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Soon after graduating from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Leland Kent, (standing), a 23-year-old math teacher at Dunbar Senior High School in Northwest, relocated to D.C. to not only teach, but to mentor young black boys who could otherwise fall prey to the school-to-prison pipeline. /Photo by Roy Lewis

Black Boys Prime Targets for School-to-Prison Pipeline

By Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer Truancy in the District of Columbia Public School (DCPS) system is a serious issue that has spiraled out of control – particularly when it comes to the end results for many black male students.

Their truancy numbers are significantly higher in comparison to other student populations, and instead of schools officials insisting upon counseling or detention to deter their behavior, they’re relying on suspensions, expulsions, and law enforcement to deal with the problem.

Those actions, in effect, often

put young black males on the school-to-prison pipeline.

“The challenge of going to school is two-fold,” Umar Abdullah Johnson, Ph.D., said during a recent appearance on “UDC Forum,” a locally-televised outreach project of the University of the District of Columbia. “The first aspect of

the problem relates to the school itself. Public education was not designed to successfully prepare African-American boys for a life of success,” said Johnson, a certified school psychologist and author of Psycho-Academic Holocaust: The Special Education and ADHD Wars against Black Boys. “Public education, as it is

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today, largely functions to prepare our boys for a life of prison and incarceration.”

Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson, 43, said in November during an anti-truancy hearing with members of the D.C.Council, that chronic-ab-

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Women Break the Cycle of Domestic Violence

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law enforcement. She said they threat,” she said. had come together to bring a Among the programs Marlow sense of uniformity in the way wants to see implemented are When L.Y. Marlow's 23-year- domestic violence victims and stricter restraining order policies, Visit our updated Web site old daughter told her the father survivors are treated. more rights for victim's families and give us your comments of her daughter threatened her “She's using her own personal to intervene on behalf of a vicfor a chance to win a gift from life, and the life of their child, story, her own personal pain to tim, a domestic violence assessThe Washington Informer she knew something had to be push forward,” Davis-Nickens ment unit coupled with further done. Out of her frustration said about Marlow. training for law enforcement with law enforcement's handling Davis-Nickens said anyone agencies,Historical a Child's ProtecC.R. Gibbs, a historian of the African Diaspora, gave a lecture at the Frederick Douglass SiteLife about Email comments to: of the situation, she in decided toWar.who Marlow's tion Act and counselHarriet Tubman’s role the Civil The reads event on Saturday,book Marchwill 9 commemorated themandatory 100th anniversary of rburke@ start the Saving Promise it.”Vaughn.

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By Sam P.K. Collins Domestic Violence Symposium Mildred Muhammad, the exwouldincluding also like Shiloh to see Ferry and worked with Susan B. in Marlow the District, WIMay Contributing Writer on 7 at the District Heights wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise Anthony in the women’s suffrage Baptist Church now located on Municipal Center. The sympo-th who was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in movement.

Last was weekend marked the 9th and P Streets in Northwest.

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Toward the Gibbs chronicled points during hosted program Saturday, Dr. Calvin W. Rolark, Sr. can not abelieve the on words came domestic violence victim must change our laws,” Marlow said. the Civil War, beginning with end of his lecture, Gibbs drew Wilhelmina J. Rolark Marchher.

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Wells Talks about Mayoral Bid D.C. Council member Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) said that as a candidate for mayor of the District he will work to win the votes of African Americans, focus on economic development in wards east of the Anacostia River and revamp the city’s much-maligned government contracting program for local businesses.

Wells, 56, has launched an exploratory committee which is considered to be the first step in the bid for the top job in the city.

He plans to make a formal announcement in the spring or early summer. Wells said that should he decide to run, his campaign will include a strategy to reach black voters.

“Whether you are black or white, male or female, native Washingtonian or have lived here a little while, people want the same things,” he said. “They want safe streets, neighborhood elementary schools, fresh groceries and great transit options. They want a livable, walkable city.”

Wells has served on the D.C. Council since 2007, representing the only ward that touches all four of the city’s quadrants. He served as an advisory neighborhood commissioner for Ward 6 from 1995-2000. He also represented Wards 5 and 6 on the D.C. Board of Education from 20012006.

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If Wells wins the April 2014 Democratic primary and the November general election, he would become the city’s first elected white mayor since the advent of Home Rule in 1973. Wells said that he will not focus on race during his campaign. Rather, he will promote himself as the best candidate to lead the city.

“I trust the voters of Washington,” he said. “I will appeal to the hearts and values of the voters. I trust that African Americans will give me a fair hearing.”

Wells has already hosted a meetand-greet in Ward 8 in Southeast and recently traveled with D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) to Annapolis to encourage the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland to support a bag tax in the state.

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D) has not indicated whether he will seek re-election. D.C. Council members Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) and Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) have expressed interest in running for mayor, but have not organizationally moved forward in that direction.

Wells believes that one of the major ways to revitalize eastern Washington is to help residents “get to a job.”

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March 14 1947 - William J. Jefferson, first congressman elected from Louisiana since Charles Edmund Nash left office in 1876, born 1933 - Quincy Jones, born in Chicago.

1917 - First training camp for “colored” officers is established by the U.S. Army in Des Moines, Iowa.

1838 - Blacks held a mass meeting in Philadelphia to protest the action of the Pennsylvania Reform Convention of 1837 which denied them the right to vote.

1794 - Eli Whitney patented cotton gin which made cotton king and increased demand for slave labor.

March 15 1933 - NAACP began a coordinated attack on segregation and discrimination, filing a suit against the University of North Carolina on behalf of Thomas Hocutt. Case was lost on a technicality after the president of a Black college refused to certify the records of the plaintiff.

1911 - Fifty-fifth Congress (1897-99) convened. One Black congressman: George H. White, North Carolina.

March 16 1997 - Rebel troops in Zaire take the major city of Kisangani in an effort to overthrow President Mobutu Sese Seko.

1869 - Hiram R. Revels made his first speech in the Senate, opposing the readmission of Georgia without adequate safeguards for Black citizens. This was the first of-

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ficial speech by a Black in Congress.

1827 - First Black newspaper, Freedom’s Journal, published in New York City.

March 17 1970 - Jacob Lawrence was the first artist to receive the Spingarn Medal in 1970.

1946 - Jackie Roosevelt Robinson made his professional debut as a member of the Montreal Royals in the Daytona Beach ballpark that now bears his name. One year later, Robinson would break Major League Baseball’s color barrier and earn the inaugural Rookie of the Year Award as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1919 - Nat King Cole, singer, born.

1865 - Aaron Anderson wins the Navy’s Medal of Honor for his heroic actions aboard the USS Wyandank during the Civil War. March 18 1972 - The USS Jesse L. Brown, the first U.S. naval ship to be named after an African American naval officer is launched.

1963 - Actress-singer and the first black Miss America Vanessa L. Williams is born in Millwood, New York.

1959 - Actress-singer-songwriter Irene Cara is born in New York City.

1947 - R&B singer Wilson Pickett is born in Prattville, Alabama.

1933 - Unita Blackwell was born this day in Lula, Mississippi.

She became the first black woman

mayor elected in Mississippi.

1895 - Two hundred Blacks left Savannah, Ga., for Liberia.

March 19 1975 – James B. Parsons becomes the first African American chief judge of a federal court, the U.S. District Court of Chicago. In 1961, Parsons became the first African American district court judge 1968 - Howard University students seized administration building. Students were demanding campus reform and Black-oriented curriculum. Civil rights forces mobilized in support of striking hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina.

1919 – Nathaniel “Nat King” Cole, born in Montgomery, Alabama.

1883 - The shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger not only revolutionized the shoe industry but also made Lynn, Massachusetts, the “shoe capital of the world.”

1872 – T. J. Boyd, inventor, is awarded a patent for an apparatus for detaching horses from carriages.

1619 - Birthday of William Tucker, the first African child born in the colonies. Tucker was baptized in Jamestown, Virginia. There are unconfirmed reports that he lived to be 108 yrs. old.

March 20 1970 – Students struck at the University of Michigan and demanded increased Black enrollment.

The strike ended April 2, after the administration agreed to meet their demands.

1957 – Spike Lee, filmmaker, born.

1950 - Dr. Ralph Bunche receives the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a mediator in the Palestine crisis. He is the first African American to be so honored.

1890 - The Blair Bill provided federal support for education and allocated funds to reduce illiteracy among the freedmen was defeated in the Senate, 37-31.

1852 - Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in Boston.

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Viewp int Dianne Lewis Alexandria, Va. I did not think it was an overreaction by local government.

It was clear, according to weather reports, that [the D.C. metro area] was on the line of either getting hit hard by snow or just receiving a dusting. I prefer the safe, rather than sorry, approach.

Ariel Rayman Washington, D.C. It’s not so much that the local government overreacted, rather it was more of a response to what the media [reported] and hyped about the potential snowfall. The closures were a result of what the forecasters predicted, and the government had to take action to ensure the safety of the people.

DID LOCAL GOVERNMENT OVERREACT TO THE IMPENDING SNOWSTORM?

Sabrina Greene Alexandria, Va. I don’t think so. It might have complicated things for parents who are not government workers and still had to report to work, but it didn’t for the government employees. If I had children, I would rather them be safe at home, rather than traveling to school under those [horrible] weather conditions.

Ronda Brunson Baltimore, Md. Absolutely. They preemptively closed work and school. We’ve had a very mild winter and the newscasters really pumped up the storm. This is the worst the snowstorm hype has been all season. Everyone was scrambling to grocery stores and gas stations and the snow never came. [Cities in the D.C. region] wasted a lot of resources as a result of shutting things down.

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Dunbar Senior High School Principal Steve Jackson, left, confers with Leland Kent, a math teacher at the school on Monday, March 11. Kent also serves as a mentor to his male students. /Photo by Roy Lewis

TEACHERS continued from Page 1 senteeism has reached the crisis point, with more than 40 percent of students at Anacostia, Roosevelt, Ballou and Spingarn high schools having missed at least 30 days from classes in 2011 due to unexcused absences.

Students are generally classified as truant after missing 15 days of unexcused absences.

Since truancy rates impact graduation rates, Henderson has been under increasing pressure to develop initiatives that counter truancy in order to ensure that three-fourths of all District students graduate on time by 2017.

“A lot of people speak of the problem as being the parents, [students’] disinterest in [school] and the influence of hip-hop.

The primary reason our young men are not learning is because the schools aren’t designed to teach them, and the personnel necessary to reach them are simply not being hired,” Johnson said. “Our boys not only need men in the classroom, they need black men in the classroom.”

Employing black male teachers has always resonated with Steve Jackson, principal at Dunbar Senior High School in Northwest.

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that “there are a lot of black male teachers” in our building. “In many instances, these teachers come from the same community as the students, so they’re more able to relate,” he said. “They’re able to speak a language to students that they can relate to, and in effect help close the achievement gap.”

One of his teachers is 23-yearold Leland Kent, a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta.

Kent, a native of Philadelphia, said he’s well aware of the needs of young African-American boys growing up in inner cities where in many cases, school attendance takes a back seat.

“I became a teacher because I felt I could reach these kids,” said Kent, who launched his career at Dunbar two years ago.

“I had instructors who took me under their wing, mentoring and nurturing me, so I [understand] that if the students can’t relate to their teachers, the system [can lose them].” Kent, who teaches math, said he makes it a point to know all of his students’ names, where they sit in class and to acquaint himself with family members. “And, I’ve seen where [my concern] has made a difference reducing truancy at Dunbar,” he said.

Ward 8 Council member Marion Barry said however, that there’s also the need for additional programs like Spingarn

STAY and Ballou STAY “that really work,” reducing truancy and dropout rates.

“When it comes to our black boys, truancy is a very serious, cultural and historical problem,” said Barry, 76. “A lot of them are truant because their fathers were truant.”

Barry said he often sees young black males “hanging out” during classroom hours and urges them to go to school.

“Some of them have given up hope . . . but the bottom line is that there are no real consequences if these kids don’t show up for school,” Barry said. “City officials, including the chancellor, are just not that serious about combatting truancy.”

During a Feb. 23 forum at Anne Beers Elementary School in the Hillcrest community in Southeast, Judge Zoe Bush, who presides over family matters at the D.C. Superior Court in Northwest, said truancy is a “complicated social problem.”

However, eradicating truancy takes a collaborative effort, she said.

“Truancy is connected to collaborative services, and then you can improve that child’s attendance. But, you can’t wait to cure poverty in order to cure truancy,” said Bush, 58.

She stressed that a majority of

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Leland Kent, a math teacher at Dunbar Senior High School in Northwest, calls on one of his students during class on Monday, March 11. Kent also serves as a mentor to his young charges. /Photo by Roy Lewis

TEACHERS continued from Page 8 young black incarcerated males read on a 4th-grade level, and that if the issue of truancy isn’t taken more seriously, “society will pay the cost.”

Meanwhile, a coordinator for the community advocacy group, Black is Back, said truancy is a symptom of what’s wrong with the educational system.

Freedom Koofshaw said that the 15 school closings mandated

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in January by Henderson, serves as a prime example of how easy it is to manipulate impoverished pockets in various communities, where most of the closings are slated to take place by the end of 2013.

“Attacking the school system is one way of opening the pipeline that leads our boys to prison,” said Koofshaw, 41. “The other is the dollar signs that large corporations see whenever there’s a charter school takeover . . . This combination of charter

schools that are for profit, and the prison system which is for profit, is a dangerous mix that is a direct attack on our little black boys.”

