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RG3 Fever!

Robert Griffin III—“RG3”— holds up his already famous No. 10 jersey during a recent press conference. Marilyn Diem of Capitol Heights, below, proudly holds up her RG3 jersey in the hopes that Griffin will acknowledge her while a child at the bottom of the photo looks through the fence to see Griffin on Saturday, April 28, at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. About 20,000 fans waited in the rain to welcome Griffin who spoke to the crowd after the press conference inside the stadium. /Photos

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RG3 Comes to Washington Time Will Tell if He’s Worth the Hype

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As loyal Washington Redskins fans, Steve Brando, Bill Reed and Alvon Smith know all too well the pain of watching the team they love struggle, the humiliating defeats, unexpected victories

and constant quarterback musical chairs.

Yet bad memories have faded and the agony has been washed away for now because Robert Griffin III has landed.

Color the Redskins Nation elated.

The city is abuzz, folks are giddy and long-suffering fans

are daring to dream of a return to the glory days again.

Brando, decked out in a Redskins cap and jacket as he shopped Sunday evening at Best Buy in Northwest, could barely contain himself.

“I’m excited, very excited,” gushed Brando, 61, a local bartender and resident of Sursum

Corda in Northwest. “We’ve got a quarterback we need. He’s marketable, he’s black and he’s athletic. Everyone is alive.”

Smith, 53, agreed.

“I’m thrilled we got a black quarterback. I’ve been watching him since college,” said Smith who said he’s a season ticket holder who’s been going to Red-

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The Columbia Heights resident said he is also pleased

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1948 - Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v. Kraemer that federal and state courts could not enforce restrictive covenants which barred persons from owning or occupying property because of their race.

1866 - On May 1-3, white civilians and police killed forty-six African-Americans and injured many more, burning ninety houses, twelve schools, and four churches in Memphis, Tennessee.

1967 - Black students seized finance building at Northwestern University and demanded Blackoriented curriculum and campus reforms.

1845 - Macon B. Allen, first Black lawyer admitted to the bar, passed examination at Worcester, Massachusetts.

May 4 1864 - Ulysses S. Grant crossed the Rapidan River and began his duel with Robert E. Lee. At the same time Ben Butler’s Army of the James moved on Lee’s forces.

Black division in Grant’s army did not play a prominent role in Wilderness Campaign, but Ben Butler gave his Black infantrymen and his eighteen hundred Black cavalrymen important assignments. Black troops of the Army of the James were the first Union Soldiers to take possession of James River (at Wilson’s Wharf Landing, Fort Powhatan and City Point).

May 5 1969 - Moneta Sleet becomes the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. and her daughter at her husband’s funeral.

1975 - In May of 1975, Aaron also surpassed Ruth’s RBI mark.

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1886 - On May 6, 1886, inventor M.A. Cherry patented the tricycle.

1960 - President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

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May 7 1800 - On this date in 1800, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, frontier trader, fur trapper, farmer, businessman and “father” of Chicago sold all his property for $1,200 and left the area. He died 18 years later, almost penniless, and was buried in St. Charles, Missouri.

1867 - Black demonstrators staged ride-in to protest segregation on New Orleans streetcars.

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1878 - J. R. Winters receives a patent for the fire escape ladder.

1885 - Dr. John E. W. Thompson, graduate of the Yale University Medical School, named minister to Haiti.

1976 - William H. Hastie inaugurated as the first Black governor of the Virgin Islands.

May 8 1858 - John Brown held antislavery convention, which was attended by twelve whites and thirty-four Blacks, at Chatham, Canada. The Escape, first play by an American Black, published

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1925 - The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the trailblazing black labor union, was organized by A. Philip Randolph.

1945 - Germany surrendered on V-E Day. 1958 - President Eisenhower ordered federalized National Guard removed from Central High School, Little Rock.

1999 - May 8 marks the massacre at Setif, Algeria which took place in 1945. The French troops left one of the unforgettable memories of the Algerian people’s struggle, 45,000 dead.

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1891 - Dr. Daniel Hale Williams founded the Provident Hospital and Training School.

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Lee Morris Washington, D.C. Marion Barry spoke the truth, but his deliverance was harsh. It was more emotional than factual.

Jerry Sampson Washington, D.C. I believe his comments were fair, but delivered wrongly. I believe what he’s trying to say is the absolute truth; however, it’s going to take the community to get behind Barry to help make the right changes.

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Danielle Perry Washington, D.C I don’t think the criticism Marion Barry is getting is fair. I don’t agree with Marion Barry’s approach, however, I agree with how he feels about business owners. I think the criticism about the nurses is appropriate. .

DeEster Kemp Washington, D.C. The criticism Barry is receiving isn’t fair. Barry is speaking up for the African-American community. I’ve seen many dirty businesses in Ward 8 and I’ve also seen businesses that weren’t dirty. He’s speaking the truth.

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FANS continued from Page 1 coaches picked up offensive linemen who will protect Griffin as he works his magic in the pocket, as well as running backs and wide receivers who will offer enticing targets for the man who embodies their hopes of changing the face and the faded fortunes of the Redskins.

Smith and Brando counted among the several thousand fans who poured into FedEx Field on Saturday, April 28 to see Griffin.

Following his first official press conference, Griffin bounded onto a dais and addressed the throng. Crowds joined long lines to buy Griffin jerseys at $140 a pop, secure players’ autographs, visit the team locker room, watch interviews and soak up the atmosphere.

The excitement is palpable now that Griffin (RG3) is finally a member of the Redskins following months of speculation and waiting. He was selected the No. 2 pick in Thursday’s National Football League draft.

The Griffin era began with a song. Just after he was drafted, in his first meeting as a Redskins quarterback with the local media, RG3 started to sing “Hail to the Redskins.” He didn’t sing very long because he has yet to learn the rest of the lyrics.

The Redskins traded four picks – first round picks this season as well as the next two, plus this year’s second round pick – to acquire the No. 2 overall pick from St. Louis. The anticipation of RG3 wearing a Redskins uniform has energized the winstarved fan base, and pro football pundits from around the league have proclaimed the Heisman Trophy winner as the ideal fit for Mike Shanahan’s offensive scheme, but there’s a wide gulf between potential and becoming a franchise quarterback.

Griffin is viewed as a savior as much for his skill set, his formidable talent and what those in sporting circles have called his “freakish athleticism” which includes world-class speed, a rocket for an arm and great accuracy.

Reed, who said he’s been an avid Redskins fan since the days of the “Over the Hill Gang” in the 1980s, said he is excited but cautious. “I’m all for him being successful but I think we paid too much for him, I really do,” said Reed, a Southeast resident.

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think another part of the story is that they drafted another quarterback. They have two young bucks in training. They are mortgaging the future but I hope it pans out.”

Smith said he finds it interesting that the Redskins drafted Michigan State quarterback Kirk Cousins in the third round.

While he thinks Cousins’ presence will provide competition in camp and added motivation for Griffin to excel, Smith said he hopes Shanahan will give Griffin the space to develop and build the offense around the young star.

“I’m afraid they’re going to mess it up but it will be up to the young man to do it,” he said.

“He [Griffin] has to play his game just like Elway did. [Shanahan] let Elway play and that brought [Denver] two Super Bowls. My big thing is that they should let him play. Rex Grossman shouldn’t start.”

Griffin developed his skills at Baylor, going from a quarterback who often wanted to run as much or more as he threw the ball, to one who was considered a passer first. He passed for 2,091 yards as a freshman while rushing for 843 yards. And as a senior, he passed for 4,293 yard and rushed for 699 yards en route to the Heisman Trophy.

So what happens next?

He joins a team that hasn’t had a franchise-type quarterback since Joe Theismann in the midto-late 1980s. There has been a constant parade of poor-to-average quarterbacks which prompted Redskins officials to play roulette by placing the future of the franchise in Griffin’s hands.

There is a long list of NFL quarterbacks who have either crashed and burned, or didn’t meet expectations. Everyone understands that signing the Baylor standout could result in trips to the playoffs and Super Bowl victories, or it could throw the team back into the doldrums.

“Everybody would like that franchise guy – that’s the goal of every team in the NFL,” Shanahan said. “How you become that franchise guy is [to] go out there and do it on the field. You’re looking for a guy that is going to be the first guy there and the last guy to leave. You’re looking for a guy as a quarterback, [who] handles himself like London Fletcher does on the defensive side.”

That’s a lot of pressure on a rookie, but Griffin handles him-

self in a manner that indicates he’s ready for the challenge.

“If you learn the offense and do the things you’re supposed to do to be successful, you’ll be all right. This is our job,” Griffin said. “I’ll take it seriously, it’ll be my first priority outside of God and family, [and] I’ll go from there.”

If RG3 is looking for a blueprint to follow, it would be Cam Newton’s. In 2011, the Carolina Panthers selected Newton as the No. 1 draft pick. The Panthers had a woeful record, and many fans felt the Panthers should have traded Newton to get several players instead of one.

However, the Carolina franchise forged ahead and chose Newton amid tremendous criticism and scrutiny.

Newton did not disappoint.

He had the best rookie season of anyone ever in the history of the NFL. He threw for more than 4,000 yards, scored 35 touchdowns – 14 rushing – and restored the Panthers’ credibility.

Incidentally, Carolina beat Washington last year.

Over the past few years, rookie quarterbacks have entered the league and made a real impact.

However, Shanahan isn’t fully prepared to name Griffin the starter just yet.

“You want to make sure that he’s ready to play. You don’t want to throw a guy in there right away. There’s a growing process,” said Shanahan. “Obviously, when you give up a couple of [interceptions] you want to get the guy in there as quickly as possible, but you want to do it at the right time and make sure he’s ready.”

In Brando’s view, it’s now or never for the embattled head coach.

“This is Shanahan’s last chance to get it right,” he asserted. “This was a wise decision because we’ve been losing for so long. Everyone is a ’Skin. It’s a happy day. Go ’Skins!” wi

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Residents Rally Against Cuts to Housing Programs

By Joseph Young WI Staff Writer A group of disgruntled citizens gathered outside the John A. Wilson Building in Northwest to lift their voices in protest against the city’s policies toward affordable housing. Specifically, protestors disapprove of Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s FY 2013 budget, they believe, gouges the affordable housing budget.

More than 100 demonstrators assembled under gray, overcast skies in mid-April to advocate on behalf of a budget they say can ill-afford to be cut at a time when the needs far outweigh any cuts city officials seek to make.

The mayor’s budget proposal includes millions in funding cuts to affordable housing programs for low-income and middle-income families. Other proposed cuts include the Home Purchase Assistance Program (HPAP), rent supplements and homeless services.

“We are here today because in the proposed D.C. budget there is $25 million in housing cuts even though there is an increasing need for affordable housing in the city. So we’re here to demonstrate our displeasure with that proposal,” said Elizabeth Falcon.

Falcon, 29, is a housing campaign organizer for the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development (CNHED) in Northwest, whose goal is to increase the amount of funding the District spends on affordable housing.

Falcon also said her organization worked with the mayor for months leading up to the release of his proposed budget in March. Talks centered on the value of the Housing Production Trust Fund, a program that is slated to be cut. Those talks, she said, “seem to have fallen on deaf ears.”

