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Trayvon Martin Trial Looms Large

By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer For more than a month after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Sanford, Fla., hundreds of thousands of angry protestors across the United States and in cities around the world, took to the streets.

Their demand: That Sanford authorities arrest and charge the man who shot and killed Trayvon – George Zimmerman. Forty-four days later, Special Prosecutor Angela Corey charged Zimmerman with second-degree murder.

The case comes full circle in perhaps a week or so after jury

selection is completed. That done, the Zimmerman murder trial will begin, and America will once again be embroiled in a case that generated widespread outrage in many quarters and exposed a deeply polarized nation.

The Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler said while it’s difficult to predict an outcome, there will be a great

deal of pressure on Circuit Court Judge Debra Nelson and a criminal-justice system which is viewed by most African Americans with a jaundiced eye.

“It’s a lot of pressure on the court. It has to be fair and impartial, but to many conscious, concerned black people they cannot be,” said Hagler, a longtime

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community activist and pastor of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Northeast.

“There really are concerns that a simple decision may let Zimmerman go which may cause all types of problems.”

The shooting on February 26,

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Victor Harrington Establishes Prosthetic Fund At Children’s National Medical Center

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law enforcement. She said they threat,” she said. had come together to bring a Among the programs Marlow sense of uniformity in the way wants to see implemented are domestic violence victims and stricter restraining order policies, survivors are treated. more rights for victim's families “She's using her own personal to intervene on behalf of a vicstory, her own personal pain to tim, a domestic violence assesspush forward,” Davis-Nickens ment unit coupled with further said about Marlow. training for law enforcement Davis-Nickens said anyone agencies, a Child's Life Protecwho reads Marlow's book will tion Act and mandatory counsel“get it.” She said she “puts the ing for batterers. case in such a way, the average “If we are ever going to eradiperson can get it.” She said at the cate domestic violence, we must end of the day, the book will look at both sides of the coin. help people begin to have a dia- We need to address both the viclogue about domestic violence. tim and the batterer,” Marlow Also present at the event was said.

Mildred Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise who was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in Avery Leake, owner of Avery’s Bar & Lounge on H Street in Northeast. utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah by a Maryland jury for his role in feels children need to be educatthe Beltway Sniper attacks in ed about domestic violence.

2002. Mildred Muhammad is “We have to stop being pascluding relatives whothehappened and brother to the founder of After Trauma, father sive-aggressive with helping poor chilanbeorganization that helpsown the paint dren the about domestic violence,” to entrepreneurs in their interior and his mothsurvivors of domestic violence er Marlow said. reupholstering the right. and sister and their children.

Marlow has worked break “My uncles vended and hosted bar stools. When Leake to reached “I lived years.who Six out the cycle of abuse in her family, parties andinIfear hadfor a six cousin for help via social media, years ina fear is a long It is friends and is confident the policies she owned clothing line,”time. he said. and colleagues provided not an easy thing to come out is pushing for will start that “I went to business conferences various services that included of,” she said. process. in Atlanta as an intern [on their electrical work interior Mildred Muhammad said “I plan to takeand these policiesdeto behalf] – with no college [educasign, free of charge. people who want to help a Congress and implore them to tion].

I sawviolence what black business “People have not seen insaid.

10 domestic victim must change ourI laws,” Marlow looked like so came out to help me,” said be careful of the howconcept they gowasn’t into years “I will not stop until these polifar-fetched me.” the victim'stolife, and understand Leake. cies are “While passed.” some have not He she almost his been that may abandoned be in “survival Tia back Carolsince, Jones can reached the befact that dream. mode”. at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net they helped means they will al“Before you as geta toU.S. 'I'mCapitol going ways have a stake in this place.”

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While the economic redevelown bar. opment in the District has been “At that time, I had given up on a topic of concern for longtime being a business owner,” Leake residents, Leake, a third-generasaid. “But I learned that you tion Washingtonian, has learned can’t keep worrying about what to embrace change. happened in the past. I thought “It’s a big deal to be a WashI would rather take a chance on L.Y. Marlow something that I loved than wait ingtonian owning a business while [the city] is rapidly changfor my luck to change.”

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Wells Challenges Opponents D.C. Council member Tommy Wells, a candidate for mayor in the April 1, 2014 Democratic Party primary, wants his competitors to follow his lead in refusing to accept corporate campaign contributions.

“This week the District witnessed another clear example of elected leaders putting residents’ interests behind those of big money from corporations and special interests,” said Wells, 56, referring to former D.C. Council member Michael Brown’s guilty plea on bribery charges. “We cannot allow the culture of payto-play politics and corruption to continue. I am calling on you, as a candidate for mayor, to accept my leadership challenge and refuse the corporate donations and bundled contributions from secretive LLCs that are at the root of our pay-to-play problems.”

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Orange Cooperates with Federal Investigators D.C. Council member Vincent Orange (D-At Large) has confirmed that he’s working with federal investigators on campaign finance matters.

Various media outlets reported that the veteran lawmaker complied with subpoenas from the District’s U.S. Attorney’s Office who want to look into his campaign records. Orange, 56, said that he worked with the investigators.

“I have met with the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” he said in a statement issued on June 12.

“They have requested documents from my campaign which I will provide. They have also requested that I not talk about the case because it may jeopardize their investigation.”

It’s well known that Orange has accepted campaign contributions from businessman Jeffrey Thompson, who reportedly is at the center of an investigation into the 2010 campaign activities of D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Thompson has donated to D.C. Council members, mayors, and elected officials in other states for years and is known as a successful fundraiser.

There is no indication that Orange is under federal investigation for any matter.

(D-Ward 2) and Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) for the Democratic Party nod for mayor next year. He has pledged to make his refusal to accept corporate donations a key issue of his campaign.

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“Representative Gingrey than addressing the needs of his own constituents, Rep. Gingrey would never attempt to impose is spending his time meddling this legislation on any other in a district more than 600 miles away from his own. If there were state or jurisdiction,” said Pera problem involving guns and ry, 42. “The legislation is really a ‡ Please set all in upper and lowercase, flush left as indicated on artwork at these point sizes: Consultant name in 11-point Helvetica Neue Bo act by a copy politician our active military, he would not faint-hearted Beauty Consultant in 9-point Helvetica Neue Light; Web site or e-mail address in 9-point Helvetica Neue Light; phone number in 9-point Helvetica target only the District of Co- trying to curry To the Independent Beauty Consultant: Only Company-approved Web sites obtained through the Mary Kay® Personal Web Site program may favor with powlumbia.” erful interests by targeting the Gingrey, 70, is running for the U.S. Senate seat in 2014 that is only group of Americans who being vacated by Saxby Cham- have no vote in the House or bliss (R).

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BUYING RECORDS

June 20 1967 – Boxing champion Muhammad Ali is convicted in a Houston, Texas federal court of violating the Selective Service Act by refusing to be inducted into the armed services.

He was fined $10,000 and given five years in prison. The United States Supreme Court would later overturn the conviction.

Ali’s refusal to be inducted was based, in part, on his opposition to America’s war in Vietnam. He often said, “No Vietnamese ever called me nigger.”

June 21 1832 – Joseph Haynes Rainey, the first African American to serve in the United States House of Representatives, is born in Georgetown, South Carolina.

He was elected in 1870 from the state of South Carolina. He served five terms in Congress and died in 1887. In 2005, a portrait of Rainey was finally hung in the U.S. Capitol Building.

1859 – Henry O. Tanner, the first African American painter to achieve international acclaim, is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to a middle class Black family.

His most notable work was “The Banjo Lesson” which he painted in 1893. Tanner would later teach at Clark University in Atlanta, Georgia. Tanner was considered a formalist – meaning his paintings tended to be beautiful depictions of reality. He died in May 1937.

June 22 1909 – One of this nation’s major pioneers in Black theatrical dance, Katherine Dunham, is born on this day in 1909 in Joliet, Illinois. Dunham was one of the century’s most multi-talented Black artists. She was a dancer, choreographer, and voodoo priestess with a degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago. Dunham’s heyday in dance was from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. She was also a political activist. One of her last

acts was a 47-day hunger strike to protest U.S. treatment of Haitian boat people. She died in May 2006 at 97.

June 23 1940 – Childhood polio victim Wilma Rudolph is born in Clarksville, Tennessee. Rudolph would go on to become one of the greatest Olympic athletes America has ever produced. She actually competed in her first Olympics at the age of 16. But it was in 1960 at the Rome Olympics where she distinguished herself by winning three gold medals in track and field events.

Rudolph was the 20th or 22 children born to Ed and Blanch Rudolph. She would die young – at the age of 54 – of brain cancer.

June 24 1936 – One of the nation’s foremost Black educators Mary McLeod Bethune is appointed director of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration.

The agency was one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” programs designed to combat the lingering effects of the Great Depression.

June 25 1941 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order #8802 banning racial discrimination in the nation’s war industries on the eve of A m e r i c a ’s involvement in World Wa r II.

The order came as a result of pressure from Black labor leader A. Phillip Randolph who had threatened a massive “March on Washington” to protest discrimination by the military and the military industry.

2009 – Pop music superstar Michael Jackson dies of cardiac arrest in his Los Angeles home after reportedly being given a powerful sedative (propopol) to help him sleep. Jackson was 50 years old and was in the process of preparing a major comeback tour.

1968 – Lincoln Alexander becomes the first Black member of the Canadian parliament.

June 26 1899 – Black inventor William H. Richardson redesigns the baby carriage. While the idea for the baby carriage is nearly 300 years old, Richardson’s patent, filed at the Boston patent office, included several new features including a special joint which allowed the bassinet to be turned to face the mother or whoever was pushing the carriage.

1942 – Harvard medical student, Bernard W. Robinson, becomes the first African American to win a commission to the United States Navy.

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Viewp int Mamie Stewart Silver Spring, Md. I believe George Zimmerman will, and should be found guilty of murder. Zimmerman was not an official law enforcement officer, yet he still fired his weapon and killed Martin. Zimmerman should have waited, like he was told, for a law enforcement officer to arrive if he felt that he was in such severe danger. There has been no evidence to prove that Martin had committed any wrongdoing.

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Rachelle Downs Takoma Park, Md. I hope George Zimmerman receives jail time. If not, racial tensions in the country will rise and civil rights activist groups will protest the verdict and outcome of the trial. Zimmerman definitely deserves to serve some time in jail for his actions and I hope the jury in Florida will make the right decision. Ultimately, I believe he will be found guilty of murder and will be sentenced to jail.

WITH THE TRAVYON MARTIN TRIAL SET TO GET UNDERWAY, WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE WILL BE THE FINAL VERDICT IN THE CONTROVERSIAL CASE?

Darling St. Louis Silver Spring, Md. I hope there’s a through trial where justice is achieved and the jury will chose the right verdict. I can’t honestly say what that verdict will be, but it’s up to the jury to make that decision as they’ll have access to all of the evidence. I hope they make the right decision because a lot of people, including those from both families, lives are hanging in the balance.

Cynthia Woodard Hyattsville, Md. I believe George Zimmerman will be found guilty and will have to serve some time in jail. There’s no logical way that he really believed that he was protecting himself from Martin, who was unarmed and did not provoke him. I believe Zimmerman’s racism played a role in his killing of Martin. I don’t think he would have stopped and approached Martin had he not been a young African-American male.

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Larry Dove Wheaton, Md. I believe George Zimmerman was the aggressor and that fact will come to light during the course of the trial. The local police dispatcher even told him not to become involved in an altercation and to wait for police to arrive to the scene. Zimmerman should have not taken matters into his own hands. He killed an innocent child who was walking home from the store. I think Zimmerman will be found guilty when the jury makes its decision.

