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A group of people cross through high water after Hurricane Matthew caused flooding on Oct. 8 in Charleston, S.C. Matthew continued its march along the Atlantic coast Oct. 8, lashing two of the South’s most historic cities and some of its most popular resort islands, flattening trees, swamping streets and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands.

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AFRO Coverage of the Emmett Till Murder

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Mississippi, for fear of bodily harm to myself or my colleagues. No one else has written it because no one else in the capacity of a reporter lived as close to it as I did. Looking back at it now, I am ashamed I did not throw caution to the winds and at Emmett Till’s mother least try to get “…I have invested a son in freedom” out the story exactly as it was unfolding to me. I’m convinced, however that if I had tried this, I would not be here in New York to write this.

What Does the Future Hold for Minority Voters?

James Fitzgerald will step down on Oct. 15 following allegations that he used racial slurs in the work place.

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Howard County, Md. Sheriff James F. Fitzgerald has agreed to step down following allegations that he made racist, sexist and anti-Semitic remarks and bullied those who worked for him. Despite having previously insisted he would not vacate the post, Fitzgerald announced in a statement, Oct. 11, that he would end his tenure on Oct. 15. “The time for men like James Fitzgerald in civilized society has come to an end,” Dominick Sherman, a Columbia, Md.-resident told the AFRO. “Perhaps being forced to step down now, the state of Maryland will begin to see the end of an era of bigots and sexists in its leadership. There’s just no place for them anymore.” Fitzgerald, a Democrat, serving his third term as Continued on A3

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America’s Changing Landscape

Loss of Manufacturing Hurt Blacks More, Report Finds By Briahnna Brown Special to the AFRO Black manufacturing workers suffer the effects of industrial flight more profoundly than their White counterparts, a report finds. The report, conducted by the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), states that deindustrialization in cities like St. Louis, Detroit, Cleveland, Flint and Baltimore—cities that were once industrial powerhouses—over the last four decades has disproportionately negatively impacted African Americans. In addition to the direct and indirect job loss caused by these factories closing and moving operations overseas, lack of personal finances combined with housing discrimination left Black families unable to simply move away like White families could. White flight heavily contributed to the segregation of these cities, and the blacks left behind in those deindustrialized

People of color will be America’s majority by 2045, according to a U.S. Census report. Then, they should be in positions of political power. But, if America’s history is any indication, reaching that position of political power will mean legal landmines and bloody battles. The current Presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton may be a precursor to future political battles. The unstated message is America is not great in its current configuration. As America’s racial demographic changes, growing pains will be expressed in many ways. Political nationalism is one. Although political power can be linked to the majority racial or ethnic group it is not always based on population. Continued on A4

United Nations Group Calls for Black Reparations By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com The United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent urged the United States government to pay reparations to the descendants of enslaved Africans used by the nation as free, forced labor. Calling the legacy of enslavement “racial terrorism,” a report by the organization blamed enslavement for the systemic disenfranchisement that actively denies Black Americans full citizenship.

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New York Knicks basketball player Derrick Rose arrives at U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles on Oct. 6. Lawyers for a woman accusing NBA star Derrick Rose and two of his friends of rape failed to disclose text messages to the defense, but the lapse was not significant enough to throw out the case or declare a mistrial, a judge ruled Oct. 12. Lawyers for Rose had argued that the plaintiff’s lawyers purposely withheld three texts until the woman was done testifying so the defense couldn’t question her about messages that showed the night in question had been planned for sex and that she was talking the next day about being reimbursed for cab fare and not accusing anyone of rape. U.S. District Court Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald said the accuser’s legal team had failed its legal obligation to share the texts, but there was a “minimal amount of prejudice” against Rose and his friends. He said he would instruct jurors that the texts were disclosed recently and allow defense lawyers to question the accuser about the messages. “I’m not going to dismiss it now,” Fitzgerald said. “I’m not going to declare a mistrial when we have a jury in the box.” The woman’s lawyers said the texts were shared with the defense, but they couldn’t prove it. They also argued the defense had other messages showing the same thing. The decision came the day after Rose testified that he had a hunch the woman was going to claim the men raped her when he received a suspicious text later the same day. The texts described burns the woman claimed she got on her hands from a fire pit outside his Beverly Hills house and said she had been “wasted” the night before. Rose said he never witnessed any burns the night before and that she seemed sober. “It looked like a setup,” Rose said. “It turned out to be what I thought.” The 30-year-old woman filed the $21.5 million lawsuit two years after the August 2013 incident, claiming Rose and his friends raped her at her apartment while she was incapacitated from drinking and, possibly, drugs. The Associated Press is not naming the woman because it generally does not identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault. Rose testified that he was raised by a single mother, who was his mentor and had taught him to respect women. When attorney Waukeen McCoy began to ask Rose a question by saying that since his mother had taught him manners, Rose snapped back in a rare display of emotion during an otherwise unflappable matter-of-fact testimony. “Was that a joke?” he said. “Don’t be playing on my mom like that, bro.” The central issue in the trial is consent and a lawyer for the woman spent much of his time trying to show that she never agreed to have sex with Rose in the early morning hours of Aug. 27, 2013, not to mention his two friends. Attorneys for the woman showed video taken of Rose in June testifying at his deposition in which he said he didn’t understand the word consent. When asked by his own lawyer, he said he was nervous at the deposition and he defined consent as both parties being in agreement. He said the woman had consented all the previous times they had sex over an 18-20 month period. Although they had split up a couple months before, he said he assumed consent based on their past and a text message she sent out of the blue that morning saying he made her “horny.” “No is no. I’m never going to force myself upon anyone,” Rose said. “When she sent me texts like that 99 percent of the time it ended up in sex, so what do you expect?”

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White Officer Acquitted in Norfolk Shooting Death of Mentally Ill Black Man with a Knife By The Associated Press

A jury in Virginia on Oct. 6 acquitted a White police officer who had been charged in the shooting death of a mentally ill Black man holding a knife.

Norfolk police Officer Michael Edington faced one count of voluntary manslaughter for shooting David Latham in June 2014. Outside the courtroom, the not-guilty verdict revealed the nation’s stark fault lines over race and policing. Jeffery Swartz, one of Edington’s attorneys, praised the jury for setting aside “national issues and biases” and showing that the criminal justice system “still works.” But Latham’s family said justice remains elusive for Black men and people with mental illness. Michael J. Muhammad, a Latham family spokesman, said they want a federal investigation of Norfolk’s police department and a dozen police-involved shooting in recent years. Edington has been on administrative duty since the shooting. Speaking through tears outside the courtroom, Edington, 27, the son of a police officer, said he intends to stay in law enforcement. “It’s something I’m very passionate about,” he said. After the verdict, Edington had embraced his attorney and laid his head on his attorney’s shoulder, while family members sobbed. “It’s been 2 ½ years of waiting for this to be off my shoulders,’ Edington said. “I have my life back.” Latham, 35, suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. On the night he died, he had gotten into an argument with family members over a bag of potato chips and grabbed a knife. His relatives called 911. Police arrived to find Latham holding a foot-long butcher knife on his mother’s steps.

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Officer Michael Edington (left) was acquitted in the shooting death of David Latham (right) on October 6. Prosecutors had argued that Edington didn’t give Latham a chance. They said Latham held the knife at his side without advancing or retreating from the officer. Edington shot him several times. But Edington and his defense attorneys argued that Latham threatened violence, moved the knife around and made a small but alarming step as if he would attack. Edington testified that he feared the 5-foot-11, 273 pound man was about to charge him with the blade, according to local media reports. The jury consisted of five women and seven men. Eight of the jurors were White, three were Black, and one was Asian. Philip Stinson, a criminal justice professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, said juries are often reluctant to convict police officers because they know how dangerous their jobs can be. Nationwide, Edington is among 77 officers who’ve been charged since 2005 with either manslaughter or murder after shooting someone while on duty, Stinson said. So far, a third of the officers have been convicted and a third acquitted, Stinson said. The remaining cases are pending. Latham’s death was not the region’s first police-involved shooting or its first trial for an officer charged with excessive force. In August, a jury in the neighboring city of Portsmouth convicted White former police Officer Stephen Rankin of voluntary manslaughter. He shot to death William Chapman, a Black teen suspected of shoplifting at a Wal-Mart. In Norfolk, Latham is one of 13 people, 10 of them Black, who’ve been killed by police since 2010, according to a Virginian-Pilot analysis.

Portland, Oregon, Bakery Accused of Racism for Oreo Pastry By The Associated Press

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OreoCupcake from Fat Cupcake and Pres Obama A Portland bakery is being accused of racism for selling an Oreo cupcake they named “Mr. President.” The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that customers have been leaving Yelp reviews criticizing Fat Cupcake for its “Mr. President” pastry. The cupcake is described as an Oreo Cookie baked inside a white cake with cookies n’ cream buttercream. Owner Anjelica Hayes says she is Black, so the cupcake cannot be racist. She said they originally named the cupcake because it was so good they wanted it to hold public office. She later found out President Barack Obama’s favorite cookie was the Oreo. For now to avoid the controversy Hayes has renamed the cupcake “the Professional.” She said the cupcake is still the most popular item at the store despite its name.

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communities faced some of the nation’s highest violent crime rates. The post-World War II manufacturing boom gave African Americans in cities like St. Louis the economic independence necessary to build up black communities. At its peak, St. Louis was second only to Detroit in auto assembly with General Motors, Ford and Chrysler plants in the area. In the 1980s, however, the city began to see industrial flight, the effects of which were not felt until the turn of the century. When the Corvette plant moved to Kentucky in June 1981, many of the plant’s workers chose to move with it. At the time, legislators brushed off the loss of 1,000 workers at that assembly plant because the city was a manufacturing powerhouse, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. However, the loss of the Corvette plant marked the beginning of a turn in the economy. St. Louis felt the loss of more auto manufacturers in the 21st century. In 2006, the closing of the Ford assembly plant led to a layoff of 1,445 employees. The closing of the two Chrysler plants in Fenton, Mo. in 2008 and 2009 led to a loss of over 43,000 direct and indirect jobs and a $15 billion impact on the area, according to a study by engineering firm AECOM. According to the Missouri Department of Economic Development, manufacturing jobs declined by 9,800 jobs from

March 2008 to March 2009. Since the Great Recession, St. Louis had struggled to bounce back, but this year the city has seen job growth surpassing job numbers pre-recession, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Jobs in manufacturing, however, have not recovered from the recession. As the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) states, The Ville and Greater Ville neighborhoods, which were once the center for the city’s black middle class, was largely supported by the manufacturing jobs in St. Louis. Today, the neighborhoods are met with high violent crime and unemployment rates; the household income averages in the low to mid $20,000s. The population dropped 26 percent between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Alderman Sam Moore said last year there were 1,242 vacant buildings, 1,700 vacant lots and five empty schools in the neighborhood. While the conditions vary from block to block, there are many dilapidated buildings, some with the back walls missing are referred to as “doll houses.” While the manufacturing industry and the effects of deindustrialization look somewhat bleak in St. Louis, the area has been looking to the future. It has seen employment gains in education, health care and plant and medical research largely supported by the Monsanto Company.

“…the blacks left behind in those deindustrialized communities faced some of the nation’s highest violent crime rates.”