The District as well as the rest of the Washington metropolitan region, is emblematic of the severe difficulties residents face trying to find affordable housing.

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Elizabeth Falcon (left), campaign organizer for the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development, rallied outside the John A. Wilson Building in opposition to Mayor Gray’s budget proposal to cut more than $25 million infunding from affordable housing programs. /Courtesy photo by Joseph Young

Currently, 200,000 people in the region are paying more than 50 percent of their income on housing; the fair market price for rent in this marketplace has increased by 70 percent over the past 10 years; and 10,000 homeless people live here, an affordable housing expert said.

“It’s a severe problem,” said David C. Bowers, vice president and Washington, D.C. impact market leader for Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. in a recent interview. “We’ve lost affordable housing units in D.C. and Northern Virginia and as we have lost units, rents have increased and incomes have not kept pace.”

“There’s a huge need for additional public and private resources to house people at the low-and middle-income levels.

All housing is affordable but the

question is to whom? There is an under-supply of housing at lower income levels. People are paying more than the conventional guidelines, people are driving from far out to come to work.

People are making tough choices – do I buy food or medicine or pay my rent?”

Protestors held banners that read: “Housing for All” and “Where Will We Sleep?”

“The mayor is balancing the budget on the backs of the poor,” said Eric Sheptock, a homeless advocate, who attended the rally. “Affordable housing is the solution to homelessness.”

The demonstrators also heard from D.C. Council members who explained their policy proposals to create more units of affordable housing.

The speakers included Council members Jim Graham (D-

Ward 1); Marion Barry (D-Ward 8); Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7); and Michael Brown (I-AtLarge).

Brown said he welcomes new residents but not at the expense of existing residents. “…Yes, we love the expan-

sion of growth, economic development here in our city. We love the new residents that are coming in everyday to our city,” Brown said. “But that doesn’t mean that we have to kick out the folks who have been here for a long time to make room for the new folks,” he said. “[There has to be] the political will to [make sure] there are resources behind affordable housing.”

Brown, who said he is currently floating a plan with Council colleagues to halt cuts to the Housing Production Trust Fund, also said there are not enough affordable housing units.

Bowers also addressed the crowd.

“Housing for All!” “Housing for All!” “Housing for All!” Bowers chanted. “The mayor should know better than to send down a budget that does not provide real money for all of D.C’s residents.”

As if on cue, Sheptock shouted, “We are not going to end this fight until housing is a human right.” wi

More than 100 demonstrators showed up at the John A. Wilson Building in Northwest to voice their opposition to the mayor’s FY 2013 proposed budget cuts to housing programs. /Courtesy photo by Joseph Young

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Donte Manning’s Death Remains a Mystery

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For 45 days, tens of thousands of demonstrators in the U.S. and abroad marched to protest the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Trayvon, who was unarmed and returning from a nearby convenience store in Sanford, Fla., was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, 28.

The protests continued until Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder by a special prosecutor in April.

However, closer to home, there is still no resolution in the District of Columbia where a young boy was shot and killed by an unknown assailant in one of the highest profile cases of former Police Chief Charles Ramsey’s tenure.

More than seven years has passed since the shooting and subsequent death of 9-year-old Donte Manning but the Metropolitan Police Department is still seeking information that will lead to an arrest in the case.

Although Donte’s memory may have faded from the public consciousness, it still looms large to police and local writer Rose Marie Berger, 48, who authored the book, “Who Killed Donte Manning?” two years ago.

“Donte still haunts me,” said Berger of Columbia Heights in Northwest Washington. “Not as a ghost, but as an angel of conscience. His young life and his murder pricks our conscience as a city just like the murder of Trayvon Martin in Florida has turned a mirror to the violence at the soul of our nation.”

“The fact that his killer remains free means two things: the first is that there is a young man out there who lives with the murder of a child on his conscience, and he has not made amends to Donte’s family or to society for his actions.

The second is that violence is

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so endemic that police are not able or not willing in some cases to pursue justice,” Berger said.

Nowadays, the sidewalk and street in front of the historic Warner Apartments in the 2600 block of 13th Street NW – with only two remaining tenants – are quiet, dead quiet unlike the warm spring night of Thursday, March 24, 2005.

On that fateful night, a dozen children played out front, scampering back and forth as they chased each other. They were carefree. Their parents let them toss the football longer than usual because schools were closed the next day. Earlier that day, narcotics officers raided the unit of a suspected drug dealer, and arrested three individuals.

At 9:46 p.m., an unidentified individual appeared on the corner of 13th & Euclid Streets,

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pulled out a handgun and fired a volley of a half dozen gunshots up the block into the group of children.

Donte, a third- grade student at nearby Meyer Elementary School, was struck in the face.

The stray bullet lodged in the back of his skull. He was the only youngster pierced by a bullet. The shooter vanished.

On April 26, Donte died at Children’s National Medical Center in Northwest. His funeral at Shiloh Baptist Church drew nearly 500 mourners, many of them young children.

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Ward 5 Candidates Debate at New Samaritan

By Joy Freeman-Coulbary Special to WI

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he vacant seat left by Harry Thomas Jr. – who now faces four years in prison for embezzling more than $350,000 in public funds and filing false tax returns – has opened a window of opportunity for women.

“It’s time for a woman to represent Ward 5 on the [D.C.] Council, to take her seat at the table and fight for power and access. Black women were the cornerstone of the Civil Rights movement. We vote; we carry the mantel of the church; and now it’s time for a female council member to advocate on behalf of Ward 5,” said candidate Shelly Gardner, 55, an educator and lawyer, who contends that almost 30 years of the Thomas dynasty and several decades of patriarchal leadership in the ward has run its course.

Saturday, April 28, at the New Samaritan Baptist Church (NSBC) in Northeast, Kathy Henderson (D) and Raenelle Zapata (D) echoed Gardner’s sentiments regarding female leadership during the Ward 5 City Council Candidate Forum.

“In terms of leadership, women with our experience on the home front and high standards for public trust have always delivered,” Henderson said. Throughout the debate, she reminded the audience that she has a proven 14-year track record of government service. Henderson, a former ANC commissioner, has run for the Ward 5 council seat three times.

However, Drew Hubbard, a resident of the Woodridge neighborhood and the only male candidate who participated in the forum, reiterated his commitment to his ward and to public service.

“I would start a public and private literacy partnership for the many children and adults in the District who can’t read. Funding isn’t the problem; it’s how we spend the money. I’d invest in strong math, science and job training programs for Ward 5,” Hubbard said.

Hubbard, a Morehouse College and George Washington Law School graduate, explained how his early career as a staffer for Rep. Earl Hilliard (D-Ala.) and D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown, has prepared him for leadership in Ward 5.

“I’ve worked on the last eight budgets here in the city and have

Ward 5 candidate Drew Hubbard, 1st left, presents his platform at New Samaritan Baptist Church [NSBC] in Northeast during the Ward 5 City Council Candidate Forum on Saturday, April 28. Hubbard’s also joined by candidates, Shelly Gardner 2nd, Kathy Henderson 3rd, and Raenelle [Rae] Zapata.The debate was sponsored by NSBC and SamariCorp CDC. /Photo

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done direct constituent services.

As your councilman, I’d focus on affordable housing, improving the schools, workforce development, elder care, and public safety,” Hubbard told the group of 50 who attended the debate.

“To combat ethics violations and public corruption, we do not need to recreate the wheel and draft new laws. We need to enforce the ethics laws already on the books.”

Tim Day, the only Republican candidate running, who lives in Brookland and Ruth Marshall (D), director of Premier Consultants International, Inc., in Northwest did not attend.

Connie Spinner, moderator of the two-hour debate and dean of Workforce Development and Community Outreach for the Community College of the District of Columbia, said the other five candidates “did not meet the filing requirements to qualify for the [NSBC] debate.”

The lively debate kicked off with Bishop Michael V. Kelsey’s spirited introduction of the candidates which reminded the audience of the church’s legacy of community and public service.

“This is a chance for the church and the community to get together and raise relevant issues as we elect a new Ward 5 council member,” Kelsey said.

Currently, there are 11 candidates – including one Republican and an independent along with front-runners Delano Hunter, Kenyan McDuffie and Frank Wilds – who are vying for the hotly contested Ward 5 council seat.

During the debate, candidates fielded questions about education and training; public safety, government operations, economic and workforce development; health and human services;

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cated.

Henderson, who has a background in biology, adamantly opposes marijuana legalization.

“There is no scientifically proven medicinal purpose for marijuana,” Henderson said.

However, Hubbard appeared more open on the issue. “Ward 5 residents should have been included in the planning process.

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affordable housing, including keeping seniors in their homes; the alarming HIV/AIDS rate in D.C.; and parking for individuals who attend local churches in the District on Sundays.

Hubbard, 34, said that he would support a strong elected school board which would be fully active, and held accountable.

“I would put the authority back in the hands of the school board,” he said.

Gardner stressed her belief in strong neighborhood public schools and in shoring up elementary school education. “Learning is a lifelong process that will Denise Rolark Barnes keep D.C. residents competitive. I would fight for federally-mandatIndependent Beauty Consultant ed public charter schools to have www.marykay/drolark-barnes.com the right of first refusal for any 202-236-8831 public school building that is being sold by the city,” she said.

Zapata weighed in.

“I support a school board that has power. I identified the middle school crisis in Ward 5 and successfully negotiated to have two middle schools brought back to Ward 5. D.C. Public Schools are not on an even playing field with charter schools, as charter schools can pick and choose their students and D.C. Public Schools cannot,” said Zapata, 61.

All of the candidates opposed closing Spingarn Senior High School in Northeast, along with any notion of defacing its front yard for streetcar related construction.

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Scholars Bemoan ‘Unconscious Bias’ in the U.S.

By George Curry Special to The Washington Informer

Leading social justice scholars said that “unconscious bias” is a major obstacle for communities across the United States because negative racial stereotypes can unknowingly prompt discriminatory actions and attitudes impacting the lives of people of color.

At last week’s Healing for Democracy conference hosted by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), a panel – moderated by Maria Hinajosa, anchor and managing editor of NPR’s Latino USA – discussed the role that unconscious bias plays in access to employment opportunities, school discipline action, immigration, health care access, criminal justice and social opportunities for African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-American and Pacific Islanders and Native Americans.

Hinojosa said it is “irrefutable” what is happening in America today. “We are clearly becoming a more multicultural, multiracial, mixed country. That is the future.”

But she noted that the changing demographics are causing tension and fear among the majority.

“There’s an element of unconsciousness there, but there’s also an element of consciousness which is saying – at this moment I’m in the world of being a nonHispanic Anglo…I don’t want to become a minority,” she said.

David Williams, professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University,

“How is it possible that for the best trained medical workforce in the world to produce… care that appears to be so discriminatory?

The answer: unconscious discrimination.”

-David Williams, professor of African and African-American Studies, Harvard University

documented that when Latinos and African Americans were treated by physicians for a broken bone in their leg, they received pain medication significantly less often than white patients with the same injury.

“How on earth do we make sense of this?” Williams asked.

“How is it possible that for the best trained medical workforce in the world to produce… care that appears to be so discriminatory? The answer: unconscious discrimination. Research shows that when one holds a negative stereotype about a group and meets someone from that group, without their conscious awareness, it is an unconscious process and it is automatic. They will treat that person differently and honestly not know that they did it.”

