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D.C. Synagogue Echoes with Songs, Speeches and Sobbing
By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia The terrorist pipe bombs sent by Trump supporter and suspected domestic terrorist Cesar Sayoc to major Democratic players has set an ugly tone for the upcoming and all-important Nov. 6 midterm elections. “It’s not a good look at all,” said Jeremiah Favors, who works near Capitol Hill. “It’s like Republican supporters are resorting back to the tactics of the 1960s when they would bomb black churches and other places to keep black people from voting,” Favors said. On Friday, Oct. 26, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker was identified as still another Sayoc target as police in-
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5 Early voting for the 2018 mid-term elections hits record numbers across the nation and in Maryland where voter turnout is double the numbers in the 2014 Mid-term election. Inside the Upper Marlboro Community Center on Oct. 25 on the first day of early voting, the lines were long and constant. Early voting ends Nov. 1. /Photo by William J. Ford See story on Page 12
Thousands of DC area residents continue to raise collective voices of resistance and resilience after a lone gunman entered a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday, Oct. 27, shouted his avowed hatred for Jews and opened fire, leaving 11 dead. But in two separate vigils held recently in Dupont Circle and at the Adas Israel synagogue in Northwest,
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Once long-term construction along an up-and-coming portion of Minnesota Avenue in Northeast wraps up next October, residents and commuters can enjoy green space, wider sidewalks, additional traffic signals, and smoothly paved streets. The promise of impending improvements, however, hasn’t quelled concerns among owners of nearby businesses who said they have endured the effects of seemingly nonstop bumper-to-bumper traffic,
obstructive construction debris, and noise for nearly two years. “Right from the onset, it affected business,” said Yaw Menyah, owner of Reliance Pharmacy, a drug store of four years in Sharks Plaza, a strip of eateries, convenience stores, and other storefronts located on Minnesota Avenue, across the street from the Department of Employment Services. “We expected construction to happen overnight, People only have a small portion of the road to use,” said Menyah, a pharmacist of more
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As a returning citizen growing up in the District, Maurice Matthews recently told candidates who seek to represent Ward 5 in the Nov. 6 general election that youth programs should be free. Since Matthews’ godmother informed of his reinstated voting rights, he’s immersed himself into local politics to advocate for children and those formerly incarcerated. “A lot [of returning citizens] are astonished they have this right [to vote], but they might not understand the political process,” Matthews, 49, said. “They refuse to take an opportunity because they don’t understand the concept and process in voting. You could tell people about certain aspects, but if you don’t get a comprehension, you’re not doing yourself any justice.” Matthews represents thousands of returning citizens who’ve regained the right to vote upon establishing District residency. Detainees in D.C. Jail may also vote by absentee ballot while awaiting trial, as long they aren’t serving time for a felony. For some advocates, raising awareness about returning citizens’ voting rights has been an uphill battle. Last year, D.C. Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) introduced legislation mandating the D.C. Court System, Department of Corrections, and Mayor’s Office on Returning Citizens Affairs (MORCA) inform returning citizens, verbally and in written form, of
their voting rights. That bill followed legislation introduced by Councilmember Robert White (D-At large), and eight other council members, that would prepare returning citizens for their transition six months before their release. Upon their release, some returning citizens serve their communities as members and founders of grassroots organizations. Many of them, like Stuart Anderson, said there’s work to be done to ensure formerly incarcerated men and women receive a real second chance. “If you ask about how many returning citizens know about their right to vote, less than 40 percent would be a good range,” said Anderson, a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Returning Citizens. During this primary season, the organization hosted a forum for D.C. Council candidates. “We’ve been trying to make returning citizens aware that when they come back and establish an address, their voting right is reinstated,” Anderson added. “They don’t teach this stuff in programs outside of the District and Virginia. Individuals have to educate their peers.” In D.C., nearly 10 percent of the population, or 67,000 residents, has a criminal conviction, according to the D.C. Policy Center. More than 2,800 returning citizens enter the District annually, only to endure the high cost of living and a gaping economic divide that has marginalized longtime, working-class African-American D.C. residents. To alleviate their econom-
ic hurdles, the D.C. Council and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser passed legislation in 2016 launching the Incarceration to Incorporation Entrepreneurship Program, under which returning citizens would receive training to start their independent ventures.
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So, exit Kendrick after helping out the team for three games. Thanks for the memories. Thanks for the memories. Ironically, the Seahawks have done nothing wrong – at least not according to the rules of the league. But ethically, well, that’s another matter. But what about their decision to bow out of earlier plans announced during the offseason when they expressed interest in Colin Kaepernick – plans for a workout that they subsequently scratched and never re-scheduled? Seems that Kaepernick just can’t get a fair shake because of his role in the national anthem protests that have surrounded the NFL for the past two years. Because he exercised his rights as a citizen, Kaepernick has become a scapegoat in the NFL and hasn’t played since the 2016 season. He’s filed a grievance against NFL owners for collusion, claiming they worked together to keep him off the field because of his
protests not his football abilities. I say, who in good conscience could refute his claim? But he remains on the outside looking in, sidelined because of his beliefs. That’s the way the ball bounces at least in the National Football League – and it’s just plumb wrong. Still, I’m not surprised. After all, in America, those who commit white collar crimes like Kendricks tend to get a slap on the wrist, a private pat on the back and a quick visit to a comfortable federal institution. Just ask Rod Blagojevich or Martha Stewart. But what crime has Kaepernick really committed? None. He stood his ground, lending his support in the midst of a racially-divisive conundrum. Too bad that when the smoke cleared, it was apparent that he had unfortunately stood on the wrong side – leading the way for others who quickly turned their backs on him when they could have evoked significant change had they banded together. I used to really admire the Seattle Seahawks. But since their display of hypocrisy for all the world to see, I’ve relinquished my support and put my Superbowl champion t-shirt in the bottom of my closet. I wonder who’s next in line? WI
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5 Hundreds of people gather outside of the Adas Israel Congregation to honor the 11 victims of the Pittsburgh Synagogue mass shooting. (Photo by Michael A. McCoy)
RACISM from Page 1 songs, prayers and messages of love, solidarity and acceptance confirmed the beliefs of the diverse crowds and their refusal to allow anti-Semitic or anti-Black violence to dominate the city or the U.S. The two events, held on Sunday, Oct. 28 and Monday, Oct. 29, represented the efforts of local, multiracial and multi-faith grassroots organizations including: Jewish Voice For Peace—DC Metro, Justice for Muslims Collective, New Synagogue Project, March For Racial Justice and Showing Up For Racial Justice. In fact, the crowd that showed up Monday night, including elected officials from the District, Maryland and Virginia, filled the 1,400-seat synagogue to its rafters, forcing an estimated 2,500 more supporters to witness the livestreamed service inside in separate rooms or outside on the grounds surrounding Adas Israel. Chase Carter, Jewish Voice For Peace-DC Metro, said responding to fear is not the answer. “Safety will come when those in government stop stoking the flames of hatred and empowering those who believe in white supremacy,” he said. “We know that the true path to safety for all is in building joint struggles for justice and showing up to protect and defend one another from all forms of supremacy, racism and bigotry.” Darakshan Raja, Justice For Muslims Collective, echoed Carter’s sentiments. “Our answer to such hate has to be deeper solidarities among us all. Solidarity is our best defense against hate.” And in a separate statement, officials from March for Racial Justice shared a perspective made famous during the Civil Rights Movement: “When we say none of us are free until all of us are free, we’re talking about dangerous, heartbreaking times like these. Every single human being has the right to exist on this earth with dignity and respect regardless of who they are, who
they love and who they believe in.” Leaders of the Dupont Circle vigil point to bigoted rhetoric and inhumane policies that dominate the Trump Administration as allowing for the recent empowering of white supremacists across the U.S. and their propensity for targeting those from among the most vulnerable and marginalized communities, people of color, immigrants and LGBTQ people in particular, with deadly force.
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The Rev. Graylan Hagler, senior pastor, Plymouth Congregational Church of Christ in Northeast, says while the emphasis today remains on “processing the grief and recognizing what happened in Pittsburgh,” what the Jewish community’s experiencing now reflects what Blacks have long faced. “The president claims to be against anti-Semitism; he says he doesn’t support racism or white supremacy. But we have not heard him denounce any of them,” Hagler said. “He says he supports nationalism.” “Our challenge in the District isn’t tension between Blacks and Jews. It’s our reluctance – our refusal – to have frank conversations about racism and white supremacy and how both have disproportionately impacted people of color in D.C. Economic displacement, under the guise of prosperity for all, continues to rule the day, led by policies that many of our Black politicians support.” “How many churches have we lost in D.C. because of demographic changes and shifts? That’s a form of violence that no one wants to talk about,” Hagler concluded. Imam Talib M. Shareef, the leader of Masjid Muhammad in Northwest and the chair for the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, asserts: “We’re all being threatened by the same beast.”
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AROUND THE REGION MIDTERMS from Page 11 tercepted a pipe bomb addressed to the Democrat. Later, after Sayoc’s arrest, California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris was also identified as another target of the heinous streak of pipe bombs sent to prominent Democrats and those publicly opposed to President Donald Trump and the policies of his administration. Another packaged discovered and intercepted by authorities was intended for former National Intelligence Director James Clapper. A spokesman for Booker, a potential 2020 presidential candidate, declined to comment and referred questions to law enforcement. “This is definitely domestic terrorism, no doubt about it in my mind,” Clapper said. Clapper said anyone who has criticized Trump should take extra precautions when handling their mail, adding: “This is not going to silence the administration’s critics.” Other acts of domestic terrorism took place last week in Pittsburgh and Kentucky. Long-haul trucker Robert Bowers appeared in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh on Monday, Oct. 29, just two days after he launched what’s now considered the deadliest attack
against the Jewish community in U.S. history. Armed with a semiautomatic rifle and three Glock .357 handguns, Bowers burst into the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue killing 11 people while shouting anti-Semitic epithets. He’s charged with 29 criminal counts, including 11 counts of using a firearm to kill. Gregory Bush, a white male from Louisiana, walked into a Kroger supermarket on Wednesday, Oct. 24, and randomly shot and killed two black individuals, 69-year-old Maurice Stallard, and 67-year-old Vickie Lee Jones. Authorities said Bush had previously tried to enter a predominately black church, but the doors were locked, so he left and proceeded to the Kroger supermarket where he opened fire. Meanwhile, Trump has offered only a tepid response to the incidents and has publicly lambasted the media as the “enemy of the people,” which has only fueled anxiety and, some said, heightened the likelihood of other attacks. The mail bombings already rocked Capitol Hill, New York, Florida, and the nation as a package intended for outspoken Trump critic and California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters was also intercepted.
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Two packages sent to CNN were intercepted in Atlanta. CNN is often a target of Trump’s criticism. Threats against the media are also impacting the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the National Newspaper Publishers Association – the Black Press of America – which has also been targeted, according to its national president, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. “Please be advised that NNPA’s national office has also recently received rightwing threats in the wake of our presenting the 2018 NNPA National Leadership Award to Congresswoman Maxine Waters last month in Washington, DC.,” Chavis said. “I issued a new policy directive and procedures to ensure the safety of NNPA employees and the office with respect to the receipt and inspection of packages delivered to the NNPA via Federal Express, UPS, the U.S. Postal Services, and from other courier delivery services,” he said. Other targets included President Bill Clinton and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Former President Barack Obama, former attorney general Eric Holder, former Obama administration member John Brennan, Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, billionaire investor and major Democratic
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donor George Soros and actor and Trump critic Robert DeNiro. Trump has done little to defuse the situation. He’s still calling out “Fake News” on Twitter and other platforms. Others, like House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, chose to heap praise on first responders. “Once again, we are reminded of the heroism of America’s first responders as they work to counter these attempted attacks,” Pelosi said. “The goal of terrorists is to instill fear. We will not allow them to diminish our commitment to building a brighter future for communi-
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY Early Voting Set to End in MD By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill In the first four days of early voting in Maryland, nearly 279,000 voters cast ballots during early election, which represents a 137 percent increase from the midterms four years ago, according to unofficial numbers from the state Board of Elections. For one reason rests with 79 early voting centers opened statewide, compared to 64 in the previous gubernatorial race. The numbers are expected to rise when early voting ends Thursday, Nov. 1, especially with the high-profile race between Republican Gov. Larry Hogan and Democratic challenger and former NAACP president Ben Jealous. “The numbers tell us two things: more people are early voting than in 2014 and the early voting numbers are strongest in the 1st Congressional District and those with a county executive race [in Baltimore, Anne Arundel and Montgomery counties],” Todd Eberly, political science
professor at St. Mary’s College in St. Mary’s, Maryland, said Monday, Oct 29. Democrats hold a 2-to-1 advantage over Republicans in the state, but polls show Hogan could become the first Republican re-elected to a second term in more than 60 years. A Jealous victory would make him the first Black governor in Maryland. In Prince George’s County, more than 36,000 registered voters cast ballots between Oct. 25-28, the third highest total in the state. Although two additional early voting centers opened to expand total to 11, only 6 percent of the county’s 579,253 voters cast ballots that lags behind the statewide average of 7 percent. Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Montgomery counties all rose above 7 percent of voters who cast ballots in those jurisdictions. Hogan planned to hold a rally in Baltimore County on Tuesday, Oct. 30. “That wouldn’t be a good sign for Ben Jealous,” Eberly said. “If I were the Jealous campaign, I would double down my efforts in P.G. County and Baltimore City.”
5 Sydney Harrison, right, chats with a perspective voter Oct. 25 outside Upper Marlboro Community Center. Harrison, clerk of the county court, won the Democratic primary for County Council District 9 but faces a write-in challenge from Tamara Davis Brown. /Photo by William J. Ford
Jealous visited both jurisdictions during early voting with high-profile politicians such as Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) and Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax. Jealous also chatted with members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400 and shoppers at Giant Food Store on Friday, Oct. 26. Elise Steadley, 7, whispered a question in Jealous’ ear near the frozen food section comprised of lunchmeat and bacon. “I asked him could he make schools safe for little kids and put more money in the schools,” Elise said standing next to her mother and friend. “That’s what I plan to do,” Jealous
said to Elise who attends Maya Angelou French Immersion School in Temple Hills. James Pierce of Largo, who’s old enough to vote, chatted with Jealous outside the store and said he wants more money invested into the county public schools. “You got my vote,” Pierce said before he walked inside the store. Besides the governor’s race, local contests and ballot questions are also taking place in Prince George’s. Voters will have 11 other questions to review that include five charter referendums to borrow nearly $400 million on construction and renovation projects for public works and transportation, library system, public safety, community college and county buildings.
