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News AG seeks to expand Va. hate crime definition MARY LEE CLARK CNS – Attorney General Mark Herring, backed

by Democratic legislators and interfaith leaders, said he will seek to broaden the state’s definition of “hate crime” to cover gender identity, sexual orientation and disability.

“Too many Virginians and folks all around the country have been targeted by a criminal simply because of who they are,” Herring said at a Friday press conference.

State law defines a hate crime as “any illegal act directed against any persons or their property because of those persons’ race, religion, or national origin.”

Del. Richard Sullivan, D-Arlington, is sponsoring a bill (HB 1702) to add sexual orientation and gender identification to that definition. Sen. Barbara Favola, D-Arlington, plans to offer a similar measure in the Senate.

The expanded state definition would better match the federal definition of a hate crime, which includes race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender and gender identity.

LBGT advocates praised the efforts to broaden Virginia’s hate crimes law.

“Hate crimes against gay and transgender individuals are a pervasive issue and make people fear to live in their own communities,” said James Parrish, executive director of Equality Virginia.

“Expanding hate crime laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity sends a message that violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people isn’t OK. Anti-gay hate crimes are the third most frequent kind of hate crimes in America, and there is, however, overwhelming public support for inclusive hate crimes laws.”

Herring also will seek legislation enabling his office to use the commonwealth’s network of multi-jurisdictional grand juries to investigate suspected hate crimes and take legal action against perpetrators. The network reaches about 100 localities and will give prosecutors more tools and resources for pursuing hate crimes.

Favola and Del. Lamont Bagby, D-Richmond, plan to sponsor that legislation.

“Virginians should not fear for their safety because of who they are, what they look like, where they come from, or how they pray,” said Bagby (74th District.) “We each have the right to be safe from hate and to feel welcome in this Commonwealth.”

At the news conference, Herring and other speakers said they are wary about President-elect

AG Mark R. Herring speaks at a press conference announcing new anti-hate crime legislation.

Donald Trump’s commitment to enforcing hate crime laws.

“For decades, the U.S Department of Justice and its civil rights division has been one of the most important forces for protecting Americans and Virginians from hate and discrimination,” Herring said. “It is my sincere hope that the new administration and attorney general will continue that bipartisan tradition, but to be honest, I am concerned.”

Rabbi Jack Moline, president of the Interfaith Alliance, echoed that concern. He said it is now up to the states to step up and protect minority communities.

“Hate crimes are not attacks against individuals,” Moline said. “They are attacks on entire communities, meant to strike fear and intimidation in the hearts of all members of a given group. Interfaith Alliance applauds Attorney General Herring’s efforts to protect Virginians and set a national standard for hate crime prevention.”

Other groups supporting the initiative include the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, the Anti-Defamation League and the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, the state’s largest mosque/ Muslim community.

Nationwide, there were 5,850 hate crime incidents in 2015, according to the latest FBI statistics. More than half were motivated by a bias based on race, ethnicity or ancestry, about one-fifth by religious bias and almost one-fifth by sexual orientation bias.

The FBI said 158 hate crime incidents were reported in Virginia in 2015. Two-thirds were motivated by a bias based on race, ethnicity or ancestry, 15 percent by religious bias and 15 percent by sexual orientation bias.

Hate crimes in Virginia increased 21 percent from 2014 to 2015, Herring said. He said he wants to be ready if the federal government retreats from pursuing hate crimes.

“If the new administration chooses to step back from its responsibilities from hate crimes even an inch, Virginians’ rights will still be protected in the communities they call home,” Herring said.

David Chapman, interim executive minister of the Baptist General Convention of Virginia, said he regrets that “measures like this are necessary” in 2017. “I firmly believe you can’t legislate morality, that it takes good people standing together to oppose evil and block its advancements.”

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Report details impact of VCU on Virginia economy Downtown Richmond may very well be called ‘VCU’ the letters for Virginia Commonwealth University.

The yellow letters dot and identify almost every other building in the city. Now a report indicates the university truly has clout and generates nearly $6 billion in economic activity while supporting 63,000 jobs in Virginia.

The report, titled “VCU’s Impact on the Region: Talent, Innovation, Collaboration,” also found VCU’s economic impact within the city of Richmond is $1.5 billion, including about 18,000 jobs. In the metropolitan area, the impact is $4 billion and 47,000 jobs. And each dollar VCU spends, including payroll, employee spending and student spending, expands the Richmond economy by $2, the regional economy by $3.70 and the state’s economy by $3.20.

The report, released by university and community leaders, also examined the impact on human health and wellness. The top-ranked VCU Health System is a nearly $3 billion enterprise, with more than 11,000 employees, and each year there are 36,000 admissions, nearly 100,000 emergency department visits and more than 650,000 outpatient visits. VCU Medical Center is the region’s safety-net hospital and its only academic medical center.

VCU’s Center for Urban and Regional Analysis generated the

Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney speaks during the announcement.

PHOTOS: Julia Rendleman report. John Accordino, Ph.D., who is the center’s director and the interim dean of the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, said the numbers tell just part of the story of VCU’s impact.

