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Tuskegee University Choir Performs ‘Sing-Sationally’ Area Alums Lead the Way Supporting By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor The internationally-acclaimed Tuskegee Choir, formed in 1886 by Booker T. Washington after realizing that his Alabama-based college, Tuskegee Institute, needed a group of singers who could lead vesper services and sing at special campus events, has made tremendous strides in its over 100-year history, captivating audiences at legendary venues including Radio City Music Hall, the Lincoln Center, the White House and even in Brussels during the World’s Fair. While on their spring break, The Tuskegee University Golden Voices Concert Choir, under the direction of Dr. Wayne A. Barr, made a stop
in the District as part of their annual concert tour on Saturday, March 11 at THEARC in Southeast – continuing a rich choral tradition. With an audience of just under 100 listening intently and confirming their appreciation with frequent applause, the Choir’s repertoire included sacred and secular anthems, hymns, spirituals and gospel selections, all performed with the highest quality and featuring soloists whose youth belied their vocal skills and commitment to their craft. One Tuskegee graduate currently leading a District-based group of fellow alums proudly presented Barr with a check for $1,000 – funds donated to support the choir.
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5 The Tuskegee University Golden Voices Choir performed various soul stirring spirituals during a 2017 Spring Concert Tour held on Saturday, March 11, in the theater of the Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Center in Southeast. /Photo by Mark Mahoney
5 The DC Public Schools was the one, if not only, school system on the east coast open during snow storm Stella which brought far less snow than expected to the DC area. Schools in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, and Richmond were all closed Tuesday. /Photo by Roy Lewis
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It was as stunning as anything that had previously happened in the nation’s capital or any government building around the country. Most remember it as one of the first acts of domestic terrorism when 40 years ago, armed terrorists stormed three District buildings taking about 150 hostages. Then-D.C. Councilman Marion Barry narrowly avoided life-threatening injuries after being struck by a stray bullet landing just inches above his heart. However, a different fate awaited one young, WHUR reporter, Maurice Williams, 24, who would tragically lose his life.
As deadlines approach for states to present the U.S. Department of Education [DOE] with final draft accountability plans for implementation of the “Every Student Succeeds Act,” the DC State Board of Education [SBOE] recently revisited the District’s plan, coming up with nearly a dozen recommendations for improving the proposal. The recommendations, which impact both traditional public and charter school students, were provided on March 10 to the Office of the State Superintendent for Education [OSSE]. “[DC’s plan for implementation of ESSA] will set long-term goals and strategies for citywide academic suc-
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senseMichael of uniformity in the way wants to see implemented are Former Maryland state Delegate L. Vaughn, When L.Y. Marlow's 23-year- domestic violence victims and stricter restraining order policies, 59, of Bowie, became the latest official representing Prince old daughter told her the father survivors are treated. more rights for victim's families George’s County to face a judge – this time charged with of her daughter threatened her “She's using her own personal to intervene on behalf of a vicbribery connection with a pay-tolife, and and the conspiracy life of theircharges child, in story, her own personal pain to tim, a domestic violence assessplayknew scheme for liquorhad legislation. eight-count she something to be An push forward,”indictment Davis-Nickens ment unit coupled with further released last week says Vaughn received $13,000 in cash from done. Out of her frustration said about Marlow. training for law enforcement Aprillaw2015 to April 2016 to approve Sunday liquor with enforcement's handling Davis-Nickens saidsales anyone agencies, a Child's Life ProtecVaughn helpedtoget the passed book as a will tion Act and mandatory counselofand thepermits. situation, she decided wholegislation reads Marlow's start the Saving PromiseEconomic cam- “get member of the House’s Matters Committee it.” She said she that “puts the ing for batterers. paign. benefited two liquor store merchants county. A former caseininthesuch a way, the average “If we are ever going to eradi“It seemsofto a viciousliquor cyclecontrol person can helped get it.” She said at the cate domestic violence, we must member thebecounty’s board conspire that won't turn who my represented family end of the book will look at both sides of the coin. the plan. Vaughn, District 24day, fromthe January loose,” Marlow said. Marlow help people have a dia- We need to address both the vic2003 until he resigned this year, also faces wirebegin fraudtocharges shared story with the outside audi- of logue about domestic violence. tim and the batterer,” Marlow after heherwithdrew money Maryland on three occaence at the District Heights Also present at the event was said. sions from a “Friends of Michael Vaughn” campaign account. Domestic Violence Symposium Mildred Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see Court showHeights Vaughn transferred $6,000 into his on May documents 7 at the District wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise own personal account. convicted, Vaughn faces a maximum of 65 years in prison. Municipal Center. The If sympowho was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in sium was sponsored by the utive life terms without parole public and private schools. She Family and Youth Services by a Maryland jury for his role in feels children need to be educatCenter of the city of District the Beltway Sniper attacks in ed about domestic violence. Heights and the National Hook- 2002. Mildred The Muhammad General Services announced Friday is Administration “We have to stop being pasUp of Black Women. the founder of After there will the be Trauma, another delay in the FBI headquarters relocasive-aggressive with poor chilMarlow has written a book, an organization that helps the dren about scheduled domestic violence,” tion project. The agency previously to announce “Color Me Butterfly,” which is a survivors aoflocation domestic Marlow said. impact statement at andviolence issue an environmental story about four generations of and their children. Marlow hastoworked break the end of last year, but pushed it up March to 2017. Now domestic violence. The book is “I lived in fear for six years. Six the cycle of abuse in her family, that announcement remains unclear depending on when inspired by her own experiences, years in fear is a long time. It is and is confident the policies she Congress approve relocation dollars for the project f from and those of her grandmother, not an easy thing to come out is pushing for will start that Northwest D.C. to either Prince George’s County or Springher mother and her daughter. of,” she said. process. “Appropriations in order for us to make She said every time she reads Mildredfield. Muhammad said are necessary “I plan to take these policies to an announcement, move forward . . . and ultimately make excerpts from her book, she still people who want to help a Congress and implore them to award,” said a GPA statement which didn’t sit well can not believe the words came domestic an violence victim must change our laws,” Marlow said.with officials. “We … that the from her. “Color Me Butterfly” be careful Maryland of how they go into “I are willconcerned not stop until thesecontinued polidelays will understand have a negativecies impact on the safety and security won the 2007 National “Best the victim's life, and are passed.” Books” Award. ourbe nation,” Democratic Tia Sens. BenJones Cardin Chris Van that she of may in “survival Carol canand be reached “I wasand just Reps. 16-years-old when andmode”. at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net Hollen Steny Hoyer Anthony Brown said in a joint statement. “Prince George’s County is my blackened and and my we call “Before you gettotofully 'I'm fund goingthe FBI relocation project.” the eye bestfirst choice for the FBI on Congress lips bled,” Marlow said. to kill you,' it started as a verbal WI Elaine Davis-Nickens, president of the National Hook-Up of Black saidcontract there is no MetroWomen, wants to with minority-, women-owned and consistency in the way domestic small businesses. Franklin Jones, the agency’s new chief of fair violence issues are to dealt withthat by happen. One goal Jones said he practices, hopes make plans to fulfill will analyze where money goes toward the agency’s Disadvantage Business Enterprise programs. 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son said is equally important. One 12-year-old girl had been reported missing and located on the police department's social media accounts four times since October. Dickerson said she wants to end the stigma attached to runaway cases and treats each case with the same level of attention. She said when children go missing, several things could happen as a result of them becoming homeless during that time. "Every case where a child is not where they are supposed to be … gets the same level of attention and is investigated thoroughly," Dickerson said. "Once a child is out there, they can be victimized or criminalized if they turn to survival crimes." Dickerson said the highest instances of missing persons in the city — both adults and children — are in Wards 7 and 8, and the largest group of missing juveniles are girls age 12-17. "Growing up as an African-American girl, I understand some of the socioeconomic issues these girls are facing," Dickerson said. Once a missing child is located, Dickerson said various social services are extended to them and their family to address any existing underlying issues. Dickerson is also in the process of establishing a mentor program for missing children identified as runaways. Still in the beginning stages, the proposed program has already garnered support from several community groups. WI
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The World According to Dominic “Don’t Hate Me for Being Eternally Hooked on 'March Madness'" I’m not sure when it first began – perhaps when Magic Johnson and Larry Bird stars of their representative teams Michigan State and Indiana State, squared off in one of college basketball’s most memorable showdowns for the men’s championship trophy – and the bragging rights therein. Whenever it first occurred, I can’t seem to recall a time when I wasn’t a hardcore fanatic, a diehard lover of those “Derby Dandies” – just plain crazed and lost in a world of three-point shots, high-flying slam dunks and calculating time out strategies – that week each Spring when the best teams in college basketball lock heads during magical, mind-blowing and sometimes last minute miraculous antics some call “March Madness.” I remember shortly after entering the business world with Fortune 500 giant IBM, the ink on my college diploma barely dry, when the “dance” began again – my first time as a member in corporate America. Throwing caution to the wind, I took a week of vacation so I could see each and every game. Thank goodness technological advances wouldn’t make that necessary for long – I could see the games at my leisure – recorded on new gadgets and safely stored away. Those were the good old days when coaches like John Thompson, Jim Valvano, Bobby Knight and Dean Smith reigned supreme while players gave their all not for signing bonuses, a throng of women or flashy cars and homes, but for the game they genuinely loved. Those were the days when names like Isaiah Thomas, Bill Walton, Patrick Ewing, Ralph Sampson and Michael Jordan held fans young and old under their spell like the mythical Pied Piper of Hamlin. Some teams advanced with ease to the final game as predicted like talent-laded tandems of super heroes playing against a misfit menagerie of pint-sized little boys
and girls, physically and mentally unfamiliar with the game. Others would pull off historic upsets, forever leaving their mark in the annals of college basketball – Davids slaying Goliaths, Cinderellas finally getting a chance to go to the ball. No one was guaranteed a victory as it only took one game to be eliminated. One game could bring young men to their knees in total defeat and emotional surrender, allowing others to partake of the succulent, sweet taste of victory temporarily ensconced in newfound state of unprecedented euphoric ecstasy. This year, on the eve of March Madness, my alma mater, the University of Michigan, the lowest-ranked team in the tourney, would shock all who stood in their path, from top-rated Purdue to their longtime nemesis, Wisconsin, taking the Big Ten crown and receiving an automatic bid to the “dance” – one of the NCAA’s coveted collection of 68 playoff-bound teams. I shouted, sang the fight song, “Hail to the Victors” and put on every piece of “Go Blue” paraphernalia that I could find urging my team to victory in the final few minutes – even praying that they would not squander their lead and lose. There’s nothing like March Madness when two basketball teams challenge one another in a winner-takes-all encounter with some teams emerging victorious despite not being the most-talented group on the court. In many ways, it’s like the game of life – when you’re prepared, put everything within in to the task at hand and come totally psyched up and believe in yourself, nothing’s impossible. Here’s to March Madness 2017 when the unthinkable occurs, the favorites of gamblers fail to win-place-or-show and when even the most remote dreams come true. WI
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HANIFI SIEGE Page 1 Jim Bohannon, now a syndicated radio talk show host, had been employed as an anchor on WTOP on March 9, 1977 when word came of trouble at three buildings, including what has since become the Wilson Building. “It quickly became apparent that these were three interconnected incidents, three hostage-takings, by a group known as Hanafi Muslims,” Bohannon told WTOP. The group’s leader, Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, had left the Nation of Islam to found the Hanafi Movement. A few years prior to the siege, seven members of Khaalis’ family had been murdered at his D.C. home and demands issued during the siege included the convicted killers being handed over to him. During the hostage crisis, Khaalis seems to have listened to Bohannon on air reports. “I referred to them as ‘apparently, a black Muslim group,’ not realizing that the term ‘black Muslims’ referred to the main body of black Muslims who were in literal war with the Hanafi Muslim sect,” Bohannon said. Khaalis called the station and demanded that Bohannon apologize on TV or face retaliation. “He said if not, he would ‘start cutting off heads, putting them in paper bags and tossing them out the window,’” Bohannon said. Bohannon made his apology on WTOP-TV (now known as Channel 9). In those days, the radio and TV stations both occupied the same building, so Bohannon simply had to go down a few stairs. Williams, a WHUR reporter, was shot and killed during the siege while another gunshot victim, Special Police Office Mack Cantrell, succumbed to his injuries several days later. “I anchored that first day the longest stint of my life continuously on air, from 10 a.m. the day it started until 7 a.m. the following morning – 21 consecutive hours,” Bohannon said. Eventually, ambassadors from three countries, Egypt, Iran and Pakistan, helped bring the siege to an end. “We should remember it because it was one of the first acts of serious domestic terrorism,” said Bohannon, who can still be heard on D.C. airwaves from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. weeknights on WFED. During the month of March, an exhibit of nearly 40 photos can be seen on display at the Wilson Building. Meanwhile, friends and family
5Friends of the late Howard University reporter Maurice Williams, who was shot during the 1977 Hanafi Siege, gathered at his gravesite on
Saturday, March 11 at Ft. Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Cottage City, Maryland, to remember their fallen friend. /Photo by Lateef Mangum members of D.C.-born and raised Williams continue to remember and honor him in ways that include an annual pilgrimage to his gravesite in nearby Fort Lincoln Cemetery. “He was a reporter for what was then one of the first Black-owned radio stations in the country – a little corner of the media landscape that was experimenting with a new approach to covering the news – trying to cover the city, nation and world as no African-American radio station had before,” said Kojo Nnamdi, then WHUR’s news editor. Williams had begun to evolve as a poet and a dreamer, a young man who drew a comic strip about a planet called Eltar-6 and who grew up both loving his city and seeing its potential during those early days of self-rule. He wanted to join Nnamdi and WHUR alumnus Milton Coleman, by then a City Hall reporter for The Washington Post, for lunch on that fateful day, but he found his request denied. “He was not allowed to hang with the big boys,” Nnamdi told WHUR a regret still evident in the timbre of his voice. While Coleman and Nnam-
di went off for Chinese food on 13th Street, Maurice Williams returned to his post. As he exited an elevator, a terrorist wielding a shotgun blew holes in his red sweater. Wlliams died instantly. It’s said that time heals all wounds, but the WHUR family and the District’s news community still honor and mourn the loss of the young reporter, Williams – killed as he went about his job of reporting on the city government. That honor became permanent nine years ago with a special ceremony held outside the Press Room on the 5th floor of the Wilson Building. Then-mayor Adrian Fenty, along with the city council, city officials, journalists, WHUR’s current General Manager Jim Watkins, and family members of Williams including his mother and two nephews, assembled to rename the Press Room in Maurice Williams’ honor. A plaque remains outside of the room recalling William’s sacrifice and his contributions to WHUR. WI
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY Metro Expected to Approve Budget With Fare Increases By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill Metro riders may have to pony up more in the near future after the agency's Finance Committee last week approved a $1.8 billion fiscal 2018
budget proposal, which includes fare increases for bus, rail and parking service. Officials said the transit agency's first fare increase in three years would bring in $21 million. Metro also proposes to save an additional $2 million by eliminating 300 positions.