Williams noted that most Americans would resist a label saying they are discriminating, but he added, “Welcome to the human race. It is a normal process about how all of us process information.

The problem for our society is that the level of negative stereotypes is very high.”

Understanding the power of unconscious bias has emerged as a new mission for leaders and advocates working to bring racial healing and racial equity to communities across the U.S. Gail Christopher, vice president for program strategy at the Kellogg Foundation, explained that centuries of a racial hierarchy in America has left its mark on our

society, especially pertaining to how people of color are perceived by whites.

“Our society assigns value to groups of people,” she said. “It is a process that is embedded in the consciousness of Americans and impacted by centuries of bias.”

During the conference, held April 24-27, panelists shared insights demonstrating how people make unconscious decisions. Phillip Goff, assistant psychology professor at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), showed examples of how law enforcement officials can be motivated by unconscious bias not only to race, but also to what they perceive as threats to their masculinity.

Moreover, Rachel Godsil, director of research for the American Values Institute, maintained that many Americans believe that racism no longer exists and want to

be colorblind and not even discuss race. “That is an illusion and not what people of color are looking for,” Godsil said.

John Powell, director of the Haas Center for Diversity and Inclusion and Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion at the University of California Berkeley, closed the session sharing several examples of how our mind looks at pictures, images and the world around us, and the impact on our unconscious.

He said, “The fact that we have these deep, unconscious biases – and it’s conflicted around race … we can be primed to be racially fair, we can be primed to be racially anxious – and it doesn’t make us a racist. It makes us human. And if we’re going to address it, we have to acknowledge that.”wi

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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor Convicted of War Crimes in Sierra Leone Taylor’s Daughter Defends Her Dad

By Robtel Neajai Pailey Special to The Washington Informer

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harles Taylor only smiled once during the court hearing in the Netherlands before he was found guilty of aiding and abetting during the bloody civil war in Sierre Leone.

Looking up, the warlord, who became Liberia’s president before he was finally convicted on Thursday, April 26, for helping bring about years of terror in neighboring Sierra Leone, beamed when he caught the eye of his daughter.

Sharon, or “Lady Ghankay” as she is also called, had followed the proceedings from the public gallery, sitting at the edge of her seat. Separated from her father by a wall of transparent glass, she watched as her father faced justice, somber and pale, his head slightly bowed, burgundy tie limply hanging from his neck, and three deep horizontal lines crossing his forehead.

At the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Justice Richard Lussick read the verdict to about 80 spellbound listeners. During a four-year trial prosecutors at the United Nations-backed tribunal in The Hague have documented the terror committed by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), which Taylor supported.

Between 1996 and 2002, RUF rebels rampaged Sierre Leone, killing, maiming, and raping civilians. The horror stories are well known: limbs were amputated, lips were cut off, pregnant women were cut open, their fetuses torn from their wombs. Children were kidnapped and drugged, employed as child soldiers or mine guards, and forced to commit atrocities themselves.

Brenda Hollis, the chief prosecutor, called the judgment against Taylor “historic,” saying it reinforced “a new reality: that heads of state will be held to account for war crimes and other international crimes.”

Taylor’s lawyer, Courtenay Griffiths, meanwhile argued that by finding against the leader of a “small, weak, poor country” in Africa, the international criminal justice system had “set “an

International she said, listened to the music she liked, including her favorite song by slain rapper Tupac Shakur, “The Rose that Grew from Concrete.”

When Sharon graduated from a high school in Geneva, Switzerland, he reveled in her success, she recalled. “My dad is my best friend. There’s nothing that I can hide from him. There’s nothing that I do hide from him. Every single one of us, he’s involved in our lives in every way, shape and form.”

During the trial, she visited her father and tried to take his mind off the proceedings. “We would just talk about things that were fun,” she said. “I would never want to focus on the trial with him because it was depressing.”

(There is more to this story. Visit washingtoninformer.com to read it all or visit the source: Newsweek-Daily Beast http://www.thedailybeast. com/articles/2012/04/27/warcriminal-charles-taylor-s-daughter-defends-her-dad.html.) wi

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unwelcome precedent.” Charles Taylor, Griffiths said, had not been a warmonger but a peacemaker, who had attempted to protect the integrity of Liberia’s borders.

The judges, though, found that while Taylor had publicly promoted peace as a standing head of state of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), he had undermined that same peace process by providing arms and ammunition to the RUF and fuelling hostilities in Sierra Leone.

When asked about her father’s involvement in Sierra Leone’s civil war, Sharon Taylor defended her dad. “Being the leader of a nation…that comes with huge responsibility, and of course we never have control over our subordinates,” she said. “When you’re in such a position, it’s quite vulnerable.”

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lor described him as an “amazing father.” “My dad is awesome. He’s fun. He’s vibrant.”

The special tribunal found Taylor guilty on 11 counts, saying he provided sustained support for the rebels as they committed atrocities in the neighboring country. The court also found that Taylor participated in the planning of attacks, including one on the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown.

“I’m obviously saddened,” said Sharon Taylor in response to the verdict. But, she added, “our family’s faith in the Almighty is strong.” She also described Charles Taylor as dedicated to his family and an “amazing father.” “My dad is awesome. He’s fun. He’s vibrant.”

To illustrate his involvement with his children, Sharon recalled a trip she took with Taylor to Ethiopia when she was a gawky teenager. Her father, The Washington Informer

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Race and Public Safety Focus of Town Hall Meeting

By Gale Horton Gay WI Staff Writer

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he complex issue of race relations and public safety took center stage last week during a town hall gathering at Charles Herbert Flowers High School in Springdale, Md. Coordinated by the Office of the State’s Attorney for Prince George’s County, the two-hour event, which attracted an audience of about 100, covered

broad territory with moments of enthusiastic applause.

Angela Alsobrooks, state’s attorney for Prince George’s County, said at the forum which took place on April 26, that there’s a delicate balance between preventing crime and protecting the public.

“It’s a tough job officers have protecting the community,” Alsobrooks said.

“Although tonight is not about Trayvon Martin [the teenager who was shot and killed by

a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla.], we believe we have an excellent opportunity to talk about race and public safety,” she said. “We all are interested in moving forward.”

The evening’s dialogue, moderated by Michael Higginbotham, dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law, covered relationship building between residents and the police, legislative efforts to address public safety issues, how the church and a civil rights group view their

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roles and the responsibilities of members of the community.

Panelists included Alsobrooks; Mark Magaw, Prince George’s County (PGC) police chief; Craig Howard, PGC deputy police chief; Joseline Pena-Melnyd, Maryland House delegate for District 21; Cheye Calvo, mayor of Berwyn Heights; Tony Lee, senior pastor of Community of Hope AME Church, and Bob Ross, president of the PGC Branch of the NAACP. Several panelists made references to the Trayvon case in Florida ranging from how Florida and Maryland laws differ to how the investigation was handled. While Maryland does not have a stand-your-ground law similar to Florida’s, it does have the Castle doctrine which provides civil immunity if there is a death or injury while an individual is defending their home or dwelling, according to several panelists.

Pena-Melnyd said legislators deal with a number of prospective bills each session concerning public safety, law enforcement and the judicial system. She added that the Black Caucus attempts to be proactive concerning law and justice.

One question posed by an audience member concerned what the community can do to increase trust and respect.

Ross responded that getting more involved is crucial.

“A lot of policing you can do yourself with a kind word,” Ross said. “Learn to be a better neighbor and friend.”

Alsobrooks said individuals should respect the judicial system and embrace their part in it, such as serving on juries and being witnesses. People complain about being called for jury duty but if it were outlawed there would be public outcry, she said.

Two of the panelists – Calvo and Lee – briefly shared lessthan-positive run-ins with law enforcement. Last year, Calvo settled a lawsuit with Prince George’s County resulting from a 2008 incident in which a sheriff ’s department SWAT team stormed his house and shot his dogs. Out of the settlement, reforms in how officers conduct such operations are being addressed, Calvo said.

“We need to have more transparency on how police are doing their jobs, why it takes years to fire a rogue police officer,” Calvo said. “The answers are ugly and we need to shine some light on it.”

Magaw acknowledged incidents such as the one Calvo described as “making us better. Procedures are being put in place that are going to make us better.”

He said that during the past 18 months, eight people in the police department have been fired and that he does not tolerate violation of the rights and trust of the community.

Magaw said the Prince George’s police of 2012 is markedly different from decades ago.

“If we make a mistake, we are willing to fix it,” Magaw said.

Craig pointed out the diversity of the current force and the numerous partnerships and relationships that have been established.

“I am very proud of this police department,” Craig said. “I could not sit here in good conscience and listen to some of the things being said. It’s not the same as in ’75, ’85, ’95. Most complaints are not about police officers and race relations.”

The audience responded with enthusiastic applause.

Ross said that with about 30 other police departments in Prince George’s County, it’s difficult to monitor all of them.

Other municipalities’ failings often reflect badly on Prince George’s County police, he said.

“We have tried to make sure we are transparent,” Magaw said.

Toward the end of the program, a woman interrupted the discussion and said that three years ago her son was shot multiple times by law enforcement officials who were exonerated of wrongdoing. Alsobrooks expressed sympathy for the woman’s loss and said she was willing to meet with her privately. The chief said he would meet with the woman too.

Higginbotham told the crowd that the forum was a positive initiative.

“This is something unique,” he said. “It’s not something [that] gets done in every jurisdiction.

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Volunteers Bring Christmas Joy in April

By Gale Horton Gay WI Staff Writer Geraldine Hawkins experienced a home invasion of the very best kind.

Hordes of volunteers descended on Hawkins’ Capitol Heights home last Saturday with one goal in mind: to repair, paint, plant, clean, declutter and organize areas of her home of 30 years.

“God is good,” said Hawkins as she sat in her living room chatting with two volunteers who were busy folding sheets and organizing her linen closet. “It’s fantastic. I don’t even have the words.”

Hawkins was counted among one of 86 elderly and disabled homeowners in Prince George’s County chosen to be a part of the county’s 24th Annual Christmas in April program.

Since 1989, Prince George’s County Christmas in April has repaired and renovated more than 2,000 homes and donated more than $35 million in supplies and service for repairs.

“We are excited to be assisting the 86 homeowners we have chosen this year,” said Prince George’s County Christmas in April Executive Director Mary Kuchaski. “With the county’s continued support, and the many county organizations that help us, we look forward to celebrating our 25th anniversary next year.”

Hawkins, 93, appeared overwhelmed by the magnitude of the volunteer effort. One of her neighbors who lives a few houses down the street – Queen Covington – was also a Christmas in April recipient.

Workers repaired her roof, while others were in her yard and inside the home engaged in a number of fix-up and straighten-up projects.

“I’ve never seen so many people that were willing to give their time without pay. I thank God,” Hawkins said.

Early on Saturday morning Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker, III

and his wife Christa Beverly Baker stopped by to lend a helping hand planting flowers.

Many staff members of Baker’s office also signed up to do volunteer work at the home.

Hawkins said she told Baker that if the flowers died she was going to “come and find you.”

