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FEBURARY 4, 2017 - FEBRUARY 10, 2017

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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting on Black History Month in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., Feb. 1. From left are, Omarosa Manigault, director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison, Trump, Housing and Urban Development Secretary-designate Dr. Ben Carson, and Lynne Patton, vice president, The Eric Trump Foundation & Senior Aide to the Trump Family.

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By Hamil R. Harris Special to the AFRO In an unprecedented move, former United States President Barack Obama criticized President Trump’s executive order, banning refugees from seven

predominantly Muslim nations, on Jan. 30. However, he was not the only citizen to pounce on Trump’s leadership as the 45th president.

Faith leaders from around the country also took to their pulpits to rebuke Trump’s order.

AFRO Legend Moses Newson Reflects on 90 Years

By Maliik Obee Special to the AFRO During some of the most turbulent times in American history, especially the civil rights movement, esteemed journalist Moses Newson risked his life to provide accurate insight from the frontlines of the fight for equality in the pages of the AFRO. He ranks among the most prolific journalists.

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Moses Newson in 1972.

UMBC’s Hrabowski Stresses School’s Diversity Freeman Hrabowski, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC’s) President, served as lead witness for the state of Maryland in week four of the HBCU Equality

A spokesman for Obama says the former president “fundamentally disagrees” with discrimination that targets people based on their religion.

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Fmr. Morgan Dean Named Black Engineer of the Year

HBCU ‘Equality Lawsuit’

By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO

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“We may not have all the answers but if we collectively come together we can develop a plan and strategy for communities and the nation, said the Rev. Grainger Browning, pastor of the Ebenezer AME Church in Fort Washington, Md., told his congregation on Jan. 29.

“Our greatest blessings come after our greatest challenges from the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement.

Sometimes you have to stand

lawsuit (Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education, et al. v. Maryland Higher Education Commission et.al.)

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Dr. Eugene M. DeLoatch was named by BEYA STEM as the 2017 Black Engineer of the Year for bringing about progress in higher education during his 50-year career. He will receive

the award on Feb. 11 at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. DeLoatch is the dean dmeritus of the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. School of

Moses J. Newson turns 90 on Feb. 5. The fearless AFRO reporter sent back news from some of the most dangerous places in America during the fight for civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s. This story recounts how the Freedom Riders, three of whom were White, were beaten in Montgomery, Ala. in 1961.

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Editor Has Close Brush With Death

May 27, 1961

By Moses J. Newson pulled in from New AFRO City Editor Orleans.

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Dr. Eugene M. DeLoatch has been named the Black Engineer of the Year.

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on Jan. 28, Venus walked over to her sister’s side of the net for a hug. “This was a tough one,� Serena said. “I really

By The Associated Press would like to take this moment to congratulate Venus, she’s an amazing person — she’s my inspiration.�

The cast of “Hidden “There’s no way I would be at 23 without her — Figures� took top honors there’s no way I would be at one without her. Thank at the Screen Actors Guild you Venus for inspiring me to be the best player I can Awards, where much of the be and inspiring me to work hard.� evening was dominated by Asked if it felt awkward to be on the receiving protest against President end of so many losses to her sister, the 36-year-old Donald Trump’s sweeping Venus didn’t flinch. immigration order. “No, because I guess I’ve been here before,� she The best ensemble win said. “I really enjoy seeing the name Williams on the for the African-American trophy. This is a beautiful thing.� mathematician drama was a Venus won the last of her seven majors in 2008 major surprise. Though the at Wimbledon.

She didn’t make the second week of Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Oscar front-runner “La La a major for a few years as she came to terms with an Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson and Land� wasn’t nominated in energy-sapping illness after being diagnosed with Janelle Monae pose in the press room with the category, most expected Sjogren’s syndrome in 2011. And she only made it the award to be between the award for outstanding performance back to the semifinals last year at Wimbledon. “Moonlight� or “Manchester by a cast in a motion picture for “Hidden Serena Williams, meanwhile, enjoyed the fact she by the Sea.�

Figures� at the 23rd annual Screen Actors made history in Melbourne. Only Margaret Court, Several Oscar favorites Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium & with 24, is in front of her in terms of overall Grand further cemented their frontExpo Hall on Jan. 29, in Los Angeles.

Slam singles titles, although the Australian great won runner status, including 13 of her Grand Slams before the Open era began in Emma Stone, Viola Davis and 1968.

Mahershala Ali. But best actor went to Denzel Washington for his “My first Grand Slam started here, and getting to 23 here, but performance in “Fences,� an upset over Casey Affleck. playing Venus, it’s stuff that legends are made of,� Serena said. “I couldn’t have written a better story.�

23rd Title: Serena Williams Sets Major Record In terms of total years, it was the oldest Grand Slam women’s final in the Open era —the Williams sisters with Win over Venus combining for 71 years, 11 months.

By The Associated Press Speaking of records, Serena got a little bit superstitious Down Under, and hadn’t wanted to talk Serena Williams held up a about the No. 23 until she got it.

Grand Slam winner’s trophy Now there’s a limited-edition racket — 23 of for the 23rd time, celebrating them to be released — and some custom-made shoes her unrivalled place in history, sent by former NBA great Michael Jordan. It had and received a congratulatory Jordan’s usual jersey number No. 23 stamped on the letter and a pair of customheel, helping to provide some synchronicity for the made shoes from Michael numbers involved.

Jordan, the name most synonymous with No. 23.

Venus Williams got to Pending Ouster of Morehouse watch from close range again, AP Photo/Dita Alangkara President Mired in Controversy and shed tears more of joy Serena Williams holds her trophy after

By Zenitha Prince than regret after being beaten defeating her sister Venus during the Senior AFRO Correspondent in a major final for the seventh women’s singles final at the Australian zprince@afro.com time by her record-breaking Open tennis championships in Melbourne, younger sister.

Another HBCU is facing turnover at its helm as Australia, Jan. 28, 2017.

Serena won the allMorehouse College’s board this month decided not to Williams final, the ninth in renew President John Wilson’s contract.

Grand Slam history and the second in Australia, 6-4, 6-4 on Jan. 28.

Wilson, who graduated from the elite Georgia institution in 1979 With her record seventh Australian Open title, Serena moved and became its 11th president in November 2012, will serve out the ahead of Steffi Graf for the most major titles in the Open era. end of his contract in June.

The Williams sisters are close. They started out playing together While the Board of Trustees failed to offer a reason for their in Compton, California, hardly a hotbed for tennis, with their father decision, Chairman Robert Davidson praised Wilson for his Richard and mother Oracene as coach and mentor. And they still contributions, saying he “turned around practice and travel together around the world.

Morehouse in a number of ways.�

They met for the first time at a major at Melbourne Park in 1998 “He and his team were champions for — Venus won that one. In 2003, when the younger of the Williams STEAM (science, technology, engineering, siblings completed her “Serena Slam� of four consecutive titles, arts and math) initiatives for our students Venus was on the other side of the net. She didn’t reach another and significantly increased the College’s Australian final for 14 years. private gifts, grants and contracts,� Davidson When Serena sat on the court, holding both arms up to celebrate added in a statement. “In addition, Dr. Wilson played a pivotal role in bringing President Barack Obama to Morehouse as the commencement speaker in 2013, and hosting Vice President Biden in 2015.�

Despite the chairman’s accolades, Twitter Photo Wilson’s presidency—and his departure— Morehouse have stirred controversy.

College In October, for example, alumni posted a President John well-publicized petition on Change.org, urging Wilson. the board to “purge� Wilson from the college. “With limited transparency and even less access, the Wilson administration has strategically manipulated the narratives of their success,� the petition read in part.

The letter went on to criticize the university’s lowered Moody credit rating, national rankings, program cuts, alleged lack of fundraising, and fallen enrollment numbers under Wilson’s leadership.

According to federal statistics, undergraduate enrollment at the all-male college was 2,167 in 2015—the latest information available.

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back and look at God.” Israel were oppressed just because they were The ban, set into motion by Trump on Jan. different,” Seawright said according to the 27, stopped people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Washington Post. “God hears the cries of those Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia from suffering. entering the country.

“From Israel to South Africa to America The Rev. Henry P. Davis, pastor of the First people have been murdered, mistreated and Baptist Church of Highland Park in Landover, abused because of hate. We can’t forget the Md., used Isaiah 55:1-5 to fuel a fiery gospel church bombing and the deaths of four little to challenge President Trump and encourage girls in this town just because they were refugees at the same time. “Coming through different... But you can’t drive out hatred, the customs, out there, being only way you can drive out turned around, that’s a hatred is with love.” terrible place to be,” Davis The Rev. Tony Lee, pastor said. of the Community of Hope On Jan. 29, activist AME Church in Temple Hills, filled airports across the Md., said during his Sunday country in protest to the morning radio show that the ban, prompting a federal plight of the refugees was on judge to issue a restraining his heart. “We must be willing order allowing people from to stand up.This country the targeted countries to was built by immigrants,” travel. “I am here to say said Lee, who took part in that God can move after – Rev. Henry P. Davis the Muslim ban protest after hours. God used a judge to church. “It is our Christian move after hours,” Davis duty to stand with our Muslim said. “In this crooked world, we can’t stand brothers and sisters. Mathew 25 says for when in the gap in airports around the world but we I was hungry and you gave me something to can stand in the gap through prayer. God will eat, I was thirsty, you gave me something to not leave or forsake you.” drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in In Birmingham, Ala., Bishop Harry . . .”

Seawright, prelate of the 9th Episcopal While many have criticized Trump, Joseph District of the African Methodist Episcopal Evans, PhD., dean of the Morehouse School of Church, compared the plight of the refugees Religion, said in an interview that “President affected by President Trump’s order to the Trump is only playing upon the fears of children of Israel when they fled Egypt in the Whites. In West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee Old Testament. “Moses and the children of they voted against their own interest because

Park, Fl. during the early 1900’s, Newson’s found his life’s motivation at a young age by reading the weekly newspapers. Those newspapers led Newson down a path of using words to paint pictures that would ultimately earn him a spot in the Hall of Fame for the Maryland-DelawareDistrict of Columbia Press Association in 2008 and the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame in 2014. But it was Newson’s time in the U.S. Navy following high school from 1945-47, which granted him the G.I. Bill to afford college, earning a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Lincoln University.

It’s been a long while since Newson worked a beat, traveling the world to report on the happenings.

On February 5, Newson will turn 90 years old, yet his mind says different.

Newson walked away from the Baltimore Afro American Newspaper in 1978, after 21 years as a reporter then executive editor. After that, he worked 17 years for the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, still writing, just in a different capacity. That love of writing brought him out of retirement to pen the autobiography of fellow AFRO journalist, and friend, Sam Lacy, 1998’s Fighting For Fairness: The Life Story of Hall of Fame Sportswriter Sam Lacy.

Newson’s brain is still sharp and possesses the ability to vividly recount monumental moments in Black history that he covered in the pages of the AFRO more than 50 years ago.

Like his memory of the 1961 Freedom Rides, when Moses and a group of protestors nearly lost their lives. On a bus of protestors attempting to infiltrate south of the Mason-Dixon in a fight against segregation, Moses and those aboard were nearly killed by bigots in opposition.

“Some of the people fighting against the freedom riders said they would never get out of Alabama alive,” Newson told the AFRO. And they nearly didn’t, after things went haywire and protestors were beaten to a bloody pulp, they narrowly escaped to a hospital. There, Newson and others were trapped inside, surrounded by hysterical groups of aggressors, spearheaded by the Ku Klux Klan.

Yet and still, despite drastic measures, Newson finds humor in the situation.

Looking back on the tumultuous times that nearly cost him his life for the sake of journalism.

“In this kind of work, you just do it,” said Newson.

Like in 1962, when Newson headed to the University of Mississippi to report on James Meredith, the first Black man admitted to the then-segregated institution. After immense tension and violence, with rioting resulting in the deployment of the Mississippi National Guard onto campus, Newson evaded tear gas canisters and picketers to report the facts.

It’s that hard-nosed focus, the ability to fight the urge to fight back against the insurmountable odds or to give up on his job altogether that makes Newson celebrated today.

Newson’s list of accomplishments as a journalist would far exceed the space allowed for this

“I am here to say that God can move after hours! God used a judge to move after hours.”

HBCU Continued from A1 universities while appealing to Judge Catherine E. Blake to leave UMBC’s academic programs untouched as remedies are sought for HBCUs to correct the state’s historic and continuing pattern of discrimination.

“Our abbreviation is HDI. We’re an historically diverse institution. At that time, 1966, we were talking in black and white terms,” Hrabrowski said of UMBC’s early years.

“Today, we have students from 100 countries,” he said.

Hrabowski said he had no problem with the state’s four HBCUs but adamantly petitioned the court to bypass a proposal to move UMBC’s highly regarded engineering programs to Morgan State University to make up for the state’s prior actions which prevented Morgan from developing its engineering program while promoting the development of the engineering program at UMBC. “We are respectful of other institutions. We want them to have these programs too,” Hrabrowski said when asked by the State attorney’s how he felt about Maryland’s HBI’s having exclusive, high demand programs.

“We need more and not less. “We need so many more people trained in these areas [STEM disciplines]” Hrawbroski pleaded with the court. “I just don’t believe it, I know it.”

In 2013, Judge Catherine E. Blake ruled in favor of the Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education, avowing that the state of Maryland had violated the U.S. Constitution by continuing a segregated

Freeman Hrabowski, president of UMBC, took the stand in the HBCU ‘Equality Lawsuit’ recently.

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higher education system utilizing among other things, the practice of program duplication.

But was forced to admit that he was not aware that that UMCB was founded in 1966 as part of the state’s attempt to sidetrack Morgan State University’s growth, said Michael Jones, colead counsel for the HBCU Coalition.

“Hrabowski acknowledged that he was unfamiliar with the history of how UMBC was started because the state did not want to build up and desegregate Morgan,” said Jones.

“He wasn’t really that familiar with how the state committed to build up programs at the HBCU’s including Morgan and basically reneged on those promises.”

On cross examination Jones said Hrabowski continued to offer support for developing new programs at the state’s HBCUs including scholarships and other funding as long as programs

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were not transferred away from UMBC’s campus to make up for the historic discrimination against HBCUs. “One of the issues the judge raised is that she may look at appointing an independent expert to help her fashion a remedy in terms of interacting with HBI faculty and presidents. She was very interested,” Jones said.

Jones indicated while Freeman Hwabroski started the day proudly affirming his status as an expert on higher education and scientific boards and commissions and initiatives, he concluded testimony with no answers for the plaintiff’s attorneys or for Maryland’s HBCUs. When asked, who Judge Blake might consider to help [Judge Blake] in fashioning a remedy for the HBCU Equality Case, “Hrabowski answered that ‘he couldn’t come up with a name,’ Jones said.

The remedial phase of the HBCU Equality Case began in January after court ordered remediation talks failed due to the State’s refusal to submit viable remedial plans.

Remedial plans to address program duplication and the development of unique academic niches at each of the state’s four HBCUs - Bowie State University, Coppin State University, Morgan State University and the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, are the focus of the remedial case which is expected to conclude in late February or early March.

dedication. But some are worth noting, like his car ride interview in 1968 with Dr. Martin Luther King, one of King’s last one-on-one interviews.

It came as King was organizing the Poor People’s March, perched in the backseat of a speedy vehicle headed to a private plane.

Accompanying King was his wife Coretta Scott, with the vehicle being driven by singer and actor Harry Belafonte.

In contrast to how he is viewed today, Dr. King faced harsh scrutiny for his views on the Vietnam War. “Dr. King was under an awful lot of pressure, he had to do the right thing” said Newson. “It was an interesting although brief interview.”

In a career in which Newson covered some of the most important moments in

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modern history, there are still things he regrets not covering as a journalist. Including the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56.

“That was a situation where Black people stood together in a way where I don’t remember them having done before or after.”

For 21 years at the AFRO, Newson spoke for the people that had no voice, telling the story of the unheralded. Those times at the AFRO are some of the times of Newson’s life that he cherishes most. So much that he can’t single out a single moment.

“There were just so many times when we did things that we were all proud of,” said Newson.

And here at the AFRO, we are proud to have helped you etch your name in history.

Happy Birthday Moses Newson.

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Analysis

Trump Voter Fraud Claims Muddies Future of Voting Rights

By Charles D. Ellison Special to the AFRO According to the defiant and erratic political universe of Donald Trump, the nearly 3 million more popular votes Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton received over the Republican were cast by illegal and ineligible voters.

“I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and,” Trump posted on Twitter earlier last week as he pushed the still unsubstantiated claim that anywhere from 3 to 5 million ballots cast in the 2016 election were fraudulent, “Even, those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time). Depending on results, we will strengthen up voting procedures!”

