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By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer Bank of America, Kaiser Permanente, Prudential Financial Inc., Target and Toyota have each provided $2 million in sponsorships to support the grand opening and inaugural events of the new Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Each company is a founding donor of the museum and their sponsorship not only includes support for the grand opening, but officials said it will would provide assistance for other needs they museum may encounter.

3The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is scheduled to open on Sept.

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Reverend Barber Leads Moral Revolution Tour to DC

Orange Begins Post-Council Gig at Chamber New D.C. Chamber of Commerce CEO Vincent Orange, fresh off a contentious exit from the city council, recently detailed his agenda for his first 100 days in office.

Officially assuming his role on Aug.15, replacing resigned CEO Harry Wingo and former CEO interim Margaret Singleton, Orange outlined his immediate initiatives.w "I intend to execute an assessment of the chamber, looking at personnel, making sure we have the right power in order to move this organization forward and to provide a return on any investments for our memberships," he said. "At the end of day, we

"These corporations have been longstanding, essential partners in the campaign to build this museum," Lonnie G. Bunch III, the founding director of the museum, said in a statement. "Now, their support as sponsors will enable the museum to host a public celebration that reflects the historic significance of this event: the opening of the first national museum dedicated to the African-American experience."

Bank of America's $2 million sponsorship is far from the company's only gift to the museum. Previously, the bank had announced the donation of historic images from its corporate art collection to the museum that featured 61 black-and-white photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe that also includes Daufuskie Island, a unique national land-

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Civil rights leader and organizer of the Moral Monday’s protests in North Carolina took to the pulpit in two churches in D.C. last Sunday to promote the Revival for a Moral Revolution of Values.

Early Sunday morning Reverend William J. Barber II spoke to a welcoming crowd at Shiloh Baptist Church in Northwest. His fiery sermon was aimed at provoking parishioners to join a national movement to protect democracy in America.

Later that day, more than 50 members of the clergy representing a broad spectrum of denominations and faiths joined hundreds of supporters who packed the sanctuary, the overflow room and spilled out onto the surrounding church

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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 the utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She Family and Youth Services by his role in feels children to be educatThea Maryland Food and jury DrugforAdministration [FDA] took aneed radical step last week, Center of the city of District recommending the Beltway that Sniper attacks in ed about domestic violence. blood donations in all 50 states and U.S. territories be Heights and the National Hook- 2002. Mildred Muhammad is “We have to stop being passcreened for the Zika virus.

Up of Black Women. the founder of After the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chilThe costly and time-consuming process to only be done for the most Marlow has written a book, an organization that helps the drentends about domestic violence,” dangerous infectious disease outbreaks and signals “Color Me Butterfly,” which is a survivors of domestic violence Marlow said.just how serious officials taking Zika threat. story about four generations of areand theirthe children.

Marlow has worked to break announcement as Six the outbreak in Florida to spread. domestic violence. The book is The “I lived in fear for comes six years. the cycle of abusecontinues in her family, Florida seen one ItZika-positive donation, the although it was inspired by her own experiences, years in has fearalready is a long time. is and is confident policies she isothe blood and those of her grandmother, lated notfrom an easy thing supply. to come out is pushing for will start that her mother and her daughter. of,” Petershe Marks, Center for Biologics Evaluation and said. director of the FDA’s process.

She said every time she reads Research Mildred Muhammad saiduncertainty said, “There is still much the policies nature and “I planregarding to take these to the excerpts from her book, she still extent people whovirus want to help a Congress and implore them to of Zika transmission.” can not believe the words came domestic must ofchange our laws,” said.blood The FDA violence guidance victim affects testing all donated wholeMarlow blood and from her. “Color Butterfly” be careful of U.S. how and theyterritories. go into Previously, “I will not untilhad these policomponents suchMe as plasma and platelets in the thestop agency only advised won the 2007 National “Bestwhere thethe victim's and understand are passed.” conducting screening in areas virus islife, actively spreading – as cies in Puerto Rico.

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Mayor Muriel Bowser said, “The best trip you’ll have to DCRA is the one you don’t have to make.”

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D.C. Attorney General Pushes for Statehood

By Lauren Poteat WI Contributing Writer With Washington, D.C., standing as the only national capital in the world to not have voting representation, the city's first elected attorney general is putting the District's push for statehood at the forefront.

On Aug 23, Democratic Attorney General Karl A. Racine held a conversation with WPFW-FM (89.3) "Inside Out" co-host Maria Leonard Olsen, urging citizens to vote for a proposition toward statehood.

"Washington, D.C., is the only capital of a country in the world that does not have a voice within the federal legislator," Racine said. "Though some people feel that the constitution associated with the statehood proposal may have been rushed or not as transparent, I think, generally, the reading of the new constitution reads quite well, and I think the officials did all they could in this time frame to get the public's input.

"This constitution is not without controversy, but I certainly encourage people to vote for statehood and the constitutional process,” Racine said.

According to the New Columbia Statehood Commission created in 2014 to coordinate district statehood initiatives, D.C. residents have desired for centuries to achieve statehood.

Racine said D.C. residents have been paying federal taxes and bearing all responsibilities associated with citizenship, without being an official state.

"Let me give you an example of how not having autonomy hurts the District of Columbia," he said. "Through the local legislative process the values of the residents of the District of Columbia are given voice — values

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related to things like choice in regard to family planning, values with respect to things like common sense gun laws, values in regard to things like health safety and HIV prevention. We should be able to make our own laws in those critical areas."

One longtime Southeast resident and one of the first 50 black students to attend Anacostia High School called into the radio show during the segment, questioning long-term outcomes of statehood and national voting rights in regard to black residents.

“Residents were not allowed to vote for presidents in the United States until 1961, when I first voted for President Kennedy," the caller said. "There is a lot of discrimination against D.C. residents, because D.C. was a majority black city. My question is, do you think after the city council and racial dynamics change, that people will be more apt to D.C. than before?"

Racine replied that D.C. is still currently a predominantly black town.

"The history of the limited representation that D.C. has is replete with incidents and statements about concerns about granting a predominantly African-American town with the same kind of rights that others have," he said. "I think that we are evolving to a place now where we can get beyond the question of race or suggestion that D.C. residents don't know how to run their business."

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What do you make of last week's racially charged bickering between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump?

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It seems like it's just a mudslinging contest to me, which is sad. The office of the presidency, I'd like to think, in this country is important, and for them to take the blue route, so to speak, says a lot about our candidates. Although one has experience, it seems like she's let Donald Trump bring her message down.

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Trump doesn't know what to say and Hillary Clinton knows better. I have never considered her a racist whatsoever, or a bigot. Trump just doesn't know what to say.

He is just trying to get attention for himself. Anything that can take the public's mind off of his taxes. To my knowledge, he has never been in the Black community to address any Black concerns, so to me ‌ Donald Trump will say anything.

VICENTE MASSEY-FLETCHER / ROCK HILL, SOUTH CAROLINA

I personally believe they are the lesser of two evils. There not making any ground with these comments. It's not social commentary, it's just childish. They are on a world stage and there is a way we want the world leaders to act, not like two teenagers going back and forth.

COLE CAMPBELLE / WASHINGTON, D.C.

I think it is making it more of a joke on Trump's part because his whole campaign to me is a joke. How do you come from being a businessman to trying to run for president? I don't understand how people follow him. I don't think Hillary is a bigot, I think she is just trying to win. He is firing at her, so she is firing back.

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I think that Donald Trump is pandering to the base and he did that with the other Republican candidates in the primary. He was allowed to do it, and now he's the nominee. Hillary Clinton needs to respond to him whether it's petty or not because his voice will be the only one heard. If you notice all of the networks will play it over and over again and therefore you have nothing from Hillary. She has to speak up.

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“Mark Burns: Black Pastor Speaks with Forked Tongue” If you’re a news junkie like me, you tend to tune in periodically throughout the day and particularly on the weekends when broadcasters like Roland Martin, Al Sharpton and my favorite and old friend from Miami, Joy Ann Reid give their unique, pro-Black perspectives.

Last weekend, Reid went toe-to-toe with Mark Burns, a Black pastor who has signed on as a Donald Trump surrogate. Burns has also been seen introducing the Republican presidential nominee at rallies across the U.S. I guess Burns is supposed to help Trump in his “Johnny come lately” attempts to persuade Black voters that he has our back and that he will do for us what no president ever has before – you know, making promises that he probably can’t or won’t keep.

But in Trump’s latest bombshell, he sent out a tweet with Hillary Clinton in blackface.

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...in Trump’s latest bombshell, he sent out a tweet with Hillary Clinton in blackface.

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There’s simply nothing funny about a stunt like that. And what’s more, Burns has gone on the defensive for Trump, saying it was just a publicity stunt, intended to show how Clinton really doesn’t respect Blacks.

Burns said in regards to the highly offensive tweet, presumably on behalf of his boss, Trump, “[it was] not at all my intention to offend anyone.”

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you honestly support someone that uses blackface as a means of communicating their message? Surely you know the history behind such racist propaganda. Or maybe you don’t care.

It’s tantamount to using a rope, from those days when Blacks were summarily lynched to keep us in line, and then saying it was all in fun.

I guess I can understand how a man like Trump can have certain ideas about how this country should be run – and where Blacks fit in that equation.

But I’m finding it difficult to understand Burns – a Black pastor – and how he can continue to suggest that we should trust him and his confidante, Donald Trump.

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ORANGE from Page 1 need to make sure that we are creating a business-friendly environment in D.C., where our members can process, grow and increase membership."

With an extensive background in business that includes being an attorney and an accountant, previously serving as a region vice president of Pepco Holdings Inc., Orange explained why his experiences make him more compatible for the job than others.

"This was a good opportunity for me to get back into the private sector and to be able utilize all of my skills and be associated with business," he said. "There are certain requisites for this role and I have the educational background and the experience for the need that the chamber had for new leadership."

Orange, who lost a re-elec-

tion bid for his at-large council seat in the June Democratic primary, had originally planned to simultaneously head the chamber until his term ended in January, but stepped down last month amid growing calls for his resignation.

Though Orange has only been in office two weeks, Chamber Chairman Carl Hairston strongly believes that the company's new CEO will deliver purposeful initiatives that positively affect existing members.

"Vincent has already hit the ground running in terms of his own personal network and understandings of the layout of D.C., adding new members in just a matter of weeks," Hairston said. "However, the focus here is to understand what are existing members need and want from the chamber. Vincent is focused on member needs as it pertains to doing business in

the District of Columbia and we really want to especially assist those members, being impacted by regulation."

In addition to its focus on membership, the company also looks to create a climate of change around other industry segments not previously extensively explored, Hairston said.

"We anticipate other changes that include staff openings, but I know that Vincent also wants to really focus on industry segments not considerably handled in the past, such as real estate developers and construction, which are big components of the D.C. economy and international business," he said.

The chamber will hold for its members a "Morning Fix" chat on Sept. 27 with Commissioner Stephen C. Taylor of the city's Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking to further discuss developing business. WI

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MUSEUM from Page 1 mark off the South Carolina coast inhabited by a community whose distinctive language and culture remained strongly influenced by its African heritage.

In addition to the portfolio of images, Bank of America contributed $1 million to the museum's capital campaign after making a $1 million grant during the early stages of the museum's establishment.

The original gift supported construction and the museum's "Save Our African American Treasures," a traveling program that teaches people to identify and care for the historically significant items they own, according to a press release.

"The National Museum of African American History and Culture will bring to life an essential part of America's heritage," said bank CEO Brian Moynihan, who also serves as a member of the museum's council.

"We're proud to contribute to that heritage so that others can experience the inspiration of this culture."

The bank is committed to creating awareness and support for the museum and Moynihan said they're proud to help preserve and honor African-American history and culture and the bank is proud to be a founding member and grand-opening sponsor.

Angie Thompson, a spokeswoman for Minneapolis-based Target, said the retailer is proud to have supported the museum since its inception and through the grand opening.

"We are a founding donor of the museum and we're thrilled to be a grand-opening sponsor of the museum," Thompson said. "In addition, Brian Cornell, Target's chief executive officer, serves on the advisory board of the museum and we've participat-

ed in the museum's advisory council since 2010.

"At Target, inclusivity is one of our core beliefs and we are committed to helping foster diversity among our teams and communities," she said.

"As part of this commitment, we are honored to support the mission of the museum to tell the story of African-American history and culture as a lens for understanding what it means to be American."

Since 1946, Target — which serves guests at 1,797 stores and online — has given 5 percent of its profits to communities, which today equals more than $4 million each week, officials said. The company has also provided early support for the museum's capital campaign in the amount of $5 million.

Prudential Financial, a financial services leader with operations in the

United States, Asia, Europe and Latin America, also has committed $2 million and is among the grand-opening sponsors of the museum. The company, which boasts a diverse workforce with employees who are committed to helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth through a variety of products and services, also donated $1 million in support of the museum's capital campaign.

"Prudential has focused its commitment to the museum around being a founding donor and one of five corporate sponsors during the grand-opening weekend," said Alicia R. Alston, vice president for global communications for Prudential.

"As part of Prudential's support, the company will have sole naming rights to the museum's The Hub, 'Power of Place' exhibition which explores the idea of place and region as a crucial component of the African-American community," Alston said. "The 'Power of Place' mirrors Prudential's 140-year commitment to its hometown of Newark, New Jersey. Prudential has seen firsthand the power that thriving cities can bring in helping to build financial security."

As part of its partnership with the museum, Prudential will continue important dialogue through the "Clement Alexander Price Lecture Series," which will run through Dec. 2018 and highlight Price's appreciation of African-American history, culture and art and his commitment to the museum and love of people of his hometown, Alston said.

"Prudential has continued to seek opportunities to address the challenges facing the African-American community," she said. "Since 2011, Prudential has published three editions of the African-American Finan-

cial Experience report, which takes an in-depth look at the challenges facing this community when it comes to achieving financial security."

Noted as one of the country's leading health care providers and notfor-profit health plans, Kaiser Permanente also counts among the five grand-opening sponsors.

Officials said the company, which also donated $5 million to the museum's capital campaign, is committed to providing high-quality, affordable health care services and to improving the health of its 10 million members and the communities it serves.

Toyota, a top automaker, has built more than 30 million cars and trucks in North America over the past 50 years and the company operates 14 manufacturing plants and employs more than 44,000 workers on the continent.

Officials said Toyota has provided $1 million to the museum's capital campaign and the company's $2 million grand-opening sponsorship recognizes the corporation's and the museum's parallel commitments to education and conservation.

The Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture officially opens on Sept. 24 with President Barack Obama and other dignitaries scheduled to be on

hand to dedicate the museum at an outdoor ceremony at 9 a.m.

The public is invited to gather on the Washington Monument grounds across the street from the museum to witness the ceremony on Jumbotrons. They'll also be able to take in a three-day festival.

The museum was established as the 19th Smithsonian museum by an Act of Congress through legislation signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2003.

Groundbreaking occurred in 2012 and the museum occupies a prime location in the nation's capital on the National Mall at the corner of Constitution Avenue at 14th Street, across from the Washington Monument.

The nearly-400,000-square-foot museum will be the nation's largest and most comprehensive cultural destination devoted exclusively to exploring, documenting and showcasing the African-American experience.

"African-American history did not stop with President Barack Obama's election, and so we won't stop either," Bunch said in a televised interview this week. "There will be plenty for us to talk about in the future, and we're looking forward to helping Americans understand the contributions of African-Americans to the rich tapestry of our culture." WI Gist Family Catering is very sympathetic of those who have recently had a loss.

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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY Baker: Head Start Abuse Allegations 'Embarrassing'

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Prince George's County Executive Rushern L. Baker III called recent abuse allegations plaguing the county's Head Start program "embarrassing," but reiterated his confidence in the program.

"We want parents to be assured as they are dropping their kids off to a Head Start program their children are going to be safe," Baker told reporters outside Glassmanor Elementary in Oxon Hill before visiting its Head Start classroom Monday, Aug. 29, the first day of school for the program, which caters to about 930 children ages 3 to 5 from low-income families to help prepare them for school. "The program is there and you are not going to lose resources and the men and women

in our school system are doing a great job."

The school voted Aug. 25 to relinquish control of the program after the Department of Health and Human Services informed school board Chairman Segun Eubanks earlier this month that the school system would lose more than $6 million in federal funding for the program.

Federal authorities decided to strip funds in the wake of allegations that a child was forced to mop his own urine, another walked home alone during school hours and two others were made to stand and hold heavy objects above their heads for an extended period.

Community Development Institute, a Denver-based organization which provide services nationwide for the federal Office of Head Start, will become the county's temporary provider this school year. The school

5Prince George's County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (right) and public schools CEO Kevin Maxwell speak to reporters outside Glassmanor Elementary in Oxon Hill on Aug. 29, the first day of school for the county's Head Start program. / Photo by William J. Ford

system will need to seek other funding resources to continue the program in 2017-18.

"We want to make sure after this temporary period, the Head Start program continues in Prince George's County and that it is enhanced," Baker said. "We need make the corrections so that this never happens again. We are going to get to the bottom of this."

Schools system CEO Kevin Maxwell said those accused of harming the children will be held accountable. He also gave a warning to current staff and teachers to report any incidents they see.

"We still have some people to whom we have not gotten through about their responsibilities for the conduct in a system that wants to

strive for excellence," he said. "Accountability will be there for them if they don't do what it is they should be doing."

According to a report from the Administration for Children and Families, a division of HHS, the school system received a letter in February about the potential of the program losing federal funds if its deficiencies weren't corrected.