Peggy Morris and Lori Valentine folded sheets and chatted with Hawkins while volunteer Christopher Plummer, a contractor by trade, removed flooring in one of the bathrooms.

Plummer of Washington, D.C., said his father has been volunteering with the program for years and he decided to pitch in this year.

“It’s good,” said Plummer.

“You’ve got to give. It [isn’t] all about receiving. I wish I could do it two or three times a year.”

Valentine said she believes in letting “her light shine. I would want somebody to do this for my mother … I would want someone to do this for me.”

Outside, Maryland District 25 Delegate Dereck Davis said he was “just trying to do my civic duty” as he took a break from assisting with landscaping.

Terry Lawlah and three members of the Tipsy Rose Garden Club also helped spruce up the yard.

“Volunteering is underrated in terms of what it does for the soul,” said Lawlah as she sprayed weeds in the walkway leading to Hawkins’ home.

Baker was scheduled to also visit Christmas in April homes in Seat Pleasant with the First Baptist Church of Glenarden and in Landover Hills with the Prince George’s County Fire Department.

“Hundreds of Prince George’s County employees are once again volunteering to help Christmas in April repair and renovate the homes of some of our neediest residents and neighbors,” Baker said.wi

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By WI Staff The DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID) has released its 2011 State of Downtown report, which shows Downtown and DC ended the year on a strong note, generating employment and population growth, positive office space absorption, record hotel results, and increased property values.

Overall, DowntownDC and the Golden Triangle BIDs contributed an estimated $846 million in local tax and other revenues to the city, a net fiscal benefit which pays for the city’s traditional public school budget and other social programs.

“The year was remarkable,” said Steven Jumper, director of corporate public policy for WGL Holdings, and chairman of the DowntownDC BID. “Two capstone projects—Phase I of CityCenterDC and the Marriott Marquis convention center headquarters hotel—were well underway as of year-end. Both developments will transform Downtown and DC in ways never before seen, create 4,600 permanent jobs and add multiple millions—about $50 million this year—to the city’s coffers.”

The State of Downtown report is published annually to update public and private decision-makers on the historical, current and projected performance of the major sectors of the DowntownDC BID area and DC economies: development, employment, office, green buildings, population, housing, hospitality, tourism, culture, entertainment, restaurants, retail, and transportation.

Some 2011 report highlights: zz DC employment grew by 15,900, or 2.2%. BID area employment grew by 1,000, or 0.5%, thanks primarily to LivingSocial, which plans to add another 1,000 employees over the next five years. zz DC added 16,000 new residents last year, while the BID area’s population grew by nearly 100. All told, 674 housing units are now under construction in the BID area, versus 6,100 in Central DC. zz Office absorption was 150,000 SF in the BID area and 1.9 million SF for all

building types throughout DC, compared to negative absorption for all building types in Suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia. zz BID area hotels set records in occupancy, room rates, revenue per available room, and revenues, while DC set records in all categories except room rates. zz Downtown’s retail strength was highlighted by its first $200-plus per SF retail lease signing, and interest in CityCenterDC’s 185,000 SF of retail space. zz Despite cuts in federal funding, Downtown theater attendance was at its second highest level in eight years.

As stated in the report, DC’s commercial property and income taxes and tax rates are substantially greater than its regional competitors. In addition, Downtown, the Center City and DC face significant regional competition as Suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia make investments to create “urban places” that compete with Downtown and DC on amenities as well as costs. Furthermore, based on current regional development capacity, the region could grow by 15-20 million SF a year for 25 years without any growth in DC. “The near- and long-term regional competitive threats are real,” said Richard Bradley, executive director of the DowntownDC BID. “Although DC has many competitive advantages—including proximity to the federal government, excellent public transit, and numerous cultural, entertainment and dining amenities— the city must continue to invest in Downtown, Center City and other key projects such as St. Elizabeth’s East Campus, Skyland and McMillan Reservoir—to continue to attract and retain businesses to grow employment and population, which are needed to increase tax revenues to fund the city’s progressive social agenda.”

DowntownDC BID is a private non-profit organization that provides capital improvements, resources and research. wi (Read more about this story and the report at washingtoninformer.com.

You also can visit the DowntownDC BID website at www.downtowndc. org/state.) www.washingtoninformer.com

business Business Exchange

The Auto Industry’s Comeback Continues The Obama 2012 campaign slogan should be “Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.”

President Barack Obama’s role in the death of bin Laden troubles some, but his decision early in his presidency to extend billions in loans to General Motors and Chrysler has paid off. More than two years ago, the American auto industry teetered on the brink of collapse. Now, it has rebounded and has started to make vehicles for America’s future.

Plants are hiring more workers, manufacturers are returning to profitability, exports of U.S. vehicles are increasing and some of the most technologically advanced vehicles are now being designed and produced in this country. The $80 billion bailout was President Obama’s “bet on the American worker” and there have been ample signs of success in the automotive industry since Obama’s bailout.

The news coming out of the U.S. automotive industry has been good for Black Americans.

The automotive industry’s financial crisis was more devastating for African Americans than any other community and eroded a half-century’s economic gains by the Black middle class. From Blacks who left behind subsistent jobs in the South for highpaying factory jobs in the North during the Great Migration, to entrepreneurs and contractors in automotive businesses, the automotive industry has been a major factor in the formation of the Black middle class. In 1945, Blacks comprised 15 percent of the automobile industry workforce, by the late 1970s, “one of every 50 African Americans was working in the auto sector.” From 1979 to 2007, Black employment in the auto industry fell to one in 100.

Black Americans greeted President Obama’s 2012 Washington Auto Show announcement that “the U.S. auto industry is back” with great anticipation. After hitting a 30-year low in 2009, U.S. auto sales are poised for a www.washingtoninformer.com

By William Reed second straight year of growth – the result of easier credit, low interest rates and pent-up demand for cars and trucks created by the recession.

Black groups and activist should move to forge increased employment, contracting and community partnerships with U.S.-based auto manufacturers as they crank up their factories and add thousands of jobs. In addition to the expanded plant operations and employment opportunities occurring among Detroit’s Big Three, foreign-owned auto companies such as Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Hyundai, Kia, Volkswagen and BMW have invested $44 billion into their U.S. operations to account for 80,000 direct vehicle-manufacturing jobs and 500,000 dealer and supplier jobs.

Automotive manufacturing can help Blacks. The industry is adding jobs at a faster pace than airplane manufacturers, shipbuilders, health care providers and the federal government.

Americans spent $40 billion more on new cars and trucks in 2011 than in 2009. The momentum in auto sales is likely to continue because people need to replace aging cars, of which the average age is 11 years old. A substantive number of Americans are feeling more comfortable about their employment outlook and where they’re going. Domestic vehicle sales are expected to reach 17 million around 2018 as 70 million “Millennials” – born between 1981 and 2000 – buy cars and set up modern households. These customer purchases will generate manufacturing activities that have the potential of reviving long distressed populations and industrial sectors. Increasing manufacturing can turn longsuffering Rust Belt cities like Anderson, Ind., Youngstown, Ohio, Lansing, Mich., and Kokomo and Elkhart-Goshen, Ind., into

revived and fast-growing cities. The industry’s growth enhances Black Americans’ jobs and contracting opportunities.

It’s time Blacks take Obama’s bold “bailout move” to the next level. Innovation through education and research is vital to building a manufacturing economy. Creating a qualified workforce of technicians and engineers is essential to ensuring future success of America’s automotive industries. Black lead-

ers and teachers must make sure workers have the skills they need for jobs today and in the future.

We need to train our people with skills that will lead to jobs for them. Above politics, we each need to engage in development programs and policies that help people get and hold jobs. wi (William Reed is head of the Business Exchange Network and available for speaking/seminar projects via the Bailey Group.org)

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School Without Walls student Kristin Ellis remembers being in class, looking through a hefty history book and seeing a paltry six pages in the entire tome detailing African-American history.

She, like other student colleagues, wondered how a people with such a rich and vibrant history could be overlooked and ignored. But rather than sit and mope, a cadre of students from Ballou Senior High School and School Without Walls decided to do something to change the status quo and paradigm.

Under the tutelage of their professor Bernard Demczuk, the students developed a project called The Spirit of Black DC. This is a one-stop, studentdriven research and interactive media website designed to put a mélange of the city’s history at people’s fingertips.

On April 17, well over 100 guests packed into The African American Civil War Museum in Northwest to mark the launch of the repository of the city’s The Washington Informer

black history.

“I think the very strong turnout is indicative of the importance of preserving, protecting, defending and celebrating D.C.’s rich, diverse and extensive black history,” said Demczuk, a scholar of AfricanAmerican history who teaches at School Without Walls and Ballou. “This shows that black history isn’t just for black people, it’s for everybody.”

“It really reflects the soul of our city. One of the things I’m always impressed with is that all Washingtonians are impressed when they see, hear, feel and experience black history.”

Demczuk, who also teaches at George Washington University, said he wants those who might otherwise be unaware of different elements of black history to gain a greater appreciation for a history that is too often hidden or ignored.

“The energy in this room was terrific. There was good food and good music and now we’ll do the good hard work,” he said.

Demczuk said the best part of the project is that the students are paid $15 an hour to

research and write 34 projects.

They are mentored by Ph.D.s who help them research and publish each project. The projects are categorized according to topic, so for example, there is the Charles Hamilton Hilton Project that will highlight prominent African-American lawyers; the Josh Gibson Project to identify, analyze and research the exploits of black athletes; and the Asa Philip Randolph Project which will delve into unions and the considerable impact they have had on improving the lives of low-income and middle-class Americans, black and otherwise.

“I’m raising money to pay our students to uncover and report the amazing history we have here in this city,” said Demczuk. “It’s a great learning experience for the young people. That’s what I like about this.”

Demczuk raised more than $10,000 in an impromptu fundraiser toward the end of the event. wi (To read more of this story, visit us online at www.washingtoninformer. com.) www.washingtoninformer.com

HEALTH

New Anacostia Health Center Opens in Southeast

By John Muller WI Staff Writer

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porting a Dallas Cowboys hat, a brace on his left leg, and crutches to support his six-foot frame, Antwan Williams recently visited Unity Health Care’s new Anacostia Health Center on Galen Street in Southeast, a stone’s throw away from the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site. The former Anacostia Health Center in the World War II era Quonset hut on W Street is now officially closed.

Williams, 54, who lives in Northeast continues to recover from trauma sustained during the 2007 Unifest incident in which a woman on drugs barreled through the crowd in her car, striking nearly 50 people including women, children, and Williams. Despite multiple surgeries and ongoing treatment Williams’ spirits remain high.

“I’m feeling better today,” Williams said. “The service over here is one 120 percent better than what it was on W Street. No crowds. It was in and out.”

On his way out the door, a physician reminded Williams that if he needed anything to not hesitate to call. He said he wouldn’t.

Jewel Simms visited the new Anacostia Health Center for the first time on Monday, April 30.

The home health care aide said the new location was far more convenient since she lives in Historic Anacostia. Now, she can get her annual check-ups closer to home. Simms, 50, previously relied on Unity’s center on Minnesota Avenue in Northeast for the majority of her primary care needs.

Simms praised the expanded Anacostia facility saying, “We need a community clinic here.

The added space should really help,” she said.