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AROUND THE REGION MARTIN continued from Page 1 2012, ignited a ferocious national debate about race, vigilantism, racial profiling, equitable justice and gun control after Zimmerman admitted shooting Trayvon with his 9-mm. handgun. He got out of his pickup truck, followed Trayvon and he said the pair got into a fight at the Retreat at Twin Lakes community.

Zimmerman, a volunteer neighborhood watch captain, contends that Trayvon circled back and attacked him as he walked back to his truck – punching him in the face and slamming the back of his head on the sidewalk repeatedly.

Akosua Tyus, president of the Washington, D.C. branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), declined to speculate on how a jury might rule, but said the trial removes one of NAACP’s major concerns: That Zimmerman is tried in a court of law.

“The trial will allow blacks to learn about how the courts and the criminal-justice system work,” said Tyus, who has headed the D.C. branch for three years.

“It will also shed light on racial profiling which is still a serious problem.”

Tyus, 30, acknowledged the contentious nature of the case.

“There will be people who are upset on both sides of the table. It has become a racially divisive [case], but what’s most important for the NAACP is that Zimmerman is tried and that the criminal-justice system runs its course,” she said. “The error was his not being charged initially [and his] not [being] arrested.”

Trayvon’s parents had said from the beginning of their ordeal that their most urgent desire was justice for their slain child.

They were special guests of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, and were attending a four-day conference in the District when Corey announced her decision.

“First of all, what I want to say is ‘Thank God,’” said a visibly moved Sabrina Fulton at a press conference immediately following Corey’s. “We wanted nothing more, nothing less [than an arrest] ... a heart has no color, not black or white, but red. I want to say thank you from my heart to your heart.”

Even President Barack Obama weighed in last spring.

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some soul searching to figure out how does something like this happen,” he said a month after the murder. “When I think about that boy, I think about my own kids … If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon. I think they are right to expect that all of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness this deserves, and that we’re going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened.”

Second-degree murder is typically brought in cases when there is a confrontation or some type of fight that results in death but involves no premeditation to kill.

It carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years behind bars when a gun is used. The difficulty will be trying to find a jury who is unaware of the shooting and the furor that followed.

Zimmerman’s attorneys have leaked information about Trayvon seeking to portray him as a pot smoking, troublemaker who projected a menacing demeanor and who skulked around the apartment complex before being confronted by Zimmerman. But as Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump noted, Trayvon is not on trial.

During a D.C. rally last year that drew more than 2,000 protestors, Hagler was unapologetic.

“We’re standing up today because we’re all Trayvon Martin,” he told a vocal crowd who gathered on and around the steps of the John A. Wilson Building in Northwest despite the rain.

“Racism is pervasive in this country. It has been maturing and moving ever since this country

was formed. When we elected Obama, we heard talk of a post-racial America … Racism is so insidious and mixed with guns, it’s disastrous.”

In retrospect, more than a year later, Hagler, 59, said, little has changed.

“I think there’s a wider gap between black and white expectations,” he said. “We see this obsession over guns and whether the president will take away guns.

It’s the fear the white community has of ‘the others.’ Guns are based on this paradigm of fear.

‘I have to protect my home, my property.’ I don’t think much has changed.”

“The fact that Trayvon Martin elicited fear in Zimmerman was a combination of fear and him wanting to be a hero. He wanted to take down that child.”

Tyus said Trayvon’s murder and its aftermath serves to remind African Americans – even in the face of the notion of a post-racial America – that racism is very much alive.

“The perception that racism doesn’t exist anymore is a wakeup call. There is racial profiling and a number of disparities, including educational, health and unemployment disparities which are all affecting people of color. The issue of racism in this country is still prevalent. And this racism is even more prevalent because it’s not in your face.”

“We have to educate people in the 21stcentury on what is real.

We continue to struggle to educate people and raise awareness about racism and other issues.” wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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Brown Plea Generates Anger, Disgust

By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer Wayne Strickland’s face captured the disdain he said he feels upon hearing that former D.C. Council member Michael A. Brown pled guilty last week to taking $55,000 in bribes from FBI undercover agents.

Strickland pursed his lips, furrowed his brow and slowly shook his head from side-to-side.

“I’m not surprised he got caught. I’m just surprised the rest of them haven’t gotten caught as well,” he said of Brown’s council colleagues.

Strickland, 49, a contractor and owner of WLS Concrete in Northeast, said he has no use for most of the members of the D.C. Council because they have done little to help business people like himself secure even a fraction of the contracts and jobs that have been generated by gentrification and the city’s burgeoning growth.

Scores of cranes dot the District’s landscape, he said, but in most cases, D.C. business owners, particularly, black businesses have found that regardless of what they bring to the table, it doesn’t translate into them securing contracts.

“We can’t get any work in D.C. People from Maryland and Virginia are getting the jobs. They have us come to meetings, we bid on projects but businesses like Fort Myer Construction get all the jobs.”

Strickland, several siblings, his mother and other family members sat on the steps of their family home in Brookland on a recent Monday evening in June, and discussed Brown, politics and the changing demographics of the city.

Lisa Strickland lamented what she said appears to be an attack on black politicians, and she and several relatives wondered aloud why no white politicians have been caught up in the U.S. Attorney’s dragnet.

“I feel like they’re trying to destroy all the black politicians,” she said. “It’s not just black politicians who are committing crimes it’s all of them. They need to do background checks on all of the council.”

Last Monday, Brown, 49 – son of the late U.S. Commerce Secretary and Democratic Party

stalwart Ron Brown – pled guilty in federal court to a felony bribery charge and through a plea deal could serve as much as 37 months behind bars. Brown was caught on camera taking cash from FBI agents posing as businessmen and stuffing it in duffel bags and coffee cups.

U.S. Attorney Ron Machen, 43, said Brown made it known that he was willing to take money to facilitate access to city government and he admitted in court to taking the cash in return for his help in winning District government approval for a company that was seeking to be classified as a Certified Business Enterprise.

This designation would create potentially lucrative business opportunities and Brown also agreed to help the company with government contracting opportunities.

In a second scheme, Brown admitted concealing the true source of $20,000 that was secretly donated to his failed bid in 2007 for a seat on the D.C. Council. Under the plea agreement, Brown escapes prosecution.

“This prosecution should make clear that we will not allow the politics of pay-to-play to flourish in the District of Columbia,” said Machen. “We will not tolerate the backroom deals, the secret payments, and the unreported cash that corrupt not only our elections and public officials but our entire system of government.

Our work will not stop until we stamp out the show-me-themoney culture that has deprived the great citizens of the District of Columbia of the honest government that they so desperately want and deserve.”

Timothy Gallagher, Special Agent in Charge of the Criminal Division of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, said law enforcement “will not stop our pursuit until public corruption is a thing of the past within the District of Columbia.”

Brown, served on the council in one of its four at-large seats from 2009 as an independent until January of this year. He abruptly withdrew from the April Special Election, citing family and personal reasons but it is now known that he did so after finding out that he was entangled in an FBI sting.

He is the third current or former member of the D.C. Council

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in the last year and half to stand before a federal judge on criminal charges. Former D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown pleaded guilty last June to bank fraud charges and former Ward 5 Council member Harry Thomas Jr., is serving a 38-month sentence after admitting to stealing $353,500 in District money that was supposed to fund sports programs for young people in the District.

Last year, during Brown’s re-election campaign, he reported that someone took almost

$114,000 from campaign coffers.

Brown said his former campaign treasurer withdrew money, but no charges were ever filed in the case.

Keisha Washington said she was surprised and saddened to hear about Brown’s travails.

“He came to our building asking for our vote,” the unemployed Ward 4 resident said incredulously.

“Yes, I’m surprised because I voted for him. He gave a good talk and I thought I’d give him a chance. I heard on the radio

that he pled guilty. I think all politicians steal but he just wasn’t smart about it. White people are smart and don’t get caught.”

“I’m surprised at Kwame Brown, Harry Thomas Jr., and especially Jack Johnson [former chief executive of Prince George’s County]. All of them make it bad for all of us. It’s sad.

If I have a six-figure job, I’m not going to steal. They’d be wondering how they could get me out.

They all do dumb stuff – money and power. [However], money makes the world go round.” wi

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Program Offers Youth a Global View

By Michelle Phipps-Evans WI Staff Writer Before Angel Gaston decided to attend Howard University this fall, she wanted to study subjects she hadn’t considered before, for a career she didn’t even think was possible.

“I was thinking about studying Mandarin Chinese and also linguistics,” said Gaston, 18, who recently graduated from the Washington Metropolitan High School, a District public school in Northwest. “I can become a U.S. ambassador or work as a translator.” Gaston speaks Mandarin fluently.

“It’s an intense language,” she said, “but I [picked] it up easily.”

However, since this isn’t a course that Howard offers, Gaston said she’ll consider international communications as her major because one day, she would like to return to the People’s Republic of China.

Two years ago, Gaston explored Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing with more than a dozen other young people who participated in the Community Global Initiative (CGI), a competitive program created and sponsored by the H Street Community Development Corporation (HSCDC) in Northeast.

“It opened my eyes globally,” Gaston said. “It made me see how different other countries were from America. This made me analyze myself and made me want to broaden myself as a person,” the Ward 4 resident said.

This change in perspective is the goal of the CGI program, formerly known as the China Challenge Program, said Kenneth Brewer Sr., executive director of HSCDC, a private, nonprofit, established 1984, to restore the blighted H Street corridor.

“They come back appreciating what life is in America,” said Brewer, 52, who has been at the helm of the organization since 2010. “Even if they decide not to go to school, clearly they’re getting an experience that can totally change them. They can see how great America is.”

Established in 2006 by HSCDC,

Community Global Initiative’s graduate Angel Gaston, center, sits next to Monique Boyd at the Cheesecake Factory in Northwest during a graduation luncheon. Boyd will travel to Brazil this summer for two weeks. Two years ago, Gaston traveled to China. /Photo by Michelle Phipps-Evans

the CGI program, offers up to 15 teenagers in grades 9 through 12 and who are enrolled in the District’s public and public charter high schools an opportunity to develop global competency skills by learning the language and culture of a foreign country.

Since its inception, more than 45 students have benefited from the program. Native speakers of the languages instruct the teenagers, who come from minority, primarily moderate-to-low-income families, in basic oral and written foreign languages over an 18-month period.

The competitive program is conducted in three phases. First, students are immersed in a fast-paced, intensive language and culture curriculum during their first summer of the program. Next, during the school year, they attend bi-monthly Saturday classes, studying language and culture, and finally, for two weeks during the second summer, the students travel to the country that they studied.

For most of the month of July 2013, the current group of students will travel to Brazil and to South Africa.

This will be 18-year-old Honor Williams’ first trip outside the United States.

“I had to get my first passport,” said Williams, a recent graduate of the School Without Walls High School. Williams plans to attend The George Washington University (GW) in Northwest this fall. “I’m

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very excited about going to Brazil.”

Williams joined Gaston and Brewer at a graduate luncheon at the Cheesecake Factory in Northwest on June 10 to celebrate reaching the final phase of the CGI program.

The students could barely contain their excitement about traveling this summer.

“They’re all proficient in the Portuguese language,” said Marcia Brown, CGI program manager and director. “Since South Africa has so many different languages, we didn’t teach them any one language, since English is also spoken there.” South Africa has 11 official languages and scores of unofficial ones.

Besides Howard and GW, many of the participants will be attending colleges such as Trinity University in the District, Loyola University in New Orleans, La., and Marymount University in Arlington, Va. “We try to encourage them to send us photos, let us know how [they’re] doing,” said Brewer about the young people once they leave the program, which also helps the students develop other skills.

They learn basic financial literacy, receive assistance with the college preparatory and application process, financial aid, and visit local colleges.

While at the Cheesecake Factory, the group met a former CGI graduate.

