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Is Gentrification Breeding Homicide?

District Council, Officials Seeking Answers

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer Body cameras for police officers may do a lot of good, including helping to strengthen relations between District residents and the Metropolitan Police Department.

However, it’s still debatable as to whether this tool – for which the Justice Department awarded $1 million to the city to support the expansion of its Body Worn Camera Program – will affect the alarming rise in deadly crime.

“The body cameras are important for law enforcement in helping to build and rebuild public trust in law enforcement,” said Ward 5 Council member and Council Chair Pro Tempore Kenyan McDuffie.

“It’s a critical component of having

a more robust community policing program in the District. We have to make sure we do what we can to build trust; the body camera is one tool, but it’s in no way a panacea,” said McDuffie, an experienced trial attorney who once worked for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

McDuffie has introduced legislation that would, among other things, create an office of neighborhood engagement and safety and establish a community crime prevention team pilot program.

“You have to have the community play an important role in crafting solutions to address this issue,” he said.

There’s a big uptick in the 7th District, which is largely Ward 8, and officials have attempted to focus re-

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Final preparations are being made for the 20th anniversary of the 1995 Million Man March which drew an estimated two million men from all across the country. October 10, 2015 is expected to include a diverse crowd for the “Justice or Else!” March that will take place on the National Mall beginning with community prayer at 7 a.m. /WI Archives

Countdown Continues for Historic Gathering Twentieth Anniversary of Million Man March, Oct. 10

By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor Twenty years ago, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan called for one million men to converge on the nation’s capital – nearly two million answered the call focusing on the theme of atonement, reconciliation and responsibility.

And in just a few days, on Saturday, Oct. 10, Black men, women and children from across the country will return to the District to commemorate the

20th anniversary of the landmark event – the Million Man March – and to promote swift but lasting change.

One of the national co-coordinators for the day-long celebration, Minister Ishmael Muhammad, said this time the event will set its sights on the theme of “Justice or Else.”

“This promises to be an historical and pivotal moment in our country’s history and in our struggle for freedom, justice and equality,” said Muhammad who also serves as the national assistant to Farrakhan.

“In 1963, we marched with Dr. King for freedom and jobs.

But there’s no joy being free without justice. The great dissatisfaction in the world today is because the institutions, courts and governments that have been established to answer the cries of justice, and to respond to legitimate grievances, have failed to do their job. However, the breasts of the people can be calmed if simple justice was given,” Muhammad said.

Muhammad emphasized that

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MGM Donates $1 Million to New African-American Museum

By Tia Carol Jones law enforcement. She said they threat,” she said.

As an illustration its commitment diversity philanthropy, MGM Resorts hadofcome together totobring a andAmong the programs Marlow International recently $1 million to way the Smithsonian National sense donated of uniformity in the wants to Institution’s see implemented are Museum of African American History and Culture [NMAAHC].

The order gift will supWhen L.Y. Marlow's 23-yeardomestic violence victims and stricter restraining policies, portthe thefather construction of the 19th museum, open infamilies 2016. old daughter told her survivors areSmithsonian’s treated. morescheduled rights for to victim's of her daughter threatened “We areher honored“She's to have the her support of MGM Resorts International as we using own personal to intervene on behalf of adraw viclife, and the life ofcloser their tochild, the opening museum,” G. Burch III, founding story, of herthe own personalsaid painLonnie to tim, a domestic violencedirector assessshe knew something to be “The push support forward,” ment unit coupled further of had NMAAHC. of Davis-Nickens MGM Resorts International helps to with ensure that done. Out of herourfrustration saidnational about Marlow. training forsee law museum on the mall will help the millions who visit, andenforcement understand with law enforcement's handling Davis-Nickens America’s history through an African-American lens.” said anyone agencies, a Child's Life ProtecofCurrently the situation, decided to on who reads site Marlow's book willWashington tion Act and mandatory undershe construction a five-acre adjacent to the Monument, thecounselnearly start the Saving Promise camit.” where She said she “puts forthe batterers.

400,000-square-foot museum will be“get a place Americans canthe learn ing about richness and diversity paign. in its such a way, the NMAAHC average “If built we area collection ever going of to more eradiof the African-American experience.case Since start in 2003, has “It seems to be a vicious cycle person can get it.” She said at the cate domestic violence, we must than 30,000 objects covering major periods of African-American history, beginning with the origins in that won't turn my family end of the day, the book will look at both sides of the coin.

Africa continuing the civil rights era, the Harlem Renaissance, the great migration loose,”and Marlow said.through Marlowslavery, help people begin to have a dia- We need to address both the vicnorth and intothe theaudi21st century. sharedand herwest story with logue about domestic violence. tim and the batterer,” Marlow Photo Farmer ence courtesy at theSharon District Heights Also present at the event was said.

Domestic Violence Symposium Mildred Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see on May 7 at the District Heights wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise Municipal Center. The sympo- who was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in sium was sponsored

by Holdings the utive termsCorporation without parole public and private schools. She Pepco andlife Exelon have filed a petition for reconsideration Family and Youth Services by a Maryland jury for his role in feels children need to be educatof their merger with the Public Service Commission [PSC] of the District of ColumCenter of the city of District the Beltway Sniper attacks in ed about domestic violence. bia. The companies are working with the District of Columbia government to reach Heights and the National Hook- 2002. Mildred Muhammad is “We have to stop being pasa settlement agreement.

Up of Black Women. the founder of After the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor The District of Columbia government also issued a statement confi rming that chilit is Marlow has written a book, an organization that helps the dren about domestic violence,” engaged in substantive discussions with the companies on a settlement agreement.

It “Color Me Butterfly,” which is a survivors of domestic violence Marlow said. added that any settlement agreement would be presented in a new application to the story about four generations of and their children.

Marlow has worked to break review, comment and final determination. domestic violence. PSC The for book is public “I lived in fear for six years. Six the cycle of abuse in her family, “We remain our mergeryears offersinsignifi cant benefits to customers and the District and we coninspired by herconvinced own experiences, fear is a long time. It is and is confident the policies she tinue working to complete it,” said Chris Crane, president CEO “Since the Public Service and those of her grandmother, not an easy thing toand come outof Exelon. is pushing for will start that Commission why it didn’t of,” approve the merger last month, we’ve worked her mother explained and her daughter. she said. process. to learn what’s most important the District we are responding.”

She said to every time she– and reads Mildred Muhammad said “I plan to take these policies to Josephfrom Rigby,her chairman, president and CEO of Pepco look forward to completing excerpts book, she still people who want Holdings to help said, a “We Congress and implore them to discussions with the that willdomestic allow for aviolence stronger victim Pepco to provide improved reliability along with can not believe the District words came must change our laws,” Marlow said. the other cantMe benefi ts our merger will deliver to the District.” from her.signifi “Color Butterfly” be careful of how they go into “I will not stop until these poliwon the 2007 National “Best the victim's life, and understand cies are passed.”

Books” Award. that she may be in “survival Tia Carol Jones can be reached “I was just 16-years-old when mode”. at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net my eye first blackened and my “Before you get to 'I'm going lips bled,” Marlow said. to kill it started as a verbalknownWI Ta-Nehisi Coates, an you,' award-winning journalist for his insights on race, polElaine Davis-Nickens, itics andpresiculture recently joined 23 other writers, artists, academicians and entrepredent of the National Hook-Up neurs who received the MacArthur Foundation fellowship. The genius grant, as it’s of Black Women, said there is no comes with a very hefty check and plenty of bragging rights. In the often called, consistency in the way domestic Coates’ second book, “Between the World and Me,” he writes a letter Baltimore-born violence issues are dealt by the challenges of being Black in America. to hiswith son about Toni Morrison refers to the memoir as “required reading.”

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By Brelaun Douglas Howard University News Service WASHINGTON – Things got heated recently at a Ward 8 Advisory Neighborhood Meeting.

The Southeast Washington group was discussing ways to build their community Thursday when the Washington chapter of the Guardian Angels stopped by to explain its organization and recruit members.

The Guardian Angels, founded in New York City in 1979, are a controversial volunteer-based organization that patrols neighborhood streets to thwart crime.

The organization recruits youth from communities and trains them in how to combat crime. Members don’t carry weapons and can be identified by red berets and a red logo of an eye inside a pyramid.

The group announced recently that some of its members will patrol the NoMa-Gallaudet University and Rhode Island Metro stations, as well as the Metropolitan Branch Trail.

Aaron Thompson, the commander for the Angels D.C. chapter, told the community members why he felt they needed his organization and how they would operate.

“One of the biggest problems is you got the gangs that are out here, and they’re recruiting the kids,” Thompson said. “They’re influencing your kids to do the things that’s wrong.”

Thompson said how the organization goes about its efforts to clean up crime in communities.

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police come and get them,” he said. “We kick in doors. If we know it’s a drug house and we know it’s a lot of drugs and we can prove it, we do exactly what the police do.”

But this information caused concerns from those at the meeting.

“You say you bust down doors,” asked ANC 8D chairperson Theresa Jones. “The FBI has to announce and knock, so how can you do it? Tell me how you can do it.”

Thompson, whom some community members saw as evasive and combative in his responses, explained.

“We’ve built the reputation of doing it,” he said. “And not only that. Because we’ve done it so much and so well, we now work with the local authority.”

Still residents wanted more information about how exactly the Guardian Angels worked and how they would work in the community.

“I would like to see what the Guardian Angels can do for the situation in Wingate,” one concerned Ward 8 resident said. “I live in a high-rise, and we have a state-of-the-art recreation center, but the youth are too scared to go to the youth center because they have to pass a nearby apartment complex and there is a turf problem.

“The recreation center is there, but they can’t use it because they’re afraid to walk by the apartment complex.”

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Oct. 1 1948 - The California Supreme Court voided the state statute banning interracial marriages.

1952 - Joe Black became the first black pitcher to win a World Series game. The Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees, 4-2. Black was also the 1952 Rookie of the Year.

1960 - Nigeria proclaimed its independence from Britain.

1966 – The Black Panther Party for Self Defense was founded in Oakland, California, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.

rap music. She died in 2005 at the age of 78.

1963 - A.C. Green was born. He is a retired NBA player who played in more consecutive games than any other player in NBA and ABA history.

1969 - Howard Lee and Charles Evers became the first Black mayors of Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Fayette, Mississippi, respectively. Evers was the brother of civil rights legend Medgar Evers who was murdered by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith on June 12, 1963.

1988 - Bill and Camille Cosby made a $20 million gift to Spelman College in Atlanta.

Oct. 2 1902 - Alvin Coffey died. He was born a slave in 1822 in Kentucky and wrote about his journey to California at the start of the Gold Rush in his account, “Book of Reminiscences.” He was inducted into the California Society of Pioneers and was a member for more than 15 years prior to his death. He’s the only African-American to achieve that distinction.

1967 - Thurgood Marshall was sworn in, becoming the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.

1986 - The U.S. Senate imposed economic sanctions on the white minority government in South Africa. Reagan angered Blacks and progressive whites by favoring a policy he referred to as “constructive engagement” with the racist South African regime.

1989 - The comic strip “Jumpstart” premiered in newspapers across the country. Created by 26-year-old Rob Armstrong, he was the youngest African-American to be in syndication.

Oct. 5 1867 - The first Black mayor of any American city takes office. His name was Monroe Baker. The prominent businessman was appointed mayor of St. Martin, Louisiana two years after the end of slavery.

2001 - Barry Bonds surpassed Mark McGuire’s single-season home run total with his milestone 71st and 72nd home runs.

Oct. 3 1856 - Journalist and fiery advocate for Black rights T. Thomas Fortune is born in Marianna, Jackson County, Florida. He was an orator, journalist and militant civil rights advocate. He attended school at Howard University in Washington, D.C. but later moved to New York City where he founded The New York Age newspaper.

1956 - Nat King Cole became the first Black performer to host his own TV show. The first show aired on November 5.

1968 - The play, “The Great White Hope,” starring James Earl Jones debuted on Broadway.

1979 - Frank Robinson became the manager of the Cleveland Indians and the first Black manager in MLB. 1989 - Art Shell became the first African-American NFL head coach of the Los Angeles Raiders.

1995 - O. J. Simpson was acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

Oct. 4 1864 - What was to become the nation’s first Black daily newspaper began publishing on this day in New Orleans, Louisiana. The New Orleans Tribune began distribution while slavery still existed. The newspaper was founded by Dr. Louis C. Reudanez and began as a tri-weekly but soon became a daily published in both French and English.

1927 - C. Delores Tucker was born. She was a politician and civil rights activist best known for her participation in the Civil Rights Movement and her stance against gangsta

Oct. 6 1917 - Activist Fannie Lou Hamer is born in Montgomery County, Mississippi.

Famous quote: “All my life I’ve been sick and tired. Now I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” She died in 1977 at the age of 59.

1991 - The Scott Joplin House opened as a Missouri State Historic Site.

Oct. 7 1821 - One of the most prominent Blacks in the Underground Railroad, William Still, is born in Burlington County, New Jersey.

1897 - The founder of the Nation of Islam Elijah Muhammad is born Elijah Poole in Sandersville, Georgia as one of 13 children. Muhammad would build his religious sect into the largest independent Black separatist organization in America.

1993 -Toni Morrison became the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

2009 - The founder of Ben’s Chili Bowl Ben Ali died.

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David Rabbani Gaithersburg, Maryland The Pope is a good man. I’m Jewish and my rabbi helped write a book with him. It was good to have the Pope visit the city and I think he should visit and meet with the president every four years. The city handled the crowds well and no crimes occurred during his visit.

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POPE FRANCIS VISITED WASHINGTON, D.C., LAST WEEK WHERE HE ADDRESSED CONGRESS, MARKING THE FIRST JOINT MEETING OF CONGRESS FOR ANY POPE. WHAT DOES THE VISIT MEAN FOR WASHINGTON, D.C., AND HOW DID THE CITY HANDLE IT?

Rashad Bailey Washington, D.C. It was a major deal to have the Pope visit Washington and share his views on a number of things that don’t just affect us, but others around the world. You could visibly see how his visited impacted everyone. People were moved by his humbleness and I think it did a lot to raise the spirits of people who live here. I think the city handled the crowds well and there wasn’t any havoc.

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Marvin Lytle Washington, D.C. I think the Pope’s visit had a positive impact on reinforcing moral values. I think the Catholic community in the United States was looking for that, especially among its Latino and Hispanic members. I think his visit will lead to an increase in participation in the Catholic Church and I think you’ll also see an increase in the need to address moral issues in Congress. I think the city handled the crowds well and a lot of people stayed home from work, which made it really easy for the those who did have to commute to work during the Pope’s visit.

Candice Conaway Washington, D.C. The Pope’s visit was a very big deal and I think the city handled it well. I honestly felt a sense of peace come over the whole area, which was different from our everyday, hectic pace.

Everyone was nice, the weather was beautiful and I could feel the impact. It will also have a positive impact on the outlook of moral values and it will reignite the Catholic Church – which I think is sorely needed as I am a former parishioner in the Catholic Church. The Pope did drive up the street where I work and I stepped outside to watch him. It was just an exciting time and I hope it’s the beginning of good things to come.

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AROUND THE REGION MILLIONMAN from Page 1 while Blacks must respond to and seek answers for the numerous police-involved killings of young [Black] men and women, that Blacks must also accept responsibility for the increase of senseless Black-on-Black crimes.

“As we gather in D.C., we cannot act as if we have done everything that needs to be done in our own backyards to put an end to criminal acts: robbery, theft, the violation of women and of course murder,” he said. “These things have to be stopped by us.”

