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Prince George’s Lupita Nyong’o Scoops Oscar Win Male Educators Convene Summit

By Courtney Jacobs AFRO Staff Writer On a frigid Saturday morning recently in Prince George’s County there was a gathering of a rare species in public schools: Male teachers.

And while there were less than 100 people in Charles Herbert Flowers High School’s cavernous auditorium in Springdale, the meeting --dubbed The First Annual Male Educator Summit: Envisioning the Future of Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) -- marked a start.

Among the participants of the fledgling enterprise was PGCPS Teacher of the year Albert Lewis.

“We need to be solution oriented,” Lewis told the group of male teachers and administrators. “Let’s not just address the problems today, let’s also address the solutions.”

Lewis is among the most rare of public educators, a Black male teacher.

For many of the attendees, the summit was a chance to continue the conversation launched early in President Obama’s first term by Education Secretary Arne Duncan who has been calling for more Black male teachers.

“Black men are largely underrepresented in our nation’s classrooms; it has been widely reported that they make up less than 2 percent of our country’s teachers,” Donald Nicolas, a 5th grade teacher at a public school in Broward County, Fla., wrote recently in Education Week.

One of the African American teachers who took part in the meeting noted that one of the major barriers to adding more Blacks to their ranks is low pay.

“You are going to work your butt off regardless of how much money you make, but if you go into it with knowing that at least you make a decent wage to have a wife and have some kids, it makes the payoff much more feasible and the Attack on D.C. payoff greater for you in the end,” Ronnie Seneque, who Postal Carrier teaches fifth grade math and Prompts $50K science at Barack Obama Reward Elementary, told the AFRO. His view was echoed by Barack Obama Elementary Black Kenmoor sixth grade math and science Middle Schoolers teacher Harold McCray.

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House Rejects O’Malley’s Effort to Tie Minimum Wage to Inflation

By Zachary Lester AFRO Staff Writer

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At the 86th Academy Awards, Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o received the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 19th-century drama “12 Years a Slave.”

The 31-year-old is the the first person from Africa to receive an Academy Award.

Ben Jealous Announces Next Move — From NNPA to NAACP to Silicon Valley

The Maryland House of Delegates March 5 voted down a plan by Gov. Martin O’Malley to tie increases in the minimum wage to inflation.

O’Malley had hoped to connect the minimum wage to the Consumer Price Index.

Instead, Del. Heather Mizeur (D-Montgomery County),

By Hazel Trice Edney TriceEdneyWire.com

Benjamin Todd Jealous, the former NAACP president who has weaved a career through politics, the Black press and civil rights, has now announced his next move in pursuit of racial equality and economic justice.

Jealous and the Oakland, Calif.-based Kapor Center for Social Impact, located in the Silicon Valley, announced this week that he has joined the center as its first venture partner. The center’s co-founders and cochairs, Mitchell Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein, are bringing Jealous on to find techsavvy entrepreneurs and inventors with ideas for using technology for social impact.

Jealous will assist the entrepreneurs, help them shape their tech visions and establish the selection criteria for possible seed money. He will also help lead the center’s effort to make investments in non-profit organizations and will join the board of the Kapor Center-funded Level Playing Field Institute, a non-profit AP File Photo dedicated to breaking down racial barriers in science, technology, engineering and math.

“I’ve always been interested in technology.

Benjamin Todd Jealous has now announced I’ve always been interested in [deepening] his next move in pursuit of racial equality and economic justice.

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Maryland NAACP President Gerald Stansbury speaks at a recent minimum wage hearing in Annapolis. a candidate for governor, tried for an increase in the minimum wage of about 2 percent per year.

But members of the House stood strongly against Mizeur’s measure, voting 124-8 to defeat it.

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World Bank Continues Systemic Discrimination

By Maria Adebola and Talibah Chikwendu Special to the AFRO Yona Biru came to the United States after the military government takeover in Ethiopia resulted in a communist government. “I came to the U.S. with $12 in my pocket, including a $2 bill because I was told that was good luck,” Biru said.

He worked hard, financing his education by working as a waiter. With his doctorate degree in economics in hand, he started working at the World Bank in 1993. For 17 years, he provided stellar service to the organization, spending seven of those years as the deputy global manager of the International Comparison Program (ICP), “one of the most prominent programs that the bank has ever managed,” he said.

On Feb. 20, Biru told a group of civil rights leaders from local chapters in the Washington, Maryland and Virginia areas, that despite his hard work and success, he was not promoted because he is Black. His description of the working environment at the World Bank can be characterized as “Jim Crow” or “apartheid.” It is why the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), D.C. and Prince George’s County chapters; the National Action Network (NAN), D.C. chapter; National Urban League; and the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition gathered to hear about and discuss the World Bank and these issues. “We are coming together as a group of local civil rights leaders representing organizations to say that we will Continued on A4

Moorehead Keeps ‘Moving on Up’ First African American to Open a Rolls Royce Dealership

By Zenitha Prince AFRO Senior Correspondent The world of Rolls Royce dealerships is a rarefied one – only 38 exist in North America and 121 in the entire world. Thomas Moorehead joined that exclusive fraternity last December when he opened his franchise in Virginia, becoming the first African American to do so. “It took a lot of hard work,” said the 69-year-old entrepreneur of the accomplishment and his other thriving Continued on A4

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Dr. Sylvester J. Gates, Black Physicist, Named 2014 Scientist of the Year

“He understands what gets kids interested in science and engineering,” said John P. Holdren, Obama’s science and technology adviser, “and he is a tireless advocate for getting minorities and girls, who are underrepresented in most science and engineering fields, to pursue these subjects.”

Gates is director of the Center for String and Particle Theory at the University of Maryland.

The award will be presented at a March 28 ceremony by the Harvard University president, the dean of Harvard College and the director of the Harvard Foundation.

Collins and NFL prospect Michael Sam as evidence of this proliferation.

While some Black ministers may agree with Manning’s stance against homosexuality, some do not, and many would not address the issue in such polarizing terms.

“It’s sad to hear, particularly, it’s sad for a church, which is supposed to be a place of community and sanctuary and love where people work out their issues with fear and trembling before God, to be attacking people,” said the Rev. Graylan Hagler, pastor of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington, D.C., about the ASLAH message board.

White ‘Homo Demons’ Trying to Snare Black Men, Anti-Gay Minister Warns

CDC: Early Childhood Obesity Down, More Improvement Needed

Dr. Sylvester J. Graves University of Maryland’s John S. Toll Professor of Physics, Dr. Sylvester James Gates Jr., the first African American to hold an endowed chair in physics at a major U.S. research university, was named 2014 Scientist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation, according to a Feb. 21 news release.

Gates, best known for his work in supersymmetry and supergravity, has been characterized as a physicist who is pursuing an understanding of the fundamental matter of the universe.

The award, given by the foundation for his body of work and for promoting initiatives that serve to increase diversity in all areas of science, engineering and mathematics, is the latest of a stream of plaudits for Gates.

Last year President Obama awarded him the National Medal of Science and Villanova University awarded him the 2013 Mendel Medal. He is a University System of Maryland Regents Professor and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

He also has a reputation for trying to broaden participation in the hard sciences to people of color and has emphasized the need to involve children of color in science training.

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Rev. David James Manning Rev. David James Manning, a controversial minister, has a warning for Black women everywhere: White homosexuals are out to get you—or, more specifically, your men.

The anti-gay message was posted on a sign in front of Manning’s Harlem-based ATLAH Worldwide Missionary Church. Though bizarre, the message is not unusual for this divisive, outspoken critic of LGBT rights and President Barack Obama, whom he called a “pervert” and “son of Satan.”

“Obama has released the homo demons on the Black man.

Look out Black woman, a White homo may take your man,” the sign reads.

Speaking in a video message that explains the message board, Manning said Obama is forcing Black men to subscribe to “perverted” ideas and it is destroying the Black family. He cited the “coming out” of Black NBA basketball player Jason

The number of young obese children in the United States has gone down according to new data released from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the CDC data showed that obesity among children between the ages of two and five has dropped in the last decade.

Where 13.9 percent of the age group hit the medically obese mark between 2003 and 2004, only 8.4 percent had excess body fat between 2011 and 2012.

And while health officials have been praising the downturn all week, one Baton Rouge, La. doctor says there is much more to be done- especially when it comes to the African American community.

“Overall we still have a pretty significant epidemic,” said Dr. Rani G. Whitfield, a certified family physician with his own practice. “Obesity itself is related to over 30 different diseases including some forms of cancer. It’s across race and class lines but it definitely seems to be affecting African Americans, Hispanics, and even Native Americans more. There’s a lot of work to do.”

According to the study, which included 9,120 patients, “more than one-third of adults and 17 percent of youth in the United States are obese, although the prevalence remained stable between 2003 to 2004 and 2009 to 2010.”

Women who are over the age of 60 saw a significant uptick in their obesity rates, with data from 2003 to 2004 and 2011 to 2012 showing a change from 31.5 percent to 38.1 percent.

When it comes to minors, Whitfield also said an emphasis should be placed on the importance of making better choices on a day-to-day basis.

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Attack on Washington, D.C. Carrier Prompts $50K Reward by U. S. Postal Inspection Service

By Zachary Lester AFRO Staff Writer U.S. Postal inspectors and D.C. police officers are investigating a brazen attack on a postal carrier as he went about his job in broad daylight Feb. 25 along a route where he has worked for years in Northeast Washington.

It was about 4 p.m. and the carrier, whose name was not released because he is a victim, was delivering the mail in the 100 block of Webster Street NE when he was approached by two men wearing ski masks and brandishing guns, according to a U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) news release.

The carrier was forced into a vehicle, tied up, beaten and robbed. After he was able to summon help, he was taken to an area hospital, where he was treated and released that night. According to news reports, he is also a preacher.

The USPIS took jurisdiction over the investigation. Inspectors and D.C. police

The incident marked the second time a postal carrier was attacked in the Washington area in recent months. On Nov. 23, postal carrier Tyson Barnette, 26, of Upper Marlboro, was fatally shot as he delivered mail.

officers combed the neighborhood using canine units looking for clues as to the identity of the culprits. The attack took place in a residential area.

The incident marked the second time a postal carrier was attacked in the Washington area in recent months.

On Nov. 23, postal carrier Tyson Barnette, 26, of Upper Marlboro, was fatally shot as he delivered mail about 7 p.m. on his route in the 1600 block of Reed Street in Cheverly.

Barnette, who had been a postal carrier for six years, died at the scene.

The person or persons responsible for his death have not been arrested.

In another recent attack on a USPS employee, two days before Christmas, a postal worker in Boston was forced to take off his uniform, “pistol whipped” and shot in the arm in his mail truck, according to a story in the Dorchester Reporter. The mailman was able to provide police with a description of the suspect and

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“The House rejected that notion and believed that we have to set a floor and we want to set that at $10.10 per hour,” she said. “We also had an amendment that would have exempted companies that made $500,000 or less and we also rejected that. There was also an amendment that would have limited the increased to $8.25.”

Braveboy said she is “optimistic” that the increase will become law.

“I definitely think it will pass,” she said. “But I am concerned about what the Senate is going to do with the bill. I’ve heard some of the members of the Senate Finance Committee don’t’ want to go as high as $10.10 and they may want to add additional exemptions. Those are some of the concerns we have over here in the House, but we have to wait and see what they do.”

The wage bill would still increase the minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour over the next three years Earlier in the week, the House Economic Matters Committee voted for the first time in eight years to increase the wage.

Though the committee passed the measure, members stripped important parts of the Minimum Wage Act of 2014, including tying increases in the future to the cost of living. Another change limited workers who earn tips to $3.63 per hour. Employers who hire tipped workers would be required to make up the difference between $3.63 per hour and $10.10 per hour if workers do not make at least the new minimum wage.

The vote does not affect wage increases already voted for by local legislators in Prince George’s and Montgomery County, who recently increased their minimum wages to $11.50 per hour over the next three years.

A third reading on the House wage bill is expected to take place on March 7.

Tying the minimum wage to inflation, or indexing, has been controversial since the

Federal Minimum Wage at a Glance • Established in 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to keep workers out of poverty and to stimulate the economy in the midst of the Great Depression.

• Last increased—from $6.55 to $7.25 an hour—in July 2009.

• At $7.25 per hour, translates to $15,080 per year for a full-time worker.

• 21 states and the District of Columbia have raised the minimum wage higher than the federal $7.25 per hour.

• Five states—Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, S. Carolina and Tennessee—have no state minimum, though employers must pay the federal rate.

• The minimum wage stayed at $5.15 per hour for 10 years before it was increased in 2007.

Source: Raisetheminimumwage.com legislature began pondering an increase in the minimum wage. The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to take up the measure March 10.

Braveboy said a raise in the minimum wage is needed

to accommodate workers.

“Maryland has one of the highest costs of living in the country yet maintains the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour,” she said.

“We can and should do better than the bare minimum.”

to describe the attack.

Postal Inspector Frank J. Schissler told Fox 5 News Feb. 27 that attacks on postal carriers are rare in the D.C. area and slayings also are unusual. He said only four postal carriers have been murdered nationally in the last four years—two in 2010 and two in 2013.

