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To mark the AFRO’s 125 years of continuous publication, we have gone through our extensive archives to find the most compelling and informative articles the paper put out with an eye to highlighting unsung heroes and the AFRO employees who have made this paper what it is today.

From the musings of Col. Midnight in the early 1900s, a pseudonym for an AFRO writer named Charles Stewart, to an entire issue dedicated to the President Barack Obama the AFRO has covered the gamut of the Black experience.

The paper is divided into different eras, each shaped by its publisher. The John H. Murphy Sr. era, 1892-1917, is marked by the paper’s coverage of ubiquitous lynchings, White race riots, the fight for suffrage and African American serving in wars.

The Carl J. Murphy era, 1917-1942, sees coverage of historic figures such as W.E.B. DuBois, Walter White, Marcus Garvey, A. Philip Randolph and Carter G. Woodson. In addition, while still fighting for racial justice, the paper turns to the sensational topics of crime and sex as well as more news about entertainment and society figures.

Jim Crow and World War II would dominate the conversation from 1942-1967. The breaking of color barriers by sports figures such as Jackie Robinson and the murder of young Emmett Till would come to be seen as defining moments. While civil rights workers such as Medgar Evers sacrificed their lives, the acceptance of segregation was beginning to crumble.

Between 1967-1992 was a time of turmoil and triumph and the AFRO was there. The death of Martin Luther King Jr. would lead to riots in major cities, including Baltimore. Sports stars such as Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe became bigger than ever, while crack and AIDS swept through and destroyed communities. Jake Oliver became publisher of the AFRO and began to usher in the era of the paper’s digital dominance.

Which leaves us at the current era of 1992 and beyond.

The same era that brought us the nation’s first Black president also produced the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray and Sandra Bland. As traditional civil rights organizations have tried to adapt to modern times groups like Black Lives Matter have sprung up.

While fewer people read newspapers the AFRO has been out in front of the digital revolution bringing the news to people wherever they are on their phones, tablets or whatever comes next. Here’s to the next 125 years.

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Don Baylor, One Time Oriole, Former MVP and Manager of Year, Dead at 68

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Founded by John Henry Murphy Sr., August 13, 1892

Wherever he went, Don Baylor left his mark on baseball. He was an MVP and Manager of the Year, respected as a powerful slugger, punishing runner and commanding presence in any clubhouse.

And during nearly a halfcentury as a pro, baseball left its mark on him. Lots of them, in fact. When Baylor retired, he’d been plunked more AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File than anyone in major league Don Baylor history.

Baylor was hit by fastballs, sliders and a bunch of pitches 267 times in his career. Baylor set the modern-day record in 1987 while playing for Boston, on the day he turned 38. After the game, the Red Sox gave him the souvenir ball.

Baylor, the bruiser who also held the bruise record for almost three decades, died Monday of cancer. He was 68.

His family said in a statement that Baylor died in his hometown of Austin, Texas, after a 14-year battle with multiple myeloma.

Baylor won the 1979 AL MVP with the California Angels, playing all 162 games and leading the majors with career bests of 139 RBIs and 120 runs. His 36 home runs were also his most.

Baylor later became the first manager of the Colorado Rockies, guiding them to his only playoff appearance as a skipper in the franchise’s third season in 1995 and being honored for that accomplishment.

In his final three seasons, Baylor went to three straight World Series from 1986-88, winning the title and hitting one of his four postseason homers in Minnesota’s seven-game victory against St. Louis in 1987.

Baylor’s tying two-run shot in the fifth inning of Game 6 with the Twins trailing 3-2 in the series fueled an 11-5 victory.

He was on losing teams with Boston in ’86 and Oakland in ’88.

Baylor spent six years with Colorado and two-plus seasons as manager of the Chicago Cubs, from 2000-02. His career record was 627-689. He was most recently the hitting coach for T:11” the Angels.

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Remembering Frederick Isadore Scott, Johns Hopkins’ First Black Undergraduate

By Jennifer Wright Special to the AFRO Frederick Isadore Scott, the first African-American undergraduate to earn a degree from Johns Hopkins University, died July 15 at Johns Hopkins Hospital following complications from an infection. He was 89.

Scott’s journey at Hopkins started as a lighthearted dare, the Baltimore native recalled in a 2004 interview which became part of a project called Courtesy photo “African-Americans at the Frederick I. Scott Johns Hopkins University.”

Already planning to attend Penn State, he called the registrar’s office and asked “Do you let Negroes into your school?” They replied, “I don’t know, we haven’t had anyone to apply.”

Scott applied, and after scoring high on an entrance exam, he was accepted. In February 1945, he became Hopkins’ first African American undergraduate student, one day after graduating from Baltimore’s Frederick Douglass High School with high honors.

Scott said in the interview, “Going one day from an allBlack environment to an all-White environment is a complete shocker.”

After a 15-month stint in the U.S. Army in 1947 and marrying his wife Viola Fowlkes in 1949, Scott graduated from Hopkins in 1950 with a degree in chemical engineering.

After graduating from Hopkins, Scott worked for the next eight years for RCA Laboratories near Princeton, N.J. as a process development engineer and senior engineer.

Scott returned to Baltimore in the 1990s and resided in Woodlawn. He continued working in engineering, providing editorial guidance for International Scientific Communications and serving as editor for American Clinical Laboratory and American Laboratory.

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Black Breastfeeding Month Encourages Return to Natural Feeding

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com Breastfeeding among Black women remains comparably low. In observance of Black Breastfeeding Week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), along with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), released a new study, documenting the statistics, and calling for a return among Black women to breastfeeding.

According to the CDC’s 2016 Breastfeeding Report Card, among infants born between 2010–2013, 64.3 percent of Black infants started breastfeeding, compared to 81.5 percent of White infants, a gap of 17.2 percentage points.

Additionally, of the 34 states and the District of Columbia included in the study, breastfeeding initiation rates for Black infants registered consistently lower than for White infants.

Dr. Kristen Prescott, a South Dakota-based pediatrician who helps spearhead Breastfeeding Week (Aug.1-7) activities across the country, said in a statement that babies benefit from the special immunity properties of breast Continued on A6

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Frederick Clay was released from prison after spending 38 years behind bars after prosecutors reviewed his case and did not find “conclusive proof” of his guilt. He was convicted of killing a cab driver in Boston in 1979. Clay, who was 16-years old at the time of his conviction, had always maintained his innonce.

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Celebration Will Mark 125 Years of Giving Blacks a Needed Voice “Blackness.”

“The continued mission of this

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com In the true spirit of “Soldiers without Swords,” the Afro-American Newspapers has made the fight for social justice and personhood, as well as the tenets of journalistic integrity an integral part of its 125-year history. Established on Aug. 13, 1892, by John Henry Murphy Sr., a former slave, the newspaper gave a voice to the voiceless and developed into an internationally known and respected Black family-owned publication by the 1920s.

Whether in the Deep South, Chicago, Detroit, Omaha, Neb. or Los Angeles, the AFRO’s pages became crucial spaces in the development of Black identity, codes of respectability, and the norms and mores that would come to broadly define

Be a Part of the AFRO’s Historic Celebration On Aug. 12 the AFRO will celebrate its 125th anniversary and you can be part of it virtually.

That’s because six cameras will be live streaming the event.

Starting at 8 p.m., until the event ends, you can watch the nation’s number one Black newspaper make history at afro.com/afro125th-anniversary-live-stream.

And you can do it all from the comfort of your couch. newspaper is to carry forth its legacy of informing the African American and other minority communities of relative

news and challenging threats to their civil rights as American citizens,” Jake Oliver, AFRO’s CEO and publisher, said.

The AFRO has accomplished significant milestones throughout its history, weathering social, political, and economic tides to stand as one of the leading, longest-lasting continuously published family-owned Black news outlets in the United States. The AFRO has also been lauded for its digital accomplishments, maintaining social media avenues that have reached millions of viewers over the years.

“We plan to continue to do this by taking advantage of new technologies to more effectively connect and expand readership in this country and other countries around the world,” Oliver said.

Lee Ross-Clark, a Ward 6 resident and long-time supporter of the AFRO, Continued on A5

Sharpton Calls for 1,000 Ministers to March on Washington

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com The Rev. Al Sharpton is planning a march later this month in the District of Columbia to protest the policies of the Trump administration. Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, told the AFRO Aug. 4 that he wants 1,000 ministers from across the country to come to the nation’s capital to let the president know his policies are unacceptable.

“August 28th is the 54th anniversary of the March on Washington,” Sharpton said.

“This is where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. However, the dream is in complete jeopardy.

“We are in grave times that call for vigilance and a mobilized effort to confront the administration around issues that are taking us

backwards. Faith leaders will be summoned to reaffirm the call to their congregations that faith will drive the movement for justice in today’s times.”

Sharpton said King talked about issues such as voting rights, health care, police brutality, and poverty, and Continued on A5

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U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. called it “an outrage” that President Donald Trump hasn’t condemned the bombing of a Bloomington mosque on Aug. 5. Ellison is the nation’s first Muslim elected to Congress.

Muslim Americans Increasingly Anxious Under Trump Admin.

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com

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The Rev. Al Sharpton took his message of a national ministerial march on Washington to Baltimore’s WOLB radio station on Aug. 8.

Muslim Americans say they are victims of discrimination and are increasingly on guard in the wake of the Presidency of Donald Trump.

Just weeks after a Pew Research Center

survey found that Muslim Americans perceive discrimination and persecution far more since Trump took office, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) recently asked Muslim Americans to guard their safety and that of their communities.

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From the Sports Editor’s Desk

Ray Lewis is not the Exclusive Voice of the Black People of Baltimore Stop Treating Him Like He is…

By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor pgreen@afro.com It’s time we put an end to the notion that Ray Lewis is the spokesperson for the Black people of Baltimore.

Ray has done a ton of good in the Baltimore City community, from helping build houses to funding food drives for the less privileged.

But he’s never been a mouthpiece for the Baltimore community, and I honestly think he doesn’t know how to be one, nor wants to be.

I understand who Ray is and who he isn’t. Ray is inarguably the greatest player in the history of the Ravens franchise. He’s widely considered one of the greatest leaders in all of sports, and he has two world championships to show for it. But the only reason I even know or care who Ray Lewis is, is because he was a great professional football player. And the only reason I was ever his fan is because he played for a team based in a state I’m proudly from and a city I lived half

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Baltimore Ceasefire, Far From a Failure

One of the goals of the Baltimore Ceasefire, which concluded this past weekend was for no murders to Sean Yoes happen during Baltimore AFRO the 72 hour Editor syoes@afro.com span from Aug. 4 to Aug. 6. We fell short of that goal because there were two homicides on Aug. 5.

However, Erricka Bridgeford, one of the movement’s main organizers gave the violence that occurred during the Ceasefire perspective in a Facebook post. “41 hours of peace from Friday-Saturday+26 hours of peace Saturday-Sunday=67 of 72 hours without murder,” she wrote. Further, one of the other main organizers of the Ceasefire, Ellen Gee calculated that Baltimore has averaged a murder about every 19.5 hours in 2017, a staggering number.

Yet, there have been news outlets (“`Nobody Kill Anybody’ weekend ceasefire collapses as two are shot dead,” was the headline in the London based Daily Mail), and individuals who have suggested the Ceasefire was a “failure.” In fact, there were trolls on social media who hoped people would be killed in the days leading up to the Ceasefire.

‘What shall we then say to these people?’ to paraphrase Romans 8:31.

We should mourn the tragedy of two more young, Black men, Lamontrey Tynes, 24, and Donte Johnson, 37, who were gunned down on Aug. 5 They were the 210th and 211th victims of homicide in 2017, within the 72 hour window of the Ceasefire (the Ceasefire movement is actually raising money for the families of the victims to help pay for funeral arrangements).

However, the argument that the Baltimore Ceasefire movement was a failure because two people were killed in 72 hours, is flat out stupid and petty.

“The goal was 72 hours, no murder and the goal also was to raise the vibration of the energy in Baltimore City, to spread love…to plug people into the resources they need, to create space for people to have conversations about things that they thought about people that weren’t necessarily true,” said Gee. “So, doing outreach in Baltimore City helped to bridge a lot of communication gaps. It helped to show people that people in Baltimore City, they’re not just thugs...they’re human beings,” she added.

Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS), the Baltimore based Black, grass roots think tank engaged people directly on the streets of East and West Baltimore during the Ceasefire.

“Friday night we were on the Eastside at Belair and Erdman and we stayed out all night, and we had food available for people...and we had lawyers, human and social service workers and the goal was to make sure that people could get their records

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Del. Norton Fights for D.C. Inmates Rights

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

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AFRO summer interns: Lauryn Hill, a rising junior at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and Mark Arrowsmith, a rising junior at Auburn University in Alabama, are pictured outside of the paper’s D.C. office location at the Thurgood Marshall Center in Northwest. Here’s to a job well done.

Internal Docs: Baltimore Police Too Focused On Stats

The email then lists a variety of activities that supervisors should measure and submit for evaluation including checking in on residents on the city’s gun offender registry and initiating The internal email obtained by the AFRO is crisp and to the field interviews. point. A Baltimore police lieutenant It’s a document that suggests the orders subordinates to submit Baltimore Police Department has statistics every two hours recounting not completely forsaken statistics as the number of car stops, warrants and a metric for measuring officers. It’s citizen contacts for each officer under a controversial strategy tied to past their supervision. It is a demand for policies like Zero Tolerance that an immediate statistical tally of what makes some law enforcement experts an officer does, or does not do while –from a BPD internal email leery and has been at the heart of the on the job. criticism of contemporary policing as “Starting today, every 2 hours far too dependent on numbers. you are to collect stats from each officer” the lieutenant writes.

Baltimore police spokesman T.J Smith confirmed the “If you have an officer that gives you nothing,” the email authenticity of the email, but says it is well within the purview continues, “then give that officer specific direction of what you of a commanding officer to manage his staff as he or she sees need from them.”

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By Stephen Janis Special to the AFRO

“Starting today, every 2 hours you are to collect stats from each officer…”

In Memoriam

Eva Frances Lockwood, 98

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) wants to make sure that incarcerated constituents’ rights are respected and they will be able to live their lives as fully as possible. On July 27, Norton wrote a letter to Thomas Kane, the acting director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), regarding concerns she has with District inmates and how they are treated by the agency.

“D.C. inmates already face tremendous challenges due to the unique circumstances of being housed in BOP facilities that are hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of miles away from their families and loved ones,” Norton said. “While we have made some initial progress in

“She is addressing real concerns here.”

– Debra Rowe our fight to make male and female D.C. inmates housed closer to the District, there are several significant steps BOP can take now to facilitate the transition of returning citizens back into civil society and to implement common-sense policies that help ease the already painful separation between inmates and their families.”

The District had a facility in Lorton, Va., from 1910-2001, that housed its prisoners. It was closed in 2001 because of overcrowding, poor physical appearance, and concerns about costs to the District. As a result, District inmates were moved to the BOP. District inmates are the only local offenders in the

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Dr. Richard D. Dickens, Bro. George F. Wright, Exalted Ruler of Monumental Elks Lodge #3, and Bro. Samuel J. Raines present Bro. Grover Williams (center, left) with the, “Elk of the Year,” award.

Elks Convene in Baltimore

By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO

Parts of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor were draped in purple and white over the Aug. 5 weekend.

The Elks were in town for their Grand Lodge and Grand Temple National Convention.

With 500,000 members worldwide, chances are that if you aren’t a member of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World (IBPOEW), someone in your circle of family and friends is.

Founded in 1898 upon the principles of “charity, justice, brotherly and sisterly love, and fidelity,” the Elks of today say they are proud to uphold a legacy that speaks for itself.

“We’re not outdated,” said Leonard Polk, executive vice-president of the IBPOEW. “There are a lot of issues that we believe are relevant to the Elks of yesteryear and now.”

Polk told the AFRO that the IBPOEW has focused on health and education in recent years, donating $13,000 in support of Alzheimer’s research last year and $15,000 to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in 2015.

This year the organization is focusing on kidney disease and working with the American Cancer Society. Polk said that now is the time for Elks around the world to stand up for their Continued on A8

By AFRO Staff Eva Frances Lockwood, the widow of the late Dr. William Lockwood, died after a prolonged illness on Aug. 4 at the age of 98.

She was the mother of LaVerne Gaither and the late Deborah Lockwood William. She is also survived by two grandsons, two great grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins. A viewing for Mrs. Lockwood will be held Aug. 11 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Vaughn Greene Funeral Home, 8728 Liberty Road, Randallstown, Md. 21133.

The funeral is Aug. 12 at the Douglas Memorial Community Church (DMCC) 1325 Madison Avenue,

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Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton represents the District in the U.S. Congress. federal system.

In her letter, Norton asks Kane to act on four specific policies: eliminate or significantly reducing the fee residents of halfway houses pay for their housing; changing the policy limiting physical contact during a visitation, particularly

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Celebration Continued from A1 said that even before migrating from the Mississippi Delta to the District, the newspaper was heralded and revered among Southern Blacks as a tool for uplift and a representation of Black achievement. “It can be difficult to express how important it was while living in a place of stark segregation and racial trauma – where every Black man was a boy and every Black woman was vulnerable to attack – to have powerful reminders of better,� Ross-Clark told the AFRO. “There was a particular level of pride and respectability that came with subscribing to the Afro-American. It helped us see beyond the immediate circumstances we faced as sharecroppers to the larger world of Black physicians, teachers, politicians and soldiers.�

Ross-Clark told of D.C.-based relatives whose participation in wars or experiences during the 1919 Red Summer – which saw thousands of Blacks injured or killed through White mob violence –were expressed through the pages of the newspaper. In fact, whether it was race riots, Andrew McCarthy’s Red Scare in the 1940s, the service of Black men and women in each of America’s war, or the birth of rap and hip hop, the AFRO acted as both witness and storyteller. “The Afro-American has been my family

since I came from Florida in 1984, from the moment I started writing for them – it was an honor representing my people,� current AFRO writer Hamil Harris said. “From the White House and Congress, to Southeast, I never put down the charge made years ago when the Afro-American deposed war correspondents to report from the front line, that ‘this is our war.’�

Harris said that by having Black soldiers as correspondents, the Afro-American set a

“And that is the power of the Afro-American – firmly placing their hands to the pulse of its people, and giving them the platform to be heard.�

Sharpton Continued from A1 those are matters that “we are dealing with today.� “That is why I am asking 1,000 ministers to come to Washington to march,� he said.

Participants are asked to gather at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall at 11 a.m. Aug. 28. There will be a pre-march program starting at 11:30 a.m. Then the procession will march from the King Memorial to the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Sharpton said he and the ministers will hold the Trump administration and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions accountable for the rash of hate crimes and their rhetoric and initiatives

– Hamil Harris

precedent by bringing Black America onto the front lines of international events. Under the direction of Art Carter, a longtime AFRO editor, Harris said the newspaper decided “our stories weren’t going to be told by anyone else.� “That is the continuing legacy of the AFRO – the belief that they are the voice, the ears, and the final word, when it comes to conveying Black stories. I remember covering the Republican Convention when Alan Keyes fought to make a speech at the Republican Convention in 1984; the AFRO was there . . . I remember the Persian Gulf War and the first time Dick Cheney called on me as a representative of the Afro-American; or even

fueling mass incarceration and discrimination against people of color. He said many Americans are anxious about the country’s future since Trump won the presidential election on Nov. 8, 2016. “The Trump administration has had detrimental policies toward voting rights and every day, there is new drama in the White House,� Sharpton said. “There is a reality show called ‘The White House.’ Meanwhile, African Americans are dealing with gun violence and police violence that add to the anxiety. “I say to the 1,000 ministers we can’t sit back and let this continue. Blacks will have to take to the streets to protest these policies.�

Sharpton urges Blacks to be proactive in their opposition to the Trump

agenda. “Black people need to register to vote,� he said. “We have gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia and then we have elections in 2018.�

He said that African Americans need to connect and work with organizations such as his and the NAACP to fight the Trump administration.

The Rev. Rowena Joyce Scott is a spiritual and political activist who lives in Ward 8. Scott is a host of a show on the World Power Gospel Radio station located at the National Harbor in Maryland and is a former president of the Ward 8 Democrats, a political organization in Southeast D.C. “Black people need to march,� Scott told the AFRO. “I want to be in that number.

Black people are lying too low and we need to rise up.�

August 12, 2017 - August 18, 2017, The Afro-American during Clarence Thomas’ nomination, you see me sitting or sleeping back there behind him,� Harris said. “This is still our war . . . and it doesn’t matter if I was a freelancer or staff writer, it is our legacy to fight on.�

Harris said that even as the tools that shape journalism change, he believes the Afro-

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Harris said.

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Muslim Continued from A1 came on Aug. 5, after an early morning bombing at a Minnesota mosque shattered the serenity of

morning prayers. With one in five Muslim Americans identifying as Black, the realities of being Black and Muslim in America may present new and unexpected challenges.

CAIR’s research

documented that two-thirds of Muslim Americans surveyed felt dissatisfied with the stereotypical ideas many Americans held about them and the lack of response from officials when they are faced with violence or discrimination.

A whopping 48 percent of the 1,001 Muslim Americans surveyed said in the last 12 months, they had experienced at least one incident of discrimination.

Further, the Pew study found that many Muslim Americans reported feeling an increase in apprehension and anxiety beginning with the last days of the 2016 elections, which the report cites proved particularly volatile in its depictions of Muslims as outsiders and potentially dangerous.

Similarly, CAIR found that incidents of violence

and discrimination spiked by more than 50 percent following Trump’s election.

“It is time for the Trump administration to seriously address the growing antiminority sentiment in our nation, prompted at least in part by his toxic campaign rhetoric, the appointment of Islamophobes to policymaking posts, and the introduction of Islamophobic policies such as the ‘Muslim ban,’” said Corey Saylor, director of CAIR’s Department to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia, said in a statement.

Saylor, who co-authored the CAIR report “The Empowerment of Hate,” said 16 percent of incidents occurred as a result of Muslim women wearing a hijab (headscarf), 11 percent followed Muslim-related rallies, community picnics, or

Breastfeeding Continued from A1 milk, making it a best practice with infant care. A separate week for Black women, dedicated to thwarting the racial disparity, is from Aug. 25-31.

“Breast milk has been shown to decrease the rate of ear infections, of respiratory illnesses, vomiting and diarrhea illnesses, and obviously, decrease the rate of hospitalizations due to these illnesses,” Prescott said. “We are doing a very good job here in the United States, because now there is an increase of new moms initiating breastfeeding after birth, and that is up from a decade ago. We have a long way to come, however, because at 6 months of age, fewer moms are still breastfeeding.”

The CDC currently works with more than 69 community health departments and organizations to provide peer and professional lactation support, specifically to Black mothers

other activities.

California Democratic Rep. J. Luis Correa recently faced criticism after hanging the winner of a high school art competition in his office which depicted the Statue of Liberty wearing a hijab. He has vowed not to remove the painting.

