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Vol. 50, No. 52 OCT 8 - OCT 14 , 2015
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced settlement of the Exelon-Pepco merger on Tuesday, Oct. 6. /Photo courtesy of Khalid Naji Allah for the D.C. Mayor’s Office
Pepco-Exelon Merger Receives District’s Endorsement
D.C. Mayor and Attorney General Support New Agreement By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor On Tuesday, Oct. 6, Pepco Holdings Inc. and Exelon Corporation announced that they have reached a newly-inked settlement with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and others on the companies’ pro-
posed $6.8 billion merger. They anticipate that the new agreement will pave the way for the District’s Public Service Commission [PSC] to approve the settlement package. Last August, the PSC rejected the merger in an order that laid
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New Tool Helps Blacks Fight Breast Cancer By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer One in eight women will be diagnosed in her lifetime with breast cancer. And, for African-American women, instances of death are higher, with z survival rate that is the least of any racial or ethnic community. It is why physicians remain adamant about regular exams, a
procedure that may have gotten a little easier at Howard University Hospital, where doctors are now offering the Sure Touch Breast Exam, a pain-free way to perform a clinical breast exam, one that can also be done in an office setting. “A handheld sensor is moved gently across the breast and underarm area,” said Dr. Kevin
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Howard University Bisons present the 2015 Homecoming King and Queen during the homecoming game on Saturday, Oct. 2. See Scenes from Homecoming on Page 30. /Photo courtesy of John DeFreitas
Hundreds Remember Julian Bond By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Hundreds paid tribute to civil rights icon Julian Bond, who died last month, during a memorial celebration Tuesday, Oct. 6, at the Lincoln Theatre in Northwest. The 90-minute event highlighted Bond’s life through videos, pictures and speeches that provided a glimpse to his love of music and sense of humor. “Julian was fond of music. Even the Four Freshmen? Yes, and not just Four Freshmen concerts but annual conventions of the International Four Freshmen
Society. He dragged us to one. This passion long mystified me,” said Taylor Branch, Bond’s close friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who chronicled the civil rights movement. “Or his claim to suffer from rare emetophobia, a fear of being vomited on at sporting events, which helped him dodge some of Pam’s [Bond’s wife] ardent fandom.” Dignitaries filled the Lincoln Memorial to pay homage to Bond, who died Aug. 15 at the age of 75, co-founded the Southern Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and served as a Georgia politician for two decades and a college professor.
Judy Richardson, an associate producer on the documentary “Eyes on the Prize” Bond narrated, recalled when she first met Bond 25 years earlier. “The first image is from 1963, when I first arrived at SNCC’s National Office in Atlanta. There was Julian, typing with staccato speed, a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, dropping ashes onto a perpetually dirty floor,” Richardson said. “Julian could type faster with 2 fingers than I could with all 10.” Even during his activism, Bond showed his comedic side
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