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MARCH 14, 2015 - MARCH 20, 2015

Hundreds Say Goodbye to Brooke By James Wright Special to the AFRO The nation’s chief diplomat, members of both chambers of Congress and other political figures reflected on the life and work of the late Sen. Edward Brooke. Brooke, the first Black popularly elected U.S. senator, was celebrated on March 9 and 10 with events and memorials taking place at leading landmarks in the District. The late Sen. Edward Brooke, an African-American Republican who served in the U.S. Senate from 1967-1979 and the first of his race elected as a state attorney general (Massachusetts from 1963-1967), was remembered by family,

The Obama family join hands as they begin the march with the foot soldiers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

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Selma, Ala.: Obama Proves that He is ‘Black Enough’

By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief

Throughout his campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama was dogged by one question: Is he Black enough? The question was repeated so often that after showing up late for an appearance at the 2008 annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists in Las

Vegas, Obama said, “I want to apologize for being late, but you guys keep asking whether I am Black enough.” After a 33-minute speech Saturday in Selma, Ala. commemorating the Selma to Montgomery March and passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, nobody was asking: Is Barack Obama Black enough? President Obama rarely

discussed the issue of race in his first six years in office except in reaction to a major racial catastrophe such as the shooting deaths of Trayvon Martin in Florida and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. or the arrest of Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. for breaking into his own home. On Saturday, however, President Obama seemed

comfortable discussing race in public, showing he has a deep appreciation for the accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement and quoting or referencing the Bible, Black spirituals, James Baldwin, Sojourner Truth, Fannie Lou Hamer, Langston Hughes, the Tuskegee Airmen, Jackie Robinson and even his favorite hip-hop Continued on A8

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The coffin containing the remains of the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward William Brooke III is brought inside the Washington National Cathedral, March 10, during a funeral service.

Prince George’s Seeks to Improve Health Outcomes By Teria Rogers Special to the AFRO

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Caroline Adderly of Landover walks with a cane and has a chronic health issue that has yet to be cured. “I’ve been suffering with a long time ailment. I’ve been from D.C. to Virginia to Maryland. I’m going from specialist to specialist, but no one can figure out the problem,” she said. Adderly was one of 200 people at Prince George’s Community College March 7 for a county-wide meeting on a healthcare strategic plan

A rendering of the forthcoming Prince George’s Medical Center in Largo

Glenn Ivey Announces Run for Congress ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Former Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Glenn Ivey has announced he will run for Congress. Ivey, a Democrat, said March 11 on his campaign website that he will run in the 4th Congressional District. Democratic Rep. Donna Edwards now holds the seat. She announced on Tuesday she will run for Senate. Sen. Barbara Mikulski announced last week she won’t seek re-election in 2016. Ivey was elected Prince George’s County state’s attorney in 2002 and again in 2006. The congressional district Ivey is running for includes parts of Prince George’s and Anne Arundel counties. He is the first candidate to say he is running for the seat. Ivey filed to run against Edwards in 2012, but he later withdrew from the race.

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and forthcoming medical center in Largo. The primary strategic healthcare plan is a partnership between the Prince George’s County Executive’s office, the Maryland National Capital Parks and Planning Commission Planning Department, the Prince George’s Board of Health and the Prince George’s Health Department. The county wide-meeting provided residents with a first look at the healthcare strategic plan and architectural renderings for a regional medical center in Largo. Continued on A8

Prince George’s Residents Ponder Mikulski’s Replacement By James Wright Special to the AFRO

Mikulski’s service on behalf of county residents.

There is widespread talk among political activists and politicians in Prince George’s County, Md. about who will succeed U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D). Some think her successor should be a county resident and possibly an African American. Mikulski announced March 2 that she will retire from politics, serving in Washington as a representative from 1977-1987 and as the first Democratic senator elected from 1987 to 2017. Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker (D) praised

Sen. Barbara Mikulski recently announced that she was retiring at the end of her term in 2017.

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“We in Prince George’s County have benefitted from the numerous times she has fought to secure funding for education, health, housing, and economic development opportunities,” Baker said. “We are a stronger, better, smarter, and united Maryland as a result of Senator Mikulski’s leadership.” Since her announcement, some candidates have declared for the seat while others are thinking about running. “Let the games began,” Terry Speigner, a county entrepreneur and former head of the Prince George’s County Democratic Central Committee, said. Continued on A4

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Erica Morales died shortly after giving birth to three girls and a boy. An Arizona father was left to raise his four newborns alone after his wife died shortly after delivering the babies. Erica Morales, 36, of Phoenix gave birth to three girls and a boy, all two months premature, via cesarean section in the late night hours of Jan. 15, according to People magazine. But the first-time mother began losing a significant amount of blood, and died shortly thereafter, in the early morning hours of Jan. 16. “I went from having the best day of my life to the next morning experiencing the worst day of my life,” her husband, 29-year-old Carlos Morales, told People. “My four babies came into the world and then my wife died.” The children, Carlos Jr., Tracey, Paisley, and Erica, were all reportedly healthy. In the wake of his wife’s death, Morales has been taking baby-caring classes at a local hospital to prepare for fatherhood. “I’m learning everything from how to give them a bath, CPR, feeding, and how to manage their sleep schedule,” Morales told the magazine. “I need to be prepared. Everything I do now is for my children.” Morales said he found a note in his wife’s iPad containing goals for her children to accomplish in life, including attending college, speaking both English and Spanish, and obtaining good jobs. “I will try my hardest to make sure that happens,” Morales told People. A family friend has created a GoFundMe account to raise money for Morales and his children.

12-Yr.-Old Black Conservative: Facebook Acct. Froze Due to Support of Obama Critic Giuliani

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C.J. Pearson says his Facebook account was frozen after he posted a video criticizing Obama. A 12-year-old Black conservative youth from Georgia said he was booted off Facebook after he posted a YouTube video defending former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s questioning of President Obama’s patriotism. C.J. Pearson, founder and executive director of Young Georgians in Government, gained much notoriety after his video was posted late last month. The video has garnered more than 1.7 million views, his public Facebook account has more than 24,000 likes—a 164 percent increase from the last week of February—and he has appeared on Fox News. “I just want to applaud Mayor Rudy Giuliani for his comments about President Barack Obama,” Pearson said in the three-minute video. “I definitely do hope that one day other people would get enough guts to speak out against your [Obama’s] downright hatred for this nation.” Giuliani accused Obama of not loving America due to his allegedly constant criticism of the nation. Pearson echoed

those comments, questioning the president’s approach to dealing with ISIS and other terrorists, and accused the president of stealing from the American people. Pearson said he believes these comments caused Facebook to freeze his account. However, a Facebook spokesman told the New York Daily News that the move was because of Pearson’s age, since their terms of service require users to be at least 13 years old. “Due to the fact that approximately 7.5 million kids [under the age of 13] log in to Facebook, I would most definitely have to say the removal of my account was due to partisan politics, rather than actually upholding their actual Terms of Service agreement,” Pearson stated in an e-mail to the Daily News, citing figures from a 2011 Consumer Report. “To me, you either enforce a policy all of the time or not at all. Freedom of speech is a constitutional right that shouldn’t be hindered by any entity, public or private.” The seventh-grader told the Examiner that a friend is posting links to his Facebook page on his behalf until he turns 13 in July. The young politician-in-training has been using his Facebook page to drum up support for legislation he authored that would lower the eligibility age to serve in the Georgia House and Senate. The General Assembly, this term, introduced a resolution commending Pearson for his work.

Carson: Being Gay a Choice, Prison Proves

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Ben Carson’s comments during a CNN interview drew fire after he said he believed that being gay is a choice. Ben Carson, the world-renowned surgeon and prospective GOP presidential candidate, recently said that being gay is a choice and cited incarceration to back up his theory. In a Mar. 4 interview, CNN’s Chris Cuomo asked Carson whether being gay is a choice. Carson responded, “absolutely.” “Because a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight—and when they come out, they’re gay,” Carson said. “So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question.” Cuomo questioned Carson’s logic, pointing out that “most gay people never go to prison and you know there’s a whole theory of dominance [in jail].” Carson then asked Cuomo whether he was denying the validity of his statements. “I’m not denying that’s true,” Cuomo responded, “but I’m denying that’s a basis of understanding sexuality. A lot of people go into jail a drug addict and come out a criminal. Does that mean all drug addicts are criminals?” The argument stemmed from a debate over whether the rights of gay individuals to get married were being denied under the Equal Protection Act. Carson reiterated his positon that marriage equality and race-based discrimination were two totally separate issues. Carson has said he supports domestic partner relationships as long as it “does not require changing the definition of marriage.” He also said he believes that the issue of same-sex marriage should be decided at the state level, rather than by the federal government. Many in the medical community disagreed with Carson’s statements on homosexuality being a choice. “Although much research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal, developmental, social and cultural influences on sexual orientation, no findings have emerged that permit scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors,” the American Psychological Association stated on its website. “Many think that nature and nurture both play complex roles; most people experience little or no sense of choice about their sexual orientation.” Carson’s earlier comments regarding homosexuality also drew fire. In a 2013 Fox News interview, he said that legalizing marriage would pave the way for legal bestiality and pedophilia. He later apologized, claiming his comments were taken out of context, according to Politico.

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Parents, Activists Demand Educational Equity By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO When President Lyndon Johnson called on Congress to establish full educational opportunity as a national goal with his 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), he did so to ensure the nation’s young people could thrive as global industry leaders. Designed to safeguard equal access to education, the ESEA established high standards for academic performance, and mandated accountability from teachers, schools, and districts. Fifty years later, with the majority of public schools serving AfricanAmerican and Latino students, the promise of equal access, accountability, and high student achievement have failed miserably. With the reauthorization of the ESEA looming, The Journey for Justice Alliance held a panel discussion, ESEA Reauthorization and the Broken Promise of School Privatization, to examine

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Imar Hutchins, Patricia Mullahy Fugere, and volunteers enjoy the launch event for Florida Avenue Grill’s latest service initiative.

Florida Ave. Grill Partnership Feeds Homeless By Christina Sturdivant Special to the AFRO Photos by Shantella Y. Sherman

Attendees participate in the discussion on the ESEA over by the state they had a budgetary surplus. With a $3.2 billion bond passed, however, the state took over the schools and immediately began dismantling advanced

“Within Ferebee Hope, there was a Dream Academy and the kids could walk across the street or up the hill to the school. Now the children are spread all over

Concerned Americans from across the nation converged on the National Press Building to discuss ESEA. the impact mass closures, overcrowded classrooms, and the loss of community control over schools, have had on African-American and Latino students. Parents from around the nation shared educational horror stories, including one kindergarten class with more than one hundred students being managed by a single teacher and teacher’s aide. Others, who had already filed Title VI Civil Rights complaints against their children’s school boards, demanded a national platform to address equity. Almost all asked, “Who is accountable to us?” Yolanda Peebles, parent of a Detroit Public Schools student, said that before the schools were taken

placement courses, skilled trades, and artistic, athletic, and elective programs. The result was the loss of key foundational instruction. “A lot of children do not get the support they need and they go to the next grade ill-prepared. It is a constant failure after that. If you don’t get a solid foundation at the lower grade levels, you will never catch up,” Peebles said. Others, like Empower D.C. activist Shannon Smith, who has waged a tireless effort to end school closures of Northwest’s Ferebee Hope, said that with the razing of public housing, the neighborhood schools have been shuttered for underenrollment. This has forced children into overpopulated and under-resourced spaces.

the city,” said Smith, whose granddaughter now has to cross a highway at rush hour to get to and from school. “If you are going to close schools, at least match what you took away. Send them somewhere equal to or even better than where they were,” Smith said. Jitu Brown, National Director for Journey for Justice Alliance said that African Americans should demand public schools institute the same model as the University of Chicago Lab School (UCLS), which both Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and President Obama’s children attended. “UCLS said that there cannot be more than twenty-three children in any one class, but we are constantly hearing horror

stories of schools with a hundred students in one class. There is a mandate of not having an overreliance on standardized tests, but [lawmakers] create policies that have our children schooled in test factories,” Brown said. Panelist Rosalind Friday, an educator with the National Education Association (NEA) in Willingboro, New Jersey, said it was important to disabuse educators of the theory that poor kids are not smart kids because they are poor. “A full picture of a child is integral in order to understand how to help them learn and standardized tests are not equipped to do this. We know there is a discrepancy between the known curriculum and the learned curriculum in schools so why not explore an assessment model that looks at all of the standards covered in a school and generate a test covering the learner’s mastery of the school’s curriculum and then compare states to states?” Friday asked. “Stop pretending standardized tests pushed by for-profit companies are really measuring something.” Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, in a speech at Southeast’s Seaton Elementary School earlier this year, said without sweeping changes to the ESEA the nation’s public schools were poised to “turn back the clock to the days when the high school graduation rate for the nation was stagnating and when high school dropout rates were almost twice as high for African-Americans.” The Journey for Justice Alliance, along with the Advancement Project and the Alliance for Educational Justice also called for a moratorium on public school closures and the expansion of privately operated charter schools in the ESEA Reauthorization.

Memorial Services Scheduled for Prince George’s Officer Killed in Crash The Associated Press

Officer Brennan Rabain

Memorial services were scheduled for March 12 for a Prince George’s County Police officer who died after crashing his cruiser in Lanham. The viewing for 26-year-old Officer Brennan Rabain was held at 3 p.m. March 11 at the Borgwardt Funeral Home in Beltsville. His funeral was scheduled for March 12 at Victory Christian Ministries in Temple Hills. His interment at Lakemount Memorial Park Cemetery in Davidsonville was scheduled to follow.Rabain’s girlfriend told investigators that Rabain was driving her home early March 7 when he spotted a speeding car. She says she thought Rabain, who was off-duty, was about to slow down or pull over that car when he lost control and crashed. The cause of the crash is under investigation. Police say the dashboard camera in the cruiser was broken.

