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INSIDE Farrakham portrays Trump as hero/villain - 2 Crackdown on black identity ‘extremists’ - 6 Are the Commodores headed for reunion? - 11 HCPS moves to tackle equity/diversity issues - 15

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Father, son treated for burn injuries 48 years apart LEHA BYRD

It was a typical Saturday morning in 1963 for Robert Langhorne. And then, it wasn’t.

Langhorne was standing in the yard outside his Cumberland, Virginia home, trying to destroy leftover blasting powder he’d poured in the grass. He’d been using the blasting powder to destroy firewood in his yard. After several failed attempts to disintegrate the blasting powder with fire, the substance suddenly ignited and flames shot upward and engulfed his face.

Langhorne ran into his home and pulled his T-shirt up and over his head to remove it, which peeled the burned flesh from his face.

“What in the world has happened,” he remembers thinking.

His family drove him about eight miles to the nearest rescue squad.

First responders transported him to Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center for treatment.

Langhorne stayed in the hospital’s burn unit, now the VCU Health Evans-Haynes Burn Center, for almost two weeks and experienced a full recovery without disfigurement to his face. He remembers, “They made me feel like I was at home.

They were kind and listened.”

Almost a half-century later, on March 2, 2011, Langhorne found himself in a similar situation. But this time, he was the one summoning help for a family member. He and his son, Terry, were trying to start a vintage, red, 1976 Chevrolet Monte Carlo in a garage when flames burst from the hood. Terry Langhorne suffered fourth-degree burns on his face, chest and arms.

In that moment, Robert Langhorne’s memory and sentiment for the Burn Center returned, vividly. And because of the superb treatment he received nearly 50 years earlier, he was adamant his only living son be

Robert Langhorne stands behind his son Terry near the car that caught fire in 2011. transported from Cumberland to the very same center that treated him. Terry Langhorne spent several weeks in the intensive care unit, but survived and is now doing well.

Michael Feldman, M.D., the EvansHaynes Burn Center medical director Michael Feldman, M.D., the EvansHaynes Burn Center medical director “I thought, ‘If Virginia Commonwealth Medical Center can’t help you, nobody can help you,’” said Robert Langhorne, now 74.

“It brought back memories you try to forget. A lot of memories I can’t forget now. But [my son] surviving is the best part of it and VCU Medical Center played a big part in that.”

As the Burn Center celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, stories such as the Langhornes’ magnify the

uniqueness of the center. The Burn Center is the oldest civilian burn facility in the country, and yet it is also equipped to handle the 21stcentury needs of burn patients.

“We want to remain on the cusp of burn care. That means state-ofthe-art surgical options, research on using artificial skin [for skin grafts] and ongoing research relative to treating burn patients,” said Michael Feldman, M.D., Evans-Haynes’ medical director. “I see us being a leader in the community for burn prevention and education.”

In a class by itself The Burn Center is a 16-bed space with an eight-bed ICU, eight nonacute beds, and treats between 400 and 450 patients annually.

Patients with acute burns, as well as those with reconstructive needs or those who have been injured by fire, chemical scalds and electrical burns are treated in the Burn Center. In July, the Burn Center received its reverification as an adult and pediatric burn center by the American Burn Association. VCU Medical Center is the only Level I trauma center in the state verified by both the American College of Surgeons as a Level I adult and pediatric trauma center, and by the American Burn Association as a Level I adult and pediatric burn center. Andrea Pozez, M.D., professor and chair of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, has

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NOI’s Farrakhan portrays Trump as both truth-talking hero and racist villain and I say this to our president: It is written that every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess.”

The fiery talk focused on injustices against African Americans and Muslims and seemed to single out a longtime favorite target of the religious leader: Jews. Running through his story of America, he said Jews were the ones who stopped African Americans’ initial progress. About 40 minutes into the talk, an assistant brought out a large poster of a Jewish star and an advertisement for a decadesold Nation of Islam-published book subtitled “How Jews Gained Control of the Black American Economy.”

Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan delivers a speech and talks about U.S. President Donald Trump, at the Watergate Hotel, on Nov. 16, in Washington, D.C.

STAFF & WIRE Controversial firebrand Minister Louis Farrakhan Thursday invited journalists to a televised, 135-minute sermon to Donald Trump to clean up America’s injustices, seeming to side with Trump as a fellow tell-itstraight ally who calls out everyone from Pope Francis to the media.

“God has him here!” the Nation of Islam leader said, referring to Trump during the morning event at the Watergate Hotel ballroom, which was filled to capacity with more than 500 people, mostly Nation members and other Farrakhan supporters.

“What did you say, Farrakhan? Do you think God is not interested in who is president of the United States of America?! Especially when it’s the

time of evil?”

The talk was billed as a news conference because reporters were invited, but no public questions were taken after the address. And it was called a message to Trump.

It was laid out as a detailed history of American wrongs, from slavery to war to hypocrisy, delivered to an unexpected and unlikely president whom Farrakhan painted as perhaps best able to address such problems.

“America needs to reflect on her sins! And who is bold enough, strong enough to say to America: ‘You have been wrong for a long, long time and it is time now for you to actually see yourself as God sees you!’ This is a final warning to the government and the people of the United States of America. It’s written in the Bible,

The poster stood beside Farrakhan for the rest of the talk.

Farrakhan’s comments about Jews, gays and lesbians and white people prompted the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate and extremist groups, to label the Nation of Islam a hate group. The Nation was formed in Detroit in the 1930s.

Its theology entailed, in part, black superiority over whites. But the 84-year-old Farrakhan has also been held up as a civil rights leader by his followers and supporters.

“For black youth, this puts their struggle in perspective — for them to see they are the victims of circumstances,” said Ishmael Muhammad, national assistant minister to Farrakhan. “They can redirect their anger and turn it into something more constructive.”

But nothing and no one were

outside Farrakhan’s critique, with targets from Presidents Kennedy, Clinton, Nixon and both Bushes to his fellow African Americans and Muslims as well.

Thursday’s talk was “a final call to black people that you must change the way you think and the way you act because the time has arrived for you to do better and be better or suffer the chastisement of God,” he said, prompting many calls from the crowd of “Yessir!”

Trump was the stated audience for Farrakhan’s plea, but he was both hero and villain in the story. He portrayed Trump as a warmonger who “tore up the White House” to eliminate any trace of the country’s first black president. “You hate our shadow,” Farrakhan said.

But time and again Farrakhan seemed to offer a fig leaf to Trump, using a Trump-like worldview suggesting hidden enemies and conspiracies keeping the decent American down.

Americans “expected a man to be like the other presidents. You wanted him to be more presidential. He’s so transparent! Like thieves and robbers who dress in suits and tell lies — you wanted him to be like that. You’re angry because he’s your reflection.”

Later he noted Trump got into a spat with the popular Pope Francis, who criticized then-candidate Trump for promising to build a wall with Mexico to keep immigrants out.

“What kind of a man is [Trump?]

That he would argue with a man that every other president of the United States would go to Rome and kiss the ring! But not Donald Trump.

The pope says, ‘He’s wrong because he’s building walls.’ But what about the pope himself, Farrakhan asked, noting the wall around the Vatican “that walls you off from the poor!”