As the new president enters his second week with an unprecedented kick-off flurry of ambitious, reverseObama executive orders, voting rights advocates worry key voter protections will be next on the chopping block. The phenomenon of voter fraud has been roundly debunked as a conspiracy theory. Yet, just the hint of a sitting president entertaining a full-scale federal investigation into it could mean grave consequences for the basic voting rights of many Americans, especially those who are Black, Brown and under the age of 35.

Still, the White House

Cornell William Brooks, along with other voting advocacy groups are troubled about the future of minority and youth voters.

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is pressing ahead with a concerted look into voter fraud during the 2016 election. The threat of such an effort unnerves civil rights activists as they await the eventual Senate confirmation of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), a longtime critic of voting rights known famously for pushing voter fraud narratives and cases.

“This notion of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election, or any other American election cycle for that matter, is false and dangerous,” said NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks in a lengthy statement blasting the president’s plan.

“In stark contrast to the myth of widespread voter

fraud is the proven reality of voter suppression,” Brooks added.

Brooks and others point to exhaustive research on the topic of voter fraud, despite years of attempts by conservative conspiracy theorists and think tanks to drum up an election integrity crisis. A 2007 report from the independent, non-partisan Brennan Center for Justice at New York University concluded that the “few recorded examples in which noncitizens have apparently registered or voted” were accidental. Later on, the Carnegie Corporation and Knight Foundation teamed up to fund investigative journalist team News 21, which discovered just 56

cases of non-citizen voting during an 11-year period between 2000 and 2011.

Trump’s allegations are largely based on questionable research conducted by selfdubbed voter fraud activist Greg Phillips, a former Alabama Republican Party finance chair Trump has referenced by name in public tweets about election integrity. Riding the hashtag #unrigged, Phillips, the founder of voting fraud app VoteStand, announced shortly after the election that he would partner with another once-fringed advocacy organization known as TrueVote.

And proponents of the voter fraud narrative, like Phillips, repeatedly point to a long debunked 2014

Harvard study that claimed 6.4 percent of “non-citizens” voted in the 2008 presidential election, as well as more than 2 percent during the 2010 Congressional midterms (which Republicans, ironically, dominated).

“Completed analysis of database of 180 million voter registrations,” tweeted Phillips a week after the election in November.

“Number of non-citizen votes exceeds 3 million. Consulting legal team.”

Voter fraud initiatives could also refresh voter ID efforts in key states. This is potentially problematic for many seniors, particularly elderly Black seniors who are considered the most reliable voting age demographic to turnout during election cycles,

and Millennials. “And yet, all my Secretary of State colleagues throughout the country tell me the same thing: voter fraud is a myth,” Portland State University’s Phil Keisling, who is also a fomer Oregon Secretary of State, told the AFRO. Keisling, who oversaw a revealing study into low voter turnout patterns during mayoral elections called Who Votes for Mayor, foresees those trends getting much worse under an aggressive Trump-Pence anti-voter fraud regime. Still Keisling is hopeful “local and state elected officials can push back,” especially when their ever tightening budgets are burdened by the costs of dramatic changes to electoral processes.

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Prior to being dean at Morgan he spent 24 years at Howard University with his last position being chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering. In addition, he is a past president, and the first AfricanAmerican president, of the American Society of Engineering Education and served as dean of the Council of Engineering Deans of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

“When I left school, less than one-half of one percent of all the engineers in the country was African American,” said DeLoatch in a statement. “It was an area where we had little knowledge of, and participation in when I graduated with my first engineering degree. It had nothing to do with capability, but the way engineering grew,” he said.

In addition to DeLoatch more than 100 scientists and engineers will receive 31 category awards and special recognition

honors at the 2017 BEYA STEM Conference.

The BEYA STEM Conference is hosted by Career Communications Group’s USBE&IT Magazine, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and the Council of Engineering Deans at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

“I can’t think of a better thing I could have done, from the time I started as an instructor in engineering at Howard University,” DeLoatch said. “I have no regrets taking the route of higher education and engineering as a public matter, and doing it in an environment, where I could impact the thought processes and the decisions to become an engineer in the historically Black colleges and universities in our country. It was about wanting to expose as many young people to a field little known, as I see it, in the African-American community --a very critical field for the progress of this nation,” he said.

Brush With Death Continued from A1 getting back to Baltimore brought back the feeling of being an American citizen with some rights under the law.

The colored citizen has no such rights in Dixie. Nor has the white man any rights, when he stands up for his colored brother.

It may be hard for a person unfamiliar with Deep South tradition – as were some of CORE’s 1961 Freedom Riders – to believe or understand the difference in what the law says a citizen can do and what a colored man can actually do in Dixie.

Southern State and local laws are rigged against the

colored citizen and federal laws are simply disregarded.

Traveling with the Freedom Riders on their trip into the Deep South was a shocking and unforgettable experience.

It’s my personal feeling that Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy was a bit upset, too, when he found that his request for protection didn’t cut any ice down in Alabama and Mississippi.

Gov. John Paterson told the President’s brother we were too hot to protect and in so many words, get out of Alabama now.

There are some things you don’t believe.

Imagine, if you can, policemen from the city of Anniston, Ala. milling about chatting with members of a mob who are threatening the lives of bus passengers and breaking out windows and slashing tires.

This is what happened on Sunday, as has been reported in the press.

There remains no doubt in my mind these uninformed guardians of the peace would have allowed the mobsters to come aboard the bus and beat us to a pulp had not state investigators, Ell M. Cowley and Harry Sims, kept them back.

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Don’t Be Fooled by Donald Trump Donald Trump has been President of the United States for just over one week, and is already on pace to be the worst executive this country has had in decades in terms of civil rights and progress for people of color and women. His dictatorial executive orders have been aimed squarely at those who depend upon government protection and benefitted big businesses.

His strategy is a brilliant one, which is to use job creation as a smoke screen for massive efforts at deregulation and tax relief for the wealthy.

On the campaign trail, Mr. Trump made appeals to African-American voters saying he would bring back jobs to the inner city.

Needless to say, not all African Americans live in inner cities, but more jobs would certainly be beneficial in areas that are heavily populated by African Americans. However, Trump’s rhetoric has not included support for business creation or growth for people of color. In his New Deal for Black America, he wants to give tax “holidays” and incentives to foreign companies that invest in “blighted American neighborhoods”. In fact, he has vowed to defund the Minority Business Development Agency. Black owned businesses are the most likely to employ Black people.

Donald Trump famously claimed he grabbed women by their vaginas, which he attributed to locker room talk. However, in a move that will impact women nationwide, Trump reportedly plans to reduce funding for the Office of Violence Against Women.

The president has also promised equal protection under the law, but is taking funding away from the parts of government that are in place to protect the Civil Rights, including the

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Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.

The Civil Rights Division upholds the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Hate Crimes prevention Act, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, all of which protect vulnerable populations and people of color. In addition, they are in charge of investigating police misconduct through the Violent Crime Control and Immigration Act and protect Black and brown businesses through the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. Trump also plans to gut funds for the Legal Services Corporation, which provides help for poor people, including children who can not afford legal services. The majority of their clients are Black.

President Trump has put a moratorium on the issuance of visas from Sudan, Syria, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Somalia and Yemen. Despite the fact that as of Oct. 1 2015, 24 Americans had been killed by terrorists on US soil over a decade. At the same time 52 Americans had be killed by domestic hate groups in 2015 alone. According to many different studies, White supremacist groups, many of whom strongly support the president, are more deadly in the U.S. than Muslim terrorists. Trump’s ban does not include the home countries of those who have committed acts of terror in the US. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt (9\11), Chechnya (Boston bombing), nor Pakistan (San Bernadino). Most of the terror attacks on US soil have involved US citizens.

Trump has also put his expensive and pointless border wall plan into motion along with the Dakota Access Pipeline despite the objection of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, who claim it will result in the destruction of native burial sites.

Trump also signed a hiring freeze for federal employment. This action disproportionally

effects people of color. Government jobs at the federal level generally pay higher wages than the private sector. African Americans comprise close to 18% of the federal labor force as opposed to 10.5% of the private sector. In total, people of color make up 33.5% of federal workers.

Trump’s apparent plan to obscure these acts is as brilliant as it is dastardly. He will likely leverage his relationships in the business world to create a small number of new jobs. While he will tout his negotiating skills, he really is giving companies sweetheart deals and tax relief that will benefit them. Trump has even publicly

promised to “cut taxes massively” and “cut regulation massively” by as much as 75%. He will gut programs that protect our civil rights and liberties to offset the cost. African Americans, women, Natives, Latinos, and refugees will lose important protections.

Jason Nichols is a full-time lecturer in the African American studies department at the University of Maryland College Park and the current editor-in-chief of Words Beats & Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture, the first peer-reviewed journal of hip-hop studies.

The Rich History and Current Relevance of America’s HBCUs On Jan. 9, the remedial phase of The Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education, et al. v. The Maryland Higher Education Commission, et al. kicked off in Baltimore. This lawsuit, originally filed by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Kirkland & Ellis in 2006, alleged that the state of Maryland had failed to dismantle the vestiges of segregation at its four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

Using the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the plaintiffs asserted that the four HBCUs in Maryland – Bowie State University, Coppin State University, Morgan State University and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore – remained unconstitutionally segregated.

The current proceedings entail an evidentiary hearing that will ultimately address what remedies must be put in place to comply with the memorandum opinion issued by Judge Catherine Blake in Oct. 2013; the court found that the state of Maryland had violated its constitutional obligations and maintained segregation in its higher education system.

This case potentially represents one of the most significant developments in higher education desegregation jurisprudence in the past three decades. It could create an avenue for a number of beneficial programs to flow to the HBCUs throughout the nation, particularly those that are state-supported. Of particular note, the litigation finds itself in the midst of an on-going societal debate concerning the relevance of HBCUs. To provide some background, the Higher Education Act of

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1965 grants the designation of HBCU to any postsecondary institution ‘that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of Black Americans.’ There are currently 105 HBCUs in the United States. Geographically, these institutions primarily span across the American South and Midwest. Their locations range from Texas to Alabama, from Oklahoma to West Virginia, and from Florida to Maryland. An HBCU is also located in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

A large number of the nation’s HBCUs were founded in the century between the end of the Civil War and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, they mainly served as training grounds for preachers and teachers. A host of HBCUs extended the gift of a postsecondary education to both women and men as soon as they began educating students. In the twenty-first century, though the nation’s 105 HBCUs represent less than 3% of the colleges and universities in the country, they enroll 11% of America’s Black college and graduate students.

Since their founding, HBCUs have played a significant role in defining the economic and cultural position of the United States in the global community. According to a study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics ten years ago, the economic impact of HBCUs was $10.2 billion in 2001. The same study notes that, with regard to output (revenues), the nation’s HBCUs would rank 232nd on the Forbes Fortune 500 list of the largest companies in the United States. In the decade since the report was issued, this impact of HBCUs has undoubtedly grown in magnitude.

Despite the positive contributions of HBCUs to American

society, numerous challenges remain in their paths that hinder their ability to achieve their full potential. Arguably, the most notable among these modern tests is a national conversation concerning the role of these institutions in a steadily shifting educational landscape. Take my alma mater, Howard University, for example – a troubling letter released by the then-Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees nearly four years ago, though inaccurate in its prediction that the university would close in three years, continues to shed light on the struggles experienced by a number of HBCUs, including Howard. Especially in Maryland, an extensive history of second-hand, state-sanctioned treatment experienced by the state’s four public HBCUs established persistent barriers to their ability to adequately compete and culminated in this lawsuit, which quickly approaches its eleven-year anniversary.

Personally, as an HBCU alumnus, these on-going debates often register in my mind. When I reflect on the legacy of HBCUs, I not only consider the supporting role that I play as a young civil rights attorney, but also the contributions of a host of family members, friends and colleagues to the ever-evolving narrative of HBCUs. Though they have traditionally been provided with fewer resources than their counterparts, these institutions perform and deliver under pressure. As the remedial phase of this litigation unfolds, I hope many will contemplate the past and present threads of the HBCU tapestry, such as David Wilson and Kamala Harris, and conclude that HBCUs are indeed relevant and worthy of commensurate investment.

Andrew Hairston is the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law’s George N. Lindsay fellow and associate counsel with the organization’s Educational Opportunities Project.

Creating the Black History of our Time During Feb. of each year, our nation reflects upon the Elijah Cummings lessons to be drawn from the history of Black Americans – our struggles, our progress and our contributions to the lives of our countrymen and women of every race, gender and creed.

Black History Month this year comes at an especially poignant time. Barack and Michelle Obama have returned to private life, and a new President and First Lady have taken up the awesome responsibilities that the American Presidency entails.

Like most Americans, I am deeply grateful for the inspired, dignified and clear-headed leadership that President Obama exemplified during the last eight years.

He elevated the aspirations that we can have for our Presidents. Even more lasting in the context of our future history, he strengthened and gave tangible substance to the aspirations that progressive Americans, including Americans of Color, can reasonably envision for ourselves.

As citizens, we have been transformed by Barack Obama’s presidency, and, now, the strength and substance of this transformation must confront a different reality.

We will be thoroughly tested in the days and years ahead – a testing that we cannot afford to fail.

Despite failing to gain a majority of the popular votes in last year’s election, President Donald Trump appears determined to take our nation on a different and, in the main, less enlightened and less inclusive course.

Their numbers bolstered by gerrymandered districts and onerous voter id requirements, the Republican congressional majorities are now proposing to dismantle core pillars of the social and economic safety net – federal initiatives that have provided

greater opportunity, social stability and a redeeming humanity to our individualistic, competitive society.

In the face of these threats, we must never forget, even for a day, that “We, the People” are the ultimate guarantors of our democracy.

It is in this context that Americans of every political persuasion should view with alarm any actions that threaten or seek to limit our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms, especially our freedom at the ballot box and freedom of expression.

This is why we must reject “alternative facts” uttered without foundation from on high, and why we must fight to maintain the statutorily guaranteed right of federal employees to have unfettered access to congressional oversight.

As our Scriptures remind us, “we shall know the truth, and the truth shall make us free.”

The truth that rose up from the hearts and minds of everyday people during the Enlightenment provided the foundation for our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The truth about the sin of slavery expanded those rights to the millions who sacrificed and suffered during the Middle Passage and our Civil War. The truth to be found in the inner strength of every human spirit preserved our people and carried us ever forward during the repressive years of Jim Crow.

This same truth encouraged children to confront injustice at the school house door, lead the people of Selma across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, convinced a President from Texas to stand up for civil rights, and required Dr. King to make the ultimate sacrifice.

All of this history is why, despite my own serious concerns about the period of reaction in which we now find ourselves, I continue to have faith in the inherent goodness and strength of purpose of a free people in a still free country.

During his Farewell Address, President Obama candidly acknowledged the very real threats to our democratic system that we must now confront and overcome. Yet, he also declared that he was even more optimistic about this country than when we began his journey to the presidency back in 2007.

Barack Obama is optimistic about our future because he trusts each of us to exercise the full measure of our citizenship. We, in turn, must have the same confidence in our own competence to persevere and prevail.

Our spirits should be strengthened by the millions of Americans who marched and raised their voices for progressive, democratic values on January 21 – and the millions more who raised their arms in solidarity from across our land and around the world.

During the Women’s March on Washington and in a myriad of other communities, history was speaking truth to power, the power of an enlightened people of every race and creed raising their eyes and arms in a collective allegiance to hope, determination and human rights.

The people of our great nation will not be silenced, whatever attacks or “alternative facts” may be advanced to discourage or deflect the people’s will.

Dr. King’s vision of a better America, and our own, will not easily be denied or set aside.

We, the People, will answer Barack Obama’s call to action – and our inner voice. In so doing, we will be creating a legacy that future generations will remember with gratitude and pride.

This, I believe, will be our part in the Black History of our time.

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

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Brush Continued from A4 There seemed to be a thousand cars behind us leaving Anniston and the little white one ahead of us

stopping the bus. No police intervened.

Then the tire went flat and we stopped.

I have no idea what Cpl. Cowling or Cpl. Sims feel about integration. But they are men who believe in the law

and in fulfilling their duty.

As long as I live, I will never forget the showdown look on Cpl. Cowling’s face after he brought his luggage aboard and started strapping on his pistol while gazing out over the angry mob.

Alabama may not want to do it, but someone should pay tribute to these officers.

When I found myself trapped in that burning bus, set on fire by the mob, and the heat leaving me no choice but to go out the door and the

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smoke preventing my seeing where the mob stood, that cold, chilling realization that this might be it, came over me.

