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Rallies set to help ex-offenders reinstate rights

This past Friday Bridging the Gap in Virginia, a statewide advocacy and support group for the formerly incarcerated, I Vote For Me, Richmond’s Crusade for Voters, Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged (RIHD) and the Richmond Branch NAACP jump started the weekend with a Rights Restoration Rally downtown in front of the Department of Social Services.

Individuals seeking to have their rights restored joined in the rally where a total of 45 applications were completed.

According to a release generated by Bridging the Gap in Virginia, a series of changes issued by Gov. Terry McAuliffe to the state’s restoration of rights process last April made it possible to thousands of former offenders to have their rights restored. All drug-related offenses have been removed from the list of violent offenses and the waiting period for violent offenses has been reduced from five to three years.

The organization also points out that, most recently, McAuliffe eliminated payment of court fines and fees as eligibility criteria for restoration of rights. Former Governor Bob McDonnell altered the process to automatically restore rights on an individualized basis once nonviolent felons served their time, paid fines and restitution and met other court-ordered conditions.

McAuliffe has built on those reforms to make the process more expedient and transparent and allows thousands more to vote, hold public office, serve on a jury and serve as a notary public—all sooner rather than later.

“We’re looking forward to the day when there will be automatic restoration for all, without

application, but until then we will work diligently to ensure that the new streamlined process reaches the entire Commonwealth of Virginia,” said Richard Walker, founder and CEO of Bridging the Gap in Virginia.

“This history-making decision by Governor McAuliffe will allow hundreds of thousands of individuals who have been disenfranchised to stop being punished and to more fully exercise their constitutional rights.

It is incumbent upon us to reach out to citizens across the commonwealth and enable them to fully exercise their rights of citizenship in these United States.”

Volunteers throughout the state have committed to hold similar Restoration of Rights Rallies to support Bridging the Gap in Virginia’s efforts to reach the goal.

The rallies are planned for other localities that include Alexandria, Prince William County and Norfolk.

RIHD will also utilize the Mobile Justice Tour (MJT) to reach numerous locations in the state, which kicked off its fourth statewide tour off Aug. 18 in Richmond’s East End. At each tour stop legal and policy experts will discuss the following: •Sentencing reforms to correct and

amend sentencing injustices; •Use of discretionary sentencing guidelines to eliminate disparities and achieve consistency and fairness; and, •Ban the Box, which removes the question about an individual’s criminal history from the initial employment application.

College students, members of church groups and other individuals across Virginia requested additional stops and largely fuel the tour.

“The fact that African Americans are only 20 percent of the population but over 60 percent of those

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This public health program helps uninsured and underinsured women, who meet eligibility criteria, to receive access to free breast and cervical cancer screening services, long-term care and payment of these medical services.

The program is available to those who fall under the following criteria: •Women ages 50-64 years who need to be screened for breast or cervical cancer and are eligible for the Every woman’s Life Program; •Women 40-49 may be judged to be eligible, given certain restrictions

•Women 18-39 may be eligible under tightly restricted criteria •No one under the age 18 may be eligible at this time; •Women eligible for Medicaid coverage as part of the Every Woman’s Life Program must be age 18-64 and cannot have creditable health insurance that covers the treatment of breast or cervical cancer; and •All patients must be screened for breast or cervical cancer (including pre-cancerous conditions) by a medical provider that is operating under the Every Woman’s Life Program.

Women, between ages 40-64, who think they may be eligible should call to secure qualification for the program.

Seven different clinics located at six Bon Secours facilities currently serve as clinic sites for these free breast and cervical screenings, including mammograms. As an administrative

Va. receives funding for community planning Virginia has been awarded funds that will support programs related to diversifying to international and domestic defense and non-defenserelated markets.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe the $5.4 million award from federal Community Planning Assistance Funds from the Department of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment. This grant will be used to assist communities, businesses and employees in defense-related areas respond to the impacts of defense reductions. Additionally, the grant will provide funding to expand entrepreneurship opportunities for defense-related employees and businesses, and to support displaced defense contractors seek other employment opportunities.

“Virginia has taken the lead in identifying businesses potentially impacted by the recent defense

reductions and worked with state, community, and business leaders to develop meaningful programs to address the issues,” said McAuliffe.

“In order to build a new Virginia economy, we must create an environment where businesses can thrive even in the face of federal cuts. With these funds, Virginia will provide direct support to companies as they transition to alternative markets.”

“This is the seventh consecutive year that Virginia has been awarded a grant from the Department of Defense’s Office of Economic Adjustment.

Virginia, notes the governor’s office, consistently ranks among the top states in defense spending.

According to an Office of Economic Adjustment report, Defense Spending

by State Fiscal Year 2013, Virginia was ranked first at $58.8 billion.

provider, Bon Secours also provides case management to each woman, between the ages of 40-64, ensuring that she gets the follow-up care as determined by screening results.

In addition to the free screenings and follow-up, the administrative provider gives appropriate health education to each woman.

Every Woman’s Life-specific clinics are open at St. Mary’s Hospital in Henrico; St. Francis Medical Center and Watkins Centre in Midlothian; Richmond Community Hospital (from page 1) incarcerated means that a big part of justice in Virginia is in part addressing the racial disparities” said Quan Williams, policy associate at New Virginia Majority, a group working to engage and mobilize lowincome, communities of color into progressive voting blocs.

Since the first Mobile Justice Tour, 14 Virginia municipalities have passed fair-chance hiring regulations for persons with a record.

“We congratulate them all, however, there’s many more Virginia municipalities and local government areas to visit,” Walker said.

For further information or to assist with similar rallies contact Richard Walker at 804-248-6756.

in Richmond; Memorial Regional Medical Center in Hanover and Laburnum Diagnostic Imaging Center in Richmond. Women, between ages 40-64, who think they may be eligible, should call (804) 359- WELL to secure qualification for the program. Women ages 18-39 with a documented breast or cervical problem may be seen, but are advised to call the same number prior to a planned clinic visit to ensure they secure qualifications.

The MJT stops are free and open to the public. Future stops include: · Williamsburg Regional Library: Aug. 27, 6 – 9 p.m. 515 Scotland St. · Lynchburg MLK Jr. Library: Sept. 10, 6 - 8 p.m., 2315 Memorial Ave., Lynchburg · Harrisonburg Main Street Library: Sept. 17, 6 – 8 p.m. 174 South Main St., Harrisonburg · Hampton Main Library: Sept.

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400 Tyler St., Crewe · Gethsemane Community Fellowship Baptist Church: Oct. 16, 6 – 8 p.m., 1317 E. Brambleton Ave., Norfolk

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Va. invests in helping manage money for seniors Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring recently joined Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), for the launch of the CFPB’s first state-specific financial caregivers’ guides to help educate caregivers on the process of managing someone else’s money in Virginia.

More than 22 million older Americans have named someone to make financial decisions on their behalf in a power of attorney, and these guides provide information for financial caregivers on how to act in a person’s best interest and successfully manage money and property in Virginia.

“Millions of caregivers have the responsibility of making someone else's financial decisions, which can be an overwhelming process with a mix of state and federal laws

and procedures to navigate,” said Herring. “In the next 15 years, the number of Americans over 65 years of age is going to double. Now is the time for families and friends to start having these discussions and these guides can help get the conversation started.

