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Donnie Simpson has returned to the airwaves this week after a five-year hiatus and can now be heard during the afternoon drive time from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on WMMJ Majic 102.3 FM. /Photo by Roy Lewis

Police Chief Cathy Lanier and Mayor Muriel Bowser answer questions about the troubling increase in homicides during a press conference at the John A. Wilson Building in Northwest on Thursday, August 13. /Photo by Roy Lewis

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By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Julian Bond, immediate past board chairman of the NAACP, a founding member and communications director of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Com-

mittee and co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, died Saturday night, Aug. 15, at the age of 75.

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By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer The homicide rate in the District has seen a startling increase of 20 percent in the eight days between July 24 and Aug. 1, which prompted top city officials to assemble in a closeddoor public safety and justice cluster meeting.

Mayor Muriel Bowser and Police Chief Cathy Lanier led a news conference on Thursday, Aug.13, at the John A. Wilson Building in Northwest to assure

the public they are being proactive.

“We are doing everything we can to prevent the spike,” Bowser said. “We have been in gun stat meetings to review crime statistics, and we are using every tool at our disposal to reduce violent crime.”

Posters of victims, suspects and closed homicide cases stood before the mayor as she gave her remarks encouraging the public to report any information related to homicides.

“We can’t do this alone. We need the public’s help in closing

these cases,” she said. “We are committed to making sure anybody who commits a crime will be prosecuted.”

Lanier spoke about different possibilities as to why the rate has spiked; 91 murders are on record so far this year.

Several of those deaths occurred at the James Creek Dwelling public housing apartments in Southwest.

“Most homicides occur when there are no witnesses. It happens in dark, poorly lit areas,”

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Three Hundred MenlawMarch from Baltimore to D.C.

By Tia Carol Jones enforcement. She said they threat,” she said.

Braving heat had in excess 90 degrees, activista Munir Baharthe led programs a group of over comeoftogether to bring Among Marlow 40 men of varying in an overnight walk fromwants their hometown of Baltimore, senseages of uniformity in the way to see implemented are When L.Y. Marlow's 23-yearMaryland – a distance spanning some 35-plus milesstricter – arriving in Washington, D.C. domestic violence victims and restraining order policies, old daughter told her father Aug. survivors are treated. more rights for victim's families onthe Monday, 17. of her daughter threatened herblack t-shirts “She's with usingthe hername own of personal to intervene on behalf of a“300 vicWearing their organization on the front, the life, and the life of Men theirMarch child, Movement” story, her walked own personal to what tim, athey’ve domestic violence in orderpain to bring described as assesssoreshe knew somethingly-needed had to be pushto forward,” ment unit coupled with further attention Baltimore’sDavis-Nickens escalating death toll. done.

Out of her frustration said about Marlow. training law enforcement Bahar was among the speakers who electrified a large crowd at the National Mallfor – the place where the with law enforcement's handling Davis-Nickens said anyone agencies, a Child's Lifethe Protecwalk culminated. He and his group hope to elicit support for a plan that they believe will lower gun of the situation, she decided to who reads Marlow's book will tion Act and mandatory counselviolence that has recently rocked their city. start the Saving Promise cam- “get it.” She said she “puts the ing for batterers.

According to a statement from the group’s website, the march was organized to express “willingness to paign. case in such a way, the average “If we are ever going to eradisacrifice the physical time and energyperson neededcan toget address thesaid rising surge of violence” in Baltimore.

“It seems to be a vicious cycle it.” She at the cate domestic violence, we must Earlier this summer, 300 Menend March Movement, walked that won't turn mythefamily of the day, the joined book by willseveral lookhundred at bothsupporters, sides of the coin. through the streets of Baltimore in a 10-mile march in solidarity to illustrate their concern over the loose,” Marlow said. Marlow help people begin to have a dia- We need to address both thecity’s vicreport month had been one of the most deadly 30 days in city’sthehistory.

OverMarlow 43 hoshared that her the story withoftheMay audilogue about domestic violence. timtheand batterer,” micides the month. Also present at the event was said. ence atwere the recorded Districtfor Heights Bahar hasViolence emphasized that his group, from its inception, has non-violent tactics Domestic Symposium Mildred Muhammad, theonly ex-employed Marlow would also likesimilar to see onthose May 7ofatDr. theMartin DistrictLuther Heights to King, wife Jr. inoforder effectMuhammad, change and garner support.designed to raise JohntoAllen programs Municipal Center. The sympo- who was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in sium was sponsored by the utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She Family and Youth Services by a Maryland jury for his role in feels children need to be educatCenter of the city ofMGM District theHarbor Beltway in edto National execsSniper made aattacks major donation Prince George’sviolence.

Community about domestic Heights and the National Hook2002.

Muhammad is “We haveExpress to stop being PropasCollege on Monday, Aug.Mildred 17 in support of the school’s Hospitality Training Up of Black Women.gram. the founder of After the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chilMarlow has writtenWith a book, an organization helps the dren domestic$100,000 violence,” an oversized check in tow, that the National Harbor’s topabout brass donated to “Color Me Butterfly,” which is anewsurvivors of domestic Marlow said. interested in the support the program that will assist inviolence preparing future jobseekers story about four generations andAnd theirthere children.

Marlow haswith worked break hospitality of industry. will be plenty of jobs at the Harbor, close to 4,000 domestic violence. The book is “I lived in fearthe forcasino six years.

Sixeventually the cycle of its abuse her family, hospitality-related positions, when resort opens doorsinfor business. inspired by her own experiences, in fear is a longpotential time. Ithospitality is andemployees is confident the 2016. policies she MGM expectsyears to begin interviewing in early and those of her grandmother, not an easy thing to come out is pushing for will that Special guests that attended the check presentation included: Dr. Charlene M. Dukes, president, Princestart George’s her motherCollege; and her of,” she said. Economic Developmentprocess.

Community Jim daughter.

Coleman, president/CEO, Corporation; Camye Mackey, reShe said timeTalent she &reads Mildred said “I plan to take MGM these policies to gional vice every president, Development, MGMMuhammad Resorts; Bill Boasberg, general manager, National excerpts from her book, she still people who want to help a Congress and implore them to Harbor; and Logan Gaskill, vice president, Human Resources, MGM National Harbor. The event was held in the can not believe the words came domestic violence victim must change our laws,” Marlow said.

College’s Kent Hall in Largo, Maryland. from her. “Color Me Butterfly” be careful of how they go into “I will not stop until these poliwon the 2007 National “Best the victim's life, and understand cies are passed.”

Books” Award. that she may be in “survival Tia Carol Jones can be reached “I was just 16-years-old when mode”. at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net Michael Dyson, anget internationally-acclaimed scholar and professor of my eye first blackenedDr. and my Eric “Before you to 'I'm going sociology at Georgetown hasa verbal been chosenWI as the keynote speaker for lips bled,” Marlow said. to kill you,'University, it started as the ATpresi& T Nation’s Football Classic® Team Welcome Dinner slated for Thursday, Elaine Davis-Nickens, Sept.

17. dent of the National Hook-Up Dyson, the author of 16 books, currently serves as an MSNBC news commentator of Black Women, said there is no consistency in the way anddomestic political analyst. In addition, he previously hosted his own talk show on National violence issues are dealt with

by Essence Magazine tagged him as one of the 50 Most Inspiring African Public Radio.

Americans and he continues to challenge the status quo with his unique blend of philosophy, theology, sociology and passion for music, particularly hip-hop and Motown.

The Detroit native, who matriculated at Princeton University, will undoubtedly leave the members of the two football teams with a great deal to think about. This year’s classic will pit Hampton University against Howard University, continuing a 100-year rivalry dating back to 1908.

The football game, often known as the “Battle for the Real HU,” will take place on Friday, Sept. 18 at RFK Stadium and will be televised live nationwide on ESPNU. The last two contests went down to the wire, with Howard winning on the road in double-overtime in 2013 and narrowly escaping with a 30-29 victory last season here in the District.

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Their songs have become the soundtrack for Americans, black and white.

And on Saturday, August 22, they will bring their message, their melodies and their passion for communicating with the world through song to the stage of Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia. The group, now on a U.S. tour, will be joined by the incomparable Gladys Knight.

Who can forget “Backstabbers,” “Put Your Hands Together,” “For the Love of Money,” “I Love Music,” “Darlin’ Darlin’ Baby,” “Living for the Weekend,” or “Use Ta Be My Girl”?

Levert, one of the core members of the group (he and co-member Williams have been doing their thing as friends and partners for almost 65 years), shared some of his greatest memories about a career that has earned the group a place in history and in our hearts.

“I started off trying to do anything – football, boxing and baseball – that I believed would make me rich. Then I discovered singing and found that it was much easier and safer,” Levert said with a chuckle.

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my first love. The key to our longevity has been our passion and love for our fans – trying to please people and give then what we think they want. Valuing the many fans who care about our music. That’s been the real key to our success and our ability to still be doing what we love so much for so many years,” said Levert, the Bessemer, Alabama-born lead vocalist whose family later moved to Canton, Ohio.

Levert met Williams while attending high school and after seeing a performance by Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, the two, along with Bill Isles, Bobby Massey and William Powell, formed their group in 1958.

Levert and Williams have been there from the start and despite changes in the group’s name (they were originally known as The Triumphs and The Mascots) and members, The O’Jays have been working their craft to pulsating perfection since scoring their first hit, “Lonely Drifter” in 1963. Eddie Nolan Grant joined the group in 1995 and remains the third member of the talented trio.

When talking about his longtime buddy, Williams, he said, “It’s like being married to an old woman and he’s the old woman – I saw an opportunity and took it.” Then Eddie burst out with laughter.

“Touring has always been a lot of fun and it’s gratifying to see how many people we’ve touched,” Levert said. “We do about 100 shows a year. Sure, I love New York City, D.C. and L.A. but I like performing anywhere – especially when we sell

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Levert said when he’s not on stage, he enjoys writing songs, creating and producing music in the studio and spending time with his family.

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Black Facts August 20 1619 – This is the most probable date that Black History in America begins. Approximately 20 Africans (the records of the day referred to them as “20 and odd Negras”) arrived in Jamestown, Virginia aboard a Dutch ship. It appears the Africans were sold as indentured servants who could work and earn their freedom. Little is known about the group except that the Dutch had stolen them from a Spanish slave ship probably headed for the Caribbean or South America.

1942 – Musician, composer, singer, songwriter Isaac Hayes is born on this day in Covington, Tennessee. Hayes was best known for his gravelly voice and his shaven head. His hit song for the 1971 movie, “Shaft,” made and cemented his reputation in music history. Hayes died on August 10, 2008 at the age of 65 in Memphis, Tennessee.

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August 21 1831 – The Nat Turner slave rebellion begins in Southampton, Virginia. It was the best organized and most deadly slave revolt in American history. The charismatic Turner brought together between 50 and 70 Blacks (some slave and some free) to launch his revolt prompted by what he saw as a vision from God. As many as 70 whites (men, women and children) were killed during a two-day period.

1904 – Jazz pianist and band leader William “Count” Bassie is born on this day in Red Bank, New Jersey.

1936 – Basketball legend Wilt “The Stilt” Chamberlain is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 7’1” phenomenon had an amazing NBA career including being the only player to score 100 points in a single game. Chamberlain died in October 1999.

August 22 1791 – The Haitian Revolution begins. It was the most successful Black slave revolt in world history. Led by Toussaint L’Ouverture, a trusted house slave who initially opposed the rebellion, the slaves defeated the mighty French army led by Napoleon.

1843 – A National Convention of Black Men takes place in Buffalo, New York. The militant abolitionist Henry Highland Garnett called for a slave revolt and for free Blacks to launch a nationwide strike in support of the revolt.

August 23 1826 - John Brown Russwurm is considered to be the first Black in America to graduate college.

1861 - James Stone, a light skinned fugitive slave passing for white, enlisted in the First Fight Artillery of Ohio. His racial identity would not be known until his death nearly a year later.

1900 - National Negro Business League organized at Boston meeting. Booker T. Washington was elected president.

1908 - 52 nurses lead by Martha M. Franklin

form the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, to improve the status of African American nurses.

1917 - Race riot, in Houston, between soldiers of Twenty-fourth Infantry Regiment and white citizens. Two Blacks and eleven whites killed. Martial law was declared.

1954 - Inventor Philip Emeagwali was born in Akure, Nigeria.

August 24 1854 - John V. DeGrasse, prominent physician, admitted to Massachusetts Medical Society.

1854 - National emigration convention met in Cleveland with some one hundred delegates. William C. Munroe of Michigan was elected president.

1908 - The start of the National Association of Colored Nurses, 1908.

1950 - Edith Sampson, first Black appointed to United Nations by Harry S. Truman.

1950 - Chicago Atty. Edith Sampson was named the first Black representative (alternate delegate) in the U.S. delegation to the United Nations.

August 25 1862 - Secretary of war authorized Gen. Rufus Saxton to arm up to five thousand slaves.

1886 - The first meeting of the American National Baptist Convention was held in St. Louis, Missouri.

1886 - Kentucky State College founded.

1927 - First Black Wimbledon champion, Althea Gibson, born in South Carolina.

1965 - James M. Nabrit Jr. named ambassador and assigned to the UN delegation.

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VIEWP INT Dee Hunter Washington, D.C. I did watch the game. During the preseason I like to monitor how the starters do against other starters. [Quarterback] Robert Griffin III went 4-8 for 36 yards. I really hope he has a good year. Donovan McNabb warned him about coming here – the Redskins have ruined a lot of quarterbacks. This is his contract year and he really needs to perform.

I hope they give him the protection he needs so that he can get the money he deserves. Preseason marks the official end of the best part of the football season for Redskins’ fans – the offseason.

Timothy Bishop Washington, D.C. I was able to catch some of the highlights and I wasn’t impressed.

I’m not looking forward to a great season from the Redskins. Maybe it has something to do with a curse.

I hope Robert Griffin III makes a halfway decent impression this year.

His job is on the line and I hope that he can stay healthy. He’s a young guy who has a bright future. I hope he plays well.

THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS OPENED PRESEASON LAST WEEK AGAINST THE CLEVELAND BROWNS. WHAT DID YOU THINK OFTHE GAME AND WHAT ARE YOUR EXPECTATIONS HEADING INTO THE SEASON?

Robert Vessels Washington, D.C. It was a pretty good game. I hope they can stay healthy and not get too many injuries. Although it was preseason, they looked like they had better team unity. It looked better than last year. They seemed to have some enthusiasm when they got into the training camp fight against the Texans. I hope they keep that intensity up because it’s about time for them to compete for a Super Bowl championship.

Elijah Costello Washington, D.C. They looked pretty good. I expect them to do big things this year. Robert Griffin III is finally back at optimal health and they brought in some new weapons to help him out and make the team better. I think they’ll win more than they’ll lose this year.

Tanya Hutchins Washington, D.C. I don’t plan on watching the Redskins until they change the name.

It’s offensive to me and I don’t think many people truly understand what the term means. It’s a term that was used to describe the scalp of a dead Indian. Years ago, in battles against the Indians, instead of bringing the entire dead body, [they] would bring in and hold up the scalp. That’s what a redskin is. Until they change the name I will never go to or watch a game.

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the board of directors, according to a statement issued by the group.

“With Julian’s passing, the country has lost one of its most passionate and eloquent voices for the cause of justice,” the statement said. “He advocated not just for African Americans, but for every group, indeed every person subject to oppression and discrimination, because he recognized the common humanity in us all.”

The statement continued: “Not only has the country lost a hero today, we’ve lost a great friend.”

In a White House news release on the passing of Julian Bond, President Barack Obama called the civil rights icon a hero and a friend.

“Justice and equality was the mission that spanned his life – from his leadership of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to his founding role with the Southern Poverty Law Center, to his pioneering service in the Georgia legislature and his steady hand at the helm of the NAACP,” President Obama said in the news release. “Julian Bond helped change this country for the better. And what better way to be remembered than that.”

Denise Rolark-Barnes, chairperson of the National Newspaper Publishers Association and publisher of The Washington Informer, said: “On behalf of the members of the National Newspaper Publishers Association – the black press of America – we are extremely saddened to learn of the recent death of Julian Bond, a stalwart of the civil and human rights movement.”

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educational equality served as a beacon for others to follow,” she said. “His presence and voice will be sorely missed, but his words remain true for the NNPA: ‘Good things don’t come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!’ Julian Bond, thank you. Now may you rest in peace.”

NNPA President and CEO Benjamin F. Chavis said, “On behalf of the National Newspapers Publishers Association, we mourn the passing of civil rights leader Julian Bond. The enduring impact of Bond’s legacy was his long-term dedication to fight for freedom, justice and equality.

As an effective chairman of the NAACP, co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Georgia state senator, college professor and columnist for the NNPA, Julian Bond was a gallant warrior who championed the interests of Black America.”

Horace Julian Bond was born Jan. 14, 1940, in Nashville. His father, Horace Mann Bond, was a prominent educator, serving as the first president of Fort Valley State University in Georgia and the first black president of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, his alma mater.

During his time with SNCC, Julian Bond served as the communications director and protested against segregation of public facilities in Georgia and was arrested during a sit-in at Atlanta’s City Hall.

