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INSIDE Inside the race for Va. lt. gov. - 2 Recalling Dick Gregory’s words - 6 RFF: ‘Diversity is beautiful - 10 The lawsuit to save ACA - 12

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States ignore social competency for students in ESSA LAUREN POTEAT

A recent report by Education Week, surmises that states have largely ignored a critical mandate of the Every Student Succeeds Act that calls for schools to measure the social and emotional competencies of their students.

“Not a single state’s plan to comply with the federal education law—and its broader vision for judging school performance—calls for inclusion of such measures in its school accountability system,” according to the report.

However, advocates for measuring social-emotional learning have said that the current tools need more refinement, before the U.S. Department of Education weighs in.

“Existing measures of social and emotional development, which largely rely on students’ responses to surveys about their own character traits, are not sophisticated and consistent enough to be used for such purposes, they have long argued,” according to the report.

Even as school districts in Anchorage, Alaska; Austin, Texas; Chicago, Ill.; Nashville, Tenn.; Oakland, Calif.; and Sacramento, Calif., are actively engaged in incorporating social and emotional learning into their curriculums, civil rights leaders continue to encourage Black parents to get involved with the implementation of ESSA. “We have noticed that, under the Trump administration, there has been a shift in priorities concerning the implementation of some practices of ESSA, since its inception in 2015,” said Elizabeth Olsson, a senior policy associate for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

“However, state and district officials

High school students listen during a forum on the Every Student Succeeds Act during the NNPA’s 2017 Mid-Winter Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. PHOTO: Freddie Allen still have to comply with the law.

“The U.S. Department of Education needs to make sure that it continues to scrutinize state programs to ensure that states are recruiting effective educational strategies, reducing practices that push students of color out of school systems, and identifying support programs, including professional teacher development and funding for alternative classes, like restorative justice.”

Olsson said that restorative justice programs really help get to the root of student behavior.

Liz King, the senior policy analyst and director of Education Policy for the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said that there are still a lot of open questions about how Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is going to implement ESSA.

Earlier this year, after a hearing with a House Appropriations subcommittee, DeVos was roundly criticized by the civil rights community, when she seemed to endorse a state’s right to discriminate against children.

During the hearing, when Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) asked DeVos, if her Education Department would require states, like Indiana, to end the practice of funding schools that openly discriminate against LGBTQ students and families, “DeVos didn’t say ‘yes’ or ‘no,’” Slate. com reported. “She just smiled and stuck to the generations-old cover for violent oppression in America.

‘The states set up the rules,’ she said. ‘I believe states continue to have flexibility in putting together programs.’”

King called those comments “deeply

concerning.

“What we need to hear from the president and the secretary of education is a commitment to the law, the Constitution, and the rights of all children in the United States, focusing particularly on historically marginalized students.”

King said that the biggest difference between the way that ESSA was handled during President Obama’s administration versus the way the law is being handled now is the commitment to protect the civil rights, dignity, safety and respect for all children in this country.

King added that children feel less safe and feel like their rights are being taken away, under the Trump Administration.

Education Week reported that,

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‘Dark-money’ superlawyer Vogel bills herself as advocate for charities in lieutenant governor’s race FROM WIRE REPORTS In her bid to become Virginia’s next lieutenant governor, Republican state Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel campaigns as an ethics attorney who represents charities and nonprofit organizations.

But her firm’s specialty is helping wealthy donors, corporations and political action committees influence elections — often in secret.

Vogel and her boutique law firm represent some of the nation’s largest super PACs and their related nonprofits, which are often called “dark-money” groups because they are not legally required to disclose the names of their donors.

Those entities include American Crossroads, the super PAC conceived

by Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie and strategist Karl Rove, as well as Americans for Prosperity and other arms of the conservative political network founded by billionaires Charles and David Koch.

Those groups took off in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, which found individuals, corporations and unions could spend unlimited sums on politics as long as they did so independently of campaigns and parties.

And Vogel’s firm — Holtzman Vogel Josefiak Torchinsky PLLC, known as HVJT — became one of the premiere legal shops to help the PACs distribute their largesse.

Between 2005 and 2016, PACs and nonprofits that have hired Vogel’s firm spent close to $1 billion on federal elections, representing nearly a quarter of all outside spending over that period, according data compiled

by the Center for Responsive Politics.

For the 2016 cycle alone, those organizations accounted for more than $234 million of $1.4 billion in total outside spending.

Critics say Vogel’s firm profits from a national problem — untraceable money in politics that is corroding democracy.

“They represent the who’s who of secret, dark-money groups that are pumping a lot of money into our elections,” said Steve Spaulding, chief of strategy for Common Cause. “She’s not exactly an ethics lawyer representing mom-and-pop nonprofits. . . . We’re talking about the Koch brothers’ nonprofits.”

Vogel and attorneys working for her firm — based in rural Warrenton, 50 miles west of Washington — declined to be interviewed. Through a campaign spokesman, Vogel issued a brief statement that said attorneyclient privilege prevents her from discussing her work.

“As an ethics attorney, I hold myself and my firm to the highest ethical and moral standards possible and I don’t settle for anything less,” read the statement, which then sought to shift attention to the law practice of her Democratic opponent, Justin Fairfax, a former federal prosecutor-turned-corporate lawyer.

“There is absolutely no basis to this story at all.”

Cleta Mitchell, a prominent GOP elections lawyer with Foley & Lardner and a longtime friend of Vogel’s, said it’s “outrageous” for anyone to question Vogel’s integrity based on her legal specialty.

“What she does, what all of us in this field do, is we advise our clients how to exercise their First Amendment rights . . . without

Republican candidate for Lt. Gov. State Sen. Jill Vogel, right, during a debate on Oct. 5 with Democrat Justin Fairfax at the University of Richmond. running afoul of the law,” Mitchell said, noting that conservatives do not have a monopoly on dark money.

“The darkest of dark money is when unions take their members’ dues and spend it on political activities about which the member actually either doesn’t know and with which the member may not agree,” she said. “AFP, Crossroads, any other advocacy group left or right . . . that’s voluntary, after-tax dollars. . . .

Compare that with the unions, where Joe Lunchbucket doesn’t know where that money’s going to be spent.”

Vogel’s firm has sometimes been accused by regulators and election officials of pushing the limits of election law.

That was the case in California in 2012, when mysterious donors poured $15 million into two California proposition battles not long before Election Day. Some of the money was to oppose Proposition 30, which eventually passed and raised the California sales tax and income tax. The rest was to support Proposition 32, which failed and would have prohibited unions from using payroll deductions for political purposes.