“We need to protect our seniors and I hope these guides will encourage well-intentioned, caring individuals to become financial caregivers for loved ones in need, and give them the confidence, tools, and guidance to do it successfully.”

The first line of defense to protect aging Americans and keep them financially secure is to arm their financial caregivers with information they need, said Corday.

“The new versions of our ‘Managing Someone Else’s Money’ guides make it easier for millions of Americans

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Caregivers have a variety of circumstances that lead them to take on the responsibility of managing financial decisions for another

person. A caregiver could be a spouse, son, or daughter managing finances through a power of attorney for an older Virginian who has Alzheimer’s. In other situations, a caregiver could be a court-appointed conservator for someone with mental illness or a developmental disability.

Va. unemployment rate falls Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased 0.1 percentage point in July to 4.8 percent, said the governor’s office last week. Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remains below the national rate, which was unchanged in July at 5.3 percent.

The average weekly wage for private employers was $905.58 in July, 4.6 percent above a year ago.

“We are seeing tangible results from our work to build a new Virginia economy in communities across the commonwealth by attracting new, high-growth industries and fostering growth in the existing businesses that represent our employment base,” said Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

“The new jobs numbers demonstrate enhanced income security for Virginia's workers while offering the opportunity of lower costs for employers doing business in Virginia.

We still have much work to do, and I remain committed to providing pathways to prosperity for all Virginia families and businesses.”

“Year over year employment is up, wages are up, and unemployment is down,” said Secretary of Commerce and Trade Maurice Jones. “When

the public and private sectors work well together as a team, we can accomplish what is necessary to continue our economic growth.”

From July of 2014 to July of 2015, Virginia’s seasonally adjusted total nonfarm employment was up 40,700 jobs. Over-the-year, employment grew 1.1 percent, the sixteenth consecutive month of positive overthe-year growth. Over-the-year July job gains were recorded by both the private sector, which grew by 38,500 jobs, and the public sector, which grew by 2,200 jobs. Compared to a year ago, on a seasonally adjusted basis, 10 of the 11 major industry divisions experienced employment gains.

As employment grew faster than expected in the last year, unemployment insurance (UI) benefit payments decreased and UI revenues increased. This produced an improved forecast solvency level for Virginia’s UI Trust Fund this year, which will likely eliminate the fund-building surtax in 2016, a year earlier than previously projected.

The fund-building surtax, which costs employers $16 per employee, has been in effect since 2010.

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Lawsuit: Code enforcement is discriminatory and aims to shut down some affordable housing A group of 32 current and former mobile home park residents have filed a fair housing lawsuit against the city of Richmond in federal court after a year of negotiations faild to pan out. The suit alleges that the city’s code enforcement campaign against mobile home parks, which began in early 2014, has violated the civil rights of the residents.

“We all want a safe home and we want to comply with the code,” said Gerardo Martinez, a resident of Mobile Towne mobile home park on Old Midlothian Turnpike. “But we feel like the city is targeting mobile home parks because we are communities of poor, mostly Latino families.”

The plaintiffs in the suit are represented by the Legal Aid Justice Center in Richmond and the law firm of Crowell & Moring in Washington, D.C. They allege that the city has violated the residents’ civil rights by specifically targeting mobile home parks for aggressive code enforcement with the expectation

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“Instead of finding ways to help ensure they have safe housing, the city is threatening to shut down the only option many of these families can afford,” said Legal Aid Justice Center attorney Phil Storey.

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Federal civil rights laws protect minorities from policies that disproportionately threaten their access to housing, said Crowell & Moring attorney Clifford Zatz.

“That’s especially the case when the city could choose less disruptive ways to address safety concerns,” she said.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of Richmond is less than 7 percent Latino but over 70 percent of the residents in the city’s mobile home parks are Latino. The lawsuit describes multiple attempts since last summer by residents and area nonprofits to resolve the city’s safety concerns

without risking residents’ access to housing.

According to the lawsuit, the city consistently rejected or withheld available funding for these alternatives.

The lawsuit asks the court to order the city to stop punitive enforcement actions and to address safety issues in mobile home parks in a way that does not displace the overwhelmingly Latino community. It also seeks damages for the emotional distress and other harms the city’s aggressive campaign has caused.

The city will most likely defend itself in court against the lawsuit but has a policy of not commenting on pending litigation. The city made no comment on this lawsuit.

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Op/Ed & Letters What is fear?

ZENO HINES An ardent movie watcher, one of the most memorable movies I have seen in recent years was “After Earth” starring Will Smith. I was intrigued as to how he would perform a sci-fi genre movie with his real life son. One of the statements that I reminisce from that movie is his statement on fear.

He said simply: “Fear is not real.

The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future.

It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice.”

This statement can apply to most things when it comes to facing an adversity or a difficult situation.

When individuals are faced with instances in their lives where they have to make a choice to better themselves, they invite the fear of others opinions, the fear of breaking an established trend, or the fear of their own doubt to enter into the equation. This fear will prohibit them from making the right decision.

Examples of these could include deciding to remove yourself from someone you have been attached to for a long time. Your being with this person is making you unhappy and barring you from reaching the goals you have for your life This move is necessary for you to grow into the person you may want to become.

For high school students, it could be the decision to change their lifestyle and study habits to graduate from high school. In many families and The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 1 No. 30 Mailing Address 409 E. Main Street 4 Office Address 105 1/2 E. Clay St. Richmond, VA 23219 Call 804-644-1550 Online www.legacynewspaper.com

neighborhoods in our urban cities, the succession of failure is very real.

Many students live in families that include generations of high school drops outs. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, from 1990 to 2013, the dropout rate was lower for whites than for blacks, and the rates for both whites and blacks were lower than the rate for Hispanics. During this period, the rate for whites declined from 9 to 5 percent; the rate for blacks declined from 13 to 7 percent; and the rate for Hispanics declined from 32 to 12 percent.

As this may give the presentation that as a nation there is a reduction of students dropping out of high school, the candid reality is that in every city in America, students are dropping out or giving up on finishing school. This epidemic is destroying our economy and our work force.

Many have tried to investigate, using quantitative and qualitative methods of research, the “WHY” behind the action to drop out of school. I would contend that a possible reason as to the “WHY” is due to fear. A fear of actually achieving that with in their minds is not something that they think they can achieve. If we as a community can address this FEAR that exists with students, we may be able to further decrease the dropout rate.

I would propose to re-write the quote used by Will Smith: “Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future.

It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me Failure is very real but fear is a choice.”

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Whose nuts?

Deez Nuts! (who’s nuts?)

He’s polling at 8 percent or better for president of the United States in Iowa, Minnesota, and North Carolina, despite the fact that he doesn't actually exist and that the young man behind his candidacy is 20 years short of constitutional eligibility for the office.

He’s Deez Nuts, also known as Brady Olson of Wallingford, Iowa.

And as silly as the whole thing sounds, the points he's trying to make seem pretty serious and worthy of our consideration.

Those points, according to an email interview Olson gave to Rolling Stone?

“Half trying to break the two-party system, half frustration with the front-runners. ... I really didn't want to see Clinton, Bush, or Trump in the White House, so I guess I’m just trying to put up a fight. ... I side more with the Libertarian Party.”

I don’t know about you, but that’s certainly a platform I can get behind.

Over the next 14 months, we’re going to hear a lot of stuff and nonsense from a set of “major party” candidates the average American would likely fail to distinguish from one another based solely on neutral descriptions of their issues

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positions.