Tale of Many Cities: Unmade In America St. Louis: City of Gabriels A city can be known by her sounds. St. Louis gave birth to so many majestic horn players she earned the nickname, “City of Gabriels.” Homegrown talents like Miles Davis and Clark Terry created sounds that were complex, provocative, and soul-stirring. Parallel to the rich blare of trumpets, St. Louis was making other music. During the post-World War II manufacturing boom, the stomp of steel being flattened and formed, the sizzle and buzz of a welder’s torch, and the rhythmic clicks of a conveyor belt mixed it up like jazzy love tunes. These were some of the sweetest St. Louis sounds. As her workers prospered, they bought homes, paid taxes, and fueled an economy that contributed to the rise and vibrancy of middle class communities. Her black neighborhoods also thrived. The Ville — once a beacon of the black middle and even upper classes in St. Louis — was home to black professionals, entertainers, and elegant mansion-sized brick homes. Small businesses abounded. Dentists’ and other doctors’ offices, a movie theater, a hotel, and stores of every type stood proud. Arthur Ashe, Tina Turner, and Chuck Berry all attended The Ville’s Sumner High School — the first school west of the Mississippi to provide secondary education to black students. Viable communities like The Ville were largely sustained by the magnitude of manufacturing jobs in St. Louis. Those jobs were secure, paid fairly, and ensured people without college degrees had equal opportunities to participate in the American dream. That participation engendered pride magnified at workplaces like Granite City Mill, which supplied steel products to industries ranging from construction to container to tubing and piping, and yes, automotive. During her heyday, St. Louis was second only to Detroit in auto manufacturing, with

Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors Co. plants located within her boundaries. As gleaming new cars rolled off assembly lines, factory employees knew what they did mattered; the manifestations of their work literally kept America moving, until it did not. When the sounds resonating from her steel mills, factories, and automotive plants changed — from the stomping, sizzling, click-clack love timbres to the awful cacophony of ripping away, of unmaking, of industrial flight — it broke the heart of the city. It was worse than the blues. While industrial flight goes back to the 1970s, the pain it caused has become most glaring since the turn of the century. The staggering disappearance of 5.7 million manufacturing jobs between March 1998 and December 2013 rocked many American communities. St. Louis has grieved over her share of that abandonment. She lost her Ford plant in 2006; the subsequent closing of two Chrysler assembly plants wiped out more than 6,000 jobs. In general, more than 43,000 direct and indirect jobs are gone. More than 43,000 families were left in financial quagmires about how to pay the mortgage, save for retirement, fix the roof, repair the brakes on the car, or take the child to the dentist. It was eviscerating, leaving blight the size of craters, especially in her once regal, storybook community: The Ville. Industrial flight has a dramatic impact on everyone. Depleted industrial centers endure the long term effects

sheriff, told County Council Chairman Calvin Ball (D), he had experienced duress and was under intense pressure to resign for weeks, including public protests and threats of impeachment by the county’s elected leaders. Ball delivered the statement to the press, which he said came minutes after Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) called on the sheriff to step down. “I’m very disturbed by the comments,” Hogan said. “I do believe he should resign. I share the opinions of many of the people who think he should resign.” Howard County’s Office of Human Rights spent a year investigating the sheriff after a lieutenant filed a complaint. That lieutenant, Charles Gable, resigned in February amid the investigation. The Office of Human Rights investigation found

“reasonable cause” to believe that Fitzgerald maintained an atmosphere of racial hostility and intolerance, and often bullied his staff. The 48-page report includes allegations that Fitzgerald routinely used racist and foul language, including using the “n-word,” calling former County Executive Ken Ulman “little Kenny Jew-boy,” and commenting openly that “African-American deputies are not too smart, but they get the job done.” “We’re a community based on civility and diversity so we can’t have someone with these beliefs here,” one protestor Janelle Bruce told WBAL news. “He’s a racist and he’s a sexist.” Under the state’s constitution, the governor will appoint a new sheriff to serve out the remaining two years of Fitzgerald’s term.

Reparations Continued from A1

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Granite City Mill is located in St. Louis and is one of the shrinking number of employers in the city.

of unemployment and diminished public services. The declining tax base means less money for schools, roadways, and public safety. But the impact is intensified as it reverberates like earsplitting sirens through black communities. That was certainly the case with The Ville. Today, huge swaths of the once proud and stately neighborhood resemble a bombed-out war zone, with few vestiges of its former glory. Many of those elegant brick homes are now abandoned eyesores. Some blocks have been reduced to vacant lots of overgrown grass. Five schools sit idle, like so many St. Louis factories and mills. The murder rate has soared. Unemployment has gone through the caved-in roofs. Many still there feel trapped, hopeless, disengaged — in this, the “City of Gabriels.” Gabriel, according to some biblical interpretations, is the favored angel who will sound the trumpet to wake the dead. If St. Louis can develop her workforce to meet her changing needs, so even those without a college degree can once again be on a path to live the American dream; if she can reverse the decline

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of her faltering Infrastructure and invest in major restoration of profoundly impacted neighborhoods like The Ville; if U.S. trade policy can stand with her, not against her, ensuring that trade and import agreements do not disadvantage her workers, then it may be possible for St. Louis to have a new sound. She could blow that beautiful extended blare: the sound of awakening, signaling that those parts of her thought dead are coming alive once again. So, as the song says, “Blow, Gabriel, Blow.” Next week will explore the loss of manufacturers on Black Baltimore. Turn to page A6 for a Commentary about this subject.

Mireille Fanon Mendes-France, chairwoman of the committee, noted the use of deputized White citizens and random mob violence following Emancipation as similar to the race-based killings by modern-day police officers – a type of state-sanctioned terrorism against Blacks. “Contemporary police killings and the trauma it creates are reminiscent of the racial terror lynchings [caused] in the past,” Mendes-France, daughter of Black intellectual Frantz Fanon, said in a statement. “Impunity for state violence has resulted in the current human rights crisis and must be addressed as a matter of urgency. The colonial history; the legacy of enslavement, racial subordination and segregation; racial terrorism; and racial inequality in the U.S. remains a serious challenge as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent.” The committee released its preliminary recommendation Sept. 30, following an 11-day fact-finding mission, telling the United Nations Human Rights Council, that the “structural discrimination,” including mass incarceration and police brutality, ensured the domination of one group over another. “The persistent gap in almost all the human development indicators, such as life expectancy, income and wealth, level of education, and even food security, reflects the level of structural discrimination that creates de facto barriers for people of African descent to fully exercise their human rights,” the report concluded. “With reparations, you have to come to an understanding that your actions were wrong and punishable, and for a lot of White people globally, saving savage Africans through slavery was for their own good,” Ward 7 resident Reparations Now activist Asa Mvusi told the AFRO. “Reparations are due and Malcolm X pushed for prosecution of America before the United Nations back in his day, so to witness Fanon’s daughter stepping out some 50 years later to lead the charge, is a gift.” The report offered several suggestions for payment of reparations, including educational opportunities, psychological rehabilitation, debt cancellation, and formal apologies. “Part of the problem with securing reparations for slavery, Jim Crow, and disenfranchisement, is that it is ongoing and remains a part of our culture,” Mvusi said. “We’re dealing with our beloved First Family being heckled and jibed as primates by the very people expected to pay up . . . Only shaming our government on an international level through the UN, will make it happen.” In 2008, the House of Representatives successfully voted to apologize for slavery and the Jim Crow laws that followed, and a year later the Senate passed its own apology bill as well. However, the two chambers of Congress could not agree on wording that would prevent the government from being liable for future reparations lawsuits, preventing the bill from ever reaching the president’s desk.

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Voting ‘Not Worth the Time’ Some Blacks Say By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com In a 2014 Pew Research Center for the People and the Press study, it was found that 6 in 10 voting-age adults would not show up at the polls on Election Day. Mostly young, 70 percent of nonvoters were younger than 50 years old and classified as a racial or ethnic minority (African American or Hispanic), the research alluded to the potential for this segment to actually turn the election in favor of one candidate over another. What the election research did not document, however, were the prevailing attitudes about disenfranchisement, particularly within the Black community, that keep the most marginalized from exercising their rights. And while Pew’s focus on the young swings the focus of the lack of civic engagement onto generations of Americans – White and Black – whose public school educations slowly removed courses in civics, government, and citizenship from their offerings for more technical electives like economics, District voters who have lost interest in voting span all ages and socioeconomics, and offer a range of rationale.

comfortably on a six-figure salary and holding advanced degrees in economics, the despair of the electorate will eventually lead more voters to join the ranks of those less educated, living in poverty, and classified as disenfranchised. “The shift began years ago, but has become apparent with a presidential election where an ex-President’s wife, and a blow-hard businessman with AP Photo/Susan Walsh no political career to speak of President Barack Obama voted in Chicago on Oct. 9. Have are the choices for the highest position in the land,” Nortonyou voted? Hines said. “Since not voting will count against the other expressed feeling like second-class citizens, candidate, we are forced to choose between which made voting seem hypocritical. poisons.” “Whether it is a local or national election, Others, like Trinity College senior Bernita the candidates are talking down to people, they McGrath, told the AFRO that despite vicious are lecturing and posturing, but never actually ribbing from friends and family about not voting, asking what we need or how best they can help she is resolute that casting a ballot for Hillary the county, city, or nation achieve those goals,” Clinton or Donald Trump, is useless. “Voting Riverdale, Md. resident Felicia Norton-Hines has been exposed as the ultimate racket in my told the AFRO. “Voting also means holding view because you have a sitting Congress who officials accountable holds the federal government hostage for their once in office, but own agendas and refuses to listen to the will of our police, schools, the very people who put them in office. That’s housing, roads, water, bullying dressed up as democracy,” the Michigan and healthcare are all native said. “The stereotype of the non-voter is falling apart around poor, uneducated, and usually non-white, but the us, and the people truth is every segment sees sick Flint residents, we voted in are at the – Hakim Lord wheel. I will not drink astronomical student loan debt, and the loss of

“I don’t believe that either candidate in this election even understands the position of President.”

Minority Voters Continued from A1

The South African White minority controlled the Black African majority. In America, Latinos, Blacks, Asians and Native Americans are diverse groups representing all religions, values, and political beliefs. However, by 2045, people of color should represent the majority of voters, unless laws or other means undermine this future probability. The rising political power of voters of color may mean a difficult future for some European-Americans. History has shown that a backlash is triggered when people of color begin to achieve political power. When Chinese American laborers, who were sought as laborers after African enslavement

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“I don’t believe that either candidate in this election even understands the position of president, so I refuse to vote for either one,” Ward 8 resident Hakim Lord told the AFRO. “We act as if the vote is really important, but then we cast them for whoever is there. Neither has my interest at heart and so neither will have my vote.” Lord’s sentiment rings familiar to many Blacks across the nation. While many have said that because of the historical battle to gain and maintain the right to vote they will go through the motions, many in the D.C. metropolitan area

anymore of the KoolAid.” According to the Election Project, a think tank charting voting access and participation, Americans as a whole have been largely choosing not to vote in both local and national elections, with less than 50 percent of AfricanAmerican voters casting ballots before 2008. During the Obama elections 2008 and 2012, record numbers of all voting segments, including Hispanics came out, with African-American participation reaching nearly 80 percent in both instances. By the 2014 elections, that percentage had spiraled to less than 30 percent. Norton-Hines said that despite living

reasonably-priced housing choking the nation, while the people voted to manage these types of issues, fight among themselves.” Given the shift in attitude, there are local organizations that are reaching out to Blacks to encourage them to vote. “Too often Blacks vote for candidates, but not collectively around issues. In this way, we continue to end up with leaders who look good on paper, but whose positions on things like early education, affordable housing, and mandatory minimum sentencing works contrary to our beliefs,” Duncan, who is a member of BlackGirlsVote, told the AFRO. “Good voting habits mean electing those with our best interest at heart, rather than people who simply look like us and when there is no one in the running who meets that criteria, we still vote, but begin grooming the leaders we need from within our own ranks.” George H. Lambert Jr., president and CEO of the Greater Washington Urban League, told the AFRO that the organization’s Thursday Network, a group of young professionals ranging in age from 25-40, had moved steadily throughout the nation engaging with young people and explaining the importance of voting. “They have certainly moved around the community to ensure that people are registered to vote, know where their local polling centers are located, and the date of the election. So they have been very engaged,” he said. “I will tell you that when we make a decision not to vote, we dishonor our ancestors. It’s so critical that we vote because of the price that was paid to have that opportunity.”

ended, began to rise in population a backlash led to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act. It limited their ability to become citizens and took away their right to vote. Obstacles placed on Black voters such as photo identification and felony disenfranchisement are similar to the legal measures created when Black men first gained the right to vote with passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. Women were prohibited by law from voting. Early on, Black male votes alone could change the outcome of an election, such as when Hiram Revels became the first Black U.S. Senator in 1870. Then, hundreds of Black men

entered local, state and federal political offices. Then, states passed laws to intentionally undermine those political rights. Laws like the grandfather clause, poll tax and the all-White primary. The NAACP challenged the grandfather clause winning its very first case in the U.S. Supreme Court. Litigation, legislation and protest became the battle cry of the NAACP to defeat these unfair laws and the terrorism that led to the deaths and assaults of voting rights activists. That was then. Now, a slogan like “Make America Great Again” recalls a past when most people of color and women were fighting for their rights under the constitution. Latinos are currently the largest minority group in America, according to the census. Today, they are 7.3 percent of voters. By 2060, Latinos will be 28.6 percent of the U.S. population. Their political power should follow. Black and Latino voters, Asian and Native Americans, Progressives in all parties, young voters from Black Lives Matters to the Third Wave should brace-for and embrace their future political power. There is much at stake in the upcoming election. The future of voters of color given demographic changes and its predicted impact can be based on historical responses to such a rise in political such power. Rev. Dr. C.T. Vivian, renowned voting rights activist, minister, community organizer and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom wrote the Foreword for “The Voting Rights War”. “Every great movement creates the need for the next great movement,” he said. For voters of color, the future is bright, but there will be obstacles. As history has shown, the rise to political power will be hard fought and brutal. But, if history is the judge, voters of color should prepare for the next great movement as well as a victorious future.