The suspects in the Webster Street NE attack are described as two Black men, 20-30 years old, with medium builds and weighing 165-175 pounds. They fled the scene in a tan late 1980s to early 1990s conversion van, the news release said.

Attacks on postal workers are federal offenses. Committing an armed robbery of a postal worker is punishable by up to 25 years in prison, according to the USPIS website.

The U.S. Postal Service has offered a $50,000 award for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the culprits responsible for the Feb. 25 assault and robbery. There is a $100,000 reward in the killing of Barnette. The USPS offer rewards of up to $50,000 for assaults on postal employees and up to $100,000 for murder and manslaughter. It also offers a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction in cases of mail theft and post office burglary, the website said.

Anyone with information about the Webster Street attack or Barnette’s slaying is asked to call the USPIS at 877-876-2455 and press 2.

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By Bryant Jenkins Special to the AFRO

In today’s world of high finance, managing your credit is a key to financial success. The first step is to know your FICO score and how it is impacted by Bryant Jenkins your credit activities. The better your FICO score, the more attractive you are not only to lenders but employers, and insurance companies. When you purchase auto insurance, your credit plays a part in determining your final premium. Additionally,

can request a free copy of your report by visiting website www.annualcreditreport.com and FICO score from www.myfico.com. It is imperative you review the report in detail to make sure it is accurate and does not have errors that can bring your score down.

Next, pay your bills on time. Using your bank’s online banking portal can allow you to set up automatic payments. These portals will also provide you with email reminders to pay your bills. Additionally, reduce the amount of debt you owe and focus on debt that has the highest interest rates first. These high rates cost you more in interest.

Be careful of companies that claim that

“Activities that impact your score are payment history, amount owed, length of credit history, new credit, and type of credit owed.” employers include credit evaluations in making decisions to hire employees.

A credit score can range from a low of 300 to a high of 850. A score of 720 or higher is considered a good score. Anything below 600 is considered poor. Activities that influence your score are payment history, amount owed, length of credit history, new credit and type of credit owed.

To improve you credit score it will be important to check your credit report. You

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ASALH Celebrates 88th Annual Black History Month Luncheon

By Maria Adebola Special to the AFRO The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) celebrated its 88th annual Black History Luncheon Feb. 22 at the Marriot Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. The theme of this year’s celebration was “Civil Rights in America,” in honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This year’s luncheon brought out over 1,000 local and out-of-state guests including students, educators, and civic and religious leaders.

Dr. Carter G. Woodson founded ASALH in 1915 in

“You don’t try to get one of these awards; you just do your work.”

– Raymond A. Winbush response to the lack of information on the accomplishments of African Americans. Woodson established Negro History Week in 1926, which later became a month-long celebration of Black history.

University of Maryland Baltimore County President Freeman A. Hrabowski III was the luncheon keynote speaker and an honoree. Hrabowski was recently named by President Obama to chair the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans. Also on his extensive resume, Hrabowski was a child-leader in the Civil Rights Movement, co-founder of the Meyerhof Scholars program, an author, and holds honorary degrees from more than 20 institutions.

Ten Living Legacy honorees were recognized for significant contributions to AfricanAmerican history through public or private institutions.

The awardees are: Dr. Charlene M. Dukes, first female president of Prince George’s Community College; Hon. Patsy Jo Hilliard, educator, first African-American mayor of East Point, Ga.; Bell Hooks, social activist, feminist, author; Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski III, educator, author, philanthropist; Velma Lois Jones, educator, civil rights activist; Wyman O. Jones Sr., educator; Joyce Ladner, educator; Dr. LaSalle Photo by Rob Roberts D. Leffal Jr., medical educator, civic leader; Reginald L. 2014 Living Legacy Honorees: Velma Lois Jones, Dorothy Bailey and Patsy Jo Hilliard Weaver, educational advocate, speaker; and Raymond A. “I was shocked because I consider this the highest honor I have Winbush, community and academic leader. The Council Award ever gotten.” for Special Recognition was bestowed upon Professor David C. Hon. Patsy Jo Hilliard said she was excited and honored to Driskell, an artist and a scholar. be a Living Legacy awardee. “The thing is it’s what you do, “You don’t try to get one of these awards; you just do your not so much being first that matters ... especially, if you have work,” said Raymond A. Winbush, a Living Legacy awardee. love for your people and you want to see them grow in their environment.” Hilliard also noted that the battle for civil rights is still going on and “we have to keep on fighting.”

Guests also were able to talk with 45 authors during a booksigning event. The mistress of the ceremonies for the event was A’lelia Bundles.

See more photos from the luncheon on B1.

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together address this issue. We might not be able to resolve every part of it, but our job is grassroots mobilization [and] exposure, and that’s what we want to do,” said Lennox Abrigo, president of the National Action Network of the D.C. chapter.

They started by hearing the entirety of Biru’s story. While he was deputy global manager of the ICP program, the global manager position became available and he applied. His credentials and employment record were stellar; his experience was current and relevant. His application was turned down. He defines the reason for the bank’s inability to promote him as one that was “systemic, it is in your face, it is know your place type of racial discrimination.

“To start with in 1996, one of the staff associations’ members asked one of the directors of the World Bank why is it that you do not hire Black professionals,” Biru said. The director, in a departmental meeting with people of all races, according to Biru, answered, “Blacks do not make good accountants and besides, I do not want my department to look like a ghetto.”

Biru said the managers, who come from all over the world, come with a preconceived idea about where Blacks should be in the professional and social hierarchy. For example, the development economics vice-presidency, where the Bank’s economics policy is developed, had about 170 professionals but only had two Blacks; Biru was one of them. “The reason for that is at the professional level Blacks are segregated in the Africa region,” he continued, “the ghetto of the bank.” Blacks do not cross and go to the main building because they are

segregated in a building called “Apartheid Avenue.”

“I was a Deputy Global Manager of a very high profiled project. And I was the highest rated manager seven years ago.

So the Global Manager retired, I said, ‘I am going to apply for

“Since they could not deny me that position based on my qualifications, basically what they did was they got into my HR file, wiped out my managing experience.”

- Yona Biru

it because my record is straight outstanding best practice, year after year,’” Biru said.

When Biru applied for the position he had already been doing for seven years, he was shunned. He was told candidly that Europeans were not used to seeing a Black man in the Global Manager position. Although he was offered other positions, he refused to take any besides the Global Manager position. “I said over my dead body, I would not get any position but that.”

Soon, Biru started receiving threats of termination.

“Since they could not deny me that position based on my qualifications, basically what they did was they got into my HR file, wiped out my managing experience. All seven years of outstanding best practice evaluation was gone,” Biru said.

That was not the end of his troubles with the bank. Biru said after they wiped out his managing experience, that they denied he was ever a manager, but acknowledged his secretarial credentials. “Over a dozen heads of international agencies wrote letters saying that this is crazy.” These executive attested to knowing Biru as a high performing senior manager at the World Bank. The bank stood firm with their forged documents, claiming he was not qualified to be considered for the position.

“This is the kind of racism that happens, and they can do it because they are immune from the legal system. But this is not only my story. One thing that really needs to be understood, and really advocated for, is if you look at particular groups that are most discriminated [in the World Bank], they are AfricanAmericans.”

According to Abrigo, the four civil rights groups are brainstorming strategies to expose discrimination at the World Bank. The organizations plan to visit Congress, including sending a letter to the Congressional Black Caucus. They are planning press conferences and rallies, and to use various media platforms to share this information. The civil rights groups also plan to challenge the World Bank in court, using legal expertise from each organization.

Biru is seeking $4.1 million for emotional damages, mental distress, and a destroyed career.

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businesses.

It also required perseverance in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges. “I move ahead and do whatever I can to turn a ‘no’ into a ‘yes,’” he said of his approach.

There were many ‘Nos’ in Moorehead’s life.

Born and reared in poverty in Monroe, La., Moorehead was the eldest of five children. Business was always something he wanted to do, but, at the time, education was the accepted career path. “We don’t have any money, son. So the best thing you can do is move up [the education ladder] and become a principal and, if that happens, you would have arrived,” Moorehead recalled his grandfather – who raised him – saying.”But I told him it was what I wanted to do and I would work very hard to make that dream come true.”

His grandfather replied, “If you’re going to go into business, then, sell things that people will need. They always have to eat, they always have to sleep and they always have to drive.

If you get into business with one of those things you may be successful.”

“I’ve always had those words at the back of my mind,” Moorehead said. “And if he were still alive and could see us today, hopefully, he would be proud that I took his advice.”

Moorehead attended Grambling State University and earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting in 1966. In 1971, he earned a master’s degree in social work from the University of Michigan. From 1972-1988, Moorehead worked as an analyst at Mobile and Chrysler Corps, and as director of Community Services at the University of Michigan, where he was pursuing his doctorate.

It was during that time James Bradley, then-principal owner of the Bradley Automotive Group and Moorehead’s fraternity brother from Kappa Alpha Psi, urged him to join the car business. He balked at the idea. “The reputation of car salesmen and dealers at the time was [of] individuals standing around in plaid knit jackets, smoking cigarettes and talking fast, and that was just not me,” he said.

Bradley persisted, showing Moorehead the financial statements of his company over 10 years and discussing the inner workings of the business. Moorehead was convinced, and with his wife’s blessing, decided to take a chance on the auto industry, beginning at the bottom – in sales.

Bradley warned him about the difficulties he would face.

“You’re going to have to take a step back to take a step forward. Your biggest problem is that all of your colleagues at the University of Michigan will question, ‘What’s wrong with Tom?’” Moorehead quoted his mentor as saying. “Mr. Bradley was absolutely correct.”

Moorehead sold cars for a year, then paid $65,000 – money

“I try to build our reputation on s ervicing the ‘boss,’ and the ‘boss’ is not Mr. Moorehead… [it] is the customer.”

– Thomas Moorehead he earned rehabbing and selling houses – to enter General Motors’ dealership training program, which immersed trainees in every aspect of the business from service to sales and administration. Moorehead was the first graduate of the program, and in 1988, opened his first automobile dealership, Sentry Buick/Isuzu in Omaha, Neb. In 1995, he sold the Omaha operation and purchased a franchise in Decatur, Ill., which he operated as Moorehead Buick-GMC until 2000 when he was awarded a BMW franchise.

Success was hard earned, but Moorehead relied on his mentor’s advice and training. “I had a great mentor ... Every month for 17 years I sent Mr. Bradley my financial statement and he would take a look at it and ask questions about my decisions and offer advice,” Moorehead said. “The first time I had to make a major decision after he passed away was tough

for me.”

Moorehead built his businesses on good service. He recalled a teacher coming to purchase a car at his first dealership and having to detail her car himself when no other workers were available. When the teacher learned he was the owner, she spread the news, which drew the attention of the local press and established Moorehead’s reputation.

“I try to build our reputation on servicing the ‘boss,’ and the ‘boss’ is not Mr. Moorehead… [it] is the customer,” he said. “If you lose sight of who the boss is you might as well close the door.”

That reputation, built over 26 years in business, and his persistence have allowed Moorehead to become the owner of three auto dealerships, Rolls Royce of Sterling, BMW of Sterling and Mini of Sterling; and the owner of nine hotels, including the Marriott Residence Inn at National Harbor Resort and Convention Center in Prince George’s County, Md. Moorehead has paid his blessings forward by mentoring other young entrepreneurs and by advocating for increased diversity in the auto industry. “With the downturn of the financial market we lost a significant portion of AfricanAmerican dealerships because they ran out of money or because production ended” as in the case of Pontiac, Oldsmobile, and Saturn, said Moorehead, the current president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers (NAMAD).

“So we’re trying very hard to recover from the loss of these dealerships.”

NAMAD has engaged with vehicle manufacturers on the issue. The organization developed partnerships that have “uncovered new markets, new ideas, new talent, and new capital - all to the benefit of automobile manufacturers, entrepreneurs and consumers,” the website states.

“By 2025, with the ‘browning’ of America, we would like to see more of our people in the manufacturing and dealership aspects of the industry instead of just being consumers,” Moorehead said.

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Conservative Black Pastors Want Atty. Gen. Holder Impeached for Same-Sex Marriage Stance

By Zachary Lester AFRO Staff Writer A group of Black pastors is admonishing President Obama and asking Congress to impeach U.S. Attorney Gen. Eric Holder for allowing state prosecutors to refrain from enforcing bans on samesex marriage in states that have laws against it.

The group, the Coalition of African American Pastors (CAAP), as of 8 a.m. Feb. 27, had collected 12,380 signatures on an online petition entitled “Holder has abandoned his oath.” The introduction to the petition criticizes Obama and his administration for “trampling on the rule of law” and calls out Holder for using his authority as attorney general “to coerce states to fall in line with the same-sex marriage agenda.”

The petition went up days after Holder waded even deeper into the same-sex marriage controversy—and drew criticism from some Republican legislators—by telling the New York Times that state attorneys general can choose not to defend laws against same-gender marriage that they believe to be discriminatory. Critics said that as the nation’s top prosecutor, it is Holder’s responsibility to defend laws, even those he opposes, and that he is obligated to insist that his counterparts in the states do the same. Gays have filed suit to fight bans against same-sex marriage in some states.

