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In spite of a harsh Southern segregationist environment, Memphis Black sanitation workers in 1968 protested their treatment so the world could see the abuses they were required to endure. A group of the surviving members of the heroic Memphis protesters was recently honored at the NAACP Image Awards. (L to R) Rev. Cleophus Smith, Ozell Ueal, James Winton, Elmore Nickleberry Photo by Lon Walls

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Remembering the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike A War for Black Respect—“I Am A Man”

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Part 1 By Toni Marshall Special to the AFRO In cities across the country, sanitation workers and their supporters will pause at 4:20 p.m. on Feb. 1, for a moment of silence to

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honor the 50th anniversary of the tragic deaths of Echol Cole and Robert Walker. Cole and Walker were two Memphis sanitation workers who sought shelter from a storm in the back cover of a faulty garbage truck. They were crushed and mangled, just like the garbage they collected. Their deaths, in part, set in motion the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike in 1968. The salute will surely jar

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CBC Creatively Protests Trump’s State of the Union Address By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com The members of the Congressional Black Caucus, offended by President Trump’s statements about people and countries of color as well as his policies toward civil and human rights, protested as the president delivered his first State of the Union Address on Jan. 30. Most of the members of the CBC who attended the address wore Black suits draped with a kente cloth or wore kente ties and bow ties and wore red and white buttons signifying Continued on A3

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Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., wore a ‘RECY” button the State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus and members of the Democratic Caucus wore red pins in memoriam of Recy Taylor. Taylor was abducted and raped while walking home from work in Alabama in 1944.

efforts helped to catalyze change beyond the streets of Memphis. The videos can be found on afro.com. Nickleberry, Smith and Ueal are three of the few remaining sanitation workers who braved club-wielding police and teargas, while striking in the streets of Memphis in nonviolent protests. Today, when they tell their story of what led to the strike, their voices

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are void of the drama that incited them and their fellow workers to duck and dodge flying objects and angry words - but measured with the sage reflection of men who have done and continue to do. “One reason ...we didn’t have no place to take a shower and cleanup,” said Nickleberry, explaining working conditions. The trash was not brought to the front curb of the house by the owners; the sanitation workers had to go to backyards, sometimes guarded by snapping dogs. They lifted oozing containers often leaking with putrid

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African Dictator Praises Trump? By J. K. Schmid Special to the AFRO President Donald J. Trump received praise from an unexpected corner of the world Jan. 23. Yoweni Museveni, the 30-year president of Uganda, gave Trump seemingly glowing accolades before an audience last week. His remarks were captured in a clip published by Uganda’s NTV, a leading national news

station. “America has got one of the best presidents ever: Mr. Trump,” Museveni told the audience. “I love Trump.” The remarks were received with strained laughter, and while some news publications have taken the opening and ensuing remarks at face value, President Museveni’s subdued grim tone seems the style of a man speaking somewhere between ironic and sardonic. Continued on A4

Former Educator Wants ‘Negro National Anthem’ Played During Black History Month At NBA Games By Mark F. Gray Special to the AFRO

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the memories of heroes like the Rev. Cleophus Smith, Elmore Nickleberry and Ozell Ueal who, egged on by Cole’s and Walker’s death and other horrid conditions, marched with civil rights activists to demand a better working environment for Memphis sanitation workers. The AFRO presents a three-part video documentary on these three giants, whose names may not be well known, but whose

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“Alexa, play ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing.’” Eugene Williams Sr., a retired Prince George’s County educator and former Howard University professor, spoke those words into his new voiceactivated streaming Internet device and, to his surprise, it played. The song, known as the “Negro National Anthem,” not only gave him an inspirational lift that cold winter morning, it led to his embarking on a personal mission.

“I want to teach this generation of [Black] athletes and Americans the words of this beautiful song,” Williams told the AFRO. “I was shocked how many young people don’t know the words and have never even heard of it.” Williams hoped to convince all NBA franchises to make “Lift Every Voice and Sing” a part of the pre-game ritual to honor America along with the “Star Spangled Banner” beginning this February. Armed with a “tenacity”

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Eugene Williams is the man behind the movement to have “Lift Every Voice and Sing” played before NBA games during Black History Month.

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he was nominated for on Sunday night, including the three most prestigious Grammys for song (“That’s What I Like”), record (“24K Magic”) and album of the year. His music also dominated the rhythm and blues categories. The Grammys also saw Kendrick Lamar win five awards, Jay-Z go home empty-handed, some memorable performances by the likes of Lamar, Kesha, Mars and Logic, an odd oversight of singer Lorde and a surprise cameo from Hillary Clinton. In accepting a trophy for the album “24K Magic,” Mars recalled when he was 15 and singing shows for tourists. He’d perform hits written by Babyface, Teddy Riley and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, and loved looking down from the stage to see people from all over the world who had never met dancing together and toasting one another. “All I ever wanted to do with this album was that,” he said. “These songs were written with nothing but joy.” Mars has won 11 Grammys in his career. His success, however, instantly became a target for second-guessers, similar to people befuddled last year when Adele won album of the year over Beyonce. Social media filled with commentary about whether Lamar’s hard-hitting disc “DAMN” was more deserving. One meme that spread on Twitter showed Houston Rocket James Harden rolling his eyes in supposed “reaction” to the news.

or her home or car is a threat. “What do you think he was doing when he went to the window, inviting him to tea?” McKnight was considered the No. 1 running back recruit in the country when he came out of John Curtis Christian School in Louisiana in 2006. He signed with the University of Southern California, where he ran for 2,213 yards and 13 touchdowns and caught 66 passes for 542 yards and two scores in three seasons. In the NFL, he played three seasons for the New York Jets and one with the Kansas City Chiefs. He spent a season in the Canadian Football League, playing two games for the Edmonton Eskimos and three for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. He was shot Dec. 1, 2016. Gasser never left the shooting scene and was initially freed after more than eight hours of questioning. Gasser’s release sparked protests at the time, and some said race played a role in his release — Gasser is White and McKnight was Black. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand, who has since retired, angrily denied that race played any role in the case and said a thorough investigation led to the arrest. Prosecutors later recounted a painstaking effort including an extensive search for witnesses and physical evidence that eventually led to Gasser being charged.

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Ronald Gasser, 56, has ben found guilty in the manslaughter death of NFL running back Joe McKnight in a December 2016 road-rage confrontation in New Orleans.

By The Associated Press The man who killed NFL running back Joe McKnight in a December 2016 road-rage confrontation was found guilty of manslaughter Jan. 26 by a jury in suburban New Orleans. Ronald Gasser, 56, had been charged with second-degree murder, which carries a life sentence. Manslaughter carries a sentence of anywhere from zero to 40 years. State District Judge Ellen Kovach set a March 15 sentencing date. Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick said in a news release that justice was served. His assistants who tried the case told reporters they respect the verdict and added that the McKnight family was pleased with it. Defense attorney Matthew Goetz said he would appeal. “We’re obviously disappointed with the verdict,” he told The New Orleans Advocate as he left the courthouse. Jurors began deliberations Friday afternoon in the case. Defense attorneys had claimed Gasser feared for his life when he fired from his driver’s seat at McKnight, who was standing at his open passenger-side window. Police said the death had followed a 5-mile (8-kilometer) rolling confrontation that began with dangerously aggressive driving on a New Orleans bridge and ended with McKnight being shot as he stood outside Gasser’s car at a suburban intersection. Prosecutors didn’t deny that McKnight drove dangerously before he was killed. “We do not dispute that he was driving like a jerk,” Assistant District Attorney Seth Shute told jurors in closing arguments, alluding to witness testimony that McKnight weaved in and out of traffic, cutting Gasser and others off, at high speed. But Shute said Gasser escalated the danger, taking McKnight’s driving as a challenge. “Mr. Gasser thought that Mr. McKnight had thrown the gauntlet down,” Shute told jurors, later adding, “He followed him off the exit. That was not his exit.” Shute acknowledged that McKnight had a hand on the open, passenger side window of Gasser’s car before he was shot. But he said physical evidence proved Gasser lied during extensive police questioning when he claimed McKnight lunged at him. He cited the lack of gun powder on McKnight’s body as evidence that McKnight wasn’t close to Gasser. “Joe McKnight was not lunging,” he added, citing autopsy results. “There would be a hole in his deltoid muscle if he was.” Assistant District Attorney Shannon Swaim summed up the case by telling jurors that Gasser was the aggressor as the incident drew to a close. But even if he wasn’t, she added, Gasser was not justified in firing. Swaim gave the final rebuttal after Goetz said Gasser wasn’t pursuing McKnight down the exit that day but simply taking an alternate route. Gasser did not seek a confrontation at the traffic light where McKnight exited his own vehicle and walked up to Gasser’s passenger window. Louisiana law allows the use of lethal force by someone who believes someone entering his

Texas Executes Dallas Man for Killing Ex-Girlfriend in 1999 A Dallas man was executed Jan. 29 for the 1999 slaying of his ex-girlfriend while he already was on parole for killing his estranged wife. William Rayford, 64, became the nation’s second inmate put to death this year, both in Texas, when he received lethal injection for beating, stabbing and strangling 44-year-old Carol Lynn Thomas Hall. Her body was found about 300 feet (91 meters) inside a drainage pipe behind her home in South Dallas’ Oak Cliff area. Hall’s 11-year-old son also was stabbed in the attack but survived. He testified against Rayford. The punishment was delayed until the U.S. Supreme Court rejected last-day appeals from Rayford’s lawyers. They argued his death sentence was tainted because his trial attorney in 2000 improperly introduced the subject of race as a factor in prison violence while questioning a prison expert during the punishment phase. Nadia Wood, a Dallas-based federal public defender, told the high court that in bringing it up, the trial lawyer implied “that people like Mr. Rayford — a black man — are the cause of the violence.” An assistant Texas attorney general, Jefferson Clendenin, disputed the argument, telling the justices the witness never testified as an expert in rates of violence because he wasn’t qualified to do so and that none of the witness’ trial testimony “even implied that African-Americans are more likely than others to be violent or that Rayford himself was a future danger.” Rayford’s lawyers argued in another appeal that a federal judge improperly denied money to hire an expert for his appeals to look into his claims that his trial lawyers were deficient for not investigating whether Hall’s slaying may not have qualified for a capital murder charge. They also argued Rayford suffered from brain Texas Department of Criminal Justice damage from lead poisoning via AP because he grew up near a toxic William Rayford was site and carried lead residue executed Jan. 30 for from old gunshot wounds. the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend Carol Lynn Evidence “more than established” Rayford kidnapped Thomas Hall in Dallas. Hall while trying to kill her, supporting the capital murder charge, and arguments about lead poisoning were based on a “vague, general and nebulous conclusion” by a defense expert, Clendenin indicated in his response. Hall, who knew Rayford since they both grew up in a Dallas housing project, had broken up with him two months earlier, according to evidence in the case. Rayford entered her home on Nov. 16, 1999, using a key she didn’t know he had. They argued and it turned violent. Hall’s son, Benjamin, testified at Rayford’s trial that he suffered a punctured lung from the stab wound, was hit on the head when he tried to protect his mother, and watched her run from the home with Rayford pursuing her. He said he saw Rayford carry his mother toward the drainage pipe where her body eventually was found. Police responding to a call about the attack arrested Rayford at the scene. Hall’s blood was on his face and clothing. He told an officer Hall could be found “in the hole … up in the sewer, in the water.” Rayford had been previously convicted of murder in 1986 for fatally stabbing his estranged wife, Gail Rayford, in front of their four children. She had obtained a court order four days earlier to keep him away. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison for her slaying but was paroled after eight years under a former Texas law that allowed some prisoners to be released as the state struggled with prison crowding. Rayford had been on parole for five years when Hall was killed. Relatives said she was aware of his previous murder conviction when they became a couple and believed it was her Christian duty to give people second chances.

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There’s No Fight Sheila C. Johnson Hasn’t Won By Ronda Racha Penrice Urban News Service The “biggest fight of my life” Sheila C. Johnson once shared wasn’t co-founding Black Entertainment Television or ending her 33year marriage to Robert “Bob” Johnson, with whom she raised two children and started a television network. It was getting zoning, planning and other local government permits to open a hotel and spa in the village of Middleburg, Virginia. While her proposed Salamander Resort and Spa would eventually create dozens of jobs and pay millions in property and other taxes, the village government fought her every step of the way. Her hard-earned wealth granted her few advantages. “None of that matters,” she told CNN in 2016. “As an African-American, they didn’t want me to do this. It was the fight of my life. I’ve never been more frightened in my life.” Yet Johnson never backed down. “Change is always difficult, so there was inevitably going to be some opposition,” she shared in an email. The battle was so epic that it spanned a decade. Founded in 1787, Middleburg, a village of just 673 residents in the 2010 census renowned for its steeple chases and fox hunts, considers itself the “Nation’s Horse and Hunt Capital”. Johnson, an area resident, certainly fit the theme. Proposed in 2002, the equestrianinspired Salamander—with its riding trails and horse paddocks—kept to the town’s traditions. The nearly 350 acres Johnson purchased for Salamander was once owned by former U.S. ambassador Pamela Harriman, the celebrated horse lover who was a one-time daughterin-law of Winston Churchill. Plus Johnson’s daughter, Paige, is an elite equestrian who competes all over the world. “I was naïve about realizing that I was south of the Mason-Dixon Line and a lot of people got very nervous about this African

American woman coming in and building this resort,” the 68-year-old Johnson admitted in an exclusive interview early in 2017. No stranger to racial discrimination, growing up, the Pennsylvania-born Johnson moved more than a dozen times before settling in Maywood, just outside Chicago, because her neurosurgeon father’s race frequently became an issue. Those experiences taught Johnson a resilience that served her in that fight and even now. “I learned the life of hard knocks and racism but I was also able to assimilate into the different cultures and do what I had to do to make things work,” she said. A woman of many firsts, Johnson was the first African American woman to achieve a reported net worth of $1 billion. She is the first African American woman to own three professional sports teams in three different leagues—the NBA’s Washington Wizards (where she serves as both president and managing partner), the NHL’s Washington Capitals and the WNBA’s Washington Mystics. She was even the first African American woman to become a cheerleader at her alma mater, the University of Illinois, where she is on track to receive an honorary doctorate in May 2018. Johnson is also a renowned philanthropist. The Sheila C. Johnson Design School Center at the Parsons School of Design in New York City, where she serves on the Board of Governors, bears her name. At the Harvard Kennedy School, she endows the Sheila C. Johnson Leadership Fellowship to support emerging leaders primarily focused on erasing disparities in underserved African American communities. As an African American woman entrepreneur, Johnson has blazed new trails in the corporate-dominated hospitality industry. Boasting 168 guestrooms and suites, an onsite stable, a 23,000-square-foot spa and a cooking studio, Salamander Resort & Spa in Middleburg, the crown jewel in her impressive constellation of almost ten hotels, has won

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Sheila C. Johnson, the co-founder of Black Entertainment Television, is a pioneer in many different fields. coveted Forbes Five Star and AAA Five Diamond honors. Johnson added Nopsi New Orleans to the Salamander Hotels and Resorts family in summer 2017 with Hotel Bennett in

Charleston, South Carolina set to join summer 2018. Back in Middleburg, Johnson reports that “Salamander has certainly contributed to an economic upturn in the town through taxes, paying for water and wastewater treatment plants, and attracting visitors who frequent local businesses, including galleries, boutiques and wineries.” Beth Erickson, Visit Loudoun’s president/ CEO since 2014, cosigns Johnson’s impact. “When Sheila opened Salamander, it was the only new luxury destination resort in the United States that opened in 2013 and, by opening it alone, it created 400 jobs,” Erickson shared. “Occupancy taxes from Salamander have exceeded $1.3 million per year.” “Some of those taxes,” reported Erickson, “went directly to improving sidewalks and crosswalks in Middleburg. It created revenue that allowed the town’s failing pipes to be replaced.” An added bonus is through the Middleburg Film Festival, Johnson, who is also a film producer with ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ among her credits, “has literally brought Hollywood to Loudoun County” according to Erickson. Held annually in October, Erickson said the festival has put “us on the map in the company of Cannes, Telluride, Sundance and that is wonderful company to keep.” ‘Mudbound’ and a talk with its acclaimed African American female director Dee Rees was a highlight of the 2017 festival. In 2016, the festival screened eventual Oscar winners ‘Moonlight’ and ‘La La Land.’ Throughout her life, Johnson, who epitomizes “black girl magic,” has thrived on excellence and challenging herself. “I always try to look for areas in which we, as African Americans, do not do,” she said. “I just feel as though I can do it just as well, if not better.” “I never used my race as an excuse to not be able to do something,” she said. Not with her fight in Middleburg. And not in life.