The next time a customer orders Miss Bertha’s breakfast special on a Wednesday at the Florida Avenue Grill, they’ll be purchasing for two. On Feb. 25, The Grill and the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless launched Meal for Meal Wednesdays, a community service initiative that addresses two needs for people who suffer from housing instability. “We like to call it a hunger for delicious food and justice,” says Patricia Mullahy Fugere, executive director at the clinic. While the city is beginning to thrive on economic development following the country’s recession, low-income families remain victim to spending nights in shelters and recreation centers, says Fugere. “There has been a loss of low income housing at the expense of longtime residents; it’s very challenging.” During seasons like summer and winter, being without shelter is life-threatening; homeless individuals become vulnerable to weather-related injuries such as heat exhaustion, heat stroke, hypothermia and frostbite. In 2014, the clinic’s staff and pool of over 200 volunteer attorneys serviced at least 1,000 individuals who experienced or were at-risk of homelessness by providing easy access to comprehensive legal services. “Partnering [with The Grill] gives us a chance to share what we do,” says Fugere, who first collaborated with the restaurant on its Third Annual Good Will at the Grill Thanksgiving Community Breakfast in 2014. During the event that occurs on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, the grill serves up its classic southern style menu to the homeless in the area. Last year’s goodwill event served 350 people. By establishing Meal for Meal Wednesdays, The Grill will open its doors to serve the homeless at least four times a year. “We thought it was time to heighten awareness of homelessness, not just one day, but year round,” says Imar Hutchins, owner of The Grill. On April 8, the first round of 2015 events will launch with Easter Good Will at the Grill. The number of homeless served is based on the number of meals purchased each Wednesday leading up to that day. In the meantime, customers at The Grill will have access to literature about the clinic, with perhaps, “not so fun facts” about the issue of homelessness, says Fugere. Because advocacy plays a vital role in the clinic’s services, both Fugere and Hutchins hope The Grill’s customers will be moved by not only their hunger for food, but their desire to ensure that every Washingtonian has as an equal right to basic necessities including safe and secure shelter.

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Review: ‘Truth the Musical’ By Maria Adebola AFRO Staff Writer THEARC Theatre culminated its 2015 Black History Month program in celebration of African Americans who spearheaded historical movements such as civil rights, women’s rights, and other notable milestones with a musical play. Truth the Musical, a depiction of the life of Sojourner Truth, was featured through a four series performance at THEARC Theatre. The showing began from Feb. 26 through Feb. 28. The musical was written and produced by Keni Fine Productions in collaboration with THEARCS I CAN, Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington. The musical brings a different interpretation to the story of Truth, best known as an African American abolitionist and women’s rights activist in the 1800 era. Though the story succinctly relayed the hurdles and milestones of the phenomenal character, it featured a modern twist up tempo tune; break dancing moves by the performers dressed in saggy pants, baggy shirts and fitted hats. The play was geared toward the younger generation as it tells the story of a troubled teen named Peter who, like any other young adult living in an urban environment, feels a sense of internal displacement. Peter was in search of the true meaning of his historical background, as he poses the question to the spirit of Truth who visited him, “What do you know about truth?” Peter encountered the spirit of Truth, who engages him in a conversation about his unruly approach to finding the true meaning of his existence. Unbeknownst to Peter, the stranger who he encountered was Sojourner Truth herself. Truth goes on to question him about why he is so concerned about uncovering the truth about his history and the people that surrounds him. Peter goes on a rampage about knowing more than she thinks.

With that, Truth leads Peter into a journey to the past which begin with her as a child. Truth, who was originally named Isabelle Baumfree, introduces Peter to herself as a child sold at auction for $100 by slave owner, John Neely in 1806. As time flies, the audience encounters Truth as a woman who has birthed children and is still working as a slave. The musical plot thickens once Truth continuously croons about her need for freedom. Soon, Truth makes it her mission to escape from slavery with her infant daughter, Sophia. Photo by Maria Adebola Fast forward to some years Peter, led by the spirit of Truth into the past, learns the true meaning of his history. later, Peter again journeys through the historical scenes where Truth won a landmark case against a slave owner, for illegally purchasing her son, whose name, ironically, was Peter. speaking briefly to Truth, who reminds him she is not gone, but Transfixed by the riveting narration of Truth, played by lives through him and the decisions he makes. Peter reveals that Broadway actress April Nixon, Peter was introduced the he finally knows the truth about his history, and how he will women’s right activist and abolitionist. Truth belts out tunes live with a profound appreciation of those who paved the way on why women should have the same rights as men in several for him. scenes, using her faith and life experiences as a platform. She The musical ensemble ranging from R&B to gospel delivered her now famous speech known as “Ain’t I a woman,” melodies served as the backdrop for pain, redemption, hope, in a powerful musical ensemble that earned a standing ovation and freedom. Peter and the audience learn that because of from the audience. Truth, and other freedom fighters like her, he is able to obtain When Truth’s death is announced, Peter returns to reality, the privileges available to him.

Warren Shadd-World’s First African-American Piano Maker By Rachel Kersey Howard University News Service Warren Shadd adorned the walls of his onestory home with several framed artifacts. On one wall hangs photographs of his family – his grandmother, his father, and his mother – all playing musical instruments. Another wall displays a 1969 article from The Washington Daily News about him as a 13-year-old musical prodigy. Of all the remembrances, however, particularly significant to him is a certificate from the District of Columbia Piano Technicians Guild awarded on May 1, 1967 to James H. Shadd, his father, a professional pianist and piano technician. The certificate hangs as a reminder of the rich musical legacy from which he descends, Shadd said. Shadd is a third generation musician, second generation piano technician and first generation piano manufacturer, as well as the first AfricanAmerican piano manufacturer in the world. It is what he was destined to do, he explained. “I am the chosen one,” he said, without a hint of sarcasm. “Not only am I the first AfricanAmerican piano manufacturer, but unfortunately, we don’t make any other musical instruments, even down to things like music stands or drumsticks or guitar strings or accessories. So, I’m kind of like the first and only.” His company, SHADD Inc., is headquartered in the Bronx, N.Y., he said, but at his home in Maryland, he houses eight of his creations, including the acoustic concert grand piano played on American Idol last season, and the one Grammy Award-winning gospel singer Richard Smallwood use to record his upcoming album. Smallwood had nothing but praise for Shadd’s pianos. “First of all, for a pianist, it feels and sounds like every piano you’ve ever wanted to play,” he said, “your dream piano in terms of the highs, the lows, the mids, the harmonics. It’s just an incredible piece of work.

“Not only does it have wonderful sound, but it’s beautiful, just a gorgeous piece of furniture. I would play it every day.” Producing world-class instruments wasn’t always Shadd’s dream. After withdrawing from Howard University when he got a record deal, he toured as a drummer with famous jazz artists like Sarah Vaughn, Jimmy Smith, Joe Williams, Lionel Hampton, and his aunt, Shirley Horn. He also performed in the Broadway hit musical “Ain’t Misbehavin’” with singer Nell Carter and the original cast until Carter, who went on to television fame, decided she wanted to stop the show and tour privately. “As a musician, you’re out of work immediately,” Shadd said, explaining the unpredictable nature of the industry. “Then you’re trying to catch onto the next [show.] Each time it becomes arduous, and you still have bills to pay.” Shadd said he thought long and hard about how to sustain himself without relying on other people. He said he decided to work on pianos, which he learned to do in his parents’ basement when he in high school. “I took the resources that I had and made something happen out of those particular resources, which actually helped me later on when it came to formulating my ideas of what are the best parts in a piano to make it sound great,” he said. After the death of his father in 1993, Shadd took over his father’s business, Shadd’s Piano Hospital Service. Shadd’s father had been the exclusive piano technician for Howard Theatre, Shadd said. He would go with his father to the theater while he tuned pianos for

musicians such as James Brown, Count Basie, [Duke] Ellington, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, and vocalists Pearl Bailey and Peggy Lee. One day, Shadd was tuning a piano when his client gave him the idea for manufacturing pianos. “Old Mr. Tucker started crying, so I turned around and asked, ‘Mr. Tucker, what’s going on?’” Shadd said. “Mr. Tucker said, ‘Shadd? See that piano?’ He points his finger right where the logo was on the piano. ‘That right there should say ‘Shadd’ because you’re the only one.’ “I was like, ‘Okay, shaddpianos.com Mr. Tucker! I got these ideas!’ I had written down some ideas about how to enhance the volume and the sound of acoustic pianos. So I went down and dusted these old pieces of paper that I wrote four or five years previously, and I started really tinkering around with the piano.” That was the inception of SHADD, he said. Thirteen years later, the company is 60 percent finished with a white acoustic concert grand piano that will go to the Vatican City, he said. “There are certain things that I thought would make my brand super huge immediately,” Shadd said. “[The Vatican] seems untouchable. Unattainable. It’s so way and beyond up there.” Aside from the Vatican, Shadd, whose pianos have been played by jazz pianist Monty Alexander, singers Gregory Porter and Harry Connick Jr., and a host of other famous jazz musicians, also has aspirations of building a piano for President Barack Obama. Additionally, the company has

manufactured a hybrid piano with features like speakers on the front of the piano, a bench with surround sound speakers, screens to allow for interactive virtual teaching and learning, and many other innovative accessories. “We tested for over a year with autistic, deaf, and blind children,” Shadd said. “This will be great assistive technology.” ReeRinn, a partially deaf pianist and teacher, expressed excitement when she was introduced to Shadd’s pianos. Numerous childhood ear infections left Rinn unable to detect high register sounds, and though she received a bachelor’s degree in music, Rinn said she was never able to hear the last 10 notes on the piano until she heard Shadd’s hybrid piano. “I suddenly found myself nearly in tears when I realized I could hear piano notes I had never heard before,” she said.”This was astonishing to me and an immensely moving experience.” Shadd recalled her reaction when she first heard the piano. “She started screaming out, ‘I can hear it! I can hear it! I don’t know what this is!’” he said.”That might have been my greatest moment.” SHADD is building more models of the interactive hybrid, he said, as well as a keyboard version of it, which he plans to ship to children in impoverished communities and developing countries. Shadd said that though he has received a great deal of recognition and though his last name does appear in large letters on both sides of his pianos, he says it’s more about paying homage to those who nurtured him to be the businessman he is today. “I have so much respect for my family name,” he said. “I just continued that name, which is my name, with respect. It has a lot to do with paying homage to the blood, sweat and tears of my father. It was playing homage to all of the family, my grandmother, my grandfather . . . all the people that were super engaged in music.”

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“There is going to be stampede for that seat. A Senate seat only comes up once in a generation and this is an opportunity for someone to stay in that seat for maybe 20 or 30 years.” On March 10, U.S. Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) entered the race. U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) jumped in the race after Mikulski’s announcement, and there is speculation that former NAACP President and CEO Ben Jealous will run. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is reportedly pondering a run, and sources close to Rep. Elijah Cummings said he is consideringthe seat too. Edwards is being encouraged to run by organizations such as the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Democracy for America, and Blue America. Former Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown has not publicly stated his plans for the Senate contest. Former Maryland State Sen. Tommy Broadwater, the first Black elected to that chamber from Prince George’s County, said running for the Senate will not be easy. “Winning a statewide race is difficult and it involves getting a lot of people on the campaign and raising a lot of money,” Broadwater, known as the “godfather” of Black politics in the county, said. “I do think it is time for a Prince Georgian and an African

American to represent Maryland in the Senate. Winning will take a lot of hard work.” Broadwater was aware of Van Hollen and Edwards’ interest in the Senate but said that he hasn’t heard anything about Brown’s interest. Speigner said state Sen. C. Anthony Muse, who ran against U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin (D) in 2012 Democratic primary, shouldn’t be ignored. “Muse would have credibility as a candidate,” Speigner said. “He’s run before and he got 18 percent of the vote even though he didn’t have the amount of money that Cardin had.” Greg Hall, a former candidate for delegate in the 24th District, said it is time for the Democratic Party brass to get behind minority candidates who want to win statewide offices. “We the people should make the decision on the next senator, not the party bosses,” Hall said.

Hall said former NAACP CEO Kweisi Mfume, who ran against Cardin in the 2006 Democratic primary, should get another look, along with while former Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Glen Ivey and Muse. “We have talent here in the county,” Hall said. Maryland Del. Jay Walker (D-District 26), chairman of the Prince George’s County House delegation, said that he has not thought to the race but notes the county cannot be ignored. “Any candidate who wants to win the election will have to go through – Tommy Broadwater Prince George’s County, and we will have a major impact on who wins,” Walker said. Walker said that it is time for Maryland to elect a Black U.S. senator. “African Americans have made a lot of progress in Maryland and with Prince George’s County and Baltimore City as large voting blocs we could determine who the next senator will be.”

“I do think it is time for a Prince Georgian and an African American to represent Maryland in the Senate.”

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Kids or Adults? Re-Entry Program Examines Incarceration of 18-24 Year-Olds By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO Statistics abound supporting the reality that AfricanAmerican youth 18-24 in the D.C. area are increasingly tied to some aspect of the criminal justice system. Whether confined to house arrest, in half-way houses, incarcerated, or on parole, these young people often find themselves in a never-ending cycle of recidivism. The Reentry Network for Returning Citizens recently held a forum to determine if given the underlying causes of youth crime – mental health issues and drug abuse – young people under 24 should be charged as something other than adults.

“…let us work out solutions that best address the needs of our children.” –Courtney Stewart A panel, consisting of community activists including Marcy Mistrett, of the Campaign for Youth Justice; public defender Reginald Williamson; and Drug Policy Alliance policy manager Malik Burnett, led a lively discussion on the pros and cons of judicial age adjustment. “Some of these kids don’t have the mental or emotional capacity to be charged fairly as adults and in the last 30 years

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The Reentry Network for Returning Citizens works with people reentering society after incarceration. the criminal justice system has just sent them off to prison,” said Courtney Stewart , chairman of The Reentry Network for Returning Citizens Inc. “Since we are in D.C., some of these prisons are 500 miles away and families are broken up, and they do not get to see their kids until they come back.” Stewart said the dialogue is both meaningful and important because in addition to addressing the mental and emotional capacity of our Black youth, it opens a larger discussion on the environment, peer pressure, and the victimization many of these young people face before ever entering the prison system. Data from the National Center for the Victims of Crime reveal that over the course of their lifetime, 71 percent of 14- to 17-year olds suffer assault, 28 percent sexual victimization, 32

percent abuse or neglect, and 53 percent property victimization (including robbery). Only 9 percent of Black teens who become the victims of crime ever seek treatment. “We’re saying enough is enough. We’re saying, let us work out solutions that best address the needs of our children,” Stewart said. “Children that go into adult prisons are generally doing seven years or more. That’s a long time. Prison is for punishment and when you punish a kid at that age – 14 or 15 – you pretty much punish him for life.” Ward 1 resident Valerie Williams attended the forum to seek advice on how to help her son who is currently locked up in Prince Georges County, while on parole in the District. She said because the prison system is a business, those, like her son, with mental illnesses, are shuffled into prisons alongside hardened criminals for profit. “I raised him the right way, but he has a sickness. He has been addicted drugs for years and it is a sickness that causes him to do all types of things. It is a mental issue, though, not a criminal one. My son should not be in jail, he should be in treatment and I came tonight to speak on it,” Williams said. Walter Johnson, a job developer with Collaborative Solutions for Communities, said more creative measures were necessary for addressing underlying causes of crime and adjusting the behaviors of youth offenders, rather than criminalizing them. “We need to create solutions, particularly for non-violent offenders that would help them move forward and become productive citizens,” Johnson said. “It would be worth revisiting some of the programs that churches used to have where they stood up in courts and offered to provide apprenticeships and other institutional help.”