“We must give our children the knowledge that Black lives matter and that there’s value to our lives. Once that knowledge is given, our brothers will not raise their hand to strike another brother or reach for a weapon to kill another brother. The knowledge of self-love has real value,” he said.

Muhammad recalled a notion first proposed by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. which talked about

“redistributing the pain.”

“Part of what the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan will share in his keynote address during the March [scheduled for 1 p.m.] will be a recollection of how Dr. King advised us to force officials to give us the justice that we deserve and which we continue to seek,” Muhammad said.

“We don’t have to throw bricks or Molotov cocktails. Our greatest weapon is our unity. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that unity is more powerful than any atomic bomb,” he said.

Farrakhan has proposed that Blacks nationwide withdraw from this year’s Christmas season as a means of registering Blacks’ dissatisfaction with the judicial system and other institutions of authority.

“Withdrawing our economic support and holding back the dollars we spend is what’s being proposed,” Muhammad said.

“Since this society and its institutions don’t want to give justice

to the families, mothers and fathers of Trayvon Martin, Oscar Brown, Michael Brown, Eric Gardner, or the nine precious church members murdered in Charleston, South Carolina, we must unite.”

“We must take this upcoming Christmas shopping season and end the practice of going into debt while giving Santa Claus more attention that Jesus,” he said.

Muhammad further noted that there’s something wrong with people who will willingly contribute dollars for the defense fund of the Charleston shooter.

“Are these donations proof that people justify the murder of nine, innocent Blacks? Muhammad asked. “In just a few days over $4 million was raised. Is it because those who donated their dollars believe that what he did was justified?”

Muhammad further noted that by withholding Black dollars, he, along with Farrakhan and other leaders, hope to begin

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creating institutions and jobs for “our own people.”

“We must be about the business of rebuilding the wasted cities as Isaiah said in the Bible,” he said.

The planners of the 20th Anniversary of the Million Man March anticipate tens of thousands to come to the District.

A time for community and individual prayer will begin at 7 a.m.

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people will come from close by, including D.C., Baltimore and Prince George’s County, and from as far away as California,” Muhammad said.

“This will be a great day for us to stand in unity as a people so that we may humbly register our complaints against a government that has failed to respond and has been negligent in giving to its citizens that justice we rightfully deserve.”

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Students Get Primer in Black Politics

Friendship Collegiate Academy Attend Annual Caucus

By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor Students from Friendship Collegiate Academy in Northeast learned firsthand about the challenges that go with being a member of the Congressional Black Caucus during a recent fieldtrip to the annual gathering of Black politicians and their constituents and friends.

The 20 students, primarily seniors anticipating graduating next year from high school and continuing on to college, attended the 45th Annual Legislative Conference, sponsored each year by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Northwest.

Senior Deja Gaskins said she

wished all of her classmates could have had the chance to attend the event.

“I learned more about internship opportunities, scholarships for college and did some great networking,” said Deja, 17, who lives in Northeast. “Last summer I interned at Accentura and was part of the analytics team.

We created an app for the District’s government. This was an amazing trip – every student should be able to experience it.”

One student from Southeast cut his teeth last summer interning with Microsoft.

“My assignment was game development and design and it was really interesting, especially because I’m in the information technology program at school,” said Delonte Inniss, 17. “I al-

Delonte Taylor (l-r), Delonte Inniss, Xavier Sumpter, Matthew Johnson, Deja Gaskins, Stanley Wagoner and Brittany Young, took a pause from a day at the Congressional Black Caucus last month where they learned more about the political process and the agenda of African Americans. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter

ready have two small businesses and plan to one day be an entrepreneur.”

“I’ve learned that you have to be outgoing and go for yourself.

You can’t wait when opportunities arise. Most important, you must have confidence – that’s the key to success,” Delonte

added.

One of his classmates, who also interned at Microsoft, said when high school students get a chance to work in their desired fields, they are able to make better choices for college.

“I’ve certainly become a better leader and being at the con-

ference allowed me to see Black political leaders at their best,” said Brittany Young, 17, who moved to Southeast from Alabama two years ago.

“This has been very rewarding and I was exposed to so much more than what we get in school. I’m interested in an IT-based career and those companies want college graduates,” said Brittany who has also earned a spot in the Naval Academy after she receives her high school diploma.

One student said he gained a greater sense of self after attending several sessions at the event.

“This was my first time at the Congressional Black Caucus but it certainly won’t be my last,” said Matthew Johnson, 18.

“This has expanded my horizons and shown me that I can do all kinds of things. I’m really interested in working in the computer industry focusing on computer hacking and security.

I’m ready to take on the world,” Matthew added. WI

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AROUND THE REGION GENTRIFICATION from Page 1 sources not just in the MPD but in noncriminal justice that addresses the core issues that will divert individuals from thinking about criminal activities, said District Council woman AtLarge Elissa Silverman.

While some may point the finger at gentrification as being among the reasons deadly crime has increased, Silverman said, she can understand that theory but doesn’t necessarily subscribe to it.

“We do have to deal with the fact that even though we have great prosperity in our city, there are a significant number of those who are untouched.

It can make you angry when you see parts of the city that have access to jobs and recreation and services while other parts remain untouched by the gains,” Silverman said.

Similarly, Council woman Anita Bonds hesitated to put the blame on gentrification.

“The focus has been on a variety of

things that have been going on to set the stage for this kind of (violence).

By and large, people have expressed that those who have (little) are taking a look at the newness of the city and feel as though they’ve been left out,” Bonds said.

“We have to remember that crime, particularly violent crime like we’ve been experiencing, is pretty difficult to define where it comes from,” she said.

Both Bonds and Silverman recently attended a marathon, 10-hour spe-

Mayor Muriel Bowser and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier are seeking solutions to the rash of violent crimes plaguing the District. /Photo courtesy BET.

cial session of council in which their colleagues, constituents, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier and others discussed the rising homicide rate in the District.

By the end of August, the number of homicides in the District had already surpassed the 105 that occurred in all of last year. Varying with different sources, the number of homicides currently stands at about 120.

With gun violence a major factor, some were disappointed when a federal appeals court on Sept. 18 ruled that a number of District gun registration requirements were unconstitutional.

In the case of the city’s handgun rationing, the court found the District could not “justify restricting an individual’s undoubted constitutional right to keep arms in his or her home, whether for self-defense or hunting or just collecting, because, taken to its logical conclusion, that reasoning would justify a total ban on firearms kept in the home,” wrote Senior Circuit Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg for the majority in a 46-page ruling.

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine is weighing if the city will appeal directly to the Supreme Court or request a full rehearing with all the judges from the previous court present.

“We are restricted by the interpretation of the Constitution by our courts,” Silverman said. “We have to revise our gun laws again, and the access to guns is a big issue,” she said.

Bowser has set her focus largely on reducing crime with such efforts as the Body Worn Camera Program. The MPD has already deployed 400 body cameras in the 5th and 7th districts, and the Mayor has proposed funding to equip 2,800 MPD officers who regularly interact with the public with

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cameras. The District began the program a year ago when about 165 officers were equipped with the cameras.

“My administration has developed a program that will put the District of Columbia on the forefront of Body Worn Camera programs,” Bowser said. “This (new $1 million) grant sends a strong message that we are on the right track.”

Bonds and Silverman said they are aware of what residents are experiencing, and both are encouraging all to report crimes, even if it’s by anonymous reporting.

“We all need to be vigilant. If something doesn’t look right or seem right, call the authorities and do it anonymously because we can’t be held hostage to this,” Bonds said.

Both council members said they didn’t believe that the violence was affecting the District’s robust tourism industry.

“Tourism primarily occurs downtown, and what we are seeing is that violence is occurring in our neighborhoods, and tourists don’t always get to our neighborhoods,” Bonds said.

Silverman said there are joint efforts underway to try to return to a more community and grassroots way of policing.

“I discussed with the chief programs in school so that youngsters can get to know the police and to build trust and to know their rights,” Silverman said.

“I think she has said that they’ve been a little flat-footed in addressing this, and the officers feel they are targets and people don’t see it as honorable anymore to be a police officer with what has happened around the country. We need to get that back.” WI

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Million Man March, Simpson Acquittal Anniversaries Near Which Had More Impact?

By Eric Easter Urban News Service This October, the nation will recognize the 20th anniversary of two cultural touch points.

On Oct. 10, the Million Man March will be both celebrated as a milestone on the road to fairness and justice and then refashioned to capture a new generation of activists and issues. The new march will be covered live, tweeted, Facebooked and analyzed for days as the old one will be thrust into perspective on how far Black America has progressed since.

Meanwhile, a California jury’s decision to acquit Orenthal James “O.J.” Simpson in the murder of his ex-wife and another man and the tempest it caused likely will be just a blip in the news cycle on its anniversary, Oct. 3. It will be seen for what it was: a media circus that captured the nation with a highly

controversial outcome.

Yet, of those two events that took place within a two-week period in 1995, it is the latter that has had the most lasting and significant impact on American politics and culture, both good and bad.

For all its “Trial of the Century” hoopla and celebrity salaciousness, the O.J. Simpson trial and verdict became a powerful symbol for race and justice and fairness in America, even if the person embodying that symbol was undeserving of the pedestal on which he stood.

After decades of cases, from the Foxboro Boys to Emmett Till, Black people had deep memories of trumped-up charges, homegrown “justice” without juries and the guilty gone free, especially when the victim was black and powerless. That O.J. was being vilified before being found not guilty got to the heart of what Black America had al-

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ways suspected: that, no matter how wealthy, connected and powerful you were as a black man, you would never be fully accepted, especially when you were up against a wall.

The infamous scenes of celebrations had little to do with O.J. Simpson or even broad acceptance of the notion that he was innocent. Rather, it was a collective sense that he had beaten the system at its own game, with its own tools of power, money, fame and influence. Its polar opposite, the split-screen view of whites crying in despair over the verdict touched off a sustained social and cultural split that lingers today.

By contrast, the Million Man March, which was regarded broadly as successful in tone and spirit, is glass-encased as a moment to remember – but its results are tougher to quantify.

According to William Jelani Cobb, director of Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut: “We could trace a direct line from that case to the modern sense among whites that they are the primary victims

of racial discrimination and the enmity of the Obama era. Certainly, we don’t see contrition and atonement as major themes in Black politics currently. The affirmative action debate in California was likely shaped or at least influenced by the post-O.J. racial climate. It would be hard to point to legislative or social impact from the Million Man March.”

On some level, as a case that unfolded on television, Simpson’s trial could be seen as the spark that more greatly attuned Black America to the workings of the justice system. If the Rodney King verdict left people confused, the O.J. trial provided every small detail, turning Americans into armchair attorneys and analysts. From Trayvon Martin to Michael Brown to Freddie Gray, Black people have grown sophisticated in vague issues of case law and their rights. That knowledge has fueled protests and activism since.

The O.J. victory – attorney Johnnie Cochran’s victory – also launched an era of the black legal genius at the

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forefront of change as well as the “dream team” style of courtroom strategy. It many ways, it flipped the strategy of first resort when people are in high-profile race-related trouble from “Call the NAACP” to “Call the Best Lawyer” and widened the door for prominent attorneys.

Oddly, the two events are interconnected. The Million Man March was partly fueled by tension from the trial and the sense that justice was also on trial. Later, attendance to the march was kick-started in large part by the verdict and a renewed sense that Black people could fight authority and win if only temporarily – so much so that there was high anticipation that both Cochran and Simpson might attend.

As Cobb recalls: “At the march, they were passing out a poll asking people who they thought were the most the effective black leaders. The poll included the usual suspects – and Johnnie Cochran.”WI

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Rushern Baker Endorses Glenn Ivey for Congress

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Former Prince George’s County state’s attorney Glenn Ivey received a major endorsement Friday, Sept. 25 in his bid for the 4th Congressional district: Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III. Baker said during the brief announcement at Cheverly Town Park in Cheverly that approving Ivey for Congress in the Democratic primary is both personal and professional.

“I am the godfather to his second youngest child. Our families have grown up together and gone to the same church. I’m endorsing Glenn Ivey because… he is the only person on day one that’s going to be able to go up there and know the ins and outs of the halls of Congress,” Baker said. “The county needs someone who…understands the critical issues facing us. That is Glenn Ivey.”

Ivey, who served as the county state’s attorney from 200210, previously worked as chief counsel for former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle from 199698 and years earlier as senior legislative assistant to Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan).

“We’ve known each other for decades,” Ivey, of Cheverly, said about Baker. “We don’t always think the same, but we’ll always think together and work together to make a difference.”

Ivey’s challengers in the April primary are Maryland state delegates Dereck E. Davis (D-District 25) and Joseline Peña-Melnyk (D-District 21), former Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, former Prince George’s County Councilwoman Ingrid Turner, longtime educator Alvin Thornton, military veteran Warren Christopher, Lisa Ransom and Terence M. Strait Jr.

The candidates seek to replace Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Maryland), who’s represented the district that include portions of Prince George’s and Anne Arundel counties since 2008.

Edwards will seek the senator’s position held by the retiring Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Maryland).

Some of the municipalities in the 4th District in Prince George’s consist of Cheverly, District Heights and Forest Heights.

Baker said the unique aspect of this race stems from his relationships with several of the candidates such as Thornton, who stood alongside Baker in the spring to support a plan to pay higher property taxes to help fund the county’s public school system.

“As county executive from a purely selfish standpoint, I’ve got three years left on my term.

I need somebody who can hit the ground running,” Baker said. “[Ivey’s] worked intimately with the committee structure. Glenn knows the House side and he knows the Senate side of Congress. I have all the confidence in the world he will be thinking in the best interest of Prince George’s County.”

Brown, who served as lieutenant governor from 2007 until January, said he plans to make an announcement soon on a campaign kickoff.

“Campaigns are not about endorsements. They are about the voters,” Brown said Friday, Sept.

25. “I look forward to continue the campaigning throughout the district as we build momentum and support among the voters.”

Democratic voters in Prince George’s will have nine candidates to choose from next year.

The winner may likely become the next Congressional representative in a heavily Democratic

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However, two Republican candidates plan to mount a challenge: George E. McDermott of Forest Heights and Rob Buck of Severna Park, Anne Arundel County.

The next deadline to file third quarter campaign financial reports will be Oct. 15.

So far, Ivey has raised the most money at nearly $400,000, according to the Federal Election Commission.

“We won the first two quarters as far as fundraising goes. We’re looking to expand that lead at the end of this quarter,” he said.

“This is the next big step in building a winning campaign [and] making sure we understand what the voters in Prince George’s and Anne Arundel want us to do.”WI

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On Friday, Sept. 25 at Cheverly Town Park in Cheverly, Md., Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker endorsed Glenn Ivey for Congress. /Photo by Robert R. Roberts

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Publicly financed sports stadiums are a game at taxpayers’ expense. Have you been paying attention to the millions of dollars the city’s government has been spending on sports stadiums? Where do you think that money comes from? Mayor Muriel Bowser has announced a new $55 million arena for Ward 8 that will serve as the home court for the Washington Mystics and a practice arena for the Washington Wizards. The new 118,000-squarefoot, 5,000-seat arena will be located on the St. Elizabeth’s East campus on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue Southeast. The District government and Monumental Sports executives expect the project to generate $90 million in economic impact and create more than 600 construction jobs and 300 permanent jobs. They say priority for those jobs will be given to Ward 8 residents.

In their latest sports fantasy, District officials have a “trifecta” building sports facilities for billionaires.

