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Baltimore • Murdered Morgan

State Student Remembered; Suspect Still At Large

George Clinton on the Mothership, the Smithsonian — and Funk

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Commentary: Building Men of Character

By Rev. Sean Fields

• HU Hospital Nets

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The opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C. will be accompanied by a series of high profile events. See photos from the exhibits on page A9.

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Musical Tribute Kicks off Museum’s Opening Activities

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By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com A stirring musical program at one of the District of Columbia’s signature churches started a weeklong set of activities honoring the grand opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.

An estimated 500 people packed the Shiloh Baptist Church on Sept. 18. They were treated to songs performed by a 200-member community choir and vocalists, and dramatic renditions from dancers and actors about the journey of Black people in the U.S. from the 1600s Africa era to slavery to the Civil War and the present. The event, “A Historical Odyssey: From the Cradle to Liberation,” was sponsored by the D.C. Host Committee, which

Family of Korryn Gaines Disappointed Blacks Still Question Hillary Clinton’s Potential to Lead in Lack of Charges Against Officers

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Rhanda Dormeus, mother of Korryn Gaines, stands with family attorney J. Wyndal Gordon, seen wearing a Colin Kaepernick jersey under his jacket, at a press conference Sept. 21.

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is coordinating city activities around the Sept. 24 formal opening of the museum.

Janice Ferebee, a museum docent, noted the appropriateness of the time of its opening in addition to the theme of the musical tribute. “We are living in a time where this museum will open with America’s first Black president in the White House and possibly its first female president on the way,” Continued on A4

Black faces, Black voices, Black art, Black memorabilia, Black history: The very essence of Blackness is exuded from the walls of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, located at the Inner Harbor, Baltimore. And on June 25, after years of anticipation, the museum will open its doors, allowing the public to share in the state’s African-American story.

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Lawyers for Korryn Gaines’ family confirmed that the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office will not file charges against the officers involved in the death of 23-year-old Korryn Gaines.

J. Wyndal Gordon, along with the Gaines family and their attorneys, met with State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger on Sept. 21 to discuss the case. He revealed that according to Shellenburger, Officer First Class Ruby shot Gaines from the hallway outside of her apartment, and did Continued on A3

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com Despite presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s frigid reception among Black voters, the battle is anything but a sure thing for his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. As we approach the election many Blacks – particularly millennials – are raising concerns, despite the president’s support.

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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton received The Phoenix Trailblazer Award at the culminating Phoenix dinner for the CBCF’s 46th Annual Legislative Conference.

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Phoenix Dinner: Obama Emphasizes His Legacy’s State of Jeopardy – ‘Our Progress is on the Ballot’

By LaTrina Antoine AFRO Washington D.C. Editor lantoine@afro.com This Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s (CBCF) annual conference focused on the power of the Black vote throughout various sessions and at the culminating awards dinner.

The 46th Annual Legislative Conference Phoenix Awards dinner Sept. 17 not only featured the last address from the nation’s first Black president, politicians and the organization’s leadership also stressed the importance of preserving the current political agenda for the benefit of the youth and the community as a whole.

“If you want to give Michelle and me a good sendoff -- and that was a beautiful video -- but don’t just watch us walk off into the sunset, now. Get people registered to vote,” President

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Katt Williams was arrested on an outstanding warrant in Georgia after he turned himself in on a separate warrant, authorities said Sept. 16.

Williams — whose real name is Micah Sierra Williams — was booked into the Fulton County Jail on Thursday on a warrant charging him with second-degree criminal damage to property, jail records show.

(Frederick M. Brown/Pool via AP, File) The case stems from Feb. 28, In this, Oct. 27, 2015, file when a man accused Williams of throwing the man’s cellphone, photo, comedian Katt the entertainer’s lawyer, Drew Williams appears in court Findling, told The Associated for his arraignment on Press on Sept. 16. Williams was robbery charges in Los granted bond, Findling said.

The person making the Angeles. allegations tried to get Williams to pay him money and, when that failed, the person pursued a warrant, Findling said.

“It’s a ridiculous case,” Findling added. “It’s another example where Katt has a target on his forehead for somebody trying to do a financial shakedown.”

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turn himself in, Sept. 15, on a different warrant, one issued after he failed to appear in court on charges stemming from a confrontation at an East Point restaurant, police Capt. Cliff Chandler said Sept. 16.

Police said that during the April 27 confrontation, Williams threw a salt shaker at a restaurant manager, bloodying the employee’s lip.

After he was booked Sept. 15, East Point police called the Fulton County Marshal’s Service, which sent an officer to pick Williams up on the warrant from the alleged February incident, Chandler said.

On Feb. 29, Williams was charged with battery after arguing with a worker at a swimming pool supply store in Gainesville. The worker told deputies Williams went behind the counter and punched him. On March 8, the comedian was taken into custody on charges that he threatened to kill his bodyguard during an attack inside the celebrity’s home. Williams threatened the bodyguard with death while an acquaintance beat him with a baseball bat and choked him, Hall County sheriff’s Deputy Nicole Bailes said.

On March 30, Williams was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after police say he fought with a 17-year-old boy at an apartment complex in Gainesville. He also was arrested this summer in the Los Angeles area, where prosecutors charged him with misdemeanor battery after a confrontation with a woman in a parking lot.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, Police Shoot and Kill Black Man in Street

By The Associated Press Police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, say an officer shot and killed a black man who they say ignored repeated requests to put up his hands before reaching into an SUV stalled in the middle of a street.

Police say in a news release that 40-year-old Terrence Crutcher died at (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP) the hospital where he was Attorney Damario Solomontaken after the officer shot Simmons, left, comforts Tiffany him once just before 8 p.m., Crutcher, twin sister of Terence Sept. 16.

Department Crutcher who was shot and spokeswoman Jeanne killed by Tulsa Police Sept. 16. At MacKenzie earlier told right is Rev. Joey Crutcher, her reporters that the two officers were walking and Terence’s father. toward the stalled SUV when Crutcher approached them from the side of the road. She said an officer first used a stun gun on Crutcher before the other shot him with his gun.

MacKenzie said that as of 9 p.m., police hadn’t searched the SUV and didn’t know if there was a weapon inside.

The officers’ names and races weren’t released.

In April, a white reserve Tulsa County sheriff’s deputy was convicted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting last year of an unarmed black suspect who was on the ground being restrained by officers. The deputy said he mistook his handgun for a stun gun.

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Artifact from Historic Black Church Transported to D.C. for Obama, Museum Honor

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com The opening of the Smithsonian African American History Museum signals a merging of the historic with the modern. Nothing ushers in that reality more than President Barack Obama ringing the bell of the first Black Baptist church at its inaugural ceremony. But first, the bell, located at Williamsburg, Virginia’s First Baptist Church, faced a gentle removal and relocation Sept. 21 to

the District in time for the museum’s opening ceremony on Sept. 24.

“The bell is here to remind us about freedom and justice for all,” First Baptist Church’s pastor, the Rev. Dr. Reginald Davis, told the AFRO. “It gives us significance because I see the dots being connected,” he said.

The church is considered the first African-American Baptist church in the United States, and was founded the same year the country declared its independence, 1776. Davis pointed out that the Freedom Bell, initially donated as a symbol of freedom,

could be rung by the country’s first Black president, who will be in attendance at the ceremony.

“A piece of living history – the bell, will be rang by another living, breathing embodiment of history and power – Barack Obama,” Shirley Massey-Thomas, a deaconess for Detroit’s Ebenezer Baptist Church told the AFRO during the Congressional Black Caucus Prayer Breakfast Sept. 18. “There is a rich and beautiful coming together of the past and present that will take place at that moment, and I am eager to

witness that.”

The historic Freedom Bell has been a part of the church since 1886, but it sat silent from 1956 until Jan. 31. The bell has since been restored to working order.

According to the Williamsburg Daily Press, after being repaired in January, churchgoers and community residents were given the opportunity to ring the bell, in order to make a statement against oppression and violence. Richmond resident Nathan Giles told the AFRO he intends to bring several students he mentors

as a member of 100 Black Men, to the opening ceremony along with his father, an octogenarian, who petitioned for decades to have the museum built.

“It’s a matter of pride and an occasion for great humility having a bell that represented faith and courage moved to the actualization of much effort,” Giles said. “As a people, we have to be able to forge ahead knowing that we do bring the past along with us and it is a beautiful one of achievement and resilience, as well as resistance.”

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Frankie Darcell, Obama expressed frustration with Black voters who claimed an overwhelming sense of distrust for Clinton.

“They take Hillary for granted. My concern is just making sure that folks, particularly African-American folks, don’t suddenly say, ‘You know we’re not as excited because Barack and Michelle are leaving and so we’re just not registering, we’re not going to vote,” Obama said.

A new national NBC News/ Wall Street Journal/Marist poll shows Hillary Clinton with a slight lead, 42 to 39 percent. The poll suggests that only 6 percent of Black voters nationally plan to support Donald Trump, but he gets almost half of the White vote in that poll, suggesting that Clinton must be doing very well with non-White voters.

However, according to participants of this week’s Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 46th Annual Legislative Conference, acceptance of Clinton may not be the case. “Just because the Black community accepted Clinton as First Lady, does not mean we have faith in her as President,” Anne-Marie Rollins, a Hampton University student attending the conference told the AFRO. “Clinton had done nothing to hoist her position, discuss issues that are facing young Black women and men, or race relations in the country. She has made her way by being Obama’s friend and the ‘UnTrump,’ which is

simply not enough.”

Rollins was not the only attendee to share those sentiments. “There is something about Clinton that does not sit well with me,” Quentin Carter told the AFRO “There are several off-the-cuff comments that this woman has made, including her position on young Black males as super-predators that facilitated

“Just because the Black community accepted Clinton as First Lady, does not mean we have faith in her as President.”

– Anne-Marie Rollins mass incarcerations across the nation of Black men, which lead me to believe that she is a racist, a bigot, and ill-equipped to handle the job of U.S. President.”

The greatest concern now, for Obama and other supporters of Clinton, is the belief that because of a distrust of Clinton and a distaste of Trump, Black voters will avoid polling centers entirely. “Don’t even think that people have an excuse not to vote,” Obama said at the conference’s Phoenix Dinner Awards Sept. 18.

“This is as important as ’08, as important as 2012 because, let me tell you, if Donald Trump wins, everything we’ve worked for is going to be reversed.”

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not fear for his own life, but for the life of his partner who “wasn’t even in the field of view of Korryn Gaines” when Ruby shot her.

Baltimore county police killed Gaines and wounded her 5-year-old son on Aug. 1 during a seven-hour standoff at her Randallstown, Md. apartment. Police maintain that Ruby shot Gaines after she threatened police with a shotgun. Gaines was livebroadcasting the standoff on social media before police, who were monitoring the broadcasts, had her pages shut down before her death. “[We] believe that officer Ruby was acting in a cowboy style,” Gordon said. “What we have here is a rogue police officer not in fear of anything, but merely frustrated because Korryn did not surrender with sufficient alacrity.”

He then cited a statement from witness Ramon Coleman who claims that immediately before shots rang out he heard

officers say, “I’m sick of this shit.”

Gordon also said that Shellenberger did not share any documents with the family, and only showed them a diagram, and felt that it was “discourteous to say the least.” He also said that Shellenberger gave no proof, only “he said, she said.”

Rhanda Dormeus, Gaines’ mother, simply said that she felt “empty.”

“I’m not surprised at all,” she said. “It’s happening all over.”

Kenneth Ravenell, the attorney for Kodi Gaines, Korryn’s 5-year-old son, said that he was disappointed that charges are not being filed, especially given the information that the boy was shot blindly from a hallway.

“I am surprised because at a minimum it is reckless indifference for human life,” Ravenell said. “Kodi has to live with this for the rest of his life.”

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The family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Baltimore County Police Department and Officer First Class Ruby— who fired the fatal shot—last week. Gordon said that the charges were filed before an investigation could be completed because they do not trust the department to conduct a proper investigation.

Gordon announced on Sept. 20 that he believed there would not be any criminal charges filed after the investigation.

“You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to call this one,” Gordon said. “We heard from the police chief three days after the events occurred that they said they investigated themselves and found that they did nothing wrong.

“This was basically a rubber stamp by Shellenberger…of what the police chief had already told the people,” Gordon said.

Jimmy Bell, an attourney for the Gaines’ estate, said that all those responsible will be held accountable.

“All those who are elected officers who allowed this to go on…not only will we remember this November, we’re going to remember next November,” Bell said.

“You don’t believe that black lives matter right now? We’re going to show you that black votes matter.”

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“A museum dedicated to protecting and preserving the state’s African-American history is long overdue,” said Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, who is featured in the museum as one of the state’s living legends. “This museum is going to be a huge ‘Wow!’ moment, not only for African Americans but also for all the citizens of the state.”

The museum boasts four floors of revolving exhibitions and permanent exhibitions that range from artifacts to photos to videologues, and an educational center that facilitates both on-site and distance learning.

“I never dreamed I would see anything like this,” said Agnes Kane Callum, a

genealogist and historian whose research on her family is displayed in the new hall.

“For once in history, we can write and interpret our

own history.” The two-day opening gala will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, and will feature noted speakers, singers, dancers and other entertainment.

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Family, Neighbors: Tulsa Man was Changing his Life, Generous “Nobody claimed that he was a perfect individual. Who is perfect? But that night he was not a criminal,” said Melvin Hall, an attorney for Crutcher’s family, regarding Crutcher’s criminal record. “He did not have any warrants. He had not done anything wrong. He had a malfunctioning vehicle, and he should have been treated accordingly.”

By Justin Juozapavicius and Sean Murphy The Associated Press An unarmed Black man shot dead in the middle of a street by a White Oklahoma police officer had run-ins with the law dating back to his teenage years and had recently served four years in prison.

But those closest to Terence Crutcher described him as a church-going father who was beginning to turn his life around. After marking his 40th birthday with his twin sister last month, Crutcher sent her a text that read, “I’m gonna show you, I’m gonna make you all proud.”

Crutcher was due to start a music appreciation class at a local community college on Sept. 16, the day he was fatally shot

by Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby after she responded to a report of a vehicle abandoned in the road.

The shooting was captured in graphic detail by a police helicopter and a cruiser dashcam, though it’s not clear from that footage what led Shelby to draw her gun or what orders officers gave Crutcher. An attorney for Crutcher’s family said Crutcher committed no crime and gave officers no reason to shoot.

Shelby was put on paid administrative leave while local and federal officials investigate the shooting.

Crutcher’s criminal history includes a 1995 arrest in nearby Osage County in which officers reported that they saw him fire his weapon out a vehicle window. Records obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday show that when Crutcher was ordered to exit the vehicle for a pat-down search, he began making a movement to his right ankle before an officer managed to get control of Crutcher.

A .25-caliber pistol was found in his right sock, the arresting officer wrote in an affidavit.

Crutcher eventually entered a no-contest plea to charges of carrying a weapon and

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Terence Crutcher, right, with his twin sister Tiffany. Crutcher, an unarmed Black man, was killed by a White Oklahoma officer Sept. 16 who was responding to a stalled vehicle. resisting an officer, and he received suspended sentences, court records show.

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20 that Crutcher also served four years in prison from 2007 to 2011 on a Tulsa County drug trafficking conviction.

Court records show officers used force against Crutcher on at least four separate occasions, including a 2012 arrest on public intoxication and obstruction complaints.

In that case, an officer used a stun gun on Crutcher twice while he was face down on the ground because the officer said Crutcher didn’t comply with at least three orders to show his hands, according to a police affidavit.

Crutcher’s father showed up while he was being arrested and told the officers that his son had “an ongoing problem” with the drug PCP, the affidavit states.

Neighbors remembered Crutcher as being friendly and generous. They said he lived with four young children, cooked big barbecue meals that he’d share with neighbors and belted out hymns in his driveway — finetuning the songs before performing them at church.