After monitoring the county's Head Start program from April 1214 and June 10-17, the administration claims the school system did not follow the standards of conduct for staff to "use only positive methods of child guidance and not engage in corporal punishment."

The report states on June 15, a teacher and assistant teacher at

New, Renovated Rec Centers Coming to Prince George's

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Prince George's County has several multimillion-dollar projects to enhance its parks and recreation programs, particularly the community centers.

One $15.2 million structure that includes a gymnasium, small theater with stage and preschool center will open this fall in a neighborhood with a reputation of being one of the toughest in county: Kentland.

"We don't have anything in Kentland like this," said Antoinette Guerry, regional manager with the county's Parks and Recreation Department. "The array of programs talked about during community meetings ‌ is what everybody asked for. I want to see the facial expressions on the kids when they come and see it."

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ty Center will be the largest in the county at 38,000 square feet, which more than doubles the size of the nearby current center connected to the Prince George's Ballroom, built in 1923.

Inside the new center on Pinebrook Avenue, a spacious front desk welcomes visitors to the left and a fitness room with about three dozen pieces of equipment to the right.

Just beyond the fitness area, teens and seniors can relax inside a room with two 50-inch televisions, a foosball table and two pool tables.

Across the hall is a full-court gymnasium with six baskets, two scoreboards and bleachers with 130 seats and five additional handicap spots.

For those who aren't as athletic, up to 30 computers will be available inside a computer lab. Dance and theater camps are slated to take place inside the theater area that holds approximately 150 people.

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5Prince George's welcomes new Rec Centers. / Photo by William J. Ford specialist at the Kentland center, said there are plans to implement other activities and programs such as an intergenerational billiards tournament, Zumba classes and even double-dutch.

"We plan on having something for ages 3 to 99," he said inside the

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Besides Kentland, the county plans to open the $5.2 million Westphalia Community Center in Upper Marlboro next year.

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James Ryder Randall Elementary School Head Start Center in Clinton forced two children to stand and hold heavy objects above their heads.

About six months earlier on Dec. 17, a teacher at H. Winship Wheatley Early Childhood Center in Capitol Heights humiliated a 3-year-old boy after he urinated on himself by forcing him to mop it up, then taking a photo of him mopping and sending it to his mother.

ACF officials interviewed the county's Head Start program supervisor Feb. 17 and said the teacher in Capitol Heights no longer worked in a Head Start classroom.

The report states that the county trained staff on confidentiality and revised its cellphone policy to prohibit use of electronic devices while working with children in the classroom without special permission from the administration.

The accusations caused five school board members to ask for Eubanks and Vice Chairwoman Carolyn Boston to resign for not immediately informing the board of the situation.

Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Maryland) called for an independent investigation, urging parents with children who've experienced similar incidents to speak out.

County Councilwoman Mel Franklin (D-District 9) of Upper Marlboro released a statement Monday requesting a similar review of the Head Start program.

"We must fully understand why 'the ball was dropped' in this situation, hold the responsible individuals accountable, and most importantly, ensure that similar breakdowns do not occur again," said Franklin, whose two children attend Mattaponi Elementary in Upper Marlboro. "We must take all of the necessary steps of accountability to do right by these [school] professionals, our children and families and our communities."

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PGCPS BRIEFS Compiled by Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer

FAMILY INSTITUTE LAUNCH

PGCPS has developed the Family Institute, which will launch Sept.

10 to enhance the capacity of families and other learning guardians in support of the academic achievement of students.

The institute is made possible through the planning and guidance of the Increasing Family Strategy Team and the Family Institute Planning Task Force.

Research and collaboration with other districts, community conversations with PGCPS staff, families have provided a framework to a strategic approach, including: • free sessions across the district; • translation and interpretation of services; • child care opportunities; • evaluation of impact and strategy; and • internal staff professional development

EVENING SCHOOL REGISTRATION

Registration for the fall semester of the county's Evening High School is now open.

The last day for registration is Thursday, Sept. 1 from 6 p.m-8 p.m., though late-registration sessions will be held Sept. 3 from 9 a.m.-noon, and Sept. 6-7 from 6 p.m.-8 p.m.

Classes will begin Sept. 12. For more information, go to www1.pgcps.org/eveninghighschool.

BUCK LODGE TEACHER RECEIVES PRESIDENTIAL HONOR

Buck Lodge Middle School special-education teacher Elizabeth Lazaro has been selected as a recipient of President Barack Obama's Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

Lazaro, who teaches science at the Hyattsville school, is among 213 K-12 science and mathematics educators from across the country who were selected for the award by

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cial-education science teacher Elizabeth Lazaro / Courtesy of PGCPS

a panel of distinguished scientists, mathematicians and educators.

"The Presidential Award is a living testament in celebrating the accomplishments of students with significant cognitive disabilities," Lazaro said. "The award captures a milestone in bringing to the fore how these students are able to access the general curriculum with instructional modifications. Ultimately, the award recognizes special education students who do not give up on their dreams despite life's challenges."

Lazaro will receive a certificate signed by Obama during an awards ceremony on Sept. 8 and a $10,000 award from the National Science Foundation.

GARDENING GRANT

Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School in Laurel recently received a micro-grant from the state teachers' union to start the "Growing Minds Garden," for which participants volunteered their services for six sessions this summer. In the new garden, located in the middle school's atrium, students helped with planning, planting and maintaining the garden.

The new garden will promote healthy eating habits.

The Maryland State Education Association is funding dozens of micro-grants this school year to celebrate its 150th anniversary of supporting teachers across the state and to offer educators the opportunity to improve their communities through service projects. Each grant is worth up to $500.

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BUSINESS Media Legends Share Their Stories D.C. Youth Get Encouragement

By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer Notable trailblazers in the D.C. media community spoke recently to young adults with backgrounds similar to their own, with hopes of leading them on the right path.

D.C. luminaries Dewey Hughes, co-founder of WOLAM -- which eventually became Radio One -- and Glenn Harris, former NewsChannel 8 sports broadcaster, visited the Washington Opportunity Institute [WOI] Entrepreneurship Academy at the R.I.S.E. Demonstration Center in Southeast on Tuesday, Aug. 16.

"Our goal is for our students to see how entrepreneurs who came from similar backgrounds and neighborhoods were able to rise to the top of their professions by working hard, seeking mentors and taking advantage of oppor-

tunities when they were presented," said Michel Daley, WOI co-founder.

Before their visit, the students screened the film "Talk to Me," starring Don Cheadle, who played Ralph "Petey" Green, an outspoken ex-convict who became a well-known radio personality in the District.

Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor portrayed Hughes, who is credited with launching Green's career as his agent.

"It was an exceptional opportunity to show the film, and to have Dewey Hughes, one of the film's main characters, speak to and take questions from the students," Daley said.

Both Hughes and Harris are native Washingtonians and came of age in then-segregated Ward 8 neighborhoods. They attended public schools and took similar paths as troublemakers who eventually figured it out.

At one point Hughes worked over 20 low-paying jobs and hustled pool to make ends meet before becoming

5Media legend Dewey Hughes speaks to participants of the Washington

Opportunity Institute Entrepreneurship Academy at the R.I.S.E. Demonstration Center in southeast D.C. on Aug. 16. / Ronald Baker/Solid Image Photographic Service

a manager at WHUR, a Howard University-owned radio station.

Harris said that it was at WHUR where he met Hughes, who encouraged him to become an announcer.

"He launched my career as well," Harris said of his friend.

He ended up at Howard University after being expelled from a junior college for his bad attitude.

Before that, he reigned as a standout athlete at Anacostia High School in Southeast.

The duo credited their success to the ability to connect with people, not waste opportunities afforded to them and staying away from the people who were holding them back.

"It doesn't matter where you came from, it has no bearing on

where you're going," Hughes said to the students.

The WOI-Entrepreneurship Academy serves as a resource for unemployed youth between 20 and 24 years old, in partnership with the Department of Employment Services' Career Connections program.

The Academy is a nine-week program offering participants tools and resources to develop a business plan, form a legal and licensed entity, establish a banking relationship and join a business advocacy group.

"We are privileged to have local icons here to share their stories of struggle and hope, while sharing their love and support for these young folks who represent our future," said Tony Cord, WOI co-founder. WI

"It was an exceptional opportunity to show the film, and to have Dewey Hughes, one of the film's main characters, speak to and take questions from the students."

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Economics — Not Racism — Driving Obamacare Collapse

by William Reed According to any index you reference, black Americans continue to face serious disparities in health, education, employment and economic development. But if you ask President Barack Obama's diehard black supporters what he produced for blacks during his presiden-

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cy, many will say "he got us health care." Is blacks' praise and adoration over Obamacare something we may want to reevaluate?

Under President Barack Obama, America's first major health care reform in nearly 50 years was implemented, as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — often called "Obamacare" — is a long, complex piece of legislation aimed to extend health insurance coverage to that 15 percent of the U.S. population who receive no coverage from employers and are not covered by health programs for the poor and elderly.

Before — and since — Obamacare, there have been gaping health disparities between blacks and whites. African-Americans experi-

ence poorer health care access and lower quality of care than whites.

Race and ethnicity continue to influence patients' chances of receiving many specific health care interventions and treatments. Blacks are twice as likely as whites to suffer from high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, certain cancers and strokes and eight times as likely to be diagnosed with HIV. Blacks' level of satisfaction for and ringing endorsements of Obamacare indicates a lack of political sophistication. Those claiming Obamacare is a "good thing" need to check the facts: America's health care is provided by many distinct organizations and its success is governed by them. Facilities are largely owned and operated by private-sector businesses. Fifty-eight

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percent of community hospitals are nonprofit, 21 percent are government-owned, and 21 percent are for-profit. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. spent more on health care per capita ($8,608) and more on health care as percentage of its GDP (17.2 percent) than any other nation in 2011, 64.3 percent of which was paid for by the government. Nearly 65 percent of health care provision and spending comes from programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program and the Veterans Health Administration.

Ironically, African-Americans are less likely than other racial groups to see benefits under Obamacare. Obtaining coverage has been tougher for blacks, largely because they

disproportionately live in states that have not expanded Medicaid.

More than half of blacks live in 21 states. As a result, about 1.4 million black individuals are stuck in an eligibility gap where they make too little to afford coverage but too much to qualify for Medicaid.

Blacks are defensive because of the way Democrats and the Obama administration have played the race card regarding Obamacare.

Former Senate Commerce Committee Chair Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) maintained that opposition to Obamacare stems from GOP members thinking Barack Obama is "the wrong color." African-Americans have the highest

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these markets their first movie ticket free."

Atom officials said the app makes it easy for moviegoers to also check reviews and show times, conveniently coordinate movie outings

to pre-pay for concession items with just a few taps, officials said.

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Those seeking a free movie ticket simply need to sign up for Atom Tickets, Crystal said.

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By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer Atom Tickets, the first-of-its-kind theatrical mobile ticketing platform and app, has arrived in D.C. The app, which can be used to buy tickets for use at Regal Cinemas and AMC Theatres throughout D.C. and in Baltimore, can now be downloaded on iOS or Android.

Downloading on those devices will allow fans to receive their first ticket free.

Atom Tickets officials said though the free ticket offering is for a limited time, the app is permanent.

“The limited availability refers to the first free ticket offer," said Jackie Crystal, a spokeswoman for the company. "It's available at all Regal Cinemas and AMC Theatres in Washington and Baltimore. …

Atom Tickets is making the entire movie going experience faster, easier and more social than ever."

The company said its app allows for a hassle-free experience with the ability to discover new films, browse trailers, read reviews, invite friends, buy tickets and preorder concessions.

More than 70 major metropolitan areas across the United States now have expanded ticket service for moviegoers, including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Cleveland, in collaboration with leading theater chains AMC, Regal Cinemas and Studio Movie Grill.

Additionally, the growing list of cities with access to the app already includes Los Angeles, Atlanta, Nashville, Tennessee, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, San Diego, Kansas City, Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina.

"We're experiencing seismic growth with this wave of expansion to the East Coast, and we couldn't be more thrilled to introduce Atom

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NATIONAL Craig Kirby Helps Black Youth ‘Get the Swing’

By Michael H. Cottman Urban News Service Craig Kirby is on a mission: He is working hard to diversify golf — one black student at a time.

It’s not easy, said Kirby, 53, but it is rewarding.

His non-profit, “Golf. My Future.

My Game,” has exposed young African Americans to the predominantly white sport since 2014.

Kirby’s goal is to teach kids of color to play golf while helping them envision careers in that industry. Each of his 12-week classes enrolls about 80 students.

“We take our kids to golf courses and give them a whole new experience,” Kirby said in his Washington, D.C. office. “They get lessons, guidance and advice from experts in the

golf industry who look like them.”

Kirby provides life chances for young people on the golf course and behind the scenes, as everything from golf-club owners and professional caddies to golf-wear designers. He also educates them about college golf scholarships.

Among America’s 15,000 private golf courses, only four are blackowned, Kirby said. He takes his students to one of them, the Marlton Golf Club in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.

“We teach them the game of golf, the business of golf — from soup to nuts,” he said. “They learn everything — from the pro shop to the cart shop, to the back office and everything in between. It’s a complete golf experience. If kids don’t want to play golf professionally, there are plenty of great

jobs in the golf industry.”

American golfers are 77-percent male and 80-percent white, according to Dr. Michael Cooper’s 2015 Golf Diversity & Inclusion Report.

Among professional golfers, 75 percent are male and 86 percent are white.

Meanwhile, golf-industry workers are 90 percent male and 88 percent white.

“These numbers are not disappointing,” Kirby said with a smile.

“These are avenues of opportunities for kids of color.”

Cooper, 60, who has played golf for 48 years, said very little has changed in the industry since he first researched its demographics in 2003.

“If we can broaden our reach, we can crack through this barrier,” said Cooper, a Springfield College-Tampa Bay professor who collects diversity data for the World Golf Foundation.

“I like what Craig is doing. He brings a breath of fresh air into the golf industry.”

Sage Ware, 14, learned about golf when Kirby recently addressed her suburban-Maryland school.

“He introduced us to golf,” she said. “I liked what he talked about.

He mainly talked about courtesy and respect and told us about the sport. I might be interested in caddying.”

Kirby’s concept is not new. The First Tee has similar objectives. However, Kirby’s foundation is getting positive attention.

Why now?

“Because it’s time,” Kirby said.

“Here we are, 20 years after Tiger Woods’ win at the Masters. And be-

cause I feel in my spirit that this is what God has put me on this Earth to do.”

World Golf Foundation CEO Steve Mona said he enjoys giving Kirby a national platform to grow his program and introducing him to some of golf’s leaders.

“Traditionally, the golf industry has not been as diverse as we would like,” Mona said. “For the game to reach its full potential, it needs to look like America.”

“We want to make sure golf reflects the diversity of our country and, ultimately, it’s good for the game,” he said. “Craig is using golf as a vehicle to expose young people to careers in golf. He’s doing it for the right reasons.”

Kirby has an extensive political

background. He has worked with former president Bill Clinton, Virginia Senator Mark Warner, former New Orleans mayor Marc Morial and others.

“My background is in politics, so I believe strongly in the ground game — the door-to-door approach to spreading your message,” Kirby said.

“I am taking all that I have learned within that arena and updating it to fit the way people communicate today.”

He said he was encouraged to continue his work, in part, after a friend described the importance of exposing young African Americans to golf — and keeping them off the streets.

“He said kids can’t get shot on a golf course,” Kirby said. “He was absolutely right.” WI

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The Importance of Early Childhood Education

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer A published report from Oklahoma digital news service NewsOK noted an emerging scientific and policy consensus that closing the school achievement gap between rich and poor will require educators and policymakers to focus on the first five years of life.

And, because neuroscience is increasingly demonstrating this has an outsized impact on a child's prospects as an adult, it's a sizeable challenge.

The 2011 U.S. Census Bureau survey reports that over 23 percent of children under five are cared for by organized day care facilities, as opposed to in home care by friends or relatives. And child development experts are increasingly concerned about the quality of care this rising generation receives.

Late in 2015, the Baltimore Community Foundation announced a $6 million contribution to the expansion of Judy Centers to help provide

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early childhood education and support services to 5,000 Baltimore City children and their families.

At the time, a goal was set to have 90 percent of preschool-aged children ready for school in Baltimore by 2017.

The percent of Baltimore children measured as school-ready grew from 28 percent in 2002 to 76 percent in 2013. According to the 2013 Maryland Measurement of School Readiness, in Baltimore City, between 85 and 93 percent of children with a Judy Center — or early childhood education — experience were ready for kindergarten at age five, compared with 76 percent of children citywide.

"We strongly believe that the only way our society is going to succeed over the long term is to ensure that every child, regardless of economic standing, has the same opportunity for an excellent education," said George Sherman, a local philanthropist who, with his wife Betsy, also provided significant funds for Judy

Centers in Baltimore.

For some time, the District of Columbia has been recognized as a national leader in providing universal access to preschool for 4- and 5-yearolds, an investment designed to improve school readiness and narrow a rich-poor achievement gap that is apparent by kindergarten, according to a published report in 2014.

But, according to a study by Child Trend that was commissioned by the Bainum Family Foundation, the achievement gap starts much earlier — in infancy — and the city wasn't prepared to deal with it.

