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From left, Richard Johnson Sr. holds La David Johnson Jr,. Ah’Leesya Johnson, and Myeshia Johnson, the wife of Army Sgt. La David Johnson, attend Sgt. Johnson’s burial at the Hollywood Memorial Gardens in Hollywood, Fla., on Oct. 21.

He was killed with three other colleagues in an ambush by extremists in Niger on Oct. 4.

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President Donald J. Trump returned to Twitter again and again in an ill-conceived fight with grieving war widow Myeshia Johnson, who is pregnant, this past week.

Rep. Frederica Wilson

(D-Fla.) first raised the issue of Trump’s seeming callousness during a call to Johnson about the death of her husband Sgt. La David Johnson under murky circumstances in Niger. For her role in the controversy, Rep. Wilson, who is Black, was called an “empty barrel”

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Singer, composer and pianist Fats Domino.

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by John F. Kelly, White House chief of staff and on Oct. 24 reportedly received a lynching threat in the form of a Facebook post calling for “ten good men to help carry out a lynching.” Authorities are investigating the threat.

“General Kelly’s comments are reprehensible,”

the women of the Congressional Black Caucus said in a statement addressing this and other attacks and insinuations made at Wilson.

“Congresswoman Wilson’s integrity and credibility should not be challenged or undermined by such blatant lies. We, the women

Rock ‘n’ Roll Legend Fats Domino Remembered

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(Oct. 25, 2017) Rock and Roll legend Fats Domino died Tuesday at his home in Harvey, La. He was 89.

Domino, named Rolling Stone’s 25th Greatest Artist of all Time in 2004, is often credited as one of, if not the, inventor of Rock and Roll. A contemporary of Ray Charles, Little Richard and Elvis Presley, Domino’s first

Report: Is Hate on the Rise in Maryland?

By Byron Scott Special to the AFRO Reports of hate and bias incidents in Maryland sky rocketed in 2016 by 40 percent compared 203 incidents in 2015, according to the State of Maryland 2016 Hate/Bias Report authored by Maryland State Police. There were 155 reported incidents in 2014.

Of the 285 reports of hate or bias incidents in 2016, 114 occurred during the last quarter of the year. Of that Continued on A3

The overwhelming majority of instances involved race, with Blacks targeted most often, nearly half of the time.

recording, “The Fat Man,” sold one million copies between 1949 and 1953, and

is considered the first Rock and Roll record to do so.

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• Tessa Hill-Aston Out As Baltimore NAACP President

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of the Congressional Black Caucus, proudly stand with Congresswoman Wilson and demand that General Kelly apologize to her without delay and take responsibility for his reckless and false statements.”

Wilson’s initial account of events was largely substantiated when Johnson herself described the call in a television interview.

“The president said that he knew what he signed up for, but it hurts anyway,” said Johnson, the wife of Sgt. La David Johnson, a US Army Green Beret killed in action Continued on A3

Fats Domino died at the age of 89 on Oct. 24. The following 1956 article delves into his popular rivalry with Elvis at the time and how he was handling his success.

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Meet Fats Domino, 250 pounds of controversy Aug. 11, 1956

By Sam Lacy Fats Domino and Elvis Presley are no more closely resembled than an elephant and a gazelle. Yet, they’re as alike as two frisky kittens in a litter.

Whether you like them or not, you’re forced to admit they must have something—both of ‘em.

No two public figures in the country are more controversial at the moment than this pair, unless it is Nixon and Stassen. And few people anywhere are making more money, Continued on A3

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Outrageous Wrongful Conviction No Surprise to Kansas Black Community sentences for the 1994 murders of Doniel Quinn, 21, and Donald Ewing, Rose McIntyre says she wonders 34. They were shot in broad daylight whether her refusal to grant regular sexual as they sat in a car in a drug-infested favors to a White detective prompted him neighborhood of Kansas City. No to retaliate against her Black son, who physical evidence linked him to the spent 23 years in a Kansas prison for a crime, and he didn’t know the victims. double murder he didn’t commit.

When police showed eyewitnesses “I do believe that if I had complied with a photo lineup of five people to identify his request for me to become his ‘woman,’ the shooter, three of those photos were that my son would likely not be in prison,�

Rose McIntyre’s relatives — her two she said in a 2014 affidavit. sons and a nephew.

Her son, Lamonte McIntyre, 41, walked At the trial, two planned out of a court hearing on Oct. 13 a free man eyewitnesses to the murders told after Wyandotte County District Attorney Morehead when they saw Lamonte Tammy Ljungblad /The Kansas City Star via AP Mark Dupree asked that charges from the McIntyre in person that she had the 1994 murders be dismissed because of wrong man, according to court filings.

Lamonte McIntyre, who was imprisoned “manifest injustice.�

Niko Quinn signed an affidavit that she for 23 years for a 1994 double murder The case has outraged, but not lied on the stand because Morehead in Kansas that he always said he didn’t surprised, the poor Black community commit, with his mother, Rosie McIntyre, threatened to have her arrested and have of Kansas City, Kansas, and highlights her children taken away if she did not after the district attorney dropped the why many African-Americans do not testify. Morehead sent the other witness, charges. trust police and the U.S. criminal justice her mother Josephine Quinn, away system. without calling her to testify. Those exculpatory statements were “In my community, this is a norm,� Lamonte McIntyre said not disclosed at the time to Lamonte McIntyre’s defense lawyers.

Oct. 21 in a telephone interview. “We are not shocked or surprised Rose McIntyre recounted in her affidavit that Golubski coerced at the injustice or the brutality ‌ of law enforcement. This is an her into a sexual act in his office in the late 1980s and then everyday life for us.â€? harassed her for weeks, often calling her two or three times a day, Documents made public during an 8-year effort to exonerate before she moved and changed her phone number.

Lamonte McIntyre allege homicide detective Roger Golubski “He had total power, and I was terrified that he would try to used his power to prey for decades on African-American women, force me again to provide sexual favors,� she said in the affidavit. including Rose McIntyre. They also accuse the prosecutor in “I also knew that there was no one I could complain to, as the case, Terra Morehead, of intimidating witnesses who told Golubski was known to be very powerful in the community and in her McIntyre was not the killer. And they say the presiding the police department.� judge, Wyandotte County District Judge J. Dexter Burdette, had Golubski was so involved with Black female prostitutes a romantic relationship with the prosecutor before the trial that and drug addicts that he fathered children with some of them, neither disclosed at the time. according to an affidavit from retired police officer Ruby None of them has faced discipline. Golubski rose through the Ellington, a 25-year Kansas City police department employee. ranks to detective and captain. He retired from law enforcement “Roger Golubski’s involvement with them was no secret,� last year. Morehead is now a federal prosecutor in Kansas City.

Ellington said. “It was simply accepted as part of what Roger Burdette is still on the bench.

Golubski was able to do without repercussion.�

Golubski’s attorney, Paul Morrison, did not respond to multiple Kansas City Police Chief Terry Zeigler said in an emailed phone and email messages left at his law office seeking comment. statement that the FBI looked into Golubski’s conduct and could Morehead did not respond to an email and the U.S. attorney’s not find any incidents within the statute of limitations, which is office declined comment. Burdette did not return a message left at five years for such allegations. They consider the matter closed. his office.

Zeigler added that he worked with Golubski and “never saw Lamonte McIntyre was 17 when he was given two life anything that caused me concern.�

By The Associated Press

About 2 Dozen NFL Players Protested During Anthems Sunday end Marcus Smith, defensive tackle Jarran Reed, defensive end Frank Clark Days after the NFL declined to change and defensive end Quinton Jefferson. its rule on the national anthem, about two Defensive end Cliff Avril, scratched for dozen players protested around the league the game, sat between Clark and Bennett.

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Another teammate stood with his left Associated Press journalists counted 22 arm on Bennett’s back. One Seattle player players protesting during the anthems in kneeled. some way before day games. Some took a In San Francisco, about a half-dozen knee, others sat on the bench, stayed in the 49ers kneeled led by Eric Reid, Marquise tunnel or raised a fist.

Goodwin, rookie linebacker Reuben On Sept. 25, days after President Foster, Eli Harold, Adrian Colbert and Trump said players should be fired for K’waun Williams. All the Dallas Cowboys protesting during the anthem, more than stood , but defensive tackle David Irving 200 players protested. raised his fist after the anthem ended.

On Sunday, the Seahawks and 49ers In Cleveland, Titans wide receiver had the most protesters.

Seattle defensive Rishard Matthews stayed inside the tunnel AP Photo/Eric Risberg end Michael Bennett and seven Seahawks during the national anthem.

San Francisco 49ers players kneel teammates did not stand before their game Chargers left tackle Russell Okung during the performance of the with the New York Giants. stood with his right fist raised during the national anthem before an NFL As a New York City police officer anthem before Los Angeles hosted the Denver Broncos. football game between the 49ers and sang the anthem, Bennett was joined by defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson, A group of 11 owners and more than the Dallas Cowboys in Santa Clara, defensive end Brandon Jackson, defensive a dozen players met for more than two Calif., Oct. 22. hours Tuesday at the league’s headquarters. Among the topics discussed was enhancing the players’ platforms for speaking out on social issues. The NFL’s policy on the national anthem was not changed. # # ! , #)( )$ !% " -$*' ' ()" ( " ''- - Just one player appeared %'$+ # $$ )$-( # !$) ( $' -$*' " !- to protest visibly during the -$* ,$*! ! ( #) )$ !% %! ( ( # ' &* () early games Sunday, with # %'$+ *( , ) (% / # $'" ) $# $# -$*' " !- Rams linebacker Robert Quinn # ) !% -$* # raising his fist during the U.S. anthem, then bringing it down before “God Save The Queen� before playing Arizona in London. ! !! ! )) '( )$ ( #) "% # Commissioner Roger $ '$ " ' # ,(% % '( Goodell and several owners

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discussed at the league’s fall meetings.

Most of the Indianapolis Colts locked arms before kickoff at home against the Jacksonville Jaguars. In Miami, Kenny Stills, Michael Thomas and Julius Thomas all stayed in the locker room during the anthem.

By The Associated Press

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Compassion Continued from A1 Oct. 4, in an interview on Good Morning America. “It made me cry because I was very angry at the tone of his voice and how he said he couldn’t remember my husband’s name.”

On Oct. 24 Trump, during an impromptu press conference, said that he did remember Johnsons’ name because it was written on a chart placed in front of him during the call. “I certainly respect La David, who I, by the way, called La David right from the beginning,” the president said. “Just so you understand, they put a chart in front — ‘La David,’ it says ‘La David Johnson.’ So I called right from the beginning.”

While questions about the specific circumstances of Johnson’s death still remain unanswered, President Trump has entered into yet another rhetorical quagmire domestically.

“I am concerned about Donald Trump’s lack of sensitivity to other people’s problems,” Michael Kamara, political science professor at Morgan State University, told the AFRO. “Everything in his eyes, it’s zero sum. Instead of paying attention to the real human aspect of it, he’s not acting in a human fashion. The guy

almost acts like an infant in politics.”

Trump’s inability to demonstrate empathy may have short and long term consequences, Kamara said.

“If you look at the polls right now, they say that he’s losing ground even among Republicans,” said Kamara. “He’s also losing ground among independents.”

This waning legitimacy may be fracturing the party Trump ostensibly heads. Citing Trump’s corrosive influence on the GOP as a whole, Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) recently announced their retirement from politics.

Trump’s callousness towards the Johnson family is not even the first Gold Star family

“The president said that he knew what he signed up for, but it hurts anyway.”

- Myeshia Johnson FiveThirtyEight’s polling aggregator puts Trump’s mean disapproval rating at 56.7 percent, a figure that has been steadily climbing since he took office. Trump’s mean approval rating, from the same tool, shows a continuously descending rating hovering now around 37.2 percent.

of color with which the president has sparred with directly. During the Democratic National Convention in 2016 Trump disparaged Khizr Khan, whose son died in the Iraq war, after Khan spoke out against Trump.

“It speaks to a larger troubling trend that he has a disregard for people of color,”

said Michelle Murray Yang, Department of Communications professor with University of Maryland, College Park. “Whether it’s his remarks on Charlottesville, or his discussion of the travel ban, of immigration, it does speak to a White nationalist leaning that has come through his discourse, from his campaign.”

Traditionally, these moments are used to criticize or promote policy, instead, Trump is taking the moment for himself, Murray Yang said.

“Typically you use it to make a point about the weaknesses of a political opponent’s foreign policy,” Murray Yang said. “With Trump, this has served really as a reflection of his role as Commander in Chief. We don’t get him talking about the specifics of the mission, why there wasn’t more air support there, why the soldiers were in that area to begin with and what exactly was the mission’s aim and scope, instead we get him focused on really personalizing it. Like many things during this administration, what could be about foreign policy, what could be about how we treat Gold Star families, it all comes back to him.”

Fats Domino Continued from A1 Domino’s sheer volume of record sales in the 50s came in second only to Presley during their careers. At a 1969 press conference, Presley once dubbed Domino the “real King of Rock and Roll.”

“A lot of people seem to think I started this business, but rock ‘n’ roll was here a long time before I came along,” Presley told an editor of Jet. “Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let’s face it: I can’t sing it like Fats Domino can. I know that. But I always liked that kind of music.”

Domino released a string of singles including: “Ain’t That a Shame,” “Blueberry Hill,” “I’m Walkin,” and “The Big Beat”

among many others.

Many celebrities took to Twitter to express mourning and praise.

“I found My Thrill on “Blueberry Hill”! RIP Fats Domino,” wrote Samuel L. Jackson.

“One of my great honors in life was being a part of Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew’s induction into the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame. RIP,’ wrote Wendell Pierce. “#FatsDomino: Another gift from NewOrleans. An entertainer & caring man; he gave us many thrills on the ride to freedom. May he RIP,” wrote Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr.

Born Antoine Domino, and a lifelong resident of New Orleans’ Ninth Ward, his mansion was destroyed in the flooding from Hurricane Katrina. He lost his National Award for Arts, which was awarded by Bill Clinton, and his gold records. The medal was replaced by then-President George W. Bush and the records were replaced by Capitol Records.

Domino put out “Alive and Kickin” in 2006, an album of previously unreleased recordings from the 1990s. Proceeds went to Tipitina’s Foundation, a New Orleans nonprofit with the stated mission to preserve New Orleans’ culture of music and to support struggling and burgeoning artists.

County was among eight counties that saw a decrease.

The overwhelming majority of instances involved race, with Blacks targeted most often, nearly half of the time, according to the report. Anti-Jewish incidents accounted for the second largest category, (18.6 percent). The third busiest group involved gender bias crimes at just under 12 percent.

Following an investigation, the incidents were classified as either verified, inconclusive, meaning the evidence is incomplete, or unfounded, which means the event was motivated by reasons other than hate.

Of the 285 incident reported in 2016, only 93 were verified.

State police said 179 lacked sufficient evidence to move forward and 13 were unfounded.

Data for the report was from the Maryland Supplemental Hate Bias Incident Report. All Maryland law enforcement agencies are required to complete it. Some of the departments have expressed concerns that the numbers may continue to rise and the acts become more severe.

In April, a noose was found dangling Inside the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park. And just last week a Prince

George’s grand jury indicted 22 year old Sean Urbanski on hate crime charges for the May 2017 stabbing death of 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III as he waited at a bus stop on the University of Maryland campus.

At a news conference following the indictment, Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Angela Alsobrooks said Collins, a recently commissioned Army officer, and soon to be Bowie State graduate was “killed because of his race.”

During a conference in New York last week, former President George W. Bush told listeners that in our current political climate, “bigotry seems emboldened.”

In 33 of the incidents in 2016, some type of weapon was used, ranging from a firearm to fists. Most cases did not result in injury. Cars, homes and places of worship were also targeted by vandals with damages totaling $33,000. There were also nine arrests.

The report urges the state’s law enforcement and human relations agencies to be vigilant in monitoring biased-related problems in their communities. Citizens are also being called on as well to be proactive in reporting incidents so that a clearer picture can be developed.

Hate Crimes Continued from A1 period, November was the busiest month, with 50 incidents.

Several incidents made reference to President Donald J. Trump. In one, a sign, advertising Spanish language services at a Silver Spring, Md. church, was slashed. The words: “Trump nation Whites only,” was written on back.

The most active counties in Maryland were Baltimore with reports rising by 50 percent and Montgomery County with an 83 percent jump in reported incidents, but Prince George’s

Meet Fats Domino Continued from A1

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Army 2nd Lt. Richard Collins was stabbed to death on May 20, three days before he was to receive his Bachelor’s Degree from Bowie State University. A White man has been indicted on hate crime charges surrounding his death.

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Domino and Presley take turns hogging the spotlight on the “rock ‘n’ roll” hit parade. Wherever they go, they’re mobbed by admirers. Still, if you listen to the people in the street, you’re not sure whether Fats and Elvis are artists or hooligans.

Each makes his own contribution to the craze of the day.

Presley with his hip-swinging and nasal whine; Domino with his foot-stomping and husky shout.

Since the Mississippi guitar player has been rather freely exploited on several of the nation’s leading television shows, this look-see, perhaps, should concern itself with introducing the 250 pound piano player from New Orleans.

Fats, who now is happily married and the father of six children, was christened Antoine when he first saw the light of 28 years ago in the Louisiana metropolis.

As so often happens, his New Orleans birthright exposed him to the influence of the great “Papa” Celestin and the equally talented Kid Ory, both of whom have discovered a bevy of topline artists—Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, et al.

