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Richard Collins III’s graduation gown was draped over a front row chair at Bowie State University’s Commencement May 23 in College Park, Md. Collins, 23, who was visiting friends at the University of Maryland’s College Park campus, had just been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and would have graduated from Bowie State, was stabbed and killed on May 20. See the AFRO’s full coverage on pages B1 and D1.

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Even though President Donald Trump is away on his first foreign trip to the Middle East, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) is not easing up on challenging Trump on several financial documents he, or an entity referred to as ‘The Trump Organization’, has submitted during his presidential term.

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By The Associated Press NAACP President Cornell William Brooks will not be returning as the leader of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization after his contract expires this summer, officials said Friday.

Brooks has been the NAACP’s leader since 2014 but will not be kept on past June 30, the end of his current term. NAACP Board Chairman Leon W. Russell and Vice Chair Derrick Johnson will lead

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governments. In the letter, Cummings requested a briefing on the matter by June 2 and for the organization to submit all documentation about steps relating to the president’s promise to donate to the Treasury all profits his hotels have received from foreign governments.

In addition to the letter, Cummings told the AFRO that Trump’s proposals for the Fiscal Year 2018 budget would hurt citizens already worried about keeping their healthcare and would have a negative impact on the region because it would cut Social Security, Medicaid and other essential programs affecting millions of Americans. Such cuts include a $800 billion cut to Medicaid and a $616 billion cut to the Children’s Health Continued on A3

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the organization until a new president is selected.

Russell and Johnson announced what they described as a “transformational, systemwide refresh and strategic reenvisioning” for the NAACP in a conference call with reporters on May 19.

“We understand and appreciate the historic model of protest, but at this point in time we believe as an organization we need to retool to become better advocates, better at educating the public,

Second Voting Rights Case Won in North Carolina

By Gloria BrowneMarshall AANIC Supreme Court Correspondent The Supreme Court recently ruled North Carolina packed its Black voters into two districts in order to lessen their political

better at involving them in our operation” and better at legislation and litigation, Russell said.

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Acquitted Officers Could Be Fired Pending Internal Investigation

By Michelle Richardson Special to the AFRO Three of the six police officers charged in the Freddie Gray case could be fired pending an internal investigation, according to the Baltimore State’s Attorney Office.

Officer Caesar Goodson, who was driving the van when Grey was fatally injured, Lt. Brian Rice, and Sergeant Alicia White could be fired for their roles in the Gray case.

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On May 20 Richard Wilbur Collins was killed by an alleged White supremacist on the University of Maryland’s College Park campus. The below article details former UMD’s president H.C. ‘Curly’ Byrd’s efforts to prevent people of color from attending UMD’s graduate schools in 1950.

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Supports Referendum on JC at Maryland U. Dec. 2, 1950 Baltimore The Board of Regents of the University of Maryland discussed the possibility of a referendum to decide the question of admitting colored students for graduate studies.

Dr. H.C. Byrd, president, who favors this step, raised the question when he told the regents that a citizen of Maryland’ s notorious Eastern Shore area had suggested that a bill be written to put through a referendum.

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Callers Threaten Black Texas Congressman Who Seeks Trump Impeachment Response of Seven Term Democrat: “We are not going to be intimidated”

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A Black Texas congressman said May 20 that he’s been threatened with lynching by callers infuriated over him seeking impeachment of President Donald Trump.

U.S. Rep. Al Green held a town hall meeting and played recordings of several threatening voicemails left at his offices in Houston and Washington, the {Houston Chronicle} reports.

The seven-term Democrat told the crowd of about 100 people that he won’t be deterred.

“We are not going to be intimidated,” Green said Saturday.

“We are not going to allow this to cause us to deviate from what we believe to be the right thing to do and that is to proceed with the impeachment of President Trump.”

One male caller used a racial insult and threatened Green with “hanging from a tree” if he pursues impeachment. Another man left a message saying Green would be the one impeached after “a short trial” and then he would be hanged, according to the recording.

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U.S. Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, said he’s been threatened with lynching by callers infuriated over him seeking impeachment of President Donald Trump. Green held a town hall meeting and played recordings of several threatening voicemails left at his offices in Houston and Washington.

Green took to the House floor on Wednesday to say he believes Trump committed obstruction of justice and no one’s above the law.

Trump, a Republican, has dismissed criticism of his firing of FBI Director James Comey amid the agency’s investigation of possible links between Russia and Trump campaign associates.

Green said he wanted his constituents to be aware of the hateful calls he’s since received.

“When a person talks about lynching you, we think that’s a pretty serious threat,” said Green, a former president of the Houston branch of the NAACP, according to his congressional website.

Freed Nigerian Schoolgirls Finally Reunited with Families after 3 Years

Joshua, whose daughter Esther was among those freed.

This month’s release was the largest liberation of hostages since 276 Chibok schoolgirls were abducted from their boarding school in 2014. Five commanders from the extremist group were exchanged for the girls’ freedom, and Nigeria’s government has said it would make further exchanges to bring the 113 remaining schoolgirls home.

“We have trust in this government, definitely they will rescue the rest safely and back to us alive,” said community leader Yakubu Nkeki.

Many of the girls, most of them Christians, were forced to marry extremists and have had children. Some have been radicalized and have refused to return. It is feared that some have been used in suicide bombings.

The mass abduction in April 2014 brought international attention to Boko Haram’s deadly insurgency in northern Nigeria, and it launched a global Bring Back Our Girls campaign that drew the backing of some celebrities, including former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama. Thousands have been kidnapped during the extremists’ eight-year insurgency, and more than 20,000 have been killed.

The release of the 82 schoolgirls this month came after an initial group of 21 girls was released in October. Nigeria’s government has acknowledged negotiating with Boko Haram for their release, with mediation help from the Swiss government and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The two groups of freed schoolgirls reunited earlier Saturday, Nigeria’s Channels TV reported, showing the young women laughing and embracing.

Since the latest release, many families in the remote Chibok community had been waiting for word on whether their daughters were among them. A government list of names circulated, and parents were asked to confirm the freed girls’ identities through photos.

Both groups of freed girls have been in government care in the capital as part of a nine-month reintegration program that President Muhammadu Buhari has said he will oversee personally. But human rights groups have criticized the government for keeping the young women so long in the capital, far from their homes.

Basquiat Painting Fetches Record $110.5M at New York Auction

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A 1982 artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for a record $110.5 million at Sotheby’s auction of contemporary art May 18.

Sotheby’s said the sale of “Untitled” was an auction record for the artist. It also set a record price for an American artist at auction. The painting’s graffiti-like typography depicts a face in the shape of a skull.

The piece was purchased by noted Japanese collector and e-commerce entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa after a 10-minute bidding war.

“When I saw this painting, I was struck with so much excitement and gratitude for my love of art,” said Maezawa, who plans to display it in his museum in Chiba, Japan after loaning it to institutions and exhibitions around the world.

“Untitled” was virtually unknown before it was unveiled at Sotheby’s weeks ago. The auction house AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga said it remained in the same private collection since it Family members celebrate as they embrace a relative, one of the was bought at auction in 1984 for $19,000. released kidnapped schoolgirls, in Abuja, Nigeria, May 20.

The previous auction record for a Basquiat work was set last May when “Untitled, 1982” sold for $57.3 million, also The 82 Nigerian schoolgirls recently released after more to Maezawa. than three years in Boko Haram captivity reunited with their Basquiat died of a drug overdose in 1988 at age 27. families Saturday as anxious parents looked for signs of how deeply the extremists had changed their daughters’ lives.

Brightly dressed families rushed through the crowd in the capital, Abuja, and embraced.

One small group sank to their knees, with a woman raising her hands as if praising in church.

Some danced. Others were in tears.

“I am really happy today, I am Christmas and new year, I am very happy and I thank God,” said mother Godiya

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Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Masterpiece “Untitled” set an auction record for the artist. The 1982 painting depicts a face in the shape of a skull.

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type of equity for people who are down and out.”

Cummings began his political career in Continued from A1 the Maryland House of Delegates, where he served for 14 years. He became the first program over the next nine years.

Black in Maryland history to be named Even though Cummings has the tough job of challenging the Republican agenda at a time Speaker Pro Tempore. Since 1996, Cummings has represented when they control Maryland’s 7th both Congress and Congressional the White House, he District in Congress. is not losing faith.

“We have work Cummings to do, lots of work to indicated that — Rep. Elijah Cummings do,” said Cummings. during the Obama He said he was administration, excited to recently meet with the head of the “we were very successful in getting what Federal Reserve.

“It is not just providing jobs, the American people want but with the next there are several things we have to do to make budget we have to really, really be on the life better in the inner city.” offense and make it clear that there is some

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“We have work to do, lots of work to do.”

NAACP Continued from A1 chairman in February, praised Brooks’ leadership and said the NAACP remained at the forefront of civil rights activism in the United States.

“However, modern-day civil rights issues facing the NAACP, like education reform, voting rights and access to affordable health care, still persist and demand our continued action,” he said.

A national search for a new leader was expected to begin this summer.

In addition, the NAACP planned to embark on a “listening tour” this summer to solicit input on how the organization should reinvent itself.

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NAACP President Cornell William Brooks will not be returning as the civil rights organization’s leader when his contract expires this summer.

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second victory against North Carolina’s voter suppression tactics. David Harris led the lawsuit against North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper over the state’s discriminatory voter redistricting plan.

The Supreme Court found evidence proving North Carolina purposefully established a racial goal for certain voting districts that “had a direct and significant impact” on Black voters. North Carolina had intentionally gerrymandered voting districts to increase the number of eligible Black voters within them in order to maintain political control of surrounding White districts, the Court found.

In her opinion, Justice Elena Kagen repeatedly questioned the attorney for North Carolina on how the disputed districts came to have such a high increase in Black

Brooks, the NAACP’s 18th national president, replaced interim leader Lorraine Miller. Miller had served in that position since Benjamin Jealous ended his five-year tenure in 2013.

Brooks, a minister, is originally from Georgetown, South Carolina. It was not immediately known what his future plans were.

The NAACP found itself battling for attention from Black youth with groups like Black Lives Matter, which rose to prominence behind street-level protests after the killings of African-American men and women by police, including 18-year-old Michael Brown at the hands of a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

Catherine Flowers, founder of the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise, an organization that advocates for poor and Black people living in rural areas, said she wasn’t surprised at the coming change.

“I would like to see more of a grassroots effort” by the NAACP, she said. “Clearly, on a national level we’re at a crisis and it calls for a new kind of leadership.”

Brooks also has his fans. Ernest L. Johnson Sr., president of the NAACP Louisiana State Conference, invited Brooks to visit Baton Rouge less than a week after a White police officer shot and killed a Black man during a struggle outside a convenience store last year.

Videos of Alton Sterling’s July 5 shooting quickly spread on social media, setting off nightly protests in Louisiana’s capital.

Johnson said Brooks met with Sterling’s relatives. During a rally outside Baton Rouge’s City Hall, he said he was tired of victims of police shootings being treated as “hashtag tragedies” instead of human beings mourned by their families.

“He brought some young energy to this 108-year-old organization,” Johnson said.

“He’s very energetic. Whenever we needed him in the state of Louisiana, he came to Louisiana.”

voters. But, North Carolina claimed it was the political gerrymandering, which is legal and focused on Democratic voters, not racially rigging the districts to lessen the impact of Black political power.

Black voters happened to be Democrats resulting in the increase.

The Court disagreed, finding the race of voters was the predominate reason for moving Black voters in those two districts, not their political party. The Court found “uncontested evidence in the record that North Carolina purposely created a district where African-Americans would make up no less than a majority of the voting-age population.”

The decision in this North Carolina case marks a “major victory for voting rights plaintiffs, who have succeeded in turning the racial gerrymandering cause of action into an effective tool to go after partisan gerrymanders in Southern states,” wrote Richard Hasen, a professor

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at University of California, Irvine School of Law. Only two years earlier, the Supreme Court found Alabama had been packing Black voters into certain urban districts to limit their political influence in surrounding suburban districts. Voter suppression tactics have taken the form of voter packing, vote dilution, poll taxes, Whitesonly primaries, and even terrorism. Vote dilution means deliberately spreading Black voters across many districts preventing a large enough number of voters to ever elect a candidate of their choice.

Vote dilution, like voter packing, if based on race, is a discriminatory tactic meant to undermine Black political power.

Cooper v. Harris is one of many voting cases brought since the Shelby v. Holder decision gutted the Voting Rights Act of its preclearance provision in 2013. Soon after, states began enacting voter laws resulting in costly litigation.

This victory in Cooper v.

Harris comes a week after the NAACP won their case in North Carolina v. NAACP Conference of Branches.

There, NAACP leaders challenged North Carolina’s decision to reduce the early voting period from 17 to 10 days, end out-of-precinct voting, stop preregistration by 16-year-olds, and require strict photo identification laws. The Supreme Court refused to hear North Carolina’s appeal which gave the NAACP its victory in that case.

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Gray Continued from A1 police officers are facing internal discipline, according to the State’s Attorney Office.

Officers Edward Nero and Garett Miller both face 5 days suspension without pay; both officers were arrested in the initial investigation but Nero was acquitted of all charges and charges against Miller were dropped before he went to trial.

William Porter, another officer arrested and charged with manslaughter in Gray’s death, will not face any internal discipline.

Gray was arrested on April 12, 2015 and died April 19, a week later, after falling into a coma. Autopsy reports determined Gray suffered a spinal cord injury and his death was ruled a homicide. Following his death Baltimore erupted in riots which the city has yet to recover from.

On May 1, 2015 State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced charges against the 6 officers in Grays death ranging from manslaughter to depraved Heart Murder.

Each officer was either acquitted or charges were dropped.

“Justice is always worth the price paid for its pursuit.

This case has always been about providing justice for an innocent 25-year-old man who was unreasonably taken into police custody, severely injured while in police custody, and died due to a lack of care. If today’s news is accurate, I am relieved to know that a majority of those involved will be held administratively accountable for their actions.

And, while nothing can bring back Freddie Carlos Gray Jr., I pray that today’s

Baltimore Police Department via AP

Top row from left: Caesar R. Goodson Jr., Garrett E. Miller and Edward M. Nero, and bottom row from left: William G. Porter, Brian W. Rice and Alicia D. White, the six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray. Each officer was either acquitted or had the charges against them dropped before going to trial. announcement brings some closure to his loved ones, the City of Baltimore, and the dedicated members of the Baltimore Police Department,” said Mosby in a statement released to the media Monday afternoon.

The decision to charge the three officers comes after the internal investigation was reviewed by Howard and Montgomery County Police Departments.

Baltimore City Police asked Howard and Montgomery police to review the case so there wouldn’t be any conflict of interest. Those investigations have yet to be released publically.

The officers can accept the charges or take the charges to a trial board, a panel made up of officers, to dispute. The panel can either acquit or uphold charges.

If the charges stand, Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis has the final say in what happens.

T.J. Smith, spokesman for Baltimore City Police, declined to comment Monday

saying that the department is “unable to discuss personnel matters.”

Each officer was notified of the charges against them on May 19.

On May 23, the Fraternal Order of Police released a statement regarding the charges against the officers.

FOP President Gene Ryan said that the “administrative charges are nothing more than that-they are charges.”

“We have no reason to believe that the results of a fair trial board will be any different than the result of all 27 of the criminal counts which uniformly rejected any wrongdoing on the part of the officers,” Ryan said.

Ryan went on to say that the “citizens of Baltimore should be outraged at their leaders, and find issues with the administrative prosecution.”

“The administrative prosecution of the officers will do nothing more than perpetuate a police force hesitant to exercise judgment when interacting with the public.”

Or to abandon Princess Anne and Morgan State Colleges and open the university “to all citizens alike.”

Byrd Continued from A1 APPEALS TO PREJUDICE In an obvious appeal to racial passions, Dr. Byrd said such a bill would let Marylanders decide whether they were “willing to spend millions of dollars necessary to provide necessary and equal facilities,” for colored students.

In telling the regents of his recent statement to the State Planning Commission concerning the need for a prompt State decision on the segregation issue, the university president said there were only two paths open: To attempt to provide equal facilities, at great cost.

Dr. Byrd’s Objectives

“The thing to do with the question of education for colored people,” Dr. Byrd told the regents before raising the possibility of a referendum, “is to get it out before the public.”

Dr. Byrd’s major efforts are toward continuing a jim crow pattern for colored university students in Baltimore, and the ban against their admission to the university’s main plant in College Park, which only one colored student now attends—majoring in sociology by virtue of a court order.

Several colored students are enrolled in the university Law School and just one in the School of Nursing, both of which are located in Baltimore.

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COMMENTARY

Defending the Soul of Our Democracy Along with millions of other Americans, I was justifiably alarmed by President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, Jr., in the midst of the Bureau’s investigation of the President’s 2016 campaign for possible collusion with Russian efforts to influence the outcome of the presidential election.

However, a measure of confidence that we remain a nation of laws was restored by the appointment of universally Elijah Cummings respected former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III, to serve as a U.S. Department of Justice Special Counsel, expressly charged with overseeing the FBI’s investigation of the Russian intervention, any collusion by individuals associated with the Trump presidential campaign, and any related violations of our laws.

In this context, it is essential that all of us keep several important considerations in mind about the continuing investigations by the Congress, the FBI and our other intelligence agencies: 1. A Clear, Present & Continuing Danger to our Democratic System First, we must recall that, in early January of this year, our foremost intelligence agencies (the National Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation and others) issued their shared and well-considered report assessing Russian intentions and actions directed toward influencing the result of our 2016 presidential election.

Even the unclassified version of their conclusions should chill every American to the core. Consider just four of their determinations: Notwithstanding the doubts subsequently expressed by President Trump, in January, our national intelligence agencies found, with a significant degree of confidence, that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an extensive campaign to influence the outcome of our 2016 elections.

The broader Russian objective was to “undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency.” However, during the course of the Russian intervention, “Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.”

Moscow’s strategy included “covert intelligence operations— such as cyber activity— with overt efforts by Russian Government agencies, state-funded media, third-party intermediaries, and paid social media users or trolls.”

Most important for every American in assessing the threat to our democracy, the intelligence agencies determined that “Moscow will apply lessons learned from its Putin-ordered campaign aimed

at the US presidential election to future influence efforts worldwide, including against U.S. allies and their election processes.”

The intelligence report makes it clear that the threat to America is bigger than how any of us feels about the outcome of last year’s presidential election.

In very real terms, we are in a fight for the very soul of our democracy.

2. Multi-Faceted Investigations In this fight, our nation’s response must necessarily focus on three interrelated, but separate, challenges: We must (1) protect our democratic institutions against future foreign interference in our elections; (2) bring to justice any who may have engaged in criminal collusion with the Russians and their 2016 attacks and (3) address any actions by those currently in power that may amount to obstruction of justice.

Although the appointment of Special Counsel Mueller is an important development in our national response to the Russian intervention in our election, his charge (primarily although not exclusively) is one of law enforcement. His investigations will focus primarily upon any possible collusion by Americans with the Russians before the election and any subsequent efforts to coverup those misdeeds.

The continuing engagement by the Congress is different, but just as essential, if not more so. There is ample precedent for congressional investigations continuing while a Special Counsel investigation is ongoing and their purposes are fundamentally different.

While the Special Counsel is exclusively investigating potential crimes, Congress is investigating a host of other issues within our core jurisdiction, such as the White House vetting process for General Flynn, why he was allowed to keep his security clearance after Sally Yates warned the White House that he was compromised and whether he may have jeopardized national security by disclosing information to the Russians.

3. The Critical Need for a Bipartisan Commission Our overriding duty is to assure that foreign intervention in our fundamental electoral process is never again allowed to play any significant role in the outcome of our elections.

Although the priorities of law enforcement and legislating are not always easily squared in addressing challenges of this complexity, I have confidence that Special Counsel Mueller and the congressional investigating committees now at work will

be able to work together to serve the American people and our democratic system.

With notable exceptions, however, the glacial pace of congressional investigations into the Russian attacks has left me with less confidence in my Republican colleagues. Although none of our congressional investigations to date have focused upon the actions last year of Donald Trump as candidate, many Republicans continue to view this challenge as an attack on his presidency.

We in the Congress must do better. Republican and Democrats must not only find common ground, we must achieve the higher ground, beyond partisanship, that only our shared love of our country and the urgency of the Russian threat can sustain.

We should continue our own investigations, but we must also enlist the aid of an independent, non-partisan, investigative commission to assist us in achieving that higher ground.

Along with Congressman Eric Swalwell, the entire Democratic Caucus, and two deeply concerned Republicans, Congressmen Walter B. Jones and Justin Amash, we are urging our colleagues to adopt the Protecting Our Democracy Act [H.R. 356].

Our proposed independent commission would be empowered to examine past attempts by the Russian government or others to undermine trust in last year’s U.S. elections and make recommendations to Congress and the President to prevent future foreign interference.

