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By Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer Twenty-three-year-old Cornell Parks always dreamed of attending college. He longed to study information technology.

The Southeast resident couldn’t afford to enroll in a four-year school, so the University of the

District of Columbia’s Community College [UDC-CC] proved a logical choice.

But just as Parks settled into his first year of studies, he learned that his school’s flagship institution, the University of the District of Columbia [UDC] plans to relocate the P.R. Harris Educational Center

he attends in Southeast and the community college’s two other locations – the former Bertie Backus Elementary School and the 801 North Capitol St. building in Northeast – to the UDC campus, miles across the city, in Northwest.

“I had my sights set on completing my studies at P.R. Harris,

which is close to my home on 29th Street,” said a disheartened Parks, who counted among a packed chamber of faculty and staff, students and community advocates who made their way Thursday, Oct.11 to the John A. Wilson Building in downtown D.C. to protest UDC’s intent to right-size its faculty and staff.

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“I depend on public transportation, and for them to close down the building I attend will be devastating . . . I don’t have the money to travel to Northwest every day for my classes,” Parks said.

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By Tia Carol Jones WIMany Staff District Writer

residents driving to work on roads that connect the DisL.Y. Marlow's 23-yeartrictWhen to Maryland or Virginia know old daughter told the father too well how long theher morning comof herondaughter threatened mute Pennsylvania Avenueher in life, and the theircorridor child, Southeast; or thelife16thofStreet she knew something had to be in Northwest, can be. The numbers done. Out of her frustration of District license plates streaming with law enforcement's handling intothe thesituation, city are dwarfed by those of she decided to from Maryland and Virginia. start the Saving Promise camThat may change as District lawpaign. makers held ato hearing 3 tocycle con“It seems be a Oct. vicious sider three bills turn relatedmy to residency that won't family requirements for District governloose,” Marlow said. Marlow shared her story with ment employment.

The the bills audiwere ence at the District first introduced in 2011. Heights One reDomestic Violence Symposium quired new nonresident D.C. governon May 7 at thetoDistrict ment employees pay fourHeights percent Municipal Center.

The of their salary annually to sympothe city. sium sponsored by heads the Anotherwas bill required agency Family and Youth Services and the mayor to justify hiring nonCenter of the city of District residents for government positions, Heights and the National Hookwhileofa Black third would expand residency Up Women. requirements for D.C. workers makMarlow has written a book, ing over Me a certain amountwhich of money “Color Butterfly,” is a annually. story about four generations of “It’s not violence. enough forThe us to say to domestic book is the privatebysector to do their part, inspired her own experiences, and those not of following her grandmother, and we’re up,” said her mother and Muriel her daughter.

Council member Bowser She said4] every time she reads [D-Ward about the District’s firstexcerpts her book, she still source lawfrom that requires governmentcan notprojects believetothe assisted fill atwords least 51came perfrom her.

“Color Me cent of jobs with DistrictButterfly” residents. won the 2007 National “Best Bowser is chair of the Committee on Books” Award.

Government whichwhen held “I was justOperations, 16-years-old the hearing. my eye first blackened and my wantedMarlow to get said. various public lips“Ibled,” opinions on these bills as this can afElaine Davis-Nickens, presifect how District Hook-Up dollars cirdent of we thekeep National culating said said Bowser, 40.isShe of Blackhere,” Women, there no added that theinDistrict consistency the waygovernment domestic violence issues are dealt with by consists of approximately 31,000 employees. Out of that, only 13,000 are District residents.

“That’s roughly 42 percent of District government workers who live in the District,” she said. The number, while it may seem high, is low relative to other jurisdictions, which hire significantly higher numbers of their own residents.

This is one of the reasons Council member Yvette Alexander [D-Ward 7] introduced the District Domicile Requirement Amendment Act of 2011, one of the bills.

“Our investment starts at home with D.C. residents,” said Alexander, 51. “No other municipality has a majority of their workers from outside their state and neither should we.”

Alexander’s bill amends the Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act to require newly hired employees at a

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

Mildred Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise who was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She by a Maryland jury for his role in feels children need to be educatthe Beltway Sniper attacks in ed about domestic violence.

2002. Mildred Muhammad is “We have to stop being pasthe founder of After the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chilan organization that helps the dren about domestic violence,” survivors of domestic violence Marlow said. and their children.

Marlow has worked to break “I lived in fear for six years. Six the cycle of abuse in her family, years in fear is a long time. It is and is confident the policies she not an easy thing to come out is pushing for will start that of,” she said. process.

Mildred Muhammad said “I plan to take these policies to people who want to help a Congress and implore them to domestic violence victim must change our laws,” Marlow said. be careful of how they go into “I will not stop until these polithe victim's life, and understand cies are passed.” that she may be in “survival Tia Carol Jones can be reached mode”. at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net “Before you get to 'I'm going to killCouncil you,' it startedMuriel as a verbal WI 4]. /Courtesy Photo D.C. member Bowser [D-Ward

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rate of CS 12 [$62,499] and above to be domiciled here or within 180 days and stay domiciled for at least seven years after the date of hire.

“We have talented, qualified residents that can fill our government positions and contribute to the growth of our city,” Alexander added.

Opposition to the bills came directly from labor unions who argued that the bills would discourage qualified nonresidents from seeking D.C. jobs.

Kristopher Baumann, chair of the D.C. Police Union, said the bill requiring future government employees to pay four percent of their income, “strangles” the Metropolitan Police Department’s ability to recruit, and worries the bill will scare away future workers even if it does not pass. Others argue the District is simply too expensive to live for many

on a local government salary.

Bowser disagreed with those who argue that the city is unaffordable, saying that she and other legislators represent more than 600,000 people who chose to live here.

“I don’t believe housing is unaffordable,” she said. “People make a choice. I know there are affordable places in D.C., and many programs that the worker can take advantage of.”

The bills are expected to address the city’s unemployment rate, which is 8.8 percent overall, and averages around 19.3 percent east of the river, Alexander’s jurisdiction, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In terms of when the council will vote on the legislation, Bowser said L.Y. Marlow she “wants to take the time to get it right, as some … see the bills as an attack on their jurisdictions and on [their] residents.” wi

We have to stop being passive-aggressive with poor children about domestic violence. I plan to take these policies to Congress and implore them to change our laws. I will not stop until these policies are passed.

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By James Wright WI Staff Writer Moten Promotes Book, Blasts Alexander Ronald Moten, the Republican nominee for the Ward 7 D.C. Council member seat, recently penned a book in which he talks about the violence and the hardships he has experienced along with the ups and downs of being civically engaged in District politics.

Moten, 41, hosted a book signing on the evening of Oct. 9 to promote his new book, “Drinking Muddy Water: The Evolution of a Civil Rights Republican.” He was joined by dozens of supporters aboard a yacht owned by Johnnie T. Osborne, an affluent black entrepreneur, who happens to be a managing partner of Capital Yacht Charters and Fort Washington Potomac River Tours. Moten wrote “Drinking Muddy Water” – published by Sudden Change Media in Northwest – to tell his life story and to apprise readers of his political views and impressions of various District politicians.

“I recognize the mistakes that I have made in life,” he said.

He writes about his mother’s addiction to drugs early in his life, hustling as a drug dealer and his time in prison. He also tells readers about his work for Cease Fire Don’t Smoke the Brothers and as the co-founder of Peaceoholics, and his relationship with former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray.

Moten took the opportunity during the cruise to reiterate his opinion of Gray which is included in the book, and to tell the audi-

ence of more than 50, that his Nov. 6 general election foe – D.C. Council member Yvette Alexander [D-Ward 7] – isn’t up to the job.

“She’s not doing anything,” Moten said. “She says that we should charge people $1,000 for speeding tickets like it is nothing. She has also misused her constituent service fund by not helping the poor people in her ward.”

He said District residents should give him a chance to serve on the D.C. Council because he’s ethical and a true leader.

“I am a trendsetter and I am proud to be a civil rights Republican,” he said. “There are bad apples in every party – both Republican and Democrat. We know that there are bad Democrats because of the D.C. Council.”

PAC Makes Endorsements The DC Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee [PAC] endorsed its candidates for the Nov. 6 general and special elections on Oct. 9. The candidates are all incumbents: interim D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and D.C. Council members Jack Evans [D-Ward 2], Muriel Bowser [D-Ward 4], Yvette Alexander [D-Ward 7] and Vincent Orange [D-At Large].

No candidate in the race for the second at-large seat or the Ward 8 D.C. Council member race received an endorsement. In D.C. political circles, a nod from the powerful PAC, gives candidates credibility in the business community and serves as a vehicle to ask corporate leaders for donations.

Max Farrow, the communications director for the chamber, said that

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“The DC Chamber of Commerce PAC believes that this slate will improve business opportunity, foster growth across the city and restore stability to City Hall,” said Farrow, 36.

Evans, 58, and Bowser, 40, are running unopposed. Mendelson, 59, is supported by the PAC because “the current state of the D.C. Council demands an effecDenise Rolark Barnes tive and approachable leader,” said Independent Beauty Consultant David Julyan, 61, chairman of the www.marykay/drolark-barnes.com PAC. 202-236-8831 Alexander, 51, is an interesting selection for the PAC in that they supported one of her opponents, Tom Brown, in the April 3 Democratic primary.

“Yvette Alexander maintains an open dialogue with the business community and seeks our input for implementing mechanisms that improve development opportunities,” Julyan said.

Julyan said that Vincent Orange has proven his dedication to the District time after time.

“He is constantly seeking policies that will ensure the long-term improvement of our city.”

He said that lack of support among the members of the PAC is the primary reason why no candidates were chosen in the at large and Ward 8 races.

“We reviewed the voting records and information on the candidates in those races none of and lowercase, flush left as indicated on artwork at these point sizes: Consultant name in 11-point Helvetica Neue Bo ‡ Please setand all copy in upper Consultant in 9-point Helvetica Neue Light; Web site or e-mail address in 9-point Helvetica Neue Light; phone number in 9-point Helvetica the candidatesBeauty received sufficient To the Independent Beauty Consultant: Only Company-approved Web sites obtained through the Mary Kay® Personal Web Site program may support among the PAC members for an endorsement,” Julyan said. “This is not unusual for us.

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Indira Martell Washington, D.C. I think that he will change his approach. People expect him to come out swinging and answer more of the questions they want answered. I’d be pleased to hear him speak about the economy and about the most recent job data that has come under fire for being inaccurate or doctored in some way. I’d also like to hear more about his foreign policies. He’s been cast as being soft on various countries that are deemed a threat by some.

Michelangelo Benjamin Washington, D.C. I think that President Obama should continue to do what he deems necessary. People have their personal [preference] of how they would deal with the matter, and expect him to react that same way. He’s dealing with a lot of things behind the scenes and every move of his is fine-tuned. I think that he’s strategic in being very careful and reserved in his answers. He’s already the president.

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Sandra Elliott Washington D.C. I think that President Obama is gauging Mitt Romney to see where he is coming from. I don’t think that he’ll be as aggressive as Romney, because that isn’t professional. I think that President Obama will continue to act the same, but will probably be more explanatory in his answers.

I’d like to see him [make] Romney spell out what it is that he’s saying. Romney’s been saying a lot, but there haven’t been concrete answers or explanations.

Benita Garner Washington, D.C. I think that he’ll change his approach. He’s commented on his first debate in saying that it was lackluster, so I think that he’ll pick it up. The only thing that I’d like to see him do is break his policies down and convey them in terms that the common person can understand. I’d like to see him stress the subject of women’s rights and his stance on foreign policy with the troops in Afghanistan.

Vicki Simons Wheaton, Md. I think that President Obama will be more aggressive. I think that he learned a tough lesson in the first debate. He’s definitely going to have to address the questions in shorter sound bites, of how he’s going to handle the economy and jobs, and how Obamacare will really benefit people. I would like to see him talk directly about how his economic plan will have a positive effect on the job market, and what he will specifically do to create more jobs.

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“There’s a great need for the community college to maintain its presence in the city’s various communities, especially for those who need workforce training.

However, if they close those sites down, the convenience of them being there will be derided and create a hardship on students who really need them in their neighborhoods.”

–– Emory McIver HEARING continued from Page 1 on Jobs and Workforce Development, chaired by Ward 5 representative Kenyan McDuffie, 36, hosted the full-house Public Oversight Hearing.

However, during the lengthy hearing, a succession of speakers opposed to relocating the community college to the flagship campus on Connecticut Avenue, acknowledged that UDC has been in a critical financial state for numerous years, and that tightening its grip on UDC-CC will help offset some cash flow woes.

On the other hand, many among the crowd of more than 300 people – including the overflow that spilled into another room and into the hallway – also believe the plan to “right-size” UDC will destabilize enrollment and undermine the community college’s importance. Still, while others agreed that right-sizing is a tough decision that would primarily impact personnel nearing the age of retirement, they said it’s “the smart thing to do” in order to operate UDC more effectively and efficiently.

