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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) exercised her control over D.C. public schools late last week with her first-ever veto, shooting down emergency legislation that would allow students who didn’t meet attendance requirements this school year to advance to the next level if they fulfilled other criteria. Last month, the D.C. Council overwhelmingly passed the School Promotion and Graduation Fairness Emergency Act, introduced by council members David Grosso (I-At Large), chair of the council’s education committee, and Robert White (D-At Large). All coun-
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A pregame ceremony is held for the Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Nationals Park in Washington on July 17, 2018. /Photo by Kyodo News via Getty Images - For the full story go to page 34.
Residents, Activists Embrace Community Control over Police By Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins
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In what has been a recurring cycle, a slew of gun-related violence in D.C. and subsequent conversations about public safety have spurred calls from residents and council members alike to flood the most affected communities with police officers and confiscate as many firearms as possible. Long before that strategy proved controversial in a June stop-and-frisk scandal involving the Metropolitan Police Department’s (MPD) gun-recovery unit, some residents and activists
have pushed against the prevailing school of thought, organizing around legislation that provides resources for residents in place of arrest and prosecution. Years after the passage of a bill that would’ve facilitated such a process, MPD and D.C. Mayor Bowser’s responses to inquiries about implementation haven’t been to the liking of local activists, community leaders and disillusioned residents. Lately, what’s been described as their lack of transparency has inspired more radical thoughts about police-community relations. “It’s been very interesting to
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Metro’s largest union may soon authorize a strike due to what its officials describe as constant disrespect toward workers by the agency CEO and General Manager Paul Wiedefeld. Although union leaders agreed to meet with Wiedefeld’s designees Tuesday, July 17, a statement released Monday, July 16 laid out their feelings toward Wiedefeld and his failure to adhere to a collective bargaining agreement particularly in light of the fact that their contract expired in 2016, followed by binding arbitration ordered last year. “For the past two years, ATU Local 689 has come to the WMATA board demonstrating to them the many ways Metro’s General Manager Paul Wiedefeld – the man that they hired – has been pissing on the collective bargaining agreement [CBA] between ATU Local 689 and WMATA and they still don’t get it,” according to the statement. “It is time for him to take responsibility for his failure to hold up his end of the agreement and stop blaming his workers for the incompetence of him and his team.” The union said about 94 percent of its 6,000 members voted Sunday, July 15 to allow union leadership to authorize a strike against Metro, also known as the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Author-
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had come together to bring a Among the programs Marlow Five studentssense from of Peoples Congregational United Church in Northwest’s Troop 544 uniformity in the way wants to see implemented are will be recognized the highest rankand attainable inrestraining the Boy Scouts of America, When L.Y. Marlow's 23-yeardomesticwith violence victims stricter order policies, Eagle Scout, on Saturday, July 21 during a 10 a.m. ceremony. The scouts include: old daughter told her the father survivors are treated. more rights for victim's families Columbus Jared Giles, Campbell James Wilson, Ian Groom, James Omar of her daughter threatened her “She's using her own personal to intervene on behalf of a vic-Dorman and Elmer Ellis, Jr., of Scout Master Robert life, and the life of their child, story, herDouglass own personal painunder to the tim,direction a domestic violence assessandforward,” Committee Chair, Susan Hall. The church’s scouting program, she knew something had to Simpson be push Davis-Nickens ment unit coupled with further first chartered in 1931 under the Rev. Arthur Fletcher one of the first done. Out of her frustration said about Marlow. training forElmes law as enforcement Black troops in the U.S. during a time of strictly enforced segregation, has long with law enforcement's handling Davis-Nickens said anyone agencies, a Child's Life Protecas among the most outstanding in the Washington area. of the situation, she decidedbeen to hailed who reads Marlow's book will tion Act and mandatory counselThe rank of Eagle Scoutshe requires candidate has been a Life Scout for start the Saving Promise cam“get it.” She said “puts athe ing forwho batterers. at least six months, hasa earned a minimum badges, has demonstrated paign. case in such way, the average of 21 “Ifmerit we are ever going to eradi“It seems to be a vicious cycleSpiritperson Scout and has leadership his troop.violence, Additionally, the five candemonstrated get it.” She said at the within cate domestic we must that won't turn my family Scouts had toend plan,ofdevelop, a service demonstrating the day,and thelead book will project look at both sides ofboth theleadership coin. loose,” Marlowandsaid. Marlow to a commitment duty. Troop 544 to bears thea distinction having 49 young achieve help people begin have dia- We of need to address bothmen the vicshared her the story with the audilogue about domestic violence. rank of Eagle Scout. Congratulations! tim and the batterer,” Marlow ence at the District Heights Also present at the event was said. Domestic Violence Symposium Mildred Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see on May 7 at the District Heights wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise Municipal Center. The sympo- who was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in sium was sponsored by the utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She Family and YouthEleanor Services by Norton a Maryland jury forlodged his rolecomplaint in feelsagainst childrenthe need to beteam educatCongresswoman Holmes (D-DC) Trump for its Center of the citytoofgive District the Beltway Sniper attacks in on ed about domesticforviolence. continued refusal her the courtesy of consultation or notice nominations federal law enHeights andofficials the National Hook2002. Mildred Muhammadthat is Richard “We S.have to stop being forcement serving D.C. after the recent announcement Tischner (VA) will passoon be Up of Black Women. the founder of After the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chil- of nominated to serve as director of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District Marlow has written a book,currently an organization helpsU.S. the Attorney dren about domestic Columbia [CSOSA]. Tischner serves as anthat Assistant and the Chief ofviolence,” the Superior “Color Butterfly,” a survivors violence Court Me Division at thewhich U.S. isAttorney’s Officeoffordomestic D.C. Unlike under Marlow Presidentsaid. George W. Bush, Norton story about four generations denied of and has worked to break says Trump has consistently hertheir the children. opportunity to consult on Marlow the nomination of federal judges domestic violence. The book is “I lived fear forthat six years. Six the cycle of abuse in herasfamily, and other federal officials serving the District,inadding this instance is particularly insulting CSOSA’s inspired experiences, years in fear is aunder long time. is – the andonly is confident the policies she only rolebyisher theown supervision of offenders convicted D.C.Itlaw state or local felons housed and those of her grandmother, not an easy thing to come out is pushing for will start that by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. her mother and her daughter. of,” she said. process.with me on a position that “It is insulting that the Trump administration would not even consult She said every time she reads Muhammad said “I plan to take these policies to uniquely serves only one population:Mildred my constituents.” excerpts from her book, she still people who want to help a Congress and implore them to can not believe the words came domestic violence victim must change our laws,” Marlow said. from her. “Color Me Butterfly” be careful of how they go into “I will not stop until these poliwon the 2007 National “Best the victim's life, and understand cies are passed.” Books” Award. that she may be in “survival Tia Carol Jones can be reached “I was just 16-years-old when mode”. at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net George’s County voted 7-2get to to grant my Prince eye first blackened andSchool my recently “Before you 'I'moutgoing going CEO Kevin Maxwell a nearly package, also terminating lips bled,” Marlow said. $800,000 severance to kill you,' it started as a verbal his job WI with the County. Maxwell became Elaine Davis-Nickens, presi- the first superintendent to receive a second straight appointment year in 25 years. Board vice chairwoman Carolyn dent of the National last Hook-Up and boardsaid member ofBoston Black Women, there isSonya no Williams both abstained. The board apconsistency in theGoldson, way domestic pointed Monica deputy superintendent for teaching and learning, violence are dealt by to serve issues as interim CEO.with Meanwhile, board member Edward Burroughs III, who voted against the severance pay, said after the meeting board chairman Segun Eubanks struck and threatened him behind closed doors. Eubanks couldn’t be reached for comment. County Executive Rushern L. Baker III’s office released a statement Friday, July 13 on Maxwell’s departure and alleged quarrel between Burroughs and Eubanks acknowledging his being aware of the alleged altercation saying, “whatever happened, it is unfortunate that they Kevin Maxwell /File photo by did not address their disagreement in a more professional manner.” William J. Ford
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Bowser Breaks Ground on Affordable Apartments for Ward 4 Seniors Former Walter Reed Medical Center Campus will Be Site for Eighty New Units
WI Staff Report On Monday, July 16, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser celebrated the groundbreaking of Abrams Hall Senior Apartments – an 80-unit housing community designated for senior citizens that will be built on the campus of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center, now The Parks at Walter Reed, in Ward 4. “As the District continues to grow and prosper, my Administration is focused on ensuring our seniors have the supports and resources they need to live and thrive across all eight wards,” Bowser said. “Whether it’s through property tax relief or more affordable housing, we’re building pathways to the middle class for our seniors and finding new ways to keep DC affordable for longtime Washingtonians of all ages and backgrounds.” The Abrams Hall Senior Apartments community will include 80 affordable units, with 64 apartments targeting seniors at or below 50 percent of the median family income [MFI] and 16 permanent supportive housing [PSH] units for seniors at or below 30 percent MFI. The new senior apartments will be building in Building 14 of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus, originally constructed in 1976 as barrack housing for soldiers receiving long-term medical care and able to live semi-independently. In May, the Bowser Administration also broke ground on 77 units for formerly homeless veterans at Abrams Hall. Upon completion, Abrams Hall will be a 100 percent affordable housing community with approximately 200 units. “We committed to repurposing the historic Walter Reed campus in a way that creates the types of housing and resources the community needs and that includes safe and affordable apartments for seniors,” said Deputy
Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Brian Kenner. “I look forward to coming back and welcoming seniors to their new home on Walter Reed.” The project, supported by $9.7 million from the Department of Housing and Community Development’s Housing Production Trust Fund and a $168,000 grant from the Department of Behavioral Health, allocates four of the PSH units to residents on the Housing Eligibility and Assessment List currently experiencing homelessness or transitioning from institutions. Additional financing for the project will be provided by Citi, Freddie Mac and SunTrust Community Capital. Urban Atlantic, Hines, non-profit Housing Up and 1750 K Affordable Partners (a CBE joint venture comprised of Evergreen Urban and Blue Sky Housing) have been chosen to develop the project. This site will also be the home for The Parks at Walter Reed’s first office tenant, Housing Up, one of the development partners for the project. At Abrams Hall, Housing Up’s 60 employees will provide case management, training and resources to approximately 600 homeless and low-income families, with additional duties that include the support for residents of Abrams Hall Senior Apartments, consultation on resident services and asset management. The Parks at Walter Reed redevelopment, which will be phased over a 10-15 year period, serves as the result of a successful community-driven process originally initiated and led by the Mayor while serving as a member of the D.C. Council. In 2016, the U.S. Army officially transferred 66-acres of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus to the District, making way for the development of The Parks at Walter Reed. Over the next 30 years, The
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As President Donald Trump and his Republican cronies ramp up the momentum that would allow him to appoint a new justice to the Supreme Court prior to the upcoming midterm elections, some abortion opponents have already begun to celebrate – optimistic that “Roe v. Wade,” the landmark decision that legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, will end up being overturned. During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump promised to appoint pro-life justices to the Court, while his running mate, nowVice President Mike Pence, expressed the hope that he’d see “Roe v. Wade” end up on the “ash heap of history.” Around the same time and with far less fanfare, some state legislatures like Iowa, Louisiana and Mississippi, following earlier examples made by Kentucky, Arkansas, Illinois and both Dakotas, began to approve strict limits on abortion. Legal experts predicted that if enough states followed a similar strategy, they could initiate a successful challenge to the 1973 decision that resulted in a profound, paradigmatic shift in American culture. On the other hand, states like California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Nevada and Washington passed laws to maintain the legality of
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abortion even if “Roe v. Wade” were eventually overturned due to a distinctly reconfigured Supreme Court – changed because a president with views akin to Donald Trump had taken over and found it necessary to replace one or more of the justices. So, I’m confused. Moreover, I’m eternally grateful that I am NOT a woman whose life, right to make decisions about her own body and both her personal and reproductive freedom seem to be inching ever closer to the precipice where changing trends in public opinion could very well throw what women want or how they feel over the edge, under the bus and into the murky waters of “who cares what women want.” Yes, I’m so glad that I ain’t a woman. Moral and religious perspectives aside if for just a moment, I wonder why abortion has become such a prominent political issue when it seems to be something that should be considered and decided in the privacy of one’s home and with one’s physician – not in the Supreme Court and not based on the views of state legislators bound by the opinions of their constituents. Should a woman’s rights be tied to the number of protestors who march along Constitution Avenue each year on the anniversary of the Court’s decision whether that number escalates or dwindles? Not from my perspective. But then, as we all know, women don’t have the wherewithal, the critical skills of reasoning – or even brains large enough for them to adequately make such important decisions like what’s best for their own bodies. They’re just not smart enough to make life-altering decisions, right? And isn’t it a fact that the world is better served when women, like children, are seen and not heard. After all, while women since the 70s may have discovered both the courage and strength, in the words of Helen Reddy, to sing a new song – to “roar,” they simply cannot compete with the more resounding, lower-pitched vocalizations of men. For the record, I am only being sarcastic. Back to the real world – my understanding of it at any rate. During
my sophomore year in college, my girlfriend, then a college freshman and whom I truly loved, discovered she was pregnant. We both wanted to keep the baby and were eager to share the good news with those beyond our immediate family. Baby daddy and other phrases that make me shudder, weren’t part of the common vernacular. Nonetheless, it didn’t take long before I realized that I’d have to suspend my studies in order to get a job so I could care for my new, unplanned family. She, too, was forced to face the reality that her dreams would need to be deferred. We both feared that we might never finish school and were similarly concerned that our impulsive behavior, having unprotected sex, could forever impact our futures and limit the paths before us with only high school diplomas under our belts. In the end, we made the difficult, painful decision to abort the child we’d conceived, blaming ourselves for being reckless. Soon after the procedure had been completed, I remember a growing resentment that raised its ugly head between us. We both lamented over the life that could have been. But we also knew that we just weren’t prepared or ready in any shape or fashion to adequately face the challenges, the responsibilities and the seismic shift in life that come when couples become parents – especially when both are still teenagers. Women are wise enough to decide what’s best for them. And I never want America to return to those days when women had no alternative but to seek an abortion in unsterile backrooms at the hands of unlicensed, untrained “monsters” or in the shadows of darkened alleyways. Whether one is pro-life or pro-choice, it seems to me that the ultimate decision should rest with a woman. But for fun, let’s just imagine what the world would be like if it were men, not women, who were the ones whose hands rocked the cradle, who could become pregnant and who therefore bore the responsibility of carrying babies, like it or not, to full term. That would be something to see. Once more, let me say for the record, I’m glad I’m not a woman. WI
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D.C. Lawmakers Question Wage Bill’s Popularity
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While the D.C. Council has faced backlash in its recent efforts to repeal a voter-approved ballot measure on the city’s minimum wage, some council members contend that those election results don’t reflect messages they’ve heard from constituents in the weeks leading up to the D.C. primary. Initiative 77, which passed by a 10-point margin on June 19, would’ve required business owners to pay their employees the full minimum wage, now $13.25 per hour and set to increase to $15 by 2020. Local lawmakers who didn’t support the ballot measure told The Informer that wage increases would hamper restaurant workers. “D.C. already has regulations that allow tipped workers to receive the minimum wage if workers tips don’t add up to the minimum wage,” Trayon White (D-Ward 8), one of seven council members who co-introduced the Tipped Wage Workers Fairness Amendment Act of 2018 on July 10, wrote in an email Friday in reference to the Fair Shot Minimum Wage Amendment Act of 2016, which ensures the increase of tipped workers’ minimum wage to $5 by 2020. “This is a matter of oversight and enforcement, not a minimum wage cap on wages,” White wrote. “Most of the workers I spoke to in Ward 8 said they already make more than minimum wage. This was a national effort to change it and D.C. workers did not agree with it.”
When the council reconvenes in the fall, tipped workers and others will have an opportunity to provide insight about matters of compensation during public hearings. Since the 1980s, the council has overturned ballot initiatives four times, including one in 1996 that capped local campaign contributions and another in 2001 establishing term limits. Before the primary, Initiative 77 had only the support of Councilwoman Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), who recently expressed her disagreement with her colleagues’ recent actions. “I’m hearing from the people that it’s wrong for the council to overturn the outcome,” Cheh said. Cheh, who said careful study of the similar wage increases across the country influenced her support of Initiative 77, recounted her attempts to negotiate with the restaurant industry and other opponents of the bill. “I tried to put out the idea about a compromise like a longer implementation period of 15 years or not implementing Initiative 77 until Maryland and Virginia jumped on board,” she said. The current pushback in D.C. mirrors a situation in 2016 when Maine’s business community and tipped workers railed against wage-hike legislation. The pressure against Initiative 77 also received national attention. Hours after council members introduced the repeal bill during a Committee of the Whole meeting, Republican lawmakers in Congress brought forth an amendment to the U.S. House’s 2019 spending bill blocking the use of funds for
Initiative 77. In D.C., lawmakers such as Anita Bonds (D-At Large), who was also among the majority of council members who introduced the repeal, have expressed their concerns about what they described as the initiative’s lack of clarity. “Initiative 77 wasn’t clear as to what the structure should be as it relates to tipped workers,” Bonds said. “People told me they didn’t understand what they were voting for. That’s why I think it was close. We’ve had other types of issues on the ballot and there was a 20 to 70 percent, much wider margin. “Those who were confused didn’t know exactly what to do,” she said. “Because it was an initiative, they thought it would be good.” WI
5 D.C. Councilmember Anita Bonds /Courtesy photo
Initiative 77, which passed by a 10-point margin on June 19, would’ve required business owners to pay their employees the full minimum wage, now $13.25 per hour and set to increase to $15 by 2020.
