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“African American history is not somehow separate from American history,” President Barack Obama said during the opening ceremony of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington on Sept. 24. See more photos of the grand opening on B4.
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The president of the United States and the first lady were recently joined by two former presidents and a former first lady and millions of viewers around the country for the grand opening of the newest Smithsonian Institution museum. President Barack Obama
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The U.S. Department of Education announced on Sept. 20 that it will award $28.4 million in Advanced Placement (AP) grants to 41 states and Washington, D.C. as part of its efforts to boost college and career readiness for historically underserved students. The grants will help defray the costs of taking advanced placement tests for students from low-income families. The grants, offered to subsidize
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test fees, are designed to offset the cost for students from lowincome families who take approved advanced placement tests administered by the College Board, the International Baccalaureate Organization, and Cambridge International Examinations. By subsidizing test fees, which are about $100 per test, the program encourages all students to take advanced placement tests and obtain college credit for high school courses, reducing the time and cost required to complete a postsecondary Continued on A4
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facility; Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the museum; and hundreds of thousands of people present on the National Mall. “African American history is not somehow separate from American history,” Obama said, emphasizing that the museum ensures that Black history won’t be ignored. “It is not the underside of the American story. It is central to the American story.”
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and first lady Michelle Obama celebrated the takeoff of the National African American Museum of History & Culture on Sept. 24 with Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill; former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush; former President Bill Clinton; U.S. Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts; U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who authored legislation to build the massive
BALTIMORE- The admission of the Baltimore Sox into the National Negro Baseball League at the meeting of the club owners in Philadelphia, Thursday and Friday returns the Monumental City to its
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Congress Rebukes Obama, Overrides Veto of 9/11 legislation By Richard Lardner The Associated Press In a resounding rebuke, Democrats joined with Republicans on Sept. 28 to hand Barack Obama the first veto override of his presidency, voting overwhelmingly to allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts for its alleged backing of the attackers. Both the House and Senate voted decisively to reverse Obama’s decision to scuttle the legislation. Democrats in both chambers abandoned the president in large numbers despite warnings from Obama and top national security officials that
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President Barack Obama received the first veto override of his presidency when the House and Senate voted to allow the families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File
Trump’s Support for ‘Stop and Frisk’ Raises Concerns By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump may have stirred the pot to the boiling point in the AfricanAmerican community with recent rhetoric advancing the controversial Stop and Frisk policing policy as a primary crime deterrent for America’s inner-cities. At the first of three televised presidential debates that aired Sept. 26,, Trump reaffirmed his staunch “Law and Order” public safety platform featuring the provocative Stop and Frisk policy. Trump first announced Continued on A4
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump fully endorsed ‘stop and frisk’ during the presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.
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staff, Crystal Strait. “There was no throwing of the pie,� said Erika Bjork, who works for a professional soccer team in Sacramento and saw the encounter up close. “This was a direct assault. It just happened that he had a pie in his hand.� Bjork, whose boss is a major donor to Johnson, said the mayor looked shocked and swung at Thompson multiple times, but (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) she didn’t see him land any Sean Thompson, who punches. allegedly struck Sacramento Thompson had red and Mayor Kevin Johnson in the blue bruises around his right face with a pie, talks to The eye when he spoke to The Associated Press during a Associated Press in jail. jail interview, Sept. 22, in “When I threw the pie at Sacramento, Calif. him, right at that moment, I shouted at him. I said, ‘You need to better represent me,’� Thompson said. He said the mayor turned and hit him at least twice “and pretty hard.� Thompson said he covered his face and started to move away but was quickly surrounded by people and kept taking hits. He couldn’t tell who delivered the blows. Thompson said he expected to be tackled by police but was caught off guard when the punches came from the mayor. He said he has no regrets but was surprised to be facing a felony, assaulting a public official. He was held on $100,000 bail and was expected to be formally charged Sept. 23. Johnson’s signature achievement in office was getting a $550 million arena built for the Sacramento Kings, which Thompson said took attention away from other issues. Cres Vellucci, who organizes legal support for activists at the National Lawyers Guild in Sacramento, said people in the social justice community are concerned about Thompson’s safety and Johnson’s physical response. Prosecutors will review the case, including the mayor’s reaction, after receiving the police reports, likely on Sept. 23, district attorney spokeswoman Shelly Orio said. Vellucci wrote in an email that he met Thompson five years ago and described him as a nonviolent person who participated in some of the first Black Lives Matter protests in Sacramento in 2014 and in Occupy Sacramento rallies before that. Police and Johnson’s chief of staff said Thompson was not previously known to the mayor and his staff. In an interview with local TV stations, Thompson said he’s interacted with Johnson many times during city meetings for activists and that the mayor often appears disinterested and unengaged in community members’ concerns. Johnson is well-known for his efforts to revitalize Oak Park, a predominantly African-American neighborhood. He’s a graduate of the high school where the event was held Sept. 21 and brought it back from the brink of dissolution in the early 2000s by incorporating it in a system of charter schools he founded to help disadvantaged communities. Johnson, who had a long career as an NBA All-Star with the Phoenix Suns and a brief stint with the Cleveland Cavaliers, has about two months left as mayor. He decided not to seek a third term.
Conference in Washington. And, during his last address to the gathering as president, Obama urged Black voters protect his administration’s legacy by casting their ballots for Hillary Clinton in November. “After we have achieved historic turnout in 2008 and 2012, especially in the African-American community, I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election‌. Go vote,â€? Obama urged during a stirring speech. Minister Farrakhan challenged those statements, however, during a message delivered at Union Temple Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 18. “He’s worried about his legacy‌,â€? Farrakhan jeered, adding, “You didn’t earn your legacy with Black people‌. You fought for the rights of gay people‌. You fight for Israel. Your people are suffering and dying in the streets. That’s where your legacy is and you failed to do what should have been done.â€? The Muslim leader went on to say there was time for Obama to truly create a lasting legacy within the Black community by going back to his roots in grassroots activism. “It’s not too late,â€? Farrakhan said. “You like Jimmy Carter can be a better president after you leave the restrictions of your White House and come on back to the hood and start organizing like you did.â€? Farrakhan is not the first Black leader to question Obama’s efforts toward improving the lot of African Americans. People like Union Theological Seminary professor Cornel West and media personality Tavis Smiley have long and often called his commitment to the Black community into question.
‘Magnificent Seven’ Rides Denzel’s Star Power to $35M Debut
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In this image released by Sony Pictures, Chris Pratt, right, and Denzel Washington appear in a scene from “The Magnificent Seven.�
By The Associated Press Movie stars don’t open movies anymore? Tell that to Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks. The pair, once co-stars in “Philadelphia,� have together dominated the last three weeks of the box office. After Clint Eastwood’s Miracle on the Hudson docudrama “Sully,� starring Hanks as Captain Chesley Sullenberger, topped ticket sales of the last two weeks, “The Magnificent Seven� rode Washington’s star power to an estimated $35 million debut over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sept 25. Though both Washington and Hanks are in their early 60s, their box-office clout might be just as potent as ever. The debut of “Sully� was Hanks’ fourth best opening of his career; the opening of “The Magnificent Seven,� Antoine Fuqua’s remake of John Sturges’ 1960 Western (itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai�), is Washington’s third best. Both films boasted other enticements. Eastwood is himself a draw. Farrakhan Questions Obama’s Black Legacy And the ensemble of “The Magnificent Seven� most notably includes By Zenitha Prince Chris Pratt, the “Guardians of the Galaxy� star and a potential heir Senior AFRO Correspondent apparent to Washington and Hanks. But Washington and Hanks ranked as the overwhelming reason Minister Louis Farrakhan, audiences went to see either movie, according to comScore’s survey leader of the Nation of Islam, of moviegoers. questioned President Obama’s “They are the model of consistency and they are the model of contributions to the Africanquality,� said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for comScore. American community in “These are guys who can draw a huge audience in any type of movie response to a recent speech in that they’re in. It’s not like they’re pigeonholed into one kind of which the president called on franchise. Denzel Washington can be part of a genre, the Western, that Black voters to help uphold his doesn’t exactly have teenagers scrambling to the movie theater.� legacy. Sony Pictures’ “The Magnificent Seven� wasn’t cheap to make — President Obama was the it cost about $90 million — so its path to profitability isn’t assured. keynote speaker during the Directed by Fuqua (whose “Training Day� and “The Equalizer� also Congressional Black Caucus starred Washington), the film made splashy premieres at both the Toronto International Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. (AP Photo/ Detroit Free Press, Romain Blanquart) Foundation’s Phoenix Awards “The Magnificent Seven� slots in as one of the biggest openings The Honorable Minister Louis Dinner, the culminating event of the Annual Legislative for a Western ever, though the genre’s heyday predated modern wide Farrakhan. releases. The only Westerns to debut better, not accounting for inflation, bended the genre in other directions: sci-fi in the case of “Cowboys & Aliens� ($36.4 million in 2011) and animation in “Rango� ($38.1 # # ! , #)( )$ !% " -$*' ' ()" ( " ''- - million, also in 2011). %'$+ # $$ )$-( # !$) ( $' -$*' " !- The Western, like -$* ,$*! ! ( #) )$ !% %! ( ( # ' &* () Washington and Hanks, has proven quite durable at the box # %'$+ *( , ) (% / # $'" ) $# $# -$*' " !- office in recent years. The Coen # ) !% -$* # brothers’ “True Grit� (which grossed $171.2 million in total), Alejandro Inarritu’s “The Revenant� ($183.6 million) ! !! ! )) '( )$ ( #) "% # and a pair of Quintin Tarantino $ '$ " ' # ,(% % '( . '! ( ) . !) "$' releases (“Django Unchained,� $' " ! "( #) '$ $" with $162.8 million, and “The Hateful Eight,� with $54.1 million) have all proven the genre’s fortitude. “When you read this script as well as Antoine’s vision of it, you knew it was going to be cool and relevant,� said Rory Bruer, distribution head for Sony. “When you talk about genres or things that might not, # $ # ! "$ %" $ & "# "( " $ " ' # #! # " on the surface, look to be the best play, it’s always going to about what’s in the story and how that story is told.�
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The president said that the museum will have the touch of the average Black person in that “it tells the lives of the president and also the slave. It tells the story of the industrialist and the porter,” he said. “It talks about the teacher and the cook and the statesmen.” The idea of a Black museum commemorating the contributions of Black Americans was born a century ago and the U.S. Congress supported its authorization in the late 1920s. However, the idea of a national museum dedicated to telling the story of the Black American’s journey didn’t formally start until Lewis sponsored legislation to build it. It was not until 2003 when President Bush signed legislation creating the museum and stating that it should be on the National Mall. Bunch was selected as the museum’s founding director and he had the full support of the Bush and Obama administrations. Laura Bush, in her speech, said that she recently toured the museum with Bunch and he had an emotional moment. The former first lady consoled him saying “Lonnie, look what you’ve done.” George W. Bush, in his remarks, praised Bunch for his drive, energy and optimism and said, “I hope all of our fellow citizens can come here. It is fabulous.” David J. Skorton is the secretary for the Smithsonian Institution and he noted that the approximately 37,000 items in the facility came
educational opportunities for her. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) made remarks encouraging the audience to visit the rest of her city and support D.C. statehood. Entertainment was provided by Stevie Wonder and Patti LaBelle, who moved many with her rendition of Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come”. Actors Robert DeNiro and Will Smith teamed with actress Angela Bassett and actress/entrepreneur Oprah Winfrey, in reciting African American quotes and poetry from leading Black literary figures and political activists. Bunch thanked George W. Bush and President Obama for their support, saying “George Bush said that the museum must be on the
National Mall and a senator from Illinois said ‘yes we can’”. Bunch also thanked the thousands of donors whether they were individuals or corporations and his Smithsonian staff “because they are the dream team” that built and will maintain the museum. “This museum doesn’t belong to Black America but to all Americans,” Obama said. “It will help us to talk to each other, listen to each other and see each other.” The ceremony ended with seven-year-old Christine Bonner and her 99-year-old grandmother, Ruth Bonner, ring the historic Black First Baptist Church of Williamsburg’s bell, signaling the opening of the museum to the public.