Koofshaw added that even if the young men return to school, there are no “real” programs to get them back on track and to keep them there.

“That’s why they put resource officers in the schools who have arresting powers – because that’s a sure way of getting our young boys on the road to prison.”wi

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When Kai Goodall personifies the District’s House of Representative Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s character, she uses a routine to prepare herself.

“I think of all the things I think are unfair,” said Kai, 11, a fifth grader at Basis D.C. Public Charter School in Northwest. “I’m thinking in my head that slavery was wrong, so I get angry when I think about it, and I know she’s angry about taxation without representation so I put all my energy into my part.”

To understand Norton’s fight as the District struggles for equal representation in the U.S. Congress, Kai researches and learns Norton’s words, in addition to homework and other activities.

Kai is one of more than 50 youth between the ages of 6 and 17 who will take part in the seventh Annual Blacks in Wax program at one of the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation facilities – specifically, the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center (SETLC) on Friday, March 15, and at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Northwest on Saturday, March 23.

The young performers, who attend SETLC’s after-school programs, will astound audiences as they transform from posed replicas into lively representations of some of the most notable African Americans in this nation’s history.

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“She’s amazing,” said Carmela Goodall, Kai’s mother, after her performance on March 8 at the John A. Wilson Building in Northwest during a kickoff for the upcoming event. “She’s been playing at the tennis center for six years and she’s a straight A student and an excellent tennis player.”

The Blacks in Wax portrayals began seven years ago as a way to educate youth about African-American history. Conceived

by Cora Masters Barry, the District’s former first lady, and the chief executive and founder of the Recreation Wish List Committee (RWLC), Blacks in Wax has become SETLC’s most successful program. RWLC’s primary mission is to improve public recreation in the city.

“My inspiration was the children, getting them to learn to like and retain history,” said Masters Barry, 68. “The kids do an excellent job and 99 percent of them live in Ward 8.”

Masters Barry made her first public appearance since she had surgery in January at the kickoff announcement, accompanied by her ex-husband, former four-term mayor of the District of Columbia, and current Ward 8 Council member Marion Barry, who gushed that she “amazed him.”

The youth will portray characters such as civil rights icon Rosa Parks; Susan B. Anthony, a founding member of the Women’s Suffrage Movement; Detroit’s first black mayor, Coleman Young; Rep. Maxine Waters, and the first lady of the United States Michelle Obama. They will also feature cabinet officials and the president of the United States.

“They are highlighting women’s rights and our problems with voting rights and how far our elected officials have come,” said Mayor Vincent Gray, 70. “This program empowers our youth and helps them with critical thinking skills.”

This year’s theme, “Struggle to Serve 1865 to 1965,” highlights the impact of the U.S. Constitution’s 15th Amendment, which gave African Americans the right to vote; the 19th Amendment, which afforded the same to women; and the impact of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which reinforced the spirit of the 15th Amendment on the lives of African Americans, especially black women.

The right for blacks to vote and the Women’s Suffrage Movement proved to be watershed moments in the lives of the persons portrayed in the production. The vignette also builds upon the 2012 theme of “Movement to Movement,” which presented African Americans with key roles in the civil rights movement.

The free performances will be held on Friday, March 15, from 7 to 9 p.m., for the general public at SETLC, 701 Mississippi Avenue in Southeast, and on Saturday, March 23, at 5 p.m., at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts at 2700 F Street in Northwest.

“There’s a lot of hard work and dedication that goes into putting on this production,” said Masters Barry who explained the process takes about two months from start to finish. “But when I see the transformation of the youth [into] iconic, historical figures, I know it’s worth every painstaking moment.” wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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By Gale Horton Gay WI Staff Writer Before a packed house at Prince George’s Community College (PGCC), luminaries in politics, medicine, the civil rights movement, sports and entertainment discussed their struggles and motivations in achieving success.

Moderated by Camille O. Cosby, Ed.D, Broadway play and television film producer and co-founder of the National Visionary Leadership Project, the event on March 7 brought together David Dinkins, the first African-American mayor of New York City; M. Joycelyn Elders, a pediatrician and former U.S. Surgeon General; Robert P. Moses, former field secretary for

the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and an educator, all touted as “visionaries.”

Also part of the dialogue were the “contemporaries” actor, director, producer Malcolm Jamal Warner; 1984 Paralympic skier Bonnie St. John and PGCC students Joy Applewhite and Philippa Palmer.

Charlene M. Dukes, president of PGCC, said the panelists are “like our students they all started with a dream.”

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When asked about her upbringing and her efforts to advocate for children throughout her career, Elders explained that she was the oldest of eight children and served in a motherhood role “all my life.” She described growing up poor and living with her family in a three-room shack.

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“Everybody stands on somebody’s shoulders. I have no illusions [about] how smart I am, how good I am. I am the beneficiary of a whole lot of work and people who came before me.”

– David Dinkins, the first African-American mayor of New York City doctor when she was young and never saw a physician until she attended college.

“You can’t be what you can’t see,” said Elders.

However, when one of her brothers almost died after being treated for an appendectomy, Elders realized she “wanted something better for black children.”

During her career heading Arkansas’ Health Department and as Surgeon General, she pushed for early childhood education and school-based health clinics and became an outspoken advocate on issues of teen pregnancy, tobacco use, national health care and legalization of marijuana.

However her views were considered controversial by some and in 1995 – 15 months after being appointed by President Bill Clinton – she was forced to resign.

Dinkins recalled how civil rights activist and lawyer Percy Sutton’s 1977 unsuccessful run for mayor of New York paved the way for him.

“Everybody stands on somebody’s shoulders,” said Dinkins.

“I have no illusions [about] how smart I am, how good I am. I am the beneficiary of a whole lot of

work and people who came before me.”

Warner, who played Theo Huxtable in the long-running television program ” The Cosby Show,” recalled auditioning for the role and acting like the young characters he saw on TV, precocious and wise cracking.

Bill Cosby asked Warner, who was about 13 at the time, if he would talk to his father that way.

Warner replied “No” and Bill Cosby told him he didn’t want to see that kind of character on his show. Warner re-auditioned 45 minutes later with something “360-degrees different” and nailed the role. He said the lesson was simply, “Be who you are.”

Warner and moderator Camille Cosby, the wife of Bill Cosby, shared some light banter.

Now 42, Warner, who is also a musician, talked about music and its influence on young people and said there’s a connection between what people listen to and watch and how they feel and act.

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LEGACY continued from Page 12 pant across the board and young people are wearing it like a badge of courage,” said Warner.

Audiences often don’t realize that rappers are just like actors playing a part, he said.

St. John, the first African American to win Olympic medals in ski racing, lost her leg at age five due to a medical condition. Today, she’s an author and motivational speaker.

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abused her.

“For me it was the ability to dream,” said St. John, who said books provided her with an escape and also led her to learn about skiing.

Asked about the importance of truthful history, Moses, who started the Algebra Project and is a visiting lecturer at New York University School of Law, said, “We are not a country that’s really ready to face our history.”

The two PGCC students also participated in the dialogue. Appelwhite shared how despite getting pregnant at a young age she has dreams of a better life for herself and her son. Palmer, an early childhood education major who came to America from Si-

erra Leone, expressed how her family values education and how she strives to be the best she can be.

At the event Dukes also announced that PGCC has reached 84 percent of its $25 million goal for its annual fundraising campaign. The funds will go to programs, scholarships and technology, she said.

Johnetta B. Cole, Ph.D., director of the National Museum of African Art and former president of Spelman College and Bennett College, served as host and said the event “bridges the past with the present” and is “creating a blueprint for tomorrow’s leadership.”wi The Washington Informer

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In the days since the sequester triggered $85 billion in arbitrary across-the-board cuts to domestic and defense programs, President Barack Obama has begun a charm offensive with his political adversaries.

Last Wednesday evening, Obama hosted a sumptuous two-hour dinner with 12 Republican senators at the Jefferson Hotel in Northwest, a move that some participants acknowledged has eased tensions. Pro-Growth tax reform, Medicare and Social Security were among the issues on the menu. There was also discussion about how to arrive at a grand deficit deal by the early fall. While the tete-a-tete couldn’t be expected to produce immediate results, it may yet lay the groundwork for agreement in the future.

“I think really what he was trying to do is start a discussion and kind of break the ice and that was appreciated,” said Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.), following the dinner. “Most of the meeting was spent on the budget and finding a way forward … we want to stop careening from crisis-to-crisis … I think he’s sincere. I think he wants to try to figure something out.

Today was a good step and we’ll see what happens now.”

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antipathy many Republicans – particularly those in the House – have toward him. And in a bow to the prickly relations between the president and Congressional leaders, he chose to meet with some rank-and-file senators seeking a key to breaking the budget impasse.

Until both sides reach agreement on the sequester, the scepter of the budget cuts hang like a shroud over much of the nation’s activities.

Progressives, pundits and policy specialists like Ellen Nissenbaum have argued that the sequester and its potentially harmful effects are self-inflicted.

“The sequester is akin to moving the deck chairs on the Titanic,” said Nissenbaum at a recent panel discussion on the sequester hosted by the Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies. “This sequester did not have to happen. If they wanted to, they could have [come to an agreement today.]

This is absolutely man-made. It is a failure of will, a failure to face tough issues.”

“There is an effort to shift the burden to this administration and an effort to get from underneath the crisis they created for themselves,” said Nissenbaum, senior vice president for Government Affairs at the Center on Budget & Policy Priorities in Northwest.

But even as Obama and Congress look for ways out of the morass of inflexibility, one issue that might lead to another numbing round of deadlock, re-

criminations and finger-pointing may have been avoided.

This is because last week, the House approved a $982 billion spending bill that would head off a government shutdown and pay for government operations through the end of the fiscal year. To the dismay of many, however, the bill would lock in the sequester spending cuts for the rest of the fiscal year. The bill is headed to the Senate, where Democrats are expected to propose amendments that would help diminish the effects of the across-the-board budget cuts. The current funding is set to expire March 27.

In the meantime, the country is coping with the fallout. The cuts to domestic programs will take a bite out of law enforcement, transportation, education, food inspection, energy, national parks, and housing.

Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are exempt from cuts.

The Congressional Budget Office warns that 1.4 million jobs might be lost as a result of the sequester; Administrator Michael Huerta, head of the Federal Aviation Administration has said ripples from the sequester will be felt in airports around the country and result in major delays and could result in hundreds of smaller air traffic control towers being closed around the country.

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NATIONAL “The sequester is akin to moving the deck chairs on the Titanic.

This sequester did not have to happen. If they wanted to, they could have [come to an agreement today.]

This is absolutely man-made. It is a failure of will, a failure to face tough issues.”

– Ellen Nissenbaum, senior vice president for Government Affairs, Center on Budget & Policy Priorities

SEQUESTER continued from Page 14 quester cuts. The department is expected to absorb $46 billion in cuts. In fact, economists are blaming the 22 percent contraction in the economy during the last quarter to the adjustments made to defense contracts.

The cuts have defense hawks howling but there are other Republicans who are crowing.

The sequester, they reason, is the best way to cut spending and although allowing the sequester to kick in was the action of last resort, they seem unaffected by the damage the cuts could cause.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), has instructed his colleagues that congressional trips abroad will be curtailed with only delegations reviewing military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq allowed to travel.

Priscilla Huang, of the Asian-Pacific Island American Health Forum, said sequestration has painted a pretty dire picture.

“The long term consequences are hard to overstate,” she said during the February 28 panel discussion at the Joint Center’s Northwest offices.

“With 1.4 million jobs lost, people will be less likely to have employment and economic security. People of color already have higher unemployment of between 17 and 25 percent.

They are worse off now than a year ago. I know it’s more dire in other communities. This would further cement inequities and disparities.”

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nancial challenges.

“What Congress does now sets the precedent, good and bad,” she said. “Not tackling long-term debt will jeopardize these programs. We need investments but we cannot do that under these circumstances.”

“We need the right mix to stabilize the debt which equals $1.5 trillion on top of what we’ve already done ... there needs to be a balance in revenues and spending cuts. There needs to be no cuts to low-income entitlements and non-defense discretionary programs.”

Of the $2.75 trillion in budget cuts to this point, about $1.6 trillion has come from spending cuts, she said, and Republicans insist that any deficit-reduction replacement deal include only spending cuts. Democrats want a mix of spending cuts and tax increases.

Still to be determined over the next weeks and months is if the Republican majority in the House and their Senate counterpart agree to eliminate tax loopholes for entities such as corporations, hedge fund managers and energy companies. Obama seeks $600 billion more in revenues from a tax overhaul and has expressed a willingness to make changes to so-called entitlement programs, but as far as Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), is concerned, that matter is moot.

“The tax issue is finished, over, completed,” McConnell intoned recently.

Such recalcitrance bodes ill for the country, Nissenbaum argues.

“I think we’re rehashing the

same arguments and policy debates from the debt ceiling,” she said. “It’s grounded in the

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By William Reed T. Coleman and Robert J. Brown, chairman and CEO of B&C Associates, Inc. Coleman is a former U.S. Secretary of Transportation and Brown is a former presidential aide. Both “trailblazers” have made immeasurable contributions toward Blacks doing business in America. When it comes to the business of America, the GOP has no political peer. “Capitalism” is a key Republican Party pillar and these “trailblazers” made great marks on Black Americans’ businesses and opportunities.