CBC Continued from A1 support for the late Recy Taylor, who was gang-raped by White men in Alabama in 1944 but were never brought to justice for their act. “Honoring Recy is very appropriate at this time, given what is going on regarding sexual harassment,” U.S. Rep. Donald McEachin (D-Va.) told the AFRO. McEachin was referring to the popular #MeToo movement that is credited with exposing sexual harassment incidents and, in many cases, the

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) had a unique combination of dress. She had on a black suit with a kente cloth, the Recy button and an American flag.

have attacked them and their mothers the way he did. I am also deeply bothered that during his address, he didn’t talk about the 156 female gymnasts in Michigan that were molested by their coach. “It shows that while the president talked about unity during his address, he didn’t really mean it.” CBC Chairman U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) sat with the members of the organization during Trump’s speech. He wore a kente cloth and had a Recy button. In a statement, he said Trump’s speech was empty. “There is nothing promising about President Trump’s ability to read a speech from a teleprompter,” Richmond said. “Every action taken by him over the past year has been destructive for poor, workingclass and middle-class communities throughout this country, as well as -Rep. Donald McEachin communities of color. He said nothing tonight that wipes that slate clean.” perpetrators losing their jobs and their liberties as a Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) is result of those acts. recuperating from knee infection and “Recy went to the authorities in Alabama after she didn’t attend the event. However, he said was raped and the White men got off even though they in a statement that “the American people AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File admitted they raped her,” McEachin said. witnessed a failed sales pitch tonight.” In this Oct. 7, 2010, file photo, Recy Taylor, 91, sits in her home in Winter Haven, Taylor, who died on Dec. 28, 2017 at the age of “President Trump tried to paint a Fla. Oprah Winfrey’s barnstormer of a speech at the Golden Globes highlighted 98, was mentioned by billionairess-entertainer Oprah pretty picture, but it does not reflect the the story of Taylor, a black Alabama woman who was raped by six white men in Winfrey on Jan. 8 at the Golden Globe Awards and grim reality our country faces under his 1944. Winfrey has visited Taylor’s grave. Winfrey said in an Instagram post that she visited Taylor’s grave site several days later. On administration,” Cumming said. Cummings on assignment for “60 Minutes,” she ended up in the town of Abbeville, Ala., Jan. 10, Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.) talked talked about the recently minted tax reform where Taylor suffered injustice, endured and recently died. about honoring Taylor by asking members of Congress law that gives money to millionaires and to wear the Recy button while Trump delivered his corporations “while ballooning the national address and almost all of the Black women CBC members who “I am an American and I love my country,” Lee said. She debt” and the border wall “we don’t need while threatening to attended the ceremony did so. said the president’s indirect comments criticizing NFL players, kick out young and hopeful Dreamers who only know America McEachin had on a kente tie with the Recy button. His most of whom were Black, for not standing for the national as home.” colleague, Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) had on a black suit anthem at games, were inappropriate. Last year, Trump Among the CBC members who didn’t attend the event with a kente cloth draped over her left shoulder and the Recy referred to the protesting players as “sons of b*tches.” were Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.), Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), button. “These young men are taking care of their families and Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), Danny Demings told the AFRO she was protesting the president’s trying to earn a living,” she said. “The president should not Davis (D-Ill.), Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.). “sh*tthole” comment regarding countries of color such as are Haiti and El Salvador and the continent of Africa. “The immigrants from those countries contribute greatly to our country,” she said. “The president was wrong for saying those things and he has not apologized for it.” Continued from A1

“Honoring Recy is very appropriate at this time, given what is going on regarding sexual harassment.”

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liquids and spoiled solids that held squirming maggots. There were no garbage bags in wide use back then; the waste and maggots often covered the men. Even worse, they had to put the refuse in 55-pound tubs, lift and carry them to trucks, sometimes malfunctioning like the one that killed Cole and Walker. These sanitation workers, reeking of garbage and waste, were relegated to the backside of restaurants or alleys to eat lunch. They smelled so bad that sometimes they could not ride the bus home. That was just a few of their complaints.

What is profoundly telling by their simple and direct words is the inhumane treatment they received, that underscored the third-rate, debased treatment of Blacks across many occupations. Simply put, Nickleberry sums up the sentiment for their discontent: “They weren’t treating us right...They were treating us like we was boys, but we was a man.” Videos of the Memphis Sanitation Workers interviews can be seen at the AFRO web site at afro.com.

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Former Big League Outfielder Oscar Gamble Dead at 68 By The Associated Press Oscar Gamble, an outfielder who hit 200 home runs over 17 major league seasons and was famous during his playing days for an Afro that spilled out of his helmet, died Jan. 31 of a rare tumor of the jaw. He was 68. His second wife, Lovell Woods Gamble, said he was diagnosed with a benign tumor, ameloblastoma, about nine years ago. It became ameloblastic carcinoma in 2016 and he had the first of several operations that August. Gamble, who lived in Montgomery, Alabama, entered UAB Hospital in Birmingham on Jan. 22 and died there early Wednesday. His wife said he never chewed tobacco. A left-handed hitter known for the crouch in his batting stance, Gamble had a .265 batting average and 666 RBIs while playing for seven big league teams. Hall of Fame reliever Goose Goosage remembered Gamble insisting that Yankees bat boys sprint out so Gamble could hand over his lumber before circling the bases on home runs. “He’s just one of the funniest guys that I’ve even been around, even professional comedians,” Gossage said. “We all knew he was going through some tough times, and it’s kind of frustrating just to have to sit back and watch one of your close friends go through what he went through.” Gamble spent seven seasons with the New York Yankees in two stints. He had an endorsement deal with Afro Sheen but had to trim his hair to comply with owner George Steinbrenner’s grooming policy when he joined

the Yankees for the 1976 season. “Pete Sheehy told him no uniform until the haircut,” Steinbrenner said in 1991, referring to the Yankees’ longtime clubhouse man. “I said, ‘Oscar, I’ve got a barber.’ They brought this guy in and he butchered him. Absolutely butchered him. I was sick to my stomach. I told Oscar, ‘It looks good,’ but I thought to myself it was absolutely the worst. There were blotches in his scalp.” After helping win the AL pennant, Gamble became expendable when New York signed Reggie Jackson, and Gamble was traded to the Chicago White Sox for Bucky Dent. While with Texas in 1979, Gamble was dealt back to the Yankees for Mickey Rivers, and Gamble reached the World Series again with New York in 1981. “I will not only remember Oscar for his abilities on the field, but also for his great sense of humor and the way he treated me as a young player,” former Yankees teammate and current Miami manager Don Mattingly said in a text message. In an era of constant turmoil dominated by Steinbrenner and manager Billy Martin, Gamble described the clubhouse by saying: “They don’t think it be like it is, but it do,” according to Dan Epstein’s book “Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ‘70s.” Drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 1968 after he was scouted by Buck O’Neil, Gamble made his big league debut at age 19 on Aug. 27, 1969, at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field. He pinch hit and walked at the start of the resumption of

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Oscar Gamble, an outfielder who hit 200 home runs over 17 major league seasons, died Jan. 31 of a rare tumor of the jaw. He was 68. a doubleheader nightcap suspended after seven innings that June 15. Gamble hit .225 over 24 games that year and was traded with pitcher Dick Selma to Philadelphia during the offseason for outfielder

Johnny Callison. He had the last hit at Connie Mack Stadium in 1970 and after three seasons as a platoon player for the Phillies was dealt to Cleveland for outfielder Del Unser. He became a presence in the middle of the Indians’ batting order, hitting 54 home runs over three seasons. His biggest postseason hits for the Yankees were a pair of tying home runs off Milwaukee’s Moose Haas in Games 1 and 5 of the 1981 AL Division Series. He hit .358 for the Rangers and Yankees in 1979 but had only 327 plate appearances, far fewer than needed to qualify for a batting title. “His prodigious power, unique style and joy in wearing pinstripes made him a favorite of fans and of the Steinbrenner family,” the Yankees said in a statement. Former Yankees teammate Lou Piniella thought back to times Gamble and Rivers ripped on each other in clubhouse banter, getting Catfish Hunter and even Jackson involved as other laughed. “He would hit a home run and say, ‘Did you see it land?’” Piniella recalled. “Then he’d say, ‘Well, I didn’t get it all.’” Gamble later played for San Diego and the Chicago White Sox. In addition to his second wife, he is survived by his first wife, Juanita Kenner; two daughters from his second marriage, Kalani Lee Gamble and Kylah Lee Gamble; a daughter from his first marriage, Sheena Maureen Gamble; and two sons from his first marriage, Shane Oscar Gamble and Sean Gamble. A former minor league baseball player, Sean Gamble is a scout for the Colorado Rockies.

Praises Trump Continued from A1 President Museveni’s musings were a reflection on President Trump’s alleged descriptions of the nations Haiti and El Salvador and the continent of Africa as “sh*tholes.” While Republican proxies walked the remarks back to terms like “hellholes,” Trump himself has since denied making any

such judgment at all. “I don’t know if he’s misquoted or whatever, but when he speaks-I like himbecause he speaks frankly,” Museveni said. President Museveni had frank talk for Africans during the same speech. “It is the fault of the Africans that they are weak,”

Museveni said. “They have this huge continent. If you look at Africa, Africa is 12 times the size of India, in terms of land area, lots of resources, and the population is growing now. Why can’t we make Africa strong?” While the spread of violence under the flags of al-Qaeda in the Islamic

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Yoweni Museveni, the 30-year president of Uganda, gave Trump seemingly glowing accolades before an audience last week.

Maghreb (AQIM), Boko Haram, and Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) can be attributed to failed US interventions in Libya and Mali, often referred to as blowback; President Museveni is at least partly right. In 2005, the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) found the state of Uganda’s support of rebels in the Second Congo War a violation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) sovereignty. As a consequence, Ugandan intervention obliterated billions of dollars of its neighbor’s wealth. The DRC demanded $10 billion in restitution. By the measure of the United Nations International Monetary Fund, Uganda

itself, under Museveni’s leadership, is not a model of strength. While its Gross Domestic Product (Purchasing Party Power) (GDP) of $2,352 per capita towers over its neighbor the DRC ($785) and surpasses Rwanda ($2,090); it ranks among the world’s poorest nations. Kenya and Tanzania, other neighbors, have GDPs of $3,496 and $3,296, respectively. An ocean away, El Salvador has a $4,224 GDP. President Museveni himself, is a man of some strength. He and forces he marshaled had a hand in the overthrow the repressive regimes of Mobutu Sese Seko Zaire (now DRC), Idi Amin’s Uganda, and Amin’s successor and Museveni’s own predecessor: Prime

Minister Milton Obote. Museveni’s National Resistance Army took part in the rebellion against Obote when the Prime Minister’s political opponents accused Obote’s party of rigging the 1980 election. Obote was deposed in 1985 in a coup d’etat. In the chaos of the military duumvirate that followed, Museveni seized power and has ruled since 1986. His administration has outlasted five US presidencies. “In the world, you cannot survive if you are weak,” Museveni said of the of Africans during the same speech. Human Rights Watch laid out its concerns with the Museveni regime in its 2017 annual summary, citing restrictions on the freedoms of assembly and association, incidents of extrajudicial state killings, and illegal detentions and torture. While the Ugandan military has made inroads against child slaver’s Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army and the Allied Democratic Forces, Museveni has not totally put down either rebellion to Uganda’s north or west.

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that has served him personally and professionally during his career, Williams began the laborious task of contacting teams around the Association, hoping to find a receptive ear. Instead, Williams said he learned that when it comes to matters of inclusion and social sensitivity to the demographics of its workforce the NBA remains well ahead of the curve among the four major professional sports leagues in North America. Conversations that he initiated via “primitive” means – according to today’s technological standards – were answered and responded to. Two phones calls that were made to the hometown Washington Wizards and the defending Eastern Conference champions were answered affirmatively. According to Williams, the Wizards and Cavaliers will honor Black history by singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before their home games in February. The AFRO has yet to independently confirm that each team will honor his request. However, Williams said an account executive from the Wizards and the media relations director of the Cavaliers returned his phone calls to have extensive conversations with him stating that those organizations will participate. For a man who watched and lived through the days

of Jim Crow America and the struggles for equality that spawned the Civil Rights Movement the social climate of the nation has struck a chord. He has watched the reaction

“This is not about money or attention for me. I want to help strengthen the resolve in young people [of color] and prove just how important they are to this country.”

– Eugene Williams

to athletes of this era who express their displeasure with community issues by taking a knee during the American National Anthem and how they have been vilified from the White House to Madison Avenue.

The current reaction to these demonstrations parallel those he witnessed dealing with at-risk youth as an educator. After more than four decades working with students from early childhood to college throughout the D.C. metropolitan area, Williams has seen his share of teachable moments and this presented another one for him. In the past he has written books on historic figures which he used to break down vocabulary so that students with academic challenges or reading disabilities could actively participate in the learning process, giving them a sense of purpose. “This is not about money or attention for me,” said Williams. “I want to help strengthen the resolve in young people [of color] and prove just how important they are to this country.” Williams’ resolve doesn’t end with the Wizards and Cavaliers honoring Black Americans during the shortest month of year when the NBA honors the contributions of a community that revolutionized its game. He hopes that at least eight other teams will join this movement next month. His conversations continue with the Boston Celtics, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks, where Craig Robinson, President Barack Obama’s brotherin-law, is an assistant coach.

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COMMENTARY

#BlackCollegesMatter: Allies of Maryland’s HBCUs Need To #StayWoke Earlier this month, Maryland’s Attorney General asked federal judge Catherine C. Blake to immediately stop the process of appointing a federal monitor who could bring long awaited equity and justice to Maryland’s four Historically Black Institutions (HBIs). The State wants no monitor at all, but has signaled that if there is to be a monitor, it should not be an African American. At stake for the HBIs are specialty academic programs—the life-blood of higher education. These programs attract students, business partnerships, research funding and talented faculty. The position of the State is that programs like these belong almost exclusively at the historically favored Traditionally White Institutions (TWIs). At the recent trial, the TWI Presidents who testified all discussed how vitally important these kinds of programs are to their success. But in 2013, Judge Blake ruled that Maryland violated the Constitution by maintaining a 10:1 program disparity in favor of the TWIs. This disparity, the court declared, was “comparable to, and in some cases more pronounced” than Mississippi in the 1970s. Worse than 1970s Mississippi is unconscionable. For decades, Maryland had promised to remedy this disparity, including in a 2000 Agreement with the Office of Civil Rights. But as Judge Blake noted: “unfortunately the State did not follow through.” A brave group of HBI students and alumni then sued, aided by law students at Howard University’s Civil and Human Rights Clinic. The dean, former Baltimore mayor Kurt Schmoke, gave the lawsuit the go-ahead. Ever since, Maryland has fought against the HBIs, spending millions of dollars on outside counsel fees and calling the HBIs’ quest for justice “ridiculous” and “a pipe-dream.” In her opinion, Judge Blake noted that “the State has failed to adequately recognize and support the mission potential of its HBIs.” In ruling for the Plaintiffs, the judge referred to some of the State’s historical documents that shed light on the State’s current actions. She indicated that Maryland made no pretext of “separate but equal”, referencing a 1947 report which admitted that “the state has consistently pursued a policy of providing higher education facilities for Negroes which are inferior to those provided for Whites.” Presidents of the HBIs fought for justice as best they could, but a 1950 report noted the “continuous uphill struggle on the part of the Negro colleges” to obtain colleges “on par with the White institutions.” Moreover, Judge Blake noted that in the 1970s “Maryland made very large investments in TWIs, particularly newly created programs at Towson and UMBC, that undermined” the HBIs.”

Michael D. Jones & A. Dwight Pettit

HBI advocacy led the State to appoint a commission in 2008 to study how the State treats the HBIs compared to the TWIs. This commission, the Bohannon Commission, observed that the HBIs “visibly lag” the TWIs. It encouraged the State to restructure its system—one that created huge disparities in favor of the TWIs. But the State ignored the commission. To address the disparity in academic programs, Judge Blake ordered Maryland to submit a remedial plan, to include new programs such as veterinary medicine, aging studies, and healthcare offerings, as well as various information technology-based programs. But the State balked. As a candidate, Attorney General Brian Frosh publicly promised to represent the interest of the HBIs as well as the TWIs, but he has failed to keep that promise. As Judge Blake noted, the “State did not engage in a serious effort to propose a remedy.” Instead, it offered a onesided proposal that favored the TWIs. The judge rejected it. The HBIs presidents lamented that it was “disheartening” and not transformational. Maryland’s “disheartening” attitude is best described by someone who has seen it first hand, former Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele. In a 2013 article in the AFRO, Mr. Steele praised the judge’s ruling and described the racially tinged opposition he encountered when advocating for the HBIs. Wrote Mr. Steele: “I was stunned to have certain academic and legislative ‘leaders’ ask me directly why our administration would want to invest dollars in ‘those schools.’” According to Mr. Steele, the State preferred to build up the historically privileged TWIs and have HBI students go to those TWIs if they wanted the programs. The concerns of the HBIs and their alums, he wrote, simply “fell on deaf ears.” Lest anyone think that Mr. Steele was describing attitudes from long ago, he clarified: “Understand that this occurred not in 1955 but in 2005.” As Mr. Steele noted in praising Judge Blake’s decision: “it is time for those who value the education at our nation’s HBCUs to

join those who have silently and bravely fought for them”. Given what is at stake, it is time for HBI/HBCU allies to get involved, or in more contemporary words— to #StayWoke. Maryland’s Legislative Black Caucus has signaled that fixing programmatic inequality is one of its top priorities, but their efforts could be undermined by the State’s current strategy. Ironically, while the Governor has removed from the State budget millions of dollars that the Attorney General’s Office was using to sue the Trump Administration, the State nonetheless continues to spend millions fighting against its own HBIs, in hopes of overturning the civil rights laws that protect them and public HBIs across the country. Such conduct is shameful. It is time for everyone who cares about justice to join the Maryland Legislative Black Caucus and other allies of the HBIs to help defeat the State’s attempt to turn back the clock on civil rights protections for HBIs, because, #BlackCollegesMatter. Michael D. Jones, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis is lead counsel for the Plaintiffs and an Executive Committee Member of Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, co-counsel in the case. A. Dwight Pettit is an award winning Baltimore civil rights lawyer and former member of the University System of Maryland Board of Regents.

From Protest to Empowerment: Americans of Color Making History in 2018 As troubling as the events of the last 14 months have been, the resilience of America’s democratic institutions – and our people – has been heartening to all of us who are dedicated to our nation’s most fundamental values. In the Congress, in our Courts and on the streets of our country, the foundational premise of our government, “We the People,” has been imbued with heightened meaning. Americans of every ethnic background and faith tradition have been responding to the attacks upon our society, marching in common purpose and raising our voices in a shared refrain. “We are better than this,” an engaged national majority has been declaring, “and we are determined that our government – a government dedicated to be of, by and for the people – will be better as well.” During Black History Month 2018, we honor the accomplishments and contributions of those upon whose shoulders we stand. We also should acknowledge and draw inspiration from the countrywomen and men in our own time who have been marching up history’s protest road in defense of our most cherished ideals. In his Farewell Address, President Obama called upon each of us to commit ourselves to greater social and political engagement. He understood – as do I – that the ultimate support for American democracy is the character of an engaged people, determined to be respected and free. We now are living in a moment of our history when our core democratic values and institutions are under attack – challenged by forces both foreign and domestic.

