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‘Disrespected’ Obama Has Appointed Highest Percentage of Black Judges

By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent

Despite the unprecedented levels of obstruction from Republicans in the Senate, President Obama has managed to get a higher rate of Black judges confirmed than any other president in history, according to a court watchdog group. Research from the Alliance for Justice shows that so far during the Obama administration, Blacks have accounted for 18.7 percent of the federal judicial

Anacostia Community Museum Celebrates King, Mandela Legacies By Maria Adebola Special to the AFRO

“…President Obama has managed to get a higher rate of Black judges confirmed than any other president in history…”

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President Obama and his daughter Sasha make burritos at DC Central Kitchen as part of a service project in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, in Washington. Also helping were First Lady Michelle Obama and daughter Malia Obama (shown at left).

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Friends of the Anacostia Community Museum came together Jan. 14 to remember the legacy of two Black leaders in an event focusing on the leaders of tomorrow. Just before they entered the Baird Auditorium at the National Museum of Natural History on Jan. 14, a young usher greeted attendees with a pleasant smile, saying “Welcome to the 29th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Program. Here’s a program, Continued on A4

D.C. Church Celebrates 15th Anniversary of ‘Jazz Night’

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Some believe a church is not the place for classical jazz performances, but the Rev. Brian Hamilton is not one of them. Hamilton has co-pastored Westminster Presbyterian Church in Southwest Washington, D.C. with his wife, the Rev. Ruth Hamilton, since 1996. When they arrived, he had been involved with jazz vespers and wanted an ongoing jazz ministry for “community organizing and cultural development.” In March 1998, he contacted Richard “Dick” Smith and Earl Banks, both well-known in jazz circles, and a series of concerts was born. An initial six concerts with a $5 entry fee began in January 1999. At first, they had a difficult time drawing an audience. “Thirty-two people attended the first and second Fridays,” Hamilton recalled in a recent interview. “Word of mouth and WPFW Radio brought 100 people to the third.” Jazz Night in Southwest, as the weekly concerts are now called, draws a filled-to-capacity audience most Friday nights from 6-9 p.m. Lovers of straight-ahead jazz gather to hear the region’s best jazz composers and musicians, most of them African American. On Jan. 17, fans of Jazz Night

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ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — Two women who police say killed two young children while performing what they thought was an exorcism will continue to be held without bond as prosecutors seek a psychiatric evaluation to determine if they are mentally competent to stand trial. The women, 28-year-old Zakieya Latrice Avery and Monifa Denise Sanford, 21, have told investigators that they believed evil spirits jumped successively between the bodies of the children, ages 1 and 2, and that an exorcism was needed to drive the demons out, said Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy. The women also reported to investigators that they saw the eyes of each of the children blackening and, after the intended exorcism, took a shower, cleaned up the bloody scene and “prepared the children to see God,” Continued on A3

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Zakieya Latrice Avery and Monifa Denise Sanford are accused of killing two children. Police say the women thought they were performing an exorcism.

Maysa Leak knew when her mother took her to see a performance of the Broadway show Purlie as a little girl that she would be an entertainer one day. And for decades she has worked as a singer. She left Morgan State University for Los Angeles to back up Stevie Wonder. She traveled across the Atlantic to front the British jazz funk band

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Former NBA player Javaris Crittenton, once a guard for the Washington Wizards, is facing new wave of legal troubles. According to ESPN, he was arrested on Jan. 15, just after 6 a.m., when federal drug agents, federal marshals and local police swarmed Crittenton’s home in Fayetteville, a suburb 22 miles south of Atlanta. Crittenton was led away in handcuffs to the Fulton County jail. He was indicted later that same day on drug charges in Atlanta, where he was already awaiting trial for his alleged Javaris Crittenton role in the shooting death of a mother of four. According to ESPN, Crittenton and his cousin, Douglas Gamble, were indicted in April 2013 by a Fulton County grand jury for murder in the death of Julian Jones, 22, a mother of four children. Crittenton and 13 other people were named in the indictment that flowed from an investigation conducted by the federal Drug Enforcement Agency. Crittenton is mostly known for an altercation he had with another former NBA player, Gilbert Arenas, in 2010.

With the announcement of this year’s Oscar nominations Jan. 16, Lee Daniels’ The Butler and Oprah Winfrey’s acclaimed performance in the film were once again snubbed –as with the Golden Globes and the Producers Guild—receiving zero nominations. But for 12 Years a Slave, the nominations firmly entrenched its status as one of the year’s best films. The pre-Civil War slavery tale garnered nine Oscar nominations, just one short of this year’s industry favorites American Hustle and Gravity, which led with 10 nods each. Based on the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a free Black man who was kidnapped and subjected to 12 years of brutal servitude, 12 Years was nominated in five of the major categories: best picture, best leading actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), best director (Steve McQueen), best supporting actress (Lupita Nyong’o) and best supporting actor (Michael Fassbender).

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The last time Florida mother-to-be Morgan Martin, 17, was seen by her family was just after midnight on July 25, 2012. Eighteen months later St. Petersburg police say they are still looking for her. The teen-- four months pregnant at the time—had just stepped outside the family home at 12:30 a.m. to chat with the man she said is the father of her unborn child—a 25-year-old man she met on Facebook. According to St. Petersburg police, the man, whose name was not released, was questioned but, in the absence of evidence linking him to the missing girl, has not been charged in the matter. “We have talked to all of her acquaintances and a number of people she had associations with,” Michael Puetz, spokesman for the St. Petersburg Police Department, said in an interview with NewsOne. “At this point, she’s still missing and still believed to be under life-threatening circumstances.” Such an occurrence is not unusual, said Natalie Wilson, cofounder of the Black and Missing Foundation. Leah Martin said her daughter met the man when she was 16-years-old. In an interview with HLN, a cable news channel, Martin said, “they weren’t dating. They had just met on Facebook and were messing around, I guess.” According to St. Petersburg police, the man, whose name was not released, was questioned but, in the absence of evidence linking him to the missing girl, has not been charged.

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Maysa

Continued from A1 Incognito. Since returning home when her father, Mayso Leak Jr., took ill several years ago, she’s performed at some of the most famed venues in the District and Baltimore, as well as other East Coast cities and an occasion gig out west. She’s sung on many albums and toured several times. This weekend, Maysa hopes to bring home the ultimate affirmation for a singer. When the stage lights go up on the 56th Annual Grammy Awards Jan. 26 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, she’ll be among the nominees sitting in the audience praying for a win. The Baltimore-born-and-raised smooth jazz vocalist is nominated in the Best Traditional R&B Performance category for her remake of the Nancy Wilson classic “Quiet Fire.” The song is from Maysa’s 10th album, Blue Velvet Soul. Other nominees in the category include eight-time Grammy nominee Fantasia Barrino, two-time nominee Gary Clark Jr., and three-time nominee Ryan Shaw. Yet Maysa isn’t intimidated to be part of such a talented group. “I’m more than excited,” Maysa told the AFRO in an interview as she headed back to Baltimore from a D.C. TV appearance Jan. 21 at the beginning of a snowstorm, two

days before she was scheduled to fly out to the Big Orange. “Overwhelmed is the word I’d use to describe it. It’s great.” Maysa said she included “Quiet Fire” on her album as a tribute to Nancy Wilson, whom she considers a mentor and role model. It wasn’t the song that she would have expected to get her nominated. But on Dec. 6, as she was hosting a birthday party for her son Jazz, 14, she received a call that sent her heart—and hopefully her career—soaring. “I knew it was nomination day, but I [had] lost myself in the party and it just did not register at first that this is what I was getting called about,” she said. After reality kicked in, Maysa was overcome with joy. “I just went off,” she told CBS News. “I was so excited. I was crying. I could barely speak. I couldn’t believe it.” Maysa attended Milford Mill High School before heading to Morgan, where she sang in the famed MSU choir directed by the late legend Nathan Carter. She was a senior studying music in 1991 when iconic singer-songwriter-musician Stevie Wonder, after meeting her at Morgan, selected her to fill the alto spot with his background singers.

After a tour, she went into the studio with Wonder to do some recording for the soundtrack for Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever. Later, she did a vocal audition on the phone and was hired to front the British jazz and funk band Incognito. Maysa has appeared on seven of the band’s albums, and has released 10 of her own studio albums since 1995. She was feted at a special send-off Jan. 19 at the Birchmere in Alexandria, where she has performed several times. In March, she’s scheduled to play the Rams Head Tavern in Annapolis. Since the Grammy nomination, the phone has been ringing more. More shows are being offered, with better pay. After so many years in the business, the acknowledgment— and attention—is welcome. She hopes a win, or even the nomination, takes her career to the next level. She’s interested in doing film soundtracks, theater and bigger shows. “I hope it puts me out there more where people say, ‘Oh, let’s get her for this. Let’s call her for this,’” Maysa said. “Expand opportunities for me. That’s all I really want it to do. I’d like to be able to reach more people, be accessible to more people.”

the time comes to present this to a judge and a jury, all of the facts are here.” A lawyer for Avery did not return a call seeking comment. Avery had been living for months in a townhome community in Germantown - about 30 miles northwest of Washington - with her four children, and recently, with Sanford. The father of the children does not live in the area, police have said. Police initially responded to the home Thursday evening after a 911 caller reported that a child was unattended in a car, but the child was no longer in the vehicle when officers got there. The police returned Friday morning after a neighbor called 911 to report seeing a car with an open door and a knife that appeared to have blood on it. Once inside the home, officers found the bodies of the two children on the bed of the master bedroom. Their two siblings were found with serious injuries. The girl remains in critical condition but the boy was close to being released from the hospital as of Tuesday afternoon, and the timing of the 911 call is believed to have helped save their lives, police said. “If that call doesn’t come in, we don’t think that those two children get medical help in time to possibly save their

lives,” said Capt. Marcus Jones, director of the county police department’s major crimes division. Jones has said the two women are believed to have met at a church where Avery was part of a dance troupe and where “her job was, as a lover of Christ, was that she was going to keep demons away.” “That was their goal,” he said. A District Court judge directed Avery to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine whether she is ready for trial and prosecutors plan to make a similar request of Sanford when she has a bond review hearing Friday. The question of whether either woman intends to submit an insanity defense has not yet been raised as the two will first need to be evaluated and then deemed competent for a murder trial. McCarthy said Avery had previously been involuntarily committed for mental health treatment and that Sanford told investigators that she had previously tried to commit suicide. “It’s based on those stories, that information, that presentation and the psychiatric history ... that we made the recommendations that these two defendants immediately be seen by doctors to tell us where we stand in terms of competency as to both,” McCarthy said.