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are introduced at the dedication ceremony for the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture. from people of all walks of life. “These donated items come from individuals and families,” Skorton said. “African American history is indivisible from American history. This museum helps us in our common cause to help build a more perfect union.” The Rev. Calvin Butts, the senior pastor at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York, said that the museum was a monument to “those who made America great.” “Anybody can be great when they have people
working for them for 250 years and was never paid a dime for their labor,” he said. Lewis said that the museum’s presence in the nation’s capital has a lasting purpose. “As long as there is a United States of America, there will be the National African American Museum of History & Culture,” the representative said. Dr. Shirley Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, talked about growing up in racially segregated Washington, D.C. and the struggles that her parents went through to live a decent life and provide
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President Barack Obama, with first lady Michelle Obama and Ruth Odom Bonner, center, rings the bell opening the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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flaws in the bill could put U.S. interests, troops, and intelligence personnel at risk. The Senate vote was 971, with only Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., backing the president. The House vote a few hours later was 348-77, with 123 Democrats rebuffing the president and voting to override. Lawmakers said their priority wasn’t Saudi Arabia, but the 9/11 victims and their families who continue to demand justice 15 years after attackers killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, the Washington, D.C., area, and Pennsylvania. Fifteen of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudis. “Overriding a presidential veto is something we don’t take lightly, but it was important in this case that the families of the victims of 9/11 be allowed to pursue justice, even if that pursuit causes some diplomatic discomforts,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., a chief sponsor of the bill. Speaking at a forum in Washington, CIA Director John Brennan said he was
concerned about how Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East, would interpret the bill. He said the Saudis provide significant amounts of information to the U.S. to help foil extremist plots. “It would an absolute shame if this legislation, in any way, influenced the Saudi willingness to continue to be among our best counterterrorism partners,” Brennan said. After senators acted, White House spokesman Josh Earnest called the vote the “single most embarrassing thing” the Senate has done in decades and “an abdication” of its responsibility. He accused members of the Senate Judiciary Committee of not understanding the legislation and its impact on the military. But Republicans and Democrats said the White House had been slow to respond to the bill and miscalculated lawmakers’ intent to act on the legislation along with the 15th anniversary of the terror attacks. When Obama and senior national security officials such as Defense
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Secretary Ash Carter finally weighed in, it was too late. The Senate passed the bill by voice vote in May. The Obama White House then made the mistake of thinking the bill would stall in the Republican-controlled House. In August, 9/11 families pressured Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., while he was on a campaign swing in New York. On Sept. 9, two days before the 15th anniversary of 9/11, the House passed the bill by voice vote with little debate. Despite reversing Obama’s decision, a bipartisan group of 28 senators led by Bob Corker, R-Tenn., suggested that defects in the bill could open a legal Pandora’s box, triggering lawsuits from people in other countries seeking redress for injuries or deaths caused by military actions in which the U.S. may have had a role. Corker, the chairman of Foreign Relations Committee, chided the White House for being outraged over the outcome when the administration did so little to sustain the president’s veto. “There was zero desire to sit down and talk about a way to get to a better outcome. Zero,” Corker told The Associated Press. “To my knowledge, I don’t know of a call from Obama to a single senator over this.” In a letter sent Tuesday to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Obama said the bill would erode sovereign immunity principles that prevent foreign litigants “from second-guessing our counterterrorism operations and other actions that we take every day.” But proponents of the bill
dismissed Obama’s concerns as unpersuasive. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, and other supporters said the bill is narrowly tailored and applies only to acts of terrorism that occur on U.S. soil. Families of the victims and their attorneys dismissed concerns over the legislation as fearmongering. “We rejoice in this triumph and look forward to our day in court and a time when we may finally get more answers regarding who was truly behind the attacks,” said Terry
Strada, national chair of the 9/11 Families & Survivors United for Justice Against Terrorism. The legislation gives victims’ families the right to sue in U.S. court for any role that elements of the Saudi government may have played in the 2001 attacks. Courts would be permitted to waive a claim of foreign sovereign immunity when an act of terrorism occurred inside U.S. borders, according to the terms of the bill. Obama vetoed the measure last week, telling lawmakers
the bill would make the U.S. vulnerable to retaliatory litigation. In a separate letter sent Monday to a senior House member, Defense Secretary Ash Carter described the potential for foreign litigants to seek classified intelligence data and analysis and sensitive operational information to establish their cases in what could be an “intrusive discovery process.” AP Writers Erica Werner and Deb Riechmann contributed to this article.
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owner of the Baltimore franchise in that Farrell is determined to present local lovers of baseball a first-class hustling aggregation of ball tossers. Dixon Manager Farrell has entrusted the management of the team to Rap Dixon, former Black Sox, former Philadelphia Star and Pittsburgh Crawford great. Dixon has been given full power to make any transaction he feels will be for the betterment of the club, keeping in mind the interest of the Baltimore fans. Rap Dixon is no newcomer to the Baltimore fans, having shown here with one of the best teams in the country. He is noted for his ability, for clean sportsmanship, and for his hard work while on the diamond. Dixon expects to conduct the team from the bench unless emergency makes it necessary for him to don a uniform. The nucleus of the Black Sox will be taken from the sensations of the year, the strong Washington Pilots, owned by Farrell also who have been raising havoc with the fast white semi-pro aggregations throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
The current Baltimore Black Sox at this writing is a mystery. The actual line-up to be used against Nashville at the opener on their home grounds, Bugle Field, Sunday, July 8 has not been divulged by Manager Dixon. The lanky ex-star did mention that the shortest man in league baseball would patrol the center garden, in the person of Little Hack Cunningham has been a sensation with the Washington Pilots and is sure to don a Baltimore uniform. Another sure starter is the terrific clouting Paul Dixon, who was dubbed the “most dangerous batsman in baseball” by Lou Schwab, owner of the powerful Camden team, after Dixon had hit safely in five successive trips to the slab. In the twenty games the outfielder has been with the Pilots he has hit safely in nineteen. Other members of the Washington Pilots who may see service in the Baltimore Uniforms are Lincoln Jackson, classy initial sacker; Tom Dixon, catcher; Bun Hayes, pitcher; George Carr, infielder; Casey Jones, outfielder, and Walter Burch, infielder. Manager Dixon was in the city Tuesday on his way South in search of promising baseball talent.
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placement courses,” said James Cole Jr., general counsel delegated the duties of deputy secretary. “These grants are an important tool for states, and ultimately schools, to empower students from low-income neighborhoods to succeed in challenging courses.” According to Cole, challenges in course access are among the reasons the administration progressively increased its focus on expanding access to computer science and the reason the College Board, with National Science Foundation support, began developing a new AP Computer Science Principles course (AP CSP), designed with the goal to recruit and retain students who are typically underrepresented in the fields. More than 2,000 classrooms already signed up for the class, reaching an estimated 25,000 high school students in this academic year and putting AP CSP on track to be largest course launch in AP history. “We want to dramatically increase the number of minority students that are college ready,” Rhode Island Commissioner of
Education Ken Wagner told the AFRO. “As a first-generation college student who grew up in low-income setting, I would not have been able to thrive and be prepared for the rigors of college without these courses.” Ann Whalen, senior advisor, Department of Education, told the media that levels of funding per state were determined on the basis of state estimates of the numbers of tests that would be taken by students from low-income families. From 2015 to 2016, preliminary results show that the number of tests covered by the program increased from 831,913 to 862,204, an improvement of nearly 4 percent. Whalen said the funding also offers a component of support that addresses poor retention. “As our statistics show, D.C. –Ken Wagner was eligible for and received $88,000 to assist with Advanced Placement testing, courses, and preparedness,” Whalen told the AFRO. “There was considerable test fee reduction and any qualified student was able to take advantage of those opportunities, so there is a system of support to help students matriculate.”
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his support for ramping up Stop and Frisk in urban innercity areas at a recent Town Hall meeting televised by Fox News. Trump said the Stop and Frisk policy should be implemented in cities such as Chicago that he referred to as “places where African Americans and Hispanics are living in hell. You walk down the street and get shot.” During the presidential debate, Trump referred to the “great job” done by former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani in implementing and maintaining the Stop and Frisk policy in New York City for decades. Trump echoed Giuliani and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s claims that Stop and Frisk was
responsible for reducing crime in NYC. Hillary Clinton, Democratic presidential nominee, focused on the need to restore trust between the AfricanAmerican community and law enforcement and deal with root problems that interfere with effective law enforcement. “I believe in community policing,” Clinton said. “We’ve got to address the systemic racism in our justice system,” she said. Clinton pledged that if she became President, her first budget would contain funding to train police officers on “how to deal with implicit bias,” she said. Clinton also emphasized the need to reduce gun violence through legislation that bans the purchase of guns for people on the FBI’s “no fly” list. Stop and Frisk was a major strategy used by the New York City Police Department from the 1990’s until 2013, allowing police to engage in limited stops of people deemed as “suspicious” by law enforcement. The Stop and Frisk search allows officers to pat down a suspect’s outer garments and pursue questioning in an attempt to confiscate illegal guns and other weapons that might be used in criminal activity. The concept of Stop and Frisk has
been used in various police jurisdictions, primarily New York City, since the 1960’s. Stop and Frisk has always been a controversial policing tactic and was first reviewed before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1968 in Terry v. Ohio where the policy passed a fourth amendment test of reasonableness. In 2013, Federal District Court judge Shira Scheindlin determined Stop and Frisk amounted to “indirect racial profiling.” Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg defied and sought to appeal Scheindlin’s ruling, but four months later when Democratic candidate Bill DeBlasio became mayor in January 2014, the policy officially ended. University of Baltimore Law Professor J. Amy Dillard said Stop and Frisk is only constitutional within a limited framework. Advocates of the policy have abused it in practice. “The frisk of the outer clothing is permissible only when an officer engaged in a Terry stop has a “reasonable belief” that the suspect is presently armed and dangerous,” she told the AFRO. “There is no such thing as a constitutional “stop-n-frisk” outside of this context unless the entire procedure meets to requirements for a short-term
regulatory investigation, like a DUI checkpoint” Dillard emphasized. Communities of color in New York and across the nation vigorously oppose Stop and Frisk. Statistics consistently point to the disproportionate number of Black and Hispanics targeted by police through the policy. Baltimore Police, who also used the practice, distanced themselves from the name “Stop and Frisk” intentionally in 2013. Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez said that with the negative connotation of Stop and Frisk in New York, it would not be feasible to continue the practice in Baltimore. Baltimore City Police have recently implemented a new use of force policy this summer that emphasizes de-escalation of conflict and requires police officers to adhere to reporting guidelines in justifying three distinct levels of force in resolving incidents. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Police Commissioner Kevin Davis announced the new policy in July, just a month before the US Justice Department issued its damning 164-page report after a year-long investigation of the Baltimore City Police Department.
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Yoga: D.C. Instructor Helps Black Community Find Sense-of-Self By Chelsea Burwell Special to the AFRO Brandon Copeland, a D.C. yoga instructor, is helping the local Black community deal with being Black in America through wellness and empowerment exercises. As a jovial, yet straight-forward 25-year-old Atlanta native and Howard University alumnus, Copeland leads a variety of yoga classes taught at Khepera Wellness, a power yoga studio in northeast D.C. unlike other yoga classes offered in the nation’s capital, his creation - Trap Yoga - incorporates a soundtrack of today’s hip-hop artists such as Future, Gucci Mane and Travis Scott to create a familiar aural atmosphere for participants to explore unfamiliar, yet therapeutic body positions and movements. Launched in June, the class regularly welcomes dozens of students and meets twice a week. “I first got into it [yoga] - because Groupon was really popular - and I tried it. I didn’t really think anything of it, because I hadn’t done anything athletically focused since high school,” Copeland said. “I liked that fact that it helped me relax, but I really didn’t get into it until I found out about my son.”
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Copeland said yoga helped him, who at the time was 19; deal with the anxiety of becoming a father while still in college. Soon realizing the time he spent meditating was the least stressful part of his weekly routine, Copeland said he began looking at ways to practice self-care. “I was just so used to being [a] utility,” he said. “It was really one of the first times where I was able to take care of myself. That’s why I have been so adamant about keeping myself in it.” Avoiding any impulses to be dubbed a “yogi,” Copeland said his intentions behind practicing yoga exceed its trendy appeal, and are solely to promote self-evolution, mindfulness and safe spaces, particularly for the Black community. “The most important thing every single person has right now on this earth, by default, is their next breath. It’s not the money they have or their history,” he said. “Yoga in itself helps you relax, but it also helps you to understand reality. The reality is you are a living being that exists, that breathes, that is important and Godly and a reflection of God for that reason alone. If [we] can get this in front of Black children and get them to do it well and to think in that way, then they can decide what they want to be and say ‘Yes, I exist.’”
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COMMENTARY
Hope and Fear Are on the Ballot This Year
Elijah Cummings
At our annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Dinner in Washington D.C. earlier this month, President Obama shared some important insights about this year’s elections. Speaking to the CBCF for the last time as President, he made it clear to us all that his presidency must not be an endpoint, but, rather, a renewed beginning for our nation. Acknowledging the symbolic importance of his election, he also made it clear that he views the progress that we have achieved in the quality of our lives to be his far more lasting legacy. We should be proud of the advances that we have achieved, he declared — our continued recovery from the worst recession in eighty years, 15 million new jobs, insurance coverage for 20 million Americans (including 3 million African Americans), significantly higher graduation rates for our young people, and a “reinvigorated” Civil Rights Division in
our Department of Justice. We also have reason for optimism about our future. In 2015, incomes rose and poverty fell for a majority of Americans of every race and age group in our country. When typical household incomes rise by $2,800 in a single year and 3.5 million Americans are lifted out of poverty (including one million children), there is a concrete basis for hope. Yet, as in our daily lives, hope must be balanced by realism. Our nation has moved forward during Barack Obama’s presidency, but not without a constant struggle against the forces of opposition, discrimination and backlash. Now, as the citizens of our nation consider the direction that we will take in the years ahead it is up to all who share our vision to hold onto the hope and generous spirit that Barack Obama epitomizes and do the work that needs to be done — even as we march forward against those who would take us backward. As he has done since that historic night of his first election in 2008, President Obama realizes that transformative change must be built from the ground up, not imposed from the top down. If we want greater investment in our schools, we must be prepared to fight for that progress — and that same shared responsibility holds true for our movement toward full employment that guarantees a living wage, quality healthcare for all Americans, greater equity at the workplace and reform in the implementation of justice. “These challenges do not stop with my presidency,” Barack Obama reminded us, “we’re just getting started.” As I listened to our President’s remarks, I thought about the struggles in which we are engaged every day — both in our own communities and in the Congress of the United States. Elections always matter — and this coming election matters even more than most because of the diametrical contrasts in the presidential candidates and the coalitions from which they draw strength. The American People have seldom witnessed such stark differences in perspective, temperament and social conscience. President Obama’s remarks at the CBCF Dinner made his own assessment of the presidential candidates quite clear. Hillary Clinton has always been a consistent champion of civil rights and the empowerment of working people, he observed. In contrast, her opponent “…has fought against civil rights, and fought against equality, and … shown no regard for working people for most of his life.” As I listened to the President’s remarks, I had to agree with his observation that change must
be built from the grass roots upward, but I also know how critically important leadership from the top can be. How far could America have fallen, I asked myself, if Barack Obama had not been President during the last 8 years? Would recession have deepened into depression? Would hundreds of thousands of Americans still be fighting in Iraq? Would hundreds of thousands more be dead because they could not afford the life-saving healthcare that they needed and deserved? Who we vote into the White House and the Congress this November — and who the next President and Senate send to the Supreme Court to shape our Constitution for decades to come — all will matter in the future America that it is our responsibility as citizens to build. The progress that we have made during the last eight years is at stake in this election. America will either move forward toward a more progressive and equitable society that offers opportunity to all — or we will decline into the regressive vision that we have witnessed in too much of this presidential campaign. The American People gave Barack Obama one of the most difficult jobs in the world, and he has succeeded beyond every reasonable expectation, especially in light of the relentless opposition that he has faced. Between now and Election Day, Nov. 8, we must do our job as well. Maryland’s deadline to register as voters is October 18 (or during Early Voting: 10/27-11/3). President Obama may not be on the ballot this year, but as he has reminded us again and again, “Hope is on the ballot — and fear is on the ballot, too.” Congressman Elijah Cummings represents Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.