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WORDS TO LIVE BY “When I think of your appointment to the Supreme Court, I see not only the result of your own ambition, but also the culmination of years of heartbreaking work by thousands who preceded you. I know you may not want to be burdened by the memory of their sacrifices. But I also know that you have no right to forget that history. Your life is very different from what it would have been had these men and women never lived.”
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Law Enforcement Deaths at 73 in First Half of 2018 By Sarafina Wright WI Contributing Writer There have been 73 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty so far in 2018, a seven percent increase over the same period last year, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. The organization’s 2018 MidYear Law Enforcement Officer Fatalities Report, which offers preliminary data through June 30, said the number of fatalities is up from 65 at this time in 2017. Of the 73 deceased officers, 31 died in firearms-related incidents, 27 died in traffic-related incidents and 15 died due to other causes such as job-related illnesses. “Law enforcement officers put their badges on each day and work to keep citizens and communities safe,” said Memorial Fund CEO Craig W. Floyd. “With 73 officers having made the ultimate sacrifice already this year, this report serves as an important reminder of the debt of gratitude that we owe the 900,000 men and women who serve in law enforcement each day.” Key findings of the report: - The leading cause of law enforcement deaths for the first half of this year is firearms-related fatalities with 31, compared to 25 in the same period in 2017 — an
increase of 24 percent. Eight of these deaths occurred during an attempt to arrest a suspect, six officers died responding to domestic disturbance calls and three died as a result of being ambushed. - Traffic-related fatalities at 27 increased slightly in the first half of 2018 compared to last year at 26. Eleven of these fatalities were the result of multiple-vehicle automobile crashes; nine were the result of single-vehicle crashes and seven officers were struck while outside of their vehicles. - Florida leads the country in officer fatalities, losing seven officers in the line of duty for the first half of 2018; New York, North Carolina and Texas each lost four officers. California, Kentucky, Ohio, and South Carolina each lost three officers as of June 30.
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY Jealous, Dems Hit Hogan for Silence on Trump Nominee By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Maryland Democrats have often chided Republican Gov. Larry Hogan as a complicit ally of the Trump administration — a criticism echoed
during a recent conference call with party officials regarding Hogan’s silence on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. “We cannot sit on our hands and say, ‘That’s not our problem,’” said Ben Jealous, former NAACP president and Democratic gubernatorial
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nominee to challenge Hogan in the general election. “We need courageous leadership on the state level that’s committed to standing up for Marylander’s rights. Who’s on the Supreme Court matters for the future of our state.” Jealous joined six other Democratic state, union and education officials Friday, July 13 to challenge Hogan for not speaking out against Kavanaugh’s conservative record, which includes work as an aide to former President George W. Bush and working with independent counsel Kenneth Starr to impeach former President Bill Clinton nearly 20 years ago. Kavanaugh, who was nominated by Trump on July 9, must first be confirmed by the Senate before replacing 81-year-old Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is set to retire at the end of the month. Kavanaugh, 53, served as U.S. District Court judge since 2006. Democrats and liberal activists worry his appointment could help overturn Roe vs. Wade, which ruled in 1973 a woman has the right to privacy over medical decisions, even abortion. “Women make up 52 percent of the population in Maryland,” said Delegate Joseline Pena-Melñyk (D-District 21) of College Park. “By him not speaking, [Hogan is] showing us what he truly thinks about the female reproductive rights. We’re calling on Larry Hogan to stand up for Marylanders that Brett Kavanaugh does not reflect our values.” The Hogan campaign released a
5Maryland Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ben Jealous speaks at a June 27 press conference in Baltimore to kick off his general election bid against Republican incumbent Larry Hogan. /File photo by William J. Ford
statement Friday that criticized Jealous’ focus on what happens in the nation’s capital. “At least his rhetoric about the U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t come with a multibillion-dollar middle-class tax increase like most of his ideas,” said Hogan spokesman Scott Sloofman. “Gov. Hogan is focused on his job governing the state of Maryland where he is providing bipartisan leadership and getting good things accomplished for the people of our state.” Todd Eberly, political science professor at St. Mary’s College in St.
Metro Moves Forward with Plans to Sell Headquarters By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Metro’s board of directors has green-lighted agency officials to begin the process of selling the Jackson Graham Building in Northwest, which has served as its headquarters since 1974. According to a proposal released before the Thursday, July 12 board meeting, the transit agency would save about $134.5 million over 20 years with the sale and subsequent acquisitions of regional offices in Maryland and Virginia. The proposal would reduce the total office footprint for the new headquarters by 100,000 square feet. In addition, the agency would decrease ownership and leasing of buildings in the region from 10 to seven. “The conclusions of the office consolidation strategy are that
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Metro should sell JGB and acquire new office space in each Washington, D.C., and surrounding Maryland and Virginia,” the proposal states. “Washington, D.C., would continue to serve as Metro’s headquarters location, which is centrally located for Metro’s stakeholders across the region.” The headquarters, which hasn’t undergone any major renovations since it opened, aren’t up to current safety and accessibility standards. Nina Albert, managing director of real estate for Metro, said there are no sprinkler systems in the building. During a press briefing after the meeting, Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld said the building has been grandfathered under older city codes and ordinances, but stressed the agency’s need to leave the building “as
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Mary’s, Maryland, said Kavanaugh’s record would be approved by past Republican presidents. Eberly said high-ranking Democrats should try and entice moderate Democrats and independents to vote for Jealous instead of attempting to connect Hogan to Trump, pointing out documented evidence of Hogan speaking out against the president and certain administration policies. Hogan, who said he didn’t endorse Trump’s 2016 campaign, broke with the president this year to sign legislation approved by the Maryland General Assembly to ban bump stocks, a device that enables a gun to replicate an automatic weapon and increase the number of rounds fired. “I would call it one of the leastthought-out strategies in quite some time,” Eberly said about Democrats’ attempt to tie Hogan to Trump. “This is a political strategy. It’s what [high-ranking Democrats] think they have to do in order to motivate their voters.” With that being said, Democrats, union leaders and education advocates will aggressively back Jealous and continue to connect Hogan with the Trump administration. Betty Weller, president of the state Education Association, said Hogan’s education policies align with U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos when it comes to using public money for private and religious schools. “Larry Hogan has invited Betsy DeVos into our state … welcoming her anti-public school agenda with open arms against the will of Marylanders,” Weller said on the conference call. “Larry Hogan needs to start standing up for Maryland students, Maryland educators and Maryland parents … that he does not support Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination.” WI
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BUSINESS Compton Native Strikes Gold in Lowrider Industry Thomas ‘TJ’ Loftin Eager to Share His Tactics for Entrepreneurial Excellence
bor during which he shared the tactics he’s employed to “turn a childhood hobby into a multi-billion-dollar global industry.” He says he never forgets to pay tribute and point to the importance of two life-changing mentors who first introduced him to the business – an industry he emphatically proclaims, “still has tremendous economic
By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor @dkevinmcneir Like his childhood friends, Compton native Thomas “TJ” Loftin, 47, grew up in a community dominated by aspiring rappers, huge factions of gangs more often at odds with one another and, most significantly, he asserts, a regionally-based business with untold and still untapped financial opportunities. In fact, he, along with dozens of others who heeded his advice, has since set their courses on very different roads, embraced a positive work ethic determined to shake off the chains of poverty and achieved economic success as entrepreneurs in the lucrative world of customized cars – specifically, the lowrider industry. Loftin recently brought his one-man auto industry tour to Maryland’s National Har-
5 Lowrider guru Thomas ‘TJ’ Loftin with young, hopeful business leaders. /Photo courtesy Thomas ‘TJ’ Loftin
potential.” “My partners and my brothers, Gary May and Homer ‘Cap’ Walters, taught me the ropes during my youth,” he said. You’ve got to have a love for cars. I sure did. But I started off in a car theft culture. Some people still make a living that way. What they don’t know, is that you can paint mu-
rals on the trunks of lowriders instead of doing graffiti on walls and pull in six or seven figures a year – legally. You can work as a mechanic who knows engines and make $50K a year with Toyota. But you can also start your own business and see your income multiple tenfold. It’s all about learning your true value,
your real worth and being willing to move in a different direction.” “Lowriding was a culture for those of us who grew up in Compton – the capitol of lowriding. You can trace its roots to the years right after War World II, but the business went viral after
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rap groups, particularly N.W.A. (Los Angeles-based, formed in 1986 and now considered one of the greatest, most influential groups in the history of hip-hop music), began to include lowriders, with Chevys at the top of the list, in their videos.” “I was behind the scenes, building cars for videos when the demand suddenly exploded and folks wanted them in their movies, commercials and TV shows.” “These customized vehicles were initially associated with Mexican-American youths but Blacks now have a very strong footprint in the industry – a business whose worldwide annual sales exceed $10 million. That’s why I’ve since come out of the industry of building to speaking about the untapped financial possibilities,” said Loftin who pointed out he never has a day that could be described as “typical.” “I might be at a high school discussing the auto industry, bringing a couple of lowriders and several rappers to an elementary school, visiting someone’s lowrider shop – a business that I helped them get off the ground, or boarding a plane in route to a presentation that I’ve been asked to give in another part of the country or the world,” he shared displaying irrefutable excitement and a passion that he says has been part of his DNA for as long as he can remember. Loftin believes he’s helped over 100 people start their own businesses in the auto industry and says they’ve achieved success far beyond many of their wildest dreams. “I’d estimate that 90 percent of those I once mentored now have six- or seven-figure annual earnings. It’s almost unheard of for any of them to not own their homes or the buildings in which they live or in which their businesses are based. They own commercial real estate. And a lot of them, like me, while they’re still under 50, are already considering retirement.” Loftin says he enjoys any chance to talk to lost or troubled youth – or anyone who has an affinity for cars and wants to change the path of their life for one more positive. He even once served as a bridge between two of L.A.’s most vicious, rival gangs, the Bloods and the Crips, using lowriders as the key to the formation of a peace treaty and eventually creating a national
lowrider association – a lasting partnership of lowriders among the two gangs. “Americans are programmed to believe that college is the only route you can take if you really want to one day strike out on your own and succeed,” he said. “We’re taught that a college degree equates to a successful future. But we rarely attach wealth when embarking on a job search or when considering a career. That’s a big mistake. A lot of college graduates cannot change a tire and have little knowledge about the cars they own. Many people with college degrees don’t own their home, a building or anything else whose value appreciates.” “I put numbers and names to what’s happening out here for one reason: I want to bring more Blacks into this industry. My tours are meant to expose other Blacks to opportunities in land development, monetizing America’s irreversible increase in gentrification and of course, entering the auto industry as business owners.” “You see, many of my friends needed a coach. They had businesses but they weren’t legal ones. My goal has long been to pull folks out of their backyards working in garages and help them set up shops on Main Street. I show them how to get their insurance, how to advertise and how to use the blueprint that has worked for me. After that, it’s up to them,” he exclaimed. To contact Loftin, visit go to thomasloftin@ymail.com, on Facebook @ThomasTJLoftin or twitter @thomastjloftin.
Loftin says he enjoys any chance to talk to lost or troubled youth – or anyone who has an affinity for cars and wants to change the path of their life for one more positive.
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NATIONAL Sobering Repeat of History Forecast at SCLC’s 60th Convention Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Jr., NNPA President/CEO Urges a Reawakening By D. Kevin McNeir, WI Editor and Maynard Eaton, Special to the Informer Sixty-one years ago, on the heels of the successful citywide, 13-month-long Montgomery Bus Boycott, discontinued by its organizers only after federal courts ruled in their favor and declared segregation on intrastate travel unconstitutional, 97
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preachers met in New Orleans (Feb. 1957) where they elected officers for the civil rights organization and affirmed their focus that included bus and nonviolent direct-action protests as well as securing and protecting voting rights for African Americans. Shortly thereafter, the organization, led by its newly-elected president, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., adopted its current name, the South Christian
5 (L-R) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Chair Bernard Lafayette, Jr., National Newspaper Publishers Association President/CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. SCLC President/CEO Dr. Charles Steele, Jr., the Rev. Charles McCollum and Cathelean Steele during a press conference for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s 60th annual convention with the theme “Rooted in Faith, Fighting Poverty and Injustice” held July 12-15 at the Washington Renaissance Hotel in Northwest. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter
Leadership Conference [SCLC]. Several days ago, members and supporters of the SCLC convened in the nation’s capital for its 60th Annual Convention (July 12-15) during which those in the forefront reiterated the importance of the group’s decades-long mission, pointing to a host of recent events which they believe may serve to threaten the
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well-being of African Americans while also turning back to the clock on earlier, hard-fought victories. Leaders within the civil rights group, including SCLC Chairman Dr. Bernard LaFayette, assert that they’re still in the game and in spite of vocal naysayers, continue being a relevant branch of America’s battalion of human rights soldiers. “Who would believe that after all of this time that we’re still facing some of the problems that we thought we’d [successfully] addressed years earlier,” said LaFayette, appointed by Dr. King to serve as coordinator of the Poor People’s Campaign shortly before his untimely death in Memphis in 1968. “We did address them, change did come and under Dr. King’s leadership, we were successful. Today, we’re dealing with the fact that history is repeating itself. We must be vigilant about what we obtain – we’ve got to maintain. That’s why our young people need to be aware of the gains we’ve made but also how we must preserve them. Our continuing struggle transcends generations,” LaFayette said. This year’s convention theme revolved around the 50th anniversary of the Poor People’s Campaign – Dr. King’s initiative to secure economic and human rights for poor Americans, regardless of their diverse ethnic backgrounds. The Rev. Dr. Ralph Abernathy would take up the baton following the assassination of Dr. King and after presenting a list of demands to Congress, over 3,000 participants erected a village of tents on the National Mall where they remained for six months beginning in the spring of 1968. King hoped to force political leaders to actually “see” the poor
and to then consider their needs. “We ought to come in mule carts, in old trucks, any kind of transportation people can get their hands on. People ought to come to Washington, sit down if necessary in the middle of the street and say, ‘We are here; we are poor; we don’t have any money; you have made us this way . . . and we’ve come to stay until you do something about it,’” King would later write as he reflected on the goals of the campaign. Dr. Charles Steele, Jr., longtime SCLC president and CEO, said little time exists to celebrate 50th- or 60th-anniversary milestones. “Our convention theme is ‘Rooted in Faith, Fighting Poverty and Injustice,’” he said. “We want the world to know we’re here on a continuous basis and that this is not just for the 50th. We want to reiterate that the SCLC’s Poor People’s Campaign is an international initiative and that we’re fighting [new] forms of slavery all over the world.” Civil rights icon and National Newspaper Publishers Association President/CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. brought greater focus to the work that lies ahead for the SCLC. “It’s one thing to report the news but the SCLC still makes the news,” he said. “We’ve come a long way since 1968 but God is not through with us yet. We’ve got work to do. The fact that the U.S. Justice Department has [recently] reopened the Emmett Till case shows you that sometimes it doesn’t matter who is in the White House. What matters is who’s in God’s house.” “We need to be reawakened about why we came here 50 years ago. We need to be reawakened
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By Sarafina Wright WI Contributing Writer The proportion of teenagers in the U.S. summer labor force declined for two decades while the number of legal and illegal immigrants holding a job has more than doubled, a new report from Center for Immigration Studies states. As the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business associations lobby Congress for increases in legal immigration, seasonal workers in particular, the study found the decline in summer employment has affected teenagers from every segment of society. “The evidence indicates that immigration has likely account-
METRO from Page 12 quick as we can.” Wiedefeld said the new and smaller headquarters would be located near a transfer station, similar to the current headquarters’ proximity to Gallery Place Metro station. The agency retained Jones Lang LaSalle, a commercial brokerage firm, to help with the sale of the property located near Capital One Arena. Michael Goldman, who represents Maryland on the board and voted to abstain, criticized Albert for not looking outside the District.
