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Stopping Voter Suppression

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Black Women Fight Back

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Dana R. Mitchell, a 47-year-old minister at Destiny World Church outside of Atlanta, is among the ranks of the nation’s black women who own a firearm. “I don’t want this sweet face to fool you,” she said. See story on page A2.

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By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO Healthcare, voter identification laws, environmental injustice and prison and bail reform were all topics that took the spotlight during the 108th

Effort to Overturn Obamacare Stumbles in Senate Again

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com While the U.S. Senate voted in favor (51-50) of a motion to consider the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) pet bill, “The Better Care Reconciliation Act” was voted down 57-43. Fort-eight Democrats and two Continued on A3

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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) voted against a motion to consider the repeal of Obamacare.

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NAACP Conference in Baltimore, which concluded July 26.

Lawmakers joined with activists and concerned citizens from around the country to discuss the state of Black America and actions needed to make progress on

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker is running for the Democratic seat for Maryland governor in 2018.

After announcing his bid to replace Gov. Larry Hogan, Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker says he is focused on improving the state of Maryland.

Though the county has dealt with several issues, including child pornography crimes by a teacher’s aide at Judge Sylvania Woods Elementary School in Upper

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Eric Holder denounced the Trump administration’s efforts to change, and possibly suppress, voter registration at the NAACP national convention in Baltimore. the many issues negatively impacting communities of color and low-income families.

The conference came at

a time of transition for the organization, which has had two presidents and a newly named interim president in the last five years.

“This is a crucial time for the NAACP. We cannot play the old games the old way any longer. We must leverage who we are,” Derrick Johnson, the recently appointed interim president, said at the conference.

“Fifty-two percent of African Americans live in the south. The worst policies are germinating from the South. If we do what we are supposed to do in Georgia alone, we change the tide.”

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Can Tennessee Offer Reduced Sentences with Sterilizations?

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com When Tennessee Judge Sam Benningfield issued a standing order in May to offer inmates of White County Jail reduced sentences for agreeing to reproductive sterilization, it harkened back to an era of eugenic practices.

And while Benningfield’s efforts have been met with astonishment by outsiders, many within White County see his tactics as hopeful.

Benningfield told CBS News that the sterilizations were necessary to combat a growing opioid crisis in the county, causing more than 1,400 drug overdoses and Continued on A4

The NAACP concluded their annual convention in Baltimore on July 26. In 1969 the organization concluded their convention in Mississippi by awarding Clarence M. Mitchell, a Baltimore civil rights activist then serving as the head of the NAACP’s Washington Bureau, its prestigious Spingarn Medal. Mitchell was given the award for his work in helping pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, among other things.

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By Art Carter JACKSON, MISS.--Clarence M. Mitchell, for nearly 20 years an effective lobbyist in Washington, Tuesday night was saluted by the NAACP as “the 101st United States Senator.”

Head of the NAACP’s Washington Bureau since 1950, the 57-year-old Mitchell, a resident of Baltimore who commutes daily to his office near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, was awarded the 54th Spingarn Medal amid a resounding Continued on A4

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By The Associated Press “Black Panther” stole the show July 22 at Marvel Studios’ Comic-Con presentation, outshining the Ant-Man, Thor and even the ultimate Avengers team-up, “Infinity War.” Fans went wild for the exclusive sneak peek at the upcoming superhero pic, featuring star Chadwick Boseman T’Challa intercepting a sketchy vibranium trade between Andy Serkis’ Klaw and Martin Freeman’s Everett. Set in an elegant, Japanese-inspired casino, the deal goes haywire and T’Challa and his security detail (Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira) jump to action in their evening gowns to retrieve the precious goods.

The clip was followed by the trailer for the film from “Creed” director Ryan Coogler and the 6,500 souls in the audience erupted into deafening cheers at the sight of T’Challa morphing into the Black Panther suit.

The film finds T’Challa returning to his home of Wakanda after the death of his father, the king.

Coogler, Boseman, Nyong’o, Gurira, Serkis and more of the cast were on hand in San Diego to talk about the film, out Feb, 16, 2019.

Marchelle Tigner, a firearms instructor, goes over a firearms safety tips during a class in Lawrenceville, Ga. Tigner’s goal is to train 1 million women how to shoot a gun in her lifetime.

Sitting in a classroom above a gun range, a woman hesitantly says she isn’t sure she could ever shoot and kill someone, even to protect herself. Couldn’t she just aim for their leg and try to maim them?

Her instructor says self-defense is not about killing someone, but is instead about eliminating a threat.

If the gun gets taken away by a bad guy, the instructor says, “I promise you they’re not going to be having any sympathy or going through the thought process you are.”

Gently she adds that if the student isn’t comfortable with the lethal potential of the gun, buying one might not be for her.

Marchelle Tigner, known to her students and others as “Tig,” is on a mission: to train at least 1 million women how to shoot a firearm. She had spent no time around guns before joining the National Guard. Now, as a survivor of domestic violence and sexual assault, she wants to give other women of color the training she hadn’t had.

“It’s important, especially for Black women, to learn how to shoot,” Tigner said, noting that Black women are more likely to be victims of domestic violence. “We need to learn how to defend ourselves.”

It’s hard to find definitive statistics on gun ownership, but a study by the Pew Research Center released this month indicated that just 16 percent of “non-white women” identified themselves as gun owners, compared with about 25 percent of white women. Other Pew surveys in recent years have shown a growing acceptance of firearms among African-Americans: In 2012, one found that less than a third of black households viewed gun ownership as positive; three years later, that number had jumped. By then, 59 percent of black families saw owning guns as a necessity.

Few states track gun permits by race or gender. But a recent study by gun-rights advocate and researcher John Lott showed that Black women outpaced other races and genders in securing concealed carry permits between 2000 and 2016 in Texas, one of the few states that keep detailed demographic information.

At the training session in Lawrenceville, a town just outside Atlanta, about 20 students gathered on a recent Saturday morning to go over basic safety lessons and instructions. They started with orange plastic replica guns as Tigner demonstrated proper stance and grip. They are taught not to put a finger on the trigger until it’s time to shoot and to keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction. Tigner plays to their protective instincts by telling them always to know what is beyond their target so they don’t accidentally shoot a young child or another innocent bystander.

After about an hour in the classroom, the women walked downstairs and into the Bull’s Eye Indoor Gun Range. Some flinched as the crack of gunfire blasted from a series of bays.

They were each shown how to load a magazine and given the chance to do it themselves — several of them struggling to get the bullets into the springloaded magazine with their long fingernails. Then they took turns firing a Glock 19 semi-automatic 9mm at targets about 5 yards down range.

“The bad guy’s dead. He’s not getting back up,” Tigner tells one student who beams with pride as they look over a target riddled with bullet holes.

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Lupita Nyong’o, left, and Michael B. Jordan attend the “Marvel” panel on day 3 of Comic-Con International in San Diego.

More Than 90 Hospitalized During Chance the Rapper Show

By The Associated Press More than 90 people were hospitalized during a concert July 21 featuring Chance the Rapper in Connecticut, authorities said.

Many were taken to hospitals for excessive drinking.

Hartford Deputy Chief Brian Foley said Saturday that officers made 50 underage drinking referrals at Hot 93.7’s Hot Jam concert at Xfinity Theatre. Most of those charged were issued a summons to appear in court. Several other arrests were made throughout the evening.

The crowd was apparently made up of people in their late teens and early 20s, Foley said. Tailgating, partying and excessive alcohol consumption was “extremely prevalent.”

Foley said a large number of people hospitalized were underage attendees experiencing “severe intoxication.”

Hartford Fire Capt. Raul Ortiz told The Hartford Courant there were so many patients that some had to be taken to hospitals outside Hartford for treatment.

About 21,000 people attended the concert, Foley said.

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Police in Connecticut say more than 90 people were hospitalized during a concert featuring Chance the Rapper.

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NAACP Continued from A1 to vote in a time where technology and common sense should be making it easier.

Holder hammered politicians and the 45th president himself for making claims that more than three million people voted illegally in the 2016 election that still left the country under the control of a “fact-challenged zealot.”

“No such widespread schemes have ever been detected,” said Holder, in regards to the “mistaken belief in voter fraud” being used by proponents to justify stricter voter identification laws.

“Voter fraud did not become an issue in North Carolina- as in other places- until people of color started to cast ballots in record numbers. That became an item of great urgency with emergence of the candidacy and presidency of Barack Obama.”

Holder said at the heart of the voter identification laws being passed are people who decided “If you can’t beat themchange the rules.”

The former attorney general cited places like North Carolina, which decided to do away with their automatic registration of all high school students within a year of the legal voting age. He also spoke about Texas, where a gun holder can vote with their license to carry a handgun from the

Texas Department of Public Safety, but students who attend state universities can’t vote by simply showing their college photo identification card. Holder called for automatic voter registration nationwide, which he said would add upwards of 50 million voters to the list of people able to cast a vote.

Aside from voter registration, the many forums and panel discussions also focused on reforming the criminal justice system.

Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois expressed disgust with the private prison industry that is currently making money hand over first from the mass incarceration of Black and Brown bodies. And Florida State Attorney Aramis Ayala stood by her controversial decision to not seek another death penalty, imploring others to do the same.

From the bail system to the mandatory minimum sentences handed down, senators from across the country called for a major overhaul of the legal process set in motion with the slapping of cuffs to wrist.

“Is it not an injustice that the person who can pay to get out of jail gets out for the same offense- but the person who can’t pay to get out of jail sits in jail with all of these other residual consequences? That is wrong!” said California Senator Kamala

Harris. “It is not only about criminal justice reform, this is also about economic justice because the person who can pay gets out. That doesn’t make sense in terms of public safety.”

During the same NAACP Legislative and Federal Public Policy Forum that featured Duckworth, Harris, Sanders, and a several other lawmakers, California Representative Nanette Barragan called attention to the health disparities that will continue to grow should the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare be repealed. She also talked about the trend of environmental injustice that is negatively affecting communities of color.

Though the conference was jam-packed with discussions on important issues, there was still time to have fun, give honor where due, and celebrate the accomplishments of those leading the fight for justice.

Baltimore City State’s Attorney, Marilyn Mosby of Maryland, and Aramis Ayala, State Attorney for the 9th Judicial Circuit of Florida, were both recognized as being “Champions of Justice” at the luncheon honoring the legacy of Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. The NAACP also screened three movies- including the film “Marshall,” a film about Baltimore native Thurgood Marshall, the nation’s first Black Supreme Court Justice, set for release in October.

Obamacare Continued from A1 independents voted with nine Republicans to stop the McConnell’s bill.

Michelle Batchelor, deputy director of In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, told the {AFRO} the Senate’s rejection of the “Better Care Reconciliation” bill is fine but any Republican legislation isn’t good.

“I think that any [Republican antiObamacare legislation] plan is an act against women,” she said.

“People will lose their health insurance and that especially goes for Black women,” she said. “Black women need more access to reproductive care.”

Batchelor, who participated in the Congressional Black Caucus’s Twitter Town Hall on TrumpCare, said her organization is encouraging its partners to call and visit their representatives.

“If they can’t visit their representatives, we are encouraging people to plan their own rallies to stop the repeal of Obamacare,” she said.

On July 25, the Senate, with the aid of ailing Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Vice

“We are better than this as a country and the American people deserve more from us as their representatives.”

– Sen. Kamala Harris

President Mike Pence, voted to proceed on debating the Act, popularly known as Obamacare. All but two Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowsky of Alaska, voted for the motion to consider the repeal while all 46 Democrats and the

Baker Continued from A1 Marlboro, Md. and by a teacher/coach at Bradbury Heights Elementary School in Capitol Heights, Md. along with an investigation, from the governor’s office, on grade tampering in the county’s public school system, Baker, 58, still thinks he has a fighting chance at the Democratic nod for the governor’s seat.

“I believe in the teachers of Prince George’s County,

to provide more leadership in education.

Baker is one of several candidates to announce bids for the Democratic nod, including former NAACP president Benjamin Jealous, Maryland Sen. Richard S. Madaleno Jr. (D-Montgomery), tech entrepreneur Alec Ross, and Baltimore attorney Jim Shea. Besides the five who have already announced

“I think the unique perspective I bring is that body [of] experience, but in an executive position where you had to deal with multiple issues at once.”

– Rushern Baker I believe in the principals, I believe they care about their students and they care about their craft,” Baker told the AFRO July 20. “We need the state, especially when they’re doing backgrounds, to be able to prioritize those issues that are coming from our school system. Those are the realities that we live in now in the state, that we have to take every allegation serious and we have to do a thorough investigation.” He said the governor and the state need

two independents voted against it. Sens Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) voted against the motion to consider repeal while Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the only Black Republican Senator, favored it.

“This is a make or break moment,” Booker

their candidacy, five others, including Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz; U.S. Rep. John Delaney (D-6); former Attorney General Doug Gansler; Maya Rockeymore Cummings, wife to U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-7); and former U.S. Rep. Donna Edwards are considering seeking the Democratic nomination for governor. Baker announced his bid in June.

“The whole notion of running is not against an

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individual, but really to change the direction the state is going in and to move it forward,” Baker said. “I believe that it is a great state, but I believe that we can be greater.” Maryland primary elections are scheduled for June 26, 2018.

Under Baker’s administration, Prince George’s County – the second largest jurisdiction in the state of Maryland with the second largest population – is leading the state in job creation with 319,784 jobs created in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. Baker said he thinks Maryland should lead the country in job creation and technology. “Maryland needs to play a leading role in advocating for changes on a Federal level,” he said.

Even so, there is concern that Baker, Jealous, and possibly Cummings and Edwards’ bids for the Democratic ticket could split the state’s Black vote.

“I’m not running against Ben Jealous. I’m not running against anybody. I’m running for the office of governor,” Baker said. “I think what voters are going to look at in Baltimore City and I know Prince George’s County, and Montgomery County and every place throughout the state is not what you’re going to say, people say a lot during the campaign season. I’ve been around long enough to know that almost none of it happens. So, people are going to actually look at what you’ve done.”

He said his experience working in the private and elected sectors places him above the competition. “For 10 years before being elected to office, I worked for a Continued on A4

said on his Twitter account on July 25. “A moral moment. Any senator who votes YES on health care repeal does so knowing 22 million Americans will be hurt.”

Booker is basing his information on a recent Congressional Budget Office score that says 22 million Americans could lose their health insurance if the Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives repeal Obamacare without a replacement plan.

Harris said that “we are better than this as a country and the American people deserve more from us as their representatives. This vote to consider a bill that kicks more than 20 million people off of their health care is utterly shameful but we cannot throw up our hands when it is time to roll up our sleeves.

We must redouble our efforts and ensure this bill does not pass. I will fight every iteration of this bill on the floor that would threaten the health care for millions of Americans.”

Scott seemed elated that President Obama’s signature legislation is being debated.

“I committed to the voters of South Carolina seven years ago, three years ago and again last year that I would work to repeal and replace Obamacare with a health care system that focuses on patients and doctors, not bureaucrats in Washington,” he said.

“Today we took a step towards that goal and I look forward throughout the week to discussing with my colleagues the importance of repealing and replacing Obamacare.”

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NAACP Creatively Fighting For Change

By Hamil Harris Special to the AFRO The recently concluded 108th meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored at the Baltimore Convention Center was a showcase of how the nation’s oldest civil rights organization is standing between yesterday and tomorrow, particularly when it comes to having African Americans behind and in front of the camera.

The convention included Robin Harrison, chief of the Hollywood Bureau, who said her group is much more than the arm of the NAACP who gives out Image Awards on

a nationally televised show every year. “The NAACP only has two bureaus one is in Washington and the other is in Hollywood,” she told the AFRO. “The Hollywood Bureau was created in 2002 as a result of the white washing of the television season that year.

There was not one lead character of color that was part of any show that aired on the networks so Kwesi Mfume, who was president at the time, wanted to hold the networks and the studios accountable.”

Harrison said at the same time a Memorandum of Understanding between television networks ABC,

NBC, CBS, and Fox and the NAACP and several other Civil Rights groups representing American Indians, Asian Pacific Americans, and Latino Americans was signed to increase the number of minorities in front and behind the camera.

“The four organizations come together on an annual basis. We meet with the networks, talk about their numbers in front and behind the camera, we ask the hard questions, why these numbers are up and why these numbers are down, but we do that and this how the bureau was conceived,” said Harrison, adding that while

people of color are still under represented in Hollywood there have been gains.

As Harrison talked she stood in an area filled with people, lights, and cameras because during the convention the bureau and Shorts TV out of London sponsored a contest where three groups of filmmakers were working on seven films about Criminal Justice Reform in which the winner would be awarded with enough money for a 30-minute film project.

“I have learned a lot, I have learned how to white balance a camera,” said Aaron Gaddis, one of the young filmmakers from

Dallas. “I have learned how to be more intentional with my time and my scheduling.

I learned that if you have a big creative vision it is going to take much bigger time and structure. It took me seven months to do a seven-minute short and now we are doing it in 48 hours.”

In addition to making a documentary the six participants who are broken down into three groups filmed the panels during the convention around issues concerning criminal justice reform and the winner was announced at the NAACP awards dinner.

There were hundreds of young convention attendees

and many had their NAACP ACT-So, which stands for the Afro-Academic Cultural Technical and Scientific Olympics, created to encourage high school students to advance in the arts and sciences. Since its creation more than 300,000 students have taken part and during the convention there were 32 teams competing.

Larry Brown, National Director of ACT-SO, told the young people in a statement “ACT-So is the place for you to explore your academic and creative passions free from judgment. This is the place where professionals, mentors, and your peers desire you to succeed.”

Tennessee Continued from A1 costing taxpayers, millions in rehabilitation and social services for those convicted and their families.

“I’m trying to help these folks begin to think about taking responsibility for their life and giving them a leg up — you know, when they get out of jail — to perhaps rehabilitate themselves and not be burdened again with unwanted children and all that comes with that,” Benningfield told CBS News.

Proponents of the measure say that while the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has denounced the legislation, it is not a violation of the inmates’ rights, as it is optional and with the full consent of anyone choosing to undergo either a vasectomy (men) or Nexplanon implants (women) in exchange for a 30-day reduction in their sentence.