Brooke

Continued from A1 friends and members of his fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, one of the speakers at the funeral service held at the Washington National Cathedral on March 10, said that Brooke was a great American. “In 1967, when he was escorted on the Senate floor by Sen. Edward Kennedy, he was an advance scout probing the soul of

“For all of his history, Ed Brooke was his own man.” – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry

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our country,” Kerry, a former senator from Massachusetts, said. “For all of his history, Ed Brooke was his own man.” Brooke died on Jan. 3 at the age of 95. A District native, he attended Dunbar Senior High School and Howard University, won a Bronze Star in the Army, had a groundbreaking career in politics in Massachusetts, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in 2004, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009. In addition to the Brooke family, among the hundreds attending the funeral were Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and former Sens. Robert Dole (R-Kan.), Mo Cowan (D-Mass.), John Warner (R-Va.), and Carol MoseleyBraun (D-Ill.). D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), who spoke at the funeral, was joined by Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), among others, to represent the House of Representatives. Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D), D.C. Council member Vincent Orange (D-At Large), and Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker were present at Brooke’s funeral. Kerry said Brooke’s achievements during his political career were remarkable because Massachusetts was only two percent Black and predominantly Catholic and Democratic. The secretary said that Brooke’s life has had an impact on the present. “There is a straight line from Ed Brooke’s election in 1962 to more than 40 years later”, Kerry said referring to the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States. Norton said Brooke was an anomaly, given that he lived in a racially segregated District that had no representation in Congress and fought in World War II in an all-Black Army unit. Despite those challenges, he emerged as a senator, Norton said. “I cannot explain the conundrum that is Edward Brooke,” the delegate said. “I can tell you that he had warmth and talent that made him successful as a public man and a friend.” Milton Davis, a former president of Alpha, said he got to know Brooke through the fraternity’s history book. “I would read about the great Alpha men such as Thurgood Marshall, W.E. B. DuBois, and Jesse Owens and none still stood out more dramatically than Edward W. Brooke,” Davis said. “He was my hero.

(D-N.Y.), Chaka Fattah (D-Penn.), David Scott (D-Ga.), The history books have yet to give him the credit that he has Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), and Danny Davis (D-Ill.) could not earned.” Edward Brooke IV, the late senator’s son, said that his father attend the ceremony but where there in spirit. Howard President A.I. Frederick said the university would was “a truly sweet, tender, and [a] lovely man.” Rear Admiral match donations to the Brooke Chair in the Department of Barry C. Black, Senate chaplain, said Brooke “greeted life’s challenges with equanimity and excellence.” Political Science to value it at $1 million. Brooke was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Alpha’s general president, Marc Tillman, and past general On March 9, Alpha honored Brooke with an Omega Service, presidents Davis, James Ponder, Harry E. Johnson, and Darryl a ceremony reserved for deceased members of the fraternity, R. Matthews spoke about the impact Brooke had on Alpha and at the Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel on Howard’s campus. on their lives. Brooke joined Alpha at Howard University’s chapter and “Brooke was a Republican in the [mold] of Abraham became a national undergraduate and east coast leader. The Lincoln,” Ponder said. Rev. Matthew L. Watley of Reid Temple A.M.E. Church and “He was not just an Alpha man, but a great man,” Johnson said. the Rev. Jonathan Augustine of St. Paul A.M.E. Church of New Orleans led the two-hour service. According to Erika Laws Van Croft, a Philadelphia native who now lives in the District as a freelance journalist, “His legacy is WHAT MATTERS MOST TO extremely large. He was Barak Obama before there was a Barak Obama, and the memorial service was a dignified [and] very beautiful event.” Van Croft met Brooke “They’ve enabled me to through her late husband William A. Van Croft III who live independently.” knew Brookes through his father Rev. William A. Van The caring experts at Community Hospice Croft Jr., who was Brooke’s are helping with what matters most to pastor a St. Luke’s Episcopal Marjorie at the end of her life – remaining Church in Northwest. at home. Alpha politicians attending the service included Orange, Regular visits from nurses, aides and a Scott and Rep. Al Green chaplain have meant Marjorie can live alone, (D-Texas). Scott, in his but never feel lonely. remarks, noted that other Alphas in the House such How can we help you? as Reps. Charles Rangel WhatMattersToMe.org (D-N.Y.), Gregory Meeks

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EDUCATION

Blacks Now Finishing High School at Record Levels By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After 30 years of little to no progress, Black youth are completing high school at the highest rates in history. This is the finding in a new issue brief titled, “Young Black America Part One: High School Completion Rates are at their Highest Ever,” published by the Center for Economic Policy Research, a Washingtonbased think-tank. The report examines Census Bureau data for 20 to 24 year-olds, and compares high school completion rates around the country over the past 30 to 40 years. “All in all, young blacks have experienced significant gains in high school completion rates during the past 13 years,” the report reads. “Given the importance of educational attainment in determining future wages, higher completion rates should, in theory, translate to higher wages.” In 1975, Black Americans finished high school at a 75 percent rate, compared to 88 percent for Whites and the overall 86 percent rate. In 2000, Blacks completed high school at a 14 percent lower rate than their White counterparts. However, by

2013, the Black completion rate rose to 86 percent, its highest-ever level, shrinking the Black-White gap to less than 7 percent. “I’m a young Black woman and I wanted to answer the question of what’s going on with young Blacks in America,” says

Cherrie Bucknor, a Center for Economic Policy Research assistant and author of the paper. “Sometimes there are too many negative portrayals and negative stereotypes on young Blacks, and I like the fact this was something positive to focus on.” The gender break down also shows a noteworthy trajectory. In addition to slightly outpacing the rate for Black boys (a trend that holds for all girls, across race), the completion rate for Black

girls is 89 percent, only five points lower than the rate for White girls. While the gains of Black girls were more gradual, Black boys have experienced a rocky road to improvement in helping close the Black-White high school completion gap. “The completion rate

for black males followed the same trajectory, but 3 to 8 percentage points lower. Although black males experienced noticeable gains in completion rates during this century (an increase of 18.1 percent since 2000), their gains were not enough to offset the gains of other groups, leaving noticeable gaps in completion rates between black males and other groups,” the report stated. “In 2013, the completion

rate for black males (83.5 percent) was 5.9 percentage points lower than black females and 8.8 percentage points lower than white males.” Regional analysis also shows a different trend. At 10 percent higher than the national rate for Black students, the West has held the most promise for Black students since 1975. But the other regions have caught up in recent years. As of 2013, Black students in both the Northeast and the West have the highest completion rates (88.2 and 88.1 percent, respectively). Further, all of the regions now have comparable rates for Black students, all within three percentage points of one another. Although the report does not examine or speculate on causes for this breaks in these trends, Bucknor has a few theories. “One factor that might be in play is increasing the graduation requirements for students in general, which makes the decision to drop out or stay in school a little bit different than before then,” Bucknor explains, adding that test scores for entering freshmen also been improving. “And since 2000, some of the plausible factors that I’ve read about include declining teenage birth rates…[which] makes them more likely to be in school.” The teenage birth rate is also at a historic low, particularly for Black teens. According to 2012 data from the National Center for Health Statistics, the maternity rate for Black girls age 15 to 17 has dropped 45 percent since 2000; for 18 and 19-year olds it has dropped 30 percent. This report is the first part in a series that explores measures of success (or lack thereof) among Black people under 40. “I feel like there’s a lot of attention on Blacks in general, but I wanted to focus on young Blacks like me,” Bucknor says. “So I’m hoping to look at several issues related to education, jobs, and inequality as a way to answer that question.”

President Obama, First Lady Launch “Let Girls Learn” Initiative By Jonathan Hunter Special to the AFRO

The Obama administration on March 3 announced plans to help girls across the world receive a secondary education with the Let Girls Learn initiative, a program intended to help nearly 60 million girls from developing countries go to school. Let Girls Learn began last summer as a United States Agency for International Development effort which drew support from celebrities such as Shonda Rhimes, Josh Duhamel and Jennifer Garner, according to Newsweek. The Obama administration said it would build off those existing programs and create more partnerships with other government organizations. “62 million girls around the world—half of whom are adolescent—are not in school,” the White House said in a statement. “These girls have diminished economic opportunities and are more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, early and forced marriage, and other forms of violence.” In seeking a quality education, girls in countries across the world share a number of issues with their male counterparts. Challenges include their parents not being able to afford school uniforms, living in war zones or living in a village without adequate resources However, girls face extra hurdles, because in many countries men are expected to be the breadwinners, forcing girls to take a back seat in getting an education. According to the Brookings Institute, in the Central Africa Republic and Afghanistan there are 70 girls in school for every 100 boys. In Chad and Somalia there are 46 girls in school for every 100 boys. “A good education can lift you from the most humble circumstances into a life you never could have imagined,” first lady Michelle Obama said at a press conference announcing the initiative. “I see myself in these girls. I see our daughters in these girls. I want to use my time and platform as first lady and beyond to make a real impact.” According to the administration, the new initiative will join with the Peace Corps and work in communities to identify barriers facing adolescent girls from attending schools. With 7,000 volunteers in 60 developing countries, the Peace Corps has already engaged in grassroots efforts side by side with local families. The Peace Corps will train approximately 650 more volunteers and promote education in 11 countries: Albania, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Georgia, Ghana, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, Togo, and Uganda, according to USA Today. President Obama said he is proud of what the U.S. does to support girls around the world, but that it could do more. “I’m proud to say that the U.S. already does a great deal to support girls’ education around the world,” Obama said at the press conference. “But what we do, we tend to do quietly. It doesn’t get a lot of publicity.”

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COMMUNITY CONNECTION Bowie, Md. National College Resources Foundation to Host Black College Expo The National College Resources Foundation (NCRF) will host the 12th Annual Black College Expo (BCE) on March 14 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Bowie State University (Gym), 14000 Jericho Park Road. Tickets are $7 for groups of 15 or more, $8 online and $10 at the door. This event will bring a vast array of education opportunities for high school students and college transfer students, and even career opportunities for college students and graduates. Students will have opportunities to meet one on one with college recruiters, get college application fees waived, and get accepted to a college on the spot! Some colleges will offer scholarships valued up to $180,000. To get accepted and to receive scholarships, 11th, 12th graders and college transfer students must bring their official transcripts and SAT/ACT scores to be reviewed by college admissions recruiters. For more information, visit our website at www.thecollegeexpo.org or call NCRF corporate office at 909-396-0151.

D.C. DCAP Convention

The District of Columbia Association of Parliamentarians (DCAP) will hold its 46th Annual Convention on March 21 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Washington Navy Yard’s Catering and Conference Center, 6th and M Street S.E., Building 211. The Speakers will include Freddie L. Colston and Michael L. Swift. Tickets cost $50. For more information and to register contact

Margaret Smith Perkins at 301-627-3345. NAACP, Union Baptist Nutrition and Health Disparities Town Hall The NAACP DC Branch and Union Temple Baptist Church will partner to host a Nutrition Justice and Health Disparities Town Hall Meeting in honor of National Nutrition Month and the 50th Anniversary of Selma. The meeting will be held on March 23 at 7 p.m. at the Union Temple Baptist Church, 1225 W Street, S.E. This meeting will address the food justice issues and health disparities facing east of the river communities. The event will also inform and engage families, faith-based leaders, business leaders, media and policy makers to promote health and combat the diet-related illnesses plaguing our communities. The event is free. To RSVP, visit http://bit.ly/ naacpdchealthtownall.

College Park, Md. First Baptist Seminar on Domestic Violence

The First Baptist Church of College Park will hold its first seminar for the church’s newly established ministry, The Family Institute on March 28. The seminar will address Domestic Violence with the theme, Broken Silence from Isaiah 32:18. The Domestic Violence seminar will commence with a continental breakfast, followed by a panel discussion, various workshops and a luncheon. The seminar will begin at 9 a.m. and end at noon. Continental breakfast will begin at 8:45 a.m. and lunch will be served at noon. The panelist will include representatives from my Sister’s Place, Blacks and Missing and others experts. RSVP by emailing Angela Bates at familyinstitute@fbc-cp.org or you can pre-register at www.fbc-cp.org. Space is limited.