Short Term Rentals Approved in Prince George’s By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill By next year, Prince George’s County residents will be prohibited from renting out their properties as short term rentals. The 6,000 units that fall into this category include businesses such as Airbnb, which County Council members admit has been a problem for a few years for residents who rent out spaces to help supplement their income. “It brings those 6,000 units into compliance and brings some type of normalcy back to the residential community that has been affected by the bad actors,” Councilwoman Deni Taveras said Friday, Oct. 26, three days after the council unanimously approved legislation to ban the practice when it goes into effect
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by Oct. 2019. Last week’s legislative meeting, marking the council’s last session of the year, lasted nearly 14 hours to approve labor agreements, a new zoning ordinance and other business. As for the short-term legislation proposed by County Executive Rushern L. Baker III, it will ensure homeowners don’t use their property as hosting platforms for more than 30 consecutive days. The legislation restricts a person from renting a property beyond 90 days when the property owner isn’t present and 180 days when an owner remains present. The total number of days for a short-term rental cannot exceed 180 days. Although these homeowners aren’t subject to the same standards as a hotel, or motel, they must pay an
annual $150 licensing fee and another annual fee of $2,500. “We have to draw the line to put in some checks and balances on how short-term leases will be held,” said Council Chairman Derrick Davis (D-District 6) of Upper Marlboro. “If we don’t do anything, it’s going to get worse.” Davis spoke passionately about another piece of the legislation – public campaign finance – during the council’s marathon meeting Oct. 23. About 17 people spoke in support of the bill that would allow candidates to receive matching funds if they don’t accept donations exceeding $250 to amass small donors. The bill resembles one enacted in January 2015 in Montgomery County which allows a person running for elected office to receive tax dollars. The District approved its ver-
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sion this year. David Van Dyke, the county auditor, said it could cost the county between $3.6 million to $12 million, depending on how many people seek office. That’s one reason why Davis, Council Chairwoman Dannielle Glaros and council members Derrick Todd Turner and Andrea Harrison didn’t the support the bill. “This is irresponsible. We don’t have the resources that other jurisdictions have that have implemented this reality,” Davis said more than two hours before the 5-4 vote to pass the bill. “I’m somewhat offended by state representatives who would attempt to spend my money in Prince George’s County not giving me theirs.” Delegate Joseline Peña-Melnyk
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Some voters will choose school board candidates that include incumbent Sonya Williams against social studies teacher Arun Puracken in District 9 and incumbent vice chairwoman Carolyn Boston and former Democratic Central Committee member Belinda Queen in District 6. Two years ago, voters chose to expand County Council seats from nine to 11. This year, three people are running for the two seats: County Councilman Mel Franklin (D-District 9) of Upper Marlboro; Calvin Hawkins, a Democrat, and former senior adviser to County Executive Rushern L. Baker III; and Felicia Folarin, an insurance agent and registered Republican. Andrew Carter, who voted on the first day of early voting Thursday, Oct. 25, didn’t support the council expansion and only voted for one person. “I know Calvin. He will pay attention to the northern area of the county,” said Carter of Lewisdale who sported his “I Voted” sticker on his sports jacket Friday. “Voting makes a statement. You have to vote, but also pay attention to what’s going on because…there are other things happening than just casting a vote.” Sydney Harrison, clerk of the county’s circuit court, chatted with voters outside Upper Marlboro Community Center as a candidate to replace Franklin. He won the Democratic primary by 55 votes over Tamara Davis Brown, a telecommunications attorney who’s organized a write-in campaign. “I respect the process,” he said. “I look forward to serving with all the individuals in the race. We had eight, great candidates in that District 9 race. When we all come together, District 9 will be better served.” WI
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TWIN SCHOLARS: MIKAILA AND ALEXIS ESUKE Compiled by Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer
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PGCPS recently honored their school bus attendants during “School Bus Safety Week,” where the schools’ transportation team was recognized for their role in student safety. Listed among them is Linda Charles-Lynch, who helps students on and off of the bus and determines how best to seat students for a safe trip. But she is more than an aide. Charles-Lynch, who has worked with students for nearly 10 years, also acts in loco parentis daily — making it a priority to offer students who may be in distress exactly what they need in that moment, whether assistance buckling in, a word of encouragement to keep them calm or a smile. “You’d be surprised how a kind word can stop a child about to act out,” she said. “As a grandmother
Bowie High School twin sisters Mikaila and Alexis Esuke, identical twins who are far more than just appearance list among the latest PGCPS Scholar of the Week honorees. Both sisters are dual enrollment students at Bowie State University, carry a 4.25 GPA and hold the top two leadership positions in the Bowie High School National Honor Society. The dynamic duo is also involved in the same extracurricular activities: they serve as student tutors and are members of the band, tennis team, Mu Alpha Theta Math Honor Society and Tri-M Music Honor Society. Outside of the classroom, both have earned more than 600 service learning hours. Although it should come as no surprise that the sisters have applied to the same colleges, they plan to pursue slightly different careers: engineering for Mikaila and chemical and biomolecular engineering for Alexis. On the weekend, while you’ll find Mikaila on the tennis court, Alexis will be enjoying all genres of
5 School bus attendant Linda Charles-Lynch has worked with students for nearly 10 years. /PGCPS Photo Re-image
music as well as cooking, making soap and reading.
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The Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation has awarded grants to 13 schools for new “Loads of Love” laundry centers. In-school laundry services can help boost student attendance rates, class participation and interest in extracurricular activities. The program kicked off last year at Magnolia Elementary School in Lanham. During the recent Cowboys game at FedEx Field, the Redskins foundation awarded more than $375,000 in grants to 42 schools
and non-profit organizations to open Loads of Love (LOL) Laundry Centers to serve children in their community. The 42 sites that will receive funding include: • Aiton Elementary School (Washington, D.C. – DCPS) • Beacon Heights Elementary School (Riverdale, Md. – PGCPS); • Buck Lodge Middle School (Adelphi, Md. – PGCPS; • Frederick Douglass High School (Upper Marlboro, Md. – PGCPS); • Green Valley “Success” Academy (Suitland, Md. – PGCPS); • Greenbelt Middle School (Greenbelt, Md. – PGCPS;
5 Prince George’s County Council will look a bit different in December once new members are sworn-in. /Photo by Robert Roberts
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return to order. “We do not have shouting in this forum,” she said. As for the legislation, all receipts must be labeled with the contributor’s name and residential address. Councilwoman Karen Toles (D-District 7) of Suitland pushed for revisions that included an assurance the financing would receive racial and gender equality. The legislation that wouldn’t go into effect until 2026 also received approval from council members Mel
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Franklin, Mary Lehman, Obie Patterson and Deni Taveras. “It has to be distributed countywide…makes me feel a little bit more comfortable we have an additional eight years to work on this,” said Toles, who participated in her last meeting due to term limits. Besides Toles, last week marked the final meeting for Harrison, Lehman and Patterson who are running for state offices. Franklin will be one of the three on the ballot to seek the two at-large seats voters approved
two years ago to expand council from nine to 11. The Fair Elections Coalition, comprised of nonprofit and social justice organizations, released a statement after last week’s vote. “We applaud Council member Mary Lehman and the County Council for passing this program to give all Prince Georgians an equal voice in local government regardless of wealth, gender, race or age,” said Jennifer Dwyer, policy and legislative director for Progressive Maryland. WI
• Hart Middle School (Washington, D.C. – DCPS); • International High School at Langley Park (Bladensburg, Md. – PGCPS) • International High School at Largo (Upper Marlboro, Md. – PGCPS) • John H. Ketcham Elementary School (Washington, D.C. – DCPS) • Johnson Middle School (Washington, D.C. – DCPS) • Kingsford Elementary School (Mitchellville, Md. – PGCPS) • KIPP DC: Shaw Campus (Washington, D.C.) • Multicultural Career Intern Program (Washington, D.C.) • Payne Elementary School (Washington, D.C. – DCPS) Raymond Education Campus (Washington, D.C. – DCPS) • Robert R. Gray Elementary School (Capitol Heights, Md. – PGCPS) • Seat Pleasant Elementary School (Seat Pleasant, Md. – PGCPS) • Smothers Elementary School (Washington, D.C. – DCPS) • South County Institute for Economic Development (SCIED) (Fort Washington, Md. • Stepping Stones Shelter (Rockville, Md.) • The Foundation Schools (Rockville, Md.) • Thomas Elementary School (Washington, D.C. – DCPS) • Thomas Stone Elementary School (Mt. Rainier, Md. – PGCPS) • Truesdell Education Campus (Washington, D.C. – DCPS) • Walker Mill Middle School (Capitol Heights, Md. – PGCPS) • William Wirt Middle School (Riverdale, Md. – PGCPS) WI
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BUSINESS DC Groups Target Online Hate By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia A free and open internet creates immense social value, but it can also be used to engage in hateful activities at a large scale. And, while some companies are taking steps in the right direction to reduce hateful activities online, anti-hate provisions in most companies’ terms of service are not enough, the group said. They urge corporations to better monitor social media sites like
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and SnapChat, where online hate has become a major problem. White supremacists and other hate groups use these sites to incite hate and to organize, fund, and recruit supporters. Their frequent vitriolic posts attempt to normalize racism, sexism, religious bigotry, anti-LGBTQ and anti-immigration, among other activities. The coalition that includes the Center for American Progress, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Free Press, the National
Hispanic Media Coalition, Color of Change, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, along with more than 40 groups, released “Change the Terms,” a set of recommended policies corporations can implement to reduce hateful activities on their platforms. “This chills the online speech of the targeted groups, curbs democratic participation, and threatens people’s safety and freedom in real life,” a coalition spokesperson said in a news release. To ensure that companies are doing their part to help combat hateful conduct on their platforms, organizations in this campaign will track the progress of major tech companies – especially social media platforms – to adopt and implement these model corporate policies and give report cards to these same companies on both their policies and their execution of those policies the following year. The policies and the report, “Curbing Hate Online: What Companies Should Do Now,” shares what the organizaT:9.5” tions learned from meeting with experts on terrorism, human
5 Online hate is rampant across the globe and some DC organizations want to do something about it/Courtesy Photo
rights, and technology around the world, and includes recommended policies to help internet companies reduce hateful activities that are taking place on their platforms. These recommended policies are based on the online tools and information that are available today, coalition officials said. It is important to note that
policies and approaches for addressing hateful activities will need to change, as technologies, as well as uses, change and as a result of the lessons learned by internet companies and researchers who evaluate data on hateful activities online, officials said. “Russian attempts to influence
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NATIONAL Regina King Highlights Black Vote Initiative By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill A two-year-old political group is pushing a national text-messaging initiative to ensure 3.1 million registered Black voters cast ballots by Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 6. The Collective PAC wants to use a faster and more efficient way to reach Black voters in 12 states through their cell phones, especially in states where 35 Black candidates are running for federal and state offices. More specifically, voters who reside in states with Black candidates engrossed in high-profile elections.
“We’ve got to be everywhere fighting for what’s right for everyone. The only way to do that is through politics,” said Quentin James, who co-founded the Collective PAC with his wife, Stefanie Brown James. “Now that money is free speech, our votes are important but our dollars matter just as much right now. We’ve got to make sure we’re also raising the money to support folks, too.” The Collective held a fundraiser Saturday, Oct. 27 at Mesa 14 restaurant in Northwest for donors that not only support candidates such as the Blacks running for governor – Ben Jealous (Maryland), Stacey Abrams (Georgia) and An-
drew Gillum (Florida) – but to launch its “peer-to-peer” text messaging initiative. A group known as The Hustle, with an office in the District but headquartered in San Francisco, organized an app people can download through cell phones. Once set up, messages will send updates on various candidates, early voting and other information relevant to this year’s election. “It will send 1,000 text messages in 25 minutes,” Emma Akpan, client services manager for Hustle, said to the dozens at Mesa 14. “We’re going to try and get as many voters out as possible.” Besides the James’s setting up the event in Northwest to push its 5 Regina King, left, poses with The Collective PAC organizers, Quentin James, initiative as part of its “Final Push center, and his wife, Stephanie Brown James. /Photo by Robert Roberts Tour,” the couple, who reside in Cleveland, also met up with fellow them with the tools they need to be Quentin James worked on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Howard University alums as part of a successful candidate.” The Collective credits itself for political action committee two years the school’s homecoming festivities helping 28 Black candidates win ago. last weekend. Although the group, which has a The Collective had a major sup- various offices including Sen. Kaporter speak on its behalf: Emmy mala Harris (D-California), Lt. Vir- consortium of other organizations award winning actress Regina King. ginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and At- that help train, recruit and fund King said during a brief inter- lanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. Black candidates nationwide, it typThe Collective launched in Au- ically doesn’t endorse candidates in view that she backs the organization because it also teaches and inspires gust 2016 marking the last year of races where several run in one conPresident Barack Obama’s presi- test. Blacks to seek political office. Quentin James briefly explained “I became involved with The dency and forging a new way to Collective after seeing how many connect with voters and continue there’s a strict endorsement process efforts into American politics. Ste- for perspective candidates. Black candidates T:9.5”there are that many people don’t know even ex- fanie Brown James worked as a BLACK VOTE Page 38 ist,” she said. “We’ve got to arm former Obama campaign aide and
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Celebrated author Ntozake Shange Dies at 70 By Lauren Victoria Burke WI Contributing Writer
Pioneering poet and playwright Ntozake Shange died on the morning of October 27 at an assisted living facility in Bowie, Maryland. She was best known for her much celebrated Obie Award-winning play, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf.” “To our extended family and friends, it is with sorrow that we inform you that our loved one, Ntozake Shange, passed away peacefully in her sleep in the early morning of October 27, 2018. Memorial information / details will follow at a later date,” her Twitter account announced. Shange, who turned 70 on October 18, had suffered multiple strokes over the last few years. She died in her sleep. “I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive,” Shange once said. “Zake was a woman of extravagance and flourish, and she left quickly without suffering,” said her sister Ifa Bayeza, who was also a writer. “It’s a huge loss for the world. I don’t think there’s a day on the planet when there’s not a young woman who discovers herself through the words of my sister,” she added. Her death is a “a major shift in the cosmos,” said Sarah Bellamy said on October 27. “Ntozake Shange invited us to marvel at the resiliency and power that women of color harness in order to survive a hostile world. She invited us to practice the ritual of loving ourselves.” “R.I.P. Ntozake Shange (#ForColoredGirls) #YouAreBroadwayBlack you will forever be remembered and eternally etched in our minds as The Lady in Orange, a prolific poet, an amazing
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playwright, and the Black feminist we all aspire to be. Well done,” a tweet from the Broadway in Black twitter account read. Shange was also the author of the novels Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, Liliane, and Betsey Brown, a novel about a Black girl who runs away from home. Shange was also awarded a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship an in April 2016, Barnard College announced the acquisition of Shange’s papers. But her most celebrated and famous work, was the 20-part poem depicting the lives of women of color. The poem was made into the stage play and a published book in 1977. In 2010, Tyler Perry made her work into a film entitled a “For Colored Girls.” The recent book by Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, Minyon Moore, and Veronica Chambers, entitled “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics,” was a play on the famous work by Shange. WI
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March of Dimes, the nonprofit organization leading the fight for the health of all moms and babies, calls on families, partners and advocates to take action during Prematurity Awareness Month this November to raise awareness of and support for the 15 million babies affected by preterm birth each year around the world. The preterm birth rate in the United States is on the rise for the third year in a row, a trend signaling an urgent health crisis for moms and babies, March of Dimes says. Premature birth (before 37 weeks of pregnancy) is the largest contributor to infant death in the United States and around the world. Babies who survive an early birth often face serious and lifelong health problems, including breathing problems, jaundice, vision loss, cerebral palsy and intellectual delays. “If we can come together as a community, we can create solutions that support healthy moms and strong babies here in Washington, DC and across the nation, not just in November, but all year long,” says Gwendylon E. Johnson, Chair of the Maternal Child Health Committee for MD and Greater Washington DC. This fall, March of Dimes will launch a nation-wide campaign called #BlanketChange, designed to cultivate awareness about the urgent health crisis moms and babies face - including increased rates of maternal mortality and preterm birth - and inspire advocacy and action in support of the March of Dimes Blanket Change Agenda. Throughout November, the March of Dimes will conduct Days of Gratitude at hospital newborn intensive care units (NICUs) throughout the region. “Days of Gratitude are a chance to support those who’ve been affected by premature birth and let them know they’re not alone. We celebrate NICU graduates who have overcome many obstacles, and thank caregivers, hospital staff and policymakers for the difference they’ve made in so many lives,” Johnson says. Other March of Dimes events throughout this month include; Maternal Health Equity Summits; Grand Rounds and webinars on prematurity prevention; Kangaroo Mother Care educational sessions at hospitals (Kangaroo-A-Thons), and more. March of Dimes urges everyone in throughout the region to raise their voices to advocate with their elected officials for the passage of laws and regulations that promote the health of women, babies and families, such as the PREEMIE Reauthorization Act. Landmarks and buildings throughout the U.S. are scheduled to be bathed in purple lights on Prematurity Awareness Month, including the Empire State Building in New York City, and locally, the Masonic Temple, the Capital Wheel, and the Gaylord Hotel, literally shining a light on the challenge of preterm birth. On November 1, March of Dimes will release its annual Premature Birth Report Card, which grades all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, plus cities and counties around the nation, on their rates of preterm birth. The Report Card also reveals racial, ethnic and geographic disparities on preterm birth within states, raising awareness of the challenges March of Dimes and its partners are working to overcome. November 17 will be recognized around the globe as the 8th annual World Prematurity Day, empowering families, partners and friends to post messages of support and awareness across social media platforms. Socially-minded advocates and fundraisers can raise awareness of the preterm birth crisis, ignite action and celebrate families by posting messages on Facebook, Twitter, lnstagram, sharing images of strong babies and tagging @marchofdimes with #WorldPrematurityDay. Donations from individuals, families and corporate partners alike are critical to support efforts to help families who need it most before, during and after pregnancy, March of Dimes says. Whether shopping the inaugural gift guide, starting a Facebook fundraiser or visiting marchofdimes.orq/donate, each contribution will fund the fight for the health of all moms and babies. March of Dimes leads the fight for the health of all moms and babies. We support research, lead programs and provide education and advocacy so that every family can have the best possible start. Building on a successful 80-year legacy of impact and innovation, we stand up for every mom and every baby. Visit marchofdimes.org or nacersano.org for more information. Visit shareyourstory.org for comfort and support. Find us on Facebook and follow us on lnstagram and Twitter.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Prime Minister Andrew Holness (left) says the public will have access to the new Houses of Parliament building being proposed for development in a section of the 52-acre National Heroes Park in Kingston. “It is the public’s building, because it will be within a park, and there is no intention whatsoever to close off this area from the surrounding communities,” the Prime Minister said. He was speaking at a town hall meeting organized by the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) at the Park on Thursday, October 25, to discuss the Government Circle Project being proposed for the area. The project, being spearheaded by the Urban Development Corporation (UDC), will also entail the construction of new offices for 14 ministries and improved housing on some 300 acres of land in several communities around Freitas government the Park. Communities adjacent to the Park include Allman Town, Campbell Town, Woodford Park and Fletchers Land. Mr. Holness said it is proposed to develop the Park with the necessary amenities, “but more importantly, with the security to ensure that the facility is safe”. WI WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM THE WASHINGTON INFORMER
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Avoiding the Flu: Three Steps to Stay Healthy During Flu Season Submitted by AmeriHealth Caritas District of Columbia It’s that time of year again, when people are at the highest risk of getting the flu. Most flu outbreaks reach their peak between December and March. With the holidays here and the get-togethers that come with them, the chance of people spreading the disease is high. That’s why it is so important to protect your family by learning what the flu is and how you can prevent it. The flu, short for “influenza,” is an infection caused by influenza viruses. The illness affects the nose, throat, and lungs, and symptoms can range from mild to severe.