“The W Street clinic was kind of cramped. I would use it only in cases of a personal emergency for myself or my children,” Simms said.

With 26 additional exam rooms, three additional dental chairs, and an increase in square footage nearly four times that of the W Street clinic, the Anacostia Health Center, built by Forrester Construction, will be a second home to more than 80

full-time employees. According to estimates provided by Unity, nearly 17,000 patients will collectively make more than 47,000 visits by 2014 to the new center.

Unity offers high quality care services regardless of ability to pay while also treating individuals with public and private insurance plans.

With the opening of the Galen Street facility, the services of Unity’s Reentry Center at 1604 Morris Road in Southeast on the grounds of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church and Unity’s Women, Infants, and Children Program are now contained under one roof.

However, Unity’s Good Hope Road Health Center nearby will remain open.

Monies to complete the new $20 million clinic came from multiple sources including Medical Homes DC, a city initiative to build primary care centers in underserved communities, the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and a share of the city’s 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. The DC Primary Care Association led the effort by securing 75 percent of the financing, $15 million, with Unity providing the remaining 25 percent, $5 million, to complete the project that first started in 2006.

“The transition from the old Anacostia Health Center located on W Street to our new location at 1500 Galen Street has been seamless,” said Vincent A. Keane, president and CEO of Unity.

“Unity has taken significant measures to ensure that all of our patient base and the community as a whole have been informed of the move and that staff were properly trained and well equipped to take on this massive undertaking. We are excited about our future in this new location and we know that the community is excited as well.”

A ribbon cutting for the new Anacostia Health Center is planned for Monday, May 7 at 1 p.m. Elected officials and the community are invited to participate in an open house following the transfer of the building’s title and land from the DC Primary Care Association to Unity for the grand total of one dollar. wi

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HIV/AIDS Conference Coming to DC

The 2012 International AIDS Conference, scheduled for July 2227, is quickly headed to Washington, D.C. and for the first time since its inception more than 19 years ago, the conference will be hosted in the United States.

More than 20,000 people from over 200 countries who are HIV/ AIDS advocates, policy makers and people living with the HIV virus, along with 2,000 journalists, will come to the nation’s capital.

In addition to discussing lessons learned over the many years of fighting this disease, many participants are coming on a mission to move the world closer to a cure for AIDS. They also will be looking forward to hearing from this country’s leaders. There is an ongoing need for the United States to continue demonstrating to the world its unwavering determination to fund HIV/AIDS medical research, testing programs, treatment, prevention and education leading to the end of the world pandemic. It’s a huge request, but hope and optimism are high that the world is near the beginning of the end of the AIDS epidemic.

Participants also know that D.C. is “ground zero” for the biennial conference because of the impact HIV is having on local residents.

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray believes the conference could not have come at a better time and the event will allow world HIV advocates a critical view of the local resources available to address the crisis in the District.

We are proud of the efforts D.C. residents in the HIV community are making to assure the success of the conference. It is a historic event that no one – senior citizens, adults, youths and children – should miss. If nothing more, it will help to destroy the stigma that people living with HIV deal with every day, as they see people from around the world working together and sharing strategies to put an end to the AIDS pandemic.

The Washington Informer has demonstrated its commitment to inform our readers about HIV/AIDS beginning with its first supplement dedicated to the issue published in 1989. We will be at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center to report on the conference and strongly urge our readers…if you care, be there, too.

D.C. Council Drops the Ball

D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown (D) agreed to a proposal

by D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray that the city should pay its workers for furlough days that were ordered as a result of a then shortfall in the District budget. But the D.C. Council this week voted not to go along with the leadership and that was a mistake.

D.C. government employees were not paid for Presidents Day, Emancipation Day, Memorial Day and Independence Day in 2011.

Surprise surpluses that were generated during the latter part of 2011 made it possible for D.C. employees to get what they are due.

The cost to the city is $22 million and is the central part of a $64 million supplemental budget that was submitted to the D.C. Council

by Gray. While there has been wrangling about whether it should be just two days instead of four days, good common sense appeared to be winning out not only because of the power of the public employees unions but a feeling that the city is in good enough shape fiscally to do the payout. The failure of the council to approve the Brown and Gray deal shows they are not interested in what District government employees need. They are only interested in scoring political points and in making the cities top political leaders look bad.

The District is unique among American cities and even states--it is looking good financially. Some cities and states are near bankruptcy or are in no shape to give their employees even cost-of-living adjustments.

Brown showed fine leadership when he said he would not take his pay and he covertly encouraged his colleagues on the D.C. Council to do the same. Unfortunately, District residents won’t be able to fully appreciate that because of the short-sightedness of the majority of D.C. Council members.

D.C. government employees and District residents deserve better.

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A Healthier Alternative

Thanks for the article on the Farmers Market on Branch Avenue. I am really glad to hear that it has reopened. We need more markets in this area that sell fresh fruits and vegetables.

With all the news about the alarming rate of Type 2 Diabetes, especially in our young children, everyone should be shopping there. We need more education in the community on the benefits of eating fresh fruits and vegetables to help break our addiction to all this fast food.

Maybe the Washington Informer can list each week the locations of farmers markets in the area, I think that would be very helpful. Continue your good work, Informer.

Loretta Milton Washington, D.C.

Parental Involvement Matters

I think I have read almost all of the articles that have appeared in your paper over the past two years about D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson. For the first time, in the article written by James Wright, “Henderson, Gray Introduce New Plan for D.C. Schools,” April 26, 2012, she actually admits that there has to be parental involvement to help improve our schools.

What gets me is why did it take so long for her to see that?

If she had taken the time to look at the schools in the District that are better performing, she would have seen they have strong parental involvement. Or maybe it took her that long because she had to wait on some out-of-town think tank to do a study to find it out! Ms. Henderson, we can’t wait any longer, so let’s stop beating around the bush. Parents are the key to our students’ success!

Some of the charter schools require parents to participate, and their children do better in their classes, so let’s get going. In

the District we pay a high price for not making parents accountable. Requiring them to participate in the education of their children is not too much to ask.

I believe most will step up to the plate.

Robert Wiley Washington, D.C.

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Guest Columnist

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.

The Time is Right for Reparations For more than 45 million black Americans, there are many issues that unite or divide us. Undoubtedly, the issue of reparations for African people in general and in particular for black Americans is an issue began as a divisive topic but now receives support from a board cross-section of blacks in America.

Of course, there are some who wanted to table a national discussion of reparations in the

aftermath of the election of President Barack H. Obama.

Yet, there were many others who have argued that now is the most propitious time to accelerate the national dialogue about reparations because there is a “brother” in the White House.

This is a pivotal year because of the November elections. Any issue that is related to race will be used by those who oppose to President Obama. The goal of conservatives is to polarize American voters to vote their racial prejudice instead of voting

their conscience about the future of the nation as an inclusive participatory democracy.

Given the recent polarization around the calls for equal justice and fairness in the Trayvon Martin killing, it would be naïve to think that race will not play a factor in the upcoming elections.

The truth is race is just not a problem that crept onto the national scene accidentally. Race has been a social, economic, and political problem in America for more than 200 years. This is nothing new. What is new,

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however, is how the victims of racism see themselves, and how the perpetrators of racism view themselves.

Fortunately, renowned legal scholars such as Harvard’s Charles Ogletree and others have articulated a rational defense for reparations, which would be therapeutic not only for black Americans, but also for all Americans.

I have consistently supported the call and the demand for reparations that go beyond whatever monetary compensation. Repa-

rations are also about “repairing the damage” that was done to millions of African people, not just in America, but in the Caribbean, Central and South America, in Africa and throughout the rest of the world.

The United Nations is slowly working on establishing a permanent memorial to the victims of the infamous trans-Atlantic slave trade. In Washington, D.C., the construction of the African American Museum has begun.

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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux

Students with Loans Deserve the ‘Corporate’ Treatment President Barack Obama hit a home run when he traveled to three colleges last week: the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Iowa. Though Republicans called it a campaign trip to swing states, the fact is that, at the cusp of graduation season, President Obama did the right thing to share his feelings on legislation that would either

increase the interest rate on subsidized Stafford student loans or take money from essential women’s health programs to maintain the 3.4 percent interest rate.

In rallying students, President Obama is reminding them that their fate is in his hands. An increase in the Stafford loan program would affect 7.4 million students. Cutting $5.6 billion from women’s health programs would affect millions of women.

Pitting women’s health against lower student loan rates makes

no sense. We could make headway if we treated students the same way we treat corporations.

In the wake of the bank bailout, banks qualified for low-interest and even no-interest loans.

Students have always had to pay their share, and in this economy, a 3.4 percent interest rate can hardly be considered low interest. Now, if nothing is done, the rate can rise to 6.8 percent, and 7.4 million students will be affected. This is hardly compatible with President Obama’s pledge

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to make our nation, once again, a leader in the educational arena.

Higher interest rates for student loans are a step backwards, often discouraging students from attending or continuing college, or extending the time it takes for them to finish degrees.

This is especially true for African American, working class, and first-generation students.

The average college graduate leaves school with $25,000 of student loan debt, the average African- American student with

“We call on your companies to stop supporting ALEC’s reckless agenda, which harms the communities in which you do business.” – March 26 letter to ALEC’s corporate sponsors from United Republic, Rebuild the Dream, Color of Change and the Center for Media and Democracy Last week, the civil rights community and Americans of conscience won a major victory

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By Marc H. Morial

ALEC Should Support Voter Measures and Repeal of ‘Kill at Will’ against the corporately-funded conservative policy group that supported the “Stand Your Ground” law responsible for delaying the arrest of Trayvon Martin’s killer. This same group is behind dozens of voter ID laws that are jeopardizing the voting rights of millions of Americans.

On April 17, after an exodus of major corporate sponsors, prompted by pressure from a coalition of progressive and civil rights organizations, including the National Urban League, the American Legislative Exchange

even more. The time it takes to complete college has inched up, partly because students drop out a semester or two to gather funds and partly because some college have been forced to cut faculty so much that essential courses are not offered frequently enough. Students are shouldering a bigger burden on their student loans, and colleges, are also burdened when state legislatures apply drastic cuts to higher

Council (ALEC) officially ended its involvement in these issues, saying in part, “We are eliminating the ALEC public safety and elections task force that dealt with non economic issues…”

Corporate support, which ranges from $7,000 to $25,000 in annual dues to the organization, began to wither in the wake of the public outcry against Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, which shields a gunman from prosecution simply by claiming a suspicion that his or her life was in danger. George Zimmerman

made that claim to Sanford, Fla. police officers who incredulously did not arrest him following the February 26 shooting death of the unarmed, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

While presenting itself as an organization that promotes legislation that serves the financial interests of its corporate funders, ALEC has used its close ties to conservative state legislators to sponsor similar “Kill at Will” laws in 30 states – and the tragic body count is growing. In Florida alone, since the law was

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passed in 2005, that state’s “justifiable homicide” rate has jumped 300 percent.

The organization has also supported dozens of unnecessary voter ID laws across the country that may keep as many as 5 million citizens from exercising their right to vote in this all important election year.

