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In 1986, Timothy Foster was tried and convicted for the murder of an elderly White woman, Queen Madge White, 79, in Rome, Georgia. The prosecutor decided to dismiss all potential Black jurors. Known as a peremptory strike, using this power for racial reasons had been ruled unconstitutional only months before the Foster v. Chatman case. It took 30 years for the Supreme Court to rule that the prosecutors had violated Foster’s Sixth Amendment rights by striking those Black jurors. Rome is a small city in Georgia with a long history of racial segregation. District Attorney Stephen Lanier and Assistant District Attorney Douglas Pullen represented the State

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On May 23 Baltimore police officer Edward Nero walked into a downtown Baltimore City courtroom to learn his fate in the death of 25 year old Freddie Gray. Officer Nero was one of the arresting officers of Gray on April 12, 2015; a week later Gray fell into a coma and died of a spinal cord injury he sustained in police custody in the back of a police van. Nero, along with five other officers; William Porter, Caesar Goodson Jr, Brian Rice, Garrett Miller, and Alicia White were all charged with various misdemeanor’s and felonies. The verdict for Officer Nero: Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams found him not guilty of all charges. Nero faced charges of second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and two counts of misconduct in office; with Officer Nero’s acquittal, what’s next for the city of Baltimore? Who is Officer Edward Nero? Edward Nero is from Sewell, New Jersey, graduated from Washington Township high school in 2004, and was a volunteer firefighter with the Washington Township Fire Department between 2002-2012 before moving to Baltimore in 2012 and joining the Baltimore City Police Department. “An outstanding and dedicated firefighter,” said Gloucester County Fire Chief John Hoffman said in a statement about Nero, adding that, “He was never in

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Bill Cosby departs the Montgomery County Courthouse after a preliminary hearing on May 24 in Norristown, Pa. Cosby was ordered to stand trial on sexual assault charges after a hearing that hinged on a decade-old police report.

Bill Cosby’s lawyers gave a blistering preview of the questions the actor’s accuser will face at trial, as a judge refused to dismiss the sexassault case at a preliminary hearing. The defense on May 24 attacked the consistency of Andrea Constand’s police statements; offered context to her friendship with Cosby;

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Black Teen Sues Idaho School District in Locker Room Rape, Alleges Lengthy Racist Abuse By Kimberlee Kruesi The Associated Press A Black teenager who prosecutors say was sexually assaulted by three White football players in the locker room of an Idaho high school has sued the school district, alleging the rape was the culmination of months of racist taunts and physical abuse. The federal lawsuit says the school failed to prevent the bullying and attacks despite many

incidents happening in front of football coaches and other officials at Dietrich High School, which serves a rural town of 330 people that is predominantly white and known for being religious. The teen said the abuse included a forced fistfight that coaches encouraged to toughen John Howard is one him up. “The deliberate indifference of three White teens and negligent actions of these accused of raping a defendants exposed the plaintiff to Black disabled high school student. Continued on A3 Photo courtesy of Tarrant County

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Court had ruled in the case of Batson v. Kentucky that using racial bias to strike potential jurors in a criminal case was unconstitutional and violated the Sixth Amendment. Despite the Batson ruling, Georgia’s appellate courts did not find the prosecutors in Foster case had violated the law. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the case in 1989 when it was first appealed. Then, in 2002, Foster used the Georgia Open Records Act to access the prosecutor’s file from his 1987 trial. Although Georgia objected, a special state habeas corpus court overruled the objections and disclosed the voir dire documents. It was here that the evidence of racial bias was made clear to the Supreme Court. A notation on the document read: “No. No Black Continued on A3

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of Georgia at trial. During the process known as voir dire, potential jurors are asked about their backgrounds. Prosecutors and defense counsel use this process to determine if potential jurors can decide the case without bias. Prosecutors Lanier and Pullen chose to compile a race-based list of the jury pool. Each Black juror was systematically struck because the prosecutors’ office believed that person could not view the facts in an unbiased manner. When Foster’s defense counsel objected, the judge sided with the prosecutor’s position that age, marital status, and personal circumstances were the basis for dismissing Black jurors. Timothy Foster was found guilty and sentenced to death. His attorneys appealed. That same year, a few months earlier, the U.S. Supreme

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Continued from A1 Church.” Under the name of one of the Black jurors, were the words: “If it comes down to having to pick one of the Black jurors, [this one] might be okay. This is solely my opinion . . . Upon picking of the jury after listening to all of the jurors we had to pick, if we had to pick a Black juror I recommend that [this juror] be one of the jurors.” The letter “B” was written to each

prospective Black juror’s name. Clayton Lundy, an investigator who assisted the prosecutors testified that lists of prospective jurors were circulated around to secretaries and assistants in the district attorney’s office, which meant that anyone could have made the remarks. But, Lanier and Pullen said that they did not make any notations on the jury forms or write the comments. Georgia defended its actions, arguing that

race was not a factor in striking all of the potential Black jurors. The state’s briefs said “to discredit the prosecutor . . . The State and this community demand an apology.” The trial court agreed, concluding that “[i]n the totality of circumstances,” there was “no discriminatory intent, and that there existed reasonably clear, specific, and legitimate reasons” for each strike. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that

“our independent examination of the record, however, reveals that much of the reasoning provided by Lanier has no grounding in fact.” The Court’s 7-1 opinion found that there was “a concerted effort to keep black prospective jurors off the jury.” As a result the case will go back to the state court. Justice Clarence Thomas, the sole Black judge on the Court filed a dissent. He found no bias on the part of the prosecutors.

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trouble. He was generally a good guy.” Officer Nero, along with Officer Garrett Miller came in contact with Freddie Gray while on bike patrol on North Avenue and Mount Street. He and Officer Miller chased Gray on their bikes, placing him under arrest along the 1700 block of Presbury Street. While handcuffed, dragged several feet, and held face down on concrete; Gray asked for an inhaler but Miller and Nero didn’t respond. The arrest report specifies that the two officers found an illegal switchblade; even though Baltimore’s State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby later said the knife was legal under state law. Officer Nero was one of three officers who failed to establish probable cause and illegally arrested Gray, according to Mosby, and then failed to seatbelt Gray which is against Baltimore Police Department procedure. What’s next for the remaining 5 officers? Though he has been acquitted of all charges, Officer Nero is under a gag order and still assigned to administrative duty pending an internal investigation. According to a statement released by Baltimore City Police Media Relations Director T.J. Smith, “Although the criminal case against Officer Edward Nero has come to a close, the internal investigation has not. With that, Officer Nero’s status will remain unchanged. He will remain in an administrative capacity while this investigation continues.” “The internal investigation is being handled by other police departments. The internal

investigation will not be completed until all of the criminal cases against the other five officers are completed because they will likely be witnesses in each case.” Officer William Porter was tried in what resulted in a mistrial in December 2015. A later trial date for September 6, 2016 has been set. Judge Barry Williams has ruled that while Porter awaits his new trial, he is compelled to testify against his fellow officers. The next officer to go on trial is Caesar Goodson Jr, the driver of the police van and the officer who faces the most serious charges in Gray’s death including seconddegree depraved heart murder, manslaughter by vehicle (gross negligence), manslaughter by vehicle (involuntary), and Second-degree assault. The trial of Officer Goodson, who joined the Baltimore City Police Department in 1999, is set for June 6, 2016. The highest ranking officer charged in the death of Gray once had his weapons seized by Carroll County sheriff’s deputies after an ex-girlfriend reported she was alarmed by some of his comments, according to police documents. Lt. Brian Rice had seven weapons taken from him in 2012 after local authority were called to check on Rice’s well-being. Rice, who was the third officer on bike patrol, with Nero and Miller, is charged with false imprisonment, two counts of second-degree assault, misconduct in office, and involuntary manslaughter. Lt Brian Rice’s trial is scheduled to begin July 5, 2016. Officer Garrett Miller, one of the officers on bike patrol who chased Gray when he

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Officer Edward Nero, center, one of six Baltimore city police officers charged in connection to the death of Freddie Gray, leaves a courthouse after being acquitted of all charges in his trial in Baltimore, on May 23. fled from Lt Rice, joined the force in 2012. States Attorney Marilyn Mosby said Miller tried to put Gray in a “leg lace,” a restraining technique that Gray was held in until the BPD van arrived on the scene. Miller is charged with five misdemeanor charges, two seconddegree assault charges, a count of false imprisonment, and two counts of misconduct in office. His trial date is set for July 27, 2016. The second highest ranking officer charged in the death of Gray, was promoted to sergeant in January and joined the force in 2010. White

met the van on its last stop before the final drive to the Western District police station. She was responsible for investigating two citizen complaints against Gray’s arrest. White tried to speak to Gray in the van but he didn’t respond. Mosby said White, “did nothing further despite the fact she needed a medic. White made no effort to further examine his condition or call anyone.” At the Western District police station, White and other officer’s unloaded Gray but by that time he was not breathing. Her trial date has been set for October 13, 2016.

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and insisted she gave consent to the sex acts that occurred at his home near Philadelphia in early 2004. onstand did not testify, a decision meant to spare her from being cross-examined before trial. Under a recent state law, prosecutors can instead have witness statements read into the record. The defense objected to Constand’s absence during the halfday hearing, which marked the first time that police statements from either Constand or Cosby, 78, have been aired in public. Defense lawyer Brian McMonagle complained that he could not challenge her account. “They chose not to present a witness to make an accusation against Mr. Cosby. So you’re left with what’s on that paper,” McMonagle argued referring to the statement. No trial date has been set, and lawyers are expected to spend months arguing over what evidence can be used — most notably, whether other accusers can testify and whether Cosby’s deposition from Constand’s civil lawsuit can be used. McMonagle on Tuesday suggested that Constand was having a relationship with a married man and that the pair had engaged in “petting” during a few earlier visits to his home. Constand, in her statement, said she had brushed off his advances. On the night in question, she said that Cosby urged her to take three blue pills “to take the edge off” her stress and to wash them down with wine he had poured. Twenty minutes later, her legs turned to “jelly.” “Everything was blurry and dizzy,” Constand told police. “I told him, ‘I can’t even talk, Mr. Cosby.’ I started to panic.” McMonagle argued that Constand “voluntarily” took the pills and perhaps had a bad reaction. He said she was “incapacitated by her own hand, by her own drinking.” And he questioned her continued contact with Cosby in the year between their encounter and her first call to police. “After this incident, Ms. Constand stayed in touch with the defendant, met with the defendant, ... accepted a dinner invitation, spoke to him on the phone, ... and visited him in Canada at a concert,” McMonagle said in asking the judge to dismiss the case. “I know this is a preliminary hearing, but you

have to look at it all.” His arguments largely mirror those raised by former District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. when he declined to press charges when Constand came forward in 2005. Castor has since become a defense witness of sorts, testifying that he had a binding agreement with Cosby’s lawyers that the case would never be prosecuted. “It should have been stopped. It was stopped,” McMonagle argued Tuesday. The defense also seized on discrepancies in the three police statements that Constand gave, including her shifting memory of precisely when the encounter occurred. As for the alleged crime, she said the comedian penetrated her with his fingers and fondled her after giving her what he said was herbal medication. She said she later awoke with her bra askew and did not remember undoing it. District Attorney Kevin Steele described Constand as “paralyzed, incapable of consent.” He believes that makes one part of Cosby’s police statement especially odd. Asked if he had sexual intercourse with Constand, Cosby

said he had not — “neither asleep nor awake.” Dozens of other women have come forward since 2005 to accuse Cosby of molesting them over the past 50 years. Some said they passed out after drinking something he gave them. In his police statement, Cosby said that Constand never said “no” as he put his hand down her pants. He told police the pills were over-the-counter Benadryl that he takes to help him sleep. Cosby settled with Constand for an undisclosed sum in 2006 after testifying behind closed doors about his extramarital affairs, his use of quaaludes to seduce women and his efforts to hide payments to former lovers from his wife. But prosecutors reopened the criminal case last year after dozens of women leveled similar allegations and after Cosby’s sealed testimony in Constand’s lawsuit was made public. Cosby is also fighting defamation lawsuits across the country for allegedly branding his accusers liars and is trying to get his homeowner insurance to pay his legal bills. The Associated Press does not normally identify people who say they were victims of sex crimes unless they agree to be named publicly, which Constand has done.

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harm from fellow students, including at least one student known to have a history of aggressive, bullying and violent behavior,” according to the lawsuit filed May 13. School officials declined to comment. Three teens have been charged in the Oct. 23 rape, which took place after one of the victim’s football teammates pretended to give him a hug, according to the lawsuit. Instead, the player held him down so 17-year-old Tanner Ward and 18-year-old John Howard could assault him with a clothes hanger. Despite his screams, no staff members came into the locker room to investigate, the lawsuit says. It contends that the school had no policy for monitoring locker rooms. Howard and Ward have been charged with felonies in adult court, and the third teen is charged as a juvenile. Ward’s attorney declined to comment, and Howard’s lawyer did not immediately return a phone message left at his office. The lawsuit says school officials knew that Howard transferred to the school from Texas and described him as a large and aggressive student who had been sent to live with relatives

in southern Idaho to keep him out of trouble. In August, football players and coaches encircled the victim and Howard as part of a “toughening up” program that involved nighttime fistfights, the lawsuit says. The victim wore boxing gloves, while Howard fought bare-fisted.

him to view a Confederate flag on a computer, according to the claim. Meanwhile, other members on the football team taunted him with racist names and subjected him to aggressive humping. Idaho law mandates that juveniles ages 14 to 18 accused of certain felony

“The deliberate indifference and negligent actions of these defendants exposed the plaintiff to harm from fellow students, including at least one student known to have a history of aggressive, bullying and violent behavior.” –Lawsuit filed by Black teen

The coaches are accused of promoting the fight that eventually knocked the victim unconscious as students called out racial epithets. Howard also demanded the victim learn the lyrics to a Ku Klux Klan song known as “Moon Man” while forcing

crimes on or near school campuses be charged as adults. That includes the sex assault charge. Court records for the juvenile defendant have been sealed. The Associated Press typically does not name people who say they are victims of sexual assault.