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HEALTH Bowie’s Sobe’s Eatery, Hosts Breast Cancer Awareness Event By Timothy Cox Special to the Informer Twenty breast cancer survivors joined nearly 200 men and women of all ages and diverse backgrounds together to celebrate life, at a breast cancer awareness event held at Sobe’s Restaurant, one of suburban Washington, DC’s premier upscale, posh supper clubs. Sponsored by 2for2Boobs, a non-profit group led by founder Tallulah Anderson, of Bowie, the ‘Turn SoBe’s Pink’ fundraising campaign supports women who are breast cancer survivors. Anderson, a Pittsburgh native, and a Duquesne University grad-
uate is also a three-time breast cancer survivor. She is currently in remission, and she believes this event is a supportive way of “celebrating survivors, supporting warriors and remembering them for never giving up hope.” October is National Breast Cancer Month, and 2for2Boobs recognizes that one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. The National Breast Cancer Foundation also reports that breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women and the second leading cause of cancer death among women. There are over 3.3 million breast cancer
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survivors alive in the U.S. today. “Basically, everyone’s been affected by this disease in some way,” said Anderson. In addition to herself, both her parents, a brother, and two sisters have been diagnosed with cancer. “That’s why I continue to support the fight for myself and other warrior-survivors,” she said. Ms. Anderson formerly worked as Marketing Director for Black
Entertainment Television and is now an independent marketing consultant for several D.C.-area clients. She credits fellow Pittsburgher Jeannette Jones-Hill, for assisting her with program development. Jones-Hill is a Point Park University graduate and runs a line-dancing company that also generates funds to help increase breast cancer awareness. ‘Line Dancing for a Cause’ was formed in 2011 and is formally known as CRG aka Christians Rocking the Gospel. Participants also included Shonte’ Drakeford, 34, of Washington, DC. The “Stage IV” survivor, was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer three years ago. She noted that while she’ll never be in remission, she
remains humble and ambitious. The registered nurse also credits her husband for his commitment to her continuous will to enjoy a fulfilling lifestyle. Former BET personality Madelyne Woods served as special-guest moderator over a fashion show featuring several of the survivor-warriors. Woods is currently a radio personality with DC’s MAJIC-102.3 FM radio. She said she was honored to participate in the “after-work” affair. Anderson said her logo, 2for2Boobs, means “take two minutes to self-check” your mammaries. “It’s well worth the time,” she emphasized. For more information about 2for2Boobs, call 301-219-2287. WI
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Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Denis Mukwege Inspired by the Women he Treats By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia Having treated more than 50,000 rape victims at Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dr. Denis Mukwege is known as “the man who mends women.” But, the newly-minted Noble Peace Prize winner said he gathers strength from those whom he’s treated. “The strength of the women I have been treating for more than two decades is what inspires me,” Dr. Mukwege said this week. “Their resilience and their courage is a daily source of inspiration,” he said. Surprised by the Nobel Prize announcement earlier this month, Dr. Mukwege said he was performing surgery when he began hearing people yelling. “This is when I understood that this burst of enthusiasm from my colleagues was because I had just received the Nobel Peace Prize. I did not expect [to win] at all,” he said. “My first reaction was to think of all the women, rape victims around
the world, to whom I have dedicated my life for the past 20 years, who finally received the recognition they deserve,” Dr. Mukwege said. The world-renowned gynecological surgeon is the founder and medical director at Panzi Hospital in Bukavu. As a young child, Dr. Mukwege accompanied his father, a Pentecostal pastor, while visiting sick members of the community. He said that would later inspire him to become a doctor. He made the decision to specialize in gynecology and obstetrics after observing that female patients at Lemera Hospital in the Congo suffered from insufficient medical care, which caused complications during their deliveries. Working on issues of maternal health, since 1999 Dr. Mukwege and his staff at Panzi Hospital have helped to care for more than 50,000 survivors of sexual violence. The hospital not only treats survivors with physical wounds, but also provides legal, and psycho-social services to its patients. Even patients who cannot afford post-rape medical care are treated
without charge at Panzi Hospital. “Many impacts are often ignored or forgotten. One of the first things that come to my mind is the deep psychological wounds suffered by victims, which – if not given the proper care – can last a lifetime,” Dr. Mukwege said. “These psychological consequences are often ignored, yet they have an impact not only on the survivors, but also their relations with their families and with society as a whole,” he said. “Broadly speaking, I think it is essential to listen to victims because they – more than anyone else – know what they want and what they need. Listening to survivors is also a way to empower them, which is an important step in their healing process,” he said. The birth of the #Metoo movement and the awarding of the Nobel Prize to he and Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad who has detailed her life as an ISIS sex slave, illustrate that mentalities are slowly beginning to change and that there’s a gradual evolution in mindset, Dr. Mukwege said. “However, I argue that rape is a weapon of mass destruction, cheaper
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than a gun and terribly effective, it is still widely used today in conflict zones to terrorize populations, not only in DRC, but also in Myanmar, South Sudan, Iraq, and other places,” he said. “When women’s sexual organs are used as battlefields, the social fabric of communities is destroyed, impacting the society as a whole. In Congo especially, as women are the heart of the household, the consequences of sexual violence are irreversible and transgenerational. “I do not think that governments
are yet fully aware of the magnitude of this phenomenon and its consequences.” Dr. Mukwege said the Black Press should remain vigilant about allowing the voices of victims to be heard. “I believe that the voices of all minorities need to resonate strongly to complete and sometimes challenge the majority’s narrative,” he said. “This is of course the case of African American voices – illustrating the essential role of the Black Press – as well as the voices of all victims of sexual violence worldwide.” WI
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EDUCATION Howard University Homecoming Day of Service: Students Give Back To The Community WI Staff Writer Howard University students are constantly seeking after the embodiment of truth and service. This weekend was no exception. Over 940 students registered for the annual Howard University Homecoming Day of Service (HUHDOS). Grounded in “truth and united in
service”, students went to 26 sites to assist African-American communities across Washington D.C. this year. Sixteen students went to a community beautification site in Northeast, where the founders have a strategic and calculated plan to restore the community’s health. Two ex-offenders transformed an empty lot into a community garden
to promote wellness and self-sustainability in Ward 7. Boe Luther and Wallace Kirby started Hustlaz 2 Harvesters as a means to offer residents a different avenue of economic empowerment through agriculture. Kirby and Luther said poverty played a huge role in their criminality. Their economic status often led to rebellion, but the said their acts were never meant to hurt others but to make ends meet. Located in the Clay Terrace Northeast neighborhood, the garden is used to help the community grow its way out of food scarcity amidst a grocery store gap in the nation’s capital. The limited access to healthy produce is nothing new to those located east of the Anacostia River. Based on the limited food, lack of access to transportation, and household income, “more than three-quarters of the food deserts in D.C. are located in Wards 7 and 8.” Born and raised in Clay Terrace, Luther and Kirby’s roots were already
5 Howard University students participated in the annual Homecoming Day of Service at a community beautification site in Northeast D.C. / Photo by Jacinth Jones, Howard University News Service
embedded in agriculture claiming that the neighborhood used to be a farming community. “When Boe and I were in elementary school, our teachers brought us on nature walks. They taught us everything. Every tree, every plant, every animal–this whole terrain, the whole ecosystem. We had this real bond with the soil,” said Kirby. “This is an updated replica of what was right here in this neighborhood. A neighborhood that you see on the news about how bad and torn down it is. In spite of all of that, look what you see. A little small oasis,” Luther said. According to the men, the model of farming in the community is not new or recent. Their knowledge of agriculture and farming was very useful during the 1968 riots that followed the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. According to Kirby, Clay Terrace was “under siege” and due to the lack of food and water distributed to the area, residents had to resort to gardening. “We had no food. Nothing. Since everyone knew how to plant and everyone had a garden, that was our sustaining grace. It’s not like the National Guard was bringing pantry food. We had to survive. Fortunately, we had those skills and resorted back to gardening,” Kirby recalled. Students learned about the skills
and knowledge needed for food production and farming practice in addition to the business principles that are essential to the agricultural industry. The garden had an abundance of mint, lavender, hot chili peppers, and grapevine spinach. Lexia Leake, a senior whose first HUHDOS was Saturday, found the visit moving and came to understand the importance of self-sustainability. “The fact that Uncle Boe came from this area, went to jail and came back to his roots to contribute and uplift his community is very inspiring. It’s important to learn how to self-sustain yourself because at times you won’t be able to have people to help you out. You figure out the tools and skill sets that you need to help improve self which will improve your overall life,” said Leake. The garden was many students’ first visit and introduction to community beautification. With the abundance of green space in Northeast, Luther and Kirby shared with students their passion for African-Americans to create their own sustaining area of space. Other initiatives included: homelessness and food insecurity, health, education, elder care, and violence prevention. HUHDOS is the first event that marks the beginning of homecoming week. WI
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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and interim Chancellor Amanda Alexander recently announced that Benjamin Banneker Academic High School will relocate to the site of the former Shaw Junior High School in Northwest. In making the announcement, Bowser also committed to working with the Shaw and DCPS communities to open a new middle school that aligns with the District’s enrollment needs. “Families and students are succeeding at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School, and, now, we are proud to take this step toward increasing access to a highly sought-after program,” said Bowser. “As families continue to choose our public schools, we’re going to continue working with the community to provide high-quality options – at every level – that set our young people up for success.” DCPS is planning to open the
EDUCATION new Banneker at Shaw Junior High School by school year 202122. The relocation is expected to increase programming capacity by 300 students. “At DC Public Schools, we are committed to building on programs that are helping our students succeed,” said Alexander. “Banneker is proving what is possible for our young people and I am thrilled to open its doors to more students. Congratulations to Banneker Principal Anita Berger, and all of the school’s students and staff.”
‘SLOW DOWN’ CAMPAIGN
Mayor Muriel Bowser joined students, community members, and District leaders at Garfield Elementary in Southeast DC for a “Slow Down” campaign aimed at improving traffic safety near the school on Tues., October 23. The event also focused on drawing attention to the ongoing, District-wide “Vision Zero” efforts. “I know [this] event was one of many ongoing steps in the right direction for School Safety and Vision Zero, but if only for a moment, it felt we won the battle in our commitment to eliminate transportation-related accidents and fatalities,” said Garfield principal, Kennard Branch. “Standing together as a community to call attention to such an important issue was truly an inspiring and remarkable way to spend a Tuesday afternoon—a reminder that when we work together, we can build safer roads and communities,” he said.
To date, MPD has reported 31 traffic fatalities in D.C., compared to 30 in all of 2017. Meanwhile, the District Department of Transportation is rolling out new road features that will help build safer roads and sidewalks across the entire city.
