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By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) as well as other city leaders, District statehood activists, and members of the Congressional Black Caucus have developed a wait-andsee attitude toward the new speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan

(R-Wis.) was elected by the House as the new leader of the body on Oct. 29. Norton said immediately after that she “will reach out and look forward to working with our new speaker, Paul Ryan.” “Paul is a friend who I have worked with in the past,” Norton said. “I first got to know him from his relationship with my good friend, the late representative and former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban

Development Jack Kemp, who was Paul’s mentor. I see Jack Kemp’s continuing influence on Paul in his outspoken leadership on a Republican approach to poverty, a subject that other Republicans often neglect.” The delegate said Ryan’s vote on District statehood “in recent years has not been unlike others in his [Republican] caucus,” meaning that he isn’t in favor of statehood. “However, I believe Paul understands the importance of self-

Leader of Civil Rights Movement’s Lobbying Arm to Step Down By The Associated Press

The longtime head of an organization considered the lobbying arm of the civil rights movement announced on Nov. 4 that he will step down at the end of 2016, citing a generational shift within the movement and saying it’s time for make room for new leaders. Wade Henderson will have been president and CEO for 20 years of what is now known as the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. “What is really driving this effort is my desire to make sure that the institution that I helped build will have the leadership that is suited for the challenges it faces not just today but into the future,” Henderson said in an interview with The Associated Press. There will be a nationwide search for Henderson’s replacement. The Leadership Conference was founded in 1950 by Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Arnold Aronson of the organization now known as the Jewish Council for Wade Henderson Continued on A3

government, and I do not think he is unreceptive to our demands for home rule,” Norton said. “He has not been tested on the degree to which he would respect the District’s right to selfgovernment.” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) had a conversation with former House Speaker John Boehner earlier this year and she expects to talk with Ryan, as well. “We will reach out to the new speaker,” Bowser told the AFRO on Nov. 2. “We haven’t made contact with his office yet.” Nevertheless, it is a

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Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has adopted a wait and see attitude towards the new speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. courtesy on Capitol Hill for the speaker and District mayor to meet at least once Continued on A3

Former U.S. Rep. Freddie Gray Gus Savage of Chicago Follow-Up How Black Dies at Age 90 By The Associated Press Gus Savage, a civil rights activist and journalist who represented a South Side Chicago district for 12 years in the U.S. House, died on Oct. 31, a day after celebrating his 90th birthday. His son Thomas Savage told The Associated Press the former Democratic congressman celebrated his birthday on Oct. 30 with family and friends. He went to sleep

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In this 1990 file photo, Rep. Gus Savage, D-Ill., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.

and White Millennials Differ By The Associated Press Long before the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, more than half of AfricanAmerican millennials indicated they, or someone they knew, had been victimized by violence or harassment from law enforcement, a new report says. The information, from the “Black Millennials in America” report issued by the Black Youth Project at the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, reflects starkly different Continued on A3

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Black Man Arrested in String of St. Louis Church Fires By The Associated Press Authorities charged a 35-year-old Black St. Louis man with arson following fires at two predominantly African-American churches

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Black S.C. Students Rally Behind White Officer who Flipped Black Student from Desk By The Associated Press A group of South Carolina high school students has staged a brief, peaceful walkout in support of a sheriff’s deputy who was fired after being recorded on video flipping a disruptive student out of her desk and tossing her across the classroom floor. Local news media outlets quote Spring Valley High School Principal Jeff Temoney as saying that approximately 100 students gathered in the school’s atrium Friday to back former Richland County deputy Ben Fields. Videos and pictures of the walkout appeared on social media, some showing students wearing T-shirts that said “#bringbackfields” and “#bringfieldsback.” Temoney addressed the students, who he said returned to class about 10 minutes after their protest began. Fields was fired and banned from school district properties. Federal and state investigations into his actions are underway. Five Black Scholars Appointed to National Academy of Medicine By Jonathan Hunter Special to the Afro

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classes and assisting with labs at HU, and spends her afternoons working as a physical therapist for Riverside Health System. According to the Richmond Free Press, she has also coauthored a book entitled “Love Affair With My Hair: Why Black Women Cheat on Health.” Williams told the Daily Press that she wants to use her crown as a way to educate and inspire young girls.

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(L to R) Evan Dale Abel, Linda Burnes Bolton, Otis Webb Brawley, Melissa Lynn Gilliam, and Elizabeth Odilile Ofili Five Black scholars were among 70 health professionals recently appointed to the National Academy of Medicine, an independent organization founded in 1970, whose membership consists of leaders in a wide range of fields across the health profession. One of the group’s primary focuses is to address critical issues that take place in health, medicine and policy in hopes of creating a positive attitude, the organization stated on its website. According to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, selection to the National Academy is one of the highest honors in the health profession. Among those newly inducted are: Dr. Evan Dale Abel, professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine, Dr. Linda Burnes Bolton, vice president of Nursing, Chief Nursing Officer and Director of Nursing Research at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles, Dr. Otis Webb Brawley, chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, Dr. Melissa Lynn Gilliam, expert in pediatric and adolescent gynecology and Dr. Elizabeth Odilile Ofili, nationally recognized for her work in the field of echocardiography, the use of sound waves when studying the heart and its’ functionality.

Tough Time for Black Women–Like Black Men– with Police By The Associated Press

It’s not just Black men having difficult relations with police. Black women are having a tough time, too. Consider the schoolgirl who was slammed to the floor in a South Carolina classroom and the mysterious death of Sandra Bland inside a Texas jail cell. Videos showing Black women being manhandled by police are bringing such problems to the forefront at a time when the public has focused largely on the relationship between Black men and law enforcement. Civil rights groups and organizations representing women say closer attention is needed to what’s happening between police and women of color. “We cannot continue to wait for something to show up on a video to ask for change,” said Melanie Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and convener of the Black Women’s Roundtable Public Policy Network. According to a 2015 report by the African American Policy Forum and Columbia Law School’s Center for Intersectional and Social Policy Studies, Black girls were suspended from school six The Afro-American Newspaper family is helping times as often as their White to grant a wish for the most vulnerable. counterparts. Also, 12 percent Would you like to help a child create memories of Black girls were subjected that will last a lifetime? to exclusionary suspensions, compared with 2 percent of For many disadvantaged families, you can turn White females. dreams into reality by participating in the The Bureau of Justice Statistics says 50 percent of America’s female prison o I want to join the AFRO’s spirit of giving. population is White and 21 Please accept my contribution of $___________ percent is Black, and Black to benefit a less fortunate family. females are between 1.6 times Name_______________________________ and 4.1 times more likely to be imprisoned than White females. Address_____________________________ “We are seeing increasingly Organization_________________________ more cases where Black City________________________________ girls and women are being subjected to abuse and over State___________________ Zip_________ enforcement. We must start Phone_______________________________ placing more attention on the E-mail_______________________________ plight of females in the criminal justice system,” Elsie Scott, Please send all contributions to: founding director of the Ronald Afro-Charities, Inc. • Attn: Diane W. Hocker W. Walters Leadership and 2519 N. Charles Street • Baltimore, MD 21218 Public Policy Center at Howard 410-554-8243 University, said in a statement.

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while either is in power. When they do meet, District statehood is always a point in the discussion. Anise Jenkins, the co-leader for Stand Up for Democracy! a pro-statehood organization, admits she doesn’t know very much about Ryan but is sure of one thing. “I know that he is not a co-sponsor of the present D.C. Statehood bill that is in the Congress,” Jenkins said. “There are no Republican lawmakers who support the bill at this time. However, we will lobby him on the issue like we’ve lobbied other speakers.”

The only Congressional Black Caucus member to support Ryan was U.S. Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah), stating that she likes his

speaker and the present House Minority Leader, which was to be expected. The vote for speaker is always along party lines.

“We will reach out to the new speaker.” – Muriel Bowser “commitment to family.” The Democrats in the House, including the party’s CBC members, voted for U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a former House

Nevertheless, some CBC members wished Ryan well in his new role. U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.), who has disagreed with Ryan regarding welfare and public assistance

issues tweeted “Congratulations to my friend, colleague and fellow Wisconsinite Speaker Ryan.” “Best of luck, Paul,” the tweet said. “Let’s get to work.” Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) said, “Speaker Ryan is an outstanding public servant with a long record of service. “He has the potential to be an effective leader that works with the whole House to move our great nation forward. I look forward to continuing to work with him in the House of Representatives.”

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Public Affairs. In 2010, the Leader Conference on Civil Rights adopted its current name. The group works more behind the scenes than other, more public organizations, Henderson said. “We are the stick that stirs the drink, we are the energy that helps move these issues forward in important ways,” he said. While his organization looks for new leadership, Henderson said he will continue working on issues such as criminal justice changes, transparency in police body-worn camera programs and efforts to restore the Voting Rights Act. During his tenure, Henderson said the Leadership Conference grew to more than 200 member organizations, including its first Muslim and Sikh civil rights groups, and increased staff from 12 to 45. “I’m leaving at the top of my game,” Henderson said.

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and was found unresponsive in his bed the next morning. Born in Detroit, Savage moved to Chicago with his family when he was age five. Savage served in a segregated unit of the U.S. Army during World War II. He founded Citizen Newspapers, which became the largest black-owned chain of weekly community newspapers in the Midwest. He sold the newspaper chain in 1980 and was elected that year to represent Illinois’ 2nd Congressional District until January 1993. A major achievement during his time in Congress was passage of a measure requiring the U.S. Defense Department to set aside lucrative military procurement contracts for minorityowned businesses, according to the U.S. House website. “He never wavered in the fight for fairness and justice, no matter the foe or the arena,” his son said. Savage’s record was marred by an ethics investigation in 1989, during which he was accused of sexual misconduct involving a Peace Corps volunteer while he was on an official visit to Zaire, the House website said. The subsequent public report condemned his behavior but did not recommend punishment, citing Savage’s effort to apologize to the volunteer. Savage lost the Democratic primary in 1992 to Mel Reynolds and stepped down from Congress the next year. He is survived by his son, a daughter and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held on Nov. 7 at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in Chicago.

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Protesters march to mark the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown being shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson. Years before the high-profile deaths of Brown, Trayvon Martin and Freddie Gray, more than half of Black millennials indicated they, or someone they knew, had been victimized by violence or harassment from law enforcement.

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attitudes among Black, Latino, Asian and White millennials when it comes to policing, guns and the legal system in the United States. Researchers, who have surveyed millennials several times during the past decade, point out that the disparities existed well before the “Black Lives Matter” movement began. In the 2009 Mobilization and Change Survey, 54.4 percent of Black millennials answered yes to the question “Have you

Reward Growing in Hunt for Killer of 9-year-old Chicago Boy By The Associated Press

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A reward offer is growing for information leading to the capture of whoever shot and killed a 9-year-old Chicago boy. The Faith Community of St. Sabina said Oct. 3 afternoon that the church and other community groups have now raised $20,000. Tyshawn Lee was shot in the head and back on Oct. 2 in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood. Chief of Detectives Constantine Andrews says that before the shooting, an argument broke out among a group of people in the alley where the boy’s body was found. Those who were in the alley left the scene after the shooting. Andrews says it’s not clear if the child was targeted or not. Anti-violence activist the Rev. Michael Pfleger and St. Sabina members handed out reward fliers Oct. 2.”This heartless person must be captured,” Pfleger said.

or anyone you know experienced harassment or violence at the hands of the police?” Almost one-third of Whites, 1 in 4 Latinos and 28 percent of Asian-Americans surveyed said yes to the same question. The study comes as the United States grapples with concerns over policing in minority communities following the deaths of Martin, 17, in Florida three years ago, Brown, 18, in Ferguson, Missouri, last year and Gray, 25, in Baltimore earlier this year. Their deaths, as well as those of other black men and women, have inspired nationwide protests under the “Black Lives Matter” and “Say Her Name” monikers. But even while being the wellspring of those movements, a clear majority of Black millennials — 71 percent — said in that same survey they believe police in their neighborhood were “there to protect you.” Eighty-five percent of Whites, 76 percent of Hispanics and 89 percent of Asians also said police were in their neighborhood to protect them. “We know that young Blacks are more likely to be harassed by the police. We know that they are more likely to mistrust their encounters with the police,” said Cathy Cohen, chair of the political science department at the University of Chicago and leader of the Black Youth Project. “But we also know from actually collecting data that a majority of them believe that police in their neighborhood are actually there to protect them, so I think it provides us with more complexity.” It’s not surprising that young blacks and whites feel differently on these issues, given the different experiences the groups are reporting, said Jon Rogowski, an assistant political science professor at Washington University in St. Louis. For example, white millennials don’t report having to explain themselves to police, while millennials of color report that officers stopped them simply to question them about what they were up to, he said. “We see story after story about how this leads into a more combative situation which has escalated and led to, in some instances, tragic outcomes,” said Rogowski, who co-authored the Black Millennials In America report. “So the experiences that these different communities have had based on where they live and the kinds of policing procedures that are in place there, we would argue, lead to these different patterns.”