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Thanksgiving Day meal plans complete ​​The Giving Heart Community Thanksgiving Feast is once again hosting a free event for those in the Greater Richmond Metropolitan area. Held on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23. organizers invite all to the table for food and fellowship.

This is the 12th year for The Giving Heart’s Thanksgiving Feast, which will feature traditional Thanksgiving dishes, including turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, vegetable, rolls, dessert, as well as hot and cold beverages.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY D/B/A DOMINION ENERGY VIRGINIA FOR REVISION OF RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER US-2, SCOTT, WHITEHOUSE, AND WOODLAND SOLAR POWER STATIONS CASE NO. PUR-2017-00127 •Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion”) has applied to update its Rider US-2 by which it recovers the costs of three solar power stations.

•Dominion requests $14,653,000 for its 2017 Rider US-2. According to Dominion, this amount would increase a typical residential customer’s bill using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by $0.08.

•A Hearing Examiner appointed by the Commission will hear the case on February 27, 2018.

•Further information about this case is available on the SCC website at: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

On October 3, 2017, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code of Virginia, filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an annual update with respect to the Company’s rate adjustment clause, Rider US-2 (“Application”). Through its Application, the Company seeks to recover costs associated with (i) the Scott Solar Facility, a 17 megawatt (“MW”) (nominal alternating current (“AC”)) facility located in Powhatan County; (ii) Whitehouse Solar Facility, a 20 MW AC facility located in Louisa County; and (iii) Woodland Solar Facility, a 19 MW AC facility located in Isle of Wight County (collectively, “2016 Solar Projects” or “Projects”).

In Case No. PUE-2015-00104, the Commission approved construction of the 2016 Solar Projects. In conjunction therewith, the Commission also approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider US-2, which allowed Dominion to recover costs associated with the development of the Projects, including projected construction work in progress and any associated allowance for funds used during construction.

Dominion states that the 2016 Solar Projects were completed and became operational as scheduled during December 2016. Dominion states that the total forecasted cost of the Solar Projects has increased and is now approximately $131.5 million (excluding financing costs), which is approximately 1.5% over the original budget of $129.5 million.

In this proceeding, Dominion has asked the Commission to approve Rider US-2 for the rate year beginning September 1, 2018, and ending August 31, 2019 (“2018 Rate Year”). The Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $14,653,000 for the 2018 Rate Year. The Company proposes to use rates of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 9.6% and 10.5% for purposes of calculating the Rider US-2 revenue requirement.

If the proposed Rider US-2 for the 2018 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage.

Interested persons are encouraged to review the Application and supporting documents for the details of these and other proposals.

TAKE NOTICE that the Commission may apportion revenues among customer classes and/or design rates in a manner differing from that shown in the Application and supporting documents and thus may adopt rates that differ from those appearing in the Company’s Application and supporting documents.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on February 27, 2018, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Application from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

The public version of the Company’s Application, as well as the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, are available for public inspection during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Copies also may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Lisa S. Booth, Esquire, Dominion Energy Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

Copies of the public version of the Application and other documents filed in this case also are available for interested persons to review in the Commission’s Document Control Center located on the first floor of the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, between the hours of 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

In past years, the annual meal has accommodated as many as 3,000 people in a span of about three hours.

For those attending, there will be free rides on GRTC...with Care Van assistance. All Richmond routes will provide complimentary transportation on Thanksgiving Day. “Bus Ambassadors” (volunteers) will be available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on each bus route to hand out free passes. Return tickets are available in the what has been named the “Distribution Area”, after dining. New this year....Care Van assistance for Richmond and Henrico will also be available. Contact event Bus Coordinator Tina Gee (804-822-2909) - to schedule a “skip the line” reservation.

The event runs from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, with doors opening at 9:30 a.m. at the Richmond Convention Center. Free parking will be available at the 3rd and Marshal streets parking deck.

On or before February 20, 2018, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Application shall file written comments on the Application with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before February 20, 2018, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact disks or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017-00127.

On or before December 29, 2017, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017-00127. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing.

On or before January 16, 2018, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission, and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. Respondents also shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including: 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format; and 5 VAC 5 20 240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR 2017-00127.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and an official copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing in this proceeding may be obtained from the Clerk of the Commission at the address above.

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Virginia home-schoolers top 40,000 for first time Home schooling involves more than just parents teaching students.

Wright praises professionals from the community who are willing to teach her children and other homeschoolers.

“Our science teacher is a veterinarian,” Wright said. “The history teacher is actually the curator of the Virginia Historical Society.”

Last year, the number of homeschoolers in Virginia eclipsed 40,000 students for the first time – an increase of 50 percent in the past decade, according to newly released statistics from the Virginia Department of Education. The agency has been collecting and reporting data on the home education population since 1994.

If home-schoolers constituted a school division, it would be the seventh-largest district in the state.

“It’s become more commonplace, it used to be regarded as somewhat fringe,” said Karen Skelton, president of the Organization

of Virginia Homeschoolers. The nonprofit group, which began in 1993, provides advice and other assistance to home-schooling families.

Skelton lives in Annandale in Northern Virginia. Both of her children are home-schooled graduates.

Skelton said that every month, she hears from families frustrated with their local schools. She believes this is a major reason why more Virginians are turning to home education.

“Customizing one’s education to fit the learning style – to me, that has been the biggest (reason for the) increase,” Skelton said.

She said home schooling has grown in popularity nationwide with parents becoming more involved in their children’s education. “You learn together as a family, and you do more hands on things. People come to it with an idea of, ‘This could be a real positive experience and a new

lifestyle.”

Another reason for the increase in home schooling is that parents want to provide hands-on help to their children who may have learning disabilities, said Yvonne Bunn, director of legislative affairs for the Home Educators Association of Virginia. That group was formed in 1983 – the first home education organization in Virginia.

Bunn said parents often approach her with questions about home schooling. “They ask me, ‘All right – give me the facts. Tell me what the outcomes are, and I want to make a choice that’s the best thing for my family.’”

Parents are especially concerned about their children’s academic success. Bunn tells them that home schooling produces excellent results.

“We have some of the highest levels of standardized achievement tests scores. Our kids are going to college; they are getting into universities with scholarships,” Bunn said.

DRPT reports ridership increases on Virginia Amtrak routes

Roanoke route after its extension to the Star City on Oct. 31) also runs a daily round trip to Washington, D.C. It served 189,811 riders in FFY 2017, increasing by 2.7 percent.

• The Newport News Route, which has two daily round trips to Washington, D.C., served 331,308 riders, increasing by 0.5 percent.

• The Richmond route also features two daily state-supported round trips to Washington, D.C. Ridership on these trains remained relatively steady by serving 174,935 riders.

“Rail ridership increases across Virginia demonstrate that DRPT is meeting a transportation need that benefits citizens of the Commonwealth. Taking the train gets cars off crowded interstates, connects Virginians to business and leisure activities, and provides a dependable transportation alternative that improves mobility,” said DRPT Director Jennifer Mitchell.

DRPT-supported Amtrak trains provide single-seat rides from Virginia stations all the way to

Boston and also provide numerous other benefits. Café cars, quiet cars, in-seat power outlets, spacious seats, and free Wi-Fi on most trains deliver a comfortable trip to riders, whether they are relaxing or working onboard. Riding the train also reduces about 271 million miles of personal driving in Virginia every year, which prevents about 3,000 accidents and saves lives. Railroads are more fuel efficient due to a lesser production of harmful emissions than cars.

