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MARYLAND CONGRESSIONAL RACES House of Representatives
By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent
3rd District, Maryland John Sarbanes
The Larry Hogan campaign has a message for Black voters in Maryland: If they keep voting the same way—read, Democrat—they will keep getting the same thing—nothing. “Our overwhelming message is that if you take a look at how things have gone for the state in the past eight years and if you look at communities in Baltimore City and Prince George’s County (Black enclaves) for the past 30 years, things are still moving in the wrong direction,” said campaign spokesman Adam Dubitsky. Boyd Rutherford, Hogan’s running mate, said as they campaign all over Maryland, a recurring theme among Black voters is that “they feel forgotten.” “African-American communities, particularly in certain jurisdictions, are being
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Almost Half A Million Texas Voters May Be Turned Away from Polls By Gloria J. BrowneMarshall AANIC Supreme Court Correspondent In an emergency action, the Texas NAACP, and other civil rights groups, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop Texas from enforcing Senate Bill 14. But, the conservativeled Court sided with the state, and upheld the strictest voter photo identification law in America, giving the civil rights community yet another defeat. S.B. 14 requires a person to present one of a limited number of governmentissued photo identification documents. There were challenges to S.B. 14 from the beginning. Lawsuits followed this legislation from its inception. Gov. Rick
Perry (R-Texas), a possible presidential contender in 2016, signed S.B.14 on May 27, 2011, a few months prior to announcing his first presidential bid. Under S.B. 14, the only acceptable forms of identification are driver’s license, non-driver ID, and concealed handgun license, all of which can only be obtained through the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), or one may use a passport, citizenship certificate, or military identification card containing photo. This ID must be
presented at the polling place in order to vote. Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas), along with AfricanAmerican and Latino voters, sued Perry. They argued S.B. 14 violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as well as the first amendment, fourteenth amendment, and fifteenth amendment. Their first amendment claim is based on voting as an act of expression or free speech. The Veasey plaintiffs proved over 400,000 poor people, African-Americans, Hispanics, and those with disabilities will be prevented from voting due to their inability to obtain the required photo identification. The plaintiffs stated DPS offices providing required identification have limited hours that conflict with most
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Larry Hogan is running for Governor of Maryland. Hogan told a chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at Bowie State University in September. “But too many people on the other side feel that they can ignore you and just take your vote for granted, year after year after year, and that bothers me, too,” he added. “It should bother
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left behind,” he said. The campaign said both parties have failed African Americans. “Look, I’ll be the first to admit that many people in my party are unwilling to reach out to the Black community about our ideas, about the promise of empowerment, economic freedom and opportunity. And that bothers me,”
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work schedules and are located in remote locations far from public transportation. At trial, Veasey plaintiffs argued that the law was intentionally enacted to undermine the votes of poor and minority communities. Federal Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos agreed. After a nine day trial, with witnesses testifying about the law’s many burdens, based on an extensive factual record,
Baltimore City Sitting Judges Melissa K. Copeland Jeffrey M. Geller Phillip S. Jackson Alfred Nance Christopher L. Panos Melissa M. Phinn Julie R. Rubin Baltimore County Maryland Senate 10th District Delores G. Kelley Maryland House of Delegates 10th District, Benjamin Brooks Jay Jalisa Adrienne A. Jones 11th District Shelly Hettleman Dan Morhaim Dana Stein Ramos ruled that S.B. 14 violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 because it was enacted with a racially discriminatory purpose. However, Texas won on appeal, which prompted civil rights groups to go to the Supreme Court hoping to convince the court to block S.B. 14. They failed. In a 6-3 decision, the court ignored Continued on A3
Mayor Announces New Mentor-Protege Program
Police Brutality Victims’ Loved Ones Call for Action
Minority Enterprise Development Week
By Roberto Alejandro Special to the AFRO
By Roberto Alejandro Special to the AFRO
Anthony Anderson, Tyrone West, George King. In Baltimore, these are our “Mike Browns.” Now, at a time of focused national attention on incidents of police brutality in other parts of the country, a group of mothers and relatives of Black men lost to police violence called for a rally to focus attention on police brutality here in Baltimore. Darlene Cain lost her son Dale Graham in 2008 at the hands of the Baltimore Police Department (BPD). After years working to overcome her grief, she founded Mothers on the Move, a support group for women who, like her, have lost children to police brutality or have had loved ones suffer abuse at the hands of police. At a time when police brutality is a primary topic of conversation in Baltimore as well as nationally, Cain had planned to hold a rally
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake recently announced a three-tiered mentoring program designed to help minority and women-owned businesses overcome structural obstacles to their long-term success and viability. Named the Mayor’s Mentor/Protege Program (MMPP), the initiative was presented, Oct. 20, the first day of Baltimore’s Minority Enterprise Development Week (MEDW) that highlighted minority and women-owned businesses as well as providing networking opportunities for these entrepreneurs. “I’m excited about the mentorprotege program. That’s very essential in helping to create the foundation for success for businesses,” said Mayor Continued on A5
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on the issue when she heard from similar organizations in San Diego and Texas that they would be holding rallies on Oct. 22, in order to preserve attention on police brutality in their communities. “I was told that it was going to be a national day, and because Baltimore is always supporting other states, I said why don’t we support us, where we live?” said Cain about her decision to organize a rally here in Baltimore on the same day as part of the National Mothers Against Police Brutality Day. “We’re having police brutality here in Baltimore so it would be good if [people] show up for their own city.” For Cain, this rally in front of City Hall is ultimately about accountability to the families of police brutality victims. “Lawyers are telling us things like they can’t take the case to court. You keep hearing the same old lines over and over again, ‘we thought he had Continued on A3
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you. Why should you be able to be stereotyped? Why should one candidate or one party be able to write you off, and the other side take you for granted?” The inherent promise to Black voters from the campaign is that if they put aside partisan allegiances and help to elect Hogan as governor next month, they could work together to fix the problems facing Black communities and all communities across Maryland. “Our movement is not about the difference between right and left,” Hogan said. “It’s about the difference between right and wrong…. This is a fight for Maryland’s future.” The chief theme of the campaign has been Maryland’s failing economic climate, which has had a disproportionate impact on African Americans. And that is especially true when you look at unemployment, said Rutherford. In September, the state’s unemployment rate was 6.3 percent, exceeding the national average of 5.9 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“For us to be above the national average almost means that federal employees have jobs and almost no one else,” Rutherford told the AFRO. “And, for African Americans, the unemployment situation is worse. “Go on North Avenue (in Baltimore) and see how many people are on the street during the day and not going to work.” Housing is another major economic concern facing Blacks in Maryland, the GOP nominee for lieutenant governor said, citing the plethora of vacant houses in Baltimore and the high foreclosure rates in Prince George’s County. The Howard County attorney also identified education as another chief concern facing Maryland’s Black community. “There is absolutely no reason [why] the two most underperforming school districts are in Prince George’s County and Baltimore,” he said. Rutherford also identified mental health, criminal justice reform and drug addiction as important issues that need to be addressed (a “state
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the lengthy record of evidence of intentional discrimination presented at trial. Finding for Texas, the court chose to allow the strict voter photo identification law in place to take effect during mid-term Federal elections. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg disagreed. Her dissent relied heavily on the trial evidence against Texas that it was an increase in the Latino population that led to S.B. 14. “The Texas Legislature and Gov. Perry had an evident incentive to “gain partisan advantage by suppressing” the “votes of African-Americans and Latinos,” she said. Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor joined Ginsberg’s dissent. The Supreme Court has upheld photo ID laws in the past. It allowed Ohio to reduce early voting as well as restrictions on registration in North Carolina. However, in Wisconsin, students can use ID cards from a four-year college and recognized Indian tribes can use federal IDs. No state requires the limited types of identification found in Texas. There, eligible voters must travel over three hours to reach a Department of Public Safety office, Ramos found. Texas claims S.B. 14 is needed to address voter fraud. However, between “2002 and 2011 there were only two in-person voter
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a weapon,’ ‘he lunged after the officer,’ ‘I thought he was reaching for a gun,’and I just can’t believe that every individual who got shot and killed by police, that this is the same thing.” Marcella Hollaman founded Justify BMore after her son, Maurice Johnson, was murdered by Baltimore police in her own home in 2012, in order to help persons who have loved lost ones to police brutality pursue legal remedies at the federal level. Hollaman wants to see action on the brutality that has become far too common in most of Baltimore’s neighborhoods.
of emergency” should be declared on heroin, he said.) The former Ehrlich administration secretary said if the campaign wins the Governor’s Mansion in November, the administration plans to take both a targeted and a “rising-tide-lifts-allboats” approach to tackling the problems facing Black communities. On the economic front, “tax relief and pro-growth policies will help everyone,” Rutherford said of the team’s approach. The campaign has accused Gov. Martin O’Malley and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, the Democratic nominee for governor, of running businesses out of the state, citing a U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis report released in June that ranked Maryland 49th in the country in economic growth last year. Hogan and company have also decried increases in taxes and government waste—all of which they say they will reverse. “Taxes have taken an average of $400 a month out of the paychecks of Marylanders,” Rutherford said, yet “nothing has been spent on job creation, the environment, transportation or addressing the vacant houses in Baltimore City or the heroin problem in Baltimore
fraud cases prosecuted to conviction in Texas,” Ginsberg wrote in her dissent. “The District Court further found that S.B. 14 operates as an unconstitutional poll tax,” she wrote. Poll taxes, or payments required to vote, are prohibited under the 24th Amendment. Initially, S.B. 14 was found to be in violation of the Voting Rights Act. But, last year, in the case of Shelby County, AL v. Eric Holder, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act provision, finding preclearance of voting laws used to protect minority voters, was unconstitutional. That ruling allowed Texas, and other states, to freely change their voting laws. Following the Shelby decision, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder promised swift enforcement “using every legal tool that remains available to us – against any jurisdiction that seeks to take advantage of the Supreme Court’s ruling by hindering eligible citizens’ full and free exercise of the franchise,” Holder said, in 2013. His office fought to stop S.B. 14. Under Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court has handed-down the civil rights community historic defeats in voting rights, affirmative action, criminal justice, and public education. Next month, the court will hear a fair housing case involving racial discrimination.