And then, unfortunately, a minority of us are going to hand one of these clones the keys to the White House (for reference purposes, about 22 percent of Americans voted for Barack Obama in 2012 -- about 78 percent of Americans chose not to vote, weren’t allowed to vote, or voted for someone else).

Then we’ll settle into the recurring four-year doldrum -- some of us blaming the new president for everything bad that happens, some crediting the new president with responsibility for everything good that happens, most of us wondering if it's really a good idea for this man or woman to have access to nuclear missile launch codes.

That’s nuts.

A vote for Deez Nuts is a vote for “none of the above.” It’s a vote for the proposition that nobody who really wants the office should be allowed anywhere near that office.

Unfortunately, it’s a vote you won’t be allowed to cast, except perhaps in some states where writein votes for fictional candidates are counted.

Deez Nuts is a serious candidate cast in a fictional, satirical mold.

The “major party” alternatives are bad jokes, editorial cartoon characters drawn as serious choices.

And the system that dictates victory for one of the latter is their common punch line.

Thomas L. Knapp

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Anti-obscenity proposal It’s not surprising when Ed Mullins leaps to the defense of police officers accused of murder or other criminal abuses. After all, he’s president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, a New York City police union. Protecting cops is his job.

In a July 14 column for the New York Post, Mullins decries the city's $5.9 million settlement with the family of Eric Garner, who died at the hands -- literally, from a "chokehold" -- of officer Daniel Pantaleo. The settlement, wrote Mullins, is “obscene.”

I agree with Mullins. It is obscene.

The taxpayers of New York City should never have been forced to compensate Garner’s family for his death. Those taxpayers didn’t kill Eric Garner. Daniel Pantaleo did.

Of course, Mullins wouldn’t agree with how I put that. He doesn’t call the settlement obscene because he wants Pantaleo to pay. He objects because taxpayer money paid to Pantaleo’s victims can’t be paid to members of the Sergeants Benevolent Association.

Still, I have to credit Mullins with inspiring my proposal for consideration by his association, by New York City, and by police unions and city governments everywhere: Insurance.

Yes, insurance. Cities should require every police officer in their employ to carry a $10 million liability policy for torts inflicted

while on duty. Prosecuting cops for crimes committed in uniform is always a dicey proposition, but there’s no reason the civil end can’t work like any other insurance situation. There’s a claim. If it’s denied, there's a lawsuit, a verdict or a settlement, and the insurer coughs up any damages instead of sticking the taxpayers with the check.

With unionized departments, of course, the insurance requirement will have to be negotiated into the labor contract. As will a clause making uninsurable cops subject to immediate dismissal from the force and ejection from the union.

If that sounds like a bitter pill for an Ed Mullins to swallow, here’s the sugar coating: There’s no reason the unions can't provide the insurance policies themselves: Collect the premiums as part of each member’s union dues and set them aside in trust for rainy days when claims get paid. Eventually -- if the actuaries get it right -- profits will flow into the union's general fund. That prospect should warm any union president's heart.

An insurance scheme of this kind will also incentivize the thin blue line to police its own. If insurance premiums go up, cops and union reps will know which comrades to have a “come to Jesus” talk with.

Pandemic police violence is a problem that will be solved, one way or another. This is a way for Mullins to stop being part of the problem and start being part of the solution.

Thomas Gordon

Hurt feelings?

My concern for America is still growing. Millions of God loving American citizens were stunned and disappointed to see their cherished White House used to promote what God calls “wicked” and “evil.” And guess what,” Ignorance of God’s law is no excuse.”

One can say the same to those judges in the Supreme Court who apparently don’t know those laws either.

And I hate to correct you, but I did hear you say, “it’s my House,“ referring to the White House. That crown jewel belongs to “we the people.” We do not appreciate the White House being used to promote abomination.

Of course, that is exactly what your staff did when they celebrated the high court’s decision on gay marriage, by lighting up “our house.” They disgraced us before the world, but most important, before our “Creator, God Almighty, the Supreme Judge.”

That Supreme Judge left plenty of examples in the Holy Bible to keep future generations from making the same mistake and ending up being destroyed, like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim. Those cities/ nations incurred God’s wrath because of same-sex. In 2 Peter 2:6 you will find that these cities were made “an example, unto those that after should live ungodly.” Now the USA has taken it even further, by saying to same-sex partners, “you have the right to get married.” Instead

of listening to the Word of God you elected to come out in favor of moral perversion.

We know, from God’s Word, that those who practice same-sex, God will give “them over to a reprobate mind.” That, after death, means eternal damnation, first in “Hell” and later “the lake of fire” forever and ever. So ask yourself, “why would a well-meaning and loving person want anyone to pursue such a life-style? And you are promoting this life-style from our White House!

We need to correct a misconception: God Loves Us, and we who have been saved by God’s grace, love Him and all mankind in the world. There is only one race, the human race.

However, rejecting The Word of God, which was made flesh in the person Jesus Christ our Savior, will lead to Hell, because by doing so, one rejects God’s last chance to Mankind for forgiveness for our sins. The Holy Bible states, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). He is “the way, the truth, and the life,” (John 14:6) as he said.

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Keeping the Faith Tea and apple pies When our friend first moved to our home town it was a culture shock. Raised on the slick windy streets of Chicago, he had mastered the ways of the urban jungle, but this experience had done little to prepare him for the Deep South.

He had never eaten grits; did not know what chicken and dumplings were; had not the foggiest idea about pork rinds; had never attended Cotillion classes as a child, or been to a church home-coming with “dinner on the grounds.” This was all very foreign to him, as was the Southern hospitality dripping from the mouths and handshakes of his new neighbors.

One evening, shortly after moving into their new home, he and his wife were unpacking their boxes and beginning to settle into these alien surroundings. There was a knock at the door, and out on the stoop was the first of several neighbors he would meet in the days ahead.

She was the typical, sweet, smalltown Southern lady, gray-haired and apple pie in hand. She gave the usual “welcome to our town” speech, drawling over every word, and finally ended with an invitation for her new neighbors to join her for worship at the First Baptist Church the next Sunday.

Well, you can imagine this dear lady’s disbelief when she was immediately informed of our friend’s rather fierce atheism. “No ma’am, I do not believe in God and will not be attending church with you. Not next week. Not ever,” he said.

This poor woman looked at him, dumbstruck, as he tells the story. To relieve the tension she turned to his wife: “What about you, dear? Would you join me for church next week?”

Again, the answer was shattering: “No, I am afraid not. I am Jewish.”

The charming saint from the First Baptist Church turned and left, taking her apple pie with her.

Over the next decade she never tried to engage them again; no invitation to the neighborhood barbecue, no friendly exchange of garden tools, no further invitations to church on Sunday, and certainly no more apple pies (not that they got to enjoy the first one).

It used to be that everyone we met was a bit like “us.” Not anymore.

From religion and race, to politics and lifestyle, the diversity that now surrounds us is far greater than anything we could have imagined a generation ago. So, in shock, we exercise kindness toward those who are like us, and we keep our apple pies away from those we find different than we ourselves.

We retreat into the sanctuary of our own homes or churches, keeping the unfamiliar at a distance. This is hardly “hospitality,” Southern or otherwise. In fact, it is veiled hostility. Jesus asked in the Sermon on the Mount, “If you love only those who love you, what have you gained?”

I don’t know what is gained, but I know what is lost: Community.