“I loved it so much,” said Aijewel Ballard, 21, a Howard University student and Cheesecake Factory employee, who traveled to China The Washington Informer

Aijewel Ballard, 21, a Howard University student and Cheesecake Factory employee traveled to China with CGI’s first group in 2007. She was in the 10th grade at the time. /Photo by Michelle Phipps-Evans

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“What struck me most was the plate sizes for the food. It’s so different. Much smaller,” Ballard said.

Gaston said it was exciting for a girl from D.C. to be immersed in a new culture.

“Seeing China on TV and experiencing China in real life are two dramatically different things,” said

Gaston, now an intern at HSCDC, who wrote about her experience in U.S.-China Review. “I believe that was the most important lesson I learned. Why settle for looking at someone else’s vacation pictures… when you can actually go out there and experience things for yourself?

I want to walk the land and breathe the air of all the places I am destined to go.” wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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Residents Fight McMillan Development Plan

By James Wright WI Staff Writer A group of activists who primarily live in Ward 5 are taking on the Gray administration’s plan to support a development firm bent on transforming an historic site into an enclave of high-rise buildings. The group opposes the plan because they contend that it’s out of character with the neighborhood.

The Friends of McMillan Park (FOM) want the Gray administration to open up the bidding on the development of the McMillan Park Reservoir Sand Filtration Site in Northwest to firms other than Vision McMillan Partners (VMP), the city’s preferred development team. Kirby Vining, a leader with FOM, is concerned that VMP’s plans are too focused on commercial and residential development and does not respect the history and green space of the McMillan site.

“The mayor has considered one proposal,” said Vining, 59. “We want to see some competition. We would like to have a plan where 50 percent of the site stays parkland and we want more creative uses.”

The VMP plan, according to its website, envisions a new community that consists of homes, offices, parks of various sizes, retail stores and arts spaces while retaining the historical character of the property. Vining, who disagrees with the VMP plan, said that high-rise buildings are included in their design and the greenery on the site will essentially be destroyed.

The 25-acre site, which sits along North Capitol Street, cleaned all of the city’s water supply for decades through its sand filtration plant and is one of the first areas to racially integrate before World War II. The site was owned by the federal government until 1986 when it was declared surplus property and the General Services Administration decided not to keep it.

The District government bought the site for $9.3 million in 1987 and a decision was made to develop the property. For 26 years the parcel has been vacant and has deteriorated.

In the mid-2000s, the former National Capital Revitalization Corporation selected the property as a part of a land swap involving what is now the Nationals Park in Southeast. The District government led by D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty selected VMP to develop the land in 2007.

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Millan site project manager Shiv Newaldness and director of real estate Jeff Miller met with residents on June 6 at the All Nations Baptist Church in Northeast to hear the concerns of the community.

Well over 100 residents criticized the VMP proposal, with some supporting a plan that would preserve the site’s underground caverns and parkland with limited residential and retail space.

The meeting didn’t convince the deputy mayor’s officials to change its development team.

D.C. Council member Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5) is believed to support the VMP plan. However, he recently aided the FOM by prodding the city’s planning and economic development office to release a document – the Exclusive Rights Agreement – to the organization that pertains to the site.

“The Friends of McMillan Park are very grateful to Council member McDuffie for stepping up and aiding us with obtaining this document,” Vining said.

The FOM has collected 3,500 signatures from District residents to open up the bidding process, Vining said. In addition to McDuffie, they have approached D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4), a 2014 mayoral candidate and the chair of the D.C. Council’s economic development committee, and D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), another 2014 mayoral hopeful and the chair of the powerful finance committee, about what they plan to do to preserve the character of the McMillan site.

Tony Norman, a longtime member of the FOM and the chair of the 1B advisory neighborhood commission, said that he hopes Evans makes the right choice.

“This is a chance for Evans to set himself apart from the other contenders and support the clearly demonstrated desire of the residents around McMillan Park and Ward 5 for a park instead of the suburban-style development pushed by the Gray administration,” said Norman, 48.

Vining said that if necessary, FOM will approach the entire D.C. Council on the matter.

“What we want is a normal bidding process for the development of the park,” he said. “It should not be limited to just one group.” Wi

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Ways said this type of business competition is a “useful tool” and becoming increasingly common across the United States but this is the first time it’s being tried by the county.

“It is a way of generating interest and reaching potential entrepreneurs [who] might otherwise not be aware of these opportunities,” said Ways.

The development is also located between two other developments that are part of the area’s revitalization – a proposed Whole Foods store and the Hyattsville Arts District.

To be eligible for the business competition, applicants must be a for-profit enterprise with annual revenues that do not exceed $500,000.

Proposals must be received and time stamped by the Redevelopment Authority no later than noon on July 8.

Submissions must be sealed, and the outside envelope marked “Riverdale Park Business Development Competition.”

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A different kind of competition will soon be underway in Prince George’s County. The winner will be chosen not on looks or luck, but whose business idea outshines the rest.

Riverdale Park is seeking to attract a fresh business venture and is offering incentives to the winner of its business development competition.

The person or persons judged to have the best business plan and oral presentation will be awarded retail space at Riverdale Park Town Center with a lease at a below market rate.

The prize is a three-year lease with up to 877-square-feet of space at $10 a square foot. Retail space in the center normally rents for $14-$20 a square foot.

Located adjacent to the Gateway Arts District, Riverdale Park Town Center is part of the district’s multi-jurisdictional effort to promote walkable, bikeable, creative areas where shopping, dining and art and entertainment are available. The center is a 15,400-square-foot office/retail development on Queensbury Road.

“This is an ideal location, between the University of Maryland and the Gateway Arts District, for a local business looking for prime commercial space,” said Howard Ways, executive director of the Redevelopment Authority of Prince George’s County.

“It is well served by transit and accessible from nearby major roads like Route 1 and Route 410.”

Prince George’s County Councilman Eric Olson, whose office is also one of the sponsors of the contest, said reviving the area is at the core of the governments’ efforts.

“Riverdale Park’s Town Center has some great spaces for businesses, and the county, town and property owner are committed to revitalizing this historic commercial area,” said Olson. “This business competition is a creative way to activate one of the storefronts and contribute toward the area’s growth.”

The winner also will be eligible to apply for business development funding through the county’s Economic Development Incentive Fund. These

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Visitors who attended the Juneteenth festivities at Watkins Park in Upper Marlboro enjoy a game of chess. /Photo by Shanelle Spivey

Juneteenth Festivities Attract Thousands A Day of Music, History at Watkins Park

By Gale Horton Gay WI Staff Writer Juneteenth was celebrated in a big way in Prince George’s County.

Thousands took advantage of sunny, near-perfect weather on June 15 attending the 6th Annual Juneteenth Celebration at Watkins Regional Park in Upper Marlboro.

The free event included a full day of dance and musical performances and plenty of food and drink. However, this celebration also had a serious side with morning and afternoon genealogy workshops, costumed historical interpreters sharing facts and tales from years past and numerous ways for adults and children to gather and collect historical information.

“It’s a great opportunity to share the history of African Americans and share the history of Prince George’s County,” said Anthony Nolan, division chief of Natural and Historical Resources for the county.

Juneteenth is a national commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.

From its Galveston, Texas, origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African-American emancipation day has spread across the United States and marks the date that the last enslaved people learned of their freedom.

Historical interpreter Jo Mimms of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission talked to passersby at a booth where she explained quilting and sewing techniques of

earlier times and the “not-so-famous” African American women of the 19th century.

“Everybody knows about Harriet Tubman,” said Mimms, dressed in a blue and tan checkered period dress that she handstitched. “Everybody knows Sojourner Truth but not everybody knows Emily Saunders Plummer.” Plummer was an enslaved woman who lived in Maryland and Washington, D.C., and who tried repeatedly to escape slavery along with family members.

Lyndra L. Marshall, commissioner with the Maryland Commission on African-American History and Culture, was one of the presenters leading a “Beginning Genealogy” workshop. She said about 35 people attended with many receiving one-on-one counseling about how to begin or advance their genealogy searches.

“Once a person knows where they come from, they have a better understanding of who they are and where they need to go in life,” said Marshall.

At another workshop on using Freedman Bank records as a research tool, Damani Davis told a group of about 20 that the records can be a gold mine of vital genealogical information. Those in attendance asked Davis a range of questions about age discrepancies in records and how best to use marriage records.

“Be flexible and be open minded,” Davis told the enthusiastic group of new genealogists.

Other workshops included “Be Careful What You Throw Away” and DNA testing.

Alesia Thornton of Columbia attended the celebration with her

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11-year-old daughter Carina. She said it’s an event she attends annually.

“I think it’s important to teach our young people our heritage so they learn to appreciate what they have,” said Thornton.

Carina, who cited decorating a T-shirt as one of her favorite activities at the celebration, added that she learned about how enslaved people used songs to communicate.

Throughout the park, banners were displayed that promoted African-American heritage sites in the county such as Cherry Hill Cemetery, Abraham Hall, Holy Family Catholic Church and Dorsey Chapel.

The Uhuru Quilters Guild also hosted an African-American Quilt exhibit at the Watkins Nature Center. Among the quilts on display and available for sale was a 40-inch by 60-inch colorful piece called “Gospel Hymn”

by Elsie Houston and a 84-inch by 98-inch quilt by Nadine Mills called “African Pieces.” They also handed out tips on quilt care, storage, cleaning and display.

The Taritibu Youth Association, Savage X, Nolan Williams and the Voices of Inspiration, Black Notes, and Sudden M Pac were among the music and dance groups that performed to a crowd that swayed, sang along, with many jumping to their feet and dancing to the music.

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Substantially Equal?

By Shantella Sherman WI Staff Writer Racial prejudice could easily be viewed as the dominant social experience faced by both African Americans and immigrants before the civil rights movement. Challenged with a desire to assimilate into the larger white mainstream, both groups singularly and collectively utilized educational opportunities to elevate their status from that of second-class citizenship. By the close of World War II, following the participation of an unprecedented number of black servicemen in liberating Europe, African Americans mobilized to bring about their own social liberation. Attacking education through the stark inequities created by generations of separate and unequal funding became the logical first move in dismantling segregation completely.

In the late 1940s lawyers working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) brought several class action lawsuits on behalf of black school children and their families in Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, D.C., and Delaware, seeking court orders to compel school districts to let black students attend white public schools.

One of these class actions, Brown v. Board of

An Historical Examination of School Segregation and America’s Need for ‘Brown’

Education was filed against the Topeka, Kansas school board by representative-plaintiff Oliver Brown. Brown, a railroad worker, alleged his daughter, eight-year-old Linda, (a third grader) had to walk half a mile through a railroad switch yard to catch a bus to get to her school, even though an all-white elementary school was only seven blocks away. Brown claimed that Topeka’s racial segregation violated the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause because the city’s Black and white schools were not equal to each other and never could be. The federal district court dismissed his claim, ruling that the segregated public schools were substantially equal enough to be constitutional. James Pennyman, 71, remembers the South Carolina case –Briggs v. Elliott that became a part of the Brown case.

“It must be understood that this was not a case of the white school having a swimming pool and the Negro one, none. Parents were fighting against dilapidated buildings, no electricity, no bathrooms, no books, limited course materials, and the reality that if the child survived miles of walking to get to school, they may come out with just enough education to be a white person’s servant,” Pennyman said.

“Many whites believed Black people were a different species of animal. It was inconceivable that they or their children would be forced to

live, eat next to, go to school with, or be a social equal to an animal.”

Those beliefs in the social primitiveness of Blacks were based on a scientific and social theory known as Social Darwinism, which permeated everything from notions of beauty to neighborhood redlining. As Brown attorneys Thurgood Marshall, George E.C. Hayes, and James M. Nabrit began their arguments, they found Social Darwinism firmly in place in the enactment and enforcement of school segregation.