Under eugenics programs, popular between 1907 and 1981, the U.S. government enacted laws to keep socially defective people – those considered criminal, inebriants, immoral, and intellectually deficient – from having children.

Under theories that proposed criminality was transmitted in the genes, sterilizing criminals guaranteed decreases in criminal behavior as

death row, and 10 of the 13 juveniles currently under TDOC jurisdiction.

Hedy Weinberg, executive director of the state American Civil Liberties Union, called the offer “unconstitutional” in a statement: “Offering a so-called ‘choice’ between jail time and coerced contraception or sterilization is unconstitutional. Such a choice violates the fundamental constitutional – Hedy Weinberg right to reproductive autonomy and bodily integrity by interfering with well as the costs of incarceration and social the intimate decision of whether and when to services. have a child, imposing an intrusive medical With an over-representation of Blacks procedure on individuals who are not in a incarcerated in the area – Tennessee Department of Corrections records note that Blacks make up 43 percent of the felony inmates, 27 of the 59 inmates currently on

“Offering a so-called ‘choice’ between jail time and coerced contraception or sterilization is unconstitutional.”

position to reject it. Judges play an important role in our community — overseeing individuals’ childbearing capacity should not be part of that role.”

The Tennessee offer is reminiscent of a 2015 investigation that found four California prisons had performed 144 sterilizations on Black and Latino inmates – 39 of which were in clear violation of protocol and occurred either without the women’s informed consent or as a condition of their release from prison.

The violations occurred over a six-year-period between 2008 and 2014. The practice was outlawed in 2014 following an uproar over the practice.

As of July 25, the White County Sheriff’s Department reports 34 women and 38 men have signed up to undergo the sterilization procedures.

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crescendo of applause at the Jackson City Auditorium.

A long-time worker in the veteran civil rights organization, Mitchell was lauded as “one of our own.” The citation accompanying the celebrated Spingarn Medal read: “For his selfless devotion to the task of ending racial bias; for his uncompromising rejection of racism white or black; for his wisdom and tenacity in pursuit of just laws; for his abiding faith in the enactment of civil rights legislation, particularly the Civil Rights Act of 1968 with its fair housing title: “The NAACP proudly presents this 54th Spingarn Medal to its own Clarence M. Mitchell Jr., “the 101st United States Senator.”

The presentation was made by Mrs. Bruce B. Benson, president, League of Women Voters of the U.S. Mrs. Benson paid tribute to Mitchell as “an unchallenged expert in the complex machinery of self-government.”

Mitchell emphasized that he has “the good fortune to be a part of a winning team in the field of federal legislation” which is effective because “we are a cross section

of America. We do not draw the color line in our membership, nor do we ask about a man’s religion or his national origin.”

But he warned his delegate friends that “having won the fight to get laws enacted, we must and we shall see that these statutes work and we must improve them whenever and however it is necessary to do so.”

Also he told the delegates that “We must fight to save the Republican party from its new found allies like Senator Strom Thurmond.

“We do not object to putting the spirit of Abraham Lincoln into Mr. Thurmond, but we do object to putting the spirit of Mr. Thurmond into the party of Lincoln,” he stressed.

Mr. Mitchell, a landmark in Washington legislative circles, assumed his position as director of the Washington NAACP bureau ten Congresses and five presidents ago.

In 1957, after he had laid the groundwork for the crucial vote counting, the Congress passed its first civil rights act in over 80 years.

In 1964, he promoted the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and there is other vital legislation which bears the Mitchell imprint.

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community development [corporation] in D.C. actually doing economic development in the H Street, U Street corridors creating jobs, having to deal with social issues [and] that was what shaped part of my understanding.

It’s helped me as county executive,” he said. “I think the unique perspective I bring is that body [of] experience, but in an executive position where you had to deal with multiple issues at once.”

One of Baker’s priorities, if he becomes governor, is to work on resources for state jurisdictions, such as providing funding to repair old school buildings throughout the state. In 2016, David G. Lever, past executive director of

the Maryland Interagency Committee on School Construction under the Board of Public Works, told the Baltimore Sun that 52 percent of Maryland’s 1,392 public school buildings were built before 1990, with many designed with the “open classroom” approach that was prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s.

A possible solution to fixing problems with the state’s school buildings and other needs, Baker said, is for the governor to provide more resources. “In order to really help Baltimore County, Prince George’s County which has aging school buildings, then the state has to provide resources to do it,” Baker said.

“Same thing in Baltimore

City, there’s no subdivision in any county in the state that has the ability to handle all of its education issues. If it is a state function, the state has to be aggressive and that has to be led by the governor.”

The winner of the primary election will then face Gov. Larry Hogan (R) in the Nov. 6, 2018 general election.

Baker was born in Valdosta, Ga. As a teen, Baker lived in Okinawa, Japan and Massachusetts.

He was also a captain in the U.S. Army Reserves Judge Advocate General Corps from 1987-2001. In 1982 Baker graduated from Howard University with a bachelor’s degree in history and from Howard University Law School in 1986.

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Stopping Voter Suppression Voter suppression is a serious issue that threatens the integrity of our elections. As a community, we should be deeply involved in combating voter suppression and expanding access to the polls for all Americans – particularly in the wake of the destructive ruling in Shelby County v. Holder. As a Vice Chair of the Congressional Voting Rights Caucus and a member of the community that has fought against voter suppression, I remain gravely concerned with voter suppression in our country.

As we all know, Texas has been wrestling with its own voter suppression laws for many years. In fact, voter discrimination and the suppression of minority voices is no new phenomenon in Texas. District maps drawn in 2011 were found by the courts to be intentionally discriminatory against minorities.

In order to avoid litigation, the Texas State Legislature then hastily adopted an interim map in 2013 with the supposed intention of addressing further concerns regarding discrimination.

Recently, judges from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard closing arguments from plaintiffs and the State of Texas in the latest redistricting trial. So far, it appears that there is no evidence to suggest that the 2013 Legislature made any attempt to address the previously outlined concerns with the congressional districts. However, the court has not issued a final ruling.

When fellow Texan and former President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law, our country was in the midst of wrestling with literacy tests, the purging of voter rolls, and intimidation by those who wished to keep minorities and other vulnerable members of the population from casting their ballots at the polls. It was a

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difficult time in our nation’s history, but one that we seemingly overcame together through the broad recognition that all Americans should have equal access to the polls. After just a short period, the positive effects of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) grew quickly apparent but has been met with fierce opposition in the decades to follow.

Fifty years later, we are once again faced with the same fight under a different, more sinister guise. In June of 2013, the United States Supreme Court voted in Shelby County v. Holder to invalidate Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act. Section 4 of the VRA determined which states or localities required that changes to their voting laws be cleared by the U.S. Department of Justice or in federal court. Until the formula under Section 4 is redefined in a way that can pass muster in the Supreme Court, a key enforcement tool of the Voting Rights Act remains ineffectual.

Fast forward to 2017, President Trump issued an executive order that would create an “election integrity” commission. The stated purpose of this commission was to combat voter fraud, but we know the true meaning behind an executive order of this nature. It is to repeat the egregious mistakes of our past and once again prevent legitimate voters from exercising their constitutional rights to vote.

After passage of the VRA, nearly 1 million Black voters registered to vote within just four years, including over fifty percent of the Black voting age population in every southern state. We witnessed the number of Black elected officials more than double in the South, increasing from 72 to 159, following the 1966 elections. By the mid-1980s, there were more African Americans in public office across the South than throughout the rest of the nation combined. Reviewing the great number of accomplishments made under the VRA, I find it difficult to reconcile that we need an election fraud commission or investigations into such actions when there are more cases

of voter intimidation and limitations placed on those who seek to be involved in the electoral process.

As the representative of District 30 and the state of Texas, it is my duty to address the concerns of countless Americans here in Congress. We must speak out against thinlyveiled commissions meant to suppress the vote.

We must bolster the Voting Rights Act to its former power and encourage others to combat voter suppression and protect unfettered access to the ballot.

When I say we, I am not limiting and placing the burden to protect voting rights on one group of people because it is simply

a matter that impacts everyone in our state and country -- no matter the color of your skin. Unfortunately those in Black and brown communities tend to be targeted and are mostly impacted by the injustice when they are not able to participate in our democratic system.

However, this does not have to remain. I will continue to be involved in the dialogue between advocacy groups, constituents and elected officials to help find a solution that will diminish voter suppression.

Eddie Bernice Johnson is a Representative from Texas and vice chair of the Congressional Voting Rights Caucus.

Towards a Compromise on Illegal Guns in Baltimore Recently I was at a vigil in Cherry Hill for a young Nate Loewentheil man named MJ. He was shot 15 times after leaving a pool party over the weekend. His girlfriend organized the vigil. For the first hour, she was calm and collected as she ran the service. Then her two-year old son – MJ’s son – started crying, and her grief burst forth like a river through a dam.

Between tears and cries and shouts of anger, she cursed the streets that had taken her son’s father and begged the crowd to put the guns down. At the end of the service, 150 people released balloons with MJ’s name into the darkening summer sky.

To try to control the rapid growth in gun violence, Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis is pushing a one-year minimum sentence for carrying an illegal firearm in Baltimore. The rule has been met with fierce resistance from community members, activists and leaders who are wary of mandatory minimums. The debate is shadowed by the city’s history of zero tolerance policing and concerns about the reliability, trustworthiness and fairness of the police force.

Those concerns are understandable. Long, mandatory minimum sentences can have harmful consequences.

Typically, these minimums have imposed 15, 20 or 25 year sentences, often for a wide range of drug and gun crimes.

They have had a disparate impact on minority communities and had intergenerational consequences for too many families. Once imposed, these laws have proven very resistant to reform. Federal mandatory minimums have been particularly damaging.

But the Police Commissioner’s proposal is not in the same vein. It is a new city ordinance that can be easily overturned. And it is focused on a very narrow problem: people are too willing to carry a gun around town, and the more guns, the greater the probability of violence. That is what I heard at the vigil in Cherry Hill - more guns, more murders. Many gun offenders are let off without consequences. That means that people are right back on the streets, with guns, at a moment of flaring violence. MJ is one of 195 people murdered so far this year as of July 25. That’s 195 funerals, hundreds of aggrieved parents and loved ones, scores of children who will grow up without a father or mother. On a per-capita basis, Baltimore City is now the most dangerous city in America.

I believe firmly that Baltimore cannot afford a return to zero tolerance policing. The Police Department needs reform, beginning with a thorough implementation of the

Department of Justice consent decree. But we need to find ways to break the cycle of violence right now. To carry a gun today is to test fate - like lighting a bonfire in a forest during a long, dry summer.

So here’s a compromise: Pass a law imposing a one-year minimum sentence for carrying an illegal gun; but create a “sunset” provision so that that the rule automatically comes up for review after two years or when the murder rate in the city falls below 200. That makes it clear that the goal here is not to put more people in jail in the long-term. It’s to tackle an immediate public health and safety crisis, like imposing mandatory vaccinations or quarantines during an epidemic.

Such a rule should not be a replacement for public investment in jobs, in education, in creating opportunities for young people. It doesn’t substitute for programs like Safe Streets – or, for that matter, for police training. But it does give our city another tool to fight against the possession of illegal guns in our city. And it sends a clear message to all who seek to cause harm in Baltimore: Put your guns down.

We cannot live like this.

Nate Loewentheil grew up in Baltimore and spent the past four years in the Obama White House, including a year leading the President’s taskforce for Baltimore City.

‘Chocolate City’ Has Lost Our Anchor Extraordinaire There are few shining examples of Black male excellence in broadcast TV, a field that suffers from a dearth of brothas like Jim Vance. The man who delivered the news to us in D.C. for over 45 years passed on July 22, leaving his mark on the local broadcast sector.

Local television news is not the same as sports broadcasting, so one doesn’t see many Black faces like former NFL or NBA players on one’s TV set in this particular industry. These Black males are as close to ‘conventional news analysts’ as it typically gets, and we are drawn to them primarily because of their knowledge of the intricacies of the game from personal experience. But in actual broadcast TV we make up just 5% of the local news talent in the top commercial markets.

We are a rare breed that has yet to see significant growth for many years. TV stations, both local and national, are truly in desperate need of more diverse newsrooms, and I’ve attended panel discussions, breakout sessions and conferences fully dedicated to this exact issue. One thing that is quite well known, but seldom addressed is the news, like modern American society, is run by the White male.

Journalism is supposed to be objective and factual, but when the news being produced is largely controlled by the White man the types of stories and headlines circulating innately become skewed. Diversity in the newsroom is in turn a pressing issue

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that mirrors many other industries. In addition to the imbalance in reporting segments there is also a top down effect in business, politics, education and more.

People of color have few icons across most professional platforms because in every place outside of sports and some forms of entertainment, we are the vast minority . It’s not fair, but life isn’t fair so we have to keep pushing and strive for change like few have done before. I marvel at the Black broadcasters that I do see and frequently watch broadcast news today.

When I was growing up though, if I wanted to see reporting on TV I would just turn to ESPN and engage with Stuart Scott’s captivating commentary or flip over to FOX NFL Sundays with James Brown’s command of the set. I rarely watched my local news station here in Washington because I was either at school, practice or choir rehearsal .

Besides, ABC, CBS, nor FOX, featured a presence on the daily news who I was drawn to, but I did notice that there was at least one person who looked like me that appeared on NBC News4.

He was an older gentleman with a grey beard and low cut—a brotha nonetheless. Vance was a charismatic fellow with a distinctly raspy and soft, high-registering voice, he was a local legend, who gave the news a hint of chocolate night after night.

Since 1969, he has exemplified doing it the right way for Black journalists in this business. Even after being diagnosed

with cancer earlier this year, he persisted.

Craig Sager and Stuart Scott, both sports journalists, are examples of individuals who refused to let cancer defeat them or inhibit their creativity or passions for storytelling. Vance is another example of surfing on the high tide until his final wave gently washed him ashore.

He not only leaves a legacy for aspiring reporters like myself, especially being from D.C., but he also left behind a glimpse of hope for our youth who don’t only have local stars like KD or Markelle Fultz to look up to now.

This man’s legacy needs to last a lifetime and lifetimes to come. Parents, make your kids watch a Jim Vance clip as homework. Millennials, remember to tell your sons and daughters about the man who anchored for the premier news channel in the city for nearly half a century throughout your childhood and throughout your parents’, too. It is only right to let children know who should be placed in their Black history books and as posters on their walls.

We must continue to celebrate Vance’s accomplishments like it’s 1969 because what he did for Blacks in journalism, and what he did for our people in this city should be cherished forevermore.

Heaven’s 6 P.M. evening broadcast just found its newest anchor.

Arthur Jones II is a Washington, D.C. based writer.

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’The Basketball Tournament,’ Much More Than A Game

After Council Clashes, Gun Bill Gutted

Baltimore native Carmello Anthony, a perennial NBA AllStar with the New York Knicks and Sean Yoes surefire hallBaltimore AFRO of-famer Editor is the face syoes@afro.com and host of, “The Basketball Tournament,” a $2 million, single-elimination tournament featuring 64 teams (a mix of professionals, college players and neighborhood blacktop

Opinion

A Better Way to Fight Crime in Baltimore

By Kristerfer Burnett Special to the AFRO

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A protester was arrested by Baltimore City Police after one of several skirmishes between opponents of a proposed mandatory minimum gun law and certain members of the Baltimore City Council.

“Basically, the amendment that came out and it was voted on favorably...makes this bill the status quo,” said Lawrence Grandpre, director of Research for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, a Baltimore grassroots think tank. “The fact that they A controversial proposed Baltimore gun law, which would kept debating it, the fact that they kept talking about it like it was enforce a mandatory one-year sentence on anyone illegally the same (original) bill, leads me to believe that...this amendment carrying a gun in many sections of the city, was watered down came from a fear that this was a political hot button issue, which significantly in a Baltimore City clearly it was and they were trying Council committee July 25. to soften the blow,” Grandpre added.

After a contentious hearing in the “They’re not doing anything council chamber, where protesters substantive...anymore because of opposed to the mandatory minimum this amendment. But, they want gun legislation were arrested by the PR value of continuing to talk Baltimore police, the Judiciary about it and I really think that’s and Legislative Investigations really disingenuous and somewhat Committee voted 5-2 to send the disrespectful to the citizens amended bill to the full council. The of Baltimore. We know when amended legislation, introduced something is getting passed just

by Councilman John Bullock for the sake of saying, `We passed (D-9th) would impose the one– Lawrence Grandpre something.’” year mandatory sentence only on Prior to the discussion and individuals committing a second gun vote on the amended legislation, possession offense or carrying a gun a chaotic hearing that lasted more in commission of a crime against a person or property. Current than six hours, led to repeated clashes in the council chambers.

Maryland law already applies a 1-year mandatory minimum on a Grandpre referred to the police arrests of anti-mandatory second handgun possession offense, and already requires a 5-year minimum protesters as “a militarized response.” According to mandatory sentence for using a gun while committing a violent police, a 27-year old and a 29-year old man were both arrested crime or dealing drugs, effectively neutralizing the proposed Continued on B2 stripped down legislation being considered by the council.

By Sean Yoes Baltimore AFRO Editor syoes@afro.com

legends, among others), which will end in Baltimore with the semi-final and championship games played at Coppin State University in West Baltimore.

But, it’s two long-time Baltimore entrepreneurs and impresarios, LaRian Finney and Derrick “D” Chase, who collaborated in the style of former Knick legends, Earl “the Pearl” Monroe and Walt “Clyde” Frazier to bring the tournament to Baltimore. And most importantly infused it with purpose that resonates in some of city’s most needy communities.

“I got a phone call from Chase, he said, `Finn, we need to figure out a way to bring

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“…they want the PR value of continuing to talk about it and I really think that’s really disingenuous and somewhat disrespectful to the citizens of Baltimore.”

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Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood during their recent trip to North Carolina.

Mentoring Baltimore Youth for Two Decades

By Bobby Marvin Holmes Special to the AFRO Cameron Miles says he keeps four obituaries above his desk in his office. They depict the faces of young men he has worked with through his program, Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood. It’s a sobering reminder of Baltimore’s violent culture consuming the lives of young people.

