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Chicago is dedicating a mural to the blues legend Muddy Waters ahead of the city’s annual blues festival this weekend. Waters, known as the father or king of blues music in Chicago, died in 1983 at age 70.

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Students, alumni and advocates of Maryland’s four HBCUs will be back in U.S. District Court June 8 to hear closing arguments for the remedial phase of (Coalition for Equity & Excellence in Maryland Higher Education, et al. v. Maryland Higher Education Commission, et al.), commonly referred to as the HBCU Equity Trial. The lawsuit, originally filed in 2006, has been part of the higher education landscape in Maryland for the past decade. The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has dubbed the HBCU Equity Trial the “Brown vs Board of Education for Higher

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Haitian Embassy Launches Movement To Change Island’s Image, But Is It Enough? By Lenore T. Adkins Special to the AFRO Haitian Ambassador Paul Altidor wants Americans to help him dispel the notion that Haiti, the first Black republic in the Western Hemisphere, is rife with disaster and always has her hand out for aid. But Haiti experts say Altidor faces an uphill battle on changing

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the island’s image in the United States. Altidor spent the District’s first-ever Haiti Week in May educating the public about Haiti’s contributions and enlisting residents to help him correct misperceptions about the island, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. “No more ‘Haitians are Continued on A3

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The woman who accuses Bill Cosby of drugging and violating her more than a decade ago stood by her story at his sex-crimes trial June 7, withstanding hours of often ponderous cross-examination that didn’t produce the stumbles the TV star might Continued on A3

Education” denoting its significance in the field of education. Attorneys representing the Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education will summarize and defend remedies they were asked to propose by order of the Court to address a systemic pattern of discriminatory practices of academic program duplication advanced by the State of Maryland. In 2013, U.S. District Court Judge Catherine C. Blake determined that academic program duplication and failure to invest in offerings of unique academic content at HBCUs represent practices and policies that continue to negatively impact these institutions. “I see the plaintiff’s proposed remedy as that which is necessary to reverse the unconstitutional system of higher education that the State has maintained for so many decades,” Pace McConkie, director of the Robert M. Bell Center for Civil Rights in Education at Morgan State University, told the AFRO. Students and alumni from Morgan State University are one of four HBCUs involved in the case, along with Bowie State University, Coppin State University and University of Maryland Eastern Shore. The Coalition’s remedy includes moving upwards of 100 Continued on A3

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Study: Blood Pressure Lowered by Racial Integration By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com A study involving more than 2,000 Blacks found that those who moved from the most-segregated neighborhoods to lesssegregated neighborhoods later experienced lower systolic blood pressure, a factor in heart attacks and strokes. The report, published on June 1 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, followed Black people over time to see how leaving segregated

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Several nooses have been found in the District, Maryland and Virginia area recently, including at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. The below story recounts, in graphic detail, why the noose remains a potent symbol of racism.

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SLAYDEN, Miss. While the two factions argued whether to turn Ab Young, 29-year-old farmhand over to officers or to burn him, about 50 men left here, last week, and drove to the Nellie Mahon School, three miles east of here, strung him up and riddled his body with bullets. AP Photo/Matt Rourke

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Following a search that lasted several months, the Barack Obama Foundation announced May 31 that AfricanAmerican history scholar Louise Bernard will helm the Barack Obama Presidential Center Museum, according to a news release. Bernard will serve as the museum’s director, which means she will oversee the design, development and operations of the museum to be built as part of the $675 million center, which will be erected on the Southside of Chicago. It is slated to open in 2022. “I’m honored to work alongside such a talented team at the Obama Foundation, and to have the opportunity to help guide and shape a museum that is a truly innovative social and cultural institution,” Bernard said in a statement. “I look forward in bringing President and Mrs. Obama’s remarkable story to the LinkedIn broadest possible audience, Louise Bernard will be the and to highlighting the first director of the Barack crucial role of civic Obama Presidential Center engagement in a way that is Museum in Chicago. meaningful and inspiring to local South-Side residents, and to people across the country and around the world.” The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the job had been advertised at least since January. The foundation said the ideal candidate would be “an inspiring yet pragmatic museum professional, fundraiser and manager” and possess a deep knowledge of the Obamas’ history and administration. “One of the key aspects of the Obama Presidential Center is a museum that does not just tell the story of the Obama administration, but inspires individuals and communities to take on our biggest challenges,” David Simas, chief executive officer of the Obama Foundation, said in a statement. “We are excited for Louise to join our team and help us develop a museum that is active and engaging.” Currently, Bernard serves as director of exhibitions at the New York Public Library, a title she’s held since January, the Sun-Times reported. Before that, she helped develop exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Bernard holds a doctorate from Yale University in African American studies and American studies, according to a statement. Bernard also earned a master’s degree in theater history and English literature from Indiana University-Bloomington and a bachelor’s degree in drama from the University of Manchester. She starts July 1.

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HBCU Continued from A1 academic programs from four of Maryland’s traditionally white colleges (TWI’s) - The University of Baltimore, University of Maryland Baltimore County, University of Maryland University College and Towson State to Maryland’s HBCUs. The proposal also calls for strengthening academic programs at HBCUs and forming unique, high demand academic program niches that would attract a diverse student pool at the state’s four HBCUs. Attorneys for the State of Maryland have argued that the remedy put forth by the Coalition would “devastate Maryland’s higher education system.” David Burton, president of the Coalition for Equity and Excellence

in Higher Education, said that hearing closing arguments in the HBCU Equity Trial represented a powerful reminder of the momentous struggle for change and equality that encouraged him and fellow graduates of Maryland’s HBCUs to file the case more than a decade ago. “This occasion is pretty powerful because it connects our case from day one of this trial to where we are today – from both the plaintiffs and the defendant’s point of view.” Burton said he is certain that the Coalition’s remedy is in keeping with guidelines Judge Blake issued in her 2013 ruling. “I feel confident that we are moving forward in the right direction and that Judge Blake will resort to her own liability findings as the framework for making decisions in the current penalty phase of this trial.”

June 10, 2017 - June 16, 2017, The Afro-American In 2013, Judge Catherine C. Blake issued an opinion in the liability phase (initial phase) of the trial on behalf of the HBCU plaintiffs, finding the State of Maryland liable for continuing to maintain a system of separate and unequal education that negatively impacted HBCUs. “Accordingly, it is the Court’s conclusion that the extensive program duplication in Maryland is a traceable vestige of the de jure era, that continues to exacerbate the racial identifiability of Maryland’s HBIs by limiting their competitiveness in program offerings, and that there is no sound educational justification preventing the mitigation of this duplication,” Blake wrote. Blake ordered lawyers for the Coalition and State of Maryland into remediation to develop and

agree upon a remedy to address the systemic discrimination. Blake established a five-point outline for remediation, ordering both parties to “ (1) eliminate and further avoid unlawful unnecessary duplication of academic programs; (2) expand mission and program uniqueness and institutional identity of the HBIs; 3) develop programmatic niches of areas or areas of excellence at HBI’s 4) transfer specific programs from the TWIs to the HBIs to remedy specific violations of law and 5) merge specific programs and institutions where essential to effectively meet these same desegregation obligations.” Advocates for the State of Maryland insist that Blake has walked back the order to merge academic programs based on the current composition and structure

Haiti Continued from A1 eating trees,’ we don’t eat trees in Haiti,’” Altidor said, alluding to controversial comments made in 2016 by a Weather Channel host to explain deforestation on the island. “As part of this movement, the next time somebody says this, whether it’s the Weather Channel, whether it’s on CNN, I’m asking you guys to ask them to take it back.” That won’t be enough, said Elizabeth Ferris, a research professor in the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. The embassy should

“We do want to celebrate and recognize the depth and the complexity of the Haitian experience.” — Chantalle Verna specifically reach out to Americans who have been to Haiti. “If I were designing a strategy to change the narrative for Americans, I would focus on the dynamic Haitian-American community and the vibrant Haitian art scene,” Ferris said via email. “Many Americans who have traveled to Haiti come away with lasting positive impressions of the people.” Chantalle Verna, an associate professor of history and international relations at Florida International University, applauded the

Cosby Continued from A1 have hoped for. Calm and composed, Andrea Constand brushed off suggestions she and Cosby had a romantic relationship before the 2004 encounter at his suburban Philadelphia home. And she explained away the numerous phone calls she made to him afterward by saying she was merely returning Cosby’s messages about the women’s basketball squad at Temple University, where he was a powerful member of the board of trustees and she was director of team operations. Constand, 44, left the witness stand after some seven hours of testimony over two days, during which she told the jury that the comedian gave her three blue pills and then penetrated her with his fingers as she lay paralyzed on a couch, unable

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Students at the Hoteliere D’Haiti chef school julienne carrots in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haitian Ambassador Paul Altidor wants to change Haiti’s image in America. ambassador’s efforts, and cautions against putting out positive narratives that romanticize and oversimplify Haiti. People on the island face real issues, including rape, violence and food insecurity. In addition, the island has been demonized since slavery, she noted. “We do want to celebrate and recognize the depth and the complexity of the Haitian experience,” said Verna, who is Haitian American. “Let’s not just celebrate our fashion and our food and our music and our art, but let’s also celebrate our ingenuity, our intellect our critical eye in understanding the issues that are taking place, and the people who are living on the island.”

to tell him to stop. Constand’s mother followed her on the stand and bolstered her daughter’s account. Gianna Constand told the jury that she was distraught to learn what Cosby had done to her daughter. Cosby is charged with aggravated indecent assault. The 79-year-old comedian once dubbed America’s Dad could get 10 years in prison if convicted. Cosby’s lawyers have argued that the sexual encounter with Constand was consensual and have cited phone records showing she called the TV star 53 times afterward, including one call that lasted 20 minutes. But Constand said she was returning calls Cosby made to her university-issued cellphone about the basketball team. Constand’s long-awaited showdown with Cosby’s lawyers became bogged down in a painstaking examination

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of her phone records and police statements, and the defense couldn’t budge her off her account of molestation and broken trust. Constand was direct and polite under crossexamination, even when Agrusa’s questioning grew pointed and accusatory. Cosby kept still, looking down at the defense table through most of the morning. Constand said she was going to confront Cosby about the assault during an event he was hosting at his home for high school students. At the same time, Constand said, she was bringing Cosby a gift from a mutual acquaintance. Agrusa seized on the seeming contradiction: “You were going to confront the man you say assaulted you and you’re bringing him bath salts?” The defense lawyer sought to show that Constand changed her mind about the date of the alleged assault. But Constand perhaps blunted the attack by saying she got confused and initially thought the episode happened in March 2004. “I was mistaken,” she said, unflustered. Some 60 women have come forward to say Cosby sexually violated them, all but destroying his nice-guy image, but the statute of limitations for prosecution had run out in nearly every case. Constand’s case is the only one in which Cosby has been charged.

In the 1930s, American artists and writers, including Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, went on fellowships to Haiti to immerse themselves in the culture, said Joanne

of Maryland’s Higher Education System. In January 2016, Blake ordered the parties back into court after the State of Maryland failed to offer substantive remedial proposals. Blake is expected to issue a final ruling in the remedial phase of the HBCU Equity Trial before the end of 2017. But University of Baltimore Law Professor, Jose’ Anderson doesn’t think Blake’s final judgment in this case will be the end of the story. “Because of the time and resources invested in the case by both sides, it may be that whichever side loses, the appeals will continue until they are all exhausted.” Anderson told the AFRO. He speculated that the case may continue to drag on quite a while longer before change comes to Maryland’s High Education System.

Hyppolite, a curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Hurston wrote her famous novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” while she was in Haiti. In the 1940s and 1950s, an increasing number of Black tourists visited Haiti and found themselves received with care and a level of sophistication, which made them reflect on how poorly they were treated in the U.S., said Marcia Chatelain, associate professor of history and African-American studies at Georgetown University. “That experience of understanding that Blackness has a different definition across borders is so fundamental in the strategies that African Americans used in the Civil Right Movement,” Chatelain said. People of Haitian descent Several Haitians have influenced American culture, geography and politics, such as Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, who founded the city of Chicago in the 1800s; W.E.B. DuBois, who helped establish the NAACP in the early part of the 20th century; and Wyclef Jean, who helped revolutionize hip-hop. U.S. Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah) became the first HaitianAmerican woman and the first Black female Republican elected to the U.S. Congress. “We’re been part of this fabric of this country for a long time,” Altidor said. “We’re not passing through here.”

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Defending the Soul of our Democracy Part II We must redouble our multi-pronged efforts to investigate foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election and any subsequent actions undertaken by those in power to derail those investigations. At the same time, we also must do far more to assure full democratic participation by our countrymen and women here at home. Long before 2016, advocates for fair elections that engage all Americans Elijah Cummings on equal terms decried the weakening of our protections against voter suppression occasioned by a misguided Supreme Court majority in its 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision. In the 114th Congress, for example, I was honored to join Republican Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, Democratic Congressman John Conyers, Jr., and more than 100 other legislators in co-sponsoring The Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2015, legislation that would have repaired much (although not all) of the injury to our voting rights that the Shelby decision has allowed. Our proposed legislation never received and up-or-down vote in the Republican-dominated House; and, as a result, Republican legislatures in many states made it far more difficult for untold numbers of voters to cast their ballots in 2016 (especially the elderly, the young and minorities). Although President Trump, Attorney General Sessions, and the Republican congressional majority have all given their solemn oath to uphold the Constitution, they continue to deny the hard evidence that our constitutionally-mandated voting rights are being suppressed. By their inaction – and their actions – they have become culpable in these attacks against our democratic system. For example, despite my arguments to President Trump about the dangers of voter suppression during our March meeting at the White House, the mandate and make-up of his so-called “Voter Integrity Commission” fails the “smell test.” Chaired by Vice President Pence, whose voting rights record in Indiana was less than encouraging, the Trump Commission seems more oriented toward justifying further voter suppression than to assuring that our voting rights will be protected. Any on the Trump Commission who are serious about their duty to defend our democracy would be wise to study the highly respected Brennan Center’s heavily documented report, The Truth about Voter Fraud. After evaluating the elections that had been studied for “voter fraud,” the Center concluded that Americans

are “more likely to be struck by lightning than we are to impersonate another voter at the polls.” In sharp contrast to the allegations of widespread voter impersonation, the evidence of voter suppression in Republicandominated states is compelling – although the undemocratic methods vary. State voter-id laws, unwarranted purging of the voter rolls, racially gerrymandered congressional districts, and consciously understaffed and underequipped voting precincts in minority areas are just some of the more obvious methods being utilized to thwart our constitutional right to free and fair elections. Taken together, these voter suppression methods do constitute a fraud – but this “voter fraud” is being committed by reactionary state legislators against the American People and our constitutional right to choose those who will govern us. It is not caused by any sizable number of people voting improperly. These politically motivated efforts to “rig” our elections

“Americans are ‘more likely to be struck by lightning than we are to impersonate another voter at the polls.’” – Brennan Center report may already have had far-reaching, destabilizing and dangerous consequences. Deprived of a President who takes his constitutional obligation to protect our voting rights seriously and opposed by an Attorney General who is in the process of gutting the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, optimism about the future of our democracy may seem unrealistic. Nevertheless, I remain confident that our democratic system is stronger than any individual or political party.