“UDC should be able to right-size itself without harming the community college,” said McDuffie, adding that it remains necessary for the two separate institutions to exist.

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being discussed, remains a champion of the school, and encouraged students at the hearing to “self-advocate.”

He also noted that UDC-CC has enhanced the standing of UDC, and that by all indications, the community college appeared “very sustainable” when it first opened in 2009.

Brown said however, that as a result of an investigation by his office, they “discovered several troubling realities” surrounding UDC. Specifically, that UDC’s costs per student are the highest among its peer colleges.

Brown expressed concern with the manner in which UDC arrived at its decisions that will impact at least 25 faculty and staff members and hundreds of its community college students.

At this time, UDC boasts an enrollment of just over 6,000 students – half attend UDC-CC. “You know I have your back,” Brown told the students – many of whom listened to the proceedings from outside the packed chamber. “We mandated that UDC come up with a plan to right-size in view of all [of] its expenditures,” said Brown, who has oversight of the community college and stressed that UDC receives $65 million each year in taxpayer funding.

He said that UDC’s right-sizing plan poses more questions than answers.

“Who were its consultants and why weren’t the mayor and D.C. Council more involved,” Brown asked. Noting cuts of about 20 percent in personnel at UDC-

CC compared to 70 percent staff cuts at UDC, Brown said things seemed out of balance.

He added that it would be a travesty to relocate UDC-CC’s three buildings.

“There’s a great need for the community college to maintain its presence in the city’s various communities, especially for those who need workforce training,”said Emory McIver, who’s employed at the North Capitol Street Workforce Development Center. “However, if they close those sites down, the convenience of them being there will be derided and create a hardship on students who really need them in their neighborhoods.”

Sessoms has been at the helm since 2008, and during that time has effected sweeping changes at the university. Not only did he separate the institution in half with formation of the community college, Sessoms, 65, offered an open admissions policy for the four-year university, with higher tuition and admission standards.

Nonetheless, UDC has still dealt with a myriad of problems that include a dip in enrollment trends, student and staff protests over curriculum and program changes and concern over Sessoms’ spending habits.

At a time when other area two-year institutions like Prince George’s Community College are receiving millions of dollars in state and federal grants to support cybersecurity training and other projects aimed at increasing enrollment, to UDC’s defense, Sessoms insists the community college is being left out of the loop. Particularly, when it comes to local funding.

“The District simply has not been allocating the necessary funding,” Sessoms said. “We got the Bertie Backus and the P. R. Harris sites for the community college, as well as a nod on a lease/purchase arrangement on the building on North Capitol Street. But it’s costing us $2 million more a year, which is pretty expensive. As a result, we’ve had to consider moving those facilities back to the main campus and saving $5 million a year.” wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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Gray Announces St. Elizabeths East Pavilion Design Team

By James Wright WI Staff Writer The mayor of the District told guests at a recent unveiling of a pavilion project in Southeast that its development and completion portends the stepped-up development of sections of Ward 8.

Mayor Vincent Gray, (D), announced the design-and-construction team chosen to build a facility on the St. Elizabeths complex that he said will have a unique structure and use environmentally sound methods.

Gray, 69, said on Saturday at the St. Elizabeths East Campus in Southeast before 40 people, that the St. Elizabeths East Gateway Pavilion will be built with the collaboration of the design-and-construction team of KADCON, Davis Brody Bond and Robert Sillman Associates, all of Northwest. The pavilion is part of the re-building of the St. Elizabeths East Complex as it’s converted from a largely mental health facility into an unit that will house food vendors, farmers’ markets, casual dining spots, weekend and after-hours activities and cultural and arts events.

“We now have a seminal opportunity to activate the site for commercial activity prior to the St. Elizabeths East Project Phase I completion in 2015,” said Gray, at the Oct 13 event.

“The design excellence and architectural and construction prowess that the winning firms will bring to the Gateway Pa-

vilion are [what] the District’s proposal for interim use here demanded, and we look forward to its construction and use by local and regional consumers.”

The pavilion is unique in its design because it will have two levels. The lower level will be the place where the farmers’ markets and vendors sell their wares and the upper level – which is to be directly above in an open air space – will be the site for meetings and concerts.

The uniqueness of the pavilion’s design is illustrated by the planned fusion of the building with its surroundings, such as the grass, trees, and the soil. It will incorporate one facet of sustainable living by harvesting rainwater into an underground cistern capable of supplying water for irrigation and restrooms, instead of relying on the District’s water supply.

Peter Cook, an architect and a principal with Davis Brody Bond, said the pavilion will be one of the most unique buildings in the city.

“There is nothing else like it because it is of the land,” said Cook, 49. “This facility is an integration of the land with the pavilion and it will be used by the Congress Heights and St. Elizabeths community.”

Pavilion Project Manager Ethan Warsh, 29, said he expects the project to be completed by the summer of 2013.

D.C. Council member Marion Barry [D-Ward 8] said the building of the pavilion as well

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as development of the rest of the St. Elizabeths complex on both the east and west campuses “will give hundreds of jobs to D.C. residents in general and Ward 8 residents in particular.”

“Ward 8 is on the move, we have a new Ward 8,” exclaimed Barry, 75. “You see a different spirit here. It’s been a long time coming.”

Barry said buildings like the pavilion will spur economic development in the ward, but he cautioned that ward residents who have lived there all along should not be forgotten.

James Bunn, executive director of the Ward 8 Business Council, appeared excited about the project.

“This is supremely important,” said Bunn, 70. “This is good that we will see this during our lifetime and our grandkids will be able to use this.

There is a great future for this part of the city.”

However, Ward 8 resident Brenda Jones tempered her praise for the project.

“I think it is wonderful but I believe that those who live in Ward 8 should benefit from the jobs and other opportunities that the pavilion provides.

Ward 8 business owners should have the chance to be a part of the building of this pavilion, also,” she said.wi The Washington Informer

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By Elton Hayes WI Staff Writer Duke Ellington School of the Arts junior Maya Wesby doesn’t have much free time these days.

The 16 year old serves as a high school drama critic, international youth leadership advocate and she recently penned an award-winning essay on childhood obesity.

Maya’s essay, Defeating the Barriers of Physical Activity, earned first place honors out of more than 200 nationwide submissions in the 2012 Congressional Black Caucus Spouses Essay Contest. Although Maya doesn’t battle with childhood obesity, she didn’t have to look far to find her source of inspiration.

“When I was very young, my classmates would tease this particular girl in my class,” said Maya, an honors student. “It wasn’t specifically because she was overweight, but her weight made her an easy target for them. I just wanted to speak for kids like her.”

The Congressional Black Caucus honored Maya during its 42nd Annual Legislative Conference in September. Along with accolades, Maya received a $1,500 check and a laptop computer.

She had the opportunity to discuss her essay during one of the panel’s issue forums. Maya addressed a number of obstacles mentioned in her essay that young people are faced with that prevent them from leading active, healthy lifestyles. Before a panel of wellrespected nutritionists, Maya talked about the pressing need for reducing fees for sports camps, making physical activity a habit during teen years and eliminating socioeconomic barriers to fitness facilities.

“I was particularly impressed with Maya’s fresh ideas, expressed

in her carefully researched and well-written essay on childhood obesity,” said D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), 75. “Maya is already showing she is fully ready to think through tough issues and even advise members of Congress on ways to grapple with them.”

Despite the recent recognition that Maya has enjoyed because of her essay, the theatre major said that a career in creative writing or nutrition isn’t necessarily in her future.

“I am more interested in social work,” said Maya, who lists Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania among the schools that have piqued her interest. “I’d like to [study] law, social sciences or discover more about history.”

Maya’s father, Keith Wesby, said that his daughter showed an interest in reading and writing at an early age and that her passion for the two remains just as strong today. While he and her mother, Adrianne Todman, are no longer together, he said that blueprint for academic success that the two charted for Maya has instilled in her a zest for knowledge and a love of learning.

“We’re very proud of her and have tried to lead by example,” said Wesby, who lives in Northwest. “We pushed education at home to a great extent. She grew up with both of her parents reading to her and helping her with her homework. That particular family structure has been imperative to her educational and social development. These are the fruits of that labor, and we are very proud of her.” wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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Prince George’s Community College [PGCC] will be the recipient of a multi-million dollar cybersecurity grant that will likely benefit students far beyond the county’s border.

That’s because the $5 million grant will continue the work of the National CyberWatch Center, based at PGCC, which is seeking ways to train workers in the emerging cybersecurity field and raise awareness about the need for a qualified workforce.

Casey O’Brien, director of the center, said there’s a “huge shortage” of qualified personnel in the cybersecurity field on a national level.

The $5 million funding from the National Science Foundation [NSF] will extend for the next four years the work of the center, which received its first NSF grant in 2005. PGCC is the lead institution for the center, a collaboration of 95 colleges and universities in 29 states and Washington, D.C. The mission of the center is to advance cybersecurity education by leading joint efforts to strengthen the national cybersecurity workforce.

O’Brien said the shortage of experienced workers in the region of Northern Virginia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. is particularly acute due to the security clearance required for many of the positions.

“That narrows the talent pool,” said O’Brien.

While solid numbers are difficult to come by, O’Brien said he’s heard the range of 30,000 to 60,000 qualified workers needed discussed.

With cybersecurity being such an emerging field, there’s a multitude of areas that require study, development and promotion such as curriculum and instructors, job titles and descriptions, tracks to get young people into the pipeline that will lead to training and qualification.

O’Brien said that similar to the aviation industry not all jobs in cybersecu-

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rity require four-year degrees.

“Not everyone is a pilot,” he said.

And O’Brien added that community colleges – with their emphasis on workforce development – are ideal vehicles to advance cybersecurity education.

“The award is a testament to the hard work and accomplishments of the CyberWatch team at Prince George’s Community College,” said Charlene M. Dukes, president of PGCC. “The grant extends the CyberWatch Center’s scope and prominence and serves as validation of the great work already done.”

O’Brien said cybersecurity involves safeguarding “information assets wherever they are stored” and the field touches on technology, policy, intellectual property, software, hardware and networking. With more and more devices such as tablets, mobile phones, home appliances and security systems being inter-connected it’s going to be critical that knowledgeable people understand the associated risks and ways to protect privacy and intellectual property, he said.

The center is also looking for ways to integrate cybersecurity topics into the existing school curriculum such as in math, psychology and business classes. The center also wants to evaluate successful cybersecurity education and awareness programs already in existence throughout the country to determine if they can be replicated elsewhere.

O’Brien said one good example of this is a Los Angeles high school that has held cybersecurity competitions and is reaching underserved populations. He said that program could be a model for a pilot in another part of the country.

Asked if $5 million will adequately address this national initiative, O’Brien said, “while it’s a sizeable chunk of money, it really goes fast.”wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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Prince George’s County Council member Derrick L. Davis [D-Mitchellville] hosted a Parent Power Summit 2012 on Saturday, Oct. 13 at the Ernest Everett Just Middle School in Mitchellville, Md. /Courtesy Photo

Summit Seeks to Engage Parents, Community

By Gale Horton Gay WI Staff Writer Sharing with the community how parents and those who care about young people can be effective change agents was the goal of the Parent Power Summit 2012.

The summit, which was held Saturday, Oct. 13 at Ernest Everett Just Middle School in Mitchellville, drew a sparse crowd but that didn’t diminish a Prince George’s County Council member’s enthusiasm for such programs.

“I am not at all discouraged,” said Derrick Leon Davis, [DMitchellville], a Prince George’s County council member, and the sponsor of the event. “I don’t think the message changes if you have a million people or if you have 10,” said Davis. “We will continue to put positive information into the ether.”

The 25-30 individuals who attended participated in a panel discussion in the morning and a community dialogue in the afternoon. Exhibitors from several youth-oriented organizations such as Higher Hopes, A Legacy Left Behind, Take Charge, District Heights Family and Youth Services Center and the Prince George’s County Department of Parks and Recreation were among those with displays at the event.

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ticipants, Phil Lee, said that the parents who “really need to be here are not here” and that efforts should be made “to try to find those parents who don’t show up, don’t participate, don’t engage.”

Sharing some of their experiences establishing youth and parent outreach efforts included panelists Valerie Nicholas, assistant director of the parent academy Side by Side, Inc.; Margret Morgan-Hubbard, founder and chief executive officer of Eco City Farm; Herman Whaley, principal of Capitol Heights Elementary School, who in 2008 started a think tank at the school; and Michael Robinson, who has 30 years’ experience in education and developed Men Make a Difference Day. The panelists discussed a range of topics.

“People in the community don’t understand the great thing to invest in is our young people,” said Morgan-Hubbard. “We are constantly looking outside our community when the real strength is in the community.”

She also talked about the “amazing” principals she has dealt with over the years, but the frustration of inconsistencies when principals were frequently transferred and rapport, trust and priority had to be established with a new individual.

Because of this, programs were often halted or delayed.

Nicholas cited language as one

of her biggest challenges.

“You have to speak the language of the parent to get the parent engaged,” she said.