The size of the donation raised

eyebrows, as did the source: out-ofstate nonprofits that had never been involved in California politics.

When California regulators finally unraveled it — on the eve of Election Day, after the state Supreme Court held an unprecedented Sunday session to order disclosure — the source of the $15 million turned out to be close to home: wealthy Californians, including the Fisher family that founded the Gap retail chain and San Francisco investor Charles Schwab, who had wanted their names kept under wraps.

Under federal election law, the names could be kept private. But California state lawrequires the disclosure of donors who sponsor ads within 60 days of an election. Rather than disclose, the money was shifted from one Koch brothers’ nonprofit to another with help from Vogel’s firm, said Ann Ravel, a former Federal Election Commissioner who was then the state’s chief elections watchdog as chairwoman of the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC).

“It’s like if a restaurant gave money to all their employees to make

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(from page 1) “DeVos rescinded the Obama administration’s transgender guidance to schools designed to give students more protection.”

In a letter to Senator Patty Murray (D-Was.), DeVos claimed that the way that the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) handled “individual complaints as evidence of systematic institutional violations,” under the Obama Administration, “harmed

students.” DeVos also promised to return OCR to a “neutral, impartial investigative agency.”

The Education Department has approved ESSA state plans from Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont.

As minorities continue to enroll in schools across the country at higher rates than their white

peers, King said that parents and community members need to act now to make sure that the myriad needs of students of color are fully addressed in ESSA state plans, that includes access to advanced English and math courses and addressing the disparities that exist between how black students are disciplined compared to white students.

“We have to address the issue of ESSA now, because decisions that are being made will have

(from page 2) donations to a political issue,” Ravel said. “That’s illegal. You have to give contributions in your own name. You cannot essentially launder it.”

Those involved were not charged with any crime; they reached a civil settlement with the FPPC and state attorney general and were ordered to pay a record fine of $1 million. And the two California political committees that had received and spent the money were ordered to pay the state $15 million.

Vogel did not play any role in the California case, her campaign spokesman said.

But legal experts say that as managing partner of the 13-lawyer firm, Vogel is ultimately responsible for its actions, much as a chief executive is responsible for the activities of a corporation.

Vogel’s firm was at the center of controversy again last fall, right after Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina came up short in his reelection bid.

HVJT was enlisted to help McCrory, a Republican, who was refusing to concede.

Within weeks, the firm filed protests against 600 voters across the state. It said some voters were dead and others had voted in two states or were felons who had not completed their sentences.

But the state and local elections officials eventually threw out the protests because they were riddled with mistakes — sometimes confusing legitimate voters with ineligible people with similar names, according a study by the nonpartisan Democracy North Carolina.

Voters saw their names appear in newspapers, as suspects in an alleged felony voter fraud conspiracy. Some had to defend themselves before they were cleared by local election boards.

Pressly M. Millen, a North Carolina attorney for several voters who were falsely accused of voting illegally, said the protest was an attempt to delegitimize the election.

Stephen T. Smith, a prominent Raleigh lawyer, filed a grievance with thestate bar against four lawyers from Vogel’s firm, saying they had violated rules of professional conduct. Bar officials would not confirm or deny the existence of a pending complaint. Smith said he believes it remains

Vanquished rival, state Sen. Bryce E. Reeves, attacked fellow state Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel, during the GOP primary for lieutenant governor, for supporting a gay judge in 2013 and other ‘liberal’ issues. pending.

In her brief statement for this report, Vogel said she was “never aware of any such complaint made against my firm.”

The bar complaint is not against the firm per se but against the four lawyers, who did not respond to requests for comment. Vogelwas not among the four. But the firm was recently added as a defendant in what could become a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all voters falsely accused of illegal voting. A judge will decide whether Vogel’s firm should be part of the suit.

Chris West, a spokesman for the Vogel campaign, said she was unaware that her firm had been named in a lawsuit. “[C]ertainly no allegations even link Senator Vogel to any work in North Carolina, nor has any document been cited to name Senator Vogel,” he said via text. “All work done in North Carolina by other lawyers in the firm was done under the supervision of North Carolina lawyers. There is no basis to this story at all and none of this

consequences for years to come,” King said. “One thing that is important to remember is that the implementation of ESSA does not happen in a vacuum.

“ESSA is the opportunity for parents to work together with various coalitions, the press and grassroots organizations to shape the way the educational system will look for their children and for their futures in their own states.”

has anything to do with Senator Vogel or the Lt. Governor’s race in Virginia.”

Vogel, 47, is a Shenandoah Valley native and the daughter of a longtime Republican donor, Holtzman Oil founder William B. Holtzman. He has donated $1.9 million to her campaigns and those of other Virginia Republicans over the last 10 years, including $611,000 toward Vogel’s current bid.

Vogel was appointed chief counsel to the Republican National Committee in 2004, under her ticketmate Gillespie, who was then chairman.

After establishing her own firm, Vogel made “strategic hires” from the world of politics that helped fuel its rapid growth, Mitchell said.

Vogel’s firm includes her husband, Alex Vogel, former chief counsel to then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.); Tom Josefiak, a former Federal Election Commission chairman and general counsel to President George W. Bush’s 2004 campaign; and Jason Torchinsky, deputy general counsel for that campaign.

Along with super PAC American Crossroads, HVJT has represented its tax-exempt affiliate, Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, which pioneered the use of nonprofits as dark-money political players. Known as 501(c)(4) groups, they are allowed to keep their contributors secret as long as they don’t spend most of their money on politics.

Vogel’s ties to many of the super PACs and dark-money groups are a matter of public record, disclosed in Federal Election Commission and IRS filings. In addition to reporting payments to the firm, the organizations sometimes use HVJT’s Warrenton address as their own and list HVJT lawyers as their treasurers or other officials.

Years ahead of Vogel’s statewide campaign, one of her partners spoke to a reporter about the firm’s work, which he described as helping clients with legitimate free-speech rights navigate a shifting legal landscape.

“The rules keep changing,” Torchinsky told Bloomberg in 2012, “which is part of the reason that people need law firms to figure out how to speak.” © WAPO

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Newport News investigation into Coastal Dog Services results in abuse charges The Newport News Animal Services Division recently concluded an investigation into an incident that occurred at Coastal Dog Services on August 26, 2017, which lead to the death of a dog named “Fenway.” As a result of the investigation, both the business and its owner have been charged with animal care and cruelty related crimes.

The police note that this recent investigation led to additional charges being placed from an incident that occurred this past June, which involved the death of a dog named “Bruce.” In this case, the owner of the business has been charged and a new charge was placed against the business.