Trump’s Travel Ban and American History There has been something missing from the debate over Peter C. Valenti the Trump administration’s executive orders which are ostensibly country-targeted bans but obviously a Muslim ban. As the furor rages, especially after the first ban was issued in January, opponents of the ban proclaim that Muslims are “welcome” in the US, as numerous signs held aloft at protests read. Supporters of the ban suggest that nationals of these seven countries (now only six in the new ban) pose a potential danger, indeed, even that they don’t “belong” here. However, since both sides of this debate seem unaware of certain historical dimensions of this debate, they are both framing their position incorrectly. Liberals don’t need to “welcome” Muslims to the U.S. nor can conservatives “keep out” Muslims— they have always been here. The U.S. belongs to Muslims as much as it belongs to the Christian majority. These Muslim Americans were part of the commonly overlooked and underdocumented part of our history— African slaves. We have to recognize that Muslims have been part of American society since the earliest colonial days in the form of African slaves, and thus a Muslim presence or Muslims coming to the U.S. are not new phenomena. This is a country for, of, and by Muslims; they are not alien to American heritage. This statement equally applies to Latin America. Even as Christopher Columbus and subsequent Spaniards claimed they were bringing Christianity to the New World, they brought Muslims with them. Though by far the largest numbers of Muslims came as African slaves, they were preceded by Moriscos from Spain or “Moors.” In 1607 the English of Jamestown imagined themselves as founding a Christian colony. But that wishful thinking was forever altered when the first African slaves arrived in Jamestown in 1619

(not to mention that the Jamestown colonists were ignoring the preexisting religion of the Native Americans). From that point on in time, those African slaves, from various regions of Africa, brought with them a variety of religions. Today we can and should “welcome” new Muslims to the U.S. but also simultaneously recognize that they have always been here. As a number of studies have found, by way of painstaking data mining from slave ship manifestos, slave registers, memoirs, and archival and oral research in parts of the US and Africa, as the slaves arrived in the Americas so did Islam. In other words, just as Christian Europeans came from the 1500s onward to the Americas, so too did Muslim Africans.

“The U.S. belongs to Muslims as much as it belongs to the Christian majority.” Since most European Americans were either ignorant of Africans’ rich religious diversity or were hostile to Islamic practice specifically, they didn’t often recognize Muslim Africans as anything worthy of serious comment. As Denise A. Spellberg’s engaging 2013 book Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an points out, in all likelihood both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had Muslim slaves on their plantations. As recent scholarship has focused intensely on Sally Hemings, Jefferson’s concubine of nearly 40 years, it has come to light that she probably had a Muslim grandmother. Given that Jefferson fathered seven children (four survived to adulthood) with

Americans who are committed to defending our democracy will simply have to work harder – and we will continue to have substantial support for this most patriotic of causes in many of our federal courts. Proof of intentional racial discrimination has resulted in victories for our voting rights in North Carolina and Texas voter suppression and congressional gerrymandering cases – and in the North Carolina litigation, even a majority of the Supreme Court has had to agree. Nevertheless, my ultimate confidence in our ability to defend our democratic system rests in the American people – in our determination to do what we must to uphold our ability to choose who will govern. When our neighbors are required to produce identification at their polling places, we will work together to help them get those IDs; where cynical politicians make voting more difficult on Election Day, we will bring a box lunch and wait our turn; and when the evidence shows racially-based attacks on our voting power, we will fight that suppression in our courts. We are in a fight for the soul of our democracy – a fight that we are determined to win. Congressman Elijah Cummings represents Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.

Hemings, this means these children and their descendants represent an intermingling of Founding Father and Islamic ancestry. As scholars have demonstrated, an estimated 20-30% of African slaves shipped to the Americas was Muslim, in the early centuries the majority coming from West Africa such as the region of Senegambia. We can never be exact with this percentage because many slave ship manifestos just record numbers of individuals and not names, religion, or place of origin. According to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, approximately 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the Americas between the 16th19th centuries (though some scholars put this number higher). Those Africans shipped to what eventually became the U.S. have been tabulated at nearly 400,000. Based on these numbers, a conservative estimate would then mean that at least 80,000 African slaves brought to the U.S. were Muslim. This means a significant amount of African Americans today could have Islamic ancestry; these numbers are probably much higher for Black Latinos in Latin America. In addition to the many Muslim Africans, when we add the waves of Muslim immigrants to the US and Americas more broadly throughout the 19th century and into the 20th (long before the most recent influx), then we begin to realize the rich depth and breadth of Muslim Americans. No other Muslim community is as diverse as that in the U.S., with the exception of the community of Muslims living in Mecca today (Mecca being an international city, par excellence). We should oppose the Trump ban not only because it is an unconstitutional Muslim ban in disguise but also because it is derived from and reinforces a false narrative, both about a supposed “clash of civilizations” but also about U.S. history. Peter C. Valenti is a clinical assistant professor, Liberal Studies, at New York University.

NAACP Denounces Recent Wave of Vandalism Against African-Americans

The NAACP issued the following statement after a noose was found May 31, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. and after NBA star LeBron James’ house in Los Angeles, California was defaced with the N-word. “We are deeply troubled and disturbed by the heinous acts of racism that occurred on Wednesday,” said Leon Russell, Board Chairman of the NAACP. “Leaving a noose – a symbol and weapon of hate – in front of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture and vandalizing the home of NBA superstar LeBron James, underscore the recent increase in hate crimes committed against African-Americans under the Trump Administration. The NAACP will not sit by idly while our people continue to be assailed by racist and cowardly actions. Furthermore, we call on the Trump Administration to stand up and speak out against

these attacks.” “Atrocious acts like those committed on Wednesday demonstrate the divisive animus that is pervasive throughout our country. The NAACP stands with the Smithsonian and with Mr. James and is wholly committed, now more than ever, to protecting equal rights of all persons and to eliminating race-based discrimination in the United States. We will not be deterred,” said Derrick Johnson, Vice Chairman of the NAACP. Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest and largest nonpartisan civil rights organization. Its members throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities.

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Pressure Continued from A1 communities could affect the risk of heart disease. Kiarri Kershaw, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University, and her colleagues followed 2,280 Blacks participating in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young

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A recent study found that moving from a segregated neighborhood to a less segregated neighborhood can lower blood pressure. Adults study. “This study provides stronger, more direct evidence that segregation impacts blood pressure and harms the health of African Americans. I believe it’s related to the stress of living in these neighborhoods,” Kershaw said in a statement. “In a less violent area with better resources, you are more secure about your family’s safety and your children’s future in better schools. You see opportunities for the economic mobility of your kids and here is better access to good grocery stores, health care, and an economically vital business district.” The researchers followed the subjects for 25 years. Those who moved away from highly segregated neighborhoods to lesssegregated neighborhoods

and stayed there during that period had significantly lower blood pressure. In addition, those neighborhoods may also make it easier to live healthier lifestyles by having more access to parks, sidewalks, gyms, grocery stores with more fresh produce and pharmacies to get medication. Kershaw acknowledges, however, that moving to less segregated neighborhoods could increase stress in at least one way — by potentially exposing Blacks to more racism. “It’s certainly possible that those who move to less segregated neighborhoods experience more exposure to racism, which could be one reason why some African-Americans choose to stay in more segregated neighborhoods,” she said. Kershaw noted that Blacks living in more segregated neighborhoods tend to have better mental and emotional health.

Hanging Continued from A1 That the lynching was done on a pre-arranged schedule was indicated by the fact that newspaper men and photographers in Memphis, sixty-three miles away, were notified and arrived forty minutes before the lynching. An inquest over the body was held at Holly Springs. Prosecutor E.C. Wright announced that no special session of the grand jury would be called to investigate. The coroner’s jury decided that Young came to his death by hanging at the hands of parties unknown. Might be “Suicide” So far as the proof is concerned,” said Prosecutor Wright, “we don’t know if it was suicide or hanging.” Young, accused of fatally shooting a white highway worker, was captured by the mob at Rossville, Tenn. early on the morning of March 12. Although only about fifty men were at the lync

Sundown Agreed Upon After hiding Young out, the press and law officers were notified there would be a lynching at sundown. Governor Connor stated following the lynching that he had not requested the state militia. The sheriff did not request state troops, even though his office knew the mob had Young at least two hours before he was killed. Young was hustled out of the little schoolhouse, where he had been held captive since 10:30 in the morning. The mob adjusted a half-inch hemp rope, the end of which was fashioned into a man’s noose, about Young’s neck, the knot being tucked under his left ear. “I’m going to see Jesus,” the doomed man began to sing without a quiver in his voice. Before he was through his song, the hoodlums began to curse and abuse him, telling him to get it over. A black Ford coach was backed up to Young. He was lifted onto the trunk at the rear of the car. He then began to pray. “Lord Jesus, I’m coming home to you.”

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Teeth Clamp Tongue The Ford started with a jerk and Young was snatched off the trunk by the rope. He fell about two feet and was left dangling at the end of the rope from a limb fifteen feet from the ground. His neck was not broken by the fall and he apparently strangled. His white teeth clenched his tongue. “Let’s cut him down and take him to Slayden and burn him,” one of the men shouted. “Let’s throw him to the d---,” another mobster said. A drunken youth then pulled long barreled revolver from under his belt. “Who’ll shoot him if I furnish the gun and cartridges?” he asked. A volunteer accepted the offer. He fired once and apparently missed. He was jeered by his fellow lynchers. Another snatched the pistol from him and fired. Young’s head quivered. Other’s pulled out pistols and began taking potshots at the body. None offered to take it down.

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Southeast D.C. Citizens Unsure About Council Budget By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com

On May 30, the first reading of the $13.8 billion 2018 budget passed the D.C. Council unanimously despite spats over tax cuts for wellto-do Washingtonians and the desire for more education funding. There were small increases for affordable housing and tenant programs, and initiatives to support homeownership and decrease homelessness, among other things. D.C. Council member Vincent Gray (D-Ward 7) supported the legislation. A strong supporter of the District’s public education system, Gray liked the three percent increase to the Uniform Per Student Funding Formula. Nevertheless, he did

Fake ICE Flyers Denounced Bowie Pays Tribute to 2nd Lt. in Southwest Richard Collins In Memoriam

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com

On June 2, fake ICE flyers (left) were posted around Southeast D.C., prompting Mayor Muriel Bowser to request that residents remove the flyers (right). By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com

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Vincent Gray, Ward 7 representative on the D.C. Council, has some objections to the 2018 budget proposal, but is pleased with an increase to the Uniform Per Student Funding Formula. have concerns about uneven per-student funding for public Continued on B2

Bonds Launches Digital Archive of Barry’s 1978 Campaign

Fake flyers claiming to be from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently appeared overnight in the Waterfront neighborhood of Southwest, Washington D.C. This caused a stir among residents and raised the ire of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. Designed as a phony “Sanctuary City Neighborhood Public Notice,” the leaflets, found taped to light posts and traffic signs, advised residents that it was a crime to “conceal, harbor, or shield from detection” an “illegal alien.” The flyer also provided a Customs and Border Protection hotline number. Travis Hester, retired civil servant and resident of the Town Square Tower Condominiums, told the AFRO he was appalled by the flyers, taped just feet from the entrance to his building

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on June 2 – and even more incensed to find the notices to be a hoax. “It is this wave of insecure and degenerate newcomers to the city that believe somehow posting up such notices, or even hanging nooses, is a game. It is anything but comical,” Hester, told the AFRO. “There is an active attempt to intimidate Black and Brown people reminiscent of some southern and midwestern towns. There needs to be an official answer to these incidents before Black and Brown people start to take things into their own hands.” Hester was also referring to the fact that three nooses were found in D.C. during the week of May 28, including at the – Travis Hester National Museum of African American History and Culture ICE spokesperson Carissa Cutrell denied responsibility for the flyers in a statement that read: “The immigration enforcement notices appearing across Washington D.C. were not issued or sanctioned by U.S.

“It is this wave of insecure and degenerate newcomers to the city that believe somehow posting up such notices, or even hanging nooses, is a game.”