Psych Screening Sought Continued from A1

McCarthy said. The children’s two older siblings, a 5-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy, were also found injured with stab wounds. Avery is the mother of all four children. Avery and Sanford appeared for a court hearing via videoconference Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder. They face a sentence of life in prison if convicted. The women identified themselves to investigators as members of a group known as the “demon assassins,” and police are looking to interview other people who might be part of the same organization but say there are no other suspects. When being questioned by police, McCarthy said, the women told investigators that they tried multiple methods to remove the presence of demons from the children, progressing from an attempt to break the neck of the youngest child to strangulation to stabbing. Edward Leyden, a lawyer for Sanford, told reporters after the brief hearing that “everyone who is involved in this case is in deep pain.” “It obviously has details that are salacious and we just ask folks to give an opportunity for all of us to get a handle on just what happened here,” Leyden said of the case, “so that when

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George W. Bush. During the Clinton administration, 16.4 percent of the federal judicial confirmations were African American. According to the alliance’s website, its priorities include “fighting for a fair and independent judiciary by encouraging the selection of judges who respect constitutional values and the rights of citizens and by ensuring that the judicial selection process is fair and expeditious.” During Obama’s time as the nation’s chief executive, women have made up 41 percent of the federal judges who have been confirmed, compared to 22 percent under George W. Bush and 29 percent during Clinton’s tenure. Obama has also managed to get more Asian Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans and gays confirmed than Bush and Clinton, the research shows. “This is the best slate of judicial nominees I’ve seen from any president since I’ve been at the Lawyers’ Committee, since 1989,” said Barbara Arnwine, president and executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “I’ve never seen a more diverse slate, I’ve never seen a more highly-rated slate. I’ve never seen a slate with this kind of deep diversity.” Yet, the current slate of judicial nominees has faced unparalleled delays in the Senate. President Obama’s judicial nominees have waited an average of 115 days between judiciary committee vote and confirmation, more than double the average wait time of President Bush’s nominees. Forty percent of President Obama’s district

court picks have waited more than 100 days for a vote on the Senate floor, compared to 8 percent of Bush’s nominations. Sixtynine percent of President Obama’s circuit court judicial nominations have waited more than 100 days for a vote on the Senate floor. Only 15 percent of Bush’s circuit court nominations waited that long. Meanwhile, the problem of judicial vacancies is getting worse. During Bush’s sixth year, there were only 48 judicial vacancies. By 2013, however, there were 91 vacancies. The slow churn in the Senate’s judicial confirmation process continues to strain resources, experts said. By 2010, civil litigants were waiting more than two years (25.3 months) for a jury trial. That same year, the federal government spent $1.4 billion to house prisoners before the start of their trials, due in part to the lack of judges to hear cases, according to the Justice Department. After years of blocked nominations and procedural delays employed by the Republicans, who are in the minority in the Senate, Democrats, headed by Senate

Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pushed the button on the “nuclear option” last November. It allowed for debate to be ceased on a particular issue with a simple majority vote. The historic move effectively ended efforts by Republicans to block votes by employing the filibuster and cleared the way for some of President Obama’s judicial nominations and executive-level positions to be confirmed. “The [Obama] administration has really had a difficult row to hoe because of the difficulties in the Senate,” said Arnwine of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “The Senate has accorded this president less respect, less deference, and less cooperation than any president I’ve seen.” The Obama administration’s success in the federal judiciary has not come without sacrifice, however. President Obama has been forced to withdraw five Black judicial nominations, most recently, William Thomas, an openly gay Black judge in Florida, who was opposed by some Republicans.

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D.C. Groups Gather to Move Youth Compete at Prince MLK’s Dream Forward William Deltas Event By LaTrina Antoine Special to the AFRO

Members of Washington, D.C.-area faith-based, government, professional and educational organizations gathered Jan. 18 for a prayer breakfast in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday to discuss ways to help the needy--feed and clothe the poor, assist men and women reentering society after incarceration and to move the struggle for civil rights forward into the next generation. Restore Together, a faith-based corporation headquartered in Largo, hosted the breakfast at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Northwest “to bring about a greater awareness of poverty and oppression and diversity and community,” said the Rev. Louis J. Hutchinson III, co-founder of the organization. During the breakfast, five people were honored for their service to the local community: U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.); the Rev. Ronald E. Braxton and the Rev. Marie Phillips Braxton, pastors of Metropolitan A.M.E. Church in D.C.; former Washington Post journalist Dorothy Gilliam; and former executive director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Joshua Dubois. The breakfast also recognized the Friends Community School of College Park and the Why We Can’t Wait initiative, a response by the faith community to mass incarceration in the District. “Martin Luther King Jr. fought very hard for racial equality,” Cummings said in a video message. “[King] wanted to make a difference so that people would have an opportunity. He also fought for…economic variancy.” Cummings called on participants to help their communities during these tough economic times. “We need you to go out and support folks based on your hopes and dreams and not based on your fears and problems,” he said. Willie Pearl Mackey, King’s secretary with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said Restore Together is trying to reach out to all types of people, including those who have been jailed, to build on the accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement. “One of the things that stood out for me, most significantly, was how they are trying to include the current society into appreciating what they can do, and to know that they can do something,” she said. The breakfast also included a panel discussion by faith leaders including Dubois; Dr. David McAllister-Wilson, president of Wesley Theological Seminary in Northwest Washington; the Rev. Dr. William B. McClain, a professor at Wesley; and the Rev. Brenda Girton-Mitchell,

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Anacostia Community Continued from A1

South African Community Choir sings a South African selection at Metropolitan A.M.E. Church Jan.19.

director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The panel discussed ways to carry forth King’s teachings of justice and equality in the digital age. McAllister-Wilson said that social media has helped to attract a new generation, but has limitations. For example, he said, social media prompted a new generation to vote, which was the reason why President Barack Obama was elected to office in 2008. But social media has not enticed that same generation to sign up for health care. The panel also discussed the importance of drawing young people into the effort to end poverty and oppression. “I think it’s key to not just give young people the voice, but to give them leadership and ownership of these movements that we are talking about,” Dubois said, pointing out that King was only 26 years old when he became involved in the civil rights movement. Speakers urged the audience to be motivated to act. “We pray that when you leave today, you leave with a greater commitment to serve,” Marie Braxton told attendees.

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were on hand to celebrate the event’s 15th anniversary with a program themed “Jammin’ with our Heritage Makers.” Patrons and organizers sing the praises of the concerts and the venue. “Westminster is the perfect venue…because this music touches the soul,” said Smith, the host who can sometimes be coaxed into singing. Hamilton credits Smith “for being a great inspiration to him with his commitment to preserving straight-ahead jazz,” a much-loved form of music. In 1987, then-U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan) introduced a House resolution which designated the music “a rare and valuable national American treasure” and urged its preservation and promulgation. If the regulars at Jazz Night are any indication, straight-ahead jazz is popular in the D.C. area. Musicians

scheduled to play show up. There have been only two cancellations in 15 years. The predominantly Black regulars, many of them older, rarely miss a show. “The regulars have an organic connection to jazz, deeper than other places where I’ve lived,” Hamilton said. “They grew up nurtured on straight-ahead jazz in venues such as the original Howard Theater.” Regulars said the shows offer good fun at a reasonable price. Admission is $5 for adults; children 16 and under are admitted free and are welcomed. Young musicians are encouraged to attend to keep classic jazz alive. “For $5.00, you cannot beat this level of entertainment,” said Lonna Hooks. On some Fridays, tap dancing, poetry and special guest vocalists may be part

of the program. Between sets and at the end of the shows, performers sell their music, pose for photos, and eat and interact with the audience. Fish dinners are served in the fellowship hall, where the live performance can be viewed. Bassist Wes Biles compares Jazz Night to “repast after Sunday service.” Many of the musicians claim it is one of the best gigs around because of what drummer and trumpeter D’Andre Howard called “mutual respect” between musicians and the audience. Ted Martin, a former chef and a regular attendee, praised the food and atmosphere. As a former special events coordinator for Jazz Times magazine, he said it is apropos that the church draws a large crowd for the shows. “Jazz is God’s music and [it] belongs in church,” he said.

in the Brown v. Board of Education case, which ended segregation in public schools. “To the Deltas who put this on, to the community organizers, to the parents and most importantly to the students, let us honor Dr. King’s legacy by leaving here today and going forth

“To achieve [King’s] dream of equality, we can change stand your ground The Prince William laws, so that our children can County alumnae chapter of come home from 7-Eleven Delta Sigma Theta Sorority with Skittles and tea and see hosted its annual oratorical another day,” said Norman competition Jan. 20, for Jones, III, a 9th grader at middle and high school Stonewall Jackson High students in Prince William School in Manassas. He County, Va., as part of won the high-school their celebration to pay competition. homage to Rev. Dr. Martin Emmanuel Murphy, Luther King Jr. and other an 8th grader at Parkside civil rights leaders. Middle School in “Many believe that Manassas, won the middle[King] was successful in school competition. what he did because of Other finalists included his gift of speech,” said Ayesha Khursheed, a Tabatha Turman, president 7th grader at Graham of the chapter said. “We are Park Middle School in encouraging students to use Triangle; Morgan Foster, their gift of speech, today, an 8th grader at Manassas to orate the theme: ‘There Park Middle School in is still a dream to believe Manassas Park; Isaac in,’ so that we can continue Mensah Yeboah, an 11th Dr. King’s legacy.” grader at Osbourn Park Six finalists—three High School in Manassas; from middle school and and Jacob Gonzalez, a three from high school— 10th grader at Thomas delivered their speeches to Jefferson High School of family members, friends, Science and Technology in school officials, U.S. Rep. Alexandria. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) According to Connolly, Photo by Rob Roberts and U.S. Sen. Mark Warner A young participant in the all of the students’ speeches (D-Va.) at the Cecil D. oratorical competition speaks to will be entered into the Hylton Memorial Chapel in the crowd. Congressional Record. Woodbridge. In addition to the “Look at all these oratorical competition, remarkable young people,” and continuing to move our there was also a writing Warner said. country forward,” he said. competition for fourth and During his remarks, The Delta chapter has fifth grade students. Winners Warner talked about Barbara held the Martin Luther King included Caroline Morrell Johns, 16, a student who oratorical competition for 24 and Preston Borden from attended a segregated school years and has paid homage to Mountain View Elementary in Prince Edward County, Va., the civil rights leader for 29 School in Haymarket. decades ago. Johns led 450 years. Event sponsors included Black students in a protest The finalists’ speeches the AFRO-American march for better school drew applause, laughter, and Newspapers, Pump It Up in conditions. Her case became occasional shouts from the Waldorf, Md., Estelle Place one of the five cases the U.S. audience. All of the finalists LLC in Woodbridge and Supreme Court reviewed received standing ovations. others. By LaTrina Antoine Special to the AFRO