You make up your mind to take whatever is to be. I made one prayer, that my

family would be all right, and one wish, that somehow, some miraculous way, I could step off that buss and have a machine gun in my hands.

Later, at Anniston Memorial Hospital, any doubts that law bows to racial hates and traditions were wiped from my mind.

“We’ll do the best we can in getting you to the city limits,” the Anniston officer kept saying, emphasizing the “best we can.” I remembered the best they did earlier in the day.

And there came the word of the Governor of the State of Alabama. The highway patrol was not available to offer us protection.

After all, you realize, you’re just colored folks and n----r loving Yankees. No matter what United States law says as one proud mobster explained, “This is Alabama and we’re gonna keep it white.”

The biggest letdown in the whole trip came at the Birmingham Airport. Try to imagine two full days of tension – and yes, fear for your life – and then the good, good feeling aboard a plane that will fly you away from the terrorizing human stalkers.

Deep down in your heart you’re happy.

And like a nightmare comes the voice to say there has been a bomb threat and everyone must get off and return to the airport. It was pure torture.

But there are things you remember with pleasure from the trip.

Like the night Henry Thomas, a 19-year-old kid was arrested in Winnsboro, S.C. and after a stay at the jail, was returned to the bus terminal by a policeman.

There was a small unfriendly greeting party.

So what does this kid with the iron nerve do? That’s right, he strode straight into the sacred white waiting room in which he had been arrested earlier.

He later explained; “There was a great deal of pride in it. When I got out of that car everybody was watching to see which way I would go.”

As a friend of colored people, Mrs. Frances Bergman, 57, white, found the city so hostile she later declared: “For the first time, I felt that I had a glimpse of what it would be like to be colored… to be scorned, humiliated and made to feel like dirt…”

On this dangerous trip through the Deep South with the courageous – every single one of them – Freedom Riders, there was opportunity to have a good look at colored and white.

The thing about the “new colored man” is true. They want every right accorded any American and they want it now – and they are ready to fight and die for it.

An example is the men who drove the 10 cars sent by Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth from Birmingham to Anniston to rescue us. They knew the danger. They knew the need.

So they came.

But the Deep South is not ready to accept gracefully the laws of the land. That was painfully clear in the leering faces and the policemen who looked the other way.

I am convinced the Freedom Ride pinpointed the urgency of the nation enforcing laws in all 50 states.

With hopes that I’m wrong, I am convinced nothing will be done soon to make the South give the colored citizen equal protection under the law.

And again, even here in Baltimore, I am frightened.

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PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY-AREA County Politics

Forever Stamp Honors D.C. Activist Dorothy Height

Spotlight on Black Educators: PGCC President Charlene Dukes

The 40th stamp in the Black Heritage series honors Dorothy Height (1912-2010), a D.C. activist who dedicated her life to fighting for racial and gender equality. The unveiling took place at Cramton Auditorium on the campus of Howard University on Feb. 1. Considered one of the most influential civil rights leaders of the 20th century, the United States Postal Service unveiling included Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Alexis Herman, White House assistant to President Clinton. Omarosa Manigault, director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison and Dr. Ben Carson, United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development attended the event but are not shown in the photo.

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PGCC President Charlene Dukes strives to create pathways for students.

By Akira Kyles Special to the AFRO From sharing a fourbedroom house with eight siblings to having her own head office, Charlene Dukes, PhD, holds the position as the first female president at Prince George’s Community College (PGCC).

The Glendale, Md. resident held her position as president since 2007 along with her position as president of the Maryland State Board of Education from 2012 to 2015.

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Officials Raise Concerns about Hogan’s Unwillingness to Support County Hospital

By Hamil R. Harris Special to the AFRO Prince George’s County lawmakers and health officials addressed a new proposed hospital in Largo, Md. amid concerns about how the project will be funded.

The officials shared updates on the progress of the anticipated Regional Medical Center on Jan. 28 at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Md. At the meeting State Sen. Joanna Benson (D) voiced concerns at Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s reluctance to fully fund the proposed hospital, suggesting he favors plans for an expanded hospital in Anne Arundel County.

“If the Anne Arundel County Certificate of Need is approved it is going to devastate our chances of operating this hospital in the direction it is currently going. It could even mean the closure of this hospital,” Benson said.

The AFRO could not reach anyone in Hogan’s office for comment. However, according to news reports, a spokesperson for the governor said that Hogan fully supports the hospital.

The hospital is expected to cost $645 million of which the state is projected to provide a $200 million commitment to be allocated in $20 million per year increments for the first four years, then $120 million in the fifth year, according to the

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Prince George’s County government’s website.

Gov. Hogan eliminated the $22 million earmarked for the hospital from his budget and recommended construction be delayed until the revenue is found.

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker, who Continued on B3

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The proposed design of the Regional Medical Center in Largo, Md.

Battle Lines Drawn As New Leaders Emerge

There used to be a time when everyone on the Democratic Central Committee Bruce Branch would rubberstamp Special to the wishes the AFRO of county party leaders who were marching to orders given by peers and powerbrokers in Annapolis, Md. All they had to do was trot in a local senator or two, make a few calls and do a few favors for the 32-members on the committee, and their

“Decisions like this is why we have (Larry) Hogan as governor.

Things have to change or things are going to stay the same.”

– Earl O’Neal wishes would become the committee’s command.

If anything the selection of Jazzy Lewis to succeed Michael Vaughn, shows that is not so anymore. Vaughn resigned as the delegate for District 24 in the midst of rumors he was involved in “Liquorgate” – the latest county scandal involving public officials.

With an overflow crowd looking on, Lewis, the Continued on B2

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Mayor Positions Seat Pleasant as Ex-school Aide Pleads Guilty in Child Porn Case Future Tech Hub group of residents recently that his city would be known as an innovative city that uses the latest technology to enhance the lives of its residents.

On Jan. 30, Grant delivered his “State of Seat Pleasant Mayor Eugene Grant told a the City Address” at the Seat Pleasant Activity Center before 60 people. Grant, who was elected as mayor in 2004 and has been re-elected with ease since then, said he is excited about the city’s future with the election of new city council members.

“I am the longest tenured mayor in our 85 year history,” he said. “I have had to endure three tumultuous terms but we endured and maintained our resolve. We now have a bright, brilliant city council that makes Courtesy Photo sure that the executive and legislative branches are equal.”

Eugene Grant, mayor of Seat Pleasant, Md., said he is Seat Pleasant is located in confident he can make the city a Smart City.

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Deonte Carraway of Glenarden, Md. pled guilty Jan. 30.

A former elementary school volunteer in Prince George’s County, Md., who is charged with more than a dozen federal counts of sexual exploitation of minors, is expected to enter a guilty plea in the case.

Court records show 23-year-old Deonte Carraway of Glenarden, Md. pled guilty Jan. 30 at a hearing in federal court.

Carraway was charged with 15 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor to produce child pornography. Prosecutors say Carraway abused or recorded children performing sexual acts at Judge Sylvania W. Woods Elementary School or at the Glenarden Community Center where he ran a youth choir. According to indictments, Carraway also recorded children performing sexual acts inside their homes.

Carraway also faces some 270 state charges in Maryland.

Prince George’s County and is on the border of the District of Columbia’s Ward 7 and is predominantly Black. It is a largely working class community that has two major highways, Martin Luther King Jr., Highway and Central Avenue, within its boundaries and is close to the Addison

Road-Seat Pleasant and Capitol Heights Metro Stations on the Blue and Silver Lines.

Members of the Seat Pleasant council that were present at the address, included President Reveral Yeargin (Ward 3), Kelly Porter and Continued on B2

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obvious choice of the political establishment and an aide to Rep. Steny Hoyer (Md.) made an impressive presentation to the panel of members. However, some behind the scene maneuvering led to the withdrawal of the other candidates – Darrell Miller and Latosha Ward.

Young Democrats President Maurice Simpson finished a respectable second. Despite the fact that Simpson said all the right things following the selection of Lewis, through social media networks and friends he has shared plans to challenge his former classmate for his seat in Annapolis in 2018.

Earlier, party leaders were rebuffed when Del. Darryl Barnes (District 25) stood his ground and appeared ready to become the successor to Sen. Ulysses Currie, who planned to retire and turn the seat over to his wife, only to rescind his resignation when it appeared Barnes had enough support to become the nominee. In another major decision before that many members of the committee threw their support in the U.S. Senate race behind Congresswoman Donna Edwards, who was challenging the golden boy of the party, Chris Van Hollen, who eventually won thanks to support from a host of county

officials.

Sean Wilson, a popular political operative in the county who has worked for several candidates and is a member of the Young Dems, said a troubling pattern is emerging in the county where the best candidates are not being selected by the people, but instead by the powers that be. “There has been a pattern of Senator Benson not supporting the best candidates for the people of the 24th District,� Wilson wrote in an open letter to the public he posted on his Facebook page. “That’s why it bothers me that a majority of the Prince George’s Democratic Central Committee members would only vote for the candidate of the senators’ choosing. Jazz was appointed to the Central Committee; he was never elected nor has he ever run for elected office. The delegate seat was just handed to him and he didn’t work to rightfully deserve the seat. Maurice Simpson Jr. ran for political office, but also was working to make serving the citizens of the 24th district [a] reality.

A response to the AFRO’s inquiry about Wilson’s post was not received before press time.

“There has been a pattern of Senator Benson not supporting the best candidates for the people of the 24th District.� – Sean Wilson Community activist Lisa Ellis said: “While there is nothing against Jazz himself as an individual, his appointment is further indication of the deep control of the political machine rather than the people’s choice.�

Earl O’Neal, another community activist, agreed: “If he is going to be [a] rubber stamp for the party, it was a bad choice,�

Neal said. “Decisions like this is why we have (Larry) Hogan as governor. Things have to change or things are going to stay the same.�

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the way, in other ways there’s something sad about being first because it says there’s still glass ceilings that we have to break as women,� she told the AFRO. Dukes has been working in higher education for almost 38 years, starting in college as a recruiter for work study at Indiana University in Pennsylvania. “I’ve always worked within the organization on the side of the house that was responsible for bringing students to the institution being focused on recruitment and retention and developing or implementing services that would complement what was going on in the classroom,� she said.

Dukes wants her students to take her life as an example to learn “opportunity is what you make it and nobody else gets to define that for you but you.� “I come from a large family, was born and raised in a small town in Pennsylvania. I have eight brothers and sisters and the first fifteen or so years of my life we lived in a four-bedroom

house,� she said. “I didn’t sleep in a bed alone until I went to college. I always laugh with students that it took me about six months to realize that when I rolled over that I was not going to

touch someone.�

As president of PGCC, Dukes has goals to “create pathways for students to understand where they begin, how they get

through and how they graduate or receive a certification or licensure from the college and where do you go from there.�

She also doesn’t go 48 hours without speaking to her son, Maurice Dukes, a Howard University graduate, living in California.

Dukes holds many positions aside from being president of PGCC such as, a member of the “Go on Girl� book club, the Prince George’s Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, Chapter of Links, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

Education plays a very important role to Dukes, not only as president but also in other positions she holds and has held. “I think education for me means having the knowledge that gives you the opportunity to think for yourself,� said Dukes, “to not necessarily take things at face value, to engage in critical debate, dialogue and discussion, to lead with the facts and be able to ascertain how understanding these things allow you to be a better person.�

Grant said that “Seat Pleasant is on the path to success with good governance, safe streets and sound economic policies.�

He talked about offering the city’s senior citizens an across the board tax break if they have lived in the city for 40 years and said efforts are in place to get a quality supermarket.

However, most of the mayor’s remarks focused on his “Smart City� proposal. He announced that he was able to get a $4.1 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to build a new city hall and public works facility.

A Smart City is an urban area where technological tools such as the Internet are used to enhance sustainable economic growth and high quality of life through human capital, social capital and or infrastructure. The Smart City concept has been embraced throughout the nation and internationally by some cities and urban planners to address the growing population of cities and scarce government resources.

Grant envisions a Seat Pleasant where gunshots can be detected

through sensors and the police could be notified immediately and every resident and business having access to the Internet, among other things. He said that IBM and the Hogan administration have shown interest in helping Seat Pleasant become a Smart City and he is seeking private investors who could donate up to $120 million towards the concept.

Grant said he knows that some will doubt the ability of his approximately 4,500 resident, predominantly Black, municipality to become a Smart City but he isn’t deterred. “This Black mayor and this Black city council will make Seat Pleasant a Smart City,� he said. “We aren’t doing this for show.

We want residents of Seat Pleasant to have access to good jobs, reducing our 16 percent unemployment rate and reducing our 17 percent poverty rate.�

Grant closed his 45-minute remarks by saying that by becoming a Smart City, “Seat Pleasant will be a step closer to the Promised Land.�

I guess in some ways there’s something about being first because you get to lead the way‌� – Charlene Dukes

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“This Black mayor and this Black city council will make Seat Pleasant a Smart City.� –Eugene Grant Shireka McCarthy (At Large), Lamar Maxwell (Ward 1), Aretha A. Stephenson (Ward 2) and Gloria Sistrunk (Ward 5).

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1201 N Royal Street MetroStage Presents SHAKE LOOSE

The world premiere of a new musical “SHAKE LOOSE An Evening of Moods Blues & Icons,” featuring the music and lyrics of Thomas W. Jones, William Hubbard and William Knowles is scheduled to be held at the MetroStage, 1201 N Royal Street, from Jan. 28-March 6. A musical odyssey of African American people in the 20th century, SHAKE LOOSE celebrates music born of the gospel tradition, and Black icons, who invented the jazz, blues, and rhythm and blues of this past century. For ticket reservations call the theatre at 703-548-9044 or online at metrostage.org. The venue is handicap accessible. Free parking is available.

Roundtable on Feb. 3 from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. at AFLCIO, 815 16th Street, NW. A Continental Breakfast will be available. The informal get-together is being organized by the Council’s Local Labor Communicators Network, which includes communications staff from many area labor unions. The gathering is an “on background” session designed to foster better communication between area reporters and local union communication staffers and leaders.

Interested participants can register at eventbrite.com.

Upper Marlboro, Md.

600 Watkins Park Drive First Baptist of Glenarden Presents ‘Black Boy Blues’ Play

Kenny Dickerson and Ashley Rios star as Carter Blue and Jonni Mae Thomas in “Black Boy Blues: Photo by Chris Banks The Struggle of AfricanAmerican Men,” a dramatic Shake Loose cast photo: Anthony Manough, Lori play based on the Tulsa Race Williams, Rayshun Lamarr, Roz White Riots in 1921. The free AFL-CIO, 815 16th Street, NW play kicks off First Baptist Metro Washington Church of Glenarden’s Council’s Labor, celebration of Black History Month, which includes a special Media Breakfast Roundtable event featuring author Dr. Joel Freeman and a children’s The Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO is pleased historical reenactment program. The play will run on Feb. 4 to invite area reporters and local labor communicators and at 6 p.m. Doors are scheduled to open at 5 p.m. at the church, leaders to attend the fourth annual Labor-Media Breakfast 600 Watkins Park Drive.

attended the meeting with County Council Chair Derrick Davis (D), expressed confidence that county and state officials will find a way to move forward. “Even with all of this craziness going on with the governor’s office, our partners believe in us so much they went ahead with the transfer of land to have this hospital built,” Baker said.

Baker and officials from the University of Maryland and Dimension Health said they are optimistic the new hospital ground breaking will take place in 2020.

“We are asking people to say to the Governor please do not milk those monies for the hospital …”

– Derrick Davis Davis said the new hospital will be located near the Washington Metro’s Silver Line. It will be adjacent to the Boulevard at Capital Centre. He acknowledges that the biggest road block is Gov. Hogan.

“We are asking people to say to the governor please do not milk those monies for the hospital so that we can power forward in 2020 and provide for the medical needs for all residents of Prince George’s County and Southern Maryland,” Davis said.

According to the county government, the hospital is projected to provide $336.7 million in construction and equipment purchases during the development of the facility, $578.3 million of economic activity in the state, 4,300 construction jobs, $100 million in additional revenue.

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The 48th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. DC Support Group Scholarship Luncheon & Fashion show was held on Jan. 15 at Martin’s Crosswind in Greenbelt, Md. The event’s theme was “Remember! Celebrate! Act! KING’S Legacy of Courage for Our World.”