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One of Washington’ D.C.’s leading civic advocacy organizations is undergoing a leadership change. Former D.C. Council Chairman Arrington Dixon recently stepped down as the chairman of the Anacostia Coordinating Council (ACC), a non-profit dedicated to the promotion and development of the Anacostia section of Ward 8. Dixon made his departing remarks to an audience of 60 people at Anacostia High School May 30. “It has been the honor of my life to lead ACC,” Dixon said. “We started this organization in 1983 because we wanted to get the Anacostia Metro Station built and we helped to do that. After accomplishing that, we asked ourselves ‘What next?’ We decided to continue to advocate on behalf of Anacostia.” Dixon grew up in the Anacostia neighborhood on Shannon Place, S.E. where Savoy Elementary School sits presently. He moved to Ward 4 and was elected to serve in the first D.C. Council that convened in 1975. Dixon was the second chairman of the D.C. Council, serving from 1979-1983. He briefly accepted an appointment to the council as an at-large member from the D.C. Democratic State Committee from August 1997-December 1997, taking the position of Linda Cropp who had become chairman of the legislative body. Dixon was defeated in a special election for the position by Republican David Catania. Since leaving office in 1983, Dixon has managed his consulting firm, Arrington Dixon and Associates, located on Shannon Place, S.E. Under Dixon’s leadership, ACC has grown into an organization known for its advocacy for Anacostia and Ward 8 residents. D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), every D.C. mayor since Marion Barry and almost every council member in the past 20 years has attended and spoken at the organization’s

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Marion Barry, revered as D.C.’s mayor for life, served four terms as the District’s mayor. workers and members of the press who covered the election, is housed at George Washington University’s Continued on B2

Man Shot in S.E. After Running Away from Shooter

Dixon Resignation Leaves Anacostia Council Leadership in Flux By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com

D.C. Council member Anita Bonds (D-At-large) is part of an effort to archive the historic 1978 Washington D.C. mayoral election. The late Marion Barry emerged as the winner and changed the political landscape of the city. On June 5, Bonds announced the online oral history archive of Marion Barry’s 1978 Campaign for Mayor at the John A. Wilson Building with D.C. Council members Trayon White (D-Ward 8) and Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), and 40 of Barry’s closest friends and colleagues. The archive, which consists of interviews with campaign

last Tuesday of the month meetings. Its signature fundraising event, a boat ride on the National Capital Planning Commission Potomac River Arrington Dixon has resigned as in September, is chairman of the ACC. an event political officeholders and activists have attend for networking and socializing for the past 24 years. ACC has taken steps to advocate the modernizing of the Barry Farm housing complex, revived Ward 8 civic associations, served as a strong supporter of Ballou High School, and sponsors the annual Anacostia community Backto-School event in August. The organization has donated thousands of dollars to Ward 8 causes and non-profits throughout the years. However, Dixon said it was time to pass the mantle. “Change is good for anyone,” he said. “It is time for change at ACC and I have resigned as chairman. Don’t worry, I will still be around and attend meetings but I will be as a participant.” ACC gets its money from the dues it collects from members, ranging from individuals to non-profits and – Arrington Dixon corporations. At times, Dixon’s business has had to step in to financially help operations.

“It is time for change at ACC and I have resigned as chairman.”

Philip Pannell, the executive director of the ACC managing its daily operations, told the {AFRO} that, contrary to talk in the community, he doesn’t want to take Dixon’s place. Pannell is a well-known civic, social, and political activist throughout the city and has run for public office several times. “No, no that is not my decision,” Pannell said. “That decision will be made by the board of directors. I hope to Continued on B2

By Briana Thomas Special to the AFRO The Metropolitan Police Department is still searching for a suspect in a shooting in Southeast, D.C. on May 18, police said. According to D.C. police, the victim was walking in the 300 block of Southern Ave, SE when he heard gunshots around 11:28 p.m. The victim tried to run away, but was struck by gunfire in the parking lot of 4700 South Capitol Street, SE. Police said the man then ran across the street to a 7-Eleven at 4675 South Capitol Street, SW where he got the attention of a police officer. The victim survived the violent incident, was transported to a local hospital, and treated for a life threatening injury, police said. There were eight shell casings found at the scene of the crime, according to police reports. A spokesperson for the Courtesy photo department, Aquita Brown, The pictured person is a suspect of told the interest in the southeast D.C. shooting. AFRO May 29 that no arrests have been made so far, “This case remains under investigation.” On May 24, officials released video footage of a suspect of interest. The suspect appears to be a Black male with dreadlocks wearing all black and carrying a backpack. The suspected shooter can be seen in the video making a purchase at a convenient store. The case is being investigating as an assault with intent to kill. As of June, 44 percent of the city’s homicides have happened in Ward 8, according to D.C. police.

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More Blacks Impacted on National Gun Violence Awareness Day By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com This year’s annual National Gun Violence Awareness Day on June 2 was a day to examine the long-term effects of deaths, injuries, trauma, grief, and incarcerations associated with gun violence in Black communities. Several events in D.C. commemorated the day, including one on the roof of the Monique Johnson Anacostia River Center, in Southeast’s Diamond Teague Park. The park was named after a 2003 Southeast victim of gun violence. The Violence Policy Center recently released the 10th edition of an annual study: Black Homicide Victimization in the United States, documenting that Blacks represent 13 percent of the U.S. population yet account for 50 percent of all homicide victims. Community activists, including The American Psychological Association’s Federal Action Network, discussed how misconceptions about gun violence sometimes keeps adequate solutions from being found. For instance, within communities of color, there often exist false assertions that homicides with Black victims are uniformly “gang-related” or connected to other criminal

activity. However, the study found that when the circumstances could be identified, 68 percent of the homicides with Black victims were not related to the commission of any other felony. Of these, 51 percent involved arguments between the victim

“Black people are getting into nonsensical arguments with each other and things seem to quickly escalate into shootings; it’s senseless.” – Omar Johnson and the offender. The study also found that when the victim to offender relationship could be identified, 72 percent of Black victims were killed not by strangers, but by someone they knew. “Black people are getting into nonsensical arguments with

each other and things seem to quickly escalate into shootings; it’s senseless,” Omar Johnson, a Congress Heights youth worker, told the AFRO following the Diamond Teague Park event. “We need to teach conflict resolution to both parents and young people because the kids see what the adults do and since the adults are arguing and fussing, cursing and shooting, the kids do the same things.” Mayor Muriel Bowser and volunteers installed a nest made of dismantled gun parts on the roof of the Monique Johnson Anacostia River Center in recognition of National Gun Violence Awareness Day. The nest was created by young people in the “Guns to Roses” Program, which uses parts from illegal guns taken by Metropolitan Police and turns them into artwork, according to a release. “This year alone, 896 guns have been taken off the streets by the Metropolitan Police Department, but there is still much more work to do,” Bowser said. “In order to build a safer, stronger, D.C., we must work together to get illegal firearms out of our communities.” The goal of the Guns and Roses program is to provide atrisk District youth with the fundamental metalworking skills necessary for entry-level employment in the construction industry, while also encouraging positive youth development.

Digital Archive Continued from B1

Gelman Library. “This was a historic moment for the city and for the country,” Kwame Holman, Barry’s friend, said in a statement. “During his campaign for mayor, Barry won the election with the support of gays and lesbians, low-income people and Whites. His election was about the evolution of Home Rule in the District of Columbia.” Bonds agreed with the special nature of the campaign. “This was definitely something different,” she said in a statement. “The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club mailed out 93,000 pieces on behalf of Marion. Barry was of the people.” The creation of the archive was spearheaded by Barry supporters such as Bonds, Julius Hobson Jr., Betty King, Diane Lewis, Gladys Mack, Richard Maulsby and Thornell Page, all political activists in the District at that time. Journalists Holman and Tom Sherwood also assisted with the project. Barry served on the District of Columbia Board of Education from 1972-1974 and on the D.C. Council as an at-large member from 1975-1979. In 1978, Barry challenged incumbent Mayor Walter Washington for re-election. D.C. Council Chairman Sterling Tucker was in the race also. On Sept. 12, 1978, Barry beat Tucker by 1,400 votes and won the general election in November. Betty King, active in the Barry 1978 effort and a supporter of the online archive, said the campaign beat the odds of the so-called political experts. “The summer of 1978 is one I will never forget,” King said

in a statement. King served as the head of Barry’s Office of Board and Commissions during his first two terms and as a deputy chief of staff and ombudsman during his fourth term. “No one thought we would win the election but we worked our tails off. For me, it was a peak experience,” she said. Lewis said the 1978 election wasn’t just about Barry becoming mayor. “Barry’s election started the process of the

“No one thought we would win the election but we worked our tails off.” – Betty King District becoming an independent jurisdiction of its own and not an entity of the federal government,” she said, noting that it was under Barry that the District’s budget was consolidated instead of being a patchwork ruled by different federal agencies. Ethel Delaney Lee is a longtime political activist in the District. Though she hasn’t been interviewed for the archive, she is looking forward to it. “I was there with Barry at the very beginning, in 1978,”

Lee told the AFRO. “I remember on July 4 of that year when Bonds and I worked to get the petitions ready for Barry to run. I played a key role in Barry’s effort in Precinct 62, which was the highest voting precinct in the city in terms of percentage.” Lee said she made 500 phone calls on behalf of Barry in 1978, noting that many of her neighbors didn’t like him. Bonds said that the Barry project should be the beginning of a process where District residents tell their stories. “I join those who created the archive in encouraging present and former elected officials of the D.C. government to undertake similar oral history projects,” the council member said. “Too many of our friends and colleagues have already passed away. The recollections of others who played a role in the critical events in the evolution of Home Rule and the political history of the District of Columbia must not be lost.” Hobson told the AFRO why George Washington University was chosen to house the online archive instead of Howard University or the University of the District of Columbia. “We reached out and searched around for this,” he said. “We decided on the best vehicle to make this happen quickly.” Jennifer King is the manuscript librarian for the Special Collection Research Center at the library. “We were approached in 2014 to do this and it has been a joy to work with,” Jennifer King said in a statement. King demonstrated how to access the access the video interviews of 33 people who worked on the campaign at go.gwu/Marionbarryproject.

Budget

Continued from B1 charter schools, a United Medical Center reduction, and lowering levels of funding for public safety. The former mayor is disturbed by the cuts to the extension of the streetcar to Ward 7 at the level of $60.7 million. “I fully support this streetcar system as a part of our growing city’s public transportation infrastructure, and the Metro struggles and traffic congestion make a clear case for the streetcar,” Gray told the AFRO. “We should either choose to fund the intended expansion of the streetcar system by supporting

the Benning Extension or end the program, effective immediately.” D.C. Council member Trayon White (D-Ward 8) supported the budget but didn’t talk specifics. “My office was going to release a statement but decided not to do so at the time,” White told the AFRO. The second and final vote on the budget will take place June 13. It will then be sent to the mayor and upon her approval, the local portion will be sent to the U.S. Congress for review and the federal part of the

budget will go to President Donald Trump, according to D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) at his news

anything for people in Ward 8,” Christopher Hawthorne, the advisory neighborhood commissioner for district

“This budget doesn’t do anything for people in Ward 8.” – Christopher Hawthorne conference on June 5. There is a sense among some residents in Wards 7 and 8 that the budget offers them little. “This budget doesn’t do

8E05, told the AFRO. “They use colorful words to say how the budget will help people but they exclude Ward 8 in the specifics. This budget

excludes predominantly Black areas not only in Ward 8 but Wards 7, 6, 5, 4 and 1.” As an example, Hawthorne criticized the amount budgeted for affordable housing programs. “Affordable housing is a cute phrase but in this city, lowincome people cannot afford affordable housing,” he said. Sheila Carson Carr, advisory neighborhood commissioner for district 7F03 in Ward 7, echoes Hawthorne’s concerns about affordable housing. “There isn’t enough affordable housing,” Carr told the

AFRO. “It costs $1,500 to rent a one-bedroom apartment in new housing developments in Ward 7, including what is planned for D.C. General. People don’t have a chance.” Not all east of the River residents are critical. Ashley Emerson represents district 7E05 in Ward 7 as a commissioner and is pleased that an important institution in her community received funds. “We are glad that the Capital View branch of the library received additional funding,” Emerson, who is the chairman of commission 7E, told the AFRO.

Fake Flyers

Dixon

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Immigration and Customs. Just like false reports of immigration checkpoints or random sweeps, notices like these are dangerous and irresponsible. Any person who actively incites panic or fear of law enforcement is doing a disservice to the community, endangering public safety and the very people they claim to support and represent.” Isabelle Salvadore, a graduate student who recently moved just south of the L’Enfant Plaza from Texas, said the flyers she saw while walking her dogs brought back terrible memories of racist encounters she endured in Texas. Engaged to a dark-skinned Panamanian, Salvadore said she was terrorized in her Terrell, Texas community for being both non-White and in an interracial relationship. “There were notes left on our car and a few on my apartment door calling me a N---- lover, and saying INS was going to get me or I should die,” Salvadore told the AFRO. “I was born in Los Angeles, I am an American citizen, but these people are angry and looking to hurt people. This is a dangerous climate I thought we had left behind.” Bowser responded to the posters with a tweet calling for people to tear down the flyers. “Clearly the flyer is meant to scare and divide our residents,” she said. “We won’t stand for it.” D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton called on the FBI to investigate the flyers, saying in a statement: “Whoever created and posted these fliers did so in violation of several federal laws. We believe a federal investigation to determine who is responsible is fully warranted.” D.C. has about 70,000 immigrants, and roughly 25,000 are undocumented, according to officials. Immigration arrests by ICE nationwide increased by 32.6 percent in the first few weeks of the Trump administration compared to the previous year.

remain as executive director.” Whatever leadership position Pannell has, he has the strong support of former D.C. Council member Sandy Allen. “I am looking forward to a smooth transition at ACC,” Allen, who represented Ward 8 on the council from 1996-2005, told the AFRO. “Phil and Arrington have worked together well for 20 years and I am confident Phil will continue to implement the ongoing mission of ACC.” Allen said that Pannell, as executive director, will continue to keep ACC as a voice of Anacostia and Ward 8 in the coming years. “ACC is already a moving force,” she said. “With Phil in charge, I suspect that the ACC will be more visible.” Pannell has been a candidate for the Ward 8 State Board of Education and participated in Ballou’s PTA as well as raised funds for its band to travel. Jacque Patterson, a former president of the Ward 8 Democrats, who has served as an advisory neighborhood commissioner in the ward, told the AFRO that he expects that education will get more of a focus as Pannell takes on a broader public role. “I am comfortable with Philip,” Patterson said. “He is focused on making sure that our kids get a quality education. With the number of schools, charter and public, in this ward, he will be diligent in seeing that our kids are getting properly educated.” Pannell said he will serve as the interim chairman until the board of directors choose its chairman, which is expected to occur within the month of June.

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D.C. Resident Dolores Frances Williams Celebrates 100th Birthday By LaTrina Antoine Washington, D.C. Editor lantoine@afro.com Dolores Frances Williams, a long time fixture of the District, turned 100-years-old on June 6. “I would say she definitely was a super woman,” her daughter Betty Lorraine Briscoe told the AFRO. “She was a loving mother and still is. She has handled many trials in her life with the utmost grace. She is a vibrant and intelligent woman.” Even though the Washington D.C. native has seen and endured loss during her lifetime, she keeps moving forward, putting one foot in front the other. “I feel fine so far,” Williams told the AFRO.” I don’t feel any different really except aches and pains.”