During President Richard Nixon’s tenure in office, Brown served as the White House’s liaison in Black communities. In ways not occurring today, back in the 1970s, Brown dealt with issues related to civil rights legislation, funding for jobs, Black colleges and inner-city housing. As Blacks became frustrated with economic conditions that didn’t improve despite advancements in civil rights, the Nixon administration addressed economic empowerment by sponsoring strong minority business initiatives.

Before, and after his stint at the White House, Brown retained his standing as a successful businessman. He founded B&C in 1960. During the 1950s, Coleman helped President Dwight D. Eisenhower to increase minority hiring in the government, and under the Ford administration as Secretary of Transportation. He co-authored the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s brief on Brown vs.

Topeka. He successfully argued cases that compelled the admission of Blacks into segregated universities.

The event’s keynote speaker happened to be the owner of the country’s largest African-American-owned business. David L. Steward, is chairman and founder of World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT), a top Black Enterprise Business. WWT is a systems integration company based in St. Louis. The company employs more than 1,700 people and operates more than 2,000,000-square-feet

of warehousing, distribution and integration space in 21 facilities throughout the world. WWT’s 2011 revenue was $4.1 billion. Former President George H.W. Bush said Steward’s “story of success epitomizes the American Dream and … an inspiration to us all.”

Chairman Priebus is set on “taking the Republican message to the streets.” The question is: “How receptive will Blacks be?” Republicans like and applaud entrepreneurs. The GOP hierarchy appreciates job generators and creators. Historically, the Republicans believe in personal responsibility and actions, and that all material things are earned, not owed. They believe private spending is usually more efficient than public spending and that the private sector and/or the individual are better suited to control their own lives. There should be a way for African Americans and the Republicans to get together.

Black party members want Priebus “to change the party’s performance with minority voters.”

African-American RNC National Committeeman Glenn McCall of South Carolina told the gathering of Black Baby Boomers and Millennials that, “The Republican Party must compete in every state and every region, building relationships with communities we haven’t before … as we must stop talking about ‘reaching out’ and start ‘welcoming in.’” North Carolina’s Black RNC National Committeewoman Dr. Ada Fisher, MD said: “Republicans must be willing to go into local minority communities and hold town hall meetings and banter. ...

It’s time to advocate for issues and causes that directly affect minority populations ... and staff to tout and pursue Blacks.”

A Black Republican in personal and political ascent is conservative commentator and entrepreneur, Armstrong Williams. A protégée of Brown’s, Williams emphasized that GOP values mirror those of many enterprising Blacks in America who support: “safe families, good education and economic empowerment.” Williams commented that “There are many conservative Blacks ... disgruntled with President Obama ... We need to hook up with them to initiate business principles and practices that work.” Williams used the occasion to announce the acquisition of two television stations: WEYI-TV in the Flint/Saginaw/Michigan and WWMB-TV in the Myrtle Beach/Florence, South Carolina area. wi William Reed is publisher of “Who’s Who in Black Corporate America” and available for projects via the BaileyGroup. org www.washingtoninformer.com

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By James Wright WI Staff Writer The mayor of the District lamented the recent death of a woman who battled an insidious disease, yet fought on behalf of others, who neither had the strength nor the stamina to fight for themselves.

Zora Brown, a three-time cancer survivor and District resident, died on Sunday, March 3 of complications due to ovarian cancer. Brown was 63. She was renowned for her tireless advocacy on behalf of minorities, particularly black women.

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D) remembered Brown as being “a pioneer in advocating for breast-cancer awareness, research, treatment and support within communities in the District and nationwide.”

“I personally understand her journey with this disease that also has touched my family, and I applaud Zora for her more than 25 years of tireless advocacy in the face of her own battle with the disease,” said Gray, 70. “Her outreach through churches in the District helped to educate residents about the need for regular medical care and let them know that a cancer diagnosis was not an automatic death sentence,” he said.

A November 2012 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta stated that black women have a disproportionately higher breast cancer rate – 41 percent – which surpasses white women.

However, the report also indicated that black women have a lower rate of incidences of breast cancer.

Brown, born in Holdenville, Okla., was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1981, at the age of 32, and again in 1997.

Previously published reports said that Brown was predisposed to breast and ovarian cancer because of a gene, BRCA1, which affected multiple generations of her family. When she died, she was living with Stage III ovarian cancer.

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A 1969 graduate of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Okla., and a confidant of former first lady Betty Ford, who also had breast cancer, Brown spoke about the disease in the 1980s and 1990s in black churches at a time when addressing chronic illnesses in churches wasn’t commonplace.

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More than 100 people gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Roundtree Residences in Southeast on Sunday, March 10. The new complex boasts 91 units for senior citizens replete with an Internet Café and a health and fitness center. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah

Southeast Church Builds High Quality, Affordable Housing for Seniors

By D.R. Barnes WI Staff Writer Seniors in Southeast now have more choices when it comes to affordable places to live. A new senior housing development recently opened and offers residents an array of modern amenities that include an Internet café, health and fitness center, library and on-site parking.

The official ribbon-cutting ceremony for The Roundtree Residences, located at 2515 Alabama Ave., S.E., was held Sunday, March 10, culminating a development project spearheaded

by Vision of Victory Community Development Corporation (VOV) more than three years ago.

“It’s been hard and tough sometimes,” Ward 8 Council member Marion Barry told a crowd of about 100 who gathered outside the new complex to witness the ribbon cutting, and tour the state-of-the-art building. “But, when I come here to this development, it makes it all worthwhile.”

Established by Allen Chapel AME Church, one of the oldest churches located in Ward 8, VOV and its partners now provide safe and affordable housing for seniors who live east of the Anacostia River. And, the development is a mere stone’s throw away from the church in the Naylor Gardens neighborhood.

“Ward 8 is often characterized as a place where you’ve got drug dealers and prostitutes and where nobody’s doing anything

good,” said Barry, 76. “This is an example of the good that can come out of Southeast. This was nothing but woods, but now when you come down Alabama Avenue, it’s beautiful. It’s first class inside and outside.”

The development, named in honor of Dovey Roundtree, an attorney and a longtime member of Allen Chapel AME Church, will forever remain a testament to her ingenuity and brilliance during a precarious time in history. Roundtree, 99, won the 1955 landmark civil rights case Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company which ended racial segregation in interstate bus travel. A graduate of Howard University’s Law School, she currently resides in North Carolina.

Katie McCabe, who co-authored Roundtree’s biography, Justice Older than Law, said the renowned civil rights lawyer, “had two love affairs in this town.

One was with the law, which earned her the moniker, ‘The Doveinator.’ When she moved into a small apartment around the corner on Ainger Place in the 1950s and a neighbor invited her to attend Allen, her second love became her church and the rest is history.”

“Dovey lived her life just giving to others,” said the Rev. Michael E. Bell, pastor of Allen Chapel AME. “The story is she paid many bills of the AME churches without asking for a dime. We bless God for Rev. Dovey Roundtree.”

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The $16 million project, led by VOV’s Executive Director LaRuby May, took only 15 months to complete. The apartment building has 80-one bedroom units and 11 two-bedroom units. It’s 80 percent affordable for seniors whose incomes are 60 percent of average medium income, and 20 percent affordable for seniors at 50 percent of the average medium income.

“We had more obstacles than anyone can imagine getting this project through,” May told members of the congregation following the Sunday morning service, “but we did it.”

VOV’s partners and supporters in the development of the land, which was donated by Allen Chapel at market value, included Bank of America, the D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development, the Neighborhood Investment Fund, Enterprise Community Partners, the D.C. Housing Finance Agency, PNC Bank, Freddie Mac and Merrill Lynch.

Barry’s office shepherded the tax exemption legislation needed to jump start the project.

The project also used several D.C. Certified Business Enter-

prises (CBEs). Area residents also benefited from the projects.

The day couldn’t have been more perfect for hundreds of Allen Chapel members who basked in the warm sun as city officials and development partners congratulated one another for completing phase one of the project. Facing the three-story building with bay windows and balconies on each unit, they applauded their efforts in bringing more affordable housing to Southeast.

Council member Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4), chair of the Committee on Economic Development, told the congregation, before marching with the group from the church to the development site, that, “It is our [D.C. Council] responsibility to build D.C., not just downtown but in every neighborhood.”

Bowser, who is also an attorney, complimented Roundtree.

“I couldn’t be more honored to stand here today to honor a trailblazing woman. We don’t have many locations named after a woman [in D.C.], so when we have an opportunity to put a woman’s name up on a building, it tells a little girl and a young developer that Allen AME church is committed to this neighborhood and to strong black women.” wi

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huge obstacle to adopting a natural health regimen is not choosing to afford to go to a licensed naturopathic physician or complementary care practitioner. They have health insurance that affords them the opportunity to visit with an Allopathic or conventional doctor, who will continue to prescribe pharmaceuticals, even though they may be aware that the drugs are creating problems. I have many patients who come to me after a constant regime of medications, admitting that they are now tired of the problems the medications are causing and want a different approach. They are finally “sick and tired of being sick and tired.” They do not want to come out of pocket for health care and they have health insurance that does not give them what they need or deserve.

Allopathic medicine has also gotten many people accustomed to a quick fix. Suppressing the symptoms and not curing the person is the typical model. We accept the quick fix as good enough for the time being, not understanding that poor health didn’t happen overnight and good health will not happen within that time frame either.

Finally, habits are hard to break, but small things done consistently make a difference.

Stress may make it more difficult for people to give up bad habits.

Ignorance or not knowing about other types of food - sugar for example -- also keeps people from creating better health regimens. “Doctor” means teacher, not God. In my clinic we teach

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people how to make different choices, and assist them in responding differently to stress.

Misunderstandings & Myths African slave or “Secret Doctors” were the early doctors in America, along with Native Americans. We brought some of our beliefs and culture with us to this country regarding voodoo and some of us used it in the slave quarters and fields.

Naturopathy, however, is science based and does not include voodoo or faith healing. We do not have that as part of our course work. We do have the same courses that any medical student would have in addition to our specialties of Botanical medicine, clinical nutrition, and Homeopathic medicine for example. That is not to say that prayer and faith are not important in healing but I believe God wants to know you are doing your part.

Many Allopathic doctors do not teach, or in some cases even believe, that nutrition is important. They have told my patients that herbs or Botanical medicine and certainly, Homeopathic medicines do not work. We treat people who have conditions.

They treat symptoms. We focus on wellness and what the body can do to make itself well given the proper support, while they focus on illness and how to stop, cut, or burn out the condition that the body is expressing.

Baby Steps Parents seeking preventative measures to their children developing chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension should incorporate dietary changes that must include reducing sugar. If you eat sugar daily, try eating it only 4 times a week. Eat other forms of sweeteners including, turbinado raw sugar, stevia, or succanat, for example. Reduce sodas and artificially sweetened

drinks. Reduce the white flour which also turns to sugar in the body. Reduce energy drinks and caffeine, which also affect adrenal glands, which ultimately affect the blood sugar. Exercise is also very important.

Make an appointment in my office. Seek out some healthcare professional to whom you can talk. Read the Stress chapter in my book “A Path to Healing: A Guide to Wellness for Body, Mind and Soul.” Take a yoga and meditation class. Read some personal growth/ self-improvement books. Write and say affirmations and do visualizations.

My new book is about African-American women and our superwoman/ Sojourner syndrome that is creating havoc with our health and lives. We are more likely than any other group of women to have and die from heart disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer, hypertension and depression.

As a sociologist and Naturopath, I am acutely aware of the fact that we take care of everybody else but ourselves. We raise everybody’s children in addition to our own and take care of other relatives as well. We are as Sojourner Truth was. We are the emotional, physical, spiritual, and financial support for our communities. We are the model by which our children learn loving and how to handle conflict.

We do it all. My new book talks about the Sojourner syndrome, follows cases of superwomen with the above conditions, and provides the Homeopathic, herbal and nutritional prescriptions given to them for their healing.

For more information on Dr. Andrea Sullivan, PhD, ND and the Center for Natural Healing, visit her website at www.drandreasullivan.com HS

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rea teens often select fast foods and Chinese carry-out meals as a major part of their daily diets. While relatively inexpensive and easy to access, the regular consumption of many of these meals have led to the development of chronic conditions years later. In an effort to address some of these meals head on, the Informer “Street team” asked local teens their Top 3 choices for daily meals and then passed that information on to Howard University Associate Professor of Nutritional Science Dr. Thelma Baker, who provided meal analyses for each meal based on the actual additions, substitutions, and adjustments of the teens’ orders. Baker identified the caloric content based on the food composite courtesy of the USDA Food Database. Lesson: Sometimes it is not what the restaurant serves, but how a customer orders it that determines its health value.

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hen analyzing a meal and its appropriateness, one has to first look at the composition of the food content of the meal. Upon analyzing this meal the following was noted: This meal is very high-calorie dense, but has limited nutrient value. Based on the method of preparation and combination of the food item, I would suggest that the consumption of this meal be limited to once per week. If this type of meal is consumed on a regular basis it may put the person at risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and excessive weight gain. It may also lead to other metabolic syndromes and health conditions that affect the individual’s nutritional status. This meal is low in sugar but high in sodium and fat. Due to its high fat content a person who consumes it on a regular basis is at high risk for dyslipedemia and high cholesterol which may prove to have detrimental effects on their health.