Previously, the business and the kennel manager were charged with cruelty to animals.

All charges are misdemeanors.

The owner of Coastal Dog Services has been identified as Rick Joseph Tevelia, 61, of Newport News.

He was charged with two counts of cruelty to animals and two counts of a boarding establishment failing to meet the adequate care requirements.

Coastal Dog Services, of the 12000 Block of Warwick Blvd., Newport News, has been charged with two counts of a boarding establishment failing to meet the adequate care requirements and one count of animal cruelty.

All of the charges are misdemeanors; the charges related to the June investigation are scheduled to be heard in Newport News General District Court on Oct.

Dozens of pet owners hit the sidewalks outside of a Newport News courthouse last month calling for a local kennel to be shut down.

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Recalling Dick Gregory’s encouragement DR. BARBARA REYNOLDS The celebration of the life of Dick Gregory on Saturday Sept. 16 at the City of Praise church in Landover, MD. was over seven hours of eclectic diversity from a serenade by Native Americans to a musical tribute with Ayanna Gregg’s daughter and Stevie Wonder, to speakers MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, to the fiery Rep. Maxine Waters, who vowed to help impeach that “thing” in the White House.

There were torrents of Hallelujahs and especially As-Salaam Al-akum as Nation of Islam head Min. Louis Farrakhan began a profoundly uplifting eulogy.

It was fascinating to see how a man born on Oct. 12, 1932, so far down in the cracks of society could rise so far: jailed countless times in the fight for human rights; 13 books written; a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, movie roles, a celebrated humorist and global humanitarian. Born 85 years ago in the slums of St. Louis, his mother, Lucille Gregory, had to put plastic on her feet to keep them from getting wet as she walked to work. A white man knocked out two of his front teeth at 10-years old for touching a white woman as he shined her shoes; the family was chronically evicted for the inability to pay their $18 monthly rent.

What kind of journalist would I have become if it had not been for Gregory becoming my mentor and coach for more than three decades as I tried to survive as a pioneering black woman journalist in white newsrooms? I have pondered this thought since his death, but intently The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 3 No. 42 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

on his birthday. He had an incredible impact on my career.

He was the one who pushed me to go out on a limb for unpopular people and for causes even if the limb broke off; how not to discount conspiracies just because it is safer to believe a lie rather than an unpopular truth; and how to look and expose the liars, the exploiters in high places, no matter who and where they were.

Should I state the obvious how badly Gregory is still needed today?

Of course, following the Gregory style book meant you wouldn’t have a job long. In some newsrooms the reward for not toeing the company line, disbelieving that white is always right, and caring more for the masses at the bottom than the big shots at the top means a swift kick out the door.

It was not unusual for Gregory to entice me to venture off to distant lands or to stick my nose into events that sounded and looked correct but would turn out to be rotten to the core.

Gregory was a renowned health enthusiast who developed weight loss products, such as the Bahamian Diet, that were popular in the states.

In 1985, he developed a low cost nutritional product to fight famine and took 50 truckloads of it to Ethiopia. I went with him and I saw The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions.

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hundreds dying from starvation in resettlement camps in the desert. I held in my hands, 5-year-old children so emaciated that they looked half their ages, and women so exhausted that they collapsed as they walked. The products he delivered saved many lives.

I began to understand that hunger and homelessness in the world where people are dying from obesity is criminal. It is not because of a lack of resources, but a lack of will, and the failure to hold governments, such as that in Ethiopia accountable.

Gregory’s amazing success in Ethiopia did not get press in the United States.

But he told me his mission was saving lives, which was all that mattered.

Even amidst such tears, Gregory could bring humor. On the way back home from Ethiopia the plane stopped briefly in Rome and much to the surprise of his friends, he grabbed his bag and headed for the exit.

“Why are you getting off here?” I hollered at him. With a smile and a swagger he answered, “Don’t forget I am an international nigger”, which left the rest of us laughing.

Gregory was often shunned and slammed as a “conspiracy nut”. In time, he usually would be proved right.

Greg and I would often meet at some out of- the way place. He would pull out his big battered brown brief case jammed with reports and facts counter to what the news bosses wanted to see.

One day in 1996, he called me, “Barbara you know they murdered Ron Brown.” Brown was the first black U.S. secretary of Commerce.

On April 3, Brown died in a plane crash on a mountaintop in Croatia along with 34 others.

“C’mon Greg, don’t tell me that, I am in enough trouble on my job.”

I knew news executives generally hated conspiracies. Besides who would murder all those people to get at one man even though Brown had been threatening to expose others in high places involved in illegal campaign funding rather than taking the fall himself?

Nevertheless I met with Greg.

He showed me some disturbing reports. First the New York Times, had reported that Brown's body was so mangled it would be virtually impossible to identify. Yet, Greg had a picture that clearly showed Brown’s body in tact at the crash site.

Time Magazine had reported there had been a terrible storm that contributed to the crash, but later reports showed only drizzling rain. Several investigators at Dover Delaware where Brown’s body was carried for examination, reported a circular hole in his skull that some forensic experts said appeared to be from a gunshot; but the x-rays which could have cleared up the matter turned up missing. In addition the manager of the airport where the plane crashed reportedly committed “suicide”, before investigators could conduct an interview.

Whether or not Brown was murdered was never proven and few

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

The real ‘winners’

The unified Republican tax reform framework released last month cuts taxes and increases take-home pay for the middle class while simplifying the code for millions of American families.

First, the framework consolidates the existing seven tax brackets into three — 12 percent, 25 percent, and 35 percent, giving rate reduction to all.

In addition, the plan doubles the standard deduction to $24,000 for a family and $12,000 for individuals, meaning this amount is taxed at zero percent, a significant tax reduction for millions of Americans.

This reform represents drastic rate reduction for the 105 million Americans across the country who took the standard deduction in 2015, according to IRS data. More than seven million taxpayers in Florida, nine million taxpayers in Texas, and three million in Michigan and North Carolina benefit from this tax reduction. These numbers also understate the number of taxpayers who will benefit as the increased standard deduction becomes more attractive for taxpayers.

This is not the only reform in the framework that helps American families. The plan calls for expanding the child tax credit, benefiting more than 22 million families across the country that used this credit in 2015, including more than 500,000 families in New Jersey, 800,000 families in Ohio, and 2.7 million families in California.

Similarly, the repeal of the AMT gives tax relief to almost 4.5 million

American families that paid the tax in 2015. More than half a million taxpayers in New York, 250,000 taxpayers in Texas and 166,000 taxpayers in Pennsylvania are hit by the AMT. Clearly, there are millions of Americans that benefit from the Republican tax reform framework, even before considering other changes in the framework.

