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See WI 50 Washington Informer Influencers Reception Celebrates Local Influencers Highlights Inside. E The Washington Informer’s 50th Anniversary celebration honored 50 Influencers including radio talk show host and activist Joe Madison (on right), who shared reflections about his first meeting with Informer founder-publisher Dr. Calvin W. Rolark. He led the audience in Rolark’s iconic quote, “If it is to be, it is up to me.”

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veryone loves a party especially when they hold the coveted position as the guest of honor.

And to pay tribute to the contributions of leaders from the community, The Washington Informer recently hosted a 50th anniversary reception that allowed participants to reflect on the newspaper’s 50 years of service.

“This paper was founded 50 years ago by Dr. Calvin Rolark because he wanted to provide a vehicle for sharing positive news about D.C.’s black community,” said Ron Burke, advertising and marketing director, The Washington Informer.

“Now his daughter, Denise Rolark Barnes, continues that legacy despite the challenges that we and others in print media face today. This evening is about looking back, looking

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Denise Rolark Barnes, daughter of Informer founder and publisher Dr Calvin W. Rolark, has worked at the Informer since its inception. She said the newspaper continues her father’s mission to focus on the positive news about the African American community.

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Gray Proud of His Administration’s Legacy

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Mayor Vincent C. Gray discussed his legacy as he closes out his tenure as the city’s chief executive officer. He said he’s proud of his administrations’ accomplishments and leaves the city much stronger than when he assumed office. /Photo

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As the clock ticks down on his tenure, Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) said he will leave the city in much better shape than the Washington D.C. he inherited four years ago.

In a meeting with Washington Informer editors and reporters, Gray ticked off his administration’s successes, improving public education; stabilizing the city’s finances; renovating and building schools, recreation centers and libraries; and boosting economic development, including projects in Wards 7 and 8 in the “East End of the city.”

“I tried to be very clear when I started out what it was I wanted to do because I knew the day would come, like this, when you have to reflect back and say what exactly you accomplished,” he said.

Gray lost his bid for a second term on April 1 when he was defeated by Ward 4 Council member Muriel Bowser in the April 1 primary. He held a lead in the polls until D.C.’s U.S. Attorney Ron Machen, Jr., presented D.C. businessman Jeffrey E. Thompson to federal court in March.

Thompson pleaded guilty in funneling more than $600,000 into a secret 2010 campaign account to finance a shadow campaign.

Thompson told prosecutors Gray knew of his actions. The mayor has not been charged and has steadfastly denied Thomp-

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son’s allegations. More than a few residents blame Machen for derailing Gray’s reelection bid and are angered by what they feel is Machen’s improper actions against Gray.

Next week, Bowser, 42, faces five-term Council member David Catania (I-At Large), 46, and Carol Schwartz, (R), 70. A recent poll of likely voters by pollster Ron Lester for the Washington City Paper shows Bowser with 44 percent, Catania with 27 percent, Schwartz with 10 percent and 16 percent undecided.

Gray refused to endorse a candidate.

“I know who I’m not going to endorse,” he said. “But I won’t put that out there.”

Gray said citizens heading to the polls on Nov. 4 should ask serious questions of the candidates about their commitment to programs for young children, education, maintaining the city’s fiscal stability, controlling spending and ensuring that all citizens enjoy the fruits of D.C.’s progress.

He called President Obama’s recent endorsement of Bowser for mayor “a hugely positive statement” for statehood.

“He’s endorsed governors. It says to us that he’s treating this position like it’s a governorship, a governor position, which I think bodes well for the argument for statehood,” he said. “I think it bodes well in terms of

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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.

Democrat Anita Bonds seeks to retain her D.C. at-large council seat in the Mildred Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see upcoming election. Bonds said she’s very much aware of the plight of the wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise working poor and other low-income individuals, particularly among minoriwho was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in ties. /Photo courtesy of Anita Bonds utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She by a Maryland jury for his role in feels children need to be educatHigh School in Northeast and she’s the Beltway Sniper attacksand in ed“I’ve aboutwatched domesticher, violence. the of California,is laid“We down thetolawstop withbeing thosepasin 2002.University Mildred Muhammad have Berkeley. that we with must poor help with the founder of After the Trauma, power sive-aggressive chilanBonds’ organization thatpolitics helps bethe jobs. dren We about foray into mustdomestic help withviolence,” housing, survivors of ago domestic violence Marlow said. keep black people gan decades when she was and we must their children. has Sarah workedCopeland, to break aand political leader in the District’s in Marlow D.C.,” said “I livedfor in equality fear for six years.

Six 53, theofcycle of abusewho in her family, struggle and justice Southeast, supported years the in fear is a long time. Itofis Bonds and is in confident thespecial policieselecshe with Young Democrats last year’s not an easy thing to come out is pushing for will start that America, the Women’s Strike for tion. of,” sheand said.the National Wom- process.

Peace, Bonds said she’s very much Mildred Muhammad said “I plan to take these policies to en’s Political Caucus. She also aware of the plight of the workpeople who want to help a Congress and implore them to served as violence a commissioner for ing poor, particularly among midomestic victim must change our laws,” Marlow said.

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Bonds said that under new Bonds said that among the leadership in the mayor’s office issues dear to all residents are and with Democrats serving on schools and making sure that the council, the community will graduates and others who’ve left move forward.

L.Y. Marlow public and charter schools in the “I think the Democrats are the District are employable. “We can winning ticket. We will have a do much better in the area of job new Democratic mayor, and we training that directs a person to will take care of business in this an actual job,” she said. city,” she said. “We will continHer supporters said Bonds ue to move this city in the right has shown a commitment that direction, and we will have fresh other candidates haven’t. and new ideas.”WI

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She missed being elected to the D.C. Council by just a small margin in a special election last year won by Democrat Anita Bonds.

Now, with two seats open in a crowded candidate field for D.C. at-large council, former journalist Elissa Silverman believes she has enough support to nail down an election night victory on Tuesday, Nov. 4.

“I feel good about the election,” said Silverman, 41, an independent who once worked as a reporter for the City Paper and The Washington Post.

After losing to Bonds by fewer than 3,000 votes in 2013, Silverman has already made plans for a victory and a transition.

“I think the biggest thing council does every year is pass the budget,” she said.

“When I get to the Wilson Building on January 2 the budget will be a big focus of mine.

Getting a handle on where we are and making sure we understand how we are spending our money, how we are spending our homeless dollars and, moving forward, how we can spend our dollars even better.”

Silverman, who lives in Northeast, said she’ll have a new staff and the city will have a new mayor. She said work will begin in earnest on the next budget in which she plans to set higher standards for oversight and accountability.

Her detractors, however, have argued that Silverman isn’t ready for such a task.

“Regardless of how well put together her campaign is and what her stated platform is, I just can’t get excited about Elissa Silverman because I don’t think she can connect with the people,” said Sean Hawker, 43, a computer technician who lives in Northwest.

Some voters may also desire more African-Americans on the council.

However, that didn’t stop D.C. Council member and former Mayor Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) from announcing his endorsement of Silverman on Monday, Oct. 27.

The popular council member said he’s supporting Bonds and

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Elissa Silverman is hoping the second time is the charm as she seeks one of the two D.C. at-large council seats on Tuesday, Nov. 4. Silverman, 41, was narrowly defeated in a special election in 2013 by Democrat Anita Bonds. /Photo courtesy of DemocracyforAmerica.com

Silverman in their at-large bids.

“There are a lot of candidates who are worthy of support, however, I can only choose one [aside from Bonds] and my choice is Elissa Silverman,” said Barry, 78.

“My decision was not an easy decision. I recognize that my support for Elissa will strike many as a surprise … in my view; Elissa is knowledgeable on the issues,” he said. “I look forward to working with her and partnering with her in an effort to aggressively move the District forward and promote a progressive agenda.”

Supporters of Silverman said they beg to differ with her critics, particularly on the issue of race.

“The color of a candidate’s skin shouldn’t matter,” said Julie West, a certified public accountant and Silverman supporter who lives in Northeast.

“I think everyone should be concerned about what’s best for the District of Columbia and who best can get the job done and if you cast all prejudices aside, it’s easy to see that [Silverman] is the best candidate,” said West, 40.

When asked why she left journalism for politics, Silverman said she received a calling. “The Lord works in mysterious ways,” she said.

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Black Facts OCT. 30 1954 - The U.S. Department of Defense announces the official end of all segregated military regiments in the armed forces.

2002 - One of the original founders of modern Rap music Jam Master Jay of the group Run-DMC was killed in a shooting at his New York recording studio. He was 37. His group RunDMC was a major force attracting young whites to Rap music.

OCT. 31 1896 (or 1900) - Actor and singer Ethel Waters is born in Chester, Pennsylvania. She became one of the nation’s best-known jazz and gospel singers. Waters was born to a 12-yearold Black girl who had been raped by a white man.

1899 - William F. Burr of Agawam, Massachusetts received patent number 636,197 for inventing improvements in switching devices for railways. His invention provided a novel switching device for street railways which was simple to construct and automatically switched the railcar.

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NOV. 1 1910 - Scholar and political activist W.E.B. DuBois publishes the first issue of the NAACP’s monthly magazine “Crisis.” DuBois would later break with the NAACP charging that its approach to ending discrimination against Blacks was too “gradualist.”

1945 - John H. Johnson published the first issue of Ebony magazine.

The monthly magazine has published continuously since then with a current total circulation of more than 1.2 million.

1999 - Chicago Bears running back great Walter Payton dies of cancer at the age of 45. His power and grace on the football field led to his nickname “Sweetness.”

NOV. 2 1787 - The African Free School was founded by the New York Manumission Society to provide education to free and enslaved Black children.

Members of the society were all white, male, wealthy, influential, and advocates for the full abolition of slavery.

1889 - The last great African king is crowned. Menelik II becomes “Negusa Nagast” (King of Kings) of

Abyssinia (Ethiopia). At that time Abyssinia included not only present day Ethiopia but parts of Kenya, Somalia, and the Sudan. European colonialism would weaken and reduce the size of the kingdom. Menelik could trace his heritage back to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba of the Christian Bible.

1903 - Maggie L. Walker opens the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia. Walker was one of the most accomplished business women in African-American history having founded a bank, a newspaper, other businesses and a political party known as Lily Black. A constant refrain in her speeches: “Let us put our money together … and reap the benefits.”

1983 - President Ronald Reagan signed the legislation creating a federal Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday to be observed on the third Monday in January each year in honor of the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The legislation was introduced in Congress by Rep. John Conyers of Detroit, Michigan.

NOV. 3 1883 – A racist political coup takes place in Danville, Virginia. White conservatives aided by outright racists violently seize control of city government from an elected group of Blacks and whites. Four Blacks are killed.

This was during the Jim Crow period as whites began reasserting authority as Reconstruction ended.

1890 - South Carolina State University is established in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

NOV. 4 1982 - Scholar and educator Rayford Logan dies. He was one of Black America’s most prominent educators, historians, and penned numerous books. He was also the long-time chairman of the Howard University history department.

1992 - Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun became the first, and currently

only, African-American woman elected to the United States Senate.

1999 - Daisy Bates dies at 84.

Her efforts and leadership helped to integrate public school education in America. Bates was prominent in aiding the “Little Rock Nine” – the group of Black students which integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

NOV. 5 1903 - The One-Cent Savings Bank and Trust Company was organized in Nashville, Tennessee with the mission to “encourage frugality and systematic savings among [Blacks,] to secure the safekeeping and proper investment of such savings, and to set in motion business enterprises.” The bank opened on January 16, 1904 with deposits of almost $6,500. In 1920, the bank changed its name to Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company.

1917 - The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a Louisville, Kentucky ordinance requiring residential segregation based on race violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

In Buchanan v. Warley the Court held that the motive for the ordinance was racial and that proved to be an insufficient purpose to make the law constitutional.

1956 - The Nat “King” Cole Show premiered on NBC as a 15-minute musical variety show, making Cole the first major Black performer to host a network variety show. The first show aired without a commercial sponsor.

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VIEWP INT Jamelle Johnson Washington, D.C. I believe that once he is fully healthy, the coaches should put him back on the football field. He is the team’s franchise player, and his play for the remainder of the season will determine how the team will move forward with him. It will be a good evaluation for him. If he is healthy, I think, he should finish the remainder of the season, which he was unable to do last year in order to give the coaches a chance to see if he is a good fit for the team moving forward.

Michael Stewart Washington, D.C. I think the team should make sure that he’s game-ready and give him enough reps in practice before they put him back into his full-time role. He is the team’s best option at quarterback, and while [backup quarterbacks] Kirk Cousins and Colt McCoy are OK, I don’t think they are good enough to take the team where it needs to go. However, I don’t think the team should rush putting Griffin back on the field if he is not ready.

WASHINGTON QUARTERBACK ROBERT GRIFFIN III HAS RESUMED PRACTICE FOLLOWING A LEG INJURY SUFFERED EARLIER THIS SEASON. SHOULD HE PLAY AGAIN THIS SEASON?

Darius Gilbert Washington, D.C. I think they should definitely sit him until he’s fully ready. The National Football League is full of fast players, and Griffin needs to be at full speed before he’s back on the field. You can’t just put him back into a game without him getting the right amount of plays in practice – that will just set him up for more injuries. I think they should definitely play him again this season, but only once he’s healthy.

Pete Carver Philadelphia, Pennsylvania While Griffin is injury-prone, the team gave up so many high draft picks to get him, so they have to play him once he’s ready. The coaches can’t just shut him down every time he gets hurt each season. Other players have come back from injury and showed that they can still play. The offensive line must protect him once he returns, but he has to play this season. A team’s franchise player can’t sit on the bench every season.

Edward Lee Simmons Wheaton, Maryland I think he should return once he’s healthy because he’s the team’s franchise player and a former Heisman Trophy winner. A lot of quarterbacks have been injured and returned later in the season. Some even led their teams to the Super Bowl. He’s a good, intelligent player. I think they should play him once he’s fully healthy.

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“We’ve invested a lot of money in infants and toddlers.

We are doing something different with formal

respect for the District as one of 51 [states], not one of just a bunch of cities across the nation.”

Gray said he’s particularly proud of the city’s rising economic fortunes. The District is riding the wave of an economic boon that going into its second year and has produced almost 18,000 new jobs, $281 million in tax revenue and slightly less than $1 billion in foreign investment in real estate projects. The city is on track to achieve its goals of 100,000 new jobs and at least $1 billion in new tax revenue at the end of five years, he added.

The nation’s capital, Gray said, has become the city of choice for millennials, families with children, singles and others drawn to a burgeoning city with revitalized neighborhoods and quadrants, an explosion of new apartments and condos, hundreds of thousands of square feet of retail space, bars, restaurants and a bustling nightlife.

At the DC Chamber’s Choice Awards & Gala on Oct. 25, Gray

education in the city. Formal education for children now is starting at age 3. ... Ninety-four percent of our 4-year-olds go to school all day every day … That’s the kind of community benefit that people should be arguing that we keep in place.”

– Mayor Vincent C. Gray crowed about the District’s successes. D.C., he said is No. 2 in business growth nationally; No. 1 for women in business; and now claims the title of the fittest city in America.

“Forbes voted us as the ‘Coolest city’ in America because of our cultural amenities, mixeduse development and shopping opportunities,” he gushed.

Dorie Ladner, of Northwest, a civil rights activist and retired social worker, said Gray, a native Washingtonian, “has been vested in the interests of the city and its residents.”

“His legacy will be that he tried to make [positive] change,”

she said.

But some D.C. residents feel that Gray should have done more for the needy.

The Rev. Willie Wilson, pastor of Union Temple Baptist Church in Anacostia, said Gray recently cut benefits for many women receiving assistance, a significant number of who have children.

“Long standing residents are being left out in the cold in terms of the so-called progress in the city,” he said. “His theme was ‘One City,’ but that has turned out to be one city for the affluent, one city for the upper

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GRAY continued from Page 8 class, one city for the well to do.”

He said discontent with Gray has left some residents lackadaisical about voting next week.

“They look at the displacement of black businesses and many people who have lived in the city for years,” he said. “They feel that for years that they have been supporting candidates who come in and then are not committed to us.”