In addition, trains also support a growing economy because freight and passenger rail services together support more than 6,000 jobs.

During the holidays and ongoing construction of an enhanced, higher capacity parking lot at the Richmond Staples Mill Station, DRPT urges all passengers using the station to be dropped off, use Lyft, or allow ample time to park. Alternate parking is available at the Henrico County Park and Ride, located just five blocks from the station at the intersection of Cloverdale Avenue and Crockett Street.

WILL THOMAS CNS - Alycia Wright, a Short Pump resident, used to have her own classroom where each day she taught dozens of middle-school students.

That all changed after Wright had her fourth child and decided to begin home-schooling her children.

“We tried it for a year, loved the freedom and we have not stopped,” she said.

A licensed middle school teacher for 12 years with a master’s degree, Wright initially made the switch to home schooling as a financial decision: It meant saving on privateschool tuition for her two daughters.

After experiencing a year in the home-schooling community, Wright was more than happy to continue home-schooling her children.

Wright’s children are among more than 1,000 home-schoolers in Henrico County, where the number of students being taught at home has risen 130 percent since 2006.

The Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) recently announced ridership increases on most Amtrak routes it supports in Virginia, noting this reflects a demand for safe, reliable, and comfortable transportation alternatives. DRPT supports the operation of six Amtrak trains in Virginia that connect the Roanoke Valley, Central Virginia, and Hampton Roads to Washington, D.C. and to cities along Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor.

DRPT’s Norfolk route, which includes one daily round trip to Washington, D.C., served 155,389 riders in federal fiscal year (FFY) 2017 (October 1, 2016 – September 30, 2017), representing a six percent increase from FFY 2016. Also: • The Lynchburg route (now the

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The FBI’s dangerous crackdown on ‘black identity extremists’ KHALED A. BEYDOUN & JUSTIN HANSFORD An FBI report leaked in October and scrutinized during an oversight hearing of the House Judiciary Committee last week warns of an emergent domestic terror threat sweeping the nation and threatening the lives of law enforcement officers: the “Black Identity Extremist” (“BIE”) movement. This designation, just recently invented by the FBI, is as frightening and dangerous as the bureau’s infamous Cointelpro program of the 1960s and ’70s, under which J. Edgar Hoover set out to disrupt and destroy virtually any group with the word “black” in its name. Today, entirely nonviolent black activists face violations of their civil liberties and even violence if they’re deemed part of BIE. The 12-page report, prepared by the FBI Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit in August, and later made public by foreignpolicy.org, both announces the existence of the “Black Identity Extremist” movement and deems it a violent threat, asserting that black activists’ grievances about racialized police violence and inequities in the criminal justice system have spurred retaliatory violence against law enforcement officers. It links incidents of violence by a handful of individual citizens like Michael Johnson, who shot 11 Dallas police officers in July 2016, The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 3 No. 47 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

Justin Hansford to “BIE ideology” and predicts that “perceptions of unjust treatment of African-Americans and the perceived unchallenged illegitimate actions of law enforcement will inspire premeditated attacks against law enforcement.”

This is fiction. Daryl Johnson, a former Department of Homeland Security intelligence agent, when asked by Foreign Policy in October why the FBI would create the term “BIE,” said, “I have no idea” and “I’m at a loss.” Michael German, a former FBI agent and fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice’s liberty and national security program, said the “Black Identity Extremists” label simply represents an FBI effort to define a movement where none exists. “Basically, it’s black people The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions.

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who scare them,” he said.

“Could you name an AfricanAmerican organization that has committed violence against police officers?” Representative Karen Bass asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions at last week’s hearing. “Can you name one today that has targeted police officers in a violent manner?”

It’s no surprise that he could not.

Sessions, who confessed that he had not read the report, said he would need to “confirm” and would reply in writing at a later time. The FBI itself admits in the report, that, even by its own definition, “BIE violence has been rare over the past 20 years.”

The Black Identity Extremist designation erroneously presumes a broad and disparate group of organizations with concerns about the criminal justice system represent a movement with a unifying ideology.

This reflects ignorance — or denial — of the reality on the ground: There are dozens if not hundreds of groups with primarily black members that take issue with racial injustice but have distinct areas of focus, mandates, missions and memberships, and which are just as likely to conflict with one another as they are to overlap.

Beyond that, the FBI’s suggestion that people with “extreme black identities” may attack law enforcement officers has practical — and potentially deadly —

consequences for those who are swept up under the newly created label. Although it’s unclear what actions the FBI will take as a result of the report, the conclusions pave the way for it to gather data on, monitor and deploy informants to keep tabs on individuals and groups it believes to be BIEs. This could chill and criminalize a wide array of nonviolent activism in ways that have terrifying echoes its infamous Cointelpro program, which investigated and intimidated black civil rights groups and leaders, including Marcus Garvey and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Under this program, FBI agents concocted a false internal narrative connecting Dr. King to foreign enemies, allowing agents to justify threatening to publicize his private life and encouraging him to commit suicide. This is a reminder that while the “Black Identity Extremist” designation is new, the strategy of using a vague definition to justify broad law enforcement action is not. The report’s labored efforts to link what it calls the “violent antiwhite rhetoric” of today’s black organizations to “BIE violence” that “peaked in the 1960s and 1970s” suggests a plan to use similar tactics to the “monitor, disrupt and divide” approach that it used against civil

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

‘I believe the women’

‘Gleeful’

The press has been gleeful over the outcome of the recent elections, particularly in Virginia. They are calling it a repudiation of Donald Trump and a backlash against the failure of Republicans to repeal Obamacare or achieve any significant legislative victories aside from the confirmation of Justice Gorsuch.

The analysis of the mainstream media is always suspect, and we do well to be skeptical.

What really happened?

As a former statewide candidate in Virginia, I know there is a lesson here for conservatives. Virginia is still a winnable state, but the path to victory is through the church. It will take the right candidates with the right message. This is how President Trump won. It is how he will win re-election and how the House and Senate will remain in conservative hands. The challenge is getting Christians to understand this and vote in overwhelming numbers.

While politics is only one part of saving America, it is an essential part. However, politics is a reflection of the spiritual and cultural state of our country. On the Tuesday call we will also talk about a new movement to reverse the decline of American culture.

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The first time a woman made a very public allegation of sexual harassment before Congress, against a very prominent man, she was greeted with skepticism and hostility by male members of Congress. The late Sen. Arlen Specter, a former prosecutor and then a Republican, accused law professor Anita Hill of perjury. A Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Howell Heflin of Alabama, asked Hill if she was “a scorned woman” Former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., claimed he had a trove of letters from people who knew Hill saying “watch out for this woman” – but who would not speak publicly because “it gets tangled up in this sexual harassment crap”. Public opinion polls at the time indicated that more people believed Clarence Thomas, then awaiting confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, than Hill, who testified that Thomas had made sexual advances and graphic sexual remarks to her when he was her boss at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

More than a quarter century later, public people in politics, entertainment and journalism are battling sexual harassment or assault charges.

Several prominent, recent cases have given the benefit of the doubt to the complainant, emboldening victims while also making men worry that they might be wrongly accused or swept up in a so-called “witch hunt”.