Later, as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, he was a vocal critic of the Vietnam War. When the White members of the House refused to seat him because of his opposition to the war, Bond took his case to the United States Supreme Court, where he won a unanimous ruling in 1966 saying his freedom of speech had been

violated and ordering the legislature to seat him.

Bond served in the Georgia’s House of Representatives for a decade and went on to serve six terms in the Georgia state Senate.

Bond ran for the United States House of Representatives, but lost a bitter race to John Lewis, a former colleague who had been chairman of SNCC. He was elected as chairman of the board of the NAACP in 1998 and served for 11 years. Bond was not only a consistent agent for civil rights, he was also a writer, poet, author and professor at number of colleges and universities, including American University in Washington, D.C., the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and the University of Virginia.

Bond also narrated “Eyes on the Prize,” a documentary on the civil rights movement that was nominated for an Oscar in 1988.

Civil rights leaders also mourned the loss of Bond on social media early Sunday morning.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., tweeted: “#JulianBond, a friend & fellow traveler who with courage, set the moral & academic tone of our generation. RIP” Wade Henderson, the president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a network of more than 200 national organizations, echoed Jackson’s sentiment, tweeting: “@JulianBond6 was a visionary leader and a powerful voice for justice. It is an honor to have known him.”

The SPLC said that Bond died in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and is survived by his wife, Pamela Horowitz, and his five children.WI

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Obama Prison Reform Signals New Era Ex-Offenders Given New Chances

By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer President Barack Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison in July, addressing the issues of ex-offenders, re-entry, recidivism and how America adjusts in the age of mass incarceration.

For many ex-convicts released from prison, civil liberties such as voting rights and acclimation back into society with legal employment can be a rough road that leads to repeat offenders. This month, California granted 60,000 ex-felony offenders the right to vote.

“We (EIO) applaud the state of California for recognizing the rights of an often forgotten population,” Vivian Nixon, executive director of college and community fellowship and co-founder of the EIO Coalition, said. “Restoring one’s right to vote is the key to suc-

CRIME from Page 9 Lanier said. “We are now looking into preventative measures such as lighting and cameras throughout housing communities.

“We are also focused on making sure the system works as it should, so that means less people plea bargaining out and more people doing their time,” the chief added.

Lanier explained that she receives calls from residents all the time about violent offenders being back in the community after they were expected to be out of the civilian population.

“People east of the river are tired of the violence,” Lanier said. “I will tell you so far 10 of the last homicide cases, the suspects have had previous homicide charges.”

In 2012, the District saw its lowest year on record for crime in 60 years. Bowser and city officials are determined to keep with that trend.

The mayor announced they are currently looking into measures that will increase penalties for crimes committed on public transportation as well as the new implementation of synthetic drug testing in emergency rooms.

cessful re-entry and criminal justice reform in America.”

Education from the Inside Out Coalition (EIO) works as an advocacy group to remove educational barriers for those in the criminal justice system.

California, a state known for its notorious prisons like San Quentin State Prison, began reform for overpopulation in 2011, passing several bills that would allow low-level offenders to partake in community policing.

EIO expressed gratefulness when the Obama administration announced pell grants for some prisoners in hopes to cut recidivism.

“Eliminating barriers to higher education lies in smart policy measures that work to fully reintegrate returning citizens into their communities,” Nixon said.

In 1994, Congress passed a law banning convicts from being eligible for pell grants,

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Although the mayor and the police chief have their hands full with public safety issues, Lanier underscored that the violence would be curtailed.

“The increase in homicides, as well as the [rising number of] high-capacity magazines and machine guns on the streets, is not any different than what any other U.S. city is experiencing,” she said.

“Crime overall remains low for the District – the only thing that is up is homicide. Violent crime is down 11 percent, the national average for homicide stands at 57 percent, and Washington is between 54 and 55 percent.”WI

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which serve as a saving grace for low-income and impoverished students pursuing a higher education. Since then the number of incarcerated Americans has ballooned.

Community activist and author of “Slugg: A Boy’s Life

in The Age of Mass Incarceration” Tony Lewis Jr. believes that pell grants are good but are not a fix.

“I think that is amazing, but if hiring policies don’t change, then it’s no help,” Lewis said.

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where felony offenders could lose the right to vote permanently.

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By D. Kevin McNeir WI Managing Editor The District’s Office of the Attorney General [OAG] has designated August as Child Support Awareness Month.

And while non-custodial parents, typically men, often say that they experience bias and frustration when engaging with governmental agencies that handle child support, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine said there are services that can help both parents do what’s best for their child or children.

“We try to take the focus away from the parents and bring the conversation to the child and the child’s needs,” he said. “We’ve launched several outreach efforts designed to ensure that parents who owe or are entitled to receive child support are informed about the services OAG offers to them.

And as our staff goes out into the city, sometimes in our mobile vans [Child Support Services Division’s Mobile Unit], we help people understand the process and hopefully dispel the myths that exist that tend

to raise apprehension,” said Racine, adding that the OAG has a customer care center that can be reached by phone at 202442-9900 or with a visit to 441 4th Street NW, Suite 550 North.

“We have programs like Fresh Start that help us talk to both parents, get a sense of what’s going on and with the permission of the custodial parent, even forgive the balance that might be owed to the state,” he said.

“Government must meet people where they are – I want to demystify the notion that we are a faceless agency. Every child deserves the kind of resources they need to succeed and we want to make sure that parents who are owed support receive payments but also that parents who have child-support obligations are able to pay them.”

Data from the OAG reveals that staff members handle a total caseload representing 72,000 children (children who are owed support but do not live in the District as well as dependents 21 years or older). Also, there are just over 32,000 custodial parents living in the District,

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representing almost 42,000 children under the age of 21.

“This is our first time trying this and as you can see the numbers are quite high,” Racine said. “However, while we’ve made August the month to fo-

cus on child support, we all need to understand that this is not a black history month kind of scenario. Our staff intends to be out in the District every month, focusing on child support and highlighting the kinds

of wraparound support that we have for both parents and returning citizens,” the attorney general said.

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NCAA Champ Returns Home for a Cause

By William J. Ford WI Contributing Writer @jabariwill Jaden Ovalles woke up at 7:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 14, to make sure he didn’t miss seeing former Duke University basketball standout and NCAA champion Quinn Cook 4.5 hours later at a fundraising event in Arlington, Virginia.

To ensure Ovalles got there in time, his 23-year-old sister, Tiara Harris, drove from her place in the District’s Southeast quadrant to pick him up from their dad’s house in Rockville, Maryland.

“You know you owe me, right?”

Harris said to her 9-year-old little brother while Cook autographed Ovalles’ basketball.

Cook, 22, posted up for 90 minutes at Smoothie King to help raise money for the Rita Bright Family and Youth Center in Northwest, where he spent his time as a youth and played basketball at its recreation center.

Fifty cents toward each purchase of Cook’s favorite smoothie, peach papaya, will be used specifically to get uniforms for the center’s basketball team and other programs. The goal to raise $1,500 began Aug. 3

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ing on my game to get better,” said Cook, who finished playing with the Oklahoma City Thunder in the National Basketball Associations’s Summer League last month. “I’m the biggest Smoothie King fiend. I go about two times a day. I’ve had them since I was in middle school. I love them. They’re healthy. You can’t be that.”

According to the Smoothie King menu, customers can choose drinks served with fruit, vegetables, vanilla and soy protein, nonfat milk, nutrients and other juice blends. The smoothie store also sells snacks such as veggie chips, granola and mixed nuts.

Cook stood behind the counter and served a few smoothies to customers such as Ryan Donnelly, 11, who ordered Mangofest with pineapples, mango juice blend and orange juice. Donnelly, who lives in Virginia Beach, Virgnia, came to visit his cousins from Arlington and read about Cook coming to the store on Instagram.

“This was really cool,” said Donnelly, who sported a blue Duke T-shirt. “I came at the right time to visit.”

Some customers such as Shenika Ballard of Alexandria, Virginia, didn’t know Cooke planned to be at there.

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Smoothie King on her lunch break from Red Door Spa around the corner. “I have a 15-year-old [son] and he would have been excited to be here.”

Before he traveled to Duke in Durham, North Carolina, Cook attended Dematha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, for three years. He transferred in his senior year to basketball power house Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia. The school produced dozens of top-notch college and current NBA players such as Carmelo Anthony, Ty Lawson and Brandon Jennings.

Cook served as co-captain and senior guard on the 2014-15 squad that won the men’s Division I college basketball championship in April against the University of Wisconsin.

As for professional basketball aspirations, Cook may decide next week on signing with an NBA team.

He will make one final appearance at a Smoothie King from 12 to 1:30 p.m. Aug. 29 at 15407 Excelsior Drive in Bowie, Maryland.

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Remember Mike Brown Protesters and grassroots activists recently met at the African-American Civil War Memorial in Northwest, one year after an unarmed teen died after being shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

The protest included an open-mic rally and march from the Memorial to Gallery Place.

“We are here to commemorate Mike Brown’s death, to recommit

ourselves one year later and to continue the fight against police terror.

We want to get to the root of the problem beyond the attitudes of the police and their training. We are fighting for real accountability for police officers committing crimes,” said Eugene Puryear, protest co-organizer, Stop Police Terror Project DC. Protestors of all races and ages assembled, displaying signs with messages like “Stop the War on Black America,” “End Police Terror” and “Stop Jump-outs and Police Brutality.”

A group of supporters for Michael Brown march to Gallery Place from the U.S. Civil War Memorial in Northwest on Saturday, Aug. 8. / Photo by Roy Lewis

“Police brutality is plaguing all of us in this country – this is way beyond racism,” said Tyshawn Al-Malik. “This is supposed to be the land of the free, home of the brave.”

Al-Malik said he looks forward to

flashed his handwritten sign which read “Black Lives Matter” to express his sentiments.

Landale also said he’s opposed to police tactics like “stop-and-frisk” and “jump-outs,” which promote racially-biased policing and authorize police to illegally target minorities, especially in gentrified neighborhoods around the District.

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discussing police brutality and other social issues affecting the black community during the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, which will take place later this fall, Oct. 10, on the National Mall.

Two other youth, including Jeff Landale who lives in Northwest, said they came out with the hopes of making a difference.

“We are a year after Mike Brown’s murder and we have over 100 deaths from police shootings this month, but this has been going on for years,” Landale said. “I think it’s absolutely outrageous that nothing is being done about it yet. Maybe by being present, I can make a small difference.”

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Back-To-School Events Attract Hundreds

County Youth Eager for Free Supplies

By William J. Ford WI Contributing Writer @jabariwill Maryland residents Francine Williams and Sherrell King both attended back-to-school events for the first time Saturday, Aug. 15.

Although they went to similar functions at two different locations in Prince George’s County, they both picked up free book bags with school supplies for their children who will begin kindergarten this year.

“This is great. The kids get book bags … based on their grade. That is pretty good,” said King of Charlotte Hall in neighboring Charles County, who attended Victory Chapel’s eighth annual affair in Accokeek.”

Williams’ mother told her about the school giveaway at the fourth annual Branch Avenue Day, which offered activities for children and showcased 21 local vendors selling food, fragrances

and other items at three locations along Branch Avenue in Hillcrest Heights.

“Events like this help the community for people like me.

I am a big procrastinator,” said Williams, 37, of Suitland, who got two book bags for her children, ages 3 and 5, at the Branch Avenue In Bloom Farmers Market at Iverson Mall.

Both events offered children 1,000 book bags equipped with pencils, paper, crayons, notebooks and other materials.

At Victory Chapel, about 600 people came by to pick up book bags that also contained a toothbrush and toothpaste donated by the county’s Health Department.

Parents picked up the book bags inside the church based on their child’s grade level. For example, King’s son had a book bag with crayons. Ebony Colby, 14, of Fort Washington, who will enter the ninth grade this year, received a book bag without crayons but with a blue folder.

Back-to-school events held throughout the DMV on Sat., August 15, gave free supplies to children, helping them prepare for the start of the new school year. At THEARC in Southeast, Washington Wizards star John Wall helps a young fan with his new backpack. /Photo by Robert R. Roberts

While a few church members did the “Christian Shuffle,” children jumped inside a moon bounce, played at video game stations and peddled on go-karts around a small, makeshift track.

“We do this for the community. It’s important for our children to get off to the right start for school,” said Kevin Ross, 53, pastor of Victory Chapel. “Some kids may not get a chance to go to Kings Dominion [in Doswell,

Virginia], so that’s why we have various activities for the kids.”

On the other side of the church parking lot, parents and their children received free massages and health screenings for items such as blood pressure.

Linda Wiggins of Indian Head in Charles County wanted her 6-year-old daughter, Kevia, to receive a quick dental exam from Fort Washington dentist Erica Michael.

“Her gums look good. It looks like she is going to need braces,” said Michael, who opened Michael Family Dental with her husband, Zishan, last year.

“Thank you so much. I may have to change my dentist. I haven’t been too pleased,” Wiggins said.

The dozens of parents who attended the Farmers Market in Hillcrest Heights received a coupon book filled with deals on food, clothing and local movie theaters.

Mario Frazier not only picked up a book bag for his daughter

entering the 11th grade, but also purchased a scented bar of soap for her called “zing garden.”

“I also got some fruit here at the farmers market. You can’t beat that,” said Frazier, 39, of New Carrollton, who stopped

by Iverson Mall after he got his vehicle repaired at a nearby body shop. “This event brings people out and that’s a good thing for the community.”

Some of the local business owners at both events enjoyed meeting with people and would like to return next year.

“I have been a vendor here at the farmers market for a year, but being at Branch Avenue Day is even bigger,” said Deborah Hogan of Capitol Heights, an independent consultant for Scentsy, a fragrance company based in Meridian, Idaho. “I definitely would like to be here again next year. Seeing all the people come out and support local businesses is good for the community.”WI

Janice Colby of Fort Washington, right, chats with her 14-year-old daughter, Ebony, on Saturday, Aug. 15, during Victory Chapels eighth annual Back to School Health and Wellness Fair in Accokeek, Maryland.

Ebony and Colby’s grandson, Keyshawn Kaufman, 11, left behind Ebony, were among hundreds of children who received a free book bag with school supplies. /Photo by William J. Ford

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PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY BRIEF Compiled by Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer Free, Reduced Meals Parents can apply for free and reduced school meals for their children by picking up an application at any nearby school. In addition to calling a child’s school to ask them to send an application home, parents can call 301-952-6517 to have an application mailed home.

Aug. 24: ‘Transition Day’ In preparation for the 2015-16 academic year, school officials will host “Transition Day” on Aug. 24 for students entering pre-kindergarten and kindergarten; middle school grades 6 and 7; and first-time 9th-graders.

During the day, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students will participate in programs to help them become acquainted with their new surroundings.

Students entering the 6th or 7th grades and those enrolled for the first time as 9th graders will attend an all-day program at their schools.

Students will receive breakfast and lunch; students who ride buses will be picked up and dropped off at their regular time and bus stop locations.

School Board Applications Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker will be accepting applications from residents interested in serving on the Board of Education representing District 7.

The district includes the communities of Suitland, District Heights, Forestville, Morningside and surrounding neighborhoods.

Since the vacancy was created as the result of the elected board member leaving office, Baker’s appointee who must reside in Board of Education District 7, will also have to run for election to the school board seat during the 2016 primary and general election.

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for the last session of a summer program designed to strengthen their leadership skills and educate them about systemic instructional priorities and initiatives.

Themed “Striving for Academic Excellence through a Lens on Literacy,” the Summer Leadership Institute for principals was held August 3-5 at The Bolger Center, while the program for assistant principals took place Aug. 12-13 at Northwestern High School.

In addition, the Professional Educator Induction Program for new teachers took place Aug. 3-6 at Barack Obama Elementary School and Aug. 10-12 at Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School. The program provided pre-service training led by master teachers and teacher leaders, as well as hands-on learning experiences and content-focused sessions.

“SLI and PEIP is a major component of our efforts to further develop and prepare our academic leaders and new teachers,” said schools CEO Kevin Maxwell. “We are continually building on the program to ensure that we have a high performing workforce who understands both the importance of their role in our student’s academic success and the vision and goals I’ve set for the school system.”WI

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All That Glitters Ain’t Gold If Washington voters give McDonald’s “Team Members” $15-an-hour wages, how much is this liberal electorate willing to pay for a Big Mac? Do you support jacking the minimum wage in the District of Columbia up to $15 an hour, and why? On the 2016 ballot measure, Washingtonians will have the opportunity to vote for the $15-hour minimum wage, and it’s likely that the majority of voters will choose to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Polling has shown that 70 percent of District voters support a $15 minimum wage. Many African-American politicians have framed raising the federal minimum wage as a critical civil rights issue, saying, “It will make a significant difference in the lives of millions of low-wage workers and their families.”

They say “African-Americans have disproportionately high rates of poverty, so increasing wages would be greatly beneficial both for this population and the nation’s economic recovery.”

But is raising the minimum wage that employers can pay a flawed concept that deserves serious thought before voters buy into this pie in the sky? The minimum wage law is based on the assumption that some minimum hourly rate of pay should be legislated so that people will have a certain amount income to support themselves and their families. The District of Columbia’s ballot measure will be front--and-center in the 2016 presidential race, and Washington would be the first East Coast city to vote on such. Washington is a wealthy city whose median hourly wage is $24. At $15 an hour, the District’s baseline would more than double the national hourly minimum and be 30 percent higher than the $11.50 rate agreed to last year in D.C. and adjacent counties in Maryland.