Gray, a former human services professional, said many people fail to understand how much his efforts helped the needy. He said cutting welfare helps those on it to become independent. He pointed to his efforts to improve schools, child care and development and to reduce infant mortality.

“We’ve invested a lot of money in infants and toddlers,” Gray said. “We are doing something different with formal education in the city. Formal education for children now is starting at age 3. Are you all aware that 80 percent of our 3-year-olds

now go to school all day every day? Ninety-four percent of our 4-year-olds go to school all day every day … That’s the kind of community benefit that people should be arguing that we keep in place.”

He said the city’s fiscal stability has benefited residents in every area of the city because more money is available for facilities and programs. The fund balance stands at $1.75 billion, much higher than when he took office.

Recently, the city’s bond rating was upgraded from AA minus to AA by Standard & Poors, the highest in D.C. history.

It also helped in a recent meeting about statehood on Capitol Hill, he said.

“One of the points we made was, ‘Look at the fiscal stability of this city,’” Gray said. “We would put our city up against any city or state in America.”

Gray said he has a plan with the potential to create 12,000 affordable housing units by 2020 and cited the $287 million “investment” his administration made in affordable housing. He hopes that the city will allocate $100 million per year toward the

effort. His administration recently announced $140 million in grants for affordable housing programs.

“What we have done on housing is as much as can be absorbed responsibly at this [time],” he said.

He also pointed to building projects in Southeast, such as the renovation of Ballou High School, which will have a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) component that will connect to St. Elizabeths, which is becoming a technology “focal point.” Microsoft is placing an “innovation center” there, the Coast Guard has moved in 3,700 employees and the R.I.S.E. Center (Relate, Innovate, Stimulate and Elevate) recently opened.

Gray said city officials hope the renovation of St. Elizabeths will spur development of restaurants and small businesses and benefit the local housing market as workers move into the community.

The mayor said he has no concrete plans when he leaves office.WI

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Bowser Taking No Chances in Final Days

By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer@bsalmondc When Ward 4 Council member Muriel Bowser strode confidently into a reception at Nooshi’s on Barrack Row in Southeast, the excitement among those milling around on the upper floor of the Pan-Asian and sushi restaurant began to intensify before reaching a crescendo.

Almost immediately, the intimate crowd surrounded Bowser, greeted her, hugged her and shook her hand.

Bowser came early to the Oct. 23 meet-and-greet hosted by the Ward 6 Democrats, but she and some staffers took the opportunity to walk the neighborhood, canvassing.

“I remember meeting a gentleman earlier who said I was so defensive,” Bowser recalled. “So I knock on a door, and it’s him. He and his wife said they saw me in the debates and loved me. That just made my day.”

Bowser, 42, has been jostling for ascendancy in the race for mayor against former Republicans turned independents David Catania (I-AtLarge) and former Council member Carol Schwartz. The contest will be decided in less than a week. The race – and the contentious debates that accompany it – have sometimes been ugly and veered toward the personal, but Bowser holds at least an eightpoint lead going into the Tuesday general election.

Outgoing Ward 6 Council member Tommy Wells said Bowser has hit all the right notes during her race to succeed Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D).

“I ran into four people going door-to-door, and they were Muriel’s canvassers,” Wells, 57, told the crowd of about 40. “They said she was out knocking on doors too. That is the person who’ll be the next mayor of Washington, D.C. She has not stopped working, and she’s encouraging people to vote for her. She has not lost any energy or enthusiasm.

She’ll be an excellent mayor.

“We’ll have to work as hard as Muriel Bowser. We have to keep working hard up until that time (Nov. 4).

We need to support the Democratic ticket. We need everyone out working to ensure the final poll on Election Day.” Wells’ former chief of staff, Charles Allen, who’s running to replace him, lauded Bowser’s persistence.

“It’s been 579 days since she kicked off her campaign, and we have 12 days to go,” said Allen to cheers. “I have a strong Libertarian running against me. I’m working hard to get people out … we’re not Democrats by chance but by choice. We fight for families, fight for a great education for our children.”

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Ward 4 Council member and Democratic mayoral candidate Muriel Bowser talks with supporters at a Ward 6-sponsored event at Nooshi’s on Capitol Hill on Oct. 23. /Photo by Travis Riddick

litical landscape.

“This is a high-stakes election. We have to determine how schools move forward, build and sustain the middle class, attract the best and brightest to help govern and make this city more inclusive,” she said. “I’m a fifth-generation Washingtonian, and we’re not going anywhere.

“I want to build on the momentum and progress, insist on developing and fostering growth and change.

It’s not right that we have $1.5 billion in the bank. We have to refocus and put D.C. residents in good-paying jobs. Without a job, you don’t have housing or affordable housing.”

Political pundits, prognosticators and other observers point to a political landscape that poses a significant challenge to those seeking elected political office. These include voter dissatisfaction with local political leaders, the shadow campaign scandal that dogged Gray and people’s anger with the manner in which they feel D.C. U.S. Attorney Ron Machen derailed Gray’s re-election bid, trying to reach and convince tens of thousands of new residents to vote for the respective candidates, and nagging questions about the type of mayor Bowser would be. Catania, 46, has hammered Bowser for what he characterizes as a “thin” resume, the notion that she’s only benefiting as the “anointed” Democrat in the race and other criticisms.

Bowser scoffs at such questions and continues to focus on what she considers her strengths.

Recently endorsed by President Barack Obama, Bowser said the District needs a fresh start and she will be the instrument of that change.

“I feel strong. I’m ready for the elections. I feel fresh,” she said with a broad smile. “This campaign had a good start. The early start made a council member learn what residents in different wards need. We want growth and make sure there’s always

a path to the middle class.

“We have to make a long-term investment in education, supporting and boosting opportunities and prospects for the city’s beleaguered middle class and consistently investing $100 million annually in affordable housing.”

Bowser, who has represented Ward 4 since 2007, said concern about controlling and shaping the city’s growth proved to be an important reason for her decision to run. With the potential of an estimated 200,000 new residents, Metro will need $26 billion, the city will need $1.3 billion to maintain and create housing units, and city leaders will need to procure between $3 billion and $4 billion to improve water and sewer systems.

Bowser supporter Ellen Opper-Weiner regards her as the person who will pull the District from the abyss.

“I understand the problems facing the city, and we’ll lose the city if we don’t work hard to solve these problems,” said Opper-Weiner, an attorney and social worker who’s lived in the District for 36 years and who has raised three children in the city. “The issues of affordable housing and homelessness are sinful. I just found out today that there are no washing machines and dryers at D.C. General. We’ve already begun an effort to correct that.”

Opper-Weiner, a New Jersey native who’s running for a seat on the 6B05 advisory neighborhood commission, cited job training, education and addressing the mental health of D.C. residents as issues demanding immediate attention.

“I have a lot of hope here, and that’s why I like Muriel Bowser. Catania is smart but nasty as hell. That’s a pity. You have to work well with people. She’s upbeat, has an agenda and is not tied to the past. I think she’s going to win, and I think she’ll do well.”WI

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USDA Food and Nutrition Services Administrator, Audrey Rowe (center), talks with students at Oxon Hill High School in Oxon Hill, Maryland. /Photo Courtesy of PGCPS

Compiled by Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer National School Lunch Week Celebrated An official from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) visited Oxon Hill High School in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on Oct. 23 where she helped celebrate healthy and tasty meals offered daily by the food staff. Audrey Rowe’s visit also tied in with the annual National School Lunch Week celebration that took place Oct. 13-17.

“You’re my customers and I’m here today to hear what you think about school lunch,” Rowe, a Food and Nutrition Services administrator, told students. “Your ideas, thoughts, and suggestions are needed for when we sit down to develop policies that help support your healthy lifestyles.”

During National School Lunch Week, the USDA celebrates healthy strides and highlights innovative strategies to help schools better nourish their students.

“School lunches are healthier than ever, with more fruits and vegetables, more whole grains, and less fat and sodium,” said Joan Shorter, director of the school system’s nutrition services. “It’s important that we take the momentum from National School Lunch Week and continue to inform the community about the healthy options our students have for lunch.”

Groundbreaking Ceremony A groundbreaking ceremony for the new Fairmont Heights High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, recently took place.

Plans call for the $83.1 million project to be a modern, state-ofthe-art facility with programs that will expand academic opportunities for students.

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Gloria Adetobi Folawiy, a 10th-grader at Bowie High School, learned tips about the key board during High School Nation’s Oct. 20 tour at her school. /Courtesy Photo

courses, the school will offer curriculums centered on environmental sciences, Information Technology and the performing arts.

The school will also feature an 850-seat auditorium, community health clinic, athletic fields, and a green roof.

Traveling Arts Festival at Bowie High The Bowie High School football field served as the backdrop for a traveling music and arts show during the school’s Spirit Week celebration.

The “High School Nation,” program, which stopped at Bowie High in Bowie, Maryland, on Oct. 20, visits public high schools across the country to promote the arts, also donates $10,000 – including art and music supplies – to each school’s art and music departments.

During its Bowie visit, High School Nation staff members taught students how to set-up sound systems and cover events.

The program also featured a panel of performers who shared

information for entering the entertainment business.

Vaccinations Remain an Issue As of Oct. 20, more than 3,000 students had not met the Oct. 31 deadline for meeting vaccination requirements, and as a result they face the danger of not being able to attend classes.

Meanwhile, school officials have continued to offer free vaccinations as they scramble to remind parents of the deadline.

The vaccinations will protect students from measles, mumps, whooping cough and other communicable diseases.

Angela Wakhweya, chief of school health policy, services and innovation, said officials have been calling, messaging and sending forms home with students to inform their parents of the deadline – for which the majority of middle school students have yet to meet. WI

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Glenarden Apartments Demolished

Troubled Complex Razed to Make Way for ‘MixedIncome Housing’

By Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer After years of complaints about poor management, deplorable conditions, code violations and crime, the Glenarden Apartments are no more.

The 578-unit central Prince George’s County complex met the wrecking ball on Oct. 28, a day after county officials announced that it would be razed to make room for townhomes, apartments and housing for senior citizens.

“The wait is finally over for the citizens of Glenarden and the surrounding communities,” Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III said at a news conference on Oct. 28. “We realize this was once a development of prideful residents, however, through the years, erosion of the apartments’ upkeep, a transient population and crime overshadowed this area with blight. We are now moving forward and paving the way for new growth, new opportunities and new economic investment in this established neighborhood.”

Baker, 55, joined by Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and local and county political leaders attended the event.

For years, the Glenarden Apartments proved to be a thorn in the side of county officials and a problem for residents who lived in the vicinity of the troubled dwellings. Federal officials closed the complex in 2013 and put it up for auction. About 200 residents living there received vouch-

The Glenarden Apartment complex near FedEx Field, faced years of poor management, code violations and spikes in crime. /Courtesy Photo

ers to move to subsidized housing elsewhere.

A company purchased the property, which lost its Section 8 designation three years ago, with plans to renovate it, but HUD voided the sale.

The housing agency held a foreclosure sale Sept. 24 for the boarded-up complex, which sits on 27 acres on Hamlin Street near FedEx Field in central Prince George’s County.

“Several people showed up and it was sold to the highest bidder – the county’s redevelopment office,” said HUD Realty Specialist Sean Alfred.

“However, there were certain restrictions for the sale, which included demolition.”

Prince George’s County purchased the property with plans for it to be developed into mixed-income housing, said Howard Ways, executive director of the Redevelopment Authority of Prince George’s County.

“We hope we can have construction started in 2016 and the goal is to have the units completed within five years,” Ways said.

Katrina Owens, who lived at the

complex with her parents for three years in the late 1970s, has fond memories of her time there.

“I was 8 or 9 when we moved

in and I remember being excited to go out after school to play with my friends who lived upstairs,” said Owens, 40. “The grass was so green. The place was safe. Our neighbors looked out for each other. Children stayed outside until it got dark without our parents fearing for our safety.”

Owens’ family relocated to Laurel, Maryland where her parents purchased a home.

“Every now and then, I’d still drive past [the complex] to remind myself of the good times I had there. It used to break my heart to see the [dilapidated] condition of the apartments,” she said.

Scott Peterson, Baker’s spokesman, said President Ronald Reagan had once visited the 49 buildings of the Glenarden Apartments to talk about urban blight and Jesse Jackson once traveled there to deliver a speech about ways to help the community.

Razing the troubled complex and replacing it with housing, retail and amenities will help the new resident

and the area in general.

He said the demolition, a year after the complex was finally closed, will keep it from becoming an even bigger problem for the area. Glenarden is the second blighted apartment complex demolished since Baker took office. In 2011, his administration razed a crime-plagued complex on Nova Avenue in Suitland.

As the bulldozers worked, a mother whose son had been killed there watched, Peterson said.

Several developers competed for the opportunity to construct the project. Two remain in the running, officials said.

“It’s going to be a big win for the town of Glenarden, which is such an incredible proud historic community,” Peterson said of the new project.WI

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west and Southeast.

“It’s great to see so many people here at Freedom Plaza [in Northwest] to raise awareness and to be part of a global conversation to end HIV,” said York, 46 who lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Walk to End HIV, formerly AIDS Walk Washington and a District staple for 27 years, continues to benefit the HIV programs and services of Whitman-Walker Health, along with more than 20 community partners in and around the metropolitan area. The walk and 5K timed run, which attracted several thousand participants and supporters, helps raise needed funds that allow the health organization to provide comprehensive and accessible health care to those infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS. One runner originally from Uganda said he ran in memory of loved ones.

“I’ve been contributing [financially] for a long time but when I run it stirs up emotions about my parents and my sister who all died from AIDS complications in 1991, ’92 and ’95,” said Moses Kushaba, 35.

“I remember how people treated them back home – like they were outcasts. People refused to even come to our home. We’ve come a long way since then and with medical care those infected can live quality lives. But AIDS hasn’t gone away yet and people need to protect themselves,” said Kushaba, a resident of Langley

Park, Maryland.

The Department of Health offers multi-year evidence that shows that the District continues to make progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The number of newly-reported cases has decreased by nearly half at 46 percent. And there’s been an increase in the proportion of persons linked to HIV care following diagnosis and a decrease in the number of deaths among persons with HIV. However, blacks remain disproportionately impacted by HIV, chlamydia and gonorrhea with gay and bisexual men continuing to have high rates of syphilis. One-in-every-20 adults in the District lives with HIV with blacks accounting for three-quarters of all cases of HIV/AIDS in D.C. One-in-seven gay or bisexual men in D.C. has HIV; one-in-three black gay or bisexual men in the District are infected.

One man from Chesapeake, Virginia said too many young blacks remain complacent.

“You aren’t seeing the numbers of death like when the virus first hit in the 1980s but that doesn’t mean that we’ve solved this problem,” said Loki, 25, who preferred not to provide his last name. “Many people I know are afraid to talk about HIV/AIDS because of the stigma that’s still attached to it.

And then, of course, some still consider it to be a gay disease,

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Members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., represented their chapter, located at the University of Maryland in College Park, and were one of several teams that raised money for the Walk to End HIV held last Saturday, Oct. 25 in Northwest. /Photo by Nancy Shia

WALK continued from Page 14 even though that’s far from the truth.”

One employee of Whitman-Walker Health said while the numbers still had to be tallied, he estimated close to 7,000 people showed up for the event.

“The weather plays a big role in the numbers and this year with blue skies and plenty of sunshine, it was a great day to do something that helps so many people,” said Shawn Jain, the health center’s community director. “Our goal was to raise $1 million, perhaps a bit ambitious, but we hope to get there.

People can still contribute at walktoendhiv.org,” said Jain, 29.

Members of one local sorority teamed up to raise money for the walk/run fundraiser.

“We’ve already exceeded our goal of $600 dollars but we’re not done yet,” said Erica Williams, a student at the University of Maryland in College Park who, along with 20 other young women, represented their sorority, Delta Sigma Theta, Inc., as one of the many participating teams.

“I really hope and believe that we’re closer than ever to ending this disease but until that happens we have to continue to raise awareness, particularly among young people,” said Williams, 20.

Those who attended the event had the opportunity to receive valuable information about health care options and community-based medical providers located in the District and Prince George’s County.

Several local dance troupes and four popular female impersonators also entertained the

crowd after the walk/run ended.