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Student Kayla S. Rosemond reads a poem.

and if you would come with me I will walk you to your seat.” The event, entitled “Lifting the Torch: The Legacy of Nelson Mandela,” included remarks from the director of the Anacostia Community Museum, Camille Giraud Akeju, and greetings from the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, G. Wayne Clough. “The passing of South African legend Nelson Mandela this past year reminds us of his enormous courage, leadership, his passion, selflessness, and love for humanity,” Clough said. “He set an example for all of us, as did obviously Martin Luther King Jr.” The program included a presentation by 12-year-old seventh grade student Kayla S. Rosemond, who presented an original poem entitled “Mandela: A Courageous Soul.” Rosemond, who has written poems for the last two years, said she was inspired by Mandela’s powerful legacy. She presently attends Charles Hart Middle School, where she carries a 4.0 grade point average. “Mandela was so powerful. He is such an important icon to a lot of people, and I wanted the poem to reflect his legacy and his life.” The keynote speaker for the evening was Nicole C. Lee, president of TransAfrica. Lee’s topic, “Lifting the Torch: The Legacy of Nelson Mandela,” touched on the similarities between the lives and legacies of King and Mandela. “For me, the connection between these two men and their vision has never been clearer,” Lee said, noting that both men tried to change both local and national circumstances in their respective countries. Among the similarities she cited: “Both King and Mandela were educated, despite the evil of the apartheid system each one of them faced.” Mandela led the struggle to end the apartheid regime of South Africa and create a multi-racial democracy. Through his activism, Martin Luther King played a pivotal role in the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. King was assassinated in April 1968 and Mandela recently died. Their struggle, she said, is not over. “Our world is filled with inequity and discrimination,” Lee said. After her speech, Lee participated in a brief question and answer session. She was joined by Dr. Sylvia I. B. Hill, a professor of criminal justice at the University of the District of Columbia. Lee said she hopes individuals feel empowered to change the circumstances in their own lives. She added that she hopes people will join others in their community to change local, national, and global issues, like King and Mandela did. “I want people to feel renewed and inspired because our world needs like-minded people to get together and really try to change some of the ills and situations that we face,” she said The night ended with a dynamic South African traditional dance performance by Lesole’s Dance Project.

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2 people found fatally shot near Howard University WASHINGTON (AP) — District of Columbia police are investigating a fatal double shooting near Howard University. Police spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump says a man and a woman were found shot to death late Monday night inside a home in the 700 block of

Girard Street northwest. Police are calling the shooting a double homicide but did not identify either person. No one was in custody as of Tuesday morning. No additional information was immediately released.

Lawyers for Black S.C. Teen Executed in 1944 Have New Info By Jeffrey Collins Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers trying to get a new trial for a Black 14-year-old executed in South Carolina almost 70 years ago for killing two White girls say publicity about their case has caused more witnesses to come forward to try to prove his innocence. A man who helped pull the bodies of the 7- and 11-yearold from a ditch described exactly where they were found — several hundred yards from where the teen, George Stinney, said he saw the girls, according to a brief filed by the attorneys late Friday. The boy was out of school for less than an hour while his parents were at a party that day in March 1944, and it would have likely been impossible for the 95-pound teen to move both bodies such a distance in such a short time span, the lawyers said. The brief also includes a cellmate of Stinney saying the teen told him he was forced to confess and a pathologist who recently reviewed the case and found problems with the conclusions of the autopsy. “This case has sparked so much interest, these new witnesses were made aware of the case through TV or the newspapers and contacted us with this information,” said Matt Burgess, one of the lawyers appealing Stinney’s case. A judge will hear the appeal for a new trial Jan. 21. If

the guilty verdict is thrown out, Stinney’s lawyers plan to immediately ask the judge to find there isn’t enough evidence to try him again. Solicitor Ernest “Chip” Finney III has said he won’t present any evidence against granting Stinney a new trial because almost all the original evidence from the 1944 case, from Stinney’s confession to the trial transcript, disappeared. But Finney said he will ask for time to conduct a new investigation if the case is overturned. Legal experts have said the appeal is a longshot. Stinney, who was Black, was executed just 84 days after the two White

N.Y. Remains are Missing Autistic Teen’s recovered a few days later. The cause and manner of death were pending. It was a sad end to a case that sparked a massive citywide search that included hundreds of officers, marine units and volunteers. Avonte had been missing since Oct. 4, when he walked out of his school toward a park overlooking the river. The body parts were found at least 11 miles from where he was last seen. Avonte’s family has filed a notice of claim saying they planned to sue the city, arguing that school officials allowed him to walk out of the building and waited too long to notify police that he was missing. Avonte’s mother, Vanessa Fontaine,

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girls were killed in Jim Crow-era South Carolina, where the legal system routinely found Blacks guilty even in cases with scant evidence. The judge will have to take into consideration whether hundreds of similar cases could also be challenged. But Stinney’s supporters point out that at age 14, he was the youngest person executed in the United States in the past 100 years. Stinney was condemned after a trial that took less than a full day, and no record of his confession was ever preserved. The electrodes from the electric chair were too small to fit on his leg, according to newspaper articles at the time. The statement of the Rev. Francis Batson, who helped find the bodies, shows a conflict of interest that would never be allowed in a modern courtroom. Batson told Stinney’s lawyers that a member of the search party whose wealthy family owned the land in the small mill town of Alcolu where the bodies were found ended up as the foreman of the jury that heard the coroner’s inquest into the death. That inquest and Stinney’s confession were the biggest pieces of evidence against the teen. Also, the lawyers had pathologist Peter Stephens review the autopsy report on the slain girls. He concluded they were not killed with a railroad spike as the autopsy concluded because the wounds to their heads were not severe enough. Instead, he thinks they were killed with a hammer. Stinney’s lawyers said that is an important conclusion. They say that a railroad spike would have been a convenient weapon if Stinney’s confession had been coerced because railroad tracks ran not far from where the girls’ bodies were found.

and other relatives had been holding out hope that the boy was still alive. Her lawyer, David Perecman, said last week that she was waiting for the DNA test results. “Her initial reaction was, ‘until I hear more or see more’... She’s not going to be convinced it’s her son unless there’s enough to convince her,” said Perecman.

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OPINION

‘If I Dated Black Girls…’

Last Friday, I gave the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech at the University of North Alabama in Florence. I was glowingly introduced by my niece, Rachel Gandy, who is a senior at UNA. I told the audience that having grown up in segregated Tuscaloosa, Ala., how satisfying it was to see “the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave George E. Curry owners” sit in the same NNPA Columnist classrooms, if not at the table of brotherhood. I didn’t use those exact words, but they got the point: revolutionary changes have taken place in my home state since the 1960s and the South in general. So many changes, in fact, that public schools in the Deep South are more desegregated than any other region in the nation. During my visit, I met a young White male – who shall remain nameless – who works in the same campus office as my niece, spoke fondly of Rachel, and recounted with glee their study together last summer in Costa Rico. After my speech, I was told that this young man said, “If I dated Black girls – I tell Rachel this all of the time – she would be at the top of the list.” I am sure he meant that as a compliment – it wasn’t. First, it’s presumptuous to think that Rachel, who is smart and beautiful inside and out, would want to date him. Second, for all the talk about racial progress, there are large segments of our society who make decisions based on race and nothing else. Whites do it. Blacks do it. Latinos do it. And so do Asians. After I got over the shock of the young man’s comment – well, I still haven’t gotten over it, as you can see – I thought back to a 2010 Pew Research Center study that found that a record 14.6 percent of all new marriages in the United States in 2008 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another. That’s more than double the percentage for 1980. Interestingly, rates more than doubled among Whites and nearly tripled among Blacks. But for both Hispanics and

Asians, rates were nearly identical in 2008 and 1980. For me, there was another story within the story: “When Whites, Hispanics and Asians decide to marry outside their group, African-Americans rank last in their choice of mates.” It’s easy to dismiss the kooks such as former Louisiana Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell who resigned under pressure in 2009 after he refused to perform a marriage between a White woman and a Black man. But things are supposed to be different with this so-called “post-racial” generation. My niece is an honor student, was in the university’s homecoming court, is charming and beautiful. Yet, the young man at UNA couldn’t see beyond her color: “If I dated Black girls….” Fortunately, Rachel’s love life is not dependent on whether this young man dates “Black girls.” It’s the idea that this fellow got to know my niece as a person yet found her unqualified to date solely because of her race is what galls me. While growing up in Alabama, I was told that part of the problem was that Blacks and Whites had not been allowed to interact under Jim Crow, not even in sports. However, when those barriers came down, or so the thinking went, racial prejudice would vanish and people would be judged as individuals, not as part of a supposedly superior or inferior race. In three decades, there will be no majority race in the U.S., according to the Census Bureau. And that means that all racial and ethnic groups will need to learn to step outside their comfort zone to interact as equals with those who don’t look like them.

In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. King said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Obviously that day has not arrived. Until it does, it’s incumbent upon all of us to make sure that it doesn’t just remain a distant dream. George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA.) Curry can be reached through his Web site, www.georgecurry.com.

Is Secretary Gates Disloyal to Obama?

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates isn’t the first political appointee to analyze the work of an administration he served, even if that administration remains in power. In 1999, while President Bill Clinton was still in office, longtime staffer and confidant, George Stephanopoulos wrote of his disenchantment with his political mentor after the Monica Lewinsky story Julianne Malveaux broke. NNPA Columnist Stephanopoulos’ memoir was achingly personal because even as it offered a look at the way the Clinton White House worked and a bird’s eye view of the 1992 campaign, it also offered a look at a man’s inner life, and the emotional turmoil he experienced as he struggled to reconcile the Bill Clinton he admired with a Clinton he, perhaps, reviled. At the time, many marveled at the perceived disloyalty of Stephanopoulos. Shouldn’t he have waited until the Clintons had left the White House? What did the Clintons think? How would this frank disloyalty play out? Fifteen years later, President Clinton is sitting on top of the world with his Global Initiative, Hillary Rodham Clinton is the leading contender for the 2016 presidential nomination, and George Stephanopoulos is front and center at ABC News.