“Some people I have dealt with didn’t make education a priority.”

Prince George’s County Public School Board Chair Verjeana Jacobs dropped by the summit and said she was “delighted to see this type of community meeting engaging everybody.”

Monique Alexander of Lanham, president of the Parent Teacher Student Association at Ernest Everett Just Middle School, said the summit is greatly needed, but she was disappointed in the turnout. “There’s a lack of participation by the parents. They’re not as involved as they should be in their child’s education.”

Alexander, whose 13-yearold daughter, accompanied her to the meeting, described the event’s attendance as “way to common.”

Dorothy Ray of Laurel showed up although she isn’t a parent. Rays said she’s “very interested in community activities and ways we can improve the quality of life in the community.”

She said she attended the summit to find out how she can be part of the solution.

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By William Reed stituting their plans and policies.

Instead of holding pity parties over the demise of Affirmative Action, it would be good if the descendants of slaves moved to “demand money to compensate them for their ancestors work as slaves.” Blacks have been “disadvantaged” and “non-compensated” throughout our tenure in America. The majority of Black Americans have bought into the theory and culture of “American Exceptionalism” and “Mainstream Mindsets” that we are more than compensated for the damage of slavery by the good fortune we enjoy by living in America. Some African-American patriots say: “Every Black in the United States is much better off economically, legally, politically, and morally than any Black living in Africa.”

It’s time to accept the fact that the basic nature of America excludes parity for Blacks. From the beginning, this country has shown “a particular reluctance to absorb people of African descent.” Because of White Americans intransigence, the little progress made toward racial parity has been slow, cautious, and incremental.

For more than four centuries, Blacks were subjected to the most heinous crimes ever committed. Though slavery has been abolished, to this day, no one has been brought to justice for those crimes. Racial disparities persist at nearly every level of society. From criminal justice to education, employment to housing, Black Americans continue to face an uphill battle toward social and economic equity.

Instead of a constant demand that America apologize for slavery and compensate us, Blacks gamely “go along to get along” in a system they know that’s stacked against them. Most African Americans are oriented toward “mainstream” values and

cultures and are eager to live in a “post-racial” society that requires no extraordinary affirmative actions. Over the past half-century, and to be good citizens, as they blended in, Black Americans blithely accepted Affirmative Action programs and policies as remediation for past injustices. Over its existence, Affirmative Action has been viewed by many as a “milestone” and others as a “millstone.”

Let’s be clear that racism still runs rampant across this nation and that the possibility of using Affirmative Action to redress the perpetration of past wrongs is in serious doubt. Whereas, Black Americans support Affirmative Action as a remedy or tool of social policy, the major item stifling the issue is that America’s White majority sees nothing wrong with maintaining the status quo.

The “status quo” in America equates to disparate differences in prison populations and childhood mortality rates, biases in the application of capital punishment, and unequal access to education and health care. Systematic exclusion of slaves and their descendents from positions of political and economic power continues to haunt African Americans. Past iterations of Affirmative Action haven’t helped us as racism continues to shape most Blacks’ lives. Sixtytwo percent of Americans say that the country should “make every possible effort to improve the conditions of Blacks … even if it means giving them preferential treatment.” We can wait for their acts, or institute reparations toward repairing damages inflicted by slavery and continuing racism. From now on, Blacks need to think of themselves as creditors seeking payment of an overdue debt, rather than as social supplicants seeking an undeserved preference. wi (William Reed is president of the Business Exchange Network and available for projects via the BaileyGroup.org) www.washingtoninformer.com

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Pesticides Harm Kids’ Health and Intelligence, Study Finds

By Viji Sundaram Special to the Informer from New America Media Exposure to pesticides is one key reason why children today are more likely to have a wide range of such diseases and disorders as cancer, autism, birth defects and asthma than children of a generation ago, according a study released yesterday.

‘We have waited much, much too long to make the health of our children our national priority,” lamented Kristin Schafer, a mother of two, and lead author of the report, “A Generation in Jeopardy,” by the Pesticide Action Network of North America (PANNA).

Schafer, PANNA’s senior policy strategist and a veteran policy research analyst, pointed out that a raft of studies has shown that between 400,000 to 600,000 of the 4 million children born each

year in the United States, are affected by a developmental disorder. Scientists, she said, are calling it “a silent pandemic.”

Schafer and her team of researchers studied the link between pesticide exposure and developmental disorders in children for more than 10 months, reviewing more than 200 scientific studies and government data that tracked them.

What they learned was “quite startling,” she said citing figures that show that more than 10,000 kids are diagnosed with cancer each year and more than 7 million kids have asthma. There’s been a spike in the incidence of leukemia and brain cancer, she said.

“This generation is less likely to reach its full potential” Schafer said, but quickly pointed out that pesticides are not the only drivers of an increase in developmental disorders, and that genetic and environmental factors

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can also play a role.

The report highlights the innovative policies communities across the country have adopted to protect children from pesticides where they live, learn and play. In California, for instance, the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) has replaced the use of harmful pesticides in its schools with socalled integrated pest management practices.

Willie Green, SFUSD’s director for custodial services, said its schools use the least amount of toxic chemicals or none at all to address their pest problems, thanks to the city’s 1996 integrated pest management ordinance.

SFUSD contracts with a pest control agency to make sure that any pest problems its schools

face are addressed with the least use of harmful chemicals. For instance, better door sweeps have prevented rodents from entering buildings.

“If a problem can be addressed without using pesticides, that’s the way we go,” Green asserted.

Schafer pointed out that some schools in the Central Valley, which has a strong agricultural base, have protective buffer zones for schools and neighborhoods to keep children out of harm’s way. Pesticide-free schoolsexists in such states as Connecticut, as well, she said.

Tracey Woodruff, a professor at UCSF’s School of Medicine, pointed out why children are especially vulnerable to the harms

of pesticide exposure. She said they have “quickly growing” bodies that take in more of everything.

“They eat and drink more, pound for pound, than adults,” Woodruff said, noting that children’s “physiological systems undergo rapid changes from the womb through adolescence.

“Anything that interrupts the processes, like pesticides and industrial chemicals even at very low levels, can lead to significant health harms,” she said.

San Francisco’s bold Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program should be emulated by other cities to protect the health of its citizenry, said Chris Geiger, manager of the IPM program at the San Francisco Department of the Environment.

Geiger acknowledged that while the city ordinance was only a small step because it applied only to city property, it was an important step nevertheless.

Local communities should not depend on federal regulations because enforcing them fully takes a long time. wi

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D.C. Council member Mary Cheh [D-Ward 3] and others recently participated in the DC Hunger Solutions Food Stamp Challenge. /Photo courtesy of WTTG-TV

Existing on a $30-a-Week Budget Cheh, Others Take on Hunger Solutions Challenge

By Michelle Phipps-Evans WI Staff Writer It was Day Two of the DC Hunger Solutions [DCHS] Food Stamp Challenge, an attempt by participants to eat on $30 a week. Council member Mary Cheh [D-Ward 3] thought the challenge would be cinch because she doesn’t drink coffee or juices, and doesn’t eat meat, which is pricey.

But she hadn’t factored in her sugar cravings. Her daily treat – “Grande Hot Chocolate with whip cream,” – wasn’t in the budget, neither were her beloved cupcakes.

“I should’ve bought a cheap brownie mix and half dozen eggs,” said Cheh, 61, who shopped Oct. 9 at Giant on Connecticut Avenue in Northwest. At the register, she exceeded the allotted amount, so she returned a banana. To stay within the budget, she bought lots of pasta and was “heavy on carbs.”

“I was full, but I was not feeling satisfied,” said Cheh whose breakfast consisted of slices of toast, lunch ended up being yogurt and a banana with spaghetti for dinner.

“It’s important to try to experience these things,” said Cheh, who, in 2010 co-sponsored the District’s Healthy Schools Act, which addressed health and nutrition issues for public and charter school children.

Cheh joined city leaders and antihunger advocates from Oct. 9 to 15 to accept the pledge to spend $30 a week or $4.28 a day, the average benefit for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP], as her total grocery budget. Formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, SNAP gives low-income households debit cards to buy food.

The challenge spanned the region with Maryland Hunger Solutions, DCHS’ sister organization, hosting one. Together, there were more than

200 participants across the metropolitan area with 50 from the District. DCHS is an initiative to create a hunger-free society, founded in 2002 by the Food Research and Action Center, a nonprofit that works on improving public policies to eradicate hunger in the United States.

Challenge participants described experiences in blogs, and others such as John Thompson, director of the D.C. Department on Aging, took to Twitter.

“Just in two days, this experience has been an eye opener,” said Thompson who compromised food choices. “I was purchasing more canned vegetables with higher sodium, no salad mix which was too expensive, [and] one type of fruit [bananas], no snacks, and an excessive amount of noodles and rice on a carbohydrate overload.”

Cheh participated in the challenge alone, but Thompson’s wife, fouryear-old daughter and father in Columbia, S.C., also spent $30 per person. Thompson chose to purchase Thai foods.

“I grew up eating Thai food every day as it’s easy to cook and many dishes are inexpensive,” said Thompson whose mother is part Thai and Chinese. “It’s a struggle not being able to have different food choices and no snacks, which makes me a little sluggish toward the end of the work day.”

According to the D.C. Department of Health and Human Services, which administers SNAP, about 137,000 individuals receive food stamps. Yet, recent U.S. Department of Agriculture data shows one in eight D.C. households struggle with hunger with nearly 19 percent of District residents living in poverty, according to Census data.

“SNAP is making a huge difference to those who have the least, and cutting this program would be

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devastating for children, the working poor, and seniors,” said Alexandra Ashbrook, DCHS director.

Jessica Luna, DCHS’s anti-hunger program associate, said DCHS decided to host the challenge for several reasons.

“We used it as a platform to raise awareness to the cuts to SNAP in the Farm Bill that would repeal the District’s Food Stamp Expansion Act of 2009, reduce access to SNAP and lower benefit levels for needy families,” said Luna. “This is an opportunity to underscore to those who never worry about their next meal, a small glimpse into the daily struggle facing District SNAP residents.”

Every five years, Congress reauthorizes the Farm Bill, comprehensive legislation that guides funding for most federal farm and food policies including SNAP. Both the Senate and House Agriculture Committee’s versions of the bill contain cuts, including a Senate cut that reduces SNAP benefits for an estimated 500,000 households by $90 a month, and a House cut that ends benefits for a minimum of 1.8 million people.

“I am pleased the challenge is helping to bring awareness about the importance of SNAP as a defense against hunger and steps people can take to ensure SNAP is strengthened, not cut,” said Ashbrook, adding that the challenge culminated in a day of action on Oct. 15. Participants visited D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton to thank her for her support and urged others to contact their congressional members to oppose these cuts.

By Day Four, Cheh hadn’t slipped or cheated and still had enough food to stretch through the weekend.

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UDC Officials Consider Personnel Reductions

By Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer University of the District of Columbia [UDC] President Allen Sessoms and its Board of Trustees met recently to discuss budget cuts that could cost at least 25 staff and faculty members their jobs.

During the lengthy session held Oct. 3 on the Van Ness campus in Northwest, Sessoms, 65, who insisted the university – which employs about 700 people – is not struggling, explained that a decrease in the budget would ensure greater operating efficiency.

“We’re talking about reducing in a significant way,” said Sessoms, alluding to the $8 million to be cut from the budget. “We have been put in a position by the funding mechanism to cut back on spending, and in doing so, we’ve had to look at how much flexibility we have regarding faculty and staff size and facilities costs.”

UDC enrolls just over 6,000 students – half attend its community college, UDC-CC, which opened in 2009.

The new cuts, which would reduce UDC’s operating budget from $108 million to $100 million, mirror a personnel realignment that took place in September that involved several retirements and departures for various reasons.

Sessoms said that while he’s not sure tuition at UDC would be impacted, plans also call for the community college – which costs $5.6 million per year to operate – be relocated from the old Bertie Backus Elementary School, the P.R. Harris Educational Center and the 801 North Capitol Street building to the UDC campus on Connecticut Avenue.

Sessoms, who has been at the helm since 2008, earns $295,000 a year and enjoys perks that include a Lincoln Navigator and gas, plus a $1.6 million home in Northwest for which the upkeep is paid by the university.

Asked during the meeting if he would consider a reduction in his salary to help defray university expenditures, Sessoms responded that he would think about it, but that was a decision for the UDC Board of Trustees to consider, not him.

He said however, that the District simply has not allocated the necessary funding to maintain the three campuses.

“We got the Bertie Backus and the P.R. Harris Educational Center for the community college, as well as a nod on a lease/purchase arrangement on a building on North Capitol Street. But it’s costing us $2 million more a year, which is pretty expensive. As a result, we’ve had to consider moving those facilities back to the main campus and saving $5 million a year.”

Despite Sessoms’s assertions that the university is “doing well,” in recent months, various media reports have described UDC as being under serious financial strain.