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Is America About to Fix Its Justice System? mass imprisonment. Also, Republicancontrolled legislatures in such places as Georgia and Texas have begun to When a new inmate steps behind the pass laws aimed at curbing prison walls of a prison in Georgia, the entirety populations. of his or her criminal record and mental “In years gone by, you’d see state is fed into a complex algorithm sentencing reform and they’d tweak called the Next Generation Assessment. sentencing for one or two crimes or The NGA just might be the future one or two types of crime,” said Nick of America’s criminal justice system. Wachinski, a former criminal defense This algorithm considers an inmate’s attorney in Philadelphia. He now is age at first arrest, the types of crimes CEO of Lexington National Insurance he committed, his mental-health and Corporation, which underwrites bail substance-abuse history — in all, more bonds. “Then you would see that than 300 variables about him. followed up by somebody bringing a It then generates a score that predicts bill that would vilify some other crime that inmate’s risk of re-arrest within three — and really undo what was just done. years. This algorithm also determines Now I think, at the federal level and a needs —e.g. education, employment, lesser degree at the states, we’re seeing and mental-health treatment — to help a genuine desire to look at the whole prison officials decide which programs in thing.” which to enroll him during incarceration. Two factors seem to be driving this Such front-end intervention is intended to reform movement: a sense that America make an inmate much less likely to return can no longer afford mass incarceration; to crime when he eventually is released and social-science data proving that from prison. inmates can be rehabilitated and steered Although Georgia is considered a toward redemption via education and leader in this new reform movement, drug-treatment programs that wind the NGA is one of several new tools and up much cheaper than repeatedly reforms designed to make prisons more imprisoning the same offenders. efficient, with a goal toward reform. Effective intervention programs After three decades of the most massive typically reduce recidivism by about 10 incarceration program since slavery, to 15 percent and sometimes as much America appears on the precipice of a as 20 percent, criminal justice analysts wholesale transformation of its criminal have found. Given America’s annual justice system. per-inmate cost of about $31,000, President Barack Obama cited these programs could save hundreds of John Byrum/The Spartanburg Herald-Journal via AP the “long history of inequity in the millions of taxpayer dollars every year. Inmates at the Spartanburg County Detention Center get involved in a creative writing class criminal justice system in America” in Mass incarceration cost the U.S. taught by Jonathan Burgess that is offered at the jail in Spartanburg, S.C. It is one of many efforts a July speech to the NAACP’s annual $80 billion in 2010 alone, according by prisons to reduce the number of inmates who are arrested after they leave prison. convention in Philadelphia. He said, to federal data. “Just to put that in “In too many places, black boys and perspective, for $80 billion, we could black men, Latino boys and Latino men have universal preschool for every experience being treated differently under the law.” 3-year-old and 4-year-old in America,” Obama said to the NAACP. “That’s what $80 billion Blacks and Latinos compose 60 percent of the U.S. inmate population, although they make up buys. For $80 billion, we could double the salary of every high school teacher in America. just 30 percent of the population. Typically, divergent forces across the U.S. political spectrum For $80 billion, we could finance new roads and new bridges and new airports, job training appear to have agreed that ongoing mass incarceration is bad for business and bad for America. programs, research and development . . . For what we spend to keep everyone locked up for one Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle have begun to co-sponsor legislation to limit year, we could eliminate tuition at every single one of our public colleges and universities.” By Nick Chiles Urban News Service

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Opening Doors to Opportunity Higher education transformed my life. It is an opportunity that, working together, we can make available to everyone in our community. In this Information Age, it is not surprising that the average annual earnings for an individual with a college degree are 60 percent higher than those of high school graduates. Yet, despite the clear benefits of obtaining Elijah Cummings a college education, far too many Americans feel that they are trapped outside the university gates, looking in. Nationally, more than eight out of every ten high school graduates from high income families enroll in college compared to only about one-half of students from lowerincome households. For Black communities, the consequences of this disparity have been harsh. Toward the end of the recent recession, the unemployment rate for Blacks, ages 25-29, with college degrees was 7.6 percent. However, for young Black adults without those college diplomas, the unemployment rate was a depressionlevel 17.8 percent. This is why helping those who are determined to improve themselves through higher education must rank among our foremost priorities. Our future prosperity and national security depend upon properly educating all Americans who are willing to learn. Among the most difficult challenges that we must overcome are finding ways to pay for the education that will transform our lives and those of our children. I serve on the Board of Regents of Morgan State University, where we are doing all that we can to make a Morgan State education affordable to everyone. Along with Maryland’s other Historically Black Colleges and Universities, ours is among the most affordable paths to higher education and a transformed life. Yet, tragically — and despite our best efforts — some students must leave school before obtaining their degrees because they no longer can afford the cost. Few of us have the financial resources to pay, out-ofpocket, for the costs of a college education. As a result, students and their families must rely upon a combination of grants and student loans to balance the books. Fortunately, federal assistance, approved by the Congress

under the Higher Education Act, is available to help college students pay their bills. Here in Maryland, for example, more than 120,000 college students are receiving federal Pell Grants, many at the maximum award of $5,775. Nearly 100,000 students are benefitting from federally subsidized Stafford Loans. Nationally, the U.S. Department of Education provides approximately $150 billion dollars in annual grants and loans to more than 14 million college students — and I am determined to make these benefits more readily available. For example, in February, I once again sponsored H.R. 860, the FAFSA Fairness Act of 2015, which would simplify and reform the complicated process for students to apply for federal student financial aid when they are no longer depending upon their parents. Equally important, I have long understood that there are many other obstacles to prospective college students receiving the financial aid that they need and deserve. For too many, especially for those who are the first in their families to attend college, a prominent barrier is often lack of information. They do not realize all of the assistance that is available to help pay for their tuition, fees and other college costs — and many do not know how to go about applying and qualifying for this aid. This is the critically important information many students and parents have received in the free seminars that our congressional office has organized each year since I first entered the Congress. Once again, our 19th Annual “How to Pay for College” Seminar will take place on Monday, November 9th from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m.at the Coppin State University Physical Education Complex, 2523 Gwynns Falls Parkway, in Baltimore. Our free event will include one-stop shopping as representatives from more than 20 different institutions of higher learning and scholarship organizations join me in better

Combating Food Deserts with Free Food The beginnings of Tessemae’s All Natural are rooted in one simple reality. Mothers will forever be looking for ways to get their kids to eat healthier. As the mother of three wild boys my mother was in constant pantry protection mode trying to manage the soda, candy, and potato chip in take. And she’ll tell you that she won some and she lost some. But it was the day she brought home her homemade Lemon Garlic salad dressing recipe that the odds swung drastically in her favor. No longer was it a challenge to get us to eat the occasional greens, it was part of the regular routine. Because of this upbringing we’ve always had aspirations of improving local food options, specifically as it applies to children. For the longest time we struggled with where to focus our energy. There were school lunches, childhood obesity and diabetes to name a few. Each are noble causes deserving support, however as we began to dig deeper we found that each maintained a consistent theme. They all were most pronounced in underserved neighborhoods, more specifically, food deserts. These are areas where it’s not necessarily a matter of individuals making bad food choices, it’s areas where there

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the choice is quite literally never there to begin with. Fresh produce doesn’t exist. Grocery stores are boarded up and fast food options exist at every corner. We were fortunate to grow up in an area where we never had to face this daily reality. We want more people to enjoy the same. And so Crop Circles was born. When most people hear the term, there are visions of aliens knocking down cornfields late at night, leaving mysterious shapes and symbols. Well, ours is just the opposite, we come in the middle of night and raise crops up leaving a clear message. We travel to food deserts across the country and create pop-up farmer’s markets where we give away 30K pounds of fresh produce to neighborhood residents for free. There are no strings attached, simply show up. We give you a bag and fill it with enough fruits and vegetables to feed a family of four for roughly one week. The goals are two-fold. First, and most importantly, that local residents enjoy an afternoon learning a bit more about the importance of eating fresh food, getting tips on how to prepare it, and even how to grow it, all the while being surrounded by live music, local celebrities, community leaders, and local vendors. The second, longer term objective, is to bring more attention to the issue of food deserts overall and to showcase

informing students and their parents about higher education and financial aid programs. Then, during the one-hour program portion of our event, noted experts will share their knowledge about federal and state financial aid benefits, private scholarships, SAT preparation, the college admissions process and the value of our community colleges. Participants will hear from experts provided by the U.S. Department of Education, the Maryland Higher Education Commission, the Central Scholarship Bureau, the College Board, College Goal Maryland, Morgan State University and Howard Community College. As taxpayers, we are helping to fund the $150 billion in aid that our federal government provides to college students each year. We each must assure that every Maryland student who needs this help takes the steps necessary to apply, qualify and receive that financial help. We are spreading the word about how to pay for college to everyone who might benefit. Higher education offers the doors to opportunity — and, working together, we can help each other open those doors. Congressman Elijah Cummings represents Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.

some of the community organizations and individuals focused on eliminating them everyday. The unfortunate truth is that the majority of these nonprofits and community leaders simply do not have the funds to raise enough awareness or buzz without outside help. Tessemae’s wants to create that platform allowing for more attention and support. To date we have executed two successful events in Compton, California and Englewood, Chicago. Both were great successes drawing anywhere from two-thousand to threethousand people. And we hope to re-create that with our final stop in Baltimore, Maryland. Our goal is to make this the largest one yet and with the support of the Mayor’s office, we are confident we will get there. We recognize that this event alone is not going to solve the issue but hopefully it serves as a sustainable means to heighten awareness of the problem. Greg Vetter is the CEO of the Baltimore-based craft condiment company Tessemae’s All Natural. The next free food event will take place on Nov. 21 at the New Hope Academy, 900 Druid Hill Ave, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 from 10 a.m.4 p.m.

UB-Coppin: More than Ebonics Will there be a new university at the intersection of North and Warwick Avenues called “UB-Coppin?” The University of Maryland System (USM) is working on it. Here’s the down and dirty. Federal Judge Catherine Blake’s ruling October 7, 2013 found that the state of Maryland’s higher education system poorly addressed ending the segregationist programs. These actions predated the ending of Jim Crow (1938). Blake’s 60-page ruling said that Maryland “offered no evidence that it has made a serious effort to address continuing historic duplicating academic programs by traditionally white institutions (TWIs) of historically black institutions (HBIs or HBCUs). Chancellor Bob Caret is now overseer of the 11 higher education institutions. While president of Towson University, he helped to preside over Towson’s duplicating HBCU academic programs. Seven of the eleven Maryland universities are TWIs. Blake concluded the system’s failure to address adequately this issue continues to cause a deep drop in HBCU

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enrollments. This problem fails to attract white and other students, who choose to attend TWIs. State revenues are tied to first time full time student enrollment. Other factors worsen this problem. Coppin continues to be a commuter, mostly working class, university. Students often have to work full-time and attend school. For too many students this mountain is too much to climb in four to six years. Add to this issue, a healthy portion of students without the best preparation to succeed right away. Coppin’s primary TWI competitors are the University of Baltimore (UB), Towson University (TU), and University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Despite these things, the USM claims that Coppin’s ongoing financial issues are Coppin’s fault because of its low retention rate and because it does not attract enough students. Drastic cuts in school operations have resulted. Dr. Maria Thompson, Coppin’s titular head, similar to other presidents before her, stays silent on the matter. Her rebranding of Coppin with fancy slogans such as “High Tech, High Touch, High Impact” mean little without Blake’s tentative remedies that include the transfer of programs from TWIs to HBCUs. Other remedies include HBCUs developing unique

high demand programs attached with a revenue flow (author’s conclusion). The USM is running Coppin some have concluded. The USM’s team includes Julie Phelps, the CSU interim v.p. for administration and finance on loan from USM and her boss at USM Joseph Vivona, vice chancellor for administration and finance. Judge Blake suggested HBCU-TWI collaborations as a complimentary way to bolster HBCU competitiveness, but not at the expense of the HBCUs. Enter the term “u b coppin.” The USM has organized a multitude of collaborations between CSU and UB that smells like a merger. Remember that UB was a failing private institution that the Maryland state of higher education bailed out many years after Coppin and Morgan became part of the public higher education system. Figure that one out. UB-Coppin resembles street Ebonics talk that means “u b coppin”. Coppin does not mean illegal drug purchasing, but it is close enough to say USM UB-Coppin. Dr. Ken Morgan is Coordinator, Asst. Professor of Urban Studies, and Faculty Senator at Coppin State University.