Now Robert Gates has written a tell-all about his time as Secretary of Defense, titled Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War. Many hoped that he would write something as personally searching as George Stephanopoulos did. Instead, he’s got fingers to point, axes to grind, bridges to burn, even as the Obama administration continues to deal with issues that Gates had the opportunity to weigh in on while he served as Secretary of Defense. Duty is pointedly critical of nearly everyone – Congress, Vice President Biden, President Obama, the National Security Council staff, the White House staff, you name it. People have focused on the hits the Obama administration took from Gates’ poison pen, and many have raised the question about his lack of loyalty to the Obama administration. From my perspective, Gates was disloyal to himself and to our nation, not to president Obama personally. If he felt as strongly as he says he did, that the Obama administration should have made different defense decisions, why didn’t he say so? He talks about biting his tongue while in the White House. Why? So he could loosen it up when he got out. Had Gates been loyal to those who he pledged to serve, he would have immersed himself in the work of being Defense Secretary instead of describing himself as both contemptuous and bored. It’s that question of loyalty that plagues me with Gates, more so than Stephanopoulos. Does truth trump loyalty? When? I think of these men when I think of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his unwavering loyalty to social and economic justice. He didn’t care that his opposition to the War in Vietnam was seen as disloyal to a president who responded to Dr. King’s activism on poverty issues by creating a war on poverty. King

African ‘Ghettos’ in Israel

It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon. The NNPA Columnist streets of South Tel Aviv were teeming with people. We first saw a very large wedding party heading towards a park. We then saw hundreds of young men hanging out, socializing, walking, and sometimes just looking for something to do. The shops were closed on this Jewish Sabbath and this multitude had time on their hands. You would not have believed that this was Tel Aviv, Israel: it looked more like a neighborhood from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia or the Sudan. Yet, here it was, in a city on the Mediterranean, a city that reminded many of my delegation of Miami Beach and Los Angeles. What my delegation saw was only the tip of a very strange and under-addressed iceberg: significant African migration to Israel. Africans, particularly from the Horn of Africa, have been seeking asylum in Israel as they have attempted to escape wars and crushing poverty. The Israeli establishment, sitting on top of the country that likes to describe itself as the only democracy in the Middle East, has been less than sanguine about the appearance of these migrants. In fact, the migrants

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are frequently described as “infiltrators,” a term that suggests a military operation rather than individuals seeking asylum. Israel has been locking up African migrants. It has refused to grant asylum to most migrants, instead interning them for indefinite periods of time. The migrants find themselves, much like migrants in other parts of the world, in a twilight zone existence, living underground in order to avoid arrest, but sought after by Israeli employers who, like so many other employers in other countries – including but not limited to the U.S. – seek low-waged, vulnerable workers. The African migrants in Israel have been demonized in both the mainstream but most especially by leaders of hard, right-wing organizations, who see them as a threat to the demographics of Israel. With 20 percent of Israel being Palestinian (and growing), the presence of the African migrants both scares and infuriates that segment of Israel that believes that their country must be ethnically pure in order to survive. Over the last few weeks, African migrants have been engaging in organizing and mobilizing to insist upon their human rights. If the Israeli establishment is going to ignore them, then the migrants are prepared to take their case to the United Nations. Nevertheless, someone needs to quickly

didn’t care that his opposition to Vietnam got him uninvited to some of the venues where he had been quite sought. He could have waited until “later” to write and talk about what would have happened. Somehow he knew, though, that there was no later, and so he wrote a book, Why We Can’t Wait (1964). It is perhaps unfair to compare the moral fiber of Stephanopoulos and Gates to that of Dr. King, but one cannot help note that Stephanopoulos and Gates have been criticized for being disloyal to presidents. What about principle? There is such a thing as misplaced loyalty, as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s aide Bridget Ann Kelly is about to find out. Kelly is said to have been the mastermind behind the several-day shut down of lanes on the George Washington Bridge during peak traffic hours to cause a little retaliatory confusion for Fort Lee, N.J., whose mayor did not support Christie’s re-election. Christie says he doesn’t know anything about the bridge scandal, but that his loyal (and now resigned) aide did this on her own. Really? Not without a nudge from above? Kelly may value loyalty to one man over her commitment to serve the people of New Jersey (or just Chris Christie), which is not unusual. Just disappointing. Both Kelly and Gates should ponder King in the aftermath of the King holiday. King talked about what it meant to be unpopular because of political decision, and declared himself a drum major for justice. Bridget Kelly, Robert Gates, George Stephanopoulos, what are you drum majors for? Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer. She is president emerita of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.C.

address the ghetto-ization of the migrants and the desperate poverty that they are facing. As a friend of mine on our trip noted, this situation is explosive and all that needs to happen for a disaster is one problematic step by the authorities and the lid could come off of Tel Aviv. Both the presence of the African migrants and the unresolved situation of the Palestinians (who remain oppressed by the Israeli system) challenge Israel in its fundamentals. They challenge those who suggest that a democracy can exist in an environment where efforts are being undertaken to remove an entire population, and in the meantime subject them to apartheid conditions, and where those who migrate to Israel in search of safety are met with a characterization most appropriate to alien invaders. Truth be told, it sounds a lot less like democracy and more like ancient Greece or Rome. Bill Fletcher Jr. is a senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies and the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum. Follow him on Facebook and at www.billfletcherjr. com.

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he Luther Jackson High School Alumni Association represents graduates and attendees of Luther Jackson when it existed as the only high school for students of African-American heritage in Fairfax County, Va. from 1954 to 1965. The Association was organized to award college scholarships to students who Louvenia Johnson, Jessie Pearson, Nathalie are descendants of graduates or attendees of the high school. Pearson, Coara Norfleet and Asia Smith Association’s held its Annual Dinner Dance at the Marriott in Fairfax, VA on Nov. 30, 2013 which is their major fundraiser for its scholarship program. It Charlie Gardner, left and clockwise, Evelene is attended Adams, Paul Bellamy, Lillian Bellamy, Kim by Luther Sulton, Jamie Murray, Dorothy Hurley, Zach Jackson Hurley, Robert Pullen and Ann Smith Elaine Carter, left and clockwise, Carroll Carter, Charles High School Chichester, Sylvia Robertson, Helen Payne, James Quinn, graduates, Arthur Carter, Gladys Brown and John Brown attendees and their families and friends and also serves as an annual class reunion. The 50th anniversary of the Class of 1963 was highlighted during the dinner dance. Earl Marshall, Brenda Marshall Duncan, Virginia Thornton and Herbert Marshall

Thelma Jackson, Carolyn Robinson, Roberta Hamilton, Margaret Diamond, Joyce Kendall and Martha Barbour

Scholarship recipients: Andria Marshall, Jessica Marshall, Jordan Jackson, Desirae Jackson, Lacy Harris and Cashmire Norfleet

Class of 1960: Cleo Willson, Don Willson, Brenda Marshall Duncan, Ronald Reaves (President), Jean Kyles, Doris Stuck, and Brenda Haight (Secretary)

Elouise Duncan-Grimes, Ceola Naylor, Regina Thomas and Pompa Thomas

Bettie Kelley, Florence King, Ruby Holland, Gladys Robinson, Robert Yancy, Ernice Banks, Cardell Banks, Cammie Jeffress and Valdoris Ellis

Class of 1963: Lillie Warner, Annie Jackson, Earlene Thompson, Barbara Dodson, Thomas Dodson, John Thompson, Stephen Parks, Ernice Banks, Robert Yancy, Bessie Alkisswani(Treasurer), Waymond Wade, Louvenia Johnson(VP) and Milton Grimnes

Lillie Warner, Carolyn Edwards, David Haight, Gwen Haight, Charles Pearson and Mary Lee Crabbe And so we dance, Patricia Alexander and Ronald Marshall

Louise Aronlie, Stanley Willams, Ada Vanison, James Vanison, Tina Vanison and Charles Pearson

Connie Moore, Conrad Hawkins, Anesia Hawkins, Celeste Morton, Teresa Morton, James Morton, Tony Winkler and Alice Hawkins

Photos by Rob Roberts

he Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. under its National President, Jonathan A. Mason capped of

Thurroya Kent, Marian Barnwell, Linda Edwards, Sharon McClendon, Honoree Clayola Brown and Kendra Glover

its Centennial Founder’s Day weekend with a grand gala at the Renaissance Hotel in Northwest, Washington, D.C., Jan 11. Under the theme, “Stony the Road, We Trod,” the gala featured activist/actor Harry Belafonte as keynote speaker and a Glenn Coleman, Dwight Cummings, Honoree Rep. John Lewis special video message by President Bill Clinton. The Lifetime Achievement Award (D-MD), Peter Adams, Daryl Anderson and Mark Cornelius was presented to Rep. John Lewis(D-GA), civil rights activist, the Rev. Al Sharpton; civil rights icon, the Rev. C.T. Vivian;original freedom fighter, Hank Thomas and activist Elizabeth Williams-Omilami. Actor Malik Yoba was the emcee. The 2014 Centennial celebration will culminate with a week-long Keynote speaker Harry Belafonte ,left, celebration, July 16 -20 in receives honorary membership in Phi Washington, DC. For more Beta Sigma Fraternity from the National Meta Renee Williams (center) accepting an award info, visit their website: www. President, Jonathan Mason Sr. as a on behalf of the United Negro College Fund member looks on PBS100.org.

Honoree Rev. C.T. Vivian with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Belafonte

Denise Dotson, Darling Barnes, Mary Breaux Wright, International President, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority and Rages Barns

Celia Washington, Evelyn Sample-Oates and Janet Bivins

Video greeting from the Honorable William Clinton, an honorary member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity

Men of Omega welcoming the Sigmas to the 100th Year Club: Ben Jeffers, Kenneth Brown, Dr. Andrew Ray, Grand Basileus, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, and Harvey Woodson

We are the Men of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.

Photos by Rob Roberts

Robert and Melanie Carter with Debra and Allen Grimes Tamika Auguste and Stirling Demby with Veronica Overton and Davion Williams

Hank Thomas, recipient of the Centennial Lifetime Achievement Award

Sigma National President, Jonathan Mason Sr., presents the Centennial Lifetime Achievement award to Elizabeth WilliamsOmilami with Actor Malik Yoba, the emcee

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA-5) receives the Lifetime Achievement Award

Members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.