The importance of early childhood education can easily be seen in numbers — Ready at Five, a statewide organization dedicated to elevating school readiness for all Maryland children, and partners with the Maryland State Department of Education/MSDE, has found that just 45 percent of students demonstrate the skills and behaviors needed to fully participate and succeed in kindergarten and that the skills and

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5 There's an added emphasis on early childhood education. / Courtesy photo

knowledge children have upon entering school are strongly predictive of future academic success and children, who enter kindergarten behind their peers, are unlikely to catch up.

Further, they found that children who enter school at higher levels of readiness, are healthier and are less likely to become involved with the criminal justice system and drop out of school.

These children experience higher levels of education and typically have higher earnings throughout their

lives. Finally, Ready at Five found that children that attend Pre-K programs are better prepared for school than those in home or informal care the year prior to starting kindergarten.

The importance of an early childhood education was further underscored when, on Aug. 13, Celebree Learning Centers, a dedicated leader in early childhood education and development, hosted its annual open house at all 23 of its locations, includ-

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Uber DC Provides Update on Pooling Efforts Alternative to SafeTrack Helps Communities

5 Tom Hayes, general manager of Uber DC, provides an update on Uber's pool service in the Washington area. / Photo by Shevry Lassiter

By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer Uber DC gave an update Monday on its Pooling Together program, a yearlong initiative launched to offset transportation inconveniences caused by Metro's massive SafeTrack maintenance overhaul.

The ride-sharing company's local representatives said the program is responsible for a 25 percent growth in ridership in the Washington met-

ropolitan area.

Uber DC General Manager Tom Hayes said the service now accounts for one-quarter of the company's entire business in the area.

Since the start of Pooling Together, uberPOOL has saved 2.3 million miles of driving, more than 46,000 gallons of gas and avoided more than 450 tons of carbon dioxide, compared to driving alone, according to the company.

Roughly $10 million has been dedicated to help alleviate congestion and keep options affordable, expansion of uberPOOL to the region and implemented discounts up to 80 percent cheaper than uberX. Also, the maximum fare for Pool of $5-$7 was set for areas affected by the second phase of Metro's SafeTrack project.

During August, the POOL Pass program allowed riders to plan ahead and lock in low rates for the entire month for an upfront fee.

By the numbers: - During Phase 1 of SafeTrack, requests for uberPOOL increased

more than 10 percent during commuting hours within walking distance of stations in Northern Virginia.

- After announcing $5 and $7 fares, uberPOOL commute requests increased 34 percent within walking distance of Metro stations in Ward 7 and Prince George's County during Phase 2.

- Despite a 25 percent increase in demand for rides across the region, the average ETA remained under 4 minutes, ensuring an uninterrupted commute for those who relied on Uber for a ride to work.

- Twenty-seven percent more people completed their first trip as a driver with Uber during the initial stages of SafeTrack, compared to the preceding two months.

"By expanding the availability of the uberPOOL option and implementing steep discounts of up to 80% less than an uberX ride, the number of shared rides with uberPOOL into the city during morning commute times more than tripled," Uber said in a statement.

"And today, uberPOOL rides account for more than a quarter of all Uber trips in the region." WI

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H E A LT H Helping Students with Disabilities Return to School

By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer A new school year has arrived, and with it, renewed anxiety among teachers, parents and students alike.

But for children with autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the challenges of beginning a new school year can

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prove traumatic.

"Children with autism as well as those with ADHD often have difficulty with change," said Beth Raiola, a board-certified behavior analyst who specializes in autism and ADHD. "Change in routines, change in scheduled, change in going from one activity to another as well as change from one location to

another."

Raiola said it's helpful to prepare for those kinds of changes by having simple pictures that show what will be happening next and, if possible, correlating those photos with a calendar.

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have been identified with autism, a complex disorder of brain development that are characterized in varying degrees by difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors.

The CDC said more than 10 percent of children in the United States between the ages of 5 and 17 have been diagnosed with ADHD, a brain disorder marked by an ongoing pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development.

For those students, a big part of a successful first week of school is preparation and establishing a routine, experts said. For parents, being involved is also vital.

"Before the new school year begins, contact the school to ask for a tour and, with permission, take pictures of the school, playground, classroom and teacher to create a picture book for your child," Kathryn Smith, a nurse care manage in the Boone Fetter Clinic at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, wrote in a blog in collaboration with members of the Autism Parent Advisory Board.

Parents should arrange to meet with school principals to discuss how the staff works with children on the autism spectrum, Smith said.

The biggest challenge is redirecting children with autism and ADHD, she said.

Raiola said children with less ability to easily transition often feel overwhelmed.

"For some children on the spectrum, as well as those with ADHD, they tend to find the change in sensory stimulation in the environment a huge challenge," she said.

Using a pictorial schedule and creating a task list of activities they need to perform such as packing their backpacks, brushing their teeth, and putting on prepared school clothes can also be helpful, she said.

"Children who are able, can check

off those tasks on their own and be given a reward such as a sticker or a quarter by their caretaker," Raiola said.

Additionally, bullying must immediately be addressed, she said, noting that it's difficult for those children who regularly pick on others to show compassion across the board, she said.

Children with deficits like those on the autism spectrum or with ADHD may be targets. Raiola emphasized that tolerance is a subject that needs to be modeled by adults and continually taught and reinforced at home, at schools and in communities.

"Those children who do not have a diagnosis, as well as their parents, can be taught to be societal helpers," Raiola said. "In other words, it is important for families to learn that there are others in the community who really could use their support."

The most successful programs use a team approach that ensures each student is considered as an individual, according to a transition tool kit provided by Autism Speaks, regarded as the world's leading autism science and advocacy organization.

One student with autism can have very different strengths, needs and challenges from another, Autism Speaks officials noted in the tool kit.

Staff should be encouraged to seek out those who know the student well, including teachers, therapists and families.

"Education, awareness, handson involvement, being taught the strengths and limitations of others, and engaging parents in programs that facilitate tolerance, can build a stronger community where people are groomed to look out for one another," Raiola said. "This will break down barriers and teach children a sense of responsibility for their neighbors." WI

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Clinton Releases Mental Health Policy Agenda WI Staff Report

Hillary Clinton recently announced her comprehensive plan to support Americans living with mental health problems and illnesses. Recognizing that nearly a fifth of all adults in the United States — more than 40 million people — are coping with a mental health problem, Hillary’s plan will integrate our mental and physical health care systems. Her goal is that within her time in office, Americans will no longer separate mental health from physical health when it comes to access to care or quality of treatment. Hillary has been talking about mental health policy throughout her campaign, since hearing directly from American parents, students, veterans, nurses, and police officers about how these challenges keep them up at night.

Hillary will convene a White House Conference on Mental Health during her first year as President. In addition, her comprehen-

sive agenda on mental health will: n Integrate our nation’s mental and physical health care systems so that health care delivery focuses on the “whole person,” and significantly enhance community-based treatment opportunities. Hillary’s plan will foster integration between the medical and behavioral health care systems (including mental health and addiction services), so that high-quality treatment for behavioral health is widely available in general health care settings. Hillary will expand reimbursement structures in Medicare and Medicaid for collaborative care by tasking the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to create and implement new such payment models. n Promote early diagnosis and intervention, including launching a national initiative for suicide prevention. The overall rate of suicide increased by 24 percent between 1999 and 2014, and is now at its highest level in 30 years. Hillary will direct all

relevant federal agencies, including Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Education, to research and develop plans for suicide prevention in their respective settings, and create a cross-government initiative headed by the Surgeon General to coordinate these efforts. n Enforce mental health parity to the full extent of the law. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, which Hillary co-sponsored, requires that mental health benefits under group health plans be equal to benefits for other medical conditions, and the Affordable Care Act requires insurance plans in the individual and small group markets to offer mental health coverage as an essential health benefit.

But while the right laws are on the books, they are too often ignored or not enforced. n Improve criminal justice outcomes by training law enforcement officers in crisis interven-

tion, and prioritizing treatment over jail for low-level offenders. As many as 1 in every 10 police encounters may be with individuals with some type of mental health problem, and our county jails today house more individuals with mental illness than our state and local psychiatric hospitals. She will dedicate new resources to help train law enforcement officers in responding to conflicts involving persons with mental illness, and increase grant funding to support law enforcement partnerships with mental health professionals. Finally, she will work to strengthen mental health services for incarcerated individuals and ensure continuity of care so that they get the treatment they need, which will improve outcomes for them after they reenter society and will reduce recidivism. n Improve access to housing and job opportunities. As president, Hillary will expand community-based housing opportunities for individuals with mental illness

and other disabilities. Hillary will launch a joint initiative between the Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and HHS to create supportive housing opportunities for thousands of people with mental illnesses and disabilities, who currently reside in or are at risk of entering institutional settings. She’ll also expand HHS’s “Transforming Lives Through Supported Employment” program, which already assists states and communities in providing supported jobs to people with mental illness. n Invest in brain and behavioral research and developing safe and effective treatments. Hillary believes we need a pioneering, multi-sector effort to transform our knowledge of this field—from mapping the human brain to generating new insights into what drives our behavior to investing in clinical and services research to understand the interventions that work best and how to deliver them to patients. WI

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SE Mom Fights For Son's High School Football Status DC State Athletic Association Responds

By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer One mom will stop at nothing to make sure her son can play football for Ballou High School for one last season.

Stacy Yarborough believes 18-year-old senior Ray Tyree Yarborough was unjustly declared ineligible by the District of Columbia State Athletic Association [DCSAA] to participate in sports, which she says will hamper his

scholarship and collegiate options.

"When we first started this process, I wanted to know if he would be able to play football his last year," Yarborough said. "They told me the eight-semester rule means the child cannot retain a grade in high school in order for them to play sports, but they said there is a special waiver I could put in."

Yarborough then inquired about a waiver through DCSAA where she saw that one of the circumstances listed included home-

lessness.

"Back when my son was in ninth grade we became homeless," she said. "I lost my job, so I was staying at different people's houses, so I had to get him to a place until I got myself together."

The instability throughout the school year led to Tyree having to repeat his freshman year.

"We filed the waiver in March of 2016. I didn't receive a call from the athletic department until June the 7th. They sent me an

email and they said the panel is going to discuss my son's case on June 9th, and he doesn't have an advocate, so I asked if I could be his advocate and they said yes."

On the day of the hearing Yarborough contends that she never received a call as promised.

Clark Ray, DCSAA executive director, said that "for whatever reason there was a misconnection, but before the panel made any decision, I know the chair did connect with the mother and they had a conversation before the panel issued their decision."

The following Monday she received a letter stating that Tyree was ineligible because he repeated the ninth grade.

"I tried to go for an appeal, but he would not accept the appeal and told me to get a lawyer," she said. "Why do I need to get a lawyer when all the information you put into the final decision is false?

It's more than just playing ball — it's an obligation that he has lived up to.

"He has a brother that is deceased and another brother that is incarcerated and these are the things they have been teaching him all this time," Yarborough said. "They want him to play football, get out of the District, go to college and gain something.

He feels as though he's letting them down. They have worked so hard to move him forward."

But Ray said the eight-semester limit is no different than rules in most jurisdictions across the country.

"When you enter the ninth grade for the first time, your clock starts running," he said.

"Whether you're in school or not, it runs consecutively. After those eight semesters are up, you are no longer eligible on the ath-

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letic side. The student in question has exhausted his eight-semester eligibility."

When the request for a waiver came in, Ray assembled a three-person athletic appeals panel that convened via teleconference.

"In our process on the administration side, they have the final decision," he said. "There is no more appealing internally. They would then have to seek relief from the court system, if they so chose."

In the meantime, Tyree keeps his spirits high by helping out the team and mentoring freshmen players.

"Sometimes I may cry, but my team still wants me around, so I'll be around," he said. "I could play football in other places, but I want to play for this particular school. I have a bond with the team — we are like family."

As a junior Tyree played wide receiver and free safety. Although he came off the bench last season, he had high hopes for this year.

"After I found out I couldn't play, I broke out in tears," he said. "It feels different not being able to play football. I was going to be a starter on both sides of the ball this year. Last year I wasn't a starter but when I did get in the game I made a difference."

Yarborough says that whether Tyree plays football or not, he will go to college. For his part, he says he knows exactly where he wants to go.

"I want to go to Saint Augustine's University in North Carolina. The football team is nice, it's away from D.C. and my father's mother lives there, so it's like another home for me," he said.

For now, he'll have to come to terms with the fact that school regulations have likely ended his time in prep football — a reality his mother said is harsh and unfair.

"I asked them, 'Are you telling me that any child in the District of Columbia, if they fail a grade or repeat a grade that they can't play sports? Where does it state that?'" she said. "I feel as though if you are a high school student and you have the grade-point average, you should be able to play any sport that you want, and they told me no."

Successful appeals at the DCSAA are hard to come by, as many District parents have found out.

"We've been around for four years and on short-call memory, there may have been one appeal that was approved," Ray said.

"And that was for a student-athlete who had child and family issues from another state. In most cases a waiver, or a hardship waiver, is very hard to get.

"I would tell you that for me the rules are pretty red and blue — I am going to always try to apply them evenly," he said. "I did not support this waiver because the student-athlete had an opportunity to play for eight semesters already and for whatever reason he was not able to finish his school in that time.

"Athletics is a privilege, it's not a right," he said.

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EDUCATION African University Pushes for Global Black Research

By Lauren Poteat WI Contributing Writer The University of Cape Town, Africa's premier educational institution, is looking to expand its African-based research domestically and internationally.

As the only African institution currently a member of the International Alliance of Research Universities, established in 2006, joining other institutions such as Oxford and Yale, with a mission to globally educate future world leaders, UCT also looks to increase domestic and international black student enrollment.

In hopes of bringing awareness to the university's mission, Max Price, vice chancellor of UCT since 2008, spoke openly about the university's research goals.

"At UCT, we plan to increase the amount of research that comes from the continent that will in turn increase global research, signaling to the world that there are strong research universities within the African continent," he said. "We also plan to internationalize our numerous activities, increase the number of applicants that come here, increase the number of our students that study abroad and increase our research partnerships domestically and internationally."

In 2015, in a move to bring those research plans to fruition, UCT and 14 other African universities established the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), with a mission to create African research excellence that will promote continent development.

Every university in the alliance is selected based upon research efforts that coincide with domestic and international publications, the impact of these publications, the number of times each article is cited and the number of doctorate graduates every year.

Price, the current chairman of the ARUA, said UCT has the highest rank for all criteria among all

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joined universities and shared his hopes for the university's successful impact.

"In Africa, there are almost no private universities that are significant research universities," he said. "We are are the trigger in the ARUA to signal to the government and African Union, that we have 20 universities throughout the continent, that are or have the potential to compete globally in research."

Another pertinent focus for the institution is the continued devel-

opment of academic and resident programs to enrich, encourage and support African students.

The university's vice chancellor also gave attribution toward developing academic programs.

"A lot of our students come from educational systems that do not prepare them academically for a university setting, so we designed academic programs that do not just look at marks or admission tests, but provide different ways of assessing student potential to help them pass," he said. "A lot of African students live in surrounding townships that reflect apartheid geography and live quite far from the city center where white students live closer, so we want to make sure African students are in resident programs and we intend to build more to accommodate them all."

With the university adopting themes from Nelson Mandela in their mission statement and Graca Machel, Mandela's widow, acting as chancellor of UCT, Price strongly encourages black American students to apply to UCT, with intentions of rediscovering some of their ancestral history.

"I would think for African-Amer-

5 A view of the University of Cape Town. / Courtesy photo

icans there should be a particular appeal to understand the continent to which some of their ancestors came from and to understand the politics of the continent, the economics, the challenges and the issues of identity, which are as fraught in Africa as they are in the States," he said. "We have an equivalent to the Black Lives Matter campaign on our campuses and people might

feel some interest in understanding that the way that Africa is often portrayed as being uncivilized until colonialism took over or ongoing reside that no knowledge or discoveries come out of Africa is false and that they will discover that there are great heritage and intellectual contributions being made from the continent."

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D.C. Author Writes For Kids to See Themselves

Will Visit, Share Story with Students

5 Author Jason Reynolds (Courtesy photo)

By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer An African-American author is returning home to D.C. to give free books to thousands of students in low-income areas of the city.

Award-winning writer Jason Reynolds will bring his latest story, "Ghost," along with other titles to young children around the District

for a discussion and to share his journey.

"My journey was definitely not a traditional journey," Reynolds said. "I wasn't a kid who grew up reading. My passion when I was younger was poetry. The reason why I loved poetry was because of rap lyrics. Rap lyrics introduced me to poetry."

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youth, he would go to record stores, buy cassette tapes and read the liner notes, which he said is how his understanding of language and written word changed his perspective.

"They were telling the stories of people who would otherwise be ignored," he said. "The stories of kids who grew up in communities like mine weren't being written in many books during the 1980s and early 1990s, so poetry was my way in."

Reynolds said that in his mid20s, Christopher Myers, son of author Walter Dean Myers, encouraged him to write prose, a form of language that has no formal metrical structure.

"Walter's work was the work that I felt like gave me permission to use my natural voice, to say that there is value that I already possess simply in being who I already was," he said. "I think young people aren't told that enough.

"If I could figure out how to use my natural voice, my natural tongue on the page perhaps it could connect with people who felt like me, spoke like, look like me, appreciate the culture that is mine or live in an urban environment," he said.

First Book, a nonprofit social enterprise that has distributed more than 150 million books to children in need, partnered with Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing to distribute 20,000 of Reynolds'

books.

Along with his other titles such as "When I Was the Greatest," "The Boy in the Black Suit" and "As Brave As You," his newest release will be given to First Book's members, a network of educators exclusively serving disadvantaged children.

