only be transmitted through exposure to the bodily fluids of an Ebola-infected person. Doctors sent him home with antibiotics. When he returned to the hospital on Sept. 28, he was admitted and then quarantined.

Most of the Ebola cases are in West Africa, and Liberia has the greatest number of any country; more than half of those diagnosed in Liberia have died. Guinea has the highest survival rate but a third fewer cases than Liberia, which of

course has the lowest survival rate in Africa. The other African countries, including Nigeria and Senegal, have few diagnoses, but Nigeria, with just 20 cases, has a survival rate of 40 percent. There are some reports that the virus has spread to Senegal.

Among Western countries, Spain had one, and a nurse who treated Duncan in Dallas has upped that number to two in the U.S. There may be unreported cases in other states, Canada and other Western countries.

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By Lee A. Daniels

Ebola’s Other Consequence: Conservative Fear-Mongering The world is rightly on edge over the latest appearance of the lethal Ebola virus. President Barack Obama has committed American troops and millions of American dollars to help those countries in West Africa where it threatens to reach epidemic levels.

The diagnosis two weeks ago that Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national visiting relatives and friends in Dallas, was suffering from the virus (he died last week)

raised alarm bells throughout the country, prompting government officials and the medical community to check and recheck the multifaceted preventative “screen” they’ve assembled to defend against the virus.

On Sunday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that a nurse who had “extensive contact” with Duncan in Dallas has contracted the Ebola virus, the first time it has been contracted by someone inside the United States.

Duncan’s death was sufficient to trip yet another outbreak of a different kind of horrible virus that has been coursing through American society for the past six years. This virus shows itself as the workings of a diseased mind, not a diseased body. I follow the lead of others who’ve called it “Obama Derangement Syndrome.”

The readers of these pages are no doubt familiar with this current curse on America’s body politic.

It erupted barely a month after Obama took office, when adher-

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ents of the newly formed tea party began whining about being “enslaved” by Obama and vowing to “take our country back.”

What followed has been a long, tawdry list of charges against and conspiracy theories about the president. This flight from reality has been taken up not merely by the fringe elements of the conservative movement. Indeed, the hydra-headed conspiracy-theory dynamic about Obama almost immediately became a major foundation of the Republican Party’s

opposition to him: Recall that well into 2012, the “birther” movement’s notion that he wasn’t born in the state of Hawaii but in another country and that his claimed citizenship was part of a worldwide plot to take over the U.S., one of the major “talking points” of the GOP presidential primary contest.

True, there’s a very old tradition in American politics of one political faction or another wallowing in

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By George E. Curry

Republicans Still Earn an F on Civil Rights The Leadership Conference of Civil Rights, a coalition of more than 200 human rights groups, has issued a new congressional report card that reaches the same conclusion that similar analyses by the NAACP have reached in recent years: When it comes to issues important to the civil rights community, every Republican in the House and Senate gets an ‘F.’ The LCCR graded each federal lawmaker on a point system, and no Republican supported key civil

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rights measures more than 45 percent of the time. Even if you’re grading on a generous academic curve, that translates to a clear F. The bills members of Congress were graded on included a Fair Housing Amendment, workforce reinvestment, financial reform, gender equality, and child tax credit extension.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) and the lone Black senator, Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), each earned a zero. Presumptive GOP presidential candidates Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin)

scored zero and 5 percent, respectively.

In a warm-up to his presidential run, Paul has been criticizing his own party for not making overtures to black voters. In an interview with CNN last week, he said, “I think in the Republican Party – the biggest mistake we’ve made in the last several decades is we haven’t gone into the African-American community, into the NAACP and say you know what, we are concerned about what’s going on in your cities and we have plans. They may be different than the Democrats, but we do have plans and we do want to help.”

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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has also said the GOP plans to actively compete for the Black vote.

Speaking to the National Association of Black Journalists’ national convention in Boston in the summer, he said, “We have become a national party that has decided it is OK to show up every four years, about five months before an election,” he said. “We’ve become a national party that’s really just a U-Haul trailer of cash for a presidential nominee.”

He said that had changed under his watch, noting that he had launched a “full-time engagement

program” to attract African-Americans, Latinos and Asian voters. Priebus said he was also bringing more people of color into the party.

He proclaimed, “We’re in this for the long haul. We’ve got to get this right.”

But getting it right involves more than invoking new language while continuing the same old patterns.

And that’s exactly what Republicans are doing with the votes in Congress and their constant attacks on President Barack Obama.

Their best performers on civil

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By Marc H. Morial

NUL BACKS ‘Put Our Children First’ “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”

— George Washington Carver In recent weeks, the latest major steps towards realizing the Brown v.

Board of Education guarantee that education “is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms” have been taken. First, on Sept. 22, the National Urban League launched the second phase of our Put Our Children 1st campaign, which includes a series of television and radio public service announce-

ments airing on TV One and Comcast, Radio One and Reach Media that feature Tom Joyner, Rickey Smiley, Yolanda Adams and Russ Parr.

These PSAs stress the importance of the equitable implementation of Common Core State Standards in helping to ensure that all children – no matter their race, where they live or their parents’ income – receive a high-quality education.

Two weeks ago, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released updated guidelines to ensure that students have equal access to educational resources, such

as academic and extracurricular programs, effective teaching, high-quality technology and instructional materials and safe school facilities, “regardless of race, color, national origin or zip code.”

Despite its call for equity in education 60 years ago, full compliance with the letter and the law of the Brown decision remains a promise unkept. To fulfill that promise, more must be done to ensure that all districts are held to high standards, that those standards are consistent across the country, and that schools, teachers and students in all schools

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and neighborhoods have the necessary resources to succeed. That is a primary goal of Common Core State Standards.

Common Core establishes clear, consistent guidelines for what every student should know and be able to do in math and English from kindergarten through the 12th grade. It does not dictate curriculum or how to teach. School districts and teachers still have complete authority to create their own curricula. CCSS also empowers students by placing a greater emphasis on critical thinking, problem solving and expository writing

that focuses more on a child’s understanding of a subject rather than memorization or repetition.

The National Urban League firmly believes that with equitable implementation, CCSS offers an unprecedented opportunity to help meet our national goal of preparing America’s children for the 21st century. By raising standards for everyone, Common Core can help bridge the education achievement gap and create a new reality in which all students are adequately prepared

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By Marian Wright Edelman

What About Our Girls?

During the most critical period of Jessica’s childhood, adults who could have intervened to protect her from abuse let her down over and over.

As a child, she was sexually abused in her home and ended up living with her grandmother for a time. At age 11, she became a victim of child sex trafficking when she fell into the clutches of a local pimp. She was never treated as a victim or a sexual assault survivor, even by the police.

At school she was stalked and

sexually harassed by a school administrator known to pay for sex. Jessica was sold for sex by her pimp for the next several years until she finally found a way out through The Mary Magdalene Project, a local social service agency. She often called herself a “prostitute,” but through her healing and advocacy work Jessica now knows how important language is and understands she was sexually exploited.

When Tanisha was in junior high, she got into a fight at school. Instead of the argument being mediated or the discipline handled by the school, she was funneled into Los Angeles

County’s juvenile justice system and given probation for getting into the fight. While on probation, Tanisha, who had to rely on public transportation, was occasionally late for school, which led to truancy tickets that were considered a probation violation. As a result, Tanisha was arrested and held at a juvenile detention center.

When she arrived, she was scared and depressed, but rather than providing her help from mental health professionals, she says, detention officers placed her in “the box,” or solitary confinement, for days. Cold, hungry, and extremely frightened, she took a very long time to heal.

ASKIA-AT-LARGE

Today, Tanisha is a 20-year-old student and advocate for other young people in the juvenile justice system through the Youth Justice Coalition.

Jessica is a 29-year-old Los Angeles County probation consultant with the Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Unit. Jessica is now a mother and is featured in a powerful mural on Los Angeles’ Skid Row as a survivor of sex trafficking. Both survivors spoke at a Los Angeles town hall co-organized by the Children’s Defense Fund-California, Public Counsel, Youth Justice Coalition, and UCLA Law School. It focused on five critical areas where girls of color face

disproportionate risks: school pushout, foster care and dependency, criminalization and incarceration, sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children, and gender-specific burdens.

Though the national focus is often on the racially biased ways boys of color are treated, girls of color face many of the same risks from the cradle through adulthood that impact their life chances for success.

Like boys, girls of color who enter the juvenile justice, child welfare, education, and other systems often

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By Askia Muhammad

Ebola, Africans, at Home and Abroad

Even though three times as many people have died in this country from influenza within the last 30 days (three children, two in Idaho and one in North Carolina) than have died from Ebola (one African adult in Texas), Americans are frightened out of their wits about Ebola, the cruel hemorrhagic disease associated with three African countries, more than they are about the flu, a disease that is annually a more dangerous threat to this

country’s homeland security.