October 15, 2016 - October 21, 2016, The Afro-American

Unbelievable

Continued from A1

I SHOULD like also to add that not once in the stories that I did file from the summer did I tell a lie. The offense, if I committed one, lies in the fact that the stories that I did file did not dig or go far enough into the truth. It just wasn’t safe to do so. Here in the safety of New York I now charge (as I would have charged in Sumner, Mississippi), that: 1. Sheriff H.C. Strider frustrated the ends of justice by refusing to take an impartial person to the Charleston jail at Charleston, Mississippi and permit him to check on his report that Leroy (Too Tight!) Collins was not in the Charleston jail. 2. I FURTHER charge (and with the protection of proper law officials will go back to Mississippi and help prove), Leroy Collins was in the Charleston on Friday at the very hour that the case went to the jury. 3. I charge further that Prosecutors Gerald Chatham and Robert B. Smith were told about this but that they decided that since

Hicks fills in the gaps

The AFRO’s ace correspondent, Jimmy Hicks, was not satisfied with his coverage of the Til murder case, which accounts for this first of a series of four articles giving the inside details of what happened at Sumner, Miss. “This story,” Mr. Hicks writes, “to a great extent will explain away some of the gaps in my coverage. I allowed myself to become more of an amateur detective and the result was that I distinctly felt that the job I turned out was not my effort.” “Yes, all things considered, in looking back I still can’t convince myself that I was 100 per cent wrong. “I worked harder than I have ever worked before. I have never been under the kind of pressure the story produced even at Korea’s most crucial moments. I’m not proud of it, but I will admit that at times I was plain scared. “I hope I never have to cover another story like this one. Yet I’m willing to go back down there and cover the kidnap trial or anything else that comes up. But this time I’ll simply write the story and let the NAACP worry about who it’s going to get killed other than me. “I learned a lesson at Sumner. I’m sure I will profit from the experience.”

the sheriff had given them his word that Collins was not in jail, they proceeded to close out the trial without this man whom everyone believes could have positively hung the crime on two white men and seriously implicated at least one other white man. 4. I finally charge that if Leroy Collins is brought forward at this date and given an opportunity to talk where he is assured that he is not in any danger, he will be able to tell where Henry Lee Loggins is and that the two of them will prove to be the two colored men who were seen on the truck by Moses Wright and Willie Reed the night of the murder. I BELIEVE that Henry Lee Loggins is dead and that he was disposed of because he knew too much about the case. These are serious charges. But I welcome this opportunity to write down the evidence on which they are based. This is a fantastic story as lived by this reporter: On the Sunday before the opening of the trial I attended the funeral of “Kid” Townsend, a well liked colored man who had lived in Sumner virtually all his life. I had been told a number of white people would attend the funeral and I felt that it would provide at least a good pre-trial story for my paper. I DROVE into the churchyard, got out with my notebook in hand and went into the church passing a number of colored people in the churchyard. Inside I found the church crowded with no seats available and that white people were occupying the two-back rows on the left side of the church. The temperature was about 95 degrees and I decided to stand outside the church and listen to the services after I had been in the church for about a half hour. This was easy to do because the church was the typical whitewashed wooded structure and that the minister who preached was shouting loud enough to be heard a good half mile away. My notes that I shall constantly refer to in the article, shows that the preacher’s name was Rev. M. M. King, that there were 175 colored people in the church, and 12 whites including five women, four men, and three children. MY NOTES also show that I recorded the sermon as being from “Fourth Chapter, Second Timothy” and beneath I have a quotation read by the minister which said, “I have fought the fight, I have kept faith, I have finished my course.” I was leaning there against the fender of a parked car when a voice behind me said, “Are you down here on the trial?” Up to this point I did not know a single colored person in Sumner and I had tried in the two days I’d been there from spreading the word around that I was a reporter. But as I turned to the face the voice I decided that it would get out anyway so I turned to the man who addressed me and said, “Yes I’m down on the trial. I’m a reporter. THE MAN was colored and he said to me, “there’s a lady behind this car who would like to talk to you I think you’d be interested in what she has to say.” I turned and looked and saw no one. At that moment the man said, “Go behind the car, but don’t take out your notebook and write down nothing.” Now at this point I should like to say to the reader, if this whole thing starts off reading like a cheap fantastic Hollywood movie script, that is exactly what it is going to read like for the entire five days. But I can also say that every word of it is true and it is written exactly the way I lived it. I WENT back of that car and found a woman whom I shall not describe for she told me in the beginning that she was actually endangering her life by talking to me about the trial. The women then told me that a young boy named “Too Tight” was on the truck the night of the murder and that he had suddenly disappeared and no one knew where he was. She said she did not know “Too Tights” real name but that she thought she could send me to a place to get all of the information I wanted on him “if you aren’t afraid to go.” I told her I was not afraid. Then standing and looking off in another direction she said to me: “Go to Glendora. That’s about seven miles south of here. Be careful and don’t let the people know what you are

“TOO TIGHT?” she said, “he’s in jail.” I expressed surprise “In jail for what?” I asked. “I don’t know,” she answered “They came and got him Monday a week ago.” I let fly then with a barrage of questions determined to get them all in before the dance was over and the big guy came to claim her. I asked her if she had been to see him in jail. She said no. THEN SHE walked away from the car. As she walked away from “You mean to tell me.” I said, “that your boy friend has been in jail the car, the man who had first contacted me came around to where I for a week and you haven’t been to see him?” was standing and I asked him more about Glendora. She said “Too Tight isn’t my boy friend. He lived with us. He had just told me that it was one of the roughest towns on I asked her who was “Us” and she said, ‘Me and my husband.” colored people in the county when suddenly a car dashed up in front of “Is that your husband over at the table?” I asked. a church and a white man J.W. Simpson, editor of the Sumner Sentinel “No,” she answered, “He’s in jail too.” got out. “What did they get him for?” I asked. Then came one of those odd incidents which I have never been “I don’t know” is what she said, “Both of them worked for one of able to put together. Simpson who had been friendly to me on my first those white men who killed that boy from Chicago and they came and arrival in town on Thursday, appeared excited. got both of them.” HE LEFT his car, rushed over to where I then asked her what jail were they in I standing with the man and pointing with and if she had been and seen her husband. his finger at me he said, “You’re Hicks, She said she had not—that she had been aren’t you?” even afraid to talk about it to anyone. I was surprised he would ask such I asked her what her name was. as question for we had had a long She told me. I then asked her what her conversation the day before but I said, husband’s name was. She said, “Henry Lee “That’s right—I’m Hicks.” Loggins.” Then to my surprise he turned on his SINCE THE name she gave me did not heels, jumped into his car and drove off have Loggins as a last name, I said to her “I down the road. thought your name was so and so. Now you The colored man to whom I was talking tell me your husband’s name is Loggins. said, “Something’s up. That man wanted to “We’re not married,” She said, “We just say something to you, but he changed his lived together.” mind. I don’t know whether it was because Then I asked her what to me was the I was here or not.” $64 question in Glendora. “What,” I asked, AT THIS point I can report that though “is Too Tight’s real name?” I saw Mr. Simpson many times after that, She came right down the middle “His he never said anything about his strange real name is Leroy action that Sunday. Collins,” she said. The incident unnerved the man whom MISSISSIPPI’S TERROR VIVID TO BALTIMOREANS- This She then told me I was talking and he said, “I’m leaving. If unnamed spectator at Sharp Street Church, Sunday, covers her that Too Tight lived you go to Glendora, good luck. But don’t eyes at Dr. T.R.M. Howard’s shocking description of the recent lynching of Emmett Till. Witnesses said Till’s last words as he was with his grandfather get caught down there after dark,” AFRO file photo beaten to death in a barn were: “Lord have mercy ... Mama, save on the Aklet farm As he walked away I looked at my me.” They heard the white men’s curses as the boy’s cries grew near Glendora watch. It was three o’clock. I reasoned that with any good luck I fainter and fainter, until they stopped altogether. (about a mile and a could drive down there in 20 minutes and spend an hour or so in half away) but that town and still make it to my hotel in Mound Bayou by dark. he stayed in town so much he had just started living with her and “her So I got into the car and headed immediately for Glendora. husband”. THE TAVERN called King’s was not hard to find. I just looked for I THEN tried to get real chummy with her. I complimented her on a large group of colored people on a back street and there was King’s. her dancing and her hair and I asked her if I could come back down It was a typical hangout in a typical Mississippi town. The place to Glendora and take her out. Then for the first time I noticed that she was filthy and the cotton pickers who were enjoying their Sunday off was barefooted. crowded it to the doors. “We’ll go to the jail first and see your husband.” I said, “And then At one end of the long hall was what served as a kitchen. we can go out and have a few drinks.” Somewhere within the bowels of the place was giving out Rock and She said that would be all right if I got back before ten o’clock that Roll blue and in the center of the floor couples were dancing attired night. I told her then that I didn’t mean that I was coming back that in all kinds of clothing. Some of the women up to 25 years old were same night but that I had planned to come down and pick her up the standing barefooted. next day. I STOOD a long time trying to “case” the place. I had not had a “I CAN’T do that,” she said. “I’ll be picking cotton all during the meal since my Mound Bayou breakfast that morning at seven and I day next week.” was hungry. I told her that we couldn’t get into the jail at night and that I’d pay But I realized that I only had about a good hour to work in before her what she would be make picking cotton if she would stay home dark and I wanted to get the most out of my time by circulating from work the next day and go to the jail with me. through the crowd instead of tying myself to an eating table. “I’d like to do it,” she said. “But I’d get a beating.” So I elected to spend my hour or so drinking beer and dancing to I asked her who would beat her and she said that the white man for see what I could find. I walked over to the kitchen and foolishly asked whom she worked came around and whipped everyone who didn’t go for “a menu.” out into the cotton fields and pick his cotton. “Even if they are sick, he THAT WAS a dead giveaway for a stranger and I realize it now. whips them,” she said. But at the time the words seemed to slip out of my mouth. I ASKED HER to come with me while I ate something and she It seemed that at the time I felt that if I had some reading matter in readily consented completely ignoring the big guy at the table where my hand I could stall a little bit until I made up my mind as to what approach to make. she had been seated. When I asked for a menu of a girl waitress, a man behind the I then found that the menu which was unwritten consisted of counter spoke up and said, “We don’t have any menu. But we can fix chitterlings or beef stew. you most anything you want.” Then he asked the question I knew was I ordered beef stew and sat down with her at a table. As hungry as coming.” I was, I couldn’t go for the stew, so I pushed it away and told her I was “Where you from?” about ready to leave. You simply can’t escape it in the south. They can spot a stranger a She then showed me where she lived and I promised to come back mile away. to Glendora some night. I never went back. Things simply got too hot. I COULD tell by the authoritative way the man spoke that he must (Continued Next Week) be the owner or the manager of the joint, so I answered. “Oh, I’m from Transcribed by Terrance Smith up the way a bit” and gradually I drew him into conversation. After trying to convince him that I was merely a drifting guy who dropped in his place for a beer or two—and convincing myself that I hadn’t convinced him of anything. I came at him right down the middle: “Whatever happened to my boy ‘Too Tight’?” I asked. The man stopped as if I hit him in the face. I looked over to my right and some men seated at a table playing “Georgia Skin” dropped their cards and turned to look at me at the mention of the name “Too Tight.” I KNEW then that I was on the trail of something big. But I also knew that the man I was talking would not talk to me in the hearing distance of the others so I grabbed him by his arm and moved over in a direction away from the “Skinners” and nearer the kitchen all the while saying “Let’s have a beer.” He said nothing until he got me a beer. (He did not take one.) Then he moved over to me and said, “What do you want with ‘Too Tight’?” I told him “Too Tight” was a friend of mine. That we used to gamble together and that I was in his town and decided to look him up. HE LOOKED all around and said “Too Tight” is in jail.” “In jail,” I said. “What have they got ‘Too Tight’ in jail for? He never bothered anybody.” The man looked at me and said, “See that chick over there,” pointing to a girl seated near the wall. She can tell you about “Too Tight.” While I drank my beer, I stood there trying to figure out how to best approach the girl who had the key to what I was looking for. She was seated with a big husky guy and the last thing I wanted to do was become involved with a man for “hitting on” his girlfriend. BUT ALL around me I noticed that when the other men wanted to dance they didn’t ask women for a dance. They just walk up, grab the woman by the arm and start dancing. I felt my time was running out and decided to the bold approach. So I walked over to where she was seated, grabbed her by the hand and said, “Let’s dance.” She was up on her feet in a flash and I swirled her out in the middle of the floor into the crowd as fast as I could, hoping that the big buy at the table wasn’t mad at me. She spoke first. And her questions were the usual. “Where you from?’ I told her that I was from up in Sumner and I was looking for my friend “Too Tight.” looking for. Don’t talk to any white people. “Go to a place called King’s. It’s the only colored dance hall in town. Hang around there and find the right people. The will tell you “Too Tight’s” real name and what happened to him. But don’t she said, “get caught down there after dark.”