A 2016 internal report shows customer satisfaction fell below the target rate of 85 percent. For bus riders, it showed the rate at 77 percent and 66 percent for Metrorail riders. Malcolm Augustine, who represents Prince George's County on the board of directors, said after the March 9 committee session that riders shouldn't have to pay for more when the service "is not up to snuff." "We have to do a better job [to] provide a better service before you ask people to pay more money for that service," he said. "I did not feel it was a looking forward type of budget in trying to build on this system which I really believe in. People are already paying a high percentage than most places in the country. Why would we ask for more?" Catherine Hudgins, who represents Fairfax County, said her decision in favor of the budget didn't come easy, but was necessary for the agency's general manager and his staff to improve the second-busiest transit
system in the country. "This is not an easy budget," Hudgins said after the meeting. "What is the best that we can do with the resources that we have? The alternative with no fare increases and no services cuts? Metro would go lacking. We can't make a choice in saying to [General Manager Paul Wiedefeld] … we need to get this in a state of good repair but keep the same service that we have. I hope we are going to meet our riders somewhere in the [middle] and meet their needs every day while we're doing this." The fare increases, which the full board plans to approve March 23, would be the following: • 25 cents bus fare; • 25 cents off-peak Metrorail and $0.10 peak Metrorail; and • 10 cents for daily parking. The $2 million that would be saved by the proposed elimination of 300 positions would go toward creating a "lifeline" late-night bus
service that would replace the hours of operation cut on Metrorail. The committee did agree on three amendments to keep some bus routes intact, five in Maryland including the T14 Rhode Island Avenue-New Carrollton service. However, the J7, J9 I-270 route in Montgomery County would discontinue in October. The two bus routes affecting the District — the H6 in Northeast and B8 and B9 with the Fort Lincoln Shuttle in Northeast that stretches into Colmar Manor in Prince George's — would remain unchanged. Hudgins presented a resolution with seven amendments for Virginia such as restoring the Route 1C route in Fair Oaks and change the regular fare for airport routes 5A (Dulles International Airport) and B30 (Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport) to $7.50. According to fares posted on Metro's website, the current price is $7 with a SmartTrip card or cash. WI
Women’s History Month This month, particular attention is noted for the accomplishment of women. Too often forgotten, women are trailblazers in every field and endeavor. They are pioneers, innovators, activists and our Country has benefitted from the contribution of women. Perhaps the most recent impact has been felt in business. According to the National Association of Women Business Owners: • More than 9.4 million firms are owned by women, employing nearly 7.9 million people, and generating $1.5 trillion in sales as of 2015. • Women-owned firms (51% or more) account for 31% of all privately held firms and contribute 14% of employment and 12% of revenues. • Over the past seven years, the overall increase of 8.3 million (net) new jobs is comprised of a 9.2 million increase in employment in large, publicly traded corporations, combined with an 893,000 decline in employment among smaller, privately held companies. • 2.9 million firms are majority-owned by women of color in the U.S. • These firms employ 1.4 million people and generate $226 billion in revenues annually. There remains many doors to be opened for women business owners. However, major gains are being made and, it's clear, women are job creators. This is great news for our economy and women who dream of being entrepreneurs. As we celebrate women this month, let’s not revel in complacency; but rather resolve to knock down the persistent barriers that have held women back for far too long. Polices on lending, public/private procurement, corporate board seats, and CEO positions must all be open to make an inclusive economy. So let’s celebrate; but also, activate! Not a member? Please visit our website, www.pgcoc.org or drop by for a visit to get started! Membership is good for a full calendar year, so it’s always a good time to join! David C. Harrington President & CEO Prince George’s Chamber of Commerce www.pgcoc.org
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Md. Business Community Pushes Lawmakers on $15 Minimum Wage By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill TJ Zlotnisky said business owners who pay their employees above the minimum wage helps boost the economy and creates longevity within a company. Zlotnisky, CEO and chairman of iControl Data Solutions of Burtonsville, Maryland, said his lowest-paid employee receives $17.85 per hour and average more than $90,000 in salaries and benefits and receives stock options. As of April 1, he said his distribution company the lowest employee will receive $19.23 per hour. "In my two decades of business in Maryland, I've learned the best way to build and sustain a company and reduce risks of business failure is by valuing workers," he said at a press conference Tuesday, March 7 at the Lowe House Building. "Those healthy and fairly compensated workers are also great consumers … that drives even more economic activity. Weaker economic times are when we should support our workers." He joined more than two dozen
business owners, union workers and other supporters to demand Maryland lawmakers increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour. The "Fight for $15" has become a national movement by low-wage workers, merchants and others that has now created legislation where a $15 minimum wage is now the law in New York and California. Such a raise in Maryland would affect nearly 900,000 workers, said Dante Bishop, an organizer with Maryland Working Families based in Baltimore, a grass-roots organization that supports progressive legislation and endorses candidates who follow suit. At the heart of the Fight for $15 in the state stands House Bill 1416 sponsored by Delegate Jeff Waldstreicher of Montgomery County. The current minimum wage in Maryland stands at $8.75. According to the legislation, it would increase in increments for businesses with 26 or more employees: • $9.25 per hour starting July 1; • $10.10 per hour starting July 1, 2018; • $12 per hour starting July 1, 2019; • $13 per hour starting July 1, 2020;
• $14 per hour starting July 1, 2021; • $15 per hour starting July 1, 2022 and 2023. Merchants with 25 or fewer employees would rise to $15 an hour by July 1, 2023. In 2024, the state's commissioner of Labor and Industry would begin to annually determine and announce the growth in the Consumer Price Index and analyze if a new state minimum wage rate would suffice, or remain at $15 per hour. Workers who get at least $30 a month in tips but whose employers keep those gratuities would also receive $15 an hour by July 1, 2024. In the following year, "an employer may not include a tip credit amount as part of the wage of an employee." Ebony Johnson, 28, of Baltimore, hasn't been employed for 2½ years due to health reasons. "Living in a basement with my family is hard every day," said Johnson, who received a bachelor's degree in chemistry at Coppin State University in Baltimore. "I'm trying to get back in the workforce … and $15 an hour is something worth fighting for." Another piece of legislation pro-
5Progressive Maryland, business owners and supporters at a press conference
March 7 inside the Lowe House Office Building in Annapolis requesting Maryland lawmakers pass legislation that increases the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Dante Bishop, an organizer with Maryland Working Families, at podium, gives opening remarks. /Photo by William J. Ford posed by Delegate Diana Fennel (D-District 47A) of Colmar Manor seeks to raise the minimum wage to $12.50 per hour by July 2019. But not everyone supports the idea of raising wages. Melvin Thompson, senior vice president of government affairs and public policy for the Restaurant Association of Maryland, said the employment growth rate in Montgomery County from his company’s industry has been cut in half that has hurt small business owners. Cailey Locklair Tolle, president of the Maryland Retailers Association, said the state has lost over 12,000 retail
jobs in the past 10 years. "That number is only going to continue to rise as stores shutter their doors and automation sets in," she said to the House’s Economic Matters Committee. "Closely watch and monitor the operational costs and the impact they are having on businesses." Delegate Dereck E. Davis (D-District 25) of Mitchellville, who chairs the economic committee, had legislation withdrawn in his committee that would've prohibited a county, or municipality, to enact a law to regulate wages and strictly and give authority only to the state. WI
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EnventU Initiative Gives Youth Real World Experience By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer Underserved youth in D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) are getting the unique opportunity to produce receptions, concerts and galas. Sophomores, juniors and seniors at Ballou Senior High School in Southeast and Woodrow Wilson High School in Northwest can take part in EnventU, a
5 DCPS students participate in EnventU, a work-based learning program where they plan and produce events like receptions, concerts and galas. /Courtesy of EnventU
work-based initiative led by event planning professional Latoya Lewis. "With EnventU we are an organization that works with underserved teens to teach them the different career paths that are available in the event industry," Lewis said. "Through classroom time, field trips and in-field learning experiences we work to produce real live client events."
Lewis said the one thing that sets her initiative apart from other workbased learning programs is that they are directly connected to the industry. "As it related to the students, DCPS already had the Academy of Hospitality and Tourism (AOHT) program with four of their schools in the District under the National Academy Foundation, so it just made sense to partner with those existing schools that offer the program, be-
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cause they see the importance of the hospitality industry," she said. In fall 2015, EnventU rolled out its pilot program at Ballou, where students produced their first soiree, a holiday reception in partnership with an established event production company in the city. "Because of AOHT they have had some exposure to the industry, but this is just more expansive," Lewis said. "They are able to meet other adults who are caterers, florist, designers, audio and visual and all of the other areas in the industry that we cater to. "They are able to see what it really takes to take that career path," she said. "We have had some students who say they love it and this is what they want to do and others who say this is not what they want, and that's fine too." Lewis contends that in a way EnventU pulls back the veil on an industry that many think is just glitz and glam. "Some of the students say I didn't know it was this hard and that has its purpose too. That means we will be more respected as career professionals." The program consists of 25 to 30 students running through the fall and spring semester with internships in the summer. "We've done small reception
events for the school for 100, 3,500 seated concert and a 300 person reception," Lewis said. "Event size doesn't matter, because they get mentored through the process. We walk them through everything and hold their hand. "I feel most rewarded when I can see them introduced to an industry for the first time," she said. "It's like I am now experiencing the industry through their eyes." Lewis, a Los Angeles native, moved to the District in 2010 seeking a career change. After completing her masters at George Washington University she worked for premiere event planning company Events by Andre Wells. In 2014, she began drawing up a blueprint that would tie her two passions together — working with children and produce events. "These kids really need someone to pour into them," Lewis said. "Working with high school kids that are juniors and seniors is a time where they really need someone to believe in them. "This is a unique opportunity for them," she said. "Events are happening all the time, this is a city huge on events, meetings and conferences. Why not do good together? Why not have your event produced, and have it produced by kids and give them a learning opportunity?" WI
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by William Reed There is ample friction between African-Americans and President Donald Trump. An example of how Trump still gets the short shift from blacks is the executive order he signed on historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Reports made it seem that Trump give little time or thought to the plight of HBCU presidents and only sought a photo op with them. Not true. While black partisans ridiculed the occasion, HBCU leaders met with Trump at the Oval Office.
The meeting was coordinated by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) to give the HBCUs chance to lobby Trump for aid under his "New Deal for Black America" initiative. HBCUs are institutions of higher learning established for the education of black Americans. The years that followed passage of the second Land-Grant Act in 1890 led to the creation of exclusive Vice President Mike Pence told HBCU presidents them how much he and the president "admire the contributions of historically black colleges and universities." "You've transformed lives through education and helped to lead our country to a more perfect union," Pence said, adding that the administration is "committed" to HBCUs. Blacks say that the HBCU presidents were "wrong" to be photographed with Trump, that "no person of color should engage in photos with a president who regularly trucks in racist innuendo, stereotypes and discriminatory policies." Most notably, Howard University President Wayne A. I. Frederick was the target of graffiti attacks on his campus for a recent meeting with Trump. But when will the black populace note that HBCUs haven't fared all that well under recent political practices? An Obama policy that changed the ways
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in which parents access federal loans for their children to attend college had a disparate impact on black families and HBCUs. While the more than 300,000 students currently enrolled at HBCUs are mostly black, HBCUs represent 3 percent of all U.S. colleges by number but received less than 1 percent of the federal money that goes toward academic research in 2014.