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Challenging the Racist Legacy of Confederate Monuments I spent part of Monday afternoon (Nov. 2) in Druid Hill Park helping load a 500 Sean Yoes pound, 12 foot tall Senior AFRO Contributor statue of a pregnant, bare breasted woman of color into the back of a city-owned pick-up truck. It was no easy task. But, despite her size, the statue was on route this week to its third destination in just a few days and her future still seems dubious. However, what is clear is how she arrived at an out of the way storage facility in Druid Hill Park, less than 24 hours after being erected on Oct. 29, in the Wyman Park Dell in front of the statue of Confederate icons Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. “It will be destroyed and you will be arrested for

Baltimore Hawks Take Flight

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Gregroy Brown is the owner and coach of the Baltimore Hawks. Community College before turning pro. His exit from college was hastened by fatherhood. While playing in Argentina another of life’s crossovers derailed him when a broken wrist Gregory Brown always had plans for his future that centered wouldn’t heal properly and ended his career. on professional basketball. He became a Verizon FiOS technician but never lost his Like most teenagers with above average skills Brown passion for basketball. Brown focused his return to the game’s dreamed of playing major college business side. Initially the prospect of basketball and hoped to play in the pro sports ownership was daunting. NBA and provide for his family. However, the confidence of his late However, fate intervened and shook grandmother, Velma Price, was the the plan like an Iverson crossover. driving force behind his buying an At 27 Brown resurrected his dream ABA franchise as a posthumous of pro basketball by bringing a second investor. generation American Basketball Brown took his grandmother’s Association franchise to Baltimore. inheritance and began raising capital – Gregory Brown The Baltimore Hawks begin their to fund the team. It took almost second season in the remix version of $26,000 of personal finances before the ABA in East Baltimore. A league the team could tip off. He paid a that produced some of basketball’s all$15,000 market reservation fee to time great players, including: Julius Erving and Moses Malone, operate the franchise and spent around $9,000 to set up his gives Charm City’s undiscovered stars a chance to shine. corporate infrastructure. “We have a lot of great talent in this area that’s going to “When I first started thinking about buying a team I had a waste so I figured why not put a platform here to help the guys long conversation with my grandmother,” said Brown. She get better contracts so they can provide for their families,” said gave me the encouragement I needed and helped me get Brown, who is also the team’s coach. started”. Brown played high school basketball at Lake Clifton However, the corporate support from the community has Eastern High and spent one season at Anne Arundel been sparse. The Hawks major sponsor is Downtown Locker

disorderly conduct,” was the unequivocal declaration of a Baltimore City police officer around 4 p.m. on Oct. 30, according to community organizer and activist Owen Silverman Andrews. “He said, `Get away from the statue,’ and he grabbed me by the arm and kind of dragged me off to the side and said, `if you step towards it again I’ll arrest you,’” Andrews told the AFRO. The statue was confiscated by Baltimore police and Baltimore City park rangers and transported to Druid Hill Park. Andrews was subsequently given a citation and the statue is currently at the Copycat building, an artist enclave on Guilford Avenue. Andrews is part of a group that placed the statue crafted by artist Pablo Machioli in front of Continued on B2

Baltimore police are searching for a man wanted after a crash during a police pursuit killed a 1-year-old boy. Police announced on Nov. 4 that 38-year-old Wayne Anthony Green is wanted for negligent manslaughter, attempting to evade a police officer, and driving with a revoked license.

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“We have a lot of great talent in this area that’s going to waste…”

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Pablo Machioli’s statue is a protest of Confederate monuments and what they represent. It was confiscated by Baltimore police and Baltimore park rangers.

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Gov. Hogan Names Five New Members to Morgan Board

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Five new members were appointed to Morgan State University’s Board of Regents and two were reappointed recently. The Board, which sets admission standards, reviews and approves university policies and budgets is made up of 15 people who are appointed to five-year terms by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan. The appointments must be approved by the legislature when it goes back into session in January. The board members who were replaced were Franklin Edmonds, retired senior vice president, Xerox Supplies Business Group; former Maryland State Senator Laurence Levitan, partner, Rifkin, Weiner, Livingston, Levitan & Silver; Dallas Evans, managing director, Landmark Atlantic; Eleanor M. Carey, partner, Synergies Consulting Group. All except for Carey were long-standing members. The student representative, who serves for one year and is known as the student regent, was also replaced. Sarai Nwagbaraocho takes the place of Latichia Perine The new board members are Tracey L. Parker-Warren, administrative law judge, Office of Administrative Hearings; Marquis T. Walker, post-doctoral fellow, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Shelonda Stokes, president and CEO, greiBO media; Winston A. Wilkinson, chief of staff, Maryland Governor’s Office of Community Initiatives. Parker-Warren and Wilkinson were named on Oct. 23 while Walker and Stokes were named on Nov. 3. The appointments are retroactive to July 1. All of the new board members are Morgan grads. Dr. Shirley Malcom, head of The Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Dr. Linda Gilliam, chairperson of the board of directors, Gilliam Foundation were both reappointed. Other notable board members include: Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD); Rev. Frances “Toni” Draper, pastor of Freedom Temple AME Zion Church, vice chair of the Morgan board; Tyrone Taborn, publisher, chairman and CEO of Career Communications Group; Larry Ellis, four star general, U.S. Army (ret.). Former Congressman and President and CEO of the NAACP Kweisi Mfume is the chairman of the board. In a statement to the AFRO, Mfume said, “I am pleased to welcome the new board appointees and very much look forward to working with them.”

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Bishops of the Multicultural & Multi-Ethnic Prayer Movement’s Mid-Atlantic and Southern divisions held a “A Call to Prayer… For Our City, Our Region, Our Nation!”

Baltimore Bishops Hold “A Call to Prayer for Our City” By James Bentley Associate Editor jbentley@afro.com The bishops of the Multicultural & MultiEthnic Prayer Movement’s Mid-Atlantic and Southern divisions held “A Call to Prayer… For Our City, Our Region, Our Nation!” on the evening of Oct. 30 and the morning of Oct. 31 at the Created For So Much More Worship Center in Baltimore’s Cherry Hill neighborhood. The organization’s MidAtlantic division has more than 400 member churches. They were joined by Florida Pastor Jonathan L. McKnight from the group’s Southern division. Among the approximately 100 attendees were Md. Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn

J. Mosby, Baltimore City Councilman and mayoral candidate Nicholas J. Mosby, Wanda Watts on behalf of candidate and former Mayor of Baltimore Sheila Dixon and Lieutenant Colonel Melvin Russell on behalf of Baltimore City Police Commissioner Kevin Davis. The event was held to pray for Baltimore as the city rebuilds from riots earlier Continued on B2

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1 year old Jeremiah Perry, killed in crash on Nov. 1.

Baltimore County police say they pursued a car that hit a cruiser at a crash scene into the city Nov. 1. City police said the fleeing MercedesBenz plowed into a Volvo, sending it into a bus stop where 1-year-old Jeremiah Perry’s mother was waiting with the boy in a stroller. The car struck the child, who died of his injuries. Police say Green was taken to a hospital and released. Police say they have not been able to find Green since prosecutors brought charges on Nov. 2. Baltimore County police said the tragic sequence began when a man was fatally struck by a vehicle while trying to cross Pulaski Highway before 7 p.m. Police closed the road for an investigation and about two hours later, police said a Mercedes-Benz hit a police cruiser helping with the road closure, then fled. Another officer pursued the Mercedes into Baltimore city, where police say it rearended a Volvo on Moravia Road, then hit a pole. The impact pushed the Volvo up onto the sidewalk, where a woman was waiting at a bus stop with Jeremiah Perry in a stroller. The boy was hit and was critically injured. He later died at a hospital, police said. The officer whose cruiser was hit, the driver of the Volvo and the boy’s mother were not injured, police said.

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the Lee-Jackson monument, in protest of what it stands for in the minds of many; oppression, racism and White supremacy. “In this case this woman is protesting with the fist up and walking away, giving the back to them (Lee and Jackson),” said Machioli a native of Uruguay. We are being suppressed by violence. So, the best way for me is to show disobedience, but at the same time doing something peaceful and positive and include the community,” he added. After the massacre of the Charleston Nine during a church bible study last summer by a Confederate flag embracing, White supremacist there has been new scrutiny of Civil War symbols across the country including Baltimore. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake tasked a seven-member commission to analyze four monuments on city property and hold a series of public hearings. In addition to the immediate removal of all Confederate monuments, the group has added new demands this week. They want the commission to widen the scope of the hearings to include the statue of Christopher Columbus in Druid Hill Park. They also want the city to allow artistic responses to these monuments without fear of being fined or otherwise intimidated by Baltimore police or Baltimore City park rangers. The group also demands more funding for artists, particularly artists of

color and women artists. The Lee-Jackson monument in particular has sparked the ire of many because it was erected in 1948, almost 100 years after the civil war was fought, more an affirmation of

“The monuments are a creation of a period of American history... that’s the nadir of race relations, the sad period from 1890 to 1940.” – James Loewen segregation and institutional racism in Baltimore, as opposed to a commemoration of the Civil War. “The monuments are a creation of a period of American history...that’s the nadir of race relations, the sad period from

1890 to 1940,” said James Loewen a sociologist, who recently testified before the city’s Confederate commission. “That’s when the United States, White folks anyway, were most racist in their thinking more than any other time. That’s when they (the statues) are from. We need to understand that about them and they then also tell us complete lies about the Civil War,” Loewen added. What he alludes to is an inscription on the Lee-Jackson statue that says they fought the war in a “gentlemanly” way. But, according to Loewen, when Lee went through Maryland, his army enslaved every Black person they saw, whether they had been legally emancipated or not. “For a long time the slaves back then, and now...our hands are made of gold,” explained Machioli, in reference to the hands of the statue being painted gold. “It (symbolizes) our hands, workers hands suppressed hands,” he added. “They can take it away, but they can’t destroy it,” Andrews said. “Even if they destroy it physically they can’t destroy what happened….they’re only making it stronger.” Sean Yoes is a senior contributor of the AFRO and executive producer and host of First Edition, which airs Monday through Friday, 5-7 pm on WEAA, 88.9.

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Room but that one deal will not guarantee a profit. Brown relies heavily on barter deals to help offset the cost of meals and lodging. He looks for companies that will buy into athletic success and community outreach. Brown’s vision for the Hawks paid immediate dividends during their

inaugural season. They sold out 92 percent of their capacity and made the ABA playoffs. Playing at the 1,500 seat St. Francis Academy arena Baltimore averaged 900-1,000 fans per game. For 10 years (1967-1977) the ABA revolutionized pro basketball with its iconic red, white, and blue basketball and

innovations such as the dunk contest and three point shot. It merged with the NBA in 1977 which brought the Spurs, Pacers, Nuggets and Nets to the league. Baltimore’s first ABA team -The Claws - were scheduled to play in 1975 although financial issues led to its demise before playing the regular season.

This new ABA launched in 1999. The Hawks started the 2014-2015 season ranked 77th of 79 teams but finished within three games of playing for the championship. They open ranked 6th of 100 following the league’s expansion and expect to be a national championship contender

this year. After winning an ABA championship Brown hopes the Hawks can become a franchise in the National Basketball Association Developmental League. However, the greater mission is to impact the community. Brown hopes they will play a role in healing civic wounds

and reducing crime rates. Through relationships with Reach Partnership High along with Vanguard and Booker T. Washington Middle School, Brown wants the organization to be an example of hope for youth in the city when they see players who face similar challenges but still work to reach their goals.