There is one reason that’s so simple that even the late Ray Charles can see it. Scary Ebola is about Africans and Black people. Since the Ebola fright and concern is about Black Africans somehow transmitting the disease – which kills its victims in a horrible manner, bleeding and diarrhea from every orifice on the body – I want to discuss a plan of action that is all about Black people in America.

Liberia is ground zero for this crisis, and it is also special as far as Blacks in America are concerned.

Sierra Leone, which along with Guinea is another of the three main countries, is the worst hit and also shares a special relationship with Blacks in America.

First it was Sierra Leone, and then it was Liberia that was considered as a place to repatriate enslaved Blacks, to send them back to Africa. Even “The Great Emancipator,” Abraham Lincoln himself, entertained the idea of sending Black folks en masse back to Africa after the end of slavery and after their usefulness as free labor that built the nation’s wealth was done.

Many Blacks went back.

A funny thing happened in Liberia, which was established in 1847 and was so Americanized that its capital city, Monrovia, was even named for former U.S. president James Monroe. It was horror perpetrated by the hated so-called “Americo-Liberians.” Their political domination over the 133 years in which they were in power was despised. The former slaves treated their indigenous fellow countrymen as badly as White slave masters treated them. Their clique never even learned any indigenous

language after more than a century living there.

When the revolution led by Sgt. Samuel K. Doe eventually overthrew the dreaded regime of President William Tolbert, rebels murdered not only the president but also every single member of his family they could find – at least 26 people. Let the lessons from that revolution serve as “How Not to Go Back to Africa: 101.”

Many Blacks have remained keenly interested in returning to

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Ballet Stars Leap into the District Dance Theatre of Harlem Continues Resurgence

By D. Kevin McNeir WI Contributing Writer Fans of the ballet anticipate the beauty of a perfectly executed arabesque, grand jeté or challenging fouetté en tournant as seen in pieces like “Swan Lake.”

And you can expect these and other traditional movements interspersed with elements of jazz and modern dance when one historic black ballet company returns to the District.

“The future of Dance Theatre of Harlem is very bright as (artistic director) Virginia Johnson continues to open up the repertoire to new choreographers and pushes to get this next crop of dancers into the public’s [eye],” said choreographer and master teacher Darrell Grand Moultrie, whose piece “Vessels” will make its world premiere in D.C when the troupe comes to town.

The company performs Friday through Sunday at Sidney Harman Hall in Northwest – the first time since last fall, when DTH returned after a nine-year hiatus to sold-out audiences.

Washington Performing Arts first presented DTH in 1972 for its District debut. However, much has changed for the dance company since then, including a period of financial turbulence and a number of years when touring became unfeasible. Then D.C. native Johnson, both a founding member and a principal dancer of DTH, received a request to lead a resurgence – and led she has.

“In 2004, we had 44 dancers in the touring company plus a truckload of scenery. Then, due to financial constraints, we scaled down considerably,” said Johnson who joined DTH in 1969, performing most of the D.C. native Jenelle Figgins (center), an accomplished ballerina, is featured in “Heaven,” a piece choreographed for the Dance Theatre of Harlem that marks its return to Sidney Harman Hall Oct. 17-19. /Photo courtesy of Rachelle Neville

repertoire during her 28-year career with the company.

“We’re on track in terms of our five-year plan, and when I was hired in January 2010, my primary task was to bring back the touring company. We may be a bit smaller than in the past, but we’ll be just as good if not better,” she said.

Johnson, a graduate of the Academy of the Washington

Virginia Johnson, a former principal dancer with DTH now serves as the company’s artistic director. /Photo courtesy of Rachelle Neville

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School of Ballet, recalled when she began to consider dance as a career and the negative advice she received.

“Someone told me that I should focus on other forms of dance, rather than ballet, because of my color. But Arthur Mitchell founded this company [in 1969] so that dancers who looked like me could become ballerinas. It was about the skills and talent of

the dancer, not their color. We continue that philosophy today, reminding youth that blacks can do more than just hip-hop,” said Johnson, now in her mid-60s.

Moultrie, a Harlem native, said DTH has always been “part of my fabric.”

“I grew up with their dancers around me and was one of those kids that used to dance in the

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Someone told me that I should focus on other forms of dance, rather than ballet, because of my color. But Arthur Mitchell founded this company [in 1969] so that dancers who looked like me could Virginia Johnson become ballerinas.

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Now, working with the company, I have the opportunity to pass on artistic gems and expectations so that young dancers can carry on with the torch.”

One native Washingtonian, now in her third season with DTH, said she’s excited about coming home.

“It’s really a humbling experience to return home and perform for the community that supported me – it’s reassuring that I completed my training and am making my people proud of me,” said Jenelle Figgins, who began her training at the historic Jones-Haywood School of Ballet and graduated from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, both of which are located in Northwest.

Jones-Haywood, which traces its roots to the Capitol Ballet Company founded in 1941 by Doris W. Jones and Claire H. Haywood, has emerged as one of the premier institutions for the

study of ballet and other dance forms in the District for children and teens. It provides rare opportunities for minorities.

“Dance is an active art form, and while you have to train daily if you want to be successful, it also keeps me healthy and strong,” said Figgins, who received her bachelor of fine arts with honors from the State University of New York at Purchase in 2011. “I didn’t have much of a childhood because I was always indoors rehearsing, but I had some amazing role models who inspired me.”

Figgins said two of her three sisters and a former ballerina have made a profound impact on her career.

“My older sister Dionne, who just came off tour with “Motown the Musical” on Broadway, was in the company before it went on hiatus, so she’s already gone down a similar trajectory, which has made it a little easier for me,” she said. “And I have a twin sister who dances with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. But my ballet teacher at Jones-Haywood, (artistic director) Sandra Fortune-Green has been my greatest inspiration, has had an outstanding career in her own right and is one of the strongest women I’ve

ever known,” said Figgins, 25.

DTH will present four performances when it appears in the District: one on Friday, a matinee and an evening performance on Saturday, and a final matinee on Sunday. Pieces will include “New Bach” and “Return,” both choreographed by Robert Garland, as well as “In the Mirror of Her Mind” by Christopher Huggins and Moultrie’s “Vessels.”

Moultrie said he views being a dancer and choreographer as a special gift.

“I was one of several choreographers chosen by Beyoncé to choreograph two numbers for her last solo tour and the tour that she did last year with her husband, Jay-Z,” he said. “That was exciting and allowed me to use ballet, modern dance and theater for a commercial piece. I use the same energy and creativity for Dance Theatre of Harlem. You have to be in tune with the music,” Moultrie said. WI

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Black Programs Return to Small Screen Viola Davis, Others Help Usher in New Era

By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Make no mistake: This isn’t 30 years ago, when “The Cosby Show” premiered and forever changed the way audiences viewed blacks on television.

But African-Americans are now taking on television roles, and networks appear to have once again figured out that their shows should be as diverse as the population that watches.

“What’s happening in television is what I would call the ‘The HBO Effect’ or ‘The Wired Sopranos Effect,’ said Marcus Antonio Hill, a District native and a visiting assistant professor of mass communications at Frostburg State University in Maryland. “Prior to the critical success of ‘The Wire’ and the commercial success of the ‘The Sopranos,’ networks were not giving writers com-

Viola Davis holds court with students in the new ABC drama by Shondra Rhimes, “How to Get Away With Murder.” /Photo courtesy of ABC

plete control over content. “‘The Wire’ and ‘The Sopranos’ showed television networks like ABC, CBS and NBC that audiences are hungry for deeper content and deeper story lines. Audiences want a reason to keep coming back to a show,” Hill said.

While in its relatively short

history, The CW Television Network has produced numerous black-oriented shows, the major networks have mostly shied away from African-American-headed programs … until now.

ABC’s sitcom “Black-ish,”

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Superstars Halle Berry, Meagan Good and Kevin Hart also are set to appear in television shows this season. However, the most talked-about of all the new shows, “How to Get Away With Murder,” stars “The Help” actress Viola Davis.

A two-time Tony and Screen Actors Guild winner who’s twice been nominated for an Oscar, Davis, 49, leads a cast that includes Aja Naomi King, Billy Brown and others.

“How to Get Away With Murder” centers on a group of law students and a criminal defense professor and attorney who becomes entangled in a murder plot that turns their world upside down.

The show’s creator, Shonda Rhimes, recently received criticism in a scathing article in The New York Times that many, including Rhimes, blasted because it portrayed her as an “angry black woman.”