“Engaging in that process and making that determination is something that’s appropriate for an attorney general to do,” the Times quoted Holder as saying.

The petition says that 30 states have laws that define marriage as a “union of one man and one woman” and that Holder’s failure to order the enforcement of those laws is grounds for impeachment.

“Our nation calls for the building up of a healthier marriage culture; instead, our elected leaders are bent on destroying marriage, remaking it as a genderless institution and reorienting it to be all about the desires of adults rather than the needs of children,” the introduction to the petition reads.

The petition drive is the latest evidence that some members of the Black clergy still oppose marriage between same gender couples, even as discriminatory laws are being knocked down around the nation.

Many Black pastors in the Baltimore-Washington area, and nationally, protested loudly as elected leaders in Washington, D.C., then Maryland, passed laws that allowed for same-sex marriage. Pastors protested outside of D.C. Council meetings and at the Maryland statehouse in Annapolis, where the gay lobby rallied its forces on a daily basis to urge lawmakers to redefine marriage to allow samegender couples to wed.

For conservative pastors, the biblical definition of marriage as between a man and a woman supersedes a belief by many that two people who love and are committed to each other should have the right to marry, regardless of gender. (see more at afro.com)

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Black Kenmoor Middle Schoolers View Past Through 1963 Birmingham Bombing

By Courtney Jacobs AFRO Staff Writer A recent Black History Month event awakened some Prince George’s County middle school students.

In an instant, they were told of a Sunday morning in September, 1963, Dianne Braddock’s life, along with the rest of the

world, was changed forever when racists bombed a church.

But while the nation reacted to the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist--and the deaths of three 14 year-olds and an 11 year-old--with a cultural and legislative U-turn toward civil rights for Black America; Braddock, now a retired educator, was left with memories of the Jim Crow South and of a baby sister ripped apart,

Memorabilia on display

Photos by Courtney Jacobs

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the social impact. And I’ve always been very curious about ways to use technology to advance the social impact,” Jealous said. “When Mitch and Freada came forth and offered me the opportunity to join the Kapor Center…I leapt at it because it had been a long time since I’d tried something new that had the potential to level the playing field for hundreds of thousands and millions of people.”

Jealous said one of his first stops will be a learning tour of Silicon Valley, which leads the nation in cutting-edge technology.

The Kapor Center has a paid internship program that places underrepresented college students in Silicon Valley companies.

Jealous, who was bitten by the technology bug in elementary school, served as president/ CEO of the NAACP for five years until his resignation late last year. There, his leadership in technology grew the NAACP’s mobile messaging base from 5,000 activists to 423,000 and from 175,000 email activists to 1.3 million.

Jealous, who is also a former executive director of the 200-member National Newspaper Publishers Association, has a record of using technology to fight for racial justice.

“Ben has spent his career working to end racial and economic gaps in society, from the criminal justice system to education to health care,” Freada Kapor Klein said in a statement.

“We are tremendously pleased that he will bring his vast experience, strategy and energy to the tech sector as the next frontier in his life’s work for justice and inclusion.”

When Jealous left the NAACP last year, he said he planned to spend more time with his family and work to start a political action committee (PAC) for transformative political candidates.

He said he will continue that goal.

“I will reserve a portion of my time continuing my work in politics. This will be 80 percent of my time and 20 percent will be continuing to build the PAC,” he said.

Jealous said he will remain bi-coastal, primarily living in Maryland with his family, even as he travels for the Kapor Center.

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the finances,” he said. “A lot of times, especially in our culture, we’re taught to be the provider, and a lot of times the salaries being offered are not enough to provide for our families. That’s why a lot of people choose different occupations.”

Northview Elementary fifth grade teacher Tony Hart thought the summit was a “great beginning, although it could have been more people in attendance.”

“We need to spread the word next time and get other male teachers involved,” Hart told the AFRO. “We need to appreciate male teachers.”

The event was orchestrated by Prince George’s County Public School Board of Education member Curtis Valentine

in conjunction with the Association of Supervisory & Administrative School Personnel (ASASP) and the Prince George’s County Educators’ Association (PGCEA).

Also attending were Prince George’s County Council Chairman Mel Franklin, Sheriff Melvin C. High, Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker III and PGCPS CEO Kevin Maxwell.

High said he believes African American culture today has too many Black men in the wrong place.

“We have millions of people incarcerated in jail right now,” High said. “About 50 percent are African Americans and about 90 percent are males.”

with three other girls, by a bomb planted in hate inside a Black church in Birmingham, Ala. Braddock, a former Prince George’s school principal, Dianne Braddock’ speaks to on Feb. 25 brought those Kenmoor students memories to Kenmoor Middle School in Landover, Md. as table and ask us ‘How many of them are in the part of a Black History Month jar,’ ” Braddock told the Kenmoor students. presentation. The church bombing lead to Those four girls who died in the church the enactment of a string of civil rights laws, were martyrs, she said. “They sacrificed their starting with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and lives for Black civil rights,” Braddock told the the Voting Rights Act of 1965. crowd of middle school students.

Braddock described for the middle school Braddock ended with “Don’t let anybody students, what life was like for Black people back then. Her remarks struck a chord with the ever talk about your middle school because you guys did great today.” seventh and eighth graders.

Braddock explained how students should A speech that initially was met with be thankful for the resources they now have restless squirming from seventh and eighth because Blacks did not have these resources graders drew thunderous applause and candid 50 years ago. questions to Braddock, the sister of Carole By the time Braddock finished her Robertson who was killed Sept. 15, 1963 presentation, none of the students in the along with Addie Mae Collins, 14, Denise classroom looked bored or sullen anymore.

McNair, 11, and Cynthia Wesley, 14.

They all were attentive and full of questions Braddock was 19 years old at the time, about life then and life now. attending Clark College in Atlanta when her Braddock then proceeded to ask students younger sister was killed. She prefers telling if they believed young African Americans young people about the world she and her are being treated fairly. The middle schools sister lived in. students all answered unanimously “no.”

She told them about how Blacks, as One student stood up and discussed his recently as the 1960s, had to pay a poll tax to view on the Trayvon Martin case. vote, about how some would-be voters had to “I don’t think it was really fair. The take a test to be declared eligible to vote and Trayvon Martin story had an emotional toll on about how unfair treatment was the norm for the Black community. He was killed for just African Americans, especially in the South. walking down the street. He could have made Voting registrars “would ask us questions an impact but his life was taken too early.” like ‘How many bubbles are in a bar of soap?’

His remarks drew rousing cheers from his or have a jar of jelly beans or marbles on the classmates, teachers and Braddock.

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COMMENTARY

Obama’s One-Sided Responsibility Lecture

Too often during the presidency of Barack Obama, the nation’s first AfricanAmerican president, he has felt the need to chide Black Americans to take responsibility for their destiny.

In announcing his new “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative targeting young men of color, the president again waded into the personal responsibility waters and told the nation our Black and Walter Fields Latino young men simply have to do better, be better.

President Obama shared how he was the product of a singleparent household, did not have a relationship with his father and was sometimes angry about that, got high and made some bad choices.

But look at him now, all grown up and occupying the White House.

It’s not like we have not heard this pitch before. Most Black children receive this message—whether the product of a two- or single-parent household, or from a family surrogate.

If you have spent any time in a Black church, chances are you have heard that sermon on multiple occasions. And contrary to popular belief, Black people actually confront irresponsible behavior with a frequency that would shock White America.

What’s different here is that the message is coming from our highest and most powerful elected official and someone whose reflection in the mirror looks like us.

When President Obama uses such rhetoric, it reinforces the perception among many Whites that if only Black people would get their act together they could make something of themselves.

It reminds me of the movies I despised when I was a child; the films with the depiction of the mumbling and self-deprecating Black house servant who put down Blacks to curry favor with the White boss but was too ignorant to understand he was insulting himself. The crowd the president plays to with this

message is predisposed to discount the value of Black people, including the one in the Oval Office.

I can’t recall a White president delivering that message to White men. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the wigged crew from 1776 certainly looked the other way when they and their White brethren were buying and selling Africans like cattle. My father served in World War II, but I don’t remember reading that President Truman publicly rebuked White male military leaders for allowing Black soldiers to bleed for their country but be treated as secondclass citizens.

Perhaps I missed the kinescope of President Eisenhower chastising White men for spitting on little Black children who simply wanted to go to school. I do not have a memory of President Kennedy telling White southern men who bombed churches and murdered Black children to be responsible.

Who holds White male CEOs responsible when they mismanage billion-dollar corporations, causing thousands of workers to lose their jobs but walk away with million-dollar golden parachutes? It is near impossible to get a predominantly White jury to convict a White police officer who has killed a Black male with excessive force. And I’ve never heard a president tell White college students that riot after a sporting event that they should be more responsible.

It seems that responsibility is a one-way street on which only Black people are expected to travel.

Yet, Black people have been responsible to the point that America needs to send us a “thank you” card. The fact that there has not been more violence in this country over our treatment has always amazed me and is a testament to our divine connection. After experiencing the brutality of slavery,

Last week in New York, the Ford Foundation hosted a conference with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on “Changing the Conversation on Growth: Going Inclusive.”

Both are mainstream organizations, grounded in the elite consensus.

Their public engagement challenging the orthodoxy that inequality is the price William Spriggs we pay for economic growth is important.

Writing in 1955, economist Simon Kuznets argued that at first, rapid economic growth would make inequality grow, but over time inequality would decline. It appeared to fit what happened in the United States with rapid growth at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century.

That era created vast wealth for a few, like Henry Ford, but poverty for many. Then came the Great Depression. Then income inequality moderated, and the United States had economic growth while growing more equal. The sense was that inequality wasn’t really a problem; economies would eventually revert to a more equal path.

In 1975, economist Arthur Okun suggested that measures by the government to bring about equality also made the economy less efficient; meaning there was a trade-off between

growth and equality. By the mid-1970s, the U.S. economy had become much more equal, so Okun’s argument fueled a sense more equality would hurt growth.

That belief has helped shape policy thought since. A growing economy has more resources to invest in advances in science and medicine, it can support a strong defense to provide national security, and new technologies can improve life for everyone. So, whether trade deals enrich corporations, or tax cuts help the wealthy, or corporate subsidies made the rich richer, as long as it could be argued that the policies helped growth, the resulting inequality was simply the cost society should pay.

Now we are back at levels of inequality in the United States that have not been seen since the Great Depression. Many economists are re-evaluating the notion of a trade-off between growth and equality. Some argue that high inequality actually contributed to the instability that caused the Great Recession.

The Ford Foundation and the OECD have embraced the view that we should reject there is a trade-off between growth and equality. First, on ethical and moral grounds, a society that shares gains and losses more equally is superior. It is also easier to get societies to trust in government and to get social cohesion when the gains of policies are shared and the losses don’t always fall on the same people. But now Ford and the OECD are prepared to argue that there is a positive economic case to be made, that equality and growth are both possible.

This week, a group not known for being a friend to equality – the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – issued a staff paper reviewing the new economic research and added new work.

The IMF is better known for being cold-hearted bankers who

Inequality is Now Mainstream

the betrayal of Reconstruction, the terror of Jim Crow and the dehumanization of economic oppression, the real message should be one of gratitude and respect.

How were so many Blacks murdered and how did so many White juries let the killers go free? How did drug laws come into existence that were racist at face value and used for the mass incarceration of Blacks? Why did we need a Civil Rights Act and a Voting Rights Act if the Constitution is the law of the land and the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments guaranteed us citizenship and equal protection?

I do not need to hear the president’s personal story of redemption. Too many of us could one-up him when it comes to the burdens we have carried as Black men. What the nation should hear is the truth and the acknowledgement that the reason the president’s new initiative is needed is because young men of color are the latest in a line of Black casualties.

Walter Fields is the Executive Editor of NorthStarNews.com.

command countries to pay back loans regardless of the effect on government programs to help the poor. In the paper, the IMF distinguishes between inequalities that result from market activity – differences in wages and earnings before taxes – and “net inequality” after transfers, from taxes, and social insurance payments. Their conclusion is that “lower net inequality seems to drive faster and more durable growth for a given level of redistribution.” In short, trickle down is not the way to grow the economy, watering from the roots is.

It means that in the recent farm bill, those arguing to preserve full funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program were the ones making the stronger pro-growth argument. It means that in the continued fight to extend unemployment insurance benefits, while more than 10 million Americans struggle to find jobs, is a pro-growth argument.

These are not programs that are simply morally right; they are programs that, based on the best economic evidence, help provide for faster and more sustainable growth of the economy.

At the conference in New York, the OECD released a report showing the extreme income inequality of the United States. Among the OECD countries – the advanced industrial democracies of the world – the United States has the highest inequality, but for Turkey, Mexico and Chile; and since 1985, inequality in America has grown much faster than the OECD average.

So the “smart” answers on the economy are changing.

Those responsible for shaping the debate of the past 30 years have come around to view things in a new light.

William Spriggs is the assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Labor. Follow him on Twitter at @ WSpriggs.