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Selma

Continued from A1 artist Jay-Z. leaders that day part of a long While connecting with line of heroes. We gather here African Americans, President to celebrate them. We gather Obama also underscored the here to honor the courage of significance of civil rights ordinary Americans willing warriors making America to endure billy clubs and hold true to its creed. the chastening rod; tear gas “As John [Lewis] and the trampling hoof; men noted, there are places and and women who despite the moments in America where gush of blood and splintered this nation’s destiny has bone would stay true to their been decided. Many are North Star and keep marching sites of war – Concord and towards justice. Lexington, Appomattox, “They did as Scripture Gettysburg. Others are sites instructed: ‘Rejoice in hope, that symbolize the daring be patient in tribulation, be of America’s character – constant in prayer.’ And in Independence Hall and the days to come, they went Seneca Falls, Kitty Hawk and back again and again. When Cape Canaveral,” the president said. “Selma is such a place. In one afternoon 50 years ago, so much of our turbulent history — the stain of slavery and anguish of civil war; the yoke of segregation and tyranny of Jim Crow; the death of four little girls in Birmingham; and the dream of a Baptist preacher – all that history met on this bridge.” He made his comments with President Obama hugs the Edmund Pettus Rep. John Lewis after his Bridge, where civil introduction. rights marchers were attacked by Alabama State Troopers on “Bloody Sunday,” serving as the trumpet call sounded for a backdrop. more to join, the people came “It was not a clash of –- black and white, young armies, but a clash of wills; and old, Christian and Jew, a contest to determine the waving the American flag and true meaning of America,” singing the same anthems full Obama said. “And because of faith and hope.” of men and women like John President Obama admitted Lewis, Joseph Lowery, Hosea what many, if not most Williams, Amelia Boynton, African Americans have Diane Nash, Ralph Abernathy, long accepted as fact – it was C.T. Vivian, Andrew Young, through their efforts that other Fred Shuttlesworth, Dr. groups obtained their rights. Martin Luther King, Jr., In fact, often ahead of Blacks. and so many others, the “Because of what they idea of a just America and [protesters] did, the doors of a fair America, an inclusive opportunity swung open not America, and a generous just for black folks, but for America – that idea ultimately every American,” Obama triumphed.” said. “Women marched President Obama through those doors. Latinos also acknowledged the marched through those contributions of thousands doors. Asian Americans, gay whose name will never be Americans, Americans with known to the public yet disabilities – they all came played a critical role in through those doors. Their securing the right to vote. endeavors gave the entire “As is true across the South the chance to rise again, landscape of American not by reasserting the past, but history, we cannot examine by transcending the past.” this moment in isolation. The president said in The march on Selma was order to be true to those who part of a broader campaign sacrificed to make America a that spanned generations; the better place, everyone – Black

and White – has an obligation to address America’s unfinished business. “First and foremost, we have to recognize that one day’s commemoration, no matter how special, is not enough. If Selma taught us anything, it’s that our work is never done. The American experiment in selfgovernment gives work and purpose to each generation. Selma teaches us, as well, that action requires that we shed our cynicism. For when it comes to the pursuit of justice, we can afford neither complacency nor despair.”

want the same thing young people here marched for 50 years ago – the protection of the law. Together, we can address unfair sentencing and overcrowded prisons, and the stunted circumstances that rob too many boys of the chance to become men, and rob the nation of too many men who could be good dads, and good workers, and good neighbors. With effort, we can roll back poverty and the roadblocks to opportunity. Americans don’t accept a free ride for anybody, nor do we believe in equality of outcomes. But we do expect equal opportunity.” Regarding Republican-led efforts to suppress the Black and Latino vote, Obama said: “Right now, in 2015, 50 years after Selma, there are laws across this country designed to make it harder for people to vote. As we speak, more of such laws are being proposed. Meanwhile, the Voting Rights Act, the culmination of so much blood, so much sweat and tears, the product of so much sacrifice in the face of wanton violence, the Voting Official White House Photo by Pete Souza Rights Act stands weakened, its future subject to political He said, “If we want to rancor.” honor the courage of those But the problem does not who marched that day, then stop there, Obama said. all of us are called to possess “Of course, our democracy their moral imagination. All is not the task of Congress of us will need to feel as they alone, or the courts alone, or did the fierce urgency of now. even the president alone. If All of us need to recognize every new voter-suppression as they did that change law was struck down today, depends on our actions, on we would still have, here in our attitudes, the things we America, one of the lowest teach our children. And if we voting rates among free make such an effort, no matter peoples. Fifty years ago, how hard it may sometimes registering to vote here in seem, laws can be passed, and Selma and much of the South consciences can be stirred, meant guessing the number of and consensus can be built.” jellybeans in a jar, the number Obama addressed two hot- of bubbles on a bar of soap. button issues – the criminal It meant risking your dignity, justice system and voter and sometimes, your life. disenfranchisement efforts – “What’s our excuse today directly. for not voting? How do we so “With such an effort, we casually discard the right for can make sure our criminal which so many fought? How justice system serves all and do we so fully give away our not just some. Together, we power, our voice, in shaping can raise the level of mutual America’s future? Why are trust that policing is built we pointing to somebody on – the idea that police else when we could take the officers are members of the time just to go to the polling community they risk their places? We give away our lives to protect, and citizens power. “ in Ferguson and New York Hip-hop artist Jay-Z’s and Cleveland, they just remix of the song, “My

Bipartisan Resolution Introduced to Honor 50th Anniversary of Civil Rights Marches By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO Amid commemorations of the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a bipartisan resolution celebrating the Selma marches has been introduced in the House of Representatives. Led by U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), the resolution calls for the issuance of a postage stamp to commemorate the 1965 civil rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. Beatty was joined by over 102 of her colleagues as original co-sponsors of the resolution, including Reps. Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.), Terri Sewell (D-Ala.), and Will Hurd (R-Texas). “This resolution highlights a pivotal movement in America’s history, the Selma Voting Rights March, that brought together Americans to march from Selma to Montgomery 50 years ago. They marched with a truth – that all Americans share the same rights,” said Beatty. “Out of these efforts we passed the Voting Rights Act, a pivotal law that helped many obtain the right to vote.” Beatty said discrimination at the voting booths prevented the vast majority of African Americans from registering to vote. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) led a series of demonstrations and on Feb. 17, protester Jimmy Lee Jackson was fatally shot by an Alabama state trooper. In response, the march from Selma to Montgomery was scheduled and more than 600 marchers assembled, led by John Lewis. Just short of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the protesters found their way blocked by Alabama state troopers, local lawmen, and citizens, wielding clubs, whips, and tear gas. Ursula Britten-Hughes, then a student at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, said her brother, Charles, was among the SCLC marchers and sustained a head injury from a blow of a baton that day. The stamp commemoration, she said, would go a long way in honoring many nameless, faceless Americans who marched to secure voting rights. “These marches were the mobilized efforts of everyday Americans, who exercised their Constitutional rights to assemble and protest. I think this stamp should show the multitude of people, like Charles, who took those blows to the head while standing on the back row and singing with all his heart,” Britten-Hughes said. More than 50 non-violent protesters were hospitalized in the attack. Undeterred by Bloody Sunday, marchers again set off on March 21 to continue the 54-mile protest from Selma to the steps of the State Capitol in Montgomery. “The Edmund Pettus Bridge was the portal through which America shed its dark past and marched to a brighter future. This bipartisan bill honors the significance of the historic Selma to Montgomery marches, and the Foot Soldiers who forced our nation to live up to its ideals of equality and justice for all Americans,” Sewell said.

President” has the popular line: “Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther could walk / Martin Luther walked so Barack Obama could run / Barack Obama ran so all the children could fly.” In his speech, Obama had his own line that showed he was in tune with Jay-Z’s

lyrics: “We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar.” He added, “And we will not grow weary. For we believe in the power of an awesome God, and we believe in this country’s sacred promise.”

Health Outcomes

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“The overall goal is to improve health outcomes within Prince George’s County,” Betty Hager Francis, deputy chief administrative officer of Health, Human Services and Education for Prince George’s County, said. “There are a number of steps to get there and one of them is to ensure we

have integrated health practices.” Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III spoke about integration.“We’re expanding our relationships with clinics throughout the county and looking to bring more clinics here,” Baker said. “We’re putting social workers

and health officers in the schools, especially around our TNI (Transforming Neighborhood Initiatives) areas. And we’re working with the existing hospitals to connect everybody.” Prior meetings on healthcare needs found residents primarily desire more access to quality care and Seat Pleasant Mayor Eugene Grant agreed. “From our citizens’ perspective, those who are uninsured and insured, those who are Medicare, Medicaid or privately insured; all of them are saying we don’t have access to quality healthcare,” said Grant. “Some of my seniors go all the way to Howard University.” Although Prince George’s has several medical centers and primary care providers, residents continue to seek care in nearby counties and Washington, D.C. One in two county residents visits surrounding districts for medical care, according to a study by John Snow Inc., the public health consulting firm that drafted the strategic plan. “Is it disheartening to think that one out of every two people leaves Prince George’s County to get healthcare,” asked Council Member Derrick Leon Davis (D-District 9). “Can you imagine [that] you can’t get healthcare where you live?” The same study found that out of Maryland’s 24 counties, Prince George’s ranked 17, 18 and 14 in health outcomes, length of life and quality of life, respectively. Many in attendance were interested in an anticipated open date for the Largo medical center which, according to Baker, is slated to open in late 2016 or early 2017. “What will be offered here, when is it coming and how long is it going to take,” Adderly asked.

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COMMENTARY

Selma’s Lesson: The Struggle Continues President Obama marked the 50th anniversary of Selma by celebrating the ordinary heroes who sacrificed so much to make America better. Noting that nearly 100 members of Congress were in the audience, he urged them to return to Washington to strengthen the Voting Rights Act, weakened by the illconsidered decision of five conservative Supreme Court Jesse L. Jackson Justices in Shelby County v. Sr. Holder. Today, 50 years after Selma, states are moving once more to make voting harder rather than easier. Reviving the Voting Rights Act is essential, but it is not sufficient. The marchers in Selma were marching not just for the right to vote, but also for jobs and justice. And today, Selma itself reveals how far we have to go. Much attention was rightly paid to the 103-year-old Amelia Boynton Robinson. In 1965, she was a leader in planning the Selma demonstrations, and her home was the site for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and legislators to gather as they wrote the first draft of the Voting Rights Act. This weekend, 50 years later, she joined President Obama on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, sitting tall in her wheelchair. Yet, her home – which ought to be a national memorial – now sits boarded up, joining other vacant and foreclosed homes in her neighborhood. Selma is now 80 percent Black. Dallas County, where it sits, suffers the highest unemployment in the state at 10.2 percent. The official figure doesn’t count the many who have simply given up trying to find a job. Downtown Selma has as many boarded up stores as operating ones. USA Today quoted David Garrow, the author of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who warned against “reducing history to a photo op.” The focus, he argued, “should be on investment and economic development in places like Selma. The focus should be on what we can do for Selma, not what

Selma can do for us.” And of course, it is not just Selma. African American unemployment remains at more than twice the level of White unemployment. Only 60 percent of all African American men have a job of any kind, with only one in five African Americans 16-19 employed. We lock up more people – mostly people of color – than any other nation in the world. The Justice Department’s investigation of Ferguson, Mo. showed a destructive racial bias still stains our criminal justice system. Our schools in poor communities – ghettos, barrios and rural areas – still suffer a savage inequality in resources and capacity. Yes, great progress has been made, and it is important to recognize and remember the courage and costs of those who sacrificed to make America better. But the commemoration must be a call to action. We should be protesting in Selma, not celebrating. The Civil Rights struggle was in some respect a movement that had three parts. The first was ending legal segregation. The second guaranteeing the right to vote. The third, the one Dr. King knew would be the most difficult, was to guarantee economic justice, equal opportunity and a fair start for all. As Selma shows today, and as the Fergusons across the country demonstrate, that part has yet to be achieved. President Obama was right. It’s great to see 100 legislators at the demonstration, but we need them to legislate, not demonstrate. We need them to return to Washington and raise the minimum wage. We need a jobs program for young people

in urban America. We need to fulfill the easy rhetoric about education as an answer, by investing the most in those who need it the most – the sons and daughters of the poor and low wage families. President Obama called out to the young to lead once more: “It is you, the young and fearless at heart, the most diverse and educated generation in our history, who the nation is waiting to follow.” We’ve seen the stirrings in the BlackLivesMatter demonstrations across the country. What Selma reminds us is that to make America better will take much more action to demand what could be, and much less acceptance of what is. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. is founder and president of the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition. You can keep up with his work at www.rainbowpush.org

Don’t Overlook Contributions of Clarence Mitchell

Looking at our nation and noting where we have come since 1965 gives us reason to celebrate. However, in our celebration we should be mindful that true equality was never achieved, and that instead of moving towards justice we are moving in the other direction. Just a year ago we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, though the Act has been and continues to be under attack from the right wing of this nation as some even ponder its “constitutionality.” And now we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, just two years after the law was gutted by a decision by the Supreme Court that was not founded in law and where the Chief Justice incredulously opined that Blacks in Mississippi had superior voter access than Blacks in Massachusetts. It is in this vein that we say that there should be a celebration, but there too must be a recognition of the work that must be done to repair the harm done by the Shelby County decision. The ink wasn’t dry on that decision before Southern states such as North Carolina, Texas and Mississippi started to take action to go back to how things were. Blacks in all the old confederacy are now confronting an array of repressive laws such as unduly restrictive voter identification laws, cut backs on early voting, enhanced purging of voters, burdensome identification issuance or renewal laws, changing of voting sites to make it more difficult for people of color to vote and a facing host of other such discriminatory obstacles. We are hearing dog whistles every day in 2015. In the wake of last weekend’s celebration in Selma, we hope that the NAACP gets proper recognition for its essential role in the law’s passage. We love and respect those great Americans such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and President Lyndon Baines Johnson who are deservedly given so much credit, but others, including Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois and the NAACP’s Clarence Mitchell, had indispensable roles as well. Sadly, the celebration of the 1964 Act largely ignored Mitchell and we hope this year’s celebration does not do the same. Clarence Mitchell was born into poverty, but rose into prominence as the NAACP’s

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chief lobbyist and became widely known as the Nation’s 101st Senator. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter and the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal in 1969. Mitchell strategized with Johnson to keep waffling northern Senators on board and utilized his friendships with Republicans and Democrats to help effectively persuade them to come on board. And as the nation’s chief civil rights lobbyist, he helped to organize and guide a coalition of diverse supporters from NAACP units, other civil rights, church and labor groups to address pressure points as they arose in Congress and to keep pressure on for members of Congress to support the bill. President Johnson was even quoted as saying no person forced his door open more than Clarence Mitchell. As we celebrate Bloody Sunday and the march from Selma to Montgomery and other vital and important events from 1965, let us remember the heroes and martyrs – Dr. King, Rep. John Lewis (d-Ga.), Hosea Williams of SCLC, Amelia Boynton and Jimmie Lee Jackson. In addition to those great African-Americans we should celebrate the courageous actions of White Americans such as Rev. James Reeb and Viola Liuzzo who gave their lives so that we could have a better country. And let us remember Clarence Mitchell too! Remembering Clarence Mitchell reminds us of how important an integrated strategy was before and is now. We must go to the streets as LBJ insisted, but the work in the halls of Congress and in the home states or districts of Congresspersons plays an essential and vital role as well. The strategy needed and included the NAACP and Mitchell and Roy Wilkins, SNCC with Lewis, Julian Bond and others and of course the SCLC with King, Hosea Williams, Andrew Young and others. And as we try to fix this law, let us restore it with substance and vitality in honor of all those great people, named and unnamed, who gave so much so that we might have the right to vote. William Barber is state president of the North Carolina NAACP and Gary L. Bledsoe is state president of the Texas NAACP.