“I would say she definitely was a super woman.” – Betty Lorraine Briscoe To remain active, Briscoe said Williams occasionally visits the Hayes Wellness Center in northeast D.C., has lunch outings and enjoys Lipton Black tea every day. According to Briscoe, Williams is independent, mobile and still lives at her home in northeast D.C., which

she has owned since 1949. Williams grew up in the Anacostia neighborhood in southeast D.C., where she attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School, part of the Courtesy Photo historic Black Dolores Frances Williams church that turned 100 on June 6. served Black Catholics in the area. The church is also celebrating its centennial year. In 1963, she worked as a clerk at the General Accounting Office, which is now the General Accountability Office. Williams was also a skilled seamstress. “Back then people didn’t buy a whole lot of things, that’s what they had to do to survive, “Briscoe said. Williams had seven children: Harold, Shirley, Yvonne, Betty, Joseph, Gilbert, and Albert. To date, Yvonne, Betty and Albert are still living. “You need patience,” Williams said. “When you have quite a few children you have to know patience, get along with them and, of course, faith.”

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On May 6, the ladies of the Northern Virginia Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority held their Fifth Annual Trailblazer Awards and Scholarship Gala at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel in Arlington, Va. The Chapter awarded $15,000 in scholarships to college-bounds students: Ruth Goshu, Safiya Osei and Rackeb Mered. Trailblazers in education, Leonard L. Haynes III, president of the Defense Heritage Corporation and Abraham Scott, founder and chairman of the Janice Marie Scott Memorial Scholarship Fund were also honored for their philanthropy and achievements in education.

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Leah Andrews, co-chair, Fundraising Committee; Abraham Scott, Trailblazer Award honoree and Anna Carter, chair, Fundraising Committee

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The 84th Annual Third District Meeting of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity was held April 27 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 30 at the Crystal City Hilton Hotel in Arlington, Va. Under the leadership of Third District Representative Ezekiel Dennison, Jr. and District Marshall Gary Clark Jr., attendees were treated to a variety of events and activities to include an annual step show, a prayer breakfast, an undergraduate luncheon, a talent competition and a Bro. Stafford Brown, Bro. Edward Richardson founderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s banquet. Undergraduate Jr., Graduate Basileus Rev. Courtenay Miller, third district Citizen of the Year

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Mildred Muhammad: ‘I’m Still Standing’ By Byron Scott Special to the AFRO John, Salena and Taalibah Muhammad saw their father, John Allen Muhammad, arrested on Oct. 24, 2002, for a string of sniper shootings that killed 17 people in Washington, D.C., Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. In her latest book, I’m Still Standing, released in March, Mildred Muhammad, who divorced John Allen before he began his killing spree, writes about the deep pain and confusion the children suffered when their father refused to see them. Muhammad told the AFRO that on Nov. 10, 2009, the scheduled day of the execution, she tried desperately to get John Allen to at least call his children. “If he loves us,” Taalibah asked, “why won’t he talk to us? Why mom?” The seconds ticked away, almost audibly, as the children sat anxiously by the phone waiting for their dad to call. But at 9:11 that Tuesday night, John Allen, was declared dead. The phone call to his children never happened. I’m Still Standing is a moment by moment narrative that begins with the emotionally crushing events that led up to the execution of the man known as the D.C. Sniper, the person, Mildred Muhammad said, she once loved, and who, emotionally and mentally abused her. The author says her book is for the victims and survivors of domestic violence, as well as those who are in a position to help, but may not know how. Muhammad reaches out through the

area; gunning down ten people and injuring three others. In May Malovo’s life sentence was overturned because he was a juvenile at the time of conviction. The Virginia Attorney General’s Office, which prosecuted Malvo, said in a statement it was considering whether to appeal the decision. Muhammad’s book tells a clear recollection of those shadowy days. Notwithstanding the depravity of his crimes, to his children, John Allen was not the monster portrayed on TV. He was their dad and they loved him. Muhammad writes about what followed in the wake of the execution. There were months of isolation and a lengthy road to normalcy, Muhammad said. It meant more than just putting pen to paper. It required her to go public with her story, which could expose her and the kids to criticism. Her first book, released in 2009, is called Scared Silent. Muhammad said she and her children are like the overwhelming majority of domestic violence survivors. “80 percent,” she said “do not have physical scars to prove that they are victims.” Her advice to anyone who may be in an abusive situation is to “tell someone…not just anyone, [just] one trusted friend,” she wrote. If you are planning to leave an abusive relationship, “be very strategic.” I’m Still Standing includes a safety plan on how to do that. There are others, Muhammad writes, who may not know they are in an abusive situation. If you are unsure, she advises: get a sheet of paper, “… draw a line down the middle, mark one column pros and other cons. If the cons outweigh the pros, you may have a decision to make.” The author follows through with sound step-by-step advice on what survivor’s options are and what they can do. Prodded by dreams in which she heard the cries of abused women, Muhammad began speaking publicly about their ordeal. She said she is also working on a degree in psychology and hopes to earn her degree in 2018.

I’m Still Standing is a moment by moment narrative that begins with the emotionally crushing events that led up to the execution of the man known as the D.C. Sniper. personal stories of how her family wrestled with life, death and everything else in between. Over the course of three weeks, beginning on Oct. 2, 2001, the D.C. Sniper and then 17 year old Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the Washington

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Meet the Baltimore Rapper Better Known for His Hip Clothing Line By Janneh G Johnson Special to the AFRO ASAP Ant, also known as YG Addie, is one of the lesser known members of the musical group ASAP Mob (comprised of industry heavyweights such as ASAP Rocky, ASAP Bari and the now deceased ASAP Yams) and the only member of the rap coterie hailing from Baltimore. Ant has had success in the music industry, collaborating with stars like Lil’ Uzi Vert, Hoodrich Pablo Juan, and Maxo Kream but he may be most well-known for his clothing line, Marino Infantry. “I’ve always been into music since I was a young kid. I’ve known ASAP Yams forever and I’ve had my clothing line since I was like 15. Me knowing Yams triggered my meeting Rocky, we were playing around and I ended up styling him and eventually I became a part of ASAP Mob,” Ant told the AFRO. First appearing in ASAP Rocky’s “Pe$o” music video, Marino Infantry has quickly taken off and has been seen on stars like Playboi Carti, Metro Boomin and Kendall Jenner. “I’m not the typical Baltimore rapper. My mind isn’t focused on Baltimore, I’m thinking about New York, LA, Paris and money. I’m a creator I’m thinking outside of the box. The average Baltimore rapper is just not thinking outside the box. These kids will be happy if their music is played on [Baltimore radio station] 92 Q,” said Ant. “I get love but it’s a lot of crabs in the bucket in Baltimore, you feel me? People have told me I’m not repping [representing] Baltimore right, but I don’t know how else they’d want me to rep it. I’m the only one pushing the boundaries and

pushing the culture forward for Baltimore. People may not understand it but the love always going to outweigh the hate.” Some may wonder why a young Black male from West Baltimore chose to produce a clothing line largely mired in skate culture, a pastime stereotypically reserved for suburban angstridden White teens, but Ant purposefully chose a more underrepresented side of Baltimore to draw inspiration from. “Baltimore has an underground skate scene and to me skating, clothing and hip hop go hand in hand. I’m inspired by Ice Cream skate team [musician Pharrell William’s skateboard team], that’s what triggered me to want to do a skate brand and got me into streetwear. I didn’t want to do anything generic, I wanted to set myself aside. I don’t want to do anything the average person is doing. Since the 80’s stars like LL Cool J and R.Kelly were wearing Dapper Dan, gold chains and wearing airbrushed T-shirts. Hip-hop has always pushed fashion forward. We urban young Black kids since we were born. We had style and fashion and hip hop go hand in hand. It’s been like that forever.” Ant plans on continuing work on his line and is planning on bringing a pop up shop with Marino Infantry products to Baltimore and refuses to slow down anytime soon. I don’t like pinning myself down or planning things out but I’m always working, I’m a creator. A rapper follows trends, he’ll do whatever’s hot at the time so you know he’s generic. Pharrell, Andre 3000, they were creators. A creator will look for a new sound and try to push the culture forward, a creator will do different sh-t and still remain comfortable without forcing it. That’s how I think of myself.”

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Harbaugh Brings Big Ten Conference to Bowie State University By Mark F. Gray Special to the AFRO Nobody could ever confuse the friendly confines of Bowie State’s Bulldog Stadium with the college football cathedral that is Michigan Stadium, affectionately referred to as the Big House. However, for at least one Saturday afternoon the Wolverines took control of the Prince George’s County HBCU campus for a football camp that was as important for the players’ skills development as it was for the Big Ten Conference program to make its presence felt in one of the fertile recruiting hotbeds in America. Approximately 200 of the District, Maryland and Virginia’s top high school football players received instruction from Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh and his staff with help from Bowie State head coach Damon Wilson and assistant coaches from other HBCU programs in the area. Harbaugh has become a barnstormer who exposes his program to elite players around the country through

Michigan University coach Jim Harbaugh tutored area high school quarterbacks at Bowie State University’s skills development camp. Courtesy photo

events like this. It is a chance to market the Wolverines’ brand to blue chip talent while laying a foundation to gain a competitive advantage in the high stakes game of recruiting from coast to coast. “This is one of the real untapped places with as much talent as anywhere the country,” Harbaugh told the AFRO. “There’s a lot of major college football talent in this area.

You can’t talk about specific players but there are some players out here who are really good.” Ties between football in Maryland and Michigan run deep these days. Current University of Maryland coach D.J. Durkin was picked to lead the Terrapins program from Harbaugh’s staff two years ago. As Durkin builds his program in College Park, Michigan’s new offensive

coordinator, Pep Hamilton, was a quarterback at Howard University before he became one of the best offensive coordinators in the game. Hamilton is good friends with Bowie State coach Damon Wilson and was instrumental in helping stage the event on their campus. The former Super Bowl offensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49’ers under Harbaugh was also a Rose Bowl winning coach at Stanford before two more NFL jobs with the Indianapolis Colts and Cleveland Browns. “With all the talent in this area it’s very important for us to make our presence felt here,” Hamilton told the AFRO. “[Michigan] is about an eight hour drive away from here and it’s not too hard for parents and families to see their kids play. It’s an important place for us to be visible so we can compete for the top players around here.” During the three hour camp players were drilled and coached at individual skills development stations focusing on the attention to detail

required to succeed in the classroom while refining what they need to make an impact on the field this fall and beyond. Wilson and his staff also were part of the contingent of HBCU coaches who participated in a day of tutelage from major college assistants and position coaches. Coaches from Morgan St. and Howard were active along with their high school counterparts from D.C. and Baltimore. The coaches from the smaller programs learned innovative techniques to maximize player performances while they also had a chance to familiarize themselves with talent that may not be of Big Ten Conference caliber but could play at smaller divisions. “Anytime time you can spend time around coaches who have coached at the highest level and in the biggest games it can’t do anything but make you better,” said Wilson to the AFRO. “We also get the chance to introduce players and high school coaches in this area to our program which can do nothing but help us moving forward.”

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM525 Thomas E Tribble AKA Thomas Edward Tribble Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Gloria D Tribble , whose address is 4024 Hanson Oaks Drive, Landover Hills, MD, 20784 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Thomas E Tribble AKA Thomas Edward Tribble , who died on March 27, 2017 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before November 26, 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 26, 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 26, 2017 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Gloria D Tribble Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 05/26, 06/2, 06/09/17

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2017FEP59 Date of Death March 11, 2017 Charlene Barrett AKA Charlene Barrett-White Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Tia Charlita White whose address is 3402 C Street SE, Washington, DC 20019 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Charlene Barrett AKA Charlene Barrett-White, deceased by the Orphan’s Court for Prince Georges County, State of Maryland, on April 10, 2017. Service of process may be made upon Caren M Webb, Esq, The Law Office of C.M. Webb, 1308 Ninth street, NW, suite 250, Washington, DC 20001. Te l : 2 0 2 - 3 5 1 - 6 8 1 5 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Colombia real property: 3402 C street, SE and 3451 Minnesota Ave SE. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW., 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. (Strike preceding sentence if no real estate.) Tia Charlita White Personal Representative(s) TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS Date of first publication: May 26, 2017 Name of newspapers and/or periodical: The Daily Washington Law Reporter The Afro-American

TYPESET: Tue Jun 06 17:02:46 EDT 2017 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM533 Odessa Vest Davis Decedent Andrew W. Aitchison 684 4th St. NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Emma Vonzile Hack, whose address is 686 4th St NE, Washington, DC 20002 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Odessa Vest Davis, who died on January 16, 2014 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 26, 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 26, 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 26, 2017 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Emma V. Hack Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM562 Cheryl Parker Decedent Michael D Breads Esq 8737 Colesville Road LL-100A Silver Spring, MD 20910 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Diane Granham, whose address is 1012 Sandona Circle , Rocky Mount, NC 27801, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Cheryl Parker, who died on February 4, 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 26, 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 Novemeber 26, 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 26, 2017 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Diane Graham Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM558 Norma L. Creasey Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Tyrone Blakeney , whose address is 3316 Huntley Sq T-2 , Temple Hills, MD 20748 , was appointed personal representative of the estate of Norma L. Creasey , who died on July 1, 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 26, 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 26, 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 26, 2017 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Tyrone Blakeney Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM568 Kathryn Ann LeNoir Decedent F. Douglas Yeatman 8120 Woodmont Ave. Suite 650 Bethesda, MD 20814 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Christine LeNoir Romero, whose address is 5524 Hawthorne Place, NW, Washington, DC 20016, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Kathryn Ann Lenoir, who died on December 10, 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 December 2, 2017. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before December 2, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: June 2, 2017 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Christine LeNoir Romero Personal Representative