Integrate Arts in Baltimore Classrooms Over the past three decades, studies on arts integration into classrooms and its relationship with the development of the cognitive mind have brought promising possibilities. Dr. Michael Gazzaniga, a nationally renowned cognitive neuroscientist, said at a recent conference, “We know that the brain has a system of neuropathways dedicated for attention….We know that training these attention networks improves general measures of intelligence. We can be fairly sure that focusing our attention on learning and performing an art, if we practice frequently and are truly engaged, activates these same attentional networks. We, therefore, would expect focused training in the arts to improve cognition generally” He explained that by focusing on something art related, we open up a chamber in our brains that allows us to retain information thoroughly. This supports the idea of teaching the basics, such as math and geography, with some form of art involved is beneficial. Baltimore City Schools aren’t known to have the strongest curriculums, causing them to fall short when competing against others in the nation. Studies have proven however that incorporating art into classroom learning doesn’t just change your brain, it can change your life’s trajectory.
Zanha Armstrong
Growing up in Baltimore isn’t easy. Technology, music and art have become an outlet for many, but only in their personal lives. Instead of deflecting technology, it may prove to be more beneficial to find ways to safely incorporate it in the education system. More than 800 Baltimore City elementary school students learned about fractions with music and improved their vocabulary through dance this past summer. The arts integration program had teachers and artists pair up to teach concepts around literacy and math from a different perspective. “While home computer access has traditionally been a barrier, the ease of access to smartphone technology can help bridge the technology divide,” said Lindsay Sullivan, director of literacy, languages and culture to Technically Baltimore. There are some schools in the city that have incorporated the arts into their teachings. Roland Park Elementary/ Middle School is one of them. This kindergarten-througheighth-grade urban public school serves a diverse population and ranks among the top schools in Maryland in academic achievement. They organize their arts programming in three different sections: Arts Education, Arts Experiences, and Arts Integration. Studies have also shown that special needs children
What’s Next After the First Debate?
The first presidential candidate debate is over. While it was informative and even entertaining, from my foxhole, most importantly it was insightful. While actions and failures to act in the past as well as plans for future actions are important, to me, the most important information I can gather from a debate has to do with getting insight into the character, veracity and demeanor of the next person to be our Nation’s domestic leader, representative to the rest of the world and Commander in Chief of the most powerful military on the planet. As the saying goes, “you can’t change the stripes on a tiger’s back.” Showing insensitivity or lack of commitment to basic American values and laws is inconsistent with being fit to run the United States of America. Not manifesting a belief in equal justice is unacceptable for any American, let alone the next President of the United States. Not displaying an understanding of basic constitutional law and court rulings,
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while at the same time showing an insensitivity to the concerns of African Americans by answering a question about ones views on civil rights by answering that “…stop and frisk should be used,” as Donald J. Trump did during the debate is inexcusable and should be a red-light. Further, it shows a lack of understanding of what to say and when to say it, something a president must be able to do. For Trump to respond to Hillary Clinton’s observation that he did not pay federal taxes “that makes me smart” reveals not only that he thinks those of us who pay taxes are either dumb or not as entitled as him, but shows once again that he has no clue about what to say when under pressure. When Trump was reminded by Clinton that in 2006 Trump stated that he hoped the economy would falter so he could get real estate cheaply, he said, “and that’s called good business by the way.” Is this an attribute you want in the next President? While Clinton has faults and has made some mistakes in her past, who hasn’t? One thing is clear, one fault that she does not have is the lack of the realization of the importance to be prepared for future actions and doing what it takes to prepare.
can benefit from the arts in significant ways. According to Arts Education in Maryland Schools (AEMS) Alliance and a Compendium they published, about eight percent of all elementary and secondary education students are enrolled in special education programs. Among these children, a majority of them have designated learning disabilities (2.2 million out of 4.3 million special education students). Areas around the country are taking steps to integrate the arts into their teaching methods at many of their schools. In nearby Prince George’s County, the district’s arts integration initiative, which is already established in 41 of the counties schools, just expanded into 15 others, for a total of 56. “We have a generation before us that was taught to think in black and white and look where we are now. I feel like if for no other reason it’s time to release the brain, open that box and allow people to think. Art integration is the way to do that,” said Renaire Rivers Jr., assistant band director at Largo High School. “Take the phone out your pocket and lets use it.” The ultimate goal is that arts integration will help improve student achievement, test scores, graduation and college acceptance rates. Zanha Armstrong is an intern in the Baltimore office at the AFRO American. She is a student at Morgan State University.
It was clear during the debate that Trump was not prepared for his audition to be President and Commander in Chief. This lack of understanding the importance of an event is not an attribute desirous of the next leader of our nation. Moreover, his intonation and non-verbal communications ranged from anger to surprise to reacting to fear; not something you want in a President. So now what? From my foxhole, whoever you want to be elected to office on Nov. 8 must receive your vote, and you must do all you can to get those registered but unable to get to the polls, to the polls. If you do not and the people that you do not want in office get elected, suffer the consequences and do not complain on Nov. 9. Maj Gen US Army (ret) John R. Hawkins III, JD, MPA is President and CEO of Hawkins Solutions Intl., a government relations and lobby company. His last military assignment as a “two star” was Dir., Human Resources Directorate for the Army world-wide and prior to that Deputy Chief Public Affairs for the Army, world-wide.
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Treasury Department Honors History of Black Banks By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com On the eve of the grand opening of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture, the U.S. Treasury Department held a forum that examined the role of Black banking in the history of the nation. Linking financial inclusion to citizenship and social stability, the Treasury Department’s Freedman’s Bank Forum, hosted by Operation HOPE founder John Hope Bryant, opened a critical dialogue about continuing the legacy of Black financial vigor for a new generation. Speakers for the Sept. 23 forum included Amias Gerety, acting assistant secretary of the Department of the Treasury, Financial Institutions; Kim Saunders, president and CEO of the Eads Group; and U.S. Treasury Secretary John Lew, who noted that while the importance of economic stability among Blacks has always been at the crux of social mobility, the banking system has not always offered fair, balanced, or necessary participation. “As we honor the legacy of the Freedman’s Bank, it reminds us of the need for effective regulation and oversight, and symbolizes our commitment to ensuring more Americans have the financial tools and education they need to build a secure future,” Lew told the crowd. “I hope they take a moment to contemplate what it meant for freed men and women to have a bank at all, and what it means for Americans from every community to feel fully part of our country with the tools to build their own future.” Established as a private corporation by John W. Alvord, a Congregational Minister, and A. M. Sperry, an abolitionist, the Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company opened its headquarters in New York to eliminate individual bank mismanagement and bring Black deposits under central control in a single large institution. After Congress passed legislation incorporating the bank on March 3, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln immediately signed the bill into
law. Deposits were received only “by or on behalf of persons heretofore held in slavery in the United States, or their descendants.” Up to 7 percent interest was allowed for deposits, and any unclaimed accounts were to be pooled into a charitable fund that was used to educate the children of ex-slaves. The bank went bankrupt following a financial scandal and closed its doors in 1874. With its untimely shuttering, many Black families abandoned America’s banking systems, turning instead to home safes, benevolent societies, and informal savings clubs. Generations of Black families, simply opted out of being involved with banks altogether. The U.S. Treasury is working to get the descendants of those depositors back. “The real challenge is on a personal level. We work with students who get their first summer jobs and with their first paycheck we convince them to open a bank account and introduce them immediately to the banking system,” Lew said. “The alternative is the money sits in their pockets or a shoe box. It will ultimately lead to them either spending the money or losing the money. We all know that if you put the money in the bank, it is different than if you are treating it as something more casual. It becomes more than a casualrelationship when the money is saved or invested.” The forum aligned the historical significance of Freedman’s bank and its original mission – to promote economic integration and financial inclusion – with the immediate need for strong Black investments in education, investment, and retirement plans. The reality, according to Saunders, is that too many Blacks, especially low-income families, have little or no access to the financial systems, credit or banking histories, and subsequently, limited access to loans or other financial anchors. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Treasury) “We have to be familiar with the person sitting across from us as we roll Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company up our sleeves and are showing teens how to balance checkbooks, and senior was established in 1865 as the first citizens how to write their first checks, whatever is necessary,” Saunders said establishment for free Blacks to bank in. This on the panel. “We have to do whatever is necessary to help them become headquarters eventually moved to D.C. engaged, involved, and successful in the financial market.”
Childcare Standards Strengthened Following Death By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com First-time parent Ellie Laskins, like many working mothers, utilized the services of a private childcare provider in order to return to work a few weeks after giving birth. The Laskins family said they sought recommendations, triple-checked references, and believed their daughter was in the hands of a safe and nurturing caregiver. But, a few weeks later, the baby died in the caregiver’s custody. “The woman had worked for 20 years as a caregiver, she had ageappropriate toys in her home when we visited, her background check was clean,” Laskins told the AFRO. “But following my daughter’s death a fingerprint check found that she had 5 aliases, and was wanted in several places for various crimes.” On Sept. 23, Laskins joined Deputy Assistant to the President for Education Roberto Rodríguez, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early Childhood Development Linda Smith, and Office of Child Care Director Rachel Schumacher in a press conference to announce new
standards for millions of children in child care. With more than 12.5 million U.S. children under the age of five in some form of non-parental child care each week, it is estimated that as many as 40 percent of the childcare settings may not be regulated by a state or territory. States vary in the rules they set for licensed family child care, including how many children can be cared for in a home without being licensed. The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), a federal body devoted to providing low-income families with quality child care, called for new regulations to guard the safety of these children. The rules strengthen a number of provisions in the law and provide needed guidance to states to streamline practices nationally. Among the provisions: mandatory background checks for all staff in child care facilities, initial training and ongoing professional development in 10 key areas (including first aid/CPR, medication administration, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome prevention) for the early childhood workforce, disseminating information to assist parents in choosing child care that includes an accessible website, increasing funding to improve the quality of all child care settings, and ensuring
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annual monitoring of CCDF programs so children are healthy and safe in child care. “President Obama has led an historic re-envisioning to help our youngest learners. Comprehensive access to high-quality childcare includes strengthening provisions to protect the health and safety of those children,” Rodríguez told the AFRO. “Affordable childcare that is also safe and offers a high quality of positive learning, makes for better education and a better nation.” According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), many researchers and practitioners said they believe child fatalities, due to abuse and neglect, are still underreported, estimating that approximately 50 percent of deaths reported as “unintentional injury deaths” are reclassified after further investigation by medical and forensic experts as deaths due to maltreatment. “New federal rules require fingerprint checks on all child care providers,” Laskins said during the press conference. “All parents want children to be safe and promote their healthy development. This new legislation will make a difference.”
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D.C. Board of Education Elections
Neighborhood Commissioner Kicked Off Ballot
D.C. Residents Take Control of Rental Housing By Buying Building
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Jacque Patterson, one of the leading contenders for a District of Columbia’s Board of Education race, recently dropped out. He was unable to continue because of the number of invalid signatures on his candidate petitions. Patterson, the advisory neighborhood commissioner for district 8B07 in Ward 8 and the co-founder of the Rocketship Charter School located in the ward’s Woodland Terrace neighborhood, suspended his campaign for the at-large seat
Homestead Apartments in Northwest D.C. began renovations on Sept. 23. By Linda Poulson Special to the AFRO
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Jacque Patterson was ruled ineligible in the race for the D.C. Board of Education. on the D.C. State Board of Education. “I am no longer a candidate,� Patterson told the AFRO. Patterson was challenging incumbent Mary Lord. In turn, Lord used the D.C. Board of Elections process for challenging Patterson’s petition signatures. “The process is pretty clear,� Lord told the AFRO. “You need 1,000 valid signatures to get on the ballot. Any candidate should really get double that number to make sure that you get on the ballot.� Lord said she pulled all Continued on B2
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A dilapidated affordable housing complex recently began renovation in Northwest D.C. after being purchased by tenants. On Sept. 23 tenants, housing officials, and city officials gathered to preserve affordable housing at Homestead Apartments, located at 812 Jefferson St. NW, in the Brightwood Park area of Ward 4. “This is a groundbreaking, we just closed on the financing about a month and a half ago,� said Raymond L. Nix, president of Urban Matters, a District real estate and community development firm that was responsible for the project. The welcome, invocation, and blessing were given by the Rev. Lionel Edmonds, pastor of Mount Lebanon Baptist Church on New Jersey Avenue NW, and co-founder of the Washington Interfaith Network (WIN). Remarks were given by Patrick Harper, vice president of The Hampstead Group; Cynthia White, president of the Jefferson Homestead People United Tenant Association; Polly Donaldson, director of the District of Columbia Department of Housing and Community Development; Todd A. Lee, executive director of the District of Columbia Housing Finance Agency; Bryan Dickson,
While the District of Columbia has always voted for the Democratic Party nominee for president since becoming an Electoral College jurisdiction in 1964, a group of political scientists recently urged city residents to cast a ballot in the Nov. 8 general election anyway. On Sept. 25 a forum was held at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church’s Panorama Room in Southeast Washington entitled “Why We Must Vote.� The
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director of Citi Community Capital; and Oramenta F. Newsome, vice president of Local Initiatives Support Corporation. Greetings were also given by D.C. Councilmember Brandon T. Todd (D-Ward 4). “I couldn’t be more excited and delighted to be here this morning to break ground on the renovation and the preservation of 55 affordable units right here in Ward 4 at Brightwood Park,� Todd told the crowd. “Let’s give the preservation of affordable housing a big round of applause.� In a recent study by CNBC, the District has one of the highest rental rates in the country. The income needed to pay rent is $119,271 with the average cost for renting a two-bedroom apartment being $2,783 dollars a month. The change from 2015 has increased by almost 4 percent. “Initially we were hit with an 18 percent rent increase, so people were worried they had to move because they couldn’t afford to stay here,� said Cynthia White, a resident in the building. “Then the company decided to put the building up for sale, so taking a crash course in learning the TOPA (Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act) process and getting everyone on board and organized was the biggest challenge.� The tenants organized with the Latino Economic Development Center and purchased the building. Continued on B2
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Clarence Lusane says the country is facing one of the most dangerous moments since the Civil War. panel was sponsored by the church’s women’s ministry and moderated by Dr. Dianne M. Pinderhughes, a Notre Dame University scholar. The panel included Ronald Jackson Jr., senior director for Government Affairs for Catholic Charities Continued on B2
Bonds Pushes Housing Late Fees Cap 4 Shootings in Riggs Rd. Area By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com
of the tenant’s monthly rent owed, which can amount to an extraordinary burden for many low-income tenants. “This needed bill will provide over 156,217 rental units whether or not under rent control, with new protections against unscrupulous landlords and outrageous late fees when they fall behind on their monthly rental payments,� Bonds said before a committee hearing on May
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the application of future rent payments to previously assessed late charges, keeping the tenant in perpetual debt. “Even when tenants receive subsidies for significant portions of the rent, many landlords still attempt to charge late fees as a percentage of the total rent rather than as a percentage of the tenant’s portion of the rent. An individual with low income may pay only $100 in her portion of the rent while the government provides a $1900 subsidy to the landlord. If the tenant is late paying that $100 portion, the landlord often will impose a fee of 5 percent (or more) of the total rent, even though most of the rent was timely received from the government subsidy. In this example, a $100 late fee, which is 5 percent of $2,000 rent, would be charged to the tenant. This is an extraordinary burden on the subsidized tenant and an unnecessary windfall for the
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By Briana Thomas Special to the AFRO An overnight shooting left a young man dead on Sept. 25 in Northeast, D.C. according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Police said the shooting happened early Sunday morning around 2:45 a.m. in the 400 block of Riggs Road, NE. Authorities responded to a call for gunshots in the area of Nicholson Street and Kensington Place. On the way to the scene police said they received another report that said someone had been struck by gunfire. Officials found the victim, Marcellus Thomas in an alleyway behind a Riggs Road residence, according to police reports. He was unconscious and unresponsive and suffering from a gunshot injury. Thomas, 22, died on the scene. A spokesperson from the department told the AFRO Sept.26 that no arrests have been made in this case and investigators are still looking into what may have caused the incident. Later on that evening, a separate shooting took place in the same Northeast neighborhood. Around 7:30 p.m., three people were shot and wounded in the 500 block of Oglethorpe Street, NE, police said. One man and two women were struck by gunshots fired from a vehicle. Police said one of the victims is 93-years-old. All of the victims in the second shooting suffered from nonlife threatening injuries and were taken to a local hospital for treatment. According to police reports, the area has only had one homicide in 2016.