“I’m not the only mother who has witnessed her child being killed in the home,” said Hollaman. “In Baltimore it’s a common thing, they killed a lot of people in front of their family.” Tawanda Jones lost her brother, Tyrone West, to police brutality on July 18, 2013 and has been organizing weekly Wednesday protests since the one year anniversary of his death this year. She is also a founder of the West Coalition, which has been seeking the use of body cameras by the BPD in hopes that the cameras would minimize instances of police brutality as well as chip away at the Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights, which many in the city feel
protects officers from being accountable for any abusive actions in the field. Jones says she wants to work to ensure that what she experienced is never again the fate of any other family in Baltimore City, and that residents need greater protections against police violence than the sort of official review by an independent board that was the extent of what her family received in the aftermath of West’s murder. “That report was basically another slap in the face because all that happened in that review board was they basically regurgitated what the officers first said, so that was nowhere in my brother’s [interest] of getting the truth.” Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake recently announced the formation of a working group to study the potential implementation of a body camera program for police officers in the city of Baltimore, and on Oct. 23, a state working group was to begin meetings on the implementation of body cameras for police in Maryland. ralejandro@afro.com
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Who is Boyd Rutherford? By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent
In January, Republican gubernatorial nominee Larry Hogan named former colleague Boyd Rutherford as his running mate. If Hogan wins, Rutherford stands to become the state’s third African-American lieutenant governor. The pair, who both served as cabinet members under the Robert Ehrlich administration, are friends, Rutherford said, and that’s why they decided to team up. “This was not one of those matches made in money like the other guys,” he said The 57-year-old Howard County resident said he couldn’t bring a hefty treasure chest to the campaign, but he does bring confidence. “I felt I could make a positive impact based on my experience in state and federal government,” he said. “I could bring efficiencies to the engine of government. “We agreed, almost from the start, that the role I would play is that of chief operating officer and Larry would serve as chief executive,” Rutherford added. “My focus would be on making sure the train (of government) is running on time.” Increasing efficiency and performance was one of Rutherford’s jobs while serving as an associate administrator for the U.S. General Services Administration, where he was also tasked with increasing the
use of small businesses in government procurement. Later he joined then-Gov. Ehrlich’s administration, serving as secretary of general services – the official who oversees state-owned facilities and other real estate matters – from March 2003 to June 2006. In 2006, President George W. Bush named Rutherford assistant secretary of agriculture for administration. In addition to his public service, Rutherford has an extensive and varied career in law and business. He currently works as a lawyer with the firm of Benton Potter & Murdock, which has offices in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of
“My focus would be on making sure the train (of government) is running on time.”
and throughout the state.” The Republican nominee said if elected, the Hogan team will call for greater accountability, including a better accounting for how state funds are being spent on education. They will also call for an expansion of charter schools as another solution to the problem of underperforming schools in Black neighborhoods. “If done properly, charter schools can offer more flexibility to school officials
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Columbia. He’s also worked in information technology sales, and small and minority business development. Rutherford previously served on the Baltimore City Brownfields Redevelopment Council and on the Board of the Corridor Transportation Corp. A native of Washington, D.C., Rutherford holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Howard University, as well as a law degree and a master’s degree in communications management from the University of Southern California. He and his wife, Monica, live in Columbia, and have three adult children.
to address the needs of their immediate communities,” he said. And, they also act as an impetus to public schools to improve their performance. “We are offering real solutions to school problems and not just playing politics games in Annapolis where everyone is patting each other on the back while our children are suffering,” Rutherford said. On mental health and drug addiction, Rutherford said, he’d like to work with
and provide resources to nonprofits and the faith community to address those problems. He’d also like to revise state policies to change the way nonviolent offenders are dealt with and revise regulations to allow for certain ex-offenders—not a blanket amnesty—to get jobs from which they are currently barred. “We don’t need to lock up folks and ruin their lives in many cases for these nonviolent offenses,” he said.
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Voting for our Principles and our Interests
Each year, we recall Dr. King’s dream for an America in which each of us is judged by the content of our character, not by the color of our skin. Now, in 2014, we have the opportunity to once again vote for this empowering vision here in Maryland. Our elections this year will determine who will represent us in Congress and the State Legislature - and who will be our attorney Rep. Elijah general, comptroller, and, of Cummings course, our governor for the next four years. All of these decisions by our voters are important - the choice of our next governor most of all. It is Maryland’s governor, not our Legislature, who controls the budget that is essential to so many state services. Under Maryland’s constitution, if the governor slashes state spending, there is little that our Legislature can do to correct that faulty decision. Maryland’s Democratic candidate, Lt. Governor Anthony Brown, knows that he needs a large African American vote to become Maryland’s first African-American governor. Yet, Anthony Brown has not asked any Maryland voter to cast their ballot for him because he is Black. Rather his campaign is stressing the shared principles and forward-looking policies that will benefit all Marylanders whatever may be the color of our skin. I agree with that decision. Some might consider this to be overly idealistic in our society that, all too often, remains racially-preoccupied. Yet, the wiser among us remember that it was a multi-racial and ecumenical coalition that elected President Obama twice. If we forget this truth, we are vulnerable to those who would return us to less noble government policies and flawed “trickle-down economics.” We have witnessed this truth in Washington, where President Obama’s opponents have subjected our nation to years of obstruction, federal budget cuts and personal attacks. In contrast, Maryland’s African American voters have expressed the power of our votes - and, God-willing, we will do so again this year. We have voted for leaders who have effectively managed our state’s economy during difficult economic times. Because we exercised our most fundamental civil right, our Democratic governors and legislators have been able to
increase support for public education, expand access to affordable health care, stand up for working families’ ability to organize and earn a living wage, make progress toward protecting our natural heritage and end the barbarism of the death penalty in our state. Because Maryland’s progressive coalition has remained steadfast, our state has continued to move closer to that “Blessed Community” of Dr. King’s dream. Yet, there are those, including the Republican candidate for Governor businessman and former Ehrlich administration Appointments Secretary Larry Hogan - who argue that we cannot afford to move forward with reform. As our next governor, Anthony Brown would advance a far more progressive vision for our state. Public Education: Like so many of us, Anthony Brown’s parents believed in assuring their children an empowering education. He made the most of those opportunities, graduating cum laude from Harvard and Harvard Law School. That life experience fires his support for public education - his advocacy of universal pre-kindergarten education, his determination to expand support for our local schools, and his efforts to make college more affordable for every Marylander. Public Service: Anthony Brown’s own life affirms the value of public service, both in the military (where he won a Bronze Star for his service in Iraq) and in his leadership experience in Maryland’s House of Delegates. Maryland’s public sector employees and their families can be confident that a Brown Administration would be supportive of their aspirations and sensitive to their challenges. Progress Toward a Living Wage: Because he has personally witnessed the hardships and inequity of substandard wages, Anthony Brown was a leader in the successful legislative fight to raise Maryland’s minimum wage and will support that commitment in the years ahead. Affordable Health Care: The son of a physician - and
personally committed to universal, affordable health care - Lt. Gov. Brown has been a major force in assuring that promise for every Maryland family. Affordable health care is now our legal right - and far more Marylanders now have that security. The Power of Our Vote: These accomplishments and commitments advance both our ideals and our self-interest as a community. Yet, there are those who are deeply concerned that too many of us will not vote this year, allowing reaction to prevail. Recent polling of likely Maryland voters shows Anthony Brown in the lead - but not by a comfortable margin. Clearly, every vote from our community will count. We should be urging our families and friends to vote early from October 23 through October 30 at any early voting site in the City or County where they live. For locations: http:// elections.state.md.us. Whether we vote early or at our regular polling places on Election Day, Nov. 4, please pass on a personal message from me. We are voting for our future and for the generations yet unborn. Rep. Elijah Cummings represents Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.
Fired Up and Ready to Vote in 2014 Why? Because your rights are under attack from a group of radical Republicans, if you are:
• a minority (African American, Hispanic American, etc.) • a woman • a poor person • a member of the middle class • an elderly person • a college student • a member of the LGBT Gloria Hill community • a military family member • a prisoner, who has paid his/her debt to society) • a jobless person seeking extended unemployment benefits • a person in need of affordable healthcare a.k.a. Obamacare • a victim of gun violence • a registered voter, the target of voter suppression tactics On Nov. 4, get fired up and ready to vote every obstructionist Republican out of office. Since the historic presidential election in 2008 of Barack Obama, a Republican Congress, held hostage by this small, extremist right wing Tea Party faction, has refused to work with President Obama to get things done for the betterment of this country. Just consider how far they have been willing to go to derail his presidency. These intolerant, stuck-in-the-past Republicans have voted 50 times to kill Obamacare and failed. During the 2012 presidential election, they tried to block the vote of millions of registered voters and failed. They are trying, once again, to block your vote, to suppress the voting rights of millions of Americans. They have gone ballistic against your president and his agenda, and that goes against your best interest. The list, to date, of bills and proposals that these radical Republicans
wanted to block, or see fail, is astounding. that’s what I’m going to do. … We cannot keep lurching from From Day One, they have scoffed at practically every manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis.” proposal President Obama put forth, while offering nothing as In the past six years we have seen huge progress under an alternative. Blatantly plotting to discredit him, to obstruct President Obama. Unemployment is at the lowest level since his agenda, to sabotage his presidency, was their primary goal. before he took office, before the Great Recession started. The Not surprisingly, it was Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s highest deficit is rapidly dropping and is just 2.8 percent of GDP -- the ranking Republican, who headed the Republicans’ nefarious lowest since 2007, according to recent polls. plot to block President Obama’s agenda. He told National In 2008, Americans were “Fired up! Ready to Go!” (VOTE), Journal’s Major Garrett, “The single most important thing like those words from Edith Childs, of Greenwood, South we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term Carolina, inspired us to do during the historic presidential president.” election of 2008. We turned out in huge The list of disrespect, personal attacks, numbers – and Barack Obama won. and character assassinations of this In 2010, Americans dropped the ball. We president is long. These radical Republicans became complacent and too many of us stayed have called President Obama all manner home. We did not vote in this midterm election. of ugly, demeaning names. Their attempts It cost Democrats seats in Congress and to de-legitimize him as President of the Republicans gained control. It gave them the United States have been relentless Not power to block, to obstruct, and do nothing but only have they blatantly disrespected the try to derail President Obama’s presidency. most powerful leader in the world, as the In 2012, Americans got fired up and turned world looked on in disbelief, they have out in huge numbers to vote in the presidential embarrassed this country. election – and Barack Obama won -- in part, Against the greatest opposition ever the result of backlash from voters, angry over Edith Childs, of Greenwood, faced by a United States president, Barack blatant voter suppression tactics of bitter South Carolina Obama has done a stellar job. And so far, Republicans. all efforts made by Republicans to sabotage In 2014 midterm election (Nov. 4), President Obama’s agenda, to destroy his Americans, especially groups under attack from legacy, have failed miserably. What President Obama has Republicans, should vote -- like their lives depend on it. And in managed to accomplish during his presidency while facing many ways they do. unprecedented obstruction from the far right Tea Party faction, How to stop them? Turn out in large numbers on Nov. 4 and is amazing. His list of achievements is staggering.– over 250 VOTE!!! accomplishments, to date, under his leadership. Stand in long lines again, if necessary. Vote the The signature achievement of Obama’s administration came obstructionist Republicans out of office. Get “Fired up! Ready in January 2014, when three million people were signed onto to Go!” VOTE!!! Obamacare. In the president’s words, 2014 will be “A year of Gloria Hill is co-founder of the G&E Hill Foundation and action. … And that’s going to be where I focus all of my efforts an author and activist. Her latest book, VOICES: We Got Your in the year ahead.” As for the Debt Ceiling, there will be no Back, Mr. President, is available on Amazon.com and online at negotiating. “When I can act on my own, without Congress, GandEHill.org.