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It is no overstatement to declare that we are in a fight for the soul of our democracy. Our nation and society are at a crossroads, a critical turning point when “We, the People” must decide what kind of America we will become. This is why it has been so heartening to me that, in growing numbers, the American people have been responding to President Obama’s call. Since January of last year, millions of Americans have been demonstrating that they understand the essential insight that underlies Barack Obama’s vision: “We the People” are the ultimate guardians of our most cherished ideals and our hard-won power to chart our own destiny through the power of our ballots. As it was in that time when I was young, the growing sense of the American people that we have the power to protect and improve our lives began in protest – and, in the future, our history will chronicle that our nation’s women, including women of color, were in the front lines of our nation’s democratic response to the forces of reaction. Last year, on the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, millions of American women and men marched in protest, declaring that they would not be moved – except on a path forward toward greater justice and equity in our society. Soon thereafter, millions more organized and marched to protect our nation and our future against the deadly threat of climate change – and, when our dream of universal access to quality health care was attacked, women and men by the millions organized and successfully challenged those who would deny that healthcare is a fundamental human right. Then, in contested elections held in Virginia, New Jersey

and Alabama, engaged women and men moved from protest to tangible empowerment by taking the lead in winning hard-fought electoral victories, foreshadowing what we hope will be even more widespread national success on Election Day 2018. In Virginia and, especially, in Alabama, it was clear that women – and, especially, Black women – were the key to victory. The progressive victories in these states, one purple and one deep red, were also possible because the national Democratic leadership supported the grass roots efforts of local Black women in encouraging African Americans and young people to exercise their electoral power. I am convinced that the history that Black progressives were instrumental in achieving in Virginia and Alabama offers a clear roadmap to progressive success on Election Day 2018. At the national level, we must continue to actively support those local grass roots leaders who are taking action on President Obama’s call for wider civic participation, even as we continue to resist the reactionary forces that are threatening our democracy. Our message to the American people must be clear and succinct. A unified progressive alliance will not only fight against the reactionary policies of President Trump and his Republican congressional allies. We will fight for the American people and the policies that will empower them to achieve better lives. This, I am convinced, is how we will move from protest to empowerment. This is how we will restore our cherished democracy. Congressman Elijah Cummings represents Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.

It Is Time to Hold Officials Accountable for Police Brutality

In September 1957, seven members of the Ku Klux Klan abducted Judge Aaron, a Black man living in Birmingham Alabama, before beating, castrating, and drowning him in a creek. His torture and execution was one of thousands – part of the well-documented, yet largely ignored reign of terror carried out against Blacks in the United States over decades. Much of the terrorism has been carried out by vigilantes unhindered by state authorities, while others have been carried out under the guise of policing. Pick among dozens of American cities, and it becomes evident that sixty years later, the terrorism continues. As just one example, the most recent known event in Austin took place on December 12, 2017. There, Austin Police officers beat Jason Donald outside a downtown convenience store. Fortunately for Jason, there were witnesses. If not for a bystander who recorded the attack, his life may have ended just as so many others have – in sickening violence.

Njera Keith

Like members of the Ku Klux Klan, the police who brutalized Jason wore masks. The officers demonstrated a zeal for violence and anti-Blackness that is reminiscent of the racism that Ernest Green and Charlie Langin faced when lynched in 1942 Mississippi, that Judge Aaron faced in 1957 Birmingham, that cab driver John Smith faced when beaten by police in 1967 New Jersey, that Michael Donald faced when murdered in 1981 Alabama, that Rodney King endured when beaten by police in 1991 Los Angeles, and that many of the 223 Blacks killed by police in 2017 faced as well. While individuals who commit such violent acts should be held accountable, impacted communities should expand their focus to the local governments – the city councils, commissions and police department that empower them. What sense does it make to condemn individual slave owners who murdered human beings, yet ignore those who wrote the slave codes that allowed such violence? Will we remember only the cruelty of the Klan members who stole Judge Aaron’s last breath or will we remember that

Governor George Wallace pardoned them? Will we today focus solely on individual officers, or will we also make connections to the training, procedures and policies that individual officers follow? As we endure ongoing state-sponsored violence, will concerned citizens call only for the termination of officers, or will there be a recognition that those on a City Council chamber dais or holding the office of Mayor are responsible as well. Will we insist that elected officials divest from policing that results in brutalization and murder? Will we demand that city officials take further steps to develop police accountability? Or will the story continue as it has for centuries, a tale in which government – tasked with upholding democracy – continues to tacitly endorse violence by men in masks? Njera Keith is the founder of Black Sovereign Nation, an Austin, Texas based pro-Black, anti-capitalist collective that focuses on developing autonomy in Black communities.

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Over Expulsion and An Alleged Cyber Harrassment:

Priyanka Banks of “Sorority Sisters” Reality Show Sues Sorority By Jennifer Wright Special to the AFRO A former member of a Black sorority alleged in a federal complaint that the group did nothing to stop online backlash ignited by her participation in a short-lived VH1 reality show. Plaintiff Priyanka Banks says in a Jan. 11 complaint that her sorority’s reaction to her participation in the VH1 show “Sorority Sisters” has left lasting effects, including defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Banks will be represented in the matter by Manhattan attorney Hernandez Rhau in the Eastern District Court of New York. Banks pledged Delta Sigma Theta’s Beta Eta chapter in 2009 as an undergraduate at Alabama State University. During her time as an undergraduate in the sorority she served as both treasurer for the university’s chapter and captain of the step team. According to the complaint, Banks learned of her expulsion from “a random Facebook posting” on Jan. 13, 2015, which claimed the Deltas had expelled her and four of her “Sorority Sisters” costars. The expulsion coincided with the sorority’s 102nd Founders Day and, according to Banks, she still has not received a formal notice concerning her expulsion. Banks was a member of the sorority for approximately six years. During that time, she was never placed on probation, suspended, fined and/or sanctioned or declared inactive for Courtesy photo violating any of the ‘Sorority Sisters’ reality star, Priyanka Banks. sorority’s constitution and bylaws or the sorority’s rules and regulations. In fact, Banks continuously paid membership dues to her chapter and the organization’s Grand Chapter, according to the complaint. “Sorority Sisters” was canceled in its first season after public pressure, including a MoveOn.org petition which garnered over 20,000 signatures, according to the complaint filed. The overall negative feedback about the show occurred after VH1 issued a press release about the upcoming show on Dec. 11, 2014. This is around the time Banks began receiving harassment via social media, according to the complaint. The social media outrage stemmed from VH1’s reputation for creating “ratchet” TV shows that depicted Black women fighting, using profanity, behaving violently and verbally abusing one another. According to the complaint, once the show aired on Dec. 15, 2014, what appeared as a “sincere concern by the protestors” evolved into malicious verbal attacks and threats—including death threats against the stars from members of Black sororities and fraternities, including members of Delta Sigma Theta. –Facebook protestor “And if you know a soror in this show, feel free to punch her in the throat!” one woman wrote on Facebook, according to an exhibit included with the complaint. The threats and cyberbullying became so severe the show aired a special episode on Dec. 24, 2014, in which Banks discussed the harassment she endured, being called a “coon” and a “stripper” among other insults on social media by members of her own sorority. Delta Sigma Theta was founded on Jan. 13, 1913, at Howard University to promote academic excellence and provide assistance to those in need. Delta Sigma Theta declined to comment regarding the lawsuit.

“And if you know a soror in this show, feel free to punch her in the throat!”

Kumar Akhilesh, Shanti Pappu/Sharma Centre for Heritage Education, India via AP

This image shows a sample of artifacts from the Middle Palaeolithic era found at the Attirampakkam archaeological site in southern India. The discovery of stone tools at the site shows a style that has been associated elsewhere with our species.

Stone Tools in India Suggest Earlier Human Exit from Africa By The Associated Press Just a week after scientists reported evidence that our species left Africa earlier than we thought, another discovery is suggesting the date might be pushed back further. Homo sapiens arose in Africa at least 300,000 years ago and left to colonize the globe. Scientists think there were several dispersals from Africa, not all equally successful. Last week’s report of a human jaw showed some members of our species had reached Israel by 177,000 to 194,000 years ago. Now comes a discovery in India of stone tools, showing a style that has been associated elsewhere with our species. They were fashioned from 385,000 years ago to 172,000 years ago, showing evidence of continuity and development over that time. That starting point is a lot earlier than scientists generally think Homo sapiens left Africa. This tool style has also been attributed to Neanderthals and possibly other species. So it’s impossible to say whether the tools were made by Homo sapiens or some evolutionary

cousin, say researchers who reported the finding Wednesday in the journal Nature . “We are very cautious on this point” because no human fossils were found with the tools, several authors added in a statement. It’s not clear how much the tool development reflects arrival of populations or ideas from outside India, versus being more of a local development, said one author, Shanti Pappu of the Sharma Centre for Heritage Education in Chennai, India. The tool-making style was a change from older stone tools found at the site, featuring a shift to smaller flakes, for example. Michael Petraglia, an archaeologist who specializes in human evolution in Asia but didn’t participate in the work, said he did not think the tools show that our species had left Africa so long ago. “I simply don’t buy it,” said Petraglia of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. Instead, he said, he believes one of our evolutionary cousins in India developed the tool style independently of outside influence. The tools at the site northwest of Chennai in southeastern India are closely related to the older tool-making style there and seem to represent a transition, he said. The idea that they reflect knowledge brought in from elsewhere would be tough to prove in India, he said. The country has few well-studied archaeological sites and only one fossil find from this period, from a forerunner of Homo sapiens that was associated with the earlier style of tool-making, Petraglia said.

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WASHINGTON-AREA

D.C.’s Deanwood is Slowly Gentrifying By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com

Graduation Scandal

DCPS, City Reckons with Fallout from Scathing Report

– Leo R. Hector Sr. Avenue to the Southeast and Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue to the south. While Deanwood is one of the oldest Black neighborhoods in the District, longtime residents see a change is coming. “I have lived here for 62 years,” Leo R. Hector Sr., the unofficial “mayor” of

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Dunbar High School had one of the highest rates of graduating students who did not meet attendance requirements. The others are Anacostia High School, Ballou High School, Eastern High School, Roosevelt High School and H.D. Woodson High School. By Lenore T. Adkins Special to the AFRO A damning report has found that a third of the District’s public high school graduates last year missed too many classes or did not properly make up their classes, findings officials fear could cheapen the value of public high school diplomas from D.C. “We very much are committed to putting out the news, the good the bad, or the ugly,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said during her Jan. 30 Mayor’s Breakfast. “None of us around this table who have been very committed to the transformation of our schools wins with fake numbers. And certainly, our children don’t win with fake numbers.” The D.C. City Council has scheduled a hearing for Feb. 8 with government witnesses to discuss next steps. Meanwhile, Chancellor Antwan Wilson has rolled out reforms that include transcript reviews to ensure the class of 2018 has earned the grades required to graduate. DCPS will work to improve grading and credit recovery

policies by next school year while showing the importance of attendance. By May, DCPS will have a plan to regularly audit grading practices in the high schools, implement a new student information system allowing school leaders, teachers and families to monitor student grades, attendance, and information, and have a process in place to regularly train new staff on policies. Plans are also in place for resource fairs focused on students and families to receive support for school success and attendance. Looking ahead to 2022, DCPS will offer stronger final exams for core courses –Mayor Muriel Bowser while offering support for students who fail. “I’m committed to ensuring that our students here in D.C. get what they deserve and that is the opportunity to know that they are privileged for growing up in D.C. and having attended our schools,” said Wilson, chancellor for 11 months. The audit, conducted by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education and released Jan. 29, discovered policy violations in 937 out of 2,758 graduating students’ Continued on B3

“We very much are committed to putting out the news, the good the bad, or the ugly.”

Norton Is Running for 15th Term in Congress By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com

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Mayor Muriel Bowser is part of a coalition of U.S. mayors and business leaders who are combating homelessness.

Mayors and Business Leaders Form Group to Aid Homeless By Aya Elamroussi Special to the AFRO African American unemployment at 6.8 percent may be at an

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com First-time candidates for political office in the District of Columbia are learning this election year that campaigning is a tough, time-consuming process, but it does have its rewards. There are a number of first-time candidates for offices ranging from the

Deanwood, a Northeast neighborhood in D.C.’s Ward 7, has been a Black enclave for over a century, but in a few years, it will become a part of the District’s gentrifying areas. Deanwood is located in the far Northeast corner of the District and is bounded by Eastern Avenue to the northeast, sharing a border with Prince George’s County, Md., and Kenilworth Avenue to the northwest, Division

“Sometimes Black people are afraid of change because we feel that we will be left out but it doesn’t have to be that way.”

New Candidates Face Challenges Unseating D.C. Incumbents

all-time low, but Black homelessness nationally remains high at about 40 percent as of December 2017. Homelessness in Washington has been a pressing issue for

years. In December 2016, a survey by the United States Conference of Mayors showed the capital had the highest rate of homelessness

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D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton wants to continue to serve the residents of the District of Columbia and said she has the energy to do it. Norton, a Democrat, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a delegate in 1990 and has been re-elected with no serious opposition since then. The delegate said she wants the residents to give her another two-year term to continue the progress she has built. “What does D.C. need in times like these,” Norton, 80, told a gathering of 30 people at a penthouse located Courtesy photo in the District Wharf on Eleanor Holmes Norton, Jan. 27. “In times like these, the District of Columbia’s District residents need a delegate to the U.S. congresswoman who knows Congress, is running for her what to do and knows how to 15th term in Congress. do it. In times like these, we should show resistance and we will not rest until D.C. becomes the 51st state.” Norton, who the late District mayor and council member, Marion Barry, referred to as “our warrior on the Hill,” said she wants to continue her advocacy of D.C. statehood, noting that 73 percent of the Democratic Caucus in the House and 20 U.S. senators have endorsed her bills for statehood and work as a member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure to bring or enhance federal government projects in the District. The delegate also hopes to continue to fund the DC Tuition Continued on B3

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Sheika Reid (pictured) is running for office for the first time in a race against D.C. Council member Brianne Nadeau. District’s delegate, to the U.S. Congress, to the ward positions on the D.C. Council. During this year’s election cycle, all of the incumbents in office are running for reelection and that presents challenges for candidates in their inaugural run for office. “Beyond name recognition, there is the issue of running against an incumbent and having their staff volunteer with them,” said Marcus Goodwin, who is seeking the Democratic nomination in the D.C. Council at-large race. “That’s a huge thing,” Goodwin told the AFRO. The Democratic primary is June 19 and Goodwin is trying to unseat D.C. Council member Anita Bonds (D-AtLarge). Goodwin works as an acquisition associate at the real estate firm Four Points. He was educated at St. Albans School for Boys on the grounds of the National Cathedral in Northwest, D.C., and University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. Goodwin has been joined by Jeremiah Lowery, a community organizer, as a first-time candidate. During the Martin Luther King Jr. Parade that took place on Jan. 15, Goodwin noticed that Bonds was not there but had a handful of staffers handing out literature and events unrelated to the campaign. Continued on B2

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“To me that is blurring the line,” Goodwin said. “It is against the law for council staffers to campaign for their bosses on government time and I recognize that during their off period, they are free to do what they want.” Goodwin said that a number of people who are community and non-profit leaders would be happy to support his candidacy but afraid to do so publicly because of repercussions from the council member. “They are afraid that the council member will be vengeful,” he said. “A number of advisory neighborhood commissioners have said they want change in the atlarge position but they aren’t willing to take a chance on me because it would jeopardize their relationship with the

council member.” Sheika Reid is a Ward 1 resident who, like Goodwin, is running against an incumbent, Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 1). Nadeau is also

residents will have if I am elected,” she said. “I talk to them about affordable housing, the opportunities for growth for small businesses and I tell them I will be their

“Incumbents are generally considered to be safe in this city.” -Marcus Goodwin being challenged by first timer Lori Parker. Reid has been holding fundraisers at Ward 1 places like Halfsmoke, a restaurant and bar on 7th Street, and has knocked on thousands of doors in the ward. “When I am out in the ward, I talk to the people about the opportunities

voice on the council.” Reid is a District native and a candidate for a bachelor’s degree in engineering at Howard University. She said that her education at Howard has taught her how to be a problem-solver and “that is what is needed on the council.”

Raising money for the campaign is one of the most important jobs for a candidate. In the District, incumbents have a built-in advantage because they have access to the levers of government and can determine who gets government contracts and jobs. “It is very hard to fundraise but we had a good showing [recently],” Goodwin said. The D.C. Office of Campaign Finance’s web site shows that Goodwin has raised $52,206.34, while Lowery had amassed $21,260.75. Bonds had only raised $150 so far according to the web site. In the Ward 1 race, Nadeau had $194,985.80, with Reid at $17,509.78, and Parker with $29, 666.43, according to

the D.C. Office of Campaign Finance’s report. Goodwin said he realizes that there is an unofficial rule of politics that is working against him also. “Incumbents are generally considered to be safe in this city,” he said. “The conventional wisdom is that if you’re running for the first time, you’re unlikely to win. Some people are telling me to come to them when I run again.” A veteran political operative who did not want to be named told the AFRO that problems first-time candidates face is name recognition and getting their message to the voters. “To beat an incumbent, first-time candidates have to constantly raise money and knock on doors,” the

operative said. “The challenge for first-timers is building a good group of community volunteers and campaign workers. They need to bring smart people around them and to get their message to the voters. “Those challenges can be overcome, though.” Goodwin said he is encouraged by District voters history of ousting incumbents who they feel aren’t performing. “In recent years, we have had two mayors to be defeated because the voters thought they were inadequate,” he said, speaking of Adrian Fenty in 2010 and Vincent Gray in 2014. “Defeating an incumbent as a first-time candidate can be done if people see you as genuine,” Goodwin told the AFRO.