“This is an extraordinary burden on the subsidized tenant and an unnecessary windfall for the landlord.� – Laurie Ball Cooper landlord.� Others on hand for the May 16 hearing considered the bill a bad business precedent and one that worked
against the interest of property owners and managers. Arianna Royster, executive vice president at Borger Management, also noted that fees for late payments on
mortgages, cellphones, and car loans are often much higher than 5 percent and involve interest on the fee. “Why should practices of rental housing be any different?� Royster asked. “This practice fails to take into consideration the obligations and administrative costs of housing providers when tenants are late on their payments. If one were to look at the average amounts Continued on B2
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Continued from B1 USA; Clarence Lusane, chairman of the Howard University Department of Political Science; Lorenzo Morris, a political scientist at Howard; and Toni-Michelle C. Travis, a political scientist who teaches at George Mason University. However, it was Chearie Phelps-El, a District political activist not on the panel, who set the tone for the forum. “Voting is very important,” Phelps-El said to an audience of 63 people. “Our forefathers and foremothers fought for this right. No one can change our conditions but you.” She said that nearly anyone over the age of 17, who has lived in the District for a month, can cast a ballot. She noted that convicted felons who have served their sentence and those incarcerated in the D.C. jail awaiting trial or convicted of misdemeanors can vote in the District. Pinderhughes said the forum was non-partisan by design but the panelists spoke their mind about the presidential election. Jackson said that given the District’s flexible voting requirements, there is no excuse for any resident not to exercise the privilege. “I want you to vote, I want you to vote, I want you to vote,” Jackson said. “I know this is a non-partisan event but I know who you should vote for president. She is the most qualified person to be president and on the other hand, her
opponent, is the most unqualified person to be president.” Jackson was referring to Democratic nominee Hillary R. Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump, respectively. Jackson had harsh words for Trump, whom he didn’t mention by name. “He’s a hatemonger, he’s a billionaire,” he said. “What has a billionaire ever done for you?”
“Our forefathers and foremothers fought for this right.” – Chearie Phelps-El Travis said one of the casualties of this election is the ticket of one of the minor parties. “The Libertarian Party has a pretty good field with former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson running for president and former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld as his running mate,” she said. “They have no chance of winning because they are a third party and third parties don’t win national elections.” Lusane raised eyebrows when he said that America is in the midst of “one of the most dangerous moments in this country’s history since the Civil War.”
“There are less and less White people in the country today than ever before and more people of color,” he said. “Many Whites don’t know what to do about that. Many Whites believe that racism exists and that they are the victims. Whites believe that their problems aren’t the result of billionaires like Donald Trump or the corporate structure but it is people of color causing their problems.” Morris said that Whites, as a voting group, aren’t emerging as the most potent voting bloc in recent elections. “AfricanAmerican women are the most powerful voting bloc in the country and they will be the No. 1 group, in terms of percentages, that will be voting on Election Day,” he said. “Statistics have shown that the greatest decline in voting has taken place among White males because they seem to be disinterested in the process.” Jackson said District residents should do one thing before they vote. “Do your homework,” he said. “Find out about the candidates for whatever office they are running for and where they stand on the issues.” In the back of the room were volunteers who were registered voters and providing information for the general election. Bonita H. Boulware, president of the church’s women’s ministry, complimented the panelists for their participation. “We’ve had a lot to take in today,” she said.
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of her competitors’ petitions and had her team go over the signatures thoroughly. She said her team noted that Patterson turned in 66 sheets of signatures and knew right then that Patterson had problems. “He had about 1,200 signatures and that is nowhere what he needed,” she said, saying that Patterson had a thin cushion or margin of error in terms of valid signatures. Lord said her team discovered hundreds of invalid signatures with incorrect addresses and residents from Maryland, Connecticut and Pennsylvania signing the Patterson petition. “After we discovered Jacque’s invalid signatures, we followed the process,” Lord said. As a result of the challenge
and the elections board investigation, Patterson was ruled off the ballot by the board because of questionable signatures. Lord said she was merely following the process.
the elections board but if a candidate wages a campaign with a staff and engages in fundraising, they must register with the D.C. Office of Campaign Finance.
“You need 1,000 valid signatures to get on the ballot.” – Mary Lord While Patterson won’t be on the general election ballot, he has other options. “It is true that Mr. Patterson will not be on the ballot but he is free to run as a write-in candidate,” a spokeswoman for the board of elections told the AFRO. There are no general requirements to be a write-in candidate from
The most successful write-in candidacy in the District’s history was D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams’s re-election effort in 2002. Williams was disqualified for the Democratic primary ballot by the elections board that year because of irregularities in his petitions. As a result, the Williams re-election team
initiated the write-in effort that had him win the Democratic and Republican primaries. However, Patterson has decided not to pursue that route.”I will not wage a writein candidacy,” he said. Patterson, a former president of the Ward 8 Democrats and a former candidate for the Ward 8 council seat in 2012, didn’t disclose whom he will support in the at-large Board of Education race but inferred it won’t be Lord. However, one former opponent is actively seeking Patterson’s support. “We will reach out to him for his support,” Tony Donaldson Jr., told the AFRO. “We haven’t scheduled a meeting with him at this time but we will do so.”
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of fees people are subjected to for late payments for mortgages, cell phones, car loans, or the late fees of utilities, you would see that most people have contractually obligated themselves to payments far in excess of 5 percent.” Currently, D.C. law is silent on how large a late fee housing providers may charge a tenant, resulting in late fee practices that vary widely among District housing providers. Passage of this bill would put the District in line with other states such as Maryland, Maine, and North Carolina, which have laws restricting fees to 5 percent or less. “For the majority of Black people being hijacked by rent increases, poor management, and the disappearance of
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Forty-five of the 55 units were capped at 60 percent of the area median income (AMI). Amenities were added that include countertop replacements, some apartments will get new kitchens, new appliances (stove, energy efficient refrigerators, microwaves), and bathroom fixtures. There will be a community room built in the basement for residential services and workshops. New washers and dryers will also be installed in the
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basement. The renovation of the property is projected to finish in July 2017. “This whole process has taken about two years and many of the active residents living here in the building united to try to make something happen so we could remain as residents in this beautiful city,” said White. “We’re all very close now; it’s a close knit building.”
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affordable housing, it is increasingly necessary to pay rent beyond the fifth of the month,” Reginald Norman, a retired Park Service employee told the AFRO. “For decades there was management that was invested in their tenants and the communities where their properties sat and they would allow people who were paid weekly to give them a bit of the money weekly until the month’s rent was paid. The jokers we have in here now are like scavengers. It’s only about money.” Additionally, the bill also prohibits a housing provider from deducting a late fee from future rent payments, thereby causing the timely rental payments to be late if the tenant has not yet paid the original late fee.
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D.C. Mayor Releases Video and Name of Shooting Officer By Cassidy Sparks Special to the AFRO D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) released on Sept. 27 the name of the officer who allegedly shot Terrence Sterling and a video of the incident. The officer is identified as Brian Trainer, 27, a four-year veteran of the police department. The video was released after protestors took to the streets in Washington, D.C. near New York and New Jersey Avenue in the Northwest quadrant of the city to mourn the death of another victim of police brutality. “We’re at 300 M St. NW where are you DC??? You should be outraged out here with us for #TerrenceSterling,” a Black Lives Matter activist sent out via Twitter. Terrence Sterling was a HVAC technician and that reportedly had just left a bachelor party. He lived in Fort Washington, Md.
In videos on Periscope [periscope.tv/ ItsNeeTay/1OdKrYVYLNyxX], protesters shouted: “Terrence Sterling” and “Black Lives Matter” as they blocked the streets. According to news reports, the protest began in the morning, during rush hour, on Sept. 26 in the same spot that Sterling, 31, was killed. The protest wrapped up before noon, but during the demonstration, protestors called for more transparency from the D.C. government. Some protestors stayed on the scene to decorate a traffic sign with teddy bears, signs, and other trinkets in memory of Sterling. A public information officer for the Metropolitan Police Department told the AFRO that an officer was at the scene of the protest, but only to make sure that traffic continued to move smoothly during the rush hour commute. “MPD and their ‘Special Police’ mercenary counterparts have no interest in protecting or serving Black lives.” Erin
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Shields, co-chair of the DC Chapter of Black Youth Project 100, said in a release Sept. 19. On Sept. 27, Kevin Donahue, deputy mayor of public safety tweeted that a video of the police-involved shooting was released. View the video here: [tinyurl.com/hdvubod]. The video begins after Sterling was shot and lying on the ground. According to the police, Sterling was “recklessly” driving his motorcycle near the 1700 block of U Street NW. Another officer saw the same motorcycle near 3rd Street and M Street NW. The officer exited the passenger side of his cruiser to stop the driver, when the motorcyclist “intentionally” drove into the passenger door and an officer’s weapon discharged. On Sept. 12, Bowser held a news conference, where she said the officer involved in the shooting was wearing a body camera, but failed to turn it on. Donahue tweeted, “Past 30 days: MPD officers activated body cameras 55,000 times & recorded 11,000 hours of footage; 10 instances where BWC wasn’t turned on,” Donahue tweeted on Sept. 27. “Terrence’s death illuminates why we fight to divest from police and invest resources in Black communities. Investments in officer-worn body cameras and sensitivity trainings for police do not reduce frequency or increase accountability in police killings of civilians. They simply expand police budgets. Those funds should be taken away from police departments and invested into our communities,” Shields said.
Wanderlust 108 Triahlon Wanderlust 108, the world’s only mindful triathlon, will take place on Oct. 2 from 7:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. at the RFK Stadium, 2400 E. Capitol Street, SE. The first leg will be a 5k run, walk, skip or however you want to make it to the finish line. The second will be a 75 minute yoga routine. The triathlon will conclude with a 30 minute guided meditation. Attractions include slack lining and acroyoga. Bring water, jogging attire and a yoga mat. Tickets cost $45 and can be purchased at wanderlust.com.
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Taste of Georgetown Festival The Taste of Georgetown will consist of food from more than 35 of D.C.’s most recognized restaurants. The Oct. 1festival will have music from the White Ford Bronco, beer and wine, Herndon, VA and entertainment for all ages including balloon animal making, Loudoun County Chapter of the NAACP Hosts Freedom face-painting and hoola-hooping. Live competitions will be held Fund Dinner Gala between prominent chefs, and will be judged by D.C.’s top food On Oct. 8, the NAACP Loudoun County Chapter will experts. The judging will cover categories like “Best Overall present a Freedom Fund Dinner Gala in support of their Dish” and “Best Way to Satiate a Sweet Tooth.” Proceeds work with civil rights issues. The gala will take place at the from the festival will go toward Georgetown Ministry Center’s Hilton Washington Dulles Airport, 13869 Park Center Rd, and homeless outreach program that provides mental health care, will consist of music and dancing. The event will be led by shelter and meals to the homeless. Each tasting cosrs $5, or five keynote speaker and former executive director of the National tastings cost $20. The festival will take place on K Street NW, Association of the Boards of Education, Brenda Welburn. between Wisconsin Avenue NW and Thomas Jefferson Street The reception will begin at 5:30 p.m., and dinner at 6:30 p.m. NW along the Georgetown Waterfront from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. T:7.4667”Tickets cost $75. To purchase tickets, visit naacploudoun.com.