Politicians display much bluster on someone else paying the bill, but voters must realize that there is no free lunch here, and it’s going to be up to someone to pay the bill. Although minimum wage laws can set wages, they cannot guarantee jobs. In

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By William Reed practice, they often price lowskilled workers out of labor markets. Economists say income gains from raising the minimum wage would come at a significant cost to workers who would become jobless. It would be best to view minimum wage polices as socialistic pipe dreams. Democratic presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has introduced legislation to set the national minimum wage at $15 an hour, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) blasts such talk as “lame” and without purpose economically.

Minimum wage policies would be harmful in America’s capitalistic economy. Businesses will respond to the increased costs by reducing employment, particularly for low-skilled workers.

Some businesses may pass the higher costs on to consumers.

It’s imperative that blacks understand that raising the minimum wage does little, if anything, to decrease poverty and is an affront to market economics.

Minimum wage laws were invented in Australia and New Zealand, where politicians say minimum wage laws protect workers from exploitation by employers and reduce poverty; economists believe that minimum wage laws cause unnecessary hardship for the very people they are supposed to help.

But, in America, the federal minimum wage is an attempt at “economic equity” that probably shouldn’t exist at all. Minimum wage legislation puts the weight of “economic equity” on the backs of small businesses providing voters a social choice of economic equity over efficiency.

Washington, D.C., is a wealthy area, with a median annual household income of $65,830.

Minimum wage earners tend to be young and female. The indus-

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Robert Johnson: Advocate for ‘Rooney Rule’ BET Founder and Entrepreneur Seeing Results

By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Four years ago Robert L. Johnson urged corporate America to take a cue from the National Football League and incorporate a “Rooney Rule.”

Named after Pittsburg Steelers owner Dan Rooney, the rule was instituted in 2003 as an effort by the NFL to increase the percentage of black coaches.

Johnson, however, has recognized the need for such a rule in corporate America and thus labeled his version, “The RLJ Rule.”

“For the past four years, I have been urging the Congress and the White House to encourage corporate America to voluntarily implement and adopt the RLJ Rule which encourages companies to interview qualified minority candidates and minority businesses for procurement opportunities and is based on the NFL’s Rooney Rule,” Johnson said.

“I am therefore delighted that Xerox Corporation and the White House have agreed to adopt a version of the RLJ Rule which they call the ‘Wilson Rule.’”

“As I have stated many times, it doesn’t matter what name a company chooses to use to identify their commitment and support of the initiative, as long as it is consistent with the innovative spirit of the RLJ Rule to embrace creative ideas that support minority diversity,” said the corporate magnate and Black Entertainment Television founder.

In Johnson’s version, companies would include at least two African Americans among interviewees for positions of vice president and above and interview at least two black firms when searching for vendor and supplier services contractors.

Johnson said although many companies have diversity programs and want more diverse workforces, higher-level positions often are filled through an informal kind of friendship system. His proposal gives blacks the chance to compete for the position they may not have had because they lack the connection to the person doing the hiring.

On July 22, 2014, seven bi-partisan members of the U.S. Senate, led

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by Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), introduced Senate Resolution 511 encouraging all U.S. companies and local and state governments to support the RLJ Rule.

Senate Resolution 511 states in part that the Rooney Rule and the RLJ Rule would improve the economy in and the experience of the people of the U.S. In addition, it would ensure the increased exposure and resulting increased advancement of diverse qualified candidates, resulting in gains by all in the country through stronger economic opportunities.

“The decision by Xerox to implement their version of the RLJ Rule will hopefully motivate other Fortune 500 Companies to recognize the compelling need to encourage minority and ethnic diversity in hiring at every level and to encourage procurement opportunities for qualified minority businesses,” Johnson said.

“The primary goal of the RLJ Rule is to make certain that minority Americans are given the opportunity to compete as equals and contribute with their talent to the growth of the U.S. economy both nationally and on a global scale,” he said.

Facebook Inc. announced last month that it is starting to implement a rule to require considering at least one minority candidate for open positions. The rule went into effect in some Facebook departments in the last few months, according to a person familiar with the matter, Forbes reported.

Technology companies including Apple Inc. and Google Inc. are also working to address the issue with new recruiting methods, retention

strategies and funding of nonprofit groups that help increase the pipeline of candidates.

Last year, Facebook said 94 percent of its technical employees were white or Asian. Women made up 15 percent of technical roles. Facebook has more than 10,000 employees.

During a Bloomberg Technology Conference in San Francisco last month, Pinterest engineer Tracy Chou said while quotas may be controversial, a Rooney Rule at technology companies would help ensure that diverse candidates are at least being considered.

“There’s a need for large and small U.S. companies to focus on increasing opportunities for minorities as employees and small business operators,” Johnson said.

“The only way to do that is to enhance best practices and not just pay lip service to diversity and inclusion.

I accomplished what I did because I was the beneficiary of someone giving me a chance,” he said.

“Because John Malone, who at the time was the chairman of Telecommunications Inc., invested half a million dollars in my vision, BET became the most successful minority-owned company ever created and the first to go public on the New York Stock Exchange.”

“If John Malone backed me and I started BET, why couldn’t Warren Buffett back a young African American or other minority? Why couldn’t Larry Ellison in the tech space back him? My life has been an example of what happens when you give an African American, or other minority, a chance.”WI

cal restaurant and bar businesses industries and still not help people in need. The D.C. Chamber of Commerce’s poll of business owners showed more than half would need to cut their employee numbers if the minimum wage reached $15 an hour. They say higher rates “would amount

to unbearable economic hardship” and cause many to simply shutter their doors.WI

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Maryland Counties Celebrate ‘Hiring Revolution’

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By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer

They are calling it a pathway out of poverty and a game changer.

Prince George’s County is among those leading a national workforce innovation program that’s connecting job seekers to employees and, with a competitive $11.8 million grant from the Department of Labor called “Accelerating Connections to Employment,” the initiative is demonstrating results in the county and around the nation, officials said.

“Accelerating Connections to Employment – or ACE – has been a very successful demonstration program. Across all nine sites, we have enrolled more than 1,250 individuals into the program,” said Susan Gehring-Liker, the program’s project manager.

“In Baltimore County alone, we have enrolled 238 individuals. Across all our demonstration sites, more than 77 percent of the people who started the intensive training programs have completed, earning one or more industry recognized certification in their field of training.”

Of those completing, more than 62 percent are now employed,” Gehring-Liker said.

“We continue to see growth in the connection between our graduates and gainful employment. In Baltimore County, ACE has trained individuals in a variety of fields including Certified Nursing Assistants, Dental Assistants, Certified Apartment Maintenance Technicians (CAMT), Logistics, Ophthalmology Assistants, and more,” she said.

One of the most popular fields for employers has proven to be CAMT, perhaps an indication of the growth Baltimore County is experiencing in the building and housing fields, she said.

The program is designed to help people get the skills and support they need to move into high demand, middle skills jobs and officials are resolute that it’s working.

Prince George’s County has a high labor force participation rate, with 73.1 percent of residents 16 and over currently employed or actively seeking work, according to a report called, “Obstacles & Opportunities.”

This is higher than the Maryland labor force participation rate of 68.9 percent, and the na-

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tional rate of 64.2 percent. The county has a labor force of nearly half a million workers, and has seen slow but steady growth.

In the aftermath of the recession, the county saw a significant spike in unemployment. From a low point of 3.3 percent in April of 2008, the unemployment rate more than doubled to a peak of 8.1 percent in March of 2010.

Unemployment has dropped since then, but the county has not yet fully recovered.

Over the first half of 2013, the unemployment rate fluctuated from a low of 6.4 percent to a high of 7.6 percent, with rates closely mirroring the statewide average.

The County has found that the earlier employers connect with the ACE team, the better their chance of securing quality candidates.

Businesses like WPM Realty are seeing that the ACE Program is an effective way to get involved and fill key job openings, said Linda Goldberg, WPM’s human resources director.

“Through ACE, we’ve had incredible success getting qualified job candidates to build our team,” Goldberg said.

ACE is unique in that it serves individuals who wouldn’t otherwise qualify to get into community college, Gehring-Liker said.

The specialized community college training improves the overall skills of participants and their skills in the field for which they’re training.

As an example, ACE has helped and facilitated numerous successful endings.

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Kelly (last name withheld) was long term unemployed and looking to make a career in healthcare. She struggled through some personal home life situations, but ACE staff acted to make sure she could successfully complete the program. After training completion, it was an uphill battle to pass the Radiation and Health Safety Certification but she did it.

“Kelly became proactive in finding volunteer/shadowing opportunities to enrich her practical office skills,” Gehring-Liker said. “One of our ACE job developers connected her with Adventure Dental where she’s now worked for more than a year. She has really turned her life around and seems happy each time the ACE staff speaks with her.”

The ACE grant was awarded to Baltimore County by the U.S. Department of Labor in July 2012 and the training began in August 2013 following approval of a random control trial evaluation design.

While ACE has completed recruitment for this grant, there remain many opportunities for employers to become involved with the program and find quality employees for their business, program officials said.

“Baltimore County has several programs that have proven beneficial to those looking for employment,” Gehring-Liker said, noting that other Maryland ACE sites that are still serving ACE participants include Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties.WI

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By Aaron Gordon WI Contributing Writer Last September the DC Housing Authority [DCHA] set a goal of reducing the energy use of 6 million square feet of property, housing 50,000 residents by 20 percent by the year 2024.

The commitment, in response to President Obama’s Better Buildings Challenge, continues the renewable efforts made by DCHA dating back to 2007.

Since then, DCHA has explored renewable energy opportunities in solar power, fuel cell energy generation, mechanical flue gas recovery systems, and water saving devices, according to Board of Commissioners Chairperson Terri Thompson.

In 2007 the Regency House, located in Ward 3, was installed with a living green roof, and under the Recovery Act, DCHA received $28 million that was used to purchase solar arrays for the property.

“We are committed to identifying even more solar opportunities at up to 20 different sites in our portfolio,” DCHA Executive Director Adrianne Todman said last year, in a statement released through DCHA’s Public Affairs and Communications Department.

Michael Brown, deputy director of Capital Programs for DCHA, described the Regency House – which houses mostly seniors and disabled residents – as the flagship of DCHA prop-

On the rooftop of the Regency House in Ward 3, a living green garden has been installed under the auspices of the Recovery Act.. / Courtesy of DCHA

erties committed to providing residents access to renewable energy.

In addition to its green roof and solar arrays, the Regency House also features a recycled rain irrigation system, a preheat-

ed utility water system, an energy efficient lighting effort and a water conservation program, explained Brown.

In Ward 8, the Highland Dwellings property is having geothermal technology installed,

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LEED, or Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, is a green building certification program that recognizes the best in class building strategies and practices, according to the U.S. Green Building Council website.

With the District Department of the Environment [DDOE] announcing plans to invest up to $6 million in community solar projects, DCHA has already begun evaluating properties that will be able to take advantage of upcoming solar opportunities, Brown noted.

Last month the Brattle Group released a report detailing the potential of these large scale solar projects – called utility-scale solar – to be more cost effective, and cleaner than single home solar panel systems – costing about half of the price to generate the same amount of energy and cutting its carbon emissions by approximately 50 percent. Additionally, these large scale solar efforts make solar energy available to those who are not able to take advantage of rooftop solar panel systems for financial constraints or other reasons.

DCHA residents will be eligible to participate in the initiative as long as they meet the program requirements, which are still being finalized said Julia Christian, public information officer, DDOE. Brown highlighted four reasons on the importance of DCHA’s commitment to providing residents with access to renewable energy: 1) It enhances living environments with a reduced carbon footprint; 2) It allows our residents to participate in the global effort to be better stewards of our natural resources; 3) It engages residents to educate their families in the importance of conserving resources and creating a sustainability legacy; and 4) It provides possible employment opportunities for new “green” jobs as part of our sustainability focus.

DCHA’s renewable energy commitment has also had the added benefit of exposing over 15,000 children, all DCHA residents, to renewable energy technologies creating a legacy of understanding and support for sustainability efforts for future generations, Brown said.

As of the 2015 Better Buildings Challenge July report,

DCHA has yet to report any energy data, complete any showcase projects, or bring forth any implementation models – likely due to the fact that DCHA has yet to be in the challenge for one full year.

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The 11-member DCHA Board of Commissioners meets monthly, every second Wednesday, to discuss policy areas that impact residents. The sessions are open to the public, with meeting information being post-

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If the White House’s latest initiative on increasing access to renewable energy sources to all Americans is any indicator, public housing authorities will be expected to play a major role in

effectively shrinking the energy divide.

“DCHA has been on the cutting edge of sustainability and is evaluating further steps to ensure that DCHA remains a leader in this area,” Brown said. WI

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Educational Trends Change – Just Like Life

Since the U.S. first established the public education

system, there have always been trends and philosophies that determined how students should be engaged in the classroom.

Over 100 years ago, students only had a few hours to

learn because they were also responsible for completing their chores in the field. Thus, teachers emphasized just a few things like handwriting, mathematics and English – often referred to as “reading, writing and arithmetic.”

As the country shifted from an agrarian economy to

machinery, corporations and today, technologically-based industries, the kinds of skills that were required for those jobs also changed. That made for a new configuration in classroom instruction.

In recent years, given the expansive development of

technology – and its importance in almost every phase of our lives, educators concluded that students needed courses related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics. That seemed to be the best answer.

However, not all students were wired for STEM-based courses. The curriculum prepared

students for a variety of jobs that paid substantial wages. But some students were left behind, In Memoriam Dr. Calvin W. Rolark, Sr. Wilhelmina J. Rolark THE WASHINGTON INFORMER NEWSPAPER (ISSN#0741-9414) is published weekly on each Thursday.

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struggling and miserable. What they missed was the opportunity to express themselves in the arts.

What they lacked was the chance to find their creative eye.

It was a tough lesson for educational experts to learn – and many children suffered along the

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Today, there’s been an adjustment in the core curriculum in most states. The arts are slowly

being added back into the classroom lineup. Music, dance, art and creative writing, once deemed to be luxuries, have now become necessities for a quality education.

That’s a good thing too because some children, no matter how much they study, will never

become competent engineers, computer experts or physicists. But they may have what it takes to

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case scenario for a top-notch education will evolve as the job market calls for different sets of skills.

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Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead: Cultivating Minds During Out-of-School Time

By Peter Guttmacher Soon, yet another summer will come to close. And in it our young people have grown and experienced new things, engaging their bodies and minds in ways we hope will prepare them for the coming year. For it is time to go back to school – and afterschool.

Over the year ahead, our youth will continue to grow in a wider variety of settings than we may realize. There is of course the formal, school-day classroom.

But growing minds don’t stop growing when the final school bell rings each day. The District’s rich assortment of out-of-school time programs are key factors in young people’s emotional, spiritual, cultural and intellectual development.

In this less formal arena, practitioners can frame learning through the kinds of hands-on, project-based experiences that put potentially abstract skills and concepts into the real-world context of doing. With the freedom to meet young people where they are, create opportunities for leadership and promote collaborative work – these experiences can ignite student curiosity and confidence that truly impact student success. And nowhere is this engagement more intentional or innovative than in S.T.E.A.M. (Science Technology Engineering, Arts and Math) programming.

In today’s creative economy, mastering facts and content is no longer enough. Young people must know how to think. And the habits of mind involved in S.T.E.A.M. exploration are tailor made to develop pathways to adult success. Projects that involve problem solving, the

communication of ideas, the cultivation of individual identity and the ability to work within a group – best reflect the realities of how young people will be able to adapt and prosper in the 21st century.

With the ability to strategically support Common Core and Next Generation Science standards, while not being limited to the exact scope and sequence of any specific syllabus, out-of-school time programs have the agility to tailor learning experiences and the luxury of an open schedule in which to do it. This allows the key, multi-step learning processes of inquiry and experimentation to flourish. Young people can feel more like explorers, team members, builders, creators, designers, advocates, presenters, researchers, and doers….and less like students.

If we cast our minds back to our own development, we’ll recall that young people want to be successful today….and not just in the future, years from now when they are adults.

What do all these words mean to you? As this new season of learning gears up – think of the whole day as the precious timeframe in which your young person is learning and growing. Explore the incredibly rich diversity of outof-school time youth programs, by visiting our website at www. dctrust.org. Find out what’s happening at DC’s libraries. Check out programming at your local parks and recreation center. There are more opportunities out there – than many of us imagine in our collective rush to get ready for “school.”

Whether it’s designing jewelry through using computer code – being part of a citizen science

In today’s creative economy, mastering facts and content is no longer enough.

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team that explores the Anacostia River – creating videos or apps to raise awareness on issues they care about – or using cooking as a way to explore culture, budgeting and chemistry – there are so many opportunities after the bell for our kids to broaden experience, grow skills, and begin to forge the pathways to where they want to go.

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ABOUT DC TRUST DC Trust empowers youth to use their talents in creating successful lives through aligning resources, building systems and connecting partners. Since 1999, DC Trust has invested over $100 million in high-outcome programs and youth development worker capacity building with measurable impact to unlock the intrinsic potential of every DC youth.