A healthier alternative would be to choose food based on their method of preparation and nutrient content i.e. selecting brown rice instead of white rice, baked, broiled, steamed or stewed chicken, instead of fried wings, and the addition of a vegetable to the dish to increase its nutrient value. From my perspective, this meal is full of empty calories and fat and has a poor nutrient value.

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rom hindsight this meal seems to be the healthiest option of the three meals in content. This meal has a high nutrient value judging and would be considered a balanced meal taking into

consideration that it consists of vegetables, fat, protein and carbohydrates in acceptable quantity. The fat, sodium and sugar content of the bowl is not very high and this makes it a healthy option. My only objection is the addition of the side dressing, cheese and sour cream which has a high fat content that might contribute some negative health attributes to the meal.

A healthy alternative would be to limit the amount of sides added to the burrito and to also reduce the serving size which is too large to be consumed in one setting.

If these few adjustments are made this would make a healthy meal which can be consumed on a regular basis. The vegetable and fresh meat content does not outweigh the cheese, sour cream and sodium content of the salad dressing as this would not reduce the fat and sodium content of the meal that would still have possible malhealth effects.

Z- Burger Regular cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, pickles, fried onion rings, mayonnaise and ketchup – 1061 calories Small Z- Fries- 328 calories Total Calories = 1389 calories Calories from fat= 882 calories

Chinese Carry-Out 6 fried wings-1944 calories (1 wing has 324 kcal per serving) White Rice- 242 calories Mumbo Sauce- 150 calorie equivalent to sweat and sour sauce with adjustments in sugar and fat content Total Calorie content of this meal = 2336 calorie Total calories from Fat = 1278 kcal

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ow looking as this Z- burger one will salivate at the sight of the dish however looks are deceiving.

This meal is very high in sodium, fat and cholesterol. Consuming this meal on a daily basis would result in possible risk of weight gain and cardiovascular diseases, in addition to metabolic syndrome.

A healthier alternative would be to eliminate the bacon, use grilled chicken instead of fried chicken or beef, reduce the amount of mayonnaise and cheese or use reduced fat dairy products instead. One could also replace the fries with a salad thus increasing vegetable intake and reducing the carbohydrate content. HS

Chipotle Chicken Burrito Bowl – 696 calories Extra Cheese- 212 calories (106 calories per table spoon) Sour Cream – 46 (23 calories per table spoon) 2 salad dressings – 240 calories (80 calories per table spoon) Total Calories for this meal = 1194 calories Total Calories from fat = 470 calories

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ike many Americans, Candace Reston, hates eating vegetables and fruits. A child of the 1970s, Reston remembers long hours at the dinner table, refusing to eat Brussels sprouts, lima beans, and broccoli, but unable to leave until she cleaned her plate.

“It was always a battle of the wills,” Reston, 43, laughs. “My dad wanted me to get those vegetables down, but anything green made me think of aliens or stuff no kids should have to eat. Some nights I was there until 9 or ten o’clock at night.”

But what Reston learned later was that the body’s need for fresh fruits and vegetables had nothing to do with age and everything to do with proper nutrition. Fortunately for the Northwest resident, her own children, ages 14 and 9, have an escape-hatch to eating the recommended daily allowance of vegetables and fruit. Juicing.

Juicing is a process of putting fruits and vegetables—with skins intact—into a machine that extracts the pulp from the produce leaving a fresh, raw liquid packed with most of the vitamins, minerals, and varying amounts of its fiber.

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Reston began juicing fresh carrots, ginger and oranges for a quick breakfast treat after receiving a juicer for Christmas a few years ago. She said her children marveled at the taste of fresh juice, but never identified the carrots. She soon worked up to juicing spinach and cucumbers and was surprised that the kids actually liked it.

“I think they were initially fascinated with the idea of annihilating those bulky vegetables and turning them into liquid, but they began coming home from school with new recipe ideas and ones they saw on the internet. Turns out, the kids loved drinking beets and carrots, though I couldn’t force them to eat them, period,” Reston said.

One of those websites Reston’s sons visited belonged to Ava the Juice Doctor. Ava Hall, 43, a Bowie, Md., resident said

she got her name from a friend who used her fresh juices to aid in chemotherapy sessions. The name stuck.

“People are always coming to me for advice on juicing and I tell them to start simple. There’s a lot of information out there but I ask them if they want to feel more energy, or if they want their skin to glow, I tell them why it happens. Juicing has tangible benefits.”

Hall, whose new book, “Memoirs of a Juice Doctor,” (April 2013), has traveled the country offering demonstrations and lectures on the benefits of juicing fresh organic fruits and vegetables.

“The body is becoming hydrated by the best source of fresh organic juice, and being provided an insurmountable amount of vitamins and minerals,” Hall said. “We’re living beings and we’re putting living materials in our bodies.”

To Hall, juicing is more beneficial than blending since it extracts additional materials from the fiber and “you’re getting everything.” Since juice is liquid, it delivers hefty amounts of antioxidants to the body, which help build the immune system. It’s a personal choice, however.

The Indiana-raised television executive began her journey as the juice doctor when, in her 20s, doctors thought she had

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“There are no more last-stands at the dinner table in my home. My kids play an active role in their own health. Juicing gives us family time together, as well as the rewards of good health.”

– Candace Reston

JUICE continued from Page 22 the autoimmune disease lupus.

In trying to heal her body, she became “ultra-intentional” about food. She did nutritional research, met iridologists (those who analyze the iris of eyes to find inflammation), and holistic doctors. She studied juice therapy and read avidly. She began to make significant noticeable changes.

“I became a health nut,” said Hall who has a communications degree. “I was on the soapbox, getting everyone on the healthy bandwagon. Juicing became my health point.”

Hall launched her website, www.avathejuicedoctor.com, where she builds awareness on the benefits of juicing. She advocates for green-colored juices, rich in plants’ green substance, chlorophyll, and other phytonutrients—nature’s superheroes, she said. “It’s the foundation of my juice therapy.”

Dr. Broderick Franklin, a Howard University-trained physician who now practices in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, said people shouldn’t consider juicing as a “magical elixir” or as a substitute to eating fruits and vegetables.

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excellent source of fiber,” said Franklin, 53, a physician for 20 years. “And it’s not directly responsible for weight loss, which only comes from losing more calories than you consume.” He said juicing isn’t recommended for diabetics either as the additional sugar can be problematic.

Still, Hall said that those who want to fast and forgo food during the Christian season of Lent, the ongoing 40-day period, which began Ash Wednesday on Feb. 13, and ends Easter Sunday on March 31, can start slowly by using different juice mixtures—maybe with a threeday juice fast.

Juicing, she said, detoxifies the system so it’s best to try it for fewer days. If it’s too overwhelming, she suggested a oneday fast.

“But you’ll get energy, you’ll feel light,” Hall said. “You’re rebuilding yourself and your body. You need to incorporate it into your lifestyle.”

And for parents like Reston, juicing is a source of overall family happiness.

“There are no more laststands at the dinner table in my home. My kids play an active role in their own health. Juicing gives us family time together, as well as the rewards of good health.” Reston said. HS

FRESH… on the Run

One of the few challenges to juicing fresh fruits and vegetables is making the time to actually juice. Some juicing enthusiasts insist that fresh juice should be consumed within 30 minutes of juicing, while others suggest that fresh juice can survive up to one week when refrigerated, without losing vital nutrients. While it is almost always best to do the juicing yourself, should a busy schedule impede juicing at home, here are a few alternatives.

Visit a health food store, holistic grocer, or smoothie shop. Among the Informer’s local favorites are: Secrets of Nature – 3923 South Capitol Street, Southwest, Washington, D.C. Everlasting Life – 9185 Central Avenue, Capitol Heights, Md. Khephra’s Raw Food Juice Bar – 402 H. Street Northeast, D.C. Robek’s (visit website for location nearest you www.robeks.com BluePrint (supplied to area Whole Foods locations) Suja Juice (supplied to area Whole Foods locations)

The PERFECT Juicer

Like everything from tires to bed linen, finding the perfect juicer is a function of cost, speed, amount of juice and fiber extracted, and its convenience (how long it takes to clean). While there are juicers available to fit every budget ($40 – $1200), most moderately priced machines (under $100) prove both practical and proficient. Do your research first. Some of our favorites include: Hamilton Beach 67608 - Big Mouth Juice Extractor – Its feeder is extra-large which allows users to fit whole vegetables and fruits in and reducing cutting and prep time. It is easy to assemble and store, has a powerful 800 Watt motor and has dishwasher safe parts. $99 Oster 3157 400-watt Juice Extractor – This unit has a one-movement safety locking arm for fast and safe operation, as well as a removable feed chute for easy cleaning and storage. Made of sturdy all stainless steel filters and utilizing a 400 watt motor, the machine is sturdy. $45 Black and Decker Fruit and Vegetable Juice Extractor – Health- and budget-conscious consumers will love this machine. The 400-watt juice extractor makes quick work of fresh fruits and vegetables juicing. The quality strainer and stainless steel blades, separate pulp effortlessly.

Dishwasher-safe parts also make cleanup a cinch. $49 The Jack LaLanne Power Juicer (in Black) is a favorite among local juicers and sold exclusively at Walmart stores. It features patented extraction technology that gives users up to 30 percent more juice than other juicers. A super-sized detachable pulp container and a whisper quiet 2,500 RPM induction motor. Juicing is quick, quiet and efficient. This power juicer is also dishwasher safe and has a surgical quality stainless steel blade. $99

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hat we eat may be the key to unlocking the mystery of better health.

That’s according to Akmal Muwwakkil, Ph.D., a practitioner of functional medicine which he said “balances the mind, body and spirit.”

Muwwakkil said that poor nutrition is the cause of many of the diseases African-Americans struggle with every day.

Through making better choices about what we eat, when we eat certain foods and even the combination of foods we consume, we can “overcome deficiencies that are labeled as diseases,” he said.

“Cancer is a deficiency, but we treat it as a disease.”

He adds that most people are malnourished—even those viewed as overweight—because they lack the necessary nutrients for their bodies to function properly. It is critical to naturally allow the body to rebalance itself, he said.

“When you provide the body with what it needs, you begin to see the deficiencies decrease,” said Muwwakkil.

For example, he said rampant high blood pressure in the Black community is generally the result of potassium deficiencies. High cholesterol comes from the body not having enough niacin and lecithin.

“Our imbalances also come from the fact that we are eating the wrong food in the wrong season,” he said adding that certain foods should be eaten at specific times of the year and not year-round.

For example, Muwwakkil said pasta shouldn’t be consumed in the fall and winter because it is gelatinous and our digestive systems slow down during those seasons because we are less active. However, he recommends eating beans and green vegetables during fall and winter.

“When you understand changing the food according to the season a lot of ailments you see begin to dissipate,” said Muwwakkil.

Muwwakkil does not hold food in America in high regard.

“Now we have the worst food we have ever had in the history of humanity,” he said. “Our food is just shy of being poison.”

He explained that practically all food contains chemical dyes, preservative and pesticides that affect the body’s balance.

Muwwakkil, who also is an acupuncturist and a traditional Chinese bodywork therapist, has been practicing functional medicine for 25 years. He has studied in both China and Canada. In addition to a clinical practice he runs in Bowie, Md., he holds workshops and is the author of five books. He is also a natural health researcher and spiritual counselor.

However Muwwakkil, 63, who comes from “a family of healers” didn’t always embrace the family ways. His mother, a Jamaican, inherited the “healing arts” from his grandmother, who was Ethiopian.

He recalls watching his mother put her hands on people who came to the family’s kitchen door for help. As he approached adolescence, he rejected it and pursued a journalism degree, working for many years as a photojournalist.

However, he admits, “She knew something I didn’t know. About 20 years ago, God brought me back around.”

Although he doesn’t use or recommend pharmaceutical drugs, Muwwakkil said he understands that they can be beneficial to some people under certain circumstances. He said he helps individuals understand drugs and their side effects.

“I don’t deal with pharmaceuticals, but I don’t tell people not to deal with pharmaceuticals. I see some good in pharmaceuticals. I deal with nutrients.”

Muwwakkil offers the following tips for better health: 1) Take digestive enzymes. 2) Chew your food, don’t gulp it. 3) Exercise 4) Learn about food combining; and 5) Understand the chemistry that’s in your food.

Those interested in learning more about food combining can visit Akmal Muwwakkil’s website at www.healenarts.net. HS www.washingtoninformer.com

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Benefits of Eating Raw Are Many

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ew things would please Renette Dallas more than for the African-American community to throw away their pots and pans an embrace a raw food diet.

Dallas, a naturopathic doctor and raw food chef, has been on a crusade for years spreading the word about the benefits of eating raw and being nutritionally balanced. She has traveled to South Africa with her message, which she said is accepted better there, and been a frequent speaker at churches, government organizations and women’s groups here in the U.S. She said she’s observed dramatic progress in those who switched to a raw food diet that she prescribed.

“I am sick and tired of watching the moral, spiritual and physical decline of the African-American community,” she said.

Raw food is the quickest and most efficient way to heal cells and rejuvenate the body, according to Dallas, 49. Green juices— made from green vegetables—are loaded with chlorophyll, which helps supply oxygen to cells. She recommends people daily eat some dark, leafy vegetables that have not been cooked and consume fresh alfalfa and parsley.

Chewing three sprigs of parsley, which has an abundant amount of chlorophyll, iron, calcium and Vitamins A and C helps restore and improve 40 percent of the internal organs and glands.