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), a Black Muslim, released an impassioned statement following the detonation of the bomb at Minnesota’s Bloomington Islamic Center, saying in part, no matter the religion or language of the Bloomington community, all are welcome.

“Today, those values were attacked when terrorists detonated a bomb at the Bloomington Islamic Center . . . Hate is becoming too prevalent in our society. It spreads on social media and infects our discourse. We

must counter it with love and the values we hold so dear.”

Trump’s relationship with the U.S. Muslim community sullied quickly following his statements calling for a shutdown of Muslims entering the country, and ordering a ban on travelers entering the country from six Muslim-majority countries.

“There are many Black Muslims in this country, who do not feel safe openly identifying as Muslim – especially when many Whites are presenting themselves as hostile, aggressive, and violent towards non-Whites,” Arthur Doku, a Ward 5 resident and Muslim told the AFRO. “There are these microaggressions that, as a grown man, I could handle, but which concern me should my wife or children find themselves having to deal with them in my absence.

and infants, who, they document, face challenges in committing, long-term to breastfeeding. “Breastfeeding reduces the risk of ovarian and breast cancer for mothers later on in life, and also aids in less postpartum bleeding, so with Black

Addressing the racial disparity of breastfeeding, which in most cases show a double-digit rate (between 1017 percent across the country) requires outside support that many advocates believe is hindered by mothers feeling awkward about asking for help. “Black women are generally employed and serve as either equal partners or heads of household, meaning their return to work after giving birth tends to preclude them from breastfeeding each meal for the first year,” Shayna Swift, a breastfeeding advocate and Ward 7 resident, told the AFRO. “So many Courtesy photo people believe that a baby just latches onto a nipple and the mothers disproportionately less able to feeding begins, but there can be a lot of breastfeed their babies because of sociofrustration – the latching-on process, the economic factors and lack of postpartum discomfort of breastfeeding, including support, is unconscionable,” said Jen cracked nipples, and soreness – all of McGuire, a lactation expert who writes a which require patience and outside post for the parenting blog, “Romper.” support.”

investing in Jevaugh Anderson and Kayla Washington shoot video during their summer 2016 Johns Hopkins internship.

Good neighbors create meaningful job opportunities for young people. During summer 2017, Johns Hopkins hired 400 city youth ages 15 to 21 through our Summer Jobs Program, a partnership with Baltimore City’s YouthWorks and Hire One Youth programs. Over the past 23 years, we have offered paid summertime internships across the university and health system, providing up to eight weeks of hands-on learning along multiple career paths. Giving these young adults a feel for the working world in their own backyard is important to us because when Baltimore thrives, we all do.

Johns Hopkins. Investing in our community.

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Norton

Continued from A4 between a parent and young child, from only the beginning and close of the visitation; changing the visitor dress code; and providing all inmates the chance to receive computer training.

Also, Norton introduced legislation to eliminate the subsistence fee, a fee the inmate pays to subsidize the costs of food, clothing, laundry, etc. Norton said the agency has the power to do that. “The Department of Justice itself has recommended eliminating this fee and has indicated that BOP has the authority to eliminate it or reduce it,” she said.

Debra Rowe, executive director of Returning Citizens

United, an advocacy group, supports what Norton is trying to do. She told the AFRO Norton “is addressing real concerns here. The dress code has been an issue for a while.”

Rowe talked about a District mother who went to visit her son in the South but was denied seeing him because of what she was wearing. “It wasn’t tasteless and it was 100 degrees outside where her son is,” Rowe said.

Eric Weaver, chairman of the National Association of Returning Citizens, agreed with Rowe that the dress code is unfair. “They do discriminate against you on how you dress,” Weaver told the AFRO. “They will let some

people come in with tight jeans and some others not.”

Weaver said he is aware that some clothing is distracting to inmates and there is a potential for the illegal transfer of contraband,

visiting his mother and was made to sit across the room from her and she wasn’t allowed to hold him,” she said. “At the end of the visit, the boy cried out ‘you don’t love me’ and left the room

“They do discriminate against you on how you dress.”

– Eric Weaver but said that’s not enough to prevent a visit with an inmate.

Regarding personal contact, Rowe knows of an incident that had many female inmates emotional at a facility. “A little boy was

upset. When the incident circulated around the facility, most of the female inmates were crying.”

Weaver agreed with Norton that the subsistence fee should be eliminated.

“When you enter the halfway house, they don’t tell you about the subsistence fee,” he said. “You get a minimum wage job and have to pay 25 percent of that.”

Weaver said that Norton’s insistence on computer training is good, noting many inmates are computerilliterate when they enter the prison system and have trouble working with computers. “I’ve seen guys get frustrated working with the mouse,” Weaver said.

“They definitely need more computer classes. There are some prisons that have 2,000 inmates, classes that have 2025 people, and have a long waiting list that can take up to two years to get into a class.

“That can be a problem when you are on a waiting list and you have been transferred to another facility closer to home if your sentence is coming to an end. You won’t get the chance to take the class.”

Rowe praised Norton for her efforts, saying the delegate “has always been there for us.” However, Weaver said Norton could address “larger issues” but didn’t go into specifics.

Norton asked Kane to respond to her letter in 30 days.

When asked to respond on Norton’s letter, BOP told the AFRO via email Aug. 7, “The Bureau of Prisons responds to congressional inquiries as a matter of course.”

Police

Continued from A4 fit.

“This was sent by a commander of a shift who has the ability to command his officers in the manner in which he sees appropriate,” Smith told the AFRO in an email.

“Officers should be constantly focused, and he is holding them accountable to that. The commander is following up on his direction by asking for information to confirm that his direction is being met.”

But other law enforcement experts say the policy hearkens back to statistics driven policing that departs from recent efforts by the department to reconnect with residents, especially in the aftermath of a damning report by the Department of Justice that found the Baltimore police had engaged in discriminatory and unconstitutional tactics.

“When your strategy is stat driven, it can separate the officer from the community because policing becomes all about numbers,” said Sgt. Louis Hopson, the lead plaintiff in a landmark civil rights lawsuit against the BPD. “I think it shows that they don’t have a comprehensive city-

wide plan to address crime, this is just going back to old dynamics,” Hopson added.

Indeed, the memo seems at odds with recent remarks by Police Commissioner Kevin Davis about the department’s long-term strategy. Particularly when he announced the formation of a team focused on targeting repeat offenders. Davis justified the move, in part, by citing an overworked patrol division constantly answering calls for service, a division he characterized as hardly in need of statistical monitoring.

But Smith defended the email arguing it does in fact jibe with the direction of the agency, especially the email’s focus on taking guns off the streets.

“This commander reiterated the focus- gun offenders (and) wanted persons and activity,” Smith said. “I think this is certainly one of the areas of direction the Commissioner has been focused on.”

Some say an emphasis on producing statistics could have unintended consequences. Doug Colbert, law professor at the University of Maryland’s Francis Carey School of Law, said the

memo’s ambiguous wording could leave officers confused and prone to generate numbers that don’t always produce the best results.

“It’s a poorly worded memo that could be interpreted that command is not pleased with what officers are doing and expect them to do more,” Colbert explained, after reviewing the email.

“But they’re not saying we want you to have more conversation with the community, this is more punitive type of law enforcement.”

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Baltimore, Md. 21217 at 11:30 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Eva Frances Lockwood may be sent to Douglas Memorial Community Church.

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Elks

Continued from A4 communities.

“We have a current administration that is interested in cutting benefits and services that we, over time, have taken for granted,” Polk said. “We see many governments and cities cutting out after school programs and similar initiatives.”

“We, as the Elks in those communities, can open up our lodges for those tutoring sessions to make a difference in the lives of those children,” he added. “We can have community symposiums for voter registration. We can fill in the gap and provide some of those services.”

Over the years the Elks

have proved that they are much more than just a social club with distinct hats, customs, and nomenclature.

The Elk’s Annual Oratorical Contest has helped some of Black America’s best and brightest become international symbols of success and power.

Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall used his oratorical scholarship to become a part of the first graduating class from Howard University’s School of Law in 1933. Long before Oprah Winfrey had a talk show she, too, was speaking in front of the Elks for a scholarship, like Dorothy I. Height and Martin Luther King, Jr. did before her. Winfrey used

her winnings to attend and graduate from Tennessee State University in 1973.

IPBOEW is not to be confused with the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks of the United States of America (BPOE), which according to information from the Notable Kentucky African American Database, was less than “benevolent” and “protective” when it came to Black people in their organization.

As a result of the country’s racial divide, Arthur James Riggs, a former slave, and Benjamin Franklin Howard formed their own version of the Elks—but not before Riggs and his family were

ostracized and run out of town.

Though Riggs and Howard, both Kentucky natives, originally began the organization in Cincinnati for men, Emma Virginia Kelly formed the Daughters of the Elks in 1902. That group would later be recognized as the official women’s auxiliary for the Elks with the creation of Temple No. 1 in Norfolk, Va. Traveling from Florida to attend this year’s Baltimore

convention, Pamela Williams said that becoming an Elk was naturally the next step for her after a childhood of involvement in youth activities and programs. Clad in her “Daughters of the Elks” garb, Williams said the conventions are still very necessary for unified action.

“It’s necessary for us to continue to do this so we can carry out the tradition of what Elkdom stands for: helping our community,” she said.

Williams said she was

happy to see “people from the Bahamas, New Mexico, Seattle, Wash., and Maine, all four corners” because “It’s necessary to come together.

We need to share what we provide in our communities with everyone else.”

The Elks convention took place at Baltimore’s Hilton Hotel in the Inner Harbor.

Aside from the oratorical contest, there were beauty and talent contests—also attached to a scholarship—and screenings for kidney disease.

Race and Politics Continued from A4

expunged and...we were trying to show communities there are Black people here in Baltimore that are working on your behalf, that can assist you with changing your condition,” said Adam Jackson, CEO of LBS. “Saturday, we were at Frederick and Collins on the Westside. In the course of the time that we were there, because we spent from 6 p.m to 6 a.m., so, 12 hours each day...through the early morning...I think about 170 people total were able to get their records expunged,” Jackson explained.

“It was about embracing anti-violence and also uplifting the spirit….and changing the vibration and lifting the vibrations of Baltimore. And I know for me personally...if you were at Belair and Erdman at midnight, that Friday it was electric,” Jackson added.

“Because everyone was just like, we were talking about anti-violence and how in 24 hours there were no murders and everyone was just so hyped off of that. And embracing the idea that that’s not normal, murder is not normal and we should feel okay to express that we want to stop it...it’s not normal to embrace violence.”

“You had people coming from East Baltimore to Edmondson and Wildwood (in West Baltimore) Friday night for the Stop the Violence rally, and how often does that happen in Baltimore?” said Gee. “And it was all love...at the height of the rally there were probably about 45 people with Ceasefire signs...and created like a party on the corner of Edmondson and Wildwood in the name of stopping the violence,” she added.

“And for people to try to downplay that, or to minimize it and make it seem like, `that’s not a big deal,’ I don’t want to say I feel sorry for them, but I wish that “ IT DARES YOU NOT they had the ability to see the vision and see the glory of it the TO BE MOVED. When people ask about the Black Lives Matter way that we do. Because it is a movement, whether it’s a year or 50 from now, beautiful thing to witness.”

I will tell them to see ‘Whose Streets?’”

– Nick Allen, ROGEREBERT.COM

WHOSE STREETS?

When the news cameras are gone the truth will be told.

Sean Yoes is the AFRO’s Baltimore editor and host and executive producer of First Edition, which airs Monday through Friday, 5 p.m.-7 p.m. on WEAA, 88.9.

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After the plan to erect the Baltimore professional Google Maps sports complex (now home of GEDCO’s Stadium Place, which sits on the site of the former Memorial Stadium, offers Orioles and Baltimore Ravens) services to individuals with mental illness and the formerly homeless. at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor As the group’s needs grew, so did the organization. In 1991, was announced, prominent the group formed GEDCO, a development corporation. They developers jockeyed for position to grab the prime real estate also began offering housing for men and women grappling with on East 33rd Street. However, the efforts of a burgeoning mental illnesses and individuals who were formerly homeless organization devoted to representing Baltimore’s underserved and the group also opened a food pantry. men, women, and families, ultimately won the contract.

When the Memorial Stadium space became available, Govans Ecumenical Development Corporation, or GEDCO, Reverend Jack Sharp, GEDCO’s founder, supported by area formed in 1984 when seven pastors in Northern Baltimore neighborhood associations, lobbied local politicians in order to joined forces to address the lack of affordable housing for secure the space.

In 1999, GEDCO was awarded the rights to older adults. The group first formed Epiphany House, a former develop what is today referred to as Stadium Place, which over antebellum hotel, now renovated into permanent housing for 33 400 seniors today call home. seniors and older adults with disabilities.

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Lewis Continued from A1 my life in.

But Ray didn’t become famous as an activist fighting for the people of Baltimore, and he was never our spokesperson.

Let’s not forget that.

Oddly enough, though, it seems as if Ray is constantly ushered front and center to speak on behalf of Black people every time anything controversial happens in the Baltimore community.

During the protests against police brutality in Baltimore back in 2015, every major news organization reported on Ray Lewis telling people to stop rioting in the streets, as if he had any influence over those people.

When reports surfaced that the Ravens were interested in signing Colin Kaepernick, it was again Ray Lewis who was put in front of the cameras on Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed” to explain why the free agent quarterback hadn’t been signed yet, as if he would have the magic words to alleviate the doubts of anyone suspecting that the Ravens could be one of the NFL teams black-balling Kaepernick for taking a knee during the National Anthem in protest of police brutality last season.

That didn’t go quite so well for Ray, as he made bit of a fool of himself during a passionate debate on the topic on live TV with former Ravens teammate and current fellow Fox Sports One commentator Shannon Sharpe, who has spoken as eloquently as anyone when it comes to discussing the social injustices of our country. Lewis went so far as to say that police

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brutality is a problem, but not one that NFL owners or Kaepernick should take a stance on–comments he reiterated in a subsequent Twitter video, in which he advised Kaepernick to keep his activism to himself.

If you haven’t noticed yet, Ray Lewis is one of those speakers who possesses great enthusiasm but never really says much. I’ve known that about him for quite some time, having closely followed and reported on him and the Ravens for so many years. But it appears the rest of the world is starting to see that about him now that he’s spending his retirement as a TV sports commentator.

Contrary to popular belief, it wasn’t the fiery pre-game speeches that made Ray a great leader. Half of those speeches, Ray was saying a bunch of nothing. He just said it with conviction and passion. It was Ray’s preparation off the field and his play on the field that made him such a masterful captain. He truly led by example.

But that’s all football related. And football is just a game.

This is real life.

Giving great motivational speeches to your teammates and leading them on the field doesn’t qualify you to represent the people of Baltimore in the socio-political arena. I hope Ray finds a way to understand that, but more importantly, I hope the people that think he represents the voice of the people of Baltimore, find a way to understand they’re wrong.

Maybe then we’ll finally start to hear less of Ray and more from the voices of the activists that are actually engaged with the people of the city.

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COMMENTARY

The AFRO’s First 125 Years

This year, the AFRO is celebrating the anniversary of the initial publication of its newspapers 125 years ago, in August 1892. At its inception, the AFRO’s objective was to inform and strengthen the African-American community while simultaneously projecting Black cultural pride in a hostile racist society that violently threatened any hint of civil equality on every level. John H. Murphy Sr., instead of accepting the limitations facing the African-American race at that time, chose to expose, challenge and overcome these threats by using the AFRO as a tool for change.

Under Murphy’s guidance, the AFRO assisted in igniting the Black community ‘s self confidence that slowly, but incessantly, began to emerge in the first decades of the 20th Century. As the paper matured, so did the African-American community’s belief in its ability to voice its objection against the continued denial of the civil rights guaranteed by the founders of this country. It is clear that through the AFRO and the other Black Press members’ amplification of racial injustices, the Black community began to force the majority to recognize the entitlements they could no longer negate based upon race.

This became the overwhelming focus of the AFRO’s first 125 years. The reporting of the AFRO during this period highlighted the outrage, instigation, encounters and eventual reduction of some of the barriers the African-American community had been required to endure and overcome. In spite of the passage of time, however, many barriers unfortunately continue to exist today. The Black community’s struggle for equality and civil rights thus continues and the AFRO’s job is therefore, indeed, far from over.

The gala of the AFRO reaching its first 125th year benchmark is, nevertheless, a celebration of the achievements of the entire African-American community over the past 125 years. The AFRO’s 125 years of reporting is a Black history amplification of the Black community’s struggle to participate in an American society on equal basis with all American citizens regardless of race.

The AFRO’s Anniversary is also an acknowledgment of the life-long commitments of the individuals who have dedicated their lives to report, print, circulate and communicate the news over the AFRO’s past 125 years. In recognition of the AFRO’s continuing publication commencing with the visionary guidance of the founding publisher John H. Murphy, Sr, and his wife Martha Howard Murphy, through the leadership of the 2nd AFRO publisher, Carl Murphy, and to all the succeeding publishers, AFRO directors, officers and employees who have participated in producing

John J. Oliver Jr.

a prodigious number of AFRO print and digital publications over the years:

Job Well Done

Happy Birthday

and

Jake Oliver is chairman/publisher of the AFRO American Newspapers

Give Girls and Minorities More STEM Opportunities Innovations in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields drive our economy and produce products and services that touch all of our lives. While the size of the STEM workforce is growing at an exponential rate, the growth in diversity of STEM professionals remains stagnant. As Ranking Member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, finding ways to encourage students of all backgrounds to study and enter STEM fields has been a priority of mine. A major factor contributing to the lack of underrepresented minorities and women in STEM is insufficient early access and engagement in schools. Students often miss out on opportunities and programs due to poor outreach in their communities. Lack of engagement leaves students unaware of the possible career choices in these fields. Because of the rapid growth in the STEM workforce, we must ensure everyone is aware of opportunities where they can share their talent and skills. And I will continue to advocate for more diversity and representation of women and minorities in STEM careers.

It is imperative that exposure to STEM education start at a young age. Fortunately, Dallas offers many camps and programs for students interested in STEM. Dallas ISD’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Department offers multiple free camps throughout the summer for

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children of all ages, and any high school student who is especially interested in STEM can apply to Dallas ISD’s School of Science and Engineering at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center. Several other local universities also offer programs for young aspiring innovators. The University of Texas at Dallas offers coding camps throughout the year, and Southern Methodist University hosts programs for promising engineers and mathematicians. By cultivating and nurturing young students from many different communities, we can be confident that we will see more diversity in STEM fields in the years to come.

Ever since I was first elected to the Texas State House, I have dedicated my career to bringing attention to these issues and the advancement smart policies to address them. While in Congress, I have introduced the STEM Opportunities Act that would increase diversity in STEM in colleges and universities, enrich our STEM workforce and create more role models for female and minority students much earlier in the pipeline.

More recently, I cosponsored a bi-partisan bill, H.R.3316, the Code Like a Girl Act of 2017. This bill, introduced by my colleague Congresswoman Jacky Rosen (D-NV), requires the National Science Foundation to support education and research projects to increase the participation of early elementary and even pre-K school girls in coding and other computer science lessons and activities. Research shows that elementary school boys are more likely to take a computer science class than

Education Reform Turns Ruin to Revival It is 50 years since the Detroit riot, which followed a police raid on an unlicensed bar in 1967. The intensity of that event was surpassed previously only by the 1863 New York City draft riots during the Civil War, and subsequently by the 1992 Los Angeles riots. By the time it ended, 43 people were dead and over 1,000 injured. The 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and the National Guard were deployed. At least 2,000 buildings were destroyed in a neighborhood that, half a century later, remains largely a wasteland.

The chaos, violence and brutality erupted in a city of multiple ills, with discrimination in policing, housing and employment rife; the quality of public education incredibly poor; and limited access to medical services. The riot erupted in one of the most neglected neighborhoods, in one of the nation’s most segregated cities—and little changed as Detroit continued its decline in the 50 years that followed. The city’s traditional public school system—which could and should have been a great equalizer, helping erase other injustices—has been dubbed the worst in the nation.

Today, as in many other cities where the public education system all but collapsed, public charter schools, which operate independently of the traditional school system, educate a large share of students enrolled in public schools. Taxpayer-funded and tuition-free—like traditional public schools—public charter schools may determine their own school curriculum and culture, while being held accountable for improved student performance by their authorizer, which can demand changes and even close campuses.

Proficiency as measured by standardized test scores is

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better than at its nadir, but still far from satisfactory. There are some bright points, however. Charters have helped raise student proficiency. Of those public school students who took standardized tests in school year 2015-2016, 50 percent were enrolled in charters—but 61 percent of those who scored as “proficient” were charter students, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. And nearly half of charter students significantly outperform their Detroit Public Schools counterparts, Stanford University’s Center for Research and Education found.

With 53 percent of public school students enrolled in charters, Detroit has followed a similar path to the nation’s capital, which has a 46 percent charter school share. Only Katrina-hit New Orleans at 92 percent is higher among large cities. Washington, D.C. had similar problems with its public school system, as well as many of the same economic and social issues. Washington also began to innovate in its public schools with charters in the mid-1990s, amid a traditional system that, like Detroit, was seriously in decline academically, organizationally dysfunctional and dangerous to student safety.

If anything, the charter and other education reforms introduced in the District of Columbia have produced even more significant gains for the public education offering in the city as a whole.

Before the charter reform, half the public school students dropped out before graduating. Last year, the on-time—within four years—high-school graduation rate was 73 percent for charters, and 69 percent for DCPS, lower than the national rate, but fast catching up.

Standardized test scores also significantly improved at

elementary school girls. We must start early if we are going to increase the participation of women and minorities in STEM. The U.S. Department of Commerce notes that women make up only 24 percent of the STEM workforce, though women account for half of the general workforce in the United States.

New faces and ideas in this field will undoubtedly lead to new innovation in the STEM disciplines.

Every September in Washington, D.C., I host a Science and Technology Braintrust at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference in order to educate youth about the opportunities in STEM. Last year, at the 24th Annual Science and Technology Braintrust, I addressed the importance of diversity in the STEM professions. This year, we hope to engage a robust discussion on how to build careers in STEM and identify resources for students made available by various businesses.

I am very hopeful to see so many young girls and minority students take on an interest in these fields. I am confident they will grow to become some of our greatest innovators.

To maximize positive change, it is our duty to expand and transform the STEM field to include more diverse students. I pledge to continue my work on educating and diversifying the future generation of STEM scholars.

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson represents the 30th District in Texas.

both charters and DCPS, with the strongest gains in the most underserved neighborhoods—not at the expense of a varied and diverse curriculum, but alongside one.

As public schools of choice, charters have brought options to families who pre-reform would have lacked the means to access alternatives to substandard schooling—especially important in a city where three in four public school children are economically-disadvantaged and half are defined as “at risk.”

