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Hogan Upsets Brown in Maryland Gubernatorial Stunner State Passes on Electing First AfricanAmerican Governor By Avis Thomas-Lester WI Editor-at-Large Republican businessman Larry Hogan defeated Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown in the Maryland governor’s race Nov. 4, ending, at least for now, Brown’s quest to become the state’s first African-American chief executive. Hogan, who was raised in Prince George’s County but lives in Anne Arundel, scored with voters by hammering away at his message that a Brown administration would be tantamount to four more years of Gov. Martin O’Malley, whom he claimed taxed many Marylanders into leaving the state. The shocking defeat sets up potential trouble for Hogan in Annapolis, where he faces working with a legislature controlled by Democrats. Brown, who lives in Prince George’s County, failed to connect with voters at a time when Republicans were pushing hard across the country for Democrats to join them in a revolt against President Obama and liberal policies. Some voters complained that Brown didn’t go far enough to separate himself from O’Malley and his campaign failed to outline a specific plan to carry out his agenda to institute education reform and spur job growth. During his concession speech, Brown told the cheering crowd at the Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, that he appreciated their effort and support. He seemed to

accept the defeat graciously. With his wife, Karmen, and many of the state’s Democratic leaders standing behind him and his mother and three children also on the stage, Brown told his supporters that he would continue to fight for the issues that he embraced during the campaign. He launched the effort “talking to our friends and neighbors about our shared values and goals – standing up for working families, strengthening our middle class and creating jobs and opportunities for more Marylanders,” he said. “Tonight, we fell short of our goal, but that does not and it cannot diminish the work that every one of you has done in our communities, throughout our state. So thank you.” For his part, Hogan had promised his supporters that he would defeat Brown, despite the Democrat’s larger war chest and the state’s overwhelmingly Democratic voter rolls. “This is the largest mandate for change in Maryland in 63 years,” he said during his victory celebration at the Annapolis Westin after Brown called him to concede. According to statistics from the Maryland Board of Elections, Hogan took 54 percent of the vote to Brown’s 45 percent. The defeat was even more shocking in light of the fact that the national Democratic Party had sent all four of its biggest guns to Maryland to stump for Brown, including President Obama,

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Muriel Bowser. Democrat. Mayor. After 20 grueling months on See GOVERNOR on Page 9 the campaign trail, Ward 4 Coun-

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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 When L.Y. Marlow's 23-year- domestic violence victims and stricter restraining order policies, old daughter told her the father survivors are treated. more rights for victim's families of her daughter threatened her “She's using her own personal to intervene on behalf of a viclife, and the life of their child, story, her own personal pain to tim, a domestic violence assessshe knew something had to be push forward,” Davis-Nickens ment unit coupled with further done. Out of her frustration said about Marlow. training for law enforcement with law enforcement's handling Davis-Nickens said anyone agencies, a Child's Life Protecof the situation, she decided to who reads Marlow's book will tion Act and mandatory counselstart the Saving Promise cam- “get it.” She said she “puts the ing for batterers. paign. case in such a way, the average “If we are ever going to eradi“It seems to be a vicious cycle person can get it.” She said at the cate domestic violence, we must that won't turn my family end of the day, the book will look at both sides of the coin. loose,” Marlow said. Marlow help people begin to have a dia- We need to address both the vicshared her story with the audi- logue about domestic violence. tim and the batterer,” Marlow ence at the District Heights Also present at the event was said. Domestic Violence Symposium Mildred Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see on May 7 at the District Heights wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise Municipal Center. The sympo- who was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in sium was sponsored by the utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She Family and Youth Services by a Maryland jury for his role in feels children need to be educatCenter of the city of District the Beltway Sniper attacks in ed about domestic violence. Heights and the National Hook- 2002. Mildred Muhammad is “We have to stop being pasUp of Black Women. the founder of After the Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chilMarlow has written a book, an organization that helps the dren about domestic violence,” “Color Me Butterfly,” which is a survivors of domestic violence Marlow said. story about four generations of and their children. Marlow has worked to break domestic violence. The book is “I lived in fear for six years. Six the cycle of abuse in her family, inspired by her own experiences, years in fear is a long time. It is and is confident the policies she and those of her grandmother, not an easy thing to come out is pushing for will start that her mother and her daughter. of,” she said. process. She said every time she reads Mildred Muhammad said “I plan to take these policies to excerpts from hersong book, The new children’s and she book still “We arepeople Friends”who features five friends fromadifferent culturesand exploring theirthem uniqueto want to help Congress implore can notand believe qualities using the theirwords gifts tocame create andomestic anthem of friendship, author Darla change Davenport-Powell. violence said victim must our laws,”/Courtesy MarlowPhoto. said. from her. “Color Me Butterfly” be careful of how they go into “I will not stop until these poliwon the 2007 National “Best the victim's life, and understand cies are passed.” Books” Award. that she may be in “survival Tia Carol Jones can be reached “I was just 16-years-old when mode”. at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net my eye first blackened and my “Before you get to 'I'm going lips bled,” Marlow said. to kill you,' it started as a verbal WI Elaine Davis-Nickens, president of the National Hook-Up of Black Women, said there is no consistency in the way domestic violence issues are dealt with by WI Staff Writer

Southeast Woman Pens Children’s Book, Song We have to stop being By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer

As a little girl growing up in Southeast, Darla Davenport-Powell loved to watch Saturday morning cartoons and children’s shows. “My favorites were ‘Captain Kangaroo,’ ‘Mr. Rogers,’ ‘Shari Lewis’ and Lamb Chop,’ ‘The Mickey Mouse Club’ and ‘Romper Room,’” she said. “I was so excited when the shows would begin.” However, it wasn’t long before Davenport-Powell realized a fact Roy Lewis, Nancy Shia CIRCULATION that saddened her. Paul Trantham “None of the shows had INTERNS friends that looked like me, and Roger Perryman-Brown; Capricia Galloway the lady on the Romper Room show never called my name,” 4 / May 15 - 21, 2008 The Washington Informer / www.washingtoninformer.com she said. “I screamed at the TV that I’m

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fun to play with too.” Once Davenport-Powell grew a little older, settled down, married and gave birth to her first child, Niya, she and her husband began a futile search to find dolls and books that she said looked like her and reflected the African-American culture. “Authentic African-American dolls and picture books that portrayed positive family relationships were missing on the shelves the same way I was missing from the Saturday morning TV lineup,” said Davenport-Powell, 57, who studied at Drexel University in Philadelphia, The American University in Northwest, and The Hampton Institute in Virginia. So, in 1991, she created a doll that she named after her daughter, Niya. Davenport-Powell, who now

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POWELL continued from Page 4 of commendation to Davenport-Powell, and South African composer Lebohang Morake, who’s famous for arranging and composing the music for “The Lion King” film series and stage productions. “‘We are Friends’ is a love note to children that says no matter the shape, size or color, they matter,” said Morake, who also contributed to “Rhythm of the Pride Lands” and “The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride.” Debbie Behan Garrett, who has collected black dolls for more than 20 years and wrote “Black Dolls: A Comprehensive Guide to Celebrating, Collecting and Experiencing the Passion,” also praised Davenport-Powell’s work. “Along with educational attributes, Niya teaches diversity,” Behan Garrett told the Daily Republic in California. “Formerly a baby doll, Niya has evolved into a young girl and can capture interest from young girls and teens whose doll interest has not yet faded,” she said, adding that she believes there’s a need for ethnic dolls. “Not just any black dolls will do,” Behan Garrett said. “When made as positive reflections of the people they represent, black dolls do and will sell. The only black dolls that do not sell are those that are not true representations of black people, those that are not competitively priced

“The book is dedicated to every child who has been bullied, teased or called names. It’s a mirror reflection of that value in all of us and the magic that happens when we accept each other for who we are.” – Darla Davenport-Powell and those that are not made.” Davenport-Powell said she’s fulfilling a vow she made that her daughter, Niya, would see her beauty and brilliance in the books that she reads, the dolls she plays with and the animated children’s shows she watches. She said it’s always been important that Niya, who’s now a mother, would see herself as invaluable and not invisible because every child deserves that. Her daughter marvels at how she has been transformed from a young lady who attended school, dance classes and choir rehearsals to a doll that speaks multiple languages and has become playmates to girls around the globe. She said it’s an honor to have a doll named after her. Davenport-Powell – who has two other children, Na’im, 23, who attends school in Portland, and Nigel, 19, who studies at Hampton University in Virginia – said she’s committed to continuing the legacy and creating material that everyone, partic-

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Black Facts NOV. 6 1858 - Samuel E. Cornish dies. Along with John Russwurm, the two co-founded the first Black owned and operated newspaper in America – “Freedom’s Journal.” The newspaper’s famous motto: “We wish to plead our cause.” 1901 - James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson compose “Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing.” The song becomes the “Black National Anthem.” In 1920, Johnson becomes the first Black head of the NAACP. 1962 - The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies and calls for all U.N. member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation. 1990 - Sharon Pratt Dixon (later Kelly) is elected the first Black female mayor of Washington, D.C. NOV. 7 1841 - Madison Washington, a slave aboard the brig Creole, a slave ship en route to New Orleans, from Hampton, Virginia leads a succesfull rebellion. After the slaves overpowered their crew they sailed to the Bahamas, where they were granted asylum and freedom. 1989 - L. Douglas Wilder is elected the first Black governor of Virginia since Reconstruction. Virginia was actually governed by a Black man for a brief period during Reconstruction. 1967 - Carl Stokes is elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio and becomes the first African-American elected mayor of a major city.

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NOV. 8 1898 - The Wilmington Massacre occurs. A mob of whites launch a terror campaign against Blacks in Wilmington, North Carolina. They destroy a Black newspaper plant, seize control of city government and officially leave 9 to 11 Blacks dead. However, the unofficial death toll was said to be closer to 100. The Black press building was burned. 1933 - Actress Esther Rolle is born in Pompano Beach, Florida. She is best remembered for her role

in the 1970s television series “Good Times.” 1952 - Actress Alfre Woodard born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Woodard has acted in several television series and films. NOV. 9 1731 - Multi-talented scientist and inventor Benjamin Banneker is born in Ellicott Mills (City), Maryland. He is generally considered America’s first Black scientist. Banneker constructed the first clock made in America, completed the design and layout of Washington, D.C. after Pierre L’Enfant returned to France, published a farmer’s almanac for 10 years while also studying astronomy and predicted solar eclipses. 1868 - Howard University Medical School – the first designed to train Black medical personnel – opens in Washington, D.C. There were 8 students in the first class. 1964 - Roger Arliner Young born in Clifton Forge, Virginia. She has the distinction of being the first African-American woman to receive a doctorate degree in zoology. NOV. 10 1891 - Inventor Granville T. Woods patents the electric railway. One of his most noted inventions was a system for letting the engineer of a train know how close his train was to others. 1898 - George H. White introduces the first anti-lynching legislation in the U.S. Congress. The North Carolinian was one of the last Blacks in Congress before Jim Crow laws and attitudes drove most Blacks from high elected offices. After leaving Congress, he founded a Black bank and founded an all-Black town called Whitesboro in southern New Jersey. 1957 - Charlie Sifford wins the Long Beach Open

becoming the first African-American to win a major professional golf tournament. 1994 - Famed Jazz singer Carmen McRae dies in Beverly Hills, California at the age of 74. She was born in New York City on April 8, 1920. NOV. 11 1831 - Anti-slavery rebel Nat Turner is hanged roughly two months after his capture for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in U.S. history. The minister and mystic told reporters God had called on him to lead the revolt, which left 55 whites dead. 1890 - Inventor D. McCree patents the portable fire escape. NOV. 12 1922 - Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority was founded by seven school teachers on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. 1941 - Madame Lillian Evanti founds the National Negro Opera Company. 1974 - South Africa was suspended from the U.N. General Assembly due to its racial policies. 1977 - Ernest Nathan Morial was elected the first Black mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana. 1994 - Wilma Glodean Rudolph died at the age of 54 in her home in Brentwood, Tennessee.

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“I’m humbled and grateful to stand here, the next mayor of my hometown. You told me then to carry a positive message. You told me to speak about my own vision. You told me to conduct myself with integrity, to be a woman of my word, to work harder, longer and smarter than anybody.” – Muriel Bowser, Mayor-elect

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gubernatorial positions across the country. Hundreds of elated and jubilant supporters, volunteers, friends and family filled the Howard Theatre in Northwest, chatting, dancing and snacking until election officials called the race for Bowser shortly after 11 p.m. The throng cheered wildly, jiggled placards, shouted “All Eight Wards!” and roared when Bowser, clad in an elegant blue dress, came out and high-fived dozens of political and other colleagues onstage. After stretching out her arms to acknowledge and quiet the exuberant crowd, Bowser, 42, addressed the audience. “Oh my goodness! I think Washington, D.C. has spoken and I want to thank you residents of Washington, D.C.,” she said. “… I’m humbled and grateful to stand here, the next mayor of my hometown. You told me then to carry a positive message. You told me to speak about my own vision. You told me to conduct myself with integrity, to be a woman of my word, to work harder, longer and smarter than anybody.” Bowser said she endured “heat, snow, warmth and cold” to campaign, listen and connect to those she sought to convert to her cause and said she was gratified by the result. She called her victory resounding affirmation of Washington’s Democratic values. “Hard-fought elections force us to dig deep, to question, to reach for big and bold visions, and define our core values,” she said. “They test our mettle, our wherewithal and our stamina, they make us be accountable to you, and I am grateful for the 19 months that I fought.” “Some people call you a machine. I call you Muriel’s supporters,” she said. “I campaigned for 20 months to ensure that all Washingtonians, whether you’ve been here for five generations or five minutes, like many of the people who just got here.” The Washington Informer

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Bowser acknowledged her parents, others on whose shoulders she said she stands and the efforts of Schwartz and Catania. “A great man once said that the evaluation of a politician is how they perform in elections. I’m grateful for the 19 months. I was prepared to run a campaign that reflected Democratic values. We believed in a level playing field for women, African-Americans, Latinos, and longtime residents,” said Bowser. “The outcome of this race shows that the status quo is not enough. We have to do more about education. We are Washington D.C. and we must make it a great city. Tonight I pledge to make you proud.” As the crowd waited for poll results, Joaquin McPeek, the campaign’s communications director, strode around handling a range of responsibilities. “It’s like getting ready for a big game. You practice, strategize and play,” he said. “There was a groundswell of support for the council member. This is a grassroots effort in all wards. She said ‘I will not govern in half the city. I will not campaign in half the city.’ She touched every ward and that resonated with residents.” One thing that Bowser will have to do is address the frustration many voters felt about the election – some hadn’t voted, didn’t plan to and saw no reason to bother. While they think that the political systems locally and nationally leave a lot to be desired, husband and wife Peter and Lisa still felt it necessary to cast a vote. They walked to the Latin American Youth Center on Columbia Road in Northwest to do their civic duty. “It doesn’t make much of a difference,” said Lisa, as she wrinkled her face thinking of the choices for mayor. “I had to hold my nose.” The pair, who declined to give their last name, said they want the mayor and city council to provide housing opportunities for residents, education across the city for children and young people and equal opportunity.