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Thousands of people gathered on the National Mall Sept. 24 for the Grand Opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The museum holds the history of Black people in this country from when they were carried in bondage on slave ships until present day. Along with President Obama and the First Lady, former President Bush and Laura Bush as well as former President Clinton attended the ceremony.
Lonnie Bunch, museum director
Oprah Winfrey and Will Smith
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.)
President Obama
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser
Stevie Wonder The Freedom Bell from First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, Va.
Donald and Davidiera Hill, members of the historic First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, Va. Local students from D.C., Maryland and Virginia sing the National Anthem
Duke Ellington School of the Arts choir
Howard University Band
Victoria Garrett, Arianne Evans, Tanita Wiley, Anjelica Webster and Rikayyah Wilson
Jane Turner and Jeanne Fashina
Kim Farwell, DeYana Blacksher, Deborah Lowe and Anita all from Fantasy Tours
Shelia Jones, Robert Porter, Sheila Haylock, Symai Jones, Morgan Jones, Natale Jones, Prince Stanton and Mary Walton Photos by Rob Roberts
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Shawty Lo’s Impact on Atlanta Music Scene is Celebrated The “King of Bankhead” Rapper Died in Recent Car Crash By Jannah Johnson Special to the AFRO
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Authorities say rapper Shawty Lo, whose real name is Carlos Walker, was killed in a fiery car crash before dawn on Sept. 21 on a freeway near southwest Atlanta.
Carlos Walker or “Shawty Lo,” the Georgia native known for hits such as “Laffy Taffy” and “Dey Know” died Sept. 21 in a car crash. And, now he is being remembered for his role in shining a national spotlight on the Atlanta music scene. The 40-year-old rapper was well-known and loved throughout Atlanta and the broader rap community. Shawty Lo was part of the group D4L and known as the “King of Bankhead.” He also worked with famous rappers such as Gucci Mane, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, Rick Ross and Lil Kim. Lo is also credited with popularizing “snap music,” a genre of music characteristic to the South that features both slow tempo and club-oriented melodies with relatively simple lyrics. Snap music started in Atlanta and went relatively unknown until 2005 when Lo’s group, D4L dropped “Laffy Taffy” and popularized the sound, making Lo an influential member of the Southern rap community. Fabo, a former member of D4L, fondly recounted
to XXL Magazine his history with Walker. “He was a hero. Shawty Lo was a hero, especially to me,” Fabo said. “Without Shawty Lo there would be no me, there would be no D4L there would be no snap music.” The rapper’s former bandmate added that he didn’t just respect Lo for his musical taste but also his personality. “If you needed it, he would give it to you — the shirt off of his back, the shoes off of his feet,” said Fabo. “I seen him literally give people his shoes. He was just a great person, a great individual, father and son. I definitely appreciate everything he did for me.” Even Atlanta rapper T.I., who at one point had a “beef” with Lo, expressed his condolences, calling Lo “a true Westside Atlanta Legend.” “My Heart goes out to his family, and his children as well. Even through our toughest times I must admit I was impressed,& kinda proud of how well you rep’d our hood, and how much you cared for it. It was a real relief to have someone else helping to lift Bankhead up & hold it there,” the selfproclaimed “King of the South” posted to Instagram.
Baltimore Rhythm Festival Aims to Bring People Together By Briahnna Brown Special to the AFRO Music lovers will unite in a grassroots cultural collaboration in Midtown Baltimore during the third annual Baltimore Rhythm Festival on Oct. 1. From noon to 6 p.m., people can enjoy stage performances, drum circles, and workshops at Lovely Lane Church on St. Paul Street. All afternoon events are free and open to the public. There will be a ticketed evening concert at 7:30 p.m. The Baltimore Rhythm Festival started in 2014 as a revival and reinvention of the movement started by The Baltimore International Rhythm and Drumming Society (BIRDS) in 1995 that sought to connect people through rhythm and bring peace through music. In conjunction with the Maryland State Arts Council, Free Fall Baltimore, Strong City Baltimore and various other nonprofit organizations, the Baltimore Rhythm Festival continues the spirit of community through positive and socially conscious performances. “We have tried to put together something that blends really accomplished and world class music and dance with just an open invitation to participation,” Rory Turner, the festival’s program director, told the AFRO. “Having space and time for people to just get together and jam, to find the groove and see where it goes.”
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The Baltimore Rhythm Festival offers free performances, drum circles and workshops like the one this young lady participated in. The “Freefall Afternoon” is the main event and has an outside stage and an inside stage. Outside will feature streetbased drum traditions from Japan, Puerto Rico, Brazil and West Africa with performances by Miyako Taiko, Cultura Plenera,
Farafina Kan Junior Company and the Bele Bele Collective. There will be a children’s corner with arts and crafts, and a “people’s playground” which invites people to come and share their talents. People are encouraged to bring their drums which can be left at the festival’s drum check. There will also be over two dozen vendors selling food, jewelry, fashion and, of course, drums. On the inside stage will be a variety of multicultural singers and musical performances like Arabic drumming, Black American Indian songs by 3 Generationz, a performance by Grammy-nominated Souhail Kaspar and a world percussion set by Tom Teasley. There will also be workshops offered by musicians that are on a first come-first served basis. “A big thing for us is diversity,” Turner said. “To have music of different cultures, to make a case, really, there is a connection that’s fundamental to us as creatures, as beings. We all have hearts that beat, and our heart beats make a rhythm.” The Evening Concert will feature performances by Baltimore’s Sankofa Dance Theater, Amadou Kouyate playing the Kora and Bomani Armah with Immaletchufinish delivering creative social commentary through hip-hop. “We’re in the time where there’s a lot of forces trying to push people apart,” Turner said. “I think it’s really important not that we forget who we are and where we come from, but that we find ways that we can connect.”
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Baltimore City and Prince George’s County High School Football Wrap-Up By Jordan Hawkins Special to the AFRO Welcome to the AFRO’s weekly high school football wrapup. This week we are bringing you a recap of week four of high school football from Baltimore City and Prince George’s County. The Matchup Wrap-up: The crowd was in for an exciting game Sept. 23 as the City College Black Knights took on the visiting Digital Harbor Rams. The Black Knights barely edged out the Rams 12-6 improving to a 3-1 overall record and 2-0 at home. The win only serves to enforce City’s current status as the top team in the city. For their next contest the Black Knights will host the Patterson Clippers in a Baltimore City I contest on Oct. 7. As for the Rams, their next game will be against the Carver VoTech Bears, also a Baltimore City I bout. Their game will be on Sept. 30 and Digital Harbor will attempt to improve upon its 2-2 record, while the Bears will be hungry to upgrade their 1-3 record. Meanwhile in Prince George’s County, The Wise Pumas continue to assert their dominance after their victory scoring 40 points and shutting out the visiting Northwestern Wildcats in the Pumas league win last Friday. The Pumas now hold a 4-0 record. Coming up next for them is when they host the Flowers Jaguars for a Prince George’s County 4A bout on Sept. 30. The Pumas will face a Jaguars crew coming fresh off a loss to the Eleanor Roosevelt Raiders. The Jaguars are now at a 2-2 record. As for the Northwestern Wildcats, they will visit and faceoff with the Suitland Rams, also in a Prince George’s County 4A match this Sept. 30. Northwestern will
attempt to improve on its 1-3 record, while the Rams seek to do the same with their 2-2 record after losing a non-league loss to Oxon Hill. Player(s) of the Week: The defensive player of the week this time around goes to Rashad Jackson of Poly Engineers High School. Jackson is a junior Tight End, Defensive End, and Outside Linebacker for Poly and is one of their all-star defensive weapons. Jackson carries an impressive lead on defensive stats in the Baltimore City region. With 45 overall tackles, 31 of which were solo and 9 sacks, Rashad Jackson has more than earned the defensive player of the week title. To check out more from Rashad, he will be playing with Poly as they take on the Douglass Mighty Ducks, Oct. 7. The offensive player of the week title goes to Karl Mofor of the Eleanor Roosevelt Raiders as he continues to lead the county in almost every offensive facet of the game. Mofor boasts an impressive 535 rushing yards spread over 7 touchdowns and 46 points. He remains a force to be reckoned with. The Raiders are currently one of top teams to beat from Prince George’s County and with players like Karl Mofor they are sure to remain that way for quite some time. To see more from them, check out their upcoming game against the Bladensburg Mustangs on Oct. 1. The Games to Come: If you live in the Baltimore area you should definitely check out the games coming this week. However, the game to see will be the Poly Engineers vs the Edmonson-Westside Red Storm on Sept. 30. The Engineers host the Red Storm at home in a Baltimore City I region matchup. Both teams are 2-2 and have strong squads all around. It will be a close game.
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Eleanor Roosevelt’s Karl Mofor about to hit the field. Over in Prince George’s County this week, the big game to look forward to on Sept. 30 is a big faceoff between the Flowers Jaguars and the Wise Pumas. The Pumas are still undefeated and will have to come out their hardest if they want to preserve that lead as the Jaguars are hungry for victory after their recent 2-2 record. The Prince George’s county 4A region bout is shaping up to be a good one. That’s it for this week’s football wrap-up.
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The following resolutions of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore proposing an amendment to the Charter of Baltimore City (1996 Edition, as amended) will be submitted to the voters of Baltimore City for their approval or disapproval at the General Election to be held in the City of Baltimore on Tuesday the 8th of November, 2016 (CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law, [Brackets] indicates matter deleted from existing law, Underlining indicates matter added by amendment, Strikeout indicates matter stricken by amendment). __________________________________________
(3) THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ANY OTHER LEGISLATIVE OR ADMINISTRATIVE RULES, REGULATIONS, OR STANDARDS, CONSISTENT WITH THIS SECTION, GOVERNING THE FUND, ITS OPERATIONS, AND PROGRAMS AND SERVICES FUNDED BY IT. FOR AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT CHARTER AMENDMENT QUESTION F Charter Amendment – Subdivision Regulation – Agency Endorsement
FOR AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT CHARTER AMENDMENT QUESTION E Charter Amendment – Children and Youth Fund FOR the purpose of establishing a continuing. nonlapsing Children and Youth Fund, to be used exclusively to supplement services provided to children and youth; requiring a minimum annual appropriation to this Fund; authorizing the Mayor and City Council, by Ordinance, to provide for the oversight, governance, and administration of this Fund; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection.