“I have a younger brother who has lived with it [HIV/ AIDS] for a few years but I’ve never come out to an event like this so that I could be part of the solution,” said Byron Smith, a resident of Northeast.

“We’re dancing today and we hope that people enjoy us and can smile a little. It’s encouraging to see so many folks here with one thing in mind – ending HIV,” said Smith, 30.

One man warming up for the Marine Corps Marathon said agencies like Whitman-Walker Health make a real difference.

“I’ve been a committed runner since the 70s and because I’ve had friends and several cousins who died from HIV/ AIDS, I wanted to come out and do my part,” said Bill Sollers, 75, from Silver Spring, Maryland.

One black male living with the virus returned to walk for his third time.

“It was heartwarming to see so many people out today but it’s also a bit sad because we honored those who have died from the disease,” said Christopher Barnhill, a resident of Southeast who learned during his teen years that he had been born with the HIV virus.

“With medical advancements and better knowledge, we’re doing much better today than we were in the past. But still this event and others like it should remind us we can do even better. We can keep working until we find a cure,” said Barnhill, 27. WI

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Join the Movement to Get Justice It appears Black American voters are far too consumed with championing the government’s current ineptitude to address correcting injustices of the past. Those Blacks clamoring for all Americans to “respect President Barack Obama” are probably too consumed with “mainstream politics” to get proper justice for wrongs inflicted upon Blacks. Blacks wringing their hands over Whites’ “disrespect” of Obama have little racial identity or concern about the debt due many of us because of racism.

While Blacks whine over the scantiness of Obama’s political power among Whites, we hold the power to have these issues addressed. The Black race has never recovered from the Tulsa, Oklahoma, race riot of 1921. A racist government-backed mob killed 300 people outright; demolished the entire Greenwood District; torched 1,200 homes, along with offices of more than a dozen dentists, lawyers, doctors, and other professionals; and left 10,000 people homeless. Sadly, even up to Obama’s inauguration and since then, no one has ever been arrested, charged, or prosecuted for any crimes perpetrated against Blacks in Tulsa.

Tulsa’s riot was clearly racist and White-initiated in nature and intent. White authorities in Tulsa dropped nitroglycerin and dynamite from planes that completely destroyed Blacks’ communities in less than 24 hours.

So, let’s see your mettle, Black America, before Eric Holder takes his leave from the Justice Department and we give him medals for “civil rights while in office.” Why don’t we judge his tenure on the initiation of government investigations on the terrifying assault on Greenwood? Before contemporary Blacks surrender their pride and rights to “preservation of the presidency of Barack,” it’s time we demand just compensation from America for horrendous losses in the Tulsa race riot during Obama’s watch.

The Emancipation Proclamation was signed on Jan. 1, 1863. Then, from 1865 to 1920, African- Americans created more than 50 identifiable towns and

By William Reed settlements. All-Black towns grew in Indian Territory after the Civil War when former slaves of the Five Civilized Tribes settled together for mutual protection and economic security. Of the 32 Black townships established after the Civil War, 28 of them were in Oklahoma.

Due to the rapid influx of workers seeking jobs in the booming oil industry, by 1920, Tulsa’s population grew to 100,000. The majority of Blacks lived in the Greenwood District, which O.W. Gurley created in 1906. Gurley purchased 40 acres of land “only to be sold to Coloreds.” Tulsa began to grow after Gurley’s purchase of the segregated land. Gurley’s property lines also served as Tulsa’s racial dividing lines. Black businessmen and entrepreneurs fostered a prosperous commercial district that became known as the “Negro Wall Street.” The community featured an active cultural, political, and social life, including two newspapers, two large theaters, and a number of business associations, fraternal orders, and women’s clubs. Because of residential segregation in the city, they selected their own leaders, and there was capital formation within the community. In the surrounding areas of Northeastern Oklahoma, Blacks also enjoyed relative prosperity and participated in the oil boom.

Another Tulsa African-American entrepreneur, J.B. Stradford, firmly believed that Blacks had better chances of economic progress if they pooled their resources, worked together and supported one another’s businesses. He bought large tracts of real estate in the northeastern part of Tulsa, which he had subdivided and sold exclusively to other African-Americans. He built a hotel, the Stradford Hotel on Greenwood, which was the largest Black-owned hotel in the U.S.

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By Nefertari Francis Special to The Washington Informer | Prince George’s Community College [PGCC] officials have begun the new phase of several building projects that will add a new arts building, a culinary arts school and a new classroom facility, along with upgraded safety features, such as emergency call boxes with cameras, additional sidewalks and improved parking areas.

The construction projects, estimated to cost more than $100 million, will transform the Largo campus into a “more modern facility,” said Henry Dickson, director of planning, design and construction, PGCC. “This is a great thing that will have a positive impact,” said Public Relations Coordinator Jennifer L. Colter, PGCC. “The best interest of our students, faculty and staff and college community is always at the forefront, and the current construction and improvement projects fall in line with that.

Anytime we can be in a position to enhance the overall user experience at our institution, we are making a sound investment and these campus-wide improvements will prove to be just that,” Colter said.

The projects got underway several years ago with the renovation of the Facilities Management building. Upcoming projects include upgrades and additions to the Lanham Hall classroom building which was originally built in the 1960s and the installation of green elements and features that Dickson said will provide “an inviting and

REED continued from Page 18 The events of the riot have long been summarily dismissed.

However, it’s a story that needs to be studied by Blacks. The legacy and pride of Tulsa continues: In the early 1970s, a group of brothers – Robert, Ronnie and Charlie

Student stroll through the campus of Prince George’s Community College in Largo, where several buildings are being renovated and others are under construction. /Photo courtesy of Prince George’s Community College

visually-engaging appearance.”

Amenities to be included in the building, which is currently in the design phase, include: a 150-seat lecture hall; relocating and expanding the college’s print shop, supply room and mailroom; consolidating Workforce Development and Continuing Education programs and services; and providing space for the Academy of Health Sciences Middle College program.

“Usable outdoor space will encourage fellowship among the student body,” Dickson said.

The college will also improve safety features. Emergency call boxes are being installed in parking lots and will be equipped with loud sirens and cameras to help police identify the locations from which calls are initiated.

“If a student or faculty member or anyone felt in danger, they could run to [the call boxes],” Dickson said. “Even if they could not call campus police – if someone is behind them and grabs them – just by them hitting the button … cameras connected to those call boxes will be able to see what happened.”

He added that police would immediately be dispatched to the location.

PGCC officials recently conducted a survey as part of the college’s safety assessment.

Many students indicated that Wilson – formed The Greenwood, Archer and Pine Street Band. Due to a lack of space on a poster, the promoter shortened the band’s name to The Gap Band.

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they feel uncomfortable walking in dark areas. As a result, all exterior lighting fixtures on campus will be changed.

“Safety is a big issue everywhere,” Dickson said. “Anytime you walk somewhere and you don’t feel like there’s a sufficient lighting level, you typically will feel that the area may not be safe.”

Upgrades being made to sidewalks, roadways and parking lots are also considered safety measures.

“The purpose of this project is to resurface all of the parking spaces, entrances to the campus and pretty much anywhere that you can drive,” Dickson said.

Dickson said the college is currently working with Grimm and Parker Architects to design a new culinary arts center. Culinary Arts courses are currently held at John E. Howard Elementary School in Capitol Heights.

The new 21,000-square-foot building will feature one demonstration and four instructional kitchens, along with additional rooms for meetings and classes.

Officials said after the groundbreaking late next year, it will take about 14 months to complete.

Additional arts facilities also are being added.

“The College is in the process of designing a Performance Arts Building,” Dickson said. “The current Queen Anne Fine Arts Building will be renovated and expanded to become the Queen Anne Academic Center. It will feature an 800-seat theater, a 320-seat proscenium theater, a 170-seat Black Box Studio, instructional Theater and Educational Technology (TET) labs, a 135-seat Recital Hall, music and band rehearsal space, dance studios and an art gallery,” Dickson said.WI more of the Obama presidency.

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Loss of Smell Could Predict Death for Elderly Compiled by Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer Older adults who’ve lost their sense of smell – such as smelly socks or bacon sizzling in a pan – could be at an increased risk of death within five years, according to a study involving more than 3,000 people ages 57 to 85.

The study, which published recently in the science journal PLOS ONE, revealed in a smell test conducted in 2005, that nearly 40 percent of subjects who failed died within five years, compared to a 19 percent death rate within five years for those with moderate smell loss.

Ten percent of the test subjects were determined to have a healthy sense of smell.

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During the test, “Sniffin’ Sticks,” which resemble felttip pens, were loaded with five different scents – peppermint, fish, orange, rose or leather – that subjects were asked to identify.

Nearly 78 percent of those tested who were able to identify at least four of the five scents, were classified as having a normal sense of smell.

Almost 20 percent got two or three of the scents right, while the remaining 3.5 percent could correctly identify one or none of the five.

“Compared to a person with a normal sense of smell, a person with an absent sense of smell has three times greater risk of dying within a five-year span,” Dr. Jayant Pinto, the

A study published in the science journal PLOS ONE, reveals that loss of smell – such as that of bacon frying – in older adults could put them at an increased risk of death within five years. /Courtesy Photo

study’s lead author, said this month in a phone interview.

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sense of smell is a great indicator of your overall health,” said Pinto, an associate professor at the University of Chicago, who specializes in genetics and treatment of olfactory and sinus disease.

Pinto, who likened the loss of smell to a canary in a coal mine, added that, “it doesn’t cause death, but it’s an early warning that something has gone badly wrong.”

In 2010 and 2011, the survey team confirmed which participants were still alive. During the five years, 430 of the subjects, or 12.5 percent, had died.

Researchers also conducted interviews to adjust for variables and risk factors, such as age, smoking, alcohol use, overall health and socioeconomic status. In the end, those with greater smell loss when first tested were substantially

more likely to have died five years later.

“It predicted it quite strongly,” Pinto said.

In a study published last year in the Journals of Gerontology, African-Americans and Latinos lost their ability to smell faster than whites. The participants, who included information about their race and ethnicities, answered questionnaires about their physical and mental health, social and financial resources, education, and alcohol or substance abuse.

The study concluded that African-Americans are more likely to suffer from a related health disparity not explained by gender, education, cognition, physical or mental health, and health behaviors.

“We have long known that

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SMELL continued from Page 19 men begin to lose their sense of smell some years sooner than women, but this [particular study] is the first to point to racial or ethnic differences,” Pinto said. “What surprised us was the magnitude of the difference. The racial disparity was almost twice as large as the well- documented difference between men and women.”

Meanwhile, according to officials at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, the sense of smell, which can diminish significantly past age 70, may be related to loss of nose nerve endings and lack of mucus produced in the nose.

Also, while decreased smell can lessen interest and enjoyment in eating, the risk of danger increases because a person cannot smell odors such as nat-

The loss of smell tends to significantly increase after age 70. /Courtesy Photo

ural gas or even smoke from a fire just starting.

In addition, researchers at the Atlanta, Georgia-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that the most common causes of permanent smell loss are upper respiratory infections, head

trauma or injury, and chronic rhinosinusitis.

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Compiled by Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer White House Fashion Design Workshop College and high school students, including those from the School Without Walls, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, and Roosevelt Senior High School, connected with dozens of professionals from the fashion industry during a visit earlier this month to the White House.

The White House Fashion Education Workshop, hosted by first lady Michelle Obama, featured magazine editors and fashion designers who talked to the students about topics that included entrepreneurship and fashion journalism.

The event, which focused on the first lady’s initiative to promote education and enable young fashion enthusiasts to pursue fulfilling careers in the industry, featured an impressive array of editors and designers who included Anna Wintour from Vogue magazine, J. Crew’s Executive Creative Director Jenna Lyons, and Jason Wu, who designed Obama’s inaugural gown.

“I had the opportunity to hear many great stories. My favorite ones were that of June Haynes and Mary Alice Stephenson,” said Jillian Towson, a

Jillian Towson, a 9th-grader at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, learned a lot about fashion design at the White House workshop on Oct. 8. /Photo courtesy of DCPS 9th-grader at Duke Ellington in Northwest. “Each story was special and different, and I think they helped every student there,” she said. “Their stories were inspiring and encouraged me to get started with my fashion career.”

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DCPS EDUCATION BRIEFS DCPS continued from Page 20 Leaders Become Students Twice a month on Friday and Saturday, a group of principals and other education leaders huddle in a university classroom for eight hours each day to brainstorm on ways to have a greater impact on the schools and offices they lead.

The participants – members of the Executive Master’s in Leadership (EML) program sponsored by Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and the District public schools system – in effect become students, as

they embark upon a 10-month journey to become more strategic, more communicative, more confident, and ultimately, better leaders.

Sean Davis, principal at Hendley Elementary School in Southeast, brings a vast knowledge of the city and its neighborhoods to his work – a far cry from his original plan to become a zoologist or an artist.

“We connected every paper in the EML program to a challenge or problem in the schools,” said Davis.

“The program has helped me to lead teachers and staff around the idea that our job is to make children’s lives better.”

Elementary Students Testify A group of 5th-grade students from John Eaton Elementary School in Northwest recently attended a session of the D.C. Council where they testified about adopting the Potomac bluestone as the District’s official rock.

The students said that an official rock would not only encourage more tourism and pique the interest of international scientists, but also help the District’s fight for statehood.

The students also brought up the matter of school boundary lines which take effect during the 2015-16 school year.

“Where would my brother, who is in

kindergarten, go to middle school,” one of the students asked Education Committee Chair David Catania (I-At Large), who responded that her brother would attend the same school – Alice Deal Middle – that she plans to attend.

Catania, 46, added that he doesn’t intend to limit that option for other families.

Innovative Schools Meeting More than 150 innovative leaders from across the country, that included superintendents, school administrators and representatives from businesses and nonprofits, recently gathered in the District for the League of Innovative

Schools biannual meeting.

During the gathering held earlier this month, the leaders visited District public schools to see how teachers are using technology in the classroom to engage students and boost achievement.

For example, students at Ketcham Elementary School in Southeast rotated between personalized lessons on the computer and small group learning, while at Wheatley Education Campus in Northeast, the leaders watched in awe as a teacher brought the Revolutionary War to life on iPads.WI

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Rocketship Officials to Address Charter School Board location poses safety concerns.

“As you may or may not know, the proposed location of RockOfficials for a California-based etship is uncomfortably close to network of elementary charter Hope Village, one of the largschools will face the District of est halfway houses on the East Columbia Public Charter School Coast of the United States,” Bell Board for a second time on Nov. wrote. “We value our children 3 to find out if they can pro- and want them to know that ceed with plans to operate a new when making decisions on their school in Southeast Washington. behalf, we consider the environIn the meantime, representa- ment and the community.”

Bell, who also noted that oftives for the nonprofit Rocketship Education chain have been ficials failed to get input from facing opposition from some the community, added that the Anacostia residents about the location is within walking disschool they want to open in tance of three traditional pubAugust 2015 in the 2300 block lic schools. Rocketship’s school of Raynolds Place SE. The site would “force unnecessary comis located in close proximity to petition between traditional puba halfway house for returning lic schools and charter schools,” he said. felons.

A resolution drafted during a According to a letter written recently to the charter school September meeting of Advisory board by the Rev. Michael Bell, Neighborhood Commissioners senior pastor at Allen Chapel (ANCs) from 8B in opposition 276469_6_x_6.5 10/17/14 3:49 PM Page 1 A.M.E. Church in Southeast, the to the school noted some of the

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commissioners’ concerns with Kay Venskus, Rocketship’s vice president for policy. It also stated that the company’s officials failed to conduct a comprehensive community outreach effort in support of the Ward 8 school site.

The resolution further emphasized that company officials failed to partner with any local churches or public housing communities.

As a result, the D.C. charter school board voted earlier to delay authorization for Rocketship to proceed until it addresses the concerns of local residents.

However, Anthony L. Green, ANC 8B, who admitted having reservations initially, said he now supports placement of the school at the site, which faces the 234-unit Woodland Terrace public housing community.

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said Green, 28. “Others had raised the same issue of it being so close to the halfway house.

But then, we considered that the halfway house had been in our community for more than 20 years with no problems, so I see no reason why anyone should oppose it.”