The Rev. Willie Lauderdale, pastor at the Gethsemane Baptist Church near Crutcher’s home, said Crutcher wasn’t a member of the congregation but would come sing some Sundays.

“I called him ‘Crutch,’” Lauderdale said Wednesday.

Camellia Bryant, who lives across the street from Crutcher’s modest single-story house, said her children and Crutcher’s had routine sleepovers. She said he was soft-spoken but well-known throughout the neighborhood.

Another neighbor, Melrita Gilliam, said she would see Crutcher drink beer or tequila occasionally “but he always kept it at home” and didn’t drive after drinking.

“I never seen him raging or nothing out there,” she said.

On Friday, two 911 calls describing an SUV that had been abandoned in the middle of the road preceded the fatal encounter between Crutcher and the police. One unidentified caller said the vehicle’s driver was acting strangely, adding, “I think he’s smoking something.”

Tulsa Police Sgt. Dave Walker told the Tulsa World that investigators found a vial of PCP in Crutcher’s SUV, but he declined to say where in the vehicle they found it or whether

they had determined if Crutcher had used it Friday evening. Police said a toxicology report could take several weeks.

Attorneys for Crutcher’s family said the family didn’t know whether drugs were found in the SUV, but that even if they were, it wouldn’t justify police shooting him.

PCP or phencyclidine can cause slurred speech, loss of coordination and a sense of strength or invulnerability, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. At high doses, it can cause hallucinations and paranoia.

Police video shows Crutcher walking toward his SUV stopped in the middle of the road. His hands are up and a female officer is following him. As Crutcher approaches the driver’s side, more officers arrive and Crutcher appears to lower his hands and place them on the vehicle before the officers surround him.

Crutcher can be seen dropping to the ground. Someone on the police radio says, “I think he may have just been tasered.” Then almost immediately, someone can be heard yelling, “Shots fired!” and Crutcher is left lying in the street.

Police Chief Chuck Jordan has said Crutcher had no weapon on him or in his SUV. Shelby’s attorney, Scott Wood, said Crutcher wasn’t following the officers’ commands and that Shelby was concerned because he kept reaching for his pocket as if he had a weapon.

“He has his hands up and is facing the car and looks at Shelby, and his left hand goes through the car window, and that’s when she fired her shot,” Wood told the Tulsa World.

But attorneys for Crutcher’s family dispute that claim. An enlarged photo from the police footage presented by them appears to show that Crutcher’s window was rolled up.

Local and federal investigations are underway to determine whether Crutcher’s civil rights were violated and whether Shelby should face charges.

Police Try to Quell Anger After N.C. Shooting Triggers Unrest chief stood at City Hall and appealed for calm, AfricanAmerican leaders who said they were speaking for Scott’s family held their own news conference near where he was killed on Sept. 20, reminding the crowd of other shootings and abuses of black men.

John Barnett, who runs a civil rights group called True Healing Under God, or THUG, warned that the video might be the only way for the police to regain the community’s trust: “Just telling us this is still under investigation is not good enough for the windows of the Wal-Mart.”

On Sept. 20, a protest near the apartment complex where the shooting took place turned violent. Dozens of demonstrators threw rocks at police and reporters, damaged squad cars, closed part of Interstate 85, and looted and set on fire a stopped truck.

Authorities used tear gas to break up the protests. Sixteen

By Jeffrey Collins The Associated Press Authorities tried to quell public anger and correct what they characterized as false information Sept. 21 after a night of looting and arson added Charlotte to the list of U.S. cities that have erupted in violence over the death of a Black man at the hands of police.

With officials refusing to release any video of the shooting of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott, two starkly different versions emerged: Police say Scott disregarded repeated demands to drop his gun, while neighborhood residents say he was holding a book, not a weapon, as he waited for his son to get off the school bus.

The killing inflamed racial tensions in a city that seemed to have steered clear of the troubles that engulfed other places.

As Charlotte’s White mayor and Black police

officers suffered minor injuries. One person was arrested.

The violence broke out shortly after a woman who appeared to be Scott’s daughter posted a profanitylaced, hour-long video on Facebook, saying her father had an unspecified disability and was unarmed.

In the footage, she is at the cordoned-off shooting scene, yelling at officers.

“My daddy is dead!” the woman screams on the video, which has not been authenticated by The Associated Press.

On Sept. 21, CharlotteMecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said: “It’s time to change the narrative, because I can tell you from the facts that the story’s a little bit different as to how it’s been portrayed so far, especially through social media.”

The police chief said officers were serving arrest warrants on another person when they saw Scott get

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out of a vehicle with a handgun. A Black plainclothes officer in a vest emblazoned “Police” shot Scott after the officer and other uniformed members of the force made “loud, clear” demands that he drop the gun, the chief said.

Putney was adamant that Scott posed a threat, even if he didn’t point his weapon at officers, and said a gun was found next to the dead man. “I can tell you we did not find a book,” the chief said.

Neighbors, though, said that the officer who fired was White and that Scott had his hands in the air.

The three uniformed officers had body cameras; the plainclothes officer did not, police said. But the chief said he cannot release the video because the investigation

is still underway. No cellphone video has emerged on social media, as happened in other cases around the country.

The plainclothes officer, identified as Brently Vinson, a two-year member of the department, has been placed on leave, standard procedure in such cases.

Scott’s mother described her son as a family man.

“And he was a likable person. And he loved his wife and his children,” Vernita Walker told The Charlotte Observer.

Scott has a lengthy criminal record, including convictions in Texas, North Carolina and South Carolina. Texas records showed he was convicted of evading arrest with a vehicle in 2005, and several months later, of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

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Ferebee said.

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, former President George W. Bush, who signed the legislation which authorized the museum, and former first lady Laura Bush, U.S. Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) are among the luminaries that will be present at the opening ceremony. President Obama is expected to give remarks.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) will likely represent the city at the opening ceremony and said she is excited about the buzz it is generating for the city throughout the world.

“We think that the interest in the museum is so high that it will rival the first inauguration of President Obama in 2009,” the mayor told the AFRO. “There are a lot of activities taking place throughout the city during that week and we are excited about that. I will also welcome visitors at a reception in the John A. Wilson Building Friday [Sept. 23] evening.”

Bowser is the official host at a reception in honor of the museum at the African American Civil War Memorial (AACWM) on Sept.

22 that is spearheaded by the D.C. Host Committee. The committee is set to co-sponsor a “D.C. Statehood Reception” from 6-8 p.m.

Sept. 21 at the John A. Wilson Building, with Stand Up! for Democracy, the D.C. Statehood Green Party, D.C. Black History Celebration Committee, and D.C. for Democracy, as supporters.

There will be watch parties throughout the city on that day at venues, including the Civil War museum, Ben’s Chili Bowl’s U Street location, the Florida Avenue Grill, and Asbury United Methodist Church. Recently, the D.C. Public Library confirmed it will host watch parties at its Martin Luther King Jr.

Memorial Library headquarters in its Black Studies Center and at its Bellevue/William O. Lockridge, Cleveland Park, Deanwood, and Francis A. Gregory branches, starting at 10 a.m.

The musical tribute was divided into three segments, known as periods. Period One focused on the musical and cultural aspects of West Africans before the start of the slave trade. A troupe of young dancers, four on stilts, danced to and sang Nigerian and West African songs while the choir served as backup support.

Period Two emphasized the Middle Passage, the transporting of slaves aboard ships and the slave experience in America.

There were tunes from the Gullah, an Africanoriented group that are direct descendants of slaves that resided on the coast of South Carolina for centuries, with soloists singing such noted songs as “Before I’d Be a Slave” and the choir belted out “Soon-ah Will Be Done.”

Period Three was about the trials and tribulations of Blacks after the Civil War to the present day, with the high point the singing of the “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” rendition written by internationally noted musical director Roland Carter.

The musical tribute is the brainchild of Charles “Chuck” Hicks, director of the D.C. Black History Celebration Committee, and the program was managed by Thomas Dixon Tyler and Steven Allen. Hicks said it was “only right” for the District to have significant activities regarding the opening of the museum and that a musical tribute was in order.

“With this being the host city, we had to do something,” he said.

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Henderson Tours Guides Travelers Back to Their African Roots the popular Nigerian musician and activist.

Henderson Tours made history in 1964: Freddye and Jacob arranged a high-profile trip for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his entourage to Oslo, so that he could accept the world’s highest honor.

Andrew Young, America’s former United Nations ambassador, recalls the voyage like it just happened. “I went with them to Norway when Dr. King received the Noble Peace Prize,” Young, 84, told Urban News Service.

“Freddye Henderson arranged that trip. She understood

By Michael H. Cottman Urban News Service Gaynelle Henderson is the second-generation owner of Henderson Tours, a trailblazer among African-Americans in the travel industry.

Her late parents, Jacob and Freddye Henderson, were visionaries who founded the agency in Atlanta in 1955. Rosa Parks was arrested that year for refusing to move to the back of a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

Freddye Henderson wanted to create a cultural and business niche overseas, even as Jim Crow blocked many Blacks from the polls, barred them from many restaurants and hindered their travel in the deep south.

Freddye felt that Africa would embrace

“My parents were taking clients to Africa before Pan Am was flying to Africa.”

– Gaynelle Henderson African-Americans. She believed that Blacks here could experience freedom, education and entertainment in Africa, rather than endure pervasive racism at home.

Henderson Tours pioneered African tourism, according to Gaynelle Henderson.

It was the first travel agency to offer large, multi-group tours to West Africa. Freddye and Jacob led their first group of clients to Clients of Henderson Tours visit Africa Africa in 1957, when Ghana celebrated its formal independence.

“My parents were taking clients to Africa before Pan Am first-class, sophisticated travel overseas. It was a wonderful was flying to Africa,” Henderson said. “It was known as the experience.”

‘Dark Continent’ back then.”

Young said that Henderson Tours introduced him to Gaynelle, her sisters and her brother, grew up in their Africa. “They were the first black-owned travel agency that parents’ office. “Mom and Dad would give us paper tickets I know of to focus on Africa and the Caribbean,” he said. to write out by hand with dates, departure times and “They were well-established in Africa, they arranged for the destinations for up to 100 people,” Henderson said. best hotels, and they made personal contacts in Africa and Henderson Tours’ clients have included Olympic gold all over the world.” medalist Jesse Owens, author James Baldwin, and Fela Kuti, Travel to Africa has blossomed for black Americans ever

since. Gaynelle Henderson said demand surged in travel to South Africa in 1994.

“After Nelson Mandela was elected president, there was immediate and tremendous interest in South Africa,” Henderson said. “For our travel agency, South Africa is still the most popular destination in all of Africa.”

Henderson said the family enterprise was created because many blacks wanted to visit Africa to learn more about their heritage. So, her parents coined their agency motto: “Education through Exposure.”

“We were pioneers in African-American tourism,” Henderson said in her Silver Spring, Maryland office. “Today, we offer customized and tailored trips to Africa.”

What difficulties confronted an Africanfocused travel agency early on? Henderson said that her parents had to charter planes from Paris to Africa. U.S. airlines had yet to fly there.

Henderson said that, even today, some black Americans are skeptical about traveling to Africa and wonder if it offers first-class hotels and high-end accommodations.

The Internet is another major challenge, Henderson said. It empowers consumers to bypass travel agents and book flights and hotels directly.

“The trade-off,” Henderson said, “is that we offer personalized and customized trips to Africa.”

Harold Cook, the agency’s director of tours, joined in 1989 and has traveled to 47 of Africa’s 54 nations.

“We offer clients Africa from a unique perspective,” Cook said. “We interact with Courtesy photo African people, and we offer welcome dinners in the homes of Senegalese families in Dakar. Clients get home-cooked meals and warm hospitality.”

Henderson arranged an African excursion in March for a special group of African-Americans: Her own family and friends.

Thirty-two people journeyed to South Africa, including couples, singles, 13 children and five grandmothers.

“To see all of this experienced by three generations of the same family is a wonderful experience,” said Henderson.

“And that motivates me to encourage more of our people to travel to Africa.”

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Nevada Mourns Loss of 1st Black Woman to Earn College Degree Nevada’s two major universities are mourning the loss of the first Black woman to earn a college degree in the state at a time most of the nation was still segregated

By Scott Sonner The Associated Press

(Courtesy photo)

This photo provided by the family of Stella Parson, shows Parson, the first black woman to earn a college degree in the state of Nevada.

Nevada’s two major universities are mourning the loss of the first Black woman to earn a college degree in the state at a time when most of the nation was still segregated.

A memorial service is scheduled for Sept. 23 in Las Vegas for Stella Mason Parson, who died July 29 due to complications from renal disease.

Parson graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in June 1952 with a bachelor’s degree in English. She later returned to school at UNLV, where she earned a masters’ degree in marriage and family counseling in 1988.

“When we first came here, there were no Black teachers, no Black professional in anything,” she said in the donated tapes collection for a project at UNLV’s James R. Dickinson Library.

“Most of the women worked as maids.”

At UNR, Parson wasn’t allowed to have a roommate. She worked at the school cafeteria and as a domestic on weekends to cover her living expenses.

“Reno, the city itself, was just as segregated as any other city,” Parson said in the 1978 interview. “We couldn’t eat in the cafeterias downtown. But as far as the campus was concerned, Black people were more than welcome.”

Parson taught school for 33 years in Clark County, where a Las Vegas elementary school is named after her and her late husband, the Rev. Claude H. Parson, Jr., whom she met while he was stationed at Nellis Air Force Base.

In 2002, UNR awarded her a President’s Medal for her accomplishments and created a scholarship in her name.

“Mrs. Parson was a good friend of the university who returned to campus over the years to speak and interact with students,” said John K. Carothers, the school’s vice president for development and alumni relations and executive director of the University of Nevada, Reno Foundation “Her many years of teaching and service to the Clark

County area have influenced generations of Nevada students who have gone on to better themselves and their communities,” he said Sept. 15.

Parson was able to enroll at UNR in 1948 thanks in part to a scholarship she received from the Las Vegas chapter of the American Association of University Women, Carothers said.

“In order to repay those who helped her and benefit others, the Stella Mason Parson Endowed Scholarship was established to encourage other female students of African American descent to pursue a college education,” he said. “Stella will be very much missed on campus by those who knew and worked with her.”

Parson was born Nov. 18, 1929, on a plantation in Lake, Mississippi — the daughter of sharecroppers, Fred and Matilda Mason.

Fred Mason ushered his wife and daughter to a new life.

“He stole them off the plantation and hid them ... in Arizona before working to pay to move them to Las Vegas,” said Tara Trass, an executive assistant to Stella Parson’s daughter, Naida Parson, who is the senior pastor of New Antioch Christian Fellowship in Las Vegas.

The family moved to Las Vegas in 1942, and Stella Parson later graduated from Las Vegas High School.

In the interview conducted for an oral history project at UNLV in 1978, Parson said her family lived in west Las Vegas during World War II, where there were “no paved streets ... and almost no homes for Blacks at all.”

“They would build a floor and spread a tent over it, and we would cook on wood stoves outside. ... There were no bathrooms,” she said in tapes for UNLV’s project, “The Black Experience in Southern Nevada.”

The memorial service is scheduled for 6 p.m., Sept. 23, at Vegas View Church of God in Christ, which she and her husband founded in 1965. An additional celebration of her life is planned for Sept. 24 at 11 a.m. at Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ.

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Akwaaba means ‘First in Black-owned B&Bs’ African-Americans, we couldn’t do that, or we would be shooting ourselves in the foot.”

In short, White travelers were unlikely to For Monique Greenwood, the decision check into Black-owned B&Bs. to be an entrepreneur came down to legacy In one sense, Blacks had a network of building.

B&Bs during segregation. Unable to stay at “I could leave my daughter a portfolio of White-owned hotels, Black travelers used real estate and a business to run, but I couldn’t The Negro Motorist Green Book, published leave her a job at Essence,” said Greenwood, from 1936 to 1966, to find Black owned-andwho was then editor-in-chief of that popular operated lodging. magazine.