FOR the purpose of correcting an obsolete reference to the Department of General Services ro to reflect and conform with the transfer of certain powers and duties from that agency to the Department of Transportation, as mandated by Charter Resolution 14-016 (ratified Nov. 2, 2014); and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection. BY proposing to amend Article VII - Executive Departments Sections 78 Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition) SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows:
BY proposing to add Article I - General Provisions Section 13 Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition)
Baltimore City Charter Article VII. Executive Departments
Baltimore City Charter Article I. General Provisions § 13. CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND. (A) FUND ESTABLISHED; SCOPE. (1) THERE IS A CONTINUING, NONLAPSING BALTIMORE CITY CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND, TO BE USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR PURPOSES OF ESTABLISHING NEW AND AUGMENTING EXISTING PROGRAMS FOR AND SERVICES TO THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH OF THIS CITY. (2) THESE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES MUST BE FROM AMONG THOSE DESIGNED TO: (I) ENSURE THAT BALTIMORE’S CHILDREN AND YOUTH ARE HEALTHY, ARE READY TO LEARN AND SUCCEED IN SCHOOL, AND LIVE IN STABLE, SAFE, AND SUPPORTIVE FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES; (II) ENSURE THAT BALTIMORE CITY SUPPORTS FAMILIES AS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE CITY POPULATION AND CIVIC CULTURE; (III) FOCUS ON THE PREVENTION OF PROBLEMS AND ON SUPPORTING AND ENHANCING THE STRENGTHS OF CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND THEIR FAMILIES; (IV) COMPLEMENT THE CITY’S COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS; (V) STRENGTHEN COMMUNITY-BASED NETWORKS OF RECREATION AND AFTER-SCHOOL SERVICES IN ALL NEIGHBORHOODS; AND
§ 78. Department of Planning: subdivision regulation – recording. Every plat showing a subdivision plan shall be filed among the Land Records of Baltimore City and with the Department of Legislative Reference, but not until after the plan has been endorsed with the approval of the Commission and of the Department of [General Services] TRANSPORTATION. FOR AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT CHARTER AMENDMENT QUESTION G Charter Amendment Board of Estimates – Local, Small and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program FOR the purpose of authorizing the waiver or modification of certain procedures in order to assist local, small, or disadvantaged businesses; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection. BY restating, without amendment Article VI - Board of Estimates Section(s) 11(a) Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition) BY proposing to add Article VI - Board of Estimates Section(s) 11(i) Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition) SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows: Baltimore City Charter
(VI) ENSURE THAT CHILDREN AND YOUTH WITH THE HIGHEST NEEDS RECEIVE MAXIMUM BENEFIT FROM THE FUND. (3) THE FUND SHALL BE ADMINISTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING STANDARDS: (I) PROGRAMS AND SERVICES SHALL BE PROVIDED AND FUNDS ALLOCATED BASED ON BEST PRACTICES AND SUCCESSFUL AND INNOVATIVE MODELS; (II) TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT FEASIBLE, FUNDS SHALL BE ALLOCATED EQUITABLY AMONG SERVICES FOR ALL AGE GROUPS – FROM INFANCY TO TRANSITIONAL-AGED YOUTH; (III) PROGRAMS AND SERVICES SHALL BE GENDER-RESPONSIVE AND CULTURALLY COMPETENT; AND (IV) PROGRAMS AND SERVICES SHALL BE DESIGNED TO STRENGTHEN COLLABORATION AMONG SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND THEIR FAMILIES, INCLUDING COLLABORATION AMONG PUBLIC AGENCIES AND NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. (B) LIMITATIONS ON USE. THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND MAY NOT BE USED TO SUBSTITUTE FOR OR REPLACE FUNDING FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH PROGRAMS OR SERVICES PROVIDED IN THE ORDINANCE OF ESTIMATES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT FEDERAL, STATE, OR PRIVATE AGENCY FUNDS FOR THOSE PROGRAMS OR SERVICES HAVE SINCE BEEN DISCONTINUED. (C) REVENUE SOURCES. THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND SHALL COMPRISE: (1) A MANDATORY ANNUAL APPROPRIATION IN THE ORDINANCE OF ESTIMATES OF AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO AT LEAST $0.03 ON EVERY $100 OF ASSESSED OR ASSESSABLE VALUE OF ALL PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF BALTIMORE (EXCEPT PROPERTY EXEMPT BY LAW FROM REAL PROPERTY TAXES); AND (2) GRANTS AND DONATIONS MADE TO THE FUND. (D) CONTINUING NATURE OF FUND. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS CHARTER, UNSPENT PORTIONS OF THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND: (1) REMAIN IN THE FUND, TO BE USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR ITS SPECIFIED PURPOSES; (2) DO NOT REVERT TO THE GENERAL REVENUES OF THE CITY; AND (3) THEIR APPROPRIATIONS DO NOT LAPSE. (E) IMPLEMENTATION. BY ORDINANCE, THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL SHALL PROVIDE FOR THE OVERSIGHT, GOVERNANCE, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND, INCLUDING: (1) METHODS AND CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFYING SPECIFIC PROGRAM AND SERVICES ELIGIBLE FOR FUNDING BY THE FUND;
Article VI. Board of Estimates § 11. Procurement. (a) Board of Estimates responsible. The Board of Estimates shall be responsible for awarding contracts and supervising all purchasing by the City as provided in this section and elsewhere in the Charter. (I) LOCAL, SMALL, AND DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PROGRAMS. THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MAY, BY ORDINANCE, ESTABLISH PROGRAMS THAT GRANT PURCHASING PREFERENCES TO LOCAL, SMALL, OR DISADVANTAGED BUSINESSES AND, FOR THAT PURPOSE, WAIVE OR MODIFY THE APPLICATION OF THIS SECTION (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SUBSECTION (A)) TO CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS. FOR AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT CHARTER AMENDMENT QUESTION H Charter Amendment – Inner Harbor Park FOR the purpose of amending the provision for Inner Harbor Park to provide for outdoor eating places in the areas known as West Shore Park and Rash Field; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection. BY proposing to amend Article I - General Provisions Section(s) 9 Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition) SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows: Baltimore City Charter Article I. General Provisions § 9. Inner Harbor Park. There is hereby dedicated to public park uses for the benefit of this and future generations of the City of Baltimore and the State of Maryland the portion of the City that lies along the north, west and south shores of the Inner Harbor, south of Pratt Street to the water’s edge, east of Light Street to the water’s edge and north of Key Highway to the water’s edge, from the World Trade Center around the shoreline of the Inner Harbor to and including Rash Field, except that, in order to provide eating places and other commercial uses, areas totalling not more than 3.2 acres plus access thereto, within the dedicated space and north of an easterly extension of the south side of Conway Street shall be set aside for such purposes; AND EXCEPT THAT IN ORDER TO PROVIDE OUTDOOR EATING PLACES FOR THE AREAS KNOWN AS WEST SHORE PARK AND RASH FIELD, AREAS TOTALLING NOT MORE THAN 0.5 ACRES WITHIN THE DEDICATED SPACE AND SOUTH OF AN EASTERLY EXTENSION OF THE SOUTH SIDE OF CONWAY STREET SHALL BE SET ASIDE FOR SUCH PURPOSES; and except that an area of not more than 3.4 acres shall be set aside for use by the Maryland Science Center, plus access thereto. FOR AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT CHARTER AMENDMENT QUESTION I Charter Amendment – Biennial Agency Audits
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SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows:
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FOR the purpose of transferring and amending the section certain provisions on agency audits; to require requiring that the City Auditor conduct performance audits of principal agencies at least twice during every 4-year term of the Mayor and City Council; adding to the list of principal agencies subject to these audits; establishing a staggered schedule for these audits; redefining certain terms; providing for public posting of audit reports; establishing a Biennial Audits Oversight Commission and providing for its powers and duties; conforming related references; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection.
(B) BIENNIAL AUDIT REQUIRED. (1) IN GENERAL. AT LEAST TWICE DURING EVERY 4-YEAR TERM OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL, THE CITY AUDITOR SHALL CONDUCT AN AUDIT OF EACH PRINCIPAL AGENCY’S OPERATIONS FOR THE PRECEDING 2 FISCAL YEARS.
BY proposing to amend Article V - Comptroller Section 8(a) Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition)
(2) STAGGERED SCHEDULE. THESE AUDITS SHALL BE STAGGERED SO THAT:
BY proposing to add Article V - Comptroller Section 11 Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition)
(I) AUDITS OF THE PRINCIPAL AGENCIES LISTED IN SUBSECTION (A)(3) (I) AS “GROUP A” ARE INITIATED IN ODD-NUMBERED CALENDAR YEARS; AND (II) AUDITS OF THE PRINCIPAL AGENCIES LISTED IN SUBSECTION (A)(3)(II) AS “GROUP B” ARE INITIATED IN EVEN-NUMBERED CALENDAR YEARS.
BY proposing to amend repeal Article VII - Executive Departments Section 4.5 Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition)
(C) COSTS OF AUDIT. IN EACH FISCAL YEAR PRECEDING THE FISCAL YEAR IN WHICH AUDITS ARE TO BE CONDUCTED UNDER THIS SECTION, THE COMPTROLLER SHALL INCLUDE THE COSTS OF THOSE AUDITS IN THE ESTIMATES THAT THE COMPTROLLER SUBMITS FOR THE NEXT YEAR’S ORDINANCE OF ESTIMATES.
SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows: Baltimore City Charter
(D) STATUS OF PRIOR RECOMMENDATIONS.
Article V. Comptroller
(1) IN GENERAL.
§ 8. Department of Audits – general powers and duties.
In accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards and State and federal law, the City Auditor: (1) shall at appropriate intervals conduct an audit of the financial transactions of every municipal agency, except the Department of Audits; (2) shall conduct an annual audit of all accounts, revenues, and receipts of the City;
(2) CONTENT OF REPORT.
THE ANCILLARY REPORT SHALL:
(3) SHALL CONDUCT BIENNIAL AUDITS OF PRINCIPAL AGENCIES, AS PROVIDED IN § 11 OF THIS ARTICLE;
(I) DESIGNATE EACH RECOMMENDATION’S STATUS EITHER AS “ IMPLEMENTED”, “PARTIALLY IMPLEMENTED”, OR “NOT IMPLEMENTED”; AND
(4) [(3)] may audit the expenditure of City granted funds by any public or private agency that receives such funds;
(II) PROVIDE JUSTIFICATION FOR THE STATUS DESIGNATION ASSIGNED.
(5) [(4)] may audit City contracts, grants, subgrants and other agreements as required by the terms and conditions of these instruments and, when the contracts, grants, subgrants and other agreements require that audits be conducted by other auditors, review such audits; and (6) [(5)] shall make such other audits as the Comptroller or the Board of Estimates may request[;], provided[,] that[, such] THOSE requested audits [shall] DO not, in the judgment of the City Auditor, unduly hinder the performance of regular audits. § 11. DEPARTMENT OF AUDITS – BIENNIAL AUDITS OF PRINCIPAL AGENCIES. (A) DEFINITIONS. (1) IN GENERAL. IN THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS HAVE THE MEANINGS INDICATED. (2) AUDIT. (I) “AUDIT” MEANS AN AUDIT UNDERTAKEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERALLY ACCEPTED GOVERNMENT AUDITING STANDARDS AND FEDERAL AND STATE LAW. (II) “AUDIT” INCLUDES BOTH: (A) A FINANCIAL AUDIT OF A PRINCIPAL AGENCY’S FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS, INCLUDING ALL REVENUES AND RECEIPTS; AND (B) A PERFORMANCE AUDIT THAT ASSESSES A PRINCIPAL AGENCY’S PRACTICES TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE AGENCY IS OPERATING ECONOMICALLY AND EFFICIENTLY AND WHETHER CORRECTIVE ACTIONS FOR IMPROVING ITS PERFORMANCE ARE APPROPRIATE. (3) PRINCIPAL AGENCY. “PRINCIPAL AGENCY” MEANS ANY OF THE FOLLOWING EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS: (I) GROUP A –
1. DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. 2. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. 3. FIRE DEPARTMENT. 4. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. 5. DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES. 6. BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. 7. MAYOR’S OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (OR SUCCESSOR ENTITY TO THIS OFFICE). 8. MAYOR’S OFFICE OF HUMAN SERVICES (OR SUCCESSOR ENTITY TO THIS OFFICE).
(II) GROUP B – 1. DEPARTMENT OF LAW. 2. DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES. 3. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. 4. POLICE DEPARTMENT. 5. DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS. 6. DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING. 7. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.
(E) PUBLICATION OF REPORTS. REPORTS OF ALL AUDITS CONDUCTED UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL BE: (1) POSTED ON A PUBLIC WEBSITE MAINTAINED BY THE CITY COMPTROLLER; (2) FILED WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE; AND (3) SUBMITTED TO EACH MEMBER OF: (I) THE BOARD OF ESTIMATES; (II) THE CITY COUNCIL; AND (III) THE BIENNIAL AUDITS OVERSIGHT COMMISSION. (F) BIENNIAL AUDITS OVERSIGHT COMMISSION. (1) COMMISSION ESTABLISHED. THERE IS A BIENNIAL AUDITS OVERSIGHT COMMISSION. (2) COMPOSITION. THE COMMISSION COMPRISES THE FOLLOWING 7 MEMBERS: (I) THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE; (II) THE INSPECTOR GENERAL; (III) THE COMPTROLLER; (IV) THE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT; AND (V) 3 MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, APPOINTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT. (3) OFFICERS. (I) THE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT SHALL DESIGNATE 1 OF THE MEMBERS TO SERVE AS CHAIR OF THE COMMISSION. (II) THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION, BY MAJORITY VOTE, MAY ELECT ANY OTHER OFFICERS THAT THEY CONSIDER NECESSARY OR APPROPRIATE. (4) MEETINGS; VOTING. (I) THE COMMISSION SHALL MEET AT THE CALL OF THE CHAIR AS FREQUENTLY AS REQUIRED TO PERFORM ITS DUTIES. (II) 4 MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION CONSTITUTE A QUORUM FOR THE TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS. (III) AN AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF AT LEAST 4 MEMBERS IS NEEDED FOR ANY OFFICIAL ACTION. (5) PROCEDURES. THE COMMISSION MAY ADOPT RULES OF PROCEDURE TO GOVERN ITS MEETINGS AND OPERATIONS. (6) POWERS AND DUTIES. THE COMMISSION: (I) SHALL PROVIDE GUIDANCE AND ADVICE TO THE CITY AUDITOR IN DETERMINING THE SCOPE OF A PRINCIPAL AGENCY’S PERFORMANCE AUDIT; (II) SHALL HOLD AT LEAST 2 PUBLICLY ADVERTISED MEETINGS A YEAR, AT WHICH MEETINGS THE CITY AUDITOR SHALL APPEAR AND REPORT ON THE STATUS OF THE AUDITS AND RECOMMENDATIONS UNDER THIS SECTION; AND (III) FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN BY A PRINCIPAL AGENCY, MAY WAIVE THE REQUIREMENT FOR A FINANCIAL AUDIT TO BE CONDUCTED UNDER THIS SECTION.
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EACH REPORT OF AN AGENCY AUDIT CONDUCTED UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL INCLUDE AN ANCILLARY REPORT ON THE STATUS OF ALL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EXECUTIVE ACTION THAT RESULTED FROM THAT AGENCY’S IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING AUDIT UNDER THIS SECTION.
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Thy City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows:
In this section, the following terms have the meanings indicated. (2) Audit. [(i)] “Audit” means [an] A PERFORMANCE audit [undertaken] THAT, in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards and federal and state law[.], [(ii) “Audit” includes both: (A) a financial audit of an agency’s financial transactions, including all accounts, revenues, and receipts; and (B) a performance audit that] assesses an agency’s practices to determine whether the agency is operating economically and efficiently and whether corrective actions for improving its performance are appropriate. (3) Principal agency. “Principal agency” means any of the following executive departments: (I) GROUP A – 1. [(i)] Department of Finance. 2. [(iii)] Department of Public Works. 3. [(iv)] Fire Department. 4. [(vi)] Department of Housing and Community Development. 5. [(x)] Department of General Services. 6. [(vii)] Baltimore Development Corporation. 7. [(xiii)] Mayor’s Office of Information Technology.
BY proposing to add Article I-General Provisions Section 14 Baltimore City Charter Thy City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows: Baltimore City Charter Article I. General Provisions Section 14. Affordable Housing Trust Fund. (A) Fund established: scope. There is a continuing, nonlapsing fund to be used to promote fair housing in neighborhoods throughout Baltimore, develop and preserve affordable housing for renters and homeowners, and increase affordable housing opportunities for low-income working families and other, including: 1. providing assistance, by loan, grant, rental subsidy, or otherwise, for the planning, production, maintenance, or expansion of affordable housing, including inclusionary housing; 2. providing predevelopment activities for the acquisition, development, new construction, rehabilitation, and or restoration of affordable housing; 3. providing capital and operating assistance for the creation of community land trusts that will develop , own or operate permanently affordable rental housing and assist low income residents to build a path to homeownership; 4. providing affordable and fair housing –related services to low income households to assist them in obtaining housing and remaining stably housed, provided such uses shall not exceed 30% of the funds allocated in a given fiscal year; and 5. providing administrative and planning cost for the operation of the Trust Fund provided such uses may not exceed 5% of the funds allocated each fiscal year. (B) Revenue sources: A fund established under this section may comprise: 1) money appropriated to the fund in the annual Ordinance of Estimates;
8. MAYOR’S OFFICE OF HUMAN SERVICES.
2) grants or donations made to the fund;
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3) mandatory or voluntary payments made pursuant to development policies established by ordinance;
1. [(ii)] Department of Law. 2. [(xii)] Department of Human Resources. 3. [(ix)] Department of Transportation.