By any measure, the middle class is the winner of this tax reform plan.

Under the unified framework released last month, American families will see tax cuts, tax simplification, new or better jobs, and more take-home pay.

Alex Hendrie

Look into your heart...

President Trump needs to look into his heart and find a way to help millions of Americans preserve their access to quality and affordable health care. His deliberate effort to undermine the Affordable Care Act and destabilize the insurance market is unconscionable as it is putting lives at risk.

As a doctor, I am floored by this action to end the cost sharing subsidies that have put quality healthcare within reach for millions of Americans who didn’t have it before. Once again, we are staring down the possibility that people will be forced to choose between their health and putting food on the table.

Healthcare is a right. No individual or family should be one medical illness from financial demise.

For too long, Republican leaders have allowed President Trump to play politics with people’s lives. No more. It is time for leaders on both sides of the aisle to put a stop to the uncertainty and work on stabilizing and building on the Affordable Care Act’s progress.

Dr. Ralph Northam

if any news groups tried to get to the bottom of how he died. Gregory and Rep. Waters planted yellow crime scene tape banners around the Institute of Pathology to highlight the case and Gregory was arrested for refusing to leave the scene. I was also able to write several columns about Brown for USA TODAY and several schools were named after Brown.

And for many that appears to be enough.

When the establishment would not budge to find the truth behind the assassination of leaders, such as Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, Gregory wrote books to shame the system for their closed minds.

In “Callus On My Soul”, he told how “the brothers who shot Malcolm X were paid by the CIA,” who he said had rented the Audubon Ballroom where Malcolm X was murdered a week before.

In “Code Name Zorro: The Murder of Martin Luther King Jr.” (with Mark Lane) he wrote how on April 4, 1968, Dr. King was murdered in a conspiracy between the Memphis Police Department, the Mafia and the CIA, which had a black man planted on the balcony of the Memphis Lorraine Motel at the time of the shooting.

The kinds of information Gregory unearthed hardly ever received major news coverage because his facts ran counter to the acceptable narratives of the news operations. In addition to those of us who insisted upon using Gregory’s truths rather than that of the major institutions were viewed as untrustworthy and soon fell out of favor.

The Iran-Contra story, with my determination to ensure Greg received his just due, was the last straw that helped separate me from my job as a national reporter at a major Chicago newspaper.

In 1979 66 hostages had been taken

by Iranian revolutionaries, who were threatening to kill them. Greg made his way to Iran to pray and fast for the hostages' release. The State Department and newsrooms were feverishly looking hard for an American who could talk to the Ayatollah. When the Ayatollah learned that Greg was in Iran and had fasted for peace during his four month stay, losing 51 pounds, he invited him to meet with him. Greg said the Ayatollah thanked Greg for coming and also prayed that the hostage crisis would end peacefully.

Greg called me from Tehran giving me a first-hand report of this significant development. Once the bombing and shootings in the background sounded so real, I literally ducked under my desk, thinking the noise was from outside my window. The Chicago Tribune ran the story for only one edition but pulled it in later ones.

I was terribly upset by this because I knew if a White man had met with the Ayatollah in the midst of such a crisis it would have been major news.

Eventually I wrote of his heroic venture in a cover story for Playboy Magazine.

Shortly after that, I was forced to part company with the newspaper.

On page 199 of Gregg’s book Callus on My Soul he wrote: “There is no better writer than Barbara Reynolds ..... She understands the way this government works and the trickery that comes with it.”

Clearly my understanding of the workings of certain institutions and government came from my coach Gregory. It has left me well equipped to monitor and write about the Trump presidency and those to come-what is seen and unseen.

Thank you Mr. Gregory.

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Faith & Religion

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Church-state experts voice concern about new religious-liberty guidelines BOB ALLEN BNG - A Baptist attorney specializing in church-state issues says Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ 25-page memorandum outlining the Justice Department’s understanding of the scope of religious liberty protections reflects “a decided tilt” toward concerns about the free exercise of religion while giving short shrift to the First Amendment’s establishment clause.

Holly Hollman, general counsel of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, said the recent memo in large part restates settled law, but in at least a couple of areas the attorney general’s guidance “will exacerbate controversy” regarding religious liberty disputes.

“The guidance treats complicated legal issues … in an overly simplistic way,” Hollman said in a statement.

The memorandum, commissioned

by President Trump in an executive order May 4, identifies 20 “highlevel” principles to be used by administrative agencies and executive departments “to ensure the religious freedoms of Americans are lawfully protected,” according to a Department of Justice press release.

The list includes the proposition that the free exercise of religion includes the right to act or abstain from action in accordance with one’s belief, regardless if it is central to or required by a particular religious faith.

Religious freedom extends not only to persons, the memo says, but also to people who exercise their religion through churches, denominations, religious organizations and even businesses.

Individuals and organizations do not give up their religious liberty protections if they contract with the government to provide social services using taxpayer funds.

While the government can deny the use of public funds for explicitly religious activities such as worship or proselytization, it cannot deny parochial schools the right to participate in a voucher program, so long as the aid

reaches the school through independent decisions of the parents.

The memo says the government cannot officially favor or disfavor particular religious groups, nor may it interfere in the autonomy of a religious organization regarding internal disputes about “doctrine, discipline or qualifications for ministry or membership.”

It says the Department of Health and Human Services cannot “second-guess the determination of a religious employer that providing contraceptive coverage to its employees would make the employer complicit in wrongdoing in violation of the organization’s religious precepts.”

Religious employers are entitled

to employ only persons whose beliefs and conduct are consistent with their mission without losing their ability to compete for federal financial assistance used to support government programs.

Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, denounced the memo as “a roadmap for how to discriminate” against women, LGBTQ individuals and religious minorities.

“Anyone who cares about civil rights, fairness and equality has to pay attention right now,” said Lynn, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. “Treating one faith or one group of people as secondclass citizens threatens the religious

freedom that protects us all.”

AU says the attorney general’s insistence that religious organizations have a right to accept taxpayer money and discriminate against employees and the people they serve could give federal government workers the right to use religious beliefs as a reason to discriminate and deny services.

The new guidance “will seriously undermine protections against discrimination and negatively affect the LGBTQ community,” according to the educational and advocacy organization dedicated to advancing the constitutional principle of churchstate separation as the only way to ensure freedom of religion for all.

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BORN TO BE GREAT By 2020, 65 percent of all jobs will require postsecondary education and training beyond high school. Jobs in healthcare, community services, and STEM will grow the fastest among occupational clusters. Previously, courses teaching higher-order thinking skills like critical thinking and problem solving were reserved for the economically advantaged and “gifted and talented.”