“To really understand VCU’s impact on the community, you need to look beyond the numbers as well, to look at the significance and the VCU President Michael Rao, Ph.D., speaks during the announcement of the “VCU’s Impact on the Region: Talent, Innovation, Collaboration” report last week at the Virginia BioTechnology Research Park. meaning of what VCU is doing,” Accordino said. “So, to get at this, we looked at a variety of types of information and essentially the kinds of impacts broken down into talent and research, the entrepreneurial ecosystem, VCU’s role as a regional

steward and VCU’s impact on the local culture.”

Michael Rao, Ph.D., president of VCU and VCU Health, said the report’s findings will help VCU address some of the complex issues faced by the community.

“We learned a lot from this report about what VCU has been, and what we should become,” Rao said. “Our focus will be the people behind these numbers — the people of Richmond — and how we can continue to use our expertise, talents and resources to help solve some of the most challenging issues our city faces, including K-12 education, health disparities, housing and others. We have already begun work on these complex issues, and this report is a call to action to forge ahead in helping achieve what’s difficult."

Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney said the strong relationship between the city and the university is beneficial to both partners.

“The impact of VCU upon the city of Richmond cannot be overstated,” Stoney said. “Its artistic, cultural, academic and economic contributions through its university and health system have helped make us the destination city we are today, and will play a huge role in our future success going forward.”

Barry Matherly, president and CEO of the Greater Richmond Partnership, cited VCU’s role in engaging with the community as critical to the region’s success.

“I think the big connection here is that VCU actually wants to be a part of the community and engages in a very thoughtful way to make sure that the community is growing with the university,” Matherly said.

“And I think the ability to focus, not only just on inside of the walls of the university, but to focus externally around it, makes it that powerful engine that’s helping drive this economy.”

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Black legislators seek to protect education funding JESSICA NOLTE CNS – As Virginia faces an estimated $1.26 billion budget shortfall, the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus announced that its top priority during the General Assembly’s session is to protect funding for K-12 education.

Additionally, the VLBC will focus on criminal justice reform, job creation, increasing the minimum wage and public safety.

“These are the issues we will continue to fight for because there must be a change,” Del. Roslyn Tyler, a Democrat from Jarratt and president of the caucus, said at a news conference last week.

In November, Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s administration warned higher education officials

at Virginia’s public colleges and universities to anticipate a 7.5 percent reduction from the state general fund. The VBLC said it wants to protect the K-12 budget so schools have the money for academic excellence.

The 17 African American lawmakers are all Democrats, but they hope to work across party lines on issues such as reforming school discipline. For example, the VBLC said it supports three bills filed by Republican Sen. William Stanley of Moneta: SB 995, which would reduce maximum suspensions from 364 calendar days to 45 school days and prohibit long-term suspension from continuing on beyond the current school year.

SB 996, which would protect students from expulsion and long-

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term suspension for disruptive behavior except in cases of physical injury or threat of physical injury.

SB 997, which would prohibit suspension or expulsion or students in preschool through fifth grade except for drug offenses, firearms or certain criminal acts.

Republican Del. Richard Bell of Staunton has introduced similar legislation in the House: HB 1534 to reduce the length of suspensions, HB 1535 to prevent expulsion and long-term suspension except in cases of physical injury and HB 1536 to limit the circumstances under which preschool and elementary students can be suspended or expelled.

VLBC member Jennifer McClellan, a state delegate from Richmond, cited findings from the Center for Public Integrity that Virginia schools

refer students to law enforcement at nearly three times the national rate.

McClellan, who was elected to the Senate last Tuesday, said that African American students were more likely than white students to be suspended and that students with disabilities were more likely to be suspended than those without disabilities.

The VLBC also wants to boost the minimum wage, which in Virginia is the same as the federal minimum – $7.25 per hour. Sen. Rosalyn Dance, D-Petersburg, introduced SB 978, which would incrementally increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour by July 1, 2019.

“When people are working, there is less crime,” Dance said, adding that 19 states, including Washington and California, have already increased the minimum wage.

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Why we must defend Obama’s ESSA EDWARD GASTON When President Barack Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015, policy makers and educators saw this as an opportunity to invest in new methods for student success—contrary to the No Child Left Behind Act. But, what about parents and community leaders?

Starting with next school year (2017-18), all provisions of ESSA will go into effect. One critical aspect is that it requires local and state school leaders to create standards that will yield acceptable—and in some cases, exceptional—student academic outcomes, based on specific solutions for their schools. For the community as a whole, supporting everything education is just plain ole common sense.

Without hesitation, educators are professionals who care for the minds, bodies, and spirits of our greatest treasure: our children. Public education remains a game changer for so many parents and students facing the challenges of everyday survival. ESSA requires all hands on deck for each community and with the Every Student Succeeds Act we can conquer problems within the education system. Participating in the process to encourage every student to succeed is an ongoing necessity and investment that must The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 3 No. 3 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

be made by each of us in order for there to be a harvest of success.

So what do we do?