“We need affordable housing and mixed neighborhoods, not exclusively based on income. And we need more diversity in neighborhoods,” Peter explained. “With the school board, there’s not much they can do. We have to try, but as it is, we can’t bring it down to the grassroots.” The pair said they’re frustrated with the lack of viable choices and Lisa said “We need 3, 4, 5 political parties.” It’s that desire to bring about change at the grassroots level that compelled Jessica Laura Smith to run for advisory neighborhood commissioner in the 1B07 single district. She said she knocked on 2,000 doors, put out signs and called prospective voters. “It’s overwhelming and tiring, but I really enjoyed getting to know people. I went to the grocery store the other day and knew five of the people by name,” the 23-year-old community organizer and social worker said. “I’ve been out all over our community. I love the community I live in and I want their concerns to be addressed. We can make the biggest changes through policy.” Smith said crime is a problem because of trouble with gangs, loitering and petty theft. “We’ve tried in the past to create a partnership with the police, but we need community watches and community coalitions. What we’re doing now – calling 911 – isn’t working,” said Smith, a native of Detroit. Voters went to the polls to choose a successor to out-going Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D). Gray, 71, lost his bid to win a second term because of an investigation that dogged him for much of his time in office. Three weeks before the April 1 primary, political super donor Jeffrey E. Thompson pleaded guilty to illegally funneling money into a campaign account for Gray and told prosecutors that Gray knew. Gray has not been charged and has denied any wrongdoing. The mayor’s untimely exit left the race up for grabs. Catania, 46, ran a spirited race. All day on Nov. 4, as voters made their way to the polls, there was growing speculation that Catania would pull an upset. But in the end, Bowser beat Catania – who’ll step down after 17 years on the D.C. Council – rather handily. Catania sought to be Washington’s first white, openly gay mayor and Schwartz, a darling of longtime Washingtonians, fell short on her fifth attempt to become mayor. WI

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Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, a Democrat, conceded to Republican businessman Larry Hogan, who won the Maryland Governor’s race on Tuesday, Nov. 4. At a solemn victory party, Brown reminded supporters that “there’s a lot at stake; a lot worth fighting for” in the state of Maryland. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown greeted his supporters at the University of Maryland, College Park, after conceding the governor’s race to Republican Larry Hogan. /Photo by Glynn A. Hills, HUNS

GOVERNOR continued from Page 1 Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Hogan’s victory capped an unexpectedly competitive campaign in Maryland, where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2 to 1. After leading for much of the campaign, Brown’s team watched with concern as many voters in the blue state of Maryland expressed the intention to cross party lines to vote for the Republican and his lead dwindled. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.), State Sen. Catherine Pugh (D-Baltimore) and Sen. Ben Cardin (DMd.) remained in Brown’s camp as the results were tallied. “Certainly we always want a race that is a slam dunk, particularly when you are in a Democratic state. When you think about the crisis that has been happening on the national level, some people have fears and some are basically frustrated,” Cummings told reporters. “I never did have a clear prediction of who would show up at the polls and how many would.” Hogan, 58, received help when Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey joined him on the stump last week. Christie, Hogan said after his victory was announced, had called to congratulate him. Hogan promised during his campaign to reduce taxes and pelted Brown with ads criticizing

him and O’Malley for taxes initiated or increased during their administration, including what he characterized as a rain tax. In reality, the tax was mandated by the federal government to pay for pollution cleanup in the Chesapeake Bay. Even as the campaign came down to the wire on the morning of Election Day, pundits were not choosing Hogan to beat Brown, though the race was expected to be close. As Brown supporters gathered at the University of Maryland, a mood that started happy with dance music and smiling throngs of supporters turned anxious as the contest tally drew on for hours. As the clock ticked further into the night, the crowd had thinned noticeably. The audience grew more resigned as jumbo television screens continued to show Hogan holding the lead. Maryland Sen. James C. Rosapepe (D-Prince George’s/Anne Arundel County) said the strength of Hogan’s showing was less a reflection of sentiment about Brown and O’Malley’s eight years than it was part of the current national disenchantment with Democrats. He compared 2014 to 1994, when a Republican won the Maryland governor’s race and the party of Ronald Reagan also gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives. “This was a terrible year for Democrats across the country,” Rosapepe said. “So I think it was reflective of what happened in Ohio and what happened in Geor-

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gia and what happened in a lot of states. The fact that … Democrats are losing control of the U.S. Senate says it’s a national phenomenon … I expected a very close race and we got a very close race.” Rev. Tony Lee, pastor of Community of Hope AME Church in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, said he and a group of more than 40 pastors had prayed with Brown on Election Day morning. He also was not shocked that the race was close. “We have prayed with him and talked to him. I sometimes will send him a text to let him know ‘You are in our prayers,’” he said. “This is historic, working to get the first black governor elected in the state and only the third in the country. We knew it wouldn’t be a cakewalk.”WI The Washington Informer

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Lanier Answers Critics at Hearing Many Left Unconvinced

By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer@bsalmondc D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier spent more than an hour responding to criticisms leveled at the Metropolitan Police Department by more than two dozen residents at a recent D.C. Council hearing. Lanier, 47, defended her department while acknowledging that there are some on the force whose behavior deserves dismissal, but she said she’s hampered from carrying that out by the police union and arbitrators. Both Lanier and Ward 6 Council member Tommy Wells acknowledged that the Oct. 27 hearing and questions about MPD conduct spring from the Aug. 9 police killing of 18-yearold Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. “As MPD chief, I appreciate the opportunity to have a frank discussion on how we deal with the public in D.C. each and every day,” she said. “There’s no doubt that law enforcement is under a great deal of scrutiny. There have been several tragic deaths, shocking incidents, happening one after the other and often recorded for public viewing. “Other issues like stop-andfrisk, police militarization and the use of deadly force contradict our mission to protect and serve the public. Not all police departments are the same. We’re building on the strong relationship that we’ve worked so hard to build with our community members.” Despite these efforts, Lanier said, she recognizes that there are challenges. “We’ve worked hard to ensure that we have the best police officers in the world working here in the nation’s capital, but I recognize that we still have challenges,” said Lanier. “We have some members who aren’t living up to our standards. I’m committed to identifying and removing them from our ranks. We’re working to get them off the force.” Lanier also said MPD doesn’t have “jump outs,” explaining that MPD is often blamed when members of any one of 30 police agencies in the District use that tactic. She said the department doesn’t receive many stopand-frisk complaints described in the Oct. 8 hearing and sought to discredit those complaints. The Washington Informer

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“Only one person followed up with our internal affairs staff. (The incidences) either happened too long ago, it was secondhand information, not enough information or a different jurisdiction or police agency,” Lanier said. At the Oct. 8 hearing at Howard University, residents shared their stories with Wells, chair of the Judiciary and Public Safety Committee, and his colleagues, at-large council members David Grosso and Anita Bonds, and Ward 5 council member Kenyan McDuffie. Among those testifying then was local attorney Patrice A. Sulton, who said officers fabricate drug buys, destroy people’s homes, and target, harass and traumatize residents. After the Oct. 27 hearing, Sulton – who has a law firm on Pennsylvania Avenue in Northwest – said Lanier’s testimony left her incredulous and deeply dissatisfied. “I listened to her testify. I expected things to be artfully crafted. They didn’t tell the truth,” Sulton said. “They said they purchase guns and drugs from homes and then go back and raid them. That’s absolutely untrue. From what I see in Superior Court, they arrest people during traffic stops and try to figure out where they live.” There are many variables that can cause the pursuit of drugs or guns to go awry, such as an officer mixing up a house number, address or quadrant or the fact that a suspect might be transient, staying at someone’s home. And that happens a lot, Sulton

and other critics assert. MPD officers have regularly turned up at the wrong house, kicked down the door and turned the place upside down looking for illicit material but walked away after realizing they’d made a mistake with no apology or recompense, Sulton said. “I had a trial the week before the hearing. They tossed this woman’s house so bad, she got a U-Haul and moved,” said Sulton. “I should show you pictures of what they’ve done. During Christmas, they’ve been known to tear open children’s gifts. There’s no way to lock the door after they’ve kicked it in.” Activist and talk show host Kymone Freeman said he doesn’t know how Lanier and her staff could honestly say they’re respectful of people’s property. “When they said that, the whole council erupted in laughter. They were like, ‘Are you … kidding me?” Freeman, 44, who’s been active in Ferguson’s D.C. protests, said that despite Lanier’s testimony, there’s a wide gulf between police and the community. He promised to continue pushing for change. “We’ll see who the next administration brings and if changes happen. Obviously, Bowser won’t get rid of Chief Lanier. If history is prologue, there’ll be no changes. We’ll keep the pressure on. Our voices and protests will be amplified,” Freeman said.WI

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Effort to Change Term Limits on Politicians Thwarted

Prince George’s Voters Keep Eight Year Cap on Council, County Executive By Avis Thomas-Lester WI Editor-at-Large Prince George’s County community leader Dave Chapman and some of his activist friends voiced their concern about a lack of responsiveness on the part of some of their elected officials back in 1992 when they proposed and rallied voters to support a referendum limiting members of the county council and the county executive to two four-year terms. Much to his chagrin, Chapman said when he learned that another referendum had been proposed for the Nov. 4 election to increase the terms from two to three, or from eight years to 12, he wasn’t pleased. The Prince George’s County Council voted unanimously last summer to place Question J on the ballot. And again, voters thwarted the effort to give politicians more time when Question J was defeated. “Back then, there was a lot of dissatisfaction with the way politicians were doing things and there’s a lot of that now,” said Chapman, 75, of Mitchellville. “… At that time, the machine kept recycling the same people, the same politicians and so we came up with term limits to eliminate that.” Question J counted among several initiatives on the Nov. 4 ballot in Prince George’s County. Voters approved Question A, which will enable the county to borrow funds and issue bonds of up to $240 million to pay for the renovation and construction of public safety facilities; Question

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Kevin Alexander of Bowie supported an additional four-year term for council members and the county executive in Prince George’s County. /Photo by Travis Riddick

B, which will allow the county to borrow money or issue bonds of up to $32 million for renovation and construction of libraries; Question C, which gives county officials the ability to borrow or issue bonds for up to $93 million for the renovation and construction of community college facilities; Question D, which allows for up to $238 million for county facilities; and Question E, which provides $122 million for public works and transportation facilities improvements. Chapman, who serves as captain of the polling location at Ernest Everett Just Middle School in Mitchellville, said he believed passage of Question J would have interfered with the will of the people. The measure marked the third time since its passage in 1992 that an attempt was made to change it. All three of the

measures, including Question J, have been opposed by citizens. But supporters of Question J said it unfairly limits the time even good politicians on the council or in the county executive’s office can stay in office. Prince George’s County Councilman Derrick Leon Davis (D-District 6) said Question J was approved to be placed on the ballot by the council after a charter review committee led by former Judge William Missouri recommended that the terms be extended to three. Contrary to what some citizens think, the county did not create the measure, he said. “In order for [the charter review committee’s] recommendation to become part of the referendum, it must be approved by the county council,” Davis said.

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PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY LIMITS continued from Page 12 “That’s how [it] got on the ballot … The council basically accepted their report and put it to referendum and that’s why it ended up on the ballot for the people to decide.” Davis said he realizes that the measure was unpopular with some local residents. He said the 1992 term limit measure was proposed at a time when many in the county’s black majority wanted to remove some white leaders who residents felt were not operating in their best interests. “My recollection of the time was that it was a bit more racially motivated,” Davis said. “There was a confluence of ideologies. One was that as the county turned majority minority, they needed opportunities to govern. Many felt that that would only happen if there were term limits. There was a small group of people who rallied to go out and impose term limits and they did it through referendums.” Subsequently, a new group of elected officials came in, including former County Executive Wayne K. Curry, under whose administration the county made huge strides in everything from economic development to education reform, he said. Curry died earlier this year. Davis said he opposed limiting terms as he did this election cycle. He said the “institutional knowledge of how to run a charter form of government” went out the door with the unseating of the long-time lawmakers. He fears the same will happen with Question J’s passage because local legislators will be competing with lawmakers in other jurisdictions with 20 years of experience. Davis said the measure was opposed by some people who are interested in running for public office who are intimidated to compete against successful incumbents. He said the county already has a way to limit the terms of unresponsive lawmakers – the ballot. “If you can’t effectively represent your people, your people will vote you out,” he said. Kevin Alexander, of Bowie, founder of the Lake Arbor Jazz Festival, said he voted for Question J. “I just think that for the first term, you are just in there. The second term you are getting going and you need a third term to

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really make a difference,” he said. Michael E. Culbreath, a member of the Democratic Central Committee (District 25 At Large) disagreed. “I figure if you can’t do it in eight years, another four won’t really help you because the issues and concerns have probably changed from what you were fighting for eight years ago,” he said. “What you have strived for

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four years ago, eight years ago, has probably changed.” Culbreath said limiting terms keeps politicians humble and honest. Longer terms are “kind of corruptive, because then you are into the lobbyists and other things that can go on. And you know we don’t need any more corruption in Prince George’s County.”WI

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For months, World Health Organization officials warned that the numbers of Ebola victims and casualties might be understated because of unreported cases in rural areas of the affected countries and families hiding the sick. Late last week, WHO adjusted the figures to reflect current number, saying that of 13,567 reported cases, 4,951 people had died from Ebola. Officials also noted that some cases were not Ebola. At the same time, according to published reports, WHO Assistant Director-General Dr. Bruce Aylward told the media in Geneva the rate of new Ebola infections seems to be pointing down in Liberia, but cautioned that Ebola isn’t close to being brought under control. “It appears that the trend is real in Liberia, and there may indeed be a slowing of the epidemic there,” he said. “(But) I’m terrified that the information will be misinterpreted and people will start to think, ‘Oh great, this is under control,”’ Aylward said. “That’s like saying your pet tiger is under control ... .” The majority of deaths are in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, and almost 300 physicians and health care personnel are among the casualties. International health officials say the virus’s outbreak began in

Guinea in West Africa. Patient Zero is identified as a 2-year-old boy in the village of Meliandou. Georgetown University Epidemiologist Dr. Jesse Goodman said concern marked his initial reaction to the outbreak. “I think initially, like many people in the public health area, I found it upsetting and worrying about another outbreak,” said Goodman, a professor of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center and an infectious disease physician for more than 30 years. “These are areas without experience and experiencing social, economic and political stress. “They have weak public health infrastructures; some have had wars and other problems.” What’s needed to combat the Ebola outbreak, Goodman said, is a strong public health structure that people trust. In a perfect world, he said, health officials would communicate clearly with members of the community, identify who’s been exposed, isolate patients quickly and effectively and treat them. “I don’t think these countries were prepared to do that,” he added. A confluence of factors have aided the spread of the disease, including fragile health care systems, a lopsided ratio of doctors to patients, and the shortage of hospital beds, protective gear

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EBOLA continued from Page 14 and other needed equipment and supplies. There’s also deep distrust in some communities of the government and international aid workers. These challenges have left government officials and health workers overwhelmed and the disease free to rampage through a vulnerable population.

Deeply held traditions and customs such as reverence for the bodies of dead relatives, washing the bodies and close contact with corpses are drivers of the disease. WHO spokesman Daniel Epstein said in a recent interview organization officials say they need $978 million to adequately fight the worst Ebola outbreak in history. “We have pledges for 37 per-

cent,” he said. “We need a lot more cash to pay local health workers. We need $3 million for protective equipment. People on the ground use seven a day. Doctors Without Borders and the United Nations Children’s Fund are also shipping equipment and supplies. The money will buy medicines, saline solution, and bed linen and provide money to pay for local health workers who make $6 a day. They asked for a bonus, and they deserve it. “We need to pay burial teams, who are also doing it for $6 a day. We need motorcycles for contact tracing. Pickup trucks would work fine. We’re spending money and appealing for more.” Doctors Without Borders officials sounded the alarm in April when they realized the scope and scale of the disease, but WHO officials disputed those warnings, arguing that the outbreak was under control. That failure, Goodman said, has led to what he termed “a terrible tragedy and a humanitarian disaster. “WHO had misplaced confidence that the usual response would be mounted and could

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contain the disease,” he said. “Then both countries and the rest of the world, including WHO, had a false sense of conviction based on past outbreaks that things would be able to be contained. But I keep hoping that this will be a teachable moment that if any place in the world doesn’t have the infrastructure, the whole world is at risk.” Without stronger and more comprehensive measures, WHO officials say, there could be 5,000 to 10,000 new cases every week. “I’m not sure we’re close to a tipping point, but if we don’t get this controlled in 60 days, we’re in trouble,” said Epstein. In the U.S., two nurses who contracted Ebola while treating America’s first Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan in Dallas, are now home and free of the disease. But New Yorker Dr. Craig Spencer contracted the disease while in Guinea, and a battle has emerged between public safety and a person’s civil and constitutional rights. The governors of New York, New Jersey and Maine have im-

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Blacks and Criminal Justice Is America’s justice system racist? Rep. Maxine Waters, for one, alleges that “the color of your skin dictates whether you will be arrested or not, prosecuted harshly or less harshly, or receive a stiff sentence or gain probation or entry into treatment.” Pretty much everyone – Republican or Democrat, right or left – familiar with America’s criminal justice system agrees that the prison population is far too large and way too Black. The mass incarnation of Blacks is a fact that’s at the center of African-American life and an issue that cannot be ignored. With the exception of affected African-American families, the subject remains taboo and definitely off the table as a political issue. Isn’t it time that the racial disparities that are so evident and inherent in our nation’s criminal justice policies and practices be eliminated? So, it’s going to be interesting to witness how the Koch haters will try to spin the public’s perception regarding the grant Koch Industries Inc. is giving to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. The grant’s designed to “ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime or wrongdoing.” Millions of Black families are affected by the nation’s criminal justice practices. This action may have brought the Kochs to the fore of this civil rights issue. The Sixth Amendment of the Bill of Rights guarantees the rights of criminal defendants to afford a lawyer for defense in a criminal case. Jesse Jackson maintains that Blacks are overrepresented in prison populations because the justice system holds them to “much stricter standards” than Whites. Whether the Democrats or the Republicans take the lead, there must be a renewed, refocused and re-energized movement for racial justice in America. People of color continue to be disproportionately policed, sentenced and incarcerated at significantly higher rates. Continuing racial disparities in the criminal justice system threaten

By William Reed communities of color – denial of equal access to employment, housing, public benefits, and education. Correcting these disparities is an imperative that could evolve into the civil rights issue of the 21st century. Who pays for public defenders or private law firms contracted to represent indigent defendants in their criminal cases? Across America, it’s still a fact: “You get what you pay for.” The Koch grant will cast a light on an issue that has been a decisive fact of African-American family and community life over recent generations. The haters cannot pigeonhole this grant or call it “racist.” No matter what political party you declare, it’s hard to deny that the shadow of jail squats in the corners of and often at the center of most Black family’s lives. The effects of Black incarceration are among the most deeply felt concerns of millions of African-American families. One in every 11 Black Americans is in prison or jail or on probation, bail and parole, pre-trial and post-conviction supervision. Something must be done about Blacks’ imprisonment because it curtails the economic vitality of entire communities and destroys the cohesion of millions of Black families and thousands of their neighborhoods. From 1980 to 2008, the number of people incarcerated in America quadrupled to 2.3 million. African- Americans constitute nearly 1 million of the total population. Five times as many Whites are using drugs as African-Americans, yet Blacks are sent to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of Whites. The draconian “Get tough on crime,” “War on Drugs” policies and “Three Strikes” – habitual offender policies came to urban neighborhoods via Democratic politicians.