One of ten children, Fats was the only one with musical inclinations. And he showed them early.

Domino was singing in New Orleans cafes when he was only ten years old.

His first music lessons came from an uncle, Hariss Verett, who played in the Celestin and Ory bands in the early 1930s.

Today, Fats has 26 records behind him, including his own

version of “Blue Heaven” and “I’m In Love Again,” both of which have remained close to the top of the disc jockey charts for the past seven weeks.

Most of his platters are based on numbers he wrote himself. Among them are “Ain’t That A Shame,” “Poor Me,” “You Keep Knocking” and “Don’t Blame It On Me.” Despite the facts these are waxed on a small label, Imperial, the demands for Domino’s rival the requests for Perry Comos and Eddie Fishers and Tony Martins.

Asked what he thinks about the controversy over “rock ‘n’ roll,” Domino looks befuddled.

“To tell you the truth,” he told a West Coast newspaper recently, “I don’t even know what ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ is. My guys and I just play with a rhythm from Dixieland jazz. If that’s ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ there isn’t anything wrong with it.”

The Domino bandmen have been with him since he started in 1945. The turnover is probably smaller than in any other well-known group in the country.

The reason is all his sidemen know his strict rules for strict behavior and none ever crosses the line.

Naturally, the pay helps. Fats’ salaries are reputedly higher than those prevailing in most aggregations of comparable size.

During the past year, Fats has had only one week off. The rest of the time he has been working steadily. And what did he do with his free week?

Went home and bought a $2,500 piano for his son.

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Memphis Publisher Bernal Smith Remembered as a Strong Leader

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com Bernal E. Smith II, the president and publisher of the Memphis-based New Tri-State Defender and the Second Vice Chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, died at his home on Oct. 22. An employee at the newspaper told the AFRO that Smith died of natural causes.

Dorothy Leavell, the recently elected chairman of the NNPA Board of Directors, lamented the loss of the 45-year-old.

“I am personally saddened by Bernal’s death,” Leavell said in a statement. “We were optimistic about the many contributions he would make to the Fourth Estate. He was young, energetic and full of great ideas.

“We were looking forward to implementing some of those concepts through NNPA as we worked to strengthen and advance the Black Press. It’s a great loss to our institution and we

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Bernal Smith II was the president and publisher of the New Tri-State Defender.

will sorely miss him.

“We send our deepest condolences to his family, New Tri-State Defender staff, Black Media Properties, as well as the entire city of Memphis.”

The newspaper’s Associate Publisher Karanja Ajanaku and Calvin Anderson, president of Best Media Properties, the parent company issued a statement saying they were “devastated” with the loss of Smith.

“We learned that Mr. Smith had passed,” the statement said. “We extend our deepest and most heartfelt condolences to his family. We ask that all take note of the family’s request for privacy at this time.”

Smith was a true Memphian, growing up in the city and graduating from Rhodes College with a bachelor’s degree and getting his MBA from Union University. He worked in finance as a special assets manager of Bank of Barlett, a vice president of the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce and vice president of community and economic development

of Hope Community Credit Union before he bought the New Tri-State Defender in 2013 with a group of investors from Real Times Media.

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) represents Memphis in the U.S. House of Representatives and expressed sorrow at Smith’s passing.

“Bernal Smith was a strong voice for African-American business and culture,” Cohen said. “Bernal published the historic New Tri-State Defender and carried on its tradition as a beacon for social and economic justice in Memphis and everywhere. His untimely death leaves a void in his family and the lives of his many friends.

“My thoughts are with his family in this most difficult time.”

Smith’s funeral will take place on Oct. 27 at the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church-Westwood at noon. The visitation will take place on Oct. 26 from 4-7 p.m. and he will be buried at the New Park Cemetery.

D.C. Set to Honor Late South African Leader Oliver Tambo

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com There will be a ceremony to honor one of South Africa’s greatest leaders and a project that encompasses one of his passions on Oct. 31 in Washington D.C..

The late Oliver Tambo, who served as the president of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1967-1991, will be feted for his 100th birthday and there will be an introduction of the Science and Technology Train, which is a proposed scientific community on rails sponsored by a South African company.

“As we celebrate the life of Oliver Tambo, South Africans recall, first and foremost, his love for children and his unswerving dedication to their quality education,”

June Costa, a representative for the Pangea Geophysics and Geodesy Working Group, based in Pretoria, South Africa, said in a statement. “One of his memorable quotes ‘a nation, a people, a country that doesn’t care for its children have no future and deserves none.’ Tambo played an integral role in the liberation of South Africa and dedicated his life to the pursuit of equality and justice for all South Africans and he was one of the founding fathers of the South African Constitutional Democracy.

The event will take place at the residence of South Africa’s ambassador to the United States, H.E. Mninwa J. Mahlangu and the programs will include a video presentation by the ambassador on the life and legacy of Tambo; an introduction of the train by Costa and music by South African cellist JacquesPierre Malan and pianist Sahun Hong.

Tambo lived during the pre-apartheid and some of apartheid South Africa. He was a close comrade to the late Nelson Mandela, who was a freedom fighter for the South African people during the apartheid period before he was imprisoned in 1963 for fighting against the racist government.

In 1967, Tambo became the acting president of the ANC after the death of Nobel Peace Prize winner Chief Albert Lutuli and went abroad to live in London to continue his anti-apartheid activities. Tambo helped to mobilize world opinion against the racist government of South Africa.

In 1990, he returned to South Africa and was elected national chairperson of the ANC. He died at the age of 75 in 1993.

The airport in Johannesburg is named in his honor and there is a bust of him in the London neighborhood of Muswell Hill.

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Oliver Tambo led the ANC while Nelson Mandela was in prison.

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COMMENTARY

Trump’s Savagery Seems to Know No Bounds

This is what it has come to in Donald Trump’s America.

Myeshia Johnson, the young, grieving Gold Star widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, killed along with three other U.S. troops, in Niger in Northwest Africa while defending America, allegedly on Oct. 4, was called a liar by the President of the United States. Of course, Trump disparaged her via Twitter; Oct. 23 he wrote: “I had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, and spoke his name from the beginning without hesitation!”

Trump’s assertion, “...spoke his name from the beginning without hesitation,” came after Johnson, who appeared on “Good Morning America,” earlier on Oct. 23 said, “If my husband is out here fighting for our country and he risked his life for our country, why can’t you remember his name?

Why would we fabricate something like that?”

There is empirical evidence that indicates Trump lies with more frequency and ferocity than any other U.S. President in history. Yet, it is Myeshia Johnson, a grieving widow still grappling with harrowing questions surrounding her husband’s death and pregnant with the couple’s third child, who has been forced to defend her own veracity.

It all seems unfathomable; a man who received five deferments for military service during the Vietnam War era, one allegedly given because of bone spurs in his feet, desecrating the memory of an American war hero killed in action, by defaming his wife.

Of course, this isn’t the first time Trump has attacked war heroes (see Sen. John McCain) or Gold Star families (see the family of Capt. Humayun Khan).

But, Trump sparked this most recent moment of madness in his dystopian presidency last week.

During a press briefing he was asked why he had not yet mentioned the deaths of the four U.S. military men, which included Johnson, who died in that ambush style attack in Niger (this week it has been revealed several key members of Congress were allegedly unaware of the American military presence in Niger). Trump’s response was typical; he seemed to take the question as a personal attack upon him and then he lied to defend himself.

“I’ve written them personal letters,” Trump said, which at that point was most likely a lie. Then he went after President Obama.

“The traditional way, if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls, a lot of them didn’t make calls,” said Trump, which is a flat out lie. In fact, Alyssa Mastromonaco, a former Obama aide refuted Trump’s lie in blunt language. “...a fu--ing lie to say President Obama (or past presidents) didn’t call the family members of soldiers,” Mastromonaco tweeted. She went on to refer to Trump as a “deranged animal.”

That sounds about right. Because only a “deranged animal,” would go after the grieving widow of an American soldier, killed less than a month ago in service to our nation.

Many in the Republican Party have done a masterful job over the years casting themselves as uber patriotic Americans; they have been ubiquitous with their flag lapel pins screaming, `U-S-A! U-S-A!’ But, where have these chest thumping, flag waving, mostly White Republicans been as their president has diabolically tormented the young, pregant wife of an American war hero who made the ultimate sacrifice for his country?

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Have they defended her? Have they attacked Trump? No, the vast majority of them haven’t done either. They are missing in action, along with the so-called White evangelicals who profess to love God and country so profoundly. Most of these people, these so-called patriots, believe Barack Obama is a Kenyan born, Muslim socialist, hell bent on destroying “their country.” They are the bedrock of Trump’s America.

Sgt. La David Johnson, 25; Staff Sgt. Bryan C. Black, 35; Staff Sgt. Jeremiah W. Johnson, 39; and Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright, 29; may they rest in peace, may their families be comforted. They are deserving of the highest honor our nation can bestow.

The 45th occupant of the White House is not. He isn’t fit to shine their boots.

Sean Yoes is the Baltimore editor of the AFRO-American Newspaper.

Tech Inclusion — There’s No App for That Three Trillion. Yes, $3 trillion is the value of the top five U.S tech companies.

Zero. Yes zero, is the estimated median wealth of Black Americans by 2053 if current trends continue.

America, we have a problem.

The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) launched CBC TECH 2020 in May 2015 to bring together the best minds in the tech, nonprofit and public sectors to increase African American inclusion at all levels of the industry. In August 2015, we went to Silicon Valley to press the case with tech leaders.

Last week, we went back.

Unfortunately, we found the tech industry’s inclusion efforts are sliding back as well.

We visited 8 tech companies, met with Black venture capitalists, tech employees, and nonprofit organizations working to build the pipeline.

Our assessment is clear: recruiting Black tech talent is an item on most tech companies’ to-do list, but certainly not near the top.

Even worse, creating an environment where Black employees feel included is even lower on the agenda.

The Good Most companies are publishing at least some of their employee demographic data (though retention numbers should be included as well).

Some companies are hosting apprenticeship programs, which

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generally last longer and have more substantive work than most internships. Upon successful completion, participants in the program will be hired by the company.

Most companies know that they need to build relationships with Historically Black Colleges & Universities (though actual engagement with HBCUs varies widely).

Startups and newer companies are prioritizing racial inclusion early in their development, which will benefit the industry in the future.

There are grassroots efforts to teach technical skills, educate Black applicants on navigating the job interview process and get young African Americans excited about STEAM. The Bad Many companies are not making African American inclusion a priority. They should innovate in this space the same way they do when developing new products.

While some companies have stated goals for African American recruitment, many do not. Many companies that have “diversity goals” do not disaggregate targets for recruitment of African Americans and other underrepresented racial groups.

Many companies lack a clear plan (or one they were willing to share) to not only increase the numbers of African Americans, but also to improve the company’s climate.

Companies seem reluctant to agree on, and scale, programs that are actually working. Tech companies are not using their collective power to invest in broader and deeper efforts that successfully increase African American inclusion.

Companies need to agree upon what works, invest in those initiatives and share what does not work so others can avoid the same mistakes.

Lack of transparency in the promotion process, and the biases that play into it, disadvantage African American employees.

While some companies are slowly increasing African American representation in junior roles, executive level hires are severely lacking.

The employee referral system currently promotes lack of African American inclusion. When employees refer people from their networks, and their networks are not diverse, then African Americans are disadvantaged in this process.

Investment in Black led venture capital funds and startups remains low. These startups serve as an incubator for the next generation of African American tech leaders.

African American inclusion in the tech sector is not just a problem of inclusion, it’s an economic emergency. With the average tech employee salary estimated at $159,600 and the average income of Blacks in San Francisco at $29,500, America clearly has a problem.

The CBC is committed to doing its part.

The question remains, will the most innovative companies in the world do theirs?

Congressman G. K. Butterfield represents the 1st District of North Carolina. Congresswoman Barbara Lee represents California’s 13th District.

The National Opioid Epidemic Demands an Urgent Federal Response Elijah Cummings

Last week, President Trump suggested that he would finally declare the opioid epidemic a national emergency, a claim he

has made before.

Of course, this would be a good first step, and something the President’s own Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis recommended he do back in July.

But the President’s Opioid Commission also made a much more important recommendation—allow the government to negotiate lower prices for the life-saving drug naloxone.

Last month, I led 50 of my House colleagues, including Maryland Representatives Jamie Raskin, Dutch Ruppersberger and John Sarbanes, in urging President Trump to negotiate lower prices for naloxone. However, we have yet to receive a response from the President.

This is inexplicable, since his Opioid Commission explicitly advised the President to “declare a national emergency” and “immediately negotiate lower prices to get the lifesaving drug, naloxone, into the hands of law enforcement and first responders across the country.”

Naloxone is a non-addictive and safe drug used by first responders across the country to reverse the effects of heroin and other opioid overdoses. It is an essential tool in saving American lives.

About 64,000 Americans perished from drug overdoses last year in this rapidly worsening national crisis. The White House’s delay in acting on our plea—and the advice of its own panel of experts— is unacceptable.

Here in Maryland, state health officials recently reported that

2,089 people fatally overdosed in 2016, up 66 percent from 2015.

About a third of these deaths, 694, were in Baltimore.

Naloxone has become a key part of our emergency response to the skyrocketing fatalities from opioids (which now include prescription painkillers, heroin, and fentanyl, a powerful drug commonly mixed into heroin). The goal is to keep opioid users alive long enough to get them into treatment.

Public health experts advise that expanding the availability of naloxone is not the only reform needed to respond to this burgeoning public health crisis. Nevertheless, it also is clear that, as public officials work to control and ultimately reverse this opioid epidemic, expanded availability of naloxone at a more reasonable cost would save more lives.

Federal negotiations focused on achieving the recommendation of the President’s Commission would allow us to get more of our opioid dependent neighbors into drug treatment and, thereby, lower the human, public health, and public safety costs associated with America’s hemorrhaging opioid epidemic.

Factors beyond the cost of naloxone are limiting its use, including the stigmatization associated with opioid use and lack of familiarity with the treatment among clinicians and opioid users.

Nevertheless, we know that the cost of this life-saving drug is placing a severe burden on public health officials.

Here in Baltimore, Dr. Lena Wen, Baltimore City’s Health Commissioner, observed last summer that demand for naloxone has jumped significantly amid the drug epidemic and that the City’s Health Department needs expanded funding for more supplies.

“We are rationing,” Dr. Wen has acknowledged. “We’re deciding who is at the highest risk and giving it to them.”

Here is the budgetary challenge: Various formulations of the

life-saving drug have increased by more than 100 percent in recent years. An easier-to-use, two-dose formulation by Evzio was priced at $690 when it was introduced in 2014. It costs a staggering $4,500 today, an increase of more than 500 percent in two years.

There are a number of public policy strategies the Trump Administration could pursue in meeting this budgetary challenge.

The most straightforward would be for the federal government to negotiate with naloxone manufacturers to provide a better price for the drug for all government agencies. In return, manufacturers would benefit from increased sales volumes, since state and local officials would finally be able to afford the naloxone they need.

Whatever approach the Trump Administration and Congress pursue, we must respond to the harsh reality that opioid overdoses are killing Americans at an unacceptable and unsustainable rate.

On October 30, beginning at 10:00 A.M., I will be joining former President Bill Clinton, Dean Ellen MacKenzie, and other world-class experts at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. We will be coming together to share our understanding about how our nation can better respond to this opioid epidemic jhsph.edu/OpioidSummit/webcast/.

I intend to ask for the medical community’s engagement in convincing the President to act. We must instill a heightened sense of urgency in the White House, I will say to them.

The carnage from our national opioid epidemic is expanding exponentially – and the American people deserve an urgent and more effective federal response.

Congressman Elijah Cummings represents Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.

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The Debate Over Affordable Care Act Continues

Howard U. Takes A Knee for the Cause

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

-Oliver Spurgeon 2019, but also give states and the District of Columbia more flexibility to seek waivers from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from the requirements of the health care coverage law.

In addition, it would allow insurance companies to sell less competitive plans to all customers, not just those who Continued on B2

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Howard University cheerleaders take a knee, in protest to the way Blacks are treated in the country, during the singing of the national anthem at the Homecoming game on Oct. 21.

By Micha Green Special to the AFRO On Oct. 21, Howard University celebrated 150 years of Black excellence and annual homecoming traditions.

Thousands of Black professionals, from doctors, to lawyers, singers, and pastors, took to Georgia Avenue in upper Northwest, where Howard is located, for homecoming events such as the Homecoming Parade, Homecoming Football Game and Homecoming Tailgate.

Much of Georgia Avenue was blocked off and traffic delayed due to the parade, which featured this year’s Grand Marshall La La Anthony, an actress, author, producer and entrepreneur, along with various performances from the Duke Ellington High School show band, which has performed at several homecoming events in in the past.

The parade route also included thousands of Howard students, alumni and supporters walking up and down the street waving and cheering for the university.

After the parade, people headed to Greene stadium for the Homecoming University Bisons Football Game against the Morgan State University Bears.

Howard University’s Marching Band played the Star Spangled Banner.

“During the national anthem, the entire cheerleading squad knelt,” said Lamoth Haynie, Support Staff with the Morgan State Marching Machine, about the Howard University cheerleaders. Howard’s cheerleaders have been kneeling during the anthem for the past year in support of racial justice.

The Morgan State cheerleaders did not kneel with Howard, because their coach instructed them not to.