Deanwood Continued from D1

Deanwood, told the AFRO. “I see that change Second, there are a large number of singleis coming and I think that is good. Sometimes family homes that are more affordable than Black people are afraid of change because we similarly-sized homes in other parts of the city. feel that we will be left out but it doesn’t have to You can get more home for your money, while be that way.” staying within the city borders.” What makes Deanwood unique among Redfin’s literature said the median sale price District predominantly-Black neighborhoods is on a home in Deanwood is $315,000, which its housing stock. Many of the houses date back is well below the District’s $545,000 average, to the early 20th century and consists of lowaccording to Zillow. density, small wood frame and brick homes with Hector said rising prices have caused some dense tree cover. This gives Deanwood a smallproblems for residents. “There is an apartment town character unlike other neighborhoods in building here where a resident was evicted,” the city. he said. “The tenant was paying $950 a month Deanwood’s main thoroughfares are for a two-bedroom apartment but when the new Nannie Helen Burroughs and Sheriff Road. tenants moved in, the rent was $1,850.” The Burroughs Road is named after late 19th Darlene Williams decided to move her Google maps family to Deanwood in 2006 because of and early 20th century Black, civil rights Deanwood, in Northeast D.C., has been named one of the 10 ‘hottest’ neighborhoods in affordability. “That is the only place my activist Nannie Helen Burroughs who had her the country by a real estate publication. nationally-known National Training School for husband and I could afford,” Williams told the Girls and Women in the neighborhood. AFRO. “We weren’t trying to go to Maryland While Deanwood is largely a residential and Brookland [in Ward 5] was too high and The Strand Theater, built in 1928, was the first theater east area, Hector wishes it had more amenities. “I wish they would we weren’t going to move to Ward 8.” of the Anacostia River and served Deanwood residents for 31 build up around here,” he said. “We need more stores around Williams holds the distinction of having one of the few solar years until it was shuttered. The Deanwood Metro Station, here for people to shop and not have to go to other parts of homes in Deanwood. She notices that Whites are moving into located in the western part of the neighborhood, lost its parking town or Maryland. The city is building up other neighborhoods, section on Jan. 25 when the Metro board voted to use the space the neighborhood. “You see them walking their dogs,” she said. why not mine?” “That’s no problem. I’m not prejudiced.” for mixed-used development. The District government has plans in the works for Williams is the grandmother of Detroit Lions safety Tavon The Deanwood Recreation Center, built in 2010 and at a Deanwood. Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue is a part of the Wilson, who is a multi-millionaire. Wilson, who holds a Super cost of $10 million, is considered state-of-the-art in the District District Government’s Great Streets Program where grants are Bowl ring with the New England Patriots, has offered to move and is heavily utilized. available to small businesses for capital improvements. Williams other places in the Washington metro area but she has Deanwood in 2017 received recognition from Redfin as one of The Warrenton Group, with the help of the District, is refused. “Why should I leave Deanwood?” Williams said. “I 10 hottest neighborhoods in the country for affordable residential constructing Deanwood Hills, a 150-unit apartment building can go a few blocks to the Deanwood Recreation Center and go living. In a statement, Redfin real estate Steve Centrella said, slated for opening later this year. The Warrenton Group also to the library, swim in the pool and watch the kids play football “Deanwood is becoming more popular for a number of reasons. will be revitalizing the historic Strand Theater to a development on the field. There’s not much crime here, either. “First, the neighborhood has access to two Metro stations, retail-residential project. “I love it here and I am staying.” providing quick commutes to Capitol Hill and downtown.

Homeless Continued from B1

among 32 other big cities. In an effort to aid the homeless, mayors and businessmen across the nation launched the Mayors & CEOs for U.S. Housing Investment Coalition last week in Northeast D.C. The coalition is made up of 14 mayors from Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, and Pennsylvania along with executives from Airbnb, GHC Housing Partners, and Sutter Health. The group is also affiliated with the National League of Cities. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and other mayors announced the launch of the investment project at the John and Jill Ker Conway Residence on Jan. 25. “What we’re fighting for is the security of all of our residents to have what we have. And that’s the ability that each and every night and each and every morning to think about going home. That is what we’re experiencing here at the Conway Residences,” Bowser said. The Residence offers new, permanent housing for 60 formerly-homeless veterans and 64 lowand-moderate-income DC residents at 1005 North Capital Street NE. The 2017 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress shows that between 2016 and 2017, veteran homelessness decreased in 36 states and the District of Columbia. The report also shows that 57 percent of homeless veterans are White. “We have a commitment to end veteran’s homelessness in our city,” Bowser told the AFRO. “We want to take advantage of all the federal programs available to help end veterans’ homelessness. This is a project that is a model for the nation.” The coalition launch follows Bowser’s Jan. 21 announcement to close D.C. General, a hospital-turned-shelter that houses about 250 families experiencing homelessness, according to a statement. The bipartisan public-private partnership between the mayors and CEOs comes at a time when funding for affordable housing is experiencing cuts. The Trump administration’s 2018 budget proposed a 13.2 percent decrease in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). “We have a lot of work to do with the administration. For a number of years, the federal government has been walking away from public housing, and we have seen local governments step in that place,” Bowser said. According to a report by HUD, the number of people experiencing homelessness increased overall by five percent among people who identified as African American and declined by two percent among people who identified as White. Overall, homelessness in Washington, D.C. decreased over 10 percent between 2016 and 2017.

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Ballou Student Dies Nearly Three Weeks After School Attack By Lenore T. Adkins Special to the AFRO A special needs student at Ballou High School has died 19 days after police said he was attacked in the classroom over a cellular phone.

Joevon Smith was hit in the face and body several times at the school on Jan. 10 after he wouldn’t let two people use his cellphone, according to police. The victim told police that one of the suspects sprayed him with

“perfume” during the attack. The student was pronounced dead at 5:57 p.m. Jan. 29 at Children’s National Health System where he had been hospitalized, police said. It’s not known whether the student’s death was a direct

result of the attack. Police are awaiting an autopsy report and a response from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to determine his official cause and manner of death. At an unrelated news

conference Jan. 30, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said she wasn’t prepared to address what happened at the school procedure wise, but said the student’s death troubles her. “Obviously we’re

concerned about that student, the student’s family and the larger school community,” Bowser told reporters. Arrests haven’t been made and the case remains under investigation.

Graduation Scandal Continued from B1

records at nearly all schools. In Dunbar High School’s case, more than 4,000 changes were made to attendance records for 118 graduates, the report said. The Washington Post reported that the Dunbar principal has been removed from the school. Most high schools operated under a mindset of passing and graduating students, according to a DCPS concurrent review of attendance and grading policies. At Ballou High School, DCPS uncovered a culture of doing “whatever it Courtesy Photo takes” to pass students so they Councilwoman Mary Cheh could receive diplomas. took DCPS to task over The DCPS review found a school culture she said that six high schools were the discourages teachers worst offenders at graduating and principals from students who exceeded the coming forward to report number of absences allowed, malfeasance. and failed to follow DCPS grading and credit recovery policies. Those schools were Anacostia High School, Ballou High School, Dunbar High School, Eastern High School, Roosevelt High School and H.D. Woodson High School. Ballou Principal Yetunde Reeves was removed from her position and Dunbar Principal Abdullah Zaki was placed on leave in the wake of the allegations. DCPS Central Office failed to offer sufficient training and

“I look forward to the opportunity for us to work together to get to the solutions that we need to get to…” – David Grosso support or adequate oversight in grading and credit recovery policies, the DCPS review said. Despite the sobering news, Bowser remains confident that the district has improved dramatically in the 10 years since the mayor took over the schools. She dodged a question on whether investigators interviewed former chancellor Kaya Henderson and then-interim chancellor John Davis. Bowser ordered the audit and an internal review of DCPS policies and procedures in December following a November report from NPR and WAMU that unearthed a graduation scandal at Ballou. The joint investigation found that the high school was graduating students with repeated absences and others who couldn’t read and write. DCPS has since removed Principal Yetunde Reeves from the school. Councilwoman Mary Cheh took DCPS to task over a school culture she said discourages teachers and principals from coming forward to report malfeasance. “They don’t want to rock the boat because the culture, it’s almost totalitarian from the central office, they don’t want to stick their neck out,” Cheh said. “They feel, maybe they’re not correct, but they certainly feel that there will be reprisals and that they just have to be quiet.” Wilson is putting a system in place that allows school staff to lodge complaints directly to him and intimidation from school leaders is not acceptable, he said.

Norton

Continued from B1 Assistance Grant program (DCTAG) that helps District students attend public and private universities in other states at the rates of their in-state residents and with a grant, respectively. “I have preserved DCTAG even under Donald Trump,” Norton said. Norton said that despite the Trump administration’s coldness toward the District, there is a brighter future ahead. “The polls show that Democrats can take back the House and the Senate,” the delegate said. “I have spent most of my time working under Republicans and I accumulated wins despite GOP control. Imagine what I can do for the District is the Democrats win back the House.” Perhaps Norton’s most compelling argument for a 15th term is her longevity. She is the 27th most senior member of the House and the second most senior in the Congressional Black Caucus. Norton is the ranking Democrat on the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. If the Democrats win back the House in 2018, she could be the chairman of that subcommittee and there is an outside chance that she could chair the whole committee, Transportation and Infrastructure, depending on what her senior colleague on that committee, U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) decides to do. Norton has been credited with bringing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to St. Elizabeths West campus and her legislative efforts have led to the development of the Southeast and Southwest Waterfront, the Walter Reed campus in Ward 4, the Navy Yard in Ward 6, and funding for the Frederick Douglass and Memorial bridges. However, Norton said that her biggest challenges have been fighting Republican efforts to undermine the District. “In 2016, I helped overturn 15 attempts to block the District’s laws and some of those were attempting to wipe out our gun laws,” she said. “Return me to Congress and I will keep protecting you from Republicans. I have done all of this without a vote on the House floor.” As of now, only congressional representatives from states are allowed to have voting representation. Norton has fully embraced the statehood movement that calls for a representative in the House and two U.S. senators based primarily on District residents paying federal taxes and have obligations of citizenship but have no vote in either body of Congress. Dr. Julianne Malveaux, president emerita of the Bennett College for Women

and a well-known columnist with the National Newspaper Publishers Association, firmly supports Norton. “Eleanor Holmes Norton understands that our work is never done,” she said. “She has been a voice for people of color, women, students and dreamers. She was talking and doing something about sexual harassment before it became popular. “She has worked across the aisle consistently and because of her, 96 percent of all D.C. residents have health insurance.” While Malveaux has embraced Norton, some have yet to

“I have preserved DC TAG even under Donald Trump.” -Eleanor Holmes Norton fully commit to the congresswoman. Greg Davis, a resident of Ward 7’s posh Hillcrest neighborhood, told the AFRO that he likes Norton but that the city is changing and not in his favor. “Del. Norton has seen a lot of change in the city,” Davis said. “She was there when I could afford to buy a house in the city and now it would be a struggle for me to do so. I’ll have to see what she does.” While Norton respects the sentiments of Davis, she has one message for District residents. “Send me back for the 116th Congress,” she said. Norton has one opponent in the Democratic primary, Kim Ford, and she faces perennial D.C. Statehood Green Party candidate Natale Stracuzzi.

At the upcoming hearing on Feb. 8, David Grosso chairman of the committee on education, wants to understand why some students have attendance issues, an answer that’s eluded officials for years, he said. “I look forward to the opportunity for us to work together to get to the solutions that we need to get to so that students feel like school is the best option in the morning when they get up,” Grosso said. “And that’s the challenge that we have before us.”

CHURCH NEWS Washington, D.C.

Gospel Ark Temple - located at 4551 Benning Rd. SE, Washington, D.C. 20019 - will host their Super Weekend Speaker series, starting Feb.1. at 7:30 p.m. The guest speaker for Feb. 1-2 will be T. Renea Glenn, pastor of the Restoration Church of Prayer. The series will continue on Feb. 4 with a sermon from guest speaker Ronzel Pretlow, pastor of the Church of Purpose in Newport News, VA.

Oxon Hill, Md.

The George Marshall Project will host the Hillcrest Heights Community Center Black History Gospel Celebration on Feb. 3 at 6 p.m., located at 2300 Oxon Run Dr. Oxon Hill, Md. 20748. This free, family-oriented event will celebrate gospel music’s contributions to Black history and will feature performances from local church choirs and liturgical dance ministries. Refreshments will be served.

Arlington, VA

The Catholic Diocese of Arlington will host the National Day of Prayer for African American and African Families on Feb. 4 at 12 p.m. Participants are urged to call in at (641) 715-3580 with the access code 951981.

February 3, 2018 – February 9, 2018, The Afro-American

Panelists: Jefferi Lee, Stanley Nelson, Dr. Nikki Taylor, Jaylin Paschal, Howard student, Tony Gittens and Kimberly Varner Howard University Showtime Marching Band drumline

Audience asking questions for the panelists Afro Blue performing

Timothy Jenkins, Brenda Siler and Chauncey Mason III

WHUT TV and Firelight Media hosted a screening of the documentary, “Tell Them We Are Rising,” the story of Black Colleges and Universities, on Jan. 18 with filmmaker Stanley Nelson at Howard University’s Cramton Auditorium in Northwest, Washington, D.C. Over 1,000 students and community residents were in attendance. After the screening, there was lively panel discussion about the HBCU’s, then and now. The documentary will premiere on Feb. 19 on local PBS stations. For more information go to hbcurising.com

Rosi Banks, Dawn Williams, Gracie Hilman and Cynthia Brock-Smith

Jefferi K. Lee, General Manager, WHUT, hosted the documentary

Scenes from, “Tell Them We Are Rising.”

Tony Gittens, Stanley Nelson, writer/producer/ director of “Tell Them We Are Rising” documentary and Edgar Brookins, General Manager, Washington Afro American Newspaper.

Nola Nelson, Stanley Nelson and Kai Nelson

Little Rock Nine member, Ernest Green, Phyllis Green, Annie Whatley, Steve Whatley

The members of The Capital City Links entertained 300 guests at their first Black and Bling Party held at the Arena Stage in Northwest, Washington, D.C on Jan. 20. The theme of the event was seen in the black and white decor with twinkling crystals and candle light. Chapter President Phyllis CaudleGreen and Event Chair Judith Battey welcomed City Councilmember’s Brandon Todd and Robert White to the chic affair, along with other dignitaries. Chapter members and guest bought books to donate to Shepard Park Elementary School’s Early Readers Program.

D.C. Councilman Brandon Todd, Ward 4

Byron Jeffery, Christie White, Karen Jeffery and DC Councilman Robert White, Jr.

Jennifer Lawson, Tina Lee, Judi Moore Latta, Joseph Latta, Bishette Merritt and Tony Gittens

Photos by Rob Roberts

Members of the Board of Directors at Arena Stage: Lavern Chatman, Judith Battey, Board Chair and Lucia Riddle

Ludlow McKay and Edna Moffitt, event co-chair

Phyllis Caudle Green, President, Capital City Links, Aquilla Powell, Annie Goodson and Tisha Hyter Yvonne Williams, Phyllis Green, Martha Mitchell, event co-chair, Loretta Polk and Bradley Holmes

Julia Pollard, Angela Moody and Lavern Chatman

April Gaines-Jerrnigan and Danielle Turnupseed

Alicia Batts, Dr. Clayton Lawrence, Cammi Mazzard, Jobel Gazbette and Richard Vailes

Photos by Rob Roberts

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ARTS & CULTURE

Florence Kasumba Shines as Part of Stellar ‘Black Panther’ Cast By Nadine Matthews Special to the AFRO There is an admirable steadiness and assuredness about German actress Florence Kasumba that is hard not admire. Kasumba, of course, is one of the actors who will appear in what is shaping up to be the year’s most anticipated film, Marvel’s “Black Panther.” Though this will be her biggest role yet in a superhero film, she has already made an impression on the Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom with one simple utterance, “Move or you will be moved.” It is a promise of certain destruction she delivers with rich, dark, aplomb to Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff in 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War.” Kasumba will play that same character, Ayo, in the upcoming “Black Panther” film. Ayo is second in command of the Dora Milaje, an elite group of female bodyguards, who protect King T’Challa/Black Panther. We should probably expect nothing less than such equanimity from someone with an innate love of discipline. Kasumba reveals, “I was the kind of kid who loved to have a schedule and that has never changed. I remember that I had something every single day. I had orchestra rehearsal or saxophone rehearsal. There was always something.” Things haven’t changed much over the years. She states, “For me, what I like the most about the jobs I do is the preparation. I love preparation.” When not performing, which often includes grueling, long days on set and learning lines, she loves to work out or as she puts it “train”. Of course. “There is only one thing I do in my free time,” she says, “And that’s train. I just love being physically active. At a certain point, I got interested in martial arts. I started with Qi Gong and I went from there to Kung Fu. Before I started filming “Black Panther,” I was doing Shaolin Kung Fu every single day.” A statuesque beauty with enviable pillowy lips and sky high cheekbones, Kasumba is also known for her turns in NBC’s “Emerald City,” and the blockbuster “Wonder Woman.” A middle child,

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Florence Kasumba, is one of the stars of Marvel’s ‘Black Panther.’

she was born in Uganda but moved to Essen, Germany as a toddler. Though an African living in Germany, she says she never really felt out of place. “We grew up in Germany and that’s my home, my language. All my friends had a different backgrounds. My friends came from the Philippines and from Greece and Spain. It was normal that people had parents that were German and another nationality.” Kasumba is also known for her extremely short, natural hairstyle. In something of a departure from the norm, the hairstyle was something she didn’t have to worry about for the filming of “Black Panther,” as opposed to other roles she has had. “Going into this movie, it was a requirement. Normally, you go through life and think about letting your hair grow because you get different opportunities, but then you get into a movie where women had to shave off their hair and that’s a big deal. If you wanted to be a Dora Milaje, the hair requirements were very clear when you signed your contract. With my African background, I see these hairstyles all the time in Europe or in Africa, but all of that in one movie is just so inspiring.” Those familiar with “Black Panther” are aware that it is set in the fictional African country of Wakanda. At a recent roundtable discussion during New York City’s Schomburg Center’s Sixth Annual Black Comic Book Festival, Kasumba addressed how the film dealt with using a fictional language. She explained, “Marvel cast several actors with African backgrounds; in my case East Africa or my colleagues, who have family members that speak with an African accent. We grew up hearing it all the time. At the end of the day, we’re talking about women, who come from different Wakandan tribes, so it’s normal that they don’t have the same accent. But since we’re all from the same country, they had a dialect coach on set with us.” Her colleagues on the movie were also part of what made filming “Black Panther” so special for her. Kasumba’s co-stars include Lupita Nyong’o (“Star Wars: The Last Jedi”), Letitia Wright (“Black Mirror”), Sope Aluko (“Bloodline”), Angela Bassett (“9-1-1,” “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”), and Danai Gurira (“The Walking Dead”), although they don’t all play members of the Dora Milaje. Kasumba says, “When you train together and sweat together and feel the pain together, you grow as a group together and that was definitely my favorite part.”