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put together programs that will honor the lives of its namesakes as well as the first African-American shipyard, the Chesapeake Marine Railway & Dry Dock Company, founded in 1868. “We will also have a children’s program, a play about the Emancipation and we will have our annual gala,” Crawley said. Martin of the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum said it’s

Years of Freedom By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer What is this thing called slavery? What is this thing called freedom? With Nov. 1 marking the 150th Anniversary – or Jubilee – of Maryland’s Emancipation Proclamation, Joanne Martin, founder of the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore, said this year’s celebration will not only be memorable but educational. She said activities will include programs that answer basic questions about slavery and freedom that have long stumped the most astute of individuals. “We will do this like you’d do a lecture,” said Martin, who also serves as the president of the museum. “We will also look at the aftermath of the Emancipation.” The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum counts as one of three African-American institutions that will participate this month in a “Legends & Legacies Heritage Tour,” which celebrates the inspiring lives and achievements of everyday people who changed the course of history. “The Jubilee is hugely important, and we’ve had a program to commemorate Maryland’s Emancipation since 2007,” said Lisa Crawley, the resource center manager at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History and Culture on East Pratt Street in Baltimore. The Reginald F. Lewis Museum will join the National Great Blacks in Wax and the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park Museum in Fells Point, Maryland, as hosts for the heritage tour. “We are looking forward to being part of the ‘Legends & Legacies Heritage Tour,’” Crawley said. “It’s important to educate our local community about Maryland’s Emancipation. You must remember that Maryland wasn’t affected by the Emancipation Proclamation because we were in the Union, and when the state constitution changed they had to vote on it.

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AROUND THE REGION important that the Jubilee be properly observed. “We get to clear up a few things,” she said. “We will look at what the Emancipation Proclamation did and didn’t do.”WI For more information and a complete schedule of Jubilee celebration activities, visit www.visitmaryland.org.

The Benjamin Banneker exhibit at the Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum in Catonsville, Maryland. The museum will also serve as host to a heritage tour to help celebrate the Jubilee of the state’s Emancipation. /Photo courtesy of the Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum

And the vote was very close. I believe it was something like 30,174 in favor of freedom and 29,799 against,” she said. The Emancipation Proclamation, signed on January 1, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln, declared that all held as slaves within rebelling states would be free. However, like many other states, Maryland kept slavery in place until officials amended the state’s constitution on November 1, 1864. To honor Maryland’s Emancipation, a series of events, festivals and exhibits marking the end of slavery in the state are planned throughout Maryland, in addition to the “Legends & Legacies Heritage Tour.” The Annapolis 1864, which features an encampment reenactment where African-American Union soldiers explain life during the Civil War, count among the many events planned. Exhibits, lectures and a play titled, “Four Women of Annapolis,” will also be included in the celebration in the state’s capital. Also, officials at the Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum launched its, “From Banneker to Douglass: The Quests for Freedom and Equality,” exhibit on Saturday, Nov. 1. Scheduled to run through February 28, 2015, the exhibit commemorates the early efforts of Maryland’s African-Americans and their allies in their pursuit of freedom and equality for all. Those efforts took on many forms, including protest literature, conventions, enslaved individuals

who sought freedom, and educational initiatives that would afford them the ability to read and write. “As a state that played such a large and poignant part in our nation’s history, we are excited about the opportunity to celebrate and share this special moment for Maryland, when slavery was abolished for good,” said Margot Amelia, executive director of the Maryland Office of Tourism. Further, state officials said the Jubilee will help underscore the sense of family that most who live in Maryland already enjoy. “Baltimore is proud to participate in the state-wide Jubilee 1864 commemoration,” said Tom Noonan, president and CEO of Visit Baltimore. “Through the Legends & Legacies Heritage Tour participants will be able to experience and engage in a living history tour with visits to our three noted African-American heritage museums with character actors from the Jubilee time period,” Noonan said. In addition to the heritage tour, the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum plans to feature what officials call an unforgettable “Middle Passage Exhibit,” which includes a famous replica slave ship, and more than 100 life-size wax figures of prominent African-Americans. Officials at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum also plan programs where stories will be shared about African-American Marylanders who helped to shape American history, art and culture. The Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park Museum has

Vice President and General Counsel Mark V. Holden points out the NACDL grant and Koch organizations have sponsored community summits and panel discussions on criminal justice issues across the country. Such events have occurred with the state National Association for

the Advancement of Colored People president in Austin, Texas, and in Chicago before the National Black Chamber of Commerce. WI William Reed is publisher of “Who’s Who in Black Corporate America” and available for projects via Busxchng@his.com

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EDUCATION Compiled By Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer Parent-Teacher Conference Day Attending school every day and being on time significantly increase students’ chances of succeeding in their classwork and graduating from high school. With Parent-Teacher Conference Day coming up on Monday, parents can learn ways to boost their children’s academic performance. Parents should start talking with their children now about the importance of getting to school on time every day. Being at school every day particularly counts because too many absences can cause students to fall behind in classes. And, while missing about 18 days from school can make it harder to learn to read, students can still fall behind if they miss just a day or two days every few weeks. My School DC The application period for My School DC, the application and

lottery for the city’s public school options, has closed for the current school year. However, in the coming weeks, officials will launch an updated My School DC website for the 2015-16 term with new information about applying and school profiles. In addition, a School Finder tool will help students and parents search for schools and view the new school boundaries. A free EdFEST (education festival) to help the public learn more about school options will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 22 at the DC Armory in Southeast. Avery Coffey Studying at Harvard Last year, Avery Coffey, a Banneker High School student, garnered national attention after being admitted to five Ivy League universities. After a stint as a White House intern this summer, Avery enrolled at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to study economics. During a recent interview with D.C.

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Avery Coffey attends Harvard University, where he’s majoring in economics. /Photo courtesy of DCPS

Public Schools officials at the Harvard campus, Avery explained why he decided to study economics. “I’ve always been interested in economics, especially the area of income disparity. I remember in high school I wrote an essay about economic inequality,” said Avery, 18. “By the time I finished the paper I realized how wrong income disparity is. For example, in D.C., we have some of the highest rent and mortgage rates, but it felt like many residents, at least growing up, were low-income,” he said. “D.C. is very segregated – some wards are very African-American and lower-income, and in others, there are lots of upper-class white people. I wanted to understand why that was and how it relates to society in general. It seemed to me that economics would

be the best way to learn about the world.” School Without Walls Webcast Students at the School Without Walls in Northwest recently participated in a virtual exchange with Sagesse High School in Beirut. Azaan Lambkin, a SWW student, provided the following perspective: “On Wednesday, Oct. 22, Ms. Schulz’s period 1-2 class had the privilege of participating in a webcast organized by the U.S. State Department with an archaeologist who specializes in Mesopotamia. After receiving a brief summary, we were joined by a school in Lebanon. We were given the time to ask questions to the archaeologist about the artifacts she had discovered, as well as their implications for culture in the

region.” Azaan added that his classmates, like the Lebanese students, had questions for the archaeologist. “The first question our class asked was, “What is the most interesting artifact you found in Mesopotamia?” said Azaan. “She said it was a burnt-down but preserved house that gave archaeologists clues on how the people of Mesopotamia lived. The house was full of cereal grains, which made the archaeologist think about the fate of the family living there.” Azaan said that response and others from the archaeologist “showed the great depths that anthropologists and archaeologists go to with their thoughts and inferences and how they can learn about culture from a few small artifacts.”WI

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All We Ever Do Is Talk – Embracing Educational Reform There’s been a lot of discussion lately about our public school systems. A recent report revealed that 49 schools within Tulsa Public Schools received an F grade by the state of Oklahoma. Most of those schools are in my legislative district. I am constantly wondering how, with so many different avenues of resources and different “plans of action” by our urban public school districts, we still get the same result! Last week, one of my constituents invited me to the debut of his new play, “All We Ever Do is Talk.” The play highlighted the problems in an urban school district similar to the one I represent. It focused on the classic case of the book “Who Moved My Cheese?” Everyone blamed everyone else for the problem. The administrators blamed the state government for lack of funding to schools, the parents blamed the administrators for lack of leadership, and the teachers blamed the parents. What I know for sure: As a community, we need to muster the courage to embrace new concepts for educating our kids. I got involved in education reform as a legislator after studying the growth of the private prison industry in Oklahoma. After reviewing data on the number of illiterate inmates and the alarming disproportionate number of ethnic minorities in prison, I began to realize the connections between private prisons and low childhood literacy. This year, a report showed that one school in my district had 68 percent of its third-graders fail state reading exams. That number is similar to other schools in my legislative district. If students can’t read on grade level by the third grade, the likelihood that

they can perform well in science, mathematics, or history is dismal. What has been proven is that a child’s chances of being in the “pipeline to prison” greatly increase when that student lacks strong reading skills. As our legislators across America return to “work” after the beginning of the year, I am hoping that we will spend coming months crossing the “partisan aisles of education” and consistently considering how every action and vote affects the outcome of our children’s future. I did just that when I worked with Republicans and Democrats to expand our state’s charter school law. I authored a bill that allows our state’s universities to sponsor charter schools. The bill was in response to Tulsa Public Schools’ effort to place a moratorium on a charter school in my legislative district. Today that school is sponsored by our state’s only historically black university. While charters were not popular with Tulsa Public Schools then, today the district not only sponsors charter schools, but it also received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to establish a charter compact with its charters. The district now collaborates with its charter schools on best practices. In addition, I supported bipartisan legislation that created the Lyndsey Nicole Henry Scholarship, which is named for former Gov. Brad Henry’s daughter. Henry became the first Democratic governor in the nation to sign legislation allowing special-needs students to attend a private or parochial school on a state-sponsored scholarship. I have also championed other school choice measures that give children trapped in poorly performing schools an

opportunity to get the best education available. We have an alarm at the gate, and as a community we must not be afraid to explore every option so that our young people don’t become the statistic used to justify more private prisons across America. Recently, I was listening to noted educator and founder of the Black Alliance for Educational Options Dr. Howard Fuller give a speech. He said, “I am haunted by this mental picture of four black students sitting down at a lunch counter in Greensboro [1965] demanding to be served.” Fuller went on to say, “And now in 2011, four students sit down at a lunch counter where they are welcome and can’t read the menu.” It is time to move beyond talk and take direct action to improve quality educational options for our children. The eyes of the future look upon us and pray that we see beyond our own time!WI Jabar Shumate is the state senator for the 11th district of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Anita Bonds (2nd left) celebrates with supporters who helped her maintain her seat on the DC Council following a successful election bid against a crowded field of contenders vying for the two at-large seats – one held by Bonds and the other by Independent David Catania (I) who lost his mayoral bid to Muriel Bowser. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter

With her supporters cheering behind her, Independent Elissa Silverman, 41, who succeeds David Catania as an at-large member to the DC Council, gets a big hug from her mother Ruth Silverman, 75, at Elissa’s victory party at Union Kitchen in Northeast. /Photo by Nancy Shia

Republican Governor-elect Larry Hogan talks to the press at the Greenbelt Metro Station Tues., Nov. 4 prior to his surprise victory over Lt. Governor Anthony Brown in the heavily Democratic state of Maryland. /Photo by Avis Thomas-Lester

At-Large council hopeful Eugene Puryear, a local activist, greets Independent Mayoral candidate Carol Schwartz at the polls on Election Day. Both candidates were considered long shots but garnered significant support for their respective races. / Photo by Shevry Lassiter

Bonds, Silverman Claim At-large Council Seats By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Anita Bonds will retain her seat as an at-large District Council member after scoring an easy election night victory, according to unofficial results from the D.C. Board of Elections. Bonds, the lone Democrat in a crowded field of 15 candidates, tallied almost 59,000 votes and a 31 percent share after officials counted 80 percent of the precincts. She will be joined by Elissa Silverman, an independent who apparently won over District voters on Tuesday, Nov. 4, with nearly 30,000 votes, or 15 percent. Silverman, who had about 10,000 votes more than fellow independent and former D.C. Shadow Sen. Michael Brown, has promised not to tolerate “politics as usual” and she refused to accept campaign donations from big city contractors. “When I get to the Wilson Building on Jan. 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

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even better,” said Silverman, 41, who lives in Northeast. Other D.C. Council winners included Phil Mendelson who easily retained his seat as council chairman, Kenyan McDuffie easily retained his seat in representing Ward 5, while Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 1), Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), and Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) are all projected to be winners. In the at-large race, Bonds, who grew up in Southeast, narrowly defeated Silverman in a special election in 2013. This time, with two seats open, voters elected both. “My whole life journey, my career, has been about putting people first, and I will continue to do that,” said Bonds, 69. “I have a history of activism in the community, and it has been the issues that the community has cared about that have been important to me. I’m trying to continue that journey because I’m not in this for a career; it’s about giving back to the community that I absolutely love,” she said. Both candidates received numerous prominent endorsements, including from legendary D.C. Mayor and current D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8).

Among Bonds’ endorsements, she received nods from the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, the National Organization for Women, the D.C. Tenants Advocacy Coalition and a number of labor unions, including firefighters and construction workers. Bonds also raised approximately $170,000 for her campaign. Those who endorsed Silverman, the former Washington Post reporter, included the Metro Washington Council AFLCIO, Service Employees International Union 32BJ and 1199, D.C. Working Families, and DC for Democracy, the Sierra Club, and the National Organization for Women, Jews United for Justice and the D.C. Police Union. Silverman, who raised more than $112,000 for her campaign, said she believes the District needs a more progressive tax code and she once lobbied for tax increases on the city’s highest earners during a previous D.C. fiscal crisis. She has backed an initiative that would prohibit corporate contributions to campaigns. “I don’t take corporate donations,” Silverman said. “Big city contractors and those who have various subsidiaries have an undue influence on our The Washington Informer

system and a larger voice than normal residents, and I do think we should have a level playing field. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s one that I think will help our system. And I’m applying it even before it becomes law.” Silverman also said she’d like to see an increase in urban density, particularly surrounding Metro stations. “One of the defining issues and key differences between me and the rest is that I just don’t talk the talk; I walk the walk,” Silverman said. “I do think that because of corruption the public trust has been broken, and I certainly want to work to restore that. I think voters can trust that when I champion something, I will work hard to do it.” Bonds said the more than one year she’s already spent on the council has allowed her to gain far more insight into what needs to be done to assist District residents. “I like to do the things that will make a difference in the lives of the people. I know that it’s expensive to live in D.C., but the city has undergone a renaissance. So I think affordable housing is a complex issue to have to wrestle with, and I believe we’re trying

“One of the defining issues and key differences between me and the rest is that I just don’t talk the talk; I walk the walk.” – Elissa Silverman

to do that in increments,” Bonds said. “We all wish for a comprehensive approach to making housing more affordable and making sure that our tax dollars are well spent.” Bonds said that among the issues dear to all residents are schools and making sure that graduates and others who’ve left public and charter schools in the District are employable. “We can do much better in the area of job training that directs a person to an actual job,” she said.