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NAACP Seeks Resignations after Goatee Blocks Black Valedictorian Grad from Ceremony By The Associated Press

But Morris contends that other students in the parish school district were allowed to participate in their graduation ceremonies wearing full beards, including students at Hammond Magnet High School and Ponchatoula High School. Morris said Jones’ right to wear a beard should be protected under the First Amendment’s freedom of expression clause. Jones’ aunt, Sabrina Davis, said the policy is both inherently unfair and was applied unfairly in her nephew’s case.

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• professor and dean of the Law School at Howard University, • a diplomat for the United States in Vladivostok, Russia, • secretary of the Grant Memorial, and; • worked in private law practice. Greener died of old age (78) in Chicago on May 2, 1922, according to his biography on the University of South Carolina’s website.

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High school Valedictorian Andrew Jones. A Louisiana chapter of the NAACP wants a school superintendent and three school board members to resign after a high school valedictorian was blocked from participating in graduation for refusing to shave his beard. At a May 23 rally in support of Andrew Jones, the Tangipahoa chapter’s president, Patricia Morris, said Superintendent Mark Kolwe and board members Walter Daniels, Brett Duncan and Rose Dominguez should step down. Jones, a 4.0 student at Amite High School, about 50 miles east of Baton Rouge, told The Advocate he supports Morris’ call and believes the district’s policy banning beards is “ridiculous.” He said he had been allowed to wear facial hair all year, with no warning until the morning of graduation practice when he was told to shave or be barred from the ceremony. He said he refused to shave because he felt the beard was a part of his identity. Kolwe, in a statement, said Jones and other students were given a copy of all requirements for participation in the ceremony on April 29, nearly three weeks before the May 18 graduation. “That document clearly stated that all students were to be clean shaven for the graduation ceremony,” Kolwe said. Jones was again reminded on May 9, with his mother and aunt listening via speakerphone, Kolwe said. Other students with facial hair shaved before the ceremony, including three who came to the event unshorn and removed their beards in the assembly center with razors and shaving cream provided by district officials, Kolwe said. Jones was the only one who refused to comply, the superintendent said.

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A New York man was being held without bail May 22 after police say he killed his wife and then wheeled her body around before dumping it on the front lawn of a Staten Island home. Thirty-one-yearold Anthony Lopez pleaded not guilty to a murder charge during an arraignment in state Supreme Court on Staten Island. The medical (New York City Police Department via AP) examiner’s office said 26-year-old Aduba This undated photo provided Obiamaka died of ligature by the New York City Police Department on May 21 shows strangulation. District Attorney Anthony Lopez. Michael McMahon said domestic violence may have been a factor in her death. Police say Lopez fled on the morning of May 20 after an off-duty detective on State Island saw him wheeling the corpse, on a dolly and partly covered with a sheet. He was arrested Saturday in Manhattan after a foot chase. On Sunday, Lopez also was arraigned on a criminal mischief charge from earlier this month on Staten Island. Authorities say he threw a brick into the windshield of a woman’s car and a side window, shattering both. Bail was set at $1,000 in that misdemeanor complaint. Lopez’s next court appearance is May 24. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney who could comment.

Harvard Memorializes Richard Theodore Greener, First Black Graduate By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent

Harvard University’s first African-American graduate was recently honored, joining the list of luminaries whose likenesses grace the walls of the campus’ Annenberg Hall. Richard Theodore Greener was immortalized in a recently unveiled portrait. A distinguished Harvard student, Greener graduated in 1870 with honors, winning the chief prizes in writing and (Wikimedia Commons) speaking along the way. Richard Theodore Greener The painting, done by Harvard alumnae Stephen Coit, was commissioned as part of the Portraiture Project, overseen by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. The Project was launched in 2002 to reflect the diversity of persons who have served Harvard with distinction after a survey of the university’s portrait collection found that only two of the 750 paintings were of people of color. About 58 portraits were of White women and the other 690 were of White men. “His (Greener’s) portrait represents an important change in the University’s history, but don’t let this be the last change. Continue the change,” said David L. Evans, senior admissions officer at Harvard College, at the unveiling of the Greener tribute. Evans, himself, was among the first African Americans honored in the Portraiture Project. The son of Arkansas sharecroppers, Evans gained an electrical engineering degree at Princeton University and went on to work on the Apollo moon project. His portrait was unveiled in 2005 along with those of Archie C. Epps III, dean of students from 1971 to 1999 and Eileen Jackson Southern, the first Black woman to hold a tenured faculty position at Harvard. Greener was born on Jan. 30, 1844 in Philadelphia but was raised from the age of 10 in Boston. Though he initially had to drop out of school at age 14 to help support his family, two of his employers eventually helped him attend preparatory schools before he was admitted to Harvard as part of an experiment in the education of African Americans. After graduating from Harvard, Greener taught at the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia (which later became Cheney University of Pennsylvania) and later served as principal at the Preparatory School for Colored Children in Washington, D.C. In 1873, he became the first Black professor at the University of South Carolina, serving during the Reconstruction from 1873 through 1877. While there, he not only taught philosophy and helped reorganize and catalog the library, but he also obtained his law degree. After leaving South Carolina Greener served as: • a Treasury Department clerk,

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President Barack Obama is seen inside his armored SUV as his motorcade makes his way back to Washington after playing golf at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on May 20. A U.S. Secret Service officer shot a man with a gun who approached a checkpoint outside the White House and refused to drop his weapon, the Secret Service said. The White House was briefly placed on a security alert after the May 20 afternoon shooting, which happened within view of sightseers as sidewalks were crowded with families, school groups and government workers. The Metropolitan Police Department, the Secret Service, Park Police and the FBI said in a joint statement on the evening of May 20 that there was “no known nexus to terrorism.” The armed man approached the checkpoint on E Street shortly after 3 p.m., and ignored repeated orders from the officer to drop his gun, according to a statement from David Iacovetti, a Secret Service deputy assistant director. The officer fired one shot at the man and the gun was recovered at the scene, Iacovetti said. The man was transported in critical condition to a nearby hospital, an emergency medical services spokesman said. President Barack Obama was away playing golf, but Vice President Joe Biden was in the White House complex and was secured during the lockdown, his office said. The security alert was lifted about an hour later. The gunman never made it inside the White House complex, and no one else was injured, the Secret Service said. A U.S. law enforcement official said on the evening of May 20 that authorities had identified the gunman as Jesse Oliveri of Ashland, Pennsylvania, about 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to release the information. A message left at a home telephone number linked to Oliveri in Ashland wasn’t immediately returned May 21. Federal agents found ammunition inside a Toyota sedan, parked nearby on Constitution Avenue, that the gunman was believed to have driven, the official said. Sightseer Jenna Noelle of Austin, Texas, said she had just taken a photo of the White House when she noticed a man harassing an agent. Then, “as we were walking away we heard a shot fired, then some people started running away and agents had guns and were evacuating people.” “I had a panic attack,” she added. “I’m doing OK now, but it was pretty freaky to be right there a second before it happened. Not really the experience we wanted,” she added. Community activist Akil Patterson said he heard a single gunshot while waiting in a security line. Within seconds, a security guard shouted to drop to the ground, and then he was evacuated to the street. Patterson said he was at the White House to get a presidential award for his work with Baltimore teens. He says his community work aims to “get rid of the notion that gun violence is the answer.”

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Anti-Trump protesters block the streets following a rally and speech by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Albuquerque Convention Center where the event was held, in Albuquerque, N.M., on May 24. By Russell Contreras The Associated Press A day after a riot erupted outside a Donald Trump rally, Albuquerque officials blamed the downtown melee not on impassioned politics but on an unruly group intent on creating chaos in a city that has seen more than its share of violence. Some participants openly admitted that they set out to cause disruption. Many in the crowd were seen with gang tattoos and at one point chanted to Trump supporters that they controlled the streets. “I woke up all hung over and stuff,” said Chelsea Rae Gray, a 24-year-old musician. “And then I said, ‘Let’s see what kind of chaos we can get into.’” She said she came to the protest in her pajamas and stole some Trump T-shirts from vendors during the confusion. “Then I burned them,” she said. Cleanup crews spent May 25 clearing away broken glass and charred debris in the largest city in the nation’s largest Hispanic state. The mayor and police were tallying up the damage that spread to several blocks near historic Route 66. The violence unfolded close to the site of tumultuous anti-police protests two years ago that were sparked by claims of excessive force

begin, some protesters tossed water bottles at Trump supporters, even hitting Dereck Scott, a 37-year-old man in a wheelchair. “I have the right to support who I want,” said Scott, whose head was red where he got hit. He did not require medical treatment. By nightfall, the family atmosphere gave way to protesters with tattoos of the Sureños 13 gang, a loosely organized collection of Latino gangs that pay tribute to the Mexican mafia. The protesters eventually charged the convention center doors just as people from the Trump rally were being directed to leave through a detour. Some of them warned rally attendees to be careful since the gang “ran these streets.” As police tried to move the crowd away,

officers ducked rocks and burning shirts and then used smoke canisters and pepper spray to move the demonstrators. From block to block, shirtless men with sticks and other weapons roamed nearby streets until police pushed the crowd out of downtown. Javier Benavidez, executive director of the advocacy group Southwest Organizing Project, was carried out of the convention center for disrupting Trump’s speech. He said organizers tried to keep the demonstration peaceful. “We don’t condone violence,” Benavidez said. “But these are people who have been hurt by (Trump’s) rhetoric and his hate. This is a result of months and months of hateful rhetoric.”

and the fatal shooting of a homeless man by officers. A 2014 demonstration in downtown Albuquerque saw police in riot gear clash with angry demonstrators who threw rocks and gas canisters, and shut down City Hall. Like that protest, Tuesday’s gathering quickly turned from peaceful political opposition to chaos. Demonstrators stomped on patrol cars and shattered windows with rocks, authorities said. Six officers were hurt after being hit with fist-sized rocks. They were treated at the scene, a police spokeswoman said. “It was a riot that was the result of a mob trying to cause damage and injury to public property and innocent citizens exercising their constitutional right to peaceably assemble,” City Council member Dan Lewis said. The protest originally organized by advocacy groups known for nonviolent tactics began with demonstrators gathering across the street from the rally at the Albuquerque Convention Center. They had a voterregistration booth, and some activists brought children who waved anti-Trump signs at proTrump people making their way to listen to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Others waved Mexican and American flags. One held a Trump piñata. Just as Trump’s evening speech was to

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A6 The Afro-American, May 28, 2016 - June 3, 2016

COMMENTARY

Applying the Lessons of Baltimore’s Teachable Moment In my congressional work for the people of our region, I often must respond to challenges about Baltimore from some of my Republican colleagues. “You Black Democrats have been in control of Baltimore City for all of these years,” they observe. “How did you let it get so bad? It is your fault.” Although some might offer an angry or defensive response to these attacks, I find it more productive to use those confrontations as teachable moments. My continuing objective is to educate my colleagues about our unjust racial past, both here in Baltimore and within so many of our nation’s other major cities. “The hard-working families of my inner city Baltimore neighborhood rightly expect that their elected representatives will work just as hard at achieving constructive change,” I reply, “but they also understand — from their own families’ histories — that the generational pockets of extreme poverty in Baltimore today are a tenacious legacy of our segregated past.” Elijah Cummings A Brief and Partial History In 1910, I continue, the Baltimore City Council enacted what, in effect, was an ordinance of local apartheid. No Black family could legally occupy a home on a block where more than half the residents were White; and no White family could live where more than half the residents were Black. When the courts eventually overturned that legally sanctioned segregation, Baltimore City adopted the “Chicago Strategy.” Building and health department inspectors were directed to lodge frivolous and punitive code violations against any who violated the segregation policy. Meanwhile, in Baltimore and other cities, White neighborhood associations imposed restrictive covenants barring sales to prospective Black purchasers — conscious, legally enforced segregation that our federal government, through the Federal Housing Administration, openly supported between the 1930s and 1960s. That federally-sanctioned and racially-focused “redlining” by the FHA, combined with discrimination in home lending against African Americans, wherever we lived, effectively barred all but the most tenacious and successful Black Baltimoreans from the federally-backed credit system. This, in turn, prevented many Black families, in Baltimore and elsewhere, from building the generational equity that is a major financial foundation for higher education, wealth, and social stability in our capitalistic society. To the contrary, many predominately African American neighborhoods became the hunting grounds for predatory lending and other financial exploitation that continues, if more subtly, in America’s urban areas to this day.

Speaking the Whole Truth to Power All of these responses to my Republican critics are historical truth. Yet, they are not the whole truth. The broader truth about Baltimore’s history is also that, despite the discriminatory burdens of being Black in America, many, many African Americans have succeeded in breaking the bonds of past discrimination — their liberation aided by the more recent, more enlightened government policies that were the product of past Democratic and Republican administrations alike. Yet, despite these gains, far too many African American neighborhoods burdened by extreme, generational poverty continue to exist, limiting the future of Baltimore and so many other great American cities. This is why the lessons of Baltimore teach us that we must continue our efforts to moderate the use of force by our police officers and comprehensively reform why we put people in prison, what happens to them there and how they return to society. We must continue to fight for expanded federal funding to America’s inner-city neighborhoods — while, locally, we actively encourage our City and State leaders to implement reforms like the Baltimore Metropolitan Council’s Plan for Sustainable Development. Expanded workforce training will qualify more of our neighbors for mid-skilled jobs that pay living wages. Improved public transit services will better connect working families to jobs, training opportunities, and safe, affordable housing. Civic Engagement and Our Shared Path Forward In Washington, the conscious ignorance and apparent indifference of some of my Republican critics to our nation’s past and continuing racial inequities are both morally appalling and socially dangerous. If they cannot be convinced to support the reforms that our nation so clearly needs, they must be defeated at the polls. These, after all, are the same reactionary political forces that now are proposing Donald Trump as our next President, denying President Obama’s choice for the Supreme Court, and seeking to steer our entire federal government back toward the failed policies of our past. I continue to believe that the arc of history bends toward greater justice for everyone — but only if that justice is demanded by an engaged citizenry. This is why all of us, as Americans, must exercise the full measure of our citizenship — on Election Day and every other day — until universal justice is won. We must vote for leaders who will advance progressive and inclusive social and economic policies, and, then, we must remain engaged with our elected officials at every level until a more equitable society prevails. These are the lessons that we are now struggling to implement here in Maryland — the same lessons that will allow America to fulfill her destiny. Congressman Elijah Cummings represents Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.