We are in a fight for the soul of our democracy, and, in the words of President Donald Trump, we must rise above partisanship and “put America first.”

Congressman Elijah Cummings represents Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.

Remembrances: Baltimore’s Erla Marie McKinnon Erla said in her beautiful Virginia soft southern drawl recently, “Ken, I want to be at home and go out the door feet first when I die.” Mission accomplished. Erla McKinnon passed peacefully away recently in her sleep at 97.

Erla maintained the panache, straight, no chaser persona of a New Yorker. She possessed a humanity that exuded warmth, kindness, and the genteelness of a rural Southern Virginia Black family. For many others and me, Erla helped to put the charm, grit and soul in Baltimore. Now, wrap them in the soul and body of a beautiful black woman.

Mr. Jim, Erla’s significant other, and Erla put spice in each other’s lives until he died. She added a heavy dose of St. James Episcopal Church as a devout member and patron. Her outside activities, memberships and travels made the youngest member of our neighborhood tired.

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Erla graduated from Frederick Douglass H.S. in 1938 and Coppin State College, as it was called at the time, in 1942 to become a teacher and taught for over thirty-five years. After her retirement, she became a member of the Baltimore School Board.

Erla could be called a Democrat’s Democrat, especially for Black politicians and women. She helped put many into office through a group called Woman Power. Ms. Victorine Adams created the group and Erla was one of the charter members.

Woman Power focused on voter registration as well as other legislative and political activities.”

Its roster included Parren Mitchell, Victorine Adams, Verda Welcome, Kweisi Mfume, Sheila Dixon, Agnes Welch, Patricia Jessamy, Cheryl Glenn, Shirley Nathan Pulliam, Donna Edwards, Sheila Dixon, Cathy Pugh, Mary Conway, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Helen Holton, Delores Kelly, Nathaniel McFadden, Ken Oliver, Adrienne Jones, Mary Pat Clark, Barbara Robinson and Barbara Mikulski. I probably left some

folks out.

Erla’s politics was very different from mine. Yet, when we talked politics – and we talked politics a lot – we found commonality in our desire to advance the plight of Black people. In fact, I met Erla at a community meeting held at her house almost thirty years ago and really loved the neighborhood so much so that I became Erla’s neighbor for 27 years.

Erla was selfless and tireless. She shared her knowledge, tenacity and spirit – so much so that although Erla will be sorely missed, I will always be able to revel in the legacy of my inner Erla.

Kenneth O. Morgan is an assistant professor and coordinator of the Urban Studies Program in the Department of Criminal Justice and Applied Social and Political Sciences at Coppin State University in Baltimore.

An Open Letter to Gov. Hogan

Julian E. Jones, Jr.

Dear Governor Hogan: I write on behalf of my constituents and all the Marylanders who are affected by your recent decision to appoint Mr. Roger Hayden to the Baltimore County school board to replace outgoing board member, Mrs. Romaine Williams.

I want to be clear that I have no concerns about Mr. Hayden’s credentials as he has been a dedicated public servant who has served both as a former Baltimore County Executive, and former school board member, including serving as President of the school board for six years. My concern is his ability to faithfully serve in this position.

Mr. Hayden’s appointment represents a dangerous trend that is being set by your Administration that is not representative of the population being served.

With his selection, you have now appointed the majority of the 12-member board, and it must be acknowledged that the last eight appointments have all been white individuals.

As Governor, you have a responsibility to Baltimore County residents to appoint school board members that best represents the population being served.

By diminishing the racial representation of school board members, you are diminishing the role of communities of color in Baltimore County —a school district that is majority minority.

The local trend is even more concerning; following what recently occurred, when you refused to reappoint Mr. Solon Webb to the Anne Arundel School Board, creating an all-White board, according to the Baltimore Sun. In Baltimore County, and across our state, we recognize that our diversity is our strength and that as elected leaders we have an immutable responsibility to ensure that our children can attend a school system focused on increasing equity and opportunity for every child.

For these reasons, I urge you to immediately reconsider your decision and to pursue equitable and inclusive numbers of appointees in Baltimore County and throughout our state.

Please contact me at your earliest opportunity to discuss your intentions in this regard. I appreciate your prompt attention to this matter.

Julian E. Jones, Jr. is the fourth district councilman in Baltimore County.

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More than 58,000 Haitians Refugees Granted Temporary Reprieve

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com Following Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly’s recent decision to extend immigration benefits for Haitians residing in the U.S. under a Temporary Protected Status, (TPS), more than 58,000 immigrants will continue their American residency.

The May 23 decision is being cautiously celebrated by immigration advocates as a potential shift in international humanitarian policies of the U.S. towards Haiti.

TPS is an 18-month status provided to foreign nationals who cannot return safely to their homes countries because of dangerous conditions such as armed conflicts, environmental disasters, or epidemics. Beneficiaries of TPS status are allowed to work and travel in the United States and cannot be deported. The U.S. government designated TPS for Haiti after the 2010 earthquake devastated parts of the nation. The designation has been renewed several times and was due to expire July 22. As a result, approximately 58,700 Haitians received TPS status and settled in cities like D.C., Boston, Miami, and New York.

“After careful review of the current conditions in Haiti and conversations with the Haitian government, I have decided to extend the designation . . . for a limited period of six months,” Kelly said in a statement. “This six-month extension should allow Haitian TPS recipients living in the United States time to attain travel documents and make other necessary arrangements for their ultimate departure from the United States.”

Since January, amid growing anti-immigrant sentiments, the Trump administration has

introduced several proposals to deport undocumented residents – particularly those suspected of committing crimes, including a call by acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, James McCament, to not to renew TPS for Haitians because he believed conditions in Haiti had improved.

Advocates like Willair and Capri St.Vil, co-founders of Rebuilding Haiti One Trip at a Time, supported DHS renewing the designation, citing disruptions in the lives of Haitians who had settled in the U.S., and dangerous conditions in Haiti exacerbated by a 2016 hurricane and a cholera epidemic started by United Nations peacekeepers in 2010. That epidemic has reportedly killed thousands and has led to food shortages, infrastructure damage, and a lack of housing, health care, and sanitation services. As a result, repatriation and resettlement could have proven disastrous.

Though the continued instability of Haiti to some should have extended TPS status without debate, many, including the St.Vils, worry about the outcry over Haitian deportations and the diasporic

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People stand in the rubble of a collapsed building in the aftermath of a massive earthquake in Port-auPrince, Haiti.

America is not going to care,” Capri St.Vil told the AFRO. “Because of how and where Haitians have been placed, for God knows how long, there are all of these illogical

“After careful review of the current conditions in Haiti and conversations with the Haitian government, I have decided to extend the designation . . .”

– John Kelly selection of nationals under surveillance.

“My concern is that first it was Mexicans, then Central Americans, and now Haitians – the sort of selections being made to enforce immigration policies suggests they are chosen because the rest of

reasons why people are not standing up against this and it is almost an attitude of ‘let the government take them, so long as they do not take me.’ We need to understand the adage ‘If you take my neighbor tonight, you take me tomorrow.’”

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reprieve from deportation, concerns continue to mount over the shift in policies toward immigrants and the enforcement of policies. Loide Rosa Jorge, an attorney with U.S. Immigration and Nationality Law experience, told the AFRO that while U.S. deportations increased under the Obama administration – totaling more than 350,000 – there was a prioritizing of removals, which sent violent or dangerous criminals home and provided U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) necessary discretion to determine the level of threat an immigrant posed.

“The priority system has been completely wiped off the table and Trump is saying if ICE crosses paths with you, we are no longer looking at you through the lens of how dangerous are you, or how long have you been here; only are you undocumented or not,’ Jorge

said. “The ability of ICE to use its discretion has been removed.”

Still, Jorge said, it is important to note that had TPS status ended for the 58,000 Haitians, they would not have simply been rounded up and kicked out. “Your status is no longer valid and you’re out of status, but unless you do something to actively place yourself in the path of an ICE officer, which is typically breaking a criminal law, you’re left alone,” Jorge told the AFRO. “There’s a way that this is being reported that sounds as if once TPS status is taken away that everyone is unmarked, carted, and pushed out of the country. For public policy, they don’t do that.”

Haitian immigrants in the U.S. under temporary protected status will be able to remain in the country legally, until Jan. 22 under the sixmonth extension.

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D.C. Area Lawmakers Reject Proposed Trump Budget

In Memoriam

Bowie Pays Tribute to 2nd Lt. Richard Collins

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com Members of the U.S. Congress in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area soundly rejected President Donald Trump’s recently unveiled budget.

On May 23, Trump’s administration released his budget for fiscal year 2018 that called for cutting Medicaid by $800 billion in the next ten years and eliminating key social programs. D.C. Del.

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Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) didn’t like the Trump budget at all but did see some nuggets that she could work with.

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A vigil was held for 2nd Lt. Richard Collins at Bowie State University on May 22.

Photo by Hamil Harris

As Thomas spoke, several political leaders, including Maryland State Sen.(s) C. Anthony Muse and Doug Peters and former Rep. Donna Edwards as well as former NAACP President The Martin Luther King Communications Arts Center at Ben Jealous, attended the vigil.

Bowie State University was filled with community leaders, “I am here to grieve with the Bowie State Community but grieving soldiers and raw emotions on the night of May 22. also to celebrate the life of a young man who was willing to Seated in the auditorium were members of Congress, fight and die for his country because of a senseless act,” Rep. Maryland state senators and the Chief of the University of Anthony Brown told the AFRO. “I think we have to step up our Maryland Police, who is investigating the death of Richard game in Maryland. The tone in this country is toxic. It’s toxic in Collins, a Bowie student killed in College Park on May 20, Washington and in many communities around Maryland.” allegedly because of the color of his skin.

Students spoke about the death of “No matter who it is we cannot have Collins at an outdoor candle light vigil this in our state and I am glad to know if after the ceremony ended. the FBI is looking into it,” Cummings told “It was important to have a memorial the AFRO. “He was a brilliant young man service because we just recently closed about to graduate from Bowie State and out our school year and many of us are now he won’t.”

— Mickey Burnim scattered. Hopefully we can heal together.”

Army 2nd Lt. Richard Collins received Yasmeen Jordan, president of the Bowie his commission on May 18 and on May Class of 2017, told the AFRO. “My biggest 23 he would have received his Bachelor’s hope is that regardless of who you are, degree with other members of the Bowie State graduating class of regardless of your ethnicity, administration will put a name to the 2017 at the University of Maryland — College Park. Instead, his injustice that we are feeling.” father attended the commencement ceremony and walked across According police accounts Sean Christopher Urbanski, who the stage for him. is White, approached Collins and told him to move, but Collins “He was outstanding, no question about it. But here we are refused. Urbanski, a resident of Severn Park, was arrested and in pain and suffering because one so young was taken away charged with first and second degree murder. He is presently so young,” Bowie State President Mickey L. Burnim told the being held in custody without bail. gathering.

“Richard was a student who was very determined,” Bowie Burnim’s sentiments were widely shared. “Richard was an State Assistant Vice President Shirelle Briscode told the AFRO. outstanding individual, he was an outstanding cadet, he was “Even in his last days he stood firm in what he believed in.” an outstanding leader on this campus,” said Army Lt Col. Joel As he left the campus Thomas said: “Richard Collins was Thomas as he reflected on Collins life.

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“He was outstanding, no question about it.”

D.C.’s New Youth Homeless Prevention Strategy

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssheman@afro.com In the District’s ongoing battle against homelessness, even the most aggressive efforts have often overlooked teens and young adults – a particularly vulnerable segment of the community – allowing them to slip easily through the safety netting of shelter services.

However, with the launch of Solid Foundations DC on May 19, an Interagency Council on Homelessness Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Youth Homelessness, the city hopes to help vulnerable teen and young adult populations before they need shelters.

Focused specifically on the needs of unaccompanied youth, Solid Foundations DC, according to Mayor Muriel Bowser, will serve as a roadmap for building an effective system for caring for young people at risk for homelessness.

“Ending homelessness in Washington, DC has been a top priority of mine from day one,” said Mayor Bowser in a statement.

“The health, safety, and long-term success of our youth will have an impact on our entire community, and our D.C. values require that we continue finding ways to make homelessness in DC rare, brief, and nonrecurring. By working together, we can build integrated systems that provide the support our young people need to stay healthy and succeed in school and life.”

This year’s statistics indicate a 21.8

percent reduction in the number of families experiencing homelessness; 10.5 percent reduction in the number of persons experiencing homelessness; and 2.7 percent reduction in unaccompanied individuals compared to the 2016 results, according to the District’s 2017 Point-in-Time Count report of homeless people in the city released on May 10.

Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH) Director Kristy Greenwalt said the initiative has a goal of ending youth

“The work undertaken to develop a youth coordinated assessment and referral system … has brought stakeholders together in a new way.”

-- Kristy Greenwalt homelessness by 2022 by addressing key intervention methods specific to the needs of young people, using a data-driven method.

“For years, we have had some very strong youth-serving nonprofit service providers in our community, but we haven’t been functioning as a comprehensive system of care,” said Greenwalt. “The work undertaken to develop a youth coordinated assessment and referral system for youth, to plan and carryout the annual census, and ultimately to shape all of this information into a comprehensive plan has brought stakeholders together in

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By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com Seventeen students at National Collegiate Preparatory Public Charter High School in Southeast Washington D.C. traveled and studied in Panama as a part of their curriculum, recently.

Shannon Cox, who teaches Spanish, helped arrange the May 1-5 trip. She said the journey had a two-fold purpose. “We wanted the students to practice their Spanish in a real-live setting

By Hamil R. Harris Special to the AFRO

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton says like many other representatives in the House that she is unhappy with Trump’s budget proposal.

D.C. Students Travel to the Black Side of Panama

“We wanted the students to practice their Spanish in a real-live setting and we wanted them to see the other parts of the African Diaspora.”

– Shannon Cox and we wanted them to see the other parts of the African Diaspora,” Cox told the AFRO. “I wanted our students to see how large the Black community [is] in the world and [that] during slavery, Black people went everywhere, not just the Deep South.”

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Report: D.C. Circulator, Streetcar Deepen Racial Bias

By Lenore T. Adkins Special to the AFRO An Amalgamated Transit Union report released May 17 excoriates the District for using contractors to create the D.C. Circulator and the D.C. Streetcar, two premium transit services the report says deepen racial bias in the city.

The Fool D.C. Twice: Why D.C. Must Abandon Private Sector Control of Public Transit report alleges both systems cater to wealthy Whites and tourists, while relying on taxpayers – who don’t use the services – to subsidize them when rider expectations fall short.

“These services tend to exacerbate existing patterns of inequality,” Michael McCall-Delgado, the union’s strategic researcher, said on a conference call with reporters.

He added that the streetcar was specifically designed to hasten gentrification along the H Street corridor in the city’s Northeast quadrant.

The report primarily focuses on labor issues, safety standard violations, and failures to meet stated ridership and service goals – matters the union says besieged both systems after

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The ATU released a report that claims private sector control of the D.C. transit system is benefiting wealthy Whites. the city contracted them to for-profit companies.

The union has been against the privatization of bus routes, the Circulator and the Streetcar for some time. In 2013, the union was against privatization of the systems.

The union’s initial complaint against privatization was job loss, rider dissatisfaction and loss of public input.

The transit union supports mass transit and represents more than 190,000 transit and allied workers in the U.S. and Canada.

It’s up to residents to demand that public officials implement a transportation system that serves the community, instead of one

that “only subsidizes the leisure of city elites,” the report said. District riders should also tell city officials to stop attempting to save money by contracting services out to for-profit companies.

The private sector becomes a barrier between city officials and riders that officials “hide behind” when things go awry, Delgado said.

“Each one gets to use the other as a shield for what the other is supposed to be doing,” Delgado said.

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Continued from B1 Panamanian, with an estimate that 50 percent of the country’s people have some Black blood. Afro-Panamanians are mainly the descendants of slaves and Blacks from nearby countries, and tend to live in Panama City, the largest city in the country, in addition to towns and villages along the Atlantic Ocean.

Afro-Panamanian were the main workers on the Panama Canal, the artificial waterway that opened in 1914 that cuts through the Isthmus of Panama for 48 miles, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

In order to attend the trip, students must raise $1300 and be in good academic standing.

National Collegiate is a non-profit International Baccalaureate (IB) institution located on Livingston Avenue.

It was founded by Jennifer Ross, who served as its executive director in 2008.

Dr. Dianne G. Brown, chief academic officer of the school, notes in the school’s Sankofa Speaks newsletter

that traveling abroad has long been part of the curriculum.

Ross said, in a statement to the AFRO, that “our emphasis at National Collegiate Prep has been on global awareness and International Studies. It is important to us that our students have the opportunity to explore and experience another place which allows them to broaden their horizons and encourage growth.

During this trip, students have volunteered in community clean-up programs, read to seniors at nursing homes and distributed clothes to HIVpositive mothers.

“Students visit an indigenous island to learn about the first settlers of Panama; they spend a day at our partner International Baccalaureate School, and practice speaking at a traditional formal Panamanian restaurant.”

The program is in its fifth year. Ross said students are changed forever and it motivates them to learn about other cultures and countries.

Jada Brown went on the trip and told the AFRO that she enjoyed the experience.

“This is the first time I have

Panamanians are just like us.”

“They look like us,” she said.

Cox said the students

clean up basketball, soccer, and tennis courts. “We wanted to teach both the American and Panamanian students to

McClary recalls an incident where he was sitting alone at the IB school in Panama and a Panamanian came up to him

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National Collegiate Prep students get the opportunity to explore and learn about the Black community in Panama.

been out of the country,” she said. “My family and I travel in the United States but I wanted a different experience.”

Brown said that after interacting with young people her age and younger, she realized that “Afro-

visited Afro-Panamanian towns such as Portobelo in the Colon Province and Curunda, which is a ward that is majority AfroPanamanian in Panama City.

She said that the students at one point worked with their Panamanian counterparts to

have pride in their culture,” Cox said. “One way to have pride is cleaning your surroundings.”

Keimare McClary, a student who went on the trip, told the AFRO that he likes to travel and recognizes that doing so offers unique opportunities.

and started talking.

“We talked about education and things like that,” McClary said. “I found out that we have a lot in common. I found the people of Panama to be nice and there was a lot of energy around them.”

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Continued from B1 her from her home to the Anacostia Metro station and then on the Green Line to take her to work. Jackson, 61, then takes the reverse route to get home.

Officials from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority should set the schedules so that the buses are waiting for riders as soon as they get off the train, she said. “They shouldn’t have to wait an hour and a half,” Jackson said.

When the bus does come, it’s jam-packed with people, she said, forcing her to stand. She said she is already battling several injuries, is blind in her left eye, and is afraid of hurting herself if she falls on the bus.

Ty Johnson, also a resident of Anacostia, wishes WMATA ran trains more frequently on the Green Line. She added that the ongoing Safe Track program on the Red Line frequently makes her late for her retail job in Friendship Heights. “It’s ridiculous how long the surges are,” Johnson, 27, said.

Labor groups’ fight against privatization efforts within transit continued this week. On May 22, Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO held a news conference urging labor leaders to reject privatization and to endorse ATU Local 689’s proposal to stabilize and improve WMATA. Certain parts of the Fool D.C. Twice calls out the Circulator

for serving an average census tract that is 15 percent Whiter and 18 percent less Black than the District’s population. The Circulator runs six routes that go through Georgetown, Navy Yard, DuPont Circle, the National Mall, Adams Morgan, Woodley Park, and others. It only costs $1 to ride. “The decision to run the Circulator in areas with a wealthier, Whiter population created a politically influential constituency for the service,” the report said. “This in turn has created pressure on local politicians to defend the service and expand it, even into neighborhoods that are already covered by the existing Metrobus network.”

Meanwhile, three Metrobus lines already serve the rapidly gentrifying H Street corridor and transport more than 17,400 riders every weekday, according to the report. Those routes link commuters to job centers and serve residents living east of the Anacostia River in Wards 7 and 8, the report said.

“These routes already provide broader service than the streetcar does with the added flexibility of being able to maneuver around obstructions,” the report said.

According to the Washington Post article in July 2013, a privatization deal was supposed to include building a streetcar system in Anacostia and along H Street. To date, McDonald

Transit Associates, the contractor behind D.C. Streetcar, has only completed the H Street streetcar system.

First Transit, the contractor that operates D.C. Circulator, and McDonald Transit Associates did not respond to the AFRO’s requests for comment.

Ron Holzer, a WMATA spokesman, cautions against condemning all contracts.

To maximize efficiency while maintaining or enhancing service, General Manager Paul Wiedefeld’s has called for additional public sector support for Metro where it makes sense. “With regard to Circulator, DDOT (District Department of Transportation) and WMATA are working cooperatively to improve the performance of this particular contract,” Holzer told the AFRO via email.