“I wish I hadn’t lost those four,” said Miles. “I wish I could have done more to be able to say today that we haven’t lost anybody. So I’m always wondering what did I do wrong? Or what didn’t I do enough of to keep them from making the wrong choice? So if I’m focused on what happened to those four, hopefully we won’t lose anymore,” Miles added.

However, the loss of his mentees didn’t deter him from his mission, instead it fueled his drive to keep going.

Miles started his mentoring program in 1996 with just five young men in the cafeteria of the Department of Social Services building on Biddle Street. Since then he has touched the lives of hundreds of boys and young men growing up in Baltimore’s toughest neighborhoods. Miles personally understands the allure of the streets and why it’s critical to get involved in the lives of these young men early.

“When I was younger I made some poor choices. I made some mistakes,” admits Miles. “I know what it is [like] to have dealings and run-ins with the police and I don’t want that for any other young man.”

Today, Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood is housed at New Shiloh Baptist Church in West Baltimore and meets two Saturdays a month. The program offers tutoring services and a guest speaker series featuring professionals from the private business sector, government and community advocacy.

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There is no denying that our City is in crisis--the loss of lives across our city to gun violence have shaken our communities to their core.

In my time on the Baltimore City Council, I have had the opportunity to hear from multiple experts on the subject of crime; prosecutors, police officers, former gang members, think tanks and the non-profit community. I’ve heard from my constituents, those who are the victims of crime, and those who are involved in it.

From what I have learned, I am certain that evidencebased policy has to be the standard by which this Council legislates. In regards to the proposed mandatory minimum legislation, I am convinced that my colleagues on the Council have the best intentions in responding to a crisis, and are operating in the manner by which they feel is best. But according to “Combating Gun Violence in Illinois: Evidence Based Solutions,” produced by the Bluhm Legal Clinic at Northwestern Law school, there is overwhelming

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Baltimore’s Public Enemy #1 Arrested In Louisiana

By Michelle Richardson Special to the AFRO A man labeled “Public Enemy #1” by the Baltimore Police Department, has been captured in another state after spending two months on the run.

According to BPD, Cortez Wall, 18, was taken into custody Monday evening in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Wall has been Baltimore’s Public Enemy #1 since May 6 when he became a suspect in the murder of 28 year-old Channon Simpkins.

At approximately 2:39 p.m, Simpkins was gunned down in the area of Whiteridge Avenue and Barclay Street in East Baltimore. With key evidence and witness testimony, detectives were able to identify Wall as the murder suspect.

Just after 4:00 p.m. agents with the United States Marshal’s Office Fugitive Task Force, SWAT team members, K-9 officers and the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office surrounded a home in the 600 block of West 68th Street in Shreveport in search of Wall.

Wall was taken into custody

by Louisiana authorities with the help of a trained police K-9, after he attempted to flee from police.

According to a press release from the Shreveport Police Department, Wall was taken to a local hospital and treated for minor injuries he sustained while resisting arrest. He was then transferred and booked into the Caddo Correctional Center.

Authorities believe Wall has been hiding out in the Shreveport area for months.

There is no word on when Louisiana authorities will extradite Wall back into the custody of the Baltimore Police.

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this game to Baltimore.’ I said, what are you talking about?”

Finney explained. “So, we pitched these guys out of Boston (the tournament was founded by Jonathan Mugar in 2014)... we’re going to get you support from the political community, we’re going to get you support from the institutions, we’re going to get you support from anchor institutions...now, you have Kaiser Permanente, you’ve got Johns Hopkins, you have Shoe City, you have the State of Maryland, all who have come on board to support this endeavor.”

It seems like Baltimore has played the stepchild to New York on countless occasions when it comes to these type of business, entertainment or sports endeavors. But, this time it was Mobtown on top.

“We took this tournament from New York City; the semifinals and championship were in New York City last year.

So, we went and met with some folks from Boston and said, look, this is why you need to believe in Baltimore,” Finney said.

“Despite some of the naysayers on the sidelines, we’re going to be in Coppin, we’re going to be in West Baltimore, and at 7 o’clock on August 3rd a $2 million check will be presented at center court in West Baltimore. It’s a big, big deal.”

Indeed it is. The semifinal and championship games will be aired on ESPN and it is the first time in many years a basketball tournament of this magnitude has been played in Baltimore, specifically in West Baltimore. But, it’s the neighborhoods that surround Coppin that stand to gain the most in many ways.

“It had to have some components that directly impacted

the community. So, what we created was a, “Day of Giving,” where we partnered with the Mondawmin Mall and the Baltimore City Health Department to do a very extensive health

“It had to have some components that directly impacted the community. So, what we created was a, “Day of Giving.”

– LaRian Finney and wellness initiative, over 40 vendors, eight mobile units that will have education services,” Finney said.

“Another key component was partnering with Ray Lewis and the Global 1000 Baltimore, this will be their second endeavor in Baltimore, where they have committed to source at least 300 jobs. They provide services around reentry, expungement, workforce development,” he added. “And then we intentionally went into the Upton, Penn-North SandtownWinchester area, where we are going to do a complete clean-up and also going to the Avenue Market. We’ve designated four of the stalls at the Avenue Market where we’ll completely refurbish them.”

Chase said this is an opportunity for West Baltimore to be in

the spotlight, this time for all the right reasons.

“After April 2015, after the riots...we were already moving, but we needed to move more expeditiously. So, we created something called, “Stand Up Baltimore,” and we began to engage over 120 organizations that were out there doing positive things in the community,” Chase said.

“But, we said that we were losing because there was no connectivity, nobody was talking to each other, the left hand wasn’t telling the right hand what to do. So, as it relates to this particular event it’s the same format,” he added.

“We use basketball as the cornerstone for community transformation. And that is what makes this so incredible.”

The Basketball Tournament is coming to Baltimore this year at no cost to the city. The only thing Finney and Chase want is for the city to support it with love and enthusiasm.

“Our hope...is for the community to come out in droves.

See, we always talk about what people have done in the past and how great the past was. But, how great will our future be?”

Chase asked.

“This is not just a basketball game, this is the seeding of our future. We have an opportunity for the millions of people who are watching, who are going to watch this game on ESPN on prime time...to see what and who Baltimore is. And the question is...who is going to be there to show them who they are?”

Sean Yoes is the AFRO’s Baltimore editor and host and executive producer of First Edition, which airs Monday through Friday, 5-7 p.m. on WEAA, 88.9.

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Exposure to positive experiences is key to Miles, which is why the program schedules frequent tours and out of state visits. Previous trips have included the New York Stock Exchange, Harvard University and Morehouse College.

Last month, Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood went on a three-day weekend trip to North Carolina. The group toured North Carolina Central University and Duke University. They also visited Self-Help Credit Union, TROSA, a residential treatment facility and Stagville, a historic site comprised of slave plantations.

“It was truly a phenomenal trip,” said Tia Bossiwa, who accompanied the boys to North Carolina. Understanding the need for more positive male role models, Bossiwa enrolled her two teenage sons into the program a year

ago.

“There’s a certain time that a young man needs a man. They need mentors in their lives and you got to have your eyes open so you can recognize it and then begin to place people in their lives that can give them what they need so they can grow up to be the phenomenal men that they are,” said Bossiwa.

Gershom Bossiwa,Tia’s son, is a 16-yearold student attending Chesapeake High School. He acts as a peer mentor for the younger boys in the program.

“Some of the kids I don’t know if they have a father in their life. It’s not that we try to be their father...But we just try to be somebody that they can look up to,” said Gershom. “We just want to put them on the right path if they are not already on the right path.”

It’s been over twenty years since the program’s inception and Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood has garnered respect and support of public officials, entrepreneurs, and even renowned Harvard law professor, Charles Ogletree, Jr. Yet, Miles still remains relentless

in his work.

“I don’t feel that it’s good enough,” admits Miles. “I feel like I got to come up with better ideas to do an even better trip next year. I feel like I got to try to reach more young men than I already tried to reach.”

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“This ordinance doesn’t lead us down a path to justice, it leads down the path to oppression,” testified Baltimore defense attorney J. Wyndal Gordon. During his testimony, Gordon a successful defense attorney, talked about the “costs” of practices that lead to mass incarceration, before commenting on the challenges inherent in enforcing the proposed law. “You’re going to give this authority to a police department that’s been corrupt for a very long time. They’ve been charged and convicted of theft, racketeering, overtime fraud, robbery, false reports,...” Gordon said, before being interrupted by Councilman Eric Costello, chairman of the Judiciary and Legislative Investigations Committee, and one of the strongest proponents of the mandatory minimum legislation.

Councilman Brandon Scott (D-2nd), was succinct in his assessment of the proposed gun legislation. “Mandatory minimums don’t work,” Scott said before being interrupted by applause from the council gallery. “In my humble opinion, this piece of legislation is a direct diversion away from the real issue and the real issue is that...the only way we can deal with violence in Baltimore is to have a comprehensive strategy that is not the burden of the police commissioner or the police department, but of all city agencies. And without that we’re going to continue to have this conversation.”

Dr. David Wilson, president of Morgan State University in Northeast Baltimore, testified in favor of the mandatory minimum gun law.

“The personal and collective safety of the faculty, of our students and the staff who work and study at Morgan is our number one priority and it is critical to the university and the sanctity of our mission...as an anchor urban university,” Dr. Wilson said.

“Our students, our faculty and members of our community must be able to work together in and around parks, in and around churches, in and around schools, in and around public buildings… and they must be able to do so without the fear of gun violence.”

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This year marks the 83rd annual AFRO Clean Block, which was started in 1934

by Frances L. Murphy, the daughter of AFRO founder, John H. Murphy, Sr. The purpose of the campaign is to help create a clean living environment in Baltimore throughout the summer.

This year’s winners are represented by the Sandown (pictured) and

Druid Heights communities in West Baltimore. Keith Figgs is the Sandtown AFRO Clean Block Captain. In addition to the Clean Block initiative for his community, Figgs is in the process of beginning his own nonprofit called, “Power.”

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evidence from the other American cities that have already gone down the road of mandatory minimums for illegal gun possession to suggest that these policies will not stop the crisis of violence in Baltimore.

The reasons for the spike in homicides are varied, but we cannot begin to talk about an increase in crime until we discuss the reasons underpinning crime. In Baltimore, our residents are being paid low wages relative to the cost of living (a person in the Baltimore region must make $22 per hour for a family of four to have a living wage, but average pay is $10 per hour). Heroin and opiate addiction has increased exponentially and is causing turf wars as drug syndicates compete (and retaliate) for territory and customers. Citizens returning to our neighborhoods from incarceration have few pathways to viable employment and many return to their previous lifestyle. And many of our youth lack hope or guidance, and are often raising themselves in some of the most disinvested neighborhoods in Baltimore.

So, what will actually work? Law enforcement alone is not equipped to respond to society’s complex issues. The evidence we have suggests that there are many factors that contribute to high levels of crime, and they are as multidisciplinary as public health, economic development, housing and social services. Therefore, if we are to decrease crime in Baltimore City, then we must take a comprehensive approach to do so. I’m proposing the following long-term and shortterm investments needed to address the root

causes of violence: 1. Immediately expand funding for evidence-based programs like Safe Streets, proven to reduce violence in neighborhoods across Baltimore City. Just last year Safe Streets mediated over 800 conflicts and an analysis

by Johns Hopkins University found that this resulted in a 27% reduction in violent crime.

2. 80% of funding for the Department of Health comes from state and federal sources.

The City should steer more money to provide wrap-around services for youth and adults that have experienced trauma and/or suffer from mental health challenges, drug addiction, lead poising, abuse, etc. without delay. We must view violence as a public health crisis in Baltimore City, and distribute the appropriate resources without hesitation.

3. Fully fund Baltimore City Schools and out-of-school time activities for our youth so that they have the opportunity for a worldclass education, can go on to college and break the cycle of poverty.

Violence is a disease and its symptoms are the result of systemic and longtime disinvestment and inequitable policy decisions-- and there is no “silver bullet” or easy fix. We must continue to look to policy solutions that are comprehensive and address the root causes of violence—poverty, mental health and education.

Kristerfer Burnett represents the 8th District of Baltimore on the Baltimore City Council.

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“Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer those days of soda and pretzels and beer. Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, dust off the sun and moon and sing a song of cheer. Just fill your basket full of sandwiches and weenies then lock the house up, now you’re set…You’ll wish that summer could always be here” Nat King Cole “There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.” H. L. Mencken Welcome to the “land of pleasant living” The weather was hot, the steamed crabs were plentiful, and the beer was cold with plenty of politics permeating the air; the perfect ingredients for a summer day at the 41st annual J. Millard Tawes Crab and Clam Bake sponsored by Crisfield Chamber of Commerce at Somers Cove Mariner in Crisfield Maryland. Senator Joan Carter Conway, Delegate Cheryl Glenn and Dr. Marie Washington hosted two buses for the annual trek across the bay bridge. What a pleasant surprise when the president of Crisfield Chamber of Commerce Bill Buttrill stepped aboard our bus to welcome us personally to Crisfield. Once at the marina lobbyist Bruce Bereano welcomed each guest entering his mammoth tent with more than 600 invited guests enjoying the delicacies of the island. Great seeing Governor Larry Hogan, Keiffer Mitchell, Senator Nathaniel McFadden, Senator Barbra Robinson, Delegate Antonio Hayes, Delegate Shelly Hettleman, Howard County Executive Alan Kittleman, Zoey Washington Sheff, Jackie Washington, Alice Pinderhughes, Pete France, Wendell Wright, Cleve and Nancy Brister, former Senator Tommy Broadwater, Rose McNeil, Kenny Brown and Prince Georges County Executive Rushern Baker.

Family and friends joined Tarsha Fitzgerald on a hot muggy night as she celebrated her birthday at Citron’s in Baltimore County. Among the guests were TV and radio personalities, Roy Sampson, Brenda Sykes, Freddi Vaughn, Joan Brown, Yvonne Frye, Victor Greene, Dr. Charlene Cooper Boston, Sara Smalley, Jackie Richardson, Mildred Harper, Yvonne Cook, Everett Fullwood, Kim Mason, Kim Washington, Dr. Walker Robinson and her mom who was looking fantastically well and on the road to recovery.

What’s happening!

August 5, 2017 at Martin’s West, the unveiling of the wax figure of The Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Master Samuel Thornton Daniels Sr. Contact Senator Nathaniel McFadden for more information.

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August 12, 2017 at Martin’s Crossroads, AFRO American Newspaper’s 125th anniversary celebration. Call 410-554-8200 for tickets.

September 17, 2017 at Martin’s West, Berean Baptist Church 100th anniversary and the 40th anniversary of Pastor Dr. John Lunn, Sr. Contact Helen McDonald 443-604-4542 for more information.

October 7, 2017 at Temple Oheb Shalom, The Howard Rollins Foundation, Inc.’s annual support the arts, “Staying on the Scene in 2017,” in honor of Baltimore’s late, “In the Heat of the Night” star, Howard Rollins. Call Kenneth Fields 443-221-0324 or Courtney Fields 443-525-2520 or www.howarderollins.org.

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” John Keats If you’re looking to take a day trip check out Crisfield a great day outing with many small islands that you can visit by ferry. Smith Island is one of the well-known islands famous for the Smith Island cake, Maryland’ official state cake. Word is that many of our Maryland islands are slowly disappearing, so don’t wait too long to visit Maryland’s history.

“But you know what, my cigarettes-popcorn-whiskey diet worked. The pounds just peeled right off. By Christmas, I’d lost 65 pounds. I probably ought to have written a diet book or something.” John Daly Thunderstorms and rain delays did not dampen the spirit of the senior players, volunteers, or spectators at Constellation Senior Players golf tournament at Caves Valley exclusive golf club located in Owings Mills, Maryland. It was exciting seeing players like Fred Funk, Vijay Singh and the colorful John Daly, who sported a pair of black and orange pants in honor of the Baltimore Orioles. Always a pleasure seeing retired newscaster Don Scott, one of the volunteer marshals looking well. He said he is enjoying his retirement although he has become a consummate volunteer. A huge thank you to Eunice Jenifer, my golf buddy for such a great outing including the 97 degree heat! But, it’s July so you expect it to be hot. And, thank you to volunteers Sinclair, Eric and Steve, who stopped whenever they saw us to ride us around the magnificent golf course throughout the day.

“No person was ever honored for what he received.

Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” President Calvin Coolidge Congratulations to former Fire Commissioner Dell Henson, recently honored by the African American Firefighters Historical Museum, for being the first woman appointed fire commissioner in Baltimore City. Former Mayor Kurt Schmoke presented the award to Dell’s son Darren Henson who read a statement from Dell, who was vacationing in Antigua, expressing her commitment to assuring that more women and African Americans can become fire commissioners. Dell regretted not being able to attend this momentous occasion.

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“Every morning when I rise I can just see heaven in your eyes it makes me know this is not an everyday love.

We’ve got something I’m sure we can be proud of. We’ve got so much love, we’ve got so much trust I can see a halo hanging over us… God bless our love.” Al Green

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Sending happy anniversary love to Aja and Walter Hill, III on their 5th wedding anniversary and to my daughter and son in law, Gregory and Lisa Lee Packer as they celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. Happy 10th anniversary Andrea on the opening of your law firm The Law Firm of Andrea Hence Evans, LLC a firm for investors and entrepreneurs.

Smart energy. It’s in the overhead power lines that deliver safe and

Happy birthday Jae Brown, Sharon Price Walker, Ruth Pratt, Carol Miles and a special shout out to Frank Hocker on his 75th birthday. Wishing my grandson Eagle Scout Matthew Lee Packer, an incoming junior at William and Mary College a happy 21st birthday.

before starting any work within 10 feet. Also don’t build playhouses

reliable energy to your home or business. But those same power lines must also be avoided. If you’re planning to do work, keep yourself and all ladders, poles or landscaping equipment at least 10 feet away from them—that’s the law. Call BGE at 800.685.0123

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Al Hutchinson (Pres. Visit Baltimore)

Vendors at The NAACP Experience Tessa Hill-Aston (NAACP Baltimore City Chap. Pres.)