But one things appears to be changing, something that was voiced

by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell when he was asked about the Alabama man hoping to join McConnell’s caucus next month. “I believe the women,” McConnell said.

This gives a lot of women hope.

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(from page 6) rights activists.

The FBI’s branding of individuals and groups troubled by racial injustice and police misconduct as dangerous “Black Identity Extremists” echoes and validates the way racist fringe groups on the right, like neo-Nazis or the KKK, see these activists. By encouraging the public to view groups like Black Lives Matter (which has offered a robust critique of systemic police violence against African-Americans and has organized peaceful direct actions but has no links to terrorism or violence) as a threat, the designation indirectly emboldens private violence against black activists. To make matters worse, the FBI memo comes at a time of mounting white supremacy and white nationalism, and as the Trump administration has announced plans to cut Countering Violent Extremism funds to fight against white supremacists and neoNazis despite their having actual historical links to violence.

Finally, the FBI designation compounds the vulnerability of black Muslims, who make up the largest segment — at least 25 percent — of the Muslim population in the United States. Muslim communities are already the targets of counter-radicalization policing.

Neighborhoods, campuses and institutions where black Muslims organize around racial justice and against police brutality could now be doubly scrutinized with double the threats to civil liberties, particularly as the Trump administration seeks to intensify counter-radicalization measures.

In fact, the fabrication of a “BIE” movement that could justify the FBI’s marshaling of its

counterterrorism capabilities against anyone who it decides fits the vague, baseless designation potentially threatens the civil liberties of all Americans. The Cointelpro program began with an effort to prevent the rise of a “black messiah who could unify and electrify the militant black nationalist movement” and evolved to target the American Indian Movement, the Brown Berets and those who protested against the Vietnam War. Similarly, the FBI.’s broadening of the “War on Terror” to include Black Identity Extremists in addition to the primary targets of that campaign — Muslims — could be just the beginning. It’s not hard to imagine that those who advocate for women’s rights, immigrant rights and other groups could be the subject of a fantasy “movement” in a future FBI report.

After years of silence, a Senate committee convened by Senator Frank Church of Idaho in 1975 finally revealed how deeply the Cointelpro program degraded American democracy by infiltrating and causing dissension within organizations, stoking rivalries, and even placing agent provocateurs inside protest movements to initiate violence. Lawmakers should pay the same attention to what the FBI is doing today. Representative Bass’s grilling of Sessions about the BIE. report was a start, but the issue demands more attention.

Congress should hold formal hearings dedicated to the FBI’s use of domestic terrorism resources and accompanying designations to target citizens who have done nothing more than express their desire for justice.

Beydoun and Hansford are both law professors at University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and Howard University School of Law, respectively.

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Catholic cardinal condemns ‘forces of division’ and fear RACHEL ZOLL The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops decried what he said were “the forces of division” in the country, as he called for immigration policies that keep families together and a “humane” approach to policing the border.

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, Texas, affirmed the government’s authority to protect national security. But he said recent policies and attitudes have often been rooted in anxiety about people who “look, talk and even think differently.” That fear is present both within and outside the church, he said.

“The forces of division prey on our fear of the unfamiliar, the different.

But fear is not of God,” said DiNardo, in an address to the bishops’ fall meeting in Baltimore. “They tempt us to see a threat in the stranger.”

DiNardo never mentioned President Trump by name, focusing instead on government policy. DiNardo said the country had a “moral responsibility” to protect the border “in a humane way.” He said a “pro-life immigration policy is one that does not tear families apart.” And he expressed support for young immigrants known by their advocates as Dreamers.

For “those who have only known the United States as their home, we make Pope Francis’ words our own: Keep on dreaming,” DiNardo said.

Trump has said an aggressive deportation policy and restrictions on refugee entry to the U.S. are critical for national security. His administration has decided to phase out temporary deportation protections enacted under former President Obama for a number of those young people brought to the country illegally as children, giving Congress until March to come up with a new policy. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has protected about 800,000 people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children or came with families that overstayed visas.

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of the Archdiocese of GalvestonHouston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, delivers remarks at the USCCB’s annual fall meeting in Baltimore.

The 68-million-member U.S.

Catholic church, the country’s largest denomination by far, runs a nationwide network of support programs for refugees and immigrants. Immigrants make up a large share of church members, including a growing presence of Latinos, both newcomers and U.S.born parishioners. Pope Francis has made aid for immigrants and refugees a priority of his pontificate.

DiNardo linked the church’s advocacy for immigrants with the Roman Catholic teaching against abortion, saying respect for others begins in the womb. He also called for stronger religious liberty protections for health care workers and others who oppose abortion.

The bishops’ meeting began Sunday

night with an opening Mass presided over by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of their conference. In his sermon, Parolin encouraged bishops to continue bringing the church’s voice to “social issues and political debates.”

“The urgent need to welcome and integrate new waves of immigrants continues unabated,” Parolin said. “At the same time, the Catholic community is called, under your guidance, to work for an ever more just and inclusive society by dispelling the shadows of polarization, divisiveness and societal breakdown by the pure light of the Gospel.”

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In ‘Roman J. Israel, Esq.,’ Denzel is out of his element

Partly because of economics, partly because of a lack of imagination, Hollywood barely makes characterdriven movies anymore. So there is a sense in which “Roman J. Israel, Esq.,” a wildly idiosyncratic drama about a wildly idiosyncratic lawyer, deserves not only critical leniency, but also maybe your investment.

Yet this film doesn’t do the cause many favors. It certainly doesn’t serve Denzel Washington, in a role unlike any he has played that nevertheless saddles him with a collection of tics meant to compensate for the underrealized complexity of the part. And it offers tonal whiplash for viewers, with several potentially great ideas that don’t settle into a coherent whole. The movie starts in the vein of a ruthlessly intelligent drama like “Michael Clayton” before racing through adversity, running a couple of unearned victory laps and landing just shy of a mawkish Will Smith vehicle like “Seven Pounds.”

The film was written and directed

by Dan Gilroy, whose “Nightcrawler” centered on Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), a monomaniacal cameraman whose lack of a moral compass allowed him to succeed in local television news. Roman Israel (Washington) is equally singleminded in his pursuits, but otherwise he’s Lou’s opposite: a hapless striver whose compulsions interfere with his ambitions.

Roman keeps to his office in a small Los Angeles firm. He is a whiz with briefs and apparently knows the legal code by number, but his partner is always the one who appears in court, having more tolerance for what Roman calls the “butchery” of

plea deals and excessive sentences.

When the partner has a heart attack, Roman, who can’t run the firm alone or stop himself from talking back to a judge, eventually takes a job with George Pierce (Colin Farrell), a highflying lawyer who doesn’t necessarily share Roman’s ideals.

A veteran social reformer with a dated hairstyle and glasses that only exaggerate his awkwardness, Roman is almost certainly somewhere on the autism spectrum. In a performance that’s meant to grate, Washington highlights the character’s difficulty making eye contact and his habit of laughing and smiling with too much emphasis. As intriguing as it is to watch a movie about someone who is gifted yet hamstrung by his own mind, you do wonder whether — after Roman and Lou — Gilroy is capable of writing protagonists who aren’t so affectedly at odds with their environments.