Life Church in White Marsh, Md., as well as Nunez of Bilingual Christian Church, Bishop Marcus Johnson of New Harvest Ministries, Pastor Frances “Toni” Draper

of Freedom Temple AME Zion Church, Bishop Willard Saunders of Created for So Much More Worship Center and Bishop Harry Jackson of Hope Christian Church in

Washington, D.C. along with McKnight. The program’s eight “generals” led the audience in a prayer for the police of the city, tasked with the

tremendous duty of keeping Baltimore’s citizens safe. The officers in attendance came to the altar where they were encircled by the bishops and prayed over. The ritual was repeated for each of the elected officials on hand that evening, as attendees prayed for guidance, virtue, discipline, clarity and righteousness. After that, McKnight spoke momentarily on the power of prayer. A joyous atmosphere permeated the room, as many people were seen crying and applauding throughout the program.

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Angel Nunez, who along with other spiritual leaders led the audience gathered in corporate prayer. The prayers were lead by Pastor Benjun of River of

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Exhibit Showcases The AFRO American Newspaper Archives

The Maryland Department of Transportation’s Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) will host a series of public workshops in November and December on Governor Larry Hogan’s plan to transform and improve transit throughout the Baltimore metropolitan area. The workshops will provide details on MTA’s recently announced $135 million multi-phase plan to create an interconnected transit system known as BaltimoreLink. Complete details on the BaltimoreLink system and upcoming workshops can be found at mta.maryland.gov/baltimorelink. The next workshop will be on Nov. 9 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Owings Mills Library, Meeting Room A, 10302 Grand Central Avenue Owings Mills, Maryland 21117.

Everyman Theatre will host a special exhibition that will take place at the theatre in Photo credit: Afro Archives conjunction Billie Holiday- famous jazz singer from Baltimore, began singing with the in the 1930s, her signature song “Strange Fruit” was about current lynching. She sang from the 1930s until her death in 1959. production of August Wilson’s “Fences.” “Within Our Gates” will examine the lives of Blacks in Baltimore from 1950 to 1965 (the time period of “Fences”) by using pictures and reprints from The Afro American Newspaper Archives. The exhibition will debut on Nov. 7 prior to World of the Play, a panel discussion series that discusses the topics and themes of the play. The pictures and prints on display in the exhibit will include images of community and musical leaders along with everyday people from Baltimore from the 1950s and early 1960s. It will also look at the protest against the segregation of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park. The exhibition will take Photo credit: Afro Archives place in the second floor lobby Clarence Muse- Baltimore space of the theatre and will native who was an actor in over 200 movies from the 1920s to open before and after each the 1970s. His last movie was performance of “Fences” from “Car Wash” with Richard Pryor Nov. 7 – 22. in the 1970s.

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Howard County Arts Council General Exhibit Applications Due Jan. 1 Artists wishing to be considered for an exhibit in the Howard County Arts Council (HCAC) galleries are invited to submit a general exhibit application. The HCAC Exhibits Committee meets quarterly to review applications and select artists for the exhibit space. Artists, ages 18 and older, working in all media and $3,000.00 styles including timeThe Morris A. and Clarisse Mechanic Foundation based and installation $500.00 artists, are encouraged to Susan Gould apply either individually $200.00 or as a group. The United Ushers of Baltimore Inc. Details can be found $150.00 on hocoarts.org or by James Wyche Jr. calling (410) 313-2787 $50.00 or emailing info@ Ellen Tavares Dutton Elizabeth J. Koopman hocoarts.org. Charles E. Donegan

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Photos and story by Anderson Ward The Thriller Halloween Night was given by DJ Mike Crosby, DJ Tanz, DJ Kenny K and DJ Tony T. at the Forum Caterers in Baltimore on Oct. 31. Hundreds of people showed up for the Halloween Costume

Dance and there was a $500.00 prize for the best costume. Five of Baltimore’s top DJs DJ Tanz, DJ Tony T, DJ Biskit, DJ Mike Crosby and DJ Kenny K provided the music. There were a wide range of funny, sexy and scary costumes. Mike Pitts (“Mr.

Otis” from the Martin Show) was the $500.00 costume contest winner.

Reggie Reg presents the $500.00 best costume prize to “Mr. Otis” Mike Pitts

Tarsha Fitzgerald is frightened! Dollar Bill and friends

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DJ Kenny K, DJ Tanz, Tarsha Fitzgerald and DJ Tony T

Annette Joyner, Demi Brown and Quana Truitt

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Women of Courage are Teresa Elaine Mack, diagnosed in 1982 and Gloria Harrison, diagnosed in 2014

Women of Courage Sarah Brown, diagnosed in 2010 with stage 4 breast cancer and Cecila Carr, a breast cancer survivor

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The TWINKS Social and Civic Club, a non-profit organization which has been in existence since Sarah Mackey, Women of Courage are Baltimore Chapter Denise Parker diagnosed in 1956, is devoted to service and President 2014 with Triple Negative giving back to the community. breast cancer and Elaine The TWINKS, short for Today’s Raines diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer and Breast Women Initiating Nobility, Antoinette (Andie) Cancer Knowledge and Sisterhood, give Roberson was diagnosed with ESS a fundraisers to support their rare form of uterine service projects. In recognition of National Breast Cancer cancer in2009; she was also diagnosed with Awareness Month the group held its first Pink Pancakes and LUPUS in 2002 Pearls Prayer Breakfast to honor “Women of Courage” who are valiantly battling breast cancer. The Prayer Breakfast was a celebration Carla Corbettthat Fisher,TWINKS chronicled Baltimore Chapter 20 women’s Breast Cancer survivors are Sarah Brown, Denise plights, their Parker, Gloria Harrison, Alberta Cook, Linda Davis, Frances Webb, Faye Fulcher, Linda Bryant, fights, and Cheryl Torain, Elaine Raines and Annie Bacote Inspirational their stories. Speaker and Singer

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New Baltimore Mural Seeks to Change Perception of City

By Erin-Melissa Jackson Special to the AFRO Since April’s uprising, Baltimore has not only been ground zero for social justice reform, but also has been a groundswell of artistic response. Lately, there has been a growing amount of murals and artistic shows seeking to change the perception of the city. Ernest Shaw Jr. is just one of the many artists have contributed to the response spreading throughout Station North and Sandtown over the past couple of months. This is not the first time his artwork is being shown around the city, but his latest mural, which will be unveiled on the side of The Arch Social Club on Nov. 8, is a direct to response to the events of April. In an interview with The AFRO, Shaw described his creative process and ideas behind the mural. “What I noticed is that the older people wanted some representation. The younger folks wanted something in some shape or form to express the temperament of the children of today,” he said “Then I wanted to put something in there to represent the future and what we should be

moving towards.” The huge mural depicts greats like Billie Holiday, The Met Theatre, an iconic Baltimore gathering place, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author, with his son, alongside representations of Africa. The idea behind all of these idols together was simple; Shaw wanted to show greatness before, then and now. From left to right on the mural, Shaw described the reasons behind the imagery. “[At] The very beginning of it is a yellow silhouette of an African Mask, it is a profile of an African headdress. It’s Nemba, there are several different ways to spell it, it is a mask of the Baga people from coastal Guinea,” he said “It represents the essence of feminine energy and that is a very healing energy. People in [Penn North] and really throughout Baltimore need healing energy at this time.” “I wanted a silhouette because not all African American people identify with Africa in that way. If it’s not something you are familiar with, you don’t see it. If it something that you are familiar with, you will know it immediately.” The mural’s themes of the past, present and future are universal. Shaw put an image of his daughter, Asya when she was 12 years old, in the mural. “Women have always been a part of the movement and at the head of them,” he said. “In the background is the MET Theatre, which existed right there almost exactly on Penn North. That and Billie Holiday are a representation of the past.” The last section of the mural features a young Ta-Nehisi Coates holding his son, which to Ernest represents the future of Black consciousness. “I think Ta-Nehisi is a wonderful amalgamation of intelligence and consciousness.” While the majority of the planning and execution of the mural is credited to Shaw, the street artist Nether and Shaw’s apprentice Erick Hendricks Jr also lent a hand. Nether is known throughout Baltimore for his large murals depicting people of color and their plight in today’s world. Both Nether and Shaw have worked together in the past on art projects around the city. “Nether was a very instrumental assistant, [he] and I are co-curating a mural project in Sandtown-Winchester and we’ve been putting that together since the summer,” he said “The mural I painted for Penn and North is actually a part of Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts’ Art@Work that they started in the summer.” Art@Work is a part of Baltimore Office for Promotion and The Arts and Jubilee Arts joint effort to employ 80 young people through Youthworks as apprentices under working artists to create murals in neighborhoods such as Sandtown-Winchester. By day Shaw is a teacher at Coppin State University. Though he has not taught this semester, he usually teaches a “combined theatre and visual arts class.” “Being a school teacher and an adjunct has allowed me to keep my nose to the ground,” he said “[I get to] stay in touch with what’s going on and not get lost in my own studio or my own work.”

A Conversation with Alice Walker By Kam Williams Special to the AFRO

Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her third novel, “The Color Purple,” which was made into an internationally popular film by Steven Spielberg. Her other best-selling novels, which have been translated into more than two dozen (Screenshot via YouTube) languages, include “By the Light of My Father’s Smile,” Alice Walker reads one of her many poems in 2014. “Possessing the Secret of Joy” and “The Temple of My Familiar.” Her most recent novel, “Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart,” was published in 2004. Walker is also the author of several collections of short stories, essays and poems as well as children’s books. Her work has appeared in numerous national and international journals and magazines. An activist and social visionary, Ms. Walker has been a participant in most of the major movements of planetary change, among them the Human and Civil Rights Movement in the South, the Hands Off Cuba Movement, the Women’s Movement, the Native American and Indigenous Rights Movement, the Free South Africa Movement, the Environmental and Animal Rights Movement and the Peace Movement. Her advocacy on behalf of the dispossessed has, in the words of her biographer, Evelyn C. White, “spanned the globe.” Here, Alice talks about “The Color Purple,” the book, the movie and the play which is back on Broadway in New York, beginning with preview performances on Nov. 10 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45th Street). The show will officially open on December 10. Kam Williams: I told my readers I’d be interviewing you, so I’ll be mixing their questions in with mine. Larry Greenberg asks: How did you originally feel about “The Color Purple” being adapted to film? Are there other works of yours that you would like to see on the silver screen? Alice Walker: I was skeptical. I’d never seen a film out of Hollywood, especially that had people of color in it,that I respected absolutely. Yes, but I’d want the screen to think of itself in another color than that of money. Couldn’t resist that one! “Possessing the Secret of Joy” would make an amazing film and help the healing of the peoples of the world, many who suffer because of female genital mutilation without knowing they’re affected, since they themselves might not have been cut. And it would make an absorbing story of how human beings can search out the origins of their misfortunes and sufferings and begin healing themselves, whether movies are made about them or not. KW: Robin Beckham would like to know whether you have plans to continue the story of Celie in a “Color Purple 2”? AW: I prefer to write a family of novels, rather than “sequels”: In this case, “The Color Purple,” “The Temple of My Familiar,” “and “Possessing the Secret of Joy” comprise that “family.” Celie and Shug, now happily married, before it was “legal” of course, appear in “The Temple of My Familiar.” KW: Reverend Florine Thompson says: What was the key motivation for “The Color Purple”? AW: Love of my grandparents whose lives are honored in the novel. I lived with them when I was an 8 year-old. It also intrigued me that my grandfather was married to my step-grandmother but loved someone else. I was struck writing the novel to realize that many things change, but rarely the heart. KW: How do we truly change the heart of our society? AW: American society is incredibly twisted and unwell. At this point I would suggest withdrawing from it as much as possible. This will take many meetings of like-minded folks to figure out how this is done. I’m not suggesting seceding from the union physically, as was attempted in the sixties when the Republic of New Africa tried to take over five southern states, but psychically; we must find a way to raise our children in a better environment than American mainstream culture offers. It’s possible America has no heart to change. You might read the inexpressibly important book by Eward E. Baptist “The Half Has Never Been Told,” about slavery as the foundation of modern capitalism, to understand the evil upon which our so-called “civilization” rests, and how little this has changed. It seems likely that a diet of greed over countless generations has made many Americans heavy with soullessness. And they’re happy to be that way. Take a look at certain presidential hopefuls. The re-issue edition of “The Color Purple” is available on Amazon.com.