The 2017 NAACP National Convention Press Conference was held at the Baltimore Convention Center July 22nd. Greetings were given by Leon Russell, NAACP Chairman of the Board. Speakers included Derrick Johnson, NAACP vice chairman, Mayor Catherine Pugh, Tessa Hill-Aston, NAACP Balto. Chapter president, Gerald Stansbury, NAACP MD. State president, Akosua Ali , NAACP Washington Chapter president, Kenny Lattimore, NAACP spokesperson and Al Hutchinson, president of Visit Baltimore. Stan Stovall (WBAL TV) was the master of ceremonies for the ribbon cutting for the NAACP Experience.

The Ribbon Cutting for the NAACP Experience

Gerald Stansbury (NAACP MD. State Conference Pres.)

Derrick Johnson (NAACP Vice Chair.), Mayor Catherine E. Pugh, Leon Russell (NAACP Bd. Pres.) and Kenny Lattimore (NAACP Spokes Person)

The Art Of Larry Poncho Brown

Photos by Anderson Ward

Women in NAACP (WIN), an established NAACP Committee with volunteer coordinators in seven regions, held a summit to recognize women who advocate for women and children.

Pamela Gentry, Annapolis Chapter, Sheila Past presidents of Baltimore Greater Baltimore Section-National Dr. Thelma T. Daley, Director of NAACP WIN, Finlayson, Tiera York Jones, Yvonne WoodAlumnae Deltas are Rita Cooper, Council of Negro Women members are Howard, president, Baltimore Continentals Laura Knight, Dr. Ruth K. Pratt, Francena Bean-Waters, Janice Moseley, Julia coordinated the summit which featured a brunch and the celebration of several notable women on July 23 at Beverly Boston Winborne, president, Dr. Thelma T. Daley the Hyatt Regency Baltimore Inner Harbor. The theme Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine for the event was, “Empowering Women and Girls: Breaking Barriers for Justice and Equity.”

The keynote address was delivered by Dr. Cynthia Butler-McIntyre, 24th National President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

Empowerment Barrier-Breaker awards were presented to Maureen Bunyan, ABC7/WJLA-TV news anchor and Baltimore native April Ryan, White House correspondent and author. Allyssa Ince, a sophomore at Yale University was recognized as the, “Voice Baltimore Links are seated, Audrey Freeman, Cecelia of Youth.”

Wright-Brown, Nikita Haysbert. Standing are Faith Students from Delta Academy Empowerment Fashions, National Black Designers on the Thomas, Darlene Moss, Jenene Williams, Nicole Brown, (BCAC) and Girl Scouts (Baltimore Runway, was produced and presented by Baltimore native Travis Laverne Turner Alumnae Chapter) Winkey.

WIN’s underlying theme is, “Open Hearts and Outstretched Hands to Women and Children.”

Children from Girl Scouts troops and the Delta Academy were invited guests to Baltimore County Deltas are Barbara Dr. A. Lois De Laine, Dr. participate in the activities. WIN’s Crawley, Darlean William, Stacy MitchellCynthia Butler-McIntyre, Members of the National Coalition of 100 ongoing signature thrust is the Brown, Iris Steele, Keitha Robinson, 24th National president, Black Women | Baltimore Metropolitan president, Christina Fitts, Che Evans, Delta Sigma Theta Derrick Johnson, interim mentoring of young Chapter are Valerie Bell-Thomas, Michele Courtney Barnes and guest Adrian Amprey Sorority girls.

CEO of the NAACP Emery, Dr. Anne Emery, Betty Clark

Dr. Joanne Martin (Cofounder Nat. Great Blacks In Wax Museum) National Great Blacks In Wax Museum

The National Great Blacks In Wax Museum, “Voices Of History Street Fair,” was held in Baltimore July 8. Dr. Joanne Martin is the co-founder of the museum with her late husband, Dr. Elmer Martin. The all day event featured dancers, drummers, vendors, spoken word artists, cultural and anti-violence skits, and many other activities.

Street fair

Photos by Anderson Ward

Womb Works Productions give a lively cultural awareness skit Bob Smith as Benjamin Banneker

Womb Work drummers

Janice Curtis Greene as Harriet Tubman Renee Scott, Frank Scott, Denise McNeil and Elizabeth Singletary

Abu “The Flute Maker” turns a drinking straw into a flute

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ARTS & CULTURE

Stars Reveal How New Film ‘Detroit’ Got Made

By Nadine Matthews Special to the AFRO

Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film “Detroit” is the very definition of an ensemble drama. Almost all of the characters move the plot forward or touch the viewer’s emotions in this highly-charged already controversial film about an incident that took place during the Detroit Uprising of 1967.

During the hot, sticky, violence-filled days of July 23-July 28th, while people protested, fires burned and stores were looted, a number of Detroit residents holed up in the Algiers Motel, a low-budget lodging of questionable repute.

The film leads the viewer to believe that the hotel was perhaps more relaxed about racial integration than was usual during the era.

In the end, 33 Blacks and 10 Whites were killed during the approximate five days of unrest. Three of those were Black men found in the

Algiers Motel on the Tuesday night of the ongoing unrest which had begun on Sunday.

Police Officer Ronald August confessed to killing Aubrey Pollard. Another police officer was identified as killing Fred Temple.

No one was ever identified in the killing of the third young man at the Algiers, Carl Cooper, played by Straight Outta Compton’s Joseph David Mitchell. Actors Jacob Latimore (“The Maze Runner”), Nathan Davis Jr., (“Chase Champion”) Laz Alonso (“Avatar”), Algee Smith (“The New Edition Story”) and Mitchell are some of the stars of the film which opens on August 4th. They recently participated in a Los Angeles press junket where they discussed the process of filming what may be the movie to bring Bigelow her next Oscar nomination.

Kathryn Bigelow is known for gritty, gut-wrenching dramas and “Detroit” is no different. We shouldn’t be surprised then that the behind

Laz Alonso portrays Michigan Congressman John Conyers in the upcoming film ‘Detroit.’

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the scenes filming would be just as intense.

The most striking fact about the making of Detroit was the script, or lack thereof, depending on which cast member you ask. Though actresses Hannah Murray (“Game of Thrones”) and Kaitlyn Dever (“Bad Teacher”) revealed they received scripts a few days before filming started,

this wasn’t the case for the majority of the cast.

Much of the dialogue was improvised on the spot with the exception of the barest outline of dialogue Bigelow wanted included in a scene.

The takes often seemed open ended, without the traditional cry of “cut” once lines were completed.

Bigelow also encouraged

physical exercise to increase the verisimilitude of the adrenalinefilled situation. “We had to do push-up between scenes,” Latimore and Smith remember, speaking almost in unison.

Latimore goes further saying they also had to take a lot of deep breaths; almost the point of light-headedness. Added Smith, there was one point where their co-star Will Poulter

(“The Revenant”) who played the main antagonist Officer Krauss, broke down from the intensity of the emotion of the character; perhaps in contrast to his actual affinity for them.

Latimore describes Poulter at that point. “He couldn’t take it anymore, he literally broke down. He ran out of the building. Algee went after him and was just out there embracing him. I’m glad we got those two weeks out of the way first off. That was a rough time.”

Laz Alonso plays a young Congressional Representative, John Conyers. Playing someone who has been a well-known public figure for decades posed its own challenges. He explains, “I did as much research as possible to get his voice down, to get his diction, his cadence, his rhythm, as close as I could but more than anything it was working backwards. Most of the material that I found was him in today’s times and just tried to work my way back to fifty years ago.”

D.C. Theatre Company Exposes Threat of Street Harassment

By Micha Green Special to the AFRO A phrase like, “Hey, beautiful” may appear complementary initially, yet when it’s yelled across the street, accompanied by honks, kissing noises, uncomfortable closeness, or grabs, this unsolicited comment is no longer innocent and becomes street harassment.

According to a 2,000 person survey commissioned by Stop Street Harassment, 65 percent of women have experienced street harassment, 23 percent have been sexually touched, 20 percent have been followed, and 9 percent were forced to do something sexual.

Ally Theatre Company’s, “Think Before You Holla,” a play featured in the 2017 D.C. Fringe Festival, brings attention to street harassment through anecdotes, news stories, statistics, and movement sequences. The play is directed by Taylor Reynolds.

“I think it’s a less of a learning, more so of an awakening. I think that both men and women are aware that street harassment happens, but we’ve done so much as a society to either accept it or suppress it, that it’s not necessarily something we even find worth talking about,” Victoria Myrthil, one of the actors, told the AFRO. Shedding light on concerns is key to Ally Theatre Company, as the goal is, “creating and producing shows to address systemic

AFRO Sports Analysis

Photo by Angelisa Gillyard

Actors in the play “Think Before You Holla” that showed at the Capital Fringe Festival in D.C. from July 15-23.

oppression in our country,” Tai Alexander, the company’s managing director, told the AFRO. “There’s so many issues that need to be seen on stage. There’s so many voices need to be heard on stage. There’s so many spaces that are not being seen that we want to illuminate and draw attention to,” Alexander said.

Ally partnered with Defend Yourself, a company that teaches skills for stopping harassment, abuse and assault, to offer “Bystander Intervention Trainings.

Some audience members said they believed the show should be featured in educational circles.

“Already, we’re in talks about using the show to bring awareness to the younger generation. We’ve been approached a lot about school tours and university tours. We’re actively pursuing that idea, so that’s one of the ways we hope this message continues to be heard in the community,” Alexander said.

Yet, it was not just audiences who took messages away.

Members of the cast said they also learned a great deal.

“I think this is one of those iceberg topics, where you’re talking about catcalling, but end up delving into a whole network and system of misogyny, sexism, and gender based craziness, that I wasn’t prepared for in the beginning” said, Chelsea D. Harrison, an actor in the show, who was a part of the creative process, told the AFRO.

SPORTS

Leave Michael Vick Alone, His Hair Advice to Kaepernick Wasn’t Wrong

By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor pgreen@afro.com Alright, Black folks. Enough is enough. It’s time to leave Michael Vick alone.

Anyone with an active social media account has probably witnessed the virtual thrashing leveled at former NFL star quarterback Michael Vick after he said on national TV that free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick should cut his hair as the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback tries to rebuild his image and get signed to a team.

“First thing we got to get Colin to do is cut his hair,” Vick said while appearing on FS1’s “Speak For Yourself.” “I just think perception and image is everything. I’m just going off my personal experiences. Listen, I love the guy to death, but I want him to also succeed on and off the field and this has to be a start for him.”

Black activists and “Hoteps” alike have been lambasting Vick for his comments ever since.

But it’s time for everyone to back off, because what he said wasn’t wrong.

What Vick shared with Kaepernick is what I would call classic “O.G.” advice. For those unaware, Black folk often refer to an older, wiser person in our lives as an “O.G.” Though an acronym for “original gangster,” the term is used in urban culture to describe an affectionate a person in your life who has been around the block, has gained wisdom from their experiences

and is now in position to share that wisdom with the younger guys.

At age 37, Vick would certainly be considered an “O.G.” to the younger, less experienced 29-year-old Kaepernick. And like Kaepernick, Vick knows all too well how it feels to be ousted from the NFL. Like Kaep, Vick knows what it’s like be considered the face of an NFL franchise with the brightest of futures, and suddenly become an outcast and considered an enemy of the state by NFL owners.

Sure, there’s a huge difference in what Vick and Kaepernick each did to get themselves on the outside looking in. Vick got tossed in a federal penitentiary for 548 days for operating a dogfighting ring, while Kaepernick simply pissed off White America by taking a knee during the pregame playing of the National Anthem as a protest of racism and police brutality. But the bottom line is they both became extremely controversial figures. Vick, however, was able to overcome the turmoil surrounding him and made his way back into the league by reshaping his public image.

When asked what it would take for Kaepernick to get a job in the NFL, Vick said the same thing so many “O.G.’s” in the Black community have advised young brothers to do forever: get a haircut. Trust me, I’ve been told the same thing a million times.

Vick was trying to offer Kaepernick the same advice he received so many years ago. He was telling Kaep to do what he had done when he was facing his own controversy: rebuild his image.

Former NFL star quarterback Michael Vick AP Photo/Frank Franklin II

Vick followed up his initial comments by saying that many people in his life came to him about cutting his own hair, and like myself, he didn’t want to hear it at first.

Unlike Vick, Kaepernick doesn’t face any federal charges. But there’s no denying that he’s facing charges in the court of public opinion.

Many people believe Kaepernick’s actions were unpatriotic, and although Kaep has done an outstanding job of eloquently expressing that his taking a knee is no slight towards the U.S. military or patriotism, many still find the gesture offensive. I’m willing to bet my house that all 32 NFL owners, all of whom are old, rich White folks, are amongst the offended. Go ahead and

add a bevy of the NFL’s corporate sponsors to that list, too.

So let’s keep it real, here. We all know if Kaepernick wants another job in the NFL, he’s going to have to change his image. No, it’s not fair to Kaepernick.

With Kaep, all the NFL owners see is an afro and the revolutionary cause it represents. They don’t care about the fact that he’s better than half of the quarterbacks who do have a job in the league. They don’t care about his clean off-thefield record. They just see someone unwilling to appease their standards. And that’s all it takes for them not to hire him.

So how do we combat that? Well, it starts with adding diversity to ownership and administration positions. If there were Black owners in the NFL, I’m almost certain they would hire Kaepernick without needing him to change anything about his image. But we still haven’t cracked that glass ceiling yet. And sometimes you have to just play the game and do what you have to do until you’re in position to change the game.

Kaepernick doesn’t have to take this approach. My personal advice to him would be to walk away from the NFL and continue his path into activism. That way, he doesn’t have to appease any owners. But if we want to guarantee no Black man ever gets black-balled by the NFL again, we better find a way to that owner’s box.

If we want real change, that’s the only way we’re going to get it.

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Absent Defendant $ 150.00 TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:39:51 EDT 2017 a d d r e s s i s 4 5 0 6 MDDC’s Social Media Bernard Young Parviz Delpazir 07/14, 07/21, 07/28/17 S q u i r e d a l e S q , Court supervision. All un- Thomas b.

Absolute Divorce $ 150.00 Ad Network; Call today Ghassemi Alexandia Va, 22309, known heirs and heirs III, whose address is Adam Street, NE, AKA to find out maximize Superior Court of was appointed personal whose whereabouts are 3035 c.

Custody Divorce $150.00 TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:41:23 E Parviz Delpazir the District of representative of the unknown shall enter their Washington, DC 20018, your presence on Social was appointed personal Decedent a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s District of Columbia estate of Mildred L Day, Media; 410-212-0616; of the D Rachlin, Esq PROBATE DIVISION who died on November proceeding. Objections representative To place your ad,Jeremy call 1-800-237-6892, ext. 262, Public Notices $50.00 COURT & up OF SUPERIOR Washington, D.C. or email Wanda Smith @ 14, 2008 without a will, to such appointment (or estate of Thomas B. 3 Bethesda Metro CenTHE DISTRICT OF Young Jr. AKA Thomas B ter, to the probate of de20001-2131 depending on size, Baltimore Legal Notices are $24.84 per inch. and will serve with Court wsmith@mddcpress.com COLUMBIA Administration No. supervision. All unknown cedent´s will) shall be Young , who died on June Suite 500 PROBATE DIVISION 1-800 (AFRO) 892 2017ADM777 heirs and heirs whose filed with the Register of 7, 2013 without a will, Bethesda, Maryland Washington, D.C. and will serve without 20814 Emily J Jackson whereabouts are un- Wills, D.C., 515 5th For Proof of Publication, please call 1-800-237-6892, ext. 244 20001-2131 EDUCATION/CAREER Decedent known shall enter their Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Court supervision. All un- Attorney Foreign No. known heirs and heirs TRAINING NOTICE OF Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Anitra Ash- Shakoor, a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s 2017FEP77 APPOINTMENT, Esq proceeding. Objections 20001, on or before whose where-abouts are Date of Death TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:42:41 EDT 2017 NOTICE TO Capital Justice to such appointment J a n u a r y 1 4 , 2 0 1 8 . unknown shall enter their AIRLINE MECHANIC July NOTICES 8, 2006 LEGAL LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES p p e a r a nNOTICES ce in this 1300 I Street, NW, Suite shall be filed with the Claims against the de- aLEGAL CREDITORS TRAINING – Get Lawrence P Jones 400E proceeding.

Objections AND NOTICE TO cedent shall be preRegister of Wills, D.C., Decedent Washington, DC 20005 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd sented to the under- to such appointment UNKNOWN HEIRS FAA certification to fix SUPERIOR COURT OF NOTICE OF Attorney THE DISTRICT OF Floor Washington, D.C. signed with a copy to the shall be filed with the Sirus Delpazir Ghassemi planes. Financial Aid if APPOINTMENT NOTICE OF COLUMBIA 20001, on or before Register of Wills or filed Register of Wills, D.C., , whose address is 4200 qualified. Approved for OF FOREIGN APPOINTMENT, PROBATE DIVISION January 7, 2018. Claims with the Register of Wills 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Cathedral Avenue, NW, PERSONAL NOTICE TO military benefits.Call with a copy to the under- Floor Washington, D.C. apartment 601 WashingWashington, D.C. against the decedent CREDITORS REPRESENTATIVE 20001-2131 shall be presented to the signed, on or before 20001, on or before ton, DC 20016 was apAviation Institute of AND NOTICE TO AND Administration No. undersigned with a copy January 14, 2018, or be J a n u a r y 2 1 , 2 0 1 8 . pointed personal repreMaintenance 866-823UNKNOWN HEIRS NOTICE TO 2017ADM815 to the Register of Wills or forever barred. Persons Claims against the de- sentative of the estate of Cynthia M Bankston and CREDITORS 6729 believed to be heirs or cedent shall be pre- P a r v i z D e l p a z i r Estate of Ve r a J S t r i n g f e l l o w, filed with the Register of legatees of the decedent sented to the under- Ghassemi AKA Parviz Lydia Jones- Nunn and Mary Elizabeth Wilson whose address is 1027 Wills with a copy to the who do not receive a signed with a copy to the Delpazir, who died on Laureen Jones Mullins Deceased undersigned, on or beRuatan St., Silver Spring whose address is 6200 copy of this notice by mail Register of Wills or filed March 23, 2017 without a NOTICE OF HELP WANTED MD 20903 & 2902 56th fore January 7, 2018, or within 25 days of its first with the Register of Wills will, and will serve withTargon Ct, Ft WashingSTANDARD Place, Cheverity, MD be forever barred. Per- publication shall so in- with a copy to the under- out Court supervision. All ton, MD 20744 was apPROBATE sons believed to be heirs 20785 was appointed signed, on or before unknown heirs and heirs Notice is hereby given pointed personal repreEARN $500 A DAY: form the Register of personal representa- or legatees of the deJanuary 21, 2018, or be whose whereabouts are that a petition has been sentative of the estate of Wills, including name, Lincoln Heritage tive(s) of the estate of cedent who do not readdress and relation- forever barred. Persons unknown shall enter their filed in this Court by Lawrence P Jones , deceive a copy of this notice Emily J Jackson who Life Insurance Wants believed to be heirs or a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Brenda J Gober for stan- ceased by the Orphan’s died on June 28, 2013 by mail within 25 days of ship.