The demand for these unique public schools is such that nearly 10,000 students are on waiting lists to attend one or more charter campuses in the school year about to begin. Demand for traditional public schools in the out-ofboundary program also has increased. And parental choice has been simplified by DCPS and D.C. charter participation in the common lottery, which allocates places when schools’ popularity causes them to be over-subscribed.

Charters’ success also has catalyzed improvements in the traditional public school system, following the introduction of mayoral-control of DCPS and the appointment of three reforming School Chancellors.

From Detroit, Washington, D.C. and New Orleans to the 13 other urban school districts where the charter share is above 30 percent, education reform has been a beneficial agent of change. This reform transforms the lives and life prospects of children growing up in our nation’s most troubled and vulnerable urban communities—for both traditional and chartered public school students.

Dr. Ramona Edelin is executive director of the D.C. Association of Chartered Public Schools.

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Martha Frances Louise, Mary The early AFRO-American Rose Allen, John Henry, Jr., Newspaper was edited by Daniel Thomas Howard, the Rev. William Alexander, Grace Melvina, Carl James founding pastor of the Greenbury, and David Wesley Patterson Avenue/Sharon Arnett. In an effort to unite Baptist Church, originally the Maryland AME church located on the corner of congregations, he started Presstman and Carey Streets his newspaper, the Sunday in Baltimore, Md. Alexander.

School Helper, which would Alexander, a member of the then evolve into a second Black elite from Richmond, newspaper venture, the Race Va., was passionate about Standard. the progress of the “race”and His good friend and sought to educate the masses benefactor, the Rev. George F. Bragg, Jr. was also no stranger to the newspaper business. Bragg himself had founded several news weeklies and religious journals for the African American community in Virginia and Maryland. It was his position as rector of St. James Episcopal Church that brought him to Maryland, where in 1898, he founded his own newspaper, The Ledger a competitor of the AFRO. The Ledger ran successfully for almost two years but Bragg quickly realized that managing the publication of a newspaper John H. Murphy, Sr. was more overwhelming by publishing a weekly than anticipated. On January newspaper. In 1897, the 1, 1900, the Ledger merged newspaper was sold to John with Murphy’s The AFROH. Murphy, Sr. for $200, American to become The which is the equivalent of AFRO-American Ledger. The over $5,000 in today’s dollars. AFRO-American Ledger in John Henry Murphy, Sr. was August 1907 re-incorporated born a slave in Baltimore, Md. itself into the Afro-American on Christmas Day in 1840 Company. John H. Murphy, to Benjamin Murphy III, a Sr. and his children ran the whitewasher and Susan Colby newspaper into prosperous Murphy, a housewife. The territory. With the AFRO’s young Murphy signed up for national importance and President prominence, John H. Murphy in 1913 was elected president of the National Negro Press Association (the predecessor of the National Newspapers Publishers Association).

During the first two decades of the 20th century, the paper flourished inan era of unprecedented violence against African American communities.

In 1900, the Ledger The AFRO merged with The AFRO-American consistently reported to become The AFRO-American on the race riots and Ledger. (9/29/06 edition pictured) lynchings that were proliferating all across Lincoln’s call for Black the country, North and volunteers to fight in the South. When the country Civil War and was eventually entered World War I, the granted freedom under the AFRO also documented the Maryland Emancipation in Black troop and American 1863. Newly emancipated, participation in the war Murphy would follow in the through an African American family whitewashing business lens. This perspective led to and in 1868 marry Martha an even greater growth in E. Howard. Howard was the the newspaper’s circulation daughter of Enoch George across America and the Howard and Sarah Griffith world.

Notable Moments in Black History

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Operatic soprano Sissieretta Jones becomes the first African American to perform at Carnegie Hall.

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Activist Ida B. Wells begins her anti-lynching campaign with the publication of Southern Horrors: Lynch Law and in All Its Phases and a speech in New York City’s Lyric Hall

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performs the first successful operation on a human heart in his Chicago hospital. The patient, a victim of a chest stab wound, survives and lives for twenty years after the operation.

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Paul Laurence Dunbar’s first collection of poetry, Oak and Ivy, is published.

Henry O. Tanner completes “The Banjo Lesson,” which would lead to international acclaim for his paintings.

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Joe Gans (1874-1910) Boxer Joe Gans was born Joseph Gant in 1874 in Baltimore, Md. He fought from 1891 to 1909 and is known as the first African American World Boxing Champion of the 20th Century.

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968) Artist Meta Vaux Warrick was born in 1877 in Philadelphia, Pa. to working class parents. Considered a forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance, the multi-faceted artist was equally gifted at poetry, painting and sculpture.

She was friends with Henry Ossawa Tanner and W.E.B. DuBois and it was from those influences that her works portrayed strong social commentary.

A protégé of Auguste Rodin, her most notable work “Emancipation” (1913) was created in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. It was cast in bronze in 1999 and placed in Harriet Tubman Park in Boston, Masss. She married prominent physician, Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller, one of the first Black psychiatrists in the United States.

Allen Allensworth (1842-1914) Community Builder Allen Allensworth was born a slave in Kentucky in 1842. He would eventually fight on the side of the Union with the U.S. Navy.

Later, he became a Baptist minister, teacher and was eventually appointed as chaplain in the U.S. Army. He was the first African American to reach the rank of lieutenant colonel. He is most notable for founding Allensworth, California in 1908. Allensworth was meant to be an all-Black community where African American could be self-sufficient and live free from racial discrimination.

The Church of God in Christ is founded in Memphis by Bishop Charles Harrison Mason.

1895

W.E.B. Du Bois becomes the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Booker T. Washington delivers his famous Atlanta Compromise address at the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition. He says the Negro problem would be solved by a policy of gradualism and accommodation.

South Carolina revises its state constitution to disfranchise African Americans by requiring poll taxes, property qualifications, educational tests and proof of residency for two years.

Maggie Lena Walker (1864-1934) Businesswoman Maggie Lena Walker was born as Maggie Lena Mitchell in Richmond, Va. in 1864. At age fourteen, she joined the local council of the fraternal society, The Independent Order of St. Luke, an organization dedicated to the social and financial advancement of African Americans. Becoming active in the society in 1899, she became grand secretary and would eventually found the

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By JaZette Marshburn Special to the AFRO Violence against African American and within their communities was never more prevalent than the years after Reconstruction. This is the atmosphere in which the AFRO American Newspaper developed under the tutelage of John H. Murphy, Sr. Murphy and his reporters would travel far and wide to report on violence committed either through vigilante justice such as lynchings; torturous acts of murder against Black men, women and children. The AFRO would also provide extensive coverage of the racial disputes that would eventually turn into the riots that physically, socially and economically altered or completely devastated African-American communities around the country. The frequency of these destructive race riots against Black communities continued well into the middle decades of the twentieth century when they were superseded by riots initiated by different causes arising from social frustration within the African American communities and in many instances police brutality.

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White terrorists attack Black workers in New Orleans on March 11-12. Six Blacks are killed.

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On November 10, in Wilmington, N.C., eight Black Americans are killed as White conservative Democrats forcibly remove from power Black and White Republican officeholders in the city. The episode will become known as the Wilmington Riot.

1900

The New Orleans Race Riot (also known as the Robert Charles Riot) erupts on July 23 and lasts four

days. Twelve African Americans and seven Whites are killed.

1907

The Atlanta Race Riot on September 22-24 produces twelve deaths; ten Blacks and two Whites.

1908

On August 14, the Springfield Race Riot breaks out in Springfield, Ill., the home town of Abraham Lincoln.

Two Blacks and four Whites are killed. This is the first major riot in a Northern city in nearly half a century.

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The East St. Louis Race Riot begins on July 1 and continues to July 3.

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Ida B. Wells Barnett publishes the first statistics on lynching in her pamphlet, The Red Record.

1896

The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that Southern segregation laws and practices, commonly known as Jim Crow, do not conflict with the 13th and 14th Amendments. The Court defends its ruling by articulating the separate but equal doctrine.

The National Association of Colored Women is formed in Washington, D.C. Mary Church Terrell is chosen as its first president.

George Washington Carver is appointed director of agricultural research at the Tuskegee Institute. His work advances peanut, sweet potato, and soybean farming.

John Shippen became the first Black professional golfer when he participates in a tournament in England.

1900

The National Negro Business League is founded in Boston by Booker T. Washington to promote business enterprise.

1901

When Bert Williams and George Walker record their music for the Victor Talking

Machine Company, they become the first African American recording artists.

Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen is born in Baltimore.

One month after becoming President, Theodore Roosevelt holds an afternoon meeting at the White House with Booker T. Washington.

At the end of the meeting the President informally invites Washington to remain for dinner, making the Tuskegee educator the first Black American to dine at the White House with a sitting president.

Meta Vaux Warrick exhibits her sculpture “The Wretched,” depicting seven types of anguish, at the Paris Salon.

1904

Educator Mary McLeod Bethune founds a college in Daytona Beach, Florida that today is known as BethuneCookman University.

George H. White from North Carolina ends his second term in the U.S. Congress.

The next African American to serve in Congress will not be elected until 1928.

W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folks is published.

In it Du Bois rejects the gradualism of Booker T. Washington, calling for agitation on behalf of African American rights.

Maggie Lena Walker founds St. Luke’s Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia.

Charles W. Follis formally signs on with the Shelby Athletic Association and becomes the first AfricanAmerican professional football player.

The Niagara Movement is created by African American intellectuals and activists, led by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter.

The meeting protests the systematic denial of Civil and human rights.

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The first African-American Olympic medal winner, George C. Poage, places third in the 400-meter hurdles in St. Louis.

1905

Joe Gans becomes the world’s first African American lightweight champion.

Jockey Jimmy Winkfield wins the Kentucky Derby in an era when African American jockeys dominate the sport.

in Alzheimer’s disease research. Fuller also becomes the nation’s first Black psychiatrist.

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Sigma Pi Phi (the Boule) is founded in Philadelphia by four wealthy African American college graduates.

Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller, who trains at the Royal Psychiatric Hospital at the University of Munich with Dr. Alois Alzheimer, becomes a widely published pioneer

Alonzo Herndon founds the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, the largest AfricanAmerican-owned business in the nation.

The Black-owned Pekin Theater opens in Chicago.

1906

Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar dies in Dayton, Ohio.

In Brownsville, Texas, approximately a dozen Black troops riot against segregation and in the process kill a local citizen.

When the identity of the killer cannot be determined, President Theodore Roosevelt dishonorably discharges three companies of Black soldiers.

The episode would become known as the Brownsville Affray.

Seven students at Cornell University form the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first college fraternity for Black men.

1907

African American to win an Olympic gold medal, the 4X400 meter medley in London

1909

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is formed in New York City.

Admiral Robert E. Peary and African American Matthew Henson, accompanied by four Eskimos, become the first men known to have reached the North Pole.

Madam C.J. Walker of Denver develops and markets her hair straightening method and creates one of the most successful cosmetics firms in the nation.

The Knights of Peter Claver, the first permanent national Black Catholic fraternal order, is founded in Mobile, Alabama.

Alain Leroy Locke is the first African-American Rhodes Scholar

An African-American graduate student in social work at Columbia University, George Edmund Hayes, and a White woman, Ruth Standish Baldwin, found the Committee on Urban Conditions to address the problems of African Americans in urban cities. It would evolve into The National Urban League. The League is organized to help African Americans secure employment and to adjust to urban life.

1908

Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first Black sorority, is founded on the campus of Howard University.

Martha M. Franklin founds the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses to improve the status and working condition of Black nurses John Baxter “Doc” Taylor, the record-setting quarter miler from the University of Pennsylvania, is the first

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The first issue of Crisis, the official publication of the NAACP, is published.

W.E.B. Du Bois is the

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first editor. The first issue opposes discrimination and segregation.

The City Council of Baltimore approves an ordinance segregating Black and White neighborhoods.

This ordinance is followed by similar statutes in Dallas, Texas, Greensboro, North Carolina, Louisville, Kentucky, Norfolk, Virginia, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Richmond, Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia and St. Louis, Missouri.

Boxer Jack Johnson knocks out James Jeffries in Reno to win the world’s heavyweight championship.

1911

Kappa Alpha Psi is founded at Indiana University.

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity is founded at Howard University.

Samuel J. Battle becomes New York’s first African American police officer.

The Negro Society for Historical Research is founded by John Edward Bruce and Arthur Schomburg.

Scott Joplin completes his

folk opera “Treemonisha.”

Pitcher Andrew “Rube” Foster, later known as the “Father of Black Baseball,” forms the Chicago American Giants

1912

The NAACP, the National Independent League, and the Colored National Democratic League support Woodrow Wilson for President. W.E.B. Du Bois’ endorsement of Wilson as a fair, decent and farsighted politician convinces many African Americans to vote for Wilson.

W.C. Handy publishes the “Memphis Blues” sheet music in Memphis. The song would eventually become wildly popular.

The Jubilee year, the 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, is celebrated throughout the nation over the entire year.

Bearden, is born in Charlotte, North Carolina.

the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) in Chicago.

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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority is founded at Howard University.

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Marcus Garvey founds the New York Division of the Universal Negro Improvement Association with sixteen members. At its height the organization claims nearly two million members.

1915

Garrett Morgan uses his newly invented gas mask to rescue men trapped after an explosion in a tunnel 250 feet beneath Lake Erie.

Bert Williams plays the lead role in “Darktown Jubilee,” making him the first African American actor to star in a motion picture.

The Oklahoma Grandfather Clause is overturned in Guinn v. United States.

Carter G. Woodson founds

The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) begins publishing the Journal of Negro History which becomes the first scholarly journal devoted to the study of African American history.

Noble Drew Ali founds the Moorish Science Temple in Newark, New Jersey.

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World War I begins in Europe.

The Great Migration of African Americans from the South to Northern cities begins.

1917

The United States enters World War I. Some 370,000 African-Americans join the armed forces with more than half serving in the French war zone. Over 1,000 Black officers command these troops. The French government awards the Croix de Guerre to 107 African American soldiers.

Nearly 10,000 African Americans and their supporters march down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue as part of a silent parade, a NAACP-organized protest against lynchings, race riots and the denial of rights.

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Carter G. Woodson receives a Ph.D. from Harvard, the second African American to earn a doctorate in history.

1914

James Weldon Johnson anonymously publishes The Autobiography of an ExColored Man, a psychological novel, and a seminal work in the “new Negro movement.”

Historian Bruce was born in 1856 in Piscataway, Md. to enslaved parents.

Raised in Washington, D.C. and later Connecticut, he would eventually attend Howard University for a short period before pursuing his education through vigorous self-teaching.

In Washington, D.C., after serving as a messenger for the New York Times, he took what he learned and became a paid contributor for several Cleveland inventor Garrett newspapers in along the East coast. He would eventually make his way to Morgan patents a gas mask New York where he met and work closely with historian, Arthur (Arturo) called the Safety Hood and Schomburg. Together, they founded the Negro Society for Historical Smoke Protector.

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Civil Action No. thereafter, a final ORDER OF judgtion shall so inform the 2012 CA 006633 L(RP) And ment will be entered fore- within 25 days of its first Register of Wills, includPUBLICATION (Action publication shall so inclosing the right of reing name, address and AUTOMOBILE Involving All Unknown Owners of demption in the In accordance with real D.C. form the Register of relationship.

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Name of newspaper: DEBRA M. OLSEN, Executors, Administrathe foreclosure of the right Date of Publication: TRUCKS, RV’S. THE or Afro-American tors,TRUSTEE Grantees, OF Assigns Magistrate Judge Renee of redemption in the real April 21, 2017 LUTHERAN MISSION Successors KURTinOLSEN Washington Right, Title, Raymond property, described as Name of newspaper: GIFT TRUST 2012 Law Reporter Interest, and Any and all SOCIETY. Your dona(Signed in chambers) Square: 0069, Lot: 0829, Afro-American 13317 Drews Lane p e r s o n s h a v i n g o r Marquita Moye, Esq which property may also Washington tion helps local families claiming Potomac, MDany 20854 to have interPersonal be known as a lot compris- Law Reporter with food, clothing, est in the leasehold or fee Representative TYPESET: 08 17:27:36 EDTJ.2017 Robert George ing part of aTue wall Aug located 07/7, 07/21, And shelter, counseling. Tax simple in the property and between improved real Personal premises situate, lying properties known as 1333 Representative TRUE TEST COPY deductible. MVA License and being KURT OLSEN, in the District of REGISTER OF WILLS 22nd Street NW andof 1335 Superior Court TRUSTEE OF THEas: #W1044. 410-636-0123 Columbia described 2 2 n d S t rthe e e t , N W i n TRUE TEST COPY DEBRA M. Lot OLSEN Square 0069 0829.

Washington, D.C., which 08/4, 08/11, 08/18/17 or www.LutheranMisREGISTER OF WILLS TYPESET: Tue Aug 08 District of Columbia 2012 MayGIFT also TRUST be known as a property was DIVISION sold by the sionSociety.org PROBATE 13317 Drewspart Lane lot comprising of a Mayor of the District of 04/21, TYPESET: Tue Aug 08 17:28:21 EDT 2017 04/28, 05/5/17 Washington, D.C. Potomac, MD 20854 Columbia to the Plaintiff in 20001-2131 SUPERIOR COURT OF this action.

Administration No. Substitute Plaintiffs THE DISTRICT OF BUSINESS The Amended Complaint Superior Court of 2017ADM858 COLUMBIA states, among other SERVICES the District of Frances O Holman vs PROBATE DIVISION things, that the amounts District of Columbia Decedent Washington, D.C. necessary for redemption Bulk advertising at its FRITS JACOBSE PROBATE DIVISION Edward Love Esq 20001-2131 have not Tbeen paid. best: advertise in over LEVITAN Washington, D.C. Ortman, Love & HuckForeign No. Accordingly, it is this 12th Address Unknown 20001-2131 abay 2017FEP80 70 newspapers and reach day of June, 2017, hereby Administration No. 4816 Moorland Lane Date of Death ORDERED by the Supermillions of readers with And 1996ADM2441 Bethesda, May 9, 2017 ior Court of MD the 20814 District of ONE call. Broaden your Attorney Columbia, that service Viola E Garrett John Henry Harris UNKNOWN PERSONAL Decedent NOTICE OF upon Defendants Frits Decedent reach and get results for REPRESENTATIVE APPOINTMENT, Jacobse Levitan, the Un- W Alton Lewis, Equire NOTICE OF pennies per reader. Call OF THE ESTATE OF knownNOTICE Personal TORepre- 1450 Mercantile Lane, APPOINTMENT THOMAS J. LANE, JR. Wanda at 410-212-0616 sentative of the Estate of Suite 155 CREDITORS OF FOREIGN Address Unknown Thomas Lane, Jr., AND J. NOTICE TO and Largo, Maryland 20774 or email wsmith@mdPERSONAL theUNKNOWN Unknown Heirs and Attorney HEIRS REPRESENTATIVE dcpress.com.

And LegateesAnn of Sucato Thomasand J. NOTICE OF Patricia AND Lane, F Jr., be made by APPOINTMENT, James Holman, whose NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS insertion of a copy of this NOTICE TO addresses are 4714 48th Place a business card ad CREDITORS AND o r d e r NW., i n T Washinghe Afro CREDITORS Street, Gennie Lee Harris in the Regional Small LEGATEES OF American Newspaper and AND NOTICE TO ton, DC 20016, and 4320 whose address is 4670 THOMAS J. LANE, JR. Law Display 2x2/2x4 AdUNKNOWN HEIRS 4the 6 tDaily h SWashington treet, NW ., Plymouth Court, Waldor, Address Unknown Reporter, newspapers vertising Network – Let Washington DC 20016 Shirley Mathis, whose MD 20602 was aphaving a general circula- address is 11318 Evans were appointed personal pointed personal repreAnd MDDC help you grow tion in the District of representatives the Trail., #201, Beltsville, sentative of the estate of Columbia, twice aofmonth your business! Call TOestate of Frances O Hol- MD 20705, was apJohn Henry Harris, de22nd LP for three consecutive DAY at 410-212-0616 to man, who died on 2401 Cedarwood Drive months, notifying anyJune and pointed personal repre- ceased by the Orphans sentative of the estate of 21, 2017 with a will, and Bloomington, IN 47401 Court for Charles increase your customer all persons interested in will serve without Court the above described real Viola E Garrett, who died C o u n t y, S t a t e o f base and get results. supervision.

All unknown And property to appear in this on December 27, 1996 Maryland, on May 30, heirs andor before heirs whose Court on the 4th with a will, and will serve 2017 THE DISTRICT OF whereabouts are unday of October, 2017, and without Court supervi- Service of process may Place your ad on COLUMBIA known shall enter their sion. All unknown heirs be made upon Gloria redeem the real property Facebook;Twitter; Serve: Mayor of the abpyp epaar aynmc ee ni nt o t hfi s a n d h e i r s w h o s e Mathis 1700 Mass Ave, LinkedIN and Google District of Columbia proceeding.

Objections $12,434.63, together with whereabouts are un- SE, Washington, DC interest the date (or the known shall enter their 20003 whose designato such from appointment Ads Words through Muriel Bowser realthe property taxofcertifto probate de- a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s tion as District of ColumMDDC’s Social Media Attn: Office of the icate was purchased; cedent´s will) shall be proceeding. Objections bia agent has been filed Secretary Ad Network; Call today courtwith costs; reasonable filed the Register of to such appointment (or with the Register of Wills, 1350 Pennsylvania Aveattorney’s fees;515 expenses Wills, D.C., 5th to the probate of de- D.C. to find out maximize nue, N.W., #419 incurredN.W., in the publication Street, 3rd Floor cedent´s will) shall be The decedent owned the your presence on Social Washington, DC 20001 and service of process; filed with the Register of f o l l o w i n g D i s t r i c t o f Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Media; 410-212-0616; and all other amounts in Wills, D.C., 515 5th 20001, on or before Colombia real property: Serve: Attorney General accordance with the provior email Wanda Smith J a n u a r y 2 8 , 2 0 1 8 . Street, N.W., 3rd Floor 5341 Nannie Helen Burof the District of Columbia sions of D.C. Official Code W a s h i n g t o n , D .

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Attn: Darlene Fields §§ 47-1361 through cedent shall be 1377, pre- 20001, on or before 441 4th Street, NW et seq., or answer the J a n u a r y 2 8 , 2 0 1 8 . Washington, DC 20019 com sented to the underClaims against the deWashington, DC 20001 Amended Complaint, or, signed with a a copy the Claims against the de- cedent may be prethereafter, final tojudgRegister or forefiled cedent shall be pre- sented to the underAnd ment will of be Wills entered EDUCATION/CAREER with the Register closing the rightofofWills re- sented to the under- signed and filed with the TRAINING with a copy to the underAll Unknown Owners of demption in the real signed with a copy to the Register of Wills for the signed, on vesting or before the Property described property and in the Register of Wills or filed District of Columbia, AIRLINE MECHANIC January be with the Register of Wills Building A, 515 5th below, their Heirs, PerPlaintiff a28, title2018, in feeorsimsonal Representatives, forever barred. Persons with a copy to the under- Street, NW., 3rd Floorple.