HBCU presidents asked Trump to include $25 billion in his budget request to Congress to upgrade schools' infrastructures and renovate their facilities, many of which are historic sites. Whether he'll honor that request remains to be seen. While some see Trump's outreach to HBCU leaders as an attempt to address concerns of African-Americans, others are still skeptical. To that end, Trump
Death with Dignity By Aimee D Griffin, Esq On February 20, 2017 the Death with Dignity Act became law in the District of Columbia. It was the sixth “state” to allow a person to make a decision to end their life with prescriptive medication when they are given a diagnosis of six months or less to live due to an terminal disease. This legislation which is not without controversy has now created an additional option and discussion point for individuals and families to have. Within a society where many people do not have estate plans because there is a distaste to discuss “such things” the requirement for having the conversation is even greater. The law that has been enacted allows an adult who has been deemed mentally competent to make such a decision to receive a prescription for medication to end his or her life after being diagnosed with a terminal disease and given less than six months to live. The enactment of the law requires the patient to make two oral requests separated by at least 15 days to an attending physician. A written request must be signed and dated by the patient, to the attending physician before the patient makes second oral request and at least 48 hours before a covered medication may be prescribed or dispensed. Two witnesses must attest to the best of their knowledge and belief that the patient is capable, acting voluntarily, and not unduly influenced to sign the request. While the District of Columbia has passed the law that empowers a person to make the decision for him or herself regarding taking the actions to end his or her life it is important to consider options and support the friends and families who have been walking this journey with you. As an estate planning attorney I have the opportunity to sit with individuals and ask difficult questions regarding health care guidelines that should be established for the people who will speak for him or her when there is no capacity to speak for him or herself. When someone has an illness that is determined to be incurable and the doctors believe that there will be no more than six months left to live this is a difficult time. Historically people make the determination to stop medical treatment that may seek to find a cure or prolong life as the ultimate decision prior to a person having the power to determine when death could happen with medication. One could choose only to receive medication to alleviate pain and suffering while not hastening death. Yet, this decision can only be made by the patient. This is a decision that must be made with full capacity. Action and decision making is empowering if made with full capacity and information. The decision can create an opportunity to bring families and loved ones closer together. While it is a personal decision only for the patient, it is just a very few people who walk this journey alone. Together we are much stronger when we act in concert with our loved ones. Most of the decisions that we make impact the loved ones that we hold most dear. We are strengthened and empowered by the collective. As in all of health care decisions we should discuss our preferences with the people that we have identified as our proxy agents and support system. Aimee D. Griffin, Esq., The Griffin Firm, PLLC 5335 Wisconsin Ave NW, Suite 440 Washington DC 20015 www.thegriffinfirm-PLLC.com 202-379-4738
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NATIONAL Exonerated: Blacks are More Likely to Be Falsely Convicted By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer On Aug. 8, 1993, 23-yearold Wayne Ballard pulled up to a stop at the intersection of 2nd Street and Massachusetts Avenue in Northwest. Another car pulled up to the driver's side of Ballard's car and a gunman fired several shots into Ballard's car. Ballard was fatally shot in the head. Almost immediately, police suspected that 17-year-old Gary Gathers was involved in the shooting. Ballard had previously told police that he saw Gathers'
brother, Gregory, fatally shoot Carlton Gillis on June 14, 1993, and police believed that Gathers was retaliating. A jury convicted Gathers and Keith Mitchell of first-degree murder, and each was sentenced to 36 years to life in prison. Appeals for a new trial were denied, even though witnesses placed Gathers away from the scene and named others as the admitted shooters. But after a witness who had identified Gathers as the gunman and Mitchell as the driver admitted falsely implicating them
5 Gary Gathers (second from left) and Keith Mitchell (third from right) celebrate their freedom after murder convictions against them were overturned and the charges dismissed. /Courtesy photo
because he was angry about the murders of Gillis and Ballard, the D.C. Court of Appeals reversed the ruling and ordered a new trial in 2014, and the prosecution ultimately dismissed the charges a year later. The case of Gathers and Mitchell — two black men — underscores that black people
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convicted of murder or sexual assault are significantly more likely than their white counterparts to be later found innocent of the crimes, according to a review of nearly 2,000 exonerations nationwide over almost three decades. Innocent blacks also had to wait disproportionately longer for their names to be cleared than innocent whites, found the review, released this month by the National Registry of Exonerations. Blacks wrongfully convicted of murder, for example, spent an average of three more years in prison before being released than whites who were cleared. Further, while African-Americans represent 13 percent of the U.S. population, they comprise a whopping 47 percent of the 1,900 exonerations in the registry. "It's no surprise that in this area, as in almost any other that has to do with criminal justice in the United States, race is the big factor," Samuel R. Gross, a University of Michigan law professor and a senior editor of the registry, told the New York Times. The registry found that only about 15 percent of all murders committed by black people involve white victims, yet 31 percent of blacks eventually cleared of murder convictions were initially convicted of killing white people, they found. Misconduct, such as hiding evidence, tampering with witnesses or perjury, may also have contributed to the racial disparity. The authors found such wrongdoing was present in 76 percent of cases in which black murder defendants were wrong-
fully convicted, but just 63 percent of cases in which white defendants were exonerated. The report's authors found similar patterns for sexual assault, with 59 percent of all exonerations going to black defendants, compared with 34 percent for white defendants. Again, the authors concluded that racial bias may contribute to the disparity. Previous research has found that white Americans are more likely to misidentify black people for one another than white people, a phenomenon they said may play a role in eyewitness misidentification, the Times reported. The latest registry found eyewitness errors in 79 percent of sexual assault cases involving wrongfully convicted black defendants, compared with 51 percent in cases with exonerated white defendants. In a separate report, the registry said it counted at least 166 exonerations last year in the United States, a record. Of those, 54 defendants were wrongfully convicted of homicides, 24 of sexual assaults and 15 of other violent crimes. At least 70 of the exonerations involved official misconduct. The registry data is based on a variety of sources, including nonprofit organizations that fight for the wrongfully convicted, reviews conducted by prosecutors' offices and studies conducted by the registry's researchers. Still, Gross said, there may be many that the group has missed. "There are probably more exonerations that we don't know about than there are that we do know about," he said. WI
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Somalian Pirates Suspected of Seizing Oli Tankers Somalian pirates are being blamed for the seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Somalia with eight Sri Lankans aboard, possibly the first hijacking of a large commercial vessel since 2012. The ship's crew sent a distress signal Monday evening, saying the vessel was being approached by high-speed boats. Abdirisak Mohamed Dirir, chairman of Puntland's anti piracy operation, denied that any of Puntland's troops were involved in the seizure of the ship. He said it was hijacked by "Somali pirates." The merchant ship that was intercepted was reportedly en route to Mogadishu, the Somali capital, from Djibouti, and was diverted toward Alula, a port in the semi autonomous Puntland region in northeastern Somalia, Ali Shire Mohamud Osman. The Ministry of Interior and Security is currently awaiting more detail
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Raphael Bostic has been appointed as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the first black president of one of the Fed's regional banks in its 104-year history. Bostic, who accepted his position Monday, said he recognized the historic importance of his new role. "It's not lost on me that I would be the first or I am the first African-American to lead a Federal Reserve institution," Bostic said. "It's a tremendous privilege. I tell people I'm now a 'Jeopardy' question. So, you know, I do recognize that it is a very big deal." In a statement, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta said it embraces diversity and was impressed with what Bostic's "deep knowledge of income inequality, economic opportunity and consumer banking is- 5Raphael Bostic is the first black CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. /Courtesy of latimes.com sues."
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H E A LT H GOP Tries to Avoid Debate on New Health Care Bill By Tatyana Hopkins WI Contributing Writer House Republicans this month unveiled legislation in line with President Trump's campaign pledge to repeal and replace the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA), more commonly known as Obamacare. In an effort to overhaul ACA, which Republicans have called a disaster due to bailing insurers and rising premiums, the GOP's newly debuted American Care Act repeals central tenants of ACA including its expansion of Medicaid. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer touted the difference in size among the two pieces of legislation
in a March 7 press briefing following the reveal of the GOP's health care replacement. "Look at the size — this is the Democrats, this is us," Spicer said, pointing at printed versions of the ACA and the much smaller Republican health care bill. "You can't get any clearer that this is government, this is not." The GOP legislation is 123 pages long, while the ACA was more than 900 pages. Though it took former President Barack Obama and other ACA backers more than a year to pass the legislation, Republicans are hoping to avoid lengthy debate. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said he hopes to schedule the full House vote for the week of March
20 so it can be sent to the Senate and, eventually, President Trump. The bill has already passed through two key committees. The proposed Republican bill will keep several components of Obamacare, including dependent coverage until age 26, policies that require insurers to cover people regardless of preexisting medical conditions, and a requirement for the 10 essential health benefits insurers to offer coverage for maternity care and preventative services. It will also keep prohibitions on annual and lifetime insurer coverage limits. The Republican legislation will however, repeal vital parts of Obamacare, including its individual mandate which required people to obtain health care to avoid tax penalties, a part of the law meant to keep insurance affordable for the sick and elderly. The GOP plan proposes a "continuous coverage incentive," which would charge people in the individual market a 30 percent penalty for lapses in health insurance coverage. The employer mandate requiring larger companies to affordable insurance to employees and subsidies and federal tax credits for out-of-pocket expenses will also be eliminated. The new bill will change the way premium subsidies are distributed by using age instead of income. Under the new proposed plan, more
5 In an effort to show how efficient the Republican health care legislation is, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer points out a side-by-side comparison of the Affordable Care Act and the much-smaller GOP replacement proposal during a March 7 press briefing.
substantial amounts can be put into health savings accounts and insurers will be able to charge older customers five times as much as younger ones compared to three times under ACA. Under ACA, more than 30 states expanded Medicaid coverage by raising the eligibility cutoff to 138 percent of the poverty level. Federal funding of the expansion will only be supported until 2020 with the new bill. Democrats are accusing Republicans of rushing the bill before the public can voice their opinions on it. Republicans dispute the charge, saying the plan resembles one that
House Republicans worked on last year and championed under Ryan. The bill saw 26 straight hours of markup directly following its reveal. "No one believed the Republicans had a bill … until Monday night," Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer said on the House floor Friday. "No matter how you dress it up, Mr. Speaker, that is not regular order," said Hoyer, who has since launched a website for Americans to voice their thoughts on the GOP replacement bill. "What it is trying to jam through a bill before the American public has an opportunity to tell us what they think about the bill." WI
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HEALTH National Brain Injury Month Spotlights African Americans By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer The Balm in Gilead, Inc., a Virginia-based nonprofit that develops educational and training programs and who strives to become community centers for health education and disease prevention, showed foresight last year in launching the new initiative and website, the National Brain Health Center for African Americans. Officials said the center's mission is
to raise awareness of the issues of cognitive health among African-Americans by working through networks of faith-based institutions and by establishing partnerships with organizations and individuals dedicated to the mission. They said it's important to note that March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month and the Brain Health Center serves as an information hub on Cognitive Heath and the human brain.
"Understanding how our brain functions and what it requires to stay healthy are crucial in the future of the African-American community," Dr. Pernessa Seele, founder and CEO of The Balm in Gilead, Inc, said in a statement posted on the new website. "Attaining health equity is a goal of the Brain Health Center and we want to make sure we are doing what we can to eliminate health disparities among African-Americans," Seele said.
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Traumatic brain injury, or TBI, is a major cause of death and disability in the United States, contributing to about 30 percent of all injury deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Every day, 138 individuals in the United States die from traumatic brain injuries, while those who survive such an injury can face effects ranging from a few days to lifelong, including impaired thinking or memory, movement, sensation such as vision or hearing, or emotional functioning such as personality changes or depression. A TBI is caused by a bump, blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain. Not all blows or jolts to the head result in a TBI, experts said. The severity of a TBI may range from mild, like a brief change in mental status or consciousness, to severe, like an extended period of unconsciousness or memory loss. CDC officials said about 2.5 million individuals visited the emergency department, were hospitalized or died as a result of or of TBI-associated injuries in 2010, the most recent year statistics are available. In October, the Lisa Colagrossi Foundation, a leader in raising awareness and education of brain aneurysms, revealed new survey findings about the African-American population to help guide the focus of brain aneurysm education in the black community. Founder Todd Crawford, who named the foundation for his late wife, an ABC News television journalist who died from a brain aneurysm rupture while on assignment, said millions of lives can be saved if Americans are equipped with the critical information necessary to self-diagnose themselves and are informed about what to do. Currently, 93 percent of Americans admit their knowledge about brain aneurysms ranges from limited to nonexistent. In addition to the startling lack of awareness regarding the higher risk levels, 90 percent of Americans ages 18 and older can't fully identify what a brain aneurysm is and 30 percent don't believe anything can be done about it. "If someone had been doing the work TLCF is now, advancing the signs and symptoms, we could have recognized Lisa's sudden onset of the worst headache of her life as one of the classic warning signs of a brain aneurysm and chances are that she would be working right alongside of us advocating for increased awareness," Crawford told the Los Angeles Senti-
nel. "Our mission and approach are very different and have already been validated as a number of people have credited TCLF with saving their lives in just our first year. We have barely scratched the surface and won't stop until our mission is complete." The Sentinel reported that the findings were problematic for African-Americans who medical experts said are not only at a higher risk, but whose peak incidence of ruptures occurs a decade earlier than other populations. Dr. Howard Riina, a leading neurosurgeon at NYU Langone and the head of the medical board for TLCF, said there are prevention strategies and treatments in place to stop a brain aneurysm from rupturing. "The real problem is that brain aneurysms occur suddenly and Americans are not informed to recognize all the signs," Riina said. "Consequently, they aren't getting to the emergency room early enough and lives that might have been saved are lost or diminished by lifelong disabilities." WI
Signs and Symptoms of Brain Injury COGNITIVE: amnesia, inability to speak or understand, mental confusion, difficulty concentrating, difficulty thinking and understanding, inability to create new memories, or inability to recognize common things BEHAVIORAL: abnormal laughing and crying, aggression, impulsivity, irritability, lack of restraint, or persistent repetition of words or actions WHOLE BODY: balance disorder, blackout, dizziness, fainting, or fatigue MOOD: anger, anxiety, apathy, or loneliness EYES: dilated pupil, raccoon eyes, or unequal pupils GASTROINTESTINAL: nausea or vomiting SENSORY: sensitivity to light or sensitivity to sound SPEECH: slurred speech or impaired voice ALSO COMMON: persistent headache, a temporary moment of clarity, bleeding, blurred vision, bone fracture, bruising, depression, loss of smell, nerve injury, post-traumatic seizure, ringing in the ears, or stiff muscles. Source: CDC For more information, visit www. cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/