Insurance Agents* legatees of the decedent proceeding. Objections dard probate, including C o u r t f o r P r o n c e with a will, and will serve its first publication shall Date of Publication: who do not receive a to such appointment the appoint-ment of one Georges County, State of Leads, No Cold without Court supervi- so inform the Register of July 14, 2017 copy of this notice by mail shall be filed with the or more personal repre- Maryland, on May 18, sion. All unknown heirs Wills, including name, Name of newspaper: Calls*Commissions within 25 days of its first Register of Wills, D.C., sentative. Unless a com- 2017. a n d h e i r s w h o s e address and relation- Afro-American Paid Daily*Agency publication shall so in- 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd plaint or an objection in Service of process may Washington whereabouts are un- ship. form the Register of Floor Washington, D.C. accordance with Super- be made upon Philip J. Law Reporter Training*Life Insurance known shall enter their Date of Publication: Glenn A. Davis Wills, including name, 20001, on or before ior Court Probate Di- Mullins, 4538 Eads appearance in this July 7, 2017 Required. Call 1-888Personal address and relation- J a n u a r y 1 4 , 2 0 1 8 . vision Rule 407 is filed in Place, NE, Washington, proceeding. Objections Name of newspaper: 713-6020 Claims against the de- this Court within 30 days DC 20019 whose desRepresentative ship. to such appointment (or Afro-American Date of Publication: cedent shall be pre- from the date of first pub- ignation as District of to the probate of de- Washington July 21, 2017 sented to the under- lication of this notice, the Columbia agent has TRUE TEST COPY cedent´s will) shall be Law Reporter Name of newspaper: signed with a copy to the Court may take the ac- been filed with the Regisfiled with the Register of Thomas L Day REGISTER OF WILLS REAL ESTATE ter of Wills, D.C. Afro-American Register of Wills or filed tion hereinafter set forth.

Wills, D.C., 515 5th Personal TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:40:49 EDT 2017 Washington with the Register of Wills 0 In the absence of a will The decedent owned the Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Representative 07/14, 07/21, 07/28/17 Delaware: New homesLaw Reporter with a copy to the under- or proof satisfactory to f o l l o w i n g D i s t r i c t o f Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Sussex and Kent counThomas Bernard Young signed, on or before the Court of due execu- Colombia real property: 20001, on or before TRUE TEST COPY Superior Court III January 14, 2018, or be tion, enter an order deter- U n d e v e l o p e d L o t , J a n u a r y 1 4 , 2 0 1 8 . REGISTER OF WILLS ties from $169,000.0 of the Personal forever barred. Persons mining that the decedent Square 5132, Lot 30, in Claims against the decommunities close NE District of Columbia Representative believed to be heirs or died intestate cedent shall be pre- 07/7, 07/14, 07/21/17 TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:41:06 EDT DIVISION 2017 to Rehoboth Beach, PROBATE sented to the underlegatees of the decedent 0 appoint a supervised Claims against the decedent may be preWashington, D.C. signed with a copy to the TRUE TEST COPY who do not receive a Delaware Bay (Bower’s personal representative Register of Wills or filed 20001-2131 REGISTER OF WILLS copy of this notice by mail Register of Wills sented to the underBeach), or Nanticoke Superior Court with the Register of Wills Administration No. within 25 days of its first Clerk of signed and filed with the of the TYPESET: Jul 25 16:39:31 EDTshall 2017so inRiver (Seaford). with a copy to the under2017ADM759 07/21, 07/28,Tue 08/04/17 publication the Probate Division Register of Wills for the District of Columbia District of Columbia, signed, on or before Thomas B Young Jr. form the Register of 302-653-7700 www.

Date of First Publication PROBATE DIVISION January 14, 2018, or be Building A, 515 5th AKA Wills, including name, July 14, 2017 LenapeBuilders.net Washington, D.C. forever barred. Persons S t r e e t , N W. , 3 r d Superior Court of Thomas B.Young address and relation- Names of Newspapers: 20001-2131 believed to be heirs or F LWa s h i n g t o n , D . C . the Decedent ship.

Washington Law Administration No. legatees of the decedent 20001 within 6 months District of Columbia NOTICE OF Date of Publication: Reporter REAL ESTATE 2017ADM748 who do not receive a from the date of first pubPROBATE DIVISION APPOINTMENT, July 14, 2017 Washington copy of this notice by mail Clarice T. Harvey lication of this notice.

Washington, D.C. NOTICE TO Name of newspaper: FOR SALE AFRO-AMERICAN within 25 days of its first Decedent Lydia Jones-Nunn 20001-2131 CREDITORS Afro-American Brenda J Gober publication shall so in- Daniel H Ruttenberg Laureen Jones Mullins Administration No. Delaware New Move-In AND NOTICE TO Washington 2224 Perry St. NE form the Register of 8045 Leesburg Pike, Personal 2017ADM718 UNKNOWN HEIRS Law Reporter Washington, DC 20018 Ready Homes! Low Wills, including name, Fifth Floor Representative(s) Parviz Delpazir Thomas Bernard Young Sirus Delpazir Signature of address and relation- Tysons, VA 22182 Taxes! Close to Beaches, TRUE TEST COPY Ghassemi III, whose address is Ghassemi Petitioners/Attorney ship.

Attorney REGISTER OF WILLS Gated, Olympic pool.

AKA 3035 Adam Street, NE, Personal Date of Publication: NOTICE OF TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:41:23 2017 Date of EDT first publication: Parviz Delpazir Washington, DC 20018, Representative 07/14, 07/21/17 New Homes from low July 14, 2017 APPOINTMENT, July 14, 2017 Decedent was appointed personal Name of newspaper: $100’s. No HOA Fees.

NOTICE TO Name of newspapers representative of the Jeremy D Rachlin, Esq TRUE TEST COPY Afro-American CREDITORS Brochures Available and/or periodical: SUPERIOR COURT OF estate of Thomas B. 3 Bethesda Metro Cen- REGISTER OF WILLS Washington AND NOTICE TO The Daily Washington THE DISTRICT OF Young Jr. AKA Thomas B ter, 1-866-629-0770 or Law Reporter UNKNOWN HEIRS Law Reporter Suite 500 COLUMBIA 07/14, 07/21, 07/28/17 Cynthia M Bankston Charles Harvey, whose Young , who died on June www.coolbranch.com.

The Afro-American Bethesda, Maryland PROBATE DIVISION 7, 2013 without a will, Vera J Stringfellow address is 4641 H Street Washington, D.C. and will serve without 20814 Personal SE, Washington, DC 20001-2131 Representative 20019, was appointed Court supervision. All un- Attorney SERVS./MISC. 07/14, 07/21, 07/28/17 NOTICE OF Foreign No. known heirs and heirs personal representative whose where-abouts are APPOINTMENT, 2017FEP77 TRUE TEST COPY Increase your customer of the estate of Clarice T unknown shall enter their NOTICE TO Date of Death REGISTER OF WILLS base and get great results Harvey, who died on CREDITORS July 8, 2006 appearance in this September 17, 2016 proceeding. Objections AND NOTICE TO Lawrence P Jones by placing your ads in 07/14, 07/21, 07/28/17 without a will, and will to such appointment UNKNOWN HEIRS Decedent serve without Court su- shall be filed with the Sirus Delpazir Ghassemi NOTICE OF pervision. All unknown Register of Wills, D.C., , whose address is 4200 APPOINTMENT heirs and heirs whose 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Cathedral Avenue, NW, OF FOREIGN whereabouts are un- Floor Washington, D.C. apartment 601 WashingPERSONAL

20774 cedent´s will) shall be and heirs whose Attorney filed with the Register of whereabouts are unNOTICE OF Wills, D.C., 515 5th known shall enter their APPOINTMENT, Street, N.W., 3rd Floor appearance in this NOTICE TO Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . proceeding. Objections CREDITORS 20001, on or before to such appointment (or AND NOTICE TO October 21, 2017. to the probate of deUNKNOWN HEIRS Claims against the decedent´s will) shall be James Elgin Harris , cedent shall be prefiled with the Register of whose address is 5311 sented to the under- TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:25:46 EDT 2017 Wills, D.C., 515 5th TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 LEGAL NOTICES NOTICES LEGAL LEGAL NOTICES Street, LEGAL NOTICES CLEGAL hillum P l a c e N E . , signed withNOTICES a copy to the N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, DC 20011 Register of Wills or filed Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . appointed personal re- with the Register of Wills SUPERIOR COURT OF 20001, on or before SUPERIOR COURT OF presentative of the estate with a copy to the underJanuary 28, 2018.

THE DISTRICT OF THE DISTRICT OF of Mozelle Louise Harris , signed, on or before Claims against the deCOLUMBIA COLUMBIA who died on February 16, October 21, 2017, or be cedent shall be prePROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION 2017 without a will, and forever barred. Persons sented to the underWashington, D.C. Washington, D.C. will serve with Court su- believed to be heirs or signed with a copy to the 20001-2131 20001-2131 pervision.

All unknown legatees of the decedent TRUE TEST COPY Register of Wills or filed Administration No. Administration No. heirs and heirs whose who do not receive a REGISTER OF WILLS with the Register of Wills 2017ADM575 2017ADM830 where-abouts are uncopy of this notice by mail with a copy to the underEstate of Estate of known shall enter their within 25 days of its first Ronald K Ballard 07/21, 07/28, 08/4/17 signed, on or before Ruth B Rich TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 appearance in this publication shall so in- Deceased January 28, 2018, or be Deceased proceeding. Objections form the Register of forever barred. Persons NOTICE OF NOTICE OF to such appointment Wills, including name, believed to be heirs or STANDARD STANDARD Superior Court of shall be filed with the address and relationlegatees of the decedent PROBATE PROBATE the District of Register of Wills, D.C., ship. who do not receive a Notice is hereby given Notice is hereby given District of Columbia 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Date of Publication: that a petition has been copy of this notice by mail that a petition has been PROBATE DIVISION Floor Washington, D.C. April 21, 2017 within 25 days of its first filed in this Court by filed in this Court by RonWashington, D.C. 20001, on or before Name of newspaper: Donald G Ballard for publication shall so inald C Hill for standard 20001-2131 J a n u a r y 2 1 , 2 0 1 8 .

Afro-American standard probate, includ- form the Register of probate, including the Administration No. Claims against the de- Washington ing the appointment of Wills, including name, appointment of one or 2017ADM731 cedent shall be preLaw Reporter one or more personal re- address and relationmore personal repreEdith D Grant sented to the underIrvin Ferdinand Cash presentative. Unless a ship. sentative. Unless a comAKA signed with a copy to the Personal complaint or an objection Date of Publication: plaint or an objection in Edith Dorsey Grant Register of Wills or filed Representative i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h July 28, 2017 accordance with SuperDecedent with the Register of Wills Superior Court Probate Name of newspaper: ior Court Probate DiNOTICE OF with a copy to the underTRUE TEST COPY TRUE TEST COPY Division Rule 407 is filed Afro-American vision Rule 407 is filed in APPOINTMENT, signed, on or before REGISTER OF WILLS REGISTER OF WILLS in this Court within 30 Washington this Court within 30 days NOTICE TO January 21, 2018, or be days from the date of first Law Reporter from the date of first pubTYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:39:10 EDT 2017 CREDITORS forever barred. Persons 04/21, 04/28, 05/5/17 07/21, 07/28,Tue 08/4/17 Shirley Mathis publication of this notice, lication of this notice, the TYPESET: Jul 25 16:26:26 EDT 2017 AND NOTICE TO believed to be heirs or Personal the Court may take the Court may take the acUNKNOWN HEIRS legatees of the decedent Representative action hereinafter set tion hereinafter set forth. pear do at not the receive Scheduling Superior Court of Michael D Grant, whose 0 who a forth.

Admit to probate the will Conference Hearing SUPERIOR COURT 0 the address is 2104 Iverson copy of this notice by mailat Admit to probate the will TRUE TEST COPY dated March 21, 2007 the Superior the OF District of Columbia Street, Temple Hills, MD, within 25 daysCourt of itsoffirst dated April 25, 2014 REGISTER OF WILLS exhibited with the petition District of Columbia, 500 THE DISTRICT OF PROBATE DIVISION 20748 was appointed publication shall so NW, inexhibited with the petition upon proof satisfactory to Indiana Avenue, COLUMBIA TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:22:23 E Washington, D.C. personal representative form the Register of upon proof satisfactory to 07/28, 08/4, 08/11/12 the Court of due execuWashington, D.C. 20001 CIVIL DIVISION 20001-2131 of the estate of Edith D Wills, including name, the Court of due execution by affidavit of witin Courtroom 214 at 9:30 Administration No. Grant AKA Edith Dorsey address and relationtion by affidavit of wita.m. on August 18, 2017. nesses or otherwise SUPERIOR COURT OF 2017ADM804 Grant , who died on 0 ship. nesses or otherwise Failure to do so will result Order witnesses to the BETTY BRADSHAW, THE DISTRICT OF January 28, 2017 with a Date of Publication: Register of Wills in a bar to any such claims Randolph B Allen alleged will dated ----- to COLUMBIA Decedent will, and will serve withJuly 2017 by default and 21, a judgment Clerk of the Plaintiff, appear and give testi- TRUE TEST COPY PROBATE DIVISION NOTICE OF out Court supervision.

All Name of newspaper: may be entered against Probate Division mony regarding its ex- REGISTER OF WILLS Washington, D.C. APPOINTMENT, unknown heirs and heirs Afro-American you with respect to any vs. ecution 20001-2131 NOTICE TO whose whereabouts 0 Washington Jul 25 16:37:07 EDT 2017 are claims you may be entitled 07/21, 07/28,Tue 08/4/17 Date of First Publication Ordered any interested TYPESET: Foreign No. CREDITORS unknown shall enter their Law Reporter to assert; ENGLISH BRADSHAW, May 19, 2017 person to show cause 2017FEP83 AND NOTICE TO appearance in this and itJames is further Elgin Harris Names of Newspapers: why the provisions of the Date of Death UNKNOWN HEIRS proceeding. Objections Personal Defendant.

Washington Superior Court of lost or destroyed will June 20, 1990 ORDERED, that the par- Sean Allen, whose to such appointment (or Representative Law Reporter the District of dated ----- should not be ties shall appear for the a d d r e s s i s 8 7 0 2 Gracie V. Monroe to the probate of deWashington District of Columbia admitted to probate as Scheduling Conference Binghampton Pl, Upper AFRO-AMERICAN Decedent Case No.2016CA7649 B TRUE cedent´s will) shall be TEST COPY PROBATE DIVISION expressed in the petition Hearing onOF WILLS NOTICE OF Calendar 12 Marlboro, MD 20772, filed with the Register of 0 REGISTER Washington, D.C. Appoint an unsuJudge Brian F. Holeman APPOINTMENT was appointed personal Wills, D.C., 515 5th Donald G. Ballard 20001-2131 pervised personal reperAugust 18, 2017 at 9:30 representative of the OF FOREIGN Street, N.W., 3rd Floor 07/21, 07/28, 8/4/17 Cynthia Smallwood Administration No. sentative TYPESET: Tue Jul 214; 25 16:28:15 EDT 2017 a.m. in Courtroom ORDER OF PERSONAL estate of Randolph B Al- Signature of Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Personal 2017ADM807 Register of Wills and it is further PUBLICATION REPRESENTATIVE len, who died on May 17, Petitioners/Attorney 20001, on or before Representative Clerk of the Lillian G. Childers Upon consideration of the AND 2017 without a will, and January 21, 2018.

Probate Division Decedent ORDERED, that Plaintiffs Superior Court of Motion for Re-Issuance of NOTICE TO will serve without Court Claims against the de- TRUE TEST COPY NOTICE OF Date of First Publication SHALL FILE Proof of Ser- supervision. All unknown the District of Order for Publication, filed CREDITORS cedent shall be preREGISTER OF WILLS 05/19, 5/26/17 APPOINTMENT, July 14, 2017 Tue Jul 25 16:20:26 EDT 2017 vice on orofbefore August heirs and heirs whose TYPESET: on June 22, 2017, it is this District Columbia Yvonne Wright whose sented to the underNOTICE TO Names of Newspapers: 4,PROBATE 2017.

2nd dayEDT of July 2017.

DIVISION TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:29:02 2017 address is 2609 Ballston whereabouts are unsigned with a copy to the 07/21, 07/28, 08/4/17 CREDITORS Washington hereby Washington, D.C. Court, Bowie, MD 20721 known shall enter their Register of Wills or filed AND NOTICE TO Law Reporter ORDERED, the Motion for Superior Court of 20001-2131 was appointed personal appearance in this with the Register of Wills UNKNOWN HEIRS BRIAN F. HOLEMAN Washington Re-Issuance of Order for the District of Administration No. representative of the Superior Court of Clifton B. Childers, Sr. with a copy to the underJUDGE proceeding. Objections AFRO-AMERICAN Publication is GRANTED; District of Columbia 2017ADM795 estate of Gracie V. Monto such appointment signed, on or before the whose address is 9702 Ronald C Hill and it is further PROBATE DIVISION Marion L Smith roe , deceased by the shall be filed with the District of Columbia 07/21, 07/28, 08/4/17 ORDERED, that notice be Decedent 10905 Ft Washington Rd Cottrell Terrace, Silver January 21, 2018, or be Washington, D.C. Circut Court for Prince Register of Wills, D.C., PROBATE DIVISION S p r i n g , M D 2 0 9 0 3 , forever barred. Persons given. by the insertion of a Elton F Norman Esq ste 201 20001-2131 Georges County, State of Washington, D.C. copy of this Order in The The Norman Law Firm 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Fort Washington, MD wasappointed personal believed to be heirs or Administration No. Maryland, on November Floor Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Daily Washington Law PLLC representative of the legatees of the decedent 20744 2017ADM404 9, 1996.