“I got the feeling on hearing the discussion yesterday that when you put a white child in a school with a whole lot of colored children, the child would fall apart or something. Everybody knows that is not true,” Marshall said during the Supreme Court hearings.

Even more disturbing than the general disorganization of segregated education was the psychological consequence of being deemed inferior. A fact-finding report on the effects of prejudice, discrimination and segregation on the personality development of children was prepared as a basis for portions of the deliberations of Brown during the Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth.

This report, along with the earth-shattering results of Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s “Doll

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“I got the feeling on hearing the discussion yesterday that when you put a white child in a school with a whole lot of colored children, the child would fall apart or something. Everybody knows that is not true.”

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Tests”, became critical instruments in dismantling school segregation.

The former found that segregation, prejudice, and their social equivalents had the ability to damage personalities of both those being discriminated against and those engaged in racist and prejudiced behaviors. The result: Those discriminated against become confused about their own self-worth.

“Like all other human beings [the Negro children] require a sense of personal dignity; on the other hand, almost no where in the larger society do they find their own dignity as human beings respected by others … He wonders whether his group and he himself are worthy of no more respect than they receive. This conflict and confusion leads to self-ha-

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tred and rejection of [their] own group,” the authors concluded.

The Supreme Court agreed with these findings, writing in the Brown decision that: “Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law; for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the Negro group. A sense of inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn. Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to [retard] the educational and mental development of Negro children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racially integrated school system.”wi

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We Need Our Fathers I believe one of the greatest problems facing the black community is fatherlessness.

If you at look at problems such as incarceration, drug addiction, gangs, teen pregnancy, dropping out, crime, suspension, retention, and special education, the common cause points to fatherlessness.

Every child needs a father and no one needs him more than black boys.

Only 28 percent of black youth have their fathers in the home. In 1920, it was 90 percent and in 1960 it was 80 percent.

Neither slavery nor northern migration created black fatherlessness.

It is very difficult proposing to your future wife and raising a family when you are unemployed. In 1920, America needed black men to work farms.

In 1960, America needed black men to work in factories.

The million-dollar question today, is what does America need from black men?

Is the answer prisons? Could America operate prisons without black men who comprise nearly 50 percent of their population?

The billion-dollar question we must ask ourselves is what can we do to put black men back to work? How can a people earn more than $900 billion and have almost half its men unemployed?

The answer is when the black community only spends three percent of its income with black businesses.

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for all men, 89 percent of Asian children, 75 percent of white children and 59 percent of Hispanic children have their fathers in the home.

Could it be the above communities spend more than three percent of their income with their businesses?

African Americans could almost eliminate their unemployment rate if they simply spent 10 percent of their income with black businesses.

How do we explain two black fathers who are both laid off from the same company with two completely different reactions?

The first father allows society to determine his manhood, husbandry and fatherhood. He believes if he is unemployed he is worthless. Therefore, he drinks and smokes more, abuses his family and sells drugs.

The second father derives his worth from God. He believes he will always be the husband and father regardless of his employment status.

While looking for work, he

cleans the house, makes dinner and checks homework. He decides to enroll in college and sell newspapers.

The first father is now emotionally separated from his children and is incarcerated. The second father is now closer to his family, better educated and now has a job with the newspaper.

We have six types of fathers.

First, we have sperm donors who make babies, but do not raise them. We could solve most of our problems tonight if we could rid ourselves of sperm donors.

Next, we have no-show daddies. They promise their child they will pick them up and don’t show. We cannot blame this on racism.

Third, are ice cream daddies.

They feel guilty because they do not spend time with their child.

Therefore, they buy their child whatever they want.

Next, are the divorced dads.

They would like to do more for their child, but their ex-wife prevents this from happening.

Next, are step-fathers.

I hate this term. These men check homework, pay bills and nurture their children, but the sperm donor is called father.

Last, are fathers who have never left their children, and either stayed with their mate or she encourages his involvement after the divorce. Real fathers never divorce their children!

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Obama’s Trip to Africa In late June and early July, President Obama and the first lady will be traveling to sub-Saharan Africa. They plan on visiting South Africa, the West African nation of Senegal, and Tanzania on Africa’s east coast. If anyone wonders why the son of a Kenyan senior government economist isn’t traveling to his ancestral homeland, it has to do with the charges brought by the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague against Kenya’s newly elected president Uhuru Kenyatta for “crimes against humanity.” By not going to Kenya, Obama also avoids jibes from “Birthers” about returning to his birthplace.

Nobody is playing this as: “Homeboy Returns.” The presidential trip holds meager expectations in regard to American foreign policy gaining any momentum in many of Africa’s 54 countries, and little toward Obama’s presidential legacy. According to the White House, the purpose of the weeklong trip is “to underscore the president’s commitment to broadening and deepening the cooperation between the United States and the people of sub-Saharan Africa to advance regional and global peace and prosperity.” During the three scheduled stops, the president plans to meet and discuss strategic partnerships on bilateral and global issues with leaders of government, business and civil society, but there will only be a smattering of Black American business leaders in the presidential entourage. “It’s a shame that an American president would go to Africa and not have an African-American business delegation” said Washington, D.C-based international trade lawyer, Lawrence Smith.

Located on the coast of the Indian Ocean, Tanzania is home to 50 million people. Tanzania produces massive amounts of precious metals and valuable resources, including natural gas. When the Obamas land in Senegal they will find it to be one of the more stable countries in the region due to its higher GDP and its lack of civil conflicts. And, South Africa maintains the continent’s largest economy, along with a stable government and political system.

Ranked by the World Bank as an upper middle income economy, South Africa has Africa’s largest economy and the world’s 28th largest. By purchasing power parity, South Africa has Africa’s 5th highest per capita income.

It’s considered a newly industrialized country. The man Obama has tapped to be ambassador to South Africa is Patrick Gaspard whose parents are Haitian. Gaspard worked on the Dawww.washingtoninformer.com

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However, Obama’s overture of note regarding Africa occurred during a Washington D.C. interview prior to Obama’s departure to Africa, Zimbabwe’s ambassador to the U.S., Machivenyika Mapuranga, said that President Obama is “rescinding regime change” practices. Black Press Editor George Curry was recently in the region and reported from Harare that the White House recently dispatched former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young to Zimbabwe to initiate a new approach toward the government of President Robert Mugabe.

In terms of generating any real trade with Africa, Obama’s delegation is “a day late and a dollar short.”

In contrast to the lack of attention American presidents have paid Africa, China’s top five leaders visit Africa annually, as have the leaders of countries such as France, Brazil, Turkey and India, all of whom are actively investing in Africa. The Chinese have “constructive engagements” with at least 30 African countries.

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Fast Food Proximity Harmful to Minority Kids, Says Study Special to the Informer from NNPA When their schools are near fast-food restaurants, black and Hispanic adolescents are more likely to be overweight and receive less benefit from exercise than Asian or white students, according to a study published in the current issue of Journal of Public Policy & Marketing.

Researchers suggest that the study underscores the importance of understanding how adolescents respond to fast-food availability near school.

“Our study demonstrates that fast food near schools is an environmental influence that has magnified effects on some minority children at lower-income urban schools,” said Brennan Davis, Ph.D., assistant professor of marketing at Baylor University, who co-authored the study with Sonya Grier, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing at

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Students attending lower-income schools on average have a higher body mass index (BMI) and consume more soda. Likewise, urban schools have students who on average have higher BMI and consume more soda. To put these results in perspective, the study found that for all students, having a fast-food restaurant a mile nearer to school almost entirely cancels the body weight benefits of exercising one day per week. However, for black and Hispanic students in lower-income urban neighborhoods, having a fast-food restaurant a mile nearer to school may cancel the benefits of up to three days of exercise per week.

“The findings imply that it is important to examine the behaviors and contexts associated with low-income and ethnic minority status in urban areas,” said Grier.“These populations not only are the fastest growing

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Researchers have shown that when fast food restaurants are located near schools, it serves as an environmental influence over students and has the potential to foster unhealthy eating habits and teen obesity. / Courtesy photo

but also have the highest rates of obesity, and research is relatively limited.”

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thors, the school environment is, more often than many other settings, one in which adolescents make food choices free from the family structure and parental control and can occur during lunch or before and after school.

The study highlights the need to understand local targeted marketing strategies and outcomes according to income, ethnicity, and geographic segmentation.

Many of the ethnic groups that are increasing in size and purchasing power, and are increasingly of interest to marketers, are also geographically concentrated.

The current study builds on previous research (American Journal of Public Health, 2009)

by Davis and Christopher Carpenter, Ph.D., associate professor of economics and public policy at The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, which found that students with fastfood restaurants within onehalf mile of their school consumed fewer servings of fruits and vegetables, consumed more servings of soda, and were more likely to be overweight than were youths whose schools were not near fast-food restaurants.wi

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District of Columbia Public Schools Summer Food Program Operates at 41 Schools The District of Columbia Public Schools system will participate in the federally-funded Summer Food Service program, serving breakfast and lunch free of charge at 41 schools across the city. Most of the participating programs will begin on July 1 and end Aug. 2.

The summer food program is an extension of the free and reduced meals initiative that takes place during the school year.

The summer program provides students with the healthy meals they may not otherwise receive while schools are closed.

For additional information, contact Robert Jaber, interim director of DCPS Food & Nutrition Services, at 202-442-6133 or robert.jaber@dc.gov Prince George’s County Public Schools Schools Earn Green Certification Three Prince George’s County public schools – Deerfield Run Elementary School, Lewisdale Elementary School and Gwynn Park High School – recently earned their Maryland Green School certification for the first time.

In addition, four other schools – Charles H. Flowers High School, Scotchtown Hills Elementary School, Laurel Elementary School and The Tanglewood School – recertified their Green School status.

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munities for best practices in environmental management and education, and prepare students to be environmental stewards beyond the classroom.”

The Maryland Green School Awards program, sponsored by the Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE), is one of the most rigorous and comprehensive Green School certification programs in the country.

Through a non-competitive application process, schools must demonstrate their green activities and culture in eight criteria. All of the newly-certified and recertified schools and centers were honored during the MAEOE Youth Summit on May 31 at Sandy Point State Park in Anne Arundel County, Md. Montgomery County Public Schools Board of Education Adopts $2.23 Billion Budget The Montgomery County Board of Education has unanimously adopted a $2.23 billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 operating budget that will allow the school system to continue its programs.

The funding will also allow city and school officials to invest in efforts to narrow the achievement gap. The FY 2014 budget represents a $57.1 million – or 2.6 percent increase over the current year.

“I want to thank the citizens of Montgomery County for their continued commitment to our students. They clearly understand that the future of our county is directly tied to our ability to prepare our students for the workplace of the 21st century,” said Board of Education President Christopher S.

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Alexandria Public Schools T.C. Williams Students, Coach Earn Sports Awards The T.C. Williams Crew Team held its first official practice of the 2013 spring rowing season on a cold, blustery afternoon on Feb. 19. Three state championships, two silver medals and eight bronze medals later, the Titans gathered one last time this season for an awards ceremony that recognized their significant accomplishments and to honor some of the athletes who contributed to their success.

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RAP, Inc., Fights Drugs, Builds Communities While U.S. Attorney Ron Machen cracks down on the illegal conduct of D.C. elected officials, his attention is also focused on the drug trafficking taking place in the nation’s capital. Unfortunately, drug abuse and illegal drug distribution hasn’t gone away; it continues to flourish along city streets each and every day.

PCP, methamphetamines and heroin, along with alcohol, prescription drugs and marijuana are among the drugs that slowly chip away at the lives of individuals who end up with addictions that result in joblessness, homelessness, violence, incarceration or death.

Law enforcement officers and medical officials are engaged in a constant battle against drugs and the impact that these substances have on the overall community.