Satellite Radio

Ex-Offender Topeka K. Sam Takes Prisons Tried to Ban this Book. Here’s a Review. to Airwaves to Offer Advice By Jannah G. Johnson Special to the AFRO SiriusXM recently announced the launch of its new show, “Last Mile, Second Chances,” a weekly show focusing on formerly incarcerated women and their stories. The show is hosted by justice reform advocate Topeka K. Sam who herself is no stranger to the inequalities present within the justice system. “I grew up in New York and it was really great when I was coming up. I did well in school, I was captain of every team, I played piano and flute and danced…all the things your parents want you to do. I later left New York to attend college in Baltimore and that’s when I started to veer off campus and sort of hang around and date and get caught up in a certain lifestyle,” she said. Sam said she was in and out of school and was arrested a few times though she didn’t serve any jail time—until she was caught up in a sting operation that led to a federal conspiracy charge, which landed her in prison in 2013. Sam speaks very openly in TED talks and on “Last Mile, Second Chances” about her time in prison and some of the experiences that sparked her

interest in justice reform. “What changed my life the most was sitting down and speaking to the women and hearing their stories. Once I started hearing the women’s stories and their pain and the trauma and violence being inflicted on them I understood that my involvement in activities that harmed my

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Topeka K. Sam’s new radio show focuses on advice for ex-offenders. community and specifically women of color was disruptive and I pled out and worked on my relationship with God and myself,” she recalled. In addition to spiritual enlightenment, Sam’s stint in prison also brought social and

political awareness. “I really became interested in justice reform after I was federally imprisoned. Once I became exposed to the injustices within the justice system I became politicized and I began writing and planning for Hope Ministries and met with my co-founder while I was inside and worked on a project to give women that were new to prison care packages,” she said. “When I was released in 2016 I really started to try to put things in motion.” After leaving prison Sam founded Ladies of Hope Ministries and opened Hope House, a safe space for women coming home from incarceration. Now, with her radio show, Sam hopes to provide a platform for formerly incarcerated women as well as special guests such as activists, authors and social justice fellows. “The show is going to highlight the experiences of women who have been through incarceration and really show the faces of women in prison. It will really show the differences between the male and female incarceration because we are often left out of the Continued on C5

By Regi Taylor Special to the AFRO

Two-hundred years ago there ago was a 10-year-old Caucasian boy from New York City, Thomas D. Rice, whose starry-eyed dream was to get curtain calls on Broadway as an actor. Within 20 years he’d outgrown Broadway and regularly filled the concert halls of London playing his signature ‘caricature’, that lazy, lying, shiftless, dimwitted minstrel in blackface, Jim Crow. Rice could never have fathomed that two centuries hence an African-American female attorney and scholar, Michelle Alexander, would pen a groundbreaking tome about the conditions of former slaves - off whom Thomas Rice got very rich - that for the second time since the Civil War is being called Jim Crow. “The New Jim Crow” is a remarkable book. While it was originally published in 2010 and received numerous accolades it was recently in the news when prisons in New Jersey and North Carolina tried, and failed, to get it banned. It is a scholarly work, written in a conversational style without sacrificing the serious tone of the subject matter which commands a thorough academic analysis conducted with meticulous documentation. This book is also a peek into one African-American woman’s personal journey as she discovered and came to terms with a truth that she was not fully prepared to confront. Not only does Alexander appear to struggle with the nature, scope, sophistication and power of the mass incarceration machine in America that is

relegating millions of Black men to an inferior ‘citizenship’ status not seen for over half a century, she apologizes for being right. In her book’s introduction Alexander recalls an insightful comment made by an associate who followed the comment with a nervous laugh as if she weren’t quite she sure wanted to believe what she’d just said. Some of Alexander’s pronouncements seem like they might be followed by a similar, inaudible laugh of her own. Like the Charleton Heston character in the movie, Soylent Green, who bellows in terror, “Soylent Green is people!” Her distress is palpable . The nearly 20-page introduction to “The Continued on C5

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2017FEP127 Date of Death May 01, 2017 Mary Ellen Wilmoth Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Angus Rollie Wilmoth Jr. whose address is 1314 Harwich Drive, Waldorf, MD 20601 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Mary Ellen Wolmoth, deceased by the Register of Wills Court for Charles C o u n t y, S t a t e o f Maryland, on October 5, 2017. Service of process may be made upon Whitney Cleaver Smith. 1310 Floral Street, NW, Washington DC 20012 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Colombia real property: 2711 29th Street, SE, #213, Washington, DC 20020. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, 500 Indiana Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. Angus Rollie Wilmoth,Jr. Personal Representative(s) TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS Date of first publication: November 30, 2017 Name of newspapers and/or periodical: The Daily Washington Law Reporter The Afro-American 11/3, 11/10, 11/17/18

Superior Court of the District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM000697 Margie Lee Clouds Decedent William R Voltz 2120 L Street NW Suite 700 Washington, DC 20037 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Sheila Jackson, whose address is 7415 Upshur Street, Hyattsville, MD 20784 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Margie Lee Clouds, who died on February 17, 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 (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before July 19, 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 July 19, 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. Date of Publication: January 19, 2018 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Margie Lee Clouds Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM1098 Mary E Langford Decedent Vickey A Wright-Smith 1629 K Street, NW, #300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Diane P Claiborne, whose address is 12407 Gable Lane, Fort Washington, MD 20774, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Mary E Longford, who died on November 11, 2005 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 July 19, 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 July 19, 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. Date of Publication: January 19, 2018 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Diane P Claiborne Personal Representative

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TYPESET: Tue Jan 30 15:57:33 ESTCOPY 2018 TRUE TEST Superior Court of the District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2018ADM000008 Annie M Crowell Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Anita A Crowell and Barbara M Manzie, whose addressare 887 St Michael Dr, was appointed personal representative of Annie M Crowell the estate of Annie M Crowell, who died on August 26, 2017 with 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 July 19, 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 July 19, 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. Date of Publication: January 19, 2018 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Anita A Crowell Barbara M Manzie Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 01/19, 01/26, 2/2/18

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TYPESET: Tue Jan 30 01/19, 01/26, 2/2/18 TYPESET: Tue Jan 30 15:54:28 EST 2018 Superior Court of the District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM001366 Mary Stone Hanley Decedent Thomas L Campbell Esq 3807 Minnesota Ave. NE Washington, DC 20019 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS William Hanley III, whose address is 1315 Morreene Road #7J, Durham, North Carolina 27705 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Mary Stone Hanley, who died on September 28, 2017 witha will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before July 19, 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 July 19, 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. Date of Publication: January 19, 2018 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter William Hanley III Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 01/19, 01/26, 2/2/18

Superior Court of the District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM000582 Lavonne C Bridges Decedent Dennis Eshman Esq 1629 K Street NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Dennis Eshman Esq, whose address is 1629 K Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006 wasappointed personal representative of the estate of Lavonne C Bridges , 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 . 20001, on or before July 19, 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 July 19, 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. Date of Publication: January 19, 2018 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Dennis Eshman, Esq Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 01/19, 01/26, 02/2/18