Israel, Occupied Palestine, and the Dred Scott Decision I found myself thinking about the notorious Dred Scott decision (1857) by the US Supreme Court while traveling the streets of Occupied Palestine this past January. I was there leading a small delegation of African Americans who were trying to better understand the nature of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

There are many ways that the conditions of Palestinians have been described over Bill Fletcher Jr. time. Most recently the system of Israeli domination of the Palestinians (both internal to the state of Israel and externally through the occupation of Palestinian territories) has been characterized as an “apartheid system,” based on the criteria and analysis of apartheid that the United Nations established in the early 1970s. While I absolutely agree that

apartheid describes the system in place, it was the Dred Scott decision that reverberated in my brain as I explored the reality of the conditions facing Palestinians.

As you will remember, the Dred Scott decision concerned the legitimacy of an African-American slave’s assertion of freedom once he was in a non-slave state. In this famous decision, the Court argued, among other things, that Blacks had no rights that a White person was bound to respect. While walking through Occupied Palestine I found myself confronting the reality that Palestinians have no rights that the Israeli authorities feel bound to respect.

In the interest of time and space, let me provide two examples. The first is land. Since 1948, there has been a systematic seizure of land owned by Palestinians, first in what is now known as the state of Israel, and later in the Occupied Territories. Rationales have ranged from alleging security concerns to the discovery of archaeological relics. Regardless of the rationale, once removed from the land, the Palestinians do not get it back. More than likely it is turned over to an Israeli settler in flagrant violation of international law, and sometimes even Israeli law.

The second example concerns checkpoints and roads.

There are roads in the Occupied Territories that Palestinians are forbidden to travel unless they receive special permission.

There are checkpoints throughout the Occupied Territories that Palestinians must walk through, in an atmosphere of humiliation, to be inspected, questioned, etc. Additionally, Israeli security personnel can feel free to stop any Palestinian, including in territory nominally controlled by the Palestinian Authority, and interrogate them and/or seize them.

In each case, protests by Palestinians rarely result in anything approaching justice. If settlers in the Occupied Territories attack Palestinians, the Palestinians have come to expect little or no justice from Israeli authorities. If, on the other hand, a Palestinian attacks an Israeli, they can expect retribution from the Israeli authorities and the settlers.

If you question why the tide seems to be turning in favor of a rethinking of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and why growing numbers of people recognize the profound injustice in the treatment of the Palestinians, just remember the name “Dred Scott.” At that point, it will all come together.

Bill Fletcher Jr. is a racial justice, labor and global justice writer, and activist. He is a senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies.

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Thousands of construction jobs, 75 high-paying permanent positions and tens of millions in annual county revenue will add to what’s already been a four-decade commitment to Calvert County and protecting the Chesapeake Bay. With the nation’s commitment to natural gas exports, it’s nice to know that the people who live and work here will enjoy its economic benefits.

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Dr. Andrew Ray, Grand Basileus, Following the Pre-Luncheon Featured Author’s Event, the Association for the Study Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, center, with of African American Life and History(ASALH) hosted its 88th Annual Black History other Men of Omega Luncheon on Feb. 22 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Northwest, Washington, D.C. Under the 2014 Black History Month theme, “Civil Rights in America,” friends and guests of ASALH were treated to an Dr. Janet Sims-Wood, A’Lelia Bundles, emcee and afternoon of book author’s honoree, Dr. Charlene Dukes, President, Prince signings; vendor’s George’s Community College marketplace; a sumptuous meal; unveiling of the Paul Wells, great Rev. Keynote Shirley Chisholm grand-nephew of Dr. Joshua address by Commemorative Carter G. Woodson with his DeBois Dr. Freeman daughters, Caitlyn stamp; presentation gives the Hrabowski and Rachel invocation of the White House African American Month Proclamation and the presentation of the Living Legacy Award winners. The highlight Dramatic performance by the Kiamsha of the luncheon was an inspiring keynote Youth Empowerment Organization address by Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, president, University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Presentations were also made to Howard and Bowie Michael Forus and Antonia Mendez, both of State universities.

Gina Paige and special Farmers Insurance and Dr. Gladys Gary Vaughn,

Dorothy Bailey, Roy Betts, USPS/executive council member, Sylvia Cyrus, Kenya King, and Velma Lois Jones

Registration team: Jacqueline McLean; Mary Pittman; Gwendolyn Harilee; Ferial Bishop, committee chair; Jean Humphrey; Ivana Williams; Chastity Johnson and Juabakee Calhoun

recognition honoree, Raymond Winbush

Photos by Rob Roberts

chair, ASALH development committee

Edgar Brookins, chair, PR/marketing committee, Shayna Jamison, Miss Black Va. U.S.A. , Ciera Nicole Butts, Miss D.C., Sylvia Cyrus, DeJanee Fennell, Miss Black Md. U.S.A., Nancy African American History Berry, Ms. D.C., Ebony Month Proclamation being Andrews, Miss Black D.C. U.S.A. and Kenya King, ASALH presented to the ASALH Leadership executive council member

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity presented a $20,000 donation to ASALH.

The Shirley Chisholm commemorative stamp

The Youth Ministry presents a moment in

Black History.

Maj. Gen. Nadja West receiving the Keeper of the Community Award from Sis. Adriene Webb

Musical prelude by Naja West

Patrick Lundy and the Ministers of Music performing “Lift Every Voice” Gospel Service Members enjoying the festivities

Co-chairs Jessenia Navarro (far left) and Anita Laury (2nd from right) with Frederic Yonnet (3rd from left) and other guests

Retired Sgt. Maj. Carlton Kent (16th Sgt. Maj. of the USMC), Sgt. Maj. Craig Cressman, Col Anthony Barnes, Commander, Hqs and Service Battalion, USMC and Chap(LT) Devon Foster

Gospel Service members Machelle Reynolds and Edgar Brookins received special awards of recognition.

The Gospel Service at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall(JBM-HH), Fort Myer, Va., hosted their annual Keeper of the Community Awards Worship Program on Feb. 15 at the Memorial Chapel with guest speaker, the Rev. Leonard Smith and special music by Patrick Lundy and the Ministers of Music along with Federic Yonnet, a harmonicist. The Youth Ministry presented a dramatic monologue highlighting the era of the Freedom Riders. During the program, the Keeper of the Community Award was presented to Maj. Gen. Nadja West(first African American female in the Active Army to be promoted to 2-stars); Ret. Sgt. Maj. Carlton Kent, USMC; Rev. Perry Smith and high school student, Fisayo Quadri. After the program, a fellowship dinner was served followed by a Q & A session on Black History facts. Chap(LT) Devon Foster, pastor, expressed his sincere appreciation to all those who attended as well as Col. Anthony Barnes, Commander of the Headquarters Presenting and Service the Colors Battalion, USMC.

Photos by Rob Roberts

Guests moving though the serving line

Retired Sgt. Maj. Carlton Kent, Rev. Perry Smith, Rev. Leonard Smith, Chap (LT) Devon Foster and Min. Donald Myers

The Buffalo Soldiers

Rev. Dr. Leonard N. Smith, pastor, Mount Zion Baptist Church, Arlington, Va.

Honoree Fisayo Quadri (right) with mother

The Rough Riders, Junior Buffalo Soldiers of America, NOVA Chapter; Ret. Sgt. Maj. Jarman (far right), Officer in Charge

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Gwynn Park High School Alum Graduates from Basic Military Training Air Force Airman 1st Class Ian T. Segears graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.

The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.

Segears is the son of Ina Segears of Accokeek. He is a 2012 graduate of Gwynn Park High School in Brandywine, Md. Ian T. Segears MLK Memorial Library to Honor Harriet Tubman During Women’s History Month Program The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library and area artists will host Harriet Tubman: In Celebration of A Soldier, a Women’s History Month arts-based program on March 11. The free event will take place in the Great Hall of the MLK, Jr. Memorial Library at 901 G St., N.W. D.C. New York poet and author, Cyd Charisse Fulton and renowned historian C. R. Gibbs, will share poetry and insights into Harriet Tubman’s historic involvement in the “Women’s Movement” and highlight her Civil War connection in this arts-based tribute. Fulton will also present poems from her recently released publication, Feeding Off Of The North Star.

Silver Spring, Md.

Montgomery County AKAs to Host 2014 Golf Tournament Ivy Vine Charities, the nonprofit charitable foundation of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Theta Omega Omega Chapter in Montgomery County, will host its 2014 Annual Benefit Golf Tournament to benefit higher education scholarships and the mission of Ivy Vine Charities May 2.

The event will be held at Hampshire Greens Golf Course located at 616 Firestone Drive in Silver Spring, Md. Registration begins at 7:15 am and the shotgun start is at 8:00 a.m.

Tournament sponsorships, underwriting sponsorships, hole sponsorships and other sponsorships are available.

Register using Pay Pal at www.ivyvinecharities.org or call 301-368-2105.

Capital City Links Hosts ‘National Wear Red Day’ for American Heart Association The Capital City Chapter of Links Incorporated hosted a “National Wear Red Day” reception called “Red Dress, Red Tie” on Feb. 7 on behalf of the American Heart Association. The reception, which was held at the Morgan Lewis & Bockius law firm in the District, highlighted national efforts to fight against heart disease in women. Gail Mates, National Spokesperson for “Go Red for Women” addressed the need for more research about women’s heart health and Dr. Patricia Davidson, made a presentation on cardiovascular disease detection and prevention. The reception was presented by Capital City Links member Grace Speights at the law firm of Morgan Lewis & Bockius.

This Women’s History Month event, a tribute honoring the life of Harriet Tubman, will be moderated by poet and arts advocate J. Joy “Sistah Joy” Matthews Alford and will include poetry, lecture, African drumming and song, and will also include performances by Washington area a cappella ensemble, Washington Revels Jubilee Voices and Djembe drummer, Doc Powell.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon to Deliver Charter Day Address at Howard University Board Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jamie Dimon will deliver the keynote address at the Howard University 147th Charter Day Convocation on March 7 at 11 a.m. in Cramton Auditorium.

In 2006, Dimon was named chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, and became chairman one year later. He has helmed the bank since JPMorgan Chase’s merger with Bank One Corporation in 2004.

This year’s Charter Day celebration marks the 147th anniversary of the charter enacted by Congress, and subsequently approved by President Andrew Johnson on March 2, 1867, which established Howard University.

The 90th Annual Charter Day Dinner will be held at The Washington Hilton hotel on March 8 at 7 p.m. The University will honor four alumni for their extraordinary accomplishments in their respective fields.

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(Left to Right) Capital City Links ”Red Dress Red Tie” organizers Martha Mitchell, Zinethia Clemmons, Grace Speights Esq. host, Annie Whately, Capital City Links President and Edna Lee Moffit, Capital City Links Vice President.

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ARTS & CULTURE

Alcoholic Air Marshal Tested in Transatlantic Hijack Thriller

By Kam Williams Special to the AFRO

Bill Marks’ (Liam Neeson) life went into a tailspin after his young daughter lost her battle with leukemia. The inconsolable police officer sought solace in a bottle of alcohol, an addiction that cost him his marriage and career.

Today, the ex-cop is lucky to be employed as an air marshal, a job he decided to take despite a terrible fear of takeoffs.

On this particular evening, he has been assigned to protect a packed transatlantic flight from New York to London.

The trip starts out uneventfully, with Bill hiding his identity while making the acquaintance of the attractive passenger (Julianne Moore) sitting next to him. However, a crisis arises over the middle of the ocean soon after he receives a text from an anonymous caller claiming to be in the cabin and threatening to murder a passenger every 20 minutes unless $150 million is deposited into an offshore bank account.

Initially, he dismisses the message as a prank on the part of the only colleague (Anson Mount) aboard the plane, since a breach of the supposedly impenetrable federal network is almost impossible and a criminal offense to boot. Once the first

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Air marshal Bill Marks (Liam Neeson) takes on a mid-air threat in the film, Non-Stop. victim dies, Bill realizes he has an urgent emergency on his hands.

Who might the hijacker be? The Muslim (Omar Metwally) sporting a skullcap? The trash-talking black teenager (Corey Hawkins) reluctant to surrender his cell phone? Somebody else? Of course, the actual perpetrator will not be easy to pinpoint in this ever-escalating, deadly game of cat and mouse.

Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, Non-Stop is yet another adrenaline-fueled vehicle featuring Liam Neeson. The surprising success of Taken, has belatedly turned the rugged Irishman into an action star, as reflected in subsequent similar

outings in The A-Team, Taken 2, Unknown, and the upcoming Run All Night.

Here, Neeson safely sticks close to the Taken formula, starting with his character’s name (Bill Marks as opposed to Bryan Mills) and his playing a broken soul in need of redemption. Again, he rises to the occasion in tough, two-fisted fashion, though also exhibiting vulnerability certain to move you to tears during the closing credits.

Besides an engaging premise and a satisfying resolution, is blessed with an inscrutable plot, which delicately ratchets up the tension as it winds its way towards an unpredictable denouement. Thus, the picture unfolds less like a mob scene disaster flick than a cleverly concealed whodunit where everybody with a phone is a suspect.

Cells on a plane!