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Allergies Loom with Early Bloom By Jade James-Gist WI Contributor Allergies and climate change are at our doorstep and after one of the mildest winters on record in the DMV, trees and flowers will probably bloom early this year, causing allergies and worries to flare. To put this in perspective, man-made climate change could cause a lengthier and more intense allergy season. The famous cherry blossoms in the District, if they survive the recent cold spell, will soon bloom. And while beautiful to see, they release pollen into the air – a terror to some who suffer with health challenges: sneezing, tearing up and generally feeling miserable. Pollen particles are the gametes, or the “eggs and sperm,” of flowers and trees. In order to prevent inbreeding, flowering plants use the wind as a tool to transport their gam-
etes far and wide. As a result, pollen gametes blow into our throats, eyes and sinuses. This sparks our body’s inflammatory response to attack the invading pollen gametes. Like the movie, “The Day After Tomorrow,” the symptoms of climate change are happening sooner than expected. So, whether you’re motivated to preserve the beaches or to keep the pollen at bay, check out these suggestions inspired by the New Life Wellness Center and the Environmental Protection Agency to battle your allergies and climate change. Sometimes over-the-counter antihistamine medications aren’t enough. Check out recommended lifestyle changes to tame your seasonal allergy symptoms, such as sinus congestion, headache, itchy eyes, itchy throat and ear clogging. The foods we eat can hurt –
or help us. • Consume more anti-inflammatory foods like blueberries, oatmeal, green leafy vegetables, black beans, red peppers, honey, green tea and olive oil. • Cut down on inflammatory foods like fried foods, sugar, artificial sweeteners and dairy. • Anti-inflammatory vitamins include vitamin C, vitamin B6 and folate (B9). • Start taking probiotics. 70 percent of our immune system is in the gut. Build up your immunity with by eating more fermented foods or taking a probiotic or prebiotic capsule. Find remedies at home to ease symptoms of allergy season. • Reduce face swelling. Make honey-turmeric tea. Turmeric is a natural anti-inflammatory used in East Indian medicine for centuries. Take down some of your eye
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or face swelling with turmeric recipes. • Open up your clogged ears and sinuses. Hot, spicy food can do the trick. Try adding cayenne or black pepper to your tea or eating some chili
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STANDING OVATION WINNERS DCPS celebrated the District's top teachers, leaders, and school communities Monday, March 13 at the seventh annual "Standing Ovation" awards at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Northwest. City officials, corporate sponsors and business leaders joined nearly 2,000 educators and their families and friends to honor excellence in education. The eight
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Antwan Wilson, speaks during the Standing Ovation for DC Public Schools Excellence Awards at the Kennedy Center in Northwest. / Photo by Lateef Mangum "Excellence Award" winners and 29 "Rubenstein Award" winners are individuals and school communities from across DCPS, who were honored with $230,000 worth of cash prizes, courtesy of Alice and David M. Rubenstein. Nominations for Standing Ovation awards — sponsored in conjunction with the D.C. Public Education Fund — are received throughout the school year from parents, teachers and community members. THE HONOREES INCLUDED: PRINCIPAL OF THE YEAR: Anita Berger, Principal, Banneker High School TEACHER OF THE YEAR: Jan Schuettpelz, Science Teacher, Deal Middle School
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SCHOOL STAFF MEMBER OF THE YEAR: Burt Lancaster, Custodial Foreman, Beers Elementary School EXCELLENCE IN CLASSROOM INNOVATION: David Gesualdi, Physical Education & Health Teacher, Walker-Jones Education Campus (Gesualdi now teaches at MacFarland Middle School and Roosevelt High School) EXCELLENCE IN SERVICE: Ann Brogioli, Social Worker, Hart Middle School (Brogioli now works at Watkins Elementary School) EXCELLENCE BY AN ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP TEAM: Bancroft Elementary School EXCELLENCE IN FAMILY ENGAGEMENT: Stanton Elementary School EXCELLENCE IN SCHOOL INNOVATION: Truesdell Education Campus RECIPIENTS OF THE 2016 RUBENSTEIN AWARDS FOR HIGHLY EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP: Eric Bethel, Principal, Turner Elementary School Maurice Kennard, Principal, Brightwood Education Campus Kathryn Larkin, Principal, H.D. Cooke Elementary School Aimeé Cepeda, Principal, River Terrace Education Campus Bruce W. Jackson, Assistant Principal, Cardozo Education Campus Tiffany Johnson, Assistant
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No Love No Charity: Success of a 19th Child By Tatyana Hopkins WI Staff Writer Louise Hunter found herself almost homeless when on a cold February night in 1966, a sheriff evicted her family of 16 from their two-bedroom house due to health code violations. The next day, a local pastor offered the family an 18-bedroom home for one dollar motivating the mother to pledge her life to helping others. That promise would become the Love and Charity shelter for the homeless. Several years later she would have another child, Paul Hunter, born in 1970. Hunter, now 46, hopes to help people overcome their problems. His book, “No Love, No Charity: The Success of the 19th Child,” chronicles his struggles with poverty and dysfunction as the 19th of 21 children of his detached mother who became absorbed in her charity, leaving little room for her offspring sorely in need of love. “I was at-risk to go to prison, atrisk to be a drug dealer, at risk to be a drop-out,” Hunter said. “Today I just want to be a positive example for at-risk youth.” He said with the help of his siblings and his own self-determination, he’s achieved significantly greater success than the odds predicted. He hopes to travel as a motivational speaker to spread his message to young people who face adversity. The message, he says, is: “It is possible to live your dreams.” Hunter’s father died when he was very young, leaving the widowed
mother to fend for herself and raise his children alone. Though his mother ran a homeless shelter in their hometown of Racine, Wisconsin, Hunter said he and his siblings lived in a home that often experienced a lack of food, clothing and even furniture. “We did not have basic essentials,” Hunter said, recalling eating his mother’s hearty, yet sparse meals on the floor. Hunter said his neighbors often left food and toys for him and his siblings. “My mom was focused on her homeless shelter, so my siblings had to step up and become surrogate parents for the young ones,” Hunter said. He said his older siblings were often left to feed, bathe and watch the younger siblings and as a result many had to forego their education. Hunter is the only one of his siblings to graduate from college. In 2005, he earned an associate’s degree in Supervisory Management from Gateway Technical College and a bachelor’s degree in 2012 from Upper Iowa University in Business Administration. Now the father of four children, two daughters, 23 and 20 and two sons, 18 and 11, Hunter says he’s raising his children in a different way. “My four children call me Dad,” Hunter said, citing this among the key differences between his relationship with his children versus his relationship with his own mother. “We were not allowed to call my mother Mom,” he said. He said he and siblings were re-
quired to address his mother with a less affectionate and familiar title than most children, one he says will be revealed to readers in his book. “I did the things with my children that my mother refused to do with me,” Hunter said. These activities included eating dinner with his children, attending parent-teacher conferences, playing in outdoor activities and showing affection with actions like hugs. “My mother wasn’t the best mom, but she did what she needed to do,” Hunter said of his now 83-year-old mother. “She saw a lot in the South, and it had an effect on her mind. There are things that she cannot talk about and said she wants to take to her grave.” Hunter said the book is set to be adapted into a screenplay and is in the final stages of being translated into a script. “I’m looking forward to moving on with that,” he said. WI
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EDITORIAL Globetrotters Show That Ceilings Should Not Exist As the always entertaining Harlem Globetrotters swoop down into the DMC and showcase their prowess on the basketball court this weekend at the District’s Verizon Center and at EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, we can’t help but salute the self-proclaimed “Ambassadors of Goodwill” for refusing to allow the “gender ceiling” to deny talented women from joining their ranks. District residents may have recently spotted the team dribbling and spinning their colorful basketballs across the Key Bridge from Rosslyn to Georgetown, making community appearances and hosting school assemblies much to the delight of lucky boys and girls eager to show off their own skills. The current team roster includes four women: Ace, Hoops, Swish and TNT. Each of these women have already made their mark as high school, college and professional standouts. Even more, they have continued to be part of the sport they love while encouraging boys and girls to go after their dreams. America may not be ready for a female president yet, but it’s to our good fortune that the Globetrotters have long seen the light. Some may recall the former University of Kansas All-American, Olympic Gold Medalist and WNBA star, Lynette Woodard, who made history by becoming the first female member of the Harlem Globetrotters – later accepting an offer to play in the then-newly formed American women’s professional basketball league. Other women have since followed in her footsteps with pride and grace. Hats off to the Globetrotters family and to those women players past and present who have torn down the ceiling with reckless abandon and continue to bounce their way into our hearts. WI
A ‘Truly’ Inclusive Strategy for DC is Needed D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is on an economic mission to assure that the District continues to prosper and that every Washingtonian is included in that prosperity. She, along with Brian Kenner, deputy mayor for Planning and Economic Development, has put her stamp and seal on a commitment outlined in the recently-released DC Economic Strategies to make Washington, D.C. “an international leader for inclusive economic growth and resilience.” Those who have already benefited from D.C.’s growth over the past 20 years, that is evident in every quadrant of the city, have greater faith that D.C. will continue on its prosperous and inclusive path. They have enjoyed the better employment opportunities and homeownership in gentrified neighborhoods with the new restaurants and boutique businesses those neighborhoods have attracted. Even the D.C. public schools are becoming more attractive to residents who desire the ability to send their children to a quality neighborhood school. For them, D.C. is on the move and the mayor’s plan will only make the District an even better place to live and work D.C.’s prosperity is clear, as well, among those who feel they have been left out or excluded. Many residents are still waiting on the promise of affordable and quality housing, not uninhabitable units run by slum landlords that continue to be paid by the city despite the deplorable housing they provide. They are waiting for job opportunities with a living wage that won’t elude them simply because they have only a high school diploma or a GED. They want an opportunity to thrive in D.C. and raise their families despite their past involvement with the criminal justice system. And they desire great schools that are equitably resourced so that all students’ needs are met. The biggest challenge Mayor Bowser will face is gaining inclusive optimism among all D.C. residents. Clearly she will have more convincing to do among some residents than others as she further defines her strategies and as she works to make them a reality for all. WI WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM
TO THE EDITOR Give Teachers All They Deserve
WI's Heritage Tour Should Expand
I am in complete agreement with the union representing teachers in Washington, D.C. ["D.C. Teachers Protest, Demand More Money," March 9, 2017]. They need to be paid more money for the jobs they do. You see I said "jobs," not "job," because our teachers do not just teach anymore like they were trained to do — they are babysitters, nurses, parents, counselors and many other things to their students. Let's stop kidding ourselves about our public schools and why they don't work. If we want our students to learn, we need to provide them with the tools to do just that, and putting a highly paid professional in the classroom is the most important element. Everybody says they want better schools for our young people, but nobody wants to step up and make the necessary changes to make that happen. Our teachers are the most underpaid professionals in this country, and everybody knows it. So yes, give our teachers the raise they deserve.
Congratulations on your Washington Informer Charities Heritage Tour to the new National Museum of African American History and Culture. From reading your article, "Village' Unites for Memorable WI Heritage Tour," in the March 2, 2017, edition, it seems like everyone really enjoyed the tour. I really like to see young people participate in historical events and it seems you always have a good contingent of young people on your trips. I am a native of West Virginia, and was wondering, have you ever thought of taking a trip to my home state for a history tour? If it is not too far to travel, I think Harper's Ferry would be a wonderful place for a history tour. West Virginia has a lot to offer when it comes to history, especially African-American history.
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Congress, Don't Hurt Children "I believe that the odds were stacked against me from the day I was born. She was never really a mother to me. She was never around," says Bethany, a D.C. student born to a mother struggling with addiction. Bethany became involved in the child welfare system at age 4: "I remember they took me away, and then I got to shower for the first time in months, because at the time we were living in an abandoned apart-
ment. It felt wonderful! I was finally able to get clean." After that Bethany went through a series of placements in foster homes, hospitals and residential treatment centers which relied on Medicaid to provide the critical health and mental health services she needed. With the right supports, including treatment for depression, she started to thrive in school. Today Bethany is a high school senior on track to become valedictorian and looking forward to being the first in her family to go to college. But without the health and mental health
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care she needed, how would Bethany’s story have ended? The Children’s Defense Fund has made giving every child a healthy start a core part of our mission for all of our 44 years. We are extremely concerned that the American Health Care Act under consideration by Congress right now would undo more than 50 years of progress made expanding comprehensive child-appropriate health coverage to tens of millions of children. Today, thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicaid and the Children’s Health insurance Program (CHIP), 95 percent of children
in America have health coverage — a historic high. But now the American Health Care Act is snatching away what is a basic human right and threatens all this at a time when our children need us to continue to move forward, not backwards. As the bill moves closer to a vote by the full House of Representatives, we are urging Congress to vote "no." The American Health Care Act: • Changes Medicaid’s financing structure to pay for massive tax cuts for wealthy individuals and corporations. This would end Medicaid’s guarantee of affordable, comprehen-
sive health coverage for poor and low-income children and children with disabilities and other special health care needs. The new Medicaid per capita cap would limit access to health coverage for children but not reduce their health needs or costs of care. Over time, it would shift costs from the federal government to states, counties, local communities, providers and beneficiaries. State and local governments would have to cut eligibility, services or both to continue to provide comparable care to the 37
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By Rep. Dwight Evans
America's Middle Neighborhoods on Edge of Growth and Decline
Ever heard the term middle neighborhoods? If you haven't, you have likely visited, lived in or driven through one more recently than you think. Middle neighborhoods are communities on the edge of growth and decline. When we discuss middle neighborhoods we are describing neighborhoods that have four main characteristics: neighborhoods where homeowners can purchase real estate for an affordable rate, neighborhoods
where crime rates are low, neighborhoods where school performance is sufficient, and neighborhoods where employment rates are adequate. Essentially, homebuyers in middle neighborhoods are willing to test the odds with the hopes that their neighborhood will improve rather than decline. Middle neighborhoods are areas that are doing just well enough. We are not focusing as much resources or attention on these neighborhoods because we have yet to see an increased need to invest in these areas. However, if we aren't careful these
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neighborhoods will teeter towards decline overnight. In Philadelphia, over 40 percent of the population lives in middle neighborhoods. When talking about middle neighborhoods in Philadelphia's 2nd Congressional District, we are referring to Mt. Airy, Germantown, West Oak Lane, Roxborough and Wynnefield. I know firsthand what is at stake for America's middle neighborhoods. I grew up in North Philly and today I live in West Oak Lane, just blocks away from Germantown High School, my alma mater.
Two main trends are contributing to decline in our middle neighborhoods. One, housing trends show that jobs are moving away from middle neighborhoods and second, many suburbs compete with new homebuyers for residents. This brings us to the question: what are some ways we can counter these trends to help America's middle neighborhoods? As a former chairman of the Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee, I fought hard to expand access to healthy, fresh foods for everyone in our city and across our
state; and supported efforts to provide adequate funding for our public schools. The first bill I introduced in the 115th Congress, the Rehabilitation of Historic Schools Act of 2017, H.R. 922, would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow public school buildings to qualify for the rehabilitation credit which in turn would give our public schools the necessary resources and funds to make improvements to school buildings across the country.