Who Pays for Police Officers’ Misbehavior? Ever since President Bill Clinton apologized for the Tuskegee syphilis “experiment” in 1997, we have heard calls for apologies from the government and individuals for a myriad of transgressions against Black people. I came to the conclusion a long time ago that apologies are highly overrated and mean very little when it comes to initiating substantive change and reciprocity toward the offended class or individual. We witnessed the latest apology by the mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, to the family of Tamir Rice after the police findings were made public. The report stated Rice’s death was caused by, “by the failure … to exercise due care to avoid injury.” In other words, the 12-year old boy caused his own death. The mayor apologized not for the killing but for the words used to describe the cause James Clingman of the killing. Rice was shot for holding a toy gun 1.7 seconds after the cops pulled up to his location in a park. No warning, no command to drop the gun, and no attempt to speak to Rice; they shot first – immediately, and now we are asking the questions. We will hear the usual excuses and legal rationales, but the bottom line is that the taxpayers of Cleveland will pay dearly for this tragedy. That’s right, the taxpayers, not the police officers, which brings me to my point. Yes, you’re right; here comes the economic side of things. From 1995 to 2001, in Cincinnati, police killed 15 Black men, some of whom were wielding guns and some who were innocent victims of overzealous quick-on-the-trigger officers. In addition to the killings, many Black people were harassed, profiled, illegally stopped and searched, and unjustifiably injured, physically and psychologically, by police officers. Those incidents, undergirded by economic sanctions imposed against our city and a class action lawsuit, led to several capitulating concessions, which included cash payouts that amounted to more than $16 million, as I recall. Who paid it? The taxpayers, those of us who protested, helped pay the bill for the injuries and injustices that we fought against. Looking back on those days makes me see how ridiculous it is for us to follow the same pattern to redress injustices such as the killing of Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and others. Most

taxpayers give little or no thought to where the millions of dollars come from when monetary penalties are imposed and paid out to victims of police violence or mistreatment of citizens. Maybe if more of us knew the money was coming from our pockets, money that, in many cases, could have been used for street repair, business development, or capital improvements, we would get together and put an end to this madness. In return for insults, injuries, and injustice we demand apologies and, in some instances, remuneration. We get are empty words replete with condescension, and payouts from our own tax dollars, which have no real effect on the perpetrators of the insults, injuries, and injustices we suffer. The real culprits have nothing to lose; they commit their acts with impunity. They can even say Tamir Rice and John Crawford caused their own deaths by holding a gun in an “open carry” state, a state where other folks carry guns openly and never get shot for doing so. We watched Rice and Crawford lose their lives in a matter of seconds after the police came on the scene. We saw Eric Garner killed in a matter of minutes for “failing to comply,” while we see others questioning police officers and “refusing” to comply, only to be allowed to either walk away or otherwise have their say as the police back off. Despite the graphic evidence of disparate treatment, Blacks get weak apologies and insulting rationales as mitigation for our injuries and injustice. If there were a price to pay for police officers who commit these kinds of acts, since most will never be indicted, maybe they would exercise more restraint before they fire their guns. If they were required to have personal malpractice insurance, for instance, not paid by the municipality but by themselves, or if court awards had to be paid from police department budgets, maybe there would be fewer killings. Injustice can and does lead to violence in return, and it could ultimately be one reason for young people turning to terrorism. While some naively think jobs will stop terrorism, a report, “The Age of the Wolf,” cited an 18-year old boy who stated, “I did not join the Taliban because I was poor; I joined because I was angry.” There is a lot of anger out there about our broken criminal justice system. I believe economic responses will accelerate the process of repairing it. Jim Clingman, founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce, is the nation’s most prolific writer on economic empowerment for Black people. He can be reached through his website, blackonomics.com.

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Black Women and Work as a Civil Right By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent This is the second in a series of articles about laws that have significantly impacted Black women in America.

n the history of laws that have significantly impacted the lives of African Americans, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is among the premier league. “[It] was pivotal. It was probably the most game-changing legislation for Blacks in the United States,” said Barbara Arnwine, executive director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. And Title VII of that law, which barred workplace discrimination on a number of protected categories was particularly beneficial for African-American women, historians and activists agree. “Title VII has been absolutely radical for Black women,” Arnwine added. “By barring discrimination on the basis of race and gender it cleared the way for AfricanAmerican women to fully participate in the workplace. Before that we didn’t see women employed across all sectors.” Black women and labor have been closely intertwined since the first 19 African slaves were dumped on the shores of Jamestown, Va., in 1619. Blacks were seen as a source of cheaper, more plentiful labor than indentured servants (usually poor Europeans), and formed the economic backbone of the American South, which specialized in the production of crops such as tobacco and later, cotton. Even after Emancipation, freed Black women were expected to work—unlike their White counterparts who society put on a pedestal. According to a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, from 1870 to 1900, the labor force participation rate of Black women was about 40 percent compared to less than 15 percent among White women. The Freedmen’s Bureau, a federal agency that was supposed to assist former slaves in the South, often acted as an agent in trying to force Black women to work, either by having husbands contract their entire families to

work in the cotton industries or by declaring that unemployed women would be treated as vagrants just like men. Overall, however, it was almost impossible for former slaves to make any advancements in the post-Civil War economy in the South thanks to restrictive Black codes and systems of involuntary or forced labor, such as peonage, debt bondage and apprenticeship and regressive contractual arrangements such as sharecropping. The lack of opportunities led millions of slaves to migrate, lured by promises of a better life in the industrial centers of the North. But conditions were deplorable, and Black women had to compete for menial, usually domestic, jobs. The advent of World War II presented the greatest challenge to White male domination of primary sector jobs and the greatest opportunity for job advancement for Black women up to that point in U.S. history. “Although scholars have given some attention to the labor-force fortunes of blacks in the war economy, few have considered the impact of the wartime expansion on black women, who constituted 600,000 of the 1,000,000 blacks who entered paid employment during the war years,” wrote Karen Tucker Anderson in the article “Last Hired, First Fired: Black Women Workers During World War II,” which was published in the Journal of American History. Despite advancements in the workplace, Black women continue to suffer from job inequality. As more men were mobilized to fight the war abroad, women were recruited to work in wartime industries—building airplanes, making ammunition, working in shipyards, among other duties. For Black women, who had been relegated to the lowestpaying domestic and farm work, war opened job categories and fostered upward mobility, wrote Anderson, citing scholars such as William Chafe, who “contends that the opportunities generated by the war-time economy and the long-term changes they fostered constituted World War II opened up job a ‘second emancipation’ for black women.” opportunities for Black women. But historian Ruth Milkman in Gender at Work: The In this image, under the direction Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During World War II of National Youth Administration contends that while wartime mobilization swept aside the foreman Cecil M. Coles, Juanita traditional sexual division of labor, after the war, women E. Gray learns to operate a lathe “were forced back into traditionally female occupations, or machine at the Washington, D.C., out of the labor market altogether.” NYA War Production and Training The relegation of women to “pink-collar” jobs and Center. This former domestic discrimination against women in the workplace persisted, and worker is one of hundreds of was particularly injurious to Black women, who were often Negro women trained at this on the lowest economic rung and served as primary or cocenter. primary breadwinners for their households. Welders Alivia Scott, Hattie Carpenter, and Flossie Burtos await an opportunity to weld their first piece of steel on the ship SS George Washington Carver at Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, Calif. Ca. 1943.

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A Black woman is seen operating a hand drill at VulteeNashville, where she is working on a “Vengeance” dive bomber in Tennessee, in February 1943.

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Photo by Alfred Palmer/Library of Congress

“They needed to have jobs where they were not just relegated to the kitchen,” Arnwine said. But such discrimination was not robustly addressed until the Civil Rights Act and Section VII was passed. “With laws on the books it provided an avenue for women to bring claims in court or before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for redress and that opened up more jobs and workplaces for women,” said Lenora Lapidus, director of the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union. The first Supreme Court case addressing gender discrimination on the basis of Title VII was Phillips v. Martin Marietta in which the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund represented the plaintiff, Ida Phillips. According to the record, Phillips, a White woman from Florida, applied for the position Continued on B6

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Professional Achievement in Industry Award presented to Michael Sterling, PhD by Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick

Grammy award winner Eddie Levert performing

The BEYA (Becoming Everything You Are) STEM Conference, an annual mentoring and networking seminar was hosted Feb. 5-7 at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park. This year’s conference, Exceeding Expectations: Path to the Future, brought more than 8,000 attendees including students, college administrators, and high-level corporate and government professionals together to broaden diversity in this country’s technical and scientific work forces. Stephanie C. Hill, vice president and general manager for Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global Solutions Civil said part of the conference’s purpose was to strengthen the nation’s global competitiveness. The conference was hosted by U.S. Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine, the Council of Engineering Deans of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Lockheed Martin Corporation.

Professional Achievement Award in Industry presented to Shelvy Marbury (left) by the presenter

2015 Black Engineer of the Year Award presented to Edward Wilburn (center) by the presenters

Most Promising Engineer in Industry Award presented to Jane Odera Greene by presenter, Michael Delcheccolo

Admiral Michelle Howard, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations

Gen. Vincent Brooks, Commanding General, U.S. Pacific Command

Gen. Larry Spencer, Vice Chief of Staff, USAF with ROTC Cadets from Central High School, Prince George’s County, Md.

Dee Taylor-Jolly, Billy Murphy, Dr. Willie Murphy and Tyrone D. Taborn, Chairman/CEO, Career Communications Group Tuskegee Airmen William Fauntroy and Major Anderson

Lt. Col. Hezekiah Barge, Jr., Brig. Gen. Craig Crenshaw, Lt. Gen. Ronald Bailey and Sgt. Ferraro Hasani

Photos by Rob Roberts

On Feb. 24, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation held its sixth annual Avoice Heritage Celebration at The Hamilton Hotel in downtown Washington. Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) were honored for

Vincent D’ Haiti, Demi Doniel-Akanie, Tony Ftzgerald, Abdulrabeen Adeieke and Monique Wilson, Director of the James E. Richmond Science Center

their years of service along with Toyota as the recipient of the Distinguished Corporation Award. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), a former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus along with Reps. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), Joyce

Beatty (D-Ohio), Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) and D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) were among the lawmakers who attended the event.

The recipient of The 2015 Distinguished Pioneer Avoice Heritage Award, Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.)

Mistress of Ceremonies, Allison Seymore FOX 5 Morning News Anchor Janice Crump and Maurice Crump

Faustine Wabwire, Ambassador Suzan Johnson-Cook, Angelique Walker-Smith and Nikki McDaniel

Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee (D- Texas), The recipient of The 2015 Distinguished Leadership Avoice Heritage Award, John Conyers Jr. (D- Mich.), guest, Melvin L. Watt (D – N.C.) and Rep. Robert C. Scott (D- Va.)

Photos by Rob Roberts

Barbara Williams-Skinner, on behalf of Toyota, received The 2015 CBCF Distinguished Corporation Avoice Heritage Award, James Colon and Kimberly Dumpson

Howard University choir Afro Blue

Elsie L. Scott, Ph.D., former president and CEO of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the founding director of the Ron W. Walters Leadership Center and A. Shuanise Washington- President and CEO, CBCF

Gen. Dennis L. Via and Mrs. Linda Via with Mrs. Charlene Austin and Gen. Lloyd Austin

Mary Lee Washington, Neighborhood Committee Institute Founder, CDC Support Center, Carmen Jenkins Frazier, Visual Arts Educator, DCPS, Carol Bernard, Educator, DCPS

Dr. Maurice and Pat Butler

Reps. Chaka Fattah (D- Penn.), G.K. Butterield (D – N.C.), Nancy Pelosi (DCalif.) and CBCF President and CEO A. Shuanise Washington

Nancy Pelosi, minority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives

Donald Washington, A. Shuanise Washington Ken Roger and Cora Williams

Priscilla Clarke and Shrita SterlinHernandez

Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Penn.) board chairman, CBCF

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ARTS & CULTURE

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Clarence Page: The ‘Culture Worrier’ Interview By Kam Williams Special to the AFRO Clarence Page is a nationally-syndicated columnist and member of the Chicago Tribune editorial board. Besides those duties, the Pulitzer Prize-winner makes frequent TV appearances, including on The McLaughlin Group as a regular member of the show’s panel of political pundits. Clarence makes his home in the Washington, DC area with his wife, Lisa, and their son, Grady. Here, he talks about his life, career and his best-selling collection of essay, Culture Worrier. Kam Williams: Hi Clarence, how’re you doing? Clarence Page: I’m good. How are you today, Kam? KW: Great! First, I wanted to ask, how much of a connection do you still have to Chicago? You write for the ‘Tribune,’ but live in D.C. CP: That’s right. I work out of our Washington bureau. My column is syndicated nationally, anyway. I have more of a Washington perspective than the other Tribune columnists, but I still love the place and try to get back as often as I can. And I occasionally do a locally-oriented blog item which is only printed in the Tribune. KW: I think of you as the black Mike Royko. How would describe your style? CP: I think every Chicago columnist considers himself to be a Mike Royko. [Chuckles] His office was next-door to mine at the Tribune Tower for a number of years. I always admired his strong voice… a very ordinary Chicagoan sitting at the bar after work going back-and-forth with his buddies about politics and this or that from a working-class point-of-view. I really appreciated his ability to do that so flawlessly, and in such a strong voice. So, I always tried to cultivate a voice assessing what was good for the average members of the public, and sometimes I succeeded. [Chuckles]

CP: I’ve been doing the show since about 1988. McLaughlin’s been a remarkable talent scout over the years when you think about how people like Chris Matthews, Lawrence O’Donnell and Jay Carney used to be regulars on the show. KW: Marie Polo asks: What was the most interesting and the most challenging aspects of being an army journalist back in 1969? CP: Oh, that’s an interesting question! I will say that the difference was that when you’re an Army journalist, as opposed to a civilian correspondent covering the military, you’re very often either a public relations agent or expected to perform that role, with a few exceptions, such as reporters for Stars and Stripes. I would say that one of the most unexpected benefits of that job was being taught to never try to cover anything up, but rather to get any bad information out right away, so that there would be nothing more to come out later. This was a wonderful lesson to be taught because often the effort to cover up a story becomes a bigger story than the original one. KW: You suffered from ADD, but it obviously didn’t prevent

“It occurred to me that after doing this for 30 years…that if there was ever an appropriate time for me to publish a collection of columns, this would be it.”