They built the Nationals’ baseball facility for real estate developer Theodore Lerner, a soccer arena for D.C United Holdings’ billionaires and now a gym for Wizards’ owner Theodore John Leonsis. A billionaire venture capital investor, Leonsis heads Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which owns and operates the Washington Capitals (NHL), Wizards (NBA), Mystics (WNBA) and the Verizon Center. A filmmaker and former AOL senior executive, Leonsis owns a $20 million 13-acre estate in Potomac.

“With this new development, we are driving private investment to the St. Elizabeth’s East campus, boosting the local economy, creating hundreds of jobs, and putting more District residents on their pathways to the middle class,” said D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. Surely citizens should be nervous about the $55 million joint venture. The arena is to become a practice facility for the Washington Wizards, home court of the Washington Mystics, whose president and managing partner is black billionaire Sheila Johnson, and a premier entertainment venue operated by Events DC. Events DC is a

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Residents feel a special bond with their teams and share in a sense of civic pride when they are successful.

Because sports teams are a strong source of civic pride, politicians have moved whole hog into taxpayer-subsidized stadiums. Is this arena east of the river an investment Washingtonians should consider “good”? Washington citizens and sports fans should bear in mind that in the early days nearly all new sports facilities were privately financed. Recent governments have moved beyond their roles into the stadium financing business providing taxpayer subsidies for sports facilities’ construction or renovation.

Stadium subsidies can come in the form of cash payments, infrastructure improvements and operating cost subsidies. Over past years, taxpayer-subsidized stadiums have grown in size, scope and cost. Claims that taxpayer-funded stadiums recoup their costs and more in the form of economic development are regularly dismissed as there is no finding of a significant relationship between municipal investments in sports stadiums and job or income growth.

What’s in it for us? It’s a question Washington voters should be asking. Late Mayor Marion Barry’s ventures into government-funded community projects were transformative. In this arena project, Bowser and Events DC claim it will bring benefits such as the creation of construction and permanent jobs. Near the stadiums, jobs are to be created in shops, restaurants, hotels and the transportation industry. Contemporary governments argue that stadiums help create small businesses that increase property values and the tax base. New stadiums can help revitalize downtrodden neigh-

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Victims of Homeowner Scams Seek Justice D.C. Attorney General Hosts Consumer Protection Forum

By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer Emotions ran high as District residents pleaded with local and federal government agencies to create laws so that homeowners would have protection from shady contractors and mortgage fraud.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine held a Consumer Protection Housing Forum on Monday, September 28 at Benning/Dorothy I. Height Library in Northeast to educate and to address grievances from many who are in a financial firestorm due to unfulfilled housing promises.

“D.C has one of the strongest real estate markets in the country but unfortunately there are scammers out there who prey on people who are not informed about home buying,” Racine said. “Our job is to protect and educate the consumers on what to look out for.”

Racine admitted that when he bought a house a few years ago he opted out of having a home inspection which came back to bite him financially.

And while he eventually recovered, others have been as fortunate.

Mavella Johnson, a resident of Ward 1, presented Racine with a letter glued to a poster board which she sent to his office in June of 2015 regarding a lawsuit filed by a contractor.

Johnson claims that the contractor worked on a space next door to her home, he left the job uncompleted and then sued her for the damages done to the property.

“I brought this letter to you on a big piece of cardboard because it is going on October and I have yet to get any response,” Johnson said.

Rebecca Unruh, an attorney for division of financial practices at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) spoke at length as to what consumers can do to protect themselves from scammers.

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If city officials are going to be in the arena and stadium building business, where is the vision Barry displayed when he demanded that

“The FTC’s mission is to protect consumers from unfair business practices which include everything from advertising to the housing market,” Unruh said. “Unfortunately, after the economic downturn years ago, cockroaches took advantage of people facing foreclosure with a plethora of mortgage scams.”

Unruh informed the audience about several kinds of Mortgage Assistance Relief Scams (MARS) and red flags that should cause consumers to pay closer attention.

“It’s always a bad sign if the website has a government seal and a picture of Obama, but it’s not a government website if it doesn’t’ end in dot gov,” she said.

“Also, if you’re asked to pay a large upfront fee, told to stop paying your mortgage, told to make payments to their company, pressured to enroll and definitely if you are promised results, it’s a scam,” Unruh said. “Not only is it immoral to promise results, but it is illegal. Only your loan lender can make modifications to your interest rate or principle.”

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a new federal agency founded in 2012, will launch its new mortgage initiative, “Know Before You Owe,” on October 3. Consumers will be able to understand their loan options, shop for the mortgage best for them and avoid costly surprises at closing.

Patrick Orr, policy financial analyst in the mortgage markets of the CFPB, said those who feel they have victimized can come to his agency for help.

“There is a complaint section on our website. Once the complaint has been submitted, financial institutions must respond within 15 days,” Orr said. “If they don’t respond they will be fined and then we move in for mediation.”

Many attendees showed little faith in Orr’s pitch fearing

more of the same bureaucracy.

“You have got to give the guys at CFPB a chance – they’re a new agency and incredibly responsive,” Racine said. “Companies will respond. The last thing they want to do is to get fined and be investigated.”

One District homeowner with a pending federal lawsuit challenged the “bureaucrats,” ANC commissioners and council members in attendance to change the laws.

“I challenge all of you policy makers to change the law,” said the woman who asked that her name not be shared. “Homeowners have children and we have to live in these homes with holes in the wall and exposed wires.”

“Homeowners shouldn’t have to be in court for three to five years to get some type of help. I propose D.C. enacts the Home Lemon Law,” she said.

One presenter said her proposal would not prove to be effective.

“The problem with the Home Lemon Law is that it is not enforceable. There is no board so it’s just dangling out there,” said Tyrone Lawson, an investigator for the District’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs.

Many of the scams and faulty regulations that District homeowners and potential homebuyers face could be eliminated if D.C had the rights of statehood afforded to its citizens.

“As a prosecutor my hands are tied because I only have jurisdiction over juveniles, DWIs and traffic offenses,” Racine said.

“I am definitely for statehood. You heard the stories tonight about failures to prosecute and it’s because of jurisdiction issues. It is the lack of accountability that people so desperately crave and need,” Racine noted. WI

minority contractors be the ones to build the multimillion-dollar Reeves Center? Although the government used or plans to use public money to build the Nationals’ baseball stadium, pending soccer facility and Wizards’/Mystics’ arena, it’s a poor use of taxpayer dollars to subsidize rich team owners

unless you are making construction, contracting and vendor opportunities available to local minorities.WI

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Surge in Black Female Prisoners Examined

By Brelaun Douglas Howard University News Service

WASHINGTON – Darlene Mathis-Gardner is part of what some say is a shocking statistic.

Mathis-Gardner, who served 13 months in federal prison, is part of the 800 percent increase in the number of African-American woman being locked up in America over the past 30 years.

And, like so many of those women, most of them convicted of nonviolent offenses, Mathis-Gardner suffered from many of the afflictions associated with incarceration – shame, family dissolution, employment difficulties, mental issues and more.

Mathis-Gardner joined dozens of others last Wednesday at the Congressional Black Caucus’ Black Women & the Criminal Justice System: We, Too, Sing America forum to discuss the effects of the criminal justice system on Black women’s health and relations within their families and communities and how to combat these issues.

Brenda V. Smith, law professor at American University and project director of The Project on Addressing Prison Rape, was one of the panelists.

She said that, while 51 out of every 100,000 white women are in prison, the number for Black women it twice that.

“Most women are in prison for offenses that are nonviolent. We’re talking property or drug offenses,” said Smith.

This rings true for Mathis-Gardner, who was incarcerated for embellishing her company’s profile and had to close her business after paying over $1 million dollars in legal fees.

When Black women are in prison for violent offenses, they usually involve men, and they are charged disproportionately with them, Smith said.

Natalie A. Jackson, a panelist, lawyer and managing partner at Women’s Trial Group, said that when African-American women do go to trial on those violent offenses, the same rules don’t apply to them.

“Battered women syndrome is a defense that juries don’t accept for Black women because of the stereotype of Black women being angry and violent,” Jackson said.

“Black women are working with the perception that you don’t deserve the same consideration that white women do and you don’t deserve the same treatment that white women do in the system.”

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support from family and loved ones, Smith said.

“When a man’s arrested, there’s going to be a mom or an auntie or a girlfriend that’s there,” she said, “but when women are arrested and put into the system, there are very few people who show up for them.

With the arrest of the woman also comes the dissolution of the family, she said.

“More often than not, they have left them holding the bag with all of the things the women were doing,” she said. “Maybe these women had children of their own, and somebody’s going to have to take care of them, so there’s a lot of anger and disappointment.

Smith attributes women’ s experience in incarceration to the fact that the system was not made for them.

“The kinds of opportunities they have are scarce,” she said. “Men are getting opportunities to do auto body, plumbing or carpeting. Women get opportunities to sew, clean and cook.”

The panel said one reason the system doesn’t work for Black women may be that they are underrepresented in the administration of it.

“I’m in a department of over 150,” said Maj. Charlene L. Hinton, chief of staff at Petersburg Bureau of Police, “and I can count the number of women on my hand.”

Hinton said the lack of Black women in law enforcement makes it difficult for those responsible for the administration of the system to understand and communicate with Black inmates.

“They don’t always understand that culture, and they don’t always have the ability to communicate with the people that they serve,” Hinton said, “and that’s where were seeing a lot of problems generate.”

But once women are freed from incarceration, the struggles do not stop, Hinton said. “Many coming out with mental and health issues,

she said.

Mathis-Gardner said that was true in her experience with prison.

“The missing piece of my incarceration was the mental health,” she said. “I had bi-polar disorder, depression and anxiety disorder, and the prison is not allowed to give the same medications a patient would take at home.

“They tell you you can bring in three months’ supply until they get you checked through, but for me my medication was taken away. So, I was (without medication) for almost six months. It was a horrible experience for the type of mental illness that you had, and you’re not able to get the right medical and mental health care in prison.”

Women also have to deal with the impact of their incarceration on their family and friends.

“Family has changed tremendously,” Mathis-Gardener said. “I’m blessed to have a wonderful husband, but it has been very difficult for him.

“My children, when you Google me, my crime comes up under their name, which is so unfair. My older daughter is having a hard time with the adjustment as well as my younger daughter because they have been denied employment because of my record. You have people that you once knew that cannot be involved with you because you are now a felon.”

But how are Black women in the criminal justice system to be better helped?

Smith wants people to push their Congress members to get rid of mandatory minimum sentences that are disproportionate in communities of color. Jackson agrees that fighting through the legal system is the best way to go.

“We know we can’t address it with our hearts,” she said, “so we have to address it with legislation.” WI

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HBCUs, Tech Leaders Discuss Digital Diversity

By Courtne Dixon Howard University News Service WASHINGTON – As hundreds of educators and industry leaders from across America gathered in Washington for the 2015 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week Conference, one of the topics of discussion was the lack of diversity in the burgeoning field of technology.

They needed only to look at the numbers to know there is a problem.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the American workforce is 47 percent female, 16 percent Hispanic and 12 percent Black. But at tech companies like Google and eBay, African-Americans and Hispanics make up just 2 percent of the workforce, and only a smattering of the tech employees are women.

Remington Holt, a senior at Howard University, has seen the situation up close during his past two summers as an intern at Google.

“There was not a lot of diversity at my particular office,” said Holt, who wrote code and developed software. “I was the only person of African-American descent out of 15 people.

There were five women.

“Diversity in tech is incredibly poor.”

Google and other technology companies have said they hope to reverse the tide of diversity in technology, as did representatives from companies last week during a workshop on the subject at the annual HBCU conference.

Lisa Lee, senior diversity manager at music streaming company Pandora, said having a more inclusive workforce is in the best interest of the companies.

“Tons of research shows that diverse teams produce better results,” Lee said.

The panelists from Wal-Mart, Uber and eBay agreed.

“If you look at the data, it is pretty clear that we are not getting the results that we want, and I think most of the companies would say the same thing in

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the Valley and other tech companies around the country,” said Ben-Saba Hasan, senior vice president chief culture, diversity and inclusion officer for WalMart. “So, you have to accept the fact that there is something systemic going on. “ The companies proposed various strategies to rectify the problem.

Possible solutions included technology internships for non-technology majors, partnering with historically black colleges and universities and considering nontraditional can-

didates for internships.

Kelly Minton, chief information officer for communications and engagement strategy at eBay, told the group about Yearup, a Boston-based nonprofit that works to offer more opportunities for disadvantaged workers.

“At Yearup, they train young adults from underserved communities, mostly minorities, in entry-level tech jobs, and then they place them at Silicon Valley companies like Facebook and eBay for another six months,” Minton said. “If the internship

goes well, they will hire them.

Out of 70-plus interns, we hired about 35 of them.”

The panelist agreed that much of the culture of Silicon Valley is founded on meritocracy, in which the best idea wins. This ideology has largely been responsible for keeping the status quo, according to Damien Hooper-Campbell, the global leader for diversity and inclusion at Uber, the ride-share company that employees residents using their own cars.

“At Uber we talk about best idea wins, which sounds really good,” Hooper-Campbell said.

“You know meritocracy. But part of the conversion we are getting into is ‘Yes, best ideas win, but are you sure you have all the best ideas in the room.’

“We all know when you refer somebody from your network, nine times out of 10, they come from the same place you come from and in many cases look like you.

“We have to correct for that, and one of the ways we say best ideas win. Let’s say we have all the best ideas at the table first, and as you can look across the industry, I don’t believe we have all the best ideas.” WI

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District Veteran Celebrates 108th Birthday African-American Woman Served in WW II

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer Alyce Dixon has been called one of the spunkiest centenarians in the District of Columbia.

She’s also been called feisty, funny and simply amazing.

But, at 108 years old, Dixon certainly has every right to define herself.

“I tell it like it is,” she said. “I speak my mind.”

Born in Boston on Sept. 11, 1907 when Theodore Roosevelt was president, Dixon has seen 18 more presidents elected including the first African American, Barack Obama.

Though her complexion may confuse some, officials at the VA Medical Center in Northwest said she often reminds everyone

that she’s Black and she’s proud.

Dixon was one of nine children and she said the key to longevity can be found in two words – giving and sharing.

“If you have something that other people need, you have to share,” Dixon said.

“When I was young I didn’t even have good shoes but I wasn’t worried about it. I lived in a Jewish neighborhood and the girls were very giving there; they let me use their skates and ride their bikes. I just believe in sharing and giving. If you have a little bit of something and someone else needs it, share.”

Dixon, the oldest resident at the VA Medical Center, has been there for approximately 15 years.

And she’s made quite an impression on the residents and staff.

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“I tell everyone to dress nice for yourself and you’ll feel better about yourself, even if you don’t feel good,” she said. “Wear your jewelry, fix your hair. No one has to tell you that you look good . . . do it for yourself.”

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At the age of 16, when watching the actress Alyce Mills, Dixon changed the spelling of her name from Alice to Alyce.

Her family moved to Washington in 1924 and she later attended Howard University.

Dixon then got married but said she didn’t want children because she felt as though she’d already raised a family as one of the oldest of nine children.

Later, she divorced her husband because of an $18 grocery allowance.

“I used to manage his paycheck until he found out I was sending money home to my family,” she said. After he started managing the money and providing her an allowance, Dixon said it didn’t sit well with her because she was just too independent for that situation.

“I found myself a job, an apartment and a roommate. I didn’t need him or his money,” she said.

After relocating, Dixon eventually returned to the District and by 1940, she was working her first tour as a civilian at the Pentagon.

“I was there before the building was completed. I worked as a

buying specialist and I purchased things. I purchased everything from pencils to airplanes,” she said.

Dixon then joined the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps and later the Army.

After completing basic training in Massachusetts, Dixon worked in Iowa doing administrative work.