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An Attack on Education The effort to repeal and replace health care is generating headlines, and the attempt to investigate our 45th President's Russian connections is of high importance. The specious claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, too, has generated interest, largely because it is unprecedented for one president to accuse another of a felony, and because 45 has absolutely no proof that President Obama has done any such thing. While President Obama, with
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a multimillion-dollar book deal tucked into his pocket, is living his life like its golden, 45 has indulged in several public tantrums, with episodic moments of calm. Too many of us have been riveted to the drama, while there is a more quiet revolution happening in Congress, with the approval of the White House. There has been an attack on education, with legislation being introduced as early as Jan. 23, 2017. That legislation, HR 610, is titled the Choices in Education Act. It would repeal the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965, and limits the authority of the Department of Education so that it should only award block grants to states. It also sets up a voucher system. If states do not comply with the rules of this legislation, they will be ineligible for block grants. The legislation would also repeal nutritional standards for the national school breakfast and lunch programs, which were set by the No Hungry Kids Act of 2012. Schools would no longer be required, as first lady Michelle Obama advocated, to increase the availability of fruits, vegetables
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and other healthy foods at lunch. Are we going back to the days when Ronald Reagan declared that ketchup should be considered a vegetable? Seems like it! The 1965 legislation was passed as civil rights legislation, providing more opportunities to a broader range of children, including disabled children (with requirements to make provisions for disabled children). It requires reporting around issues like the achievement gap, bullying, and underperforming schools. All of these provisions would be eliminated if HR 610 were passed. Ac-
tually, the entire public education sector could be eliminated if HR 610 is passed. Not to be bested by legislation that would limit the reach of the Department of Education, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has introduced a sentence-long piece of legislation. HR 899 reads, in total: "The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018." Of course, Massie hasn't put the thought into considering how things like Pell Grants would
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Let's Hear It for the Ladies
"Do you ask what we can do? Unite and build a store of your own. Do you ask where is the money? We have spent more than enough for nonsense." — Maria Stewart "When it comes to success the choice is simple. You can either stand up and be counted or lie down and be counted out!" — Maggie Lena Walker
"Let the Afro-American depend on no party, but on himself, for his salvation. Let him continue toward education, and above all, put money in his purse." — Ida B. Wells Over the years, many black women have stood, spoken out and fought against mistreatment; they have also advocated for black people to use our economic resources to empower ourselves and propel us on to self-sufficiency. Last week, I selected three strong black men; this week, it's three strong black women.
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Maria Stewart was an educator, abolitionist and author, but she was also an advocate for black self-sufficiency. A contemporary and personal friend of David Walker (author of "David Walker's Appeal"), Stewart spoke passionately to our people in attempts to guide us from dependency to independency. "Her dedication to fighting black oppression through teaching, writing, and speaking was relentless," PBS.org wrote. It took strength to shoulder and promote the issues Maria
fielded in the mid-1860s. She is one of many in the pantheon of black women who were not timid when it came to espousing her beliefs in support of black people. Maggie Lena Walker was the first female to charter and successfully preside over a bank, the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, in Richmond, Virginia. Walker founded the St. Luke Herald newsletter, and she opened a department store for black women in 1905. She ran for Superintendent of Public Instruction on the Republican ballot but was de-
feated, and was instrumental in keeping her bank open through the great depression by merging it with two other banks in 1929. Cooperative economics? Strategic alliance? Working collectively for the good of the whole? Sound familiar? Walker's spirited and determined leadership takes a backseat to no one and should be held up as an example of what we must do, even today, to help ourselves. Ida B. Wells endured a hor-
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By Dr. Richard Allen Williams
An Open Letter to Congress on the American Health Care Act
From the president of the National Medical Association (NMA), to the Honorable Members of the United States Congress: You now have before you a bill, the American Health Care Act, for your consideration which is intended to replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) which was signed into law on March 23, 2010. Called Obamacare,
the current legislation has led to the provision of health care insurance coverage for millions of previously uninsured American citizens, resulting in documented improvement of health status and savings of lives, especially in poor and minority communities. Obamacare is now under threat of repeal by your august body, which will result in loss of coverage and protection by an estimated 20 to 30 million Americans, with corresponding increases in illness and death. The bill that you now have before you would not prevent this
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catastrophe from happening but would actually be the cause of it, because large numbers of the most vulnerable people in our society will not be able to afford coverage under the AHCA plan, which favors the wealthy and penalizes the poor and under-represented minorities whose interests are served by the National Medical Association. Specifically, the AHCA has fatal flaws and deficiencies that make it untenable and unacceptable as a measure to replace Obamacare. For example, the tax-credit structure of the bill
gives a tax break to the rich while removing the financial support that allows the insurance marketplaces to operate successfully; without such support, middle-class individuals who do not receive health insurance coverage from their employers will have nowhere to turn to shop for affordable plans. Because of the scarcity of high-quality plans, market forces will drive up the cost of health insurance to unreachable heights for most citizens, resulting in a drastic increase in the numbers of uninsured individuals. An-
other liability in the AHCA plan is the scrapping of most subsidies which will also put the purchase of health insurance out of the reach of most of the public. Still another flaw is the planned pullout from Medicaid expansion by 2020 which will leave millions more poor people adrift in a dangerous undertow of lack of insurance coverage. A freeze on Federal payments to the states would accompany the withdrawal from Medicaid expansion. This is an absolute
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By Askia Muhammad
Trump 'Revolutionaries' Make Unreasonable Demands Every four years when a new presidential administration comes to town, they bring something different. Jimmy Carter and his Georgia crew put hominy grits on the menus of trendy Washington restaurants, and so they remain today. Now that he's settled in to rule…or rather to govern… President Donald J. Trump and his supporters and staff — like Sean Spicer, Kellyanne Conway, Jeff Sessions and Michael
Flynn — have made lying and trading in "alternative facts" the new normal. They are just like their boss — liars and bullies, and they feed The Donald's massive narcism and vanity with enormous and seemingly endless prevarications and departures from the truth. Black people have lived among these people for 470odd years, and it seems we don't know them as well as we thought we did, and they certainly don't know much about us. I for one, never dreamed that the support
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for Trump among "normal" white people who did not drink bootleg whisky out of a jug and marry their cousins was nearly as deep as it is. Trump is the entire White World's Guy. Racist, xenophobic, right-wing European candidates are now being touted as the "Dutch Trump" or the "French Trump," because of their openly expressed hostility to Muslim refugees. In Arizona, Trump-istas — heavily armed militiamen and white nationalists — recently held a "March for Trump." It
displayed vintage hatred which has been released by the popularity among white folks of the Trump regime, even with all of its ugly warts. "If you don't like it here, go to Syria, go to someplace else," one attendee said. This, after the Americans and the French and the Brits went into that country and fomented an uprising that has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of refugees fleeing the carnage. You broke it, you own it, White Americans. Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen —
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Americans invaded and broke those countries. One so-called "oath keeper" at the Arizona rally said: "I just want to let them know that I can't wait for the liberal genocide to begin. That's the way to make America great again. Liberals are destroying the country." Sorry, Mr. Oath Keeper, we are not going through another genocide in this country. Meanwhile, at North Cobb High School in Georgia, a
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LIFESTYLE CHORUS Page 1 “The Choir rotates regions each year for their tour; we’re glad that they’re making their way throughout the Northeast Region,” said Justin Germany, 31, class of 2009 and president of the Washington Tuskegee Alumni Club. “We have clubs all over the U.S. and many like ours host fundraising events all year long,” he said. “We’re already preparing for our ‘Alabama Big Three’ gala scheduled for May 20. As for today’s concert, we have so many alums in attendance because we all believe that the kinds of music the Choir performs both exudes joy and uplifts our spirits.” “We all cherish the friendships and memories formed at our beloved ‘Mother Tuskegee’ and want to support our alma mater in every way we can,” Germany added. As for one successful veterinarian, now 75, he said giving back to Tuskegee and its initiatives like the Golden
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Voices remains one of his greatest joys. “I attended Tuskegee in the 60s after the state of Georgia, unwilling to admit Blacks back then, gave me the money so I be quiet and go somewhere else. That ‘somewhere else’ would be a place that nurtured its students and invited us to become part of an amazing history,” said Dr. William Watson, the director for Tuskegee University’s Northeast Region. “I should really send Georgia a thank-you note each year,” he said with a chuckle. “The first time I heard the choir was while I was a student – part of a class of 12 all determined to become veterinarians,” he said. “Many of the songs performed today were arranged by the legendary director and educator William L. Dawson who took over the choir in the 1930s. But the Choir has always excelled – no matter who directed them. I’m glad my wife and I could come out and enjoy it.” Four friends all proudly wearing
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Tuskegee paraphernalia – Sandra Richardson, a 40-year graduate in 2018, Traci Blyden (’97), Terri Showers (’78) and Carolyn Quick-Tillery (’79) – described the afternoon concert, almost in unison, as “phenomenal.” But one of the women shared a more personal reason why she believes HBCUs have always been “lifesavers” for an untold number of Black youth. “I partied most of my freshman year and after our grades were posted I was told that I needed to ‘take a time out,’” said Quick-Tillery, a Crystal City resident who has since become a successful attorney and authored a cook book showcasing favorite Tuskegee recipes along with highlights of the school’s history. “I knew I had made a mistake,” she said. “I knew I could do much better. So, I looked up the president’s phone number and called him. He (Dr. Foster) took a chance on a failing student. I got a second chance and he and the rest of the administration made sure I would succeed.” Barr, now in his 16th year directing choral activities at Tuskegee, said it’s important to do an even better job at “telling our story to the rest of the world.” “Sixteen years? Time flies,” he said. “It’s still a great opportunity working with so many talented young people and taking them to perform at places where some have never been before. Even more, I continue to see how be-
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5 Tuskegee University's Golden Voices Choir. /Photo by Mark Mahonney
ing a member of this historical choir has had a positive impact on their lives and so others.” One freshman member of the choir agreed. “This is my first time ever being part of a choir – back home in Birmingham I’d been part of my
church’s praise and worship team – this is different,” said Cornelius Perry, an 18-year-old finance major. “We practice every day and I like that. I’m going with the flow and seeing where this takes me. But I can say with certainty that it’s become more than just a hobby.” WI
Booker T. Washington: From Slavery to Presidential Advisor Founder of Tuskegee University advocate of ‘industry and intelligence’ African-American leader Booker T. Washington (April 5, 1856, Franklin County, Virginia), the son of an unknown white man and the last generation of Black leaders born into slavery, founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881 as a means of training Blacks in agriculture and industry and to promote the economic progress of his race. Before his death (Nov. 14, 1915) he would establish himself as an educator, author, orator and advisor to presidents of the U.S. Washington, then 16, entered Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University) and attended college at Wayland Seminary (now Virginia Union University). He attained national prominence for his Atlanta Address of 1895, subsequently building a nationwide network of supporters in many Black communities with African-American ministers, educators and businessmen composing his core supporters. He called for Black progress through education and entrepreneurship, rather than trying to directly challenge Jim Crow segregation and the disenfranchisement of Black voters in the South. Secretly, however, he supported court challenges to segregation and restric-
5 Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1881 to train African Americans in agriculture and industry and promote the economic progress of his race. / Courtesy photo
tions on voter registration, passing on funds to the NAACP for this purpose In addition to his contributions in education, Washington wrote 14 books including his autobiography, “Up from Slavery,” published in 1901, which continues to attract a wide readership. During a difficult period of transition for Blacks in America, he significantly contributed to improving the tenuous relationship between the races while assisting the next generation of Blacks to develop skills that would be used to create and support the modern day Civil Rights Movement. WI
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Dred Scott's Descendants Meet Justice Taney's Heirs By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer Pete Taney knew this day would come. "I've been looking over my shoulders all of my life, so this is no surprise," said Taney, lead vocalist, banjo, fiddle and harmonica player for The Juggernaut String Band, a popular Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, ensemble. Taney is talking about a published report out of the nation's capital that detailed recent meetings between his family members — descendants of one-time slave owners — and Dred Scott, a slave who in 1857 unsuccessfully filed a suit arguing that he and his family should be given their freedom because they had lived in Illinois and other places where slavery was considered illegal. Charlie Taney, Pete's brother, repeated some of the words his great-great-grand-uncle wrote in the U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision 160 years ago while standing outside the Maryland State House this week. "Black people cannot be U.S. citizens and have no rights except the ones that white people give them. Whites are superior to blacks. Slavery is legal." "You can't hide from the words that [Roger Brooke] Taney wrote," Charlie Taney told the reporters as he stood a few feet from a statue of his ancestor, who lived in Maryland and was chief justice of the nation's highest court from 1836 until his death in 1864. "You can't run, you can't hide, you can't look away," Charlie Taney said. "You have to face them." For Pete Taney, his brother's words resonated — and it brought back so many memories. "It wasn't something that we didn't talk about," Pete Taney said on Tuesday. "It was discussed at family dinners all of the time, our history. I'm just so proud of my brother and my niece to be able to stand up [publicly] and do this and take responsibility. I completely agree with them," he said. In Maryland, Charlie Taney had turned to Lynne M. Jackson, the great-great-granddaughter of Scott, and apologized — on behalf of his family, to the Scott family and to all African-Amer-
icans, for the "terrible injustice of the Dred Scott decision." Jackson accepted the apology from her family and "all African-Americans who have the love of God in their heart so that healing can begin." Taney asked for a hug, and the two embraced. Pete Taney said he had been there when the groundwork was first set for such a meeting. There was a workshop for a one-act play and a taping for a National Public Radio appearance. "I got to meet Dred Scott's descendants and it was very emotional, but very wonderful," he said. Their appearance this week in Annapolis was part of an ongoing reconciliation process, and a push by the descendants of both families to add a statue of Scott near the statue of the late Justice Taney, which activists have sought to remove for years. While Charlie said the meeting and the statue presents opportunities to learn and a chance to come together and chance to heal a nation — and not to bury the past, Pete said he wholly supports a statue of Scott. "I believe adding a statue of Dred Scott would create the kind of dialogue that needs to be discussed openly in this country," Pete Taney said. "Much of the stain on my family's history needs to be discussed." Jackson, a former law firm manager from Missouri and the founder of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, told reporters at the gathering that her family also believes that having the statue of the pro-slavery chief justice, along with one of Scott and historical information about the court decision, would be a "learning experience and an educational opportunity." "Add to it, don't take from it," Jackson said. Reportedly, a proposal in the Maryland legislature to remove the Taney statue died in committee last year, however. There is no similar bill this year, and some of the activists who in the past have called for the statue's removal now appear to agree with the Taney and Scott descendants that placing the statue in a more complete historical context would be preferable. Charlie Taney, an advertising executive who lives in Connecticut, called his uncle a "complicated man," but also readily acknowledged that he was a "stone racist." It was Charles Taney's daughter,
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Kate Billingsley, who wrote "A Man of His Time," a one-act fictional play about a Taney descendant meeting a Scott descendant. The play, produced in New York last year, brought real descendants of each family together for the first time. "A Taney bringing an apology to a Scott is like 'bringing a BandAid to an amputation,'" Charlie Taney quoted his daughter as saying Monday, underscoring what the family says is need for additional dialogue and continued healing. "An apology is not enough," he said. "But it is necessar His brother agreed. "We've got to do outreach. This country and its leaders are not doing it but we can," he said. "I'm so proud of my brother and my niece. Our family needs to keep having these important discussions." WI
5 Lynne M. Jackson, a descendant of Dred Scott, meets with Charlie Taney, a descendant of former U.S. Supreme Court Judge Roger Brooke Taney. /Courtesy of Frederick News-Post
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Seven Black Women Turn Friendship Into a Book
Mary Kay Brought the Women Together 30 Years Ago By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer A chance meeting at a Mark Kay skin-care class forged a decades-long friendship between seven Black women entrepreneurs that led them to their first book together, "The Force of Friendship." Gloria Mayfield Banks, Caterina Harris Earl, Crisette Ellis, Sabrina Goodwin Monday, Andrea Johnson, Natalie PrivetteJones and Nora Shariff-Borden collaboratively authored an inspirational book that testifies to the essentialism of friendship. "The Force of Friendship is a loving and deliberate family with continuous rewards and simplicity," Banks said.