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COMMENTARY

Protecting Our Progress in 2016

Last week, I was honored to deliver the Congressional Black Caucus’ televised Message to America: Protecting our Progress at the Ballot Box. It was a message that deserves repeating again and again. For more than four decades, the CBC has fought to protect and expand the right to vote for all Americans — and, this year, our advocacy is more essential than it has ever been. With only days remaining until our nation elects its next President, it is critical that Americans of good conscience be aware of blatant attempts to deny our community — as well as the elderly and the young — access to the ballot box. Thousands of African Americans marched, protested, fought and even died to ensure that every American would have a voice in our democracy. Consider our past. In the spring of 1965, one week after Congressman John Lewis and the people of Selma marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, President Lyndon Johnson urged the Congress to pass the Voting Elijah Cummings Rights Act. “…All Americans just must have the right to vote,” President Johnson declared. “And we are going to give them that right.” President Lyndon Johnson was right. The right to vote is one of our most fundamental rights as Americans. It ensures that we each have a voice in this democracy. In the years after the Voting Rights Act was enacted, African Americans were finally able to fully and freely participate in our nation’s elections — and we’ve seen real change as a result. African Americans were elected to serve and represent their communities at the state, local and national levels; and, decades later, we stood in gratitude and pride as Black Americans turned out to the polls in record numbers to elect our nation’s first African American president in 2008. Four years later, we made history again. In 2012, for the first time in any U.S. presidential election, eligible African Americans voted at a higher rate than did Caucasian Americans — and President Obama won a second term. This progress toward a fully equitable society was not easily won. Even in 2012, it required the combined power of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a reinvigorated Civil Rights Division in the United States Department of Justice, scores upon scores of advocacy groups, and the individual commitment to democracy by millions of our fellow citizens. This was how progress was made. This was how our history was changed. Then, in 2013, the forces of reaction struck back. By a slim 5-4 margin, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Shelby v. Holder rolled back the federal government’s “preclearance” authority, the same federal power that had sustained and guaranteed access to the ballot box for African Americans. In finding the formula at work in the Voting Rights Act to be out of date, the Supreme Court removed one of the most effective tools that the federal government has used to prevent states from passing or implementing laws that unfairly keep American citizens from their equal place at the ballot box. Following the Shelby decision, Republican-controlled state governments nationwide grasped the opportunity to move America backward. They enacted some of the most egregious voter suppression legislation since Jim Crow. In one of the most appalling examples, only weeks after the Supreme Court’s decision, the Republicancontrolled North Carolina legislature passed a voter suppression omnibus that restricted early voting; required voters to present photo identification at the polls; and eliminated same-day voter registration. Thankfully, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recognized this law for what it was and struck it down, concluding that it “targeted African Americans with almost surgical precision.” Yet, while the court protected the rights of African Americans in North Carolina for this election, there are still new voter suppression laws on the books in 14 other states that will be in effect for the first time

in a presidential election this fall. Voters in those 14 states will now face significant hurdles to exercising their most fundamental democratic right. It is clear that we cannot rely solely on the courts. Congress must act — and each of us must act as well. It is time for Speaker Paul Ryan to bring legislation to restore and update the pre-clearance provision of the Voting Rights Act to the House floor, legislation for which we know there is bipartisan support. Here at home, and in other states throughout the country, we each must do everything that we can to assure that our neighbors and families have their voices recognized on Election Day 2016 As President Johnson told Members of Congress in 1965: “…all Americans just must have the right to vote.” He was right then, and he is right today. This challenge to our rightful place in American society is a critical factor in the 2016 election — an in the future that it is our right and duty to create. We must protect our progress not just for ourselves, but for generations yet unborn. Congressman Elijah Cummings represents Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.

Mental Illness Transcends Racial Boundaries Recently, there has been a rash of fatal police encounters involving people who were experiencing a mental health crisis. Concerned family members often call law enforcement when they feel out of options and think that their loved ones could possibly be a danger to themselves or others. The problem is that there is a lack of alternatives for these families and community members when they need help resolving an acute mental health crisis rather than blood thirsty, killer cops. There is racial a racial component to police encounters due to the fact that Black, Brown, and Red people are more likely to be stopped by law enforcement. In addition, African Americans and Latinos use mental health services at half the rate of Whites, according to studies. However, mental illness transcends racial boundaries. The recent deaths of Alfred Olango, Melissa Ventura, and Anthony Nunez shine light on mental illness and police shootings. In all three cases, family members called out of concern for the victim’s well-being and all ended with their bodies riddled with bullets. Campaign Zero and others who seek police reform are correct in calling on officers to be trained in how to adapt to a situation where a suspect is mentally unwell. There are situations where they must deal with people suffering a mental illness or break down, and need

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the tools to peacefully restrain them. However, the mere presence of police sirens, loud aggressive verbal commands, and weapons can be unnerving and intensify the psychosis of someone in crisis. However, the primary issue will remain even if police receive more training. For example, Campaign Zero calls for 40 hours of “crisis intervention” training for police officers. This change would certainly be a step in the right direction. Yet, in the state of Maryland to be a licensed mental health professional like a licensed clinical social worker for instance, you must have 3,000 hours of work experience and receive 144 hours of direct face to face supervision. These requirements highlight the fact that police are not mental health professionals nor should they be expected to be. The fundamental problem is that families that recognize that someone is having a mental health crisis feel the only people they can call who will respond swiftly and at anytime are law enforcement. From childhood, we are taught that the answer to any emergency is to dial 911. There needs to be a nationwide on-call mental health tactical team that families can turn to when a loved one is having a crisis, in lieu of law enforcement. The units would be comprised of mental health professionals who are trained in how to de-escalate a situation involving someone with a known mental illness. The number or name of the group should be known to all Americans, since 26.2% of Americans have a diagnosable mental illness within

a given year. Calling the police should be a last resort carried out by mental health professionals when feel they are out of options or techniques and force may be necessary for public safety. It may be easier to train this mental health tactical team to deploy non-lethal weapons, than to train police to deal with mental health issues. Alfred Olango’s sister painfully yelled a familiar refrain, “I called police to help him, not to kill him!” Unfortunately, police were ill equipped to do so. In the case of Anthony Nunez, the police arrived with the noble intention of talking him down from a suicide attempt. Within 15 minutes, 18 year old Nunez lay dead after the police shot him. We certainly ask for law enforcement to take systemic responsibility by training officers to deal with these situations as first responders. The Police must be versatile and know CPR as well in order to save lives. However, we have EMTs, ambulances, and physicians to deal specifically with people having a physical health emergency. The same approach should be taken with mental health in this country. Jason Nichols is a full-time lecturer in the African American studies department at the University of Maryland College Park and the current editor-in-chief of Words Beats & Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture, the first peer-reviewed journal of hip-hop studies.

Defuse Baltimore Or Let It Explode? When we witnessed the Baltimore uprising during the spring of 2015, it was tempting to name the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray as the sole cause. Gray succumbed to a traumatic spine injury suffered in the back of a police van — another unarmed Black man who died at the hands of police. Surely a straight line exists between the intense images of that blazing Baltimore CVS and the death of Freddie Gray. But a closer look reveals another straight line, and it directly leads to industrial flight, which Gerald Taylor devastated all of Baltimore, but particularly ravaged her Black community. It is a longer line, filled with complications as it stretches all the way back to Baltimore’s earlier days. In her youth, Baltimore’s geography charmed and tantalized. She is geographically protected from most hurricanes by the Delmarva Peninsula. She is shielded by the Appalachian Mountains from the coldest weather that would freeze her port. Her Patapsco River seduced Pennsylvania Steel in the late 19th century, and they danced until another suitor, Bethlehem Steel, cut in and acquired the company in 1916. That relationship grew into a love affair that yielded the largest steel mill in the world: Sparrows Point. Situated at the edge of Baltimore’s alluring Outer Harbor, Sparrows Point made the steel that made 20th century America: The

Golden Gate Bridge; the George Washington Bridge; Rockefeller Center; the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It produced so much of the infrastructure of the United States, some called Sparrows Point the Beast of the East, others, the Goddess of Industry. Its shipbuilding component supplied tankers and bulk carriers for private sector customers throughout and between both world wars. By the late 1950s, the mill’s employment rolls climbed north of 35,000. Those workers — many African American and nearly all union members — were earning middle class wages, buying homes, sending their children to college, and paying taxes that funded roads, schools, and public services. But imported steel encroached on the prolific love affair between Baltimore and her steel mill in the early 1970s. Not long after, the thrill was gone. Baltimore was bleeding jobs — 10,000 jobs gone by 1975. Small businesses folded, no longer sustained by those workers’ wages. The declining tax base meant curtailed services. People, who could, fled for the suburban hills. People who could not leave were simultaneously riven by a downward spiral of lessening employment opportunities and city services, and an upward spiral of frustration and despair. And then came the rage. Before the first match was struck during the revolt sparked by the death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore was already smoldering from her loss of more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs. Before the first chant was hurled at the battalions of police holding the line around the CVS, decades earlier, unscrupulous realtors had exploited the situation created by the downturn in manufacturing jobs and provoked White flight by illegally practicing block busting. Before the first brick was thrown, many of the good-paying union jobs in factories and mills evaporated, vaporizing the stability of the middle class families who depended on them, including Black families. Baltimore’s manufacturing jobs were mostly replaced by non-

union, service-sector jobs that paid low wages with no benefits. Before the “contents under pressure” necessary for an explosion had been dragged to that downtown Baltimore street, her inner city had already been reduced by drugs, crime, and gross inequities in the criminal justice system. Crime and drugs in Baltimore cannot simply be blamed on the people who live there. There is a more accurate, more complex story of people filled with the sense that there are no options, no places to turn; feeling trapped in a perpetual state of emergency, lacking any sense of security. The pervasive impact of industrial flight is the real powder keg, and it’s far more deadly than the looting of a drugstore. But this ticking explosive can be defused. Fair trade policy can stop the flood of goods made overseas. It can also help protect the most vulnerable people from the workplace injuries, poverty, desperation, and deaths that frequently come along with being exploited as cheap labor when unfair international trade agreements create a global race to the bottom. Although the love affair between Baltimore and Sparrows Point is beyond revival, it is still possible to bring back some of those lost manufacturing jobs by reversing the unmade in America trend. Proper investment in infrastructure could fuel the manufacturing sector even more. And smart workforce training can ready Baltimore’s sons and daughters to take positions that once again enable real participation in the American dream — and defer that dream no longer. Gerald Taylor is a research fellow for the Alliance of American Manufacturing, non-profit, non-partisan partnership formed in 2007 by some of America’s leading manufacturers and the United Steelworkers. Taylor is currently working on a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Georgetown University.

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D.C. Debate Parties Cater More to Hillary Than Trump

Tennis Champ Tours New Charter School in Anacostia

Busboys and Poets Café Breaks Ground in Ward 8 By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com

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D.C. Council member Yvette Alexander questions how Trump will replace Obamacare if elected. By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com In the District, Democrats showed their influence on the nation’s capitol for the Oct. 9 presidential debate between Democratic Party candidate Hillary R. Clinton and Republican contender Donald Trump. The Ward 7 Democrats were among the residents who watched the debate at one of the District of Columbia’s political clubs and bars and restaurants that hosted parties. However, while the debate

“I am here to watch the debate with my friends.” – Karen Williams was an important activity, there was also chatter among party members about Ward 7 and its political leaders. Ward 7 D.C. State Board of Education member Karen Williams stopped by to join the party of 35 at the Sala Thai restaurant. “I am here to watch the debate with my friends,” Williams told the AFRO as she handed out campaign literature urging Ward 7

Tennis star Andre Agassi takes questions from 2nd graders at Rocketship Rise. (Inset) Rocketship Rise parents Alleans McQueen, Ericka Wilson, Takisha Butler, office manager-administrator Saymah Nah, Danielle Mitchell, Tyrita Simmons, and Jackie Hopkins posed for pictures while discussing the ‘new math’ dilemma, during the school’s ribbon cutting ceremony. By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com Tennis champion Andre Agassi joined Rocketship Education and Woodland Terrace community members to celebrate the opening of the first Rocketship Education school on the East Coast. Rocketship Rise, developed by the TurnerAgassi Charter School Facilities Fund, is located in Ward 8’s Woodland Terrace neighborhood, and has been championed as a model community-education platform, where parents interview prospective instructors and work closely with administrators to ensure academic success. The first day of school for the campus was on Aug. 22.