We, community leaders, must stay engaged, provide insight, question, and oversee the local and state selection of the administrators for ESSA initiatives. We, parents, must listen to teacher recommendations on improving learning experiences and keep a special note on our phones or in a folder with feedback. Educators want to teach; they want to guide.

We must use ESSA to leverage their desire to see students succeed by having a respectful line of communication, which can include texting, emailing, phone messages and in special situations, face to face.

Use those responses to push for more resources to come into schools from ESSA and community investors. In fact, every school must be supported with every resource available.

From making education a priority for taxpayer revenue to churches conditioning their congregations that every adult working in a school should be applauded, respected and invested in. Local businesses should contact the principal of the community school and request a calendar of the school year. The business should choose to sponsor a breakfast or lunch on teacher planning days and take a moment to explain services and products and The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions.

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offer the educators discounts. Every parent can go beyond the PTA and participate as a judge in the science fair or sign up to volunteer as a chaperone for field trips or reading to the students. Children can never have too many supplies, resources or praise, so the school staff will appreciate the support.

The push against public education must stop.

Public education is our national treasure, so are our children and teachers. In the past, too many standardized tests have proven to be ineffective in validating school success. ESSA changes this. Not having to constantly teach to the many tests, will allow educators to teach in a common sense straightforward method, ensuring students are ready to compete.

ESSA presents a balanced approach to holding the local school district accountable by encouraging testing managed on the state level.

Community leaders, parents, and educators must participate in the state’s process for fairly measuring progress in each school. In some cases, this will include selecting the superintendent, and in other cases, it will involve creating or approving test questions, changing curriculum, or adding arts programs. Votes and voices can now take center stage as local and state officials take a

more active role in determining the state of public education.

Staying engaged is necessary and essential for choosing the best team of educators who will implement ESSA strategies necessary to propel our children forward. Supporters of public education must require that committed educational leaders offer clear plans that they will execute immediately in order to conquer education problems and position all schools to succeed. The plans should be constantly communicated to the community and measured with sensible, infrequent standardized tests.

President Obama’s Every Student Succeeds Act brings public education back into the national forefront where it belongs. Many people see an eagle and apple pie as the symbol of America.

It is time again, to see public education as the national treasure it is. It remains the primary weapon that must be sharpened and polished and used to battle poverty, crime, and inequality. Principals, teachers, custodians and administrators in schools, especially schools in underserved communities, educate children on the front lines and must be uplifted and applauded by a nation committed to protecting and growing the national treasure known as Public Education.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

‘Be bold’

I’ve been beaten bloody, teargassed, fighting for what’s right for America. I’ve marched at Selma with Dr. King. Sometimes that’s what it takes to move our country in the right direction.

We refuse to stop now. We’re not done fighting for progress. We’re ready for the next four years.

While we have made progress towards a vision of a more fair, just and open country, the majority of Americans are afraid this country is headed in the wrong direction.

Some leaders reject decades of progress and want to return to the dark past, when the power of law was used to deny the freedoms protected by the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and its Amendments.

I remember when segregation was the law of the land that ordered our society in the Deep South. The forces of law and order in Alabama were so strong that to take a stand against this injustice, we had to be willing to sacrifice our lives for our cause.

It took massive, well-organized, non-violent dissent and criticism of this great nation and its laws to move toward a greater sense of equality in America. We had to sit in. We had to stand in. We had to march. And that’s why more than 50 years ago, a group of unarmed citizens, black and white, gathered on March 7, 1965, in an orderly peaceful non-violent fashion to walk from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

Often, the only way we could demonstrate that a law on the

books violated a higher law, was by challenging that law. By putting our bodies on the line and showing the world the unholy price we had to pay for dignity and respect.

We need leaders who will stand up and speak up and speak out for Americans, not someone who will work against us. Not someone who will move us backwards.

That’s why I will do everything in my power to take on injustice.

Rep. John Lewis

Worth fighting for

The Affordable Care Act isn’t perfect. But it has drastically cut the number of uninsured people in our country and is damn well worth fighting for.

When you have a program that’s helped 422,000 Virginians, and 20 million Americans, access health insurance -- many for the first time -- you don’t just destroy it to score political points. But that’s exactly what many Republicans want to do.

So Tim is leading the charge to stop all attempts to repeal without a replacement. Let’s work together to improve the ACA -- but don’t rush to get rid of it and leave millions of Americans hanging.

While the ACA has worked well for many people, Congress can make it even better by taking bipartisan steps to make insurance more affordable for small businesses and hardworking families. If one side needs to call it reform and the other needs to call it replacement, that’s fine -- but repealing should not be on the table.

Repealing the law outright would

be a disaster. It would lead to rising premiums, economic chaos, and an end to protections for folks with preexisting conditions.

We can’t allow Republicans to play politics with 20 million American lives. We need to tell Congress to work together to improve the Affordable Care Act -- don’t repeal it?

Tim Kaine *** With Republican Congress bent on depriving 22 million Americans of medical insurance, this is a great time to provide our own, totally free and totally effective health insurance - a plant-based diet.

A study with 131,000 participants, in last year’s Internal Medicine, found that consumption of animal protein is associated with higher risk of death. A couple dozen other massive studies in the past four decades had similar findings. None reached opposite conclusions.