Sandra Butler-Truesdale, once a She chose the bed and breakfast business cosmetologist for James Brown’s and Ray because she loved staying at inns and thought Charles’ bands, remembers how unforgiving she had the perfect personality for it. the road was for Black musicians.

“You have to have a heart of service and “Entertainers and people who traveled genuinely like people,” said Greenwood. a lot stayed with relatives and friends, and These days she might be called a queen of there were certain guest houses,” said ButlerB&Bs, especially among African-American Truesdale. “Some musicians had buses inn owners. She’s been in this business since and they did one-night stands and slept on 1996 and owns five luxury properties with her their buses, heading to other engagements. husband, Glenn Pogue, operating as Akwaaba Sometimes buses stopped at gas stations Bed & Breakfast Inns. where people could change and wash “While numerous inns have multiple themselves.”

When Greenwood opened her first inn buildings, to have five separate entities is in Brooklyn, guests were generally family, not common,” said Kris Ullmer, executive Photo: Courtesy of Akwaaba Bed and Breakfast Inns friends and neighbors.

About 95 percent director of the Professional Association of Monique Greenwood, founder of Akwaaba Bed and Breakfast Inns. of their guests were Black then, versus 40 Innkeepers International. There are just “a percent today. small percentage of innkeepers with that level “We still have these clients in Brooklyn, but many more guests are coming from all over the of longevity,” said Ullmer about Greenwood’s 21 years in the business. world simply for vacation,” said Greenwood.

Greenwood has built a “unique model,” said fellow inn owner Daniel Edwards of Morehead Early on, she and her family occupied the top floor of the Brooklyn establishment.

Manor in Durham, North Carolina. “She has a brand she promotes. You will have a different “The business made enough money for us to live in a beautiful mansion, rent- and expenseexperience at each of her properties.” free, so we began building up a nest egg from our day-job income to be able to buy more property.”

Today, Greenwood has 13 employees. “In 2015, Akwaaba’s sales surpassed the million-dollar mark, with much of the profit being reinvested back into the company,” she said.

She and her husband own other commercial properties, which they have patiently used as collateral to invest in buying and renovating inns.

“What has been most important is maintaining stellar personal credit, and doing that often requires being a pro at delayed gratification,” said Greenwood.

Her ownership of The Mansion at Noble Lane symbolizes how much America has changed.

The 25,000 square-foot, 14-room Gilded Age inn in Bethany, Pennsylvania was the estate of the founders of the F.W. Woolworth Company.

Mary Grate Pyos of Burke, Virginia, who had stayed at Akwaaba in Washington, D.C., –Mary Grate Pyos attended the opening of The Mansion.

“What’s so exciting about that inn is — as an African-American, who not so long ago was unable to sit at the Woolworth counter and get a cup of water — I now get to witness a Black Greenwood’s inns offer upscale accommodations in historic properties “with old-fashioned woman owning the Woolworth estate,” said Pyos. “I wanted to cheer her on.” hospitality and modern-day conveniences,” she said. Guests are called by their names and there Greenwood, an astute businesswoman with a love for Afro-centrism, said she chose the are amenities such as fresh-squeezed lemonade served on the front porch.

Edwards said when he and his wife opened their business in 1997, many White inns depended name Akwaaba because it means “welcome” in the Ghanaian language of Twi, “represents a connection to the Motherland” and because it starts with A — “generally making us first on most on a travel guide to attract lodgers. lists.”

“They put a picture of the property and a bio of the innkeepers,” Edwards said. “But as

By Patrice Gaines Urban News Service

“What’s so exciting about that inn is — as an African-American, who not so long ago was unable to sit at the Woolworth counter and get a cup of water — I now get to witness a Black woman owning the Woolworth estate. I wanted to cheer her on.”

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Building Men of Character

In the early 1980s, a dark plague of drugs and violence re-emerged and fast became the norm in many inner-city neighborhoods throughout the country. Baltimore was no different, reminiscent of the 1960’s and 70’s heroin epidemic; young African American males bore most of the brunt of this resurgence in the continuing saga of life in the hood.

In a small Baptist church in West Baltimore, a concerned group of men saw the signs of perilous times approaching and made the decision that their sons would not fall prey to this evil. So they formulated a plan of action, and in 1983, the Rev. James Williams, Jr, Deacon Oscar Cobbs and several other men of the Timothy Baptist Church created the organization’s first father and son camping trip.

Established with the hopes of instilling Godly values, high ethical and moral standards in their boys, the men set out on a mission to save their children. The first year saw roughly twenty men and their sons, and grandsons in attendance. I was fifteen in 1983, and I had already established myself in the drug trade and gang life three years earlier, and camping was not on my bucket list. Besides this weekend was for those kids who needed role models. I was already gone; the streets were my role models.

I had idols like my oldest brother who died from a heroin overdose at the age of 19 or my next oldest brother who was serving fifteen to twenty years on the prison farm in Hagerstown for gun charges. I did have my father, but he had just passed away, and what guidance I once had in him was no more. Seeing the path that I had chosen Deacon Cobbs, a well-respected leader in my neighborhood, would often invite me to his church. He even asked me to attend the first camping trip.

I could not leave the safety of the streets behind for the wilds of the wilderness, so I did not go the first year. Unbeknownst to me, Deacon Cobbs had made a covenant with my father on his death bed that he would look after me, and he did just that. As the streets became increasingly more dangerous, my involvement in the drug gang culture intensified causing me to advance to second in command of a very lucrative and violent drug gang known as the “LA Park Boys” (Lucille Ave).

As time went on, the pressures of this life weighed heavily on me. I realized I needed to get away from the chaotic lifestyle, but where would I go? In comes Deacon Cobbs reminding me each year about the upcoming father and son camping trip and like in times past I found a way to weasel my way out of going.

Finally, in 1986, I reluctantly gave in and ventured off into the unknown with a bunch of Christian men. It was one of the best decisions I ever made.

For the first time in my life, I found myself surrounded by men who genuinely cared about my wellbeing. I did not need my gun or a group of goons around me to watch my back; I was free. For the first time in my teenage years, I was able to put my guard down and experience another way of life. It was so exciting; we did things I had only ever seen on TV. We pitched tents, chopped wood, had campfires, roasted marshmallows, fished in the streams, hiked the trails, drank coffee from a pot that hung over the open fire, but most of all we talked. We had conversations I had never had before in my life. The men did not hold back during that three-day period; they tried to pull every wrong thing they could out of us and pour everything good they knew about manhood into us.

For me, they took extra care because they knew I no longer had a father to teach me the things I needed to know, and not to mention I was a drug dealer in Northwest Baltimore.

I embraced these men and their message. Although I was not entirely sold on the idea of giving it all up for a new life in Christ I still was open to their teaching. As the years went on, like clockwork, I would put aside one weekend a year, the weekend after Mother’s day when the men of Timothy Baptist Church gathered up as many boys as they could and went camping.

By now it was no longer just fathers and sons it was any man and boy who wanted to come. This went on year after year, but as we grew up some outgrew the weekend and others got too old to do it anymore, and for a minute it seemed as if the father and son camping trip was about to fade away. Still dealing with my personal demons a change was needed, and after surviving a near fatal experience the trajectory of my life had been altered forever.

I was now ready to leave that destructive life behind and serve God and his people. This could not have come at a better time as the founders of the camping trip knew they needed to breathe some new life into the ministry. I was in the right place at the right time for the task at hand. After years of mentoring and grooming me for a leadership role, I was asked to take charge of the direction of the Father and Son camping trip would go in. After surviving what I had just survived, I knew that a weekend like this could

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be a blessing for everyone, especially given the positive impact it had on my life.

So I began the task of incorporating other churches. In my first year, I introduced three new churches to this experience. I also changed the name of our group to the Men of Character ministry. During my tenure as director, we grew in attendance from 150 to 200 men and boys each year. We also held monthly classes and workshops for the boys to reinforce what they had learned on the trip.

During, this time, we also realized that we needed to be more holistic in our approach, so we began to focus our attention on not only the boys but the men as well. We immediately started to see just as many men having life changing breakthroughs as have the boys. Over the past thirty-three years, the ministry has evolved from a handful of fathers just trying to ensure that their sons would be okay, too becoming much more.

It has become a time and place for healing and repairing broken men. It has become a time and place for crafting our young men and building up our future men. The fact that a few good Black men decided to protect the future of their Black sons evolved years later into the possibilities and prospects of hundreds of other Black boys also being preserved. Each year a transformation occurs in the mountains of Pennsylvania. Boys come in, but men walk out.

The Rev. Sean Fields is co-founder of It Takes a Village, a Faith based non-profit organization based in Baltimore, Md.

Take the High Road On Construction in Baltimore Today’s construction industry is two-faced.

Mark Coles One model in construction combines jobs, high-quality training and education to put workers on a career path with sustainable wages and benefits -- the “high road” model. Another, revealed in a 2014 McClatchy Newspapers investigative report, exploits workers in dangerous, lowpaying jobs with no upward mobility -- the “low road” model.

Unfortunately, Baltimore’s construction market has thrived on the detrimental “low road” model for several decades now -- but there’s hope for change. By approving a Community Benefits Agreement for Sagamore Development’s Port Covington project, the Baltimore City Council can create safe, sustainable job opportunities for members of our community.

Under a CBA, developers agree to hire workers in the community where they’re building -- and give them decent wages and benefits.

CBAs starkly contrast with the history of Baltimore’s construction market. In 2005, the Maryland government tried to cut all funding for the Prevailing Wage Office -- the office that makes sure workers on public construction projects earn fair, livable wages. Despite rain and sleet, Baltimore construction workers joined 1,500 workers’ rights advocates to protest the injustice.

My colleagues and I, along with a broad coalition of community groups, believe a CBA for Port Covington is best suited to address the needs and challenges of our great city. The “high road” approach has already proven successful in cities across the country -- including Boston, Cleveland, Seattle, Oakland and Los Angeles.

Due to its extended history with CBAs, Los Angeles proves to be an insightful case study on the “high road” model -- and how its benefits could translate to Baltimore.

The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest school district in the nation, has an active agreement called a Project Stabilization Agreement -- very similar to a CBA. Its PSA, valued at $27.5 billion, funds the construction, modernization and repair of LAUSD’s schools.

Large, complicated development projects like those for an entire school district pose special challenges, like coordinating different types of specialty contractors and craft professionals. Individual agreements can be confusing and inefficient. Instead, PSAs and CBAs streamline expectations, logistics, wages and benefits for all construction laborers.

These agreements also serve the local community by hiring locally and targeting historically neglected city residents -- especially women, people of color and veterans.

In Los Angeles, the school district project had a goal of hiring 50 percent of its workers from LAUSD’s eight sub-districts¬. And the PSA mandates that up to 30 percent of the project workforce be apprentices -- construction trainees who earn while they learn.

The LAUSD PSA goes a step further to engage local community members. Its “We-Build” pre-apprenticeship program recruits and provides remedial training to local residents, then funnels them into formal apprenticeships.

Agreements like these allow developers to create thousands of jobs for local communities. LAUSD’s PSA provided jobs to over 96,000 workers from 2004 to 2011 -- with two out of five going to

residents in the school district.

In fact, nearly 70 percent of LAUSD PSA’s workers lived in Los Angeles County.

CBA agreements also bolster communities with substantial wages.

In just seven years, the LAUSD PSA paid Los Angeles County workers $1.02 billion in wages -- with workers earning average hourly wages of $32.29.

Small businesses are also looped into program benefits. LAUSD’s PSA awarded over $4.1 billion spent on construction to small and disadvantaged businesses. Forty-four percent of LAUSD’s prime contractors were small businesses -- nearly doubling the project’s original target.

Education and training programs target these small businesses as well. LAUSD’s PSA’s six-week program, “Small Contractor Boot Camp,” equips small contractors -- especially women-and minorityowned businesses -- with the tools needed to boost their competitive edge in the overall market.

What was so successful in major urban centers like Los Angeles can work wonders for Charm City, too. By using a Community Benefits Agreement at Port Covington, our public construction market will work for the benefit of Baltimore and its residents -- not at their expense.

Mark Coles is the Executive Director of the Community Hub for Opportunities in Construction Employment (C.H.O.I.C.E.), an office of North America’s Building Trades Unions that is working with the 28 local unions in the greater Baltimore/Washington, DC/Northern Virginia region.

Sioux Tribe Engaged in Sacred Environmental Battle The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota are reportedly engaged in a legal environmental and sacred battle against Dakota Access, a subsidiary of Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, the US Army Corps of Engineers and the D.C. District Court over a proposed oil pipeline that would run near their reservation – arguing that the pipeline would endanger their lives, their water supply and disturb their sacred grounds.

Pipeline Facts What is a Pipeline? A pipeline is a long pipe, typically underground to transport oil, gases and other materials over long distances.

In the case of the Dakota Pipeline, 1,134 miles of underground pipeline would stretch over 4 states; North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois. The Dakota pipeline would transport a staggering 570,000 barrels of crude oil daily.

Pipeline Risks Consequences may result from fires or explosions caused by ignition of the released product. Some hazardous liquid releases

can cause environmental damage, impact wildlife or contaminate drinking water supplies. Releases can have significant economic effects as well, such as business interruptions, damaged infrastructure or interruption in the supply of fuel such as natural gas service to homes and businesses, according to a report from the U.S. Dept. of Transportation.

Environmental and Sacred Legal Arguments Since the spring of this year, members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have argued the proposed pipeline will cross under the Missouri and Canton Rivers sites of the reservation’s main water supply. A population of over 8,000 people and home of thousands of wildlife, plant and insect species could suffer disastrous consequences if a leak or spill occurs. The tribe also points out that the original plans for the pipeline called for construction farther north, near the capital of Bismarck. Public State Officials halted those plans in fear that if a leak accrued it would be disastrous to the capital city of North Dakota.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe along with Earthjustice, an environmental activist organization, sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in federal court on Jul. 27, for wrongly approving the pipeline without proper consultation.

The tribe argues the proposed pipeline site would run through a stretch of land north of the Sioux reservation, home to recent discoveries of a sacred burial site of the Sioux tribe.

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe filed an injunction to stop the activity of the pipeline while the lawsuit is currently being heard in

D.C. District Court.

On Sept. 3 Dakota Access fired up the bulldozers and started digging on a section of the proposed pipeline site where recent sacred artifacts were found. Protestors attempting to stop the bulldozers were met by a private security company armed with pepper spray and dogs. Over 50 Sioux protestors were peppered sprayed and bitten by dogs.

On Sept. 9 U.S. District Judge James Boasberg rejected the injunction to stop the activity on the pipeline. Within the hour the Obama Administration suspended Dakota Access bulldozer activity and blocked the pipeline from sacred grounds.

Currently there are hundreds of thousands of tribesmen from over 200 Native American tribes, across the U.S. and Canada, lead by Sioux Chairmen, Dave Archambault II, have descended on Cannon Ball, North Dakota in protest for environmental and sacred equity against Dakota Access and Big Oil. Cathy Allen is an award-winning Urban Environmentalist, the co-creator of G.R.A.S.S. (Growing Resources After Sowing Seed) as well as Chair of the “Grow-It Eat It” campaign. G.R.A.S.S. is an environmental entrepreneurial nonprofit program based on the fundamentals of gardening, agriculture and ecology. In conjunction with Baltimore City Public Schools, Allen’s campaign has planted over a half-million trees on the lawns of Baltimore City public schools. She can be reached at cathy.allen@thegreenambassador.org.

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An exhibit on Black entertainment

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SENIOR LIVING

Baltimore Business Aims to Help Seniors Live their Lives

Administration services (MVA).

Smart and her team do not do any medical operations in the home as they are not licensed to do so. Smart is looking for ways to expand their services because she see the needs for so much more.

Smart said it is hard to move seniors from point A to point B. Therefore she would like Savvy Senior Shopper to have dedicated, “A door to door man to maneuver them in and

By Terrance Smith Special to the AFRO

Savvy Senior Shopper CEO and Owner, Katasha Smart, started a personalized senior assisting service to assist the elderly in Baltimore in their homes with everyday tasks.