20001, on or before Administration No. Reporter and the e s t a t e o f L i l l i a n G who do not receive a Signature of 8720 Georgia Ave. Ste J a n u a r y 2 1 , 2 0 1 8 . Lyndale H. George Service of process may copy of this notice by mail 2017ADM785 Wa s h i n g t o n A f r o Childers, who died on Petitioners/Attorney AKA be made upon Nakia Claims against the deAmerican, newspapers 703 January 17, 2017 with a within 25 days of its first Emma E Thomas L y n d a l e R o b e r t a S i l v e r S p r i n g , M D Gray Esq., 5028 Wisconcedent shall be prepublication shall so in- Decedent having a general circulawill, andEDT will serve 07/14, 7/21/17 George TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:36:29 2017 with- form the Register of 20910 sin Ave., Suite 100, NW., sented to the underMichael N Russo, Jr. tion in the District of out Court supervision. All Decedent Attorney DC 20016 whose dessigned with a copy to the Columbia, once per week unknown heirs and heirs Wills, including name, Esq Michael R. Mason, Esq NOTICE OF for three (3) successive ignation as District of Register of Wills or filed whose where-abouts are address and relation- 125 West Street, 4th 6010 Executive Blvd, Columbia agent has APPOINTMENT, Superior Court of weeks, commencing as with the Register of Wills ship.

Floor unknown shall enter their Suite 900 NOTICE TO the District of soon as practicable; and it been filed with the Regiswith a copy to the underAnnapolis, MD 21401 a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Date of Publication: CREDITORS District of Columbia is further ter of Wills, D.C. signed, on or before Rockville, MD 20852 Attorney proceeding. Objections July 21, 2017 Attorney AND NOTICE TO PROBATE DIVISION ORDERED that the folThe decedent owned the January 21, 2018, or be NOTICE OF to such appointment Name of newspaper: NOTICE OF UNKNOWN HEIRS lowing Notice be pubWashington, D.C. following District of forever barred. Persons APPOINTMENT, shall be filed with the Afro-American APPOINTMENT, Ronald E Smith Jr , lished to provide notice to 20001-2131 Colombia real property: believed to be heirs or Washington NOTICE TO Register of Wills, D.C., NOTICE TO u n k n o w n h e i r s a n d whose address is 4401 legatees of the decedent 2017ADM828 Real Property Located at Law Reporter CREDITORS 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd CREDITORS creditors of English Brad28th Place # 2, Mount Mary Velma Gordon 2924 12th Street, NE, who do not receive a Michael D Grant AND NOTICE TO Floor Washington, D.C. shaw in these proceedAND NOTICE TO Rainer , MD 20712, was Decedent Washington, DC copy of this notice by mail Personal UNKNOWN HEIRS 20001, on or before ings: UNKNOWN HEIRS appointed personal reNOTICE OF Claims against the dewithin 25 days of its first Representative Bettye T Briscoe, whose January 21, 2018.

Robert J. George, whose presentative of the estate APPOINTMENT, cedent may be prepublication shall so inaddress is 8912 WalClaims against the deNOTICE TO ANY address is 9224 of Marion L Smith, who NOTICE TO sented to the underform the Register of TRUE TEST COPY kerton Drive, Lanham, UNKNOWN HEIRS OR cedent shall be preAldershot Dr., Bethesda, died on October 4, 2016 Wills, including name, CREDITORS signed and filed with the MD 20706 was apsented to the under- REGISTER OF WILLS CREDITORS OF ENGMD 20817, was apwith a will, and will serve AND NOTICE TO Register of Wills for the address and relationpointed personal repre- LISH BRADSHAW AND signed with a copy to the pointed personal reprewithout Court superviUNKNOWN HEIRS District of Columbia, ship.

07/21, 07/28,Tue 8/4/17 Jul 25 16:33:47 EDT 2017 sentative of the estate of TO ANY CLAIMANTS TO Register of Wills or filed TYPESET: sentative of the estate of sion.

All unknown heirs Mary Brenda WitherBuilding A, 515 5th Date of Publication: Emma E Thomas, who AN INTEREST IN THE with the Register of Wills Lyndale H. George AKA and heirs whose wherespoon, whose address is Street., NW, 3rd FloorJuly 21, 2017 died on July 14, 2009 PREMISES COMMONLY with a copy to the underLyndale Roberta abouts are unknown Name of newspaper: 232 Kentucky Avenue Washington, D.C. 20001 with a will, and will serve KNOWN AS 1320 K Superior Court of signed, on or before George, who died on SE, Washington, DC within 6 months from the with Court supervision. S T R E E T , S . E . , shall enter their appear- Afro-American the District of January 21, 2018, or be October 1, 2016 with a ance in this proceeding.

20003, was, appointed date of first publication of Washington All unknown heirs and WASHINGTON, DC District of Columbia forever barred. Persons will, and will serve withO b j e c t i o n s t o s u c h personal representative this notice.

Law Reporter heirs whose wherePROBATE DIVISION believed to be heirs or out Court supervision.

All appointment shall be of the estate of Mary Yvonne Wright Sean Allen abouts are unknown Betty Bradshaw has filed Washington, D.C. legatees of the decedent unknown heirs and heirs filed with the Register of Velma Gordon, who died a lawsuit in the Superior Personal Personal shall enter their appear20001-2131 who do not receive a whose where-abouts are Wills, D.C., 515 5th on April 24, 2015 with a Court for the District of Representative(s) Representative ance in this proceeding.

Administration No. copy of this notice by mail unknown shall enter their Street, N.W., 3rd Floor will, and will serve withColumbia, Case No. 2016 TRUE TEST COPY Objections to such 2017ADM814 within 25 days of its first appearance in this out Court supervision. All REGISTER OF WILLS TRUE TEST COPY appointment (or to the CA 7649 B. This lawsuit W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . publication shall so in- David C Murray proceeding.

Objections 20001, on or before unknown heirs and heirs seeks to quiet the title to Date of first publication: REGISTER OF WILLS probate of decedent´s form the Register of Decedent to such appointment (or July 28, 2017 whose where-abouts are will) shall be filed with the the premises commonly J a n u a r y 2 1 , 2 0 1 8 . TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:20:07 EDT 2017 Wills, including name, James E McCollum Jr. to the probate of deClaims against the deknown as 1320 K Street, unknown shall enter their Name of newspapers 07/21, 07/28, 08/4/17 Register of Wills, D.C., address and relation- M c C o l l u m & A s s o cedent´s will) shall be and/or periodical: appearance in this 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd S.E., Washington, DC. cedent shall be preciates LLC ship. filed with the Register of and it is further In the sented to the underproceeding. Objections The Daily Washington Floor Washington, D.C. 7309 Baltimore Ave., Date of Publication: Wills, D.C., 515 5th event that you wish lo asSuperior Court of to such appointment (or Law Reporter 20001, on or before sert a claim against Eng- signed with a copy to the Suite 117 July 21, 2017 Street, N.W., 3rd Floor The Afro-American Register of Wills or filed the to the probate of deCollege Park, Maryland J a n u a r y 2 1 , 2 0 1 8 . lish Bradshaw, or against with the Register of Wills Name of newspaper: Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

District of Columbia cedent´s will) shall be 07/28, 08/4, 08/11/17 Claims against the de- the premises, you arc ad20740 Afro-American 20001, on or before TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:22:03 E PROBATE DIVISION filed with the Register of cedent shall be pre- vised to contact the at- with a copy to the underAttorney Washington O c t o b e r 2 1 , 2 0 1 7 .

Washington, D.C. Wills, D.C., 515 5th sented to the under- torney for Plaintiff, William signed, on or before NOTICE OF Law Reporter Claims against the de20001-2131 Street, N.W., 3rd Floor signed with a copy to the R. Voltz, 2120 L Street, January 21, 2018, or be APPOINTMENT, Clifton B Childers Sr. SUPERIOR COURT OF cedent shall be preforever barred.

Persons Administration No. Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Register of Wills or filed N.W.. Suite 700, WashingNOTICE TO Personal THE DISTRICT OF sented to the under2017ADM858 20001, on or before with the Register of Wills ton, D.C. 20037, tele- believed to be heirs or CREDITORS Representative COLUMBIA signed with a copy to the legatees of the decedent Frances O Holman January 21, 2018. with a copy to the under- p h o n e n u m b e r : AND NOTICE TO PROBATE DIVISION Register of Wills or filed Decedent Claims against the designed, on or before 202-293-2131, on or be- who do not receive a UNKNOWN HEIRS TRUE TEST COPY Washington, D.C. with the Register of Wills copy of this notice by mail Edward T Love Esq cedent shall be preJanuary 21, 2018 , or be fore the thirtieth (30th) day Donne Malloy, whose adREGISTER OF WILLS 20001-2131 with a copy to the undersented to the underforever barred. Persons after the date on which within 25 days of its first Ortman, Love & Huckdress is 2215 Rand Foreign No. signed, on or before publication shall so in- abay signed with a copy to the Place, NE, Washington, believed to be heirs or this Notice was published, form the Register of 07/21, 07/28, 08/4/17 2017FEP80 October 21, 2017, or be 4816 Moorland Lane Register of Wills or filed TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:35:32 legatees of the decedent p r o v i d i n g a w r i t t e n EDT 2017 DC 20002, was apDate of Death forever barred. Persons Wills, including name, Bethesda, MD 20814 with the Register of Wills pointed personal repre- who do not receive a description of your claim address and relation- Attorney May 9, 2017 believed to be heirs or with a copy to the undersentative of the estate of copy of this notice by mail against English Bradshaw ship. legatees of the decedent John Henry Harris NOTICE OF signed, on or before or against said premises. within 25 days of its first David C Murray, who Superior Court of Decedent who do not receive a APPOINTMENT, January 21, 2018, or be publication shall so in- or to file a responsive Date of Publication: died on June 9, 2014 the District of NOTICE OF copy of this notice by mail NOTICE TO forever barred. Persons pleading by said date in July 21, 2017 form the Register of without a will, and will District of Columbia APPOINTMENT within 25 days of its first CREDITORS the Superior Court of the Name of newspaper: believed to be heirs or Wills, including name, serve without Court su- TYPESET: PROBATE DIVISION OF FOREIGN Tue Jul 25 16:26:26 EDT 2017 publication shall so inAND NOTICE TO legatees of the decedent address and relation- District of Columbia. In the Afro-American pervision. All unknown Washington, D.C. PERSONAL form the Register of alternative, you can ap- Washington UNKNOWN HEIRS who do not receive a ship. heirs and heirs whose 20001-2131 REPRESENTATIVE pear at the Scheduling Law Reporter Patricia Ann Sucato and Wills, including name, copy of this notice by mail of Publication: whereabouts are un- Date Administration No. AND Conference Hearing at Ronald E Smith Jr. James F Holman, whose address and relationSUPERIOR COURT within 25 days of its first July 21, 2017 known shall enter their 2017ADM803 NOTICE TO the Superior Court of the OF Personal addresses are 4714 48th ship. publication shall so inName of newspaper: appearance in this Barbara A Warren District of Columbia, 500 CREDITORS THE DISTRICT OF Representative Street, NW., Washing- Date of Publication: form the Register of proceeding. Objections Afro-American Indiana Avenue, NW, Gennie Lee Harris COLUMBIA ton, DC 20016, and 4320 April 21, 2017 Wills, including name, AKA Washington to such appointment Barbara Anne Warren Washington, D.C. 20001 whose address is 4670 CIVIL DIVISION Name of newspaper: TRUE TEST COPY 4 6 t h S t r e e t , N W. , address and relationLaw Reporter shall be filed with the in Courtroom 214 at 9:30 REGISTER OF WILLS Decedent Plymouth Court, Waldor, Washington DC 20016 Afro-American ship.

Bettye T. Briscoe Register of Wills, D.C., a.m. on August 18, 2017.

NOTICE OF MD 20602 was apwere appointed personal Washington Date of Publication: Personal Failure to do so will result TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:28:39 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd BETTY BRADSHAW, EDT 2017of the Law Reporter APPOINTMENT, pointed personal reprerepresentatives July 21, 2017 Representative in a bar to any such claims 07/21, 07/28, 08/4/17 Floor Washington, D.C. NOTICE TO sentative of the estate of Robert J. George estate of Frances O HolName of newspaper: and a judgment by default 20001, on or before Plaintiff, CREDITORS John Henry Harris, dePersonal man, who died on June Afro-American TRUE TEST COPY may be entered against January 21, 2018.

AND NOTICE TO Superior Court of ceased by the Orphans Representative 21, 2017 with a will, and Washington REGISTER OF WILLS you with respect to any Claims against the de- vs.

UNKNOWN HEIRS the District of Court for Charles will serve without Court Law Reporter claims you may be entitled cedent shall be preSharyn L Warren, whose District of Columbia C o u n t y, S t a t e o f supervision. All unknown TRUE TEST COPY to assert;EDT 2017 07/21, 07/28, 08/4/17 BRADSHAW, TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:36:48 sented to the under- ENGLISH address is 4050 W RivPROBATE DIVISION Maryland, on May 30, heirs and heirs whose REGISTER OF WILLS Mary Brenda and it is further signed with a copy to the ers Edge Circle, Unit 10, Washington, D.C. 2017 whereabouts are unWitherspoon Register of Wills or filed Defendant.

TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:20:43 2017 may Brown Deer, Wisconsin 20001-2131 Service EDT of process 04/21, 04/28, 05/5/17 known shall enter their Personal ORDERED, that the parwith the Register of Wills Superior Court of Administration No. be made upon Gloria appearance in this Representative 53209, was appointed with a copy to the underties shall appear for the the District of personal representative 2017ADM355 Mathis 1700 Mass Ave, proceeding. Objections Scheduling Conference No.2016CA7649 District of ColumbiaB of the estate of Barbara A signed, on or before Case Elizabeth Hammond to such appointment (or Superior Court of SE, Washington, DC Hearing on TRUE TEST COPY Calendar 12 January 21, 2018, or be PROBATE DIVISION Warren AKA Barbara Cash the District of 20003 whose designato the probate of deREGISTER OF WILLS Judge Brian F. Holeman Washington, D.C. Anne Warren , who died forever barred. Persons Decedent District of Columbia tion as District of ColumAugust 18, 2017 at 9:30 cedent´s will) shall be believed to be heirs or 20001-2131 on May 17, 2017 with a TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:26:45 EDT 2017 William A. Bland PROBATE DIVISION bia agent has been filed a.m. in Courtroom 214; filed with the Register of 07/21, 07/28, 8/4/17 ORDER OF Administration will, and will serve with- legatees of the decedent 1140 Connecticut Ave. Wills, D.C., 515 5th Washington, D.C. with the Register of Wills, and it is further PUBLICATIONNo. who do not receive a 2017ADM402of the out Court supervision. All NW #1100 20001-2131 D.C. Upon consideration Street, N.W., 3rd Floor copy of this notice by mail Milton Ree Henderson unknown heirs and heirs Administration No. The decedent owned the ORDERED, that Plaintiffs Washington, DC 20036 Superior Court of Motion for Re-Issuance of Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . within 25 days of its first Decedent whose where-abouts are Attorney 1996ADM2441 SHALL FILE Proof of Serfollowing District of the Order for Publication, filed 20001, on or before publication shall so inNOTICE OF unknown shall enter their vice on or before August NOTICE OF Viola E Garrett Colombia real property: on June 22, 2017, it is this District of Columbia January 28, 2018. form the Register of 2nd APPOINTMENT, appearance in this 4, 2017.

APPOINTMENT, Decedent 5341 Nannie Helen Burday of July 2017.

PROBATE DIVISION Claims against the deproceeding. Objections Wills, including name, hereby NOTICE TO NOTICE TO r o u g h s Av e n u e , N E Washington, D.C. cedent shall be pre- W Alton Lewis, Equire address and relationCREDITORS to such appointment (or ORDERED, the Motion for CREDITORS 20001-2131 sented to the under- 1450 Mercantile Lane, Washington, DC 20019 ship.

BRIAN F. HOLEMAN AND NOTICE TO to the probate of deRe-Issuance of Order for AND NOTICE TO Claims against the deAdministration No. signed with a copy to the Suite 155 JUDGE UNKNOWN HEIRS cedent´s will) shall be Date of Publication: Publication is GRANTED; UNKNOWN HEIRS cedent may be pre2017ADM809 Register of Wills or filed Largo, Maryland 20774 July 21, 2017 and it is further Sowande Tichawonna, filed with the Register of Irvin Ferdinand Cash, Attorney sented to the underElizabeth M. Aman with the Register of Wills 07/21, 07/28,Tue 08/4/17 TYPESET: Jul 25 16:35:12 EDT 2017 Name of newspaper: ORDERED, that notice be whose address is 1320 Wills, D.C., 515 5th whose address is 5390 with a copy to the underNOTICE OF signed and filed with the Decedent given.

W e b by s t the e r insertion S t . , NofEa, C h i l l u m P l a c e , N E , signed, on or before APPOINTMENT, Register of Wills for the Francis John Kreysa Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Afro-American copy of this Order in The Washington Washington, DC 20017, Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Washington, DC 20011 January 28, 2018, or be NOTICE TO District of Columbia, Esq Daily Washington Law Law Reporter was appointed personal 20001, on or before Superior Court of was appointed personal forever barred. Persons CREDITORS Building A, 515 5th 2 Proffessional Dr., Rrepresentative e p o r t e r a n d tof h e the Donne Malloy J a n u a r y 2 1 , 2 0 1 8 . the representative of the AND NOTICE TO Street, NW., 3rd FloorSuite 215 believed to be heirs or Wa s h i of n gMilton t o n ARee f r o -HenPersonal estate Claims against the deDistrict of Columbia estate of Elizabeth HamUNKNOWN HEIRS ,Washington, D.C. Gaithersburg, MD legatees of the decedent American, newspapers Representative derson , who died on cedent shall be prePROBATE DIVISION mond Cash, who died on who do not receive a Shirley Mathis, whose 20001 within 6 months 20879 having a general circulaMarch 11, 2017 without a sented to the underWashington, D.C. January 22, 2017 witha copy of this notice by mail address is 11318 Evans from the date of first pubAttorney tion in the of will, and will District serve withsigned with a copy to the TRUE TEST COPY 20001-2131 will, and will serve with- within 25 days of its first Trail., #201, Beltsville, lication of this notice.