Through her business, Life by Dallas, she offers pre-packaged raw foods such as soups, burgers, pizza, sushi, falafel as well as raw drinks and desserts for client pickup or delivery.

Her herbal remedies bear such encouraging names as “Keep the Doc Away,” “God’s Promise” and “Pain Be Gone.”

She also offers workshops, consultation services and produces a line of organic popcorn in a variety of flavors such as “Garlic Overdose,” and “All That Spice.”

Dallas, who is also an author and minister, said she found South Africans more receptive to her message than Americans and blasted the U.S. government and pharmaceutical companies for rejecting homeopathic remedies because those approaches aren’t as lucrative as traditional approaches.

“I feel like we are being raped by both sides now,” said Dallas of government, pharmaceutical companies and those who put profit ahead of the public welfare.

“In the U.S. it’s not advantageous for the government for us to be

healthy. There’s a lot of money being made off African Americans being sick. We have to see the connection between diet and our state of health.”

In January she began holding three-day retreats in Ellicott City, Md., that involve raw food and juice diets throughout the weekend along with a series of two- to three-hour lectures and a six-mile walk.

She said many lost 10 to 12 pounds and felt more energized.

“It’s all about what you feed the body,” she said. “If you consume nothing but raw food, you will be a different person.” Hs For more information, visit www.lifebydallas.com or call 301779-9348.

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By Dr. Deborah D. Grison Special to the Informer EAT LIFE! IT’S A MOVEMENT NOT A MOMENT is a Global Health Initiative I started that advocates, promotes and celebrates healing, wholeness and wellness by embracing and living the simple truth proclaimed by Hippocrates, “Let Food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food.”

Battling a personal health crisis of Pre-symptomatic Multiple Sclerosis and of being unable to walk in 2011, I made the drastic, dramatic and deliberate decision to improve my health to aid my healing. Committed to this, I took on the task of changing all of my eating habits, preparing all of my own meals, eating primarily a plant-based, pescetarian diet and cutting out all processed foods. Cooking all of my own meals, and juicing, I lost 80 pounds going from a size 16-18 to a size 4-6 in less than a year and am now walking again.

I chronicled my journey by preparing, plating and posting pictures and inspiring messages via social media in what is now my new book, I Eat Pretty: 30 Days & Ways to EAT LIFE! (Writes of Passage Publishing Group, 2013); a 68-page, high gloss, full-color collection of meals across the food spectrum of breakfast, lunch and dinner while offering detailed recipes to all meals, juicing and snacks.

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reached people as far away as Afghanistan, and Canada, many have been inspired by my journey of triumph, physical transformation and restoration; determined to improve their own health as well. By changing their “food behavior,” they too have experienced dramatic improvements in their health and lives.

One such person was Detonia Gooden, an entrepreneur from Chicago, who wrote: “Becoming a member of the Eat Life community has strengthened my resolve to become a better me. I have gained so much knowledge and motivation from the Eat Life community it humbles me. Making better choices for your total body wellness is what Dr. Deborah Grison has instilled in us, and I am very grateful. Eat Life! Its a movement, not a moment.” wi A proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, Dr. Grison holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Urban and Regional Planning-Sustainable Urban Design from Jackson State University located in Jackson, Mississippi. She currently lives, loves and EAT’s LIFE! between Chicago, Illinois & Harlem, New York.

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Zora Brown: Died to Keep Women Alive

African American women in the nation’s capital stand a far less chance of getting breast cancer than white women. However, African-American women die from breast cancer at a greater rate than white women. Why? There may be many reasons, including education or a lack of access to health care. But Zora Brown believed in her heart that the mortality rate could change if all women (and men) knew the importance of self-examinations and mammograms. Brown, 63, died earlier this month due to complications from ovarian cancer, but she dedicated her life fighting to end health disparities and other causes that lead to unnecessary deaths due to breast cancer.

At 32, Brown was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was the same disease that afflicted her great-grandmother, her grandmother, her mother and three sisters. She underwent a mastectomy of her right breast, and later she lost her left breast when cancer was found there, too. Her personal fight against breast cancer was the motivation for a crusade to increase public awareness. She took her message to local churches and community groups as well as to national television on shows that included The Oprah Winfrey Show and CNN. Brown was the first African-American woman to serve on the National Cancer Advisory Board, appointed by President Bush in 1991. She established the Breast Cancer Resource Committee (BCRC), which seeks to reduce the mortality rates from breast cancer among African- American women. She also founded “Rise Sister Rise”, a breast cancer support group model for African-American women, as well as Men in Action Against Breast Cancer, a support arm for BCRC. She, along with her nieces, also founded Sisters Accessing Skills for Survival and Intervention.

It is with great sadness that Brown, who lived in the District for many years, has died. But her crusade lives on in each and every woman who begins her day with a breast self-exam and who, while reading about her life, is reminded to schedule a mammogram.

That’s what Brown lived and died for.

A Name to be Proud Of They’re our home team. We’re with them when they win and we refuse to abandon them when they lose. We want them to be the best team in the National Football League, and we put lots of money behind them by purchasing season tickets, hosting elaborate tailgate parties and collecting every piece of sports paraphernalia bearing their name that we can afford. But as regularly as the football seasons come and go, so does the reoccurring debate over the name of Washington’s beloved football team.

While appeals to owners to change the team’s name have been repeatedly denied, so have the numerous court battles that have been equally unsuccessful. But representatives of Native American’s rights groups and others who support the cause to eliminate racially insensitive and demeaning mascots from major league teams will not give up. Blackhorse et al v. Pro-Football, Inc., is the most recent case brought by young Native Americans who seek to abolish Washington’s football team’s mascot forever. Forget the past. If Wisconsin can do away with racially insensitive team names, then why can’t we?

Despite the love for our team, it’s becoming more difficult to express it when those who are impacted by its vile and offensive name stand up. Despite the team’s unquestionable good will throughout the region, it’s irrelevant when the name itself points to our nation’s horrific and racist past against its own people. And, a Super Bowl victory will silence protestors concerns but only for a moment before they mobilize and mount their next attempt to right a wrong.

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Diversity Reflected in Black History Editions

I would like to congratulate the Washington Informer for a series of well-thought out and informative Black History sections throughout the month of February.

I was particularly impressed with writer Barrington Salmon’s Brown Babies article and Editor Shantella Sherman’s work, Diaspora Rising. It is so impressive that the focus of the Informer went beyond the stereotypical, usual suspects and instead included noteworthy British, Haitian, Guyanese, and Jamaican black people. I am a native of Panama and greatly enjoyed the diversity of the editions. Congratulations on a job well done.

H. Hall Ross Falls Church, Va.

An Assault on D.C. Public Schools

I whole-heartedly agree with the parents featured in Dorothy Rowley’s article “Coalition Rallies against School Closings,” in the March 7, 2013 edition. Not only are the parents correct in their views about Chancellor Kaya Henderson’s attempt to make DCPS a charter school system, but she is continuing the all-out assault to break up the Teachers’ Union that was started by her mentor and former chancellor, Michelle Rhee.

Parents have the right to be partners in choosing how their children are educated. The public school system has afforded them not only this but also some say-so about what their children are taught. Charter schools don’t allow this. You have to buy into their philosophy and their methods in order to attend their schools, and if you disagree you take your child out of the school.

A lot of the blame for the fertile atmosphere for charter schools east of Rock Creek Park can be blamed on the public

school system itself. For years fiscal mismanagement, combined with corrupt and unaccountable leaders have fostered an air of distrust by most who have tried to navigate their children through the system. But the job of the chancellor is to restore trust with the community and show that the system can meet the needs of all the students of the District of Columbia, not just a few.

Chancellor Henderson should be making sure schools are provided with what they need to ensure the success of all the students in the system, such as a system-wide curriculum and books and supplies, instead of secretly carrying out the plans of her mentor and teacher.

Marvin J. Bishop Washington, D.C.

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By Julianne Malveaux

Black Unemployment has not Improved When unemployment numbers were released on Friday, commentators reacted joyfully.

Alan Krueger, who heads the White House Council of Economic Advisors, described the creation of 247,000 jobs as a victory because the predictions were that the economy would only generate 170,000 jobs. Unemployment rates went down to 7.7 percent, while predictions were that they would drop to

7.8 percent. Some might call this good news, but many might wonder who is affected by this good news.

A deeper examination of the unemployment data shows the disappointing reality that African American unemployment rates remained level, at 13.8 percent.

Meanwhile, White unemployment rates fell to 6.8 percent and the rate for White men dropped to 6.3 percent. The racial disparities in unemployment rates are not new, but it is hypocritical to celebrate a drop in White unem-

ployment rages, without noticing or mentioning the stagnation in Black unemployment rates.

More than new construction jobs were generated last month, but since Black unemployment rates remained level, that suggests that African Americans are not being brought into that industry (if at all) at the same rates that Whites. Implicitly, these data make the case for continued affirmative action, especially in well-paid jobs. In times of economic hardship, those hiring are inclined to look after their

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own instead of spreading the jobs around. And recent data suggests that African Americans enter the labor market with a shallower rolodex than Whites.

Fewer contacts mean fewer job opportunities.

Whose employment situation has improved?

The number of long term unemployed remained level at 4.8 million people who have been unemployed for 37 weeks or more. To be sure, this is a drop from the 39 weeks of a year or so ago. Still, the situation for

some of the unemployed has simply not improved. One of the reasons that the unemployment rate dropped is because 130,000 people dropped out of the labor force because they could not find jobs.

Eight million people work part-time for economic reasons. They would take full time work if only they could find it. The number of “marginally attached” workers stands at 2.4 million.

If underutilized

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By George E. Curry

The Rich are Treated Differently F. Scott Fitzgerald got it right when he said the rich are different.

We are witnessing that in the sequester fiasco and we heard it in another form last week when Attorney General Eric H. Holder offered an asinine reason for not prosecuting bankers/gangsters known as banksters.

Testifying before Congress, Holder said, “I am concerned that the size of some of these in-

stitutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy.”

Holder is not the Secretary of Treasury. While he, like all of us, might be concerned about the economy, that’s not his area of responsibility. His job as the nation’s chief law enforcer is to

enforce the law. And that should apply to banksters like it applies to gangsters. But, as we know, the rich and institutions they control are treated differently.

This variation of banks being “too big to fail” is essentially telling us their CEOs are “too big to jail.” If banks are too big to fail, we should remind ourselves who allowed them to grow that large.

Each time big banks gobbled up smaller ones like ATMs suck in your check deposit, they had to first win approval from the

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federal government. That is the same federal government that bails them out when they get in trouble and the same federal government that now whines that their CEOs are two big to jail. Try explaining that to a firsttime, non-violent drug user who is rotting away behind bars.

Even in clear-cut cases of gangster behavior, there is a double-standard. Take the case of HSBC, which signed a $1.9 billion settlement with the U.S. after CEO Stuart Gulliver ac-

knowledged the bank’s failure to catch at least $881 million in drug trafficking money that was laundered through the institution’s accounts. Officials admitted their bank had facilitated illicit financial transfers on behalf of rogue nations, including Iran and Libya, as well as Mexican and Colombian drug cartels.

Their punishment? A fine that equaled 11 percent of last year’s profits and a promise to

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By Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Time to Stop Appeasing AIPAC

When I saw in the news that Vice President Biden had gone out of his way to assure the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that the Obama administration was completely serious about military action against Iran if Iran moves forward with its alleged nuclear ambitions, I became sick.

AIPAC is the most prominent anti-Palestinian lobby in the U.S.A. and is known for the con-

siderable weight that it carries in Washington. Candidates for office and elected officials on a regular basis make a pilgrimage to AIPAC to get their blessings and to demonstrate how opposed to Palestinian rights they are. Biden, it appears, has done it once again.

What makes Biden’s speech so sickening is that it comes at a moment intense negotiations are underway with Iran regarding Iran’s nuclear plans. Biden emphasized that the U.S.A. was not interested in containing a nu-

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clear Iran but in preventing Iran from going nuclear.

By the way, the only country that has nuclear weapons in the Middle East is Israel. They have at least 100 such weapons, though they will not admit to possessing them. Second, Israel is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty while Iran is. Third, Israel has repeatedly violated United Nations resolutions in connection with its illegal occupation of Palestinian territory. Iran is occupying no one’s territory.

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The mainstream U.S. media, along with groups such as AIPAC, are insisting that Iran plans on developing nuclear weapons.

Iran denies this. The reality is that no one, other than the Iranians, know the objectives of Iran.

What Iran does say, however, is that they want to use nuclear power for peaceful means. Now, leaving aside what you think about nuclear power, the reality is that Iran has that right under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The negotiations underway

to assure various countries that Iran harbors no intent to develop nuclear weapons remain complicated. Brazil and Turkey were able to get Iran to work through a compromise a couple of years ago. The Obama administration ignored this effort and continued to squeeze Iran.

While the Obama administration should be applauded for not acceding to the wishes of the Israeli government and their front groups, including AIPAC,

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By Marian Wright Edelman

An All-American Crisis “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

–Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote those words in his April 1963 Letter from a Birmingham Jail, in the same passage with his wellknown warning that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” A few months later, Dr. King wrote that the same

culture of violence that killed Medgar Evers in Mississippi in June 1963 and four little Black girls in Birmingham in September 1963 had finally killed President Kennedy in November 1963, reminding us that it’s not possible to confine injustice, hatred, or violence to one group or community. What is tolerated in one place will eventually infect and affect everyone.