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Washington, DC 20004 receive a copy of this noDate of Publication: Superior Court of Attorney tice by mail within 25 January 19, 2018 the NOTICE OF days of its first publicaName of newspaper: District of Columbia APPOINTMENT, tion shall so inform the Afro-American PROBATE DIVISION NOTICE TO Register of Wills, includWashington Washington, D.C. CREDITORS ing name, address and Law Reporter 20001-2131 AND NOTICE TO relationship. Eric Geppert Administration No. UNKNOWN HEIRS Date of Publication: Personal 2017ADM001165 Bruce E Gardner , whose January 19, 2018 Representative address is 1101 Penn- Geoffrey Allen Geppert Name of newspaper: s y l v a n i a A v e . , N W, Decedent Afro-American TRUE TEST COPY Washington, DC 20004, Patrick J Howley Esq Washington REGISTER OF WILLS was appointed personal 12505 Park Potomac Law Reporter representative of the Avenue Essie Mae Rembert 01/19, 01/26,Tue 2/2/18 TYPESET: Jan 30 15:57:11 EST 2018 estate of Elese A An- Patrick J Howley Esq Personal derson, who died on 12505 Park Potomac Representative June 4, 2016 without a Ave will, and will serve with 6th Floor Superior Court of TRUE TEST COPY Court supervision. All un- Potomac, MD 20854 the REGISTER OF WILLS known heirs and heirs Attorney District of Columbia NOTICE OF whose whereabouts are PROBATE DIVISION 01/19, 01/26, 02/2/18 APPOINTMENT, unknown shall enter their Washington, D.C. 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Code S e c a n e P l a c e , accordance with Supervs. will, and will serve with search; all Mayor other amounts District of Columbia § 4 7 1 3 6 1 a n d a l l Court supervision. All unTHE DISTRICT OF paid by the petitioner in Philadelphia, PA, 19154 ior Court Probate DiPROBATE DIVISION Plaintiff Murielwith Bowser outstanding municipal SHARON R. known heirs and heirs COLUMBIA accordance the proviWashington, D.C. lien was appointed personal vision Rule 407 is filed in of the amounts and real property representative of the this Court within 30 days COLE-PEARSON, whose whereabouts are Serve: Mayor of the sionsAttn: of Office D. C. Code 20001-2131 vs. taxes due and owing on R S O NofAColumbia L R E P R E - § 4 7 - 1 3Secretary unknown shall enter their P EDistrict 61 and all Foreign No. Real estate of Iris Massey , de- from the date of first pub1350 Pennsylvania the aforemen-tioned SENTATIVE OF THE Muriel Bowser outstanding municipal lien a p p eSHARON a r a n c e R.i n t h i s lication of this notice, the 2018FEP000010 Avenue, N.W., Property, or answer the ceased, on May 16, ESTATE OF Attn: Office of the amounts and real property proceeding. Objections COLE-PEARSON, Date ofor,Death #419 Washington, complaint, thereafter, a 2016, by the Office of Court may take the acGEORGIANNA Secretary M. taxes due and owingDC on Pto E R such S O N Aappointment L REPRE9, 2017 20001 final May judgment will be en- R e g i s t e r W i l l s f o r 0tion hereinafter set forth. 1350 DUPREE Pennsylvania the aforemen-tioned Real John SENTATIVE OFwith THE the shall be filed Order any interested Hforeclosing Harris Serve: Attorney General tered the right Philadelphia County, 4169 Lotus Circle Avenue, N.W., Property, or answer the Decedent ESTATE OF D.C., Register of Wills, of theor, District of a of redemption in the Real Commonwealth of Penn- person to show cause of Ellicott City, MD 21043 #419 Washington, DC complaint, thereafter, GEORGIANNA M. 3rd 515 5th Street, N.W., why the provisionsof the NOTICE Columbia Property and OF vesting in sylvania. 20001 final judgment will be enFloor DUPREE Washington, D.C. Attn: Darlene Fields theAPPOINTMENT Plaintiff a title in fee Service of process may lost or destroyed will And General tered foreclosing the right 4169 on Lotus Circle July Serve: Attorney 20001, or before be made upon District dated 05/5/2010 should OF FOREIGN 441 4th Street, simple. of the District of of redemption in theNW Real Ellicott City, MD 21043 26, 2018. Claims against Registered Agent Ser- not be admitted to proPERSONAL Washington, 20001 JAMES E. CLARKE, Columbia Property and DC vesting in the decedent shall be v i c e s , I n c , 1 0 2 5 bate as expressed in the REPRESENTATIVE Clerk of the Court SUBSTITUTE Attn: Darlene Fields the Plaintiff a title in fee And presented to the underpetition Register of Wills Connecticut Ave., NW, AND And TRUSTEE 441 4th Street, NW simple. signed with a copy to the Clerk of the By:_________________ Suite 615, Washington, NOTICE TO 1602 Village Washington, DCMarket 20001 JAMES E. CLARKE, Register of Wills or filed All Unknown Magistrate DC 20036, whose desProbate Division CREDITORS Boulevard SE Clerk ofOwners the Courtof withSUBSTITUTE the Register of Wills the Property described Judge Rainey Brandt Juanita Marie Harris ignation as District of Date of First Publication Suite And310 with aTRUSTEE copy to the underbelow, their Heirs, Per- whose address is 4670 Columbia agent has February 2, 2018 Leesburg, VA 20175 By:_________________ 1602 Village Market sonal Representatives, signed, on or before July been filed with the Regis- Names of Newspapers: All Unknown Owners of Magistrate Plymouth Court, WalBoulevard SE Executors, Administra02/2 , 2/9/18 26, 2018 , or be forever the Property Anddescribed Washington MD 20602 was ap- ter of Wills, D.C. Judge Rainey Brandt dorf, 1/26, Suite 310 tors, Grantees, Assigns or barred. Persons believed below, their Heirs, Perpointed personal repre- The decedent owned the Law Reporter Leesburg, VA 20175 Successors in Right, Title, DYSON, to be heirs or legatees of sonalRENEE sentative of the estate of f o l l o w i n g D i s t r i c t o f Washington Representatives, Interest, and ,Any and all John H Harris, deceased Colombia real property: AFRO-AMERICAN SUBSTITUTE the decedent Administra1/26, 02/2 2/9/18 And who do not Executors, TYPESET: EST 2018 p e r s o n s hTue a v i nJan g o30 r 15:51:32 TRUSTEE receive a copy of this no- tors, Grantees, Assigns or by the Orphan’s Court for 5313 13th Street, NW, Thecla Bethel Esq claiming to have any inter- CharlesCounty, State of Washington, DC 20011 3321 Toledo Terrace, 1602 Village Market ticeRENEE by mail within 25 Successors in Right, Title, DYSON, est in the leasehold or fee Boulevard daysSUBSTITUTE of its first publica- Interest, and AnySE and all Suite 203 Sq 2931 Lot 086 simple in the Court property Superior of and Maryland., on January h a v310 ing or tion shall so inform the p e r s o n sSuite TRUSTEE Claims against the de- Hyattsville, MD 20782 premises the situate, lying 12, 2018. Leesburg, VA 20175 claiming to have any interRegister of Wills, includ1602 Village Market and beingof in Columbia the District of Service of process may cedent may be pre- Signature of District ing name, address and est in the leasehold or fee Boulevard SE be made upon Gloria sented to the under- Petitioners/Attorney Columbia described as: PROBATE DIVISION simple in theAnd property and relationship. Suite 310 Mathis, 1700 Mass Ave, signed and filed with the Square 3743 Lot 0050. Washington, D.C. premises situate, lying Leesburg, VA 20175 Date of Publication: May also be known as SE, Washington, DC Register of Wills for the 02/2, 02/9, 02/16/18 CIT BANK, N.A. FKA 20001-2131 and being in the District of January 26, 2018 20003. whose designa- District of Columbia, 500 TYPESET: Tue Jan 30 15:52:08 EST 2018 5714 Eastern Avenue ONEWEST Administration No. Columbia described as: Name of And newspaper: NE, Washington, DC tion as District of Colum- Indiana Avenue, N.W., 2017ADM001205 SquareBANK, 3743 N.A. Lot 0050. Afro-American bia agent has been filed Washington, D.C. 20001 20011Ray Murray c/o also Atlantic Group, Willie May beLaw known as CIT BANK, N.A. FKA Washington Superior Court of with the Register of Wills, within 6 months from the LLC Avenue 5714 Eastern Decedent ONEWEST Law Reporter the date of first publication of D.C. Defendants 1602 Village Market NE, Washington, DC NOTICE OF BANK, N.A. Rica J Rich District of Columbia The decedent owned the this notice. Boulevard SESuite 310 20011 APPOINTMENT, c/o Atlantic Law Group, Personal ORDER OF PROBATE DIVISION Arnold H Massey Jr. following District of Leesburg, VA 20175 NOTICE TO LLC Representative PUBLICATION Washington, D.C. Personal Colombia real property: Defendants 1602 Village Market CREDITORS 20001-2131 Representative(s) And Boulevard SESuite 310 AND NOTICE TOD. C. 5341 Nannie Helen BurTRUE TEST COPY In accordance with Administration No. TRUE TEST COPY r o u g h s Av e , N E , ORDER OF Leesburg, VA 20175 UNKNOWN HEIRS Code §47-1375, the REGISTER OF WILLS SENIOR OFFICIAL 2017ADM001453 REGISTER OF WILLS Washington, DC 20019 PUBLICATION Ursula Michaele Shokes object of this proceeding Claims against the de- Date of first publication: WITH Ophella W Durant And , iswhose address is 403 to secure the foreclo01/26, 02/2, 02/9/18 RESPONSIBILITY Decedent cedent may be pre- February 2, 2018 In accordance with TYPESET: Tue Jan 30 15:53:34 EST 2018D. C. South LLoyd Street, sure of the right of reFOR SINGLE NOTICE OF Name of newspapers Code §47-1375, the SENIOR OFFICIAL Ahoskie NC, 27910 was sented to the underdemption in the following FAMILY MORTGAGE APPOINTMENT, signed and filed with the and/or periodical: object of this proceeding WITH appointed personal real property locatedre-in Register of Wills for the The Daily INSURANCE is to secure the forecloNOTICE TO RESPONSIBILITY presentative estate the District of the Columbia, Superior Court of PROGRAMS IN of THE sure of the right reCREDITORS District of Columbia, 515 Washington FOR SINGLE of Willie Ray Murray, who and sold by the Mayor of the District of DEPARTMENT OF demption in the following AND NOTICE TO Law Reporter FAMILY MORTGAGE died on October 25, 1996to 5th Street, NE, Washingthe District of Columbia HOUSING URBAN District of Columbia real propertyAND located in INSURANCE UNKNOWN HEIRS the Plaintiff(s) inand this will ac- ton, DC 20019Washing- The Afro-American without a will, DEVELOPMENT FIELD PROBATE DIVISION the District of Columbia, PROGRAMS IN THE Patricia D King, whose tion described as Square serve without Court su- ton, D.C. 20001 within 6 Washington, OF D.C. and sold OFFICE, by the Mayor of DEPARTMENT address is 536 Oneida 02/9, 02/16/18 3743 Lot 0050, may months from the date of 02/2, 15:53:52 EST pervision. All which unknown TRUSTEE 20001-2131 TYPESET: Tue Jan 30 15:50:41 ESTWashington, 2018 the District of Columbia to HOUSING AND2018 URBAN Place, NW, first publication of this noalso be 5714 451 Seventh Street heirs andknown heirs as whose Administration No. the Plaintiff(s) in this SW acDEVELOPMENT FIELD DC 20011, was aptice. E a s t e r n Av e nare u e unNE, Washington, DC 20410 where-abouts 2017ADM1257 tion described as Square OFFICE, pointed personal repreWashington, DC 20011 known shall enter their Verla TRUSTEE Mae D Goff Kelly 3743 Lot 0050, which may Superior Court of sentative of the estate of Juanita M Harris And as 5714 a(the p p e”Real a r a nProperty”).The ce in this also be known AKA 451 Seventh Street SW the District of Ophelia W Durant, who Personal complaint states, among proceeding. Objections E a s t e r n Av e n u e N E , Verla Mae Goff Kelly Washington, DC 20410 District of Columbia died on July 14, 2017 Representative(s) other that (or the MILLARD to such things, appointment Washington, DCS.20011 Decedent PROBATE DIVISION with a will, and will serve TRUE TEST COPY amounts necessary for reRUBENSTEIN, (the ”Real Property”).The to the probate of deAnd Sebastian Krop, Esq Washington, D.C. without Court superviREGISTER OF WILLS demption will) have shall not been TRUSTEE states, among cedent´s be 1330 New Hampshire complaint 20001-2131 sion. All unknown heirs paid.Pursuant to the Chief Date of first publication: Red Brook other 300 things, that the filed with the Register of MILLARD S. Avenue, NW $#111 Administration No. Judge’s Administration February 2, 2018 and heirs whose Boulevard, #300 amounts necessary for reRUBENSTEIN, Wills, D.C., 515 5th Washington, DC 2017ADM487 Order Number 02-11, it is whereabouts are unOwings Mills, demption have MD not21117 been TRUSTEE Street, N.W., 3rdJanuary, Floor Name of newspapers Estate of Fred Hart Sr. 20036-6300 this 3rd day of known shall enter their and/or periodical: paid.Pursuant to the Chief 300 Red Brook W a s h iORDERED n g t o n , D by . C .the Attorney 2018, (Deceased) And appearance in this The Daily Washington Judge’s Administration Boulevard, 20001, on or before April NOTICE#300 OF Superior Court of the Dis- Law Reporter Decedent proceeding. Objections Order Number 02-11, it is Owings Mills, MD 21117 27, 2018. Claims against APPOINTMENT, trict of Columbia, that noSECRETARY OF NOTICE OF to such appointment (or this 3rd day of January, the decedent shall be The Afro-American NOTICE TO tice be given by the inserHOUSING APPOINTMENT, to the probate of de2018, ORDERED by the And presented to of the underCREDITORS tion of a copy this Order AND URBAN NOTICE TO TYPESET: Tue Jan 30 15:53:16 EST 2018 cedent´s will) shall be Superior Court of the Dissigned with a copy to the AND NOTICE TO DEVELOPMENT CREDITORS trict of Columbia, that nofiled with the Register of 02/2, 02/9, 02/16/18 SECRETARY OF Register of Wills or filed UNKNOWN AND EST NOTICE TO tice beSeventh given byStreet the inser451 SW in the Washington Afro TYPESET: Tue Jan 30 15:52:39 Wills, D.C., 515 5th 2018 HOUSINGHEIRS with the Register of Wills Maurice Kelly, whose adUNKNOWN HEIRS tion of a copy ofDC this20410 Order Washington, American Newspaper, a Street, N.W., 3rd Floor IN AND THE URBAN SUPERIOR with a copy to the underdress is 1423 Crittenden newspaper of general cirDeborah A Hart-Johnson W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . DEVELOPMENT COURT signed, oninorthe before Aprilof Street NW, Washington And culation District and Daisy G Johnson , OF THE DISTRICT 20001, on or before AuSUPERIOR COURT OF 27, 2018, or be forever DC 20011 was appointed Columbia, once a week whose address is 3501 gust 2, 2018. Claims OF COLUMBIA THE DISTRICT OF barred. Persons believed personal representative D.C. DEPARTMENT OF for three (3) successive CIVIL DIVISION Brightseat Rd, Hyattsagainst the decedent COLUMBIA to be heirs or legatees of of the estate of Verla CONSUMER AND weeks, notifying all perCivil Action No. Mae v i l l e , M D & 1 3 8 0 2 shall be presented to the PROBATE DIVISION the decedent who do not D Goff AKA Verla Mae REGULATORY sons interested in the 2017 CA 005698 L(RP) Bentwaters Dr, Upper undersigned with a copy Washington, D.C. receive a copy ofdescribed this noAFFAIRS Real Property Goff Kelly, who died on (Action Involving Real Marlboro MD was ap- to the Register of Wills or 20001-2131 tice by tomail within 25 1100 4th Street above appear in this AugustProperty) 20, 2017 with a pointed personal repre- filed with the Register of Administration No. days first5th publicaSW Washington, DC Courtofbyitsthe day of will, and will serve Calendar 18 withsentative of the estate of Wills with a copy to the 2018ADM000051 tion shall so inform the 20024 April, 2018, and redeem outMagistrate Court supervision. Judge All Fred Hart, Sr., (De- undersigned, on or bethe Real of Property by pay- Estate of Register Wills, includRainey Brandt unknown heirs and heirs ceased) , who died on fore August 2, 2018, or And ment of $7,885.51, to- Gerardo Noe ing name, address and whose where-abouts are May 21, 2016 without a be forever barred. Pergether with interest from Deceased relationship. MTAG CUSTODIAN unknown shall enter their will, and will serve with sons believed to be heirs NOTICE OF D.C. WATER the date the Real Property Date of Publication: VIIIt h i s a p FOR p e a rEMPIRE ance in Court supervision. All un- or legatees of the deSTANDARD AND SEWER tax certificate was purDC PORTFOLIO, LLC October 27, 2017 proceeding. Objections known heirs and heirs cedent who do not rePROBATE AUTHORITY chased; court costs and (MTAG CUST. FOR Name of newspaper: to such appointment (or 5000 Overlook Avenue attorney’s fees; expenses Notice is hereby given whose whereabouts are ceive a copy of this notice EMPIRE VIII DC Afro-American to the probate of deSW Washington, DC incurred in the publication that a petition has been unknown shall enter their by mail within 25 days of PORTFOLIO) Washington cedent´s will) shall be its first publication shall 20032 and Reporter service of process by filed in this Court by a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s W 38th Law filed57with the Street, Register of publication and Shokes for rea- Jeanne K Aellion for proceeding. Objections so inform the Register of Floor515 5th Ursula Michaele Wills, 9th D.C., to such appointment (or Wills, including name, And sonable fees for the title standard probate, includNew York, NY3rd 10018 Personal Street, N.W., Floor search; all other amounts ing the appoint-ment of to the probate of de- address and relationRepresentative W a s h i nPlaintiff gton, D.C. THE DISTRICT OF paid by the petitioner in one or more personal re- cedent´s will) shall be ship. 20001, on or before July COLUMBIA accordance with the provi- presentative. Unless a filed with the Register of Date of Publication: TRUE 26, 2018. Claims against Serve: Mayor of the sions TEST of D.COPY C. Code complaint or an objection Wills, D.C., 515 5th February 2 , 2018 vs. REGISTER the decedent shall be District of Columbia § 4 7 - 1 3 6 OF 1 aWILLS n d a l l in accordance with Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Name of newspaper: presented to the Muriel Bowser outstanding municipal lien Superior Court Probate W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . SHARON R. underAfro-American signed with a copy to the Attn: Office of the amounts and real property 20001, on or before Au- Washington COLE-PEARSON, Division Rule 407 is filed 10/27, 11/3, 11/10/17 Register of Wills or filed Secretary taxes due and owing on PERSONAL REPREin this Court within 30 gust 2, 2018. Claims Law Reporter with the Register of Wills 1350 Pennsylvania the aforemen-tioned SENTATIVE OF THE TYPESET: Tue Jan Real 30 15:50:59 EST 2018 against the decedent Patricia D King with aESTATE copy to the Avenue, N.W., Property, or answer the days from the date of first shall be presented to the OF underPersonal #419 Washington, DC complaint, or, thereafter, a publication of this notice, undersigned with a copy signed, on or before GEORGIANNA M. July Representative 20001 final judgment will beOF en- the Court may take the to the Register of Wills or 26, 2018, or be forever DUPREE SUPERIOR COURT Serve: Attorney General tered foreclosing the right action hereinafter set filed with the Register of TRUE TEST COPY barred. believed 4169Persons Lotus Circle DISTRICT OFReal forth. of the District of ofTHE redemption in the Ellicott City,orMD 21043 of to be heirs legatees 0 COLUMBIA Admit to probate the will Wills with a copy to the REGISTER OF WILLS Columbia Property and vesting in the decedent who do not undersigned, on or bePROBATE DIVISION Attn: Darlene Fields the Plaintiff a title in fee dated 12/21/2000 exhibAnd of this noreceive a copy Washington, D.C. ited with the petition upon fore August 2, 2018, or 441 4th Street, NW simple. tice by mail within 25 20001-2131 proof satisfactory to the be forever barred. Per- 02/2, 02/9, 02/16/18 Washington, DC 20001 JAMES E. first CLARKE, days of its publicaForeign No. Court of due execution sons believed to be heirs Clerk of the Court SUBSTITUTE tion shall so inform the 2018FEP000009 And by affidavit of witnesses or legatees of the deTRUSTEE Register of Wills, includcedent who do not reDate of Death By:_________________ or otherwise Village Marketand ing1602 name, address 0 November 6,Magistrate 2017 All Unknown Owners of In the absence of a will ceive a copy of this notice Boulevard SE relationship. Mary Watts the Property described Ophelia Judge Rainey Brandt or proof satisfactory to by mail within 25 days of 310 Date ofSuite Publication: below, their Heirs, Per- Decedent Leesburg, VA 20175 the Court of due execu- its first publication shall January 26, 2018 sonal Representatives, NOTICE OF tion, enter an order deter- so inform the Register of Name of newspaper: Executors, Administra1/26, 02/2 , 2/9/18 APPOINTMENT And mining that the decedent Wills, including name, Afro-American address and relationtors, Grantees, Assigns or OF FOREIGN died intestate Washington Successors in Right, Title, PERSONAL RENEE DYSON, Register of Wills ship. Law Reporter Interest, and Any and all SUBSTITUTE REPRESENTATIVE Clerk of the Date of Publication: Maurice Kelly p e r s o n s h a v i n g o r TRUSTEE AND Probate Division February 2, 2018 Personal claiming to have any interName of newspaper: 1602 Village Market NOTICE TO Date of First Publication Representative est in the leasehold or fee Boulevard SE Afro-American CREDITORS February 2, 2018 simple in the property and Suite 310 Washington Wendelin Watts Whitfield TRUE TESTVA COPY premises situate, lying whose address is 10410 Names of Newspapers: Leesburg, 20175 Law Reporter and being in the District of Balsamwood Court, Lau- Washington REGISTER OF WILLS Deborah A Law Reporter Columbia described as: And Hart-Johnson rel, MD 20708-31786 Washington Square 3743 Lot 0050. 01/26, 02/2, 02/09/18 Daisy G Johnson May also be known as was appointed personal AFRO-AMERICAN CIT BANK, N.A. FKA Personal Jeanne K Aellion 5714 Eastern Avenue representative of the ONEWEST Representatives NE, Washington, DC estate of Ophelia Mary 6915 Laurel Bowie Road BANK, N.A. Watts, deceased by the Ste 201 20011 c/o Atlantic Law Group, TRUE TEST COPY O r p h a n s ’ C o u r t f o r Bowie, MD 20715 LLC REGISTER OF WILLS Prince- Georges County, Signature of Defendants 1602 Village Market State of Maryland., on Petitioners/Attorney Boulevard SESuite 310 02/2, 02/9, 2/16/18 March 28, 2017, ORDER OF Leesburg, VA 20175 Service of process may 02/2, 02/9, 02/16/18 PUBLICATION be made upon Michael N And In accordance with D. C. Watts 924 Euclid Street Code §47-1375, the NW, Washington, DC SENIOR OFFICIAL object of this proceeding 20001 whose designaWITH is to secure the foreclo- tion as District of ColumRESPONSIBILITY sure of the right of re- bia agent has been filed FOR SINGLE demption in the following with the Register of Wills, FAMILY MORTGAGE real property located in D.C. INSURANCE the District of Columbia, The decedent owned the PROGRAMS IN THE and sold by the Mayor of f o l l o w i n g D i s t r i c t o f DEPARTMENT OF the District of Columbia to Colombia real property: HOUSING AND URBAN the Plaintiff(s) in this ac- 1330 Massachusetts DEVELOPMENT FIELD tion described as Square Ave., NW, Unit 517, OFFICE, 3743 Lot 0050, which may Washington, DC 20005, TRUSTEE also be known as 5714 451 Seventh Street SW E a s t e r n Av e n u e N E , 5512 8th St. NW, 20011, Washington, DC 20410 Washington, DC 20011 and 1336 Maryland Ave., (the ”Real Property”).The NE, Washington, DC And complaint states, among 20002. other things, that the Claims against the deMILLARD S. amounts necessary for re- cedent may be preRUBENSTEIN, demption have not been sented to the underTRUSTEE paid.Pursuant to the Chief signed and filed with the 300 Red Brook Judge’s Administration Register of Wills for the Boulevard, #300 Order Number 02-11, it is District of Columbia, Owings Mills, MD 21117 this 3rd day of January, Building A, 515 5th 2018, ORDERED by the Street, NW, 3rd FloorAnd Superior Court of the Dis- Washington, D.C. 20001 trict of Columbia, that no- within 6 months from the SECRETARY OF tice be given by the inser- date of first publication of HOUSING tion of a copy of this Order this notice. AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Wendelin Watts Whitfield And

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Superior Court of the District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM1162 Brittany Anne Danisch Decedent Eli J Guiterman Esq. 2120 L Stret, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20037 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Eli J Guiterman, whose address is 2120 L Street, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20037 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Brittany Anne Danisch, who died on February 14, 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 (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before July 19, 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 July 19, 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. Date of Publication: January 19, 2018 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Eli J Guiterman Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 01/19, 01/26, 02/2/18

TYPESET: Tue Jan 30 Superior Court of the District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM1162 Brittany Anne Danisch Decedent Eli J Guiterman Esq 2120 L Street, NW Suite 700 Washington, DC 20037 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Eli J Guiterman , whose address is 2120 L Street, NW, Suite 700, Washington DC 20037 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Brittany Anne Danisch, who died on February 14, 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 (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before July 26, 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 July 26, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: January 26, 2017 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Eli J Guiterman Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 01/26, 02/2, 02/9/18

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Each prime consultant applying for this Project willfor bearequired complete Project fees have been estimated at $4,500,000.00 period ofto3.5 years. submit an original Federal Form 255, this along with five (5) copies, the Ifand further information is required regarding request, please contacttoMr. Office of Boards and Commissions. The Federal Form 255 and the five Gurminder Singh at 410-396-5385. copies must be submitted on or before 12:00 P.M. (Noon) on March 2, 2018. Submittals maycomply not be with accepted after this deadline. Projects must the 2006 edition of ”The Specifications for Materials, Highways, Bridges, Utilities and Incidental Structures”. 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Information regarding the prequalification process Enterprise can be obtained by Both the proposed Minority and Women’s Business firms must calling the Office of Boards Commissions on 410.396.6883. be named and identified asand an MBE or WBE within Item 6 of the Standard Form (SF) 255 in the spaces provided for identifying outside key Insurance Requirements consultants/associates anticipated for utilization for this project. The consultant selected for the award of this project shall provide proVerifying 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-Affiliation A 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). 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The consultant selected for the award of this project shall provide professional liability, liability, and general liability and workers’ compensaCityauto of Baltimore tion insurances as required by the City of Baltimore. Department of Finance Continued from C1 Bureau of Purchases MBE/WBE Certification conversation and without a platform,” Sealed proposals addressed to the Board of It is the policy of the City of to promote Estimates of Baltimore willBaltimore be received until, equal shebusiness said. “I opportunity am a firm believer that I in the contracting process. Pursuant but not City’s later than 11:00a.m. local time on the to Article 5, Subtitle 28 of am not a voice for the voiceless and I Baltimoredate(s) City Code - Minority and Women’s Business following for the(2000 statedEdition) requirements: Program, Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Women’s Business think that there’s Enterprise (WBE) participation March 21, 2018 goals apply to this contract. no such thing. My *DIVERSITY AND LABOR COMPLIANCE The MBE goal is 29% SYSTEM(S) B50005249 goal is to provide The WBE goal is 10% an opportunity for THE ENTIRE SOLICITATION DOCUMENT Both the Minority and Women’s BY Business Enterprise CAN BE proposed VIEWED AND DOWNLOADED women to befirms ablemust be namedTHE and identified as an MBE or WBE within Item 6 of the Standard VISITING CITY’S WEBSITE: to speak their truths Form (SF) 255 in the spaces provided for identifying outside key www.baltimorecitibuy.org consultants/associates anticipated for utilization for sothis thatproject. truth can

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.