NOTICE OF Columbia, once per week REGISTER OF WILLS out Court supervision.

All Register of Wills or filed Administration No. out Court supervision. All publication shall so in- MD 20705, was apGennie Lee Harris APPOINTMENT, for three (3) successive unknown heirs and heirs with the Register of Wills 2017ADM796 unknown heirs and heirs form the Register of pointed personal reprePersonal NOTICE TO weeks, commencing as 07/28,Tue 8/4/17 whose whereabouts are with a copy to the under- 07/21, Mozelle Louise Harris TYPESET: Jul 25 16:36:11 EDT 2017 whose whereabouts are sentative of the estate of Representative(s) CREDITORS Wills, including name, soon as practicable; and it signed, on or before unknown shall enter their address and relation- Viola E Garrett, who died TRUE TEST COPY AND NOTICE TO isunknown further shall enter their Decedent a p p e a r a n that c e i the n t hfolis January 21, 2018, or be Vincent Wilkins, Jr. appearance in this on December 27, 1996 REGISTER OF WILLS UNKNOWN HEIRS ship.

ORDERED proceeding.

Objections forever barred.

Persons 1408 Canadian Geese proceeding. Objections Date of Publication: with a will, and will serve Date of first publication: Superior Court of Francis John Kreysa , lowing Notice be pubto such appointment Court to such appointment (or July 28, 2017 without Court supervi- July 28, 2017 the District of whose address is 2 Pro- believed to be heirs or lished to provide notice (or to to the probate of delegatees of the decedent Upper Marlboro, MD to the probate of desion. All unknown heirs Name of newspapers unknown heirs and District of Columbia fessional Dr., Suite 215, Name of newspaper: cedent´sof will) shall be 20774 cedent´s will) shall be Afro-American a n d h e i r s w h o s e and/or periodical: creditors English BradPROBATE DIVISION Gaithersburg, MD 20879 who do not receive a filed with the Register of Attorney filed with the Register of Washington whereabouts are un- The Daily Washington shaw in these proceedWashington, D.C. was appointed personal copy of this notice by mail Wills, D.C., 515 5th NOTICE OF Wills, D.C., 515 5th ings: known shall enter their Law Reporter 20001-2131 representative of the within 25 days of its first Law Reporter Street, N.W., 3rd Floor publication shall so inAPPOINTMENT, Street, N.W., 3rd Floor The Afro-American Administration No. estate of Elizabeth M Patricia Ann Sucato a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s W a s h i n g t o n , D .

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2017ADM772 Aman, who died on May James F Holman proceeding. Objections 07/28, 08/4, 08/11/17 UNKNOWN HEIRS OR 20001, on or before Wills, including name, CREDITORS 20001, on or before to such appointment (or Angela Agnes Small28, 2017 with a will, and Personal CREDITORS J a n u a r y 2 1OF , 2ENG018.

AND NOTICE TO October 21, 2017. wood will serve without Court address and relationRepresentative to the probate of deLISH BRADSHAW Claims against theAND deUNKNOWN HEIRS Claims against the decedent´s will) shall be Decedent supervision. All unknown ship.

TO ANY CLAIMANTS TO cedent shall be preJames Elgin Harris , cedent shall be pre- TRUE TEST COPY filed with the Register of NOTICE OF heirs and heirs whose Date of Publication: AN INTEREST IN THE sented to the underJuly 21, 2017 whose address is 5311 sented to the under- REGISTER OF WILLS Wills, D.C., 515 5th APPOINTMENT, whereabouts are unPREMISES COMMONLY signed with a copy to the Name of newspaper: C h i l l u m P l a c e N E . , signed with a copy to the Street, N.W., 3rd Floor NOTICE TO known shall enter their KRegister N O W N ofAWills S 1 3or 2 0filed K Afro-American Washington, DC 20011 Register of Wills or filed 07/28, 08/4, 08/11/17 Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

CREDITORS appearance in this S T R E E T , S .

E . , with the Register of Wills appointed personal re- with the Register of Wills 20001, on or before AND NOTICE TO proceeding. Objections Washington WASHINGTON, DCunder- presentative of the estate with a copy to the underwith a copy to the January 28, 2018.

UNKNOWN HEIRS to such appointment (or Law Reporter signed, on or before Sharyn L Warren of Mozelle Louise Harris , signed, on or before Claims against the deC y n t h i a S m a l l w o o d Betty Bradshaw has filed to the probate of deJanuary 21, 2018, or be Personal who died on February 16, October 21, 2017, or be cedent shall be prewhose address is 2612 a lawsuit in the Superior cedent´s will) shall be forever barred. Persons 2017 without a will, and forever barred. Persons Representative sented to the underGaithersburg, MD 20879 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Elizabeth M Aman, who died on May 28, 2017 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are un16:42:00 EDT 2017 LEGAL NOTICES known shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before January 21, 2018.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before January 21, 2018, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: July 21, 2017 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Francis John Kreysa Personal Representative

who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: July 21, 2017 LEGAL NOTICES Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Sharyn L Warren Personal Representative

PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM772 Angela Agnes Smallwood Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Cynthia Smallwood whose address is 2612 31st Place NE, Washington, DC 20018 was appointed personal representative of the estate of A n g e l a A g n e s Smalwood, who died on 16:35:49 May 17,EDT 20172017 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before January 21, 2018.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before January 21, 2018, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: July 21, 2017 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter

cedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before January 21, 2018.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the underLEGAL signed with NOTICES a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before January 21, 2018, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: July 21, 2017 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Sowande Tichawonna Personal Representative

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Responders shall also comply with all applicable requirements of Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, 12 U.S.C. Section 1701u.

The RFP may be obtained on or after Monday, July 31, 2017, at the following location: Housing Authority of Baltimore City Division of Fiscal Operations, Purchasing Department 417 E. Fayette Street, Room 414 Baltimore, Maryland 21202 Attention: John Airey, Senior Contract Manager Tel: (410) 396-3261 john.airey@habc.org Questions regarding the RFP should be directed in writing to the address and individual indicated above, and must include the reference: HABC RFP Number B-1848-17.

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A non-mandatory pre-proposal conference will be held on Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. in the Charles L. Benton Building, 417 E. Fayette Street, Room 416, Baltimore, Maryland, 21202.

HABC has established a minimum goal of twenty percent (20%) of the total dollar amount of the proposed contract for Minority Business Enterprise (”MBE”) utilization, applicable to all minority and non-minority businesses proposing to provide the requested services as the prime contractor. No goal has been established for participation of Women-owned businesses (”WBEs” ), however, HABC strongly encourages and affirmatively promotes the use of WBEs in all HABC contracts.

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HOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITY REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR FULLY INSURED LIFE AND DISABILITY PLAN SERVICES

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RFP NUMBER: B-1850-17

NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for Water Contract No. 1314-Oliver Neighborhood & Vicinity Water Main Replacements will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204, City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, August 16, 2017.

Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon.

The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, in Room 6 located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of Friday, July 28, 2017 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $100.00.

Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package.

All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call 410-396-6883 or contact the Committee at 4 South Frederick Street, 4th Floor, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is B02551Water Mains Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $5,000,000.01 to $10,000,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at the 3rd Floor Conference Room of the Office of Engineering & Construction, Abel Wolman Municipal Building on August 1, 2017 at 1:00 P.M. Principal Item of work for this project are: Installation of approximately 18,950 linear feet of new ductile iron Class 54 water 4-inch, 6-inch, 8-inch, 10-inch, 12-inch and 20-inch existing water mains, fittings, valves, and appurtenances, abandonment and/or removal of existing water mains and cathodic protection of 20-inch DIP. Replacement of existing galvanized water service lines with new copper pipes, replacement of small residential meter settings and meter vaults, roadway paving, sidewalk restoration, curb and gutter replacement, erosion and sediment control, and maintenance of traffic as required.

A non-mandatory pre-proposal conference will be held on Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. in the Charles L. Benton Building, 417 E. Fayette Street, Room 416, Baltimore, Maryland, 21202.

HABC has established a minimum goal of twenty percent (20%) of the total dollar amount of the proposed contract for Minority Business Enterprise (”MBE”) utilization, applicable to all minority and non-minority businesses proposing to provide the requested services as the prime contractor. No goal has been established for participation of Women-owned businesses (”WBEs”), however, HABC strongly encourages and affirmatively promotes the use of WBEs in all HABC contracts.

Responders shall also comply with all applicable requirements of Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, 12 U.S.C. Section 1701u.

The RFP may be obtained on or after Monday, July 31, 2017, at the following location: Housing Authority of Baltimore City Division of Fiscal Operations, Purchasing Department 417 E. Fayette Street, Room 414 Baltimore, Maryland 21202 Attention: John Airey, Senior Contract Manager Tel: (410) 396-3261 john.airey@habc.org Questions regarding the RFP should be directed in writing to the address and individual indicated above, and must include the reference: HABC RFP Number B-1850-17.

The MBE goal is 9% The WBE goal is 2% WATER CONTRACT NO. 1314

TYPESET: Wed Jul 26 14:43:13 EDT 2017 CITY OF BALTIMORE Automated Traffic Violation Enforcement System The Baltimore City Department of Transportation has established an Automated Traffic Violation Enforcement System (ATVES). The ATVES includes speed monitoring systems which detect vehicles exceeding the posted speed limit by twelve (12) miles per hour or greater in designated school and work zones, red light monitoring systems which detect vehicles failing to stop for a red light/signal or failing to stop before turning at a red light/signal, and vehicle height monitoring systems to detect commercial vehicles or trucks being operated on a restricted roadway or in violation of a restriction regarding the operation of certain vehicles during certain time periods, at prohibited locations. Based on information from the ATVES, vehicle owners or operators may be cited for violations of Maryland law.

The block ranges and intersections for the stated locations are approximations for the enforcement zones. Enforcement at all stated locations may be on a temporary, rotating, or permanent basis. The following locations are in addition to or an amendment of any locations advertised prior to this listing.

Baltimore City will operate Red Light Monitoring systems at the following locations: *Reisterstown Road (Southbound) at Patterson Avenue *East North Avenue (Westbound) at North Howard Street *South Monroe Street (Northbound) at Washington Boulevard *South Monroe Street (Southbound) at Washington Boulevard *Belair Road (Southbound) at Erdman Avenue *Erdman Avenue (Eastbound) at Belair Road *Pulaski Highway (Eastbound) at North Point Road *North Calvert Street (Northbound) at East Baltimore Street For further information, please call the Baltimore City Department of Transportation, Automated Traffic Violation Enforcement System at (443) 984-2150 or email ATVES.Project@baltimorecity.gov. http://transportation.baltimorecity.gov/automated-traffic-violation-enforcement-system TYPESET: Wed Jul 26 14:42:53 EDT 2017 CITY OF BALTIMORE Automated Traffic Violation Enforcement System The Baltimore City Department of Transportation has established an Automated Traffic Violation Enforcement System (ATVES). The ATVES includes speed monitoring systems which detect vehicles exceeding the posted speed limit by twelve (12) miles per hour or greater in designated school and work zones, red light monitoring systems which detect vehicles failing to stop for a red light/signal or failing to stop before turning at a red light/signal, and vehicle height monitoring systems to detect commercial vehicles or trucks being operated on a restricted roadway or in violation of a restriction regarding the operation of certain vehicles during certain time periods, at prohibited locations. Based on information from the ATVES, vehicle owners or operators may be cited for violations of Maryland law.

The block ranges and intersections for the stated locations are approximations for the enforcement zones. Enforcement at all stated locations may be on a temporary, rotating, or permanent basis. The following locations are in addition to or an amendment of any locations advertised prior to this listing.

Baltimore City will operate Red Light Monitoring systems at the following locations: *Reisterstown Road (Southbound) at Patterson Avenue *East North Avenue (Westbound) at North Howard Street *South Monroe Street (Northbound) at Washington Boulevard *South Monroe Street (Southbound) at Washington Boulevard *Belair Road (Southbound) at Erdman Avenue *Erdman Avenue (Eastbound) at Belair Road *Pulaski Highway (Eastbound) at North Point Road *North Calvert Street (Northbound) at East Baltimore Street For further information, please call the Baltimore City Department of Transportation, Automated Traffic Violation Enforcement System at (443) 984-2150 or email ATVES.Project@baltimorecity.gov. http://transportation.baltimorecity.gov/automated-traffic-violation-enforcement-system

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Seeking subcontractor bids. All trade divisions 2-16. Contact Jeff Warner at Hamel Builders for further information and bid invitations: jwarner@hamelbuilders.com TYPESET: Wed Jul 26 14:47:03 EDT 2017 City of Baltimore Department of Finance Bureau of Purchases Sealed proposals addressed to the Board of Estimates of Baltimore will be received until, but not later than 11:00a.m. local time on the following date(s) for the stated requirements: August 9, 2017 *FUEL TRUCK B50005026 *INNER HARBOR WATER SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS B50005066 *AIR SEALING AND INSULATION SERVICES FOR CITY LOCATIONS B50005072 August 23, 2017 * PICKUP AND PAYMENT FOR UNCLEAN BRASS WATER METERS B50004701 *COURIER SERVICES B50005048 August 30, 2017 *COMPAIRSON MACROSCOPES FOR FORENSIC LABS AND ACCESSORIES B50004877 *POLICE RANGE MAINTENANCE B50004966 THE ENTIRE SOLICITATION DOCUMENT CAN BE VIEWED AND DOWN LOADED BY VISITING THE CITY’S WEB SITE: www.baltimorecitibuy.org

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM850 Estate of Annie Lee Brown Deceased NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given a petition has been Continued from C3 that filed in this Court by Bessel R. Brown, Patricia A.Brown and Ann A. TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:21:04 EDT 2017 for standard LEGAL NOTICES Redmond LEGAL NOTICES probate, including the appointment of one or Superior Court of more personal reprethe District of sentative. Unless a comColumbia plaint or an objection in PROBATE DIVISION accordance with SuperWashington, D.C. ior Court Probate Di20001-2131 vision Rule 407 is filed in Administration No. this Court within 30 days 2017ADM50 from the date of first pubAnita Kyler lication of this notice, the AKA Court may take the acAnita C Kyler tion hereinafter set forth.

AKA 0 Admit to probate the will Anita Carolyn Kyler dated ..... exhibited with Decedent the petition upon proof NOTICE OF satisfactory to the Court APPOINTMENT, of due execution by afNOTICE TO fidavit of witnesses or otCREDITORS hwerwise AND NOTICE TO Register of Wills UNKNOWN HEIRS Clerk of the Jean A Kyler, whose adProbate Division dress is 904 Clovis AveDate of First Publication nue, Capitol Hgts MD July 28, 2017 20743 was appointed Names of Newspapers: personal representative Washington of the estate of Anita Law Reporter Kyler AKA Anita C Kyler Washington AKA Anita Carolyn Kyler, AFRO-AMERICAN who died on August 24, Anitra Ash-Shakoor 2011 with a will, and will Capital Justice Law Firm serve with Court supervi1413 K St NW, 15th Fl sion. All unknown heirs Washington, DC 20005 and heirs whose Signature of whereabouts are unPetitioners/Attorney known shall enter their appearance in this 7/28, 8/4/17 proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:21:46 EDT 2017 to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be Superior Court of filed with the Register of the Wills, D.C., 515 5th District of Columbia Street, N.W., 3rd Floor PROBATE DIVISION Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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Administration No. Claims against the de2017ADM592 cedent shall be presented to the under- Julia S Wayne signed with a copy to the Decedent NOTICE OF Register of Wills or filed APPOINTMENT, with the Register of Wills NOTICE TO with a copy to the underCREDITORS signed, on or before AND NOTICE TO January 28, 2018, or be UNKNOWN HEIRS forever barred. Persons Dana Wayne , whose adbelieved to be heirs or legatees of the decedent dress is 4545 C Street, who do not receive a SE, Washington, DC copy of this notice by mail 20019, was appointed within 25 days of its first personal representative publication shall so in- of the estate of Julia S Wayne , who died on July form the Register of Wills, including name, 24, 2013 without a will, address and relation- and will serve without Court supervision. All unship. known heirs and heirs Date of Publication: whose where-abouts are July 28, 2017 unknown shall enter their Name of newspaper: appearance in this Afro-American proceeding. Objections Washington to such appointment Law Reporter Jean A Kyler shall be filed with the Personal Register of Wills, D.C., Representative 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before TRUE TEST COPY December 30, 2017.

REGISTER OF WILLS Claims against the decedent shall be pre07/28, 08/4, 08/11/17 TYPESET: Tue Jul 25 16:21:22 EDT 2017 sented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed Superior Court of with the Register of Wills the District of with a copy to the underColumbia signed, on or before PROBATE DIVISION December 30, 2017, or Washington, D.C. be forever barred. Per20001-2131 sons believed to be heirs Administration No. or legatees of the de2017ADM823 cedent who do not reWilliam C Powell ceive a copy of this notice Decedent by mail within 25 days of NOTICE OF its first publication shall APPOINTMENT, so inform the Register of NOTICE TO Wills, including name, CREDITORS address and relationAND NOTICE TO ship.