As a non-profit partner to DC government, DC Trust is the only organization that brings together city agencies, public schools, employers and community groups to expand services and opportunities for youth in the District. Our work combines thought leadership, capacity building and effective grants management to help create and support the most effective programs for the District’s youth. Learn more at dctrustforyouth.org “ I believe in the power of narrative to change perspectives, drive empathy and motivate people towards action for change.”

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SHOPTALK STORYTELLING SERIES For decades, the barbershop has served as a cultural hub for communities of color. It's a safe space to convene, fellowship and dialogue about issues of importance, as well as to share personal insights, experiences and challenges in a raw and unfettered manner.

DC Trust is now capturing many of these conversations through ShopTalk, a transmedia storytelling series that uses the barbershop as both a springboard and muse for exploring the multifaceted lives of young men of color growing up in Washington, DC. Topical episodes on juvenile justice, health, school readiness and education reform will continue to paint a localized portrait of the state of young men of color in the nation’s capital. Join the conversation #ShopTalkDC

‘cme4me’ YOUTH PERCEPTION CAMPAIGN For our youth in DC to truly thrive, we must create a narrative that helps young people - especially youth of color - to be viewed differently by adults who can create pathways to opportunities for success, and also to view themselves differently in order to feel worthy enough to pursue those opportunities.

That's why DC Trust created cme4me (pronounced “see me for me”), a citywide youth perception campaign designed to create an environment that recognizes and celebrates the creativity of DC youth, while linking them to 21st century workforce development opportunities that lead to internships and real paying jobs in the creative economy.

The power to change resides in our youth’s voices, in their words and in their images. cme4me amplifies young people’s voices by helping them to create and share a glimpse of their reality so that we can see them for who they really are. Follow the movement at cme4me.org

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Always Looking Up: Pathways to STEM/STEAM For Underserved Communities of love for me. A labor to make sure underserved kids get support in STEM/STEAM. Every day I see those bright, brown eyes looking up at me with expectation and hope. This is different from play time--they’re ready to learn. Their excited about it. Germanee hops from one leg to another; Dametrian is hanging on to my elbow, and I am buoyed along by a host of smiling faces and happy feet.

They are looking up at me.

They are all looking up—and that’s the way they should stay, always looking up.

Saving Lives and Minds Afterschool Academic Performance program is important to me, because of how important it is to these kids. I know that the preschool to prison pipeline is real. How kids engage with education matters, and we know from over 100 years of research that shows the average student scores lower on standardize tests at the end of summer vacation (Summer Learning Association).

Cheryl Hart-Johnson Director, Youth and Prevention Services CBM National Submitted in partnership with DC Trust Every day when I arrive at Savoy Middle School where the CBM National Saving Lives and Minds Afterschool Academic program (SLAM) operates, there is an excitement in the air with the electricity of young lives.

Unabated energy zig zags this way and that, populating the minutes as students anticipate the day’s after school activities.

Usually I arrive with snacks in tow, lugging them directly from the CBM National office. This is SLAM. The place where the CBM Summer Camp Experience takes life in the summer and the site of perhaps DC’s only STEM Carnival, which kicks into gear at the close of semester. This has been a labor

Afterschool and out of school time learning is critical, and it’s something most inner city and underprivileged kids won’t get.

Our program specifically targets math and reading comprehension, two areas where kids from lower income levels struggle in contrast to their more affluent peers.

I direct two programs that serve these precious babies; the Saving Lives and Minds Afterschool Enrichment program, and the CBM Summer Camp along with our Annual CBM STEM Carnival. I employ a small but wieldy staff of caring facilitators, Brenda, Sharon and Phillip. They are my small army of compassion, bring STEM/ STEAM education to underserved students in Washington, DC. The program introduces DC Public School students to 3D SCRATCH Coding and programing, robotics, physics, animation, and digital arts.

This is more than just a job for us, it’s a calling to educate our

youth—and in many cases save lives. Lots of people don’t know that when a child must repeat a grade, it is the emotional equivalent of losing a parent. This kind of loss is huge in the life of a child at any age and at any income level, but when that loss is coupled with a lack of resources in the home and socioeconomic struggles, it can be a detrimentally life changing event. So in a real sense, we’re keeping them on the right track, and out of the preschool to prison pipeline.

Our kids need school administrators, foundations, and legislators as well as the religious and business community fighting for their educational achievement. This happens when our legislatures pass bills like the 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) Initiative and Afterschool Meals Act. It happens when granting foundations and local governments put children’s Continued on Page BS-5

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learning first by well funding programs that help kids stay in school and learn. Nearly 80 percent of the kids in our program have increased their Math proficiency in the last calendar year by at least one grade level.

They also express greater interest in STEM and higher education.

According to National Science Foundation’s 2011 figures, 17 percent of all US fourth grade students scored below basic math and science levels; however, that number doubles among Black, Hispanic and Native American students (32-34%). Those are the kids I work with every day. Little brown faces that want the same kind of happiness we all do; who want to learn and really have fun with math and science concepts.

The CBM STEM Carnival introduces underserved students to STEM/STEAM education and

that helps them to make critical choices about how they engage with education in and outside of the classroom. We engage students in Camp Special EFX, Paleontology discovery, Culinary Scientists, the National Association of Black Scuba Divers and Skype Storypals to broaden their horizons in STEM/STEAM. Every day I am struck by just how vital SLAM, CBM Summer Camp and the CBM STEM Carnival becomes for underserved communities.

The fact is, American students regardless of economic status, test lower in math and science behind students in less developed economies like Singapore and Northern Ireland. So every time I step into my school, these eager bright young minds remind me that we can do better.

With more funding, corporate, public and private support, as well as a healthy commitment to volunteerism, we can make

America number one in youth STEM education.

At the end of the day, when I am spent, and the last parent arrives to pick up their darling child, I and my staff prepare for home. We gather our equipment, pick up bits of discarded paper and wash away the last Crayola marks. We’re exhausted, but heartened. We will do it again tomorrow. But we will do it all for them—they are our future and that is why I am writing today—to talk about them.

So, then we lock the doors, turn off the lights and collectively, we don’t hope for a brighter tomorrow—we create one. Join me, and let’s do it together. n

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Gaining STEAM in Education

By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Anne Jolly knows that a tug of war looms between proponents of STEM education – science, technology, engineering, and math – and those who advocate for STEAM lessons, which add art to the mix.

Jolly, who taught middle school science for 16 years and was once named Alabama State Teacher of the Year, said whichever side an individual might be on, there’s something for everyone to mull.

“First, consider the why and what of STEM education,” said Jolly, who writes a column for Education Week and is a virtual community organizer for the Center for Teaching Quality. Jolly also blogs regularly at STEM

by Design.

Both private and public sectors report that 21st-century workers require skills that many of today’s graduates don’t have, Jolly noted in a recent post.

Students need more in-depth knowledge of math and science, plus the ability to integrate and apply that knowledge to solve the challenges facing our nation, she said.

Children who study STEM also develop a variety of skills that are essential for success: critical thinking and problem solving, creativity and innovation, communication, collaboration and entrepreneurship, to name a few.

Recently, the idea of adding the arts to STEM programs has been gaining momentum.

Surprisingly, Jolly said she’s heard push-back from both camps.

Proponents said STEM lessons naturally involve art (for example, product design), language arts (communication), and social studies and history (setting the context for engineering challenges).

Additionally, STEM projects do not deliberately exclude the arts or any other subject; rather, these subjects are included incidentally as needed for engineering challenges.

The focus of STEM is developing rigorous math and science skills through engineering. With that, Jolly asked, “How can you focus on other subjects such as art without losing the mission

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of STEM or watering down its primary purpose?”

Arts proponents note that engineering and technology can certainly serve the artist and help create art. “But if we’re talking about how one can use art in engineering … as an artist, it seems we’re missing the point and devaluing, or not realizing, art’s purpose and importance.

We have it backwards,” she said.

In a post for the educational magazine Inside Higher Ed, Gary S. May argued that STEM should stay as it is because education policy has yet to fully embrace the concept it represents – and that concept is more important than ever.

“No one – least of all me – is suggesting that STEM majors should not study the arts. The arts are a source of enlightenment and inspiration, and exposure to the arts broadens one’s perspective,” said May, the dean of the Georgia Tech College of Engineering.

“Such a broad perspective is crucial to the creativity and critical thinking that is required for effective engineering design and innovation,” he said.

“The humanities fuel inquisitiveness and expansive thinking, providing the scientific mind with larger context and the potential to communicate better.

Still, the clear value of the arts would seem to make adding “A” to STEM a no-brainer, May added.

And, to help underscore why STEAM matters not just domestically but around the globe, John Cridland, the head of Great Britain’s Confederation of British Industry, said teenagers should be encouraged to study the arts at school to make sure the computer games of tomorrow are not designed by “a spotty nerd.”

Cridland reportedly wants a drive to persuade schools to adopt the mantra of promoting STEAM subjects.

“One of the biggest growth industries in Britain today is the computer games industry,” he said. “We need extra coders, dozens and dozens of them but nobody is going to play a game designed by a spotty nerd.

We need people with artistic flair.” n

The arts are a source of enlightenment and inspiration, and exposure to the arts broadens one’s perspective.

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Back-to-School Health: Finding Your Child a Medical Home

By Dr. Megan Hollis This August, families are preparing for a new school year.

For many parents, that means going to the doctor to get our kids their required check-ups. A yearly well-child visit is a great first step in keeping our children healthy, but is it enough?

Children deserve the best healthcare they can get. This begins with having a “medical home,” a place where your doctor knows your whole health story. I have been a primary care doctor in DC since 2012, now working at Community of Hope’s Conway Health and Re-

source Center. Every day I see why every family should have a medical home.

When you have a medical home, you have a relationship with a trusted doctor who knows you. They know your history and keep track of your conditions and medications. People of all ages can benefit from having a medical home, especially children.

In a medical home, your doctor can get to know the big picture of your family’s health. For example, if I am helping a mom manage her diabetes, I know to look for signs of it in her kids. If one child has asthma, I will watch the brothers and sisters for symptoms as well.

Medical homes also help guide you through the complex healthcare system. Does your family have many doctors who provide dialysis, physical therapy or other specialty care? It can be a lot to manage. A medical home can help you keep track of it all.

A medical home also encourages you to keep coming back to the same doctor over time. Here at Community of Hope, we have some adult patients who have been

seeing us since they were children.

Some are now bringing their kids to see us, too. In fact, we now have a baby whose mother and grandmother have been our patients too. Those long-term relationships make it easier to give and receive great care.

Sadly, less than half of DC children have a medical home, according to the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative. Of children whose family income is below the federal poverty line, only 38% are getting the complete care they deserve.

What’s the alternative? For families who don’t have a regular doctor, parents may take their children to the emergency room when a problem comes up. In the case of asthma, a good doctor might have spotted symptoms and offered care before it became an emergency.

So as you schedule those backto-school check-ups, maybe now is the time to find your kids a medical home. As a doctor, I urge you to find a provider who will take the time to get to know your family. Community health centers like Community of Hope are a

great place to start. We can get you scheduled within just a few days.

While you’re here, check out our dentistry and other services. We are accepting new patients of all ages,

and hope you will come visit us.

Dr. Megan Hollis is the Medical Director at Community of Hope’s Conway Health and Resource Center, located in Bellevue. n

Children deserve the best healthcare they can get. This begins with having a ‘medical home,’ a place where your doctor knows your name and your story.

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A Letter Dedicated to My Guardianship Angel My name is Cierra. I am 17 years old, and I recently received my high school diploma. I have been accepted to two colleges and will make my selection in the coming week. I plan to pursue a degree in psychology and ultimately receive a Master’s degree in social work. I believe I can make a difference in the world. However, four years ago, I never envisioned that my life would be so clear, until I met my “Guardianship Angel.”

At age 8, I entered foster care with my seven siblings.

Throughout my journey, my attitude was angry, frustrated, and not trusting of anyone. I had multiple placements and several different social workers. Because there were eight of us, we were never placed together. After being in foster care for two years, my goal changed to adoption. I watched my younger siblings get adopted and wondered would this ever happen for me?

At age 14, I had an adoption disruption. The emotional rollercoaster of feeling connected, then rejected, was painful.

At 2 a.m., the placement team contacted Ms. Duncan, a foster parent, and explained I needed a placement. I heard as Ms. Duncan stated “send her right over.” Immediately, after hearing her voice, I felt something different; however, I quickly told myself not to get excited. When I arrived, Ms. Duncan welcomed me, but I was not going to be fooled by her kindness, so I gave her attitude. She dismissed my attitude and continued to be kind towards me. The next morning, she made breakfast, we sat down to eat, and she laid out her rules for her home and expectations of how she wanted to be treated. But she also asked me what I expected from her and what I would need from her to make our living together successful. No one had ever asked me that before. For the next year, we had our ups and downs, but the love and trust that has developed between us is something that I hope all youth in my situation have an opportunity to experience.

After being placed with Ms. Duncan, I made the honor roll consecutively, connected to wonderful programs, and heard repeatedly that I am valued. I love her. As an older teen in foster care, I did not imagine I would find a placement that would last. Today, I know I have a lifelong connection. In 2013,

Ms. Duncan became my legal guardian and to me, she is my mom.

Mom, thank you for being dedicated and patient, for equipping me to want a future, for providing quality talks, and for teaching me to become something I couldn’t imagine four years ago: inspired.

District residents: Please take a chance on teens in foster care.

We need parents like my mom who are patient and dedicated and provide consistent structure and guidance even when we are challenging. Having the right placement has made the difference in my life, and I thank my mom for taking a chance on me because I am a wonderful individual who was a child in foster care.

We are worth it. I know now that I am!

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Charter Schools Lead The Way With S.T.E.A.M. Academics

By Dr. Ramona Edelin

As the cutting-edge of education shifts from STEM—science, technology, engineering and math—to STEAM, adding the arts as core disciplines, we are reminded that schools change with the world.

The skills required for the new century need to be taught early on, because our children will require them to succeed in an increasingly competitive global economy. In this, the District of Columbia’s chartered public schools, with their freedom to innovate while being held accountable for improved student performance, can lead the way.

Educating 44 percent of District public school children, charter schools have been trailblazers in education reform. When the first charters opened nearly 20 years

ago, an estimated half of D.C. students dropped out before graduating. Today, graduation rates have never been higher, with charters 10 percentage points higher than the traditional public school system.

The more students who graduate high-school, the greater the number who can be accepted to, and graduate from, college.

Tuition-free and open to all D.C.-resident students, many public charter schools utilize STEAM subjects to prepare their students for college and life.

One such school on Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue opened a brand new $18 million highschool campus only last school year. The state-of-the-art facility at Friendship’s Technology Prep Academy boasts a SMART lab, designed to provide the STEAM

skills necessary for the 21stCentury.

This is more than about teaching students how to use technology; the idea is to offer the opportunity of using technology to learn.

Also situated within the newly-built school building are robotics and other science labs, as well as a greenhouse. This year, the first seniors of this public charter high school graduated, and 97 percent were accepted to college.

The principal of Tech Prep middle school, Patrick Pope, with three and a half decades’ experience in D.C.’s traditional public schools, has articulated the value of adding the “A” for arts to “STEM.” In an interview with D.C. education blogger Natalie Wexler, Pope said of the arts side of STEAM: “it is an easy way to get kids engaged,” giving them “the opportunity to feel school is a positive, challenging place, where their particular talents will be tapped and grown.”

Just down the road from Tech Prep, another public charter school, Excel Academy, also on Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., in D.C.’s historically underserved Ward Eight, offers STEAM academics through

an all-girls school, a first for the city’s public charter schools.

Charter schools such as these are providing important and relevant education in the form of STEAM, and preparing the next generation in the nation’s capital for their future, which has been chronically ignored in the past. More than providing quality time in class with highly-skilled and devoted instructors, charters also teach the rising generation how to be lifelong learners--perhaps the most important skill of all.

This need has been too long neglected. One third of African-American students nationwide drop out of high school, according to John Hopkins University. Only one in 10—representing half of our community here in D.C.—access education beyond high school, the Center for American Progress has found. Two-thirds of those who do enroll in full-time four-year college courses do not graduate, usually for non-academic reasons.

These alarming facts translate into even more worrying realities.

African-Americans are twice as likely to be unemployed as their

white peers; and African-American children are three times more likely to live in poverty, U.S. government statistics report.

STEAM education offers the adults of tomorrow the skills they will need to thrive and raise future generations. But D.C.’s chartered public schools do not stop there.

They also are persistently proactive in providing the social and emotional supports that children from underserved communities too often cannot access—and without which, they will struggle to take advantage of educational opportunities.

As the new school year begins, let us make a commitment to extending STEAM curricula in both chartered public schools and their traditional counterparts—and let those schools learn from each other. It is only by applying best practices and changing the game for urban youth that all of the District and our nation can move forward as one. We’ve been waiting for too long.

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Julian Bond Never Lost Touch with Everyday People

Like so many others, particularly those from the black community, we were saddened to hear about the death of Julian Bond last weekend. Still, we had to admit and recognize that his was a life that was well lived. He celebrated his threescore and 10 – with a few more years added on.

We could talk about his many accomplishments, his foray into the civil rights movement as a young man under the tutelage of seasoned warriors like Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and so many others.