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Claims against the de- MD 20850 was apcedent shall be pre- pointed personal represented to the under- sentative of the estate of signed with a copy to the Wanda Marie Harris, deRegister of Wills or filed ceased by the Orphan’s with the Register of Wills C o u r t f o r P r i n c e with a copy to the under- George’s County, State signed, on or before of Maryland ., on April 24, December 19, 2017, or 2017, be forever barred. TYPESET: Tue Jun 06 16:57:01 EDT 2017 Per- Service of process may believed to be heirs be LEGAL NOTICES sons LEGAL NOTICES made upon Aminah T. LEGAL NOTICES or legatees of the de- Alisha, 3910 10th Street, cedent who do not re- NE, Unit #3, Washington, Superior Court of ceive a copy of this notice DC 20017 whose desthe District of by mail within 25 days of ignation as District of District of Columbia its first publication shall Columbia agent has PROBATE DIVISION so inform the Register of been filed with the RegisWashington, D.C. Wills, including name, ter of Wills, D.C. 20001-2131 address and relation- The decedent owned the Administration No. ship. following District of 2017ADM613 Date of Publication: Colombia real property: Sylvester L Jolly June 9, 2017 1772 Lyman Place, NE, Decedent Name of newspaper: Washington, DC 20002 Camille R. McBride Afro-American Claims against the de3060 Mitchelleville Rd Washington cedent may be preSuite 216 Law Reporter sented to the underBowie, MD 20716 Douglas Jolly signed and filed with the Attorney Joan Lewis Register of Wills for the NOTICE OF Personal District of Columbia, 500 APPOINTMENT, Representative Indiana Avenue, N.W., NOTICE TO Washington, D.C. 20001 CREDITORS TRUE TEST COPY within 6 months from the AND NOTICE TO REGISTER OF WILLS date of first publication of UNKNOWN HEIRS this notice. Douglas Jolly & Joan 06/9, 06/16, 06/23/17 Renee T. Harris Lewis, whose address is Personal TYPESET: Tue Jun 06 16:58:04 EDT 2017 Douglas Jolly: 2014 Representative(s) Perry St., NW, WDC TRUE TEST COPY 20018 Joan Lewis: 6704 REGISTER OF WILLS Calmos St., Capitol SUPERIOR COURT OF Date of first publication: Heights, MD 20743, THE DISTRICT OF June 9, 2017 were appointed personal COLUMBIA Name of newspapers representatives of the PROBATE DIVISION and/or periodical: estate of Sylvester L. Washington, D.C. The Daily Washington Jolly, who died on March 20001-2131 Law Reporter 16, 2017 with a will, and Foreign No. The Afro-American will serve without Court 2017FEP66 06/9, 06/16, 06/23/17 supervision. All unknown Date of Death heirs and heirs whose April 9, 2017 where-abouts are un- Wanda Marie Harris known shall enter their Decedent appearance in this NOTICE OF proceeding. Objections APPOINTMENT to such appointment (or OF FOREIGN to the probate of dePERSONAL cedent´s will) shall be REPRESENTATIVE filed with the Register of AND Wills, D.C., 515 5th NOTICE TO Street, N.W., 3rd Floor CREDITORS Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . Renee T. Harris whose 20001, on or before address is 211 Poplar December 19, 2017. Spring Road, Rockville, Claims against the de- MD 20850 was apcedent shall be pre- pointed personal represented to the under- sentative of the estate of signed with a copy to the Wanda Marie Harris, deRegister of Wills or filed ceased by the Orphan’s with the Register of Wills C o u r t f o r P r i n c e with a copy to the under- George’s County, State signed, on or before of Maryland ., on April 24, December 19, 2017, or 2017, be forever barred. Per- Service of process may sons believed to be heirs be made upon Aminah T. or legatees of the de- Alisha, 3910 10th Street, cedent who do not re- NE, Unit #3, Washington, ceive a copy of this notice DC 20017 whose desby mail within 25 days of ignation as District of its first publication shall Columbia agent has so inform the Register of been filed with the RegisWills, including name, ter of Wills, D.C. address and relation- The decedent owned the ship. following District of Date of Publication: Colombia real property: June 9, 2017 1772 Lyman Place, NE, Name of newspaper: Washington, DC 20002 Afro-American Claims against the deWashington cedent may be preLaw Reporter sented to the underDouglas Jolly signed and filed with the Joan Lewis Register of Wills for the Personal District of Columbia, 500 Representative Indiana Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001 TRUE TEST COPY within 6 months from the REGISTER OF WILLS date of first publication of this notice. 06/9, 06/16, 06/23/17 Renee T. Harris Personal Representative(s) TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS Date of first publication: June 9, 2017 Name of newspapers and/or periodical: The Daily Washington Law Reporter The Afro-American 06/9, 06/16, 06/23/17

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Bessie L Walker November 12, 2017. Lane, Silver Springs, MD Name of newspaper: Decedent Claims against the de- 20910, were appointed Afro-American NOTICE OF cedent shall be pre- personal representatives Washington EXISTENCE OF sented to the under- of the estate of J. D. AnLaw REVOCABLE signed with a copy to the drews aka James Dallas Reporter TRUST Mia Burrell Register of Wills or filed Andrews , who died on Bessie Lee Walker (name Personal with the Register of Wills December 21, 2016 with of deceased settlor) Representative with a copy to the under- a will, and will serve withwhose address was 1826 signed, on or before out Court supervision. All TRUE TEST COPY Va l l e y Te r r a c e , S E , November 12,2017 2017, or unknown heirs and heirs REGISTERTue OF WILLS TYPESET: Tue Jun 06 16:59:32 EDT DC 201720032 TYPESET: Jun 06 16:57:24 EDT Washington, LEGAL NOTICES created LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL LEGAL NOTICES be forever NOTICES barred. Per- whose whereabouts are LEGAL NOTICES a revocable trust 06/2, 06/9, 06/16/17 sons believed to be heirs unknown shall enter their on June 24, 2016, which or legatees of the de- a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s remained in existence on Superior Court of Superior Court of cedent who do not re- proceeding. Objections the date of her death on the District of the District of ceive a copy of this notice to such appointment (or September 11, 2016 , and District of Columbia District of Columbia by mail within 25 days of to the probate of deMia Burrell , whose adPROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION its first publication shall cedent´s will) shall be dress is 2486 Ryce Drive, Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. so inform the Register of filed with the Register of Waldorf, MD 20601is the 20001-2131 20001-2131 currently acting trustee, Wills, including name, Wills, D.C., 515 5th Administration No. Administration No. hereinafter the Trustee. address and relation- Street, N.W., 3rd Floor 2017ADM556 2017ADM479 Communications to the ship. Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . Alexander G. Davis Walker A. Williams trust should be mailed or Date of Publication: 20001, on or before Decedent directed to Mia Burrell, AKA May 12, 2017 December 9, 2017. Shraga Kawior Esq 2486 Ryce Drive, Waldorf, William A. Walker Jr. Name of newspaper: Claims against the de8630 Fenton Street, MD 20601 Decedent Afro-American cedent shall be preSuite 822 The Trust is subject to Marsha E. Swiss Washington sented to the underSilver Spring, Maryland claims of the deceased Attorney at Law Law Reporter signed with a copy to the 20910 settlor’s creditors, costs of 1320 19th Street, NW, Janice M. Smith Register of Wills or filed Attorney administration of the set- Suite #300 Personal with the Register of Wills NOTICE OF tlor’s estate, the expenses Washington, DC 20036 Representative with a copy to the underAPPOINTMENT, of the deceased settlor’s Attorney signed, on or before NOTICE TO funeral and disposal of reNOTICE OF TRUE TEST COPY December 9, 2017, or be CREDITORS mains, and statutory APPOINTMENT, REGISTER OF WILLS forever barred. Persons allowances to a surviving AND NOTICE TO NOTICE TO believed to be heirs or spouse and children to the UNKNOWN HEIRS CREDITORS 05/12, 05/19, 05/26/17 legateesEDT of the2017 decedent TYPESET: Tue Jun 06 16:57:44 Ve r n i t a D D a w k i n s extent the deceased setAND NOTICE TO who do not receive a whose address is 7312 tlor’s residuary probate UNKNOWN HEIRS copy of this notice by mail estate is inadequate to Janice M. Smith, whose Lois Lane, Lanham within 25 days of its first Maryland 20706, wasap- satisfy those claims, address is 3231 Klingle Superior Court of publication shall so inpointed personal repre- costs, expenses, and Road NW, Washington, the District of form the Register of sentative of the estate of allowances. DC 20008, was apDistrict of Columbia Wills, including name, Alexander G. Davis , who Claims of the deceased pointed personal reprePROBATE DIVISION settlor ’s creditors are address and relationdied on March 26, 2017 sentative of the estate of Washington, D.C. barred as against the ship. without a will, and will Walker A. Williams aka 20001-2131 Trustee and the trust propDate of Publication: serve , without Court su- erty unless presented to William A Walker Jr. , Administration No. June 9, 2017 pervision. All unknown the Trustee at the address who died on April 7, 2017 2017Adm144 Name of newspaper: heirs and heirs whose provided herein on or be- with a will, and will serve J. D. Andrews Afro-American whereabouts are un- fore December 2, 2017 6 without Court supervi- AKA Washington known shall enter their months after the date of sion. All unknown heirs James Dallas Andrews Law Reporter appearance in this the first publication of this a n d h e i r s w h o s e Decedent Charlton Andrews proceeding. Objections notice). An action to con- whereabouts are unNOTICE OF Marilyn M Smith to such appointment (or test the validity of this trust known shall enter their APPOINTMENT, to the probate of de- must be commenced by a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s NOTICE TO Personal cedent´s will) shall be the earliest of (1) Septem- proceeding. Objections CREDITORS Representative filed with the Register of ber 11, 2017 (one year to such appointment (or AND NOTICE TO Wills, D.C., 515 5th from date of death of the to the probate of deUNKNOWN HEIRS Street, N.W., 3rd Floor deceased settler) or (2) cedent´s will) shall be Charlton Andrews and TRUE TEST COPY December 2, 2017(6 Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . filed with the Register of Marilyn M Smith, whose REGISTER OF WILLS 20001, on or before months from the date of Wills, D.C., 515 5th address are 1430 D e c e m b e r 2 , 2 0 1 7 . first publication of this no- Street, N.W., 3rd Floor R o x a n n a R d . , N W, 06/9, 06/16, 06/23/17 Claims against the de- tice) or (3) ninety days W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . Washington, DC 20012 cedent shall be pre- after the Trustee sends 20001, on or before & 2058 Derby Ridge the person a copy of the sented to the underNovember 12, 2017. Lane, Silver Springs, MD signed with a copy to the trust instrument and a no- Claims against the de- 20910, were appointed Register of Wills or filed tice informing the person cedent shall be pre- personal representatives with the Register of Wills of the trust’s existence, sented to the under- of the estate of J. D. Anwith a copy to the under- the Trustee’s name and signed with a copy to the drews aka James Dallas address, and the time alsigned, on or before lowed for commencing a Register of Wills or filed Andrews , who died on Decemner 2, 2017, or be proceeding. with the Register of Wills December 21, 2016 with forever barred. Persons The Trustee may proceed with a copy to the under- a will, and will serve withbelieved to be heirs or to distribute the trust prop- signed, on or before out Court supervision. All legatees of the decedent erty in accordance with November 12, 2017, or unknown heirs and heirs who do not receive a the terms of the trust be- be forever barred. Per- whose whereabouts are copy of this notice by mail fore the expiration of the sons believed to be heirs unknown shall enter their within 25 days of its first time within which an ac- or legatees of the de- a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s publication shall so in- tion must be commenced cedent who do not re- proceeding. Objections form the Register of unless the Trustee knows ceive a copy of this notice to such appointment (or Wills, including name, of a pending judicial by mail within 25 days of to the probate of deaddress and relation- proceeding contesting the its first publication shall cedent´s will) shall be validity of the trust or the so inform the Register of filed with the Register of ship. Trustee has received no- Wills, including name, Wills, D.C., 515 5th Date of Publication: tice from a potential address and relation- Street, N.W., 3rd Floor June 2, 2017 contestant who thereafter ship. Name of newspaper: Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . commences a judicial Date of Publication: Afro-American 20001, on or before proceeding within sixty TYPESET: WashingtonTue Jun 06 16:58:24 EDT 2017 May 12, 2017 December 9, 2017. days after notification. Law Reporter Name of newspaper: Claims against the deThis Notice must be Vernita D Dawkins Afro-American cedent shall be premailed postmarked within Washington Personal Superior Court of sented to the under15 days of its first publica- Law Reporter Representative the District of signed with a copy to the tion to each heir and qualDistrict of Columbia Janice M. Smith Register of Wills or filed ified beneficiary of the TRUE TESTDIVISION COPY PROBATE Personal with the Register of Wills trust and any other person REGISTER OF WILLS Washington, D.C. Representative with a copy to the underwho would be an 20001-2131 signed, on or before interested person within TRUE TEST COPY 06/2, 06/9,06/16/17 Administration No. 06 17:00:29 December 9, 2017, or be TYPESET: Tue Jun EDT D.C. 2017Code, the meaningof 2017NRT14 REGISTER OF WILLS forever barred. Persons sec. 20-101(d) Bessie Lee Walker believed to be heirs or Date of Publication: AKA 05/12, 05/19, 05/26/17 legatees of the decedent June 2, 2017 Superior Court of Bessie L Walker who do not receive a Name of newspaper: the District of Decedent copy of this notice by mail Afro-American District of Columbia NOTICE OF within 25 days of its first Washington PROBATE DIVISION EXISTENCE OF publication shall so inLaw Washington, D.C. REVOCABLE form the Register of Reporter 20001-2131 TRUST Wills, including name, Mia Burrell Administration No. Bessie Lee Walker (name address and relationPersonal o f d e2017ADM478 ceased settlor) ship. Representative Faindello R. Small whose address was 1826 Date of Publication: TRUE TEST COPY Decedent Va l l e y Te r r a c e , S E , June 9, 2017 REGISTER OF WILLS Bruce E Gardner, Esq Washington, DC 20032 Name of newspaper: The Gardner Law Firm, created a revocable trust Afro-American 06/2, 06/9, PCJune 24, 2016, which on TYPESET: Tue06/16/17 Jun 06 17:02:06 EDT 2017 Washington 1101 Pennsylvania remained in existenceAve on Law Reporter NW, Suite the date of 300 her death on Charlton Andrews September 11, 2016 , and Washington, DC 20004 Marilyn M Smith Superior Court of Mia Burrell , whose adAttorney the District of dress isNOTICE 2486 Ryce OFDrive, Personal District of Columbia Waldorf, MD 20601is the APPOINTMENT, Representative PROBATE DIVISION currently acting TO trustee, NOTICE Washington, D.C. hereinafter the Trustee. CREDITORS TRUE TEST COPY 20001-2131 Communications AND NOTICEto TOthe REGISTER OF WILLS Administration No. trustUNKNOWN should be mailed or HEIRS 2017ADM106 directed Mia Burrell, Bruce E to Gardner, whose 06/9, 06/16, 06/23/17 2486 Ryceis Drive, Waldorf, address 1101 Penn- Russell T. Carter MD 20601Ave., NW, suite Decedent sylvania The Trust is subject to John Noble 300, Washington, DC claims of the deceased 451 Hungerford Drive, 20004, creditors, was appointed settlor’s costs of Suite 750 personal representative administration of the setof the estate ofexpenses Faindello Rockville, MD 20850 tlor’s estate, the Small , who settlor’s died on Attorney ofR.the deceased NOTICE OF December 18, 2015ofwithfuneral and disposal reAPPOINTMENT, out a will, andstatutory will serve mains, and NOTICE TO without Court superviallowances to a surviving CREDITORS sion. All spouse andunknown children toheirs the AND NOTICE TO a n d the h edeceased i r s w h osetse extent UNKNOWN HEIRS whereabouts untlor’s residuary are probate Antoinne D. Parker, known isshall enter their estate inadequate to whose address is 522 satisfy a p p e a rthose a n c e claims, in this Capitol Heights Blvd , costs, expenses, and proceeding. Objections allowances. to such appointment C a p i t o l H e i g h t s M D Claims of the shall be fileddeceased with the 20743 was appointed personal representative settlor ’s creditors are Register of Wills, D.C., barred against 515 5th as Street, N.W.,the 3rd of the estate of Russell T. Trustee and the trust propFloor Washington, D.C. Carter, who died on January 9, 2017 with a erty unlessonpresented to 20001, or before the D eTrustee c e m b eatr the 2 ,address 2 0 1 7 . will, and will serve withprovided herein onthe or beClaims against de- out Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs fore December 2017 6 cedent shall 2,be prewhose where-abouts are months after the date of sented to the underthe first publication of this unknown shall enter their signed with a copy to the notice). An action to conappearance in this Register of Wills or filed test the validity of this trust proceeding. Objections with the of Wills must be Register commenced by with a copyofto under- to such appointment (or the earliest (1)the Septemto the probate of designed, on or ber 11, 2017 (onebefore year December 2017,oforthe be cedent´s will) shall be from date of2,death filed with the Register of forever barred. deceased settler)Persons or (2) believed to 2, be 2017(6 heirs or Wills, D.C., 515 5th December Street, N.W., 3rd Floor legatees of the months from thedecedent date of Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . whopublication do not of receive first this no-a 20001, on or before Aucopyor of this mail tice) (3) notice ninetybydays withinthe 25 Trustee days of its first gust 24. 2017. Claims after sends the person a shall copy of publication so the in- against the decedent shall be presented to the trust and a noforminstrument the Register of tice informing the person Wills, including name, undersigned with a copy ofaddress the trust’s andexistence, relation- to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of the Trustee’s name and ship. Wills with a copy to the address, and the time alDate of Publication: undersigned, on or belowed for commencing a June 2, 2017 fore August 24, 2017, or proceeding. Name of newspaper: be forever barred. PerThe Trustee may proceed Afro-American sons believed to be heirs toWashington distribute the trust propor legatees of the deerty in accordance with Law Reporter the terms of the trust becedent who do not reBruce E Gardner fore the expiration of the ceive a copy of this notice Personal time within which an acby mail within 25 days of Representative tion must be commenced its first publication shall unless the Trustee knows so inform the Register of TRUE TEST COPY of a pending judicial Wills, including name, REGISTER OF WILLS proceeding contesting the address and relationvalidity of the trust or the ship. 06/02, 06/9, 06/16/17 Trustee has received noTYPESET: Tue Jun 06 16:58:24 EDT 2017 Date of Publication: tice from a potential February 24, 2017 contestant who thereafter This Notice must be Name of newspaper: commences a judicial mailed postmarked within Afro-American Superiorwithin Court sixty of proceeding 15 days of its first publicaWashington the District of days after notification. tion Reporter to each heir and qualLaw District of Columbia ified Antoinne beneficiary of the D. Parker PROBATE DIVISION trust and any other person Personal Washington, D.C. w h o wRepresentative ould be an 20001-2131 interested person within Administration No. the meaningof D.C. Code, TRUE TEST COPY 2017NRT14 sec. 20-101(d) REGISTER OF WILLS Bessie Lee Walker Date of Publication: AKA June 3/3, 2, 2017 02/24 3/10/17 Bessie L Walker Name of newspaper: Decedent Afro-American NOTICE OF Washington EXISTENCE OF Law REVOCABLE Reporter TRUST Mia Burrell Bessie Lee Walker (name Personal of deceased settlor) Representative whose address was 1826 TRUE TEST COPY Va l l e y Te r r a c e , S E , REGISTER OF WILLS Washington, DC 20032 created a revocable trust 06/2, 06/9, 06/16/17 on June 24, 2016, which remained in existence on the date of her death on September 11, 2016 , and Mia Burrell , whose address is 2486 Ryce Drive,