Her first camp was Fort Clark, Texas where she was assigned to the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only unit of African-American women in the Corps to serve overseas during World War II. “None of the mail had been distributed during three battles when we arrived in Birmingham, England and there were letters stacked to the ceiling of the building and much of the mail had been there for as long as two years waiting to be sent to soldiers in the field,” Dixon said.

“We had to sort through 92 billion pieces of mail, including packages. The general told us it would take six months to completely sort all that mail and we had it sorted and delivered in three months. We worked three shifts a day, seven days a week.”

After three years in the Army, Dixon went back to work at the Pentagon.

Last year, she had a private meeting in the Oval Office with Obama and D.C. Democratic Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.

“She has the unique ability to bring joy to others and is known especially for her bubbly personality and comedic storytelling,” Norton said in a 2011 House floor speech commemorating Dixon’s birthday. WI

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Breast Cancer Basics: Get Checked. Take Control.

Submitted by AmeriHealth Caritas District of Columbia

Pink is everywhere. From football fields to city streets, people are wearing pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. They wear pink because breast cancer affects the lives of so many people. Every day, women are diagnosed with breast cancer, but they continue to fight and survive. You can lower your risk of breast cancer by living a healthy lifestyle and getting checked. Think pink and take control.

Breast cancer basics In the body, healthy cells divide, grow and replace dying cells. Cancer is a health condition where certain cells in the body divide and grow too quickly, or become irregular. Over time, these irregular cells can form a lump called a tumor. A tumor becomes unsafe when it spreads to other parts of the body.

Breast cancer can affect women of all races, ages and ethnicities. Some women may be at a higher risk for developing cancer as they age or if there is a family history of breast cancer. If you face these risks, you should talk to your doctor about getting tested for changes to the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. This test can help you determine if you have an increased risk. Women who take birth control pills or hormone therapy should also talk to their doctors about risk factors.

Lower your risk Living a healthy lifestyle can help you avoid the risk factors of cancer. You can help lower your risk of breast cancer if you: •

Keep a healthy weight

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Exercise at least 30 minutes a day

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Get enough sleep

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Do not drink alcohol or limit yourself to 1 drink per day

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Do not smoke

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Breastfeed your babies

Remember, knowing your family history can also help. Your genes may put you at risk. Talk to your doctor if breast cancer runs in your family.

in her breasts or other unexpected changes to her body. The best time to do a selfexam is once a month, 3 to 5 days after your period.

To do a self-exam, lie on your back and place your right hand behind your head.

With the fingers of your left hand, press down and make small circles across your right breast. Feel your armpit, because breast tissue also goes into that area. Check for discharge from your nipples. Repeat the steps on the left breast. Then, in the mirror, look for changes in skin texture. Check to see if the nipple turns inward.

Women naturally have some lumps — your goal is to find anything new or different.

Mammograms (X-rays of the breast) are the best way to find breast cancer early.

All women over 50 should schedule their mammograms every 2 years. They are an important part of breast cancer prevention. If you are 40 years old or older, talk to your doctor about when you should start your screenings. Your doctor may want you to have a screening before you turn 50.

Coping with breast cancer If you learn you have cancer, it is okay to feel afraid. The important thing is to take action and get help from your doctor, family and friends.

Ask your doctor lots of questions. It is helpful to bring a friend or loved one with you so they can take notes and provide support. It is important to know that you are not alone. Many people find support groups with others who are facing cancer. These groups can provide helpful information and emotional support. Breast cancer is very serious, but there is good news. Results from new research have made treatment less painful and more effective. In fact, rates of those losing the battle to cancer are dropping. In 2014, 89 percent of women diagnosed with cancer are living 5 years and longer. Once they have survived 5 years, many will be cancer-free for the rest of their lives.

Get checked

Breast cancer awareness is about knowledge and well-being. It means women leading healthier lives, getting screened and seeking treatment. So wear your pink proudly and keep fighting!

Women can identify breast cancer in its early stages by performing a breast selfexam. A breast self-exam is a check-up a woman can do at home to look for lumps

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Maryland Launching Medical Marijuana Program

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Maryland Del. Diana Fennell wasn’t in office when the state legislature legalized medical marijuana more than two years ago but she said she supports a cannabis program ready to be launched.

It’s more personal with Fennell after seeing her stepfather suffer from liver cancer and later die Aug. 5, one day before her 48th birthday.

“This medical marijuana program can help the ease pain of people, especially those suffering with cancer like my dad did,” she said Friday, Sept. 25. “The pain pills he was taking didn’t help him too much. He never really complained, but I know he was hurting inside.”

The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission began accepting applications Monday, Sept.

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State regulations will allow for 94 dispensaries, two per state Senate district and 15 facilities to grow cannabis plants and turn them into medical products such as extracts, oils and pills and available by next year.

Applicants can seek a license as a grower, processor, or dispenser. Proprietors seeking an application for dispenser or processor must pay a $1,000 non-refundable fee; $2,000 for a grower application.

The commission anticipates granting preliminary approval

by January. Each applicant that receives a confirmation will have a year from the date of notification to complete all necessary steps to receive formal approval.

The regulations don’t state how big a building must be to produce, grow, or dispense the medical products. However, a greenhouse used to cultivate medical marijuana must be surrounded by an 8-foot or higher chain link fence topped with

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barbed wire less than 20 feet from the greenhouse.

In addition, 24-hour video surveillance must be operated on the premises.

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Although Rob Davis of Bowie spent 10 months and $40,000 looking to open a medical marijuana business in Prince George’s County, he said the state regulations are too stringent.

The regulations allow a physician to treat a patient for chronic, debilitating diseases, or medical conditions such as glaucoma, post traumatic stress disorder, or seizures if “other medical treatments have been ineffective and if the symptoms reasonably can be expected to be relieved by the medical use of marijuana.”

In comparison, a physician in California can provide a patient a written prescription to also treat arthritis, cancer, migraine and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), according to the state’s Department of Public Health’s website.

“The industry is flowing on the west coast and is drowning on the east coast,” said Davis, 51, whose company CBD9 Solutions of College Park would have hired up to 20 employees.

“Your lowest-rated employee could make about $35,000 a year and contribute back to the community but the general public sees people who smoke pot on the street as a bum. That’s not the case.”

Even with a possible public backlash, municipal and county officials aren’t allowed to prohibit a legal medical marijuana operation.

“Persons who act under the authority of the law may not be subject to arrest, prosecution, or any civil, or administrative penalty . . . for the medical use of cannabis,” Assistant Attorney General Kathryn M. Rowe said in a letter Sept. 22 to state Del. Robert A. Zirkin (D-Baltimore County).

Prince George’s County Council Chairman Mel Franklin (D-District 9) of Upper Marlboro did not respond to an email for comment. Attempts to reach Franklin through the council’s communication office were unsuccessful.

In the meantime, Davis said small businesses will not flourish in Maryland until state officials loosen up the medical marijuana guidelines.

“The small business persons are going to lose their shorts. If you are working on a shoestring budget, stay away from Maryland,” he said. “These regulations are set up for the big boys. The densest counties near Washington, D.C. are in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties. This is where the business should be.

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Children Can Outgrow Food Allergies

By Sandra Jordan Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American

Benadryl and steroids eventually counteracted the frightening reaction. Doctors suspected that baby Joy was allergic to dairy as well as to the antibiotic but her dairy allergy was not confirmed until several months after her initial reaction.

A food allergy and anaphylaxis

website provided a list of food ingredients containing dairy in it that may not be as obvious to most people. It was copied for grandparents and caregivers.

Everyone read food ingredients.

Joy’s parents carried an EpiPen (epinephrine injector) wherever they went and each grandpar-

ent’s home had an EpiPen as well as the preschool she attended. Fortunately, they never had to use them.

The “no butter, no milk, no cheese” rule applied to all home cooking and recipes were adapted accordingly. At restaurants, dining could be frustrating.

But that wasn’t their entire experience. They found some restaurants who actively work to avoid food allergy reactions in patrons are quite accommodating, with menu notations about dishes containing possible problem foods and using separate utensils, prep and cooking areas. WI

Starting kindergarten marked new beginnings for Joy Haire and her parents, Will and Lisa Haire.

Just before the school year started, through a Food Challenge, Joy’s doctor determined she had outgrown the serious and potentially life-threatening dairy allergy that surfaced a few weeks before her first birthday.

Food allergy is an immune system response. The body’s immune system identifies a food protein as dangerous and tries to protect itself by creating antibodies against it and releasing histamines and other substances in the blood.

Common food allergies in children include: peanuts, milk, eggs, tree nuts, such as pecans, almonds, cashews and walnuts and soy and wheat. In adults, peanuts, tree nuts, fish and shellfish (especially shrimp) are the most common foods that cause food allergy, according to the USDA Food and Nutrition Service.

In Joy’s case, she was taking one antibiotic for a double ear infection and was prescribed a stronger antibiotic to clear it up. Joy’s mother said within 30 minutes after taking the antibiotic and eating Greek yogurt (to prevent stomach upset and diarrhea, as a pharmacist suggested), the allergic reaction began. Joy was a breast-fed baby and had never had dairy products or formula, in addition to taking to a new medication.

“She was restless almost immediately after ingesting the two new substances tossing, turning, hitting and very uncomfortable. All unusual behaviors at the time,” Lisa Haire said.

They soon realized they were dealing with much more than a cranky baby.

“God orders things. Will was awake. If the entire house had gone to bed, we might not have caught her reaction for six to eight hours instead of two,” Joy’s mother said.

The Haires rushed their daughter to a nearby emergency department.

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EDUCATION DCBRIEFS Compiled by Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer Parent Cabinet Meeting: Oct. 13 A Parent Cabinet meeting will take place from 5:30 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 1200 First Street, NE. The meetings typically repeat every month on the second Tuesday.

Brent International Night: Oct. 16 Brent Elementary School’s annual International Night will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 16 in the multipurpose room. Brent is located in Southeast at 301 N. Carolina Ave. Each year, Brent comes together as a community to celebrate its diversity and background. Brent students dress up in saris and lederhosen and other international dress and wave flags during the International Fashion Show.

International Night also offers a potluck dinner with food from around the globe. Parents interested in serving as an International Night coordinator, should email: all4wski@yahoo. com Zumba at Leckie Enjoy Zumba from 6 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 7 at

Leckie Elementary School, 4201 Martin Luther King Jr Ave., SW. The cost is $3 for adults and $1 for children.

AP Courses This year each of the District’s public high schools will have a minimum of six Advanced Placement courses. Most schools are offering many more and one school has 29. To view the full list visit: http://1.usa.gov/1KOnOv1 #DCPSRising Athletic Participation DCPS athletes are rocking.

Over the past four years, DCPS has reported 14 percent more overall athletic participation, and 23 percent more female participation in high school sports.

Public Charter Schools: Arts Show Visit Students from Friendship Public Charter School’s Collegiate Academy in Northeast recently paid a visit to the Harlem Fine Arts Show that was hosted in downtown D.C. by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.

The visit included a discussion with the 100 Black Men of Greater Washington mentoring organization, which provided the students an opportunity to

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learn about the role of creativity in artistic disciplines such as poetry. The discussion also touched on contemporary issues ranging from gun violence to self-esteem to self-awareness.

“The art was simply amazing [and] it’s rare that I have seen our students in such awe and wonder while viewing the great and unique work by the talented artists that was on display,” said Carlos Richardson, Friendship’s Teacher of the Year. “Experiences like this bring immense value to our students, and to our fine arts program.”

Students also took photos of the art on their cell phones and asked questions of the artists attending the event.

“They showcased where I came from and why I’m here today,” said Charlee Brown, a 12th grader at the Academy.

“The art was very precise, very

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Adult Learners Jack Jacobson, president of the DC State Board of Education, recently testified before a joint hearing of the Council of the District of Columbia’s Committees of the Whole and Education on “The State of Adult Education and Adult Literacy Initiatives in the District.”

The hearing informed the Council about the current environment facing the District’s adult learners and opportunities for removing barriers to their success.

“Put simply, education, especially adult education, changes lives,” Jacobson said during his testimony. “Many of our adult learners have not taken the traditional educational path because they have faced significant personal barriers,” he said.

“Their non-traditional educa-

tional experience means that they tend to earn less over their lifetime, leading to economic barriers that may become entrenched and generational. To overcome these circumstances and re-enter the educational arena shows remarkable resilience and determination.”

Prior to the next SBOE work session on Oct. 7, board members will have the opportunity to take portions of the new Common Core aligned General Education Development Ready exam. The practice exam is taken by hundreds of District residents to determine their readiness to pass the full GED – often a first step for adult learners in moving forward with their careers or college.

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Black Muslim and Christian women assembled to address gender-specific issues in accordance with mental health and racism leading up to the historic 20th anniversary of the Million Man March.

Former National Deputy Director of Public Relations for the Million Man March Brenda Muhammad led the conversation in the Women For Justice Or Else Forum on Saturday, Sept. 26, at Galbraith A.M.E. Zion Church in Northwest.

“As I look around the room, I see many faces that were there 20 years ago. We thank you for hearing the call of the Honorable Minister Farrakhan,” Brenda Muhammad said.

On Oct. 10, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Minister Louis Farrakhan will convene the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March under the theme Justice Or Else.

“Many of our people are frightened by the ‘or else’ part of this movement. There will be absolutely no violence. This is about what is happening to our children in the streets,” Muhammad said.

The mission statement for the movement includes: “The widespread death, rising racism, mob attacks and police brutality on blacks, coupled with economic deprivation and stark poverty, requires that something must be immediately done to address and correct the condition.

“The failure of the U.S. government to give justice to its former slaves requires that we present ourselves in unity to make the demand for justice or else!”

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Muhammad asserts that the “or else” ramifications will be an economic strategy that Farrakhan will outline on Oct. 10.

“We as a people, 45-50 million of us collectively, have enough strength to shut them down economically.

That is what the minister will ask us to do,” Muhammad said. “That is the only thing they understand.

“This is not a march or a party; this is a movement,” Muhammad said.

Famed psychiatrist Frances Cress Welsing led the panel on why racism exists and how it affects black women.

“When I first started psychiatry, my motivation was finding out what was making black people mentally ill,” Welsing said. “I found out racism was the cause of everything.”

Welsing asserts that her discoveries led her to understand how exactly racism operated.

“Racism, I concluded, comes from their (white people’s) fear of genetic annihilation,” Welsing said.

“Look at President Obama. He has a white mother and a black father; the truth is black people are genetically dominant.”

Welsing said that white people are so invested in avoiding genetic annihilation that they go to extreme levels of asserting faux dominance.

“All of the images on TV are of white people; it will have you believing that the whole world is white,” Welsing said. “Even the images of the pope enforce this narrative.

“Their primary motivation is to not disappear. If you’re completely outnumbered and you want to survive, you have to destroy the Black man,” Welsing said. “If you destroy

the men of the people, you effectively destroy the people.

“This is why, during a period in our history, they would hang black men and castrate them out of fear.

All of the things we suffer from is related to white racism,” Welsing said. “Our mental health as a people depends on how much we can understand racism.”

Alyce Gullattee, who has served as a psychiatrist at Howard University Hospital for 55 years, said that the needs of black women have never been met.

“Black women have had no mechanisms and or ways in which to be cared for. This kind of stress can impact your body by making your heart skip, kidney failure and even diarrhea,” Gullattee said.

“A 2002 study from USC concluded that one-third of black women have been victims of physical abuse. It also said that black women are also five times more likely to suffer from depression than white women,” Gullattee said.

“Any part of the body, including the brain, can get sick. It is a need for us to admit we need to have the conversation about mental health,” Gullattee said.