Terry Owens, a DDOT spokesman told the {AFRO} via email that the agency continuously evaluates its transit services to determine where improvements can be made. He declined to comment further, saying he had not read the ATU report.

Yet for all of WMATA’s problems, Jackson, who doesn’t drive, says she’s grateful for the system.

“I thank God for Metro, because it takes me to where I need to go.”

“President Trump is proposing insidious cuts to programs American families depend on every day.”

Congressional Black Caucus would be better for the nation.

“The federal budget must reflect our nation’s priorities,” Scott said in a statement. “The CBC budget works to strengthen our economy by making meaningful investments in education, transportation and infrastructure, the environment, scientific research and maintains a strong social safety net that protects our most vulnerable. President Trump’s FY 18 budget seeks to cut $4.3 trillion over 10 years from program that support the most vulnerable and at the same time cuts taxes for the wealthiest Americans.”

In summary, the CBC budget would have $3.9 trillion in revenue enhancements by taxing the wealthy more; paying for universal health care coverage and supports primary, secondary and higher education with programs to help students manage debt and more money for HBCUs. “Robin Hood in reverse-stealing from those most vulnerable while rewarding those who already have the most,” said U.S. Rep. Donald McEachin (D-Va.).

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programs, especially affecting the most vulnerable Americans, we were able to achieve a better-than-expected result for the District of Columbia,” Norton said in a statement. “However, I am already preparing to mount a coordinated effort with a broad coalition of allies to fight the anti-home rule riders blocking local D.C. laws during the upcoming appropriations process.”

The delegate noted positives in the president’s budget such as $30 million for the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant that helps D.C. students pay in-state tuition costs at public universities in other states and a financial aid for private institutions. However, the budget contains a rider that would try to block the city’s Death With Dignity Act (DWA) that became law without congressional interference earlier this year and Norton said that she will attempt to stop the “no local funds can be used” provision of the budget to prevent DWA. The budget also contains familiar riders such as prohibiting the city from using its funds for abortions for low-income women and on commercializing marijuana and Norton said she would fight those, too.

Norton, who has served as a delegate to the U.S. Congress since 1991, was pleased that the budget contained funds for ongoing construction at St. Elizabeths West for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security headquarters and $150 million for capital improvements for Washington’s bus and subway system.

U.S. Rep. Anthony Brown (D-Md.) represents much of Prince George’s County and parts of Anne Arundel County didn’t like the Trump proposal either.

“President Trump is proposing insidious cuts to programs American families depend on every day,” Brown said in a statement. “It is a laundry list of broken promises that targets the very people who need help the most. By cutting Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance, and slashing food stamps, disability

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-Rep. Anthony Brown insurance, school lunches, Meals on Wheels and Habitat for Humanity-Trump eviscerates effective and proven programs that help working poor, middle-class families and seniors.

“We need to invest in education, workforce training and scientific research in order to promote sustainable growth and create jobs. Instead this budget would be a catastrophic for my district, our state and our country.”

U.S. Rep. Robert Scott (D-Va.) said that the budget of the

In Memoriam

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outstanding because he put in the work to earn his 2nd Lt. Commission. This is the least that we could do for him.”

The fatal stabbing has left several wondering about the racial environment in the area.

But, according to University of Maryland — College Park (UMD) and Bowie students, who are both Black and White, racism isn’t as prevalent as the recent homicide suggests.

“I never really felt like there was a racial divide in our school,” Monica, a rising Black sophomore at UMD told the AFRO. “At least from my experience, it’s a great community here.” Monica, who declined to give her last name, said that she only felt a racial difference in class when her professors were trying to make points about race and class separation.

However, a few White students from UMD said they had heard of racial incidents, such as a noose that was found in a Frat House on campus around the beginning of May. “I know that one incident that happened in one of the frat houses had something to do with racism, so it’s definitely popping up for sure,” Sarah Hirsch, a rising junior, who is White, told the AFRO. “But I don’t think that any of my friends have felt a lot of racial hate…”

a new way. This has been important, because we know that government alone can’t end homelessness—it will take all of us working together.”

According to data from the National Network for Youth, many factors contribute to the overall number of homeless youth each year, but common reasons are family dysfunction, exiting the child welfare or juvenile justice systems, and sexual abuse. Research has shown that 21 percent to 42 percent of runaway and homeless youth were sexually abused before they left their homes, and that as many as 28 percent are forced to engage in ‘survival sex’ in exchange for food, shelter or money.

DHS Director Laura Zeilinger told the AFRO that the city initially did not focus on unaccompanied youth because it didn’t have the data necessary to make thoughtful policies and programs, but can now better assess, and connect resources to youth through the Point-in-Time count – an ongoing data collection system that tracks housing needs against availability and access. Coupled with social services, Zeilinger said better outcomes are possible.

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Charise Wallace contributed to this article.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM451 Shirley Dickey Decedent Theola Bethel Esq 3321 Toledo Terrace, Suite 203 Hyattsville, MD 20782 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Gloria Warren Carey , whose address is 6563 Ronald Rd., Capitol Hgths, MD 20743 , were appointed personal representative of the estate of Shirley Dickey, who died on July 30, 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., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before November 12, 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 November 12, 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 Publication: May 12, 2017 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Gloria Warren Carey Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM449 Ronald Adrian Daniels Decedent Jamison B. Taylor 1218 11th St. NW Washington, DC 20001 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Kiayanna Lashawn Daniels, whose address is 3683 Jay St., NE, #203, Washington, DC 20019 was, appointed personal representative of the estate of Ronald Adrian Daniels , who died on January 8, 2017 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts 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., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before November 12, 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 November 12, 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 Publication: May 12, 2017 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Kiayanna L. Daniels Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM440 Jewel Chappell-Frazier Decedenty NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Jeri K. Lee , whose address is 14211 W Harvard St., Goodyear, AZ 85395, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Jewel Chappell-Frazier , who died on March 25, 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., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before November 12, 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 November 12, 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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The Prince George’s County Alumnae Chapter (PGCAC) of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority presented “Girls in R.E.D.” – Ready, Empowered, and Destined at their dance, the 2017 Jabberwock Cotillion on May 7 at Martin’s Camelot in Upper Marlboro, Md.

(L-R) Tiye Smith, 2nd Runner-up; Khai Pinkston, 2017 Miss Jabberwock; Victoria Costen, 3rd Runner-Up and Olivia Mitchell, 1st Runner-Up Jabberwock Winner, Miss Khai Bentley Pinkston

2017 Jabberwock Committee

Photos by Mark Mahoney

2017 Jabberwock Contestants

Previous Jabberwock Winners: Miss Jabberwock Tanaya Saunders, 1999; Little Miss Jabberwock Tamika Lattimore, 1999; Miss Jabberwock Arndreya Price, 2003; Miss Jabberwock Erica Lewis, 2005; Miss Jabberwock Courtney Ford, 2009; Little Miss Jabberwock Niyah Brown, 2013; Miss Jabberwock Leah Herring, 2015; and Little Miss Jabberwock Khalea Turner, 2015

Wanda Rogers (at the mic), Chair - Prince George’s County Delta Alumnae Foundation; in the background: Greta Wiggins-Lewis, President - Prince George’s County Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

Prince George’s County State’s AttorneyAngela Alsobrooks, Courtney Ford, Alex Alsobrooks, Debra Ford

PGCAC President Greta WigginsLewis; PGCAC journalist Kathleen Driver and Andrea Young

Da’Sha Anderson and father, Mr. David Anderson Sr. (L-R) Monica Chavis, Miriam L. Brewer, Marcita Bentley-Pinkerton, Kim Parker-Brown

The Northern Virginia Urban League honored six champions in the community

Virginia Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam

Julia Pollard, national president, The Society and musician Saleem Wayne Waters

for leadership and community service and awarded $50,000 in scholarships to 10 Northern Virginia high school seniors at its 27th Annual Community Service and Scholarship Awards Gala on April 28 at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner in Virginia. The theme was “Celebrating Champions in Our Community.”

Money raised from the gala will benefit preservation of the Freedom House Museum, STEM education programs, STEM summer camps, STEM technology expositions, mentoring programs, leadership development programs for young professionals, and the scholarships.

Honorees: Darrell Green, Community Man of the Year Award; Brig. Gen.(Ret.) Leo Brooks, Jr., Leadership and Military Service Award; Mele Melton, Emerging Leader Award; Brig. Gen.(Ret.) Leo Brooks, Sr., Leadership and Military Service Award and Rep. Robert Scott(D-Va), Congressional Leadership Award

Marcia Dyson, Jan Adams, Michael Melton, Mele Melton and Joyce Moorehead

Tracey Walker, gala co-chair and Lavern Chatman, gala committee member

National Collegiate Preparatory Public Charter Marching Panthers

Cameron Noel, Duke Ellington Performing Arts High School student

Members of the Howard University chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William and Joyce Ward with Bernadette and George Lambert

Community Man of the Year, Darrell Green, NFL Hall of Famer (center) with scholarship recipients

(L to R) Students: Christian Thomas, Angel Collins Kara Chamberlaine, Craig Washington, Emmoni Morrisey, Mya Thompkins, Samya Queen, Myana Banks

Tracey Walker and Col. (Ret.) Clarence Miller with Naomi Brooks, accepting the award of behalf of her son, Gen. Vincent Brooks

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(Front), Willard Jasper, Darlyn Jasper, Glenda Turner, Diane McLaughlin and Wallace Burnett; (back row) Kenneth Younger and Sharon Younger Photos by Rob Roberts

The third annual D.C. College Signing Day to celebrate more than 1,500 college-bound high school seniors was held on April 28 at the Smith Center at The George Washington University.

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Dana Simpson, the Re-Engagement Center, Office of the State Superintendent of Education

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Star Jones Opens Up About ‘Daytime Divas’

By Nadine Matthews Special to the AFRO

Star Jones had already distinguished herself in the courtroom and on the airwaves when she got the call from Barbara Walters to be one of the inaugural co-hosts of the daytime chatfest, “The View.” The North Carolina born, New Jersey raised lawyer’s reputation as a tough on crime Brooklyn prosecutor opened the door for her to become a legal analyst on television at a time when television executives realized that true crime had started to intersect with entertainment.

Court TV was looking for a legal analyst for the infamous William Smith Kennedy rape trial and tapped Jones for the job. It wasn’t long before she came to the attention of Jeff Zucker, then head of NBC. Jones went on to give trenchant yet accessible legal analyses for a number of high

Jones, whose parents and sister live in Maryland, set about writing her first novel as cognitive training after undergoing open heart surgery. “My physician had advised that I do an activity that would not tax me physically but would exercise my mind. When you have your heart taken out of your body for 22 minutes there is always a concern that your short term and your long term memory might be affected.

Well this was a wonderful exercise for me to kind of gather up all of my memories and put them together in a fictional account,” she told the AFRO. That book became the novel, Satan’s Sisters and is the inspiration for Jones’ newest project the VH1 drama “Daytime Divas” starring Tichina Arnold and Vanessa Williams. “Daytime Divas” is about five co-hosts of a daytime talk show called “The Lunch Hour.” Like the book though, it explores much more than workplace politics and deeply delves into each woman’s off-screen life with family, friends, and community.

For source material, Jones looked at her own life. “Just like – Star Jones “Daytime Divas,” actually every story in “Satan’s Sisters” comes from someone I interviewed, was interviewed by, worked with, worked for, prosecuted. So it really was born of my gut. I wrote what I knew which is usually the first rule of any successful author; write what you know. There is a grain of truth in each one of the stories. “Daytime Divas” kept with that policy. That’s why I think the audience will spend most of their time thinking, ‘Ooh, who’s that about?’”

“My physician had advised that I do an activity that would not tax me physically but would exercise my mind.”

profile legal cases during the nineties including the Mike Tyson rape case and the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Her skill and charisma led to what is arguably her most famous television foray as one of the first hosts of “The View.” Walters’ pioneering concept brought together five women of various ages and backgrounds, to discuss the hot topics of the day.

Those experiences came full circle when

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Vanessa Williams, Tichina Arnold and Fiona Gubelmann in a scene from ‘Daytime Divas,’ which premieres on VH1 June 5.

She promised that the New York City set program, which premieres June 5, will be just as steamy as the novel on which it is based. “I was a little worried about that. The book was very steamy because daytime TV is very steamy you just don’t get to see it all. “Daytime Divas” took out some of the creepier steaminess but kept the sexy steaminess I would say.”

For all of her accomplishments, many of Star Jones’ personal challenges have also played out under harsh media scrutiny. In addition to having heart surgery, there was also her long battle with obesity. After shedding over a hundred pounds in the early aughts, there was a lot of pressure to disclose exactly how she lost the weight; something that for most people is a private matter.

Then there was the harsh characterization of her being, as the tabloid NY Post put it, a “Celebrity bridezilla” in the lead up to her wedding to banker Al Reynolds after a three month courtship and over the top proposal from him during a televised NBA game. They were

divorced four years later. Finally, there was her surprise on-air revelation that she had been fired from “The View” by ABC. Executive producers Barbara Walters and Bill Geddie both claim to have been blindsided by the timing of the disclosure, causing some bad blood. It remains unclear how much of the relationship has been repaired. Of Walters, Jones said, “Listen, we’ve had our issues but that’s because we’re family.

We may be dysfunctional but we’re still family.”

To get through these multiple challenges, Jones reveals that she drew on lessons learned from her family and that she enlisted professional help. “I choose not to focus on anything that was hurtful because clearly I got through it and I moved forward and I moved on.

If you look up you can get up. I know it was the way I was raised but it’s also a result of sitting down and doing the hard work in therapy. Not enough people talk about that that sometimes you need to sit down and talk about your own behavior and make sure that you are being the best person that you can be.”

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New Film Yet Another Bad Idea Waiting To Be Panned

most recognized films because not only did it receive attention after being unauthorized by Whether you’re listening close family and friends to the to “Lady Of My Life” on a deceased singer, but the tweets night drive home or “PYT” at and memes that were posted family cookout with an older on social media solidified how relative who’s complaining much of a train wreck it was. about “these kids today”, Many would think that after Michael Jackson and the Black releasing a critically-panned community have long had a film, the network would close relationship. shy away from doing this The world saw his again. Nope. The following transition into stardom from year Lifetime doubled down the early days of the Jackson with films like “Britney Five to his final days Ever After” (about before dying in 2009, pop singer Britney with countless jams Spears) and “Surviving comforting our ears Compton: Dre, Suge, through radios and and Michel’le,” (about speaker systems for rapper Dr. Dre, record decades. It’s safe to say mogul Suge Knight that in the Hall-of-Fame and rapper Michel’le) of Black culture, his confirming that even name will forever be with the negative hung in the stadium for response, they will what he’s done in the continue to make these music industry. films because people And yet, there’s that talk about them and last decade of Jackson’s watch them. life that we don’t want That this film is to really talk about. releasing on Memorial Sure his music was Courtesy photo Day weekend only great, but Michael was Navi, a Michael Jackson impersonator, is makes this week full changing in front of our the start of Lifetime’s ‘Michael Jackson: of promotions and eyes. The person who commercial for the film Searching For Neverland.’ produced one of the even more unappealing. most innovative music Searching For videos of all time (“Thriller”) it’s obvious that the film Neverland will most likely would soon change his look covers a troubled time during be a film that gets the high and eventually face a court Jackson’s life. However, fifteen ratings and funny memes, case that completely changed seconds into this creepy trailer, but it continues to be another the world’s perception of this you see a gloomy Michael decision to move forward pop star.

Jackson, portrayed by real life with a situation that the With this in mind, it Jackson impersonator Navi, in Black community isn’t here would be a little “off” to a series of clips that shows him for. Michael Jackson, like make a biopic about Michael with mostly with….children?

Aaliyah…..and Michel’le, is a Jackson’s journey during “Searching For Neverland” considered a cultural figure to his most tumultuous period isn’t the first shady TVmultiple generations of African in life. Unfortunately, cable production that Lifetime has Americans, but with these films channel Lifetime has stepped made. The television network being pushed out by Lifetime up to make the Jackson TV has had a recent reputation for it seems like this won’t be the biopic that no one asked for making controversial TV films end of their work. So when this “Michael Jackson: Searching that show celebrities’ lives in movie drops on the May 29th, For Neverland,” which will a different light. Many think expect to see anger, frustration, premiere on May 29. of the film “Aaliyah: Princess and new memes show up on The film is based off of R&B” as one of Lifetime’s your timeline.

By Vance Brinkley Special to the AFRO

of the book Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson In His Final Days, a memoir of the singer’s last years of life through the eyes of his personal bodyguards, Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard (portrayed by Sam Adegoke and former “The Walking Dead” actor Chad L. Coleman). Lifetime released a teaser trailer of the film last week, and received everything but critical acclaim.

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20001, on or before November 19, 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 November 19, 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 relationLEGAL NOTICES ship.

Date of Publication: May 19, 2017 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Margaret Shanks Personal Representative

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Administration No. 2017ADM533 Odessa Vest Davis Decedent TYPESET: Tue May 23 12:48:54 EDT 2017 Andrew W. Aitchison 684 4th St. NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney Superior Court of NOTICE OF the District of APPOINTMENT, District of Columbia NOTICE TO PROBATE DIVISION CREDITORS Washington, D.C. AND NOTICE TO 20001-2131 UNKNOWN HEIRS Administration No. Emma Vonzile Hack, 2017ADM527 whose address is 686 4th Marjorie Lockley Mack St NE, Washington, DC Decedent 20002 was appointed James C. Beadles Esq personal representative 2341 Massanuttan of the estate of Odessa Drive Vest Davis, who died on Silver spring, MD 20906 January 16, 2014 without Attorney a will, and will serve withNOTICE OF out Court supervision. All APPOINTMENT, unknown heirs and heirs NOTICE TO LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES whose whereabouts are CREDITORS unknown shall enter their AND NOTICE TO appearance in this UNKNOWN HEIRS proceeding. Objections Camille Robinson, to such appointment whose address is 5102 shall be filed with the Salima St., Clinton, MD, Register of Wills, D.C., 20735 was appointed 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd personal representative Floor Washington, D.C. of the estate of Marjorie 20001, on or before Lockley Mack , who died November 26, 2017. on March 4, 2017 with a Claims against the deTRUE TEST COPY will, and will serve withcedent shall be preREGISTER OF WILLS out Court supervision. All sented to the underunknown heirs and heirs TYPESET: May 23 whose 12:49:15 EDT 2017 are signed with a copy to the 05/19, 05/26,Tue 06/2/17 where-abouts Register of Wills or filed unknown shall enter their with the Register of Wills appearance in this with a copy to the underproceeding. Objections Superior Court of signed, on or before to such appointment (or the District of November 26, 2017, or to the probate of deDistrict of Columbia be forever barred. Percedent´s will) shall be PROBATE DIVISION sons believed to be heirs filed with the Register of Washington, D.C. or legatees of the deWills, D.C., 515 5th 20001-2131 cedent who do not reStreet, N.W., 3rd Floor Administration No. ceive a copy of this notice Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

2017ADM513 by mail within 25 days of 20001, on or before Hugh D Brown its first publication shall November 26, 2017.

Decedent so inform the Register of Steve Larson-Jackson Claims against the deWills, including name, 1629 K Street, NW, cedent shall be preaddress and relationTRUE TEST COPY sented to the underSuite 300 ship.

REGISTER OF WILLS Washington, DC 20006 signed with a copy to the Date of Publication: Register of Wills or filed Attorney May 26, 2017 05/19, 05/26, 06/2/17 with the Register of Wills NOTICE OF TYPESET: Tue May 23 12:50:19 EDT 2017 Name of newspaper: with a copy to the underAPPOINTMENT, Afro-American signed, on or before NOTICE TO Washington November 26, 2017, or CREDITORS Law Reporter Superior Court of be forever barred. PerAND NOTICE TO Emma V. Hack the District of sons believed to be heirs UNKNOWN HEIRS Personal District of Columbia Cleoda Brown , whose or legatees of the deRepresentative PROBATE DIVISION address is 2000 Monroe cedent who do not reWashington, D.C. St. NE, Washington, DC ceive a copy of this notice TRUE TEST COPY 20001-2131 20018 , was appointed by mail within 25 days of REGISTER OF WILLS Administration No. personal representative its first publication shall 2017ADM516 of the estate of Hugh D so inform the Register of 05/26, 6/2, 06/9/17 Paulette Faison Zephir Brown , who died on Wills, including name, TYPESET: Tue May 23 12:46:06 Decedent March 4, 2017 without a address and relation12:48:33 EDT 2017 NOTICE OF will, and will serve with- ship.