The fish-out-of-water clash at the firm is absorbing enough, but the movie misfires when it appoints Roman as a sort of an angelic figure (or, as his last name may signal, a prophet).

Carmen Ejogo appears as a younger civil rights advocate who, unlike the other activists we meet from her generation, recognizes Roman’s past contributions and explains that she feels privileged to know him. Roman even begins to grow on George, who inexplicably warms to him just as Roman is wreaking havoc at the firm.

And when Roman makes not one but two symbolic getaways — one to Santa Monica, one to the desert — “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” seems like a movie that has no idea where it’s heading.

While “Nightcrawler” delivered its bludgeoning lecture on TV sensationalism about four decades too late, “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” goes oddly easy on the cruel bureaucracy of the legal system. Either Roman is too pure for the world of this movie or he is not. Gilroy, perhaps similarly caught between integrity and commercial calculation, gets as lost as his hero.

Ask Alma

I moved in with my boyfriend and his wife.

Now I’m pregnant Dear Alma, I really enjoy your column and I could really use some advice. I’ll try to keep this short. I had a long-term relationship and we broke up and he moved to a new state. After three year,s we started talking again on Facebook and then one thing led to another and we got back together.

We were still having problems and we broke up again.

Within a year he married someone else. I was heartbroken and couldn’t believe he married somebody else after all that we had. Fast forward, it’s been five years and I have not been in another relationship like the one we had.

He and I started talking again, we met up and everything fell back into place. Instead of leaving his wife and kids he decided we all should be together and his wife agreed. Things have been cool for the last eight months. I recently found out I was pregnant and I’m so happy and so is he. She, on the other hand, seems to be treating me differently. We are not jelling the way we were and I don’t understand. I was thinking maybe I should move out, what do you think?

Signed: Perplexed sister-wife Dear sister-wife, I think somebody’s gotta tell you, so, it might as well be me—your

boyfriend’s wife doesn’t like you; she never has, but she’s in “crazy” love with her husband. Unless I’ve been hit by a midnight train to Georgia and forgot about it, I can’t think of one woman, who willingly wants to share her husband. That doesn’t mean she won’t do it, just trust me when I say, that wouldn’t be her first option. Nope, girl, a “clear headed, got it going on, ain’t got no time for foolishness” woman requires her man to love her with his whole heart, but that’s not what we have here.

Don’t get me wrong, if an open marriage is what you seek, more power to you, but that’s not what you’re talking about. You and he had a long-term “on-again, offagain” relationship, that didn’t work. In my book, that makes this something else.

Your threesome has just become one too many, so I’d suggest you sleep with one eye open. If Mrs. #1, (um, that’s right) isn’t as happy as you are about the pregnancy, clearly, she will soon bring this train ride to an end. The question is, will she ask you to transfer or make it your last stop. Then again, if she decides to disembark, hold off on your happy dance, ‘cause, to be truthful, you’ll never be enough woman for that man. He is using you and he is using her. One or both of you need to be sick and tired of being sick and tired—and shared.

My advice, move out of her house to your own place and make your baby a priority. There are no if, ands or buts about it. Sometimes it’s difficult to love ourselves the way we ought but mothers can love their children better than they love themselves, you’ll see. That, my dear, needs to become your new problem. As a matter of fact, you and I need a telephone call, email me your number.

Meanwhile, I hope you realize you’re sleeping with the frenemy and you don’t even know it.

Recognize and identify your worth, grab ahold of it. Your sweet new baby needs you to “woman up.”

Kick that brainwashing, cheating, deceiving holder of your heart to the curb. He’s used up enough of your time.

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Nov. 22, 2017 • 11

Commodores’ McClary talks reunion, new book STACY M. BROWN Thomas McClary, the legendary founder of the super group the Commodores, has a new book that takes readers on a journey through Motown, the Civil Rights Movement and a backstage war for the ages.

McClary, who co-founded the group with Lionel Richie, recently released “Rock and Soul,” a stirring autobiography where readers also learn about his activism.

“I kept getting questions as to when are the original Commodores going to do reunion and, after hearing that for the ‘umpteenth’ time I realized that people wanted to know,” said McClary. “So, I started to think about it and started writing things down.”

The book details McClary’s recruitment of Richie, one of the biggest selling artists in the history of Motown Records.

“When I met Lionel, he was a very shy guy and I had to convince his grandmother and parents to allow him to play in the band,” McClary said. “I pushed him out to become the lead singer after our initial lead singer was drafted into the Vietnam War. I overheard Lionel singing in the shower one day and I said, ‘hey, you can sing.’”

When the book begins, McClary is in a courtroom. One of the members secretly trademarked the Commodores name, barring McClary’s use, while performing separately.

“I think readers will be surprised at how perseverance played a role in our success and they will also be surprised to know that, even though we had a very united front, behind the scenes things weren’t so kosher,” he said. “I’m the founder and all of us were equal as it relates to corporate ownership and the name. One of the guys decided he was going to take it on his own to trademark the name and I’m still handling it.”

The singer, musician and songwriter is credited along with Richie for writing nearly all of the Commodores music, a bevy of hits that’s led to multiple Grammy nomination and induction into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.

In addition to his musical prowess, McClary counts as one of the Civil Rights Movement’s unsung heroes.

The first black American to integrate Lake County Public Schools in Eustis, Fla., amidst formidable racial tension, McClary walked with boldness when entering the doors of the all-white school.

He also fought to open doors of opportunities for other African Americans and he continues to work to help others overcome racial bigotry and other

obstacles.

McClary said it’s as important today as ever before. “Man, I never thought I’d be appreciative of a president like George W. Bush,” he said. “To compare him to what we have in office today, I never thought I’d long for a George Bush.”

McClary said fans have repeatedly asked about a possible reunion of the original Commodores, a group that turned out such iconic and time-tested hits as “Brick House,” “Easy,” and “Just to be Close to you.”

“It’s going to happen. I’ve spent 30 years trying to make it happen and Lionel and I recently performed together in New Zealand and at the Superdome, so I’m optimistic that a reunion with the five living original members will happen,” said McClary, whose recollections about the great “Motown Sound” is recorded in the new book that has others taking notice.

“It’s captivating and awe inspiring,” singer Ray Parker Jr. said.

Kool & the Gang Founder Robert Bell wrote a moving review of “Rock and Soul” calling it “an emotion filled memoir of a cherished walk and a celebration of life, through the highs and lows of a natural born star. Thoroughly entertaining and moving.”

Hall of Fame NBA Star Julius “Dr. J” Erving also praised McClary’s memoirs.

“A resounding testament of the resilience of the force that is Thomas McClary,” Erving said. “This book gave pure energy to my soul.”

Riveting, rousing, and outright inspiring, Rock and Soul is an intimate portrait of McClary, said the book’s publishers, 13th & Joan.

The 362-page book recounts the Civil Rights Movement, and McClary’s early days of leaving home to attend Tuskegee University where he met Richie.

It highlights McClary’s rise from the concrete of societal imposed standards to musical genius.

McClary relentlessly laid the foundation to form a sound and a family of talent that the world had yet to witness.

Countless hours with his guitar, and blood, sweat, and tears became synonymous with crafting a sound that intricately fused rhythm and blues, funk and rock, pop and jazz, and moved audiences to undeniable emotion with a language that knew no barriers.