Let life be an adventure. Live your life to the fullest, unfettered by fear of the ghosts and goblins of what might occur. Calamity and death happen as well to those who hide from life as to those who squeeze every drop of zest from it.” -Jonathan Lockwood Huie What a great opportunity to meet and have a selfie taken with Senator Cory Booker at the Democratic party’s salute to Senator Barbara Mikulski at the American Visionary Museum. His captivating manner kept more than 600 people quiet as he shared stories about the Senator, which had us laughing out loud (LOL). Guests enjoying the delightful evening were Delegate Cheryl Glen, Joyce Smith, Karenthia Barber, Michele Brown, Anthony Jones, Sheila Dixon, Mildred Harper, Betty Clark, Yvonne Frye, Delegate Adrienne Jones, Salima Marriott, Crystal Bell, Councilman Nick Mosby, Congresswoman Donna Edwards, County Executive Kevin Kamenetz and Vernon Simms. “Playing bridge reflects intelligence. It’s one of the really great pleasures of life. I think anybody who’s missing bridge is missing so much in life. Don’t make the mistake of missing out on the fun of bridge.” -Malcolm Forbes Bernice McDaniel, a resident of Roland Park’s Keswick Multi-Care Center had the staff and residents excited as she prepared to host a festive Halloween Day bridge luncheon in Keswick’s beautiful, autumnal themed library. Bridge players Carolyn Chissell, Anne Davis, Edi Green, Christine Moore, Juanita Morton, Barbara Owings, Joan Phillips, Dorothy Roche, Minnie Smoot, Shirley Stewart, Rita Turner, Marguerite Walker, Frankie Wilson and Goldie Wood wined and dined on a catered luncheon of sandwiches, salads and desserts provided by the host. Bernice who will celebrate her 95th birthday Nov. 18, showed her bridge skills by ending the afternoon with one of the highest recorded scores. The event, coordinated by Mildred Harris, Blanche Beckham and Mildred Taylor was a huge success. The wedding of nationally renowned comedian Pamela “Ms. Maybelle” Leak and Lamont Hill was a joyous occasion uniting family and friends. Give that lady a standing ovation. During the wedding processional her 92 year old aunt took advantage of the young man escorting her “down the aisle” twirling and twisting on his arm with the quickness and grace of a teenager to the delight of the guests. All eyes were on the beautiful bride as she made her entrance like a scene “straight outta Hollywood” gliding gracefully toward the altar to greet her groom. Griot Kay Merrill gave the history of “jumping the broom.” Guests in attendance were longtime friend Senator Larry Young, Chyna Allen, Carlton and Darlene Douglass, Rosa and William Trusty, Dr. Elaine Simon, Travis Winkey, Pamela Mintz, Jean Alston, Denise Simon-Matter and Doresa Harvey the evening’s emcee. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”-C. S. Lewis Five generations of Mary McClennon’s family celebrated her 100th birthday with her friends and church family at the Gala Center. A member of Mt. Hebron Baptist Church for 75 years she has served as president of the usher board for over 40 years. Happy birthday to Delegate Nathaniel Oaks, Christy Sykes, Beryl Johnson, Myra Owens Queen, Albert Queen, Randy Abrams, Mike Rodo, Napoleon Sykes Jr.,Sandy Matthews, Phil Bass, Aileen Taylor, Tahlea McNeil, Michele Noel, Denise London, Sheila Ford, Yvonne Coates, Nick Abrams, Carolyn Jones, Russell Jolivet, Dr. David Wilson and to the greatest son a mother could hope for Keith Anthony Lee on his 50th birthday. What a pleasure to see so many musicians supporting Rosa Pryor at her 24th musical scholarship gala. A special hello to honoree Brenda Alford and her husband Jomills Braddock and to Justin Thomas, a former scholarship winner living in California performed for the gala with his band. It’s your anniversary. Happy anniversary to these loving couples: Tony and Gloria Pack, Terry and Deborah Owens and Tony and Rosalind Jones. “Sweet Holy spirit, sweet heavenly Dove, stay right here with us, filling us with your love.” Condolences to Carolyn Allen and family on the death of Aunt Rosa Thompson at the age of 103. Aunt Rosa lived through Jim Crow, the Women’s Rights Movement and the election of our first Black President. She enjoyed sharing the oral history of her life and was excited when on her 100th birthday she received a citation from President Barack Obama. I met Aunt Rosa at her 100th birthday party hosted by her nieces Carolyn and Melvina Turlington. Aunt Rosa looked at me and said, “Call me Aunt Rosa.” Immediately I was captivated by the well-dressed gracious woman whose spirit was graced with the wisdom of age without any afflictions. “I flew 169 combat missions when most pilots were flying 50, when I came back to the U.S. and down that gangplank, there was a sign at the bottom: “Colored Troops to the right, White Troops to the left.” - Lee Archer, Tuskegee Airman The first administrator I met at Coppin State College in 1970 was Dean Cyril Byron who introduced me to Dean Roundtree and Carl Adair. They became my mentors and friends introducing me to a world of politics and education. The knowledge they shared with the students prepared us for life after Coppin. In the winter of his years, Dean Byron delighted in being recognized for his service as a Tuskegee Airman; receiving well-deserved honor praise and distinction. 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TYPESET: Tue Oct 27 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM000559 Marian Cooper Carrick Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Andrew T. Richardson III Esq, whose address is 1629 K Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Marian Cooper Carrick, who died on March 25, 2011 without a will, and will serve withCourt supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 30, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 30, 2016, 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: October 30, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Andrew T RichardsonIII Esq Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 10/30, 11/6, 11/13/15

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM532 Edith E.S. Peterson AKA Edith Estelle Stevens Peterson AKA Edith Estelle Stevens AKA Edith Diggs Decedent Jonathan Howard Esq 401 North Washington St. Suite 110 Rockville, MD 20850 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Melvin Diggs, whose address is 3817 New Hampshire Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20011 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Edith E.S. Peterson, AKA Edith Estelle Stevens Peterson, AKA Edith Estelle Stevens AKA Edith Diggs who died on December 23, 2014 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 23, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 23, 2016 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: October 23, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Melvin 13:33:21 EDT 2015Diggs Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

TYPESET: Oct 20 10/23, 10/30,Tue 11/6/15 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM732 Erma J Sumler Decedent Paul J Riley 1629 K Streer, NW #300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Paul J Riley, whose address is 1629 K- Street, NW, #300 Washington, DC 20006 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Erma J Sumler, who died on July 25, 2010 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 23, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 23, 2016, 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: October 23, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Paul J. Riley Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 10/23, 10/30, 11/6/15

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1084 George M Turner Decedent Brenda K Pennington, Esq The Pennington Firm 6525 Belcrest Road. Ste 518 Hyattsville, MD 20782 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Lewis M Edmunds and Dorothy L Edmunds, whose address are 1614 Va r n u m S t . N W, Washington, DC 20011 were appointed personal representative(s) of the estate of George M Turner, who died on July 3, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 23, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 23, 2016, 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: October 23, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Lewis M Edmunds Dorothy L Edmunds Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 15:54:24 EDT 2015 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1213 Donald M Bowser Decedent Patrick J Christmas , Esq 8403 Colesville Road, Ste 640 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Sarlita Pardlow Bowser , whose address is 3235 23rd Street, SE, #12, Washington, DC 20020 wasappointed personal representative of the estate of Donald M Bowser, who died on November 26, 2013 withouta will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 23, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 23, 2016 , 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: October 23, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Sarlita Pardlow Boswer Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 10/23, 10/30, 11/6/15

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C . 0 Date of Publication: Admit to probate the will 20001, on or before May copy dated May 8, 2003 October 30, 2015 TYPESET: Wed Oct 28 11:16:30 EDT 2015 6, 2016. Claims against exhibited with the petition Name of newspaper: LEGAL NOTICES the decedent shall be Afro-American upon proof satisfactory to presented to the under- the Court of due execuWashington Superior Court of signed with a copy to the tion by affidavit of witLaw Reporter the District of Marilyn Cain Gordon Register of Wills or filed nesses or otherwise District of Columbia Personal with the Register of Wills Register of Wills PROBATE DIVISION Representative with a copy to the underClerk of Washington, D.C. signed, on or before May the Probate Division TRUE TEST COPY 20001-2131 6, 2016, or be forever Date of First Publication REGISTER OF WILLS Administration No. barred. Persons believed November 6, 2015 2015ADM114 to be heirsEST or legatees TYPESET: Tue Nov 03 13:37:06 2015 of Names of Newspapers: 10/30, 11/6, 11/13/15 Florenda B Hill the decedent who do not Washington Decedent receive a copy of this no- Law Reporter Marilyn Cain Gordon tice by mail within 25 Superior Court of Washington 7603 Georgia Ave NW days of its first publica- AFRO-AMERICAN the District of Ste 304 tion shall so inform the Demetria S Knight District of Columbia Washington, DC 20012 Register of Wills, includ- 4 35th St. NE PROBATE DIVISION Attorney ing name, address and Washington, DC 20019 Washington, D.C. NOTICE OF relationship. 20001-2131 Signature of APPOINTMENT, Date of Publication: Administration No. Petitioners/Attorney NOTICE TO November , 6, 2015 2015ADM1262 CREDITORS Name of newspaper: A.C. Brewster 11/6, 11/13/15 AND NOTICE TO Afro-American AKA UNKNOWN HEIRS Washington Arthur C Brewster Marilyn Cain Gordon, AKA Law Reporter whose address is 7603 Arthur Charles BrewClaude Shamburger, Jr Georgia Ave., NW, STE. ster Personal 304, Washington, DC Representative Decedent 20012, was appointed Nathan A Neal Esq personal representative Law Office of Nathan A TRUE TEST COPY of the estate of Florenda Neal PLLC REGISTER OF WILLS B Hill, who died on May 4, 209 Kennedy Street, TYPESET: Tue Nov 03 13:37:45 EST 2015 2013 with a will, and will NW 11/6, 11/13, 11/20/15 serve with Court supervi- W a s h i n g t o n , D C sion. All unknown heirs 20011-5214 SUPERIOR COURT OF a n d h e i r s w h o s e Attorney THE DISTRICT OF whereabouts are unNOTICE OF COLUMBIA known shall enter their APPOINTMENT, PROBATE DIVISION appearance in this NOTICE TO Washington, D.C. proceeding. Objections CREDITORS 20001-2131 to such appointment (or AND NOTICE TO Administration No. to the probate of deUNKNOWN HEIRS 2014ADM1136 cedent´s will) shall be Claude Shamburger, Jr., filed with the Register of whose address is 951 Estate of Bettie J. Sledge Wills, D.C., 515 5th 2 5 t h S t r e e t , N W, Deceased Street, N.W., 3rd Floor W a s h i n g t o n , D C NOTICE OF Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20011-5214, was apSTANDARD 20001, on or before April pointed personal reprePROBATE 30, 2016. Claims against sentative(s) of the estate the decedent shall be of A. C. Brewster AKA Ar- Notice is hereby given that a petition has been presented to the under- thur C Brewster AKA Arsigned with a copy to the thur Charles Brewster, filed in this Court by Register of Wills or filed who died on March 26, Demetria S. 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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1219 Clyde Badgett Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Marion Jordan and D’Lance Jordan, whose addressare 9110 Dangerfield Road, Clinton, MD 20735, were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Clyde Badgett, who died on April 27, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 23, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 23, 2016, 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: October 23, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Marion Jordan D’Lance Jordan Personal Representative

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TYPESET: Tue Oct 20 15:57:48 EDT 2015 10/23, 10/30, 11/6/15 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1173 Spencer H Barlow Sr. AKA Spencer Hall Barlow Sr. DecedentNOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Ingrid Barlow Hill, whose address is 13123 Brook Tree Lane, Laurel, MD 20707, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Spencer H. Barlow Sr. AKA Spencer Hall Barlow Sr., who died on August 5, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 23, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 23, 2016, 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: October 23, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Ingrid Barlow Hill Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1192 Jacqueline A Everhart Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Byron S Everhart, whose address is 1376 Taylor St., NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Jacqueline A Everhart, who died on March 22 , 2015 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 23, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 23, 2016, 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: October 23, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Byron S Everhart Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 10/23, 10/30, 11/6/15