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FAA certification to fix tors, Grantees, Assigns or legatees of the decedent Magistrate Judge Renee January 28, 2018, or be 20001 within 6 months Successors in Right, Title, planes. Financial Aid who do not receive a forever barred. Persons from the date of first pubRaymond Interest, and Any and all copy(Signed of this notice by mail believed to be heirs or lication of this notice. in chambers) if qualified. Approved persons having or within 25 days of its first legatees of the decedent Gennie Lee Harris for military benefits. claiming to have any interpublication shall so in- who do not receive a Personal Call Aviation Institute of est in the leasehold or fee form the Register of copy of this notice by mail 07/7, 07/21, Representative(s) simple in the property and within 25 days of its first Wills, including name, TRUE TEST COPY Maintenance 866-823premises situate, lying address and relation- publication shall so inREGISTER OF WILLS 6729 and being in the District of form the Register of ship.

Date of first publication: Columbia described as: Wills, including name, July 28, 2017 Date of Publication: Square 0069 Lot 0829. address and relation- Name of newspapers July 28, 2017 May alsoEDT be known TYPESET: Tue Aug 08 17:31:15 2017 as a Name of newspaper: HELP WANTED ship. and/or periodical: lot comprising part of a Date of Publication: Afro-American The Daily Washington wall located between July 28, 2017 Washington EARN $500 A DAY: Law Reporter improved real propIN THE SUPERIOR Name of newspaper: Law Reporter The Afro-American LincolnCOURT Heritage Life erties known as 1333 TYPESET: Tue Aug 08 Patricia Ann Sucato Afro-American 07/28, 08/4, 08/11/17 22nd Street NW and Insurance OFWants THE InsurJames F Holman Washington 22nd Street, NW in DISTRICT Personal Law Reporter ance Agents* Leads, No 1335 Washington, D.C. OF COLUMBIA Superior Court of Shirley Mathis Representative Cold Calls*Commissions Defendants CIVIL DIVISION the District of Personal PaidCivil Daily*Agency Action No. Columbia Representative TRUE TEST COPY ORDER OF 2012 CA 006633 L(RP) PROBATE DIVISION Training*Life Insurance REGISTER OF WILLS PUBLICATION (Action Washington, D.C. TRUE TEST COPY Required.

Call 1-888TYPESET: Aug 08 17:27:57 EDT Involving 20001-2131 REGISTER OF 2017 WILLS 07/28, 08/4,Tue 08/11/17 In accordance with D.C. 713-6020 Real Property) Administration No. Code §§ 47-1375 and TYPESET: Tue Aug 08 17:24:14 EDT 2017 2017ADM823 07/28, 08/4, 08/11/12 13-341, the object of this Superior Court of William C Powell proceeding is to secure REAL ESTATE DEBRA M. OLSEN, the District of Decedent the foreclosure of the right Superior Court of TRUSTEE OF THE District of Columbia NOTICE OF FOR SALE of redemption in the real the District KURT OLSEN PROBATE DIVISION APPOINTMENT, property, described as GIFT TRUST 2012 of Columbia Washington, D.C. NOTICE TO Delaware New MoveSquare: 0069, Lot: 0829, 13317 Drews Lane PROBATE DIVISION 20001-2131 CREDITORS which property may also InPotomac, Ready Homes!

MD 20854 Washington, D.C. Administration No. AND NOTICE TO be known as a lot comprisLow Taxes! Close to 20001-2131 2017ADM404 UNKNOWN HEIRS ing part of a wall located And Administration No. Beaches, Timothy Powell, whose between improved real Lyndale H. George 2017ADM413 properties known as 1333 AKA address is 4409 SilverGated, Olympic pool.

KURT OLSEN, Lucius Linus 22nd Street NW and 1335 L y n d a l e R o b e r t a brook Lane #303, TRUSTEE OF THE New Homes from low Amorsingh 2 2 n d S t r e e t , N W i n George Owings Mills, MD 21117 DEBRA M. OLSEN Decedent Washington, D.C., which Decedent $100’s.

No HOA Fees. was appointed personal GIFT TRUST 2012 property was sold by the Marquita Moye Michael R. Mason, Esq representative of the Brochures Available 13317 Drews Lane Mayor of the District of 6010 Executive Blvd, 504 Brummel Court, estate of William C Potomac, MD 20854 1-866-629-0770 or Columbia to the Plaintiff in Suite 900 NW Powell, who died on May this action.

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Rockville, MD 20852 Substitute Plaintiffs The Amended Complaint Attorney Attorney and will serve without states, among other NOTICE OF NOTICE OF Court supervision. All unvs things, that the amounts APPOINTMENT, SERVS./MISC. APPOINTMENT, known heirs and heirs necessary for redemption NOTICE TO NOTICE TO whose where-abouts are FRITS JACOBSE have not been paid.

IncreaseLEVITAN your customer CREDITORS CREDITORS unknown shall enter their Accordingly, it is this 12th AND NOTICE TO AND NOTICE TO base and getUnknown great results day of June, 2017, hereby appearance in this Address UNKNOWN HEIRS UNKNOWN HEIRS proceeding. Objections by placing your ads in ORDERED by the SuperMarquita Moye Esquire, Robert J. George, whose to such appointment And ior Court of the District of the MDDC – Classified whose address is 504 a d d r e s s i s 9 2 2 4 shall be filed with the Columbia, that service Brummel Court, NW, Register of Wills, D.C., AdvertisingPERSONAL network!

UNKNOWN upon Defendants Frits Aldershot Dr., Bethesda, Washington, DC 20012, 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd REPRESENTATIVE Call today 410-212-0616 Jacobse Levitan, the Un- MD 20817, was apwas appointed personal Floor Washington, D.C. OF THE ESTATE OF known Personal Repre- pointed personal repreAsk for Multi-Media representative of the 20001, on or before THOMAS J. LANE, JR. sentative of the estate of sentative of the Estate of estate of Lucius Linus J a n u a r y 2 8 , 2 0 1 8 .

Specialist & Address-Wanda Unknown Thomas J. Lane, Jr., and Lyndale H. George AKA Amorsingh, who died on Claims against the dewatch your results grow. the Unknown Heirs and L y n d a l e R o b e r t a And September 6, 2010 witha cedent shall be preLegatees of Thomas J. George, who died on will, and will serve (with, sented to the underLane, Jr., be made by October 1, 2016 with a UNKNOWN HEIRS without) Court supervi- signed with a copy to the insertion of a copy of this will, and will serve withAND sion. All unknown heirs Register of Wills or filed o r d e r i n T h e A f r o out Court supervision. All LEGATEES OF a n d h e i r s w h o s e with the Register of Wills American Newspaper and unknown heirs and heirs THOMAS J. LANE, JR. the Daily Washington Law whose where-abouts are whereabouts are un- with a copy to the under-

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Objections SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNEES, OR PERSONAL to such appointment REPRESENTATIVES shallALIENEES, be filed with the TYPESET: Tue Aug 08 HEIRS, 17:29:31 EDT 2017 SUCCESSORS, TYPESET: OFTue Aug 08 Register of Wills, D.C., OR PERSONAL LEGAL NOTICES TYPESET: LEGAL NOTICES Tue Aug 3rd 08 17:23:42 EDT 2017 LEGAL NOTICES WESLEY CLARKSON, 515 5th Street, N.W., REPRESENTATIVES DECEASED Floor Washington, D.C. OF Superior Court of Address Unknown Address Unknown IN THE SUPERIOR TYPESET: Tue Aug 08 17:23:42 20001,EDT onCLARKSON, or2017 before FebEDWARD the COURT IN THE ruary 4,SUPERIOR 2018. Claims DECEASED District of Columbia And OF THE DISTRICT OF COURT Address Unknown against the decedent And DIVISION COLUMBIA OF THE shall be DISTRICT presented OF to the INPROBATE THE SUPERIOR CHERYLL ALSTON Washington, D.C. CIVIL DIVISION And KIMBERLY THOMAS COLUMBIA undersigned with a copy COURT GUICE, of Wesley Clarkson) Action No. CIVIL DIVISION to the Register of Wills or (Heir Civil OF THE 20001-2131 DISTRICT OF PERSONAL Administration No. CHERYLL ALSTON Address Unknown 2011 CA 004013 L(RP) Civil Action No. filed with the Register of COLUMBIA REPRESENTATIVE 2017ADM592 GUICE, (Action Involving 2011 004013 L(RP) WillsCA with a copy to the CIVIL DIVISION OF THE ESTATE OF PERSONAL And Real Property) Julia S Wayne (Action Involving undersigned, on or beCivil Action No. EUGENE W. ALSTON REPRESENTATIVE Calendar 18 Decedent Real Property) 2011 CA 004013 L(RP) fore February 4, 2018, or 3012 Roberts Court #C OF THE ESTATE ANGELA CLARKSON Magistrate NOTICE OF Calendar 18 OF Per(Action Involving be forever barred.

HighJudge Point, NC 27260 EUGENE W. ALSTON Wesley Clarkson) Raymond Magistrate APPOINTMENT, Real Property) sons believed to be heirs (Heir of 3012 Roberts Court #C deAddress Unknown Raymond NOTICE Calendar 18 TO or Judge legatees of the And High Point, NC 27260 JOSE A. DIAZ-ASPER CREDITORS Magistrate cedent who do not re- And 2803 Olive Avenue NW JOSE ANDRaymond NOTICE TO Judge ceiveA.a DIAZ-ASPER copy of this notice Washington, THE UNKNOWN And DC 20007 2803 Olivewithin Avenue UNKNOWN HEIRS by mail 25 NW days of ELIZABETH DEVISEES, CLARKSON PLAINTIFF Washington, DC 20007 JOSE A. DIAZ-ASPER Dana Wayne , whose ad- its first publication shall LEGATEES, THE UNKNOWN (Heir of Wesley Clarkson) 2803 OliveisAvenue NW dress 4545 C Street, PLAINTIFF so inform the Register of vs DEVISEES, 1205ASSIGNEES, Somerset Road Washington, DC 20007 DC SE, Washington, Wills, including name, ALIENEES, LEGATEES, Raleigh, NC 27610 PLAINTIFF 20019, was appointed vsaddress and relation- HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNEES, THE UNKNOWN personal representative ship.ALIENEES, OR PERSONAL And DEVISEES, THE UNKNOWN vs of the estate of Julia S Date REPRESENTATIVES ofSUCCESSORS, Publication: HEIRS,DEVISEES, LEGATEES, Wayne , who died on July August OF HENRY CLARKSON, 4, 2017 ORLEGATEES, PERSONAL HAMPTON CLARKSON ASSIGNEES, THE UNKNOWN 24, 2013 without a will, REPRESENTATIVES Name of newspaper: (Heir ofDECEASED Wesley Clarkson) ALIENEES, ASSIGNEES, andDEVISEES, will serve without OF Address Unknown HENRY CLARKSON, 1205 Somerset Road Afro-American HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ALIENEES, LEGATEES, Court supervision. All un- Washington DECEASED Raleigh, NC 27610 OR PERSONAL SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNEES, AndREPRESENTATIVES known heirs and heirs HEIRS, Address Unknown Law Reporter OR PERSONAL ALIENEES, whose where-abouts are REPRESENTATIVES Thelma Ann Fenwick And OF FRANK CLARKSON, HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, THE UNKNOWN unknown shall enter their And Personal DECEASED OF FRANK CLARKSON, DEVISEES, a OR p p ePERSONAL arance in this ROGER CLARKSON Address Unknown Representative DECEASED REPRESENTATIVES proceeding. Objections THE UNKNOWN (Heir ofLEGATEES, Wesley Clarkson) Address Unknown OFto FRANK ASSIGNEES, DEVISEES, 7815 Crenshaw Blvd, such CLARKSON, appointment TRUE And TEST COPY DECEASED ALIENEES, LEGATEES, Apt. 5 shall be Unknown filed with the And REGISTER OF WILLS Address HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNEES, Los Angeles, CA 90043 Register of Wills, D.C., THE UNKNOWN OR PERSONAL ALIENEES, DEVISEES, 08/4, 08/11, 08/18/17 THE UNKNOWN TYPESET: Tue Aug 08 And 17:24:38 EDT 2017 And515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd HEIRS, REPRESENTATIVES SUCCESSORS, Floor Washington, D.C. LEGATEES, DEVISEES, OF ORLEGATEES, PERSONAL 20001, on or before ASSIGNEES, THE UNKNOWN VIRGINIA CLARKSON, REPRESENTATIVES SCOTT CLARKSON December 30, 2017.

ALIENEES, ASSIGNEES, DEVISEES, SuperiorOF Court the of (Heir ofDECEASED Wesley Clarkson) Claims against the deHEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ALIENEES, LEGATEES, Address Unknown theCLARKSON, District VIRGINIA 7134 Bluff Wood OR PERSONAL cedent shall be pre- HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNEES, of Columbia DECEASED Charlotte, NC 28212 sented to the underOR PERSONAL ALIENEES, AndREPRESENTATIVES PROBATE DIVISION Address Unknown OF JULIA CLARKSON, signed with a copy to the REPRESENTATIVES HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, Washington, D.C. And DECEASED Register of Wills or filed OF JULIA CLARKSON, OR PERSONAL SAMUEL CLARKSON And DECEASED 20001-2131 AddressUnknown Unknown with the Register of Wills REPRESENTATIVES Address KENNETH CLARKSON Administration No. Address Unknown a copy to the under- SAMUEL OFwith JULIA CLARKSON, CLARKSON Address Unknown 2017ADM846 And signed, on or before DECEASED Address Unknown Lynne Marie Gallagher And Address Unknown December 30, 2017, or And And THE UNKNOWN Decedent be forever barred. Per- And THE UNKNOWN E Mirkin Esq DEVISEES, THE UNKNOWN Andsons believed to be heirs Aubrey DEVISEES, KEITH CLARKSON 54 State Circle LEGATEES, DEVISEES, or legatees of the deLEGATEES, THE UNKNOWN Address Unknown ASSIGNEES, Annapolis, MD 21401 LEGATEES, THE UNKNOWN ASSIGNEES, cedent who do not reDEVISEES, ALIENEES, Attorney ASSIGNEES, DEVISEES, ALIENEES, ceive a copy of this notice LEGATEES, And HEIRS, NOTICE OF ALIENEES, LEGATEES, HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, by mail within 25 days of ASSIGNEES, SUCCESSORS, HEIRS, APPOINTMENT, OR PERSONAL its ASSIGNEES, first publication shall ALIENEES, CHARLTON CLARKSON OR PERSONAL SUCCESSORS, NOTICE TO ALIENEES, REPRESENTATIVES SUCCESSORS, Address Unknown so inform the Register of HEIRS, REPRESENTATIVES ORCREDITORS PERSONAL HEIRS, OF OR PERSONAL Wills, including name, REPRESENTATIVES OF BESSIE CANTY, AND NOTICE TO SUCCESSORS, SAMUEL CLARKSON And address and relation- REPRESENTATIVES DECEASED OF BESSIE CANTY, UNKNOWN HEIRS OR PERSONAL Address Unknown OF ship.

Address Unknown DECEASED REPRESENTATIVES Andrea L Gallagher, SAMUEL CLARKSON THE UNKNOWN Date of Publication: Address Unknown OF BESSIE CANTY, whose address is 2509 And DEVISEES, Address Unknown June 30, 2017 And DECEASED Cipriani Boulevard, LEGATEES, Name of Unknown newspaper: And Address WILLIE CYRUS Belmont, CA 94002 was And ASSIGNEES, Afro-American WILLIAM CHARLTON CLARKSON appointed personal reALIENEES, CANTY WILLIAM CHARLTON AndWashington Address Unknown presentative of the estate WILLIE CYRUS HEIRS, (Heir of Bessie Canty) Law Reporter CANTY of Lynne Marie GalSUCCESSORS, Address Unknown Dana Wayne (HeirCLARKSON of Bessie Canty) WILLIAM CHARLTON And OR lagher, who died on June Address Unknown PERSONAL Address Unknown CANTY Personal 13, REPRESENTATIVES 2017 without a will, And Representative (Heir of Bessie Canty) THE UNKNOWN And OF and And will serve without Address Unknown DEVISEES, EMMA RICHBURG, Court supervision. All unJOSEPH CANTY TRUE TEST COPY LEGATEES, THE UNKNOWN DECEASED known heirs and heirs (Heir of Bessie Canty) JOSEPH CANTY AndREGISTER OF WILLS ASSIGNEES, DEVISEES, Address Unknown whose whereabouts are Address Unknown (Heir of Bessie Canty) ALIENEES, LEGATEES, unknown shall enter their Address Unknown JOSEPH 06/30, 7/7,CANTY 7/14/17 HEIRS, TYPESET: Tue Aug 08 17:24:59 EDT 2017 ASSIGNEES, And a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s And (Heir of Bessie Canty) SUCCESSORS, ALIENEES, proceeding.

Objections And Address Unknown OR PERSONAL HEIRS, THE UNKNOWN CHARLOTTE CANTY to such appointment REPRESENTATIVES SUCCESSORS, DEVISEES, (Heir of Bessie Canty) shall be filedCANTY with the CHARLOTTE And Superior Court of OF ORofPERSONAL LEGATEES, the Address Unknown Register of Wills, D.C., (Heir Bessie Canty) WILLIE CYRUS REPRESENTATIVES ASSIGNEES, District of Columbia Address Unknown 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd CHARLOTTE CANTY CLARKSON, OF ALIENEES, PROBATE Floor Washington, D.C. And DECEASED (Heir of BessieDIVISION Canty) WILLIE CYRUS HEIRS, Washington, D.C. And 20001, on or before FebAddress Unknown Address Unknown CLARKSON, SUCCESSORS, YVONNE CANTY 20001-2131 ruaryDECEASED 4, 2018. Claims OR PERSONAL (Heir of Bessie Canty) YVONNE CANTY And Administration No. against the decedent And Address Unknown REPRESENTATIVES Address Unknown (Heir of Bessie Canty) 2017ADM835 shall be presented to the OF Address Unknown Doris Elaine Giles Gill And YVONNE CANTY undersigned with a copy THEE. UNKNOWN EDNA DRAYTON, Decedent (Heir of Bessie Canty) to the Register of Wills or And DECEASED DEVISEES, And Address UnknownEsq Sylvia J Rolinski LEGATEES, filed with the Register of THE UNKNOWN (Heir of Emma THE UNKNOWN 14915 River Road ASSIGNEES, WillsDEVISEES, with a copy to the Richburg) DEVISEES, THE UNKNOWN And Potomac, MD 20854 ALIENEES, undersigned, on or beLEGATEES, Address Unknown LEGATEES, DEVISEES, HEIRS, Attorney foreASSIGNEES, February 4, 2018, or ASSIGNEES, LEGATEES, THE NOTICE UNKNOWN SUCCESSORS, OF ALIENEES, And be forever barred.

PerASSIGNEES, DEVISEES, ORALIENEES, PERSONAL APPOINTMENT, HEIRS, to be heirs sons ALIENEES, believed HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, LEGATEES, REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE TO THE UNKNOWN or SUCCESSORS, legatees of the deOR PERSONAL HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNEES, OF CREDITORS OR PERSONAL DEVISEES, cedent who do not reREPRESENTATIVES OR PERSONAL ALIENEES, WESLEY CLARKSON, REPRESENTATIVES LEGATEES, AND NOTICE TO ceive a copy of this notice OF REPRESENTATIVES HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, DECEASED OF ASSIGNEES, UNKNOWN HEIRS by mail within 25 Aug days of TYPESET: 08 17:23:42 EDT 2017 EDWARD CLARKSON, OFTue OR PERSONAL Address Unknown TYPESET: Tue Aug 08 17:23:42 EDT 2017 CLARKSON, ALIENEES, Robbie D Gill , whose ad- WESLEY its first publication shall DECEASED EDWARD CLARKSON, REPRESENTATIVES DECEASED HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, dress is 6119 41st Ave., so inform the Register of Address Unknown DECEASED OF Address Unknownname, And OR PERSONAL Hyattsville, MD, 20872 Wills, including IN THE SUPERIOR EDWARD CLARKSON, REPRESENTATIVES was appointed personal IN THE SUPERIOR address and relationAnd COURT DECEASED KIMBERLY THOMAS representative of the And COURT ship.

OF THE DISTRICT OF (Heir of Wesley Clarkson) estate of Doris OF Elaine Date of OF THE DISTRICT CHERYLL ALSTON Publication: COLUMBIA CHERYLL ALSTON Address Unknown Giles Gill, who died on August COLUMBIA GUICE, 4, 2017 CIVIL DIVISION GUICE, May 17,DIVISION 2017 without a Name PERSONAL CIVIL of Action newspaper: Civil No. PERSONAL And REPRESENTATIVE will, and will serve Civil Action No. with- Afro-American 2011 CA 004013 L(RP) REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF 2011 CA 004013 L(RP) All Washington out Court supervision.

(Action Involving OF THE ESTATE OF ANGELA CLARKSON EUGENE W. ALSTON (Action Involving unknown heirs and heirs Law Reporter Real W. Property) EUGENE ALSTON (Heir of Wesley 3012 RobertsClarkson) Court #C Real whereabouts Property) whose are Andrea L Gallagher Calendar 18 3012 Roberts Court #C Address Unknown High Point, NC 27260 Calendar 18 unknown shall enter their Personal Magistrate High Point, NC 27260 Magistrate appe arance in this JudgeRepresentative Raymond And And Judge Raymond proceeding.