Vene’ A. LaGon, Miss American Classic 2016 and Winston Chaney Humanitarian Award Recipient Lonnie Bunch III, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture accepted by John Just-Buddy and D.C. MLK Support Group members Gwen Johnson, chairwoman of the board; Helen V. Tate, founder; Beverly Harrison Griggs, president

Phil Feaster Maryland Scholarship Recipient, Joan Jordan (center) with D.C. MLK Support Group members Gwen Johnson; Joyce Feaster; Frank Kennedy; Beverly Harrison Griggs; Wyonette Brown, 1st vice president and Winston Chaney

Luncheon attendees

Special guest Dr. Roger A Mitchell, Jr., chief medical examiner for the District of Columbia (far left) with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. D C Support Group’s 2017 Planning Committee Photos by Robert Bennett

On Jan. 21 tens of thousands of women from across the nation gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women’s March on Washington to protest President Trump and his policies against women’s health and civil rights for all people.

Alotta Taylor, Lakieshe Hawkins and Rae Martel

Janet Mock, American writer, TV host, transgender rights activist, author of the New York Times bestseller “Redefining Realness”

Van Jones, American commentator, author and non-practicing attorney

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., president and CEO, Hip Hop Caucus

Rev. Jesse Jackson

Greater Washington Urban League Chair of the Board Michael P. Akin (left) and March participant

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker Angela Davis, American political activist, academic scholar, and author

Alicia Keys

Jo-Ann Callender, Kimee Selassie and Amrill Salvary

Loretta Poteat and Lara Young Tikeshia Beanford, Bebra Jenkins and Kathleen Martindale

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Ruben Santiago-Hudson Takes on Role of an HBCU Band Leader

By Nadine Matthews Special to the AFRO Tired of playing cops, Ruben Santiago-Hudson was wary when his agent called him about a role in a new series. “Hollywood had me playing cops and police officers and detectives and I just wasn’t feeling it.” Fortunately, it was good news. “He said, ‘No, it’s a band director’ and he said [Writer, Producer Felicia Henderson] had called about another client he had and he had read the script and thought I should consider it.”

It turns out that Henderson, who had just gotten her show, then called “The Yard,” picked up by BET had another hurdle to cross before she could convince Santiago-Hudson to take on the role of band director at the fictional HBCU, Georgia A&M. He wanted to make sure that BET would be dedicating the type of resources he felt a program like that Ruben Santiago-Hudson plays a band would require. leader on BET’s new drama ‘The Quad,’ set His fears were allayed after a at a fictional HBCU. series of discussions. “They did want Courtesy photo to continue to do original scripted programming not just rap videos and game shows. They wanted to do quality In addition to his duties on “The Quad” and programming on the highest level of television advising the arts center named for him in his programming.” Santiago got on board of BET’s hometown of Lackawanna New York, the Ruben new nighttime drama, now called “The Quad,” Santiago-Hudson Fine Arts Learning Center, which also stars Anika Noni Rose and Jasmine Santiago-Hudson is also now directing August Guy. Wilson’s “Jitney” on Broadway. Having won a The show follows Rose’s character as she first Tony for Wilson’s “Seven Guitars” and an Obie takes on the position as president of the fictional for directing “The Piano Lesson” he seems the university following some mysterious tumult in perfect person for the job. her personal and professional life. The university Santiago-Hudson grew up in New York and is hurting financially and Rose’s character, Eva earned his Undergraduate and Graduate degrees Fletcher, must make some tough decisions. Her in New York and Michigan, respectively. For approach to reshaping the school’s fortunes is his new TV role, he made sure he did extensive at odds with the way things have always been research to understand the particularities of done and she quickly butts heads with Santiagoan HBCU and the history surrounding the Hudson’s character. importance of marching bands. “Research Villain or no, off-screen Santiago-Hudson is a huge part of every role I play. I don’t do and Rose have a much more harmonious anything without inundating myself with as relationship. He explains, “I’ve known Anika for much information as I possibly can to know a very long time. I knew Anika when she was everything I possibly can about the position of out there studying in San Francisco. I was there the character I’m playing. Who he is what he is. I doing “Seven Guitars” [for which he won a Tony want to know everything because I want to be as award] in 1995 when she was a student. We have authentic and truthful as possible.” a lot of respect for each other and I’ve always admired her work and hopefully she has respect The Quad airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on for the work that I’ve done.”

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Documentary Offers Solutions to Discord between Police and Communities of Color

By Zenitha Prince zprince@afro.com Senior AFRO Correspondent It was June 2012 when A.J. Ali was stopped by police in Howard County, Md., simply, he said, for “walking while Black.” It was the sort of commonplace experience shared by Black men and boys throughout the United States; the sort of racially-based profiling that has spawned nationwide protest, civil unrest and the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Academy Award-winning cinematographer Errol Webber could attest to the same.

“Being a Black person, there were times when I was harangued by police just because of who I am,” he told the AFRO. Together, the men decided to do something about it, making a documentary that examines racial profiling by police and ways to bridge the gap between law enforcement and their communities. Thus their documentary “Walking While Black” was created.

According to the film, which is set to make its red carpet world premiere on Feb. 1 in Santa Monica, Calif., the answer lies with L.O.V.E. “Love is the answer,” Chief Melvin Russell, who heads the Community Collaboration Division of the Baltimore Police Department, told the AFRO. But, he added, “People don’t associate ‘love’ with policing. . . . Police are seen as anything but loving; people look at police as demons.”

Russell was one of several peace officers, faith leaders, educators, government officials, activists and others who were interviewed for “Walking While Black: L.O.V.E. Is The Answer.”

L.O.V.E. is an acronym for: LEARN about the community

Chief Melvin Russell, who heads the Community Collaboration Division of the Baltimore Police Department, was one of the people interviewed for the documentary ‘Walking While Black.’

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you serve, OPEN your heart to the people in it, VOLUNTEER yourself to be part of the solution in their lives, and EMPOWER others to do the same.

“We need to change the culture,” said Russell, who retooled the BPD’s chaplaincy program and said more officers need to focus on being “servants” and not just “protectors.”

“It is long past time we got back to being partners with our communities,” he added.

“No longer can we just stay in our patrol cars and answer calls.”

But the documentary is not one-sided in its portrayal of the issue, the producers said.

“We took care to take a balanced approach,” Webber said. “It’s not a cop-bashing documentary or a communitybashing documentary.”

The filmmakers said in promoting the documentary they are not going the traditional theater route.

Instead, they are screening the film directly to audiences that need it most from February through April. During February, for example, the filmmakers said they are slated to host screenings at several sites throughout Baltimore, which saw violent unrest in April 2015 after a young Black man died while in

police custody.

“I really believe that when we learn to respect each other, we’ll love each other because love is the answer,” says Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh in a clip from the documentary. “It really is about how we communicate with each other. And I tell people it’s never about what you look like, it’s never about the color of your skin, it’s never about your religious background, it’s about learning that as much as we’re different, we’re very much the same.”

For more information about “Walking While Black: L.O.V.E. is the Answer,” visit: walkingwhileblackthemovie. com Free screenings of the film in and around the Baltimore metropolitan area include: *Feb. 3: Freedom Temple AME Zion Church 2926 Hollins Ferry Rd. Baltimore, MD 21230 Doors Open at 6 p.m.; Show begins 7 p.m. *Feb. 5: Owen Brown Interfaith Center 7246 Cradlerock Way Columbia, MD 21045 Doors Open at 12:30 p.m.; Show begins at 1:30 p.m.

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Morgan State’s Bozeman Now All Time Wins Leader

By Mark F. Gray Special to the AFRO Just over a decade after resurrecting his career following the purgatory of a harsh NCAA punishment over recruiting violations, Morgan State basketball coach Todd Bozeman is now the winningest coach in school history. With a 77-75 win at South Carolina State on Jan. 23 Bozeman won his 167th game in the process passing legendary national championship winning coach Nat Frazier on the all-time victory list.

“I have tremendous respect for the Nat Frazier’s and other coaches at small colleges because I know what they go through,” Bozeman told the AFRO. “You try to show the people you are entrusted with how to move forward and represent the community and university.”

Bozeman made an immediate impact on Morgan when he stepped on campus in 2006.

He inherited a program that was 4-26 the year before his arrival but led them to a 13-18 record and to the semifinals of the 2007 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Tournament. That season proved to be the foundation his team would be built on.

The following year would mark the first of five consecutive trips to the MEAC Finals. He blended the perfect combination of major college transfers with some of Baltimore’s best high school talent to forge a team that would be a dominant force in the conference.

“My goal was to make it better when I leave here than when I got here,” said Bozeman.

“Change isn’t easy but changing the mentality was important. I wasn’t going to settle for mediocrity we were always pushing to be great.”

When Boubacar Coley transferred from Xavier it opened the door for them to land difference makers such as Marquis Kately – a Pac-12 all rookie player from the University of California and San Francisco’s junior college prospect Jamar Smith who would become a MEAC Player of the Year.

However, it would ultimately be the hometown talent from Baltimore that made them champions and gave them credibility around the city. Heavily recruited major college players such as Reggie Holmes from St. Francis and Jermaine “Itchy” Bolden chose to take a chance on Bozeman’s vision for Morgan and they won back to back MEAC titles in 2009 and 2010.

Bozeman was a rising star during the early

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Morgan State University basketball coach Todd Bozeman became the school’s all time leader in wins on Jan. 23 with a 77-75 win over S.C. State.

1990’s while coaching at the University of California. His recruiting acumen and tactical ability earned him immediate credibility amongst major college coaches. Gym legend features tales of how University of Kentucky coach John Calipari says he learned as much

about basketball from Bozeman as anyone. He attracted NBA players such as Jason Kidd to Berkeley in his meteoric rise to head coach of those Bears.

In 1993 Bozeman’s career hit the apex when he took California to the NCAA Sweet 16 after replacing Lou Campanelli 10 games into the season. At 29 Bozeman was the youngest coach in the history of the NCAA Tournament to lead a team to the second weekend after beating Duke which was also the first time a 12 seed beat a five seed to advance.

However, things went awry for Bozeman in 1996. After an NCAA investigation found he paid former recruit Jelani Gardner’s family $30,000 Bozeman was given the harshest penalty ever imposed. The show cause order meant Bozeman could not coach for eight years at any NCAA member school unless it either agreed to impose sanctions on him or convinced the NCAA that he had served his punishment.

“It’s probably more believing in a second chance and showing people you can come back from a mistake,” said Bozeman. “We deserve the right to sometimes to fall and get back up.

Its more significant people to know you can dust yourself off pick yourself up again.”

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Dianne A Wesley Butler, CREDITORS Service of process may whose address is 1020 AND NOTICE TO be made upon RegisHamilton St NE, UNKNOWN HEIRS Washington, DC 20011 , Vivian J Wilson, whose tered Agents, Inc, 1150 was appointed personal a d d r e s s i s 2 6 1 9 Connecticut Ave NW, representative of the M o r e l a n d P l , N W , Washington, DC 20036 estatePolicy of Clarence Aaron Payment for legal notice Washington, DC 20015, whose designation as Butler, who died on was appointed personal District of Columbia advertisements. Effective immediately, The Afro American Newspapers will require prepayment forofpublication of allhas legal notices. been filed with January 1, 2015 without representative the agent the Register of Wills, Payment will be accepted in the form of chwecks, credit or money order. Any returned checksA will to a $25.00 a will,card and will serve withestate of Nathaniel Wil-be subject D.C. out Court supervision.

All son, who died on April processing fee and may result in the suspension of any future advertising at our discretion. unknown heirs and heirs 10, 2016 without a will, The decedent owned the whose whereabouts are and will serve without f o l l o w i n g D i s t r i c t o f unknown shall enter their Court supervision. All un- Colombia real property: appearance in this known heirs and heirs 5609 Eads Street, NW, AD NETWORK LEGAL NOTICES proceeding. Objections whose where-abouts are Washington, DC 20019 to such appointment (or unknown shall enter their Claims against the deNetwork. Reach 3.6 AUTOMOBILE cedent may be preto the probate of deappearance in this million readers every cedent´s will) shall be proceeding. Objections sented to the underDONATIONS week by placing your filed with the Register of to such appointment (or signed and filed with the DONATE AUTOS, Wills, D.C., 515 5th to the probate of de- Register of Wills for the ad in 71 newspapers in Street, N.W., 3rd Floor TRUCKS, RV’S. cedent´s will) shall be District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware and Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . filed with the Register of Building A, 515 5th LUTHERAN MISthe District of Columbia. 20001, on or before July Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, NW, 3rd Floor, SION SOCIETY. 20, 2017. Claims against Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, DC 20001 With just one phone within 6 months from the the decedent shall be Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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Anna Virginia GilmoreJohn Patrick Cosgrove Decedent of the estate of Pauline Mills Decedent Beasley Johnson, who NOTICE OF AKA M a r i a Wo r t h i n g t o n died on November 28, APPOINTMENT, Place a business card ad Anna V Gilmore-Mills Mckenna Esq 2015 without a will, and NOTICE TO Decedent in the Regional Small Council, Baradel, Koswill serve without Court CREDITORS Darryl F White merl & Nolan PA supervision. All unknown Display 2x2/2x4 Adver- 302 Mississippi Ave AND NOTICE TO 125 West Street, heirs and heirs whose UNKNOWN HEIRS tising Network - Reach Silver Spring, MD 4th Floor C l a r e t t a M c D a n i e l , whereabouts are unAnnapolis Maryland whose address is 5533 known shall enter their 3.6 Million readers with 20910 Attorney 21401 just one call, one bill 5th Street, NE, was ap- a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s NOTICE OF Attorney pointed personal repre- proceeding. Objections and one ad placement APPOINTMENT, NOTICE OF sentative of the estate of to such appointment NOTICE TO APPOINTMENT, in 71 newspapers in LueLene McDaniel, who shall be filed with the CREDITORS NOTICE TO died on May 27, 2016 Register of Wills, D.C., Maryland, Delaware AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS with a will, and will serve 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd UNKNOWN HEIRS and DC TODAY! For AND NOTICE TO without Court supervi- Floor Washington, D.C. Anna Yvette Gilmore, UNKNOWN HEIRS just $1450.00, Get the sion. All unknown heirs 20001, on or before July whose address is 11200 Thomas Bartlett, whose a n d h e i r s w h o s e 6, 2017. Claims against reach, Get the results Oak Leaf Drive, #1902, a d d r e s s i s P o B o x whereabouts are un- the decedent shall be Silver Spring, MD 20910, and for Just Pennies 135/9320 Atlantic Ave., known shall enter their presented to the underwas appointed personal North Beach, MD 20714, a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s signed with a copy to the on the Dollars Now... representative of the was appointed personal proceeding. Objections Register of Wills or filed call 1-855-721-6332 estate of Anna Virginia representative of the to such appointment (or with the Register of Wills Gilmore-Mills AKA Anna estate of John P Cos- to the probate of de- with a copy to the underx 6 or email wsmith@ V. Gilmore-Mills, who grove AKA John Patrick cedent´s will) shall be signed, on or before July mddcpress.com died on November 16, Cosgrove, who died on filed with the Register of 6, 2017, or be forever 2015 with a will, and will October 15, 2016 witha Wills, D.C., 515 5th barred. Persons believed serve without Court suwill, and will serve with- Street, N.W., 3rd Floor to be heirs or legatees of EDUCATION/CAREER pervision. All unknown out Court supervision. All W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . the decedent who do not TRAINING heirs and heirs whose unknown heirs and heirs 20001, on or before receive a copy of this nowhereabouts are unwhose whereabouts are 7/27/17. Claims against tice by mail within 25 known shall enter their unknown shall enter their the decedent shall be days of its first publicaAIRLINE MECHANappearance in this appearance in this presented to the under- tion shall so inform the IC TRAINING – Get proceeding. Objections proceeding. Objections signed with a copy to the Register of Wills, includFAA certification. Finan- to such appointment (or to such appointment (or Register of Wills or filed ing name, address and to the probate of deto the probate of de- with the Register of Wills relationship. cial Aid if qualified. No cedent´s will) shall be cedent´s will) shall be with a copy to the under- Date of Publication: HS Diploma or GED – filed with the Register of filed with the Register of signed, on or before January 6, 2017 Wills, D.C., 515 5th Wills, D.C., 515 5th We can help. Approved 7/27/17, or be forever Name of newspaper: Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Street, N.W., 3rd Floor barred. Persons believed Afro-American for military benefits.

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Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . be heirs or legatees of Washington Call Aviation Institute of 20001, on or before June 20001, on or before July to the decedent who do not Law Reporter 2, 2016. Claims against 20, 2017. Claims against receive a copy of this noDenise P Johnson Maintenance 866-823the decedent shall be the decedent shall be tice by mail within 25 Personal 6729 presented to the underpresented to the under- days of its first publicaRepresentative signed with a copy to the signed with a copy to the tion shall so inform the Register of Wills or filed Register of Wills or filed of Wills, includ- TRUE TEST COPY HELP WANTED: with the Register of Wills with the Register of Wills Register ing name, address and REGISTER OF WILLS with a copy to the underwith a copy to the under- relationship.