“When seniors get to a certain age they can’t thrive as well in a nursing home,” Smart told the AFRO. “When they live somewhere all their lives and get accustomed, then taken out of it, they can’t function well. People don’t take care of seniors especially if they don’t have people coming to visit them [in nursing homes] everyday.”

Starting in 2008, Savvy Senior Shopper offered a limited amount of services for seniors who needed things done, such as getting prescriptions, groceries and feeding pets.

Smart started the business after her own experience of helping her grandmother.

“My grandmother drove my passion to do this. When I was young she went to a nursing home and my mom had to work so we couldn’t leave my grandma home,” Smart said. “I would ask my grandmother if I could go outside and play and my mother would come home and my grandmother wouldn’t remember letting me go outside.”

Handling the day to day operations from her home, the business currently is a nightly and weekend service. Three people, including Smart, handle tasks for the elderly.

Smart said if any senior needed things done during the day, they have a designated person to handle those tasks such as document handling and Maryland Vehicle

“People don’t take care of seniors especially if they don’t have people coming to visit them [in nursing homes] everyday.”

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Local Baltimore resident Phyllis Price, 53, said her family used the service when they needed it. “My aunt and uncles used it for a year and a half,” Price said. “They needed it to do things such as getting groceries and getting medication for his prosthetic leg.

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Baltimore Voter Registration Efforts Get an ‘F’

By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO Current voter registration efforts in the city are at anemic levels, according to a veteran, respected civic activist. Marvin “Doc” Cheatham, former Baltimore City NAACP President and current President of the Matthew A. Henson Neighborhood Association said he is coming “out of retirement” to jump start an 11th hour voter registration drive in Baltimore.

“The voter registration community in Baltimore – I give them an “F”, Cheatham said. “We’ve only registered 5,000 persons since April.

It’s almost unheard to do this poorly in registering voters in a six-month period leading up to a Mayoral and Presidential election, “Cheatham told the AFRO. Cheatham is referring to the dismal local registration data recorded by the Maryland State Board of Elections. Currently, several Baltimore precincts report fewer than 100 persons registered to vote including precinct 08-009, (Council District 3) with only 67 registered voters in spite of an adjusted precinct population of 1,552 persons (Maryland Department of Planning data).

Four additional precincts in Council Districts three, seven and 11 also report fewer than 100 persons registered to vote. (see chart on B2).

The Matthew A. Henson Neighborhood Association is using Fannie Lou Hamer’s birthday on Oct. 6 as a last call and rally for individuals to register to vote before the deadline for voter registration on Oct. 18.

“We are encouraging community groups, faith based institutions and labor unions to use Oct. 6th as a date to do voter education and registration,” said Cheatham.

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Race and Politics

Murdered Morgan State Student Remembered; Suspect Still At Large

Confederate Monuments are Shrines to White Supremacy

By Michelle Richardson Special to the AFRO On Sept. 20 the Baltimore Police Department canvassed the area of Loch Raven Blvd. after a Morgan Student University student was stabbed to death the previous night.

Facebook The incident happened around 10:30 p.m. in the 5400 block Marcus Edwards, 21, was killed on Sept. 19. of Loch Raven Blvd.

Police say 21-year-old Marcus Edwards, of Washington D.C., was found with a stab wound to the chest. Edwards was was best friends with the reverend’s son. transported to the hospital where he later died.

“This has impacted the church in such in such a hard way.

Detectives have identified him as a student of Morgan State It’s hard,” Moore said. “Marcus was a ray of sunshine. No University but say the incident did not occur on the campus or one ever had anything bad to say about him. He brought joy at campus housing. and he will be dearly missed. Marcus was like a son to me.

In a media briefing on Sept. 20, Baltimore City Spokesman This is a senseless loss. We have to stop this “friendly fire” in T.J. Smith said the police had “very little our communities. The Black Lives Matter movement is real.” evidence” and would be canvassing the Moore said the church held a prayer area to try and “get any evidence that was vigil for Marcus on Sept. 20 while another missed, as well as find any witnesses.”

Smith also said that they did not know –Rev Scott Moore one was scheduled for this week on campus.

Funeral arraignments have not been where the victim was walking to at the time Judah Temple AME Zion made yet as Moore and the other church but “that is secondary because the victim had every right to walk where he wanted to Church members are allowing the family grieving without getting killed.” time before moving forward. The funeral Police are trying to find out if Edwards will be held at Judah Temple AME Zion contacted any friends in the moments before he was killed to Church.

The suspect is still at large. trace his steps.

Anyone with information is asked to call homicide “I could go on and on about Marcus,” the Rev Scott Moore detectives, at 410-396-2100 or leave a tip via text message at of Judah Temple AME Zion Church, in Bowie, Md., told the 443-902-4824.

AFRO. Marcus attended the church since he was a child and

“Marcus was a ray of sunshine.”

Rev. Erroll D. Gilliard, Pastor at Greater Harvest Baptist Church, Dies at 58

By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO The Rev. Errol D. Gilliard Sr., pastor of Greater Harvest Baptist Church and president of the Baptist Minister’s Conference of Baltimore and Vicinity, died Sept. 17. The cause of death was not known at press time. Gilliard, a son of Baltimore, served as Pastor of Courtesy photo Greater Harvest Baptist Church The Rev. Erroll D. Gilliard for more than 30 years.

A passionate advocate Gilliard is remembered as a passionate advocate for African Americans and the under-served from every background

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according to Rev. A.C.D. Vaughn, senior pastor of Sharon Baptist Church and a board member of the Baptist Minister’s Conference.

“He was one of the greatest preachers God put on this earth.

He did not spare anybody who he did not think was protecting our people,” said Vaughn. “He was just like a son to me,” Vaughn reflected.

During Baltimore’s Civil unrest in Spring 2015, Gilliard led members of the Conference in de-escalating violence by walking through the streets of West Baltimore hand-in-hand.

More than 100 clergy flooded the streets of West Baltimore, serving as human shields between community residents and law enforcement dressed in riot gear.

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E.R. Shipp, Prize Winning Author, on Baltimore, Journalism and Community

After avowed White supremacist and Confederate zealot Dylan Roof Sean Yoes murdered nine Black Senior AFRO parishioners Contributor of the Emmanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina during a prayer service on June 17, 2015, the debate over the Confederate flag and other Confederate imagery was reignited.

Shortly after the massacre of the Charleston Nine, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake assembled the Special Commission to Review Baltimore’s Public Confederate Monuments. The group held its first meeting September 17, 2015, 90 days after the Charleston tragedy.

After months of consideration, public hearings, which included testimony from history scholars, the Commission came up with this conclusion: “One hundred years ago, the City of Baltimore was one of the many jurisdictions that adopted laws and policies that re-established white supremacy and racial segregation. This racist vision was implemented innumerable ways...The monuments studied by this Commission were yet another tool used to glorify white supremacy and that vision is indefensible today,” the group stated in its final report.

The Commission recommended two of the statues be removed; the LeeJackson monument in Wyman Park and the Roger B. Taney monument in Mt. Vernon (The Taney monument is not specifically a Confederate monument, but Taney, who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1836-

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Council Approves Port Covington Deal

By Nakia Brown Special to the AFRO

By The Associated Press

Pulitzer prize winning journalist and Morgan State University Professor, E.R. Shipp on Sept.19, spoke at community organization Strong City Baltimore’s 29th Street Community Center as part of the Gertrude S. Williams Speaker Series.

“We were going through whole patches of blocks that looked like an abandoned city.” Shipp said. “In those rough areas, there was most likely always some house of Photo by Nakia Brown worship, a liquor store, and a funeral home. What is that E.R. Shipp saying about us?”

Pulitzer Prizer Winning Shipp moved to Baltimore four years ago and speaks Journalist candidly about her observations of Baltimore from the record high homicide rate to the supringsly low levels of civic engagement by the community.

Dressed bright and casual, Shipp addressed an intergenerational crowd of over forty people on the role of journalism in community engagement.

This event is third in a quarterly series honoring Gertrude Williams, who was principal of Barclay Elementary/Middle School from 1971-1998. Before Shipp, the series hosted leaders such as former mayor Kurt Schmoke and Adam Jackson, CEO of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle.

For over thirty minutes, Shipp walked the crowd through her segregated childhood in Georgia and how that lead her to journalism.

Shipp was one the first Black students to attend the J. P. Carr School in Georgia after the school was integrated in the late 1960s. She then attended the University of Georgia in 1972, which only was integrated 12 years before her arrival. She graduated in 1976 with a BA in Journalism before going to and graduating with a MS in Journalism from Columbia University.

Since then, Shipp has worked at varied newspapers including: The New York Times, The

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Baltimore’s City Council has given final approval to $660 million in public financing for Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank’s mixeduse waterfront development.

The council voted 12-1 on Sept.

19 to approve the public financing package for Port Covington. The $5.5 billion development will have offices, homes, restaurants, green space and a new campus for Under Armour, a sportswear company.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is expected to sign the legislation.

The council voted 12-1 on Sept. 19…

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Other voter registration efforts include a joint push on Oct. 18, the final day for voter registration. The Baltimore Chapter NAACP and Radio One will join with other local voter education/registration organizations to host a host a final day voter registration drive on

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A voter practices with the Maryland voting machine.

Oct. 18, said Former State Senator Larry Young this week during his morning drive-time radio show on WOLB. Black Girls Vote, a national voter education and registration effort founded in Baltimore, is positioning themselves to focus on campus-based voter education/registration drives to ensure millennials are registered to vote before November.

“We’ll be out in force during homecoming season,” said Nykidra Robinson, founder of Black Girls Vote. Robinson said that millennials who are disenchanted with their choices in the upcoming presidential election need to consider who has their best interest at heart.

“People aren’t necessarily enthusiastic about either candidate. But the bottom line is that we have to look at which candidate will provide us more access when we have conversations about Black women and girls,” Robinson told the AFRO. “If you are a big fan of President Obama, then you have to look at who will best preserve his legacy. If you want change, then vote for another candidate,” she said.

Cheatham said that one of his biggest concerns was the number of unregistered ex-felons who are still unaware of their right to vote in the upcoming election. According to the Maryland Board of Elections, effective March 10, ex-felons who completed a court-ordered sentence are eligible to become registered voters.

The restoration of voting rights for ex-felons was passed by the Maryland General Assembly in the 2015-2016 legislative session. Although the bill was originally vetoed by Gov. Larry Hogan, the General Assembly narrowly overturned the veto in

CITY PRECINCTS WITH THE SMALLEST NUMBER OF REGISTERED VOTERS City Council Precinct District

Registered voters

District 3 District 3 District 11 District 7 District 7

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Source – Md. State Board of Elections /Baltimore City Board of Elections

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With little more than a month before the Maryland primary registration deadline this past spring, many ex-felons and their advocates complained that they were not informed of their right to participate in the primary election. “With more than 20,000 former inmates now eligible to vote in the city, we have a lot of work to do in order to reach out to these new voters,” Cheatham said.

“Here we are again, with a little more than a month to go before the registration deadline for the general election,” Cheatham said. Early voting in Maryland starts Oct. 27 and extends through Nov. 3. General Election Day in the U.S. is Nov. 8.

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1864, was the architect of the Dred Scott decision, which affirmed the racist view of Blacks as less than human and reinforced the rationalization of the institution of slavery).

And they believe the other two monuments, the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors monument and the Confederate Women’s Monument need to provide historical context.

According to University of Maryland law professor Larry S. Gibson, a member of the commission, the group’s findings were delivered to the mayor in January of 2016.

However, City Hall has not made a decision on the recommendations...yet (more on that later).

The Commission’s findings go into fascinating detail about the lengths to which Confederate sympathizers attempted to reimagine the Civil War narrative and the events (including the institution of slavery) that led up

to it. Notably, the participation of Union troops in Maryland outnumbered Confederate soldiers almost three to one, yet, there is only one Union monument in Baltimore City compared to four Confederate monuments. And those who led the effort to erect those monuments in Baltimore seemed hell bent (literally) on perpetuating the fallacy of White supremacy.

Speaking of White supremacy…

Last November in this column, I wrote about a statue of a pregnant Black woman, with her golden fist raised to the sky, which was erected in front of the Lee-Jackson monument in protest of the 21st century perpetuation of White supremacy symbolized by the Confederate monuments dispersed around this majority Black city. After she was placed in front of Lee-Jackson, last November I wrote: Less than a day later she was

unceremoniously removed by Baltimore police and Baltimore City park rangers and relocated to an out of the way storage facility in Druid Hill Park. And less than a day after that, she was taken to the Copycat Building, an artist enclave near Midtown.

That’s when the White supremacist attitudes for which she was crafted to confront manifested in the actions of someone who scrawled, “nigger,” and “white power,” on her Black body.

Almost a year since that protest statue was defaced with racist graffiti, to my knowledge the person who did it hasn’t been caught and nobody has been charged with what amounts to a hate crime.

I’m not quite sure why Mayor RawlingsBlake hasn’t acted upon the recommendations of the Commission she charged to come up with

a plan for Baltimore’s Confederate monuments.

But, Gibson suggested I, “shouldn’t be so hard on the mayor,” during the First Edition radio show September 19. Gibson said that although the Commission’s recommendations were delivered to City Hall in January, the Mayor’s office was not in “official” receipt of them until months later.

Beyond the decision of the Commission he was a part of, to remove two monuments and keep the other two, I asked Gibson what he would do if the decision was solely his. His reply was succinct.

“I would get rid of all four of them.”

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

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for the gun violence, Earl helped intiate that. Regretfully, we don’t have the ministers today who care enough about our community to get things done,” Young told the AFRO. “The one thing most people will tell you about Earl is that he was very frank. Most ministers try to be politically correct but that wasn’t how Earl did it.”

After the historic march, Gilliard and others are credited with bringing opposing factions, including gang members, public officials and ministers together at New Shiloh Baptist church to discuss how the civic and community officials can work together with youth to keep the peace during the historic unrest.

During his more than 30

years as pastor of Greater Harvest, Gilliard organized the Greater Harvest Baptist Church Housing Corporation as well as the Family Life Center. In 2012, he was one of the leaders of the ultimately unsuccessful fight against same sex marriage in Maryland.

Gilliard had a reputation for straight talk from the pulpit and spoke out often about violence, gang activity and the responsibility of the church, community and public officials in Baltimore.

“My generation and the generation present have failed our young people. We’ve got to stop cutting them off, stop writing them off,” Gilliard said during a television interview in 2013 when questioned about the surge of youth violence in the city.

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“Gangs are obviously giving the youth a sense of acceptance and belonging.

So let’s go forth and take the ministry to the streets without shamming and scamming because they can see that as well.”

Gilliard graduated from Carver Vocational High School in the city. He Matriculated at the Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia and was attending the Palmer Theological Seminary in St. David’s Pennsylvania at the time of his death.

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New York Daily News, The Washington Post and currently writes a bi-weekly Wednesday column for The Baltimore Sun. “The role of writers is to be the griots,” Shipp said referring to the African oral tradition of storytelling. “We are the ones who have the memories of what has been...we are teaching people about the past and what is happening now.”

Shipp ended her speech with a story about how her family members, in frustration with the terrible conditions of the local school, burned it down in an effort to get the city to build a better one.

“We need to revive the spirit -- not that we need to be arsonists,” Shipp laughed. “We need to revive the spirit that we can get things done.”

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“See the curtains hangin’ in the window, in the evenin’ on a Friday night. A little light a-shinin’ through the window, lets me know everything is alright. Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowing through the jasmine in my mind. See the paper layin’ in the sidewalk, a little music from the house next door. So I walked on up to the doorstep, through the screen and across the floor. Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowing through the jasmine in my mind. Sweet days of summer, the jasmines in bloom. July is dressed up and playing her tune.”-Seals and Croft Summer 2016 has come and gone and just like Joe Turner the train has left the station; but what a wonderful summer it was for members of the Wednesday Philosophy Faction, Boaters, Golfers & Friends.