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CITY OF BALTIMORE OFFICEinOF BOARDS ANDservices COMMISSIONS The firms interested providing these must demonstrate and PUBLIC NOTICE document: PROJECT NO. 1273 - PROGRAM MANAGEMENT SERVICES 1.Experience in providing Program Management services for largeFOR civil/ CITY’S utilities projects, preferablyBALTIMORE relating to water distribution systems, including WATER MAIN REPLACEMENT / REHABILITATION PROGRAM water main replacement / rehabilitation development and implementation of a master planning, prioritization, budgeting, scheduling (using P6 or other The City ofmonitoring Baltimoreand Office of Boardsinvestigative and Commissions hasdesign been and resoftware), coordinating activities, quested by the Departmentactions of Public Office of and Engineering and construction of corrective andWorks, improvements, maintenance Construction, toshould advertise services of civil engineering to activities. Firms haveforthethe capacity to manage a program forfirms design provide Program Management Services for Baltimore City’s on-going of 20 to 40 miles per year. Water Main Replacement and Rehabilitation Program. The City needs these program management services provide a broader, more integrated 2.Experiences in investigation, scopetodevelopment, design study, design approach to City water infrastructure management quality and to control, meet or estimatexceed review, utility coordination, agencies coordination, City’sannual goals for the replacement and or rehabilitation of water mains. ing, specifications development, permitting, preparing construction The programand will coordinating address various planning, design, scheduling andmain the documents, advertisement processes of water associated projects. activities required to meet these goals and to provide quality water to consumers. The City intends to select the services of one (1) firm only. 3.Experience in technical assistance for special projects and other work being performed in-house, including augmentation of the City´s engineerThe firms interested in providing these services must demonstrate and ing staff. document: 4.Experience and expertise in quality control and quality assurance review. 1.Experience in providing Program Management services for large civil/ utilities projects, preferably relating to water distribution systems, including 5.Experience in procurement process to propose recommendations and/or water main replacement / rehabilitation development and and implementation of approaches to optimize project(s) quality, delivery times benefits, such a master planning, prioritization, budgeting, scheduling (using P6 or other as, but not limited to: software), monitoring and coordinating investigative activities, design and construction a)Sequencingofofcorrective projects actions and improvements, and maintenance activities. Firms should have the capacity to manage a program for design b)Attracting more contractors of 20 to 40 miles per delivery6. year. c)Expediting project 2.Experiences in investigation, scope development, design study, design Experience in supervision and management, both direct and indirect, of the review, utility coordination, agencies coordination, design consultants and construction contractors. quality control, estimating, specifications development, permitting, preparing construction documents, and coordinating advertisement processes water main 7.Managing utility operational and core data, GIS support,ofmapping, and projects. software application support. Possess ability to record, review, and approve information being collected and submitted to the City of Baltimore by 3.Experience technical assistance for special projects and other work designers andincontractors. being performed in-house, including augmentation of the City´s engineering staff. 8.Experience in in developing the RFPs to solicit future design, construction management, and other project related consultants. 4.Experience and expertise in quality control and quality assurance review. 9.Experience in public information and outreach, including development 5.Experience in procurement process to propose recommendations and/or and dissemination of presentations and other materials, and with effective approaches optimize project(s) quality, delivery times and benefits, such use of mediatooutlets. as, but not limited to: 10.Experience in delivering training classes and providing technical supa)Sequencing of projects port for City Staff or other agencies (water utilities training programs preb)Attracting more contractors ferred). c)Expediting project delivery6. 11.Ability to provide appropriate skilled personnel and resources to ensure Experience in supervision andProject management, both direct and indirect, of the effective performance of the Management Team. design consultants and construction contractors. 12.Experience in the coordination of a multi-disciplined team including 7.Managing operational core data,and GIS support, mapping, and Minority andutility Women Businessand Enterprises demonstrated manpower software application support. Possess to record, review, and approve availability to complete the project on ability schedule and within budget. information being collected and submitted to the City of Baltimore by designers contractors. The scopeand of services will include but not limited to: 8.Experience in in developing the RFPs to solicitmonitoring, future design, construction *Program Management Services including managing and management, and other relatedand consultants. reviewing all water main project replacement rehabilitation projects designed by other consultants during various phases from design consultant selec9.Experience public and outreach, including development tion to design in and actualinformation construction. and dissemination of presentations and other materials, and with effective *In-house design including design investigation, mapping, scope developuse of media outlets. ment, design study, surveying, utility coordination, agencies coordination, quality control, estimating, specifications preparing 10.Experience in delivering training classes anddevelopment, providing technical supconstruction documents, coordinating port for City Staff or otherand agencies (water advertisement utilities trainingprocesses. programs *Copreordinate project implementation with city departments, utilities and other ferred). agencies to minimize city wide disruption and reduce construction costs. *Modifying City’s existing document control and system developed for 11.Ability to provide appropriate skilled personnel resources to ensure wastewater Consent Decree program and adapting the same to the needs effective performance of the Project Management Team. of City’s Water Engineering Office and water main replacement and rehabilitation program all document, citizen requests and 12.Experience in theforcoordination of miscellaneous a multi-disciplined team including complaints concerning water main / rehabilitation Minority andimpacting Women or Business Enterprises andreplacement demonstrated manpower program. The document controlonsystem should complement availability to complete the project schedule and within budget. overall document system which may be developed by the City for reporting and control purposes. The scope of services will include but not limited to: *Complement City’s GIS for electronic updating of City water plats, as built, development of electronicServices cards for including valves, FH’s and services. *Program Management monitoring, managing and *Streamline approach including standardization and SOP reviewing all design water main replacement anddesign rehabilitation projects designed creation or updating existing standard CAD standards all by other and consultants during various phases specs, from design consultant and selecothertorelated activities increase design efficiency and reduce overall tion design and actualtoconstruction. costs. *In-house design including design investigation, mapping, scope develop*Entering projects and contracts in Envista software (web based utility coordination software), any other software system and updating the same periodically, resolving conflicts etc. *Assist City in providing information to City Agencies, citizens or any other interested entities relating to City’s program for Water Main Replacement/ Rehabilitation program, status of contracts, designs, schedules, condition of mains and other related information. *Provide on-site support staff for efficient & cost effective performance of program management. *Develop and maintain organized database to generate ready reports and information for all aspects of water main replacement with the object of responding to customers and internal reporting. *Provide appropriate training and support for City staff. *Develop a comprehensive project management plan incorporating all the required activities mentioned above, those additional considered necessary by the consultant and other activities in WEO to achieve the annual water main replacement targets, proper record keeping and to achieve unified and integrated functioning.

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construction documents, and coordinating advertisement processes. *Coordinate project implementation with city departments, utilities and other agencies to minimize city wide disruption and reduce construction costs. *Modifying City’s existing document3.control system 4. developed for 5. 1. 2. wastewater Consent Decree program and adapting the same to the needs of City’s Water Engineering Office and water main replacement and rehabilitation program for all document, miscellaneous citizen requests and 6. 8.main replacement9./ rehabilitation 10. complaints impacting7. or concerning water program. The document control system should complement overall document system which may be developed by the City for reporting and control purposes. 11. 13. of City water14. *Complement City’s 12. GIS for electronic updating plats, as built, 15. development of electronic cards for valves, FH’s and services. *Streamline design approach including design standardization and SOP creation and or updating existing standard specs, CAD standards and all 16. related activities 17.to increase design 18. efficiency and19. other reduce overall 20. costs. *Entering projects and contracts in Envista software (web based utility ment, design software), study, surveying, utility coordination, coordination, coordination any other software systemagencies and updating the same quality control, estimating, development, preparing periodically, resolving conflicts specifications etc. construction documents, and coordinating advertisement processes. *Assist City ________________________________________________ in providing information to City Agencies, citizens or any *Coother NAME: ordinate project implementation withprogram city departments, utilities and other interested entities relating to City’s for Water Main Replacement/ agencies to minimize city wide disruption and reduce construction costs. ADDRESS: _____________________________________________ Rehabilitation program, status of contracts, designs, schedules, condition *Modifying document control system developed for of mains andCity’s other existing related information. PHONE NO.:____________________________________________ wastewater Consent Decree program and adapting the same to the needsof *Provide on-site support staff for efficient & cost effective performance of City’s Water Engineering Office and water main replacement and reprogram management. CLASSIFICATION: ______________________________________ habilitation program for all document, miscellaneous citizen requests *Develop and maintain organized database to generate ready reportsand and complaints impacting or concerning water replacement / rehabilitation information for all House, aspects ofetc.) water mainmain replacement with the object of (Room, Apt., program. The document control system should complement overall responding to customers and internal reporting. document system which may and be developed thestaff. City for reporting and *Provide appropriate training support forby City INSERTION DATE:_________________ control purposes. *Develop a comprehensive project management plan incorporating all the *Complement City’smentioned GIS for electronic of City water plats, asnecesbuilt, required activities above, updating those additional considered development of electronic cards valves, FH’s and to services. sary by the consultant and otherforactivities in WEO achieve the annual *Streamline approach including design standardization and SOP water main design replacement targets, proper record keeping and to achieve Legal Advertising Rates Effective October creation andintegrated or updating existing standard specs, CAD standards and all1, 2008 unified and functioning. other related activities to increase design efficiency and reduce overall costs. DPW reserves the right to have a second interview with eligible firms. DIVISION *Entering projects and contracts inPROBATE Envista software (web based utility coordination software system same The servicessoftware), would be any for aother period of two (2) yearsand for updating a fee not the to exceed (Estates) periodically, resolving conflicts $2,500,000.00 with the option etc. to extend for an additional two (2) years. *Assist City in providing information to City202-332-0080 Agencies, citizens or any other interested entities relating to City’s program forscope Water Main Replacement/ Should you have any questions regarding the of the Project, please PROBATE NOTICES Rehabilitation program, status of at contracts, designs,orschedules, condition contact Mr. Hernan Guadalupe (410) 396-8189 by e-mail at hernan. of mains and other related information. guadalupe@baltimorecity.gov. a. Order Nisi $ 60 per insertion $180.00 per 3 weeks *Provide on-site support staff for efficient & cost effective performance of b. Small Estates (single publication $ 60 per insertion program management. Projects must comply with the 2006 edition of ?The Specifications for *Develop and organized database to generate ready reports c. Notice tomaintain Creditors Materials, Highway, Bridges, Utilities and Incidental Structures.? Cityand perinformation for all aspects main Guidelines replacement object of $180.00 per 3 weeks sonnel utilize the City ofofwater Baltimore forwith the the Performance 1. will Domestic $ 60 per insertion responding to customers and internal reporting. Evaluation of Design Consultants and Construction Contractors for this 2. Foreign 60 per $180.00 per 3 weeks *Provide appropriate training and support for$City staff.insertion contract/project. *Develop a comprehensive project management incorporating all the $360.00 per 6 weeks d. Escheated Estates $ 60 plan per insertion required activities thosefor additional considered neces-a $125.00 Firms interested inmentioned submittingabove, a proposal this Project, shall address e. by Standard Probates sary the consultant in WEO to achieve the 4annual ”Letter of Interest” to and the other Officeactivities of Boards and Commissions, South water mainStreet, replacement targets, proper21202, record (Email keepingobc.consultants@ and to achieve Frederick Baltimore, Maryland unified and integrated functioning. baltimorecity.gov). Since these letters CIVIL are utilized to assist small minority NOTICES and women business enterprises in identifying potential teaming partners, a. Name Changes 202-879-1133 DPW reserves the right to have a second interview with eligible firms. the letter should be submitted within five (5) days of the date of the project’s $ 80.00 advertisement. The letter should contain a contact person. Failure to submit $ 200.00 b. Real Property The services would be a period of two (2) years for a fee not to exceed a ”letter of Interest” willfornot disqualify a firm submitting a proposal for the $2,500,000.00 with the option to extend for an additional two (2) years. project.