Excellent (4 stars) Rated PG-13 for sensuality, profanity, intense violence and drug use Running time: 106 minutes Distributor: Universal Pictures

Rap Disrespect of Black Icons Raises Concerns

By Jesse Washington The Associated Press

Nicki Minaj

Malcolm X

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black history, but they don’t seem as aware as rap generations before them,” said Jermaine Hall, editor-in-chief of Vibe, the hip-hop magazine and website.

While previous generations had to struggle with the racism and neglect of the 1970s or the crack epidemic of the 1980s, Hall said, today’s young people have not faced the same type of racial struggle — “They’re sort of getting further and further away from the civil rights movement.”

“In the ‘80s, whether it was KRS-One, Public Enemy, or the Native Tongues, that entire movement, it was very in tune with black history,” Hall said. “They knew everything about Malcolm, about Martin, about Rosa Parks. Now, the new rappers just aren’t as in tune.”

Indeed, Minaj issued a statement expressing disbelief at the uproar and apologizing to Malcolm’s family “if the meaning of the photo was misconstrued.”

Wayne wrote to the Till family to “acknowledge your hurt, as well as the letter you sent to me via your attorneys.”

Simmons was the only one to say, “I am sincerely sorry.”

The apologies did not change much for Pierre Bennu, a filmmaker and artist who said Malcolm X’s life was dedicated to advocating for the humanity of black people, while Minaj’s song was simply dehumanizing.

When he saw Minaj’s manipulation, Bennu said, “I felt punched in the gut.”

The episode inspired him to post a mash-up video (http:// bit.ly/1fpoFYB) laying Minaj’s song over the infamous 1941 Walter Lantz cartoon “Scrub Me Mama With A Boogie Beat,” which depicts a town of lazy black people hypnotized by a seductive washerwoman.

Various mainstream rap artists seem reluctant to defend Minaj and Wayne; The Associated Press sought out five, but none returned calls for comment.

Jasiri X, a rapper whose music focuses on black empowerment and current events, said many of today’s mainstream rappers use images of revolutionary black icons to promote an anti-establishment image.

“All the while, they’re being funded and pushed by major corporations,” he said.

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Malcolm X and rap music have always fit together like a needle in the groove, connected by struggle, strength and defiance. But three recent episodes involving the use or misuse of Malcolm and other black icons have raised the question: Has rap lost touch with black history?

Chart-topping rapstress Nicki Minaj provoked widespread outrage with an Instagram post featuring one of black history’s most poignant images: Malcolm X peering out the window of his home, rifle in hand, trying to defend his wife and children from firebombs while under surveillance by federal agents.

Superimposed on the photo: the title of Minaj’s new song, which denigrates certain black men and repeats the N-word 42 times.

That came after Minaj’s mentor Lil Wayne recorded a verse last year using the civil rights martyr Emmett Till in a sexual metaphor, and the hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons posted a Harriet Tubman “sex tape” video on his comedy channel.

What is happening to mainstream rap music, which was launched by Simmons and is now ruled by the likes of Minaj and Wayne?

“I don’t want to say today’s rappers are not educated about

“I see Nicki and other artists, whether Kanye or Jay-Z, the disrespect of your humanity and your blackness cost you?” adopting these revolutionary images or using a clip or saying Photo: In this combination of 2013 and 1963 file photos, their name, but never practice the principles which these hip-hop artist Nicki Minaj performs in New York, and Malcolm revolutionaries gave their lives for,” Jasiri said.

X, civil rights activist and black Muslim leader, holds a It wasn’t always so. newspaper as he speaks at a rally in New York.

Hip-hop began in the early 1970s as an alternative to gang activity. Before the music was recorded, founding fathers like DJ Afrika Bambaataa — whose slogan was “peace, love, Hey Adults and Youth! unity and having fun” — would play Malcolm X’s voice over Would you consider helping change our community instrumental break beats. values for the better? Yes! How? With a copy of my book, “Not only did it sound funky but it helped raise our The Mentoring Clinic, in the hands of all our youth, we’ll consciousness,” hip-hop historian Davey D wrote on his see their moral values change. Our youth is our change in our community. website.

Davey attended many early rap concerts at Harlem’s The Mentoring Clinic By Arthur Burrell Now Available at Amazon Books Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm was assassinated. As the $9.95 music gained steam, X was constantly honored on wax. KRSOr call/e-mail: (410)493-1395 One duplicated Malcolm’s gun-in-the-window pose on the Arthur.burrell2@gmail.com cover of his 1988 classic album, “By Any Means Necessary.”

In 1991, Tupac rhymed on “Words of Wisdom”: “No FRANCE Malcolm X in my history text, why is that?/Cause he tried Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord to educate and liberate all blacks.”

The Suit Malcolm’s voice and image Based on The Suit by Can Themba, Mothobi Mutloatse, appeared on so many records and Barney Simon and videos, “many would Direction, adaptation, and musical direction by Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne, and Franck Krawczyk remark that he was an emcee,” Davey wrote.

When Philomen, a middle-class lawyer, catches his wife Matilda having an affair, he forces her to treat her lover’s left-behind suit as an honored Tubman also is a longtime guest—feeding it, entertaining it, and taking it for walks as a constant rap staple, mentioned by reminder of her adultery. But the setting of Sophiatown, a teeming South everyone from Ice Cube (“She African township that was erased under apartheid soon after Can Themba helped me run like Harriet wrote his classic short story The Suit, is as much a character in the story Tubman”) to Pharoahe Monch as his unfortunate couple. Renowned director Peter Brook’s French stage adaptation is now given new life by returning to the source language of (“A railroad to underground “Witty inventiveness…

English. Working with his long-time collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne like Harriet Tubman”). Till, a world that brims with and composer Franck Krawczyk, they have adapted the play and set it juicy, appetizing life. too, has been mentioned to music from sources as diverse as Franz Schubert and Miriam Makeba.

Everyone on stage is in songs such as Kanye’s Brook and Estienne’s work was last seen at the Kennedy Center in Samuel pretty close to perfect.” breakthrough 2003 single Beckett’s Fragments in 2011.

—The New York Times Free Explore the Arts Post-Performance Discussion: March 11 “Through The Wire.”

In English. Recommended for mature audiences.

But today’s rappers reflect our money-obsessed society, March 11–13 at 7:30 p.m. said Bakari Kitwana, whose Terrace Theater Rap Sessions organization just moderated a series of SOUTH AFRICA community dialogues between the civil rights and hip-hop Baxter Theatre Centre generations.

“We see a lot of things Solomon and Marion (U.S. PREMIERE) going on with our young Written and directed by Lara Foot people, and we don’t feel with Dame Janet Suzman and Khayalethu Anthony like we are teaching them Featuring Dame Janet Suzman, one of the world’s most revered actresses values that can compete with of stage and screen (famed for her work with the Royal Shakespeare the way the value of money Company, a two-time Olivier Award nominee, and an Academy Award® nominee for Nicholas and Alexandra), Solomon and Marion is the story of is ingrained in our culture,” two injured souls searching for redemption in the fragile, post-apartheid Kitwana said. “Everything is South Africa. Marion has watched her life drain away. Children and just focused on money. If you husband gone, she ekes out an existence in a country utterly transformed. can get money, whatever else But it’s the only home she has. As the new South Africa prepares for the you’re doing doesn’t matter.”

World Cup finals, old divisions and suspicions seem as deep as ever, and the intruder she has been expecting, dreading, and needing arrives.

“It’s reached a crisis “Janet Suzman is quietly Free Explore the Arts Post-Performance Discussion: March 28 moving…Khayalethu Anthony point,” he said. “I came up in In English. Recommended for mature audiences. is hugely engaging.” the ‘70s and ‘80s, and greed — The Guardian (UK) has always been present, but March 28 & 29 at 7:30 p.m. | Mar. 30 at 2 p.m.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen it Terrace Theater like it is now.”

He was echoed by Paradise Presenting Underwriter HRH Foundation Gray, who performed in the Major support is provided by David and Alice Rubenstein.

1980s with the Afrocentric rap Corporate support is provided by Chevron. group X Clan.

Additional support is provided by A. Huda and Samia Farouki, The Florence Gould Foundation, The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, Amalia Perea Mahoney and William Mahoney, The Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater, and the State Plaza Hotel.

“Mainstream rap music has International government support is provided by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China, the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China lost its reverence for anything in the United States, the Embassy of Israel in the United States, the Canada Council for the Arts, The National Theatre of Iceland, and the Japan Foundation.

Major support for education and related artistic programming is provided by David and Alice Rubenstein through the Rubenstein Arts Access Program, besides money,” Gray said. the National Committee for the Performing Arts, and the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts.

Today’s rappers threaten International Programming at the Kennedy Center is made possible through the generosity of the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts. to kill people who disrespect Tickets & more info (202) 467-4600 kennedy-center.org/worldstages them, “but they sit back and Tickets also available at the Box Office | Groups (202) 416-8400 let you disrespect our legacy, our culture, our history,” he said.

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FAITH

Harford County survivor teaches value of mission with ‘Cancerve’

By Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff When the Ecumenical Institute in Baltimore honors people for their extraordinary ministry with their Making a Difference Award, the award is a loaf of bread and a bottle of wine. When Grace Ellen Gibson Callwood received the award Jan. 4, she got juice and cookies. Callwood is in the third grade.

A member of Ames United Methodist Church in Bel Air, she is the youngest person to receive the award. She also recently was declared cancer-free. On Feb. 6 Callwood completed chemotherapy, but her illness contributed to the creation of her non-profit ministry, “We Cancerve,” a movement to mobilize ready resources and creative ideas to help homeless, sick and foster children.

On her seventh birthday, Callwood’s mother T’Jae Gibson remembers, Grace went to the doctor with an enlarged lymph node behind her ear. Cancer was detected in her lymph nodes and bone marrow and a harrowing series of surgeries followed.

“When I get a spinal tap,” Callwood told an ABC news reporter, “when I go into the room, they always have a bunch of toys on the bed that I go on to.”

The more medical procedures she had, the more toys she received. That was when Grace’s heart of gold really shone, Gibson said. The pair talked about the toys and decided to take them to Harford Family House, the largest provider of transitional housing for homeless families with children in Harford County.

Caring about and helping other children while she struggled with the cancer, ignited something in Callwood that her family says has always been present: “Grace,” they say, “loves to give.”

Since 2011, after being diagnosed with stage IV NonHodgkins Lymphoma, Callwod has been on a steady regime of steroids, which has made her gain weight. Shortly after her diagnosis, she learned that a pair of elementary-aged girls living at the Harford Family House needed school clothes. She no longer fit into the clothes she had gotten for school, so she donated the brand-new back-to-school outfits to the girls for Christmas.

Her mother supported all of Callwood’s instincts to give to

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In April, 2011 Grace’s hair was down her back. By November, Grace had no hair. Chemo took it out in two weeks. others. These family conversations led to the creation of “We Cancerve,” and the giving continued. In Sept. 2012, her mother reports, Callwood hosted a lemonade sale in recognition of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and National Lymphoma Awareness Month. She rallied support of neighborhood friends and raised $633.32, which was split and donated evenly to the

Casey Cares Foundation and Sinai Hospital-Baltimore.

Last Easter, Callwood recruited her church’s youth ministry to help her donate 72 miniature Easter Baskets to children residing at Harford Family House. Last summer, she handcrafted 32 beaded key chains and collected hundreds of small toiletry items to create more than 50 personal care packets for girls residing at Arrow Christian Family Group Home, a transitional housing complex for female foster children who are preparing for emancipation.

Callwood recruited adults and children in her “Threads of Hope” initiative, which resulted in more than 50 back-to-school outfits (top, bottom and socks) donated to children residing at Harford Family House.

In all this giving, she says she has learned that “lots of families have new, gently used goods and under-imagined treasures that could be put to good use for those less fortunate or those who could benefit from gifts and acts of kindness.”

Callwood has named 10 young people, ages 9-17, boys and girls to serve on her board of advisors and is building her website (WeCancerve.org) to showcase ways others can serve homeless, sick, and foster children. Organizing her efforts enables more people to be involved, but at the heart of it all, Gibson said, Grace just cares about reaching out to help others.

“Since she was three, this child has called God her best friend. Jesus is next on her list. I come in third,” Gibson said.

“That’s good with me. I understand the center of her joy.”

At the Jan. 4 award ceremony, the Rev. Wanda Duckett, who presented the award, spoke about what a “world changer” Callwood had become. “Despite her own health challenges, she opens her heart to others in ways that are spiritually mature and youthfully authentic,” Duckett said. “Grace’s witness is an example to every generation of the impact that one person can have on her community – no excuses.”

Duckett also reflected on how Grace’s name is the perfect metaphor for what she does. Grace gives. Grace saves. Grace inspires.

For more information on this ministry, contact PeopleWhoCare@WeCancerve.org.

Reprinted with the permission of the UMConnection.

Thousands ‘Go Red’ for Heart Disease Awareness

By Shannen Hill Special to the AFRO

This month is full of red hearts for Valentine’s Day. It is also when attention is focused on heart disease, the leading cause of death for Black women in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Demonstrations throughout the country this month raised awareness Howard University Hospital has a 100 red dresses for heart disease. The most in display, as one of many events designed to focus widespread demonstration awareness on women’s heart disease. was the National Wear Red Day on Feb. 7, sponsored by the American Heart Association’s ‘Go Red for Women’ campaign.