Objections And to such appointment JOSE DIAZ-ASPER TRUEA. TEST COPY ELIZABETH CLARKSON THE UNKNOWN JOSE A. DIAZ-ASPER shall be filed with the 2803 Olive Avenue NW REGISTER OF WILLS THE UNKNOWN (Heir of Wesley Clarkson) DEVISEES, 2803 Olive Avenue NWD.C., Washington, DC 20007 Register of Wills, DEVISEES, 1205 Somerset Road LEGATEES, Washington, DC 20007 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd PLAINTIFF 08/4, 08/11, 08/18/17 LEGATEES, Raleigh, NC ASSIGNEES, PLAINTIFF Tue Aug 08 17:26:23 EDT 27610 2017 Floor Washington, D.C. TYPESET: ASSIGNEES, ALIENEES, 20001, on or before Feb- vs ALIENEES, And HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, vs ruary 4, 2018. Claims HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, OR PERSONAL Superior Court of THE UNKNOWN against the decedent OR PERSONAL HAMPTON CLARKSON REPRESENTATIVES THEbe UNKNOWN the DEVISEES, shall presented to the REPRESENTATIVES (Heir of Wesley Clarkson) OF HENRY CLARKSON, DEVISEES, District of Columbia LEGATEES, 1205 Somerset Road undersigned with a copy OF HENRY CLARKSON, DECEASED LEGATEES, ASSIGNEES, PROBATE DIVISION DECEASED Raleigh, NC 27610 to the Register of Wills or Address Unknown ASSIGNEES, ALIENEES, Washington, D.C. Address Unknown filedALIENEES, with the Register of SUCCESSORS, And 20001-2131 Wills with a copy to the HEIRS, And HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, OR PERSONALNo. undersigned, on or be- And Administration OR PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES ROGER CLARKSON 2017ADM444 fore February 4, 2018, or THE UNKNOWN REPRESENTATIVES FRANK CLARKSON, (Heir of Wesley THE UNKNOWN Clarkson) Shirley Madison forever barred. Per- OF DEVISEES, OFbe FRANK CLARKSON, DECEASED DEVISEES, 7815 Crenshaw Blvd, LEGATEES, sonsDECEASED believed to be heirs Decedent Address Unknown LEGATEES, Apt. 5 NOTICE OF ASSIGNEES, orAddress legatees of the deUnknown ASSIGNEES, Los Angeles, CA 90043 APPOINTMENT, ALIENEES, cedent who do not reAnd ALIENEES, NOTICE TO HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ceive a copy of this notice And HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, And CREDITORS OR PERSONAL by mail within 25 days of THE UNKNOWN OR PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES AND NOTICE TO itsTHE firstUNKNOWN publication shall REPRESENTATIVES DEVISEES, SCOTT CLARKSON OF UNKNOWN HEIRS so inform the Register of DEVISEES, LEGATEES, OF whose ad- (Heir of Wesley Clarkson) VIRGINIA CLARKSON, Carl Allen, Wills, including name, VIRGINIA LEGATEES, ASSIGNEES, CLARKSON, 7134 Bluff Wood DECEASED is 2431 Irving St. ASSIGNEES, address and relation- dressDECEASED ALIENEES, Charlotte, 28212 AddressNC Unknown Se, Washington, ship.ALIENEES, HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, Address Unknown DC 20020 was appointed And HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, Date of Publication: OR PERSONAL And personal representative OR PERSONAL August 4, 2017 REPRESENTATIVES And of the estate of Shirley KENNETH CLARKSON REPRESENTATIVES Name of newspaper: OF JULIA CLARKSON, SAMUEL CLARKSON OFAfro-American JULIA CLARKSON, Madison , who died on DECEASED SAMUEL CLARKSON Address AddressUnknown Unknown DECEASED February 9, 2017 without Washington Address Unknown Address Unknown Address Unknown a will, and will serve withLaw Reporter And And out Court supervision. All And Robbie D. Gill And And KEITH Personal unknown heirs and heirs THECLARKSON UNKNOWN whereabouts THEUNKNOWN UNKNOWN are THE Address Unknown Representative whose DEVISEES, THE UNKNOWN unknown shall enter their DEVISEES, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s LEGATEES, And TRUE TEST COPY ASSIGNEES, LEGATEES, ASSIGNEES, ASSIGNEES, proceeding.

Objections REGISTER OF WILLS ALIENEES, ASSIGNEES, ALIENEES, ALIENEES, CLARKSON to such appointment CHARLTON HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ALIENEES, HEIRS, HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, Address Unknown shall be filed 2017 with the TYPESET: Tue Aug 08 17:25:51 EDT 08/4, 08/11, 08/18/17 OR PERSONAL HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, OR PERSONAL Register of Wills, D.C., REPRESENTATIVES SUCCESSORS, OR REPRESENTATIVES 515 5th PERSONAL Street, N.W., 3rd And OF OR PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OF Floor Washington, D.C. SAMUEL CLARKSON Superior Court of REPRESENTATIVES OF BESSIE CANTY, SAMUEL CLARKSON THE UNKNOWN 20001, on or before FebAddress Unknown OF BESSIEthe CANTY, DECEASED Address Unknown DEVISEES, ruary 4, 2018.

Claims District of Columbia DECEASED Address Unknown LEGATEES, And against the decedent PROBATE DIVISION And Address Unknown ASSIGNEES, shall be presented to the Washington, D.C. And ALIENEES, WILLIE CYRUS undersigned with a copy And 20001-2131 WILLIE CYRUS HEIRS, CLARKSON toWILLIAM the Register of Wills or Administration No. CHARLTON CLARKSON SUCCESSORS, Address Unknown filed withCANTY the Register of WILLIAM CHARLTON 2017ADM849 Address Unknown OR PERSONAL Wills a copy to the Lloyd CANTY Terrell (Heirwith of Bessie Canty) REPRESENTATIVES And undersigned, on or be(Heir AKAof Bessie Canty) Address Unknown And OF Address Unknown fore February 4, 2018, or Lloyd F Fenwick EMMA THERICHBURG, UNKNOWN beTHE forever barred. PerDecedent And UNKNOWN DECEASED DEVISEES, And sonsDEVISEES, believed to be heirs NOTICE OF Address Unknown LEGATEES, or legatees of the deJOSEPH CANTY LEGATEES, APPOINTMENT, ASSIGNEES, JOSEPH CANTY cedent doCanty) not re- And (Heir ofwho Bessie ASSIGNEES, NOTICE TO ALIENEES, (Heir ofCREDITORS Bessie Canty) ceive a copyUnknown of this notice Address ALIENEES, HEIRS, Address UnknownTO by mailHEIRS, within 25 days of THE UNKNOWN AND NOTICE SUCCESSORS, And its SUCCESSORS, first publication shall DEVISEES, UNKNOWN HEIRS OR PERSONAL And PERSONAL LEGATEES, inform the Register of Thelma Ann Fenwick so OR REPRESENTATIVES CHARLOTTE CANTY REPRESENTATIVES ASSIGNEES, including name, whose address is 4401 Wills, OF CHARLOTTE CANTY (Heir of Bessie Canty) OF ALIENEES, and relationWILLIE CYRUS 23rdofParkway, Apt 204, address (Heir Bessie Canty) AddressCYRUS Unknown WILLIE HEIRS, ship.

CLARKSON, Temple Hills, MD 20748, Address Unknown CLARKSON, SUCCESSORS, DECEASED was appointed personal Date of Publication: DECEASED OR PERSONAL August 4, 2017 Address Unknown representative of the And And Address Unknown REPRESENTATIVES Name of newspaper: estate of Lloyd Terrell YVONNE CANTY OF And Afro-American Fenwick, who died on YVONNE CANTY And(Heir of Bessie Canty) EDNA E. DRAYTON, October 8, 2016 without Washington (Heir of Bessie Canty) Address Unknown DECEASED THE UNKNOWN Reporter aAddress will, andUnknown will serve with- Law THE UNKNOWN (Heir of Emma DEVISEES, Carl Allen out Court supervision. All And DEVISEES, Richburg) LEGATEES, Personal And unknown heirs and heirs LEGATEES, Address Unknown ASSIGNEES, Representative whose where-abouts are THE UNKNOWN ASSIGNEES, ALIENEES, THE UNKNOWN unknown shall enter their DEVISEES, ALIENEES, And HEIRS, TRUELEGATEES, TEST COPY a p pDEVISEES, earance in this HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, LEGATEES, OF WILLS proceeding.

Objections REGISTER ASSIGNEES, SUCCESSORS, THE UNKNOWN OR PERSONAL to ASSIGNEES, such appointment OR ALIENEES, PERSONAL DEVISEES, REPRESENTATIVES 08/11, 08/18/17 shallALIENEES, be filed with the 08/4, HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, REPRESENTATIVES LEGATEES, OF HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, OR PERSONAL OF ASSIGNEES, Register of Wills, D.C., WESLEY CLARKSON, OR5th PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES CLARKSON, ALIENEES, 515 Street, N.W., 3rd WESLEY DECEASED REPRESENTATIVES OF DECEASED HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, Floor Washington, D.C. Address Unknown OFor before FebEDWARD CLARKSON, Address Unknown OR PERSONAL 20001, on EDWARD CLARKSON, DECEASED REPRESENTATIVES ruary 4, 2018.

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DECEASED (Heir of Emma Richburg) Address Unknown And THE UNKNOWN DEVISEES, LEGATEES, 17:23:42 EDT 2017 ASSIGNEES, LEGAL NOTICES ALIENEES, Address Unknown HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, And OR PERSONAL And REPRESENTATIVES KIMBERLY OFTHOMAS CHERYLL ALSTON (Heir of Wesley Clarkson) BERTHA HALL WADE, GUICE, Address Unknown DECEASED PERSONAL Address Unknown AndREPRESENTATIVE AndOF THE ESTATE OF EUGENECLARKSON W. ALSTON ANGELA 3012 Roberts Court #C (Heir ofFRANCES Wesley Clarkson) MARY WADE High Point, NC 27260 Address Unknown (Heir of Bertha Hall Wade) 501 Forty-fifth Street, And And NE, Washington, DC 20019 THE UNKNOWN ELIZABETH CLARKSON (Heir of DEVISEES, Wesley Clarkson) And LEGATEES, 1205 Somerset Road ASSIGNEES, Raleigh, NC 27610 AEON FINANCIAL, LLC Serve: ALIENEES, CT Corporation And S yHEIRS, s t e m , SUCCESSORS, Registered Agent OR PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES HAMPTON CLARKSON 1015 15th Street, NW, OF HENRY CLARKSON, (Heir ofSuite Wesley Clarkson) 1000 1205 DECEASED Somerset Road Washington, DC 20005 AddressNC Unknown Raleigh, 27610 And And And HMTR I, LLC THE UNKNOWN ROGER CLARKSON 940 Centre Circle, DEVISEES, (Heir ofSuite Wesley Clarkson) 2005 LEGATEES, 7815 Crenshaw Blvd, Alamonte Springs, FL Apt. 5 32714 ASSIGNEES, ALIENEES, Los Angeles, CA 90043 HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, And And OR PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES JOAQUIN PANIAGUA OF SCOTT CLARKSON c/o VIRGINIA CLARKSON, (Heir of Wesley Clarkson) Ernest C. Raskauskas, DECEASED 7134 Bluff Wood Jr., Esq. Address Unknown Charlotte, 28212 3109 South NC Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 And And And SAMUEL CLARKSON KENNETH Address Unknown Address Unknown THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA And And Serve: Mayor of the District of Columbia THE UNKNOWN KEITH CLARKSON Vincent Gray DEVISEES, Address Unknown Attn: Office of the SecLEGATEES, retary ASSIGNEES, AveAnd Pennsylvania 1350 nue,ALIENEES, N.W., #419 HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, CHARLTON CLARKSON Washington, DC 20001 OR PERSONAL Address Unknown REPRESENTATIVES Serve: Attorney General OF And of the SAMUEL District of CLARKSON Columbia Address Unknown THE UNKNOWN Attn: Darlene Fields 441 DEVISEES, 4th Street, NW And LEGATEES, Washington, DC 20001 ASSIGNEES, CYRUS ALIENEES, And WILLIE CLARKSON HEIRS, Address Unknown SUCCESSORS, All Unknown Owners of OR PERSONAL the Property described And REPRESENTATIVES below, their Heirs, PerOF sonal Representatives, THE RICHBURG, UNKNOWN EMMA Executors, AdministraDEVISEES, DECEASED tors, Grantees, Assigns or LEGATEES, Address Successors inUnknown Right, Title, Interest,ASSIGNEES, and Any and all pAnd e r s o nALIENEES, s having or claiming toHEIRS, have any interSUCCESSORS, THE UNKNOWN est in the leasehold or fee PERSONAL DEVISEES, simpleOR in the property and REPRESENTATIVES LEGATEES, premises situate, lying ASSIGNEES, and being in OF the District of WILLIE CYRUS ALIENEES, Columbia described as: HEIRS, SquareCLARKSON, 0302 Lot 0071.

DECEASED May SUCCESSORS, also be known as Unknown OR PERSONAL 2230Address 1/2 11th Street, NW, REPRESENTATIVES Washington, D.C. And OF EDNA E. DRAYTON, Defendants THE UNKNOWN DECEASED DEVISEES, (Heir of Emma AMENDED ORDER LEGATEES, Richburg) OF PUBLICATION ASSIGNEES, Address Unknown In accordance with D.C. ALIENEES, the Code §47-1345, HEIRS, And object of this proceeding SUCCESSORS, is to secure the forecloORthe PERSONAL UNKNOWN sure THE of right of reREPRESENTATIVES DEVISEES, demption in the real propOFas Square LEGATEES, erty described WESLEY CLARKSON, ASSIGNEES, 0302, Lot 0071, which DECEASED ALIENEES, may also be known as Address Unknown 1 HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, 2230 ⁄2 11th Street, NW, OR PERSONAL Washington, DC, which REPRESENTATIVES property was sold by the And Mayor of the OF District of Columbia toHALL theTHOMAS Plaintiff BERTHA WADE,in KIMBERLY (Heir DECEASED of Wesley Clarkson) Address AddressUnknown Unknown And And MARY FRANCES WADE ANGELA CLARKSON (Heir Bertha Hall Wade) (Heirofof Wesley Clarkson) 501Address Forty-fifth Street, Unknown NE, Washington, DC 20019 And And ELIZABETH CLARKSON (Heir of Wesley Clarkson) AEON LLC 1205FINANCIAL, Somerset Road Serve: CT Corporation Raleigh, NC 27610 System, Registered Agent And 1015 15th Street, NW, Suite 1000 HAMPTON CLARKSON Washington, DCClarkson) 20005 (Heir of Wesley 1205 Somerset Road And Raleigh, NC 27610 And HMTR I, LLC 940 Centre Circle, SuiteCLARKSON 2005 ROGER Alamonte Springs, FL (Heir of Wesley Clarkson) 32714 7815 Crenshaw Blvd, Apt. 5 And Los Angeles, CA 90043 JOAQUIN PANIAGUA And c/o Ernest C. Raskauskas, SCOTT CLARKSON Jr., Esq. Clarkson) (Heir of Wesley 31097134 South Street, NW Bluff Wood Washington, Charlotte, DC NC 20007 28212 And And THE DISTRICT OF KENNETH CLARKSON COLUMBIA Address Unknown Serve: Mayor of the DisAndtrict of Columbia Vincent Gray Attn:KEITH OfficeCLARKSON of the Secretary Address Unknown 1350 Pennsylvania AveAndnue, N.W., #419 Washington, DC 20001 CHARLTON CLARKSON Serve: Attorney General Address Unknown of the District of Columbia And Attn: Darlene Fields 441 4th UNKNOWN Street, NW THE Washington, DC 20001 DEVISEES, LEGATEES, And ASSIGNEES, ALIENEES, All Unknown Owners of HEIRS, the Property described SUCCESSORS, below,OR their Heirs, PERSONALPersonal Representatives, REPRESENTATIVES Executors, OF Administrators,EMMA Grantees, Assigns or RICHBURG, Successors in Right, Title, DECEASED Interest, and Any and all Address Unknown persons having or claiming And to have any interest in the leasehold or fee simpleTHE in the property and UNKNOWN premises situate, lying DEVISEES, and being in the District of LEGATEES, Columbia described as: ASSIGNEES, Square ALIENEES, 0302 Lot 0071.

May also HEIRS, be known as 2230 1/2 11th Street, NW, SUCCESSORS, Washington, D.C. OR PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES Defendants OF EDNA E. DRAYTON, AMENDED ORDER DECEASED OF PUBLICATION (Heir of Emma In accordance with D.C. Richburg) CodeAddress §47-1345, the Unknown object of this proceeding isAnd to secure the foreclosure of the right of redemption the real propTHEinUNKNOWN erty described as Square DEVISEES, 0302, Lot 0071, LEGATEES,which may also be known as ASSIGNEES, 11th Street, NW, 2230 1⁄2 ALIENEES, Washington, DC, which HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, property sold by the ORwas PERSONAL Mayor of the District of REPRESENTATIVES Columbia to the Plaintiff in

OF PUBLICATION the 20001, on or before FebNOTICE TO In accordance with D.C. District of Columbia ruary 11, 2018. Claims CREDITORS Code §47-1345, the PROBATE DIVISION against the decedent AND NOTICE TO object of this proceeding Washington, D.C. shall be presented to the UNKNOWN HEIRS is to secure the foreclo20001-2131 sure of the right of re- Robel Tekle , whose ad- undersigned with a copy Administration No. demption in the real prop- dress(es) is 7659 Stana to the Register of Wills or 2017ADM839 erty described as Square Court, Lorton, VA 22079 filed with the Register of 0302, Lot 0071, which was, appointed personal Wills with a copy to the Richard Henry Hamm Decedent may also be known as representative of the undersigned, on or beNOTICE OF 2230 1⁄2 11th Street, NW, estate of Tsehay Tes- fore February 11, 2018, LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES APPOINTMENT, Washington, DC, which famariam, be forever barred. Perwho died on orLEGAL this action.The And OF without sons NOTICE TO property was sold by the October 6, 2016 believed to beAmended heirs Complaint states, among BERTHA HALL WADE, CREDITORS Mayor of the Amended OF District of athis will,action.The and will serve with- or legatees of the deotherwho things, thatre-the KIMBERLY AND NOTICE TO Columbia toHALL theTHOMAS Plaintiff Complaint states, among BERTHA WADE,in out do not CourtDECEASED supervision.

All cedent amounts neccessary for (Heir of Wesley Clarkson) Address Unknown other things, that the DECEASED UNKNOWN HEIRS ceive a copy of this notice this action.The Amended unknown heirs and heirs redemption have not of beenAaron Henry Hamm, Address Unknown amounts neccessaryare for by mail Address Unknown Complaint states, among whose within 25 days whereabouts paid.

Accordingly, it is this And redemption have nottheir been its first publication shall whose address is 908 other things, that the unknown shall enter 25th day July, 2017, And And amounts neccessary for apaid. so inform the of Register of P a r k Te r r a c e , F o r t p p e aAccordingly, r a n c e i n ittis h ithis s hereby ORDERED by theWashington, MD 20744, MARY FRANCES WADE 25th day of July, 2017, redemption have not been proceeding. Objections Wills, including name, Superior Court of the Dis-was appointed personal ANGELA CLARKSON (Heir ofORDERED Bertha Hallby Wade) the MARY FRANCES paid.

Accordingly, itWADE is this tohereby and relationsuch (or address trict of Columbia, that no-representative of the (Heirof ofBertha Wesley Clarkson) 501 appointment Forty-fifth Street, Court ofof thedeDis- ship.

(Heir Hall Wade) 25th day of July, 2017, toSuperior the probate tice be given by the inser-estate of Richard Henry Address Unknown Washington, trictNE, of Columbia, thatDC no- Date 501 Forty-fifth Street, hereby ORDERED by the cedent´s of Publication: will) shall be tion of a copy of this orderHamm, who died on 20019 tice be given by the inserNE, Washington, Superior Court of theDC Dis11,Washington 2017 the Register of August in the AfroAndof Columbia, tion with of a copy of this order 20019 that no- filed trict Name of newspaper: Wills, D.C., 515 5th American, a newspaperOctober 16, 2013 without And in the Washington Afrotice be given by the inser- Street, a will, and will serve withN.W.,a 3rd Floor Afro-American having a general circulaELIZABETH CLARKSON American, newspaper And tion of a copy of this order W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . out Court supervision. All Washington tion in the District of (Heir of Wesley Clarkson) AEON FINANCIAL, LLC having a general circulain the Washington AfroReporter once a weekunknown heirs and heirs or Feb-of LawColumbia, 1205FINANCIAL, Somerset Road Serve: CTbefore Corporation tion inon the District AEON LLC 20001, American, a newspaper Mary Alice Brown whose whereabouts are for three (3) successive Raleigh, NC 27610 S y s t11, e m ,2018 R e gClaims ias tweek ered Columbia, once Serve: Corporation having a CT general circula- ruary Personal weeks, notifying all per-unknown shall enter their Agent for threethe (3) decedent successive S y s tin e mthe , R eDistrict g i s t e r eof d against tion Representative sons interested in the reala p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s And 1015 15th Street, NW, be presented to the weeks, notifying all perAgent Columbia, once a week shall property described aboveproceeding. Objections Suite 1000 with copy sons interested inathe real 1015 15th NW, undersigned for three (3)Street, successive to appear this Court byto such appointment HAMPTON CLARKSON Washington, 20005 TEST in COPY the Register ofDC Wills or TRUE described above Suite 1000 weeks, notifying all per- toproperty the 11th OF day WILLS of October,shall be filed with the (Heir of Wesley with the Register to appear in this Courtofby REGISTER Washington, DC 20005 sons interested inClarkson) the real filed 2017, and redeem the realRegister of Wills, D.C., 1205 described Somerset Road And11th the of October, with day a copy to the property above Wills property payment Raleigh, NC Court 27610by undersigned, 515 5th Street, 2017, and redeem thebereal 08/11, And 08/18,by 08/25/17 TYPESET: Tue Aug 08 of17:22:31 EDT N.W., 2017 3rd on or to appear in this $4,934.72, together withFloor Washington, D.C. HMTR I, LLC property by 11, payment February 2018 orof the 11th day of October, fore interest from the date the And 940 Centre Circle, 20001, on or before Feb$4,934.72, together with HMTR I, LLC 2017, and redeem the real be forever barred. Perreal property tax certif-ruary 4, 2018. Claims Suitethe 2005 interest from date the 940 Centre Circle, of sons property by payment believed to be heirs Superior Court of icate was purchased;against the decedent ROGER CLARKSON Alamonte Springs, FL propertyof tax Suitetogether 2005 with orreal $4,934.72, legatees the certifdethe District of court costs; reasonable (Heir offrom Wesley 32714was icate purchased; Alamonte Springs, shall be presented to the interest the Clarkson) dateFL the cedent who do not reDistrict of Columbia attorney’s fees; expensesundersigned with a copy 7815 Crenshaw Blvd, court costs; reasonable 32714 real property tax certif- ceive a copy of this notice PROBATE DIVISION incurred in the publication Apt. 5 And attorney’s fees; expenses to the Register of Wills or icate was purchased; by mail within 25 days of Washington, and service ofD.C. process;filed with the Register of Los Angeles, CA 90043 in the publication And court costs; reasonable itsincurred first publication shall 20001-2131 and all other amounts in JOAQUIN PANIAGUA and service of process; attorney’s fees; expenses so Wills with a copy to the inform the Register of Administration accordance with No. the provi-undersigned, on or beAnd and all otherc/oamounts in JOAQUIN PANIAGUA incurred in the publication Wills, including name, 2017ADM38 sions of D. C. Official Ernest C. Raskauskas, accordance with the provic/o and service of process; address and relationfore February 4, 2018, or Beairs Code §§ 47-1361 through SCOTT sions of Jr., D. Esq. C. Official Betty Ernest C. CLARKSON Raskauskas, and all other amounts in ship.