Eboni-Rose Thompson, chair of the Ward 7 Education Council, said before the city approved the school, both charter school board members and Rocketship officials should have more carefully researched the location of the school and sought input from local officials.

“I’ve heard some complaints,” said Thompson, 26. “I believe that the city needs to do a better job with their planning process.

Everything else is a symptom of that – whether the school locates right across the street from a traditional District public school or with the charter school [moving in], then [residents] finding out there’s a halfway house close by.”

Rocketship officials in 2013 received the school board’s approval to open as many as eight schools. Those schools are expected to serve 5,200 District students by 2019.

According to a statement on Rocketship’s website, officials for the company believe a school should be located on Raynolds

Place in Southeast.

“The [D.C.] community has proven that it’s dedicated to ensuring every student has access to an excellent school and we’ve seen progress, but still less than half of our students are on grade level,” the statement read.

“Our Southeast neighborhoods demonstrate an even greater need, with less than a third of students on grade level. We need to rethink elementary education; our students deserve better.”

Rocketship, which has a regional office in Southeast on Good Hope Road, touts itself as a network of elementary charter schools that primarily serve low-income students.

The chain also seeks to boost student learning through the use of 21st century methods, such as blended-learning. Having opened its first school in 2007 in San Jose, California, the chain also operates schools in Nashville, Tennessee; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Indianapolis, Indiana.

At the Monday, Nov. 3 meeting, Rocketship officials are scheduled to report to the board the steps they’ve taken to address residents concerns about the school’s proposal.WI

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in Marijuana Enforcement By: Malik Burnett, M.D., M.B.A.

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ashington, D.C. holds the distinction of having the highest per capita marijuana arrest rate in the country, with the District’s black residents being particularly and disproportionally targeted.

Reports that African Americans in the nation’s capital are eight times more likely to be arrested as whites, despite relatively equal marijuana use, were the catalyst for the city’s Council to act earlier this year by passing the most progressive marijuana decriminalization legislation to date.

However, a quick examination of the other 18 states that have decriminalized marijuana reveals that discrimination persists after decriminalization. In the early days of decriminalization here in D.C., roughly 77 percent of the marijuana possession tickets are being issued in communities of color.

This problem cannot be solved by piecemeal policy changes. D.C. residents understand this. A

recent poll found that 65 percent of District voters are ready to legalize recreational marijuana use. In November they will have the opportunity to do just that with ballot initiative 71, which will allow residents of the District over the age of 21 to possess up to two ounces of marijuana and grow up to six plants. This vote represents a real chance to take action beyond the thus far limited efforts of politicians.

Decriminalization laws that lessen criminal charges to civil fines will not protect the disadvantaged living in poor communities who cannot afford to be perpetually fined. Decriminalization laws also do not go far enough in reducing incarceration. Too many people, especially black men, have a marijuana conviction or arrest on their record that subjects them to discrimination employment, funding for education, access to public housing, and even the right to vote.

Finally, decriminalization laws do not protect black people from being singled out for stigmatization or having their character smeared over marijuana use. Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown are the two most-prominent examples of this phenomenon. Two African American teenagers with no felony records were suddenly being depicted as menacing threats.

Marijuana use, something over one-third of Americans have admitted to, was exploited to besmirch the character of these black men.

The evidence is abundantly clear that the prohibition of marijuana perpetuates the mass incarceration and discrimination that sadly define criminal justice policy in the United States. By passing Initiative 71 at the ballot box, and removing low level possession of marijuana from the criminal justice system, District residents will make it clear to the Council they are serious about broader marijuana reform.

The success of Initiative 71 would embolden D.C. Councilmembers to act on the will of voters by taking up the tax and regulate bill, submitted by Councilmember David Grosso earlier this year. This legislation should be amended to include provisions such as a marijuana records sealing, prohibition of pre-employment drug testing for marijuana, a regulatory system that is inclusive of communities previously harmed by the policies of prohibition, and tax revenue earmarked for the redevelopment of those same communities. This is what marijuana legalization in a racial justice context looks like.

Washington D.C. has historically been on the cutting edge of marijuana reform, passing medical marijuana at the ballot in 1998. In 2014, the District once again finds itself with the opportunity to be a vanguard for marijuana policy and a model for the nation. It is time to take marijuana off the streets and out of the schools and put it in a regulated environment with age restrictions so young people cannot have access to it. Legalization and regulation will improve public safety while reducing racial injustice and focusing police resources on serious and violent crime.

At the federal level, the White House and the House of Representatives, on 5 separate occasions, have supported of marijuana policy reform as a “state’s rights” issue; thus the District of Columbia, and the will of its citizens, should not be subject to congressional discrimination on this matter.

Marijuana law reform is affirmation from Americans that they acknowledge the war on drugs has failed miserably and that it is long past time to put these discriminatory practices to an end.

Dr. Burnett is a former surgeon and physician advocate.

African Americans account for over 90% of marijuana arrests in spite of equal use across race.

Vote YES to help prevent the arrests of young DC men and women, and refocus the police on serious and violent crimes.

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The Washington Informer’s 50th Anniversary celebration honored 50 Influencers including radio talk show host and activist Joe Madison (on right), who shared reflections about his first meeting with Informer founder-publisher Dr. Calvin W. Rolark. He led the audience in Rolark’s iconic quote, “If it is to be, it is up to me.”

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veryone loves a party especially when they hold the coveted position as the guest of honor.

And to pay tribute to the contributions of leaders from the community, The Washington Informer recently hosted a 50th anniversary reception that allowed participants to reflect on the newspaper’s 50 years of service.

“This paper was founded 50 years ago by Dr. Calvin Rolark because he wanted to provide a vehicle for sharing positive news about D.C.’s black community,” said Ron Burke, advertising and marketing director, The Washington Informer.

“Now his daughter, Denise Rolark Barnes, continues that legacy despite the challenges that we and others in print media face today. This evening is about looking back, looking See INFLUENCERS on Page 28 www.washingtoninformer.com

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Denise Rolark Barnes, daughter of Informer founder and publisher Dr Calvin W. Rolark, has worked at the Informer since its inception. She said the newspaper continues her father’s mission to focus on the positive news about the African American community.

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Jackie Woody presents a proclamation on behalf of Prince Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s County Executive Rushern Baker.

Donna Cooper, President, Pepco Region

Ron Burke, Informer Director of Advertising and Marketing and Vice Chair of Washington Informer Charities

National Newspaper Publishers Association President Ben Chavis.

AARP State Director Louis Davis presents a membership card to the Washington Informer.

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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray

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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and Denise Rolark Barnes

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Former Washington Informer columnist Carol Schwartz and Ron Burke.

Washington Informer Charities Board of Directors Ron Burke, Gail Reed, Denise Rolark Barnes, Attorney Deborah Boddie and Robyn Wilkes

DC Chamber of Commerce President Harry Wingo and Bank of Georgetown executive Jeff Banks checking-in.

Guests view newspapers from the Informer archives included in the 50th anniversary photo exhibit.

Marie Johns, WI Charities 50th Anniversary Chair

Members of Urban Nation Hip-Hop Choir perform.

Lafayette Barnes, IV and Desmond Barnes introduce their mother, Denise Rolark Barnes.

Informer reporter Kevin McNeir opened the evening with prayer

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Anise Jenkins

Roach and Mertine Brown

Toni Lewis

Rev. Edwin Jones

Donald Hense

Hannah Hawkins

Attorney Johnny Mercer

Sharon Farmer

Eloise Greenfield

Lauri Kaplan

Washington Informer INFLUENCERS continued from Page 25 forward and recognizing 50 local trailblazers,” Burke said.

The 50th anniversary influencers’ reception, held at the Carnegie Library in Northwest on Thursday, Oct. 23, marked the last of a series of events sponsored by the newspaper to mark its five decades of weekly news coverage of events in the Greater Washington Area.

The festive affair included performances by the Urban Nation Hip-Hop Choir and students from Richard Wright Public Charter School, a presentation by Jacqueline Woody, special assistant in the Office of the Prince George’s County

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Executive Rushern L. Baker III and words of congratulations from some of the District’s most respected business and community leaders.

“We thank you for the excellent coverage you’ve given us for 50 years and we encourage all those present to utilize the essential local and regional information that this paper provides every week,” Woody said.

The District’s top official, Mayor Vincent C. Gray, praised the Informer for a job well done.

“This is hugely important,” said Gray, a vocal supporter of the newspaper.

“It is such a positive statement that the Informer has made in 50 years. People generally stumble coming up with

the names of other newspapers after The Washington Informer but the Informer has been here for 50 years and the content is extraordinary,” said Gray, 71.

Joe Madison, one of the honorees and often considered the dean of D.C. journalism, agreed.

“The black press is extremely important because while we read The Washington Post, when you see the columns and stories in the Informer, it’s for us,” Madison said.

“Don’t undervalue, underestimate or marginalize this paper. These stories are those that other publications don’t think are important. Most of us wouldn’t have known about Emmett Till or Martin Luther King, Jr. if it wasn’t for the The Washington Informer

black press. The white press didn’t cover what King did because they didn’t want to give him exposure. The black press put him on the map,” said Madison, 65, an award-winning talkshow host often referred to as “The Black Eagle.”

One representative from Pepco Holdings, Inc., which served as the title sponsor for the evening, said her company has been supporting the Informer since it first opened its doors.

“We have been advertising with The Washington Informer since 1964 – 50 years ago – and we applaud the paper’s publisher for continuing the work that was started by her father,” said Donna Cooper, president of the electric service provider

with customers in D.C., Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties.

“Because of Dr. Rolark and now Denise, the black community has had a voice when we needed it. We will continue to support this fine publication in every way we can,” Cooper said.

One civil rights activist and now the interim president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association described the reception as a “momentous occasion.”

“Tonight is two-fold: it is a mandatory reflection of the gift of the past legacy of Dr. Rolark and it is one of the most

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Sylvia Cyrus

Askia Muhammed

Angela Owens

Phillip Pannell

Rev. Tony Lee

Beverly Perry

Kim Bennett

Darrell Watson

Ricky Payton

Roy Lewis

Celebrates Local Influencers INFLUENCERS continued from Page 28 important gatherings of the future of D.C.,” said the Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., 66.

“The nation’s capital needs a strong voice to represent people still struggling for freedom, justice and equality.”

An employee with AARP shared his views on the continued relevance of the paper.

“The Washington Informer serves as the quilter, stitching together the many patches of our African-American and black diaspora here in the metro area,” said Louis Davis, Jr., state director, AARP, Inc., District of Columbia. “If [the Informer] didn’t do it, no one else would. This celebration has

been uplifting for all of us.”

One Ward 8 resident commended the Informer and its first publisher.

“I first met Dr. Rolark while working for the charity he founded, the United Black Fund, and remember him as being a person whose personality filled the room,” said Philip Pannell, executive director for the Anacostia Coordinating Council.

“The Informer is often the only paper that will cover community events in Ward 8 and so it truly documents what goes on in our neighborhoods.

When I worked on an initiative to distribute literature and condoms after our community had been hit hard by the HIV/ AIDS virus, Dr. Rolark con-

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tributed money so that I could take the message to the streets.

This event that showcases half a century of service has been spectacular,” said Pannell, 64, who lives in Southeast.

One Maryland-based university professor said seeing photos from the archives of the paper took her down memory lane.

“It seems like I’ve known Denise forever but I know that can’t be true,” said Pat Wheeler, assistant professor, School of Global Journalism & Communication, Morgan State University.

“At the reception I saw a photograph from 1984 that included the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jr., Mayor Marion Barry and my father who died about 10 years The Washington Informer

ago. Seeing him [captured while enjoying] one of his favorite past times, politics, was very moving for me. The Informer has always treated [blacks] fairly and it’s still the place to go for news about our community,” said Wheeler who lives in Northeast.

The Informer’s publisher said she felt the spirit of her father celebrating with her during the reception.

“This evening is very special to me because 20 years ago on this very day my father died,” said Rolark Barnes. “If he were here, he would be having a good time, going around the room making everyone feel right at home.”

“We couldn’t honor everyone but based on suggestions from

the community we identified 50 influencers who have made significant contributions to the citizens of Washington, D.C. My father came from Texas where he saw black men hung.

He served in the military as well. And he said when he started his newspaper he would only talk about the 95 percent of blacks who were doing positive things to enrich and assist their friends and neighbors. That’s what we’re still doing 50 years later,” Rolark Barnes said. WI Washington Informer Staff Writer Barrington Salmon contributed to this article.

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Students from Richard Wright Public Charter School

Marie Johns and Vera Abbott, mother of Denise Rolark Barnes

General Motors sponsored the 50 Influencers Reception held at the Carnegie Library at Mt. Vernon Place in Northwest.

Photos by Nancy Shia, Roy Lewis, Maurice Fitzgerald and Shevry Lassiter.

Friends take a selfie at Washington Informerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 50th Anniversary Photo Exhibit.

Informer reporter Barrington Salmon with publicist Hazel Edney.

Attorney Johnny Mercer enjoys photo of Rolark and his daughter, Denise, dancing.

50 Influencers honoree Bernard Demczuk.

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Former Informer jazz columnist W.A. Brower, of JBV Productions, and audio-visual company.

Pat Wheeler finds her father in an Informer archive photos.

NNPA President Ben Chavis and Denise Rolark Barnes.

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50 Influencer honoree Rev. Tony Lee with Marie and Wendell Johns.

Harpist entertains in Map Room at Carnegie Library during exhibit.

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Wow! Last night was History making celebrating 50 years of the Washington Informer! It was a wonderful celebration, and I am glad to know you all! I really enjoyed myself, and it’s always great to celebrate people that really love our community.

THANK You! YOU! Thank

I join my colleagues in saluting the legacy of your newspaper. The Washington Informer is indeed a community resource and treasure. Congratulations!

Please again accept my gratitude for being a small part of your history.

Regards and continued success,

Sharon Holmes, Ed.D. Manager, Reading Intervention Office of Teaching and Learning District of Columbia Public Schools

Sandra Edmonds Crewe Interim Dean Howard University School of Social Work

Congratulations!!!! Last night was spectacular. You have accomplished a lot and there is more to come. You are one of the few persons capable of furthering a family business.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to share in the 50th anniversary celebration for the Washington Informer.

You and your team do such great work. God bless you all. What a great event and exhibit.

Attorney Johnny Howard DC

Sylvia Cyrus, Executive Director ASALH-Association for the Study of African American Life & History

Thank you for allowing us to participate in such a wonderful event. The contributions that WI [Washington Informer] makes to DC and the world are immeasurable. The inclusion of the Influencers was a testament to the various levels of persons contributing to the success of our city, particularly in the Black community. I love the positive journalism and it is indeed refreshing to read these stories. My hope is for fifty more years. The event and our work at the [Howard University School of Social Work] is a testament to Dr. Rolark’s refrain, “If is to be, it is up to me!” Yes it is.

Ruby Gourdine, DSW, LICSW, LCSW Professor

Just wanted to let you know how OUTSTANDING the 50th Anniversary event was last week. Denise, I never had the opportunity to meet your Father, but I know he was a HERO! Every detail of the event was well planned… and it was great catching up with some of the honorees.

Tracey Tolbert Jones, Director of Government and Corporate Relations Prince George’s African-American Museum & Cultural Center at North Brentwood, Inc.

Lafayette Barnes and D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray

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Thank you to our sponsors, supporters and subscribers for allowing us to serve you over the past 50 years. We look forward to serving you for many more years to come.

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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS

The Informer Endorses …

The process of voting is, on its face, a simple one: candidates come before voters and offer a detailed outline of issues and challenges facing the community and the manner in which they would fix or address them.

But real life often gets in the way. In the District of Columbia, the frustration of residents and voters alike is palpable. At different times, the D.C. Council has been embroiled in scandal, theft and ethical misconduct. There’s a sense among residents that the needs and concerns of the poor and middle class are given short shrift and that developers and the moneyed class hold the attention of too many of those on the council.

Mayor Vincent C. Gray strengthened the city’s growth and progress, and the cranes dotting the District’s landscape and plethora of new apartments, condos and businesses point to that continued renaissance. But all that development has come at a price: the exodus of more than 40,000 D.C. residents on the heels of gentrification no longer able to afford the cost of living here and a middle class being crushed by high prices and stagnant wages.