The Afro-American, January 25, 2014 - January 31, 2014

COMMUNITY CONNECTION Dupont Adventist School to Celebrate National School Choice Week

Dupont Park Adventist School in the District will hold a special event on Jan. 30 to celebrate National School Choice Week. The event will feature an evening open house and a Standardized Test Family Night. The event will be held at the school. Dupont Park Adventist School is a Private Adventist school serving grades PK3 - 8, with a student enrollment of 156. DPAS is one of 5,000 schools participating in National School Choice Week (Jan. 26-Feb. 1). The goal of the week is to shine a positive spotlight on all types of education options for children – from traditional public schools to public charter schools, magnet schools, private schools, online learning and homeschooling. “We are excited to have DPAS participate in National School Choice Week with this special event,” said Andrew Campanella, National School Choice Week president. “It is because of great events like this that National School Choice Week, in District of Columbia and across the country, will break records as the largest and most influential celebration of educational opportunity in American history.” For more information about the event, visit www.dupontparkadventistschool.org.

Lupus Foundation to Hold Annual Walk

A purple parade of over 4,000 walkers will march for the rising ranks of lupus patients in D.C., Maryland and Virginia — now more than 80,000 strong and served by the Lupus Foundation of America-D.C./Maryland Virginia Chapter. With participant numbers now quintupling since the first event, the 8th Annual DC Walk to End Lupus Now on April 19 will kick off at 9:00 a.m. between 13th and

12th Sts N.W. Lupus is a chronic, potentially fatal, autoimmune disease with no known cure that can damage any organ system of the body. “We walk for those who can’t,” said Jessica Gilbart, who is president and CEO of the D.C. chapter of the Lupus Foundation of America. “Walk donations are critical to funding our free services, support and education that help local lupus patients thrive while living with this devastating disease. “We want the lupus community to take charge and feel empowered of their health.” Walk proceeds fund the Chapter’s Award Winning Patient Navigation Program that includes phone support, an emergency assistance fund, 16 support groups, 3 statewide summits, teleconferences, and personalized guidance to overcome obstacles associated with the disease.

Wizards Celebrate Martin Luther King Day with Interactive Panel

The Washington Wizards celebrated the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr with an interactive panel discussion for 50 high school students prior to today’s Wizards game against the Philadelphia 76ers. The discussion focused on Dr. King’s legacy and its relevance to the world today. Broadcaster Christy Winters Scott led

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Center’s Dr. Marcee White. “It was my honor to take part in the panel” said Harrington. “I hope that by sharing my story and my dreams, I was able to help the kids who attended today’s event.”

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Late-Stage Prostate Cancer Patients Eligible for Expedited Decisions on Benefit Applications By Alexis Taylor AFRO Staff Writer Changes to Social Security Administration guidelines have provided a way to expedite claims filed by Americans suffering from stage four prostate cancer. In a recent move that could save thousands of lives, stage four prostate cancer has been added to the “compassionate allowances” list of conditions. Patients with the disease are now able to receive decisions regarding available care within days instead of weeks, months, or years. Congressman Elijah Cummings praised the action on Monday, calling the decision important and saying it will surely affect men of all races—but especially the African American men who are disproportionately dying of the cancer. “This disease, prostate cancer, affects one out of every Photo by Alexis Taylor six men in the United States during their lifetime so Congressman Elijah Cummings this is very serious business that we are talking about,” speaks to the press about the said Cummings. “This change in policy will expedite addition of stage four prostate the applications of individuals diagnosed with advanced cancer to the Social Security prostate cancer.” Administration's compassionate “Claiming to have advanced prostate cancer as defined allowances list. in the compassionate allowances listing is enough to put your application for benefits on the fast track,” he added. Cummings said the old protocol was a death sentence for many patients, and was a grueling process that delayed access to treatment. “In some cases, my constituents were waiting more than two years to receive a disability decision—suffering debilitating pain with no secure source of income,” he said. Social Security Administrator Commissioner Carolyn Colvin explained how the change affects patients with recurrent prostate cancer or cancer that is spreading through their body organs and bones. “Compassionate allowances, or CAL, allow us to quickly target the most obviously disabled individuals for allowances based on objective medical information that we can obtain quickly,” she said. “For persons who apply, or report having a CAL condition, their applications are reviewed to determine if they meet initial requirements to qualify for benefits. If they do, their claim is expedited to our current disability process.” “The average processing time for a compassionate allowance claim for last year was 15 days, compared to 86.2 days or more through the normal process,” she said. The compassionate allowances list was created in 2008 and initially consisted of 50 unusual diseases and cancers. Today, a total of 225 are on the list, including numerous cancers and rare disorders such as Tay Sachs disease in infants, a disorder that destroys nerve cells, brain matter, and spinal cords. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most prominent form of cancer among American men. An estimated 238,590 men were diagnosed last year, with more than 29,000 succumbing to prostate cancer. The disease causes cells within the male reproduction system to multiply out of control. According to the American Cancer Society, African American men are 60 percent more likely than White men to be diagnosed with a prostate cancer than their White male counterparts. Their chances of dying from the disease are also two times higher than those of White men. A survivor of cancer himself, Col. Artie L. Shelton of the Prostate Health Education Netowork, Inc. said that screening is a key to survival. “Men are encouraged to have their prostate screened at the age of 45. However, if there is a family history of prostate cancer—a father, an uncle, or a brother, the first screening for prostate cancer should be at the age of 40,” said Shelton, whose father and uncle both battled the disease. Dr. Sanford J. Siegel, of Chesapeake Urology Associates agreed that education about screening and testing is crucial for Black men. Siegel is a strong advocate for testing the blood for high levels of protein made in the prostate gland, or prostate-specific testing, also called PSA. “Although prostate cancer is much more common in the African American community, African American men usually get diagnosed much later in this disease than White men,” he said. “However, if African-American men get diagnosed earlier with PSA testing and visit their physician, they are just as curable as anybody else. Unfortunately that does not happen, and we have a situation where men are dying unnecessarily from this disease.”

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TV’s Mowry Twins Open Up About Interracial Marriage Backlash By Alexis Taylor AFRO Staff Writer Tears flowed on a recent episode of Oprah Winfrey’s “Where are they Now?” show as one of the nation’s most popular set of twins discussed their relationships. Sisters Tia Mowry-Hardrict and Tamera Mowry-Housley, born in Germany to Black and White parents, gave details about the public backlash they have encountered over one sister’s interracial marriage. “People choose to look past love and spew hate. That’s what hurts me. I’ve never experienced so much hate ever in my life,” said Mowry-Housley, who married Adam Housley, a Fox News correspondent, in May of 2011. “I’ve been called ‘White man’s whore’ and the new one is ‘Back in the day you would have cost $300, now you’re giving it to him for free-- stop that,” she said her sister, in shock, wiped tears from her eyes.

“Me as a person could never even fathom or think of these words. It’s very hard for me to think of it because I’m a product of it. My mom is a beautiful Black woman and my dad is an amazing White man and I grew up seeing a family,” she said. Mowry-Housely also said that she has battled with taunts that her sister is better because she is married to African American actor Cory Hardrict. “They say, ‘Oh Tia’s a true Black woman because she married a Black man.’ Oh? I’m lesser of a Black person because I married White?” she asked. Mowry-Hardrict said that even though she married a Black man, she has not escaped ridicule. Mowry-Hardrict said she’s been told her sister has “done it right by marrying a White man.” Regardless of the bullying, the women say they are happily married, and both have had sons in the past two years.

The dynamic bi-racial duo first broke into Hollywood in 1994 when ABC produced “Sister, Sister,” a TV series about twins named Landry who were separated at birth and later reunited after a chance encounter in a mall. The series would eventually move to a different network, WB, where it aired until 1999. Both women have experienced success as adults, and briefly co-starred on a show together from 2011 to 2013 called “Tia and Tamera,” which aired on the Style Network and E! Mowry-Hardrict now stars in “Instant Mom,” a Nickelodeon Channel series that is aired as a Nick at Nite sitcom, and Mowry-Housely is a co-host on “The Real,” a talk show featuring Tamar Braxton and Loni Love.

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Ex-Con Opens Chess Club for At-Risk Kids in Inner-City Biopic Life of a King

Film Review by Kam Williams Eugene Brown (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) was so worried about returning to his neighborhood in inner-city Washington, DC after serving 17 years for bank robbery that he shared his concern with his cellmate Searcy (Dennis Haysbert). The wise, old elder responded by making an analogy between life and the game of chess amounting to the simple suggestion “Take care of the king.” He also handed Eugene a chess

piece, hoping it might serve as a constant reminder to avoid trouble by employing fundamental game strategy. And that practical piece of advice would come in handy, especially since landing employment would turn out to be quite a challenge, given his criminal record. But rather than break the law again for a quick buck, Eugene displayed the patience to wait until he found a legit job as a janitor. Working at the same high school his children had attended, he was afforded an opportunity to redeem himself when

asked by the principal (LisaGay Hamilton) to monitor detention, too. Instead of just having the students stand at the blackboard and write, “I will not be late for class” or “I will not forget my homework” 50 times, Eugene came up with the inspired idea of teaching them how to play chess each afternoon. Soon, he founded a chess club as a regular afterschool activity and viable alternative to the gangsta ways so many of the troubled youth found attractive. Meanwhile, Eugene needed to

mend fences with his estranged offspring, college coed Katrina (Rachae Thomas), and black sheep Marcus (Jordan Calloway), a juvenile jailbird following in his father’s footsteps. That proves easier said than done since the absentee-dad wasn’t around for either’s formative years. Written and directed by Jake Goldberger (Don McKay), Life of a King is a warts-and-all biopic based on the downfall and resurrection of the real Eugene Brown. As raw and realistic as it is predictable and cliché-ridden, this modern morality

play does at least drive home a pertinent message for adolescents in the targeted demographic. A Sunday school-style parable which makes very effective use of chess mastery as a metaphor for negotiating the perilous gauntlet of possible ghetto pitfalls.

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The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) honored some of gospel music’s most prestigious names at the 5th annual “ASCAP Presents: Morning Glory” Stellar Awards breakfast reception, Jan. 21, at the Hutton Hotel in Nashville. One of the premiere events leading up to the 29th annual Stellar Awards, the breakfast honored Grammy Award-winning artist Edwin Hawkins with the Gospel Icon Award, Tye Tribbett and Warryn Campbell with the newly-established Spirit of Song Award, as well as recognized other 2014 Stellar Awards nominees. Hosted by the Rev. Marquis Boone of Fresh Start Church in Duluth, Ga., the event also featured special performances by gospel powerhouse Tasha Cobbs, Grammynominated producer Chuck Harmony, and recording artists Jonathan McReynolds & Livre. Media partners for the 2014 ASCAP Presents: Morning Glory breakfast reception was Aspire TV and UP TV. Attendees included Kelly Price, Anita Wilson, William McDowell, Thi’sl, Alexis Spight, Bryan Popin, Patrick Dopson, Dexter Walker, Zie’l and a host of others.