The crisis may ebb and flow for some, but for organizations like RAP, Inc., it’s a never-ending battle to help individuals fight their addictions. Many have had lifelong struggles with substance abuse, and for most, it’s a combination of drugs that makes the transition to a drug-free life all the harder.

Ron Clark, founder of RAP, Inc., has been in the fight for 43 years. Clark started RAP, Inc., (formerly known as Rehabilitation Addiction Prevention) in the heat of the 1970s drug crisis when heroin and cocaine, especially “crack” cocaine, ruled the streets of D.C. – and the nation – in general.

That era caused President Ronald Reagan and Congress to launch the infamous War on Drugs which resulted in thousands of young black men ending up in prison or dead.

Clark’s approach was different. He believed, and eventually proved, that the War on Drugs could be a drug-free battle. Rather than shooting-up heroin addicts with methadone to supposedly “cure” their addiction, RAP focused on cultural awareness, vocational training, health care, educational support and housing, instead. In addition, the program continues to provide aftercare and recovery support, case management, HIV/AIDS services, supportive housing and emergency shelter.

The organization’s efforts have resulted in hundreds of individuals who attribute their clean and sober lifestyles to RAP, Inc., and they credit Clark and his staff for being there for them for the past 43 years.

The key to RAP’s success is residential treatment, which is why the non-profit organization broke ground this week for the expansion of its Calvin W. Rolark Treatment Facility on Fourth Street, NE. When the new facility opens in the fall of 2014, 30 new treatment beds will be added to the 120 beds RAP, Inc., already has in its District and Maryland residential treatment facilities.

Calvin Woodland, aide to Ward 1 Council member Jim Graham (D), and a recovering addict who was incarcerated 38 times, believes drug treatment changed his life. Woodland told supporters who attended the ground breaking for the new center expansion on Monday, June 17, that “Ron Clark cares about putting people’s lives back together.”

We agree with Woodland and so many others that Clark has fought the good fight and is now expanding services to make more District residents whole. But RAP, Inc., will need financial and volunteer support to fulfill the need for effective drug treatment for District residents. His success is our success and we encourage everyone to visit RAP’s website and support the “Buy a Brick, Build a Facility Campaign.”

In the words of the late Dr. Calvin W. Rolark, publisher of The Washington Informer, founder of the United Black Fund and longtime supporter of RAP, Inc., “If it is to be, it is up to me.”

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Another Disappointing Politician

As I was reading the article in your June 13-19 issue, regarding Michael Brown’s guilty plea, I was both saddened and disappointed. Saddened because Mr. Brown obviously learned nothing from the disgrace of his former colleagues on the D.C. Council (Harry Thomas Jr. and Kwame Brown); disappointed because I wasted my vote on Brown. He served on the council from 2009-2013.

I now tend to agree with those who say that we must start looking very, very closely at our candidates for public office, and make the sometimes difficult decision to vote “outside of the box.” If we had done this with Michael Brown, we could have saved ourselves and the city from this embarrassing situation.

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I am so glad that Prince George’s County is finally getting a major state agency to locate its headquarters here. This has been a long time coming, as stated in Gale Horton Gay’s article in your June 13-19 issue.

The mixed use property that the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) will occupy will provide jobs and residential and retail options for Prince George’s County residents. Thank goodness we are getting this agency within our borders! It should have happened long ago.

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By Julianne Malveaux

Is ‘Big Brother’ Racially Biased?

When George Orwell wrote the novel 1984, he envisioned a character, real or imagined “Big Brother” who was a know-all, see-all, omnipotent and elusive presence that intruded into lives because he could. Those who knew about “him” were told that they did not exist, but in many ways, Big Brother may not have existed, either. The omnipotence had taken on a life of its own.

Orwell’s book was a book

ahead of its time. At a different time, his book could have been dismissed as psychedelic fantasy.

Today, he is just a step behind the reality in which we live. Verizon is sharing telephone records.

The Department of Justice is monitoring journalists, and the IRS is playing games with those who seek nonprofit status. People pulled over for a minor traffic violation will have to submit fingerprints to find out if they have broken other laws. Big Brother is alive and well in too many layers of our lives.

Meanwhile, market researchers are segmenting populations by zip code and consumer patterns. They can tell you what percentage of Whites; African Americans or Latinos live in a certain zip code. They can tell you what you earn, what you are worth, and how many of your neighbors have criminal records. The zip code data drives marketers. Does it also drive law enforcement?

A recent study indicated that African Americans are between 2 and 6 percent more likely to be

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arrested for marijuana violations that Whites. I guess it is easier to arrest from a corner than from a country club! The rate of arrests for marijuana possession is 716 per 100,000 for African Americans, compared to 192 per 100,000 for Whites. The disparity is much higher in some counties.

Does this mean that African Americans are breaking more laws, or that law enforcement officers are targeting some zip codes or communities more regularly? It is a lot easier to pick up

a few citizens enjoying marijuana in a park than banging down the doors of an elite country club. Yet data about marijuana usages suggests that there is little to distinguish the habits of African Americans from those of Whites. The only difference is the arrest rate.

Big Brother knows.

Big Brother has driven the kind of demographic that will tell you where you can find low-income, highly unemployed

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By James Clingman

Heeding the Messages of our Ancestors You would think that since the end of slavery and through the ensuing years Black people in this country would be further along in our economic evolution than we are today. You would think there would be no need for the economic empowerment messages that other columnists and I write about on a regular basis.

You would think Black children of the 21st century would be sitting pretty right about now, con-

sidering all we have been taught and all we have been through in our economic struggle since we were fired – I mean freed.

As I read the powerful words of our ancestors, both men and women, I hear the very same messages coming from them over 100 years ago. I hear them saying to our people who lived during that time, “Let’s build our own businesses,” “Seek for ourselves,” “Save our money and work together.” “Be producers.”

It goes on and on.

The question that arises is: Why haven’t we heeded the messages of our ancestors? We are still trying to implement some of the economic principles they lived by many years ago. They had far fewer resources than we have today; they were quite limited when it came to transportation, communication, and education. Yet they developed and followed principles that if practiced today, would propel us toward the reality of true freedom.

A collective effort that should

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have been a natural evolution from generation to generation, among Black people, has now become a much-needed revolution. Our economic demise is the direct result of a lack of evolution. If we had followed the natural path of economic growth for Black people in this country, from the early 1900s until today, we would have evolved into one of the most powerful groups in the entire world. All we have instead is the dubious recognition of having an annual income

that, if we were a country, would make us the tenth largest in the world.

There was a time, John Sibley Butler’s “Economic Detour” premise notwithstanding, when Black businesses flourished, even without access to the general market. The National Negro Business League, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and other Black business organizations helped create not

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By Lee A. Daniels

1963: The Civil Rights Movement’s Watershed Year Fifty years ago this month, two of the chief characteristics of the modern Civil Rights Movement were dramatically, tragically illuminated in Jackson, Miss. by an assassin’s bullet.

The first was that Black Americans’ nonviolent quest for full citizenship was going to be marked by a violent resistance and the sacrifice of martyrs.

The second was that that reality would stop neither the Move-

ment’s frontline activists nor the Black masses from pressing forward.

For it was in Jackson, on the night of June 11, 1963, that a bullet, fired from a 30.06-caliber rifle with a telescopic sight, struck down Medgar Evers, the young, charismatic field secretary of the Mississippi state N.A.A.C.P. as he exited his automobile in the driveway of his home.

Evers’ murder, when it occurred and in hindsight, bore witness to the fact that the Black freedom struggle had risen in ex-

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plosive fashion to the top of the nation’s agenda.

The Birmingham protest itself provoked an eruption of more than 750 demonstrations of one kind or another against segregation across the country, historian Taylor Branch noted in Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954 – 1963.

In Jackson itself, city officials had seemingly out-maneuvered the civil rights forces. But at a mass meeting on the night of June 11, Evers, a World War II veteran who had fearlessly con-

fronted racism in the state all his life, electrified the audience by calling for a renewed “massive offensive” against segregation in the city. The gathering applauded for 20 minutes.

Evers’ murder also occurred on the night of the very day that the federal government had forced Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace to stage his infamous “stand in the schoolhouse door” and then retreat as Vivian Malone and James Hood became the first Black students to successfully enroll in the University

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of Alabama since Autherine Lucy’s mob-inspired withdrawal in 1956 .

That success had spurred President Kennedy to instantly decide to alert the national television and radio networks that he was commanding air time that evening to deliver a major address to the nation on civil rights. In it, JFK dropped his hitherto politically expedient distance from the Movement and fully embraced its cause, an-

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By Harry C. Alford

Why Black Business Programs aren’t Working Last week, I explained why we have Black business programs.

The evolution of them from the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the cause for their existence. Title VI of the Act and along with U.S. Supreme Court decisions justifies their existence. The most frustrating thing about it is the fact that most of them don’t work too well. Our collective

gains in the public and corporate marketplace have been little and slow in coming. If we had genuine efforts and very positive results after 49 years of law there would be no need for affirmative action and minority participation programs. In other words, there would be no more discrimination in the business marketplace.

But unfortunately, racism still raises its ugly head.

Let’s look at some examples.

The most important part of making someone eligible for participating in these programs

is certification. For some reason, in 2008, the Small Business Administration ceased certifying Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDB). This will open the door for false claims and fraud. The federal programs will become littered with “front” businesses participating as if they are small and disadvantaged. A million dollar White-owned business could now claim to be a SDB. Thus, there will be participation reports that are terribly inflated and misleading. Maybe that is what the SBA’s intent is since

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their current level for Black participation is 1.5 percent (in 2012).

State departments of transportation are required under Title VI to have diversity programs. The Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) chooses to have a strange version of a program. It’s the race neutral program. Programs that address racial discrimination by having a race neutral program are shams.

In essence, race neutral means “White men companies only.” It doesn’t work and their numbers

show it. In fact, the whole state of California is 54 percent ethnic minority but their procurement programs are virtually void of any acceptable measurement of Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans. On the corporate side, Silicon Valley is a wasteland in terms of procurement diversity. It doesn’t do much better in its hiring practices either. Old Mississippi still lives – it’s in California.

Every five years, states and

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By Marian Wright Edelman

Zero Tolerance Discipline Policies: A Failing Idea Many school children in America are on summer break right now, but here’s a pop quiz about discipline policies in our nation’s schools that’s just for grownups: Would you suspend a student from school for four months for sharpening his pencil without permission and giving the teacher a “threatening” look when asked to sit down?

Would you expel a student from school for the rest of a school year for poking another student

with a ballpoint pen during an exam? Would you expel a student from school permanently because her possession of an antibiotic violated your school’s zero-tolerance drug policy? Would you call the police, handcuff, and then expel a student who started a snowball fight on school grounds?

If you answered “no” to any of these questions because they sounded too unfair to be the result of an actual policy, give yourself a failing grade. All four are real examples of zero toler-

ance school discipline policies in Massachusetts—and there are thousands of stories like these throughout that state and across the country. Suspended and expelled students are at greater risk of dropping out of school and dropping into the prison pipeline, and using automatic suspensions and expulsions for minor infractions often has a major negative effect on a child’s entire future.

New research analyzing the data from the 2009 – 2010 school year in Massachusetts

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found nearly 60,000 school expulsions and suspensions. Just more than half of them were for “unassigned offenses” – nonviolent, noncriminal offenses that can include behavioral issues such as swearing, talking back to a teacher, and truancy (I’ve never understood why you suspend or expel children for not coming to school rather than finding out why). Of the approximately 30,000 “unassigned offenses,” two-thirds received out of school suspension, resulting in 57,000 lost days of school.

What’s more, because Massachusetts schools aren’t currently required to report “unassigned offenses” resulting in exclusions of 10 days or less for regular education students, the estimated actual number of disciplinary exclusions is likely at least two to three times the 60,000 reported.