“It was good to see that they wanted to show their support for what’s going on. I think everybody should’ve either been sitting down or had their backs turned. It’s a lot going on and people are focusing on the wrong things. What they need to focus on is all the injustices and things that are going on right now,” Haynie told the AFRO. According to a Howard –Roz White cheerleader, the squad was not permitted to speak to the media.

The Bisons defeated the Bears 39-14.

“As a former Miss Howard and Miss Collegiate African American, I was so proud and grateful to be a part of the 150th Homecoming of my alma mater,” Roz White told the AFRO. “I was crowned Miss Howard shortly after the 125th celebration.

“It is a very special time where reflection and celebration unite the Black community, and give us hope for our future history makers.”

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D.C. Officials Work on Putting More Grocery Stores in S.E.

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration is acknowledging that communities East of the river don’t have enough grocery stores. On Oct. 14, D.C. Council member Vincent Gray (D-Ward 7) led hundreds of residents from his home ward to Ward 8 in an effort to highlight that there are only three full-service grocery stores in Wards 7 and 8. On Oct. 17, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s deputy mayor for planning and economic development, Brian Kenner, announced two projects in the city’s East End that will include grocery stores.

In a recent report, D.C. Hunger Solutions, an advocacy organization, noted that in 2016 there were 49 grocery stores in the District with each ward averaging six stores. The report said that Ward 6, which borders Wards 7 and 8, had 10 supermarkets and at that time, three, including the spiffy Whole Foods on H Street., N.E. and Trader Joe’s on Pennsylvania Ave., S.E., were on the way.

In response to the outcry of

Talented Honor Student to Publish First Book She’s 13.

By Jasmine A. Ball Special to the AFRO

District residents have split views on the plan offered by U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) to keep the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for the next two years.

The Alexander-Murray plan would not only keep the ACA, otherwise known as Obamacare, subsidies in place for two years, 2018 and

“… the subsidies will help those who are at the lower end of the income scale get some assistance to pay for health plans.”

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residents of the East End of the city, Bowser and Kenner announced the Neighborhood Prosperity Fund to provide support for two key projects.

The projects are at the Penn Hill development located at The Shops at Penn Hill in Ward 7 and the South Capitol and Atlantic Streets., S.E. in Ward 8.

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Ward 7 Council member Vincent Gray says there needs to be more full service grocery stores in southeast D.C.

“The Neighborhood Prosperity Fund is an opportunity for us to infuse economic support into areas that need it most,” Bowser said in a statement. “Through these grants, we are being strategic about investing in projects that will improve the quality of life

for residents, in this case, by bringing new jobs, services, and grocery options to the residents of Wards and 7 and 8.”

Kenner told the AFRO that the $2.1 million Penn Hill development provides space for a grocery store. “The city doesn’t identify which grocer will be there because the city doesn’t own Penn Hill,” he said. “The developer is Jair Lynch and I don’t know who he is negotiating with.” The AFRO was not able to reach Lynch before publication.

As far as the $888,000 South Capitol project, Kenner said that project has grocer space also and “it will serve as a catalyst for food opportunity.”

According to Ward 7 Council member Vincent Gray, The prospect of a grocery store opening in the Penn Hill development is ideal. “Having affordably priced food available for residents is basic, and that is why I introduced three bills including the East End Health Care Desert, Retail Desert, and Food Desert Elimination Act of 2017 to create a path for full service grocery stores and other retail to locate in Ward 7 and 8 to improve East End residents’ Continued on B3

Courtesy photo Vincent Gray, who represents Ward 7 on the D.C. Council, is taking on the Bowser administration to change the management of the United Medical Center.

Gray Challenges Bowser Administration’s Handling of ‘Troubled’ Ward 8 Hospital

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com D.C. Council member Vincent Gray made it clear that the management at the United Medical Center (UMC) in Ward 8 was subpar and he wants the Bowser administration to do something about it.

Gray, a Democrat who represents Ward 7 on the D.C. Council, was a panelist at a Ward 8 Democrats forum, “Increasing Access to Health Care: Progress and Concerns Regarding Health Care on the East End of the District” that took place at UMC on Oct. 21. Gray, who chairs the Committee on Health, told a gathering of 40 people that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and team haven’t made good decisions that are in the best interest of the patients of the hospital and the city by retaining the management team, Veritas.

“United Medical Center is a troubled hospital,” Bowser told the AFRO on Oct. 23. “It is the board that hires the management Continued on B2

An eighth grade student who attends KIPP D.C. Northwest Academy, a D.C. charter school, has used several programs in the school system to help better herself in her educational endeavors.

Maya Pinson, 13, is involved in two academic and leadership programs in Washington, D.C. The Program for Academic and Leadership Skills is an all-

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Maya Pinson is a D.C. eighth grader on the move.

She excels at academics and extra curricular activities. girls organization that has been in the school system since 1997. Worldstrides takes students on educational trips around the world and has been in existence since 1967 when it was known as Lakeland Tours.

“Maya has been an exceptional participant in the Program for Academic and Leadership Skills over the past several years,” Janaiha Bennett, a PAL director, told the AFRO. Bennett has been with PALS for eleven years.

“My daughter is always going above and beyond in everything that she is involved in.”

– Mignon Pinson According to the PALS website, the program provides a community where girls are encouraged to flourish in character and leadership potential.

“I wanted to join PALS because I wanted to exemplify leadership everywhere I go.

By joining the program it will sharpen my leadership skills,” Maya told the AFRO. “PALS has taught me to not be a follower and how to set and show a good example.”

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are under the age of 29.

The Alexander-Murray proposal has the support of 12 Democrats and 12 Republicans but none of the Blacks in the Senate, including Corey Booker (New Jersey), Kamala Harris (California) and Republican Tim Scott (R-S.C.) have signed onto the bill, but that is just fine with Ward 7 resident Ralph Chittams Sr. “During the 2016 campaign, the Republican candidates for Congress ran on repealing the Affordable Care Act,” Chittams told the AFRO. “They promised to do it and they are a bunch of liars. We put them in office and what have they done?”

Earlier this year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that repealed President Obama’s signature accomplishment largely on party lines with Democrats against it and a majority of Republicans for the legislation. In the Senate, a measure pushed by some conservatives failed in the summer with three Republicans, U.S. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Me.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), voting down the conservative proposal in late July and a bill by Sens. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) in late September was not voted on because of lack of majority support.

Chittams, a former vice chairman of the D.C. Republican Party, said a health care plan he could support would allow consumers to purchase health insurance across state lines,

saying that will increase competition and drive down prices.

Regarding the Alexander-Murray plan, Chittams is dismissive.

“They just kicked the plan down to 2018,” he said, pointing out the mid-term elections that will take place in November of that year.

“Executive orders are messy.”

– Ralph Chittams Sr. Chittams does like the spirit of President Donald J. Trump’s recent executive order halting Obamacare subsidy payments but not the process.

“Executive orders are messy,” he said. “When a new president comes to office, he can change it. President Trump’s order needs to be done with legislation.”

Trump initially said he supported the Alexander-Murray plan, but last week dropped his support, saying it would be a boon for the insurance companies. Theoretically, the bill would pass easily if all the Democrats and the two independents supported it, along with the 12 Republican sponsors.

Oliver Spurgeon is a Ward 8 resident and serves as the chairman of the issues and legislation committee of the Ward 8 Democrats. He works in the health care policy and advocacy field and is well aware of the Alexander-Murray proposal.

While he couldn’t comment directly on that bill, he does have ideas on what ideal health care legislation for District residents would be. Ninety-six percent of District residents are covered by some mode of health insurance, according to data from D.C. Health Link, and it is only second to Massachusetts in the country.

Spurgeon told the AFRO that the enrollment period for keeping and obtaining new health insurance needs to remain open as long as possible.

“In the District of Columbia, the enrollment period is from November 1 to January 31 and that is good,” he said. “This will give people enough time to make good decisions on what to do regarding health insurance enrollment.”

Spurgeon said that the subsidies should remain.

“D.C. is an expensive city,” he said. “Costs in housing and living expenses are increasing and the subsidies will help those who are at the lower end of the income scale gets some assistance to pay for health plans.

“You cannot go to school and go to work when you are sick.

Keeping the subsidies as low as possible is the right thing to do,” Spurgeon said.

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The chairman of the UMC board is former Ward 8 D.C. Council member LaRuby May, who is a close political ally of Bowser’s. Bowser appointed May to the position earlier this year and she was approved by the council without controversy.

On Oct. 17, Gray, along with D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) and council members Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), David Grosso (I-At Large), Elissa Silverman (I-At Large), and Robert White (D-At Large) filed a resolution to disapprove with the Veritas contract, worth

$4,173,951. On Oct. 6, Gray said that Veritas has done a poor job managing UMC. “I have very serious concerns about the performance of Veritas,” he said. “When it comes to patient safety, there needs to be a citywide high standard of care and performance that is viewed acceptable.”

While UMC has a long history of management and financial issues, the latest episode involved the obstetrical unit being shut down by the D.C. Department of Health for 90 days on Aug. 7. “Because of this shutdown,” Gray said at the meeting, “women will have to

travel to other parts of the city to have their babies and to get care. That’s not right.”

Gray held a hearing on Sept. 22 to check the status of the obstetrics unit and said he wasn’t pleased with what he heard. “It appears that very little discernable progress had been made,” he said. “I expected to see a sense of urgency, and instead, I saw nothing that made me feel like things were moving in the right direction. Even more concerning, it was suggested that OB services may never return to UMC.” UMC is the only comprehensive hospital on the East End of the District.

“You have 150,000 people with two grocery stores and more are needed.”

– Jacque Patterson On Oct. 2, the District of Columbia Nurses Association voted “no confidence” in UMC’s leadership. Since that time, Veritas has removed its CEO, Luis Hernandez, and has recommended to the UMC board that David Boucree become the interim CEO until a permanent leader can be found.

At the Ward 8 meeting,

Gray made a remark noting that David Boucree had “some relation” to Veritas President Chrystie Boucree.

Chrystie and David are cousins. Gray wasn’t pleased with the action, saying “this is an indication of how serious the operational problems are at UMC.” As mayor, Gray facilitated the hiring of Huron

Consulting to manage UMC but the Bowser administration changed course and brought in Veritas in April 2016.

A Committee on Health roundtable, chaired by Gray, on UMC is scheduled for Oct. 30.

Gray said at the meeting that he wanted a new East End hospital. He explained that the $300 million allocated for the East End hospital was taken out of the budget and whittled down to a significantly less amount.

However, he told the meeting that he managed to get the money back for the East End hospital at St. Elizabeth’s East this past budget season and will continue to fight for it.

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include going to Florida to learn about marine biology. In 2018, she is scheduled to go to Costa Rica to explore and learn about the country.

According to the Worldstrides website, the program has been leading in educational travel for the past 50 years; taking students of all ages around the globe and into some of the most important learning adventures of their lives. They have taken more than 7 million students on educational trip. Last year, they took more than 400, 00 students to several locales around the world. Worldstrides is funded by donations and fundraisers.

Along with participating in programs to further her education beyond the classroom, Maya is also involved with extracurricular activities such as basketball; she’s been playing since the age of four.

Maya said she wants to become a WNBA player when she gets older. She averages 14 points, 10 rebounds, and 4 assists per game. Maya also plays lacrosse, participates in the drama club, plays the cello as a first chair, plays the drums, and maintains a 4.0 GPA. Maya is currently the captain of her volleyball team at KIPP. She will also be inducted into the National Junior Honors Society in November. .

“My daughter is always going above and beyond in everything that she is involved in,” her mother Mignon Pinson told the AFRO. “She is very considerate, loyal, supportive to her peers and very focused.”

Maya has launched her website .mjaip.com, which promotes her new book and keeps readers up to date on her upcoming events..

Maya’s first book is “Back Pack Lilly,” which is about educational journey with a dog who instills good study habits through the method of ‘stop, drop, work then play’ right where you are.” Publication is set for later this year.

So, homecoming to me represents dreams coming to fruition.” As a native Washingtonian, Howard is a special place for White and her family.

Furthermore, as a HBCU, White said she feels Howard’s homecoming is an important aspect to the Black community at large.

“It is a very special time where reflection and celebration unite the Black community, and give us hope for our future history makers,” White said.

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access to quality food options within their own neighborhood,” he said Kenner said there are possible grocery store opportunities at the Skyland site in Ward 7 and St. Elizabeth’s East.

“Over the years you become accustomed to it and make due,” Milton Steele III, a resident of Hillcrest in Ward 7, told the AFRO. “We want the stores that we do have to improve their service to us. I am delighted that we have two council members, Vincent Gray and Trayon White, who are working to bring more stores over here.”

Kenner said the grocery store industry is

changing. He said that big box stores were once the norm but a few years ago that changed.

“People are preferring stores that are closer to them and they want to walk to them and not drive,” Kenner said. “Plus, the home delivery of grocers is growing.”

There have been murmurs among residents that grocery stores shun the East End because the area is predominantly Black but Steele disputes that. “I don’t think this is a racial issue,” he said.

“It has more to do with leadership. If the leaders wanted more stores, we would have them but there is a certain way to get them here.”

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On Oct. 21, Howard University held its 150th Homecoming Celebration in D.C. The Bisons faced off against the Morgan State University Bears, winning 39-14. La La Anthony served as the grand marshall for the annual homecoming parade that travelled down Georgia Avenue, NW.

Howard University’s 2017 Homecoming Court

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Woman’s Foundation Luncheon The Washington Area Woman’s Foundation held its 2017 Leadership Luncheon on Oct 18 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Northwest, Washington, D.C. The luncheon was a platform to showcase and celebrate the power of investing and strengthening support for women and girls in the Washington Region.

Jennifer Lockwood-Shebat, president, Washington Area Women’s Foundation

Lalla Aisha Abdul-Jalaal and Hawaa Abdul-Jallal

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Catherine Leggett, First Lady, Montgomery County

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Van Peebles, who is also one of the show’s creators. Elaborating on her character, the Yale and Columbia Law grad Lee says, “She is this smart, dynamic, no holds barred When you are an actress working on kind of woman. Whether she is fighting infernals or a horror series, the concept of bringing raising her son, there is something very graceful your work home can take on a terrifying and elegant, and regal about her. It’s so rare that meaning. “We had an episode with a we as black actors get to play that kind of role. doll recently and I had a dream that She is very refined and worldly.” weekend that this doll was sitting at Peebles is also Superstition’s showrunner. the edge of my bed. I’m like, ‘Oh my He had a vision to create a family who, God, I’m bringing my work home,’” while existing in creepy circumstances, actress Robinne Lee, star of the new audiences could still look up to. “Mario Syfy network series “Superstition” had this idea he wanted us to feel kind of tells the AFRO. “For the most part like the Obamas,” Lee says. “The way you’re there, you go to the special we hold them on a pedestal and they felt effects trailer and you see all the like people we could aspire to be: stuff they do. It’s amazing and really Interesting, creative and educated cool but it’s obviously able to not Black people who are well take it too seriously but every once traveled, worldly and speak in awhile something pierces your different languages. He subconscious and messes with sold it to me as The you.”

Huxtables meets the Nightmares notwithstanding, Addams family.”

Lee’s character, Bee Hastings, Audiences will is a dream for her to play recognize Lee, she says. “She is this very who grew up near strong, kind of elegant, White Plains, New reserved woman who York from her turns is the matriarch of the in “Fifty Shades Robine Lee is one of the stars of the new Mario Van Peebles created family.” Bee is married Darker,” “Being show on Syfy, ‘Superstition.’ to the enigmatic Isaac Mary Jane,” and Courtesy photo Hastings, played by Mario the Will Smith

By Nadine Matthews Special to the AFRO

A former AFRO paperboy, who went on to Vietnam War ended before the ship could be serve 30 years, in the Navy hopes to complete returned to duty. his memoirs in the new year.

Likewise, during that time of racial unrest in Master Chief Electrician (ret.) Matthew the U.S., tensions also were mounting on Jones’ Jones Jr.’s story, as told to the AFRO, starts in ship the USS Pyro. A Nitro-class ammunition the integrated community of Crestas Terrace, a ship, the Pyro serviced the Kitty Hawk and historic suburb of Pennsylvania, then takes him many other vessels of the US Seventh Fleet to the southernmost extreme of the United States stationed at Point Yankee off the coast of and then across the globe to Vietnam.

Vietnam.

Kicked out of his home by his father, Jones Word of Black Power leaders Huey Newton enlisted in the US Navy on Christmas Eve 1947. and Angela Davis had reached Jones and his Arriving at Great Lakes Naval Recruit Training shipmates at sea. As Jones recalled of one Command, Jones discovered that he was one of incident, Adm. Samuel L. Gravely Jr., the first only three Blacks in his Black ship commander, company, and by the first Black fleet time he was enrolled commander and first in Electrician’s Mate A Black flag officer, was School, he was the only approaching the ship one in his class. when he was greeted The now-88by radicals on the year-old recalls one ship’s side. particular night when “They had black he was tending to his gloves on their fists duties in the barracks hollering ‘Black and heard two White Power! Black sailors approach, drunk Power!,’” Jones said. and disorderly after The radicals later their return from liberty. struck and refused “Where’s that ni– to complete their er?” one asked. duties. Jones was Jones quickly went summoned by the to a Coke machine and captain and given the recovered two empty task of resolving the glass bottles. Smashing conflict. After finding their ends off, he the sailors’ work confronted the pair and environment more in challenged, “Which one line with their civilian Courtesy photo of you motherf—krs experience back home, Master Chief Electrician (ret.) Matthew want to die?”