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Across the Caribbean, Calls for Divine Intervention Ring Out By Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News

As Caribbean countries battle some of their worst economic and social challenges in years, there are increasing calls for divine intervention. From Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas which between them recorded more than 1,700 murders in 2013; Barbados and Puerto Rico that are grappling with their worst period of economic decline in a quarter of a century; and Haiti, St. Lucia, Dominica and St Vincent & the Grenadines the victims of devastating acts of nature the story is the same: loud appeals for prayers and an expanded role for the church. “Let me be bold enough to suggest that the issues around violence are not peripheral to the Church’s mission, but at the core,” asserted Peter Bunting, Jamaica’s national security minister, who has faced an avalanche of criticism as his country recorded an increase in its already sky high homicide rate. Murders in Jamaica rose from just under 1,100 in 2012 to 1,200 last year and Bunting sounded a rallying cry for churches across the land to unite behind national efforts to curb crime and violence. Last year, he told an audience at Northern Caribbean University in Manchester that “the best efforts of the security forces by itself will not solve the crime problem in Jamaica, but it is going to take divine intervention, touching the hearts of a wide cross section of the society.” His words immediately triggered strong criticisms from several sections of the public who accused him of surrendering to crime and demoralizing people. For instance, a former national security minister, Derrick Smith called on Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller, to relieve Bunting of his post. But in an address a few days ago to Jamaicans attending the second anniversary service of the Transformed Life Church at the Police Officers Club on Old Hope Road, the Minister urged church leaders to be “street pastors” who must extend a helping hand to marginalized members of society. “Issues of peace, sanctity of life, reconciliation, love, and respect are central themes of Christianity – all great religions—and these are precisely the values that we need to infuse in our society to reduce anger, hostility and violence,” Bunting told his audience on Sunday. As he saw it, faith-based institutions must be among the key stakeholders in his government ministry’s “Unite for Change effort” whose key goal is to rekindle hope among law-abiding Jamaicans. From Puerto Rico and Barbados, both of which were once considered models of economic management and development in the Caribbean but are now reeling under the weight of mountains of debt, widening government deficits and rising joblessness, the appeals for prayers and divine intervention are becoming increasingly loud. In addition to government employee layoffs, Barbados has seen its once stellar credit rating downgraded to junk bond status and was forced the other day to withdraw more than $250 million in bonds from the financial markets after they didn’t attract sufficient investors.

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SPORTS Sam Lacy - He Made a Difference - VIII Special to the AFRO During this period, Pop had reached elite status among colored newspapermen. He had coached basketball on a few different levels, and when the call came for a referee for Central Interscholastic Athletic Association (CIAA) games, he was on the short list. When he went to Richmond to referee a game at Virginia Union, I was his trusted sidekick. This was a great experience, but in hindsight I think I am lucky to have survived. Everyone who has been to a sport event or even sat in the family room and watched a

game on TV, knows that the ultimate villain is the guy in the striped shirt. When the boos started, and there were calls to kill the referee, my hackles arose and my mouth started writing checks my butt couldn’t cash. Fortunately the boo-birds recognized me as an 11-year old kid and they ignored me. One night after the game we were on the way home and Pop doubled over with stomach pain. His condition was so severe, that I was called upon to make the drive home. Driving wasn’t new to me because Pop had let me put in quite a bit of wheel time in a safe environment. But, I was 12-years-old

UDC Sits Atop East Coast Conference after Crushing Queens By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor The University of the District of Columbia women’s basketball team won their third straight game after crushing Queens College, 69-53, on Jan. 18 at UDC’s campus in Washington, D.C. The win advanced UDC to a 7-1 conference record, good enough for first place in the East Coast Conference (ECC). The game started out tight as both teams exchanged leads early on. But UDC sparked a 15-3 run near the end of the first half to take a comfortable lead that they did not give up for the rest of the game.

Queens came into this game in first place in the ECC. But the loss to UDC ended their sixgame winning streak and knocked them back to second place in the conference standings with a 11-4 overall record, 7-2 against the ECC. UDC junior forward Denikka Brent scored a game-high 19 points and junior transfer guard Telisha Turner followed with 16 points along with a season-high seven assists and a gamehigh five steals. Queens forward Madison Rowland led the Queens College team with 15 points in the loss, while forward Melissa Gardner added 13 points. UDC (11-3) will next face ECC opponent Bridgeport College on Jan. 22 for UDC’s homecoming.

and called upon to drive 100 miles. I was on a major highway, and motorists were whizzing by seemingly at 90 miles per hour. If someone had looked into that car they would have seen this kid peeping over the dashboard with eyes as big as saucers. We made it with no mishaps, and the next day Pop was admitted to the hospital with a severe case of ulcers. I wonder if he just had a stomachache, and my driving had transformed a simple malady into a full blown ulcer. This experience may have planted the seed for my love of cars and driving. As a teenager, some of my buddies and I put together a dragracing team. We would attend the different events and put our car to the test. I had an aptitude for speed shifting, and was able to keep from crashing, so I was the designated driver. One Saturday I came home with a trophy. Forgetting to put it away, it was still on the dining room table when Pop came home. The lecture that followed this discovery was enough for me to decide I had better select another career path. When Pop got warmed up, I started feeling like a Christian who had just been notified he was next up for the lion’s den. I didn’t know anything about déjà vu, but

I remember having this feeling before. We lived just a few blocks from the U.S. Soldiers’ Home, a military retirement installation in Washington, D.C.’s Petworth neighborhood. Soldiers’ Home had all of the makings for adventure for a bunch of 10-year-old knuckle heads. Of particular interest to us was a pond. In this pond were fish. (Know where I’m heading?) My crew had a meeting, and we decided to hook school and go fishing (It was good enough for Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn). We planned well, and the next morning we met and it was off to this great adventure. In the woods there was a pond, and in the pond was an island. With a running start we could leap across the water to the island. After a wasted day of fishing, it dawned upon us that there was no room for a running start off the island. It was either give it a try, or set up camp on that island for the rest of our lives. There were five of us who emerged from that pond soaked to the bone. The only thing to do was hurry home and change before our parents came home. On the corner near my house was a gas station. As I sloshed through the gas station, I heard a familiar voice. I couldn’t make out the words, but it translated into, BUSTED!!!

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21-9 within the first few minutes of the game. But Bowie State lost its shooting touch in the final four minutes of the first half and only led by two points at halftime. Lincoln then used a 9-0 run at the start of the second half to take a comfortable lead that the Lady Bulldogs couldn’t overcome. Junior guard Donia Naylor led Bowie State with 13 points and junior guard Ashley Castle followed with 11 in the loss Freshman forward De’Jah Taylor led Lincoln with 11 points.

Bowie’s Lady Bulldogs’ Losing Streak Extended to Six with Loss to Lincoln Bowie State University women’s basketball lost its sixth straight game Jan. 18, falling to Lincoln, 52-43, in a Central Interscholastic Athletic Association (CIAA) game played at Lincoln University in Lincoln, Pa. Bowie State started the game strong and was well on pace to break a fivegame losing streak. The Lady Bulldogs led

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2013FEP143 Date of Death February 18, 2009 Joseph Henry Curtis, Jr Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Shirley Durrant whose address is 1281 Nicole Lane, Clifton Heights, PA 19018 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Joseph Henry Curtis, Jr, deceased by the Orphans Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas for Philidelphia County, State of Pennsylvania on February 19, 2013. Service of process may be made upon Michael E. Brand, Loewinger & Brand, PLLC, 471 H. Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Colombia real property: 632 5th Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002 Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, 500 Indiana Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM1311 Winston W. Lewis Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Dinia Lewis Tolbert, whose address is 733 Hamilton Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Winston W. Lewis, who died on November 19, 2013 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before July 10, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before July 10, 2014 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: January 10, 2014 Name of newspaper: Afro-American DC Law Review Dinia Lewis Tolbert Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington,D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM1307 Helen E. Clarke Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Teresa A. Howie whose address is P.O. Box 55100, Washington, DC 20040 was appointed personal representatives of the estate of Helen E. Clarke, who died on October 17, 2013 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before July 17, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before July 17, 2014 , or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: January 17, 2014 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Newspaper Washington Law Reporter Teresa A. Howie Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 01/17, 01/24 & 01/31/14

