AUGUST 2017 HEALTH WELLNESS & NUTRITION SUPPLEMENT
VOL. 52, NO. 43 • AUGUST 10 - 16, 2017
HEALTHCARE MATTERS PRESENTED BY
Musicians sizzle at the 2017 Spirit Summer Festival See photos on Page 28
Summer Jobs Pave Way for Arts Careers
AARP Legal Counsel Helps Elderly Avoid Foreclosure, Scams By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer
P.A.I.N.T.S. Provides Training, Mentors for D.C.’s Underserved Youth By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor @dkevinmcneir Southeast resident D’Angelo Dorsey, 20, says he’d been staying close to home to avoid negative influences from his neighborhood and with little or no job options in sight. Then, upon the suggestion of a friend, he looked into an arts training program for D.C. youth that not only put some money in his pockets for the summer, but helped transform a childhood penchant for drawing and painting into what he believes has put him on the road to a potentially lucrative career – and the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. “This is the first time I’ve taken my painting seriously and had a chance to show my work to others in a setting like this on stage,” D’Angelo said. “I paint based on what makes me happy, things that are part of my everyday world and bring me joy or peace. The painting I did for the show is really special to me
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5 Justin Lee, 20, discusses his artwork, titled “Hands of Hope,” with the audience of the 2017 P.A.I.N.T.S. Arts Leadership Program Youth Arts Showcase, June 30 at the Howard Theatre in NW. Lee describes the hands in his work representing a prayer to God and hopes the piece will motivate others to believe that anything is possible when in communication with God. /Photo by E Watson/EDI Photo
Statehood Advocacy Group Celebrates 20 Years By Tatyana Hopkins WI Staff Writer Dorie Ladner risked her life for civil rights once, and now she is not sure she will see the end of another battle in her lifetime. The 75-year-old civil rights trailblazer began her activist work as a college student in her native Mississippi serving on the frontlines of the civil rights movement, work that proved to be dangerous — and sometimes fatal — for those
From time to time, everyone has found themselves vulnerable to getting duped, said JoAnn Mangione, the communications manager for the D.C.-based Legal Counsel for the Elderly, an AARP affiliate. Getting scammed, Mangione said, isn't just a part of getting older like gray hair. She said highly successful business people, professors and other professionals with higher education and the benefit of younger age, still get duped. "But the predators do target
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involved. Today, her fight continues with the D.C. statehood movement, a long-fought battle with no foreseeable end. "In Mississippi … we faced death and other kinds of atrocities before we got the right to vote," Ladner said Thursday, Aug. 3 during a celebration for the 20th anniversary of the D.C. statehood advocacy organization Stand Up! for Democracy (Free D.C.). "Here in
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5 Anise Jenkins and Frank Smith share a moment during the Stand Up! for
Democracy in DC Founders' Day event on Aug. 3. /Photo by Lateef Mangum
Celebrating 52 Years of Service / Serving More Than 50,000 African American Readers Throughout The Metropolitan Area