SALES signed, on or before June signed, on or before July Date of First Publication: 01/06, TYPESET: Feb 01 01/13,Wed 01/20/17 2, 2016, or be forever 20, 2017, or be forever 01/27/17 EARN $500 A DAY: barred. Persons believed barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of Insurance Agents to be heirs or legatees of Name of newspaper: Superior Court of the decedent who do not the decedent who do not Afro-American Needed*Leads, No the District of receive a copy of this noreceive a copy of this noDistrict of Columbia Cold Calls*Commission tice by mail within 25 tice by mail within 25 PROBATE DIVISION Washington days of its first publicaPaid Daily*Lifetime days of its first publica- Law Reporter Washington, D.C. tion shall so inform the tion shall so inform the Renewals* Complete 20001-2131 Register of Wills, includRegister of Wills, includAdministration No. Personal Training* Health & ing name, address and ing name, address and 2016ADM494 Representative relationship. relationship.

Dental Insurance* Life Viola D Delespin Claretta McDaniel Date of Publication: Date of Publication: Decedent TRUE TEST COPY License Required. Call December 2, 2016 January 20, 2017 NOTICE OF REGISTER OF WILLS Name of newspaper: 1-888-713-6020 Name of newspaper: APPOINTMENT, Afro-American Afro-American NOTICE TO 01/27, 02/03Wed & 02/10/17 TYPESET: Feb 01 10:15:38 EST 2017 Washington Washington CREDITORS REAL ESTATE Law Reporter Law Reporter AND NOTICE TO Anna Yvette Gilmore Thomas Bartlett UNKNOWN HEIRS Personal Personal SUPERIOR COURT OF OPEN HOUSE Aurora L DelespinRepresentative THE DISTRICT OF Representative Jones, whose address is FRIDAY, FEB3 FROM COLUMBIA 1 7 N S t r e e t , N W, 10-4. 12108 COASTAL TRUE TEST COPY PROBATE DIVISION TRUE TEST COPY Washington, DC 20001 REGISTER OF WILLS Washington, D.C. REGISTER OF WILLS HWY, OCEAN CITY, was appointed personal 20001-2131 MD. CALL 410-524representative of the TYPESET: Wed Feb 01 10:11:46 EST No. 2017 12/2, 12/9, 12/16/16 Foreign 01/20, 01/27.

2/3/17 TYPESET: Wed Feb 01 10:12:04 EST 2017 estate of Viola D Deles8452 FOR MORE 2016FEP128 pin , who died on NovemDate of Death INFORMATION. ber 27, 2017 witha will, Superior Court of Julie W Akinrinlola QUARTERSHARE: and will serve without Superior Court of the District of Decedent Court supervision. All unthe District of 13 WEEKS DEEDED District of Columbia NOTICE OF known heirs and heirs District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION APPOINTMENT OWNERSHIP. 2 whose whereabouts are PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. OF FOREIGN BEDROOM 2 BATH unknown shall enter their Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 PERSONAL appearance in this 20001-2131 OCEANSIDE RESORT Administration No. REPRESENTATIVE proceeding. Objections Administration No. 2016ADM1500 AND to such appointment (or 2016ADM1490 Nathaniel A Wilson NOTICE TO to the probate of deClarence Aaron Butler REAL ESTATE Decedent CREDITORS Decedent James E McCollum Jr. K a y o d e A k i n r i n l o l a cedent´s will) shall be FOR SALE Michael Forster Esq whose address is 6708 filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th 2007 Vermont Ave NW M c C o l l u m & A s s o - Willow Creek Road, Delaware New MoveWashington, DC 20001 ciates Bowie, MD 20720 was Street, N.W., 3rd Floor In Ready Homes!

Attorney 7309 Baltimore Ave, appointed personal re- W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

NOTICE OF Suite 117 Low Taxes! Close to presentative of the estate 20001, on or before July APPOINTMENT, College Park, MD 20740 of Julie W Akinrinlola, de- 6, 2017. Claims against Beaches, NOTICE TO Attorney ceased by the Orphans the decedent shall be Gated, Olympic pool.

CREDITORS NOTICE OF Court for Prince Georges presented to the undersigned with a copy to the AND NOTICE TO FOUR New Homes APPOINTMENT, C o u n t y, S t a t e o f UNKNOWN HEIRS NOTICE TO Maryland., on June 24, Register of Wills or filed from $90’s. No HOA with the Register of Wills Dianne A Wesley Butler, CREDITORS 2013.

Fees. whose address is 1020 AND NOTICE TO Service of process may with a copy to the underHamilton St NE, Brochures Available UNKNOWN HEIRS be made upon Regis- signed, on or before July Washington, DC 20011 , Vivian J Wilson, whose tered Agents, Inc, 1150 6, 2017, or be forever 1-866-629-0770 or was appointed personal a d d r e s s i s 2 6 1 9 Connecticut Ave NW, barred. Persons believed www.coolbranch.com. representative of the M o r e l a n d P l , N W , Washington, DC 20036 to be heirs or legatees of estate of Clarence Aaron Washington, DC 20015, whose designation as the decedent who do not Butler, who died on was appointed personal District of Columbia receive a copy of this noSERVS./MISC. January 1, 2015 without representative of the agent has been filed with tice by mail within 25 a will, and will serve with- estate of Nathaniel A Wil- the Register of Wills, days of its first publication shall so inform the out Court supervision. All son, who died on April D.C. Want a larger footprint unknown heirs and heirs 10, 2016 without a will, The decedent owned the Register of Wills, includin the marketplace conwhose whereabouts are and will serve without f o l l o w i n g D i s t r i c t o f ing name, address and sider advertising in the unknown shall enter their Court supervision. All un- Colombia real property: relationship. a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s known heirs and heirs 5609 Eads Street, NW, Date of Publication: MDDC Small Display January 6, 2017 proceeding.

Objections whose where-abouts are Washington, DC 20019 2x2 or 2x4 Advertising to such appointment (or unknown shall enter their Claims against the de- Name of newspaper: Afro-American to the probate of de- a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s cedent may be precedent´s will) shall be proceeding. Objections sented to the under- Washington filed with the Register of to such appointment (or signed and filed with the Law Reporter Wills, D.C., 515 5th to the probate of de- Register of Wills for the Aurora L. Delespin-

20019, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Thelma Holeman, who died on June 17, 2006 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter TYPESET: Wed Feb 01 09:58:45 2017their LEGAL NOTICES LEGALEST NOTICES appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or Superior Court of to the probate of dethe District of cedent´s will) shall be District of Columbia filed with the Register of PROBATE DIVISION Wills, D.C., 515 5th Washington, D.C. Street, N.W., 3rd Floor 20001-2131 Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Administration No. 20001, on or before July 2016ADM1239 27, 2017. Claims against Marion B Darden the decedent shall be Decedent presented to the underNOTICE OF signed with a copy to the APPOINTMENT, Register of Wills or filed NOTICE TO with the Register of Wills CREDITORS with a copy to the underAND NOTICE TO signed, on or before July UNKNOWN HEIRS Denise Darden, whose 27, 2017, or be forever address is 1621 28th barred. Persons believed Place SE, Washington, to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not DC 20020, was appointed personal repre- receive a copy of this nosentative of the estate of tice by mail within 25 Marion B Darden, who days of its first publicadied on April 3, 2016 with tion shall so inform the a will, and will serve with- Register of Wills, includout Court supervision. All ing name, address and unknown heirs and heirs relationship. whose whereabouts are Date of Publication: unknown shall enter their January 27, 2017 Name of newspaper: appearance in this proceeding. Objections Afro-American to such appointment (or Washington to the probate of de- Law Reporter Larry Holeman cedent´s will) shall be Personal filed with the Register of Representative Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor TRUE TEST COPY Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before Au- REGISTER OF WILLS gust 3, 2017. Claims 02/03, 02/10/17 against the decedent 01/27, TYPESET: Wed Feb 01 shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or Superior Court of filed with the Register of the District of Wills with a copy to the District of Columbia undersigned, on or bePROBATE DIVISION 10:10:42 EST3, 2017 fore August 2017, or Washington, D.C. be forever barred. Per20001-2131 sons believed to be heirs Administration No. or legatees of the de2016ADM1309 cedent who do not re- Maria Harrisceive a copy of this notice Mantzouris by mail within 25 days of AKA its first publication shall Maria Harris so inform the Register of Decedent Wills, including name, Philip N Margolius address and relation- 7910 Woodmont Ave ship.

Suite 1165 Date of Publication: Bethesda, MD 20814 February 3, 2017 Attorney Name of newspaper: NOTICE OF Afro-American APPOINTMENT, Washington NOTICE TO Law Reporter CREDITORS Denise Darden AND NOTICE TO Personal UNKNOWN HEIRS Representative Leo Harris, whose address is 12308 Harbour TRUE TEST COPY Circle, Ft Washington, REGISTER OF WILLS MD 20744, was appointed personal repre02/03, 02/10, 02/17/17 sentative of the 2017 estate of TYPESET: Wed Feb 01 10:02:07 EST Maria Harris Mantzouris AKA Maria Harris, who died on August 3, 2016 Superior Court of without a will, and will the District of serve without Court suDistrict of Columbia pervision. All unknown PROBATE DIVISION heirs and heirs whose Washington, D.C. whereabouts are un20001-2131 known shall enter their Administration No. appearance in this 2017ADM0005 proceeding. Objections Herman S Lawrence to such appointment (or Decedent to the probate of deJamison B Taylor cedent´s will) shall be 1218 11th St NW filed with the Register of Washington, DC 20001 Wills, D.C., 515 5th Attorney Street, N.W., 3rd Floor NOTICE OF Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

APPOINTMENT, 20001, on or before June NOTICE TO 2, 2017. Claims against CREDITORS the decedent shall be AND NOTICE TO presented to the underUNKNOWN HEIRS signed with a copy to the Martina Terrell Williams, Register of Wills or filed whose address is 2500 with the Register of Wills Stone Creek Way, Mt. with a copy to the underDora, FL 32757, was apsigned, on or before June pointed personal repre2, 2017, or be forever sentative of the estate of barred. Persons believed Herman S Lawrence, to be heirs or legatees of who died on November the decedent who do not 19, 2016 without a will, receive a copy of this noand will serve without tice by mail within 25 Court supervision. All undays of its first publicaknown heirs and heirs tion shall so inform the whose whereabouts are Register of Wills, includunknown shall enter their 10:03:39 EST 2017 ing name, address and appearance in this relationship. proceeding. Objections Date of Publication: to such appointment December 2, 2016 shall be filed with the Name of newspaper: Register of Wills, D.C., Afro-American 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Washington Floor Washington, D.C. Law Reporter 20001, on or before July Leo Harris 27, 2017. Claims against Personal the decedent shall be Representative presented to the undersigned with a copy to the TRUE TEST COPY Register of Wills or filed REGISTER OF WILLS with the Register of Wills with a copy to the under- TYPESET: Wed Feb 01 12/2, 12/9, 12/16 signed, on or before July 27, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed Superior Court of to be heirs or legatees of the District of the decedent who do not District of Columbia receive a copy of this noPROBATE DIVISION tice by mail within 25 Washington, D.C. days of its first publica20001-2131 tion shall so inform the Administration No. Register of Wills, includ2017ADM0008 ing name, address and Leonard Hosey Jackrelationship. son Date of Publication: Decedent Janaury 27, 2017 Tina Smith Nelson Name of newspaper: Legal Counsel for the Afro-American Elderly Washington Attorney Law Reporter NOTICE OF Martina Terrell Williams APPOINTMENT, Personal NOTICE TO Representative CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO TRUE TEST COPY UNKNOWN HEIRS REGISTER OF WILLS Harry Jackson, whose TYPESET: Wed Feb 01 10:00:15 address isEST 21022017 Suitland 01/27, 02/03, 02/10/17 Terrace, SE, Washington, DC 20020, was appointed personal repreSuperior Court of sentative of the estate of the District of Leonard Hosey Jackson, District of Columbia who died on August 23, PROBATE DIVISION 2004 with a will, and will Washington, D.C. serve with Court supervi20001-2131 sion. All unknown heirs Administration No. and heirs whose 2017ADM45 whereabouts are unThelma Holeman known shall enter their Decedent Erick R Tyrone Esq: a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s The Tyrone Law Group proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or LLC 9701 Apollo Drive Suite to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be 301 filed with the Register of Largo, MD 20774 Wills, D.C., 515 5th Attorney Street, N.W., 3rd Floor NOTICE OF Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

APPOINTMENT, 20001, on or before AuNOTICE TO gust 3, 2017. Claims CREDITORS against the decedent AND NOTICE TO shall be presented to the UNKNOWN HEIRS Larry Holeman, whose undersigned with a copy address is 736 Ridge Rd to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of SE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Wills with a copy to the personal representative undersigned, on or beof the estate of Thelma fore August 3, 2017, or Holeman, who died on be forever barred. PerJune 17, 2006 without a sons believed to be heirs will, and will serve with or legatees of the deCourt supervision. All un- cedent who do not reknown heirs and heirs ceive a copy of this notice whose whereabouts are by mail within 25 days of unknown shall enter their its first publication shall so inform the Register of appearance in this proceeding. Objections Wills, including name, address and relationto such appointment (or to the probate of de- ship. cedent´s will) shall be Date of Publication: filed with the Register of February 3, 2017 Name of newspaper: Wills, D.C., 515 5th

Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before August 3, 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 LEGAL NOTICES so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: February 3, 2017 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Harry Jackson Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM0008 TRUE TEST COPY Leonard Hosey JackREGISTER OF WILLS son Decedent 02/03, 02/10,Wed 2/17/17 TYPESET: Feb 01 09:59:04 EST 2017 Tina Smith Nelson Legal Counsel for the Elderly Superior Court of 6 0 1 E S t r e e t , N W, the District of Washington, DC 20049 District of Columbia Attorney PROBATE DIVISION NOTICE OF Washington, D.C. APPOINTMENT, 20001-2131 NOTICE TO Administration No. CREDITORS 2017ADM0028 AND NOTICE TO James Roris UNKNOWN HEIRS Decedent Harry Jackson, whose NOTICE OF address is 2102 Suitland TYPESET: Wed Feb 01 10:12:24 APPOINTMENT, Terrace , SE, WashingNOTICE TO ton, DC 20020, was apCREDITORS pointed personal repreSuperior Court of AND NOTICE TO sentative of the estate of the District of UNKNOWN HEIRS Leonard Hosey Jackson District of Columbia Deborah J. Roris, whose , who died on August 23, PROBATE DIVISION address is 1613 25th 2004 with a will, and will Washington, D.C. Street, SE, Washington, serve with Court supervi20001-2131 DC 20020, was apsion. All unknown heirs Administration No. pointed personal repreand heirs whose 2017ADM1 sentative of the estate of whereabouts are unCharles Moore 09:56:52 EST, 2017 James Roris who died known shall enter their Decedent on September 4, 2016 appearance in this Steve Larson-Jackson without a will, and will proceeding. Objections 1629 K Street serve without Court suto such appointment (or Suite 300 pervision. All unknown to the probate of deWashington, DC 20006 heirs and heirs whose cedent´s will) shall be Attorney whereabouts are unfiled with the Register of NOTICE OF known shall enter their Wills, D.C., 515 5th APPOINTMENT, appearance in this Street, N.W., 3rd Floor NOTICE TO proceeding. Objections Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

CREDITORS to such appointment 20001, on or before AuAND NOTICE TO shall be filed with the gust 3, 2017. Claims UNKNOWN HEIRS Register of Wills, D.C., against the decedent Terri Moore, whose ad515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd shall be presented to the dress is 6026 Eastern Floor Washington, D.C. undersigned with a copy Ave, NE, Washington, 20001, on or before Auto the Register of Wills or DC 20011, was apgust 3, 2017. Claims TYPESET: Wed Feb 01 09:58:23 2017 of TYPESET: Wed Feb 01 10:12:44 filed with EST the Register EST 2017 pointed personal repreagainst the decedent Wills with a copy to the sentative of the estate of shall be presented to the undersigned, on or beCharles Moore, who died undersigned with a copy Superior Court of fore August 3, 2017, or on November 14, 2016 Superior Court of to the Register of Wills or the District of be forever barred. Perwithout a will, and will the District of filed with the Register of District of Columbia sons believed to be heirs serve without Court suDistrict of Columbia Wills with a copy to the PROBATE DIVISION or legatees of the depervision. All unknown PROBATE DIVISION undersigned, on or beWashington, D.C. cedent who do not reheirs and heirs whose Washington, D.C. fore August 3, 2017, or 20001-2131 ceive a copy of this notice whereabouts are un20001-2131 be forever barred. PerAdministration No. by mail within 25 days of known shall enter their Administration No. sons believed to be heirs 2016ADM926 its first publication shall appearance in this 2016ADM1330 or legatees of the de- Kay Frances Wright so inform the Register of L.A. Smith proceeding. Objections cedent who do not re- Decedent Wills, including name, Decedent to such appointment ceive a copy of this notice NOTICE OF address and relation- B. Marian Chou shall be filed with the by mail within 25 days of APPOINTMENT, ship.