The Times’ Alessandra Stanley wrote, “When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called ‘How to Get Away with Being an Angry Black Woman.’” Stanley’s rant suggests that Rhimes didn’t construct a series around one African-American woman but also introduced a set of heroines who flout ingrained television conventions and preconceived notions about the depiction of diversity.

“Rhimes has embraced the trite but persistent caricature of the Angry Black Woman. … she has almost single-handedly trampled a taboo even Mi-

Academy Award nominee Viola Davis stars in the new ABC Drama “How to Get Away With Murder.” /Photo courtesy of ABC

chelle Obama couldn’t break. … [Her characters] are not as benign and reassuring as Clair Huxtable,” Stanley penned in her column.

Editors at The New York Times recently issued an apology.

“I think there is a revolution of black actors and actresses emerging in nonlinear roles, and television brings daily access to this progression,” said Lanada Williams, who lives on Capitol Hill. “I think the revolution is being led by black television executives, and it’s because we don’t want to see the same characters. More black executives and more black writers are taking the lead and producing these roles, I believe, as a response to the loss of black viewers,” Williams said.

Many viewers and industry experts said it’s too soon to know whether any of the new black-themed shows will have the effect of “The Cosby Show,” which proved timely for African-Americans and the television landscape, as audiences were introduced to a successful black family headed by a strong husband and father who stood as a respected doctor and an equally strong wife and mother who figured as a key partner in a law firm.

After its 1984 premiere, “The Cosby Show’s” witty,

charming and sophisticated parents, Heathcliff and Clair Huxtable, helped to erase the memories of the “shuck and jive” and subservient roles viewers had always seen African-Americans portray.

The Huxtables helped to obliterate an era that included the absentminded and inarticulate George Jefferson and the stereotypical inner-city teenager J.J. Evans from “Good Times,” characters that Americans were led to believe served as role models for blacks.

“When you think of ‘The Cosby Show,’ you think of a time in which Bill Cosby had a mission not only to enlighten whites about what real black culture is but to remind black people that they should respect themselves and, if they do that, they will command America’s respect,” said Sean Nixon, a Northeast resident and communications student at Syracuse University in New York.

“It’s been 30 years since Bill Cosby changed things with the debut of his show,” Nixon said. “But it’s taken equally as long for the networks, which are starving for success, to take a look at what all of the talented black people in Hollywood can do for them and the big picture.”

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Figueroa and Nasser Make Magic Together ‘Talisman’ a Smorgasborg of Latin and Brazilian Influences

By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer Minutes into a conversation with famed Latin percussionist Sammy Figueroa, one realizes just how much music suffuses his entire existence.

Figueroa, a Bronx native with Puerto Rican roots, has over the past 40 years played with a constellation of musicians including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Chaka Khan, Dave Sanborn, Quincy Jones, George Benson, Eddie Van Halen, Lena Horne, Chet Baker, Tania Maria and Al Jarreau.

“I’m one of few percussionists doing jazz, Latin Jazz, Rhythm

and Blues, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and other music forms,” said Figueroa, who now calls South Beach home. “I’m comfortable in different genres … people have said that I’m the most beautiful percussion player in the world. They’ve said there are few people like me, able to play any genre and weave myself in the songs. I didn’t know that. I’ve been doing it all my life and I just love it.”

Figueroa, whose father Charles, was a famous singer in Latin America, said although he came from a family of singers and musicians he didn’t want to follow in their footsteps as a classical musician.

“I figured out what I wanted to do. Since I was tiny little boy, I was married to the music. Music

is in my blood,” said Figueroa. “I remember that I got money for a haircut from my father but bought music. I knew I was going to get a beating so I wet my hair and patted it down. My father took the belt out.

That beating was something.”

Figueroa’s career began as a singer in Puerto Rico.

On the verge of signing a contract as an 18 year old, he said his mom intervened.

“She knew that in the business then, there was a lot of drugs and other things happening. She didn’t want me to be surrounded by it,” he said. “The harmonics and beauty of the music drew me. When I first heard Stan Getz, I didn’t know anyone could play that sweetly. It blew

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me away completely.”

“And when I heard Miles, I said, ‘This is it.’ I wanted to play an instrument. I lived in New York City in an era where every musician lived there – Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Chaka Khan, Herbie Mann. I was at the right time in the right place.”

He described his relationship with Brazilian singer and composer Glaucia Nasser in almost spiritual terms. The two just collaborated on their latest recording project, “Talisman” which was released in September.

Nasser agreed.

Her entire singing career, she said, has been driven by signs – the Universe’s nudging – that encouraged her to keep pushing forward.

“I’ve been 10 years in the (music) business,” said Nasser, who was born on a farm in Minas Gerais, in Brazil’s rich agricultural heartland.

“I knew I wanted to sing since I was a child. They said I never played with my toys. I used to sing to them. Later, I decided I had to be serious.”

So Nasser earned a degree and lived abroad.

“Music was something I couldn’t live without. I was close to dying and then when I saw I wasn’t dead yet, I realized I had to do it,” she said with a laugh. “I started singing for the fun of it. Then when I recorded my first

CD, there was a really good reaction.

So I dropped out of everything and focused on music.”

“Every time I thought my singing career was impossible, I would get a sign to carry on,” Nasser explained.

And meeting Figueroa was serendipity, she said.

“The album came out of something that was a beautiful mistake,” Figueroa said. “I was introduced to Chico Pineiro, met Glaucia who said she wanted to do a project with me and I said ‘Oh my God, yeah, I’m open.’”

“I’m thrilled about this album.

I wanted to do voice, percussion and guitar. We have Puerto Rican, traditional Latin, African and Brazilian music with elements of real jazz. I didn’t know what was going to happen. It exceeded my wildest expectations.”

Nasser concurred.

“This is the music of my heart,” she said in an earlier interview. “It’s an expression of love. We just let things happen. Some people thought Brazilian and Latin music couldn’t work together, but this proves it’s a beautiful combination.”

Figueroa and Nasser will perform on Sunday, Oct. 19 at the Bethesda Jazz & Blues Supper Club in Bethesda, Maryland, at 7:30 p.m. WI

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“Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”

ARIES Possibilities of hearing good news about home are greatly expanded. Savor the news rather than thinking about other annoyances.

Travel is on the horizon. Plan the trip this week. Soul Affirmation: Jewelry reflects the beauty of my feelings about myself. Lucky Numbers: 26, 44, 52

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TAURUS Feather the nest. Stock up on stuff for the long haul. Cement relationships. A friend needs your support. Enjoy giving it. You will receive good news about a pal. Soul Affirmation: Cheerfully handling what comes at me is the test of who I am. Lucky Numbers: 13, 22, 31 GEMINI Your mate has a sweet surprise. Open up to receive it.

Choose your words carefully around a sensitive pal. Listen for good news about a loan or financial matter. Soul Affirmation: I let others toot my horn this week. Lucky Numbers: 27, 28, 41

By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer make aging a medical problem?

To a geriatrician, it might be. But Gawande says there aren’t enough doctors of geriatrics, and without them, we have a lessened chance to sidestep problems that could diminish the quality of life in later years. He says, in fact, that the elderly don’t dread death so much as they dread the losses leading up to it: loss of independence, of thought, of friends.

But long before that happens, Gawande says, there are conversations that need to be had, namely what treatments should or should not be done. How far would you want your physician to go?

Let me tell you how much I loved this book. I can usually whip through 300 pages in a night. “Being Mortal” took me three.

Part of the reason is that author Atul Gawande offers lingering food for thought in practically every paragraph – whether he writes about the history of aging and dying, one of his patients, or someone in his own family. I just couldn’t stop thinking about the points he made with his anecdotes and, with this information, how it could radicalize our lives and how it fits for just about everybody.

We are, after all, not getting any younger.

I think if you’re a caretaker for an elderly relative or if you ever plan on growing old yourself and want to maintain quality of life, this book is an absolute must-read.

For you, “Being Mortal” is informative to the end. WI

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Last night’s dessert was spectacular.

As with many finales, that perfect ending to a perfect meal left you satisfied for the rest of the evening. It was, like some conclusions – a little nightcap, a final chapter, a last dance, the lingering notes of a favorite song – a thing to savor.

Can the end of life be so sweet? Perhaps there are steps to make it so, as you’ll see in the new book “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande.

For about the last century, the average lifespan for North Americans has been increasing. Modern medicine has taught doctors how to save lives, but, until relatively recently, it didn’t teach them how to deal with life’s end.

That, says Gawande, is unfortunate. In many cases, doctors feel extremely uncomfortable discussing the end of life with their patients. That often leads to protocol that precludes quality of life when there isn’t much life left to have.

We’ve come to this point, this reluctance to face death, because we’re no longer familiar with it. A century ago, people died at home, often after self-treating their ailments. Hospitals weren’t places to get better, says Gawande; medicine back then usually had little impact on life or death. When penicillin, sulfa, and other drugs became available, however, hospitals became places for cures. Nursing homes, he says, were for people who needed additional care before going home.