Feminism: The New F Word In 2016 there is a new F word causing controversy in schools. Students are allowed to say it, yet not many of them know exactly what it means. In some ways, this is more harmful than the original F curse word whose place it has taken. A student at a nearby all-boys school wrote a response to a BuzzFeed entitled, “36 Questions Women Have for Men.” Some of those questions included, “Why do you hate rom-coms? to “Why is your first instinct to doubt women who have been sexually violated or raped?” He addressed each of these questions, quite poorly, mainly because he conflated questions from women with feminism. Feminism is the fight for social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. To me, this definition should also intersect with racism, homophobia, and transphobia. Intersectional Feminism is vital for the progression of today’s society. As an attendee of an all girls’ private school, feminism is a part of the culture of the school and the incorporation of feminism into the curriculum has made me an open and inclusive thinker. Because of this, I believe feminism should be an integral part of all school’s

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curriculum, similar to the study of the Declaration of Independence and Earth’s biodiversity. Children who are exposed to feminism at an early age, will hopefully grow up to be open and inclusive thinkers. For example, people who grow up with this type of education will not practice micro aggressions towards all women. Micro aggression would be things like calling a woman who is your boss the other B word, labeling all Black women as “Angry Black Women” and questioning the “true” gender of a transgender woman. Intersectional feminism will also challenge children to think deeper about the stereotypes they see in the media and in their own lives. It will show young women they have a voice in a typically patriarchal society and that they have the power to decide what they do with their own bodies. It will also teach Black women that they are more than an “Angry Black Woman”, but also that their anger is valid. Intersectional feminism will also teach young men the benefits of gender equality, coupled with teaching Black men and others that Black men are more than their hoodies and slang terms. Intersectional feminism will

How to Get an Expungement in Maryland You have a few criminal charges on your record that are causing havoc on your life. The charges are keeping you from getting a job, gaining credit or being admitted to college. If this sounds like your situation then you may benefit from the changes to Maryland’s expungement laws, which occurred in late 2015. As the executive director of Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (MVLS), we work with hundreds of volunteer attorneys to help lowincome Marylanders clear qualified charges from criminal records. While you’re dealing specifically with criminal charges, the process to remove the cases from your record falls within the area of civil law called expungement. On October 1, 2015 the expungement laws in Maryland changed, allowing a number of new cases to be expunged. In one change, an individual can now seek an expungement for a conviction of a crime that is no longer a crime. A good example of this is possession of marijuana under 10 grams, which was decriminalized in 2014. Another change was focused on shielding. An individual can seek to have certain non-violent misdemeanor convictions shielded

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from public view after three years of completing any mandatory supervision, including parole and probation. Law enforcement and certain employers will still have access to this information. An individual is limited to filing a petition for shielding once in their lifetime. The third major law change was focused on subsequent convictions, which permits thousands of individuals to remove nonconvictions from their records. In the past, a non-conviction could not be removed from a record if the individual had a criminal conviction following the non-conviction. Anything prior to the conviction was permanently on the record. Once a criminal case is expunged, Marylanders may answer “no” to the question “Have you ever been charged with/convicted of a crime?” on certain employment, education housing and credit forms. It is important to understand that expungement can remove cases quickly from government websites (court, criminal and other state agencies), but cases can continue to appear on employment checks for some time because there is no law requiring third-party suppliers to remove the data. Marylanders interested in searching for any expungeable cases

ensure Transgender women are treated as women and therefore will receive all of the rights they are promised as an American. But who should teach feminism to the budding minds of the future? And at what age should they be taught? Departments of Education may wince at the thought of hiring more teachers or paying for seminars and training for teachers in this time of shrinking educational budgets, but these steps need to be taken to safeguard the future of all types of women. All teachers should teach intersectional feminism as a part of the curriculum, which would establish a safe space for students to be properly educated and have difficult conversations. When I was 10 I do not think I would have fully understood Feminism in its entirety, yet I do believe Feminism should be included in small ways. Teachers asking simple questions during class discussions about micro aggressions towards all types of women in literature or history will begin to open up student’s minds to equality. Kaila Mundell-Hill is an intern in the Baltimore office of the AFRO American. She is a senior at St. Paul’s School for Girls in Baltimore.

on their record can visit www.MDExpungement.com to search by case number. To date, more than 12,500 expungement petitions have been printed from the website, saving Maryland residents $267,210 in court filing fees. The website guides users through completing the paperwork needed to file for expungement while listing free expungement clinics around the Maryland area. An expungement clinic, hosted by MVLS and NAACP of Maryland, will be held on June 11 from 9 a.m. – Noon at the Freddie Gray Empowerment Center at 1505 Eutaw Place in Baltimore. This is a free expungement clinic with volunteer attorneys available to walk you through the expungement process. It can be extremely frustrating to secure work, credit and housing with old criminal charges on your record. There are new opportunities available to clear criminal records to set you on the path to independence, including additional law changes expected to take effect later this year. Bonnie A. Sullivan Esq., executive director of Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (MVLS), a statewide organization serving Maryland’s low-income residents by offering free legal services and full representation for civil legal cases.

A Time to Appreciate Those Who Died Serving Their Country As we prepare to begin the summer season in earnest, just what is this holiday called Memorial day? Who started it and why? Moreover, what might we consider deciding to do for ourselves in honor of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice – dying in service to our nation? We all know that “Memorial Day” is an official federal holiday for remembering people who died while serving in the military; separate and distinct from “Veterans’ Day,” which is to honor all who served in the military living and deceased. Memorial Day is to be celebrated on the last Monday of May and was originally Decoration Day in 1868. The day was to be used for decorating the graves of soldiers. A fact about “Memorial Day” not known by many should be a point of pride for African Americans. A widely accepted fact by historians, championed and written about by famed Yale University historian, David W. Blight is that three years earlier, a group of freed African American slaves created and executed the first widely publicized observance of a “Memorial Day” on May 1, 1865 in Charleston, South Carolina. Blight’s historical research and the reporting of the New York Tribune at that time reveal that at a place in Charleston called

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Hampton Park Race Course, over 250 Union Soldier prisoners were buried in very shallow and unmarked graves by the confederate Army. Freed Men, missionaries, teachers, African American ministers, Union Troops and about 3,000 African American school children from newly formed freedmen’s schools properly prepared the area. They built an arch called “Martyrs of Race Course,” and observed the first of what we now call “Memorial Day.” They celebrated with a picnic, song and by placing flowers on graves, things still done today. As we all know, many cemeteries and families often place flowers and American flags at the grave sites of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country and at graves of love-ones whether they served or not. No one knows what goes through the mind of someone when they died while in military service. We all know that many who have served were drafted and really did not want to serve. What we do know is that they died while or after serving our Nation; and while not 100% safe from the newest enemy, terrorism, we are safer and better-off because of their service. So, just maybe the requested one moment of silence across the nation at 3 p.m. local time on the last Monday of May might be worth a thought. I submit we owe them more. We owe them positive action to not only honor their sacrifice but to build upon their dedication to

the wellness of our communities. My point is not to put a damper on your festivities; but rather that we show our pride in self and dedication to a better way of life for our communities which many died to guarantee. Maybe, just maybe, we can do this by taking actions to further the well being of our communities. We can do this by reflecting on our African American part in this national recognition of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Some may even decide to do their part to stop Black – on – Black crime as a way of furthering the purposes for which many African Americans have given their lives. From my foxhole, the best way to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country is to remind ourselves and promise to exercise our right to vote for those who will do good for our communities and do all in our individual and collective powers to see to it that those not in our best interests are defeated. Maj Gen US Army (ret) John R. Hawkins III, JD, MPA is President and CEO of Hawkins Solutions Intl., a government relations and lobby company. His last military assignment as a “two star” was Dir., Human Resources Directorate for the Army worldwide and prior to that Deputy Chief Public Affairs for the Army, world-wide.

May 28, 2016 - June 3, 2016, The Afro-American

Things to do in Baltimore this Summer

By Brandi Randolph Special to the AFRO

The trees have leaves again, the flowers are in bloom and the sun has returned to brighten our

Baltimore Seafood Festival at Canton Waterfront Park The B Scene Events & Promotions hosts the third Annual Baltimore Seafood Festival on September 17 from noon to 7 p.m. at Canton Waterfront Park (located at 3001 Boston St, Baltimore, MD 21224). This event showcases favorite restaurants around Baltimore that serve signature seafood dishes (for example:crabs,crab cakes, oysters, shrimp etc.) A portion of the profits will go to Baltimore City Recreation and Parks. Be sure to purchase tickets for this event soon. For more information visit baltimoreseafoodfest.com.

days. Summer is here again. We have compiled a list of must attend events throughout the summer months to keep you and your family entertained and enjoying our beautiful city. Kick off your summer fun with one of these featured events.

Taste of 3 Cities Food Truck Festival & Competition: Baltimore at Patterson Park June 4 at 11 a.m. the Taste of three Cities Food Truck Festival and Competition will commence at Patterson Park ( 2806 Eastern Ave corner of Linwood and Eastern Ave, Baltimore Md 21231). This year, the three Cities Food Truck Fest features Baltimore based nonprofit program named Meals on Wheels. Meals on Wheels provides meals to homebound and disabled senior citizens. To learn more about Meals on Wheels visit mealsonwheels.org. Tickets for this event are available at eventbrite.com.

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‘Art in The Hands of Men’ exhibit at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum On June 25 the Reginald F. Lewis Museum will host an exhibit that celebrates and acknowledges innovative African American men in art, history, and popular culture. Artists who will be featured include: Ernest Shaw, Eric Briscoe, Jason Harris, Tariq Toure, Bryan Robinson and many other. The museum is located at 830 E. Pratt St Baltimore, Md 21202. For more information go to lewismuseum.org.

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Chesapeake Crab & Beer Festival at the Inner Harbor On June 25 the Inner Harbor will host it’s third annual Chesapeake Crab & Beer Festival. This is an all you can eat style event complete with over 30,000 crabs, tons of beer, family fun and so much more. Located at 610 Light Street, Baltimore, MD 21230. The day will be broken up into two main sessions (Sessions one is 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Session two is 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.). Tickets and more information is available at mdcrabfest.com.

African American Festival at Camden Yards On July 2-3 Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the City of Baltimore presents the African American festival at the M&T Bank Stadium.This festival is a celebration of African American life, music and culture. Some of the events that people are able to participate in includes: children’s activities, arts, education, financial literacy, health & wellness and more. Located at 1101 Russell Street, Baltimore, MD 21230 (Camden Yards Sports Complex on Lots B and C between Oriole Park at Camden Yards and M&T Bank stadium). For more information about this event visit africanamericanfestival.net.

2016 Artscape Artscape with be held from July 15 to July 17 in Baltimore, MD. Artscape is a three day festival that includes a multitude of activities for the whole family (including exhibitions, outdoor sculptures, live concerts and a delicious, international menu of food and beverages). Artscape will be located at

the Mount Royal Avenue & Cathedral Street, Charles Street, Bolton Hill, and Station North Arts & Entertainment District neighborhoods. Performing artists and vendors will be posted on Artscape’s website as the date grows near. Check out their website at artscape.org/home for more infomation. This is a free event and George Clinton performed at Artscape 2015 open to the public. For more information visit artscape. org.

Artists’ Talk: ‘To Be Black in White America’ at Galerie Myrtis

On July 24 at the Galerie Myrtis (2224 N Charles St Baltimore, Md 21218) at 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. the new exhibit “To Be Black in White America” will be available for viewing. This exhibit conveys the politicalization of the black identity in the United States; through photography, paintings, sculpting, video, printmaking and music. You will see the artwork from local artist such as Larry Cook, Wesley Clark, Linda Day Clark, Oletha Devane-Kojzar, and many more prominent artists. For more infomation visit their Facebook event page facebook.com/events/575776735917333/)

2016 National Urban League Conference at Baltimore Convention Center The Greater Baltimore Urban League (GBUL) will host the 2016 National Urban League Conference at the Baltimore Convention Center (1 W. Pratt St, Baltimore, MD 21201) on from Aug. 3 - 6. The GBUL provides disadvantaged Marylanders access to equal opportunity to employment, education, healthcare, housing and the civic area. Certain events and activities that will take place during this conference include: empowering sessions and workshops, career and networking fairs, small business matters entrepreneurship summit and many more events throughout the four days. Be sure to register for this event here before Apirl 15 conference.gbul.org to utilize the early bird pricing.

2016 Summer Spirit Festival at the Merriweather Post Pavilion Come out on August 6 and August 7 to the Merriweather Post Pavilion to engage in great entertainment provided by the ‘2016 Summer Spirit Festival.’ This event blends together some of the the best Soul, R&B, Hip Hop, & GO GO artists today. Featuring iconic performances by Erykah Badu, The Roots, Jill Scott and Janelle Monáe just to name a few. Doors open at 1 p.m. and the show begins promptly at 2:00 p.m. Located at the Merriweather Post Pavilion (10475 Little Patuxent Parkway Columbia, MD 21044). For more information go to merriweathermusic.com.

2016 Vegan SoulFest at Baltimore City Community College On August 20 BCCC will host the 2016 Vegan SoulFest from noon to 7 p.m. Browse the event for delicious food from local vendors and great vegan products. Also, learn from guest speakers Dr. Ruby Lathon and Dr. Milton R. Mills about how the vegan lifestyle can benefit your health. BCCC campus is located at 2901 Liberty Heights Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21215. For more information visit vegansoulfest.com.