When many people think about gun deaths in America, the first stereotype that comes to mind is urban gun homicide—a

crisis that disproportionately affects the Black community. As a result, too many people assume that despite recurring cases of often labeled “isolated” or “unpredictable” mass gun violence primarily committed by White male shooters, “ordinary” gun violence is mostly a Black problem that is or should be the Black community’s responsibility alone to solve. This is simply not true, although the Black community must mount a much stronger and more persistent voice against gun violence. The fact is

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that most Americans killed by guns are White, and most Americans who kill themselves or others with guns are White and our nation’s gun death epidemic is not simply a White or Black crisis but an American crisis.

Between 1963 and 2010, 73 percent of gun deaths in America were among Whites—more than 1 million deaths. Large numbers of White parents have borne the terrible burden of losing their child to guns: Whites comprised 62 percent of child and teen gun deaths between

1963 and 2010—exceeding 100,000 deaths.

In 2010, 65 percent of gun deaths among Americans of all ages were among non-Hispanic Whites, as were 34 percent of gun deaths among children and teens. Gun deaths were the second leading cause of death for non-Hispanic White children and teens that year, second only to motor vehicle accidents, and the fourth leading cause of death among non-Hispanic Whites

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By Harry C. Alford

Detroit Unable to Outrun its Past I visited Cleveland a few years ago. As I was heading towards downtown I noticed a sign that showed pictures of blighted structures. There was a quote at the bottom of the sign which read, “Cheer up – we are not Detroit!” I guess all major U.S. cities can say the same thing.

Nowhere in this nation is a city so ravaged with blight, poverty, drugs, violence, crime and hope-

lessness than Detroit, Mich. It didn’t happen overnight but the disaster is just about complete.

I lived five years in Detroit. It was the city where I met the love of my life, beautiful Kay DeBow, a native of Indianapolis. Gone are the days of great night clubs such as My Fair Lady, Lafayette Orleans, etc. There were so many pretty girls and before Kay I tried to love each and every one of them. The city had many challenges during the late 1970s and early 1980s but the people were tough and proud. Just like

today, they ignored the ills. But now the ills are too big to ignore.

In 1950, the census reported Detroit had a population of 2 million. Today, there are less than 700,000 residents and that number is dropping as you read this article. This is a testament that many people during this time were miserable and decided to move out to the suburbs or even out of state. There are more than a few ex-Detroiters living in Texas, Georgia and California today. One of its pride and joy was Motown Records

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and it moved out completely.

There are many empty corporate offices and plants now.

It all began to decline in the 1950s as this city became a complete “Union Town.” Cost of labor skyrocketed as unions demanded more and more pay and benefits which often the city could not afford (city, county and school employees). This pushed the pace for tax increases and many residents responded by moving out of the city.

As the more affluent (Whites) left the city limits, the Black vote

became more powerful. By 1974, Detroit elected its first Black mayor. Coleman Young was a strong individual with a union background. Not only were people starting to leave but White business began to seek other venues. As the tax base weakened, the demand for higher taxes grew. It became a vicious financial cycle. Meanwhile, Mayor Young changed the city’s charter. All nine city council members became at-large. Con-

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By Askia Muhammad

The Myth of the ‘Peace Dividend’ As we watch and read reports of U.S. troops withdrawing from the battle fronts in Afghanistan and Iraq, there is hope once again that neglected domestic needs will finally see the benefits of a “peace dividend,” that is an increase in spending because fewer dollars are being spent on war.

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ing; just like there never was any hope of anything resembling a “peace dividend” in America’s policy.

The reasons are simple. Everyone can agree when there is a real or perceived external military threat. “Our freedom must be defended,” and everyone understands that and most everyone pitches in, as in “all hands on deck.” There is no argument which can prevail when the powers-that-be invoke the clarion call: “Support our troops.”

In addition, wars are the build-

ing blocks of prosperity. The Great Depression of the 1930s was finally overcome when federal spending – and the mutually agreed upon concept of “shared sacrifice” – kicked in for World War II. But in the 1960s, when the Civil Rights movement and its ancillary demands for “better this,” and “improved everything” for the country’s have-nots became louder and louder, two political notions took hold. We heard the Vietnam War condemned as “immoral,” (and based on the

trickery used to win approval in Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the U.S. escalation) and as possibly even “illegal.” And we heard calls for ending spending on that war so that domestic spending could be increased because of the peace dividend we would reap with the end of that conflict.

The war ended in ruin for this country and there was never any resulting bonus for neglected domestic priorities. There was recrimination and shame after Vietnam, and there was “stag-fla-

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tion” – economic stagnation and runaway inflation, along with loud complaints about President Jimmy Carter’s exploding deficits, then less than $100 billion per year.

President Ronald Reagan came in, promising to get our hostages back from Iran and to stare down the Communist “Red Menace,” with huge spikes in military spending, the country rallied to the call, and the national credit card was used to spend,

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Maria Gomez, Mary Center’s Visionary & Engine Maria Gomez, founder and CEO of Mary’s Center for Maternal and Child Care, with President Barack Obama at the White House on Feb. 15. Gomez was one of 18 individuals nationally who received the prestigious award. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah

By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer It still feels like a dream, hearing her name called, striding confidently onstage and being presented the Presidential Citizens’ Medal.

At a poignant White House ceremony last month, President Barack Obama presented Maria Gomez, founder and creative force behind Mary’s Center, with a medal and proclamation for her quarter-century of providing quality health care to the nation’s capital.

It is a moment Gomez said she’ll treasure.

“To have this honor is an honor in itself, but having it with this president is a great honor,” said the soft-spoken Colombian native during a recent interview.

“This medal really represents the fact that we’ve been supported by [the broader] community and people from all walks of life. I don’t think it was an accident that we were chosen because of the issues dear to the president: education, health care and making sure that we have some economic equity.”

In her acceptance remarks, Gomez spoke about the people – particularly her mother Elvira – who shaped her.

“Today, I humbly accepted

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this extraordinary honor on behalf of individuals who have mentored, guided, and inspired me throughout my life,” she said.

“I want to express my deepest appreciation to [the president] for bestowing this great honor on a woman, a Latina, a nurse, a mother, an advocate, and a resident of the District of Columbia.” “… And, thank you to those who saw something in me and nominated me for this award.”

That she was one of 6,000 nominees for the award still bog-

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gles her mind, said Gomez. She said she was contacted by White House officials about a week before the Feb. 15 event and sworn to secrecy.

“I couldn’t say anything to anyone. I got a call a week earlier that I’d been selected. I was in a room full of staff when they called,” she said.

And in the days since the ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Gomez said she’s been running non-stop.

“Oh my gosh, it’s been a whirlwind,” she said. “It’s been The Washington Informer

unbelievable.”

There’ve been media interviews and more awards and honors interspersed with work and family activities but Gomez is taking it all in stride. Sitting down with a reporter allowed Gomez to reflect on her mother, who she credits with being the crux of any success she enjoys.

“My mother came only and solely to the United States to give me a better chance,” she said. “She was a woman who had one focus when she came: Me. Any aspirations she had had to be refocused on me. She was a

housekeeper, maid, baby sitter, whatever it took. She got up when it was dark and returned home after dark. She worked hard.”

Gomez, the center’s president and CEO, remembers when a staff of 10 provided services to 200 clients in a basement at 1844 Columbia Road in Northwest.

“Twenty-five years ago, I didn’t dream this big. I wanted to give back to the community but I also wanted to start work on my

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Maria Gomez and one of her young charges spend time together at Mary’s Center. /Photo courtesy of Mary’s Center

Ph.D. and make lots of money,” she said with a laugh. “Soon, it was no longer about me. It was people.”

While working as a nurse with the D.C. Department of Health (DC DOH), Gomez and others recognized the needs of increasing numbers of Central American women who had fled to the District to escape civil wars and other unrest and who didn’t have access to needed prenatal care services. Although many of the women were raped and suffered other trauma, they had nowhere to go when they got here and the city’s health department didn’t have the capacity to serve this new and burgeoning population.

In 1998, Former Mayor Marion Barry, through the Mayor’s Office on Latino Affairs, allocated $250,000 for a center to cater

to this vulnerable population.

Today, said Lyda Vanegas, the center’s director of communications and advocacy, Mary’s Center employs 400 staffers at seven sites in the District and Maryland, is expected to serve 70,000 clients in 2013 and has a budget of almost $40 million.

“Mary’s Center makes sure people are healthy and educated.

You have to have good health, an education and you have to be supported in the community. If you have these things, there’s no stopping you,” Gomez said.

On a recent Wednesday morning, more than two dozen parents and children sat in the vibrant, airy, colorful Georgia Avenue office. At the entrance large pictures of special guests such as first lady Michelle Obama, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), former first lady Hillary Clinton and others graced the wall.

The 26,000-square-foot complex houses 22 examination rooms, areas designated for childcare, class rooms where clients learn English, cooking and other skills and services, including prenatal care, pediatrics, early intervention, dental, and primary care services.

Currently, Vanegas said, the polyglot staff originating in 45 countries, serves clients from 110 countries. The center uses a holistic social change model so that underserved, underinsured and uninsured clients throughout the Washington metropolitan area receive comprehensive health, social and education services. It is free to those who can’t afford it and the rest pay on a sliding scale.

“We connect medical care with mental health. We want families to receive all the services here.

We try to cater to all our clients’ needs at one time,” she said.

So if a client needs to apply for Medicare, food stamps or Women, Infants and Children (WIC) assistance, for example, staff will help them fill out the paperwork if they can’t. Or if a doctor diagnoses depression in a patient, counselors are onsite to access and treat that patient.

“I’m totally 100 percent sure that the eyes of the president are on our community. He wants to make sure that over the next four years we succeed as a community. He wants great things to happen in his backyard,” Gomez said. wi

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D.C. Native Educates Youth through Dance Kwame Opare Uses West African Traditions to Teach

By Stacy Brown WI Contributing Writer Kwame Opare stood front and center in a vibrant mythical world of music and dance where trash cans didn’t contain garbage, brooms weren’t just for sweeping away rubbish, and plastic water bottles took on a whole new meaning.

As one of the stars in the off-Broadway smash musical,

“Stomp,” Opare’s performance often tested one’s imagination and schooled audiences on what takes place on many inner-city playgrounds where trash can lids are used as swings, broomsticks for playing stick ball and water bottles replaced wooden drumsticks.

“Opare’s dynamic stage persona, and his capabilities as a dancer made him a valuable member of the ‘Stomp’ team and an

outstanding teacher,” said Tim Grassel, manager of the musical, “Stomp.”

It may not be Broadway, but Opare, a D.C. native will perform with fellow dancer, Graham Brown at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park, Md., on Thursday, March 14 and Friday, March 15 at 8 p.m.

The show, billed as, “The Shared Thesis,” Concert will feature traditional West African dance, and also include students from various schools.

“This show relates to my work in the [D.C.] community and it promotes the power of the arts by using West African dance,” said Opare, 36.

As a teacher in the Baltimore City Public Schools, he continues to draw from the “Stomp,” script by using unconventional props and methods to educate the young.

“I want children to understand how their history is relevant and connected to the persons that they are today because that’s what I learned,” he said.

Although, he works in Charm City, where he teaches at-risk youth, Opare maintains a residence in Northwest and proud-

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ly trumpets the great education that he received in the District.

He graduated from Nation House and Ujamaa schools, both located in Northwest.

“When you can educate children properly – give them something that pertains to them, it makes them want to learn. You instill [a sense of] pride in them,” Opare said.

“That is why I say that I want to disrupt the mis-education of African-American youth. It is through this empowerment that you can make a better society.”

After he graduated from Ujamaa School in 1994, Opare wanted to gain more experience in the dance world, and moved to New York, where he lived on and off for seven years, honing his skills.

He recently received a scholar-

ship to study dance at the Graduate School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he also teaches dance.

There’s no doubt that his first love is dance, however, Opare uses formations such as the toe-drop and the toe-stand to pique the interests of his young charges in the hope that they will recognize the fortitude of those who came before them.

He said the system’s flawed.

“My concept is to use disruption as a method to alleviate the problems facing a particular group of young people. It’s an attempt to show, through dance, iconic pop imagery and music, an epidemic of failure in America’s methods of educating its youth.” wi

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The S350 BlueTEC is an advanced, refined car that offers lots of power, remarkable fuel economy, and loads of comfort. /Photo courtesy of Mercedes-Benz, USA.

Flagship Benz Diesel Excels as a Fuel-sipper

By Njuguna Kabugi WI Contributing Writer Pray pity on us journalists. On one hand, we are highly sought out conduits who ferry important information between our readers and the powerful politicians, diplomats and captains of industry who make our nation’s capital the most influential city in the world.

On the other hand, we are keenly aware that a gap wider than the Pacific separates us from these folks. While we ride Metrobus, VRE and MARC back to our little corners at the end of the work day, the high and mighty are chauffeured to their mansions in the best – like the Mercedes-BenzS350 4MATIC BlueTEC we tested this week.

The S-Class is Mercedes’ largest and most comfortable sedan.

By no coincidence, it is also the most expensive as the flagship model of the world’s best-selling luxury sedan. It is equipped with so many luxury features and cutting-edge technologies to make it the de facto ride of choice for everyone from celebrities to heads of state.