APPOINTMENT, out Court supervision. All Date of Publication: SUPERIOR COURT OF NOTICE TO unknown heirs and heirs May 26, 2017 THE DISTRICT OF CREDITORS whose where-abouts are Name of newspaper: COLUMBIA AND NOTICE TO unknown shall enter their Afro-American PROBATE DIVISION UNKNOWN HEIRS a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Washington Washington, D.C. Jean- Paul Zephr and proceeding. Objections Law Reporter 20001-2131 J e a n - L u q u e Z e p h i r, to such appointment (or Camille Robinson Foreign No. whose address is 5011 to the probate of dePersonal 2017FEP59 3 r d S t r e e t , N W, Representative cedent´s will) shall be Date of Death Washington, DC 20011, filed with the Register of March 11, 2017 was appointed personal Wills, D.C., 515 5th TRUE TEST COPY Charlene Barrett representative of the Street, N.W., 3rd Floor REGISTER OF WILLS AKA estate of Paulette Faison W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Charlene Barrett-White Zephir, who died on 20001, on or before 05/26, TYPESET: Tue May 23 12:46:47 06/2, 06/9/17 DecedentEDT 2017 November 12, 2016 with- November 19, 2017.

NOTICE OF out a will, and will serve Claims against the deAPPOINTMENT without Court supervi- cedent shall be preSuperior Court of OF FOREIGN sion. All unknown heirs sented to the underthe District of PERSONAL a n d h e i r s w h o s e signed with a copy to the District of Columbia REPRESENTATIVE whereabouts are un- Register of Wills or filed PROBATE DIVISION AND known shall enter their with the Register of Wills Washington, D.C. NOTICE TO appearance in this with a copy to the under20001-2131 CREDITORS proceeding. Objections signed, on or before Administration No. Tia Charlita White whose to such appointment (or November 19, 2017, or 2017ADM525 address is 3402 C Street to the probate of de- be forever barred. Per- Thomas E Tribble SE, Washington, DC cedent´s will) shall be sons believed to be heirs AKA 20019 was appointed filed with the Register of or legatees of the de- Thomas Edward Trib- personal representative Wills, D.C., 515 5th cedent who do not re- ble of the estate of Charlene Street, N.W., 3rd Floor ceive a copy of this notice Decedent Barrett AKA Charlene Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . by mail within 25 days of NOTICE OF Barrett-White, deceased 20001, on or before its first publication shall APPOINTMENT, by the Orphan’s Court for November 19, 2017. so inform the Register of NOTICE TO Prince Georges County, Claims against the de- Wills, including name, CREDITORS State of Maryland, on cedent shall be pre- address and relationAND NOTICE TO April 10, 2017. sented to the under- ship.

UNKNOWN HEIRS Service of process may signed with a copy to the Date of Publication: Gloria D Tribble , whose be made upon Caren M Register of Wills or filed May 19, 2017 address is 4024 Hanson Webb, Esq, The Law Ofwith the Register of Wills Name of newspaper: Oaks Drive, Landover fice of C.M. Webb, 1308 with a copy to the under- Afro-American Hills, MD, 20784 was ap- Ninth street, NW, suite signed, on or before Washington pointed personal repre- 250, Washington, DC November 19, 2017, or Law Reporter sentative of the estate of 20001. be forever barred. PerCleoda Brown Thomas E Tribble AKA Te l : 2 0 2 - 3 5 1 - 6 8 1 5 sons believed to be heirs Personal Thomas Edward Tribble , whose designation as or legatees of the deRepresentative who died on March 27, District of Columbia cedent who do not re2017 with a will, and will agent has been filed with ceive a copy of this notice TRUE TEST COPY serve without Court su- the Register of Wills, by mail within 25 days of REGISTER OF WILLS pervision. All unknown D.C. its first publication shall heirs and heirs whose The decedent owned the so inform the Register of 05/19, 05/26, 06/2/17 whereabouts are un- f o l l o w i n g D i s t r i c t o f EDTenter 2017their Colombia real property: Wills, including name, TYPESET: Tue May 23 12:52:51 known shall address and relationappearance in this 3402 C street, SE and ship. proceeding. Objections 3451 Minnesota Ave SE. Date of Publication: SUPERIOR COURT OF to such appointment (or Claims against the deMay 19, 2017 THE DISTRICT OF to the probate of de- cedent may be preName of newspaper: COLUMBIA cedent´s will) shall be sented to the underAfro-American PROBATE DIVISION filed with the Register of signed and filed with the Washington Washington, D.C. Wills, D.C., 515 5th Register of Wills for the Law Reporter 20001-2131 Street, N.W., 3rd Floor District of Columbia, Jean-Paul Zephir Administration No. Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Building A, 515 5th Jean-Luque Zephir 2017ADM576 20001, on or before Street, NW., 3rd Floor, Personal Estate of November 26, 2017. Washington, DC 20001 Representative Anna A Lewis Claims against the de- within 6 months from the Deceased cedent shall be pre- date of first publication of TRUE TEST COPY NOTICE OF sented to the under- this notice. (Strike REGISTER OF WILLS STANDARD signed with a copy to the preceding sentence if no PROBATE Register of Wills or filed TYPESET: May 23 12:52:07 2017given with the Register of Wills real estate.)

05/19, 05/26,Tue 06/2/17 Notice isEDT hereby that a petition has been with a copy to the underTia Charlita White filed in this Court by Deb- signed, on or before Personal Superior Court of orah K Hines, Esq for November 26, 2017, or Representative(s) the District of standard probate, includ- be forever barred. PerTRUE TEST COPY District of Columbia ing the appoint-ment of sons believed to be heirs REGISTER OF WILLS PROBATE DIVISION one or more personal re- or legatees of the de- Date of first publication: Washington, D.C. presentative. Unless a cedent who do not re- May 26, 2017 20001-2131 complaint or an objection ceive a copy of this notice Name of newspapers Administration No. in accordance with by mail within 25 days of and/or periodical: 2017ADM512 Superior Court Probate its first publication shall The Daily Washington Dwellie Shanks Division Rule 407 is filed so inform the Register of Law Reporter Decedent in this Court within 30 Wills, including name, The Afro-American NOTICE OF days from the date of first address and relationAPPOINTMENT, publication of this notice, ship.

05/26, 06/2, 06/9/17 NOTICE TO the Court may take the Date of Publication: 12:51:22 EDT 2017 CREDITORS action hereinafter set May 26, 2017 AND NOTICE TO forth.

Name of newspaper: 0 UNKNOWN HEIRS Admit to probate the will Afro-American Margaret Shanks whose dated August 10, 2010 Washington address is 4815 Guilford exhibited with the petition Law Reporter Road, College Park, MD upon proof satisfactory to Gloria D Tribble 20740 was appointed the Court of due execuPersonal personal representative tion by affidavit of witRepresentative of the estate of Dwellie nesses or Otherwise Shanks , who died on Register of Wills TRUE TEST COPY April 1, 2017 witha will, Clerk of the REGISTER OF WILLS and will serve without Probate Division TYPESET: Tue May 23 12:47:07 EDT 2017 Court supervision. All un- Date of First Publication 05/26, 06/2, 06/09/17 known heirs and heirs May 19, 2017 whose whereabouts are Names of Newspapers: unknown shall enter their Washington Superior Court of appearance in this Law Reporter the District of proceeding. Objections Washington District of Columbia to such appointment (or AFRO-AMERICAN PROBATE DIVISION to the probate of de- Deborah K Hines Esq Washington, D.C. cedent´s will) shall be 2101 L Street NW Suite 20001-2131 filed with the Register of 800 Administration No. Wills, D.C., 515 5th Washington, DC 20037 2017ADM533 Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Signature of Odessa Vest Davis Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Petitioners/Attorney Decedent TYPESET: Tue May 23 12:48:54 EDT 2017 20001, on or before 05/19 05/26/17 Andrew W. Aitchison November 19, 2017.

684 4th St. NE Claims against the deWashington, DC 20002 cedent shall be preAttorney Superior Court of sented to the underNOTICE OF the District of signed with a copy to the APPOINTMENT, District of Columbia Register of Wills or filed NOTICE TO PROBATE DIVISION with the Register of Wills CREDITORS Washington, D.C. with a copy to the underAND NOTICE TO 20001-2131 signed, on or before UNKNOWN HEIRS Administration No. November 19, 2017, or Emma Vonzile Hack, 2017ADM527 be forever barred. Per- Marjorie Lockley Mack whose address is 686 4th sons believed to be heirs Decedent St NE, Washington, DC or legatees of the de- James C. Beadles Esq 20002 was appointed cedent who do not re- 2 3 4 1 M a s s a n u t t a n personal representative ceive a copy of this notice Drive of the estate of Odessa by mail within 25 days of Silver spring, MD 20906 Vest Davis, who died on its first publication shall Attorney January 16, 2014 without so inform the Register of a will, and will serve withNOTICE OF Wills, including name, out Court supervision. All APPOINTMENT, address and relationunknown heirs and heirs NOTICE TO ship. whose whereabouts are CREDITORS Date of Publication: unknown shall enter their AND NOTICE TO May 19, 2017 appearance in this UNKNOWN HEIRS Name of newspaper: C a m i l l e R o b i n s o n , proceeding. Objections Afro-American whose address is 5102 to such appointment Washington Salima St., Clinton, MD, shall be filed with the Law Reporter 20735 was appointed Register of Wills, D.C., CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Michael Forster , whose address is 2007 Vermont Ave. NW, was appointed personal representative of the estate of William P. Holloway, who died on October 21, 2001 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., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 19, 2017 .

Claims against the deLEGAL NOTICES cedent 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 November 19, 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 Publication: May 19, 2017 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Michael Forster Personal Representative

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20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM530 Pedro Valentin Decedent TYPESET: Tue May 23 12:49:35 EDT OF 2017 NOTICE TYPESET: Tue May 23 12:48:11 EDT 2017 APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS Superior Court of AND NOTICE TO the District of Superior Court of UNKNOWN HEIRS District of Columbia the District of Tonya Robinson and PROBATE DIVISION District of Columbia Recco Valentin, whose Washington, D.C. PROBATE DIVISION address is 4520 Foote 20001-2131 Washington, D.C. St., NE, Washington, DC Administration No. 20001-2131 20019 and 1608 18th St., 2017ADM518 Administration No. SE, Washington, DC Barbara J Ellis 2017ADM489 20020 were appointed AKA Michelle M. Pangallo personal representatives Barbara Jean Ellis AKA of the estate of Pedro Decedent Michelle Marie PangValentin, who died on NOTICE OF allo January 19, 2017 without APPOINTMENT, Decedent a will, and will serve withNOTICE TO Robert J. Coyne out Court supervision. All CREDITORS 400 University Blvd TYPESET: Tue May 23 12:51:47 EDT 2017 TYPESET: Tue May 23 12:55:27 EDT 2017 unknown heirs and heirs AND NOTICE TO West LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES whose whereabouts are UNKNOWN HEIRS Silver Spring, MD Marsha R, Ellis, whose unknown shall enter their 20904 a p p e a r a n c e i n t h is address is 9718 WoodSuperior Court of Superior Court of Attorney yard Circle, Upper Marl- proceeding. Objections the District of the District of NOTICE OF boro, MD 20772, was ap- to such appointment District of Columbia District of Columbia APPOINTMENT, shall be filed with the pointed personal PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION NOTICE TO representative of the Register of Wills, D.C., Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. CREDITORS estate of Barbara J. Ellis 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd 20001-2131 20001-2131 AND NOTICE TO AKA Barbara Jean Ellis, Floor Washington, D.C. Administration No. Administration No. UNKNOWN HEIRS who died on November 20001, on or before 2017ADM494 2017ADM481 Clement D. Pangallo, 22, 2016 with a will, and November 19, 2017.

James H. Nero Sr. whose address is 4907 Clara Louise Staley will serve without Court Claims against the deDecedent 48th St., NW, Washing- Decedent supervision. All unknown cedent shall be preNOTICE OF NOTICE OF ton, DC 20016, was apheirs and heirs whose sented to the underAPPOINTMENT, APPOINTMENT, pointed personal reprewhereabouts are un- signed with a copy to the NOTICE TO NOTICE TO sentative of the estate of known shall enter their Register of Wills or filed CREDITORS CREDITORS Michelle M. Pangallo with the Register of Wills appearance in this AND NOTICE TO AND NOTICE TO AKA Michelle Marie proceeding. Objections with a copy to the underUNKNOWN HEIRS UNKNOWN HEIRS Pangallo , who died on Lorraine C. Nero , whose February 26, 2017 witha Eboni Staley-Brown , to such appointment (or signed, on or before address is 1320 Van will, and will serve with- whose address is 5029 to the probate of de- November 19, 2017, or Buren St., NW, Washing- out Court supervision. All 4th Street, NW, Washing- cedent´s will) shall be be forever barred. Perton, DC, 20012 was ap- unknown heirs and heirs ton, DC 20011 , was ap- filed with the Register of sons believed to be heirs or legatees of the depointed personal repre- whose where-abouts are pointed personal repre- Wills, D.C., 515 5th sentative of the estate of unknown shall enter their sentative of the estate of Street, N.W., 3rd Floor cedent who do not receive a copy of this notice Clara Louise Staley , who W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

James H Nero, Sr., who a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s died on February 28, proceeding. Objections died on March 15, 2017 20001, on or before by mail within 25 days of 2017 with a will, and will to such appointment (or without a will, and will November 19, 2017. its first publication shall serve without Court su- to the probate of de- serve without Court su- Claims against the de- so inform the Register of pervision. All unknown cedent´s will) shall be pervision. All unknown cedent shall be pre- Wills, including name, heirs and heirs whose filed with the Register of heirs and heirs whose sented to the under- address and relationwhereabouts are un- signed with a copy to the ship. where-abouts are un- Wills, D.C., 515 5th known shall enter their Street, N.W., 3rd Floor known shall enter their Register of Wills or filed Date of Publication: with the Register of Wills May 19, 2017 appearance in this appearance in this Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . proceeding. Objections 20001, on or before proceeding. Objections with a copy to the under- Name of newspaper: to such appointment (or November 19, 2017. to such appointment (or signed, on or before Afro-American to the probate of de- Claims against the de- to the probate of de- November 19, 2017, or Washington cedent´s will) shall be cedent shall be pre- cedent´s will) shall be be forever barred. Per- Law Reporter Tonya Robinson filed with the Register of sented to the under- filed with the Register of sons believed to be heirs Rico Valentin or legatees of the deWills, D.C., 515 5th signed with a copy to the Wills, D.C., 515 5th Personal Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Register of Wills or filed Street, N.W., 3rd Floor cedent who do not reRepresentative ceive a copy of this notice Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . with the Register of Wills W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before with a copy to the under- 20001, on or before by mail within 25 days of November 12, 2017. signed, on or before November 19, 2017. its first publication shall TRUE TEST COPY Claims against the de- November 19, 2017, or Claims against the de- so inform the Register of REGISTER OF WILLS cedent shall be pre- be forever barred. Per- cedent shall be pre- Wills, including name, 05/19, 05/26, 06/2/17 sented to the under- sons believed to be heirs sented to the under- address and relation- TYPESET: Tue May 23 signed with a copy to the or legatees of the de- signed with a copy to the ship.

Register of Wills or filed cedent who do not re- Register of Wills or filed Date of Publication: with the Register of Wills ceive a copy of this notice with the Register of Wills May 19, 2017 Superior Court of with a copy to the under- by mail within 25 days of w i t h a c o p y t o t h e Name of newspaper: the District of signed, on or before its first publication shall November 19, 2017 , or Afro-American District of Columbia November 12, 2017, or so inform the Register of be forever barred. Per- Washington PROBATE DIVISION be forever barred. Per- Wills, including name, sons believed to be heirs Law Reporter Washington, D.C. Marsha R. Ellis sons believed to be heirs address and relation- or legatees of the de20001-2131 Personal cedent who do not reor legatees of the de- ship.

Administration No. Representative ceive a copy of this notice cedent who do not re- Date of Publication: 2017ADM531 by mail within 25 days of ceive a copy of this notice May 19, 2017 Ernesteene Best its first publication shall TRUE TEST COPY by mail within 25 days of Name of newspaper: AKA so inform the Register of REGISTER OF WILLS its first publication shall Afro-American Ernestine Best Wills, including name, so inform the Register of Washington DecedentEDT 2017 May 23 12:54:26 05/19, 05/26,Tue 06/2/17 address and relation- TYPESET: Wills, including name, Law Reporter Howard C Boyd Esq address and relationClement D Pangallo ship.

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Personal Date of Publication: Suite 100-482 Superior Court of Date of Publication: Representative May 19, 2017 Washington, DC 20005 the District of Name of newspaper: May 12, 2017 Attorney District of Columbia Afro-American Name of newspaper: TRUE TEST COPY NOTICE OF PROBATE DIVISION Washington Afro-American REGISTER OF WILLS APPOINTMENT, Washington, D.C. Law Reporter Washington NOTICE TO 20001-2131 Eboni Staley-Brown Law Reporter 05/19, 05/26, 06/2/17 CREDITORS 2017 Administration No. Lorraine C Nero TYPESET: Tue May 23 12:47:51 EDT Personal AND NOTICE TO 2017ADM253 Representative Personal UNKNOWN HEIRS Robert L. Curry III Representative Patricia Powell Peacock , Decedent TRUE TEST COPY Superior Court of Robert E Richards, Esq whose address is 3903 REGISTER OF WILLS TRUE TEST COPY the District of 11 2 5 3 - B L o c k w o o d Butterstream Way, NW REGISTER OF WILLS District of Columbia Kennesaw, GA 30144 , TYPESET: May 23 12:49:56 EDT 2017 Drive 05/19, 05/26,Tue 06/2/17 PROBATE DIVISION S i l v e r S p r i n g , M D appointed personal reWashington, D.C. TYPESET: Tue May 23 12:51:00 EDT 2017 presentative of the estate 20901 05/12, 05/19, 05/26/17 20001-2131 of Ernesteene Best AKA Attorney Superior Court of Administration No. Ernestine Best , who died NOTICE OF the District of 2017ADM503 Superior Court of on September 5, 2010 APPOINTMENT, District of Columbia Charles L. Bartlett the District of without a will, and will NOTICE TO PROBATE DIVISION Decedent District of Columbia serve without Court suCREDITORS Washington, D.C. Jay M Eisenberg, Esq PROBATE DIVISION pervision. All unknown AND NOTICE TO 20001-2131 12505 Park Potomac Washington, D.C. heirs and heirs whose UNKNOWN HEIRS Administration No. Ave 20001-2131 Sean E Curry , whose ad- whereabouts are un2017ADM499 6th Floor Administration No. dress is 11703 Lauer known shall enter their Carlton Abney Potomac, MD 20854 2017ADM524 appearance in this Court, Clinton, MD Decedent Attorney Gwendolyn J. Evans 20735, was appointed proceeding. Objections NOTICE OF NOTICE OF Decedent personal representative to such appointment APPOINTMENT, APPOINTMENT, Tina Smith Nelson of the estate of Robert L. shall be filed with the NOTICE TO NOTICE TO 601 E Street, NW Curry, III, who died on Register of Wills, D.C., CREDITORS CREDITORS Washington, DC 20049 October 14, 2012 without 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd AND NOTICE TO AND NOTICE TO Attorney a Will a will, and will serve Floor Washington, D.C. UNKNOWN HEIRS UNKNOWN HEIRS NOTICE OF The Glenmede Trust Karla Abney and Karen with Court supervision. 20001, on or before APPOINTMENT, Company , NA by Robert Pennington , whose ad- All unknown heirs and November 19, 2017.