According to National Institutes of Health, 1.4 million, or 68 percent of identified U.S. deaths are attributed to heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes, linked conclusively with consumption of animal products.

Cost of medical care was estimated

by National Institutes of Health at $3 trillion in 2014, or $24,000 per household, and rising at 6.5 percent annually - nearly four times the rate of inflation. Incredibly, this amount rivals our national budget and represents 17.5 percent of our gross domestic product. Even so, it does not include the costs of lostproductivity, disability, and premature death.

We have little control over the

national cost of medical care. But, each of us has a great deal of control over our household’s $24,000 share every time we visit the grocery store.

Noah Changger Newport News *** The GOP-led Senate is acting recklessly and with disregard for the more than 20 million people that would potentially lose their insurance if the ACA is repealed-increasing the uninsured rate for Black women by anywhere from 11 to 20 percent. We know there is not a replacement plan, and there will not be one anytime soon. And their personal vendetta against Planned Parenthood plan and simple is playing partisan politics with our healthcare.

Women of color, low-income individuals, young people, LGBTQindividuals, persons with disabilities are just a few of the vast majority of individuals that relay on the ACA for insurance coverage. Our legislators have a responsibility to act within the best interest of the people. Repealing the ACA without a replacement is not in anyone’s best interest. Defunding Planned Parenthood is in no one’s best interest.

Furthermore, 55 million women would lose access to no co-pay preventive services, including birth control, STI screenings, and lifesaving preventive services such as breast cancer screenings and pap tests.

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Faith & Religion

Marchers honor King, fight fear of Trump ADELLE M. BANKS WASHINGTON (RNS) - Crying out “no justice, no peace,” crowds joined the Rev. Al Sharpton in a weekend march towards the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial vowing not to let President-elect Donald Trump turn back strides made by the civil rights leader.

The mostly African-American throng — smaller than the thousands expected due to the steady rain — heard from civic and religious leaders about key areas of concern: health care, voting rights, economic equality and police brutality and reform.

“We are gathered here and we marched in the driving rain because we want this nation to understand that what has been fought for and gained, that you’re going to need more than one election to turn it around,” said Sharpton, whose National Action Network sponsored the march.

From early in the gathering on Saturday (Jan. 14), speakers cautioned the crowd not to fear the future.

“The world out there may be in disarray today but God has got this, so we’re not worried because we know how to fall down on our knees and pray and God always gives us the victory sign,” said E. Faye Williams, president and CEO of the National Congress of Black Women.

“There are a lot of people who want to dishonor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. but we shall not be moved. It will not happen and we will move forward.”

The Rev. Nelson Rivers, vice president for religious affairs for NAN, urged ralliers to remember King’s message of justice all throughout the year and “be his movement” not just on the holiday that marked his birthday Monday.

Rivers said black churches, black media and black social media were the key promoters of the rally. The majority of the board of NAN, a civil rights organization founded in 1991, are members of the clergy.

David Barrows of Washington, D.C. carries a “Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied” sign with the Washington Monument in the background.

Trump’s election campaign comments put off some AfricanAmericans with his descriptions of the plight of urban centers and questions like “What have you go to lose?” about voting for him.

“He doesn’t have a clue,” said Rivers. “He doesn’t know enough about black folk to talk about black folk.”

The marchers, whose theme was “We Shall Not Be Moved,” ranged from children to seniors with a significant showing of millennials as well. A rainbow colored “Peace” flag could be seen in the crowd. A little girl carried a Mexican flag. A white couple carried pink signs about supporting Planned Parenthood. And one of the signs held highest during

the march, with the words “Justice Delayed is Justice Denied,” was held by a 69-year-old white Quaker man.

As they gathered in the shadow of King’s memorial to hear from civil rights and labor leaders, pastors and politicians, the need for unity on key issues was sounded repeatedly.

“It’s time for us to stop being separated by colors,” said Elder Michael Cummings, president of the NAN chapter in Watts, Calif. “The only thing need to be separated by colors is our laundry.”

The Rev. Michael Eric Dyson, a Georgetown University scholar and author on racial issues, sounded a similar theme.

“We must dig deep; we must remember that we are all in this

together — gay and straight and lesbian and transgender and bisexual, Christian and Muslim, black and white,” he said noting that the American working class comes in all colors.

“What we must tell our white brothers and sisters is, is that you have to learn from us as well,” Dyson said as the rally concluded. “Don’t be hoodwinked and snookered by investing in white supremacy and the unconscious reflex of bigotry. You got to push beyond that to understand that we are all in this together.”

Katrina Jefferson, 37, the New York City chapter liaison for NAN, and the daughter of a Full Gospel Baptist bishop, said there is a “long

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In his own words President Obama on faith fallen short.”

2012: On shift in his and the first lady’s views on same-sex marriage “We are both practicing Christians, and obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others, but, you know, when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is, not only Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf, but it’s also the golden rule, you know, treat others the way you would want to be treated.”