All three candidates vying for mayor ran credible races and each carry flaws that have been cause for concern among voters. Carol Schwartz and David A. Catania both come with strong credentials and enviable records. Schwartz’s love of the city and its residents is obvious. Her years on the council and previous runs for the mayor’s job made her highly visible in the community but in some of the debates Schwartz wasn’t able to fully articulate the distinctive differences in the policy positions held by her and her opponents.

Catania has formidable mind, works hard, is detail oriented and has a passion to lead. His 17 years on the council is replete with accomplishments and his desire to serve the city as mayor is unquestioned. But Catania has been dogged by concerns about his abrasiveness and the perception of an unwillingness to compromise. One of his colleagues on the council said privately that he’s self-righteous and sanctimonious and residents and others who know him have expressed unease about his brusqueness.

An even temper is an invaluable asset to anyone in the mayor’s office and while having such a characteristic doesn’t directly relate to how well someone leads, it’s a very important attribute.

Ultimately, many residents want someone who can find and maintain the balance between growth and catering to the very real needs of the middle class, poor and near poor, someone who has the capacity and compassion to aggressively attack pressing issues such as homelessness, under-performing schools and unemployment.

Going forward, the city needs someone with the vision and leadership needed to shepherd the city in a way that will allow it to fulfill its considerable potential. That’s why the Washington Informer is endorsing Ward 4 Council member Muriel Bowser for mayor of the District of Columbia.

We’ve watched Bowser mature and come into her own on the campaign trail. She’s more self-assured, exhibits greater confidence and has become more relaxed and accessible when interacting with prospective voters. She has experience dealing with the nuts-andbolts of the political and legislative processes, possesses the type of even and balanced temperament needed to be mayor and she’s not a divisive personality.

It certainly doesn’t hurt that Bowser is a fifth-generation Washingtonian whose family has deep roots in this city. And that she’s a woman. It’s time for the mayor’s office to be occupied by a capable woman.

Bowser has a vision for the city and promises to bring the best and the brightest into D.C. government. We hope she’ll surround herself with capable, talented people who embrace the city’s interests before their own, and that she’ll not be afraid to make the tough choices.

Congratulations, Washington Informer

I would like to congratulate The Washington Informer on its 50th Anniversary.

I have lived in Southeast Washington for most of my life and have been a loyal reader of your paper since its beginning.

The edition with the 50th Anniversary Issue inside is such a great one. There are so many interesting articles, but I think my favorite is the photograph of Dr. and Mrs. Rolark. I remember seeing Dr. Rolark in and around our neighborhood on different occasions and would listen to him on his radio show. Dr. Rolark’s saying, “If it is to be, it’s up to me” is still one of my favorites.

The Washington Informer has served and, I hope, will continue to serve us in the way it has always done, and that is by providing us with positive and insightful news that helps to instill a more optimistic outlook for ourselves and the community we live in. The Informer is truly a shining light and I hope it will shine for 50 more years.

Again, congratulations to the publisher, Denise Rolark Barnes and the entire staff at The Washington Informer for continuing the legacy started by Dr. Calvin Rolark five decades ago.

Brenda Taylor Washington, D.C.

Police Should be Accountable

Thanks for the front-page photograph of the young man testifying, accompanying “Aggressive Tactics Sour Public on D.C. Police” by Barrington Salmon (October 16, 2014), because it shows that young people are aware that what took place in Ferguson, Missouri can happen here in D.C. There are a lot of good police officers that are doing their jobs the way they are supposed to, but there are some who take what they are doing to a totally different level. They are the ones who get drunk with power and have all sorts of personal issues and they bring all that to their job, and that just doesn’t mix with being a police officer. They are the ones who are aggressive, rude, disrespectful and abusive.

They are the ones who will use their weapon because they believe they have the right to. They are the ones who have a stereotypical image of who and what you are before they’ve even seen or spoken to you. They are the ones who believe that they are always right when it comes to the law.

You will find these types of police officers on every police force around the country. I can only imagine how difficult being a police officer must be, but just because it’s a difficult job doesn’t mean you have the right to take out your own frustrations on the public. There needs to be better mental and psychological screening done on prospective police candidates. If they don’t pass the screening they should not be allowed to become police officers, period.

Keith Willis Washington, D.C.

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Get Out and Vote Tuesday!

I’m writing to express my concern about D.C. residents voting on Nov. 4.

Going to the polls that day to vote for the District’s next mayor will be critical as to how well our city is run over the next four years.

I’m not trying to tell people who to vote for, because by now, they should already know who will be the effective person D.C. needs to continue the progressive path that outgoing Mayor Vincent Gray has put the nation’s capital on.

Mr. Gray has done a tremendous job increasing job opportunities, reforming our troubled school system and operating within his latest D.C. Council-approved budget. I just wish he could serve this city another consecutive four years.

But getting back to my point – let’s rally our efforts on Tuesday, by turning out in strong numbers at the polls to vote for the person best suited to continue in Mayor Gray’s footsteps.

If we stay home, we will be doing D.C. and our individual communities a great disservice, if come Jan. 1, the wrong candidate gets to move into the executive office in the John A. Wilson Building, the city and its residents will not fare well.

Carolyn Moss Washington, D.C.

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Guest Columnist

By Marian Wright Edelman

Closer to the Finish Line With opportunity gaps widening for poor children and children of color, new guidance from the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education offers new hope and protection from discrimination.

For the first time in 13 years, the department now makes clear that states, school districts and schools must make education resources equally available to all students without regard to race,

color, or national origin.

It prohibits schools and school districts from discriminating in their allocation of courses, academic programs and extracurricular activities, teachers and leaders, other school personnel, school facilities, and technology and instructional materials and offers steps to level the playing field. This is some of the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement and a giant step forward for poor children, often children of color, currently taught at higher rates

by inexperienced, unqualified, or out-of-field teachers and provided far fewer resources than their wealthier peers. Our responsibility now is to ensure that children left behind truly benefit from these protections.

The new guidance has real potential to address many of the disparities lingering after Brown vs. Board of Education.

Sixty years after that historic court decision, the Department of Education has made it clear that poor children and children of color are still routinely de-

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nied access to their fair share of strong teachers, decent schools, and current textbooks. These actions are not only immoral but also illegal under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The guidance states that wherever a state or district has seen fit to provide any education resource, such as a chemistry course, high-speed Internet access, or a school counselor, it must be provided equally. This has been in the works for a very long time and was inspired by the Equity and Excellence Com-

mission, which was convened in 2010 to examine and propose remedies to disparities in educational opportunities and student achievement.

Years of advocacy that preceded Brown sought federal oversight of unfair distribution of resources by schools, districts, and states. But fairness must be a continuing concern as separate and unequal continues to pervade the education of children in our nation. The last time

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By Lee A. Daniels

Voter ID Laws: “Democracy Turned Upside Down” The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month let stand the state of Texas’ latest attempt to use the old tactics of the Jim Crow era and rig state and national elections in favor of the Republican Party by denying black and Hispanic voters access to the ballot.

The refusal of the court’s conservative majority to support the ruling of a federal district court judge in Texas that the state leg-

islature’s new photo ID law was “imposed with an unconstitutional discriminatory purpose” and is “an unconstitutional poll tax” was, in fact, to be expected, given its striking down last year of the key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that had protected black and Hispanic voting rights from the predatory actions of conservative state officials.

However, the court’s majority’s latest blow to democracy nonetheless drew a scathing rebuttal from the court’s three fe-

male justices. That dissent, along with the original ruling of Federal District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos, should be required reading for anyone wishing to understand the empty legalisms of the Republican Party’s photo ID law hustle.

As many have said, these laws, which had been percolating for years in GOP-dominated state legislatures but were fast-tracked once President Barack Obama was elected to office, are “a solution in search of a problem.”

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Their proponents claim their purpose is to prevent voter fraud at the polls. But in all the legislative discussion of these acts, which eleven states now have on the books, Republicans (and their allies out in the conservative echo chamber of talk shows and think tanks) have never produced any significant evidence that even negligible voter fraud is attempted at polling places.

That’s the legislative and judicial history of the Texas law as well. During the federal tri-

al, Texas state officials testified under oath that from 2002 to 2011—a period when a total of 20 million votes were cast in the state—just two cases of voter impersonation fraud at polls were prosecuted to conviction.

One scholar whose specialty is examining voter fraud in modern-day American elections testified that she had found fewer than 10 instances of voter fraud at polling places in the entire

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By George E. Curry

Blacks, Not Hispanics, Key to Election Victory Although Latinos are growing at a faster rate than any other ethnic group in the United States, they will have less of an impact on whether Democrats retain control of the Senate than African-Americans, according to a study of Census data by the Pew Research Center.

The report, titled, “Latino Voters and the 2014 Midterm Elections,” stated: “A record 25.2 million Latinos are eligible

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to vote in the 2014 midterm elections, making up, for the first time, 11% of all eligible voters nationwide. But despite a growing national presence, in many states with close Senate and gubernatorial races this year, Latinos make up a smaller share of eligible voters.”

Meanwhile, Democrats say it is unlikely they can retain control of the Senate without the black vote in key states, including North Carolina, Louisiana and Arkansas. Latinos will basically be a nonfactor – at least for now.

“California and Texas contain nearly half (46.4%) of all Latino eligible voters, but neither has been a battleground state in recent presidential elections. As a result, nearly half of Latino voters do not get the level of attention from campaigns that Latino voters who live in battleground states receive. And this year, neither state has a close Senate race.”

The report further noted, “… in the eight states with close Senate races, just 4.7% of eligible voters on average are Latinos.

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Among those states, Latinos make up less than 5% of eligible voters in six. Only in Colorado does the 14.2% Latino share among eligible voters exceed the 10.7% national average. Kansas is the only other state where the Latino share among eligible voters exceeds 5%. As a result, the impact of Latino voters in determining which party controls the U.S. Senate may not be as large as might be expected given their growing electoral and demographic presence nationwide.”

According to the report, “In

other 2014 Senate races – none of which are competitive – Latinos make up more than 10% of eligible voters in just three: New Mexico, where Latinos make up 40.1% of eligible voters; Texas, where 27.4% of eligible voters are Latino; and New Jersey, where Latinos make up 12.8% of eligible voters.”

In the case of this year’s 14 competitive House races, the share of eligible voters who are Hispanic is, on average, 13.6 per-

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By James Clingman

Black by Popular Demand The black vote is said to be the determining factor in whether the Democrats hold the U.S. Senate. President Barack Obama is on black radio shows, and, of course, “Little” Al’s TV show, giving us the rundown on how important our turnout is to next month’s election. The Dems and Repubs are outwardly admitting that the black vote is the X factor in this election. Isn’t it great to be wanted and needed, even if

it is just for one day? All across the nation, black is popular once again, all because it’s voting time.

How should we react to this latest patronization of the black vote? Well, let’s look at our situation. Black folks are being beaten, shot, and killed, and we are told to vote. We have the highest unemployment, the lowest net worth, and the highest incarceration rate, and many of our leaders tell us simply to vote. We are treated unfairly by the criminal justice system and excluded from economic opportunities,

and we are told to vote.

Young black males are 21 times more likely to be fatally shot by police than their white counterparts. The 1,217 deadly police shootings from 2010 to 2012 captured in the federal data show that blacks ages 15 to 19 were killed at a rate of 31.17 per million, while 1.47 per million white males in that age range died at the hands of police. All of this, and we are told to vote.

It’s no wonder young Blacks are turned off by many of their elders. They are the ones tak-

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ing the tear gas, the batons upside their heads, the abuse, and the lethal methods used by police officers; it is only after that or between the real battles that the usual suspects show up to march, hold a news conference, make a speech, and high-tail it out of town on the next thing smokin’.

Political hacks are telling black voters to cast our votes to make sure Democrats maintain control of the Senate during the last two years of the Obama presidency.

My question is “What happened

during the past six years of a Democrat-controlled Senate?”

Other than Obamacare, which was passed strictly along party lines, what has that body done for black folks?

One of our black senators, Republican Tim Scott, is busy “discovering” what it’s like to work at low-level jobs in South Carolina, and since Democrat Corey Booker accepted a “challenge” to live on a $35 food stamp budget for one week, albeit, while

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Fed Chair Addresses Income Inequality “The extent of and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concern me… I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation’s history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.”

— Janet Yellen, Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

With all the political, national security and disease news recently flooding the airways, you may have recently missed one of the most important American speeches from one of the world’s most powerful economic leaders. In a speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on Friday, Janet Yellen, who in February became the first female Federal Reserve chair, bravely waded into the national debate on income inequality. Her remarks echoed many of the op-

portunity themes that have been championed by the National Urban League throughout our 104year history.

Drawing from the Federal Reserve’s triennial Survey of Consumer Finances, Yellen said, “The past several decades have seen the most sustained rise in inequality since the 19th century.” She also outlined what she called four “building blocks” of opportunity to help improve the economic circumstances of individuals and families. These building blocks closely align with

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the National Urban League’s long-standing economic empowerment agenda: resources available to children, higher education that families can afford, business ownership and inherited wealth.

Highlights from Yellen’s comments include: The average income of the top 5 percent of households grew by 38 percent from 1989 to 2013, while the average real income of the other 95 percent of households grew less than 10 percent.

The average real worth of families in the top 5 percent has nearly doubled, on net – from $3.6 million in 1989 to $6.8 million in 2013 – while the average net worth of the lower half of distribution, representing 62 million households, was $11,000 in 2013.

While Americans in all economic groups were adversely affected by the housing crisis, homeowners in the bottom half of households by wealth report-

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By Askia Muhammad

White Voters Bringing Destruction on Themselves I confess again. I get no joy whatsoever at foretelling and announcing doom proceeding toward the land of my birth. After all, I’m a resident here as well.

But as the 2014 election unfolds, I fear White voters are poised to make choices at the polls that are certainly not in my best interest, that pose a danger for the entire world, and that ultimately are not even in the best interest of the “angry White

men” who are leading this rush to “MAD”-ness (“Mutually Assured Destruction”).

MAD is an old Cold War expression that was used by American war hawks to justify the spiraling arms race of the 1960s and 1970s. The term means that so long as the United States and the Soviet Union continued to build more and more terrible weapons, neither side would ever dare to use them because its own destruction (everyone’s destruction) would be assured once a nuclear conflict began.

But now there is no more Soviet Union. The U.S. is the world’s only “superpower,” and that suits American jingoists just fine. Always in need of an enemy, these American madmen have turned their venom on their own neighbors, fellow “Americans” who are distinguished by the color of their skin.

In this 2014 midterm election cycle, these hateful birds – who hate the federal government and all that it stands for, from civil rights to environmental protection, to education

for all, to health care, especially “Obamacare” – with a hate that goes back before the Civil War, which ended in 1865, these hateful birds are poised to take over the U.S. Senate, which would give them a lock on both houses of Congress, thus rendering President Barack Obama, who is the object and symbol of their hatred, a eunuch, a figurehead.

This xenophobic, right-wing mentality – defined today as the tea party – is at war with its own citizens, with the tide of world history, and with Mother Earth

herself. Its believers are consumed by that “Mighty Whitey,” “Manifest Destiny” philosophy of “American Exceptionalism,” and they are destined to bring about their own ruin.

Thanks to Craig Wilson from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, whom I met at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in 2008, I’ve come to see clearly the devilish scheme they’ve employed to win power.

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Representatives from Walmart bask in the glow of receiving the DC Chamber’s Business of the Year Award. /Photo by Roy Lewis

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or the past 75 years, the DC Chamber of Commerce has represented the varied interests of businesses and business leaders in the District of Columbia.

The city’s business community sits in the middle of an economic boon which is and has transformed the nation’s capital. This past weekend, the chamber recognized seven honorees at the 2014 DC Chamber’s Choice Awards & Gala for their exceptional contributions to the growth of the District.

More than 1,000 guests enjoyed the special evening at the Marriott Marquis Washington Hotel in Northwest, and Chamber President and CEO Harry Wingo said the group of honorees was chosen for their exemplary and unselfish actions that has enhanced and raised the quality of life in the city. Veteran journalist Tom Sherwood of NBC4 served as master of ceremonies.