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Gubernatorial Candidates Debate Future of Pre-K BALTIMORE – Clinton resident Allisa Queen teaches Pre-K4 at a Washington D.C. charter school. She also has two little girls: Jasmyn, age 6 and Sky, age 4. So, she has given the subject of universal pre-K a lot of thought. Jasmyn is in first grade at a Prince George’s County public school. Sky spends all day at a child development center “It’s like a big daycare center,” Queen says. She chose to put her there because she liked the center’s educational program, and because she didn’t qualify for the county’s public pre-k program. “You have to be pretty much dirt poor to get in,” she
said. “They don’t have a lot of programs if you are middle class.” She also said that county’s current half-day program doesn’t work well for her schedule since she and her fiancé work full time. The idea of whether or not it’s economically feasible to make free pre-K available for all Maryland four-year-olds is just one subject in a highly volatile gubernatorial race. Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown has vowed to make it a reality for the entire state, should he win the race. Brown’s plan would call for a half day program by 2018, and a fullday program by 2022. He says he would pay for it with gambling revenue. However, his Republican opponent,
By Roberto Alejandro Special to the AFRO At a time when wages for many Americans have stagnated, and in a city where unemployment outpaces the national average, trade unions still offer young people an opportunity to earn things that seem almost lost to the pages of history books: a living wage, health insurance, a retirement pension. For Cory McCray, an organizer with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 24, and one of the presumptive delegates to the Maryland General Assembly for the 45 District in Baltimore, the trades offer an important opportunity not only for young people who may not see college directly in their future after the completion of their secondary
education, but for the city as well. “The trades offer an occupation where you don’t have to have a college degree, maybe something similar to the nursing service or construction, just that, in general, where you can still make a decent wage,” said McCray during a recent conversation with the {AFRO} at a training school for apprentice electrical workers run by IBEW Local 24. “That’s very very hard to find where you don’t have to have a bachelor’s or a master’s and still be able to make $60, $70, $80,000. So that’s one thing that [the trade] offers to the city.” To Tim Medford, an instructor at the training school in his 23rd year of teaching, that economic stability represents an asset
By Lisa Snowden-McCray Special to the AFRO
Larry Hogan, says that it might not be possible. “I support pre-K, number one,” Hogan said in an Oct. 7 debate that aired on WJZTV in Baltimore. “He runs
lieutenant governor is talking about is expanding it to pay for everybody in the entire state but he doesn’t really have a plan about how to accomplish that and he’s not talking about how to pay for it and he’s not talking about making this happen until 2022. So basically, it’s a campaign promise that he’s trying to mislead voters into thinking he’s going to make happen and I’m not.” Queen says both – Shannon Simpson in her life and in the classroom, she sees the commercials saying I don’t difference pre-K makes. support Pre-K and that I’m She says she wasn’t going to take $300 million enrolled in a pre-K program and remembers struggling out of the pockets of kids and to catch up. She was an only give it to big corporations. child and stayed at home until That’s not true. What the
“I think that preschool should be mandatory absolutely and it should be paid for by the state.”
Trade Unions Still Offer Economic Viability
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Stephanie Rawlings-Blake in an exclusive conversation with the AFRO. Rawlings-Blake explained that one of the biggest obstacles to minority and women-owned businesses is a lack of familial and other connections that can help guide these entrepreneurs through the difficult process of sustaining a new business. “If you have those connections, your path is smoother because you know what to expect, you have the upper hand and we’re trying to give that upper hand to businesses that might not have those connections through this mentor-protege program,” said the mayor. The MMPP will have three distinct components. The first is your traditional mentor/protege model, in which prime contractors serve as mentors to subcontractors in the same industry. The second is a public-private partnership in which the city will seek out private sector partners to serve as mentors for minority and women entrepreneurs. As part of the city’s memorandum of understanding with developer Michael Beatty, for example, Beatty has agreed to serve as mentor under this section of the MMPP. The third component of the MMPP, and the one which Sharon Pinder, director of the Mayor’s Office of Minority and Women-Owned Business Development, feels is the most unique, is known as “Lift as We Climb.” Under this part of the mentoring program, successful minority and women business owners will mentor newer minority and women business owners. Lift as We Climb has won an endorsement from the Presidents’ RoundTable, an organization of AfricanAmerican CEOs, according to Pinder. Both the MMPP and the MEDW are part of the city’s efforts to improve the number and success rate of minority and women owned businesses, an effort hampered by the fact that municipal minority setasides (in which governments attempt to set aside a specific percentage of government contracts for minority businesses) are illegal. The success of many minority and women-owned
Cory McCray, an organizer with IBEW Local 24 and presumptive delegate for the 45th district, at a training school run by the union in Baltimore. Photo by Roberto Alejandro
that one can take wherever they go and that never expires. “Once we teach you how to use those tools, they can never be taken away from you,” said Medford. First year apprentices, about 100 of which IBEW Local 24 takes on every year, earn a stipend while in school and are also regularly in the field, earning a wage,
from the beginning of their apprenticeship period, which lasts five years. That includes overtime on Saturdays and double-time on Sundays should the apprentices work on weekends. Three dollar annual raises are guaranteed for those who meet all the program requirements, a rare benefit in today’s economy. See more on afro.com
businesses is also hampered by the fact that they are often firstgeneration businesses, which do not possess the accumulated wealth necessary for navigating the start-up phase of any business. “The core issue is still the finance piece. We tend to be under-capitalized,” said Pinder of minority and women-owned businesses. The city has created a micro-loan program, administered by the Baltimore Development Corporation, in order to help address this issue. It has also sought to ensure that its contractors are paid promptly, since many minority and women contractors are not in a financial position to easily absorb delays in payment. The work of improving the prospects for minority and women-owned businesses is ongoing, says the mayor. “Everyone knows that prompt payments is an issue, but what are the other issues? Are we breaking up contracts in a way that provides an opportunity to businesses but also allows us to get work done? Are there industry sectors that we’ve ignored when it comes to developing minority and women-owned business talent? That work is constant. That’s the work that I think is most important.” ralejandro@afro.com
kindergarten. “It was a rough transition,” she said. And at work, she says that she has seen how children who have not had any form of formal education struggle in the beginning. “They have to hit the ground running; they are more likely to be fidgety, and it’s harder for them to follow directions for doing things like standing in line,” she said. “They’re just really lost.” It also makes the task of teaching a bit harder; they have to figure out how to get the kids who are behind up to speed while holding the interest of the kids who already know a bit more. Shannon Simpson, mother of a three-year-old and a librarian at Johns Hopkins, has her daughter enrolled in a private, all-day program in Baltimore City. She says she always knew that any child of hers would be enrolled in a pre-k program. That’s because she loved her preschool experience so much and because she and her husband have noted how much he struggled as a result of not
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attending pre-school. “I went to preschool and I remember it as a really magical time. I’m still Facebook friends with the people I went to preschool with,” she says. “I think that preschool should be mandatory absolutely and it should be paid for by the state. I’m sure there will be people who opt out. That’s fine, too. Everything I’ve read and everything I’ve seen shows that when states pay more money for educating kids, they spend less money later on negative things like prison.” The lieutenant governor seems to agree. “I think that every Maryland four-year-old should have access to quality pre-k,” Brown said during the Oct. 7 debate. “If you ask a university president or a kindergarten teacher, how do we best prepare kids for college readiness or the work force they all start with expanding pre-k. Mr. Hogan opposes the expansion of Pre-k. He says we can’t afford it. I say we can’t afford not to do it.”
Insight into Determinants of Exceptional Aging and Longevity
Why do some people reach age 80, 90, and older living free of physical and cognitive disease? National Institute on Aging (NIA) researchers on the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA) are exploring this question through the IDEAL (Insight into Determinants of Exceptional Aging and Longevity) Study. Although research exists on the relationship between long life and functional decline, we still know relatively little about why certain individuals have excellent health well into their 80’s while others experience disease and physical decline earlier in life. IDEAL Study participants can help NIH researchers uncover secrets of healthy aging.