We could wax and wane over his amazing leadership as one of the young founders of SNCC. We could even talk about his political accomplishments in the Georgia Legislature, or his uncanny ability to redirect the NAACP. But we’ve chosen to leave those recollections to others.

Instead, what we’d like to share with our readers about Julian Bond, particularly if you never had the chance to spend any time with him, is how much he remained a man of the people.

What do we mean by that? Consider that because we live in Washington, D.C., that we have a much greater chance of engaging with individuals considered to be national, if not international leaders – some even being referred to as icons within certain spheres.

Julian Bond was such a man. Yet, he always greeted people as if he had known them for years. He was not the kind of man who took himself too seriously. In fact, meeting him, whether it was at a politically-based event or at a concert or restaurant, always resulted in the same kind of encounter. He may you feel like family.

He was just Julian – and he wanted to know how your life was going and if he could be of assistance.

So many of our so-called leaders today surround themselves with an entourage of individuals who enjoy being in the limelight. They hover around the “celebrity” in question in order to live vicariously through them. And they seek to keep others away.

That was not Julian Bond’s way. Since bursting on the scene as a young whipper-snapper during the height of the civil rights movement, Bond always spoke about his commitment to finding ways to help people – and not just black people, by the way – live freely, live honorably and to have the opportunity to “protest, speak and participate in the world of politics that effected their lives.”

Julian Bond never sought to remain wedded to the status quo – not even if those pushing the agenda were black. How could he when he exclaimed that civil rights should be extended to everyone – women, veterans, immigrants, gays and lesbians? How could he when he advocated for the right for same-sex couples to be able to marry? How could he when he tended to see all people the same without regard to race, creed or religion?

We’ll miss our beloved brother. He was a man comfortable in his own shoes. He just wanted others to feel just as comfortable in theirs.

Fear of a Donald Trump Planet

It’s been fascinating to watch the almost two dozen Republican candidates for president butt heads and jockey for position in their quest to take on the Democratic nominee – whoever may emerge from the dust after Hillary, Bernie and now possibly Joe call in their chips, add up their war chests and go for the seat that Barack Obama must soon vacate.

But with the Iowa State Fair attracting presidential hopefuls like flies to honey, we can’t help but pause as the “surprise” Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, continues to share his controversial opinions all to his benefit.

The polls show that Trump, even after cutting off a blond, blue-eyed, buxom reporter at the knees, even after saying that if he had his way, there’d be no such thing as birthright for the children of immigrants born in the good old U.S.A., even after showing how little he really knows about foreign policy, even after illustrating the inconclusiveness of his political platform – folks continue to clamor toward him.

Let’s not get it twisted. If we were looking for ways to open our own hotel on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan or were hoping for a slot on The Apprentice, we’d probably join the stampede. After all, Donald Trump is a master of the stage. He knows how to use the smoke and mirrors to his advantage. And he knows how to make the best out of a public encounter. Just consider the way he first met with the gold folks of Iowa a few days ago – arriving in his sleek, expensive, hovercraft on the soft grasses of the Midwest.

Trump has proven himself to be a shrewd businessman and a man that can work any crowd. He’s proven that he can take a few dollars and make millions. He’s proven that he can stir up a crowd and somehow get the majority of his listeners to say “Amen.”

What he has not proven is that he can effectively lead a country like America.

What he has not shown us is what door he would really pick (ala “Let’s Make a Deal) when serious challenges like Isis, China, or Black Lives Matter threaten to turn his world, in fact our entire world, upside down.

If you’ve never witnessed the antics of Barnum & Bailey and their many entertaining acts, just watch Mr. Trump. Sometimes, if you close your eyes, it’s almost like being at the circus.

We’ve Missed You Donnie – Welcome Back I would like to add my voice to the chorus of voices welcoming back, as you say, “The Love Bug,” Donnie Simpson, to the radio here in the DMV. Donnie Simpson was and is my all-time favorite disc jockey. From reading your article I learned that he is from Detroit, and that he arrived in Washington around the same time I did. When I started listening to Donnie, I assumed that he was from the area and that he just had a knack for streaming songs together that made you want to get up out of your seat and start dancing. But now finding out he is a Midwesterner it makes sense. I’m a Midwesterner and we grew up with a smooth and mellow way about playing our music, so it makes sense that I was just crazy about his radio shows. Don’t get me wrong, this is my home now and I love the DMV, but there are certain things you can’t deny. I will certainly have my radio tuned to MAJIC 102.3 at 3 p.m. from now on. Music is and will always be a window into our souls, and when you have someone who can help

you open up that window with smooth, soulful sounds it’s truly a blessing. Here’s wishing Donnie Simpson much success in all of his endeavors.

Johnny Bates Washington, DC

Students’ Achievements Should be Celebrated

I was elated to read the article “Students Receive National Scholarships” in this week’s (August 13-19) Prince George’s County section of your paper.

We don’t get to hear enough about those students who take their education seriously, and who are on track to make contributions on a national and/ or global level. They usually get buried under news about those committing violence and causing mayhem. It is so good to know that there are those who value learning and are rewarded for their efforts. The National Merit Scholarship is quite competitive and only the top fraction of students, nationally, win the award.

Thank goodness your paper thought it newsworthy so that those of us in the community

can know and recognize these fine scholars. If only there were some way to inspire other students to work toward the same goals, knowing that a good education yields economic rewards of its own. Let these young people be congratulated for their accomplishments. Perhaps when they have earned their college degrees, you will feature them for another academic milestone they will have reached. Best wishes to both of them, their families and the Prince George’s County School System.

Janie Gadsden Prince George’s County

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By Neil Irvin

A New Look at Compton For hip-hop heads of a certain age, the energy around the release of the movie “Straight Outta Compton” is like opening a time capsule.

NWA’s arrival transported us to the front lines of the crack era, exposing the poverty, the battering rams and helicopters and the primal, round-the-clock struggle to survive attacks from rivals and police. Their sound was fresh, and their defiant tone

made followers want to hold it down for Compton and Long Beach.

NWA was us, and we were them, too black and too strong.

But the music that made us bob our heads also celebrated misogyny and lifted up a brutish model of manhood that referred to women as bitches and hos and contributed mightily to a normalization of violence against and dehumanization of girls and women. If we needed a refresher, rap legend Dr. Dre —one of NWA’s

founders — recently released the album “Compton,” and on the song “Medicine Man,” protégé Eminem raps “Ain’t no one safe from, nonbelievers there ain’t none. I even make the b------ I rape c--.”

Full stop. Rewind. What?

Maybe it was always there and always so raw. And perhaps, at the time, many of us wanted to look away, laugh off the misogyny because the rest of what they were saying was so revealing and revolutionary. They shined a light on police violence before

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the Rodney King videotape.

Without rap and hip-hop, many in our society would not know the names of great authors and activists, might not be versed on mass incarceration and the generational impact of high employment.

But if we care about them — and about ourselves — we cannot and must not walk away from or ignore what we see. We have to own our complete selves, warts and all.

In the movie “8 Mile,” which was based in Detroit, the up-

and-coming rapper B. Rabbit, played by Eminem, lives in a trailer park with his mother and little sister. He has no money, his girl has left him and rivals beat him up. But in the seminal scene, Eminem dispenses with his opponent by claiming all of his own faults and insecurities, leaving his opponent with nothing else to say.

So we, too, can celebrate the good that NWA gave us and also shine a light on the parts

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By Julianne Malveaux

Black Lives Matter Prioritizes Black Life Nineteen-year-old Zachary Hammond was sitting in a Hardee’s parking lot in his hometown of Seneca, South Carolina, on a first date. An undercover agent had arranged to buy marijuana from his date and had lured her to the parking lot. What could have been a simple drug bust turned into tragedy. Hammond was killed when two bullets struck him on July 26.

As always, there are conflict-

ing stories of what happened.

The shooting officer says he was in danger of being run over by Hammond, but not everyone agrees, and one Hardee’s employee witnessed officers moving Hammond’s body to place it so it confirmed officer reports.

Hammond is white, and his name is not as widely known as that of Michael Brown, Eric Garner or Tamir Rice. Hammond’s family and its attorney, Eric Bland, say the national media have not covered the mur-

der of Hammond because he is white. Give me a break.

While activists organized to protest the murders of the unarmed African-American men (and women) who have been killed by the police, no one in Hammond’s circle has cared enough to organize an action to protest his killing. His town is majority white, as are the officers of the law. Citizens of Seneca need to ask why Hammond’s killing is tolerated.

Approximately 350 people

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have been killed by police officers so far this year. We don’t know all of their names, but we do know that African-Americans are twice as likely to be killed (or die in police custody) as whites.

We know about Sandra Bland, and Eric Garner, and Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice because somebody lifted them up, organized around their murders, and made their presence known.

Tellingly, the protest of Michael Brown’s murder was muted until a grand jury failed to indict

murderer Darren Wilson for his crime.

In the case of Hammond, there has been no tape issued, no witnesses who have come forward, and a police bureaucracy seems to be in no hurry to issue facts and findings. Still, everybody would know Hammond’s name if that #AllLivesMatter crowd, the ones who object to the #BlackLivesMatter movement, would coalesce

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By Lee A. Daniels

Trump’s Trump Card: The Conservative Mob The fate of the Republican Party’s presidential sweepstakes at the moment is being controlled by two political Frankensteins – both of them of the GOP’s own creation.

One, of course, is Donald Trump, the wealthy demagogue who is leading the crowded GOP primary field precisely because he doesn’t have any “platform” except crowing that he’ll dominate anyone at home and abroad

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who disagrees with him and be cruel to the downtrodden.

The GOP’s second Frankenstein consists of Trump’s supporters among the Republican Party voters, who are also uninterested in the complexities of foreign or domestic policy issues and just want to dominate everyone else who is not like them.

Besides his wealth, they’re Trump’s trump card against the GOP party regulars because, like him, they have no loyalty to the Republican Party as an institution or to the actual ideas of

American conservatism. And forget all that excuse-making about their being “angry” at the difficulties besetting American society. The plain truth is that these people want their intolerance stoked. For all their railing against “Wall Street,” they always choose to take out their anger on the easy targets –Americans of color and those with fewer resources. They want to let their bent for selfishness and callousness show, and Trump is speaking them.

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supporters didn’t just appear out of nowhere. They’re a creation of the GOP’s own contempt for the inclusiveness and complexity of today’s American society and of the traditional political processes that have produced that result.

That’s what the GOP actions of the Obama years mean: the Republicans’ more than 50 attempts in Congress to try to block Obamacare, despite their knowing every single time they wouldn’t succeed. The GOP’s constructing an extensive cam-

paign in states controlled by GOP legislatures to block Democratic-leaning voters’ access to the ballot box. It’s engineering the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court Citizens United ruling that destroyed limits on contributions to political campaigns – to enable the wealthy to undermine the one-person, one-vote foundation of American democracy.

One could go on down a long list of policy issues, including gay rights, climate change, the

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Guest Columnist

By Marc H. Morial

All Votes Matter: Restoring the Voting Rights Act of 1965 “Some of the protections that had been enshrined in the Voting Rights Act itself have been weakened as a consequence of court decisions and interpretations of the law. State legislatures have instituted procedures and practices that, although on the surface may appear neutral, have the effect of discouraging people from voting … And if, in fact, those practices, those trends, those tendencies are allowed to continue unanswered, then over time the hard-won battles of

50 years ago erode, and our democracy erodes.”

– President Barack Obama, Aug. 6

On the eve of the observance of the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a federal appeals court in New Orleans struck down a strict Texas voter identification law. In a unanimous ruling, the three-judge panel found that the law violated the federal Voting Rights Act and had a dispropor-

tionate and discriminatory impact on blacks and Hispanics in the state.

The law – which requires forms of identification that many poor people and people in communities of color either do not have or have great difficulty accessing – made it far more difficult for these groups, including college students and the elderly, to exercise their constitutional right as citizens to vote.

The importance of the ruling has not been lost on advocates battling on the frontlines to ex-

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pand our nation’s access to the ballot and thwart legislative attempts at voter suppression. It was a small victory in the larger enterprise of many Republican-controlled states’ efforts to limit voters’ rights. It was a reminder of why the landmark civil rights legislation signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson 50 years ago remains an important weapon in the fight to expand access to the polls. And it underscored why Congress needs to make restoring the Voting Rights Act a political priority.

The aftermath of the Supreme Court’s regrettable 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder to gut Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act—which established which states had to get advance approval from the federal government before making any changes to their election laws— ushered in a wave of tough voter suppression laws. Texas does not stand alone in its zeal to make it harder for Americans to vote.

Wisconsin and North Carolina

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By Mariah Wright Edelman

Where are the Caring Adults?

What’s on the minds of many high school students these days — the start of a new school year, getting a driver’s license, worrying whether they’ll make the team, perhaps daydreaming about college and sweating over SAT exams? But that’s not what three black male high school students told a Children’s Defense Fund audience this summer.

Aijalon “AJ” Morris is beginning his senior year at PearlCohn Entertainment Magnet

High School in Nashville, said: “I have no friends that I grew up with. I have lost five this year, and I have lost three to prison . . . I was in fifth grade and I lost my [first] friend. He got killed.

Seventh grade, my friend killed somebody, and he’s in jail for life . . . From my freshman year to now, I have been to 12 to 13 funerals. And I grew up with everybody that I went to those funerals with, and now they’re gone. It’s hard to cope with it.

It’s hard to – sometimes I cry all night, you know, and I ask God

why.”

In middle school, AJ was a star athlete. By eighth grade he was already receiving offers to play football in college, but after he was sidelined by injuries his sophomore year, everything changed. “I lost hope. I stopped going to school. And during those times I was going through a lot with my family. I was homeless. I didn’t have anything to wear, didn’t have anything to wear to school, you know, nothing like that. I didn’t even know where I was going to get my

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next meal. And everything was gone.” No one seemed to care.

“I remember a whole month – a whole month we ate bread. We ate toast for a whole month.”

E’Darrius Smith, a budding and talented artist, is also a rising senior at Pearl-Cohn. “I had a good friend that I grew up with . . . He ended up dying because he was robbed and he tried to fight back and they ended up shooting him in the chest. So they ended up killing him. And when I found this out, you know, I almost cried, but at the same time

[you’ve] seen so many classmates and so many people …you just sort of say, ‘Man, I sort of knew that was going to happen.’”

Jermaine Simmons, a junior at Pearl-Cohn, said: “We live in the worst conditions, where nobody helps you. And we live in a condition where you’ve got to watch your back every 30 seconds. You know, you don’t know when you’re going to get robbed, you don’t know [when] you’re going to get shot, you don’t know

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By Askia Muhammad

Julian Bond: A Man for All Seasons Like so many, many others, I literally gasped when I learned that former Georgia state senator and former NAACP Chairman Julian Bond had died.

Even though I had not seen or spoken with him for months, and though months, even years, would sometimes pass between our encounters, he made me feel like he really knew me — the person — as well as I knew him.

Certainly, he had literally thou-

sands of “personal friends” who felt that way.

He was an iconic hero of the civil rights movement. He was loathed by his rivals—white Southerners, segregationists, Georgia legislators who unsuccessfully fought his right to represent the people who elected him all the way to the Supreme Court. But he was truly loved by the masses of the people.

Conspicuously handsome, articulate, he came by his gifts naturally. His father — Dr. Horace Mann Bond — was the president

of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania during Julian’s formative childhood. Lincoln was then a premier black center of education, where Langston Hughes and Albert Einstein trod its rural pathways and where Kwame Nkrumah and Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first presidents of Ghana and Nigeria, matriculated.

Being the child of a university president exposes one to certain privileges and experiences not common in black communities, poet Tom Dent — whose father Albert Dent was president of

Dillard University — told me.

Because people are constantly opening doors and making certain that such children are always comfortable and seated first if necessary, it amounts to what he described as “God training.”

That is the life of a college president prepared Dent — and Julian Bond as well, I dare say — to view certain accommodations in life as natural privileges they should expect, not like the downcast, backdoor training that was violently forced on most black folks. I can say happily that

neither man, however, behaved like he thought he was better than anyone. Like “walk(ing) with kings, nor los(ing) the common touch,” as Rudyard Kipling might say.

So, here we have Julian Bond, this People’s Champion, who was “to the manor born” so to speak, but you’d never know it, by the way he always rolled up his sleeves and set about doing the people’s business, even when it put his own life at risk.

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URBAN LEAGUE Helps Youth with School Supplies

Hundreds Show Up for Annual Health & Wellness Festival

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everal hundred D.C. residents, including a large contingency of children, showed up to celebrate and enjoy the Greater Washington Urban League 2015 Health & Wellness Back to School Festival in partnership with the District’s Thurgood Marshall Center Trust, Inc. The all-day event, held at the Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage in Northwest, took place on Saturday, Aug. 15.

Local singer/songwriter Reesa Renée, whose life and career were featured in a recent Washington Informer article, served as the celebrity host for the event.

Sponsors included USDA, MedStar Family Choice, Collaborative Solutions for Communities and many other generous partners.

During the festival, boys and girls received free haircuts and hairstyles, dental screenings (thanks to Howard University, School of Dentistry’s Pediatric Clinic), great food, music, hundreds of backpacks (over 500) filled with school supplies and a whole lot more.