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Racine Becomes First D.C. Elected AG By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Karl Racine made history on Tuesday, Nov. 4, emerging victorious as the District’s first-elected attorney general, according to unofficial results from the D.C. Board of Elections. Racine easily defeated four opponents with more than 20,600 votes and a hefty 42 percent to 22 percent advantage over his closest competitor Edward Smith after 30 percent of the votes had been counted. “We were confident coming in and the voters have spoken,” Racine, 51, said prior to formally declaring victory. “Now, let’s get to work.” Throughout Election Night, it became increasingly evident that Racine had built an insurmountable lead over the other candidates in the race, which included Lateefah Williams, Lorie Masters and Paul Zuckerberg. The race intensified over the past few weeks and Racine, who lives in Northwest, continued to remind voters that he understood the judicial system and working in the courtroom as well as anyone else. He also helped his cause by lending $450,000 to his campaign, which enabled him to outspend his opponents. Zuckerberg, 56, showed steady gains in various polls over the final month of the campaign with pollsters pointing to his successful court fight against a proposed four-year delay of the attorney general election. He repeatedly claimed that there would be no election for the attorney general position had he failed to put forth a tough, relentless and

gallant fight. Williams, 38, of Northeast, said she decided to run for the seat after reading news reports about prospective candidates and realizing that there wasn’t any community activists in the race. “I became doubly concerned when the candidates mentioned as the primary contenders all had a big law corporate background,” Williams said. “I have spent my career as a public advocate.” Smith, 34, had hoped to continue his stunning ascension. He grew up in Anacostia and went on to earn degrees from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Masters, 59, of Northwest has practiced law for more than 30 years and said she’s dedicated to public service and fighting for the best interests of District residents. The position of attorney general, the top legal officer, in the District had been appointed by the mayor until Tuesday, a result of D.C. voters in 2010 approving an amendment to the city charter that made the attorney general an elected position. Originally, the D.C. council voted to postpone the election for attorney general until 2018, but Zuckerberg filed a lawsuit and he ultimately prevailed in court, paving the way for this year’s election. Today, District voters awaken knowing that they made history and Racine’s name will go in the history books. “It’s almost too good to be true because he deserved it,” said Lionel Jeffries, 52, of Northwest and a Racine supporter. “D.C. needs someone who will serve us well and I have every confidence that Karl Racine is our man.” WI

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By Sam P.K. Collins @SamPKCollins and D. Kevin McNeir @mcneirdk WI Contributing Writers As expected and by an overwhelming majority, D.C. residents voted to legalize marijuana possession on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, following Colorado and Washington State. Those favoring the initiative, 69 percent (95,531) far outweighed those against the move to allow the drug – 31 percent (42,052). In fact, while some voters said they stayed home because of their disappointment in the quality of candidates running for various offices, a few residents said having their say on Initiative 71 prompted them to go to the polls. “This is my second time voting and I will keep doing so – I told all my co-workers to vote but it’s likely that they didn’t,” said Shannen Williams, a resident of Northwest. “I didn’t vote for anything else but Prop 71. There are drugs that are much worse like crack and PCP. We have to legalize it. But I’m also concerned about African-Americans in the city getting good-paying jobs. We should have enough jobs and people should be

willing to train us,” said Williams, 21, who brought her niece to the polls and took a selfie with her “I Voted” sticker. The ballot initiative still leaves the D.C. Council with several issues to address as the new law only allows the possession of up to two ounces and home cultivation of up to six plants for adults over the age of 21 – not for the legal sale of the drug. Even with Initiative 71 now on the books, marijuana possession will remain illegal in roughly one-quarter of the District – land that’s under the jurisdiction of the federal government. The new council must also implement a structure to monitor and tax marijuana sales, assuming that Congress allows the city to move ahead with its plan. One District resident said he felt compelled to stay home and not vote. “Any choice would have been business as usual so I opted out of the voting process this year,” said James Gary, who has a home in Fort Washington, Maryland but still maintains residency in D.C. “Many friends who are my age or older simply do not trust any of our so-called leaders. If I had been in North Carolina, Georgia or Kentucky, I certainly would have voted. And since I don’t smoke, legalizing marijuana wasn’t something I cared to vote on,” said Gary, 64. Other states across the U.S. also voted on initiatives related to the substance last Tuesday including: Alaska and Oregon (legalization with tax and regulation); Florida (medical marijuana); and Maine (semi-legalization). Issues of civil rights may have influenced voters to support Initiative 71. During the past year, blacks made up 88 percent of those convicted of marijuana possession in the District. Nationwide, D.C.’s marijuana-arrest rate outpaced all 50 states, ranking

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– Retired Metropolitan Police Department Officer Ronald E. Hampton INITIATIVE continued from Page 22 seventh among a survey of 1,000 counties conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union. One voter, who asked that her last name be withheld, said avoiding the polls accomplishes nothing. “People died for the right to vote so that’s why I feel I must vote,” said Wynita E., a Northwest resident. “It doesn’t matter what kinds of bad things are happening out here. I have the right to say what I want and vote the way I feel. You have to know that your vote matters,” said the 54-year-old woman. Last week prior to the election, D.C. financial officials released information that estimated the worth of a legalized D.C. marijuana market: $130 million. The District may be looking at states like Colorado which has already legalized both the possession and sale of marijuana. Colorado’s Department of Revenue reported that recreational marijuana sales continued to climb to a new high of approximately $34.1 million for the month of August [the most recent month for available data]. Meanwhile, during an event held in Northwest on Monday, Oct. 27, residents gathered to consider how “Initiative 71” would impact their lives. The “Community Forum on DC Marijuana Laws & Initiative 71,” attracted nearly 60 people. “African-American men have been persecuted because of laws that govern marijuana use,” said Malik Burnett, 29, policy manager at the Drug Policy Alliance in Northwest. The Northwest-based organization co-sponsored the forum with the Social Justice & Community Outreach Ministry of Shiloh Baptist Church in Northwest. The

Washington Informer served as a media partner. “Even under decriminalization, 70 percent of tickets have been issued in communities of color. Do we want to keep a system where African-Americans are targeted for use of small amounts of marijuana? That’s the issue we’ve been raising,” said Burnett, also a panelist. In September, D.C. Council member David Grosso (I-AtLarge) introduced Initiative 71, months after the passage of a bill that eased penalties for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. While 63 percent of D.C. voters supported the ballot measure, according to a September Marist poll, some who attended the forum raised concerns about how the D.C. Council will regulate the sale and taxing of marijuana. Julianne Malveaux, economist and former president of Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina, moderated the discussion. “I was on the streets during Operation Clean Sweep,” said panelist Ronald E. Hampton, a retired Metropolitan Police Department officer, who served for more than 20 years. “Three-fourths of the arrests had nothing to do with drugs. When they launched the drug war in 1971, black men got locked up for smelling like marijuana. We saw the devastation as black men continued to leave our communities.” One policy manager for the Drug Policy Alliance said he supported Initiative 71. “Initiative 71’s passage would ensure that local families could play a part in an industry that’s poised to generate hundreds of millions in annual revenue,” said Drug Policy Alliance’s policy manager A.J. Cooper who also participated on the panel. “We’ve had this narco-industrial complex that feeds on marijuana being illegal. The drug traffickers around the world are winning. If

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you’re a black man in D.C. you know the casualties. They live in our neighborhoods. Generations of families could be saved by this law.” But one university instructor and panelist disagreed, pointing to similarities between marijuana’s increasing popularity among young people today and the crack-cocaine epidemic in the 1980s. “Drugs destroy communities, no matter which one we’re talking about,” said Sandra Jowers-Barber, a professor at the University of the District of Columbia in Northwest. “I live across the Anacostia River where I see people on my corner. D.C.’s new population is coming in without those memories. They’re looking at the money.” Local activist Will Jones shared Jowers-Barber’s sentiments. Jones, founder of Two.Is.Enough D.C., a local organization that opposes efforts to legalize marijuana, said the panel discussion didn’t examine the issue in its entirety. “Many of the panelists were out of touch with the people they said they represented,” said Jones, 24. “They didn’t even answer a lot of the questions. They mentioned business and arrests but no one talked about why we don’t hold abusive officers accountable instead,” said Jones, a Northwest resident. One community member said she wanted more proof that District residents would directly benefit from Initiative 71. “It really seems that someone is trying to pull something on us,” said Taylor Johnson, 24. “I’ve never heard of a policy that favored black people so broadly. I’m for legalization but what’s in place to ensure that communities of color are benefitting?” said Johnson, a Riverdale, Maryland resident. WI The Washington Informer

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Seeing a Bright Future with Eye Care Submitted by AmeriHealth District of Columbia Don’t miss out on seeing the important moments in your life. Right now, you are using your eyes to read this article. Your eyes are focusing on the words typed in black. Maybe the words are not clear. You may be wearing glasses or contacts. Maybe the words are perfectly clear. Over time, eye sight can change. As you get older, eye conditions can begin to change the way you do things. When thinking about staying healthy, eye health sometimes gets overlooked. Seeing an optician (eye doctor) is the only way to correct vision damage and check for many eye conditions. Poor vision without proper care can be unsafe. It could make you miss things that wearing glasses or contacts could help you see. For instance, you may have trouble reading food labels. Or if you need to cross the street, traffic could be fuzzy. Cars may look further away than they are. Being able to see clearly is important for both yourself and your loved ones. You could be putting them in danger without knowing it. Keep yourself and your family safe. Be sure to get annual eye exams for the whole family. Your eye health is important to your overall well-being. There are many easy ways to keep your eyes healthy: •

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Get a dilated (dy-ah-lay-ted) eye exam once a year. The doctor will use special eye drops to dilate (widen) the pupils. It’s like opening window shades for more light. This helps doctors see the back of the eyes better and other parts of your eye with more detail. It’s painless, but it can make your eyes feel a little funny at first. This may last a few of hours. For those who get their eyes dilated, it’s important to have a ride to get home. Also, if done during the day, wear sunglasses. It can make your eyes sensitive to light for a short time after the test. Know your family’s eye history. Many eye conditions run in the family. Tell your doctor if anyone in your family has an eye condition. Eat healthy. Eating a diet full of fruits and vegetables is good for your eyes. For example, dark, leafy greens are healthy choices. Try spinach or kale in your salad. Enjoy a side of collard greens at dinner. These foods may reduce your risk of certain eye conditions. Vitamin A is a nutrient that is also good for your eyes. Some foods with vitamin A are carrots, milk, cheese and eggs. Reduce the risk of diabetes. Keeping low blood sugar can help prevent certain eye conditions. A lifestyle that includes eating healthy, maintaining a healthy weight, not smoking and exercising can help your whole body, including your eyes.

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Don’t smoke. Smoking can put you at higher risk for many eye conditions. Not only is it bad for your eyes, smoking is harmful to all parts of your body.

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Practice eye safety. Wear protective eyewear when playing sports and doing chores. One mistake can cause serious injury.

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Try the 20-20-20 rule. Every 20 minutes, focus on something 20 feet away for 20 seconds. According to the National Eye Institute, the 20-20-20 rule can help reduce stress on the eyes.

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During an exam, doctors can test for the following problems: •

Refractive errors. These are basic vision problems many people have. Refractive errors include trouble seeing up close (farsighted), far away (nearsighted) or both. Signs of refractive errors include double vision, blurry vision, squinting and eye strain. These errors can be improved with glasses, contacts or surgery.

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Amblyopia (am-blee-oh-pee-uh). Also called “lazy eye.” This is when the brain and one of the eyes are not working together. This can cause vision problems with one eye and cause it to be “lazy.” Many times, doctors can correct amblyopia in children.

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Diabetic retinopathy (ret-in-op-uh-thee) [DR]. For those with diabetes or high blood sugar, eye care is especially important. DR can cause vision problems that can get worse over time. It can even cause complete vision loss. It is the leading cause of blindness in American adults.

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Age-related macular degeneration (AMD). AMD permanently damages the central vision of aging adults. It is the leading cause of vision loss for people over age 50. It makes it very hard to see objects clearly. This can affect common tasks like reading or driving.

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Cataract (cat-er-act). Cataract can make vision seem very cloudy. This condition can affect people of all ages. If untreated, it can cause blindness.

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Glaucoma (glaw-koh-muh). This condition damages the eye’s optic nerve. Early detection and treatment can protect against vision loss.

Your eye health is important. AmeriHealth District of Columbia wants you to see all the great things in your life. Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Eye Institute All images are used under license for illustrative purposes only. Any individual depicted is a model.

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HEALTH CENTER continued from Page 27 make an investment in the community we serve and make it easy for people to be well,” said Karen Dale, executive director of AmeriHealth District of Columbia. “People often don’t know where to begin their journey, and so we’re showing them the way – with cooking classes, yoga, care managers and nutritionists. We want the entire community to be healthy, and we will provide transportation for those who need it. We want to put fun back into being and staying healthy,” said Dale, who heads the largest Medicaid managed care organization in the District. AmeriHealth District of Columbia hosted a Wellness Center grand opening on Saturday, with members of the D.C. Council and Department of Health officials joining the community for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The Wellness Center, located at 2027

Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., features space for members to receive one-on-one counseling, appointment scheduling and support to promote healthier lifestyles. As a member of the AmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies, AmeriHealth District of Columbia remains dedicated to helping members get care, stay well and build healthy communities. One member took advantage of the day’s activities, which included Wellness Center tours, healthy cooking and fitness demonstrations, face painting and musical entertainment. “I just finished an aerobics class, and it was great – I have a heart condition and have been looking for exercises that wouldn’t be too strenuous,” said Carey Carter, a mother of six whose family lives in Southeast. “I think you should do everything you can in terms of preventive care, and this Wellness

Center appears to have just what I need. I became a member of AmeriHealth about a year ago and really like the options they provide,” said Carter, 58. Members like Carter can take advantage of the Wellness Center at no additional cost. “Knowledge is important,” Dale said. “For example, some chronic diseases that are prevalent in the black community, like hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol and obesity, are actually preventable if a person changes their diet, has their blood pressure taken regularly and includes exercise in their daily routine. Changing behavior can improve our overall health,” Dale added. One vendor agreed that making even small changes in diet can prove beneficial. “We have an app that shows users how to trim calories from their meals, and we’re here today to show people how to use this tool,” said Elisa Shannon, executive vice president of Partner-

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we normally eat with healthier ingredients are ways to improve your health,” said Herb Holden, a chef and nutrition educator who lives in Prince George’s County. “I conduct demonstrations all over the metro area and use foods that are in season so that folks understand that even with a limited budget, it’s possible to eat well and to eat healthier,” said Holden, 47. WI

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of gout involves unbearable pain and swelling in the big toe – often following a trauma, such as an illness or injury. Gout may also appear in another lower-body joint such as the ankles or knees. Subsequent attacks may occur intermittently in other joints, primarily those of the foot and knee, before becoming chronic. If left untreated, gout can cause other problems such as tophi – the painless but disfiguring lumps of crystals formed from uric acid that can develop under the skin around joints. The crystals can also form kidney stones. Gout seems to also be associated with other serious health risks such as high blood pressure, diabetes, chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease; therefore, an overall healthy lifestyle – including eating a proper diet, maintaining an appropriate weight and engaging in physical activity – can serve people well as they fend off the possibility of gout. WI