Over his two terms, President Obama addressed his personal faith in prayer breakfasts and holiday statements, and cited people of faith — and of no faith — on other occasions. Here is a sampling: 2009: Inaugural address “For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and non-believers. … To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West, know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.”

2010: National Prayer Breakfast “Empowered by faith, consistently, prayerfully, we need to find our way back to civility. That begins with stepping out of our comfort zones in an effort to bridge divisions.

We see that in many conservative pastors who are helping lead the way to fix our broken immigration system. … We see it in the increasing recognition among progressives that government can’t solve all of our problems, and that talking about values like responsible fatherhood and healthy marriage are integral to any anti-poverty agenda.”

2011: Easter Prayer Breakfast “This magnificent grace, this expansive grace, this ‘Amazing Grace’ calls me to reflect. And it calls me to pray. It calls me to ask God for forgiveness, for the times that I’ve not shown grace to others, those times that I’ve

2013: After recent trip to the Holy Land, including a stop at the Church of the Nativity “I was reminded that while our time on Earth is fleeting, he is eternal. His life, his lessons live on in our hearts, and, most importantly, in our actions. When we tend to the sick, when we console those in pain, when we sacrifice for those in need, wherever and whenever we are there to give comfort, and to guide and to love, then Christ is with us.”

2014: After the shooting deaths at two Jewish facilities in Kansas “We have to keep coming together across faiths to combat the ignorance and intolerance, including antiSemitism, that can lead to hatred and to violence, because we’re all children of God. We’re all made in his image, all worthy of his love and dignity. And we see what happens around the world when this kind of religious-based or tinged violence can rear its ugly head.

It’s got no place in our society.”

2015: Eulogy for the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. “Our pain cuts that much deeper because it happened in a church. The church is, and always has been, the center of African-American life, a place to call our own in a too often hostile world, a sanctuary from so many hardships. … That’s what the black church means. Our beating heart. The place where our dignity as a people is inviolate.”

2016: Final Easter Prayer Breakfast “(O)ur faith changes us. I know it’s changed me,” he said. “It renews in us a sense of possibility. It allows us to believe that, although we are all sinners, and that at times we will falter, there’s always the possibility of redemption. Every once in a while, we might get something right, we might do some good.”

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(from page 8) road of learning” ahead for Trump about the contributions of AfricanAmericans to the country.

“There are elements of that sort of stance that are accurate,” she said of his descriptions of inner cities.

“But there’s a whole other side that he negates by slamming the AfricanAmerican and brown communities with those labels, those qualifiers.”

Another New Yorker, Laverne Mason, 58, a Methodist from Manhattan, stood at the rally after the marching ended, holding an American flag reconfigured with the African colors of red, black and green to represent advances made by AfricanAmericans.

“I strongly feel that this administration is poised to roll us back 100 years or more,” she said.

But Rivers said he hoped ralliers would remain vigilant and recall the lessons of history.

“Reagan was the worst president of my lifetime but he still was the one that was forced to sign the King bill making his birthday a holiday.

He signed the Voting Rights Act extension,” he said. “So we ought not be afraid. Donald Trump is not King or fuhrer. He is elected president. And we’re not afraid of him.”

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Student gives back to the community through art, activism and service LEILA UGINCIUS For someone who five years ago had no interest in applying to Virginia Commonwealth University — and hadn’t even heard of its School of the Arts — student Angelique Scott has given much to the university and the surrounding community during her time here.

Scott’s high school art and ceramic teachers had attended the VCU School of the Arts and persuaded her to apply.

“Not only did I not think that I would be accepted, but I also did not expect to receive as many grants and scholarships for my education,” Scott said.

The one thing Scott did know was that she wanted to study ceramics.

As far back as she can remember, the Brooklyn native has loved art.

Every Christmas, she received some sort of gift that allowed her to explore the world of art — from paint and an easel to a sewing machine and a trumpet.

“Whether it was fashion, painting or music, my passion for the arts has

always been there,” she said.

In eighth grade she created her first face jug and has primarily concentrated on ceramics ever since.

Inspired by her Afro-Caribbean heritage as well as her perspective as a black millennial in the United States, Scott’sartwork focuses on race, culture, pop culture, history and current events.

“I believe my artwork [gives] black culture a voice,” she said. “Almost always I am not only the only black person in my classes, but the only person of color. My artwork serves as a catalyst for conversations my classmates might not have otherwise.”

Now a senior at VCU, Scott is double majoring in art education and craft/material studies with a minor in art history. Yet even with such a full course load, she finds time for her other passion: volunteering and service to others. As a sophomore, she entered the VCU ASPiRE (Academic Scholars Program in Real Environments) program.

“My artwork serves as a catalyst for conversations my classmates might

not have otherwise.”

“Community service has always been a value I have carried throughout my life so VCU ASPiRE was the perfect fit for me,” she said.

“Throughout the two-year program, I learned about not just service, but social justice, and engaging with the Richmond community through a variety of avenues such as working with the Peter Paul Development Center, Woodville Elementary School, The Boys & Girls Club, etc.”

The program expanded her perspective both locally and globally.

This past summer she traveled with VCU ASPiRE to Belize for two weeks to work with a day camp at the local community center in the Sandhill Village.