Jones took steps to Jones Jr. served for 30 years in the Navy Shore patrol arrived create a culture on ship before retiring. He is now writing a book soon after and delivered that welcomed Blacks. about his experiences. the trio to captain’s Issues of Jet and Ebony mast, a pre-court were stocked in the martial tribunal, the next morning. lounge libraries, Black hair care products were Former President Harry S. Truman signed stocked in the ship’s store and the ship’s mess Executive Order 9981, which abolished began a rotation of meals reflecting the different discrimination in the Armed Forces, on July 26, ethnicities of the crew: Italian, Polish and Black, 1948, but this captain’s mast was the first Jones for example. has heard of the law. His captain, addressing the “I only had two Black people working for me discriminatory incidents, said, “I will not have and I never worked for a Black officer,” Jones any more of this crap that you guys are doing; I said. “It was normal for me to learn how to deal will make this thing work.” with all these different people from all over Jones finished his training as part of a the country, who came in from Mississippi and generation of sailors that served almost their Brooklyn and stuff like that. I learned the skill of entire careers in an integrated Navy. The how to get along with people and how to make confrontation was the second to last time he was people get along with each other and I still do hit with the n-word slur in the Navy. The final that in life now.” instance was at US Naval Air Station in Key After his second tour in Vietnam, Jones came West, Fla., still deep in the segregated South. to Washington, D.C., and found himself on the Jones served for 30 years, and was even called other side of the recruiting desk. When he retired upon as a leader to quell racial unrest while at from the Navy, he returned to the newspaper sea, albeit during significantly more peaceful business and found himself in charge of a paper means. route for The Evening Star and security for The Race riots aboard ships were of real concern Washington Post. to naval command and sailors, alike. Jones’ Jones, with the assistance of his friend Jim younger brother Cornell was serving on the USS MacDonald, is compiling all his stories in one Kitty Hawk, which was taken out of service larger work that he hopes to publish by Jan. 1, by an October 1972 riot led by Blacks. The 2018.

How to Offer Support to a Breast Cancer Patient

By Jannah G. Johnson Special to the AFRO The beginning of October marked the commencement of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual international health campaign organized and supported by major breast cancer charities across the United States.

Receiving a breast cancer diagnosis is extremely painful and stressful for the patient, but being the family member or friend of someone living with cancer can be equally frightening and confusing. It is oftentimes difficult to find the right words to say or the best way to support the patient and receive support as a family member or friend of the patient.

Representatives from both The Cancer Treatment Center of America and the American Cancer Society stressed the importance of communication with patients and the availability of resources as well as the importance of counseling during this trying time.

According to those experts, caregivers have to keep the lines of communication open and ask the patient about how they’re feeling or doing frequently.

Additionally, because cancer can be a lifelong illness, family members and friends would need support and encouragement the whole time, after diagnosis and even long term. They advised that those impacted by cancer ought to look for a cancer support group nearby. Many support groups offer services to patient caregiver and families and there are even support groups that specifically work with children whose parents receive a new diagnosis.

There are many great organizations dedicated to supporting cancer patients and their families and loved ones such as the Cancer Support Community, Cancer Hope Network and CancerCare.

In Maryland there are more than a few local support groups such as B.C.S.G or the Baltimore Cancer

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Black Navy Veteran Wants to Tell His Story

starring vehicle, “Hitch.” Horror is fairly new for her except for a guest appearance on the cult favorite “Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” perhaps the modern gold standard in horror television shows.

In “Superstition,” the Hastings family are upstanding citizens and have been owners of the only funeral home in the town of La Rochelle, La. for generations. Peebles chose a southern town because, as he explained to reporters, “The American South is sort of this very rich sort of setting. This fictional town of La Rochelle that has this American Gothic kind of quality.”

Though excellent physical specimens and pillars of the community, there is much more to the Hastings than meets the eye. They are also the town’s protectors and keepers of its dark secrets. Their biggest antagonists are the so-called “Infernals.”

Peebles describes them as being a metaphor for the ills of the modern world. “I like that the Infernals, which would be, you know, the bad guys if you will, are coming now more than ever to put us human beings in check because of our recklessness and how we’ve sort of not cared for the planet.”

Philosophical and literary references punctuate the dialogue in “Superstition.” One of the first things Lee, whose romance novel The Idea of You is a best seller, most admires about the show is that, “We’re reaching into all those different stories or fables that have been passed down for centuries. We’re reaching for all of those different stories whether it’s something that happened in the Old Testament or happened in Moor Spain or ancient Egypt. All of that is woven throughout our storylines.”

Familiarity with the level of research needed to create verisimilitude in her books has heightened the respect she has for the behind the scenes scholarship that goes into creating a show like “Superstition.” “Every little thing stems from something real in history or has been part of the lore and different superstitions from different cultures across the world.”

Vianca Jackson, a breast cancer survivor, hugs her son, Tennessee Titans cornerback Adoree’ Jackson, before the Titans’ NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts Oct. 16 in Nashville, Tenn. The Titans honored cancer survivors and promoted cancer awareness during the game with the NFL’s Crucial Catch program.

Support Group, which also has locations in Westminster and Parkville, and a plethora of other support groups that can be easily found through the aforementioned organizations, Cancer Treatments Centers of America or the American Cancer Society.

The Baltimore Cancer Support group offers patient, caregiver and bereavement groups which focus on the needs of a different person affected by cancer.

The patient group focuses on those diagnosed with cancer and the emotional and physical trauma that accompanies said diagnosis.

The caregiver group caters to those who are caregivers or family members of a loved one living with cancer and focuses specifically on the needs of not only the patient but also the caregiver and the added stress that can bring to both parties involved. The bereavement group supports those working through the grieving process after losing a loved one to cancer.

To learn more about the BCSG, feel free to call 410668-1762 or visit the website baltimorecancersupport group.org.

Although the onset or diagnosis of breast cancer can feel encompassing and consuming, it is important to remember that the patient is more than their illness and can still lead a full, fulfilling life.

“Don’t let their illness define them,” said an American Cancer Society representative. “They’re still the same person and they’re lives are not defined by cancer. They’re not their illness. Try to remember that although a diagnosis can be difficult and living with cancer even more so, the patient is still a person at the end of the day.”

To be put in contact with support groups in your area, call the American Cancer Society hotline, 1-800-2272345.

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Superior Court of the District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM1014 Cynthia Eugenia Leary Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Yohannas Leary and Gwendolyn E Johnson, whose address is 18 Observation Ct. Apt 304, Germantown, MD 20876/3896 W 21st St, Cleveland, OH 44109 , was appointed personal representative of the estate of Cynthia Eugenia Leary, who died on July 30, 2017 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 06, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 06, 2018 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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Superior Court of the District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM001108 Margaret White Decedent Tina Smith Nelson Legal Counsel for the Elderly 601 E Street , NW, Washington, DC 20049 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Michael Alston , whose address is 601 Sheridan Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Margaret White, who died on April 20, 2017 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 13, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 13, 2018 , or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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Superior Court of the District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM1081 George F Fugal Jr. Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS William G Wilson, whose address is 11416 Carroll Ct, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772, was appointed personal representative of the estate of George F Fugel, Jr. , who died on November 24, 2016 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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All pervision. All unknown known heirs and heirs heirs and heirs whose whose whereabouts are unknown heirs and heirs whereabouts are ununknown shall enter their whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their known shall enter their appearance in this a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s appearance in this proceeding. Objections proceeding.

Objections proceeding. Objections to such appointment to such appointment (or to such appointment (or shall be filed with the to the probate of deRegister of Wills, D.C., to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be cedent´s will) shall be 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd filed with the Register of filed with the Register of Floor Washington, D.C. Wills, D.C., 515 5th Wills, D.C., 515 5th 20001, on or before April Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Street, N.W., 3rd Floor 13, 2018. Claims against Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . the decedent shall be W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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Washington 20001 within 6 months Register of Wills or filed Law Reporter Superior Court of Adrian Ivan Smith, Jr. from the date of first pub- with the Register of Wills the District of with a copy to the underPersonal lication of this notice.

District of Columbia Santhadevi Meenakshy signed, on or before April Representative PROBATE DIVISION Personal 20, 2018 or be forever Washington, D.C. Representative(s) barred. Persons believed TRUE TEST COPY 20001-2131 TRUE TEST COPY to be heirs or legatees of REGISTER OF WILLS Administration No. REGISTER OF WILLS the decedent who do not 2017ADM001120 receive a copy of this noDate of first publication: 10/20, 10/27 , 11/3/17 Adrian Ivan Smith Sr. TYPESET: Tue Oct 24 17:30:20 2017 tice by mail within 25 October EDT 13, 2017 Decedent Name of newspapers days of its first publicaMichael C Forster tion shall so inform the and/or periodical: 2007 Vermont Ave NW SUPERIOR COURT OF The Daily Washington Register of Wills, includWashington, DC 20001 THE DISTRICT OF ing name, address and Law Reporter Attorney COLUMBIA relationship.

The Afro-American NOTICE OF PROBATE DIVISION Date of Publication: 10/13, 10/20, 10/27/17 APPOINTMENT, TYPESET: Tue Oct 24 17:26:43 EDT 2017 Washington, D.C. October 20, 2017 NOTICE TO 20001-2131 Name of newspaper: CREDITORS Foreign No. Afro-American AND NOTICE TO 2017FEP000116 Superior Court of Washington UNKNOWN HEIRS Date of Death the District of Law Reporter Adrian Ivan Smith Jr., June 24, 2017 District of Columbia Edward T. Love whose address is 3307 Parameswana R PROBATE DIVISION Personal Loud Place, SE, Menon Washington, D.C. Representative Washington, DC 20019, Decedent 20001-2131 was appointed personal NOTICE OF Administration No. TRUE TEST COPY representative of the APPOINTMENT 2017ADM00170 REGISTER OF WILLS estate of Adrian Ivan OF FOREIGN Leon Libys Smith, Sr. who died on PERSONAL Decedent 10/20, 10/27, 11/3/17 December 24, 2015 , REPRESENTATIVE Edward T Love Esq without a will, and will AND Ortman, Love & serve without Court suNOTICE TO Associates pervision. All unknown CREDITORS 4816 Bethesda, heirs and heirs whose Santhadevi Meenakshy Maryland 20814 whereabouts are un- whose address is 12700 Attorney known shall enter their Steeple Chase Way, NOTICE OF a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Potomac, MD 20854 was APPOINTMENT, proceeding. Objections appointed personal reNOTICE TO to such appointment presentative of the estate CREDITORS shall be filed with the o f P a r a m e s w a r a R AND NOTICE TO Register of Wills, D.C., Menon , deceased by the UNKNOWN HEIRS 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Orphan’s Court for Edward T Love , whose Floor Washington, D.C. Montgomery County, address is 4816 20001, on or before April State of Maryland , on Moorland Lane, Beth20, 2018. Claims against September 13, 2017. esda,MD 20814, was apthe decedent shall be Service of process may pointed personal reprepresented to the under- be made upon Anthony R sentative of the estate of signed with a copy to the DeVol, 4990 Warren Leon Libys, who died on Register of Wills or filed Street, NW, Washington, September 20, 2017 with with the Register of Wills DC 20016 whose desa will, and will serve withwith a copy to the under- ignation as District of out Court supervision. All signed, on or before April Columbia agent has unknown heirs and heirs 20, 2018, or be forever been filed with the Regiswhose whereabouts are barred. Persons believed ter of Wills, D.C. unknown shall enter their to be heirs or legatees of The decedent owned the appearance in this the decedent who do not f o l l o w i n g D i s t r i c t o f proceeding. Objections receive a copy of this no- Colombia real property: to such appointment (or tice by mail within 25 2030 F Street, NW, #111, to the probate of dedays of its first publica- Washington, DC 20006 cedent´s will) shall be tion shall so inform the Claims against the defiled with the Register of Register of Wills, includ- cedent may be preWills, D.C., 515 5th ing name, address and sented to the underStreet, N.W., 3rd Floor relationship. signed and filed with the Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Date of Publication: Register of Wills for the 20001, on or before April October 20, 2017 District of Columbia, 20, 2018. Claims against Name of newspaper: Building A, 515 5th the decedent shall be Afro-American Street, NW, 3rd Floorpresented to the underWashington ,Washington, D.C. signed with a copy to the Law Reporter 20001 within 6 months Register of Wills or filed Adrian Ivan Smith, Jr. from the date of first pubwith the Register of Wills Personal lication of this notice. with a copy to the underRepresentative Santhadevi Meenakshy signed, on or before April Personal

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NOTICE OF signed with a copy to the NWWashington, D.C. signed with a copy to the whose where-abouts are Administration No. APPOINTMENT, Register of Wills or filed 20001 within 6 months Register of Wills or filed unknown shall enter their 2017ADM001182 NOTICE TO with the Register of Wills from the date of first pub- Theresa Howe Jones Superior Court of with the Register of Wills a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s CREDITORS with a copy to the under- lication of this notice. the District of with a copy to the under- proceeding. Objections Decedent Krstle Clark Donata Edwards AND NOTICE TO signed, on or before April District of Columbia signed, on or before April to such appointment (or to the probate of deKaren C Winston UNKNOWN HEIRS 20, 2018, or be forever PROBATE DIVISION 20, 2018, or be forever 1629 k Street NW Suite Personal 300 barred. Persons believed Washington, D.C. barred. Persons believed cedent´s will) shall be Samuel C Hamilton Esq, Representatives Washington, DC 20006 to be heirs or legatees of 20001-2131 to be heirs or legatees of filed with the Register of whose address is 8601 TRUE TEST COPY Attorney Georgia Ave, Suite 608, the decedent who do not Administration No. the decedent who do not Wills, D.C., 515 5th REGISTER OF WILLS receive a copy of this no2017ADM1131 receive a copy of this no- Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Silver Spring, MD 20910 NOTICE OF TYPESET: Tue Oct 24 17:19:50 EDT 2017 a s h i n g tNOTICES on, D.C. of first NOTICES publication: wasappointed personal Victoria by mail within 25 Date LEGAL NOTICES J Taylor LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES tice tice by mail within 25 WLEGAL APPOINTMENT, LEGAL LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES 20001, on or before April October 27, 2017 representative of the days of its first publicaDecedent days of its first publicaNOTICE TO tion shall so inform the Name of newspapers NOTICE OF tion shall so inform the 20, 2018. Claims against estate of Pauline Peay, CREDITORS Superior Court of Register of Wills, includ- and/or periodical: APPOINTMENT, Register of Wills, includ- the decedent shall be who died on January 2, AND NOTICE TO the ing name, address and The Daily NOTICE TO ing name, address and presented to the under- 2013 without a will, and UNKNOWN HEIRS District of Columbia signed with a copy to the will serve with Court suWashington relationship.

CREDITORS relationship.