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Ruby Tuesday Comes to Randallstown - At Last
By Linda Dorsey-Walker Special to the AFRO
Baltimore County For Randallstown residents the long wait for a promise to be fulfilled is finally over. That promise, made nearly twenty years ago, by then County Executive Dutch Ruppersberger, was for a new, full-scale, national chain family restaurant along the seven mile stretch of Liberty Road. Ruby Tuesdays Restaurant, located at 8731 Liberty Road (near Brenbrook and Liberty), opened its doors, Oct. 20, to a nearly packed restaurant, without one single advertisement, coupon or flyer ever being circulated. According to General Manager David Thomas, “The demographics of the Randallstown area are such that our studies showed there was no need for those kinds on enticements or incentives at this point.” So they relied on word of mouth. Indeed, first time customers Shain and David were witnessed sending out Facebook messages encouraging friends to patronize the new establishment. The brightly lit 235 seat restaurant is sure to attract plenty of customers, hungry for the convenience and close, safe, family atmosphere. Ruby Tuesday has hired 95 mostly young, local residents as team members, many of whom are new to the service industry and still require training. The restaurant includes a sports bar with multiple television screens, a large lounge area decorated with several comfortable burgundy leather sofas, and upbeat, upscale music. Such an opening would barely be news anywhere but Randallstown, which can legitimately claim to have some of the highest income and most well educated residents in Baltimore County Randallstown is also an area known to have some of the most politically astute and active African- American voters in the State. Nevertheless, this is big news in Randallstown. To understand why, one must know the lengthy history behind getting just one national franchise dine-in restaurant to locate there. Nearly two decades ago amid clamor that Baltimore County government was not doing enough to attract businesses and other investors to Randallstown in the hope of raising the quality of life for its residents, Baltimore County developed a multiphase revitalization plan that called for the establishment of a community hub around the Intersection of Liberty Road and Old Court Road. Discussions included the creation of more recreational options for youth, a major streetscape project, the attraction of two to three major retail operations to anchor three dying strip malls located near the Old Court intersection. This would bring added services, provide a more upscale appearance to those shopping areas and provide jobs. Most important and disturbing to many Randallstown residents was that they had to leave Randallstown for a dine-in experience with their families that other County residents take for granted, because there was not one Outback, TGIF Fridays, Applebees, or Ruby Tuesday or similar chain located anywhere along the seven mile
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Some new Ruby Tuesday team members, a mostly minority staff of 95, gather in front of bar lounge area
stretch of Liberty Road. A charrette was convened of some of Randallstown most prestigious and outspoken citizens. It met for months at Northwest Hospital discussing the revitalization of Randallstown’s hub. An excited Randallstown then waited for the improvements to occur, but delays occurred instead with few answers provided about why. Some of the delays occurred because of environment reasons that came to light only after a dry cleaners was closed and below ground contamination was found. Then came confrontations with then-Baltimore County Executive Dutch Ruppersberger over the use of imminent domain. After clamoring for years about being neglected and the quality of life, some Randallstown residents did an about face on portions of the revitalization by opposing use of eminent domain to acquire Liberty Road properties that were mostly failing or under-utilized businesses at market prices. Protests were organized and very vocal confrontations occurred with County officials in Randallstown and in Towson about forced takeovers. Eventually the squabbles ended, and Randallstown first witnessed the building of a Community Center and YMCA pool in 2009, followed by a Home Depot, the arrival of a massive 24 hour Super Walmart, that brought hundreds of jobs, and now Ruby Tuesday. New employee Everett Smith, who is not new to the service industry said, “I am really excited and delighted to have a chance to do work I enjoy close to home. I love the atmosphere here already, and I know people in this area are really going to support this place!”
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month Celebrates Survivors, Remembers Fallen, Stresses Prevention 60 percent under the age of 50; and many under the age of 40, and that number got down as young as 23. That was ten years ago. So what do you do? Address the metabolic syndrome that Lucile Adams-Campbell, professor of Oncology and is contributing to the increase risk of breast cancer.” associate dean of Community Health & Outreach at Adams-Campbell points to health disparities – insurance Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has coverage, access to quality food, and adequate health services long understood the power of outreach and serving the underas tantamount to ending breast cancer. Despite a need for served. A native Washingtonian, who grew up in Ward 7, improvement, she cites that prior to Secretary of Health and Adams-Campbell is the first African-American female to earn Human Services Margaret Heckler’s 1985 commission of a doctorate degree in epidemiology in the country; and in research to document health disparities between whites and examining the cancer mortality rates of the nation, Washington, minorities, no such hard discourse existed. D.C. has proven a social laboratory of high rates, disparities, “Thirty or 40 years ago whenever you read an article about and potential for her. science it always said too few to count when it talked about Breast Cancer Awareness Month has aided Adams-Campbell minorities and minorities were clumped together – Asians, in a “call to action” that looks beyond the “dismal side of breast Blacks, Hispanics, everyone. We started hearing about cancer,” to embolden those most impacted to be their own best minority health and the gaps because of Heckler’s work and advocate. While breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed she essentially lost her job as a result. But it was her insistence cancer among African-American women under age 45, the on inclusion of minorities in research that brought about best overall preventive health strategy, according to Adamsthese reports and policies including Healthy People 2010 that Campbell, incorporates reducing known risk factors. help document the gaps in access, treatment, and outcomes,” “We don’t know how to cure cancer but have good ideas Adams-Campbell said. about the prevention of cancer. Obesity caused by long-term Research also notes that as the country gets darker in color, positive energy imbalance – eating more than exercising – the rates of obesity have increased. Three decades ago, her increases cancer risks. We used to walk and now we sit down research found that there was no obesity. and think about food. We don’t even change the channel “We’ve gone from a map of the U.S. where obesity was not unless we have a remote. We have become a very sedentary even on the Ricter scale to it being prevalent all over. Just like population. But just walking can help to improve overall three decades ago when I was a student, cancer was considered health which contributes to rates of cancer,” she said. a rare disease. We learned the methods of analyzing cancer Cancer researchers have found that increased incidence of studies as a rare disease, that’s now out the window. We’ve Photo by Shantella Sherman Metabolic Syndrome – a health condition where a single patient changed,” she said. “We all want to be here forever. None of Madeline Long-Gill, President of the Prince George’s has at least three conditions: high cholesterol, a large waist us will be here forever, so we have to do what we can. Some County Chapter of Sisters Network, Lucile Adamscircumference (more than 103cm in men and 88cm in women), things we can modify. We cannot modify our race or our age; Campbell, Professor of Oncology at Georgetown high blood pressure, low HDLC (less than 40 mg/dl in men and at the same time, we need to take control of those things which University Medical Center and Thelma D. Jones, Breast less than 50 mg/dl in women), and high fasting glucose – is we can. Start walking and exercising.” Cancer Survivor and Advocate positively linked to certain cancers. Those disparities can be found throughout the region, Black women and Latinas have the highest rates of including in Prince Georges County, where screening numbers metabolic syndrome. And for Adams-Campbell, addressing metabolic syndrome simultaneously showed that while roughly 81 percent of women 50 and older were getting screened in the works toward preventing breast cancer. county, mortality data revealed that about 31 women out of 100,000 died due to breast cancer. “The interesting thing about cancer is that we always say that as you get older your rates of Even with a largely affluent African-American population (63 percent), there were still an cancer goes up, but in the Black community, you don’t have to get older, you just have to be the estimated 29 percent of women between the ages of 45-64 whose lack of insurance put them at one who was selected to have it. When I was at Howard (University) we were diagnosing over Continued on B3 By Shantella Sherman Special to the AFRO
A ‘Fight for Survival’: Men Have Breast Cancer Too By Mary L. Datcher Special to the NNPA from The Windy City Word CHICAGO (NNPA) – When you hear the name Twone Gabz, many of us are not familiar with the name unless we are true fans of Hip Hop and have followed the history of the Chicago Rap music scene. Known to family and friends as Antwone Muhammad, he’s been in the music business for almost 15 years, featured on projects produced by Grammy award producers, No I.D., Kanye West, Terry Hunter, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Erick Sermon and collaborations with Chicago artists; Mikkey Halsted, GLC, Keith Murray and Rhymefest, among others. One day a trip to the emergency room suddenly changed the entire scope of his world when several tests revealed he had breast cancer. Taking a break from the music business to work in healthcare management for the preceding five years, Antwone had been experiencing some fluid leakage from his left nipple. Antwone explains his first ordeal, “My doctor wasn’t due to check on me for a while and heard my voice in the hallway. She asked to check on my blood level. When she did, she noticed my hemoglobin had dropped to a six when it was supposed to be 14. She couldn’t believe I hadn’t passed out or even died standing there, so they gave me a blood transfusion.” According to breastcancer.org, a study concluded that African-American men are less likely than White men to be referred to an oncologist or get chemotherapy for breast cancer, probably because many have no healthcare. Male breast cancer is a rare condition, accounting for only about one percent of all breast cancers (www.medicinenet. com) Antwone challenges this statistic. “They say it affects one
Antwone Muhammad has turned his fight for survival into a mission of awareness. survival into a mission of awareness. “Maybe, we could have tried this or that treatment but now they’re gone…it’s too late. So, I felt like if there’s anyone who can me help me or give me any advice, I’m going to take to everybody because you never know where your angels are.” Antwone realized that worrying about his illness brought on stress and depression and it wasn’t healthy nor healing so he flipped his experience around by sharing it openly on social media. ”Some people really confide and open up. A young lady was sharing with us during a Q&A I conducted online; she was six months pregnant, going through chemo and asking for advice on what type of dietary practices she should have? I couldn’t give her that kind of advice because every person is different. But it’s been great just to see people and how they’ve taken to it.” Through the power of social media and online engagement, his open discussion has lead to people sending him messages that they too are getting mammograms and going for checkups. In addition to talking with people on Facebook and Twitter, he has been documenting the process by filming his doctor visits in addition to ending his 5-year hiatus from the business
“Through the power of social media and online engagement, his open discussion has lead to people sending him messages that they too are getting mammograms and going for check-ups.” percent of men, but those numbers are skewed because they are being updated based on census surveys. So, who’s really inviting a stranger into their house? Does the stranger ask you, “Does anybody in this household have cancer? My oncologist believes it to be like 7-10 percent of men now.” Although there’s no history of breast cancer in his family, his aunt having died from leukemia and more recently, his grandmother having been diagnosed within the same month as himself, it has made him more conscious of the illness. A husband and father of two children - a two-year old daughter and 13-year old son, the ordeal has turned his fight for
through penning new lyrics for the music CD “The Tumor.” Antwone explains his return to the studio in creating his latest musical project. “It’s been better than the actual treatment. As an artist, we can say certain things and put it in the words of a song, but when it comes to communicating with people it’s like the hardest thing for us.” He continues, “When we make songs we become this person that we’re really not because we’re trying to seek acceptance from a lot of people. At some point, my music has to be therapeutic for me.” The new project is a living testimony of Antwone’s journey through photos, video footage and his speaking engagements. During a routine visit to his dentist, he hadn’t realized how his online testimony and postings was being followed until his dentist admitted that she followed him as well. That visit led to an introduction by his dentist to her sister who works for the American Cancer Society where he has been enlisted to speak to groups of cancer patients, survivors and new followers about his experience. With speaking engagements at Rush Hospital, University of Chicago, recently performing at a Chicago Sky Game as well as traveling to Mississippi in October on behalf of the American Cancer Society collaboration, he elaborates, “They’re having a problem engaging people from ages 20-35, particularly men to have these conversations about health and preventative health so they see the benefit of utilizing someone like me. Using Hip Hop enables us to reach that demographic, so I committed to help them.” One of his missions is to bring awareness to the African American community, particularly the Roseland community located on the far Southside of Chicago. “There’s more cancer in Roseland than anywhere in Chicago and if you look at Roseland Community Hospital, no one goes there. All of the factories, the dump sites, the dirty roads compelled me to discuss why the area has the highest cancer rate.” Inspired by what is going on in the community, Antwone is working with Roseland Community Hospital and releasing the first music video for the song, “Getting Through It”. The preventative care that is lacking in the African American communities around the country has brought a different kind of perspective from a young African-American male with an diagnosis that isn’t considered a ‘male’ illness, yet it is growing in numbers. Again, the influence of Hip Hop music touches the lives of many and the transformation from rap artist Twone Gabz to preventative health advocate, Antwone Muhammad has become a champion of awareness for male breast cancer. “At one time, Twone Gabz could never ask Common or anybody to get on one of my songs but, now as Antwone Muhammad, I could get these people on a song without having to ask them. The opportunities kind of came because my whole focus is just helping people…I don’t really care about what I’m going to get from it.”