“Obviously I have a lot of respect for Berry Gordy and what he did at Motown and for Black people,” McClary said. “Stevie Wonder has always been incredible, as has Smokey Robinson and Suzanne de Passe.

We learned a lot from all of them, the likes of Norman Whitfield and Marvin Gaye all of whom had an open door policy, where we could ask how they did what they did and what we could use to improve our situation.”

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Despite recent wins for Democrats, gerrymanders dim hopes for 2018

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, left, shakes Democratic Gov.-elect Ralph Northam’s hands during a previous fundraiser.

For Democrats, signs everywhere suddenly look rosy.

They won smashing victories this month here in Virginia and other states. With voters giving the Trump presidency and the Republican-led Congress dismal grades, and the Democratic grass roots re-energized, hope is widespread for a takeover of the House of Representatives and a strong run in the Senate in the 2018 midterm elections.

But for all the optimism, the elections in Virginia vividly reflected why the reality might be a good deal harsher. While Democrats won the governorship by nearly nine percentage points and won a similar margin in total votes in legislative races, it appears likely, unless recounts reverse seats, that they will fall just short of taking control of the state’s heavily gerrymandered House of Delegates.

And around the country, gerrymandering, refined to a high art, and increasingly restrictive voting laws have left many experts wary of assuming that the intensity of Democratic voters will translate into equally robust electoral gains.

For some, the lesson of Virginia is that grass-roots organizing and voters eager to turn out can pull off big wins in unlikely places. But for others, the gap between votes and legislative seats is a cautionary reminder that Democrats face daunting structural obstacles in turning around Republican majorities in Congress and in state legislatures.

“If Democrats win 52, 53, 54 percent of the national House vote,

we’re likely to see Republicans hold onto control,” Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a University of Chicago law professor and an expert on gerrymanders, said in an interview. “Unless there’s a true wave, I think Democrats will be disappointed in 2018.”

Republicans scoff at the notion that political gerrymandering, a bipartisan sport nearly as old as the Republic, presents a meaningful barrier to Democrats’ chances.

“What you’ve got there is a classic fig leaf by the Democrats to explain their ineptitude and lack of focus and ultimate lack of ability to convince the voters they have a plan to move forward,” said Matt Walter, president of the Republican State Leadership Committee, which focuses on statehouse races. The committee’s success in winning state legislative seats around the country in 2010 helped Republicans draw favorable congressional districts in state after state.

The Democratic Party’s political challenges go well beyond the structure of American elections: The party’s bench of candidates is depleted after several electoral wipeouts. Divisions between the Democratic establishment and the party’s activist base threaten to yield a rocky primary season. In large swaths of the country, Trump remains a popular figure, likely limiting the inroads Democrats can make into rural areas where their appeal has faded in recent years.

What’s more, the electoral landscape is tilted against them for reasons besides gerrymandering.

Liberal voters and racial minorities tend to be clustered in major cities and their suburbs, concentrating the Democratic base in a smaller number of congressional districts, even when the districts are drawn in an evenhanded way. And in the Senate, the list of seats Democrats are defending in 2018 is overwhelmingly anchored in rural red states like West Virginia and Montana — largely because of political coincidence.

But few experts doubt that gerrymanders and restrictive voting laws will have a substantial impact in 2018, and strategists on both sides agree that Democrats have only a narrow path to capture a majority in the House.

Eric H. Holder Jr., the former attorney general who is leading a Democratic effort to challenge Republican-drawn maps, said he believed Democrats would be poised for monumental gains “if the lines were drawn in a fair way.” As it is, he said, Democrats might need not merely a friendly tide, but a political rip current to win power in Washington.

“It’s almost going to take a historic wave to overcome the gerrymandered map in a handful of states,” Holder said. “When you have a massive Democratic wave in Virginia and the question of who has the majority in the House of Delegates is still up in the air, I think that shows how daunting the task is going to be.”

Still, Holder added firmly, “The House of Representatives is certainly in play.”

An analysis by Holder’s group, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, found that Democratic candidates for the House of Delegates in Virginia received about 224,000 more votes than Republicans, out of about 2.4 million cast. Several races are still undecided and headed for recounts, but for now Republicans have a 51-49 advantage.

Walter of the Republican legislative committee said the Holder analysis “makes no sense” because it ignores

how geographically concentrated Democratic voters are.

“We don’t have a proportional representative system,” he said. “It’s based on the amount of people and population drawn over the state.”

Striving to expand the political playing field, Democrats have announced a target list of 80 House seats, including clearly conservativeleaning districts in suburban and rural areas of Ohio and Wisconsin, which have congressional maps tilted most conspicuously toward Republicans. They must take over two dozen Republican districts to win control of the House.

But in a sign of their fundamental advantages, Republicans have a far shorter list of races that concern them, and multiple party strategists said they believed there were only 35 to 40 Republican lawmakers in seats that Democrats could seize.

In some of the most populous states in the country — including Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas — Republicans believe they can lose no more than two or three seats, and perhaps fewer.

Former Representative Thomas M. Reynolds, Republican of New York, who led the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2006, said the congressional map was far better for Republicans now than it was a dozen years ago, the last time a Democratic wave election tipped control of the House.

“Redistricting has strengthened both state chambers and the Congress, and that is much more significant in 2017 than it was in 2006,” Reynolds said. “Look how many seats are in play. It’s not that many.”

In addition to gerrymandering, Holder and other Democrats have warned insistently about the impact of state-level voting procedures that threaten to disadvantage lowerincome and minority voters. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has begun to track states

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(from page 1) been at Evans-Haynes for 30 years and remembers when offerings weren’t as sophisticated. Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery faculty, who are trained in the management of burn injuries, provide patient care in the EvansHaynes Burn Center.

“We started out as a smaller entity with individuals taking care of patients,” she said. “Over time, we’ve transitioned into multidisciplinary care of patients. Our most significant enhancement has been having patients’ families present and making them comfortable and part of the patient’s recovery. Patient outcomes are much better because of that.”

As part of patients’ care, psychologists, nutritionists, rehabilitative specialists, dietitians, social workers and pain specialists are available if necessary. Involving patient families and various health disciplines makes for a better patient transition, Pozez said.

“We can help them manage their long-term recovery,” she said.

Part of the Burn Center’s reverification designation came with commendations for strong administrative and multidisciplinary support, strong community education programs, and a vigorous nursing burn competency program.

Tiffany Lord was part of the behind-the-scenes process to help the Burn Center obtain its reverification this summer. She has worked as a nurse clinician there for three years and said it was hard to encapsulate on paper what staff does so seamlessly for patients. Still, it was worth it.

“It’s just our day-to-day job, but when you look at it on paper it’s exceptional what we do,” she said.

“This allows the community to see we’re committed to our patients.”

Safety first The Burn Center has a longstanding footprint in the community, particularly with its yearly Burn Survivor Sunday event.

For the past 20 years, the event has been a chance for burn survivors treated at VCU Medical Center to share their stories and reconnect with staff who treated them. It’s also an opportunity to recognize first responders throughout the Richmond area who initially treat and transport patients. In October,

Terry Langhorne suffered fourth-degree burns to his upper body, hands.

as part of a VCU Health occupational safety fair, Burn Center staff made available materials about home fires and smoking safety, and offered demonstrations on how to prevent and react to kitchen fires.