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Service of process may be made upon Jameela Charles, 706 Quincy Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. 15:58:12 TYPESET: EDTTue 2015 Oct 20 16:00:10 EDT 2015 LEGAL NOTICES The LEGAL NOTICES decedent owned the following District of Colombia real property: Superior Court of 4337 Gormon Terrace the District of SE, Washington, DC District of Columbia 20019 PROBATE DIVISION Claims against the deWashington, D.C. cedent may be pre20001-2131 sented to the underAdministration No. signed and filed with the 2015ADM1192 Register of Wills for the Jacqueline A Everhart District of Columbia, 515 By AFRO staff Decedent 5th Street, NW, 3rd NOTICE OF FloorWashington, D.C. APPOINTMENT, 20001 within 6 months NOTICE TO from the date of first pubCREDITORS lication of this notice. AND NOTICE TO (Strike preceding senUNKNOWN HEIRS Byron S Everhart, whose tence if no real estate.) address is 1376 Taylor Steven A Williams St. NW, Washington, DC Personal 20011 was appointed Representative(s) personal representative TRUE TEST COPY of the estate of JacREGISTER OF WILLS queline A Everhart, who Date of first publication: died on March 22, 2015 without a will, and will October 23, 2015 serve without Court su- Name of newspapers pervision. All unknown and/or periodical: heirs and heirs whose The Daily Washington whereabouts are un- Law Reporter The Afro-American known shall enter their TYPESET: Wed Oct 28 10:10:42 EDT 2015 10/23, 10/30, 11/6/15 appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment Superior Court of shall be filed with the the District of Register of Wills, D.C., District of Columbia 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd PROBATE DIVISION Floor Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 20001-2131 23, 2016. Claims against Administration No. the decedent shall be 2015ADM1227 presented to the under- M a t i l d e T. K n i g h t signed with a copy to the Springer Register of Wills or filed Decedent with the Register of Wills Jamison B. Taylor with a copy to the under- 1218 11th St. NW signed, on or before April Washington, DC 20001 23, 2016, or be forever Attorney barred. Persons believed NOTICE OF to be heirs or legatees of APPOINTMENT, the decedent who do not NOTICE TO receive a copy of this noCREDITORS tice by mail within 25 AND NOTICE TO days of its first publicaUNKNOWN HEIRS tion shall so inform the B e n i t o A n t h o n y Register of Wills, includ- Springer-Knight, whose ing name, address and address is 11409 Cosca relationship. Park Place, Clinton, MD Date of Publication: 20735, was appointed October 23, 2015 personal representative Name of newspaper: of the estate of Matilde T. Afro-American Knight-Springer, who Washington died on July 4, 2015 withLaw Reporter out a will, and will serve Byron S Everhart without Court superviPersonal sion. All unknown heirs Representative and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown TRUE TEST COPY shall enter their appearREGISTER OF WILLS ance in this proceeding. TYPESET: Tue Oct 20 16:00:48 EDT Objectio n s t2015 o such 10/23, 10/30, 11/6/15 appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s 15:58:31 EDTCOURT 2015 OF will) shall be filed with the SUPERIOR Register of Wills, D.C., THE DISTRICT OF 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd COLUMBIA Floor Washington, D.C. PROBATE DIVISION 20001, on or before April Washington, D.C. 30, 2016. Claims against 20001-2131 the decedent shall be Foreign No. presented to the under2015FEP109 signed with a copy to the Date of Death Register of Wills or filed June 16, 2015 with the Register of Wills Larry O Brown with a copy to the underDecedent signed, on or before April NOTICE OF 30, 2016, or be forever APPOINTMENT barred. Persons believed OF FOREIGN to be heirs or legatees of PERSONAL the decedent who do not REPRESENTATIVE receive a copy of this noAND tice by mail within 25 NOTICE TO days of its first publicaCREDITORS William Stephen Tolliver tion shall so inform the whose address is 10101 Register of Wills, includB a d H i l l R o a d , ing name, address and Mitchellville, MD 20721 relationship. was appointed personal Date of Publication: representative of the October 30, 2015 estate of Larry O Brown, Name of newspaper: deceased, by the Pro- Afro-American bate Court for Greenville Washington County, State of South Law Reporter Benito Anthony Carolina. on August 5, Springer-Knight 2015. Service of process Personal may be made upon Representative Jamison B Taylor, 1218 11th St. NW, Washington, DC 20001 whose TRUE TEST COPY designation as District of REGISTER OF WILLS Columbia agent has 11/6, 11/13/15 TYPESET: Wed Nov 04 11:02:00 EST 2015 been filed with the Regis- 10/30, ter of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Superior Court of Colombia real property: the District of 4611 Arkansas Ave., NW District of Columbia Washington, DC 20011 PROBATE DIVISION Claims against the deWashington, D.C. cedent may be pre20001-2131 sented to the underAdministration No. signed and filed with the 2015ADM1162 Register of Wills for the Charles Edward Barley District of Columbia, 500 Sr. Indiana Avenue, N.W., Decedent Washington, D.C. 20001 NOTICE OF within 6 months from the APPOINTMENT, date of first publication of NOTICE TO this notice. (Strike CREDITORS preceding sentence if no AND NOTICE TO real estate.) UNKNOWN HEIRS Ophelia W Barley, whose William Stephen Tolliver address is 6323 Walton Personal Avenue, Camp Springs, Representative(s) MD was appointed perTRUE TEST COPY sonal representative of REGISTER OF WILLS the estate of Charles EdDate of first publication: ward Barley Sr, who died October 23, 2015 on July 9, 2015 without a Name of newspapers will, and will serve withand/or periodical: out Court supervision. All The Daily Washington unknown heirs and heirs Law Reporter whose whereabouts are The Afro-American unknown shall enter their appearance in this TYPESET: Tue Oct 20 16:01:24 EDTObjections 2015 10/23, 10/30 , 11/6/15 proceeding. to such appointment shall be filed with the SUPERIOR COURT OF Register of Wills, D.C., THE DISTRICT OF 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd COLUMBIA Floor Washington, D.C. PROBATE DIVISION 20001, on or before April Washington, D.C. 16, 2016. Claims against 20001-2131 the decedent shall be Foreign No. presented to the under2015FEP107 signed with a copy to the Date of Death Register of Wills or filed June 6, 2015 with the Register of Wills Veronica E Williams with a copy to the underDecedent signed, on or before April NOTICE OF 16, 2016, or be forever APPOINTMENT barred. Persons believed OF FOREIGN to be heirs or legatees of PERSONAL the decedent who do not REPRESENTATIVE receive a copy of this noAND tice by mail within 25 NOTICE TO days of its first publicaCREDITORS tion shall so inform the Steven A Williams whose Register of Wills, includaddress is 9315 Draw- ing name, address and bridge Road, Mechanic- relationship. sville, VA 23116 was ap- Date of Publication: pointed personal October 16, 2015 representative of the Name of newspaper: estate of Veronica E Wil- Afro-American liams, deceased by the Washington Orphans Court for Prince Law Reporter Georges County, State of Ophelia W Barley Maryland., on July 9, Personal 2015, Representative Service of process may be made upon Jameela TRUE TEST COPY Charles, 706 Quincy REGISTER OF WILLS Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011 whose des- 10/16, 10/23, 10/30 ignation as District of You Know you’re in Columbia agent has been filed with the Registhe know... ter of Wills, D.C. 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Phillip ‘Sir Andre’ Stancil, Baltimore Musician, Dies at 65

Phillip Stancil, better known as Sir Andre, passed away due to kidney failure on Oct. 24. Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland Stancil was deemed by many a child prodigy when he began to play the piano by ear at an early age. At age 12 he joined the renowned Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore. He then spent five and a half years receiving formal training in several instruments including the piano, saxophone and bass fiddle. Upon his graduation from Forrest Park Senior High School, he left Peabody and studied television production at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. While there he received an (Courtesy photo) Phillip ‘Sir Andre’ Stancil offer for the position of musical director for internationally known Atlantic Records recording artist Ben E. King. He would go on to travel with King for the next 10 years as musical director and work with headliners like The Temptations, The Four Tops, Natalie Cole and many others. After traveling the world Stancil returned home and founded his own production company, working with singers and musicians in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area. He also believed in giving back and for Sir Andre this came in the form of performing concerts in prisons. For the last 6 years Stancil has served as Minister of Music at the Saint Marks Institutional Baptist Church in Baltimore. Services for Sir Andre will be held at Saint Marks located at 655 N. Bentalou St. in Baltimore, Maryland on Nov. 7. There will be a viewing at 10 a.m. and the service will begin at 11 a.m.

The Author’s Corner Title: “Yesterday Is Today” • Author: N.O. Release Date: July 2015 Bio: Eleanor M. Richardson, who writes under the pseudonym N.O. (None Other), is a native Baltimorean. N.O., at the sweet age of 72, considers herself a late bloomer as an author. Spending time with her two daughters, Linda Walker, Tasha Richardson, soulmate Thomas Boyd, other family members, and close friends is highly cherished. Her book, “Yesterday Is Today,” is about the the trials and tribulations of three female friends whose bond is loyal and sincere. What was the impetus for writing this book? It’s somewhat exciting to discover that I have talents, and capabilities that were not visible to me until now. After the release of my first book, I wanted to outdo the novel by writing another. What surprised you about the development of the book? It flowed much smoother than the first novel. I found myself not wanting to end the story. So, the saying practice makes perfect is certainly true. In other words, the more I write, the better I should become at doing it well. And with each new book, my goal is to be better. For what audience is your book written? For those individuals eighteen and older, and without nationality limits. What one thing do you want the reader to remember forever? That although there are times of gloom and darkness around us, there’s also sunshine after the rain. Life is great. Love, caring, faith, and understanding will carry one over the hurdles that time may present. Any advice for aspiring writers? Don’t be discouraged. There may be many who will not lend a helping hand, and others who have made it in this competitive industry who have forgotten that someone helped them to get a foot in the door. Also, there have been numerous individuals who shared with me their urge to write a book, but never followed through. Procrastination will hinder you from accomplishing your goals and dreams. Never let others deter you from your focus. If you are willing to invest the time and energy, it can and will happen. Remember that you are never too old---or that it is never too late---to record your thoughts and feelings; that may potentially develop into a manuscript. What’s next on the horizon for you? I plan to record my books on CD. Also, I would like my novels turned into stage plays, and even big screen movies. That would surely be another blessing. List other books you’ve written. Currently, I only have two books to my credit, “Silent Cry” (2014) and my new book, “Yesterday Is Today” (2015).

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR BALTIMORE CITY Case No.: 24D15003095 IN THE MATTER OF Cynthia Marlene Johnson FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO Cynthia Marlene Hubbard ORDER FOR NOTICE BY PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to officially change the name of the petitioner from Cynthia Marlene Johnson to Cynthia Marlene Hubbard It is this 26th day of October, 2015 by the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, ORDERED, that publication be given one time in a newspaper of general circulation in Baltimore City on or before the 26th day of N o v e m b e r, 2 0 1 5 , which shall warn all interested persons to file an affidavit in opposition to the relief requested on or before the 14th day of December, 2015

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MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION - STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, WILL CONDUCT A LOCATION/DESIGN PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE MD 97 MONTGOMERY HILLS PROJECT PLANNING STUDY FROM MD 192 (FOREST GLEN ROAD) TO MD 390 (16TH STREET) IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY

The purpose of the MD 97 Montgomery Hills Project Planning Study is to establish a balanced approach to transportation within the Georgia Avenue corridor by evaluating existing vehicular, pedestrian, and bicyclist mobility and safety while accommodating proposed transit enhancements and establishing a sense of place within the Montgomery Hills community. Alternatives under consideration include: Alternative 1 – No-Build, Alternative 2 Transportation Systems Management (TSM)/Transportation Demand Management (TDM), Alternative 3 – Master Plan, and Alternative 5 – Four Lanes Southbound/Three to Four Lanes Northbound. Options under study for Alternative 5 include: Option B – Flora Lane Intersection, and the Cycle Track Option. This project is currently funded for Project Planning only. It is not funded for Final Design, Right-of-Way Acquisition, or Construction. More information about the MD 97 Montgomery Hills Project Planning Study is available on SHA’s website at www.roads.maryland.gov under Projects and Studies, SHA Projects Page, and Montgomery County. The purpose of this hearing is to provide all interested persons the opportunity to comment on the proposed location, general design, and associated social, economic, cultural and natural environmental impacts of the project alternatives. Beginning at 6:00 pm, the project alternatives and other information will be on display. Public hearing displays will also be available on the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) website (referenced below). Representatives from the SHA will be available to discuss the project and record your comments.