Since graduating from the program, Scott provides volunteer opportunities for others through the connections she has made. Finding the time to be a full-time student with a double major, while working two jobs, mentoring, volunteering/ interning and holding leadership

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President Obama’s legacy and defining moments revealed in new film special

“Grey’s Anatomy” star Jesse Williams (inset) narrates an upcoming special about President Barack Obama’s notable speeches that is set to air next month.

The hourlong Smithsonian Channel special looks at the defining moments of Obama’s political career through the words of his most memorable speeches. “The Obama Years: The Power of Words” is set to premiere Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. It also features Valerie Jarrett, Rep. John Lewis, David Axelrod, Douglas Brinkley, Doris Kearns Goodwin and speechwriters Jon Favreau and Cody Keenan.

Over eight years, President Obama delivered more than 3,500 speeches and statements – officially ending his era with a farewell address last Tuesday in Chicago.

His speeches ranged from redefining patriotism, candidly addressing race relations, inspiring hope and healing, and turning divisive moments into an opportunity for national unification. But which are the moments that history will remember? A new hour-long Smithsonian Channel special tells the story of Barack Obama, “writer in chief,” and takes viewers inside the defining moments of his political career through the prism of his most memorable speeches.

“Someday there will be the collected speeches of Barack Obama,” the historian Douglas Brinkley says in the film, “and I think they’ll tell us more about our hopes, dreams, aspirations and dark realities than any other document to represent that era.”

“The Obama Years: The Power of Words” examines how President Obama used “the bully pulpit” by looking at six benchmark speeches – as a brash young state senator and as a president grappling with turbulent times in the face of chaotic events. Some were the result of careful planning and intensive writing; others were written under extraordinary pressure, often with Obama doing much of the writing, in

the wake of unexpected events. When tragedy strikes, the president has a tremendous responsibility to comfort the nation.

For each highlighted speech, “The Obama Years: The Power of Words” gives viewers behind-the-scenes stories of the President and his process, how he and his core group worked to develop the messages, expert commentary comparing the speeches to those of other presidents, and analysis of the power – and limits – of the bully pulpit to shape events. The program features insights from eminent historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Douglas Brinkley and key members of Obama’s inner circle, including senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, Chief Strategist David Axelrod, and speechwriters Jon Favreau and Cody Keenan. Smithsonian curator Harry Rubenstein of the National Museum of American History, Rep. John Lewis, and Clark Judge, speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, are also among the featured interviews.

The film focuses on six notable speeches: - The 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote, when a national audience was first introduced to the Illinois state senator with a message of patriotism and unity.

- “A More Perfect Union,” presidential candidate Obama’s seminal speech on race relations in Philadelphia, in which he tried to respond to incendiary comments by his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. At this critical moment, he chose to speak candidly and in deeply personal terms, shedding light on the complexities of race in the country.

- The 2008 Democratic National Convention acceptance speech: Delivered on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech, this marked a momentous change in American history as Barack Obama became the first African American major party nominee.

- The president’s eulogy after

the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shootings in Newtown, CT. Obama’s passion and empathy delivered through his heartfelt words sought to bring comfort to a devastated nation.

- The 50th Anniversary commemoration in 2015 of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches.

Remembered as one of the most patriotic speeches given by Obama during his presidency, it highlighted the progress made in civil rights.

- “Amazing Grace,” the eulogy after the 2015 shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, marked a turning point to bury some of the old Confederate history, and it represented one time when his words did produce immediate change.

The film will also be screened in museums across America during Black History Month – starting at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

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ACLU-VA to Gov. McAuliffe: Fully expand absentee voting The ACLU of Virginia is advocating for universal no-excuse absentee voting accessible to all voters, both in person and by mail.

In a recent letter to Gov. Terry McAuliffe, ACLU-VA Executive Director Claire Guthrie Gastañaga thanked him for seeking repeal of the state’s voter ID laws but said his proposals to expand the list of allowable excuses for absentee voting does not go far enough to increase access to the polls.

Specifically, the governor’s proposal would only implement no-excuse absentee voting for Virginians voting in-person and not by mail, noted the ACLU. “If Virginia law limits no-excuse absentee voting to in-person only, qualified voters may be excluded from participating based upon a lack of readily accessible transportation, geography, income status, physical disabilities, and the constraints of modern-day individuals and families,” according to the letter. “Additionally, there are voters whose work or childcare schedules simply cannot accommodate the registrar’s limited office hours so that they could cast in-person absentee ballots. We are

also concerned that limiting noexcuse absentee voting to in person may disproportionately impact minority and rural communities and persons with disabilities.”

In addition, the governor has proposed expanding the list of permitted excuses/reasons that allow a voter to cast an absentee ballot by mail. The ACLU-VA advocates for no-excuse absentee ballot voting to be available for all voters, the rights group noted.

“ACLU of Virginia believes that proposals to grant only certain voters the right to no-excuse absentee voting by mail elevate certain classes of voters over other qualified voters largely for partisan political reasons,” according to the letter.