Deborah T Jones , PROBATE DIVISION Register of Wills or filed pervision. All unknown Law Reporter Date of Publication: AND NOTICE TO Date of Publication: whose address is 4016 Washington, D.C. with the Register of Wills The Afro-American heirs and heirs whose October 20, 2017 UNKNOWN HEIRS October 20, 2017 Martin Luther King Ave., 20001-2131 with a copy to the under- whereabouts are un- Jacqueline H Taylor, Name of newspaper: Name of newspaper: SW, Washington, DC Administration No. signed, on or before April known shall enter their whose address is 6527 Afro-American 10/27, 11/3, 11/10/17 Afro-American 20032 was appointed 2017ADM001166 TYPESET: Tue Oct 24 17:12:03 2017 20, 2018, or be forever a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Washington Halleck St., District Washington personal EDT representative George B Murphy III barred. Persons believed proceeding. Objections Heights, MD 20747, Law Reporter Law Reporter of the estate of Theresa Decedent to be heirs or legatees of to such appointment wasappointed personal Eric Geppert Ivy K Marsh Howe Jones, who died Wesley L Clarke Personal Personal the decedent who do not shall be filed with the representative of the SUPERIOR COURT OF on July 10, 2017 with a 1629 K Street, NW, STE Representative Representative receive a copy of this no- Register of Wills, D.C., estate of Victoria J will, and will serve withTHE DISTRICT OF 300 tice by mail within 25 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Taylor, who died on out Court supervision. All COLUMBIA Washington, DC 20006 days of its first publica- Floor Washington, D.C. November 4, 2007 with- TRUE TEST COPY TRUE TEST COPY unknown heirs and heirs PROBATE DIVISION Attorney tion shall so inform the 20001, on or before April out a will, and will serve REGISTER OF WILLS REGISTER OF WILLS whose where-abouts are Washington, D.C. NOTICE OF Register of Wills, includ- 27, 2018. Claims against with Court supervision. unknown shall enter their 20001-2131 APPOINTMENT, ing name, address and the decedent shall be All unknown heirs and 10/20, 10/27, 11/3/17 10/20, 10/27, 11/3/17 appearance in this Administration TYPESET: Tue Oct 24 17:11:15 EDT 2017No. NOTICE TO TYPESET: Tue Oct 24 17:27:55 EDT 2017 relationship. presented to the under- heirs whose whereproceeding. Objections 2017ADM000727 CREDITORS Date of Publication: signed with a copy to the abouts are unknown to such appointment (or Estate of AND NOTICE TO October 20, 2017 Register of Wills or filed shall enter their appearto the probate of deHorace L Smith SUPERIOR COURT OF UNKNOWN HEIRS with the Register of Wills ance in this proceeding. cedent´s will) shall be SUPERIOR COURT OF Name of newspaper: Deceased THE DISTRICT OF Benjamin Murphy , Afro-American with a copy to the underObjections to such filed with the Register of THE DISTRICT OF NOTICE OF COLUMBIA whose address is 5210 Washington signed, on or before April appointment shall be Wills, D.C., 515 5th COLUMBIA STANDARD PROBATE DIVISION 1st Street, NW, WashingLaw Reporter 27, 2018, or be forever filed with the Register of Street, N.W., 3rd Floor PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE Washington, D.C. ton, DC 20011-6637, Nicholas A Udu-gama barred. Persons believed Wills, D.C., 515 5th Washington, D.C. Notice is hereby given W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001-2131 was appointed personal Personal to be heirs or legatees of Street, N.W., 3rd Floor 20001-2131 that a petition has been 20001, on or before April Foreign No. representative of the Representative the decedent who do not W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Foreign No. filed in this Court by 27, 2018. Claims against 2017FEP124 estate of George B Murreceive a copy of this no20001, on or before April 2017FEP000119 Frances J Rollins for the decedent shall be Date of Death phy III, who died on July TRUE TEST COPY tice by mail within 25 20, 2018. Claims against Date of Death standard probate, includ- presented to the underAugust 31, 2009 1, 2017 witha will, and REGISTER OF WILLS days of its first publica- the decedent shall be April 21, 1990 ing the appoint-ment of signed with a copy to the Sally A Flowers will serve without Court tion shall so inform the presented to the underRussell Cooper one or more personal Register of Wills or filed Decedent supervision. All unknown 10/20, 10/27, 11/3/17 Register of Wills, includ- signed with a copy to the Decedent represen-tative. Unless a with the Register of Wills NOTICE OF heirs and heirs whose TYPESET: Tue Oct 24 17:22:01 EDT 2017 ing name, address and Register of Wills or filed NOTICE OF complaint or an objection with a copy to the underAPPOINTMENT whereabouts are unrelationship. with the Register of Wills signed, on or before April APPOINTMENT in accordance with OF FOREIGN known shall enter their Date of Publication: with a copy to the underOF FOREIGN Superior Court Probate 27, 2018, or be forever PERSONAL appearance in this October 27, 2017 signed, on or before April Superior Court of PERSONAL Division Rule 407 is filed barred. Persons believed REPRESENTATIVE proceeding. Objections Name of newspaper: 20, 2018, or be forever the REPRESENTATIVE in this Court within 30 to be heirs or legatees of AND to such appointment (or Afro-American barred. Persons believed District of Columbia AND days from the date of first the decedent who do not NOTICE TO to the probate of deWashington to be heirs or legatees of PROBATE DIVISION NOTICE TO publication of this notice, receive a copy of this noCREDITORS cedent´s will) shall be Law Reporter the decedent who do not Washington, D.C. CREDITORS the Court may take the tice by mail within 25 filed with the Register of Samuel C Hamilton receive a copy of this no- Krystle Clarke and Karen action hereinafter set days of its first publica20001-2131 George J Little whose C Winston whose adWills, D.C., 515 5th Personal tice by mail within 25 tion shall so inform the Administration No. address is 6228 Yellowforth.

Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Representative days of its first publica- dress is 14421 Jaystone 0 In the absence of a will Register of Wills, includ2017ADM001121 stone Dr., Alexandria, VA Dr, Silver Spring, MD and Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . tion shall so inform the Mary Jane Suskind 22312 was appointed or proof satisfactory to ing name, address and 20001, on or before April TRUE TEST COPY Register of Wills, includ- 18019 Santa Barbara the Court of due execu- relationship. personal representative Decedent 20, 2018. Claims against ing name, address and Drive, Detroit, MI 48221 tion, enter an order deter- Date of Publication: of the estate of Russell Robert L Pillote Jr., Esq REGISTER OF WILLS were appointed personal the decedent shall be relationship.

Cooper deceased by 6010 Executive Boumining that the decedent October 27, 2017 representatives of the presented to the under10/27, 11/3, 11/10/17 Date of Publication: Name of newspaper: theMaryland Orphan’s levard, Suite 900 died intestate TYPESET: Tue Oct 24 17:25:56 EDT 2017 estate of Sally A Flowers, 0 signed with a copy to the October 20, 2017 Court for Prince Georges Rockville, MD 20852 appoint a supervised Afro-American deceased by the OrRegister of Wills or filed Name of newspaper: Washington Attorney C o u n t y, S t a t e o f personal representative phan’s Court for with the Register of Wills Afro-American NOTICE OF Maryland., on SeptemRegister of Wills Law Reporter Montgomery County, Superior Court of with a copy to the underWashington Deborah T Jones APPOINTMENT, ber 28, 2017, Clerk of State of Maryland., on the District of signed, on or before April Law Reporter Personal NOTICE TO Service of process may the Probate Division September, 21 2009, District of Columbia 20, 2018, or be forever Jacqueline Taylor Representative CREDITORS be made upon Aaron E Date of First Publication Service of process may PROBATE DIVISION barred. Persons believed Personal AND NOTICE TO Price, Sr., Esq, 717 D St., October 27, 2017 Washington, D.C. to be heirs or legatees of Representative be made upon Marc A Names of Newspapers: TRUE TEST COPY UNKNOWN HEIRS NW, #300, Wash., DC Isaacs, Esquire, 1350 20001-2131 the decedent who do not REGISTER OF WILLS 20004 whose designa- Patricia P Power, whose Washington Connecticut Ave. NW, Administration No. receive a copy of this noTRUE TEST COPY tion as District of Colum- address is 5533 Gapland Law Reporter Ste, 600 Washington, 2017ADM333 tice by mail within 25 REGISTER OF WILLS 10/27, 11/3, 11/10/17 bia agent has been filed Road, Jefferson, MD, Washington TYPESET: Wed Oct 25 DC 20036 whose desdays of its first publicawith the Register of Wills, 21755 was appointed Brita Kemp AFRO-AMERICAN ignation as District of TYPESET: Tue Oct 24 17:11:39 EDT 2017 Decedent tion shall so inform the 10/20, 10/27, 11/3/17 personal representative D.C. Carmiece T Graves Columbia agent has Register of Wills, includThe decedent owned the of the estate of Mary Elise A Joyner 9701 Apollo Dr, #100 been filed with the RegisSuperior Court of ing name, address and f o l l o w i n g D i s t r i c t o f Jane Suskind, who died 1730 Rhode Island Ave Largo, MD 20774 ter of Wills, D.C. the relationship.

Superior Court of Colombia real property: on July 11, 2017 witha NW Signature of The decedent owned the District of Columbia Date of Publication: the 824 I St, NE, Washing- will, and will serve with- Suite 1015 Petitioners/Attorney f o l l o w i n g D i s t r i c t o f PROBATE DIVISION Washington, DC 20036 October 20, 2017 District of Columbia out Court supervision. All ton., DC 20002 Colombia real property: Washington, D.C. Name of newspaper: PROBATE DIVISION Claims against the de- unknown heirs and heirs Attorney 10/27, 11/3/17 250 Kennedy Street, 20001-2131 NOTICE OF Afro-American Washington, D.C. whose whereabouts are cedent may be preEDT 2017No. NW, Washington, DC TYPESET: Tue Oct 24 17:10:52 Administration APPOINTMENT, Washington 20001-2131 sented to the under- unknown shall enter their 20011 2017ADM620 NOTICE TO Law Reporter Administration No. signed and filed with the a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Claims against the deJoseph Dawson Jr. CREDITORS Benjamin Murphy 2017ADM680 Register of Wills for the proceeding. Objections cedent may be preDecedent AND NOTICE TO Superior Court of Personal Leonard C Corbin Sr. to such appointment (or District of Columbia, sented to the underNOTICE OF UNKNOWN HEIRS the Representative Decedent to the probate of deBuilding A, 515 5th signed and filed with the APPOINTMENT, District of Columbia NOTICE OF cedent´s will) shall be DeEster Kemp, whose Street, NW 3rd FloorRegister of Wills for the NOTICE TO PROBATE DIVISION TRUE TEST COPY APPOINTMENT, Washington, D.C. 20001 filed with the Register of address is 5629 8th St. District of Columbia, CREDITORS NW, Washington, DC Washington, D.C. REGISTER OF WILLS NOTICE TO within 6 months from the Wills, D.C., 515 5th Building A, 515 5th Street AND NOTICE TO 20001-2131 CREDITORS date of first publication of Street, N.W., 3rd Floor 20011, was appointed NWWashington, D.C. UNKNOWN HEIRS personal representative Administration No. 10/20, 10/27, 11/3/17 AND NOTICE TO W a s h i n g t o n , D .

C . this notice.

TYPESET: Tue Oct 24 17:12:27 EDT 2017 20001 within 6 months Karen D. Dawson and 2017ADM001182 UNKNOWN HEIRS 20001, on or before April of the estate of Brita Sherry L. Dawson , George J Little 20, 2018. Claims against Kemp, who died on Joel R Davidson, Esq, from the date of first pub- Theresa Howe Jones lication of this notice. whose addresses are Decedent Personal the decedent shall be November 18, 2015 with- whose address is 611 Krstle Clark Superior Court of 7959 Riggs Rd#10 AdelDonata Edwards Representative(s) presented to the under- out a will, and will serve Pennsylvania Ave, SE, Karen C Winston the District of phi MD 20783 10810 without Court supervi1629 k Street NW Suite No 288, Washington, DC TRUE TEST COPY signed with a copy to the Personal District of Columbia B l a c k s t o n e Av e n u e , sion.

All unknown heirs 300 20003, was appointed REGISTER OF WILLS Register of Wills or filed Representatives Washington, DC 20006 PROBATE DIVISION Cheltenham MD 20623 with the Register of Wills a n d h e i r s w h o s e personal representative Date of first publication: TRUE TEST COPY Attorney Washington, D.C. were appointed personal with a copy to the under- whereabouts are un- of the estate of Leonard October 20, 2017 REGISTER OF WILLS 20001-2131 representatives of the NOTICE OF Name of newspapers signed, on or before April known shall enter their C Corbin Sr, who died on Date of first publication: Administration No. estate of Joseph Dawson APPOINTMENT, April 7, 2011 with a will, 20, 2018, or be forever a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s and/or periodical: October 27, 2017 2017ADM001161 Jr., who died on May 6, proceeding.

Objections NOTICE TO and will serve without The Daily Washington barred. Persons believed Luther Marsh 2017 with a will, and will CREDITORS to be heirs or legatees of to such appointment (or Court supervision. All un- Name of newspapers Law Reporter Decedent serve without, Court suAND NOTICE TO the decedent who do not to the probate of de- known heirs and heirs and/or periodical: The Afro-American Stephanie J Grogan pervision. All unknown UNKNOWN HEIRS receive a copy of this no- cedent´s will) shall be whose whereabouts are The Daily Washington Esq D e b o r a h T J o n e s , heirs and heirs whose tice by EDT mail 2017 within 25 filed with the Register of unknown shall enter their 10/20, 10/27, 11/3/17 Law Reporter 5907 Massachusetts TYPESET: Tue Oct 24 17:18:59 whose address is 4016 whereabouts are unappearance in this days of its first publica- Wills, D.C., 515 5th Ave. Martin Luther King Ave., known shall enter their tion shall so inform the Street, N.W., 3rd Floor proceeding. Objections The Afro-American Bethesda, MD SW, Washington, DC a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s to such appointment (or Register of Wills, includ- W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Superior Court of 20816-2043 proceeding. Objections 20032 was appointed ing name, address and 20001, on or before April to the probate of de- 10/27, 11/3, 11/10/17 the Attorney personal representative to such appointment (or 20, 2017. Claims against cedent´s will) shall be relationship.

District of Columbia NOTICE OF of the estate of Theresa to the probate of dethe decedent shall be filed with the Register of Date of Publication: PROBATE DIVISION APPOINTMENT, Howe Jones, who died cedent´s will) shall be presented to the under- Wills, D.C., 515 5th October 20, 2017 Washington, D.C. NOTICE TO on July 10, 2017 with a filed with the Register of signed with a copy to the Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Name of newspaper: 20001-2131 CREDITORS will, and will serve with- Wills, D.C., 515 5th Register of Wills or filed W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Afro-American Administration No. AND NOTICE TO out Court supervision. All Street, N.W., 3rd Floor with the Register of Wills 20001, on or before April Washington 2017ADM001119 UNKNOWN HEIRS unknown heirs and heirs W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . with a copy to the under- 27, 2018. Claims against Law Reporter Ivy K Marsh, whose ad- Anthony N Udu-gama whose where-abouts are 20001, on or before Patricia P Power signed, on or before April the decedent shall be dress is 3540 Green- Decedent unknown shall enter their March 8, 2018. Claims 20, 2017, or be forever presented to the underPersonal shire Court, Douglasville, Edward T Love Esq against the decedent appearance in this barred.

Persons believed signed with a copy to the Representative GA 30135 was appointed Ortman, Love, & Huckproceeding. Objections shall be presented to the to be heirs or legatees of Register of Wills or filed personal representative abay to such appointment (or undersigned with a copy the decedent who do not with the Register of Wills TRUE TEST COPY of the estate of Luther 4816 Moorland Lane to the probate of de- to the Register of Wills or receive a copy of this no- with a copy to the underREGISTER OF WILLS Bethesda, MD 20814 Marsh, who died on cedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of tice by mail within 25 signed, on or before April TYPESET: Tue Oct 24 17:10:27 EDT 2017 September 21, 2014 with Attorney filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the days of its first publica27, 2018, or be forever 10/20, 10/27, 11/3/17 NOTICE OF a will, and will serve withundersigned, on or beWills, D.C., 515 5th tion shall so inform the barred. Persons believed APPOINTMENT, out Court supervision. All Street, N.W., 3rd Floor fore March 8, 2018, or be Register of Wills, includ- to be heirs or legatees of NOTICE TO unknown heirs and heirs forever barred. Persons Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . ing name, address and the decedent who do not Superior Court of CREDITORS whose whereabouts are 20001, on or before April believed to be heirs or relationship. the receive a copy of this noAND NOTICE TO unknown shall enter their 27, 2018. Claims against legatees of the decedent Date of Publication: District of Columbia tice by mail within 25 UNKNOWN HEIRS appearance in this the decedent shall be who do not receive a October 20, 2017 PROBATE DIVISION days of its first publicaproceeding. Objections Nicholas A Udu-gama, presented to the under- copy of this notice by mail Name of newspaper: Washington, D.C. tion shall so inform the to such appointment (or whose address is 4708 signed with a copy to the within 25 days of its first Afro-American 20001-2131 Register of Wills, includ3rd Place, NW., #2, to the probate of deRegister of Wills or filed publication shall so inWashington ing name, address and Administration No. cedent´s will) shall be Washington, DC, 20011 with the Register of Wills form the Register of Law Reporter 2016ADM000360 relationship. filed with the Register of was appointed personal Pauline Peay with a copy to the under- Wills, including name, DeEster Kemp Date of Publication: representative of the Decedent Wills, D.C., 515 5th signed, on or before April address and relationPersonal October 27, 2017 Street, N.W., 3rd Floor estate of Anthony N Udu- Samuel C Hamilton Esq 27, 2018, or be forever ship.

Representative Name of newspaper: gama, who died on Au- 8601 Georgia Ave Suite Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . barred. Persons believed Date of Publication: Afro-American gust 3, 2017 with a will, 20001, on or before April to be heirs or legatees of September 8, 2017 TRUE TEST COPY 608 Washington 20, 2018. Claims against and will serve without Silver Spring, Maryland REGISTER OF WILLS the decedent who do not Name of newspaper: Law Reporter the decedent shall be Court supervision. All un- 20910 receive a copy of this no- Afro-American Joel R Davidson presented to the under- known heirs and heirs Attorney tice by mail within 25 Washington 10/20, 10/27,Tue 11/3/17 TYPESET: Oct 24 17:27:30 EDT 2017 Personal signed with a copy to the whose where-abouts are days of its first publica- Law Reporter NOTICE OF Representative Register of Wills or filed unknown shall enter their Karen D Dawson tion shall so inform the APPOINTMENT, a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s with the Register of Wills Sherry L Dawson Register of Wills, includNOTICE TO TRUE TEST COPY Superior Court of with a copy to the under- proceeding. Objections Personal ing name, address and CREDITORS REGISTER OF WILLS the District of signed, on or before April to such appointment (or Representative relationship.

AND NOTICE TO District of Columbia 20, 2018, or be forever to the probate of deDate of Publication: UNKNOWN HEIRS 10/27, 11/3, 11/10/17 PROBATE DIVISION barred. Persons believed cedent´s will) shall be Samuel C Hamilton Esq, TRUE TEST COPY October 27, 2017 Washington, D.C. TYPESET: Tue Oct 24 17:22:25 EDT 2017 filed with the Register of to be heirs or legatees of REGISTER OF WILLS Name of newspaper: whose address is 8601 20001-2131 the decedent who do not Wills, D.C., 515 5th Afro-American Georgia Ave, Suite 608, Administration No. receive a copy of this no- Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Silver Spring, MD 20910 09/8, 09/15, 09/22/17 Washington 2017ADM1131 Superior Court of tice by mail within 25 W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Law Reporter wasappointed personal Victoria J Taylor the days of its first publica- 20001, on or before April representative of the Decedent Deborah T Jones District of Columbia tion shall so inform the 20, 2018. Claims against estate of Pauline Peay, Personal NOTICE OF the decedent shall be PROBATE DIVISION Register of Wills, includRepresentative who died on January 2, APPOINTMENT, Washington, D.C. ing name, address and presented to the under- 2013 without a will, and NOTICE TO signed with a copy to the will serve with Court su20001-2131 relationship.