“We have been good Negroes.

It doesn’t matter what we do; we have never seen justice,” Muhammad said. “Now we are demanding justice or else!”WI

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Stevie Wonder Ready to Rock the District

Icon Returns With ‘Songs in the Key of Life’

Mind,” captivated by the warmth of “Talking Book,” and floored by the social commentary on “Innervisions.”

While many give the 1960s to the Beatles and it’s certainly hard to argue against the massive juggernaut that Michael Jackson was

By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Stevie Wonder has been more than just a music superstar.

While many understandably acknowledge that he’s a musical genius whose influence on others in the industry is unsurpassable, Wonder has a long and lasting legacy as a civil rights champion and a uniting presence, much like Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.

Yes, his fans say that he’s all of that and more.

And that’s probably why there are so few tickets remaining for his “Songs in the Key of Life” concert that takes place at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Verizon Center.

Although he performed at the Verizon Center less than one year ago and despite using a playlist that probably isn’t going to stray from that set, District-area residents – like so many around the world – probably would come out if they were told Wonder would do just one song.

“I may have been aware of Stevie Wonder and even enjoyed his music, but I didn’t know Stevie Wonder until I heard ‘Songs in the Key of Life,’” Stereo Williams, a veteran entertainment journalist, said in paying homage to Wonder and his seminal album.

“It was like discovering a new language. I’d never heard music so alive, so varied, so timeless. It’s an album that’s ambitious and sprawling but somehow still manages to feel very intimate and very much the vision of a singular artistic voice,” Williams said.

“There are lots of widely hailed double albums, from the Rolling Stones’ ‘Exile on Main St.’ to Prince’s ‘Sign O’ the Times,’ but I don’t think any of them successfully realize their artistic ambitions the way that ‘Songs in the Key of Life’ does.”

Like so many others, Williams said within weeks of hearing that masterpiece, he purchased every album that Wonder released in the 1970s and that he was drawn by the energy of “Where I’m Comin’ From,” mesmerized by the insular focus of “Music of My www.washingtoninformer.com

in the 1980s, somehow there is debate over who musically “owned” the 1970s.

“Let’s end that debate,” Williams said. “The 1970s belonged to Stevie Wonder.”

Wonder earned the Grammy for Album of the Year three al-

bums in a row between 1974 and 1977, and his tour with the Rolling Stones and his work with the Jackson 5 and Jeff Beck proved that no one fused soul, pop, rock and funk better than the former boy genius from Motown, Williams said.

Wonder’s influence can be found

in modern-day artists like Pharrell and even Lauryn Hill, who’s 1998 album “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” produced the single “Every Ghetto, Every City,” a song that is unmistakably a direct ode to the

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EDITORIAL Latest Metro Meltdown Means More Consumer Blues

Fewer trains and more stop-and-go rides are what Metro officials say riders can expect after the recent massive fire at a subway power station.

What’s more, rush hour commuters will be particularly impacted with a revised subway schedule that will reduce the number of trains on the Orange and Silver lines.

But the bad news continues. Those who take the Blue Line will also be inconvenienced, waiting at station platforms far more often and for much longer than they have in the past.

And if you think your patience has been tested and pushed to the limit, think again. We hear that the delays and schedule cutbacks will go on for at least six months as repair work continues to electrical equipment that provides power to the trains and was destroyed in the fire.

Several D.C. Council members, including Ward 6’s Charles Allen and Ward 7’s Yvette M. Alexander, have sent requests to Metro’s interim general manager asking him to reconsider cutting rush-hour service to the Orange and Silver lines.

But so far, the only advice coming from the trouble-prone transit system’s leadership is “plan accordingly.”

Now, as the power station repair goes on, and as it is demolished and repaired, riders will be forced to suffer until full power can be restored.

If you thought traveling on weekends or during rush hour was a horrendous experience, get ready for an even bumpier, slower commute.

D.C. may have the country’s second-largest subway system in the nation, but it’s clear – crystal clear – that we are far from having the kind of leadership needed to manage such a massive operation.

That’s simply unacceptable.

Where are the leaders in Congress when we need them? Or yes, they’re dealing with a potential government shutdown themselves.

Guess commuters in the District, Maryland and Virginia will just have to take a number and wait.

Marching for Justice or Else Essential for Blacks Perhaps you had the opportunity to be part of history 20 years ago when the Million Man March, conceived by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, took place on the National Mall on a picture-perfect Saturday in October.

Now, as final preparations are made for the 20th anniversary of the March, Blacks are being urged to return to the District with an attitude of peace and community. This time, the March will focus on the theme of “Justice or Else.”

The question, however, remains whether Blacks will have the courage to invoke the “or else” portion of the March’s mantra should demands for justice including a more equitable judicial system and more transparent law enforcement policies fall on deaf ears.

Farrakhan wants Blacks to be prepared to boycott Christmas shopping this year. He wants Blacks to be prepared to put their dollars in Black-owned banks and businesses. He wants Blacks to bring a united front and challenge an economic system that benefits from Black spending to the tune of trillions of dollars each year but offers us little in return.

After witnessing the systematic destruction of the Black family, the inexplicably lengthy sentences given to Black men and women who then languish in the throes of the prison industrial complex and the disproportionate number of Blacks who remain underemployed or unemployed, perhaps the time has come to put our money where our mouths are.

Ella Baker is credited with saying that at some point she became “sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

Many Blacks in America have reached that same boiling point.

Let’s see what Farrakhan and others say during the anniversary of the March on October 10. He may just be on to something.

What Does Ward 8 Get from New Arena?

I have been following the news about the new Wizards practice facility and home court for the Mystics coming to St. Elizabeth’s in Ward 8.

No doubt, this is exciting news and a wonderful opportunity for D.C. But my question remains unanswered.

What will this new arena mean for Ward 8? How will Ward 8, or residents east of the Anacostia River, benefit? Even more importantly, how should Ward 8 homeowners and renters protect themselves from any potential negative economic impact this massive development may have on our quality of life?

Granted, as a lifelong resident of Ward 8, I have watched the St. Elizabeth campuses on both the east and west sides remain abandoned and unused. What a waste of land.

Many hopes were raised when news came that the federal government was bringing Homeland Security and the Coast Guard to the West Campus. The construction began with promises of benefits of jobs and contracts, but throughout the construction all we heard was how local residents were not receiving contracts or being employed as promised. The brick wall remains and residents continue to be shut out.

Now the East campus development is beginning and admittedly the development of the RISE Center

and the new pavilion has brought life to the campus. No jobs, just activities. I believe residents deserve clear and honest answers to the questions above, and just as quickly as this new project is scheduled to progress, the answers need to be given accordingly. Don’t leave out the community that can make this progress a success or a mess. City officials, developers, Mr. Leonsis, whomever, we need to hear from you right now!

Alisha Gordon Washington, DC

What to Expect from MMM2?

It’s hard to believe that the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March is just around the corner. I was there on October 16, 1995 and I was amazed at the peaceful gathering of one million men from across the country who I stood with on the National Mall. The word to join the event was so intense weeks before the march that I couldn’t have imagined being anywhere else. But I don’t feel that same intensity this time, nor do I hear a serious rallying call to be there on October 10. And what’s up with you folks at the Washington Informer? We rely on you to give us the latest news we need to know about all things including this event?

I plan to attend next month, and I

look forward to being there with my two grandsons. I hope that will have the same experience I had, but sadly I don’t know what to expect. Please, Informer, bring us any updates on the event. Supportive minds want to know more.

Jonathan Miller Mitchellville, Md.

Black Health Matters

What a pleasure it was to read two very important health stories in a recent issue of The Washington Informer. HIV/AIDS and Sickle Cell Anemia are two diseases that disproportionately impact the African American community. Kudos to you for covering these topics. While some people list education or financial literacy as two major issues impacting our community, I put health at the top of the list. Without good health, what else matters? Keep discussing these topics and continue making us aware of how we can build a healthier community.

Yanis Williams Alexandria, VA

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By George H. Lambert, Jr.

On Track with the Greater Washington Urban League Blacks and Hispanics: Common Ground Recently in this space, I discussed Black-Jewish relations and concluded, “This alliance is more crucial than ever.” In this period of divisive politics, that sentiment goes double for Black-Hispanic relations. As we observe National Hispanic Heritage Month September 15 to October 15, I’d like to reflect on this vital and relevant partnership.

A certain Presidential can-

didate has gained a surprising amount of attention and support by scapegoating Latino immigrants for all of our nation’s economic problems. There is no point in refuting what are obviously baseless claims.

(Though if you’re interested, here’s a well-reasoned essay on the issue.) It’s more productive to use this moment to reaffirm the common ground between Blacks and Latinos, historically and in the present moment.

In the 19th century, a number of escaped and former slaves

migrated to Texas, where friendships and love with Mexicans sprang up on the Rio Grande.

You can read about this fascinating episode here. Early in the 20th century, Mexican immigrants were also excluded from mainstream life, compelled to attend separate schools from whites, drink from separate drinking fountains, and so on. This isn’t about comparing which prejudice was worse or who endured greater persecution. That kind of debate only succeeds in deepening divisions.

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The struggles of Mexican-Americans frequently paralleled ours, and their victories were also ours. The 1946 case Mendez, et al. v. Westminster School District of Orange County challenged the racial segregation that was occurring in Orange County, Calif., schools against Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. (In 2011, President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Sylvia Mendez, daughter of the lawsuit’s plaintiff.) The 1954 Supreme Court case Hernandez v. Texas established that

the protection granted by the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was not only for white and black Americans, but that all racial groups required equal protection.

In the 1960s and 1970s, participants in the Chicano Movement (or Movimiento) fought alongside African American for full enfranchisement in American society and recognition of their unique social contributions.

Although there may have been

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By Lee A. Daniels

Ben Carson’s Ugly Hypocrisy From the moment he surfaced in 2013 as White conservatives’ latest “Great Black Hope,” Ben Carson has made any number of offensive remarks typical of the conservative commentary of the Obama years.

But early last week, apparently goaded by a GOP presidential primary that’s set a cesspool-level standard for expressions of bigotry and callousness, Carson released what is undoubtedly his

greatest hit: He said a Muslim American should not be president of the United States.

“I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Reminded that Article 6 of the Constitution explicitly demands there be no religious qualification to hold “any office or public trust in the United States,” Carson doubled down that Americans should “not put people at

the leadership of our country whose faith might interfere with carrying out the duties of the Constitution.”

Carson apparently didn’t see the irony in the fact that he, a candidate for the nation’s highest office, was declaring he’d put his personal beliefs above the Constitution.

The blowback for that idiocy was so scorching that at week’s end Carson tried to gin up a “new” controversy to push his blatant appeal to bigotry into the

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background: he resorted to the old Black-conservative stand-by of claiming that the GOP had done a better job ridding American society of racism than the Democratic Party.

But we can’t afford to ignore just how despicable Carson’s gambit was. For one thing, just what kind of Muslim-American individual does Ben Carson think would surface as a potential candidate for the presidency?

We don’t have to guess. We have plenty of “real” Americans

of the past and present to tell us what our future Muslim-American candidate will be like: Like John F. Kennedy, who broke the barrier against Catholic candidates running for the presidency; or like Colin Powell; or Condoleezza Rice; or Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, or her colleague, Ruth Bader Ginsburg; or Barack or Michelle Obama; or, yes, like Ben Carson. In other words, our future Muslim-Amer-

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By George E. Curry

Jeb Bush is Wrong about Blacks Wanting ‘Free Stuff’ Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush thinks he can become president of the United States if Republicans can double their share of the Black vote in several key states. But he, like his GOP comrades, is demonstrating how not to accomplish that goal.

Bush’s latest failure came last week when he continued a longtime Republican tradition of trying to portray Af-

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rican Americans as addicted to welfare and government handouts. He was speaking at the East Cooper Republican Women’s Club annual Shrimp Dinner in Mount Pleasant, S.C. According to the Washington Post, this is what happened: “Look around this room,” a man told Bush, who spoke to a mostly white crowd. “How many black faces do you see?

How are you going to include

them and get them to vote for you?” asked the man, who was white.

“Bush pointed to his record on school choice and said that if Republicans could double their share of the black vote, they would win the swing states of Ohio and Virginia.”

Then Bush uttered this clunker: “Our message is one of hope and aspiration. It isn’t one of division and get in line and we’ll take care of you with free stuff. Our message The Washington Informer

is one that is uplifting – that says you can achieve earned success.”

To paraphrase GOP icon Ronald Reagan, “There you Republicans go again.”

In the 2012 presidential election, Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee, made an eerily similar remark at a Montana fundraiser. He said, “I want people to know what I stand for and if I don’t stand for what they want, go vote for some-

one else, that’s just fine. But I hope people understand this, your friends who like Obamacare, you remind them of this, if they want more stuff from government tell them to go vote for the other guy – more free stuff.”

Ronald Reagan framed the “free stuff” in the form of welfare. He frequently lamented “welfare queens,” which was a way to indirectly exploit racial anxieties. Yet his son, Michael

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By Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.

Black and Latinos Must Work Together If there was ever a propitious time for African-Americans and Latino Americans to unite to advance the cause of freedom, justice, equality and economic empowerment, it is now. Today, more than ever, the rapidly changing national demographics and the potential political and economic power as a direct result of Latino and Black unity in America cannot be overstated.

We are now in the middle of

Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept.

15 to Oct.15, across the United States. It is important to note that during this year’s observance of Hispanic heritage, Latino leaders are also articulating the strategic value and need for more unity between Blacks and Latinos.

In a recent column to the New York Amsterdam News, Bronx Borough President Rueben Diaz Jr. stated, “As we face heated, dangerous rhetoric on the issues that concern us the most, the Hispanic community must not

only stand together but to also unite with our allies of different backgrounds, such as the African-American community, to fight for the betterment of our communities.”

I know Borough President Diaz and I believe that one day he may become the first Latino mayor of New York City. Fighting to improve the quality of life in our communities is exactly what our long mutual struggles for justice and empowerment continues to be about. The two largest people of color groups in

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America are Latinos and Blacks.

And if Blacks and Latinos unite in New York and elsewhere, it will achieve more effective political and economic results.

President Barack Obama issued a proclamation in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month stating, “America’s Hispanic community has woven unique threads into the diverse fabric of our country and played an important role in shaping our national character as a people of limitless possibility.”

We are witnessing a political

challenge to the nation’s diversity with the exponential increase in residents of people of color in every region of the country.

Some studies show that the racial disparity divide in America is becoming more and more pronounced in housing, education, business, immigration, and mass incarceration.

Going forward will require a serious effort to ensure a massive voter turnout of Latinos and Blacks in the 2016 elections.

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Pope Francis’ Message of Compassion “I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me…I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.” – Matthew 25:35-36,40 Like power, with compassion comes great responsibility. So

much more than a feeling, the person with compassion is compelled to transform their compassion into intent, and most importantly, action. To be compassionate is to see, to feel and to do something.

The recent arrival of Pope Francis on our shores has rekindled our national conversation over how we will protect and care for our marginalized, provide access to our disenfranchised communities and promote justice for all.

Francis, the spiritual leader of

more than a billion Catholics, the world over, has placed the poor and the treatment of the poor at the center of his papacy. But, his message of mercy, compassion and service as the engines of much-needed change is not solely limited to the Catholic faithful.

It is a message that can transcend boundaries of faith, gender, political cultures or borders. It is a message that can transform the entire world for the benefit of the common good.

While calls for societal change precede the pope, his papacy and

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his status as a respected global leader, gives added voice to the voiceless and the oppressed, and encourages the men and women who have decided they would no longer observe (or suffer) injustice from the sidelines – instead they would advocate, and when necessary, agitate for a more just society for the excluded and marginalized among us.