The only solution, according to the ACLU-VA, is to allow no-excuse, in-person or by mail voting for every voter.

“No-excuse absentee voting allows all qualified voters to exercise their right to vote regardless of location or status and eliminates the need for voters to share personal and private information with general registrars,” noted Gastañaga’s in the letter.

(from page 10) positions at various student organizations has not been easy.

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“It is very important to make sure that I can fully commit to anything I agree to be involved in and to make sure that I am being efficient in everything that I do,” Scott said.

It helps that working in the studio and volunteering are among her favorite things to do.

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“I wanted students of color to feel included, to realize that they had peers that look like them who could help with critiques, and empowering one another,” she said.

With so much going on, she is still deciding her plans for after college, but is certain her future will involve art and helping the community.

“I would like to attend grad school at Howard University focusing on Afro-Studies, or begin my teaching career in K-12 education in Richmond Public Schools, or work with the upcoming VCU Institute for Contemporary Art as a community engagement director in the arts,” she said.

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A gynecologist secretly photographed patients. What’s their pain worth?

MORIAH BALINGIT Jyllene Wilson is still wary of doctor’s offices and public restrooms, and whenever she’s away from home, she uses a smartphone app that can help detect hidden cameras to ensure she is safe from prying eyes.

Joshulyn L. Brown harbors a deepseated distrust for many white-collar professionals, especially doctors and lawyers. Stazi Simmons-Gomez gets panic attacks when a male doctor enters a room to examine her, and one of Simmons-Gomez’s daughters fell into a spell of depression and began cutting herself.

The four have one thing in common: They were each patients of Nikita Levy, a Johns Hopkins gynecologist whose warm demeanor won over the trust of thousands of women, many of them poor and black. In February 2013, police discovered that Levy had been taking sexually explicit photos and videos of his patients

during appointments using cameras hidden in pens and elsewhere in his exam room, and found a trove of videos and images. Levy, who began practicing with Johns Hopkins in 1988 and had served thousands of women, committed suicide days later, penning an apology note to his wife and slipping a bag of helium over his head.

Levy’s patients — 8,344 of them — filed a class-action lawsuit against Johns Hopkins, which settled in July 2014 for $190 million. The women say the impact of the trauma is nearly immeasurable, the nightmares and lost sleep, the distrust that has driven them away from regular checkups, the panic attacks that strike out of nowhere. It is only within the past month that they learned what the settlement may entitle them to.

Irma Raker, a Maryland Court of Appeals senior judge whose long career included prosecuting

sex crimes, was appointed claims adjudicator in the case. The sterile title masks the gargantuan responsibility of determining what a lifetime of suffering is worth.

What Levy did left no physical scars, resulted in no debilitating physical injury, and the women had no idea they had been violated until after Levy was caught. No one but Levy could say for certain which patients were photographed and how many times; with his death, they chose not to pursue the traumatizing task of identifying the women in the photos. Many of the factors driving the settlement amounts were subjective: Did you believe you were photographed? How did it affect your life?

“We were considering the distress and the concerns that they had about the photographs and the kind of symptoms they experienced after they learned about his arrest, the betrayal of trust that they had,”

Raker said in an interview. “We cared, and we listened, and we took into account each person’s experience.”

Based on those personal assessments, each woman is set to receive between $1,750 and $26,048.

A judge ordered that $32 million of the total settlement would go to attorneys for the women, according to online court records.

Jonathan Schochor, an attorney who represents the women, did not respond to requests for comment.

Kim Hoppe, a spokeswoman for Johns Hopkins Medicine, said the system acted quickly to remove Levy from his practice after a co-worker discovered the photos and videos.

“That a physician would do such a thing is unimaginable. When we were informed of Dr. Levy’s actions, we acted quickly and decisively,” Hoppe said in a statement. “We have strong policies in place to protect patient privacy, but all hospitals must rely to some extent on the integrity of their caregivers. Dr. Levy breached a trust not only to his patients, but to Johns Hopkins Health System as well.”

Compensating for psychological trauma is challenging, a task devoid of the kinds of objective markers that might accompany a physical injury.

How does someone put a dollar amount on a loss of dignity and trust, on humiliation and shame?

Kenneth Feinberg, a lawyer who has been tasked with parceling out settlements to victims in mass tragedies, including the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Virginia Tech massacre and the Boston Marathon bombing, said it is so difficult to determine payouts for psychological trauma that some lawyers opt not to do it at all. In such settlements, only the victims who sustained physical injuries or the families of those who died receive compensation.

In the Levy settlement, Feinberg said that “you don’t have traumatic physical injury. That means that all of the harm is psychological.

Well, who proves that? How do you demonstrate a degree of harm to justify eligibility? That’s a very difficult thing to do, to calibrate the

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(from page 14) degree of psychological damage.”

A nurse referred SimmonsGomez to Levy in 2007. There was something about his warm nature that put many women at ease.

“He reminded me of Dr. Huxtable from ‘The Cosby Show,’ ” SimmonsGomez said.

Over time, he grew to be a confidant, someone she went to with her life’s troubles. When SimmonsGomez was a student at Morgan State University and was struggling with a biochemistry course, he tutored her by phone and during appointments, when she came in with her class notes.