"I just want young people to read my books and feel cared for, feel safe, feel like there's someone else in the world who understands -- or at least acknowledges -- your existence," Reynolds said.

Getting Reynolds into classrooms comes as part of First Book's Stories for All Project, a market-driven initiative that brings thousands of diverse books featuring different cultures, ethnicities, languages, family structures, abilities and experiences to the mainstream.

"The impact of Simon & Schuster's very generous donation ensures that First Book can fulfill its mission to provide the highest quality new books and educational resources to kids in need," said Kyle Zimmer, president and CEO of First Book.

"Jason's inspiring personal story, along with his powerful books, can open up the world and engage kids in reading by allowing them to see themselves in the books they read.

We could not be more proud to partner with Simon & Schuster and Jason on this generous donation."

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DCPS

BRIEFS Compiled by Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer

SCHOOLS HOLIDAY

Schools will be closed Monday, Sept. 5 for Labor Day. All DCPS buildings will be closed.

FREE MEALS FOR STUDENTS

The DCPS Eats! Program ensures that students receive nutritious meals while at school.

The program includes school breakfast, after-school snack and after-school supper meals — all free for all DCPS students.

SAFETY ACADEMY AT ANACOSTIA

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Southeast launched an academy this fall to prepare students for careers in public safety.

Students in the program will work with and shadow Metropolitan Police Department officers, as well as have the opportunity to learn more about law enforcement through internships.

By the time they graduate, students will have earned six credits toward becoming a cadet through the MPD Cadet Program at the University of the District of Columbia Community College.

SUMMER STUDIES ABROAD

Roughly 400 students studied abroad this summer in places such as Costa Rica, France and China for immersion, culture and service learning. They made empanadas in Argentina, went swimming in Spain and built homes in Ecuador.

Among those participating was Ronald Simpson from McKinley Technology High School in Northeast.

"My trip to Barcelona was amazing," Ronald said. "I got the chance to experience a new culture and explore a foreign city. I enjoyed looking around the city and seeing how unique every-

thing was. I saw many unique tattoos, hairstyles, clothing, and artwork throughout the city. My tour guide made the trip even more fun by having so much energy and taking the time out of her day to make sure we had a good time in Barcelona.

"Before this trip, I had no intention of studying abroad," he said. "Now, I am looking forward to going abroad to study a different culture in college. Being able to study abroad at this age is uncommon, expensive, and a luxury, so I appreciate DCPS for giving me this opportunity. I will never forget this experience."

SCHOOL PARTNERS

DCPS has welcomed about 30 new agencies and organizations to the 2016-17 "School Partners" program. The Partners are committed to work with DCPS to make sustainable impact on a shared goal around student success.

Overall, partnerships are an integral component to school and student success and DCPS is fortunate to have partners who sponsor school initiatives, invite students to events, and implement valuable programs.

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student at McKinley High School in Northeast, is among DCPS students who studied abroad this summer. / Courtesy of DCPSS

SUCCESSFUL SUMMER INTERNSHIPS

During the summer, more than 500 high school students were placed in paid, career-ready internships in the D.C. area working for employers such as CareFirst, the Washington Nationals, NASA, Marriott and the White House.

The students got up-close, real-world experience in profes-

5 The DCPS Eats! Program

provides nutritious meals for all students. / Courtesy of DCPS sional settings from their internships in the fields of information technology, engineering, hospitality, biotechnology, government and more.

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Support the Freedom-Fighting Legacy of George E. Curry

By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. The freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement of Black people in America and throughout the world has lost another courageous iconic, freedom fighter journalist, leader: George Edward Curry.

The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) salutes, respects, and supports the freedom-fighting legacy of George Curry.

NNPA publishers, editors, journalists, and photographers from across the nation attended the “Celebration of Life” home-going service for George Curry in Tuscaloosa, Alabama at Weeping Mary Baptist Church on Saturday, August 27, 2016.

George at the age of 69 died from heart failure on August 20, 2016 in Takoma Park, Maryland.

George Curry was our beloved Editor-In-Chief of the NNPA News Wire Service and after decades of outstanding contributions and service to the Black Press in America, George evolved to be admired by fellow journalists as the “Dean of Black Press Columnists.” As a foot soldier

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in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, I personally have been blessed to have known and worked with George Curry as a fearlessly effective freedom fighter.

If I could find one word in the English language to describe the professional and brotherly tenacity of George Curry, it would the word “courageous.” He used his pen and his wit to openly challenge injustice in the face and presence of oppression. George

had the courage to both write and speak truth to power without compromise of principle or ethics.

The Reverend Jesse Jackson and The Reverend Al Sharpton both travelled to Tuscaloosa to pay tribute and to eulogize the memory and legacy of George Curry. Rev. Jackson affirmed, “George was a freedom fighter.”

Dr. Charles Steele Jr, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), also a native of Tuscaloosa and lifelong friend of George paid tribute to Curry’s leadership and activism as a “freedom movement” journalist.

In the eulogy rendered last Saturday, Rev. Sharpton emphasized, “"George never knew he was much more of a minister to me than I ever was to him……

George Curry not only helped to mentor and bring along students and the next generation, but he also did it to many of us that you see out there on the front line."

Sharpton concluded that Curry was "part of a long tradition, but he was one of a kind."

Roland Martin, accomplished

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news anchor for TV One and former editor of the Chicago Defender, as well as a lifelong colleague of George Curry, passionately stated, “There was no newspaper, no magazine George Curry could not have worked for, but he chose to work in black media……. He chose to do that because he said there has to be an independent voice that is unapologetic, that thinks about black people from the moment they wake up to the moment they go to sleep."

The passing of George Curry now raises the question of “Who will take his pen?” Who will step forward to keep the freedom-fighting legacy of George Curry alive today and into the future? Before George died, he had established www.EmergeNewsOnlinue.com.

The NNPA supports George’s legacy and we encourage all to support the efforts to ensure that what George envisioned and work hard to establish will continue to grow and expand with success in the marketplace.

In my remarks on behalf of the NNPA at the Celebration of Life of George Curry, I shared that, "I have been in the presence of Malcom

X. I have been in the presence of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I have been in the presence of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. I’ve been in the presence of some of our giants, male and female, but I want to say on this public record, in my life, I’ve never met a brother that’s had more courage than George Curry."

As we face the immediate future, let us all first be thankful that we had the opportunity and blessing to work with George Curry.

But we must show our gratitude by making sure that his courageous example of journalism continues. There is an African proverb that says “Freedom fighters do not in spirit pass away, their spirit lives to inspire the next generation of freedom fighters.”

We all know that George Curry supported mentoring and guiding the development of young journalists who are committed to the Black Press. Such is the case that the NNPA is now working with our Discover the Unexpected (DTU) NNPA Journalism Fellows. May these young journalist and others be guided by the great example set by George E. Curry.

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AS ONE JOURNEY ENDS, ANOTHER BEGINS. CONGRATULATIONS!

Eight Howard University students were selected to take the journey and DISCOVER THE UNEXPECTED—a first-ever fellowship program sponsored by the all-new 2016 Chevrolet Malibu in partnership with the National Newspaper Publishers Association. Congratulations to our brilliant fellows! Thank you for taking us on this wonderful journey. May you continue to discover new roads that help you shatter perceptions and inspire us all. #discovertheunexpected

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Two Campuses ‘Battle for the Real HU’

Friendly Rivalry Enjoyed by Athletes in All Sports at Howard and Hampton

(Photo courtesy Events DC)

While this year’s AT&T Nation’s Football Classic® aims to settle bragging rights on the football field, it’s safe to say the event will be more than just a football game.

In fact, with the excitement building around the game that will be played Saturday,Sept. 17 at RFK Stadium, the “Battle for the Real HU” already extends throughout the athletic department and across the entire campuses of Howard University and Hampton University.

“It’s a friendly [rivalry] to a certain extent,” said Tamia Dockery, a sophomore on the Howard volleyball team, which swept a pair of matches against Hampton, dropping just one game. “If you’re on social media, everybody is talking about each other, [asking] ‘who is the real HU?’” The culmination of the rivalry – at least during the fall semester – will be in the AT&T Nation’s Football Classic®.

“It will be the second-biggest event of the fall, next to homecoming,” said Howard assistant men’s basketball coach Keith Coutreyer, a former assistant at Hampton who’s quite familiar with the Battle for the Real HU. “The Classic is probably the most well-attended event we’ll have.”

When Hampton and Howard meet, there are plenty of people watching.

Dockery remembered last year’s volleyball matches against Hampton drawing spirited crowds.

In men’s basketball where Hampton has won the past 14 games in the series, the teams drew a near-capacity crowd of 2,700 for their game at Burr Gymnasium (tied for Howard’s largest home crowd of the season) and 6,943 at Hampton Convocation Center (the second-highest attendance for a Hampton home game in 2015-16).

“The rivalry is always there, the battle to see who is the real HU,” said Howard senior James Daniel III, a Hampton native who led the nation in scoring last season, averaging 27.1 points per game. “Of course, Howard has always been the real HU since the beginning. I can guarantee Hampton does not want to see Howard in basketball this year.”

Of course, one might surmise that given their lengthy winning streak in the series, the Pirates cannot wait to get on the court with Howard.

But before that happens – Feb. 11 at Hampton is the teams’ only meeting this season – the universities must battle it out at RFK Stadium.

“Walking around the RFK Stadium parking lots prior to last season’s AT&T Nation’s Football Classic® reminded me of my Clemson days, when I was an assistant,” said Howard men’s basketball coach Kevin Nickelberry, who previously coached at Hampton.

“There were two sides divided, the Howard side the Hampton side.

They’re divided by grills. They’re divided by cars. They’re divided by logos,” he said. “And for all those who go into that stadium and all of that energy -- it’s a battle of the bands, it’s a battle of cheerleaders, it’s a battle for everything. You gotta love it. It’s a rivalry for the ages.”

Tickets for the AT&T Nation’s Football Classic® begin at $25 and are available at ticketmaster.com.

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EDITORIAL

OPINIONS/EDITORIALS

Four Stabbings in One Hour Underscore Rise in D.C. Violence

It’s a sad state of affairs when shootings in the District have become commonplace but that’s exactly where we stand with four months left in 2016.

And in our apathy, we don’t seem phased anymore when we hear about people using guns to resolve conflict or to commit crimes.

The truth remains, D.C. is in the throes of an escalation of violence with 90 homicides recorded so far and we fear more on the way.

And while all kinds of pomp and circumstance accompanied reflections on the 25-year career of Police Chief Cathy Lanier who recently announced her retirement, perhaps we need to remain focused on keeping District residents safer.

Consider the following. There were 88 homicides in 2012; homicides totaled 105 in 2014. That rate spiked at 54 percent in 2015.

Now, let’s look at 2016. So far the homicide rate is only 14 percent lower than last year’s high. Meanwhile, homicides in Ward 7 have tripled this year.

Then just last Monday, four men were stabbed in separate incidents in Northwest – all within a one-hour timespan and with the attacks all occurring within close proximity in the Columbia Heights community.

Amazingly, not much has been said. There haven’t been any public outcries. We haven’t heard about police department strategies to bring violence under control. Preachers and pontificators have remained mum, even after one of the four men stabbed Monday night died from his injuries.

One report suggests that the area in which the recent stabbings occurred has an inordinate number of the homeless and gang members. But District police say they still don’t have any suspects or a motive for the attacks. So it could be anyone. The crimes may be related or not. We simply do not know.

What is clear is our streets have become perilous places where no one is safe. Someone needs to step forward with an immediate course of action.

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MD Foster Care Program Must Protects Its LGBT Youth Every child matters, every child has potential, every child deserves a chance to succeed.

But it can be even more difficult when the child is a member of the foster care system and is seeking to find their way as a gay, bisexual or transgender youth.

That’s why we applaud the recent efforts of the state of Maryland who realize the additional challenges that these youth face and their decision to make revisions to their programming that will screen, educate and support households where these youth are placed.

The state’s goal, they say, is to look for possible bias while also providing sensitivity training to case workers – something that’s been needed for quite some time.

We’re told that there’s no accurate data on how many LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) youth are in Maryland’s foster care system.

But nationally, advocates say such children and adolescents face a greater possibility of being mistreated by their foster families – with many eventually leaving those families and living on the streets – where the danger to their welfare becomes even greater.

It’s hard enough for a youth to come to terms with their own sexual orientation. But when they fear revealing their inclinations because of the chance of being bullied, ostracized or even forced to fend for themselves on city parks, benches and streets, we know that our local institutions that exist because of our tax dollars, are failing to do their job.

We applaud programs like those in Prince George’s County, whose social workers will begin training with the Human Rights Campaign in September, helping staff better recognize subconscious bias, improve their use of language when dealing with LGBT youth and find ways to assist youth so they feel more comfortable around others.

The right home can make a real difference for these youth. We need to make sure these homes are places that welcome them. That way, they can focus on their studies, consider career options and even make plans to attend college, not use their energies in order to fit in just because they’re gay.

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TO THE EDITOR WI Hits the Mark Again!

I Can’t Believe a Jewel like the Informer is Free

I guess I will have to read the book, “Nobody” by author, Marc Lamont Hill. WI editor D. Kevin McNeir’s article in the Lifestyle Section of the August 25, 2016 edition of The Washington Informer, “Do Police View Blacks as ‘Nobody?’” had me wanting to know, well just how do the police view Blacks? The concept became even more interesting when I read the quote, “If we continue to think this is just a case of bad cops and racism, then we’ll continue to tinker with that system. And nothing will really change.” That just blew me away! That’s how I was justifying all the madness that’s been going on – bad cops and racism. I kept reading the article hoping for some clue as to how the police view Blacks, but it didn’t give it up, so I guess I will have to read the book. Great, great article!

I have just recently relocated to the DC area and I would like to know how you are able to give your paper away free? Because of my job, I have lived in many communities across the country, and in almost every case you are made to pay for papers like yours. The Washington Informer’s layout and the overall presentation are superb. The quality of your staff’s writing and reporting is outstanding and the content of the paper is right up there with the other major newspapers in the area. Residents living in this area who have not had the experience of living in other parts of the country have no idea how lucky they are to be able to pick up a newspaper the quality of The Washington Informer for free.

Whatever you are doing, keep doing it, because The Informer is a real asset to the Greater Washington Area.

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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS Guest Columnist

By Austin Cooper Jr.

Obama's Legacy in Africa I first visited Africa in April 2001 when I traveled to South Africa. I still remember the excitement I felt as the aircraft descended for a refueling stop in Cape Verde in the middle of the night. I could see lights all along the western coast of the continent.

I later worked with Ambassador Andrew Young at two organizations that afforded me opportunities to visit an additional 17 African countries: GoodWorks International and

the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation.

As I made repeated visits and interacted with African presidents, I considered myself blessed to have seen in person someone of African descent in that position. However, I did not think I would ever see an African-American president of the United States and was content with my memories from Africa. I was proven wrong when Barack Obama was elected president of the United States in November 2008.

President Obama initially had an even more aggressive policy agenda for Africa than world events allowed

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him to pursue. His immediate focus was on stabilizing the U.S. economy, saving the automobile industry and addressing challenges in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. An administration official later admitted, "Given the state of affairs both home and around the world, the U.S. relationship with Africa was a priority that was not in need of urgent attention."

Although I had policy differences with President George W. Bush, no one can deny his contributions to Africa. His efforts included a $1.2 billion malaria initiative, the Pres-

ident's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and creation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). His efforts are making a difference in Africa.

Similarly, President Obama will also leave behind an impressive legacy of accomplishments in Africa that will not only continue to benefit many, but can be built upon by his successor. Consider the following: • There is $43 billion in American private sector commitments to support the president's 2013 Power Africa Initiative and double electric-

ity access in sub-Saharan Africa. He also signed into law the bipartisan "Electrify Africa Act," which directs the U.S. to work with African governments to develop and implement local and national power strategies.

• The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) represents the President's signature effort to invest in the next generation. Every summer, approximately 500 young Africans, ages 25-35, travel to this country for extensive mentoring and studying

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By Ronald Mason Jr.

Is it Just Race?: America in Black and White, Pt. II What if America were all white?

Would life be better for its citizens?

Yes, it would be, in Aspirational America, where all are supposed to be endowed with "inalienable rights," among them "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

In the Real America, however, it probably wouldn't make much difference. Even in an all-white country, the lives of most whites would probably be much the same.

Those who struggle would contin-

ue to struggle and those who thrive would continue to thrive. In the real America: 1. the leaders of the British colonies revolted from England over wealth and income; 2. the economic system they embraced and in which we live concentrates wealth in the hands of a few at the expense of many; 3. then, as now, if you were born without wealth, you were likely to die without wealth.

The leaders of the colonies, especially in the South, had been nervous about being outnumbered by

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poor people since the earliest days.

Their primary challenge was how to generate and accumulate wealth without enraging those who were not as well positioned. At the same time, they needed to create a reliable work force they could control in order to exploit the vast resources of the "New World."

Race-based chattel slavery was put in place to solve both problems.

It imported and then bred black people from Africa as human capital, as property, to perform the labor. As a result, black people were on the bottom. Poor whites may

have struggled, but the racial lines drawn by slavery allowed them to believe that unlike black people, they had the potential to become wealthy. This economic hierarchy and illusion of opportunity that slavery and its tentacles created and enabled persists today.

The ability to move up the economic ladder is a bulwark of our society. It is the American dream encouraged by the powerful in both politics and commerce. It works brilliantly for those who invented it -- but not so well for the dreamers.