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5 Applications for the DCPS Summer Study Abroad program are being accepted through Nov. 2./ Photo courtesy DCPS 3 Kennard Branch, principal at Garfield Elementary School in southeast DC is committed to eliminating transportation-related accidents and fatalities. /Photo courtesy Katarina Price for DCPS
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Voting is Not a Privilege – It’s a Right America has the tendency to talk about the “rights” guaranteed to all American citizens as delineated in the U.S. Constitution and the now 27 Amendments as if they were more like “privileges,” distributed with great reluctance by those who sit high on the hill and live in homes surrounded by verdant lawns and white, picket fences. Tragically, we often believe the hype and act as if our guaranteed rights are gifts – given only to the select few and with great reluctance because we’ve followed along preset paths of the status quo or have signed up as card-carrying members of what our president touts will “make America great again.” Again, not so. In fact, as the midterm election approach in less than one week’s time, we must remember that among those guaranteed rights of U.S. citizens, voting serves as one of those most essential and fundamental. And it doesn’t matter what your race, religion, economic status, education or sexual preference or orientation may be. Such differences have nothing to do with our rights. So, why are Black folk still sitting at home when it’s time to vote? Why are so many young people who have finally reached their 18th birthday and therefore allowed to cast their ballot saying, as if it’s something for which they should be proud, that they don’t plan on voting? Have we so quickly forgotten the sacrifices, including life, that our ancestors made just to secure the right to vote? Why are we more apt to ignore the fact that voting was not a right that today’s Blacks, the progeny of former slaves, received without a struggle? Do we really care about the policies that shape and will shape the lives and opportunities for our children or our children’s children in generations to come? If so, we must exercise our right to vote. We must do our research and understand the ballot issues, the varying candidates including lesser highlighted positions like judges – the same men and women who often hold the sway of Black lives in their very hands. Voting is not a privilege, it’s a right. Make sure you use it because if some Americans have their way, it may one day be taken from you. Then, it will more accurately fall under the category of “privilege.” WI
Guns No More
Is this what we’ve come to America? Or should we take a painful look at what got us here? Throughout history, there have been documented acts and untold stories of violence and terrorism by Americans against Americans rooted in hatred over race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, you name it. They represent attempts by those with perceived power, or those who feel threatened by a loss of power to control, divide, intimidate, or – in the crazy, deranged minds of some – to annihilate people they don’t like. Last week, following a gunman’s reportedly failed attempt to enter a predominately Black church in Jefferson, Kentucky, he proceeded to a nearby Kroger supermarket where he shot and killed two Black people – 69-year old Maurice Stallard, a grandfather who was shopping with his 12-year old grandson for school supplies, and 67-year old Vickie Lee Jones, a retired VA administrator, who was killed in the parking lot. Authorities spent hours looking for the victim’s 12-year old grandson who ran for safety after witnessing the vicious assassination of his grandfather. Days later, another gunman entered a synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA where he randomly shot and killed 11 Jewish people and injured 6 others while yelling anti-Semitic rants. Ironically, the gunman, who was also injured, was treated at a hospital run by a Jewish president while being cared for by a Jewish nurse. Once again, the nation is in shock and in mourning over this devastating and heart-wrenching turn of events that symbolize Americans lust for guns. And, once again, President Trump responds: “If there were an armed guard inside the temple, they would have been able to stop them. Maybe there would have been nobody killed except for him, frankly.” America is the world’s biggest exporter of weapons, followed by Russia, China, Germany and France. The deal Trump fretted over following the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Kashoggi was for the sale of $110 billion in arms to Saudi Arabia. Those arms are not only used in war, but they get into the hands of those who cause war in smaller third world countries and in urban communities including D.C. Trump says guns create jobs, but guns also take away lives; and America is losing an extraordinary number of lives to gun violence. It is beyond time to shift our attention solely on the violent actors to the sellers and manufacturers that feed the violence we abhor. WI WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM
TO THE EDITOR Offensive Opinions
I am writing to express my thanks to your publisher, staff, reporters and photographers for the great newspaper that the Informer is. Last week the editorial by Julianne Malveaux and Jesse Jackson were inspiring for all genders and age groups. This week, I was offended by Raynard Jackson’s “Women Do Not Have a Right to Be Heard.” This type of opinion between men and women cause and have caused women so many problems and so much pain throughout the years. Second article by Harry C. Alford “So Much Hate, So Little Tolerance” was also like a serious decline of decency for the Informer Opinion Section. One example is encouraging “a mentally challenged individual,” to place a formal complaint of sexual assault against nominee Kavanaugh. As a senior female lady born many years ago, this type of writing by my people hurts me deeply. Thank you for your time spent in reading my complaint. Beverly J. Hayes Upper Marlboro
Criminalization of Lynching
I didn’t know that lynching wasn’t a crime! What in the world. Honestly why wouldn’t this be a crime in the United States in 2018? Given all of our history in this country and all we’ve went through this is a slap in the face. However, I’m glad that the nation’s three Black senators proposed this legislation and moving it forward, but I must say it’s a disappointment it took this long. Sonya Banks Washington, DC
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OPINIONS/EDITORIALS Guest Columnist
By Julianne Malveaux
PC: Politically Correct, or Perfectly Civil?
At this writing, Megyn Kelly is off the air at NBC. After her horridly vapid statement saying she didn’t see anything wrong with blackface, she apologized the next day and even invited journalist Roland Martin on to take her to school. Roland did a brilliant job in explaining the history of blackface and
the way it demeans African-American people, and it was great that he had the opportunity to educate not only his odious host but also the millions who watch Megyn Kelly daily. So Kelly tearfully apologized, and she listened to Roland and television commentator Amy Holmes as they talked about race. But does Kelly “get” why her remarks were so objectionable? Roland says she does, but I’m not so sure. She prefaced her apology by saying that she was not a “PC kind
of person.” I’m not sure what that means, and what is wrong with being “politically correct” if it means being perfectly civil, informed and mindful of others. If African-American people say that blackface is offensive, it’s offensive, Megyn. Whether you know the history or not, if members of a group say something is wrong, why not accept it? Or does your white-skin privilege allow you to determine what is offensive and what is not? This is not the first time Kelly
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has put her foot into racial quicksand. Confident in her Aryan-ness, she proclaimed that Santa Claus is White, and so is Jesus. To declare Jesus White, given his geographical roots on the African continent or in the Middle East, is to embrace a special kind of both spatial and historical ignorance. But if you are vested in the world being a narrow white occasion, then you are free to spew racist myths, or, shall we say, “fake news.” On the Santa tip, since Santa is not a real person, but a fairy-tale figment
of someone’s imagination, Santa’s race is subject to the imagination. Kelly seemed to have a problem with a Black Santa. Why? Does a Black Santa offend her lily-white sensibilities? Is she so steeped in whiteness that she can’t think outside the box? And did NBC throw the talented Tamron Hall under the bus for that? Speaks to their own racial bias and sense of White superiority! It is tragic to consider that Megyn
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By E. Faye Williams
Anatomy of a Theft
One of the simplest crimes for police to analyze is the basic crime of theft. It’s always accompanied by the motive of profit or gain. In other words, someone else possesses something that would bring another person a benefit and the first person desires to take it from the second. This concept is so simple that most cannot, will not or do not reasonably apply it to the issue of voting rights. I’ve long felt that the value of anything could be measured in the eagerness that someone else has to take
it, control it or prevent one from using it. If we look realistically, these dynamics have affected OUR votes for years. Some are too young to remember the poll tests that gave cover to racially discriminatory exclusion from the voting process. While objectionable, tests were far less physically damaging than the beatings and lynching that accompanied the challenge for the full right of citizenship. To the value of our current right to vote, we can add the value of the brothers and sisters who were brutalized and the lives that were lost in this struggle. Although I honor the effort of OUR ancestors in their struggles for freedom, I acknowledge that a vote is
“owned” by each citizen to be done with as she/he chooses. I cannot, however, accept the logic of not voting “because nothing will change” or “because the choice between the lesser of two evils is no choice.” For those who hold those views, I can assure you that nothing will change without the influence of the vote, and can assert that history has shown that when we’ve been faced with overwhelming adversity, the lesser of two evils has proven more acceptable than not. I encourage you to really listen to the “PLAN” that’s being outlined daily for each of us. While the current Republicans in control have given more than a billion dollars in
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tax relief to the wealthiest Americans and suggest plans for additional tax relief for this Affluent Welfare Package, the Senate majority (Republican) leader has stated publicly that the only way to resolve the resulting and increasing budget deficit is to reduce the amounts disbursed in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits! This is the reverse Robin Hood principle — rob the poor and give to the rich. If not for divine intervention, these same Republicans would’ve stripped the benefits of the ACA (Obamacare) from millions of Americans who would otherwise be under-insured or uninsured. Within the past few weeks, there’s been qui-
et, but extensive media coverage of Republican efforts to disassembled insurance protections for Americans with pre-existing medical conditions. Soon, under the Republican philosophy of governance, the only option for Americans afflicted with chronic or severe illness will be to die, and not from Sarah Palin’s mythical “death panels.” Before we “truly” endeavor to protect and cherish our right to vote, we must consider it the precious commodity it is. We must guard and defend it with as much vigor and determination as we’d safeguard our automobiles, jewelry, big-screen TVs
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By Marian Wright Edelman
Lessons from Ruby Bridges
I recently had the joy of presenting an award from the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs to Ruby Bridges. As a 6-year-old first grader in New Orleans in 1960, Ruby Bridges became the first Black student to attend an all-White elementary school in the South. She showed unforgettable loving forgiveness and courage when faced with ugly screaming White mobs who jeered and taunted her every day as she walked into William Frantz Elementary School.
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Federal marshals had to escort Ruby to school every day, but she never quit or turned back. Norman Rockwell immortalized Ruby’s courage with his landmark 1964 painting, “The Problem We All Live With.” Ruby astonished her teacher one day when she asked Ruby why she had paused and talked to the crowd of White adults that morning. Ruby responded, “I wasn’t talking. I was praying. I was praying for them.” And a little child shall lead us! As a young psychiatrist Dr. Robert Coles volunteered to work with Ruby Bridges during her first year at William Frantz. Years later, she collaborated with him on his
1995 children’s book The Story of Ruby Bridges to share with new generations what she experienced. She realized after that book was published that children had even more questions about her life, so she wrote two autobiographies for young readers, including her award-winning book “Through My Eyes.” Today she is the founder and head of the Ruby Bridges Foundation, which seeks to end racism and prejudice and promote tolerance, respect and appreciation across all differences. Ruby’s messages of tolerance and mutual respect are so urgent right now. Equal access to a quality education for all children remains
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the unfinished business of the civil rights movement and the nation. Our country must wake up and stop the backwards slide away from fair treatment for poor and non-White children. When Ruby Bridges spoke at a Children’s Defense Fund conference, she took us back to her first year at William Frantz and a few key lessons she learned that shaped her life. Ruby explained that her parents seized the opportunity for her to attend William Frantz because they understood it would provide a better education in our separate but unequal segregated school system still too prevalent today. On her first day of school she was
unaware she was making history. The chaos of milling White crowds outside her New Orleans school reminded her of Mardi Gras and at first she thought she was part of a parade. Eventually it became clear that the White adults surrounding her with racial jeers and epithets were full of hatred not celebration. But then she met Barbara Henry, the White schoolteacher from Boston who was assigned to teach her all year alone after other teachers refused to teach a Black child. Barbara Henry’s kindness set an unforgettable example for Ruby:
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By Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.
Health Care — Not Trump — on Voters’ Minds for Midterms
What is this year’s midterm election about? President Trump wants it to be about him, stumping the country saying that he’s on the ballot. Or that it’s about immigrants, or Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, or tax cuts, or about hurricanes, droughts and catastrophic climate change, or about an economy featuring low unemployment and stagnant wages. In fact, what is notable about the election, amid all the mudslinging and name-call-
ing, is that voters are making it increasingly about health care. According to recent tracking, health care is mentioned in virtually half of all paid ads, and in more than half of Democratic ads. Democrats are focused not on Trump, but on Republicans who voted overwhelmingly to repeal Obamacare, while Republican governors sued to have the Affordable Care Act ruled unconstitutional and the Trump Justice Department withdrew from defending it. Republicans are discovering that the ACA is increasingly popular, even in Fox News polls, and
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that Americans particularly like the mandate to cover pre-existing conditions and the provision that allows young people to be covered on their parents’ plans. About 8.8 million people signed up for 2018 coverage through HealthCare.gov, a slight decline from the previous year. Several vulnerable Republicans have erased any mention of their commitment to repeal ACA from their websites. Virtually all claim that they will protect coverage of children and pre-existing conditions. Few are prepared to run on repealing what’s left of Obamacare, even though Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell says if they retain control, they will make another effort to do just that. At the same time, more and more Democrats have moved to endorsing Medicare for all, a reform popularized by Bernie Sanders in 2016 that would gradually extend expanded Medicare coverage to all Americans. The plan would finally move America to join the rest of the industrial world in providing affordable health care to all. Even conservative estimates admit that plan would provide better coverage to more people at a lower price that our current slapdash system.