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Superior Court of Legal Advertising Rates the District of October 1, 2008 DistrictEffective of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 PROBATE DIVISION Administration No. TYPESET: Mon Jan 13 17:51:06 EST 2014 2013ADM1290(Estates) Geneva Tillman Dues 202-332-0080 Decedent SUPERIOR COURT OF Arthur F. Konopka PROBATE NOTICES THE DISTRICT OF 4530 Wisconsin Ave, COLUMBIA NW, Suite 200 PROBATE DIVISION $180.00 per 3 Washington, DC 20016 a. Order Nisi $ 60 per insertion Washington, D.C. NOTICE OF weeks 20001-2131 APPOINTMENT, Foreign No. NOTICE TO $ 60 per insertion b. Small Estates (single publication 2014FEP2 CREDITORS c. Notice to Creditors AND NOTICE TO Date of Death September UNKNOWN HEIRS 1. Domestic $ 60 per insertion 5, 2006 $180.00 per 3 Marie M. Wallace whose Jan M. Javins weeks address is 539 42nd Decedent NOTICE OF Street, NE, Washington, 2. Foreign $ 60 per insertion $180.00 per 3 DC 20019 was appointed APPOINTMENT weeks personal representative OF FOREIGN of the estate of Geneva PERSONAL d. Escheated Estates $ 60 per insertion $360.00 per 6 Tillman Dues, who died 17:48:26 EST 2014 REPRESENTATIVE weeks on July 24, 2012, without AND a will, and will serve withe. Standard Probates $125.00 NOTICE TO out Court supervision. All CREDITORS unknown heirs and heirs Maurice F. Javins whose whose whereabouts CIVILareNOTICES address is 10410 Triple unknown shall enter their Crown Court, Hughsville, a. Name Changes 202-879-1133 appearance in this MD 20637 was ap- $ 80.00 proceeding. Objections pointed personal repre- $ 200.00 b. Real Property to such appointment sentative of the estate of shall be filed with the Jan M, Javins, deceased Register of Wills, D.C., by The Register of Wills 515 5th Street,FAMILY N.W., 3rd COURT Court for Prince Floor Washington, D.C. George’s County, State 202-879-1212 20001, on or before July of Maryland, on January 3, 2014.DOMESTIC Claims against RELATIONS 22, 2009. the decedent shall be Service of process may presented to the202-879-0157 under- be made upon Barbara signed with a copy to the G. Whitaker, 635 Dahlia Register of Wills or filed Street, NW, Washington, $ 150.00 a. Absent Defendant with the Register of Wills with a copy to the under- DC 20012-1841 whose b. Absolute Divorce signed, on or before July designation as District of $ 150.00 3, 2014, or be forever Columbia agent has $150.00 c. Custody Divorce barred. Persons believed been filed with the Registo be heirs or legatees of ter of Wills, D.C. who do not The decedent owned the To place your ad, the calldecedent 1-800-237-6892, $50.00 & up f o l l o 262, w i n g Public D i s t r i c tNotices of receive a copy of this no- ext. Colombia real property: tice by Baltimore mail within 25 depending on size, Legal Notices are $24.84 per inch. days of its first publica- one-sixth interest in real 892located at 1326 tion shall so 1-800 inform (AFRO) the property Corbin Place, NE, Register of Wills, includFor Proof of Publication, please call 1-800-237-6892, ext. 244 ing name, address and W a s h i n g t o n , D C 20002XXXX relationship. Claims against the deDate of Publication: TYPESET: Tue Jan 21 12:33:08 2014 cedent may be preJanuary EST 3, 2014 the underLEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES sented Name of newspaper: LEGALtoNOTICES signed and filed with the Afro-American Register of Wills for the Superior Court of Washington Law District of Columbia, 500 Reporter the District of Marie M. Wallace Indiana Avenue, N.W., District of Columbia Personal Washington, D.C. 20001 PROBATE DIVISION Representative within 6 months from the Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 date of first publication of TRUE TEST COPY Administration No. this notice. REGISTER OF WILLS 2013ADM1290 TYPESET: Mon Jan 13 17:51:06Maurice EST 2014 Geneva Tillman Dues F. Javins 01/10, 01/17 & 01/24/14 Decedent Personal RepresentaArthur F. Konopka tive(s) 4530 Wisconsin Ave, SUPERIOR COURT OF TRUE TEST COPY NW, Suite 200 THE DISTRICT OF REGISTER OF WILLS Washington, DC 20016 COLUMBIA Date of first publication: NOTICE OF PROBATE DIVISION January 17, 2014 APPOINTMENT, W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . Name of newspapers NOTICE TO 20001-2131 and/or periodical: CREDITORS Foreign No. The Daily Washington AND NOTICE TO 2014FEP2 Law Reporter UNKNOWN HEIRS Date of Death The Afro-American Marie M. Wallace whose September 5, 2006 address is 539 42nd Jan M. Javins 01/17, 01/24 & 01/31/14 Street, NE, Washington, Decedent DC 20019 was appointed NOTICE OF personal representative APPOINTMENT of the estate of Geneva OF FOREIGN Tillman Dues, who died PERSONAL on July 24, 2012, without REPRESENTATIVE a will, and will serve withAND out Court supervision. All NOTICE TO unknown heirs and heirs CREDITORS whose whereabouts are Maurice F. Javins whose unknown shall enter their address is 10410 Triple appearance in this Crown Court, Hughsville, proceeding. Objections MD 20637 was apto such appointment pointed personal represhall be filed with the sentative of the estate of Register of Wills, D.C., Jan M, Javins, deceased 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd by The Register of Wills Floor Washington, D.C. C o u r t f o r P r i n c e 20001, on or before July George’s County, State 3, 2014. Claims against of Maryland, on January the decedent shall be 22, 2009. presented to the under- Service of process may signed with a copy to the be made upon Barbara Register of Wills or filed G. Whitaker, 635 Dahlia with the Register of Wills Street, NW, Washington, with a copy to the under- DC 20012-1841 whose signed, on or before July designation as District of 3, 2014, or be forever Columbia agent has barred. 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be made upon Eloise Jones 521 Lomont St., NW, Washington, DC 20010 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the 17:48:10 EST 2014 TYPESET: Tue Jan 21 12:38:24 Tue Jan 21 12:39:24 EST 2014 fo l l o w i nEST g NOTICES D 2014 i s t r i c t o f TYPESET: LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL LEGAL NOTICES TYPESET: Tue Jan 21 12:41:38 EST 2014 LEGAL NOTICES Colombia real property: 1616 Potomac Ave, SE, Washington, DC 20003 Superior Court of Superior Court of Superior Court of Claims against the dethe District of the District of the District of cedent may be preDistrict of Columbia District of Columbia District of Columbia sented to the underPROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. signed and filed with the Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Register of Wills for the 20001-2131 20001-2131 20001-2131 District of Columbia, Administration No. Administration No. Administration No. Building A, 515 5th 2013ADM1202 2013ADM1132 2013ADM1279 Street, NW, 3rd Floor, James R.Mcbee Cynthia Randolph Sarah W. Carter Washington, DC 20001 Decedent Decedent Decedent within 6 months from the Wesley L.Clarke NOTICE OF Steve-Larsondate of first publication of 1629 K Street, Ste. 300 APPOINTMENT, Jackson,Esq. this notice. NOTICE TO Washington, DC 20006 P.O.Box 11530 , CREDITORS Attorney Washington, DC 20011 Andre L. Mealy, Jr AND NOTICE TO NOTICE OF Attorney Personal UNKNOWN HEIRS APPOINTMENT, NOTICE OF Representative Leonard Randolph , NOTICE TO APPOINTMENT, TRUE TEST COPY whose address is 9888 CREDITORS NOTICE TO REGISTER OF WILLS Leigland Ct., Waldorf, AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Date of first publication: MD 20603, was apUNKNOWN HEIRS AND NOTICE TO pointed personal repre- January 24, 2014 Wesley L.Clarke, whose UNKNOWN HEIRS sentative of the estate of Name of newspapers address is 1629 K Street, Michael L. Willis, whose Cynthia Randolph, who and/or periodical: NW, Ste 300, Washing- addressis 14607 Turner died on March 12, 2013 The Daily Washington ton, DC 20006 ,was ap- Wootton Parkway, UpThe AFRO-AMERICAN Newspapers is looking to hire without a Will, and will Law Reporter pointed personal repre- pper Marlboro, Maryland a part-time Sales Assistant to join our DC office team serve without Court su- The Afro-American sentative of the estate of 20774 was appointed pervision. All unknown TYPESET: Tue Jan 21 12:39:00 James R. ESTMcbee, 2014 who personal representative located on Benning Road, NE in Washington, DC. This heirs and heirs whose 01/24, 01/31, 02/07/14 died on October 8, 2013 of the estate of Sarah whereabouts are unwithout a will, and will W.Carter, who died on entry-level position has advancement opportunity and known shall enter their serve without Court su- November 21, 2013 with Superior Court of will provide administrative support for our Advertising appearance in this pervision. All unknown the District of a will, and will serve withproceeding. Objections heirs and heirs whose out Court supervision. All District of Columbia Sales Department. Duties will include the following: to such appointment whereabouts are un- unknown heirs and heirs PROBATE DIVISION shall be filed with the known shall enter their whose whereabouts are Washington, D.C. Create master lists of media buyers, advertising Register of Wills, D.C., appearance in this 20001-2131 unknown shall enter their 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd proceeding. Objections a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Administration No. agencies, government agencies, etc... to generate leads Floor Washington, D.C. to such appointment proceeding. Objections 2013ADM1336 & interest in The AFRO 20001, on or before July Gregory Hinton shall be filed with the to such appointment (or 24, 2014. Claims against Decedent Register of Wills, D.C., to the probate of dethe decedent shall be 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd cedent´s will) shall be Create messages for e-blasts; do mail outs of media NOTICE OF presented to the underFloor Washington, D.C. filed with the Register of APPOINTMENT, kits and other advertising information signed with a copy to the 20001, on or before July NOTICE TO Wills, D.C., 515 5th Register of Wills or filed 24,2014. Claims against Street, N.W., 3rd Floor CREDITORS with the Register of Wills the decedent shall be W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . Provide standard administrative and office support AND NOTICE TO with a copy to the underpresented to the under- 20001, on or before July UNKNOWN HEIRS signed, on or before July Deshanta Nicole Hinton, signed with a copy to the 24, 2014. Claims against Provide exemplary customer service 24, 2014, or be forever whose address is 157 Register of Wills or filed the decedent shall be barred. Persons believed 5 7 t h P l a c e S . E . with the Register of Wills presented to the underto be heirs or legatees of Washington DC 20019, with a copy to the undersigned with a copy to the the decedent who do not was, appointed personal signed, on or before July Register of Wills or filed receive a copy of this no- representative of the 24, 2014, or be forever with the Register of Wills tice by mail within 25 estate of Gregory Hinton, barred. Persons believed with a copy to the underStrong computer skills with proficiency in MS Office days of its first publica- who died on January 1, to be heirs or legatees of signed, on or before July Suite tion shall so inform the 2012 without a will, and the decedent who do not 24, 2014, or be forever Register of Wills, includ- will serve without Court receive a copy of this no- barred. Persons believed ing name, address and supervision. All unknown tice by mail within 25 to be heirs or legatees of Knowledge of the Greater DC Metro area relationship. heirs and heirs whose days of its first publica- the decedent who do not Date of Publication whereabouts are un- tion shall so inform the receive a copy of this noAbility to perform well both independently and as team January 24, 2014 known shall enter their Register of Wills, includ- tice by mail within 25 member Name of newspaper: ing name, address an appearance in this days of its first publicaAfro-American proceeding. Objections relationship. tion shall so inform the Washington Ambitious & quick learner with great timeto such appointment (or Date of Publication: Register of Wills, includLaw Reporter to the probate of de- January 24, 2014 ing name, address and management, organizational skills, detail oriented Leonard Randolph cedent´s will) shall be Name of newspaper: relationship. Personal filed with the