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The Afro-American, May 28, 2016 - June 3, 2016

‘A New Sound in Jazz: The Incredible Jimmy Smith’ Performance

Things to do in Washington, D.C. this Summer By Brandi Randolph Special to the AFRO

Spit Dat Open Mic On Thursdays from May 26 to July 21 at 8:30 p.m. to Droopy the Broke Baller 11:30 p.m. Droopy and Dwayne B. the Broke Baller and Dwayne B., the Croche Kingpin, presents ‘Spit Dat Open Mics.’ The event is located at the Emergence Community Arts Collective (733 Euclid Street NW). The atmosphere is for rising and experienced poets to share their work. For more information, visit poetry247.com/spitdat.

On June 11 at 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. the National Museum of American History will feature music by the jazz musician Jimmy Smith (performed by Charles Covington, an American jazz pianist and professor of Jazz Piano at Howard University). Participants will learn about the great jazz innovators who explored and redefined the limits of jazz. The event is located on the first floor, West Charles Covington Wing at the Coulter Performance Plaza inside of the National Museum of American History (14th St and Constitution Ave, NW). Tickets are required and can be purchased on the museum website. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit americanhistory.si.edu/ smithsonian-jazz/concerts.

Women National Conference at the Heritage Foundation On June 16 at 1p.m. and June 17 at 9p.m. the Heritage Foundation is scheduled to host the Network of enlightened Women National Conference. Come and network with the top conservative and proliberty leaders, authors and policy experts. Events will feature panels and speakers, a networking reception and an optional student training on June 17. The event will be located at Heritage Foundation ( 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE). All events in the conference are free to the public. For more information, visit enlightenedwomen.org/ national-conference.

Go-Go and Hip-Hop: Community Innovations Discussion On June 18 at 1 p.m. the National Museum of American History is expected to sponsor a “Go-Go and Hip-Hop: Community Innovations” discussion and performances. The event will be located on the first floor, West Wing at the Coulter Performance Plaza inside of the museum (14th St and Constitution Ave, NW). For more information, visit invention.si.edu/about/events/go-go-and-hip-hop-communityinnovations.

National Capital Barbecue Battle The Chuck Brown Band

On June 30 and July 1 the iconic Patti LaBelle is scheduled to perform at the Strathmore Music Center (5301 Tuckerman Ln, North Bethesda, MD 20852) at 8 p.m. She will perform her hits such as “On My Own” and “If You Ask Me To.” For more information, visit whur. com.

Brave New Voices Poetry Slam Festival at the Kennedy Center On July 12 to July 16 the 19th annual Brave New Voices International Poetry Slam Festival will commence at the Kennedy Center (2700 F St NW). This event brings together young poets from around the world to create opportunities for artistic growth, civic engagement, and youth development. Tickets will become available in late June. For more information, visit poetryspeaks.org/bravenewvoices.

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DC Jazz Festival: A Night at the Kennedy Center The DC Jazz Festival will occur throughout the city on June 10 to June 19. Performances will include Maceo Parker, Regina Carter Quartet, Ben Williams & Sound Effect, The Chuck Brown Band and many more acts. Locations include the Hamilton Live, The Yards, In The Hoods, and Family Fun Days. For more information, visit dcjazzfest.org.

Patti LaBelle Performs at Strathmore

Join the greater Washington area for the National Capital Barbecue Battle on June 25 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on June 26 from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Along with bbq, the event will also feature 30 bands on three stages. The event will be located at 1101 Pennsylvania Ave NW.. For more information, visit bbqindc.com.

On July 15 (at 5:30 p.m.) to July 17 (at 5p.m.) the Marvin Center is scheduled to hold a “Blogging While Brown” conference. This event draws Black social media experts, speakers, and independent content creators together to expand their influence in social media and technology. This event will be located at the The Marvin Center (800 21st Street, NW). For more information, visit bloggingwhilebrown. com.

Brew at the National Zoo On July 21 at 6 p.m. to 9 p.m the Friends of the National Zoo are scheduled to host its annual Beer Fest. Activities include: sampling more than 70 craft beers, listening to entertainment by local band The Reagan Years, playing lawn games and watching live animal demonstrations. Tickets will go on sale for FONZ members on June 9 and to non-members on June 16. For more information, visit nationalzoo.si.edu.

May 28, 2016 - June 3, 2016, The Afro-American

WASHINGTON-AREA

Clinton Campaign Sets Up in D.C.

Bowie State Graduation

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Six hundred and fifty students graduated from Bowie State University at its 2016 Spring Commencement ceremony May 23 at the Xfinity Center in College Park, Md. See more photos on B4.

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Metrorail Repairs Could Impact D.C. Night Life

The presidential campaign for former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently kicked off in the District and from all indications, a fullthrottle effort to win the June 14, 2016 Democratic Party primary is taking place despite the small number of delegates up for grabs. D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and D.C. Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) were among the 30 people at the Hillary Clinton for President campaign office that opened on Pennsylvania Avenue., S.E. on May 19. Clinton was not at the event. Another office opened that day in the DuPont Circle neighborhood of the city. Continued on B2

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SafeTrack deals exclusively with Metrorail and not with WMATA’s bus system. Continued on B2

The District of Columbia’s night life will likely suffer a loss of business as the Metrorail system reverts to shutting down at midnight each day for almost a year starting on June 3. On May 17, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) General Manager Paul Wiedefeld announced the final version of his SafeTrack program. It is designed to repair the ailing equipment and parts on the system’s Metrorail in nearly a year. Wiedefeld said fixing the area’s train portion of its transit system is a priority. “Safety comes first, and I to remind the region – Virginia Ali want that SafeTrack is not just about the 15 maintenance surges,” he said. “SafeTrack also includes weeknight work that will require single track operations in sections starting at 8 p.m.; it means closing the system at midnight on weekends as opposed to 3 a.m. and committing to a moratorium on extra hours of early morning or late night service when it conflicts with track work.”

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According to Virginia Ali, co-founder of Ben’s Chili Bowl, early metro closures will have an impact on her customers and employees.

ACLU Challenges Public All-Male High School While District of Columbia school officials prepare for the opening of the public allmale high school this fall, the District’s chapter American Civil Liberties Union chapter

Man Charged in D.C. Metro Rape By The Associated Press

Hillary Clinton, candidate for the Presidential Democratic nomination, opened two campaign offices in D.C.

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is considering legal action to challenge the validity of the institution. On May 9 the ACLU-DC released a 43-page report, “Leaving Girls Behind: An Analysis of Washington, D.C. ‘Empowering Males of Color’ (EMOC) Initiative” that was critical of the decision by

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), with the support of D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson, to open an allmale public high school and other all-male projects without any programs for girls. Monica Hopkins-Maxwell, the ACLU-DC executive director, is particularly uncomfortable

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Johnny Barnes, former executive director of D.C.’s ACLU, says that the way to solve the problem is to open a public all-girls school as well. with the all-male high school being funded by District taxpayers. “Though the mayor and the DCPS are right to address the racial disparity gap in education, they chose to exclude girls from the solutions,” Hopkins-Maxwell said. “Extensive review of DCPS data and research provide no justification for this decision.”

Leaders of the ACLU’s national office in New York City stand behind HopkinsMaxwell. “The ACLU would prefer that DCPS voluntarily extend EMOC’s educational opportunities to girls, but we are considering all options to ensure that girls are afforded equal opportunity within DCPS, including possible legal action,” Galen Sherwin, the senior staff attorney with the Women’s Rights ProjectACLU, said. Bowser and Henderson announced on Jan. 21, 2015 the $20 million “Empowering Males of Color Initiative” that includes a component designed to improve the academic performance of males of color, more funds for schools that show academic progress for males of color, paid internships, mentoring opportunities, and, the most talked-about aspect, the allmale public high school that will open in the fall at the former Ronald Brown Middle School in Northeast to be led by principal Dr. Benjamin Williams. The plan was quickly criticized by D.C. Council member Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), who questioned the constitutionality of a public single-sex school under

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Authorities say they’ve filed charges against a man accused of assaulting and raping a woman in April on a Metro train outside the nation’s capital. Thirty-nine-year-old John Prentice Hicks of Washington, D.C., has been charged with attempted first-degree rape, first-degree sexual offense and second-degree assault in connection with the April 12 incident. He was extradited last week and ordered held without bond on Montgomery May 23. County State’s Metro Attorney’s Office Transit John Prentice Police say Hicks was the woman charged in awoke and the April 12 was attacked assault of by the knife- a woman wielding on the suspect D.C. metro before he system. got off the train. Police say Hicks was arrested hours after the attack in Montgomery County, a Maryland suburb of Washington. Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s spokesman Ramon Korionoff says surveillance footage at a Metro station helped identify Hicks as the suspect. Metro General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld said May 24 that he has directed Metro Transit Police to make a public notification of any violent crime on the same day that the crime happens as long as “doing so will not hinder the investigation or the police department’s ability to apprehend a suspect,” a Metro spokeswoman told AP.

D.C. Security Guard Assaults Transgendered Woman By Briana Thomas Special to the AFRO A security guard was arrested and charged with assault after refusing to let a transgender woman use the restroom inside of a Northeast grocery store on May 18, according to D.C. police reports. Officials are charging Francine Bernice Jones, 45, with simple assault, a misdemeanor, after police said she pushed a transgender woman, Ebony Belcher, 32, out of the Giant Food Stores restroom on H Street in Northeast around noon. Jones works for Wolf Security in Baltimore and police are classifying the altercation as a possible hate crime. She is scheduled to appear in court on July 21, according to D.C. Courts. Belcher told News4 that she passed Jones on her way to the bathroom. While inside of the restroom, Jones opened the door on Belcher and said, “I know you are a man.” Belcher said Jones began calling her derogatory names and grabbed and shoved Belcher out of the supermarket. Belcher said she recalls Jones saying, “You guys cannot keep coming in here and using our women’s restroom. They did not pass the law yet.” This incident comes in the midst of a heated national debate about whether transgender people should use public restrooms corresponding to their sex at birth or corresponding to their Continued on B2

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ACLU

Continued from B1 Title IX, a law that mandates equitable school facilities for both genders and the Fourteenth Amendment that ensures equal protection under the law for all citizens. Despite D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine (D) stating in an opinion that the initiative’s programs, particularly the high school, passes legal muster, Cheh still has her reservations. “It’s heartbreaking that any child should be at risk of failure and I readily applaud those who want to help struggling students,” Cheh, who is a constitutional law scholar at the George Washington University School of Law, said. “However, in our eagerness to support efforts to help at-risk boys, we unintentionally left our at-risk girls behind. The government should move forward with its program for our boys but also provide equivalent opportunities for our girls. “Anything short of full equality is illegal and wrong.” However, DCPS is sticking by its plan for EMOC. “D.C. public schools works to provide world-class, differentiated programming so that all students are prepared for college, career, and beyond,” a spokeswoman for the school system said in a

statement obtained by the AFRO. “By all students, we mean all backgrounds, all races, all genders, and all sexual orientations. The Empowering Males of Color initiative is exactly that-one

“Legally and constitutionally, the ACLU is right when you look at Title IX.” – Johnny Barnes avenue to engage our male students of color and support them toward graduation.” The ACLU is seeking parents and guardians of District school children who believe the exclusion of girls is unfair or who are interested in having their daughters attend the Empowering Males High School or participate in other components of EMOC.

Johnny Barnes is a civil rights attorney in the District and is the former executive director of the city’s ACLU chapter. Barnes said he has mixed feelings on the EMOC and the all-male public high school. “Legally and constitutionally, the ACLU is right when you look at Title IX,” Barnes told the AFRO. “The courts aren’t likely to approve a public all-boys school without a public all-girls school in existence.” However, Barnes said he understands the Bowser administration’s reasons for creating EMOC. “Personally, I think there is some benefit to an all-male school,” he said. “A boy can really develop being in a nurturing all-male learning environment. I think what needs to be done is that type of opportunity needs to be afforded to girls.” Barnes said that he is a lawyer not an educator but thinks the matter can be settled without resorting to litigation. “The ACLU is looking at this issue through a legal lens,” he said. “The ACLU has the right to bring up these issues in the context of Title IX and the Fourteenth Amendment but I think there shouldn’t be a courtroom confrontation on this. Enlightened minds need to get together to figure out a way to help young men and young women fairly.”

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The SafeTrack program starts on June 3 and is supposed to end with the last surge that takes place from March 6-19, 2017 on the Orange and Silver lines. There will be no track work during the presidential inauguration week of Jan. 15-21, 2017. While SafeTrack has 15 “safety surges,” where groups of Metro stations that will be repaired and cause inconvenience for riders in time frames ranging from days to weeks, it is the midnight shutdown that has caused some anxiety. There have been instances where organizations have offered to pay the system to open early or stay late. However, Morgan Dye, a spokeswoman for Metro, told the AFRO there will be no exceptions for the SafeTrack period. “The midnight deadline will be strictly

enforced,” Dye said. “Metro will no longer have late night service even for special events.” The midnight deadline may present a challenge to riders attending concerts at The Verizon Center or to Washington Redskins fans attending night games. Games of the Washington Wizards, Washington Capitals, and the Washington Nationals are scheduled earlier in the day and rarely go past 10 p.m. Night spots, whether they are eateries or clubs, depend on night customers for their financial sustainability and the midnight shutdown of Metrorail may affect their businesses. Virginia Ali, co-founder of the Ben’s Chili Bowl restaurant chain, told the AFRO the midnight shutdown of Metrorail will have an

impact on her business. “It will definitely affect my employees,” Ali said. “We close our U Street location at 4 a.m. on weekends and from 12 a.m. to 4 a.m. on the weekends is when we are the busiest. However, it is important that we have a safe system and if it must be repaired then so be it.” Ali hopes that Metro adds to its bus service on the weekends to accommodate people who are out enjoying the city’s night life as well as the workers who serve them. Whether this will happen or not remains unclear. Marc Barnes is the owner of the popular The Park at Fourteenth nightclub. Well-known entertainers and athletes such as Beyoncé, Chris Brown, and Floyd Mayweather have visited The Park and political figures such as

former President Bill Clinton, members of the Congressional Black Caucus and, with the exception of the late Walter Washington, all of the mayors of the District and most D.C. Council members have attended and held events there. Barnes told the AFRO that he, unlike Ali, isn’t concerned about the midnight shutdown of Metrorail. “The people who come to our nightclub don’t ride the subway,” Barnes said. “They drive their cars and park. When you do have people who don’t have cars, they will use Uber or take a taxi.” Wiedefeld has repeatedly advised Metrorail customers to have alternative modes of transportation to get to work or to go out for a night on the town.