TRUE TEST COPY CREDITORS Register of Wills or filed pervision. All unknown Administration No. Date of Publication: REGISTER OF WILLS AND NOTICE TO with the Register of Wills heirs and heirs whose 2017ADM001165 October 20, 2017 UNKNOWN HEIRS with a copy to the under- whereabouts are un- Jacqueline H Taylor, Geoffrey Allen Gappert Name of newspaper: 10/27, 11/3, 11/10/17 signed, on or before April known shall enter their whose address is 6527 Decedent Afro-American 20, 2018, or be forever a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Patrick J Howley Esq Washington Halleck St., District barred. Persons believed proceeding. Objections Heights, MD 20747, 12505 Park Potomac Law Reporter Ivy K Marsh to be heirs or legatees of to such appointment wasappointed personal Ave 6th Floor Personal the decedent who do not shall be filed with the representative of the Potomac, MD 20854 Attorney Representative receive a copy of this no- Register of Wills, D.C., estate of Victoria J tice by mail within 25 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Taylor, who died on NOTICE OF days of its first publica- Floor Washington, D.C. November 4, 2007 withAPPOINTMENT, TRUE TEST COPY Visitthe mddcpress.com/about/powell-hometion shall so inform NOTICE TO REGISTER OF WILLS 20001, on or before April out a will, and will serve Register of Wills, includ- 27, 2018. page foragainst details.with Court supervision.

CREDITORS Claims Application Deadline: February 9, 2018 ing name, address and the decedent shall be All unknown heirs and AND NOTICE TO 10/20, 10/27, 11/3/17 relationship.

UNKNOWN HEIRS presented to the under- heirs whose whereDate of Publication: Eric Geppert, whose adsigned with a copy to the abouts are unknown October 20, 2017 Register of Wills or filed shall enter their appear- dress is 2739 ChesaName of newspaper: with the Register of Wills ance in this proceeding. p e a k e S t r e e t , N W, Afro-American Washington, DC 20008, with a copy to the under- O b j e c t i o n s t o s u c h Washington signed, on or before April appointment shall be was appointed personal Law Reporter 27, 2018, or be forever filed with the Register of representative of the Nicholas A Udu-gama barred. Persons believed Wills, D.C., 515 5th estate of Geoffrey Allen Personal to be heirs or legatees of Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Geppert, who died on Representative the decedent who do not W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

August 8, 2017 without a receive a copy of this no- 20001, on or before April will, and will serve withTRUE TEST COPY tice by mail within 25 20, 2018. Claims against out Court supervision. All REGISTER OF WILLS days of its first publica- the decedent shall be unknown heirs and heirs tion shall so inform the presented to the under- whose whereabouts are 10/20, 10/27, 11/3/17 Register of Wills, includ- signed with a copy to the unknown shall enter their ing name, address and Register of Wills or filed a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s relationship. with the Register of Wills proceeding. Objections Date of Publication: with a copy to the under- to such appointment (or The Reese Cleghorn Internship program offers paid internships for October 27, 2017 signed, on or before April to the probate of deof newspaper: 20, and 2018,DC. or be forever cedent´s will) shall be college students at MDDC news mediaName members in MD, DE Afro-American barred. Persons believed filed with the Register of Washington to be heirs or legatees of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Law Reporter the decedent who do not Street, N.W., 3rd Floor • News reporting Samuel C Hamilton receive a copy of this no- W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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UNKNOWN HEIRS Karen D. Dawson and Sherry L. Dawson , whose addresses are 7959 Riggs Rd#10 Adelphi MD 20783 10810 B l a c k s t o n e Av e n u e , Cheltenham MD 20623 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Joseph Dawson LEGAL NOTICES Jr., who died on May 6, 2017 with a will, and will serve without, Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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CERTIFICATION OF PUBLICATION CITY OF BALTIMORE OFFICE OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS PUBLIC NOTICE PROJECT #1283 - ON CALL MECHANICAL/ELECTRICAL DESIGN SERVICES The Baltimore City Office of Boards and Commissions has been requested by the Department of General Services, Major Project Division, to certify the qualifications of engineering firms to provide on call mechanical/electrical design services on renovation, repair, and construction projects for various City agencies. Up to four (4) contracts will be awarded for a period of four (4) years each.

The services to be provided may include, but are not limited to assisting the City Major Projects Division with studies, designs for repairs, renovations, and upgrades to a variety of City owned or maintained structures, bid analysis, post award services, maintenance of project records and documentation, review of contractor’s application for payment, attendance at progress meetings, preparation of record drawings, review of contract claims and supports, estimating, scheduling, project engineering, constructability reviews, submittal reviews and responses, RFI reviews and responses, and construction contract administrative support.

The needs of the Department of General Services Major Projects Division vary widely as projects are identified. Consultants should be capable of providing design services which may include expertise in the following areas; *Familiarity with applicable codes, standards and 2015 Baltimore City Green Building Code *Knowledge of local, state, and federal codes including mechanical, electrical, fire, energy, building, and historic preservation policy and procedure, especially The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines for the Treatment of Historic Property. *Designing sound energy-efficient mechanical/electrical systems for public buildings *Preparing field investigations, feasibility studies, life-cycle cost analysis and condition assessments reports *Ability to provide energy-savings engineering studies *Familiarity with energy performance contracting *Familiarity with Monitoring and Verification methods for Energy Conservation Measures as related to Energy Performance Contracting and Guaranteed Savings *Experience with change orders and claims analysis *Environmental engineering services, sampling and testing for hazardous material *Architectural design services *Cost estimation services *Quality control services *Civil/Structural engineering services *Project management services *Elevator design services *Overall team approach with Minority/Women Business Enterprises *Experience with Oracle Primavera version 6 software and Critical Path Method construction scheduling Consultant’s team will provide engineering staff with the following capabilities; *Personnel with skills equivalent to an Engineer, including a professional degree in Mechanical and Electrical engineering or a State license to practice Mechanical and/ or Electrical Engineering. *Personnel with skills equivalent to a Preservation Architect, including a professional degree in architecture or a State license to practice architecture, plus one of the following: 1) At least one year of graduate study in architectural preservation, American architectural history, preservation planning, or closely related field; or 2) At least one year of full-time professional experience on historic preservation projects. Such graduate study or experience shall include detailed investigations of historic structures, preparation of historic structures research reports, and preparation of plans and specifications for preservation projects. *Personnel with skills equivalent to a Contract Administrator II, including a bachelor´s degree from an accredited college or university and three (3) years of experience in contract administration work, project management, or project coordination. *Personnel with skills equivalent to a Construction Claim Analyst, including a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or a related field, and seven (7) years * experience in construction claim or risk analysis work. Registrations/ Certifications preferred: PSP from AACEI or a PMI-SP.

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Firms interested in submitting a proposal as a prime consultant for this project are requested to complete and submit a ”Letter of Interest” to the Office of Boards and Commissions, 4 South Frederick Street, 4th Flr., Baltimore, Maryland 21202 (EMAIL: obc.consultants@baltimorecity.gov).

Since these letters are utilized to assist small, minority and women business enterprises in identifying potential teaming partners, the letters should be submitted within five (5) days of the date of the project’s advertisement. The letter should contain a contact person. Failure to submit a ”Letter of Interest” will not disqualify a firm submitting a proposal for the project.

Each prime consultant applying for this Project will be required to complete and submit an original Federal Form 255, along with five (5) copies, to the Office of Boards and Commissions. The Federal Form 255 and the five copies must be submitted on or before 12:00 P.M. (Noon) on November 27, 2017. Submittals may not be accepted after this deadline.

All tasks must comply with the 2006 edition of ”The Specifications for Materials, Highway, Bridges, Utilities and Incidental Structures.” City personnel will utilize the City of Baltimore Guidelines for the Performance

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Project fees have been estimated at $2,000,000.00 per agreement for four (4)a.years. further information is required $regarding this request, please $180.00 per 3 weeks OrderIf Nisi 60 per insertion contact Mr. John Friesner at 410-396-1073.

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c. Notice to Creditors Firms interested in submitting a proposal as a prime consultant for this project requested to complete and submit ”Letter of Interest” to the $180.00 per 3 weeks 1. are Domestic $ 60aper insertion Office of Boards and Commissions, 4 South Frederick Street, 4th Flr., 2.

Foreign $ 60 per insertion Baltimore, Maryland 21202 (EMAIL: obc.consultants@baltimorecity.gov). $180.00 per 3 weeks d. Escheated Estates 60 per insertion Since these letters are utilized to assist small,$minority and women business $360.00 per 6 weeks enterprises in identifying potential teaming partners, the letters should be $125.00 e. Standard Probates submitted within five (5) days of the date of the project’s advertisement. The letter should contain a contact person. Failure to submit a ”Letter of Interest” will not disqualify a firm submitting a proposal the project.

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a. Name Changesapplying 202-879-1133 Each prime consultant for this Project will be required to complete $ and an original Federal Form 255, along with five (5) copies, to the $ b.submit Real Property Office of Boards and Commissions. The Federal Form 255 and the five copies must be submitted on or before 12:00 P.M. (Noon) on November 27, 2017. Submittals may not be FAMILY accepted after this deadline.

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City policies which determine the amount of overhead and profit a firm will be allowed. An Audited Financial Statement less than two (2) years old will To place yourany ad,requested call 1-800-237-6892, ext. 262, Public Notices $50.00 & be require to justify overhead rate above 100%.

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The Consultant shall procure and maintain during the life of this agreement, the following required insurance coverage. a.Worker’s Compensation coverage as required by the State of Maryland, as well as any similar coverage required for this work by applicable Federal or ”other States” State Law.

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b.Professional Liability, Errors, and Omissions Insurance at a limit of not less than Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000) including a 3 year extended reporting period, in the event that services delivered pursuant to this Agreement, either directly or indirectly, involves or requires professional services, Professional Liability, Errors, and Omissions coverage shall be provided. ”Professional Services” for the purpose of this Agreement shall mean any services provided by a licensed CONSULTANT professional.

c.Commercial General Liability Insurance at limits of not less than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) per occurrence for claims arising out of bodily injuries or death, and property damages. With those policies with aggregate limits, a minimum limit of Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000) is required.

Such insurance shall include contractual liability insurance. The CITY, it’s elected/ appointed officials, employees, and agents shall be covered, by endorsement, when applicable, as additional insured’s as respects to; liability arising out of activities performed by or on behalf of the CONSULTANT in connection with this Agreement.

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d.Business Automobile Liability at limits of not less than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) per occurrence for all claims arising out of bodily injuries or death and property damages. The insurance shall apply to any owned, non-owned, leased, or hired automobiles used in the performance of this agreement

e.To the extent of the CONSULTANT’s negligence, the CONSULTANT’s insurance coverage shall be primary insurance as respects the CITY, its elected/appointed employees and agents. Any insurance and/or selfinsurance maintained by the CITY, its elected appointed officials, employees and agents, shall not contribute with CONSULTANT’s insurance or benefit the CONSULTANT in any way. f.Coverage shall not be suspended, voided, cancelled, reduced in coverage, or in limits, except by the reduction of applicable aggregate limit by claims paid, until after forty-five (45) days prior written notice has been given

*Personnel with skills equivalent to a CPM Scheduler, including a college degree and at least five (5) years’ experience in construction or construction management, and a minimum of 1 year in analyzing schedules. Three (3) years’ experience in construction scheduling software using current industry standard. Proficient with Primavera P3 and Primavera Project Management 6.0 *Personnel with skills equivalent to a CAD drafter, including a college degree and at least three (3) years’ drafting experience using AutoCAD software.

Project fees have been estimated at $2,000,000.00 per agreement for four (4) years. If further information is required regarding this request, please contact Mr. John Friesner at 410-396-1073.

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The Federal Form 255 and five construction monitoring and inspection, preparation of daily reports,the maincopies must be submitted ordocumentation, before 12:00 P.M. (Noon) Novemberap27, tenance of project records on and review of on contractor’s LEGAL NOTICES 2017. Submittals may not be accepted after thismeetings, deadline. preparation of plication for payment, attendance at progress record drawings, review of contract claims and support documents, esAll tasksscheduling, must comply with control, the 2006 edition of ”The Specifications for timating, quality project engineering, constructability Materials, Highway, Bridges, andRFI Incidental Cityand perreviews, submittal reviews and Utilities responses, reviewsStructures.” and responses, sonnel will utilize the City of Baltimore Guidelines for the Performance other contract documents.

Evaluation of Design Consultants and Construction Contractors for this contract/project. *Experience in the Rehabilitation and Construction of Water Facilities Treatment Plants with a 40 MGD minimum capacity.

Consultants interested in providing services to the City should be aware of City policiesinwhich determine theimplementation amount of overhead and profit a Project firm will *Experience development and of a Construction be allowed. An Audited Financial Statement less than two (2) years old will Management program. be require to justify any requested overhead rate above 100%. The maximum allowed overhead rateconstruction is 172.73% inspection for architectural firms, and *Familiarity with standard procedures and150% refor engineering firms.

Profit isMechanical, fixed at 10% salaries are capped quirement for civil, Structural, andand Electrical disciplines, andat $65.00 excluding Principal’s time.

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in the City’s contracting process. Pursuant to Article 5, Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code (2000 Edition) - Minority and Women’s Business Program, Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) participation goals apply to this contract.

Insurance with Requirements *Familiarity applicable building codes and standards.

1.The firm has a financial interest in the MBE or WBE 2.The firm has an interest in the ownership or control of the MBE or WBE 3.The firm is significantly involved in the operation of the MBE or WBE (Article 5 subtitle 28-41).

The Consultant shall procure and maintain during life of thiswith agreement, *Experience in providing field inspection staff with the experience change the following required insurance coverage. orders and claims analysis. a.Worker’s Compensation as required by the State of Maryland, *Experience with Critical coverage Path Method construction scheduling and as well as version any similar coverage required Primavera 6 scheduling software.for this work by applicable Federal or ”other States” State Law. *Experience with Primavera Contract Management version 14 project tracking software. b.Professional Liability, Errors, and Omissions Insurance at a limit of not less than Three MilliontoDollars including aassigned 3 year extended *Overall team approach utilize, ($3,000,000) manage and coordinate tasks of reporting period, inBusiness the event that services delivered this the Minority/Women Enterprises partners and to pursuant conform totoCity Agreement, either directly or indirectly, involves or requires professional goals. services, Professional Liability, Errors, and Omissions coverage shall be provided.

Services” the purposefor of athis Agreement shall Project fees”Professional have been estimated atfor $4,000,000.00 period of 4 years.

If mean any servicesisprovided a licensed CONSULTANT professional. further information requiredbyregarding this request, please contact Mr. Gurminder Singh at 410-396-5385. c.Commercial General Liability Insurance at limits of not less than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) per occurrence out of bodily Projects must comply with the 2006 editionforofclaims ”The arising Specifications for injuries orHighways, death, andBridges, property Utilities damages. those policies with aggregate Materials, andWith Incidental Structures”.

City perlimits, a minimum limit of Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000) is required. sonnel will utilize the City of Baltimore Guidelines for the Performance Such insurance shall Consultants include contractual liability insurance.

The CITY, it’s Evaluation of Design and Construction Contractors for this elected/ appointed officials, employees, and agents shall be covered, by contract/project. endorsement, when applicable, as additional insured’s as respects to; liability arising out activitiesaperformed by or behalf of theaddress CONSULFirms interested in of submitting proposal for thisonProject, shall a TANT in Agreement. ”Letter of connection Interest” towith thethis Office of Boards and Commissions, 4 South Frederick Street, 4th Floor Baltimore, Maryland 21202, Maryland 21215 d.Business Automobile Liability at limits of not less than Oneletters Millionare Dollars (EMAIL: OBC.Consultants@baltimorecity.gov).

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The insurance shall apply to any owned, potential teaming partners, the letter should be submitted within five (5) non-owned, leased, hired automobiles usedThe in the performance of this days of the date of theorproject’s advertisement. letter should contain a agreement contact person. Failure to submit a ”letter of Interest” will not disqualify a firm submitting a proposal for the project. e.To the extent of the CONSULTANT’s negligence, the CONSULTANT’s insurance be primary thecomplete CITY, its Each prime coverage consultantshall applying for this insurance Project willas berespects required to elected/appointed employees and 255, agents.

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Submittals may not beinaccepted f.Coverage shall not be suspended, voided, cancelled, reduced in covPrequalification Requirement erage, or in limits, except by the reduction of applicable aggregate limit by claims paid, until after forty-fiveand (45) surveying days prior written noticein has been given All architectural, engineering, firms listed the specific proposal for the Project must be prequalified by the Office of Boards and Commissions for each TYPESET: Wed Oct 25applicable 14:41:44 discipline EDT 2017 at time of submittal for this Project. Any construction contractor listed in the specific proposal for the Project to perform work in an existing prequalification category must also be prequalified. A copy of the prime sub consultant’s current CERTIFICATION OFand PUBLICATION Prequalification Certificate should beBALTIMORE included in the bid submittal package.

CITY OF Information regarding can be obtained by OFFICEthe OFprequalification BOARDS AND process COMMISSIONS PUBLIC NOTICE PROJECT #1280 Project and Construction Management Assistance for Water Contract 1328 Montebello Filtration Plant I Improvements The Baltimore City Office of Boards and Commissions has been requested by the Department of Public Works, Office of Engineering and Construction, to certify the qualifications of engineering firms to provide Project and Construction Management Assistance for Water Contract 1328 Montebello Filtration Plant I Improvements. One contract will be awarded for a period of 4 years.