But medicine isn’t the only thing that’s changed: Aging has, too. We live longer, we expect our parts to last longer, and we’re surprised when health fails. But does that

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CANCER Enjoy the great insights you have in the area of career objectives. Take a look at what’s out there! An unanticipated financial matter may arise; find the good in it. Soul Affirmation: A cheerful soul should be wrapped in a cheerful package. Lucky Numbers: 15, 23, 35 LEO Be cautious and conservative with money. You are extremely witty this week. Allow others to enjoy your good humor. Your leadership skills are very high, and others will follow. Soul Affirmation: Luck is my best friend this week. Lucky Numbers: 14, 20, 44 VIRGO This is a good time for you to seek agreement on a plan that involves a relative. Take the time to remind your lover how much you care. Get a little sentimental if you have to. Don’t be too critical of that softer side of your personality. Soul Affirmation: Self-confidence is the key to my success this week. Lucky Numbers: 2, 9, 19 LIBRA Now is a good time to push. Your energy is higher than ever.

Someone might get offended, but you can’t please everyone. Hire a pro for something that you planned to do yourself, especially if an expertise is involved. Soul Affirmation: Success is mine because I feel successful. Lucky Numbers: 5, 7, 12 SCORPIO Review your “to do” list again. You may need to slow down to discover something that you didn’t realize while you were in the flow of events. Your lover is going to be a little difficult to understand. Back off if an argument arises. Soul Affirmation: Two hats fit well on my head. Lucky Numbers: 3, 20, 32 SAGITTARIUS Make a special effort to spend all week with your lover, husband or wife. Your sense of the importance of relationships is keen and this is a good time to strengthen your passionate partnership.

Take your lover to a party. Devote attention. Soul Affirmation: Change is my middle name. Lucky Numbers: 12, 51, 52 CAPRICORN The flock will come to you for direction. Give it gracefully. Know that your insights will help a lot if you deliver them in the right way. If you are a mother, guidance will be the best gift you can give others this week. Soul Affirmation: Knowing I can do it is the biggest preparation for getting it done. Lucky Numbers: 7, 11, 22 AQUARIUS Most people don’t know how often dreams and reality blend into that practical consciousness of yours. Knowledge comes from a dream you’ve had lately. This week is a good week to get started on making that dream a reality. Soul Affirmation: My spirit gives me limitless possibilities.

Lucky Numbers: 9, 17, 52 PISCES Cooperation is key this week in your relationship with your partner. Even if you know you’re right, let your partner have his or her way in the early going. Your staying power will give you influence or control in the late rounds. Soul Affirmation: I let go and let the spirit run my life this week.

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Columbia Heights Day Festival!

Ward 1 State Board of Education candidate Dr. E. Gail Anderson Holness dunks Ward 1 D.C. Council candidate Brianne Nadeau in the tank during the Columbia Heights Day festival in Northwest on Saturday, Oct.11. /Photo by Nancy Shia

Lateefah Williams takes her best shot at the dunk tank during the Columbia Heights Day festival in Northwest on Saturday, Oct. 11. Williams is running for attorney general of the District of Columbia in the upcoming Nov. 4 elections. /Photo by Nancy Shia

(L-R) Zee Shan, 15 and Asad Choadhry, 15, from Virginia are the first to participate in the tricycle race during the Columbia Heights Day festival in Northwest on Saturday, Oct. 11. /Photo by Nancy Shia

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Crowds Converge to Support Natalie Williams Breast Care Foundation!

Actress Lynn Whitfield and Natalie Williams shared a laugh together at the historic Howard Theatre in Northwest during the Natalie Williams Breast Care Foundation 2014 Bustier Brunch on Oct. 4. /Photo by Nancy Shia

Dr. Tilli Williams offered health care information to guests at the historic Howard Theatre in Northwest during the Natalie Williams Breast Care Foundation 2014 Bustier Brunch on Oct. 4. /Photo by Nancy Shia

Nyela Williams and Miss DC Teen 2014 Cydney Hill, daughters of breast cancer survivors, recounted stories about their mothers at the historic Howard Theatre in Northwest during the Natalie Williams Breast Care Foundation 2014 Bustier Brunch on Oct. 4. /Photo by Nancy Shia

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Wizards forward Paul Pierce shoots over Detroit defenders Andre Drummond and Caron Butler during the first half of NBA preseason action on Sunday at the Verizon Center in Northwest. The Wizards defeated the Pistons, 91-89. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Washington Wizards Defeat Detroit Pistons, 91-89

With five seconds remaining on the clock, Wizards center Kevin Seraphin catches a pass from teammate Andre Miller and scores the game-winning basket during the final quarter of NBA preseason action on Sunday at the Verizon Center in Northwest. The Wizards defeated the Pistons, 91-89. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Wizards guard Glen Rice Jr. is double-teamed by Detroit forwards Josh Smith and Greg Monroe as Rice attempts a shot at the basket during the first half of National Basketball Association preseason action on Sunday at the Verizon Center in Northwest. The Wizards defeated the Pistons, 91-89. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Washington Wizards Win Preseason Home Opener, 91-89

Detroit forward Greg Monroe drives past two Wizards players during the second half of National Basketball A ssociation preseason action on Sunday at the Verizon Center in Northwest. The Wizards defeated the Pistons, 91-89. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Detroit forward Greg Monroe blocks Wizards point guard Andre Miller and clears the way for Detroit point guard D.J. Augustin to the basket during the second half of NBA preseason action on Sunday at the Verizon Center in Northwest. The Wizards defeated the Pistons, 91-89. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Detroit forward Josh Smith takes a shot at the basket over a Washington opponent during the second half of NBA preseason action on Sunday at the Verizon Center in Northwest. The Wizards defeated the Pistons, 91-89. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Beal Injury Tempers Optimism Wizards Fans Discouraged After Guard Breaks Wrist

By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer It’s the Wizards turn to disappoint.

It seems that each time one of Washington’s professional sports teams is expected to fare well – or perhaps even challenge for a championship – disaster strikes.

“What are we going to do without Bradley Beal? He and John Wall are the keys to bringing a title home,” said Richard Matthews, a Wizards fan and Southeast resident. “Something always seems to go wrong just when we think we finally have the right pieces,” said Matthews, 33.

Beal, 21, will miss as much as two months of action after sustaining the injury in an exhibition game earlier this month against the Charlotte Hornets.

Wizards doctors confirmed

to ESPN that an MRI revealed a non-displaced fracture of the scaphoid bone in Beal’s left wrist that will require surgery.

The injury also came as forward Kris Humphries had surgery to repair nerve damage in his finger. Humphries, 29, will be sidelined at least one month because of the injury, which he suffered during a preseason game against the Chicago Bulls.

Also, forward Nene has been suspended by the NBA for an altercation he engaged in during the game earlier this month against the Bulls.

What’s more disconcerting about Beal’s injury is the fact that his backup, Martell Webster, remains out of action as he continues to recover from a back procedure. There’s no timetable yet for Webster’s return.

While many Wizards fans said

John Wall, seen here during a game last season, will need others to step up while his backcourt mate Bradley Beal recovers from a broken wrist. Wall and the Wizards are expected to compete for an NBA championship this year. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Bradley Beal suffered a broken wrist in a preseason game earlier this month. He will be sidelined for up to two months, and the Wizards are trying to determine whether to sign a free agent, trade for help or stand pat. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

they hope the team can hold down the fort until their injured players return, some said it’s time for others to help.

“At least Glenn Rice Jr. has shown some promise,” said Paul Gainer of Northeast. “This will give Glenn Rice Jr. and Otto Porter a chance to step up.”

Beal helped lead the Wizards to a second-round appearance in the NBA playoffs last season after the team stunned the Bulls in five games. With the addition of veteran Paul Pierce and Humphries and the maturation of Beal, Wall, Webster and others, many predicted the Wizards would be a force in the Eastern Conference.

With the departure of LeBron James from Miami and the uncertainty that surrounds Chicago Bull Derrick Rose’s health, some have envisioned a scenario where the Wizards could advance to the NBA Finals.

“The conference is wide open,” said Marshall Palmer of Southwest. “We can’t let injuries stand in the way this year. This is a big year because we’re better than most of the teams, and if Derrick Rose isn’t healthy and things don’t go well for LeBron in Cleveland, there really isn’t any The Washington Informer

other team in the East who can deal with us,” said Palmer, 39.

Matt Moore, an NBA writer for CBSSports.com, said the Wizards have expressed interest in Ray Allen as a replacement for Beal. If their pursuit of the former Miami Heat guard fails, Miller said, the team could pursue a trade.