From Moses to the man registering students to vote, or the woman fighting for environmental justice in an impoverished community today, for as long as

inequality has plagued society, people have always appeared in the pages of history to carry the heavy and unavoidable banner of change. For Francis, this call to action is motivated by God’s presence, which he said in his final homily in Cuba, “never leaves us tranquil: it always pushes to do something. When God comes, He always calls us out of our house. We are visited so that we can visit others; we are encountered so as to encounter

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The Pope, the Muslims, the Moon, American Alignment For those who “read the signs” in nature, this is an awesome time. There was a convergence of major events, both natural and national, the likes of which has not been seen in a long, long time.

Naturally, the Earth was overtaken by the Autumnal Equinox, when the darkness of nights in the Northern Hemisphere began growing longer than the daylight.

Days later the moon passed

closer to the Earth than at any time in its annual orbit. It’s called the Super Moon because this particular full moon appears larger and brighter than at any other time because of its closeness. And this Super Moon was also the occasion of a total lunar eclipse visible in North America, causing the first “Blood Moon” (because of the red color of the moon’s appearance while the Earth’s shadow blocks the sunlight from reaching its surface), the first Blood Moon in more than 30 years, not to be seen

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again for another 18 years.

Natural phenomena, which in times before superstitious people had as much scientific understanding of such events as today would have caused people to expect these supernatural occurrences to presage developments among people on the planet.

The natural: equinox, super moon, blood moon, did not disappoint.

Well, how about the “national”?

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age to the United States during these special days, and he literally “wowed” millions in Washington, New York and Philadelphia, as well as all those watching via global media connections. Yom Kippur — the Jewish High Holy Days and Day of Atonement — occurred. And the Islamic Hajj or pilgrimage to the Holy City Mecca and its attendant Eid al Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) also occurred.

What draws these events together in this country is the political climate in which ultra-xe-

nophobic Republicans lashed out at the Muslim population in this country and lashed out at President Barack Obama, saying he was a Muslim (he is Christian) as though being a Muslim was some sort of curse (it is not).

At a political rally for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump in New Hampshire — a state with a virtually lily-white population — the first audience member to speak told The Donald that there is a problem in

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Local Making History in Opera Longtime Resident Shines

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer Tenor and former longtime Southeast Washington, D.C., resident Issachah Savage laughs when he’s informed of a most flattering comparison made by an opera legend.

“There’s only one Pavarotti,” Savage said, responding to an earlier comment attributed to the late Charlotte Wesley Holloman when she said of the rising star, “Listen to Issachah Savage … the black Pavarotti.”

“No one can be Pavarotti, black, white or whatever; it’s not possible,” Savage humbly said. It is likely that kind of innocuous modesty has helped to propel the Morgan State and Catholic University graduate into an unlikely star of the opera.

On Saturday, Savage returns to the region as the National Philharmonic will present a special one-time performance of Wagner’s Rienzi, a concert opera featuring Savage at the Music Center at Strathmore in Bethesda.

Showtime is scheduled for 8 p.m., and the concert version traces the protagonist’s journey from liberator to absolute despot before culminating in his ultimate downfall. The dramatic composition features marches, romantic melodies, elaborate choruses and brass-centered fanfares, with Savage in the middle of it all.

Officials at the Wagner Society of Washington, D.C., one of the city’s most vibrant cultural institutions, said Savage is the first African-American in the lead role.

“I’ve been singing all of my life. I started in the church,” said Savage, who once performed as a tenor soloist at First Baptist Church on 16th Street in Northwest.

“What got me on the opera track was my high school experience at Creative and Performing Arts High School (in Philadelphia), where my choir director saw in me that I didn’t know was there,” Savage said.

“He encouraged me to study and go forward. He looked me in

Issachah Savage as Otello in the Schwabacher Summer Concert. /Photo by Kristen Loken.

the face and said, ‘You have the kind of voice that you could do anything you want, including opera.’ I think he sensed that I was more afraid of the more classical sound, and he sensed that I was bashful, so he encouraged that,” he said.

Savage hasn’t looked back.

He’s earned critical acclaim, winning the 2014 Seattle International Wagner Competition, garnering the main prize, audience favorite prize, orchestra favorite prize, and a special honor

by Speight Jenkins, the former director of the Seattle Opera.

Savage made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Don Riccardo in Verdi’s Ernani under James Levine. During the 2014-2015 season, he debuted with the Orchestre National de Bordeaux-Aquitaine in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Santa Fe Symphony in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, and with the Seattle Youth Symphony in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.

Savage’s resume also includes performances at the Houston Grand Opera and with the Washington Chorus at the Kennedy Center and the San Francis-

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co Opera’s Merola Program for gifted young singers, where he performed the finale to Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Merola Grand Finale concert that included a performance of Otello in the Schwabacher Summer Concert series.

“From his opening notes – impeccably shaded and coiled with repressed fury – to the opera’s final explosion of grief and shame, Savage sang with a combination of power and finesse that is rare to observe,” reviewers at the San Francisco Chronicle wrote.

“I’m always aspiring to more, and I definitely want to grow more because there are so many roles out there and I want to learn,” Savage said. “Even though I’ve accomplished a little bit, there’s so much more out there, and I’m very much an infant. And there’s a long way to go for me to keep developing.”

Born into a musical and religious family, Savage began performing in church at age 5. He’s gone on to earn a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from Morgan State and a master’s degree in opera voice performance

from Catholic University.

Now, with a performance at the Strathmore, Savage has a homecoming of sorts.

“I lived about 10 minutes from the Capitol in Southeast Washington, and I love D.C. very much. For me, it’s really a full-circle moment as I spent a good deal of time honing my skills and talents there and working under the auspices of the Washington Wagner Society,” Savage said.

“Being able to come back where it all kind of got started is really full-circle. I only hope that the audience will appreciate everything about the performance, and I’m sure that the orchestra will bring beauty to the performance. And the cast is phenomenal, as is the story line,” he said.

“I’m looking forward to it.”WI For tickets, visit www.strathmore. org. Those 7-17 can attend National Philharmonic concerts for free. To reserve free tickets for those 7-17, call Strathmore Ticket Office at 301-5815100; free children’s tickets are not available to reserve online.

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Music icon Stevie Wonder performs on Saturday at Verizon Center. /Courtesy of Rolling Stone A scene from the world premiere play ‘Uprising.’ /Courtesy MetroStage

Metro Stage’s ‘Uprising’ Entertaining, Inspiring

World Premiere Part of Women’s Voices Theater Festival

By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor Black playwright Gabrielle Fulton has teamed up with Director Thomas W. Jones II to bring the world premiere of the play “Uprising” to Metro Stage in Alexandria, Virginia.

The venue, as Producing Artistic Director Carolyn Griffin says, is small and intimate.

And that may bode well for the audience as they more-easily connect to the cast of veteran actors who bring a compelling story to the stage.

Inspired by the true story of Osborne Perry Anderson, the only Black participant in John Brown’s raid to survive, and the tales of the playwright’s

great-grandmother, “Uprising” tackles the themes of freedom, sacrifice, community and family. The play, set in the days following Brown’s failed attempt to take over Harper’s Ferry, explores the relationship between a young mother, Sal, and Ossie, a “hypnotic revolutionary” who turns the woman’s life upside down.

The play has received nothing but positive accolades and includes Wednesday talkbacks.

It runs through Oct. 25. Go to metrostage.org for more information.

And by all means, tell a friend – or two. WI

SAVAGE from Page 25 great Stevie Wonder hit “I Wish.”

In addition to being a true legend, Wonder has long been hailed as a humanitarian who has used his music to support a number of social causes.

His voice is outstanding on such philanthropic recordings as “We are the World,” and “That’s What Friends are For.” Wonder has also been active in the anti-apartheid movement, Mothers Against Drunk Driving,

and the Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation. He spearheaded the effort to institute a national holiday in honor of the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. Each year, his yearly House Full of Toys concert is easily among the most anticipated events in Southern California, and Wonder was also named a Peace Ambassador by officials at the United Nations.

“Stevie Wonder has always blended his musical genius with social activism,” reviewers at Billboard wrote. “He has stayed true to form, advocating gun control,

pleading for an end to racism and promoting equality for those with disabilities.”

Wonder’s legion of fans who plan to be in attendance for the upcoming concert are sure to witness the 22-time Grammy winner perform such hits as “Sir Duke,” “I Wish,” “Isn’t She Lovely,” “Love’s in Need of Love Today” and “Superstition.”

For tickets to Wonder’s “Songs in the Key of Life” concert at Verizon Center, visit verizoncenter.monumentalnetwork. com.

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Homeless Youth Inspire History Makers Chief WI Staff Report D.C. Public Schools Students listened to men and women who have the distinction of being history makers during a national day of visits which kicked off last week and continues through October.

But when Julieanna Richardson, founder and executive director of The HistoryMakers, learned that 110 of the roughly 200 students enrolled this year at Paul Robeson High School in Chicago’s Englewood community were homeless young girls, tears came to her eyes.

“My heart sank,” said Richardson.

The HistoryMakers sent out speakers across the U.S., trying to do its part with the 6th Annual Back to School with The HistoryMakers program on Friday Sept. 25 in 67 cities in 32 states.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, national program chair, has been supportive of the program since its inception.

This year he traveled to Chicago for the first time to attend the program at Paul Robeson High School. Joining him at the school were Robeson graduate and former advertising company founder Tom Burrell and news anchor Cheryl Burton. Richardson and CEO of Chicago Public Schools Forrest Claypool also attended.

“Navigating the demands of school can be challenging for any young person. Students in Chicago and across the nation face many obstacles outside of the classroom,” Duncan said. “Hard work, determination and resolve will carry these students through so that their education can create a brighter future, as many of the HistoryMakers stories demonstrate.”

It is those challenges, like homelessness and the seemingly endless threats of violence, that Richardson wants the HistoryMakers to address directly in addition to sharing their own life journeys. Speakers also addressed how pursuing an edu-

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cation, living a life of meaning, hard work and purpose is possible. In addition, they encouraged students to commit to their education.

“So many of these young people don’t have the benefit of repeatedly hearing and absorbing the lessons and wisdom those life stories provide,” Richardson said.

As the HistoryMakers share their stories, they are essentially partaking in an oral tradition that taught generations dignity in the face of slavery, institutional racism and countless other barriers.

Incredibly driven and unwaveringly committed, Richardson is a Harvard Law School graduate, whose life passion and hard work is the driving force behind The HistoryMakers organization whose collection includes the life stories of Nikki Giovanni, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Charles Blow, Melissa Harris-Perry and even President Barack Obama when he was an Illinois State Senator.

During the Chicago visits, Claypool announced a donation to Chicago Public Schools and

to public schools across the nation of The HistoryMakers Digital Archive.

“We are grateful to the The HistoryMakers for providing our students with access to their Digital Archive. Using modern technology to make history come alive will inspire our students both to understand our past and imagine their own exciting futures,” he said.

This groundbreaking digital archive, a great tool for the study of 20th century African-American and American history, puts social studies, language arts, literacy and STEM and many role models at students’ fingertips.

Developed by Carnegie Mellon University, it is currently being used at institutions like Howard University.

By 2017, the entire collection will be made available with a few clicks.

“Imagine how powerful it could be if students could spend some time with the person and the stories,” Richardson said. WI

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The duo spoke at Eastern Senior High School in Northeast as representatives of the National History Makers project on Friday, Sept. 25. Other school where speakers shared their inspiring words with D.C. public schools students included: Woodrow Wilson High School in Northwest, Lou Stovall and A’Lelia Bundles; Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Northwest, Jennifer Lawson and A. Scott Bolden; and Ellington School of The Arts in Northwest, Don Baker and Raymond Jackson. /Photo by Roy Lewis

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ARIES Get in touch with those who can help you achieve your goals.

Place the accent on initiative. Romance, passion and work are singing in harmony this week and tonight.

Soul Affirmation: My love for myself is the most important love for me to have. Lucky Numbers: 9, 35, 41 TAURUS Joy this week comes from love. You are especially attractive.

Stage your week so that you spend time around people you want to attract.

It is easy for you to bring harmony into your relationships. Your ability to communicate is greatly enhanced. Use it to your best advantage.

Soul Affirmation: The success of others is the investment I make in myself. Lucky Numbers: 30, 45, 46

“Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-Seven Women Untangle an Obsession,”

Edited by Elizabeth Benedict c.2015, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $16.95 / $22.95 Canada 316 pages

There once was a girl who had a little curl…

Did you envy that nursery rhyme character? Or, like many women, have you had a love-hate relationship with your hair since you were old enough to hear nursery rhymes like that? Either way, you’re not alone, as you’ll see in “Me, My Hair, and I,” a collection of hair-raising essays edited by Elizabeth Benedict.

Is today a good hair day, a bad hair day – or a no-hair day? The bigger question: who’s happy with her hair? In this book, 27 women answer that, as they weigh in on their tresses (or lack thereof).

“For women,” says Benedict, “hair is an entire library of information...”

“It’s always there, unless it’s gone or it’s hidden – and those absences tell stories, too.”

Your story may start with your mother, the first decision-maker when it came to your hair. She might have snipped a few strands as a keepsake once; she may have forced you into a “pixie” you didn’t want, a curtain of hair you hated, a shaved head that culture demanded by your first birthday, or braids done expertly. Her choices then may still influence your ‘do today.

Hair can be “good” or it can be “bad” and getting the former, for African American girls, often meant time spent in the family kitchen that “would double as a torture chamber….” Heated devices burned necks and scalps and rain undid everything in an instant. Getting one’s hair straightened was “controversial,” but “whatever Black women do to their hair is controversial.”

Other cultures; other controversies.

Which brings up some good points.

When it comes to our hair, everybody has an opinion on it; and most of them can’t help sharing. Also, we may envy someone else’s hair, while she envies our straightwavy-bouncy-curly-sleek tresses of another color, texture or thickness. We’re never happy with that which is on our heads – or anywhere on our bodies, for that matter.

So perhaps the thing to do is to embrace two facts: for women, there is no such thing as a “neutral” hairstyle. There’s just not.

And, hey, whatever we do with it, we get

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GEMINI Are you spending money with little or nothing to show for it?

This is because you’re looking for something that money can’t buy. Now is a good time to spend some of your emotional currency, and don’t be cheap. You’ll create a situation in which people will work hard to please you.

Soul Affirmation: Friendships are shock absorbers on the bumpy roads of life. Lucky Numbers: 16, 50, 52

second chances; it’ll always grow back.

Pick up “Me, My Hair, and I” and there’s one thing you’ll notice: as you comb through it, just about every one of these 27 essays resonates.

It’s easy, for instance, to identify with the women who long for a new hairstyle to go with a new life. Readers will know exactly what one essayist means when she says hair is love. We sympathize with descriptions of hair as it circles the drain - post chemo - with memories of childhood pulls and tugs; with the waffling decisions to dye or not, and with the shake-our-heads comments that our hair draws.

Editor Elizabeth Benedict chose these essays wisely to reflect our tangled thoughts about hair, and I think you’ll agree once you open its pages. If you’ve ever cursed your curls, fought your ‘fro, or loved your locks, “Me, My Hair, and I” will surely grow on you. WI

CANCER You may like to go to war, but avoid an argument with a friend; it will slow down all the wonderful progress you’ve been making. Your patience will be tested this week, stay on task.

Soul Affirmation: I smile and trust in the powers beyond myself. Lucky Numbers: 2, 20, 23 LEO Skip it! Don’t sweat the small stuff, it’ll only bring you down. Don’t run around inside your own head this week. Focus your awareness outside on something beautiful. Compromise is a key idea this week.