According to a 28-page report released last month by Mayor Vincent C. Gray, “Nearly three-quarters of UDC’s faculty are full or associate professors as compared with a 40 percent average for peer institutions.”

In the report titled, “Creating Pathways to Sustainability and Accountability,” UDC officials outlined a three-month effort by staff and

UDC President Allen Sessoms met with Board of Trustee members earlier this month to discuss budget cuts. He attended a Council hearing on Thursday, Oct. 11 along with hundreds regarding UDC’s Budget and Right Sizing plan at the John A. Wilson Building in Northwest. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah

the Board of Trustees to develop, not only “a right-sizing plan that eliminates waste and redundancy, but which replaces antiquated programs and courses with those that are more conducive to current careers and others that will be created in the future.”

“This is a solid first step,” said Board of Trustees Chairwoman Dr. Elaine A. Crider, in announcing the report. “We have taken this effort very seriously, and it has allowed us to re-examine the University’s mission and create a new vision which honors the school’s history while embracing

necessary change.”

UDC, which touts itself as a comprehensive public institution that prepares students for immediate placement in the workforce, now faces a Nov. 1 deadline for submitting an application to an accrediting agency that will enable UDC-CC to become a UDC branch campus.

“Bottom line, is that we’re trying to find ways to be much more efficient,” said Sessoms. “We’re looking to bring other resources to the table to help reduce UDC costs.” wi

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District Hopes to Become an “Age-Friendly” City

By Michelle Phipps-Evans WI Staff Writer Ward 6 resident Godfrey Francis has taken care of his 102-year-old mother, Lucille, for eight years without seeking help from any District government agency. His mother, an undocumented immigrant from Guyana, moved here after living in New York for several years.

“My siblings and I decided to bring her because she was getting up in age,” said Francis, 57, who supplied food, shelter and medical needs on his salary; first, as a District government employee and now, a federal employee. His siblings left him with sole responsibility.

“Caring for a senior parent who’s undocumented at a high age, she couldn’t get all the services when I did seek them,” said Francis, whose mother now receives basic doctor visits and some medications through the District of Columbia Healthcare Alliance, after he contacted the Office of Healthcare Ombudsman for help.

He was forced recently to place his mother into a home in Northeast as she began to show signs of dementia.

When asked about her undocumented status, he said it played a role in why as a caregiver he hadn’t sought help from the D.C. Office on Aging or other government agencies that assist the District’s more than 98,000 seniors, according to the 2010 U.S. Census for the District of Columbia.

Francis represents one of 65.7 million people in the United States in 2009 who served as an unpaid caregiver, according to the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP. This person provides assistance for a senior or person with disabilities, limited in their abilities to perform daily activities. Due to a decline among caregivers under 50, there is an increasing trend among caregivers between ages 50 and 64, some of whom also have health care needs.

These were the findings in the report, D.C. Senior Needs Assessment: Initial Data Collection, which Mayor Vincent C. Gray, 69, commissioned from the D.C. Office on Aging [DCOA].

“The needs assessment gives us a roadmap for beginning to meet the current needs of our older residents, identifying service gaps and allowing DCOA to refine its service model,” said Gray during a press conference on Oct. 3, at the Washington Senior Wellness Center in Southeast. Besides this report, Gray released a three-year strategic plan on creating an “age-

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friendly” city, an urban community that is inclusive, accessible and encourages active and healthy living.

DCOA’s director, John Thompson said the needs assessment is a “living document.”

“The agency will use this to chart the course for shaping long-term services and support systems in the District of Columbia,” said Thompson, who added that the last assessment was prepared in 1978. The 269-page report examined wellness, quality of life, safety, socialization, recreation, health, in-home support, meal delivery, employment, assisted living, transportation, Medicaid/Medicare and nutrition. It compared nationwide demographics to the District’s.

For two Ward 7 seniors, needs vary.

“I think the most important issue seniors want to know is if they would be able to stay in their homes,” said Dorothy Anthony who hasn’t yet seen the report. “And what services will be available if I need care.” For Doris Thomas, an 80-something-year-old, her needs are transportation-related.

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“I seem to be relying on people I know,” said Thomas as she left a civic association meeting on Oct. 6 with another senior resident. “The city’s transportation system is just awful.”

Based on needs such as these, the District will convene a taskforce of agencies and community partners to oversee the execution of the strategic plan with specific goals of making the District age-friendly, which will tie into Gray’s One City Action Plan that brings together “the concrete goals, strategies and action steps my administration is working on to make this vision of One City a reality,” Gray said.

The District joins seven other states as a pilot for the AARP Network of Age-Friendly Communities through the World Health Organization Global Network of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities.

Francis said he hopes the report will address areas of deficiency.

“I look forward to any changes as I’m approaching 60,” he said. wi The Washington Informer

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Reporting “Positive News” for 48 Years On October 16, 1964, the first edition of The Washington Informer was introduced to the residents of the District of Columbia.

It was not the first African-American newspaper to be published here; as a matter of fact, it joined others including the nearly 60year old Baltimore-based Afro-American, and the locally published Washington News Observer and The Capital Spotlight, both of which served the District since the early 1950s.

Publisher and founder Dr. Calvin W. Rolark had worked for a couple of the other newspapers, but decided the District needed a newspaper with a different focus and mission. He and his wife, attorney Wilhelmina Jackson Rolark, were involved in the U Streetbased business and professional organizations and they were activists in the Home Rule Movement and the District’s fight for selfdetermination. There needed to be a vehicle to serve as the voice for the growing discontentment expressed by the District’s emerging Black civic and civil rights leadership.

The Washington Informer became that voice. It provided the space for local activists to speak out against housing and employment discrimination, police brutality, and a deteriorating public school system. It was through the pages of The Washington Informer that people such as Julius Hobson, the Rev. Ernest Gibson, Marion Barry, Goldie Johnson, the Rev. Douglas Moore, Jr. and the Rev. David Eaton, to name only a few, became household names because of their activism. And, The Washington Informer frequently documented the changes that resulted from a community that increasingly became sick and tired of a system that was slow to change for the benefit of all of its residents.

So when Dr. Rolark described his newspaper as a publication that carried only “positive news,” he didn’t mean what one journalist critically described as “cupcake journalism.” It was his desire and mission to avoid stories about violence and crime often used to negatively characterize Black people and their lives. No, Rolark’s positive news was about political and civic engagement, the fights and the struggles so many District residents participated in to protect and save a city abandoned by Whites, and Blacks, and ignored by national political leaders.

For 48 years, The Washington Informer covered the stories and at times, Dr. Rolark became the story, of the political, economic and social revolution which occurred here. In doing so, the Informer also encountered acts of retribution for the stances it took led by its outspoken and militant leader. Circulation was impacted by a gradually increasing number of Korean community business owners who objected to the newspaper being distributed in their stores.

Advertisers who did not approve of Dr. Rolark’s political views withdrew their advertising. Dr. Rolark, with the help of his wife, often threatened legal action against companies and organizations that denied The Washington Informer participation in programs he believed would benefit Black children and the community at-large.

And, legislation was amended to give The Washington Informer and other local publications, of all kinds, fair consideration for government advertising.

The challenges every newspaper has faced over the past 48 years, The Washington Informer has faced, as well. The impact of integration in the past, to the Internet today, has brought advantages and disadvantages for nearly everyone in the publishing industry.

It’s a challenge we will continue to face for years to come.

In 1994, the leadership of The Washington Informer passed to the next generation with Dr. Rolark’s daughter, Denise Rolark Barnes, taking over the helm. While succession plans to family members are not guaranteed to succeed, under Rolark Barnes’ leadership, the newspaper has continued to fulfill the mission of its founder.

For now, we know that The Washington Informer will continue on its mission of publishing “positive news” about the District and the surrounding areas. In print and online, the Informer will continue to document the stories that will become history for the next generation. For those who have stuck with us over the past 48 years including those who have worked for the publication, we say “thank you” for your dedication and support.

It has been a pleasure to serve you and we look forward to many more years of serving you and telling the positive news “positive story.”

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City Officials, Keep Your Word

I really hope Mayor Gray follows through on his promises to the small businesses in the District of Columbia as stated in your article, “Gray Promises Reforms to Increase Opportunities for Small Businesses,” by Denise R. Barnes, October 11, 2012.

The only other thing I wish he had stated would be that he wants to increase opportunities for small minority-owned businesses in the District. Our minority-owned businesses are being forced out at an alarming rate. Our restaurants, clothing stores, barbershops and beauty salons are all being put out of business by the gentrification in certain neighborhoods.

The city government talks a good game when it comes to saying what officials and agency heads will do to help small businesses, but I think D.C. government now pays more attention to those new businesses in gentrified areas. Those businesses enjoy increased police patrols, new and brighter streetlights and

other city provided amenities.

Longtime District residents can see what the city is doing and who benefits. Our businesses, and even our churches, are being forced out of the city because we now have a city government with no backbone.

Robert K. Lawson Washington, D.C.

Money Matters!

Once again you and your staff at the Informer have produced a wonderful informative piece of work, your annual “Financial Literacy Supplement.” I appreciate your continued efforts to educate those of us in the community about these important issues. While there are so many in our community who are unemployed or underemployed, there are quite a few of us who are working with mortgages, credit card debt, student loans and car payments.

The articles in the Financial Literacy Supplement are very helpful in understanding ways to ensure that the money we earn works for us. The section that re-

ally caught my eye was “Healthy Money Tips for Families.” They were very simple, but they were things I had not even thought of doing. Another interesting article was the one on buying or leasing a car. It really made some things clear to me. I could list more of the articles I found to be helpful, but I think you get the message.

I just want to thank the Informer for providing us with this supplement each year. It shows us that the Informer understands that while there is high unemployment in our community and a need for jobs, there is also a need for continuing education about financial matters for those of us who have jobs.

Sissy L. Underwood Mount Rainier, Md.

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By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.

Republicans Tied to Voter Fraud What is happening to the Republican National Committee (RNC) in the state of Florida and in other important swing states concerning the issues of voter fraud and voter suppression is like a glaring, unexpected climax of a Shakespearean drama. For the past four years, the RNC has labored tirelessly and in some instances mysteriously to raise the issue of voter fraud in the national political debate.

In addition, it has been leading the charge in many state legislatures to enact unprecedented voter suppression laws allegedly as a necessary remedy to protect the public from the cruelty of voter manipulation and mischief.

But now the RNC itself stands naked and exposed for being the real culprit of substantial voter fraud combined with systematic voter suppression.

Strategic Allied Consulting is the company founded and head

by Nathan Sproul, the former executive director and leader of

the RNC in the state of Arizona.

In 2012, Sproul was employed by the RNC and the Mitt Romney campaign to do voter work in five swing states: North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Nevada and Colorado. The public record shows that Sproul was paid more than $3 million this year by both the RNC and the Romney campaign to do voter registration drives in those five states. In Florida, from January through September 2012, Strategic Allied Consulting was paid $1.3 million.

The Florida Department of

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Law Enforcement has launched an immediate criminal investigation of Sproul and the Strategic Allied Consulting because of allegations of criminal acts of voter fraud across the state of Florida. There are allegations of dead people being registered to vote as well as numerous other voter registration infractions in attempt to increase Republican voter rolls. As soon as the news hit about the criminal allegations, the RNC’s national office fired Sproul and his firm.

Sean Spicer, a spokesman for

the Republican National Committee, was quick to emphasize, “We take the integrity of elections extremely seriously. We have zero tolerance for even the mere allegation of impropriety.”

Of course that sounded good coming from the RNC in its attempt to distance itself from the more than 220 allegations in 10 different counties relating to Sproul in Florida. But the RNC’s prior actions and continued actions concerning this issue

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By Julianne Malveaux

Health Care is a Civil Right Our Constitution offers us “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” but we can’t pursue anything if we are unhealthy. Yet, health disparities in the United States are a fact of life. African Americans have shorter lives than Whites for three reasons.

One has to do with income and poverty. Poor people [27 percent of African Americans are poor, compared to about 10 percent of Whites] have less money

and less access, often having to make a choice between medical treatment, food to eat, prescription drugs and rent.

The second barrier to health equality is proximity and access.

In other words, African Americans are more likely to be located a distance from hospitals. There are fewer hospitals and clinics in the ‘hood than in wealthier areas. And some preventative clinics (such as a diabetes clinic in Harlem) have been eliminated because of money. Another

barrier to health access is simply attitudes. Those health providers who have racial and other attitudes choose to treat patients differently. According to a study by the Institutes of Medicine (IOM), an African American or Latino man who goes to an emergency room with a broken bone is less likely to get painkillers than a White man.

Part of this year’s presidential debate revolves around the issue of health care. Mitt Romney, the architect of Massachusetts health

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care system that resembles the Obama health plan, is now jogging (at least that’s healthy) away from himself, rejecting plans he once championed. Or is he? Recently, he said he would preserve some aspects of Obamacare, not others. I am sure you have been asked to name three people, living or dead you’d like to dine with. I’d like to dine with Mitt Romney and the truth – at the same time.