717 D. Street, N.W. # Register of Wills, D.C., its first publication shall NOTICE TO Date of Publication: 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd 415 so inform the Register of CREDITORS February 3, 2017 Floor Washington, D.C. Washington, DC 20004 Wills, including name, AND NOTICE TO Name of newspaper: 20001, on or before July Attorney address and relationUNKNOWN HEIRS Afro-American 20, 2017. Claims against NOTICE OF ship.

Kathy Byars, whose ad- Washington the decedent shall be APPOINTMENT, Date of Publication: dress is 1805 29th Street Law Reporter presented to the underNOTICE TO February 3, 2017 SE, Washington, DC was Harry Jackson signed with a copy to the CREDITORS Name of newspaper: appointed personal rePersonal Register of Wills or filed AND NOTICE TO Afro-American presentative of the estate Representative with the Register of Wills UNKNOWN HEIRS Washington of Kay Frances Wright, with a copy to the underVicki R. Smith, whose Law Reporter who died on January 29, TRUE TEST COPY address is 2910 Vista St., signed, on or before July Deborah J Roris 2016 without a will, and REGISTER OF WILLS 20, 2017, or be forever N.E Washington, DC Personal will serve without Court barred. Persons believed 20018, was TYPESET: Feb 01 10:15:13 ESTappointed 2017 Representative supervision. All unknown 02/03, 02/10,Wed 02/17/17 personal representative to be heirs or legatees of heirs and heirs whose the decedent who do not of the estate of L.A. TRUE TEST COPY whereabouts are unSmith, who died on Octo- receive a copy of this noREGISTER OF WILLS Superior Court of known shall enter their ber 1, 2016 with a will, tice by mail within 25 the District of appearance in this and will serve with Court days of its first publica02/03, 02/10, 02/17/17 District of Columbia proceeding.

Objections TYPESET: Wed Feb 01 09:57:43 EST 2017 supervision. All unknown tion shall so inform the PROBATE DIVISION to such appointment (or heirs and heirs whose Register of Wills, includWashington, D.C. to the probate of dewhereabouts are un- ing name, address and 20001-2131 cedent´s will) shall be known shall enter their relationship.

Superior Court of Administration No. filed with the Register of Date of Publication: appearance in this the District of 2016ADM1435 Wills, D.C., 515 5th proceeding. Objections January 20, 2017 District of Columbia Joseph L Bush Street, N.W., 3rd Floor to such appointment (or Name of newspaper: PROBATE DIVISION Decedent Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . to the probate of de- Afro-American Washington, D.C. NOTICE OF 20001, on or before Aucedent´s will) shall be Washington 20001-2131 APPOINTMENT, gust 3, 2017. Claims filed with the Register of Law Reporter Administration No. NOTICE TO against the decedent Terri Moore Wills, D.C., 515 5th 2016ADM1283 CREDITORS shall be presented to the Personal Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Eula Mae Allen AND NOTICE TO undersigned with a copy Representative Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Decedent UNKNOWN HEIRS to the Register of Wills or Ara D Parker L a r r y D a r n e l l B u s h , 20001, on or before filed with the Register of 5827 Allentown Road whose address is 3921 C 6/2/2017. Claims against TRUE TEST COPY Wills with a copy to the Camp Springs, MD Street, SE, Washington, the decedent shall be REGISTER OF WILLS undersigned, on or be20746 DC 20019, was ap- presented to the underfore August 3, 2017, or Attorney pointed personal repre- signed with a copy to the 01/20, 01/27, 2/3/17 be forever barred. PerNOTICE OF sentative of the estate of Register of Wills or filed sons believed to be heirs APPOINTMENT, Joseph L , Bush who died with the Register of Wills or legatees of the deNOTICE TO on June 24, 2015 without with a copy to the undercedent who do not reCREDITORS a will, and will serve with- signed, on or before ceive a copy of this notice AND NOTICE TO out Court supervision. All 6/2/2017, or be forever by mail within 25 days of UNKNOWN HEIRS unknown heirs and heirs barred. Persons believed its first publication shall Ara D Parker, whose adwhose where-abouts are to be heirs or legatees of so inform the Register of dress is 5827 Allentown unknown shall enter their the decedent who do not Wills, including name, Road, Camp Springs, a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s receive a copy of this noaddress and relationMD 20746, was approceeding. Objections tice by mail within 25 ship. pointed personal repreto such appointment days of its first publicaDate of Publication: sentative of the estate of shall be filed with the tion shall so inform the February 3, 2017 Eula Mae Allen, who died Register of Wills, D.C., Register of Wills, includName of newspaper: on February 5, 2013 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd ing name, address and Afro-American without a will, and will Floor Washington, D.C. relationship.

Washington serve with Court supervi20001, on or before July Date of Publication: Law Reporter 09:58:03 EST 2017heirs sion. All unknown 6, 2017. Claims against 12/2/2016 Kathy Byars and heirs whose the decedent shall be Name of newspaper: Personal whereabouts are unpresented to the under- Afro-American Representative known shall enter their signed with a copy to the Washington appearance in this Register of Wills or filed Law Reporter TRUE TEST COPY Vicki R. Smith proceeding. Objections with the Register of Wills REGISTER OF WILLS Personal to such appointment (or with a copy to the underRepresentative to the probate of designed, on or before July 02/03, 02/10,Wed 02/17/17 TYPESET: Feb 01 09:57:21 EST 2017 cedent´s will) shall be 6, 2017, or be forever filed with the Register of barred. Persons believed TRUE TEST COPY Wills, D.C., 515 5th to be heirs or legatees of REGISTER OF WILLS Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Superior Court of the decedent who do not 12/2, 12/09 &Wed 12/16 Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . the District of receive a copy of this no- TYPESET: Feb 01 10:12:24 EST 2017 20001, on or before AuDistrict of Columbia tice by mail within 25 gust 3, 2017. Claims PROBATE DIVISION days of its first publicaagainst the decedent Washington, D.C. tion shall so inform the Superior Court of shall be presented to the 20001-2131 Register of Wills, includthe District of undersigned with a copy Administration No. ing name, address and District of Columbia to the Register of Wills or 2017ADM0008 relationship.

PROBATE DIVISION filed with the Register of Leonard Hosey JackDate of Publication: Washington, D.C. Wills with a copy to the son January 6, 2017 20001-2131 undersigned, on or be- Decedent Name of newspaper: Administration No. fore August 3, 2017, or Tina Smith Nelson Afro-American 2017ADM1 be forever barred. Per- Legal Counsel for the Washington Charles Moore sons believed to be heirs Elderly Law Reporter Decedent or legatees of the de- 6 0 1 E S t r e e t , N W, Steve Larson-Jackson cedent who do not re- Washington, DC 20049 Personal 1629 K Street ceive a copy of this notice Attorney Representative Suite 300 by mail within 25 days of NOTICE OF Washington, DC 20006 its first publication shall APPOINTMENT, TRUE TEST COPY Attorney so inform the Register of NOTICE TO REGISTER OF WILLS NOTICE OF Wills, including name, CREDITORS APPOINTMENT, address and relationAND NOTICE TO 01/06, 01/13, 01/20/17 NOTICE TO ship.

UNKNOWN HEIRS CREDITORS Date of Publication: Harry Jackson, whose AND NOTICE TO February 3, 2017 address is 2102 Suitland UNKNOWN HEIRS Name of newspaper: Terrace , SE, WashingTerri Moore, whose adAfro-American ton, DC 20020, was apdress is 6026 Eastern Washington pointed personal repreAve, NE, Washington, Law Reporter sentative of the estate of DC 20011, was apAra D. Parker Leonard Hosey Jackson pointed personal reprePersonal , who died on August 23, sentative of the estate of 2004 with a will, and will Charles Moore, who died Representative serve with Court supervion November 14, 2016 sion. All unknown heirs without a will, and will TRUE TEST COPY and heirs whose serve without Court suREGISTER OF WILLS whereabouts are unpervision. All unknown known shall enter their heirs and heirs whose 02/03, 02/10, 02/17/17 a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s TYPESET: Wed Feb 01 15:13:08 EST 2017 whereabouts are unproceeding. Objections known shall enter their to such appointment (or a p p e a r a n c e in this to the probate of deproceeding. Objections cedent´s will) shall be Walsh Construction holding a Job Fair on Thursday to is such appointment filed with the Register of filedpm with February 16th, 2017shall frombe2 -4 at the the Mellow Mushroom Wills, D.C., 515 5th Register of Wills, D.C., Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Adams Morgan located at Street, 2436 N.W., 18th3rd St, NW, Washington, 515 5th Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS La Donna Maria Butts, whose address is 6605 Napoli Road Camp Springs, MD 20748-2725, was appointed personal repreTYPESET: Wed Feb 01 10:01:47 sentative ofNOTICES the2017 estate of LEGAL NOTICES LEGALEST Cummings Elizabeth Williams , who died on December 1, 2016 withSuperior Court of out a will, and will serve the District of without Court superviDistrict of Columbia sion. All unknown heirs PROBATE DIVISION and heirs whose Washington, D.C. whereabouts are un20001-2131 known shall enter their Administration No. appearance in this 2017ADM18 proceeding. Objections Alice C Halfacre to such appointment Decedent shall be filed with the NOTICE OF Register of Wills, D.C., APPOINTMENT, 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd NOTICE TO Floor Washington, D.C. CREDITORS 20001, on or before July AND NOTICE TO 27, 2017. Claims against UNKNOWN HEIRS Karen M Halfacre and the decedent shall be Katherine A. Halfacre, presented to the underwhose address are 3252 signed with a copy to the 15th Pl, SE, Washington, Register of Wills or filed DC 20022, 1466 Con- with the Register of Wills gress Pl., SE, Washing- with a copy to the underton, DC 20020 , were ap- signed, on or before July 27, 2017, or be forever pointed personal representatives of the barred. Persons believed estate of Alice C Hal- to be heirs or legatees of facre, who died on July the decedent who do not 10, 2016 without a will, receive a copy of this noand will serve without tice by mail within 25 Court supervision. All un- days of its first publicaknown heirs and heirs tion shall so inform the whose where-abouts are Register of Wills, includunknown shall enter their ing name, address and relationship. appearance in this proceeding. Objections Date of Publication: to such appointment January 27, 2017 shall be filed with the Name of newspaper: Register of Wills, D.C., Afro-American 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Washington Floor Washington, D.C. Law Reporter LaDonna Maria Butts 20001, on or before July Personal 27, 2017. Claims against Representative the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the TRUE TEST COPY Register of Wills or filed REGISTER OF WILLS with the Register of Wills 02/03,Wed 02/10/17 TYPESET: Feb 01 with a copy to the under- 01/27, signed, on or before July 27, 2017, or be forever barred. Persons believed SUPERIOR COURT OF to be heirs or legatees of THE DISTRICT OF the decedent who do not COLUMBIA receive a copy of this noPROBATE DIVISION tice by mail within 25 Washington, D.C. days of its first publica20001-2131 tion shall so inform the Administration No. Register of Wills, includ2017ADM50 ing name, address and Estate of relationship.

Anita Kyler Date of Publication: AKA January 27, 2017 Anita C. Kyler Name of newspaper: AKA Afro-American Anita Carolyn Kyler Washington Deceased Law Reporter NOTICE OF Karen M Halfacre STANDARD PROBATE Katherine A Halfacre Notice is hereby given Personal that a petition has been Representative filed in this Court by Jean A Kyler for standard proTRUE TEST COPY bate, including the REGISTER OF WILLS appointment of one or more personal repre01/27, 02/3, 02/10/17 sentative. Unless a complaint or an TYPESET: Wed Feb 01 09:59:39 ESTobjection 2017 in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in Superior Court of this Court within 30 days the District of from the date of first pubDistrict of Columbia lication of this notice, the PROBATE DIVISION Court may take the acWashington, D.C. tion hereinafter set forth.

20001-2131 0 Admit to probate the will Administration No. dated September 22, 2013ADM964 19999 exhibited with the John W Beach petition upon proof satDecedent isfactory to the Court of Perry L Foreman, Jr. due execution by affidaCounsel for vit of witnesses Personal Register of Wills Representative Clerk of the Probate Linda J Beach Division PO Box 44819 Date of First Publication Fort Washington, MD January 27, 2017 20744 Names of Newspapers: Attorney Washington NOTICE OF Law Reporter APPOINTMENT, Washington NOTICE TO AFRO-AMERICAN CREDITORS Jean A Kyler AND NOTICE TO 904 Clovis Avenue UNKNOWN HEIRS Capitol Heights MD Linda J Beach, whose 20743 address is 134 Jewel Signature of Court, Martinsburg, West Petitioners/Attorney Virginia, 25401 was appointed personal repre- 01/27, 02/03/17 sentative of the estate of TYPESET: Wed Feb 01 John W Beach, who died on October 31, 2003 Superior Court of (with, without) a will, and the District of will serve (with, without) District of Columbia Court supervision. All unPROBATE DIVISION known heirs and heirs Washington, D.C. whose whereabouts are 20001-2131 unknown shall enter their Administration No. appearance in this 2016ADM1224 proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or Arlene I Washington to the probate of de- Decedent NOTICE OF cedent´s will) shall be APPOINTMENT, filed with the Register of NOTICE TO Wills, D.C., 515 5th CREDITORS Street, N.W., 3rd Floor AND NOTICE TO Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

UNKNOWN HEIRS 20001, on or before July 27, 2017. Claims against C h e r y l B a z e m o r e , the decedent shall be whose address is 5433 presented to the under- H u n t P l a c e , N E , signed with a copy to the Washington, DC 20019, Register of Wills or filed was appointed personal with the Register of Wills representative of the with a copy to the under- e s t a t e o f A r l e n e I signed, on or before July Washington, who died on 27, 2017, or be forever April 17, 2016 with a will, barred. Persons believed and will serve without to be heirs or legatees of Court supervision. All unthe decedent who do not known heirs and heirs receive a copy of this no- whose where-abouts are tice by mail within 25 unknown shall enter their days of its first publica- a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s tion shall so inform the proceeding. Objections Register of Wills, includ- to such appointment (or ing name, address and to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be relationship. filed with the Register of Date of Publication: Wills, D.C., 515 5th Janaury 27, 2017 Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Name of newspaper: Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Afro-American 20001, on or before July Washington 27, 2017. Claims against Law Reporter Linda J Beach the decedent shall be Personal presented to the underRepresentative signed with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills TRUE TEST COPY with a copy to the underREGISTER OF WILLS signed, on or before July 27, 2017, EST or be2017 forever 01/27, 02/03, 02/10/17 TYPESET: Wed Feb 01 10:02:59 barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not Superior Court of receive a copy of this nothe District of tice by mail within 25 District of Columbia days of its first publicaPROBATE DIVISION tion shall so inform the Washington, D.C. Register of Wills, includ20001-2131 ing name, address and Administration No. relationship.

2016ADM1509 Date of Publication: Cummings Elizabeth January 27, 2017 Williams Name of newspaper: Decedent Afro-American NOTICE OF Washington APPOINTMENT, Law Reporter NOTICE TO Cheryl Bazemore CREDITORS Personal AND NOTICE TO Representative UNKNOWN HEIRS La Donna Maria Butts, TRUE TEST COPY whose address is 6605 REGISTER OF WILLS Napoli Road Camp Springs, MD 01/27, 02/03, 02/10/17 20748-2725, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Cummings Elizabeth Williams , who died on December 1, 2016 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose

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Pursuant to Article of daily, firms submitting SF 255s should call MWBOO at (410) 396-4355 Baltimore City Code (2000 Edition) -Minority and Women’s Business Pro-to Legal Advertising Rates Effective October verifyMinority certification, expiration dates(MBE) and services that the MBE or WBE is 2008 gram, Business Enterprise and Women’sBusiness Enter-1, certified to provide. prise (WBE) participation goals apply to this contract.