NOTICE TO M. Maxwell, Managing dress is 539 Madison h e i r s w h o s e Claims against the deCREDITORS Director , whose address Street NW, Washington, whereabouts are un- cedent shall be preAND NOTICE TO is 1650 Market St., Suite DC 20011/ 6806 Dun- known shall enter their sented to the underUNKNOWN HEIRS signed with a copy to the appearance in this Tiauana Roberts, whose 1200, Philadelphia, PA nigan Dr., Clinton, MD proceeding. Objections Register of Wills or filed address is 5115 3rd 19103-7391, was ap- 20735 , were appointed to such appointment with the Register of Wills Street, NW, Washington, pointed personal repre- personal representative sentative of the estate of of the estate of Carlton shall be filed with the with a copy to the underDC 20011, was apRegister of Wills, D.C., signed, on or before pointed personal repre- Charles L. Bartlett , who Abney , who died on July 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd November 19, 2017 , or sentative of the estate of died on February 17, 19, 2016 with a will, and Floor Washington, D.C. be forever barred. PerGwendolyn J. Evans, 2017 with a will, and will will serve without Court sons believed to be heirs 20001, on or before who died on December serve without Court su- supervision. All unknown September 24, 2017. or legatees of the de10, 2016 without a will, pervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose Claims against the de- cedent who do not reand will serve without heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are uncedent shall be pre- ceive a copy of this notice known shall enter their whereabouts are unCourt supervision. All unsented to the under- by mail within 25 days of known heirs and heirs known shall enter their a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s proceeding. Objections signed with a copy to the its first publication shall whose whereabouts are a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Register of Wills or filed so inform the Register of unknown shall enter their proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to such appointment (or to the probate of de- with the Register of Wills Wills, including name, appearance in this with a copy to the under- address and relationproceeding. Objections to the probate of de- cedent´s will) shall be ship. signed, on or before filed with the Register of cedent´s will) shall be to such appointment September 24, 2017, or Date of Publication: shall be filed with the filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor be forever barred. Per- May 19, 2017 Register of Wills, D.C., Wills, D.C., 515 5th sons believed to be heirs Name of newspaper: 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Street, N.W., 3rd Floor W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before or legatees of the de- Afro-American Floor Washington, D.C. W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . cedent who do not re- Washington 20001, on or before 20001, on or before November 19, 2017. ceive a copy of this notice Law Reporter November 19, 2017. November 19, 2017. Claims against the dePatricia Powell Peacock by mail within 25 days of Claims against the de- Claims against the de- cedent shall be prePersonal its first publication shall cedent shall be pre- cedent shall be pre- sented to the underRepresentative so inform the Register of sented to the under- sented to the under- signed with a copy to the Wills, including name, signed with a copy to the signed with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed address and relation- TRUE TEST COPY Register of Wills or filed Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills REGISTER OF WILLS ship. with the Register of Wills with the Register of Wills with a copy to the underDate of Publication: with a copy to the under- with a copy to the under- signed, on or before 05/19, 05/26,Tue 06/2/17 March 24, 2017 TYPESET: May 23 signed, on or before signed, on or before November 19, 2017, or Name of newspaper: November 19, 2017, or November 19, 2017 , or be forever barred. PerAfro-American be forever barred. Per- be forever barred. Per- sons believed to be heirs Washington Superior Court of sons believed to be heirs sons believed to be heirs or legatees of the deLaw Reporter the District of or legatees of the de- or legatees of the de- cedent who do not reSean E Curry ceive a copy of this notice District of Columbia cedent who do not re- cedent who do not rePersonal by mail within 25 days of ceive a copy of this notice PROBATE DIVISION ceive a copy of this notice Representative Washington, D.C. by mail within 25 days of by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall 20001-2131 its first publication shall its first publication shall so inform the Register of TRUE TEST COPY Administration No. so inform the Register of so inform the Register of Wills, including name, REGISTER OF WILLS 2016ADM1273 Wills, including name, Wills, including name, address and relationWilliam P. Holloway address and relation- address and relation- ship.

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TYPESET: Tue May 23 12:50:40 EDT 2017 May 19, 2017 Date of Publication: Michael Forster Date of Publication: Name of newspaper: May 19, 2017 2007 Vermont Avenue, May 19, 2017 Afro-American Name of newspaper: Nw Name of newspaper: Superior Court of Washington Afro-American Washington, DC 20001 Afro-American the District of Law Reporter Washington Attorney Washington District of Columbia Karla Abney Law Reporter NOTICE OF Law Reporter PROBATE DIVISION Karen Pennington APPOINTMENT, Tiauana Roberts Washington, D.C. Personal NOTICE TO Personal 20001-2131 Representative CREDITORS Representative The Glenmede Trust Administration No. Company, NA by Robert AND NOTICE TO 2017ADM530 M. Maxwell, Managing TRUE TEST COPY UNKNOWN HEIRS TRUE TEST COPY Pedro Valentin REGISTER OF WILLS Director Michael Forster , whose REGISTER OF WILLS Decedent Personal address is 2007 Vermont TYPESET: Tue May 23 12:49:35 EDT 2017 NOTICE OF 05/19, 05/26, 06/2/17 Ave. NW, was appointed 05/19, 05/26,Tue 6/2/17 TYPESET: May 23 12:48:11 Representative EDT 2017 APPOINTMENT, personal representative NOTICE TO TRUE TEST COPY of the estate of William P. CREDITORS Superior Court of REGISTER OF WILLS Holloway, who died on Superior Court of AND NOTICE TO the District of October 21, 2001 without the District of UNKNOWN HEIRS District of Columbia 05/19, 05/26, 06/2/17 a will, and will serve with District of Columbia Tonya Robinson and Court supervision. All unPROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION Recco Valentin, whose Washington, D.C. known heirs and heirs Washington, D.C. address is 4520 Foote whose whereabouts are 20001-2131 20001-2131 St., NE, Washington, DC unknown shall enter their Administration No. Administration No. 20019 and 1608 18th St., a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s 2017ADM518 2017ADM489 SE, Washington, DC proceeding. Objections Barbara J Ellis Michelle M. Pangallo 20020 were appointed to such appointment AKA AKA personal representatives shall be filed with the Barbara Jean Ellis Michelle Marie Pangof the estate of Pedro Register of Wills, D.C., Decedent allo Valentin, who died on 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd NOTICE OF Decedent January 19, 2017 without Floor Washington, D.C. APPOINTMENT, Robert J. Coyne a will, and will serve with- 20001, on or before NOTICE TO 400 University Blvd out Court supervision. All November 19, 2017 .

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LEGAL NOTICES

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CERTIFICATION OF PUBLICATION CITY OF BALTIMORE OFFICE OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS PUBLIC NOTICE PROJECT NO. 1267 ON-CALL WATER DESIGN AND ENGINEERING SERVICES The City of Baltimore Office of Boards and Commissions has been requested by the Department of Public Works, Office of Engineering and Construction, to advertise for the services of Civil/ Environmental Engineering Firms to perform on-call water design and engineering services for the Office of Engineering and Construction. Two (2) firms will be selected to perform designs related to rehabilitation/replacement, repairs, maintenance and new construction for water systems.

TYPESET: Wed May 24 12:05:53 EDT 2017 The firms interested in providing these services must demonstrate and document: CERTIFICATION OF PUBLICATION 1.Expertise in responding to water systems emergencies involving valves CITYbreaks OF BALTIMORE and pipes and hydrants, main , main leaks, etc. and providing design OFFICE OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS documents (drawing/sketches, specifications and cost estimates) in a PUBLIC NOTICE timely manner for emergency repairs.

PROJECT NO. 1267 2. Experience in designing water system components using trenchless ON-CALLincluding WATERcleaning DESIGNand AND ENGINEERING technologies lining, CIPP lining,SERVICES pipe bursting, slip lining and some tunneling.

The City of Baltimore Office of Boards and Commissions has been requested by theinDepartment of Public 3.Experience Water System design Works, Office of Engineering and Construction, to advertise for the services of Civil/ Environmental Engineering Firms to perform on-call water designplans, and engineering services for the 4.Expertise in preparation of contract specifications, and cost esOffice of Engineering and replacement Construction.ofTwo (2) and firmslarge will be selected to timates for urgent need small diameter water perform mains designs related to rehabilitation/replacement, repairs, maintenance and new construction for water systems.

5.Expertise in providing technical support services through contract bidding The interested providing these mustcontract demonstrate and andfirms in providing postinaward services forservices urgent need document: 6.Experience in preparing, revising and updating Standard Contract 1.Expertise in responding water systems emergencies involving valves Specifications and Detailstofor water main replacement and rehabilitation. and pipes and hydrants, main breaks , main leaks, etc. and providing design documents specifications cost estimates) in a 7.Expertise(drawing/sketches, in preparing and updating material and specifications and standard timely manner for emergency repairs. details, and evaluating and recommending technologies and products for rehabilitation of various appurtenances and components for water distribu2.tion Experience systems. in designing water system components using trenchless technologies including cleaning and lining, CIPP lining, pipe bursting, slip lining and some in tunneling.

8.Experience geotechnical investigations, test pits, surveying, and preparing right-of way and right-of-entry documents.

3.Experience in Water System design 9.Knowledge of Federal, State and Local regulations, permitting 4.Expertise in preparation of contract plans, specifications, and cost esrequirements and experience in obtaining permits on a fast-track basis. timates for urgent need replacement of small and large diameter water mains 10.Experience in various aspects of City’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) such as reading and generating maps, gathering, under5.Expertise in providing technical support contract bidding standing, review and verification of GIS services data, andthrough manipulating GIS data. and in providing post award services for urgent need contract The scope of services will include but not be limited to: 6.Experience in preparing, revising and updating Standard Contract Specifications Details water main replacement rehabilitation. *Respond to and water mainforemergencies and provideand design documents (drawings/sketches, technical specifications, and cost estimates) for emer7.Expertise in preparing updating specifications andand standard gency repairs to smalland and/or largematerial diameter water mains appurdetails, andnecessitated evaluating and products for tenances duerecommending to water main technologies breaks and/orand leaks.

All design rehabilitation of various appurtenances and components for water distribudocuments must be prepared and submitted on an expedited schedule with tion systems. little or no advance notification. Provide engineering services and field support as required during construction.

8.Experience in geotechnical investigations, test pits, surveying, and preparing way(contract and right-of-entry documents. *Prepareright-of design drawings and/or sketches), contract specifications and cost estimate for urgent need replacement and re9.Knowledge Federal, State and water Local mains regulations, permitting habilitation of of small and large diameter and appurtenances, requirements andspecialized experience in obtaining permits a fast-track basis. including any repairs to raw andonfinished water pipes/ components within Baltimore Water System. Provide engineering services 10.Experience in as various aspects City’s Geographic Information Sysand field support required duringofconstruction, as it relates to the design. tems (GIS) such as reading and generating maps, gathering, understanding, review and verification ofand GISMaterials data, andLists; manipulating *Revise/update Standard Details Develop GIS and data. update Baltimore City material specifications for water. Coordinate with City and The scope of services include but not be limited to: for inclusion in City’s Baltimore County, andwill review manufacturer requests approved material list. *Respond to water main emergencies and provide design documents (drawings/sketches, specifications, and cost estimates) emer*Prepare bid-ready technical documents (contract specifications and costfor estimate) gency repairs to small and/or large diameter mains and such appurfor new or replacement construction contracts water of on-call nature, as, tenances necessitated due torestoration water maincontracts, breaks and/or All designinpaving contracts, sidewalk water leaks. appurtenance documents be prepared and submitted on an expedited schedule with stallationsmust contracts, and urgent need water infrastructure rehabilitation little or no advance notification.

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Provide support as necessary, to the award of suchand contracts, support as required duringto, construction. including, but not limited pre-bid conference and bids review. *Prepare design (contract drawings and/or sketches), contract *Provide CAD drafting support as required for in-house design of respecifications and cost estimate for urgent water need mains, replacement replacement and rehabilitation of distribution prepareand Erosion habilitation of small and large diameter water assist mainsinand appurtenances, and Sedimentation Control (ESC) drawings, obtaining all necesincluding anyincluding specialized repairs to raw finished pipes/ sary permits NPDES, prepare cost and estimates, andwater provide other components within Baltimore Water System. Provide engineering services technical assistance as required. and field support as required during construction, as it relates to the design. *Geotechnical Investigation and survey work to support the City’s in-house *Revise/update Standard Details and Materials Lists; Develop and update designs.

Baltimore City material specifications for water. Coordinate with City and Baltimore County, andother reviewutility manufacturer requests forof inclusion in City’s *Research City and records, preparation Easement plats approved list. includingmaterial survey, where applicable, Right of Entry (ROE) & Right of Way (ROW) agreements, and co-ordination with the City of Baltimore Right of *Prepare bid-ready documents (contract specifications and cost estimate) Way Office where requested. for new or replacement construction contracts of on-call nature, such as, paving restoration contracts, water appurtenance *Assistcontracts, with othersidewalk water infrastructure related projects as necessary, incostallations andState urgent infrastructure rehabilitation ordinationcontracts, with Federal, andneed Localwater Agencies for obtaining necessary contracts.

Provide supportthe as necessary, upatosecond the award of suchwith contracts, permits. DPW reserves right to have interview eligible including, butservices not limited to, pre-bid andperiod bids review. firms. The would be for aconference two (2) year with an option to extend for an additional year at a fee not to exceed $1,000,000.00. *Provide CAD drafting support as required for in-house design of replacement and rehabilitation of distribution mains, preparewho Erosion City encourages consulting firms having thewater specified experience have not previously worked with the city and have the capacity to deliver the work specified in the scope to submit their proposal. Those consultants who are already working with the City are also eligible to apply. However, during presentation, these consultants (already working with City) must demonstrate and document their capacity and resources to deliver the design in time.

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Firms intending to submit a proposal as a prime consultant for this project should submit a ”Letter of Interest” to the Office of Boards and Commissions, 4 South Frederick Street, 4th Floor, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 (FAX: 410-396-3229). Since these letters are utilized to assist small, minority and women business enterprises in identifying potential teaming partners, the letters should be submitted within five (5) days of the date of the project’s advertisement. The letter should contain a contact person. Failure to submit a ”Letter of Interest” will not disqualify a firm submitting a proposal for the project.

Each prime consultant applying for this Project will be required to complete and submit an original Federal Form 255, along with five (5) copies, to the Office of Boards and Commissions. The Federal Form 255 and the five copies must be submitted on or before 12:00 P.M. (Noon) on June 26, 2017.

Submittals may not be accepted after this deadline.

Prequalification Requirement All architectural, engineering, and surveying firms listed in the specific proposal for the Project must be prequalified by the Office of Boards and Commissions for each applicable discipline at time of submittal for this Project. Any construction contractor listed in the specific proposal for the Project to perform work in an existing prequalification category must also be prequalified. A copy of the prime and sub consultant’s current Prequalification Certificate should be included in the bid submittal package.

Information regarding the prequalification process can be obtained by calling the Office of Boards and Commissions on 410.396.6883.

Insurance Requirements The consultant selected for the award of this project shall provide professional liability, auto liability, and general liability and workers’ compensa-

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Pursuant Subtitle 28 of All architectural, engineering, and orsurveying listed in the specific on size, Baltimore Legal Notices are $24.84 per inch. depending $100’s.

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Code (2000 Edition) - Minority and Women’s Business proposal for the Project must prequalified by the Office of Boards and Program, Minority Business Enterprise and Women’s Business Brochures Available cans.be EPA certified.(MBE) 1-800 (AFRO) 6892 Commissions for applicable discipline time of submittal for this Enterprise (WBE) participation goals apply toatthis contract.

1-866-629-0770 or each (312) 291-9169; sell@ Project. Any construction contractor listed in the specific proposal forProof the of Publication, please call 1-800-237-6892, ext. 244 For www.coolbranch.com. refrigerantfinders.com Project to perform existing prequalification category must also be The MBE goal is work 27 %in an prequalified.

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by NOTICES Both the proposed Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise firms must calling the Office of Boardsasand 410.396.6883. be named and identified an Commissions MBE or WBE on within Item 6 of the Standard Insurance Requirements Form (SF) 255 in the spaces provided for identifying outside key consultants/associates anticipated for utilization for this project.

The consultant selected for the award of this project shall provide professional liability,that autodoliability, and general liability and workers’ compensaAny submittals not include the proper MBE/WBE (in some instances tion insurances as required the City of Baltimore.

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MBE/WBE Requirements It is the policy of the City of Baltimore to promote equal business opportunity in the City’s contracting process. Pursuant to Article 5, Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code (2000 Edition) - Minority and Women’s Business Program, Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) participation goals apply to this contract.

The MBE goal is 27 % The WBE goal is 10 % Both the proposed Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise firms must be named and identified as an MBE or WBE within Item 6 of the Standard Form (SF) 255 in the spaces provided for identifying outside key consultants/associates anticipated for utilization for this project.

Any submittals that do not include the proper MBE/WBE (in some instances DBE) participation will be disapproved for further consideration for this

TYPESET: Wed May 24 12:07:03 EDT 2017 City of Baltimore Department of Finance Bureau of Purchases Sealed proposals addressed to the Board of Estimates of Baltimore will be received until, but not later than 11:00a.m. local time on the following date(s) for the stated requirements: June 19, 2017 *FUEL TRUCK B50005026 July 26, 2017 *LIGHT TOWERS B50005031 THE ENTIRE SOLICITATION DOCUMENT CAN BE VIEWED AND DOWN LOADED BY VISITING THE CITY’S WEB SITE: www.baltimorecitibuy.org

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The Davis-Bacon wage determinations shall apply.

DC Water Owner Controlled Insurance Program will provide insurance.

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Bid documents are available at the Department of Procurement, 5000 Overlook Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20032. Sets of Bidding Documents can be procured for a non-refundable $50.00 purchase price each, payable to DC Water. Payment must be in the form of a money order, certified check or a company check. Documents can be shipped to Bidders providing a Federal Express account number.

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TYPESET: Tue May 23 12:43:21 2017 LEGALEDT NOTICES DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY INVITATION TO BID INVITATION NO.: 150180 Small Diameter Water Main Replacement-12b The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) is soliciting bids for Invitation No. 150180: ”Small Diameter Water Main Replacement12b.”

05/26, 06/2, 06/9/17

*Experience with the current and Maryland State Highway PROJECT # 1276 - ON CALLBaltimore HIGHWAYCity DESIGN, PROJECT MANAGEAdministration design criteria,SUPPORT specifications, and standard details.

MENT, AND ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION *Overall team approach with Minority/Women Business Enterprises.

The City of Baltimore Office of Boards & Commissions has been requested Project design fees of have been estimated at $2,000,000 per consultant. by the Department Transportation, Transportation Engineering and Duration of the professional services contract is estimated to be three Construction Division to certify the qualifications of engineering firms (3) to years with the option to extend for one (1) year or until the upset limit is provide various on-call engineering services for the proposed imreached, whichever occurs first.

Five (5) consultants will be awarded conprovements to the City’s system of Streets and Highways for a two (2) year tracts. If with further required regarding this please concontract an information extension ofisup to one additional yearrequest, at the City’s option. tact Mr. David Nafisi at 410-396-6950. Projects must comply with the 2006 edition of The Specifications for Materials, Highways, Bridges, and The engineering design services to be provided include, but areUtilities not limited Incidental Structures. personnel willdrainage utilize the City of Baltimore to, developing roadwayCity alignment, storm improvements, street Guidelines for The Evaluation of Design Consultants and lighting, electric duct Performance banks, water and wastewater, reconstruction, streetConstruction Contractors? for this contract/project. scape, resurfacing, stormwater management, erosion and sediment control, pavement markings and traffic control, signal design, conduit ductbank Firms intending submit a proposal as a prime consultant forrelated this project design, surveys,toenvironmental site assessments and other civil should submit a Letter Interest to the Office of Boards and Commissions, engineering tasks.

The of scope of services may also include providing on-site 4 South Frederick Street, 4th Floor, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 (EMAIL: project management, construction management and/or inspectors, staff OBC.consultants@baltimorecity.gov), these letters arefor utilized to support, GIS and IT support and otherSince miscellaneous tasks various assist small, minority and women business enterprises in identifying potenCapital Improvement Projects.

Responsibilities will include preparation of tial teaming partners, the letters should beplans submitted within five (5)for days construction contract documents including and specifications bid.of the date of the project´s advertisement. The letter should contain a contact person.

Failure tomust submit a Letter of Interest will not disqualify a firm The selected firms demonstrate: submitting a proposal for the project. *Experience in Roadway Reconstruction, Civil, Utility, and Traffic EngineerEach consultant applying for this Project will be required to complete ing as prime well as Streetscape/Landscaping. and submit an original Federal Form 255, along with five (5) copies to the Office of Boards andcurrent Commissions, 4 South Frederick Street, Floor, *Experience with the Baltimore City and Maryland State4th Highway Baltimore, Maryland 21202. The Federal Form 255 and the five copies must

For procurement information contact DC Water Procurement Dept. via email; ProcurementConstructionInquiry@dcwater.com For technical information contact: DETS-Construction.

Bid.Inquiry@dcwater.com. Please insert the IFB No. in the Subject Line.

View DC Water’s website at www.dcwater.com for current and up coming solicitations.

TYPESET: Tue May 23 12:45:45 EDT 2017

The following listing enumerates the major items of work included in the contract:

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*Approximately 1.0 miles of water mains and associated valves and appurtenances. *Copper water services 2 inch and smaller in public and private space. *Curb stop /curb stop box, meter box and penetration through building wall and connection to first fitting inside the building including installation of a shut-off valve and pressure reducing valve. *Permanent pavement and surface restoration.

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS STATEMENTS

The project requires completion within 448 consecutive calendar days.

This project is estimated to cost between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00 DC Water will receive Bids until 2:00 p.m., local standard time on June 21, 2017.

A Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be conducted on June 07, 2017. The Conference will begin at 10:00 am and end at 12:00 pm in the Conference Room at DC Water’s Blue Plains Visitor Center located at 5000 Overlook Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20032. All attendees are required to make reservations for this Conference by submitting to dets-construction.bid. inquiry@dcwater.com the name, title and firm name of the attendee(s), by 3:00 p.m. on May 29, 2017.