"The consistent encouragement between this group of women extends wide and deep, meaning that the friendship is genuine, easy and always joyous." The friends say that the Force of Friendship: 100 Powerful Inspirations is a 100-page collection of quick and easily digestible daily affirmations written by all seven women that covers such topics as faith, mindset, leadership, belief, love, dream, fear and, of course, friendship. "I came in for something small and it turned out to be really big," Banks said. "A friend invited me to this Mary Kay class and I didn't want to go, but I went anyway and I fell in love with the product and the process. "Along the way the women in
the Force of Friendship became apart of my Mary Kay world and we bonded," she said. "We all we went to the highest position, which is a national sales director. We started out in our 20s and 30s and now our kids are graduating high school and some of us are grandparents." Banks said that the circle of friends has traveled and worked the world together. "We're not those 'Real Housewives' kind of girlfriends," she said. "We all live in different cities and have been through marriages, divorces, good and bad times and we have sustained our friendship." Banks said the book project spawned from Shariff-Borden, who said God told her that the
5 Authors of "The Force of Friendship" /Courtesy of The Force of Friendship
seven of them should write a book together. Initially Shariff-Borden resisted, but eventually got everyone on board. "She said, 'Oh no, I'm not writing a book with all those people,'" Banks said. "But the beauty of the process of doing a project like this is that it brought us even closer together, and it gave us a tremendous amount of respect, because we knew we admired each other but to put it in writing is great." The process of writing the book took roughly a year, with all of the women contributing
equally. Banks, a Detroit native, Baltimore resident, Howard and Harvard alum, believes the value of friendship is to strengthen each other when times are great and when times are not so great. "Your girlfriends are some of the best people to celebrate you," Banks said. "They are some of the best people to see the good in you and the good in your life even when you're not seeing it at that moment." The book can be purchased at www.theforceoffriendship.com. WI
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"As AfricanAmerican women, we are involved in so much in our lives. We are family leaders, entrepreneurs, business women, pastors, strategist, organizers and activists." REV. LEAH D. DAUGHTRY /
munities. "And remember: If you are not at the table, then you're probably on the menu," Daughtry said. The panel discussions, led by current and former elected officials, focused largely on s leadership assessment, public relations, issue advocacy, coalition building, international relations and collective fundraising. Founded in 1985, NOBEL aims to provide a network for black
5 The NOBEL organization holds a leadership summit conference in Tampa, Florida. /Courtesy of NOBEL
women in leadership. The organization serves as a medium for dialogue between elected officials and stakeholders and as a training ground for black women seeking elected office. WI
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5 Rushern Baker, Prince`s George Country, Welcome awardee of "Working 4 The Community" and and supporters of the Prince`s George African American Museum, and the important of the museum be supported on Feb. 23 in North Brentwood Maryland. /Photo by Roy Lewis
Greater DC Chapter of the National Action Network Sponsors a community meeting--
The Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center continues to present a fascinating year-long series of exhibitions and programs that examine African-American self-sustained enclaves throughout the U.S. The “Chocolate Cities Exhibition Series” features communities in the District and the County including North Brentwood, the County’s first Black incorporated township. Special family-friendly programs continue through June 1. Take your children, grandchildren and the next-door neighbor for a day of learning and fun. The Center is located at 4519 Rhode Island Avenue, North Brentwood, MD.
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Other guest speakers: Sister Sudan Muhammad and Dr. Nesa Chappelle. Bethlehem Baptist Church 2458 Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave. SE WDC 20020 Saturday April 8, 2017: 2—4: 30pm: Free and open to the public. For more information (202) 352-2121. Sponsored by Greater DC Chapter (NAN) . The National Action Network founded in 1991 by Rev. Al Sharpton
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ESSA Page 1 cess and student support across all education sectors,” said Ward 8 SBOE member Markus Batchelor, who met earlier this month with OSSE staff, the Ward 8 Education Council and others to discuss details of DC’s plan which must be submitted by April 3. “Most pertinent to the work of the board is the School Accountability Framework that will, for the first time, give families a clear picture of how well both DCPS and public charter schools are serving our students,” Batchelor said, noting that “schools will be ranked on a 5-star system based on a plethora of factors.” He added that while Ward 8 children stand to gain the most from ESSA’s successful implementation, they also have the most to lose from lack of public participation in conversations surrounding the legislation and last minute changes to the final draft. “We’re midstream at this point, as we haven’t seen OSSE’s final draft yet and we did have some deep concerns with the initial draft,” he said. “We’re hoping OSSE includes our recommendations of what we heard during the public engagement period on Feb. 28 where parents, students and teachers expressed what schools should be accountable for.” ESSA mandates the development of new state accountability systems during the 2016-17 year which will be implemented in the 2018-19 term. DOE, in accordance with the timeline set by the Obama administration, has established two deadlines this year – April 3 and Sept. 18 – for the submission of plans. D.C. lists along with 17 states that include Arizona, Dela-
ware and Louisiana angling for the early deadline. SBOE’s 10 recommendations include establishing task forces to measure high school growth, conducting a study on testing in DC schools, disaggregation of economically-disadvantaged students and exempting students with severe impairments from taking the standardized assessment, known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. ESSA, signed into law in December 10, 2015 by President Barack Obama, replaces the “No Child Left Behind Act of 2001,” often criticized for setting unrealistic expectations for schools and students. One example: expecting 100 percent of the nation’s public school students to achieve proficiency in basic math and reading skills. State Superintendent Hanseul Kang, unavailable for comment, explained in a community letter that DC’s plan focuses on how it will support specific groups of students and define quality schools. “ESSA offers new flexibilities to states and opportunities for D.C. regarding supports for students and schools, teacher and leader training and evaluations and statewide student assessment,” he said. “D.C.’s plan will include these areas and a major component will address a common system for rating and reporting on all D.C. public and public charter schools.” Meanwhile, the D.C.-based National Newspaper Publishers Association – an organization of more than 200 Black-owned media outlets, received a three-year, $1.5 million grant in January from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in support of a multi-media public awareness campaign focused on ESSA-aligned educational opportunities. “The ESSA law was established to help increase the effectiveness of public education in every state,” NNPA President and CEO Dr. Ben Chavis said in an interview with Washington Informer Senior Writer Stacy Brown. “Our task is to inform, inspire and encourage parents, students, teachers and administrators to fulfill the intent and objectives of ESSA with special focus on those students and communities that have been marginalized and underserved by the education system across the nation,” Chavis said. States across the country including Maryland, Virginia, California, Michigan and Georgia, continue to fine tune their ESSA plans in preparation for the upcoming DOE submission deadline. WI
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LIFESTYLE Wizards PA Announcer Having Fun Behind the Mic By William J. Ford WI Staff Writer @jabariwill For those wondering whose booming, melodic voice blares over Verizon Center's public-address system during Washington Wizards home games, it's Ralph Wesley. Some fans who've attended the games stare, laugh and yell at the big screen above the court when Wesley contorts his face to yell his trademark opening-tip announcement: "It's GAAAAAME TIIIIIME!" Wesley, 33, joined the Wizards as the PA announcer the same year the team drafted John Wall in 2010, so he's one of the few people inside the organization who's seen Wall develop into a four-time All-Star point guard. The District native, who graduated from Archbishop Carroll High School in Northeast, has a studio at his Northeast home to continue his pursuit as a full-time, voice-over artist. He credits his education at Delaware State University in Dover as a broadcast journalism student for helping him perfect his craft, worked the microphone at basketball, football and even some soccer games. The first time his voice boomed across Verizon Center at age 23 was for the Washington Mystics for three seasons, with part of them as an assistant PA announcer. Since the Wizards play only 41 homes games, Wesley works parttime at ESPN 980 AM conducting voice-over and production work, as well as bestowing his talents on the Washington Redskins radio network. However, fans don't get to hear Wesley chant "DE-FENSE!" or "DEEE! CEEE! THREE!" during Friday night games because he started to observe the Sabbath, or holy day, about three years ago. He simply says,
"I'm a Torah observant believer in the Messiah." In the meantime, if you can't catch a game in person, you can listen for his voice on television. Check your local cable provider for specific channels. Here are some thoughts from the husband of two children, ages 2½ and 9 months, in his own words:
marketing standpoint during a timeout when there's fan interactions. It's a lot of work, but I enjoy it. How has it been seeing John Wall progress as a player?
It's funny that I've seen the growth of him as a player and a person. It's been a pleasure to see him coming in as a shy kid with the weight of the city on his shoulders as the number one
pick. He is saying, 'this is my team.' He's not only getting better, but seeing his shooting percentage increase has been amazing. It has been pleasure being on this ride with him. WI
As a 2005 HBCU graduate, what did Delaware State do for you to prepare for this job? It's a humbling experience coming from a small school that nurtured you like a family. Everybody knew who you were. What you get at an HBCU school is nothing you get anywhere else. I was able to experience and get better at my craft. I know that opportunity was unique to HBCU's. Just knowing that and taking it to the NBA is very gratifying. Not a lot of people have come from HBCU's and been able to make a mark in the NBA. There's another guy…doing Charlotte Hornets games [Pat "Big Pat" Doughty who attended the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne, Maryland]. He called me the next day after I got the gig with the Wizards. That was cool. What's some of the best parts of your job? Three little boys back in December or January made a sign that said, "I'm Ralph's number one fan." They wanted my autograph and sign their jerseys with Bradley Beal and John Wall [autographs on the jerseys]. I am just trying to relay information and keep the crowd entertained. I really get a kick out of stuff like that. I also love the game and also know the nuances. It is a fast game, especially sitting where I am. It is more of an entertainment value in the NBA a lot of people don't get to know. You have to wait for a referee's cue, then from a
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5 Washington Wizards PA announcer Ralph Wesley gets ready to boom his catchphrase — "It's Game Time!" — before the opening tip of the Wizards' game against the Milwaukee Bucks at Verizon Center in Northwest on Jan. 25. /Photo by John De Freitas
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ARIES The present blend of energies is excellent for manifesting your dreams. You also have the ability to plan ahead and take action to bring them into reality. Something beautiful may blossom over the days and weeks ahead. On another note, a conversation could lead to a sizzling date night. Lucky Numbers: 11, 22, 25
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TAURUS There are some things that you might prefer to keep secret at this time. Even if your best friends encourage you to spill the beans, there's no reason why you should. You'll know when you're ready to update them, but until then silence can be golden. Your actions can speak louder than words. This suggests that you could give the game away even without meaning to. Lucky Numbers: 16, 33, 44 GEMINI Feelings from the past are stired up. This is also the time to let go of any baggage that could be keeping you from expressing yourself or achieving your greatest ambitions. You could do this through art or crafts, or by moving your body by dancing, swimming, jogging, or anything else that grounds you. Lucky Numbers: 12, 15, 18 CANCER Present influences could see you pushing ahead with a goal that requires
charm as well as persistence. The encouragement of your friends may be what persuades you to follow through. But there can be big dividends if you stick with your plan no matter what. Details are more important at this time. Lucky Numbers: 6, 8, 34
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LEO You are curious to travel to a place you’ve never visited before. Pictures and online
reviews may call out to you and be the reason you’re so eager to go ahead and book the trip. But you may have responsibilities connected to your career or business, and attending to these can be particularly fruitful at this time. Lucky Numbers: 20, 47, 49
By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer Raising a child is quite a challenge. When they're small, you feel as though the entire world is dangerous. As they grow, you waffle between encouragement and fear, wings for them and tears for you. Teenagers, well, they're a whole separate category, and in the new book "My Brown Baby" by Denene Millner, some parents have even more to worry about. It's not an overgeneralization to say that all moms want the same things for their kids: kindness, honesty, trustworthiness, success, love, to mention a few. Every mom teaches those things but, says Millner, African-American mothers parent their kids differently than do other mothers. It often starts when a brown baby is born. When her first daughter entered the world, Millner says that, though she was married, insured, and well-employed, the hospital treated her reprehensibly and she had to be vocal about it — something that she says other mothers of color have experienced. She was also criticized for wanting to breast-feed her child, and again for breast-feeding as long as she did. Millner, mother of two young women, remembers the joys — oh, the joys! — and the aggravations of having small daughters. Raising brown girls means teaching them to love their curly hair and their "bubble butts." It means making them understand that they might never have straight blonde hair but that boys will still like them. It's showing them how to love their bodies by loving yours. Raising older children of color means being sure they understand their history, so they know why certain rap songs are inappropriate. It's giving them confidence to explore, swim, bike (but not too far) and play to win. No matter how hard it is to find a bedspread with black ballerinas on it, it means you keep looking. You'll particularly need to teach confidence. You'll learn to heed some advice, ignore others, and either reach for your own mother or miss her fiercely. And if, like Millner's stepson, your child is a boy who's almost a man, raising him means making sure he knows the warnings… Much like morning sickness, weight gain and pregnancy, advice arrives right along with the announcement of a new baby. Some of it's crazy talk, while some of it — like what's inside "My Brown Baby" — is absolutely useful. While the shelves are full to bursting with pregnancy and childrearing books, author Denene Millner tackles the subject from a different angle, one that's perhaps more rare and that speaks directly to parents without a lot of fuss. Millner uses humor, but it's clear when she's being serious; she's also common-sense and offers a nice mix of old-school, modern ideas, and new viewpoints on things your mama never had to consider. While Millner says this book is for parents of color — which is true — a white mother might find some useful advice in here; even though this book isn't for her, there's no denying that some things are universal. Still, "My Brown Baby" is for just what it says and your brown baby will appreciate it. WI