Researchers now say that our polarization and cocooning can do more than make sparks fly during a political debate. When people fail to get to know others outside their religious and social circles, everyone grows precariously distrustful.

Everything from public health and government effectiveness, to economic strength and crime rates suffer as a result of our failure to

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simply connect with those who share the space around us.

In this day and age of “connection” and “social” media, we are actually more divided and dis-connected than ever. A large reason for this is the lack of face to face community - especially with those we consider “different.”

An Asian tea tradition can inform us here. It is common for the Chinese, Japanese, and other Eastern cultures to share tea with

strangers as a means of sincere welcome. It’s much more than a quick shot of caffeine. It is an act of hospitable community building, because the more times “strangers” share tea together, the more like true friends they become.

Tea and apple pies. There just might be something to sharing these with our neighbors that will be good for all of us.

McBrayer is a syndicated columnist, pastor, and author/ronniemcbrayer.me.

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Prince to new recording artists: “Don’t sign”

Prince today’s artist should avoid signing a contract with any label,” said Kevin Powe, Jr., a producer and musician in the Baltimore area. “Artists are now intellectually capable of doing everything a record company used to do for an artist.”

Powe said that social media has made the entire world accessible, freeing artists “to do and say whatever their heart desires.”

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Prince has a message for new artists eager for a record deal: “Don’t sign.”

According to National Public Radio, Prince’s comment came during a meeting with selected journalists in his Minneapolis hometown for the 2015 National Association of Black Journalists Convention.

“Record contracts are just like — I’m gonna say the word – slavery,” said the Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, as he discussed the music industry at his Paisley Park Studios. “I would tell any young artist…don’t sign.”

No recording of the artist’s statements exist, according to NPR, as devices that could take picture or video were banned from the studio.

Nonetheless, artists are voicing their opinions about the statements.

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Aside from voicing disdain for record labels, Prince also railed against music streaming services, both of which he sees as middle men taking money from artists who should be in control of their own music, money, and brand. “ Once we have our own resources, we can provide what we need for ourselves,” said Prince, who waged a turbulent war in the 1990s against Warner Bros. Records. During that time, Prince performed as a Warner Bros. Records artist with the word “slave” written on his face.

He further protested by changing his name to a symbol with no pronunciation.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Prince said the symbol was “adopted as a means to free myself from undesirable relationships.”

In the end, Prince lost the rights to his own famous catalogue and the stage name.

“People think I’m a crazy fool for writing ‘slave’ on my face,” Prince told Rolling Stone. “But if I can’t do what I want to do, what am I? When you stop a man from dreaming, he becomes a slave. That’s where I was.

I don’t own Prince’s music. If you don’t own your masters, your master owns you.”

In 2014 Prince re-signed with Warner Bros. Records, regaining the rights to his catalogue, along with more control over his art and the business of his music. In July, Prince fans using streaming services like Spotify were cut off from their supply of his work. As the artist continued his efforts to control distribution of his music, Prince videos have also been removed from Vevo and YouTube.

Prince will release his new album, “HitNRun,” Sept. 7 exclusively on Tidal, a streaming service created by Jay Z that pays artists directly.

Thousands expected at Africana Virginia Beach Africana, a 3 day festival celebrating family, culture, and entertainment of the African Diaspora begins Friday Aug. 28, incorporating the world class R& B entertainment of The State Farm FunkFest Beach Party with great food, exhibits, cultural performances and special events. Given the growing success of the event since 2013 thousands of visitors are expected to share in this weekend afrocentric experience.

Produced by NNOVACOMM, a Virginia Beach based minority owned marketing firm and Beachevents, Virginia Beach’s entertainment operation at the Beachfront, Africana Virginia Beach 2015 and the State Farm Funkfest Beach Party is designed to provide a family oriented, culturally rich event that will provide information, insight, vendor opportunities, entertainment and fun celebrating the full range of the African American experience.

Designed to attract African American families from New York City to Charlotte, NC last year's event attracted over 25,000 visitors.

This year's Africana Virginia Beach

features cultural aspects of the African Diaspora and a wide range of entertainers when it opens at 2 pm on Friday at the Cultural Pavilion at 24th Street on the Boardwalk. The State Farm FunkFest Beach Party kicks off Friday and Saturday night.

Featured artists include Confunkshun and the Zapp Band Friday Night, Larry Graham and Graham Central Station Saturday night, and Earle Carter and the Myra Smith Experience Sunday Night along with a host performers from all over the region including the Fuzz Band, Rick Elliott, Elements Band, Butcher Brown Band, Marques Hicks & the MO Band and more. All performances are free but VIP packages with preferred seating are available through the event website, africanavirginiabeach.com.

Cultural exhibits this year include the Culture Walk on the boardwalk at 24th Street performances by African dancers and a visit by Frederick Douglas. Performances and events will be ongoing at the Cultural Pavilion on the Pepsi Stage before the free concerts on the beach at 23rd Street.

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‘Peanuts’ celebrates its first black character, Franklin

Ask Alma Dating ex’s twin Dear Alma, I am 50 years old, all my kids are grown and out of the house. I have been divorced over three years, and now I’ve been seeing someone for the past seven months.

It’s like he is my ex’s twin brother, and yes I love him. But my ex calls me once a week. We’ve even talked about getting back together. But now I am in love with two men.

Is that wrong? Let me be clear, I don’t want my ex back.

They both are 42 years old, are both dark skinned and bald headed.

They both are around 5’6” and have the same build. Neither likes to drink or smoke. They both love to go to movies and out to dinner. I’m telling you, he likes the same things my ex does. So it’s kind of hard for me to get my ex out my system.

When my new boyfriend, reminds me of my ex, and I do mean in every way, it’s like my ex sent him to me to replace him. So I am just at a lose right now. Even though we are divorced, and I still love him, and he has moved on.

Confused Dear Confused, Although you say, you don’t want your ex-husband back, you talk to him regularly and you’re openly discussing the possibility of a reconciliation. Hmmm, what is that about?

Couples divorce because what’s broken can’t be fixed and they’ve exhausted all their options. My advice to you is to leave those broken pieces on the floor and start anew. Step away from your conjugal comfort zone, where you’re still snug, as a bug in a rug with your ex. Let him go and pay attention to the man who’s standing in front of you before he becomes a distant memory.

Can you imagine how he’d feel if he knew you were comparing him to your ex? That’s totally disrespectful on your part.

Let’s flip this wig for a minute – if your new boo described you as a

“carbon copy cutie” from his past, you’d be livid! In your descriptions, you didn’t touch on the character of either man, just the physical and visual similarities. That could just be defined as your type, liking or preference, not the reincarnation of another man’s twin.

Frankly my dear, when you make comparisons, you allow yourself to give life to your insecurities. Stop seeking comfort in your ex-husbands ‘ConFunkShun’. It’s time for you to exit his ‘Love Train.’ Like you said, he’s moved on, it’s been three years, now so should you.

By now at our age, we’ve learned, not everybody that you love will love you back. And let’s take it one step further, not everybody you love deserves to be loved by you.

Let him go sweetie, don’t be afraid. Release what’s behind you and embrace what’s in front of you. Just because you don’t know what’s around the corner of life, doesn’t mean it isn’t something that’s good for you. Cuddle up to 50 with aplomb, live to embrace what’s unfamiliar. It builds character and makes you sexy, self-assured and resilient.