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Nearly 54,000 District Residents Diagnosed with Disease By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Many in the Washington, D.C., area are feeling the effects of diabetes as thousands suffer from the disease, and a significant number of others have the life-threatening illness but don’t know it. Health officials estimate that one out of every three children born after the year 2000 in the United States will be affected by diabetes, a long-term condition that causes high blood sugar levels. “The American Diabetes Association’s goal for American Diabetes Month is to focus the nation’s attention on the issues surrounding diabetes,” said Marjorie Cypress, the president of

health care and education at the American Diabetes Association in Alexandria, Virginia. “Diet and exercise are critical to preventing Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes and managing all types of diabetes,” she said, after announcing that during American Diabetes Month, which began on Saturday, the American Diabetes Association will continue its efforts to stop the disease by challenging Americans to live a healthier lifestyle through its “America Gets Cooking to Stop Diabetes” campaign. The campaign, in which officials from the association will use social media and other forums to share healthy cooking tips, diabetes and nutrition facts, recipes and ideas on how to raise

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HEALTH DIABETES continued from Page 30 least, from my perspective, that’s what one should do, so, sure, I’m always interested in what the American Diabetes Association and any other organizations are offering,” said Hicks, a married mother of three. Nearly 30 million adults and children in the United States have diabetes, according to information from by the American Diabetes Association. Additionally, 86 million Americans have pre-diabetes, and they’re at risk for developing Type 2 diabetes, association officials said. Health care providers define pre-diabetes as having a blood sugar – or glucose – level that’s higher than what it should be but less than what those with diabetes have. In Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the illness, the body does not use insulin properly. Children and young adults are usually diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, a condition where the body fails to produce insulin. Diabetes describes a group of metabolic diseases in which an

individual has high blood sugar levels because insulin production has proven inadequate, because the body’s cells don’t respond properly to insulin, or both. Patients with high blood sugar typically experience frequent urination; they’re also increasingly thirsty and hungry, according to editors at Medical News Today, an Internet-based health publication. “It’s not fun at all,” said Arleta Wilkins, a diabetes patient who lives in Northwest. Wilkins, 49, is among a growing number of African-Americans with the disease, and, compared with the general population, blacks are disproportionately affected by diabetes, health officials said. American Diabetes Association officials noted that 13.2 percent of all African-Americans 20 years of age and older have been diagnosed with the disease. Further, blacks are 1.7 times more likely to have diabetes as whites, and African-Americans are significantly more likely to suffer from blindness, kidney disease and amputations. The disease also presents an increased chance for other serious and sometimes life-threat-

ening complications to occur, officials said. Earlier this year, The Associated Press reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, Maryland, approved a new inhalable diabetes medication to help patients control their blood sugar levels during meals. The drug named Afrezza serves as a fast-acting form of insulin and could be prescribed for adults with the most common form of diabetes. Demand for diabetes treatment continues to surge even globally as the prevalence of obesity explodes, the AP reported. Officials at the World Health Organization in Switzerland said roughly 347 million people worldwide have the disease. Afrezza, an insulin powder, comes in a single-use cartridge, and it’s designed to be inhaled at the start of a meal or within 20 minutes. Executives from the drug’s maker, MannKind, have said that patients using the drug can achieve peak insulin levels within 12 to 15 minutes. That compares with a wait time of an hour and a

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half or more after patients inject insulin. Still, FDA officials cautioned that Afrezza isn’t a substitute for long-acting insulin, but it’s a new option for controlling insulin levels during meals. The agency approved Afrezza with a boxed warning – the strongest type – indicating that the drug should not be used in patients with chronic lung dis-

eases, such as asthma and smoker’s cough, due to reports of breathing spasms. “Like everything else, we as black people get the short end of the stick,” Wilkins said. “But it shouldn’t deter us from taking care of ourselves. Maybe we can turn the tide, and, for once, we as a people can beat back something that has been a major issue to us all.”WI

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Fear of a GOP-Controlled Congress

Voters hoping to divine from the tea leaves regarding the midterm elections Senate races should be confused. Poll after poll trumpeted – with absolute certainty – that Republicans would take the Senate, Democrats would retain their majority, or that neither party would gain a majority because the body’s future would be determined by independents and on and on. Some races are so close that it might take until next year to determine the final outcome. If Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wins, he’ll be doing the bidding of the Koch brothers, coal companies, big business, and the super-rich. During his “Mitt Romney moment,” in a leaked audio recording, McConnell told guests at a Koch-sponsored gathering that if he becomes senate majority leader, he will oversee the hollowing out of agencies, projects and programs anathema to the GOP and its allies. The Kochs have thrown hundreds of millions behind those like McConnell, who promises to cut funding for the Environmental Protection Agency; deregulate industries that pollute our air; and dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, thus allowing credit card companies, for example, to continue using shady marketing practices to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from customers and loosen oversight of companies and other firms so that myriad abuses continue unabated. Under his “leadership,” the Daily Kos notes, “(The Party of No) shattered the record for filibusters and blocked President Barack Obama’s judicial and executive branch nominees at rates unimaginable before 2009.” And McConnell famously declared after Obama became president that year, “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” McConnell has fought vigorously to deny any relief to those burdened with $1 trillion of student loan debt and has not lifted a hand to help the 3 million long-term unemployed. He’s hostile in word and deed to Obama and has been the standard-bearer of a conservative agenda that is anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-poor and anti-anyone who isn’t old, conservative and white. For most in America, this could be a long two years.

Fighting for Their Jobs

It’s no secret that Howard University is facing some formidable financial difficulties. The 147-year-old institution is being pummeled by financial and economic pressures caused by a recession and stagnant economy, new U.S. Department of Education loan policies that have cost historically black colleges and universities more than $150 million in revenues and led to a reduction of Howard’s federal appropriation by $12 million, financial mismanagement and a riven trustee board.

One group that could be adversely affected by proposed budget and staff cuts is university maintenance workers, who, along with students and D.C. Council candidate Brianne Nadeau, rallied in front of Howard’s administration offices on the morning of Oct. 27. The Service Employees International Union and employees are pressing the administration to end plans to outsource facilities management jobs. Rally organizers say that outsourcing could reduce wages and benefits for Howard employees associated with the school for as long as 40 years. They argue that the plan won’t solve the crux of the school’s budgetary challenges. Outsourcing can produce problems that are difficult to reverse, such as contractors cutting corners on cleaning standards, underbidding their first contracts and hiking up the price later, or walking away if they don’t make enough profit. Too often, those seeking to balance the budget concentrate on the bottom line, often with little regard to the human beings who’ll be unduly affected. It’s encouraging that in a statement released to The Informer, President Wayne A.I. Frederick said the university values its long-standing employees and that he has been assured that the hospitality management firm working with Howard is committed to a seamless transition and will honor the contributions of these employees.

Thank You Mr. Mayor!

The interview, “Gray Proud of His Administration’s Legacy,” on the front-page of the Oct. 30, 2014 edition by Avis Thomas-Lester was just fantastic. I am so happy you provided us with the mayor’s own words about the work that he has done for our city. In my book, Mayor Vincent C. Gray is right behind Marion Barry when it comes to caring for the ordinary hardworking people of the District of Columbia. I know that he has had his difficulties getting affordable housing and finding places for shelters for the homeless, but at least he has tried. Having Vincent Gray as mayor was a breath of fresh air compared to the downright arrogant attitudes of the Fenty and Williams administrations. I believe Mayor Gray really cares for all the people of the District of Columbia, especially those of us east of the river. The District is changing, and after the results of this next election, no matter who wins, there will not be a mayor who cares about the less fortunate among us. If I had the opportunity to personally meet Mayor Gray I would say to him, “Thank You, Mr. Mayor, you did your best for all of us.”

Accommodating the Homeless

City officials have an arduous task before them ensuring adequate shelter for its homeless population as winter looms. While I wholeheartedly agree with D.C. At-large Council member David Catania that there should be an increase in rent subsidies to assist homeless individuals and families, I also think it’s a good idea to continue using the old shelter at the former D.C. General Hospital to accommodate people in need of a warm and safe place to sleep as the temperatures begin to drop. Don’t close the shelter, merely keep it in operation until the new mayor takes office – and then brainstorm accommodations for the next winter. Otherwise, with the homeless population having increased by 16 percent since last year, and with at least 600 children among them, somebody in city government is going to have to do a lot of fast thinking to take care of a problem at the last minute, that was made known to officials not last month, but several months ago. Jessie Campbell Washington, D.C.

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Wow, The Washington Informer is 50 years old, that’s older than I am. First let me say congratulations on your wonderful achievements and, second, let me say I just loved the spread in the October 30th edition on the reception honoring the “50 Local Influencers.” The photographs were outstanding, I could just feel the excitement captured in the faces of those present and I could tell everyone was having a great time. It is such a wonderful idea to honor 50 people who have contributed and who have had some part in influencing those in our community. My only complaint is I would have liked to have known who all 50 of the influencers were. Maybe a photograph and a short bio, and what they have contributed; that would have been awesome. I’m sure you had a good reason for not putting them in this edition, but I hope in some future edition you find the space to list all 50 influencers so we can also pay our respects to them if by chance we meet them. Fifty years and what a party, my 50th is coming up soon and I would sure love to celebrate it like you did – with style! Jasmyn Brooks Washington, D.C. Nov 6 - Nov 12, 2014

OPINIONS/EDITORIALS

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By Marian Wright Edelman

The Monster of Poverty Each year at Halloween, our neighborhoods are bustling as children go door to door dressed as zombies, vampires, skeletons or something else fantastic and scary. For many children, Halloween is the rare occasion to indulge in a fun time of ghost stories and goblins and trick-ortreats. But at the end of the night they put away their costumes and make-believe in their closets and return to their normal lives.

Sadly, too many children do not have normal or safe or protected lives, and their monsters are real. They do not have closets in many homeless shelters or on the streets or church steps, where they sometimes live with homeless parents. They are not safe in drug- and violence-infested neighborhoods and suffer chronic hunger, especially on weekends and during long summer months when school is out. It should not and does not have to be this way! It is shameful that children are the poorest

group in America because of unjust political choices and skewed values that help the wealthiest and powerful at the expense of poor and voiceless children. Consider this: • The latest poverty statistics show 14.7 million poor children in America and 6.5 million in extreme poverty – a slight improvement but far from enough. Our goal must be to end child poverty in America and the misery it breeds now. It is unacceptable that: • Nearly 1.3 million public

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school students were identified as homeless during the 20122013 school year, 100,000 more than the year before and an 87 percent increase since 2007; • In 2011, 19,350 children and teens died or were injured by guns – more than 18 classrooms with 20 students every week. • Nearly 8.6 million children — 1 in 9 — lived in households where children did not always have enough to eat in 2013, a rate 27 percent higher than before the recession. The monsters these children

face are not acts of God but the results of our unjust choices as a nation. We must work together to wrestle the monsters of poverty, homelessness, hunger, and gun violence to the ground. Ending child poverty in the world’s largest economy should be a no-brainer. Children cannot afford the burden of poverty. And our nation cannot afford the costly economic and moral burden of child poverty. Child poverty costs our nation half a tril-

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By Lee A. Daniels

NYPD’s “Aggressive Policing” Three reports released this month on the arrest activities of the New York City Police Department should ratchet up the already significant questioning of the department’s use of the “broken windows” approach to policing. That theory asserts that cops’ zero tolerance of such misdemeanor crimes as possession of small amounts of marijuana and such quality-of-life violations as loitering not only

improves neighborhoods’ quality of life in small ways but also sends a signal that more serious crimes won’t be tolerated. The claim that arresting individuals for such things as possessing what are often trace amounts of marijuana or riding one’s bicycle on the sidewalk deters other individuals from committing burglary, robbery, rape and murder has long been the subject of vigorous debate. But one thing is clear about the NYPD’s use of broken win-

dows: Black and Hispanic New Yorkers in wildly disproportionate numbers are the targets of this “aggressive” policing – not because they violate these rules more than Whites but because the police seek them out in order to build their arrest statistics. That use of the “broken windows” policy is evident from the statistics found in three separate reports released this month by three different New York Citybased entities.

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John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York produced a massive study of misdemeanor arrests in New York City (and four other cities in New York state) from 1980 to 2013. The Drug Policy Alliance, which urges reforms in drug-related policies and usage, issued a report on the racial disparity of marijuana arrests in the city during the corresponding six months of 2013 and 2014. And the Police Reform Organizing Project, an advocacy organiza-

tion that seeks to change what it considers unjust police practices, published the results of its September monitoring of nearly 200 arraignments in three of the city’s criminal courts. One set of statistics in the John Jay report shows that in terms of the crime rate as well as in absolute numbers, both violent crime and nonviolent crime in New York City have declined in “unprecedented” fashion since

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By George E. Curry

Watching the Elections From Abroad JERUSALEM — On Election night, I usually stay awake as long as my eyelids are willing to cooperate. But this year was different. Instead of alternating between watching CNN and tracking results on the Internet, I was in the Holy Land, nearly 6,000 miles from my office in Washington, D.C. With Daylight Savings Time going into effect last Sunday, I was in a time zone Tuesday

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seven hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time. That meant that instead of hearing the TV network projections trickle in as polls closed in different regions of the U.S., I had to go to bed not knowing if Democrats had lost control of the Senate, as predicted, and how well African-Americans had turned out in the pivotal states of North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana and Arkansas. I fell asleep in my hotel room confident of two things: First, no matter how strong blacks

went to the polls in this off-year election, when voting historically favors the party out of the White House, Democrats were unlikely to regain control of the House of Representatives. Second, if Republicans managed to wrestle control from Democrats in the Senate, Democrats would blame the low turnout among African-Americans. Before departing Washington, I already saw this scenario unfolding. Both The New York Times and The Washington Post, the two most politically The Washington Informer

influential newspapers in the nation, had published stories about the importance of the black vote in Tuesday’s midterm election and that without a heavy Black turnout, the prospect of Democrats retaining the upper chamber was doomed. Missing in the analysis was how Democrats had shot themselves in the foot. It is important to understand that most white voters don’t support Democrats. The last three Democrats elected president – Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama

– won each time with a minority of the white vote. Considering there are more white voters in the U.S. than blacks, perhaps a more appropriate question is “Why are white voters not turning out for Democrats?” All that weight should not fall on the shoulders of black voters. A second point to remember is that even with black voters being key to Democratic success, Democratic strategists have not, as the old lady making church

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By Julianne Malveaux

Online Colleges Flunk Common Sense The most common model of college attendance is that a young person graduates from high school and heads directly to college, perhaps taking a year off in between to work. While many students start off right after high school, some of them have breaks in their higher education, dropping out to save money to continue or to deal with family matters. The most common model is

not the only model, however. Mature adults who did not attend or finish college through the most common model are referred to as “returning students” or “nontraditional students.” Some get their degrees through online programs. A few colleges (Bay Path College in Massachusetts, is one example) have developed Saturday programs where women can earn a four-year degree by attending college only on Saturdays. Concerned by high unemployment rates and eager to en-

hance their employability, many mature college students turn to for-profit colleges (sometimes called “career colleges”) for their education. Some of these students, barraged by television ads, are convinced that for-profit colleges, where they can attend during the evening or online, allow them the flexibility they need to manage work, family and education. And since federal funds, such as Pell grants and subsidized loans, are available to take care of costs, some students who attend for-profit colleges

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are pressured to take out these loans. If they drop out, they are still required to repay their loans, just as they would have to in any other college. But all colleges are not created equal. About once a week, I get a call from a mature student whose time at a career college was unrewarding. One woman failed a math test but could not get feedback from her instructor on what she did wrong. Appeals to others in the chain of command went unanswered. In another case, a young wom-

an desperately needed counseling. She ended up getting it from a community organization, not from her career college. To cite just a few cases to make a point is casual empiricism, but my direct knowledge of some students’ plight raises a few questions for me. Many students get training, but not jobs. Many are saddled with loans they cannot ever afford to repay, and the costs of attending career colleges are

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By Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Ebola Tracks Outbreak of HIV/AIDS Pandemic A high school friend of my wife was one of the earliest victims of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. He was a flight attendant, who was stricken and died quickly. When he died, they still had not come up with a name for the pandemic. But then others became sick and died, and suddenly the public knew that something deadly was unfolding. In the beginning of the pandemic, there were different ways

that it was characterized. The media and the “street” would talk about the “gay cancer” or the “disease” that afflicted Haitians, homosexuals and hemophiliacs. There were those who suggested locking up entire populations. No one seemed to know whether you could hug and kiss someone with what later came to be called HIV/AIDS. There was panic. While the science was ignored, there was a demand for a cure. All sorts of theories circulated as to how and why HIV/AIDS emerged.