ed for a significant share of the decline in teen labor force participation,” wrote Steven Camarota, the center’s director of research. “The decline in teen work is worrisome because research shows that those who do not hold jobs as teenagers often fail to develop the work habits necessary to function in the labor market, creating significant negative consequences for them later in life.” In the summer of 2017, 41 percent of U.S.-born teenagers counted in the labor force, but just 35 percent held a job, according to the report. “In 2018, we project only a slight improvement to 42 percent in the labor force and 36 percent actually working — both levels
well below what they used to be,” the center said. “Immigrants and teenagers often do the same kind of work. In the summer of 2017, in the 25 occupations employing the most U.S.-born teenagers, more than one in five workers was an immigrant.” The report stated that over time in 10 states where immigrants increased as the large share of workers, labor force participation of U.S.-born teenagers declined by 26 percentage points. “The most likely reason immigrants displace U.S.-born teenagers is that the vast majority of immigrants are skilled adults — relatively few people migrate before age 20,” the center said. “This gives immigrants a significant advantage over U.S.-born teenagers who typically have much less work experience.” WI
“You should be looking for the best deal for [Metro],” Goldman said. “You eliminated your search for a headquarters [by searching] just in D.C.” According to the documents, Metro officials wouldn’t put the Jackson Graham building on the market until the property is rezoned by the District’s Zoning Commission, which could happen as soon as this fall. It’s unclear where the new headquarters would be or how many of the agency’s roughly 3,400 employees and consultants would be housed in the new building. The board usually holds a sec-
ond meeting in July, but won’t convene again until September. Any proposed transactions, sales and acquisitions of new or leased property would need board approval. In other business, the board approved the elimination of the Grosvenor turnback that would increase by 15 trains per hour between the Shady Grove and White Flint stations in Montgomery County. The service would cost $2.5 million annually, but the amount will be $1.5 million because the service wouldn’t be implemented until December. WI
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ZEC Clears Air on Postal Votes
There is no requirement for the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and election observers to be present during postal voting because the process should be conducted in privacy, said Justice Priscilla Chigumba, commission chair. During a recent interactive meeting with election observers and the media in Harare, Chigumba said there were no postal voting stations under the process and claims that some police officers cast their votes in Bulawayo in the absence of ZEC officials and observers lacked merit as it was not a requirement for them to be present,
the Herald reported. “You are advised that the procedure for voting by post is set out in Section 75 of the Electoral Act,” Chigumba said. “This provision clearly stipulates that voting by such a voter is done secretly not in the presence of any person. Allegations that postal voting is being conducted in the manner described in social media or depicted in a picture circulating in social media are regrettable. No postal voting stations have been set up or will be set up by the commission. There are no ballot boxes, postal vote is exactly what it is, these are postal votes and done in secrecy.” Erasmus Makodza, ZRP commander for this year’s harmonized elections, said no police officer was coerced to vote for any candidate or political party when voting in Bulawayo on Thursday. “No member or officer was ever coerced to vote in front of any officer,” Makodza said. “The voting process went on very smoothly in Bulawayo Ross Camp but unfortunately the political parties were not privy to the Electoral Act. Those political parties who came to Bulawayo yesterday, some of them were demanding to have their election agents present, those demands and what the Act provides is totally different.”
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The Bahamas continues to sell itself as a premium destination to establish global headquarters, this time being featured on a leading international investment website. Lori Nelson, who is a senior associate at Higgs and Johnson, recently heralded the Bahamas as an ideal place for global businesses to relocate, the Nassau Guardian reported. Nelson, who specializes in conveyance and real estate at the firm, was interviewed by website International Investment for a video done in conjunction with the Bahamas Financial Services Board. “The Bahamas is an ideal location for residence as well as doing business,” Nelson said in the video. “We have an archipelago of over 700 islands, so you have a variety of options in terms of residence on major islands as well as small private islands and cays that are available for sale, which makes The Bahamas very unique in the region. “And we have a lot of properties that cater to second home ownership, as well, in the Bahamas,” she said. “A lot of gated, waterfront communities that have amenities that persons in the area would love — marinas, golf courses, tennis courts — and it fits well with that environment for work. You work hard, play hard, and this is a great environment to do it in.” The Bahamas government has placed significant focus on improving the financial services industry during this fiscal year, especially after working feverishly to have the country from the European Union’s (EU) blacklist for non-cooperative jurisdictions and as it prepares for ascension to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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More than 100 free zone companies in Jamaica have reportedly attained Special Economic Zone (SEZ) designation. Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who made the announcement, said 104 companies earned the designation following an audit conducted by the Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority, the Jamaica Gleaner reported. The designation will enable the entities to operate with the SEZ, which are pivotal to the government’s Global Logistics Hub Initiative. Holness said the audit exercise has facilitated a very good base for the implementation of the SEZ strategy. He predicted there is likely to be a rapid increase in applications from entities seeking to operate in the zones. Holness said more companies are hearing about brand Jamaica, “which has, for a very long time, been dominated by sun, sea, sand, music, culture, food and sports.” WI
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For those suffering from mental health problems, there might be times of need where a seemingly simple task like placing a phone call or sending a text message for help can feel insurmountable, a new app has made reaching out less of an obstacle. For the one in six Americans who suffer from loneliness, anxiety, depression, stress, suicidal thoughts and other mental illnesses, help is
only a tap of a button away thanks to the young brother and sister team of Hannah and Charlie Lucas. They’ve created the “notOK” app where users can simply press a button to message up to five contacts about their mental health. Each contact will receive a text, a link to the user’s current location, and the following notification: “Hey, I’m not OK. Please call me, text me, or come find me.” “I started passing out more and more often and I was
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terrified of going anywhere,” Hannah, 15, told ABC News. “Because what if I passed out and no one was around or what if someone took advantage of me?” After developing POTS, a condition that causes her to faint, Hannah said she was terrified of being alone. What would happen to her if she fainted and no one was around? Hannah’s fears quickly spiraled into anxiety and deep depression, which led to self-harm. By the end of her freshman year of high school, she missed 196 classes due to her condition. It was during one of Hannah’s lowest moments, alone in her room and contemplating self-harm, when the idea for the notOK App was born. She thought, what if there was a button she could press, and someone would immediately know she was not OK? When her condition stabilized, Hannah was able to take coding and entrepreneurship classes at local colleges, which she said strengthened her to see her vision through. The notOK app is Hannah’s first and Bug and Bee, LLC is her first company. Watching his older sister suffer from a disorder made Charlie Lucas feel utterly helpless, he said. Charlie couldn’t drive her
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to doctor appointments, he couldn’t make her better and he couldn’t even catch her when she fainted, he said. But Charlie said he knew he could step in to help his sister when she told him about an idea for an app she’d had. “I helped illustrate it out, so he would know what to do,” Hannah said of her brother. “He looked at my drawings and he coded it to tell the coders exactly what I wanted and how I wanted it to look.” Charlie said his motivation for building the app came from watching his sister spiral into depression. “I saw Hannah depressed, and she told me about her idea, and I started wire-framing it,” he said. “Making this app made her feel better and that made me feel better.” Hannah pitched the app while taking a summer class on entrepreneurship at Georgia Tech. Professors there were so intrigued by the siblings’ creation that they connected the family with a development company in Savannah. Over the course of five months, Hannah and Charlie said they worked side by side with the developers, often over Skype, to see their idea for the app turn into reality. They also compiled research on mental health sta-
tistics to make the case that their app would find an audience. Mental illness is defined by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) as a mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder. One in six U.S. adults lives with a mental illness, the institute reports. Among adolescents, an estimated 49.5 percent between the ages 13 to 18 have a mental disorder, according to NIMH. NotOK was launched in both iOS and Android versions. The app, which comes with a $2.99 monthly fee, allows users to press a button that sends a text message to up to five preselected contacts. The text, along with a link to the user’s current GPS location, shows up on the contacts’ phones with the message, “Hey, I’m not OK. Please call me, text me, or come find me.” “The reaction we’ve heard has been really positive, especially from parents and kids suffering with anxiety,” Hannah said. “Those kids don’t know the words to tell somebody. “It definitely gave me a sense of comfort,” she said. The app is available in iOS and Android versions at www. notokapp.com. WI
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The largest union of registered nurses in the U.S. strongly condemned the Trump administration’s opposition to a resolution that encourages breastfeeding as an attempt to kowtow to a profit-seeking infant-formula industry. National Nurses United (NNU) said the administration’s opposition ignores science and jeopardizes the health of babies and mothers worldwide. “By refusing to lead the way on this family affirming, uncontroversial resolution, the Trump administration is sending a message to the world that the U.S. government does not care about babies, mothers or science,” said NNU Executive Director and registered nurse Bonnie Castillo. “Breastfeeding is unquestionably seen as the clinical gold standard for infant and mother health, not only by the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but by nurses around the world who care for mothers and babies every single day.” Nurses point out that breastfed infants have a reduced risk of asthma, obesity, type 2 diabetes, ear and respiratory infections and sudden infant death syndrome. Meanwhile, mothers who breastfeed can experience lower risk of negative health impacts such as heart disease, ovarian and breast cancer. According to the Cleveland Clinic, the benefits of breastfeeding extend beyond infancy into childhood and all the way into adulthood, with significant physical and emotional benefits for mothers as well. President Trump took to Twitter to defend the opposition to the resolution, citing formula as a way to address “malnutrition and poverty.” The NNU points out that formula has been a cause of malnutrition in areas of the world where it is impossible to mix it with clean water or in clean bottles, or where it is priced out of reach of mothers who are unable to breastfeed. They also say that research has shown the six major manufacturers of baby formula — Nestle,
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Danone, Mead Johnson Nutrition, Abbott, FrieslandCampina and Heinz — have aggressively marketed their products with little science backing up their nutritional claims in order to increase corporate profits. “Women have to breastfeed their infants in countries where the access to clean water is problematic,” said Cathy Kennedy, a registered nurse and vice president of NNU’s neonatal intensive care unit. “Why would we encourage any mother to use powdered formula with dirty water? That would be a death sentence. “We have always encouraged our mothers to provide expressed breast milk for their infants,” Kennedy said. “For our micro-preemies, if the mother is not producing any breast milk, we will get permission to give donor breast milk up to 32-34 weeks gestation, when the infants can then begin actual breastfeeding.
We know that there are significant benefits to breastfeeding that impact the health and well-being of the infant.” NNU said that there are reports that the Trump administration has pressured countries that support the breastfeeding resolution and has threatened sanctions on Ecuador. “In the U.S., we already have an environment that does not promote breastfeeding,” said Thorild Urdal, a labor and delivery nurse. “We have no guarantee for a decent maternity leave, while women in other countries have longer leaves of absence and guaranteed breastfeeding breaks at work. Because we already have lots of obstacles in the U.S. for optimal breastfeeding that other industrialized countries to do not have, I just find it outrageous that we can’t even support this simple, common-sense breastfeeding resolution.” WI
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EDUCATION Millions of Dollars Awarded to Preserve Historic African-American Sites First Round of Grants Kick Off Multi-Year Initiative By Brenda C. Siler WI Contributing Writer The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its first
group of grant award recipients in conjunction with the newly established African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. A total of more than $1 million
was awarded in the first round of grants supporting grass-roots efforts that preserves sites across the country. The grants, announced this month in New Orleans at the Essence Music Festival, were given across four categories: capacity building, project planning, capital, and programming and interpretation. Sixteen historic sites were included in the first round of grants, including the Grand Old Lady, a building in D.C. The building, located at 1601 R Street NW, was purchased in 1954 by the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs Inc. (NACWC). From 1975 to 1985, the building was the home of the Foxtrappe, an elite nightclub for Blacks. Actress and director Phylicia Rashad serves as an ambassador for the fund, a $25 million, multi-year national initiative. For more information, go to www.savingplaces.org/ActionFund. WI
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hear people talk about autonomy and self-determination, putting forward community control of the police,” said Netfa Freeman, a member of Pan-African Community Action (PACA). PACA played a significant role in raising awareness and demanding answers about the death of Alonzo Smith during an encounter with Special Police Officers on the grounds of Marbury Plaza in Southeast in late 2015. From the start, community control over the police counted among PACA’s policy goals. PACA members are currently conducting a citywide survey that gauges sentiments toward D.C. police and collects suggestions about the rules respondents would create for police if given the opportunity. A report outlining PACA’s findings will be released in the fall. “The issue is not training, but the policies of the police as determined by the government that takes its cues from the ruling class,” Freeman said, adding that community control over the police would allow residents to protect their communities outside of traditional means. On its website, PACA affirms this type of police-community relationship as the more effective
alternative to the installment of a civilian review board, comprised of residents who would only weigh in on police department policy and firing of officers. “What we are proposing would give communities the power to completely re-imagine and re-envision the very nature of policing itself,” Freeman said. Predicting pushback and references to low voter turnout in Wards 7 and 8, communities said to have been targeted the most by MPD, during the June 19 primary, Freeman said that many people living east of the Anacostia River feel they don’t have enough say in their daily affairs. A contentious police-community relationship counts among the key causes of that worldview. “This is the evolution of the mandate to apply a human rights framework to policing,” Freeman said, adding that the public outcry about MPD’s alleged shady dealings, and the strong community turnout at last Thursday’s public hearing at Deanwood Recreation Center in Northeast about policing affirms that Ward 7 and 8 residents value civic engagement. “Community control is a question of democracy. Low voter turnout reflects a lack of trust. If
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Less than a week after the D.C. primary, a group of officers from MPD’s gun-recovery unit approached a group of men in front of Nook’s Beauty and Barber Shop on Sheriff Road in Northeast during what was later determined to be an illegal search. Smartphone video that documented the encounter showed officers asking to speak with the owner of a vehicle that had tinted windows. Minutes later, an officer asked one of the men to stand up and pulled what appeared to be a gun from his waist. When officers demanded the other men’s identification, the confrontation intensified. In a letter to MPD Chief Peter Newsham later that month, ANC Commissioner Anthony Lorenzo Green alleged that officers pulled a BB gun from a decoy. During Thursday’s council hearing, Newsham defended the officers’ actions on June 22 but conceded that they should avoid tension with community members. During his testimony, D.C. council members grilled Newsham about smartphone footage showing two officers searching a Northeast backyard without a warrant or explanation. Though those officers have been removed from the gun-recovery unit, they’ve been said to still conduct patrols in MPD’s 6th and 7th districts.
“It’s an ongoing beef,” D.R., a Ward 7 resident and one of the men in the video of the stop-andfrisk on Sheriff Road, told council members last week at Deanwood Recreation Center. Days after the controversial video surfaced, police officers and young people clashed in the dead of the night, not far from Nook’s. That incident also made the rounds on social media, bringing to mind distrust among low-income, Black communities of law enforcement officials eager to remove guns from the D.C. streets. During Thursday’s hearing, D.C. council member Vincent Gray (D) repeatedly denounced the June 22 stop-and-frisk but stopped short of articulating a concrete solution beyond officer training. The Ward 7 council member’s office didn’t respond to The Informer’s request for comment. D.R., a Black man in his early 30s who asked to be referred to only by his initials during his public testimony, told council members that increasing police presence in D.C.’s most marginalized neighborhoods wouldn’t prevent violent crime, especially since fewer than one out five officers live in the District. “Elders told me that [back in the day], police would get out of their car, walk around and talk to people in their community,” D.R. said. “Calling police shouldn’t be the first option. We don’t need police around. We police our own neighborhood.” Members of Black Lives Matter DC and other advocacy groups say attempts to create some semblance of what D.R. described through engagement
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EDITORIAL It’s Time to Act on Behalf of the Village, Not by Rules of the Streets
On a hot, summer night a few days ago, children frolicked innocently enjoying their neighborhood’s playground while their parents and other adults watched from nearby, perhaps sipping on a frosted beer or a lemon-flavored iced tea, all in the seemingly safe environs of a courtyard in Northeast. Then, without warning, a black vehicle appeared, four masked Black males exited and began shooting indiscriminately. As the 15 or 20 men, women and children scattered hoping to find safety, and after the senseless barrage of gunfire came to an end, the shooters disappeared back into the once idyllic night in their vehicle which police have since identified as a black Infiniti SUV. One witness said the number of shots that suddenly pierced the evening sky, interrupting the sing-song sounds and banter often associated with a funfilled block gathering, came so rapidly and repeatedly that he could not discern how many rounds were actually fired. And, as has far too often been the case, a little girl, just 10, has been shot and killed. She will never attend her prom, or have fun considering which college she will attend. She’ll never celebrate the serene pleasure that comes with that very first kiss or experience that indescribable feeling that jolts us to our core when we discover true love. Meanwhile, her family must attempt to make sense out of the senselessness and try to deal with their sorrow and loss, as will we all, because a young child – a beloved daughter, sister, grandchild, or friend – along with unfulfilled hopes and dreams for her future – have ended without rhyme or reason. Those of us old enough to remember “the good old days” will admit that life back then was far from perfect. Truth be told, there were some aspects of life a generation or two ago that some of us would rather forget. But the notion of a “drive-by shooting” was something with which we did not have to contend. When disagreements arose in the Black villages of old, folks raised their fists in Joe Louis-like fashion. Some attempted to “float” and “sting” following a strategy employed by Ali. There may have even been a few brass knuckles or knives included in the mix. But shooting into a crowd, even if the intended victim was seen among the throng of innocent others, was not the way we Black folks handled our business, dispelled our anger or sought our revenge. Once upon a time, we cherished and honored the entire village: the elders, women who hugged us when we were sad and encouraged us back to joy, men who were fathers, figuratively or biologically, always protecting the babies, no matter what the cost – those who would become tomorrow’s adults and leaders, then assuming responsibility for maintaining the safety of the village people and their survival. D.C. Mayor Bowser posted on her Twitter feed, “Enough is enough.” We concur. And for the sake of the village, and so many other villages whose futures remain more and more in doubt, we call for a return to more sensible rules of order – rules of the past. We cannot allow such goings-on to continue while those who would prefer to bring about the destruction of our villages go unidentified, never held accountable for their misdeeds. We are not animals, we are families. When will we illustrate this truth by our deeds? We pray that the community will muster the courage to stand in unity, if for no one else than for our babies who deserve the chance to become adults and share their gifts in their familiar villages or in villages that have yet to be seen. WI
Mandela and Obama: Two Leaders Who Inspire
Former President Barack Obama delivered his first major address in South Africa this week at a public ceremony honoring the 100th birthday (July 18) of the late Nelson Mandela. Standing before a crowd of 15,000 people attending the 16th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in Johannesburg, Obama was the characteristically class act that the world grew to love and respect, and now deeply misses. While not a perfect leader, Obama was and continues to exemplify true leadership that can galvanize and inspire “that collective spirit” lying in the hearts of others, especially young people. Before Obama became an American household name, the world grew to love and respect the late and great Nelson Mandela who Obama referred to by his beloved moniker “Madiba.” WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM
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As a young leader, Mandela’s radical opposition to the racist apartheid system in South Africa resulted in his arrest and imprisonment for nearly 30 years, many of which were spent in solitary confinement. There, as Obama noted, “his power grew as his jailers’ diminished.” And while many in the crowd agreed that Mandela could still be president of South Africa because of how he led to inspire, he also believed that “Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.”