Big, new ideas are easy to burlesque. Republicans have responded by going full frenzy. Led by Trump, they rail against socialized medicine, raise fears about trillions in costs (not mentioning that the reform would save people money), and claim Democrats want to “eviscerate Medicare.” Suddenly they pose as defenders of Medicare and Medicaid, even though Trump’s budgets would cut these programs, and Republican governors have blocked millions from getting Medicaid. Mitch McConnell says the rising
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The Midterm Elections: What’s at Stake for Communities of Color simple fixes to complex problems.” — Barack Obama
“When there’s a vacuum in our democracy, when we don’t vote, when we take our basic rights and freedoms for granted, when we turn away and stop paying attention and stop engaging and stop believing and look for the newest diversion, the electronic versions of bread and circuses, then other voices fill the void. A politics of fear and resentment and retrenchment takes hold. And demagogues promise
For several weeks now, the Urban League Movement and our sister civil rights organizations have been working hard to get Americans registered to vote and finding ways to get voters to the polls, through the campaign “Enough Is Enough. VOTE!” and through our partners in the W.K. Kellogg Foundation-supported Racial Equity Anchors Collaborative. You have seen our hashtags on social media - #EnoughIsEnoughVOTE,
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#TogetherWeVote and #WeVoteWeCount. You can check your registration, find your polling place and learn about the candidates on our website. The outcome of the Nov. 6 Congressional elections will have a profound impact on the nation and on communities of color in particular. Perhaps most critical among the issues at state is health care. For nearly a decade, the National Urban League has fought to protect, strengthen and expand the Affordable Care Act, which slashed the uninsured rate among African
Americans by a third. The House of Representatives has voted more than 60 times since 2010 to repeal the law. While Congress has not yet succeeded in a wholesale repeal, the repeal of the individual mandate, which goes into effect this year, is expected to leave as many as 13 million Americans uninsured, with premiums for ACA’s “bronze plans” rising as much as 13 percent. Already, the uninsured rate has risen by about 2 percent, thanks to deep cuts in advertising and outreach during the marketplace open-enrollment periods, a shorter open
enrollment period. We need to elect leaders who will defend and strengthen the ACA. Our racially-discriminatory criminal justice system also has degraded over the past two years. The Justice Department has moved to abandon consent decrees — formal reform agreements with police departments accused of racially-motivated excessive force and constitutional violations — and to ramp up the disastrous and racially discriminatory “war on drugs” while rescinding an
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By Askia Muhammad
Dear Megyn Kelly: I Always Appear in Blackface
This should come as no surprise to most folks: I’ve always appeared in blackface. So to see someone like NBC’s golden girl Megyn Kelly’s career quickly go down the tubes over a comment about blackface is a bit disconcerting. That’s because I’m not as rigid about blackface etiquette as most folks. On two occasions, I have defied nature and blackened my own face even more, for a Hal-
loween prank. The first time was in the 1960s when my roommate David Hammons — who would later win a MacArthur Genius Award — convinced me to go to a party in Los Angeles wearing blackface makeup. Then again in the 1990s, I went to a District Curators party here in D.C in blackface. I never got any scorn for those clown incidents, but I did learn one thing: outside of some college fraternity parties, no one finds blackface stunts funny. Now that wasn’t the case 100 years ago when comedian Bert Williams
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was all the rage on vaudeville. Williams, a Black man, wore blackface makeup every day in his act, even though he is a Black man. It was his Victor/Victoria way of cashing in on the prevailing “coon” entertainment formula. By his blackness-in-blackface, Williams called into question the possible realness of White blackface performers who only emphasized their artificiality by recourse to burnt cork; after all, Williams did not really need the burnt cork to be Black. Neither do I. That’s what I thought was the joke. I’m
already Black, ha-ha-ha. But it’s still not a funny joke. In addition to his blackface, there was another irony: it was Williams’ on-stage cakewalk routine, which he presented as a Black person performing a dance in a way that lampooned whites who had mocked a Black dance, that originally satirized plantation Whites’ ostentatiously fussy mannerisms. In other words, he was a Black man mimicking a White man mimicking a Black man mimicking a White man. That’s funny. What Megyn Kelly’s critics
don’t get is that today Black folks know all about White folks having fun at their expense, and — you guessed it — it’s not funny. Though Williams was wildly popular — he was the most popular Black comedian of his age, setting the stage for all those who came after him — and financially successful, his non-removable blackface required him to always enter theaters from the “colored” entrances, restricted the places where he could eat and where he could sleep on the road, required
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LIFESTYLE Senegalese Gold on Exhibit at National Museum of African Art By Eve M. Ferguson WI Contributing Writer Who says diamonds are a girl’s best friend? In Senegal and other parts of Africa, women turn to the enduring gold standard as the choice for jewelry. “Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women,” now on view
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at the National Museum of African Art, shows how women of the West African nation have designed, wore and repurposed gold jewelry through the ages. The exhibit, which is the first major showing of gold jewelry to date, focuses on the history of Senegal’s prolific gold industry and the way the ornamentation has figured into
5 The splendor of Senegalese gold. /Photo courtesy of National Museum of African Art
the role and fashion of Senegalese women, past and present. Comprised mainly of items gifted to the National Museum of African Art by art historian Marion Ashby Johnson, the pieces displayed in “Good as Gold” reflect her decades of research resulting in the collec-
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tion of more than 250 works of West African jewelry. The collection is supplemented with nearly 2,000 field and archival photographs and a selection of loans of photographs and related jewelry items from private lenders and public institutions in the U.S. and abroad. “Senegal is like the El Dorado of Africa,” Johnson said. “Gold jewelry was handled by the blacksmith/goldsmith caste. As they worked more with gold jewelry, it became monetarily important for them. The castes were responsible for creating jewelry, but also putting gold into people’s mouths, so the goldsmiths were extremely important to Senegalese society.” While the goldsmiths who created the jewelry — which included earrings, bracelets, necklaces of all dimensions and rings — were men, the actual designers of the jewelry were the women who commissioned the pieces. “They had a special relationship with the women, despite the fact that they were from a lower caste” than the women, who were primarily from the upper castes who could afford the gold, Johnson said. “Gold was used for marriages, births and naming ceremonies. Ateliers were competitive and that was greatly publicized.” The exhibit opens with pieces made in gold from other cultures such as the Baulé of Côte D’Ivoire, who created delicate small figures and combs with the precious metal. Other cultures, such as the Ashanti in Ghana, also had a gold-centered culture, but the Senegalese gold work is different. “Ghana is more solid,” Johnson said of the country’s gold pieces. “Senegal is filigree and that is what makes it unique. It is the style that makes the difference.” And while other metals had to be added to the gold to make it not only affordable, but durable and workable, women did not hesitate to pass the jewelry down to other
family members and frequently had it melted down to create new pieces, which Johnson made sure she documented in photograph showing the pieces in their original forms. The centerpiece of the spatially small but voluminous exhibit in the newly renovated gallery, is a mannequin of a signare fashioned by Senegalese designer Oumou Sy, considered the “Queen of Couture” in her country and overseas. Signare was the name for the Mulatto French-African women of the island of Gorée and the St. Louis communities in French Senegal during the 18th and 19th centuries. These women of color managed to gain independent assets, status and power in the hierarchies of the Atlantic Slave Trade. They traditionally dressed in fully covered, layered apparel to avoid becoming darkened by the sun, according to Sy. “Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women,” is accompanied by a well-researched catalogue by lead curator Amanda Maples, curator of African art at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and Marion Ashby Johnson, who earned her doctorate in art history and history from Stanford University, when she did her extensive fieldwork and interviews starting in the mid-1960s. Johnson went on to teach art history at Brigham Young University in Utah, where she currently resides. “Good as Gold” is the first exhibition in a series of exhibits and programs celebrating African women’s artistic prowess. In the spring, it will be joined by “I Am: Contemporary African Women Artists,” a major presentation of contemporary works from the museum’s collection by women artists. “Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women,” is on view at the National Museum of African Art (950 Independence Avenue SW) through September. For more information, call 202-6334300 or go to www.africa.si.edu. WI
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Young Equestrian is Ready to Go the Distance
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Hard Work Brings Jordan Allen to the Washington International Horse Show By Brenda C. Siler WI Contributing Writer Meet Jordan Allen, a 17-year-old who was invited to compete in one of the final events of the 60th Annual Washington International Horse Show (WHIS) held recently at Capital One Arena. On her sixth birthday, Allen’s mother, whose name also is Jordan, took her to a “barn,” the term used interchangeably with “stable” to introduce her to to the place where horses are bred, groomed and trained. “The minute I walked into the barn, I knew I loved it,” said Allen before she understood what was involved in the sport. “The horses, the thrill of competing, all of it.” An only-child, Allen’s parents Jordan and Sherman Allen originally supported her interest in horses by finding a barn in the Detroit area. It was not far from where they live in West Bloomington, Mich. An equestrian’s life is rigorous with long hours. Allen began to connect with excellent trainers who chartered the path that led her to compete in numerous events. Part of her growth was to learn about the three disciplines for working with horses. They are “hunters,” “equitation” and “jumpers.” Allen explained that hunters are based on the horse’s style, equitation is based on the rider’s style, and jumpers are based on the speed of the
horse. At 5’11”, Jordan requires a big horse. Her horses are all more than “16 hands” which is 64 inches high. When kids start out riding, it’s usually on ponies, but Allen admits because she has always been tall, she has never been able to ride ponies. “It’s about the best fit,” said Allen. “With a horse, it’s about age and temperament . When you know it’s a match, it’s a match between horse and rider.” The same discipline required to be a competitive equestrian, Allen said applies to other aspects of her life which is lived primarily on the road. She works with barns in Kentucky and Florida, making it home only four weeks out of the year. Her parents have been able to travel on the road with her. Like many other young riders, schooling has been online and with tutors. Signature Academics based out of Florida and New Jersey, is a tutoring group on the horse circuit that has kept Allen on top of her studies. “She’s finding a way to make this horse thing work for her,” said Wendy Salomon, a former rider and founder of Signature Academics. “It’s my goal that kids on the circuit don’t have to compromise their education when they are traveling, training and competing all over the world.” Understanding the uniqueness of her position, Allen knows that horse riding as a sport is not accessible to everyone. It is considered an
elite and costly sport. She is quick to repeat how supportive her Howard University alumni parents have been. But even with her mother’s career as a dentist and her father’s career as an oral surgeon, the world of competitive horse riding an expensive. Allen offsets costs by working at the barns. She is up at 6:00 a.m. doing everything from grooming to cleaning barns. She knows everything about the competitive horse-riding world, because she has done the work, from nuts to bolts. Allen offers encouraging words to any young person who wants to pursue the world of horse riding. She knows that in her position, she can encourage other Black children. “It makes me want to work harder to show we can do it,” said Allen. Now finished with high school, Allen is taking a gap year to continue competing. She will enter the University of South Carolina with a scholarship where she will ride on the school’s National Collegiate Equestrian Association (NCEA) team. Allen’s career goal is to go to medical school to study anesthesiology. She plans to ride as an amateur while in med school. Of course, she has her sights on the Olympics. “That’s the end goal” Allen said calmly. “It takes a lot of all of the right things to get there. I am a very for-sure person, but I always think I can work harder.” WI
5 Jordan Allen, 17, shows off Carloe, the horse she rode during the Washington International Horse Show held at the Capital One Arena in Northwest last week. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter
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Play Explores an African Immigrant’s American Experience By Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins Divisions between African Americans and Black immigrants, often stemming from cultural misunderstandings and belief in harmful stereotypes, prevent meaningful dialogue about commonalities. The conflict will be explored through the eyes of a Kenyan comedian and songstress who portrays the evolution of her Black consciousness in a one-woman play Sunday, Nov. 4 at the Silver Spring Black Box Theater. “I didn’t think I was Black because there’s no issue of color when Africans look at each other through our ethnicities,” said Anna Mwalagho, star of “Never Thought I Was Black Till I Came to America,” showing at The Silver Spring Black Box Theatre on Sunday.
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The production, written by Mwalagho and directed by Mkawasi Mcharo Hall, outlines Mwalagho’s experiences upon her arrival to the United States in the early 2000s, including her introduction to fast food, American culture, and the realities of Blackness. “When you get here, you realize you’re part of the Black struggle, and we’re looked at because of the color of our skin,” Mwalagho said. “I was quite surprised, and I embraced it because I know the struggle for Black people was my struggle and I know that we came far as Black people,” she added. “Never Thought I Was African Till I Came to America” opens with Mwalagho standing by the suitcase she brought to the U.S. in 2001 as she explains the warnings friends gave her about “driving while Black.” Later, she experiences racial profiling in a
dollar store as she walks around in awe at the variety of goods, and on the train as she speaks loudly on the phone in Swahili to her mother. In the play, Mwalagho thinks about the backlash that would ensue if Black people imposed their culture on white communities and changed inhabitants’ names, as had been done to her Kenyan ancestors by the British. She says her character’s trials and tribulations reflect her development in the U.S. over the last 17 years, none of which she would change. “I had a positive experience and embraced my time, even with the discrimination,” Mwalagho said. The U.S. Black immigrant population increased five-fold within the last two decades with Africans accounting for nearly 40 percent of that group, according to data compiled by
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5 Comedienne and songstress Anna Mwalagho /Courtesy Photo
the Pew Research Center. Black immigrants and their children account for one-fifth of Black people. In recent years, some American descendants of enslaved Africans have railed against what they described as Black immigrants’ simultaneous disrespect of the African-American struggle and use of laws intended to benefit African Americans. Similarly, some African immigrants have criticized African Americans reclaiming their African identity. “My fellow Africans were telling me not to mix with Black Americans, but it’s not true that they are all lazy or gangsters,” Mwalagho said in her appeal for unity between Black immigrants and African Americans. “This has become an issue where everyone doesn’t want to be at the bottom of the totem pole, so they put down other people. Your forehead doesn’t say your ethnicity. We need to understand there are not too many differences between us.” Last weekend, Mwalagho performed “Never Thought I Was African Till I Came to America” before Black audiences of various ethnicities in Minnesota. Sunday’s showing at The Silver Spring Black Box Theatre follows a similar function that took place in July at the same venue. Singers Ayanna Gregory and Nana Malaya Rucker attended that showing. “It felt good coming from an area where I was proud to be Af-
rican,” Mwalagho continued. “It was positive being with strong Black people. I feel the similarities, like our love for singing and dancing. No matter what part of the Diaspora you come from, you get the beat right and cook great food. You walk down the street and see we look the same, [regardless of ] the 400-year separation,” she said. The production of “Never Thought I Was Black Till I Came to America” comes on the heels of Mwalagho’s burgeoning career in comedy and spoken word, which she balances with her job teaching Swahili in African-centered schools throughout the D.C. metropolitan area. A couple of years ago, a video she posted about living as a Kenyan woman in America went viral, paving the way for a set at the Apollo Theater in New York City, and other opportunities. “As a comedienne, I talk about coming to America and seeing Popeye’s Chicken everywhere, the differences between African men and African-American men, and celebrating my Blackness as an African woman,” Mwalagho said. “I also talk about white people, colonization, and how they can’t dance. We make it funny. With the anger and animosity from not understanding each other, people don’t want to hear the truth, but they can see it while laughing at themselves.” WI
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RACISM from Page 9 “I just returned from Indonesia where I attended a global unity forum and found it amazing to be faced with yet another example of divisiveness. We’ve had and still have our share of threats – we’ve been targeted too. But because we have great relationships within our own community, a lot of the attacks have been thwarted by our neighbors. In a beautiful way, we live together, have an obligation to the space we share and refuse to shy away from our responsibilities or our freedom to the space we occupy.” “America has always had its share of extremist groups but until recently they had to move more subtly. Now they have a spokesman, so they feel more emboldened and encouraged. Regardless of race or religion, we’re all Americans. Someone should be speaking to this from the top down. We have these mottoes and creeds, like ‘one nation under God, indivisible, with justice for all.’ But we’re being divided along racial and religious lines. We stand when we’re united. But America is falling, losing our humanity and seen by the world as a country that no longer serves as beacon of humanity. Countries like Indonesia no longer look to America for hope,” Shareef said. The need to become “architects of a new America” illustrates the view of Bishop Dwayne Royster, a Rockville resident, pastor of Faith United Church of Christ in Northeast and national political director for Faith in Action. “Sixty of our supporters were in Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston during worship right after a white supremacist carried out plans for a mass shooting (June 21, 2015) when a white, Episcopal priest responded to the preacher’s words with ‘we’re all AME,’” Royster said. “On Sunday during the vigil at Dupont Circle, I told the crowd we’re all Jewish, Black, Muslim, transgender – all who continue to be attacked and threatened. We must build a table where the entire community, especially those continually marginalized, sit together and lay out a platform so that we can create a new America.” “America is a failed project – we see that in our government today. We’re calling for a politicized faith community – one that moves far beyond our former role as speakers of benedictions. The Black Church has often referred to the Hebrew scriptures to find messages of liberation. Maybe that’s what we need to lean on for the entire nation,” Royster said. Adam Rubinson, board member of the Capital Jewish Museum and a resident, with his wife and two children, in Northwest, expressed little surprise in the “huge uptick in an-
LIFESTYLE ti-Semitic incidents.” “The President’s cynical embrace of white nationalism has been driving this wedge, causing people to blame groups of people for all of society’s ills . . . it doesn’t take much to connect the dots,” he said. “His last campaign ad referred to ‘global interests’ out to get you – while showing photos of three Jewish American bankers as the face of this cabal – a very old anti-Semitic trope. At the start of his presidency, he appointed the head of the viciously anti-Semitic and race-baiting, alt-right Breitbart News, Steve Bannon, as his key aide in the White House. Sadly, this horrible tragedy in Pittsburgh is not shocking; it is only surprising that more of this has not happened already.” “Most Jewish and Black Christian leaders in Greater Washington understand that we all lose if haters divide us. But we have so much more to do, educating our children about
this. One of the goals of the new Capital Jewish Museum (which will open in 2021) is to teach the history of African-American and Jewish Washingtonians fighting side by side against bigotry – and to provide a place for dialogue and shared understanding about what is happening right now. My 84-year-old mother is having PTSD, flashing back to the stories of her cousins murdered in Austria when she was a child. Some of the same propaganda used against Jews in the 1930s is resurfacing in America today.” “Here in DC, we all live in our separate bubbles. We must therefore continue to open up bridges of understanding, by making connections on a human level. Now, more than ever, all of us in the DC community need to come together in solidarity to work together for change, to teach our children well, and to learn who we all are, beyond the labels.” WI
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LIFESTYLE Jaunts
It takes only a sprinted tour through the antiquity galleries of European museums, including the British Museum and Paris’ Louvre, to dislodge centuries-old rhetoric equating blackness (black skin, cultures, mores, ideals and beliefs), with inferiority. Black-skinned men and women figure prominently in the development of European nations almost from their inceptions, playing pivotal roles in industry, politics, culture, education, and economics. Still, the contributions of African, West Indian, and native-born Black Britons remains hidden in plain view. With the introduction of the United Kingdom’s Black History Month celebrations, commemorated annually in October, those contributions have slowly found their way into the mainstream conscious. It also gives the millions of African Americans who tend to associate their Diasporic spaces without much consideration for Europe an opportunity to explore those spaces. For this inaugural edition of the Informer’s Jaunts series, Special Editions Editor, Shantella Sherman offers our readers a quick glimpse of the best and brightest of Black Britain.