It was through the work of groups such as Gay Men’s Health Crisis, ACT UP and others that the crisis was confronted at the level of public health and justice. They and similar such formations mobilized against the demonization of the HIV/ AIDS-infected. Slowly the tide began to turn, and attitudes started to shift. That said, it feels, in the midst of the Ebola crisis, that we are back to ground zero. Science is being ignored. The Australian government has cut off visas to

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West African countries afflicted by the outbreak and has refused to deploy medical personnel to help to confront the tragedy. They seem to think that they can put Australia in some sort of bubble and keep it healthy. I hate to break it to them, but in this age of globalization, it does not work that way. Yet in the U.S. there are many people with the same impulses. In a country of more than 300 million people, there have been nine victims of Ebola. Nine. Yet the actions by some politicians

would make you think that thousands of people had crossed the Atlantic and were infecting the population. Worse, there are politicians who are pinning this crisis on President Barack Obama as a way of motivating their base to vote for conservatives. It is time for something akin to the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and ACT UP. There needs to be a broad-based discussion about Ebola ,and I would argue that the African-American commu-

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By Askia Muhammad

Gay Isn’t Really the New Black Several years ago, a friend of mine died of a stroke, which was brought on by his refusal to take medicine he was prescribed, because he felt the medication interfered with his ability to have sex. There comes a time (if folks live that long) when sexual relations are no longer part of their lives. If that’s the case, it seems to me, whether one is heterosexual or homosexual is almost

irrelevant. Almost, but folks still have “attractions.” I dare say, just as there are men who can “no longer” have a sexual partner, there are some who choose/chose not to ever have a partner. Surely, there are some chaste priests (and nuns) for example. There are women as well who fall into this category. They are disparagingly referred to as “old maids” or “spinsters.” That is their lifestyle. Behavior. Just because people choose to live celibate lives does not mean that those people don’t find

other people sexually attractive. Some celibate men and women surely find women attractive; some, I’m sure, may be attracted to men. My point is that all of the people in all of those categories have chosen a lifestyle without sexual activity. So if a man or a woman chooses to live a life without sexual partners, there is no necessity for that person to “identify” as being either heterosexual or homosexual. Such persons can keep their sexual “preferences” to themselves.

When I was growing up in Los Angeles – a pretty liberal town – there were two neighbor boys my age. Their mothers lived in the same house as “sisters.” It just occurred to me recently those women may not have been sisters at all. They may have been lovers, but were not able to “come out” and “identify” as lesbians back in those days. So on my scale, we have attraction, behavior, and identity. Most everyone is attracted to other people. While we have been required by the politics of

our age to recognize that it’s acceptable for men to be sexually attracted to other men and women to be attracted to other women, we still find it objectionable (really gross) if men, for example, publicly express that they find women’s legs, butts or bosoms attractive. “Yeah baby!” In fact, a recently released video of men catcalling women has drawn a lot of attention because the unacceptable conduct of White men was edited out,

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‘The Dianne Whitfield-Locke and Carnell Locke Collection Building on Tradition’

African-American Art History Takes Over Howard University’s Gallery of Art By Eve M. Ferguson WI Contributing Writer

Richmond Barthé (1901-1989), Stevedore, 1937, bronze. /Photo by John Woo. The Locke Collection

hen one steps into the Howard University Gallery of Art during the current exhibit, “The Dianne Whitfield-Locke and Carnell Locke Collection: Building on Tradition,” it becomes an educational walk through centuries of African-American art history. It is on full view until Dec. 12. In this carefully curated exhibit, practically every African-American artist of merit is represented: Henry O. Tanner, Robert Scott Duncanson and Edward Bannister establish the 19th century early masters of African-American art, but less well-known and more contemporary artists round out this sizable show that inhabits two of the three rooms of the gallery. The media are varied. While paintings dominate, important sculptures, prints, drawings, etchings and lithographs are given ample attention in this vast and varied showcase, which highlights the astute and refined eye of the collectors, Dianne Whitfield-Locke and her husband, Carnell Locke. Their personal collection numbers more than 1,100 works, of which only a small portion, 66 works in total, are included in this exhibit curated by Scott W. Baker, assistant director of the university’s Gallery of Art. The Lockes, both Howard University-trained dentists, began their collection of African-American art 12 years ago, expanding on their already established mission. “We are collectors,” Whitfield-Locke said. “We collect brass, books and porcelain from occupied China,” she added. “I wanted to have a legacy of art history, especially artists who began at Howard and Hampton (universities). They were basically overlooked, and it has taken many years to recognize them.” The works on display read like an art history textbook. In the first gallery, “Visualizing Legacy,” which is gleaned from Howard University’s collection, the 19th century works of art whet the appetite for the Lockes’ collection. The first viewing of “Building on Tradition” was at Hampton University Museum of Art last year. Upon entry at the Gallery of Art, Edmonia Lewis’ iconic1867 sculpture “Forever Free,” a gleaming white marble representation of a male and female slave breaking loose from their chains of bondage, greets the viewer. Continuing on through the gallery, the classical landscapes of Duncanson and Bannister set the foundation for the development of African-American art of the 19th century, the starting point for the Lockes’ collection. See

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LIFESTYLE “Toro” retains much of the original form of the tree and blends with Sargent Johnson’s “Hybrid” and self-trained artist William Edmondson’s limestone grave marker, “Owl.” Sculptor Richard Hunt’s “Growth and Expansion” and Charles Searles’ bronze “Two Steps” exemplify the contemporary sculptures that are interspersed throughout the galleries. Hunt, who gave the first artist’s talk, commented that as a diligent collector, Whitfield-Locke always visits the artists’ studios when making a purchase when it’s possible. She also makes it a point to attend their gallery and museum exhibitions, as well as public unveilings. “The depth of the collection and the time period are signif-

icant,” Whitfield-Locke said. “Works from the late 1800s to the 1960s are what we focused on. Some of the artists haven’t had the proper mainstream exposure, and many of these individuals have not had recognition for many years. Most have not had the proper attention,” she continued. “This collection is an educational tool, but these are beautiful works of art.” The exhibit remains on view through Dec. 12 at the Howard University Gallery of Art, 2455 Sixth St., NW. The gallery is open Monday-Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. WI Visit www.galleryofart.howard.edu for more information.

Richard Hunt (b.1935-), Growth and Extensions, (1996-2010), welded steel. /Photo by John Woo. The Locke Collection

Elizabeth Catlett (1919-2012), Mother and Child, n.d. bronze. /Photo by John Woo. The Locke Collection

COLLECTION continued from Page 36 “Building on Tradition” begins in the second of three spacious galleries in Howard University’s Gallery of Art, eclectically blending the collection’s sculptures with two-dimensional works. Duncanson’s “Hunting in the Woods” resides harmoniously with Lorenzo Pace’s “African King,” an organic gnarled wood sculpture reminiscent of traditional African wood carvings. Sam Gilliam’s draped abstract hangs side-by-side with Jacob Lawrence’s cubist “Builders.” The Harlem Renaissance is well-represented in two-dimensional works by Aaron Douglas, Hale Woodruff, Palmer Hayden and Charles Alston. Richmond Barthé’s elongated and sinuous yet powerful sculpture “Stevedore” and a rare sculpture by Charles Alston, “Musician I” represent the three-dimensional pieces from that vital era. The Lockes have one of the largest collections of predominantly African-American sculpture in private hands. “Three-dimensional work is fascinating to me,” Whitfield-Locke commented enthusiastically. “You can see what the artist is saying. I am hoping to

use our collection to help people see the beauty of sculpture,” she added. “Sculpture really excites me. It’s emotionally contagious.” In the final gallery, Barthé’s sculpture “Inner Music” (1956) draws the viewer into yet another plethora of two- and three-dimensional works. In this last look, Elizabeth Catlett’s naturalistic “Mother and Child” comfortably coexists with Selma Burke’s sculpture “Reclining Nude.” Harlem Renaissance artist Beauford Delaney’s untitled abstract in reds and blues, complements Color School artist Alma Thomas’ contemporary untitled abstract in vivid hues of red. Created by one of the first students of Hampton’s art school, John Biggers’ largescale serigraph triptych “Family Ark” combines African forms and figures in an altar-like assemblage that serves as a focal point for the gallery. “The White House,” created by another of Hampton’s founding students, Samella Lewis, is an abstraction of human figures richly layered in color, texture and context that contrasts with Biggers’ monochromatic work. In a grouping of three sculptures, Clinton Walker’s pinewood

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Gospel Favorite Returns with Soul-Stirring CD J.J. Hairston & Youthful Praise Make a Joyful Noise By D. Kevin McNeir WI Contributing Writer Gospel music has changed a lot since the days of icons like James Cleveland, Mahalia Jackson and Edwin Hawkins and his West Coast choirs. But one thing has remained constant – the songs, whether more contemporary or traditional – focus on the grace and mercy of God. And a new CD

released by a popular gospel choir contains all the essentials and more. “This is the first record where I had a theme before I had a song,” said J.J. Hairston, a singer, composer and the director of J.J. Hairston & Youthful Praise. “I came up with the theme of ‘I See Victory’ long before I wrote any songs. “A lot of gospel music talks

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Blacks and whites alike continue to get their praise on with the music of J.J. Hairston, whose songs have become Sunday morning standards. /Photo courtesy of Bill Carpenter

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 HAIRSTON continued from Page 38 about the problems we face in life. I wanted all of the songs on this CD to represent one idea: a victorious life. So the collection is praise- and worship-oriented, and I hope it illustrates that through faith, we can all have victory,” said Hairston, who lives in Seymour, Connecticut, with his wife and three children and recently appeared with a lineup of other singers and choirs at Evangel Cathedral in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Hairston’s Soul Train Award-nominated ensemble recorded the 17-track CD at The First Cathedral in Bloomfield, Connecticut, and it includes performances by several gospel greats: Donnie McClurkin, Karen Clark Sheard, Vashawn Mitchell, Jason Nelson and Deon Kippling. He said that with this new release, he’s reached a new chapter in his life. “My wife and I once faced divorce – now we’re starting to minister together, conducting marriage seminars and holding worship services, which is all very new,” Hairston said. “As for the choir, I never set out to be a leader. I joined just to sing tenor and took over in 2003 when our founder, Shawn Maurice Brown, retired from the group to become a pastor. People always ask me if I’m going to go out on my own and do my own thing. But no, it will always be J.J. Hairston & Youthful Praise,” said Hairston, whose grandfather and mother served as the pastor and music director at their Brooklyn, New York-based church during his youth. Gospel music fans often compare Hairston and his choir to the ensembles of Hezekiah Walker and Donald Lawrence. For just over a dozen years, the group has released radio hits like “Incredible God, Incredible Praise,” “Lord of All” and “Resting on His Promise.” The new CD offers upbeat, hand-clapping tunes like “You’re Mighty” and “The Blood Still Works” – a song that begins with an innovative organ introduction and pulsates with the sounds of syncopated tambourines. But there are also more traditional, moving ballads like “Bless Me” featuring McClurkin, which continues to climb on the gospel airplay chart, and “I Feel You Moving” and “Awe of You.” Hairston’s inspiration for the

songs came out of a period of tragedy and pain. “For most of 2013 my mother was in a coma,” he said. “She was first diagnosed with cancer in 2010, and she survived surgery and began to rebound. Then after being in remission, the doctors found something else. Some people would have gotten angry with God, but my sisters and I were content with God’s will because He does all things well. We’re comforted because while she’s gone on to be with the Lord, she’s no longer in pain,” said Hairston, who continues to share his message of hope to listeners on his gospel radio show based in Connecticut. The group has appeared on

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Gospel music favorite J.J. Hairston, along with his inspirational music ensemble Youthful Praise, recently released his new CD, “I See Victory,” which was recorded live at The First Cathedral in Bloomfield, Connecticut. /Photo courtesy of Bill Carpenter

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LIFESTYLE HAIRSTON continued from Page 39 national TV programs such as “Good Morning America,” BET’s “Celebration of Gospel,” “Conan O’Brien,” BET’s “Lift Every Voice,” “Lady Gaga & the Muppets Holiday Spectacular” and BET’s “Sunday Best.” He said that whenever the group performs, he hopes to bring encouragement. “My friends, Ricky Dillard and Hezekiah Walker, have told me

that I’ve been instrumental in reintroducing praise and worship into the gospel community, and I’m honored that they feel that way,” Hairston said. “I’ve always felt more at home with a choir that leads the way in praise and worship. I work with congregations that are both black and interracial, and while worship is a little different when it comes to the music, they all connect and participate when we’re praising God through song.” WI

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ARIES Flexibility is the word for this week. Don’t insist on being right, even if you think you are. You will gain more this week if you allow others the freedom to have their way rather than insisting that people do things your way. Soul Affirmation: He who doesn’t ask will remain a fool forever. Lucky Numbers: 20, 36, 55 TAURUS You don’t have to worry about being alone in the journey that you have undertaken. You are on this path because someone guided you. Take the memory of their guidance as comfort and keep on trucking. Soul Affirmation: Things are as I know them to be. Lucky Numbers: 13, 47, 49

“Cold Sweat: My Father James Brown and Me”

by Yamma Brown with Robin Gaby Fisher c. 2014, Chicago Review Press $24.95 / $29.95 Canada 208 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer Throughout your life, your dad taught you a lot. He was the one holding the back of your bike the first time without training wheels. He showed you how to change a tire. He taught you to make funny sounds, one specialty in the kitchen, and the checkbook balance. Without Dad’s influence, there’d be a lot of knowledge you’d be without, but in the new book “Cold Sweat,” you’ll see that there was one legacy Yamma Brown (with Robin Gaby Fisher) wishes her father had never left her. Yamma Brown still carries a lot of guilt. She says she only lived “a few miles” from the Augusta hospital where her father James Brown was taken on Christmas Eve 2006, but she still had baking and wrapping to do that night. She told him she’d see him in the morning, but for the Godfather of Soul, there was no morning. “I had so many sweet memories of Dad,” she says. Brown and her sister were definitely daddy’s girls, pampered but not spoiled, given material things along with love and lessons of hard work. James Brown never forgot where he came from, and he made sure his children knew it, too. But she also learned that her father had a temper and that her mother was often the victim of his rage. Brown remembers being 5 years old and hiding to avoid the sound of her father “pummeling Mom.” She recalls

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GEMINI Commit to a new way this week! You are developing your craft by practice and more practice. Accept recognition gracefully, and keep on task. You are investing in your art this week. Soul Affirmation: Goodness is its own reward. Lucky Numbers: 18, 32, 45

attacking him once, jumping on his back when he chased her mother outside, trying to get him to stop. And she remembers that, when she was 7, Brown and her sister left their father’s house with their mother, and divorce papers were filed. And yet Brown’s mother wasn’t the only spouse with which James Brown had a rocky relationship; there were other wives he abused, and some returned it. Perhaps because of what she witnessed, Brown says, she grew up with a belief that domestic abuse was normal, and so when the man she married after college began to beat her, Brown stayed with him, having “equated abuse with love.” If you followed James Brown’s career during the last years of his life, what you’ll read here won’t be any surprise; as you’ll see, the hardest-working man in show business also had a hard-working ego that loved publicity. The surprise in “Cold Sweat” is that author Yamma Brown (with Robin Gaby Fisher) writes about his life (and hers) with such candor, beginning with his death, an odd posthumous visitor, and three funerals. Of course, though, this book isn’t just a scandalous tell-all about Mr. Please Please Please (although there’s scandal aplenty): Brown’s tale also offers a dual look at fame and domestic abuse and adds fuel to the question of why women endure the latter. I liked this generational memoir. It’s remarkably unprofane and quick to read, and it gives fans exactly what I think they want in a show-biz biography. And if that sounds good to you, then enjoying “Cold Sweat” is no sweat.WI