In the Real America, the chances

of leapfrogging ahead are minuscule compared to the mythical size and strength and belief in the power of the dream. Now, as the illusion melts away for more and more of middle America, the racial antagonisms of many whites have intensified. They blame their failure to succeed and lack of opportunity on reverse discrimination, or on immigration. It is a familiar, manufactured fear.

As in the past, when violence erupted in conflicts between the

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By Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr.

Democrats Don't Get Blank Check from Black Voters Donald Trump made a pitch for black votes last month, in his own inimitable fashion. Speaking in a virtually all-white suburb of Detroit, he suggested that African-American communities are "suffering from Democratic control."

"What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump. What do you have to lose?" he said to absent African-Americans. "You're living

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in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed."

This appeal for votes will fall on deaf ears. Most African-Americans don't live in poverty, even though too many do.

Most have jobs, even though too few do. More people in poverty are white, young and female.

Trump has little relationship with the black community and isn't making any effort to create one. Most African-Americans consider him a bigot. (Four out

of five African-Americans view him unfavorably, and slightly more think he's biased against minorities and women.)

President Obama won over nine of 10 African-American votes in 2012 when he ran for re-election. The black community is obviously proud of the dignity with which he has carried himself in office and the values which his family displayed.

Trump earned our contempt for continuing to question Obama's birth certificate, trying to slur him as literally un-American.

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Not surprisingly, Trump polls in the low single digits — 2 or 3 percent — among African-Americans. He's running fourth behind the Libertarian and the Green candidates as well as behind Clinton.

The African-American vote hasn't always been Democratic.

With Democrats anchored in the Jim Crow South, many African-Americans voted Republican before 1960. Dr. Martin Luther King's father was a Republican voter. But Democrats reached out to African-Americans, and

Lyndon Johnson championed the end of segregation, the right to vote and more. Democrats didn't inherit black votes, they earned them. And recent efforts

by Republican judges to disembowel the Voting Rights Act and

by Republican state legislators and governors to limit the right to vote in ways that disproportionately affect African-Americans are teaching a new generation the same lesson.

African-Americans were a ma-

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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS Guest Columnist

Success or Failure? troubling factors related to the economic survival of black people in the United States: The Low Success Rate of African-American Businesses.

But as jazzman Les McCann so pertinently asked 30 years ago, "compared to what?" Or "Compared to whom?" "Compared to when?" "Compared to how?"

"Compared to why?"

We need only to look at the history of this country, vis-à-vis

black entrepreneurship initiatives, to see the resistance black people faced from white society while doing business or when attempting to open a business. There were laws of the land that prevented black people from participating in the economy on an equal footing with all groups, what John Sibley Butler calls an "economic detour."

(Butler, 1991, Page 143) Paradoxically, history also gives us glowing accounts of African-American ingenuity that led to business ownership from the

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By James Clingman

1600s through the mid-1960s, despite meager resources, the threat of bodily harm, Jim Crow laws and the usurping or utter destruction of black-owned businesses by whites.

During the 1960s we saw yet another phenomenon: a virtual boycott of successful black-owned businesses by black consumers who interpreted civil "rights" to mean civil "privileges." It was (and still is) a right to shop, eat and spend our money where we want, but it certainly should not have

been considered a privilege to do so. Because some of us deemed it a privilege, many black people walked away from black businesses and beat a path to white-owned businesses. Thus, from that point we see a decline in the number of successful black-owned businesses in this country.

"Successful" in this context means businesses that have grown and are able to hire more employees than the 110,786 they employ as of the last economic census.

Of the 2.6 million black-owned

firms, 95.5 percent of them are sole proprietorships and have no employees. That's not necessarily a negative reflection on those businesses; much of it has to do with lack of relative support from black consumers as well as all other consumers.

The reason most often given for the failure of black-owned businesses is lack of access to capital.

While that is certainly true, there are several other reasons, includ-

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By Bill Fletcher Jr.

Trump Supporters Think They're on Reality Show There is something that I have found particularly odd in this election season, and there have been many things that have been odd. There has been consistent media reports of interviews with supporters of Republican nominee Donald Trump that indicate that many of them do not take seriously his various pronouncements. Trump supporters have been reported making comments — after being confronted with Trump's declarations, such as his call to build wall on the border with Mexico and

his suggestion to block Muslims from entering the USA — that they do not believe that Trump really means this, nevertheless, they will vote for him.

What does one make of people discounting the assertions of a candidate — particularly provocative assertions, I might add — and yet supporting him? Do these supporters think that this is a large-scale reality show?

Here is my theory. Trump supporters are divided into two overlapping — and overwhelmingly white — groups. There are the right-wing irrationalists who are ideologically committed to backing virtually each and every word of their candidate.

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They see Trump as the champion of their revenge-seeking politics, hoping to "Make America White Again."

The second group is made up of people who are scared to death and want to shake things up, yet shake things up in a particular way. They don't want a woman to be elected president and they don't want what they perceive to be "more of the same." They are scared of the changing demographics of the United States; they're scared about their economic precariousness; they're scared about a world that they cannot understand, let alone control.

Trump represents the equivalent of rolling the dice and hoping that they

don't come up "snake eyes."

This second group is living in a world of self-deception. There is no reason for anyone to disbelieve Trump. At a minimum, his rhetoric is inflammatory and erratic. If these supporters do not believe that Trump will actually do what he suggests that he will do, what do they think that he will do? It appears that they do not care, as long as it is different from what these supporters are currently experiencing.

Actually, I do not believe that this supposed lack of concern with what Trump will do (if elected) is innocent and frivolous. Trump is asserting a

nightmare. There is nothing hopeful, inclusive, democratic or just in what he is arguing. Nothing that he is arguing is neutral, bipartisan or post-partisan. His arguments all flow from his basic notion that white America is allegedly suffering at the hands of minorities, liberals, the rest of the world, etc.

To put it another way, these supporters don't just want to shake things up. They want to shake things up in a manner that they believe gives them a leg up on the rest of the world.

It is not just the candidate who is dangerous; the movement backing him is even more frightening. WI

By Askia Muhammad

On Anthems and Athletes I show solidarity with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

Stand strong, young champion.

Kaepernick's bold refusal to even stand when the "Star Spangled Banner" is played reminds me of the conduct of my schoolmates Tommie Smith and John Carlos — gold and bronze medalists at the 1968 Olympic Games — who raised their clenched, black-gloved fists when the anthem was played.

That protest — which was engineered by San Jose State's Dr. Harry Edwards, a bygone champion discuss thrower and sociology professor — was initially a proposal for Black athletes to boycott the games entirely. Imagine that, we would never have remembered their names had they stayed home to protest. Instead their action was seared into the history books.

So now, as Smith and Carlos did in 1968, Kaepernick has done something memorable: refusing to stand when the national anthem was played. Olympic

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champion Gabby Douglas was also criticized for not putting her hand over her heart when the anthem was played Curious observation: the protest has currency because in the minds of the loyal fans, these athletes who've ascended the ladder of success should be demonstrating more gratitude and "patriotism." After all, if a star athlete acted similarly during another country's anthem, that behavior would be rightly condemned as simply rude. But to be rude during one's own anthem is like playing with fire.

"This country stands for freedom, liberty, justice for all — and it's not happening for all right now," Kaepernick said.

Amen.

The problem, then and now, has everything to do with the relationship of black people to the American flag, and with its star-spangled anthem. If blacks had their own flag and anthem it would be easy for them to show respect to the American flag and anthem, at the proper time.

Case in point: Monica Puig is a Puerto Rican athlete and

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the first gold medalist from that tiny island since 1948, when they first sent athletes. Yes, they are U.S. citizens, but they saw their flag raised, and heard their anthem when Puig's gold medal for tennis was presented. Puerto Rican athletes have been on the medal stand eight other times, but have never heard their anthem played.

Many professional basketball players played for their home countries in the Olympics.

That's the home pride which is

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LIFESTYLE International Star Angelique Kidjo Returns to DMV

Cultural Ambassador Brings West African Roots to Her Music

By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor She’s been called “Africa’s premier diva” by Time Magazine and has become a cultural force by blending the music of her childhood in Benin with elements of R&B, funk and jazz, as well as European

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and Latin American music.

And music aficionados can hear Angelique Kidjo when she returns to the Music Center at Strathmore in Bethesda on Friday, Sept. 9 in an evening that will certainly be delightful, entertaining and unforgettable.

She’s been honored time

and time again for her work on and off stage. Among her many awards: the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum, the BBC’s list of Africa’s 50 most iconic figures and being called one of the Top 100 Most Inspiring Women in the World by The Guardian.

But Kidjo says what really matters is the music – “the international language.”

“As long as the music sits well in my soul and I feel comfortable, it doesn’t matter what genre I’m performing,” she said. “If I have to sing in Chinese, I will do that because I know it will soothe my soul. I grew up with parents who exposed us to all kinds of music and they said ‘listen.’

So we did. Things just come to me – I often wonder where they came from. All I know is they fit, they resonate with my soul.”

Kidjo, a three-time Grammy winner, said receiving honors for her music, while encouraging, has never been her goal. She has just wanted to communicate her message to the world.

“It’s funny how people try to put you into one category of music. I think you have to be bold and try everything.

My music is from Africa but I’ve added so many other styles and had so many other influences. Music is not doing the same thing over and over.

I’ve learned to open myself to the entire world and found it to be a delightful, fascinating journey,” said Kidjo who was already performing with her mother’s troupe by the time she was six, giving her an early appreciation for traditional music and dance.

Her mother will turn 90 in December and Kidjo says she can’t wait to return home to see her and celebrate the milestone.

“Actually I’m going back home in September and then again in December. My mom is still full of life. She says she doesn’t care how difficult life may be – she’s grateful to be living it,” she said.

Kidjo began singing in her school band, Les Sphinx, and found success as a teenager with her adaption of Miriam Makeba’s “Les Trois Z,” which played on national radio.

Later success allowed her to tour all over West Africa.

But political conflicts in her

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homeland of Benin prevented her from being an independent artist there and forced her to relocate to Paris in 1983.

When she’s not focusing on her music, she does outreach work.

“I linked up with UNICEF because they’ve been helping people since World War II – helping 5 Mpeople make decisions and live their own lives,” she said. “It’s about allowing people to keep their dignity. And then I work with an educational campaign to stamp out polio in Africa in a joint project with UNICEF and the Rotary Club.”

“We’re very close to eradicating polio in Africa. But we have some work to do. I work with people so they can become themselves – so they can become who they were meant to be. Just because someone is poor doesn’t mean they ar-

en’t part of the human family.

They still matter,” she said.

As for her onstage persona, Kidjo says you have to put yourself in the proper frame of mind.

“You have your ego when you go onstage but you really have to be a servant of the music,” she said. “You have to be in the truth. There are some compromises and choices I refuse to make. In those choices, when you are in the light of truth you often make enemies because you refuse to do what others want. I have paid a high price for my honesty but I am truly at peace with my soul. I think that comes out in my music.”

“I remember a reporter once asking me what my favorite award I’ve ever received was and I answered ‘I’ll just take my work.’”

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By Lauren Poteat WI Contributing Writer Forty-five years after jazz legend, Louis Armstrong, finished one of his last performances at the Waldorf Astoria, the Mosaic Theatre Company of D.C., recreates a legend’s final production with a riveting one-man show.

“Satchmo at the Waldorf,” heavily focuses on the gripping life and career of jazz icon Louis Armstrong and vividly recounts events and regrets that led the legend to a place of high celebrity, in danger of being snatched away.

Playwright for “Satchmo at the Waldorf,” and longtime drama critic for The Wall Street Journal, Terry Teachout, recounts overall admiration toward Armstrong.

“Louis Armstrong was the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century,” he said.

“A phenomenally gifted and imaginative artist and an entertainer so irresistibly magnetic that he knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts four decades after he cut his first record. Offstage he was witty, introspective, and unexpectedly complex, a beloved colleague with an explosive temper whose larger-than-life personality was tougher and more sharp-edged than his worshiping fans ever realized. That’s what Satchmo

Forty-five years after jazz legend, Louis Armstrong, finished one of his last performances at the Waldorf Astoria, the Mosaic Theatre Company of D.C., recreates a legend’s final production with a riveting one-man show. at the Waldorf is about—it’s the story of the Louis Armstrong you don’t know.”

The play does a wonderful job of delving into the world and mind of Armstrong, illustrating a story of both praise and criticism that Satchmo faced for his role in the Civil Rights Movement and exhausts his fascinating relationship with his Jewish manager Joe Glaser and his fiery blows with rival and jazz artist Miles Davis, all play by actor Craig Wallace.

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one man play, believed Craig Wallace to be a mastermind.

I've known and admired Craig Wallace for almost 20 years, and I have always adored Louis Armstrong,” she said.

“Craig's talent wedded to this stunning material is a truly remarkable opportunity and I jumped at the chance.

Reading the play, a complex and brilliant man rises to the surface; Teachout brings a compelling human perspective to the turbulent decades in which the great man lived.

It will be thrilling to work with Craig to bring all the nuances and ambitious arc of the play to life.”

This D.C. premiere, originally debuting at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center, in Orlando, Florida and later running Off-Broadway at Westside Theatre in 2014, comes complete with added deleted dialogue expressed between Armstrong and Miles Davis, who often strongly criticized Armstrong’s “vulgar” performance style before white audiences.

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D.C.'s Creative Economy Gets the Spotlight

By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer

D.C.'s arts and cultural scene will receive a major push from multiple government agencies.

Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on Tuesday, Aug. 23 the inaugural "202Creates," a citywide effort launching in September to showcase and promote the artists, makers and entrepreneurs who contribute to the District's thriving creative industries.

"We are showcasing that the nation's capital is also the capital of creativity," Bowser said.

"Every corner of our city hosts a diversity of creative industries that employ District residents

and improve our quality of life."

The effort will be led by the DC Office of Cable Television, Film, Music and Entertainment and the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, aiming to engage residents throughout the month with events and activities in all eight wards.

The events will feature conversations with innovators, residents, and businesses.

Also, during 202Creates, the District will launch the Creative Economy Career Access Program, an on-the-job training program for residents seeking a sustainable career in the creative economy.

The city claims nearly 60 percent of D.C. workers are employed in the creative class, which makes focusing on the creative economy, including jobs/ workforce training and STEM/ STEAM education a key priority for the Bowser administration.

The inaugural 202 Arts & Music Festival will be held at Canal Park in Southeast on Saturday, Sept. 10 featuring art exhibitions, interactive workshops and a outdoor dance party.

"These are the people that day in and day out contribute to the heartbeat of our creative economy and help to define who we are as a city," Bowser said. "With 202Creates, we are celebrating the creative contributions of our residents."

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Feds Rap Metro for Runaway Unattended Trains

By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Jason Jennings enjoys riding Metrorail, especially when visiting his mother in Arlington, Virginia, even if he has to wait an hour or two for a train.

The Springfield resident, who runs a lawn care service, said he has faith in Metro amid its mammoth SafeTrack maintenance project and federal reports of its subpar training, communication and equipment.

"Instead of driving and it's congested everywhere you go, I can sit on the train around my people," Jennings said Sunday, Aug. 28 while waiting on a Blue Line train at the Van Dorn Street station in Alexandria. "I believe [Metro] needs to do this work. As long as it makes it safe for us, I'm fine with it."

But the federal government isn't as satisfied with Metro, rapping the transit agency last week with yet another safety directive, this time for improperly safeguarding unattended train cars in rail yards and work zones.

"Failure to properly secure unattended trains presents a significant safety risk across the rail transit industry," the Federal Transit Administration outlined in a 22-page report.

"Unsecured and unattended trains or equipment can move in rail yards and on the mainline track, creating the potential for collisions with other trains, equipment, passengers or workers."

The FTA has issued three safety directives in less than a month to the agency to address a variety of problems such as employee training, track inspections and communication technology.

In the latest report, the investigation between February and July focused on redundant securement for rail vehicle storage, rules and procedures and employee training.

According to the document (http://bit.ly/2bQKq5o), Metro had three incidents where unattended trains moved between April 2014 and December 2015. No injuries or damages were re-

ported at two of the yards, but minor damage occurred Jan. 9, 2015, when a train collided with a parked vehicle at the Shady Grove Yard in Rockville.

The investigation outlined six infractions and the required actions to rectify them, including: • Metro doesn't disseminate clear, concise, and unambiguous rules and procedures regarding vehicle securement, so it must revise Metrorail Safety Rules and Procedures handbook; • Metro failed to perform a comprehensive rules compliance audit, so it must revise "Yard Rules 16-004 Compliance Checks" checklist; and • Metro doesn't ensure employees have comprehensive training to secure all agency vehicles, so it must develop and provide training to all rail transportation and car maintenance personnel.

Metro must respond to the report within 30 days from the Aug. 24 document and has 60 days to submit a corrective action plan.

Metro General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld said some of the findings outlined in the FTA report and previous documents are currently being worked on.

In addition, he hopes a change in the internal culture such as updating policies and procedures will improve safety and service.

"Either you follow the standards, or you do not work here," he said.

Metro began the eighth phase of it SafeTrack project over the weekend, with continuous single-tracking on the Blue Line between the Van Dorn Street and Franconia-Springfield stations to continue until Sept. 11.

Metro Transit Police and other emergency personnel from the D.C. area also conducted a training exercise Sunday that closed portions of the Yellow Line between L'Enfant Plaza and the Pentagon. It focused on simulating real-world conditions to test coordination and communication between Metro and federal, city and county agencies.