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Rocketship, a California-based charter operator that opened its first elementary school in 2007, gained national attention with its initial strong test scores and blended-learning approach — mixing traditional teaching with online and computerassisted instruction — which has kept administrative costs low. Jacque Patterson, Rocketship’s regional director, said the charter hopes to operate more like a neighborhood school than the District’s other charters. Even though the school is required to accept applications from any D.C. child who wishes to apply, but Rocketship is focusing on recruiting students from the Ward 8 neighborhoods. Patterson explained to the AFRO how inclusion of family members, especially grandparents who serve as head of Continued on B2

Play Details Sad Reality of D.C.’s Unsolved Murders

Pannell, executive director of the Anacostia Coordinating Council, and Kenneth McClenton, the father of slain journalist Charnice Milton, are leaders of “Open Heart, A playhouse located in Ward 8 recently Close Case” campaign that seeks to get the sponsored a theater production and a District of Columbia government to put more Continued on B2 discussion session that focused on homicides resources to solving murders and making the in the Black community. On Oct. public aware of that situation. 9, the Anacostia Playhouse hosted Pannell said that the situation depicted in a play, brownsville song (b-side for brownsville song (b-side for tray) is all too tray), written by playwright Kimber familiar in Ward 8. “This phenomenon of Lee, that centered on the shooting unsolved murders is not new,” Pannell said. death of a promising young Black “People have grown numb to it. What got me man in Brooklyn, New York. was Charnice’s murder.” CVS “Plays7-Eleven Milton was killed 126 Kennedy St., NW resonate 401 E. 33rd Street by gunfire when she CVS in an got off the bus from 7-Eleven 5227 Georgia Ave., NW immediate729 E.25th St. work on May 27, space,” 2015 near Alabama Rite Aid CVS Colin Avenue, S.E. Milton 5600 Georgia Ave., NW Hovde, the2506 N. Charles St. was killed with a Safeway producingGas-Station – Colin Hovde bullet, police say, 6500 Piney Branch Road, NW artistic 2025 N.Charles St. was intended for director ofGiant Food someone else. the Theater Pannell said that 601 E. 33rd St. Alliance and a facilitator of the there were witnesses. “It’s safe to assume the Citgo discussion,Howard told theSt. AFRO. “Art is people on those ATVs and the people who 2207 Howard CVS meant to be a window orSt. a mirror were in the immediate area knew who killed 5870 Silver Hill Rd. on somebody else’s Flowers life. Art also Charnice,” he said. “There seems to be a ‘Code Pearson District Height, Md. 1829of N empathy.” Charles St. creates a sense of Silence’ when it comes to reporting the The play ran from Sept. 15murder of people in the Black community. This CVS Safeway Oct. 9 and was has to stop because it is 7012 Marlboro Pike 2400 N. Charles St. directed by Paige Black men being killed.” Forestville, Md. Sister House Restaurant Hernandez. Pannell carries around Rite Aid 2436 N. Charles St. The play pictures of people whose 741 Silver Hill Rd was 90 minutes murders have been Wash - Works Car Wash District Heights, Md. and after that, unsolved. He has been 2030 N.Howard St. Shoppers the discussion doing this since August Union Memorial Hospital 2950 Donnell Drive began. Thirty 2015. McClenton attended 201 E. University Parkway District Height, Md. people stayed the play with his wife, after the show to Francine, and other Afro American Newspapers theatrewashington.org/C. Stanley Shoppers Photography relatives. He spoke about participate in the 2519 N. Charles St. 5820 Silver Hill Rd. Kita Grayson (Devine) and conversation. the lethargic response he Forestville, Md. Sideeq Heard (Tray) Philip Continued on B2 By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com

“Art is meant to be a window or a mirror on somebody else’s life.”

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Eugene Clarke was shot and killed in a homicide in Northeast D.C.

The owner of a District of Columbia restaurant chain and a Ward 8-based social service non-profit broke ground recently on a venture that could produce more than 100 jobs and provide numerous opportunities for residents east of the Anacostia River. On Oct. 6, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), D.C. Council member LaRuby May (D-Ward 8), Busboys and Poets owner Andy Shallal, and Perry J. Moon, executive director of the Far Southeast Family Strengthening Collaborative (FSFSC), participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for the organization’s new headquarters that is expected to house the first Busboys and Poets restaurant in eastern Washington and a culinary arts training center. “This project is another sign of my administration’s commitment to invest in supportive services and jobs in neighborhoods across all eight wards,” the mayor said. “It is Continued on B2

Suspect Still On Loose in H Street Homicide

By Briana Thomas Special to the AFRO No motive has been released by the Metropolitan Police Department in the Sept. 29 homicide near the H Street corridor in Northeast D.C. According to officials, the victim was Eugene Clarke, 39, a resident of Temple Hills, Md. He was fatally shot around 3:55 a.m. “No one has been arrested,” Rachel Schaerr, a spokesperson for the department told the AFRO on Oct.8. Police responded to the rainy crime scene after receiving a call that reported sounds of gunshots in the 900 block of 10th Street, NE. Clarke was found on the sidewalk unconscious and unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Schaerr said the homicide was still under investigation and details of the case, including a cause for the assault, could not be disclosed at this time. Police are still searching for suspects involved in the murder. Up to a $25,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible. According to the police, there have been 10 homicides in 2016 in Ward 6 as of Oct. 11. On Oct. 10, police made an arrest in a separate Northeast slaying after investigating the case for more than two months. Pursuant to a D.C. Superior Court arrest warrant and a booking order, Sean Smith was taken from the D.C. Jail and transferred to the department’s homicide branch and charged with second degree murder while armed in the death of 26-year-old Matthew Walker, who was a resident from Northwest, police said. There have been three homicides in the immediate area as of Oct. 11. Walker, 26, known as “Matt,” was fatally shot at about 1:25

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Continued from B1 households, has helped transition students into an educational environment bracketed on all sides by trained caregivers. “The inclusion of parents and extended family – including grandparents and aunts and uncles who are a part of the household – in the educational goals of our students allows educators to address the very specific needs of each child,” Patterson told the AFRO. “When all adults are invested, the students tend to naturally develop a love of learning. They feel secure asking questions and participating fully.” Patterson said this was especially helpful when addressing the needs of grand families whose members may not be as well-versed or familiar with new methods of learning. “We have many households that do not have computers or internet access, so we established a special space in the school just for parents to come, utilize computers and internet, have meetings, and familiarize themselves with certain technology,” Patterson said. “In addition, we developed a program where

parents and grandparents can earn their GED – now called a state diploma – so they are better able to assist their kids and grandkids.” Saymah Nah, Rocketship’s office manager-administrator told the AFRO that the parental engagement remains a strong

“When all adults are invested, the students tend to naturally develop a love of learning.” – Jacque Patterson selling point to parents who want more than a state-of-the-art facility. “From the naming of the school to the hiring of school meal vendors, teachers, and administrators, the parents have

had a voice. It was explained very early on that this is not a space that ‘empowers’ parents because they already have the power,” Nah told the AFRO. “Our job is to help them use that power to advocate for their children.” The brand-new 58,600-square-foot building will serve 758 students in pre-k through 5th grade at maturity. The campus includes 26 classrooms, three special education classrooms, a learning lab, two cafeterias, a gymnasium, nurse’s suite, multiuse agora space, two playgrounds, and a nature trail. The stateof-the-art facility is certified LEED Platinum. “Excellent education beginning at the elementary school level is critical to continued success in college and in life,” said Andre Agassi, the fund’s co-managing partner and CEO of Agassi Ventures. “This state-of-the-art facility and new permanent home of Rocketship Rise Academy will make a real difference to the historically underserved young people in the Woodland Terrace community and become a beacon in this community.”

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voters to re-elect her. There were other debate parties throughout the city, with the DC for Hillary campaign holding events in Wards 1, 2, and 3 in addition to the one in Ward 7. Nellie’s, a sports bar on U Street N.W., and the landmark African American Civil War Memorial Museum held debate parties. Each of the Busboys & Poets restaurants in the area also held screenings. The Black Cat, a trendy bar that caters to young millennials, held a pre-debate discussion on the book, The Donald: How Trump Turned Presidential Politics Into Pro Wrestling that was coauthored by Chris Kelly and Brandon Wetherbee. The Regal Cinemas also opened up its theaters to those interested in the debate, with customers getting a free bag of popcorn.

Continued from B1 The D.C. Board of Elections reports that Democrats constitute nearly 75 percent of the voters therefore there is a small Republican presence in the city. There were no highlypublicized Trump parties in the District though the billionaire owns a recently opened luxury hotel on Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. There was no indication that a debate party was held at the hotel. Ed Potillo, chairman of the Ward 7 Democrats, said his event had a distinct purpose. “It is important that we as Democrats in the ward come together as a community,” Potillo told the AFRO. “We can watch this debate in a collective way and see what the candidates have to offer.” D.C. Council member Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7) stopped by before the debate

started and sat with Williams and Potillo. Potillo ran against Alexander earlier this year but withdrew from the race for health reasons. Alexander was defeated for re-election in the June 14 Democratic Party primary by former D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray. Potillo told the AFRO that Gray, like all Ward 7 Democrats, was invited to attend the party but he didn’t

debate quietly reacting when it was noticed that Clinton and Trump didn’t shake hands at the beginning of the debate. “I wouldn’t shake his hand either,” Barbara Morgan, a longtime Democratic leader in Ward 7, said loudly. There were groans and head-shaking when Trump criticized Obamacare with Alexander shouting, “What are you going to replace it

“It is important that we as Democrats in the ward come together as a community.” – Ed Potillo show up. Marla Dean, who is running against Williams, sat in another section of the restaurant and engaged voters. Party-goers watched the

with?” There was a collective groan when Trump cited the infidelities of former President Bill Clinton and there were claps when Clinton quoted first lady Michelle

Obama saying, “When they go low, we go high.” There was also groaning when Trump mentioned “Washington, D.C.” in reciting troubled cities such as Baltimore and Chicago. T.N. Tate, a resident of the Marshall Heights section of Ward 7, said she didn’t like the insults. “I think they should stick more to the issues,” Tate told the AFRO. “I hope Hillary doesn’t get caught up in his trap. We need them to tell us what are your plans for us?” Morgan said that she enjoyed the party and thought Clinton won. “I live by myself and I didn’t want to watch this debate alone,” she said. “I wanted to see how we reacted to what the candidates said, particularly Mrs. Clinton. We need to put her in the White House to continue the Obama legacy.”

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also a happy day whenever we can accomplish those goals and deliver a long-awaited, long requested amenity, like this future Busboys and Poets restaurant.” Bowser is also spearheading the St. Elizabeths East project that will be an athletic and training facility for the Washington Wizards and Mystics as well as a space for housing and office space. There are no namebrand sit-down restaurants in Ward 8 with the exception of the IHOP, located off of Alabama Avenue in Congress Heights. There are popular privately-owned restaurants such as Georgena’s on Martin Luther King Avenue., S.E. and Uniontown Bar & Grill in Anacostia in the ward. Shallal owns Busboys and Poets restaurants on 14th Street. N.W., 5th Street., N.W., Brookland, Mulebone, and Takoma in the District. He also owns establishments in Arlington, Va. and Hyattsville, Md. It has long been the goal of Shallal to bring one of his restaurants to either Ward 7 or Ward 8. “I am thrilled to be opening a new Busboys and Poets and hospitality training center in the heart of Ward 8,” he said. “My hope is that this new facility will be the catalyst for more economic development east of the river and will become a central meeting place to discuss the incredible opportunities that exist in this community.” The $14.6 million building that culminates 20,000 squarefeet received public funds from the mayor’s office, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, the Department of Energy and Environment (DOE), and Urban Ingenuity, a DOE firm that finances building renovations. The restaurant and FSFSC headquarters are expected to open in the summer of 2017. “We are excited about and humbled by the partnerships that we have forged with the District, Urban Ingenuity, and United Bank to bring this important project to the residents of Anacostia and Ward 8,” Moon said. “Our mission and service offerings will be greatly enhanced by this new space.” Charles Wilson, advisory neighborhood commissioner for district 8A05, has been a booster for Anacostia for years. Wilson said he couldn’t wait until Busboys and Poets opens up next year and praised FSFSC’s role in the project. “I am excited about the restaurant opening up but I am more excited about the partnership with FSFSC,” Wilson told the AFRO. “There are a lot of plans for developing Anacostia in the works and this project will definitely jump start economic development activity in this area.”