Starting with the first Wednesday in June in Cambridge, Md. and hosted by member Tyrone Seymour, at our kickoff event we ate Maryland steamed crabs from the Eastern Shore until the upcoming closing event on September 28, hosted by me. Summer 2016 has been awesome.

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.”

-Mahatma Gandhi Special thanks to Willard Wright, boat Captain Gerald Brown,Dr. Charlene CooperBoston, Mildred and Dickey Harris, Eunice Jenifer- Robinson, Cordell and Deleanor Boone, Alaina Allen, Rhoda Fassett, Brenda Sykes and Ralph and Brenda Wright. These members opened their hearts and homes each Wednesday to twenty or more people

for BBQ , fried fish and an array of exquisite dishes for an enjoyable evening. Some of them hosted us on more than one Wednesday.

A huge bushel of crabs and a case of beer to Ralph Wright for coordinating the weekly schedule ensuring that Wednesdays flowed.

The success of these outings was possible due to the group efforts and the guys who made sure the ice was plentiful and the set up and cleanup was completed. We “never could have made it” without you.

“By all these lovely tokens September days are here, with summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer.”Helen Hunt Jackson The GEMS annual Labor Day breakfast at Lafontaine Bleu was once again an “affair to remember” set in an elegantly decorated ball room. Guests sipped Bloody Mary Cocktails, mimosas and champagne as they enjoyed a scrumptious breakfast and music provided by the XPD Band. GEM members are Dr. Anne Emery, Brenda Baker, Pat Tunstall, Jackie Brown, Michele Emery, LaVerne Naesea, Wendy Dukes, Juanita Morton, Mildred Taylor, Sharon Pinder, Regina Bernard, Shirley Swafford , Alisa Swafford, Joyce Jackson and our wonderful host, Debbie Taylor.

“Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.”-Ava DuVernay It was standing room only at the book signing for Leonard Hamm’s book “Hamm’s Rule and Hattie Fields’ Taco” at Colin’s Restaurant in Randallstown hosted by

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“Friends of Distinction” members Vivian Braxton, Shawn Braxton, Nancy and Cleve Brister and me. The lively crowd stood in line to purchase the books and participated in an informative discussion led by the authors. Special thanks to Colin’s for the complimentary dinner of smothered pork chops, crab dip and more for guests in attendance. Guests included retired commissioner Pete and Paula France, Mildred and Billy Harper, Everene Johnson, Clayton Tucker, JoAnn Jolivet, Dee Wright, Lavonne Grant, Carole Hilton, Victor Green, Freddie Vaughn, Adolph and Helen McDonald, Rob and Gladys Rice, Blanche Templeton, Anita Hunter, Ann Branch, Gwen and Nat Trader and Sheila Whitaker.

including the old standard “The Madison”.

“I definitely think some of my older female peer groups are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them.”-Julia Roberts

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”-Maya Angelou

“Isn’t she lovely” was the unanimous opinion of the guests in attendance at Mildred Battle’s 80th party. The birthday girl entered the beautifully decorated room dressed in a white and black floor length gown, dancing to the sounds of jazz musician Marshall Booze and his band. The guests in attendance were Eunice Jenifer- Robinson, Juanita Rollins, Fred and Emile Wilson, Marcia Flournoy, Stephanie Yates, Sheila Ford, Tom Saunders, Rosalind Anthony, Jeanette Bynum, Harry Johnson, Sandi & Jai Matthews, Stan White, Helen Hughes, Arnos West, Andrew Johnson, Tiger Lil, Adrienne Davis, Eleanor Janey, Arthur Hoffman, AJ and Carole Miles, Bill Massey, Marian Johnson, Juanita and Grafton Brown, Carlton and Darlene Douglass, Rosa and William “Shorty” Trusty and Dotsy Street. After dinner, guests danced to the sounds of DJ Mike and the latest line dances

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”-Oprah Winfrey Happy birthday Freddie Vaughn, Rotunda Jenkins, Vera Newton, Nelson Taylor, Gwen Trader, Wil Giles, Susan Parker, Valerie Phillips, Marshall Bell, Sharon Richmond, Auvea Fortune, Walter Carr, Beth Watson, Juanita Brown, Herb Brown, Bobby Booker, Claudia McKee, Lafayette Carr, David Couser, Barrington Branch, Miguel Stokes, Billie Garner-Brown, Margaret Johnson, Dr. Raymond Bowen, the AFRO’s Robert Blount, Liston George and Zoey Washington-Sheff.

Wishing a happy anniversary to Bernard and Julianne Chambers on their 25th anniversary and happy anniversary to Vhonda and James Lewis, Sandi and Jai Matthews, Rorye and Dominic Jordan, Leroy and Maxine Dyett and to Teddy and Mattie Holman.

“My music is jazz.”-Yusef Lateef Join John Lamkins and his jazz group who will be performing in Washington D.C. at Blues Alley on Sept. 28 featuring vocalist Ertha Lamkins. For tickets contact bluesalley.com.

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin”-Mother Teresa “I’ll be seeing you.”

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Life and Breath Organization Presents Flip Flop Festivus

The Life and Breath Organization is hosting the Flip Flop Festivus on September 24 at the Four Seasons Hotels, Baltimore Inner Harbor. The Flip Flop Festivus, a fundraiser to fight the disease Sarcoidosis, offers an elegant night on the town in a resort casual atmosphere.

The evening will also include casino games, raffles and a live auction. Guests also can “shake their groove thing” to the sounds of Attraction, the 8-piece professional show band from Richmond, Va. For more information call 1-866-478-7778 or visit lifeandbreath.org.

Organizing for Action Hosts ‘Building Bridges for the Future’

The State Organizing for Action Symposium (OFA) is on September 24 from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the Randallstown Community Center, 3505 Resource Drive, Randallstown, Md. 21133.

Invited panelist and speakers are coming to discuss issues such as voter registration.

Refreshments and lunch will be provided by Colin’s Seafood and Grill. Contact Mildred

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Soac Media Entertainment will host the Mathew Knowles Experience on Sept.

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The Afro-American, September 24, 2016 - September 30, 2016 This year was the 20th Anniversary for the Baltimore County African American Cultural Festival, which was held on Sept. 17 at Towson Patriot Plaza in

Towson, Md. Del. Adrienne A. Jones is the founder of the festival. Scholarships were given out to the following Baltimore county students: Galen Handy Jr., Kelli Barfield, Felicia Hart, Michelle Okiyi and Nzinga Hampton.

Viet Nam War Era veterans were honored with certificates and 50th anniversary year commemorative Phillip Leighton, Lou pin.

Ann Leighton, Olivia

Veterans of MD. National Guard 231st Truck Battalion: Joseph Beasley, Sgt. Nathaniel Pope and Alfred Brown. The flag was used to represent the African American volunteers who fought in the French Army during WWI.

and Ava Leighton

Vivian Green

Michele Bowman

Betty Stokes, Orlando Scott Sr., Bob Coston, Art Ames, Tinell Brat and Manny Lock Cheryl Hinton pours the “Libation” in honor of our ancestors

Abu “The Flute Maker” Jabril

Patapsco River Chapter Links, standing: Anita Turks- Hunter, Marlene Downs, seated Gretchen Styles and Alice Cox

Pauline Sharp, LeFerral Buster and Olivia Sharp-Buster

Toni Conway and Cookie Conway-Colbert

Baltimore County Executive, Kevin Kamentez and Speaker Pro Tem Adrienne Jones

Baltimore County Scholarship winners Kelly Barfield, Galen Handy Jr., Felicia Hart, Michelle Okiyi and Nzinga Hampton Photos by Anderson Ward

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amily members and guests gathered at the Forum Caterers on Primrose Avenue in Baltimore on Sept. 17 to join in the celebration for the 95th birthday of Ruth King Pratt. Even though her birthday was August 2, she postponed the celebration until her son, Deacon Karl King I, was able to travel after surgery.

Guests included former teachers, administrative staff, former students from elementary schools,

neighbors, church members, cousins, grands and great grands. A large representation of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority members were present to honor one of their oldest members who joined the chapter in 1945 and eventually served as one of its president. She received honor and recognition on the national,

regional and local levels of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

Most of Pratt’s extensive career has been centered around education on all levels—from her beginning—teaching in the Baltimore City School System, principal, chief education officer to superintendent of BCPS, to

Ruth King Pratt with her son Karl Madison King

Family members of Ruth Pratt

Laura Phillips Byrd, Helen McDonald, Dr. Charlene Boston and Lynda Brown

James Grove, Cornelius Ruffin, Mattie Christopher and Jacqueline Ruffin

Demonstration instructor at Coppin State, and adjunct faculty at Morgan State University.

Born in Honea Path, SC to William T. Jones and Perry Magnolia Mattison, Pratt had a brother who is deceased. She is the mother of one son, Karl King I, (wife Noreen) and three grandchildren; Lauryn and twins Karl II

and Koreen.

A long standing active member of Sharon Baptist Church since 1956, Pratt serves as a deacon in the church. Numerous excellence awards and certificates have been presented to Pratt for her volunteer service in the church and the Community.

Flora G. Johnson, Joseph Smith, Marlon Starks and Eleanor Everett

Members of the Baltimore Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority with Ruth Pratt

Monica Watkins, president, Baltimore Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority with birthday honoree, Ruth K. Pratt

Rev. Alfred C.D. Vaughn Sr. ,Pastor, Sharon Baptist Church and wife Lillian

Jentry McDonald, Cassandra McDonald, Wynonia Stewart- Brown, Felicia Johnson and Rev. William Johnson

Pamela Crawford, Rosalyn Crosby, Ruth Pratt, Stephanie Carr, Renee West and Donna Cypress

To purchase this digital photo page contact Takiea Hinton: thinton@afro.com or 410.554.8277.

Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine

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George Clinton on the Mothership, the Smithsonian — and Funk The following is a lightly edited transcript of the interview with Clinton.

Burton: The Mothership, I have to ask… How did you guys come up with that concept? What was going on at that time?

Clinton: Wow… Back in that time, it was the beginning of looking at this time, or, looking at the future, with things like “Star Trek,” “Star Wars,” and all of that. We were thinking of the future, and we did a record for Chocolate City, first, which was about Blacks being places you wouldn’t imagine them being at – like the White House and such.

So, once that worked, we were like, “Damm… that worked?

What about outer space?” You don’t see no niggas in outer space.

There was a girl named Uhura in “Star Trek.” And most people, you know, couldn’t picture us [Black people] out there, hanging out. So not only was we hanging out, we was kickin’ back on the spaceship and whatever the current car was, that’s what we was lookin’ at. And what we called P Funk, uncut funk, the bomb… we became, “Man, that’s dope.” That’s what we was tryin’ to portray. With all the futuristic thoughts in your mind, you need a spaceship to reavel back and forth. And I’m still doing it.

Burton: So how do you feel about The Mothership being part of the new Smithsonian opening up in DC? Clinton: I’m blessed. I feel so blessed. Because that music is a lot of people… a lot of good times. You know, you notice I’ve been in congress and in court fighting for the copyrights and all of that because it’s been respected so much. But being in the Smithsonian, it made me feel I have to fight for this. You know? It’s not something we just did, you know. We just did and worked hard – a lot of people worked hard on it. And it was a historical thing…

(Photo by Rob Roberts) we were trying to do a funk opera, and we did it. You know? And The Mothership of Parliament Funkadelic is now in the National Museum of African-American History and so we’re gonna keep fighting for it and the mothership being in the Culture in Washington, D.C. Smithsonian gave us good credibility that we can stand behind that.

Burton: Do you think that the Mothership in the museum is the

By Brittany Burton actual one?

Howard University News Service Clinton: No, that was the- that was the second one we had. The first one did- did tear apart.

It was… still in hub caps, you know? So- so there’s still pieces… You know there’s still stories The Mothership is the space vehicle of George Clinton aka Mr. Funkenstein and his around D.C. of who got which part. Like someone got the hydraulic, and, you know, other parts wingmen of Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication. As part of the Parliament-Funkadelic theory, are living in somebody else’s garage. But, you know, we had the same group rate – the same it existed as a fictional vehicle of funk arrival to engage fans who were down with the P-Funk number of people, the same people doing the same thing again. movement. After the success of his hit “Chocolate City,” Clinton said, the Mothership was Burton: What do you want to be remembered as? later developed into a physical prop and a driving force behind his extravagant concerts. The Clinton: He didn’t give a funk. You know, other than getting these copyright issues on the Mothership appeared all across the world at Clinton’s performances in the 70s. right side of what they’re supposed to be on the right side of history, where they’re supposed But whatever happened to the Mothership? to be – that’s really trying to change history, who did what, you know, and we can’t let this Mr. P-Funk himself shared his feelings about the Mothership’s induction into the new happen again. It happened with rock and roll, you know, Chuck Berry and… Little Richard and National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Clinton a lot of them, people don’t realize that was the beginning of that rock and roll. If it wasn’t for cleared the air on whether the Mothership at the Smithsonian is the original one or a duplicate, Jimmy Hendrix, we wouldn’t have had no claiming of it at all. We’ll never let that happen with during a concert stop in Washington, D.C. He also vowed to fight for the funk in the halls funk. We gon’ fight for it, and keep it- history correct. And make it be accountable. And then the of Congress and elsewhere, as he emphasized the importance of the Mothership to AfricanSmithsonian was a great place for it to stand for it, and now we just have to get the paperwork American history and culture. to reflect that. Cause’ people are busy trying to change, you know, the copyrights and stuff.

The Accuracy of Donald Glover’s ‘Atlanta’ pedestrian turn violent and most of the second episode takes Atlanta is a city known place in jail. Crime for its southern pace, is a theme “Atlanta” crime rate, and Black is centered around, population. In Donald and Glover confronts Glover’s new FX series the topic within the “Atlanta” he accurately context of the city and humorously depicts authentically and the slow, lumbering humorously. attitude present in the “Atlanta” tackles metropolitan area and issues not only some of the conundrums specific to the Atlanta a resident may be faced community but the with.

Black community as a Glover’s “Atlanta” whole. In an interview follows Earn Marks, a with DailyBeast.com, Princeton dropout and Glover said he wanted aspiring manager, and his to “shoot Atlanta for cousin “Paper Boi” as they Atlanta…The thing struggle and smoke their that I’m most proud way to success. of with this show is As a new resident of that we got away with Atlanta, I was surprised to being honest… We find that many prevalent tried to do that on (Courtesy photo) the show because I Atlanta stereotypes were Donald Glover is the star of FX’s ‘Atlanta.’ easily recognizable. The feel like that’s a part show follows a slow, of being Black that laid-back rhythm that is people don’t see. I’m characteristic of the South. The hustle and bustle found in the trying to make people feel Black.” With Black people making North is missing in the South—the days are lazy and long and up more than 50 percent of Atlanta’s population, Glover felt the city’s residents are perfectly in sync with the relaxed mood that it was important to showcase the real-world challenges around town. “Atlanta” showcases this attitude as we see the associated with being Black in a major city like Atlanta. show’s protagonists trudge around the city frequently pausing Within the first two episodes viewers are exposed to for smoke breaks and commonplace conversation. homophobia, police brutality, and the issue of the neglect Instead of rushing to get to the episode’s climax, Glover shown to mental health within the Black community. Glover enlists the viewer on a leisurely journey with Earn and Paper calls attention to the major issues the Black community is Boi, somehow making the ordinary comical. currently grappling with and does so with an all-Black set of A great deal of FX’s “Atlanta” is centered around drug writers. Although the diversity of the writing staff is notable, and gun violence. Glover couldn’t have accurately portrayed Glover is quick to point out that neither diversity nor a larger Atlanta without showcasing one of the things the city is most importance were his goal. famous for: its crime rate. Forbes magazine recently ranked “I’m not interested in making something important…I Atlanta the sixth most dangerous city in the U.S., and drug don’t want to win an Emmy for most diverse cast,” he said in violence, robbery, and assault are viewed just as symptoms a recent interview. Instead Glover is focused on staying true to of the specific brand of poverty exclusive to the South that the spirit of Atlanta. “It’s a heavy cross to bear.” currently inflicts Atlanta.