Clinton

Continued from B1 Malik Williams, the Clinton campaign coordinator for the District, said there was a good reason to open two offices in the District. “We can’t take anything for granted,” Williams told the AFRO. “We want to make sure that we have a presence all over the city and get support for Secretary Clinton.” Allen said he was “thrilled” that the campaign set up an office in his ward. “I am excited because I know that D.C. will come in strong for Hillary Clinton for president,” Allen said. “The closest I want Donald Trump to the White House is staying at his hotel. We need a president who works with my mayor for D.C. statehood.” Norton, who knew Clinton for a number of years before she became first lady, said “Hillary Clinton doesn’t need to introduce herself to D.C. When she was first lady, she was working for D.C.” Her husband, then Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton won the D.C. Democratic Party presidential primary on May 17, 1992 with 73 percent of the vote against Jerry Brown, who is the current

governor of California, and the late former U.S. Sen. Paul Tsongas. Clinton served as first lady from 1993-2001 and she was active at the multi-racial Foundry United Methodist Church located at 1500 16th Street NW. As first lady, she and her family served food to struggling Washingtonians during Thanksgiving, served as the commencement speaker at Howard University in 1998, and spoke at a Banneker High School graduation ceremony. Norton told a brief story that took place several months ago. The delegate was in line with her congressional colleagues to greet Clinton and when it was her turn, Norton asked the presidential candidate whether she supported statehood. “Hillary looked at me flabbergasted and said ‘Eleanor, I have always been for statehood’” Norton said. While Clinton is highly-regarded in the District, it didn’t translate to a victory in 2008. In the presidential primary on Feb. 12, 2008, Clinton got 23 percent of the vote while then Sen.

Barack Obama received 75 percent. The District has a total of 45 delegates available in the Democratic primary. As of May 24 Clinton had 2,305 delegates while Bernie Sanders had 1,539. A candidate needs 2,383 delegates to secure the Democratic Party nomination. This year, Clinton has the support of D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D), and all Democratic D.C. Council members except at-large member Anita Bonds. Bonds is the chairman of the D.C. Democratic State Committee and chose to stay neutral in the presidential race. Norton said while Clinton will have strong support in the District on June 14, residents should not take the primary for granted. “People need to turn out and vote for Hillary but also for the sake of D.C. statehood,” she said. “We have to do this for D.C. and that means having a big vote on June 14 and a bigger vote in November. In addition to voting here in the District, we need to head out to Virginia to support Hillary, also.” The location of the two offices has some political leaders in eastern Washington concerned. Former D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D), at a Ward 7 Democrats candidates’ forum on May 14, asked Williams publicly whether the campaign will open an office east of the Anacostia River. Williams said the campaign is considering making that move. Philip Pannell, a well-known political and civic activist in Ward

“We want to make sure that we have a presence all over the city and get support for Secretary Clinton.” – Malik Williams 8, told the AFRO he heard that a Clinton office located at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Good Hope Road. S.E., is in the works. Bowser is enthusiastic about the Clinton campaign in the District, noting that the Democratic frontrunner “will not take D.C. for granted.” “In 2008, we elected Barack Obama as president and made history and this year we will make history again by electing Hillary Clinton president,” the mayor said. “We need to fight to keep a Democrat in the White House.” The Bernie Sanders presidential campaign has an office on Massachusetts Avenue in Northeast D.C. and is led by Chuck Rocha, who owns the political firm, Solidarity Strategies.

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gender identity. The Obama administration issued guidelines on May 13 that directs public schools to allow transgender students to occupy the restroom that matches their gender identity, but the guidelines do not have the force of law. Advocacy groups, such as The DC Center for the LGBT Community, are working to stop violence against LGBT people. Sam Shinberg, a staff social worker at the center, told the AFRO May 24 about the center’s DC Anti-Violence Project that aids survivors of violence, through the center’s community outreach and education. There has been a 43 percent increase in hate crimes in D.C. as of April 30 from 10 incidents in 2015, according to the police department. There was a zero percent change in crimes against gender identity/expression from three crimes in 2015.

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Bowie State University held its 2016 Spring Commencement on May 23 at the Xfinity Center in College Park, Maryland. Civil Rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) addressed 650 graduates at the commencement as the keynote speaker.

Dawaine M. Cosey, Senior Class president

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.)

Britlan Parham, Areil Robinson, Stephanie Wright, Shirley Wright, Jaquilla Wright (Bachelor’s of Science, Criminal Justice), Jason Wright, Desire Branen Ellis and Jason Wright Jr. 2016 graduates

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) receives the President Medal of Excellence

Karen Johnson Shaheed, executive vice president and general counsel Jonetta Chichester (Bachelor of Science in Accounting), Joshua Spencer (Bachelor of Science in Accounting), Gail Peace-Fogg (Master of the Arts in Counseling Psychology) and Lacie Pleasants (Bachelor of Social Work)

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Mickey L. Burnim, president, Bowie State University and Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.)

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Sam Washington and Marith Gay

David Stand, Carrie Williams, Tom Williams and Phyllis Williams Members of the Jackson State University Greater Washington Alumni Chapter

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he alumni chapters of Mississippi’s HBCUs, including Tougaloo College, Jackson State, Alcorn State and Mississippi Valley State (TJAM) Universities hosted their 5th annual fundraiser with a Masquerade Gala April 9 at Martin’s Crosswinds in Greenbelt, Maryland. Funds generated from the event will provide scholarships to students from the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area who will be attending one of the institutions.

Yolanda Owens, president, Jackson State University National Alumni Association

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Television

ARTS & CULTURE

‘Roots’ Returns in History Channel Remake By Lauren Poteat Special to the AFRO The “Roots” mini-series is coming back to TV with a contemporary twist. This one is a new adaptation of the nine Emmy, two Golden Globe Award winning broadcast that chronicles the history of a young West African man (Kunta Kinte), who was sold into slavery and the legacy he passed on. The original story was created and produced by Alex Haley. Re-developed by the History Channel and A+E Studios, the four-part mini-series will air over four consecutive nights that will begin on May 30 at 9 p.m. Cast members include Forest Whitaker as Fiddler, Laurence Fishburne as Haley, Rapper T.I. as Cyrus, Anika Noni Rose as “Kizzy” and newcomer Malachi Kirby as Kinte. “Roots should be told year in and year out,” Rose told reporters during a conference call on May 19. “I think that we must continue to tell this truth, because when we don’t, we allow the narrative to be changed. We allow it to be morphed. We allow schoolbooks to call enslaved people unpaid laborers. That’s what’s happening here in the United States.” The eight-hour miniseries, co-directed by LeVar Burton, (the original Kinte) draws on Haley’s 1976, Pulitzer Prize Winning novel “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” based in part on his

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Malachi Kirby plays Kunta Kinte in the remake of the award-winning mini-series.

Video Games’ Latest Race Problem By Maliik Obee Special to the AFRO Video game developer EA has become a powerhouse in the industry by releasing top selling projects for more than two decades, with titles such as “Battlefield” and “Madden NFL.” Recently, the company revealed that their next war game, “Battlefield 1” would be set in World War I, a departure from previous entries in the series. The announcement sparked controversy because the character depicted on the front of the game is Black. As one typical poster on the internet wrote, “It’s extremely disrespectful to put a black man on the cover for a WW1 game. Even though there were in total a couple of hundred thousand black people involved (Courtesy photo) in the European and African theaters of war, this was a European war between white empires and to some EA’s upcoming video game extent the the Turks and the Arabs. Featuring a black ‘Battlefield 1’ features a Black man on the cover is pandering to blacks and also man on the cover and that has quite patronizing. On top of that it also usurps white caused controversy. European history. I don’t understand why the main game can’t have a white on the cover…” The backlash came despite the role Black’s played during the war, specifically the Harlem Hellfighters’. Formally known as the 369th Regiment out of New York City, the group fought vigorously in World War I and II, receiving their nickname from their German adversaries. The videogame industry has evolved drastically since the days of Atari 2600, making strides in graphics as well as innovation. Yet, as industries and fields continue to integrate, the idea of Black main characters in games is still an issue with some consumers.

"It’s extremely disrespectful to put a black man on the cover for a WW1 game."-Internet commenter The Battlefield series was under scrutiny for its 2015 release Battlefield Hardline that also featured a Black character holding a gun on its cover. Despite the game being about the war on crime in the streets of Miami, critics blasted the cover, assuming the character was a criminal. Similar to the early days of Hollywood, Black protagonists in games are often relegated to stereotypical roles such as gang member or sidekick. The list of Black main characters is sparse, and more often than not reserved for violent roles. Games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Prototype 2 and The Walking Dead feature Black protagonists, but these are rare cases. The majority of titles with Black characters are sidekicks, most conforming to stereotypes such as Sazh Katzroy, who plays a bumbling fool in “Final Fantasy XIII.” These characters often serve as comic relief, or weak allies to their White counterparts. The other key role for Black characters is combat games, often using clichéd fighting styles while throwing out cheesy catchphrases. In 2015, acclaimed film director Spike Lee took his talents to the virtual world, directing, producing and writing “NBA 2k16’s Livin’ Da Dream” mode. The mode tackles the behind the scenes aspects of inner city youth attempting to make it out of the ghetto by way of the hardwood floor. The game mode caused controversy, citing the use of a Black family and urban setting. Even though nearly 75 percent of the players in the NBA are Black, some critiqued the game’s main character, named Frequency Vibrations, for his ethnic background. Black cover athletes are mainly seen in particular sports, usually basketball and football. The “NBA Live” Series has never had a White player on its cover, and “NBA 2k” has only had one (Larry Bird on “2k12”). In the 15 years of the “Madden” series featuring athletes on its cover, 12 have been Black. Despite the strides taken by Black players in the hockey, Jarome Iginla is the only player of color to grace the cover of EA Sports’ “NHL” series in the U.S. (NHL 03). EA’s attempt to recognize the work of African-Americans to defend this country by incorporating the Harlem Hellfighter’s into “Battlefield 1” is a step in the right direction. But the videogame industry’s lack of recognition of African-American’s outside of sports is a sad testament to the world we live in. Daniel Berlin, lead designer of the game, when asked about the reaction he has received after the protagonist was revealed to be Black and that Blacks were key contributors to World War I, told Venture Beat, “People don’t know that this was the case. We want to show diversity in the game. That’s been a key goal.” African-Americans are given the short end of the stick, and when finally recognized for their work, it is an issue. It is time for African-American gamers to demand more, and those with the issue to get over it.

own family’s history that begins with Kinte’s life in Africa. “One thing that I’m really, really excited about in this series is that very many people when they think of African Americans, they think that that story began with slavery, began on a boat, began in terror and horror,” Rose said. “But this series explores what the man was before he was taken. It explores the glory of the civilization that they came from, that they had libraries, and universities. They had a city.” Adapted by ABC, in 1977, the original broadcast aired to a record-breaking 130 million viewers, with an estimated 85 percent of households viewing the series. Haley, who died in 1992, said he was a seventh-generation descendant of Kinte, and his work involved twelve years of research and intercontinental travel to the village of Juffure, where Kinte grew up. Over the years Haley acknowledged that parts of the book were a blend of fiction and non-fiction, which he called “faction.” “I hope that this is the beginning of the telling of the story of another America,” Rose said. “Of the America that built America. I hope that we continue to tell this story from different angles. Not only from the view of those who were enchained but from those who never touched the chain.”

Award Winning Journalist Tony Harris Investigates ‘Hate In America’ By Lauren Poteat Special to the AFRO Just weeks away from the first anniversary of the mass killing at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, award winning journalist Tony Harris takes a look at events surrounding the events of June 17,2015 in “Hate in America: The Lone Wolf,” the final part of a threepart investigative series that aired on Discovery Network. The series showcases organized hate crimes in partnership with Southern (Courtesy photo) Poverty Law Center, a civil ‘Hate in America’ explores what happened in Charleston, rights advocacy firm. The S.C. on June 17, 2015. first part, ‘Hate in America: The Klan on Trial” aired on Feb. 29, the second “Hate in America: A Town on Fire” aired on March 24 and the final installment on May 21. “We’re clearly seeing a rise in hate groups and intolerance groups across the country and I think the documentary in part with SPLC, is a timely piece within journalism and an important moment in the life of this country,” Tony Harris told the AFRO. According to a 2014 FBI hate crime report, 47 percent of all hate crimes are racially motivated. In 2015 there were more than 5,479 hate crime incidents. In the most recent episode of “Hate in America,” the Emmy award winning journalist, travels the country speaking to the people behind some of our country’s most heinous and twisted attacks and examines the rise of the independent violent acts done on behalf of or in support of an ideology known as the “Lone Wolf.” “One issue is the ‘Demographic Challenge,’ at which the nation becomes a majority minority nation. I think for a number of people, particularly White males, there’s a feeling of being challenged by those demographics and they want ‘their’ country back in the way that they view it,” said Harris. “The challenge of what’s happening demographically is too much for them and a lot of White males have never been impacted in the way that they’ve been by this most recent 2008 recession, unlike the African Americans and Latinos, and they’re looking for people to blame for their current state of their affairs.”

" We’re clearly seeing a rise in hate groups and intolerance groups across the country..." Tony Harris Three specific lone wolf attacks examined in this specific broadcast include an anti-Semitic attack at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009, the ambush of two police officers and a bystander by anti-government extremists in Las Vegas in 2014, and the 2015 massacre at Emanuel AME Church. “Ignorance is the fear of the unknown, and people are scared of anything that they don’t know about. That’s one of the main reasons for the ‘Hate Won’t Win’ campaign I started in 2015,” said Alana Simmons, granddaughter of the deceased Rev. Simmons of Emanuel AME Church. “I wanted to encourage people and let them know that hate won’t win, despite whatever obstacles, as we plan a commemorative walk one year after the massacre anniversary.” Over the last six years, there have been more than 60 incidents of domestic terrorism planned by “lone wolf” attackers, averaging to at least one hate crime every 34 days. “ Hate is something that we have to overcome, because it’s putting a cap on our country as a nation and we have to do a better job in the media and get out of campaign mode and challenge the people on their frustration,” said Harris. The Hate in America series is available for purchase at amazon.com.