KW: You always do a great job. Tell me a little about why you decided to publish a collection of essays? CP: It occurred to me that after doing this for 30 years, from the Reagan Era to the Age of Obama, that if there was ever an appropriate time for me to publish a collection of columns, this would be it. So, I went back and reread my pieces, and I began to notice the strong trend toward social commentary interwoven with politics played in most of them, and the phrase “Culture Worrier” just jumped out at me. KW: How do you enjoy appearing on the McLaughlin Group with John, Eleanor Clift, Mort Zuckerman and Pat Buchanan?

you from having a very successful career as a journalist. How did you overcome this difficulty or turn it into a strength? CP: I didn’t know I had ADD, because it hadn’t been invented back then. For what it’s worth, like a lot of others with ADD, I’ve been able to succeed simply by trying harder. KW: When I watched ‘Life Itself,’ the documentary about Roger Ebert, I learned that winning a Pulitzer Prize was a very big deal to him. What did winning a Pulitzer mean to you? CP: One thing about winning a Pulitzer, it means you know what the first three words of your obituary will be: Pulitzer Prize-winner. [Chuckles] After winning the Pulitzer, I couldn’t help but notice how people suddenly looked at me with a newfound respect, and would say, “He’s an expert.” On the negative side, I developed a terrible case of writer’s block for awhile, because I felt like readers would expect every one of my columns to be prize worthy. I spoke to a number of other Pulitzer winners who had the same problem, a creative block that had them hesitating. How do you get past the writer’s block? Nothing concentrates the mind like a firm deadline, and

Book Review

Black Male Frames: African-Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003 By Kam Williams Special to the AFRO “‘Black Male Frames’ charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black male masculinity in popular American film: the shaman and the scoundrel… [The book] identifies the origins of these roles in an America where black men were forced either to defer or to defy their white masters. These figures recur in the stories America tells about its black men, from the fictional Jim Crow… to W.E.B. Du Bois. [The author] argues that these two extremes persist today in modern Hollywood, where actors… must cope with and work around such limited options… These men are rewarded for their portrayal of the stereotypes most needed to put America’s ongoing racial anxieties at ease.” – Excerpted from the Bookjacket In the antebellum era, when minstrel shows took the U.S. by storm as the country’s first popular form of entertainment, African-American males were portrayed by white men in blackface as being either servile or surly. Those polar opposite stereotypes, which served a critical function during slavery, remained the only type of roles available to actual black actors from the dawn of the film industry all the way

into the 21st Century. That is the contention of Roland Leander Williams, Jr. who teaches English at Temple University. In his groundbreaking book, Black Male Frames: AfricanAmericans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003, Professor Williams sets out to show how black male movie characters have basically been either submissive or subversive to suit the fluctuating needs of the dominant culture. He sets about proving his thesis by closely examining the careers of five AfricanAmerican acting icons, starting with Sam Lucas (1839-1916), the first black film star. He was not only the first black to play Uncle Tom onscreen, but he was also the first to portray the deferential character onstage. Unfolding chronologically, the opus’ entry about Lucas is followed by a chapter devoted to Paul Robeson (1898-1976) entitled “Renaissance Man.” There, we learn that, in sharp contrast to Lucas, Robeson became typecast in a way which strengthened the “impression of blacks as primitives”

gaining popularity in the late Twenties. That image was reversed a generation later, as personified by Sidney Poitier in his Oscar-winning performance in Lilies of the Field. Then, in response to the Black Power Movement came the return of the relatively-assertive rebel as played by Denzel Washington, who won his first Academy Award for Glory in 1990. Meanwhile, waiting in the wings was Morgan Freeman, who languished in the shadows “until the age of multiculturalism arrived, when he took a role (in Driving Miss Daisy) that once again raised the ghost of Uncle Tom.” As far as the future, the author concludes that only time will tell whether Hollywood will finally stop marginalizing black males as either servants or malcontents and welcome them into the movie mainstream by casting them in a full range of roles without regard to skin color. If not, Professor Williams expresses a sincere concern that history might simply continue to repeat itself.

a little voice in the back of my mind reminding me that, “If you don’t write, you don’t eat.” Listen, we all want to be respected and appreciated, but when you get a big honor like that, people start to look for your work in a new way with higher expectations. Today, the best thing about having won is when I get a nasty comment from some internet troll I can remind myself of the Pulitzer and say, “Well, somebody appreciates me.” KW: Dave Roth says: As far as I can tell, despite many people’s well intentioned efforts over the last 50 years, America still appears to be a racially-divided and culturally-segregated country, as evidenced by, among many other examples, Ferguson, Missouri, any examination of failing public schools and/or prison populations, and the current gerrymandering case being heard by the Supreme Court. What, in your view, is substantially culturally different in the U.S. today versus say March 3, 1991, Rodney King Day? And what do you believe is the single greatest piece of evidence that progress is being made toward a society that provides equality of opportunity and treatment under the law, regardless of race, ethnicity or gender? CP: Good question. First of all, I would say that our cultural divides are less racial and more tribal. We’re trying to reduce racial barriers to opportunity while at the same time not creating artificial quotas in regards to race. Today’s tribal politics is more attitudes and values-based than back in the olden days when it was something we strictly associated with ethnicity. KW: Environmental activist Grace Sinden says: Thank you for your fine work in illuminating important issues. What do you see as the most critical domestic concern that needs to be addressed by our national government? CP: I would say environmental protection is our most important long-range issue. In the shorter term, as well as the longer term, I’ve always said our biggest challenge is in education, which has become even more challenging because of income inequality and wage stagnation. We haven’t confronted the fact that people who get their income from capital investments have benefited while ordinary workers who rely on salary have not. So, the income gap is getting worse. But Washington is in gridlock, politically, and I’m pessimistic about our making any major improvements over the next couple years. KW: Sangeetha Subramanian asks: When you think about your legacy how would you like to be remembered? CP: What a wonderful question! When I posed that question to retiring Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, he looked up as if he were surprised, but he quickly responded, “That he did the best he could with what he had.” It was remarkably humble, but to the point. That’s how I’d like to be remembered, too. Read more on afro.com.

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Charter School’s Black History Month Celebration Highlights Black Culture By AFRO Staff A student-led Black History Month celebration at a local charter school featured an array of colorful dress, lively music and enthusiastic performers. Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School, dedicated to providing education, life skills programs, and support services to immigrants hosted the celebration on March 2. It is an annual showcase that has been occurring for decades. “The Black History Month Celebration, a rich celebration of our students’ heritage, expands learning beyond the classroom,” Allison

Kokkoros, executive director and CEO for the school told the AFRO in an email. “It offers a way for students to understand each other crossculturally, which translates directly to the workplace. It also builds cultural competencies giving students an important lens for seeing the community around them.” According to Mandy Toomey, communications coordinator for Carlos Rosario, the student body’s largest population is composed of El Salvadorians and Ethiopians make up the second largest population. D.C. Councilmember Brianne Nadeau (Ward 1)

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Carlos Rosario students dance the Brazilian Samba. spoke about local historic African Americans, and the new Director of the Mayor’s Office of African Affairs, Mamadou Samba, who is originally from Senegal. “Culture and history are important no matter where

“The Black History Month Celebration, a rich celebration of our students’ heritage, expands learning beyond the classroom.” –Allison Kokkoros

you come from,” Samba told the crowd of more than 400 students. Student emcees for the event included Adenike Adeliyi of Nigeria and Mohammed Mohammed of Tanzania. Kokkoros gave the welcoming remarks. Adenike, a fashion designer and seamstress, dressed in clothing of her own design, recited a poem about Africa that was followed by a traditional dance. African American students reenacted Rosa Park’s bus protest in Montgomery, Ala. “These Black History Month events present a great opportunity for our students to share with each other their cultural heritage and traditions and to educate all

Event emcees: Adenike Adeliyi from Nigeria and Mohammed Mohammed from Tanzania on important moments in history,” said Kokkoros. Students also presented an Ethiopian coffee ceremony, which included a fashion display and traditional dance performance during which one Ethiopian student ran up on stage and wowed the

crowd with his dance moves. Students also educated the audience with Brazilian samba and Afro-Cuban dance performances. Following a video display of Moroccan culture and Moroccan dance, the School’s men’s choir, comprised of teachers and school leaders, led the crowd in a rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” A presentation of flags from 33 different African countries, representing students and staff at the

school, concluded the program. According to a press release, students Adenike Adeliyi from Nigeria and Mohammed Mohammed from Tanzania emceed the event. Both are in a beginning level English class. “I like to help with these events because it’s another chance to improve my English… This school has helped me so much, I want to pay it back,” Mohammed said.

March 14, 2015 - March 20, 2015, The Afro-American

AFRO Sports Desk Faceoff

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Will the Kentucky Wildcats Finish Undefeated? By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Writers The Kentucky Wildcats recently completed a 31-0 regular season, as a roster stocked with blue-chip players and the presence of head coach John Calipari at the helm resulted in Kentucky’s best regular season since 1954. But for Calipari and the Wildcats, the mission is far from complete, as the SEC and NCAA tournaments await in the upcoming weeks. They’ll enter both fields highly favored, but the question remains: will the Kentucky Wildcats finish the season undefeated and claim another NCAA championship? Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the question. Riley: Team play is always the deciding factor in postseason runs, but the Kentucky Wildcats possess that, and then some. They’re stocked with NBA-caliber size and talent, and are backed by one of the best coaches in the nation. With the momentum from an undefeated season, the players

understand how important it is to finish this job. In addition, several Kentucky players have a good chance to elevate their NBA draft stock with a solid college postseason. With so much at stake and with the experience from last year’s title game appearance, it’s Kentucky’s year and they’ll finish the job. Green: Undefeated seasons add even more weight once the postseason rolls around. Plus, every team in the country is scouting Kentucky, the top-ranked school, more thoroughly than any other opponent. The Wildcats are talented, but that edge can vanish if an opponent has the right game plan in the postseason. I think the pressure will get to the Wildcats, and they will crumble before the championship game. The SEC Tournament will feature several teams familiar with Kentucky, some of whom will play the Wildcats for the third time this season. Familiarity is always an edge that can be used by either school. Riley: They’ve faced pressure all season and have succeeded 31 times in a row. If there’s anybody to trust with

pressure on their shoulders, it’s the Kentucky Wildcats. The experience they possess from last season’s run to the title game is something that no other school has. The SEC Tournament will have some familiar faces, but the SEC for the most part is on a down year. The only team nationally ranked other than the Wildcats are the Arkansas Razorbacks, and Kentucky beat them by 17 points a week ago. Green: The Wildcats’ last two SEC games were pretty much blueprints on how to hang with them. They found themselves in a tug-of-war with Georgia on the road for much of the night before pulling out a late win. They sparred with Florida for much of the first half and into the second before a late run gave Kentucky a big lead. Both opponents played aggressive defense, did a good job protecting the ball, and did not stake the Wildcats to big leads until fatigue finally set in. With a week for schools to prepare and review past games, Kentucky may lose before the NCAA tournament even begins. I just can’t see them finishing undefeated. All eyes are on the Wildcats to complete an improbable run. The odds are actually against them, and I believe the odds will win out.

Maryland Ends Reg. Season with 7-Game Win Streak, 26-5 Record

Minnie Minoso “The Cuban Comet” When the integration of Major League Baseball is mentioned, most thoughts go to Jackie Robinson. If you want to stretch the thought, Larry Doby may enter the conversation. Larry was the second African American to enter the MLB and the first in the American League, coming from the Great Lakes team 11 weeks after Jackie made history. Larry went to Cleveland, and since he spent many evenings with my family, I was an Indians fan as well as a Dodgers fan. Rooting for the Indians was an exercise in futility. The Senators were known as the team from Washington that was first in peace, first in war but last in the American League, yet they would always find ways to keep Cleveland from the pennant. It was said of Indians owner Bill Veeck that he would sign a gorilla if it could chase down a fly ball. Veeck was on a hunt to find a quality player of color before Jackie’s signing. He was advised against it by Sam Lacy, who reminded Veeck that the owner had previously had a giant, a midget and several other oddities play for him, and a player of color may be viewed as another act in Bill

Veeck’s “circus.” After the color barrier was broken and the Indians’ signing of Doby was in the history books, Veeck continued his quest for a player to help the Indians win a pennant. It was then that he signed Orestes “Minnie” Minoso, the Cuban Comet, in 1949. With this new acquisition, the Indians won the World Series as Minoso patrolled left field and made a substantial contribution. During this period of my life I was fortunate enough to attend spring training with Sam. Books and homework made the trip, but I still had as much freedom as any kid could want wandering around among the great MLB players. Usually, these trips were to Florida, where the Dodgers trained, but this time it would be different. This time we were going to Tucson with the Indians. Since Jim Crow was still a major force in America, we were housed away from the white players on the team. Instead, we lived with a family in a home approved by MLB. My roommates were Sam, Doby and Minosa. On the train ride to Tucson, I learned to appreciate the charm of Minnie. On this

trip, I thought it was cool to hang out in the club car with Micky Vernon and some of the other players drinking Shirley Temples. It was quite a bit past my bed time when Sam showed up, and he was more than a little steamed at my newfound independence. Minnie came to my rescue, and saved me from a life sentence by reminding Sam that I was just a kid. When we took our meals I marveled at the way Minnie mixed everything on his plate together. His only comment was, “It’s all going the same place.” While in Tucson, I made friends with Billy Norsworthy. In the evenings I would join him and his gang for some mischief. Amongst his friends was a girl named June, and I was stone-cold in love with June. For this reason, when it was suggested that we slip over the border to Nogales, Mexico, I was all in. We got busted, and Minnie saved my butt again. He didn’t use these words when he talked to me, but it was similar to, “You don’t tug on Superman’s cape.” Minnie remained an active MLB player as late as 1976, when at the age of 53 he made a handful of plate appearances for the Chicago White Sox.

THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HOUSING AUTHORITY SOLICITATION NO.: 0016-2015 Janitorial Services The District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) is seeking to solicit sealed bids from qualified Contractors to furnish the necessary labor, materials, supplies, equipment and supervision to provide janitorial services according to GSA standards. SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS will be available at the Issuing Office at 1133 North Capitol Street, NE, Suite 300, Administrative Services/Contracts and Procurement, Washington, DC 20002-7599, between the hours of 9:00am and 4:00pm, Monday through Friday, beginning on Monday, March 9, 2015; and on DCHA web site at www.dchousing.org SEALED PROPOSAL RESPONSES are due to the Issuing Office by 11:00am on Thursday, April 9, 2015. Contact the Issuing Office, LaShawn Mizzell-McLeod on (202) 535-1212 or by email at lmmcleod@dchousing.org for additional information.

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Maryland’s Dez Wells is defended by Nebraska forward Terran Petteway and guard Shavon Shields, right, during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game. By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor Senior forward Dez Wells posted a double-double of 18 points with 12 rebounds to lead No. 10 Maryland to a 64-61 win over Big Ten opponent Nebraska in the Terps’ regular season finale on March 8 in Lincoln, Neb. The win gave Maryland a 26-5 overall record, the team’s best season in program history, and sent the Terrapins into the Big Ten tournament on a seven-game winning streak. Maryland had to work for the win, however. After taking a small lead into halftime, the Terps fell behind by as many as eight points early in the second half. But freshman guard Melo Trimble caught a hot shooting streak and led Maryland back. Nebraska continued to challenge, and the game wasn’t won until Wells nailed a clutch one-dribble jump shot to give the Terps a three-point lead with just seconds left in the game. Nebraska junior guard Shavon Shields missed an attempt to tie the game as Maryland held onto the victory. Wells was 6-of-7 from the free throw line in scoring his 18 points; Trimble was 9-of-10 from the charity stripe and led the way with 21 points, seven rebounds and four assists. Shields scored a game-high 26 points for Nebraska in the loss. Maryland takes the No. 2 seed into the Big Ten tournament, and will face the winner of a first-round matchup between No. 7 Indiana and No. 10 Northwestern in a quarterfinal game on March 13.

THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HOUSING AUTHORITY SOLICITATION NO.: 0017-2015 Landlord and Tenant Legal Cases The District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) is seeking contractor(s) to provide the necessary resources to obtain legal services related to and involved in the prosecution of DCHA’s Landlord/Tenant cases; including, but not limited to, the preparation, filing and litigation of complaints and appeals within the District of Columbia’s judicial system and finalizing cases on behalf of DCHA at the conclusion of litigation. SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS will be available at the Issuing Office at 1133 North Capitol Street, NE, Suite 300, Administrative Services/Contracts and Procurement, Washington, DC 20002-7599, between the hours of 9:00am and 4:00pm, Monday through Friday, beginning on Monday, March 9, 2015; and on DCHA web site at www.dchousing.org SEALED PROPOSAL RESPONSES are due to the Issuing Office by 11:00am on Thursday, April 9, 2015. Contact the Issuing Office, LaShawn Mizzell-McLeod on (202) 535-1212 or by email at lmmcleod@dchousing.org for additional information.

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of assembly trainee at the Martin Marietta Corp. after reading a classified ad. Shortly thereafter, she was informed the company was not accepting female applicants with preschool-age children. When she learned men with preschool-age children were being considered, however, Phillips decided to file a complaint. In January 1971, the Supreme Court ruled in her favor. “By adding the prohibition against job discrimination based on sex to the 1964 Civil Rights Act Congress intended to prevent employers from refusing ‘to hire an individual based on stereotyped characterizations of the sexes’ Even

Black women in America were long relegated to menial, often domestic labor as portrayed by actresses Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer in The Help.

characterizations of the proper domestic roles of the sexes were not to serve as predicates for restricting employment opportunity,” wrote U.S. Justice Thurgood Marshall in his concurring opinion. “It began the process of making employers understand that they could not rely on stereotypes about women and the role of women to keep them from entering the job market,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s current president and director-counsel. “People think about us as only fighting race discrimination, but we recognized the importance of seeking equality as a whole,” Ifill added. “The idea of women being able to operate equally in the workplace is as important as any other civil right women can have. Women play a vital role in every aspect of our society and barring women from participating fully in the workplace not only discriminated against women, but also impoverished the workplace from the contributions women could make.” According to Arnwine, Title VII “spawned a whole generation of laws in the states” addressing issues of workplace discrimination and federal laws such as the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 and the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, which extends the time in which workers who learn of a pay disparity can bring a lawsuit against their employers. Despite the progress ignited by Title VII, workplace discrimination remains. “Many people believe that sexism in the workplace is a thing of the past, but evidence suggests that is alive and well,” Michael Schmitt, a former expert in workplace discrimination at Purdue University said in a psychological study. “Women get paid less than men, are less likely to be hired or promoted, do more unpaid domestic labor and are highly underrepresented in positions of power. “A number of psychological investigations suggest that both women and men underestimate the degree of sexism against women. People want to think they live in a fair world in which men and women can do anything they want, regardless of gender,” he added. Such challenges are especially acute for African-American women, who often walk the double gauntlet of race and sex discrimination in the workplace. “There have been attempts by women of color to bring cases of intersectional bias but the courts have had a hard time dealing with that,” Lapidus said. “They’ve wanted to deal with cases on the basis of either race discrimination or gender discrimination but not both.” And stereotypes persist, barring women from jobs such as law enforcement, firefighting and construction. “There is still a lot of gender stereotypes out there about what kind of work women can do, or the idea that women only work for ‘pin money’ but they are not the primary wage earners, when in reality, in 41 percent of families with children, woman are the primary or co-primary wage earners,” Lapidus said. There are also persistent issues related to the accommodation of female workers, Arnwine said. Photos Courtesy DreamWorks Studios “We are still way behind most Western nations

Women of all races are paid at or below minimum wages more than men.

World War II opened up job opportunities for Black women. In this image, Black women welders are seen at the Landers, Frary, and Clark plant in New Britain, Conn., in June 1943.

in providing for women employees, to give them the time off they need to care for loved ones and offering benefits such as child care. Childcare is so expensive that it drives poorer women out of the workplace.” Lack of accommodation is especially acute for pregnant workers, Lapidus said. The ACLU currently has pending cases, including Young v. UPS, which the Supreme Court is scheduled to review, which challenges the employer’s unwillingness to offer light-duty accommodations to pregnant employees though it offers such accommodations to workers who were injured on the job and who are disabled. The ACLU has also filed an amicus brief in Home Care Association of America v. Weil. The case challenges a federal judge’s decision to overturn Department of Labor rule changes in 2013 that would grant basis minimum wage protections to home health care workers, a field dominated by women of color. The exclusion of domestic workers from the nation’s labor laws was both a legacy of gender stereotypes and of slavery and Jim Crow, Lapidus said. “Stereotypes that do not value work that’s done in the home is really a legacy of slavery when enslaved African-American women were forced to work in the home and be caretakers. These jobs are just not treated as valuable,” she said. Sex discrimination continues both at the lower echelons and the higher echelons of the labor market. A 1995 report by Congress’ Glass Ceiling Commission found that despite an increasing presence in the workplace, women and minorities were barred by impenetrable barriers from entering the executive suite. At that time, the commission noted that only 3 to 5 percent of senior management positions in Fortune 500 companies were filled by women. It also found that women in senior positions often held positons in areas such as human resources or research which are not part of the usual pipeline to executive positions. Furthermore, the findings found disparities in compensation, which is a problem across the labor marketplace and the reason why advocates have been trying to pass the “Pay Fairness Act” in Congress. “The pay gap continues to be a problem overall but it is particularly harsh for women of color,” the ACLU’s Lapidus said. “White women who work full time earn 78 cents for every dollar earned by a White man, but Black women earn 64 cents for every dollar earned by a White man and Hispanic women earn 56 cents.” U.S. Department of Labor

March 14, 2015 - March 20, 2015, The Afro-American

HBCU NEWS

HBCU Students Help Register Ferguson Voters Several college students from a number of HBCUs in Atlanta arrived in

Ferguson, Mo. on March 8 to register voters in time for the April 7 deadline. Teamed with the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP, students knocked on doors in and around Ferguson throughout the weekend to canvass voters and disseminate information. Many of the students gave up days of their spring break to participate.

Atlanta University Center students viewed the makeshift memorial on the site where Michael Brown was shot by a Ferguson police officer.

Photos courtesy of the NAACP

Haleigh Hopkins, a Spelman College Freshman from Peoria, Ill, is interviewed by St. Louis media prior to beginning voter registration and canvassing in the Ferguson area.

Thomas Smith of Morehouse College is interviewed by St. Louis media prior to beginning voter registration and canvassing in the Ferguson area.

Atlanta University Center students, from left, Chrishaun Langston, Shoney Frink, Corey Ashmore and Ryan Betts go over map and paperwork before going into Ferguson, Mo., neighborhoods to register voters.

Spelman’s 11th Annual Leadership Conference Empowers Women to Build Success in the Digital Era Spelman College will explore the theme “New School Leaders in the Digital Era” at its 11th Annual Leadership and Women of Color Conference May 13-14, 2015, at the Georgia International Convention Center in Atlanta. During the intergenerational conference, prominent female leaders across all facets of technology and digital industries will share their experiences and knowledge of success in leadership roles. Attendees and experts will delve into this year’s theme, which will examine how to develop and sustain effective leadership strategies via change, innovation and influence. Experts will also address the importance and effects of technology, why leaders must be digitally-fluent and how to excel in today’s high-speed, globallyconnected environment. The conference, first convened in 2004 by Jane Smith, Ed.D., C’68, executive director of the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement at Spelman College, will offer everyone from emerging leaders to veteran visionaries fresh leadership tactics, bold new-age strategies and life-changing skills to achieve in the digital age. “The digital era has begun, and with that, technology is thoroughly integrated into our everyday lives,” said Dr. Smith. “As a result, discussing technology’s relevance is an important and necessary conversation for today’s leaders because of its impact in multiple areas of professional and personal

development. During the conference, we’ll examine the effects of technology and digital culture as it relates to leadership on a global level; explore what diversity looks like in the digital space; and identify the skill sets and platforms New School Leaders use to cultivate and maintain success.” Through timely workshops, impactful speaker/learning sessions, a media panel and numerous networking opportunities, attendees will leave feeling equipped to “change, innovate and influence.” Scheduled events include the annual Game Changers: Digital Vanguard Luncheon and Legacy of Leadership Awards Dinner, which will herald women leaders who have excelled in their profession. Meanwhile, the interactive session titled, New School Leaders: What Does it Take to Thrive in the Digital Era?, will provide the foundation for the conference by defining and exploring the concept of New School Leaders and the best practices they use to balance and thrive in the digital era. A special Tribute to the Spelman College President will recognize Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D., for the achievements and accomplishments earned during her 13-year tenure at the helm of the College. President Tatum will retire at the end of June 2015. These and other events during the conference will provide attendees with take-away information, real-world advice and leadership testimonies to succeed in their respective careers.

Bethune-Cookman University, EPA Partnership to Create Programs in Environmental Fields By Maria Adebola AFRO Staff Writer Bethune-Cookman University has launched a partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency under which it will work with the federal organization to address the stagnant participation of minority students in environmental fields. With the EPA’s assistance, the Florida-based historically Black university will incorporate programs in areas including environmental science education and workforce development, faculty research, seminars or mini courses, outreach programs, technical assistance, and infrastructure. As part of the agreement, the EPA will help improve the university’s environmental policy and science curriculum. The EPA will also offer internship opportunities to students interested in pursuing careers in environmental science and research, in an effort to attract more minorities interested in environmental fields, the agency said in a statement. Bethune-Cookman President Dr. Edison O. Jackson, said he hopes the four-year partnership with the EPA will prepare more minority students for careers in the environmental field. “This is a great accomplishment for B-CU,” Jackson said in a statement. “We will now be able to efficiently compete for relative research grants and take advantage of other great environmental opportunities. Most importantly, we will open up many avenues for our students, faculty and surrounding communities, as well.”

Hampton University Welcomes Fashion Business Writer Teri Agins The Hampton University Scripps Howard School of Journalism & Communications will host fashion business writer, Teri Agins, during the live taping of The Caldwell Café on March 18, 2015 at 6 p.m. in the Scripps Howard TV studio. Agins is one of the most knowledgeable journalists regarding the business of fashion. She earned her stripes as a respected journalist in the fashion world during her years at the Wall Street Journal. A talented writer, she wrote for the New York Times, Time Magazine, Vogue, The Oprah Magazine and Essence. Teri Agins Agins will discuss her new book, her career as a fashion business writer and give HU students advice on reaching their potential in the field of communications when she appears as a guest on The Caldwell Café. Agins recently released her second book, “Hijacking the Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers.” She discusses how celebrities used to simply be “walking billboards” displaying the latest from big name fashion designers, but now are creating their own brands, modeling them and reaping the benefits of sales. The Caldwell Café is named after Earl Caldwell, a nationally renowned journalist, who is a writer-in-residence with the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications. His series was designed as a vehicle for Caldwell to expose students to media and journalism professionals.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM158 Martha C. Freeman Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS D e n i s e F. H a w k i n s , whose address is 6615 Wilson Lane , was appointed personal representative of the estate of Martha C. Freeman, who died on January 16, 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 August 27, 2015. 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 August 27, 2015, 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: February 27, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Denise F. Hawkins Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 02/27, 03/06, 03/13/15

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2011ADM644 14:00:41 2015 Audrey S.EDT Douglas Decedent Bradley A. Thomas Esq 4201 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 400 Washington, DC 20008-1128 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS K e v i n W. D o u g l a s , whose address is 1035 Lake Shore Dr, Mitchellville, MD 20721 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Audrey S. Douglas, who died on April 16, 2009 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before September 13, 2015. 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 September 13, 2015, 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: March 13, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Kevin W. Douglas 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. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM658 Linwood Chisholm Decedent Jamison B. Taylor 1218 11th St. NW Washington, DC 20001 Attorney 15:52:54 EST 2015 NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS H a z e l V. C h i s h o l m , whose address is 2604 Monroe St. NE, Washington, DC 20018, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Linwood Chisholm, who died on January 18, 2014 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 September 13, 2015. 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 September 13, 2015, 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: March 13, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Hazel V. Chisholm Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/15