In rallies, letters, and social media outreach, the civil rights community reminded ALEC’s corporate sponsors, including

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Child Watch©

By Marian Wright Edelman

Safe Harbor for the Homeless Five-year-old Kamari and his 3-year-old brother, Shamarr, clown around in the dining room of the YWCA Family Center in Columbus, Ohio. They and their mother, Stekeshia Harris, slept on cots in the shelter’s library for their first three nights there because there were so many homeless families needing shelter, a 330 percent increase from two years ago.

“We’ve been in overflow for more than a year,” said Gin-

ger Young, the center’s director of housing programs. She said homelessness is known to trail recession by two years.

“The economy tanks. People are laid off. They go through their savings if they have savings.

They lose their house—eviction, foreclosure. They sell their stuff.

They live with so and so until their welcome runs out. Then it’s either the car or us.”

The YWCA Family Center is an emergency shelter, and for months, mothers, fathers, and children have appeared at the

door in record numbers and at all hours carrying bags of clothing and a few favorite toys. The center’s policy is not to turn people away, so employees add cots everywhere they can find space.

That’s where Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Julia Cass met the Harris family while on assignment for the Children’s Defense Fund.

As in Young’s scenario, Stekeshia Harris’ hard times began with a layoff. She was working at a group home for adults with intellectual disabilities, pri-

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marily cooking, cleaning, and bathing the residents and earning $8 an hour when she became pregnant with her second child, Shamarr. The group home shocked her by letting her go.

“They were afraid I would fall and I couldn’t pick up the clients anymore. I was really upset because I thought I could handle it,” she said. That was more than three years ago.

After Shamarr was born, Stekeshia didn’t get the job back as she’d hoped. The boys’ father helped out for a while but then

left. She babysat for other children and made a little money that way. She began receiving food stamps. She signed up with a temporary agency and worked some days here, some days there, nothing steady. “I put in a lot of applications but it’s hard,” she said. Eventually she fell behind in paying rent and faced eviction.

Her sister helped her with the rent as long as she could. When she couldn’t afford to keep helping, she allowed Stekeshia and

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By George E. Curry

Media Ignores Success of Food Stamps

The Department of Agriculture recently issued a report showing that food stamps, one of the nation’s largest safety net programs, are also one of the most effective. Food stamps were responsible for reducing the prevalence of poverty by an annual average of 4.4 percent from 2000 to 2009, according to the report, Alleviating Poverty in the United States: The Critical Role of

SNAP Benefits.

SNAP, an acronym for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, was formerly called the Food Stamps Program.

According to the study, SNAP’s antipoverty effect was strongest in 2009 when benefits were increased under President Obama’s stimulus package, also known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. That year, SNAP befits reduced the poverty rate by nearly 8 percent and the depth of child poverty by 20.9 percent.

That’s startling news. It’s also news you may have easily missed.

Media Matters, the watchdog group, reported that a week after the release of the study on April 9, no broadcast TV outlet had mentioned the study. And only one cable news network – Al Sharpton’s “Politics Nation” on MSNBC – mentioned the report.

“New evidence that food stamps help to drastically reduce poverty has been largely ignored by the media, even as the right pursues a campaign to bully

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those who face food insecurity into silence and help conservatives slash funding for successful antipoverty measures,” Media Matters stated.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has tried to demean President Obama by repeatedly labeling him “the most successful food stamp president in American history.” Gingrich continued to make that charge even after a couple of fact-checking sites pointed out that more people received food stamps under President George

W. Bush than President Obama.

As Media Matters noted, “In fact, the U.S. Department of Agriculture began taking steps to ‘ensure that all eligible people, particularly seniors, legal immigrants and the working poor, are aware and have access to the benefits they need and deserve’ long before Obama took office.”

The attacks on food stamps recipients extend beyond politics. Some of it has been nasty and deeply personal.

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By Askia Muhammad

Free Mumia Abu Jamal and All U.S. Political Prisoners For the first time in a long time, political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal told an interviewer recently he had reason to observe his birthday. He didn’t really “celebrate” because he remains imprisoned for a crime which I and his supporters all around the world believe he did not commit.

But for the first time in 29 years, his birthday rolled around and he was not on death row.

Chanting, “Free Jamal. Free

them all,” hundreds of protestors with ages ranging from the 20s to the 80s, including many parents with small children, rallied outside the U.S. Department of Justice April 24. They were demanding freedom for Mumia, freedom for all political prisoners, an end to solitary confinement, and an end to mass incarceration.

Protesters dubbed the event “Occupy the Justice Department” and chose the date because it was Mumia’s 58th birthday. The day’s events began with

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speakers and entertainment including MOVE member Ramona Africa, Chuck D of Public Enemy, and M-1 of Dead Prez.

Abu Jamal was convicted in the 1981 shooting death of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner and sentenced to death row in 1982. His supporters maintain his innocence, insisting he was set up by a Philadelphia police force that was under federal investigation for corruption and widespread civil rights violations. Abu Jamal was hated for his work with the Black Panther The Washington Informer

Party and his reporting in support of MOVE family members who were often victimized by the Philadelphia cops.

The Constitution and Western jurisprudence, going back to the Magna Carta and before, do not require a person accused of a crime to prove his or her innocence. The burden of proof is on the prosecutors to convince a jury of one’s “peers” to unanimously agree on guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt.” Not so in Abu Jamal’s case. The odds were stacked against him from the be-

ginning.

Fifteen of the 35 officers involved in the evidence collection in Mumia’s case were themselves convicted and sentenced to jail on a number of misconduct charges. On top of that, he was victimized by a rigged, racist legal system which unfairly manipulated evidence, excluded Blacks from the jury, and coerced witnesses to testify falsely against him. His legal defense was a joke. His attorney did ab-

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D.C. Poet Laureate Dolores Kendrick Honored

25th Anniversary Celebration of “The Women of Plums” /Courtesy Photo

By Eve M. Ferguson WI Staff Writer On Thursday, May 3rd, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities will present a special program at Busboys & Poets celebrating the 25th anniversary of D.C.’s Poet Laureate Dolores Kendrick’s acclaimed book of poetry, “The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women,” in observation of National Poetry Month, April 1st through the 30th.

The book, originally published by William Morrow and Company, sold more than 5,000 copies, a rarity for books of poetry. A few years ago, it was in danger of going out-of-print, but through an editor friend, Dolores Kendrick now holds all www.washingtoninformer.com

the rights to the award-winning volume.

Kendrick was appointed Poet Laureate of Washington, D.C. in 1999 and has never turned back.

She is only the second person to hold the title – the first was renowned poet Sterling Brown.

Originally published in 1989 [so not quite 25 years, but close enough, according to the poet,] “The Women of Plums” was not a book that Kendrick decided to write.

“It decided me,” she said.

The collection of poems was originally inspired by the story of a slave woman who killed all of her children rather than see them enslaved which Kendrick found in a book she was reading; Gerda Lerner’s “Black Women in White America.”

“The book talked about the achievements of black women.

When I read the story of Peggy, the one who killed her children, a poem came to me so quickly,” Kendrick recalled.

She became interested in the stories of Black enslaved women, since most of the slave narratives published were by men.

“Someone gave me copies of slave narratives from the Roosevelt era,” she said “I got leave from Exeter and got a fellowship – actually two – from Yaddo, so I took a year off.” Yaddo is a prestigious writers’ retreat in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Kendrick taught at the esteemed Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire for 21 years, but during her time off from teaching, she traveled to Louisi-

ana, South Carolina, the Georgia Sea Islands and even Mount Vernon to do background research.

“I relied on the narratives to some extent. I would put the name on the top of the page and the poems began coming.

Friends told me I was channeling. I wrote in dialects that I didn’t know, and used words that I don’t use. The words came to me, like the story of Peggy, and I had various instances like that so I know I was channeling. I was also alone and feeling their pain,” she added. Often she used the original names of the slave women, but at other times she used names from her family.

“I finished ‘Plums’ while at Exeter,” she said. “One time, I was asked to read at the African Meeting House and stood

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in the very spot where William Garrison brought the slaves in.”

William Lloyd Garrison was a 19th century abolitionist who published the newspaper “The Liberator” and used the African Meeting House, the oldest church edifice in the United States in Boston, Mass., as a safe house for fleeing slaves on the Underground Railroad.

Kendrick’s accomplishments do not stop at her published volumes of poetry. As Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia, she was commissioned to write two poems for the New York Avenue Metro station on the Red Line, and also one included in a sculpture housed in the Pepco Building in downtown

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the Ansfield-Wolf Award. She was the first Vira I. Heinz professor emerita at Phillips Exeter Academy, where she was also the first African-American woman to teach there.

The program at Busboys & Poets, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., will join Kendrick with a live jazz band.

“I have selected five poems from ‘Plums’ to read but I will also include some from other books including ‘Rooms.’ But

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She has initiated several programs through the Office of the Poet Laureate – an office she established – aimed at the promotion and appreciation of poetry in the District. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award, the George Kent Award for Literature, and

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the majority of the poems will be from ‘Plums’,” she said.

How long does she plan to remain Poet Laureate?

“I will stay as long as they want me,” the octogenarian said.

“I have so many programs going on.”wi To attend the celebration at Busboys & Poets, located at 2021 14th Street, NW, RSVP to carolyn.parker@ dc.gov for complimentary admission.

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LIFESTYLE Sherrod Gresham of Knightdale, N.C., holds his Booker T. Washington commemorative coin and stamp during the National Black Memorabilia & Collectible Show in Gaithersburg, Md.The show attracts collectors from across the country each spring. /Photo courtesy of John Muller

Collectors Flock to Black Memorabilia Show

By John Muller Special to The Washington Informer The Silver Spring Armory may be a distant memory but the National Black Memorabilia & Collectible Show certainly isn’t.

In 1984, the armory hosted the first show in the United States and since that time, it’s attracted crowds from across the country.

Last month the show returned amid much fanfare for its 28th year at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Gaithersburg, Md. Uniting commerce with education, more than 80 diverse vendors filled the two-story building as collectors filed through the doors and into a veritable wonderland of historical artifacts and collectibles.

Collector and promoter Lindsey Johnson, said the show attracts an eclectic group – from truck drivers to academics – and all ethnicities.

“I told him to let me in because I’m your brother,” joked Steve Castle, 70, of Alexandria, Va., a former Navy Federal Credit Union employee. Castle and Johnson greeted one another with a hearty hug.

“He’s a regular,” said Johnson, a native of Little Rock, Ark., and a retired IBM employee.

His buddy took the opportunity to talk about the annual event.

“This is the best show around,” Castle said as he made his way inside. “I collect everything from A to Z.” The friendly exchange between Johnson and Castle exemplifies the spirit of camaraderie that exists between the vendors and the more than 1,000 novice and seasoned collectors who attend the show each year.

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artifacts from the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights movement to ephemera that commemorates President Obama, the show’s vendors rattled off facts with the authority of historians who specialize in their own unique area of African-American history.

“All of American history is on money and stamps,” said Sherrod Gresham, 58, a social worker from Knightdale, N.C., while holding a stamp and commemorative coin that honored Booker T. Washington.

“Some people specialize in just paper money,” Gresham, author of the book, “African Americans on U.S. Currency & Numismatic Materials: Coins and Medals”, said “but I collect any and all forms of currency.”