Educating the community is as important as treating patients, said Wendy Lugo, nurse manager for the Burn Center.

“As much as we can we want to prevent someone from becoming a burn victim,” she said.

The student community also does its part to support the Burn Center.

For the past six years VCU’s Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity has raised more than $100,000 for EvansHaynes through its annual Fireman’s Challenge, which raises money to support burn staff training, burn rehabilitation equipment and toys for youth patients. The event is PIKE’s annual philanthropic effort to benefit and raise awareness for EvansHaynes and began after a VCU student took a tour of the facility and was inspired to do more to help patients.

The work done at the Burn Center is motivating, not only to outsiders but also to those working within.

Brian Le, M.D., is an assistant professor of plastic surgery within the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He was an undergraduate medical student at VCU from 2005–09 and said training under the current faculty inspired him throughout his studies.

“I’ve seen so many of my mentors who will go out of their way to bring patients their favorite food after they’ve been [taken off] NPO [nothing by mouth],” he said. “Dr. Pozez, the way she interacts with patients is magical — the care, the gentle voice, the nurturing. This is a

great place to train or to work.”

Jeffrey Haynes, M.D., is a professor of surgery and pediatrics and director of the Children’s Trauma Center at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU. CHoR is the only ACS-verified Level I pediatric trauma center in the state. The severity of a child’s burn injury will determine whether they are initially treated by Haynes’ team at CHoR or at the Burn Center.

A trip to the latter likely indicates they were treated emergently and seen as an outpatient. More specific, long-term pediatric care is available at CHoR after a child is initially diagnosed.

The tag-team approach of caring for a burned child is unique, Haynes said.

“The Evans-Haynes Burn Center is a very important partner with us in the Children’s Trauma Center.

We offer a resource through southcentral Virginia and beyond, for any injured child,” he said. “We pride ourselves in total preparedness and being able to provide for any child, in any shape, who needs help.”

CHoR’s team includes a full scope of pediatric subspecialties to care for trauma and burn patients, including neurosurgery and orthopedic physicians working within a pediatric emergency room and a pediatric ICU. CHoR also has pediatric equipment specifically sized to treat children.

The depth of the hospital’s pediatric offerings sometimes surprises Haynes, who is the son of B.W. Haynes, M.D., the latter half of the Burn Center’s namesake. It is rewarding to honor his father’s vision and long term medical direction, Jeffrey Haynes said. B.W. Haynes was medical director of the Burn Center from 1954 to 1991, after the

death of the Burn Center’s founder Everett I. Evans, M.D. “I am still a little bit amazed at how well the system works, how well we can bring all these consultants together and the child is there and beautifully taken care of,” he said.

“All the consultants put their plan in and it all sort of [works] out to be one great treatment plan where everyone works together. We have all these partners … including the EvansHaynes Burn Center.”

‘Painwise, the technology and the doctors were so good’ Terry Langhorne has fond memories of the team who helped him during his two-month stay at the Burn Center, and particularly Feldman.

“He’s an awesome man. Whatever I had for him, he had an answer for and if he didn’t know, he’d try to find out for me,” he said. “The whole staff was good. We had a pretty good relationship.”

Terry Langhorne, now 55, was sedated for one of the two months he spent at the Burn Center. He had seven skin graft surgeries, and all of the fingers on his left hand were amputated in order to save the arm.

Like his father so many years ago, when he was first burned, Terry Langhorne said he didn’t know what was happening.

“It wasn’t clear to me that I was on fire,” he said. “I wasn’t in pain, but I could feel something itching. My jacket was on fire. My father was telling me to take my jacket off and then I fell to the ground.”

Terry Langhorne’s memory returns around about the time he started to consciously experience his recovery.

Surprisingly, he remembers his discomfort being mild then, too.

“Painwise, the technology and the doctors were so good, they limited the pain even with all I went through,” Terry Langhorne said.

The Burn Center will continue to evolve with a combination of stateof-the-art equipment and dedicated, compassionate staff. Faculty are currently studying a technique to create artificial skin, tissue engineering, which would reduce the number of skin graft surgeries a burn victim would need to endure during recovery.

Experiences like those of the Langhorne family keep Feldman and his team focused on outreach and the next steps in the field of burn care.

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Henrico County schools’ new position seeks to oversee equity and diversity efforts STAFF & WIRE Henrico County Public Schools wants to make its schools more diverse following several racial events in recent weeks and concerns on the part of black parents and community members who allege that the county schools are racially divisive.

Henrico schools recently revealed its plans to hire a director for its newly created Office of Equity and Diversity. The news comes on the heels of a recent incident in which football players at Short Pump Middle School simulate sex acts on their black teammates while in a locker room.

Following the release of the video, a flurry of emails obtained by local media show how the Henrico County School Board strategized to respond to the video’s fallout.

Board member Micky Ogburn,

whose district includes Short Pump Middle School, was anxious to send out a public statement admonishing what happened. “I am getting slammed for staying quiet,” she wrote.

Several board members also expressed concern over Principal Thomas McAuley’s drafted message to send to his student’s parents.

Board member Lisa Marshall wrote, “It is my opinion that the principal’s draft response is not strong enough in expressing that this behavior will not be tolerated.”

Ogburn agreed, writing, “If we do not take a strong stance that we will not tolerate these sorts of behaviors, then we look weak in the eyes of the community. … I feel strongly that the team should have to forfeit their last game…tolerance lesson should begin ASAP.” The new director of equity and diversity will most likely help the school system respond to such

and coordinate related professional development for staff members. He or she will collaborate with other HCPS departments on academic programs and curricula; help to recruit and retain a diverse workforce; serve as a contact point for parent and employee concerns about cultural diversity; connect with community organizations; and serve as a coach and trainer for students, families and employees on cultural diversity issues.

The school division notes that it will forge new relationships with some community groups on issues of equity and diversity. And expand its work with the nonprofit Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities, which will provide ongoing guidance and support with a number of issues, including bullying, equity, racial relations, harassment, ethics and cultural responsiveness.

The school division has noted that it will provide more details about the process in January.

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(from page 14) Feldman distinctly remembers Terry Langhorne’s case and the severity of his issues. He uses that memory as motivation.

“He had some of the worst burns I’ve seen,” Feldman said. “He had fourth-degree burns, which means the burn has gone through all your layers of skin in addition to going down to muscle, tendon and bone.

There were surgeries to reconstruct his mouth and his right hand to improve function. I rave about him.

He’s so inspirational to anyone who says ‘I just can’t do it.’ You have to look at Terry and think anything is possible.”

Terry Langhorne suffered fourthdegree burns to his upper body, including his hands.

Terry Langhorne suffered fourthdegree burns to his upper body, including his hands.

For the next 70 years, the Burn Center will focus on casting a wider net around those they can help.

“We’re looking to branch out not just with local care, but nationwide,” Feldman said. “We want to help the entire United States treat more burn patients, which even includes mass casualty incidents.”

racially-tinged incidents in the future. According to the Henrico county media office, the office will oversee Henrico Schools’ efforts at increasing equity and diversity across the school division.

Superintendent Patrick C. Kinlaw said the school divison will also create the HCPS Equity and Diversity Task Force, a new group comprised of students, parents, staff and community members, overseen by the new director.