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM200 John Gilliam Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Keith Gilliam, whose address is 1223 Rock Creek Ford Road,NW, Washington, DC 20011 was appointed personal representative of the estate of John Gilliam, who died on May 4, 2000 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 shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 13, 2015. 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 September 13, 2015, 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: March 13, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Keith Gilliam Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 3/13, 03/20, 03/27/2015 TYPESET: Tue Mar 10 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION 14:02:46 EDT 2015 Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM215 Tammy Louise WhiteSmiley Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Isaiah Deshaun Smiley, whose address is 312 P e a b o d y S t , N W, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Tammy Louise White-Smiley, who died on December 26, 2014 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 September 13, 2015. 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 September 13, 2015, 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: March 13, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Iasaih Deshaun Smiley Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/115

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Claims cedent who 1-800 do not (AFRO) re- against the decedent deceased by the Circuit ceive a copy of this notice Court244 for Halifax County, For Proof of Publication, please shall call be 1-800-237-6892, presented to the ext. by mail within 25 days of undersigned with a copy State of Common Wealth its first publication shall to the Register of Wills or of Virginia on January 10, so inform the Register of filed with the Register of 2014, Wills, including name, Wills with a copy to the Service of process may address and relation- undersigned, on or be- be made upon Manuel ship. fore August 27, 2015, or Geraldo , Esquire, 1316 Date of Publication: be forever barred. 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TRUE TEST COPY Administration No. an undivided two-thirds Date of Publication: REGISTER OF WILLS 2014ADM1384 interest in 715 LongFebruaryEST 27, 2015 TYPESET: Tue Feb 24 15:52:20 2015 Nathaniel Wright Jr. f e l l o w S t r e e t , N W, Name of newspaper: 02/27, 03/06, 03/13/15 Decedent Washington, DC 20011 Afro-American NOTICE OF Claims against the deWashington Superior Court of APPOINTMENT, cedent may be preLaw Reporter the District of NOTICE TO Persharwner sented to the underDistrict of Columbia CREDITORS Slye-Chappel signed and filed with the PROBATE DIVISION AND NOTICE TO Personal Register of Wills for the Washington, D.C. UNKNOWN HEIRS Representative District of Columbia, 20001-2131 Mildred Rogers-Wright, Building A, 515 5th Administration No. whose address is 4029 Street, NW, 3rd Floor, TRUE TEST COPY 2015ADM136 Meade Street, NE, Washington, DC, 20011 REGISTER OF WILLS Washington, DC 20019 James Maurice Slye Sr. within 6 months from the was appointed personal Decedent date of first publication TYPESET: Feb 24 15:52:02 EST 2015 of 02/27, 03/06,Tue 03/13/15 NOTICE OF representative of the this notice. (Strike APPOINTMENT, estate of Nathaniel preceding sentence if no NOTICE TO Wright, Jr., who died on SUPERIOR COURT OF real estate.) CREDITORS November 30, 2014 withTHE DISTRICT OF AND NOTICE TO out a will, and will serve Mary E Jennings COLUMBIA UNKNOWN HEIRS without Court superviPersonal PROBATE DIVISION sion. All unknown heirs Persharwner SlyeRepresentative(s) Washington, D.C. a n d h e i r s w h o s e Chappell, whose adTRUE TEST COPY 20001-2131 whereabouts are un- dress is 1452 Howard REGISTER OF WILLS Foreign No. known shall enter their Road SE, Washington, Date of first publication: 2015FEP17 DC 20020, was apappearance in this February 27, 2015 Date of Death proceeding. Objections pointed personal repreName of newspapers April 12, 2007 to such appointment sentative of the estate of and/or periodical: Gordon Watt Jennings shall be filed with the James Maurice Slye Sr., The Daily Washington Decedent Register of Wills, D.C., who died on November Law Reporter NOTICE OF 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd 18, 2014 without a will, The Afro-American APPOINTMENT Floor Washington, D.C. and will serve without OF FOREIGN 20001, on or before Au- Court supervision. All un02/27, 03/06, 03/13/15 PERSONAL gust 27, 2015. Claims known heirs and heirs REPRESENTATIVE against the decedent whose whereabouts are AND shall be presented to the unknown shall enter their NOTICE TO undersigned with a copy a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s CREDITORS to the Register of Wills or proceeding. Objections Mary E Jennings whose filed with the Register of to such appointment address is 1300 Nalley Wills with a copy to the shall be filed with the Terrace, Hyattsville, undersigned, on or be- Register of Wills, D.C., Maryland 20785 was apfore August 27, 2015, or 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd pointed personal reprebe forever barred. Per- Floor Washington, D.C. sentative of the estate of sons believed to be heirs 20001, on or before AuGordon Watt Jennings , or legatees of the de- gust 27, 2015. Claims deceased by the Circuit cedent who do not re- against the decedent Court for Halifax County, ceive a copy of this notice shall be presented to the State of Common Wealth by mail within 25 days of undersigned with a copy of Virginia on January 10, its first publication shall to the Register of Wills or 2014, so inform the Register of filed with the Register of Service of process may Wills, including name, Wills with a copy to the be made upon Manuel address and relation- undersigned, on or beGeraldo , Esquire, 1316 fore August 27, 2015, or ship. Pennsylvania Avenue, be forever barred. PerDate of Publication: SE, Capitol Hill, sons believed to be heirs February 27, 2015 Washington, DC 20003 or legatees of the deName of newspaper: whose designation as cedent who do not reAfro-American District of Columbia ceive a copy of this notice Washington agent has been filed with by mail within 25 days of Law Reporter the Register of Wills, Mildred Rogers-Wright its first publication shall D.C. Personal so inform the Register of The decedent owned the Representative Wills, including name, following District of

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2015FEP11 Date of Death October 19, 2014 Braxton N Young Sr. Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Mary L Young whose address is 530 Hart Road Franklintown NC 27525 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Braxton N Yo u n g S r . , b y t h e Franklin County Clerk of Court for Franklin County, State of North Carolina deceased, on November 3, 2014, Service of process may be made upon Glenmont Corp c/o Braxton Young Jr. 3030 30th Street SE #112 Washington DC 20020 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. Mary L Young Personal Representative(s) TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS Date of first publication: February 27, 2015 Name of newspapers and/or periodical: The Daily Washington Law Reporter The Afro-American 2/27, 3/06, 3/13/2015

TYPESET: Tue Feb 24 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM85 L a S h a w n Te r e s e Childs 5401 Hunt Pl NE Washington, DC 20019 Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Maurice E. Childs, whose address is 4317 57th Avenue, Bladensburg, MD 20710, was appointed personal representative of the estate of LaShawn Terese Childs, who died on December 19, 2014 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before August 27, 2015. 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 August 27, 2015, 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: February 27, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Maurice E. Childs 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. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM157 Henrietta V. Parker AKA Henrietta Vivian Parker 221 Missouri Ave. NW Washington, DC 20011 Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Henry E. Parker Jr. , whose address is 221 M i s s o u r i Av e , N W, Washington, DC 20011 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Henrietta V. Parker aka Henrietta Vivian Parker, who died on December 30, 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 August 27, 2015. Claims

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM215 Cloastellie Tilghman AKA Cloastellie M. Tilghman AKA Cloastellie S. Tilghman Decedent Sharon M. GraysonKelsey 3034 Mitchellville RD. Bowie, MD 20716 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Joeseph Francis Tilg15:51:40 EST address 2015 is hman, whose 1002 Donnington Court, Bowie, MD 20721 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Cloastellie Tilghman, AKA Cloastellie M. Tilghman AKA Cloastellie S. Tilghman who died on September 7, 2013 with 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 September 6, 2015. 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 September 6, 2015, 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: March 6, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Joseph Francis Tilghman Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

TYPESET: Mar 03 03/06, 03/13,Tue 03/20/15 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM162 Lester Nathaniel Crockett AKA Lester Nathaniel Crockett Sr. Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, 15:51:09 EST 2015 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Cheryl Leslie Crockett, whose address is 124 Ing r a h a m S t , N W, Washington, DC 20011 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Lester Nathaniel Crockett AKA Lester Nathaniel Crockett, Sr., who died on October 11, 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 Sepetmber 6, 2015. 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 September 6, 2015, 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,

cedent 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 September 6, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed be heirs or LEGALtoNOTICES 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: March 6, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Cheryl Leslie Crockett 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. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM1186 Eunice Marie Minor Decedent Peggy A. Miller, Esq 5130-7th St. NE Washington, DC 20011 Attorney 16:56:36 EST 2015 NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Diamond McGee, whose address is 4552 Kinmount Road, Lanham, MD 20706 was appointed personal representativ of the estate of Eunice Marie Minor, who died on October 3, 2009 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before September 6 ,2015. 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 Septemeber 6, 2015 , 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: March 6, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Diamond McGee 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. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM160 Mary M. Miller Decedent Elise A. Joyner 1730 Rhode Island Ave. NW Washington, DC 20036 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Martha M Robison, whose address is 10607 SW 71st St, Gainesville, FL 32608EST was appointed 16:57:02 2015 personal representative of the estate of Mary M. Miller, who died on August 6, 2014 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 September 6, 2015. 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 September 6, 2015, 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: March 6, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Martha M. Robinson Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 03/06, 03/13, 03/20/15

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this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth. 0 In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decen16:59:00 EST 2015 LEGAL NOTICES dent died intestate 0 Appoint an unsupervised personal representative 0 appont a disinterested member of the DC Bar as personal representative Register of Wills Clerk of the Probate Division Date of First Publication March 6, 2015 Names of Newspapers: Washington Law Reporter Washington AFRO-AMERICAN Joel R. Davidson 611 Pennsylvania Ave SE No 288 Washington, DC 20003 Signature of Petitioners/Attorney TYPESET: Tue Mar 10 03/06, 03/13/2015

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TYPESET: Tue Mar 03 16:58:06 2015 LEGAL NOTICES TYPESET: Tue Mar 03 LEGALEST NOTICES Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM176 Winston O. James Decedent Tina Smith Nelson 601 E Street NW Washington, DC 20049 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS 16:57:22 EST 2015 Patricia Ward, whose address is 763 Grescham Place, NW, DC 20001 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Winston O. James, who died on September 9, 2014 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 Sepetember 6, 2015. 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 September 6, 2015, 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: March 6, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Patricia Ward 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. 2015ADM166 Mary Cooper Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Barbara Ann Boyd , whose address 526 Nicholson Street, NE, Washington DC 20011 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Mary Cooper, who died on September 8, 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 September 6, 2015. 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 September 6, 2015 , 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: March 6, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Barbara Ann Boyd Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

TYPESET: Tue Mar 03 03/06, 03/13, TYPESET: Tue Mar 03 16:58:33 EST 03/20/15 2015 03/06, 03/13, 03/20/15 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2014FEP95 Date of Death September 8, 2009 Susie Weader Colbert Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Benita Colbert whose ad16:57:40 2015 dress is EST 5529 Cardiff C o u r t , H e n r i c o , VA 23227 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Susie Weader Colbert, deceased by the Circuit Court for Henrico County, State of Virginia., on February 19, 2010, , Service of process may be made upon Christopher Hauser 8 0 0 1 1 4 t h S T, N W, Washington DC 20018 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Colombia real property: 4/5 interest in 1269 Owen Place, NE, Washington, DC 20002 (square 4060 lot 201) Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, 500 Indiana Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. (Strike preceding sentence if no real estate.) Benita Colbert Personal Representative(s) TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS Date of first publication: March 6, 2015 Name of newspapers and/or periodical: The Daily Washington Law Reporter The Afro-American 03/06, 03/13, 03/20/15

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December 30, 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 toLEGAL the probate of de15:53:19 EST 2015 NOTICES cedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before August 27, 2015. 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 August 27, 2015, 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: February 27, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Henry E. Parker Jr Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM172 Michael A Greene Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Shirley A. Deyo, whose address is 6652 High Valley Lane, Alexandria, VA 22315 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Michael A. Greene, who died on January 14, 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 September 6, 2015. 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 September 6, 2015, 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: March 6, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Shirley A. Deyo Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

TYPESET: Mar 03 03/06, 03/13,Tue 03/20/15 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM205 Estate of Harriett Rattler Deceased NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Joel R. Davidson for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representative. Unless a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth. 0 In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decendent died intestate 0 Appoint an unsupervised personal representative 0 appont a disinterested member of the DC Bar as personal representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM198 Roland F. Rogers Decedent Thomas H. Queen, Esq 7 9 6 1 E a s t e r n Av e , Suite 304 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS June Layton, whose address is 2859 Sheppert o n Te r r a c e , S i l v e r Spring, MD 20904 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Roland F. Rogers, who died on January 9, 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 Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 13, 2015. 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 16:59:21 EST 2015 with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 13, 2015, 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: March 13, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter June Layton Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

TYPESET: Tue Mar 10 14:03:30 TYPESET: Tue 2015 Mar 10 17:06:54 TYPESET: Tue2015 Mar 10 17:07:53 LEGAL NOTICES LEGALEDT NOTICES LEGALEDT NOTICES Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM192 Christine R. Ali Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Daryl K. Roberson, whose address is 2011 Sandlake Drive SW, Atlanta, GA 30331 was ap14:02:01 EDT 2015 pointed personal representative(s) of the estate of Christine R. Ali, who died on January 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 September 13, 2015. 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 September 13, 2015, 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: March 13, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Daryl K. Roberson Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM91 Wilbert Bradley Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Alberta B Merriwether , whose address is 2636 10th Street, NE Washington, DC 20018 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Wilbert Bradley , who died on October 18, 2014 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before September 13, 2015. 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 September 13, 2015, 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: March 13, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Alberta B. Merriwether Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM242 Julia Mae Cooper Harris Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Samaria Harris-Pitts, whose address is 906 James Ridge Road, Bowie, Maryland, 20721 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Julia Mae Cooper Harris, who died on February 3, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (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 September 13, 2015. 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 September 13, 2015, 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: March 13, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Samaria Harris-Pitts Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/15

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM216 Dorothy V. Rush Decedent Philip N. Margolius 4201 Connecticut Ave, NW Washington, DC 20008 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Veronica E. Rush, whose address is 1358 Tucke r m a n S t r e e t N W, Washington, DC 20011 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Dorothy V. Rush, who died on January 23, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th 16:59:40 EST 2015 Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before September 13, 2015. 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 September 13, 2015, 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: March 13, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Veronica E. Rush Personal Representative

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