Meanwhile, in the U.S., President Donald Trump was forced to explain and revise his recent message to the world that reflected his opinion involving U.S.-Russian relations which could potentially endanger the world. However, his words were bereft of inspiration. In fact, his presidency was accurately described by Obama when he said, “Unfortunately, too much of politics today seems to reject the very concept of objective truth. People just make stuff up.” “So on Madiba’s 100th birthday,” Obama continued, “we now stand at a crossroad – a moment in time
at which two very different visions of humanity’s future compete for the hearts and the minds of citizens around the world. Two different stories – two different narratives about who we are and who we should be. How should we respond?” Let’s hope that the words and actions of Barack Obama, Robert Kennedy and the life of Nelson Mandela will inspire the next generation who stand on the shoulders of great leaders and, as Obama said, “know that it is now their turn to do the work.” WI
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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS Guest Columnist
By Julianne Malveaux
The Audacity of Ida B. Wells The crusading journalist Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862. Although she made her mark as a journalist, she was also a social worker, advocate, feminist and organization leader. She too often gets short shrift in history, mainly because she did not go along to get along with the men of her era, crossing swords with the likes of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington.
The same fierceness that pushed her to organize against lynching was the fierceness that propelled her to confront injustice within African-American organizations and in women’s organizations. Indeed, the historic 1913 Women’s Suffrage March intended to either exclude Black women or to segregate them at the end of the march. Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell were among the Black women who marched with the women of their state, refusing to march at the rear. Ida B. Wells’ pen was so
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sharp that it got her banned from the state of Tennessee after she besmirched White women’s morality in a treatise about lynching. No matter! She kept writing and kept it moving, constantly speaking truth to power. Now, Rev. Jesse Jackson is among those clamoring for an anti-lynching law, since none was ever passed, despite several efforts. Even though anti-lynching legislation passed the House of Representatives in 1922, Senate Democrats prevented the passage of the law by filibuster.
In any case, Ida B. Wells spent her life championing the cause of racial justice. Unfortunately, there are too few today who have her passion, her focus and her energy. In these troubled times, investigative journalists like her are far too rare. In an era when there is so much “drive-by” reporting done by anyone with a cellphone and access to the internet, too few are willing to put in the kind of work that Ida B. Wells put in, even though we have more tools than she had. Thus we get momentary internet outrage
when out-of-control Whites attack Black people. Where is the follow-up? Ida B. Wells had nerve, audacity. She was on fire for justice, and it showed in her writing. Her mantra is best summarized in her quote, “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” In her book, “Southern Horrors,” she detailed the horrors of lynching and the fact that so many lynchings were the result of rumor, not fact. Any Black
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By Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
Trump Won’t Protect Our Elections, So States Must Step Up
Russian President Vladimir Putin came late to the Helsinki Summit with Donald Trump on Monday and spoke first at the news conference afterward. He handed Trump a soccer ball from the World Cup, but he clearly walked away with the trophy for the World Cup of politics, largely because Trump, in a bizarre and unprecedented performance,
kept scoring own goals on Putin’s behalf. I have always supported dialogue and negotiations over conflict and isolation. I believe that good relations with the Russians, a nuclear power, are as Trump would say, “a good thing.” But Trump made it embarrassingly clear that he is more concerned about defending his own besmirched election campaign than he is about protecting American democracy. The president apparently
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doesn’t understand that it isn’t all about him. Russian interference in our elections — which Trump’s own intelligence appointees warn is ongoing — isn’t just about the “collusion” that the president rushed to deny. It is about subverting our democracy. Trump can howl at the moon denying collusion, but it is simply grotesque that he could not bring himself to warn Putin publicly that continued interference with our elections is unacceptable and would be met with an immediate
response. Trump is outraged at the Mueller investigation of possible collusion of his campaign with the Russians, but he seems unmoved by the clear evidence of the subversion of our elections. He didn’t give Putin a red light or even a yellow warning one about future interference; he essentially gave him a free pass. The reality is that a core of our democracy — free elections — is under assault. Given the administration’s failures, foreign inter-
ference is likely to spread. The homegrown systematic efforts by right-wing politicians and activists to suppress the vote, to make it harder to register and harder to vote, to purge voters from the lists, to gerrymander election districts to distort the outcome and to open the gates to a flood of unaccountable, secret corporate and private money continue to get more sophisticated. Already experts suggest that
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By Marc H. Morial
Death of John Mack a Huge Loss for Urban League Movement
“John understood that to truly change hearts and minds in the LAPD, he had to go to work on the inside. And because he was not someone who just shouted in anger and tore things down for the sake of tearing them down, the LAPD saw they could trust him. That’s rare leadership.” – Civil rights attorney Connie Rice on John Mack’s appointment as Los Angeles Police Commission president When Los Angeles was devastated by unrest in the after-
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math of the Rodney King trial, the person to whom President George H.W. Bush reached out was Los Angeles Urban League President John Mack. It was John Mack who guided the redevelopment of the neighborhoods shattered by the riots. It was a familiar role for John, who first arrived in Los Angeles in 1969 just a few years after the infamous Watts riots. The death of John Mack last month, at age 81, was a tremendous loss to the city, to the Urban League Movement, and to me, personally. While John’s service to the Urban League goes back more
than half a century, his association with the leaders of the movement goes back even further. While he was studying for his master’s degree in social work at Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta), he became a protégé of Whitney M. Young, then the dean of the School of Social Work. Just a few short years later, Young would take the helm of the National Urban League and ask John to lead the affiliate in Flint, Michigan. He was the obvious choice to lead the Los Angeles Urban League in 1969, at the height of the Black Power movement. He called himself a “sane mil-
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itant” and was unmatched in his ability to channel the city’s passion and fury into positive change. He could negotiate as skillfully with street gang members as with mayors and Congress members. His life was an emblem of the African-American journey itself. He was born into the segregated South in 1937 and spent his summers picking cotton. While he spoke often of the indignities of Jim Crow, his feelings may best be represented by what happened when white construction workers building a dormitory at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University set up
separate “white” and “colored” outhouses. John - a founder of the student chapter of the NAACP – and his friends burned them down. The long list of honors and awards John Mack earned during his many years of service includes the very first National Urban League Whitney M. Young Jr. Award for Leadership in Race Relations, as well as the League’s “Legend of the Century” Award in 2000. In 2005, the Los Angeles Unified School District recognized his commitment to equal opportunity in education by christen-
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By Melanie L. Campbell and Jennifer Tucker
Black Workers Need ‘Real’ Paid Family Leave When Dorcas, a home health aide living in New York, learned of her mother’s illness, she used most of her vacation time to fly home and care for her. After a few weeks her leave was exhausted and tragically she could no longer afford to be with her mother in the final days of her illness. In the end, Dorcas was forced to take unpaid leave and return to Florida, arriving just hours before her mother passed away.
Dorcas counts every penny and the unpaid time resulted in a mountain of unpaid bills and financial challenges that lingered well into the following year. She weathered that storm, but says, “it still pains me that I wasn’t able to be with my mom during her last days.” Dorcas’ story, one of many shared in the Family Values@ Work story collection, exemplifies a crushing dilemma that many
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Black women workers face every day when caring for themselves or a family member. Life shouldn’t be this way, but it is the reality for far too many in the United States. On July 11, the Senate Finance Committee’s Social Security, Pensions and Family Policy subcommittee held a hearing on paid family leave that featured two very different policy options. The “real” policy is the Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act that creates a national insurance program to fund the time needed to welcome a
new baby or address one’s own health issues or the serious health issue of a family member. It also includes time for certain military families’ caregiving purposes. Employees, employers and self-employed workers would fund both the benefits and the administrative costs of the program by contributing a small amount in each pay period to a self-sustaining fund. The FAMILY Act builds on programs in California, New Jersey and Rhode Island and with the newest programs being im-
plemented in New York, Washington, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. The “fake” paid family leave option, restricts participation to only maternity leave and diverts social security funds to pay for the program. Sens. Joni Ernst (Iowa), Mike Lee (Utah) and Marco Rubio (Florida) plan to introduce legislation covering only the birth or adoption of a child. This deeply flawed proposal will require people to borrow
gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim,” said Frederick Douglass in his 1852 speech “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro.” “To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery…” Douglass, who escaped to freedom and achieved his own independence from his plantation master, advocated Blacks’ emancipation, and their
suffrage as freedmen. From the time of the Civil War, African Americans have depended on government to take an active role in their lives. That unhealthy “dependence” continues. In the 1960s, Blacks depended on government for civil rights. Congress passed and President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex and national origin. Martin Luther King said, “Society must now do something special for the Negro.”
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By William Reed
Just How Independent are Blacks?
As of July 4, 2018, the American public favors individual effort to move African-Americans up the economic scale. In the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, 60 percent believe that Blacks should follow the example of other immigrants and work their way up the economic ladder, with no special help. The “special help” Blacks have been getting traps us. Isn’t it time Blacks get beyond our peculiar pre-
dicament. African Americans’ focus on “being in the mainstream.” Blacks under the age of 50 who don’t know segregation and Jim Crow display naive ignorance of America’s system and tradition of institutionalized bigotry. The Western World is dominated by Whites and it’s time contemporary Blacks thought about getting their “just due” here. It’s a history of misery, yet today’s Blacks and their “leaders” are complacent regarding their status and just due. On this Independence Day, most Blacks were busy jockeying for “mainstream political participation,”
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collectively defending being disproportionately dependent on government. America’s Independence Day Holiday has always had a different meaning for Black people, those who were held in bondage, as well as their descendants. In actuality, America’s “independence” was simply one group of barons declaring “independence” from another group of barons over slaves and issues of their control. “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? It’s a day that reveals to him, more than all other days the
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By Askia Muhammad
The Trump Supreme Court Cannot Re-Enslave Black Folks
The Supreme Court of the United States has never been a consistent ally of Black people in America, so there’s really no reason to fear that the new Trump Court on the horizon can turn back the clock on Black progress any more than the united will of the Black masses permit it to. President Donald J. Trump has cut a super-insider trade deal with his appointment of D.C. native Brett Kavanaugh, a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, to replace retiring
Justice Anthony Kennedy. There are numerous, but thinly sourced reports of a sweetheart deal: “Justice Kennedy’s son gave a billion-dollar loan to Trump when no one would give him a dime…” Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, said in a Tweet June 29, several days before Trump even announced his pick. The money is alleged to have come from Deutsche Bank, from the portfolio managed by Justin Kennedy, the justice’s son, after numerous Trump bankruptcies. Other reports allege that Kennedy negotiated with Trump for weeks before his retirement to win
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a firm guarantee that The Donald would nominate Kavanaugh, one of Kennedy’s former law clerks, upon his retirement. How cozy. Trumpland pay-to-play. Now, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) plans to put the Kavanaugh confirmation on the super-fast track, approving him by Oct. 1, before the Court convenes its next session. That’s just two months from vetting, to interviews with senators, to hearings, to a vote on the floor. Ironically, when Kavanaugh was nominated for his current seat on the appeals court, his confirmation took THREE YEARS because his past is so problematic.
McConnell is to be “thanked” for giving Trump two court nominees in less than two years in the White House because in 2015 he stole an appointment from outgoing President Barack Obama, who nominated Judge Merrick Garland to fill the seat of the late Antonin Scalia. That theft took place when Obama had more than a year left in office, but Mitch would not even permit hearings to study Garland’s fitness for the Court. When he took office, Trump appointed staunchly conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch. Whatever qualifications Kavanaugh has now, Garland’s are superior. Garland has served longer,
and is the chief judge of the appeals court on which Kavanaugh sits. But that story is now ancient history. So let’s just say this was a “cozy” nomination hashed out among bosom buddies. “I would say that we’re [now] back into the 1940s and ‘50s,” said Gloria Browne-Marshall, professor of constitutional law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Those were the days when Black folks knew few legal protections. “So, what is the function, ultimately, of the law?” Dr. Greg Carr, professor of African-Ameri-
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LIFESTYLE Vivica A. Fox Gets Real about Her Career, Love and Family By Brenda C. Siler WI Contributing Writer Vivica A. Fox has taken on many public personas throughout the years, both in front of and behind the camera and as the driving force behind a thriving wig line. But as the famed actress talk-
ed about her new autobiography, “Every Day I’m Hustling,” at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Northeast, the audience got a peek into the Indianapolis native’s commitment to family and philanthropic side in a no-holdsbarred conversation with minister, businesswoman and activist Marcia L. Dyson.