Those who understand health care challenges understand that

the world won’t be the way it was and our health care system needs to be revised. President Obama, offering the first tweak in the social insurance contract in 80 years, has done so by passing health care legislation that pushes the envelope. It’s not enough, but it is better than it has ever been.

Still, the system will be strained by the aging baby boomers, and challenged by the need to offer

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By James Clingman

Ignored and Taken For Granted What will it finally take for Black people to accept the fact that we have no real political clout? A little influence, yes, but no power. If our voting bloc were as strong as we like to think, the Republicans would not ignore us and the Democrats would not take us for granted. If we had real political power, both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama would have accepted the invitation by the National Newspaper

Publishers Association (NNPA), NAACP, American Urban Radio Network, MSNBC-TV, and the Grio, to a debate at Lincoln University on October 9. But both candidates declined.

Yet, Romney did more than a half-hour and Obama did an hour on the Spanish-language TV network, Univision, both answering questions specifically related to Hispanics. Jewish people always get their audience with the candidates, and the gay groups never fail to get their face-time with the president –

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Romney won’t have anything to do with them – but Black folks never get the same positive response when it comes to being included in such events. Ever wonder why?

It is so obvious that Black folks are the last to be included, if not omitted altogether, in political discourse when it comes to debates, press conferences, and private meetings, that is, unless you are Jay-Z and his friends who are willing to bring $40K to the table – $50K if you want to hang with Romney.

Not that we learn anything new from political debates, as scripted as they have become.

But it would be nice to have the candidates discuss specific Black issues every now and then. It would be great to see several, not just one, Black reporter asking both candidates questions relevant to Black people. You know, the way the Hispanic and Jewish people do.

What King called the “fierce urgency of now” was his response to the waiting game being promoted by some of his

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critics during the early 1960s, but as Howard University’s African American Resource Center Director, E. Ethelbert Miller, shared on NPR: “How long is now”? Miller reminded us that King’s “I Have a Dream” speech was based on an economic premise, i.e. debt, a bounced check, and the “economic condition and problems in America.”

How true.

After all the speeches, the activism, and the deaths that took

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Child Watch©

By Marian Wright Edelman

Ruby Bridges: A True American Heroine As a 6-year-old first grader in New Orleans in 1960, Ruby Bridges became the first Black student to attend an all-White elementary school in the South.

She showed unforgettable loving forgiveness and courage when faced with the ugly screaming White mobs that jeered and taunted her every day as she walked into William Frantz Elementary School. Federal marshals had to escort Ruby to school, but she never quit or

turned back. Ruby astonished her teacher one day when she asked Ruby why she had paused and talked to the crowd of White adults that morning, and Ruby responded, “I wasn’t talking. I was praying. I was praying for them.”

Today, she is the founder of the Ruby Bridges Foundation, which seeks to end racism and prejudice and promote tolerance, respect, and appreciation for all differences. Her message comes at a moment when equal access to a quality and equitable

education is receding and remains an urgent need and the unfinished business of the civil rights movement and the nation.

As three new studies released in September by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project show, American schools are rapidly re-segregating by race and income, and 80 percent of Latino students and 75 percent of Black students attend majority non-White schools. So often poor, majority minority schools have fewer resources and less experienced teachers. And at the same time that children of

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color are expected to become a majority of our child population by 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing another case, Fisher v.

University of Texas at Austin, challenging affirmative action in higher education.

The chaos outside her New Orleans school reminded Ruby of Mardi Gras, and at first she thought she was part of a parade. Eventually, it became clear that the White adults who surrounded her were saying and doing hateful things. But then she met Barbara Henry, the White

schoolteacher from Boston who was assigned to teach her all alone after other teachers refused to teach a Black child. Her kindness set an unforgettable example.

“You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad. Evil comes in all shades and colors,” Rudy said. “That is the lesson that I learned from the teacher that looked exactly like the people outside that threw things, spit, and yelled—she

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By George E. Curry

University of Texas’ History of Racism The affirmative action program at the University of Texas now under review by the United States Supreme Court should not be looked at in isolation. As Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote in Grutter V. Bollinger, an affirmative action case involving the University of Michigan, “context matters when reviewing race-based governmental action under the Equal Protection

Clause.”

An amici curiae (friend-ofthe-court) brief filed by the Advancement Project, an equal opportunity advocacy group, in support of the University of Texas provides excellent context of how the issue of race has played out in Texas and the University of Texas for decades.

“UT is the progeny of a state that seceded from the Union in 1861 with the explicit goal of preserving ‘negro slavery’ for ‘all future time,’” the brief observed. “Even after rejoining

the Union and despite passage of the Reconstruction Amendments, Texas sought to implement its goal of excluding blacks from public life and political personhood. In the early decades of the twentieth century, the Court repeatedly struck down Texas statutes designed to deny blacks full citizenship.”

Despite the ruling, Texas refused to allow Dr. Nixon to participate in the political process. He appeared before the Supreme Court again five years later and got another ruling that

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forced Texas to comply.

Higher education was also subject to state-mandated segregation.

“Texas’s flagship university was founded by white Texans for white Texans,” the Advancement Project brief stated. “UT categorically barred black Americans from the University and from its graduate and professional schools.”

In one of the most famous Supreme Court cases, Sweatt v. Painter, the court forced the University of Texas Law School

to admit Herman Sweatt, a qualified African-American who had graduated from Jack Yates High School in Houston and Wiley College.

“As the public face of the struggle against segregation in higher education, Sweatt faced harassment, on and off UT’s campus,” the brief recounted.

“During Sweatt’s first semester at the law school, a cross was burned on the law school grounds. Opponents of integra-

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By Askia Muhammad

Louis Farrakhan, a Man for All Time Long live the Spirit of the Million Man March! Long life, good health and continued success to Louis Farrakhan, who led those of us who participated in it to an astronomical achievement Oct. 16, 1995, that day 17 years ago.

Now, I wish I could help people who don’t know and admire him, get to know the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, like I know him.

First and foremost, he is not an anti-Semite. He is not a race hater. He does not teach race hatred. He does not teach hatred of Jewish people.

But he is a fearless and uncompromising champion for the upliftment of Black people. Such rigidity as his can easily earn enemies in this world. Just look at the hatred being shown to President Barack Obama, who is a Black man, who is a champion of accommodating, compromising leadership, not just for Black people, but for all Ameri-

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cans – the kind of leadership and strength that is required of anyone who would be a political leader in this country. Louis Farrakhan is not that kind of leader.

Second, his name: his friends and admirers refer to him as “The Honorable Minister.” Why shouldn’t Louis Farrakhan wear the title “honorable?”

When he was among us, Mr. Elijah Muhammad wore the title, “honorable.” Minister Malcolm X first started referring to Mr. Muhammad as “The Honorable Elijah Muhammad,” and it The Washington Informer

was as appropriate for him as it is for us to introduce a member of a city council, or a justice of the peace, or any elected official as “the honorable so-and-so.”

Minister Farrakhan is certainly just as deserving of that same sobriquet.

Mr. Muhammad designated Brother Farrakhan as his minister and “National Spokesman,” and those are the only titles he has claimed as he has restored the work of, and international respect once again for the Nation of Islam, both as a force

for good, raising Black people from their lowly status as “the stone that the builders rejected” to becoming “the headstone of the corner.”

Because of their enmity for Minister Farrakhan, White people try to heap contempt on him even in the way they say his name – Fair-a-can – and in the way they bastardize his title, sometimes calling him “Reverend Fair-a-can.” And while the title reverend an honorific title,

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Unraveling the

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omplexion competitions in night clubs in Atlanta and Detroit pit teams of light-skinned and dark-skinned women against each other to win prizes for best hair, tattoo, or figure. Fights between girls of different hues on the campus of prominent HBCU’s because of colorist insults. Zoe Saldana is chosen to play Nina Simone in an upcoming biopic. This is the face of colorism in 2012.

Colorism, the color complex, “the light dark thing” that just won’t go away.

When I wrote my book, Don’t Play in the Sun: One Woman’s Journey Through the Color Complex, I became a member of a growing community of cultural and image activists challenging and dismantling stubborn and enduring colorist beliefs. Despite the

continued prevalence of colorism globally, not just in the black community in America, we are at a watershed moment in the process of challenging this belief system that at its root is about power and privilege.

With the release of Dark Girls, Bill Duke’s provocative documentary about colorism, the widening Internet conversation about the subject and the work of scholars from Howard University to Harvard and academies around the world that quantifies the psychological and sociological impact of color discrimination, this painful subject has been yanked out of the proverbial closet.

I believe it is time to move from defining colorism to actively creating sacred spaces where we can gather to combat the

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denial, discomfort and silence colorism imposes and to develop the consciousness and the vocabulary to dismantle colorism in our relationships, families, work places and communities.

Colorism can be challenged and defeated most effectively one person, one conversation at a time. This is the philosophy underlying my upcoming workshop for women of color Sisters Under the Skin: Healing the Wound of the Color Complex which will be held Friday, Oct. 26 and Saturday, Oct. 27 at the Thurgood Marshall Center in Washington, D.C. [See my website www.maritagolden.com for information on how to register].

The workshop will bring together image activists, scholars, students and other women deeply concerned about enhancing

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their own journey through colorism and who want to become color complex change agents. I have designed a workbook we will be using in the workshop and my primary goal is to enlarge the circle of sisterhood among women of color so that we can see each other beyond skin tone, hair texture and phenotype.

Writing Don’t Play in the Sun was one of my most challenging and satisfying creative and intellectual journeys as it allowed for frank and honest conversations with men and women all over the country. I grew in my understanding of how complex the color complex really is. The color complex makes victims of those who are light as well as those who are brown and black.

I also became much more compassionate for all of us light,

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brown and black who are its victims.

I now feel that if you are a parent who has never talked with your children about colorism, what it is and how to respond to and more importantly how to truly and deeply love themselves no matter their skin tone, or the texture of their hair, you have failed them. Each of us can be a color complex change agent by shaping healing, courageous conversations with those we love about one of the most persistent yet unaddressed forms of discrimination.

Marita Golden is the award-winning author of over a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. She is President Emeritus of the Hurston/Wright Foundation and teaches in the M.A. Creative Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University.wi

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Mary Bridget Davies who portrays Janis Joplin, the late rock icon and Sabrina Elayne Carten as the Blues Singer in One Night with Janis Joplin at Arena Stage’s Kreeger Theater in Southwest. /Photo by Roger Mastroianni

Sabrina Elayne Carten plays the Blues Singer, a number of African-American singers who influenced the music of the late rock icon, Janis Joplin. One Night with Janis Joplin runs through Nov. 4 at Arena Stage in Southwest. /Courtesy photo by Janet Macoska

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“One Night with Janis Joplin” Rocks Arena Stage

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By Eve M. Ferguson WI Staff Writer It was as if, for two hours and 30 minutes, she was alive again.

“One Night with Janis Joplin,” currently playing at the Arena Stage’s Kreeger Theater, has the feeling of being both a live rock concert and a séance, so realistic is Mary Bridget Davies portrayal of the late rock icon.

The production, which opened on September 28, and runs through November 4th, peers into the thoughts and musical life of Janis Joplin, whose early demise at the age of 27 deprived generations of the opportunity to experience her legendary presence live.

This production comes as close to being able to do just that as any could.

“One Night With Janis Joplin” was created, written and directed by Randy Johnson, who found the perfect replica of Joplin’s rousing voice, palpable melancholy and unique persona in Davies, who also starred in the national tour of an earlier production, “Love, Janis.”

The play is actually a live concert, interspersed with a monologue as Joplin tells the audience about her life, her music and her future plans, capsulated to give an unfamiliar audience enough information to tap into the creative spirit that was Joplin. But from the looks of the audience at one mid-week show, most had either owned a Joplin album or actually been to one of her shows.

The production would seem lengthy if it wasn’t fully sweeping viewers up into Joplin’s world, represented on stage by multiple table lamps strobing around the stage and a coil of white gauze, like a cloud of smoke, circling the otherwise simple set. With the use of a set of spiral stairs to an upper platform, the only set changes were limited to the placement and removal of a Japanese screen, masking singers on the top platform, and an armchair and end table representing Joplin’s early childhood home in Port Arthur, Texas, or just the place where she could step away from the mike stand and sing.

Central to the presentation

of “One Night with Janis Joplin,” was acknowledgement and celebration of black musical traditions that spawned Joplin’s sound; mainly the Blues. Those influences, vocalized by Davies with an accent and even small mannerisms that uncannily recreated Joplin to the extent that the actress transforms into her character, share the stage.

Almost as vital to the play as Davies, is Sabrina Elayne Carten, who emulates several of the Blues, soul and folk singers that became the foundation of Joplin’s gritty, forceful Rock & Soul music. In fact, several of Joplin’s hits were remakes of famous Blues songs such as Big Mama Thornton’s “Ball and Chain.”