The Quality Assurance services to be provided are generally in accordance with the US Army Core of Engineers CQM program and include, but are not limited to assisting the City Office of Engineering and Construction with construction monitoring and inspection, preparation of daily reports, maintenance of project records and documentation, review of contractor’s application for payment, attendance at progress meetings, preparation of record drawings, review of contract claims and support documents, estimating, scheduling, quality control, project engineering, constructability reviews, submittal reviews and responses, RFI reviews and responses, and other contract documents. *Experience in the Rehabilitation and Construction of Water Facilities Treatment Plants with a 40 MGD minimum capacity. *Experience in development and implementation of a Construction Project Management program. *Familiarity with standard construction inspection procedures and requirement for civil, Structural, Mechanical, and Electrical disciplines, and SCADA system installation and implementation. *Familiarity with applicable building codes and standards. *Experience in providing field inspection staff with experience with change orders and claims analysis. *Experience with Critical Path Method construction scheduling and Primavera version 6 scheduling software. *Experience with Primavera Contract Management version 14 project tracking software. *Overall team approach to utilize, manage and coordinate assigned tasks of the Minority/Women Business Enterprises partners and to conform to City goals.

Project fees have been estimated at $4,000,000.00 for a period of 4 years. If further information is required regarding this request, please contact Mr. Gurminder Singh at 410-396-5385.

Projects must comply with the 2006 edition of ”The Specifications for Materials, Highways, Bridges, Utilities and Incidental Structures”. City personnel will utilize the City of Baltimore Guidelines for the Performance Evaluation of Design Consultants and Construction Contractors for this contract/project.

Firms interested in submitting a proposal for this Project, shall address a ”Letter of Interest” to the Office of Boards and Commissions, 4 South Frederick Street, 4th Floor Baltimore, Maryland 21202, Maryland 21215 (EMAIL: OBC.Consultants@baltimorecity.gov). Since these letters are utilized to assist small minority and women business enterprises in identifying potential teaming partners, the letter should be submitted within five (5) days of the date of the project’s advertisement. The letter should contain a contact person. Failure to submit a ”letter of Interest” will not disqualify a firm submitting a proposal for the project.

Each prime consultant applying for this Project will be required to complete and submit an original Federal Form 255, along with five (5) copies, to the Office of Boards and Commissions. The Federal Form 255 and the five copies must be submitted on or before 12:00 P.M. (Noon) on November 27, 2017. Submittals may not be accepted after this deadline.

The MBE goal is 27% The WBE goal is 10%

Both the proposed Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise firms must be named and identified as an MBE or WBE within Item 6 of the Standard Form (SF) 255 in the spaces for identifying outside key LEGALprovided NOTICES consultants/associates anticipated for utilization for this project.

Verifying Certification Each firm submitting a SF 255 for consideration for a project is responsible for verifying that all MBEs and WBEs to be utilized on the project are certified by the Minority and Women’s Business Opportunity Office (MWBOO) prior to submitting the proposal. A directory of certified MBEs and WBEs is available from MWBOO. Since changes to the directory occur daily, firms submitting SF 255s should call MWBOO at (410) 396-4355 to verify certification, expiration dates and services that the MBE or WBE is certified to provide.

Non-AffiliationA firm submitting a proposal may not use an MBE or WBE to meet a contract goal if:

Additional Requirements A firm submitting as a prime consultant that fails to comply with the requirements of Article 5, Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code when executing a contract is subject to the following penalties: suspension of a contract; withholding of funds; rescission of contract based on material breach; disqualification as a consultant from eligibility to provide services to the City for a period not to exceed 2 years; and payment for damages incurred by the City.

A resume for each person listed as key personnel and/or specialist, including those from MBE and WBE firms, must be shown on the page provided within the application.Please be advised that for the purpose of reviewing price proposals and invoices, the City of Baltimore defines a principal of a firm as follows:A principal is any individual owning 5% or more of the outstanding stock of an entity, a partner of a partnership, a 5% or more shareholder of a sub-chapter ’S’ Corporation, or an individual owner.

Out-of-State Corporations must identify their corporate resident agent within the application.

Firms will not be considered for a specific project if they apply as both a sub-consultant and prime consultant.

The applications for this Project (Form 255) cannot be supplemented with any additional information such as graphs, photographs, organization chart, etc. All such information should be incorporated into the appropriate pages. Applications should not be bound. Applications should simply be stapled in the upper left-hand corner. Cover sheets should not be included.

Inclusion and/or submittal of additional material may result in the applicant being disqualified from consideration for this project.

Failure to follow directions of this advertisement or the application may cause disqualification of the submittal.

Michael L. Augins, Acting Chief Office of Boards and Commissions

Issue of: 10/27/2017 Afro-American Baltimore Sun Baltimore Times calling the Office of Boards and Commissions on 410.396.6883.

Daily Record Insurance Requirements

The consultant selected for the award of this project shall provide professional liability, auto liability, and general liability and workers’ compensation insurances as required by the City of Baltimore.

MBE/WBE Certification It is the policy of the City of Baltimore to promote equal business opportunity in the City’s contracting process. Pursuant to Article 5, Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code (2000 Edition) - Minority and Women’s Business Program, Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) participation goals apply to this contract.

The MBE goal is 27% The WBE goal is 10% Both the proposed Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise firms must be named and identified as an MBE or WBE within Item 6 of the Standard Form (SF) 255 in the spaces provided for identifying outside key consultants/associates anticipated for utilization for this project.

Verifying Certification Each firm submitting a SF 255 for consideration for a project is responsible for verifying that all MBEs and WBEs to be utilized on the project are certified by the Minority and Women’s Business Opportunity Office (MWBOO) prior to submitting the proposal. A directory of certified MBEs and WBEs is available from MWBOO. Since changes to the directory occur daily, firms submitting SF 255s should call MWBOO at (410) 396-4355 to verify certification, expiration dates and services that the MBE or WBE is certified to provide.

Non-AffiliationA firm submitting a proposal may not use an MBE or WBE to meet a contract goal if: 1.The firm has a financial interest in the MBE or WBE 2.The firm has an interest in the ownership or control of the MBE or WBE 3.The firm is significantly involved in the operation of the MBE or WBE (Article 5 subtitle 28-41).

Additional Requirements A firm submitting as a prime consultant that fails to comply with the requirements of Article 5, Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code when executing a contract is subject to the following penalties: suspension of a contract; withholding of funds; rescission of contract based on material breach; disqualification as a consultant from eligibility to provide services to the City for a period not to exceed 2 years; and payment for damages incurred by the City.

A resume for each person listed as key personnel and/or specialist, including those from MBE and WBE firms, must be shown on the page provided within the application.Please be advised that for the purpose of reviewing price proposals and invoices, the City of Baltimore defines a principal of a firm as follows:A principal is any individual owning 5% or more of the outstanding stock of an entity, a partner of a partnership, a 5% or more shareholder of a sub-chapter ’S’ Corporation, or an individual owner.

Out-of-State Corporations must identify their corporate resident agent within the application.

Firms will not be considered for a specific project if they apply as both a sub-consultant and prime consultant.

The applications for this Project (Form 255) cannot be supplemented with any additional information such as graphs, photographs, organization chart, etc. All such information should be incorporated into the appropriate pages. Applications should not be bound. Applications should simply be stapled in the upper left-hand corner. Cover sheets should not be included.

Inclusion and/or submittal of additional material may result in the applicant being disqualified from consideration for this project.

Failure to follow directions of this advertisement or the application may cause disqualification of the submittal.

Prequalification Requirement All architectural, engineering, and surveying firms listed in the specific proposal for the Project must be prequalified by the Office of Boards and Commissions for each applicable discipline at time of submittal for this Project. Any construction contractor listed in the specific proposal for the Project to perform work in an existing prequalification category must also be prequalified. A copy of the prime and sub consultant’s current Prequalification Certificate should be included in the bid submittal package.

Information regarding the prequalification process can be obtained by calling the Office of Boards and Commissions on 410.396.6883.

Insurance Requirements The consultant selected for the award of this project shall provide professional liability, auto liability, and general liability and workers’ compensation insurances as required by the City of Baltimore.

MBE/WBE Certification It is the policy of the City of Baltimore to promote equal business opportunity in the City’s contracting process. Pursuant to Article 5, Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code (2000 Edition) - Minority and Women’s Business Program, Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) participation goals apply to this contract.

The MBE goal is 27% The WBE goal is 10% Both the proposed Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise firms must be named and identified as an MBE or WBE within Item 6 of the Standard Form (SF) 255 in the spaces provided for identifying outside key consultants/associates anticipated for utilization for this project.

Verifying Certification Each firm submitting a SF 255 for consideration for a project is responsible for verifying that all MBEs and WBEs to be utilized on the project are

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SPORTS

After 197 Wins Baker Deserved Better from Nationals

By Mark F. Gray Special to the AFRO Come late February, when hope springs eternal for every team in Major League Baseball, the Washington Nationals will head to their preseason home in Viera, Florida trying once again to win a World Series – or at the very least – hoping to finally win a playoff series.

However, for the seventh time in what will be their 11th season in D.C., the Nationals will be led by a new manager after firing Dusty Baker last week. After two consecutive National League eastern division titles Washington’s immediate gratification front office laid the blame of the most recent organization failure at the hands of the latest manager who was released in embarrassing fashion.

As the Nationals head into another disappointing offseason they might want to think of replacing the door with hinges on the manager’s office to a revolving model - the kind normally reserved for department stores, banks or Trump administration employees. Their penchant for blaming what happens in the dugout solely for their failures in October speaks not only to their futility on the field in crunch time as it does to the inability to put the right parts together that ultimately makes for a championship team. That falls on the shoulders of the front office.

Jerry Krause, the architect of the Chicago Bulls dynasty

AP Photo/John Bazemore

The Washington Nationals announced Manager Dusty Baker won’t be back next season despite leading the Nationals to the NL East title in each of his two years with the club. in the NBA of the 1990’s once said, “Teams don’t win

player in the history of the sport fall to them when the

“Teams don’t win championships, organization’s do.”

– Jerry Krause championships, organization’s do.” Granted, that organization had the greatest

Portland Trail Blazers passed on drafting Michael Jordan to take injury prone Sam Bowie

in 1984. That organization also had the hubris to break up Michael and the Bulls after six championships in eight years and they haven’t been to the NBA Finals since 1997.

The Nationals aren’t cheap and have spent big money on their pitching staff and in free agency. They started with Jayson Werth – their first major free agent signing in 2011 - spending $127 million

over seven years which yielded nothing but “changed the culture around here” according to local experts.

He never won a playoff series either and hit only .213 over four playoff tries.

Max Scherzer is the latest impact free agent year deal worth $210 million and he delivers in the regular season.

Scherzer has won a Cy Young Award, anchored their starting

rotation and pitched two no hitters. But he hasn’t been able to win a playoff series either.

Bryce Harper is one of the marketing faces of MLB, but his face appears mostly on milk cartons during the playoffs. Harper hits only .211 over 19 postseason games yet there remains the thought he will finish his career with the Yankees after signing a $500 million deal.

For the record: he hasn’t won a playoff series either.

Guaranteed contracts make it difficult to move big deals and the Nationals have done a nice job blending their talent into a great regular season roster. However, the parts haven’t delivered in crunch time for whoever is managing in October.

The Nationals offense hibernated again this October and Vice President Mike Rizzo had enough. Rizzo believes they should be better than one and done in the playoffs and they should be. However, the one constant during these classic fall disappointments has been Rizzo, who buys nice groceries, but they haven’t been cooked with a championship recipe.

With 192 regular season victories and the respect of the clubhouse Baker deserved at least two more shots at leading the Nationals back to the playoffs. He would seem to have been more solution than problem. But when do the sands in the hourglass shift to counting down on Rizzo?

AFRO Sports Desk Faceoff

Which ‘Super Team’ is the Biggest Threat to Golden State?

By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Desk Credit the Golden State Warriors with altering the normal “build through the draft” process that most NBA general managers inherited from their predecessors. Ironically, the Warriors built their core through the draft and even won a title and broke the regular season wins record doing so. But it was the addition of Kevin Durant that transformed the Warriors into the new age hardwood juggernaut that they’ve become.

They’re the talk of the Association, the envy of the league and the reason why teams have loaded up with current and past all-stars, piecing star names together just to make the matchup with the Warriors look remotely even. Cleveland, Oklahoma City, Houston and Boston have all assembled starheavy teams. Which one is the biggest threat to the Warriors?

Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley of the AFRO Sports Desk debate.

Riley: I love what the Oklahoma City Thunder has done.

When you add Paul George and Carmelo Anthony to the reigning MVP in Russell Westbrook, who’s fresh off a season of triple-double averages, you’re now a legitimate title

contender. George was never comfortable being the go-to-guy late in games so you remove that weight from his shoulders and allow him to play a complementary piece to two guys who have made careers out of closing games and it’s a good fit.

At this stage in his career, I believe Anthony won’t have a problem deferring to a player of Westbrook’s caliber, and the reigning MVP has the experience of deferring to great players from playing with Durant during his MVP years. George gives Westbrook another ball handler and Anthony gives Westbrook another scorer who he can count on late in games.

It’s the perfect mixture for a challenge to the Warriors.

Green: Once Isaiah Thomas returns from a hip injury then it’s easy to see that Cleveland is loaded. Any team featuring LeBron James is going to be considered a “Super Team” but when you surround him with future Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade, Thomas, former league MVP Derrick Rose and Kevin Love then they become a dominant unit.

Sprinkle in solid role players like Jae Crowder, J.R. Smith and Tristan Thompson and this becomes the deepest team in the NBA. I love how Cleveland has reshaped their roster since last summer’s Finals and I wouldn’t bet against them in this year’s Finals as long as they are healthy. We haven’t seen this team with Thomas, yet, and that’s scary. He was an MVP candidate for all of last season’s campaign and pairing him with James and Wade could give the Warriors fits.

Riley: Cleveland has an interesting mix of old stars and young emerging stars who are injured. Both Wade and James are currently healthy but they’ve been in the Association since 2003. Thomas and Rose were dynamic point guards at certain points in their careers but Rose has been injury-prone and Thomas has a severe hip issue that could re-jig his career.

Cleveland is counting on Rose and Thomas to come up big next summer, but their health is a serious concern. If this was four seasons ago then I’d guarantee Cleveland a title but this team is old and injury-prone, they’re not spry and in their prime like the stars from the Thunder. Yes, Anthony was drafted in that 2003 class as well but he’s not headlining the team the same way James and Wade are for theirs.

Westbrook, 28, and George, 27, are in the prime of their careers as MVP-caliber performers. And 24-year-old center Steven Adams is a 7-foot defensive-minded dynamo and

AP Photo/Tony Dejak

(Left) Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30), and forwards Andre Iguodala (9), and Kevin Durant (35)

AP Photo/Brandon Dill); (top right

(top right) Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook, left, and Carmelo Anthony (7).

AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki

(bottom right) Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James (23) and Dwyane Wade.

gives the Thunder athleticism and ability in the paint. No matter how deep a team is, it comes down to your best five players when games get close, and the Thunder have perhaps the scariest lineup outside of the Warriors.

Green: It also comes down to the experience, which Wade, James and Love provide. The thing that separates Cleveland from OKC, in my opinion, is that there’s whole bunch of champions on the Cavaliers’ roster and that experience can go a lot further than any MVP trophy or scoring title.

You can’t find that same dynamic on the Thunder roster, which is littered with personal accolades and achievements but no serious hardware. Cleveland has that pedigree and that’s what it’s going to take to knock off this emerging dynasty in Golden State that has two championships out of the last three seasons.

The one season they didn’t win the title, it was Cleveland who knocked them off. And if you’re asking who has the best chance of beating the Warriors well why not the team and the player who have proven already that they can do it?

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October 28, 2017 - November 3, 2017, The Afro-American

BALTIMORE-AREA

Race and Politics

Sowing Seeds of Promise

I got a call from my friend, and fellow Walbrook Warrior, David Miller a couple Sean Yoes of weeks Baltimore AFRO ago. Miller has been Editor syoes@afro.com educating and mentoring Black children, mainly Baltimore Black boys, for all of his adult life.

Miller, a proud West Baltimorean, has been doing vital work in our community for decades. But, he is so talented and passionate about his work he has literally traveled the globe fulfilling his mission of helping to heal our boys. He’s the type of cat that if he asks me to do something, I’m going to do

The Seeds do the work 99 percent of Baltimore residents won’t do or can’t do... my best to make it happen.

So, when he asked me to speak to the Seeds of Promise at the Renaissance Academy in Druid Heights I didn’t hesitate.

I’ve written about Renaissance on a few occasions in this column.

In one of my more recent columns about the school, I wrote about the owner of the Baltimore Ravens, Steve Bisciotti’s, decision to invest $1.5 million into the decrepit school, that was in danger of being closed by Baltimore Continued on D2

Tessa Hill-Aston Out As Baltimore NAACP President

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North Ave. Rising

State, City $27.3M Project Aims to Revitalize Public Transit

By Jennifer Wright Special to the AFRO

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Tessa Hill-Aston is out as president of the Baltimore Branch of the NAACP. But, it is unclear whether she was forced out or resigned.

NAACP president and current Maryland State NAACP Political Action chair.