Here’s a more thorough breakdown of the sponsors and what they donated: USDA – Festival Sponsor; Chef Huda – Cooking Demonstration Sponsor and; MedStar Family Choice – School Supply Sponsor.

Those providing haircuts and hairstyles stayed until the very last person was served and included: American Beauty Academy (Wheaton); Charming Locs and; Crowned by Queen.

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DC BRIEFS Compiled by Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer Kids Ride Free on Rail Effective Aug. 17, District public and charter school students will be eligible for a free $100 monthly Metrorail benefit.

Enrollment in the “Kids Ride Free on Rail” program will enable qualifying students to get to and from school and school-related events.

To receive the benefit, students must obtain a DC One Card and register the card on the DC One Card website. After registering, students must log back into their accounts on, or after August 17, and check their eligibility to start receiving the benefit. After completing these steps, the “Kids Ride Free on Rail” pass will load electronically onto students’ DC One Cards starting on Aug. 24.

To ride the train, students must tap their DC One Cards at the Metrorail fare gates. Metro will not allow students to flash their DC One Cards to enter the rail system.

For additional information about the program, call 202673-1740 between 8:15 a.m. and 4:45 p.m.

Amazon Smile Program at Stoddert Students and families of Stoddert Elementary School in Northwest list as participants in the “Amazon Smile” program, which automatically gives a portion back to the Stoddert Parent Teacher Organization each time they purchase an item. When participants shop on Amazon.

com using the link they will donate a small percentage of their purchase price to the school.

Participants can start shopping by going to smile.amazon. com on their computer or mobile device, log into Amazon and search for and select “Benjamin Stoddert Elementary” as their charitable organization. Make sure to begin the Amazon search at smile.amazon.com in order for the purchase to apply.

Children’s Books in Barbershops As an offshoot of President Barack Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, the U.S. Department of Education partnered this summer with more than 20 barbershops nationwide to get more children and youth reading.

Earlier this month, DOE Deputy Secretary John King and Eugene Pinkard, DCPS instructional superintendent, participated in an MSNBC interview where they discussed the “Read Where You Are” program aimed at helping young males brush up on their reading skills.

“We know barbershops are a place where you’re going to find kids with their fathers, grandfathers and uncles who may be sitting there looking for something to do. It’s a great place to have a book and to do some summer reading,” King said. “We worry that in the summer time that students lose academic ground, and this is a way to make sure that they are reading everywhere.”

As a result of collaboration with “My Brother’s Keeper” and donations from non-profit organizations, Eddie’s Hair Design in

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the Adams Morgan community now offers a small children’s library.

Pickard said that as both a principal and parent, it’s important for school officials to seize opportunities that enable chil-

dren to continue reading and learning. “[The ‘Read Where You Are’ program] is an extension of what we’re doing at DCPS, having passed out more than 80,000 books at the end of the

last school year that kids could take home with them,” he said.

“When they’re at the barbershop or on a road trip or just sitting at home, we want them to be engaged in exciting and enriching activities.” WI

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BALTIMORE – Ayooluwakiitan Oluwafemi, 13, proudly displayed a rubber smart phone case that he designed on a 3D printing machine.

“It’s a prototype,” the Baltimore middle-school student said softly during a recent event at Morgan State University. College officials here announced an unprecedented partnership with Verizon Wireless. The Minority Male Makers Program will introduce young black men to opportunities in the STEM field.

That’s short for science, technology, engineering and math.

Oluwafemi wants to be an entrepreneur. He refuses to accept any of his mother’s money to go to the movies — or any social events. He aspires to earn his own cash and become a selfmade millionaire by developing and selling cutting-edge 3D apps.

And he’s not alone.

This initiative is a first-ofits-kind, two-year program that offers 700 black male students hands-on experience in advanced technology, critical thinking, and problem solving. These skills should help these young Americans compete in a digital, fast-paced global marketplace.

From May 2015 through December 2017, according to Verizon executives, MMMP will provide boys of color at 15 middle schools access to a range of STEM disciplines including app design, app development, basic decoding, 3-D modeling, 3-D design, 3-D printing and robotics.

The program will be offered to high-achieving African-American and Hispanic seventh- and eighth-graders on the campuses of four historically black state universities – Jackson, Kentucky, Morgan and North Carolina A&T. “I want to applaud this initiative,” said Morgan State University President Dr. David A. Wilson “We have a great opportunity at Morgan – and the other HBCUs – to make a difference in the lives of young people.”

MSU administrators and black engineers say the initiative is necessary because male students of color are severely underrepresented in STEM fields.

Dr. Eugene DeLoatch, founding dean of MSU’s Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering, said black men compose only 3 percent of America’s engineers. That number, he said, The Washington Informer

Verizon has partnered with several HBCUs to give black youth more opportunities in STEM programs. /Courtesy photo

hasn’t changed much over the years.

“That’s a crime,” said DeLoatch, a past president of the American Society of Engineering Education. He was the first African-American to lead ASEE in its 109-year history.

But “This is what we do: We develop talent,” DeLoatch said. “This is exciting stuff. Of course, it makes sense that a company like Verizon, a technology company, is investing its resources in determining how we can give a brighter future to the youth of America, particularly those who are often marginalized and whose potential is often overlooked.”

He said black boys — and black men — can help lead the world in developing groundbreaking technology if given the instruction, consideration and academic opportunities.

Educators identify several alarming statistics that have hindered progress in the job market for some black men: Disproportionate incarceration rates stand at 4.3 percent of black males as compared with 0.7 percent of white males (U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics). Unemployment rates are 15.4 percent for black males as compared with 6.8 percent of white men (BLS Labor Force Report). Also, high school graduation rates are 52 percent for black males as compared with 78 percent for white males. (2012 Schott Foundation for Public Education Report.)

Furthermore, according to the Council of Great City Schools Report, only 5 percent of college students are African-American males.

Dr. Dontae Ryan — president, chief technical officer, and owner of DLR Technology — said the MMMP’s goal is to empower black students by offering them

lifelong technology and entrepreneurial skills.

“They need role models. Programs like this are very important,” Ryan said. “It lets students know what is possible; they can become engineers and mathematicians. Programs like this are essential.”

The MMMP parallels one of President Barack Obama’s signature efforts. My Brother’s Keeper is a sweeping national public-private partnership to empower America’s young black men and other boys of color through mentorships and job-training programs. My Brother’s Keeper was established in 2014 with a $200 million commitment from several large foundations.

A new White House report says that the opportunity gaps facing youth of color restrain the U.S. economy, lower aggregate earnings, shrink the labor market and slow economic growth. According to the White House, a 25-year-old black man has only a one-in-two chance of being employed today due to early death, incarceration, low labor force participation, and high unemployment.

Rose Kirk is president of the Verizon Foundation, which allocated $400,000 for the joint venture between Verizon and Morgan State University. She believes the Minority Male Makers Program will provide long-term employment and professional opportunities for black men.

“What we found is that nobody is paying attention to little black boys and to little Hispanic boys,” Kirk said, “and they deserve the same opportunities that so many other kids have.”WI

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Raymond Bell stands in front of the board he uses to show off student test scores at the Hope Academy in Southeast. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter

Hope Project Offers Alternatives to College Underprivileged Youth Introduced to Technology

By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer Helping Other People Excel [HOPE] gives young adults, primarily those east of the river, an opportunity to escape the throes of poverty with easier access to world of the middle class through job training in the Information Technology sector.

Raymond Bell founded HOPE in the spring of 2009 with the mission to recruit youth and teens from underserved neighborhoods in the District where attending a four year college seemed unfeasible.

“We first started off with a pilot class to prove to society that young people from the inner city can have jobs in technology,” Bell said. “I started this to prove we could do it. I had no idea it would turn into the machine it is today.”

HOPE students go through a rigorous application process to ensure their commitment to the seven-month training which includes a three-month internship.

“When it’s time for a new recruitment season we have hundreds of people that want to come on board, so we pick the best for 25 slots,” Bell said.

“We produce and that is why we have been successful,” he said.

“We have strong candidates that get placed by technology staffing agencies in tier 1 and 2 level jobs.”

Prior to founding the HOPE Project, Bell facilitated business management and corporate presentation training for 20 years – all without having a college degree.

“I never went to college but I am a big proponent of education,” Bell said. “My students tell me all the time that they want people to stop saying the only

way you are going to be successful is with a college degree. That’s not true.”

Bell believes he has the most successful job training program in the city because his graduates who go off to find gainful employment recruit others to join the program.

“Recruiting is so easy because of word of mouth. Our students and graduates are our advocates,” he added.

Bell insists HOPE should not be viewed as just another job training program.

“Most job training places attendance is horrible, retention is low and very few end up with employment,” Bell said. “HOPE is different because it is a movement for people who have been struggling for generations. We are going to put an end to that together.”

About 400 students have graduated from HOPE whose programs include certifications as a Microsoft Certified Application Specialist and CompTIA A+, which marks one as a certified computer specialist.

Bell boast that his students gain employment at top IT companies like Lockheed Martin, Prism, Casi and The World Bank.

“They start at these places and very quickly they move up,” he said. “We don’t want our students chasing dollars – we want them to chase skills and experience.”

Bell says that every parent he meets believes their child has changed for the better because of HOPE. “It is all about positivity and reinforcement. It is a testament to our commitment and perseverance,” Bell said. “Our students are betting on themselves not a job.”WI

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SELDON STEWART Seldon Stewart was born in Washington, DC on August 17, 1917 and at five years old he moved to Shelby Virginia and July 16, 1939 married the love of his life Pinkey Stewart and 76 years later still on their honeymoon. His pet name for her is shorty, and to that union five children were born.

He served in WWII and was stationed in Northern France. He received the Good Conduct metal and the victory Medal and was honorably discharged in 1945. He worked and Retired from Rudolph Elementary School. Seldon enjoyed being called POP Stewart. Every community he lived in young men always looked up to him and he loved informing them about what it takes to be A man and he also informed them to respect their elder and assist them anyway you can. The Young men in the neighborhood would always challenge him to race them and he would always win. Seldon has been a great blessing to our community, always helping others to succeed in whatever the task. When he was a young man be raised in Shelby VA he went from house to house going on errands for the elderly and they would always leave a meal on the stove for him. When raising his children he spent Sunday Morning cooking their favorite meal for breakfast. Breakfast consisted of fried apples, eggs, sausage and biscuits with butter and syrup mixed together. He is a God Fearing Man and a proud member of the Central Baptist church of Camp Springs, MD – Lincoln Burruss, Jr. Pastor Happy Birthday from your Children – Dennis Stewart – Seldon Stewart, Jr., Pearl Newlon

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‘Rosenwald’ Film Opens in District Story of Jewish Immigrant’s Special Kinship with Blacks

By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Julius Rosenwald was born in 1862 in Springfield, Illinois and the son of German and Jewish immigrations who would become one of the wealthiest men in America, teaming with Richard Sears to start Sears, Roebuck and Company.

Like many with great wealth, Rosenwald used some of his fortune to help causes that he deemed worthy.

To African Americans, Rosenwald became a prince, partnering with Booker T. Washington and others in the South to build more than 5,500 schools during a time when most

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whites were against blacks obtaining an education.

“To me, Julius Rosenwald is the best antidote to Donald Trump,” said Aviva Kempner, a District native and the writer, producer and director of the new documentary, “Rosenwald,” which opens on Friday, Aug. 28 at the Avalon Theatre in Northwest.

“Rosenwald” is a film about the longstanding camaraderie, shared struggles and joint efforts of Jews and African Americans in the U.S. Last month’s private premiere of the film at the Center for Jewish History in New York took place on the same day that the South Carolina legislature took down the Confederate flag.

Julius Rosenwald with a group of students in the South. /Courtesy photo

A’Lelia Bundles with Aviva Kempner. /Photo By Michael Rose

“You see how pompous rich people can be, but Rosenwald is quite the contrary; he is one of the greatest examples for American Jews … repairing the world without fanfare and doing it just because he wants to make a difference,” Kempner said.

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what he viewed as wrong with the world, according to film notes provided by Kempner.

His exposure to poverty and teeming masses of immigrants in New York City helped to influence his views. He gave away $63 million to various causes, which in today’s dollars is more than ten times that amount.

“This topic is something very special to a lot of American Jews. We pride ourselves in our active involvement in the civil rights movement,” Kempner said.

“And after this film, we can see that our working partnership with African Americans to counter Jim Crow began long before the civil rights movement.”

Washington approached Rosenwald in 1912 for assistance in funding a program in line with Washington’s belief of self-help for African-American southerners that emphasized economic advancement through vocational education.

Rosenwald spurred the establishment of 25 YMCA-YWCAs to serve blacks in cities across the U.S., including the Wabash Avenue YMCA in Chicago as existing Y’s at the time served only whites.

Additionally, he established one of the nation’s first housing projects on Chicago’s South Side.

Rosenwald’s greatest accomplishment is the establishment of challenge grants, seeded for the creation of more than 5,500 schools for poor, rural African-American children in southern states at a time when few received any public education.

From 1915 to 1932, 660,000 rural southern African-American students benefited from an initiative that Kempner said truly speaks to The American Dream.

“The story of the partnership between Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington is perhaps the most compelling one of our time,” she said.

What did it mean to a community to have a Rosenwald School?

“At the time, most public schools for rural African Americans – if there were schools at all – were run-down buildings with few, if any, amenities.

“If the county didn’t provide a public building, the children learned in lodge halls and churches,” Kempner

said. “To have a school and educators meant that the next generation would have a chance to move away from the often grinding poverty found in such areas and not be solely dependent upon the land for sustenance.”

Serving as somewhat of a model was The Tuskegee Institute, which trained African Americans in skills related to the building and agricultural trades and teaching which influenced the development of the Rosenwald Schools.

Washington also developed tremendous skills in fundraising and negotiating between the white and African-American communities which laid the groundwork for establishing the Rosenwald schools.

At the time of their construction and heyday, Rosenwald Schools were a household name in the Deep South.

The list of prominent alumni and educators includes ancestors of Oprah Winfrey, Spike Lee, Tony Award-winning playwright George Wolfe and Julian Bond.

So respected was Julius Rosenwald in school communities, his portrait graced classroom walls alongside that of President Abraham Lincoln, and schoolchildren composed songs and poems to be performed in his honor at annual appreciation events.

At one of the first meetings of the Rosenwald Fund board, it was decided to give fellowships in a variety of fields to gifted African-American and white Southerners in order to give them one-to-three years to concentrate on their work and develop their abilities.

These fellowships ranged from between $1,500 and $2,000 – a considerable amount during the Great Depression.

Between 1928 and 1948, fellowships totaling $1.65 million were distributed to recipients including Marian Anderson, Romare Bearden, Ralph Bunche, W. E. B. DuBois, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Gordon Parks, James Baldwin, Jacob Lawrence and Claude MacKay. “The living story is about saving the schools today, the ongoing story concerns self-reliance and community pride,” Kempner said. WI

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ARIES You may find that discussions at home have taken a sudden, spiritual orientation. Give everyone room to express their personal beliefs without trying to preach your point of view. Your open-mindedness helps you with deep learning this week. Soul Affirmation: The winner is me. I smile for the cameras. Lucky Numbers: 31, 32, 54

“Shots on the Bridge”

TAURUS Feeling bold, are we? Well, go with the flow of your feelings! No other sign can call on inner courage as easily as you. Whether at home, at work, or out on the town, let your personal statements be stylish and bold! Soul Affirmation: This week is the week the Lord has made. I rejoice in it. Lucky Numbers: 23, 38, 52

by Ronnie Greene c.2015, Beacon Press $24.95 / $29.99 Canada 256 pages

GEMINI Tempers may flare around you this week but it’s nothing personal, so keep your mind on your own work and let others act up. You’ll be doing yourself a big favor if you get some exercise this week! Soul Affirmation: I change the way I look at business this week. Lucky Numbers: 28, 32, 50

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rust me.”

Two words that make you want to do the opposite, causing you to question everything that’s said. “Trust me” makes you squirm. “Trust me” makes you itch, even though there are times when there’s no other choice. And in the new book “Shots on the Bridge” by Ronnie Greene, you’ll read about assumed trust that was broken in a most devastating way.

On the morning of August 29, 2005, almost an hour after Hurricane Katrina hit land, a levee broke and water poured into New Orleans. Many people, heeding their mayor’s pleas, fled the city before Katrina arrived but an estimated one hundred thousand didn’t – including police, who became “prisoners of the hurricane’s wake.” Also stranded: one-time NFL player Lance Madison and his mentally disabled brother, Ronald; and 17-year-old JJ Brissette, his friend Jose Holmes Jr., Jose’s aunt Susan Bartholomew, her family, and extended family.

Six days post-hurricane, after waiting for rescue that never came, enduring the heat, the stench, and a lack of food, the families, on opposite sides of the Danziger Bridge and unbeknownst to each other, set out to find help on their own.

The trouble, at its very core, began with shots fired on the Danziger Bridge by unknown miscreants who fled quickly. In later months, Detective Jennifer Dupree would avow that she never said “Officer down” when she reported those shots. Yes, she’d radioed for help, but not with those words; still, at their makeshift headquarters, officers readying for duty heard Dupree’s call for assistance. Eleven of them, both black and white, jumped in a truck and raced to the bridge.

It was, as Greene says, “chaos.”