Ex-husbands are ex’s for a reason; forgive him, but don’t forget why he’s no longer your husband. When you’re experiencing real love, no one else matters but that person.

Sharing that part of your heart, the value, the respect and the admiration can only be directed towards one person. ***** Want advice? E-mail questions to alwaysaskalma@yahoo.com.Follow her on Facebook at “Ask Alma” and twitter @almaaskalma *****

Following the death of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968, a white school teacher named Harriet Glickman, and a few friends, took it upon themselves to petition comic writer and creator of the popular “Peanuts” comic strip line for more characters of color, a bold move that resulted in the inclusion of the character named “Franklin.”

“In thinking over the areas of the mass media,” wrote Glickman in the first of several correspondences between her and “Peanuts” creator Charles Shulz, “which are of tremendous importance in shaping the unconscious attitudes of our kids, I felt that something could be done through our comic strips and even in that violent jungle of horrors known as Children’s Television.”

This well written letter moved Schulz to consider her request, but as any rational thinking person during the 1960s would consider, the racism and post civil rights era attitudes gave him pause.

“It occurred to me today,” Glickman goes on to write later in her letter, “that the introduction of Negro children into the group of Schultz characters could happen with a minimum of impact.”

Eventually the thought provoking and persuasive reasoning caused Schulz to change his views and that summer, Franklin was introduced along a beach speaking candidly to Charley Brown. The strip, although seemingly innocent and uneventful, was revolutionary in that it showed a black character, a child, speaking

intelligently and honestly to a white character, even criticizing him.

Forty seven years later, the Peanuts Comic line is still going strong and with an upcoming movie, titled “Peanuts,” Glickman meets the young actor from Compton, named Mar Mar that voices the Franklin character that she helped to inspire.

The “Peanuts” movie is a 3-D animated story about a child named Charlie Brown, and his dog Snoopy, who both go on quests. According to the official movie website, Snoopy goes up against his nemesis the Red Baron, while Charlie Brown tries to win the affection of the Little RedHaired Girl who just moved to the neighborhood.

Mar Mar who plays Franklin, the first black character in the Peanuts franchise, is an articulate and intelligent young man. Mar Mar is very opinionated about his role in society, as well as what his character means to popular media and the world.

“This is Harriet Glickman,” explained Mar Mar upon their meeting, as if he were in class and was asked a question by the teacher.

“She actually advocated for there to be African American characters in the Peanuts world.”

“I could not have imagined a more perfect Franklin, than Mar Mar in every way. As a person, a thoughtful young man and as my new best friend,” said Glickman who has done several interviews with the child actor for the promotion of the “Peanuts” film.

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First students enter new diversity program at VT Med. School

Kenya Swilling, left, and Kaia Amoah learn to operate the VT Carilion School of Medicine’s virtual anatomy table.

Kenya Swilling and Kaia Amoah have dreamed of becoming doctors for as long as they can remember.

“I was fascinated with all the different instruments in the room and loved watching the doctor perform the exam,” Swilling said.

“I always knew I wanted to be a doctor.”

After witnessing underrepresentation in the health care profession and seeing inequity in access and treatment for AfricanAmericans, Amoah said she became intent on making a difference.

This summer, Swilling and Amoah have taken a step closer to making their dreams a reality. They are taking part in a new partnership between the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Hampton University that was created to increase the presence of those underrepresented in medical schools and in the health care professions.

Each summer, through participation in this program, two Hampton University students will gain an introduction to different aspects of medical school preparation, clinical rotations, and intensive research. Once they graduate from college, the students can choose to accept guaranteed admission into the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, beginning in the fall of 2017, provided they meet certain academic requirements.

As part of the Summer Research Internship administered through Virginia Tech’s Multicultural Academic Opportunities Program, Swilling and Amoah spent 10 weeks working in Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute laboratories and observing in the Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital emergency department.

“This experience has been even

better than I expected,” said Swilling, who is from Hampton. “I learned a lot, especially in the lab.”

Swilling is working in the laboratory of Michael Fox, an associate professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.

Under the graduate mentorship of Aboozar Monavarfeshani, Swilling is using scanning microscopy to analyze how synapses are formed in the brain.

Amoah, who is from Houston, Texas, is working in the laboratory of Sarah McDonald, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute. Under the guidance of graduate student Allison McKell, Amoah is helping to conduct research on understanding how rotaviruses replicate.

Both students presented their research at a recent symposium at Virginia Tech.

“We’re looking for students who

are competitive academically,” said Lauren Wiley, the medical school’s student recruitment coordinator who organizes the Virginia Tech CarilionHampton University part of the broader program.

“Hampton University is known for supplying a significant number of underrepresented students to medical schools each year. Their premed program made it easy for us to find students who were interested in both science and medicine.”

The partnership between the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Hampton University was conceived by Stephen Workman, associate dean for admissions at the medical school, who worked with Michael Druitt, pre-health advisor at Hampton University, to outline the program. A formal agreement between the two schools was signed

by Cynda Johnson, dean of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, in October 2013.

“Pipeline programs to encourage recruitment and retention of diverse students are not new to Virginia Tech,” said Karen Eley Sanders, chief diversity officer for the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.

“Our partnership with Hampton University is an expansion of a robust program Virginia Tech has had in place for two decades.”

Each Hampton University student selected for guaranteed admission will be in good academic standing at the end of their sophomore year and have strong recommendations from faculty members.

“The experience this summer has been very rewarding, and it’s giving me a glimpse of what the medical profession is truly like,” Amoah said.

“One of the highlights is the amount of clinical observation I was exposed to. Being here this summer has been an opportunity for me to build upon my medical school preparation.”

She and Swilling share high academic goals with the 36 other participants in the Multicultural Academic Opportunities Program.

Spawned by a combination of personal experience and shadowing opportunities, Amoah’s interests include neonatology, dermatology, and emergency medicine, while (continued on page 14)

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Civil rights activist recalls ally who took a shotgun blast for her MICHAEL E. RUANE By all rights, Ruby Sales should have been killed on Friday, Aug. 20, 1965.

She should have been hit by the shotgun blast fired by the enraged white man on the porch of the general store in rural Alabama.

Her life should have ended at 17, an African American college student and civil rights worker, gunned down under a Coca-Cola sign in the fight for freedom and justice.

But there she was on a recent Sunday morning, age 67, in St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Northwest Washington, given a halfcentury of life by a white seminarian named Jonathan Myrick Daniels who pushed her aside and died in her place.

She sat in an ornate wooden chair in the chancel of the church, the decades having taken a toll on her eyesight and her knees, and called herself “a remnant” of the great civil rights generation now passing from the stage.

She spoke of the Saturday death of her friend and civil rights elder Julian Bond last week. She gave thanks for him, and for Daniels, who “in the twinkle of an eye” 50 years ago exchanged his white, privileged life for that of a precocious black teenager.

“It is a sweet moment to remember, even in the midst of sadness,” she told the congregation gathered under the dark wooden beams of the venerable church to worship and hear her preach.

“Thanks be to God,” she said.

But she also said that it was deeply troubling that the same hate that killed Daniels in 1965 “is as alive and virulent today as it was then . . .

50 years after Jonathan’s death, my soul cannot rest.”

Much has been written about Daniels, the 26-year-old Episcopal seminarian from New Hampshire who was killed that hot afternoon in Hayneville, Ala. Although now largely forgotten, his slaying was front-page news across a country, then as today, torn by racial violence and upheaval, and was the latest in a string of brutal attacks on civil rights workers in the South.