Fans took it all in at the Friday, July 13 event, co-hosted by Solid State Books. On the advice of friend and publicist BJ Coleman, who convinced her that she had a story to tell, Fox approached her autobiography as a “motivational memoir,” detailing the trials of a woman in her 50s who could talk about success and failure, determination and the importance of family. “I always felt I had to be so perfect,” Fox said. “In that trap of perfection, I lost me. My goal is to let you know that I understand that it is hard to become successful and even harder to maintain success.” Fox primarily credits her work ethic to her mother, Everylena Fox. The youngest child of divorced parents, Fox talks about how her mother raised the family in West Point, Miss., working two jobs and still ensuring her four children had completed
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their homework. When playing with her older siblings, Fox would get knocked down, then go crying to her father. He gave her a piece of wisdom she has lived by for five decades and inspired the title for her book’s first chapter: “If you want to hang with the big boys, you’re gonna get knocked down. It’s on you to get up.” Those lessons from her parents helped Fox cope with career disappointments, including the cancellation of early 1990s NBC television show “Out All Night,” on which Fox was a co-star with Patti LaBelle and Morris Chestnut. A stunned and dismayed Fox was consoled by LaBelle, who told her she would be fine and would get another job. The conversation soon turn to more salacious topics, as Dyson dug in to what many audience members at the Atlas wanted to hear. “You know the hustle is a game we have to play in business and other avenues,” Dyson begins. “The hustle is also a dance, so who has stepped in the name of love with this hustle game?” That was the cue for “spilling the tea” about Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, the famed rapper and former Fox paramour. “Why is this still being discussed?” Fox said is the oft-asked question about their relationship, which ended more than a decade ago. She said she always has tried to be protective of Jackson and the only reason she wrote about the relationship in the book is because of a media misquote. “I address it because I wanted to provide clarity,” she said. “I messed up. I love him and there
will always be a special place in my heart for him.” Fans also wanted to hear about Donald Trump and Fox’s time on the president’s former reality TV competition “The Apprentice.” Fox said she went on “The Apprentice” because she respected Trump as a businessman and wanted to demonstrate that she was a serious entrepreneur. Further, she knew appearances on the show had boosted the careers of a few past contestants. “He’s excellent at branding, but not qualified to be president,” said Fox, who campaigned for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. “We’ve got to pay attention. Your vote does count.” Fox, who has been in show business now for half her life, said she found mentors such as Queen Latifah and Sean “Diddy” Combs and has in turn become a mentor to others. In the Hollywood community of Black actresses, it is a true sisterhood, she said. “We are all extremely close and supportive of each other 100 percent,” Fox said. “It’s a very competitive field that we are in, but the reason you see so many successful films and television shows produced, starring and directed by African-American women is because of that sisterhood.” But what Fox said truly gives her immense joy is when she is dressed down and sans makeup, spending time with her godchildren. “For 2018, my mantra is ‘live, love, laugh!’” she said. “I’ve been on the treadmill of success for a long time. I really feel that finally in my life, I am happy in the skin I’m in.” WI
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VETO from Page 1 cil members but Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4), Bowser’s ally and successor, voted in favor of legislation affecting nearly 30 students this past academic year. This development, coming less than a day before the start of the council’s summer recess, caused a stir among students, residents and community leaders. “Some people don’t need to miss so many days, but life happens,” said Jalyn Permenter, 17, a senior at Ballou Senior High School in Southeast. Jalyn said the fallout over the dismal attendance records of the 2017 Ballou graduates created a series of events that incited frustration about how Ballou students are stigmatized. “You might not have a way to get the [necessary] documents. If you’re sick with a fever or something, or even got pink eye, they expect you to sit in a hospital just to get a paper
LIFESTYLE that says you can’t come to school,” Jalyn, 17, said. “Some people don’t have the support system to get to the hospitals. A few people had children and they had to stay home to take care of them when they got sick because they can’t afford daycare,” Jalyn, a Northeast resident, said. Bowser disagreed with that popular viewpoint, writing in a June 12 letter to D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) that summer school, credit recovery, and Opportunity Academies provide ample space for the 26 seniors reportedly affected by the veto a chance to master the material. In the letter, she also said that, in the wake of March’s attendance scandal, the chancellor’s office worked to uphold the “District’s long-standing laws.” D.C. public school attendance policy counts a student as “legally present” if they’re in school for 80 percent of the day. For excused absences, students
must submit a doctor’s note or other valid documentation. Five or more absences in a single advisory warrant a grade reduction for classes affected. Secondary grade-level students accumulating 30 or more absences during the school year will receive a failing grade for the courses missed. After reports and audits this year determined that a slew of D.C. schools doctored attendance records to boost graduation data, school officials revealed that less than half of the city’s seniors were on track to graduate. Data recently collected by D.C. Public Schools showed that nearly 60 percent of students graduated this past school year, compared to 73 percent in the previous year. Months into the 2017-18 school year, D.C. public school attendance officials ramped up enforcement, a process that some students said revealed inconsistencies in data collection. “The schools have attendance
people who don’t do their job,” said Ballou senior Amyah Nelson as she bemoaned what she described as unfair treatment of Yetunde Reeves, the principal ousted not long after news of attendance discrepancies surfaced. “They have to put in the excused absence notes in for school records and many don’t do that,” said Amyah, 16, a Southeast resident. “We should judge students by their academics; the work they do and the grades they get. It should be about how they perform in school.” Given the timing of Bowser’s veto, it’s been said that the D.C. Council won’t attempt to overturn it. By the time the council returns in the fall, the next school year, and implementation of the attendance policy, would be well underway. Despite the pushback against
Bowser’s recent moves — rooted in some public disdain for mayoral control of the schools — some people support her recent decision, championing it as an attempt to uphold some consistency in students’ lives and academic careers. “The mayor’s right. It’s not fair for the students who do all of the right things that another student who does half as good or bad gets the same reward,” said Sandra Seegars, an activist of 30 years who lives in Congress Heights. “Students should try harder and do better to get the same rewards. The schools should keep better records, but they could only do so much if the child doesn’t come to school. If you don’t come to school and do the make-up work, this is what happens.” WI
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Bill Cosby’s Lawyer Tom Mesereau Slams Recent Conviction: ‘Travesty’ By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer Bill Cosby’s conviction on three counts of aggravated indecent assault in April was a “travesty of justice” and politically motivated, said the comedian’s former attorney who is finally breaking his silence on the controversial trial. Tom Mesereau, the famed lawyer who successfully represented actor Robert Blake during his 2004 murder trial and pop icon Michael Jackson during his 2005 child molestation trial, said the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, judge who oversaw the case also likely caved to the #MeToo movement sweeping the country. “It was a travesty of justice, the likes of which I have never seen in my whole career,” said Mesereau, who has regularly performed pro
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bono work in various inner cities. “The #MeToo movement is founded in something very, very desirable. To stop sexual harassment against women, stop discrimination against women, stop abuse against women and I commend those principles. But the movement has gotten so powerful that judges are running scared, in my opinion.” In April, Cosby was founded guilty for drugging and assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand in 2004 at his home in Elkins Park. The 81-yearold entertainer faces 10 years in prison for each count when he’s sentenced in September. Cosby, who has maintained his innocence, recently fired Mesereau and six other attorneys and will appear at his sentencing with another lawyer.
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ity [WMATA]. In a press conference outside the union headquarters late Sunday, ATU president Jackie Jeter said the union must give Metro officials a five-day notice whenever stewards are pulled off work. It still remains unclear exactly when and if a strike will happen. However, The union will not make public a “timeline of events but will share developments at the appropriate time.” The last strike, according to the union, took place in 1978 and lasted for one week. On July 4, some workers arrived more than an hour late to work in efforts to confirm their discontent to Metro officials about privatization initiatives, job cuts and changes to several policies that had at that time recently been enacted. Jeter said “the last straw” stemmed more recently when Metro officials reassigned janitors to work potentially on night shifts only at Metrorail stations and without proper notification. “It’s not right. It’s not fair. It’s against the collective bargaining agreement and it has just pushed us too far,” she said. Metro officials released a statement Monday, about three hours before the union publicized its notice, which said the agency seeks to not only protect workers but also reduce costs through effective operations. “The authority does not want customers to suffer from additional service interruptions,” according
Mesereau has decided to go on somewhat of a media tour to express his frustration with how Cosby’s case was handled in Montgomery County. He’s appeared on a podcast with private investigator Scott Ross and most recently on the television show “Inside Edition” with noted celebrity journalist Jim Moret. “I understand that people change lawyers,” Mesereau said. “People go through different lawyers. What we do is an art, not a science. I’ve talked to replacement counsel, and I wish the Cosby family and I wish the new counsel the best.” Mesereau said he still hopes that Cosby’s convictions are reversed on appeal. “I hope he doesn’t spend one minute in jail because he doesn’t deserve to,” he said. WI to Metro’s statement. “Dialogue is ongoing between management and union officials to identify common ground on these matters, while keeping Metro safe, reliable and affordable for the region.” About an hour later, Metro’s board of directors released a rare statement indicating the necessity for continued negotiations in order to keep Metro running for millions of commuters in the D.C. region. “The general manager and his team are working to make these difficult decisions while also protecting current employees,” the board said. “We must find solutions together by continuing to talk and listen . . . The collective bargaining process is the appropriate and legal path to finding solutions.” Meanwhile, the board held its last meeting Thursday, July 12 before the commencement of the summer break. It voted to sell the Jackson Graham Building – Metro’s headquarters based in Northwest. During the meeting, the union announced it would organize a petition drive with the purpose of removing Wiedefeld from office. However, he does have at least one ally: Metro board chairman and D.C. Councilman Jack Evans. “I have 100 percent confidence in Paul Wiedefeld,” Evans said at a press briefing Thursday. “Any time you make changes, they are always controversial and you always have opposition. I want to express my confidence . . . with everybody here at Metro to the really great strides that we have made and continue to make here.” WI
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‘Black Panther’ Hairstylist Shares Tips for Success Film Festival Honors the Legendary Madame C.J. Walker By Brenda C. Siler WI Contributing Writer
5From left: Isisara Bey, artistic director for the March on Washington Film Festival, Camille Friend, hairstylist on the set of “Black Panther,” and A’Lelia Bundles, biographer and great-great-granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker, speak at “Breakfast with a Friend” at the offices of the Raben Group in D.C. on July 13. /Brenda C. Siler
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A room full of D.C.-area hairstylists converged on a downtown office last week to listen to an interview with industry icon Camille Friend during the annual March on Washington Film Festival. Friend, who created the hairstyles for actors in the blockbuster hit “Black Panther,” sat with Isisara Bey, the festival’s artistic director, at the northwest headquarters of the Raben Group consulting firm on Friday, July 13 to discuss hair as a business, industry politics and how to strengthen the network among local stylists. Friend said strategy, opportunity and a strong network is what got her to the set of “Black Panther,” the seventh Marvel film in which she has worked. When Friend moved to Los Angeles, she started working with famed African-American stylist John Atchison, who taught her how to properly cut hair. Styling hair for music videos led to styling wigs for actress Lynn Whitfield for the movie “A Thin Line Between Love and Hate.” The next stop was the NBC comedy “3rd Rock from the Sun,” where she worked for six years and was nominated for an Emmy. “When I got that first paycheck, I said ‘Whoa!’” said Friend, a third-generation hairstylist. “I made sure I was going to stay on that show. I endeared myself, worked as hard as I could and made sure everything was done in our makeup trailer, even if it wasn’t the character I was hired to work with.” Selflessness and a willingness to serve is what Friend said she looks for in the people she hires. She also recommended to always be ready by practicing hair techniques, especially any that have not been used in a while. Each job Friend secured led her to people who were able to give her a strong recommendation or had power to hire. As a
result, she is known in the entertainment industry as a versatile stylist and barber who does hair, extensions, wigs and color for any ethnicity. The consensus among the stylists at the breakfast event was that Friend reinforced many qualities to which one aspires in perfecting a craft, building a business and creating a good support system. “I’m inspired by how you can start at any point in your career and go to exponential heights,” Camille Reed, owner of Noire Salon in Silver Spring, Md., said after hearing Friend’s advice. “I heard other stylists dealing with similar issues like struggling to maintain balance between business and one’s personal life.” The festival event also brought attention to how African-American hair salons played a role in the civil rights movement. Many beauticians opened their salons for organizing meetings, and salon owners paid for buses to bring people to the March on Washington 55 years ago. The event was one of three at the festival to pay tribute to Madam C.J. Walker, creator of hair care products for African-American hair and a philanthropist who supported activist and cultural endeavors. A’Lelia Bundles, Walker’s great-great-granddaughter and official biographer, was a special guest during Friday’s event. Bundles told stylists that at Walker’s first convention of her agents in 1917, the women sent a telegram to President Woodrow Wilson to protest the recent riots in East St. Louis. She was very much about using their revenues in an impactful way. “Madam Walker incorporated into her philosophy that it wasn’t just about making money, but it was about what you do with the money,” Bundles said. “She was very much about using their money, influence and numbers to make a difference, politically. It was really ‘Black Lives Matter 1.0.’” WI
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ARIES The coming week can be a call to slow down and reflect on your best course of action. You may still be in the throes of certain changes, but the pressure that you felt may be fading, and you can now take a more relaxed approach to accomplishing your aims. This week’s quarter moon in your relationship zone could be an opportunity to ask others what they think about your plans. Getting a variety of perspectives can be valuable in helping you make the best decisions for all involved. Lucky Numbers: 2, 9, 24
“What Truth Sounds Like”
by Michael Eric Dyson c.2018, St. Martin’s Press $23.99 ($32.50 Canada) 294 pages
TAURUS You could be quite determined when it comes to pursuing your goals. This may not be such a bad thing if you have an interview and hope to stand out from the crowd. Feisty Mars can give you the energy to keep going even if you face certain challenges. Lucky Numbers: 5, 11, 33 GEMINI With lively Mercury, your guide planet, hiking through your communication sector, you could be very busy with administrative tasks and other everyday chores. This can also be a good time to get to know your local area in more depth. There are always more things to discover. Plus, connecting with family members or neighbors can help you keep in touch and maintain positive relationships. Lucky Numbers: 10, 17, 48
What Truth Sounds Like By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer “We have to talk.” It’s never good when someone tells you that. Even if it’s said with a smile and a pat on the back, you can feel doom in those words. “We have to talk” never helps anyone except when, as in “What Truth Sounds Like” by Michael Eric Dyson, it does. In late May of 1963, Robert “Bobby” Kennedy, attorney general for President John Kennedy, did something remarkable enough to make the front page of The New York Times: he had a “secret” meeting with a group of Black leaders to discuss “an ‘explosive situation’” that could impact the nation. For many reasons, Civil Rights among them, 1963 was a “landmark.” Since taking the oath of office, Jack Kennedy had walked a fine line between politics and social justice. He and Bobby were “villains in the eyes of … white bigots” for their support for African Americans and Martin Luther King Jr., in particular, though Jack really only “tiptoed around the prospect of equal rights for Negroes.” Still, in Dyson’s telling, Bobby almost seemed smug in what he thought he knew about 1963’s simmering atmosphere when he met with James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne, playwright Lorraine Hansberry and activist Jerome Smith. He wanted acknowledgment and gratitude for what was being done on behalf of Black Americans. Instead, the “Negroes” gave Kennedy a verbal trouncing. Smith said Kennedy “don’t have no idea what trouble is …” Hansberry threatened to give guns to people on the street (“poetic license,” Dyson muses). Baldwin fanned the flames, Smith dismissed the meeting as “cocktail-party patter,” and Kennedy fumed before Hansberry dropped a final bombshell and Kennedy’s guests stalked out. In the days after this seminal meeting, Kennedy had chance to ruminate. He’d heard “unvarnished truths in ways white ears … were unaccustomed to.” It changed his life and altered his political career with a lesson that still resonates, especially for liberals and those who are trying this year to capture Congressional seats. “It’s a lesson we must learn today, if we are to overcome our differences and embrace a future as bright as our dreams allow,” Dyson says. “What Truth Sounds Like” is both the first book you should want this summer — and the last. Absolutely no one would ever mistake this for a beach read; it’s too serious and thought-provoking for vacation frivolity and it’s absolutely not skimmable like a novel. Conversely, considering what’s going on in the nation and in the world, this may be the most important book of the season. Author Michael Eric Dyson shows how a meeting held so long ago actually offers a sort of blueprint for anyone concerned about current issues of race. That includes “artists” and entertainers who seem to oppose what Baldwin would’ve advocated, and activists who need to know their history. Give yourself plenty of time with this book. Pick it up, put it down, read anew, and it may help you to change minds. For sure, “What Truth Sounds Like” holds ideas you’ll want to talk about. WI WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM
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CANCER After last week’s solar eclipse in your sign, you might feel like you deserve a break. Positive Jupiter is in your sector of relaxation and leisure, so don’t hesitate to enjoy a short break that can help you feel centered and give you a chance to think about your priorities. With lovely Venus in your communication zone, you could be more persuasive and charming, and this can work to your advantage when negotiating. Lucky Numbers: 14, 29, 53 LEO The sun journeys through the last part of your spiritual sector this week and then moves into your sign on Sunday for a four-week stay. As a result, you may begin to feel more energized and dynamic in general. Prior to this, it wouldn’t be surprising if you felt restless yet not quite ready to launch your latest project or idea. A few more things may need to slot into place before you do. Over the coming days, though, everything can begin to come together. Lucky Numbers: 41, 50, 54 VIRGO Your social sector is still in focus, but in a much quieter way than last week. Things may have changed thanks to a solar eclipse in this zone last Thursday. Over the coming days you could have a chance to think things through and consider what might be best for you going forward. Mercury, your personal planet, continues its journey through your spiritual sector and can align you more closely with your feelings. This can be a good time to talk over any issues and perhaps resolve them for good. Lucky Numbers: 29, 49, 57 LIBRA With lively Mars, your relationship planet, in your creativity and romance sector, the coming days and weeks might encourage you to be more assertive. This can be one of the better times to let others see what you can do. Don’t shy away from showcasing your talents or making new connections. Someone you meet in new surroundings could be perfect for you. All it takes is for you to be willing to move out of your comfort zone. Lucky Numbers: 4, 11, 40 SCORPIO New adventures could beckon, especially after last week’s solar eclipse in your travel and exploration zone. You may still be considering your options, and if so, it may have something to do with self-doubt. Moving past this can be the key to new opportunities and greater freedom. In addition, with lively Mars in your home and family sector, this is one of the better times to get your house shipshape and finish those DIY projects that may have been on the back burner for some time. Lucky Numbers: 6, 26, 32 SAGITTARIUS The coming weeks could see you eager to explore new places and research fascinating ideas. And with feisty Mars in your sector of talk and thought, this pattern can also apply to your local environment and teaching or writing. There is a kind of restlessness in the air that could encourage you to look near and far for answers and opportunities. Lucky Numbers: 7, 45, 51 CAPRICORN With electric Uranus moving farther into your leisure sector, you may already be noticing a desire to do things that you’ve never tried before. Fresh experiences could seem like an attractive option and lead you to get involved in groups or projects that are quite different from your normal activities. If you’re enjoying yourself, that’s all that matters. Lucky Numbers: 13, 21, 38 AQUARIUS The sun’s presence in your lifestyle sector can shine a light on habits that may no longer be helpful. If last week’s solar eclipse encouraged you to consider making some radical changes, the days ahead could help you think things through and research your options so that you can find solutions that meet your needs. Chatty Mercury in your relationship zone suggests that you keep talking. Fresh perspectives might help you think outside the box and consider ideas that you would never have known about otherwise. Lucky Numbers: 4, 8, 45 PISCES As innovative Uranus moves further into your communication sector, you might want to add more technology to your home if it will make life easier. Purchasing a new computer or the latest version of your phone or tablet can be very pleasing. And you might want to make the leap toward having technology manage some of your home and family affairs, too. Lucky Numbers: 16, 30, 35
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SPORTS
3Marva Marsh of Northwest shows her Major League Baseball passport July 17 at Nationals Park. She sat underneath some cover when it rained several hours before the All-Star game. /Photo by William J. Ford
Thousands Flood D.C., Eager for Memorable Baseball Moments
MLB All-Star Game Marks First Return to District Since 1969 By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Marva Marsh loves baseball. The physical therapist and high school softball player from Northeast enjoys America’s pastime so much she’s traveled to watch the Nationals in action at more than a dozen other ballparks. She even has a Major League Baseball passport to receive stamps at all the ballparks she’s attended. “But there are very few people of color who come out and enjoy the ex-
perience of baseball,” she said undaunted by her observation and looking every bit of a devoted fan, decked out in a navy blue Nationals jersey and red Nats D.C. visor with pins on it. “Baseball is the one sport where every stat means something. It’s a great game,” she added. Marsh joined thousands of other avid lovers of “America’s game” Tuesday, July 17 at Nationals Park in Southeast to watch the 89th annual Major League Baseball All-Star game. The game featured three Nationals players: Bryce Harper, Max Scherzer
and Sean Doolittle. However, Doolittle would not see action as he still remains on injured reserve. “It’s an awesome honor to be selected,” Doolittle, who became selected to his second All-Star game, said in the National League clubhouse hours before the game. “It doesn’t happen every year. This is really cool.” Because it’s the All-Star game, fans sported jerseys and t-shirts of other players from the National and American leagues. And while some fans worried about the weather after sudden downpours on Tuesday afternoon threatened the ability for players to take to the field, storm clouds passed
quickly, the skies cleared and the sun began to shine once again on the pristine field of green. Phillip Thomas, who wore a navy blue Atlanta Braves jersey, drove from Norfolk and expressed his confidence that the game would go on as planned, unhindered by the rain. With this being his very first opportunity to witness an All-Star game, he said he couldn’t imagine it being any other way. Besides being a Braves fan, the Tennessee native also admires former Major Leaguer and Hall of Famer Frank “Big Hurt” Thomas who helped with pregame coverage on Fox Sports.