No child is ever destined for failure and the federal government has a responsibility to invest in the success of every student. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires that acquisition of those higher-order thinking skills be the standard for every student but your involvement is needed to make those requirements realities.

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‘Diversity is beautiful’

Annual Richmond Folk Festival draws thousands The Richmond Folk Festival fall event proved that different cultures and backgrounds can exist together.

The annual event on Brown’s Island drew thousands during its Friday to Sunday run.

“Diversity is beautiful and this is a wonderful place to come and experience it,” Araina Campbell said.

More than 30 performing groups from all over the world entertained from seven live music stages.

Sahba Motallebi brought her Persian tar instrument for the final performance of the festival on the CoStar stage.

“They call it the mother of instrument in Iran,” said Motallebi explained.

“Everybody can relate to music.”

Performances ranged from a New Orleans brass band, Hindustani

Khyal singing, bluegrass, flamenco, and a honky tonk singer.

“There are so many talented people that you don’t get to see that everyday,” said Joanna Ernst.

Last year more than 125,000 people followed the sound of music down to the riverfront.

There was continuous music and dance performances, a Virginia Folklife demonstration area, children’s activities, a folk arts marketplace, regional and ethnic foods and more.

The Campbell family were admittedly sweaty after dancing to Cabo Verdean funana inside the Dominion Energy Dance Paviolion.

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Virginia joins other states suing to block Trump cutoff of Obamacare money, as higher-income customers face biggest hit FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for its “unlawful decision to end ‘costsharing reduction payments’ (CSRs) that help millions of low-income Americans afford health care” under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

In 2016, some 242,000 Virginians purchased plans that included a CSR under ACA, also known as Obamacare.

“President Trump’s irresponsible decision to end CSR payments is not only devastating to low-income Americans who will see their premiums skyrocket, but it is also illegal, and that’s why I’m taking action,” said Herring. “President Trump is intentionally destabilizing insurance markets and ripping away health care from thousands of Virginians, and I won’t stand by and allow that to happen. I am committed to protecting Virginians’ access to quality, affordable health care, and I’m proud to stand with my fellow attorneys general in this fight.”

Virginia and 18 other attorneys general are filing the suit in the Northern District of California challenging Trump’s decision to end the payments. The suit claims, in part: “The Administration’s new refusal to make the required federal payments directly subverts the ACA, and will injure the Plaintiff States, their residents, and the entire healthcare system. The loss of funds and financial uncertainty caused by their actions will lead to higher health insurance costs for consumers and to insurers abandoning the individual health insurance market.

The number of uninsured Americans will increase once again, hurting vulnerable individuals and directly burdening the states.

“The unlawful refusal to make CSR reimbursement payments will also substantially complicate the States’ efforts to administer their healthcare

markets and in some instances leave consumers with no health plan to access despite their federal entitlements under the ACA.” In August, Herring and his fellow state attorneys general intervened in House v. Price to defend the payment of the CSRs, which help millions of Americans afford health care.

Joining Herring in the suit to defend CSR payments are attorneys general from California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

The payments in question compensate insurers for discounts they give low-income customers, by law.

Premiums are expected to spike sharply and some insurers could exit the market if the reimbursements are permanently ended.

At the same time, health insurance experts warned that the administration’s decision to end those federal payments will tend to financially harm middle-class Obamacare customers and comes at perhaps the worst possible time to take such an action.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called Trump’s termination of the so-called costsharing reduction reimbursements “cruel”, “breathtakingly reckless” and “unlawful”.

“This is an effort to blow up the system,” said Schneiderman. He accused Trump of lashing out in frustration over the inability of Republican allies in Congress to pass a bill that would repeal and replace Obamacare.

“We’re not going to let him do it.”

“We will be in court to defend these subsidies and fight this decision with everything we’ve got,” Schneiderman said as he announced the lawsuit.

“In one week, the Trump administration has re-opened the door to ‘junk’ health insurance plans and cut off access to contraception for millions of women,” said California Attorney General Xavier Becerra..

“Now they’re refusing to comply with federal law in a way that will hike the cost of care for millions of Americans by withholding critical subsidies that make care more affordable.”

The suit will be based on the claim that the Affordable Care Act “is the law of the land,” and the cost-sharing reduction payments are “a critical

part of the ACA,” Schneiderman said.

“They must be preserved as an integral part of this system,” said Schneiderman.

The Trump administration Thursday night said it would stop paying billions of dollars worth of reimbursements to health insurers to compensate them for out-of-pocket health discounts given to 6 million Obamacare customers.

Those customers, who earn between about $12,000 and $29,700 annually, pay less for co-payments, coinsurance and deductibles when they obtain medical services and prescription drugs, as a result of the CSRs. The administration said its move was necessary because Congress never authorized those payments, which have been made to insurers for years.

Eric Hargan, acting secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma in a joint statement said, “It has been clear for many years that Obamacare is bad policy. It is also bad law.”

“The Obama administration unfortunately went ahead and made CSR payments to insurance companies after requesting — but never ultimately receiving — an appropriation from Congress as required by law.”

But Schneiderman said that argument is akin to selling someone a car but saying that the wheels have to be paid for separately. He said the ACA itself authorizes those reimbursements.

However, unless legal or legislative action blocks the move, the decision to cut off the cost-sharing reimbursements is expected by the Congressional Budget Office to lead to premiums that are 20 percent higher than they otherwise would have been in 2018. That is because insurers will still have to offer the

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(from page 12) will be hit with the full effect of CSR discounts to their low-income customers, despite the loss of the federal offset money.

By 2020, individual health plan premiums are expected by the CBO to be 25 percent higher.

Insurers in dozens of states already had adjusted their proposed rates for 2018 in anticipation that the CSR reimbursements could be cut off.

“I think every citizen should be outraged,” said former U.S. Health and Human Services Department Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to CNBC about the decision to cut the CSR reimbursement.

“We’re not playing a game here.

This is really people’s lives ... we’re talking about your health, your kids’ health and your parents’ health,” said Sebelius, who oversaw implementation of the Affordable Care Act for the Obama administration.

“I think there’s no question it will cause some insurers to rethink, potentially, being in the market at all, and it causes huge rate increases,” Sebelius said.

“It's intentional.

She said that “in the 19 reddest states” — those Republican-leaning states that most strongly supported Trump in the presidential election — “you will have the biggest cost increases.”

That is because those states as a rule did not expand Medicaid under the ACA, which means that more low-income people buy Obamacare plans and get CSR discounts in those plans.