4) a portion of the tax increment financing revenue from increased property tax receipts for the development of affordable housing inside the project area and special taxing district, or in other locations as permitted by law; and
4. [(v)] Police Department.
5) other sources as established by ordinance.
5. [(viii)] Department of Recreation and Parks.
(C ) Continuing nature of fund.
6. [(xi)] Department of Planning.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Charter, unspent portions of a fund established under the section, repayments of principal and interest on loans provided from the Fund, and interest earned from the deposit or investment of monies from the Fund:
7. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. 8. MAYOR’S OFFICE OF EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT. (b) [Quadrennial] BIENNIAL audit required. (1) IN GENERAL. At least [once] TWICE during every 4-year term of the Mayor and City Council, [each principal agency] THE CITY AUDITOR shall [arrange for] CONDUCT an audit of [its] EACH PRINCIPAL AGENCY’S operations for the preceding [4] 2 fiscal years. (2) STAGGERED SCHEDULE.
(1) shall remain in the fund, to be used exclusively for the purposes set forth in section 14(A) of the article; (2) do not revert to the general revenues of the City; and (3) any appropriations do not lapse. (D) The Trust Fund shall be administered by Baltimore City Housing and Community Development and overseen by a Commission, the members of which shall be appointed, must be confirmed, and shall serve pursuant to Article IV. Section 6. (1) Members The Commission shall include:
THESE AUDITS SHALL BE STAGGERED SO THAT: (I) AUDITS OF THE PRINCIPAL AGENCIES LISTED IN SUBSECTION (A) (3)(I) AS “GROUP A” ARE INITIATED IN EVEN-NUMBERED CALENDAR YEARS; AND (II) AUDITS OF THE PRINCIPAL AGENCIES LISTED IN SUBSECTION (A) (3)(II) AS “GROUP B” ARE INITIATED IN ODD-NUMBERED CALENDAR YEARS. [(c) By whom to be conducted.] [The audit shall be conducted by: (1) the City Auditor; or (2) an independent certified public accountant or firm of certified public accountants.] (C) [(d)] Costs of audit. In each fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which an audit is to be conducted under this section, the [principal agency] BOARD OF ESTIMATES shall include the costs of [the] EACH audit TO BE CONDUCTED in the [estimates that it submits for the] next year’s Ordinance of Estimates. (D) {RESERVED}
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a member appointed by the Mayor with experience in the fields of housing, community development, planning, social service, or public health; ii. a member of the lending community with experience in community development and affordable housing finance; iii. the Baltimore City Housing Commissioner or his/her designee; iv. a resident who rents his/her home and who lives in a household that is extremely low income (i.e. no more than 30% of Area Median Income); v. a resident who owns his/her home and who lives in a household that is very low income (i.e. no more than 50% of Area Median Income); vi. a homeowner who received assistance through an affordable homeownership program; vii. a resident who has received rental assistance; viii. a social service provider; ix. a representative affordable housing developer; x. a low-income housing and or fair housing advocate; xi. a nonprofit affordable housing developer; xii. a representative of a homebuilders of realtors association of Baltimore; and xiii. such different or additional members as may be designated by ordinance. (2) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, the composition of the Commission shall be comprised of at least four residents of Baltimore City whose Incomes are reflective of those individuals who will be assisted by the expenditures of the Trust Fund. (3) President The Mayor of Baltimore shall designate one member of the Board as its President and may withdraw that designation and so designate another member.
(e) Reports. Reports of ALL audits conducted under this [subtitle] SECTION shall be: (1) POSTED ON A PUBLIC WEBSITE MAINTAINED BY THE CITY COMPTROLLER; AND (2) submitted to: (I) THE BOARD OF ESTIMATES; AND [(1) the Mayor;] [(2) the City Comptroller; and] [(3) the President of the City Council.] (II) EACH MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL. SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That City Charter Article VII, § 4.5 is proposed to be repealed, in its entirety. SECTION 2 3. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the first group of audits under this amendment shall be initiated in January 2017. FOR AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT CHARTER AMENDMENT QUESTION J
(4) Duties The Commission shall: (i) make recommendations, advise, and consult with the Department of Housing and Community Development regarding the establishment of essential policies, rules, and regulations, relating to the implementation , expenditures , and ongoing operation of the Trust Fund: (ii) Submit an annual report to the Mayor and City Council on the activities and usage of the funds in the Trust Fund including tenure (rental and home ownership), income level served, unit size (number of bedrooms), and make the report available to the public; (iii) if necessary, recommend change to the Trust Fund to maximize affordability outcomes of the Trust Fund to the Mayor and City Council; (iv) ensure an audit of the fund every four years by a certified public accounting firm; (v) exercise any additional duty related to the Trust Fund as directed by the Mayor and City Council. (E ) Income Targeting: All assistance provided by the Trust Fund shall serve very low income households, at least half of the assistance in any three year period must serve extremely low income households. (F) Minimum Affordability periods: All rental housing assisted by the Trust Fund must have a minimum affordability period of at least 30 years. All homeownership housing assisted by the Trust Fund must meet affordability criteria based in part on the amount of Trust Fund monies invested in the unit. Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor Jennell A. Rogers, Chief Bureau of Treasury Management Alternate Custodian of the City Seal
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BALTIMORE-AREA AFRO Career Fair Brings Baltimore Together
Race and Politics
Malveaux on President Obama and Black America President Obama perhaps delivered his most impassioned (some might say angry) Sean Yoes moment of his historic Senior AFRO presidency Contributor during the recent Phoenix dinner, his last address as President of the United States to the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference in Washington D.C. on Sept. 17. “My name may not be on the ballot, but our progress is on the ballot,� Obama proclaimed. “If I hear anybody saying their vote does not matter, that it doesn’t matter who we elect-- read up on our
“If I hear anybody saying their vote does not matter‌ read up on our history.â€?
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Hundreds of job-seekers came out to talk to employers at the AFRO’s 3rd Annual Career Fair. By James Bentley AFRO Associate Editor On Sept. 27, the AFRO American Newspaper hosted its 3rd Annual Career Fair at The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture, in Baltimore. The event was attended by hundreds of eager job seekers. “This career fair has always been about connecting the community with employment opportunities while showing employers the great pool of talent that exists in the Baltimore area. The networking event allows those already employed to meet, mingle and possibly connect with someone who’ll lead them to the next level in their career,� said AFRO Director of Advertising, Lenora Howze. For the third year in a row the AFRO brought Maryland businesses, right to the heart of Baltimore City, to connect job openings to job seekers. Companies that participated in
– President Obama history. It matters. We’ve got to get people to vote...I will consider it a personal insult-an insult to my legacy-- if this community lets down its guard.� It’s hard for some to imagine President Obama delivering those fiery words to any other segment of his diverse coalition other than a room of mostly Black people. Dr. Julianne Malveaux, the long-time public intellectual, provocateur and author of the book, “Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Continued on D2
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Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is firing back at the city’s top prosecutor for critical comments she made in a magazine profile. Rawlings-Blake told reporters on Sept. 28 that State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby rushed to prosecute six police officers in the death of a young Black man whose neck was broken in the back of a transport wagon. Freddie Gray’s death led to protests and riots in Baltimore. Three of the officers were acquitted and charges were dropped against the others. The mayor’s comments were in response to a profile of Mosby in The New York Times Magazine in which she said the mayor disseminated false information about the investigation into Gray’s death. In the story Mosby recalled “screaming� at Rawlings-Blake and blaming the riots on her.
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this year’s Career Fair included: Baltimore Gas & Electric, Thurgood Marshall Baltimore/Washington International Airport, Johns Hopkins Health System, Maryland Live Casino, Maryland Transit Administration, Volunteers of America, Goodwill, Walmart, Community College of Baltimore County, Maryland State Police, Baltimore City Police, Howard County Continued on D2 Courtesy Photo
Edwards was named an honorary D.C. officer. By Michelle Richardson Special to the AFRO
By James Bentley AFRO Associate Editor jbentley@afro.com These days William B. Robertson calls the Windsor Mills neighborhood of Baltimore home. Most days he can be found enjoying his retirement or working on one of his proudest achievements, Camp Virginia Jaycee. Robertson’s journey began in Roanoke, Va. He was born to a working class family that put special emphasis on education. “I want you to know from the start, the AFRO helped to shape my life,� he told the AFRO. In the summer of 1941 he began working as a paperboy for the AFRO, at the time he sold the paper for 10-cents each and his portion would be 3-cents. He recalled that he sold about 10 papers a week so he was making 30-cents Continued on D2
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LETTERS HOME-A must for all who made the trip was a card or letter home. In the usual order, Adell Clark, Baltimore; Lawrence Rouse, Washington; Henry Watson, Goldsboro, N.C. and William B. Robertson, Norfolk, write home. In insert, Delores Harris, Washington, and Alice Wills, Baltimore, get their letters off.
The funeral for Marcus Edwards was held on Sept. 27, at his home church Judah Temple AMZ Zion in Bowie, Maryland where Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser spoke. A letter from Baltimore Mayor Stephanie RawlingsBlake was read. Although Marcus was studying social work in school, his dream was to become a police officer in Washington D.C. working with inner city youth; he was already a graduate of the department’s junior academy. Marcus’ family and friends were able to see his childhood dream come true at his
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Baltimore County Man’s Family Awaits Answers after Death in Police Custody By Michelle Richardson Special to the AFRO A 21-year-old Baltimore County man died Sept. 21, 3 days after he struggled with several police officers in Middle River. Tawon Boyd, of Baltimore, was injured in the confrontation said authorities. A lawyer for the family has said Boyd’s kidneys and heart failed. An autopsy will be
performed to determine the cause of death. Authorities have said the county police and fire departments are conducting internal investigations. Police were called to the first block of Akin Circle in Middle River around 3 a.m. and arrived at a chaotic scene. Boyd’s fiancĂŠe called the police and told them he was acting crazy. When officers arrived, they found Boyd “confused and paranoid, sweating
heavily.� Officers say Boyd tried to run to different police cars and get inside and was banging on neighbors doors. Linda Burch, Boyd’s grandmother, said he “was acting kind of strange, like he was on something.� But she says they used too much force “He was just hollering and screaming on the ground, and they just kept pushing him
down, pushing his shoulders and back and hitting him,� Burch said. “He was trying
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William B. Robertson today a week. Robertson was 8-years -old at the time, but 30-cents made a world of difference to him. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 and American men were joining the army and being drafted, but the White papers didn’t carry news of the Black soldiers’ exploits overseas. So Robertson, along with his father and brother began to sell 10 different Black newspapers each week including the Pittsburgh Courier, the Chicago Defender, the New York Amsterdam News and others. “And of course the AFRO, but the AFRO was the biggest seller,� Roberston said. Robertson said the job with the AFRO laid the foundation for his life. It taught him how to meet people, how to count money and make change, it taught him how to read and about Black history. In 1946, as a promotional drive to increase
sales and distribution, the AFRO held a contest for the paper carriers. Robertson and his brother won a three day trip to New York City with about 100 other paper carriers from Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Robertson graduated from Roanoke’s Lucy Addison high school in 1950. In August, of that same year, he enrolled at Bluefield State College in West Virginia. He graduated from Bluefield State College with a degree in secondary education in 1954, but he was unable to find a job. So Robertson went back to Bluefield State College, spent another year and got a second degree. This time he graduated with a bachelor’s in elementary education and got a job teaching at the high school he graduated from. Later he would put his newest degree to use when he was transferred to an elementary school where he taught for 8 years. In 1965, integration came to Roanoke on a voluntary basis and Robertson was asked to assist with integrating the faculty of a junior high school. “I replied in the affirmative and when I got to the school I didn’t do anything I hadn’t done at the all Black school,� he said. He did such a great job, the principal honored him with the teacher of the year award. “The principal told me ‘I never thought I’d see the day that White parents would call me and say they want their children in the room of a Negro teacher but that’s what was taking place,’� Robertson recalled. In 1965 he was also awarded the Outstanding Young Educator in the city of Roanoke. With that honor also came an invitation for him to become the first African-American member of the Roanoke Jaycees Civic Organization. As an active member of the Jaycees, Robertson created a recreation program for mentally handicapped children that included skating, bowling and fine arts. The state soon took notice of the program’s success and named Robertson its state chairman on issues regarding the developmentally disabled. Robertson would then put forward the idea of creating a camp for the special-needs population. Camp Virginia Jaycee, a 90 acre facility, is still operating forty-seven years later and more than 46,000 special-needs campers have attended since it began. Robertson’s career in government began in 1970 when he was appointed special assistant for minority economic
development under Virginia Gov. A. Linwood Holton, becoming the first African-American to serve on a governor’s staff. While in the position he helped Virginia hire its first Black troopers, toll takers, liquor inspectors and, after helping put down a prison riot, its first Black prison administrators. The experience launched his federal career. President Richard Nixon appointed Robertson to the Presidential Committee on Mental Retardation. President Gerald Ford
institutions, they have to fight to be taken seriously. Despite what seemed like perhaps unprecedented obstructionism on the part of Republicans, which many believe was based solely on the fact Obama was the nation’s first Black president, Malveaux argues, “he could have done more,� for Black America. “Why has the word reparations never passed his lips? There are so many things that he didn’t have to do that he chose to do to prove to the other people that he’s basically not favoring Black people,� Malveaux said. “But, he did not mind favoring Latinos. He did not mind favoring the LBGTQ community, bathing the White House in the rainbow colors after the Supreme Court’s decision about marriage equality was a lovely gesture and I know it was appreciated. But, you’ll appreciate when I say when are we
going to turn it red, black and green?� she added. When it comes to tangible, unambiguous help for Black Americans directly from the Obama White House, in Malveaux’s mind, the list is meager. “I think he got the symbolism right. I think there are a lot of African American people and especially African American men felt a little better that a Black man was in there,� she said. “I think a lot of us, when we see his lovely brown wife and those lovely brown children, when I think about the White House Easter Egg Roll and what it used to look like, and what it looks like now. But, you can’t eat symbolism.�
“The principal told me ‘I never thought I’d see the day that White parents would call me and say they want their children in the room of a Negro teacher‌’â€? – William B. Robertson appointed him director of the Peace Corps in Kenya. President Ronald Reagan made him assistant director of the Office of Economic Development and deputy assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, which sent him to 65 countries. President George H.W. Bush gave him a role in the Take Pride in America partnership program, which cleaned up parks and waterways. Between presidential posts, he worked in the private sector, once helping American book manufacturers bring a million new books to the children of apartheid in South Africa. Roertson credits his success in life with his experience working for the AFRO, particularly the trip to New York as young man. “It exposed me to a larger world out there, that’s what the AFRO did for me. Not only did I vicariously grow up in the Pacific following the coverage of the war but then the AFRO is actually bringing me to New York in 1946. Jackie Robinson had just been signed to a major league contract by the Brooklyn Dodgers. I never forgot that trip and what that trip did for me,â€? Robertson said.