Jen Vorse Wilka, a student at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, found these startling statistics when she studied zero tolerance discipline

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By Askia Muhammad

The President Has Been ‘O-bamboozled’ Ordinarily I take offense at what seems to me to be ad nauseam attacks on President Barack Obama by certain critics, who could easily be labeled “all the usual suspects.” But now, I am one of them.

Mercilessly from the right, and unmercifully from the left, the president’s policies are under fierce attack.

Right wingers are hypocrites

in their attacks because Obama has frequently been condemned for embracing some of the very policies they loved, when President George W. (for worst in history) Bush invoked them.

Left wingers are naïve because they just don’t understand the enormous responsibility of governing, and dealing with the pressures placed on whoever is the occupant of the Oval Office by the Military Industrial, Big Oil, Big Pharmaceutical, Prison Industrial, Big Bank, Agri-Business forces which have unfet-

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tered access to the presidency around the clock.

I didn’t think it was very funny the first time I heard someone refer to this president as “G.W. Obama” because he has mimicked so many of the infernal policies of his predecessor, but now, here I am ridiculing the guy myself, declaring he has been “O-bamboozled” because he has stepped into the same pit of Middle East quicksand which doomed President Bush-43, that is manufacturing evidence about so-called weapons of mass deThe Washington Informer

struction – in this case chemical weapons – then trying to convince the world of its validity, in order to justify an inherently flawed policy, so that U.S. military force can be applied to bring about a desired diplomatic solution.

But unlike G.W. Bush, G.W. Obama does not have a Secretary of State Colin Powell who he can trot out before the United Nations to deliver phony “proof ” that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has in fact used WMD

against opposition fighter, fighters Assad labels “terrorists.” No, Obama is articulating the trope himself, not even trying to get the U.N. in on it this time. For good reason.

The U.N. says more than 90,000 people have been killed in the conflict and a UNICEF report documented the heavy toll on the country’s children. The report blamed both government and opposition forces and found that “Syrian children are killed or

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Joel Elias Spingarn Senior High School in Northeast. /Photo courtesy of Oldschoolgoldenyears.com

‘The End of an Era’ Spingarn Senior High School Closes after 61 Years

Arthur Scandrett graduated from Spingarn Senior High School in 1959. He points to an article in the Spingarn Sentinel. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah

By Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer

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hen word spread that Joel Elias Spingarn Senior High School in Northeast would close this year, it took a while for people – many of whom expressed disbelief – to get used to the idea: the end of an era was in sight.

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historic school’s Class of 2013 looked forward to new beginnings, the students, faculty and staff who are being displaced as a result of Spingarn’s official closing in July, are grappling with a sense of profound loss – and uncertainty.

“I’m saddened that this significant part of D.C.’s history is ending,” said Arthur Scandrett, 71, who graduated from the school in 1959. “I’m very disappointed,” he said, adding that

his sister, along with some of Spingarn’s most notable alumni like basketball legend Elgin Baylor and Marty Tapscott, a retired Richmond, Va., police chief, were members of the first group of seniors who graduated in 1954.

Spingarn’s principal, Gary Washington who has been at the helm since 2010, said many of the students who had anticipated completing their high school education at the school are “still

a little shell-shocked.”

Although a statement posted on Spingarn’s website states that remaining students will be reassigned to a neighborhood high school, Washington isn’t so sure if that will be the case, as Spingarn has been the only high school within close proximity to their homes.

“There are a lot of mixed emotions,” said Washington, 58.

“The school is old and needs to

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be remodeled. But the biggest challenge is that my students who were ninth-, 10th- and 11th-graders now have to be transported to schools outside their neighborhoods. And that takes away from the concept of neighborhood schools altogether.”

Washington also said he’s waiting to learn of his fate.

“Right now, I don’t know where I’ll be, but I guess I’ll know by the end of the summer vacation,” he said.

Carolyn Anne Brown, a member of the Class of ’83, said Spingarn’s closing is the first D.C. high school to be closed in years.

“So it certainly makes one stop and wonder what’s so challenging that [school officials] would have no choice but to close a school that’s always been an important part of our community,” said Brown, 48.

“I don’t believe all the hype about the school failing. That’s just somebody’s plan to make a lot of money with charter schools, and unfortunately [city officials] are taking the bait,” said the fast food restaurant manager.

“I went to Spingarn. My sisters and brothers went, and we had the best education you could get at a public school. It breaks my heart to see Spingarn fade out like that, but I guess it’s what they call a change for the better.”

Spingarn was named for the Jewish-American educator from New York who championed the education of African Americans. The school sits nestled between the Langston Terrace Dwellings and the Langston Golf Course on Benning Road.

The three-story brick structure has been on the chopping block since November 2012 when D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson first announced her plan to close 20 schools by the end of next year.

Henderson, 44, has since said that Spingarn – which was See SPINGARN on Page 24

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Nevertheless, her intentions were met with widespread community unrest, largely because Spingarn like most of the schools targeted for closure, is located in one of the District’s most troubled neighborhoods.

Henderson apparently paid attention to the outcry, returning to the table in January with a pared-down list of 15 schools that included Spingarn.

In its prime, the school boasted more than 1,200 students each year. But when the last class graduated on June 13, its enrollment had dropped to less than 400 students.

“I’m not an alumna of Spingarn, but I live in Ward 5 and I’m deeply offended that District officials have allowed the school to be closed,” said community activist and former Ward 5 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Kathy Henderson, 58.

“That school was opened to uplift the plight of African Americans, yet they’re giving us this poor argument that it needs to close in order to be revamped into a technology high school,” she said. “But that’s hogwash, because we already have Phelps High School just steps away from Spingarn. I’m highly offended for all of my neighbors who are graduates of Spingarn.”

Kathy Henderson added that the school’s imminent closing leaves parents and students with little clue about what happens next.

“They have targeted Spingarn and other schools in Ward 5 for under-enrollment without any kind of support as to where our children are going to be educated,” Kathy Henderson said.

Tapscott, 76, who returned to the D.C. area after retiring from the Richmond Police Department in 1995, also expressed dismay over the closing of his beloved alma mater.

“I understand that there aren’t enough students and that the school isn’t performing to standards,” Tapscott said. “But my concern is that there won’t be a high school in that part of Northeast anymore,” he said.

“When I attended high school, Spingarn was the only black school we had on that side of

the city. . . I remember having to catch a bus to go all the way up to Dunbar from Oklahoma Avenue during my first year of high school, and I had to pass Eastern High School to get there.

When they built Spingarn that was really a good thing.”

When Spingarn opened in the fall of 1952 – just a couple years before the Supreme Court struck down the concept of segregated school systems – in addition to its distinction as both the newest and most modern of the District’s schools, Spingarn was the top school for black students.

“Spingarn was ‘The School’ back then,” said a smiling Scandrett, who periodically thumbs through the pages of various editions of his class’s newspaper, “The Spingarn Sentinel.”

“My class had 300 students and just about every one of us graduated, because the teachers and principal didn’t play and we learned our lessons,” said Scandrett, who boasts having never missed a day of his high school years.

Meanwhile, Spingarn has been known for its iconic basketball program, where several NBA legends like Baylor, Earl Jones and Detroit Mayor Dave Bing got their start in the high school basketball arena as part of the legendary Green Wave.

The Spingarn “Wall of Fame,” which showcases the numerous trophies awarded the team throughout the years still exists.

And, when the Green Wave hosted its final home game in February, like the imminent closing of the school, that last game was a bittersweet event.

During the game, head basketball coach Keith Jackson summed up the sentiments of many of Spingarn’s students and loyal fans, as he encouraged his players to give the school’s supporters yet another reason to accept the school’s closing with a sense of pride.

Scandrett, for one, could easily relate. “[The 2013] graduation marks the last one in a 61-year history of excellence,” he said. “I believe that despite the hard times it’s been through, that Spingarn has done our city proud.” wi

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“I don’t believe all the hype about the school failing.

That’s just somebody’s plan to make a lot of money with charter schools, and unfortunately [city officials] are taking the bait.”

– Carolyn Anne Brown, a Spingarn High School graduate. Class of 1983

Joel Elias Spingarn. /Photo courtesy of NNDC.com

Arthur Scandrett, a Southeast resident and a 1959 graduate of Spingarn Senior High School has fond memories of attending the high school at 2500 Benning Road in Northeast. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah

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The 2013 Lexus ES marks the seventh generation of the model that helped to establish the Lexus brand and remains one of the marque’s best sellers. /Photo courtesy of Toyota Motor Sales

Hybrid Lexus Dishes Design, Great Mileage

By Njuguna Kabugi WI Contributing Writer In the Lexus automobile lineup, the ES series does not stand out in any particular category. It is not as sporty as the smaller IS series, neither is it as luxurious as the GS or LS. But like the sibling who’s often overlooked but still manages to curve out an enviable niche, the ES distinguishes itself in the category that matters most in the auto business – it is the leader of the pack in sales. As a matter of fact, the ES has been the marque’s best seller since the brand’s launch back in 1989.

In earlier generations, the ES was a thinly veiled Camry, with both cars developed together on a common platform. But with every passing redesign, the parent company, Toyota, has made an effort to distinguish the two.

For this year, the ES has truly outgrown the Camry in length.

The ES is roomier inside, offers more features and for the first time has adopted a blunter nose, a taller greenhouse enclosure, a longer hood and a shorter trunk. The new proportions make the ES look less like

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a Toyota and more like one of the family with the new Lexus spindle grille shared by all the siblings.

We test drove the new hybrid version. Virtually identical to the V-6–powered Lexus ES350 in every respect but its powertrain, the ES300h is the brand’s first entry into the growing entry-luxury hybrid segment. Under the hood is the same 2.5-liter Hybrid Synergy Drive system that powers the Toyota Camry Hybrid and the new Toyota Avalon Hybrid.

Toyota quotes the total system horsepower at 200. The ES300h features three drive modes, just like its V-6 sibling: Normal, Eco, and Sport. Unlike its sibling, the hybrid uses a continuously variable transmission. While I have trashed CVTs in many of my reviews, I was pleasantly pleased with this one. In every mode, the ride is quick, and the CVT system complies without fuss.

The ES300h offers a good argument why one should consider a hybrid. Whether one is in it for eco posing or for the nobler goals of environmental friendliness and efficiency, the ES300 nearly doubles the mileage output of the gasoline only

engine – from 21 mpg for city driving to 40. I managed 35 mpg during a week of mixed driving in the Washington area; that’s 4 mpg better than what I got in the non-luxury Camry hybrid.

The ES300h offers great build quality, a quiet, stable ride, a very comfortable interior and plenty of entertainment and safety gizmos to go with it. I was particularly pleased by the leather-trimmed cabin highlighted by tasteful wood and metallic accents. It’s the kind of car I would love to buy were it not for that journalist-scale salary I take home. The V-6-powered ES350 starts at $36,995, while the new ES300h hybrid model rings in at $39,745.

While the ES300h offers a good value for a Lexus, it faces stiff competition, both from the expected rivals from Audi, Infiniti, and Acura badges, and also from its platform-mate: the freshly re-launched and redesigned 2013 Toyota Avalon Hybrid, which offers a nearly identical level of comfort, efficiency, and technology for thousands of dollars less. wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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St. Francis Xavier Church Remains True to its Mission

By Michelle Phipps-Evans WI Staff Writer Ward 7 resident Joel Nash-Lebeau walked among the flowers and shrubbery at a recent garden tour, hosted by the Hillcrest Community Civic Association. Her eyes glowed as she listened to the many gardening tips provided by homeowners all too willing to share.

“I wouldn’t miss this for the world,” said Nash-Lebeau, 64, a Hillcrest resident since 2009. “It’s good to connect [with] neighbors and to see all these lovely gardens.”