Howard University Hospital will host events throughout the month, including a Red Dress display, a Heart Love Luncheon for patients, free heart screenings, and a prevention and wellness outreach day that will include special, heart-healthy meals in the hospital cafeteria and giveaway items. “We want people to become educated on how to better care for their hearts and consequently live healthier and longer lives,” said Dr. Michelle A. Albert, chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and director of Cardiovascular Disease Research.

Heart disease is most commonly caused by plaque build-up on the main artery walls, which makes it difficult for oxygen-rich blood to reach the heart. This causes the heart to strain itself, while also causing blood clots.

There are many misconceptions about women and heart disease, one being that cancer kills more women than heart disease. For women, heart disease is more deadly than all forms of cancer, according to the American Heart Association. Over 42 million American women are currently living with heart disease, and one in three women die from it. Another misconception is that young women can’t have heart disease. Women as young as 19 have are living with heart disease.

“I was so shocked when my doctor told me that I was having heart complications,” said Brenda Crawford, 58. “I wasn’t having chest pains or anything like that.”

Many women don’t realize they are living with heart disease because they mistake their symptoms for the flu, stress, or a small cold. One of the obvious signs of heart complications is a heart attack. While the sign for men having a heart attack is chest pain, women experience more subtle symptoms, including dizziness, lightheadedness, sweating, and jaw pain.

As with any disease, it is important to recognize the warning signs and act quickly. Often women don’t experience symptoms at all. Studies show that 64 percent of women who die suddenly of heart disease have no previous symptoms, according to the American Heart Association.

Risk factors for heart-related illnesses include smoking, stress, obesity, and family history.

Dieting and physical activity can lower heart disease risks by 80 percent. Some easy ways to incorporate physical activity into your day are walking the dog, dancing, and gardening.

While heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the U.S. there are plenty of organizations with support and information on how to live with it. For more information about heart disease and how to donate to this cause, visit goredforwomen.org.

Healthcare Enrollment at Asbury UMC Annapolis

Asbury United Methodist Church in Annapolis invited certified navigators from Chatman to give a day long Obama Care enroll-a-thon at the church one recent Saturday. Church leaders, Yolanda Perry and Rhonda Green planned the enrollment event saying, “Our church’s mission is to serve the last, the least, and the lost,” so this Affordable Care Act enrollment event is a perfect collaboration for the church.

Perry originally met Certified Navigator Bianca Harsley at the Severna Park Library, where Harsley told her Chatman had been charged with reaching the uninsured, educating them and enrolling them into Medicaid and Qualified Health Plans. She explained Chatman’s partnership with Healthcare Access Maryland, the Central Region Connecter Entity for the Maryland Health Connection and asked whether or not Asbury would hold an enrollment event. Perry said the church provides free lunch several days per week, including Wednesdays and Saturdays. They agreed a Saturday during the free lunch period would be the perfect time to hold the enrollment event. They were right. Many homeless persons came in for lunch and were enrolled into Medicaid right on the spot. Chatman president, Priscilla Chatman, said she was so pleased that they were able to enroll seven consumers within just a couple of hours and many enrollment appointments were made as well.

It was most poignant when the church’s custodial engineer, Franklin Johnson, finished setting up the tables and chairs for lunch; he then walked over to Harsley and asked her to enroll him into a Qualified Health

Plan. The church like any small business cannot afford to offer health insurance to its part time employees so Johnson did not have health coverage. Harsley enrolled him on the spot. Both he and the pastor, the Rev Dr. Carletta Allen, were so relieved that he now has health insurance. Johnson said, “I look forward to going to see a doctor. A big weight has been lifted off of my shoulders and I am at peace now!” Rev. Allen said, “it is also a great relief for me now that Mr. Johnson has quality health insurance.“ Navigators provide a free service to the community, educating consumers and enrolling them into affordable and in some cases free health plans. But navigators don’t just enroll; they listen to life stories and gain a level of trust in the time it takes to complete an application. Those who need health insurance come in all forms with different stories and backgrounds. This was apparent in the persons who came to Asbury to enroll.

Not only were there the homeless who came for the free lunch and enrolled into Medicaid, but also two church members who had lost good jobs and employer-paid insurance sat down to enroll. The need for insurance crosses all communities.

So Asbury UMC and Chatman will hold another enrollment event on March 22.

Rev. Allen said the church is hosting these enrollment events because, “This is my service; this is my sermon.”

The deadline for enrollment is March 31.

Bianca Harsley is stationed at Asbury UMC every Wednesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. Contact her at 443.962.5295 to enroll or for more information.

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SPORTS

AFRO Sports Desk Faceoff

Bigger Issue: NFL’s Rice or NBA’s Felton?

By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Desk It’s been a combination of the worst for the National Basketball Association (NBA)

Felton was detained on gun charges following his wife’s submission to New York police of a firearm allegedly belonging to Felton. Both stories sent shockwaves through professional sporting

Surveillance video captured Rice in a very uncomfortable situation. and the National Football League (NFL) over the past few weeks. After surveillance video captured Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice in a very uncomfortable situation dragging his fiancée across an elevator floor prior to his arrest at an Atlantic City casino, New York Knicks point guard Raymond

news and both cases spawned a long line of head-scratching and reactions of disgust.

Both the Ravens and the Knicks are two of the most respected organizations in professional sports, and now each franchise finds itself with its name directly attached to criminal cases that has ugly written in bold letters across

Theodore Roosevelt Trumps H.D. Woodson to Win DCIAA City Title

By Breana Pitts Special to the AFRO

Junior forward Deion Haynes came off the bench for 16 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists in the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider’s landslide victory over H.D. Woodson, 7750, in the District of Columbia Interscholastic Athletic Association (DCIAA) championship game on Feb. 25.

The Rough Riders put on an electrifying show, and their relentless offensive attack proved to be too much for Woodson to handle. Woodson, which has won eight consecutive games, only attempted 37 shots compared to Roosevelt’s 58.

“He’s a tremendous athlete, but his desire to win is what separates him from a lot of people,” said Roosevelt head coach Rob Nickens on Haynes’ MVP performance.

“You can’t teach heart.”

Roosevelt had four players reach double digits, including senior guard Jarell Allen, who recorded a gamehigh 17 points and 5 steals. Senior guard Johnnie Shuler— DCIAA co-player of the year—scored 11 points, while junior forward Anthony Whitney added 12 points.

Roosevelt has reached the DCIAA title game five times in the last seven years, and won three out of five. This is its first title since 2011, as Coolidge High School took home the crown in 2012 and 2013.

Woodson had won eight consecutive games, including an upset at Roosevelt back on Feb. 4 when Woodson came back from a 17 point deficit to stun Roosevelt with a 54-53 victory.

“Last time, we let up in the second half, and they came back to win the game,” said Shuler. “This time, we had to finish them off.”

Woodson was led by senior guard Devin Smith, who scored 14 points. Sophomore forward Antwon Walker also contributed eight points and three blocks.

the front cover. But which story is more troublesome, the Knicks or the Ravens? Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley of the AFRO Sports Desk discuss the question.

Riley: While both stories are extremely disturbing, Rice’s incident may cause severe damage should the police report prove true.

Rice is alleged to have struck his fiancée, rendering her unconscious. Jail time would obviously be pursued, but Rice’s image could be tarnished forever after establishing himself as one of the classiest players in the NFL prior to the Ravens’ Super Bowl win in 2013.

The ironic thing about Rice’s case is, should he be proven innocent, you would then have a story that has blackballed a high-profile athlete. Either way it’s a huge story. When you consider Rice’s squeaky clean image, a proud Ravens franchise coming off a Super Bowl win all as subplots, then this situation could be a long and draining one for him and the Ravens organization.

Green: The gun laws in New York City are strict and unforgiving. Considering that Plaxico Burress was forced to do a stint after shooting himself, you can only wonder how heavy the prosecution will force charges after Felton’s wife, Ariane Raymondo-Felton, stated her husband threatened her with a Belgian-made FN Herstal pistol. So not only is Felton facing gun charges but he’ll be facing domestic violence charges as well. It’s a bad time to be either man right

about now. High-profile cases in New York typically don’t end pretty for defendants.

Now the classification of the three gun charges that were issued to Felton is still unknown.

There’s talk that Felton could avoid jail because of the type of charges they are but obviously, the odds are still stacked. The ramification on Felton could obviously be a nightmare but imagine the results this could have on the chances of Carmelo Anthony re-signing with the team this summer. The Knicks were already a mess, causing questions to surround whether Anthony would want to stick around in New York. What are the chances he comes back now with all this chaos surrounding the team?

Riley: Felton’s issues could weigh in on Anthony’s decisions but should the Ravens lose Rice whether by jail or decision to release him, then you’re removing a key component and a Pro Bowl running back from a team that recently won the Super Bowl. What have the Knicks done since Anthony has been there? Factor in their current bottom-10 standings and what exactly would the Knicks be losing if Anthony decided to leave? Baltimore just won a championship with Rice as one of the primary players on the team. His play has been a key reason why Baltimore has contended at a top level over the past few seasons even prior to them winning the title last year. If the Ravens lose him, they’ll be forced to search the market for a replacement to a Pro Bowl running back as well as in the

hunt to repair a team image that they’ve worked hard to repair since Ray Lewis’ indictment on murder charges in 2000. Baltimore has been the model of consistency over the past decade while the Knicks have been mostly horrible or average. Rice’s incident has a chance to

reason I believe the Ravens were already in the hunt for a replacement, or at least, some competition for Rice at the running back spot.

Running backs don’t last long in the NFL. They take a lot of damage to the body with all of the contact, run after run, tackle after tackle.

Felton was detained on gun charges. knock Baltimore off of its pedestal.

Green: As much as I love Ray Rice for what he did for the Ravens throughout his first five seasons in the NFL, his sixth and most recent season was a disaster.

He wasn’t the same running back last season as he was during those first five years.

He didn’t run with the same passion and heart, and for that

Rice’s reign as an elite runner may have already been over, which makes planning for life without him easier to deal with for Ravens fans? His absence, however, may hurt the team salary cap-wise as he’s locked into a contract that would cost the Ravens at least $6 million should they cut him. I’m sure the Ravens’ brass is hoping things don’t come to that, for both Rice and the team’s sake.

Howard’s Win over Del. State Ends Five-Game Losing Slump

By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor The Howard Bison men’s basketball team ended a fivegame losing slump after pulling off a tight 55-53 win over the Delaware State Hornets on March 1 in Dover, Del. Howard fought tooth and nail with the Hornets and barely came out on top, thanks in large part to its stellar backcourt made up of freshmen guards James Daniel and James Miller. Daniel scored a game-high 22 points, 15 points scored in the second half alone.

However, it was Miller who made the biggest shot of the game on a three-point attempt that helped Howard hold off Delaware State during the final stretch of the closing half.

Miller finished with 12 points for Howard.

“We have been asking [Miller] to play this way all season,” said Howard Coach Kevin Nickelberry, according to Howard Sports Information.

“He has been playing better of late. When he plays with effort, energy and confidence, it’s a big plus for us. I have said all along that he and [Daniel] could become one of the best backcourts in this [Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference].”

Senior guard Casey Walker

led the Hornets with 12 points in the loss.