However, not everyone will have to foot those higher premium bills.

More than 80 percent of people who buy Obamacare plans on government-run marketplaces such as HealthCare.gov qualify, by virtue of their low or moderate incomes, for federal subsidies that reduce the amount they have to pay for their premiums.

Because those subsidies, in the form of tax credits, increase in value as premiums rise, most or all of the increases in premiums due to the end of CSR reimbursements will not have to be paid for by subsidized customers.

Sebelius said that the people who

the extra premium hikes will be customers of Obamacare exchanges who earn above 400 percent of the federal poverty line, or nearly $100,000 annually for a family of four. No one who makes over 400 percent of the poverty level qualifies for premium subsidies.

She also said everyone who buys individual health plans outside of those Obamacare exchanges, such as through a broker or directly from an insurer, will have to pay all of the higher premiums that result from the CSR cutoffs. That is because the premium subsidies are available only to people who buy on the government-run insurance markets.

Robert Laszewski, a health insurance consultant, in an analysis of the Trump decision said that 44 percent of the customers in Obamacare-compliant plans in the individual health insurance market did not get a subsidy in 2017.

That equals “6.7 million out of a total Obamacare compliant individual market of 15.4 million,” Laszewski wrote.

Gary Claxton, an Obamacare expert with the Kaiser Family Foundation, said that if the CSRs are cut off permanently “in the long run this [Obamacare] isn't going to keep up.”

Claxton said that while lowerincome Obamacare customers would be insulated from the premium hikes, higher income people would not, creating a two-tier system that would not be acceptable politically.

“It’s got to morph into a different system in the long run,” Claxton said.

He noted that “the premiums in some of the rural areas [of the United States] in particular are already high.”

Claxton said Trump has picked close to the worst possible time to kill the subsidies.

Open enrollment in Obamacare plans is set to begin Nov. 1. Claxton said the news about the CSR shutoff, as well as about an executive order Trump signed last week, which was also designed to undermine Obamacare, “puts all sorts of clouds over the marketplace at a time you might suggest they enroll in coverage.”

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Focus is on women’s health & fitness in October Each October, women are reminded to put themselves first and make time for their health. Making your health a priority helps you stay in optimum shape and keeps illnesses and disease at bay.

Women often put their families’ needs ahead of their own, ignoring minor symptoms year after year until they affect their health. Using preventive care is one of the best ways to stay healthy, allowing you to give your all in everything you do for your family and yourself.

Each year, get a well-woman exam.

At this exam, you should have your

blood pressure checked and talk to your health care provider about what other screenings, immunizations or family planning you might need based on your age, health habits, family and medical history.

The American Cancer Society recommends all women should begin cervical cancer screening at age 21.

Women aged 21 to 29, should have a Pap test every 3 years. Thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, most private health plans must cover this and other preventive care services at no cost. TRICARE also covers annual preventive

women’s health services that may include a Pap smear, pelvic and breast exam and mammogram at no cost.

There are other actions you can take to live a healthy life: - Maintain a healthy weight - Exercise for a least 30 minutes at least five days a week - Limit alcohol use - Quit smoking - Practice safe sex - Get 7-8 hours of sleep per night - See your health care provider every year - Get appropriate screenings as

recommended by your health care provider Health officials note that it’s important to get screenings, especially if you are at a higher risk for certain diseases like breast cancer or diabetes. Talk to your health care provider about family, emotions, stress and non-physical concerns as well. Life events can bring higher stress with symptoms of anxiety, depression, and sleep difficulties.

These concerns are just as important to discuss as your physical health in order to stay or become more healthy.

overdose. The class provides handson instruction on the administration of naloxone’s nasal form and is restricted to individuals age 18 and older. Because spaces are limited, registration is encouraged as soon as possible. To sign up, go to surveymonkey.com/r/ZZC6V6X. Participants will leave the session with a complimentary dose of naloxone.

Revive RVA comes as the region’s localities and public school systems are taking steps to address the public-safety threat posed by heroin and opioids. The potent, highly addictive drugs, which include prescription painkillers

such as OxyContin and Vicodin, are threatening all communities and segments of society. Virginia State Health Commissioner Marissa J. Levine designated opioid addiction a public health emergency in 2016.

The number of fatal opioid overdoses continues to rise sharply locally, across Virginia and throughout the United States. In Richmond, Henrico, Chesterfield and Hanover, the combined number of opioid overdose deaths increased from 51 in 2010 to 79 in 2012 before jumping to 108 in 2014 and 189 in 2016, according to the Virginia Department of Health.

‘Revive RVA’ summit draws close; it will explore solutions to regional heroin and opioid epidemic The city of Richmond and the counties of Henrico, Chesterfield and Hanover will present a free summit Thursday, Oct. 26 to examine and identify solutions to the alarming rise of heroin and opioid abuse in central Virginia.

The community event — titled Revive RVA: Regional Solutions to the Opioid Crisis — will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Greater Richmond Convention Center, 403 N. Third St. in downtown Richmond.

The summit is open to the public, but registration is required.

Revive RVA will feature keynote addresses by Dr. Robert L. DuPont, president of the nonprofit Institute for Behavior and Health, and Dr. A. Omar Abubaker, professor and chairman of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry.

DuPont, a longtime leader in drug abuse prevention and treatment, served as the first director of the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse, from 1973 to 1978, and was the second White House drug chief, from 1973 to 1977. Abubaker, an

oral surgeon, has spoken extensively about the heroin and opioid crisis after his 21-year-old son, Adam, died following an overdose in 2014.

The summit will continue with breakout sessions examining the issue from different perspectives: medical community and prescribers; addiction treatment; emergency medical services; law enforcement; state policy; and youth and schools.

The program will conclude with a panel discussion led by individuals in recovery and an open dialogue on ways to address the problem.

An exhibit featuring more than 15 community service providers and agencies will take place throughout the day.

In addition, the summit will offer free training from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on how to administer naloxone following an actual or suspected overdose of heroin or opioids. Naloxone, which is available in Virginia without a prescription, can temporarily reverse the drugs’ toxic effects, allowing time to seek professional medical attention.

The training, developed by the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, is intended for family and friends of someone who is at risk of an

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RACE & RACISM

Racial microaggressions may reveal deeper beliefs TEWire – Whites who are more likely to make microaggressions against black people are also more likely to hold some degree of negative feelings towards black people as a whole, whether they know it or not, a new study suggests. “Our study results offer validation to people of color when they experience microaggressions.”