“I’ve got two goals while I’m here: I really want to meet Frank Thomas,” Phillip Thomas said. “Second, I really want to see my [four] Braves do well in the game. The experience here in D.C. has been awesome. If I can see those two things happen, it would be sweet.” Thousands of other visitors enjoyed their experience in the District including Aaron McLaughlin who watched a Nathan’s Hot Dog eating contest Tuesday at the Geico FanFest at the Washington Convention Center in Northwest. Aaron, 15, from Long Island, received an autograph from former Major League baseball player Cliff Floyd, who struggled in the hot dog contest. “Yeah, he was having a tough time,” Aaron said who said without hesitation that he’s a diehard New York Yankees fan. He even suggested how the Yankees might better facilitate moving up in the American League East where they’re currently in second place, trailing the leaders, the Boston Red Sox, by 4½ games. “They definitely need starting pitching,” he said. “I think they can win the World Series with good starting pitching. Go get [New York Mets All-Star pitcher] Jacob DeGrom. Go get him.” WI
FanFest Attracts Sports, Non-Sports Enthusiasts By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Treasure Brooks and Kyree Perkins couldn’t stop staring and smiling at the 12½-foot baseball inside the Washington Convention Center in Northwest. Then the two Southeast youth joined others with the Boys and Girls Club of Washington who ran, tossed beanbags and played some baseball as part of the Geico All-Star FanFast as part of the Major League Baseball All-Star game events held July 13-17. “I mainly play basketball, but this is cool,” Perkins, 11, said standing near a makeshift baseball diamond. “I want to get in batting cages and do some hitting.” The 400,000-square-foot convention center marked one of the biggest venues ever for FanFest that showcased several activities and historic pictures and literature for fans, including: • Virtual Reality Home Run Derby that calculates the ball’s distance.
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• Reserve time to get autographs through Legends Reservation System. • Receive tips from three-time Olympic gold medal softball player Lisa Fernandez. Besides the youth, former major leaguers such as Washington Nationals outfielder Ryan Church also expressed his excitement for FanFest in the District. Church played on the inaugural team when the Nationals moved from Montreal in 2005. “It’s great to see how everything has taken off,” Church said while watching youth play some baseball. “It gives me goosebumps. It’s great to see brining in inner-city kids … and now they get to interact with us and now we get to give back. All it takes is a simple shake of a hand and you can instill something that will take off and you will never know.” It will be the District’s first time hosting an All-Star Game since 1969 at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, which housed the Washington Senators. This year, three Nationals players are All-Stars for the National
League: pitchers Max Scherzer and Sean Doolittle and outfielder Bryce Harper. Nationals shortstop Trea Turner lost in the online vote to participate in the 89th annual contest to Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Jesus Aguilar. Baseball-related activities took place throughout the city, including a mural dedication for baseball greats Mamie “Peanut” Johnson and Josh Gibson at Ben’s Chili Bowl in Northwest, a 5K run along the Anacostia River, discussions on fashion, sports and business in Southwest and a junior home run derby for youth 14 and younger at Nationals Park in Southeast. Mayor Muriel Bowser said the festivities add to the excitement of the Washington Capitals winning the Stanley Cup last month, D.C. United’s new stadium and thousands visiting the city. “It tells the world we are serious about sports in D.C.,” Bowser said after she cut a ribbon during the opening FanFest ceremony Friday, July 13. “It’s not only good for the city’s psyche [on] how we feel about
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ourselves, but it’s good for the bottom line.” Other activities also took place throughout the D.C. region, including the unveiling of a renovated youth baseball field at Walker Mill Regional Park in Capitol Heights. Some of the improvements at the “Nationals All-Star Field” are a scoreboard, covered dugouts, batting cage and bleachers. Another field received some enhancements to promote baseball and a healthy lifestyle for youth in Prince George’s County. At FanFest, Marcus Stubbs and his three children from Lorton, Virginia, did pushups, jumping jacks and other exercises at the performance training station. Although Stubbs’ two daughters, Atianna, 10, and Zoe, 7, aren’t into sports, “we have to expose them to a little of everything,” he said as his 2-year-old son, Zander, clamored to get out of a stroller. “I always see these [MLB events] on TV [and] I wanted to make sure we got her early so they get to take part in the interactive stuff,” Stubbs said. “I’m glad we did.” WI
5William Palmer of the Cheverly Boys and Girls Club throws out the first pitch as part of Major League Baseball All-Star festivities at renovated baseball field at Walker Mill Regional Park in Capitol Heights on July 14. /Courtesy of MLB
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SPORTS Mystics Handle Sky at Home
5Chicago Sky forward Cheyenne Parker is defended by Washington Mystics forward Elena Delle Donne during the Mystics’ 8872 win at Capital One Arena in Northwest on Friday, July 13. /Photo by John E. De Freitas 4Chicago Sky forward Cheyenne Parker is double-teamed by Washington Mystics forward LaToya Sanders and guard Ariel Atkins during the Mystics’ 88-72 win at Capital One Arena in Northwest on Friday, July 13. /Photo by John E. De Freitas
United Christens Audi Field with Win
5D.C. United defender Chris Durkin and Vancouver Whitecaps forward Kei Kamara jockey for position during the United’s 3-1 win at Audi Field in Southeast on Saturday, July 14. /Photo by John E. De Freitas 3WD.C. United forward Yamil Asad and Vancouver Whitecaps defender Marcel de Jong battles for possession during the United’s 3-1 win in its inaugural home game at Audi Field in Southeast on Saturday, July 14. /Photo by John E. De Freitas
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The Supreme Court: What’s Next for America? Groups Condemn Trump’s Supreme Court Pick
By Sarafina Wright WI Contributing Writer
Brett Kavanaugh, federal appeals court judge and President Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee, is viewed as a major threat to the health care system and women’s reproductive rights, according to several politicians, civil and worker’s rights groups. Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, called the judge “a direct threat to our civil and human rights” and “unfit to serve on our nation’s highest court.” “Like President Trump, he would protect the rights of the wealthy and powerful over the rights of all — a fact verified by his prominence on Trump’s vaunted short list of potential nominees,” Gupta said. “Earning a spot on this list of anti-civil and human rights all-stars required satisfying the ultraconservative Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society and passing Trump’s ideological litmus tests. “Trump promised that, if confirmed, his nominee would overturn Roe v. Wade, and undermine the Affordable Care Act, which would have a devastating impact on those with pre-existing conditions, people of color, women, people with disabilities, and millions of others for decades to come,” she said. Gupta said Kavanaugh believes that the president is above the law and would not be a check on Trump’s abuse of power. “Kavanaugh wrote that the president should have ‘absolute discretion’ to determine whether and when to appoint or fire a special counsel like Robert Mueller,” she said. “And Kavanaugh has said that a sitting president should not be criminally indicted, no matter what evidence of wrongdoing is uncovered. No wonder President Trump has nominated this man to the Supreme Court, which will ultimately decide whether he, his family, or his aides can be held accountable by the special counsel.” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus’ Judicial Nominations Task Force and a constitutional lawyer who argued and won a case before the U.S. Supreme Court like Gupta, agrees that Kava-
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naugh would not hold Trump to the law. “I believe that Judge Kavanaugh was selected because he had the longest record of conservative opinions, because he had an additional interview with Vice President Mike Pence — and had clerked for Justice Kennedy — and because of the law review article he wrote in 2009,” Norton said. “In that article, Kavanaugh argued that presidents should not be subject to civil or criminal investigations while in office. Senate Democrats and Americans across the nation now must mount a robust campaign against this nominee, whose record is extreme and whose decisions would roll back the many civil rights and other protections Americans have fought to achieve during the past five decades.” Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the national Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement that it would be an abdication of their constitutional responsibility to merely rubber-stamp Kavanaugh’s nomination. “We will use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that Judge Kavanaugh is fully and properly vetted by the Senate,” Clarke said. “This is the most consequential Supreme Court nomination to be taken up by the Senate in decades. Kavanaugh’s nomination arises at a moment when we see this administration undertaking relentless action to undermine the constitutional and civil rights of minority communities. “From attacking affirmative action, endorsing voter purge programs, rolling back protections for LGBT communities, weakening protections for students, and undermining the 2020 Census, this administration has taken unprecedented action to rollback the civil rights of vulnerable Americans,” she said. The committee said they will keep with their longstanding practice and soon issue a full report regarding the nomination. Republican leaders would like to have Kavanaugh confirmed by October as the new court term begins, CNN reported. “We urge the Senate to fully scrutinize and exhaustively examine [Kavanaugh’s] record,” Clarke said. WI
Dems Vow to Block Trump’s SCOTUS Pick By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer If President Donald Trump’s last Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, offers any indication, his latest selection in Brett Kavanaugh will provide little or no benefits to the civil rights community, says National Urban League President Marc Morial following the announcement of the president’s high court nominee. Morial does not stand in isolation, as many others have echoed his assessment, calling on the U.S. Senate to reject Kavanaugh, 53, who currently serves as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Some of Kavanaugh’s more controversial opinions serve as the core of arguments for those who oppose his appointment. While he hasn’t expressed outright opposition to “Roe v. Wade,” critics note that Kavanaugh may likely side with Trump when he eventually votes on the issue of abortion. In one opinion, Kavanaugh wrote that the government has “permissible interests in favoring fetal life, protecting the best interests of a minor and refraining from facilitating abortion.” In other issues that appear more important to minority groups and communities of color, Kavanaugh has issued controversial rulings on religious liberty and the second amendment. In America, the U.S. Supreme Court remains the final stop for justice in that it conveys the final word with its rulings affecting the entire nation and her citizens because every state must follow the decisions of the Court. “Judge Kavanaugh has a record of ruling against affordable healthcare and women’s reproductive rights. Particularly troubling is his record on cases involving racial and workforce discrimination,” Morial said. “Seating a Supreme Court nominee with an obvious disdain for fundamental liberties will change American life as we know it.” Civil rights leader, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Kavanaugh’s selection will only aide in Trump’s already destructive presidency. “If there’s one things this year’s Supreme Court term has shown us,
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5 Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh. /Courtesy DC Courts
it’s the difference just one justice can make in the progress of our nation. President Trump’s pick to replace Anthony Kennedy ensures the Supreme Court will be able to further Trump’s destructive agenda for decades to come,” Sharpton said. The National Action Network leader also cautioned those who might inaccurately shrug off the selection as a “middle of the road pick.” “Don’t be fooled. On every issue Kavanaugh has proven to be an ideologue who will ignore our rights; working to take away a woman’s right to choose; challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act that has benefited millions of Americans and ruling against workers and consumers at every turn. This is a fight for the soul of our country . . . his confirmation would be a disastrous attack on basic human rights,” Sharpton said. Billionaire hedge fund manager and political activist Tom Steyer, who runs the California-based group, “Need to Impeach,” has urged all of his constituents to contact their senators to stop the nomination. “Brett Kavanaugh is here for a reason. He believes presidents should be exempt from criminal prosecution and investigation while in office,” Steyer said, noting several of Kavanaugh’s previous opinions. To that end, the recent Supreme Court nominee has suggested that Congress pass a law barring sitting
presidents from criminal prosecution and investigation, personal civil suits and questioning from criminal attorneys. He further claims that presidents may disregard laws they consider unconstitutional, despite what the courts say. “The Senate is the only check on the Supreme Court. It does not have to rubber-stamp the president’s pick,” Steyer said. Kavanaugh’s track record shows he’s comfortable using his position to further the agenda of fringe-right groups who back him, according to Steyer. The Georgetown-educated jurist who also teaches at Harvard Law School, earlier surmised that both the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the District’s ban on semi-automatic rifles to be unconstitutional. He’s also attempted to roll back President Obama’s greenhouse gas regulations. “He’s anti-choice. Just last year, he argued in favor of prohibiting an undocumented pregnant immigrant in federal custody from getting an abortion. He considers the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional,” Steyer said. Ben Betz, the Digital Advocacy Director for the left-leaning, District-based group, People for the American Way, referred to Kavanaugh as “not just your run-of-the-mill, narrow-minded, elitist judge.” For full story on Informer web site.