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SPORTS

AFRO Sports Desk Faceoff

James Gang: Is This LeBron’s Best Team?

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By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Writers The 2015-2016 Cleveland Cavaliers have risen from title contender to title favorite over the course of a dominant, two-month stretch. Cleveland raced to a 10-1 start in this year’s playoffs after two convincing wins over the Toronto Raptors and a loss on May 24 in the start of the Eastern Conference Finals. Led by LeBron James, this year’s Cavs team might be the strongest squad in Cleveland Cavaliers’ history as they’ve backed up a strong regular season with a stretch that has them in reach for the best postseason start in NBA history. While James has been part of some powerful teams, none of them has had the look of this year’s Cavaliers. Although they haven’t secured a ring the question must be asked: Is this the best team that James has been on? Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the question. Riley: James has made the NBA Finals for five straight seasons and he appears headed for a sixth appearance which would bring his Finals total to seven. He’s been on a number of Finals teams from the comically outmatched Cavs team that made it to the final round in 2007 to the super-talented Miami Heat teams that controlled the Eastern Conference from 2011-2014. The supporting cast has always been a question when it comes to James but this might be the best one he’s had. The depth of scorers is tremendous and Cleveland has worked hard to become a strong defensive team. Current sidekicks Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love don’t have the accolades or match the ilk of James’ former running mates Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, but they

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Cavs team doesn’t have any of that. James is the common denominator but there were moments in both of those Heat title runs where players besides James made big-time plays. This Cleveland team has yet to be challenged so we truly have no clue how good this team really is or if they’re just conquerors in a weak conference. Riley: We don’t need a bunch of voters and a ceremony to figure out who the league’s MVP is – it is James, and it’s been that way for a while. This (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP) Cleveland team went from picking first Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron overall in the NBA Draft in 2014, 2013 James smiles during the first half of and 2011 to what’s shaping up to be Game 3 of the NBA basketball Eastern back-to-back Finals appearances, and Conference finals against the Toronto they’re doing it without two of those top three picks. Irving is the only holdover Raptors in Toronto on May 21. from that four-year stretch of incredible luck but the ultimate constant has been better suit James’ talents. James. Wade’s and James’ games clashed at This team is deep, versatile and may times because both were similar players be the best team that James has been on. who excelled at scoring in the paint. Green: It doesn’t matter how Wade never had the range that Irving has talented this current group of teammates that can keep defenses from doubling are if they haven’t won anything yet. up on James. And Love’s rebounding That 2012-2013 Heat team had a ring to and range is something that Bosh had to back up their talent, and James definitely grow into to make the Heat successful. felt more confident going to war with Green: The 2012-2013 Miami Heat battle-tested veterans. I’m always wary made a summer addition in Ray Allen of crowning teams before they win and used an in-season add-on in Chris anything and I’m not going to do that Andersen to strengthen a team that with this bunch. had just captured a title from the prior I get that both Love and Irving season. Andersen’s defense and flare wound up missing serious time and I get were much-needed and Allen’s seriesthat they’re both back and everybody saving three-pointer in Game Six of the is excited about Cleveland’s potential Finals pushed Miami to a 4-3 series win but it’s just something about Cleveland over the San Antonio Spurs that year. teams that doesn’t equal championship That Heat team was without question the best team that James had ever played success. James has been on six Finals teams and only two have captured on. trophies. Until another James-led team There was savvy, accomplished veteran talent at every position, an MVP brings home a ring then I’ll reserve my judgement on whether this current group in James and the entire team had an is better than his previous championship extra shot of championship confidence Heat teams. from winning the prior season. This

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM499 Emmanuel A Parker Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Michelle Milligan, whose address is 5295 85th Ave., #203, New Carrollton, MD, 20784 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Emmanuel A Parker, who died on April 8, 2016 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 20, 2016. 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 November 20, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication May 20, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Michelle Milligan Personal Representative

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Objections clean air and space. to such appointment (or to the probate of deLocated on Virginia’s cedent´s will) shall be Eastern Shore just an filed with the Register of hour south of the MD/ Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor VA state line. Lots Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . are 3 to 22 acres and 20001, on or before priced just $60,000 to November 20, 2016. Claims against the de$98,000. All are near cedent shall be prethe shoreline, some with sented to the underexcellent water views. signed with a copy to the Amenities include paved Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills roads, utilities, common with a copy to the areas, community dock November 20, 2016, or with launching ramp be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs and a sandy beach. Low or legatees of the deproperty taxes and a cedent who do not regreat climate. Call (757) ceive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of 442-2171 or email: its first publication shall oceanlandtrust@yahoo. so inform the Register of com, website-http:// Wills, including name, address and relationwibiti.com/5NBW ship. Date of Publication: TYPESET: Tue May 24 17:04:12 EDT 2016 May 20, 2016 LEGAL NOTICES TRUE TEST COPY Name of newspaper: REGISTER OF WILLS Afro-American Superior Court of Washington the District of TYPESET: May 24 17:03:38 EDT 2016 05/20, 5/27, Tue 6/3/16 Law Reporter District of Columbia Oscar Noel Mercado PROBATE DIVISION Personal Washington, D.C. Representative Superior Court of 20001-2131 the District of Administration No. TRUE TEST COPY District of Columbia 2015ADM1141 REGISTER OF WILLS PROBATE DIVISION Willie P. Seals Washington, D.C. Decedent 05/20, 5/27, Tue 6/3/16 20001-2131 TYPESET: May 24 NOTICE OF Carrothers J. Moore APPOINTMENT, Decedent NOTICE TO NOTICE OF Superior Court of CREDITORS APPOINTMENT, the District of AND NOTICE TO NOTICE TO District of Columbia UNKNOWN HEIRS CREDITORS PROBATE DIVISION Wesley L. Clarke, whose AND NOTICE TO Washington, D.C. address is 1629 K Street, UNKNOWN HEIRS 20001-2131 Ste 300, Washington, Jacquelyn Renee Moore, Administration No. DC 20006 was appointed whose address is 3538 2015ADM980 personal representative P a r k P l a c e , N W, William Samuel Gwyn of the estate of Willie P. Washington, DC 20010, Sr. Seals, who died on May was appointed personal Decedent 7, 2015 without a will, representative of the Enoch Perry III, Esq and will serve with Court estate of Carrothers J. 1413 Fairlakes Place supervision. All unknown Moore, who died on Mitchellville (Bowie) , heirs and heirs whose January 16, 2016 with a Maryland 20721 whereabouts are un- will, and will serve withAttorney known shall enter their out Court supervision. All NOTICE OF appearance in this unknown heirs and heirs APPOINTMENT, proceeding. Objections whose where-abouts are NOTICE TO to such appointment unknown shall enter their CREDITORS shall be filed with the a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s AND NOTICE TO Register of Wills, D.C., proceeding. Objections UNKNOWN HEIRS 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd to such appointment (or William Samuel Gwyn, Floor Washington, D.C. to the probate of deJr., whose address is 20001, on or before cedent´s will) shall be 3386 Spring Garden St. November 20, 2016. filed with the Register of Riverside, CA 92501, Claims against the de- Wills, D.C., 515 5th was appointed personal cedent shall be pre- Street, N.W., 3rd Floor representative of the sented to the under- W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . estate of William Samuel signed with a copy to the 20001, on or before March 8, 2012 (with, Register of Wills or filed November 20, 2016. without) a will, and will with the Register of Wills Claims against the deserve (with, without) with a copy to the under- cedent shall be preCourt supervision. All unsigned, on or before sented to the underknown heirs and heirs November 20, 2016, or signed with a copy to the whose whereabouts are be forever barred. Per- Register of Wills or filed unknown shall enter their sons believed to be heirs with the Register of Wills appearance in this or legatees of the de- w i t h a c o p y t o t h e proceeding. Objections cedent who do not re- November 20, 2016, or to such appointment (or ceive a copy of this notice be forever barred. Perto the probate of deby mail within 25 days of sons believed to be heirs cedent´s will) shall be its first publication shall or legatees of the defiled with the Register of so inform the Register of cedent who do not reWills, D.C., 515 5th Wills, including name, ceive a copy of this notice Street, N.W., 3rd Floor address and relation- by mail within 25 days of Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . ship. its first publication shall 20001, on or before May 20, 2016 so inform the Register of November 20, 2016. Name of newspaper: Wills, including name, Claims against the deAfro-American address and relation- cedent shall be preWashington ship. sented to the underLaw Reporter Date of Publication: signed with a copy to the Wesley L. 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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM553 Hazel E Glover AKA Hazel Elizabeth Glover Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Sean Glover, whose address is 3913 Kansas Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Hazel E Glover, who died on February 27, 2016 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before November 20, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 20, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: May 20, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Sean Glover Personal Representative

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All un- Kennedy Street, NW, to the probate of dein accordance with lication of this notice, the known heirs and heirs Washington, DC 20011, Superior Court Probate Court may take the ac- cedent´s will) shall be whose whereabouts are was appointed personal filed with the Register of Division Rule 407 is filed tion hereinafter set forth. unknown shall enter their representative of the in this Court within 30 0 In the absence of a will Wills, D.C., 515 5th estate of Maizie B. Long, appearance in this days from the date of first or proof satisfactory to Street, N.W., 3rd Floor proceeding. Objections who died on February 28, publication of this notice, the Court of due execu- W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . to such appointment (or 2012 without a will, and the Court may take the tion, enter an prder 20001, on or before to the probate of de- will serve with Court suaction hereinafter set dtermining that the de- November 13, 2016. cedent´s will) shall be pervision. 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Per- cedent shall be preMay 27, 2016 Signature of address and relation- sons believed to be heirs sented to the underNames of Newspapers: Petitioners/Attorney or legatees of the designed with a copy to the ship. Washington cedent who do not re- Register of Wills or filed TYPESET: Wed May 11 Date 13:11:57 EDT 2016 of Publication: Law Reporter 05/27, 6/3/16 ceive a copy of this notice with the Register of Wills May 13, 2016 Washington by mail within 25 days of with a copy to the underName of newspaper: AFRO-AMERICAN its first publication shall signed, on or before Afro-American Superior Court of M a r i a Wo r t h i n g t o n so inform the Register of November 27, 2016, or Washington the District of McKenna, Esq #984966 Wills, including name, be forever barred. PerLaw Reporter District of Columbia 125 West Street, 4th Fl Ross W Koenig address and relation- sons believed to be heirs PROBATE DIVISION Annapolis , MD 21401 or legatees of the dePersonal ship. Washington, D.C. Signature of cedent who do not reRepresentative Date of Publication: 20001-2131 Petitioners/Attorney ceive a copy of this notice May 27, 2016 Administration No. by mail within 25 days of TYPESET: Tue May 24 16:59:50 EDT 2016 Name of newspaper: TRUE TEST COPY 2016ADM125 05/27, 6/3/16 its first publication shall Afro-American REGISTER OF WILLS Mary Jane Kirby so inform the Register of Washington Decedent Wills, including name, Law Reporter TYPESET: May 24 16:59:02 EDT 2016 05/13, 05/20,Tue 05/27/16 SUPERIOR COURT OF Randy Alan Weiss, James K. Kelly address and relationTHE DISTRICT OF Esq- Weiss LLP Personal ship. COLUMBIA 1750 K Street, NW, Representative Date of Publication: PROBATE DIVISION Superior Court of Suite 900 May 27, 2016 Washington, D.C. the District of Washington, DC 20006 Name of newspaper: TRUE TEST COPY 20001-2131 District of Columbia Attorney Afro-American REGISTER OF WILLS Administration No. PROBATE DIVISION NOTICE OF Washington 2016ADM587 Washington, D.C. APPOINTMENT, TYPESET: Tue May 24 16:58:44 EDT 2016 Law Reporter 05/27, 6/3, 6/10/16 Estate of 20001-2131 NOTICE TO Nathan A Neal, Esq Mary Ann McMahon Administration No. CREDITORS Personal Deceased 2016ADM540 AND NOTICE TO Superior Court of Representative NOTICE OF James K. Kelly UNKNOWN HEIRS the District of STANDARD Ross W Koenig, whose Decedent District of Columbia TRUE TEST COPY PROBATE NOTICE OF address is 206 6th St., PROBATE DIVISION REGISTER OF WILLS Notice is hereby given NE, Washington, DC APPOINTMENT, Washington, D.C. that a petition has been 20002, was appointed NOTICE TO 20001-2131 05/27, 06/3, 6/10/16 filed in this Court by Clau- personal representative CREDITORS Administration No. dia Elizabeth McMahon of the estate of Mary AND NOTICE TO 2016ADM112 for standard probate, Jane Kirby, February 2, UNKNOWN HEIRS Maizie B Long including the 2015 without a will, and Jerome A Kelly, whose Decedent appointment of one or will serve with Court su- addres is 4402 13th call 202-332-0080 NOTICE OF more personal repre- pervision. All unknown Place,NE, Washington, APPOINTMENT, sentative. Unless a com- heirs and heirs whose DC 20017 was appointed NOTICE TO plaint or an objection in whereabouts are un- personal representative CREDITORS accordance with Super- known shall enter their of the estate of James K. AND NOTICE TO ior Court Probate Di- a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Kelly, who died on OctoUNKNOWN HEIRS vision Rule 407 is filed in proceeding. Objections ber 5, 2015 without a will, this Court within 30 days to such appointment (or and will serve without Nathan A Neal, Esquire, from the date of first pub- to the probate of de- Court supervision. All un- whose address is 209