Thomas L. Coleman, 55, a road construction supervisor and part-

Ruby Sales time deputy sheriff, was arrested in connection with Daniels’s death.

Coleman claimed he had fired in selfdefense. He was acquitted before a white judge, by an all-white jury.

Since then, Daniels’s name has been added to the Episcopal calendar, with an Aug. 14 feast day.

A Daniels memorial has been erected in Hayneville. And a limestone sculpture of Daniels has just been created inside the Washington National Cathedral.

Ceremonies to mark the 50th anniversary of his slaying her held last week in his home town, Keene, N.H. But less has been said about Sales, who for 50 years has lived with the nightmare of the killing, and the legacy of Daniels and others who fought on the civil rights battlefields of the 1960s.

For a time, she withdrew into herself and told no one what she

had witnessed. She said she still has flashbacks.

“I didn’t rob him of his life,” she said in interviews from her home last month. “Racism did. And so what I’ve thought about is: Isn’t it an absolute travesty that the society would kill its best and brightest when they stand up for freedom?”

Sales, who lived in Washington for many years, now resides in Atlanta, where she heads the SpiritHouse Project, a program that uses the arts, education and spirituality to bring about racial, economic and social justice, according to its Web site.

She is a former college professor who has taught at the University of Maryland and Spelman College in Atlanta and is an advocate for civil and welfare rights, women’s rights, and lesbian and gay rights.

“I often imagine what would Jonathan be doing today,” she said.

“Would he have participated in other

movements? Would he have become a starchy bishop?”

That long-ago summer of 1965, Sales, Daniels and two other civil rights workers, Joyce Bailey, 19, of Fort Deposit, Ala., and the Rev. Richard Morrisroe, 26, a newly ordained Catholic priest from Chicago, had just been released from jail in Hayneville.

They and others had been arrested six days earlier for protesting discrimination in nearby Fort Deposit, in Lowndes County, Ala., the same county where civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo had been killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan several months before.

As the group walked to a ramshackle business called “the Cash Store” to buy cold drinks, they were met at the door by Coleman, who was armed with a 12-gauge shotgun.

“Get off this property or I’ll blow your goddamn heads off, you sons of bitches,” he snarled.

As Daniels shoved Sales aside, Coleman fired, according to historians and accounts from the time. Daniels was struck in the chest and killed instantly.

He collapsed face up just outside the store, still wearing his clerical collar and college ring.

As the others fled, Coleman fired again, cutting down Morrisroe, who was struck in the back and critically injured but survived.

After the murder trial, at which she testified, Sales eventually went back to college, then to graduate school at Princeton, and to divinity school in Massachusetts, telling no one what she had witnessed.

She tried to deal with her trauma, “tried to settle and ground myself, tried to learn to speak again without being a silent person,” she said.

“I withdrew inside of myself,” Sales said.

“I tried to figure out what did it mean to be young again . . . (while) I was still bone-weary from the war on the South.”

Sales said she was raised in Columbus, Ga., where her father, a U.S. Army sergeant and combat veteran of the Korean War, was stationed at integrated Fort Benning.

Her mother was a nurse.

One of five children, she had been a high school cheerleader and a (continued on page 17)

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New cardio-oncology program working to improve odds Physicians at the Bon Secours Cancer Institute are now working together with Bon Secours cardiologists to improve heart health for cancer patients through prevention, collaborative evaluation and monitoring of long-term cardiovascular effects.

Through a unique and integrated Cardio-Oncology Prevention Program, Bon Secours patients who are receiving specific chemotherapy and radiation paths will now have the option of a more thorough treatment program aimed to prevent the adverse effects on the heart. The development of this dual-approach

program is currently the only one of its kind in the greater Richmond area.

Advances in cancer treatment technology over the past 30 years have led to higher survival rates, but while these methods are successful at treating the disease, they may cause high-risk problems in the heart.

Cardiotoxicity is a common adverse effect of many cancer treatments where the heart experiences muscle damage, becomes weaker and is not as efficient in pumping and circulating blood. Chemotherapy treatment with certain drugs, such as anthracyclines and HER2Gail Jones, William Irvin, Jr., M.D., and Christine Browning, M.D.

(from page 12) Swilling is considering pediatrics and anesthesiology.

“I love Virginia Tech,” Amoah said. “One of the highlights of our experience has been living with a diverse group of peers who are all interested in taking their studies seriously.”

In addition to providing research and clinical experience, the summer program helps prepare the students for the Medical College Admission Test. Even though admission to the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine is guaranteed, the students must still participate in a day of intensive mini medical interviews with other prospective students.

Those selected for guaranteed admission must graduate with university honors and achieve high scores on the Medical College Admission Test.

In developing the program, Sanders and Wiley have worked closely with Druitt and Michelle Penn-Marshall, head of Hampton University’s biological sciences department and a graduate of Virginia Tech.

Over the course of the academic year, Sanders and Wiley visited Hampton University several times to meet with students and faculty, including Calvin Lowe, dean of the university’s School of Science. In addition, faculty from Hampton University will visit the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

and attend the students’ research presentations at the conclusion of the program.

“One of my jobs has been establishing and maintaining the relationship between the two schools and really selling this unique experience to qualified students,” Wiley said.

Promoting the uniqueness of the program is critical, especially because Hampton University has similar partnerships with other medical schools, including Boston University School of Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Meharry Medical College, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine.

The program is a proven best practice promoted in the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Roadmap to Diversity, a series of strategic action plans that provide guidance to facilitate access to medical schools for women, firstgeneration college students, and underrepresented minorities.

“We think this is an opportunity to highlight the strengths relative to Virginia Tech and Virginia Tech Carilion as outlined in the Roadmap to Diversity,” Sanders said. “Two of the themes in the plan are reflected in the Virginia Tech and Virginia Tech Carilion missions, values, and Principles of Community. Those themes are our broad definition of diversity and the consideration of diversity as a means to achieve educational and research excellence.”

directed therapies, as well as left side radiation therapy could also potentially cause cardiac damage.

These treatments may weaken the heart, increase blood pressure and even though rare, potentially cause severe heart failure.

The Cardio-Oncology Prevention Program’s lead physicians, William Irvin, Jr., M.D., in oncology and Christine Browning, M.D., in cardiology, will monitor patients whose cancer treatment and lifestyle may put them at increased heart risk levels and work closely to develop a comprehensive plan for assessing, diagnosing and treating cardiotoxicity.

“The primary focus of this integrated approach is for the safety of the patients in our program,” said Irvin, an oncologist at Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center.

“Dr. Browning and I are focused on making sure the patient is cared for throughout chemotherapy treatment and will be constantly monitored for any possible heart issues.”

Patients who are potential candidates for cardio-oncology prevention treatment are those who will receive cancer treatment that is potentially toxic or damaging to their hearts.

The majority of patients who begin treatment have no current or prior history of heart problems, but the new strategy is for a cardiac evaluation prior to treatment to identify any unforeseen risks. If one’s

blood pressure becomes elevated during treatment, then the patient may receive medicine to control the blood pressure and protect the heart.

Assessment and diagnosis may be more intensive if blood pressure is already at cautionary high or low levels prior to cancer treatment.