SHA completed a Draft Section 4(f) evaluation to assess the likely effects of the project on Calvary Lutheran Church and evaluate options that avoid or minimize impacts on those resources caused by the build alternatives. The Section 4(f) Evaluation will determine whether feasible and prudent avoidance alternatives to the use of the Church property exist, and whether all possible planning to minimize harm to the resources has been performed. A copy of the Draft Section 4(f) evaluation will be available for review at the public hearing. Consistent with the Section 106 procedures of the National Historic Preservation Act, public comments are requested regarding effects on historic properties. For additional information on SHA’s effect determination, contact the Project Manager.

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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 Montgomery Blair High School 51 University Boulevard East Silver Spring, MD 20901 6:00 pm – Maps/Displays Available 7:00 pm – Presentation/Testimony Snow Date – Monday, December 14, 2015 Meeting will be held on snow date if county public schools are closed or if the county’s snow emergency plan is in effect.

Individuals and representatives of organizations who wish to testify may submit a request to Mr. Jeremy Beck, Project Manager, Project Management Division, Maryland State Highway Administration, 707 N. Calvert Street, MS C-301, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 or may call 410-545-8518 or toll-free 1-800-548-5026, or via email at jbeck@sha.state.md.us on or before November 23, 2015. You may also sign the Speakers List at the registration desk on the date of the hearing. To include written statements and other exhibits in the public hearing transcript, submit them to the Project Manager at the above address until December 31, 2015. The public hearing transcript will be available for review approximately eight weeks after the public hearing at the locations listed below and on SHA’s website. Please contact the Project Manager to confirm the transcript’s availability. Elected officials will be given the opportunity to speak first. Persons on the Speakers List will then be called to testify in the order in which their requests were received. Those who did not pre-register will be invited to speak before oral testimony concludes. SHA may set a time limit of three minutes for each speaker if a large number register to testify. Private and written testimony will also be accepted.

Persons on the project mailing list will receive information about project developments and opportunities for public involvement as the study A formal presentation beginning at 7:00 pm and lasting progresses. Persons not on the mailing list may add approximately 30 minutes will include a description of the their contact information by phoning, writing, or project alternatives, a summary of environmental impacts, emailing the Project Manager. Brochures and information on right-of-way acquisition and relocationcomment forms will be available at the hearing and assistance procedures, and an explanation of Title VI of will be mailed to persons on the mailing list. the SHA Equal Opportunity Program. The presentation will be followed by the receipt of public testimony. Beginning on November 30, 2015 the Draft Section 4(f) Evaluation for the project will be available on the Section 4(f) of the US Department of Transportation Act of project website. 1966 (49 USC 303(c)) permits the use of land from a significant publicly-owned public park or recreation area, REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE: or significant historic site only if there is no prudent and feasible alternative to the use of such land and if the action The Maryland Relay Service can assist teletype includes all possible planning to minimize harm to the users at 711. Persons requiring assistance to protected property resulting from such use. participate should contact the Project Manager. SHA will provide an interpreter for persons with SHA, in consultation with the Maryland Historical Trust hearing/speech disabilities or those who need (MHT) and other consulting parties, has identified two assistance with the English language. To request properties within the study area (Grace Episcopal assistance, please contact the Project Manager no Cemetery and Confederate Monument, and Calvary later than November 23, 2015. For more information Evangelical Lutheran Church) that are eligible for listing in on this and other SHA projects, visit the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). www.roads.maryland.gov and click on Projects and Alternatives 3 and 5 would require right-of-way from the Studies, and Public Meetings. Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church. On August 4, 2015, MHT concurred that these alternatives would result in an November 6, 2015 Gregory C. Johnson, P.E. adverse effect on the Calvary Evangelical Lutheran November 13, 2015 State Highway Administrator A-0763 Church.

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On August 29, 2015 a group of three young black men named Modi Oyewole, Quinn Coleman and Marcel Marshall knew how to end the Summer right by throwing one of the most wellknown music festivals in the DMV (District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia) area called Trillectro. Trillectro Music Festival brought local artists out like Babeo Baggins, Miista Selecta and RL Grime as well as some main stream artists like D.R.A.M, Chance The Rapper, and Kehlani. The festival took place at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD. In addition to food stations, clothes/accessories vendors were also a part of the festival as local and out of state designers came out to promote their brand. Before Trillectro was born, Oyewole had a blog and radio show called “DC

them do something dope,” said Dreamer. “Trillectro is a melting pot for this culture. Like now we’re in a place where people are so open to sounds people want to just have a good time.” This is Trillectro’s third year hosting a summer event towards the end of August. The line-up of performers each year is different and each year brings a different energy. Artists and D.J’s came out to give a great performance like, Jmsn, D.R.A.M, Masego, Tunji Ige, Mista Selecta, Babeo Baggins, Histo, Ayes Cold, Nativesun, Dom Kennedy, Cashmere Cat, RL Grime, Kehlani, Chris McClenney, and Chance The Rapper, who closed out the show. He ended the show right with a live jazz band enhancing his performance. The AFRO spoke with Babeo Baggins, a lead member of a small female rap group called Barf Troop. Babeo Baggins is a 22 year-old from Leesburg, VA. This was

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More Clean Energy for DC We want a cleaner and greener District. The Pepco Holdings-Exelon merger will bring $7 million to fund renewable energy and energy efficiency programs, add more than $10 million into the District’s Green Building Fund and make it easier for customers to connect their solar panels to the grid. Exelon will also significantly expand solar energy in the District and purchase wind energy – enough to power more than 23,000 homes. The merger also brings other benefits that will help our neighbors like a one-time direct bill credit of more than $50 per residential customer and increased reliability standards that would lead to fewer and shorter power outages. We support the merger, and we made our voices heard. You can, too. Go to PHITomorrow.com where you can sign the petition and send a letter to voice your support.

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PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY-AREA Affordable Care Act

Open Enrollment Begins in D.C. By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com

Halloween Fun: Monster Vehicles Bring Southeast D.C. Community Together

– D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton their employers. Burwell said millions of Americans have taken advantage of the program. “There are 17.6 million Americans [who] have coverage because of the Affordable Care Act,” the Burwell said. “Because of the program’s success, we have the lowest level of people who are uninsured on record. And because of our efforts, everyone’s insurance is better.” The District of Columbia was one of 12 state-level jurisdictions that took advantage of setting up its own health insurance marketplace shortly after President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010. Statistics provided by D.C. Health Link report that 25,702 District residents have signed up for a private insurance plan, 125,000 have enrolled in Medicaid, the program for low-income residents, and 22,000 District employees have signed up for the small business component. District residents can enroll in a health insurance plan through DCHealthLink. com. Residents who enroll on or before December 15 will have their benefits effective on January 1, 2016, according to a press release. After that date, plan selections made by the 15th of each month during Open Enrollment will be effective on the first day of the following month. Small businesses—as well as

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Veterans’ Day Extravaganza Empowers, Educates Women By Maria Adebola AFRO Staff Writer madebola@afro.com

U.S. Health and Human Service Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell joined D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) and other District officials in launching this year’s Affordable Care Act open enrollment in the city. On Nov. 1, Burwell and Norton and D.C. Council member Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4) attended the District of Columbia Health Link fair with dozens of District residents at the Martin Luther King Memorial Library. Nov. 1 was the first day nationally for open enrollment for Obamacare, the federal government’s health care program for those who don’t have insurance from

“Members of Congress and their staffs are customers of the D.C. Health Link.”

Military Support

The Fourth Annual Women Veterans and Women in the Military Veterans Extravaganza will bring together service members and veterans for a two-day empowerment, education

“As women veterans a lot of time we don’t always put our veteran status on our arms, we always put our family before ourselves.” – Ginger Miller

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By Brelaun Douglas Howard University News Service It was Halloween night and tiny goblins and ghouls, witches, and pirates scurried along the streets of southeast Washington. However, they weren’t headed door to door. They were headed car trunk to car trunk. Trunk of Treat had come to Anacostia. This year, residents joined a slow growing trend across the nation in cities from Sioux Falls, South Dakota to Detroit to Johnson City, Tennessee, where adults decorate their cars as monsters and spiders and park in the parking lot behind the Big Chair in Anacostia for children to trick or treat.

“I wanted to do something creative,” Jonathan Silverman, brother of at-large D.C. Councilwoman Elissa Silverman (D), said. “Part of this Trunk or Treat idea is so that kids can all come together and meet each other. I wanted to make it kind of like a house. I wanted to make it a welcome place to come in.” Councilwoman Silverman and Ward 8 Councilmember LaRuby May (D) sponsored the night’s events with Mayor Muriel Bowser’s help. Bowser (D) came to watch the children have fun and to see May dance. Between eating their picked up Twizzlers, Mike & Ike, and Kit Kats, children stopped to create arts and crafts, snack on popcorn, play in the bounce house, or take a trip into a mobile Continued on D2

conference. From Nov. 1113, at the Gaylord Hotel and Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland, those in attendance will recognize and celebrate the often overlooked gender in the military. The event is hosted by the Women Veterans Interactive organization, a national nonprofit dedicated to serving women veterans Continued on D2

Happy 99th Birthday Prince George’s County Public Schools Miss Catherine Teach Budgeting with Dollars and Cents Strengthening Financial Literacy

decisions. They will learn how to responsibly conduct future financial responsibilities and maintain financial success. The lessons at the Prince George’s County Public Schools, center are a mandatory part of the curriculum along with several community and business for the students. partners, are working to strengthen students’ “This is big for our generation of young financial literacy education by opening of a people of the Greater Washington area to technology driven financial center. The Junior help them financially,” president and CEO of Achievement Finance Park opened on the Junior Achievement of Greater Washington Ed campus of G. James Gholson Grenier told the AFRO. “Prince Middle School and Cora L. George’s County is based on Rice Elementary School in relationships.” Landover on Oct. 27. It is the Before students can first student-oriented finance participate in the finance park, park in Maryland and the they must first take part in second one in the region. the organization’s 14-lesson “It strengthened my classroom curriculum, confidence and hard work,” designed to educate them in former Junior Achievement personal finance and give them student U.S. Rep. Donna the skills needed to take to be Edwards (D-Md.) told the successful at the finance park. AFRO, reflecting on the gains “If we’re going to get better – Donna Edwards she received from attending as a community, we have to get the organization’s academic better as a school system,” Dr. programs. “I’m excited, for Kevin Maxwell, CEO, Prince what this building will do for our young George’s County Public Schools told the AFRO. people.” By “helping our students learn about jobs and Through an alignment the finance park made colleges, together we will become great by with Prince George’s County Public School, choice.” the 13,500-square-foot supercenter is designed Once students enroll into the learning center, to help 9,000 8th grade students experience they will be placed in a life scenario with an the challenges of making real-life financial avatar, a career, salary, credit score, debt, a By Courtney Jacobs Special to the AFRO

“I’m excited, for what this building will do for our young people.”

Catherine Gaines, a longtime volunteer at Children’s National Health System will celebrate her 99th birthday on Nov. 9. Gaines, also known as “Miss Catherine” around the hospital, is one of the facility’s longest serving volunteers, registering over 13,440 hours of service. She retired in 1970, after a civil service career in the Department of the Army, and spent a few years (19431946) in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II. Courtesy Photo

family, and financial obligations. On tablet computers, students will make their way through various phases of the day, budgeting and adjusting for life’s unexpected events. “This program is not only for young people to learn, but also for them to take this home to their families and teach them as well,” Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot said. Volunteers are needed to assist with the students. “We’re serving the community with the community,” Ashley Emerson, the park’s education director, told the AFRO Nov. 4. To become a volunteer, call 240-487-7550 or email Emerson at ashley.emerson@ja.org. Continued on D2

Urban Alliance Class of 2016

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Urban Alliance is year-long employment program for underresourced high school seniors in Washington, D.C. This year’s group is composed of seniors from McKinley Technology and Ballou high schools. According to its website, the program empowers youth to aspire, work, and succeed through paid internships, formal training, case management, and mentoring.