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VIRGO You should be encouraged to take a closer look at your financial situation. This blend of energies can be excellent for enhancing your love life. There may be a freshness and spontaneity about the intimate moments you spend together. If you haven’t had much quality time, a vacation could be just the ticket. Lucky Numbers: 11, 20, 21 LIBRA Your love life could be especially spicy at this time, with great social occasions and romantic outings. The cosmos also encourages you to explore your senses in more detail, especially if your focus has been on mental pursuits. Take the time to get a sensuous massage or some spa treatments that will help you relax into the present moment. If you experience any difficulties this week, simply let them float away. Lucky Numbers: 2, 29, 30 SCORPIO The focus on your lifestyle sector could encourage you to consider how productive you are and whether changing your routine might help. This can encourage you to let go of any tasks or activities that don’t really serve you. The same goes for your diet or exercise routine. You may be aware of certain changes that could improve your health immeasurably. Lucky Numbers: 14, 19, 37 SAGITTARIUS This can be an excellent week for finances and job progress if you
play your cards right. Pursue those deals reassured that things will work out in your favor as long as you know what you want. An honest and down-to-earth approach can achieve much. Artistic and musical influences may be strong now, too. Attending a cultural event could leave you feeling very upbeat. Lucky Numbers: 9, 36, 43
CAPRICORN A friendly gesture or delightful opportunity could boost your enthusiasm this week. Career indicators hint that a goal or plan could take longer than you anticipated to come to fruition, but it will happen if you can be patient. In addition, a focus on the element of water hints that you should avoid wasting time on regret. Have a heart-to-heart chat and you’ll quickly feel better. Lucky Numbers: 8, 14, 24 AQUARIUS If an ongoing issue won’t go away, you might need to give it more time. A friend may come to the rescue with a fresh perspective that reassures you and gives you confidence about the future. A sociable blend of energies may enhance business options and romantic possibilities, too. You can have the best of both worlds if you want it this week. Even so, with the Sun making an edgy angle to Saturn, being firm can keep someone from taking advantage of you. Lucky Numbers: 3, 5, 26 PISCES The week ahead has some very sociable qualities, and the more you put into
arranging activities and connecting with others, the more fun it can be. However, you could encounter some resistance from someone in authority, and this may be a call to discuss a key issue. A tentative approach may well pave the way for a compromise that can work well for both of you. Regarding money, you may become aware of an opportunity that can help your cash flow. Lucky Numbers: 10, 19, 29
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In 2011, Stanton teachers began conducting home visits to physically connect the barriers between school and home. "The school receiving the award for excellence in family engagement has developed a program and initiatives to make a commitment to it's families," Adichie said. Stanton Principal Rena Johnson said the "award represents a culmination of years of dedication and perseverance by teachers, by staff and most of all our community." "DC Scholars and Community Schools embarked upon a journey to turn around a chronically under-
performing school four years ago," she said. "The key to this work, which we did not fully internalize [until] the second year, is that no school can fully go through a transformation without authentic relationships with families and their students." Johnson said the initiative, which started in spring 2012, today has over 400 students receiving home visits. "I cannot underscore that this work is not easy and can easily be undone by mindsets that believe academic engagement and achievement is not important to the families that look like mine or that college is not in their students reach," she said. WI
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are daughters of entrepreneur/actress Florez Sledge and acclaimed Broadway performer Edwin Sledge. The Grammy-nominated "We Are Family," released in 1979, peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100. The song also topped the R&B and disco charts and was a rallying cry for the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates team that won the World Series. The album of the same name reached No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200. "Recording the track 'We Are Family' was like a one-take party — we were just dancing and playing around and hanging out in the studio when we did it," Sledge once recalled in an interview with the Guardian. She is survived by her son, Thaddeus, and sisters Debbie, Kim and Kathy. WI
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Bernard Hudson ll, two nieces, four nephews, and numerous other relatives and close friends. The viewing will take place on Saturday, March 18, 2017 at 11:00am followed by the funeral service at noon at Locust United Methodist Church, 6851 Martin Road, Columbia, MD 21044. The interment will take place on Monday, March 20, 2017 at 12:00pm at Rolling Green Memorial Park in West Chester, PA. Professional services have been entrusted to Borgwardt Funeral Home, 4400 Powder Mill Road, Beltsville, MD 20705. Online condolences and memories may be offered to the family at http:// www.borgwardtfuneralhome. com/notices/Esther-Chandler. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made in Esther’s name to The Alzheimer’s Association (alz.org). WI
CALL 1 800 420 7783 NOW! ATTENTION MARYLANDERS WITH HOMES CONSTRUCTED BEWEEN 1989 -2009 THAT HAVE FLEXIBLE CORRUGATED STAINLESS STEEL GAS PIPE (CSST) We represent CSST homeowners in a class action to recover inspection and repair costs from the manufacturers of this product. If your home was built with CSST, you may be entitled to a free inspection, repairs or replacement. Call (202) 640-1166 or email “CSST” to info@wbmllp.com for more information. GARY E. MASON WHITFIELD BRYSON & MASON LLP 1625 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Ste. 605, Washington, DC 20036 No specific results implied
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Women's History Month Celebrates Phillis Wheatley Since 1905, the Phyllis Wheatley Young Women's Christian Association Inc. (YWCA), located at 901 Rhode Island Avenue in Northwest, has been a national historic landmark and — without interruption — offered safe, affordable housing to women and supported the endeavors of the city's youth. The organization's annual fundraiser is coming up this month, in honor of Women's History Month. Held at the Howard University's Blackburn Center this year, it is sure to be a blessing. The Phyllis Wheatley YWCA is a 501c3 corporation. It was named for the First Black Female Poet in America — Phyllis Wheatley. The mission of the PWYWCA is "to provide affordable housing and programs to women regardless of race, creed, or color. We serve women in transition to prevent homelessness. We also provide outreach services to children and the community. The Phyllis Wheatley YWCA operates as an independent living facility." One of America's first poets, Phillis Wheatley was born in 1753 in Africa. She was captured by slave traders and brought to America where she was sold in July 1761 to the Wheatley family in Boston, Massachusetts. Her name (Phillis) was derived from the name of the ship that brought her to America, the Phyllis. Her owners educated her, and within sixteen months of her arrival in America she could read the Bible, Greek and Latin classics, and British literature. She also studied astronomy and geTurning Hearts Church
ography. When she was fourteen years old, Wheatley began to exercise her gift of writing poetry by publishing "An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of the Celebrated Divine George Whitefield" in 1770, which brought her great notoriety. In 1773, with financial support from the English Countess of Huntingdon, Wheatley published her first collection of poems, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral," the first book written by a black woman in America and the second one to be written by any woman. Wheatley's poems reflected several influences on her life, including famous poets she studied, such as Alexander Pope and Thomas Gray. Women in an African-American tribal group who practiced oration influenced her to write in a style that is known as elegiac poetry. Her education in Latin influenced her to write in a short epic style. Some of her most popular poems were "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty" and "To the University of Cambridge in New England." Wheatley developed notoriety in the United States and England. She was a supporter of George Washington and the patriots during the Revolutionary War. During the peak of her writing career, she wrote a well-received poem praising the appointment of Washington as the commander of the Continental Army. However, she felt that slavery was the issue that prevented the colonists from achieving true heroism. In 1778, Wheatley gained her freedom when her master died.
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Foggy Bottom - Founded in 1867 728 23rd Street, NW - Washington, DC 20037 Church office: 202-333-3985 - Fax : 202-338-4958
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Aimee D. Griffin, Esq., The Griffin Firm, PLLC with Lyndia Grant That same year she married John Peters, a free black man from Boston with whom she had several children. Wheatley passed away in December 1784, due to complications from childbirth. In addition to making an important contribution to American literature, Wheatley's literary and artistic talents helped show that African-Americans were equally capable, creative, intelligent human beings who benefited from an education. In part, this helped the cause of the abolition movement. Here in D.C., the board of directors of the Wheatley YWCA is celebrating an "Afternoon of Smooth Jazz," featuring music by The Jonathan Davis Project, on Sunday, March 26 at 3 p.m. at Howard University's Armour J. Blackburn Center Ballroom East. This celebration will honor former and current residents whose lives have been deeply affected by their connection to the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA. Please join them in this celebration as they continue the legacy. Tickets are $65 each. Call 202-6679100 for ticket information. WI
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Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
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
Committed to providing services and supports to increase the capacity of individuals, businesses, and communities.
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”
www.pilgrimbaptistdc.org
Church of Living Waters
Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church
Crusader Baptist 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
4915 Wheeler Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-894-6464
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
1200 Isle of Patmos Plaza, Northeast Washington, DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-6767 - Fax: (202) 526-1661
Service and Times Sunday Service: 8:30am& 11:00am Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30pm Communion Service: First Sunday www.livingwatersmd.org
E-mail: Crusadersbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.CrusadersBaptistChurch.org “God is Love”
Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ
St. Stephen Baptist Church
Third Street Church of God
Dr. Dekontee L. & Dr. Ayele A. Johnson Pastors
Drs. Dennis W. & Christine Y. Wiley Pastors
Bishop Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. Senior Pastor
Rev. Cheryl J. Sanders, Th.D. Senior Pastor
Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr.; Senior Bishop & Evangelist Susie C. Owens – Co-Pastor
4001 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 (202) 265-6147 Office 1-800 576-1047 Voicemail/Fax
3845 South Capitol Street Washington, DC 20032 (202) 562-5576 (Office) (202) 562-4219 (Fax)
5757 Temple Hill Road, Temple Hills, MD 20748 Office 301-899-8885 – fax 301-899-2555
1204 Third Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 202-347-5889 office 202-638-1803 fax
610 Rhode Island Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (202) 529-4547 office • (202) 529-4495 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
Blessed Word of Life Church
www.blessedwordoflifechurch.org E-mail: church@blessedwordoflifechurch.org
“An inclusive ministry where all are welcomed and affirmed.” www.covenantbaptistdc.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”
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
Services and Times Sunday School: 9:30am Sunday Worship: 11:00am Prayer Meeting and Bible Study: Wed. 7:30pm
“We are one in the Spirit” www.ssbc5757.org E-mail: ssbc5757@verizon.net
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“Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital”
Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church
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
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
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
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
Isle of Patmos Baptist Church
Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor (Disciples of Christ) 1812 12th Street, NW - Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202-265-4494 Fax: 202 265 4340
Mailing Address Campbell AME Church 2502 Stanton Road SE - Washington, DC 20020
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
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
Rev. John W. Davis Pastor
Joseph N. Evans, Ph.D Senior Pastor
5101 14th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20011 202-726-2220/ 202-726-9089
901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423
Service and Times Sunday Worship Service: 8:00am and 11:00am Sunday School: 9:15am Holy Communion 4th Sunday 10:00am Prayer and Bible Study Wednesday 7:00pm TV Ministry –Channel 6 Wednesday 10:00pm
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 themcbc.org
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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
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
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 Rev. Dr. Clinton W. Austin Pastor
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 “Come Grow With Us and Establish a Blessed Family”
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: 7:30am & 10:45am Baptism/Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday Family Bible Study Tuesdays – 6:30pm Prayer Service: Tuesdays – 8:00pm
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
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
www.emmanuelbaptistchurchdc.org
“Where Jesus is the King”
Lincoln Park United Methodist Church
Holy Trinity United Baptist Church
Florida Avenue Baptist Church
Sermon On The Mount Temple Of " Joy Apostolic Faith
Matthews Memorial Baptist Church
Christ Embassy DC
Matthews
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
Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor
Rev. Dr. Diane Dixon Proctor 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 - lpumconthegrow@gmail.com 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: “A CHURCH ON THE GROW”.
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Baptist Church
2616 MLK Ave., SE - Washington, DC 20020 Office 202-889-3709 - Fax 202-678-3304
6839 Eastern Avenue, R1 Takoma Park, MD 20912 (202) 556-7065
Rev. Joan E. Buchanan Service and Times Executive Early PastorWorship Service:
7:30am Worship Service: 11:00am New Member’s Class: 9:45am 1st Sunday, 11:00am ServiceHoly andCommunion: Times Church School: 9:45am Early Worship Service: 7:30am Wednesday 12:00pm Bible Study Prayer,11:00am Praise and Bible Study: 7:00pm Worship Service: Saturday Bible Study: 11:00am Apostolic in Doctrine, Pentecostal in Experience, New Member’s Class: 9:45am Baptism 4th Sunday: 11:00am Holiness in Living, Uncompromised and Unchanged. st 1 Sunday, 11:00am The Apostolic Faith is still alive –Acts 2:42Holy Communion: “Empowered to love and Challenged to Lead a 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.
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
Church School: Multitude 9:45am of Souls to Christ”
Wednesday 12:00pm Bible Study
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
Mount Moriah 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
Web: www.mountmoriahchurch.org Email: mtmoriah@mountmoriahchurch.org
St. Matthews Baptist Church
Eastern Community Baptist Church
New Commandment Baptist Church
Rehoboth Baptist Church
“Real Worship for Real People” Website: www.easterncommunity.org Email: ecc@easterncommunity.org
Salem Baptist Church
Prayer, Praise and Bible Study: 7:00pm Saturday Bible Study: 11:00am
Peace Baptist Church
Pennsylvania Ave. Baptist Church
Baptism 4th Sunday: 11:00am
“Empowered to Love and Challenged
Rev. Dr. Michael T. Bell
Rev. Dr. Kendrick E. Curry Pastor
to Lead a Multitude of Souls to Christ”
“A Church Where Love Is Essential and Praise is Intentional”
712 18th Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Phone 202-399-3450/ Fax 202-398-8836
3000 Pennsylvania Ave.. S.E Washington, DC 20020 202 581-1500
Service and Times Sunday Morning Worship Service: 7:15 am & 10:50 am Sunday School: 9:30am Wednesday Prayer & Testimonies Service: 7:30pm Wednesday School of the Bible: 8:00pm Wednesday - Midweek Prayer Service: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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 pbcexec@verizon.net
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. Alonzo Hart 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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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 “
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Lisa A. Edwards, whose address is 3218 Central Ave., NE, Washington, DC 20032, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Joseph P. Thomas who died on December 9, 2016 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 2, 2017. 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 September 2, 2017, 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.