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5Dr. Elsie Scott, 117th Elected and Consecrated Bishop of the AME Church Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, Stan McKenzie and Julianne Marie Malveaux celebrating the 180th anniversary of Metropolitan African American Episcopal Church in Northwest on Sunday, July 15. /Photo by Robert R. Roberts
By Jacqueline Fuller WI Religion Writer @JacquelineF1017 The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church held worship service for its 180th anniversary on Sunday, July 15, with a theme of “Worship, Liberation, Service.” The litany for the anniversary service was written by Rev. Dr. Shively Smith, professor of New Testament at Boston University School of Theology and resident theologian at Metropolitan. She is also the first Black woman to receive a doctorate degree in New Testament Studies at Emory University. The guest preacher at the service was Bishop Vashti McKenzie, the 117th elected and consecrated bishop of the AME church. Before McKenzie’s sermon began, she received a bouquet of red roses from a group of congregants at Metropolitan and members of her sorority, Delta Sigma Theta. Numerous members of the sorority were in attendance, including Cora Masters Berry, widow of former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry and longtime Metropolitan
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attendee, and Julianne Malveaux, renowned economist, commentator and author. Bishop Vashti McKenzie’s sermon, inspired by Mark 2:5-6, was titled “Stay Woke and Stay Lit.” During the sermon, McKenzie said that churches must be mindful not to get caught up in in the darkness of this world among people, places and things that constantly demand attention. She used the example of having too many programs can dim the light on its purpose for them. She also warned that when there is drama in churches, it cannot serve God and the people. “The church at its best is a church of prophecy and not of programs,” she said. In the sermon, she reminded that the church has a strong social liberation legacy. Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frederick Douglass once stood in the pulpit, Bishop Desmond Tutu preached there and the church was a refuge where the enslaved found relief. McKenzie said a church mustn’t become a hospice and must serve both inside and outside its walls. “A church at its best is a whatever it takes church,” she
said. During the service, a 1997 photo of an elderly couple standing in front of the church was displayed. However, the photographer has not been able to identify them and asked attendees to help in the search for the couple in the photo, which is also on display at the Smithsonian. When the invitation to Christian discipleship was announced towards the end of the service, Malveaux walked towards the altar to join the church. She attended services before but felt moved after the sermon to join. Visitors attending the service came from as far as Detroit, Atlanta, South Carolina and Abu Dhabi. Metropolitan AME, known as the “National Cathedral of African Methodism,” was founded in 1838 by Israel Bethel AME and Union Bethel AME. Throughout its history, it has been involved in efforts to fight for justice and equality, AIDS education and civic enga “We want to be a church that stays awake,” said Rev. William Lamar, pastor at Metropolitan. WI
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Dousing the Flames of the Diabetes Epidemic with Lyndia Grant My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. — Hosea 4:6 This is a seven-part article taken from an online publication written by me in 2003. Since its publication, this article has made its way around the world. It is posted in Africa, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, Europe and Asia; it is translated into different languages. The last time this series was published, many people anxiously awaited the next issue. It is the story of the life and suffering of my mother in order to help somebody, so her living would not be in vain. This week, the Lord told me to share this article with my readers again. Here is my story: My campaign for diabetes prevention and education, established under the name Fannie Estelle Hill Grant, started after the loss of my mother who succumbed to Type 2 diabetes on Christmas Day in 2000. I noticed a fire burning in the diabetes health arena, in the African-American community in particular, and it is still burning out of control. Hopefully, this campaign will help put out the fire. Mother was a 73-year-old wife and mother of nine, a homeMt. Zion Baptist Church Reverend John W. Davis Pastor 5101 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 Phone: 202-726-2220 Fax: 202-726-9089 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service - 8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. Children’s Church - 11:00 a.m. (1st & 3rd Sundays) Communion - 10 a.m. 4th Sunday Sunday School - 9:15 a.m. (4th Sunday 8:15 a.m.) Prayer Meeting & Bible Study - Wednesday 7:00 p.m. “A Church with a past to remember – and a future to mold”
maker who loved her family very much and believed in preparing wonderful home-cooked meals for the family. She enjoyed cooking, cleaning and washing clothes, and although she raised nine children of her own, she always had room for other needy children. In our early years during the 1960s, Mother was the wife of our sharecropper father in North Carolina, but they moved the family to Washington, D.C., in 1965, and for more than 30 years, the Washington metropolitan area was home. The family learned of Mother’s Type 2 diabetes after a major stroke she had in 1989. She lived only 12 years after the diagnosis. I and my sisters pledged to begin the educational prevention campaign while we visited with and cared for our mother during her last year of life. Mother and father moved back to North Carolina, where she enjoyed her later years in a very peaceful way. We purchased her a new home, took over the mortgage payments, and she was happy. Mother Grant enjoyed living on the 226-acre farm near Kinston, which had been in the family for generations. She enjoyed walking around the farm, following my father as he worked. Mother suffered many additional strokes. During one of them, she lost the use of her tongue and couldn’t speak. Her kidneys failed, requiring dialysis for the last two years of her life.
She had high blood pressure for many years, and both of her legs were amputated above her knees. We wanted to know more about the disease that took our mother in such a brutal fashion. There was so much pain and suffering prior to her death. Mother Grant was a Christian, she was an evangelist who preached the gospel in churches throughout the D.C. area, and everyone loved her and called her Ma. As her oldest daughter, I promised to educate millions of people regarding the causes and preventions of Type 2 diabetes. By sharing with the general public, I feel a lot better now, because my mother’s living shall not be in vain. wi Read Part 2 of this series next week. Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church The Rev. E. Bernard Anderson Priest Foggy Bottom - Founded in 1867 728 23rd Street, NW - Washington, DC 20037 Church office: 202-333-3985 - Fax : 202-338-4958 Service and Times Sundays: 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Music and Hymns Wednesdays: 12:10 p.m. - Holy Eucharist www.stmarysfoggybottom.org Email: stmarysoffice@stmarysfoggybottom.org All are welcome to St. Mary’s to Learn, Worship, and Grow.
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Mount Olivet Lutheran Church
John F. Johnson Reverend Dr. 1306 Vermont Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20005 Service and Times Divine Worship, Sunday 10:00 a.m. Communion 1st and 3rd Sunday “Friendliest Church in the City” Website: mountolivetdc.org Email: mtolivedc@gmail.com
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RELIGION The Miracle Center of Faith Missionary Baptist Church Bishop Michael C. Turner, Sr. Senior Pastor 9161 Hampton Overlook Capitol Heights, MD 20743 Phone: 301-350-2200 Fax: 301-499-8724
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”
Pilgrim Baptist Church Rev. Louis B. Jones II Pastor 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 www.pilgrimbaptistdc.org
Church of Living Waters
Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church
Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor
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
Service and Times Sunday Service: 8:30am& 11:00am Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30pm Communion Service: First Sunday www.livingwatersmd.org
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
4001 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 (202) 265-6147 Office 1-800 576-1047 Voicemail/Fax
3845 South Capitol Street Washington, DC 20032 (202) 562-5576 (Office) (202) 562-4219 (Fax)
5757 Temple Hill Road, Temple Hills, MD 20748 Office 301-899-8885 – fax 301-899-2555
1204 Third Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 202-347-5889 office 202-638-1803 fax
Service and Times Sunday School: 9:30am Sunday Morning Worship Service: 11:00am Communion Service: First Sunday Prayer Service/Bible Study: Tuesday, 6:30pm
Services and Times Sundays: 10:00am Worship Services Bible Study: Wonderful Wednesdays in Worship and the Word Bible Study Wednesdays 12:00 Noon; 6:30pm (dinner @ 5:30pm) Sunday School: 9:00am – Hour of Power
Blessed Word of Life Church
www.blessedwordoflifechurch.org E-mail: church@blessedwordoflifechurch.org
Campbell AME Church Rev. Dr. Henry Y. White 2562 MLK Jr. Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Adm. Office 202-678-2263 Email: Campbell@mycame.org Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 am Sunday Church School: 8:45 am Bible Study Wednesday: 12:00 Noon Wednesday: 7:00 pm Thursday: 7: pm “Reaching Up To Reach Out” Mailing Address Campbell AME Church 2502 Stanton Road SE - Washington, DC 20020
Turning Hearts Church Virgil K. Thomas, Sr. Senior Pastor/ Teacher 4275 4th Street, S.E. Washington, DC 20034 Phone: 202-746-0113 Fax: 301-843-2445 Service and Times Sunday School 8 – 9 AM Worship Service 9 – 11 AM Tuesday Night Bible Study 6:30 – 8:00 PM Wednesday Daytime Bible Study 11 AM – 12:30 PM Motto : “A Great Commitment to the Great Commandment” Website: www.turningheartschurchdc.org Email: faithdefender@verizon.net
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“An inclusive ministry where all are welcomed and affirmed.” www.covenantbaptistdc.org
Services and Times Sunday Early Morning Worship: 7:45am Church School: 9:30am Sunday Morning Worship: 10:45am Tuesday: 7:00pm/Kingdom Building Bible Institute Wednesday: Prayer/Praise/Bible Study-7:30 pm Baptism & Communion Service: 4th Sunday – 10:30am “We are one in the Spirit” www.ssbc5757.org E-mail: ssbc5757@verizon.net
Services and Times Sunday School: 9:30am Sunday Worship: 11:00am Sunday Community Worship Service: 8:30 am “Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital” www.thirdstreet.org Live Stream Sunday Worship Service begins @ 12:00 noon www.thirdstreet.org
Crusader Baptist Church
E-mail: Crusadersbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.CrusadersBaptistChurch.org “God is Love”
Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr.; Senior Bishop & Evangelist Susie C. Owens – Co-Pastor 610 Rhode Island Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (202) 529-4547 office • (202) 529-4495 fax
Sunday Worship Service: 8 AM and 10:45am Sunday Youth Worship Services: 1st & 4th 10:45am; 804 R.I. Ave., NE 5th 8 AM & 10:45am; Main Church Prayer Services Tuesday – Noon, Wednesday 6am & 6:30pm Calvary Bible Institute: Year-Round Contact Church Communion Every 3rd Sunday The Church in The Hood that will do you Good! www.gmchc.org emailus@gmchc.org
Isle of Patmos Baptist Church
Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Holy Communion: 2nd Sunday at 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday Church School: 9:20 a.m. Seniors Bible Study: Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. Noon Day Prayer Service: Tuesdays at Noon Bible Study: Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Motto: “A Ministry of Reconciliation Where Everybody is Somebody!” Website: http://isleofpatmosbc.org Church Email: ipbcsecretary@verizon.net
St Marks Baptist Come Worship with us... Dr. Raymond T. Matthews Pastor and First Lady Marcia Matthews St. Mark's Baptist Church 624 Underwood Street, NW Washington, dc 20011 Services and Times Sunday School: 9:00am Worship Service: 10:00am Wed. Noon Day prayer service Thur. Prayer service: 6:45pm Thur. Bible Study: 7:15pm
Twelfth Street Christian Church Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor (Disciples of Christ) 1812 12th Street, NW - Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202-265-4494 Fax: 202 265 4340 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 am Communion every Sunday: 11:00 am Sunday School: 10:00 am Bible Study Tuesday: 12 Noon Pastor’s Bible Study Tuesday: 6:30 pm Motto: “Discover Something Wonderful” Website: 12thscc.org Email: Twelfthstcc@aol.com
Mount Carmel Baptist Church Reverend Gerald H. Hesson Interim Pastor 901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423 Service and Times Sunday Church School : 9:00am Sunday Morning Worship: 10:10am Bible Study Tuesday: 6: 00pm Prayer Service Tuesday: 7:00pm Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday 10:10am 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 “Moving Faith Forward” 0% Perfect . . . 100% Forgiven!
623 Florida Ave.. NW - WDC. 20001 Church (202) 667-3409 Study (202) 265-0836 Home Study (301) 464-8211 Fax (202) 483-4009
4504 Gault Place, N.E. Washington, D.C 20019 202-397-7775 – 7184
Service and Times Sunday Worship: 8:00am & 10:45am Baptism/Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday Family Bible Study Tuesdays – 6:30pm Prayer Service: Tuesdays – 8:00pm www.emmanuelbaptistchurchdc.org
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Lincoln Park United Methodist Church
Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith
Rev. Richard B. Black Pastor
Elder Herman L. Simms Pastor
1251 Saratoga Ave., NE Washington, DC 20018 (202) 269-0288
1301 North Carolina Ave. N E Washington, D C 20002 202 543 1318 - lincolnpark@lpumcdc.org www.lpumcdc.org
5606 Marlboro Pike District Heights, MD 20747 301-735-6005
Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 A.M. Sunday School: 8:30 A.M. Holy Communion1st Sunday: 10:00 A.M. Prayer Service: Wednesday at 6:30 P.M. Bible Study: Wednesday at 7:00 P.M.
Service and Times Sunday Worship: 10: am Holy Communion: First Sunday 10: am Sunday School: 9: am Bible Study: Wednesday @ 12 noon and 6:30pm Motto: "Faith On The Hill"
Mount Moriah Baptist Church
Eastern Community Baptist Church
Service and Times Sunday Apostolic Worship Services 11:00 A.M and 5:00 P.M Communion and Feet Wash 4th Sunday at 5:00 P.M Prayer/Seeking: Wednesday at 8:00 P.M. Apostolic in Doctrine, Pentecostal in Experience, Holiness in Living, Uncompromised and Unchanged. The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42
New Commandment Baptist Church
Dr. Lucius M. Dalton Senior Pastor
Damion M. Briggs Pastor
Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor
1636 East Capitol Street, NE Washington, DC 20003 Telephone: 202-544-5588 - Fax: 202-544-2964
8213 Manson Street Landover, MD 20785 Tel: (301) 322-9787 Fax: (301) 322-9240
13701 Old Jericho Park Road Bowie, MD. 20720 (301) 262-0560
Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 7:45 am and 10:45 am Holy Communion: 1st Sundays at 7:45 am & 10:45 am Sunday School: 9:30 am Prayer & Praise Service: Tuesdays at 12 noon & 6:30 pm Bible Study: Tuesdays at 1 pm and 7 pm Youth Bible Study: Fridays at 7 pm
Service and Times Early Morning Message: 7:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service: 10:00 AM Sunday Church School: 9:00 AM Holy Communion: 1st Sunday 7:30 AM & 10:00 AM Prayer, Praise and Testimony: Wednesday 7:00 PM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM
Service and Times Sunday Worship: 11 AM Sunday School: 10 AM Wednesday Mid-Week Worship, Prayer & Bible Study: Wed. 7 PM
Rehoboth Baptist Church
“Real Worship for Real People” Website: www.easterncommunity.org Email: ecc@easterncommunity.org
Salem Baptist Church
Holy Trinity United Baptist Church
Florida Avenue Baptist Church
Reverend Christopher L. Nichols Pastor
Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor
Web: www.mountmoriahchurch.org Email: mtmoriah@mountmoriahchurch.org
St. Matthews Baptist Church
Service and Times Sunday School: 9:30 am Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 am Baptismal Service: 1st Sunday – 9:30 am Holy Communion: 1st Sunday – 11:00 am Prayer Meeting & Bible Study: Wednesday -7:30 pm
Emmanuel Baptist Church
“A Church Where Love Is Essential and Praise is Intentional”
Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 a.m. Sunday Church School: 8:45 – 9:45 a.m. Holy Communion: Every First Sunday Intercessory Prayer: Monday – 7:00-8:00 p.m. Pastor’s Bible Study: Wednesday –7:45 p.m. Midweek Prayer: Wednesday – 7:00 p.m. Noonday Prayer Every Thursday
Matthews Memorial Baptist Church Rev. Joan E. Buchanan Executive Pastor 2616 MLK Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Office 202-889-3709 - Fax 202-678-3304 Service and Times Early Worship Service: 7:30am Worship Service: 11:00am New Member’s Class: 9:45am Holy Communion: 1st Sunday, 11:00am Church School: 9:45am Wednesday 12:00pm Bible Study Prayer, Praise and Bible Study: 7:00pm Saturday Bible Study: 11:00am Baptism 4th Sunday: 11:00am
Service and Times 9:30AM. Sunday Church School 11:00 Am. Sunday Worship Service The Lord’s Supper 1st Sunday Wednesday 7:00pm Prayer & Praise Services 7:30pm. Bible Study Saturday before 4th Sunday Men, Women, Youth Discipleship Ministries 10:30am A Christ Centered Church htubc@comcast.net
Christ Embassy DC
Kelechi Ajieren Coordinator 6839 Eastern Avenue, R1 Takoma Park, MD 20912 (202) 556-7065 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 A.M. Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 P.M. Friday Evening Service: 7:00 P.M. ; Last Friday “…Giving Your Life a Meaning” www.Christembassydc.org Christ.embassy.dc@hotmail.com
“Empowered to love and Challenged to Lead a Multitude of Souls to Christ”
Peace Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Michael T. Bell 712 18th Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Phone 202-399-3450/ Fax 202-398-8836 Service and Times Sunday Early Morning Prayer & Bible Study Class 8:00 am Sunday School 9:00 am Sunday Morning Worship Service 10:00 am Wednesday Service 12:00 pm
Pennsylvania Ave. Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Kendrick E. Curry Pastor 3000 Pennsylvania Ave.. S.E Washington, DC 20020 202 581-1500 Service and Times Sunday Church School: 9:30 A.M. Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 A.M. Monday Adult Bible Study: 7:00 P.M. Wednesday Youth & Adult Activities: 6:30 P.M. Prayer Service Bible Study
“The Loving Church of the living lord “ Email Address: admin@pbc712.org
Shiloh Baptist Church
First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Mt. Horeb Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor
Rev. Curtis l. Staley Pastor
Rev. Alonzo Hart Pastor
Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor
Rev. Oran W. Young 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) 232-4288
Service and Times Sunday Service: 10 am Sunday School for all ages: 8:30 am 1st Sunday Baptism: 10: am 2nd Sunday Holy Communion:10 am Tuesday: Bible Study: 6:30 pm Prayer Meeting: 7:45 pm
Service and Times Sunday Morning Prayer Service: 8:00 a.m. Sunday Church School: 9:15 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship: 10:40 a.m. Third Sunday Baptismal & Holy Communion:10:30 a.m. Tuesday Church At Study Prayer & Praise: 6:30 p.m.
Service and Times First Sunday Worship Service (one service): 10:00 a.m. Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Sunday Worship service: 7:45 a.m. and 10:55 a.m. Sunday Church School/Bible Study: 9:30 a.m. Thursday Prayer Service: 6:30 p.m.