Other iconic women who visit Joplin’s psyche on stage are Etta James, Bessie Smith, Odetta, Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin, all channeled through Carten, whose powerful voice stands up to the dynamic and equally strong voice of Davies, and on the duets they sing, like the closing song of the first act where Aretha Franklin invites Joplin to sing a rendition of “Spirit in the Dark,” are audibly stunning.

One of the true joys of “One Night with Janis Joplin,” other than having the chance to hear her original band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, live in full concert for two hours, is Johnson’s wise choice not to focus on the tawdry, tragic aspect of Joplin’s life in favor of celebrating her talent.

Joplin died at the height of her career of a heroin overdose in 1970, just before her biggest hit, the remake of Kris Kristofferson’s “Me and Bobby McGee” hit the charts. Her career was plagued by inconsistencies fueled by her addiction

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“It’s great working with Mary Bridget Davies. She is an amazing singer and she is a lot of fun. Our voices are compatible because [both] our voices are very large and she has a really good command of her instrument.”

– Sabrina Elayna Carten

JOPLIN continued from Page 26 to heroin and cocaine, and alcoholism despite her relatively young age. Joplin was known to knock back a fifth of Southern Comfort before she would take the stage, which is only lightly alluded to in one early part of the play.

“One Night with Janis Joplin,” is a good excuse for old hippies to revisit their rock-and-roll heyday and revel in the music that made the era. But for the younger set, it’s a joyful time spent in the presence of a true talent in the persona of Joplin, returned to life for a couple of hours.

“One Night with Janis Joplin” is produced in partnership with the Cleveland Play House, in association with Todd Gershwin and Daniel Chilewich of Premiere Media, with the support from the Estate of Janis Joplin and Jeff Jampol of JAM, Inc. Tickets are available through the Arena Stage’s website at arenastage.org, or by phone at [202] 488-3300.wi www.washingtoninformer.com

“One Night with Janis Joplin” Co-Star, Sabrina Elayne Carten Blows Audiences Away

By Eve M. Ferguson WI Staff Writer Vital to the Arena Stage’s production of “One Night with Janis Joplin,” is New York native, actress and singer Sabrina Elayne Carten, who plays “The Blues Singer,” a character that’s actually a number of African-American singers who influenced the music of the late rock icon, Janis Joplin. Included in the roll call of Blues and soul singers who Carten recreates are Bessie Smith, Odetta, Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin.

Ably matched with Mary Bridget Davies’ vocal strength and talent, Carten adds the deep soulfulness to duets with the star of the play and holds her own on select pieces by the singers, and also the prelude to the finale, “I’m Gonna Rock My Way to Heaven.” Carten’s role is the vehicle to convey the strong African-American female presence in the story of Joplin’s musical development.

“It’s great working with Mary Bridget Davies. She is an amazing singer and she is a lot of fun. She is very, very talented, so it’s great being involved in the show with her,” Carten said. “Our voices are compatible because [both] our voices are very large and she has a really good command of her instrument. And I think we play off each other really well.”

Carten was trained as an opera singer, beginning her career with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra as the Strawberry Woman in “Porgy and Bess,” but, as she said, she was raised in the Baptist church.

“I always do gospel music and some jazz. And I do standards. Because I do a lot of music in church [none of the styles] were really that far away, but this is the first time I have done it full out like this on stage, and I am really enjoying it,” she said.

A sometimes-executive assistant for the financial market in New York City, Carten joined the production of “One Night with Janis Joplin,” last year when it premiered in Portland, Ore. She went on with the show to its dates in Cleveland earlier this year before it traveled to Washington, D.C. As a member of the American Spiritual Ensemble out of Lexington, Ky., Carten joined forces with other opera singers to focus on the continuation of the Negro spiritual tradition.

The actress, who claims to be just a little older than 30-something, grew up listening to all kinds of music. “My parents listened to a lot of different things. My mother was an opera singer,” she said, “so we listened to a lot of gospel music in the house, but we also listened to a lot of Motown, The Sounds of Philadelphia; and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.”

Carten said that playing the different singers she portrays in the play wasn’t difficult, having studied the iconic figures like Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin on YouTube.

“I spent a lot of time listening to their music so I could really understand their stylings, their interpretation of the pieces. It’s not about doing imitations of Aretha, or Bessie or Odetta. It’s more about complementing the styles, the way they sang phrases and general musical ideas. I just listened to as many recordings as I could.”

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

This year’s election is a call to action for each and every citizen to exercise their right and privilege to vote. The economy, health care, education, helping the middle class, and women’s reproductive rights are all leading issues in this year’s election.

If you or someone you know is entertaining the thought of not voting, here are some issues for you to consider: zz As the candidates hit the campaign trail promoting their ideas and solutions as to how they intend to address critical issues such as the economy, unemployment, taxes and the government’s $14 trillion national debt, it falls to us – the voters, to educate ourselves on their respective platforms so that we can make an informed choice. Do you favor a trickle down strategy, or one that seeks to bolster the middle-class? Whichever you prefer, be sure to vote for the candidate that shares your vision. zz As student loans overtake credit cards as the largest amount of debt owed by Americans, the cost of higher education is an important campaign issue. How does this issue impact you and your family? In America, education is viewed as a right, not a privilege. Which candidate represents the best solution for you, your circumstance, and your future? zz Without a doubt, during this campaign, the subject of Abortion has proven to be an extremely contentious issue. So much so, that some have categorized a number of the actions and decisions being made as part of a “war on women.” Where do you stand on the subject? Does this issue have any implications for you or a member of your family?

If so, which candidate do you feel would serve as your best advocate and what do you intend to do about it?

Each of the issues identified above has the potential to impact a household’s financial situation.

Whether that be as an impact to the tax code in terms of the type and number of tax credits you ultimately qualify for or in determining if there will be a subsidy to lower student loan rates and the eventual amount owed after financing a college education, the implications associated with the issues and outcomes tied to this year’s elections are significant and far reaching. This election is important and no one should be content to sit idly by with the misguided thought that their vote is not important. Remember the thin margins of victory for the 2000 and 2004 elections.

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“Mr. Soul” Documentary:

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By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer

The death of pop superstar Michael Jackson on June 25, 2009 proved to be the catalyst that moved Melissa Haizlip to really begin pouring more energy into a full-length documentary film she had been working on about her uncle Ellis Haizlip.

Haizlip, a Los Angeles native with D.C. roots, said her uncle produced Jackson’s 21st birthday party at Studio 54 in New York.

“What shocked me out of my comfort zone was Michael’s death. On a personal level, I’ll never get that story. I wanted him to say it, to tell the story,” said Haizlip, producer and director of ‘Mr. SOUL! Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV.’ “I realized the urgency of getting the stories of the mature master makers of American culture. I thought this could foreshadow the passing of these masters. They need to tell their stories while they’re still here.

Not everyone has the resources to make their own film.”

“I have wanted to make this film for my entire life, having a deep personal connection to the story I’ve actually lived …

I remember eating oatmeal at midnight with my uncle and the guest stars he would bring home after taping the show. I would bask in the glow of all these intelligent, glamorous black people, mesmerized by my uncleʼs coterie of magical friends. It would be years before I would learn that it was James Earl Jones who had pinched my cheek, or the orphaned children of Mal-

colm X, whom Uncle Ellis was babysitting and brought over for a play date.”

Haizlip, 47, has embraced her role as a preserver of her uncle’s cultural legacy. In the documentary, she has interviewed or plans to interview a number of guests who appeared on Soul!. She has teamed with noted director and filmmaker Sam Pollard to direct the documentary on the groundbreaking show and the extraordinary man responsible for its genesis. She is joined by producer Airrion Copeland and director of photography Bradford Young. The documentary will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the show from its conception to its untimely demise, including the very public battle to keep it on the air.

Haizlip said roughly 30 hours of footage has been shot, including interviews with the late Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, Harry Belafonte and Abiodun Oyewale, one of the Last Poets, the group widely considered to be the grandfathers of Rap music. She hopes to complete the project in 2013.

“Ellis had black cultural and political luminaries, musicians, actors and intellectuals like James Earl Jones, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Roberta Flack, James Baldwin, Nina Simone, Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Arsenio Hall and Quincy Jones on Soul!,” she said. He produced more than 130 hour-long shows.

The elder Haizlip, a Howard University graduate who died in 1991, was a cultural force who

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“The platform he created empowered women, gays and the black cultural revolution. For example, he let Nikki Giovanni interview James Baldwin in Europe in 1971 at a time when black poetry wasn’t really being promoted.”

Haizlip has hosted events, including viewing parties and fundraisers in New York, D.C. and Los Angeles. On Sept. 24, she and her crew held the Kickstarter Launch Party and Fundraising Reception at the National Black Program Consortium in Harlem.

Kickstarter is a funding platform for artistic endeavors.

“The consortium is a watchdog for diversity and they are one of the heart sponsors of our film,” said Haizlip. “We wanted to honor our donors and Harlem was a place with Ellis’ presence.”

The crowd enjoyed great food, ambience, a performance by the Last Poets, singer Maxine

SOUL continued from Page 28 produced plays, concerts, performances and black cultural events, mentored many stars and created Soul!, described by George Washington University Professor Gayle Wald as “one of the most controversial, successful, and socially significant Black-produced television shows in U.S. history.”

Soul!, appeared on WNET in New York, in the city first, then across the country between 1968 and 1973. It aired against the backdrop of the Black Power and Civil Rights movements, civil unrest in urban cities, and blacks breaking through centuries-old barriers to assert their independence. Haizlip, his niece said, was a fearless pioneer who re-conceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising stars of black American culture onto the na-

Brown and acclaimed chanteuse Melba Moore who surprised all with an impromptu song “which blew everyone away.”

Kickstarter, Haizlip said, is special.

“It provides a level playing field by becoming a backer of projects,” she explained. “We have to raise $75,000 in 30 days from Sept. 24 to Oct 24. It’s an all or nothing kind of deal. If our pledges aren’t met, we will not get a penny. It is such an incentive to get our message out and they tell five friends who tell five friends.”

Haizlip, owner of Shoes in the Bed Productions, said the project garnered $6,500 in the first 24 hours and on Oct. 16, donors had given $28,995.

“We took the Kickstarter route because we can’t wait for grants,” she said. “This gives people ownership in bringing this story to life.”wi For more information, visit www. mrsoulmovie.com

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ARIES Your money instincts are itchy! Go ahead and scratch, because you’ve got the golden touch this week. Promise yourself that you’ll take at least one small step toward your dreams each day this week. You go! Soul Affirmation: I seek connection with the best that is in me. Lucky Numbers: 11, 20, 25 TAURUS A loved one may feel a bit neglected as you pursue your material dreams with vigor this week. Time set aside for this person after you’ve made some gains will prove to be extra sweet.

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Today, however, this celebrated ultimate embodiment of the suburban family vehicle has lost its luster.It is no longer considered as cool – it has lost ground to the SUV crossover.

The sales numbers are telling.

During the past 12 months, the No. 1 selling crossover, the Honda CR-V, outsold the No. 1 minivan, the Dodge Caravan, by more than two to one.

Though today’s minivans are better than ever, they are also more expensive.

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For that price, you get a very comfortable and practical interior, commendable performance and styling that will stand out in the car pool lane.

The Quest is a state of the art vehicle, incorporating some of the latest technologies that enable it to carry a wide variety of occupants, cargo or both, fully isolated from the hassles occupants of lesser vehicles face.

The Quest’s exterior design is unashamedly boxy and vanlike – yet different enough to be noticed. It sports an upright stance with flared lines in front, a straight-edged passenger box with a full-surround privacy glass out back, and bold front grille. The overall look is distinctive and functional, rather than sleek and stylish.

Quest’s theater-style interior layout with raised 2nd and 3rd rows provides occupants with excellent visibility and a good view of the available 11-inch WVGA family entertainment system display monitor. The comfortable 2nd row Captain’s Chair style seats include dual armrests, recline, and fore/ aft adjustability, while the 3rd row 60/40-split bench includes recline and 3-way adjustable headrests.

Under the hood is Nissan’s corporate 3.5-liter V6 engine, a 24-valve unit outputting 260 horsepower and 240 poundfeet of torque at 4,400 rpm.

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The ride is quite decent, and the van handles better than many of its competitors.

I drove the Quest on narrow Virginia rural roads and crowded D.C. suburban area streets.

In every instance, the Nissan stayed solidly planted on the road. Though its ride wasn’t quite as composed as that of the Dodge and Honda competition, but it wasn’t bad either.

The Quest’s handling feel is provided by the 4-wheel independent suspension, with independent strut with coil springs and stabilizer bar in front and a multi-link design in the rear.

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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray joined hundreds of supporters of the Anacostia Coordinating Council [ACC] during its 29th annual boat ride along the Potomac River abroad the Dandy on Sept. 29. Gray stands with Ashleigh Wingfield, winner of the 50/50 Chance fundraiser, who attended the event for the first time. ACC works with business and community organizations to support development east of the Anacostia River. / Photo by D.R. Barnes

Taking a Stance at the Supreme Court

The Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton stand on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court prior to the start of oral arguments regarding Affirmative Action practices at the University of Texas on Wednesday, Oct. 10. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah

Time to Play!