London Calling: Tracing the African Presence in the United Kingdom Shantella Y. Sherman WI Special Editions Editor
As a bona fide Anglophile (a person who enjoys British culture), the United Kingdom’s October Black History Month commemorations provide an opportunity each year to not only explore the historical presence of Black Europeans, but also to engage with those who are currently impacting the culture firsthand. These are both scholars and everyday Black Britons. Besides being sure to look left on streets and taking care when converting foreign currency, London in October affords a great atmosphere for sightseeing and sampling surrounding areas like Manchester, Liverpool and Cambridge – each of which also have their own Black History Month offerings.
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Black History Walks offer guided Walking Tours London to include the African history of London. The walks take place in eight different areas from Febru-
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ary to November and last about two hours. Private walks are also available upon request and can be tailored to fit the age of the group. Visitors can discover more than 2000 years of London’s Black presence in a few hours. For those who prefer a traditional bus tour, The Original Tour offers 360-degree sightseeing from open top buses and unlimited hop-on, hop-off access. Sightseers can hop-on or off these buses at over 100 bus stops in central London, access free WiFi onboard, and enjoy a complimentary river cruise. The Original Tour offers 7 different bus routes around London.
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For stays longer than a week, corporate apartments have worked out best for me. The square footage of these units tends to be much larger than the traditional European hotel room, where twin beds and narrow spacing is customary. Most corporate apartments are designed to fit the
5 WI Special Edition’s Editor Shantella Sherman with Lord Clive Soley discussed Black History Month and the establishment of the Mary Seacole Memorial statue on the grounds of Parliament. / Photo by Sherry Ann Dixon
needs of business executives and include amenities like free WiFi and laundry services. Because dining in London can be costly, opting for a serviced apartment also allows visitors to purchase
groceries and do a fair amount of cooking if they choose. Kitchens are generally outfitted fully and include dishes and utensils,
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LONDON from Page 32 ovens, microwaves and dishwashers. Maid service is provided once a week. While Central London may seem attractive to the average tourist, to avoid the noisy nightlife of the city, areas like Battersea and Canary Wharf offer a quiet respite with quick access to the city through the London Underground (subway) Docklands Light Rail (DLR) and London Buses.
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The traditional sightseeing spots are a must, but for those who want to trek off the beaten path, consider a run through
LIFESTYLE 4 The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Surrounding its structure are several statues and memorials to those of African descent, including Nelson Mandela. /Photo by Shantella Y. Sherman
Harrod’s whose famous marketplace offers delicacies from around the globe. Check out Brixton, an area once-held as a cultural one-stop for Black tourists, which is now anchored by the Black Cultural Archives. Some of the most insightful exhibitions and lectures are held there year-round. WI
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5 Paul Day’s 30-foot statue “The Lovers” in London’s St. Pancras Rail Station. Day said the intimate posture of the couple was to appear “far more enigmatic and emotional than a full-blown snog.”
Get to know the locals by visiting a local pub (public house) or bar. Read up on local issues and current events in Black British newspapers, like The Voice, before arriving.
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LIFESTYLE Easing Down the Road with the Film “The Wiz”
Memorable Movie Musical Celebrates 40th Anniversary By Brenda C. Siler WI Contributing Writer Transforming a Tony award-winning Broadway musical to film is a monumental task. It is even more difficult when there is a slight change in the storyline. That is what Tony Walton faced when he was assigned to be the production and costume designer for the 1978 film version of “The Wiz.” Recently, the Library of Congress
held a two-day event celebrating the anniversary of “The Wiz,” featuring sketches of Walton’s designs, and a presentation by Walton who talked about the process of designing for the film that was followed by a special screening of “The Wiz.” The Library has acquired the Walton collection of memorabilia from his award-winning career. The anniversary observance of “The Wiz” allowed the Library to display a
small portion of the total massive career collection from Walton. Before he spoke, attendees took time to view Walton’s sketches from the movie close up, and from other productions from his impressive career. “It’s taken us a year to pull this program together,” said Solomon Haile Selassie, production specialist at the Library who organized the anniversary event of the film. “I’ve been desperate to do something for ‘The
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Walton and everyone else on the set, the harness was piercing Horne in her back. She did not complain, Wiz’ and finally the stars aligned completing the song flawlessly. with the Walton Collection.” When the scene was completed, The movie was filmed in New Walton said Horne yelled to unYork City. Walton is the person who hook her from the harness and she turned the New York State Pavilion was bleeding from the area where the from the 1964 New York World’s harness had pierced her skin. Fair into Munchkinland. Astroland “That shows you what a trooper at Coney Island was used for the Tin- she was,” said Walton. “She was ‘The man scene, with The Cyclone roller- show must go on!’.” coaster as a backdrop. The World Katrina Dobbs, from southwest Trade Center served as Emerald City, DC. Who played Evillene in the where the scenes filmed at Emerald seventh grade in a production at City were layered and stunning, uti- the Thomas G. Pullen Creative and lizing 650 dancers, 385 crew mem- Performing Arts Academy School bers and 1,200 costumes. in Prince Georges County, said, “I Going into the production of “The found the movie inspirational as an Wiz,” Walton, an award-winning African American woman. I was inproduction designer, costume design- spired by hearing Mr. Walton talk ers, producer and director, expressed about the creativity behind Evilconcern about tackling the move. lene and how the bigness of her char“I wasn’t sure how it would trans- acter influenced the costume design.” late,” Walton said, noting the plot At age 84, Walton has so many change of the character Dorothy as a credits to his name that audiences child, to Dorothy as a school teacher. have seen his work for years and may Committed to the task, Walton not have known the man behind the forged ahead. He wanted to ensure creations. On Broadway, he’s been a the look of the costumes were an ex- production designer for “Sophisticattension of the characters, but he ran ed Ladies” starring Gregory Hines, into problems early on when the Phyllis Hyman and Judith Jamison. original actor slated to play the Tin Walton won a Tony Award for Best Man had an allergic reaction to the Scenic Design for the musicals “Pipgold paint used on his costume and pin” starring Ben Vereen and for the his body. The role was recast with co- revival of “Guys and Dolls.” median Nipsy Russell. On film, Walton’s work is seen in In the movie, Evillene, the Wick- movies such as “Heartburn,” “Reed Witch of the West was played by garding Henry,” “All That Jazz” and Mabel King, from the original Broad- “Mary Poppins,” starring his first wife way production. Her dress needed to Julie Andrews. He designed the Broadconvey that over-the-top evilness. way set for Whoopi LIVE, Whoopi “Beyond the look of the dress,” Goldberg’s one-woman show, and said Walton. “I had to consider how designed the staging for Diana Ross’ she would look when she melted “Live at Central Park.” There also are and died.” ballet and opera productions and book For the character Glinda, the illustrations in Walton’s portfolio. In Good Witch of the South, the ele- fact, he has illustrated a few of the chilgance of Lena Horne, who played dren’s books authored by Andrews over the character, needed to come the past few years. through the screen. Walton designed Walton shared his method for a gown that included a harness, since collaborating with a team to create Glinda had to fly, while performing successful productions. the beloved classic, “Believe in Your“I just try to cover all of the bases self.” When the scene was filmed, and supply enough of what is needed unbeknownst to Director Lument, by the director.” WI
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ARIES The intensity of last week lessens somewhat as lively Mercury and sultry Venus change signs. Prior to this, you might get a lucky boost as a fortunate blend of energies could see you enjoying a financial boon, even if only a small one. Look out for opportunities, too, especially around Monday, because something could really appeal to you. Lucky Numbers: 3, 32, 33
“Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood”
TAURUS Your love life looks more positive this week. With fortunate Jupiter in your sector of relating for a short while more, it’s time to take advantage of its presence if you haven’t already. In fact, with communicator Mercury aligning with jovial Jupiter on Monday, this could be an excellent time to ask that special person out or improve and enhance your love life in any other way you choose. Lucky Numbers: 17, 40, 51
by Rose George c.2018, Metropolitan Books $30 ($39Canada) 354 pages
GEMINI You could be lucky on Monday or Tuesday as an upbeat aspect involving restless Mercury and jovial Jupiter could see you benefiting in some way. It might be an opportunity or a small windfall or other money coming your way. If you take a gamble on something, there’s a chance it could pay off. Make sure you can afford to lose, though. Lucky Numbers: 25, 29, 30
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer It didn’t hurt at first. At least not for a second and then — yow, that knife/scissors/serrated edge was sharp! There’s a cut that’s going to leave a nice scar. There’s a cut that needs covering, pronto. And in “Nine Pints” by Rose George, there’s a story inside that cut. What was on the screen above her head wasn’t nearly as interesting as the clear bag near her elbow, and so Rose George studied the latter. Healthy and willing, she watched as one-ninth of the blood she had in her body moved up to three miles per hour around her limbs and out to a collection bag for donation. Once upon a time in history, blood was a commodity, the giving of which could make a person a decent living; there was a time when unions were formed for blood-givers but we know now that blood-for-bucks is considered less safe than relying on donors. Safety is key, since that anonymously donated blood is needed “every three seconds, somewhere in the world…” That’s important news for American blood donors who contribute to one of the safest blood supplies in the world. Even so, bad things can happen, as George discovered: she looks at the history of tainted blood, unsafe sex and how both caused the AIDS virus to be passed from person to person. Sadly, it doesn’t stop there: paid plasma donors may have contributed to a tainted plasma supply and contributed to the spread of Hepatitis C. Obviously, we need more healthy blood donors. But, of course, human blood is not just used for medical purposes or research. In her quest to get to the bottom of what keeps us upright, George traveled to Nepal where teens and women endure a monthly ritual called chaupadi, which demands total isolation from family and friends. Because products for “catamenial flow” are expensive in developing countries, she met with a male “sanitary pad superstar.” And finally, George examines what happens when blood spills … and nothing can be done about it. In the average day, your blood travels 12,000 miles in a circuit around your body. And that paper cut you got at work today? Your blood is splendidly capable of fixing it, all by itself. No wonder you’re tired, so go lie down — and take “Nine Pints” with you. With a strong vein of humor, total candor and a willingness to dig in deep, author Rose George takes readers on a journey tailored to the curious: into laboratories, Nepalese huts and several countries to examine how blood fits in with health, culture and science. It’s a trip to open eyes and inform, but it’s never boring: along the way, George drops fact-nuggets like bread crumbs on a path, making even the most squeamish want to follow. So whether you’re a red-blooded patriot, a bit of a blue-blood, or you know what’s thicker than water, this book will be near to your heart. For inquisitive readers and fans of Mary Roach, “Nine Pints” is a cut above. WI WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM
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CANCER Jovial Jupiter is presently in the last degrees of Scorpio and your leisure zone and ready to move into your lifestyle zone within a couple of weeks. A lovely aspect involving talkative Mercury could encourage you to be bold and ask for what you want. Whether you want to ask someone special on a date or make a request that takes you outside your comfort zone, Monday is the best day to go for it. Lucky Numbers: 9, 21, 58 LEO A very sociable aspect at the start of the week could be an opportunity for a get-together or family occasion that goes very well. With expressive Mercury linking to upbeat Jupiter, you could benefit from bringing friends and family together. Also, opportunities might emerge from this as a result. Lucky Numbers: 3, 9, 18 VIRGO On Monday, Mercury, your guardian planet, links with positive Jupiter, and you might get an offer or opportunity that’s too good to miss. This takes place in your communication zone, so your efforts at getting your message out to the world may be starting to bear fruit. If you have a blog or website, it could start to move in the right direction after much hard work. Lucky Numbers: 4, 11, 39 LIBRA You could be in line for small windfall on Monday, which would be very pleasing. Exuberant Jupiter is in the last degrees of your money zone before moving into Sagittarius, so this is a chance to tie up loose ends and take up any opportunities you might have missed. Lucky Numbers: 16, 41, 55 SCORPIO Generous Jupiter is in the last degrees of your sign before moving into Sagittarius and your money zone in a couple weeks. This is your chance to take advantage of this planet’s ties with good fortune and confidence. Monday could be a great day for putting a proposal to someone or asking for what you want. You may well get it. Lucky Numbers: 30, 36, 44 SAGITTARIUS The focus begins to shift as upbeat Mercury ties with positive Jupiter in your spiritual sector on Monday. You could receive guidance from a dream or words of wisdom from someone who acts as a mentor or teacher in your life. You could even find this guidance in a book. Whatever it is, it could act as a catalyst to greater things. Communicative Mercury then moves into your sign on Tuesday. Lucky Numbers: 10, 15, 27 CAPRICORN A positive tie on Monday could be a great opportunity to attend an event that holds some special benefits for you. From Tuesday, you may find that you’re more connected to your feelings and that Mercury’s inquisitive presence in your spiritual zone encourages you to learn more about yourself. This could be a very productive time when you also feel moved to release some inner patterns that no longer serve you. Lucky Numbers: 6, 18, 46 AQUARIUS Lucky Jupiter’s been moving to the topmost sector of your chart for many months now and will move into your social sector within two weeks. You could benefit greatly from its sociable and benevolent qualities. Regarding this week, Jupiter ties with inquisitive Mercury, which could coincide with an offer or opportunity that it might be hard to ignore. Do consider it because it could usher in a new and rewarding phase if you’re willing to leave your comfort zone. Lucky Numbers: 10, 11, 43 PISCES As the sun continues in your sector of travel and new opportunities, this week could continue to surprise and delight you, especially if you’re willing to try something different. Monday could gift you with an offer to accompany someone on a trip or vacation, and this could be very welcome and truly worthwhile. Lucky Numbers: 4, 24, 48
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Prince George’s Community College partners and friends around Prince George’s County joined for a night of reflection and recognition celebrating the college’s 60 year history on October 19 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center at National Harbor, Maryland. Awards were given honoring MGM National Harbor, the late David H. Hillman and County Executive Rushern L. Baker III. /Photos by Robert R. Roberts
5Dr. Charlene M. Dukes, President, Prince George’s Community College, award recipient County Executive Rushern Baker III, and Larry Spriggs, Chair, Prince George’s Community College Foundation
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5Betty Hewlett and Larry Spriggs, Chair, Prince George’s Community College Foundation
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corridor,” the mayor said while surrounded by several city officials. “We want to bring amenities to this community. Pardon our dust as we’re looking for ways to speed up the construction.” For more than an hour, an increasingly large group of residents, community representatives and government officials followed the mayor as she spoke with elders, youth and business owners along Minnesota Avenue. Businesses visited included Northside Medical Services Corporation, Deanwood Cafe and Sala Thai. DDOT officials said construction could wrap up two months earlier than expected, toward the end of August, if weather permits. Whatever the outcome, Sala Thai owner Oy Changsila said he wants to use his outdoor patio space by next spring and see more parking that will attract diners to his establishment. “The construction took all the parking space,” Changsila said, adding that the environmental hazards of construction have taken a toll on his customers. “During the day, the machines outside create carbon monoxide smoke that goes into the restaurant as people dine. It’s beyond my control. I don’t know how much longer we will have to wait.” WI
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men in attendance. “The Collective PAC is just not saying, ‘Give me money.’ It is educating you,” said Drake, a Howard alum and first vice president of the Democratic Black Caucus of Florida. “With the support of the Collective PAC and Black caucus, [they] helped reached unlikely voters for Andrew [Gillum]. I don’t celebrate until the work is done.” King also noticed very few men. She offered some advice to not only vote, but encourage men to become involved in the political process. “Look around. What we see are majority women,” she said. “Black women, we show up. If you have brothers, if you have husbands [or] significant others [and] the men who are here: Encourage them to show up. You know what language to use to motivate folks. It’s important to show up and show out.” WI
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Twelve Things That Make Men Rich, Pt. 1
with Lyndia Grant This series of 12 articles have been my most successful in the 14 years of my experience writing The Religion Corner column for The Washington Informer. My life changed 36 years ago as a result of reading a book. Though I’m the daughter of two preachers, my clarity became much clearer once I read the principles as outlined in “Think and Grow Rich,” the book researched for 20 years by Napoleon Hill. He teaches how our thoughts control our actions and thus can make or break us. Here is how it all began. In 1908, a young man named Napoleon Hill was invited to the mansion of America’s first billionaire, Andrew Carnegie. As a young and ambitious reporter with plans to write his way to success, Hill quizzed Carnegie about his success for an article he planned to write to make money to pay his way through college. Carnegie, impressed by the young writer, offered him a position the average man would have rejected. He said, “Mr. Hill, I would like to commission you Mt. Zion Baptist Church Reverend John W. Davis Pastor 5101 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 Phone: 202-726-2220 Fax: 202-726-9089 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service - 8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. Children’s Church - 11:00 a.m. (1st & 3rd Sundays) Communion - 10 a.m. 4th Sunday Sunday School - 9:15 a.m. (4th Sunday 8:15 a.m.) Prayer Meeting & Bible Study - Wednesday 7:00 p.m. “A Church with a past to remember – and a future to mold”
to study the lives of 500 of the greatest achievers of our time. These men will include men in the industrial field, business owners, inventors, merchants, farmers, statesmen, artists of all types and many others.” “Take as much time as you need; observe them; interview them; and learn from them,” Carnegie told Hill. “Then, write an article; one in which you validate the beliefs that success is based on universal laws others can achieve. From those great achievers, you might learn and be able to describe the process of making steel or the process of providing a service used. In a similar manner, I want you to describe in this article, the process of the laws to success. “You will accomplish this mission by documenting the beliefs and behaviors of all these great men and women by sharing what it is they have in common with each other,” he said. “I will not pay you any money; during this project, you must support your own self while discovering these new ideas. Your goal will be the publication of a ‘success type’ book, similar to an encyclopedia in the category of laws of success. “This book will share laws and every step one must take in order to use a thought and make it into a success,” Carnegie said. “Include all spiritual components of faith that are required. Notice how each person had unwavering faith in order to accomplish their idea.” Napoleon Hill only had 60 seconds to accept, and he said
yes. More than 100 years later, incredibly, over 20 million people have learned the principles of success because of Hill’s decision, and all of his principles are based on Christianity. In fact, he wrote an entire chapter on faith. Hill teaches us how to put our faith to work. Scripture teaches us that “faith without works, is dead.” In one of my favorite Hill video seminars, he said he spent three hours each morning and three hours each night reading the Bible, meditating and visualizing the goals and dreams he wanted to accomplish for that day. Pay close attention to what his research has taught millions: The first of those 12 principles that causes men to be rich is the value of having a positive mental attitude. Notice how this principle heads the list — and is not about money. Look for details in my column next week. WI Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church The Rev. E. Bernard Anderson Priest Foggy Bottom - Founded in 1867 728 23rd Street, NW - Washington, DC 20037 Church office: 202-333-3985 - Fax : 202-338-4958 Service and Times Sundays: 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Music and Hymns Wednesdays: 12:10 p.m. - Holy Eucharist www.stmarysfoggybottom.org Email: stmarysoffice@stmarysfoggybottom.org All are welcome to St. Mary’s to Learn, Worship, and Grow.