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Breast Cancer Awareness
There’s Nothing Like a Little Help From Your Friends By Briell English-McCoy Special to the AFRO Imagine being called into your doctor’s office and being told you have a lump in your breast or that the chemo did not take and it’s time to consider other options. Millions of women and men are facing this dilemma in their lives. The issue is not the illness but how do you cope with the illness. During a life threatening illness many people seek additional help. Coping with a diagnosis is never easy and family is often there to assist but, they don’t always understand what is happening and what you are feeling. Support is the key to survival with any illness. How are people being supported through their journey and is this support helping them to cope with their life threatening illness? Cindy Carter, breast cancer survivor and
executive director of The Cancer Support Foundation always answers the phone ready to provide support for a fellow cancer survivor in need. “We help 800-900 families a year, providing assistance with evictions, lights, food, etc� The Cancer Support Foundation provides financial support for living expenses but unfortunately the organization does not help to financially support medical costs. Financial support is not the only support needed during a life threatening illness. Emotional support is necessary as well. “I don’t believe misery loves company but someone’s support can really help,� said Sarita Oaks Murray, owner of Spartea Day Spa for girls and the executive director for Blink Pink Inc. Sarita is also a breast cancer survivor. Her mission is to educate, celebrate, salute and support women who have or have had breast
The Coalition Speaks The Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter, National Coalition of 100 Black Women is urging ALL women to get their families to vote. Vote Early!!!! We must safeguard the rights emanating from the struggles of Tubman, Truth, Hamer, Mitchell, McMillan and many others. The vote of women has the made the difference in every recent election and women must move to the forefront NOW. The vote is crucial. Apathy is not acceptable. ACTION at the polls is the way to make Baltimore and Maryland a better place to live, work, and raise our families.
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Sarita Oaks Murray cancer. During her battle, friends were her support. “My support were the people I could call when I felt like I couldn’t get out of bed, the people who took my kids to school, who prayed for me when I couldn’t, who gave me encouragement. Those were the people who gave me support.� Emotional support reminds the patient that family members and friends are there to help in whatever ways are needed. Studies from the American Psychological Association show, “The breast cancer patients who participated in the groups had a 45 percent lower risk of their cancer coming back and Dr. Miles Harrison Jr. a 56 percent lower risk of dying from breast cancer because of attending Dr. Miles Harrison Jr., division head of support groups.� general surgery at University of Maryland Support is vital to the healing process, but Midtown Campus, formed Sisters Surviving, how often and with whom? an African-American breast cancer support C.J. Corneliussen-James, co-founder and group in 1994. Dr. Harrison recognized director of advocacy of Metavivor conducts that the “psychological well being was just a group three times a month. She finds it very as important as the physical well being.� difficult to select one day a month because Sisters Surviving provided further diagnosis many people have to work, go to doctor information for woman to relate to. Support appointments or fulfill other life obligations. makes the woman feel better.� Corneliussen-James finds that more people While support doesn’t remove the burden, come to support group meetings when they it does become the comfort during the journey, have free will and “Allow people to talk even and makes the coping process easier. when it’s not their turn.�
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It’s the Little Things That Mean So Much: DaVeeda’s Quest For Quality Days #31Survivors
“I don’t say ‘Why me?’ I’m doing this for the team.” In December, her family “I was up on campus at homecoming and my went to the hospital. “We had legs just gave out on me. I hurt; everything hurts,” her doing FaceTime for all the says DaVeeda Young White, who has been living meetings,” she said, pointing to with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for the last 15 years. her sister, Melissa. We had a big “I have to plan in advance before I go anywhere or family meeting at the hospital of do anything and then I need to rest and medicate my whole team that was going to beforehand; afterwards, I’ll be down for about a be helping me through all this. So day or so.” we met with wonderful doctors Before even being diagnosed, the MS was of St. Agnes Hospital [I worked already taking its toll on her. “I was falling and there for years]; but my doctors getting dizzy from certain patterns, I couldn’t were the medical oncologist, the concentrate on what I was doing. I went to a surgeon, the plastic surgeon, the specialist that said ‘You’re in your 30s, you’re nurse navigators, and the primary Black, you don’t have that,’ and I said, I’ve been care doctors. We had to meet with a nurse for 16 years, I know what I have. There’s everybody. Each one came in something neuro going on; I know there is.” the room and told us about what A spinal tap at Northwest Hospital confirmed they saw and what they were it. “I have this for the rest of my life; there is no going to do. So it was like an cure for MS. I need someone with me 24 hours.” interdisciplinary type of thing; it Because she can’t use the stairs, the bottom floor was wonderful.” of her home was turned into a single floor living The first week of January space. Mornings are the worse for her; “I don’t 2013, she had the opening for know what I’m waking up to. I can wake up and her mastectomy. “I opted to do not see; I can wake up and not speak; I can wake a double; I wanted them to do up and my arms don’t work.” both. I didn’t want to go through On Nov. 27, 2012, White was diagnosed with it again. During the surgery, the stage 1 breast cancer. “I didn’t want anybody to Photos by Yolanda Thomas surgeon took out the cancer and know anything until I got back; I told my doctor, my plastic surgeon was in there DaVeeda Young White in front of the banner for her organization dq4qd.com ‘Don’t call me until Tuesday,’ ” said White, who with us, Dr. Owens [I love her was concerned about ruining the family trip to too]; she put in the expanders. So we’re seeing. We want you to get a biopsy.’” She had a biopsy New York for her daughter’s 21st birthday. She found a lump every couple of weeks I would go in and she would inflate them on Friday and was diagnosed the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. on her left breast on a Sunday and, “everything snowballed a little bit at a time until she got to this size; then she said she “Everyone cried, but I knew I had to move forward. I didn’t from there.” That week was a battery of tests. “Everybody couldn’t stretch my skin anymore. I wanted ‘Dolly Parton.’ “ even think about it. I said, ‘we’re going to be a team and get came in the room and said, ‘You know, we’re not sure what “I’m taking it all as a health challenge; all wrapped up through it; we’ll all do it together.’ “ together because I can’t decipher. I don’t know how to decipher what’s cancer and what’s MS; I just know that something’s wrong.” By Yolanda Thomas Special to the AFRO
“I’m whole, perfect and complete.”
– DaVeeda Young White
White tries to find ways to raise funds for the foundation because, “I want to tell people it’s the little things that mean so much. I want to give people blankets, socks, puzzle books and pens to take with them.” Part of her healing process has been saying, “I have a health condition that I know about and I’m dealing with and I’m working through. I’m just not sitting down anymore. I’m really being verbal about things.” Speaking it into existence, I’m whole, perfect and complete.” To donate to her foundation DaVeeda’s Quest for Quality Days, go to www.dq4qd.com See more of the #31Survivors on Instagram @Afronews. Y3thomas@gmail.com
Cancer Resource Links Advanced Breast Cancer Community http://www.advancedbreastcancercommunity.org/ Table layout for gift baskets
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risk for no or late diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. Madeline Long-Gill, president of the Prince George’s County Chapter of Sisters Network said that there was still much more to do in getting Black women screened, treated, and supported in their fight against breast cancer. “We are going back into our communities and waking people up,” said Long-Gill, a three year breast cancer survivor. “We’ve kind of been lulled to sleep by ‘pink’, but we have to do more because while it’s great to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the numbers are continuing to go up. If the numbers were decreasing, we could continue with loving the pink but right now we have to do a little more than ‘Kumbaya,’ because ‘Kumbaya’ is not saving our women.” Sisters Network Inc. addresses the breast health needs of African-American women through its affiliate chapters, and partnerships with existing service providers. Chapters are organized by breast cancer survivors who are committed to establishing the much-needed community breast health services. Founded in 1994, Sisters Network is the only national African-American breast cancer survivorship organization in the U.S. The organization’s breast health outreach initiatives have had impacted an estimated 3.9 million families. The first thing most people recognize about Thelma Jones is her love for beautiful African clothing. Tall, statuesque, and on hand for most political events that impact the District’s Southwest-Waterfront neighborhood, Jones, has championed the fight for improved education, accountable elected officials, and community mentoring for decades. In 2007 after being diagnosed with breast cancer, Jones almost immediately became a peer counselor to other women similarly diagnosed.
“It was one of the most amazing examples of altruism anyone has ever seen,” said Lee Clark, a long-time neighbor and friend of Jones’. “When I heard the news, I immediately went into missionary mode and wanted to help her, but every time I looked to take her flowers or extend myself, I’d find she was hosting one thing or moderating another. It has been the greatest joy seeing Thelma mentor other neighbors and use her support group to educate others.” Clark said that even as Jones continues to monitor her own health, she has no intention of slowing down. In addition to being a neighborhood advocate, and certified Breast Health Educator for the American Cancer Society, Jones is also an Integrative Cancer Care Navigator at the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in Northwest, (where she provides moral and resource support for 18 to 20 women), and founder of The Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer Fund at the DC Cancer Consortium. She was named a 2011 White House Champion of Change for her leadership in the fight against breast cancer. The Champions of Change program, part of President Obama’s “Winning the Future Initiative,” recognizes local leaders for their contributions to the community. “I created my organization in September 2012 on the occasion of my 60th birthday. In looking at the many challenges women were experiencing with a breast cancer diagnosis, I talked to the D.C. Breast Cancer Consortium about find a way to help those less fortunate than I am. A major lesson I learned along the way was the value of family members, friends, communities, and colleagues--they provide identity, support, joy and comfort. They make the fight against this disease tolerable. No one who travels the breast cancer journey should have to make this journey alone,” Jones said.