Two-year-old Eduardo Molina, foreground and his five-year-old brother Gabriel, reap the benefits of a new playground at the Harrison Recreation Center in Northwest on Monday, Oct. 15, thanks to WGL Holdings, Inc., and Washington Gas. /Photos by Khalid Naji-Allah

A Unique Way to Learn Math

Chris Stavish, an instructor at Hart Middle School in Southeast, teaches students a new, innovative technology-driven math program called “Teach to One Learning.� Each day students receive a unique math schedule that targets their skills and provides instruction at their level. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah

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Nationals’ Historic Season Ends with First-Round Loss Washington Baseball Fans Finally Have a Reason to Cheer

By Elton Hayes WI Staff Writer The Washington Nationals needed just one out to advance to the National League Championship Series. They got it, but the damage had already been done.

With a two-run, ninth-inning lead over the St. Louis Cardinals, Nationals’ closer Drew Storen took the mound to send Washington to the next round. It wasn’t his night. Thirtythree pitches later, Storen watched the Nationals’ magical season come to an end as his fourth earned run crossed home plate.

“When we went up 3-0 to take the lead, I had us penciled up for the victory,” said 54-year-old District resident Paul Alexander, who watched in disbelief from his seat at Nationals Park. “But despite the loss, I’m going to look back on this season as the beginning of a new era of baseball in D.C.” Alexander was just one of 45, 966 fans, and the most in Nationals Park history, who trekked over to the Southeast ballpark on Friday, Oct. 12 for Game 5 of the series. Postseason baseball returned to the District after a 79-year absence and fans of all ages and backgrounds basked in the postseason glow.

For three days, Nationals’ fans across the region donned red hats and shirts, jerseys and sweaters, with pride.

Nationals Park buzzed with excitement and energy as a sea of red made its way from the Navy Yard Metro exits in Southeast and streamed into The Washington Informer

the stadium’s gates for the team’s three home games. Music blared from nearby Half Street Fairgrounds and the tantalizing smell of hotdogs and burgers filled the air. Fans feasted, guzzled cold pints of beer and grooved to live music.

Alexandria resident Charles Kemp has loved the game of baseball for as long as he can remember. Kemp moved to the District from Alabama in 1969 and immediately adopted the Washington Senators as his own.

“They weren’t all that great,” said Kemp, 61, with a laugh. “But they were the home team.” After enduring more than three decades without baseball, Kemp finally has a team to call his own. The Nationals’ 98 wins are a league best this year.

“It’s been great,” he said of the team’s success. “They’ve been making strides every year, but I didn’t think that they’d get this far this year … The emotions associated with the Nationals this year rivaled the emotions of cheering for the Redskins.”

Kemp’s brother, Reginald, dislikes baseball and has never shown even the slightest interest in the sport. But even he couldn’t help but cheer for the hometown team.

“I’ve tried to talk with him about baseball before and he could care less,” said Kemp. “But even he was really excited to watch the Nationals down the stretch. He would text me during the games and would give me the scores.”

The city’s widespread support this season struck a chord with Nationals’ players. Pitcher Edwin Jackson joined

the team prior to the 2012 season and is the team’s lone African-American player. Jackson’s accomplishments include a 2011 World Series ring, a nohitter and 2009 MLB All-Star honors.

Jackson’s played on six teams throughout his nine-year career and was surprised by the enormous amount of support shown by fans.

“We had a nice fan base the whole season. We definitely appreciate what we’ve been able to do for the city and what we’ve brought them with this team,” said Jackson, 29. “For my first year playing here, it’s been awesome. There was a lot of excitement in the ballpark and it was something to just walk around and see everyone in Nationals gear. To come here and see 30-35,000 people every game, you couldn’t have asked for more from the fan base.”

Despite the team’s early exit from the postseason, fans can still hold their heads high. The Nationals have one of the youngest rosters in major league baseball and are expected to remain a mainstay in postseason play for a long time. And for that, Washington baseball fans can finally be thankful.

“There’s a lot of young talent here,” said Jackson. “These guys will be playing here for a long time and will do a lot of winning. After doing what they were able to do this season, they’re going to come out knowing that they can beat teams, and it’s going to be fun to watch over the years.”wi www.washingtoninformer.com

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Robert Griffin III dives and extends the ball over the goal line at the end of a seven-yard touchdown run. Griffin ran for two touchdowns and threw for another as the Redskins defeated the Minnesota Vikings 38-26 on Sunday, Oct. 14 at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Redskins linebacker Perry Riley tackles Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder in the second quarter. Ponder threw for 352 yards as the Redskins defeated the Minnesota Vikings 38-26 on Sunday, Oct. 14 at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Vikings wide receiver Percy Harvin evades Redskins linebacker Ryan Kerrigan and free safety Madieu Williams in the third quarter. Harvin tallied 133 receiving yards as the Redskins defeated the Minnesota Vikings 38-26 on Sunday, Oct. 14 at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Washington Redskins kicker Kai Forbath, in his NFL debut, kicks a 50-yard field goal in the second quarter for the first Redskins score at FedEx Field in Landover, Md., on Sunday, Oct. 14. The Washington Redskins defeated the Minnesota Viking 38-26. “I’m just happy that we got off to a good start,” said Forbath. “Getting some points on the board helps the offense get going, and it did for us.” /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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First Baptist Church, Georgetown Celebrates 150th Anniversary

By Valerie J. Thomas Special to the Informer On October 5, 2012 the First Baptist Church, Georgetown celebrated a century and a half of spiritual growth and renewal. The evening, at Fort Myer Officer’s Club, was filled with many special memories. A visual/musical video was produced by Stacie Walker which illustrated the rich church history. The attendees enjoyed spiritual musical entertainment by pianist James Glover, the FBCG Hand Bell Choir under the direction of Deaconess Louella Bailey, and the Flowers Family Singers headed by Elder James N. Flowers.

The distinguished dais included: Rev. I. Bennie Singleton, past

Interim Pastor, Trustee Lorraine Smith, Chairperson, Rev. C.J. and Mrs. Malloy, 10th FBCG Pastor, Deacon and Deaconess Frank and Louella Bailey, Trustee Sherry Smith, Rev. Dr. Gwendolyn E. Boyd, Ebenezer AME Church, Rev. and Mrs. Robert K. Pines and Rev. Dr. and Mrs. L.B. West, Mount Airy Baptist Church. A special acknowledgment from the D.C. Baptist Convention and the Baptist Historical Society was presented by Reverend Dr. Robert Cochran.

In 1856, the Reverend Sandy Alexander, a former slave, had a dream to start a Baptist Church in Georgetown. From the beginning Reverend Alexander faced many obstacles. For exam-

First Baptist Church, Georgetown at 2624 Dumbarton Street, NW.

Left to right, Trustee Lorraine Smith, Chairperson; the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. L.B. West; Deacon and Deaconess Frank and Louella Bailey; the Rev. and Mrs. C.J. Malloy; the Rev. and Mrs. Robert K. Pines; the Rev. Gwendolyn E. Boyd; Trustee Sherry J. Smith and the Rev. I. Bennie Singleton. /Photo by Valerie J. Thomas

ple, he initially found only two Baptists in the community. He persevered and soon was able to

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find many converts and build up a large congregation. The membership was greatly expanded by the arrival of a group from the Shiloh Church of Fredericksburg. Reverend Alexander also had to find a location, obtain funding and build a structure.

On October 5, 1862, the First Baptist Church, Georgetown was officially founded.

Prior to the formal organization of the Church, Collins Williams, a licensed preacher from Fredericksburg, Virginia, and his wife Betsey donated a small piece of land at 29th and O Streets to be used for a church.

The new congregation erected a small frame structure known as the “Ark” on the land. The building was soon found to be too small and a committee of brothers, Henry Lucas, William Wormley and William T. Brown selected the present site at 27th and Dumbarton Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C., for the new building.

The male members of the Church dug foundations at night while the women cooked hot suppers. The cornerstone for the Church was laid in 1882. The cost of the stone foundations was $800.00 which exhausted the building fund so that for a time the building stood incomplete. Finally, Rev. Alexander himself took over the responsibility of seeing that the building was completed by obtaining a mortgage loan.

When the trustees went to make their first payment on the note, the bank issued the receipt in the name of the First African

Baptist Church. Trustee William T. Brown, refused to accept this receipt insisting that he represented the First Baptist Church.

The receipt was torn up and another one, correctly worded, was written. Brother Brown had objected to the congregation being robbed of the honor of being the first church of the Baptist denomination in Georgetown.

To date there have only been twelve ministers at First Baptist Church, Georgetown: Rev. Sandy Alexander (37 years), Rev. James H. Hill, Rev. Edgar E. Ricks, Rev. J.R. Diggs, Rev. James L. Pinn, Rev. Marcellus N. Newsome, Rev. T. Ewell Hopkins, Rev. Fulton O. Bradley, Rev. Wellington D. Abrams, of Rev. C.J. Malloy, Jr., Rev. John Curtis McLean and, Rev. Robert K. Pines (2006 to the present).

Under the direction of these great leaders there has been significant growth and many accomplishments. In the December 21, 1986 edition of the Washington Post Magazine First Baptist was recognized as one of the oldest and most prominent Black Churches in the Washington, D.C. area.

With the faith of God and the perseverance of the congregation the church has survived with a strong foundation where blessings abound and fellowship continues to thrive today. wi 150 Years & Growing – “United to Serve in the Kingdom of God” 1Corinthians 12: 20-28 www.washingtoninformer.com

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Standing Before God

Have you ever met people, who call themselves Christians, yet they’re constantly perpetrating a fraud; they promise things they cannot deliver, and they know they can’t deliver them, even at the time that they’re making the promise.

Crooks!

It has happened to me many times during my 30 years as a small business owner; and it happened again recently! These folk are hypocrites! They say one thing and do another. My late father Bishop Benjamin Grant often said to me, “Lyndia, you give people too much credit. You can’t believe everything people tell you. Everybody don’t have a good heart like you do, people lie!”

“And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.”

Revelation 20:12.

Those of you, reading this column, please know that the Bible is clear. Take note of the aforementioned scripture. You and God know whether you are being honest with people or not, when you make promises about things you will do.

Another scripture says, “Out of the abundance of your heart, your mouth speaks.” You really couldn’t lie to people and make false promises, if it wasn’t in your heart! You wouldn’t take advantage of people by making false promises to them, if it wasn’t in your heart. Don’t know where you get that fraudulent stuff from in the first place, but it’s not good!

The Bible is correct, just re-read

that scripture in Revelation: It reminds us that, “The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.”

The book of Revelation is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, and was given to John by God “to show his servants what must soon take place.” This book is filled with mysteries about things to come. It’s the final warning that the world will surely end and judgment will be certain.

It gives us a tiny glimpse of heaven and all of the glories awaiting those who keep their robes white. Revelation takes us through the great tribulation with all its woes and the final fire that all unbelievers will face for eternity. The book reiterates the fall of Satan and the doom he and his angels will certainly face.

We are shown the duties of all creatures and angels of heaven and the promises of the saints that will live forever with Jesus in the New Jerusalem. Like John, we find it hard to describe what we read in the book of Revelation. Some of it’s scary, and hard to imagine.

Finally, there is another scripture which says, “Acknowledge Him in all your ways and He will direct your path! When you take negative actions toward others, such as “break important promises and hire people, knowing you don’t have the money, and you write everybody a bad check, then go into hiding” that’s not only fraudulent that’s cowardice.

You are not being directed by God when you do things like that.

He doesn’t direct our paths down a road filled with lies and deception, and He definitely doesn’t

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cause us to hurt one another.

Every deed we do, good or bad is recorded in the books according to scripture, and someday, we will stand before God and be judged for every deed, good, bad or ugly!

We will not get away with it!

As I was growing up, my father preached a sermon from this scripture, often. The title of his sermon was “Standing before God!” He would go on to preach that sermon, telling us about what would happen to us after death.

This scripture is etched in my memory for life, and believe me, it’s my reminder that everything we do, matters! wi Lyndia Grant is a radio talk show host, on WYCB, 1340-AM on your dial; “Think on These Things” airs every Friday at 6 p.m.

Contact Lyndia at 202-518-3192; or call 240-602-6295; send emails to fanniestelle@yahoo.com.

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

All are welcome to St. Mary’s to Learn, Worship, and Grow.

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

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

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

Pilgrim Baptist Church

700 I. Street, NE Washington, D.C. 20002 Pastor Louis B. Jones, II and Pilgrim invite you to join us during our July and August Summer schedule! Attire is Christian casual.

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

(202) 547-8849 www. pilgrimbaptistdc.org

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

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

Church of Living Waters

Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor Harold Andrew, Assistant Pastor 4915 Wheeler Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-894-6464 Schedule of Service Sunday Service: 8:30 AM & 11:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM Communion Service: First Sunday www.livingwatersmd.org

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

Church School - 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship – 10:45 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

Crusader Baptist Church

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday Men’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m.