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Policy,â€? is among those who have taken issue with Obama’s relationship with the Black community. In her book she says Obama, “scolds instead of uplifts,â€? Black people. She explored some of her thoughts about Black people and the Obama years during an interview on Sept. 26 on First Edition. “The president does not know how to talk to the Congressional Black Caucus, he has shown his hind parts (on more than one occasion)...it was 2012 when he told Black people to put on their marching shoes. He does not get that Black people have his back, he doesn’t get that, he doesn’t have to persuade us,â€? Malveaux said. “It’s going to be very interesting to see what happens at the end of this presidency‌(what) he and Michelle decide what they’re going to do and what position they take vis-a-vis the Black community. We know they are committed to education... But, I wonder if he’ll continue to take that adversarial tone with African American people or if he feels that’s what he has to do to mollify White people,â€? Malveaux added. A former president of Bennett College for Women, Malveaux says “there is a disconnectâ€? when it comes to the president and his most loyal constituency. “And part of the disconnect, as an example, shows up in his treatment of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Who would have thought that under an African American president we would have seen less support for our HBCU?â€? Malveaux wondered. “At predominantly White institutions it is assumed you are dumb until you prove that you are smart. In HBCU land it is assumed that you are smart and capable until you go out of your way to prove you are not. Now, we do have students who will go out of their way to prove they are not...but, the fact is that when you go and sit down in somebody’s classroom, by and large they assume you are prepared, they assume you can do the work... They (Black students) at so many of these predominantly White
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“I’m kind of at a loss for words. I just want my son back.� – Martha Boyd
Sean Yoes is a senior contributor for the AFRO and host and executive producer of First Edition, which airs Monday through Friday, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on WEAA 88.9.
the police responded with violence,� said Latoya Francis-Williams, the family attorney at a media briefing the family held. “The police beat him into intensive care,
grandmother, fiancĂŠe, and their 2-year-old son. “I’m kind of at a loss for words. I just want my son back,â€? said Boyd’s mother, Martha Boyd, who spoke
Tawon Boyd, 21, died after a struggle with police.
briefly at the family’s press conference. “They could’ve tased him. They could have maced him. They could’ve helped. He called for help.â€? Boyd’s mother said her son was working as a forklift operator and that he and his fiancĂŠe were expecting their second child. “We was planning a wedding and a baby shower, not a funeral,â€? she said. Lawyers for the family said that they are waiting for Boyd’s autopsy, which they call “a crucial piece of evidence,â€? along with the police report and witness statements. Boyd’s family did not respond to requests for comment from the AFRO.
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funeral. D.C.’s interim police chief made Marcus an honorary officer of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. “He really wanted to be a MPD detective. That’s all he dreamed about. That’s all he dreamed of,� said Nicole AusberryBrooks, Marcus mother. The Metropolitan Police Department and the District of Columbia also declared September 27 as Marcus Edwards’s day in D.C. Police are still looking for the person responsible for Edwards’s death. If you have any information, police ask that you call Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP.
Police and many more. Speaking with some of the employers in attendance they were overwhelmed with the turnout and the quality of candidates that came to the event looking for jobs. “This is a great event. We want to hire from our community. We heard this was a great way to do that and introduce ourselves to folks. We are happy to be here,� said Kevin Davis, Baltimore City Police Commissioner. “It’s been pretty positive. We’ve had a steady flow of candidates come in here looking for some type of opportunity and most of them have had their resumes with them, so that’s a plus,� said Irene Bither, recruiter from BGE, on their experience at the AFRO Career Fair.
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Barry Glassman, of Baltimore Jazz Alliance, Hosts Free Jazz Festival
Barry Glassman, founder of the Baltimore Jazz Alliance, will present a one of a kind music festival at Druid Hill Park this weekend. Rosa Pryor honors some of the participants of the upcoming festival back in 2002. From left to right: Barry Glassman, Phill Butts, Fuzzy Kane, Carlos Johnson and Professor William Ray. Hello, everyone, I believe the summer has left us. I’m feeling a cool breeze outside and turning off the air condition inside. I have some great entertainment to tell you about this week. I want to start off with my long-time good friend, Barry Glassman, the founder of the Baltimore Jazz Alliance (BJA), who has produced and promoted some dynamite shows and concerts for many years. Glassman moved here in the late 90’s and was unable to find the jazz & blues until he connected with the Baltimore Blues Society. Eventually he found the jazz and concluded, “Local jazz musicians are a treasure that Baltimore is underutilizing.” In addition, there were great venues that were struggling for audiences. He started an on-line jazz calendar, which was awesome. He has organized, promoted and, produced many charity events for local musicians and children in the music. He created BJA in the summer of 2003 and the rest is history. This week, Glassman and his organization is hosting for the first time ever a free Baltimore Jazz Fest on Oct. 1 from noon until 7 p.m. at Druid Hill Park. A full day of Baltimore jazz, blues, R&B, all live music; vendors selling food, drinks, arts & crafts, education information, book signings and lots of fun. It is a Dave Smith, renowned free, family-friendly event. saxophonist and vocalist The festival features a will be performing at fantastic lineup of Baltimore Druid Hill Park for the talent starting with some of Baltimore Jazz Alliance the city’s finest high school Jazz Festival on Oct. 1.
jazz bands and a host of musicians. Many of them are popular and well-known artists such as: The Dunbar Jazz Ensemble, Tiny Tim Harris, Bob Butta, Carlos Johnson, Dave Smith, Bobby Ward, Charles Funn, John Lamkin, Sr., Clayton McLenden, Gary Richardson, Art Sherrod Jr., Greg Hazta, Rumba Club and Clarence Ward III just to name a few. We will see your face in the place. You know I will be there. Gamel Moore, (DJ Mell, Gerald Alston Wanda CoeStewart and Rena Scott) is hosting his 2016 WMEL
Carlos Johnson and his band will be performing at the Baltimore Jazz Alliance Festival this weekend.
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Bobby Ward, along with the Rumba Club, Hot Club of Baltimore, Clarence Ward III All Stars, Dunbar Jazz Ensemble, Greg Hazta and Art Sherrod Jr. are just a few of the musicians who will perform at Barry Glassman’s, Jazz Alliance Baltimore Jazz Fest on Oct. 1 from noon until 7 p.m. in Druid Hill Park. Honors Awards on Oct. 2 from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel, 1726 Reisterstown Road in Pikesville, Md. They are honoring the legends of Soul and R&B artist such as; The O’Jays (Eddie Levert Sr., Walter Williams Sr., Eric Nolan Grant, William Powell); The Whispers (Walter Scott, Wallace “Scotty” Scott. Nicholas; the original members of Blue Magic (Ted Mills, Vernon Sawyer,
COMMUNITY CONNECTION The Henrietta Lacks Legacy Group’s Annual Lunch Join the Henrietta Lacks Legacy Group for their annual luncheon benefiting the wax figure of Henrietta Lacks for the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum on Sept. 30 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. The keynote speaker is Dr. Roland Pattillo, team leader for the development
Wendell James Sawyer, Keith Beaton, and Richard Pratt); The Softones (Marvin Brown, Elton Lynch, Steve Jackson and Byron Summerville (deceased); First Class (Fred Brown, Harold Bell III, Sylvester Redditt, Tony Yarborough); Candi Staton, Randy Dennis, Tim Watts, and me, Rosa “Rambling Rose” Pryor, just to name a few. Tickets includes dinner and cash bar. For more information, go to wmelhonors.com. More music and entertainment for you just across the road. The Taj Mahal Trio will be performing at Blues Alley Supper Club in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 30 thru Oct. 2 for two shows per night and Rachelle Ferrell, renowned keyboardist and vocalist will perform will be there on Oct. 6 thru Oct. 9. Okay, my dear friends, I am out of space. I got to go. Enjoy your weekend and remember, if you need me, call me at 410833-9474 or email me at rosapryor@aol.com.
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of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. The luncheon will be held at the Fleming Senior Center, 641 Main Street, Turner Station, Maryland. For ticket information contact Arkia Wade-Gowins at 904-614-3238 or via email at hlackslegacy@ gmail.com.
p.m. Live entertainment will be provided by Purple Honey, April Sampe’, Spice and DJ Jamal. Go to belair-edison.org/beerandwine for more details or call 410-4858422. The rain date is October 8. The event is located at the Herring Run Park/Belair Rd and 2800 Chesterfield Ave.
3rd Annual Belair Edison Beer and Wine Festival Featuring a variety of beers and wines by Oliver Brewing Co and Linganore, the festival is on Oct. 1 from 11 a.m. to 6
St. Matthews United Methodist Church Children’s Sabbath Fall Festival St. Matthews United Methodist Church is hosting the Sabbath Fall Festival on Oct. 8
from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. All ages are welcome. There will be activities for everyone. The event will take place on Main Street between Avon Beach and Sollers Point Roads in Dundalk, Md.
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IN BALTIMORE AREA THEATRES OCTOBER 7
! DATE E H T AVE
“A NEW LANDMARK IN AMERICAN CINEMA”
A Legacy of
Caring for Children
“BEAUTIFUL AND POWERFUL” Join us for a spectacular evening featuring gourmet food, fine wine, live & silent auctions, youth-inspired artwork, raffles and live music by The Swingin’ Swamis Dance Band.
Friday, Oct. 28th
• 6:00–10:00 p.m. • Baltimore Museum of Industry For tickets and event details contact us at: (410) 744 -7310 • http://www.thechildrenshome.net
Sponsors: The Afro • Airbrush Unlimited Group • Baltimore Sun Media Group • Baltimore’s Child Citypeek • Comcast • Conover Real Estate • DowntownDiane.net • ExpressCare Fun Fotos MD • Focus on Women Magazine • M&T Bank • Magic 95.9 FM M. Selby Designs, LLC • Paradise Professional Pharmacy • Praise 106.1 • Spirit 1400 AM STYLE Magazine • WOLB 1010 AM • WYPR 88.1 FM • Westview Animal Hospital • Yelp
Proceeds benefit
LIVING, BUILDING, WORKING & ACHIEVING
STARTS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 AT THEATRES EVERYWHERE CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS FOR THEATRES & SHOWTIMES
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The Afro-American, October 1, 2016 - October 7, 2016
Ava-Joey Burnett, WJZ Eyewitness News, was the mistress of ceremonies.
Landa Mclaurin, president, Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter and Michele McNeillEmery, president, National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc.
Dr. Nancy S. Grasmick receiving award
James Britton receiving award
The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc., Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter, held its 27th annual Torchbearers Awards Breakfast this on Sept. 24 at Martin’s West in Baltimore. The breakfast pays homage to the power of leadership. The breakfast started with a processional followed by the introduction of Mistress of Ceremony, Ava-Joye Burnett of WJZ Eyewitness News. Senator Barbara Mikluski, Dr. Julianne Malveaux, Dr. Nancy S. Grasmick and James Britton received the torchbearer awards. Rev. Dr. Joan Wharton received the Jewel award and the President’s Citation honored Melanie Hill Irby. Landa Mclaurin is the president of the Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter and Michelle Emery is the president of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc.
Lawanda Edwards, Sonya Henson and Nicole Etienne
Sylvia Davis and Sylvia Tilghman
Lanette Davis and Teddy Coates Dr. Paulette Burgess, Chair Breakfast Committee
Harry Evans III and raffle winner of a fur vest, Merchelle Halsey, president, Anne Arundel Chapter
Bunny Wiley and Patricia Griffen
Sandra Edgecomb, Elaine Stone and Karen Barnes
Photos by Chanet Wallace
Dr. Joan Wharton receives the Jewel Award
Melanie P. Hill-Irby receives the President’s Award
Kiyah Elliott, Patricia Ruppert (Principal) and Kevona Bouknight from Sister’s Academy and Seance Johnson, Keon Garrison and Tracey Garretts from Friendship Academy in Cherry Hill
National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc. Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter
The guests wore “Resort Casual Attire” to the 8th Annual Flip Flop Festivus on Sept. 23, which was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Baltimore. Flip Flop Festivus is a fund raiser for the Life and Breath Foundation. The host, Sean Hull, is the president and founder of the organization. Pete Gilbert (WBAL TV) was the M.C. The Attraction Band played Top 40, R&B, Beach Classics and Motown Classics.
The Attraction Band Sean Hull (Event Chair)
Photos by Anderson R. Ward
Mike Triplett, Tim Hackerman, Nancy Therrien and Ray O’Dwyer
Heather Wachenheimer and Krystal Morris
Kirk McEwen (98 Rock Radio)
Michael Bell, Denise Webb, Jacqueline Williams, Winnie Ryans, Rodney Hull and Sean Hull (Event Chair)
Wanda and Dr. Robert Draper
Qadry Ismail (Former Baltimore Raven)
Catonya Lester and Carol Lerch
Laura Queen and Sha Taylor Denise DeLeaver and Phyllis Reese
Ravens’ Cheerleaders Jackie B. and Amber Lynn