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Should you have any questions the scope the Project, please Each prime consultant applyingregarding for this Project will beofrequired to complete DOMESTIC RELATIONS •(5)202-879-0157 contact Mr. Hernan Guadalupe at (410) 396-8189 or by at hernan. and submit an original Federal Form 255, along with fivee-mail copies, to the guadalupe@baltimorecity.gov. Office of Boards and Commissions.

a. Federal Absent Defendant Projects mustForm comply the five 2006 edition of be ?The Specifications for $ 150.00 The 255 with and the copies must submitted on or before Materials, Bridges, and Incidental City per12:00 P.M.Highway, (Noon) on July 7,Utilities 2017. Submittals mayStructures.? not be accepted after $ 150.00 b. Absolute Divorce sonnel will utilize the City of Baltimore Guidelines for the Performance this deadline. c. Custody Divorce Evaluation of Design Consultants and Construction Contractors for this $150.00 contract/project. Prequalification Requirement

Tointerested place your ad, call a1-800-237-6892, ext. 262, Notices $50.00 & Firms inengineering, submitting proposal for this Project, shall address a All architectural, and surveying firms listed in Public the specific ”Letter of for Interest” to the Office Boards and Commissions, 4 South proposal the Project must be of prequalified by the Office of Boards and per inch. depending on size, Baltimore Legal Notices are $24.84 Frederick Street, Maryland 21202,at(Email Commissions for Baltimore, each applicable discipline time ofobc.consultants@ submittal for this 1-800 6892 baltimorecity.gov). Since these letterslisted are utilized to assist small minority Project. Any construction contractor in(AFRO) the specific proposal for the and women business enterprises in identifying potential teaming partners, Project to perform work inof anPublication, existing prequalification category must also be ext. 244 For Proof please call 1-800-237-6892, the letter should be submitted within five (5) days of the date of the project’s prequalified. A copy of the prime and sub consultant?s current advertisement. letter should contain a contact person. Failure to submit PrequalificationThe Certificate should be included in the bid submittal package. aInformation ”letter of Interest” will the not disqualify a firm submitting a proposal for the regarding prequalification process can be obtained by project. calling the Office of Boards and Commissions LEGAL NOTICESon 410.396.6883. Each prime consultant applying for this Project will be required to complete Insurance Requirements and submit an original Federal Form 255, along with five (5) copies, to the Office of Boards and Commissions. The consultant selected for the award of this project shall provide professional liability, auto liability, and general liability and workers’ compensaThe Federal Form 255 and the five copies must be submitted on or before 12:00 P.M. (Noon) on July 7, 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-

DPW reserves the right to have a second interview with eligible firms. The services would be for a period of two (2) years for a fee not to exceed $2,500,000.00 with the option to extend for an additional two (2) years. Should you have any questions regarding the scope of the Project, please contact Mr. Hernan Guadalupe at (410) 396-8189 or by e-mail at hernan. guadalupe@baltimorecity.gov. Projects must comply with the 2006 edition of ?The Specifications for Materials, Highway, Bridges, Utilities and Incidental Structures.? City personnel will utilize the City of Baltimore Guidelines for the Performance Evaluation of Design Consultants and Construction Contractors for this contract/project. Firms interested in submitting a proposal for this Project, shall address a ”Letter of Interest” to the Office of Boards and Commissions, 4 South Frederick Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, (Email obc.consultants@ baltimorecity.gov). Since these letters are utilized to assist small minority and women business enterprises in identifying potential 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 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

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June 10, 2017 - June 16, 2017, The Afro-American LEGAL NOTICES

AFRO Sports Desk Faceoff

Will Kaepernick Play Next Season?

TYPESET: Wed Jun 07 12:40:08 EDT 2017 HOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITY REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS E-BUSINESS SERVICES RFP NUMBER: B-1840-17 The Housing Authority of Baltimore City (”HABC”) is requesting proposals from qualified and interested individuals or firms to provide comprehensive e-business services including, but not limited to: internet and intranet site design and maintenance; writing, graphic design and editing services; web hosting, site and server maintenance; 24/7 cross-platform technical support, consulting, integration, Mac networking, printing and maintenance services; and database development and administration. Services will include maintaining the design and back office (e.g., server, firewall, operating system) of the existing public website and employee intranet site while designing and developing new platforms/sites for HABC. PROPOSALS WILL BE DUE no later than 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, July 21, 2017. A non-mandatory pre-proposal conference will be held on Wednesday, June 28, 2017, at 10:00 a.m., at 417 E. Fayette Street, Room 416, Baltimore, Maryland, 21202. HABC has established a minimum goal of twenty percent (20%) of the total dollar amount of the proposed contract for Minority Business Enterprise (”MBE”) utilization, applicable to all minority and non-minority businesses proposing to provide the requested services as the prime contractor. No goal has been established for participation of Women-owned businesses (”WBEs”), however, HABC strongly encourages and affirmatively promotes the use of WBEs in all HABC contracts. Responders shall also comply with all applicable requirements of Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, 12 U.S.C. Section 1701u. The RFP may be obtained on or after Monday, June 19, 2017, at the following location: Housing Authority of Baltimore City Division of Fiscal Operations, Purchasing Department 417 E. Fayette Street, Room 414 Baltimore, Maryland 21202 Attention: John Airey, Chief of Contracting Services Tel: (410) 396-3261 Fax: (410) 962-1586 Questions regarding the RFP should be directed in writing to the address and individual indicated above, and must include the reference: HABC RFP TYPESET: Wed Jun 07 12:40:30 EDT 2017 Number B-1840-17. 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 28, 2017 *CARS AND LIGHT TRUCKS B50005043 THE ENTIRE SOLICITATION DOCUMENT CAN BE VIEWED AND DOWN LOADED BY VISITING THE CITY’S WEB SITE: www.baltimorecitibuy.org

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ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CAREER OPPORTUNITIES Classification/Compensation Analyst (P/T) Combination Inspector Detention Officer Engineer III Equipment Operator I (Highways) Facilities Maintenance Mechanic II Financial Operations Supervisor Grants Coordinator/Administrator Monitoring & Assessment Support Program Specialist I Office Support Assistant II Personnel Analyst I, II, III, Labor Relations Planning & Zoning Officer Secretary III Visit our website at www.aacounty.org for additional information and to apply on-line. You may use the Internet at any Anne Arundel County library, or visit our office at 2660 Riva Road in Annapolis. Deadlines to apply posted on website. AEO/DF/SFE

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Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is unlikely to play in the NFL after spending last season calling attention to crimes against African Americans. By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Desk Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has yet to find a gig this summer after his “controversial” 2016-2017 campaign in which the signal caller often avoided standing for the national anthem to call attention to crimes against unarmed Black motorists across the country. Kaepernick’s social activism quickly caught media attention before being recognized across the sports world with other athletes performing similar acts. Despite an efficient season on the field, the 29-year-old remains unsigned in spite of several meetings with other teams in need of quarterback services. Some of Kaepernick’s supporters believe the quarterback has been “blackballed” for his exploits from last season. Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the chances of Kaepernick playing next year. Riley: Even in his prime years, Kaepernick was a difficult quarterback to grade. He never had the greatest accuracy nor was he the most efficient passer. His pregame protests last season only depreciated the value even more on an already declining player. Whether a team respects what he did last season or not, that’s not going to halt the media circus that will surely accompany him wherever he lands. Unless some type of catastrophic injury happens to an NFL starter, I don’t see Kaepernick playing next year. Green: Kaepernick’s greatest quality has always been his athleticism, and he still possesses that. His throwing mechanics and passing vision were never his strong points but he managed still to carve out a

nice career window in the NFL. Kaepernick is still fully capable of commandeering an NFL ball club and things happen in the league all the time, whether it’s an injury, trade or a release. It might take one of those for him to get signed but it won’t be long before he finds his way back to an NFL club. The real question will be whether or not he’ll continue to sit out the national anthem next season. Riley: That question alone could keep him from being signed this summer as NFL owners – a predominantly White group – will surely frown upon the thought of adding him. The facts are that the NFL is a money-making business and not the arena to post political views, especially ones pertaining to race. Lost in a publicity-mired season was the fact that Kaepernick wasn’t overly impressive in his time on the field. He was sacked five times and threw for 4 yards in a game before being benched last season and has a combined record of 3-16 as a starter since 2015. Green: Well, if we’re going to judge his performance last season, let’s be fair and throw out all of his numbers. His stats weren’t bad at all. He threw 16 touchdown passes to just four interceptions with a 90.7 passer rating. That’s pretty impressive, if you ask me. It’s a lot better than what some of these other free agent quarterbacks that landed jobs this summer could offer. It’s no question that Kaepernick is being blackballed for his political stance. But that may not be a bad thing. It may be time for him to move on and continue his work as an activist. We’ll never forget the sacrifice he made for us. It’ll be a part of the AfricanAmerican legacy forever.

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Lillian Vaughn Celebrates 75th Birthday Dr. Lillian Vaughn celebrated her 75th birthday May 6 at Sharon Baptist Church in Baltimore. Many friends and family member came to celebrate and show much appreciation. Vaughn is the wife of the Rev. Alfred A.C. Vaughn, senior pastor of Sharon Baptist.

Dr. Lillian Vaughn

Kimberly and Dahlia Bonnette

Photos by JD Howard Rev. Alfred A.C. Vaughn and Mrs. Vaughn with grandson Caleel Fox

Geraldine Perry

Front Row: Norma Boyd, Delores Jessup, Norma Faulner, Gracie Grant, Selma Harrison, second row, Monique Wilson, Lynette Vaughn, Adrienne Fields, Michelle Woodson, Kathryn Waters, Kimberly Bonnette, Dahila Bonnette,Tira Grant, Kimberli Foy Manning, Sherrie Wallace, Darlene Nickens, Rona Bowden and Shani Terry

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Corrogan Vaughn

Maryland Salutes Parren J. Mitchell A dinner to salute the life and legacy of former Congressman Parren J. Mitchell was held on April 28 at the West Democratic club of Anne Arundel County Club Meade, Fort Meade, Maryland. Joe Madison, radio host of Sirius XM’s The Black Eagle, gave the keynote address. The Cedar Morris Hill Youth Organization entertained guests with a living museum tribute.

Living Museum Tribute presented by the Cedar Morris Hill Youth Organization Mishael Durante, Sebastian Gonzalez, Rickey Gethers, JoAnna Knight and Josiah Tabb, U.S. Army JROTC

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Michael B. Mitchell, Otis Duffie and Joe Madison

Otis Duffie, president, West County Democratic Club of Anne Arundel County

Standing: Iris Sharpes with daughter Deanna Sharpes, Mr and Mrs William Miller

Marrian Jones and Monique Taylor

Delta Sigma Theta 108 Black Pearls 20th Anniversary April kicked off a month long celebration as 108 Black Pearls celebrated their 20th anniversary as members Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. There was a brunch at Inka Grill Fusion in Pikesville, Md., a trip to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic and on April 25 they “set it off” at Colin’s Seafood & Grill in Randallstown, Md.