602 N Street NW - Washington, D.C. 20001 Office:(202) 289-4480 Fax: (202) 289-4595
2914 Bladensburg Road, NE Wash., DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-3180 - Fax: (202) 529-7738 Service and Times Worship Service: 7:30 a.m. Sunday School: 9:00 a.m. Worship Service: 10:30 a.m. Holy Communion: 4th Sunday 7:30 a.m. & 10:30a.m. Prayer Services:Tuesday 7:30 p.m. Wednesday 12 Noon
Motto: “Where God is First and Where Friendly People Worship”
The Church Where GOD Is Working.... And We Are Working With GOD
Service and Times Sunday Worship 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 School for All Ages: 8:00 a.m. Sunday Worship Services: 9:30 a.m. Midday Prayer & Bible Study: Wednesday 11:30 a.m. Evening Prayer & Bible Study: Wednesday 7:00 p.m. Laymen's League: Thursday 7:00 p.m. Email: Froffice@firstrising.org Website: www.firstrising.org “Changing Lives On Purpose “
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Foreign No. 2018 FEP 000087 June 12, 2013 Date of Death Hunter Neil LeVine Name of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Beau J. LeVine and Jessica T. LeVine whose addresses are 28806 Cherrywood Lane, Shenandoah, TX 77381 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Hunter Neil LeVine, deceased, by the Probate Court for Harris County, State of Texas, on July 16, 2013. Service of process may be made upon Joshua Branson, 1615 M Street, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20036 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. Decedent has a cause of action in DC. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. Date of first publication: 7/5/2018
Administration No. 2018 ADM 000175
Lynn B. Wait, whose address is 8576 Camp Road, Chestertown MD 21620, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Alexandra Blackhurst who died on October 5, 2017 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 1/5/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 1/5/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship. Date of first publication: 7/5/2018
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Administration No. 2017 ADM 800 Cora L. Easton Decedent Steve Larson-Jackson, Esq. 1629 K Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Gregory K. Easton, whose address is 11 46th Street, SE Unit 102, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Cora L. Easton who died on June 7, 2017 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 1/12/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 1/12/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship. Date of first publication: 7/12/2018 Gregory K. Easton Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY
NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Lynn B. Wait Personal Representative
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131
Estate of Martha Teasley Wilson Deceased
Valerie J. Edwards 1725 DeSales Street, NW Suite 600 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney
Beau J. LeVine Jessica T. LeVine Personal Representative
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2018 ADM 000730
Alexandra Blackhurst Decedent
Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Bradley Wilson and Kisha L. Woolen, Esquire for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representatives. Unless a responsive pleading in the form of a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth. In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate appoint an unsupervised personal representative
Date of first publication: July 5, 2018 Bradley Wilson and Kisha L. Woolen, Esq. 5335 Wisconsin Ave. NW #700 Washington, DC 20015 Personal Representative:
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Washington Informer SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2018 ADM 000726 Delia F. Shorter Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Eugene M. Shorter, Jr., whose address is 11504 Homestead Dr., Upper Marlboro, MD 20774, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Delia F. Shorter who died on April 25, 1981 with a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 1/12/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 1/12/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.
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Administration No. 2018 ADM 000712 John L. Easton, Sr. Decedent Steve Larson-Jackson 1629 K. Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Gregory K. Easton, whose address is 11 46th Street, SE Unit 102, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of John L. Easton, Sr. who died on January 19, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 1/5/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 1/5/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.
OFFICE OF TITLES P.O. BOX 494 KINGSTON June 28, 2018 WHEREAS I have been satisfied by Statutory Declaration that the duplicate Certificate of Title for ALL THAT parcel of land part of CUMBERLAND PEN in the Parish of SAINT CATHERINE being the Lot numbered TEN on the Plan of part of Cumberland Pen now called Block D CAYMANAS GARDENS deposited in the Office of Titles on the 4th day of January, 1983 of the shape and dimensions and butting as appears by the said Plan and being the land registered at Volume 1176 Folio 441 of the Register Book of Titles in the name of PHILIP ANTHONY EDWARDS otherwise known as PHILLIP ANTHONY EDWARDS-HAS BEEN LOST:I HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that I intend at or after the expiration of fourteen days after the last appearance of this advertisement to cancel the said Certificate of Title and to register a new Certificate in duplicate in place thereof.
S. Porteous Senior Deputy Registrar of Titles
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Administration No. 2018 ADM 000123
Foreign No. 2018 FEP 000088
Administration No. 2018 ADM 00729
Pearl R. Wood Decedent
12/26/2017 Date of Death
Wilbur Dean Fillmore Decedent
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Kisha L. Woolen, whose address is 5335 Wisconsin Avenue #700, Washington, DC 20015, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Pearl R. Wood who died on April 21, 2007 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., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 1/12/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 1/12/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship. Date of first publication: 7/12/2018 Kisha L. Woolen Personal Representative
Kenneth R. Clayton Name of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Miriam Clayton and Diane Koontz whose addresses are 7320 Talisman Lane, Columbia, MD 21045 & 15715 Tibberton Terrace, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Kenneth R. Clayton, deceased, by the Orphans Court (Register of Wills) for Howard County, State of Maryland, on May 11, 2018. Service of process may be made upon Darlene Elaine Clayton, 4821 Blagden Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real estate: 5908 17th Street, NW, Washington DC 20001. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. Date of first publication: 7/12/2018
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Carol J. Fillmore, whose address is 224 Bates Street NW, Washington, DC 20001, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Wilbur Dean Fillmore who died on March 19th, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 1/12/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 1/12/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship. Date of first publication: 7/12/2018 Carol J. Fillmore Personal Representative
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A. Bernice Carter aka Alice Bernice Carter Decedent
Bodil G. Mallory Decedent
Johnny M. Howard 1001 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 402 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney
Rena L. Strauss 15204 Omega Drive Suite 210 Rockville, MD 20850 Attorney
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Rita I. Meade and Pamela Carter Pugh, whose addresses are 3506 23rd Parkway, Temple Hills, MD 20748 & 8380 Ice Crystal Drive, Unit B, Laurel, MD 20723, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of A. Bernice Carter aka Alice Bernice Carter who died on October 10, 2017 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 1/19/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 1/19/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.
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Rita I. Meade Pamela Carter Pugh Personal Representative
Willard Lance Mallory Personal Representative
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U.S. Senator for New Jersey, Cory Booker, the former mayor of Newark and an early favorite among Democrats as a potential candidate for the quickly-approaching 2020 presidential election, brought a sense of purpose and urgency during his address to SCLC delegates, members and guests. “There has to be a sense of humility right now because we’re up against the arrogance of meanness,” he said. “We’re up against people who relish in being unkind but we’ve got to go a lot deeper and be a lot more focused.” “We must be more concerned with significance than celebrity; more concerned with purpose than popularity. It’s not how many people show up at your
about why the SCLC was started 60 years ago. And we need to be reawakened about what’s going on today,” Chavis said. LaFayette, who teaches the principles and practice of “Kingian nonviolence” on a global scale, praised the SCLC’s president for his “doggedness and determination” to continue Dr. King’s work. “Charles Steele, Jr., we would not be able to continue and achieve success were it not for your abilities and tenacity,” he said. “It’s not about the organization; it’s about what Dr. King stood for – the work he did. This organization is important because of the work that was and which continues to be done.”
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ity Manager Rose Flenorl; Ambassador Susan Esserman; author Danielle McGuire; National Council of Negro Women Executive Director Janice Mathis; and San Juan, Puerto Rico Mayor Carmen Cruz. Steele, the wife of the SCLC’s leader, reaffirmed the critical role that women have historically played in the civil rights movement. “Ladies, you know men did great work throughout the civil rights movement but we were the 5SCLC Chair Bernard Lafayette, Jr., Ann Curry, an SCLC veteran organizer and leader, [foundation],” she said. “Withand SCLC President/CEO Charles Steele, Jr. present Ed Gordon with the George Curry out women they wouldn’t have Media and Journalism Award during the 60th annual convention of the SCLC held at the accomplished what they did. Washington Renaissance Hotel in Northwest, July 12-15. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter I want to thank all of the men funeral, it’s how many people tion, the Women’s Empowerment [present] for realizing that womyou show up for in life. I worry Luncheon, continues to evoke en have long been and remain that in our country now, we have positive comments from those their backbones.” Maynard Eaton is an eightso many divisions between us. who attended. The thought-proWe’ve come to hate people who voking session, hosted by SCLC time Emmy Award-winning have different political beliefs,” first lady Cathelean Steele, fea- journalist and editor of the tured a stellar lineup including: SCLC National Magazine based he added. One highlight of the conven- FedEx Corp. Social Responsibil- in Atlanta. WI
POLICE from Page 23 with lawmakers and other stakeholders hasn’t been without difficulty, even though a law to facilitate that process is already on the books.
THE NEAR ACT AND BROKEN PROMISES
For the past couple of years, anti-policing efforts have shifted toward the design, passage, and implementation of the Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results (NEAR) Act, which provides a public health approach to crime prevention. Features include the identification and connection of potentially violent offenders to wrap-around services. During mental health crises, healthcare professionals, not officers, would intervene. MPD is also required to collect data on felony crimes, stop-and-frisks, and use-of-force incidents. Since the D.C. Council unanimously passed the NEAR Act in 2016, portions of the bill haven’t been funded and properly implemented, particularly an IT system that would streamline MPD’s data collection. The D.C. Council recently funded a half-million-dollar plan scheduled to start next summer. “Mayor Bowser had the opportunity to fix these problems three years ago when the NEAR Act was first introduced,” Dornethia Taylor of Black Lives Matter DC told council members during her testimony Thursday. “However, instead of embracing a progressive community-focused approach to violence. … She and Chief Newsham have
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Since the D.C. Council unanimously passed the NEAR Act in 2016, portions of the bill haven’t been funded and properly implemented, particularly an IT system that would streamline MPD’s data collection. fought it every step of the way.” Last year, ACLU-DC filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for stop-andfrisk data. In May, ACLU-DC, Black Lives Matter DC and Stop Police Terror DC sued Newsham, Bowser and Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice Kevin Donahue, alleging neglect to provide consistent, detailed information about whether police stops were consensual, whether police conducted a search in each instance, and whether an arrest took place. “We can connect community members affected by violence directly to support services like those promised by the NEAR Act,” Taylor said earlier in her testimony. “Violence interrupters, community mediators, and health professionals who use a public health approach to violence all have proven track records to de-escalate situations better and to provide actual assistance to police.”
Taylor’s sentiments echoed that of ANC Commissioner Sherice Muhammad, who also testified at Deanwood Recreation Center and attended another hearing at the John A. Wilson Building in Northwest earlier in the day. She counts among a contingent of D.C. residents who expressed a desire for more community engagement when it comes to matters of public safety. “These council members aren’t going to save us. The police are allowed to do what they want,” Muhammad, representative of ANC Single Member District 7D06, told The Washington Informer as she recounted what she described as Chief Newsham’s nonchalant attitude during the first hearing. “There’s a point where we have to work through our fear and speak out,” Muhammad said. “We can take our tax dollars and utilize the Black men in our communities. We should test-pilot that in Wards 7 and 8.” WI
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chair of the National Urban League Board of Trustees. By the time I was appointed president and CEO of the National Urban League in 2003, John was a longtime veteran. His mentorship over the years has been invaluable, and I knew I could rely on his steady guidance. It is a loss deeply felt throughout our movement and we join his children and grandchildren in mourning him. WI
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honor through the California Community Foundation – for more information, click here. John wasn’t just an affiliate president and CEO, he was a leader among leaders, helming the Association of Executives. He was a member of the Academy of Fellows, a group of affiliate leaders with 15 years or more of experience, who served as mentors to new affiliate CEOs. And he served as vice
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plauded for meeting with Putin, hopefully reduced tensions and new impetus for reducing nuclear arsenals will follow. But his failure to defend our democracy both against Russian interference and against domestic subversion is a dangerous dereliction of duty. Republicans in Congress won’t act because they seem to believe that their majorities may depend on suppressing the vote. So, it is up to the states, and to an aroused citizenry, to insist that our election be open, free and fair. The shocking display that Trump put on in Helsinki makes that all the more imperative. WI
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Democrats will have to win the national vote by 6 to 8 percent in order to take the majority of the House, largely due to Republican partisan redistricting. Trump is so focused on his own election campaign, so defensive about the legitimacy of his own victory that he has utterly failed to protect our democracy from subversion from abroad or at home. It will be up to the states to make the reforms that are long overdue: automatic voter registration, longer early voting days, voting day holidays, an end to
voter purges, nonpartisan redistricting, matching public funds for small donations, mandatory disclosure of all funding sources, returning the right to vote to felons that have served their time and more. The states should be taking measures to protect voting systems from outside interference, including moving back to paper ballots to eliminate the threat of cyber intrusions. What is clear from Trump’s performance in Helsinki is that he won’t lead this effort. He is so fixated on defending himself that he is failing to defend our democracy and our elections. The president should be ap-
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March. She should be lifted up to remind us of the power of audacity. Her great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster, has been raising money to build a statue in Chicago, but she is still about $100,000 short of her goal. You can donate to the cause through http://www.idabwellsmonument.org. We need to have more Black women, and especially women like Ida B. Wells, represented in our nation’s statuary. We need to be reminded of Wells and her audacity — especially now, when so many seem to have been silenced by 45’s trickery. Our African-American leaders need to stop with the complicity of “go along to get along.” We need an Ida B. Wells now! (Congresswoman Maxine Waters comes close.) We need unfiltered audacity! WI
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man who looked sideways at the wrong White woman was subject to lynching, so much so that even in the rare case where Black men were acquitted of rape, rabid crowds lynched them. At least 3,436 people were lynched between 1889 and 1922. In just the four years between 1918 and 1921, 28 people were publicly burned to death. And while Black men were the primary victims of lynching, Black women, union organizers and others were also lynched. Because of Ida B. Wells, we have more detail than we might have had about these horrors. Few have the audacity of Ida B. Wells, but Bryan Stevenson surely does. His National Memorial for Peace and Justice in
Montgomery, Alabama, lifts up the name of the more than 4,000 African Americans who were lynched in the South between 1877 and 1950. Stevenson, through his work to save African Americans from death row, makes the connection between historical lynching and modern-day criminal injustice. He is as eloquent as Ida B. and as purposeful. Would that we had hundreds more of him, hundreds more of Wells. It is shameful that there is no statue of Ida B. Wells anywhere in this nation. There should be one at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, where she once matriculated. There should be one in Chicago, where she lived from 1893 until her death in 1931. There should be one somewhere in D.C., perhaps along the route of the 1913 Women’s Suffrage
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retirement security of older Black women even more precarious than it is currently. Any paid family leave proposal that ignores the caregiving responsibilities that families are facing for older relatives is outdated. According to the AARP Policy Institute, 40 million American adults assist loved ones with tasks of daily living each year. Family members are helping with eating and bathing; household chores; and nursing tasks so people can age in place. Surpris-
ingly, of these 40 million family caregivers, about 25 percent are millennials, between the ages of 18 and 34. One in three employed millennial family caregivers earns less than $30,000 per year, including nearly 30 percent of Black family caregivers. We urge policymakers to deliver paid family leave programs that fit the times and their constituents’ diverse needs. Black workers and their families need and deserve #RealPaidLeave. Our nation deserves nothing less. WI
There’s money in it. Policymakers do us a disservice through poverty programs that destroy natural mechanisms that have always enabled poor people to lift themselves out of poverty. What can the government do to help poor people? Instead of demanding that the state “pay us reparations’ too many Blacks beg for “more social programs and a higher minimum wage.” In contrast to the mindset that most adhered to in American history, the average farmer, shop owner or entrepreneur lived
an entire life without getting anything from the federal government except mail service. It’s the great giveaway. The Wall Street Journal reports that 49 percent of the population lives in a household where at least one person gets some type of government benefit. Independence Day 2018, and Blacks still set off firecrackers in celebration. But the joke’s on us — this generation of Blacks is the most government-dependent of all. WI
people to undertake a ‘Second Reconstruction’ in the 1960s, to enforce those rights.” No more. “Now, we’re faced perhaps, as our friend the Rev. Dr. William Barber has argued, we’re in the throes of a ‘Third Reconstruction,’” Carr said. “A Third Reconstruction, meaning: that the rights of the Constitution, guaranteed to us through the Civil War Amendments, but fought for in the streets during the Second Reconstruction of the 1960s, has failed yet again, because the ‘whitelash’ to that movement, meaning ev-
erything from the 1960s to now, has been designed to still elevate white citizenship over, any other form of citizenship.” A legal, racial hierarchy, with Whites at the top was always the intention of the law and the courts in this country, Carr said. “I think that, at the heart of the American legal universe has been the fundamental preservation of whiteness as citizenship, whiteness as property, whiteness, in other words, as an elevated form of civic humanity,” he said. Historically, some decisions have been far worse and were decided by “supermajorities.” “In the Dred Scott decision in 1857, the fundamental argument was … when [Chief Justice Roger Taney said] the famous line that Black people have no rights that a White man is bound to respect, what he’s basically saying is that, regardless of whether you were born in a free state or a slave state, your status as an African, transcends the region of your birth,” Carr said. “You can never be fully secure in your rights.” The Dred Scott case was decided by a 7-2 Supreme Court vote. The infamous Plessy vs. Ferguson case in 1896, which reaffirmed segregation with the language “separate but equal,” was decided by an 8-1 vote on the court. Neither Black people in America, nor anyone else, is going back to the days of Dred Scott or Plessy, I assure you. WI
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