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By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Metro's board of directors broke their vacation early for a hastily assembled special meeting last week at its northwest D.C headquarters, where they addressed several recent problems hampering the transit agency.

The board was on hiatus and not scheduled to reconvene until Sept. 8, but members agreed a meeting needed to be held amid the agency's widely-reported is-

sues, including a recent train derailment in Northern Virginia and a slew of federal safety directives stemming from system malfunction and human error.

"We are committed to fixing Metro. When it doesn't work, nothing works," said board chairman and D.C. Councilman Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), who called for the Thursday, Aug. 25 meeting.

Last week, the Federal Transit Administration released a report (http:// bit.ly/2bQKq5o) on how Metro hasn't properly secured unattended trains in rail yards and work zones.

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with the revised and new policies, as well as those that are currently in effect," Wiedefeld said in the memo. "We must all live by and adhere to these core values as a condition of employment with Metro."

Metro Chief Safety Officer Patrick Lavin, who began working for the agency in May, said a 2009 report showed that defects were found on tracks where the train derailed, but not repaired and upgraded.

Post-derailment mandates to improve safety include supervisors inspecting new speed restrictions, an assistant superintendent inspecting 30 top-priority defects a month and the superintendent examining three top-priority locations per week, Lavin said.

Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Virginia), who chairs Congress' Research and Technology Subcommittee, gave a blunt assessment of Thursday's discussion.

"I'm pleased [Metro officials] are getting experts in here to change a lot of problems," she said. "It's clearly not just a problem with … the first line of the workers or track workers. It's a problem with every level of management has also contributed to some of the things.

We need to see how we get that accountability back in."

The eighth phase, or surge, of the agency's lengthy SafeTrack

maintenance overhaul project began Saturday with continuous single-tracking on the Blue Line between Van Dorn Street and Franconia-Springfield until Sept.

11.

Malcolm Augustine, who represents Prince George's County on the board, expressed his frustration with similar promises previous executives made last year. Though willing to give the new leadership an opportunity to make changes, he said he'll hold their feet to the fire for solutions and results.

"Instead of trusting them saying, 'Listen, we got it. We’re going to work on this thing,' we have to make sure we get these things done," Augustine said after the meeting. "I want to hold them accountable."

Meanwhile, Evans asked Metro Police Chief Ronald Pavlik about Nicholas Young, a 36-year-old former transit officer arrested this month for his alleged involvement with the Islamic State terrorist group, also known as ISIS. "Investigations like this take a long time" to complete based on the law and other mitigating factors, said Pavlik, adding it took several years before making a formal arrest.

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The FTA issued its third safety directive this month for the agency to address a variety of problems such as training of employees, track inspections and improve its communication technology.

Metro General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld spoke to reporters briefly after the meeting about those topics, as well as potential fraud by employees on track inspections, specifically one completed June 17.

On July 29, a Silver Line train derailed at the East Falls Church station in Arlington, Virginia, with 63 people aboard.

"I don't know right now," Wiedefeld said of the possible cause of the derailment. "We are taking a look at that. It is under investigation."

To change Metro's internal culture, Wiedefeld sent a memo to employees on a revision of several company policies, including a crackdown on nepotism.

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The peaceful march, led by the National Action Network and the American Federation of Teachers, took place on Aug. 27 at Folger Park in southeast D.C. and ended at the NRA's D.C. lobbying office.

Kirsten Foy, current president of the Brooklyn chapter of National Action Network, a nonprofit formed by Rev. Al Sharpton in 1991 for modern civil rights, spoke out on his views of the NRA and reasonable gun-control reform.

“Last year we saw the horrific murder of 9 people inside of a historic church and a couple of months ago in Orlando, we saw the most graphic mass murdering of people in history,” Foy said. “The NRA sits a block away from the Republican National Committee, that sits on the same block as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. There is a direct connection here. The NRA is in business to make money and profit on the deaths of over 33,000 people a year.”

The march, which only took one month to fortify, consisted of more than 200 people from all across

the country and over 50 advocacy groups demanding proper gun reform.

Deven DeMarco, a gun-control reform advocate from Queens, N.Y., and a member of Gays Against Guns, a group formed following Orlando’s Pulse nightclub attack in June, spoke on the importance of the march and overall unification.

“We are part of an American fabric, where everyone comes together and I think it is important to bring attention toward representation that takes money out of the hands of the gun industry and from its investors,” he said.

The coalition of groups also announced a 72-day campaign beginning Aug. 28 to keep the heat on the NRA, including nonviolent civil disobedience, rallies, sit-ins and marches in D.C., New York and other cities.

Liz Davis, president of the Washington Teachers' Union, gave perspective on gun violence and how it affects students and families.

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Sharpton Eulogizes George Curry Admonishes Black Press: 'Keep Telling the Story!'

By Hazel Trice Edney TriceEdneyWire.com One minute the congregation was somber and in tears; the next minute they were rocking to choir music in the pews; the next minute they were laughing in fond memory; and then they were shouting and applauding on their feet.

That was the range of emotions that marked the packed house during the "Celebration of Life" for legendary journalist George Curry at Weeping Mary Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa, Ala., August. 27.

The Rev. Al Sharpton gave a eulogy of the Black press journalist, columnist, commentator and editor that soared from a touching and sometimes humorous tribute to a fiery sermon that shook the sanctuary.

Stately Black journalists and publishers were among those moved by the Spirit as Sharpton's message pointed largely to how they must now escalate their voices as they continue telling the story.

"There were many Black writers that have gone mainstream. But George Curry made mainstream go Black," said Sharpton to applause. "He was smart enough to play the game and stay in certain newsrooms. But he chose not to do that because he chose the path of why Black Press started in the first place."

Sharpton was eluding to the first Black Press editorial, published in the 1827 inaugural edition of Freedom's Journal.

That editorial stated, "We wish to plead our own cause.

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Curry, who died of heart failure August 20, started his career at Sports Illustrated, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Chicago Tribune.

But he died as a hero, having found his calling in the Black Press. He was editor-in-chief of his beloved Emerge Magazine for seven years until it went defunct. Then he took up the banner becoming editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA), the Black Press of America.

When he died, he had founded Emergenewsonline.com, a digital version of the hard copy magazine, which he never gave up hope to revive.

"If we love him, we will keep Emerge News Online going," Sharpton said. "I don't know what it will cost. I don't know what it will be, but I want to be the first to help Ann keep that work going . . . I'm going to write the first check."

Curry's death hit the journalistic community particularly hard as it came amidst one of the most controversial and heated presidential elections in history. Sharpton made clear where the Black Press must go from here.

5Rev. Al Sharpton gives eulogy of legendary journalist George Curry. / Photo Charles W. Cherry II/Florida Courier

Dozens of Black publishers, writers, photographers, former interns and mentees, mostly from NNPA, took up the first two pews of the church. The sanctuary was also packed with hundreds of people, including his family and Tuscaloosa residents who came to say farewell to their hometown hero.

Martha Brownlee, Curry's beloved mother, who had wept

in mourning for her only son as she visited the casket, ended the service dancing in his honor as Sharpton preached and the organ punctuated his message: "I come to Tuscaloosa to tell you that George won't be laying in the cemetery. George has got to go through the cemetery. But, George is on his way home now. He fought a good fight!

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Friendly Rivalry Enjoyed by Athletes in All Sports at Howard, Hampton WI Staff Report While this year’s AT&T Nation’s Football Classic® aims to settle bragging rights on the football field, it’s safe to say the event will be more than just a football game.

In fact, with the excitement building around the game that will be played Saturday, Sept. 17 at RFK Stadium, the “Battle for the Real HU” already extends throughout the athletic department and across the entire campuses of Howard University and Hampton University.

“It’s a friendly [rivalry] to a certain extent,” said Tamia Dockery, a sophomore on the Howard volleyball team, which swept a pair of matches against Hampton, dropping just one game. “If you’re on social media, everybody is talking about each other, [asking] ‘who is the real HU?’” The culmination of the rivalry – at least during the fall semester – will be in the AT&T Nation’s Football Classic®.

“It will be the second-biggest event of the fall, next to homecoming,” said Howard assistant men’s basketball coach Keith Coutreyer, a former assistant at Hampton who’s quite familiar with the Battle for the Real HU. “The Classic is probably the most well-attended event we’ll have.”

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Dockery remembered last year’s volleyball matches against Hampton drawing spirited crowds.

In men’s basketball where Hampton has won the past 14 games in the series, the teams drew a near-capacity crowd of 2,700 for their game at Burr Gymnasium (tied for Howard’s largest home crowd of the season) and 6,943 at Hampton Convocation Center (the second-highest attendance for a Hampton home game in 201516).

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aging 27.1 points per game. “Of course, Howard has always been the real HU since the beginning. I can guarantee Hampton does not want to see Howard in basketball this year.”

Of course, one might surmise that given their lengthy winning streak in the series, the Pirates cannot wait to get on the court with Howard.

But before that happens – Feb. 11 at Hampton is the teams’ only meeting this season – the universities must battle it out at RFK Stadium.

“Walking around the RFK Stadium parking lots prior to last season’s AT&T Nation’s Football Classic® reminded me of my Clemson days, when I was an assistant,” said Howard men’s basketball coach Kevin Nickelberry, who previously coached at Hampton.

“There were two sides divided, the Howard side the Hampton side.

They’re divided by grills. They’re divided by cars. They’re divided by logos,” he said. “And for all those who go into that stadium and all of that energy -- it’s a battle of the bands, it’s a battle of cheerleaders, it’s a battle for everything. You gotta love it.

It’s a rivalry for the ages.”

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Akwaaba means ‘First in Black-owned B&Bs’

By Patrice Gaines Urban News Service

For Monique Greenwood, the decision to be an entrepreneur came down to legacy building.

“I could leave my daughter a portfolio of real estate and a business to run, but I couldn’t leave her a job at Essence,” said Greenwood, who was then editor-in-chief of that popular magazine.

She chose the bed and breakfast business because she loved staying at inns and thought she had the perfect personality for it.

“You have to have a heart of service and genuinely like people,” Greenwood said.

These days she might be called a queen of B&Bs, especially among African-American inn owners.

She’s been in this business since 1996 and owns five luxury properties with her husband, Glenn Pogue, operating as Akwaaba Bed & Breakfast Inns.

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Ullmer, executive director of the Professional Association of Innkeepers International. There are just “a small percentage of innkeepers with that level of longevity,” said Ullmer about Greenwood’s 21 years in the business.

Greenwood has built a “unique model,” said fellow inn owner Daniel Edwards of Morehead Manor in Durham, North Carolina. “She has a brand she promotes. You will have a different experience at each of her properties.”

Greenwood’s inns offer upscale accommodations in historic properties “with old-fashioned hospitality and modern-day conveniences,” she said. Guests are called by their names and there are amenities such as freshsqueezed lemonade served on the front porch.

Edwards said when he and his wife opened their business in 1997, many white inns depended on a travel guide to attract lodgers.

“They put a picture of the property and a bio of the innkeepers,” Edwards said. “But as African Americans, we couldn’t do that, or we

would be shooting ourselves in the foot.”

In short, white travelers were unlikely to check into black-owned B&Bs. In one sense, blacks had a network of B&Bs during segregation.

Unable to stay at white-owned hotels, black travelers used “The Negro Motorist Green Book,” published from 1936 to 1966, to find black owned-and-operated lodging.

Sandra Butler-Truesdale, once a cosmetologist for James Brown’s and Ray Charles’s bands, remembers how unforgiving the road was for Black musicians.

“Entertainers and people who traveled a lot stayed with relatives and friends, and there were certain guest houses,” said Butler-Truesdale.

“Some musicians had buses and they did one-night stands and slept on their buses, heading to other engagements. Sometimes buses stopped at gas stations where people could change and wash themselves.”

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bors. About 95 percent of their guests were Black then, versus 40 percent today.

“We still have these clients in Brooklyn, but many more guests are coming from all over the world simply for vacation,” Greenwood said.

Early on, she and her family occupied the top floor of the Brooklyn establishment.

“The business made enough money for us to live in a beautiful mansion, rent- and expense-free, so we began building up a nest egg from our day-job income to be able to buy more property.”

Today, Greenwood has 13 employees.

“In 2015, Akwaaba’s sales surpassed the million-dollar mark, with much of the profit being reinvested back into the company,” she said.

She and her husband own other commercial properties, which they have patiently used as collateral to invest in buying and renovating inns.

“What has been most important is maintaining stellar personal credit, and doing that often requires being a

pro at delayed gratification,” Greenwood said.

Her ownership of The Mansion at Noble Lane symbolizes how much America has changed. The 25,000 square-foot, 14-room Gilded Age inn in Bethany, Pennsylvania was the estate of the founders of the F.W. Woolworth Company.

Mary Grate Pyos of Burke, Virginia, who had stayed at Akwaaba in Washington, D.C., attended the opening of The Mansion.

“What’s so exciting about that inn is — as an African American, who not so long ago was unable to sit at the Woolworth counter and get a cup of water — I now get to witness a Black woman owning the Woolworth estate,” said Pyos. “I wanted to cheer her on.”

Greenwood, an astute businesswoman with a love for Afro-centrism, said she chose the name Akwaaba because it means “welcome” in the Ghanaian language of Twi, “represents a connection to the Motherland” and because it starts with A — “generally making us first on most lists.” WI

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WhereU: Shopping Black with Finger Taps

By Curtis Bunn Urban News Service Business runs through Dionne Mahaffey’s veins. Her father was an entrepreneur as she grew up in Birmingham, Alabama.

So, it was almost inevitable that Mahaffey, a business psychologist and self-described “techie,” would develop WhereU. It’s in her DNA. Mahaffey’s app works as a search engine and GPS-driven directory. Its “near me” function helps users find blackowned businesses in dozens of U.S. cities.

Consumers can search among 17 categories of African-American-owned companies, including business services, arts and entertainment, health care, real estate and automotive.

WhereU has been downloaded more than 100,000 times since its February launch, according to Mahaffey. Former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal and comedian D.L. Hughley have encouraged their fans to use WhereU to “support black business,” as they said via Twitter.

“As a child, I was taught to be intentional about patronizing family, friends and blackowned businesses,” said Mahaffey, an Auburn University graduate and mother of two daughters.

“I grew up watching my parents support black doctors, accountants, general contractors, grocery stores, mechanics, banks and more. My first bank account was with a black-owned bank — and I still bank black,” she said.

The idea for WhereU came to Mahaffey on December 5, 2015, in a dream, she said. Seventy-two days later, she made the app available on Google Play and Apple’s iTunes, during Black History Month.

“For me, with everything that has been happening, with uprisings after black lives were taken by police officers,” said Roman Lyles, a WhereU user in Atlanta, “it’s important to protest with where I spend my dollars. I’m almost ashamed to say I didn’t know there were so many black-owned businesses here. This app has opened my eyes. And I have spent more money on black businesses in the last few months than I probably have all my life.”

Lyles’ story illustrates what WhereU can do. Black buying power is expected to reach $1.2 trillion this year and $1.4 trillion by 2020, according to the University of Georgia’s Selig Center for Economic Growth. Those figures would make “Black America” the world’s 15th largest economy, based on the World Bank’s Gross Domestic Prod-

uct data. This figure makes “Black America” as wealthy as Mexico.

“The app gets dialogue going about how to effect change in the community,” Mahaffey said. “It helps us address the dearth of sustainable blackowned businesses and route money back into our communities. We’ve heard from several businesses listed on the app that being listed has increased traffic.”

Between 500,000 and 1 million jobs could be created if higher-income black households spent just $1 of every $10 at black-owned stores and other enterprises, according to research by Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. The NAACP also cites data that suggest that entrepreneurial success is linked to generational economic empowerment.

“So,” Mahaffey said, “I agree with the NAACP’s Nicole Kenney who says, ‘If we are serious about improving our communities, improving our schools, providing jobs (black businesses are the second highest employer of African-Americans after the government), we must advance and strengthen black-owned businesses.’

That’s what WhereU is about.”

Mahaffey said she learned how to code in high school and advanced her soft-

ware-development knowledge in college. She said “the lion’s share” of her professional career has been spent in the tech world.

“The beauty of being engaged in STEM,” she said, “is that you can build what you dream,” through science, technology, engineering and math.

Mahaffey’s December dream has become a reality that could have a major impact on America’s black businesses.

New York leads the U.S. with 250,890 black-owned enterprises, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Atlanta is second with 176,245. So far, Mahaffey said, WhereU lists 75,000 such companies.

“WhereU is a directory, not a marketplace,” Mahaffey said. “But we do offer a badge for stores that ship globally or have online stores. Consumers can link to their websites from the app.”

Mahaffey is “exploring a partnership with blackowned websites that provide e-commerce and marketplace solutions,” she said. “We are committed to marketing the app to users in a way that encourages them to be intentional about using the app to search for black businesses . . . I’ve been supporting black business all my life. WhereU gives everyone a chance to do the same.” wWI

REC CENTERS from Page12 The 16,000-square-foot building will feature a gymnasium, teen lounge and a concourse/reception area. A playground housed near the property will be replaced with new apparatus.

Other recreation center projects in the works include: • Marlow Heights — a 12,000-square-foot addition with a new gymnasium, multipurpose room and dance studio; • Peppermill in Palmer Park — a new multipurpose space with a kitchen to accommodate 200 guests, expansion of office space and upgrading of outdoor tennis and basketball courts.