But at a sticker price of $105,000, I can only dream what else that amount could buy: three very well-equipped midsize sedans, a very nice townhouse in Alabama or four years of college (tuition plus room and board) at a decent state university.

To confound my glee at navigating what is essentially a rolling, four-door announcement that alerts everyone you appreciate the very best in automobiles and

that you have money to spend, was the reaction I received from strangers. Many gawked; others expressed approval with a question or two about the car.

The most memorable was at an embassy in D.C., where I’d dropped off my passport to obtain a visa for travel outside of the country. Just a few days earlier, a security officer had politely advised me that I needed to park my Honda further down the street because the lot next to the visa office was only for diplomats. When I showed up in the Mercedes-BenzS350, the same gentleman offered to valet park it for me at their VIP parking lot.

The Mercedes-BenzS350 is equipped with massaging front seats, each of which comes with multiple massage styles and settings. The headrest video monitors, the electrically reclining rear seats, and radar cruise control, quickly put you on notice that this is not your typical wannabe lux mobile.

The spacious cockpit, lined with hand-stitched leather and trimmed with Eucalyptus wood, is comfortable and inviting. Unlike many lesser luxury cars, everything here works exceedingly well and does exactly what they’re designed to do.

But this car’s interior appointments aren’t the main draw, nice as they are. The big attraction is that the S350 is a wonderful diesel, with everything else that entails.

This makes the car an anomaly in the Mercedes-Benz S-Class pantheon. In a segment where V-8s are the norm and 12-cylinders are

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revered, this car defies common wisdom by providing the world’s most advanced clean diesel technology. Mercedes-Benz, pioneer of the original diesel car, has reinvented an engine which will make the inner environmentalist in us cherish getting better highway mpg than some 4-cylinders and hybrids, but also cruising more than 675 miles on a single tank.

Though the S350 BlueTEC is rated at 31 miles per gallon on the highway and the 3.0-liter turbo diesel V-6 engine delivers only 240 hp, it nevertheless produces a massive 455 lb-ft of torque, and acceleration on par with many gasoline V-8s. This is quite an accomplishment for a two and a half ton vehicle.

In busy city driving, the seven-speed automatic moves the car away from stoplight to stoplight with a refined surge. On the highway, you get lots of power, stability and long-distance comfort. On a trip South to Richmond, Va., I effortlessly hit over 90 mph. I could hear a little road noise and the diesel clatter was only slightly audible. My passengers fell asleep right after Fredericksburg, and could you blame them? The comfortable leather envelopes you, and with just a slight wind whoosh to remind you that you’re moving, sleep seems the next best option. For the driver, there’s enough steering feel to stay awake, informed, and interested. But this is the type of car you drive several hundred miles without too much stress. wi

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Hasaan Hill dribbles around Andre Mason during a season-ending basketball jamboree held on Saturday, March 9 at Stoddert Elementary School in Northwest. More than 200 children participated in the tournament. Teams from Northeast and Northwest played 25 minutes of basketball while parents packed the stands to cheer and take pictures of their children. Each player received a medal and donned jerseys donated by the District’s Department of Parks and Recreation and the Washington Wizards. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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D.C. United Home Opener Highlights D.C. United 1, Real Salt Lake 0 Opposing players go up for a header in the first half of Major League Soccer’s home opener on Saturday, March 9 at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Southeast before 17,072 fans. “The back four were very connected,” said D.C. United head coach Ben Olsen. “We weren’t connected and we didn’t look out for each other in Houston.” D.C. United defeated Real Salt Lake 1-0. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

D.C. United forward Lionard Pajoy battles Real Salt Lake defender Rich Balchan during the first half of Major League Soccer action on Saturday, March 9 at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Southeast. Pajoy’s goal in the 60thminute handed United their win. “It’s one of those plays where, as a forward, you are always aware of what might come out of it,” Pajoy said through an interpreter. “I was able to make it happen. Those are the situations you want to take advantage of.” D.C. United defeated Real Salt Lake 1-0. /Photo by John E. De Freitas Real Salt Lake defender Kwame Watson-Siriboe makes a sliding tackle to take the soccer ball from D.C. United midfielder and team captain Chris Pontius on Saturday, March 9 at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Southeast. D.C. United defeated Real Salt Lake 1-0. /Photo

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Fanning the Flames of the Diabetes Epidemic Part 5 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own.

1 Corinthians 6:19 NIV Last week, you read Part Four of “Fanning the Flames of the Diabetes Epidemic.” Those of you who have followed this column faithfully will be able to understand more clearly and you will learn how to avoid the horrors of this disease.

My mother only lived 12 years after her diagnosis. Here is the continuation of her story.

Each week, I’ve shared how my mother lost both of her legs, had to have kidney dialysis for the last few years of her life; and she had at least seven strokes in 12 years for those who might have missed my previous columns. She was my age, only 61 when she had her first major stroke, which resulted in paralysis; according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), heart disease is the leading cause of death as it pertains to individuals with diabetes, they either expire from heart disease or strokes. My mother ended up in Howard University Hospital, and it was during that particular hospital stay that her diabetes was discovered. Now for the NIH research: It’s a simple problem, old-fashioned soul food diets; far too much fare from fast food restaurants, and a lack of strenuous exercise. How many times have you gorged yourselves after an exhaustive day at work, and then, fallen asleep? We’re not treating our bodies like the temples that God has given us!

For adults this lifestyle will no longer work if we want to maintain our health. That type of behavior

is reserved exclusively for babies and children. Our weight increases with each meal that’s loaded with high sugar content and a variety of unhealthy fats. As a result, we end up buying larger sizes; we don’t look well and we certainly don’t feel good. How many wardrobe sizes do we have? We continue to purchase clothing to accommodate our bodies as they balloon. And worst of all, our blood sugar goes out of control, our hearts can’t withstand the strain, and neither can the rest of our organs.

There are a few exceptions to this rule, some of us have contracted diabetes and we’re not overweight, but according to research, it’s genetic, and lack of exercise is still problematic.

Look at the stats provided by NIH, diabetes mellitus is one of the most serious health challenges facing the United States. The following statistics illustrate the magnitude of this disease among African Americans.

NIH cites 4.9 million African Americans have diabetes; on average, we are twice as likely to have diabetes as white Americans of similar age; approximately 13 percent of all African Americans have diabetes; African Americans with diabetes are more likely to develop diabetes complications and experience greater disability from the complications than white Americans with diabetes; death rates for people with diabetes are 27 percent higher for African Americans compared with whites; national health surveys during the past 35 years show that the percentage of the African American population diagnosed with diabetes is increasing dramatically.

with Lyndia Grant The surveys show prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes as well as previously diagnosed diabetes. In 1976-80, total diabetes prevalence in African Americans ages 40 to 74 was only 8.9 percent; in 1988-94, total prevalence had increased to 18.2 percent – a doubling of the rate in just 12 years.

Regular physical activity is a protective factor against Type 2 diabetes and, conversely, lack of physical activity is a risk factor for developing diabetes. Researchers suspect that a lack of exercise is one factor contributing to the high rates of diabetes in African Americans.

We can change this trend by improving our diets and through regularly scheduled exercise. (Conclusion Next Week). wi Lyndia Grant is a radio talk show host on Radio One Network, WYCB-AM, 1340. Tune in Fridays at 6 p.m. Call 202-518-3192 or send emails to lyndiagrant@gmail.com

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Pilgrim Baptist Church

Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church

700 I. Street, NE Washington, D.C. 20002

Rev. James Manion Supply Priest Foggy Bottom • Founded in 1867 728 23rd Street, NW • Washington, DC 20037 Church office: 202-333-3985 • Fax : 202-338-4958 Worship Services Sundays: 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Music and Hymns Wednesdays: 12:10 p.m. - Holy Eucharist www.stmarysfoggybottom.org Email: stmarysoffice@stmarysfoggybottom.org All are welcome to St. Mary’s to Learn, Worship, and Grow.

Pastor Louis B. Jones, II and Pilgrim invite you to join us during our July and August Summer schedule! Attire is Christian casual.

Worship: Sundays@ 7:30 A.M. & 10:00 A.M. 3rd Sunday Holy Communion/Baptism/Consecration Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @12:00 Noon @ 6:30 P.M. – One Hour of Power!

(202) 547-8849 www.pilgrimbaptistdc.org

Blessed Word of Life Church Dr. Dekontee L. & Dr. Ayele A. Johnson Pastors 4001 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 (202) 265-6147 Office 1-800 576-1047 Voicemail/Fax Schedule of Services: Sunday School – 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service – 11:00 AM Communion Service – First Sunday Prayer Service/Bible Study – Tuesday, 6:30 PM www.blessedwordoflifechurch.org e-mail: church@blessedwordoflifechurch.org

Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ Drs. Dennis W. and Christine Y. Wiley, Pastors 3845 South Capitol Street Washington, DC 20032 (202) 562-5576 (Office) (202) 562-4219 (Fax) SERVICES AND TIMES: SUNDAYS: 8:00 AM and 10:45 AM Worship Services BIBLE STUDY: Wonderful Wednesdays in Worship and the Word Bible Study Wednesdays 12:00 Noon; 6:30 PM (dinner @ 5:30 PM) SUNDAY SCHOOL: 9:45 AM – Hour of Power “An inclusive ministry where all are welcomed and affirmed.” www.covenantbaptistdc.org

Campbell AME Church

Morning Star Baptist Church

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

Pastor Gerald L Martin Senior Minister 3204 Brothers Place S.E. Washington, D.C. 20032 202-373-5566 or 202-373-5567

301-894-6464 Schedule of Service Sunday Service: 8:30 AM & 11:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM Communion Service: First Sunday www.livingwatersmd.org

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

Church School - 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship – 10:45 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“God is Love”

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

Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday Men’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

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

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

Third Street Church of God

Isle of Patmos Baptist Church

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

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

Sunday Church School: 9:20 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

ST Marks Baptist Come Worship with us...

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

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Mount Carmel Baptist Church

52 Years of Expert Engraving Services

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

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

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

4915 Wheeler Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745

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

Crusader Baptist Church

“A church reaching and winning our community for Christ” morningstarbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.morningstarchurch-dc.org

Rev. John W. Davis, Pastor

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

Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor Harold Andrew, Assistant Pastor

Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church

Service & Time Sunday Worship 7:45A.M & 11A.M Communion Service 2nd Sunday 11A.M Prayer Service Tuesday 7:00 P.M Bible Study Tuesday 8:00 P.M Sunday Church School 10:00 A.M Sunday

Mt. Zion Baptist Church

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

Church of Living Waters

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

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Friendship Baptist Church 900 Delaware Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20020 (202) 488-7417 (202) 484-2242 Rev. Dr. J. Michael Little Pastor Sunrise Prayer: 6:00 AM Sunday School: 9:30 AM Morning Worship 11:00 AM Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday-11:00AM www.friendshipbaptistdc.org Email: frienshipde1900@verizon.net

Zion Baptist Church

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

King Emmanuel Baptist Church Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor 2324 Ontario Road, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 232-1730

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

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

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

“Where Jesus is the King”

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

Florida Avenue Baptist Church

Holy Trinity United Baptist Church

Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor

Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert SR. Pastor

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

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

Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 a.m.

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

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

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

Midweek Prayer: Wednesday – 7:00 p.m.

Noonday Prayer Every Thursday

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

Israel Baptist Church

Full Gospel Baptist Church

Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor

Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor

Rev. Charles Y. Davis, Jr. Sr. Pastor

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

Dr. C. Matthew Hudson, Jr, Pastor

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

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

14350 Frederick Rd. Cooksville, MD 21723 (410) 489-5069

Elder Herman L. Simms, Pastor

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

Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 A.M. Sunday School: 8:30 A.M. Holy Communion1st Sunday: 10:00 A.M.

Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 am Sunday School: 9:30 am Wed. Bible Study/Prayer: 6:30-8:00 pm Holy Communion 2nd Sunday Pre-Marital Counseling/Venue for Weddings Prison Ministry Knowledge Base

Prayer Service: Wednesday at 6:30 P.M. Bible Study: Wednesday at 7:00 P.M.

Web: www.FullGospelBC.org Email: fullgospelbc1946@verizon.net “IF YOU NEED REST, THIS HOUSE IS OPEN”

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

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

Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.

Holy Communion: 11:00 a.m., 3rd Sun. Bible Study: Monday - 7:00 p.m.

Prayer Meeting: Thursday - 7:00 p.m.

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

St. Matthews Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor 1105 New Jersey Ave, S.E • Washington, DC 20003 202 488-7298 Order of Services Sunday Worship Services: 9:05 A.M. Sunday School: 8:00 A.M. Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting: 7:00 P.M. (Tuesday) Bible Study: 7:30 P.M. (Tuesday) Theme: “Striving to be more like Jesus “Stewardship”.

Philippians 3:12-14; Malachi 3:8-10 and 2 Corinthians 9:7 Email: stmatthewbaptist@msn.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.com

Rehoboth Baptist Church

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith

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

Rev. Terry D. Streeter Pastor

Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Pastor and Overseer

215 Rhode Island Ave. N.W. • WD.C. 20001 (202) 332-5748

625 Park Rd, NW • WDC 20010 P: 202 291-5711 • F: 202 291-5666

Early Morning Worship: 7:45 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.

Morning Worship: 10:45 a.m.

Holy Communion: 4th Sunday 7:45 a.m. & 10:45 a.m.

C.T.U. Sunday: 2:45 p.m.

Bible Study: Wednesday 11:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m.