Register of Afro-American Date of Publication: Representative Wills, D.C., 515 5th Washington Law Previous administrative or sales support experience January 24, 2014 Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Reporter Name of newspaper: TRUE TEST COPY Wesley L Clarke Afro-American Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . REGISTER OF WILLS Personal Washington Law Re20001, on or before July Please send your resume to:lhowze@afro.com Representative porter 24, 2014.EST Claims against TYPESET: Tue Jan 21 12:38:42 2014 01/24, 01/31, 02/07/14 the decedent shall be Or mail to: Diane W. Hocker presented to the under- TRUE TEST COPY Michael L. Willis REGISTER OF WILLS signed with a copy to the Personal Director of Human Resources Superior Court of Register of Wills or filed TYPESET: Tue Jan 21 12:40:56 EST Representative the District of 2014 01/24, 01/31, 02/07/14 with the Register of Wills 2519 N. Charles St., District of Columbia with a copy to the underTRUE TEST COPY PROBATE DIVISION Baltimore, MD 21218 signed, on or before July REGISTER OF WILLS Washington, D.C. Superior Court of 24, 2014, or be forever 20001-2131 the District of barred. Persons believed 01/24, 01/31, 02/07/14 Administration No. District of Columbia to be heirs or legatees of 2014ADM19 PROBATE DIVISION the decedent who do not 17:50:05 EST 2014 Barbara LorraIne Washington, D.C. receive a copy of this noHusaw 20001-2131 tice by mail within 25 Decedent Administration No. days of its first publicaNOTICE OF 2014ADM17 tion shall so inform the APPOINTMENT, Beatrice Manis Register of Wills, includNOTICE TO aka ing name, address and CREDITORS Beatrice R. Manis relationship. AND NOTICE TO Decedent Date of Publication: UNKNOWN HEIRS National Law Offices of Karen Mack, whose ad- January 24, 2014 Julius P. Terell, PLLC dressis 913 Newington Name of newspaper: 1455 Pennsylvania Afro-American Court, Capital Heights, Ave., NW Suite 400 Washington Law MD 20743 was apWashington, DC 20004 pointed personal repre- Reporter Attorney sentative of the estate of NOTICE OF DeShanta Nicole Hinton Barbara Lorraine Husaw, APPOINTMENT, Personal who died on October 26, NOTICE TO Representative 2011 without a Will, and CREDITORS will serve without Court AND NOTICE TO supervision. All unknown TRUE TEST COPY UNKNOWN HEIRS heirs and heirs whose REGISTER OF WILLS Lucretia Kirkpatrick, EST 2014 whereabouts are un- TYPESET: Tue Jan 21 12:40:34 whose address is 154 U 01/24, 01/31, 02/07/14 known shall enter their Street NE Washington, appearance in this DC 20002 was appointed proceeding. Objections Superior Court of personal representative to such appointment the District of of the estate of Beatrice shall be filed with the District of Columbia Manis aka Beatrice R. Register of Wills, D.C., PROBATE DIVISION Manis, who died on 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd January 25, 2013 without Washington, D.C. Floor Washington, D.C. a will, and will serve with20001-2131 20001, on or before July out Court supervision. All Administration No. 24, 2014. Claims against unknown heirs and heirs 2014ADM25 the decedent shall be whose whereabouts are Ira R. Mitzner presented to the underunknown shall enter their aka signed with a copy to the appearance in this Register of Wills or filed Robert Mitzner proceeding. Objections with the Register of Wills Decedent to such appointment with a copy to the under- Jennifer O. Schiffer shall be filed with the signed, on or before July 4845 Rugby Ave, Register of Wills, D.C., Bethesda MD 20814 24, 2014, or be forever 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Attorney barred. Persons believed Floor Washington, D.C. NOTICE OF to be heirs or legatees of 20001, on or before July APPOINTMENT, the decedent who do not 24, 2014. Claims against receive a copy of this noNOTICE TO the decedent shall be tice by mail within 25 CREDITORS presented to the underdays of its first publicaAND NOTICE TO signed with a copy to the tion shall so inform the UNKNOWN HEIRS Registerof Wills or filed Register of Wills, includ- E. Rachael Mitzner, with theRegister of Wills ing name, address and whose address is 2600 with a copy to the underrelationship. Pennsylvania Ave NW signed, on or before July Date of Publication: #2D, Washington DC 24,2014, or be forever January 24, 2014 20037 was appointed barred. Persons believed Name of newspaper: personal representative to be heirs or legatees of Afro-American of the estate of Ira R. the decedent who do not Washington M i t z n e r a k a R o b e r t receive a copy of this noLaw Reporter tice by mail within 25 Karen Mack Mitzner, who died on days of its first publicaNovember 6, 2013 with a Personal tion shall so inform the Representative Will, and will serve with- Register of Wills, includout Court supervision. All ing name, address and unknown heirs and heirs relationship. TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS whose whereabouts are Date of Publication: unknownEST shall2014 enter their January 24, 2014 TYPESET: Tue Jan 21 12:38:09 01/24, 01/31, 02/07/14 a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Name of newspaper: proceeding. Objections Afro-American SUPERIOR COURT OF to such appointment (or Wa s h i n g t o n L a w to the probate of de- Reporter THE DISTRICT OF Lucretia Kirkpatrick COLUMBIA cedent´s will) shall be Personal PROBATE DIVISION filed with the Register of Representative W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . Wills, D.C., 515 5th 20001-2131 Street, N.W., 3rd Floor TRUE TEST COPY Foreign No. Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 2014FEP9 20001, on or before July REGISTER OF WILLS Date of Death 24, 2014. Claims against 01/24, 01/31, 02/07/14 May 10, 2013 the decedent shall be Andrew L. Mealy, Jr. presented to the underDecedent signed with a copy to the NOTICE OF Register of Wills or filed APPOINTMENT O F F O R E I G N P E R - with the Register of Wills with a copy to the underSONAL R E P R E S E N TAT I V E signed, on or before July 24, 2014, or be forever AND barred. Persons believed NOTICE TO and county government employee, In each passing moment, you to be heirs or legatees of CREDITORS you exuded an unmatched fortitude cross our hearts and minds but this Victor G. Mealy whose the decedent who do not address is 8309 Duck receive a copy of this noand determination to excel in all year we want to celebrate what Hawk Way, Lorton, VA, tice by mail within 25 that you do. We were blessed to would have been your centennial 22079 was appointed days of its first publicapersonal representative tion shall so inform the have been in your presence for birthday. Born 50 years after the of the estate of Andrew L. Register of Wills, includthe time we were given and we Emancipation Proclamation and Mealy, Jr., deceased, on ing name, address and September 3, 2013 by relationship. celebrate the centennial of your 50 years before the March on the Orphan’s Court for Date of Publication: birth on this day. We want to wish Washington, you instilled in us Prince George’s County, January 24, 2014 State of Maryland. you a Happy Birthday from your the importance of education and Service of process may Name of newspaper: beloved daughter, Jo-Ann and your possessing pride in yourself and be made upon Eloise Afro-American Jones 521 Lomont St., Washington Law Reloving grandchildren, Ja-Zette and your community. As an educator porter NW, Washington, DC E. Rachel Mitzner Antonio. and later a highly decorated federal 20010 whose designaPersonal tion as District of ColumRepresentative bia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. TRUE TEST COPY The decedent owned the REGISTER OF WILLS following District of Colombia real property: 01/24, 01/31, 02/07/14 1616 Potomac Ave, SE, Washington, DC 20003 Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington,D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM1336 Gregory Hinton Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS DeShanta Nicole Hinton whose address is 157 57th Place, SE, Washington, DC 20019 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Gregory Hinton, who died on January 1, 2012 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before July 17, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before July 17, 2014 , or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: January 17, 2014 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Newspaper Washington Law Reporter DeShanta Nicole Hinton Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington,D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM4 Thomas Michael Diggs Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Dionna L. Diggs, Thomas M. Diggs & Renard Thomas Diggs, Jr whose addresses are 3625 Broadwater Lane, Chester, VA 23831, 1571 Cedar Mountain Drive, Fort Lee, VA 23801 & 6707 22nd Place, Hyattsville, MD 20782 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Thomas Michael Diggs, who died on August 22, 2013 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before July 17, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before July 17, 2014 , or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: January 17, 2014 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Newspaper TRUE TEST COPY Washington REGISTER OF WILLS Law Reporter TYPESET: Mon Jan 13 17:48:41 Dionna EST 2014 L. Diggs 01/17, 01/24 & 01/31/14 Thomas M. Diggs Renard Thomas Diggs Personal Representative SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF TRUE TEST COPY COLUMBIA REGISTER OF WILLS PROBATE DIVISION W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . TYPESET: Mon Jan 13 01/17, 01/24 & 01/31/14 20001-2131 Foreign No. 1998FEP22 Superior Court of Date of Death the District of June 25, 1995 District of Columbia Ellaleen C. Williams Decedent PROBATE DIVISION NOTICE OF Washington,D.C. APPOINTMENT 20001-2131 OF FOREIGN Administration No. PERSONAL 2013ADM898 REPRESENTATIVE Gerald D. Moye, Sr. AND Decedent NOTICE TO APPOINTMENT, CREDITORS NOTICE TO Arthur W. Williams and CREDITORS Rubye Jane Williams AND NOTICE TO whose addresses are 94 UNKNOWN HEIRS Spir Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583 & 34 W. 96th Terry L. Moye whose adS t r e e t , N Y , N Y dress is 800 Kenilworth 10025were appointed Avenue, N.E. Washingpersonal representatives ton, DC 20019, was apof the estate of Ellaleen pointed personal repreC. Williams, deceased by sentative of the estate of The Surrogates Court for Gerald D. Moye,Sr., who New York County, State died on September 24, o f N e w Y o r k , o n 2008 without a will and December 4, 1995. will serve without Court Service of process may be made upon David Wil- supervision. All unknown l o u g h b y , 8 0 9 heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unMassachussetts Ave, NE, Washington, DC known shall enter their 20002whose designa- a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s tion as District of Colum- proceeding. Objections bia agent has been filed to such appointment with the Register of Wills, shall be filed with the D.C. Register of Wills, D.C., The decedent owned the 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd f o l l o w i n g D i s t r i c t o f Floor Washington, D.C. Colombia real property: 20001, on or before July 1925 Alabama Ave, SE, 17, 2014. Claims against Washington, DC 20020, the decedent shall be 1917 I Street, NW, presented to the underWashington, DC 20036, signed with a copy to the 2400 Alabama Ave, SE Register of Wills or filed Washington, DC 20020 with the Register of Wills 724 8Th Street, NE with a copy to the underWashington, DC 20002 Claims against the de- signed, on or before July cedent may be pre- 17, 2014, or be forever sented to the under- barred. Persons believed signed and filed with the to be heirs or legatees of Register of Wills for the the decedent who do not District of Columbia, 500 receive a copy of this noIndiana Avenue, N.W., tice by mail within 25 Washington, D.C. 20001 days of its first publicawithin 6 months from the tion shall so inform the date of first publication of Register of Wills, includthis notice. Arthur W. Williams Rubye Jane Williams Personal Representative(s) TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS Date of first publication: January 17, 2014 Name of newspapers and/or periodical: The Daily Washington Law Reporter The Afro-American

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