Simmons-Gomez took her two teenage daughters to Levy for checkups, a decision that haunts her.

“That guilt of putting your innocent daughters in the hands of a monster, it just makes me sick,” SimmonsGomez said.

She believes that Levy photographed her, although she won’t ever know for sure. She recalls him using a penlight during his exams and believes it is the same pen that police later determined was a secret recording device. She recalls him turning on Eric Clapton’s “Layla” after exams and doing a silly dance. In hindsight, she believes Levy was celebrating after he captured images of her body.

When she learned that Levy had been arrested, Simmons-Gomez cried and began vomiting.

“They will never be able to fathom what we’ve all been through,” Simmons-Gomez said through tears.

“Sleepless nights, missing work, your body at work but your brain elsewhere . . . we lived through hell, and some of us are still going through hell.”

Simmons-Gomez received $26,048 in the settlement.

Determining the damage To determine how much each woman would receive, Raker assembled a team — many with training in psychology and social work — to come up with a list of questions that would attempt to capture the range of the women’s experiences. They contacted the victims and conducted lengthy, confidential phone interviews with those who were willing. They also asked women about their lives before they met Levy, with the idea that some experiences — such as a sexual

Dr. Nikita Levy assault — could have amplified their trauma.

“The injury that we considered was the patient or class member’s perception, belief or knowledge that they were photographed,” Raker said. “When we go to a gynecologist or an obstetrician, it’s so private and it’s so intimate, and it’s not a very comfortable experience. And then to learn that your doctor was taking photographs of some people and he could be taking photographs of you — you don’t know whether he did it or not — it evokes different kinds of emotions in different people.”

Raker placed the women in four categories based on the severity of their “negative experiences, perceptions and symptoms.” Those assigned to the lowest category are set to receive $1,750; those in the highest, $26,048.

Like Simmons-Gomez, Brown, too, sometimes replays memories of her visits to Levy, and she is overwhelmed with shame. Brown went to Levy for a decade beginning in the late 1980s, and she said that he used an unusual number of lights during exams. She vomited when she learned of Levy’s arrest, and she later went to counseling to deal with her strong emotions.

Authorities have told Brown that the images, videos and hard drives are locked away in a vault where no one can see them. But she can’t shake the fear that she was photographed and that images of her are somewhere on the Internet, that people are looking at photos of her body.

“That’s always going to be in the back of my head,” Brown said. “It’s a sick feeling. I’ve been exposed in

ways that I can’t explain . . . and no amount of money can fix what’s going on.”

She was awarded $20,001.

Wilson considered Levy like family.

She sent him Christmas presents, had his personal cellphone number and confided in him about her life and marriage. When she lost a pregnancy, he held her hand as she wept. She defended the doctor even after his arrest, and when he committed suicide, she called Levy’s brother to offer her condolences.

“I gave him my condolences because, at that time, I’m still in denial that this man who held my hand and cried with me and my husband could do something like that,” said Wilson, who also referred friends and family members to Levy. “This is someone I trusted with everything. And when I say everything, I mean everything.”

After Levy’s arrest, Wilson was too shaken to see a doctor and only returned when she ended up in the emergency room to have her gallbladder removed. She recently started seeing a gynecologist again, and when she enters a doctor’s office, she sweeps her phone across

the room, using an app that aims to detect hidden cameras.

Wilson was awarded $20,001.

Simmons-Gomez said she is appealing her settlement to seek more money: “There’s no way in hell $26,000 — that’s the most a person can get — should suffice the amount of pain that was afflicted upon the victims and minor children.”

Raker said she aimed for fairness, but it did not surprise her that women emerged from the process dissatisfied.

“There was no model for this,” Raker said. “It was important for each person to be treated individually, for that patient to know that we believed each person was an individual.”

Raker and two other judges are in the midst of hearing appeals from women who are personally pleading their cases. Even Simmons-Gomez, who said she is fighting for a sixfigure settlement, said nothing can restore her dignity, her sense of security.

“There’s no amount of money that constitute what we all went through,” she said.

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156-113 HAMPTON SOLICITATION 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 (ies) listed below until the date(s) and local time(s) specified.

HAMPTON CITY Thursday, January 26, 2017 3:00 p.m. ET-ITB 17-60/E Annual Needs Baghouse Fabric Filters for Hampton/NASA Steam Plant Tuesday, February 7, 2017 11:00 a.m. ET – ITB 17-59/CLP Hampton General District Court Magistrate Booking Vestibule Construction. A Mandatory on- site Pre-bid Meeting will be held on Thursday, January 26, 2017 at 9:00 a.m., Court House Lobby, 236 N. King Street, Hampton, VA 23669 2:00 p.m. ET-ITB 17-58/TM Annual Needs Electrical Supplies on an as needed basis Thursday, February 9, 2017 4:00 p.m. ET – RFP 17-57/EA Water Taxi Service. A Mandatory Pre-Proposal Meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., 1919 Commerce Drive, Suite 290, Hampton, VA 23666 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 2.2-4330 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.

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