American Society of Clinical Oncology http://www.cancer.org/ American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons http://www.amwa-doc.org/ Association of Cancer Online Resources http://www.acor.org/ Black Women’s Health Imperative http://www.bwhi.org/ Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (F.O.R.C.E.) http://www.facingourrisk.org/index.php Living Beyond Breast Cancer http://www.lbbc.org/ National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine http://nccam.nih.gov/ Single Fathers Due to Cancer http://www.singlefathersduetocancer.org Triple Negative Foundation
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Delores Newsome, Carmen Holmes, Y’londa Simmons, Ken Darden, Judge Yvonne Holt-Stone
April Watts, Tim Watts, radio hosts on MAGIC 95.9 FM
Sybil Wilkes, Tom Joyner, and J. Anthony Brown of The Tom Joyner Morning Show Sen. Larry Young, WOLB AM, Al Payne, RADIO ONE
Carlton and Ashley Harris
Dana Williams, Ertha Harris, Jill Brooks
The Reginald F. Lewis Museum was full of Baltimoreans who wanted to “Meet and Greet” the well known syndicated morning radio crew – Tom Joyner, Sybil Wilkes and J. Anthony Brown. Once everyone arrived for the Oct. 7 event and the trio took the podium, it was morning as most know it. The jokes, the cynicism and the innuendo abounded with more laughter than most could endure. Hosting Jake Oliver, AFRO Annette March Grier, April Ryan, Maureen Colkley, Benjamin the evening was the staff from publisher, with Tom Joyner White House correspondent; Alex Phillips IV, president, AFRO Radio One on whose MAJIC McCamey, account executive, American newspapers, 95.9 Baltimore station the Radio One, Linota Durien Jeanette Mills tremendous trio is heard every morning. They had visited the Silver Spring headquarters earlier in the day and the next day, Oct. 8, they served an overwhelming turnout at the Gordon Outlaw, director, Office of Fair Bishop Aubrey Harley, Cassandra McDonalds Practices, DHCD; Councilman Nick Mosby, Lil Black of Harley, John Watkins on Security Marilyn Mosby, candidate for City State’s 92Q, Robin Boulevard. Attorney, Darrell McMillan, Radio One Akinwale, RADIO ONE online editor
Sharon WhartonLewis, Reginald Lewis, Pam Watts
Cimmon Burris, Patapsco River; Wanda Nelson, Lisa Cooper-Lucas, Columbia, MD Chapter
Yvonne Frye and Grace Coffey
Ameta Coleman, Cori Ramos, Bennie Thomas
Beatrice Banqura, Vivian Lakes, RFLM volunteer
Judge Marcella Holland, Beverly Carter, John Carter, Marsha Jews
LaWanda Jenkins, Ivy GatesSmith, Alice Pinderhughes
Photos by Dr. A. Lois DeLaine
Chairs of the Denim and Diamonds event are Donnice Brown, Robin Ott, Geanelle Herring-Griffith, Shelonda Stokes
Links Gretchen Styles, Charlene Cooper-Boston, Rayna Woodford Pat Williams, Joan Pratt, Baltimore City Comptroller; Gail Johnson, Kimberleigh De Laine Gregory Styles with daughters Genna and Gabriella
Lelya Coleman, Karen Brooks
Dr. Sidney Downs, Marlene Downs, Lisa Cooper-Lucas, Raymond Lucas
Deborah Risper, Dr. Tracey Durant, Valarie Smith, Edna Smith
Photos by Dr. A. Lois DeLaine
2014 Scholarship winner, Desha Hamilton is greeted by Links Tonia Lee and Alice Cox
Chandra and Ellsworth are regular guests of the Links Denim and Diamonds
Gary and Tramelle O’Neall, Sheila and Jesse Bennett. Seated are Lisa Y. Settles, Martina Charlene McCargo, Evans Arthur Boone, Carolyn Cole
Robin Steele, president, Columbia Chapter; Diane Hardison, Eastern Area director; Alice Cole, president, Patapsco River; Candace Sims, president, Harbor City
Tuskegee Airman Lemuel and wife Reva Lewie
The Patapsco River Chapter, Baltimore County Links hosted its major fundraiser to provide scholarships for students who are enrolled in colleges and universities throughout the country. The highest ranking students from Baltimore County Public Schools are invited through their schools and two students receive assistance to attend the college of their choice, preferably Historically Black Institutions (HBIs). A portion of the funds will also allow the Chapter to provide additional service to the Baltimore County community. Over 500 guests dined on a variety of menu selections ranging from steamed shrimp, fresh chicken, tuna and green salads, an assortment of meats (chicken, carving stations with choices of turkey and beef), and various side dishes to satisfy the most discriminating palate. The dance floor was crowded most of the afternoon, and surprised, lucky guests were winners of a fur piece, an IPad and many other door prizes. Everyone had fun, and indicated that they are looking forward to next year’s exciting event.
Guests Laura Knight, Arlisa S. Ledbetter, Jean Boone
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ARTS & CULTURE
Lady B Used Music on Journey From Homelessness to Hip-hop By Roberto Alejandro Special to the AFRO Erica Hailey began showing symptoms of her bipolar disorder around age four, one year after her mother was brutally murdered by an intimate partner in her west Baltimore home. Hailey spent her adolescent years in and out of juvenile lockups and institutionalizations; moving in and out of foster care and periods of homelessness. She has continues to survive, all the while navigating a mental illness that the gaps in the social safety net made almost impossible to treat on a regular basis. And she has found a way forward in a style of music that evolved precisely to give voice to stories like hers, stories of people who have been dealt the worst of America’s limitations and yet have sought to persevere. “When I started doing music I was told my mental illness would be a problem; people were not going to be willing to deal with a person with my mood swings; people were not going to be able to deal with a person that was mentally ill period; and basically I just beat the odds,” said Hailey in a recent interview with the AFRO. And those odds were long. Saddled with an illness that is near impossible to manage without medication because of the dramatic mood swings that accompany it, Hailey had to learn to deal with the difficult terrain of Baltimore City while coping with the trauma of her mother’s murder combined with the emotional instability of her bipolar disorder. She spent much of her early adolescence in juvenile institutionalizations. She had a grandmother who could not handle the behavioral issues caused by Hailey’s bipolar disorder, and there were precious few services for city youth dealing with such issues. “I lived there,” said Haley of psychiatric hospitals like Sheppard Pratt and Taylor Manor. “I can’t say I grew up [at] home.” The staff at these and similar “residential” programs (lockups) became surrogate parents at times, even guiding Hailey through the physical changes of early puberty. But these hospitals were also the places where Hailey learned to act out in even more aggressive ways, learning from her fellow juvenile detainees how to run away and survive on city streets.
“When I started doing music I was told my mental illness would be a problem…and basically I just beat the odds.” – Hailey Around the age of 16, a time when she was running away from increasingly abusive foster homes, Hailey survived a sexual assault that left her pregnant with her first child. She would eventually turn to exotic dancing while still not old enough to have a lease in her own name and be free of the foster care system. Later, she would turn to selling drugs in order to keep her children fed and maintain a marijuana habit that was her only relief from the mood swings that could have her perfectly fine one minute and suicidal the next. Consistently remaining on medication has been a real challenge within the context of the bureaucracies that impoverished persons have to seek services from in Baltimore City. “As an adult, the only time I get my medicine is if I’m incarcerated,” said Hailey, referring to a 15 month prison stint she did after her house was raided around 2007 and police found drugs and firearms. “On the streets it’s always a runaround, always a whole bunch of extra paperwork, all these things and for a person with my mental capacity—I have anxiety attacks, panic attacks, I would get frustrated and just say forget it.” Hailey’s is a story from America’s underbelly, where options often range from ugly to uglier, and people seek to survive as best they can. After returning home from prison, Hailey continued to struggle with homelessness, spending nights in buses, parks, and vacant homes with her two youngest children (her eldest son was living with an aunt at the time). But it was also a time when Hailey turned to Hip-hop music in order to chart a path toward a better tomorrow for her family. “Being able to voice my opinion,” said Hailey of what first
Photo Courtesy of Erica Hailey
Erica Hailey, whose stage name is Lady B, uses her music to chart a path out of poverty, raise awareness about mental health. drew her to rapping. “And then, noticing that people were actually listening.” Hailey first began rapping under the name Lady Blackface, taking a term referring to a vaudeville practice intended to denigrate African Americans and seeking to make it into something positive. She now performs as Lady B, with the ‘B’ now standing for ‘bipolar,’ another term she is looking to turn into a positive. “I want people to know me for more than just being aggressive,” said Hailey. “I want people to know I’m not crazy, I have bipolar [disorder] but I’m very artistic, I’m very articulate. I’m not conceited, but I’m very cocky: I love me.” ralejandro@afro.com
Total Joint Tuesday Do you suffer from constant knee pain or wonder why your knees prevent you from participating in activities? Join James E. Wood Jr., MD, MedStar Harbor Hospital’s chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, for a discussion on the common causes and treatments for knee pain. You also will meet former patients who had partial and total knee replacement surgery with Dr. Wood. In addition, we will offer free weight-bearing X-rays for the first 20 seminar registrants. Those who receive an X-ray will have the image reviewed by Dr. Wood and have the opportunity to discuss with him concerns about their specific type of knee pain. Please call us, or visit our website to register. Tuesday, Nov. 4 • 6 p.m. MedStar Harbor Hospital • Baum Auditorium 410-350-2563 PHONE MedStarHarbor.org/FallEvents
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FAITH
Dr. James Cone Discusses His Work as America’s Foremost Black Theologian By Roberto Alejandro Special to the AFRO For 40 years, the Rev. Dr. James Cone has sought to articulate the message of the gospel using the language that emerged out of the African American experience of slavery, lynching, racism, and oppression. In a recent sit-down with the AFRO, Cone discussed his latest book, ‘The Cross and the Lynching Tree,’ and his quest to write theology—in his words—the way Louis Armstrong blew his trumpet or Billie Holiday sang ‘Strange Fruit.’ Cone says he was called to this task by the emergence of the Black Power movement in 1966, shaped by popular figures like Malcolm X (who by then had already been assassinated), which viewed Christianity as a White man’s religion, inimical to the lives and concerns of Blacks in America. “I had to find a way to bring together what I felt in my heart and in my head: a unity between Martin and Malcolm; Black Power and the Civil Rights Movement. Otherwise, I was split open,” said Cone of his early work Rev. Dr. James Cone on Black liberation theology, first an essay entitled ‘Christianity and Black Power,’ and later his first book, ‘Black Theology & Black Power,’ written not long after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. “I wrote that book because I had to. It was trying to make sense out of all of what was happening among young Black people and the Christian faith. . . . The ‘Black’ in ‘Black theology’ comes from Malcolm X. It is mentioned first, because I’m Black first, before I was a Christian. And then the ‘theology’ in ‘Black theology’ comes from Martin King, and that Christian identity I could not let go.” It was an identity passed on to him from his parents, and from Macedonia AME Church in Bearden, AR, where Cone grew up. But more than a family legacy, it was an identity that had shown him an example of love in the face of hate that made resiliency in the face of oppression possible. “I experienced that love in the face of White supremacy. I saw it existentially in my parents;