Deborah D. Boddie, Esq., whose address is 1308 Ninth Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20001, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Lance Etchison who died on July 14, 2015 without 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 2, 2017. 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 September 2, 2017, 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: March 2, 2017
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Lois E. Hoover and Carol A. Hoover, whose addresses are 3114 Patterson Pl., NW, Washington, DC 20015 and 148 Oak Springs Drive, San Anselmo, CA 94960 were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Jeanne H. Wolohan who died on June 24, 2008 without 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 shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 9, 2017. 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 September 9, 2017, 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: March 9, 2017 Lois E. Hoover Carol A. Hoover Personal Representatives
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Robin M. Waters, whose address is 2643 Birney Place, SE, Apt. 302, Washington, DC 20020, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Tyrell Tyrone Waters who died on January 7, 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 9, 2017. 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 September 9, 2017, 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.
Kian Smith, whose address is 5048 Spearfish Place, Waldorf, MD 20603, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Rounnetta Smith who died on November 18, 2016 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 9, 2017. 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 September 9, 2017, 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: March 9, 2017 Kian Smith Personal Representative
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Administration No. 1997 ADM 1474
Administration No. 2017 ADM 167
Administration No. 2017 ADM 131
Administration No. 2017 ADM 190
Administration No. 2017 ADM 171
Berdie O. Odom aka Birdie O. Odom Decedent
Cedric Norman Johnson Decedent
Michael Anthony Waters Decedent
Yolanda M. Reynolds Decedent
Deborah D. Boddie 1308 9th Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 Attorney
Elana E. Strom Akman & Assoc., PC 2560 Huntington Ave., #202 Alexandria, VA 22303 Attorney
Larry C. Williams, Esq. 7600 Georgia Ave., NW, Suite 405 Washington, DC 20012 Attorney
Peggy A. Miller, Esq. 5130 7th St., NE Washington, DC 20011-2625 Attorney
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Robin M. Waters, whose address is 2643 Birney Place, SE, Apt. 302, Washington, DC 20020 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Michael Anthony Waters who died on January 7, 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 9, 2017. 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 September 9, 2017, 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.
Keven L. Reynolds, whose address is 522 South Payne St., Alexandria, VA 22314, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Yolanda M. Reynolds who died on November 29, 2016 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 9, 2017. 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 September 9, 2017, 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: March 9, 2017
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Dorothea R. Carmon aka Dorothea Russell Carmon Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Henrietta C. Mays and Elmira C. Gwynn, whose addresses are 2704 Cator Dr., Ft. Washington, MD 20744 and 9810 Hill Street, Kensington, MD 20895 were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Dorothea R. Carmon aka Dorothea Russell Carmon who died on April 30, 1997 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 2, 2017. 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 September 2, 2017, 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: March 2, 2017 Henrietta C. Mays Elmira C. Gwynn Personal Representatives
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Brenda Williams, whose address is 1604 Yuhas Court, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Berdie O. Odom aka Birdie O. Odom who died on January 17, 2011 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 2, 2017. 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 September 2, 2017, 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 Betty Jonet Johnson, whose address is 1318 Bayside Ave., #8, Woodbridge, VA 22191, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Cedric Norman Johnson who died on November 2, 2016 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 2, 2017. 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 September 2, 2017, 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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Administration No. 2017 ADM 168
Administration No. 2017 ADM 191
Administration No. 2017 ADM 209
Administration No. 2016 ADM 001205
Foreign No. 2017 FEP 21
Odell L. McCollum aka Odell Landrum McCollum Decedent
Rosemary Brinkley Decedent
Willie M. Hall Decedent
Geraldine Enda Jackson Decedent
May 8, 2012 Date of Death
Christopher D. Brown, Esq. 1629 K Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney
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Elizabeth Hughes, Esq. 1100 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 340 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney
Arsia B. Henry Barksdale Name of Decedent
Larry C. Williams, Esquire 7600 Georgia Ave., NW, Suite 405 Washington, DC 20012 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Johnnie L. Peterson, whose address is 4007 Cleary Court, Mitchellville, MD 20721, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Odell L. McCollum aka Odell Landrum McCollum who died on February 1, 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 9, 2017. 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 September 9, 2017, 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: March 9, 2017 Johnnie L. Peterson Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Diane Lewis, whose address is 1106 Trestle Glen Rd., Oakland, CA 94610, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Rosemary Brinkley who died on October 21, 2016 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 9, 2017. 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 September 9, 2017, 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: March 9, 2017 Diane Lewis Personal Representative
Cecelia Rose Smith and Johnnie Mack Hall, whose addresses are 10309 Spring Water Lane, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 and 5703 Butterfield Drive, Clinton, MD 20735 were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Willie M. Hall who died on December 8, 2016 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 9, 2017. 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 September 9, 2017, 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: March 9, 2017 Cecelia Rose Smith Johnnie Mack Hall Personal Representatives
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Elizabeth Hughes, whose address is 1100 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 340, Washington, DC 20036, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Geraldine Enda Jackson who died on March 2, 2015 without 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 9, 2017. 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 September 9, 2017, 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: March 9, 2017 Elizabeth Hughes Personal Representative
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Thelma Fletcher whose address is 1130 W. Eighth Street, Chester, PA 19013 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Arsia B. Henry Barksdale, deceased, by the Circuit Court of Delaware County Court of Delaware County, State of Pennsylvania, on July 16, 2012. Service of process may be made upon Deborah D. Boddie, 1308 Ninth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real property; 7056 Eastern Avenue, NW, Unit 205, Washington, DC 20012. 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: March 16, 2017 Thelma Fletcher Personal Representative Anne Meister Register of Wills Washington Informer
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Administration No. 2017 ADM 138
Administration No. 2017 ADM 147
Administration No. 2017 ADM 170
Administration No. 2016 ADM 1440
Administration No. 2017 ADM 222
Donald Daley Decedent
Elease M. Mack Decedent
William D. Martin, Jr. Decedent
Marie Jackson Decedent
Robert John Jones Decedent
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Yvonne Humes, Norma Williams and Annette Daley, whose addresses are 3603 Kingswood Dr., District Heights, MD 20747 and 2004 Fox Meadow Way, Bowie, MD 20721 were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Donald Daley who died on May 14, 2015 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 9, 2017. 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 September 9, 2017, 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.
Geterries E. Mack, whose address is 1834 Capitol Ave., NE, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Elease M. Mack who died on September 19, 2016 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 9, 2017. 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 September 9, 2017, 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.
Matthew F. Shannon, Esquire 1420 N Street, NW #102 Washington, DC 20005 Attorney
Aimee D. Griffin 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440 Washington, DC 20015 Attorney
Date of first publication: March 9, 2017 Yvonne Humes Norma Williams Annette Daley Personal Representatives
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS William F. Martin, whose address is 2709 Hamman Way, Aurora, IL 60502, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of William D. Martin, Jr. who died on January 27, 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 9, 2017. 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 September 9, 2017, 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: March 16, 2017 Jennifer Concino, Esq. Personal Representative
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Jennifer Concino, Esq., whose address is 5335 Wisconsin Ave., NW, #700, Washington, DC 20015, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Marie Jackson who died on February 15, 2007 without 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 16, 2017. 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 September 16, 2017, 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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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Diane Jones, whose address is 203 Peabody Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Robert John Jones who died on January 18, 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 16, 2017. 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 September 16, 2017, 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: March 16, 2017 Diane Jones Personal Representative
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Administration No. 2017 ADM 179
Administration No. 2017 ADM 208
Alton L. Peele aka Alton Peele Decedent
Toni Averett Ritzenberg aka Toni A. Ritzenberg Decedent
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Catalina Peele, whose address is 3716 4th Street, SE, Washington, DC 20032, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Alton L. Peele aka Alton Peele who died on March 31, 2016 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 16, 2017. 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 September 16, 2017, 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: March 16, 2017
James S. Bubar and Dr. Jeffrey Kraskin, whose addresses are 1776 K Street, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20006 and 4600 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016 were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Toni Averett Ritzenberg aka Toni A. Ritzenberg who died on February 6, 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 16, 2017. 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 September 16, 2017, 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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Administration No. 1997 ADM 1585 Lizzie M. Williams Decedent Lynn H. Johnson, Esq. Johnson & Pavuk 1413 K St., NW, Suite 1500 Washington, DC 20005 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Clayton V. Williams, whose address is 137B Bates St., NW, Washington, DC 20001, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Lizzie M. Williams who died on July 13, 1997 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., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 16, 2017. 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 September 16, 2017, 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: March 16, 2017 Clayton V. Williams Personal Representative
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EVANS from Page 26 In my district, Roosevelt Elementary School in East Germantown has not been updated in decades. How can we expect our students to better themselves when their classrooms are falling apart around them? We need a public school system that supports the needs of our students, teachers and parents. Our students already have a lot on their plates, and shouldn't have to worry about going to school on an empty stomach.
MALVEAUX from Page 26 be administered — or would he eliminate those, too? HBCUs are part of the education budget. What would that mean for us? The bill has been cosponsored by several of Massie's colleagues. It speaks to a national antipathy to education, so that even as we hunger for jobs, and elected 45 so that he could "create" them, we are prepared to limit pathways to job preparation. Efforts to eliminate the Department of Education are, at best, shortsighted. Even though he nominated the extremely limited Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, 45's pre-campaign policy book advocated the elimination of the Department of Education. Is the hidden agenda to run the department into the ground to the point that elimination is the only option? One-note Betsy, with her focus on school choice, must be gratified, especially by HR 610. The Department of Education
are better off when their parents have health insurance coverage. When parents get treatment for their own health and mental health problems, it strengthens children’s developmental outcomes. • Jeopardizes the ability of other child serving systems such as Education and Child Welfare that depend on Medicaid to offer critical help and support to children in care. Children with disabilities who have Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) that call for special services to be delivered in the schools or children with abuse histories or disabilities that require treatment in foster homes or residential treatment will be at special risk. • Severely limits access to mental health and substance abuse treatment needed to stem the tide of opioid and other addictions for children, youths and adults, destroying families and likely sending more children into foster care and homelessness. Changes proposed to both the ACA and Medicaid would limit
coverage of these treatments. CDF calls on Congress to protect children’s current health coverage as it considers the American Health Care Act and vote "no" unless significant changes are made to ensure the "do no harm" standard, a core tenet of medical treatment, is followed. The American Health Care Act would reverse progress and make many millions of children worse off by depriving them of the comprehensive and affordable child-appropriate coverage they are guaranteed today, jeopardizing their futures and also the nation’s future economic and national security. Children who cannot see or hear the teacher, have undiagnosed attention deficit disorders, or are suffering from depression and other mental health disorders are less likely to learn in school. Congress and the Administration should continue to make it easier — not harder — for children like Bethany to get the critical supports they need to survive, thrive and contribute to our nation. So help us speak up. WI
Thus, when we think about the issue of food insecurity in our middle neighborhoods, we need to look for ways to broaden access to fresh, quality, affordable foods for people in our most underserved areas. During my time in the Pennsylvania state legislature, I championed Pennsylvania's Fresh Food Financing Initiative, which links public and private funds to expand and build grocery stores in food deserts across our state. Through the initiative we brought nearly 100 grocery stores to areas in Philadelphia and underserved areas across the com-
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is one of the lowest-spending government agencies. Eliminating it could save taxpayers more than $68 billion enough, perhaps, to "build a wall." Of course 45 is finding lots of other fund sources for the wall, with proposed cuts from the Coast Guard and the State Department. The good news about this odious proposed legislation is that it has not passed. It has been referred to the House Education and the Workforce Committee, and after vetted by the committee, must also be approved by the Senate. But these bills need not even come out of committee if opponents are vocal. Check out www.edworkforce.house.gov to find out who is on this committee. Call and write them and tell them that you support the 1965 legislation, as most recently amended, and that the Department of Education should not be eliminated. This is an opportunity to unleash our voices and resist Trumpism.
The big headlines are riveting, but we need to look at the fine print. If you spent an hour reading the Congressional Record and looking at the devilment these Republicans are up to daily, you would be repulsed. Let's turn repulsion into resistance. WI
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status quo? Maria, Maggie Lena and Ida B. did not settle, sell out or give in to the social pressures they faced in the 19th century. This is the 21st century; we have tremendously more resources than they did, yet we are still allowing ourselves to go through much the same as they did. They already paid the bill for what we should be enjoying today. All we have to do is take our appropriate place in this society, despite any and all resistance, carve out a niche and control it, and not get caught in the snares of jealousy and selfishness. After 45 years of watching the selfishness of his brothers and sisters, W.E.B. DuBois said, "I assumed that with knowledge, sacrifice would automatically follow. There were especially sharp young persons [at Fisk University] with the distinct and single-minded idea of seeing what they could get … for themselves, and nobody else." WI
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CLOTHING, JEWELRY & ACCESSORIES EXTRA 25% OFF WATCHES & HOME ITEMS EXTRA 1O% OFF ELECTRICS/ ELECTRONICS, FURNITURE, RUGS & MATTRESSES MACYS.COM PROMO CODE: VIP EXCLUSIONS MAY DIFFER ON MACYS.COM SAVINGS OFF SELECT REGULAR & SALE PRICES EXCLUDES ALL: Everyday Values (EDV), Last Act, M by Macy’s Marketplace, Macy’s Backstage, athletic clothing/shoes/accessories, cosmetics/fragrances, designer jewelry/watches/sportswear, gift cards, gourmet foods, jewelry trunk shows, maternity, previous purchases, restaurants, services, smart watches/jewelry, special orders, select tech accessories, wine, 3Doodler, Apple products, Barbour, Brahmin, Breitling, Breville, COACH, Dyson, Eileen Fisher SYSTEM, Fitbit, Frye, Hanky Panky, Jack Spade, Kate Spade, KitchenAid Pro Line, Le Creuset, Levi’s, littleBits, Locker Room By Lids, Marc Jacobs, select Michael Kors/Michael Michael Kors, Michele watches, Movado Bold, Natori, New Era, Nike on Field, Rudsak, Sam Edelman, Samsung watches, Shun, Stuart Weitzman, Tag Heuer, Tempur-Pedic mattresses, The North Face, Theory, Tory Burch, Tumi, UGG®, Vans, Vitamix, Wacoal, Wolford, Wüsthof & products offered by vendors who operate leased departments in any of our stores including: Burberry, Gucci, Longchamp & Louis Vuitton; PLUS, ONLINE ONLY: baby gear, kids’ shoes, toys, Allen Edmonds, Birkenstock, Hurley, Johnston & Murphy, Merrell, RVCA & Tommy Bahama. Cannot be combined with any savings pass/coupon, extra discount or credit offer, except opening a new Macy’s account. Extra savings % applied to reduced prices.
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