UNKNOWN HEIRS Date of Publication: Timothy Powell, whose June 30, 2017 address is 4409 Silver- Name of newspaper: brook Lane #303, Afro-American Owings Mills, MD 21117 Washington was appointed personal Law Reporter representative of the Dana Wayne estate of William C Personal Powell, who died on May Representative 11, 2017 without a will, and will serve without TRUE TEST COPY Court supervision. All un- REGISTER OF WILLS known heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are 06/30, 7/7, 7/14/17 unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before January 28, 2018.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before January 28, 2018, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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On July 9, St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church and its Thurgood Marshall Forum for Social Justice Committee

John Ashley, keynote speaker and Rev. Martha Clark

contributions after he became a member of United States Supreme Court. Justice Marshall is a former member of St. Augustine’s, and his widow, Cecilia Suyat Marshall, is an active member.

hosted a presentation, “Mr. Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993): Some New and Additional Perspectives on His Career and Contributions.” Attorney John Ashley provided an overview of Justice Thurgood Marshall’s career as a social activist, and discussed lesser-known aspects of Justice Marshall’s

Sibyl Moses, Cissy Marshall and Yvonne Baskerville

Sibly E. Mosess introduces the guest speaker

Supreme Court Justices

Josephus Nelson and Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat Marshall, Thurgood Marshall’s wife The Thurgood Marshall Committee for Social Justice Photos by Rob Roberts

Miss Black USA Talented Teen is a multifaceted pageant and movement dedicated to shining a light

on the achievements of girls and women of color whose achievements often go unnoticed in mainstream media.

The pageant was held on July 1 at the Crystal City Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Va.

Angela Pierre Louis, Miss Black Talented Teen 2017

Demitrea Kelley, emcee

Kennetra Searcy, Mrs. Black USA

Connie Lash and Evelyn B. Arrington, pageant staff members

Judges: Jasmine Jones, Dawn Moss and Wendy McIntyre with Anthony Vann, pageant executive producer

Tonille Watkis, 2016 Miss Black USA

Madison Sampson, Miss Black USA North Carolinas, Olivia Manning, Miss Black USA Delaware, Alleson Knox, Miss Black USA Illinois, Midori Amae, Miss Black USA Virginia, Saidah Grimes, Miss Black USA Maryland, and Daphnie Lee, Miss Black USA New Jersey

Angela Pierre Louis with her family

To purchase this digital photo page contact Takiea Hinton: thinton@afro.com or 410.554.8277.

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PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY-AREA Council Considers Public Financing Option for Elections

Rest in Peace

By Bruce W. Branch Special to the AFRO

Prince George’s Public Schools

Attempting to strip away one of the major advantages of incumbency, the Prince George’s County Council is considering a measure to provide public financing of local elections. In a county where an incumbent has not lost a county seat in nearly 25 years, the measure could level the playing field for candidates who want to run, but lack financial backing.

Sponsored by District 1 Council Rep. Mary Lehman,

“Anything we can do to get more people involved in the political process is a good thing.”

Maxwell Defends Record on Grade Scandal

By Bruce W. Branch Special to the AFRO

Photos by Rob Roberts and Ronald Baker/Solid Image

Jim Vance, a veteran Washington D.C. news anchor passed away on July 22. Earlier in the year, he told viewers that he was undergoing treatment for cancer. Vance was 75 years old. He worked at the NBC D.C. affiliate station WRC-TV for 45 years. On the day of his passing several people posted their fondest memories with the news legend on Twitter.

D.C. Women’s Shelter Residents Get Makeovers

By Hamil R. Harris Special to the AFRO

– Earl O’Neal who is term limited, the county is seeking to follow the State of Maryland and Howard and Montgomery counties with a public financing law.

Presidential candidates also have the option of receiving public financing. If approved, the money would come from government resources.

Proponents, including Lehman, believe it will encourage more people to become engaged in the political process where Continued on D2

Photo by Hamil Harris

Nonprofit group Improving Life One Breath at a Time along with others provided 30 homeless women in the D.C. area with free hair styles, dinner and a concert by Kenny Lattimore.

It was a special week for a group of ladies at a Southeast Washington, D.C. women’s shelter. They received free makeovers at Hair Academy II in Iverson Mall in Temple Hills, Md. The non-profit group Improving Life One Breath at a Time along with internet show “Home Bless Life,” which shows random acts of kindness extended to the homeless community and others gave about 30 women new hair styles on July 24. The women were also treated to dinner.

“We are pampering the women today: makeover, make up, hairdos and latter on we are going to have an elegant dinner for them with [a] major guest,” said Tawanna Terrell, founder of Improving One Life One Breath At A Time, a nonprofit Continued on D2

Are Cab Drivers Safe in Greenbelt?

Prince George’s County H.S. Football

Highly Touted Receiver to Join Penn State receiver Joshua Cribbs.

With the help of Jefferies throughout the recruiting process, George recently committed Oxon Hill High School wide receiver to play for Penn State University after he Daniel George said he never had any doubt as completes his senior campaign with the a freshman that he was going to be a star.

Clippers this upcoming season.

“I had a lot of confidence coming into “The relationship that I had with the my freshman year,” George told the AFRO. coaches and the whole family atmosphere that “I was comfortable coming onto the team. came with Penn State helped me decide,” said Coach [Craig] George. “With Jefferies is Penn State not the reason being too far why I have but not too all of these close I think scholarship was perfect. I offers, but feel like I’m when I got to mentally and Oxon Hill, he physically showed me ready to adjust how to handle to the game.” everything to George keep my head also received in the game.” interest from The six20 top tier foot-two, football 201 pound programs rising senior Courtesy photo including developed his Daniel George (center) pictured with his stepfather, Ohio State, game under West Virginia, Robert Green, and mother, Arlene George. the tutelage North of head coach Carolina and Craig Jefferies who had previous experience in Wisconsin. grooming Prince George’s County talent into “I’m excited for him,” Jefferies told the future NFL players.

AFRO. “He did his homework and research in Jefferies has coached Washington tight end the schools that were recruiting him, and he Vernon Davis, Indianapolis Colts cornerback thought that Penn State would be a great fit for Vontae Davis, Jacksonville Jaguars wide him regarding helping him to develop into a receiver Arrelious Benn, and former NFL wide Continued on D2

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A Black D.C. cab driver was robbed at gunpoint in Greenbelt, Md. around midnight on July 19, according to a Greenbelt police officer. Police have not released the victim’s name.

The cab driver picked the suspect up at the Greenbelt Metro station. Upon arriving at the location, the suspect showed a handgun to the cab driver and proceeded to demand money. The suspect then fled the scene on foot.

At 11:59 p.m. police were called to the corner of Hanover Parkway and Greenbrook Drive, the scene of the robbery.

According to police, they are looking for a Black man who is 5’11, about 180 lbs with a muscular build, short hair, tattoos on both arms.

The suspect was last seen wearing a white shirt with black stripes and jeans.

Though residents said armed robberies do not happen often in the immediate area, others question their safety because of Greenbelt’s proximity to high crime areas. “I never feel safe, you never know what could happen, but obviously certain areas you feel a little more protected, and certain areas you don’t,” Chris Johnson, a 23-year-old White resident, told the AFRO. Johnson added that due to the proximity of Springhill Lake, a place he considers to have high crime, he rarely feels safe.

According to Neighborhood Scout, Springhill Lake is an ethnically diverse, moderate income neighborhood with a high child poverty rate. As of July 26, there have been 108 crime incidents in Springhill Lake compared to 71 incidents in Greenbelt East, the area where the robbery occurred.

A cab driver was robbed by a passenger that was picked up from the Greenbelt, Md. metro station on July 19.

Continued on D3

In a departure from past dealings with the public, Prince George’s County Public Schools Superintendent Kevin Maxwell defended his record of achievement in a meeting with the Prince George’s County Delegation of the Maryland General Assembly on July 20 at Prince George’s Community College.

Maxwell met with elected officials after Gov. Larry Hogan (R) asked the Maryland Board of Education to investigate allegations of grade tampering and the school board, after Yvonne Anderson, a board member handpicked by County Executive Rushern T. Baker III, resigned her position calling the board “dysfunctional” while citing a lack of a “coherent educational plan” and “thoughtful budget” in her resignation letter. Anderson, appointed to the board in 2013, is highly respected

“It is painful to hear the allegations of a systemic and unethical attempt to raise graduation rates. I’m here to tell you they are false.”

– Kevin Maxwell throughout the state for her commitment to education in the county.

Anderson resigned after four board members called for a state investigation into allegations of grade fixing and other fraud to boost the graduation rate. In response, nine other board members condemned their colleagues calling the claims “appalling.”

Anderson was the only board member who did not publicly take a side.

“In my mind, sometimes it takes the storm before the calm,” Anderson said in a farewell speech at her final board meeting in June. “And once we get that calm, we can start moving in the direction that all students are given a quality education.”

Continued on D2

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County Politics Continued from D1

better-financed candidates usually win.

The Public Safety and Fiscal Management Committee of the council held a briefing about the measure last week.

The committee heard from a panel of experts about the benefits of public financing as well as some of the challenges that it may present.

Gov. Larry Hogan (R), who upset the better-financed Anthony Brown, did so in the 2014 election with public financing. In Montgomery County, at least 17 candidates

have expressed interest in public financing with three qualifying, according to the

the past four county elections.

“Anything we can do to get more people involved in the

“Anything we can do to get more people involved in the political process is a good thing.”

– Earl O’Neal board of elections.

“I think this is a great idea,” said local activist Earl O’Neal, who has worked on dozens of campaigns during

political process is a good thing.”

Four years ago, a panel including County Councilman Mel Franklin helped

developed legislation to allow Howard and Montgomery counties to enact similar provisions.

While some on the council expressed strong support for a public financing program, others expressed reservations with funding being a possible issue. Early estimates say public financing could cost county taxpayers $1-2 million per year, according to Jennifer Bevan-Dangle, executive director of Common Cause Maryland. She estimates that

$1.5 million would be the cost of public financing. That comes on the heels of another $1 million plus for two extra at-large seats on the council.

Councilman Todd Turner said that as a New Yorker, he experienced the public financing system and supports the idea, but wonders if Prince George’s County has the financial resources to fund it.

“I can see the need in a city like New York,” Councilwoman Deni Taveras told the Prince George’s Sentinel. “But the issue that I

have here is that we’re already very limited in how we can raise money. We can’t take any money from developers.

So, if we’re trying to fix a problem, we’re already very limited. Ninety-five percent of the people that we see on a daily basis, we can’t raise money from here.”

If passed, the law wouldn’t impact elections until the 2022 elections, which would give the council lots of time to consider the issue, including the possibility of putting the question to voters.

Maxwell

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“I appointed her to the Board of Education because she possessed Maryland State Del. Darryl Barnes (D-25) said he has concerns, the expertise we needed to change the trajectory of our school system,” but is optimistic that changes are forthcoming. Barnes said the county Baker said in a statement. “Since her appointment in 2013, Dr. Anderson delegation is alarmed by allegations that grades had been inflated or has been a strong voice for all students and she consistently fought to falsified to boost graduation rates, as well as issues surrounding the ensure that the needs of low income students were met. In addition, loss of Head Start funding, contaminated drinking water and a growing she has been an advocate for programs and services that would help to number of sexual abuse cases. Barnes heard from teachers in the school improve the performance of our students so that they are college and system who said grades were changed arbitrarily and many times career ready. During her tenure, graduation rates have improved, fewer without their input. He also said Maxwell’s response had left him and young people are dropping out of school after 9th grade, dual enrollment other members of the county delegation “somewhat disappointed.”

Courtesy Photo and world language offerings have increased, and full day preMaxwell vehemently denied the charges and welcomed a thirdIn light of the grade-changing kindergarten has expanded throughout the county. Dr. Anderson cares party investigation. “We have worked diligently to raise standards and accusations, Kevin Maxwell, deeply about our children and her passion for educational excellence is expectations for our students while implementing multiple supports to superintendent of the Prince George’s matched by few.” keep them on the road to a diploma,” he told the delegation. “For this County Public Schools, defended the The Maryland State Board of Education is waiting to award a reason, I welcome the scrutiny. I want to know we are doing the right system’s record of achievement. contract to a third-party vendor to investigate the claims of grade thing and I want every member of our community to have confidence in tampering. Meanwhile, Maxwell is standing by his record of each of our schools. We want to know that we are doing things right.” achievement, which includes county students’ grades improving across Several community leaders, including State Sen. C. Anthony Muse the board. He said the student graduation rate is now 81.4 percent, over 80 percent for the first (D-26) and Prince George’s County NAACP President Bob Ross implored Baker to terminate time this decade, but is behind the national average of 83.2 percent. He also said county high Maxwell’s contract. school students garnered more than $151 million in scholarships and the number of students Maxwell said he is going to stay the course in improving county schools. He cited the needing remedial academic assistance at Prince George’s Community College declined by more opening of the new Fairmount Heights High School in Capitol Heights, Md. and the renovation than 20 percent. of Glenarden Woods Elementary School in Glenarden, Md. “It is painful to hear the allegations “We are headed in the right direction,” Maxwell told the delegation. “The future of Prince of a systemic and unethical attempt to raise graduation rates. I’m here to tell you they are false.

George’s County is brighter because our children are better prepared for college, employment, These allegations greatly undermine the work of teachers, support staff, administrators, and the and a global marketplace.” He said the attacks on him are politically motivated. caring employees who support children in all of our schools.”

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She said she came up with the idea of having the special day for homeless women, because she said, “at one time I was homeless.”

After the women received their new hairdos the ladies loaded up on a bus and traveled to St. Paul Baptist Church in Northeast D.C., where they ate dinner and enjoyed a surprise performance by R&B Singer Kenny Lattimore. He was already in the area attending

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As Coleman undid the woman’s braids, the woman began to sing the James Brown tune, “I Feel Good.” The shelter and program, which started in 1989, works with homeless residents – April Coleman in D.C., Prince George’s County and Montgomery County. exciting to enjoy ourselves for “When I serve someone a day,” one area mother, who who is not used to being attended the dinner with her served I feel blessed,” daughters, told the AFRO. Coleman told the AFRO.

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However, George still believes that he has some unfinished business to take care of in winning a 3A State Football championship title when it is all said and done. Oxon Hill had an 11-1 record a year ago before being knocked out of the Regional Finals against Potomac 34-32 last year.

George was the focal point for the Clippers on both sides of the ball last season after he accounted for 45 receptions for 873 yards and 15 touchdowns including five interceptions on defense.

He showed his big play ability against DuVal last season when he hauled in 11 receptions for 230 – Daniel George yards and two touchdowns.

“I just remember having a conversation with my quarterback before the game talking about doing something special because it was the homecoming game,” George said. “When the game came, we were both on point, and everything just clicked.”

George will have a familiar face throwing the ball in his direction this upcoming season.

George has a strong connection with returning quarterback Dajaun Rollins.

“Playing with Daniel is fun, exciting, and competitive because in practice we are always pushing each other to get better,” Rollins told the AFRO. “In the game, it comes easily to us because we are clicking and when we’re hot it’s over. We are always on the same page. He’s a great brother and teammate.”

Rollins threw for over 2,000 yards, and he tossed 28 touchdowns in 2016. He stated that he hopes to hit the 4,000-yard mark under center this year.

“On the field, our connection has been amazing,” George said about Rollins. “This is our third year together, but us working out together over the summer our relationship has gotten even better.”

“The relationship that I had with the coaches and the whole family atmosphere that came with Penn State helped me decide.”

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Continued from D1 There have been 14 armed robberies in Greenbelt as of July 25 of this year, according to George Matthews, a media relations officer at Greenbelt police department. Police said they are trying to locate the suspect based on robberies that are occurring in nearby areas.

Cab drivers from the Greenbelt community said they feel safe in the area they are in. They told the AFRO that they don’t carry any weapons for protection. “I don’t have any weapons, but God,” one driver, who preferred not to be named, said.

Residents said they are satisfied with the policing in the community. “Police are doing a great job of limiting the crimes, they could do better, we all could do better,” Nat Jordan, a Black 41-yearold metro worker, told the AFRO. Cindy Pierre, 28, said while she does not live in the area, but she still feels safe commuting to work by Uber. “I feel safe, I haven’t had any issues with the area,” said Pierre. “I think it’s relatively nice.”

She said she works in Laurel, Md.

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National Portrait Gallery, 8th Street, NW Asian American Literature Festival The Smithsonian Asian American Center is scheduled to host an Asian American Literature Festival at the National Portrait Gallery, 8th Street, NW. The event is scheduled to be held on July 27 from noon to 9 p.m. The Asian American Literature Festival is expected to be a historic event as it is the first national festival of its kind.

It comes at a time when Asian American literature is at a crossroads: today’s publishing market and literature classrooms are flooded with more works of Asian American literature than ever, and we find Asian Americans prominently throughout the literary landscape as poets, writers, teachers, scholars, librarians, editors, and publishers. Not simply a showcase of writers and writing, this Festival will be a convening, engine, and incubator--a cooperative space, with dynamic, interactive programming, for sharing and growing Asian American literature. It will critically assess the state of American literature today and the place of Asian American literature, and Asian American poets, writers, and scholars, in that landscape.

Begins at Freedom Plaza, 14th St. and Pennsylvania Ave., NW National Rally for Healthcare

With Congressional Republicans rushing forward with their plan to take away healthcare from millions, the fight to protect every American’s access to quality, affordable health care has never been more critical. On July 29 at 6:30 p.m., thousands of people across the United States will gather as part of “Our Lives on the Line”, a massive nationwide day of action to lift the voices of the 22 million Americans whose health care could be taken away if Congressional Republicans continue with their plan to give big breaks to insurance companies and the wealthy while they take away affordable, quality care. The rally will begin at Freedom Plaza, 14th St. and Pennsylvania Ave., NW and end at the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW. There is no cost to attend the rally, but participants can register at eventbrite.com.

District Heights Municipal Center - Ball Field, 2000 Marbury Drive District Heights Md. 2017 National Night Out On Aug. 1 (Rain Date: Aug. 8) from 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at the District Heights Municipal Center - Ball Field, 2000 Marbury Drive is scheduled to host a National Night Out event. The event is scheduled to have food, games, music, a fun zone, raffles, exhibits and giveaways, including school backpacks. Admission is free. For more information, contact 301-336-1400.

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Ebenezer AME Church, 7707 Allentown Road William Murphy & Tasha Cobbs Concert Gospel artists William Murphy and Tasha Cobbs are scheduled to perform at the concert of the year, despite it not being the end of the year, on July 28 at Ebenezer AME Church, 7707 Allentown Road. Doors are scheduled to open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $25 in advance for General Admission seating and $45 in advance for VIP (reserved) seating. Tickets can be purchased on eventbrite.com.

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