Built 1924, Nash-Lebeau’s home on 33rd Street in Southeast, wasn’t far from the tour, which occurred on a warm Saturday in mid-June.

In retrospect, Nash-Lebeau said “everything is a blessing.”

She works as an administrative assistant in an office within the Executive Office of the President, makes a living wage, and enjoys a good life in the District.

It’s hard to imagine that eight years ago, she and her then-20year-old son, Bertrand Jr. (B.J.), fled from New Orleans, La., because of Hurricane Katrina. The hurricane, described as the deadliest and most destructive hurricane in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, claimed the lives of 1,833 people during the storm and in the subsequent floods after the levees broke.

“I lost everything,” said Nash-Lebeau, a commissioned artist, who moved to D.C. in September 2005, after she and B.J. survived what she described as “three days of horror with hardly any food or water,” while living at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. They counted among the tens of thousands of evacuees left homeless by the storm. The next day the mother and son headed to Baton Rouge, La., where a church assisted them. Eventually, B.J. headed to Houston, Texas, while his mother decided to come to the District.

She has no regrets.

Nash-Lebeau said what gave her the strength to keep going was the outpouring of support from St. Francis Xavier Church on Pennsylvania Avenue in Southeast. She spotted the church at 28th Street by chance as she rode the bus to another church. However, St. Francis was closer to her apartment.

Nash-Lebeau introduced herself to the parishioners after then-pastor, the Rev. Gregory

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Butta asked for first-time visitors to stand up at the church one Sunday morning during services.

“Soon, (church leaders) came up to me and asked what I needed and said [they would] help [me] in any way,” said Nash-Lebeau. “Father Butta was so generous.”

The former reverend served as pastor of the 400-family parish between 2000 and 2011. The 89-year-old church, a member of the Archdiocese of Washington, has embodied the mission of living as the “salt of the earth.”

“We’re always grateful for blessings received,” said Butta who added it’s within the “spirit of the church” to be helpful.

Since its early days as a mission, St. Francis Xavier parish has shown itself to be a community of faith, service and worship in the heart of Southeast, under its first pastor, the Rev. Monsignor Joseph Buckley. Consistent with the evangelical spirit of the growing mission, Buckley named the chapel for St. Francis Xavier, the patron saint of missions and one of the greatest missionaries in the history of the Catholic Church. Recently, the Catholic leader, Pope Francis I also embraced the name because it embodied that spirit of service.

That spirit has continued and expanded at St. Francis Xavier under new leadership since 2011.

The church is now pastored by Father Jim Boccabella who said that if “there’s something we can do to help someone, we’ll do it.”

“Part of the mission of the Catholic Church is to have a preferential option for the poor,” said Boccabella, 60, ordained as a priest four years ago. “That’s why I see Catholic Charities and the (Society of St. Vincent de Paul) as the ones to provide the expertise and to do

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it well.” Both organizations have longstanding histories of serving the poor.

“He has been a breath of fresh air to St. Francis Xavier Church,” said longtime parishioner Geraldine Thompkins, 64, about Boccabella. She heads up the church’s St. Vincent de Paul Society, which hadn’t been part of St. Francis since 2005; but has returned with a renewed mission and energy. The society offers services to the poor unable to meet basic needs, hospitalization, job search and referral services.

Since the society returned at Boccabella’s request, it started a food pantry early in May. “We’re specifically targeting low-income residents of Ward 7,” Thompkins added. “Word is spreading and we’ve seen 100 people a month.” Last Thanksgiving, the society gave away 60 baskets of food, and gave Christmas gifts to 300 children.

Boccabella emphasized that those seeking help don’t need to be church members.

“They don’t even need to be Catholic,” he added. “My aim is for this parish to be a place to encounter Christ in a number of ways. There are a number of people who are poor – not just financially. They’re poor in spirit and they struggle to find a source of happiness. We know that Jesus Christ is the only source of happiness.”

Nash-Lebeau said she knows this contentment.

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Toronto Football Club Defeat D.C. United 2-1

Toronto goalkeeper Joseph Bendik guesses the direction D.C. United Captain Dwayne De Rosario intends to place his penalty kick, but is unable to save the goal before it landed in the back of the net. “We just didn’t play good in any facet of the game,” said D.C. United head coach Ben Olsen. “We looked tired. They had a lot more energy than us . . . Some of the guys that came into the game, some of the newer guys looked a little confused.” /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Mystics Defeat Fever 64-60 Mystics guard Ivory Latta gets around Indiana Fever forward Tamika Catchings in the first quarter of women’s basketball action on Sunday, June 16 at the Verizon Center in Northwest. The Mystics defeated the defending WNBA Champion Indiana Fever 64-60. Latta led the Mystics in scoring with 17 points, three rebounds and two steals. “We struggled, but we came together as a team,” Latta said. “The chemistry is building, and I’m glad it’s building in the fourth quarter. So, we pulled together, and got a win.” /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Mystics forward Monique Currie gets around Indiana Fever forward Tamika Catchings during women’s basketball action on Sunday, June 16 at the Verizon Center in Northwest. The Mystics defeated Indiana 64-60. /Photo

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Annual Pre-Father’s Day Basketball Showcase

The Rita B. Bright Family and Youth Center is a community facility that serves children six years old and older. On Saturday June 15, the Rita B. Bright Family and Youth Center located in Northwest was filled to capacity for the Annual Pre-Father’s Day Basketball Showcase. It was a family-orientated event for the Washington Metropolitan area. The showcase included live dance performances, featured guests, a 3-point and slam dunk contest and a basketball game between fathers. The event was held in honor of fathers, who have dedicated their lives to ensuring that their children have support, wisdom, and recognize the importance of family values.

Girls participate in a race that spanned the length of the basketball court on Saturday, June 15 at the Rita B. Bright Family and Youth Center in Northwest. /Photo by John E. De Freitas Two fathers show off some of their basketball skills on Saturday, June 15 at the Rita B. Bright Family and Youth Center in Northwest. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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“Generations Day” Born Out of ‘Washington Informer’ Advice Column Celia Deas Ford, founding partner of the Pearls of Wisdom from Three Generations Foundation and past Washington Informer advice columnist, died at a Washington, DC hospital on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, after a sudden heart attack. She was 85 years old.

“She was a strong role model for multi-generational family bonding and business”, stated her daughter Terri Allen, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Ford’s daughter. “She was always excited about sharing the “wisdom” story with multi-generational families at speaking engagements, conferences, book signings and especially in The Washington Informer advice column.”

Ford co-authored the advice column, “Ask Pearls of Wisdom” for the weekly paper from August 2005 to January 2008 and featured answers to reader’s questions from three different generational perspectives.

At Pearls of Wisdom events, Ford always enjoyed meeting and talking to people, often sharing personal stories, vignettes and her God-given wisdom. The Brooklyn native often stated before her death, “I love going to these events because it allows the three of us to be together in a way other than grandmother, daughter and granddaughter.” Ford felt it allowed her to see the business side of her descendants and always encouraged other families to do the same.

Best known for the last ten years of her life as one of the Pearls of Wisdom from Three Generations, Ford recently sponsored a Mother’s Day Breakfast where the trio recognized the outstanding contributions of multi-generational family legacy, laying the groundwork for their national project, “GenerThe Washington Informer

ations Day”, which embraces “multi-generationalism”.

“The epitome of a multi-generational family exists in the current White House”, stated Simonson, highlighting the fact that Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama and the girls, Sasha and Malia are perfect role models for successful multi-generational families living and working together. The trio recently submitted a proposal for Congressional approval for “Generations Day” to become an annual national holiday.

“The hope for Generations Day is to foster a variety of ‘projects’ within the family unit with a focus on doing something together outside of the norm (holidays, events, etc)”, emphasized Allen. “Sharing Life, Legacy & Love”, Generations Day helps American families embrace their “multi-generationalism, learning to appreciate, honor, build on its strengths with a collective unity…a new day for America…Together as One”, continued Allen, echoing the vision as detailed on the website www.generationsday.com.

Survived by her husband and four children, Theresa Simonson Allen (Dale), Ronald Ford (Gwen), Ellen Wiggins, Lawrence, Ford reflected that the Pearls of Wisdom “project” activities were some of her best times, continuing guest speaking engagements and sharing wisdom in spite of her failing health. Ford’s tenacity and love of family underscores the “Generations Day” legacy in fostering multi-generational unity, a tribute to family, life and legacy. Donations to Generations Day may be made on the website. wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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Praise God, for a Blessed Health Fair!

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Still I Rise

“You may write me down in history; with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops; weakened by my soulful cries.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise. . . . I rise. I rise; I rise.� Maya Angelou.

pital Center was there entertaining the crowd with the trauma wheel game and giveaways; staff from Genevieve Johnson Senior Day Care Center in Northwest, shared information regarding Alzheimer’s and Dementia; and the D.C. Commission on Aging also showed up along with the American Diabetes Association. I’m so grateful, especially since my mother Fannie Estelle Hill-Grant suffered from Type 2 diabetes. Ms. Lenisa O’Reggio, from the diabetes association, ensured that the table was in order on Friday evening. Thank you so much. That meant a lot to me.

The Food Court with, Dr. Keita Vanterpool served healthy smoothies, thanks; in an effort to put life into my body, I consumed several cups, delicious! HealthyBites, the new organic restaurant on Georgia Avenue in Northwest, thank you to Bonnie and her staff; the food court was filled with fresh fruits and vegetables for all to enjoy.

A special thank you to my church family, All Nations Baptist Church, in particular, to my pastor, the Rev. Dr. James Coleman; thank you pastor for your easy going moderation style during the workshops, and the questions and answer segment proved to be inspiring. We helped somebody, and we worked together like a welloiled machine! This was another opportunity to bring our church theme to life – “A Church Where Christ and Community Connect!�

The workshops were very enlightening, highlighted by greetings from Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans; to Ward 6 Council member Tommy Wells; D.C. Council member Yvette Alexander, who serves as the chair of the Committee on Health attended;

This column title came about due to a conversation with my best friend and former co-worker of 40 years this week, Connie Speight. As she and I were talking about the health fair, she mentioned the poem by Maya Angelou, “Still I Rise!� And I said, “Connie, that’s my column for next week.�

What a successful health fair, held at All Nations Baptist Church in Northeast on Saturday, June 15. All praise and honor be to God! The turnout was very good; every health organization that confirmed their participation attended, and in fact, one extra health organization showed up, Howard University Dental School with about 10 people. They came to conduct on-site screenings, to tell patients from a general evaluation, what they may need in terms of dental work.

A special thank you to Chartered Health, the only group to stay in close contact with me – now AmeriHealth; the coordinator Mrs. Kimberly Ellis who worked diligently and confirmed nurses to conduct screenings; she also confirmed guests for my radio show; and she confirmed Ms. Karen Dale, executive director of AmeriHealth, as our keynote speaker for the event.

Thank all at Chartered/AmeriHealth.

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Finally, a special thank you to Solomon Sparrow for the coordination of the gospel entertainment! It turned out to be lovely; we had a trumpet player; a saxophone player; violinist; all accompanied by drums and piano; we had liturgical dancers; choirs and praise teams.

Partner groups showed up, and worked as promised. My sorority, Gamma Phi Delta, Delta Pi Chapter, Ms. Karen Rogers and the others came through as promised.

Like the words from the poem written by Maya Angelou, this one was for my mother, who must be thinking from heaven, “Still I Rise!�wi Lyndia Grant hosts a radio talk show, Think on These Things, on WYCB 1340 AM, Radio One, Fridays at 6 p.m. She speaks all across the country, visit her website at www.lyndiagrant.com, send comments to lyndiagrant@gmail.com, or call 202-5183192.