Valerie Fraling and Mildred Long-Harper

Theresa Gibson and Chandra Jeffers DST 108 Blacks Pearls at Colin’s Seafood Grill

June Brown Stephanie Carr, Kellie McGowan, Tierra York Jones and Lynda M. Brown Alice Williams, Dr. A. Lois DeLaine and Dr. Charlene Boston-Cooper

Alice Cole and Muriel Cole

Photos by Anderson Ward

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Race and Politics

Mayor Pugh’s Confederate Burden Former Baltimore Mayor Stephanie RawlingsBlake left behind a 500 pound Sean Yoes gorilla as she walked Senior AFRO Contributor out the door of her office at City Hall last December for current Mayor Catherine Pugh to clean up behind. Actually, SRB left four gorillas; four Confederate monuments, sprinkled mostly along the Charles Street corridor, icons of White supremacy in the minds of many. And they all weigh vastly more than 500 pounds. The problem of what to do about Baltimore’s four Confederate statues: the Robert E. Lee- Stonewall Jackson Monument in Wyman Park Dell, the Roger B. Taney Monument in Mt. Vernon Place (the Taney monument technically is not in memoriam to the Confederacy, but it honors the Supreme Court justice who wrote the infamous Dred Scott Decision of 1857), the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument at Mt. Royal Avenue near Mosher Street and the Confederate Women of Maryland Monument at Bishop Square Park, is now Pugh’s problem. Anthony McCarthy, Mayor Pugh’s spokesperson recently told AFRO contributor Kenneth Burns that the mayor is studying a report compiled by a seven member panel during SRB’s administration. The panel recommended the removal of two of the statues; LeeContinued on D2

College Park Ponders Way Forward Following Killing of Collins

Budget Battle Nets $2M Cuts to Police Spending, But Will It Stick? By Stephen Janis Special to the AFRO

Photo by J.K. Schmid

A memorial to Richard Collins, III, was set up on the University of Maryland College Park’s campus after he was killed by an alleged White supremacist on May 20. plans were declined. “I have suggested that as one of the four mandatory general education courses all students must take before they graduate, Richard W. Collins, III was stabbed to death while waiting that one of those courses deal directly with race head on,” said at the bus stop below Annapolis Hall, University of Maryland, Richardson. “The course should be required. While I think College Park, May 20. He was 23. consequences for hate behaviors are necessary, the real way to A University of Maryland student has been accused by change minds is to change the way students may think about police of the killing. The student, Sean Christopher Urbanski, issues.” of Severna Park, is White, while Collins, a Bowie State Yanet Amanuel, 23, a student activist and sociology major, University student, was Black. Urbanski is currently being held is concerned about the lack of explicit consequences in the plan without bail and the FBI is and is asking for expulsion to currently investigating Collin’s be the remedy for instances of murder as a hate crime. hate and bias. Despite Collins attending The murder of Richard another university, some on Collins was not the first the College Park campus are racially motivated crime on feeling the loss of one of their the University’s campus. In – Joseph B. Richardson 2011 Black facility workers own. “Among Black faculty and were the targets, Amanuel staff, there seems to be the said. This year, chalkings with consensus that Richard Collins could have been their child,” hate-bias messages and fliers asking students to report possible Joseph B. Richardson, an associate professor in the University undocumented students, contributed to an unsafe feeling of Maryland’s department of African American studies, told the among targeted students, Amanuel said. AFRO. “In a sense collectively he is our child.” At the end of last year, Amanuel as a part of the Protect Wallace D. Loh, UMD’s president, described the killing as a MD Coalition, an association of 25 student groups, presented “senseless, and unprovoked attack,” and announced a five point the Loh administration with 64 demands. Protect MD still has plan to “combat hate and create a safer campus.” demands outstanding since the winter break, Amanuel said. The plan calls for a team of faculty, staff and students to “It’s widely known that any time students present an issue, provide a rapid response of support and service to any member they delay response, and after delaying the response, they say of the community subject to a hate-bias incident. $100,000 will they’re going to have a task force,” said Amanuel. “When be allocated to educate members of the community and support summertime comes, they hope that students will just kind of diversity. The University will begin annual reporting of all hateforget about it and that it will go away by itself.” bias instances on campus. Hate symbols and actions will be The summer session started May 30. explicitly forbidden at athletic venues. Lastly, the university will “In the past, I know that the issues have gone like that. In create a task force of faculty, staff and students to review current this case, I would just like the university to know that, from university policies and procedures to establish new guidelines that this point forward, the student activists are not really going will “foster an environment where hate is not tolerated.” anywhere,” Amanuel said. Requests for additional information about the University’s

Police funding has long been the third rail of Baltimore politics, touch it and you’re sure to perish. But the Baltimore City Council thwarted that truism last week when it axed $2 million setaside for police administration along with a series of cuts to the mayor’s proposed budget totaling roughly $26 million. The question now facing the city’s legislative body

By J. K. Schmid Special to the AFRO

“…the real way to change minds is to change the way students may think about issues.”

In Memoriam

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The Baltimore City Council voted on June 5 to cut $2 million from the police department’s budget. is, does the move represent a broader shift towards cutting law enforcement in favor of social programs, or a symbolic gesture that will have little effect on the city’s budget priorities down the road? “I sincerely hope it’s not just a one-off,” 8th district councilman Kristerfer Burnett, who sits on the public safety committee and voted for the cut, told the AFRO. “We’re all kind of coming together towards a Continued on D2

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Clyde Johnson Smith Broke Racial Fourteen Indicted In South Baltimore Barriers in Baltimore Fire Department By Michelle Richardson By AFRO Staff

The Baltimore City Council voted 15-0 to slash the budget of Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh (center) by $26 million. Courtesy photo

City Council Slashes Mayor Pugh’s Budget By Jennifer Wright Special to the AFRO During a contentious Baltimore City Council meeting June 5, the council voted 15-0 to slash Mayor Catherine Pugh’s budget, in an effort to redirect more funds for public schools, after school programs and violence prevention programs. Some argue the council’s preliminary vote to cut approximately $26 million dollars from Pugh’s $2.8 billion operating budget -- eviscerating all funds from the mayor’s budget office, as well as cutting several of her signature initiatives -- sends a clear message that more compromise from the mayor is needed. “Mayor Pugh believes that both the council and the administration are close to resolving any remaining issues around the budget,” said Anthony McCarthy, Mayor Pugh’s spokesperson. “They started the process all focused on what is best for children and families and through honest and frank

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Clyde Johnson Smith, who became the first Black academy instructor with the Baltimore City Fire Department, died May 7 at the age of 84. The cause was cancer. Smith was born December 5, 1932 in segregated Greenwood, South Carolina. He was the oldest of three boys and at an early age he moved to Baltimore and lived with an aunt in the Cherry Hill community. Smith attended Frederick Douglass High School where he played football and ran track. He later entered the United States Army and served as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. He was honorably discharged in 1955. After leaving the Army, Smith attended what was then Morgan State College, but interrupted his time at Morgan to join the Baltimore City Fire Department in 1959, just a few years after

the department was officially integrated. In addition to becoming the department’s first Black academy instructor, Smith was also the BCFD’s first Black battalion chief, and the first Black assistant chief. Smith is survived by his wife Barbara; son Clyde William Smith; daughter, Lori Slade; brother, Ronald (Hattie) Smith and many other family members and friends.

Special to the AFRO

Fourteen alleged gang members are off of the streets of 5th and Patapsco Avenue in South Baltimore’s Brooklyn area after being arrested. On June 5 Baltimore City Police Commissioner Kevin Davis held a news conference announcing the indictment of 14 individuals involved in violent activity including guns, drugs, robbery, car jacking, and other crimes related to gang activity. The neighborhood of Brooklyn has been a problem for Baltimore City Police because of near constant violent crimes. “This very small geography was disproportionately responsible for the violence in our city, so we had to do something about it,” said Davis. Even though 14 indictments seem like a major bust for Baltimore Police, only eight people are in custody; six are still wanted. In 2017, Baltimore City has seen 151 homicides, a dramatic increase from the previous year, but the neighborhood of Brooklyn has seen at least seven of those homicides. Continued on D2

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Clyde Johnson Smith

Past Seven Days

151 2017 Total

Data as of June 7

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Race and Politics Continued from D1

Jackson and Taney and historical context crafted for all four of the monuments. To be clear, if Mayor Pugh woke up one morning and said, hypothetically speaking of course, “You know, it’s time to blow up all four of those damn Confederate monuments,” the mayor couldn’t get it done without navigating significant fiscal, legal and procedural hurdles. The influence of the Maryland Historical Trust, in particular, on a possible removal of any or all of the statues seems rather outsized. That there are so many prohibitions woven into the fabric of city governance, blocking the removal of monuments to the Confederacy (although Maryland officially sided with the Union during the Civil War!) in a predominantly Black city, with a Black mayor, Black City Council president, and a majority Black City Council is really the definition of the structural racism that allowed these four statues to be erected

in Baltimore in the first place. In November of 2015, I wrote about the removal (in less than 24 hours) of a statue crafted by sculptor Pablo Machioli, in protest of the Confederate monuments, placed near the LeeJackson monument in Wyman Park Dell. The protest statue of a Black woman, a baby on her back, and golden fist raised to the sky was taken to a storage facility in Druid Hill Park near the Baltimore Zoo. Less than 24 hours after that, she was hauled back to the Copycat Building, an artist enclave, where Machioli lived. Again, less than 24 hours later vandals defaced the statue, scrawling the words, “nigger” and “White power,” on her Black body. The point is those four statues were never really meant to be monuments to the Confederacy, they were and still are monuments to White supremacy. The commission to study what should be done about the

monuments during the SRB administration was formed in September 2015, shortly after the Charleston Massacre. Even South Carolina, under the leadership of then South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley, mustered the will to finally take the Confederate flag from in front of the South Carolina Statehouse after the diabolical acts of Dylan Roof. Last month, New Orleans, deep in the heart of Dixie, rid itself of all of its Confederate monuments, including one of Robert E. Lee. Yet, in 2017 Baltimore’s monuments to the Confederacy remain. White supremacy put them here and White supremacy keeps them in place. At least for now.

the council not to cut police spending. And Council Members say constituents immediately raised concerns after the cut was announced, illustrating how difficult it is to trim policing amid a rising homicide rate and double digit increases in street robberies and carjackings. But even with promises to continue seeking ways to pare back police spending, where that money eventually lands is not up to the Council. Instead, the decision of what to do with the $2 million rests solely with Mayor Catherine Pugh. “Until the budget process is completed I can’t comment,” said Pugh of the proposed cut. “It’s always a give and take up until the end.” Burnett says to make long term funding changes stick, the council has to sell it. For

Burnett is the fact the city is not reimbursed for overtime to provide extra police for a variety of events like extra street staffing outside of baseball and football games. A policy he says exacerbates patrol shortages across the city. “I had a lot of questions about the $1.9 million dollars we spend for Raven’s and Orioles related overtime and how it affects staffing, and

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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more holistic approach to fighting crime by investing in young people and programs like Safe Streets. We know we need change it’s just a matter of where we go from here.” The cuts came during a relatively contentious budget process. On June 5 the Council pushed back against Mayor Catherine Pugh’s fiscal plan eliminating millions of dollars in proposed spending on mobile job vans, debt service, and money for new high-tech trash cans. The cuts came after complaints from council members that the budget gave short shrift to programs like Safe Streets, a crime fighting program that deploy mediators into the community to deescalate conflicts, and school funding. The $2 million cut to the Police Commissioner’s office, while small in comparison to the department’s proposed

$497 million budget, was seen by some as an initial step toward reorienting Baltimore’s spending priorities. But even council members who have actively advocated for redirecting money from law enforcement to social programs expressed doubts that the move marked a significant change in longterm funding priorities. “It doesn’t appear that a dramatic shift in funding away from police and towards other, more proactive public safety efforts is favored by either the Mayor or a vetoproof majority of council members,” Councilman Bill Henry (D-District 4) told the AFRO. Similar to past efforts to trim policing there was pushback. Last week Greater Baltimore Committee chairman Donald Fry wrote a letter prior to the vote urging

him that means explaining to constituents that the cuts are not aimed at taking officers off the streets, but making the department more efficient and using the savings to invest elsewhere. “We’re not trying to cut the patrol division, but I think we can all agree we can use a few less horses in order to fund an after-school program.” One sticking point for

it was clear they didn’t have an answer. Paying overtime to keep officers on duty downtown while the other districts go out short doesn’t make sense.” Complicating their efforts council members say, is the continuing series of officers charged with overtime abuse and fraud, which fuels both mistrust and the perception money spent on policing is ultimately wasted.

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Police are still searching for John Goodman, 29, Corey, Jones, 30, Troy Matthews, 30, Jonathan McFadden, 26, Christopher Miller, 25 and Everett Washington, 47.

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Jonathan McFadden, Everett Washington, John Goodman, Troy Matthews, Christopher Miller and Corey Jones are still at large.

Dequan Cheatham, 31, Dayquan Givens, 21, Carl Griffin, 25, Antione Lucas, 38, Horace Montgomery, 49,

Lance Parker, 32, Crystal Whye, 33, and Adrian Worrell, 33, have been taken into custody.

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negotiations, will end there as well. Council members are pressing Pugh to use the $13 million surplus from the fiscal year and redirect $10 million for public schools and the other $3 million for afterschool programs. The City Council can legally cut funds from the mayor’s budget, but only the mayor has the authority to redirect funds. The council voted to take away $2 million from Pugh’s Bureau of the Budget and Management Research and cut $770,000 from an innovation fund, $1 million would be cut from the mobile employment vans program, $600,000 from energyefficient vans, $6 million for eliminating debts, and $1.4 million in miscellaneous services. The Council also voted on gutting $600,000 for a waste disposal site, $3.8 million for new street lights, and $5.1 million for street cleaning. Many of these cuts target signature Pugh initiatives. A final vote on the budget will be held on June 12. Although acrimonious budget negotiations between the council and the Mayor’s office is not new, Councilman Bill Henry (D-District 4) says this council’s cohesion seems different to him. “We have had several contentious budget years, but what is setting this one apart from previous ones is the council’s response to that... there would be significant disagreements between what the mayor’s priorities were as expressed in the budget and what the council’s priorities were collectively,” Henry said. “The difference this year compared to previous years has been the level of commitment that the council has put into sticking together to advocate for its priorities.”

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Hello my friends. I just love this time of the year (without the rain, rain, rain) because of the different kinds of outdoor festivals that are presented with so much music and live entertainment of all kinds. What I would like to do this week is to inform you of events and festivals you can check out through the Fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day weekend. Other than the photos on my page, including the Jazz Expressways Foundation Breakfast featuring Robert Shahid Band June 10, we have information about the East River Jazz Festival with Hope Udobi Ensemble performing June 9 in Washington, D.C. We want to tell you about my group, Signature Live, from out of Washington, D.C., which will be performing June 10 at Live! Casino, 7002 Arundel Mills Circle in Hanover, Md. Show time is 9 p.m. Moving right along in the D.C. area; from

The Robert Shahid Ensemble will be performing your favorite songs for the Jazz Expressways Foundation Jazz Breakfast Show on June 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Forest Park Senior Center, 4801 Liberty Heights Avenue, Baltimore. Your ticket includes a breakfast buffet, live entertainment, dancing, vendors, B.Y.O.B and book signings. For ticket information call 410-833-9474.

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