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PROBATE DIVISION Non-Affiliation The MBE goal is 27% The WBE goal is 10% (Estates) A firm submitting a proposal may not use an MBE or WBE to meet a contract 202-332-0080 goalthe if:1-The firm has a financial interest inBusiness the MBEEnterprise or WBE2-The firm has Both proposed Minority and Women’s firms must annamed interest in identified the ownership control of the MBE or 6WBE3-The firm is be and as an or MBE or WBE within Item of the Standard PROBATE NOTICES significantly involved in the operation of the MBE or WBE (Article 5 subtitle Form (SF) 255 in the spaces provided for identifying outside key 28-41). consultants/associates anticipated for utilization this project. a. Order Nisi $ 60for per insertion $180.00 per 3 weeks b. Small Estates (single publication $ 60 per insertion Additional Information Verifying Certification c. Notice to Creditors

A firm a 255 prime fails to comply with the$180.00 per 3 weeks Each firm submittingas a SF for consultant consideration a project is responsible 1. submitting Domestic $that 60forper insertion requirements of Article 5, Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code when executing for verifying that all MBEs and WBEs to be utilized on the project are 2.

Foreign $ 60 per insertion a contract subject to theand following penalties: suspension of a contract; certified by isthe Minority Women’s Business Opportunity Office $180.00 per 3 weeks d.

Escheated Estates $ 60 per insertion withholding of funds; rescission of contract based onofmaterial (MWBOO) prior to submitting the proposal.

A directory certified breach; MBEs $360.00 per 6 weeks disqualification as a consultant from eligibility to provide services to the City$125.00 and is available from MWBOO. Since changes to the directory occur e.WBEs Standard Probates for a firms periodsubmitting not to exceed years; and payment for damages by the daily, SF 2 255s should call MWBOO at (410)incurred 396-4355 to City. certification, expiration dates and services that the MBE or WBE is verify certified to provide.

CIVIL NOTICES A resume for each person listed as key personnel and/or specialist, includa.

Name Changes 202-879-1133 ing those from MBE and WBE firms, must be shown on the page provided$ 80.00 Non-Affiliation within the application. b. Real Property $ 200.00 A firm submitting a proposal may not use an MBE or WBE to meet a contract Please be advised for the interest purposeinof reviewing price proposals and goal if:1-The firm hasthat a financial the MBE or WBE2-The firm has invoices, Cityownership of Baltimore defines of •or a202-879-1212 firm as follows: an interestthe in the or control aofprincipal the MBE WBE3-The firm is FAMILY COURT significantly involved in the operation of the MBE or WBE (Article 5 subtitle DOMESTIC RELATIONS • 202-879-0157 A principal is any individual owning 5% or more of the outstanding stock of 28-41). an entity, a partner of a partnership, a 5% or more shareholder of a Projectswill must comply withofthe 2006 information edition of ?The Specifications for Additional sub-chapter ’S’ Corporation, or an individual owner.

Services include review available including existing City Information a. Absent Defendant $ 150.00 Materials, Highway,Bridges, and Incidental Structures.

GIS data, perform spatial andUtilities attribute queries to identify and extract the ” City personnel will utilize the City of of maps BaltimoreGuidelines for the Perform- AOut-of-State Corporations must identify their corporate resident utilities to be inspected, preparation for field crews, field reconnaisfirm submitting as a prime consultant that fails to comply withagent the $ 150.00 b. Absolute Divorce ance of Evaluation ofQA/QC DesignofConsultants and Construction for requirements within the application. sance manholes, reconnaissance survey data, Contractors preparation of of Article 5, Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code when executing c. Custody Divorce this contract/project. maps for inspection of manholes and sewer lines, conducting sewer and a contract is subject to the following penalties: suspension of a contract; $150.00 Firms will not be considered for of a specific they apply as both a manhole inspections as necessary, preparation of contract documents withholding of funds; rescission contractproject basedif on material breach; Firms interested in submitting a proposal for this Project, address a disqualification sub-consultantas and prime consultant. including plans, maps, specifications, cost estimates, permitshall applications, a consultant from eligibility to provide services to the City To place your ad, call 1-800-237-6892, ext.

262, Public Notices $50.00 & up ”Letter of Interest” to the Office ofdocuments, Boards andand Commissions, 4 South for a period not to exceed 2 years; and payment for damages incurred by the right of entry agreements, right of way community outreach Frederick Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, (Email management. obc.consultants@ City.

The applications for thison Project 255) cannot beNotices supplemented with per inch. documents in addition to bid phase services and project depending size,(Form Baltimore Legal are $24.84 baltimorecity.gov).

Since letters are Six utilized assistatsmall any additional information such as graphs, photographs, organization The services would be for athese period of Thirty (36) to months a feeminority not to 1-800 (AFRO) 6892 and women business in identifying teaming partners, etc.for Alleach suchperson information be incorporated the appropriate exceed $1,000,000 perenterprises firm. The actual fee willpotential be negotiated with each Achart, resume listed should as key personnel and/orinto specialist, includthe letterconsultant should bewith submitted within five (5) days of the date of the project’s ing pages. should not be must bound.

Applications should simply be ext. 244 selected a specific scope of work. thoseApplications fromFor MBE and WBE firms, beplease shown on page provided Proof of Publication, callthe1-800-237-6892, letterand should contain contact person.

Failure to submit stapled the upper left-hand corner. Cover sheets should not be included.

Atadvertisement. the option of The the City a fee to be anegotiated, the Consultant may within theinapplication. a ”letterPost-award of Interest”services. will not disqualify a firm submitting a proposal for the Inclusion and/or submittal of additional material may result in the applicant provide project.Each prime consultant applying for this Project will be required to Please being disqualified consideration forofthis project. price proposals and be advised from that for the purpose reviewing LEGAL NOTICES complete an original Federal 255, along with please five (5) invoices, the City of Baltimore defines a principal of a firm as follows: Should youand havesubmit any questions regarding theForm scope of the Project, copies,Mr. to Mohamad the Office Alkhatib of Boards The Federal Form 255 Failure to follow directions of this advertisement or the application may contact at and (410)Commissions.

396-3440 or by e-mail at Mohamad. and the five copies must be submitted on or before 12:00 P.M. (Noon) on Acause disqualification of the submittal. alkhatib@baltimorecity.gov. principal is any individual owning 5% or more of the outstanding stock of March 3, 2017. Submittals may not be accepted after this deadline. an entity, a partner of a partnership, a 5% or more shareholder of a Issue of: February 3, 2017 or an individual owner.

Projects must comply with the 2006 edition of ?The Specifications for sub-chapter ’S’ Corporation, Prequalification Requirement Materials, Highway,Bridges, Utilities and Incidental Structures. ” All Cityarchitectural, personnel willengineering, utilize the City of BaltimoreGuidelines forinthe Performand surveying firms listed the specific Out-of-State Corporations must identify their corporate resident agent ance Evaluation Design Consultants and Construction Contractors for within the application. proposal for the of Project must be prequalified by the Office of Boards and this contract/project.

Commissions for each applicable discipline at time of submittal for this Project. Information regarding the prequalification process can be obtained Firms will not be considered for a specific project if they apply as both a Firms interested in submitting proposal for this Project, shall address a sub-consultant and prime consultant. by calling the Office of Boardsaand Commissions on 410.396.6883. ”Letter of Interest” to the Office of Boards and Commissions, 4 South Frederick Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, (Email obc.consultants@ The applications for this Project (Form 255) cannot be supplemented with Insurance Requirements baltimorecity.gov). Since these letters are utilized to assist small minority any additional information such as graphs, photographs, organization and business enterprises identifying partners, Thewomen consultant selected for the inaward of thispotential project teaming shall provide pro- chart, etc. All such information should be incorporated into the appropriate the letter should be auto submitted within (5) days of the and date workers of the project’s fessional liability, liability, andfive general liability - com- pages. Applications should not be bound. Applications should simply be advertisement.

The letter contain person. Failure to submit stapled in the upper left-hand corner. Cover sheets should not be included. pensation insurances asshould required by thea contact City ofBaltimore. a ”letter of Interest” will not disqualify a firm submitting a proposal for the Inclusion and/or submittal of additional material may result in the applicant project.Each prime consultant applying for this Project will be required to being disqualified from consideration for this project.

MBE/WBE Requirements complete and submit an original Federal Form 255, along with five (5) copies, the Office of Boards and Commissions.

Thebusiness Federal opportunity Form 255 Failure to follow directions of this advertisement or the application may It is theto policy of the City of Baltimore to promote equal and the City’s five copies must beprocess. submitted on or before 12:005,P.M. (Noon) in the contracting Pursuant to Article Subtitle 28onof cause disqualification of the submittal.

March 3, 2017.

Submittals not be accepted this deadline.

Baltimore City Code (2000may Edition) -Minority andafter Women’s Business Program, Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Women’sBusiness Enter- Issue of: February 3, 2017 Prequalification Requirement prise (WBE) participation goals apply to this contract.

TYPESET: Wed Feb 01 14:45:09 EST 2017 The MBE goal is 27% The WBE goal is 10% Both the proposed Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise firms must be named and identified as an MBE or WBE within Item 6 of the Standard Form (SF) 255 in the spaces provided for identifying outside key consultants/associates anticipated for utilization for this project.

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

Non-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 WBE2-The firm has an interest in the ownership or control of the MBE or WBE3-The firm is significantly involved in the operation of the MBE or WBE (Article 5 subtitle 28-41).

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

A resume for each person listed as key personnel and/or specialist, including those from MBE and WBE firms, must be shown on the page provided within the application.

Please be advised that for the purpose of reviewing price proposals and invoices, the City of Baltimore defines a principal of a firm as follows: A principal is any individual owning 5% or more of the outstanding stock of an entity, a partner of a partnership, a 5% or more shareholder of a sub-chapter ’S’ Corporation, or an individual owner.

Out-of-State Corporations must identify their corporate resident agent

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Emmett Till Trial Courtroom to be Transformed into Digital Museum later reported that Till either whistled at, flirted with or touched the hand of the store’s White female clerk—and wife of the owner— Carolyn Bryant. Four days later her husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother J.W. Milam kidnapped Till. They severely beat and mutilated Till, also shooting him in the head before discarding his defaced corpse into the Tallahatchie River.

By Zenitha Prince AFRO Senior Correspondent zprince@afro.com In the summer of 1955, the gruesome

murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.

Now, the courtroom where his murderers were acquitted is being transformed into an interactive history museum.

David Tell, an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas, is leading the project which will create the content needed to transform the courtroom in the Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Sumner, Miss., into the museum.

Tell previously worked with other -Carolyn Bryant Donham scholars and community groups to create the Emmett Till Memory Project—a website and smartphone app designed to commemorate the death and memory of The men were later acquitted by an allTill. The Project uses GPS to focus on 51 White jury after they deliberated for just over sites in and around the Mississippi Delta an hour. A few months later, in January 1956, that played a significant role in Till’s Courtesy Photo Bryant and Milam confessed to the crime, death and his killers’ trial.

Photo of 14-year-old Emmett Till selling their tale to Look magazine for a few That information will be used to feed thousand dollars. the digital content of the interactive According to a Vanity Fair report, Timothy museum, which will be funded by a Tyson, a Duke University senior research at a White woman and started the chain of events, the $500,000 grant awarded to the Emmett scholar, claims in his new book that Carolyn Bryant place where he was killed, etc.

Till Memorial Commission of Tallahatchie County Donham (she divorced and remarried) admitted she lied “At each site, visitors will get a slightly different by the National Parks Service. The museum will be about her claims that Till had made verbal and physical version of the story, and, hopefully, as they move accessible when court is not in session. advances toward her. Donham has kept away from the around, they will learn not only the facts but how “There are 12 windows in the courtroom, and public eye and has never given an interview about the memory works. … It changes, depending on who is when the shades are pulled down, they will double infamous lynching case. telling the story.” as screens,” Tell said in a statement. “There will be “Nothing that boy did could ever justify what On Aug. 24, 1955, the Black teenager from Chicago, projectors in the ceiling, and the content they display on happened to him,” Tyson cites her as saying in his book, was visiting his cousins in Money, Miss., when they the screens will direct people to other sites outside the The Blood of Emmett Till. went to a grocery store seeking refreshments. It was courtroom – the grocery store where Emmett whistled

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Trump Travel Ban Hits Home at Morgan Donald Trump’s so-called, “Muslim ban,” directly impacting seven countries Sean Yoes (more than Senior AFRO 218 million Contributor people and all refugees) and the general flow of immigration to the United States has triggered fear, loathing and protests globally.

Subsequently, we learned three key members of the Trump inner circle; Defense Secretary James Mattis, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and Rex Tillerson, who is up for confirmation to be Trump’s Secretary of State, allegedly were not informed of the details of the directive, until it was actually signed by Trump.

The ban, constitutionally and morally flawed in the eyes of many was rejected by acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates, on Jan. 30, who said in a statement, “At present, I am not convinced that the defense of the executive order is consistent with these responsibilities (of the attorney general), nor am I convinced that the executive order is lawful,” Yates said. By that evening Yates was fired by Trump.

Moments after her firing was announced Trump, of course, disparaged Yates’ character and accused her of, “(betraying) the department of justice.” Trump’s treatment

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Baltimore Public Schools CEO Warns of Massive Layoffs

AFRO’s 125th Anniversary

Spotlight on Black Educators: MSU President David Wilson

Underfunding?

Inadequate Management?

Or a Mixture of Both?

By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO

Morgan State University President David Wilson says, “I think we have to shift the dialogue from, ‘are HBCUs still needed’ to ‘how do we resource those institutions that historically have produced the talent that has already made America great.”

By Briahnna Brown Special to the AFRO While it may not seem like much, to Morgan State University President David Wilson growing up, $5 was the result of years of savings.

The youngest of 10 children, Wilson grew up in poverty in rural Alabama at a time when there were no laws requiring Black kids to go to school. His father was a sharecropper, and Wilson spent his first five years of school in a one-room shanty on the grounds of a Black church, with all five grades in the same room with one teacher. He would only go to school two or three days in a week, with the rest of his time spent helping on his family’s farm. At that time, he didn’t even know what college was.

He would read the pages of Look and Life magazines his mother had plastered on the wall which taught him about the world, and he aspired to be more than what his parents were.

When he brought those aspirations to his father, he was told that college was for “White folks.”

He worked hard to get into Tuskegee, and the morning he left for college, his father stopped to tell him that he was very proud of him, and that he had discouraged him from going to college because he felt there was no way he could afford to send his son to school. He reached into the pocket of his overalls and gave

his son the “piece of money” he had saved over the five years since Wilson had first talked about college, and told him to use it wisely.

When he finally looked at the money his father had given him, in his hand was a crisp $5 bill.

Though he was initially angry about it, Wilson thought about that $5 as his career unfolded. He went on to earn degrees from Tuskegee and Harvard universities before becoming the first Black vice president of Auburn University and eventually chancellor of University of Wisconsin System’s 13 twoyear colleges.

Wilson did not know much about Morgan State University when the chair of Morgan’s presidential search committee convinced him to fly out from Wisconsin to look at the campus. He came – David Wilson in baseball cap and jeans, and said that he had an emotional experience he had never had at the predominately white institutions he had previously worked.

“I have to say that it immediately took me back to Tuskegee, immediately took me back to that shanty, immediately as I looked into the faces of these young men and young ladies on the campus, it immediately said, ‘that’s you,’” Wilson said. “And I heard my father say, ‘It’s time to repay me.’”

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“…immediately as I looked into the faces of these young men and young ladies on the campus, it immediately said, ‘that’s you.’”

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COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS Send your upcoming events to tips@afro.com. For more community events go to afro.com/Baltimore-events McDaniel College Presents ‘The Vagina Monologues’ Benefit The Vagina Monologues performance at McDaniel College on Feb. 3, and Feb. 4, with proceeds benefiting Rape Crisis Intervention Services of Carroll County, Family and Children’s Services of Central Maryland and the One Billion Rising Foundation. This is the 14th year that the college has hosted this performance in honor of V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. Contact Cheryl Knauer, via email at cknauer@ mcdaniel.edu or by phone at 410-857-2294 for more information.

Union Temple Hosts ‘Essence of Soul: Harlem Nights’ The Union Temple Congregation will be hosting its 3rd

Annual Essence of Soul: Harlem Nights. The event will take place on Feb. 10 from 8 p.m. to midnight at The Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center located 847 N. Howard Street Baltimore, Md. 21201. Contact Doriel M. Churn, via email at singinladyd@yahoo.com or by phone at 410-456-2132 for more details.

Baltimore City Public Schools System (BCPSS) recently released a public letter bracing Baltimore residents for massive cuts in school staff if city and state officials fail to help close an unprecedented $130 million budget deficit.