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Continued from B1 has gotten from District government officials on the issue of solving murders. “A lot of people would like for us to fold up and walk away,” he said. “Ninety-eight percent of the unsolved murders in this city are Black men. If this was a White cop who shot a

Black person, this theater would be full of people who would be ready to march anywhere to make a statement about that.” McClenton said that it took public pressure to get D.C. Council member Kenyan McDuffie (Ward 5), chairman of the Committee of the Judiciary, to hold a hearing last year on

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Rep. Edwards Host 8th Annual College & Career Fair 6701 Leyte Drive On Oct. 15, Rep. Donna F. Edwards (D-Md.) will host her 8th Annual College & Career Fair at Oxon Hill High School, 6701 Leyte Drive, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be more than 150 exhibitors and presenters from community colleges, universities, military academies, and liberal arts colleges from across the country at the fair. Additional exhibitors will include corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and associations that will offer information about internships and full & part-time summer employment opportunities. Students, parents, and others can also attend workshops on the college admissions process, SAT/ACT prep, the Service Academy nomination process, financial aid, life after college, and more. For more information or to RSVP, email yasmine.evans@mail. house.gov.

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Open Door Baptist Church Holds Community Day Open Door Baptist Church hosts a annual community day Oct. 15. The

event will be held at the church, located at 5600 Central Avenue, SE from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The event will include free health screenings for glucose, blood pressure and dental checks. The event will also inform participants on breast cancer awareness information, HIV awareness and prevention and Obamacare. The community day will also include a Walk-a-Thon, Fitness, Team Races, face painting, moon bounce, and other activities for children. The event is free and open to the public. Asbury United Methodist Church Celebrates Women The Asbury United Methodist Church, located at 926 11th St NW, will hold a Women’s Day celebration on Oct. 16. The theme of the observance is “Growing in Blessedness.” Rev. Alexis F. Brown, campus minister for Howard University, and Associate Pastor at Asbury UMC will deliver the sermon at the 10 a.m. worship service. There will also be a musical concert featuring vocalists Kevin Green and Dawn Robinson at 2:30 p.m. For more information, contact the church at 202628-0009. SunTrust Foundation Lighting the Way Award

On Oct. 17, the SunTrust Foundation will present Capital Area Asset Builders with its first-ever Lighting the Way Award for their Matched Savings Program. The presentation will occur from 8-9:30 p.m. at SunTrust Bank, 1445 New York Avenue, NW. The award, which includes a $50,000 grant, recognizes CAAB for the impact they have made in Washington promoting financial confidence and the promise of a life well-spent. National Press Club Hosts ‘The Voting Rights War’ Book Discussion Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, an associate professor at John Jay College of the City University of New York and a civil-rights attorney, plans to discuss her book “The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Fight for Justice” on Oct. 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW. The book discussion costs $5 for members and $10 for non-members. Tickets and books can be purchased at press.org/events/npc-book-rapfeaturing-gloria-j-browne-marshalland-voting-rights-war. This event is a fundraiser for the non-profit National Press Club Journalism Institute so no outside books or memorabilia are allowed.

unsolved murders. He noted that so far this year, there have been 105 murders, with 54 unsolved. “We have a real problem because there have been 3,000 unsolved cases in D.C. for the past 25 years,” he said. Jada Hendrix lives in Ward 8 and attended the play. She said the real problem with solving murders in the city is that people are insensitive to the problem. “Nobody takes it seriously until it hits home,” Hendrix said. “We don’t get to see what it does to the family. That’s what I liked about this play. I had the chance to see how losing a child affects the family.” Marco Coleman said young people who live in the District are influenced by the homicides. “A lot of youth are afraid to walk outside because they are afraid that they may be shot or get hurt,” he said. “My cousin, Raheem Jackson, was killed in 2011 and I saw that as a 12-year-old. It still affects me. I smile and joke a lot around people because it hides my pain.” Pannell suggested that people be allowed to mail in information on unsolved murders through postal boxes, just as children send Santa Claus letters during the Christmas season. “We have a Facebook page ‘Open Heart, Close Case,’” McClenton said. “Please go to that page and like it. That will help generate interest.”

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Army Maj. Gen. Aundre Piggee was promoted to Lt. Gen. on Sept. 26 at the Pentagon. Piggee also assumed the duties of deputy chief of staff for Army Logistics on Sept. 23. He has provided service to his country for 35 years and is currently one of 50 lieutenant generals in the Army.

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ARTS & CULTURE

Hampton University Names Plus-Sized Winner of Beauty Pageant By Jerica Deck Special to the AFRO

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Nyia Fairley breaks the mold by becoming one of the first plus sized winners of Hampton University’s beauty pageant.

After decades of stick thin Miss Hampton winners, Hampton University student Nyia Fairley became one of the first full figured women to win the pageant. On Sept. 30, the twenty one year old first year pharmacy student was selected by a panel of judges to be the face of the university. “I really feel like this rumor or this perception of what Miss Hampton University is, people have this stigma of what she has to look like or what she has to be. And that’s what really inspired me to do the pageant was that she doesn’t have to look like that,” Fairley told the AFRO. “Just to show them, ‘Look I am the face of Hampton University and look at me.’ I’m not what you traditionally see as a beauty queen, but I’m going to be what you expect to see in future.” Fairley’s platform is body diversity, and throughout the competition she incorporated body positivity and self-esteem into her performance. “I chose body diversity because people feel like beauty is one thing. I just want everyone to know that you are your own type of beauty. There is no one type of beauty because beauty is art and no art is the same,” said Nyia Fairley. “A lot of girls on campus feel insecure about the way they look and they feel like Miss Hampton has to look a certain type of way. And I just wanted to show them that you don’t have to fit into this box or this stigma of what Miss Hampton is or what a Hampton woman is. Just go out there and be yourself. Fairley hopes to continue promoting this message after the competition by holding self-esteem seminars on campus.

She also hopes to partner with beauty queens and leaders at other HBCU’s, to help women across the country feel more comfortable in their own skin. “I actually hated the reflection that I saw when I looked at myself. And at that time I wished that I saw someone that was close to my age, who looks like me, who I could relate too. I had my mother and she’s great, but it’s nothing like having somebody who you can see the spitting image of yourself in. And to say like ‘Oh ,she could do this I could do this.’ I did not have that and I just want to be that for somebody,” said Fairley. Fairley competed against ten other girls in several rounds of the pageant. These included swimwear, introductions, evening gowns, and a question and answer portion as well. She also performed a spoken word piece about the importance of high self-esteem during the talent portion of the competition. Fairley is an honors student from Chicago Illinois. She is a member of the American pharmacy association, the Golden Key honor society and her school’s honors college program. Fairley also regularly gives back to her community. She is a member of the Gamma Theta chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority incorporated and Hampton University’s Q.U.E.E.N. mentoring program. “To me beauty is confidence and acceptance and embrace. To be able to let your inner light shine and to love yourself flaws and all, that’s beauty. As long as you accept who you are, and generally love the person that you are and you are becoming, you will always be beautiful and you will be able to exude that onto others,” said Nyia Fairley. “This win just wasn’t for me. It was for her (Fairley’s mom). It was for other girls on this campus. It was for the people who helped me or supported me.”

‘Luke Cage’ Brings a Bulletproof Black Superhero into Frame community’ in the way that films like “Shaft,” “Cotton Comes to Harlem,” “Claudine,” and “Across 110th Street,” did years ago. Even more important, cinematically, to have Mariah Dillard pointing out all of places Adam Clayton Powell, Malcolm X, and Zora Neale Hurston As if Netflix and “Luke Cage” creator Cheo Hodari Coker knew that the stomped within the dialogue of the show, connects the past with the nation needed a Black superhero, the development of Marvel’s bulletproof present. It documents these locations as ‘ours’ despite gentrification.” “Luke Cage” seems to be both masterful and timely. Far from being corny, the odes to Harlem stand firm alongside the Wrongfully convicted of a crime and turned superhuman through actors and scripts. In addition to Woodard, who offers a new kind of prison experimentation, the escaped Cage, played by Mike Colter, finds crazy, Mike Colter, Mahershala Ali, (who portrays gangster Cornell himself fastened between Harlem’s working-class, its criminal underbelly, “Cottonmouth” Stokes) and Simone Missick (who portrays police and the police and politicians manipulating both. Assuming the posture detective Misty Knight) lead a stellar and believable cast. of a cleaner in a local barbershop, Cage is a reluctant, haunted hero. The Even Woodard called Coker a “student of the Harlem Renaissance,” character is a throwback to the strong and dignified Black men from which with an extended understanding of the pride Blacks continue to feel for so many Harlem tales are derived. its old lounges, apartments, and eateries. “He fights ‘the Man’ at a time when Black males are being gunned down “[Coker] traces the roots it took and the branches that have reached in the streets by police officers, and is himself, a victim of their aggression. out from Harlem across the world in terms of influence. The reason the At the same time, the script is equal parts poignant and intelligent – there show succeeds is that even though Luke has superpowers, it’s grounded (Courtesy photo) in that reality,” Woodard told The New York Times. are discussions of Chester Himes and Donald Goines and the culture of a disappearing landscape still haunted by its past glory,” Chicago-based Coker told USA Today that he drew inspiration from his grandfather, Netflix series brings the culture critic Darius Sexton told the AFRO. “There is sophistication in a Harlem native who became a Tuskegee Airman and was awarded the Harlem of Marvel’s Luke Coker’s writing and in the way in which the characters breathe life back into Distinguished Flying Cross in creating the show and its characters. Cage to life. Harlem – especially Alfre Woodard’s Mariah Dillard, who epitomizes the “He used to say that at a time when it was purported African balance between corrupt and cunning, sensual and savvy.” Americans didn’t have the mental capacity to fly airplanes, they knew the Perhaps most important for viewers, a record number of whom caused Netflix to crash stakes were as profound at home as anything they were dealing with in the air or being a part of trying to access “Luke Cage” the day the show went live on Oct. 7, is the array of diverse and a segregated unit,” Coker said. “I’m not going to be one of those people who says, I’m a show divergent characters within the show. From the weapons dealers and family-run memorabilia runner, I’m not a Black showrunner. I’m Black when I go to sleep. I’m Black when I wake up, salesgirls, to the police officers and politicians, blackness is visible. period. It doesn’t affect my perspective on everything, but at the same time, it’s who I am, and “Every age is represented, every class and hue is represented, and every personality is I’m proud of it.” there,” blogger BlackDiva Divine told the AFRO. “Coker is deliberate in presenting ‘the By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com

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heavyweight title and Lewis gym its second world champion. G-Up Nation is a rising power in national amateur boxing circles and is arguably the top local program. Shawn’s four Mack Lewis became a Baltimore legend and a boxing icon children – Ibrahim, Muhammad, Musa, and daughter Candice by changing the lives of young men from his eastside gym. In Carter are currently state and regional champions. The an old two story building on the corner of Eager and Broadway team assembled in 2012 has been consistently successful in Lewis used boxing as the vehicle to turn neighborhood chumps Maryland’s Silver and Golden Gloves competition. Each of into world champions while managing their careers as a the younger Robinsons has been a state championship belt and confidant and a mentor for nearly 50 years. Lewis died at the qualified for the Sugar Bert Nationals in Kissimmee, Florida age of 92 in 2010. November 18-21 in Kissimmee, Florida. However, the legacy of training and mentoring is a distant Despite their inexperience success has been swift for memory that is trying to be awakened by an assortment of youth Team G-Up Nation. Ibrahim, 15, won the Maryland Silver interested in re-igniting the Mack Lewis legend on East Bond Gloves championship and was a national semifinalist in 2014. Street. Muhammad, 13, won Maryland Golden Gloves titles in 2013 Shawn and Phillip Robinson have moved their family’s and 2015. Musa, 11, won his first Silver Gloves title at nine storied youth boxing program to the historic facility as they years old in his first bout and has been ranked as high as fifth continue to train for the upcoming Sugar Bert National nationally in his weight class. Candice, 17, is currently ranked Tournament. Team G-Up Nation, as they are known, now has second in the nation also. moved to their program to the new Mack Lewis gym hoping This family barnstormed through west side gyms once they (Photo by Mark Gray) their success will be a catalyst to a renaissance in and out of the The G-Nation Boxing Team is hoping to restore the relocated from York, Pennsylvania in 2006. However, their ring. foray into combat sports began as participants in the Stick and championship legacy of the Mack Lewis Gym in East “We’re looking to bring life back to Mack Lewis Gym,” Move martial arts afterschool program under the guidance of Baltimore. said Shawn Robinson, the head coach of G-Up Nation. “The Antoine Dorm. challenge is to return to the days where we develop more contenders on the local scene.” G-Up Nation has also benefitted from tutelage at Upton Boxing under coaches Mack Ellison Mack Lewis Gym was once the hub for training Baltimore’s premiere boxers and produced and Calvin Ford. They also trained at UMAR Boxing under coach Marvin McDowell on North two world champions. Through five decades the gym’s founder used his building as a sanctuary Avenue. Dorm and McDowell are the example the Robinsons plan to use for transforming of to develop athletes into productive citizens who could survive the perilous conditions in the Mack Lewis Gym into more than just a boxing recreation center. neighborhood. His finest moments came as the old building on Eager and Broadway was on the They want to re-establish the gym as anchor of the community. If answers to grant proposals verge of falling apart. they have submitted are favorable by next fall an afterschool program will provide children In 1994 Vincent Pettway became its first titlist when he won the IBF Light Middleweight mentorship, guidance, tutoring, computer literacy, and a safe place to congregate daily. Championship with a knockout of Gianfranco Rosi after training for 21 years under Lewis’ “It’s about more than just boxing,” said Phillip Robinson. “This is part of the Mack Lewis watch. Seven years later Hasim Rahman knocked out Lennox Lewis which gave him the legacy.” By Mark F. Gray Special to the AFRO

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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)

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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;

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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.