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RELIGION The Miracle Center of Faith Missionary Baptist Church
Pilgrim Baptist Church Rev. Louis B. Jones II Pastor
Bishop Michael C. Turner, Sr. Senior Pastor 9161 Hampton Overlook Capitol Heights, MD 20743 Phone: 301-350-2200 Fax: 301-499-8724
700 I Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 547-8849 Service and Times Worship Sundays: 7:30 & 11:00am 5th Sundays: 9:30am 3rd Sundays: Baptism & Holy Communion Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @ Noon & 6:30pm
Service and Times Sunday Worship Times : 7:30 a.m. 7 10:00 a.m. Communion: 1st Sunday Sunday School: 9:00 a.m. Bible Study: Wednesday, 12 Noon Bible Study in homes: Tuesday 7:00 p.m. Website: www.themiraclecenterFMBC.com Email: Miraclecenterfmbs@gmail.com Motto: “We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight”
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Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ
Blessed Word of Life Church
Church of Living Waters
Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church
Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor
Rev. Dr. Michael E. Bell, Sr., Pastor
Rev. Dr. Alton W. Jordan Pastor
Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews Senior Pastor
Harold Andrew Assistant Pastor
2498 Alabama Ave., SE - Washington D.C. 20020 Office: (202) 889-7296 Fax: (202) 889-2198 - www.acamec.org
800 I Street, NE - Washington, DC 20002 202-548-0707 - Fax No. 202-548-0703
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Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 8:00am and 11:00am Sunday Church School - 9:15am & Sunday Adult Forum Bible Study - 10:30am 2nd & 4th Monday Women’s Bible Study: 6:30pm Tuesday Jr./Sr. Bible Study: 10:00am Tuesday Topical Bible Study: 6:30pm Tuesday New Beginnings Bible Study: 6:30pm Wednesday Pastoral Bible Study: 6:30pm Wednesday Children’s Bible Study: 6:30pm Thursday Men’s Bible Study: 6:30pm Friday before 1st Sunday Praise & Worship Service: 6:30pm Saturday Adult Bible Study: 10:00am “The Amazing, Awesome, Audacious Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church”
Service and Times 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
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St. Stephen Baptist Church
Third Street Church of God
Dr. Dekontee L. & Dr. Ayele A. Johnson Pastors
Rev. Dr. Alice Greene Interim Pastor
Bishop Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Senior Pastor
Rev. Cheryl J. Sanders, Th.D. Senior Pastor
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1204 Third Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 202-347-5889 office 202-638-1803 fax
Service and Times Sunday School: 9:30am Sunday Morning Worship Service: 11:00am Communion Service: First Sunday Prayer Service/Bible Study: Tuesday, 6:30pm
Services and Times Sundays: 10:00am Worship Services Bible Study: Wonderful Wednesdays in Worship and the Word Bible Study Wednesdays 12:00 Noon; 6:30pm (dinner @ 5:30pm) Sunday School: 9:00am – Hour of Power
www.blessedwordoflifechurch.org E-mail: church@blessedwordoflifechurch.org
“An inclusive ministry where all are welcomed and affirmed.” www.covenantdc.org
Campbell AME Church
Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 am Sunday Church School: 8:45 am Bible Study Wednesday: 12:00 Noon Wednesday: 7:00 pm Thursday: 7: pm “Reaching Up To Reach Out” Mailing Address Campbell AME Church 2502 Stanton Road SE - Washington, DC 20020
Motto : “A Great Commitment to the Great Commandment” Website: www.turningheartschurchdc.org Email: faithdefender@verizon.net
www.thirdstreet.org Live Stream Sunday Worship Service begins @ 12:00 noon www.thirdstreet.org
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 10:45am Sunday Youth Worship Services: 1st & 4th 10:45am; 804 R.I. Ave., NE 5th 8 AM & 10:45am; Main Church Prayer Services Tuesday – Noon, Wednesday 6am & 6:30pm 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... Dr. Raymond T. Matthews Pastor and First Lady Marcia Matthews St. Mark's Baptist Church 624 Underwood Street, NW Washington, dc 20011 Services and Times Sunday School: 9:00am Worship Service: 10:00am Wed. Noon Day prayer service Thur. Prayer service: 6:45pm Thur. Bible Study: 7:15pm
(Disciples of Christ) 1812 12th Street, NW - Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202-265-4494 Fax: 202 265 4340 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 am Communion every Sunday: 11:00 am Sunday School: 10:00 am Bible Study Tuesday: 12 Noon Pastor’s Bible Study Tuesday: 6:30 pm Motto: “Discover Something Wonderful” Website: 12thscc.org Email: Twelfthstcc@aol.com
Mount Carmel Baptist Church Reverend Gerald H. Hesson Interim Pastor
Virgil K. Thomas, Sr. Senior Pastor/ Teacher
Service and Times Sunday School 8 – 9 AM Worship Service 9 – 11 AM Tuesday Night Bible Study 6:30 – 8:00 PM Wednesday Daytime Bible Study 11 AM – 12:30 PM
“Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital”
Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church
Service and Times 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
Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor
Turning Hearts Church
4275 4th Street, S.E. Washington, DC 20034 Phone: 202-746-0113 Fax: 301-843-2445
“We are one in the Spirit” www.ssbc5757.org E-mail: ssbc5757@verizon.net
Services and Times Sunday School: 9:30am Sunday Worship: 11:00am Sunday Community Worship Service: 8:30 am
E-mail: Crusadersbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.CrusadersBaptistChurch.org “God is Love”
Isle of Patmos Baptist Church
Twelfth Street Christian Church
Rev. Dr. Henry Y. White 2562 MLK Jr. Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Adm. Office 202-678-2263 Email: Campbell@mycame.org
Services and Times Sunday Early Morning Worship: 7:45am Church School: 9:30am Sunday Morning Worship: 10:45am Tuesday: 7:00pm/Kingdom Building Bible Institute Wednesday: Prayer/Praise/Bible Study-7:30 pm Baptism & Communion Service: 4th Sunday – 10:30am
Crusader Baptist Church
901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423 Service and Times Sunday Church School : 9:00am Sunday Morning Worship: 10:10am Bible Study Tuesday: 6: 00pm Prayer Service Tuesday: 7:00pm Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday 10:10am
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RELIGION Shabbath Commandment Church
All Nations Baptist Church
King Emmanuel Baptist Church
Bishop Adrian A. Taylor, Sr. Pastor
Rev. Dr. James Coleman Pastor
Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor
7801 Livingston Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-534-5471
2001 North Capitol St, N.E. - Washington, DC 20002 Phone (202) 832-9591
2324 Ontario Road, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 232-1730
Service and Times Sabbath School 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Service 11:00 a.m. Praise & Worship Preaching 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Motto: “A Church Keeping It Real for Real.” Website: Shabbathcommandmentchruch.org Email: Praisebetoyhwh@gmail.com
Zion Baptist Church Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor 4850 Blagdon Ave, NW - Washington D.C 20011 Phone (202) 722-4940 - Fax (202) 291-3773 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:15AM 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
St. Luke Baptist Church Rev. Aubrey C. Lewis Pastor 1415 Gallatin Street, NW Washington, DC 20011-3851 P: (202) 726-5940 Service and Times 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
Service and Times 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 Website: www.allnationsbaptistchurch.com All Nations Baptist Church – A Church of Standards
Israel Baptist Church
Dr. Earl D. Trent Senior Pastor
Rev. Dr. George C. Gilbert Senior Pastor
2409 Ainger Pl.,SE – WDC 20020 (202) 678-0884 – Office • (202) 678-0885 – Fax “Moving Faith Forward” 0% Perfect . . . 100% Forgiven!
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
Service and Times Sunday Worship: 8:00am & 10:45am Baptism/Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday Family Bible Study Tuesdays – 6:30pm Prayer Service: Tuesdays – 8:00pm www.emmanuelbaptistchurchdc.org
“Where Jesus is the King”
Lincoln Park United Methodist Church
Sermon On The Mount Temple Of Joy Apostolic Faith
Rev. Richard B. Black Pastor
Elder Herman L. Simms Pastor
1251 Saratoga Ave., NE Washington, DC 20018 (202) 269-0288
1301 North Carolina Ave. N E Washington, D C 20002 202 543 1318 - lincolnpark@lpumcdc.org www.lpumcdc.org
5606 Marlboro Pike District Heights, MD 20747 301-735-6005
Service and Times 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.
Service and Times Sunday Worship: 10: am Holy Communion: First Sunday 10: am Sunday School: 9: am Bible Study: Wednesday @ 12 noon and 6:30pm Motto: "Faith On The Hill"
Mount Moriah Baptist Church
Eastern Community Baptist Church
Service and Times Sunday Apostolic Worship Services 11:00 A.M and 5:00 P.M Communion and Feet Wash 4th Sunday at 5:00 P.M Prayer/Seeking: Wednesday at 8:00 P.M. Apostolic in Doctrine, Pentecostal in Experience, Holiness in Living, Uncompromised and Unchanged. The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42
New Commandment Baptist Church
Dr. Lucius M. Dalton Senior Pastor
Damion M. Briggs Pastor
Rev. Stephen E. Tucker Senior Pastor
1636 East Capitol Street, NE Washington, DC 20003 Telephone: 202-544-5588 - Fax: 202-544-2964
8213 Manson Street Landover, MD 20785 Tel: (301) 322-9787 Fax: (301) 322-9240
13701 Old Jericho Park Road Bowie, MD. 20720 (301) 262-0560
Service and Times Sunday Worship Services: 7:45 am and 10:45 am Holy Communion: 1st Sundays at 7:45 am & 10:45 am Sunday School: 9:30 am Prayer & Praise Service: Tuesdays at 12 noon & 6:30 pm Bible Study: Tuesdays at 1 pm and 7 pm Youth Bible Study: Fridays at 7 pm
Service and Times Early Morning Message: 7:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service: 10:00 AM Sunday Church School: 9:00 AM Holy Communion: 1st Sunday 7:30 AM & 10:00 AM Prayer, Praise and Testimony: Wednesday 7:00 PM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM
Service and Times Sunday Worship: 11 AM Sunday School: 10 AM Wednesday Mid-Week Worship, Prayer & Bible Study: Wed. 7 PM
Rehoboth Baptist Church
“Real Worship for Real People” Website: www.easterncommunity.org Email: ecc@easterncommunity.org
Salem Baptist Church
Holy Trinity United Baptist Church
Florida Avenue Baptist Church
Reverend Christopher L. Nichols Pastor
Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor
Web: www.mountmoriahchurch.org Email: mtmoriah@mountmoriahchurch.org
St. Matthews Baptist Church
Service and Times 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
Emmanuel Baptist Church
“A Church Where Love Is Essential and Praise is Intentional”
Service and Times 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
Matthews Memorial Baptist Church Rev. Joan E. Buchanan Executive Pastor 2616 MLK Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Office 202-889-3709 - Fax 202-678-3304 Service and Times Early Worship Service: 7:30am Worship Service: 11:00am New Member’s Class: 9:45am Holy Communion: 1st Sunday, 11:00am Church School: 9:45am Wednesday 12:00pm Bible Study Prayer, Praise and Bible Study: 7:00pm Saturday Bible Study: 11:00am Baptism 4th Sunday: 11:00am
Service and Times 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
Christ Embassy DC
Kelechi Ajieren Coordinator 6839 Eastern Avenue, R1 Takoma Park, MD 20912 (202) 556-7065 Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 A.M. 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
“Empowered to love and Challenged to Lead a Multitude of Souls to Christ”
Peace Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Michael T. Bell 712 18th Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Phone 202-399-3450/ Fax 202-398-8836 Service and Times Sunday Early Morning Prayer & Bible Study Class 8:00 am Sunday School 9:00 am Sunday Morning Worship Service 10:00 am Wednesday Service 12:00 pm
Pennsylvania Ave. Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Kendrick E. Curry Pastor 3000 Pennsylvania Ave.. S.E Washington, DC 20020 202 581-1500 Service and Times 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
“The Loving Church of the living lord “ Email Address: admin@pbc712.org
Shiloh Baptist Church
First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Mt. Horeb Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor
Rev. Curtis l. Staley Pastor
Rev. David McIntosh-Peters Pastor
Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith Pastor
Rev. Oran W. Young Pastor
Rev. Dr. H. B. Sampson, III Pastor
Worshiping Location Knights of Columbus - 1633 Tucker Road Fort Washington, MD 20744 (240) 838-7074
621 Alabama Ave., S.E.- Washington, D.C. 20032 P: (202) 561-1111 - F: (202) 561-1112
917 N St. NW - Washington, DC 20001 (202) 232-4294
9th & P Street, N.W. - W. D.C. 20001 (202) 232-4288
Service and Times Sunday Service: 10 am Sunday School for all ages: 8:30 am 1st Sunday Baptism: 10: am 2nd Sunday Holy Communion:10 am Tuesday: Bible Study: 6:30 pm Prayer Meeting: 7:45 pm
Service and Times Sunday Morning Prayer Service: 8:00 a.m. Sunday Church School: 9:15 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship: 10:40 a.m. Third Sunday Baptismal & Holy Communion:10:30 a.m. Tuesday Church At Study Prayer & Praise: 6:30 p.m.