“By using a team approach, Dr. Irvin and I can work together to improve a patient’s health — even before starting the first cancer treatment,” said Dr. Browning.

“Getting together and talking about the best and safest treatment for each patient is key to improving heart health for cancer survivors.”

The program, which began this year, is available to all patients of the Bon Secours Cancer Institute. The program has already seen success in patients, notes Bon Secours.

Richmond resident Gail Jones was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2015 when she found that she also had high blood pressure.

She says her cardio-oncology team at Bon Secours has actively been monitoring her blood pressure, diet and medication.

“If it hadn’t been for this program, I really wouldn’t have thought about my heart risks, which could have later led me to have much larger issues,” said Jones. “The doctors educated me on what I needed to do, and I actually felt really good knowing that the doctors were working together to make sure that I received the best treatment.”

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Desegregation linked to closing achievement gap JAZELLE HUNT (NNPA) – Year after year in measure after measure, black, Latino, and Native American students trail their white peers in educational outcomes. These gaps were at their lowest in 1988, the same year public schools hit peak integration levels – and longterm data shows that this was no coincidence.

“As long as we have schools and classrooms that have concentrated the most disadvantaged children together, there’s no way that schools can overcome the disadvantage, because every student can’t get special attention. So the level of instruction has to decline,” said Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute.

“The only way that we’re ever going to raise the achievement of African American children living in ghettos, substantially, is to desegregate those ghettos. Make sure that more children are attending schools that are predominantly middle-class.”

Schools with student bodies of color aren’t inherently inadequate – there are plenty around the country that graduate bright, motivated black and brown scholars. Still, it is the better distribution of resources, not merely the presence of white students, that make integration necessary.

“We know that there’s inequitable access to advanced coursework, for example, so we know that many African American and Latino students attend schools where they can’t take algebra II or chemistry, or they don’t have advanced placement courses,” said John King, delegated deputy secretary of the Department of Education. “To the extent that we can integrate schools by race and class, we’re likelier to reduce those inequities.”

The way schools are funded can also worsen the effect. Most districts are funded through property taxes, other state taxes, and federal money (through grants or as part of a larger budget given to each state). Often, needy schools are left at the bottom of the list when

Harold Jones, a Navy professional, reads to first grade students. it’s time to distribute these funds, forcing them to rely more heavily on already-meager property taxes. And as individual schools make cuts to stretch the money, they are unable to attract and keep highly effective teachers, and provide students enriching extracurricular activities, challenging classes, and first-class facilities.

“It’s not because they’re sitting next to a white child, it’s because they’re not in an environment where children with serious disadvantages are so concentrated that the school can’t focus on…grade level instruction,” said Rothstein. “[Funding] varies enormously by state. Most of the special money that is needed to address the problems of low-income schools…is because of the concentrations there. You need so much more money in such a school.”

White flight, class politics, and gentrification also play a major role – if neighborhoods are racially and economically segregated, the local public school system is likely to

reflect that.

“It wouldn’t be fair to say that schools can’t produce great outcomes for kids if they don’t have white students or if they don’t have middleincome students,” said King. “But I think it is fair to say that, for a variety of complex political and historical reasons, resources often have been inequitably distributed based on race and class.”

Those complex reasons essentially boil down to the effects of slavery, and the not-so-distant decades when federal, state, and city laws explicitly separated the races and purposely created inequalities for Black Americans.

“African American ghettos in this country are not…by accident, because people choose to live someplace else or because Black people just can’t afford to move.

We created these segregated communities with racially explicit public policy at the state, federal, and local levels,” Rothstein said.

“The effects endure. It’s not as

if you can say, ‘OK, now we’ve got everybody separated, we’re going to stop this policy,’ and all of a sudden have an integrated society.”

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), a civil rights law, is now up for renewal – No Child Left Behind was its most recent update, and that expired in 2007. Currently, both the House and Senate have passed their versions of this update, and they are significantly different; when Congress returns from summer recess, the appropriate committees will have to find a way to merge the bills into one policy.

Direct government orders to integrate schools would not be accepted today as they were did during the Civil Rights Movement.

For starters, a 2007 Supreme Court ruling found it unconstitutional for schools to assign students to schools by race (and other factors), even for the “compelling” goal of desegregation. The Department of (continued on page 17)

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The Henrico County School Board will make its appointment of a new board member to fill the remainder of the term previously served by veteran Fairfield District representative Lamont Bagby, who resigned upon being sworn-in to the Virginia House of Delegates.

The appointment will be made at the monthly meeting on Thursday and on Friday, Aug. 28, the new member will take an oath at Henrico Circuit Court. The appointed member will serve on the School Board representing the Fairfield District until a new member, elected in November 2015, assumes office in January 2016.

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Every year, Howl-O-Scream terrifies guests with its collection of haunted houses, ‘Terror-tories’, and darkly entertaining shows. The Virginia theme park is looking for people to be a part of their behind-the-screams team, the Scare Squad.

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Erasing HIV stigmas The H.E.L.P. (Healing, Educating and Loving People) Group is proud to announce that the 2015 Erasing the Stigma Conference will be held on Saturday, Aug. 29, from 12 to 6 p.m. at the Top, 10 Walnut Alley, Richmond.

The annual conference’s purpose is to raise awareness about healthy lifestyle choices, offer free STI and HIV testing, and reduce stigma around issues affecting minority communities.

“We are very excited about the Conference; this year’s theme is Breaking Down Barriers and Dispelling Myths,” said Dominique Graves, the H.E.L.P. Group Public Relations Specialist. “We believe that dialogue, support, and stigma free services are essential to reducing the burden of sexually transmitted infections and HIV in our communities.”

This year, the H.E.L.P. Group has partnered with the local nonprofit organization “Don’t Wonder,” to host the 3rd Annual Erasing the Stigma Conference which is free of charge. Information sessions will focus on dispelling myths & breaking barriers, condom negotiation, and mental health.

There will also be a panel discussion on various topics of concern in the community.

The conference will also include entertainment and performances by local artists throughout the day. There will also be free food and give-aways during the event. “We want people to come out to the conference and help us work toward eliminating preconceived notions around issues that are affecting us all, and have lots of fun while doing so,” said Dominique Graves.

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Open to both professionals and community members, the theme is Sharing Best Practices Across Systems to Ensure the Preservations of Families and Communities, and will be held from 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. at the Marriott at City Center, 740 Town Center Drive, Newport News.

This event will provide a day of networking, resource and information sharing, skill building and community partnerships. The focus is on human sex trafficking, family preservation and kinship care. Workshop topics include: Human Sex Trafficking: A Local and Global Issue; Beyond Sex Trafficking: What Can We Do?; A Survivor’s Story of Sex Trafficking; Anti-Bullying; Your Child’s Brain: Embracing Science in Treating Trauma, and more presented by national, state, regional and local experts. Call 757-552-1151 for info.

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(from page 13) student at the Tuskegee Institute, when she was inspired by teachers to join the civil rights struggle.

“I understood, intellectually, violence,” she said. “But I had not come from a violent environment. . . . I had never seen a gun in my life, to be perfectly honest. My parents didn’t have weapons.”

They were terrified that Sales might be hurt, or worse. Before the slaying, Sales’s mother called her in distress and said she dreamed she saw Sales in a coffin with a pink dress on. “She was absolutely freaked out,” Sales said.