Arriving at the bridge, police began shooting before they even understood who they were shooting at. Whether or not they knew that the African American civilians they shot were unarmed is still debated but when the gunfire stopped, two people were dead and many injured in what Greene says “was about the worst abuse of police pow-

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er… ever seen.”

I struggled for a long time over what to say about this book. For sure, you’ll spend a lot of time picking your jaw up off the floor while you’re reading “Shots on the Bridge.”

But on the other hand, there’s a lot to follow, and that makes it a bit hard to read.

I can’t use the verb “enjoy” here, either, because what’s to enjoy about what happened? You may appreciate the courtroom drama, or the investigative techniques it took to see how the cover-up evolved, but that seems secondary to what author Ronnie Greene reports – even though it comprises most of the book. And yet – to get there, you have to read that astounding first half.

Some of the outcome you’ll see will satisfy you, but I’m guessing you likely won’t be happy at the end of this squirmy book. Still, I believe that “Shots on the Bridge” is overall worth a try on this tenth anniversary of the event – if nothing but because you can trust that it’ll make you think.

CANCER Restless feelings may arise over health matters, or perhaps education or the lack of it. Do what you need to do to feel comfortable with yourself. If it involves seeing a dentist or taking a class, what’s stopping you? Self-improvement can be a very enjoyable game! Soul Affirmation: Hope is future’s way of shining on me this week. Lucky Numbers: 12, 14, 21 LEO Set a limit on what you can do for others this week. You’ll enjoy your feelings more if you are straightforward about refusing a less than appetizing assignment. Trust your feelings and say “No, I won’t.” Clear boundaries help you define yourself. Soul Affirmation: I get joy from giving good things. Lucky Numbers: 13, 39, 41 VIRGO Let happiness flow inside and outside of you this week. Refuse to be drawn into any pseudo-crisis and you’ll stay happy. Stay quietly on task and you’ll have accomplished much by the end of this busy week.

Soul Affirmation: I flavor my life with good wishes towards everyone this week. Lucky Numbers: 16, 28, 52 LIBRA A dream in which you already are what you hope to be will offer much insight into your current situation. Take some practical steps to keep the focus on this wonderful vision. You know you can be what you see! Soul Affirmation: I am a giver of good words this week. Lucky Numbers: 15, 23, 50 SCORPIO Do you realize that you are the only one who can tell you what to think and how to feel? Let go of any behaviors that are keeping you from achieving the things you want to achieve. Be creative and positive this week. Soul Affirmation: I focus on long-range financial security this week. Lucky Numbers: 14, 31, 42 SAGITTARIUS You can be very efficient this week if you set your will to the task. New ideas will occur to you as you are working steadily, so keep pencil and paper nearby to jot down your latest brilliance! Soul Affirmation: I give love and love gives to me. Lucky Numbers: 1, 29, 55 CAPRICORN Avoid getting involved in any office politics or family feuds this week. The week’s energy is excitable, but not necessarily exciting.

Do your own thing and be proud of what you do. Let others do their own thing, so long as it doesn’t hurt anyone. Soul Affirmation: Money opens doors for friendship to enter. Lucky Numbers: 10, 29, 46

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AQUARIUS A message this week may necessitate travel on your part, and you may feel obligated to do something you don’t want to. Let the energy flow past you and do what you think is best. Who you are is who you are—be glad about it! Soul Affirmation: I fill my mind with visions of love this week. Lucky Numbers: 40, 47, 52 PISCES You wake up feeling peaceful and wise. Discussions with a close friend may reveal the source of your inner freedom in a very tangible way.

So talk about it. You’ve got everything good to gain. Soul Affirmation: I let my mind go slack and tighten up my body. Lucky Numbers: 33, 38, 41

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D.C. Divas quarterback Allyson Hamlin won the 2015 championship for her team. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

DC Divas Win National Championship Team Caps Undefeated Season

By Neal Rozendaal Special to The Washington Informer

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LEVERT from Page 5 project on his website too. But I need a million hits so . . . check it out.”

Sometimes entertainers remain reluctant to identify their favorite song but not Levert.

“All of our songs have had staying power and powerful messages that have just as much relevance today as when we first recorded and performed them,” he said. “But I’ll admit, from the very first time I heard it, even without the background vocals, strings or rhythm, ‘Backstabbers’ has always been my favorite both because of its sound and its message.”

From the outside it may seem that he’s lived a charmed life, but Levert admits that he’s had his share of pain.

“When I lost my sons, Gerald and Sean (2006 and 2008, respectively), I remember asking myself ‘what did I do to deserve this,’ ‘what could I have done better?’” he said. “But these are questions that only God can answer. I’ll never get over losing them but we had some great times together, especially because of our mutual love for music.”

“Eventually, I had to put my big boy pants back on, dust my-

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self off and get back in the fray,” he added. “I got myself together. Look, I have to dye this gray hair today and I feel the aches and pains that come with being a man in his 70s. But I still love what I do. I refuse to be on stage looking like an old man. I was ready to sit down one day and turn things over to my boys but that’s not how life turned out,” said Levert whose son Eddie Levert, Jr. serves as CEO of Levert Entertainment Group in Los Angeles.

The O’Jays don the stage at 8 p.m. at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in the architecturally-stunning Filene Center – a stage which Levert said he’s thrilled to share with Gladys Knight.

“She’s a gracious, talented lady – a real sweetheart,” he said. “I love being and performing with her and you have to admit, she still looks good. She lost her son many years ago too. I think our fans will appreciate the tribute we have planned for our boys.

We have slides that will be shown and we’ll sing a medley that will include ‘Baby Hold on to Me’ and ‘Wind Beneath My Wings.’”

“It’s the music that never dies,” he said.WI

The D.C. Divas won their 12th game of the season, setting a new team record for victories in a season.

More importantly, the Divas won their second national championship in team history, adding to the National Women’s Football Association title the team won in 2006.

Since winning that championship in 2006, the Divas suffered a number of devastating postseason setbacks: an upset playoff loss to Atlanta in 2007; a controversial, penalty-laden loss in the 2009 national championship game; and five consecutive playoff losses to their archrivals from Boston.

But, in 2015, in the City of Angels, the D.C. Divas finally exorcised all those demons and, for the first time in nine years, returned to the top of the women’s football world.

Kenyetta Grigsby rushed for two of the Divas’ four first-half touchdowns, the powerful D.C. defense held the explosive Dallas offense to less than half of their season scoring average, and the D.C. Divas won the 2015 NWFA national championship with a dramatic 30-26 victory over the Dallas Elite.

Ashley Whisonant was a standout performer for the Divas in all three phases of the game and took home MVP honors for her efforts.

The game started well for the Divas (12-0). Midway through the first quarter, the Divas capped a long drive with a 7-yard touchdown run by running back Grigsby.

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an errant backward pass toward the sideline, and several Divas defenders fell on the ball for a fumble recovery at the Elite 7-yard line. The Divas quickly cashed in on the turnover with Grigsby punching it in from two yards out. Stephanie Nealis converted the extra point kick, and the Divas expanded their advantage to 13-0.

On the first play of the second quarter, the Divas turned the ball over on downs when a fourth down pass fell incomplete. The Elite then fired up their vaunted offense, which was averaging nearly 63 points per game coming into the contest. Dallas running back Odessa Jenkins, who is also co-owner of the Dallas Elite, polished off an impressive 83-yard drive with a 20-yard touchdown run. The Divas stopped Dallas’ two-point conversion run attempt short of the goal line, but the Elite had sliced their deficit to 13-6 with 12:04 left in the half.

The Divas immediately responded to Dallas’ first score with their biggest offensive play of the game. Quarterback Allyson Hamlin found wide receiver Whisonant open for a 45-yard touchdown pass, and the PAT kick from Nealis put the D.C. Divas lead back up to 20-6.

With just 1:19 remaining in the first half, Hamlin’s pass was picked off by the Dallas defense, which was only her second interception of the entire season. Dallas preserved their 15-point deficit at halftime, and the D.C. Divas went to intermission leading the Dallas Elite, 27-12.

At halftime, the Women’s Football Alliance handed out the top league awards, and the Divas had two major recipients. Linebacker Tia Watkins was named the National Conference Defensive Player of the Year, while

Divas head coach Alison Fischer earned the WFA Coach of the Year Award for leading the Divas to an undefeated regular season and a conference title for the first time in her coaching career.

The Dallas defense once again stood tall and forced a D.C. punt early in the fourth quarter. The Elite took the football, trailing by 12 points, and started moving the chains down the field. They got as far as the Divas’ 28yard line when they decided to go for it on fourth down in an effort to pull within a single score. The D.C. defense rose up and forced an incomplete pass from Gerhart, ending the threat and giving the Divas the ball midway through the fourth quarter.

The Elite only gained 9 yards on their next three plays, and they were forced to spend their second timeout of the half to discuss their options on fourth and one. But with the game hanging in the balance, they converted on fourth down deep in their territory and suddenly gained new life.

They needed a quick touchdown score, and they got it courtesy of Odessa Jenkins. Gerhart found Jenkins for Dallas’ biggest offensive play of the game, a 55-yard touchdown pass that came at the perfect time for the Elite. The Elite then converted their only two-point conversion of the game, passing for a score that cut the D.C. lead to 30-26 with 2:03 remaining in the contest.

The Divas had survived a furious second-half rally from the Dallas Elite to capture the 2015 WFA national championship, 30-26.WI

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Washington Mystics Defeat Minnesota Lynx 77 – 69

Washington Mystics center Stefanie Dolson shoots over the outstretched arms of Minnesota Lynx center Sylvia Fowles in the third quarter of Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) action on Sunday, August 16 at the Verizon Center in Northwest. Dolson scored 12 points and Fowles scored 15 points as the Mystics defeated the Lynx 77-69. /Photo by John E. de Freitas

Mystics guard Natasha Cloud drives past Lynx forward Maya Moore during WNBA action on Sunday, August 16, at the Verizon Center in Northwest. The Mystics won, 77-69. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Mystics guard Ivory Latta drives past Lynx forward Tricia Liston during WNBA action on Sunday, August 16, at the Verizon Center where they stopped the Lynx, 77-69. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Mystics forward Tierra Ruffin-Pratt drives past Lynx forward Maya Moore during WNBA action on Sunday, August 16 and defeated the Lynx 77-69. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Mystics center Kia Vaughn is defended by Lynx center Sylvia Fowles at the Verizon Center in Northwest on Sunday, Aug. 16. The Mystics defeated the Lynx 77-69. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Larry Graham can wow you with some classic old school hits.

And, the legendary former Sly & the Family Stone bass player and leader of the iconic Graham Central Station band can break you off some new funk.

“You will definitely hear the classics like ‘One in a Million You,” and some things from the new album, ‘Raise Up,’” said Graham, who after a month of jamming in Europe, is set to swing through the Northeast.

Those stops include a busy week including New York, Annapolis, Philadelphia, Richmond and the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia on Sunday, Aug. 30.

“I always try to change things up,” said Graham, whose biggest hits include favorites like, “One in a Million You,” which reached the top of the R&B charts in 1980; “When We Get Married,” and “Just Be My Lady.”

Among the more interesting things that happen on a Larry Graham stage is that everyone gets into the act. He often allows fans to join him and his wife of 40 years, Tina, who provides a soulful and crowd-pleasing voice.

“In the 40 years Tina and I have been married, we’ve only spent two days a part,” Graham said.

“We travel everywhere together, enjoy doing the show and love to meet people after the show, sign autographs and give them a spiritual magazine to [read].”

During his shows, there’s always the element of surprise where a special guest like Bootsie Collins or even Prince could join Graham on stage.

Collins is scheduled to appear at Graham’s Philadelphia show and Graham has performed and

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recorded over the last two decades with Prince who recently appeared in concert in Baltimore.

It should be noted also that Graham’s nephew is Aubrey Graham – better known as Drake, the famed actor and rap music star.

Born in Beaumont, Texas on Aug. 14, 1946, Graham began preparing for life as a performer at age 5 when he learned how to tap dance. Later, he learned to play the piano and joined his high school band where he opted to play drums. But he also learned how to play the guitar.

“I compensated for not having a bass drum by thumping the strings, and I made up for not having a snare drum by plucking them,” he said of the unique “slapping technique,” he made famous.

Graham, who calls his mother his biggest influence, joined Sly & the Family Stone in 1967 and help the band record its first album, “A Whole New Thing.” Their sophomore release in 1968, “Dance to the Music,” produced several top hits, including the title track, “Everybody Is a Star.” He left the group in 1973 to form Graham Central Station, launching his solo career in 1979.

In 1993, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Sly & the Family Stone.

“That was really a family. A lot of people don’t know it but Sly was always a great guy who treated everyone well,” Graham said.

Rams Head on Stage is located at 33 West Street in Annapolis. For tickets to the Wednesday, Aug. 26 show, visit, www.ramsheadonstage.com, or www. ticketfly.com/event/800405-larry-graham-graham-central-annapolis/WI For tickets to the Birchmere performance in Alexandria, visit, www.birchmere.com

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The Religion Corner Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church

Turning Hearts Church 4275 4th Street, S.E. Washington, DC 20034 Phone: 202-746-0113 Fax: 301-843-2445

The Reverend Lyndon Shakespeare Interim Priest

Virgil K. Thomas, Sr. Senior Pastor/ Teacher

Foggy Bottom • Founded in 1867 728 23rd Street, NW • Washington, DC 20037 Church office: 202-333-3985 • Fax : 202-338-4958

Services & Times Sunday School 8 – 9 AM Worship Service 9 – 11 AM Tuesday Night Bible Study 6:30 – 8:00 PM Wednesday Daytime Bible Study 11 AM – 12:30 PM

Worship Services Sundays: 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Music and Hymns Wednesdays: 12:10 p.m. - Holy Eucharist

Motto : “A Great Commitment to the Great Commandment” Website: www.turningheartschurchdc.org Email: faithdefender@verizon.net

www.stmarysfoggybottom.org Email: stmarysoffice@stmarysfoggybottom.org All are welcome to St. Mary’s to Learn, Worship, and Grow.

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You Can’t Get Better When You Are Bitter!

A Pearl of Wisdom Called Forgiveness In a newly released book titled “Pocket Pearls,” the Rev. Dr. Willette Wright shares the 12 pearls God gave to her late husband, the Rev. Steven Kenneth Wright. This week, we’re writing about “Pearl Seven: Bake Your Bread in the Ovens of Others.” It is the Pearl about forgiveness; her book signing is Aug. 21.

In this chapter, Wright said “In the past, when I was hurt or offended because of what I thought was a lack of kindness or concern from others, I shielded myself by saying, ‘It doesn’t matter because God loves me.’” I have come to realize it really does not matter; however, they do matter because God loves them as He loves me.

I must give what is necessary – forgiveness in order that the heart of the one I have forgiven may be the oven in which the Bread of Life may also be warmed.

Baking one’s bread in the oven of another means forgiving first, before the offense has opportunity to “rise” and become the bitter bread of unkind words and hurtful actions. When this happens, it is virtually impossible to forgive, according to the scripture.

Wright further states in her book, “Jesus is the Bread of Life.

He is the nourishment without which we cannot live nor have life. Once we have life in Christ, we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to forgive. No matter how difficult it may have been for you to forgive, and no matter how horrible or unforgiveable the offense may have been, God desires that we do what our Savior did – forgive.

Finally, she says “Bake your bread in the oven of another. The

aroma of forgiveness is beyond description and has benefits beyond our understanding.”

This Pearl of Forgiveness reminds me of the new Oprah Winfrey Belief Series premiering on OWN this fall, Oct. 18-24.

We, the DC Belief Host Committee are having a Watch Party on Sunday, Oct. 18 at the Worsley Mansion, 1410 Missouri Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. If you would like to attend our 5 p.m. reception, which precedes a town hall discussion, and then watch the premiere at 8 p.m., send us an email. Or, if you would like to host your own Watch Party, contact me, the host, the Rev. Dr. Unnia Pettus and Lillian Huff, cohost.

One of the segments of the second night of the Belief Series includes the story of two leaders in Nigeria who were former enemies 20 years ago, Christian pastor James Wuye and Muslim imam Muhammad Ashafa; the segment shows how they come together to reconcile and to honor one of the most sacred teachings at the heart of both their faiths: Love your enemies.

They actually forgive each other after so many killings, death and destruction; it is a beautiful story in that Pearl of Wisdom Wright is speaking of in her new book, “Pocket Pearls.”

Someone may have nearly destroyed you. It could have been an abusive husband who left you broken and bitter or a divorce, or you may have lost a child.

When we forgive, we feel like we are born again. We are free to love, to look to the future. Leaving those traumatic experiences

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that hurt so much in the past.

You will no longer feel bitter; you will feel much better instead.

Mark 11:25 reminds us in Scripture. “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him and let it drop (leave it, let it go), in order that your Father Who is in heaven may also forgive you your [own] failings and shortcomings and let them drop.”WI Lyndia Grant is an author, inspirational and motivational speaker, radio talk show host and columnist; visit her new website at www.lyndiagrant.com, email lyndiagrant@ gmail.com and, call 202-558-2107.

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Pilgrim Baptist Church Rev. Louis B. Jones II Pastor

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

Worship Sundays @ 7:30 & 11:00 A.M. 5th Sundays @ 9:30 A.M. 3rd Sundays: Baptism & Holy Communion Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @ Noon & 6:30 P.M.