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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 (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.

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. Continued from C1

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 March 1, 2017. Submittals may not be accepted after this deadline. 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 29% 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-Affiliation A 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.

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Crow” comprehensively lays the Firms will not be considered for a specific project if they apply as both a foundation for logical persuasive sub-consultant and prime consultant. arguments, painstaking methodology, and The applications for this Project (Form 255) cannot be supplemented with prefaces all the books chapters, providing any additional information such as graphs, photographs, organization chart, etc. All such information should be incorporated into thethat appropriate signposts makes for a read that lets pages. Applications should not be bound. Applications should simply be know you’re headed, with stapled in the upper left-hand corner. Cover sheetsyou should not where be included. Inclusion and/or submittal of additional material may result inthat the applicant narrative continues to enlighten and being disqualified from consideration for this project. enthrall. Failure to follow directions of this advertisement or Mchelle the application may Alexander’s premise: while cause disqualification of the submittal. some of us were celebrating hard fought Deenathe Joyce victories from Civil Rights era, some Chief were marveling at our accomplishments Issue of: Afro-American - in education, the professions, business, Baltimore Sun entertainment and sports, and others Baltimore Times Daily Record were movin’ on up in politics and government, the dark powerful forces that enslaved African Americans for nearly 65% of our time in America, oppressed us under Jim Crow for 25% of our time here, and only teased us roughly 10% of our time in the U.S. since the ‘60’s - with a semblance of full citizenship, there were machinations behind the scenes to reassert mass control and disenfranchisement over African Americans, and who knows to what eventual end. In the 20 years from 1980 to 2000 the U.S. prison population swelled nearly 6600%, from 350,000 to 2.3 million. There are currently nearly

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that need to be employed specifically for women of color. Most women who have been incarcerated are incarcerated due to lack of resources, equity inequality, abuse, and the lack of mental health awareness that is prevalent within our community. We need to look more at the root of crime and what causes it, is it trauma related, is it mental health related, was it due to substance abuse, is treatment an option rather than imprisonment. With any crime looking at the root and reason can lead you to alternatives to imprisonment that don’t lead to more trauma.” To learn more about Topeka Sam and her justice reform efforts and the experiences of other formerly incarcerated women tune into SiriusXM’s UrbanView channel 126 at 9 a.m. EST on Sunday mornings.

“I would like to see all my sisters free. I don’t think that there is a place for a woman in prison, at all. I think that there are alternatives to incarceration and that need to be employed specifically for women of color.”

turn into policy recommendations Each firm submitting a SF 255 for consideration for a project is responsible and change. I’d are for verifying that all MBEs and WBEs to be utilized on the project certified by the Minority and Women’s Business like Opportunity my audienceOffice (MWBOO) prior to submitting the proposal. A directory of certified MBEs to really hear occur and WBEs is available from MWBOO. Since changes to the directory daily, firms submitting SF 255s should call MWBOO (410) 396-4355 to theatresilience verify certification, expiration dates and services that the MBE or WBE is of formerly certified to provide. incarcerated people Non-Affiliation in conversation A firm submitting a proposal may not use an MBE ortoWBE to meet change thea contract goal if: narrative.” 1.The firm has a financial interest in the MBE or WBESam hopes 2.The firm has an interest in the ownership or control of the MBE or WBE thatofher 3.The firm is significantly involved in the operation theshow MBE and or WBE (Article 5 subtitle 28-41). efforts will spark conversation and Additional Requirements change and hopes A firm submitting as a prime consultant that fails to comply with the to Code see progress made within the justice requirements of Article 5, Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City when executing a contract is subject to the following penalties: suspension of a system and incontract; society’s treatment of withholding of funds; rescission of contract based on material breach; formerly incarcerated disqualification as a consultant from eligibility to provide services to the City individuals. for a period not to exceed 2 years; and payment for damages incurred “I would likeby tothe see all my sisters City. free. I don’t think that there is a place A resume for each person listed as key personnel and/or specialist, for a woman in includprison, at all. I think that ing those from MBE and WBE firms, must be shown on the page provided there are alternatives to incarceration and within the application.

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1 million African Americans behind bars in America. Not even a Black president saw it coming, or could stop it. “The New Jim Crow” is thoughtful, compelling and prescient, and should be required reading for all American students, but especially African Americans. Alexander did point out that her topic was narrow by design compared to the potential to expand into related areas of consideration. However, there is a natural companion piece to “The New Jim Crow” story that I am disappointed was not mentioned at all in this book. A significant part of the “new” Jim Crow mass incarceration experience for those inmates is the new slavery as well, where the incarcerated are leased for labor - in six southern states for $0 pay - to a who’s who of mostly Fortune 500 companies that exploit them. Millions of Black fathers, sons, uncles and brothers have the dubious distinction of experiencing slavery and Jim Crow in 2018 - with no end in sight. “The New Jim Crow” should at least have alluded to this. The average prisoner range of ‘pay’ among all 50 states is $0.14 to $0.63 per hour. Perhaps Ms. Alexander might expound on the topic of The New Slavery in the sequel.

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Should 49-Year-Old Roy Jones Jr. Really Fight Again? By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Desk The champ is back. At least for one last fight. Former boxer Roy Jones Jr., who held titles in five different weight classes, will fight his 75th and reportedly last fight on Feb. 8 against Scott Sigmon in Pensacola, Fla. Jones, 49, has not fought since February 2017 but will have the opportunity to host his last fight in his own hometown. But with only a year away from 50 years old, should Jones even be fighting? Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley of the AFRO Sports Desk debate this interesting question. Riley: Jones has always been a showman, and while his skills have greatly decayed since his prime, he’s still a headliner that can draw reasonable audience. Boxing is still a sport without a group of stars which is why it’s resulted in gimmicks like MMA fighters converting over into professional boxing and over-the-hill boxers still lacing up their gloves for the sake of a check. Boxing is on its last legs right now. The sport is dying for some fresh blood and Jones has a chance to cash out on a sizable payday and can still draw a crowd. Why not give it one more go before hanging them up? Green: At 49 years old, Jones’ quickness, spring and power are all gone. Fans will pay to see Jones fight just because boxing is watered

down, but there are a lot of true boxing fans that will not. And, add in the health risks. One quick combo from Sigmon could put Jones in serious jeopardy. Sigmon is almost two decades younger than Jones at only 30 years old. Yes, Sigmon may not be a Mike Tyson-style knockout artist but smart money says a 30-year-old should be able to handle a 50-year-old. Riley: Whether Sigmon lays out Jones or lays down for him, we just want to see Jones fight. It’s bad enough fans had to subject themselves to Connor McGregor attempting to masquerade as a professional boxer last year. The last thing some fans want to see is a middle-aged Roy Jones trying to backpedal through the ring like he’s young again. But count me in as one of those fans that just wants to see a headliner fight. Green: It’s almost like seeing Michael Jordan play for the Washington Wizards. Yes, it was exciting to still see him play but, at the end of the day, it just wasn’t the same. And, a lot of us basketball fans wish we could erase the images of a heavy Jordan shuffling his way around in a teal blue Wizards jersey. It’s the same concept now. Jones was one of the most exciting fighters of all time. And while his last few fights haven’t made it to a national stage, this one definitely will and I would hate for my remaining images of Jones to be tarnished by a lopsided bout.

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Roy Jones Jr. will fight Scott Sigmon, who is 30-years younger than him, on Feb. 8. Should he?

From the AFRO Sports Editor’s Desk

LaVar Ball’s Lithuanian Pro Head Coaching Debut: LaMelo and LiAngelo Score 71 Combined Points in Big Win By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor LaVar Ball made his pro head coaching debut on Jan. 28 when he served as head coach of Vytautas, the Lithuanian pro basketball team on which his two youngest sons, LiAngelo and LaMelo, play. The two Ball brothers went on to score 71 points, combined in the game, as Vytautas crushed its opponent Jonova, of the Lithuanian Basketball League, 151-120. LaMelo and LiAngelo had recently scored score 80 points, combined in the first game their father actually coached on Jan. 23. LaVar served as assistant coach of that game in which Vytautas outlasted its opponent, BC Dzūkija of the LBL, in a 147-142 overtime victory. According to reports, LaVar apparently talked his way into a coaching role after his sons went scoreless in a combined 14 minutes of play in a 116-93 loss to P. Zvaigzdes of the LBL on Jan. 21.

“[LaVar] will be an assistant coach on game protocol but will drive the team through the game and make many of the decisions,” a team spokesman said on Jan. 23, according to ESPN. “The style that the team is going to play is going to be LaVar’s choice.” LaVar chose a fast-paced style of play, pushing the ball and shooting quickly on offense, while full-court pressing and trapping

The loss prompted Vytautas to allow LaVar to serve as head coach of the team in its game against Jonava on Jan. 28. LaMelo went on to post a triple double of 40 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds while LiAngelo added 31 points.

“The style that the team is going to play is going to be LaVar’s choice.” on defense. The results led to LaMelo, the youngest Ball at age 16, scoring a game-high 43 points, while LiAngelo, 18, finished with 37 points. LaVar didn’t coach in Vytautas’ next game, an 86-78 loss to Juventus on Jan. 27. The team returned to its slower pace and LaMelo and LiAngelo scored just 17 points combined in about 12 minutes of action each. AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis

ESPN’s Jemele Hill Leaving Her Anchor Job at ‘Sportscenter’ By The Associated Press ESPN says outspoken “Sportscenter” anchor Jemele Hill is leaving that role to write for a company website and do occasional on-air commentary. Hill attracted attention last year and was briefly suspended for opinionated messages on social media, including a reference to President Donald Trump as a “white supremacist.” Hill says Jan. 26 she asked to be taken off the 6 p.m. weekday edition of ESPN’s sports news show because of a “strong desire to return to reporting, writing and commentary.” She is going to work for The Undefeated, ESPN’s website that concentrates on issues of sports, race and culture. She also says she will be involved in some things that she can’t announce at this point. ESPN says her “Sportscenter” co-anchor, Michael Smith, will continue as a solohost.

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Jemele Hill, the outspoken “Sportscenter” anchor, is leaving that role to write for a company web site and do occasional on-air commentary.

The father of American basketball players LiAngelo Ball and LaMelo Ball, LaVar Ball, played the role of head coach for his son’s Lithuanian basketball team.

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Race and Politics

Baltimore Police Department

Enemy of the State

Cascade of Scandals at Gun Trace Task Force Trial

I’ve watched every State of the Union Address since I graduated high school in 1983. But, not Sean Yoes this year. Baltimore AFRO I had no Editor syoes@afro.com desire to listen to the sh*thole president blather on about what he’s done and what he’s going to do (too bad the Congressional Black Caucus didn’t have the guts to boycott the SOTU as they threatened), because everything Trump says is a lie, or is rooted in a lie. And that’s not hyperbole. I know that every

…Trump is transcendent in his lying; he is truly incomparable in mendacity, he has no peer. president from George Washington (despite American mythology) to Barack Obama has lied, some more than others. But, Trump is transcendent in his lying; he is truly incomparable in mendacity, he has no peer. Around Jan. 10, Trump crossed the 2,000 lie threshold (something about building “the wall” in one year, blah,

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Baltimore Razes Downtown Homeless Camps By J. K. Schmid Special to the AFRO A new facility opened at the end of January with the mission of finding Baltimore’s homeless population rapid and permanent housing. “We talk about this being a supportive process,” Candace Vanderwater, Chief Operating Officer of Volunteers of America (VOA) Chesapeake, told the AFRO by phone Jan. 30. Serving that end is about “making connections and getting folks housingready, removing barriers and ultimately seeing the success of them being able to obtain permanent housing,” she said. VOA, which services the Maryland, Virginia and D.C.

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The trial of former Gun Trace Task Force members Daniel Hersl (left) and Marcus Roberts continues this week. By Stephen Janis Special to the AFRO Recently Mayor Catherine Pugh cited a lack of creativity within the Baltimore Police Department as one of her reasons for firing Commissioner Kevin Davis and replacing him with Darryl De Sousa. But, if there is one theme that has emerged from the trial of two of the officers of the now notorious Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), underway at the federal courthouse this week, it is when it comes to stealing overtime, robbing residents and dealing drugs the officers of this once elite specialized unit exhibited boundless creativity. During hours of testimony from DEA agents, victims and the officers themselves, a picture is emerging of a unit of cops constantly applying new and ingenious ways to rip off taxpayers, shakedown innocent residents and enrich themselves without showing up to work.

For example during testimony Jan. 29, GTTF member Jemell Rayam related how the unit, unsatisfied with robbing drug dealers during warrant searches turned to seeking out victims outside the scope of the police work. To make it happen, Rayam and another member of the unit Momodu Gondo obtained a vehicle tracker from an unnamed Sergeant in the police department and affixed it to the car of a man who a friend told them had thousands of dollars of cash stashed in his apartment. When the tracking device pegged the victim far from home, the officers broke into the residence. The only problem, the – Jemell Rayam victim’s girlfriend was lying in bed inside the apartment. Startled, officer Rayam said he pointed his gun, and he gave an account of what he said to the terrified woman before stealing $12,000 in cash from a dresser drawer. “I could have told her I would kill her,” he said, adding that he also stole a Rolex watch and cocaine.

“We came into work whenever we wanted to. We got away with a lot of things.”

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Brown’s Memorial Baptist Church 3215 W. Belvedere Ave Baltimore, Maryland 21215 Eric Waddell and The Abundant Life Singers Hour of Power Feb. 11, 6 p.m. Gillis Memorial Christian Community Church 4016 Park Heights Ave Baltimore, Maryland 21215 Ash Wednesday Service Feb. 14t 6:45 p.m. Rev. Darryl P. Gould, Sr., Pastor Speak to My Heart Ministries 3903 W. Belvedere Ave. Baltimore, Maryland 21215 Winter Revival Feb. 16, 7 p.m. and Feb. 18, 4 p.m. Bishop Duane Johnson, Pastor

By Michelle Richardson Special to the AFRO

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Vera Bell Fry, an iconic teacher in Baltimore City Public Schools, shaped the lives of thousands of young people.

Vera Bell Fry, Veteran Iconic Baltimore School Teacher Dies at 95

This week, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), charged a man with the murder of a woman he had been dating, who was reported missing in May of 2017. Shaquana Marie Caldwell, 26, was last seen on Spruce St. near Fairhaven Ave., Facebook in the Curtis Bay community in South The body Shaquana Caldwell, 26 was Baltimore, on May 14, 2017. discovered by hikers in Anne Arundel County Her family reported her missing on last June. Police charged her former boyfriend, May 22, after she didn’t show up for work Taras Caldwell, 51 with her murder this week. and they hadn’t heard from her. Taras Caldwell, 51, of the 1500 block of Spruce St., has been charged with first and second degree murder and assault in the death of Shaquana Caldwell. Family members say despite the victim and the suspect having the same last name, they were not married; Taras Caldwell was the victim’s boyfriend. Caldwell’s body was found in a wooded area in the 500 block of Ordnance Road in Anne Arundel County in June by hikers. She was identified using dental records.

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By AFRO Staff

Mount Pleasant Church and Ministries 6000 Radecke Ave Baltimore, Maryland 21206 Black Voices: Celebrating Powerful Voices in African American History

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Boyfriend Charged with Murder in Missing Woman’s Case

Baltimore Area Church News Black History Month begins this month. It is a time set aside to focus on the contributions African Americans have made to this country and the world. Set aside time this month to learn something new about the African American experience. Watch a documentary, read a book, go to a museum and learn. Make sure you take the younger generation with you and educate them on the amazing things African Americans have done and continue to do.

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Bishop Byers, a four-month resident of the tent city on Guilford Ave. downtown, waits to move his belongings into storage.

Very few professions have as much of a role in influencing a community as that of an educator. In Baltimore City, one of those notable influencers was Vera Bell Fry, who helped shaped the lives of thousands of young boys and girls in the public school system for

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blah, blah), according to the Washington Post, which has chronicled his list of lies since day one. Of course, this odyssey began literally on day one of his presidency, when Trump (with a huge assist from now vanquished spokesman Sean Spicer) lied about the size of his inauguration crowd. That’s also when the disheveled Kellyanne Conway, his senior advisor introduced the term, “alternative facts,” into the American lexicon. Now, a little more than a year into his maniacal presidency and his first SOTU address, for Trump and his most rabid followers, the lie is the truth. In Davos, Switzerland last week at the World Economic Forum (an event no U.S. president has attended since Bill Clinton ironically), Trump took his nihilistic act to the world stage. While he was in Davos, (where allegedly most of the men and women assembled find Trump personally repulsive), the New York Times broke the story that Trump attempted to fire Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor in the Russia investigation in June 2017, just weeks after firing the director of the FBI James Comey, who had been conducting the Russia probe. Trump’s response was predictable, ‘fake news.’ No, real news, fake president.