Sales had joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and encountered Daniels during protests in Lowndes County, a place described by historian Taylor Branch as one of “feudal cruelty . . . (with) a filmy past of lynchings nearly unmatched.”

Sales and Daniels developed a good relationship.

“He teased me because I was in the process of learning and I didn’t know as much as he did about many different things,” she said. “I was from the South. In many ways I was a peasant, and he came from the white elite.”

“We were bridging two worlds,” she said.

The day of the killing, as the group walked toward the general store,

(from page 15) Education has been monitoring racial isolation trends for decades.

“A district can consider race when changing attendance zones or thinking about where a school is built,” said King, pointing out that districts like Louisville, Kentucky, Hartford, Connecticut, and others make this diversity a priority in their decision-making. “There are opportunities to consider race in a way than can promote diverse schools.”

King is referring to department guidelines to help school systems desegregate and correct the existing effects, without violating constitutional rights. Suggestions include planning district zones, feeder school patterns, or magnet program admissions around diversity goals.

Rothstein and King felt it unfair

Connie Daniels, right, mother of Jonathan Daniels, the young seminarian and civil rights worker slain in Hayneville, Ala., arrives at church in Keene, N.H., on Aug. 24, 1965, to attend her son’s funeral. PHOTO: Bill Chaplis Daniels borrowed a dime from Sales, according to Branch’s history of the civil rights movement.

When Coleman opened fire, Sales said, she fell down. “I thought I was also hit and dead,” she said.

Bailey, meanwhile, sought cover near an abandoned car nearby, and it was not until Sales heard Bailey call

to expect affected parents to compensate for the lack of diversity in their schools. Rothstein did mention that, although hard to find, supplemental resources exist; King expressed that it was something the Obama administration was committed to working on it for the remainder of the term.

“There are places around the country that have been attentive to this issue, and it’s partly through the active engagement of parents, with their school districts, thinking together about how you achieve schools that are strong academically, and expose students to diversity,” he said. “There are certainly challenges around housing, and segregation that we have to overcome in order to create diverse schools, but we have a lot of examples around the country.

And we’re going to…try to share those best practices with people.”

her name that Sales realized she was alive.

“I crawled over on my knees and she and I ran across the street and came back over to where Father Morrisroe was lying, because he was crying for water in that hot sun,” she said.

“And Tom Coleman by that time had come out of the doorway and was swinging his shotgun and telling us that if we didn’t get away from Richard’s body we would be also killed,” she said. They fled.

She is certain that Daniels saved her life. “It was ingrained in everybody in the movement that we were each other’s keepers,” she said.

She praised him. “You have to understand the significance of Jonathan’s witness,” she said. He had graduated from the Virginia Military Institute. A doctor’s son, he had studied at Harvard and at a traditionally white Episcopal divinity school.

“He walked away from the king’s table,” she said. “He could have had any benefit he wanted, because he was young, white, brilliant and male.”

Sales and Morrisroe are the only living survivors of the incident.

Bailey died several years ago, Sales said.

Coleman died in 1997, at the age of 86. In a CBS television interview a year after the killings, Coleman

said he had no regrets, according to a book about Daniels by Charles W. Eagles.

“I would shoot them both tomorrow,” Coleman said.

Morrisroe, now 76, left the priesthood in 1972 and raised a family. He became a lawyer and now works as a city planner in East Chicago, Ind. “I remember it every day,” he said recently of the shooting. “I feel it in my leg every moment of every day.”

He and Sales said they plan to attend Daniels’s commemorations this week in Keene.

Fifty years after the slaying, Sales said, she is dismayed by the state of race relations in the country.

With all the achievements of the civil rights era, “I never imagined that there would be people working overtime to dismantle those changes,” she said. “I never imagined that . . . once again black people would be fighting for our lives.”

“I never thought that . . . politicians would be able to mobilize white resentment and turn that resentment against people of color,” she said.

“And I never thought that at this stage of my life, as I face being close to the riverside, that now we have to walk back over territory that I thought we had fertilized forever,” she said. © WaPo

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS: Offers valid through 10/30/15 and require activation of new qualifying DISH service with 24-month commitment and credit qualification. An Early Termination fee of $20 for each month remaining will apply if service is terminated during the first 24 months. All prices, fees, charges, packages, programming, features, functionality and offers subject to change without notice. PROGRAMMING DISCOUNT: Requires qualifying programming. Receive a discount for each of the first 12 months as follows: $35 per month with America’s Top 250; $30 per month with America’s Top 200; $25 per month with America’s Top 120, America’s Top 120 Plus; $15 per month with Smart Pack; $25 per month with DishLATINO Dos, DishLATINO Max; $20 per month with DishLATINO Plus; $15 per month with DishLATINO Clásico; $5 per month with DishLATINO Basico. After 12-month promotional period, then-current monthly price applies and is subject to change. You will forfeit discount in the case of a downgrade from qualifying programming or service disconnection during first 12 months. HD FREE FOR LIFE: Requires qualifying programming and continuous enrollment in AutoPay with Paperless Billing. Additional $10/mo. HD fee is waived for life of current account. Offer is limited to channels associated with selected programming package. Qualifying programming packages are America’s Top 120 and above, DishLATINO Plus and above. You may forfeit free HD in the case of service disconnection. PREMIUMS FREE FOR 3 MONTHS: Receive Showtime, Starz, Blockbuster @Home and Encore free for the first 3 months. You must maintain all four movie services during the promotional period. Offer value $132. After 3 months, then-current prices will apply unless you elect to downgrade. 6 FREE MONTHS OF PROTECTION PLAN: Receive the Protection Plan free for the first 6 months. Offer value $48. After 6 months, then-current price will apply unless you elect to downgrade. Change of Service fee will apply if you cancel the Protection Plan during the first 6 months. DIGITAL HOME ADVANTAGE: EQUIPMENT: All equipment remains the property of DISH at all times and must be returned to DISH within thirty days of account deactivation or you will be charged an unreturned equipment fee ranging from $100 to $400 per receiver. Lease Upgrade fees are not deposits and are non-refundable. Maximum of 6 leased receivers (supporting up to 6 total TVs) per account. You will be charged a monthly equipment rental fee for each receiver beyond the first, based on model of receiver. WHOLE-HOME HD DVR: Monthly fees: Hopper, $12; Joey, $7, Super Joey, $10; second Hopper, $12. First Hopper HD DVR receiver and up to 3 Joey receivers available for a one-time $199 Upgrade fee. $199 Upgrade fee waived at time of service activation with subscription to America’s Top 120 and above or DishLATINO Plus and above. A second Hopper HD DVR receiver is available for a one-time Upgrade fee: $49 for a Hopper, $99 for a Hopper with Sling. With a second Hopper HD DVR receiver, one additional Joey receiver is available for a one-time $99 Upgrade fee. Hopper and Joey receivers cannot be combined with any other receiver models or types. PrimeTime Anytime and AutoHop features must be enabled by customer and are subject to availability. With PrimeTime Anytime record ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC plus two channels. With addition of Super Joey record two additional channels. AutoHop feature is available at varying times, starting the day after airing, for select primetime shows on ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC recorded with PrimeTime Anytime.

Recording capacity varies; 2000 hours based on SD programming. Equipment comparison based on equipment available from major TV providers as of 12/01/14. Watching live and recorded TV anywhere requires an Internet-connected, Sling-enabled DVR and compatible mobile device. On Demand availability varies based on your programming subscription. Requires Android