Gresham said that five African-Americans’ signatures have appeared on United States legal tender. The first being former United States Senator Blanche K. Bruce from Mississippi. Bruce served two terms as register of the U.S. Treasury in the late 19th century. The other four include Judson Whitlock Lyons, William Tecumseh Vernon, James C. Napier, an 1872 graduate of Howard Law School, and Azie Taylor Morton, who remains the only African American to serve as Treasurer of the United States.

From an 1828 copy of “The Columbian Orator”, the book that inspired a young Frederick Douglass in the streets of Jacksonian Baltimore, to the Jolly Banks of late 19th century immortalized in Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled” to pristine copies of popular black magazines from the 1950s, the show appealed to collectors of all ages.

Joseph Gregory, 14, happened to be one of the youngest collectors at the show. The Paint

Branch High School freshman picked up a combined set of Upper Deck Michael Jordan basketball cards and DVDs for $25.

“I think it’s going to be worth something someday,” said Jo-

seph who lives in Burtonsville, Md. Not everyone was on-hand to wheel and deal. From Buffalo Soldier reenactors to proprietors of the National African-Amer-

ican Roller Skating Archive, themes of commonality were expressed along patriotic, cultural, and recreational lines. (There is more to this story. Read it in its entirety at washingtoninformer.com.)

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ARIES Love, joy and hope fill the air around you this week.

Three of the greatest intangible assets that one can experience will be given to you in abundance this week. Use them to overcome the bad vibes being given out by a co-worker this week. Soul Affirmation: Hope is future’s way of shining on me this week. Lucky Numbers: 1, 23, 42 TAURUS Live this week especially in a celebratory mode and count your blessings for you are wealthy in ways that are above materialistic levels. Do not dwell on the financial situation in which you find yourself this week. Be ecstatic about the little pleasures that bring you laughter and gladness in your life! Soul Affirmation: When I give thanks for what I have, I lose all sense of what is missing. Lucky Numbers: 7, 28, 31 GEMINI Take the time this week for self-reflection. There is something about yourself that you are not seeing clearly. Remember now and whenever you examine your inner self to celebrate your strengths, for you have so many, and to accept your weaknesses as necessary, you are rewarded. Soul Affirmation: When I am clear about who I am the world becomes clearer. Lucky Numbers: 6: 8, 47 CANCER This week your honest acceptance of yourself will give you a power of both grandeur and humility. People will approach you for advice. You are capable of seeing clearly what it is that troubles them. This week be a counselor. In that you will find your prize. Soul Affirmation: I rejoice because of who I know myself to be. Lucky Numbers: 34, 51, 52 LEO This week others might mistake your gift for something else. They may not be able to see it but your inner strength is very available to you this week. Fill the workplace with warmth as soon as you enter. Let peace radiate from your inner glow. Soul Affirmation: Love is the greatest gift I can give.

Lucky Numbers: 7, 16, 33 VIRGO Someone influential is watching you at work this week. Get your work done as you think about celebrating your harmonious vibrations in the evenings in secluded time with your lover. Think about being uninhibited in your celebration and you will radiate joy in you work place and no one will know the reason. Soul Affirmation: My focus is good for making those decisions important to my career. Lucky Numbers: 14, 16, 19 LIBRA Emotional well being is as important to happiness as physical health. Cool it this week. Give yourself a break.

Problems are learning experiences. Make sure you keep that in mind as you face a challenge in the financial area of your life this week. Know that highs and lows bring balance to life and balance signifies well being. Soul Affirmation: Money is my good friend this week.

Lucky Numbers: 4, 21, 55 SCORPIO This week is your week to shine! Let nothing get in the way of your light. You have an energy inside of you that can light the path at work. Now is the time to let your inner glow radiate out to co-workers. Others are in need of your inner strength. Let love dominate your week. Soul Affirmation: I move ahead joyfully in practical matters. Lucky Numbers: 3, 46, 47 SAGITTARIUS Everyone wants joy in their lives but few people are ready to commit to truly joy-filled ideals. The ideal you need to cultivate this week is forgiveness. You’re holding on to something needlessly. Even if you get even you won’t feel any better. Let it go. Soul Affirmation: I enjoy letting my conservative side shine through.

Lucky Numbers: 22, 37, 50 CAPRICORN You know the dream that you say you’ll “get to” when the time is right. This week the time is exactly right. Get the plan started that will lead to the realization of that dream.

Talk it over with significant others so that they can add their strength.

Make the dream their dream too. Soul Affirmation: I love the options that are presented to me. Lucky Numbers: 13, 41, 55 AQUARIUS You are made from the best stuff on earth.

You’ll need to remember that this week. Cast a wide net among the people that admire you and spend time being admired. There are plenty of people who know your best qualities but this week seek out those who enjoy talking about what is good about you. Soul Affirmation: I let my positive emotions make my decisions this week.

Lucky Numbers: 8, 14, 36 PISCES Give to a charity, talk with a grandparent, counsel a child, encourage a colleague this week. Choose any or all of the above or create your own list. Your goodness is an investment in your future as long as you do not think of it as such. Soul Affirmation: I don’t hide the wonderful things I feel about myself. Lucky Numbers: 6, 24, 53

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The documentary, which premièred on PBS’ Independent Lens series earlier this year, tells the story of Daisy Bates, who earned her place in American history and became a household name during the height of the civil rights era. She is more commonly referred to as “Mrs. Daisy Bates and The Little Rock Nine” for courageously leading the integration of the all-white Central High School in Arkansas in 1957. Her public support culminated in a constitutional crisis — pitting a president against a governor and a community against itself. It took the presence of the National Guard, with protective assistance from President Eisenhower, to usher the nine black students into Central High School.

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driven by a need for validation?

As Arkansas state president of the NAACP, Daisy supported a policy that put teenagers on the frontlines of the school desegregation battle — but was that policy morally right? What price did the Little Rock Nine pay for that decision? What does her story tell us about the place of feminism in the civil rights movement? After all she did, why was Daisy never fully embraced, even within the Little Rock commu-

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It is More Blessed to Give Than to Receive -Acts 20:35 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’

Acts 20:35 Giving sets us free, while hoarding entraps us (James 5:2).

Giving changes the lives of others (John 3:16). Giving brings blessing back to us (Luke 6:38).

Giving allows us to store up treasures in Heaven rather than here on the earth (Matthew 19:21).

Paul begins in II Corinthians 8:1 by writing, “We wish to make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the churches of Macedonia.” It is interesting to note that there are more usages of the word “grace” in chapters eight and nine of II Corinthians than in any other two consecutive chapters in the Bible.

Christian giving is the grace of God at work, the free-flow of God’s activity consistent with His character. This is predicated on the fact that the Creator – God is the owner of all that He has created: “Every beast of the forest is Mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. … everything that moves in the field is Mine. … the world is Mine, and all it contains.” (Psalm 50:10-12) “The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine; declares the Lord of hosts.”

(Haggai 2:8) “Every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights ...”

(James 1:17) Since God is the owner and giver of all things, we are but

trustees, managers, stewards of His goods. God entrusts some things to us – whatever He can trust us with. It’s not “my” home, “my” car, “my” money, or even “my” child. We must avoid being “possessive.” We’re simply trustees of God’s possessions.

Christian giving is not meritgiving. It’s not something we do that pleases God that prompts Him to go into action. Our giving does not earn merit-points with God. We cannot buy spiritual favors with God. No one can buy their way into heaven or into God’s good favor. No one can “pay off ” their guilt of sin and self-concern with guilt payments.

God’s action is only by “grace.” He took the initiative of grace in giving us His Son, Jesus Christ, who in turn gave His life that we might be “bought with a price” (I Cor. 6:20). “God did not spare His own Son ...; will He not also freely give us all things?”

(Romans 8:32). As Christians we became God’s purchased possession (Titus 2:14; I Peter 2:9), through whom God continues to give.

There are so many new experiences that will come your way; you can build on the best of those. And mistakes, well they’re behind you now. You’ve learned much from each one.

Help others at a cost to yourselves. If it doesn’t matter where you donate your services, and you insist on giving back to your community by sharing your time and talent, let me provide a few suggestions. You could volunteer to help out a senior citizen,

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young, struggling single mothers at your child’s school, at your church … there’s so much we can all do, just look around.

Be thankful for your blessings, and there will be a better chance that you can bring your own dreams to life. Stop thinking about yourself all the time and begin to think about how you can help someone else, it won’t take up all of your time, just a few hours each week.

See the purpose God has set forth for your life and begin today, and this time get it right; give of your money, time and talent, and help somebody, and you help yourself. wi

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Pilgrim Baptist Church

Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church 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.

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

Campbell African Methodist Episcopal Church Reverend Daryl K. Kearney. • Pastor 2568 MLK Jr., Ave., S.E. Washington, D.C. 20020 (202) 889-3877 (o) • (202) 678-1291 (fax) Services and Times 7:45 a.m. & 10:45 a.m.

Small Groups/Church School: 9:00 a.m.

Small Group Bible Study Tuesday 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday Noon Thursday 7:39 p.m.

God our Father, Christ our Redeemer, Humankind one Family www.otfmall.com/camecame reedley5@aol.com

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

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

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

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

Church of Living Waters

Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor Harold Andrew, Assistant Pastor 4915 Wheeler Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 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

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

Crusader Baptist Church

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday Men’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

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

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

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

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

“God is Love”

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

Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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 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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All Nations Baptist Church

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

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

Zion Baptist Church

Israel Baptist Church

Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor

Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor

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

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

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

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

Mount Moriah Baptist Church

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.

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

Rehoboth Baptist Church

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

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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

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Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

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

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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

Matthews Memorial Baptist Church

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

Dr. C. Matthew Hudson, Jr, Pastor

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

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

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church 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 “Changing Lives On Purpose “ 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 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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Wizards Defeat Miami 104 -70

Miami Heat guard Norris Cole (30) gets around his opponent during the first half of NBA basketball action at the Verizon Center on Thursday, April 26.