This week, presumably bowing to pressure from the Trump White House, FBI Director Christopher Wray pushed out Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a man Trump has personally attacked because his wife ran for state office in Virginia as a Democrat. It seems clear, in order to make “this Russia thing,” go away Trump is prepared to tear down the J. Edgar Hoover Building brick by brick. The FBI was created by Hoover, who led the Bureau from 1935 to 1972, over the course of six presidential administrations: Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. Hoover, once referred to Martin Luther King as, “the most notorious liar in the country.” I was a little boy when Hoover weaponized COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program), against the Black liberation movement in America in the 1960’s, he was an enemy of Black people and his imprint on the FBI is still ubiquitous. So, I am under no illusion about what the FBI is. However, to witness the Republicans in Congress, a group of almost exclusively White men, aid Trump in the demolition of the leadership of the FBI (and the Department of Justice, Trump obtusely refers to DOJ Deputy Director Rod Rosenstein

as, `the democrat from Baltimore), another group of White Republican men, most of whom are lifelong public servants, is at once hilarious and horrifying. Trump is an enemy of the state (or “deep state” for the ever burgeoning lunatic wing of the Republican Party) and of Black people simultaneously, seemingly paradoxical positions. But, for the diabolical 45th president, nothing is impossible. He presses forward, seemingly indefatigable; shredding the Constitution, mocking the rule of law, while undermining the country’s so called institutions of law enforcement, the FBI and the Department of Justice. Perhaps, Trump should appropriate his mantra from Rev. Jeremiah Wright, “God damn America.” The State of the Union for the vast majority of Black people and Brown people, poor people, LGBTQ people, sh*thole immigrants, anybody who is a victim of, or fighting against the “American carnage” being perpetrated by Trump, The State of the Union is misery. No Trump lie can change that essential truth. Sean Yoes is the Baltimore Editor of the AFRO and host and executive producer of the AFRO First Edition video podcast, which airs Monday and Friday on the AFRO’s Facebook page.

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area, currently provides over 200 units of affordable housing at its Paca House, Pratt House and Irvington Woods locations. The homes provide housing for families as well as efficiencies for individual adults, Vanderwater said. Located at 4900 E Monument St, the refurbished warehouse location was originally contracted between Baltimore City and VOA as a halfway house for city residents returning from prison. Seeming to address the primary year-in and year-out complaints about Baltimore’s shelters, 4900 E. Monument offers comparatively stable 24/7 accommodations of food, shelter and sanitation. The opening of the new living space comes at the closure of a burgeoning encampment a mere two blocks from city hall. VOA began accepting residents Jan. 22 and the camp was razed Jan. 26. In July, approximately 10 tents with 15 residents were set up beneath the Fallsway underpassess at Bath Street and Guilford Avenue. The population dropped in August as residents migrated to War Memorial Park as part of the tent city protest. The encampment dramatically expanded when tent city was razed and dispersed. Old residents returned and new residents settled in. Five months later, at the time of the razing, residents themselves estimated 40 to 50 people were living at the site across more than 30 tents. The site was closed “due to rapidly escalating health and safety concerns,” said Terry Hickey, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Human Services, in a press release. While VOA will work to – Terry Hickey make residents “housing-ready,” the city may not be prepared for their success. “The reality, however, is that there is not currently capacity to provide immediate permanent housing to all who require it,” Hickey said in the same release. “Accordingly, the city has entered into a partnership with a respected and experienced provider, Volunteers of America, to provide bridge housing for all current residents of the above-referenced encampments.” But what is the definition of bridge housing, when there’s not housing available at the other? “The bridge program on Monument St., is a bridge to permanent housing,” Vanderwater said. “It’s a way for folks to prepare and become housing-ready. It’s a supportive process for folks who have been homeless for a long period of time and who have possibly some complex support needs or barriers that have prevented them historically from being housed.” The Mayor’s Office did not respond to the AFRO’s requests for clarification on the city’s working definition or conception of bridge housing. Much like last August, Mayor Pugh visited the encampment to see conditions on the ground before the razing and the razing left the all-too-familiar square muddy footprints where tents had been. This time, the police presence was much more heavy. Guilford Ave was shut down from early morning until late evening between East Centre and East Pleasant Streets. Last year, Nathaniel Fields, Manager, Homeless Outreach, Downtown Partnership read the accord between the city and protestors at the conclusion of the Tent City protests. Last week, Fields was personally helping residents dismantle their tents. VOA has 23 residents in its new facility and program. It cannot confirm how many, if any, are former residents of the Guilford Ave. tent city. Many residents refused to leave the encampment and declined the offer to relocate to VOA. Many were suspicious of the location in an area they thought was high in drugs, crime and as close to the Baltimore County line as possible without crossing it. “I’m just coming home from out of prison,” said Tony Hall, who refers to himself as just a

“…there is not currently capacity to provide immediate permanent housing to all who require it.”

homeless man, outside. “I’m not trying to go back into another institution.” Hall and another resident, Robert Knox, held signs as residents dragged collapsed tents and debris into the street to block traffic. Knox rubbed black scars on his knuckles that he says are from frostbite. “I just want to lay down and give up. It’s like I don’t even live, I just exist.”

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Continued from D1 The anecdote was one of many stories told on the stand by former GTTF members who have since pled guilty during the trial of their counterparts Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor. Both are charged with robbing residents, filing false reports, and extortion. The pair is also facing multiple counts of fraudulently obtaining overtime, which according to the testimony, was not just unfathomably easy, but accomplished with at the least tacit approval of command. Both Evodio Hendrix and Rayam told jurors that overtime was there for taking, even for days they didn’t work at all. In fact, Hendrix testified that Hersl didn’t show up to work for nearly a month. “I was told Hersl took off for a whole month when he was working on his house,” Rayam told the jurors. “Was he getting paid?” Prosecutors asked. “I believe so, yes” Rayam replied. In fact, both he and Hendrix and another member of the unit who has pled guilty, Maurice Ward, said that if an officer confiscated a gun, the entire unit would receive up to eight hours of overtime. And if one of their colleagues had to work late processing a suspect, the entire unit would go home but, would not clock out. “We came into work whenever we wanted to,” Rayam told the jury. “We got away with a lot of things.” One question that has continued to loomed over the scandal-plagued department, that was in part answered during the proceedings, was just how this group officers broke the law regularly without intervention from their superiors. According to testimony from Hendrix, the unit’s supervisor Sergeant Wayne Jenkins met with then police Commissioner Kevin Davis in 2016 and recounted his conversation to him later. During the talk, Davis asked Jenkins how he was keeping the Task Force motivated. “He said he gave them overtime and slash days and the commissioner said, ‘good job.” Hendrix recalled. “He told the commissioner he was giving overtime for guns.” But if there was any concern about the actions of the Task Force or attempts to rein them in, it wasn’t evident in their behavior. In fact, DEA agent Todd Edwards testified about a strange encounter he had with Jenkins in September 2016. During a stakeout of a suspected cocaine dealer in Upper Marlboro, Md., a D.C. suburb, someone knocked on the window of his vehicle. When he opened the door, he was greeted by Jenkins, who told him he was pursuing the same target. “I said, why are you here? And he said, why are you here?” Edwards testified, noting that a Baltimore police officer does not have jurisdiction in Prince George’s county. When asked by prosecutors if it was unusual to encounter a city cop so far outside the city, he was unequivocal. “I found it unusual,” he said. Asked if he’d ever experienced anything like it in his 25 years of drug enforcement, he equally emphatic tell the jury he had not.

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Feb. 17, 6 p.m. Bishop Clifford Johnson, Pastor *ticketed event

Morgan State University Choir Concert Feb. 25 4 p.m. Rev. Harley Wilson, Pastor

Greater Harvest Baptist Church 1617 W. Saratoga Street Baltimore, Maryland 21223 65th Church Anniversary Kick-off Feb. 18 4 p.m. Rev. Brent Jones, Pastor

Mt. Hebron Baptist Church 2651 West North Ave Baltimore, Maryland 21216 Heritage Sunday Feb. 25 11 a.m. Rev. Dr. Beryl Whipple, Pastor

Charity Church The City of Truth 1710 Gwynn Oak Ave Baltimore, Maryland 21207 53rd Church Anniversary Feb. 25 Rev. Tyrone Thomas, Pastor

Open Bible Baptist Church 3902 W. Overlea Ave Baltimore, Maryland 21206 Kingdom Covenant Impact Fellowship Lent 2018 Revival Every Wednesday of Lent, Feb 14 – Mar. 28, 7 p.m. Bishop J.L. Carter, Presiding Prelate

Israel Baptist Church of Baltimore City 1200 N. Washington Street Baltimore, Maryland 21213

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Lexington Market Celebrates Black HIstory Month in a Big Way

Hello, hello, hello everyone! This is an exciting month for me and hopefully for you too. I mean we have Black History month with a lot of organizations doing special stuff, Valentine’s Day also comes this month and I am celebrating 20 years with the AFRO American Newspaper. I am planning to do something special with my column for this one, thanks to a suggestion from my boss, Jake Oliver. So, some kind of way I’ve got to find space to cover all of that. I believe Lexington Market is doing the biggest celebration of them all Lexington Market celebrates Black History Month in a big way with live entertainment, because, they are going to concerts, book signings, arts and crafts, assorted vendors, children’s hour, and much be jumping up and down, more all month long. doing the James Brown, every day in the month of and R&B. This month’s line-up includes: Feb. 4, Japheth Feb.(except Sundays) from Clark, Feb. 11, Kevin Robinson and KERQ, Feb. 18, the the time they open until they close. I want to thank Stacey Palovations Band and Singers and Feb. 25, Black Magic Pack, marketing and communication manager and her staff Blues Mission. All concerts are Sats., 12 noon-2 p.m. for making me apart of this event for the past 15 years as an For the first time, the Market will host a children’s author. hour featuring children’s book authors and hands on crafts Lexington Market will mark Black History Month with activities every Sat. Also this month, the Market will host a schedule of free events African American authors and artisans whose works will for children, families, be on display. Handcrafted jewelry, sculptures, painting, and adults of all ages and photography, books and vintage memorabilia are some of interests. Highlights include the items available for purchase from vendors. Africana Sat. afternoon live music American authors fair, Feb.1 to Feb.11, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; and concert series, a Sat. morning African-American artisans fair is Feb. 13 to Feb. 25, 10 children’s hour series, and a.m.-6 p.m. We will see you there. African American authors Griots Circle of Maryland under the direction of Kay and artisan fairs throughout L. Merrill, president, along with the Great Blacks in Wax the month. All events take Museum and Baltimore Ceasefire, are hosting an event in place in the Market’s Arcade honor of the life and legacy of Ancestor Mother Mary Carter Art Sherrod, Jr., renowned at 400 W. Lexington St., in Baltimore. The Market’s live saxophonist and recording Smith. The program will be Feb. 4 at the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum located at 1601 E. North Ave., from artist gets up close and music concert series will personal while performing 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. host some of Baltimore’s at Blues Alley, 1673 For more information, call 410-788-3553. most established, as well as Wisconsin Ave., NW, Well, my dear friends, I am out of space. If you need me, up and coming musicians, Washington, DC for two call me at 410-833-9474 or email me at rosapryor@aol.com. representing music styles nights, Feb. 2 and 3. Until the next time, I’m Musically Yours. from Blues and Jazz to the top Motown beats, Caribbean

Baltimore’s own Crosswind will head up the big PreValentine’s Day Show and Dance with about 10 other acts live on stage Feb. 3, at the Forest Park Senior Center, 4801 Liberty Road.

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“He got into an argument with her and murdered her inside of an apartment here in Baltimore, and then took her to Anne Arundel County,” Baltimore City Police Chief Spokesman T.J. Smith said at a press conference Jan. 29. Taras Caldwell, who served 17 years of a 30 year sentence for killing another woman in July of 1998, was released from prison in 2015. Taras Caldwell was found in Park City, Utah and arrested on violation of parole for the 1998 murder. He was brought back to Baltimore where, according to the BPD, he confessed to Caldwell’s murder. The chief medical examiner stated that Caldwell was killed by asphyxiation. The woman that Taras Caldwell was convicted of killing in 1998 died in the same manner. There was no attorney listed for Taras Caldwell in online court records. A woman identifying herself as Shaquana Caldwell’s cousin on Facebook told the AFRO, “I’m happy he is back behind bars so he can’t hurt anyone else like he did my cousin. She didn’t deserve this and we always had our suspicions of him when they was dating.”

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almost a half-century. Now, with her death on Dec. 22 at the age of 95, many are remembering Fry as a devoted and model educator who not only shaped the minds of her students but the generations of young teachers she trained. “She absolutely loved the role and responsibilities of being a teacher. She felt it was her calling,” said her daughter, Erica Fry Cryor, in a statement. “She was known to customize learning materials for her own grandchildren and preserved them for her great-grandchildren as well. She maintained an aura of preciseness and dignity because she felt those attributes were as important to learning as were daily lesson plans.” Her son-in-law Michael Cryor, a former chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party, well-known local television personality and president of One Baltimore, added: “We have friends who were students of hers. They remember her very fondly, some even attribute their appreciation for learning and early skill development to the frequent field trips and hands-on experiences she considered essential to the learning process. She had a real devotion to the children of the City, especially those from challenged circumstances.” Vera Bell Fry was born as one of three daughters to Dr. James Bell, a family physician and internist, and Mussette Bell, a school teacher. Family members said Fry and her sisters enjoyed accompanying their father on his late-night emergency calls. “It was exciting and adventurous for them as children, but that early exposure to service and compassion became a Advertiser: BGE family trademark, expressed for nearly half a century in her classrooms,” said Erica Cryor. Publication: Afro American Fry and her late sisters Carolyn Bell Finney and Jimmy Bell Clay also, undoubtedly, were influenced by their mother, Insertion Date: 1/20 & 2/3/2018 following her into the profession of teaching. Fry graduated from Coppin Teachers College in 1941 at age Ad Size: 7.28” x 8” 19 and, according to her family, her starting salary was $100 per month. She educated students at schools such as Lexington Title: Seasonal Readiness — Terrace Elementary School in West Baltimore before retiring in When Winter Arrives 1988 after 47 years in the classroom. According to her family, between teaching, Fry enjoyed If you have received this publication material spending time with her growing family, horseback riding and in error, or have any questions about it please reading. contact the traffic dept. at Weber Shandwick Fry died a few days before Christmas at University of at (410) 558 2100. Maryland Medical Center from an unnamed cause. Her remains have been cremated and an interment will occur at a later date.

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The 10th annual ‘A Night In Havana’ celebration was Jan. 27at the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Hundreds of people showed up for the sold out event held at The Assembly Room. The Pratt Contemporaries is a diverse group of people whose goal is to raise awareness of the Pratt as a vital part of

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Baltimore’s identity. Money raised is used to support youth literacy programs and the library’s children’s departments. The event raised about $200,000. The Yamulee Dance Co., from New York City performed.

Ny’ilah Whitaker

Cameron and Jessica Bryce

Janet Barnes and Kinnera Atluri

Tiffanie S. McCoy and Alexis Wilkins

A. Neil Thupari (Venable LLP.) and Angelica Bailey

Michael Darenberg, Adrienne Williams and Monica White

Caryn York and Jill P. Carter

Yodesli Acquie, Elizabeth Hafey and Michele Justice

More than 1,300 Delta women converged on Martin’s West , in Woodlawn on Jan. 27, for the 2018 Maryland Founders Day rededication and luncheon. The theme, “In Your Voice...Joy, Power and Service,” was exemplified Rev. Dr. Frances Murphy by the 26th National President Barbara Smith, who reminded the group Draper, granddaughter that 105 years ago, 22 founding members of Delta Sigma Theta joined of Delta Founder Vashti Turley Murphy the capital’s first suffrage parade on March 3, 1913 with somewhere between 5,000 and 8,000 women. The brand new sorority emerged just six weeks earlier could have had a tea or other social to celebrate—instead they were committed to advocacy and social action. One of the highlights of the afternoon included a Delta legacy with the granddaughter of the founder, Rev. Dr. Frances “Toni” Draper, the granddaughter Joi-Marie Murphy McKenzie, greatof the founder of DST, and great-granddaughter Joi-Marie Murphy McKenzie granddaughter of Delta Founder Vashti reading love letters about their elders from Draper’s book, “No Ordinary Hook Up: Turley Murphy The Courtship of Vashti Turley and Carl Murphy, 1915-16.”

Photos by Anderson R. Ward

Sharon Jacksonm, Tracie H. Sharp, Tina Hall, Sinthea Myrick Kelly, Karla Gilchrist-Saunders

Lauren Bartee, Gloria Marrow, Deborah Peak Coleman, Rhonda Bartee, Dr. Mabel Murray

Helen McDonald, Gladys Rice, Maryland Statewide Alumnae Chapter presidents from left, Monica Watkins, Mildred Long Harper (Baltimore); Keitha Robinson, (Baltimore County); Patsy Nwagbargocha (Baltimore Metro); Claudia Postell. (Annapolis). Standing, Sylvia Quinton ( Princess Anne); Janette Goodman, (Frederick); Vivian Lawyer (Columbia); Kira Sconion (Harford County); Shawn Ashworth (North Arundel County); LeStancia N. Spaght (Tri-County (MD); Mona S. Williams (Montgomery County (MD); Millicent Hawkins (Fort Washington); Gertrude Deal (Cambridge)

Collegiate chapter presidents are Jeremie Davis, Aisha Amolegbe, Kelsey Edwards, Shania Johnson, Naomi Batten, Kimera Peterson, Dara Pickett

Lucretia Billups, Lydia Mussenden, BAC’ s Delta Dears

Debbie W. Tijani, Maryland State Coordinator, Rosia Blackwell Lawerence, Eastern Regional Director, Stephanie V. Lee, hostess co-chair

Sharhonda Henderson, Natalie Frazier, Valerie Mattison Brown, Shontel Douglas, Laura Phillips Byrd, Brenda J. Sykes, Leola Chapman, Tobi Pulley

Dr. Thelma T. Daley, 16th National President, Barbara E. Smith, 26th National President, Rev. Dr. Gwendolyn Boyd, 22nd National President, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

Allora Cyrus, Shirley Stokes, Roslyn Crosby

Photos by Dr. A. Lois DeLaine