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CANCER Your word this week is “Persistence.” Keep at the task of persuading others that your idea or vision is as remarkable as you know it is. You just need to get the word out, and you need to be persistent in your efforts. Make a game out of it and have fun! Soul Affirmation: Often it’s not what I say but the way I say it that gets the message across. Lucky Numbers: 1, 4, 37 LEO Results that seemed like they would never show up may arrive this week, and it will make you very happy. Keep the feeling this week in mind so that you’ll remember and benefit from it next time you are impatiently waiting for an outcome. Everything is working to your good. Soul Affirmation: I give thanks for the chance to give. Lucky Numbers: 17, 29, 33 VIRGO Your exciting and adventurous self will want to come out and play. You’ll be happiest if you are exploring something, and then topping it off with a visit to a restaurant that serves something you’ve never tried before. Live it up at the banquet of life this week! Soul Affirmation: When I am clear about who I am, the world becomes clearer. Lucky Numbers: 18, 29, 41 LIBRA Watch for that item you’ve been waiting to be on sale at a good price this week. While you are feeling pretty confident with money, you don’t want to splurge or overspend just yet. Keep your eye out for bargains for a little while longer! Soul Affirmation: This week I find joy in the gifts that life has already given me. Lucky Numbers: 23, 48, 50 SCORPIO It’s easy to take it easy! Just slow down and let each moment arrive at its own speed. You’ll get a lot done this week if you get in tune with the rhythm of the week. Each moment has its own beat. Stay with it. Soul Affirmation: The wisdom of the ages is revealed as my spirit. Lucky Numbers: 9, 16, 42 SAGITTARIUS Change is near, and it’s going to be good. Clear your desk of pesky tasks this week and get your mind free to receive what life brings. Positive results help you feel even more positive. Soul Affirmation: Someone wonderful is looking to find me. Lucky Numbers: 2, 25, 27 CAPRICORN You are the boss of your week this week, so act like the leader you are and let the week follow you around. Your creativity is soaring; schedule enough time to get some of your brilliant ideas on paper. Soul Affirmation: Trust gives me a deep sense of peace and joy. Lucky Numbers: 1, 30, 41 AQUARIUS A steady stream of opportunities is coming your way, lucky you and they contain endless possibilities. Wear your instincts like a rainbow colored coat this week and gather the good resources that you need. Soul Affirmation: Hope is future’s way of shining on me this week. Lucky Numbers: 16, 23, 35 PISCES Some down time will work wonders for you this week. You’ve been running fast with your projects, and now it’s time to slow it down. Try to spend time outdoors and with nature. Enjoy! Soul Affirmation: Hope is a beautiful jewel. I enjoy owning it. Lucky Numbers: 39, 45, 48

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For thousands of the District’s homeless, a heavy jacket, hat, and a pair of gloves make a world of difference, especially as the leaves change colors and the temperatures fall. Earlier this week, that reality compelled hundreds of young professionals to donate nearly 300 pounds of winter clothing as a part of an effort to help a vulnerable population and raise awareness about an increasingly visible problem. “I was motivated by the rising homeless population and the need to bring awareness and aid,” said Mark Thomas, a senior at Catholic University of America in Northeast and an organizer of the brunch and coat drive touted as “District Displaced Benefit Brunch and Social.” Thomas hosted the gathering at Smith Public Trust in Northeast with Acts of Random Kindness (ARK), a D.C-based nonprofit that creates programs for at-risk youth and their families. The event, which attracted nearly 200 people on Sunday, kicked off a long-term art project that will shed light on homelessness in the District through photography. “People had a great time and gave clothes to the homeless. Sometimes, action is left out of the creative process and social advocacy art. My photography project, which comes out in 2015, will showcase a series of hand portraits and photos that show interaction with homeless people. Even if the homeless don’t want to participate in the project, they will still be provided with some winter clothing,” said Thomas, 21. The District’s homeless population currently stands at nearly 7,750, 13 percent higher than last year, The Washington Informer

according to a study conducted by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. The Northeast-based nonprofit’s May report cited the loss of affordable housing units as a key cause of the increase during a time when other parts of the D.C. metropolitan region see their homeless numbers falling. Last month, city officials projected that 850 families will be without housing this winter. A lack of space in the old D.C. General campus in Southeast and a homelessness budget shortfall of nearly $10 million complicate matters more for the D.C. mayor-elect. “I would really like to see politicians join in the fight against homelessness,” said Tamika Beverly, 31, a management analyst in the federal government. Beverly entered Smith Public Trust with two friends shortly after the event started and dropped three pairs of jeans and one sweater into a brown box. The trio then spent much of the afternoon sipping mimosas, chatting, and nodding their heads to the sounds of DJ K-Meta, Mista Selecta, DJ Sylo and Manesqueeze. “Homelessness is increasing at an alarming rate and it’s affecting mostly African-Americans. I’m a paycheck away so I have to help someone just like I’ve been helped. I feel like a lot of young people are doing positive things. It just doesn’t get publicized enough. I’m hoping that more of us participate so that this gets bigger,” said Beverly, a Southeast resident. Professional boxer Dusty Harrison attended the brunch eager to support Thomas and ARK founder Cordelia Cranshaw’s efforts. That afternoon, he learned about homelessness in the D.C. metropolitan area and chatted with his friend. “You feel best when it’s going to

the right people,” said Harrison, 20. “My father and I always try to help out the homeless. I couldn’t imagine not having a home to go to when it’s cold. One person can’t solve this problem but as long as this project helps people, that’s all that matters. I wish I had more to give,” said Harrison, a Southeast resident. For some people like Brookland resident Paul Grenaldo, the brunch turned into a family affair. Grenaldo donated seven coats and enjoyed nachos with his wife and daughter. He said that the event allowed him to think more about an issue that affects many of the people he encounters at Doctor’s Community Hospital. “In my line of work, homelessness is a contributing factor to patients’ poor health,” said Grenaldo, 58, an administrator at the New Carrollton, Maryland-based hospital. “Everyone has a story. Many times, there are mental health issues at play. We need to be committed to engaging folks instead of ignoring those problems. It’s always a positive thing when members of the community can come together and help others.” Cranshaw, who said she experienced periods of homelessness, considered the brunch a success. She expressed plans to survey neighborhoods and determine where the donations would have the greatest impact. “We see a need to empower the homeless people in our community,” said Cranshaw, 22. “When Mark [Thomas] reached out to me, I definitely wanted to help him and figure out how we could bring different groups of people together to support this cause so that we can bridge this resource gap,” said Cranshaw, a graduate student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. WI

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Howard University defender Cameron Alston sacks Delaware State quarterback Esayah Obado in the first quarter of Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference football action on Saturday at Howard’s Greene Stadium in Northwest. Howard defeated Delaware State, 1710. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Howard University quarterback Greg McGhee eludes Delaware State defenders Lamar Shaw and Dan Zajac during the first quarter of MEAC football action on Saturday at Howard’s Greene Stadium in Northwest. Howard defeated Delaware State, 17-10. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Delaware State running back Jamaal Jackson tries to evade Howard University defender Devin Rollins during the second quarter of MEAC football action on Saturday at Howard’s Greene Stadium in Northwest. Howard defeated Delaware State, 17-10. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Washington Wizards Defeat Milwaukee Bucks, 108-97 Washington Wizards forward and former Georgetown starter Otto Porter drives past Milwaukee Bucks forward Khris Middleton as teammate Marcin Gortat looks on during the first quarter of National Basketball Association action on Saturday at the Verizon Center in Northwest. Washington defeated Milwaukee, 108-97. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Washington Wizards forward Paul Pierce goes one-on-one against Milwaukee Bucks guard Jared Dudley during the first quarter of NBA action on Saturday at the Verizon Center in Northwest. Washington defeated Milwaukee, 108-97. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Washington Wizards guard John Wall goes against Milwaukee Bucks guard Jared Dudley during the third quarter of NBA action on Saturday at the Verizon Center in Northwest. Washington defeated Milwaukee, 108-97. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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SPORTS Milwaukee Bucks guard Jerry Bayless drives past Washington Wizards guard John Wall during the third quarter of NBA action on Saturday at the Verizon Center in Northwest. Washington defeated Milwaukee, 108-97. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Milwaukee Bucks center Zaza Pachulia drives past Washington Wizards center Marcin Gortat during the third quarter of NBA action on Saturday at the Verizon Center in Northwest. Washington defeated Milwaukee, 108-97. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

Milwaukee Bucks guard Jared Dudley shoots over Washington Wizards center Marcin Gortat during the third quarter of NBA action on Saturday at the Verizon Center in Northwest. The Wizards defeated the Milwaukee Bucks, 108-97. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

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Redskins Fumble Big Opportunity

Nickname Controversy, Return of RG III Highlight Loss By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer There were protesters – thousands of them – inside and outside of TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis who desperately wanted their voices heard as they called on the ownership of the Washington Redskins to change the team’s name. Prior to the protest, a bus carrying the Redskins crashed on the way to the game. There were no reports of injury at the time. However, further exacerbating the rough start to their day in Minnesota, multiple members of the Redskins organization reportedly told ESPN’s Adam Schefter that the decision to start quarterback Robert Griffin III over third-stringer Colt McCoy, who led the team to two straight wins, had been made by owner Daniel Snyder. With plenty of distractions on and off the field, Washington fumbled a golden opportunity to jump back into playoff contention, losing to the Vikings, 29-26, on Sunday. “We could have been back, back in the playoff race if we would have won,” said longtime Redskins’ fan Marc Harrell of Northeast. “Did you see the game? We just needed a little faith, and we needed to keep fighting. But we just couldn’t do it,” said Harrell, 45.

Others lamented that the Redskins, who opened the game with a 10-0 scoring run, blew three leads during the contest and wasted a solid offensive performance by the returning Griffin. In his first game since dislocating his ankle in a Week 2 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, Griffin, the 2011 Heisman Trophy winner, threw for 251 yards and a touchdown. However, the Vikings picked him off once and sacked the third-year franchise quarterback five times en route to the home team’s victory. During the game, team officials tried to downplay the decision to insert Griffin back into the lineup. They also denied ESPN’s report that Snyder had ordered Coach Jay Gruden to start Griffin over McCoy, who looked sharp a week earlier in a victory over the Cowboys in Dallas. While the Redskins faint playoff hopes were all but shattered on the field, controversy over the team’s nickname and logo continued to build in a state where homage has been paid to Native Americans, as evident by the names of several monuments and places, including Lake Minnetonka and Minnehaha Falls. Many in the Twin Cities had targeted Sunday’s game, and officials at the University of Minnesota, whose

Robert Griffin III returned to the playing field on Sunday, throwing for 251 yards and a touchdown. But the Redskins fell short against the Minnesota Vikings, 29-26. /Photo by John E. De Freitas

college team shares the stadium with the Vikings, had urged the local NFL club to limit the use of the Redskins name and logo inside the stadium. Reportedly, the Vikings pay the university $300,000 per game for use of TCF Bank Stadium while the pro

The Minnesota Vikings may have delivered the knockout blow to the fleeting hopes of the Redskins in their quest of making the playoffs. However, despite a solid effort from quarterback Robert Griffin III, Washington lost, 29-26, in Minneapolis on Sunday. /Photo courtesy of the Star-Tribune

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team awaits construction of its own home field. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported that protesters from several states turned out near the stadium prior to the Vikings-Redskins matchup in a demonstration against the team’s nickname. Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges led the marchers, who listened to Native American prayers before heading over to the stadium and chanting such slogans as “Change the Name.” “I have a message to the Washington team. The clock is ticking on your name … it is more than an insult. It’s hate,” Hodges said. Minneapolis activist Clyde Bellecourt also condemned Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, telling the crowd that the name represents the scalping of Indians, which was done for money. “We are standing up against this monster team and to this Jewish person who should know a little bit about genocide,” Bellecourt said in a reference to the Holocaust during World War II that left 6 million Jews dead under Nazi Germany rule. “He should know a little bit about genocide,” Bellecourt said. “The fact that Jewish people are still here today.

There have been millions of people erased from the face of the earth, scalped. Their scalps were taken to be sold for bounty,” he said. “The blood is running down the children’s faces. There were whole tribes that were totally decimated.” Snyder has adamantly refused to change the team’s name, which he contends honors Native Americans, despite a letter signed by half of the United States Senate and criticism by President Barack Obama and others. In Minnesota, a state with a significant Native American population and a history of activism, opposition has proved particularly persistent, and it has become part of the public discourse, the Star-Tribune reported. Back home in the nation’s capital, fans said they’re still agonizing over what has turned out to be a tough season. “They could have waved the white flag after RG III went down, and they could have laid down in Dallas. But they didn’t,” said Aubrey Newhouse, a Redskins fan who lives in Marlow Heights, Maryland. “But we have to face up to the reality that we will go at least another year without going to the Super Bowl,” said Newhouse, 30.WI

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It has been nearly three years since God enabled me to keep my radio talk show going, which airs each Friday at 6 p.m. on Radio One’s WYCB AM 1340 on your radio dial. The show shares good news about health, inspirational stories and politics. On my radio show last week, I interviewed one of the major organizers, Aleta Alston-Toure, as she leads the charge to help Marissa Alexander. Calls are increasing for the total release and exoneration of Alexander, the African-American mother of three who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing what she maintains was a warning shot at her abusive husband. Alexander was prosecuted by Angela Corey, who also oversaw the case against George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin killing. Alexander said she was defending herself when she fired a shot into a wall near her husband and attempted to use Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law in her defense. The 20-year conviction of Alexander in the Old Duval County Courthouse was unreal for all of us that witnessed this atrocity. Hearing Alexander’s daughter’s plea for her mother to the jury was more than an emotional cry but a humane beckoning. Then, “We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest” filled the courtroom as the Dream Defenders belted out the lyrics as a nonviolent protest. The song spoke to the true sentiment that we all shared, despite the urging of police and the judge to remove these freedom fighters from the courtroom and the courthouse. After 12 minutes of deliberation, a

jury of six convicted Alexander of three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon with no intent to harm. Her sentence was set at 20 years partly due to the state’s mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Alexander had just given birth eight days prior to this incident. She left the hospital after breastfeeding her premature infant in the intensive care unit and returned to her home that she had purchased with her previous husband, the father of her twins. She was attacked in her bathroom by her abusive husband, a man who had assaulted her many times before. She fired a warning shot into a wall in the hope that her husband would leave her alone. Alexander won an appeal in September 2013 and was released on bail in November. Her trial will take place in December. Her bail and leg ankle brace saddle her with a debt of $2,500 per month; if found guilty, Alexander could be sentenced to a mandatory 60 years in prison. Alexander proved to be one of the 324,000 pregnant women in the U.S. that are physically or sexually assaulted by an intimate partner every year. Eighty-five to 90 percent of women in prison have a history of being victims of violence prior to their incarceration, including domestic violence, sexual violence, and child abuse. Black women aren’t seen as victims because the courts are not empathetic to the fear black women have for their lives; they are always asked, “Why did you not retreat?” Alexander’s case is one glaring ex-

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ample of how black women have been severely scrutinized by police and underserved. Alexander’s abuser was able to become a “domestic violence survivor” in the Hubbard House (a battered women’s shelter in Florida) while she faces 60 years in jail for defending herself against abuse. Within domestic violence advocacy circles, black women may be seen, but rarely are their voices heard, which allows our communities to overlook the fact that domestic violence is the leading cause of death among black women. Black women are seen as expendable, replaceable, and easily forgotten. In March 2012 the jury convicted her after only 12 minutes of deliberation. Alston-Toure, who has visited Alexander in jail, is also calling for Corey to resign.WI Lyndia Grant is a radio talk show host on WYCB 1340 AM Fridays at 6 p.m., a Radio-One Station; religious columnist; media coordinator and special events coordinator. Visit her website at www.lyndiagrant.com ; call 202-518-3192; send emails to fanniestelle@yahoo.com

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Pilgrim Baptist Church

The Reverend Lyndon Shakespeare Interim Priest Foggy Bottom • Founded in 1867 728 23rd Street, NW • Washington, DC 20037 Church office: 202-333-3985 • Fax : 202-338-4958 Worship Services Sundays: 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Music and Hymns Wednesdays: 12:10 p.m. - Holy Eucharist www.stmarysfoggybottom.org Email: stmarysoffice@stmarysfoggybottom.org

Rev. Louis B. Jones II Pastor

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

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

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

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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

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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.

Third Street Church of God

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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”

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Peace Baptist Church

Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor

Rev. Dr. Michael T. Bell 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

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

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Shiloh Baptist Church

First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church

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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

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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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Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 P.M. 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 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.