they had no hate. I saw it in my church; they had no hate. We had love for White people too, and we prayed for them in church. And I never heard any expression of hate in the Black community or in my family toward White people. I felt an affection and a love, not only for each other, but for poor White people who don’t know what they’re doing.” Cone says that it was this love, grounded in a love of self, that allowed African Americans in places like Bearden to live lives of dignity and raise their children to become prominent theologians like himself, in the face of brutal violence at the hands of Whites. “I wanted to try to describe the power of their religion, of their story, of their words,” said Cone of the community that raised him. Those words were key for the articulation of Black theology, says Cone, who explained that it would be impossible to speak of a Black Christianity without using the language Black people created out of English in order to give voice to their own experience, a language contained in the music, humor, preaching, and literature of the African American tradition and which gave Cone the very insight that led him to develop Black liberation theology in the first place. “Using their language is a way of expressing my love for myself,” said Cone, whose most recent work, ‘The Cross and the Lynching Tree,’ takes White Christianity to task for failing to address the most obvious parallel to the cross in American society, the extra judicial killings at the lynching tree, and which continue today in examples like the deaths of Trayvon Martin or Mike Brown. But ‘The Cross and the Lynching Tree’ is also a defense of one of Cone’s more challenging ideas, that of redemptive suffering, the notion that out of Black suffering can come the redemption of White America. To attempt such a redemption was the mission of Martin, but it was Malcolm that provided the means. “If you don’t have a healthy respect of yourself, loving the brutal hater, loving the White supremacist, can destroy you as a human being. You’ve got to love yourself first, and Malcolm is indispensable for telling Black people what it means to love themselves. That’s why I said Malcolm and Martin [have] got to go together. . . . That redemptive love is possible, but it has to begin with yourself.” Cone acknowledges that many find this idea of redemptive suffering and redemptive love difficult, especially since it would seem to require a Black solution to a White problem. And while he does not know why this particular burden has fallen to Black people, Cone says it is far preferable than the burden of hatred. “I’d much rather be a part of African American history, than White history. I’d rather be a part of the people who have been resisting, and creating a vision of humanity about love and justice. I’d much rather be a Nelson Mandela, a Desmond Tutu, than a part of the apartheid system that tried to kill them, so I much rather be a part of Black people’s history, King and Malcolm and that history, than a part of the history of lynching, people who lynch people, I don’t want to be that. So if being a part of that history means I’ve got to love the lyncher, yeah, I’ll do that. I don’t want to hate people who were lynched, I don’t want to be a part of hating groups, so I say for my own humanity, for my humanity, I’ll carry that burden.” ralejandro@afro.com
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More than 1,000 students in 21 Baltimore schools were visited, Oct. 13, by men who read to them and generally created a very special morning. They encouraged them to go to school every day – echoing the call of Dr. Thornton, Baltimore Schools new CEO, according to Dr. Marvin “Doc” Cheatham, who has told parents in his community to call him if they cannot get their children to school. The Men Reading in Baltimore City Public Elementary Schools was started in 2011, by “Doc” Cheatham. “Michael Carter was outstanding in his assistance to the program and when he died in 2012, I asked the family if it was ok that I put
Michael’s name on the initiative,” Cheatham said. “The family consented and was present at our press conference in 2012 announcing that year’s initiative.” Participants in the Michael Carter Men Reading in Schools Project were members of 100 Black Men, 300 Men March, AFT Maryland, Kappa Alpha Psi and Phi Beta Sigma fraternities, to name a few of their organizations.
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Cameron Miles, Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood, in Mr. Green’s 5th grade class
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Emim Bey reading to Mrs. Rineholt's 4th grade class
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Alexander Hamilton staff members and teachers with volunteer reading men, from left, Jahiti, singer/songwriter; Eze Jackson, musician/activist; Borndavid McCraw, YMCA and Antoine Thomas, chef
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City Councilman Pete Welch reading to a class at Alexander Hamilton Elementary
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Marvin “Doc” Cheatham reading to a kindergarten class
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Workers In The Vineyard The Wall of Tolerance By Marsha Joyner Special to the AFRO
My dear AFRO readers, this story is dedicated to those of you who take trips with me to the backroads of my memory. For some of you this may be your first time with me. October 24 is a special day. It was a moment in time, not just a fanciful dream. So come with me cross the sea. Come with me across the horizon and turn back the hands of time to October 2005. Tuesday Oct. 25, 2005, somewhere out over the Pacific Ocean on the big 747 jet airliner headed into the autumn sunset: “Memories must be written before we begin to edit them,” I reasoned. Therefore writing as fast as I can before one minute of this experience is regulated to the past. We came in road-weary VW Buses, with backpacks and sleeping bags, willing to sleep on any floor, withstand certain adversity, every abuse and encounter death, to add another face to the struggle for equality and dignity in America during the 1950’s and 60’s. Now, October 2005, we arrived in Montgomery, Ala., “The Cradle of the Confederacy,” on jets planes, sports sedans and air conditioned SUV’s with matching luggage and stayed at the Embassy Suites, each one of us showing the evidence of years of wear and tear. In 1955, when the mournful list of martyrs begins, the American South was an apartheid society, a world where racial differences were legitimized by law. This movement had its beginnings in Montgomery when a people chose to walk in dignity rather than sit in segregated despair. There had been protests against the American evil system of Jim Crow, in the courts and in the streets for years, but after Montgomery the protests swelled to a collective force. From this city, the movement and its method spread throughout the land. Early on that sunny Sunday morning, our host, ScottB and Linda Smith, my Son Christopher German and I had a typical southern breakfast at a diner. The aroma of fresh-baked biscuits and cheese grits with brown gravy greeted us. “May I help you” the lovely young White server asked as she handed us the menu. The three page menu showed the South’s propensity for a full breakfast. I looked her in the eye and she smiled broadly asking if we were visitors from out of town. Yes and no, ScottB replied. We live here and they are from Hawaii, nodding toward me. “Well, the young lady said, while you are in Montgomery you really must visit the Civil Rights Memorial and the Rosa Parks museum.” That is exactly where we are going, Linda assured her. Wow! So this is the new Montgomery, an interracial couple hosting us for breakfast at a diner in downtown Montgomery. And to think how long and hard the KKK and the White Citizens Council had fought to keep this city white. The ghost of the martyrs who died for this day must be singing the “Hallelujah” chorus. I’ve heard there was a secret chord, that David played, and it pleased the Lord, “Hallelujah.” This magnificent day was the
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dedication of the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, which included the Wall of Tolerance. The Wall of Tolerance digitally displays the names of more than half a million people who have pledged to take a stand against hate and work for justice and tolerance in their daily lives. Using digital technology to create spectacular effect, the names flow down a curved 20 by 40 foot wall. The names on the wall include civil rights workers from all fifty states and Japan. The Civil Rights Memorial, created by Vietnam Veterans Memorial designer Maya Lin, honors the achievements and memory of those who died during the Civil Rights Movement, a period framed by the momentous Brown v. Board decision in 1954 and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968. A circular black granite table records the names of the martyrs and chronicles the history of the movement in lines that radiate like the hands of a clock. Water emerges from the table’s center and flows evenly across the top. On the curved black granite wall behind the table is engraved Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s well-known paraphrase of Amos 5:24 - We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. Patiently, we stood in line to touch, to feel, to smell and take pictures of the bus in which Rosa Parks had refused to give up her seat to a white man, as if it were the Holy Grail and to gently touch the waters of the black granite memorial that flow over the names of the 40 martyrs. It was here in Montgomery that a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was selected to lead a congregation and began his march toward fame. Here, he preached nonviolence in the face of Jim Crow. Rosa Parks sat down and refused to get up here, and thousands of unnamed “workers in the vineyard” walked to work for more than a year because of her. The bus boycott started here. Heroes whose names are lost to history took a stand for freedom here. People from Hawaii joined the thousands more who walked in the rain and mud for five days from Selma to Montgomery, seeking the right to vote. I was moved beyond words to see my name (Marsha Joyner) and that of my mother (Elizabeth Murphy Oliver) among the names on the Wall of Tolerance. However, I was more impressed and honored to be with the thousands of allies, veterans of the movement, who were in the crowd and whose names did not appear. Black, white, red, yellow & brown, Uncles & Cousins, Mothers & Sisters, Christian & Jews, Gay & straight; some with walkers and in wheel chairs accompanied by children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, proud to share a moment, that for most, if not all of us, never dreamed would come. Yes, I had a pittance in the Civil Rights Movement, I was the first “colored girl” to graduate (1956) from an integrated school in Baltimore after the Brown vs. BOE (1954), walked many picket lines, participated in sit-in demonstrations, went to jail for having the audacity to ask to be served a 10 cent hamburger at the White Castle, faced death at the hands of an angry white mob when I had the impudence to attempt to register people to vote and walked the ever moving line of Jim Crow. But today I was in the company of real heroes, people who had practiced non-violence here in the overtly violent south. The workers in the vineyard, those who give so much and get so little Most of those who made the movement weren’t the famous; they were the faceless. They weren’t the noted; they were the nameless — the marchers with tired feet, the protestors beaten back by billy clubs and fire hoses, the unknown women and men who risked job and home and life. “The memorial sits only a few blocks west of the first capitol of the Confederacy, the spot where Jefferson Davis took the oath of office to become President of the Confederate States. From Court Square, the order was sent in 1861 to “reduce” Fort Sumter, beginning the Civil War. Ninety-four years later, on a December evening, Mrs. Rosa Parks began a historic bus ride from Court Square. East is the Dexter Avenue (King Memorial) Baptist Church, where a young pastor named Martin Luther King, Jr., led the movement Mrs. Parks began. “Fifty years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat just a few blocks away from where we are today,” said Center co-founder Morris Dees in his welcoming remarks. “You’ve come from throughout the United States to be a part of the march that Rosa Parks started. “The placement of your name on the Wall of Tolerance shows the march for justice continues,” Morris Deeds concluded. “This event is about honoring heroes,” said Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala,), who was the dedication’s keynote speaker. “It has been the lot of our country that the bravest of us have laid down their lives, some anonymously, some in full view of the world,” Davis said. “All share courage and are heroes. That’s what we honor today.” He urged everyone to consider “the enduring power of people who are willing to take a stand.” Davis continued, “Standing here, five minutes away from where George Wallace declared that men and women could not be equal, there is a new ground rising. There is a new Alabama in sight. There is a new country in sight. But only if we keep believing in each other, in the power of right.” NAACP chairman and Civil Rights Movement veteran, Julian Bond, was greeted with a standing ovation when he was introduced. He said of the people gathered at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of these acts will be written the history of this generation. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can Julian Bond and Marsha Joyner sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” Monday, Oct. 24, 2005 sitting in the airport as we said our goodbyes to our new and old best friends, the overhead television monitors flashed an alert, “Civil Rights Giant Rosa Parks dies”. A hush fell over the entire airport. People from everywhere, every size, shape and color stood in front of the monitors without uttering a word. We, strangers and friends hugged each other, as it seemed, SHE, the woman whose name was on the invitation to the movement, had waited until the conclusion of the tribute to the other unsung Rosa Parks heroes, the workers in the vineyard, to take her final bow. She left us physically but her legacy will never fade away. She is at peace!