Soul Affirmation: Jewelry reflects the beauty of my feelings about myself. Lucky Numbers: 40, 43, 49 VIRGO Someone in the family is ready to give you something. Open yourself up to it. Home improvement –mental, physical and spiritual– is this week’s best theme. Seek the simple pleasures from a neglected hobby this week. Soul Affirmation: I love charming, positive head games.

Lucky Numbers: 18, 24, 36 LIBRA How efficient you are this week! Your busy mind is focused on productivity and achievement. Both come easily to you, so take your advantage and press forward.

Soul Affirmation: I see myself as a finisher rather than a starter this week. Lucky Numbers: 11, 12, 53 SCORPIO Entertainment and companionship are high on your list of things to enjoy this week. Use your mental gifts to speed carefully through your work so that you’ll have more time for fun this week.

Soul Affirmation: This week silence speaks loudest and truest. Lucky Numbers: 5, 15, 31 SAGITTARIUS Your only real caution this week is to watch your budget. Other than that, happiness remains the focus, as relationships heat happily up. Your family is very supportive and loving right now; let them meet your new admirer. Soul Affirmation: I speak my mind knowing that truth is my best defense this week. Lucky Numbers: 4, 14, 33 CAPRICORN Happiness with partners remains the order of the week.

Relations between partners are exceptionally harmonious right now. You are in sync with loved ones. Much is being accomplished by your attitude.

Don’t overdo your physical workout. Soul Affirmation: I master fear by knowing that all is well. Lucky Numbers: 2, 19, 37 AQUARIUS The time has come to forgive and forget. Take the first step in reconciling a friendship. You thought no one knew, but you may be romantically attracted to an old pal. Soul Affirmation: Friendships are treasures I cherish. Lucky Numbers: 14, 44, 54

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PISCES Romantic daydreams may distract you from work this week; try to stay focused, but also enjoy your mental trips to romantic sunnier spaces. These images will inspire you to take action regarding a trip or get-together with your honey. Soul Affirmation: I let my dreams take over my mind to provide enjoyment. Lucky Numbers: 27, 32, 41

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Wizards point guard, John Wall, the team’s go to player, attends 2015 Media Day which marked the start of the 2015/16 NBA season. /Photo by John DeFreitas

Alan Anderson, who signed a one-year, $4 million deal with the Wizards this summer, was at the 2015 Media Day event. /Photo by John DeFreitas

Porter, Beal Top Wizards Media Day

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill The Washington Wizards held their annual media day on Monday, Sept. 28 at the Verizon Center in Northwest, showing optimism and excitement for the 2015-16 season with small forward Otto Porter, Jr. being a key component.

The former Georgetown University star may replace 37-yearold veteran Paul Pierce in the starting lineup. Pierce, came through in the clutch during last season’s playoffs but has since moved on, signing a three-contract last summer with the Los Angeles Clippers.

Porter would be the only new face among the five projected starters that include all-star guard John Wall, Bradley Beal, Marcin Gortat and Nene.

“I just have to continue what I did in [last season’s] playoffs,” said Porter, 22, who was drafted by the Wizards in 2013. “I don’t want anything handed to me.

I’m going to work for it.”

A possible season-long topic involves Beal, who will be playing in the final year of a fouryear contract. The 22-year-old sharpshooter has averaged 21 points, five rebounds and nearly five assists in 21 playoff games.

He showcased his shooting ability in 10 playoff games last season averaging 23 points and shooting about 37 percent from the three-point line.

Beal helped the team advanced to the second round of the playoffs last season before they were eliminated, losing to the Atlanta Hawks.

In his comments to the press, Beal played down the contract

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talks.

“What I’m going to tell you is my agent’s dealing with it,” Beal told reporters. “I’m not worried about it. It is what it is at the end of the day. It’s not going to change my mentality.

It’s not going to make me angry towards [anybody]. I’m still a Wizard at the end of the day.”

Although the Wizards had a good 2014-15 season with a record of 46-36, fifth in the Eastern Conference, ranked sixth in the NBA in assists and eighth in rebounding, the players want a better outcome.

Head coach Randy Wittman showcased small-ball in the playoffs with three guards and a power forward on the wing.

He’ll continue to work that style of play during the preseason and implement it when the regular season starts Oct. 28 at the Orlando Magic. The Wizards first home game will be Oct. 31 against the New York Knicks.

The main focal point will be to spread the floor and provide more space for Wall to penetrate to the basket or dish to an open man on the perimeter.

To help make that a reality, the Wizards added more depth to their bench signing veterans Alan Anderson and Jared Dudley, who can both play at the guard and forward positions.

Another veteran, Baltimore native Gary Neal, can be a perimeter threat.

Rookie and first-round draft pick Kelly Oubre, Jr. from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, should bring more versatility on the wings, especially at 6 feet 7 inches tall.

“We now have four guys that are totally new to how we do

things,” Wittman said. “Until you get on the floor and see how the new guys mix and match, you don’t really know what you have. The good thing is we have 10, 11 guys that have been here for a number of years with me.

We do have some versatility that we didn’t have last year.”

During the three-hour media session, the players posed for pictures, conducted interviews with two children reporters and patted the Wizards mascot G-Whiz on the back. To lighten the mood, DeJuan Blair rode on a hover board on the practice court and Martell Webster hifived four of the Wizards cheerleaders.

Gortat, the Wizards 6-foot-11 center, held a basketball camp in his native country of Poland and promoted his MG13 Foundation – a charity he established in 2009 to help children in his native land live healthier and fulfill their dreams in sports.

Of course, the Wizards’ success starts with Wall.

Wall, who turned 25 on Sept.

6, averaged a double-double last season with 17 points and 11 assists per game. He ranked number two in the NBA in assists and seventh in minutes played.

However, he committed the fifth most turnovers.

A couple of the team goals this season: 50 regular season wins and home court advantage in the playoffs.

“And get out of the second round for once,” Wall said.

“We lost a tough player in Paul [Pierce], but we added three or four other guys to help. We made our bench deeper. It’s an opportunity for everybody to step up and do better things.”WI

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Turning Hearts Church 4275 4th Street, S.E. Washington, DC 20034 Phone: 202-746-0113 Fax: 301-843-2445

Foggy Bottom • Founded in 1867 728 23rd Street, NW • Washington, DC 20037 Church office: 202-333-3985 • Fax : 202-338-4958

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

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 All are welcome to St. Mary’s to Learn, Worship, and Grow.

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How many of you remember the movie “Annie” where she sings about Tomorrow, which goes like this: “The sun will come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, there›ll be sun. Just thinkin› about tomorrow, clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow ‹til there›s none. When I›m stuck with a day that’s grey and lonely, I just stick up my chin and grin and say, ‘Oh, the sun will come out tomorrow.’ So you gotta hang on ‹til tomorrow, come what may!

Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow.

You›re always a day away!”

As beautiful as the lyrics are, friends the sun is always shining.

It may be raining or cloudy down here but take a plane ride, and watch what happens when the plane flies 30,000 feet up, high above the clouds. Clear skies and bright sunshine is all you will see.

This column is written to encourage those of you who are going through some hard times right now. Maybe you’ve recently been diagnosed with some terminal disease. Remember, just because your doctor has given you a diagnosis, it is not necessarily the final word; the diagnosis depends on your level of faith. Scripture reminds us, “For I say to every man that is among you, through the grace given unto me, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.”

Or, your concern could be about an ill child, or you lost your job and now you’re not sure what’s next! Just remember,

the sun is always shining! Stop.

Meditate. Pray... and think about the blue skies and the bright sun, shining above the storm. Take your thoughts to a higher place, a place where you can allow God and His Holy Spirit to come into your heart.

He will surely give you peace, even in the midst of a storm. I saw a Facebook post from former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas, Jr. a few days ago. The scene shows a bird sitting on the ledge during a severe storm.

The bird is bundled up and has his head bowed. The message says, “Sometimes, you just have to bow your head, say a prayer and weather the storm.”

When these tough times come along, increase your faith, and just as the word says in 1st Thessalonians, “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” When you turn it over to God, you will look around, and those hard times will have passed over, just like the storms of life.

This example is truly one that you will be able to relate to.

When I was a student at Trinity University, during my first semester, 30 years after graduating from high school, I found it extremely difficult to change my lifestyle. My freedom was being taken from me. Working full-time at the D.C. City Council, I was accustomed to coming home and relaxing, and watching something on television. But now, I had homework. Everything in me tried to reject doing

with Lyndia Grant homework, but I finally had to weather the storm! I remember counting my credits, and I had only earned about twelve.

I needed about 130 or more.

It seemed as if that day would never come. But ladies and gentlemen, that day did finally come; and what a wonderful graduation day it was, too. It was a bright, sunshiny day! It will be for you, too, if you will keep going, even through the storm.WI Lyndia Grant is an author, inspirational and motivational speaker, radio talk show host and columnist; visit her website at www.lyndiagrant.com, email lyndiagrant@ gmail.com and, call 202-558-2107.

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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

Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ Drs. Dennis W. and Christine Y. Wiley, Pastors

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

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

4915 Wheeler Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745

www.livingwatersmd.org

Blessed Word of Life Church

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

Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor Harold Andrew, Assistant Pastor

www.pilgrimbaptistdc.org

tel: 202-291-6565

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

Church of Living Waters

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

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

Mt. Zion Baptist Church Rev. John W. Davis, Pastor 5101 14th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20011 202-726-2220/ 202-726-9089 Sunday Worship Service 8:00am and 11:00am Sunday School 9:15am Holy Communion 4th Sunday 10:00am Prayer and Bible Study Wednesday 7;00pm TV Ministry –Channel 6 Wednesday 10:00pm gsccm.administration@verizon.net

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St. Stephen Baptist Church Bishop Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Senior Pastor 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.

TTuesday – 7:00pm – Kingdom Building Bible Institute Wednesday – Prayer/Praise/Bible Study – 7:30 p.m.

Baptism & Communion Service- 4th Sunday – 10:30am 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

Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church Rev. Dr. Michael E. Bell, Sr., • Pastor 2498 Alabama Ave., SE • Washington D.C. 20020 Office: (202) 889-7296 Fax: (202) 889-2198 • www.acamec.org 2008: The Year of New Beginnings “Expect the Extraordinary”

Crusader Baptist Church 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.

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

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

“God is Love”

Third Street Church of God 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

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

Isle of Patmos Baptist Church Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews • Senior Pastor 1200 Isle of Patmos Plaza, Northeast Washington, DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-6767 Fax: (202) 526-1661 Sunday Worship Services: 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

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

Sunday Church School: 9:20 a.m.

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

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

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

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

ST Marks Baptist Come Worship with us...

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

Twelfth Street Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) 1812 12th Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202-265-4494 Fax: 202 265 4340 Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor Service and Times Sunday Worship Service 11:00 a.m.

Communion every Sunday 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School 10:00 a.m.

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

Motto; “Discover Something Wonderful.”

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

Mount Carmel Baptist Church Joseph N. Evans, Ph.D Senior Pastor 901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423 Sunday Church School : 9: 30am Sunday Morning Worship: 10: 45am Bible Study Tuesday: 6: 00pm Prayer Service Tuesday: 7:00pm Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday 10: 45am themcbc.org

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RELIGION Shabbath Commandment Church 7801 Livingston Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-534-5471 Bishop Adrian A. Taylor, Sr. Pastor Sabbath School 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

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

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

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

Zion Baptist Church

All Nations Baptist Church Rev. Dr. James Coleman Pastor 2001 North Capitol St, N.E. • Washington, DC 20002 Phone (202) 832-9591

Website: www.allnationsbaptistchurch.com All Nations Baptist Church – A Church of Standards

“Where Jesus is the King”

Israel Baptist Church

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

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

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)

2324 Ontario Road, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 232-1730 Sunday School – 9:30 am Sunday Worship Service – 11:00 am Baptismal Service – 1st Sunday – 9:30 am Holy Communion – 1st Sunday – 11:00 am Prayer Meeting & Bible Study – Wednesday -7:30 pm

Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor

St. Luke Baptist Church

Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor

Sunday Church School – 9:30 AM Sunday Worship Service – 11:00 AM Holy Communion – 1st Sunday at 11:00 AM Prayer – Wednesdays, 6:00 PM Bible Study – Wednesdays, 7:00 PM Christian Education School of Biblical Knowledge Saturdays, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM, Call for Registration

Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor

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

King Emmanuel Baptist Church

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

Lincoln Park United Methodist Church Rev. Dr. Diane Dixon Proctor, Pastor 1301 North Carolina Ave. N E Washington, D C 20002 202 543 1318 lpumconthegrow@gmail.com www.lpumcdc.org Sunday worship 10: am Holy Communion first Sunday 10: am Sunday school 9: am Bible Study each Wednesday @ 12 noon and 6:30pm Motto: “A CHURCH ON THE GROW”.

Eastern Community Baptist Church

Emmanuel 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

Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith

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

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

New Members Class 9:30a.m.

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

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

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

Sunday Worship Service 10:00 A.M.

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

The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42

New Commandment Baptist Church

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

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

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

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

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

Shiloh Baptist Church

Peace Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. Michael T. Bell 712 18th Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Phone 202-399-3450/ Fax 202-398-8836 Sunday Morning Worship Service 7:15 am & 10:50 am Sunday School 9:30am Sunday Morning Worship Service 10:50am Wednesday Prayer & Testimonies Service 7:30pm Wednesday School of the Bible 8:00pm Wednesday - Midweek Prayer Service 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm “The Loving Church of the living lord “ Email Address pbcexec@verizon.net

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church

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Rev. Alonzo Hart Pastor

Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

The Church Where GOD Is Working....

And We Are Working With GOD

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

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

Sunday Church School: 9:15 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship: 10:40 a.m.

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

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

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

Morning Worship: 10:55 a.m.

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

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

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

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

Email: stmatthewsbaptist@msn.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.org

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

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

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

150 Years of Service

Christ Embassy DC

Elder Herman L. Simms, Pastor

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

Salem Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert SR. Pastor

Dr. C. Matthew Hudson, Jr, Pastor

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

Rehoboth Baptist Church

Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor

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

Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor

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

Holy Trinity United Baptist Church

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

Damion M. Briggs Pastor

Dr. Lucius M. Dalton, Senior Pastor

Florida Avenue Baptist Church

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

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

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

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

Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.

Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.

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

Prayer Services: Tuesday 7:30 p.m.

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

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Administration No. 2015 ADM 1089

Administration No. 2014 ADM 635

Administration Number 1996 ADM 02148

Administration No. 2015 ADM 983

Julia E. Austin Decedent

Evelyn A. Underhill Decedent

Doris T. Cooper Decedent

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

Michael Forester 2007 Vermont Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20001 Attorney

Estate of Shirley Theodora Langley aka Shirley Theodora Langley Deceased

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Regina Austin, whose address is 233 S. 6th Street, #1112, Philadelphia, PA 19106, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Julia E. Austin who died on August 18, 2015 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 1, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 1, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: October 1, 2015

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Mabel A. McNeill, whose address is 801 Mentor Avenue, Capitol Heights, MD 20743, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Evelyn A. Underhill who died on December 2, 2013 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 17, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 17, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Milford A. Williams III for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representative. Unless a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth.