Despite several teams, including the San Antonio Spurs, Oklahoma City Thunder and the Cleveland Cavaliers, showing interest in the soon-to-be-40 Allen, the Wizards are hopeful of landing him.

Still, Miller said the Wizards won’t do anything rash.

“They’re going to give the guys they have now a chance. And the truth is, regarding free agency, there aren’t many quality free agents out there beyond Allen who are worthy of the risk,” Miller said.

He said Washington’s front office isn’t going to lock itself into anything with long-term consequences for what’s a short-term predicament with Beal. Miller said Allen could decide after the season starts and after surveying the landscape where he wants to play.

“Overreacting isn’t the best course of action,” he said. “It’s

more interesting that the Wizards won’t consider a trade.

They were desperate to make the playoffs last season. They’re expected to make the playoffs this year, and they should make the playoffs. As long as that happens, they can figure things out after that, win or lose in the first round. Besides, Beal should be back well before then.”

However, given the failures of the Washington Nationals and the Redskins after fans and experts attached lofty goals to them, Wizards fans are certainly cautious in their hope even when the team gets healthy.

“Washington teams have this knack for disappointment, so we can’t get too high,” said Rachel Shaw, a Wizards and Redskins fan who lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

“But I tell my fellow Wiz fans not to get too down. It’s the Eastern Conference – nobody is running away with things early, and it only means that when Bradley Beal comes back, he’ll be fresh when everyone else is getting tired,” said Shaw, 34.

“Don’t give up. Not yet. It’s much too soon, so let’s talk again in May and see where we are at.” WI

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We pray victims currently living with this madness are reading this column or have read previous columns. I sincerely hope that someone who loves you will rescue you – it could be your mom, or father, a co-worker or a neighbor – but always remember that you’ve got to want to change your circumstances.

We shared the story of Lynn Strange, who married a man she knew to be an abuser yet signed on nonetheless, and her abuse only intensified. In one of the worst scenarios, we shared the story of Mildred Muhammad, a mother of three, and the wife of the late John Allen Muhammad, the D.C. sniper. Mildred Muhammad lived in constant fear of being fatally shot.

This week, it’s my turn again.

My ex-husband walked out and left me with three children, ages 6, 12 and 15, in the middle of the night. He decided to move back to California and never paid child support.

He would go off and stay for days and even weeks at a time.

So, when he left, it didn’t feel strange to us; however, as time passed, I knew instinctively that he was gone for good. And, as with Mildred Muhammad’s former husband, my ex-husband’s disposition changed after he served in the Vietnam War. When I was pregnant with my oldest son, who I’m proud to say is a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, I withstood horrific abuse at the hand of my husband. Fortunately, we both

survived. My son holds a master’s degree in finance and was recently promoted to vice president at a local bank in Bethesda, Maryland, but I firmly believe he was affected by my experiences.

My husband and I had been out that day shopping for groceries and taking care of other family matters. For whatever reason, he started to become combative.

His demeanor changed, and he took on an abusive spirit. He became hostile, and by the time we arrived home, I was crying. As we continued to argue, he forced me onto the bed and laid me flat on my back. He tied my arms and legs to the bedposts. Then he placed a pillow over my face. There was nothing I could do except to pray. I was about eight months pregnant at the time. Eventually, he removed the pillow from my face. I’m convinced prayer caused him to stop suffocating me. He left me tied up until I cried myself to sleep that night.

What an awful experience to remember! And my son, although he’s extremely bright, is extremely stubborn. Besides, the fact that he’s a Morehouse Man – I believe it’s what I went through while carrying him that changed his temperament.

Research has proven that while mothers are carrying their children, everything matters – the food they eat, whether they read to their children, or sing songs to them. The mother’s frame of mind plays a significant role. It all impacts our children.

But, after all of that, I thank and praise God that today I’m

with Lyndia Grant happy. I enjoy my radio show on Radio One; most importantly, I enjoy hearing from readers who have provided positive feedback regarding these columns.

A word of advice: Don’t stay in an abusive relationship.

Look at what it did to me. If you’re in an abusive relationship, keep praying! Tell somebody! Get help; call 911.

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The Reverend Lyndon Shakespeare Interim Priest

Rev. Louis B. Jones II Pastor

Foggy Bottom • Founded in 1867 728 23rd Street, NW • Washington, DC 20037 Church office: 202-333-3985 • Fax : 202-338-4958 Worship Services Sundays: 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Music and Hymns Wednesdays: 12:10 p.m. - Holy Eucharist www.stmarysfoggybottom.org Email: stmarysoffice@stmarysfoggybottom.org

Schedule of Services: Sunday School – 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service – 11:00 AM Communion Service – First Sunday Prayer Service/Bible Study – Tuesday, 6:30 PM www.blessedwordoflifechurch.org e-mail: church@blessedwordoflifechurch.org

Worship Sundays @ 7:30 & 11:00 A.M. 5th Sundays @ 9:30 A.M. 3rd Sundays: Baptism & Holy Communion Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @ Noon & 6:30 P.M.

Schedule of Service Sunday Service: 8:30 AM & 11:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM Communion Service: First Sunday

www.pilgrimbaptistdc.org

Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ Drs. Dennis W. and Christine Y. Wiley, Pastors 3845 South Capitol Street Washington, DC 20032 (202) 562-5576 (Office) (202) 562-4219 (Fax) SERVICES AND TIMES: SUNDAYS: 10:00 am AM Worship Services BIBLE STUDY: Wonderful Wednesdays in Worship and the Word Bible Study Wednesdays 12:00 Noon; 6:30 PM (dinner @ 5:30 PM) SUNDAY SCHOOL: 9:00 AM – Hour of Power “An inclusive ministry where all are welcomed and affirmed.” www.covenantbaptistdc.org

Twelfth Street Christian Church

Campbell AME Church Reverend Daryl K.

(Disciples of Christ) 1812 12th Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202-265-4494 Fax: 202 265 4340

2562 MLK Jr. Ave., S E Washington, DC 20020 Adm. Office 202-678-2263 Email:Campbell@mycame.org Sunday Worship Service 10: am Sunday Church School 8: 45 am Bible Study Wednesday 12:00 Noon Wednesday 7:00 pm Thursday 7: pm “Reaching Up To Reach Out”

Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Bishop 5757 Temple Hill Road, Temple Hills, MD 20748 Office 301-899-8885 – fax 301-899-2555 Sunday Early Morning Worship - 7:45 a.m.

Church School - 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship – 10:45 a.m.

Tuesday – Thursday - Kingdom Building Bible Institute – 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday – Prayer/Praise/Bible Study – 7:30 p.m.

Baptism & Communion Service- 4th Sunday – 10:30am Radio Broadcast WYCB -1340 AM-Sunday -6:00pm T.V. Broadcast - Channel 190 – Sunday -4:00pm/Tuesday 7:00am

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

2498 Alabama Ave., SE • Washington D.C. 20020 Office: (202) 889-7296 Fax: (202) 889-2198 • www.acamec.org 2008: The Year of New Beginnings “Expect the Extraordinary”

Sunday Morning Worship 11:00am Holy Communion – 1st Sunday Sunday School-9:45am Men’s Monday Bible Study – 7:00pm Wednesday Night Bible Study – 7:00pm Women’s Ministry Bible Study 3rd Friday -7:00pm Computer Classes- Announced Family and Marital Counseling by appointment E-mail: Crusadersbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.CrusadersBaptistChurch.org

“The Amazing, Awesome, Audacious Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church”

“God is Love”

Rev. Cheryl J. Sanders, Th.D. Senior Pastor 1204 Third Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 202.347.5889 office 202.638.1803 fax Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Prayer Meeting and Bible Study: Wed. 7:30 p.m.

“Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital” www.thirdstreet.org

Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews • Senior Pastor 1200 Isle of Patmos Plaza, Northeast Washington, DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-6767 Fax: (202) 526-1661

Rev. Dr. Alton W. Jordan, Pastor 800 I Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 202-548-0707 Fax No. 202-548-0703

Sunday Worship Services: 8:00a.m. and 11:00a.m.

Sunday Church School - 9:15a.m. & Sunday Adult Forum Bible Study - 10:30a.m.

2nd & 4th Monday Women’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Tuesday Jr./Sr. Bible Study - 10:00a.m.

Tuesday Topical Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Tuesday New Beginnings Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Wednesday Pastoral Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Wednesday Children’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Thursday Men’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

Friday before 1st Sunday Praise & Worship Service - 6:30p.m.

Saturday Adult Bible Study - 10:00a.m.

Third Street Church of God

Isle of Patmos Baptist Church

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

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

Sunday Church School: 9:20 a.m.