1377, et seq., or answerbe forever barred. Per(Heir of Jr., Wesley Clarkson) 3109 Street, NW Decedent Code §§South 47-1361 through Esq.the accordance with provi- Date of et Publication: the NOTICE AmendedOF Complaint,sons believed to be heirs Bluff Washington, 20007 1377, seq., DC or answer 31097134 South Street, NW sions of D. C.Wood Official August 11, 2017Complaint, APPOINTMENT, or, thereafter, a final judg-or legatees of the deCharlotte, NC 28212 the Amended Washington, DC 20007 Code §§ 47-1361 through of newspaper: ment will be entered fore-cedent who do not reAnd NOTICE TO or, thereafter, a final judg1377, et seq., or answer Name closing the right of re- ceive a copy of this notice And CREDITORS ment will be entered foreAnd the Amended Complaint, Afro-American demption in TO the real by mail within 25 days of THEthe DISTRICT AND NOTICE closing right ofOFreor, thereafter, a final judg- Washington Reporter property and HEIRS vesting in theits first publication shall KENNETH CLARKSON COLUMBIA demption in the real THE OF UNKNOWN ment willDISTRICT be entered fore- Law Plaintiff a title ,inwhose fee sim-so inform the Register of Address Unknown Serve: Mayor of the Dis- Joel Tekle property andRobel vesting in the COLUMBIA R Davidson closing the right of reple. tricta of Columbia Personal Plaintiff title in fee sim- address Serve: Mayor the real Disis 611 Penn- Wills, including name, demption in ofthe Andtrictand Vincent Gray Representative ple. of Columbia sylvania Avenue SE, No address and relationproperty vesting in the Magistrate Judge Renee Attn: Office of the Sec- 288, Gray PlaintiffVincent a title in fee simWashington, DC ship.

RaymondDate of Publication: Magistrate Judge Attn:KEITH OfficeCLARKSON of the Sec- TRUE TESTretary COPYRenee 20003 , was appointed ple.

(Signed in chambers) Address Unknown 1350 Pennsylvania AveRaymond personal representative August 4, 2017 retary REGISTER OF WILLS nue, N.W., #419 (Signed in chambers) 1350 Pennsylvania AveMagistrate Judge Renee of the estate of Betty Name of newspaper: Andnue, N.W., Raymond Washington, DC 20001 08/4, 08/11, 08/18/17 TYPESET: Tue Aug 08 17:19:43 EDT Afro-American #419 08/11, 08/18, 08/25/17 Beairs, who 2017 died on Washington, 20001 Washington 08/4, 08/11, 08/18/17 (Signed inDC chambers) CHARLTON CLARKSON Serve: Attorney General September 18, 2009 Law Reporter without a will.

Address Unknown of the TYPESET: Tue Aug 08 17:27:06 EDT 2017 Serve: Attorney General Aaron Henry Hamm 08/4, 08/11, 08/18/17 Superior Court of All unknown heirs and District of Columbia of the Personal the District of heirs whose whereAnd Attn: Darlene Fields District of Columbia Representative District abouts are unknown 441 4th Street, NW Attn: Darlene Fields SUPERIOR COURT OF PROBATE DIVISION THE Washington, DC 20001 shall enter their appear- TRUE TEST COPY 441 4thUNKNOWN Street, NW THE DISTRICT OF Washington, D.C. ance in this proceeding.

DEVISEES, Washington, DC 20001 REGISTER OF WILLS COLUMBIA 20001-2131 Objections to such LEGATEES, And PROBATE DIVISION Administration No. appointment (or to the ASSIGNEES, And 08/04, 08/11,Tue 08/18/17 Washington, D.C. Aug 08 ALIENEES, All 2017ADM861 Unknown Owners of probate of decedent´s TYPESET: 20001-2131 Anderson HEIRS, theC.Property described will) shall be filed with the All Unknown Owners of Raul Administration No. AKA SUCCESSORS, below, their Heirs, Per- Register of Wills, D.C., the Property described 2001ADM1811 Cecilio Anderson ORtheir PERSONAL sonal Representatives, 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd below, Heirs, Per- Raul Superior Court of Estate of REPRESENTATIVES Executors, Administra- Floor Washington, D.C. sonal Representatives, Decedent the Evelyn E. Franklin A Wright-Smith, OF tors, Grantees, Assigns or 20001, on or before FebExecutors, Administra- Vickey District of Columbia Deceased K StreetinNW RICHBURG, Successors Right, Title, ruary 11, 2018. Claims tors,EMMA Grantees, Assigns or 1629 PROBATE DIVISION NOTICE OF Title, #300 DECEASED Interest, and Any and all against the decedent Successors in Right, Washington, D.C. STANDARD Address p e r s o n s hDC a v i20006 n g o r shall be presented to the Interest, and Unknown Any and all Washington, 20001-2131 claiming to have any inter- undersigned with a copy Attorney p e r s oPROBATE ns having or Administration No. And isto hereby est in the leasehold Notice claiming have anygiven interNOTICE OF or fee to the Register of Wills or 0000018-09 simple in the property and filed with the Register of that a the petition has been est in leasehold or fee APPOINTMENT, UNKNOWN premises situate, lying Wills with a copy to the J o s e p h B e n j a m i n filed inTHE this Court

by Nasimple in the property and NOTICE TO Smith DEVISEES, andCREDITORS being in the District of undersigned, on or bepremises thaniel R. situate, Balthroplying for Decedent LEGATEES, Columbia described and being in the District standard probate, in-of AND NOTICE TO as: ASSIGNEES, Square 0302HEIRS Lot 0071. fore February 11, 2018, Jeanne K Aelion Columbia as: cluding thedescribed appointment UNKNOWN or be forever barred.

Per6915 Laurel Bowie May Ellis, also be known Square 0302 0071. Sofia of one orALIENEES, moreLot personal whose ad-as sons believed to be heirs Road 2230is1/2 11th Street, NW, May alsoHEIRS, be known representative.

Unless as a dress 200 43rd Road or legatees of the deBowie, MD 20715 SUCCESSORS, D.C. 2230 1/2 11th Street, NW, NEWashington, complaint or an objection , Unit #303, Washing- cedent who do not re- Attorney i Washington, n a cOR c o rPERSONAL d a nD.C. ce with ton, DC 20019, was apceive a copy of this notice NOTICE OF REPRESENTATIVES Defendants Superior Court Probate pointed personal repre- by mail within 25 days of APPOINTMENT, OF Defendants Division Rule 407 is filed sentative of the estate of its first publication shall NOTICE TO EDNA E. DRAYTON, AMENDED ORDER in this DECEASED Court within 30 Raul OF C Anderson AKA so inform the Register of CREDITORS PUBLICATION AMENDED ORDER days from the date of first Raul Cecilio Anderson , Wills, including name, (Heir of Emma AND NOTICE TO In accordance with D.C. OF PUBLICATION publication of this notice, who died §47-1345, on March 20, Richburg) Code the address and relationUNKNOWN HEIRS In accordance with D.C. the Court may take the 2017 witha will, and will Address Unknown object of this proceeding ship.

Mary S Rhett, whose adCode §47-1345, the action hereinafter set serve su- Date of Publication: is towithout secure Court the foreclodress is 13801 Belle object of this proceeding forth. pervision.

All unknown And sure of the right of reAugust 11, 2017 is to secure the forecloChase Blvd, Unit 210, and heirs whose demption in the real prop- Name of newspaper: sure of the right of re- heirs Laurel MD 20707, was Register of Wills un- Afro-American THE UNKNOWN erty describedare as Square demption in the real prop- where-abouts appointed personal reClerk of the DEVISEES, 0302,shall Lot enter 0071, their which Washington erty described as Square known presentative of the estate Probate Division LEGATEES, may also be known as a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s 0302, Lot 0071, which Law Reporter of Joseph Benjamin Date Firstbe Publication ASSIGNEES, Street, NW, 2230 1⁄2 11th Objections may of also known as proceeding.

Joel R Davidson Smith, who died on May ALIENEES, August 2017 DC, which such appointment (or 11th Street, NW, to Washington, 2230 1⁄24, Personal 23, 2017 without a will, HEIRS, was sold Names of SUCCESSORS, Newspapers: Washington, DC, which to property the probate of by de-the Representative and will serve without OR was PERSONAL Mayor of theshall District Washington property sold by the cedent´s will) be of Court supervision. All unREPRESENTATIVES Columbia the Plaintiff Law Reporter Mayor of the District of filed with thetoRegister of in TRUE TEST COPY known heirs and heirs Columbia to the Plaintiff in Wills, D.C., 515 5th Washington whose whereabouts are this action.The Amended REGISTER OF WILLS OF AFRO-AMERICAN Street, N.W., 3rd Floor thisBERTHA action.The Amended unknown shall enter their Complaint states, among HALL WADE, James EDECEASED Mccollum Jr W aother s h i n gthings, t o n , Dthat . C . theTYPESET: Complaint states, among Aug 08 17:21:24 08/11, 08/18,Tue 08/25/17 a p p e a r aEDT n c e 2017 in this 7309 Baltimore Ave., otherAddress things,Unknown that the 20001, on orneccessary before Feb- for proceeding. Objections amounts Suite 117 amounts neccessary for ruary 11, 2018. redemption haveClaims not been to such appointment College MDnot 20740 redemption have been against the decedent paid. Accordingly, it is this Superior Court of And Park, shall be filed with the Signature of paid. Accordingly, it is this shall be presented to the 25th day of July, 2017, Register of Wills, D.C., the District of 25th dayFRANCES of July, 2017, Petitioners/Attorney with a copy hereby ORDERED by the District of Columbia MARY WADE undersigned 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd hereby ORDERED by the 08/4, 08/11/17 TYPESET: TueHall Aug 08 17:26:45 EDT 2017 to the Register of Wills Superior Court of theor Dis- PROBATE DIVISION (Heir of Bertha Wade) Floor Washington, D.C. Superior Court of the Dis- filed with the Register trict of Columbia, thatofno- Washington, D.C. 501 Forty-fifth Street, 20001, on or before Febtrict NE, of Columbia, that noWills a copy to the ticewith be given by the inserWashington, DC ruary 4, 2018 . Claims 20001-2131 tice be given by the inser- undersigned, tion of a copy of this order 20019 on or beSUPERIOR OF against the decedent Administration No. tion of a copyCOURT of this order inFebruary the Washington Afrofore 11, 2018 or THE DISTRICT OF shall be presented to the 2017ADM874 inAnd the Washington Afro- be American, a newspaper forever barred.

Per- Katie Ruth Walker COLUMBIA undersigned with a copy American, a newspaper sons having a general circula-Decedent believed to be heirs PROBATE DIVISION to the Register of Wills or having a FINANCIAL, general circulain the District of AEON LLC or tion legatees of the deWashington, D.C. filed with the Register of NOTICE OF tionServe: in the District of Columbia, once a week CT Corporation cedent who do not re20001-2131 Wills with a copy to the APPOINTMENT, Columbia, once ai s tweek for three (3) successive S y s t e m , R e g e r e d ceive a copy of this notice Administration No. undersigned, on or beNOTICE TO for three (3) successive weeks, notifying all of perAgent by mail within 25 days 2017ADM918 fore February 4, 2018, or CREDITORS weeks, notifying all perinterested in shall the real 1015 15th Street, NW, its sons first publication Estate of be forever barred. PerAND NOTICE TO sons interested in the real described Suite 1000 so property inform the Registerabove of Eva Jean Cook McCall property described above sons believed to be heirs UNKNOWN HEIRS to appear in this Court by Washington, DC 20005 Wills, including name, Deceased to appear in this Court by or legatees of the dethe 11th day of October,Sims Summerlin Walker address and relationNOTICE the 11th day ofOF October, cedent who do not re2017, and redeem the realJr., whose address is And ship.

2017, STANDARD and redeem the real ceive a copy of this notice property by payment of9345 Davis Drive, LorDate of Publication: property by payment of PROBATE by mail within 25 days of $4,934.72, together withton, VA 22079, was apHMTR I, LLC August 11, 2017 $4,934.72, together with Notice is hereby given its first publication shall pointed personal repreinterest from the date the 940 Centre Circle, newspaper: interest from date the Name that a petition has been so inform the Register of real ofproperty tax certif-sentative of the estate of Suitethe 2005 realAlamonte tax filed inproperty this Court by certifShiricate was purchased;Katie Ruth Walker, who Springs, FL Afro-American Wills, including name, icate was purchased; Washington ley32714 Bethea and Bonita court costs; reasonabledied on June 17, 2017 address and relationcourt costs; reasonable Law Reporter Powell Moss for standard attorney’s fees; expenseswith a will, and will serve ship. attorney’s fees; expenses C Anderson incurred in the publicationwithout Court superviAnd probate, including the Raul Date of Publication: incurred in the of publication and service of process;sion. All unknown heirs appoint-ment one or AKA August 4, 2017 andJOAQUIN service of process; Ellis ina n d h e i r s w h o s e and all otherSofia amounts PANIAGUA more personal repreName of newspaper: and all other amounts in Personal accordance with the provi-whereabouts are un- Afro-American c/o a comsentative. Unless accordance with the provisions of D. C. Official Ernest C. Raskauskas, Representative plaint in Washington known shall enter their sions or of an D.objection C. Official Code §§ 47-1361 througha p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Jr., Esq. accordance with SuperLaw Reporter Code §§South 47-1361 through 1377, et seq., or answerproceeding. Objections 3109 Street, NW TRUE TEST COPY ior Court Probate DiMary S. Rhett 1377, et seq., or answer the Amended Complaint,to such appointment (or Washington, DC 20007 REGISTER OF WILLS vision Rule 407 is filed in Personal the Amended Complaint, or, thereafter, a final judg-to the probate of dethis Court within 30 days Representative or,And thereafter, a final judgment will be entered fore08/11, 08/18, 08/25/17 Tue Aug 08 17:21:01 EDT 2017 from of first pubmentthe willdate be entered fore- TYPESET: closing the right of re- cedent´s will) shall be lication ofthe thisright notice, the TRUE TEST COPY closing ofOF redemption in the real filed with the Register of THE DISTRICT Court may take the acREGISTER OF WILLS demption in the real property and vesting in theWills, D.C., 515 5th COLUMBIA tion hereinafter set forth.

Superior Court of Street, N.W., 3rd Floor property and vesting in the Plaintiff a title in fee sim0 Serve: Mayor of the DisIn thetrict absence of a will the Plaintiff a title in fee sim08/4, 08/11, 08/18/17 W a s h i n g t o n , D .

C . ple. of Columbia or satisfactory District of Columbia ple.proofVincent 20001, on or before Feb- TYPESET: Tue Aug 08 Gray to the Court of due execuMagistrate DIVISION Judge Reneeruary 11, 2018. Claims Attn: Office of the Sec- PROBATE Magistrate Judge tion, enter an order Renee deterWashington, D.C. Raymondagainst the decedent retary Raymond mining that the decedent SUPERIOR COURT OF 20001-2131 (Signed in chambers)shall be presented to the 1350 Pennsylvania Avein chambers) died (Signed intestate THE DISTRICT OF Administration No. undersigned with a copy nue, N.W., #419 0 aWashington, p p o i n t a nDC u n20001 suCOLUMBIA 2017ADM862 to the Register of Wills or 08/4, 08/11, 08/18/17 08/4, 08/11, 08/18/17 pervised personal repre- Lawrence D Cundiff PROBATE DIVISION filed with the Register of sentative Washington, D.C. Serve: Attorney General Decedent Wills with a copy to the Register of the of Wills Frazer Walton Jr. 20001-2131 undersigned, on or beColumbia ClerkDistrict of theofProbate Di- 1913 D Street, NE Foreign No. fore February 11, 2018, Attn: Darlene Fields vision Washington, DC 20002 or be forever barred. Per2017FEP90 4th Publication Street, NW Date 441 of First Date of Death Attorney sons believed to be heirs Washington, August 4, 2017 DC 20001 May 5, 2016 NOTICE OF or legatees of the deNames of Newspapers: APPOINTMENT, cedent who do not re- Anne Marie Perna And Washington NOTICE TO ceive a copy of this notice Decedent Law Reporter NOTICE OF CREDITORS by mail within 25 days of All Unknown Owners of Washington APPOINTMENT AND NOTICE TO its first publication shall the Property described AFRO-AMERICAN OF FOREIGN UNKNOWN HEIRS so inform the Register of below,Ftheir Rachell Long Heirs, Per- Mary Alice Brown, whose Wills, including name, PERSONAL sonal Representatives, 1404 Half St. SW REPRESENTATIVE address is 2521 Harlem address and relationExecutors, DC AdministraWashington, 20024 AND ship. tors, Grantees, Assigns or Avenue, Baltimore, Signature of in Right, Title, Maryland, 21216 wasap- Date of Publication: NOTICE TO Successors Petitioners/Attorney CREDITORS Interest, and Any and all pointed personal repre- August 11, 2017 Elisa Anne Guarino sentative of the estate of Name of newspaper: p e r s o n s Tue h a v iAug n g o08 r 17:22:07 TYPESET: EDT 2017 08/4, 08/11/17 whose address is 6005 claiming to have any inter- Lawrence D Cundiff, who Afro-American Oxbury Court, Glenn Alest in the leasehold or fee died on January 5, 2016 Washington len, VA 23059 was apwithout a will, and will Law Reporter simple in the property and Superior Court of pointed personal represerve with Court superviSims Summerlin Walker premises situate, lying Jr. sentative of the estate of and beingthe in the District of sion. All unknown heirs District ofdescribed Columbia Personal Anne Marie Perna , deColumbia as: a n d h e i r s w h o s e PROBATE DIVISION Square 0302 Lot 0071. whereabouts are unRepresentative ceased by the Circuit Washington, D.C. Court for Henrico May also be known as known shall enter their 223020001-2131 1/2 11th Street, NW, a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s TRUE TEST COPY County, State of Virginia Washington, D.C.No. Administration ., on August 19, 2016. proceeding. Objections REGISTER OF WILLS 2017ADM573 Service of process may to such appointment TYPESET: Tue Aug 08 17:22:54 2017 F Defendants Tsehay Tesfamariam be made EDT upon Juanita shall be filed with the 08/11, 08/18, 08/25/17 Decedent Ferguson, 1376 C Street, Register of Wills, D.C., AMENDED ORDER NOTICE OF NE, Washington, DC 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd OF PUBLICATION APPOINTMENT, Superior Court of 20016 whose designaFloor Washington, D.C. In accordance with D.C. 20001, on or before FebNOTICE TO the tion as District of ColumCode §47-1345, the CREDITORS District of Columbia bia agent has been filed ruary 11, 2018. Claims object of this proceeding AND NOTICE TO PROBATE DIVISION with the Register of Wills, against the decedent isUNKNOWN to secure HEIRS the foreclo- shall be presented to the Washington, D.C. D.C. sure Tekle of the, whose right of Robel ad-re- undersigned with a copy 20001-2131 The decedent owned the demptionisin7659 the real propdress(es) Stana Administration No. following District of to the Register of Wills or erty described as Square Court, Lorton, VA 22079 filed with the Register of 2017ADM839 Colombia real property: 0302, Lot 0071, which was, 4621 42nd Street, NW, mayappointed also be personal known as Wills with a copy to the Richard Henry Hamm representative of the Washington, DC 20016 NW, undersigned, on or be- Decedent 2230 1⁄2 11th Street, estate of Tsehay TesNOTICE OF Claims against the deWashington, DC, which fore February 11, 2018, famariam, who died on APPOINTMENT, cedent may be preor be forever barred.

Perproperty was sold by the October 6, 2016 without NOTICE TO sented to the undersons believed to be heirs Mayor of the District of a will, and will with- in or legatees of the deCREDITORS signed and filed with the Columbia to serve the Plaintiff out Court supervision. All cedent who do not reAND NOTICE TO Register of Wills for the unknown heirs and heirs ceive a copy of this notice UNKNOWN HEIRS District of Columbia, whose whereabouts are by mail within 25 days of Aaron Henry Hamm, Building A, 515 5th unknown shall enter their its first publication shall whose address is 908 Street, NW., 3rd Floor-

tion as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Colombia real property: 4621 42nd Street, NW, Washington, DC 20016 Claims against the deLEGALmay NOTICES cedent be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW., 3rd FloorWashington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2017FEP89 Date of Death April 10, 2017 Moses Hanna Karkenny Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Nahil A. Karkenny whose address is 2307 Greenery Lane #402, Silver Spring , MD 20906 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Moses Hanna Karkenny, deceased by the Orphans’ Court for Montgomery County, State of Maryland . on June 22, 2017, Service of process may be madeEDT upon Rima 17:20:34 2017 Karim 5010 4th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Colombia real property: 6712 4th St.NW, WDC, 6503 8th St, NW, WDC, 1417 Crittenden St, NW Levis St, NW (no street number), WDC Trinidad Sub: B Deed Sq. 4076, Lot 0823 Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, 500 Indiana Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

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Jason A DeLoach, Esq., Alexander & Cleaver PA 11414 Livingston Road Fort Washington, MD 20744 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Loyce S Pitts , whose address is 1208 Jefferson St. NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Evelyn Elizabeth Pitts, who died on June 30, 2012 (with, without) a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose 17:23:18 EDT 2017 whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before January 28, 2018.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before January 28, 2018, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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Notable Moments in Black History

By JaZette Marshburn Special to the AFRO

As the second decade of the 20th century progressed, so did John H. Murphy Sr. and George Bragg in leading the AFRO American Ledger into becoming a recognized national entity. They sought to produce an instrument that educated and informed its readership about the ills of disenfranchisement and segregation.

Towards the end of the second decade of the 20th century, however, the newspaper industry would turn the way of sensationalist stories with an emphasis on crime, sex and gossip. In 1915, George Bragg left the AFRO American Ledger for a rival newspaper. Two years later, the AFRO adopted the journalistic norm of producing sensationalist content but stayed true to fighting the cause of social justice.

This editorial transformation was shepherded by new editorial management, Carl J. Murphy. Carl James Greenbury Murphy was born January 17, 1889 in Baltimore, eight years before his father, John H. Murphy would take the helm of the Afro-American Newspaper. Carl would eventually transplant his life from Washington to Baltimore and become the managing editor. He did well in this position and when a few years later, in 1922, his brother Daniel died and soon after John Sr. met his demise, Carl took over.

Carl was aided in AFRO management by his brother John H. Murphy Jr. supervising the mechanical department and D. Arnett Murphy who ran the circulation and advertising departments. Historymakers like W.E.B. DuBois, Walter White, Marcus Garvey, A. Philip Randolph, Carter G. Woodson among many others received comprehensive reporting or in some instance, a vessel to spread their message of self-improvement, community sustainability and education to the Black community.

The AFRO would give prominent placement to the poems and essays of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Claude McKay. Hughes would be feted as an AFRO columnist and resident poet for a number of years.

Carl utilized AfricanAmerican patriotism during times of war to send over

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The Houston Mutiny and other riots erupt between Black soldiers and White citizens; two Blacks and 11 Whites are killed. Twenty-nine Black soldiers are executed for participation in the riot.

A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen found The

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Messenger, a Black socialist magazine, in New York City.

The Supreme Court in Buchanan v. Warley strikes down the Louisville, Ky. ordinance mandating segregated neighborhoods.

1918

A race riot in Chester, Pa. claims five lives, three Blacks and two Whites. In nearby Philadelphia, another race riot breaks out killing four, three Blacks and one White.