Service and Times First Sunday Worship Service (one service): 10:00 a.m. Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Sunday Worship service: 7:45 a.m. and 10:55 a.m. Sunday Church School/Bible Study: 9:30 a.m. Thursday Prayer Service: 6:30 p.m.
602 N Street NW - Washington, D.C. 20001 Office:(202) 289-4480 Fax: (202) 289-4595
2914 Bladensburg Road, NE Wash., DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-3180 - Fax: (202) 529-7738 Service and Times 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
Motto: “Where God is First and Where Friendly People Worship”
The Church Where GOD Is Working.... And We Are Working With GOD
Service and Times 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) Theme: “The Kingdom Focused Church” Matthew 6:33 and Mathew 28:18-20, KJV Email: stmatthewsbaptist@msn.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.org
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Email: sbc@shilohbaptist.org Website: shilohbaptist.org
Service and Times Sunday School for All Ages: 8:00 a.m. Sunday Worship Services: 9:30 a.m. Midday Prayer & Bible Study: Wednesday 11:30 a.m. Evening Prayer & Bible Study: Wednesday 7:00 p.m. Laymen's League: Thursday 7:00 p.m. Email: Froffice@firstrising.org Website: www.firstrising.org “Changing Lives On Purpose “
Email:mthoreb@mthoreb.org Website:www.mthoreb.org For further information, please contact me at (202) 529-3180.
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Administration No. 2018 ADM 001127
Administration No. 2018 ADM 001124
Administration No. 2018 ADM 692
Administration No. 2018 ADM 001136
Administration No. 2018 ADM 001143
Benjamin Wells Decedent
Duncan Cunningham Decedent
Jennifer Wilma Ryan Decedent
Ernesto Del Aguila, Sr. Decedent
Tina Smith Nelson 601 E Street, NW Washington, DC 20049 Attorney
Deborah D. Boddie, Esq. 1308 Ninth Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20001 Attorney
Frederick Chapman Green, MD aka Frederick Chapman Green Decedent
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Judylyn Susan Ryan, whose address is 2601 32nd Street, SE, Washington, DC 20020, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Jennifer Wilma Ryan who died on January 28, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 4/18/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 4/18/2019, 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.
Luis Enrique Del Aguila, whose address is 3107 34th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008-3308, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Ernesto Del Aguila, Sr. who died on October 8, 2017 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 4/25/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 4/25/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.
Date of first publication: 10/18/2018
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Judylyn Susan Ryan Personal Representative
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Tamara Y. Wells, whose address is 726 Hilltop Terrace, SE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Benjamin Wells who died on March 7, 2018 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 4/18/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 4/18/2019, 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.
Edward J. Elder, Esq. 2000 P Street, NW Suite 415 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Michael Cunningham, whose address is 3210 32nd Avenue, Temple Hills, MD 20748, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Duncan Cunningham who died on May 29, 2017 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 4/18/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 4/18/2019, 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.
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Edward J. Elder, Esq., whose address is 2000 P Street NW, Suite 415, Washington, DC 20036, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Frederick Chapman Green, MD aka Frederick Chapman Green who died on February 18, 2010 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 appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 4/18/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 4/18/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.
Date of first publication: 10/18/2018
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Michael Cunningham Personal Representative
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Foreign No. 2018 FEP 000132
Administration Number 2018 ADM 001141
Administration No. 2018 ADM 001135
Administration No. 2018 ADM 001112
Administration No. 2018 ADM 000172
May 23, 2017 Date of Death
Estate of Samuel Leon Jefferson, Sr.
Linell Hollis Decedent
Rose E. Oliver Decedent
Naomi C. Millet Decedent
Richard Nathaniel Rolle Name of Decedent
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Sharmeica A. Clark, whose address is 766 19th Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Rose E. Oliver who died on February 15, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 4/18/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 4/18/2019, 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.
Phillip A. Millet, whose address is 9803 Angora Drive, Cheltenham, MD 20623, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Naomi C. Millet who died on January 24, 2018 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 4/25/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 4/25/2019, 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.
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Evelyn Rice Rolle, whose address is 8 Weyburn Court, Baltimore, MD 21237 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Richard Nathaniel Rolle, deceased, by the Orphans Court for Baltimore County, State of Maryland, on February 8, 2018. Service of process may be made upon Elizabeth A. Saindon, 1920 L Street, NW, suite 400, Washington, DC 20036, 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 estate: 4309 Gorman Terrace, SE, 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, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. Date of first publication: 10/18/2018 Evelyn Rice Rolle Personal Representative Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer
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Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Antonette Jefferson for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representative. Unless a responsive pleading in the form of a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth.
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Viola D. Hollis, whose address is 4970 Sargent Road, NE, Washington, DC 20017, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Linell Hollis who died on August 8, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 4/18/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 4/18/2019, 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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Date of first publication: 10/18/2018
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Viola D. Hollis Personal Representative
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Admit to probate the will dated February 5, 2012 exhibited with the petition upon proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution by affidavit of witnesses or otherwise & exclude codicil October 16, 2015 Date of first publication: 10/18/2018 Antonette Jefferson 4425 Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue, NE #113 Washington, DC 20019 Personal Representative:
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Dede Koffie-Lart v. James Aldridge This notice makes potentially mandatory disclosures to James Aldridge and all people and entities who possibly have an ownership interest in residential property 4225 Gault Place Northeast, Washington, District of Columbia 20019. A court case was initiated regarding 4225 Gault Place Northeast, Washington, District of Columbia 20019 and the Washington, District of Columbia 2017 Real Property Tax Sale. Real property taxes remaining unpaid and the pertinent person, people, and entities not attending a possibly ensuing court proceeding may result in the loss of 4225 Gault Place Northeast, Washington, District of Columbia 20019
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Administration No. 2018 ADM 001212
Administration No. 2018 ADM 001214
Administration No. 2018 ADM 001149
Administration No. 2018 ADM 001172
William G. Bradley, Jr. Decedent
Teresa W. Hawkins Decedent
Shirley Shadricks Decedent
Ronald Lloyd Lucas Decedent
Rodney E. Cunningham Decedent
Colline Silvera 7731 Belle Point Dr. Greenbelt, MD 20770 Attorney
Deborah D. Boddie, Esq. 1308 Ninth Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20001 Attorney
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James Priest and Ellianna Shadricks, whose address is 1608 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Shirley Shadricks who died on October 10, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/1/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/1/2019, 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.
Brenda M. G. Lucas, whose address is 3914 23rd Parkway #11, Temple Hills, MD 20748, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Ronald Lloyd Lucas who died on February 26, 2017 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/1/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/1/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.
Date of first publication: 11/1/2018
Date of first publication: 11/1/2018 Brenda M. G. Lucas Personal Representative
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS William George Bradley, III, whose address is 1824 Varnum St., NE, Washington, DC 20018, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of William G. Bradley, Jr. who died on July 30, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 4/25/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 4/25/2019, 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.
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Lawrence W. Buck, Jr., whose address is 1112 Chaplin Street, SE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Teresa W. Hawkins who died on September 29, 2018 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/1/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/1/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.
Date of first publication: 10/25/2018
Date of first publication: 11/01/2019
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Colline Silvera 7731 Belle Point Dr. Greenbelt, MD 20770 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Joyce C. Freeman, whose address is 31 Elder Drive, Palm Coast, FL 32164, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Rodney E. Cunningham who died on August 26, 2017 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/1/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/1/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship. Date of first publication: 11/1/2018 Joyce C. Freeman Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer
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Administration No. 2018 ADM 001181
Administration No. 2018 ADM 001193
Administration No. 2018 ADM 1183
Administration No. 2018 ADM 001216
Administration No. 2017 ADM 1339
Dorothy D. Williams Decedent
Betty Jean Leonard Decedent
Angelica Del Aguila Decedent
George S. Ware aka George Stanley Ware Decedent
George Dounias Decedent
Larry C. Williams, Esq. 7600 George Avenue, NW #405 Washington, DC 20012 Attorney
Andrew McGuire, Esq. 1231 Good Hope Rd. SE Washington, DC 20020 Attorney
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Andrew Dounias and George A. Dounias, whose addresses are 3425A Marigold Pl., Waldorf, MD 20602 and 42890 Redfield Street, Asburn, VA 20147 were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of George Dounias who died on July 23, 2017 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/1/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/1/2019, 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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Donald L. Williams, whose address is 314 Tamerack Ct, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Dorothy D. Williams who died on August 1, 2018 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/1/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/1/2019, 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.
Jacqueline Whitehead and Gregory Leonard, whose address is 4715 First Street, SW, #103, Washington, DC 20032, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Betty Jean Leonard who died on October 15, 2017 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/1/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/1/2019, 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.
Howard Ernest Del Aguila, whose address is 43312 Vestals Place, Leesburg, VA 20176, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Angelica Del Aguila who died on March 23, 2011 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/1/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/1/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.
Date of first publication: 11/1/2018
Date of first publication: 11/1/2018
Date of first publication: 11/1/2018
Janet G. Mitchell, whose address is 58 Pembroke Drive, Mendham, New Jersey 07945, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of George S. Ware aka George Stanley Ware who died on September 12, 2018 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/1/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/1/2019, 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.
Donald L. Williams Personal Representative
Jacqueline Whitehead Gregory Leonard Personal Representative
Howard Ernest Del Aguila Personal Representative
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stand during the civil rights movement but to the thousands of extraordinary children and youths who were frontline soldiers in the war to overthrow Jim Crow in American life. Children were the frontline soldiers in desegregating our segregated schools across the nation. Our children and young people taught us to be courageous, to stand up against injustice and to do so with uncommon dignity, maturity, nonviolence, and grace. What a contrast to the ugly, violent behavior of hate-filled adults all around them. It’s time to thank Ruby Bridges today by following her example and supporting all our children today who are standing up against injustice and pervasive gun violence because we adults have dropped the ball of adult responsibility. It’s time to ensure every child equal education, health care, a strong early childhood foundation and safe passage to adulthood. It’s time to replace the greed of those at the top to ensure the hopes and dreams of our millions of children crying out for hope and help. We must all follow Ruby Bridges’ example. WI
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million voters and too many others ignored their responsibility to vote. For those choosing to look critically, the past two years illuminate the value of the vote. We must not abuse or ignore our votes in 2018. WI
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, one report actually described the cause of the devastation as ““”too many n-ggers having too much money.” Megyn Kelly is not the only White person who is ignorant of American history (because the history of Black people really is American history). White ignorance is one of the reasons I look askance at some aspects of the #MeToo movement. White ignorance is a choice, especially among adults who can educate themselves and expose themselves to the totality of history. Megyn Kelly chose to expose herself to Roland Martin and Amy Holmes. Too bad she shot off her uninformed mouth before she got educated! Perhaps she will now remove the term “PC” from her vocabulary,unless she happens to mean “perfectly civil.” WI
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Kelly has three young children who are undoubtedly being influenced by her warped racial views. She was bounced off the air at NBC, though there are some who think she has learned her lesson sufficiently to continue her career. What if, instead of losing her job, she was involved in a “Black immersion” experience? What if she had to spend a month in a dormitory at Bennett or Spellman College, spending time with the young Black women she seems not to have taken into consideration heretofore? What if her conversation with Roland Martin could be the first of many, and she was directed to spend time with Essence Editor Emerita Susan Taylor, with NNPA Chair Dorothy Leavell, with Jada Pinkett Smith, with Rev.
Jesse Jackson, and with others? Might that make a difference for the ill-educated Megyn Kelly? Or maybe she should just read a book or two. Fifty years after the Kerner Commission report, it is clear that there are still two Americas, one Black, and one White. Two Americas, with two different realities and few bridges to understanding. This is why, even in all-White communities, Black history must be taught. This is why our textbooks ought to speak realistically about enslavement, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and lynching. This is why we need to bust the myth that lynchings were about sex — Black men lusting after White women. Actually, too many lynchings were about economic envy — White men lusting after Black people’s property. After White vandals destroyed the Greenwood section of
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JACKSON from Page 27 deficits caused largely by Republican tax cuts for the wealthy require adjusting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — the earned security programs he calls “entitlements” — “to the demographics,” which is an obscure way of saying slash them. The promise of Medicare for all is still a long way off. Even if Democrats win a majority in the House, no major reform can survive the Republican filibuster in the Senate or the inevitable Trump veto. House Democratic leaders promise to focus first on lowering
MORIAL from Page 27 initiative that reduced racial disparities in federal drug sentencing, and improved reentry opportunities for people leaving prison. We need to elect leaders who support criminal justice reform. The federal government used to be a champion for voting rights, challenging discriminatory practices such as voter purges and restrictive ID laws. Its position on voting has completely reversed, as it joins state legislatures in defending voter suppression. We need to elect leaders who will restore the Voting Rights Act and defend it. While the unemployment rate has continued the steady decline begun during the Obama adminis-
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attraction. In other words, in the eyes of his peers he was just a lowly “negro” with a small “n.” Why one day, after things had gotten so bad in vaudeville that the Zieg-
feld Follies performers decided to go on strike. Well, Williams was so isolated and estranged from the other performers that when he showed up for work at the theater, he was the only performer there. Not one of the other entertainers thought enough of Williams to even bother to tell him they were all going on strike. Today, there is cultural retrenchment on the part of White folks who are getting angrier and angrier about the genetic recessive aspect of whiteness: that is the genes associated with White folks — blond hair, blue eyes — are dominated by the genes associated with the darker people — black or brown hair, brown eyes. So White folks who dread the consequences of rapidly declining White birth rates compared to high birth rates for dark people — dark people who already outnumber whites 7 or 8 to 1 in global population — White folks have taken to lampooning Black folks, pretending that their mirth will soften the effects of their centuries of mistreatment. Let me just tell you something else. It’s not funny. WI
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