Within the first five minutes of the premiere episode, the “Atlanta” airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. on the FX Network. viewer watches a confrontation between Paper Boi and a

By Jannah Johnson Special to the AFRO

Inner Harbor Book Festival to Draw Literary Lovers

By Morgan Reid Special to the AFRO The Baltimore Book Festival is the ultimate celebration of the written word, and what separates this festival, scheduled for Sept. 23 to 25 in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, is its accessibility—the event is free and open to the public.

The very first (Courtesy photo) Baltimore Book Festival Terry McMillan is one of the was developed after many authors who will be at William B. Gilmore The Baltimore Book Festival. made a trip to Edinburgh, Scotland and attended a book festival in that city. For Gilmore, the executive director of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts, the trip overseas provided inspiration to plan a book festival in Baltimore as a way to foster the culture, future, and wellbeing of the city.

This year’s festival will offer thirteen stages, including Romance Writers, Food for Thought, The Literary Salon, and CityLit, among others. The event will be attended by notable authors such as Terry McMillan who recently published “I Almost Forgot About You” and Luvvi Ajayi, who has recently gained attention for a collection of essays, “I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual.” Many authors will be on hand, reading from their latest works and offering a Q&A section for their readers.

“There is still a place in our society for books,” said Kathy Hornig, director of festivals at the Baltimore Office of Promotions and the Arts. The growth of Kindle and eBooks, along with the accessibility of articles on iPhones, iPads, or miniature Macbooks, has caused the written word to evolve and have made works of literature less malleable. Despite the way in which books and words have evolved, The Baltimore Book Festival provides encouragement that stories matter, they have impact on popular culture, and they remain relevant in the ways in which we are connected globally.

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Frazier Looks to Keep Building At Dunbar In D.C. homecoming guest. That was until 2009 when Frazier led them to their first SWAC championship in 45 years with a 30-24 win Henry Frazier was once a great program over Alabama A&M. builder in college football. He laid the “That’s what attracted me to the job,” championship foundation for two programs Frazier said. “There was no place to go but that were doormats in their respective HBCU up”. conferences at the Division I and Division II Frazier left Prairie View A&M for North levels. That Midas touch is being put to the test Carolina Central and then his career hit a to help restore the success to one of the storied pothole. After an unsubstantiated domestic programs in Washington, D.C. high school violence charge he was fired and has been off athletics. the sidelines since 2013.

“I’ve always wanted to be one of those people Dunbar has been gentrified like the to affect change,” Frazier, the new athletic northwest D.C. community where it stands. director at Dunbar (D.C.) High, told the AFRO. The new $120 million campus is state of “As a coach my goal was always to educate the art and every room in the building has a and make a difference in the lives of student view of the football stadium. Their locker athletes.” and weight rooms are in better condition Frazier is one of Black college football’s than either of the school’s where he made his program changers. In 1989, he went to Bowie name as a college coach.

(Photo by Mark F. Gray) State and led the transformation of that program “Dunbar has resources and facilities that Henry Frazier is the new athletic director at Paul Laurence Dunbar Senior High School in are second to none,” Frazier said. “I’m in going 18-3-1 as a starting quarterback taking Washington, D.C. them to the 1989 NCAA Division II Playoffs. awe every day that I walk into this building”.

Ten years later, Frazier resurrected a program Frazier no longer patrols the sidelines that didn’t have a winning season since he instead he monitors the cafeteria while graduated. Within two years – Frazier the coach - led Bowie State to the CIAA east division title developing an athletic program that has the same type of infrastructure of an intercollegiate and their first appearance in the conference championship game. program. His three-person staff focuses strictly on athletics without having to teach a full “I came back to Bowie State because it was my college coach who sold me on the vision of schedule. making history,” said Frazier.

“It about giving our student athletes a robust high school experience,” said Dunbar Principal Frazier left Bowie State and undertook the greatest challenge in college football history.

Abdullah Zaki. “From study hall, to strength and conditioning, to helping our coaches develop Prairie View A&M in Texas had one of the best traditions in HBCU football but was mired in their skills our synergy has been solid.” historic futility. The legacy of hall of fame defensive back Ken Houston and Otis Taylor high Though still fielding calls from colleges around the country, the lure of getting back in stepping into the end zone to clinch Super Bowl III were distant memories. college coaching is not what is once was for Frazier. As an educator, historian and one who spent Prairie View had the stigma of an 80 game losing streak during a 10 year stretch between time with his grandmother in that neighborhood growing up this could be the final stop on his 1989 – 1999. There were no athletic performance facilities, full time coaches had to teach professional journey. classes, and most teams in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) designated them as “I feel like this is where I’m supposed to be.”

By Mark F. Gray Special to the AFRO

Week 3

The Prince George’s County High School Football Wrap-Up

By Jordan Hawkins Special to the AFRO Welcome to the Prince George’s County High School Football Weekly Wrap-Up. This time we have week 3 of PG County 4A Football.

On Sept. 17 in a non-league matchup, the visiting Wise Pumas scored a decisive victory against the Potomac Wolverines. Winning 51-13 the Pumas, improve to a 3-0 record becoming the top team in the Prince George’s County 4A region. For their next game on Sept. 23 the Pumas will take on the Northwestern Wildcats. The Pumas will have the home field

advantage. As Wise will try to hold on to its undefeated record, the Wildcats come looking for a win after their in-league, loss to the Eleanor Roosevelt Raiders.

Speaking of the Raiders/Wildcats matchup, the Raiders improved to a record of 2-1 after trouncing the Wildcats 33-0 last on Sept. 17. Offensive Powerhouses Jaden Faulkner(QB), Raymond Boone(WR) and Karl Mofor(RB) helped secure the win with a combined total of 412 yards. This coming Sept. 23 in a PG County 4A bout, the Raiders host the Flowers Jaguars.

Both teams enter the matchup with a 2-1 record after losing to the Bladensburg Mustangs.

The Flowers Jaguars football team was narrowly defeated

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Jabari Laws, quarterback for the Wise Pumas, is the leading passer with 595 yards and a 3-0 record.

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Both teams hold a 1-2 record.

This week’s offensive player of the week goes to Jabari Laws, Senior quarterback for the Wise Pumas. Leading the Pumas to a 3-0 record, Laws stats show his worth. Laws is currently the leading passer with 595 yards, while also boasting an impressive 218 yards in rushing. This is in addition to having 32 points across five touchdowns, likely proving Jabari Laws is the top QB in the Prince George’s County 4A region right now. As far as the defense goes the player of week title falls to Kelly Johnson, senior strong safety also of the Wise Pumas.

With an imposing 24 tackles and three sacks, once again Johnson demonstrates that Wise is the team to beat.

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This looks to be the most evenly matched game of the week as both teams have soundly won and lost games over the past few weeks. The Jaguars defense is going to have to find a way to slow down the Raiders’ Karl Mofor, who is still currently the top running back in the region or they are going to have a tough time.

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Baltimore City Charter Article I. General Provisions § 13. CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND. (A) FUND ESTABLISHED; SCOPE. (1) THERE IS A CONTINUING, NONLAPSING BALTIMORE CITY CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND, TO BE USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR PURPOSES OF ESTABLISHING NEW AND AUGMENTING EXISTING PROGRAMS FOR AND SERVICES TO THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH OF THIS CITY. (2) THESE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES MUST BE FROM AMONG THOSE DESIGNED TO: (I) ENSURE THAT BALTIMORE’S CHILDREN AND YOUTH ARE HEALTHY, ARE READY TO LEARN AND SUCCEED IN SCHOOL, AND LIVE IN STABLE, SAFE, AND SUPPORTIVE FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES; (II) ENSURE THAT BALTIMORE CITY SUPPORTS FAMILIES AS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE CITY POPULATION AND CIVIC CULTURE; (III) FOCUS ON THE PREVENTION OF PROBLEMS AND ON SUPPORTING AND ENHANCING THE STRENGTHS OF CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND THEIR FAMILIES; (IV) COMPLEMENT THE CITY’S COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS; (V) STRENGTHEN COMMUNITY-BASED NETWORKS OF RECREATION AND AFTER-SCHOOL SERVICES IN ALL NEIGHBORHOODS; AND

§ 78. Department of Planning: subdivision regulation – recording.

Every plat showing a subdivision plan shall be filed among the Land Records of Baltimore City and with the Department of Legislative Reference, but not until after the plan has been endorsed with the approval of the Commission and of the Department of [General Services] TRANSPORTATION.

FOR AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT CHARTER AMENDMENT QUESTION G Charter Amendment Board of Estimates – Local, Small and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program FOR the purpose of authorizing the waiver or modification of certain procedures in order to assist local, small, or disadvantaged businesses; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection.

BY restating, without amendment Article VI - Board of Estimates Section(s) 11(a) Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition) BY proposing to add Article VI - Board of Estimates Section(s) 11(i) Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition) SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows: Baltimore City Charter

(VI) ENSURE THAT CHILDREN AND YOUTH WITH THE HIGHEST NEEDS RECEIVE MAXIMUM BENEFIT FROM THE FUND. (3) THE FUND SHALL BE ADMINISTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING STANDARDS: (I) PROGRAMS AND SERVICES SHALL BE PROVIDED AND FUNDS ALLOCATED BASED ON BEST PRACTICES AND SUCCESSFUL AND INNOVATIVE MODELS; (II) TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT FEASIBLE, FUNDS SHALL BE ALLOCATED EQUITABLY AMONG SERVICES FOR ALL AGE GROUPS – FROM INFANCY TO TRANSITIONAL-AGED YOUTH; (III) PROGRAMS AND SERVICES SHALL BE GENDER-RESPONSIVE AND CULTURALLY COMPETENT; AND (IV) PROGRAMS AND SERVICES SHALL BE DESIGNED TO STRENGTHEN COLLABORATION AMONG SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND THEIR FAMILIES, INCLUDING COLLABORATION AMONG PUBLIC AGENCIES AND NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. (B) LIMITATIONS ON USE. THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND MAY NOT BE USED TO SUBSTITUTE FOR OR REPLACE FUNDING FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH PROGRAMS OR SERVICES PROVIDED IN THE ORDINANCE OF ESTIMATES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT FEDERAL, STATE, OR PRIVATE AGENCY FUNDS FOR THOSE PROGRAMS OR SERVICES HAVE SINCE BEEN DISCONTINUED. (C) REVENUE SOURCES. THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND SHALL COMPRISE: (1) A MANDATORY ANNUAL APPROPRIATION IN THE ORDINANCE OF ESTIMATES OF AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO AT LEAST $0.03 ON EVERY $100 OF ASSESSED OR ASSESSABLE VALUE OF ALL PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF BALTIMORE (EXCEPT PROPERTY EXEMPT BY LAW FROM REAL PROPERTY TAXES); AND (2) GRANTS AND DONATIONS MADE TO THE FUND. (D) CONTINUING NATURE OF FUND. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS CHARTER, UNSPENT PORTIONS OF THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND: (1) REMAIN IN THE FUND, TO BE USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR ITS SPECIFIED PURPOSES; (2) DO NOT REVERT TO THE GENERAL REVENUES OF THE CITY; AND (3) THEIR APPROPRIATIONS DO NOT LAPSE. (E) IMPLEMENTATION.

BY ORDINANCE, THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL SHALL PROVIDE FOR THE OVERSIGHT, GOVERNANCE, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND, INCLUDING: (1) METHODS AND CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFYING SPECIFIC PROGRAM AND SERVICES ELIGIBLE FOR FUNDING BY THE FUND;

Article VI. Board of Estimates § 11. Procurement. (a) Board of Estimates responsible.

The Board of Estimates shall be responsible for awarding contracts and supervising all purchasing by the City as provided in this section and elsewhere in the Charter.

(I) LOCAL, SMALL, AND DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PROGRAMS. THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MAY, BY ORDINANCE, ESTABLISH PROGRAMS THAT GRANT PURCHASING PREFERENCES TO LOCAL, SMALL, OR DISADVANTAGED BUSINESSES AND, FOR THAT PURPOSE, WAIVE OR MODIFY THE APPLICATION OF THIS SECTION (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SUBSECTION (A)) TO CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS.

FOR AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT CHARTER AMENDMENT QUESTION H Charter Amendment – Inner Harbor Park FOR the purpose of amending the provision for Inner Harbor Park to provide for outdoor eating places in the areas known as West Shore Park and Rash Field; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection.

BY proposing to amend Article I - General Provisions Section(s) 9 Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition) SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows: Baltimore City Charter Article I. General Provisions § 9. Inner Harbor Park.

There is hereby dedicated to public park uses for the benefit of this and future generations of the City of Baltimore and the State of Maryland the portion of the City that lies along the north, west and south shores of the Inner Harbor, south of Pratt Street to the water’s edge, east of Light Street to the water’s edge and north of Key Highway to the water’s edge, from the World Trade Center around the shoreline of the Inner Harbor to and including Rash Field, except that, in order to provide eating places and other commercial uses, areas totalling not more than 3.2 acres plus access thereto, within the dedicated space and north of an easterly extension of the south side of Conway Street shall be set aside for such purposes; AND EXCEPT THAT IN ORDER TO PROVIDE OUTDOOR EATING PLACES FOR THE AREAS KNOWN AS WEST SHORE PARK AND RASH FIELD, AREAS TOTALLING NOT MORE THAN 0.5 ACRES WITHIN THE DEDICATED SPACE AND SOUTH OF AN EASTERLY EXTENSION OF THE SOUTH SIDE OF CONWAY STREET SHALL BE SET ASIDE FOR SUCH PURPOSES; and except that an area of not more than 3.4 acres shall be set aside for use by the Maryland Science Center, plus access thereto.

FOR AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT CHARTER AMENDMENT QUESTION I Charter Amendment – Biennial Agency Audits

CHARTER AMENDMENT

SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows:

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FOR the purpose of transferring and amending the section certain provisions on agency audits; to require requiring that the City Auditor conduct performance audits of principal agencies at least twice during every 4-year term of the Mayor and City Council; adding to the list of principal agencies subject to these audits; establishing a staggered schedule for these audits; redefining certain terms; providing for public posting of audit reports; establishing a Biennial Audits Oversight Commission and providing for its powers and duties; conforming related references; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection.

(B) BIENNIAL AUDIT REQUIRED. (1) IN GENERAL. AT LEAST TWICE DURING EVERY 4-YEAR TERM OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL, THE CITY AUDITOR SHALL CONDUCT AN AUDIT OF EACH PRINCIPAL AGENCY’S OPERATIONS FOR THE PRECEDING 2 FISCAL YEARS.

BY proposing to amend Article V - Comptroller Section 8(a) Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition)

(2) STAGGERED SCHEDULE. THESE AUDITS SHALL BE STAGGERED SO THAT:

BY proposing to add Article V - Comptroller Section 11 Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition)

(I) AUDITS OF THE PRINCIPAL AGENCIES LISTED IN SUBSECTION (A)(3) (I) AS “GROUP A” ARE INITIATED IN ODD-NUMBERED CALENDAR YEARS; AND (II) AUDITS OF THE PRINCIPAL AGENCIES LISTED IN SUBSECTION (A)(3)(II) AS “GROUP B” ARE INITIATED IN EVEN-NUMBERED CALENDAR YEARS.

BY proposing to amend repeal Article VII - Executive Departments Section 4.5 Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition)

(C) COSTS OF AUDIT. IN EACH FISCAL YEAR PRECEDING THE FISCAL YEAR IN WHICH AUDITS ARE TO BE CONDUCTED UNDER THIS SECTION, THE COMPTROLLER SHALL INCLUDE THE COSTS OF THOSE AUDITS IN THE ESTIMATES THAT THE COMPTROLLER SUBMITS FOR THE NEXT YEAR’S ORDINANCE OF ESTIMATES.

SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows: Baltimore City Charter

(D) STATUS OF PRIOR RECOMMENDATIONS.

Article V. Comptroller

(1) IN GENERAL.

§ 8. Department of Audits – general powers and duties.

In accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards and State and federal law, the City Auditor: (1) shall at appropriate intervals conduct an audit of the financial transactions of every municipal agency, except the Department of Audits; (2) shall conduct an annual audit of all accounts, revenues, and receipts of the City;

(2) CONTENT OF REPORT.

THE ANCILLARY REPORT SHALL:

(3) SHALL CONDUCT BIENNIAL AUDITS OF PRINCIPAL AGENCIES, AS PROVIDED IN § 11 OF THIS ARTICLE;

(I) DESIGNATE EACH RECOMMENDATION’S STATUS EITHER AS “ IMPLEMENTED”, “PARTIALLY IMPLEMENTED”, OR “NOT IMPLEMENTED”; AND

(4) [(3)] may audit the expenditure of City granted funds by any public or private agency that receives such funds;

(II) PROVIDE JUSTIFICATION FOR THE STATUS DESIGNATION ASSIGNED.

(5) [(4)] may audit City contracts, grants, subgrants and other agreements as required by the terms and conditions of these instruments and, when the contracts, grants, subgrants and other agreements require that audits be conducted by other auditors, review such audits; and (6) [(5)] shall make such other audits as the Comptroller or the Board of Estimates may request[;], provided[,] that[, such] THOSE requested audits [shall] DO not, in the judgment of the City Auditor, unduly hinder the performance of regular audits. § 11. DEPARTMENT OF AUDITS – BIENNIAL AUDITS OF PRINCIPAL AGENCIES. (A) DEFINITIONS. (1) IN GENERAL. IN THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS HAVE THE MEANINGS INDICATED. (2) AUDIT. (I) “AUDIT” MEANS AN AUDIT UNDERTAKEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERALLY ACCEPTED GOVERNMENT AUDITING STANDARDS AND FEDERAL AND STATE LAW. (II) “AUDIT” INCLUDES BOTH: (A) A FINANCIAL AUDIT OF A PRINCIPAL AGENCY’S FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS, INCLUDING ALL REVENUES AND RECEIPTS; AND (B) A PERFORMANCE AUDIT THAT ASSESSES A PRINCIPAL AGENCY’S PRACTICES TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE AGENCY IS OPERATING ECONOMICALLY AND EFFICIENTLY AND WHETHER CORRECTIVE ACTIONS FOR IMPROVING ITS PERFORMANCE ARE APPROPRIATE. (3) PRINCIPAL AGENCY. “PRINCIPAL AGENCY” MEANS ANY OF THE FOLLOWING EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS: (I) GROUP A –

1. DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. 2. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. 3. FIRE DEPARTMENT. 4. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. 5. DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES. 6. BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. 7. MAYOR’S OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (OR SUCCESSOR ENTITY TO THIS OFFICE).

8. MAYOR’S OFFICE OF HUMAN SERVICES (OR SUCCESSOR ENTITY TO THIS OFFICE).

(II) GROUP B – 1. DEPARTMENT OF LAW. 2. DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES. 3. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. 4. POLICE DEPARTMENT. 5. DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS. 6. DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING. 7. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.

(E) PUBLICATION OF REPORTS. REPORTS OF ALL AUDITS CONDUCTED UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL BE: (1) POSTED ON A PUBLIC WEBSITE MAINTAINED BY THE CITY COMPTROLLER; (2) FILED WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE; AND (3) SUBMITTED TO EACH MEMBER OF: (I) THE BOARD OF ESTIMATES; (II) THE CITY COUNCIL; AND (III) THE BIENNIAL AUDITS OVERSIGHT COMMISSION. (F) BIENNIAL AUDITS OVERSIGHT COMMISSION. (1) COMMISSION ESTABLISHED. THERE IS A BIENNIAL AUDITS OVERSIGHT COMMISSION. (2) COMPOSITION. THE COMMISSION COMPRISES THE FOLLOWING 7 MEMBERS: (I) THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE; (II) THE INSPECTOR GENERAL; (III) THE COMPTROLLER; (IV) THE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT; AND (V) 3 MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, APPOINTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT. (3) OFFICERS. (I) THE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT SHALL DESIGNATE 1 OF THE MEMBERS TO SERVE AS CHAIR OF THE COMMISSION. (II) THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION, BY MAJORITY VOTE, MAY ELECT ANY OTHER OFFICERS THAT THEY CONSIDER NECESSARY OR APPROPRIATE. (4) MEETINGS; VOTING. (I) THE COMMISSION SHALL MEET AT THE CALL OF THE CHAIR AS FREQUENTLY AS REQUIRED TO PERFORM ITS DUTIES. (II) 4 MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION CONSTITUTE A QUORUM FOR THE TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS. (III) AN AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF AT LEAST 4 MEMBERS IS NEEDED FOR ANY OFFICIAL ACTION. (5) PROCEDURES. THE COMMISSION MAY ADOPT RULES OF PROCEDURE TO GOVERN ITS MEETINGS AND OPERATIONS. (6) POWERS AND DUTIES. THE COMMISSION: (I) SHALL PROVIDE GUIDANCE AND ADVICE TO THE CITY AUDITOR IN DETERMINING THE SCOPE OF A PRINCIPAL AGENCY’S PERFORMANCE AUDIT; (II) SHALL HOLD AT LEAST 2 PUBLICLY ADVERTISED MEETINGS A YEAR, AT WHICH MEETINGS THE CITY AUDITOR SHALL APPEAR AND REPORT ON THE STATUS OF THE AUDITS AND RECOMMENDATIONS UNDER THIS SECTION; AND (III) FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN BY A PRINCIPAL AGENCY, MAY WAIVE THE REQUIREMENT FOR A FINANCIAL AUDIT TO BE CONDUCTED UNDER THIS SECTION.

CHARTER AMENDMENT

EACH REPORT OF AN AGENCY AUDIT CONDUCTED UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL INCLUDE AN ANCILLARY REPORT ON THE STATUS OF ALL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EXECUTIVE ACTION THAT RESULTED FROM THAT AGENCY’S IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING AUDIT UNDER THIS SECTION.

(a) In general.

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AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND

(a) Definitions.

Thy City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows:

In this section, the following terms have the meanings indicated.

(2) Audit. [(i)] “Audit” means [an] A PERFORMANCE audit [undertaken] THAT, in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards and federal and state law[.], [(ii) “Audit” includes both: (A) a financial audit of an agency’s financial transactions, including all accounts, revenues, and receipts; and (B) a performance audit that] assesses an agency’s practices to determine whether the agency is operating economically and efficiently and whether corrective actions for improving its performance are appropriate.

(3) Principal agency.

“Principal agency” means any of the following executive departments: (I) GROUP A – 1. [(i)] Department of Finance.

2. [(iii)] Department of Public Works.

3. [(iv)] Fire Department.

4. [(vi)] Department of Housing and Community Development.

5. [(x)] Department of General Services.

6. [(vii)] Baltimore Development Corporation.

7. [(xiii)] Mayor’s Office of Information Technology.

BY proposing to add

Article I-General Provisions

Section 14

Baltimore City Charter Thy City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows: Baltimore City Charter Article I. General Provisions Section 14. Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

(A) Fund established: scope.

There is a continuing, nonlapsing fund to be used to promote fair housing in neighborhoods throughout Baltimore, develop and preserve affordable housing for renters and homeowners, and increase affordable housing opportunities for low-income working families and other, including: 1. providing assistance, by loan, grant, rental subsidy, or otherwise, for the planning, production, maintenance, or expansion of affordable housing, including inclusionary housing; 2. providing predevelopment activities for the acquisition, development, new construction, rehabilitation, and or restoration of affordable housing; 3. providing capital and operating assistance for the creation of community land trusts that will develop , own or operate permanently affordable rental housing and assist low income residents to build a path to homeownership; 4. providing affordable and fair housing –related services to low income households to assist them in obtaining housing and remaining stably housed, provided such uses shall not exceed 30% of the funds allocated in a given fiscal year; and 5. providing administrative and planning cost for the operation of the Trust Fund provided such uses may not exceed 5% of the funds allocated each fiscal year.

(B) Revenue sources: A fund established under this section may comprise: 1) money appropriated to the fund in the annual Ordinance of Estimates;

8. MAYOR’S OFFICE OF HUMAN SERVICES.

2) grants or donations made to the fund;

(II) GROUP B –

3) mandatory or voluntary payments made pursuant to development policies established by ordinance;

1. [(ii)] Department of Law. 2. [(xii)] Department of Human Resources.

3. [(ix)] Department of Transportation.

4) a portion of the tax increment financing revenue from increased property tax receipts for the development of affordable housing inside the project area and special taxing district, or in other locations as permitted by law; and

4. [(v)] Police Department.

5) other sources as established by ordinance.

5. [(viii)] Department of Recreation and Parks.

(C ) Continuing nature of fund.

6. [(xi)] Department of Planning.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Charter, unspent portions of a fund established under the section, repayments of principal and interest on loans provided from the Fund, and interest earned from the deposit or investment of monies from the Fund:

7. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. 8. MAYOR’S OFFICE OF EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT. (b) [Quadrennial] BIENNIAL audit required.

(1) IN GENERAL. At least [once] TWICE during every 4-year term of the Mayor and City Council, [each principal agency] THE CITY AUDITOR shall [arrange for] CONDUCT an audit of [its] EACH PRINCIPAL AGENCY’S operations for the preceding [4] 2 fiscal years.

(2) STAGGERED SCHEDULE.

(1) shall remain in the fund, to be used exclusively for the purposes set forth in section 14(A) of the article; (2) do not revert to the general revenues of the City; and (3) any appropriations do not lapse.

(D) The Trust Fund shall be administered by Baltimore City Housing and Community Development and overseen by a Commission, the members of which shall be appointed, must be confirmed, and shall serve pursuant to Article IV. Section 6.

(1) Members The Commission shall include:

THESE AUDITS SHALL BE STAGGERED SO THAT: (I) AUDITS OF THE PRINCIPAL AGENCIES LISTED IN SUBSECTION (A) (3)(I) AS “GROUP A” ARE INITIATED IN EVEN-NUMBERED CALENDAR YEARS; AND (II) AUDITS OF THE PRINCIPAL AGENCIES LISTED IN SUBSECTION (A) (3)(II) AS “GROUP B” ARE INITIATED IN ODD-NUMBERED CALENDAR YEARS. [(c) By whom to be conducted.]

[The audit shall be conducted by: (1) the City Auditor; or (2) an independent certified public accountant or firm of certified public accountants.]

(C) [(d)] Costs of audit.

In each fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which an audit is to be conducted under this section, the [principal agency] BOARD OF ESTIMATES shall include the costs of [the] EACH audit TO BE CONDUCTED in the [estimates that it submits for the] next year’s Ordinance of Estimates.

(D) {RESERVED}

i.

a member appointed by the Mayor with experience in the fields of housing, community development, planning, social service, or public health; ii. a member of the lending community with experience in community development and affordable housing finance; iii. the Baltimore City Housing Commissioner or his/her designee; iv. a resident who rents his/her home and who lives in a household that is extremely low income (i.e. no more than 30% of Area Median Income); v. a resident who owns his/her home and who lives in a household that is very low income (i.e. no more than 50% of Area Median Income); vi. a homeowner who received assistance through an affordable homeownership program; vii. a resident who has received rental assistance; viii. a social service provider; ix. a representative affordable housing developer; x. a low-income housing and or fair housing advocate; xi. a nonprofit affordable housing developer; xii. a representative of a homebuilders of realtors association of Baltimore; and xiii. such different or additional members as may be designated by ordinance.

(2) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, the composition of the Commission shall be comprised of at least four residents of Baltimore City whose Incomes are reflective of those individuals who will be assisted by the expenditures of the Trust Fund.

(3) President The Mayor of Baltimore shall designate one member of the Board as its President and may withdraw that designation and so designate another member.

(e) Reports.

Reports of ALL audits conducted under this [subtitle] SECTION shall be: (1) POSTED ON A PUBLIC WEBSITE MAINTAINED BY THE CITY COMPTROLLER; AND (2) submitted to: (I) THE BOARD OF ESTIMATES; AND [(1) the Mayor;] [(2) the City Comptroller; and] [(3) the President of the City Council.]

(II) EACH MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL. SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That City Charter Article VII, § 4.5 is proposed to be repealed, in its entirety.

SECTION 2 3. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the first group of audits under this amendment shall be initiated in January 2017.

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(4) Duties The Commission shall: (i) make recommendations, advise, and consult with the Department of Housing and Community Development regarding the establishment of essential policies, rules, and regulations, relating to the implementation , expenditures , and ongoing operation of the Trust Fund: (ii) Submit an annual report to the Mayor and City Council on the activities and usage of the funds in the Trust Fund including tenure (rental and home ownership), income level served, unit size (number of bedrooms), and make the report available to the public; (iii) if necessary, recommend change to the Trust Fund to maximize affordability outcomes of the Trust Fund to the Mayor and City Council; (iv) ensure an audit of the fund every four years by a certified public accounting firm; (v) exercise any additional duty related to the Trust Fund as directed by the Mayor and City Council.

(E ) Income Targeting: All assistance provided by the Trust Fund shall serve very low income households, at least half of the assistance in any three year period must serve extremely low income households.

(F) Minimum Affordability periods: All rental housing assisted by the Trust Fund must have a minimum affordability period of at least 30 years. All homeownership housing assisted by the Trust Fund must meet affordability criteria based in part on the amount of Trust Fund monies invested in the unit.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor Jennell A. Rogers, Chief Bureau of Treasury Management Alternate Custodian of the City Seal

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Judge Wilkins’ Book Offers Insight into Black Museum Creation

Howard University Hospital Nets $4 Million Surplus

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Judge Robert Wilkins wrote a book on the creation of the new Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture.

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com In the shadows of the innumerable stories soon to bear fruit within the National Museum of African American History and Culture, sits, perhaps, its most endearing story of all – the tale of its own gestation. Judge Robert L. Wilkins’ “Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture,” is an examination of the people, the movement, and the tenacity that fashioned the new museum.

The book chronicles the early history, when staunch advocates sought to create a monument for Black soldiers fifty years after the end of the Civil War and in response to the pervasive indignities of the time. In September of 2016, exactly 100 years after the movement to create it, the Smithsonian will open the new museum. Likening the push for recognition to Carter G. Woodson’s organization of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), Wilkins said the demand for acknowledgment was tantamount to demanding respect. The museum is scheduled to open to the

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Howard University Hospital is the only teaching hospital located on the campus of a Black university. be grateful to the people of the District of Columbia and to our employee groups for helping us preserve top-quality care to the community we serve.”

Highlights from the hospital’s performance on June 30, Howard University Hospital is in the black with a $4 million the end of the 2016 fiscal year, include revenue growth from patient services increased from $17 million to $233 million, surplus after years of struggling to operate and be profitable. an increase of 8 percent; operating expenses were $238 On Sept. 20 at the Founders Library, Howard University million, down 8 percent; and President Dr. Wayne A.I. the hospital’s market share Frederick announced that stabilized to 7.2 percent. The the hospital is going through hospital’s previous profitable a significant financial and year was 2012. In May the operating rebound. The hospital hospital announced it was is operating with a solid bottom – Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick laying-off 110 people, or about line as a result of the work 10 percent of its workforce. of the university officials, Howard Hospital has a rich the hospital’s managing firm history. It was started in 1862 as a facility for Blacks and then Paladin Healthcare, and the staff and management at the formally became the teaching hospital for the newly-minted facility, he said.

Howard University Medical School, established in 1868.