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

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

Dr. Henry Y. White

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

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

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

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

Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews • Senior Pastor 1200 Isle of Patmos Plaza, Northeast Washington, DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-6767 Fax: (202) 526-1661 Sunday Worship Services: 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

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

Sunday Church School: 9:20 a.m.

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

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

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

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

ST Marks Baptist Come Worship with us...

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

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

Mt. Zion Baptist Church

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

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

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”

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

Isle of Patmos Baptist Church

Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor

Mailing Address Campbell AME Church 2502 Stanton Road SE Washington, DC 20020

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

Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Bishop

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

Crusader Baptist Church

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

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”

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

St. Stephen Baptist Church

Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church

Twelfth Street Christian Church

Campbell AME Church

Rev. John W. Davis, Pastor

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

Blessed Word of Life Church

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

Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor Harold Andrew, Assistant Pastor

700 I Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 547-8849

tel: 202-291-6565

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

Church of Living Waters

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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RELIGION Shabbath Commandment Church 7801 Livingston Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-534-5471 Bishop Adrian A. Taylor, Sr. Pastor Sabbath School 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

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

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

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

Zion Baptist Church

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

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

“Where Jesus is the King”

Israel Baptist Church

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

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 Institute Wednesday - 1:30 pm Prayer Meeting Wednesday - 12:00 Noon

St. Matthews Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor Worshiping Location Knights of Columbus - 1633 Tucker Road Fort Washington, MD 20744 (240) 838-7074 Order of Services Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 am Sunday School: 9:00 am Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer / Bible Study: 6:15 pm - 7:20 pm (Tuesday)

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

Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor

St. Luke Baptist Church

Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor

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

Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor

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

King Emmanuel Baptist Church

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

Mount Moriah Baptist Church

Lincoln Park United Methodist Church Rev. Dr. Diane Dixon Proctor, Pastor 1301 North Carolina Ave. N E Washington, D C 20002 202 543 1318 lpumconthegrow@gmail.com www.lpumcdc.org Sunday worship 10: am Holy Communion first Sunday 10: am Sunday school 9: am Bible Study each Wednesday @ 12 noon and 6:30pm Motto: “A CHURCH ON THE GROW”.

Eastern Community 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

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

Christ Embassy DC

Dr. C. Matthew Hudson, Jr, Pastor

Elder Herman L. Simms, Pastor

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

Kelechi Ajieren Coordinator

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

New Members Class 9:30a.m.

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

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

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

Sunday Worship Service 10:00 A.M.

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

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

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

Service and Times: Early Morning Message 7:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service 10:00 AM Sunday Church School 9:00 AM Holy Communion 1st Sunday 7:30 AM & 10:00 AM Prayer, Praise and Testimony Wednesday 7:00 PM Bible Study Wednesday 7:30 PM

Services: Sunday Worship 11 AM Sunday School 10 AM Wednesday Mid-Week Worship, Prayer & Bible Study - Wed. 7 PM

Web: www.mountmoriahchurch.org Email: mtmoriah@mountmoriahchurch.org

“Real Worship for Real People” Website: www.easterncommunity.org Church Email Address: ecc@easterncommunity.org

Salem Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert SR. Pastor

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

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

Rehoboth Baptist Church

Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor

6839 Eastern Avenue, R1 Takoma Park, MD 20912 (202) 556-7065

Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor

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

Holy Trinity United Baptist Church

Matthews Memorial Baptist Church

Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith

Damion M. Briggs Pastor

Dr. Lucius M. Dalton, Senior Pastor

Florida Avenue Baptist Church

Peace Baptist Church

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

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

“The Loving Church of the living lord “ Email Address pbcexec@verizon.net

Shiloh Baptist Church

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church

1864-2014

Rev. Alonzo Hart Pastor

Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor

Rev. Reginald M. Green, Sr., Interim Pastor

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

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

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

602 N Street NW • Washington, D.C. 20001 Office:(202) 289-4480 Fax: (202) 289-4595

The Church Where GOD Is Working....

And We Are Working With GOD

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

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

Sunday Church School: 9:15 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship: 10:40 a.m.

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

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

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

Morning Worship: 10:55 a.m.

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

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

150 Years of Service

Theme: “The Kingdom Focused Church” Matthew 6:33 and Mathew 28:18-20, KJV

Sunday Service: 10 am Sunday School for all ages: 8:30 am 1st Sunday Baptism: 10: am 2nd Sunday Holy Communion: 10 am Tuesday: Bible Study: 6:30 pm Prayer Meeting: 7:45 pm

Email: stmatthewsbaptist@msn.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.org

Motto: : “Where God is First and Where Friendly People Worship”

Sunday Worship Services: 7:45am & 11:00am Sunday school For All Ages 9:30am Prayer Services Wednesday 11:30am & 6:45pm Bible Institute Wednesday at Noon & 7:45pm “Changing Lives On Purpose “ Email: Froffice@firstrising.org Website: www.firstrising.org

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

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

Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.

Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.

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

Prayer Services: Tuesday 7:30 p.m.

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

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LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

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

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

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Administration No. 2015 ADM 852

Administration No. 2015 ADM 880

Administration No. 2015 ADM 872

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1091

Juanita J. Hamilton Decedent

Jannette Williams aka Jannette L. Williams Decedent

Addie E. Carey Decedent

Jimmie Anderson Decedent Johnny M. Howard Houston & Howard 1001 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 402 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Lillie M. Pope whose address is 702 Rittenhouse St. NW, Washington, DC 20011 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Jimmie Anderson who died on April 29, 2015 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 6, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 6, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: August 6, 2015

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Barbara Pierce whose address is 8558 S. Constance Ave. Chicago, IL 60617 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Juanita J. Hamilton who died on June 21, 2015 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 6, 2015. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 6, 2016 , or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: August 6, 2015

Tamika L. Taylor, Esq. 6304 Johensu Drive Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Brenda D. Anderson, whose address is 1042 Lakeshore Drive, Bowie, MD 20721, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Jannette Williams aka Jannette L. Williams who died on June 28, 2015 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 6, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 6, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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James C. Carey and Michealle R. Carey whose address is 11444 Norris Twilley Rd, Mardela Springs MD 21837/ 2053 Adams Ave. Melbourne FL 32935 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Addie E. Carey who died on May 30, 2014 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 6, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 6, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Denise D. Woodfolk, whose address is 620 Franklin Street, NE, Washington, DC 20017, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Oria Littlejohn who died on July 12, 2015 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 13, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 13, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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William W. McKinnon aka William Wade McKinnon Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Helen K. McKinnon-Cheatham whose address is 2209 S Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of William W. McKinnon aka William Wade McKinnon who died on December 24, 2003 with a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 20, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 20, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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Date of first publication: August 20, 2015 Ailena Denise Mayo-Mills Personal Representative

Stephanie D. Stephens, whose address is 1221 Decatur Street, NW, Washington, DC 200114413, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Evelyn G. Stephens aka Evelyn Louise Greene Stephens who died on October 18, 2014 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 20, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 20, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: August 20, 2015

Petrena T. Bloodworth, whose address is 2304 2nd Street, NE Washington, DC 20002, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Mattie Benthall Martin who died on May 25, 2015 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February13, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 13, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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Ailena Denise Mayo-Mills, whose address is 5206 D Street, SE, Washington, DC 20019 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Donald Mills Jr. who died on March 2, 2010 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 20, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 20, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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IRVIN from Page 24 of their music and legacy that demean our girls and women.

Black people know better than most the kind of degradation that happens in society when an entire class or race of people is vilified as less-than. They are easier to mistreat, easier to rape, easier to kill. Not a week goes by without hearing a story about a woman or girl being beaten or killed by a husband or relative.

Are rap lyrics responsible for those deaths? Absolutely not.

But hyper-violence against girls and women in songs of every

JACKSON from Page 24 around Hammond’s murder. Instead of criticizing the #BlackLivesMatter movement, Hammond’s attorney and his grieving parents ought to ask why more white folks aren’t outraged about young Hammond’s death.

Hammond’s tragic death highlights the reasons why police officers should be forced to wear body cameras. It reminds us that too many trigger-happy officers of the law should be better-trained. It reminds us that some have been trained (or decided) to shoot to kill, even if the perceived threat comes from a 12-year-old child playing with a toy gun or a young white man who (facts still to be determined) was simply driving his car.

Even if Hammond was trying to flee the Hardee’s parking lot, the consequence for evading arrest should not be the death penalty.

I am proud of the Black Lives Matter movement and excited about the

DANIELS from Page 24 crisis of undocumented immigration, re-establishing relations with Cuba, and fighting the global terror war. In each instance, one finds the reflexive, no-compromise opposition of the Republicans.

Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-wining economist and New York Times columnist, among others, several years ago attributed that stance to a “widening wonk gap – the G.O.P.’s near-complete lack of expertise on anything substantive,” as well as its growing electoral dependence on white fundamentalist evangelical Protestants.

Now, the success of Trump’s style of bluster and verbal crudeness among the GOP base goes beyond the wonk gap. He’s turned a segment of the GOP base into a mob.

That achievement has stood out in sharp relief since the GOP debate of Aug. 7 when Fox News host Megyn Kelly’s questioning

genre contributes to the wrongheaded idea that there is only one way to be a man. At Men Can Stop Rape, we teach boys that they can be strong without being violent. They can make beats, write lyrics and tell the truth without contributing to a culture that harms women. We are also using technology, like the ASK-DC App, which allows men to use technology to partner with our female peers as active bystanders who feel responsible for keeping everyone safe from those who perpetrate violence in our community.

We can do better, and we

must force artists and the conglomerates that pay them to stop promoting lyrics about rape and those that demean women and girls.

So as we celebrate NWA’s legacy, as hip-hop lovers, we should also hold them accountable for the part of the legacy that demeans us all.WI

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three young women who organized it and the thousands who have united under their banner. That movement prioritizes black lives in a way that they have never before been prioritized. The All Lives Matter seems to be a flippant answer to Black Lives Matter. But here’s the deal – white lives have always mattered, and black lives have been historically denigrated. Our nation’s organizing principle, the Constitution, stated that African-Americans should only be counted as three-fifths of a person.

Thousands of African-American people were lynched because they dared defy “Black Codes” or simply because they had too much money, too much attitude or too much dignity for oppressive white Southerners.

Congress repeatedly refused to pass anti-lynching laws.

If all lives matter, where are the white folks who protest the murder of Michael Brown and Eric Garner?

Where are the white folks who will

protest Hammond’s murder? (There have been white protesters, to be sure, but have Hammond’s parents ever been to a rally to protest the loss of black life?) There are many black South Carolinians who would join in a protest against police brutality and an unjust killing. But those close to Hammond will have to do the organizing to attract the national media.

Because of historic oppression, it is important for those who oppose needless police killings of unarmed black people to embrace the Black Lives Matter movement. All lives matter, certainly, but it is the disproportionate killing of African-Americans that has provided the impetus for a movement. Eric Bland, the Hammond attorney, ought to embrace it instead of being criticizing it.WI

Julianne Malveaux is a D.C.-based economist and author. She can be reached at juliannemalveaux.com.

of Trump’s past misogynistic comments provoked his now-infamous “blood” remarks against her. Trump’s supporters then unleashed a torrent of vile emails and tweets that washed over conservative social media outlets, condemning Kelly and Fox News itself for supposedly disrespecting Trump.

That these ferociously bigoted, profanity-laced responses were aimed at a leading star in the conservative media constellation who hosts a top-rated show on the network conservatives trust the most indicates how much distance exists between the institutional Republican Party and a large part of its voting base. Nor was that treatment confined to Kelly and Fox alone.

When another leading conservative, Erick Erickson, learned of Trump’s “blood” remark and disinvited him from appearing at his RedState Gathering conference that weekend, he, too, was quickly deluged with hundreds of fiercely written emails from Trump sup-

porters. According to a Washington Post report, Erickson told the conference attendees that many of them referred to him using the dreaded word, “liberal,” to President Obama using “the n-word” and to Kelly using “the c-word.”

That violence of language – which bespeaks a profound, uncontrollable irrationality – is the behavior of a mob.

But there’s something more about the pro-Trump social-media flood that’s important to consider. Given the nature of the social media, the members of Trump’s mob can be even more anonymous and “unreachable” than those who gather in physical mobs. That could present a significant obstacle to the thus far completely unsuccessful efforts by the GOP establishment to both quash the Trump insurgency within the GOP and persuade him not to run a third-party campaign.

Right now, their failure is Trump’s most powerful trump card.WI

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vote. We, as a nation, must ensure that all Americans who can vote have the opportunity to vote. The seemingly obvious idea that a democracy functions at its best when the largest number of its citizens are afforded the opportunity to determine who will lead it — and how it will be led — is under a modern-day legislative assault. If our elected officials truly do believe that all votes matter, Congress must commit to stemming the tide of suppression and get to the work of fully restoring voter protections in the Voting Rights Act. The National Urban League stands with President Barack Obama and the civil rights and voting rights advocates calling for the full restoration of the Voting Rights Act and the reinstatement of the voter protections dismantled under the Supreme Court’s disas-

trous 2013 decision.

And we would do well to remember that this fight goes beyond maneuvers in the halls of Congress. As President Obama said during his remarks at the White House commemoration of the golden anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, “Far more people disenfranchise themselves than any law does, by not participating, by not getting involved.” The number of Americans who participated in the 2014 midterm elections was reportedly the lowest it’s been since World War II. We cannot clamor for the right to vote only to turn around and ignore our civic duty. We owe that much and more to those who fought and bled and died to secure the right to vote because it is not enough to gain the right, we must employ, maintain and protect it as well.WI

EDELMAN from Page 25

hood, community, school, and faith congregation mentors and role models? And where are those calling for commonsense gun laws so that walking down the streets or to school is not like a showdown at the OK Corral? Where are the outreach workers from community agencies to knock on doors from time to time and see who’s there and what children’s needs might be??

The violence, poverty and trauma these young people face would be unthinkable for anybody – and yet we leave countless children to cope with death and fear daily and often all alone. What are our responsibilities to our children and youths to offer them respect and hope and education and jobs and open up rather than close doors to a positive future?

E’Darrius said Durr has been an invaluable mentor because he

taught him he can’t wallow in selfpity about the circumstances he comes from — he must rise up.

But countless other youths need but lack a Durr in their lives to help them overcome the overwhelming odds threatening to drag them down.

They need parents and grandparents. They need caring teachers and principals and social workers and health care workers. They need faith communities whose doors are open to compete with the drug and gun dealers. They need positive alternatives to the streets and the gangs and sadly too often to the police and law enforcement agencies entrusted to protect them. They need positive role models who have experienced many of their struggles and show them that they can overcome them with perseverance.WI

MUHAMMAD from Page 25

bly NOI National Secretary John Ali, whose brother Michael Simmons was a prominent SNCC activist — told him, “My boss can help you. ‘Who is your boss?’

I asked him. ‘Elijah Muhammad,’ he said. I said, he would never give us money, ours is an integrated group. He told me to ask Mr. Muhammad, and he arranged for me to go dinner at his home.” Bond’s account was corroborated for me by white author and Freedom Summer 50 veteran Taylor Branch.

“I made my presentation, and Mr. Muhammad asked everyone at the table what should be done,” Bond recalled. “All of the women at the table said no, that we would waste the money.

Some of the men said yes.

“Mr. Muhammad said, ‘We are not a democracy. We listen to the sisters, but the men make the decisions,’ and he gave us $3,000 to

bring our delegation to the convention,” all without fanfare, all without conditions, all without a news release.

The tributes to this champion have poured in from all over the world. “Justice and equality was the mission that spanned his life — from his leadership of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to his founding role with the Southern Poverty Law Center, to his pioneering service in the Georgia legislature and his steady hand at the helm of the NAACP. Michelle and I have benefited from his example, his counsel, and his friendship – and we offer our prayers and sympathies to his wife, Pamela, and his children,” President Barack Obama said in a statement.

“Julian Bond was a hero and, I’m privileged to say, a friend,” the president said.

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have passed similar voter identification laws, and the restrictive measures don’t just end there. Eliminating same-day registration, shortening early voting, doing away with online voting registration and aggressively purging voters from the voter registration rolls are some of the other tactics legislators are using to deny eligible voters access to the polls. These lawmakers justify their restrictive policies with allegations of voter fraud — a claim that experts have proven to be unfounded time and again.

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[when] you’re going to get stabbed . . . For some of us, that is our reality.”

These three teens are very lucky that they have a mentor in the Rev. Damien Durr, a gifted teacher-preacher, they can rely on. Durr is a member of the Children’s Defense Fund’s Nashville organizing team but also is a social and emotional counselor at Pearl-Cohn High with a special focus on helping black male students stay out of the cradle-to-prison pipeline. AJ now dreams of becoming a kinesiologist, Jermaine a social studies teacher and E’Darrius a freelance artist, one of whose fine paintings I look at every day when I step out of CDF’s national headquarters elevator.

Where are the other neighbor-

He was a founder of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the courageous, fearless, even, mass-movement equivalent of today’s young folks bent on careers in sports or entertainment.

For example, in 1968, when SNCC and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party were consolidating their gains at unseating segregated, all-white delegations to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Julian told me he approached an unlikely source for help, sponsoring the integrated Georgia delegation’s expenses to attend the convention — Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad.

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