The Wizards defeated Miami 104-70 and improved their 2012 season record to 20-46. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Wizards Brian Cook protects the ball from Miami guard Terrel Harris (14) on his way to the basket during the second half of NBA basketball action at the Verizon Center on Thursday, April 26. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

Prior to the start of the Wizards vs. Miami Heat game on Thursday, April 26 at the Verizon Center, the Oxon Hill Boys and Girls Club of Maryland, coached by Joseph Jones show off their moves during an exhibition game for the fans. In this photo Jazmine Bryant (center) goes to the basket for a layup. / Photo by John E. De Freitas

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DC United Defeats Houston 3-2 D.C. United forward Chris Pontius made a diving header to get the ball past Houston Goal-keeper Tally Hall in the second half of MLS soccer action at RFK Stadium in Southeast on Saturday, April 28. The ball hit the goal post and Dwayne De Rosario came in and scored his first goal of the season to give United a 3-2 win. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

D.C. United forward Maicon Santos raises his hands in the air to celebrate his second goal of the game in MLS action on Saturday, April 28 at RFK Stadium in Southeast. Some of his teammates joined him around the team bench to celebrate. Santos’ goal made the score 2-2. It was goal No.6 for the Brazilian forward who started the season as a reserve. “That was a beautiful cross. It’s my job to get my head on it,” Santos said. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Undefeated heavyweight rising star Seth Mitchell (Left) throws a left hook en route to a third round technical knockout victory over heavyweight contender Chazz Witherspoon (Right) on April 28, at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J. “I was working my right hand,” Mitchell said. “I knew he was coming to fight. I’m going to be honest, I was nervous for this fight because he has a lot of experience. In the heavyweight division it only takes one shot. I could see it in his eyes. He was coming for me, but I never stopped using my body shots. They were slowing him down, and he had no defense for them,” he said. /Courtesy photo by Mitchell Witherspoon -Hogan Photography

Robert Griffin III encourages the crowd to join in and sing “Hail to the Redskins” at FedEx Field on Saturday, April 28. Nearly 20,000 fans waited in the rain to welcome Griffin to Washington and the city is abuzz. Fans are daring to dream of a return to the glory days. /Photo

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Administration No. 1998 ADM 000586 Georgia Wise Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Tyrone Hicks, whose address is 5819 Fisher Road, Temple Hills, MD 20748, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Georgia Wise, who died on March 31, 1989 without a Will. 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 October 19, 2012. 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 October 19, 2012, 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: April 19, 2012 Tyrone Hicks Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY

Administration No. 2012 ADM 299 Virginia H. Miller Decedent Johnny M. Howard 1001 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 402 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Mekeeba L. Miller and Bernard Quarterman, Jr., whose addresses are 1060 Bladensburg Road, NE, Washington, DC 20018 and 40 V Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001, were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Virginia H. Miller, who died on May 15, 2002 without a Will, and will serve with Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W. Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before October 19, 2012.

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 October 19, 2012, 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: April 19, 2012 Mekeeba L. Miller Bernard Quarterman, Jr. Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY

Foreign No. 2012 FEP 34 May 4, 2011 Date of Death Melvin S. Yates, Sr. Name of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Sandra G. Yates whose address is 6806 Geneva Lane Temple Hills, MD 20748 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Melvin S. Yates, Sr., deceased, by the Orphan’s Court for Prince George’s County, State of Maryland, on May 16, 2011.

Service of process may be made upon Milton B. Yates, 817 48th Street, NE Washington, DC 20019 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real property: 4346 Martin Luther King Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20032 Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

Date of first publication: April 26, 2012 Sandra G. Yates Personal Representative

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

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Notice of Standard Probate

Administration No. 2012 ADM 351

Administration No. 2012 ADM 370 Rosalie E. Cherry Decedent James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Linwood Cherry, Jr., whose address is 1006 Quebec Place, NW, Washington, DC 20010, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Rosalie E. Cherry, who died on April 3, 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 November 3, 2012. 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 November 3, 2012, 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: May 3, 2012 Linwood Cherry, Jr. Personal Representative

Estate of Marvel B. Salley aka Marvell Beatrice Salley Deceased Administrative No. 2012 ADM 355

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

Admit to probate the will dated August 14, 1979 exhibited with the petition upon proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution by affidavit of witnesses or otherwise Order any interested person to show cause why the provisions of the lost or destroyed will dated August 14, 1979 should not be admitted to probate as expressed in the petition In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate Appoint an unsupervised personal representative Date of first publication: May 3, 2012 Muriel Howell Jackson Personal Representative

Mabel O. Weston Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Matthew F. Shannon, whose address is 1420 N Street, NW #102, Washington, DC 20005, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Mabel O. Weston, who died on April 11, 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 November 3, 2012. 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 November 3, 2012, 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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Chavis continued from Page 21 The United States Senate has issued an “apology” for slavery.

And in my home state of North Carolina, Gov. Bev Perdue has just called for the state to spend $10.3 million in “reparations” to the victims of a vicious eugenics state program that sterilized thousands of people against their will. Most of those who were unjustly and savagely sterilized were black. Again, no amount of money could ever justify or rectify that awful and callous past. Still, Gov. Perdue’s actions are the right steps at the right time. Healing is a longterm process. It takes time. The perpetrators of racism need a “repairing” of their minds and hearts.

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This may not be the perfect time to raise this issue. Judging by the past, there is never a perfect time. Today is as good as any time. Let’s work harder on the issue of reparations. We can begin by supporting the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (NCOBRA), which will hold its national convention in Philadelphia, June 22-24. Reparations for black Americans should be supported by all Americans. wi Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. is president of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) and Education Online Services Corporation and serves as the national director of Occupy the Dream. He can be reached at drbenjamin.chavis@gmail.com

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As it is, heavy student debt prevents young people from fully participating both in the labor force and life. Many take jobs because they can make great money, eschewing jobs in social work or teaching because they don’t pay enough.

Many others living with Mom and Dad delay marriage and homeownership while they tackle debt. While these students took on debt knowing they’d have to

pay it back, what kind of country makes upward mobility so unaffordable that students literally shackle themselves to debt so that they can have a shot at participating in our changing labor force?

Why can’t we treat students the same way that we treat corporations, offering them subsidized interest rates, or even zero interest rates? After all, they are helping us meet national goals and are key to our national and international survival. But banks are a bigger and more effective lobby than students, and we don’t mind subsidizing banks, while students are another story.

The human costs are high. The shattered dreams are heart breaking. I’ve seen Mom and Dad borrow on their home so baby girl can go to college, only to find the amount they

have is simply not enough. I’ve seen folks turned away from student loan opportunities because their credit is bad, forcing them into higher loan options. I’ve seen students opt to work more hours, affecting their grades but paying their bills. Some students choose off-campus housing because they think it is cheaper, only to find themselves hungry and stuck with costly bus rides.

Again grades suffer.

We have a generation shackled by debt, and legislators who have only come up with the option of throwing women’s health care under the bus to lower rates. We say we believe young people are our future. We have a funny we of showing it.wi Julianne Malveaux is an economist and author and President of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.C.

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Now that ALEC has acknowledged that its activities led it far beyond the bounds of reasonable commercial legislative activity, we call upon the group to devote its considerable resources to redress the harms caused by the “Public Safety and Elections” task force – dangerous policies that armed civilian vigilantes and disenfranchised seniors, people of color, and the disabled by the millions.

The full impact of these measures has only begun to be felt.

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the boys to move in with her and her children but “that didn’t work out. She really didn’t have room,” Stekeshia said. And so the family ended up at the shelter.

Stekeshia’s goal continued to be to find a job. “Any job to get my foot in the door.” She regularly sent out a number of applications. A hospice needed a cook and she thought she would be qualified because she cooked in the group home. She went downtown to put in an application at a former Hyatt hotel with new owners.

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Whatever position I could get, I’d be

CURRY continued from Page 22 Charles Payne, appearing in a Fox News business segment, acknowledged that anti-poverty programs, food stamps and unemployment insurance were “good programs” and then promptly proceeded to viciously attack recipients of those programs.

“I think the real narrative here, though, is that people aren’t embarrassed by it,” Payne said. “People aren’t ashamed by it. In other words, there was a time when people were embarrassed to be on food stamps; there was a time when people were embarrassed to be on unemployment for six months, let alone demanding to be on for more than two years…”

That’s an insult to more than 46 million people who are on food stamps because they desperately need them. Approximately 85 percent of SNAP households have gross incomes below the poverty line, defined as $22,000 for a family of four. And the benefits average only $1.50 per meal, a fig-

happy with… Just keep trying. That’s my motto. I am so praying I get one of these jobs so I can move on and give some other family a chance to be here.”

A recent front page New York Times article by Jason DeParle reported that as many as one in every four low-income single mothers is jobless and without cash aid—roughly 4 million women and children with no money, no job. It said many of these families are blocked from receiving help by time limits and other restrictions put into place by the mid-1990s welfare reform: “Much as overlooked critics of the restrictions once warned, a program that built its reputation when times were good offered little

help when jobs disappeared.”

And as a result, the article goes on to say, “The poor people, who were dropped from cash assistance here, mostly single mothers, talk with surprising openness about the desperate, and sometimes illegal, ways they make ends meet. They have sold food stamps, sold blood, skipped meals, shoplifted, doubled up with friends, scavenged trash bins for bottles and cans and returned to relationships with violent partners—all with children in tow.”

I hope enough citizens will lift their voices and votes against a federal budget which cuts the poor and coddles the rich. wi

ure scheduled to drop to $1.30 per meal in November of next year.

Media Matters says conservatives are trying to bully society’s most vulnerable members.

“By bullying into silence those who would talk openly about their experiences with successful antipoverty programs – and whitewashing studies proving these programs to be effective – the media create an environment conducive to eviscerating the safety net,” the media monitoring group stated.

And that’s exactly what the Republican majority in the House of Representatives is already doing.

“The House Agriculture Committee, which the House-approved budget requires to quickly produce $33 billion in savings over the next decade, approved a proposal that would obtain the entire amount from cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps,” said the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

“The cuts – which would come on top of another proposal in the House budget to cut SNAP by

$133 billion over the next decade and convert it to a block grant – would reduce or eliminate benefits for all SNAP households, including the poorest.”

The Center observed, “No other program under the Committee’s jurisdiction would face any cut under the proposal, despite frequent calls for reform of the nation’s farm subsidies – 74 percent of which go to the largest, most profitable farms… [that] received an average annual government payment of more than $30,000 a year in 2009, while having an average annual household income of over $160,000.”

Those corporate welfare recipients are the ones who should be ashamed, not people who are down on their luck through no fault of their own. wi George E. Curry, former editor-inchief of Emerge magazine, is editorin-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA) and editorial director of Heart & Soul magazine. Curry can be reached through his website, www. georgecurry.com.

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MUHAMMAD continued from Page 22 solutely no investigation of the circumstances which left Officer Faulkner dead and Abu Jamal shot and wounded.

In December 2011, Mumia was removed from death row following a number of court appeals

which went all the way to the Supreme Court. He is now imprisoned for life without the possibility of parole. After the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s vacating his death sentence, prosecutors abandoned their efforts to reinstate the death penalty rather than go back into court. Had they gone back in

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court, evidence of decades of police and prosecutorial misconduct might have been introduced, possibly leading to a new trial. There is abundant evidence “proving” Mumia’s innocence.

The state of Pennsylvania could never get a re-conviction. With all the forensic evidence that has been uncovered, all of the witnesses who have recanted their testimony, declaring they were forced to lie in the original trial by crooked cops, if they dared to try to go before a judge again, it would be a wonder if the prosecutor and cops would not be exposed and themselves The Washington Informer

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Free Mumia Abu Jamal. Free all American political prisoners, and there are hundreds of them.

Right now the United States represents 5 percent of the world’s population but we incarcerate 25 percent of the world’s prisoners.

And guess which group of people is disproportionately represented in the American criminal injustice system. Black people, that’s who.

Richard Pryor tells the joke about the people you see in the courts: “Just us.”

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We’re right in front of the injustice department because for over 40 years we’ve seen Mumia Abu Jamal got no justice, we’ve seen Eddy Conway, we’ve seen Mutulu Shakur, we’ve seen Herman Bell, we’ve seen Jalil Muntaqim, and countless other colonial subjects shot down by the police departments inside this country, no justice,” M-1 of the hip-hop duo Dead Prez said at the Occupy the Justice Department rally.

Five percent of the world’s population, 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, and who are they again? Just Us. It’s a “just us” system, not a justice system.

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