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

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

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

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

Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr.; Senior Bishop & Evangelist Susie C. Owens – Co-Pastor 610 Rhode Island Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (202) 529-4547 office • (202) 529-4495 fax Sunday Worship Service: 8 AM and 10:45 AM Sunday Youth Worship Services: 1st & 4th 10:45 AM; 804 R.I. Ave., NE 5th 8 AM & 10:45 AM; Main Church Prayer Services Tuesday – Noon, Wednesday 6 AM & 6:30 PM Calvary Bible Institute: Year-Round Contact Church Communion Every 3rd Sunday The Church in The Hood that will do you Good! www.gmchc.org emailus@gmchc.org

ST Marks Baptist Come Worship with us...

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

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Mount Carmel Baptist Church

52 Years of Expert Engraving Services

Joseph N. Evans, Ph.D Senior Pastor 901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423

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

TV Ministry –Channel 6 Wednesday 10:00pm gsccm.administration@verizon.net

St. Stephen Baptist Church

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

Crusader Baptist Church

Service and Times Sunday Worship Service 11:00 a.m.

Communion every Sunday 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School 10:00 a.m.

Bible Study Tuesday 12Noon Pastor’s Bible Study Tuesday 6:30 p.m.

Motto; “Discover Something Wonderful.”

Website: 12thscc.org Email: Twelfthstcc@aol.com

Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Holy Communion 4th Sunday 10:00am Prayer and Bible Study Wednesday 7;00pm

www.livingwatersmd.org

Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church

Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor

Mailing Address Campbell AME Church 2502 Stanton Road SE Washington, DC 20020

Sunday Worship Service 8:00am and 11:00am Sunday School 9:15am

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

Blessed Word of Life Church

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

Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor Harold Andrew, Assistant Pastor

700 I Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 547-8849

All are welcome to St. Mary’s to

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

Church of Living Waters

Sunday Church School : 9: 30am Sunday Morning Worship: 10: 45am Bible Study Tuesday: 6: 00pm Prayer Service Tuesday: 7:00pm Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday 10: 45am themcbc.org

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RELIGION BAPTIST

Advertise Your Church services here: call Ron Burke at

202-561-4100 or email rburke@washingtoninformer.com Zion Baptist Church

All Nations Baptist Church Rev. Dr. James Coleman Pastor 2001 North Capitol St, N.E. • Washington, DC 20002 Phone (202) 832-9591 Sunday Church School – 9:30 AM Sunday Worship Service – 11:00 AM Holy Communion – 1st Sunday at 11:00 AM Prayer – Wednesdays, 6:00 PM Bible Study – Wednesdays, 7:00 PM Christian Education School of Biblical Knowledge Saturdays, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM, Call for Registration Website: www.allnationsbaptistchurch.com All Nations Baptist Church – A Church of Standards

Israel Baptist Church

Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor

Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor

4850 Blagdon Ave, NW • Washington D.C 20011 Phone (202) 722-4940 • Fax (202) 291-3773

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

Sunday Worship Service 10:15AM- Praise and Worship Services Sunday School 9:00am Monday: Noon Bible School Wednesday: Noon & 7PM: Pastor’s Bible Study Ordinance of Baptism 2nd Holy Communion 4th Sunday Mission Zion Baptist Church Shall; Enlist Sinners, Educate Students, Empower the Suffering, Encourage the Saints, and Exalt Our Savior. (Acts 2:41-47) www.zionbaptistchurchdc.org

St. Luke Baptist Church Rev. Aubrey C. Lewis Pastor 1415 Gallatin Street, NW Washington, DC 20011-3851 P: (202) 726-5940 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

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.

Mount Moriah Baptist Church Dr. Lucius M. Dalton, Senior Pastor 1636 East Capitol Street, NE Washington, DC 20003 Telephone: 202-544-5588 Fax: 202-544-2964 Sunday Worship Services: 7:45 am and 10:45 am Holy Communion: 1st Sundays at 7:45 am and 10:45 am Sunday School: 9:30 am Prayer & Praise Service: Tuesdays at 12 noon and 6:30 pm Bible Study: Tuesdays at 1 pm and 7 pm Youth Bible Study: Fridays at 7 pm

King Emmanuel Baptist Church Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor 2324 Ontario Road, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 232-1730 Sunday School – 9:30 am Sunday Worship Service – 11:00 am Baptismal Service – 1st Sunday – 9:30 am Holy Communion – 1st Sunday – 11:00 am Prayer Meeting & Bible Study – Wednesday -7:30 pm

Advertise Your Church services here: call Ron Burke at

202-561-4100 or email rburke@washingtoninformer.com

Advertise Your Church services here: call Ron Burke at

202-561-4100 or email rburke@washingtoninformer.com

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

St. Matthews Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor Worshiping Location Knights of Columbus - 1633 Tucker Road Fort Washington, MD 20744 (240) 838-7074 Order of Services Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 am Sunday School: 9:00 am Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer / Bible Study: 6:15 pm - 7:20 pm (Tuesday)

Rehoboth Baptist Church

Salem Baptist Church

Emmanuel Baptist Church

Florida Avenue Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. Clinton W. Austin Pastor 2409 Ainger Pl.,SE – WDC 20020 (202) 678-0884 – Office (202) 678-0885 – Fax “Come Grow With Us and Establish a Blessed Family” Sunday Worship 7:30am & 10:45am Baptism/Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Family Bible Study Tuesdays – 6:30pm Prayer Service Tuesdays – 8:00pm www.emmanuelbaptistchurchdc.org

Holy Trinity United Baptist Church

Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor

Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert SR. Pastor

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

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

Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 a.m.

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

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

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

Midweek Prayer: Wednesday – 7:00 p.m.

Noonday Prayer Every Thursday

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

Matthews Memorial Baptist Church

Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith

Christ Embassy DC

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

Dr. C. Matthew Hudson, Jr, Pastor

6839 Eastern Avenue, R1 Takoma Park, MD 20912 (202) 556-7065

Elder Herman L. Simms, Pastor

2616 MLK Ave., SE • Washington, DC 20020 Office 202-889-3709 • Fax 202-678-3304

Kelechi Ajieren Coordinator

Sunday Apostolic Worship Services 11:00 A.M and 5:00 P.M

Early Worship Service 7:30a.m Worship Service 10:45a.m.

New Members Class 9:30a.m.

Communion and Feet Wash Holy Communion : 1st Sunday -10:45a.m 4th Sunday at 5:00 P.M Church School 9:30a.m.

Prayer, Praise and Bible Study: Prayer/Seeking Wednesday 7p.m Wednesday at 8:00 P.M. Bible Study : Saturday: 11a.m.

Baptism: 4th Sunday – 10:45a.m Apostolic in Doctrine, Pentecostal in Experience, Holiness in Living, Uncompromised and Unchanged. “Empowered to love and Challenged to Lead a The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42 Multitude of Souls to Christ”

New Commandment Baptist Church

Peace Baptist Church

Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor

712 18th Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Phone 202-399-3450/ Fax 202-398-8836 Sunday Morning Worship Service 7:15 am & 10:50 am Sunday School 9:30am Sunday Morning Worship Service 10:50am Wednesday Prayer & Testimonies Service 7:30pm Wednesday School of the Bible 8:00pm Wednesday - Midweek Prayer Service 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Services: Sunday Worship 11 AM Sunday School 10 AM Wednesday Mid-Week Worship, Prayer & Bible Study - Wed. 7 PM “A Church Where Love Is Essential and Praise is Intentional”

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

Shiloh Baptist Church

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church

1864-2014

Rev. Alonzo Hart Pastor

Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor

Rev. Reginald M. Green, Sr., Interim Pastor

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

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

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

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

The Church Where GOD Is Working....

And We Are Working With GOD

Sunrise Prayer Services - Sunday 7:00 a.m.

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

Sunday Church School: 9:15 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship: 10:40 a.m.

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

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

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

Morning Worship: 10:55 a.m.

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

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

150 Years of Service

Theme: “The Kingdom Focused Church” Matthew 6:33 and Mathew 28:18-20, KJV

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

Email: stmatthewsbaptist@msn.com

Motto: : “Where God is First and Where Friendly

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

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Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 P.M. Friday Evening Service 7:00 P.M. ; Last Friday “…Giving Your Life a Meaning” www.Christembassydc.org

Pennsylvania Ave. Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Kendrick E. Curry Pastor

Rev. Dr. Michael T. Bell

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

Sunday Worship Service 10:00 A.M.

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

Mt. Horeb

Rev. Dr. H. B. Sampson, III Pastor 2914 Bladensburg Road, NE Wash., DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-3180 Fax: (202) 529-7738 Order of Services Worship Service: 7:30 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.

Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.

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

Prayer Services: Tuesday 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday 12 Noon Email:mthoreb@mthoreb.org Website:www.mthoreb.org For further information, please contact me at (202) 529-3180.