• Stephen Decatur in Clinton — preliminary plans call for a 10,000-square-foot addition with a new computer lab, weight room and dance fitness/studio room; • William Beanes in Suitland — construct a 9,000-square-foot addition with a new senior lounge, community garden and an asphalt trail.

The county's Park and Recreation Department are not only using social media to promote its activities, but also airing them on local radio stations such as 102.3 FM. "There is a big push for parks and recreation because we want people to know what we have to offer," said Kira Calm Lewis, spokeswoman for the department. "Residents deserve to have all the opportunities to do these activities."

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Black Author’s Expo The First Annual Black Author’s Expo was founded by Alexandria natives, Roberta Elliott Speight and Lynn Nelson.

Their goal is to create a community platform that will promote awareness of African American Authors and small businesses.

They are passionate about providing opportunities for black authors to not only showcase their talent, but to also inspire and educate future generations. This event will also feature a guest panel of speakers, publishers, vendors, food, music, and fun!

Please join us Saturday, September 17th at Fair Haven Community Center located at 2409 Fort Drive, Alexandria, VA 22303 (11:00am – 5:00pm).

If you have interest in participating as a featured author, vendor, or sponsor please contact Roberta Speight at 571-494-0348 or Lynn Nelson at 240-354-1669.

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ARIES Three upbeat planets are hovering together in the last few degrees of Virgo, so you could feel a push to get certain plans up and running. With Jupiter close to moving into Libra, you might want to make as much progress as you can by taking advantage of openings that enhance your job or health prospects. Lucky Numbers: 5, 9, 16

TAURUS There's plenty happening in your leisure sector this week, beginning with the potential for a special meeting with romantic overtones. The Solar Eclipse in this sector on Thursday suggests that you should be careful if you find yourself falling in love. Relationships can take unusual twists if they begin around the time of the Solar Eclipse, so it's good to be cautious. Lucky Numbers: 4, 24, 36 GEMINI Home and family matters, real estate, and DIY projects are key this week as the focus encourages you to move forward with any plans you've been nurturing. It's possible that you may be pushed into taking action sooner rather than later. While this may seem uncomfortable at first, you'll realize you have more opportunities than you had. Lucky Numbers: 13, 17, 34

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CANCER This week could center on negotiation and communication. You may

be involved in meetings and discussions of varying degrees of importance. Be wary of signing important deals or contracts at this time. If you can wait approximately three weeks, things should go more smoothly. Don't be surprised if an unexpected opportunity changes your life in some way. Lucky Numbers: 26, 40, 45

LEO The coming week could be very lively, particularly when it comes to matters

associated with values, the wise use of resources, and making the most of your skills and talents. While there are opportunities to push forward with your plans you might be better off researching your options in the coming three weeks. Take your time before making any key decisions. Lucky Numbers: 13, 23, 29

VIRGO This week could see one or two changes in your life that could please you

very much. You may notice some turbulence early on which stirs up feelings. Bearing this in mind, it might be best to take each day as it comes. Trying to plan ahead could be difficult. Lucky Numbers: 12, 25, 39

LIBRA You could find yourself in the position of helping others who need unbiased advice or a shoulder to cry on. This is also a chance to take time out for yourself. Should you be in the position of doing all the giving without getting much back, this is your opportunity to create firm boundaries. Lucky Numbers: 6, 21, 27 SCORPIO Your social life looks ready to rock this week. You may find that old friends or even old flames walk back into your life. The coming three weeks could bring opportunities for reunions and making amends. Lucky Numbers: 16, 20, 43 SAGITTARIUS The Sun is now in a dynamic section of your chart and encour-

aging you to push forward with your plans. You might even find that an unexpected opportunity leads you to make new plans. It will likely involve moving out of your comfort zone. You might have to overcome certain feelings of resistance. Things could work out well for you if you do. Lucky Numbers: 16, 25, 48

CAPRICORN Will you be heading out into the wild, blue yonder? If this week's Solar Eclipse has anything to do with it, you might. Eclipses can often coincide with unexpected events, so you could be offered a trip associated with your job or a family celebration. Or you could spontaneously decide to take a class that has positive consequences for you. Lucky Numbers: 5, 8, 35 AQUARIUS A major focus on your zone of change and transformation indicates this week could set the pace for the rest of the year. As Mercury flips backward in your sign it can encourage you to come to grips with any financial issues that may be holding you back. The reason is that a Solar Eclipse can coincide an opportunity that you won't want to miss. Also, a key relationship could go through some dynamic changes that take things to a more intimate level. Lucky Numbers: 5, 14, 49 PISCES Other people could have a dynamic effect on your life this week, perhaps more so than usual. This will be due to the Solar Eclipse in this sector, which could coincide with a love affair or proposal. Equally, you might be tempted into a business partnership or some other collaboration. Whatever happens, don't rush to get involved. Think about it carefully over the next three weeks or so and then make a decision once you have more to go on. Lucky Numbers: 11, 24, 46 40 SEPTEMBER 1 - 7, 2016

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At the end of the day, you're out of gas.

By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer There's nothing left in your reserves, not a drop. You're done, wondering if this is as far as you'll ever go but somehow open to new suggestions. So read "The Full Tank Life" by Ben Tankard. It might just rev your engine again.

Imagine this: you're driving down the highway on your way to somewhere important, when you glance at the gas gauge and oh, boy, it's almost on "E." That's what your life may be like, but Ben Tankard says you can boost your inner fuel with his "Full Tank Life" method. Since it's easy to do, you can start now.

It's all about D-E-S-T-I-N-Y, he says.

Begin by discovering your Dream. Get personal; this is your dream, not what someone else wants for you. Imagine it. Write it down. See yourself in it, then take steps to be in the right Environment to achieve that dream. Tell yourself every day that you'll have what you want. Say it aloud and make it positive. That will help train your Subconscious to see your path as a decision, not a choice.

Learn to see Time in a different way. Don't waste it, of course, but don't rush to use it, either. Haste, impatience, not prioritizing, and a lack of attention to detail can make time slip out of your fingers faster than you might realize.

Try to keep Inspiration in your life. Find people who can support you, and put yourself in their company as much as possible. Find a mentor, and then be a mentor to someone else. Take advantage of Networks to maintain your outlook and to boost your business and personal life.

Finally, remember the most important part of the Full Tank Life: You! Always be genuine. Do your best with whatever you have at the moment. Work around any roadblock you might find. And above all, don't listen to naysayers: if your tank is full, you can do this.

As faith-based business-slash-inspirational books go, "The Full Tank Life" is okay.

Not sterling, not great, but not horrible, either; just okay.

Author, pastor and "Renaissance man" Ben Tankard has a good premise here but, though his advice is solid, it's similar to a lot of other books. He offers personal anecdotes to illustrate his points but those tales often seem to be elevated, which could smack of boasting. There's a good amount of repetition here, too, and the lengthy Bible teachings sometimes feel like filler.

To the good, however, the information offered is rock-solid. The book is written in an easy step-by-step format (although Tankard says you don't have to read it that way). And there are helpful worksheets included with each chapter, which allow readers to sort through their thoughts and ideas.

The audience for this book, I think, is in the reader with a totally blank slate, or in the businessperson who's hit pause for just a minute. If you are neither, though, "The Full Tank Life" may only leave you empty. WI WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM

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CAPTURE THE MOMENT 5Judith Cutchin, mother of the slain Saqueena Cutchin, speaks during National Action Network's rally for stricter gun control outside the National Rifle Association's D.C. headquarters on Aug. 27. / Photo by Roy Lewis

5Rev. Shane R. Harris, president of National Action Network's San Diego

chapter, speaks during National Action Network's rally for stricter gun control outside the National Rifle Association's D.C. headquarters on Aug. 27. /Photo by Roy Lewis

53National Action Network teamed with several civil rights organizations and gun safety and labor groups at Folger Park in southeast D.C. to march to the National Rifle Association headquarters for a rally calling for stricter gun control on Aug. 27. / Photo by Roy Lewis

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5Visitors observe a live bat exhibit sponsored by the Organization for Bat Conservation during the National Park Service's 100th anniversary celebration at Constitution Gardens in northwest D.C. /Photo by Patricia Little

5Children enjoy shooting hoops at an inflated basketball arcade during the National Park Service's 100th anniversary celebration at Constitution Gardens in northwest D.C. / Photo by Patricia Little

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5The National Park Service celebrates its 100th anniversary at Constitution Gardens in northwest D.C. / Photo by Patricia Little

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SPORTS Nationals Lose Slugfest to Orioles 6 Washington Nationals left fielder Jayson Werth is forced out at second base in a

double-play attempt during the Baltimore Orioles' 10-8 win over the Washington Nationals on Wednesday, Aug. 24 at Nationals Park in southeast D.C. / Photo by John E. De Freitas Â

5 Baltimore Orioles third baseman Manny Machado acknowledges

the crowd after hitting a home run in the first inning of the Orioles' 10-8 win over the Washington Nationals on Wednesday, Aug. 24 at Nationals Park in southeast D.C. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

5 World champion swimmer and Maryland native Katie Ledecky, who won four gold medals at this summer's Rio Olympics, throws the first pitch before Washington Nationals-Baltimore Orioles game at Nationals Park in southeast D.C. on Wednesday, Aug. 24 as Nationals right fielder Bryce Harper holds her medals. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

4 Washington Nation-

als center fielder Trea Turner slides back to first base as Baltimore Orioles first baseman Chris Davis awaits a pickoff attempt during the Orioles' 10-8 win over the Washington Nationals on Wednesday, Aug. 24 at Nationals Park in southeast D.C. / Photo

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5 Baltimore Orioles first baseman Chris Davis slides into second base after doubling in the first

inning of the Orioles' 10-8 win over the Washington Nationals on Wednesday, Aug. 24 at Nationals Park in southeast D.C. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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SPORTS Redskins Top Bills in Preseason Action 3 Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins is sacked by Buffalo Bills linebacker Lorenzo Alexander, which was negated by a penalty, in the first quarter of the Redskins' 21-16 preseason win at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, on Friday, Aug. 26. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

6 Washington Redskins tight end Jordan Reed attempts to evade

defenders after a reception during the second quarter of the Redskins' 21-16 preseason win over the Buffalo Bills at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, on Friday, Aug. 26. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

5 Buffalo Bills running back Jonathan Williams outruns Washington Redskins linebacker Wil-

lie Jefferson en route to a 37-yard touchdown in the third quarter of the Redskins' 21-16 preseason win at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, on Friday, Aug. 26. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

5 Washington Redskins tight end Vernon Davis makes a second-quarter reception during the Redskins' 21-16

preseason win over the Buffalo Bills at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, on Friday, Aug. 26. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

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In honor of the 53rd anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington held at the National Mall on August 28 in Washington, D.C., Barber said he found it fitting, 53 years later, to host a rally on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. The march served as a call to America to defend the rights of all Americans to vote, to receive a quality education, and equal housing opportunities, jobs and justice.

“America needs some mourning,” Barber told the congregation. “Don’t be afraid to weep, for if we don’t weep there can be no joy in the morning.”

Barber’s presence in the Nation’s Capital represented one of the final cities in a 15-state, 23-city tour sponsored by Repairers of the Breach, a national organization founded by Barber, and Kairos, The Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice, and other social justice organizations.

When Barber delivered his famous speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, he called on all Americans to “fight for the heart of this nation.” It was clearly a prelude to the message he has been delivering on his tour co-led by Dr. James Forbes, Jr., senior minister emeritus of Riverside Church in New York.

The Revival website explains that the revival tour is based in “the values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; of democracy and equal protection under the law; of a just and righteous God; and of our responsibility to love and care for one another.

For too long, these values and their sources — the Bible and other sacred texts, along with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution — have been turned upside-down, used to shame us and divide us in the service of the powerful,” “The Revival national tour is about working on national and a state level to revive the true meaning and power of those values, along with our ability and our determination to fight alongside one another and not against one another,” Barber said.

Barber’s sermon mirrored Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “The Oth-

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Because of what they see as "Republican racism," blacks are too busy defending Obamacare to notice that its wheels are falling off. Health insurance companies are amplifying warnings about Obamacare's financial sustainability. Insurers say they are losing money on Obamacare at a rapid rate, and talk about dropping out. Per-capita costs for insurers are spiking in Obamacare marketplaces; these insurers lost money in 41 states in 2014, and were only profitable in 9 states. Aetna's decision to partially withdraw from a major provision is threatening Obamacare.

Aetna is Obamacare's largest insurer, and another prominent insurer, UnitedHealth, is eyeing the exits due to financial losses. UnitedHealth is dropping Obamacare in Arkansas and Georgia, and more states could follow. Aetna plans to cut its ACA participation to just a handful of states, and the Blue Cross plan in New Mexico already dropped off after it lost money.

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And the other America, that “tragically and unfortunately” faces despair, including high unemployment, inferior housing, extreme poverty and a hopelessness that impacts “little children who are forced to grow up with clouds of inferiority; who grow up in an arena of blasted hopes and shattered dreams.”

“Today,” Barber demanded, “it’s time to have a real conversation about race.”

In what he called an “avalanche of attacks” by legislators in 26 states against the Voting Rights Act, Barber called on supporters to commit to a movement that stands for protecting rights in America, particularly the right to vote.

“We are seeing more attacks on voting rights since we saw in the 1930s” Barber said. “Here we are right now when people can get elected through unconstitutional laws. All of this is happening because the Congress of the United States, with a smile, has refused to fix and restore the Voting Rights Act since June 25, 2013. Our Congress has engaged in over 1,160 days of filibuster, refusing to fix the Voting Rights Act.” Barber referenced the 2013 Supreme Court decision that struck down Section 4, a significant part of the Voting Rights Act, in the case of Shelby County vs. Holder. As a result, voters in states including North Carolina and Texas faced new restrictions to their right to vote. The impact, Barber warned, impacts the quality of life for all Americans who have been denied opportunities that voting helps to ensure.

“This attack,” Barber said, “is not just a black issue. You can’t talk about race without talking about class. An attack on voting rights is an attack on public education, health care, worker’s right, women’s rights, equal protection under the law and immigrants’ rights.”

“Even among us who call ourselves progressive, we haven’t cried enough,” Barber preached. “There is no lifting of the spirit where there is no lamenting.”

In two weeks, on September 12, Barber is calling on clergy in all of the 15 states and D.C. to “lead a movement with a heart,” – diverse and daring – “that will fight for what’s right” on what he has called a National Higher Ground Moral Day of Action.

On that day at 11 a.m. participants are asked to deliver to elected officials and candidates a declaration “to move away from extremist politics and policies that benefit the few and move toward policies and laws that are just and fair and guarantee a better life for the majority of the people.” WI To find out more about the Moral Revolution Tour or the National Day of Action visit: www.moralrevival.org

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Remembering George E. Curry Last week, we lost an exceptional journalist, George E. Curry. Though his death was sudden, Curry lived life to the fullest, right up to the end.

Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Feb. 23, 1947, he grew up in a segregated Alabama housing project, eventually becoming a prominent black journalist and editor of the enthusiastic but short-lived magazine Emerge.

Emerge, which at its peak reached a circulation of more than 160,000, gave Mr. Curry his most prominent platform as an editor. The monthly magazine was founded in 1989 by Time magazine reporter Wilmer C. Ames Jr. as a news-oriented rival to Ebony and Essence, older periodicals aimed at a black audience.

Curry ascribed his interest in journalism to his stepfather, who brought home lots of newspapers, according to his biography.

In a story in The Washington Post, it talked about how Curry was multitalented and enjoyed his long career in journalism. George began on a small scale, but over the years, he would become the president of Black Press USA, as well as president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), working with black newspapers across the country.

Mr. Curry, who once reported on racism, poverty and national politics for newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune, most recently wrote a syndicated column that ran in more than 200 blackowned newspapers. At the NNPA, a trade group for black-oriented Turning Hearts Church

publications, he was editor in chief of its news service.

But journalism was not the beginning and end for him. The other driving force in his formative years was the battle against segregation.

"I used segregation, as cruel as it was, as a positive factor in my life," he told the reference guide Contemporary Authors, adding that he refused to drink from "colored" water fountains, The Post reported. "I was determined not to let any system or anyone deter me from reaching my goals."

He was a lot of things at once — walking in greatness, known and loved by the biggest names from the African-American community, yet he was so down to earth, always within reach of ordinary, everyday people. One day, I walked up to Mr. Curry to say hello, and to tell him about my column, he said, "I read your column all the time, it's really outstanding."

In my life, Curry was like a "secret pal." He syndicated this column in 2009, several years before l knew he had. Calls would come in from readers across America — l thought everyone was reading my column online at The Washington Informer.

Readers began calling from North Carolina, Texas, Kentucky, California, Chicago, Florida and many other places, thanking God for my column: "I've been sending your column to my son who is in prison"; "I look for The Informer every week, just so l can read your column!"

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It is this steady stream of calls coming in over the years that have encouraged me and caused me to continue my writing with others in mind.

Scripture says, "Your gift will make room for you!" I will be eternally grateful for the kindness George Curry showed me. I owe him a special, heartfelt debt of gratitude for the tremendous impact he made on my life. RIP, my friend.

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Bishop Michael C. Turner, Sr. Senior Pastor 9161 Hampton Overlook Capitol Heights, MD 20743 Phone: 301-350-2200 Fax: 301-499-8724

Church of Living Waters

700 I Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 547-8849 Service and Times Worship Sundays: 7:30 & 11:00am 5th Sundays: 9:30am 3rd Sundays: Baptism & Holy Communion Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @ Noon & 6:30pm

Service and Times Sunday Worship Times : 7:30 a.m. 7 10:00 a.m.