16:39:43 EDT 2017 This project may be funded in part by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A Fair Share Objective for Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises (M/WBEs) participation in this work of 32% and 6%, respectively, has been established. Participation by M/WBEs at the 32% and 6% level, respectively, is a contract goal. The contract requires bidders to conduct directed outreach to M/WBEs. The program requirements are fully defined in USEPA’s ”Participation by Disadvantaged Enterprises in Procurement under EPA Financial Assistant Agreements - May 27, 2008.”

Please be aware that program participation requires M/WBEs are made aware of contracting opportunities to the fullest extent practicable through TYPESET:outreach Wed May 12:06:43 EDT 2017 That is, bidders for DC Water dedicated and24recruitment activities. construction contracts must make prescribed ”good faith efforts” to ensure that M/WBEs receive a ”fair share” of procurement opportunities funded by CERTIFICATION OFtoPUBLICATION EPA. For further guidance, please refer 40 C.F.R.§ 33.301, or contact DC Water Grants Coordinator Rhonda Green at 202-787-2276.

CITY OF BALTIMORE OFFICE BOARDS AND The Davis-Bacon wageOF determinations shallCOMMISSIONS apply.

PUBLIC NOTICE DC Water Owner Controlled Insurance Program will provide insurance.

PROJECT # 1276 - ON CALL HIGHWAY DESIGN, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, AND ENGINEERING SERVICES DEPARTMENT Bid documents are availableSUPPORT at the Department ofFOR Procurement, 5000 OF TRANSPORTATION Overlook Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20032. Sets of Bidding Documents can be procured for a non-refundable $50.00 purchase price each, payable The of Baltimore & Commissions has been requested to DCCity Water.

PaymentOffice must of beBoards in the form of a money order, certified check by athe Department Transportation, Engineering and or company check.ofDocuments can beTransportation shipped to Bidders providing a Construction Division to certify the qualifications of engineering firms to Federal Express account number. provide various on-call engineering services for the proposed improvements to the City’s system of Streets and Highways for a two (2) year The DC Water Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant is a contract with an extension of up to one additional year at the City’s option. secured facility.

Persons intending to pick-up Bidding Documents are to contact the Department of Procurement at 202 787 2020 for access auThe engineering design services to be provided include, but are not limited thorization. to, developing roadway alignment, storm drainage improvements, street lighting, electric duct banks, water and DC wastewater, reconstruction, streetFor procurement information contact Water Procurement Dept. via scape,ProcurementConstructionInquiry@dcwater.com resurfacing, stormwater management, erosion and sediment conemail; trol, pavement markings and traffic control, signal design, conduit ductbank design, surveys, environmental assessments and other related civil For technical information contact:site DETS-Construction. engineering tasks. The scope of services alsoNo. include on-site Bid.Inquiry@dcwater.com.

Please insert may the IFB in theproviding Subject Line. project management, construction management and/or inspectors, staff TYPESET: Tue Mayother 23 15:51:47 EDT tasks 2017 support, andwebsite IT support and miscellaneous various View DC GIS Water’s at www.dcwater.com for current and for up coming TYPESET: Wed May Projects.

24 12:06:43 EDT 2017 Capital Improvement Responsibilities will include preparation of solicitations. construction contract documents including plans and specifications for bid.

BASIC ORDERING AGREEMENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT (DCFA #489-WSA) The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) requests the submittal of combined Qualifications Statements for the performance of professional engineering and related services under the proposed agreement. The selected engineering firm, project team of engineering firms, or joint venture, will provide Construction Management and related engineering services during bid and construction phases at DC Water’s Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant.

The agreement resulting from this request for qualifications statements may be funded in part by the United States Government. Accordingly, this agreement resulting from this request for qualifications statements will be subject to all pertinent Federal requirements, inclusive of the EPA Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program which revises US EPA’s Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Women Business Enterprise (WBE) program. In accordance with the DBE requirements, a Fair Share Objective for Minority and Women Business Enterprises participation in this work of 28% and 4%, respectively, has been established.

Interested firms should contact Ms. Senail Manley directly on (202) 787-2363, by facsimile number (202) 787-2453, or by e-mail - Senail.

Manley@dcwater.com, to obtain a more detailed Request for Qualifications. Request must refer to DCFA #489-WSA. Qualifications Statements are due June 20, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. EST.

in the City´s contracting process. Pursuant to Article 5, Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code (2000 Edition) - Minority and Women´s Business Program, Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Women´s Business Enterprise (WBE) participation goals apply to this contract.

The MBE goal is 27% The WBE goal is 10% Both the proposed Minority and Women´s Business Enterprise firms must be named and identified as an MBE or WBE within Item 6 of the Standard Form (SF) 255 in the spaces provided for identifying outside key consultants/associates anticipated for utilization for this project.

Any submittals that do not include the proper MBE/WBE (in some instances DBE) participation will be disapproved for further consideration for this project.

Verifying Certification Each firm submitting a SF 255 for consideration for a project is responsible for verifying that all MBEs and WBEs to be utilized on the project are certified by the Minority and Women´s Business Opportunity Office (MWBOO) prior to submitting the proposal. A directory of certified MBEs and WBEs is available from MWBOO. Since changes to the directory occur daily, firms submitting SF 255?s should call MWBOO at (410) 396-4355 to verify certification, expiration dates and services that the MBE or WBE is certified to provide.

CAREER CORNER

inNon-Affiliation the City´s contracting process. Pursuant to Article 5, Subtitle 28 of French Teacher,OF High School. Teach Advanced Placement (AP) & International BaccalauCERTIFICATION PUBLICATION Baltimore City Code (2000 Edition) - Minority and Women´s Business The selected firms must demonstrate: reate (IB) French (Honors pre-AP/IB French I, IB French II, III, IV); which include advanced Program, Minority Enterprise and Women´s A firm submitting a Business proposal may not use (MBE) an MBE or WBE to meetBusiness a contract CITY OF BALTIMORE Enterprise participation goals& apply to this contract. goalPrepare if: (WBE)course *Experience in courses Roadway Reconstruction, Civil, Utility, andcredit Traffic Engineerin which college-level is granted. syllabi quarterly topic OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS ing as well as OFFICE Streetscape/Landscaping. outlines.

Develop unit plans & course materials based on standardized syllabus & daily PUBLIC The MBE goal 1.The firm hasisa27% financial interest in the MBE or WBE lesson plans perNOTICE AP & IB framework & standards.

Foster Xaverian Brothers Sponsored WBE 10% 2.The firmgoal hasisan interest in the ownership or control of the MBE or WBE *Experience with the current Baltimore City and Maryland State Highway The Schools´ mission, vision & values.

Foster students´ life-long spiritual, personal & emotional PROJECT # 1276 - ONcriteria, CALL HIGHWAY DESIGN, PROJECT MANAGE3.The firm is significantly involved in the operation of the MBE or WBE Administration design specifications, and standard details. development.

M-F, 7:30 am toFOR 3:30 pm, job locationOlney, MD. Criminal background check & MENT, AND ENGINEERING SUPPORT SERVICES DEPARTMENT (Article 5 subtitle 28-41). master´s degree in French language & literatureBoth reqd.

To applyMinority mail resume to: Attn: Dr.Enterprise Paul OF TRANSPORTATION the proposed and Women´s Business firms must *Overall team approach with Minority/Women Business Enterprises. be and identified an MBE or WBEMD within Itemto6 of the Standard A named firm17301 submitting aasBlvd., prime consultant that 20832. fails comply with the G. Barker, Our Lady of Good Counsel High School, Oldas Vic Olney, The Citydesign of Baltimore Officebeen of Boards & Commissions has been requested Form (SF) 255 in the5, spaces provided for identifying outside key requirements of Article Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code when executing Project fees have estimated at $2,000,000 per consultant. by the Department of Transportation, Transportation Engineering and for utilization this project. a contract is subject toanticipated the following penalties:for suspension of a contract; Duration of the professional services contract is estimated to be three (3) consultants/associates Construction certify the of until engineering firms years with theDivision option to extend for qualifications one (1) year or the upset limittois withholding of funds; rescission of contract based on material breach; provide on-call for will thebeproposed imAny submittals that not includefrom the proper MBE/WBE some instances disqualification as do a consultant eligibility to provide(inservices to the City reached,various whichever occursengineering first. Five (5)services consultants awarded conprovements to the City’s system of Streets and Highways for a two (2) year participation will be2disapproved for further consideration for by this for a period not to exceed years; and payment for damages incurred the tracts. If further information is required regarding this request, please con- DBE) contract with anNafisi extension of up to one additional yearcomply at the City’s option.

City. tact Mr. David at 410-396-6950.

Projects must with the 2006 project. edition of The Specifications for Materials, Highways, Bridges, Utilities and The engineering design City services to be provided include, limited Verifying Certification Additional Requirements Incidental Structures. personnel will utilize the but Cityare ofnot Baltimore to, developing alignment,Evaluation storm drainage improvements, street Guidelines for roadway The Performance of Design Consultants and lighting, electric duct banks,for water wastewater, reconstruction, street- Each firm submitting a SF 255 for as consideration for aand/or project is responsible A resume for each person listed key personnel specialist, includConstruction Contractors? this and contract/project. scape, resurfacing, stormwater management, erosion and sediment con- for thatMBE all MBEs andmust WBEs to be utilized on the project within are ingverifying those from and WBE be shown on the page provided trol, pavement markings and traffic control, conduit ductbank by the Minority and Women´s Business Opportunity Office the application.

Firms intending to submit a proposal as a signal prime design, consultant for this project certified design, surveys, environmental assessments and and otherCommissions, related civil (MWBOO) prior to submitting the proposal. A directory of certified MBEs should submit a Letter of Interestsite to the Office of Boards engineering tasks. The scope services may alsoMaryland include providing on-site and WBEs available from Since to price the directory occur Please beisadvised that forMWBOO. the purpose of changes reviewing proposals and 4 South Frederick Street, 4thofFloor, Baltimore, 21202 (EMAIL: project management, construction management and/or inspectors, staffto daily, firmsthe submitting SF 255?sdefines should a call MWBOO (410) invoices, City of Baltimore principal of aatfirm as396-4355 follows: to OBC.consultants@baltimorecity.gov), Since these letters are utilized support, GISminority and IT and support andbusiness other miscellaneous for various assist small, women enterprises intasks identifying poten- verify certification, expiration dates and services that the MBE or WBE is Capital Improvement will include to provide.

A principal is any individual owning 5% or more of the outstanding stock of tial teaming partners, Projects. the lettersResponsibilities should be submitted within preparation five (5) daysofof certified construction contract documents including plans and specifications bid. an entity, a partner of a partnership, a 5% or more shareholder of a the date of the project´s advertisement.

The letter should contain afor contact sub-chapter ´S´ Corporation, or an individual owner. person. Failure to submitLEGAL a LetterNOTICES of Interest will not disqualify a firm Non-Affiliation The selected firms must submitting a proposal fordemonstrate: the project. in the City´s contracting process. Pursuant to Article 5, Subtitle 28 of AOut-of-State firm submitting a proposal may notidentify use an MBE WBE to meet a contract Corporations must theirorcorporate resident agent Baltimore Code (2000 Edition) Minority and Women´s Business *Experience in Roadway Reconstruction, Civil, Utility, TraffictoEngineerif: the application. within Each primeCity consultant applying for this- Project will beand required complete goal Program, Business and five Women´s Business ing as well Minority as and submit anStreetscape/Landscaping. original FederalEnterprise Form 255,(MBE) along with (5) copies to the Enterprise (WBE)and participation goals apply to this contract. interest MBEproject or WBEif they apply as both a Firmsfirm will has not abefinancial considered for in a the specific Office of Boards Commissions, 4 South Frederick Street, 4th Floor, 1.The *Experience with the21202. currentThe Baltimore and Maryland State Highway firm has anand interest the ownership or control of the MBE or WBE sub-consultant primeinconsultant.

Baltimore, Maryland FederalCity Form 255 and the five copies must 2.The Thesubmitted MBE goalondesign isor 27% Administration criteria, specifications, and standard details. be before 12:00 P.M. (Noon) on June 26, 2017.

Submittals 3.The firm is significantly involved in the operation of the MBE or WBE The not WBE is 10%after this deadline.

(Article 5 subtitle 28-41).

The applications for this Project (Form 255) cannot be supplemented with will begoal accepted *Overall team approach with Minority/Women Business Enterprises. any additional information such as graphs, photographs, organization Achart, firm etc. submitting a prime should consultant that fails tointo comply with the All suchas information be incorporated the appropriate Insurance Requirements Both thedesign proposed and Women´s Enterprise firms must requirements Project feesMinority have been estimated Business at $2,000,000 per consultant. of Articleshould 5, Subtitle Baltimore City Code should when executing pages. Applications not 28 beofbound.

Applications simply be be named MBE orcontract WBE within Item shall 6 oftothe Standard Duration ofand the identified professional services is project estimated be three pro(3) astapled contract to the following suspension of abecontract; in is thesubject upper left-hand corner.penalties: Cover sheets should not included.

The consultant selectedas foran the award of this provide Form with (SF) 255 in the spaces provided for or identifying outside years the option to extend forgeneral one (1)liability year until the upset limitkey is withholding of funds; rescission of contract based material Inclusion and/or submittal of additional material mayon result in the breach; applicant fessional liability, auto liability, and and workers compensaconsultants/associates anticipated for(5) utilization for this reached, whichever occurs first.

Five willproject. be awarded con- disqualification as afrom consultant from eligibility provide services to the City being disqualified consideration for thistoproject. tion insurances as required by the City ofconsultants Baltimore. tracts. If further information is required regarding this request, please con- for a period not to exceed 2 years; and payment for damages incurred by the AnyMr. submittals thatCertification doatnot include the proper MBE/WBE (in some tact David Nafisi 410-396-6950.

Projects must comply withinstances the 2006 City.

Failure to follow directions of this advertisement or the application will cause Prequalification Requirement DBE) participation will be disapproved further consideration for and this edition of The Specifications for Materials,for Highways, Bridges, Utilities disqualification of the submittal. project.

Incidental Structures.

City personnel will utilize thelisted City inofthe Baltimore All architectural, engineering, and surveying firms specific Additional Requirements Guidelines Performance Evaluation of Consultants Kumasi Vines, Chief proposal forfor theThe Project must be prequalified byDesign the Office of Boardsand and Verifying Certification Construction Contractors? for this contract/project. and/or specialist, includOffice of Boards and Commissions Commissions for each applicable discipline at time of submittal for this A resume for each person listed as key personnel Project. Any construction contractor listed in the specific proposal for the ing those from MBE and WBE must be shown on the page provided within Each firm submitting a SF for consideration a project is must responsible Firms intending to work submit a255 proposal as a primefor consultant for this project Project to perform in an existing prequalification category also be the application. for verifying all MBEs WBEs to beofsub utilized on project are should submitthat aALetter of Interest the Office Boards andthe Commissions, Issue of: May 26, 2017 prequalified. copy of and the to prime and consultant’s current certified by theCertificate Minority andFloor, Women´s Business Office Please 4Prequalification South Frederick Street, 4th 21202 package.

(EMAIL: be advised The Baltimore Sunthat for the purpose of reviewing price proposals and should be Baltimore, included inMaryland the bidOpportunity submittal (MWBOO) prior to submitting the proposal.

Athese directory certified MBEs OBC.consultants@baltimorecity.gov), Since process letters areobtained utilized to the City of Baltimore defines a principal of a firm as follows: The Daily Record Information regarding the prequalification canof be by invoices, and WBEs isminority available from MWBOO. Sinceenterprises changes tointhe directorypotenoccur assist small, and women business identifying The Afro-American calling the Office of Boards and Commissions on 410.396.6883. daily, firms submitting SFletters 255?sshould shouldbe callsubmitted MWBOOwithin at (410) to AThe tial teaming partners, the five396-4355 (5) days of principal is anyTimes individual owning 5% or more of the outstanding stock of Baltimore verify certification, expiration dates andThe services that thecontain MBE ora contact WBE is an the date of the project´s advertisement. letter should entity, a Marketplace partner of a partnership, a 5% or more shareholder of a eMaryland MBE/WBE Requirements certified to provide. person.

Failure to submit a Letter to of promote Interest equal will not disqualify a firm sub-chapter ´S´ Corporation, or an individual owner.

It is the policy of the City of Baltimore business opportunity submitting a proposal for the project.Pursuant to Article 5, Subtitle 28 of in the City´s contracting process.

Non-Affiliation Baltimore City Code (2000 Edition) - Minority and Women´s Business Out-of-State Corporations must identify their corporate resident agent Each primeMinority consultant applying for this Project willand be required to complete Program, Business Enterprise (MBE) Women´s Business within the application.

A firm submitting aparticipation proposal may not use analong MBE orcontract.

WBE a contract and submit an original Federal Form 255, five to (5)meet copies to the Enterprise (WBE) goals apply to thiswith goal if:of Boards and Commissions, 4 South Frederick Street, 4th Floor, Firms will not be considered for a specific project if they apply as both a Office Baltimore, Maryland 21202. The Federal Form 255 and the five copies must sub-consultant and prime consultant.

The MBE goal is 27% 1.The firmgoal has aorfinancial interest in (Noon) the MBE WBE26, 2017. Submittals be submitted onis before 12:00 P.M. onorJune The WBE 10% 2.The an interest the ownership or control of the MBE or WBE will notfirm behas accepted after in this deadline.

The applications for this Project (Form 255) cannot be supplemented with 3.The firm is significantly involved in the operation of the MBE or WBE any additional information such as graphs, photographs, organization (Article subtitle 28-41).

Insurance Requirements Both the5proposed Minority and Women´s Business Enterprise firms must chart, etc. All such information should be incorporated into the appropriate be named and identified as an MBE or WBE within Item 6 of the Standard pages. Applications should not be bound. Applications should simply be A firm submitting a prime that fails toshall comply with prothe stapled in the upper left-hand corner. Cover sheets should not be included.

The consultant for theconsultant award of this provide Form (SF) 255selected inasthe spaces provided forproject identifying outside key requirements of Article 5, Subtitle of Baltimore Code when executing Inclusion and/or submittal of additional material may result in the applicant fessional liability, auto liability, and28 general liabilityCity and workers compensaconsultants/associates anticipated for utilization for this project. a contract is subject to the by following suspension of a contract; being disqualified from consideration for this project. tion insurances as required the Citypenalties: of Baltimore. withholding of that funds; rescission of proper contract based on(inmaterial breach; Any submittals do not include the MBE/WBE some instances disqualification asCertification awill consultant from eligibility to provide services to the Prequalification Requirement DBE) participation be disapproved for further consideration for City this Failure to follow directions of this advertisement or the application will cause for a period not to exceed 2 years; and payment for damages incurred by the disqualification of the submittal. project.

City.architectural, engineering, and surveying firms listed in the specific All proposal the Project must be prequalified by the Office of Boards and Kumasi Vines, Chief Verifyingfor Certification Additional Requirements Commissions for each applicable discipline at time of submittal for this Office of Boards and Commissions Project. construction listed in theforspecific proposal for the Each firmAny submitting a SF contractor 255 for consideration a project is responsible A resume for that eachall person listed key personnel and/or includProject to perform work in an existing prequalification category also be for verifying MBEs and as WBEs to be utilized onspecialist, themust project are ing thoseby from MBE and of WBE be shown on the page provided within Issue of: May 26, 2017 prequalified.

A copy themust prime andBusiness sub consultant’s current certified the Minority and Women´s Opportunity Office the application.

Prequalification should includedAindirectory the bid submittal package.

(MWBOO) priorCertificate to submitting the be proposal. of certified MBEs The Baltimore Sun Information the prequalification obtained

by The Daily Record and WBEs isregarding available from MWBOO. Since process changes can to thebe directory occur Please be Office advised that the purpose of reviewing price proposals and calling the of Boards and Commissions on 410.396.6883. daily, firms submitting SFfor 255?s should call MWBOO at (410) 396-4355 to The Afro-American invoices, the City ofexpiration Baltimoredates defines a principal a firm as follows: verify certification, and services of that the MBE or WBE is The Baltimore Times eMaryland Marketplace MBE/WBE Requirements certified to provide. is of any individual owning 5% or moreequal of thebusiness outstanding stock of ItAisprincipal the policy the City of Baltimore to promote opportunity an entity, a partner of a partnership, a 5% or more shareholder of a Non-Affiliation sub-chapter ´S´ Corporation, or an individual owner.

Baltimore Classifieds continue on C5 A firm submitting a proposal may not use an MBE or WBE to meet a contract Out-of-State Corporations must identify their corporate resident agent goal if: within the application.

1.The firm has a financial interest in the MBE or WBE Firms firm will not forownership a specific or project if they 2.The has be an considered interest in the control of theapply MBEas or both WBEa sub-consultant and prime consultant.

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20001, on or before by mail within 25 days of 3/3, 3/10/17 November 26, 2017. its first publication shall 02/24 TYPESET: Tue May 23 Claims against the de- so inform the Register of cedent shall be pre- Wills, including name, sented to the under- address and relation- SUPERIOR COURT OF signed with a copy to the ship.