Howard will take on Coppin State in Baltimore, Md. on March 3, before returning home for their season finale and senior night celebration game against Morgan State on March 6 at the Burr Gymnasium in Washington, D.C.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM123 Margareta Roberts NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Maurice Roberts whose address is 7425 Norwalk Court, Manassas, VA. 20112 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Margareta Roberts, who died on June 22, 2013 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 August 21, 2014. 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 21, 2014, 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 21, 2014 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Maurice G. Roberts Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 02/21, 02/28, 03/07/14

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM102 Tumie C.. Hurd A.K.A. Tumie C. Hurd Sr. Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Evelyn E.C. Turner, whose address is 5127 South Dakota Avenue, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Tumie C. Hurd A.K.A. Tumie C. Hurd Sr. who died on January 14, 2014 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 August 21, 2014. 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 21, 2014, 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 21, 2014 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Evelyn E.C. Turner Personal Representative

TYPESET: Tue Feb 25 13:00:16 EST 2014 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM85 Jerome White Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Lorraine Saunders, whose address is 8830 Piney Branch Rd #1201, Silver Spring, MD 20903 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Jerome White who died on September 29, 1985 with a Will. 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 28, 2014. 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 28, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM77 Thelma Spivey Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Beverly Shorts, whose address is 2510 22nd Street, NE, Washington, D.C. 20018 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Thelma Spivey, who died on September 25, 2013 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 21, 2014. 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 21, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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02/21, 02/28, 03/07/14 TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS TYPESET: Tue Feb 18 11:46:03 EST 2014 Superior Court of 02/21, 02/28, 03/07/14 the District of District of Columbia Superior Court of the District of PROBATE DIVISION District of Columbia Washington, D.C. PROBATE DIVISION 20001-2131 Washington, D.C. Administration No. 20001-2131 2013ADM423 Administration No. Eula Mae Andrews 2014ADM96 Decedent James M. Minor NOTICE OF Decedent APPOINTMENT, Thomas H. Queen, Esq. NOTICE TO 530 Eighth Street, SE CREDITORS Washington, DC 20003 AND NOTICE TO Attorney UNKNOWN HEIRS NOTICE OF Wa n d a Yv o n n e A n APPOINTMENT, drews, whose address is NOTICE TO 908 Castlewood Drive, CREDITORS Upper Marlboro, MD AND NOTICE TO 20774 was appointed UNKNOWN HEIRS Eunice Jackson, whose personal representative address is 1014 Peconic of the estate of Eula Mae Lane, Upper Marlboro, Andrews, who died on MD 20774 was apSeptember 3, 2012 with pointed personal repre- a Will, and will serve withsentative of the estate of James M. Minor who out Court supervision. All died on September 11, unknown heirs and heirs 2013 without a Will and whose whereabouts are will serve without Court unknown shall enter their supervision. All unknown a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s heirs and heirs whose proceeding. Objections whereabouts are un- to such appointment (or known shall enter their to the probate of deappearance in this cedent´s will) shall be proceeding. Objections to such appointment filed with the Register of shall be filed with the Wills, D.C., 515 5th Register of Wills, D.C., Street, N.W., 3rd Floor 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before Au20001, on or before Au- gust 21, 2014. Claims gust 21, 2014. Claims against the decedent against the decedent shall be presented to the shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or be- undersigned, on or before August 21, 2014, or fore August 21, 2014, or be forever barred. Per- be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs sons believed to be heirs or legatees of the de- or legatees of the decedent who do not re- cedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of ceive a copy of this notice its first publication shall by mail within 25 days of so inform the Register of its first publication shall Wills, including name, so inform the Register of address and relation- Wills, including name, ship. address and relationDate of Publication: ship.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM126 Charles A. Stinger Jr. Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Sara E. Stinger, whose address is 2145 Suitland Terrace SE, Unit B, Washington, DC, 20020 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Charles A. Stinger Jr., who died on January 10, 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 August 21, 2014. 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 21, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM115 Donald H. McLaughlin Decedent Anthony P. Interdonato 12604 Glen Rd Potomac, MD 20854 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Anthony P. Interdonato, whose address is 12604 Glen Road, MD 20854 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Donald H. Mclaughlin, who died on November 1 ,2013 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 .

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Qualified applicants may apply in person at the Municipal BuildingTueat Mar 04 TYPESET: One Municipal Place, Mount Rainier, Maryland between theSuperior hours Court of of theor 9AM-5PM, Monday-Friday, District of Columbia forward their cover letter & resume PROBATE DIVISION Trust No. 2014NRT5 to: Donald H. McLaughlin mjackson@mountrainiermd.org Deceased Notice of Existence of Revocable Trust Donald H. McLaughlin whose address was 520 N. Street, SW, #S123,

Date of First Publication: March 7, 2014 Anthony P. Interdonato TRUE TEST COPY ANNE MEISTER, Register of Wills.

interested person within the meaning of D.C. Code § 20-101(d).

Date of First Publication: March 7, 2014

LEGAL NOTICES 12:24:14 EST 2014 Anthony P. Interdonato

TRUE TEST COPY ANNE MEISTER, Register of Wills.

Name of Newspapers: DWLR AFRO-AMERICAN.

TYPESET: Pub Dates: Tue Mar 04 03/07, 03/14 & 03/21/14

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM172 Floyd W. Simpson Sr. Decedent James E. Mccollum, Jr Esq 7309 Baltimore Ave Ste.117 College Park, MD 20741 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Floyd W. Simpson Jr. and Diane L. Simpson whose addresses are 3267 Prince Rainer Place,Forestville, MD 20747 & 9910 Raintree Way, Clinton, MD 20735 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Floyd W. Simpson Sr. who died on December 19, 2013 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 7, 2014.

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 7, 2014 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 7, 2014 Name of newspaper: 12:56:09 EST 2014 Afro-American Washington interested person within Law Reporter the meaning of D.C. Code § 20-101(d).

Floyd W. Simpson Jr. Diane Simpson Date of FirstL.Publication: March 7, 2014 Personal Representatives Anthony P. Interdonato TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER WILLS TRUE TESTOF COPY ANNE MEISTER, TYPESET: Tue Mar 04 03/7, 03/14, 03/21/14 Register of Wills.

Name of Newspapers: Superior Court of DWLR the District of AFRO-AMERICAN. District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Pub Dates: Washington, D.C. 03/07, 03/14 & 03/21/14 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM183 Franklin Leon Scarborough Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Kathy Y. Scarborough and Lisa Bigesby, whose addresses are 4312 Fruitwood Court, Bowie, MD 20720 and 6106 Walnut Street, Temple Hills, MD 20748 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Franklin Leon Scarborough who died on January 17, 2014 withouta Will and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 7, 2014.

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 7, 2014, 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 7, 2014 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Kathy Y. Scarborough Lisa Bigesby Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 03/07, 03/14, 03/21/14

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LEGAL NOTICES TYPESET: Tue Mar 04 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM973 12:56:59 EST 2014 Gerline Rountree Decedent James E Mccollum Jr. 7309 Baltimore Ave, Ste 117 College Park, MD 20741 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Patrice Newman whose address is 8712 Delphi Drive Clinton, MD 20735 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Gerline Rountree, who died on November 22, 2013 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 7, 2014.

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 7, 2014 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 7, 2014 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Patrice Newman Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

TYPESET: Tue Mar 04 03/07, 03/14, 03/21/14

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM140 Cierra Rachelle Wilson Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND TO 12:57:45 NOTICE EST 2014 UNKNOWN HEIRS Jacqueline Wilson and John R. Greene Jr., whose addresses are 1634 Independence Ave, SE, Washington DC 20003 and 1298 Tavern R u n R d . , H a g u e , VA 22469 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Cierra Rachelle Wilson, who died on August 4, 2012 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 7, 2014.

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 4, 2014, 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 7, 2014 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Jacqueline Wilson John R. Greene Jr. Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 03/07, 03/14, 03/21/14

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Superior Court of the District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Trust No. 2014NRT5 LEGAL NOTICES TYPESET: Tue Feb 11 12:57:01 2014 Donald H.EST McLaughlin Deceased Notice of Existence of Revocable Trustof Superior Court Donald McLaughlin theH. District of whose address was 520 District of Columbia N.PROBATE Street, SW, #S123, DIVISION Washington, DC D.C. 20024 Washington, created20001-2131 a revocable trust on Administration February 11, No. 1997 which 2013ADM809 remained in existence onRicardo the date of his Audley death on November 1, Hawkins 2013 and Anthony P. InterA.K.A. donato whose address is A. Ricardo Hawkins 12604 Glen Road, PotoDecedent mac, MD 20854 is the curThomas Campbell, rently actingL.trustee, hereiEsq. n a f t e r t h e Tr u s t e e .

3807 Minnesota Communications to Avethe nue, should NE Trust be mailed or Washington.

DC 20019 directed to Anthony P. Attorney at 12604 Glen Interdonato R o a d ,NOTICE P o t o m OF ac, MD APPOINTMENT, 20854.

NOTICE TO The Trust is subject to claimsCREDITORS of the deceased settlor’s ANDcreditors, NOTICEcosts TO of administration the setUNKNOWNofHEIRS tlor’s estate, the expenses Shawn S. Hawkins, of the deceased whose address settlor’s is 1646 funeral and disposal reFirst Ave., #5D, of New mains, statutory York, NYand 10028 was apallowances to a surviving pointed personal represpouse andofchildren to the sentative the estate of extent deceased setAudleythe Ricardo Hawkins tlor’s probate a.k.a. residuary A. Ricardo Hawestate is inadequate to kins, who died on June satisfy those claims, 26, 2013 with a Will and costs, expenses, and will serve with Court suallowances. pervision.

All deceased unknown Claims of the heirs andcreditors heirs whose settlors are whereabouts are the unbarred as against known shall enter their Trustee and the trust propa p punless e a r a n presented c e i n t h ito s erty proceeding.

Objections the Trustee at the address to such appointment (or provided herein on or beto the probate of defore September 7, 2014 (6 cedent´s will) months after theshall date be of first of this nofiledpublication with the Register of tice).

An D.C., action to contest Wills, 515 5th the validity of 3rd this Floor trust Street, N.W., must W a s be h i ncommenced g t o n , D . Cby . the earliest Novem20001, on of or (1) before Auber 2014, (oneClaims year gust1,14, 2014. from the death of the deagainst the decedent cshall e a s ebe d presented S e t t l o r ) . to( 2the ) September 7, 2014, (6 undersigned with a copy months from theof date to the Register Wills of or first of this nofiledpublication with the Register of tice) or (3) ninety Wills with a copy todays the after the Trustee sends undersigned, on or bethe person a copy of the fore instrument August 14,and 2014, or trust a nobe forever Pertice informingbarred. the person sons to be heirs of the believed trust’s existence, of or legatees the and dethe Trustee’s of name cedent who do not readdress, and of the time ceive a for copy of this notice allowed commencing a by mail within 25 days of proceeding. its first publication shall The Trustee may proceed sodistribute inform the of to theRegister trust propWills, erty in including accordancename, with address and relationthe terms of trust before the expiration of the time ship. within an action Date ofwhich Publication: must be commenced February 14, 2014 unless theofTrustee knows of Name newspaper: aAfro-American pending judicial 12:56:10 EST 2014 proceeding contesting the Washington validity of the trust or the Law Reporter Trustee has received notice from a S. potential Shawn Hawkins contestant who thereafter Personal commences a judicial Representative proceeding within sixty days after notification.

TTRUE h i s nTEST o t i c e COPY must be REGISTER OF WILLS mailed postmarked within TYPESET: Mar 04 15 days of its Tue first publica02/14, 02/21, 02/28/14 tion to each heir and qualified beneficiary of the trust and any other person Superior Court w h o w oofu the ld be an District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Trust No. 2014NRT5 Donald H. McLaughlin Deceased Notice of Existence of Revocable Trust Donald H. McLaughlin whose address was 520 N. Street, SW, #S123, Washington, DC 20024 created a revocable trust on February 11, 1997 which remained in existence on the date of his death on November 1, 2013 and Anthony P. Interdonato whose address is 12604 Glen Road, Potomac, MD 20854 is the currently acting trustee, herei n a f t e r t h e Tr u s t e e .

Communications to the Trust should be mailed or directed to Anthony P. Interdonato at 12604 Glen Road, Potomac, MD 20854.

The Trust is subject to claims of the deceased settlor’s creditors, costs of administration of the settlor’s estate, the expenses of the deceased settlor’s funeral and disposal of remains, and statutory allowances to a surviving spouse and children to the extent the deceased settlor’s residuary probate estate is inadequate to satisfy those claims, costs, expenses, and allowances.

Claims of the deceased settlors creditors are barred as against the Trustee and the trust property unless presented to the Trustee at the address provided herein on or before September 7, 2014 (6 months after the date of first publication of this notice). An action to contest the validity of this trust must be commenced by the earliest of (1) November 1, 2014, (one year from the death of the deceased Settlor). (2) September 7, 2014, (6 months from the date of first publication of this notice) or (3) ninety days after the Trustee sends the person a copy of the trust instrument and a notice informing the person of the trust’s existence, of the Trustee’s name and address, and of the time allowed for commencing a proceeding.

The Trustee may proceed to distribute the trust property in accordance with the terms of trust before the expiration of the time within which an action must be commenced unless the Trustee knows of a pending judicial proceeding contesting the validity of the trust or the Trustee has received notice from a potential contestant who thereafter commences a judicial proceeding within sixty days after notification.

This notice must be mailed postmarked within 15 days of its first publication to each heir and qualified beneficiary of the 12:56:09 ESTother 2014 trust and any person who would be an interested person within the meaning of D.C. Code § 20-101(d).

whereabouts are unthat a petition has been known shall enter their filed in this Court by JG appearance in this Wenworth Originations, proceeding. Objections LLC for standard proto such appointment bate, including the shall be filed with the appointment of one or Register of Wills, D.C., more personal repre515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd sentative. Unless a comFloor Washington, D.C. plaint or an objection in 20001, on NOTICES or before Auaccordance with Super- TYPESET: LEGAL LEGALEST NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES 13:00:10 2014 TYPESET: Tue Feb 25 12:54:10 EST 2014 Tue Feb 25 12:50:36 2014 gust 21,EST 2014.

Claims ior Court Probate Diagainst the decedent vision Rule 407 is filed in shall be presented to the this Court within 30 days Superior Court of Superior Court of undersigned with a copy from the date of first pubthe District of the District of to the Register of Wills or lication of this notice, the District of Columbia District of Columbia filed with the Register of Court may take the acPROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION Wills with a copy to the tion hereinafter set forth.

Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. undersigned, on or beIn the absence of a Will or 20001-2131 20001-2131 fore August 21, 2014, or proof satisfactory to the Administration No. Administration No. be forever barred. PerCourt of due execution, 2014ADM131 2009ADM275 sons believed to be heirs enter an order determin- Jessie W. Littleford Esther L. Barnes or legatees of the deing that the decendent A.K.A. A.K.A. cedent who do not redied intestate.