signed, on or before November 13, 2016, 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 TYPESET: Tue May 24 17:05:35 EDT 2016 17:31:58 EDT 2016 inform the Register Wed May 25 so 16:43:26 EDT 2016 of LEGAL NOTICES TYPESET: LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES Wills, including name, address and relationSuperior Court of ship. Superior Court of the District of Date of Publication: the District of District of Columbia May 13, 2016 District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Name of newspaper: PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. Afro-American Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Washington 20001-2131 Administration No. Law Reporter Administration No. 2011ADM561 Matthew Plight 2015ADM956 Linda Niki Bayer Personal Olga T Gilloegly Decedent Representative AKa Deborah Cason Daniel, Olga Torim Gilloegly Esq TRUE TEST COPY Decedent 503 D Street, NW Suite M a r i a Wo r t h i n g t o n REGISTER OF WILLS 200 McKenna TYPESET: Wed May 11 13:12:12 EDT 2016 Washington, DC 20001 125 West Street, 4th 05/13, 05/20, 05/27/16 Attorney floor NOTICE OF Annapolis, MD 21401 Superior Court of APPOINTMENT, Attorney the District of NOTICE TO NOTICE OF District of Columbia CREDITORS AFTER PROBATE DIVISION AND NOTICE TO DISCOVERED WILL Washington, D.C. UNKNOWN HEIRS AND 20001-2131 Deborah Cason Daniel, NOTICE OF Administration No. whose address is 503 D APPOINTMENT 2016ADM504 Street, NW, Suite 200, J o h n J H a a r m e y e r, Washington, DC 20001, whose address is 4626 Earl Davis was appointed personal Lisa Ann St, San Diego, Decedent NOTICE OF representative of the CA 92117, wasappointed APPOINTMENT, estate of Linda Niki personal representative NOTICE TO Bayer, who died on May of the estate of Olga GilCREDITORS 14, 2009 without a will, loegly AKA Olga Torim AND NOTICE TO and will serve with Court Gilloegly, who died on UNKNOWN HEIRS supervision. All unknown April 1, 2015 with a Will. Bluette E. Lambert-Davis heirs and heirs whose O b j e c t i o n s t o s u c h whereabouts are un- appointment or to the , whose address is 5805 known shall enter their probate of the decen- 42nd Ave, #210, Hyattsville, MD 20781, was apappearance in this dent’s Will shall be filed proceeding. Objections with the Register of Wills, pointed personal representative of the estate of to such appointment (or D.C., 515 5th Street, to the probate of de- N.W., 3rd Floor Washing- Earl Davis, who died on cedent´s will) shall be ton, D.C. 20001, on or March 12, 2016 without a filed with the Register of before November 13, will, and will serve without Court supervision. All Wills, D.C., 515 5th 2016 . unknown heirs and heirs Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Date of Publication: whose whereabouts are Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . May 13, 2016 unknown shall enter their 20001, on or before Name of newspaper: appearance in this O c t o b e r 1 3 , 2 0 1 6 . Afro-American proceeding. Objections Claims against the de- Washington to such appointment (or cedent shall be pre- Law Reporter to the probate of desented to the underJohn J. Haarmeyer cedent´s will) shall be signed with a copy to the Personal filed with the Register of Register of Wills or filed Representative Wills, D.C., 515 5th with the Register of Wills Street, N.W., 3rd Floor with a copy to the under- TRUE TEST COPY Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . signed, on or before REGISTER OF WILLS 20001, on or before October 13, 2016, or be 13,2016 2016. forever barred. Persons 05/13, TYPESET: May 11 November 13:12:58 EDT 05/20,Wed 05/27/16 Claims against the debelieved to be heirs or cedent shall be prelegatees of the decedent sented to the underwho do not receive a Superior Court of signed with a copy to the copy of this notice by mail the District of Register of Wills or filed within 25 days of its first District of Columbia with the Register of Wills publication shall so inPROBATE DIVISION with a copy to the underform the Register of Washington, D.C. signed, on or before Wills, including name, 20001-2131 November 13, 2016, or address and relationAdministration No. be forever barred. Pership. 2016ADM455 sons believed to be heirs Date of Publication: Dorothy E Spriggs or legatees of the deMay 13, 2016 Decedent cedent who do not reName of newspaper: NOTICE OF ceive a copy of this notice Afro-American APPOINTMENT, by mail within 25 days of Washington NOTICE TO its first publication shall Law Reporter CREDITORS so inform the Register of Deborah Cason Daniel AND NOTICE TO Wills, including name, Personal UNKNOWN HEIRS Representative Gayle A Vailes , whose address and relationship. address is 517 Peabody Date of Publication: TRUE TEST COPY 17:05:04 EDT 2016 Street, NE, Washington, May 13, 2016 Beverly, diagnosed in 2001 REGISTER OF WILLS DC 20011, wasappoin- Name of newspaper: TYPESET: Wed May 11 ted 13:12:27 EDT 2016 personal representaAfro-American 05/13, 05/20, 05/27/16 tive of the estate of Doro- Washington thy E Spriggs, who died Law Reporter Superior Court of on April 4, 2016 without a Bluette E. the District of will, and will serve withLambert-Davis District of Columbia out Court supervision. All Personal PROBATE DIVISION unknown heirs and heirs Representative Washington, D.C. whose whereabouts are 20001-2131 unknown shall enter their TRUE TEST COPY Administration No. appearance in this REGISTER OF WILLS 2015ADM675 proceeding. Objections Jerome Gladden to such appointment Decedent shall be filed with the TYPESET: May 10 17:33:07 EDT 2016 05/13, 05/20,Tue 05/27/16 NOTICE OF Register of Wills, D.C., APPOINTMENT, 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd NOTICE TO Floor Washington, D.C. Superior Court of CREDITORS 20001, on or before the District of AND NOTICE TO November 13, 2016. District of Columbia UNKNOWN HEIRS Claims against the dePROBATE DIVISION Wesley L. Clarke, whose cedent shall be preWashington, D.C. address is 1629 K Street, sented to the under20001-2131 Ste 300, Washington, signed with a copy to the Administration No. DC 20006 was appointed Register of Wills or filed 2016ADM454 personal representative with the Register of Wills of the estate of Jerome with a copy to the under- Corine R Miles Gladden, who died on signed, on or before Decedent January 16, 2014 without November 13, 2016, or Wesley L. Clarke a will, and will serve with be forever barred. Per- 1629 K Street, Ste 300 Court supervision. All un- sons believed to be heirs Washington, DC 20006 known heirs and heirs or legatees of the de- Attorney NOTICE OF whose where-abouts are cedent who do not reAPPOINTMENT, unknown shall enter their ceive a copy of this notice NOTICE TO a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s by mail within 25 days of CREDITORS proceeding. Objections its first publication shall AND NOTICE TO to such appointment (or so inform the Register of UNKNOWN HEIRS to the probate of de- Wills, including name, cedent´s will) shall be address and relation- Annie Travers, whose addres is 1050 New Jerfiled with the Register of ship. sey Ave, NW, Apt 708, Wills, D.C., 515 5th Date of Publication: Washington, DC 20001 Street, N.W., 3rd Floor May 13, 2016 appointed personal reWa s h i n g t o n , D . C . Name of newspaper: presentative of the estate 20001, on or before Afro-American of Corine R Miles , who November 13, 2016. Washington died on October 23, 2015 Claims against the de- Law Reporter without a will, and will cedent shall be preGayle A Vailes serve without Court susented to the underPersonal pervision. All unknown signed with a copy to the Representative heirs and heirs whose Register of Wills or filed whereabouts are unwith the Register of Wills TRUE TEST COPY known shall enter their with a copy to the under- REGISTER OF WILLS appearance in this signed, on or before Tue May 10 17:33:22 EDTObjections 2016 proceeding. November 13, 2016, or TYPESET: 05/13, 05/20, 05/21/16 to such appointment be forever barred. Pershall be filed with the sons believed to be heirs Register of Wills, D.C., Superior Court of or legatees of the de515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd the District of cedent who do not reFloor Washington, D.C. District of Columbia ceive a copy of this notice 20001, on or before PROBATE DIVISION by mail within 25 days of November 13, 2016. Washington, D.C. its first publication shall Claims against the de20001-2131 so inform the Register of cedent shall be preAdministration No. Wills, including name, sented to the under2016ADM453 address and relationsigned with a copy to the Marjorie Gonzalez ship. Register of Wills or filed Decedent Date of Publication: with the Register of Wills NOTICE OF May 13, 2016 with a copy to the underAPPOINTMENT, Name of newspaper: signed, on or before NOTICE TO Afro-American November 13, 2016, or CREDITORS Washington be forever barred. PerAND NOTICE TO Law Reporter sons believed to be heirs UNKNOWN HEIRS Wesley L. Clarke Personal Matthew Plight, whose or legatees of the decedent who do not reRepresentative address is 4519 Clay Street, NE, Washington , ceive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of DC 20019, was apTRUE TEST COPY pointed personal repre- its first publication shall REGISTER OF WILLS sentative of the estate of so inform the Register of Marjorie Gonzalez, who Wills, including name, died on March 21, 2010 address and relation05/13, 05/20, 05/27/16 without a will, and will ship. serve without Court su- Date of Publication: pervision. All unknown May 13, 2016 heirs and heirs whose Name of newspaper: whereabouts are un- Afro-American known shall enter their Washington Law Reporter appearance in this Annie Travers proceeding. Objections Personal to such appointment Representative shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd TRUE TEST COPY Floor Washington, D.C. REGISTER OF WILLS 20001, on or before November 13, 2016. 05/13, 5/20, 5/27/16 Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 13, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: May 13, 2016 Name of newspaper:

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2016ADM493 Terron A. Solomon Decedent Wesley l Clarke 1629 K St., Ste 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Eugene Solomon, whose address is 310 S Pleasantville, RD , Warner Robbins, GA 31088, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Terron A Solomon, who died on April 16, 2016 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before November 13, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 13, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: May 13, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Eugene Solomon Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM465 Mary Rice Briley Decedent Shelby G. Hamilton, Esq 1907 Barrington Court Mitchellville, MD 20721 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Madeline W. Queen, whose address is 465 Riggs Rd., NE, Washington, DC 20011 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Mary Rice Briley, who died on March 15, 2016 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 2001, on or before November 13, 2016 . Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 13, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: May 13, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Madeline W. Queen Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 05/13, 5/20, 5/27/16

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM526 George Johnson Jr. AKA George Johnson Decedent Barbara G. Whitaker 635 Dahlia Street, NW Washington, DC 20012 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Rayna Smith, whose address is 301 Benam Court, Accokeek, Maryland 20706, was appointed personal representative of the estate of George Johnson Jr., AKA George Johnson, who died on November 9, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before November 27, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 27, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: May 27, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Rayna Smith Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM536 Avis P. Rogers AKA Avis Venita Pendarvis Rogers Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Robin-Rogers-Craft, whose address is 1224 34th St., SE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Avis P. Rogers AKA Avis Venita Pendarvis Rogers, who died on February 12, 2016 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before November 27, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 27, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: May 27, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Robin-Rogers-Craft Personal Representative

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By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO Baltimore is one step closer to re-certifying the Democratic and Republican primary elections held April 26th. The Maryland State Board of Elections released results of their review of the local election tally this week. According to the report, 1188 provisional ballots were incorrectly scanned into vote totals without verification that the voters were eligible and another 465 provisional ballots were not counted at all. The State Board of Elections de-certified city primary results May 12th and conducted a precinct by-precinct review of vote totals. The review uncovered widespread voter irregularities across every city council district. The

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The 142nd Preakness Stakes were held on May 21 at Pimlico race track. Exaggerator defeated the previously unbeaten Nyquist. Turn to page D4 to see more pictures from the event.

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Who Won the Black Vote? By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Contributor

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Catherine Pugh report issued Monday stated that only 10% of Baltimore’s 296 precincts reported “no discrepancies” in vote totals. In an interview with the Baltimore Afro-American, State Board of Election Officials made the point that vote totals are not in question. The problem in a number of districts across the city was with voter eligibility. Based on the data they reviewed, it was impossible in some districts to track whether or not provisional voters were actually eligible to vote. The State Board report revealed that voting data in more than 60 precincts across the city cannot be reconciled due to a Continued on D2

Former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon won 170 of about 200 predominately Black Baltimore City precincts in a majority Black city, but lost her bid to regain the mayor’s chair by a little more than 2500 votes. Even as the Baltimore City Board of Elections works to officially certify April’s election results, riddled with irregularities and swirling in controversy, the question many have is how did Dixon lose when Black Baltimore turned out for her so overwhelmingly? The answer (at least partially) may be that Dixon overlooked some groups that she just couldn’t afford to ignore in an incredibly tight election. Carrie Evans, an attorney and former executive director of Equality Maryland, a group that describes itself as, “Maryland’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Civil Rights Continued on D2

Associated Black Charities: Agitator for Community Progress June 11th Gala to Honor Those Who Make a Difference By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent zprince@afro.com The Associated Black Charities (ABC) will pay tribute to several Maryland individuals and organizations who have taken steps towards increasing economic access and opportunity for all during its Black and White Gala on June 11 at Martin’s West. “The gala is an opportunity to lift up our agenda—which is particularly important one year after the April 2015 unrest—

said—that acts as a convener, advocate and grantmaker to address the health and economic disparities impacting Maryland communities. The organization’s agenda is not so much a “Black” one, the CEO said, but a “green” one, as in money or economic empowerment. “We’re clear that if we’re going to change wealth and health gaps for African Americans you must have a racial equity lens, that is, we must understand how systems and policies limit opportunities

“…we must understand how systems and policies limit opportunities for African Americans.” –Diane Bell-McKoy and also the people and organizations that are making a difference in closing racial equity gaps,” said ABC CEO Diane Bell-McKoy. ABC is a public foundation—a “positive agitator,” Bell-McKoy

for African Americans,” Bell-McKoy said. “Unless you change the economic framework you can’t really create equity.” That message, the advocate said, has gone largely unheard. And, many look at the social

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By AFRO Staff The latest incarnation of the AFRO’s Clean Block will launch on June 4 with a press conference held in front of the Baltimore AFRO at 2519 N. Charles, Baltimore, Md. The AFRO’s Clean Block program began in 1934 as a way to beautify Baltimore and ran for several decades. As the AFRO wrote in 1968 about the kickoff of the 34th season of Clean Block, “The AFRO sponsors the campaign in the hopes that Clean Blockers will learn the value of respect for property, for one another and for the community.” This new campaign has the support of numerous neighborhoods and Baltimore City Council members. The press conference will begin at 10 a.m. on June 4 and neighborhoods that want to participate can contact Diane AFRO file photo Hocker, director, community & public relations for the How the Clean Block campaign played out in the AFRO at dhocker@afro.com or 410-554-8243. past.

ills that pervade many communities of color—crime, drugs, obesity, high secondary school dropout rates, etc.— as signs that something is inherently wrong with Black and Brown people. But the unrest that erupted in Baltimore in April 2015 highlighted what many intellectuals and activists have long said—that Black and Brown people aren’t “broken,” but the systems that govern U.S. society are. “We have been saying this for a long time: Let’s change structural inequities and we can change outcomes…. People do need to have personal responsibility, but they need the tools to do it,” Bell-McKoy said. “Since April of last year people are hearing us differently now. They are getting it,” she added. “Even largely-White companies and organizations are beginning to realize that they have a role in this (closing equity gaps and increasing economic access Continued on D2

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Nero Verdict: Mosby Overreach or Media Overeaction?