1921

In Oklahoma City, a precursor to the more famous 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma riot occurs and, as reported by the AFRO, virtually wiping out segments of that city’s Black community.

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The Armistice ends World War I. However, the northern migration of African Americans continues. By 1930 there were 1,035,000 more Black Americans in the North than in 1910.

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Following its revival in 1915 at Stone Mountain, Ga., the Ku Klux Klan by the beginning of 1919 is operating in 27 states. Eighty-three African Americans are lynched, among them a number of returning soldiers still in uniform.

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The West Virginia State Supreme Court rules that an African American is denied equal protection under the law if his jury has no Black members.

The Associated Negro Press is established in Chicago by Claude A. Barnett.

There are 25 race riots that take place throughout the nation prompt the term, Red Summer. The largest clashes take place in Charleston, S.C.; Longview, Texas; Washington, D. C.; Chicago, Ill.; Omaha, Neb. and Elaine, Arkansas.

League in Kansas City, Mo. Eight teams are part of the league.

The 19th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified giving all women the right to vote. Nonetheless, AfricanAmerican women, like AfricanAmerican men, are denied the franchise in most Southern states.

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, University of Pennsylvania; Eva B. Dykes, Radcliff and Georgiana R. Simpson, University of Chicago, become the first African-American women to earn Ph.D. degrees.

official in the Roosevelt administration and leads the Black Cabinet. She is also the

Harry Pace forms Black Swan Phonograph Corporation, the first African American-owned record company in Harlem.

His artists will include Mamie and Bessie Smith.

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One of the earliest exhibitions of work by African-American artists, including Henry Ossawa Tanner and Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, is held at the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library.

Claude McKay publishes If We Must Die, considered one of the first major examples of

Mary McLeod Bethune

first Black woman to receive a presidential appointment.

Track star Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at the Berlin

Harlem YMCA and completes his Toussaint L’Overture series.

Crystal Bird Fauset of Philadelphia becomes the first African-American woman elected to a state legislature when she is chosen to serve in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

The U.S. Supreme Court in Missouri ex rel. Gaines v.

Canada rules that a state that provides in-state education for Whites must provide comparable in-state education for Blacks.

1939

Popular contralto Marian Anderson sings at Lincoln Memorial before 75,000

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Claude McKay

Harlem Renaissance writing.

Father Divine founds the Peace Mission Movement at his home in Sayville, New York.

Marcus Garvey leads the first international convention of the Universal Negro Improvement Association which he calls the International Convention of Negro Peoples of the World. The meeting is held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

South Dakota resident Oscar Micheaux releases his first

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Jesse Binga founds the Binga State Bank in Chicago.

It will become the largest African-American bank in the nation before it collapses during the 1929 stock market crash.

1934

W.E.B. Du Bois resigns from the NAACP in a dispute over the strategy of the organization in its campaign against racial discrimination.

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film, “The Homesteader,” in Chicago. Over the next four decades Micheaux will produce and direct 24 silent films and 19 sound films, making him the most prolific Black filmmaker of the 20th century.

1920

Former heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson opens the Club Deluxe in Harlem. Two years later, gangster Owney Madden buys the club and changes its name to the Cotton Club.

1921

“Shuffle Along” by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake opens on Broadway. This is the first major play of the Harlem Renaissance.

At least 60 Blacks and 21 Whites are killed in the Tulsa Race Riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, today referred to as ‘Black Wall Street’.

The violence destroys a thriving African-American neighborhood and business district called Deep Greenwood.

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority is founded at Howard University.

The decade of the 1920s witnesses the Harlem Renaissance, a remarkable period of creativity for Black writers, poets, and artists, including among others Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.

Andrew Rube Foster leads the effort to establish the Negro National (Baseball)

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Roy Wilkins becomes the new editor of Crisis magazine.

After operating under a number of names, the theatre today known as the Apollo Theater opens under its current name in Harlem.

Olympics.

Dr. William Augustus Hinton’s book, Syphilis and Its Treatment, is the first published medical textbook written by an African American.

1937

William H. Hastie, former advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt, is confirmed as the first Black federal judge after his appointment by Roosevelt to the federal bench in the Virgin Islands.

In October, Katherine Dunham forms the Negro

The Harlem Race Riot, a one day riot, erupts leaving two people dead.

The Michigan Chronicle is founded in Detroit by Louis E. Martin.

Mary McLeod Bethune calls together the leaders of 28 national women’s organizations to found the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.

1936

Jane M. Bolin becomes the first African-American woman judge in the United States when she is appointed to the domestic relations court of New York City.

1940

Hattie McDaniel receives an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in her role in “Gone with the Wind.” She becomes the first Black actor to win an academy award.

Dr. Charles R. Drew presents his thesis, Banked Blood, at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York.

The thesis includes his research which reveals that plasma can replace whole blood transfusions.

1935

The Maryland Supreme Court rules in Murray v. Pearson that the University of Maryland must admit African Americans to its law school or establish a separate school for Blacks.

The University of Maryland chooses to admit its first Black students.

people after the Daughters of the American Revolution refuse to allow her to perform at Constitution Hall.

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Dance Group, a company of Black artists dedicated to presenting aspects of African American and AfricanCaribbean Dance. The company eventually becomes the Katherine Dunham Group.

Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr., is named the first AfricanAmerican general in the regular army.

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is established in New

York City.

1941

Mary Lucinda Dawson founds the National Negro Opera Company in Pittsburgh.

The U.S. Army creates the Tuskegee Air Squadron, which will soon be known as the Tuskegee Airmen.

President Franklin Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802, desegregating war production plants and creating the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC).

The United States enters World War II following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Dorris “Dorie” Miller is later awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism during that battle.

The desperate need for factory labor to build the war machine needed to win World War II leads to an unprecedented migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West. This migration transforms American politics as Blacks increasingly vote in their new homes and put pressure on Congress to protect civil rights throughout the nation. Their activism lays much of the foundation for the national Civil Rights Movement a decade later.

1942

While teaching at Livingstone College in North Carolina, Margaret Walker publishes the award-winning poem For My People, which she began as her master’s thesis at the University of Iowa.

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is founded in Chicago by James Farmer Jr., George Houser, Bernice Fisher, James Russell Robinson, Joe Guinn and Homer Jack.

The U.S. Marine Corps accepts African-American men for the first time at a segregated training facility at Camp Montford Point, N.C. They will be known as the Montford Point Marines.

Charity Adams Earley becomes the first Black woman commissioned officer in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) while serving at Fort Des Moines.

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Joe Louis beats Max Schmeling in a rematch of his 1936 defeat by the German boxer.

Jacob Lawrence holds his first solo exhibition at the

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The first meeting of the National Negro Congress takes place in Chicago. Nearly 600 Black organizations are represented.

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Mary McLeod Bethune is named Director of the Division of Negro Affairs, the National Youth Administration. She is the highest ranking Black

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six wartime correspondents (including his own daughter) overseas to report on World War II. This group of valiant individuals included reporters Ollie Stewart, Vincent Tubbs, Max Johnson, Art Carter, Herbert Frisby and Elizabeth Murphy Phillips.

Carl expanded the AFRO beyond Baltimore. The Philadelphia AFRO was founded in 1931, with the Washington AFRO soon after in 1934. The AFROAmerican Newspaper Company would take over the reins of the fledging Richmond Planet in 1938 and christen it, the Richmond AFRO-American.

There would be even further development for the AFRO as a force in the Black community as African Americans began to stand up, organize and begin to fight for equality in every facet of American life.

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By JaZette Marshburn Special to the AFRO World War II revealed that African Americans are just as patriotic as the rest of America despite the types of treatment they were subjected to in every aspect of American life. The Jim Crow system of discriminatory practices had not prevented African Americans from defending their nation during wartime.

At the outbreak of World War II, 2.5 million Black men registered for the draft and one million served as draftees, or volunteers, in all of the branches of the of the Armed Forces during the actual conflict. Outside of replacing their male counterparts in industrial jobs at home, over 8,000 African American women served in roles in the Cadet Nurse Corps, Women’s Army Corps and the Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency). With all of these African American men and women serving their country, the AFRO played a key role communicating roles African American played in the fight for freedom and the fight going on right at home.

Black newspapers circulation and distribution both did very well during wartime. The AFRO provided eyewitness accounts from the paper’s reporters stationed overseas. The AFRO editors and reporters back home were describing the social conditions back home for the troops overseas. This information is what African American men and women returning home from the war decided that they would not put up with any more social inequality and discrimination after just risking their lives for their country.

Shortly after the end of the war, President Truman’s Executive Order 9981 abolished discrimination within armed forces and it soon became evident that if they fought hard, protested long enough and some cases died for equal rights, true equality would come to them.

Some troops were not lucky enough to make it home, they were killed in combat. An unfortunate few were convicted and even executed for a crime. Louis Till, father of Emmett Till, met a fate eerily similar to his son. The senior Till would be hanged on July 2, 1945 in Italy for reportedly violating and killing White women.

Contemporary researchers are not convinced of Louis Till’s guilt just as in the case of his son who certainly did not deserve the fate given to him.

The AFRO American Newspaper made sure to communicate the travesty of Emmett Till’s murder to its readers. Sending its reporters to Money, Mississippi to interview the Emmett Till family and the subsequent trial where Till’s murderers were tried and set free.

The Till coverage would set the tone for the AFRO during this period. The AFRO would publish press

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1942

William L. Dawson of Chicago is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

He will serve in that body until 1970.

Sept. 10, 1955

Hugh Mulzac commanded The Booker T. Washington, U.S. merchant ship and becomes the first African American captain in the American Merchant Marine.

Dec. 17, 1955

The Department of Justice threatens to sue several African American newspapers for sedition because they attacked the government’s racial policies in the military. The NAACP

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prevents the suits by issuing editorial guidelines to appease department officials.

NAACP president Walter White meets with heads of Hollywood movie studios to complain about the perpetuation of negative Black stereotypes in American films.

1943

The Naval Academy at Annapolis and other naval officer schools accept African American men for the first time.

1960

Jan. 9, 1965 releases, pleas and open letters from concerned citizen committees about the violence perpetrated by police, teachers exhausted by overcrowding of Black schools and civil right leaders, local and national,

needing to get the word out about their causes.

From Emmett Till, through the integration of Little Rock Central High School, University of Mississippi, and the breaking down of the segregation

barriers in the interstate commerce of the southern states by the Freedom Riders, the civil rights battles of the 1950’s and 60’s were a series of violent wars that redefined the culture of these United States. As the age of Jim

Crow was drawing to a close, the AFRO was there to report on its demise, as well as shed light on the next round of new tactical challenges confronting the Black community’s continuing quest for equality and justice.

The Detroit Race Riot, June 20-21, claims 34 lives including 25 African Americans. Other riots occur in Harlem, Mobile, Alabama, and Beaumont, Texas.

The first Black cadets graduate from the Army Flight School at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. By summer, fourteen thousand African American soldiers of the 93rd Infantry Division and the Continued on D6

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32nd and 33rd companies of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (approximately 300 women) are stationed in the Arizona desert at Fort Huachuca for training. They are the largest concentration of Black military personnel in the history of the nation.

first African American to have a radio variety show.

Ebony Magazine, created

by Chicago-based Johnson Publishing Company, published its first issue.

Two American Navy Destroyer ships, the USS Mason, and the submarine chaser, PC1264, are staffed entirely

by African American crews.

The Black 99th Pursuit Squadron (Tuskegee Airmen) flies its first combat mission in Italy.

1949

Wesley Brown becomes the first African American to graduate from the Naval Academy at Annapolis.

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The U.S. Supreme Court in Smith v. Allwright declares White only political primaries unconstitutional.

Frederick Douglass Patterson establishes the United Negro College Fund

Dr. Charles S. Johnson becomes the first African American president of Fisk University in Nashville.

The U.S. Supreme Court in Morgan v. Virginia rules that segregation in interstate bus travel is unconstitutional.

Charles Spurgeon Johnson, President of Fisk University in Nashville, becomes the first African American President of the Southern Sociological Society.

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in New York to help support Black colleges and Black students.

Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York, is elected to Congress from Harlem.

Swedish Nobel Prize winner Gunnar Myrdal publishes An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy after being commissioned in 1938 by the Carnegie Corporation to study African American issues.

1945

Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. is named commander of Goodman Field, Ky. He is the first African American to command a military base.

Japan surrenders on Victory over Japan (VJ) day ending World War II on September 2. By the end of the war one million African American men and women have served in the U.S. military.

Nat King Cole becomes the

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first African American to head the Phelps-Stokes Fund, a philanthropic organization that supports Black education.

1947

Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers becomes the first African American to play major league baseball in the 20th Century.

The NAACP petition on racism, An Appeal to the World, is presented to the United Nations.

John Hope Franklin’s From Slavery to Freedom is published. The work will become the most popular textbook on African American history published in the 20th Century.

President Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981 directing the desegregation of the armed forces.

1948

Alice Coachman becomes the first African American woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal. She wins the high jump competition in the London Olympics.

The California Supreme Court voids the law banning interracial marriages in the state.

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Businessman Jesse Blayton, Sr., establishes WERD-AM, the first Black owned radio station. It begins broadcasting in Atlanta.

William A. Hinton is the first Black professor at the Harvard University Medical School.

1950

Gwendolyn Brooks of Chicago becomes the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. She wins the prize in Poetry.

Chuck Cooper, Nathaniel Clifton, and Earl Lloyd become the first African Americans to play professional basketball in the modern National Basketball Association

Rev. Adam Clayton Powell

The U.S. Supreme Court rules

expelled.

1954

The Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education declares segregation in all public schools in the United States unconstitutional, nullifying the earlier judicial doctrine of separate but equal.

Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr., becomes the first black Air Force general after serving in the Korean War, appointed to brigadier general by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

He also is the first African American to command an airbase.

Malcolm X becomes Minister of the Nation of Islam’s Harlem Temple 7.

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Channing H. Tobias is the

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in Shelley v. Kraemer that state and local governments cannot enforce racially restrictive housing covenants.

Juanita Hall became the first African American to win a Tony award. She was honored for her role in the Broadway play “South Pacific.”

1951

The U.S. Supreme Court rules racial segregation in District of Columbia restaurants is unconstitutional.

A mob of 3,500 Whites attempt to prevent a Black family from moving into a Cicero, Ill. apartment. Gov. Adlai Stevenson calls out the Illinois National Guard to protect the family and restore order.

Harry T. Moore, a Florida NAACP official, is killed by a bomb in Mims, Fla.

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1955

Marian Anderson becomes the first African American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Executive Order 10590 which creates the President’s Committee on Government Policy to enforce the federal government’s policy of nondiscrimination in federal employment.

Reverend George W. Lee, an NAACP activist, is killed in Belzoni, Mississippi.

The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Brown II that public school desegregation must occur with all deliberate speed.

Chuck Berry, an early breakthrough rock and roll artist, records “Maybellene” with Chicago’s Chess Records.

Fourteen-year-old Chicago resident Emmett Till is lynched while vacationing in Money, Miss.

Rosa Parks refuses to relinquish her bus seat to a White man, initiating the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Soon afterwards Dr. Martin Luther King becomes the leader of the Boycott.

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the 26-year-old pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, is elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association which leads the year-long boycott against the city’s racially segregated bus line.

1956

The U.S. Supreme Court in Gayle v. Browder bans segregation in intrastate travel, effectively giving a victory to those supporting the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Popular entertainer Nat King Cole is assaulted on stage during a segregated performance at the Municipal Auditorium in Birmingham, Ala. The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission is formed in Jackson, the state capital, to maintain racial segregation in Mississippi.

1957

Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first legislation protecting Black rights since Reconstruction.

The act establishes the Civil Rights section of the Justice Department and empowers federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. It also creates the federal Civil Rights Commission with the authority to investigate discriminatory conditions and recommend corrective measures.

Dorothy Irene Height is appointed president of the National Council of Negro Women, a position she holds for 41 years.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to ensure the enforcement of a Federal court order to desegregate Central High School and to protect nine African American students enrolled as part of the order.

The troops remain at the high school until the end of the school year.

The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) is founded at a mass meeting in Birmingham, Ala. Perry H. Young becomes the first Black pilot for a commercial passenger airline (New York Airways).

Ruth Carol Taylor becomes the first commercial African American passenger airline flight attendant (Mohawk Airlines).

Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. is appointed commander of the 51st Fighter Interceptor Wing in Korea.

The Alvin Ailey Dance Theater is formed in New York.

1953

When he joins the Chicago Bears Willie Thrower becomes the first Black NFL quarterback in the modern era.

Nat King Cole becomes the first African American to host a primetime variety show on national television.

1958

The Tuskegee Institute reports no lynchings in the United States for the first time in 71 years of tabulation.

African Americans in Baton Rouge, La. begin a boycott of their city’s segregated municipal bus line.

Harry Belafonte’s “Calypso,” released by RCA Records, is the first album in history to sell more than one million copies.

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Louis E. Lomax becomes the first African American newscaster for a major network station. He is hired by WNTA-TV in New York City.

Autherine Lucy is admitted to the University of Alabama.

She is later suspended after a riot ensues at the university to protest her presence. Lucy is

Althea Gibson becomes the first African American woman to win the U.S. Open tennis championship in Forest Hills.

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Ella Fitzgerald and William “Count” Basie become the first African American performers to win Grammy awards.

1959

Berry Gordy, Jr., founds Motown Records in Detroit.

Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” opens in New York with Sidney Poitier in the starring role. It is the first play by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway.

Mack Charles Parker is lynched near Poplarville, Mississippi.

1960

Four students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro begin a sit-in at Woolworth’s Drug Store to protest company policy which bans African Americans from sitting at its counters.

150 Black and White students gather at Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C. to form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

The Civil Rights Act of 1960 is signed into law

by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Act establishes federal inspection of local voter registration rolls and introduces penalties for anyone who obstructs a citizen’s attempt to register to vote or to cast a ballot.

Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy defeats Vice President Richard Nixon in one of the closest elections in history. Many observers credit African American voters with Kennedy’s narrow margin of victory.

1961

Seven Blacks and four Whites leave Washington, D.C., for the Deep South on the first Freedom Ride for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).

Riots on the University of Georgia campus in September fail to prevent the enrollment of the institutions first two African American students, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter.

1962

Ernie Davis, a running back at Syracuse University, becomes the first African American athlete to receive college football’s Heisman Trophy.

On October 1, James Meredith becomes the first Black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.

On the day he enters the University, he is escorted by U.S. marshals after federal troops are sent in to suppress rioting and maintain order.

1963

Martin Luther King, Jr. writes his Letter from a Birmingham Jail.

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June 1. 1963

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – “it was really pleasant and everyone was extra nice today.”

That was the reaction of Miss Melba Patillo, pretty and vivacious junior, after her first day of integrated classes at Central High School.

She was one of the pioneering pupils at the school, four of whom held a brief press conference after school, with Mrs. L.C. Bates, president of the Arkansas NAACP, as chaperone.

One young man, Terrance Roberts, one of the three boys attending the not integrated school under protection of Federal Troops, confirmed Miss Patillo’s statement that their reception at the school was good.

“THERE WAS ONLY one thing unpleasant,” said Miss Patillo, 15, who plans to become a professional dancer and a singer. “In English class one boy stood up and tried to get other pupils to leave with him.”

The other pupils ignored him, according to Miss Patillo, and the teacher told him to “Go ahead and leave.” He then asked something like “You mean you’re chicken?

Nobody going with me? She said.

The children denied emphatically reports that each of them had been assigned a personal guard of paratroopers in the corridors and classrooms of the school.

“Of course there were soldiers all through the building,” explained Miss Minnie Jean Brown, also a 15-year-old junior, who says she hopes someday to be national NAACP secretary. *** ALL OF THE children expressed a strong belief that the troopers would remain

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long enough to make certain that there would be no repeat of Monday’s performance after the troops are gone.

Young Roberts said non-chalantly that he tried to look upon his first day there as just another school day in spite of the fact that it followed by two days a previous appearance at the school when he was badly treated.

Miss Brown, stating proudly that she had already learned one of the school’s yells, gave a ringing demonstration, then waxed serious, sizing up her white classmates in these words: “THEY DON’T HAVE anything against us. They are torn between what their parents think and what they think themselves. They just want to find out what we are like and when they discover we are nice people everyone will get along wonderfully.”

The group of nine pupils was supposed to have been swelled to 10 on Thursday when Miss June Hill, 15, was scheduled to complete her transfer from Horace Mann High to Central.

Showing an eagerness to get away from the news conference, held at a community center a short distance from the school near the dinner hour, was Miss Thelma Mothershed, 16, also a junior, who said she had homework to do.

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Birmingham police use dogs and fire hoses to attack civil rights demonstrators.

Iota Phi Theta Fraternity is founded at Morgan State University in Baltimore.

break with the Nation of Islam and his founding of the Muslim Mosque in Harlem.

Despite Governor George Wallace’s vow to block the schoolhouse door to prevent their enrollment, Vivian Malone and James Hood register for classes at the University of Alabama. They are the first African American students to attend the university.

Wendell Oliver Scott became the first black driver to win a major NASCAR race.

Civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner are abducted and killed by terrorists in Mississippi.

Mississippi NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers is assassinated outside his home in Jackson.

Over 200,000 people gather in Washington, D.C. on August 28 as part of the March on Washington, an unprecedented demonstration demanding civil rights and equal opportunity for African Americans. Dr. Martin Luther King delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech here.

Former tennis champion Althea Gibson becomes the first African American woman to compete in a Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tournament in Cincinnati.

The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church is bombed in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls: Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley.

Marian Anderson and Ralph Bunche are the first black winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

1964

President Lyndon Johnson in his first State of the Union Address declares unconditional war on poverty in America, thus initiating a broad array of government programs designed to assist the poorest citizens of the nation including a disproportionate number of African Americans.

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizes the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.

Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) wins the first of three world heavyweight championships in a bout with Sonny Liston in Miami, Florida.

Sidney Poitier wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film, “Lilies of the Field.” He is the first African American male actor to win in that category.

Malcolm X announces his

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed by Congress. The act bans discrimination in all public accommodations and by employers. It also establishes the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) to monitor compliance with the law.

The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) delegation led by Fannie Lou Hamer is denied seating at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City in August.

President Lyndon Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act, initiating the federally-sponsored War on Poverty. The act includes Head Start, Upward Bound, and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).

1965

Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan.

Six hundred Alabama civil rights activists stage a Selmato-Montgomery protest

march to draw attention to the continued denial of Black voting rights in the state. The marchers are confronted

by Alabama State Troopers whose attack on them at the Edmund Pettus Bridge is carried on national television.

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a five-day, 54-mile march retracing the route of the original activists.

The 3,300 marchers at the beginning of the trek eventually grow to 25,000 when they reach the Alabama capitol. After the protest march, President Lyndon Johnson proposes the Voting Rights Act to guarantee Black voting throughout the South.

The White House releases The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, popularly known as the Moynihan Report Alex Haley publishes The Autobiography of Malcolm X. The Voting Rights Act is signed into law.