“Over the past two years, Howard University and The facility, known as Freedmen’s Hospital, trained Paladin Healthcare have embarked on a large-scale strategic hundreds of Black doctors in the late 19th and early 20th restructuring plan for the hospital,” Frederick said. “Howard University is emerging as a stronger institution. We will always Continued on D2

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“Howard University is emerging as a stronger institution.”

Role of Grandfamilies Cements Black Togetherness

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com Ingrid Holloway still remembers fondly arriving in D.C. in the 1960s after days of traveling on the Greyhound Bus from Shelby, Miss., the home of her grandparents. Barely fifteen, Holloway left behind an infant son – the product of a sexual assault – and many of the bad memories associated with poverty, Jim Crow, and sexism. And while the migration to the District and into the home shared by her older sisters, Arnell and Bertha, dripped of uncertainty, Holloway was certain both she and her son’s care rested in capable, loving hands. A factor Holloway, now helping to rear other family members, said is the legacy of grandfamilies and non-traditional caring within the Black community.

Like millions of Black families that migrated from the South to urban cities in both the West and North, the Holloways often took in relatives – distant and close – to ensure that no one was forced to rely on church charities, social programs, or federal assistance. “A helping hand is usually all a person needs to get through life’s difficulties. When they have the compassion of other family members, strangers and the government need Continued on D3

Mendelson Re-Shuffles Council for White’s Entrance

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

Vincent Orange’s Aug. 15 resignation from the D.C. Council has resulted in several changes – the selection of Robert White to finish his term and a change Continued on D2 in the Council’s committee structure. Orange was defeated in the June 14 Democratic Party ZIP at-large primary by Robert White, an Box 11th & G St., NW activist who lives in the Brightwood Box 11th & H St., NW section of Ward 4.

Orange Box resigned to become 14th & I St., NW president of the Box D.C. Chamber of 14th & K St., NW Commerce. To Box - McPherson Sq. Metro fill his position, 14th & Zei Alley, NW White was selected Box - McDonalds

on Sept. 15 to finish out the remainder of Orange’s term by a vote of the D.C. Democratic State Committee.

White was elated at his selection. “I look forward to bringing immediate and transparent representation to the council for the final months of the 2016 Council period,” he said.

White was sworn into office on Sept. 16 and has

the committees that Orange belonged to.

He won’t, however, assume Orange’s former committee chairmanship.

On Sept. 19, Mendelson announced that the Committee on Business, Consumer and Regulatory Affairs that Orange chaired will be folded into the Committee of the Whole, which he chairs, and will be given new parameters

“I have decided to move the work of the committee to four new subcommittees.”

– Phil Mendelson already selected Mtokufa Ngwenya, a District political activist, as his chief of staff.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) said that White will serve on

until the end of the remainder of the calendar year.

“I have decided to move the work of the committee to four new subcommittees,” Mendelson said. “[D.C.]

Council member Charles Allen will chair the subcommittee dealing with business development and utilities, Council member [Elissa] Silverman will chair the workforce subcommittee, Brianne Nadeau will chair the consumer affairs subcommittee and Brandon Todd will oversee boards and commissions.”

Mendelson said that this is the first time the subcommittee structure has been used since the early 2000s. He said that the use of subcommittees changes the legislative process of a bill going through the council.

As a result of the change, a bill dealing with the issues that the subcommittees handle will go to them and if legislation passes at the subcommittee level, it would go to the Committee of the Whole. No other

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Allen, a Democrat who represents Ward 6, embraces the chairman’s reorganization. “While there are only a few months left Continued on D3

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SE Community Party Leaves 2 Dead

By Briana Thomas Special to the AFRO An annual Southeast, D.C. neighborhood event filled with dancing, children activities, music and food was disrupted Sept. 17 after gunshots were fired and left two people dead and several others injured.

The chaos began around 8:20 p.m. when multiple gunshots occurred on the 2600 block of Birney Place SE and brought the community party, known as Dorsey Day, to an alarming end.

The event is typically thrown hosted every year to honor a resident who provided support to the neighborhood.

According to police reports, officials found two men who had been injured by gunfire. D.C. Fire and EMS personnel also responded to the incident. The two victims Scorpio-Rodney Alonzo Phillips, 31, and Zoruan Otto Harris, 18, were pronounced dead at the scene.

According to news reports, Harris had recently graduated from National Collegiate Preparatory and was supposed to begin college in January. Since his death, two GoFundMe pages were set up to raise money for Harris’ 1-year-old son.

Metropolitan Police Department Interim Police Chief Peter Newsham said the shooting may have been the result of a dispute.

At least six other attendees were injured including a young boy and two women. These victims were taken to area hospitals by D.C. Fire and EMS. Members of the community like, Ben Forman, program consultant at Teens Run DC, a Southeast based running group that has a mentoring initiative to teach life skills to the youth, told the AFRO Sept. 19 that shootings in Southeast, D.C. are common and happen all the time just within blocks of the organization’s offices.

“People skills that are good for running are good for life,” Forman said who founded the Continued on D3

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general public on Sept. 24.

“I was struck by the context of how this began and really by how wise and prescient and bold these people were to have this idea in 1916,” Wilkins told the AFRO. “This is a time when Black people were being lynched regularly and it is being celebrated with The Birth of a Nation and there are lots of people who don’t even want Blacks to be in the military… These people were saying ‘we want this country to honor the contributions that Black soldiers and sailors have made because they have fought and served valiantly.”

Wilkins is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Wilkins said that the movement to establish a monument to Black soldiers evolved into creating a national museum – an effort that required several planning stages, a Presidential Commission and eventually incorporated bipartisan support.

“It was a nationwide movement with participants from every state who helped push to get the museum that we now see.”

–Judge Robert Wilkins

“[Advocates] were driving a stake in the ground, in the midst of all of the disrespect, subjugation, violence and Jim Crow, and it was a brave – in today’s terms – ‘boss’ move. It was a nationwide movement with participants from every state who helped push to get the museum that we now see,” Wilkins told the AFRO. “A lot of researchers believed the museum movement began in the

1960s, but old microfiche editions of the AFRO document 1920s meetings. It was important that as the museum opens and tells lots of important stories, that the story of the process of how it came to be was also told.”

The book’s title is inspired in part by James Baldwin, who, along with Malcolm X’s widow, Betty Shabazz, testified in Congress in 1968 on the importance of establishing a museum.

“What Baldwin was trying to get the Congress to confront was that if they [opened a larger discussion of Black history] it would not be easy and they did not need to delude themselves that it would be a happy venture. There would be pain involved,” Wilkins said. “Something good can come out of that pain. In order to heal it, you’ve got to lance it. It is always relevant to look at it this way.”

The book is currently available on amazon.com.

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century. For years, it was the premier training ground for Black doctors who came from all over the world to study. Freedmen’s was formally transferred over to Howard University in 1967.

Howard Hospital is the only teaching hospital on the campus of a Black university.

Despite its success and longevity, the hospital has struggled in recent decades due to the rising costs of operation, its mission of treating low-income patients who may not be able to pay for services, and competition for staff and doctors from other health institutions.

Michael Masch, Howard University’s chief financial officer, said the hospital lost $58 million during the 2014 fiscal year, just before Frederick over as president in July 2014. “We immediately began to focus on turning the hospital around,” Masch said. “We began to reduce expenses in line with revenues but did not compromise on the quality of care. We also began, like other hospitals, to discourage in-patient admissions and stress out-patient services and we right-sized the hospital [in terms of staff].”

Masch said that for the fiscal year 2015,

the hospital posted a $19 million loss and said that it should be $4 million in the black, an unaudited view.

Frederick said the hospital will continue to expand its outreach to residents east of the Anacostia River, even though it is located in the western part of the city. “We increasingly see residents from Ward 7 and 8 come to our hospital,” the president said. “East of the River residents have a significant need for specialty care and we will have more of a presence of our ambulatory service.”

However, Frederick makes it clear that the

hospital’s goal isn’t to supplant the United Medical Center. “We are not there to compete with UMC but to enhance the services to the community,” he said.

Although the hospital has some of the country’s top surgeons such as Dr. Clive Callender and Dr. LeSalle D. Leffall, there is a perception by some District residents that it is an unclean facility with rude staff, Frederick said. “We want the patients to see the best we have to offer. Paladin has made it a priority for patient satisfaction and we are improving our delivery of care, “ he said.

residents of New York’s 13th district since 1971. Rangel received the Founder’s Phoenix award.

“I’m very pleased to see our wisdom become what it has today,” Rangle said. “The torch has passed and there is a lot more work to be done.”

Robert Smith, founder and CEO, Vista Equity Partners and the nine Black people who died at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. in June of 2015 received the CBCF Chair’s award. Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) received The Barbara Jordan

Phoenix award, named after a leader of the Civil Rights Movement and the first Black women to be elected to the U.S. Congress from the south. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton received The Trailblazer Phoenix award.

As part of her acceptance speech, Clinton acknowledged the progress Obama made during his two terms in office, highlighting the fact that attendees and communities throughout the nation had to stand up to keep that progress going. “I have made the point over and over again; President Obama

has saved our country from a second Great Depression, he brought Osama bin Laden (former leader of the al Qaeda terrorist group) to justice and so much more. I for one don’t think he gets the credit he deserves for doing what he’s done on behalf of the greatest country in the world,” she said. “In the country we have a moral obligation to … give every family a chance to rise up and be their dreams. That is what’s at stake in this election.”

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Continued from A1 Obama told a ballroom full of supporters. “If you care about our legacy, realize everything we stand for is at stake… My name may not be on the ballot, but our progress is on the ballot. Tolerance is on the ballot. Democracy is on the ballot. Justice is on the ballot. Good schools are on the ballot. Ending mass incarceration -- that’s on the ballot right now!”

The awards dinner also honored Rep. Charles Rangle (D-N.Y.). As one of the founders of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rangle is scheduled to retire from Congress at the end of the current term after serving

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never get involved,” Holloway told had an obligation to pay it back and the AFRO. “Sometimes that meant forward – literally helping to care for that we all shared a little so that no the generation before and after them one went without, but we never, with whatever marginal stability they ever thought as individuals. We have attained. As a result, each generation always been an extension of each did a bit better than the last.” other.”

Bell said that the bottom of the Between 1910 and 1940, roughly paradigm began to shift as more 1.5 million Blacks left the South for Blacks bought into the idea of Northern cities; however, during the self-achievement and government decade that followed the stock market programs overwhelmingly took crash of 1929, this migration slowed the place of family and extended to a trickle. But with America’s entry relations. “Neighbors served as into World War II looming on the extensions of your own household horizon, the exodus of Blacks from – whether blood related or not. This their Southern homeland resumed. kept the vulnerable out of the hands Between 1940 and 1950, another 1.5 of exploiters . . . clothing was passed Courtesy photo from one household to another, one million Blacks left the South. The Millions of Black families function in nonmigration continued at roughly the pot of food fed many, and no one’s traditional, communal spaces. same pace over the next 20 years. pride was injured,” Bell said. “We By 1970, about 5 million African have to get back to that level of Americans had made the journey, respect and integrity for each other.” and the geographic map of Black America had fundamentally The Holloway household, situated in the Hillcrest-area of changed. Roughly one of every seven Black Southerners pulled Southeast and owned by Ingrid’s son, Grady, now consists up stakes and headed north or west. Both their places of origin of four generations of family members, ranging in age from and destination shifted from earlier patterns.

6 months to 84 years. It is a blessing for Grady, who said he According to Beulah Bell, a retired associate professor of remembers with fondness, being cared for by grandparents, history at Jackson State University in Miss., the collective uncles, aunts, and various cousins on sharecropper earnings. economics of Black families from Emancipation to the “No one handled me like a burden or like ‘another mouth present has often worked against the larger American ideals to feed,’ because we were all that we had. My aunt Agnes, of individualism and materialism, reinforcing, in some cases, bless her heart, sent me to Uttica Community College off of generational success. “There were no Pell Grants or student the money she saved in a rundown shack of a house,” Grady loans to be had, once upon a time, so when Black families told the AFRO. “Two of her grandchildren live with me and I decided they had children with the aptitude to achieve in see her face in every little thing they do . . . This is how Black schools, they immediately pooled the meager earnings they families survive and prosper, and notice, I didn’t mention not made into one pot,” Bell told the AFRO. “That young person one White person.”

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in this Council period, I look forward to chairing this subcommittee for the final months of the year,” he said.

“I plan to focus on supporting our growing local businesses and continued oversight of important programs such as Certified Business Enterprises, Main Streets and Business Improvement Districts.”

“Robert will be a part of the four subcommittees and serve on the Committee on Finance and Revenue and Housing and Community Development,” the chairman said. “We did this because it was the least disruptive of the process.”

While White is settling in to the council, D.C. Council member LaRuby May (D-Ward 8) is working on her exit strategy. May, who lost to Trayon White in the June 14 Ward 8 Democratic primary, told a meeting of the Ward 8 Democrats on Sept. 17, that she will be busy during the last months of the council period.

“I will work to pass the “Death with Dignity bill,” May said, referring to legislation sponsored by D.C. Council member Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) that will allow

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Continued from D1 group seven years ago to provide mentorship for D.C. youngsters, especially those stricken by poverty and crime ridden neighborhoods through the exercise of physical activity. “Distance running is a metaphor for life,” he explained that participating in lengthy race takes patience and perseverance just like life “it’s not a sprint.”

The organization works with multiple local schools during the week and meets every Saturday for practice.

“Some of the crime we see….it comes from survival and just trying to get by,” Forman said. He said the program offers an alternative to participating in illegal activity or turning to violence or gangs to cope with disadvantages.

Monthly races for this season will begin on Oct. 1 at Anacostia Park.

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Morehouse Alumni Celebrate Opening of the Smithsonian African American Museum On Sept. 23, Morehouse Alumni and friends will host the “Living Legends Grand Reception” from 7 p.m. - 11 p.m., at the Carnegie Library, 801 K Street, NW. The event is open to the general public, but business attire is required for entry.

Tickets cost $150 for general admission and $250 for VIP. For more information, visit livinglegends2016.org.

CTE Vision Foundation hosts JOKES & JAZZ The CTE Vision Foundation will host JOKES & JAZZ on Sept. 23 from 5:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery, 702 8th St NW. The event features a comedy show and live jazz music. The event is for ages 18 and up and requires that attendees give a $40 tax-deductible donation. Donations will go towards CTE programs for exceptionally talented children as well as at risk and disadvantaged youth between the ages of 12-19 years old. For more information, visit CTEVisionFoundation.org.

Eugene Roy Vango’s Art Show Celebrate the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture by attending Eugene Roy Vango’s art show. The event will take place at 1239 V Street SE on Sept. 24 at 2 p.m. Vango has trained hundreds of young artists, and has made a large 2016 Total contribution to Black art – since the ‘60s – with his group and solo pieces. The show will display 12 award winning acrylic paintings by Vango. For more information, visit Past Seven Days anacostiaarted.org.

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Continued from D1 terminally ill patients the option of physician-assisted suicide. “I know that some people are uncomfortable with that bill and I will work to educate them about it.”

May said she will meet with the chairman of every council committee to review bills that affect Ward 8 residents “and work to get

them through the legislative process.”

“Trayon White has also agreed to come to those meetings,” May said. “Mr. White will work with us to get those bills passed. He and I are on the same page.”

In a related matter, Mendelson said he is interested in reviewing

legislation on the re-naming of public buildings in honor of the late Marion Barry, a D.C. Council member and four-term mayor. “I do have that issue on my agenda,” he said. “We will be looking at that during the fall.”

Both Robert White and Trayon White will be on the Nov. 8 general election ballot.

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The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation held its 46th Annual Legislative Conference from Sept. 14-18.

The conference included several sessions on different issues affecting the Black community such as police brutality, prison reform, education, STEM jobs, housing policies and much more.

The conference also featured widely attended events such as the National Town Hall, Prayer Breakfast and the Phoenix Awards dinner.

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Comedian Trevor Noah and singer Kelly Rowland, dinner emcees

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary R. Clinton

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