Communion: 1st Sunday Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.

Bible Study: Wednesday, 12 Noon Bible Study in homes: Tuesday 7:00 p.m.

Website: www.themiraclecenterFMBC.com Email: Miraclecenterfmbs@gmail.com Motto: “We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight”

Crusader Baptist Church

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

Rev. Dr. Alton W. Jordan Pastor

Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews Senior Pastor

Harold Andrew Assistant Pastor

2498 Alabama Ave., SE - Washington D.C. 20020 Office: (202) 889-7296 Fax: (202) 889-2198 - www.acamec.org

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

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

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

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

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

www.livingwatersmd.org

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

Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ

St. Stephen Baptist Church

Third Street Church of God

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

Drs. Dennis W. & Christine Y. Wiley Pastors

Bishop Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Senior Pastor

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

Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr.; Senior Bishop & Evangelist Susie C. Owens – Co-Pastor

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

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

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

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

610 Rhode Island Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (202) 529-4547 office • (202) 529-4495 fax

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

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

Blessed Word of Life Church

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

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

Campbell AME Church

Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 am Sunday Church School: 8:45 am Bible Study Wednesday: 12:00 Noon Wednesday: 7:00 pm Thursday: 7: pm “Reaching Up To Reach Out” Mailing Address Campbell AME Church 2502 Stanton Road SE - Washington, DC 20020

Services and Times Sunday School: 9:30am Sunday Worship: 11:00am Prayer Meeting and Bible Study: Wed. 7:30pm

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

www.thirdstreet.org

“Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital”

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

St Marks Baptist Come Worship with us...

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

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

Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Mount Carmel Baptist Church

Rev. John W. Davis Pastor

Joseph N. Evans, Ph.D Senior Pastor

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

901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423

Service and Times 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

Services and Times Sunday Early Morning Worship: 7:45am Church School: 9:30am Sunday Morning Worship: 10:45am Tuesday: 7:00pm/Kingdom Building Bible Institute Wednesday: Prayer/Praise/Bible Study-7:30 pm Baptism & Communion Service: 4th Sunday – 10:30am

Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church

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

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

Sunday Church School: 9:20 a.m.

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

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

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

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

Twelfth Street Christian Church

Rev. Dr. Henry Y. White 2562 MLK Jr. Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Adm. Office 202-678-2263 Email: Campbell@mycame.org

Isle of Patmos Baptist Church

Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor

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

www.pilgrimbaptistdc.org

Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church

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

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RELIGION Shabbath Commandment Church

All Nations Baptist Church

King Emmanuel Baptist Church

Bishop Adrian A. Taylor, Sr. Pastor

Rev. Dr. James Coleman Pastor

Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.

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

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

Israel Baptist Church

Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor

Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert Senior Pastor

2409 Ainger Pl.,SE – WDC 20020 (202) 678-0884 – Office - (202) 678-0885 – Fax “Come Grow With Us and Establish a Blessed Family”

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

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

Service and Times Sunday Worship: 7:30am & 10:45am Baptism/Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday Family Bible Study Tuesdays – 6:30pm Prayer Service: Tuesdays – 8:00pm www.emmanuelbaptistchurchdc.org

“Where Jesus is the King”

Lincoln Park United Methodist Church

Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith

Rev. Dr. Diane Dixon Proctor Pastor

Elder Herman L. Simms Pastor

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

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

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

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

Service and Times Sunday Worship: 10: am Holy Communion: First Sunday 10: am Sunday School: 9: am Bible Study: Wednesday @ 12 noon and 6:30pm Motto: “A CHURCH ON THE GROW”.

Mount Moriah Baptist Church

Eastern Community Baptist Church

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

The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42

New Commandment Baptist Church

Dr. Lucius M. Dalton Senior Pastor

Damion M. Briggs Pastor

Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rehoboth Baptist Church

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

Salem Baptist Church

Holy Trinity United Baptist Church

Florida Avenue Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. Clinton W. Austin Pastor

Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor

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

St. Matthews Baptist Church

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

Emmanuel Baptist Church

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

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

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

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

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

Midweek Prayer: Wednesday – 7:00 p.m.

Noonday Prayer Every Thursday

Matthews Memorial Baptist Church

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

Christ Embassy DC

Dr. C. Matthew Hudson, Jr, Pastor 2616 MLK Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Office 202-889-3709 - Fax 202-678-3304 Service and Times 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”

Peace Baptist Church

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

Pennsylvania Ave. Baptist Church

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

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

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

Shiloh Baptist Church

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Mt. Horeb Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor

Rev. Curtis l. Staley Pastor

Rev. Alonzo Hart Pastor

Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor

Rev. Reginald M. Green, Sr. Interim Pastor

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

Worshiping Location Knights of Columbus - 1633 Tucker Road Fort Washington, MD 20744 (240) 838-7074

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday Church School: 9:15 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship: 10:40 a.m.

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

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

Service and Times Sunrise Prayer Services - Sunday 7:00 a.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.

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

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

Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.

Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.

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

Prayer Services:Tuesday 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday 12 Noon

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

The Church Where GOD Is Working....

And We Are Working With GOD

Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 am Sunday School: 9:00 am Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer / Bible Study: 6:15 pm - 7:20 pm (Tuesday) Theme: “The Kingdom Focused Church” Matthew 6:33 and Mathew 28:18-20, KJV Email: stmatthewsbaptist@msn.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.org

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

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

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LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

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

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

Administration No. 2016 ADM 886

Administration No. 2016 ADM 897

William Martin Clark, Jr. Decedent Aimee D. Griffin, Esq. The Griffin Firm, PLLC 5335 Wisconsin St, NW Suite 440 Washington, DC 20015 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Fern Clark, whose address is 3318 Highwood Drive, SE, Washington, DC 20020, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of William Martin Clark, Jr. who died on May 30, 2016 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 February 18, 2017. 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 February 18, 2017, 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: August 18, 2016 Fern Clark Personal Representative

Terrance Russell Decedent

LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Probate Division

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration Number 2016 ADM 411 Estate of

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Tavon Russell and Terrell Lomax-Russell, whose addresses are 7933 Johnson Ave., Apt. 911, Lanham, MD 20706 & 2704 Minnesota Ave., SE, Washington, DC 20019 were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Terrance Russell who died on June 29, 2016 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 February 18, 2017. 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 February 18, 2017, 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: August 18, 2016

Shirley J. Thompson Deceased

NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE

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 date April 8, 2010 exhibited with the petition upon proof

satisfactory to the Court of due execution by

affidavit of witnesses appoint an unsupervised personal representative.

Date of first publication:

Anne Meister

Washington Informer

Washington Informer

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

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

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

Administration No. 2016 ADM 912

Administration No. 2016 ADM 930

Madiana Renee Thomas aka Madiana Renee Smith and Clara Christine Smith, whose addresses are 908 W. Glebe Rd., Alexandria, VA 22305 & 13505 Steeplechase Dr. Bowie, MD 20715, was appointed Personal Representatives of the estate ofAlfred George Smith who died on July 2, 2016 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 February 25, 2017. 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 February 25, 2017, 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: August 25, 2016 Madiana Renee Thomas Clara Christine Smith Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

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Corinne C. Staton Decedent

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Carlethia A. Dillard, whose address is 4300 Donna Street, Suitland, MD 20746 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Eunetha S. Yates who died on November 15, 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 February 18, 2017. 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 February 18, 2017, 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.

Carlethia A. Dillard Personal Representative

Larry C. Williams 7600 Georgia Ave., NW, Suite 405 Washington, DC 20012 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Gail L. Staton, whose address is 2240 S Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Corinne C. Staton who died on February 17, 2014 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 February 25, 2017. 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 February 25, 2017, 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: August 25, 2016

LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016 ADM 932 Rita Machakos Decedent Peter D. Antonoplos, Esq. 1725 DeSales Street, NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Bessie Andersen & Costandine Machakos, whose addresses are 56 Rosemary Rd. Dedham, MA 02026 & 17 Evergreen Circle Canton, MA 02021 were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Rita Machakos who died on November 22, 2013 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 25, 2017. 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 February 25, 2017, 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: August 25, 2016 Bessie Andersen Contandine Machakos Personal Representatives

TRUE TEST COPY

TRUE TEST COPY

Anne Meister Register of Wills

Anne Meister Register of Wills

Washington Informer

Eunetha S. Yates Decedent

Date of first publication: August 18, 2016

Gregory H. Williams Personal Representative

TRUE TEST COPY

Anne Meister Register of Wills

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

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

Date of first publication: August 18, 2016

standard probate, including the appointment of

Anne Meister Register of Wills

Bradley A. Thomas, Esq. 1629 K Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006-1631 Attorney

James Henry Williams Decedent

James Larry Frazier

filed in this Court by James E. Logan, Jr. for

TRUE TEST COPY

Alfred George Smith Decedent

Administration No. 2016 ADM 893

August 18, 2016

Notice is hereby given that a petition has been

TRUE TEST COPY

Administration No. 2016 ADM 922

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

Gregory H. Williams, whose address is 6831 E. Tanners Ck Dr., Norfolk, VA 23513, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of James Henry Williams who died on October 31, 2005 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 February 18, 2017. 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 February 18, 2017, 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.

Petitioner/Attorney

Tavon Russell Terrell Lomax-Russell Personal Representative

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016 ADM 971 Charles R. Ford Decedent Larry C. Williams 7600 Georgia Avenue, NW, Suite 405 Washington, DC 20012 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Donald Ross, Jr., whose address is 3203 Benjamin Court, Clinton, MD 20735, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Charles R. Ford who died on June 19, 2016 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 1, 2017. 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 1, 2017, 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 1, 2016

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016 ADM 907 Bonnie W. Harrison Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Alan D. Harrison, whose address is 1839 Tulip Street, NW, Washington, DC 20012, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Bonnie W. Harrison who died on July 11, 2016 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 1, 2017. 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 1, 2017, 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 1, 2016

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Juana Ortiz Minor Decedent

Edna M. Jones Decedent

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Mercedes C. Frazier, whose address is 7202 Riggs Road, Hyattsville, MD 20783, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Juana Ortiz Minor who died on April 26, 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 1, 2017. 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 1, 2017, 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.

Sandy D. Jones, whose address is5542 Karen Elaine Dr., Apt 1512 new Carrollton, MD 20784, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Edna M. Jones who died on July 8, 2016 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 1, 2017. 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 1, 2017, 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 1, 2016

Date of first publication: September 1, 2016

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Carled White, whose address is 1906 Gaither Street, Temple Hills, MD 20748, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Audrey C. Conyers who died on April 1, 2006 without a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 25, 2017. 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 February 25, 2017, 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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Date of first publication: August 25, 2016

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Administration No. 2016 ADM 943 Audrey C. Conyers Decedent Shanelle C. Patterson, Esq. 1455 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20004 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

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But Trump does have a point.

African-Americans have suffered significantly from the stacked deck that characterizes our economy. We were the biggest victims of what the FBI called an "epidemic of fraud" in the housing bubble. We lost more ground than whites in the Great Recession. We suffer higher unemployment, a racially biased criminal justice system and inadequate public schools. Recent reports showing that poor African-Americans in Milwaukee and in other cities are living in more isolated neighborhoods, with more segregated schools, worse household incomes and greater incidence of concentrat-

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I agree, of course, with one caveat. It seems to me that the biggest hurdle for white working and poor people is to see that their fates are much more determined by balance sheets than by race.

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As the first black president, Obama enjoyed a deep wellspring of support among African-Americans. We had his back. Clinton will not enjoy that unstinting loyalty. African-Americans will be making demands — as Black Lives Matter has already done — and looking for results. If disappointed, they may never get back to voting for a Republican Party that seems intent on locking them out — if not up — but they may end up staying home in larger and larger numbers.

We need a targeted program to rebuild our inner cities. We need investment in jobs, housing and schools, as well as massive criminal justice reform. Hillary Clinton, periodically, talks about the Rep. James Clyburn's 10-20-30 plan. This calls for earmarking

10 percent of government spending for the 474 communities that have had 20 percent of the population in poverty for more than 30 years. As Clyburn notes, this isn't a blacks-only program.

These communities are both majority Democrat and majority Republican; they are urban and they are rural. They include Appalachian whites, Alaskan Native Americans, urban Latinos and more. 10-20-30 won't solve the problems of Chicago's South Side or Milwaukee's north side, but it will demonstrate a clear concern for those struggling the most. That, along with reforming our criminal justice system and ending mass incarceration that has destroyed so many lives, would begin to revive hope.

Without that, Clinton will find that our cities are tinderboxes, ready to blow.

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figures on a balance sheet. Downsizings, mass incarceration, perpetual war, planned obsolescence and the like mean little aside from their effect on stock prices and corporate bonuses. What happens to children and families in the process is not personal. It's just business.

But let's take race out of the equation. What would America look like if it were all white? According to the Federal Reserve's 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, 70 percent of the country's wealth is controlled by 10 percent of the population.

And a whopping 30 percent of the white population has no wealth at all. It's not because of black people or immigrants — it's just business.

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Cycles of competition for scarce jobs and fear of the future escalate.

As long as a certain degree of order is maintained, however, business proceeds and prospers. Whatever casualties occur are seen by those on top as acceptable costs. Poor white and black people can fight as much as they like as long as they wear clothes made in China.

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reached $50.2 billion in 2013, up 40 percent from 2009.

• The Trade Africa Initiative works with African governments to improve the business climate by removing trade barriers. From 2013-2014, there was a 24 percent increase in exports from the East African Community (EAC) to the U.S. Africa faces numerous challenges. Boko Haram, ISIS and al Qaeda continue to wreak havoc. Corruption is prevalent at the highest levels of some governments. Yet, Africa remains a land of opportunities.

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• The Feed the Future Initiative was created to ensure that farmers can feed their families and sell their harvests at markets. Over 2.5 million farmers have raised their incomes by using new technologies and land management practices.

• The president has visited the continent a record four times, including a trip to South Africa for the funeral of Nelson Mandela. On his last visit to Africa in July 2015, he became the first sitting American president to address the Africa Union as well as visit Ethiopia and Kenya.

• In 2014, the president hosted the first U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington. It was a historic meeting, with almost 50 African presidents in attendance. American business leaders committed $33 billion in new investments for the continent. A second summit will take place next month in New York.

• President Obama signed into law a 10-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the longest in the program's history. The extension signals the United States is serious about expanding the bilateral trade relationship with Africa, including creating new customers for U.S. goods and services.

• The Doing Business in Africa Campaign makes it easier for U.S. companies to strengthen commercial ties to the continent. U.S. goods and services exports to Africa

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easily blinded for some black athletes by U.S. social conditions.

Alas, there is a chattering class of analysts, commentators and pundits which will have at this for the remainder of Kaepernick's career. The most gung-ho among them will only forgive him after he utterly and completely capitulates. These flags and these anthems are tricky.

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More important than failure, however, is the fact that black people have already done exactly what many of us are trying to do today. Our ancestors, grandparents and parents started and operated highly successful businesses against inconceivable odds. The blueprints of their success were left for us to follow. We need to learn from our past and build upon what our forebears did, by emulating their tenacity, their

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"A lot of research of the brain and neurology show that the first five years are formidable," said Lisa Henkel, CEO of Celebree Learning Centers, whose locations include Annapolis and Baltimore.

"The biggest challenge we face is public perception," she said. "People tend to believe it's about babysitter and play time, but early childhood education and what we do at Celebree is about building an education foundation and maintaining educational milestones."

The center's preschool curriculum, which is aligned with the Maryland State Department of Education's focus on early childhood education, is designed to cover each kindergarten readiness milestone,

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willingness to sacrifice, their resolve to assist one another, work together, support one another, and their commitment to the entrepreneurial spirit that has burned within African people for thousands of years.

In Thomas Boston's book, "Affirmative Action and Black Entrepreneurship," he suggests that instead of failure (low success rates) of black businesses, we should also look at black business startups.

Boston cites a study that points out the difference between access to capital for whites and blacks which states, "non-minority men borrow 16 percent of their initial capital from commercial banks while Black business owners get 9.5 percent of their initial capital through such channels."

He goes on to say, "The differences in the rate of entrepreneurship between blacks and other ethnic groups have been found to be attributable mainly to the lower business start-up rate for blacks,

and not to a higher failure rate."

The low startup rate can thus be attributed to the inequities faced by blacks when it comes to access to capital.

To keep things on a positive note, consider Juliet E.K. Walker's advice in her seminal work, "The History of Black Business In America." She writes, "What black Americans need now, after almost four centuries of existence in this nation, are theoretical constructs that factor in the strength and success that have distinguished [black businesses] in their attempts to survive racism in America; what they do not need are theories that emphasize failure."

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mad, for another. But no separate black identity has gained internationally recognized sovereignty, so those flags and anthems are celebrated privately not at massive sporting events.

In the end, it may be difficult for Colin Kaepernick to build an anti-anthem constituency among typical U.S. sports aficionados, after all many of them have already taken to burning their jerseys with his name on them, and those jerseys are not cheap.

I hope he's got enough money set aside to be able to afford a farm or some other homestead somewhere, where he can comfortably reside for the remainder of his days — which I hope will be plenty.

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Henkel said.

Celebree's mission is to provide a stable and secure learning environment that helps foster a solid foundation for lifelong success and center officials have a vision to be the recognized leader in providing the best care for infants, preschool and school-age children.

Teachers at the center are dedicated instructors who make a habit of going above and beyond the call of duty for the children they teach, officials said.

They also realize some of the challenges that may hold some back from an early education.

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