“This is one of our bigger events. It reminds people that the power of the chamber is in its numbers,” said Wingo, 48, attending his first gala as the chamber’s leader. “It really is a community, a chamber of community. This reminds friends, stakeholders, and the government that when we get together, it’s just people.”

Wingo said the chamber would continue to be a vocal advocate for businesses at city hall, especially as the city transitions to a new mayor.

“We want a more business-friendly city and create jobs all over D.C. We’re continuing to advocate, connect and teach. That’s what’s on our plate,” Wingo explained. “I care about the East End – Wards 7 and 8 which needs technology, education and medical opportunities. Wards 7 and 8 are always on my heart and on my mind.”

Kristina Bouweiri, the gala’s chair and president and CEO of Reston Limousine, noted in her welcome that D.C. businesses have faced and overcome a range of local and national challenges, but are enjoying a significant success.

“Our city and region … have struggled with challenges in the public and private sectors, nevertheless, the capital’s business community continues to be a vibrant, thriving landscape,” Bouweiri said. “Corporations large and small continue to open offices downtown and beyond and commercial real estate developments underway have brought new life to neighborhoods throughout the District.”

Wingo and Bouweiri praised the honorees, saying they contributed by creating jobs and shaping policy. Their investments of time, money and resources have had a significant impact on the District, the pair said.

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CHAMBER continued from Page 36 firm won the Economic Impact Award. Hines is currently completing the construction phase of CityCenterDC, a 10acre mixed-use development in downtown Washington that includes residential office and public open spaces.

Other honorees included: Disabled American Veterans (Community Impact Award); DC Water’s General Manager George Hawkins (Business Leader of the Year Award); Walmart (Business of the Year); Marie Johns (Chairman’s Distinction Award); Events DC (Chamber’s Choice Award); and D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (Lifetime Legacy Award).

Wingo, Chamber Board Chairman Anthony Lewis and Mayor Vincent C. Gray presented Norton her award.

“She is one of the most extraordinary people I’ve ever met,” Gray said. “It’s absolutely amazing what a person can do with no vote. No one has been able to do what she does.”

Gray, 71, said Norton, 77, has fought an uphill battle in Congress as an advocate for the District’s autonomy and independence. He said District residents have to remain committed to the fight for statehood.

“It takes all of us in this room to say enough is enough,” Gray said.

The chamber paid a special

tribute to Margaret Beatrice Hill Stewart, 97, matriarch of the Stewart family and owner of the Stewart Funeral Home in Northeast, which has served the District for 114 years. Stewart, who died on June 24 this year, served as the first woman president of the chamber.

Miguel Adams, 52, said the gala and events like it, plays a crucial role.

“This is very important because it encourages businesses around the District and community to be aware of what the chamber’s doing. It’s imperative for citizens to know the great job the chamber’s doing in the community,” said Adams, an account liaison for Heartland Hospice.

“I’ve been coming every year with a friend from Cohn-Resnick. I enjoy the camaraderie.

I enjoy the encouragement the award recipients receive and the work they do in the community.”

“I’m sitting there thinking that I want to win the award.”

Adams’ friend Mario Lloyde agreed, saying that the event offered guests a chance to network, to see what other businesses are doing and interact with people who are movers and shakers in the business world.

“As Mayor Gray said, D.C. is one of the coolest cities in the country,” said Lloyde, 42, managing partner at Vision Realty Management, headquartered in Columbia, Maryland. “D.C. is an economic powerhouse which

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DC Chamber Board Chairman Anthony Lewis presented local business woman Marie Johns with the Chairman’s Distinction Award for being a champion of small business and for her civic and government service. /Photo by Roy Lewis

means the business climate improves and you attract people, more business.”

Maria S. Gomez, founder of Mary’s Center, a community-based nonprofit focused on maternal and child care for immi-

grants, said she enjoyed the affair.

“I think it’s nice to bring businesses together to talk, learn and celebrate the city’s businesses and accomplishments,” said Gomez. “One thing I always say, though, is that we don’t talk about how this affects people who aren’t “there” economically.

I don’t want to put a damper on this, but this is real. They’re closing down shelters.We need to also enhance the for-profit and nonprofit connection.”

Michele V. Hagans captured the gala’s essence.

“It was fantastic, the honorees were great, all great supporters of the city,” said Hagans, president of Fort Lincoln Realty Company and the driving force behind the Dakota Crossings development in Northeast. “The chamber’s a wonderful organization which does a lot for the city, as you can see from the people they honored.” WI

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Usher Brings Tour to D.C. Stage Showman Promises Loads of Surprises

By D. Kevin McNeir WI Contributing Writer As the leaves fall and temperature continue to drop, many look to indoor events for fun and entertainment.

Now after three years away from the touring scene, one Grammy Award-winning singer and dancer prepares to bring his sizzling show to 27 North American cities with D.C. near the top of the list.

“With ‘The UR Experience,’

I want to give my fans an ever-changing live show full of surprises and special guests,” said R&B superstar Usher Raymond IV – known to his fans simply as “Usher.”

“I am really excited to be with my fans and give them an Usher experience like they’ve never seen or heard before,” he said.

“The UR Experience” kicks off in Montreal on Nov. 1 and

Grammy Award-winning singer, dancer and actor Usher will bring his North American tour to D.C.’s Verizon Center on Monday, Nov. 10. /Photo courtesy of Live Nation Entertainment

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Christmas Celebration 2014 Evangel Multi-Media & Arts Center in Upper Marlboro, MD returns with the most spectacular and popular full-scale holiday musical ever, “Christmas Celebration 2014.” This year’s extravaganza features gospel music’s biggest and brightest stars including, Yolanda Adams, Donnie McClurkin, Marvin Sapp, Tamela Mann, Erica Campbell, James Fortune and Zacardi Cortez. With only twelve performances, December 6th through the 21th, this is a “must see” Christmas favorite that you don’t want to leave off your to-do-list list this year.

In its 24th season, “Christmas Celebration 2014” for two and a half hours, you will be enthralled by 10 scenes of Christmas taking you back in time to the Victorian era, modern-day, and biblical times. CC2014 will be transformed as the birth, crucifixion and resurrection of Christ comes to life on stage. You will be swept away as beautiful camels, sheep, llama, horses, dogs and goats parade the isles and set the tone for a surreal nativity scene. This production is filled with non-stop excitement including a fascinating light show, innovative DL2 technology and other special effects that illuminate a cast of over 200 men, women and children. The lively and spirited dance scenes, dramatic imagery and phenomenal singing will have you clapping, laughing and talking back to the performers.

This holiday classic has been entertaining audiences of all ages and is slated to attract over 25,000 ticketgoers. Evangel’s 140,000 square foot facility and world-class theater comfort make every moment enjoyable, every view memorable and the high-tech audio system brings the stage to you. This is truly an event for the entire family. An event of this magnitude may never happen again. You don’t want to miss this!!!”

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LIFESTYLE USHER continued from Page 38 continues through cities that include: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Vancouver and on Monday, Nov. 10 at the Verizon Center in Northwest. Special guests on the tour include August Alsina and DJ Cassidy.

Usher’s return to the stage will be the first time that he’s headlined a tour in three years and follows on the heels of a blistering performance at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. Already, the buzz has started about his new single and video “She Came to Give It To You” – one of the new songs that he will showcase when on stage.

Much has been said about the challenges Usher faced when he and his wife decided to part ways. He said he used those life-altering events and put them to creative use in what he believes resulted in some of the best music of his 20-year career.

In 2010, Usher released his seventh CD, “Raymond V. Raymond,” which focused on his being single once again and a father. The collection sold more than seven million tracks and ringtones combined and held the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s R&B chart for seven weeks. His sequel release, “Versus,” allowed the heartthrob to reach out to listeners in new ways.

“I feel more connected to my female fan base as a single man,” Usher said.

The CD brings plenty of sensuality in several of the songs but also includes material that’s just right for the dance club after a long week at work.

Usher said that he wanted to test himself creatively and to explore new musical boundaries – something that he’s done since first being discovered 20 years ago on “Star Search.”

When he comes to the District next week, he’ll feature music from his eighth studio album, “UR,” which he described as “everything you can imagine.”

Eric Bellinger, one of the producers of “UR,” who teamed up with the likes of Jermaine Dupri and Bryan-Michael Cox, compared the new album’s music to Usher’s megahit “Confessions” (2004) which catapulted his career, selling more than 20 million copies worldwide and earning

the rank as the top solo album of the 2000s decade.

“The [new] album shows that he is still Usher,” Bellinger said.

Fans have apparently agreed given the response to “Good Kisser,” a dance-heavy throwback R&B track that served as the lead single from the “UR” collection. Since “Confessions,” much of Usher’s music has had an autobiographical nature with an emphasis on lifestyle, relationships and love.

The 36-year-old artist recently added actor to his list of accomplishments after completing the filming of his role as Sugar Ray Leonard in the upcoming film, “Hands of Stone,” a biopic of champion

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ARIES Harmonious communications are part of your charm, and you’ll get far this week by speaking your words in an easy-going way. You’ll find that your domestic arrangements are very comfortable to you. Soul Affirmation: I let my words reveal the not-so-hidden truth about my being. Lucky Numbers: 3, 4, 12 TAURUS This week is a good week to get in touch with your emotional self. You will respond well to what people close to you will ask from you.

Your loved ones will appreciate your kindness when they find out how highly sensitive you are to their needs. Soul Affirmation: My life itself is my greatest creation. Lucky Numbers: 8, 19, 54

“Justice While Black”

by Robbin Shipp, Esq. and Nick Chiles, c.2014, Bolden $14.00 / $17.50 Canada, 160 pages

By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer

You have the right to remain silent.

But then, you already know that. You’ve seen it all your life on TV, read it in books, heard it in movies. It’s almost become a cliché.

You have the right to remain silent, but you also have the right to speak up – which is precisely one of the things you don’t want to do if you’re arrested. In “Justice While Black” by Robbin Shipp, Esq. and Nick Chiles, you’ll learn why, among other things.

It is a sobering story: One in three young black men can expect to be jailed in his lifetime. The number of imprisoned African-Americans is disproportionate with the number of jailed whites in this country.

Everyone with dark skin knows about Driving While Black and Shopping While Black.

And, of course, there are the headlines ...

The fact is that if you’re black – particularly if you’re a black male, Shipp says – you are vulnerable to being a potential suspect in a crime. It doesn’t matter who you are, who your father is, or even if you’re innocent. As soon as you’re put in the back of a police car, you’re probably going to jail.

If that happens, the first thing to remember is to go against human nature and shut up. Be polite, answer questions succinctly, and don’t try to talk yourself out of anything. It won’t work; it could make things worse.

Know your constitutional rights, laws of search and seizure, and other rules, and

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GEMINI You know what you want and you have the ability to make it happen. Step into action at work this week and you will get a lot done.

You can get what you want without being too demanding. Enjoy the time you have with your family. True rewards come from those who are related to you by blood. Soul Affirmation: Truth is revealed in the smallest grain of sand. Lucky Numbers: 2, 4, 6

teach them to your children. Shipp says that the Nation of Islam has proven the propriety of this; rarely does she see Muslim clients in or out of jail.

Know how to proceed when stopped while driving or walking. Learn to keep impulses in control when faced with arrest. Remember that the prison system is driven by economics. Don’t think that you can’t afford a private lawyer; talent doesn’t necessarily cost much. Ask questions and accept advice, but think hard before accepting a plea deal.

And, above all, never stop hoping.

Turn on the news, pick up the paper, and you know that everything’s changed – or has it? A basic history of African-Americans, police, and prison is part of what you’ll find inside “Justice While Black.”

Like a gavel on a judge’s bench, author Shipp (with Nick Chiles) hammers home point after important point on each page with information that will make you want to take notes (but you don’t have to; there’s a handy synopsis in the back). Her advice covers adults and children as young as 4 years old for males and females and includes tips on minimizing trouble and finding the right attorney. I was astounded at this book (oh, those stats!) and at what can be learned in 160 short pages.

While Shipp adamantly states that this book doesn’t replace face-to-face counsel, I absolutely believe its $14 price tag is an invaluable beginning for your family’s protection. For you, “Justice While Black” could be the right book on your shelf.WI

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CANCER Live this week with an adventurer’s spirit. Trade in the comfortable for the exciting; the reliable for intriguing; the familiar for the new. Perhaps a change of scenery will get you started. You will rediscover feelings that you have denied yourself for a while. Soul Affirmation: Communication is a skeleton key that fits many doors. Lucky Numbers: 10, 12, 13 LEO If you’ve just made a power move in your work life or love life, you couldn’t have timed it any better. There will be a new level of appreciation and admiration for your leadership and forcefulness. Soul Affirmation: I work hard to combat envy this week. Lucky Numbers: 15, 30, 34 VIRGO You’ve made your point. Now wait. Wait for the feedback about the impact it had on the people around you. Be careful of those who don’t celebrate with you. They feel the impact and are resisting the positive effects. Soul Affirmation: Before goodness can come I must expect goodness. Lucky Numbers: 5, 16, 23 LIBRA Be sharp! All of your needs will be met in indirect ways. Gifts will come from unexpected sources. They will be carefully packaged to go unnoticed. Unwrap everything and look inside. There will be empty boxes, but there will also be a prize in an unanticipated situation. Soul Affirmation: I look for the good in all that comes to me this week. Lucky Numbers: 3, 10, 41 SCORPIO Don’t respond to situations in a hasty manner this week. Your impulsive side is strong. Suppress it. Play a game called self-control. You know that this is the kind of game that you can win easily. Smile, as you play at not being emotionally affected by an important matter, and eventually you really won’t be affected. Soul Affirmation: I give my mind a holiday again this week. Lucky Numbers: 4, 28, 50 SAGITTARIUS Offer to help someone in your office who is struggling with a difficult project that you have mastered in the past. There will be several birthday celebrations that you are invited to. Attend them all! Celebrate! Soul Affirmation: I give thanks for who I am this week. Lucky Numbers: 12, 19, 22 CAPRICORN Think of who you like to have fun with. Give them a call.

Plan something that diverts you from your unexciting tasks. Spend some money. Find a place that jumps. Jump with it. Flirt. Even serious people flirt once in a while, especially if you’ve worked your buns off all week.

Soul Affirmation: The true path is mapped out by my impulses. Lucky Numbers: 9, 10, 27 AQUARIUS You’re likely to experience a blast from the past. An acquaintance will meet up with you again. Don’t be shy in establishing a more solid friendship this time. It could lead to something important professionally or personally. Love sometimes works better the second time around. Soul Affirmation: Smooth communication is the key to my success this week.

Lucky Numbers: 16, 17, 20 PISCES Who are the people who are empowered to assist you? The material objective you are focused on right now can be carried out. All you need is some assistance. Ask for it. It’s coming soon. Soul Affirmation: I let positive emotions carry me through the week. Lucky Numbers: 18, 25, 14

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Woodrow Wilson Defeats H.D. Woodson, 21-20

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The Black Athlete: Not Black Enough

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By Omar Tyree In early October, the Seattle Seahawks’ Super Bowl-winning quarterback, Russell Wilson, published a revealing article on ThePlayersTribune.com where he discussed his years of being a bully in grade school.

Wilson realized that it would be beneficial to tarnish his squeakyclean image so more fans and players could relate to him. But now it has been reported that unnamed “sources” within the Seahawks locker room claim some players don’t consider Wilson “black enough.”

It seems like just yesterday when Sen. Barack Obama was questioned about not being black enough while running for the presidency in 2008. Former Miami Dolphins lineman, Jonathan Martin, was deemed not black enough by his African-American teammates a year ago when he was bullied and called the N-word by white veteran player, Richie Incognito. A year before that, Washington’s popular Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III was called a “cornball brother” by African-American sports writer Rob Parker, who was quoting a comment he overheard at his Detroit barbershop.

The dynamic of African-Americans mistrusting, ostracizing and bullying each other into fitting certain stereotypes has been a long and conflicting battle.

On the one hand, blacks need to band together to benefit the race on issues such as politics, fair education, employment, housing, taxation and justice. But when it comes to individual beliefs, ideas, habits, likes, dislikes and behaviors, each person should have the right to be who they are.

Restricting individualism is problematic. There have been far too many disputes about how someone looks, walks, talks, dresses, who they hang out with, what music they listen to, and who they marry.