The Watts Uprising (also known as the Watts Rebellion) occurs in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Thirty-four people are killed and one thousand are injured in the five-day confrontation.

1966

Robert Weaver, President Lyndon Baines Johnsons nominee to head the

newly created Department of Housing and Urban Development, is confirmed for the post by the U.S. Senate.

Weaver becomes the first African American to hold a cabinet post.

Constance Baker Motley is appointed by President Lyndon Baines Johnson to the Federal Bench in New York City. She becomes the first African American woman elevated to a Federal judgeship.

Stokely Carmichael becomes chairman of SNCC at its headquarters in Atlanta and publicly embraces the concept of black power.

James Meredith begins a solitary “March Against Fear” for 220 miles from Memphis to Jackson, Miss. to protest racial discrimination. Soon after crossing into Mississippi Meredith is shot by a sniper.

Civil Rights leaders including Martin Luther King (SCLC), Floyd McKissick (CORE) and Stokely Carmichael (SNCC) vow to continue the march which eventually reaches Jackson. While in Greenwood, Carmichael gives his first Black Power speech.

The Black Panther Party is formed in Oakland, Calif.

by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton.

Edward Brooke of Massachusetts becomes the

first African American to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate.

Julian Bond wins a seat in the Georgia State Senate.

However, he is denied the seat by the Georgia Legislature because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. Bond is eventually seated after a bitter court battle.

1967

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers the speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church, New York City. It is his first public criticism of the Vietnam War. H. Rap Brown becomes chairman of SNCC at its headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. The U.S. Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia strikes down state interracial marriage bans.

The six-day Newark Riot begins and claims 23 dead, 725 injured and 1,500 arrested.

Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall takes his seat as the first African American Justice on the United States Supreme Court.

The Detroit Race Riot erupts.

Between July 23 and July 28, 43 are killed, 1,189 are injured and over 7,000 are arrested.

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Notable Moments in Black History

By Kamau High AFRO Managing Editor khigh@afro.com

The era of assassinating Black civil rights activists was in full swing by 1967. Medgar Evers was shot and killed in his driveway in 1955; Malcolm X was killed by some members of the Nation of Islam in 1965 while Fred Hampton of the Black Panthers would be killed by the police in 1969. In 1985 activists in MOVE would have a bomb dropped on them in Philadelphia, leaving 11 men, women and children dead.

The Black population, increasingly under pressure and frustrated, would turn to rioting on several occasions in places such as Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh following the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Singer Earth Kitt angrily shouted at then President Lyndon Johnson about the ongoing Vietnam War being the cause of the rioting.

Black athletes were increasingly becoming outspoken activists with Muhammad Ali refusing to submit to the draft, Arthur Ashe breaking records on the tennis court and denouncing apartheid in South Africa and Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising gloved fists at the 1968 Olympics.

Notable entertainers such as Louis Armstrong, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye died. AIDS swept through the community starting in the 1980s taking many, including ABC news anchor Max Robinson, and leaving its mark on stars such as Arthur Ashe and Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson and Easy-E. The crack epidemic would sweep through the community starting in the 1980s, and while the War on Drugs began under President Richard Nixon, the effects of the mandatory minimum sentences applied to crack users would have long standing devastating consequences. Joe Clark, the tough-talking inspiration for the movie “Lean on Me,” became famous for his commitment to students.

Blacks, such as Shirley Chisholm and the Rev. Jessie Jackson, began to seriously attempt to pursue the presidency, which would ultimately culminate in the election of Barack Obama in 2008. In addition, Blacks began to gain electoral power by becoming mayors of major cities and being elected in larger numbers to Congress. In Maryland, Judge Harry Cole was appointed by Gov. Spiro T. Agnew to the Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Oprah Winfrey made a name for herself in Baltimore before going national and becoming the phenomenon she is today.

Bill Clinton became president and Michael Jackson went from fronting the Jackson 5 to emerging as a world-wide pop icon.

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The Virginia branch of the NAACP creates a new plan to stop riots.

1968

Nixon decides to keep D.C. Mayor Walter E. Washington in his position for the new presidential administration.

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The Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in New Orleans and The President of the New Orleans Jazz Museum establishes a drive to build a monument.

1970

For the second time in less than a year, singer James Brown is hit with a paternity suit. He denies he is the father.

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UNSUNG HEROES Thomas Stockett – AFRO Cartoonist Former AFRO Editor Paul Evans wrote a profile of long time AFRO editorial cartoonist, the award winning Thomas Stockett, prior to his death in 2007, in 2003.

By Paul Evans Special to the AFRO Two seats signify Thomas “Tommy” Stockett’s centers of gravity---the seat in front of his easel at home and the seat in front of his easel in the busy, cluttered, first-floor newsroom of the Baltimore Afro-American. He figures he’s spent half his life or more in one seat or the other.

His office colleagues, for his coming to work on time every day no matter what, regularly compliment the eighty-year-old Mr. Stockett, chief artist of the paper for nearly five decades.

He’s still going strong---having drawn more than 7,000 cartoons and retouched over 10,000 photographs. He sees much, he hears much, he knows much but he says little.

Picture this: His hair is mostly white, and he has a slight paunch.

Still, being a widower almost ten years hasn’t detracted from his handsome features and virility where and when it counts, he insists with a wink and a smile.

Proud too is he that nary a wrinkle graces his smooth, large forehead and caramel-colored round face. He wears a black stocking cap at home to keep his hair in shape for when he’s at the job or out with his artist friends. He’s partial to checkered, long-sleeve shirts and dark, casual slacks, and he worries if the snacks are sufficient when some of the grandchildren bounce over.

Mr. Stockett enjoys receiving parlor visitors from a tan winged armchair that he says catches the early morning light. If an observer peers deeply enough into his countenance, one can find his impish sense of humor coupled with a clean, old school morality, practically a child-like innocence.

He swears his AFRO years have been “all fun.” Such a conviction came tumbling out during two recent interviews in his Bolton Hill home.

Scattered around his modest, clean parlor are paintings in progress. Large artistic canvases in various states of completion lean against walls. A finished work of a Navajo family is compelling in its detail: intricate costumes, stark noble faces of an ancient pride, and more. No matter how large or small the canvasses, a

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1971

A jury is unable to make a decision on the case involving Black Panthers Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins for conspiracy in the death of Alex Rackley.

Johnson Products becomes the first African-American owned company to be listed on a major U.S. stock exchange Leroy “Satchel” Paige is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. He is the first former Negro Baseball League player to be inducted.

New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisolm is the first African-American to campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Chisolm’s bid is unsuccessful.

1972

Barbara Jordan and Andrew Young become the first African-American Congressional representatives from the South since 1898.

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Thomas Bradley is elected mayor Los Angeles. Bradley is the first African-American to hold this position and is reelected four times, holding Continued on A11

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Simultaneously with the constant whirlwind of events occurring during this 1967-1992 period, the newspaper industry was witnessing a quiet revolutionary change that would have a far reaching impact on the way its operations were conducted: the emergence of the age of digital communication. Digital communication would provide new opportunities for newspapers as well as lay the ground work for transforming the entire newspaper and media environment.

The AFRO, under the leadership of CEO and Publisher Jake Oliver, was quick to identify and experiment with the emerging digital age technologies.

The introduction of desk-top computers into the AFRO production department in the mid-1980’s led to the eventual replacement of the heavy linotype typesetting

equipment and its related teletype processing. By the late 1980’s desktop computers use had expanded into practically every aspect of the AFRO’s operations and eventually opened the door to the introduction of internet communication—a step that completely changed the ways news would be produced and communicated to AFRO readers.

The entry into the new internet phase was further facilitated by the AFRO’s move into a new headquarters building in January of 1992. This relocation was a perfect fit for accommodating the new electronic

technologies that were beginning to emerge. The shift to providing news through a web site process, and new internet networks that newspapers in the country were beginning to use rapidly accelerated the ways the news was being disseminated—newsprint and the old way of delivering the news was beginning to be challenged. Throughout all of these changes the AFRO invariably became the first and leading Black newspaper to implement many of these new electronic communication technologies that were reconfiguring the media industry.

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his position for 20 years.

Maynard H. Jackson Jr. is elected as the first AfricanAmerican mayor of Atlanta.

Coleman Young becomes the first African-American mayor of Detroit.

1974

Henry “Hank” Aaron hits his 715th home run. Aaron’s record makes him the all-time leader in home runs in major league baseball.

The Links makes the most significant single monetary donation from any AfricanAmerican organization to the United Negro College Fund.

1975

Following the death of Elijah Muhammad, his son, Wallace D. takes over the Nation of Islam.

1976

Barbara Jordan, a congresswoman representing Texas, is the first AfricanAmerican woman to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.

1977

Andrew Young is the first African-American to become a U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

1979

Brig. Gen. Frank Peterson become Marines’ first general.

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1984

Along with his four gold metal wins in the Olympics, Carl Lewis was also received the Black athlete of the Year award.

1985

Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first African-American to be named the U.S. Poet Laureate.

1986

The Oprah Winfrey show becomes a nationally syndicated talk show.

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1987

Bryant Gumbel becomes the first African-American to be an anchor on a major network when he joins “The Today Show.”

Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye, along with nine other artists are inducted into the Rock N’ Roll hall of fame.

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Visitors come to the recognition that while Mr. Stockett creates them, births them, rears them, and sends his paintings into the hands of buyers, many times anonymous ones, the completed works are his children. Painting up a storm from his seat at home is “what really makes me happiest. You just don’t know,” he says.

And there’s what he’s seen and heard and what he’s done from his newsroom perch at a newspaper that’s been a herald of Black political and social ambition for 111 years. He’s watched the powerful and the influential--Eleanor Roosevelt, Jim Brown, and Mohammad Ali and many others---come and go for nearly 50 years and chronicled in cartoons the rise and fall of many, yet he refuses to allow the racial restrictions of an earlier day to embitter him.

Still, how well doesn’t he know, he admits almost as an apologetic after thought, that the larger society held him back as an artist because of his skin color, and Jim Crow prevented him from receiving the recognition someone of a similar artistic talent and lighter hue might have taken for granted.

“I was born Tuesday, July 29, 1924,” he says about the first time segregation directly affected him and his family, “at Johns Hopkins Hospital at 1:30 p.m. I was born in the basement. Blacks weren’t

1979 allowed to come upstairs. My father was in the coal business for himself. His name was Allen Stockett. That’s my middle name, My mother’s name was Lillie. She was a housewife.”

Tommy Stockett qualifies for labeling as unique in a world where the word has lost its nobility and punch.

Somehow he managed to achieve two major goals in his life beyond having a family:

pursue a rewarding artistic career through displaying his work at regional art shows and achieve respectability and stature on the news staff of a family-owned and -operated newspaper that is the oldest continuously published Black newspaper in America.

For eleven decades, the Baltimore paper and its former 12-sister editions up and down the East Coast achieved through its foreign correspondents, including Langston Hughes and Ollie Stewart, a status and fame that reached Moscow, London, and Paris.

“At first, my father did not want me to be an artist because he for a Black artist, it was a hard life.... At that time when I started as an artist, there were only four Black artists in Baltimore. If you weren’t an undertaker, preacher, doctor, nurse, lawyer, teacher, or worked at the AFRO, or at the shipyard, at that time, you were no one. There were not many things that a Black could do professionally...” Mr. Stockett says.

Rough times or not, he made an impression on newspaper employees with whom he worked.

For 20 years, Laura M. Phillips, the paper’s retired archivist, watched Mr. Stockett at work, and she stashed away a treasure of remembrances.

“He could appear to be very naïve on the surface,” she says, “but I thought him to be determined. He wanted to do the best he could at all time. He would stop working on a drawing that wasn’t going well, and begin again. I helped him with his subject matter. I would give him pictures to inspire him. I looked up to his being handicapped and having seven children. He wanted a family, and he worked at the paper to support it. And his wife didn’t work either.

It took a lot of nerve to be handicapped and have seven children at the time he was having a family.”

Picture this: If someone knows Mr. Stockett well, the person rarely asks about his obvious physical challenges: complete paralysis of the right arm and loss of vision in the left eye. They are not important, now. He likes to talk though about contracting polio when he was two years old and how he fought it, challenges and obstacles that might have frustrated and destroyed a less-determined artist.

“I was two years old when I got polio,” he says.

“That was in 1926. It was on my right side, all the way down. I just passed out, and my parents rushed me to the hospital. They thought I might have polio. The

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Picture this: “The big nights that Joe Louis would fight,” Mr. Stockett lovingly recalls, “Lula Mackay and Sam Lacy were there. Miss Lula, the women’s editor, would write the women’s side of the fight, and Sam, as sports editor, would do the sports. Any big fight, they were there right at ringside.

One time, Miss Lula sat right beside Cary Grant. I thought she would never stop talking about that.

“John H. Johnson of Johnson Publications, publisher of Ebony magazine, said that if anyone could work at the AFRO for more than three months, that person could work any place. It was just one of those things. There were very few people at that time who didn’t know about the AFRO.”

Oct. 25, 1983 doctors didn’t know what to do. They put casts on my arm and everything. I lost the use of my right side. The doctors gave me two years to live. When I was off my ‘probation’ after two years, that’s when I started to draw.”

Contented and jolly, Mr. Stockett concludes such things are of little regard for him.

Drama? You want to hear about drama?

People ought to hear Mr. Stockett tell tales from the old days, days when the AFRO was the cock of the walk among the nation’s Black

After he is dead, and people look back on his life, and see what he has done, how does he want to be remembered as an artist?

“Oh, I don’t know. I always tried to do my best. I don’t want ever to paint a bad picture.”

When it is his time to go, “when the last trumpet sounds for me, be ready. And you know what I want to hear when I get ‘up there’? I want to hear Him say, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant.

Enter into thy rest.’ That will be enough for me. Yep, that’s what I want to hear.”

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By Kamau High AFRO Managing Editor khigh@afro.com The AFRO helped kickstart the digital revolution among Black newspapers by becoming one of the first to go online in the 1990s. The internet, with its global reach and constant need to be fed information, would change the newspaper business unlike any other time in its history.

The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, two of the biggest rap stars of the 1990s, were slain at the height of the East Coast vs.

West Coast feud. Prince and Michael Jackson both succumbed to the lure of drugs. The intersection of Florence and Normandie in Los Angeles became seared into the consciousness of America after the video tape of the beating of Rodney King by police officers sparked days of rioting.

A million men marched on Washington, D.C. and then a million women marched. They both demanded change within the Black community. Twenty years later they would march on D.C. again.

Tiger Woods dominated golf courses, and made up his own race, while Michael Jordan dominated the basketball court. Venus and Serena Williams became an unstoppable force in tennis.

Blacks continued to break barriers in the military while Black fraternities and sororities celebrated milestone anniversaries.

The Sept. 11 attacks on New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. devastated America and the wars it spawned continue to this day.

Bill Clinton, in what was not meant to be a compliment, was called the “first Black president”

by Toni Morrison. After presiding over the rise of mass incarceration due to zero tolerance policies, his wife, former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, would run for president and decry the number of Blacks in prison due to those policies.

She would lose the Democratic nomination to then Senator Barack Obama.

Obama’s subsequent winning of the presidency and enactment of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, would cement his legacy. The Obamas have become inspirational symbols for all African Americans and other ethnic minorities around the world.

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Michael Jackson lived in a world imbued with sprinkles of whimsical fantasy and fleeting moments of childlike naivete. The walnut-brown skinned boy with a halo of downy indigo hair never stopped clamoring for those modest, unaffected childhood days he’d never seen, even as he toiled into adulthood and reached the unexplored echelons of pop brilliance.

But reality, in all its caustic authenticity, lay rapt just beyond the placid gates of Jackson’s California Neverland Ranch. He was misunderstood and manipulated by the media, hounded by sordid rumors never proven true and flooded with colossal legal battles.

But the interminable din of his critics, who viciously crucified him on the pages of gutter press tabloids and canonized publications alike, could never siphon Jackson’s reign as the king of pop, nor could they disparage the mark of genius first shown when he rose to prominence from Gary, Ind.’s, blighted industrial corridors.

When the first tenuous reports of Jackson’s death at age 50 dribbled across airwaves and the bottom of TV screens on June 25, the world let out collective groan and began to mourn the first Black artist ever featured on MTV and the life of a transformative figure who sold over 750 million albums, a vast number that dwarfs all other musical greats.

“Michael Jackson made culture accept a person of color way before Tiger Woods, way before Oprah Winfrey, way before Barack Obama,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, a longtime friend, in a statement. “Michael did with music what they later did in sports, and in politics and in television. No controversy will erase the historic INSERTS impact.”

• Best Buy In the Beginning • Home Depot Jackson began his meteoric rise to superstardom at age five and was a standout singer and dancer among his eight siblings. With his See the AFRO on Channel 9 talented father Joseph’s admittedly Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. stern persistence, the Jackson 5 went on to sign with Motown records, once Black entertainment’s epicenter, before sailing into the musical stratosphere with hits like “ I Want You Back,” “ABC,” “The Love You Save” and “I’ll Be There.”

The Jackson 5 instantly became teen heartthrobs for young girls of all races, blending the crude line of division that for decades had separated the Sinatras from the Sammy Davis Jrs.and the Elvis’ from the Etta James’.

But it was Jackson’s departure from the group and their radio-friendly, bubblegum brand of pop music that launched his iconic career in 1979. He released Off the Wall, a discoinfused collection of dance 06 hits, which to date has sold over 20 million records worldwide. Seemingly unstoppable, Jackson followed up three years later

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The Thriller Era and Beyond The release of Thriller cast Jackson as a more somber, enigmatic persona. Images of his outstretched hand swathed in a gem-studded glove became engrained in society’s collective consciousness as the trademark of a pop king. The saccharinesweet voice of his youth was replaced with a unique new sound rife with squeals, dental clicks and edgy aggression.

For a record breaking 80 consecutive weeks, seven singles from Thriller trumped the Billboard 200, including “Billie Jean,” “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ and “Beat It.” At its peak the album sold a whopping 1 million copies a week.

“It was a diving situation,” Quincy Jones, executive producer of Thriller and close Jackson friend, said of Thriller in a 2005 interview with Entertainment Weekly.

After the legendary artist died, Jones said he’d “lost a little brother, and part of my soul has gone with him.”

The title track’s innovative 14-minute mini-movie proved to be a groundbreaking feat for Jackson’s career, singlehandedly reinventing the music video from a simpletaped performance to a whirlwind extravaganza.

Jackson also revolutionized the fashion world, making candy apple red leather jackets, oversized aviator sunglasses and slim-fitting parachute pants 1980s staples.

The following year Jackson debuted the moonwalk, an ethereal foot glide that inspired legions of Londoners to stage a mass outdoor moonwalk days after his death.

And while his precision dance moves electrified nearly every racial demographic on earth, his influence is perhaps best seen in the meticulous pop and lock ticks of today’s R&B entertainers and the feather-soft falsetto vocal flips of modern crooners.

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Prince Rogers Nelson, the iconic musician known as Prince, passed away at his Paisley Park home in Chanhassen, Minnesota April 21 at the age of 57. As a self taught musician, Prince challenged the status quo with his music, dress and style. The superstar was widely known for the classic movie and chart topping album “Purple Rain.” Fans from around the U.S. and world mourned Prince’s passing, including an iconic second line in New Orleans, Louisiana, replay-

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By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Rejecting calls for him to move closer toward his Republican critics, a confident President Barack H. Obama kicked off his second term on Monday by making an impassioned plea for a more inclusive America.

“Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote,” he said. “Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity – until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country. Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets

of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia, to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.”

Obama’s speech represented a clear shift from four years ago when the newly-elected president optimistically thought that he could inject civility and common sense into Washington’s contentious politics. After being rebuffed by opponents, President Obama boldly shifted gears Monday by sketching a progressive vision and signaling a willingness to fight for it.

Obama, the nation’s first African-American president, was sworn in on the day the nation observed the annual federal holiday to honor the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was sworn in on a black leather traveling Bible

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used by King that was topped by a smaller one owned by President Abraham Lincoln.

And he referenced both men as he declared Americans “are made for this moment.”

The direct link between the nation’s first Black president and the observance of King’s birthday underscores how far this country has progressed since the assassination of the Southern Christian Leadership

Conference (SCLC) president and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1968.

Although King did not live to see the election of an African-American to the nation’s highest office, he predicted in 1964 that a Black person would be elected president of the United States.

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York Senator-elect Robert F. Kennedy that it might be possible to elect a Black president in 40 years.

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By Gregory Dale AFRO News Editor Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan government economist and a White anthropologist, was sworn in to his second term as president of the United States on Jan. 21, taking his oath with his hand touching Bibles owned by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. Under a cloudy sky that later turned a perfect blue, Obama, the nation’s first African-American president, began his second term as 800,000-900,000 men, women and children gathered at the Capitol and on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Spectators lucky enough to gain access to an area near the Capitol pushed and maneuvered their way into the perfect spot.

As the ceremony commenced, a sea of smart phones was raised in the air to capture each

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The event fittingly fell on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Obama’s message of equality and freedom harkened back to the immortal words of the late civil rights hero.

“It is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn an equal living to their efforts,” Obama said. “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law— for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”

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It had been a day for cleaning and reflection, of pulling together to bring some sense of normalcy to a community that had seen many businesses destroyed just the day before.

As day turned to evening in West Baltimore on April 28, a young man gave a dance performance to Michael Jackson music for those living near the Gilmor Homes community where Freddie Gray was raised. A group from Diva T Fitness gave a dance performance of their own near the intersection of W. North and Pennsylvania avenues, dancing in front of a line of police in riot gear who were standing in front of armored and other police vehicles.

That line of police with shields was thinner than it had been earlier in the day, when tensions between community members assembling near the corner

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When Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office to become the 44th President of the United States on Jan. 20, 2009, perhaps the most durable symbolic barrier to the full citizenship of Black Americans was shattered.

On that day, for the first time in the country’s 233 year history, the White House, the home of the most powerful man on the planet, would not be occupied by a White man.

Two million Americans (an attendance record for any event in Washington, D.C.) braved frigid conditions to celebrate the inauguration of the first Black President of the United States and the feeling of goodwill in the nation’s capital permeated the icy air on that

sparkling day.

“Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears, and true to our founding documents. So it has been.

So it must be with this generation of Americans,” said President Obama on Jan. 20, 2009.

But, even while millions of Americans (and billions around the world) revelled in the hope of that significantly historic day, at least

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“She leaves really big shoes for the next first lady to fill,” said Andra Gillespie, associate professor of political science at Emory University.

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Barack Obama made history when he defeated Senator John MCain in 2008 and became the first African-American president.

The following article explores what his election meant to the country.

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First Lady Michelle Obama was a vital component of her husband’s White House tenure.

Barack Obama, the son of a Black man from Kenya and a White woman from Kansas, has been elected President of the United States, a country whose Constitution had to be amended nearly 200 years ago in order for African Americans to vote.

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