THE DISTRICT OF Register of Wills or filed Date of Publication: COLUMBIA with the Register of Wills May 26, 2017 PROBATE DIVISION with a copy to the under- Name of newspaper: Washington, D.C. signed, on or before Afro-American 20001-2131 November 26, 2017, or Washington Administration No. be forever barred. Per- Law Reporter 2017ADM575 Diane Graham sons believed to be heirs Personal Estate of or legatees of the deRepresentative Ronald K Ballard cedent who do not reDeceased ceive a copy of this notice NOTICE OF by mail within 25 days of TRUE TEST COPY STANDARD its first publication shall REGISTER OF WILLS PROBATE so inform the Register of Notice is hereby given 05/26, 06/2,Wed 06/9/17 Wills, including name, TYPESET: May 24 that 16:07:35 EDT has 2017 a petition been address and relationfiled in this Court by Donship. ald G Ballard for stanDate of Publication: dard probate, including Superior Court of May 26, 2017 the appoint-ment of one the District of Name of newspaper: or more personal repreDistrict of Columbia Afro-American sentative. Unless a comPROBATE DIVISION Washington plaint or an objection in Washington, D.C. Law Reporter accordance with Super20001-2131 Tyrone Blakeney ior Court Probate DiAdministration No. Personal vision Rule 407 is filed in 2017ADM106 Representative Russell T. Carter this Court within 30 days from the date of first pubDecedent TRUE TEST COPY lication of this notice, the John Noble REGISTER OF WILLS Court may take the ac451 Hungerford Drive, tion hereinafter set forth.

Suite 750 05/26, 06/2, Tue 06/9/17 0 TYPESET: May 23 12:46:27 2017 Admit to probate the will Rockville,EDT MD 20850 dated April 25, 2014 Attorney exhibited with the petition NOTICE OF Superior Court of upon proof satisfactory to APPOINTMENT, the District of the Court of due execuNOTICE TO District of Columbia tion by affidavit of witCREDITORS PROBATE DIVISION nesses or otherwise AND NOTICE TO Washington, D.C. UNKNOWN HEIRS 20001-2131 Register of Wills Antoinne D. Parker, Administration No. Clerk of the Probate Diwhose address is 522 2017ADM562 vision Capitol Heights Blvd , Cheryl Parker Date of First Publication Capitol Heights MD Decedent May 19, 2017 20743 was appointed Michael D Breads Esq Names of Newspapers: personal representative 8737 Colesville Road of the estate of Russell T. Washington Law ReLL-100A porter Carter, who died on S i l v e r S p r i n g , M D January 9, 2017 with a Wa s h i n g t o n A F R O 20910 AMERICAN will, and will serve withAttorney Donald G Ballard out Court supervision. All NOTICE OF Signature of unknown heirs and heirs APPOINTMENT, Petitioners/Attorney5/19, whose where-abouts are 05/26/17 NOTICE TO unknown shall enter their CREDITORS appearance in this AND NOTICE TO proceeding. Objections UNKNOWN HEIRS to such appointment (or Diane Granham, whose to the probate of deaddress is 1012 San- cedent´s will) shall be dona Circle , Rocky filed with the Register of Mount, NC 27801, was Wills, D.C., 515 5th appointed personal re- Street, N.W., 3rd Floor presentative of the estate W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . of Cheryl Parker, who 20001, on or before Audied on February 4, 2017 gust 24. 2017. Claims with a will, and will serve against the decedent without Court supervi- shall be presented to the sion. All unknown heirs undersigned with a copy a n d h e i r s w h o s e to the Register of Wills or whereabouts are un- filed with the Register of known shall enter their Wills with a copy to the a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s undersigned, on or beproceeding. Objections fore August 24, 2017, or to such appointment (or be forever barred. Perto the probate of de- sons believed to be heirs cedent´s will) legatees of 2017 the deTYPESET: Wedshall Maybe24 or 12:06:43 EDT filed with the Register of cedent who do not reWills, D.C., 515 5th ceive a copy of this notice Street, N.W., 3rd Floor by mail within 25 days of CERTIFICATION OF PUBLICATION Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . its first publication shall 20001, on or before so inform the Register of BALTIMORE November 26, 2017. CITY Wills, OF including name, BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS Claims againstOFFICE the de- OFaddress and relationPUBLIC NOTICE cedent shall be pre- ship. sented to the under- Date of Publication: signed with a# copy the CALL February 24, 2017DESIGN, PROJECT MANAGEPROJECT 1276to- ON HIGHWAY RegisterAND of Wills or filed Name of newspaper: MENT, ENGINEERING SUPPORT SERVICES FOR DEPARTMENT withTRANSPORTATION the Register of Wills Afro-American OF with a copy to the under- Washington signed, onBaltimore or before Law The City of Office of Reporter Boards & Commissions has been requested Novemeber 26, 2017, or Antoinne D. Parker by the Department of Transportation, Transportation Engineering and be forever barred. PerPersonal Construction Division to certify the qualifications of engineering firms to sons believed to be heirs Representative provide various engineering services for the proposed imor legatees of theon-call deprovements of Streets and Highways for a two (2) year cedent who to dothe notCity’s re- system TRUE TEST COPY contract withofan of up to one ceive a copy thisextension notice REGISTER OFadditional WILLS year at the City’s option. by mail within 25 days of its first publicationdesign shall services 02/24 3/3, The engineering to 3/10/17 be provided include, but are not limited so inform the Register of alignment, storm drainage improvements, street to, developing roadway Wills, including name, lighting, electric duct banks, water and wastewater, reconstruction, streetaddressresurfacing, and relationscape, stormwater management, erosion and sediment conship. trol, pavement markings and traffic control, signal design, conduit ductbank Date of Publication: design, surveys, environmental site assessments and other related civil May 26, 2017 engineering tasks. The scope of services may also include providing on-site Name of newspaper: project management, construction management and/or inspectors, staff Afro-American support, GIS and IT support and EDT other2017 miscellaneous tasks for various Washington TYPESET: Wed May 24 12:06:43 Capital Improvement Projects. Responsibilities will include preparation of Law Reporter Diane Graham construction contract documents including plans and specifications for bid.

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small minority and women business enterprises in identifying potential tal Structures”.

City personnel will utilize the City of within Baltimore teaming partners, the letter should be submitted five Guidelines (5) days offor the the Evaluation of Design Construction datePerformance of the project’s advertisement.

TheConsultants letter shouldand contain a contact Contractors for this contract/project. person. Failure to submit a ”letter of Interest” will not disqualify a firm submitting a proposal for the project.

Firms interested in submitting a proposal for this Project, shall address a ”Letter of Interest” to the Officeforofthis Boards and South The prime consultant applying Project willCommissions, be required to 4 complete May Frederick Street, 4th Floor, Baltimore, Maryland, 21202 (EMAIL: and submit an original Federal Form 255, along with five (5) copies,OBC. to the Consultants@baltimorecity.gov).

Since these letters are utilized to assist Office of Boards and Commissions. The Federal Form 255 and the five small minority and women business enterprises in identifying potential copies must be submitted on or before 12:00 P.M. (Noon) on June 23, 2017. teaming partners, thebe letter shouldafter be submitted within five (5) days of the Submittals may not accepted this deadline. date of the project’s advertisement. The letter should contain a contact person.

Failure to Requirement submit a ”letter of Interest” will not disqualify a firm Prequalification submitting a proposal for the project.

LEGAL All architectural, engineering, and NOTICES surveying firms listed in the specific The prime for consultant applying Project will complete proposal the Project must for be this prequalified by be therequired Office oftoBoards and and submit an original Federal Form 255, along five (5) copies, to the Commissions forselected each applicable discipline atwith time of shall submittal for this The consultant for the award of this project provide proOffice of Boards and Commissions.

The Federal Form 255 and the five Project. construction contractor listedliability in the specific proposal for the fessionalAny liability, auto liability, and general and workers ’compensacopies must be submitted on or before 12:00 P.M. (Noon) on June 23, 2017.

Project to perform in an by existing prequalification tion insurances aswork required the City of Baltimore. category must also be Submittals may A notcopy be accepted thisand deadline. prequalified. of the after prime sub consultant?s current Prequalification Certificate should be included in the bid submittal package.

MBE/WBE Requirements Prequalification Requirement Information regarding the prequalification process can be obtained by calling Office of Boards and Commissions 410.396.6883.

It is thethe policy of the City of Baltimore to promoteon equal business opportunity Allinarchitectural, engineering, and surveying listed5,inSubtitle the specific the City’s contracting process.

Pursuant firms to Article 28 of proposal for the Project must be prequalified by the Office of Boards and Insurance Requirements Baltimore City Code (2000 Edition) - Minority and Women’s Business Commissions for each applicable discipline at time of submittal for this Program, Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Women’s Business The consultant selected for thegoals award ofinthis project shall provide Project.

Any (WBE) construction contractor listed specific proposal for prothe Enterprise participation apply tothe this contract. fessional liability, work auto liability, and general liability and workersmust ’compensaProject to perform in an existing prequalification category also be tion as required by the City of Baltimore. prequalified.

A is copy of the prime and sub consultant?s current Theinsurances MBE goal 27% Prequalification The WBE goalCertificate is 10% should be included in the bid submittal package.

MBE/WBE regarding Requirements Information the prequalification process can be obtained by calling the Office of Boards and Commissions on 410.396.6883.

Both the proposed Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise firms must Itbe is the policy of identified the City ofas Baltimore equalItem business opportunity named and an MBEtoorpromote WBE within 6 of the Standard inForm the City’s contracting process.

Pursuant to Article 5, Subtitle of Insurance Requirements (SF) 255 in the spaces provided for identifying outside28key Baltimore City Code (2000 Edition) Minority and Women’s Business consultants/associates anticipated for utilization for this project.

Program, Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) participation goals this contract.

Any submittals that do not include theapply propertoMBE/WBE (in some instances DBE) participation will be disapproved for further consideration for this The MBE goal is 27% project.

The WBE goal is 10% Verifying Certification Both the proposed Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise firms must be named and identified anfor MBE or WBE within 6 of isthe Standard The firm submitting a SFas 255 consideration for aItem project responsible Form (SF) 255 spaces provided identifying for verifying that in all the MBEs and WBEs to beforutilized on theoutside project key are consultants/associates anticipated for utilization for thisOpportunity project. certified by the Minority and Women’s Business Office (MWBOO) prior to submitting the proposal. A directory of certified MBEs Any that do not include the proper instances andsubmittals WBEs is available from MWBOO. SinceMBE/WBE changes to(in thesome directory occur DBE) will SF be 255s disapproved for MWBOO further consideration for this daily, participation firms submitting should call at (410) 396-4355 to project. verify certification, expiration dates and services that the MBE or WBE is certified to provide.

Verifying Certification Non-Affiliation The firm submitting a SF 255 for consideration for a project is responsible for verifying that aallproposal MBEs may and not WBEs utilized ontothe project are A firm submitting use to an be MBE or WBE meet a contract certified goal if: by the Minority and Women’s Business Opportunity Office (MWBOO) prior to submitting the proposal. A directory of certified MBEs and WBEs available frominterest MWBOO. Since changes 1.The firm is has a financial in the MBE or WBEto the directory occur daily, firms submitting SF 255s should call MWBOO at (410) 396-4355 to verify and services that the MBE or or WBE is 2. Thecertification, firm has an expiration interest in dates the ownership or control of the MBE WBE certified to provide.

3.The firm is significantly involved in the operation of the MBE or WBE(ArNon-Affiliation ticle 5, Subtitle 28-41).

Baltimore Classifieds TYPESET: Wed May 24 12:06:18 EDT 2017 CERTIFICATION OF PUBLICATION CITY OF BALTIMORE OFFICE OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS PUBLIC NOTICE PROCUREMENT OF CONSULTANT SERVICES Project 1269EDT -DPW OFFICE BUILDING AT TYPESET:PROJECT Wed May# 24 12:06:18 2017 210 GUILFORD AVENUE The City of Baltimore, Office of Boards and Commissions has been reCERTIFICATION OF PUBLICATION quested by the Department of Public Works, Office of Engineering and Construction, to certify the qualifications of Architectural Firms for RenovaCITY OF tion of the DPW officeOF building atBALTIMORE 210 Guilford Avenue and the adjacent OFFICE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS Parking Lot. One (1)PROCUREMENT firm will be selected to perform this design related to PUBLIC NOTICE OF CONSULTANT SERVICES renovation and modernization of the building for use as office space for DPW and will be managed the Office Engineering and Construction.

PROJECT # Projectby1269 -DPWofOFFICE BUILDING AT 210 GUILFORD AVENUE The Firms interested in providing these services must demonstrate and document: The City of Baltimore, Office of Boards and Commissions has been requested by the Department of evaluations, Public Works, of ofEngineering and *Experience in certify investigations, andOffice design repairs, renovaConstruction, to the qualifications of Architectural Firms for Renovations, and new construction of office buildings. tion of the DPW building 210 Guilford Avenue and thegarages adjacent *Knowledge andoffice Experience of at design/rehabilitation of parking Parking Lot. One (1) firm will be selected to perform this design related to *Overall team experience in investigating mechanical, electrical, plumbing, renovation and modernization of thebuildings buildingand for designing use as office space for ADA and Security issues in existing improvements DPW andcurrent will be Baltimore managed City by the Office Code. of Engineering and Construction. to meet Building *Experience in design of Green Roofs and LEEDSmust certified designs. and The Firms interested in of providing services demonstrate *Experience in design Heating,these Ventilation, Dehumidification, and Air document: Conditioning Systems for Office Buildings. *Manpower in availability and ability to complete within time and *Experience investigations, evaluations, andassignments design of repairs, renovabudget. tions, and new construction of office buildings. *Experienceand in preparation ofofBid Documents and Cost Estimates including *Knowledge Experience design/rehabilitation of parking garages QA/QC team procedures to beinperformed at critical stages. *Overall experience investigating mechanical, electrical, plumbing, *Overall team approach toexisting utilize, manage, coordinate assigned tasks ADA and Security issues Business in buildingsand and designing the Minority/Women Enterprises partners andimprovements to conform to toof meet current Baltimore City Building Code.

City goals. in design of Green Roofs and LEEDS certified designs. *Experience *Experience designreview of Heating, Ventilation, Dehumidification, and Air Services willin include of available information, project management, Conditioning Systems for investigation, Office Buildings. contract administration, design, developing and implement*Manpower availability and and education ability to complete assignments timeprepand ing public information programs, emergencywithin services, budget. aration of reports and contract documents, including construction cost *Experience in preparation of Bid Documents andshop Cost drawing Estimatesreview including estimates, permit applications, right of ways, and QA/QC procedures to be performed at critical stages. consultation construction. *Overall team during approach to utilize, manage, and coordinate assigned tasks ofThe theservices Minority/Women partners and to conform will be forBusiness a period ofEnterprises one (1) years and the estimated costto of City the goals.

Architectural Engineering Services is $1,000,000.00.

Services will include review availablemay information, project management, At the option of the City, the of consultant subsequently considered for contract administration, investigation, design, developingbe and implementpost award engineering services. ing public information and education programs, emergency services, preparation reports andquestions contract regarding documents, construction cost Shouldof you have any theincluding scope of the Project, please estimates, permit applications, right of396-5385 ways, shop drawing review and contact Mr. Gurminder Singh at (410) or by e-mail at Gurminder. consultation during construction.

Singh@baltimorecity.gov Projects must comply with the 2006 edition of ”The Specifications foraMaterials, Highways, Bridges, Utilities and IncidenThe services willCity be for periodwill of utilize one (1) years and the estimated cost for of tal Architectural Structures”. personnel the City of Baltimore Guidelines the Engineering Services is $1,000,000.00. the Performance Evaluation of Design Consultants and Construction forthe this contract/project.

AtContractors the option of City, the consultant may subsequently be considered for post award engineering services.

Firms interested in submitting a proposal for this Project, shall address a ”Letter of Interest” to the Office of Boards and Commissions, 4please South Should you have any questions regarding the scope of the Project, Frederick Street, 4th Singh Floor, atBaltimore, Maryland, 21202 (EMAIL: OBC. contact Mr. Gurminder (410) 396-5385 or by e-mail at Gurminder.

Consultants@baltimorecity.gov).

Since these letters are utilized to assist Singh@baltimorecity.gov Projects must comply with the 2006 edition of small minority andfor women business enterprises inUtilities identifying potential ”The Specifications Materials, Highways, Bridges, and Incidenteaming partners, the letter should be submitted within five (5) days of the tal Structures”.

City personnel will utilizeThe the City Baltimore Guidelines for date of the project’s advertisement. letterofshould contain a contact the Performance Evaluation of Design Consultants and Construction person.

Failure to submit a ”letter of Interest” will not disqualify a firm Contractors this contract/project. submitting afor proposal for the project.

Firms interested in submitting afor proposal for this shalltoaddress a The prime consultant Project willProject, be required complete ”Letter of Interest” to applying the Office ofthis Boards and Commissions, 4 South copies, to the and submit an original Federal Form 255, along with five (5) Frederick Baltimore, Maryland, (EMAIL: OBC. Office of Street, Boards 4th and Floor, Commissions.

The Federal 21202 Form 255 and the five Consultants@baltimorecity.gov).

Since12:00 theseP.M. letters are on utilized copies must be submitted on or before (Noon) June to 23,assist 2017. small minority and women business enterprises in identifying potential Submittals may not be accepted after this deadline. teaming partners, the letter should be submitted within five (5) days of the date of the project’s advertisement. The letter should contain a contact Prequalification Requirement person. Failure to submit a ”letter of Interest” will not disqualify a firm submitting a proposal for the project.

All architectural, engineering, and surveying firms listed in the specific proposal for the Project must be prequalified by the Office of Boards and The prime consultant applying for Project will be required to complete Commissions for each applicablethis discipline at time of submittal for this and submit anconstruction original Federal Form 255, along with five (5) copies, for to the Project.

Any contractor listed in the specific proposal the Office of Boards and Commissions.

The Federal Form 255 and the five Project to perform work in an existing prequalification category must also be copies must be submitted on or before 12:00 P.M. (Noon) on June 23, 2017. prequalified. A copy of the prime and sub consultant?s current Submittals may not be accepted after this deadline.

Prequalification Certificate should be included in the bid submittal package.

Information regarding the prequalification process can be obtained by Prequalification calling the OfficeRequirement of Boards and Commissions on 410.396.6883.

All architectural, engineering, and surveying firms listed in the specific Insurance Requirements proposal for the Project must be prequalified by the Office of Boards and Commissions for each applicable discipline at time of submittal for this Project. Any construction contractor listed in the specific proposal for the Project to perform work in an existing prequalification category must also be prequalified. A copy of the prime and sub consultant?s current Prequalification Certificate should be included in the bid submittal package.

Information regarding the prequalification process can be obtained by calling the Office of Boards and Commissions on 410.396.6883.

requirements of Article 5, Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code when executing City, or on its any person. penalties: It also applies to everyofagreement a contract is behalf, subjectwith to the following suspension a contract; authorizing at more $5,000,000 City-subsidized withholdingassistance of funds;valued rescission of than contract based to ona material breach; project.

Please visit www.oedworks.com for detailed on the requirements of disqualification as a consultant from eligibility to provide services to the City the law. for a period not to exceed 2 years; and payment for damages incurred by the City.

Additional 27, 2017Information - June 2, 2017, The Afro-American A resume for each person listed as key personnel and/or specialist, includAing firm submitting asand a prime consultant thatshown fails on to the comply the those from MBE WBE firms, must be pagewith provided requirements of Article 5, Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code when executing within the application. a contract is subject to the following penalties: suspension of a contract; withholding of funds;that rescission of contract based on material breach; Please be advised for the purpose of reviewing price proposals and disqualification as aofconsultant eligibility to provide services to the City invoices, the City Baltimorefrom defines a principal of a firm as follows: for a period not to exceed 2 years; and payment for damages incurred by the City.

A principal is any individual owning 5% or more of the outstanding stock of an entity, a partner of a partnership, a 5% or more shareholder of a Asub-chapter resume for each person listed personnel and/or specialist, includ’S’ Corporation, or as ankey individual owner. ing those from MBE and WBE firms, must be shown on the page provided within the application.

Out-of-State Corporations must identify their corporate resident agent within the application.

Please be advised that for the purpose of reviewing price proposals and invoices, the City Baltimore defines a principal of aif firm follows: Firms will not beofconsidered for a specific project theyas apply as both a sub-consultant and prime consultant.

A principal is any individual owning 5% or more of the outstanding stock of an entity, a partner of a partnership, a 5% or more shareholder of a sub-chapter ’S’ Corporation, or an individual owner.