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(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.

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(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.

CHARTER AMENDMENT

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.

(a) In general.

C8 The Afro-American, October 15, 2016 - October 21, 2016 LEGAL NOTICES

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Article VII. Executive Departments

CHARTER AMENDMENT

§ 4.5. Agency audits.

AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND

(a) Definitions.

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;

(II) GROUP B –

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}

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

CHARTER AMENDMENT

(1) General.

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Race and Politics

‘Birth of a Nation’ Should Be Required Viewing for BCPS Swift and stealthy as Indians, the Black men passed from house to house,—not pausing, not hesitating, as Sean Yoes their terrible Senior AFRO work went Contributor on. In one thing they were more humane than Indians or than White men fighting against Indians,—there was no gratuitous outrage beyond the death-blow itself, no insult, no mutilation; but in every house they entered, that blow fell on man, woman, and child,—nothing that had a White skin was spared. The above is part of the narrative in “Nat Turner’s Insurrection,” published in 1831 by The Atlantic, which described the rebellion of slaves and free Blacks in Southhampton County, Va. led by Turner, which ended in the death of at least 60 White men, women and children. In retaliation for Turner and his soldiers rising up against slave owners and the inhuman institution of American slavery, hundreds of Black men, women and children who were not involved with the revolt were slaughtered by White militias. 57 Blacks accused of being part of the uprising were executed. After eluding capture for about two months, Turner gave himself up, was tried, convicted, sentenced to death and hanged. Then, according to some accounts, his body was cut up and buried in different locations for fear the “supernatural” Turner might reassemble himself and slaughter more Whites. Nate Parker’s epic film, “Birth of a Nation,” opened last weekend in theaters around the country. I saw it. It is a brilliantly crafted film; the acting, writing and photography. It is a very plausible re-enactment of the events depicted in Nat Turner’s Continued on D2

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Sheila Dixon: “I’m Passionate About Change in this City” Former mayor launches write-in campaign to get her `new job.’

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Sheila Dixon sat down with the AFRO’s Sean Yoes to discuss her write in campaign to be mayor of Baltimore. their vote does count,” Dixon added. The former mayor, who will be running against Green Party candidate Joshua Harris, Republican Alan Walden and the Primary winner Pugh, says she is, “the only candidate,” to Former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon officially launched resolve Baltimore’s many challenges. her write-in bid to reclaim the chair she once occupied at City “We’re in a crisis in this city...to be able to say this is the Hall on Oct. 11. And although she only has about three weeks norm to have 300 homicides a year is unacceptable. To see the before the election on Nov. 8, Dixon seems determined to destruction of our school system and not deal change the results of April’s primary when with real cognitive issues; I’m passionate she finished a close second to Baltimore City about change in this city that I know can Senator Catherine Pugh. happen with the right team,” Dixon said. The, “AFRO First Edition,” radio show on “I’m the only candidate who can go in WEAA was the first news organization Dixon there day one and get things that have been sat down with live, after she filed the official – Sheila Dixon dysfunctional in this city up and running the documents with the Baltimore City Board of way it needs to happen,” she added. Elections. The Board of Elections was at the Dixon spoke to perhaps the two most epicenter of April’s electoral debacle, which ubiquitous issues facing the city; the massive $660 million Port led to the city’s unprecedented decertification of the original Covington development deal and the plight of the Baltimore election results due to a myriad of voter irregularities. City Police Department, encapsulated by the devastating “If I had the money to write a check for $500,000 to a Department of Justice report. million dollars, to hire an attorney to do the work that was “With Port Covington, we’re talking about the change of a needed, who knows the election might have been done over,” Dixon said in reference to the Democratic Primary controversy. community over the next 20 to 25 years. And unless we take Cherry Hill, take Westport, take Curtis Bay and Brooklyn and “But, I didn’t have that kind of resources. This is a way to Continued on D2 rectify what did happen, along with encouraging people that By Sean Yoes Senior AFRO Contributor

“We’re in a crisis in this city…”

Visit Baltimore Names New CEO Al Hutchinson, former Visit Mobile president and CEO, has been named as the new CEO of Visit Baltimore. The move was announced Oct. 10. Hutchinson succeeds Tom Noonan, who left Visit Baltimore in May for a job in Austin, TX. Hutchinson, 57, will start on Nov. 14. He will be responsible for leading growth of the convention and tourism industry in Baltimore and overseeing day-to-day management of all sales and marketing programs. In a statement, John Frisch, chairman of the Baltimore Convention and Tourism Board said; “Visit Baltimore is a Courtesy photo strong bureau well positioned for growth and I have great Al Hutchinson is confidence that Al is the right leader to build upon recent the new CEO of Visit successes of the organization. I know that the organization, Baltimore. and in turn the City, the region and the State, will benefit from his sales and marketing experience and strong reputation as a collaborative, transparent leader and effective communicator.” Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said in a statement, “We are lucky to have him and I am confident that he will serve as a strong advocate for tourism in Baltimore while also working to build relationships and partnerships within the community. I was impressed by his passion and perspective on how tourism can further advance Baltimore’s economy.”

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Two People Killed, Three Shot in Baltimore on Monday Night By Michelle Richardson Special to the AFRO Cortez Mitchell, 22, who was killed in his vehicle on North Monroe Street on Oct. 10, has been identified as one of the suspects in the shooting death of Baltimore rapper Lor Scoota. “He was a person of interest in the death of Lor Scoota,” said Baltimore City Police spokesman T.J. Smith in a statement to the media. “He was one of several people who were persons of interest.” Tyriece Travon YouTube Watson, better Cortez Mitchell was a suspect in the known by his rap killing of Baltimore rapper Lor Scoota, name Lor Scoota, pictured. was killed earlier this year. His manager, Trayvon Lee, was killed several weeks later. Both murders remain unsolved. Continued on D2

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By Terrance Smith Special to the AFRO Inside of a small, but cozy, apartment in the Parkville neighborhood of Baltimore, Amanda Berry, 28, a Baltimore native and London Long, her 10-month old daughter, are having their regularly scheduled home visit from DRUM Baltimore. DRU/Mondawmin Healthy Families Inc., commonly known as DRUM, is a Baltimore based nonprofit organization that offers support to families with pregnant women and young children. Berry has been raising London with the help of DRUM Baltimore for almost two years now, the majority of that time without the father who has been stationed far away in the military for the past 8 months. During the home visit, London was active and attentive, especially when

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Rory Travers from Digital Harbor High School is the player of the week.

The Matchup Wrap-up: Patterson fans left the field as they watched their Clippers take out the hosting City College Black Knights in a Baltimore City I league game, 20-18 on Oct. 7. Now with a win under their belts six weeks in, Patterson improves their record to 1-5. Coming up next for the Continued on D2

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Sheila Dixon Continued from D1

that whole area and blend it in, you’re going to have a gated community and that’s what we don’t want to see happen,” Dixon said. “I respect Under Armour, I’m glad they’re here and want to make a commitment, but we have to make sure that communities like Sandtown and other neighborhoods benefit as a result of that,” she added. Then she continued discussing law enforcement and her role in the failures chronicled in the DOJ report.

“There is a series of all of us who are at fault. And what I felt really bad about is...looking at where mayors, leadership and their priorities really caused a lot of this to happen and that’s why I say we’re all at fault, including myself,” Dixon said. “We have to restructure the police department, but we also have to come up with alternatives in the communities,” she added.

Despite the seemingly Quixotic nature of any write-in campaign, Dixon says she is relying on the loyal base of support she’s grown over decades of public service. “I have a core group of people who support me no matter what and will do whatever they can because they know they want a better city,” Dixon said. “And it’s those people I need to call on. It’s going to be organic and grassroots, that’s what it’s going to take.”

narrative. I suspect the details of Nat Turner’s Insurrection are largely unknown to most Americans, including school age children. However, the real truth is Turner’s actions in Southhampton in 1831 was just one of many slave uprisings in the South. Some scholars

college), often because the Black American narrative is far too seldom crafted by Black hands and derived from Black minds and souls. “Birth of a Nation,” and movies and stories like it, are beginning to change that trajectory. Ultimately, you can’t truly know what America is all about until you understand the history of the Civil War. And you can’t fully comprehend the Civil War, until you understand the American institution of slavery. Unfortunately, far too many of us still dwell in the dark shadows of the often inaccurate annals of American history.

Race and Politics Continued from D1

Insurrection in 1831. And it is deeply disturbing, mainly because it is a reminder that the dynamics of race in America have remained mostly intact since Turner and his men revolted with violence against the so-called “peculiar institution.” It should be required viewing for every student, teacher and administrator in the Baltimore City Public Schools. The movie documents how modern law enforcement is rooted in Antebellum slave catching, as well as the systemic, brutal denial of Black humanity. And draws unmistakable parallels from 19th century America to this “modern” era accented by Black Lives Matter and “Trumpism.” But, perhaps more important than the 21st century lessons offered by “Birth of a Nation,” is the historic significance of the film. It counters the prevailing and erroneous historic narrative that Black Americans were almost uniformly passive or docile in reference to their enslavement, that they broadly did not resist and perhaps implicit in that position, were even at peace with their plight. The story of Nat Turner rebukes that false overarching

But, perhaps more important than the 21st century lessons offered by “Birth of a Nation,” is the historic significance of the film. have documented more than 300 American and Colonial American slave revolts, some of them more violent and deadly than Turner’s. The essence of “The Miseducation of the Negro” still looms large from our homes to our classrooms (from kindergarten to

Sean Yoes is a senior contributor for the AFRO and host and executive producer of AFRO First Edition, which airs Monday through Friday, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on WEAA 88.9.

DRUM

Continued from D1 more interest in the signs than before the home visit. Linda Smith, the senior the song. Berry and London are just family support worker for Smith and Berry then read one of many families DRUM DRUM Baltimore, arrived some of London’s favorite Baltimore reaches out to and at the door. London crawled books, including one about tries to help. all the way from the back Sesame Street’s Elmo. DRUM is aimed at families hallway to greet her. Afterwards, Berry shares a that are about to have a baby Smith strives to make the video of London taking her or recently had a baby. DRUM home visit feel as if Smith first steps just a few days works with these families until was just another member of their child reaches 5 Berry’s family years of age. that came over to DRUM services say hello. Smith families in Druid asks Berry how Heights, Reservoir everything is going Hill, Rosemont, and how London is Upton, Mondawmin doing. and the East Side of Next comes Baltimore. singing of songs The 2015 uprising such as “Old led to DRUM McDonald expanding from its Had A Farm,” base in Northeast accompanied Baltimore to East by hand crafted Baltimore because the signs of each farm Photo by Terrance Smith organization saw a animal. London, Linda Smith, London Long and Amanda need for their help. showing off her The Baltimore City independence, takes Berry play on the floor during a DRUM visit.

Health Department, social workers and past participants refer most of DRUM’s clients to them. Since its start in 2000, DRUM has had 6 graduations with over 25 families involved. The graduation signifies that a family has been involved with the program until their child has successfully aged out. Kathy E. Carroll, project director for DRUM, said, “We offer parent support groups, play groups so other parents and children can interact with other parents and children and

anger management classes.” Based upon the family’s evaluation by DRUM, it determines how involved they will be with the child and family. Home visits are a key component of DRUM. It is where they get their analysis and make sure the children are reaching appropriate stages in their development. The number of home visits per month depends on the family but ranges from between two and four. “On a typical visit, there is about a 15 minute period

of talking to the family about their lives and then the focus shifts straight to how’s the baby?” Smith said. “When you go in you must see the baby.” Dealing with several different families at once can be difficult and hard to manage, but Smith said, “It is something that you have to be dedicated to.” Berry is happy with her experience with DRUM. “It has definitely helped me. A major help is having someone to talk to. It’s therapy.” Berry said.