Earlier this week, when Officer Edward Nero, one of six officers indicted in the death Sean Yoes of Freddie Senior AFRO Gray, was Contributor cleared of all charges many in the mainstream media seemed to be preparing for violence to erupt on the streets of Baltimore. In fact, I saw more than one cable network broadcast re-rack footage from last year’s uprising as they reported on the Nero verdict, while others posted news crews at Penn-North waiting for something to jump off. Damn. At the end of the day, I think more people in Black communities across the city were more concerned with the latest torrent of rain during this extended stretch of dreary weather, than they were with the Nero verdict (I pray I’m right). Still, while the media waited for trouble, many news organizations (and individuals outside the media) began to spin the narrative of prosecutorial overreach on the part of Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby. After all, of the six officers charged in Gray’s death, Nero seemed to have the least amount of physical contact with him during the arrest, which ultimately led to his demise. And during the First Edition episode on May 23, I openly asked if Nero should have been tried in the first place, but the decision to do so was not that simplistic. And the charge of prosecutorial zeal levied against Mosby is not that cut and dry. “It was based on the way the case was charged, unfortunately, the case just wasn’t there,” said Sheryl Wood of The Wood Law Firm, who has been reporting on the case of the six officers charged in Gray’s death from the time the indictments were

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Have You Seen This Young Girl? Her name is Daiona Talbot and she is missing. She is 13 years old (D.O.B 7-14-2002) She is 5’2 in height and weighs 200 pounds. She has brown hair and eyes. She attends Beechfield Elementary/ middle school and is in the 8th grade. Her last known location was the 2100 block of Hollins St. If you have any information on her whereabouts please call Sandra (Mother) @ 443-447-4657 Dontae (Father) @ 443529-6098 IF YOU COME IN CONTACT WITH HER PLEASE CALL US AND Baltimore City Police. Please help in bringing her home safe!!!

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variety of reasons problems ranging from missing documents to lack of accurate documentation. Baltimore City Board of Elections Officials will now count the additional 465 provisional ballots and recertify the election. City Board of Elections Director Armstead Jones said his team will probably be ready to issue new totals by the end of the week. In addition to a close Mayor’s race, with slightly more than 2,500 votes separating Democratic frontrunner Catherine Pugh and Sheila Dixon, several city council races were closely decided in the April 26th election. The closest contest was between City Council District 10 Democratic Primary winner Edward Reisinger, current City Council Vice Chairman, who defeated challenger Charlie Metz by less than 100 votes. Voters Organized for the Integrity of City Elections (VOICE) is one of several citizen’s groups that spoke out about irregularities on Election Day and closely monitored the State’s election review process. VOICE spokesman Hassan Giordano believes the problem won’t be resolved by a simple recount of provisional ballots. “You can’t clear it up when you don’t know the problem” stated Giordano. “Jones continues denying there is a problem while the State says it’s so screwed up that they

can’t get to the bottom of many of the issues throughout some of these precincts” emphasized Giordano. VOICE is calling on Governor Hogan to appoint an independent commission to produce a best practices method to resolve the problems still lingering before the November General election, according to Giordano. Marvin L. ‘Doc’ Cheatham, former President of the

Baltimore Board of Elections believes Armstead Jones and the Board of Elections should be held accountable for the widespread errors in this year’s primary process. “When you have election judges putting provisional ballots in the machine and allowing the machine to count and read those ballots, that’s a training error, “stated Cheatham. “You can put responsibility on the election judges at the polling places, but training election

judges is the responsibility of the Director of the Election Board and the five-member board. The State Board indicated that there were major management problems in at least two areas, recruitment and training of election judges,” Cheatham said. Cheatham echoes the concerns raised by other community election watchers that more needs to be done to resolve problems in the election process before the November general elections. “The next election is only six months away. The City Election Board has to deal with this; the State Board has oversight. If you keep doing the same thing with the same people in charge you can expect the same problems” Cheatham said. State Board of Election Official Donna Duncan emphasized that Maryland will work hand-in-hand with local officials to ensure a smooth process for the November General Election. “The State Board of Elections in collaboration with the Baltimore City election officials will be reviewing and analyzing how the process can be improved and implementing many strategies to make the general election as wonderful as we have come to expect of Maryland elections,” Duncan said.

“I really (commend) a prosecutor (Mosby), for following the evidence, for finding evidence that supported each of the charges,” said University of Maryland law professor Doug Colbert. “And even though the judge ruled that they hadn’t proved their case beyond a reasonable doubt, it provided the transparency, it allows the public to appreciate what policing looks like in Freddie Gray’s

she is clearly fallible. But, before she is cast as overly ambitious or naive for the Nero component of her overall strategy, there are five more trials to be played out. And many are still waiting for some measure of justice. “You don’t have Officer Nero’s hands on Freddie Gray…(but) in my way of thinking every police officer who’s involved in an arrest has a duty to make sure that the prisoner is in a safe situation,”

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pursued by Mosby. “Was it a rush to judgement? I don’t know. But, I think it was based upon the officers statements and it was based upon Miller’s statement that, we, quote, unquote, arrested Freddie Gray,” Wood explained. “The problem was that none of the investigators in the police department thought that this was going to be charged criminally, that’s why everybody gave a statement except for Goodson, and then

they never followed up that question with, `okay, who is we, and what did you do, versus what Officer Nero did?’ So, once they got to trial the prosecutors had to put on a witness and they didn’t know what he was going to say... so now they’re (prosecution) stuck,” she added. Other legal experts praise Mosby’s courage for going down a somewhat unprecedented path in response to alleged misconduct by police.

community and then they can compare it with the policing that takes place in more upscale communities...that transparency is a good thing,” Colbert added. “I don’t see it as a reach at all...I’m looking at the ability, the opportunity to make changes that are necessary so that we no longer have police making these kinds of stops and taking these kinds of actions.” To state the obvious, Mosby is no god or saint,

Colbert said. Wood’s sentiment is on a similar tangent. “They’re not really understanding why you can go into police custody alive and come out dead and...one of the persons who arrested you is not guilty,” she said. Sean Yoes is a senior contributor for the AFRO and host and executive producer of First Edition, which airs Monday through Friday, 5-7 p.m. on WEAA 88.9.

Analysis

Continued from D1 organization,” said Dixon’s absence at a mayoral forum on March 8 at the University of Baltimore, focused on LBGT issues, was an unambiguous statement by the former mayor. According to Evans it was a message received loud and clear by a community still burgeoning in numbers and political influence. “It was the only forum that was put on by the (LBGT) community...and the fact that the majority of the candidates showed up and answered the questions...and had things to say to the LBGT community..there’s no other interpretation to take,” Evans said. Another mayoral forum on April 13 organized by the low income advocacy group, Communities United, at Douglas Memorial Community Church in West Baltimore was focused on issues facing Baltimore’s ex-felon population. Thousands of ex-felons were newly empowered by a law passed during the 2016 legislative session in Annapolis that for the first time, allowed them to vote before completing probation and parole. According to Perry Hopkins, an ex-felon and an organizer for Communities United, Dixon alienated herself from many in attendance at the raucous gathering on April 13. “When somebody in the audience yelled out, `Sheila, you’re an ex-felon.’ Her response was, `No, mine was a misdemeanor, I’m not like ya’ll.’ She lost a lot of people in that room,” Hopkins said. He says that several groups besides his own, including, BUILD, the NAACP and the No Boundaries Coalition, worked hard in the months leading up to the election to register thousands C

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Sowebo Arts and Music Festival is Bigger than Ever

Let your memorial weekend bring you love and happiness instead of grief. Hello everyone, I have so much to tell you, it is just impossible for me to put it into one column, but I am going to do my best. As you see this week my headline is about the annual Sowebo Festival. This free and utterly unique Arts and Music Festival, surrounding historic Hollins Market in the 1100 block of Hollins Street, will make for a great Memorial Weekend with lots of live entertainment on 5 different stages; over 106 vendors including food, art & crafts, commercial and non-profits organizations. I believe this is something to do for everyone on May 29 from noon until 8 p.m. The entertainment

Travis Winkey, producer and director of the stage play “From the Pulpit to the Runway,” will be on stage at the Frederick Douglass High School Performing Arts Center, 2301 Gwynn Falls Parkway in Baltimore on May 29 for 2 shows; 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. For ticket information call 410669-1220.

will cover some soul, rock, looking for stage crew and Hip Hop, jazz, folk, Reggae, administrative volunteers. For funk, blues, punk and indie. more information call 410Have fun and enjoy. 955-8888. BWT Productions Our friend and everyone’s presents a live comedy and friend, the “T-Shirt Master,” talent showcase on May Brian Keith and his “Dream 28 for 2 shows 8:30 p.m. Team” are hosting an over & 10:30 p.m. at the Vulcan 40 “All White Everything” Blazers, 2811 Druid Hill Park on June 5 from 5 p.m. to 9 Drive featuring comedian, p.m. at the Patapsco Arena, Parris Lane, shown here “Hamburger” from Comic 3301 Annapolis Road; light with Quincy Jones, is a View and Def Comedy Jam Buffet and cash bar with music Boogie/Bluesman Reggie renowned songstress who and our own Howard G and provided by a host of DJs. For Wayne Morris is one of the performs with the trio of performers at the Sowebo hosted by Rickey Shackleford. tickets call 410-929-1360. Mickey Basil, John Starr Festival on May 29 on the Food and merchandise vendors Well, my dear friends, I and Roderick Johnson. Soul Stage at Carrollton are on the premises. For ticket believe I am out of space, we They will be performing and Baltimore Streets. information call 443-226will continue talking another at the Loews Annapolis 9175. time. I will see you on the Check out our friend Travis Hotel, 126 West Street in flip-flop. Remember, if you need me, call me at 410-833-9474 Annapolis, Maryland on Winkey’s stage play “From or email me at rosapryor@aol.com. Or you can send your May 28 at 7:30 p.m. the Pulpit to the Runway.” correspondence to: 214 Conewood Avenue, Reisterstown, It’s a dazzling and dramatic Maryland 21136. musical drama that takes place inside of a Charm City church. Until the next time, I’m musically yours. Winkey is the producer and director. It will be held on the stage at Frederick Douglass High School Performing Arts Center, 2301 Gwynn Falls Parkway on May 29 for 2 shows. For more information call 410-669-1220. Jazz Expressways Foundation invites you to join and support them for their Jazz Breakfast Fundraiser on June 11 at the Forest Park Senior Center, 4801 Liberty Heights Avenue from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. featuring the Greg Hatza Band for your entertainment; with a fantastic breakfast buffet, The Ron Hicks Project will be performing at the DCBS Silver Spring American Legion vendors to shop and it is BYOB. For tickets contact me Post 41, 905 Sligo Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland, for their Friday Blues Happy Hour on May 27 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. No cover, cash bar and food is on sale. at 410-833-9474. Auditions for Ursula V. Battle’s “My Big Phat Ghetto Fabule$$ Wedding” will be held June 4 in Turner Auditorium, located in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Ross Research Building, 720 Rutland Avenue in Baltimore. Auditions will take place from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Actors, singers, musicians, dancers, and other performers between the ages of six and 80 are being sought. If you enjoy working behind the scenes, they are

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Justin Squared won The Chick Lang Stakes.

The 141st Preakness Stakes took place on May 21st at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md. The Preakness Stakes Race, which was first run in 1870, is the second event in the Triple Crown (The Kentucky Derby, The Preakness and The Belmont Stakes). In spite of the rain, a record 135,256 people attended the race. Exaggerator beat the Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist for the win. The infield entertainment included The Chain Smokers, Fetty Wap, All Time Low and others.

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Carl Brown, Romaine Smoot, Nicole Smoot and Lewis Singleton

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The Dubois Circle Members

On May 17, supporters, educators, advocates, and community leaders all gathered at Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s West in Baltimore, Md. to recognize the 110th anniversary of Dubois Circle, one of the oldest organizations in Baltimore, and to celebrate the legacy of empowerment for women as they continue to advocate and fight for African Americans.

President Patricia C. Jessamy, who is leaving the organization, spoke and following a vocal performance by Aleea Powell, a student at the Baltimore School for the Arts, John W. Franklin addressed the group. Franklin, senior program manager, National Museum of African American History and Culture, spoke about the upcoming opening of the museum in Washington, D.C. in September.

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John Carter and Ida Jones Evelyn McClarry France, Alice Piderhughes and Margarett J. Shipley

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Mr. John W. Franklin Carol Wright, Pat Koger and Beverly Carter

Patricia C. Jessamy, Esq. President

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Yvonne Lansey, Evelyn McClarry France, Alice Piderhughes and Joan Pratt President Patricia C. Jessamy and Carolyn Cole, Chair

Beverly Williams, Beverly Cooper, Karen Proudford, Anthony Fugett and Trittye Fugett