Esther Louise Barnes Jessie Wiggins Little- ceive a copy of this notice *appoint a supervised ford Decedent by mail within 25 days of personal representative NOTICE OF Decedent its first publication shall APPOINTMENT, David W. Kestner so inform the Register of Register of Wills 5849 Allentown Road NOTICE TO Clerk of the Camp Springs, MD Wills, including name, CREDITORS address and relationProbate Division 20746 AND NOTICE TO ship.

Date of First Publication UNKNOWN HEIRS Attorney Date of Publication: Belinda Pauls-Anderson, March 7, 2014 NOTICE OF February 21, 2014 whose address is 1653 Names of Newspapers: APPOINTMENT, Name of newspaper: 3 8 t h S t r e e t S . E . , Washington NOTICE TO Afro-American Washington, D.C. 20020 Law Reporter CREDITORS Washington was appointed personal Washington AND NOTICE TO Law Reporter representative(s) of the AFRO-AMERICAN UNKNOWN HEIRS e s t a t e o f E s t h e r L . Kenneth A, Vogel Phillip Littleford, whose Monica V. Jones Barnes A.K.A. Esther 1642 R St.,NW address is 11703 Thrift Personal Louise Barnes, who died Washington, DC 20009 Road, Clinton, MD 20735 Representative on September 1, 2013 Signature of wasappointed personal with a Will and will serve Petitioners/Attorney representative of the TRUE TEST COPY without Court superviestate of Jessie W. REGISTER OF WILLS sion. All unknown heirs 03/07, TYPESET: Tue Feb 18 11:47:51 2014Jessie LittlefordEST A.K.A. 03/14/14 Tue Mar 04 13:04:34 and heirs whose whereWiggins Littleford, who TYPESET: 02/21, 02/28, 03/07/14 abouts are unknown died on March 3, 2009 shall enter their appearwithout a Will and will Superior Court of Superior Court of ance in this proceeding. serve without Court suthe District of the District of Objections to such pervision. All unknown District of Columbia District of Columbia appointment (or to the heirs and heirs whose PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION probate of decedent´s whereabouts are unWashington, D.C. Washington, D.C. will) shall be filed with the known shall enter their 20001-2131 20001-2131 Register of Wills, D.C., appearance in this Administration No. Administration No. 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd proceeding. Objections 2014ADM125 2014ADM148 Floor Washington, D.C. Denise Arlyn to such appointment 20001, on or before Au- Dickerson shall be filed with the Stanley M. Gainor gust 28, 2014. Claims Decedent Register of Wills, D.C., Decedent NOTICE OF against the decedent 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, shall be presented to the Floor Washington, D.C. APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO undersigned with a copy 20001, on or before AuNOTICE TO CREDITORS to the Register of Wills or gust 28, 2014. Claims CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO filed with the Register of against the decedent AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Wills with a copy to the shall be presented to the UNKNOWN HEIRS undersigned, on or be- Bruce Dickerson, whose undersigned with a copy B e r n a r d G . F r e n c h fore August 28, 2014, or address is 530 Cedar to the Register of Wills or whose address is 5204 be forever barred. Per- Street NW, Washington, filed with the Register of Tolson Road Temple Hills sons believed to be heirs DC 20012 was appointed Wills with a copy to the MD 20748, appointed or legatees of the de- personal representative undersigned, on or be- personal representative cedent who do not re- of the estate of Denise fore August 28, 2014, or of the estate of Stanley ceive a copy of this notice Arlyn Dickerson, who be forever barred. Per- M. Gainor, who died on by mail within 25 days of died on August 13, 2011 sons believed to be heirs January 7, 2014 with a its first publication shall without a Will and will or legatees of the de- Will, and will serve withso inform the Register of serve without Court su- cedent who do not re- out Court supervision. All Wills, including name, pervision. All unknown ceive a copy of this notice unknown heirs and heirs address and relation- heirs and heirs whose by mail within 25 days of whose whereabouts are ship. whereabouts are un- its first publication shall unknown shall enter their Date of Publication: known shall enter their so inform the Register of a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s February 28, 2014 Wills, including name, proceeding. Objections appearance in this Name of newspaper: proceeding. Objections address and relation- to such appointment (or to the probate of deAfro-American to such appointment (or ship. cedent´s will) shall be Washington to the probate of de- Date of Publication: filed with the Register of Law Reporter cedent´s will) shall be 02/28/2014 Wills, D.C., 515 5th filed with the Register of Name of newspaper: Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Belinda Pauls-Anderson Wills, D.C., 515 5th Afro-American Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Personal Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington 20001, on or before Representative W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Law Reporter September 7, 2014.

20001, on or before AuTRUE TEST COPY Philip Littleford Claims against the degust 21, 2014. Claims REGISTER OF WILLS Personal cedent shall be preagainst the decedent Representative sented to the undershall be presented to the TYPESET: Feb 25 12:53:28 EST 2014 13:01:09 ESTTue 2014 signed with a copy to the 02/28, 03/07, 03/14/14 undersigned with a copy Register of Wills or filed to the Register of Wills or TRUE TEST COPY with the Register of Wills filed with the Register of REGISTER OF WILLS with a copy to the underSuperior Court of Wills with a copy to the TYPESET: Tue Mar 04 13:01:21 signed, EST on or2014 before the District of undersigned, on or be- 02/28, 03/07, 03/14/14 September 7, 2014, or be District of Columbia fore August 21, 2014, or forever barred. Persons PROBATE DIVISION be forever barred. Perbelieved to be heirs or Washington, D.C. sons believed to be heirs SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF legatees of the decedent 20001-2131 or legatees of the deCOLUMBIA who do not receive a Administration No. cedent who do not rePROBATE DIVISION copy of this notice by mail 2014ADM122 ceive a copy of this notice Washington, D.C. within 25 days of its first Dewitt Clinton by mail within 25 days of 20001-2131 publication shall so inLittlejohn Sr. its first publication shall Administration No. form the Register of A.K.A. so inform the Register of 2014ADM188 Wills, including name, Wills, including name, Dewitt C. Littlejohn Sr. Estate of address and relationaddress and relationDecedent Evalyn Elizabeth ship. ship.

NOTICE OF McCormick Date of Publication: Date of Publication: APPOINTMENT, Deceased March 7, 2014 February 21, 2014 NOTICE TO NOTICE OF Name of newspaper: Name of newspaper: CREDITORS STANDARD Afro-American Afro-American AND NOTICE TO PROBATE Washington Washington UNKNOWN HEIRS Notice is hereby given Law Reporter Gola M. Littlejohn, whose Law Reporter that a petition has been address is 120 Madison Bernard G. French Bruce Dickerson filed in this Court by Street, N.W. WashingPersonal Personal Nicky Walker for stanton, DC 20011 was apdard probate, including Representative Representative pointed personal reprethe appointment of one sentative of the estate of or more personal repre- TRUE TEST COPY Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn TRUE TEST COPY sentative. Unless a com- REGISTER OF WILLS Sr. A.K.A. Dewitt C. REGISTER OF WILLS plaint or EST an objection 2014 in Tue Mar 04 13:05:53 Littlejohn Sr., who died TYPESET: Tue Feb 25 12:51:09 accordance with Super- TYPESET: 03/7, 03/14, 03/21/14 on January 11, 2014 with 02/21, 02/28, 03/07/14 ior Court Probate Dia Will and will serve withvision Rule 407 is filed in Superior Court of out Court supervision. All Superior Court of this Court within 30 days the District of the District of unknown heirs and heirs from the date of first pubDistrict of Columbia District of Columbia whose whereabouts are lication of this notice, the PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION unknown shall enter their Court may take the acWashington, D.C. Washington, D.C. appearance in this tion hereinafter set forth.

20001-2131 20001-2131 proceeding. Objections In the absence of a Will or Administration No. Administration No. to such appointment (or proof satisfactory to the 2014ADM116 2013SEB465 Court of due execution, to the probate of deenter an order determin- Belinda M. Rollins cedent´s will) shall be Benjamin B. Joyce, Jr. ing that the decendent Decedent filed with the Register of Decedent Brian W. Thompson, NOTICE OF died intestate.

Wills, D.C., 515 5th Esq. APPOINTMENT, *appoint a supervised Street, N.W., 3rd Floor 4530 Wisconsin Ave, personal representative NOTICE TO Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

NW, Suite 200 CREDITORS 20001, on or before Au- Washington, DC 20016 AND NOTICE TO Register of Wills gust 28, 2014. Claims Attorney UNKNOWN HEIRS Clerk of the against the decedent NOTICE OF Probate Division Louise S. Carey whose shall be presented to the APPOINTMENT, address is 1013 9th Date of First Publication undersigned with a copy NOTICE TO Street, NE, Washington, March 7, 2014 to the Register of Wills or CREDITORS DC 20002, was apNames of Newspapers: filed with the Register of AND NOTICE TO pointed personal repreWashington Wills with a copy to the UNKNOWN HEIRS sentative of the estate of undersigned, on or be- Joyce Ann Brentley, Law Reporter Belinda M. Rollins, who fore August 28, 2014, or whose address is 1604 Washington died on March 2, 2013, be forever barred. Per- Timberline Road, Silver AFRO-AMERICAN without a will. All unsons believed to be heirs Spring, MD, 20904 was Nicky Walker known heirs and heirs or legatees of the de- appointed personal re- 4405 East West whose whereabouts are cedent who do not re- presentative of the estate Highway, Suite 201 unknown shall enter their ceive a copy of this notice of Benjamin B. Joyce, Jr., Bethesda, MD 20814 appearance in this Signature of by mail within 25 days of who died on March 17, proceeding. Objections Petitioners/Attorney its first publication shall 1995 without a Will and to suchEST appointment TYPESET: Tue Feb 18 15:37:01 2014 so inform the Register of will serve without Court 03/07, shall be filed with the 03/14/14 Wills, including name, supervision. All unknown Register of Wills, D.C., address and relation- heirs and heirs whose 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Superior Court of ship. whereabouts are unFloor Washington, D.C. the District of known shall enter their Date of Publication: 20001, on or before April District of Columbia appearance in this 02/28/2014 6, 2014. Claims against PROBATE DIVISION proceeding. Objections Name of newspaper: the decedent shall be Washington, D.C. to such appointment Afro-American presented to the under20001-2131 shall be filed with the Washington signed with a copy to the Administration No. Register of Wills, D.C., Law Reporter Register of Wills or filed 2012ADM286 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd with the Register of Wills Lawrence Clarke Gola M. Littlejohn Floor Washington, D.C. Decedent with a copy to the underPersonal 20001, on or before Au- William A. Bland, signed, on or before April gust 28, 2014.

Claims Representative 6, 2014, or be forever against the decedent Esquire barred. Persons believed 1140 Connecticut Ave, shall be presented to the to be heirs or legatees of TRUE TEST COPY undersigned with a copy NW #1100 the decedent who do not REGISTER OF WILLS to the Register of Wills or Washington, DC 20036 receive a copy of this noNOTICE OF filed with EST the Register tice by mail within 25 02/28, 03/07,Tue 03/14/14 TYPESET: Mar 04 13:08:12 2014 of APPOINTMENT, Wills with a copy to the days of its first publicaNOTICE TO undersigned, on or betion shall so inform the CREDITORS fore August 28, 2014, or Register of Wills, includAND NOTICE TO SUPERIOR COURT OF be forever barred. Pering name, address and UNKNOWN HEIRS THE DISTRICT OF sons believed to be heirs Monica V. Jones, whose relationship.

COLUMBIA or legatees of the deaddress is 7814 Berry Date of Publication: PROBATE DIVISION cedent who do not re- Place, District Heights, March 7, 2014 Washington, D.C. ceive a copy of this notice MD 20747 was apName of newspaper: 20001-2131 by mail within 25 days of pointed personal repre- Afro-American Administration No. its first publication shall sentative of the estate of Washington Law 2013ADM1313 so inform the Register of Lawrence Clarke, who Reporter Estate of Wills, including name, died on May 6, 2011 withLouise S. Carey Christine Hazelwood address and relation- out a Will and will serve Representative Deceased ship. without Court superviNOTICE OF Date of Publication: TRUE TEST COPY sion. All unknown heirs STANDARD February 28, 2014 a n d h e i r s w h o s e REGISTER OF WILLS PROBATE Name of newspaper: whereabouts are unNotice is hereby given Afro-American known shall enter their 03/07/14 that a petition has been Washington appearance in this filed in this Court by JG Law Reporter proceeding. Objections Wenworth Originations, to such appointment LLC for standard proJoyce Ann Brentley shall be filed with the bate, including the Personal Register of Wills, D.C., appointment of one or Representative 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd more personal repreFloor Washington, D.C. sentative. Unless a com- TRUE TEST COPY 20001, on or before Auplaint or an objection in REGISTER OF WILLS gust 21, 2014. Claims accordance with Superagainst the decedent ior Court Probate Di- 02/28, 03/07, 03/14/14 shall be presented to the vision Rule 407 is filed in undersigned with a copy this Court within 30 days to the Register of Wills or from the date of first pubfiled with the Register of lication of this notice, the Wills with a copy to the Court may take the acundersigned, on or be-

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