“This will move us closer to our goals,” said Kinlaw. “For several years we’ve adopted equity and cultural competency as one of our areas of focus and this is an important step. It complements and brings together the things that our schools are already doing and adds a strong and needed dimension.”

Among other responsibilities, the new director will develop, implement and assess the division’s short- and long-range cultural diversity plans in pursuit of the division’s goals,

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Calendar Film seeks inclusion

The National Deej Inclusion Tour currectly taking place.

“Imagine for a minute that you are removed from your home for reasons no one bothers to tell you, because you can’t speak; so they assume you can’t hear or think or feel.”

“Being included is every kid’s right.

It shouldn’t be a lottery,” notes DJ (“Deej”) Savarese, in the film.

The film was screened in Richmond earlier this month.

The team behind the acclaimed new documentary, Deej, has launched the Deej Inclusion Tour, a series of more than 50 campus and community screenings across the United States. The goal is to promote inclusion – in families, schools and communities – of all neuro-divergent people.

As part of the screening at Randolph Macon College (RMC), a Q&A followed that included a panel of self-advocates, Cyndi Pitonyak, and communication partners.

Pitonyak is a nationally recognized speaker on inclusive education and has over 30 years of experience as a special educator. She icurrently works for the VCU Autism Center for Excellence.

DJ Savarese (“Deej”) is a gifted, young writer and advocate for nonspeaking autistics. Once a profoundly disabled foster kid on a fast track to nowhere, DJ dreams of college and insists on standing up for his peers: People who are dismissed because they have neurological differences.

Will DJ find freedom for himself and others?

“Deej is the best film on autism I’ve ever seen. So much of DJ’s experience resonates deeply with me,” said Brent White, transition director, Ala Costa Centers, Berkeley, CA “It’s hard to go first. But DEEJ makes it clear — DJ’s going to bring us all with him,” said Julia Bascomb, executive director, Autistic Self Advocacy Network

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Pine Camp Arts Center in collaboration with Field Studio, LLC presents a new documentary film, “The Hail-Storm:John Dabney in Virginia” on Dec. 7.

John Dabney, a giant of the 19th century Richmond high society, renowned for his extravagant mint juleps, terrapin stew and canvasback duck.

Remarkably, spent 41years of his life enslaved-and yet able to save enough from tips to buy the freedom of his wife and infant son, when they threatened to be sold. The Hail-Storm produced by the Richmond’s independent filmmakers of Field Studio, LLC has two free screenings at 11a.m. & 7p.m. at Pine Camp, 4901 Old Brook Road, Richmond. Free parking.

RSVP with Pine Camp Guest Services, 804-646-3677 or e-mail Cultural Arts Community Liaison, Ann-Marie.Williams@richmondgov.com .

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The originally scheduled Crime Commission meeting on Nov. 14 has been rescheduled. The next commission meeting will now be held on Wednesday, Nov. 29 in the Shared Committee Room of the Pocahontas Building at 900 East Main Street, Richmond. This meeting is open to the public.

The meeting agenda items will remain the same. Items planned for discussion include: - DNA Databank: Expansion of Misdemeanor Crimes; - Pretrial Services; and, - Admissibility of prior inconsistent statements in a criminal case.

Public comment will be taken at this meeting for each of these studies at the conclusion of staff's presentation.

Ongoing

The University of Richmond Downtown is hosting a new exhibition, “RVA Cures: Conquering Childhood Cancer.” The exhibition was part of September’s National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

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

The exhibition features photographs

by Richmond artist Kristin Seward and 100 zebrafish painted by children and local artists. The zebrafish is the symbol of pediatric cancer research conducted in Richmond.

“RVA Cures” is on view at UR Downtown’s Wilton Companies Gallery, 626 E. Broad St., Richmond, through through Jan. 19, 2018.

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(from page 13) and localities where Republicans have total control of election administration, and Democratic aides say they plan to assemble lawyers around the country to monitor election machinery for “red flags” of partisan interference.

Yet the party’s ability to roll back the most significant voting restrictions may be limited. While federal courts have invalidated or reined in some of the most stringent restrictions — in North Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin — there are 17 states that now require voters to show photo identification at the ballot box. The types of acceptable identification vary, but Democraticleaning minorities and young people are least likely to possess them.

The impact of those restrictions is difficult to measure, but experts say they do deter would-be voters from casting ballots. In Texas, where Democrats are targeting four House seats, Stephen Ansolabehere, a political scientist at Harvard University, analyzed the state’s voter rolls for plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit and concluded that 608,000 of the 13.5 million registrants lacked any of the seven IDs accepted at polling places. Black voters were two to three times as likely as whites to have none of the identifications; Hispanics one and a half to two times as likely.

“It affects all poor people, basically,” Professor Ansolabehere said in an interview.

If Virginia — which has a voter identification law that is less restrictive than many in place — appears to encapsulate many of the Democrats’ disadvantages, more optimistic veterans of the campaign say its positive lessons are more useful.

Strategists and activists argue that some campaign tactics the party employed there can be scaled up for the midterm elections, increasing turnout in exactly the communities Democrats must engage. Liberal activist groups deployed large numbers of volunteers to knock on doors, recruit candidates and register voters and raised large sums of money online. In the end, the party made gains in the Legislature far beyond its expectations — even as it fell short of a full takeover.

In the case of Wendy Gooditis, who won a long-shot victory over a well-liked Republican incumbent in

the Washington exurbs, volunteers from chapters of Swing Left and Indivisible, national activist groups, showed up every weekend.

“We knocked on every single door in this district,” said Emma Brown, Gooditis’s campaign manager. “We’d hear over and over: ‘I’ve always voted for Republicans. I just can’t do it this year.’”

Brown, 24, has already moved on to the next campaign. She is the campaign manager for a Democrat challenging Representative Barbara Comstock, a vulnerable Republican in Northern Virginia, who holds a seat whose boundaries are drawn to favor her party.

Whether some of these roadblocks for Democrats disappear or grow even larger depends on the courts and the Justice Department, which appears to be abandoning the emphasis on voting-rights expansion, the rule under President Obama.

Should the Supreme Court strike down egregious gerrymandering early next year, Stephanopoulos said there was a faint chance that some states with the most partisan maps could be forced to redraw them before the 2018 election. In one of those states, Pennsylvania, voting-rights advocates last week secured fasttrack consideration of a state lawsuit that challenges the state’s House of Representatives map.

The legal outlook for some other restrictions on the ballot is murkier.

Under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Justice Department dropped its Obama-era claim that the voter identification law in Texas, one of the nation’s most stringent, had a discriminatory purpose — even though both a district court and an appeals court had ruled that it did.

Voting-rights advocates call that a clear signal to states that the federal government is uninterested in challenging restrictions on voting.

Even when Obama was in power, the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the heart of the 1965 Voting Rights Act ended its veto power over changes in election procedures in a range of mostly Southern states. Left unchecked, local officials in many of those states engaged in a range of tactics last year that likely would have been barred in earlier years; whether the Justice Department’s recent turnabout will spur more such actions remains to be seen.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear an important case on whether

Ohio’s government can purge its rolls of voters simply because they have failed to vote. A ruling that they can would be likely to encourage some states to mount aggressive purges

of their rolls, a process conservative advocacy groups already are pressing nationwide. Experts say such purges disproportionately affect Democratic registrants.

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