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Parties Are Serious Business for D.C. Marketing Entrepreneur By Christina Sturdivant Special to the AFRO While D.C. has its fair share of party promotion companies, the Urbane Lifestyle and Entertainment Group does more than promote. “We offer marketing services to a lot of corporate organizations and non-profit organizations,” Mitchel Brooks IV, told the AFRO. So it’s not just about getting people into a club and packing them in like sardines, he continued, “We look to direct the event and advocate for our clients whether they’re

“We look to direct the event and advocate for our clients whether they’re more social or social justice [driven].” – Mitchel Brooks

more social or social justice [driven]. “Organizations such as the National Bar Association, for example, have come to us to curate a [Congressional Black Caucus] event. They came to us for campaign marketing, collateral, graphic design, website creation and outreach.” Courtesy photo Not only does Mitchel Brooks IV is cothe Urbane Group founder of the Urbane Group. focus on producing events for clients, but creating a memorable environment for guests. “Oftentimes, folks in Washington, D.C. – especially these highly educated, upwardly mobile professionals – go out to stand around. They get too

concerned or caught up in who’s there and who will see them,” he said. “But I strongly believe you get a vibe and overall feeling when you walk into one of our projects compared to when you walk into any random happy hour or night life event on a Thursday night. We’ve had customers and brands that tell us they feel a difference. They’re able to let loose and have fun.” Brooks co-founded the entertainment and marketing company while studying to receive his MBA at Florida A&M University. “I really wanted to create unique experiences that were missing from the marketplace in Tallahassee,” he said. The company’s first event took place at FAMU’s homecoming in 2009. After graduation, he relocated to D.C. With a team of 26 people, the company expanded to Houston, Chicago, Charlotte, St. Louis, and Miami. “Folks know that when we’re producing a project, it’s going to be as one of a kind and authentic as humanly possible, and I think that’s what folks have come to appreciate about our brand in D.C.” For more information, visit urbaneworldwide.com.

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and their families by helping them make a seamless transition from military to civilian life. The organization is focused on meeting women veteran’s personal needs through advocacy, empowerment, interaction, outreach, and unification. “As women veterans, a lot of time we don’t always put our veteran status on our arms, we always put our family before ourselves,” said Ginger Miller, president and founder of the organization. Women Veterans Interactive grew from Miller’s personal experience as a U.S. Navy veteran

who served from 19891992. Miller describes her transition from the military into civilian life as an “arduous feat.” According to Miller, in the early ‘90s there weren’t many resources for military families transitioning to the civilian life which, unfortunately, resulted in families becoming homeless. Forced to become the sole-breadwinner for her two sons and a mentally-disabled husband, suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome, Miller said her family was homeless as well. “When we were homeless, I worked three jobs, I went to school full-time to pull my family

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According to the Junior Achievement of Greater Washington website, another finance park is scheduled to open on the fourth floor of the new Thomas Edison High School of Technology building in Wheaton, Maryland

out of that homeless state,” Miller said. Miller’s personal woes highlighted the lack of resources for veteran families at the time. This led to her creation of a nonprofit organization called John 14:2, which is also a reference to a verse in the King James Bible that speaks of sheltering the homeless. Indicative of the verse, John 14:2 is dedicated to supporting homeless veterans. The organization provides veteran families with information on affordable housing options, and was instrumental in starting the first Prince

Georges County homeless veteran “Stand Down” initiative. Miller said she felt the organization was still missing an important component. She didn’t feel there was a support system for women. Female veterans, like men, often need mental and psychological support, but their role in the family takes precedence over those needs. “My post-traumatic stress disorder, my [mental] disability, and my life weren’t as important as the things that were going on in my family life,” she said. Historically, homeless veteran services were geared

towards men. However women veterans sustain the same types of injuries as their male counterparts, both mental and physical. The American Legion reports that one in every 10 homeless veterans under the age of 45 is now a woman. According to the Legion, there were 1.8 million women veterans in the nation in 2008. Now, the Department of Veterans Affairs reports there are more than 2 million female veterans in the United States, Puerto Rico, and foreign territories. Miller said women veterans can look to the Women Veterans Initiative

Halloween

Open Enrollment

trailer that had been turned into a haunted house. They took tours through a Halloween Metro bus decorated with spider webs and skeletons and climbed atop a huge yellow steamroller to blow the horn.

individuals and families eligible for Medicaid—can enroll through DCHealthLink.com at any point. Burwell said that because of the Affordable Care Act “a young person graduating from college can stay on their parents health care plan until they are 26-years-old, a young Mom will be cancer-free because she could afford a checkup, and many Americans don’t have to worry about falling into debt because of health care costs.” The secretary said the open enrollment period ends on Jan. 31, 2016. She said the federal health care program had some problems in the past but they have been addressed. “We have fewer people

Continued from D1 during the fall of 2017. The first finance park in the area opened in Fairfax, Virginia in October 2010. Washington D.C. Editor LaTrina Antoine contributed to this article.

for financial literacy, homelessness prevention, emergency food, health, and wellness, and more. Miller was recognized by First Lady Michelle Obama as a White House Champion of Change for Women Veterans. Recently, actor and director Tyler Perry made a donation of $20,000 to the organization. The upcoming event is designed to reach women veterans through an educational expo featuring a career fair and information on support services, financial literacy, housing options, and more. For more information, go to eventbrite.com.

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“There are 17.6 million Americans [who] have coverage because of the Affordable Care Act.” – U.S. HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell

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Mayor Muriel Bowser and Ward 8 Councilwoman LaRuby May take in the festivities.

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“I thought it was a great concept and a great idea to have everyone together and there’s a real sense of community here,” said Nicole Luke, who blogs about community events using the name D.C. Thrifty Mom. Luke said she came to hand out candy and allow her two daughters to trick or treat. Dorothy Wortham and her son and daughter traveled from Clinton, Maryland to participate in the event. Wortham’s son was dressed as a Star Wars character. “LaRuby May is a member of my church at Allen Chapel AME Church,” she explained. “We did it last year on a smaller scale on our church parking lot. So, Ms. May wanted to make it bigger and invite more people so they moved it out here. I love it and I think it’s a great idea. “My son is having a ball. We’re trying to get him to leave, and he doesn’t want to. We’re having a great time.” For many, the key element was that the event was a safe space for children to enjoy Halloween. “This is a safe way to do things,” said Denise Monroe who came with her husband and three grandchildren. “I heard about it and here we are.” Ro Zebina, president of the Deuces Wild Motorcycle Club, and his members, dressed in emblem-covered hoodies and vests, brought along about 20 motorcycles. They handed out candy and posed with children for pictures. “I hope that there are more events like this for the kids to come out and see that there’s positivity and different things going for them,” Zebina said.

that are uninsured and that is a good problem to have,” Burwell said. “We are working to get out the word to people who are not insured that there is financial assistance available and that 7 out of 10 Americans have plans that cost $75 or less.” She said the federal web site has been improved and access to the site’s financial tools is available to consumers via the Internet and social media. The secretary said that Americans should be able to enroll easily by computer and smartphone or with the people who have been trained as navigators or in-person assisters. Norton agrees with Burwell, noting that the District’s health exchange program has a powerful constituency. “Members of Congress and their staffs are customers of the D.C. Health Link,” the delegate said. “A lot of my colleagues on the Hill complain about the District but I have yet to have one member of Congress complain about D.C. Health Link.” Mila Kofman, the executive director of the city’s health exchange, said that another powerful District resident uses her agency’s plans. “President Obama enrolled in 2013 and re-enrolled in 2014,” she said. Todd said that his ward has the second largest number of senior citizens in the city and the Affordable Care Act has served them well. “Those senior citizens, as well as business owners and young people, are getting the type of affordable health care they need,” he said.

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WASHINGTON AREA COMMUNITY CONNECTION Send your upcoming events to tips@afro.com. For more community events go to afro.com/DC Events. College Park, Md.

5K Turkey Run & Walk The Sowing Empowerment & Economic Development organization is hosting an event on Nov. 7 at 5240 Paint Branch Parkway starting at 8 a. m. The 5k run and walk will raise money for holiday baskets going towards SEED’s education, housing, and community programs for low-to-moderate income families. Registration for adults is $35, but children 12 and under are free. To register, visit wizathon.com/seed-5k-turkey-run-walk. For more information: call 301- 458 - 9808 ext. 126.

Scott Key, composer of the U.S. National Anthem; Tammy Lambert, director, Mayor’s Office of Veterans’ Affairs and Commander Nachee Miller, representing the Disabled American Veterans Department of the District of Columbia. The program begins at 10 a.m. in the Windows Lounge located on the Van Ness Campus in Building 38, 2nd floor. The program is sponsored by the Office of the President and the University’s Division of Student Affairs. For more information, visit udc.edu/marketing_communications/veterans_ day_celebrations.

14th Annual Uncommon Height Gala The National Council of Negro Women will honor 11-time Grammy award winner Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds with the Prudential 4.01K Race For Retirement Uncommon Height CrystalStair Award Prudential is hosting a race to raise at their 14th annual gala on Nov. 13 awareness for saving and retirement at the Washington Hilton Hotel, on Nov. 7 at 2400 East Capitol 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW at Street SE at 8:30 a. m. A festival 6:30 p. m. The black-tie event will will follow the race, which will celebrate 80 years of visionary feature food trucks, games, and work in fostering the growth and live entertainment. Registration for development of women, children the race is free. For more information, and families throughout the visit run401k.com. world. The event emcee will be District University’s Veterans’ MAGIC 102.3 Day Program personality The University of Donnie the District of Columbia Simpson, with (UDC) will mark the 50th entertainment Anniversary of the Vietnam War at its 10 Annual Veterans’ Courtesy Photo from Day program on Nov. 10. Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds will be honored comedian Jonathan The event is free and open by The National Council of Negro Women Slocumb and to the public. U.S. Air Force Nov. 13. singer Valerie Major General Roosevelt Simpson. Allen is scheduled to be the Tickets can be purchased for individuals or groups keynote speaker, and there will be remarks of ten. For more information and tickets, visit by U.S Army Major Kyle Key, who will talk ncnwgala.org. briefly about his historic ancestor, Francis

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Public Relations agency Ketchum and the Black Public Relations Society-D.C. Chapter (BPRS) hosted Oct. 29 a panel discussion and open house on “The Importance of Diversity and Inclusion in Public Relations” at Ketchum’s D.C. headquarters in Northwest. The evening began with a meet and greet reception with light refreshments followed by a panel discussion, including Sharon Jones, senior vice president, director of Human Resources in D.C., Atlanta and Dallas and director, Diversity and Inclusion North America; Charles Fancer, president, FancherAssociates and Antonice Jackson, digital marketing associate at Reingold and vice president of BPRS.

Antonice Jackson, Cathryn Gibbs, Courtnee Davis and Mesha Williams

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Tangela Richardson and an audience member

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Panelists Sharon Jones, senior vice president, director, Human Resources, Ketchum South and Antonice Jackson, digital marketing at Reingold and vice president, Black Public Relations Society (BPRS)

LaTrina Antoine, D.C. AFRO editor

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Alpha Chapter, Chi Eta Phi Sorority held its 49th Annual Fashion Show and Luncheon, Lovely Lady Presents “When Fashion Meets Style” on Oct. 25 at Martin’s Crosswinds, Greenbelt, Maryland. Participants were treated to an afternoon of fun and pleasure that included a meal, a vendor’s market showcase, a raffle and giveaways. A community service award was given to “So Others Might Eat” to help them continue to feed the Hungary. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser attended and Richard Glover was the guest emcee. The afternoon’s luncheon was capped off by a New York style fashion extravaganza presented by Lovely Lady Boutique.

The Ways and Means Committee; chaired by Janet Jones (seated)

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser with her mother, Joan Bowser (standing Brenda Ingram, president, Alpha Chapter and Leia Ingram, U.S. Navy Photos by Rob Roberts

Donnina Burnett, Rev. Veronica Tasker-Battle and Delores Burnett

Receiving the Community Service Award for “So Others May Eat”, Aaron Peters and Stephanie Shallah being presented by Janet Jones (center)

Raynette Sanders (right) and daughter, Lovely Lady Boutique owners

Claudine Hawkins, Marion Richardson, Ruth B. YoungRichardson, Joseph Steward, Mack Kennedy, Barbara Kennedy, Greta Wiggins-Bell, Florine Brackett, Gina Williams and guests

Janet Jones (seated, left) and friends

Emcee Richard Glover, Edgar Brookins and LaShaunne’ David with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (seated)

Kittie Dowdy, Harriet Tate, Agnes McLinton, Francenia Thompson, and Kattie Rickles

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