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LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Probate Division

Probate Division

Probate Division

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

2014 NRT 28

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Administration No. 2014 ADM 978

Maxine K. Rosborough Name of Deceased Settlor

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1031

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1030

Margurite Winters

NOTICE OF EXISTENCE OF REVOCABLE TRUST

Helen G. Wright aka Helen Wright

Lawrence E. Smith

Decedent

Decedent

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Michelle H. Vance, whose address is 11235 Oak Leaf

Audrey I. Johnson, whose address is 1758 Shepherd

Drive, #1807, Silver Spring, MD 20901, was appointed

Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed

Personal Representative of the estate of Helen G. Wright

Personal Representative of the estate of Lawrence E.

aka Helen Wright, who died on August 13, 2014

Smith, who died on September 20, 2011 with a Will, and

with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision.

will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are

and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter

unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such

Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of

appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall

decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills,

be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street,

D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor

N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001,

Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 16, 2015.

on or before April 16, 2015. Claims against the decedent

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the

shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the

undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed

Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a

with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned,

copy to the undersigned, on or before April 16, 2015,

on or before April 16, 2015, or be forever barred.

or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or

Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent

legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this

who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25

notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall

days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of

so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address

Wills, including name, address and relationship.

and relationship.

Date of first publication:

Date of first publication:

October 16, 2014

October 16, 2014

This Notice must be mailed postmarked with 15 days of its first publication to each heir and qualified beneficiary of the trust and any other person who would be an interested person within the meaning of D.C. Code 20-101 (d).

Michelle H. Vance

Audrey I. Johnson

Personal Representative

Personal Representative

TRUE TEST COPY

Date of First Publication: October 9, 2014

TRUE TEST COPY

TRUE TEST COPY

Anne Meister

Linda J. Rosborough Signature of Trustee

Anne Meister

Anne Meister

Register of Wills

Register of Wills

Washington Informer

Washington Informer

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Decedent Nathaniel Bush 1119 44th Place, SE Washington, DC 20019 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Lottie Marcia Winters-Adona, whose address is 7214 Arrowhead Drive, Upper Marlboro, MD, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Margurite Winters, who died on August 19, 2012 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 2, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 2, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: October 2, 2014 Lottie Marcia Winters-Adona Personal Representative

Register of Wills

Maxine K. Rosborough whose address was 1038 42nd Street, NE, Washington, DC 20019 created a revocable trust on July 8, 2002, which remained in existence on the date of her death on February 5, 2014, and Linda J. Rosborough, whose address is 3911 Blaine St., NE, Washington, DC 20019 is the currently acting trustee, hereinafter the Trustee. Communications to the Trust should be mailed or directed to Linda J. Rosborough at 3911 Blaine St., NE, Washington, DC 20019.

The Trust is subject to claims of the deceased settlor’s creditors, costs of administration of the settlor’s estate, the expenses of the deceased settlor’s funeral and disposal of remains, and statutory allowances to a surviving spouse and children to the extent the deceased settlor’s residuary probate estate is inadequate to satisfy those claims, costs, expenses, and allowances.

Claims of the deceased settlor’s creditors are barred as against the Trustee and the trust property unless presented to the Trustee at the address provided herein on or before April 9, 2015 (6 months after the date of the first publication of this notice.) An action to contest the validity of this trust must be commenced by the earliest of (1) February 5, 2015 (One year from date of death of deceased settler) (2) April 9, 2015 ,(6 months from the date of first publication of this notice) or (3) Ninety days after the Trustee sends the person a copy of the trust instrument and a notice informing the person of the trust’s existence, of the Trustee’s name and address, and of the time allowed for commencing a proceeding.

The Trustee may proceed to distribute the trust property in accordance with the terms of the turst before the expiration of the time within which an action must be commenced unless the Trustee knows of a pending judicial proceeding contesting the validity of the trust or the Trustee has received notice from a potential contestant who thereafter commences a judicial proceeding within sixty days after notification..

Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Probate Division

Probate Division

Probate Division

PROBATE DIVISION

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1021

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1013

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1032

Foreign No. 2014 FEP 132

Palestine Jenkins

Decedent

Decedent

Spotswood Alexander Hunt Decedent Robert L. Bell, Esquire

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

245 Farragut Street, NW

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Washington, DC 20011

September 27, 2013 Date of Death Eddie R. Ball, Jr. Name of Decedent

Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL

Karen V. Wright, whose address is 526 Kenyon Street,

Lisa Jenkins, whose address is714 49th Street, NE,

NW, #101, Washington, DC 20010, was appointed

Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal

Personal Representative of the estate of Leon Randall,

Representative of the estate of Palestine Jenkins, who

who died on August 31, 2014 with a Will, and will

died on September 10, 2014 without a Will, and will

serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and

serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and

heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their

heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their

appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such

appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such

appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall

appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall

and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown

Georges County, State of Maryland, on April 24, 2014.

be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street,

be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street,

heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall

N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001,

N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001,

enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to

upon Tammy Drayton, 1811 East Capitol Street, SE,

on or before April 16, 2015. Claims against the decedent

on or before April 16, 2015. Claims against the decedent

such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will)

Washington, DC 20003 whose designation as District of

shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the

shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the

shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th

Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills,

Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a

Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a

copy to the undersigned, on or before April 16, 2015,

copy to the undersigned, on or before April 16, 2015,

or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or

or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or

legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this

legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this

notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall

notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall

16, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be

0875, Sq., 5154; 2001 Alabama Ave., SE, Lot 0028,

so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address

so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address

heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive

Sq. 5882.

and relationship.

and relationship.

a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first

publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including

presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register

Date of first publication:

Date of first publication:

name, address and relationship.

of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW,

October 16, 2014

October 16, 2014

Karen V. Wright

Lisa Jenkins

Personal Representative

Personal Representative

TRUE TEST COPY

TRUE TEST COPY

Anne Meister

Anne Meister

Register of Wills

Register of Wills

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Veronica Helen McCoy, whose address is 5413 Kansas Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Spotswood Alexander Hunt, who died on June 22, 2014 with a Will,

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MALVEAUX continued from Page 26 In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued guidelines to health care workers to prevent them from contracting the deadly virus. In Liberia and other West African countries, health care systems are inadequate and lack a sufficient number of beds to accommodate those with Ebola. To avoid infecting others, many choose – and others are forced – to lie on the street, ready and waiting to die.

The health care system is so broken in Liberia because there are no resources. The World Bank and the International Development Agency are able to make loans, with the IDA offering loans on favorable terms.

But too many African countries have to choose between loan repayment and development. When the

DANIELS continued from Page 26 the cesspool when out of power.

But what’s news about the Obama Derangement Syndrome is its racist underpinnings. Because he’s a black American of mixed heritage, the “typical” condition of political derangement that’s occurred in past eras has now been intensified by the toxic combination of a deep-rooted anti-black bigotry made all the more white-hot by his success in being elected president not once but twice.

So, it should be no surprise that those gripped by the Obama Derangement Syndrome see the Ebola outbreak not as a humanitarian crisis demanding a worldwide mobilization but as another link in their endless chain of Obama-led conspiratorial plots. Rush Limbaugh – of course – asserted that Obama allowed the Ebola-infected individuals into the country because he’s a liberal and liberals feel “[Americans] kind of deserve a little bit of this.” Conservative talkshow host Laura Ingraham con-

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rights voted wrongly more than half of the time, according to the LCCR report card. Rep. Christopher Gibson (New York) was the top-rated Republican, at 45 percent, followed

by Sen. Susan Collins of Maine with 43 percent.

Most Republicans in Congress did far worse.

In the Senate, 18 Republican scored zero: Sessions (Alabama); Boozman (Arkansas); Rische (Idaho); Grassley (Iowa); Roberts (Kansas); McConnell and Paul (Kentucky); Blunt (Missouri); Johanns

choice is loan repayment, schools and hospitals are the most affected.

Clearly, these broken health care systems in West Africa have world impact. Just as Thomas Eric Duncan traveled from Liberia to the United States, others might come from Nigeria or Sierra Leone. The “temperature check” at airports may be less than efficient, and in our global world the Ebola virus can be transported anywhere.

Many see Ebola as an “African disease,” just as they once saw HIV/AIDS as a “gay disease.”

Only when these diseases began to affect a different demographic did legislature direct funds to those organizing HIV awareness. Should our legislation not do the same thing for Ebola?

What if the Ebola virus turned up in France and people were dying? Well, France is so structurally

different that there would likely be enough beds to manage the Ebola-infected (just as the U.S. has).