McKinney and other national staff explained that local The Baltimore Branch of the National Association for branch operations would be supported by the Maryland the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) seems to State Conference. State Conference President Ronald be in a chaotic state, after this week’s departure of long Stansbury did not return repeated calls for comment. time president, Tessa Hill-Aston. The chapter’s regularly NAACP national communications director, Malik Russell scheduled meeting this week was chaired by first vice said “We’re involved in an internal process at the moment president, Ronald Flamer, who took the reins after Hill’s and unable to comment,” when asked for clarification on mysterious departure.

Hill’s departure.

During the meeting, Hill-Aston won a Jonathan McKinney, contentious re-election NAACP Region Seven field campaign last fall against director, reported to branch Rev. Cortley D. Witherspoon, members that Hill-Aston, a Baltimore community along with the secretary activist. The race yielded and treasurer of the local the highest turnout for chapter were removed by the Baltimore Branch in the National Board. Hillrecent history according – Marvin “Doc” Cheatham to organization officials.

Aston was embroiled in disputes with local chapter Several of Witherspoon’s membership over the past allies were elected to the year that intensified after board. the NAACP National Conventions 108th Annual Meeting “This is a golden opportunity for the Baltimore City hosted by the Baltimore City Chapter in July.

Branch to install a leader who has the courage of conviction McKinney was contacted after the meeting and did not and the real independence to do this work,” said Kim deny the statement but told the AFRO that his comments Truehart who organized the Baltimore Branch’s Women in were for chapter members only. NAACP local chapter the NAACP for two years. meetings are generally open to the public.

“They need to look at all aspects of the branch and revive “I’m an NAACP lover and I gave a good portion of my it. That will take some energy and fresh thinking, Truehart life to serve in the NAACP and it hurts me to know that said. things are not well. I want to do anything that I can to be The AFRO reached out to Hill-Aston for comment and she of any help,” said Marvin “Doc” Cheatham, past Baltimore did not reply before AFRO press time.

By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO

“I’m an NAACP lover and I gave a good portion of my life to serve in the NAACP and it hurts me to know that things are not well.”

North Avenue, the broad and busy thoroughfare that runs from West Baltimore to East Baltimore has seen better days on many levels, including its transportation infrastructure. But, that may be receiving a significant revitalization because of a proposed multi-million dollar joint project between Baltimore City, the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT), and the U.S. Department of Transportation.

“For far too long, a lack of reliable transit has crippled the North Avenue corridor, and beginning today that is going to change.”

–Gov. Larry Hogan Governor Larry Hogan and Mayor Catherine Pugh recently announced the $27.3 million “North Avenue Rising” project to add essential transportation and infrastructure improvements along the North Avenue corridor.

“For far too long, a lack

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Baltimore Chief Judge Nance Baltimore Homicides Hit 289 Facing Removal From Bench Rising Violence

The ruling comes after an investigation by the commission into Nance’s behavior during several trials in 2015. Among the findings A judge known for his often-controversial were that Nance made “gratuitous, insensitive, courtroom behavior has inflammatory, and relentless” been sanctioned by a key remarks to a defense attorney. judiciary oversight body which The commission also recommended his immediate concluded Nance engaged in removal from the bench, the “yelling, glaring, frowning, most serious punishment sneering, and banging the allowed. bench the loudly.”

The Commission of In a written response Judicial Disabilities found filed with the commission, Baltimore Chief Circuit Court Nance’s attorney argued the Judge Alfred Nance has been” findings were bereft of “facts” undignified, condescending, and focused primarily on and unprofessional,” during sanctioning behavior that was several trials, and urged not subject to review. his immediate removal.

“Demeanor, tone and ire Courtesy photo The commission also are vague and ambiguous Baltimore Chief Circuit recommended Nance be terms,” William C Brennan Court Judge Alfred Nance barred from serving as a senior faces possible expulsion argued in a motion to strike judge after he retires at the the recommendation. “Judge for alleged courtroom mandatory age of 70.

Nance cannot reasonably misconduct.

Nance is 69. frame a response to such an The findings were amorphous argument.” released last week after a series of hearings in Maryland law requires judges to conduct September. The decision has been forwarded trials with fairness and decorum. to the Maryland Court of Appeals which will Much of the commission’s findings focused Continued on D2 have the final say on Nance’s fate.

By Stephen Janis Special to the AFRO

By Michelle Richardson Special to the AFRO

Two men were gunned down in different parts of the city on Oct. 24, according to the Baltimore Police Department. The two separate shootings bring Baltimore’s homicide total to 289, an increase of 11 percent from last year’s tally of 259 at this time. The year ended with 318 homicides.

The first homicide on Oct. 24, which took place in West Baltimore, in the 1000 block of W. North Ave in Reservoir Hill, occurred around 2:20 p.m when a 25- year-old man was found suffering from gunshot wounds.

The man was taken to Shock Trauma at the University of Maryland where he was pronounced dead.

Two hours later, in Northwest Baltimore in the

3100 block of Wylie Ave in Park Heights, a 26-yearold man was shot. Medical personnel transported the man to Sinai Hospital, where he later died.

BPD homicide detectives were called to both scenes and quickly determined both cases to be homicides. The 289 homicides tragically puts Baltimore on pace to break the city’s record of 344 homicides set in 2015.

In comparison, New York City, with a population of about 8.5 million people

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had recorded 182 homicides

by Sept. 3, while Baltimore with about 620,000 people had recorded 238 homicides.

The Oct. 24 shootings are still under investigation and there is no information available yet on suspects or motives.

Anybody with any information on either shooting is asked to call Baltimore homicide detectives at 410-396-2100 or the Metro Crime Stoppers tip line at 1-866-7LOCKUP.

289 2017 Total

Data as of Oct. 25

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North Ave. Rising Continued from D1

of reliable transit has crippled the North Avenue corridor, and beginning today that is going to change,” Gov. Larry Hogan said.

The project will include $14.7 million from MDOT, $1 million from the Baltimore City Department of Transportation, $10 million from at U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant and $1.6 million from USDOT Federal Highway Administration.

“Modern, comprehensive infrastructure improvements that support multi-modal transportation for city residents increases economic opportunity,” Mayor Catherine Pugh said in a statement. “An effective mass transit network will improve

the quality of life of our residents.”

MDOT MTA aims to revitalize a five-mile stretch of North Avenue with improvements including: dedicated bus lanes; transit signal priority which will allow buses to hold green lights longer and shorten red lights; bicycle facilities; enhancements to both North Avenue Light Rail station and Penn-North Metro Subway station; improvements at major bus stops and sidewalks; streetscaping, and road re-pavement.

The MDOT MTA will host four public meetings for community input about the infrastructure improvements needed on North Avenue.

The first meeting will be held on Nov. 13 from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Impact Hub Baltimore.

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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh are partnering to improve transportation along Baltimore’s venerable North Ave.

Race and Politics Continued from D1

City Public Schools (BCPS).

The high school, located near the epicenter of the uprising of April 2015, has been hit hard by violence, just like the community in which it sits; four young men have been killed who attended the school since 2015. According to Nikkia Rowe, Renaissance’s principal, Bisciotti told members of his inner circle, ‘This school can’t close.’ That was the genesis of the Ravens investment. But, out of the violence, the Seeds of Promise was also born.

Seeds of Promise is a male mentoring program at Renaissance, which provides academic case management, 24/7 social and emotional support, life skills modeling and development. The group began in January 2015, initially funded with $100,000 from Renaissance’s budget.

The Seeds are six Black men dedicated to hundreds of young men at Renaissance, some of them facing challenges

most of us can’t imagine. They are: Dave Montgomery, Marcus Taylor, Corey Witherspoon, Antwon Cooper, Daijeon Powell and Shawn Nelson. What they do is engage on a ground level,

“When they say they provide 24/7 support, they ain’t lying.”

– David Miller face to face, with some of the most challenging, and in many ways, exceptional young Black men in the city.

Real talk, many of the male students at Renaissance symbolize the type of young Black men that spark a visceral fear in the hearts of many of Baltimore’s residents. The Seeds

do the work 99 percent of Baltimore residents won’t do or can’t do, they meet these young men on their level. They are committed to their survival and success, when so many others have abandoned them.

“When they say they provide 24/7 support, they ain’t lying,” said Miller. “These brothers go pick these boys up on Saturdays and Sundays.”

The Seeds specifically wanted to talk to me about the media.

They realize that along with the $1.5 million investment by the Ravens comes an increased scrutiny and they want to be prepared. Those brothers are brilliant and conscious; they have it together and they understand their mission.

Recently, the Seeds along with Miller and 17 male students from Renaissance stepped beyond the confines of West Baltimore for an indoor rock climbing adventure at the Earth Trek in Timonium, Md. “Getting those brothers out of the ‘hood...it was amazing to see,” Miller said.

Each of the six mentors is responsible for about 20-25 of the Renaissance students. And all of the Seeds of Promise mentors come from the community surrounding Renaissance; they were born and raised there and their authentic, positive influence on the male students at the school is essential.

“We have to make sure they have stable employment,” said Miller. “The key is to keep these brothers together.”

Nance

Continued from D1 on a 2015 trial in which Deborah Levi, a Baltimore public defender served as defense council. According to the findings, Nance had threatened Levi with contempt of court after making a series of derogatory comments about her courtroom tactics.

During the proceedings, according to transcripts cited by the commission, Nance’s attitude was “sarcastic and dismissive” throughout the trial. Several times he admonished the defense counsel with confrontational comments like “shut up and listen,” and “you’re hovering like a mother hen.” During a motion hearing he stated she was “here to represent your ego.” Later he criticized a juror who claimed he was depressed by commenting, “You look as happy as can be.”

Nance’s courtroom antics were no secret at the city’s downtown courthouse.

During his twenty years on the bench he was known for exhorting court observers to pull up their pants or threatening reporters with contempt of court for not sitting in an area designated for the press.

October 28, 2017 - November 3, 2017, The Afro-American

Travis Winkey: Baltimore Fashion Icon

Charlie Dugger, educator and his wife, Jennifer are going to Haiti to teach.

An afternoon to honor he and his wife and wish them both well will be, Oct. 28, 2 p.m.-6 p.m., 235 N. Holiday Street in Baltimore. The event will feature live music by Lafayette Gilchrist. For more information, call 410655-8862 or 443-739-6500.

Godspeed Mr. Dugger.

Hello everyone, I hope you and your family are in good health. To my musical family and friends who have lost a loved one this month, my prayers and heart of love goes out to you. Remember God is still in control.

I want to start off with something happy and fun, beginning with my dear friend Travis Winkey.

Travis earned his title honestly, “The Prince of Fashion.” He is always greeted with a standing ovation from the crowd when he enters the stage to announce his models.

He has traveled the world and in his travels he has met many people from all walks of life. But, he has always stayed steadfast to his dream to be an

Vivian Owens and other surprise artists will perform at the Quality Inn Ballroom 1800 Belmont Avenue, Windsor Mill, Maryland (next to Martin’s West) on Oct. 28, dinner served at 7p.m. and show time at 8 p.m. A special tribute to Phyllis Hyman.

A night of Smooth Jazz & R&B hosted by Bilal Ali Productions.

extraordinary, successful and professional Black man in fashion, who has overcome insurmountable odds. When Travis struts on stage with perfection, the “catwalk” is all his.

Believe me, he owns it!

His gift and talent has

gained him recognition and notoriety as the best of the best. If you have been to any of his shows, you know what I am talking about; if not you will have a real treat at his upcoming show. It will be hosted by Travis Winkey & Empyre Productions giving their 1st annual Baltimore Players Ball Halloween Party, on Oct. 31, 8 p.m. until 1 a.m. at the Downtown Cultural Arts Center, 401 N. Howard Street in Baltimore. Your ticket will include live entertainment by two bands, DJ dance music, prizes for the best dressed player, food, drinks and a comedy show.

For more information, call 301-537-7615 or 410-6691220.

Okay, keeping you in the happy zone a little bit longer, if you can get away next weekend, Voice Distributions LLC & the Sessoms Group Inc., are hosting a Classic R&B Weekend & Empowerment Conference, Nov. 3-5, a three day weekend

ticket information, call 888-210-8009. Sounds like a great get away.

Before I leave you, please join me by sending condolences and prayers to the family of Anthony “Doc Doo-Wop” Ferrell, who passed away last week. Also to the family of Baltimore’s own Gabrielle Goodman and David Bunn, both international David Hollingsworth, retired police officer and detective, Karaoke singer, co- founder of the famous “Eastside Posse” passed away Oct. 18. Our prayers to the family.

of live comedy shows, parties, buffets, semiformal dinner, workshops, breakfast and a live concert featuring: The Whispers, Russell Thompkins Jr. and The Stylistics, Tavares, Ray, Goodman and Brown, Lenny Williams, Blue Magic and many more at the Hershey Lodge, 325 University Drive in Hershey, Pa. The Bus trip and hotel is included. For

jazz performers, who lost their mother, Elizabeth Bunn last week. Also, God rest David Hollingsworth who passed away last week.

Fullwood Travel is remembering Stella Fullwood, who passed away this year by continuing the legacy of her popular bus trip to the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, 302

West 45thStreet, New York, NY to see the musical “Kinky Boots” on Nov. 4.

For more information, call 410-542-2530.

Well, my dear friends, I have run out of space, but remember if you need me, call me at 410-8339474 and email me at rosapryor@aol.com. Until the Next Time, I Am Musically Yours.

NOW THRU NOV 19

“It is my love song to my family.”

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Larry Washington, the oldest member of the historic Arch Social Club, is keeping social events alive on the corner of Pennsylvania and North Avenues, by hosting a Halloween Party Oct. 29, starting at 5 p.m. Free food, dancing and music. For tickets, call 410-622-2271.

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The Afro-American, October 28, 2017 - November 3, 2017

Photos by Devone Marshall

Deacon Demetrius Lewis, Recognition of Men and Boys

High School Friend Teron Qualres

Bishop Douglas Miles

On Oct. 14th, Sharon Baptist Church hosted a “This Is Your Life Event” for their beloved Pastor Rev. Alfred C.D. Vaughn who is celebrating 60 years of ministry as the faithful leader of the venerable church in West Baltimore. Rev. Vaughn was celebrated by his family, church and a phalanx of longtime friends in and out of the ministry.

Reverend Alfred C. D. Vaughn, Pastor of Sharon Baptist Church and First Lady Lillian Vaughn

Pastor Rodney Laws, Rev. Vaughn and Hugh R. Page Jr.

Rev. Alfred C. D. Vaughn and Bishop James L. Carter, Pastor of Ark Church and Baptist Ministers Conference of Baltimore and Vicinity

Boy Scout Representative: 2nd Class Scout William Scipio lll

Darius Smith and Daiyon Jenkins, the escorts

Victor March Sr. and Lola March, of March Funeral Home

Irene Fowlks

Rev Alfred C.D. Vaughn and Jackie Epps, Publisher of Grace and Glory Magazine

First Lady Lillian Vaughn, Jake Oliver, Publisher of AFRO American Newspapers and Rev. Alfred C.D. Vaughn

Lauren Fox, Rev. Vaughn and Caled Fox (grandchildren)

On Oct. 19, at The Cardinal Shehan School in Baltimore, the annual Pink Parade for Breast Cancer Awareness was held.

Students, faculty, and community members honored loved ones who’ve battled breast cancer by

Norma Faulkner, Peggy Jackson, Norma Boyd, Gracie Grant, Ruth Greene, Anne Lightfoot, Ruth Pratt, William Jessup, Lifetime Achievement Committee

organizing and releasing pink biodegradable balloons which represented a prayer for their loved ones. The ceremony involved cheering, dancing, the CSS choir singing, and a prayer. Afterwards, the students,

parents, and faculty all paraded around the the school adorned in pink. All proceeds were donated to The Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center

Principal Jackson prepares balloons for distribution

Lisa Taylor

Photos by Keyon Smith

Madison Parham, Sharnae Williams, and Aija Garner

Parents of students: Marian Hink, Pamela Iler, Sarah Dingle-l and Annette Bailey Sister Mary and Sheria Bayless

Richard, Payton, John, Gregory Kindergartners prepare for the event

Irene Bither of BGE, Lenora Howze Afro American Newspaper and Trisia McDowell of BGE, event sponsor

Jordan Hicks, Chaunna Lane, Mariah Dixon, Madison Brown, Kennedy Jacobs (Left to Right) Sakai Guyton (Back)

Edward Dangerfield,Feleisa Thompson,Denise Bice and Mark Pindell State of Maryland DLLR, event sponsor Sam Abney and Jacqueline Johnson of Goodwill Industries of the Cheaspeake

Enoch Pratt Free Library

On Oct. 17, the AFRO American Newspaper’s Diversity in Careers and Education Expo was held at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore. Job seekers interacted with representatives of various companies and businesses.

The sponsors of the event were Baltimore Gas and Electric and The State of Maryland DLLR. Johns Hopkins Medicine, Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, Jewels and Corinne The U.S. ARMY, Goodwill Mahaffey, Southern Industries, The Enoch Management Career Pratt Free Library among Services Center others.

Howard County Police Department

Pamela Pendarvis and Nya Shade from Maryland Live Lisa Koerber and Brittney Recker, United States Secret Service

Jessica Lucas, University of Baltimore

Lamont C.Mingo, Staff Sergeant and Mark A. Austin, U.S. ARMY Denise Bice of DLLR, speaking with an attendee

Diane Hocker and Lenora Howze, Baltimore AFRO American Newspaper Photos by James Fields Sr.