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african methodist episcopal

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

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

Pilgrim Baptist Church

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: 10:00 am AM Worship Services BIBLE STUDY: Wonderful Wednesdays in Worship and the Word Bible Study Wednesdays 12:00 Noon; 6:30 PM (dinner @ 5:30 PM) SUNDAY SCHOOL: 9:00 AM – Hour of Power “An inclusive ministry where all are welcomed and affirmed.” www.covenantbaptistdc.org

Twelfth Street Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) 1812 12th Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202-265-4494 Fax: 202 265 4340

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

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

Church School - 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship – 10:45 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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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Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor Service and Times Sunday Worship Service 11:00 a.m.

Communion every Sunday 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School 10:00 a.m.

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

Motto; “Discover Something Wonderful.”

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

Mount Carmel Baptist Church

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

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

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

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

Sunday School – 9:30 am Sunday Worship Service – 11:00 am Baptismal Service – 1st Sunday – 9:30 am Holy Communion – 1st Sunday – 11:00 am Prayer Meeting & Bible Study – Wednesday -7:30 pm

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

“Where Jesus is the King”

Zion Baptist Church

Israel Baptist Church

Full Gospel Baptist Church

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

Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith

Florida Avenue 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

Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor

Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor

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

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

Dr. C. Matthew Hudson, Jr, Pastor

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

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

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

Elder Herman L. Simms, Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

Mount Moriah Baptist Church

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

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

Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.

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

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

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

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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

Salem Baptist Church

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

The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42

New Commandment Baptist Church Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Pastor and Overseer 625 Park Rd, NW • WDC 20010 P: 202 291-5711 • F: 202 291-5666 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 “A Church Where Love Is Essential and Praise is Intentional”

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collection is an input, arrests are an output. Between input and output there is the opportunity for racial bias to show up. If White folk and Black folk take an equal toke, why are Black folk more likely to be arrested? Are zip codes driving public safety officers to one place and deterring them from another?

Differences in marijuana arrests raise real questions about the many ways that data may be used to discriminate. Instead of structural racism, intrinsic racism, and other forms of racism, we now have a data-based racism that is only logical when we ask

MALVEAUX continued from Page 21 individuals, regardless of race.

Big Brother can tell you who can afford lawyers and who cannot.

Big Brother can drive police to investigate the least and the left out, those who are most vulnerable, while deciding to allow others to slink behind their space of class and privilege. Big Brother can play bang for buck games that make it more profitable to arrest those with few resources in the hood instead of those with home-based protection.

Data collection seems to be a race-neutral process. While data

how data is collected. Simply put, the zip code data leads people to discriminate, if only because they are being led to single out a certain population.

In other words you can be a non-racial racist. You can let the data, warped though it may be, lead you to biased conclusions.

Data-based racism is as corrosive as emotion-based racism. Big Brother’s racial biases is nothing more than par for the course. wi Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer.

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

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Clingman continued from Page 21 only new entrepreneurs, they also stimulated a Black business psyche that encouraged our people to support one another, to do for ourselves, and to work for economic self-sufficiency.

I hear so much talk about an “economic revolution” for Black people. Unfortunately, “revolution” in this case deals more with “revolving” than it does with “revolt.” It simply means that we are getting back to a point where we were before, as in a circle. Are we running in circles when it comes to economic empowerment? I truly hope not. Economic revolution must be conceived and grounded in “overturning” our situation, not “returning” to it.

Black business is not a revolutionary idea; it is an evolutionary construct that moves from an infancy stage through various

growth periods and cycles, and eventually becomes a Johnson Publishing Co. and a Motown.

Evolution would have moved us from the models we saw in Durham, N.C., Tulsa, Oklahoma, and other cities, to a $1 trillion business segment rather than the current $150 billion segment we have today.

Revolution or evolution?

When we walked away from our brothers’ and sisters’ businesses after we “won” integration, the proper evolution of our businesses was thwarted. Now we are faced with starting an economic revolution. We must now move to a place where some of us do not want to be, despite the fact that we were all there once before. We already had what we are now trying to win back. Evolution would have maintained what we had, but now it will take revolutionary thinking and revolutionary action to cause us to work together for true economic

and psychological freedom.

Revolution or evolution? We can have both. We should have both. Strong Black-owned businesses still exist in this country, despite the buyouts we have witnessed in recent years. Evolution is paramount to their existence. Revolution is necessary for those of us who are consumers, small business owners, and advocates. We must change the way we do business. Specifically, we must change the way we spend our money. If we have revolution and evolution, Black people will make the progress we need to gain a much higher level of economic empowerment. wi Jim Clingman, founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce, is the nation’s most prolific writer on economic empowerment for Black people. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati and can be reached through his Web site, blackonomics.com.

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Daniels continued from Page 21 nouncing what became the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Evers’ wife, Myrlie, and their three young children, had watched the president’s speech that evening and www.washingtoninformer.com

were eagerly awaiting Medgar’s return to discuss it with him.

A few days earlier, King, worried about the slow pace of change the Movement was seemingly mired in and JFK’s standoffishness, had broached to his aides the idea of a national

“event” in Washington to pressure the president and the Congress to act.

Of course, that event – the March on Washington – became for many in the U.S. and around the world the signal moment of what Taylor Branch called “the

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But, just two weeks after the March came the Sunday morning bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, killing four young girls; and two months after that would come the assassination of President Kennedy – two events which for many within the Movement reaffirmed that tragedy would continue to shadow the civil rights trail.

In mid-June, 1963, Byron De La Beckwith, a virulent White supremacist with deep roots in Mississippi, was arrested and charged with Evers’ murder. The evidence against him was overwhelming. But, it being the Mississippi of the early 1960s, he escaped justice when his two trials in 1963 and 1964 ended in hung

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juries. Those legal conclusions, however, meant that he could be charged again should further evidence be discovered.

It was: an informant who testified that Beckwith had bragged over the years about the murder.

In 1994 Beckwith was tried and convicted and sentenced to life in prison. He died in 2001 at the age of 80.

In its September, 1963 special issue, marking the centennial of President Lincoln’s announcing the Emancipation Proclamation, Ebony magazine reprinted a profile of Evers it had first published in 1958. In it, he said, “[T] his is home … Mississippi is part of the United States. And … I don’t plan to live here as a parasite. The things I don’t like, I will try to change. And in the long run, I hope to make a positive contribution to the productivity of the South.” wi Lee A. Daniels is a longtime journalist based in New York City. His latest book is Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America.

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tion against them. Guess who is suing the city to stop the implementation of this program? The Wisconsin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. They want a race neutral program. I don’t know what kind of kool-aid they are drinking.

Their law firm has ties to anti-affirmative efforts. Go figure.

There is also Jacksonville, Fla. Their recent disparity study is being held up by the city council.

Black and Hispanic groups have come together to demand the implementation of the study which clearly shows Blacks and Hispanics terribly under – utilized. I think the city’s Black mayor ought to step up – sooner rather than later.

There are many cities and states that are recalcitrant in complying with Title VI and the two rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court. We have run out of patience. The National Black Chamber of Commerce, led by our chair, Dorothy Leavell, is going to go on the offensive. We are going to call out entities such as those listed above

and put public exposure and pressure on these elected officials who are timid about addressing discrimination. My Lord! It has been 153 years since the Civil War began and slavery was finally condemned. Full citizenship is our demand.

Most cities with the biggest problem are without a functional Black chamber of commerce. If they do have one, it needs to step up its value to the local community and get involved or just shut itself down. The three poorest big cities with large Black populations are Detroit, Cleveland and Cincinnati. Yet, none of these cities have a really functional Black chamber of commerce whose focus is on Black business development.

Let’s stand up and make these programs work. It is on our shoulders and it is time to march.wi Harry C. Alford is the co-founder, President/CEO, of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. Website: www.nationalbcc.org. Email: halford@nationalbcc.org.

policies in Massachusetts as part of her master’s degree program. Her final report, “Dismantling the Cradle to Prison Pipeline: Analyzing Zero Tolerance School Discipline Policies and Identifying Strategic Opportunities for Intervention,” received an award from the school’s faculty and sheds new light on the need to address these harmful policies.

Added together, the tens of thousands of suspensions—many for minor infractions—have an enormous negative impact. As Wilka explains, “Children start down the path to prison in both jarring and subtle ways. It’s not just the teenager who ends up behind bars; it’s also the child who is suspended for disruptive behavior, misses a few days of school, and begins to feel disconnected. The more disconnected he becomes, the more he

acts out in class. This cycle repeats.

National research suggests that this child is three times more likely to drop out of school by 10th grade than a student who has never been suspended; and dropping out triples the likelihood this child will end up incarcerated later in life. It is this indirect pipeline that can be addressed by implementing more nuanced approaches to school discipline, helping students stay in school—and out of prison.”

All of this work has special implications in Massachusetts because that state spends six times more per prisoner than per public school pupil—a greater disparity than in any other state. The most recent data show that in 2007 Massachusetts spent $78,580 per prisoner and only $12,857 per pupil.

That’s a pretty dumb investment policy. Sound fiscal policy means investing in early childhood development and education especially

in these economic hard times. Intervening early not only saves lives and futures, it saves money. Zero tolerance discipline policies aren’t helping the children who need intervention the most at all. Instead, they are excluding thousands of students from school every year— including many students who most need to be in class—and making those children even more likely to end up trapped in the destructive, expensive prison pipeline. These kinds of policies deserve a failing grade and correction. Wi Marian Wright Edelman is president of the Children’s Defense Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information go to www.childrensdefense.org.

weeks ago, President Obama could not offer in certainty that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons, thereby crossing the rhetorical “red line” (which someone must have told the president to declare) so that the U.S. could justify getting involved in the conflict.

No, the “red line” is not some new proof that the Syrian government had committed any more atrocities than the rebels it’s fighting against. The “red line” is the recent string of military victories on the ground by government forces, aided by fighters from Hezbollah in Lebanon. The

“red line” is that the opposition is on the brink of being defeated without the U.S. stepping in with superior military force to bring the government to its knees.

Besides, the absurd argument that the U.S. is getting involved for “humanitarian” reasons is preposterous on its face. Imagine, someone saying with a straight face that they are giving weapons to one side or another in a civil war as a way of “saving lives.” That is positively Orwellian and exposes the ridiculousness of the administration’s position.

The fact of the matter is that

if this matter is left to “the Syrian people” to decide, the U.S. client-opposition cannot win, leaving this administration with the prospect of seeing its best chance of ousting President Assad getting crushed; or just going in to do the job itself.

That’s why I’m left to do what I usually resent seeing others do, and that’s throwing a political cream pie in the face of this president. Sorry Mr. Obama, concerning U.S. policy in the Syrian conflict, you have been “O-bamboozled.” wi

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Muhammad continued from Page 22 injured in indiscriminate bombings, shot by snipers, used as human shields or victims of terror tactics.” So far, so good.

But then, the Obama administration cited evidence of the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons as part of its decision to increase military aid to opposition forces. White House official Ben Rhodes said that

revised U.S. intelligence assessments have found government forces used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year, but Rhodes did not make the specific evidence public.

Here’s where it gets tricky: a U.N. investigation found probable evidence of chemical weapons use, but did not attribute it to the regime or to the opposition. And up until a couple of

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cities are supposed to perform a disparity study to determine if discrimination among businesses exist. The state of Illinois has recently done a study. The study shows that Blacks are the most discriminated group among all contractors (duh!). It calls for strict improvement in the goals.

Funny, the governor’s office is trying to suppress the study because of pressure from White women groups who are over-utilized according to the study. The truth sometimes hurts and this state needs to come to terms with its ongoing discrimination against Black businesses. The Illinois Black Legislative Caucus should block all legislation until this study is implemented.

There is a similar situation in Milwaukee. The city’s recent disparity study shows Black businesses being heavily under-utilized while Hispanics and White women seem to have no discrimina-

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