ALocal firm submitting a proposal may not use an MBE or WBE to meet a contract Law Hiring goal if: Article 5, Subtitle 27 of the Baltimore City Code, as amended (the ”Local 1.The has aand financial interest MBE or WBE Hiringfirm Law”) its rules andin the regulations apply to contracts and agreements executed by the City on or after the Local Hiring Law?s effec2.

The firm has an interest in the ownership or control the MBEThe or WBE tive date of December 23, 2013 which is applicable to allofvendors.

Local Hiring Law applies to every contract for more than $300,000 made by the 3.The firm is significantly involved in the operation of the MBE or WBE(ArCity, or on its behalf, with any person. It also applies to every agreement ticle 5, Subtitle 28-41). valued at more than $5,000,000 to a City-subsidized authorizing assistance project. Please visit www.oedworks.com for detailed on the requirements of Local Law Hiring the law.

Article 5, Subtitle 27 of the Baltimore City Code, as amended (the ”Local Additional Information Hiring Law”) and its rules and regulations apply to contracts and agreements executed Cityconsultant on or after that the Local Hiring Law?s effecA firm submitting as by a the prime fails to comply with the tive date of December 2013 which applicableCity to all vendors.

Local requirements of Article23, 5, Subtitle 28 ofisBaltimore Code whenThe executing Hiring Law applies to every contract for more than $300,000 made by the a contract is subject to the following penalties: suspension of a contract; City, or on itsofbehalf, any person.

It also applies to every agreement withholding funds;with rescission of contract based on material breach; authorizing assistance valued atfrom moreeligibility than $5,000,000 a City-subsidized disqualification as a consultant to providetoservices to the City project.

Please visit www.oedworks.com for detailed on the requirements of for a period not to exceed 2 years; and payment for damages incurred by the the law.

City.

Additional Information A resume for each person listed as key personnel and/or specialist, including those from MBE and WBE firms, must be shown on the page provided Awithin firm the submitting as a prime consultant that fails to comply with the application. requirements of Article 5, Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code when executing aPlease contract subjectthat to the penalties: suspension of a contract; beisadvised for following the purpose of reviewing price proposals and withholding funds; rescission of contract based breach; invoices, theofCity of Baltimore defines a principal of aon firmmaterial as follows: disqualification as a consultant from eligibility to provide services to the City for a period not to exceed 2 years; and5% payment incurredstock by the A principal is any individual owning or morefor ofdamages the outstanding of City. an entity, a partner of a partnership, a 5% or more shareholder of a sub-chapter ’S’ Corporation, or an individual owner.

A resume for each person listed as key personnel and/or specialist, including those fromCorporations MBE and WBE firms, must be shown on the resident page provided Out-of-State must identify their corporate agent within withinthe theapplication. application.

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Out-of-State Corporations must identify their corporate resident agent within the application.

Firms will not be considered for a specific project if they apply as both a sub-consultant and prime consultant.

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Please be advised that for thefor purpose of reviewing priceapply proposals anda Firms will not be considered a specific project if they as both invoices, the Cityand of Baltimore defines a principal of a firm as follows: sub-consultant prime consultant.

A principal is any individual owning 5% or more of the outstanding stock of an entity, a partner of a partnership, a 5% or more shareholder of a sub-chapter ’S’ Corporation, or an individual owner.

Out-of-State Corporations must identify their corporate resident agent within the application.

Firms will not be considered for a specific project if they apply as both a sub-consultant and prime consultant.

Insurance Requirements

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Race and Politics

The Murder of Richard Collins, III

Coppin Grants First Doctoral Degrees

Richard Wilbur Collins, III was 23year- old when he was commissioned last week Sean Yoes as an Army second Senior AFRO lieutenant, Contributor and was scheduled to graduate from Bowie State University on May 23. And it is clear to me that he was murdered on the College Park campus of the University of Maryland over the weekend by a White man, because Collins was young, gifted and Black.

From a journalistic and legal standpoint, Sean Christopher Urbanski, 22 is innocent until proven

… it is clear to me that he was murdered … because Collins was young, gifted and Black.

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Baltimore Leaders Slam Proposed Trump Budget Cuts

By P. Kenneth Burns Special to the AFRO

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On May 20 Coppin State University granted its first doctoral degrees to Khalilah Jefferson and Jennifer P. Pope. Both received their Doctor of Nursing Practice from the Helene Fuld School of Nursing. From L-R: Dr. Tracery Murray, Dean of the School of Nursing, Dr. Joan Tilghman, Associate Dean for the School of Nursing, Dr. Jennifer P. Pope, Ph.D. graduate, Dr. Maria Thompson, President of Coppin State University, Dr. Khalilah Jefferson, Ph.D. graduate and Dr. Marcella Copes, former Dean of the School of Nursing.

guilty in a court of law for stabbing Collins in the chest, while Collins waited for an Uber ride early last Saturday morning.

However, detectives have determined Urbanski at the time of the attack was a member of a racist Facebook group, “Alt Reich: Nation.” He didn’t know Collins, who was unarmed.

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‘Kenny Bird’ Jackson Says He’s Not Back In the Adult Business

By P. Kenneth Burns Special to the AFRO Kenneth ‘Kenny Bird’ Jackson, a Baltimore businessman, is slamming an online article as an attack on him and the new owner of a venue that was once a strip club.

The Baltimore Brew, an online publication, reported May 15 that Jackson was seeking to re-open “Kings and Diamonds,” a strip club on in the 400 block of East Baltimore Street; popularly known as “The Block.”

“The Block” is in downtown Baltimore; close to police headquarters and City Hall.

Jackson told the AFRO that he is not re-opening his business.

In fact he said he is selling it to a new entity backed by a Baltimore-native who is one of the most popular DJ’s in the country.

“I’m selling a business to a young Black man; they can’t find nothing wrong with neither one of them,” he said.

Jackson is referring to his son, Mustafa, who has been on the liquor and adult entertainment license since 2011. And to Roberto “Quick” Silva who will own the club once all of the legal paperwork and financial transactions have been completed.

“They use me to attack the sale; a sale of a business don’t require this kind of publicity,” he added.

A Wikipedia page documents Jackson’s past convictions for manslaughter, resisting arrest and a drug charge. However, Jackson has not been arrested or charged for any crime since the early 1990s.

“I had a past, I’m not proud of it; I wish I made some different choices in life but I didn’t,” he said.

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Leaders in Baltimore are calling for the rejection of cuts in President Donald Trump’s first budget proposal that was sent to Congress May 23. Cuts that are too deep for members of the President’s own party, according to news reports.

The president is proposing to cut federal spending by more than $3.6 trillion over the next decade at the expense of programs that help lowincome families; which includes a disproportionate number of AfricanAmericans.

City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young (D) said the proposed budget “is unnecessarily cruel and will endanger the health of Baltimore’s most at-risk residents.”

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By AFRO Staff Larry Young, former Maryland State Senator and current host of “The Larry Young Morning Show,” was named one of the 100 most important talk show hosts in the country by industry bible “Talkers Magazine.” His show is heard Monday through Friday on WOLB 1010 AM from 6 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.

According to the magazine, Young is ranked 45 out of 100. Young was first named to the list in 2007 as number 99 and has steadily moved up the ranks year in and year out.

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By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO Verletta White has been named interim superintendent of Baltimore County’s Public School System. The Baltimore County School Courtesy Photo Board voted unanimously Verletta White has May 23 naming White to a been named interim one-year interim appointment superintendent of starting July 1 to replace S. Baltimore County’s Public Dallas Dance, who resigned School System. abruptly in April.

White, 49, is a graduate of Woodlawn High in western Baltimore County and currently a doctoral candidate in the School of Education at Morgan State University. She rose through the ranks of Baltimore County Public Schools serving as a teacher, principal, system administrator and now the system’s Chief Academic Officer. White will serve as Baltimore County’s first woman superintendent and the first person from the state of Maryland to lead the County’s public schools for years.

White informed the school board that she would be applying for the permanent position, hoping to stay and provide stability as the school board prepares to change from a fully appointed board to a partially elected school board in 2018.

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City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young (D) said the proposed budget “is unnecessarily cruel and will endanger the health of Baltimore’s most at-risk residents.”

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A funeral was held for Vincent “Vicious V” Curtis on May 24. The popular local DJ was murdered on May 12.

Funeral services were held for popular DJ Vincent “Vicious V” Curtis at Gospel Tabernacle Baptist Church on May 24. At the time of his passing, he was 53 years old.

Curtis was shot and killed in the early hours of May 12.

Brandon “B-Eazy” Harris, another DJ, was arrested in connection with the shooting the same day, after police said they came into possession of video evidence. Harris has been charged with second-

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a Black man, a nigger, not on a corner in Washington, D.C. or Baltimore selling drugs, or sitting on the steps of a low-income housing project in one of those cities, the perpetual Black landscapes of the White racist mind. No, Collins was on “his” College Park campus and when Urbanski saw him during those early hours of May 20, he charged at Collins, in a drunken White racist rage and stabbed him to death.

That is murder.

So, while authorities somehow seem to grapple with whether or not they will charge Urbanski with a hate crime, University of Maryland President Wallace D. Loh continues to offer measured statements. “We must all do more to nurture a climate -- on campus and beyond -- where we stand against hate crimes and we reaffirm the values that define us (as) a university and as a democracy,” said Loh in a statement.

It is baffling to me that Loh, the University of Maryland’s first president of color identifies Collins as African American in his statement, but never mentions the fact that Urbanski is White. But, what is more baffling is Loh seems resistant to acknowledge, at least publicly, that his school has a deeply

rooted problem of racial animus directed at Black people.

Beyond a noose being discovered at a fraternity house earlier this month and posters displayed on campus promoting White supremacy earlier in the year, the University of Maryland at College Park has a long, inglorious history of racial tension and intolerance.

For decades (1950-2015), the school’s football stadium (now Maryland Stadium) was called Byrd Stadium, named after the school’s longtime president Harry “Curly” Byrd. A man who the late, great Parren Mitchell, Maryland’s first Black Congressman, who desegregated College Park once referred to as, “...a terrible person, a bigot of the first order…”

I, along with University of Maryland law professor, Larry S. Gibson chronicled Byrd’s legacy in 2004 in the AFRO publication, “The Road to Brown,” which was about the seminal school desegregation Supreme Court case Brown v.

Board of Education of Topeka. “To say that Curly Byrd was a dyed-in-the-wool segregationist would be an understatement,” Gibson told the AFRO. “No university in the nation had to be sued so many times in order to force it to integrate. Even after

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winning in court, Curly Byrd made it necessary to fight hard to secure that the Court’s order was enforced,” Gibson added.

This is a significant part of the legacy of Byrd, perhaps the University of Maryland’s most influential president. And the residue of his sordid record on race and inclusion -- he was a kindred contemporary of George Wallace, only more insidious and effective -- still hovers over the College Park campus like a wretched ghoul. His spirit gives comfort to violent, racist cowards like Urbanski.

Loh, the current UM president’s muted and methodical approach in response to the evil that stole the immensely promising future of young Collins is maddening. He talks about, “the values that define us as a university.” In 2017, UM values seem more closely aligned with the antebellum mores of Curly Byrd, to the peril of every person of color on that campus.

Sean Yoes is a senior contributor for the AFRO and host and executive producer of AFRO First Edition, which airs Monday through Friday 5 p.m.-7 p.m. on WEAA, 88.9.

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Jackson is no longer in the adult entertainment business. He did say that he still holds the note on a loan he used to open the former Kings and Diamonds club.

The Brew article also got the attention of Larry Young, former state senator, morning host for WOLB (1010AM) and a close friend of Jackson’s.

He said The Brew “needs to get their homework done.”

“Mr. Jackson has had the business of adult entertainment for years; he had the location called El Dorado and then – Roberto “Quick” Silva he was in some partnership with the one downtown,” Young said adding the story should be about a business being sold to Silva and not about Jackson’s past. “[Silva] decides he wants to take the facility and reverse what it was; an adult entertainment spot.”

Silva, an award-winning DJ and co-host of the morning show on WKYS (93.9 FM) in Washington, D.C, will not be opening a strip club.

He’ll be launching a venue called Club Downtown; an upscale lounge for “urban professionals.”

“A lot of my colleagues are like ‘Why don’t you open this up in D.C. or a much bigger market,” Silva said. “I’m like, ‘Because I’m born and raised in Baltimore.’ And I want to show Baltimore the love they’ve always shown me over the years.”

For his part, Silva said the Brew article threw him for a loop.

Silva said that he looked forward to opening his venue in Baltimore and cleaning up the image of “The Block.”

“Back in the day, The Block was looked at as an upscale block,” he said. “People would come from all over and party in Baltimore.”

“…I want to show Baltimore the love they’ve always shown me over the years.”

degree murder and first-degree assault.

Born in Baltimore; Curtis also grew up in the city, attending Belmont Elementary, William H. Lemmel Middle – Patrick “DJ Patrick School, and Walbrook High Scientific” Ashley School.

Curtis was known as a skilled turntablist and battler.

He got his start spinning records at Cressida’s, 4604 and Godfrey’s Famous Ballroom. Later, after seeing Grandmaster Dee in a Whodini show at what was then the Baltimore Civic Center, Curtis decided he didn’t want to mix anymore and wanted to turntable.

While in the decades since there have been many digital advancements, what Curtis called “pushing buttons,” he did not adopt them. This left him probably as the only Baltimore DJ that still used vinyl for his turntables, Curtis said in an interview with Jimmy Jones, host of Crooked Streetz Radio.

Jones described Curtis as “more than a pioneer.”

In addition to incorporating body tricks into his act, such as being lifted and inverted without interrupting his backspinning; Curtis claimed he could recreate any DJ’s name with his vinyl during a battle.

Curtis competed through the Disco Mix Club (DMC).

Competitors at the DMC level are known for their ability to perform without the assistance of headphones. Curtis mixed using vinyl records he had marked up tangibly, so he could effectively mix by feel.

“I’m not there yet; I’m not even gonna try and get there,” said Patrick “DJ Patrick Scientific” Ashley of WEAA’s The Morning Blend. “He did something DJs appreciate.”

Another thing DJs appreciate, was Curtis’ willingness and ability to provide high volume high quality sound equipment, PA services and engineering for DJs performing at large spacious venues as part of his business Vicious Sound

“He did something DJs appreciate.”

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Reinforcement, Ashley said.

“If there was a situation where a certain DJ didn’t come through, V would come through with a sound system and save the day,” Ashley said.

Curtis also advocated for other DJs on the monthly program “Get it Off Your Chest.” Programming covered music industry concerns about being a producer, singer, and musician “from a DJ’s perspective,” Ashley said, the program was “hard to manage, but Vicious V did well with it.”

A memorial for Curtis was held at the Downtown Cultural Arts Center on May 15. He is survived by his partner LaKesha, and three children, Alise, Xavier and Kristian.

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“The reality is that this budget represents an attempt to shred the social safety net by divesting from programs and services that save lives,” he said. Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh declined comment on the proposed budget’s impact on the city through a spokesman.

NAACP Chairman Leon W. Russell said “[he’s] not sure what is more insidious; regurgitating the sham of old trickledown theories of economics or purposely refusing to adequately

“The reality is that this budget represents an attempt to shred the social safety net…”

– Bernard C. “Jack” Young fund civil rights positions necessary to protect individuals from voter suppression, job discrimination, or police brutality.”

Trump’s budget proposal would cut $800 billion from Medicaid, $200 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – referred to as food stamps – and $72 billion from disability benefits over the next 10 years.

Carmen Del Guercio, president and CEO of the Maryland Food Bank, called SNAP “a critical tool for hundreds of thousands of Marylanders who are struggling to make ends meet.”

“Simply put, the Maryland Food Bank is not in a position to meet the increased demand for food assistance today, should the proposed cuts move forward,” Del Guercio said adding that the food bank is working at capacity.

The budget cuts proposed “will totally upset individuals, families and institutions from rural to urban America,” said the Rev. Dr. Alvin Hathaway Sr., senior pastor of Union Baptist Church in Baltimore.

“It’s unfortunate his business experience is being used as a justification for a hostile takeover of American’s social net, that’s defines the benevolence of our society,” Hathaway said.

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Musicians Share Their Love of Music

Hello everyone, how are you? I am wonderful, and as my dear friend and mentor, James “Biddy” Wood use to say, “I’m above ground.” Mannnnnnnnnn! There is so much music going on in Baltimore and the surrounding counties, I just don’t know which way to go. I am going to try to make some of them and hope after you read this week’s column, you will too. Just tap me on the shoulder and say “I’m here Rambling Rose.” Honey Child. I can’t do this alone, I need your help. Let me tell you why. Check this out.

This group called “Motown & More: The Legacy Lives!” I heard they are awesome and I am going to check them out at the Carroll Arts Center, 91 W. Main Street in Westminister, Md. on May 26. They perform all that oldies stuff from back in the day, such as “Heatwave,” “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” “Dancing in the Streets,” “Mercy, Mercy Me,” “Signed, Sealed, Delivered,” “Stay in My Corner,” “Tears on My Pillow,” and “Brickhouse” just to name a few, but you get my drift. I will be there.

Then celebrate 20 years of service to the community with Contemporary Arts in partnership with the Baltimore County Department of Aging. The organization is hosting “Jazz Concerts for Seniors” on May 24 at 10:30 a.m. (a breakfast treat). The Rhonda Robinson Trio will be at the Rosedale Senior Center, 1208 Neighbors Avenue in Baltimore. Call 410887-0233 for details. Gail Marten, the renowned jazz vocalist, along with Mike Noonan and John Pineda, will be performing for the seniors at Pikesville Senior Center, 1301 Reisterstown

loving son by another mother, “T-Shirt Brian,” has put together, and is hosting with the Patapsco Flea Market, a free live entertainment concert with local bands, singers, and DJ’s every Saturday and Sunday from 1p.m.-5 p.m. right on the grounds of the Patapsco Flea Market, located at 1400 W. Patapsco Avenue, Baltimore. Also, the Crab Deck will be open in their new outdoor Patio Bar every Saturday and Sunday at the same time serving hot steamed crabs, crab cakes, jumbo shrimp, corn on the cob, chicken, barbeque ribs, hamburgers and cocktails to wash it all down. D.J. Mike Jones will play the music here while you partake of the goodies. This is all sponsored

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One more thing before I leave you, please mark your calendar for the Boltonstock 2017 Festival, a neighborhood festival in Bolton Hill on June 3 in Sumpter Park between Eutaw and Bolton on the west and east, and Robert and Laurens Streets on the north and south. They will have a large variety of live entertainment bands including jazz and blues, vendors and lots more. For more information, call Peter Van Buren at 410961-6492. I will be there with my books, doing a book signing.

I will see you there.

Look, my dear friends I am out of space, but remember, if you need me, call me at 410-833-9474 or email me at rosapryor@aol.com.

Until the next time, I’m musically yours.

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April Ryan received the Honorary degree, Doctor of Laws from President Wilson and Board Regents, Rev. Dr. Frances Murphy Draper, Honorable Kweisi Mfume, Shelonda Stokes

Sheldon Goldseker receives the Doctor of Public Service Honorary degree

C. Sylvia Brown received the Doctor of Public Service Honorary degree

The Honorable Joseph R. Biden Jr., 47th Vice President of the United States of America

Senator Nathaniel McFadden, Baltimore City and Senator Ronald Young, Frederick County

Honor students received the President’s Second Mile Award and the President’s Award for Exceptional Creative Achievement

Happy faces and smiles for the graduates

Class of 1967 celebrates their 50th year

Over 700 undergraduates from Morgan State University received their bachelor’s degrees at the Talmadge L Hill Field House May 20.

The highlight for the graduates was the Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr., the 47th Vice President of the United States of America who gave the commencement address. He encouraged the Class of 2017 to “follow what feels right in your heart and gut” in order to succeed.

Along with giving the commencement address, Vice President Biden was awarded an Honorary degree, the Doctor of Public Service. Honorary degrees were also awarded to C. Sylvia Brown, a Baltimore philanthropist, a community service activist and educator, Sheldon Goldseker, one of Baltimore’s philanthropic leaders and chairman of the Goldseker Foundation, and alumna April Ryan, a broadcast journalist and political commentators. In 2017 she became a political analyst for Cable News Network (CNN). Michael E. Cryor, former chair, Maryland’s Democratic Party; businessman, community advocate, board director and chair, and strategic counsel was name Alumnus-of-the Year.

The Centennial Class of 1967 “Soulful Centennials” was welcomed back to the campus and was recognized as the first and only class to have played a major part in celebrating two Golden Anniversaries of the Institution.

Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine

CSU President Maria Thompson, Ph.D.

Grad students waiting to be called

Commencement was held on May 20 at the Physical Education Complex Arena at the university.

Coppin President Maria Thompson welcomed families and friends. The processional and music were by J.D. Alston. Val Traore, CEO of Food Bank of South Jersey and a Coppin graduate, gave the commencement address.

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