Nov 6 - Nov 12, 2014

LEGAL NOTICES

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Probate Division

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Administration No. 2014 ADM 780

Administration Number 2013 ADM 741

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1102

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1134

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1098

Lafayette Battle

Estate of

Clifton Jerome Jackson

Katie M. Taylor

Viola Johnson

Decedent

Catherine Stancil aka Catherine Rone Stancil

Decedent

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS

AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Clifton Jerome Bailey, whose address is 8500 Weimar

Nyya Taylor, whose address is 1358 Constitution Avenue,

Steven Johnson, whose address is 730 50th Street,

Ct., Clinton, MD 20735, was appointed Personal

NE, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed Personal

NE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal

Representative of the estate of Clifton Jerome Jackson,

Representative of the estate of Katie M. Taylor, who died

Representative of the estate of Viola Johnson, who died on

who died on March 24, 2014 without a Will, and will

on August 29, 2014 without a Will, and will serve without

October 14, 2013 without a Will, and will serve without

serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and

Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose

heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their

whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance

appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such

in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall

appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills,

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

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

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

Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before May 6, 2015.

on or before May 6, 2015. Claims against the decedent

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the

shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the

undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed

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

a copy to the undersigned, on or before May 6, 2015,

on or before May 6, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons

or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or

believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do

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

not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days

notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall

of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills,

so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address

including name, address and relationship.

and relationship.

Deceased NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE

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

Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this

NE, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed Personal

Court by Joe T. Winston for standard probate, including

Representative of the estate of Lafayette Battle, who

the appointment of one or more personal representative.

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

Unless a complaint or an objection in accordance with

serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and

Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this

heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their

Court within 30 days from the date of first publication

appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such

of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter

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

set forth.

be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001,

In the absence of a Will or proof satisfactory to the Court

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

of due execution, enter an order determining that the

shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the

decedent died intestate appoint an unsupervised personal

representative.

copy to the undersigned, on or before April 23, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this

Date of first publication:

notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall

October 30, 2014

so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Petitioner/Attorney: Date of first publication:

Colline Silvera

Date of first publication:

October 23, 2014

7731 Belle Point Dr.

November 6, 2014

Clifton Jerome Bailey

Nyya Taylor

Steven Johnson

Personal Representative

Greenbelt, MD 20770 Mary Jane Battle

301 614 3330

Personal Representative

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Anne Meister

Washington Informer

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

PROBATE DIVISION

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Probate Division

Trust No. 2014 NRT 33

Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1051

Fannie Johnson Name of Deceased Settlor

Foreign No. 2014 FEP 141

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1037

Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Administration No. 2014 ADM 1006

Probate Division

Maxi Seleme aka Maxi Tapia de Seleme Janie J. McLaughlin

Decedent

Decedent Deborah D. Boddie, Esq. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Dorian Eugene Talford, whose address is 26054 Neptune’s Landing, Tega Cay, SC 29708, was

1308 Ninth Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20001 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Janie J. McLaughlin, who died on July 9, 2014 with a Will, and

Antonio Jose Seleme, whose address is 3830 Legation

will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs

Street, NW, Washington, DC 20015, was appointed

and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter

Personal Representative of the estate of Maxi Seleme aka

their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such

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

appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 23, 2015. Claims against the decedent

with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills,

shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the

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

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

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

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the

or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or

undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed

legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 30, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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Claims of the deceased settlor’s creditors are barred as against the Trustee and the trust property unless presented to the Trustee at the address provided herein on or before May 6, 2015 (6 month after the date of the first publication of this notice.) An action to contest the validity of this trust must be commenced by the earliest of (1) September 3, 2015, (One year from date of death of deceased settler) (2), May 6, 2015 (6 months from the date of first publication of this notice) or (3) Ninety days after the Trustee sends the person a copy of the trust instrument and a notice informing the person of the trust’s existence, of the Trustee’s name and address, and of the time allowed for commencing a proceeding. The Trustee may proceed to distribute the trust property in accordance with the terms of the trust before the expiration of the time within which an action must be commenced unless the Trustee knows of a pending judicial proceeding contesting the validity of the trust or the Trustee has received notice from a potential contestant who thereafter commences a judicial proceeding within sixty days after notification.

Wilhelmena Ware aka Wilhelmena Boyd Ware Name of Decedent

Washington Informer

Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

The Washington Informer

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS

Maxine B. Grant aka Maxine Grant

whose address is 2800 Second Street, SE, Washington, DC 20032 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Wilhelmena Ware aka Wilhelmena Boyd Ware, deceased, by the Circuit Court for Flagler County, State of Florida, Probate Division, on May 9, 2014.

Service of process may be made upon

Jacqueline Jones Moore, whose address is 7605 14th St., NW, Washington, DC 20012, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Willie Jane Washington, who died on November 23, 2003 with a Will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such

Maxine B. Grant, 2800 Second Street, SE, Washington,

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

DC 20032 whose designation as District of Columbia

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

agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C.

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

on or before May 6 2015. Claims against the decedent

The decedent owned the following District

of Columbia real property: 3029 Clinton Street, NE,

shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the

Washington, DC 20018.

The decedent owned District of Columbia

personal property. 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

Maxine B. Grant

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Washington, DC 20012

REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Signature of Trustee: Michele R. Henderson

Anne Meister

7605 14th St, NW Attorney

Antonio Jose Seleme

TRUE TEST COPY

Jacqueline Jones Moore

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL

November 6, 2014

Personal Representative

Decedent

Date of Death

Date of First Publication: November 6, 2014

Anne Meister

50 Nov 6 - Nov 12, 2014

The Trust is subject to claims of the deceased settlor’s creditors, costs of administration of the settlor’s estate, the expense of the deceased settlor’s funeral and disposal of remains, and stautory allowances to a surviving spouse and children to the extent the deceased settlor’s residuary probate estate is inadequate to satisfy those claims, costs, expenses, and allowances.

Willie Jane Washington

September 13, 2013

October 30, 2014

Date of first publication:

Dorian Eugene Talford Personal Representative

Fannie Johnson whose address was 3814 4th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011 created a revocable trust on June 27, 2008, which remained in existence on the date of her death on September 3, 2014, and Michele R. Henderson, whose address is 11683 Fountainhead Court, Waldorf, MD 20602, is the currently acting trustee, hereinafter the Trustee. Communications to the Trust should be mailed or directed to David C. Harty, Esq. at 9900 E. Greenbelt Road, Unit 125, Lanham, MD 20706.

This Notice must be mailed postmarked within 15 days of its first publication to each heir and qualified beneficiary of the trust and any other person who would be an interested person within the meaning of D.C. Code 20-101(d).

Date of first publication: October 23, 2014

NOTICE OF EXISTENCE OF REVOCABLE TRUST

a copy to the undersigned, on or before May 6, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

from the date of first publication of this notice. Date of first publication: Date of first publication:

November 6 2014 Jacqueline Jones Moore

Personal Representative Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer

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LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131

Foreign No. 2014 FEP 140

May 11, 2007 Date of Death

Evonne P. Lyles Name of Decedent

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Joyce Gibson whose address is 7228

Morrison Dr., Greenbelt, MD 20770 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Evonne P. Lyles, deceased, by the Orphans Court for Charles County, State of Maryland, on December 27, 2007.

Service of process may be made upon

Osborne Lake, 2907 M Street, SE, Washington, DC 20019 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C.

The decedent owned the following District

of Columbia real property: 1/5 owner: 330 36th Street, NE, Washington, DC 20019.

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,

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EDELMAN continued from Page 34 lion dollars every year in lost productivity and extra health and criminal justice costs. As a country, we cannot hope to build a strong competitive future if we continue to allow millions of children to grow up poor and without the health care and education and other supports those of us who are more privileged enjoy. Below is a deeply moving poem by my friend Ina Hughs that reflects the angst of poverty for children far better than I can. A Prayer for Children (By Ina J. Hughs) We pray for children who put chocolate fingers everywhere, who like to be tickled, who stomp in puddles and ruin their new pants, who sneak Popsicles before supper, who erase holes in math workbooks, who can never find their shoes. And we pray for those who stare at

DANIELS continued from Page 34 reaching a peak in the late 1980s. For example, the number of robberies fell from 100,550 in 1980 to 19,128 in 2013, murders declined from 1,821 in 1980 to 335 last year, and motor vehicle thefts fell from 96,471 to 7,400. But the decline in serious crime – and thus, the decline in arrests for serious crime – was countered by an even sharper rise in police arrests for misdemeanors. They rose from an arrest rate of 1,174 per 100,000 citizens in 1980 to 3,411 per 100,000 in 2013—an increase of 190.5 percent. And guess what. In New York City, arrests and summonses for these transgressions, in which street cops can exercise great discretion in how seriously to treat the matter, skyrocketed for black and Hispanic citizens. From 1990 to 2013, for example, the misdemeanor arrests of whites increased from 21,815 to 28,996; for Hispanics, it went from 30,885 to 78,733 and, for Blacks,

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announcements puts it, governed themselves accordingly. Even in battleground states, they didn’t purchase ads in most black newspapers – if they bought any ads at all – until the waning days of the campaign. Last-minute White House efforts were largely directed at radio programs hosted by comedians and DJs, as if they could mobilize black voters all by themselves with shallow drive-by interviews. Although I was on foreign soil on election night, I did my

photographers from behind barbed wire, who’ve never squeaked across the floor in new sneakers, who never “counted potatoes,” who are born in places we wouldn’t be caught dead, who never go to the circus, who live in an X-rated world. We pray for children who bring us sticky kisses and fistfuls of dandelions, who sleep with the dog and bury goldfish, who hug us in a hurry and forget their lunch money, who cover themselves with Band-aids and sing off key, who squeeze toothpaste all over the sink, who slurp their soup. And we pray for those who never get dessert, who watch their parents watch them die, who have no safe blanket to drag behind, who can’t find any bread to steal,who don’t have any rooms to clean up, whose pictures aren’t on anybody’s dresser, whose monsters are real. We pray for children who spend all their allowance before Tuesday, who throw tantrums in the grocery

store and pick at their food, who like ghost stories, who shove dirty clothes under their bed and never rinse out the tub, who get visits from the tooth fairy, who don’t like to be kissed in front of the carpool, who squirm in church and scream in the phone, whose tears we sometimes laugh at and whose smile can make us cry. And we pray for those whose nightmares come in the daytime, who will eat anything, who have never seen a dentist, who aren’t spoiled by anybody, who go to bed hungry and cry themselves to sleep, who live and move, but have no being. We pray for children who want to be carried, and for those who must. For those we never give up on, and for those who don’t get a second chance. For those we smother, and for those who will grab the hand of anybody kind enough to offer.WI

from 56,152 to 104, 659. The Drug Alliance report shows how the impact of racial targeting plays out in marijuana arrests, which are overwhelmingly concentrated among teenagers and young adults. It found that, despite the fact that young whites use marijuana at higher rates than blacks or Hispanics, the latter two groups made up 86 percent of the arrests from January to August of this year. One reason: The NYPD concentrates its arrest activities in predominantly black and Hispanic neighborhoods, not predominantly white ones. An equally important finding is that 74 percent of those arrested this year have never been convicted of any misdemeanor. That data indicates that “The people the NYPD arrests for marijuana possession are not criminals … [but] ordinary high school and college students and young workers.” A significant result of police arrests for these low-level violations, according to the Police Reform Organizing Project, is that “Everyday,

the NYPD’s ‘broken windows’ arrest practices inflict hardship and harm on the most vulnerable New Yorkers, especially low-income people of color, the homeless and the mentally ill.” They also produce a tremendous waste of resources for the criminal justice system itself. The organization’s study of arraignments in a total of 191 court cases in three different sections of the city found that 91 percent of the defendants were people of color and that, in 85 percent of the cases, the judge exonerated the defendant or levied only a minor penalty. Nonetheless, all these cases, no matter how flimsy most are shown to be in court, get logged onto the NYPD tally sheets as “work done.” This devious bureaucratic maneuvering, however, can’t obscure the fact that the NYPD’s “broken windows” approach is itself broken and needs a substantial overhaul.WI

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have been in the Middle East for that period, at times I had to double-check to make sure I wasn’t reliving my childhood in segregated Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, reacting to pressure to settlers on land formerly occupied by Palestinians, has proposed barring Palestinians who live in the West Bank but commute to work in Israel from riding the same buses as Jewish riders. The proposal to operate segregated buses like the ones I grew up with in Alabama is facing a strong pushback from oth-

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er Israeli leaders and supporters of Israel in the U.S. Equally disturbing is that a delegation of African-Americans visiting the village of Bil’in Saturday afternoon was looking at the long, concrete wall encircling a large settlement on previously occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank when one of our hosts noticed a jeep inside the housing compound headed in our direction. No one worried because we were on the outside of the settlement, which is about 7 miles west of the Ramallah, and we were not breaking any laws. Still, moments later, several canisters of tear gas were fired just yards from us, forcing us to flee. Most of us were coughing and feeling a burning sensation in our eyes as we quickly fled. It was but a small sample of what Palestinians experience in their

everyday life. I will be returning home this weekend after a fascinating twoweek trip. I will write a series of stories based on my visit upon my return. And as with all trips abroad, I will be following news out of the Middle East more closely than before. That is always one of the lasting benefits of traveling to other parts of the world.WI 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. Nov 6 - Nov 12, 2014

MALVEAUX continued from Page 35 high. The Department of Education estimates that it costs four times as much to attend a career college as to attend a community college. Why are costs so high when services are so limited? Partly because many career colleges are publicly traded and the pressure is on for them to make a profit to provide div-

idends for their shareholders. Another reason is that salaries for leaders are extremely high. At ITT Technical Institute, CEO Kevin Monday earned $8.76 million in 2012. DeVry University President Daniel Hamburger earned $6.4 million in 2012. The Apollo Group, which includes the University of Phoenix, paid Gregory Cappelli $4.54 million in 2013, and the chairman emeritus received nearly $7 million

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each year in 2012 and 2013. In contrast, only four presidents at public universities earned more than a million dollars. Harvard’s president earns about $900,000, but some of her benefits boost her salary to about 1.2 million. These so-called career colleges are actually profit centers. The disproportionate enrollment of black and brown students means that folks who are already poor and underpaid are creating profits for these publicly traded companies and their overpaid leaders. At ITT Technical Institute, the overwhelming majority of students (92 percent) were self-identified members of a racial and ethnic group. Nearly four in five took out a Pell grant.

At DeVry, about 45 percent were minority students. Meanwhile, students who enroll in these colleges and do not graduate (the majority) have nothing to show for their education but more debt. That’s why the Department of Education is limiting the amount of federal loans that students can take out, pegging loan amounts to ability to pay based on students’ current salaries and income. “Attendance at career colleges should be a gateway to the middle class,” said Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Too often mobility is downward, not upward, when large student loans go unpaid. The new regulations are imperfect, but are a

step in the right direction. They might be more efficient, but the for-profit colleges have lobbied hard and gone to court to prevent cautionary regulations. Students of color who consider these colleges need to make sure they know what they are getting. Otherwise, they are up for a big surprise when student loans bills come due. For-profit colleges are exactly that, for profit. Students are not necessarily being educated, instead being treated as a profit center.WI

reason to condemn the African World. Panic and irrational responses are not stopped through pleading and are frequently not stopped through common sense. You sometimes need a strong force that, through its actions, mobilizations, publicity, etc., shatters the panic and actu-

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to have sex with his lover, his wife. So, having sex is not required for a loving relationship. There comes a time when sex is not necessary to maintain a relationship. And there are those who choose to live their lives without sex as a part of what they must do or, more importantly, as a definition of “who they are.” Just as I don’t judge people who choose same-sex partners, I don’t expect folks to judge me because I don’t think cross-dressing and garishly flaunting one’s sexual preferences as if that’s their “identity” is equivalent with their skin color. It’s not. Politically, in America, gay has become the “New Black,” the 21st century’s new civil rights cause, but it’s not. Homosexuality crosses all racial, class, economic, and ideological lines. Committed same-sex couples should have rights equal to other committed couples, but their plight cannot be equated with

the struggle of Harriet Tubman or Sojourner Truth – who might themselves have been lesbians, for all we know. But thankfully we don’t know and never need to know. We may not be able to choose whom we are physically attracted to. I respect that. But we can control our behavior, and more importantly we must not insist that everyone else give deference to such an “identity” when that identity grows out of “behavior” that a person has chosen.WI

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