“I must tell you that without additional funding, we are facing layoffs of more than a thousand staff

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Sonja Santelises, CEO of BCPSS, says school staff will be cut drastically in an effort to close the budget deficit. members. Because of the size of the budget gap, we will not be able to focus cost savings in the district office as we have done in past years,” Santelises wrote. “Most of the layoffs will affect staff members in schools.”

Santelises met with

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Man Charged with October Murder in North Baltimore

By Michelle Richardson Special to the AFRO Curtis Robinson, 30, of the 600 block of Dumbarton Road, is suspected of shooting 29-year-old Shannon Butler on October 19, 2016, according to Baltimore City Police.

Butler was shot at an unknown location before driving into the 4700 block of Alhambra Avenue in the neighborhood of Wrenlane,

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Curtis Robinson is facing first degree murder charges in the shooting death of 29-year-old Shannon Butler.

Brooks and Jones Host 10th District Night in Annapolis

Delegate Benjamin Brooks and Speaker Pro Tem Delegate Adrienne Jones are hosting a 10th District Night in Annapolis, Md. on Feb. 13 at 6 p.m. at the Lowe House of Delegates, 6 Bladen St, Annapolis, MD 21401.

The evening will include transportation, food and an opportunity to watch floor proceedings. To reserve a spot on the charter bus from Owings Mills, contact Victoria by email at Benjamin.Brooks@house.state.md.us.

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of Yates has many invoking memories of, “the Saturday Night Massacre,” during the Nixon administration in 1973.

Beyond the uneven machinations of the Trump administration, the travel ban on seven Muslim majority countries has had a direct impact on the campus of Morgan State University.

Morgan’s president Dr. David Wilson addressed his campus in a statement, dated Jan. 28 in reference to the ban.

“Last night, President Trump signed an Executive Order, which, among other things, imposes a ban on individuals entering the United States from seven countries: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Somalia,” Wilson stated.

“Please know that we have several members of our Morgan family who hail from some of the above countries, and whose family members are still there. It is probably safe to assume that President Trump’s order will be challenged in the courts, but in the interim, we are left with many questions. For example, we don’t know just who is covered by this order or exactly how it will be implemented. Based on what we are seeing in the media today, a number of individuals are being prevented from entering and, in some cases, re-entering the United States,” added Wilson.

Morgan’s president also offered this warning to his students.

“While we will continue to monitor the impact of this executive order, we believe it may be prudent to delay any plans you have

to travel internationally until we are able to get more clarity on President Trump’s order,” Wilson stated.

One of those Morgan students directly impacted by Trump’s Muslim ban reached out to Wilson via an email message in the midst of the chaos sparked globally by Trump’s impetuous immigration and refugee mandate.

“It is probably safe to assume that President Trump’s order will be challenged in the courts, but in the interim, we are left with many questions.”

– Dr. David Wilson “I write this email to let you know that, I went back home for a family emergency. One of my family member passed way last weekend. I heard about President Trump order while I was back home and I’m from Yemen which is one of the seven countries that are ban from entering United States,” the student

(whose name was not released) wrote to Wilson. “I went to the American embassy to ask if I’m allowed to enter United States, they told I cannot and I might be able to enter after ninety days.

So, I’m not going to be able to attend Spring 2017 semester.

However, I am going to attend the next semester,” the Yemeni student wrote.

I have no hard evidence (yet), but I suspect this scenario is playing itself out at other HBCU’s all over the country; young men and women working hard to secure what for many is an important component of the so-called American Dream, a quality university education. And in some ways, the pursuit by foreign born students, many fleeing persecution and oppression in the countries of their birth is the essence of the inscription associated with the Statue of Liberty.

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free.”

And these young people (almost all people of color) like the Yemeni student barred from re-entry to the United States to complete their education are among the first casualties of the Trump administration’s inherently xenophobic, inherently racist foreign policy.

Sean Yoes is a senior contributor for the AFRO, and host and executive producer of AFRO First Edition, which airs Monday through Friday, 5 p.m.-7 p.m. on WEAA, 88.9.

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to start the $5 Scholarship Fund to honor his father. In his office to this day, he keeps a framed $5 bill, a photo of his father, a dirt sample from around their house in Alabama, and a symbol of a bale of cotton among other memorabilia which he said helps keep him grounded.

Coming from better resourced institutions, he relies upon his mother’s innovation and ingenuity in keeping his childhood home together to piece together what Morgan has to take care of the school and its students.

“I think one of the challenges that some HBCU presidents face is that they become so frustrated, especially if they have come up within institutions that are not HBCUs,” Wilson said. “They become so frustrated early on by what they don’t have that they struggle, and here I try to concentrate on what we do have and to make the best of [that].”

He works to reduce and remove barriers to “access and success” that today’s students face, like financial barriers. In trying to improve the overall education experience for Morgan’s students, the school is working on a partnership that Wilson hopes will lead to the redevelopment of Northwood Shopping Center.

Today, Morgan produces large percentages of Maryland’s Black STEM degree recipients, and Wilson noted that with the changing demographics in the future that will lead to a non-white majority in the population, he hopes to have a new science complex and an expansion of the engineering school to propel Morgan to be the number one research HBCU in the country.

“We are going to position ourselves to be that institution that will educate a disproportionate number of the majority population in the state in the future as well as those outside of the state who want a unique, high quality, undergraduate education in fields that will promote entrepreneurship and innovation,” Wilson said.

Wilson said he has also been regularly advocating for state and federal funding, and hopes to see more major investment in the future. He has been invited to the White House for a visit at the end of February, even though President Trump hasn’t proclaimed an official stance on preserving and protecting HBCUs. Wilson said that today, HBCUs need to be at center of the conversation about America’s competitiveness “I think we have to shift the dialogue from, ‘are HBCUs still needed’ to ‘how do we resource those institutions that historically have produced the talent that has already made America great,’” Wilson said. “I mean, the talent that has come out of HBCUs is the talent that’s created the black middle class in this country.”

Baltimore City’s Annapolis delegation last week to brief them on the budget shortfall, she said.

State lawmakers expressed concern but were noncommittal. The State of Maryland is currently facing a $544 million shortfall.

In a recent interview with the AFRO, Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford said the city needed to take first steps to address BCPSS’ budget gap before looking to the state for help.

“We need to see what the city’s going to do to address that issue before they come to the state,” Rutherford said.

“There’s a lot of state and local money that doesn’t seem to always reach the classroom, so there’s concern there,” he added. “I think it’s smart on [Mayor Catherine E. Pugh’s] part to call for a full audit.”

Pugh has said in a statement, however, that structural under-funding – not mismanagement – is at the core of BCPSS’ ongoing budget crisis.

“Unfortunately, the Baltimore City Public Schools System is forced to address a structural deficit, and I know Dr. Santelises is using every resource available to her to address this situation,” Pugh said.

Pugh mentioned that the Maryland Commission

on Innovation and Excellence is evaluating education financing formulas for Baltimore and each of the state’s school districts. The Commission’s study examines the adequacy of educational financing for the state of Maryland and will make recommendations for legislation and policy to “make adequate and equitable the funding for State public education.”

A preliminary report was due to Gov. Larry Hogan at the end of 2016 and a final report will be issued in December 2017. But BCPSS supporters are concerned that recommendations from this report may not be received in time to impact the current fiscal crisis.

City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young said an immediate resolution of the $130 million budget deficit called for a range of solutions, including additional support from the state as well as budget reductions.

“We will need additional support from Governor Hogan and legislators in Annapolis. There are also less painful steps, namely reforming employee healthcare and pension benefits that the school system can take to close the gap,” Young said. He added, “The budget crisis facing the school system will require an all-hands-on-deck approach.”

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Robinson is charged with first-degree murder and is currently in the Baltimore City Central Booking and Intake Facility according to Maryland online case search.

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February 4, 2017 - February 10, 2017, The Afro-American

Celebrating Black History Month in Baltimore

Hello my dear friends and fans. I am so excited about this month due to the fact that I get to cover two of my favorite subjects which are Black History Month and Valentine’s Day. Also, I am

Lindsey B. Johnson founder of the Baltimore Black Memorabilia & Collectible & the National Black Memorabilia, Fine Art & Crafts Shows will host his event on Feb. 11, 10 a.m. -5 p.m. at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, 830 E. Pratt Street.

For more information, call 301-649-1915.

Lou Fields of the Baltimore African American Tourism Council of Maryland is hosting his Langston Hughes Book Fair on Feb. 5 at the Empowerment Temple AME Church, 421 Primrose Avenue in Baltimore from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 443-983-7974. proud to say, I am celebrating 20 years with the AfroAmerican Newspaper, on Feb. 14, as their Entertainment Columnist. Man, how time flies.

Now let me give you the details about these events coming up to kick off Black History Month, of which I will be a part of each one.

First, for the “Lou Fields’ Langston Hughes Book Fair” that will be held at the Empowerment Temple on Feb. 5. There will be over 20 authors and vendors participating including authors, publishers, Literary Agents, Publicists, Editors, etc. The event is free and open to the public.

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Lexington Market is dolls, advertisements, kitchen Persuaders, Rolls Royce, the joining in on the special collectibles, coins, magazines, Supremes and Baltimore’s month from Feb. 1 own Bona’ on Valentine’s toys, jewelry and civil rights, thru Feb. 25; every day Day, Feb. 14 at the Meyerhoff political, entertainment and except Sundays with a Symphony Hall. For tickets, sports memorabilia and so look at the city’s rich call 443-447-2207. much more. heritage and history with Next weekend, the New Coming up very soon, more than 100 vendors; Life Fellowship Worship BCP Digital Printing Black from food, fashion; Center Drama Ministry will Classic Press is celebrating live entertainment, host a special Valentine’s Day Black History Month at the arts & crafts, clothes, presentation written by Ursula “Independent & Self Published jewelry, books, vintage Battle, named; “For Better Authors Book Fair” at Center newspapers & magazines or Worse” on Feb. 11 from Court at Mondawmin Mall and publishers every week 2-6 p.m. at the Randallstown in Baltimore on Feb. 18, to authors and artists Community Center. For 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more sharing their stories. tickets, call 443-531-4787 or information, call 410-242The event is also free 443-468-6031.

6954. and open to the public.

Well, my dear friends, I More Black History Month If you are interested in am out of space, but I know The Carl Grubbs Ensemble will events are coming up in my being a vendor, call Stacy perform the music of Eubie I will see you this week next column, but right now I at 410-685-6169 for an somewhere. Just tap me on Blake, plus jazz standards want to mention Valentine’s application. the shoulders and say hello. written by African American Day, which is coming up.

If you need me just call me at Lindsey Johnson’s Jazz masters at the Northwood Mark your calendar for the 410-833-9474 or email me at Black Memorabilia & Branch of the Enoch Pratt Live Concert featuring Dennis rosapryor@aol.com.

Library, 4420 Loch Raven Collectible Show will be Edwards, the Temptations, Until the next time, I’m Boulevard on Feb. 11 at 1 p.m.

Feb. 11 at the Reginald the Mighty Delfonics, the musically yours. for Black History Month.

F. Lewis Museum from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be many, many vendors Obituary with black memorabilia for sale, educational exhibits, verbal appraisal of black January 11, 1963 – December 14, 2016 memorabilia and autograph Charmaine A. Langley- Dixon who was In 1997, she found her “niche” when affectionately known as “Leshe” was born she made a career change from the busisessions with Negro League ness world and entered the field of EducaJanuary 11, 1963 and departed this life on Baseball Players. Many December 14, 2016. She devoted her love tion. Charmaine served the Baltimore City and time to family, friends and countless Public School System as special education authors including IIyasah children whom she educated and nurtured. teacher, staff developer, assistant principal Shabazz, Malcolm X’s Charmaine’s bright smile, classy dress, and principal. daughter, will be at the show She was preceded in death by her loving spirit and positive personality made everyone she encountered feel special daughter Meta and father David Langley signing their books. Black and left a lasting impression. She was a Jr. She leaves to cherish her memory lovmemorabilia and collectibles dedicated Delta serving and supporting the ing husband of 22 years Clifian G. Dixon, for sale include slavery sons Jyré and Clifian of whom she was so proud, varied committees and activities. Recently, Charmaine rededicated her life to the Lord and became an active mother B. Thelma Langley, sister and brother-in-law artifacts, books, autographs, member of Ames United Methodist Church in Belair, Shirelle and Derrick Jordan, and a host of other relastamps, paintings, prints, Maryland where she served as Communion Steward. tives and friends.

Johns Hopkins. Investing in our community.

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The Afro-American, February 4, 2017 - February 10, 2017

Founders Tribute Dr. Erness Hill, Chair, Angela Nicholas, co-chair, Frances Gaines

Lydia Mussenden (seated front), Shirley Montgomery, Gwendolyn Howard, Shirley Stokes, Lucretia Billups, Susan King, Flora Johnson

January symbolizes the 104th anniversary of the founding of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and the 95th Anniversary of the chartering of Baltimore Alumnae Chapter.

On Jan. 28 at the Martin’s Valley Mansion in Cockeysville, Md. the Baltimore Alumnae Chapter paid honor to the twenty-two bold and daring collegiate women who founded Delta Sigma Theta Sorority on January 13, 1913 at Howard University.

The celebration featured a red-carpet affair with a champagne reception, Founders Tribute, Baltimore Alumnae past presidents Gwendolyn Lindsay, Eleanor Matthews, Rita Cooper, Beverly Boston, Sarah Wax Figures of Vashti Turley Murphy and Thelma Banks Cox on site, Individual and Chapter Service Smalley, Laura Phillips Byrd Awards.

Betty Bates, honoree, Vashti Turley Murphy Award

Helen McDonald, Ann Branch, Gladys Rice, Mildred Harper

Elizabeth Arnold Wlliams and Juanita Tynes Tillery, co-chairs, Prayer Breakfast

Evelyn Sample Oates, former North Atlantic Regional Director, Dr. Scheherazade West Forman, president, Rho Xi Omega Chapter, Joy Elaine Daley, 30th North Atlantic Regional Director, Erma Barron, past North Atlantic Regional Director

Sharonne, Dr. Gloria Williams

Derrick Johnson, Year Up Graduate

The Honorable Catherine Pugh, Mayor, Baltimore City, Joan Pratt, Comptroller

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Rho Xi Omega Chapter members celebrated their annual Founders Day Prayer Breakfast on Jan. 28 at Martin’s Valley Mansion in Cockeysville, Md. More than 500 people enjoyed the songs performed by the Chapter Chorale.

Joy Elaine Daley, the invited speaker, said, “Continue to strive and make a difference in the community.”

Golden and Silver Star tributes, and chapter awards were presented, including the Cultural Pearl Award, the highest award given by Rho Xi Omega to Janeen O. Jackson.

Rhonda Clyburn and Nina Spencer both received the New Soror Award

Nicole Cameron Becketts and Laurie Dickerson received the Sisterly Spirit Award

Year Up, a program that provides high school students with skills development, courses eligible for college credit and internships on a college campus, on Jan. 20 celebrated its latest graduating class at Baltimore City Community College.

Keynote speakers and special guests included Gordon F May Ph.D. president and CEO of Baltimore City Community College, Calvin G. Butler, Jr CEO of Baltimore Gas and Electric, and Roland R. Selby, Jr., executive director of Year Up Baltimore.

Graduate Briana Clemons- John Hopkins IT

Marilyn McDonald, Brenda Sykes, Toby Pulley, Valerie Mattison-Brown

Pam Gaddy, Rev. Ruth Travis, Kenyatta Adams, Gloria Herndon

Ruby Jackson, Donna Cypress, Joanne Mack, Robin Mack

Chapter members wearing banners depicting Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Founders

Past presidents of Rho Xi Omega are Vivian Braxton, Tracey Barbour, Karen Barland

Alice Cole, chair, Founders Day, Mayor Catherine Pugh, Mayor of Baltimore, Dr. Thelma T. Daley, 16th National President, Lisa Robinson, WBAL-TV reporter

Gordon F. May PhD President and CEO BCCC, Roland R. Selby Executive Director of Year Up, Keynote Speaker Calvin Butler, CEO of BGE

Marsha Logan represented Morgan State University for its partnership with Rho Xi Omega Chapter, with Dr. Scheherazade West Forman

Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine

Jo Ann Jolivet, Helen Anderson, Sheryl Nelson, Judge C. Yvonne Holt-Stone

Golden Sorors are LaVerne Gaither, Dr. Brenda Bowe Johnson, Cynthia Porter, Anastatia Benton

Silver Stars members were recognized for 25 years in the sorority

Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine

Roland R. Selby, Jr Executive Director Year Up Baltimore Year Up Graduates Courtesy photo

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