Prayer Service: Wednesday 8:00 p.m.

Noon Day Prayer Service: Mondays 12 p.m.

Sunday Worship Service - 11 am Sunday School - 9:45 am Bible Study & Prayer Wed. - 7 pm Substance Abuse Counseling 7 pm (Mon & Fri) Jobs Partnership - 7 pm (Mon & Wed) Sat. Enrichment Experience - 9:30 am

Salem Baptist Church

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

Shiloh Baptist Church

Rev. R. Vincent Palmer Pastor

Rev. Alonzo Hart Pastor

Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor

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

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

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

The Church Where GOD Is Working....

And We Are Working With GOD

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

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

Sunday Church School: 9:15 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship: 10:40 a.m.

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

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

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

Morning Worship: 10:55 a.m.

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

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

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 Motto: God First

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Matthews Memorial Baptist Church

Mt. Bethel Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Bobby L. Livingston, Sr. Pastor

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

New Members Class 9:30a.m.

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

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

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

Peace Baptist Church

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

602 N Street NW • Washington, D.C. 20001 Office:(202) 289-4480 Fax: (202) 289-4595 Sunday Worship Services: 7:45am & 11:00am Sunday school For All Ages 9:30am Prayer Services Wednesday 11:30am & 6:45pm Bible Institute Wednesday at Noon & 7:45pm

Email: Froffice@firstrising.org Website: www.firstrising.org

Sunrise Prayer Service 6:00 A.M. Sunday Church School 8:30 A.M. Pre-Worship Devotionals 9:45 A.M. Morning Worship Services 10:00 A.M. Holy Communion 1st Sunday Worship Services Bible Study Tuesdays, 6:00 P.M. Thursdays, 1:00 P.M. Prayer Meetings Tuesdays, 7:00 P.M. Thursdays, 12:00 P.M.

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

Mt. Horeb Baptist Church

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church

“Changing Lives On Purpose “

75 Rhode Island Ave. NW • Washington, DC 20001 (202) 667-4448

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

Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.

Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.

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

Prayer Services: Tuesday 7:30 p.m.

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

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Terry Mitchell, whose address is7604 Camelia Court, Clinton, MD 20735, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Mary E. Edwards, who died on September 22, 2008 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. Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before August 21, 2013. 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 August 21, 2013, 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.

Elber Francis Whiting, whose address is 6423 24th Place, Hyattsville, MD 20782, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Elmer M. Whiting, who died on November 26, 2012 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W. Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before August 28, 2013. 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 August 28, 2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Dorothy McAllister, whose address is 11415 Deepwood Drive, Bowie MD 20720, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Joshua E. Anderson, who died on September 23, 2012 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. Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 14, 2013. 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 September 14, 2013, 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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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

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Administration No. 2013 ADM 126 Marie Scarborough Decedent Deborah D. Boddie, Esq. 1308 Ninth Street, NW, suite 300 Washington, DC 20001 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Michael L. Shorter, whose address is 1112 Chaplin Street, SE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Marie Scarborough, who died on August 28, 2011 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W. Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before August 28, 2013. 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 August 28, 2013, 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: February 28, 2013 Michael L. Shorter Personal Representative

Administration No. 2013 ADM 122 Helen D. Gray aka Helen Delores Gray Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Edwina Gray, whose address is 923 11 Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Helen D. Gray aka Helen Delores Gray, who died on January 12, 2013 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W. Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before August 28, 2013. 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 August 28, 2013, 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: February 28, 2013 Edwina Gray Personal Representative

COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Notice of Standard Probate Estate of Gwendolyn Bradley-Tinsley Deceased Administrative No. 2011 ADM 323

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

In the absence of a Will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate.

Confirm the successor unsupervised personal representative.

Date of first publication: March 7, 2013 Deborah D. Boddie 1308 Ninth Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20001 Personal Representative

Administration No. 2013 ADM 160 Thomas Alphonso Claxton Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Mabel H. P. Middleton, whose address is 726 Woodacre Rd., Jackson, MS 39206, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Thomas Alphonso Claxton, who died on January 16, 2013 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W. Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 14, 2013. 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 September 14, 2013, 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: March 14, 2013 Mabel H. P. Middleton Personal Representative

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Cynthia Goins, whose address is 6602 Medwick Dr. Hyattsville, MD 20783, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Ruth E. Goins, who died on December 15, 2006 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. Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 14, 2013. 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 September 14, 2013, 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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Black unemployment rates are at more than Depression levels, which ought to be completely unacceptable. It is not. Yet few are paying attention to the plight of the unemployed, underemployed, or out of the labor force Black worker. The White House and others love to talk about all of us being in the same boat.

Yet some are hanging onto the board by their fingernails, and

curry continued from Page 30 do a better job of monitoring their accounts. And they avoided criminal prosecution.

Like other banks, HSBC will continue to benefit from American taxpayers underwriting its deposit insurance.

Contrast that different treatment with what’s happening in our nation’s capital.

In the never-ending game of chicken, Republicans are threating yet another budget showdown. They are adamant that whatever comes out of the ongoing sequester and deficit debates, all cuts must come from the spending side, including Medicare and Social Security.

Although President Obama has used strong, protective language in his State of the Union and inauguration speeches, he has a tendency to cave in when

fletcher continued from Page 30 in attacking Iran, Vice President Biden’s saber-rattling is not helpful. Something more helpful would be a U.S. suggestion for a “nuclear weapons free” Middle East. That would mean that there should be no nuclear weapons at all held by any side.

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others are drowning. And some are struggling to row. Others are riding relatively smoothly through this recession, watching their situation improve.

CEA Chairman Krueger says the data from this employment report suggests that we are well on our way to economic recovery. From my perspective this recovery is neither robust nor inclusive. In order for this recovery to be fully celebrated, every sector of Americans should see their material conditions increase. They’ve increased for some. What about the others?

Where are their advocates?

Too many African American leaders are asleep at the wheel when it comes to the employment situation. Unemployment rates become a line in their speeches, not a lode for their leadership.

High unemployment rates explain why so many African Americans, at the eco-

nomic margins, don’t support civil rights organizations. They are asking what’s in it for me.

What if huge numbers of unemployed people were mobilized? What if, in their economic misery, some rose up and demanded that Congress and others pay attention to their situation? To watch the situation of Whites improve, while Black unemployment rates remain the same, suggests that the vision of a post-racial society is extremely unrealistic. African American people are bearing a disproportion amount of pain in the current employment situation.

Black people are starving, and it seems that no one, not even civil rights advocates, will act on their behalf.wi Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer.

She is President Emerita of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.C.

negotiating with Republicans – and that has many Democrats worried.

Obama and his advisers have already stated that they are amenable to a “grand bargain” whereby the White House and Republicans will reach an agreement on budget cuts.

So far, 107 of the 200 House Democrats have signed a letter to the president threatening to vote “against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security benefits – including raising the retirement age or cutting the cost of living adjustments that our constituents earned and need.”

In the alternative, they want the grand bargain to “rely on economic growth and more fair revenue-raising policies to solve our fiscal problems.” Those policies should include putting an end to subsidies for big businesses and raising the taxes on

the wealthiest Americans.

Speaking on CNBC last week, House Speaker John Boehner said, “Listen, we’ve got a structural spending problem that has to be addressed. The president’s sequester is in effect, and it will be in effect until there’s an agreement on cuts and reforms that put us on a path to balance the budget over the next 10 years.”

But none of those cuts and reforms on the patch to a balanced budget involve touching the banksters or the rich. After all, as well all know, they are different. wi George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA.) He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach.

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ple, it reminds us of what can happen with nuclear weapons in an unstable region. There is no reason to believe that Israel is impervious to nuclear weapons falling into the hands of fanatics who might use them for any number of reasons against any number of targets. No one should possess such weapons; no one should be given a pass.

Both President Obama and Vice President Biden need to pull back from their embarrassing overtures to anti-Palestinian groups such as AIPAC. In addition to inflaming tensions with

Iran, tensions that could quite accidentally spark a war, such administration bowing to AIPAC does nothing to assure Palestinians that the U.S.A. wants to do anything other than serving as a supply depot for Israeli ambitions, regardless of the costs.

Time for a change. wi Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum and the author of “They’re Bankrupting Us” – And Twenty Other Myths about Unions. Follow him at www.billfletcherjr.com.

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should take our blinders off because when the 2010 gun death rate for non-Hispanic Whites in the United States was nearly eight times higher than the average gun death rate in 25 other high income countries—and the overall gun death rate for all Americans was seven and a half times higher than the average gun death rate in those countries—and when children are killed or injured by guns every 30 minutes, gun violence is an all-American crisis. Other countries have already made the decision to say no more. It is time for all Americans to stand up, speak up, work together and do the same for our children and all of us. wi

sequently, he handpicked his city council members who happened to live in just about the same neighborhood. The people had no immediate representation for their particular neighborhoods – no accountability. Detroit has just nine city council members compared to 28 in Indianapolis.

Corruption became rampant.

Even the Chief of Police William L. Hart was sentenced to 15 years in prison for stealing $1.3 million. His deputy, Kenneth Weiner, went in for five years.

This epitomizes a deep problem in this city. It is a problem that still exists today. A former city council woman is in jail as you read this.

Then, during the late 1970s came the crack cocaine invasion into our cities. Detroit caught it steroid style. Murders plagued every section of town. But unlike the other cities, the drug

problem has not subsided. It and its “first cousin” crime are worse than ever. The city just reported its highest homicide rate in 20 years. Detroit leads the nation in violent crimes for cities with 200,000-plus population.

The city is unable to shake off the ills. As Justice Croise says, “I’m a native Detroiter (born and raised), lifelong Democrat, and I voted for President Obama (twice), so I am well aware how “Republican” my stance on Detroit is, but having been on the inside of City Hall I have the first-hand experience to tell you that waste, fraud, ineptitude, selfishness, and a complete lack of personnel and financial management controls are holes in Detroit’s boat which no amount of bailing can keep afloat….Fundamentally obsolete union contracts… falsely protect underserving workers and processes….usurp the city’s ability to manage operations effectively and efficiently.” (The New Ameri-

can magazine) Detroit cannot pay its bills and has no credit left. Its bonds are junk status and pretty soon the creditors are going to pounce.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has pledged to step in and hire an emergency financial manager to try and right this struggling ship called Detroit. The City Council and civil rights groups are crying foul. How can they when their backs are up against the wall?

There is a child of Michigan who is equipped to handle this situation as he has done in the past. Yes, the best thing Gov. Snyder could do is convince Mitt Romney to come in and give Detroit a good scrubbing. This may be the only way to save it. wi Harry C. Alford is the co-founder, President/CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce®.

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period of “rally ’round the flag boys,” and “support our troops,” and no one dared complain while our young boys and girls were dying on foreign soil.

So now, here we are 10, 11, 12 years later and our troops are coming home, and those who have been hoping that we would at last see our hoped for peace dividend, may or may not know it, but, there will be no peace dividend this time either. Why? Because of the budget sequester of course, that tidy Congressional invention whose purpose is to eliminate budget deficits.

Funny thing though, those budget “deficit hawks,” who are most vocal about needing to

eliminate the budget deficits, are the same ones who caused the national debt to triple to more than $16 trillion in the 13 years since President Bill Clinton left office with budget surpluses on the table.

These same deficit hawks are the ones who cut trillions of dollars in taxes on the false promise that such cuts would spur economic growth and development, and then they authorized the conduct of two more immoral (and possibly illegal) wars in Afghanistan and Iraq without any means of paying for them, except by adding their cost to the national debt.

So now, if anyone is naïve

enough to suggest that there might be a peace dividend after the troops come home; let me say it in plain English: Fuhgeddaboutit! If there is a solitary political soul who thinks there might be a future increase in needed domestic spending on anything – from the crumbling infrastructure, roads, bridges, etc., to needed social programs – wake up and smell the coffee.

The peace dividend is a myth.

Americans can and will agree on rampant war spending, but cannot and will not agree on anything that will improve the lives of regular, ordinary people. Sorry. wi

ages 1 to 64 after cancers, heart disease, and non-gun accidents.

Eighty-three percent of White gun deaths were suicides, 14 percent were homicides, and two percent were accidents. Among White children and teens, 63 percent of gun deaths were suicides, 26 percent were homicides, and nine percent were accidents.

Gun violence is an urban problem that devastates cities like Chicago, and Detroit, and Tucson, Arizona, and Washington, D.C. Gun violence is a suburban, small town, and rural problem that devastates places like Newtown, Conn., and Conyers, Ga. and Littleton and Aurora, Colo-

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rado, and Pearl, Miss. Gun violence is a problem in states with strong gun laws because guns still travel in from states next door. Gun violence is a problem for parents who would never dream of owning a gun and for parents whose guns are stored responsibly and safely because their children share the same playdates and parks and schools and universities and movie theaters and streets as children and adults who do have access to guns and whose family members and friends do not store them safely.

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Muhammad continued from Page 31 spend, and military spend.

Prosperity returned and no one cared about the deficits which increased exponentially.

George H.W. Bush was elected the 41st president, the country invaded Iraq for the first time, and President Bush ’41 made the mistake of raising tax-

es – for what he believed was the overall good of the country – in order to pay for all the runaway military spending. For that reason, he lost his job.

In comes President George W. (for Worst in History) Bush, the 43rd president, and soon after his election came the 9-11 attacks of 2001, and we were off to war again, with barely any dissent at all. We had another

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