MarshaRose Joyner is a resident of, and an activist in many civil rights causes in, the Hawaiian Islands. She is a native Baltimorean, one of the first Black graduates of Baltimore’s Western High School, and the daughter of the late Elizabeth M. Oliver, a nationally recognized AFRO journalist. Joyner is also the great-granddaughter of AFRO founder, John H. Murphy Sr.
October 25, 2014 - October 31, 2014, The Afro-American
“Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote; people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering Black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.” Jeff Greenfield They were there starting at 10 a.m. lining up to see President Barack Obama endorse Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown for governor of the great state of Maryland. The get out the vote rally in Upper Marlboro brought people of all ages, race and ethnic background to a sprawling high school in a residential community. The doors opened at 2 p.m. and the crowd of about 10,000 people who stood in line for hours to be a part of the rally entered through airport like security. The standing room only crowd waited uncomplainingly for the President and Lt. Gov. Brown to enter the auditorium after listening to rousing speeches by Gov. O’Malley, Rep. Elijah Cummings, PG County Executive Rushern Baker and Rep. Steny Hoyer, great musical selections and a prayer by the Rev. Dr. Grainger Browning Jr., pastor of Ebenezer A.M.E. Church of Fort Washington, Md. had folks “amening” and “hallelujahing” during his poignant prayer. Mass pandemonium erupted when President Obama walked out after greeting people in the overflow room; the scream, shouts, tears and cheers reached the rafters and bounced off the bleachers praising our President. Cell phones snapped and videotaped the President’s every move and sound until we were exhausted with the excitement of the day’s event. The sprawling high school is located in a residential area with narrow streets and only one way out due to the Presidential motorcade and security so around 6 PM, after a long day people reluctantly started leaving to avoid the traffic jam and the Sunday Redskin traffic on I- 95. People spotted in attendance were Secretary Jean Hitchcock, Lucinda Ware, Dr. Thelma Daley, Auvea Fortune, 10th district Del. Benjamin and Teresa Brooks, Rev. Alvin Hathaway, Travis Winky, Debbie Allen, Secretary Gloria Lawler, Sen. Joanne Benson, Karen Brooks, Marsha Jews, Rev. Precious Davis, Annie Hall, Dottie Marshall, Delores Winston, Carl and Bobbie Swann, Harry Spikes, Sean Burns, Vernon Simms and Marty Resnick, CEO of Martin Caterers. “Come on down” Sunday join the Women for Brown at the Doubletree Hilton for a Get out the Vote rally in Pikesville at 3:30 p.m. with Lt. Gov. Brown. “God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us in the dreariest and most dreaded moments can see a possibility of hope.” Maya Angelou Congratulations to the Baltimore Orioles for a winning season and a hopeful October.
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“An apple a day keeps”… Get well wishes to Dr. Guy Bragg. “Goin’ to the chapel and we’re gonna get married. Gee, I really love you and we’re, gonna get married. Bells will ring, theee sun will shine. Whooooa, I’ll be his and he’ll be mine…”The Crystals Wedding bells rang for psychologist, Dr. Aaron Greeson and Hebbville Elementary School reading specialist Madian Forston. The festive Friday evening reception attended by 50 family and friends was held at Colin’s Seafood Restaurant and Grill was a joyous occasion.. The radiant newlyweds are avid bike riders and will be honeymooning on the historic Northern Central Railroad Trail (NCR Trail) journeying from Maryland to Pennsylvania. “Make each day of the week like Friday and your life will take on new enthusiasm.” Byron Pulsifer Baltimore’s newest entertainment hotspot Horseshoe Casino has Happier Hours Monday thru Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. with drink specials and half price appetizers. The perfect place for an after work party with coworkers or just hanging out with friends “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him, and bless his name.” Psalm 100:4 The Community Concert Choir of Baltimore under the direction of Marco Merrick, accompanied by Marcus Smith, Patrick Alston and Jocque Brown will present “Praise and Thanksgiving,” 4 p.m., Nov. 2 at Enon Baptist Church. “Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.” Psalm100:1-2 Jump Street will be headlining Church of St Mary the Virgin annual Holiday Jazz Fest Nov. 8 contact Rebecca Johnson 410-363-2633 or RLEVENTS2013@gmail.com for tickets to this worthwhile event. Congratulations and Prayers to The Rev. Gerald Collins formerly of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin the new rector of St. George St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. “Start spreading the news” The Choice Housing Voucher for Section 8 housing waiting list is open from Oct. 22 – 30. www.JoinTheList.org “It’s your birthday make some noise” Sheila Generette, Eugene Smalley, Damien Pulley, Leah Goldsborough Hasty, Kim Sterrette Williams, Damon Hughes, Shawon Reed and Karenthia Barber “Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit”. ~Lemony Snicket
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TYPESET: Wed Oct 22 15:24:07 EDT LEGAL 2014 NOTICES CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for BALTIMORE CITY NO.TR11005; REPLACEMENT OF BRIDGE NO. BC 6523SPOOKS HILL ROAD OVER COOPER’S RUN will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204 City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. DECEMBER 3, 2014. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon. The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, at the Department of Public Works Service Center located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of OCTOBER 24, 2014 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $75.00. Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package. All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prerequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call (410) 396-6883 or contact the Committee at 3000 Druid Park, Baltimore, Maryland 21215. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is C03300 (CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION).Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $1,000,000.00 to $2,000,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 10:00 A.M. on November 13, 2014 at 417 East Fayette Street, Room 724, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. Principal Items of work for this project are -Maintenance of Stream Flow- LS; & Augered Piling (Rock) for HP 12x84 Pile - 300 L.F. The MBE goal is 27%; WBE goal is 10% APPROVED: Bernice H. Taylor, Clerk Board of Estimates TYPESET: Wed Oct 22 15:39:14 EDT 2014 City of Baltimore Department of Finance Bureau of Purchases Sealed proposals addressed to the Board of Estimates of Baltimore, will be received until, but not later than 11:00 a.m. local time on the following date(s) for the stated requirements: NOVEMBER 12, 2013 *PRINTING SERVICES B50003778
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TYPESET: Wed Oct 22 15:38:53 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR BALTIMORE CITY Case No.: 24D14002873 IN THE MATTER OF Royall Allen DeSantis-Whitaker FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO Royall Allen Whitaker ORDER FOR NOTICE BY PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to officially change the name of the petitioner from Royall Allen DeSantisWhitaker to Royall Allen Whitaker It is this 16th day of October, 2014 by the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, ORDERED, that publication be given one time in a newspaper of general circulation in Baltimore City on or before the 16th day of N o v e m b e r, 2 0 1 4 , which shall warn all interested persons to file an affidavit in opposition to the relief requested on or before the 1st day of December, 2014 Frank M. Conaway Clerk 10/24/14
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EDUCATIONADJUNCT FACULTY Carroll Community College is seeking Adjunct Faculty for the Spring 2015 Semester. Additional information, including class information may be obtained at www.carrollcc.edu.
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Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) Accountant Supervisor II REPOSTED: Manager of Grant Accounting Recruitment #14-004552-006 Filing Deadline 11/7/2014 11:59:00 PM Salary: $48,920.00 - $63,629.00/year Work that Matters. The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) is a national leader in the financing and development of affordable housing and community development lending. The Accountant Supervisor position is a management position responsible for managing the grant accounting operations of the Department, in order to ensure that activities support program and financial goals and comply with State, Federal, and Departmental regulations, procedures, and deadlines. Please visit www.jobaps.com/md to view the full job description, required qualifications and to submit anWed online EOE2014 TYPESET: Oct application. 22 14:31:09 EDT Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) HCD Community Program Administrator II [63905] EPOSTED: Program Officer Recruitment #14-001207-002 Filing Deadline 11/3/2014 11:59:00 PM Salary: $45,938.00 - $59,62200/year Work that Matters. The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) is a national leader in revitalizing communities and financing affordable housing. DHCD has an immediate opening for a Program Officer in its Division of Neighborhood Revitalization. This individual must be a highly organized, customer oriented, self-motivated, team player, with knowledge of laws, regulations and current practices in the areas related to the delivery of services to low and moderate income populations seeking to move to selfsufficiency and to homeless and potentially homeless populations. Please visit www.jobaps.com/md to view the full job description, required qualifications and to submit an online application. EOE
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ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CAREER OPPORTUNITIES Automotive Mechanic II Chief, Data Resources Housing & Food Protection, Program Manager Maintenance Worker II Naturalist (Sanctuary Education Coordinator) Occupational Safety & Health Specialist Office Support Assistant I Programmer Analyst II Program Specialist II, Watershed Protection & Restoration Sanitary Engineering, Program Manager Senior Project Engineer, Watershed Protection & Restoration System Analyst Visit our website at www.aacounty.org for additional information and to apply on-line. You may use the Internet at any Anne Arundel County library, or visit our office at 2660 Riva Road in Annapolis. Deadlines to apply posted on website. AEO/DF/SFE
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