I participated in such race bullying in college, where I joined in teasing certain small-town kids who were not considered to be urban cool. When you’re born and raised in urban meccas like Philadelphia, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Detroit, you tend to associate being black with being urban. Anyone who is not is considered “country,” “corny,” “backwards,” “bama,” or “not black enough.”

The most harmful type of black-on-black bullying is when we accuse someone of “acting white,”

Woodrow Wilson quarterback Steven Williams Jr. leaves H.D. Woodson defensive back DuWayne Johnson behind and scores the game-winning touchdown on Saturday at Woodrow Wilson High School’s Tiger Stadium in Northwest. Wilson defeated H.D. Woodson, 21-20. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

“selling out” or being an “oreo.”

Without realizing the many societal implications involved, “acting white” often becomes a label for African-Americans who have higher academic standards, speak correct English, read books, live in wealthier neighborhoods, are successful at their goals, and mix easily with white people.

But if those things make you “not black enough,” then what is “acting black” and being “real” – having low academic standards, speaking broken English, never reading anything, living in poverty,

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never reaching your goals and not being comfortable around whites?

Think about it. What exactly are we saying when we compare the words “black” and “white?”

The last time I checked the dictionary, everything “white” is listed as fresh, clean, innocent, angelic, perfect, pure, bright and new. In contrast, “black” is defined as dark, evil, deadly, mysterious, deceptive, violent, secretive and demonic.

Ironically, the color black is also identified with power and elegance, like Black Power and blacktie affairs. However, that’s not the The Washington Informer

definition of the word “black” that African-Americans are referring to when they claim that someone isn’t black enough, I assure you.

What do they mean by the term?

I’ve never used it because I understand that there are degrees to everything. And your “not black enough” may be someone else’s “too black.”

Like Incognito’s use of the N-word last year, the African-American term “not black enough” will continue to spur debate.

One has to wonder if the Se

attle Seahawks’ record was 8-0 or 7-1 instead of 5-3, whether Russell Wilson’s degree of blackness would have ever become an issue.

Hence, losing and complaining about your teammates becomes a “black thing,” while winning and loving your guys is all right and “white.” Think about it.

Omar Tyree is a New York Times-bestselling author and an NAACP Image Award winner.

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Showtime for NewLook Wizards

Washington Opens 2014-15 Season Ready to Deliver

By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer It’s game time.

It also maybe “Showtime East” as the Washington Wizards prepare to open their 2014-15 season with high expectations, a dynamic young backcourt and a battle-tested Hall of Fame veteran seeking one more championship before calling it a career.

“There’s real reason for optimism in Washington, D.C., for the first time since the late 1970s, and that’s not an endorsement of the Jimmy Carter administration,” Yahoo Sports’ Ben Rohrbach said. “The Wizards have NBA Finals aspirations,” he said.

The journey began Wednesday in Miami against the Heat, a team that’s been to the Finals in each of the last four seasons.

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fore heading back to the Verizon Center in Northwest, where they will open their home schedule on Saturday against the Milwaukee Bucks.

“This is our year. This is our time, and I haven’t come across anyone that I know who isn’t excited about this year,” said Kevin Curry, a Wizards fan who lives in Northeast.

“I know that [starting shooting guard] Bradley Beal is injured right now, but he’ll be back by December, just in time to get back in sync with [star guard] John Wall and take us to the Promised Land,” said Curry, 30.

In addition to Wall and Beal, who many said have the ability to emulate or recreate the “Showtime” era of Magic Johnson’s Los Angeles Lakers, the Wizards have in newcomer Paul Pierce a hungry veteran with championship experience who’s ticketed for the Hall of Fame.

“Pierce has plodded his way through NBA lanes since 1998, so

The Washington Wizards open their 2014-15 season on Wednesday against the Miami Heat, and many are predicting that the addition of future Hall of Famer Paul Pierce could help Washington win an NBA title. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

the old man game is nothing new to him,” Rohrbach said. “In his first experiment outside of Boston, a 36-year-old version of the former NBA Finals MVP averaged fewer points than any other season in his 16-year career. Although, some of

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that might be attributed to what old friend Kevin Garnett described as erstwhile [former Brooklyn Nets] coach Jason Kidd’s inability to define roles for veterans whose NBA identities were evolving,” Rohrbach said.

Pierce’s unrivaled footwork and his natural-born scoring ability don’t fade so fast with age, Rohrbach added.

Also, Pierce plodded his way to another remarkably efficient offensive season last year, submitting a true shooting percentage (59.5) in line with his 2008 title campaign.

And vintage Pierce, the man his peers call “Truth,” returned for the playoffs, delivering the dagger in Game 1 of Brooklyn’s first-round series against the Raptors and extending the Nets’ season with a buzzer-beating block in Game 7.

“When Beal returns, he and Wall will form one of the best guard tandems in the East, if not the entire league,” said Sports Illustrated’s Chris Johnson, who picked the Wizards to win their division over Miami and the Charlotte Hornets.

“Wall added polish to his offensive game last season and improved his three-point shooting, while Beal continued to show flashes of why all those Ray Allen comparisons aren’t so far-fetched. As promising as the Wizards’ guard situation looks, their most significant moves this offseason impacted the frontcourt,” Johnson said.

“The Wizards re-upped with Marcin Gortat, bolstered their big man rotation with Kris Humphries, DeJuan Blair and with Pierce on a palatable deal.”

Johnson said Pierce’s clutch shot making and postseason experience should do wonders for a team coming off its first playoff series win in

nine years, adding that a consensus has hardened on the revamped Cleveland Cavaliers and the retooled Chicago Bulls as the top two teams in the East, but the next tier starts with Washington.

It’s also a matter of the Wizards’ continued growth, many NBA experts said.

Two seasons ago, Washington finished with a 29-53 record, and any championship talk met immediate laughter and ridicule. However, with the steady improvement of their young superstar backcourt of Wall, 24, and Beal, 21, the Wizards won 44 games last year, stunned the Bulls in five games during the opening round of the playoffs and battled Indiana for six games before finally bowing out.

“When I look at the Eastern Conference, we can be right up there with the rest of them,” said Pierce, who inked a two-year, $10.8 million deal with the Wizards as a free agent this year. “I think we match up well with pretty much anybody in the East and, not only the East, the entire NBA,” he said.

Pierce’s new teammates are also showing confidence, much of which has to do with the arrival of the former Boston Celtics forward. Pierce also counts as the lone player on the Wizards roster to have won an NBA title.

“I love Paul Pierce’s fighting spirit,” said Gortat, 30, who in July signed a five-year, $60 million contract extension to stay in Washington. “We still need to keep building chemistry, but hopefully he’s the guy that can bring us to the finals.”WI

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I have my philosophy: One should understand the law of impermanence – that all things are unstable and have no essence that’s unchanging. They arise depending on conditions, and when these conditions are no longer there, these things break up. Our father and mother, other children and grandchildren who have died have done so according to this unbending law of nature. If we think according to this truth, in this way our minds will be at peace, for we see the way things must be. If we don’t see the truth, then we suffer, but when we see the truth of all things according to their nature, our mind is happy and at peace.

The law of impermanence directly relates to the fact that all things are in flux and have no essence that’s unchanging. This truth is an insurance policy against failure when you realize that everything changes – rocks, mountains.

The Earth is constantly revolving and changing; every cell in a person’s body continues to mutate. If cells didn’t continue to change, we would die.

You will inevitably experience change. One day, while I was listening to one of my favorite speakers, Dr. Wayne Dyer, he showed pictures of himself at different stages of his life. However, he reminded us that he was still the same person. The young boy in elementary school, although he continued change on a daily basis, never stopped being Wayne Dyer – his essence remained the same on the inside.

The human eye and mind can be deceptive. Eventually, he got to the point where his hair thinned and aches and pains began to set in due to age. Yet, on the inside, he felt the same as he did as a little boy and a young man.

The spirit that lives within us is the breath of life that the Heavenly Father gives to us, and when our time to live here on this Earth ends, that breath of life is taken back from us. And we return where we came from.

It’s a perfect example of how impermanent we are. Each day, the sun rises and sets. Seasons come and go – on that you can depend.

Even when there’s a major storm, if the time is 9 a.m., you can be sure that the sun will rise in the east, and by dusk, around 6 p.m., it will surely have moved to the western skies.

When we govern our own lives in a similar fashion, constant, steady, and continue to do what it is that we have been sent to this Earth to do, a rhythm develops.

There’s a Scripture in the book of James that talks about us being like a puff of smoke. Here today and gone tomorrow. Have you ever watched smoke from a chimney evaporate into thin air? You see it for one moment, and then it’s gone. Even rocks change during the winter months and during rainy periods. When the rock freezes, it cracks, and eventually each smaller rock will splinter until one day when the rocks will turn into grains of sand.

This Earth has been standing

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millions of years. That’s more time than you and I can imagine. Have you ever looked at buildings that are here today and wondered what the Earth will look like in 200 or 300 years? It will surely be different!

Each generation designs homes, buildings, cars, planes, and trains based on the knowledge gleaned during a particular period. But there’s always something new that someone else will discover yet again, like electricity, cellphones, televisions, microwaves, and the list goes on.

Remember that nothing is permanent. Everything changes. Those of you who don’t continue to change and grow along with these times will certainly be left behind!WI Lyndia Grant is an author, inspirational and motivational speaker, radio talk show host and columnist; visit her new website at www.lyndiagrant.com and call 202-518-3192. Tune in Fridays at 6 p.m. to the radio talk show, 1340 AM, WYCB, a Radio One Station.

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Pilgrim Baptist Church

Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church

Pilgrim Baptist Church

The Reverend Lyndon Shakespeare Interim Priest

Rev. Louis B. Jones II Pastor

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

Schedule of Services: Sunday School – 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service – 11:00 AM Communion Service – First Sunday Prayer Service/Bible Study – Tuesday, 6:30 PM www.blessedwordoflifechurch.org e-mail: church@blessedwordoflifechurch.org

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

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

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

Twelfth Street Christian Church

Campbell AME Church Reverend Daryl K. Kearney, Pastor

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

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

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

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”

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”

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

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.

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Isle of Patmos Baptist Church

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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Mount Carmel Baptist Church

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Joseph N. Evans, Ph.D Senior Pastor 901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423

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

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

Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Bishop

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

Crusader Baptist Church

Service and Times Sunday Worship Service 11:00 a.m.

Communion every Sunday 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School 10:00 a.m.

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

Motto; “Discover Something Wonderful.”

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

Mt. Zion Baptist Church

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

St. Stephen Baptist Church

Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church

Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor

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

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

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

Blessed Word of Life Church

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

Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor Harold Andrew, Assistant Pastor

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

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

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

Church of Living Waters

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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202-561-4100 or email rburke@washingtoninformer.com Zion Baptist Church

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

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

“Where Jesus is the King”

Israel Baptist Church

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

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

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

Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.

Holy Communion: 11:00 a.m., 3rd Sun. Bible Institute Wednesday - 1:30 pm Prayer Meeting Wednesday - 12:00 Noon

2324 Ontario Road, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 232-1730 Sunday School – 9:30 am Sunday Worship Service – 11:00 am Baptismal Service – 1st Sunday – 9:30 am Holy Communion – 1st Sunday – 11:00 am Prayer Meeting & Bible Study – Wednesday -7:30 pm

Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor

St. Luke Baptist Church

Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor

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

Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor

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

King Emmanuel Baptist Church

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

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

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Rehoboth Baptist Church

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

Salem Baptist Church

Emmanuel Baptist Church

Florida Avenue 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

Holy Trinity United Baptist Church

Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor

Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert SR. Pastor

623 Florida Ave.. NW • WDC. 20001 Church (202) 667-3409 • Study (202) 265-0836 Home Study (301) 464-8211 • Fax (202) 483-4009

4504 Gault Place, N.E. Washington, D.C 20019 202-397-7775 – 7184

Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 a.m.

Sunday Church School: 8:45 – 9:45 a.m.

Holy Communion: Every First Sunday Intercessory Prayer: Monday – 7:00-8:00 p.m.

Pastor’s Bible Study: Wednesday –7:45 p.m.

Midweek Prayer: Wednesday – 7:00 p.m.

Noonday Prayer Every Thursday

9:30AM. Sunday Church School 11:00 Am. Sunday Worship Service The Lord’s Supper 1st Sunday Wednesday 7:00pm Prayer & Praise Services 7:30pm. Bible Study Saturday before 4th Sunday Men, Women, Youth Discipleship Ministries 10:30am A Christ Centered Church htubc@comcast.net

Matthews Memorial Baptist Church

Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith

Christ Embassy DC

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

Dr. C. Matthew Hudson, Jr, Pastor

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

Elder Herman L. Simms, Pastor

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

Kelechi Ajieren Coordinator

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

New Members Class 9:30a.m.

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

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

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

Sunday Worship Service 10:00 A.M.

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

The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42

New Commandment Baptist Church

Peace Baptist Church

Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor

Rev. Dr. Michael T. Bell

Sunday Morning Worship Service 7:15 am & 10:50 am Sunday School 9:30am Sunday Morning Worship Service 10:50am Wednesday Prayer & Testimonies Service 7:30pm Wednesday School of the Bible 8:00pm Wednesday - Midweek Prayer Service 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Services: Sunday Worship 11 AM Sunday School 10 AM Wednesday Mid-Week Worship, Prayer & Bible Study - Wed. 7 PM “A Church Where Love Is Essential and Praise is Intentional”

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

Shiloh Baptist Church

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church

1864-2014

Rev. Alonzo Hart Pastor

Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

The Church Where GOD Is Working....

And We Are Working With GOD

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

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

Sunday Church School: 9:15 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship: 10:40 a.m.

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

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

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

Morning Worship: 10:55 a.m.

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

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

150 Years of Service

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

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

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

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

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

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Friday Evening Service 7:00 P.M. ; Last Friday “…Giving Your Life a Meaning” www.Christembassydc.org Christ.embassy.dc@hotmail.com

Pennsylvania Ave. Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Kendrick E. Curry Pastor

712 18th Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Phone 202-399-3450/ Fax 202-398-8836

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

Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 P.M.

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

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

Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.

Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.

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

Prayer Services: Tuesday 7:30 p.m.

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

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LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Probate Division

Probate Division

Probate Division

Probate Division

Probate Division

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Administration No. 2014 ADM 985

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1032

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1021

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1030

Administration No. 2014 ADM 780

Maxine K. Rosborough

Spotswood Alexander Hunt

Decedent

Decedent

Leon Randall

Lawrence E. Smith

Lafayette Battle

Decedent

Decedent

Decedent

David C. Harty

Robert L. Bell, Esquire

9900 E Greenbelt Road, Unit 125

245 Farragut Street, NW

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Lanham, MD 20706

Washington, DC 20011

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Attorney

Attorney

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Karen V. Wright, whose address is 526 Kenyon Street,

Audrey I. Johnson, whose address is 1758 Shepherd

Mary Jane Battle, whose address is 2747 4th Street,

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

NW, #101, Washington, DC 20010, was appointed

Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed

NE, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed Personal

Personal Representative of the estate of Leon Randall,

Personal Representative of the estate of Lawrence E.