There might be a more equitable distribution (or might not), and the country might have more than a scant two doses of an experimental medicine to cure Ebola. The Ebola epidemic began in February or March of this year, yet we were not ready when the virus came to the U.S. If we (the US) would have looked at the virus as more than an “African disease” separated by several miles and oceans and therefore not our concern or priority, perhaps a man’s life could have been saved.

Maybe we would have been better-prepared for the threat when it came “home.” WI Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer. She is president emerita of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, North Carolina.

tended, even more strangely, that Obama’s “core ties to the African continent” have kept him from doing more to stop its spread.

But the winner in my book for the most deranged response thus far is conservative crusader Phyllis Schlafly – if only because she’s made her addled thinking so clear.

In an interview last week with the right-wing website World Net Daily, Schlafly agreed that Obama has deliberately allowed Ebola and other infectious diseases into the U.S., declaring, “There are all kinds of diseases in the rest of the world, and we don’t want them in this country. And it’s Obama’s job to keep them out.”

She supported the assertions other conservatives have made that undocumented Latin American immigrants are also threatening Americans with infectious diseases and said, “Of all the things [Obama’s] done, I think this thing of letting these diseased people into this country to infect our own people is just the most outrageous of all.” She said Obama hasn’t acted to protect the U.S. because

“Obama doesn’t want America to believe that we’re exceptional. He wants us to be just like everybody else, and if Africa is suffering from Ebola, we ought to join the group and be suffering from it, too.

That’s his attitude.”

I think the best brief comment on Schlafly and all the other Obama derangement notions conservatives are addicted to was put by a reader, “Try winning the argument,” who responded to the World Net Daily interview this way: “[It’s] actually more widespread than that. There’s a huge epidemic and [it] is called Moronic Stupidity. Researchers do not know why people have become so *** stupid to believe *** like this but [it began] spreading right around the same time as when Obama took office.” WI Lee A. Daniels is a longtime journalist based in New York City. His latest book is “Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America.”

(Nebraska); Inhofe (Oklahoma); Cornyn and Cruz (Texas); Scott, the only African-American senator, (South Carolina); Thune (South Dakota); Cornyn and Cruz (Texas); Lee (Utah); Johnson (Wisconsin) and Barrasso and Enzi (Wyoming). The only Democrat graded an F was John Kerry, who didn’t complete his term because he resigned Jan. 13 to join the Obama administration as secretary of state.

In the House, 119 of 233 Republicans earned zeros. Another 57 earned only five points, which means 176 of 233 Republicans scored 5 percent or lower. Still oth-

ers, such as John McCain, earned only 20 percent By contrast, the entire congressional delegations of Obama’s native Hawaii, Vermont, Massachusetts (excluding John Kerry, who resigned), and Rhode Island each earned 100. Nine members of Maryland’s 10-member delegation earned 100.

Though GOP leaders are using, in the words of President George W. Bush, kinder, gentler language, they remain downright hostile to civil rights.

It hasn’t always been this way. In the 1960s, for example, civil rights

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Also, white moderates have been chased out of the party in deference to right-wing tea party zealots. Con

sequently, at a time the GOP was poised to become the dominant party, its move to the far right has made it impossible for it to reach that goal in an increasingly diverse America.

Republicans can run for the White House in 2016, but they can’t run away from the Republican record on civil rights. WI George Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service. He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. Curry can be reached through his website, www.georgecurry.com. You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge and George E. Curry Fan Page on Facebook.

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to excel. But equitable implementation – high-quality resources, teacher training and support in every school – is essential for its success.

That is why we have launched this second phase of our Put Our Children 1st campaign with a national media, digital and thought leadership effort in partnership with One Solution, the creative and branded entertainment arm of Radio One Inc., touching more than 80 percent of African-Americans through Radio One, TV One, Interactive One and Reach Media. All four PSAs included in the campaign demonstrate how young people can reach their goals and fulfill their potential when we put our children first with equal access to a high-quality education and resources.

EDELMAN continued from Page 27 arrive traumatized and experience more trauma from the way they are treated inside systems.

The level of gender-based violence girls experience and the way supposed “child-serving” systems treat girls of color compound the harms they face. Systems often fail to see them as trauma survivors – treating them instead as complicit in their victimhood, threatening, or unable to be rehabilitated.

When Boko Haram kidnapped 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria earlier this year, it sparked international outrage and calls for United States military intervention. But girls are at risk right here at home too, begging the question “Where is the outrage for them?”

In 2010, the homicide rate among

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MUHAMMAD continued from Page 27 Africa. The idea of marrying the lessons in governance and education and mastery of technology gained by African-Americans with the world’s richest continent, which still has the most arable land, a concentration of all the precious metals and resources needed by modern society, and most importantly a concentration of all the world’s known phosphate – a key ingredient in fertilizer, i.e. the future of the world’s food security – could make Africa, not China, the world’s powerhouse in the 22nd century.

There was another experiment in Blacks-going-back-to-Africa gone badly. It was in the 1960s, when Blacks from this country were expelled en masse from Tanzania after the indigenous The Washington Informer

Launched in April, Put Our Children 1st: Common Core for Common Goals is a multistate parent education campaign developed by the National Urban League and implemented locally through the Urban League affiliate network.

The purpose of the campaign is to ensure that parents are fully aware of and understand the Common Core State Standards and what they mean for their children. Parent Circles have been convened by Urban League affiliates in Cleveland, Los Angeles, Nashville and Pittsburgh, and Citywide Parent Summits have been held by the Urban League of Greater Cleveland and the Urban League of Middle Tennessee, with upcoming events in Pittsburgh (Friday) and Los Angeles (Nov. 1).

Achieving true equity and excellence in education involves all as-

pects of a child’s education, from resources and teachers, as called for by the Department of Education in its racial disparity guidance, to consistent educational standards, as provided by the Common Core State Standards, which have currently been adopted by 43 states. The mission of Put Our Children 1st is to responsibly inform and educate parents about these standards and the potential they have to better prepare our children for college and jobs. No large-scale change is ever easy, but missteps and underinvestment in implementation cannot be used to attack the merits of the standards and what they are meant to accomplish.

It’s time to put down the politics and Put Our Children 1st. WI Marc Morial, former mayor of New Orleans, is presidentand CEOof theNationalUrbanLeague.

black girls and women ages 10-24 was higher than for any other group of females and higher than that for white and Asian men. The firearm death rate for black girls and women ages 10-24 from 2008-10 was more than 6.5 times higher than for white girls and women. Black girls experience sexual violence at higher rates than their white and Latina counterparts, and intimate partner homicide is the leading cause of death among black women between the ages of 15-35. The commercial sexual exploitation of children like Jessica is a $32 billion global industry involving over 100,000 U.S. children, mostly girls, whose average age of entry is 12-14 years old. The Human Trafficking Reporting System reports that 94 percent of confirmed victims of sex trafficking between January 2008 and June 2010 were

female, and 40 percent were Black.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, black girls like Tanisha represent less than 17 percent of all female students but make up 31 percent of girls referred to law enforcement by schools and about 43 percent of girls who experience school-related arrests. Even the very youngest girls are at risk – girls like 6-year-old Salecia Johnson, who in 2012 was handcuffed and arrested at her Georgia elementary school for throwing a tantrum in her kindergarten classroom.

We need to wake up and realize all children, especially those of color – girls and boys – need adults to stop criminalizing them and recognize the special risks facing our girls.

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Tanzanians feared they might lose control of their government to their better-educated brothers and sisters from across the Atlantic.

That amounted to “How Not to Go Back to Africa: 102.” So, as I ponder the landscape now – Ebola of course will be conquered eventually, probably long before 5,000 people a day die there, as happened in Europe during the worst days of the Bubonic Plague – what I think we need now is a studied plan to reunite with our kin in a way that will benefit us all. Benefit the world.

This is where I wish our scholars, our intellectuals, particularly those on the college/university level would consider a curriculum. This country’s HBCUs could lead the way in creating a national curriculum: “How to Go Back to Africa 101.”

It makes no sense to me that Africans are starving on the most richly resourced continent on the planet while Black farmers in this country

are being pushed from the land!

White people in this country are showing every day that they don’t want us – Ferguson, Missouri; Staten Island, New York; the Ohio Walmart. Everywhere you look, the civilians are arming themselves for a race war to buttress the militarily armed police forces that kill a Black person once every 28 hours “under color of law.”

That’s worse than at the height of lynching season, when the Ku Klux Klan was running rampant in the early 20th century.

Such a curriculum today would have to prepare Blacks in this country to look at their Motherland without the prism of the “Nubian/ Egyptian-rose-colored glasses.”

Such a curriculum and decades of studying it are needed, not just for Blacks in this country, not just for Blacks on the Continent, but for the security of the world.

Let’s step forward and prepare ourselves. It’s Nation Time. WI

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