While blatant racism may seem easy to identify—a shouted racial slur, a White supremacist rally, or the open discrimination, segregation, and violence of the pre-civil rights era—more subtle forms of bias, called microaggressions, emerge in the everyday exchanges among friends

and strangers alike and can offend racial and ethnic minorities.

Mirriam Webster Dictionary defines a micro aggression as “a comment or action that subtly and often unconsciously or unintentionally expresses a prejudiced attitude toward a member of a marginalized group (such as a racial minority).”

Such statements, uttered intentionally or inadvertently, draw upon stereotypes and are linked with racism and prejudice, according to the new study.

The concept of microaggressions has garnered greater attention in today’s political environment, explains lead author Jonathan

Kanter, a research associate professor of psychology at the University of Washington.

“Our study results offer validation to people of color when they experience microaggressions. Their reactions can’t simply be dismissed as crazy, unreasonable, or too sensitive,” Kanter said.

“According to our data, the reaction of a person of color—being confused, upset, or offended in some way— makes sense, because they have experienced what our data show: that people who are more likely to make these comments also are more racist in other ways,” Kanter explained.

Three examples: For this study, the team, with the help of focus groups of students of color from three universities, devised the Cultural Cognitions and Actions Survey (CCAS) and administered it to a small group of students—33 black, 118 white—at a large public university in the Midwest. More than half of white respondents said they would think or say, “All lives matter, not just black lives.”

The 56-item questionnaire asks the white respondent to imagine him- or herself in five different everyday scenarios involving interactions with black people, such as talking about

biases had not shown similar change.

“Our results are consistent with the idea that the subtler racial biases are important for hiring discrimination,” Quillian said. “The results suggest we need to realize direct discrimination on the basis of race in hiring still exists and is something that the country needs to confront.”

The results support the need for efforts to enforce anti-discrimination laws and suggest a continued need for compensatory policies like affirmative action in hiring, Quillian said, adding that he

and his coauthors are writing other papers based on metaanalyzing discrimination in hiring.

One analysis puts the U.S. in international context by comparing rates of hiring discrimination between the US and Europe.

The study appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In addition to Quillian, coauthors include Devah Pager of Harvard University; Ole Hexel of Northwestern; and Arnfinn Midtboen of the Institute of Social Research in Oslo, Norway.

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Bias against hiring blacks hasn’t budged Rates of discrimination against African Americans in field experiments of hiring did not decline from 1990 to 2015, according to the largest and most comprehensive meta-analysis of its kind.

“It is often suggested that prejudice and discrimination are fading out over time through a gradual process of liberalization of attitudes,” said Lincoln Quillian, senior author of the study and professor of sociology at Northwestern University. “But we found striking stability in discrimination against AfricanAmericans.”

The researchers found some evidence that discrimination declined during this period for Latinos, although the small number of field experiments including Latinos means the trend results are not highly certain.

“The results suggest we need to realize direct discrimination on the basis of race in hiring still exists and is something that the country needs to confront.”

Quillian said the analysis was important to understanding the sources of racial inequality, especially in employment, and to

generally understand the changing status of race in American society.

They realized that this could be investigated by putting together data from field experiments of hiring discrimination, which provides a much more valid method to assess discrimination than the indirect methods others have used.

He said it was striking and depressing to find a lack of change in rates of hiring discrimination over a 25-year period.

“During this time, the country saw some favorable racial trends, like declining black-white test score gaps, slow declines in racial residential segregation, and the election of the country’s first black president,” said Quillian, a faculty fellow with the university’s Institute for Policy Research. “But whites received on average 36 percent more callbacks to interview than African-Americans with equal job qualifications, and we found no evidence that this level of discrimination had changed.”

Quillian said the support for the principle of equal treatment regardless of race has increased, and explicit prejudice has declined, but other measures of more subtle racial

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Organized by Connor’s Heroes Foundation, the exhibition will tell the stories of local children, caregivers and researchers who are facing cancer, the number one disease killer of children.

The exhibition will feature photographs by Richmond artist Kristin Seward and one hundred zebrafish painted by children and local artists. The zebrafish is the symbol of pediatric cancer research conducted in Richmond.

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Author talk in Newport News

Author C.J. Box will present an author talk and book signing at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 26, on the campus on Christopher Newport University.

C. J. Box is a New York Times best-selling author of 22 novels and is wellknown for his Joe Pickett series. He has won several awards, including the Edgar Alan Poe Award, Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38, Macavity Award, Gumshoe Award, and two Barry Awards. Most recently, he was awarded the 2016 Western Heritage Award by the National Cowboy Museum and the Spur Award from Western Writers of America.

Free tickets for the author talk, question-and-answer session and book signing are available at the sponsoring libraries of the Virginia Peninsula Literary Consortium, which consists of the public libraries of Newport News, Hampton, Poquoson and York County and the academic libraries of Christopher Newport University, Hampton University and Thomas Nelson Community College.

The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are recommended. They are available on a first-come, first-served basis and limited to two per person while supplies last. Open seating to the event, to be held in the David Student Union at Christopher Newport University, is limited, and attendees are advised to arrive early. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

10.25, 11 a.m.

The Henrico County Health Department will offer free flu vaccinations to the public at clinics in western and eastern Henrico.

The seasonal flu shots will be provided from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Mount Vernon Adult Education Center, 7850 Carousel Lane, near the intersection of West Broad Street and Parham Road in western Henrico; and from 1 - 7 p.m. at the East Henrico Health Clinic, 1400 N. Laburnum Ave. in eastern Henrico.

The clinics will provide standarddose flu vaccine to individuals age three and older on a first-come, firstserved basis, while supplies last.

In addition to the flu vaccine, the Henrico County Health Department will offer free home-screening kits for colorectal cancer to qualified individuals.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), flu season takes place in fall and winter, with the peak occurring anywhere from late November through March. The CDC recommends only injectable vaccines for the 2017-18 flu season.

10.25, 6:30 p.m.

Henrico County Board of Supervisors Vice Chairman and Fairfield District Supervisor Frank J. Thornton will hold a constituent meeting to discuss cybersecurity.

Thornton also has invited candidates who will be seeking election to local offices on Tuesday, Nov. 7 to introduce themselves.

The meeting will be held at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center, 1440 N. Laburnum Ave. For information, call 804-501-4208.

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(from page 15) current events, attending a diversity workshop, or listening to music. The respondent then considers how likely he or she is to think or say specific statements.

For black respondents, the wording of the scenarios and questions was revised slightly to assess whether they would experience racism.

Each of the statements included in the survey was deemed at least somewhat, if not significantly, offensive by black students.