Representative of the estate of Lafayette Battle, who

Linda J. Rosborough, whose address is 3911 Blain Street,

Veronica Helen McCoy, whose address is 5413 Kansas

who died on August 31, 2014 with a Will, and will

Smith, who died on September 20, 2011 with a Will, and

died on January 25, 2014 without a Will, and will

NE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed

serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and

will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs

serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and

Representative of the estate of Maxine Rosborough,

Personal Representative of the estate of Spotswood

heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their

and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter

heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their

who died on February 5, 2014 with a Will, and will

Alexander Hunt, who died on June 22, 2014 with a Will,

appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such

their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such

appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such

serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and

and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown

heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their

heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall

appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall

appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall

appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall

appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such

enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to

be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street,

be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street,

be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street,

appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall

such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will)

N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001,

N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001,

N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001,

be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street,

shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th

on or before April 16, 2015. Claims against the decedent

on or before April 16, 2015. Claims against the decedent

on or before April 23, 2015. Claims against the decedent

N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001,

Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C.

shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the

shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the

shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the

on or before April 16, 2015. Claims against the decedent

20001, on or before April 16, 2015. Claims against the

Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a

Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a

Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a

shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the

decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a

copy to the undersigned, on or before April 16, 2015,

copy to the undersigned, on or before April 16, 2015,

copy to the undersigned, on or before April 23, 2015,

Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a

copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of

or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or

or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or

or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or

copy to the undersigned, on or before April 16, 2015,

Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April

legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this

legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this

legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this

or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or

16, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be

legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this

heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive

notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall

notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall

notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall

notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall

a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first

so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address

so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address

so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address

so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address

publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including

and relationship.

and relationship.

and relationship.

and relationship.

name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication:

Date of first publication:

Date of first publication:

Date of first publication:

Date of first publication:

October 16, 2014

October 16, 2014

October 23, 2014

October 16, 2014

October 16, 2014 Karen V. Wright

Audrey I. Johnson

Mary Jane Battle

Linda J. Rosborough

Veronica Helen McCoy

Personal Representative

Personal Representative

Personal Representative

Personal Representative

Personal Representative

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TRUE TEST COPY

TRUE TEST COPY

TRUE TEST COPY

TRUE TEST COPY

Anne Meister

Anne Meister

Anne Meister

Anne Meister

Anne Meister

Register of Wills

Register of Wills

Register of Wills

Register of Wills

Register of Wills

Washington Informer

Washington Informer

Washington Informer

Washington Informer

Washington Informer

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

PROBATE DIVISION

Probate Division

Probate Division

Probate Division

Probate Division

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Foreign No. 2014 FEP 132

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1013

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1006

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1031

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1051

September 27, 2013

Palestine Jenkins

Janie J. McLaughlin

Helen G. Wright aka Helen Wright

Date of Death

Decedent

Decedent

Decedent

Eddie R. Ball, Jr.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

1308 Ninth Street, NW, Suite 300

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Washington, DC 20001

Lisa Jenkins, whose address is714 49th Street, NE,

Dorian Eugene Talford, whose address is 26054

Michelle H. Vance, whose address is 11235 Oak Leaf

Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal

Neptune’s Landing, Tega Cay, SC 29708, was

Drive, #1807, Silver Spring, MD 20901, was appointed

Representative of the estate of Palestine Jenkins, who

appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Janie J.

Personal Representative of the estate of Helen G. Wright

died on September 10, 2014 without a Will, and will

McLaughlin, who died on July 9, 2014 with a Will, and

aka Helen Wright, who died on August 13, 2014

serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and

will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs

with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision.

heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their

and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are

Personal Representative of the estate of Maxi Seleme aka

Georges County, State of Maryland, on April 24, 2014.

appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such

their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such

unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Maxi Tapia de Seleme, who died on October 2, 2008

appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall

appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall

Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of

with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision.

upon Tammy Drayton, 1811 East Capitol Street, SE,

be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street,

be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street,

decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills,

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are

Washington, DC 20003 whose designation as District of

N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001,

N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001,

D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor

unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills,

on or before April 16, 2015. Claims against the decedent

on or before April 23, 2015. Claims against the decedent

Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 16, 2015.

D.C.

shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the

shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Tammy Drayton whose address is

1811 East Capitol St., SE, Washington, DC 20003 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Eddie R. Ball, Jr., deceased, by the Orphans Court for Prince

Decedent Deborah D. Boddie, Esq.

Name of Decedent

Maxi Seleme aka Maxi Tapia de Seleme

Service of process may be made

The decedent owned the following District

Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Antonio Jose Seleme, whose address is 3830 Legation Street, NW, Washington, DC 20015, was appointed

Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor

Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a

Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a

undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed

of Columbia real property: 4718 Sheriff Rd., NE, Lot

copy to the undersigned, on or before April 16, 2015,

copy to the undersigned, on or before April 23, 2015,

with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned,

0871, Sq. 5154; 4720 Sheriff Rd., NE, Lots 0873 and

or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or

or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or

on or before April 16, 2015, or be forever barred.

0875, Sq., 5154; 2001 Alabama Ave., SE, Lot 0028,

undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed

legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this

legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this

Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent

with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned,

Sq. 5882.

notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall

notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall

who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25

on or before April 30, 2015, or be forever barred.

so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address

so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address

days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of

Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent

and relationship.

and relationship.

Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication:

Date of first publication:

Date of first publication:

October 16, 2014

October 23, 2014

October 16, 2014

Lisa Jenkins

Dorian Eugene Talford

Michelle H. Vance

Personal Representative

Personal Representative

Personal Representative

Personal Representative

TRUE TEST COPY

TRUE TEST COPY

TRUE TEST COPY

Anne Meister

Anne Meister

Anne Meister

Anne Meister

Register of Wills

Register of Wills

Register of Wills

Register of Wills

Washington Informer

Washington Informer

Washington Informer

Washington Informer

Claims against the decedent may be

presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

Date of first publication: October 16, 2014

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the

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 30, 2014 Antonio Jose Seleme Personal Representative

Tammy Drayton

50 Oct 30 - Nov 5, 2014

Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 20, 2015.

The Washington Informer

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration Number 2013 ADM 741 Estate of Catherine Stancil aka Catherine Rone Stancil Deceased NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Joe T. Winston for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representative.

Unless a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth.

In the absence of a Will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate appoint an unsupervised personal representative.

Date of first publication: October 30, 2014

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EDELMAN continued from Page 34 similar guidance was issued by the Department of Education was Jan. 19, 2001, as one of the last acts of the Clinton administration.

Catherine Lhamon, assistant secretary for civil rights in the U.S. Department of Education, said in her “Dear Colleague letter” to states, school districts, and schools: “Students of color must not be consigned to dilapidated, overcrowded school buildings that lack essential educational facilities, such as science laboratories, auditoriums, and athletic fields, and that may not be able to support the increasing infrastructure demands of rapidly expanding educational technologies while providing better facilities for other students.”

While this language may sound like a familiar argument from the desegregation cases in the 1960s when “educational technology”

DANIELS continued from Page 34 country between 2000 and 2010.

So, then, why did the GOP-controlled Texas state legislature feel compelled to enact the strictest photo ID law in the country?

For that, one can ignore the state’s blatant, relentless efforts of the past half-century to continue its historical Jim-Crow voting policies. One can just look the state’s demographic facts of life of the last decade. As Judge Ramos stated, the census found that from 2000 to 2010 Hispanic Americans accounted for 65 percent of the state’s 4 million new residents, African-Americans accounted for another 13.7 percent, and other people of color made up still another 11 percent.

As an expert on demography and voting patterns put it, “Republicans in Texas are inevitably facing a declining voter base and can gain partisan advantage by

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cent – slightly exceeding Hispanics’ 10.7 percent share nationwide, the report said.

Still, voting by Latinos is on the upswing.

Approximately 800,000 U.S. born Hispanics turn 18 each year, with at least 1 million expected to reach adulthood annually by 2024. By 2030, the number of Hispanic eligible voters is projected to top more than 40 million, according to the report.

“Since 2010, the number of Hispanic eligible voters has in-

meant filmstrips and slide rules, this new guidance recognizes that disparities still exist today and demonstrates a heightened commitment by the administration to eliminate discrimination “root and branch” and protect students’ access to education.

If students of color in a school are consigned to remedial courses and are denied a strong teacher or current textbooks, that could be discriminatory. If Advanced Placement courses are offered only in schools with the lowest enrollment of black or Latino students, or if the only district school without air conditioning is the one most Latino students attend, or if the math teacher assigned to English language learners is the only math teacher without a major or minor in math, this may be evidence of discrimination in the distribution of educational resources. The Civil Rights Act protects students both

from intentional discrimination and from discrimination that arises from the disparate impact of policies and procedures on student groups by race.

This new guidance is good and long-overdue news for poor students and students of color in education. The next step is ensuring that what is promised is delivered.

Students, parents, educators and community members who suspect children are receiving less than their fair share should seek to learn more, address problems they see, and file complaints with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights when disparities are not addressed.

Monitoring of enforcement is essential if the neediest children are to benefit. Every child deserves a level playing field and a fair chance to succeed.WI

suppressing the overwhelmingly Democratic votes of African Americans and Latinos.”

That explains the GOP’s support of photo ID laws all across the country as well—especially given the decision of the party leadership’s after their 2012 loss to reject the Republican National Committee’s proposals for an “outreach” to voters of color and other key blocs of the Democratic coalition and just concentrate on increasing their votes from whites. Of course, the only way to do that is to double down on the old GOP strategy of stoking whites’ animosity toward people of color.

This is the path the GOP has been following with increasing extremism for the past half-century—to continue what constitutes a “tragic betrayal of the highest mandates of our democratic traditions and is democracy turned upside down.”

Martin Luther King Jr. spoke those words in his “Give Us

the Ballot” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1957—eight years before the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 enabled black Americans in the South to exercise the right to vote that was theirs by birth. Would King have foreseen that today a major political party would still be trying to deny blacks and other Americans that right? Like so many of King’s speeches, words he spoke then still challenge Americans: “So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote,” he said, “I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind—it is made up for me.

I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I helped to enact—I can only submit to the edict of others.”WI

creased by 3.9 million. Their share among eligible voters nationally is also on the rise, up from 10.1% in 2010 and 8.6% in 2006 (Lopez, 2011), reflecting the relatively faster growth of the Hispanic electorate compared with other groups.”

Republicans currently hold 233 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and appear unlikely to lose control of the House. Among this year’s 14 toss-up races, most incumbents are Democrats.

“In the 36 states with gubernatorial races this year, nine have

close races. Just as with competitive U.S. Senate races, Hispanics on average account for a smaller share of eligible voters in these races than they do nationally,” the report said. “Overall, 7.9% of eligible voters in these states are Hispanic, compared with a 10.7% share nationally. Among these states, three have Hispanic eligible voter shares above 10% (Florida with 17.1%, Colorado with 14.2% and Connecticut with 10.3%) and three have voter shares below 5% (Wisconsin 3.2%, Michigan 2.9% and Maine 1.0%).

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In each midterm election since 1974, the number of Latino voters has reached a new record high, largely reflecting the community’s fast population growth. However, the share of those Latinos who actually vote on Election Day—the voter turnout rate—has lagged significantly behind other racial and ethnic groups.

“During the 2010 midterm election, a record 6.6 million Hispanics voted, representing a turnout rate of 31.2%. But more than twice as many Hispanics—14.7 million—could have voted but did not (Lopez, 2011).

By comparison, voter turnout rates were higher among blacks (44%) and whites (48.6%).”

Low voter participation rates among Hispanics can be attributed to many factors, including the relative youth of the Hispanic population.

In 2014, 33 percent of the Latino eligible voters are ages 18 to 29. However, among white eligi

ble voters the figure is 18 percent; among blacks, that share is 25 percent. Among Asians, 21 percent are between ages 18 and 29.

Even with African-Americans strategically placed in important districts, the Democratic Party may have botched this election by doing limited work with grassroots groups and largely ignoring the black press until the final two weeks of the campaignWI. George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service. He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. Curry can be reached through his website, www. georgecurry.com. You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge and George E. Curry Fan Page on Facebook.

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CLINGMAN continued from Page 35 earning $13,000 per month as mayor of Newark, New Jersey, you can’t find him with a search warrant. As Malcolm said, black voters are political “chumps.”

To add insult to injury, the Democratic National Committee is busy buying ads in black newspapers, now that it needs us again. The ads, titled, “Get his back,” come after the 2012 Obama presidential campaign raised

$1 billion but only spent $985,000 with the black press.

Since the Senate Democrat Class of 2008 took control, black folks have done worse. The Wall Street Journal (August 2014) reported, “The real median income of African-American households has fallen by 9.5%, more than any other major census classification.” Since Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in 1963, we have gone to sleep and co-opted his dream, and we have not awakened

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yet. No one can work while asleep.

Now we are being told we must keep the Democratic Senate in order to allow Obama to build his legacy during his final two years. Well, I ask, “What about our legacy?” What will be the legacy of black voters, without whom there would not be a black president? Will our legacy simply be that of a bunch of emotional automatons who just felt good about having a black president? A naive voting bloc that gave its entire “quid” but received no “quo”?

Politicians work for us; we don’t

MORIAL continued from Page 35 ed 61 percent less home equity in 2013 than in 2007. The next 45 percent reported a 29 percent loss of housing wealth, and the top 5 lost 20 percent.

Research tells us that inequality tends to persist from one generation to the next. One study found that four in 10 children raised in families in the lowest-income fifth of households remain in that quintile as adults.

Again, while Yellen said, “to the extent that opportunity itself is enhanced by access to economic resources, inequality of outcomes can exacerbate inequality of opportunity,

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Until 1968, when Republican Richard Nixon won the presidency with his “Southern strategy,” Christian segregationist White Democrats – socalled “Dixiecrats” – ruled the South, telling White voters (when Blacks could not vote) six “truths”: 1. the federal government’s a threat, 2. federal courts don’t understand the Constitution, 3. taxes are bad, 4. unions need to be eliminated, 5. you have a lousy hospital, and 6. but at least you’re White. With a simple modification, Republicans are using the same playbook.

The modern Republican “talking points” (truths) to the Whites who see a Black president in the White House and blame affirmative action and Black progress for the stagnant economy that has been hijacked by the wealthy 1 percent and the mega-corporations are: 1. the federal government’s the enemy, 2. taxes are bad, 3. the federal courts don’t understand the Constitution, 4. unions are bad, 5. you may have no health The Washington Informer

work for them. At least that’s the concept. Politics is, to borrow a phrase from Dr. Freddie Haynes, a “cauldron of contradiction,” and we are lost in that morass of political never-never land, thinking that voting is the answer to all our ills.

Black people should not become lackeys for any political party, but in total contradiction to that, we allow ourselves to be taken for granted and used during every election. The current message to blacks is simply “VOTE!” They don’t have say for

whom because they know we will vote Democrat. That’s insulting to black people, but it’s quite obvious that we don’t care.

But, in yet another effort to admonish and beseech the black people to be critical and analytical thinkers, especially when it comes to voting, I leave you with two questions for this upcoming election: What will blacks gain if we vote? What will we lose if we don’t?WI

thereby perpetuating a trend of increasing inequality,” she did not attempt to directly link how much the opportunity factors influence income and wealth inequality. But we do.

We know that opportunity is not equal when affluent families have significant resources for things like better nutrition, health care and early childhood education, while many other households have very little, if any resources, to spare for these purposes. We know that low-income families face an unfair disadvantage when public funding for safety net programs and public education is cut. We also know that the rising cost of college, the slowdown in busi-

ness formation for low-income Americans, and the huge gap in inheritances between the top and bottom rungs of the economic ladder directly impact economic prosperity and mobility.

What makes Janet Yellen’s comments about income inequality so remarkable is the fact that rarely, if ever, has a Fed chair spoken so honestly and openly about such a hot-button issue. We applaud her for speaking out, and this is an issue that should greatly concern us all.WI

insurance, and 6. but at least you’re an American. Sadly, now, even though there is a national Affordable Care Act, which has provided health coverage for 8 million Americans who had none before, the right wing has succeeded in vilifying the law so badly that many Whites – even poor ones – hate it and want to see it repealed.

Today, the White-right has also done “the math,” and they realize that the changing demographics in the country – the slowing Caucasian birth rate, the higher Black birth rate, and the much higher Latino birthrate – mean that starting in 2016 and beyond, conservative Whites will no longer be a majority of the voters.

Despite the fact that a majority of Whites voted for both of Obama’s opponents, he won two national elections with overwhelming majorities of Black and Latino support and just 30 percent of the White vote.

The right-wing solution, making it harder, if not impossible, for non-Whites to vote with bogus “voter-ID” laws, which are nothing more than voter suppression laws. They seem to

never tire.

So these wealthy robber-barons who are content to defile and pollute the Earth and exploit workers the way they stole the free labor of millions of slaves have a message for the flat-Earth-Neanderthal-thinking White folks who are blinded by race hate and envy of Obama: that he is a Marxist-Socialist-foreign-born-Muslim who would impose Sharia Law and turn America into a caliphate, robbing them of their guns and their booze, so vote against anybody who says they are for Obama.

Their strategy just might work, and America will deserve what it gets as a result of the wrong-headed policies these terrible people will impose.WI

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