Lor Scoota Continued from D1

“What’s significant about this is this revolving door of violence that we continue to talk about. As our investigation was building and as we were preparing to do more with this case, he gets killed; and this is the person who we believe was involved in the murder of Lor Scoota,” said Smith On Oct. 10 in West and Southwest Baltimore, three men were shot in separate incidents, said police. Around 7:30 p.m., police went to the 2200 block of W. Fayette Street in the Penrose area and found a man suffering from a gunshot wound to the leg. At around, 8:30 p.m., police went to the 1800 block of North Bentalou Street in the Coppin Heights neighborhood, where a man was found with multiple gunshot wounds. Investigating another incident around 8:30pm, Police went to a hospital where a shooting victim had walked in with a gunshot wound to the foot. He told police he was in the 1400 block of Drew Street in the Medford neighborhood when he heard gunshots and realized he had been shot. Besides these three incidents, Baltimore Police are investigating two fatal shootings that took place Oct. 10 only three hours apart on the city’s west side.

According to police, the first shooting was reported at about 2:06 p.m. in the 3700 block of Beehler Ave. A 29-year-old man had been shot multiple times in the upper and lower body. He was taken to the hospital and was later pronounced dead. The victim has not been identified and police did not release information about a motive or suspects. Another shooting occurred at about 4:45 p.m. Officers found Mitchell, of the 4000 block of Potter Street, suffering from gunshot wounds inside of a vehicle that had crashed into a tree on North Monroe Street. Mitchell was transported to a hospital where he died. A second victim was transported to another hospital with gunshot wounds to his upper body. At the scene, a Lexus with a shattered driver’s window and bullet holes in the door was resting against a tree. Three blocks north, detectives located shattered glass and a slew of bullet casings. Police have no further details and asked anyone with information on any of these incidents to call Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7Lockup.

Football

Continued from D1

Clippers is a test hosting the Digital Harbor Rams on Oct. 15 in an in-league matchup. The Rams come into the game 3-3 after losing 16-6 in an out of county game against the Governor Thomas Johnson Patriots. With the loss City college drops to 3-3. Coming up next for them is their home game against the Dunbar Poets on Oct. 14. The Poets enter the bout with a record of 4-2 after defeating the Edmonson-Westside Red Strom on Oct. 7. Player of the Week: The player of the week for Baltimore is Rory Travers. Travers is a senior quarterback and wide receiver for Digital Harbor High School. Travers boasts 1157 passing yards over the season with 7 touchdown passes along with an average of 231.4 yards per

game. Travers is a testament to the leaders and talent showcased at Digital Harbor. To see more from Rory, watch him play with the Rams as they face Patterson on Oct. 15. The Games to Come: Be sure to check out the Mergenthaler Vo-Tech Mustangs as they prepare to host and take on the visiting Central Falcons. This will be the Mustangs second out of county game this season. The Mustangs come into the match 4-2, yet still remain one of the top teams in the Baltimore City I region. It will make for a exciting show as they continue to try and improve their overall record against the Mustangs. Check them out Oct. 14. That’s it for this week’s Baltimore football wrap-up.

October 15, 2016 - October 21, 2016, The Afro-American

Baltimore’s Own Night Club Owner Keeps Musicians Working Hello my dear friends and fans. I hope everything is well with you, if not, just keep praying. I have a few events I want to talk to you about, but first I want you to join me in giving our Editor of the Afro, Kamau High applause for making the Afro-American Newspaper look so great and consistent especially my columns. He’s doing a good job. Not that he needs me to validate him, but I do because I am very particular how my columns look and my pictures always look sharp and clear and I appreciate that. The editor is really responsible for how a newspaper looks and reads to the public. He is like the overseer, the last person to give approval before it goes to print. Okay folks, let’s talk. My headline this week is about an old dear friend I have known and admired for a very long time; Ronald Scott, who owns the Caton Castle Lounge. People don’t see him around in the streets at other events too much and sometime not at all and the reason is that he works his butt off every day at his club/packaged goods/lounge. He is a good person at heart and I know this because many times he has sponsored my organization “Rosa Pryor Music Scholarship Fund” by donating food, his club and the entertainment to help us raise money on many occasion as he has done for many other community organizations. Scott has been running his club and packaged goods for almost 25 years, maybe longer and his first

love is music. He has booked the best of the best musicians, local and national at his club every Saturday night non-stop. He has kept many of our musicians working. His kitchen is always open and serves the best soul food. The lounge is always clean, cozy and comfortable. I rate the Caton Castle Lounge and the Arch Social Club as being the two top best night clubs to enjoy live entertainment. I rate Caton Castle as #1 because they have plenty of parking on their own parking lot. These days, that means a lot. Thank you Ronald for all you have contributed to music and to our musicians throughout the years. I was proud to have been able to honor you last year. This weekend Ronald Scott is doing a tribute to Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers on Oct. 15, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. For the jazz lovers this will be awesome! Me, well I am waiting for the blues show. If you haven’t been there yet, check it out. It is safe to park and a fun place to be. The American Legion Federal Post #19 is hosting their Annual Bull & Oyster Roast at Martin’s West, 6817 Dogwood Road on Oct. 16, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The menu is wide and extravagant and always a sellout. For ticket information, contact Jim “Magic” Johnson at 410744-9595. If you are a reader and love books, then meet me at the African American Author’s Expo on Oct 15 from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. at Morgan State University Student Center on Cold Spring Lane to meet some of the participating authors from all over the country,

Ronald Scott, owner of Caton Castle Bar & Lounge, 20 S. Caton Avenue, keeps jazz alive and our musicians working consistently in his club every Saturday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. He books both local and national jazz musicians to perform and display their gift and talent for the jazz lovers. I’ve known him for almost 25 years and he contributes to the community in so many ways, especially the music and serving the best soul food. displaying their books and doing autographs including “yours truly.” There will be publishers & printing companies set up there as well; there will be free workshops, speaking panels, health & wellness screening, vendors and, live entertainment. This event is free and open to the public. I will see you there. Well, my dear friends, I am out of space and time, I have to go. It has been a pleasure talking to you. Remember if you need me, call me at 410-833-9474 or email me at rosapryor@aol.com. Until the next time, I’m musically yours.

BALTIMORE AREA

COMMUNITY CONNECTION treatments for women and a safe haven for their children. The inspirational evening will feature Tonier “Neer” Cain, a nationally known speaker on the subject of addiction and recovery. The event will be held on Oct. 17 at First Community Church of Annapolis, 1800 Apostle Johnson Way in Annapolis, Md. at 7 p.m. This is a free event. Contact Loren Weisman at 410-881-0298 for more information.

Send your upcoming events to tips@afro.com. For more community events go to afro.com/Baltimore-events

Patricia Johnson-Harris, CEO/Founder of African American Author’s Expo and now an author herself, invites you to her 7th Annual Expo on Oct. 15 from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. at Morgan State University, University Student Center; 1700 Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, Md. There will be authors from all over the country, publishers, workshops, vendors, arts & crafts, live entertainment and much more. It is free to the public.

Enthronement for Bishop J. Orlando Gardner Bailey

Peaches & Winky Camphor and Coppin State University will host an Overnight Excursion trip to the Tropicana Casino & Hotel Atlantic City, NJ and a Halloween Party & Tribute to Sam Coke at the Royal Manor Garfield, NJ. on Oct. 30, 10 a.m. to Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m. For more information, call 410-521-3439.

Marketplace Fellowship and Churches International invites the Faith community to witness the Apostolic Affirmation and Enthronement of Bishop Jacques Orlando Gardner Bailey, Oct. 15 at 11 a.m.at the Perkins Square Baptist Church, 2500 Edmondson Avenue, Baltimore, Md. 21223.

STEM Lights On After School Program at Waverly Elementary/Middle School Bishop J. Orlando Gardner Bailey

Northwood- Appold United Methodist Church’s Rebuilt Sanctuary

All are welcome to come worship and celebrate the rebuilding of the new sanctuary on Oct. 16 at the 10:30 a.m. service. The church address is 4499 Loch Raven Boulevard, Baltimore, Md. 21218

Chrysalis House Commemorates 30th Anniversary Chrysalis House is celebrating 30 years of providing addiction

Waverly Elementary/Middle School, located in East Baltimore, is having a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) program on Oct. 19 celebrating after school programs from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Lights On Afterschool is the only nationwide event celebrating afterschool programs and their important role in the lives of children of under-served families and communities. To celebrate Lights On Afterschool this year, 4-H is providing kits to afterschool programs that will conduct the “Motion Commotion” science experiment and take part in National Youth Science Day. For more information contact Jerrell Bratcher, community school site coordinator for Waverly Elementary /Middle school at 443-768-1661. Waverly is located at 3400 Ellerslie Ave, Baltimore, Md. 2121.

Interested in learning more about children’s health topics? Join us for information on: Asthma Environmental Health Research Environmental Justice Healthy Homes Interactive games Lead Poisoning Prevention Let’s Move! Campaign and Snacks!

Baltimore Children’s Health Fair

When: Saturday, October 29th, 2016 from 10 AM to 2 PM. Where: Morgan State University Student Center 4307 Hillen Road, Baltimore, MD 21251

The Afro-American, October 15, 2016 - October 21, 2016

Dr.Joanne Martin, Founder, National Great Blacks in Wax Museum

Kevin Kamentez, Baltimore County Executive Lyndra Marshall, Chair, MD Commission on African American History and Culture, Prof. Dale Green and Donna Cypress

Daniel Ford. Director Institute for Clinical and Translation Research, JHU

Lacks family members are Pam Wiks, Lawrence Lacks, son, Alfred Carter Jr., grandson and Jewell Carter

The Henrietta Lacks Legacy Group held its first annual luncheon on Sept. 30 at the Fleming Senior Center in Baltimore. The fundraiser luncheon was a benefit for the Wax Figure of Henrietta Lacks for the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. Henrietta Lacks was a Baltimore resident who died in 1951 whose cancerous cervical cells (HeLa) marked the first instance of continuous growth of human cells outside the body. The HeLa cells would go on to transform modern medicine. One of the more immediate results

was the development of the Polio vaccine. Her family was not made aware of the phenomenon until some 25 years after the discovery. The keynote speaker and author Dr. Roland Pattillo was the only African American to study HeLa cells under Dr. George Gey at Johns Hopkins University.

Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine

Mansfield Jones and Andrew Bratcher

Dr. Adele Newson-Horst, HLLG Executive Committee Donald L. Jones, Roxine Lacks-Phillips and Harold Phillips Shirley Kane, Glord McQuire, Turner Station resident and Diane Tunstall

David Horst exhibited his portrait of Henrietta Lacks.

Master of Ceremonies Theodore Mack

William Omar Smith and wife

Arkia Gowins-Wade, HLLG Executive Committee

Doris Bagley, wife of Thomas Bagley, who is in the hospital, receives an official citation from State Delegate Richard Metzgar who was honored as Man of the Year.

Woman of the Year, Muriel L. Christian Gray receives citation

Audrey Demar and Lana Jenkins

Gregory â&#x20AC;&#x153;Smacksâ&#x20AC;? Wallace leads the Line Dancers

James Ford and Nia Johnson

Myra Curtis and Robert Tolson

Committee members Jimmie Hayes, Danny McCoy, Wanetah Wilkins and Carol G.Turner

Gwen Y. Cobbs and Carol G. Turner

The Frederick Douglass High School class of 1966 celebrated its 50th year James Gittings anniversary at the American Legion shows his Post #22 on Oct. 1. Frederick Douglass moves on the H. S. of Baltimore, Md. (est. 1883) is one dance floor. the oldest public high schools in the country. Former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was a graduate of Douglass. The event committee members included E. Gaines Lansey Jimmie and Pat Tunstall Hayes, Danny McCoy, Wanetah Wilkins and Carol G. Turner. The class included many life-long friends and former Booker T. Washington Junior High School classmates. DJ Jammon Jess provided the music. The event raised $2500.00 towards a Peggy and scholarship for students at Janette Little Orrester Shaw and Emanuel the school. Moore

Photos by Anderson R. Ward

Dr. Joanne Martin, Marsha Jews, Keeping it Moving, WEAA

Rev. James McEachin, George Smith, Danny McCoy, Nate Batey, Arthur Jackson, Rev. John Lunn and James Ford

The men of Douglass H. S. Class of 1966