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

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

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

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

“God is Love”

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

Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

Sunday Church School: 9:20 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

ST Marks Baptist Come Worship with us...

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

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Service & Time Sunday Worship 7:45A.M & 11A.M Communion Service 2nd Sunday 11A.M Prayer Service Tuesday 7:00 P.M Bible Study Tuesday 8:00 P.M Sunday Church School 10:00 A.M Sunday “A church reaching and winning our community for Christ” morningstarbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.morningstarchurch-dc.org

Mount Carmel Baptist Church

52 Years of Expert Engraving Services

Joseph N. Evans, Ph.D Senior Pastor 901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423 Sunday Church School : 9: 30am Sunday Morning Worship: 10: 45am Bible Study Tuesday: 6: 00pm Prayer Service Tuesday: 7:00pm Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday 10: 45am themcbc.org

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All Nations Baptist Church

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

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

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

“Where Jesus is the King”

Israel Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor

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

1251 Saratoga Ave., NE Washington, DC 20018 (202) 269-0288 Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 A.M. Sunday School: 8:30 A.M. Holy Communion1st Sunday: 10:00 A.M. Prayer Service: Wednesday at 6:30 P.M. Bible Study: Wednesday at 7:00 P.M.

Mount Moriah Baptist Church

St. Luke Baptist Church

1415 Gallatin Street, NW Washington, DC 20011-3851 P: (202) 726-5940 Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.

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

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

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

Rehoboth Baptist Church

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

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

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. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor

Rev. Aubrey C. Lewis Pastor

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

Zion Baptist Church

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

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

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Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

New Commandment Baptist Church

Rev. Terry D. Streeter Pastor

Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Pastor and Overseer

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

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

Early Morning Worship: 7:45 a.m.

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Administration No. 2012 ADM 932

Administration No. 2012 ADM 928

Geraldine G. Lewis Decedent James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Sunday Glover-Cox, whose address is 4514 Alabama Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20020, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Geraldine G. Lewis, who died on January 13, 2012 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W. Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 11, 2013. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 11, 2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: October 11, 2012

Gwendolyn H. Hammond aka Gwendolyn Hart Hammond Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Peggy Hammond, whose address is 808 Quackenbos Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Gwendolyn H. Hammond aka Gwendolyn Hart Hammond, who died on March 29, 2010 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W. Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 4, 2013. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 4, 2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: October 4, 2012

Sunday Glover-Cox Personal Representative

Peggy Hammond Personal Representative

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Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

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

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Administration No. 2012 ADM 989 Albert Toussaint Liser, Jr. Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Yvonne Bernice Liser, whose address is 3618 28th Street NE, Washington, DC 20018, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Albert Toussaint Liser, Jr., who died on September 1, 2012 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W. Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 18, 2013.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 18, 2013, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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offense. Voter suppression is also illegal and needs to be challenged and forcefully stopped.

Sproul and his companies, which have been directly linked to voter suppression, trickery and fraud, have actually been paid more than $21.2 million by the Republican Party over the past nine years. Where is the zero tolerance then? The reality is there are ruthless conservative forces who want to distort, displace, and disfigure the outcome of the 2012 elections to satisfy their undemocratic fears, avarice, hatred and backward politics.

Our democracy needs to be protected from these acts of intimidation and injustice. Voting and the right to

vote are sacred. We have fought too long and too hard to sit back and allow these regressive and illegal acts of voter manipulation and suppression to continue. Black Americans and all Americans have to demand justice and the equal protection of voting rights for all people. The next two weeks of campaigning leading up to the election on November 6 that will enhance or change the course of history. Let’s make sure that we all contribute to going forward instead of going backward. WI Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. is President of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network and Education Online Services Corporation and can be reached at drbenjamin.chavis@gmail.com

Fannie Lou Hamer and her husband “Pap” are buried. There are so many reasons that the moment was moving, especially the presence of hundreds of children who joined the celebration.

Fannie Lou Hamer, an international treasure, a tribute to audacity, a woman who endured a brutal beating because she exercised her right to register and vote, died at 60 from untreated breast cancer. This woman climbed every mountain, cleared every hurdle, stood down the biggest and the baddest in the majority community and in her own. Still, she did not have access to the health care that might have saved her life.

She could stare down the Democratic National Committee on national television, but she could not stare down the breast cancer that killed her because she neither had the dollars nor the access to treatment.

Fannie Lou Hamer died in 1977 at the age 60. Imagine what

we might be as a community had she been able to live to 80, or to 90. She might have been able to shape and influence our movements, offer advice and influence, keep the Democratic Party accountable, and perhaps explore independent politics and the ways Republicans might be engaged in the struggle for freedom.

We don’t know what she would have done, but we know that she died too early. That’s why I believe that health care is a civil right. If we have the right to a life with liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we have the right to be healthy enough to pursue happiness. The fight for the presidency is partly a fight for the pursuit of health and happiness. Which candidate supports the 47 percent in this fight? WI Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer.

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

the same way for three generations without thereby obtaining results ought to be ignored and disenfranchised.”

Malcolm X characterized the same principle in more colorful words. He said, “Any time you throw your weight behind a political party that controls two thirds of the government, and that party can’t keep the promise that it made to you during election time, and you are dumb enough to walk around continuing to identify yourself with that party, you’re not only a chump, but you’re a traitor to your race.”

So, as for being politically taken for granted and ignored , Black people must first realize our condition and then acknowledge it, no matter how much it hurts, and then we must act in accordance with the reality – the truth – of the situation.

And, as E. Ethelbert Miller suggested, we must understand

the economic issues at hand and those inherent in MLK’s speeches and his subsequent initiatives, as he called for economic responses to economic problems.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. also said, “The emergency we now face is economic, and it is a desperate and worsening situation.”

He was talking about “silver” rights, not civil rights.

Not only can we not afford to wait, we can no longer afford, as if we ever could, to be ignored and taken for granted. WI Jim Clingman, founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce, is the nation’s most prolific writer on economic empowerment for Black people. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati and can be reached through his Web site, blackonomics.com.

chavis continued from Page 23 display a total contradictory set of facts and serious problems.

The RNC has had a longstanding working relationship with Nathan Sproul even though there were prior allegations of voter tampering and other irregularities dating back to 2004. There was no “zero tolerance” at that time. There was no fairness, no justice and no equality. There is a history of mischief and criminal conduct in this regard. Voter fraud, as the Republican Party is gleefully reminding people on large billboards in Ohio and in other states where minority voters are concentrated, is a criminal

Malveaux continued from Page 23 patient education and preventative services to prevent costly interventions. The uncoupling of employment and health insurance allows more people the opportunity to deal with their health.

Thus, the health care industry will be pushed to absorb people who are newly empowered to deal with their health.

Too many folks ignore their health because they have few options. I spent last weekend in the Mississippi Delta: in Cleveland, Mound Bayou and Ruleville. I traveled there with members of the Sojourner Truth Statue Committee, under the direction of Pat Reid-Merritt, the Richard Stockton University Distinguished Professor who led the national committee. We had the pleasure of offering a statue of Fannie Lou Hamer to the Ruleville community in the peaceful garden where

Clingman continued from Page 23 place in the 1960s, many Black folks are still saying, “Let’s wait a bit longer.” Many are oblivious to our lack of substantive political recognition and inclusion.

They would rather stand on the outside and chant slogans instead of kicking in the door and insisting their voices be heard and their issues be addressed.

It is a sad situation, but that’s exactly what we deserve for going with the “wait” model.

Historian Carter G. Woodson wrote, “The Negro should endeavor to be a figure in politics, not a tool for the politicians. This higher role can be played not by parking all of the votes of a race on one side of the fence as both blacks and whites have done in the South, but by independent action.” He went on to write, “Any people who would vote www.washingtoninformer.com

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Muhammad continued from Page 24 bestowed on a member of the clergy who is to be “revered,” or who is “worthy of reverence,” Louis Farrakhan is not a member of the clergy, he is a “minister” in the Nation of Islam, as in a “high office of state entrusted with management …”

I have seen Louis Farrakhan

in most every imaginable circumstance: at the table of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, even serenading Mr. Muhammad with a concert on his violin. I watched him rebuild the Nation of Islam, literally brick-by-brick beginning in 1978, three years after Mr. Muhammad departed from among us. During his early ministry, he came to Washington and spoke every Wednesday for

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that it happened, good, bad, ugly, no matter what, I believe that we’re going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart,” she said, “I was told that, ‘Ruby, your vision is a grandiose plan,’ and what I said to that is, ‘Well, it was a grandiose plan when you marched my little butt up those stairs back in 1960, but it happened.’”

Ruby Bridges is an inspiring reminder that our nation owes a huge debt of gratitude not just to the adults who took a stand during the civil rights movement but to the extraordinary children and youths who were frontline soldiers in the war to overthrow Jim Crow in American life.

Children and young people taught us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice and to do so with uncommon dignity, maturity, nonviolence, and grace that was often a direct contrast to the hate-filled adults

around them.

At the same time, those children needed to know they had parents, teachers, and other caring community members who supported and stood behind them. The adults who stood up and supported Ruby Bridges left a lasting impression that has shaped her entire life, and her message to all of us is that each of us adults needs to be that light for children today. This is especially true for the millions of poor Black and Latino children who are still fighting for their right to a better education more than 50 years after Ruby’s brave actions. WI

tion threatened Sweatt’s life, in person and by mail. Vandals defaced his home and threw rocks, shattering windows. Sweatt fell ill and struggled academically, financially, and personally.

Life at UT became unbearable. Sweatt eventually dropped out of school—a “physical and emotional wreck.”

Blacks who followed Sweatt at the University of Texas also faced barriers.

“UT excluded blacks from living in the on-campus dormitories designated for whites and specifically forbade all black students from entering the living quarters of white women,” the brief recounted. “UT established separate and inferior residential housing for blacks. UT barred black students from intercollegiate athletics, excluded them from extracurricular activities such as music and theater, and permitted segregated fraternities and sororities. UT even banned black students from using the same bathroom facilities as whites. All told, in Sweatt’s

wake, blacks faced an all-encompassing stigma, purely on account of race.”

Not surprisingly, the Brown decision was not well received in Texas.

“One of the most significant racial flare-ups in recent years at UT concerned a campus landmark built in 1954 and named in honor of William Simkins, a professor at UT’s law school from 1899 until his death in 1929,” the brief stated. “Within five weeks of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, UT named its new dormitory in honor of Simkins …

“Simkins was not merely a member of the Ku Klux Klan. He, along with his brother Eldred James Simkins (a regent of UT from 1882 to 1896), was ‘a criminal and a terrorist, a gun-toting, mask-wearing, night-riding Klansman who headed a group in Florida that murdered 25 people in three years in just one county.’”

The Advancement Projected brief stated, “Black students continued to experience a hostile environment. In 1969, for example, Professor Robert

Hopper greeted black sociology major Rosetta Williams on the first day of class in a most unwelcoming way. ‘I want feedback from the students because I don’t want you sitting around like a bunch of niggers nodding your heads not saying nothing.’”

A campus statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was defaced in 2003 and again in 2004. The Daily Texan, the campus newspaper, came under fire earlier this year when it published a cartoon that mocked the killing of Trayvon Martin, unarmed Florida teenager, and ran a feature referring to him as “a colored boy.”

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six months at the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA, to help establish the roots in the District of Columbia.

I saw Louis Farrakhan organize and lead to a deliriously successful conclusion, the Million Man March [MMM]. He crisscrossed the country, speaking to men-only audiences for months before the march, calling the men to unite, join organizations to do good in our communities, and to take responsibility for ourselves and for the destiny of our people. The men did just that and the March was successful, and it continues to bear fruit among our people. Long Live

The Spirit of the Million Man March.

I was blessed to travel with the Minister as a reporter, literally around the world on three Friendship Tours after the MMM. Tours, which took us to dozens of countries on six continents –Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, South America, and North America – as well as to the Caribbean and some of the Pacific Islands. He was greeted like a Head of State and received with honors and pomp and circumstance by none other than South African Nelson Mandela and by Cuban Fidel Castro, among others.

I have seen him in good health and under medical affliction, and now, looking at him seven months from his 80th birthday, I have to agree with an observer, he looks like he’s no more than 55 years old.

And today, without external fanfare he has mobilized the men of the Nation beginning two months ago to go into the streets to redeem our lost people, to increase the peace and to stop the violence among Black people in “da hood.”

All the people who agree with me about the qualities the Minister demonstrates, will also agree that he is a man for all time. WI

looked exactly like them, but she was different, and I knew that at 6 years old, because she showed me her heart.”

As an adult, Ruby Bridges has taken her own commitment to being part of that community for the next generation of children very seriously. She returned to William Frantz Elementary as a volunteer and parent community liaison and has been deeply involved in the fight to have the school restored after it was badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Her ultimate goal is for the rebuilt school to become a model for integration and equity in education and teaching children accurate history, including stories like her own.

“If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way

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