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November 12, 2016 - November 12, 2016, The Afro-American A1 PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY EDITION

Volume 125 No. 16

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Forest Whitaker Touches Down in Alien Tale ‘Arrival’ C1 Commentary Kaepernick Sparks a NotSo-Silent Revolution from the Field By George Lambert

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Prince George’s • Alphas and Zetas

Push Success through Education at Career Fair

Trump in His Own Words: ‘Laziness is a Trait in Blacks’

Appreciation

Gwen Ifill, Journalism Pioneer, Was Mentor to Many

By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent zprince@afro.com

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Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C. to protest Donald Trump’s election. They are mostly young people who appear to have walked out of school to protest. See story on D1.

By Jacqueline Jones Special to the AFRO

To hear Donald Trump tell it, he’s the “least racist person on Earth” and doesn’t have a racist bone in his body—but then that’s what a lot of bigots say. In fact, like those of his ilk, he further claimed to LOVE “the Blacks,” “the Hispanics,” “the Muslims” and whichever group he happens to be denigrating at the time. However, the president-elect’s scorn of non-White, non-Christian groups has been made glaringly obvious over the decades, not only in his actions, but also his very own words. As far back as 1989, in an interview with Bryan Gumbel

“…I would love to be a welleducated Black, because I really do believe they have the actual advantage today.” –Donald Trump in 1989 during an NBC program on race, Trump displayed at the least, a cluelessness on matters of race and, at worst, willful disregard for the facts surrounding racial dynamics in America. He said, ignoring all evidence to the contrary – including the White, dynastic privilege that allowed him to launch his own empire: Continued on A3

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Gwen Ifill, a journalist who mentored many journalists, died on Nov. 14.

Television news anchor and public affairs show host and media pioneer Gwen Ifill died Nov. 14 of endometrial cancer at a hospice center in Washington, D.C. She was 61. While best known as co-anchor of “The PBS NewsHour” and moderator of the public affairs show “Washington Week,” Ifill also had a distinguished career in newspapers, working for the Boston Herald, the Baltimore Evening Sun, The Washington Post and The New York Times before moving on to NBC News and, finally, PBS. She also wrote “The Breakthrough: Politics

115th U.S. Congress Contains 50 Black Reps., a Record By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com While the election of Donald J. Trump has cast a cloud over the Nov. 8 elections, Blacks can

celebrate the 50 Black members of the U.S. Congress, the highest number in history. When the 115th

AFRO Archived Presidential Coverage Unexpected election results are not new. Such occurred in 1948 when the sitting President Harry Truman unexpectedly defeated Gov. Thomas E. Dewey who--early on-most people thought would win handily.

People Tell AFRO Writer Dewey’s Certain to Win By Douglass Hall Oct. 9, 1948 ABOARD DEWEY VICTORY SPECIAL - Governor Thomas E Dewey returned to Albany Sunday afternoon after 14 days of transcontinental campaigning during which time he traveled 8,862 miles and delivered 60 speeches to approximately half a million persons. He plans to stay in the capital just long enough “to catch up with official duties and get a little rest,” and on Sunday will Continued on A5

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Lisa Blunt Rochester is the first Black and female to represent Delaware in Congress. Courtesy photo

session of the U.S. Congress convenes on Jan. 3, 2017, there will be 47 Blacks in the U.S. House of Representatives and three in the U.S. Senate. U.S. Rep. G. K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, is looking forward to the increased numbers of Black legislators. “We look forward to continuing our work as the ‘Conscience of the Congress’ to empower America’s most neglected citizens and address their legislative concerns,” Butterfield said. Continued on A5

1st Black Marine Corps Aviator Lt. Gen. Petersen Honored with Destroyer By James Bentley AFRO Associate Editor jbentley@afro.com

The ship bearing Frank E. Petersen Jr.’s Lt. Gen. Frank name, the USS Frank E. Petersen Jr., is set E. Petersen to join the naval fleet in 2020. Petersen, a decorated military officer and fighter pilot died in 2015 at his home in Stevensville, Md. at the age of 83. On Nov. 9, at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced that the Arleigh Continued on A3

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