Admit to probate the will dated February 4, 1992 exhibited with the petition upon proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution by affidavit of witnesses or otherwise Order witnesses to the alleged will dated February 4, 1992 to appear and give testimony regarding its execution Order any interested person to show cause why the provisions of the lost or destroyed will dated February 4, 1992 should not be admitted to probate as expressed in the petition In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate appoint a supervised personal representative

Matthew F. Shannon, whose address is 1420 N street, NW #102, Washington, DC 20006 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Doris T. Cooper who died on August 10, 2015 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 17, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 17, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: September 17, 2015

Regina Austin Personal Representative

Mabel A. McNeill Personal Representative

Dalton Howard Attorney

Matthew F. Shannon Personal Representative

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Foreign No. 2014 FEP 155

Administration No. 2015 ADM 999

Foreign No. 2014 FEP 124

January 27, 2014 Date of Death Shirley Wright Essien Name of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Shawn Wright and Terrence Wright whose addresses are 631 ½ I Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Shirley Wright Essien, deceased, by the Register of Wills of the Orphans Court for Prince Georges County, State of Maryland, on December 1, 2014.

Service of process may be made upon Shawn Wright and Terrence Wright, 631 ½ I Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C.

The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real property: 1/2 Interest in 721 Tewesbury Place, NW, Washington, DC 20012.

The decedent owned District of Columbia personal property. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

Date of first publication: September 17, 2015 Shawn Wright Terrence Wright Personal Representative

Frances Marie Hairston Decedent

February 3, 2014 Date of Death

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

Winnie Jefferson Name of Decedent

Anita L. Hairston, whose address is 6931 Allison Street, #B2, Landover Hills, MD 20784, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Frances Marie Hairston who died on May 2, 2015 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 17, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 17, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Date of first publication: September 17, 2015

Damian R. Williams whose address is 1317 Belvedere Road, Apt. B, Baltimore, MD 21239 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Winnie Jefferson, deceased, by the Orphans Court for Baltimore County, State of Maryland, on March 24, 2014.

Service of process may be made upon Mary Sheppard, 6445 Luzon Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20012 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C.

The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real property: 6445 Luzon Avenue, NW, Apt. 305, Washington, DC 20012.

Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

Anita L. Hairston Personal Representative

Date of first publication: September 17, 2015

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Betty J. Elzie Decedent

Matthew F. Shannon, Esquire 1420 N Street, NW #102 Washington, DC 20005 Attorney

Date of first publication: September 17, 2015

Administration No. 2015 ADM 1061

Michelle R. Elzie, whose address is 604 Palm Beach Drive, Hagerstown, MD 21740, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Betty J. Elzie who died on July 13, 2015 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 17, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 17, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: September 17, 2015 Michelle R. Elzie Personal Representative

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Administration No. 2015 ADM 1110

Administration No. 2015 ADM 984

Gwendolyn C. Pressley Decedent

Thelma B. Tucker aka Thelma Burford Tucker Decedent

Michelle Lanchester, Esq. 601 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Suite 900 (South Building) Washington, DC 20004 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Leslie E. Rhetts, whose address is 11400 Glissade Dr., Clinton, MD 20735 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Gwendolyn C. Pressley who died on August 15, 2015 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before May 1, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before May 1, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Scherri Tucker Jacobsen, whose address is 4535 32nd Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Thelma B. Tucker aka Thelma Burford Tucker who died on June 1, 2011with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 17, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 17, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: September 17, 2015 Scherri Tucker Jacobsen Personal Representative

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Foreign No. 2015 FEP 29

Addie E. Carey Decedent

April 19, 2014 Date of Death

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS James C. Carey and Michealle R. Carey, whose addresses are 11444 Norris Twilley Rd., Mardela Springs, MD 21637and 2053 Adams Ave., Melbourne, FL 32935, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Addie E. Carey who died on May 30, 2014 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 24, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 24, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: September 24, 2015 James C. Carey Michealle R. Carey Personal Representative

Juanita C. Hairston Name of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Clarice R. Spence whose address is 1926 Boaz Road, Raleigh, NC 27610 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Juanita C. Hairston, deceased, by the Superior Court of Wake County, State of North Carolina, on June 27, 2014.

Service of process may be made upon Johnny M. Howard, Houston & Howard, 1001 Connecticut Ave., Suite 402, Washington, DC 20036 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C.

The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real property: 6532 Eastern Ave., NE, Washington, DC 20012.

Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

Date of first publication: September 24, 2015 Clarice R. Spence Personal Representative

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Administration No. 2015 ADM 1100 Frances Carter Johnson Decedent Tracy D. Davis Law Office of Tracy DuPree Davis, LLC 14616 Friendlywood Road, Suite 100 Burtonsville, MD 20866 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Robert Johnson, whose address is 23 Sheldrake Lane, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Frances Carter Johnson who died on January 2, 2015 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment 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 March 24, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 24, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: September 24, 2015 Robert Johnson Personal Representative

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Woodrow David Malone, Jr. Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Admarie O. Malone, whose address is 3317 Baker Street, NE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Woodrow David Malone, Jr. who died on June 19, 2015 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 24, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 24, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: September 24, 2015 Admarie O. Malone Personal Representative

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Date of first publication: September 24, 2015

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Deborah D. Boddie, Esq., whose address is 1308 Ninth Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20001, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Amelia McMrimmon who died on September 11, 2015 without a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 24, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 24, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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Rhonda Moore, whose address is 14 Anacostia Rd., SE, Apt. 2, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Beatrice Moore who died on February 23, 2015 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 1, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 1, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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LAMBERT from Page 28 some competition for attention, or differences of strategy, the efforts were largely complementary. The same could be said of the Women’s Movement, the Gay Rights movement, and other engines of social change. We owe them all a debt of gratitude.

In contemporary times, while members of both our communities have seen success at the highest echelons of society, we still lag behind whites. At 27.4 percent, black poverty is the highest in the nation, but at 26.6 percent, Hispanic are not much better off. Only 9.9 percent of white Americans live in poverty.

DANIELS from Page 28 ican candidate will have followed a very traditional route to spectacular high achievement – and have shown along the way he or she is “twice as good” as his or her non-Muslim American peers.

Of course, Carson knows this.

But his despicable comment is perfectly in keeping with his record of pandering to the worst attitudes that infect the GOP electorate, especially those White evangelicals who use his Black face and their shared reactionary attitudes masquerading as religious belief to shield their many prejudices from view.

That noxious combination is the basis of Carson’s appeal. It’s certainly not his policy prescriptions for domestic or foreign-policy matters. Despite having been in the presidency-seeking game for two years, the grasp he’s displayed of those issues is laughable.

Carson, like Donald Trump, can get away with this because a huge

CURRY from Page 28 Reagan, had the temerity to argue two years into the Obama administration “…The past two years have made one thing clear: Ronald Reagan was a far better friend to black Americans than Barack Obama has been.”

In fact, as I wrote earlier in this space, Reagan was one of the nation’s worst presidents on civil rights. Among other things, he moved to invalidate voluntary affirmative action programs and school desegregation plans, vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act and tried to undermine the independence of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights by firing three of its members.

Another Republican, Rich-

Incarceration and dropout rates tell a similar story.

It is all too easy to point fingers at someone who is supposedly “stealing our jobs,” but the facts simply don’t bear out these prejudices. Blacks and Hispanics alike would benefit from higher pay, stricter gun laws, a more robust education budget, and a host of other policies.

Washington is among eight big-city metropolitan regions in which minorities are now a majority. This demographic development presents an unprecedented opportunity for political and economic gains, if only our coalition can hold. This is exactly the reason why some politicians

seem to be deliberately causing divisions. Some commentators have argued that attacking Latinos actually benefits candidates seeking Black votes. What a ridiculous notion!

It is imperative that we stand together and demonstrate that we are smarter than those who seek to divide us. United We Stand: Permanecemos unidos!

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number of GOP voters have shown they care far less about the issues than about who can best spout the “politically correct” extremist ideology.

Carson’s trashing of Muslim Americans is, of course, the more despicable because he’s a Black American who, growing up when many White Americans didn’t consider Blacks deserving of citizenship, gained fame by recording several remarkable “the-firstBlack-to…” achievements. Now, parroting the racists of the past, he declares an entire American group doesn’t meet his definition of “real” Americans.

That Trump and Carson top the pecking order of the GOP presidential primary is a measure of how advanced the disintegration of the respectability of the Republican Party has become – a fact underscored by last week’s surprise announcement from House Speaker John Boehner that he’ll resign entirely from Congress next month. Boehner’s decision

headed off a move to topple him by the most extreme members of the House’s Republican Party majority – Representatives who think as Ben Carson does.

Finally, Carson’s bigotry also illuminates what that White-created political identity called “Black conservatism” really is: a tinny reflection of their masters’ voices. His words show there’s nothing within so-called Black conservatism that reflects the fundamental lesson Black Americans have drawn from the long, heroic Black freedom struggle: That is that you cannot with any degree of integrity claim liberty for your kind while denying it to others who are different.

His ugly hypocrisy proves that Ben Carson does truly reflect his White-conservative supporters.

But that doesn’t mean he’s an “Oreo.” No, indeed. Ben Carson’s problem is not that he’s “white” on the inside. His problem is that he’s White-racist on the inside.WI

ard M. Nixon, railed against Blacks and Jews in a 1973 taped conversation with his secretary, Rose Mary Woods.

Nixon said, “Bill Rogers has got — to his credit it’s a decent feeling — but somewhat sort of a blind spot on the black thing because he’s been in New York,” Nixon said. “He says well, ‘They are coming along, and that after all they are going to strengthen our country in the end because they are strong physically and some of them are smart.’ So forth and so on.

“My own view is I think he’s right if you’re talking in terms of 500 years,” he said. “I think it’s wrong if you’re talking in terms of 50 years. What has to happen is they have to be, frankly, inbred. And, you just, that’s

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the only thing that’s going to do it, Rose.”

In a May 13, 1971 conversation with top aides John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. Haldeman, Nixon said: “We’re going to [put] more of these little Negro bastards on the welfare rolls at $2,400 a family–let people like [New York Sen.] Pat Moynihan … believe in all that crap. But I don’t believe in it. Work, work– throw ’em off the rolls. That’s the key … I have the greatest affection for [blacks], but I know they’re not going to make it for 500 years. They aren’t. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they’re dishonest, but The Washington Informer

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According to the NAACP legislative report card, no Re

publican in the House or Senate earned a grade above an “F” when voting on issues deemed important to African Americans.

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MORIAL from Page 29 others; we receive love in order to give love.”

For more than 100 years, the National Urban League has dedicated itself to loving, visiting and encountering people and communities in their times of need. Our mission–like the mission of so many people of faith dedicated to changing lives and reforming the structures that compromise the quality of life of the most vulnerable – is to establish mechanisms and policies aimed at economic empowerment in order to elevate the standard of living in historically underserved urban communities. This cross-section of compassion and social justice has been, and continues to be, a defining element of our existence and struggle across a range of social justice movements.

The pope is visiting the United States at a pivotal time in our history, when justice and equality is facing challenges on many fronts. We face challenges in the constitutional right

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this country and it is Muslims. He said that President Barack Obama is one and is not even a citizen because he was not born in this country, and he said that he wondered what could be done about this “problem.”

Shortly after, former brain surgeon and fellow presidential candidate Ben Carson said he couldn’t stomach the idea of a Muslim president of the United States. Never mind that in Article Six Paragraph 3, the U.S. Constitution says explicitly, “… there shall be no religious test” for any office in this country.

I guess Carson didn’t know that American founding father and third U.S. President Thomas Jefferson (who owned a Holy Quran, the book of Islamic Scripture) was accused in his day of being some kind of Muslim or worse.

So, meanwhile, Pope Francis proceeds, during his visit, to pray with and feed the homeless; visit The Washington Informer

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“With close to 97 million African-Americans and Hispanics in the U.S. today, representing 33 percent of the total population, this consumer segment demands attention,” said Martha Montoya, vice president of the NAHP. “The buying power of the African-American and Hispanic communities, currently at over $2.3 trillion combined, continues to outpace the national average.”

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of citizens to vote; we are experiencing a rash of deaths of Black men at the hands of police officers who are rarely held accountable; equity in funding and resources for public school education remains a distant reality; and the economic gap that exist between the rich and the poor only continues to widen.

The National Urban League continues to tackle these ever-present issues with programs and policy recommendations that not only benefit communities of color, but our nation as a whole. Our education programs, like Project Ready, support academic achievement, civic involvement and the physical and emotional development of our young people. But it doesn’t end there, we also challenge our states and federal government to develop formulas to distribute resources to schools in a fair manner that does not discriminate based on what community you live in. Our workforce development programs deliver jobs and valuable employ-

ment services to the people who need it the most and encourage economic self-sufficiency. We have, and continue to fight on the frontline of the battles to rid our nation of pervasive criminal justice abuses.

The gospel of compassion has guided many into service beyond their own lives and self-interests. The gospel of compassion: to see, to feel and to do something, is a driver of change that pays no regard to differences in gender, color, community or faith. It is a call to minister and serve those who find themselves on the margins of any given society. We may all come from different traditions and cultures, but we should all be able to agree on our broader duty to provide access to a decent standard of living, protect the poor and promote justice. It is the message of the Francis and his Church, and I hope that it is a message that will continue to reach many more ears – and hearts.WI

and comfort prisoners, including accused murderers and rapists; blessed many, many infirmed persons; kissed many, many babies; apologized to Native Americans for the Catholic church’s “offenses” against indigenous people; promised a group of victims of sexual abuse by church leaders that such behavior would is no longer acceptable; met with Obama; addressed the United Nations General Assembly; and, by the way, became the first pope to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress, which he told to obey the Golden Rule, welcome immigrants as if they were their “own children,” and to become better stewards of the Earth’s climate and natural resources.

In his speeches, the pope quoted President Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and in his busy, four-day visit he met with and listened to more Black and Latino speakers than have ALL 16 Republicans in the months and months of jibber-jabber they’ve

been engaged in, which they call a presidential campaign.

Hmmm. What Pope Francis did in the U.S. is a lot like the stories of what Jesus did in the Bible. This prompted at least one amusing image I saw. It was drawn by Atlanta Journal cartoonist Mike Lukovitch, who pictured Pope Francis reciting his homilies —economic justice, immigration reform, climate change — with a bishop standing next to him revealing that “43 percent of Americans now believe you are a Muslim.” The joke is that’s the actual percentage of Republicans who believe President Obama is Muslim.

So, all the celestial bodies have aligned, and all the signs point to something big about to happen, right? Well there’s the Oct. 10 #JusticeOrElse commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March coming to Washington, but we’re not superstitious, are we? WI

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EXCLUDES: Deals of the Day, Doorbusters, Everyday Values (EDV), cosmetics/fragrances, electrics/electronics, floor coverings, furniture, mattresses, rugs. Also excludes: athletic apparel, shoes & accessories; Dallas Cowboys merchandise, gift cards, jewelry trunk shows, Macy’s Backstage merchandise/locations, New Era, Nike on Field, previous purchases, selected licensed depts., services, special orders, special purchases. Cannot be combined with any savings pass/coupon, extra discount or credit offer, except opening a new Macy’s account. Dollar savings are allocated as discounts off each eligible item, as shown on receipt. When you return an item, you forfeit the savings allocated to that item. This coupon has no cash value and may not be redeemed for cash, used to purchase gift cards or applied as payment or credit to your account. Purchase must be $50 or more, exclusive of tax and delivery fees.

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Free shipping with $99 purchase. Free returns by mail or in-store. U.S. only. Exclusions apply; details at macys.com/freereturns

➤ LOWEST PRICES OF THE SEASON IN EFFECT 9/30-10/4/2015, EXCEPT AS NOTED. “Our lowest price(s)” and “Lowest price(s) of the season” refer to Macy’s fall season from August 1 October 31, 2015 and may be lowered as part of a clearance.

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