In the “current events” scenario— the one that yielded the highest percentage of “likely” responses from whites—respondents were to imagine talking about topics in the news, such as police brutality and unemployment. More than half of white respondents said they would think or say, “All lives matter, not just black lives,” while 30 percent said they might say, “I don’t think of black people as black,” and 26 percent said they were likely to think or say, “The police have a tough job. It is not their fault if they occasionally make a mistake.”

More than half of black respondents identified each of those statements as racist.

Responses on the CCAS were then related to several validated measures of racism and prejudice,

to determine if one’s likelihood of making microaggressive statements was related to these other measures.

An additional scale controlled for social desirability—the idea that respondents might answer in ways that put themselves in the best possible light.

White privilege Results indicated that white students who said they were more likely to make microaggressive statements were also significantly more likely to score higher on all the other measures of racism and prejudice, and results were not affected by social desirability. “It can come as a bit of a shock to a lot of white people that their behavior and attitudes are under scrutiny.”

The statement that yielded the highest statistical relation to other measures of racism among white respondents came from the “diversity workshop” scenario, in which a class discusses white privilege. Though only about 14 percent of white respondents said they were likely to think or say, “A lot of minorities are too sensitive,” the statement had the highest correlation with negative feelings toward blacks. Nearly 94 percent of black respondents said the statement was racist.

The correlations between statements and attitudes are

averages from the study sample, Kanter said, and so the results do not address the intentions or feelings of any one person.

“It doesn’t mean that on a caseby-case basis, if you or I engaged in microaggressions, that we have cold or racist feelings toward blacks,” he said. “But the study says that regardless of the intention behind a microaggression or the feelings of the specific person who uttered it, it’s reasonable for a black person to be offended.

“On average, if you engage in a microaggression, it’s more likely that you have cooler feelings toward black people, and that whether you intended it or not, you’ve participated in an experience of racism for a black person.”

In many ways, overt racism has declined gradually since the civil rights movement, Kanter said, and white people often assume that because they do not utter racial slurs, or perhaps are well-versed in and value social justice, that they do not have to worry about engaging in racist behavior themselves“It can come as a bit of a shock to a lot of white people that their behavior and attitudes are under scrutiny,” said Kanter, who pointed out that as a white male, he has had to confront realizations about his own behavior over time. “The nature of how we’re

looking at racism is changing.

We’re now able to look at and root out more subtle forms of bias that weren’t focused on before because explicit racism was taking a lot of the attention.”

Why this focus?

Taken in isolation, the size and location of the study sample limit the generalizations that can be made, Kanter says. But the idea behind the CCAS is to use it elsewhere and adapt it to focus on other racial and ethnic minorities so as to better understand racism and develop educational tools to combat it. The survey has since been used at the University of Washington, he adds, where early results are very similar to those reported in the published article.

Kanter said he’s heard from critics who say the study has a liberal bias, or that the research should examine offenses against white people. But he said the point is to address racism targeted at oppressed and stigmatized groups.

“We’re interested in developing interventions to help people interact with each other better, to develop trusting, nonoffensive, interracial relationships among people,” he said. “If we want to decrease racism, then we need to try to decrease microaggressions.”

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33-17: An application of Nasrin Rezai for a building permit to construct a detached garage at 209 NORTH ALLEN AVENUE.

Copies of all cases are available for inspection between 8 AM and 5 PM in Room 110, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219.

Support or opposition may be offered at or before the hearing.

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The LEGACY is looking for a reliable, highly-motivated, goal-driven sales professional to join our team selling print and digital advertising in the Richmond and Hampton Roads areas.

Duties include: Building and maintaining relationships with new/existing clients Meeting and exceeding monthly sales goals Cold calling new prospects over the phone to promote print and online advertising space

Qualifications: Proven experience with print (newspaper) and/or digital (website) advertising sales; Phone and one-on-one sales experience; Effective verbal and written communication skills, professional image and; Familiarity with Richmond and/or Hampton Roads areas.

Compensation depends on experience and includes a base pay as well as commission.

The LEGACY is an African-Americanoriented weekly newspaper, circulation 25,000, with a website featuring local and national news and advertising.

E-mail resume and letter of interest to ads@ legacynewspaper.com detailing your past sales experience. No phone calls please.

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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY NOTICE AUCTIONS ACCELERATED SALE 1,013± SF Home • 2BR/2BA. Assessed: $77,300 9 Lyford Key, Unit A, Hampton, VA. SALE HELD: ONSITE & ONLINE OCT.19 www.motleys.com • (804)601-8147 VA16 EHO THREE DAY AUCTION Friday, October 20 – Sunday, October 22.5419 Pole Green Road, Mechanicsville, Virginia 23116 Classic Vehicles- BARBER SHOP– COIN-OP – AGRICULTURAL – RAILROAD –– COLLECTIBLES – ETC. SEE WWW.TILMANSAUCTION.COM FOR PICTURES & MORE INFORMATION, VAL#348 EDUCATION / CAREER TRAINING AIRLINE MECHANIC TRAINING – Get FAA certification to fix planes. Approved for military benefits. Financial Aid if qualified. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 877-204-4130.

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We are pledged to the letter and spirit of Virginia's policy for achieving equal housing opportunity throughout the commonwealth.

We encourage and support advertising and marketing programs in which there are no barriers to obtaining housing because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, elderliness, familial status or handicap.

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The Director of Finance or his designated representative will accept written responses in the Procurement Office 1 Franklin Street, 3rd floor, Suite 345, Hampton, VA on behalf of the Entity listed below until the date and local time specified.

CITY OF HAMPTON Thursday, November 16, 2017 1:30PM (ET) ITB 18-18/CLP Phoebus Waterfront Improvements Phase 2 – Pier/ Parking lot.

A mandatory attendance pre-bid meeting will be held. Date, time and location will be provided at a later date.

Tuesday, November 21, 2017 2:30PM (ET) ITB 18-17/CLP Construction Services to Elevate Eight (8) Private Residential Buildings located in Special Flood Hazard Areas. A non-mandatory attendance pre-bid meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 9:00AM (ET), in the Emergency Operations Center located at Fire Station #11, 1304 Big Bethel Road.

For additional information, see our web page at http://www.hampton.gov/bids-contracts A withdrawal of bid due to error shall be in accordance with Section 2.24330 of the Code of Virginia. All forms relating to these solicitations may be obtained from the above listed address or for further information call; (757) 727-2200. The right is reserved to reject any and all responses, to make awards in whole or in part, and to waive any informality in submittals.

Minority-Owned, Woman-Owned and Veteran Businesses are encouraged to participate.

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